Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai sealed Wind and Rain City, took control of its defenses, and began purging officials tied to the conspiracy against the Sixth Princess and the Demonic Beasts. He appointed Han Qing to help restore order as the city prepared for a demonic tide.

• Gu Jinlai ordered Huang Risheng and Yun Chen to reinforce the formation and seal Wind and Rain City for three days.
• Gu Jinlai learned that Cao Tianxuan had fled the city with Cao Family elites, then told Han Qing that the Sixth Princess had been murdered by conspirators who colluded with Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai imposed a three-day curfew and promoted Han Qing to vice commander of the City Guard.
• When Rong Xuan and Fang Yuze questioned his accusations, Gu Jinlai used lightning to kill them and other people he identified as having red Karma.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Han Qing to deploy the City Guard and maintain order, and Han Qing resolved to cooperate fully.

Gu Jinlai purged Fengyu City’s corrupt officials and troublemakers, then recruited Ji Lie and his allies despite their Demon Cultist status. He established the Hidden Dragon Guard to preserve order and prepare for the demonic tide.

• Gu Jinlai took control of Fengyu City and spent three days judging officials and offenders while his new appointees managed supplies and maintained order.
• Gu Jinlai reopened the city’s protective formation after tens of thousands of lawbreakers and troublemakers had been captured, punished, or assigned to death squads.
• Su Shian introduced Ji Lie, a wanted Demon Cultist who explained that he had rejected Ding Zhongyuan’s invitation to join the Immortal Kingdom and stayed to help the Sacred Dynasty.
• Gu Jinlai accepted Ji Lie’s service and appointed him to lead the Hidden Dragon Guard, tasking him with secretly maintaining order during the demonic tide.
• Ji Lie introduced Xuanzhen, Zhenhai, Yunqiong, and other allies, whom Gu Jinlai judged and entrusted with important positions; his forces grew to over a hundred Celestial Beings and Martial Kings.

Gu Jinlai spent five days strengthening his Chaotic Starlight Body with thunder-magnetic primordial gold while considering the imperial family’s silence over Duanmu Shan’s death and the approaching demonic tide. After emerging from seclusion, he ordered his forces to intercept and annihilate the beasts at Flying Dragon Mountain rather than continue evacuating Windstorm City’s civilians.

• Gu Jinlai concluded that imperial investigators were likely watching him and might be testing the power of the Liyang Grotto-Heaven through Demon Emperor Longqi’s demonic tide.
• Gu Jinlai poured clear lights into his Chaotic Starlight Body and refined three thousand portions of thunder-magnetic primordial gold, bringing his transformation into an innate divine beast past seventy percent.
• While Gu Jinlai remained in seclusion, Liu Feiyun, Qi Sheng, and others arrived in Windstorm City with ten million refugees, and the demonic beasts drew within three thousand li of the city.
• Gu Jinlai emerged from seclusion and learned that roughly thirty percent of Windstorm City’s civilians remained outside its walls, while neighboring cities had evaded requests for aid.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Su Shian to stop the evacuation and directed Han Qing, Su Shian, Qi Sheng, Yan Lie, Liu Feiyun, and the others to intercept the demonic tide at Flying Dragon Mountain.

Dragoncry Demon Emperor led a million-strong demonic tide toward Windrains City, but Startrace Spirit Venerable ordered him to avoid an all-out war while pursuing a place in the Tower of Eternal Life. Dragoncry threatened the surrounding cities and demanded they punish the humans responsible for the destruction of the Chi Dragon Territory, leaving the demonic tide poised to advance after one day.

