Chapter Summaries

The Star-Mark Demon God ordered the demons to retreat and delay war with the Sacred Dynasty until the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss conflict was decided. At Flowing Flame City, Gu Jinlai helped Ji Lie awaken his spirituality and make the Vermilion Ring acknowledge him as its master.

• The Star-Mark Demon God decided to contract the demons' forces, reasoning that a sudden retreat would make the suspicious Sacred Dynasty hesitate while the demons waited for news from the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss.
• Gu Jinlai flew to Flowing Flame City and summoned Ji Lie and Qi Sheng to test whether they could become masters of the divine weapons he had taken from Wu Yan and Lei Xuanyu.
• Qi Sheng, Ji Lie, and Liu Feiyun each agreed to pursue the divine-weapon path, and Gu Jinlai chose Ji Lie to try first with the Vermilion Ring.
• Gu Jinlai taught Ji Lie a secret art to awaken his spirituality and instructed him to use it to resonate with the Vermilion Ring.
• After repeating the process more than a dozen times, Ji Lie formed a powerful resonance with the Vermilion Ring, which manifested a Vermilion Bird above the City Lord Mansion and acknowledged him as its master.

After Ji Lie and Liu Feiyun gained recognition from divine weapons, Gu Jinlai planned to strengthen his forces and prepare for the Star-Mark Fiend God's retaliation. On Blue Star, Xie Yusheng joined a tense meeting where Lan Yuntian presented information about an immortal.

• The Bi Fang Ring recognized Ji Lie as its master, and he thanked Gu Jinlai before declaring he could forge the Six-Yang Saintly Body and reach Sainthood.
• Gu Jinlai gave Liu Feiyun the Purple Dragon Sword, and she used a spiritual secret technique to make the divine weapon recognize her.
• Gu Jinlai considered gathering more divine weapons to create powerful defenders, but decided to first purge Flowing Fire City and prepare for the Star-Mark Fiend God's retaliation.
• On Blue Star, Xie Yusheng continued designing a massive Star Destroyer mecha and a strengthened repulsion shield after receiving no reply from the Qianxing native.
• Xie Yusheng attended a solemn meeting with Lan Yuntian, Zhao Shanhe, and Zhao Qilin, where Lan Yuntian presented information about an immortal.

Blue Yun Tian revealed that the Qian Star person was likely an immortal from the Longevity Realm and announced a split of the Nantian Gate project into a continuing team and a new Seeking Immortals project under the True Immortal Research Institute. After the meeting, Xie Yusheng chose to remain with the Nantian Gate project team.

• Blue Yun Tian told the team that the Qian Star person was likely an immortal from the Longevity Realm, and the members debated whether he was an immortal or an advanced technological alien.
• Zhao Shanhe explained that the Qian Star person had secretly observed Blue Star and learned about its society and weapons, prompting concern that they might have exposed military secrets.
• Blue Yun Tian said the team would continue contacting the Qian Star person and divide into a technology-focused Nantian Gate project team and a new Seeking Immortals project team.
• Blue Yun Tian announced that the Seeking Immortals project would join a joint Great Jin, Huanglong, and Central Land institution called the True Immortal Research Institute, while the Nantian Gate team's confidentiality level would be lowered.
• Blue Yun Tian and Zhao Shanhe left to handle preparations, including sealing away cultivation texts that could be useful in the Longevity Realm.
• Xie Yusheng told Qiu Yuyu that he would stay with the Nantian Gate project team, and Qiu Yuyu accepted his decision.

Ji Lie completed his Six-Yang Sacred Body and became a Sacred One, while Gu Jinlai learned that the Demonic Beasts had withdrawn their defenses and decided to attack Blackflame Demon Emperor’s territory. The chapter ended with Gu Jinlai preparing to test the strength of the Demon Gods and claim the Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold he coveted.

• Ji Lie completed the Six-Yang Sacred Body after a month of refinement and became a Sacred One capable of fighting an ordinary Void Immortal with a divine weapon.
• Gu Jinlai reflected on the path of innate divine beasts and considered refining more Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold to grow stronger.
• Xuanzhou reported that the Demonic Beasts had retreated more than ten thousand li around Flowing Fire City, Storm City, and Purple Thunder City, abandoning territory and resource sites.
• Ji Lie suggested the retreat might be a trap and said the Sacred Dynasty appeared unwilling to risk a counterattack.
• Gu Jinlai decided to move against Blackflame Demon Emperor’s territory for its Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold and to test the strength of the Demon Gods.