• Dragoncry Demon Emperor learned from Swordfeather that Blazeflow City and Purplethunder City had prepared defenses but sent no reinforcements to Windrains City.
• Startrace Spirit Venerable descended through a Demon King and reprimanded Dragoncry for attacking the Sacred Dynasty during the war against the Immortal Kingdom.
• Dragoncry told Startrace that humans had destroyed the Chi Dragon Territory and killed three Spirit Venerables, and Startrace revealed that Dragoncry might qualify for the Tower of Eternal Life if his region stayed peaceful for three years.
• Startrace advised Dragoncry to pressure the humans into eliminating their own leaders rather than start an all-out war, and permitted him to invoke Startrace's name.
• Dragoncry ordered Swordfeather to demand an answer from Blazeflow City, Purplethunder City, and Haifeng City within one day, threatening them with the demonic tide and Startrace Demon God's personal descent.
• Dragoncry ordered the demonic tide to slow its advance while he waited for the humans' response.

Wu Yan and Lei Xuanyu blamed Gu Jinlai for the coming demonic tide and joined Si Xinghui in asking the Sacred Lord to punish him. Their pledges to capture Gu Jinlai pleased the Dragoncry Demon Emperor, who believed the Sacred Dynasty’s cities would turn against one another under pressure.

• Wu Yan learned that Zhao Hua had fled Windstorm City after the Sixth Princess and Jin Fantian died, and he considered Gu Jinlai responsible for the crisis.
• Wu Shu reported that Gu Jinlai was working with Demon Cultists such as Ji Lie, and Wu Yan decided to seize him and hand him to the Dragoncry Demon Emperor.
• Lei Xuanyu urged Wu Yan to join Si Xinghui in petitioning the Sacred Lord to send an Imperial Family Attendant against Gu Jinlai, and Wu Yan agreed.
• Duanmu Ren condemned Gu Jinlai for employing Ji Lie and issued orders that reached the Dragoncry Demon Emperor through the three city lords.
• The Dragoncry Demon Emperor laughed as he learned the lords had promised to capture Gu Jinlai, while the surrounding Demon Emperors praised his power.

Dragoncry Demon Emperor prepared to feast on Windrain City's advancing army, but Gu Jinlai flew straight into the demonic tide to confront him. Gu Jinlai delivered a blast of accumulated energy into Dragoncry Demon Emperor at close range and escaped as it detonated.

• Dragoncry Demon Emperor ordered his elite guards to attack and devour the hundred thousand troops marching from Windrain City.
• Dragoncry Demon Emperor learned that Gu Jinlai was approaching and sent five Demon Emperors to test him while preparing to face the attack.
• Gu Jinlai recognized Dragoncry Demon Emperor among the demonic tide and flew past the five Demon Emperors toward him.
• Dragoncry Demon Emperor launched sword wings and demonic flames at Gu Jinlai, but Gu Jinlai dodged through the attacks and closed the distance.
• Gu Jinlai stopped within five miles, transferred his accumulated energy into Dragoncry Demon Emperor, and flashed away as the blast erupted.

Gu Jinlai unleashed a nuclear-scale attack that destroyed Dragoncry Demon Emperor and much of the demonic army, then escaped the blast and pursued the surviving Demon Emperors for contribution value. Windrain City’s elites witnessed him repeatedly unleash attacks of overwhelming power, leaving them certain he could face the million-plus demons alone.

• Gu Jinlai used the Thunderlight Transforming Dragon Art to escape the nuclear blast, then recognized that his attack power had reached the level of a great divine ability user.
• Gu Jinlai resolved to grow stronger by perfecting his Chaotic Starlight Body and turned toward the fleeing Demon Emperors to collect contribution value.
• Qi Sheng, Liu Feiyun, Ji Lie, Han Qing, Su Shian, and the other Windrain City elites followed the battle while fearing the enormous demonic army.
• The elites witnessed the explosion’s blazing fireball and mushroom cloud, and Qi Sheng proclaimed Gu Jinlai’s power a force of justice and destruction.
• Gu Jinlai unleashed repeated bursts of devastating energy, and the Windrain City elites stopped worrying about his safety and doubted the demons could challenge him.

Gu Jinlai annihilated the demonic tide, earning the admiration of his allies and leaving them hopeful that he could protect humanity and restore Liyang Grotto-Heaven. Elsewhere, Zhang Yun and Colonel Aedron assessed how modern weapons could fight powerful beings and wondered whether immortals had once existed in Blue Star’s ancient Xia civilization.

• Gu Jinlai’s allies surveyed the hundreds of miles of scorched land and realized he had destroyed a million Demonic Beasts through repeated attacks.
• Liu Feiyun, Qi Sheng, Han Qing, Su Shian, Ji Lie, and the others saluted Gu Jinlai and recognized his overwhelming strength.
• Gu Jinlai explained that the demonic tide had collapsed and ordered everyone to return quickly in case others exploited the situation.
• Colonel Aedron returned to Zhang Yun’s fortress with combat data from hunting Demonic Beasts, and Zhang Yun described his model of Saint capabilities.
• Zhang Yun asked whether research on the Xia civilization had been sent back, then raised the possibility that Blue Star’s ancient immortals had truly existed.

Zhang Yun and Aedron discussed the immortals of this world and delayed their plan to seize the Mulong Kingdom until they had built a stronger industrial base. In the Sacred Dynasty, Gu Jinlai learned that he had been branded a member of the Devil Cult and wanted nationwide just as he prepared to claim his contribution points.

• Zhang Yun sent his speculation about Blue Star's ancient cultivators to the Xingyao Federation, while Aedron urged him to move against the Mulong Kingdom; Zhang Yun insisted on waiting until their weapons and industry were stronger.
• Bai Yuxin received information from the Aries Star Lord identifying Gu Jinlai as the escaped beacon, then gathered Baize Palace's Void Immortals and Saints to capture him in the Sacred Dynasty.
• Bai Muling and Bai Yuxin set out with their experts, hoping to secure the Aries Star Lord's descent and restore their palace's influence.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Wind and Rain City and considered urging the Sacred Dynasty to exploit the Demonic Beasts' weakened presence, then asked Ji Lie to take him to a Heavenly Shadow Instrument to calculate his contribution points.
• Zhuo Chunqiu told Gu Jinlai that the city lords of Haifeng City, Flowing Fire City, and Purple Thunder City had accused him, and the Sacred Dynasty had issued a nationwide wanted order naming him a member of the Devil Cult.

Gu Jinlai rejected the Sacred Dynasty’s branding of him as a demonic cultist and decided to confront its leaders in Hai Feng City. After finding imperial envoy Duanmu Yao in Wind and Rain City, he took her with him to demand an explanation.

• Gu Jinlai dismissed Su Shi'an’s warning about the Sacred Dynasty and ordered him to publicize the victory over the Dragoncry Demon Emperor’s demonic tide.
• Gu Jinlai brought Ji Lie, Liu Feiyun, and Qi Sheng along to Hai Feng City, promising to protect them and demand answers from its leaders.
• Gu Jinlai used the Child of the Stars to locate the imperial envoy at the Lan Family’s courtyard and confronted Lan Ruhuo.
• Duanmu Yao introduced herself as Lady Shun, and Gu Jinlai challenged her over the Sacred Dynasty branding him a demonic cultist for defeating Demonic Beasts and saving the Chiron Territory.
• Gu Jinlai swept Duanmu Yao up in his lightning domain and took her to Hai Feng City to confront Si Xinghui, Wu Yan, and Lei Xuanyu.

At a banquet in Haifeng City, Si Xinghui, Lei Xuanyu, and Wu Yan celebrated the expected arrest of Gu Jinlai, believing him to be a demonic cultist. News that Gu Jinlai had single-handedly destroyed the demonic tide left them reeling, and Si Xinghui wondered if Gu Jinlai was actually a true immortal in a martial sage’s body.