Jiang Tianji failed to forge a sacred body and died, leaving the Star King to take the throne as the Star Emperor amid growing political and military turmoil. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai investigated a mineral vein in demon territory and considered targeting the Profound Yang Demon God's holdings to gather more Clear Light.

• Jiang Tianji’s attempt to condense a sacred body failed, and he warned Qin Yuqing and Jiang Yinlong about court officials before his body shattered and he died.
• The Star King ascended the throne as the Star Emperor while the Profound Heaven Venerable seized four provinces and Zhao Riyue and Qian Huashan urged an alliance against him.
• News spread that Gu Jinlai had died pursuing the White Ram Star Lord’s inheritance, and the appearance of the World Sword drew the forces of Qiantian toward the southern lands.
• Gu Jinlai arrived at Blackflame Mountain with Xuanzhou and Zhan Tianpeng to locate a thunder-magnetic primordial gold vein within the Blackfire Demon Emperor’s territory.
• Gu Jinlai reflected that he lacked enough Clear Light to perfect his techniques and decided to target demon-occupied territories, turning his attention toward the Profound Yang Demon God.

Gu Jinlai discovered a vast Thunder Magnetite Essence Gold vein and ordered Zhan Tianpeng to organize its mining while he prepared to confront the Demonic Beasts threatening the operation. He pressed deeper into their territory, destroying countless beasts, and arrived at a major breeding ground where powerful enemies had gathered.

• Zhan Tianpeng surveyed the Thunder Magnetite Essence Gold vein and estimated that extracting its more than ten thousand portions would take three years, so Gu Jinlai ordered destructive mining and told him to bring workers to Flowing Fire City.
• Gu Jinlai considered how to strengthen himself and concluded that he needed the Sacred Dynasty’s experts to join the fight by forcing the Demonic Beasts to reveal their full strength.
• Gu Jinlai traveled deeper into Demonic Beast territory, killing Demon Kings with the Divine Light of Separation Fire and wiping out groups of beasts with nuclear fusion blasts.
• Gu Jinlai reflected on Qiantian’s past defenses and feared that larger Demon Realm rifts could threaten it, strengthening his desire to return to his true base.
• Gu Jinlai reached the largest Demonic Beast breeding ground outside Flowing Fire City, sensed powerful enemies waiting for him, and unleashed the aura of the Eternal Furnace.

Blackfire Devil Emperor gathered fourteen Devil Emperors to stop Gu Jinlai, fearing that a defeat would expose the demons’ weakness and trigger a wider war. Gu Jinlai confronted them alone and prepared to kill them before facing Devil God Xuanyang.

• Blackfire Devil Emperor explained that the demons had gathered fourteen Devil Emperors to defend the settlement, while Devil God Xuanyang remained stationed elsewhere.
• Changyuan Devil Emperor and the others discussed the demons’ plans, their fear of humanity releasing spiritual energy, and their determination to seize the world for Cangming.
• Kaya arrived with six Devil Emperors, and the assembled group agreed they could not afford to lose to Gu Jinlai.
• Gu Jinlai’s radiance appeared on the horizon, and the fourteen Devil Emperors surged toward him, declaring they would kill him.
• Gu Jinlai grew to over a hundred meters tall, suppressed the demons’ flames with thunder and lightning, and vowed to exterminate the fourteen Devil Emperors before facing Devil God Xuanyang.

Gu Jinlai faced fourteen Demon Emperors and used his Lightning Domain and Eternal Furnace to devastate their ranks, but their coordinated attacks forced him to unleash another power. He left six Demon Emperors crushed by an immense magnetic force as the remaining enemies continued the battle.

• Gu Jinlai charged through the demonic flames and blasted a Demon Emperor with the Divine Light of the Li Fire, but it regenerated its body within moments.
• Two Demon Emperors attacked with a giant metal sword and atomic breath, but Gu Jinlai's Lightning Domain shattered the sword and stopped the energy attack.
• Gu Jinlai entered the Son of the Stars state, expanded his Lightning Domain, and used the Eternal Furnace to unleash fusion energy that struck three Demon Emperors at close range.
• Demon Emperor Kaya tore through part of the Lightning Domain while Demon Emperor Changyuan attacked with bone spines, and Gu Jinlai dodged before the Demon Emperors closed in.
• Gu Jinlai invoked the Chaos Starlight Body and turned aside the combined attacks of six Demon Emperors, then crushed all six with an invisible magnetic millstone.