• Si Xinghui, Lei Xuanyu, and Wu Yan praised one another at a banquet and anticipated Grand Elder Si Xuenyuan’s arrival to capture Gu Jinlai.
• Si Xinghui explained that Si Xuenyuan was a powerful ephemeral immortal who had perfected the top-tier divine ability Splitting Essence Flash.
• Wu Shu reported that Gu Jinlai had led Fengyu City’s elite forces to shatter the demonic tide.
• Wu Shu relayed that Gu Jinlai had used power comparable to a grand divine ability and that the Weeping Dragon Demonic Emperor and its million beasts had perished.
• Si Xinghui’s intelligence confirmed the report and claimed Gu Jinlai had destroyed the demonic tide alone, shocking the three city lords.
• Si Xinghui speculated that Gu Jinlai was a true immortal whose body had been shattered and who had taken a martial sage’s form.

Si Xinghui, Wu Yan, and Lei Xuanyu realized Gu Jinlai might be a reincarnated True Immortal and rushed to reinforce Haifeng City’s defenses, but Gu Jinlai arrived before the formation could activate. He forced the three city lords to admit they had falsely accused him, then demanded his contribution points be recorded and exchanged while Si Xinghui secretly received orders to stall him.

• Si Xinghui explained that Gu Jinlai could restore his True Immortal power by replenishing his essence and energy, and Lei Xuanyu identified Thunder Magnetite as the source of his energy.
• Lei Xuanyu urged reinforcements against Gu Jinlai, while Si Xinghui sent a warning to the authorities and the three city lords regretted provoking him.
• Si Xinghui detected Gu Jinlai approaching Haifeng City, and the city lords hurried to activate the city-protecting formation.
• Gu Jinlai struck the formation’s core with lightning, disabling the formation before it could fully activate, then confronted Si Xinghui, Wu Yan, and Lei Xuanyu.
• Gu Jinlai made the three city lords admit they had falsely accused him while Madam Duanmu Yao listened, and he recorded their confession on an audiovisual stone.
• Gu Jinlai asked Si Xinghui to record his Demon-Slaying Order contribution points and exchange them; Si Xinghui received a message from Si Xuanyuan telling him to delay Gu Jinlai and agreed to help.

Gu Jinlai had Si Xinghui, Wu Yan, and Lei Xuanyu witness the record of his battle against the Demonic Beasts, convincing them he was a reincarnated True Immortal. He then demanded cultivation materials in exchange for his verified contribution points and compensation for their earlier accusations, leaving the three city lords to comply while hoping for help from Taihao Grotto-Heaven.

• Gu Jinlai presented his Demon-Slaying Token, and the Heavenly Shadow Instrument showed Si Xinghui, Wu Yan, and Lei Xuanyu how he killed Dragoncry Demon Emperor and annihilated vast numbers of Demonic Beasts.
• Si Xinghui concluded that Gu Jinlai was a reincarnated True Immortal after seeing him unleash repeated powerful attacks.
• The Heavenly Shadow Instrument verified more than three hundred billion contribution points, and Gu Jinlai asked the three city lords to exchange them for supplies.
• Gu Jinlai also demanded compensation for the false accusations and specified six thousand portions each of six treasures.
• Si Xinghui agreed to the demand while Wu Yan hoped the approaching envoy from Taihao Grotto-Heaven might help them.
• Gu Jinlai took out an audiovisual stone so his subordinates in Flowing Flame City and Purple Thunder City could collect the goods based on the city lords’ agreement.

Ji Lie and the others took supplies from three cities under Gu Jinlai’s authority, but the plunder yielded far less Magnetism-Origin Gold than he needed. As Gu Jinlai pressed Haim Wind City for additional aid, Si Xuanyuan and Duanmu Yufeng arrived, and Duanmu Yufeng greeted him without hostility.

• Ji Lie emptied Flowing Fire City’s treasury, arguing that other materials had to make up for its shortage of Magnetism-Origin Gold, while Liu Feiyun’s group stripped Purple Thunder City and Qi Sheng’s group took half of Haim Wind City’s supplies.
• Gu Jinlai learned that the four cities had yielded only four hundred and forty portions of Magnetism-Origin Gold, far short of what he needed to perfect his Chaotic Starlight Body.
• Gu Jinlai asked Si Xinghui for reconstruction aid, and Si Xinghui agreed to let him take the supplies in Haim Wind City’s storeroom, even those requested by the Taihao Grotto-Heaven.
• Si Xuanyuan and Duanmu Yufeng arrived, while Duanmu Yao realized Gu Jinlai was responsible for Duanmu Shan’s death and warned that only the Ancestors might be able to kill him.
• Duanmu Yufeng told Duanmu Yao that the Ancestors had been informed and that the matter might not require a fight, then greeted Gu Jinlai warmly.

Gu Jinlai negotiated with Duanmu Yufeng on behalf of Liyang Grotto-Heaven, securing Fengyu City and Flowing Fire City while the Sacred Dynasty refused to yield Purple Thunder City. After the settlement, Duanmu Yufeng revealed that the six grotto-heavens hoped Gu Jinlai would provoke the Demonic Beasts and test whether their main forces had left.

• Duanmu Yufeng offered Gu Jinlai the post of Sacred Dynasty Offering Elder, Fengyu City as Liyang Grotto-Heaven's foothold, and a Demon-Slaying Medal while clearing him of the demonic cultist accusation.
• Si Xuanyuan took Si Xinghui back to Taihao Grotto-Heaven to face three years of thunder lashes for joining the false report against Gu Jinlai.
• Gu Jinlai demanded control of Flowing Fire City and Purple Thunder City, but Duanmu Yufeng refused to surrender Purple Thunder City because both cities were vital to the Sacred Dynasty's defenses.
• Gu Jinlai invoked the death of Liu Feihua and Liyang Grotto-Heaven's dwindling number of disciples, persuading Duanmu Yufeng to yield Flowing Fire City as well as Fengyu City.
• Duanmu Yufeng told Duanmu Yao that the six grotto-heavens had spared Gu Jinlai because he could probe the Demonic Beasts and reveal whether their main forces had moved to the Immortal Kingdom battlefield.

After the Sacred Dynasty's envoys departed, Gu Jinlai killed the city lords Wu Yan and Lei Xuanyu when they tried to escape or bargain for their lives. He then ordered Hai Feng City to hunt down fugitives from Wind and Rain City, leaving the city under his authority and facing a purge.

• Gu Jinlai saw through Duanmu Yufeng and Duanmu Yao's scheme to use him against the Star-Mark Demon God, but decided his display of power had already secured control of Wind and Rain City.
• Lei Xuanyu offered information about Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold, but Gu Jinlai judged him worthless, while Wu Yan unleashed a divine weapon and fled.
• Gu Jinlai suppressed Wu Yan's Bi Fang attack and blasted him from the sky, leaving Qi Sheng and the Liyang Grotto-Heaven people to finish him.
• Lei Xuanyu claimed to know of a nearly complete Creator floating island, but Gu Jinlai killed him and left his belongings intact.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Hai Feng City to search for fugitives from Wind and Rain City and to punish anyone who obstructed the hunt as an accomplice.

Gu Jinlai began cleansing Haifeng City while Sacred Dynasty leaders reviewed evidence of his powers and debated whether he was a reincarnated true immortal. They resolved to provoke a clash between him and the Xinghen demon god, restrict his access to key materials, and exclude him from their plan to preserve civilization.

• The royal family tacitly allowed Gu Jinlai to act freely in Haifeng City, and Duanmu Yufeng and Duanmu Yao returned to the imperial capital without appointing a new city lord.
• At Julong Mountain, Duanmu Yufeng told the Sacred Dynasty’s leaders that the Spirit God Bead had detected no soul fluctuations from Gu Jinlai.
• Duanmu Ren suggested that the bead’s failure to detect Gu Jinlai could indicate an unusual Dao, and the leaders considered whether he was a concealed reincarnated true immortal.
• Si Wuya rejected recruiting Gu Jinlai, while Duanmu Chengyun ordered Duanmu Ren to help provoke a fight between Gu Jinlai and the Xinghen demon god.
• Duanmu Yao proposed blocking Gu Jinlai’s supply of magnetic thunder gold and floating water, and Duanmu Ren agreed to oversee the blockade.
• Bai Liuli asked how they would respond if Gu Jinlai defeated Xinghen, and the leaders decided their plan could not include him and discussed driving him toward the Immortal Realm.

Gu Jinlai took control of Hǎifēng City, executed City Lords Wu Yan and Lei Xuanyu, and punished the Yunhai Merchant Association and other offenders before leaving for Liuhuo City. There, he began a ten-day purge and used clear light to advance the Chaotic Starlight Body to Fulfillment, gaining a sharper connection to the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

• Yun Haoran and the Yunhai Merchant Association learned that Gu Jinlai had crushed the demonic tide, that the Sacred Dynasty had dismissed their accusation as false, and that Wu Yan and Lei Xuanyu had been executed.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Commander Li Shengyang to confiscate the Yunhai Merchant Association and continued judging and killing offenders across Hǎifēng City.
• Gu Jinlai left Hǎifēng City after punishing several hundred people and reached Liuhuo City, where he activated the city-protecting formation and launched a ten-day Thunderstorm Operation.
• Gu Jinlai personally led the first three days of the purge in Liuhuo City, then entrusted the remaining work to Qi Sheng, Liu Feiyun, Ji Lie, and others.
• Gu Jinlai spent clear light to advance the Chaotic Starlight Body from Great Accomplishment to Fulfillment, awakening a stronger connection to the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Gu Jinlai tested the perfected Primal Chaos Starlight Body and transformed his Lightning Domain and Dragon Transformation by Lightning Art into supreme divine abilities. He discovered Magnetic Field Rotation and proved it could shield him from a ten-thousand-ton nuclear-fusion blast.

• Gu Jinlai left the cultivation chamber, told Liu Feiyun to wait for him, and flew away from Flowing Fire City to test his strength.
• Gu Jinlai expanded his transformed Lightning Domain to a fifty-li core and a storm spanning two hundred li.
• Gu Jinlai upgraded the Dragon Transformation by Lightning Art and used it to travel twenty li in a flash at thirty to forty times the speed of sound.
• Gu Jinlai sensed that the technique let him approach an energy form and reasoned that his life span might rival or exceed that of True Immortals.
• Gu Jinlai discovered the Magnetic Field Rotation trait and compressed its force field into a powerful barrier.
• Gu Jinlai detonated a ten-thousand-ton blast from the Eternal Furnace and emerged from the flames, heat, and radiation unscathed.

Gu Jinlai perfected the Chaotic Starlight Body, the Eternal Furnace, and the Divine Light of the Li Fire, then decided to return to Qiantian to build a stable force before attempting to replace the Sacred Dynasty. Meanwhile, Star-Hen Devil God learned of Dragoncry Devil Emperor’s death and ordered its forces to abandon territory near the Sacred Dynasty and contract their defenses.

• Gu Jinlai assessed the strengths and limits of his perfected techniques and concluded that he needed to strengthen his body and cultivate the Three Realms to defend against soul-attacking enemies.
• Gu Jinlai perfected the Divine Light of the Li Fire and decided that he must first build a strong foundation in Qiantian rather than risk plunging the Sacred Dynasty into chaos.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Flowing Fire City, while the chapter revealed that Demonic Beasts had secretly guided the Human Immortal realm’s development to create vessels for upper-level Demonic Spirits.
• Star-Hen Devil God received intelligence about Dragoncry Devil Emperor’s death and learned that its second Devil God body would take three more years to complete.
• Star-Hen Devil God ordered its forces to abandon territory within ten thousand li of the Sacred Dynasty’s cities and contract their defensive line.