Gu Jinlai routed the Demon Emperors besieging the Sacred Dynasty, but several escaped by becoming Demonic Spirits and fleeing toward the Demon Realm. He then faced Demon God Xuanyang alone, whose many weapons began preparing a simultaneous assault.

• The remaining Demon Emperors fled after recognizing Gu Jinlai as a True Immortal, but Gu Jinlai pursued them and caused one to self-destruct with a lightning strike.
• Gu Jinlai killed another Demon Emperor with a storm of Swords of Thunder before the Demon Emperor could threaten a nearby human settlement.
• Demon Emperor Changheng and Demon Emperor Kaya converted themselves into weak Demonic Spirits and escaped toward the rift to the Demon Realm, leaving their bodies behind.
• Gu Jinlai avoided using soul secret arts because he feared attracting the Aries Star Lord, then flew high into the sky and sensed the Child of the Stars’ connection to the world.
• Demon God Xuanyang confronted Gu Jinlai, rejected his appeal to let the world’s inhabitants decide their own future, and prepared attacks with its weapons.

Gu Jinlai fought the Xuanyang Demon God, using magnetic-field rotation and lightning drawn from the heavens to destroy its demon-god body. As two more demon gods approached, he concluded that the Demonic Beasts had run out of ways to stop him.

• Gu Jinlai amplified his lightning sword with a magnetic halo and clashed with the Xuanyang Demon God's energy blast, while an arrow pierced his body.
• Gu Jinlai drew on the vital energy of heaven and earth to form two rotating rings of lightning that battered the Xuanyang Demon God and tipped the fight in his favor.
• The Xuanyang Demon God revealed that two more demon gods were approaching and warned Gu Jinlai before its body was destroyed by lightning.
• Gu Jinlai realized Venerable Xuanyang had been pulled back to the Demon Realm through a special passage, so he abandoned the idea of pursuing it.
• Gu Jinlai sensed the two approaching demon gods and decided that destroying the Xuanyang Demon God's body proved the Demonic Beasts had run out of tricks.

Gu Jinlai returned to Flowing Fire City after destroying the Profound Yang Devil God, while the remaining Devil Gods discussed how to counter him and considered calling in Spirit Venerables. He showed the battle footage to the Demon-Slaying Hall, leaving his followers stunned by his victory over a Devil God.

• Gu Jinlai collected the damaged remains of the Profound Yang Devil God and flew back toward the Sacred Dynasty as two other Devil Gods arrived.
• The Startrace Devil God and Dragoncloud Devil God discussed Gu Jinlai’s power, considered petitioning the Devil Master to send Spirit Venerables, and agreed they might retreat from less important resource points.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Flowing Fire City and considered how Devil God bodies compared with Colossi and Chengying Mechas, then decided to publicize his battle record.
• Gu Jinlai summoned his subordinates to the Demon-Slaying Hall and ordered the Heavenly Shadow Instrument activated to show his recorded battle.
• The footage showed Gu Jinlai killing Devil Emperors and destroying the Profound Yang Devil God, leaving the gathered members of the Demon-Slaying Hall frozen in astonishment.

Gu Jinlai ordered the battle footage of his victory over the Xuanyang Demon God spread throughout the Sacred Dynasty to restore public morale, then spent his nearly ten trillion contribution points on indestructible refined gold. When the imperial family learned what he had done, Duanmu Congyun hurried to alert Emperor Duanmu Ren and the grotto-heaven leaders.

• After watching Gu Jinlai slay the Xuanyang Demon God, Liu Feiyun, Ji Lie, Xuan Zhou, and the others realized that Demon Gods could be defeated and humanity still had hope.
• Gu Jinlai ordered them to copy the audiovisual stone and distribute it in every city within a month to encourage the Sacred Dynasty's people.
• Gu Jinlai exchanged his maximum contribution balance of 999,999,999,999 points for indestructible refined gold.
• Duanmu Congyun investigated the Demon-Slaying Token's maximum contribution balance and watched the recorded battle, learning that Gu Jinlai had slain the Xuanyang Demon God.
• Duanmu Congyun contacted Emperor Duanmu Ren, reported Gu Jinlai's victory, and urged him to summon the ancestors and grotto-heaven leaders for an emergency meeting.

After Gu Jinlai killed Xuanyang Demon God, the six great grotto-heavens recognized him as a True Immortal and debated whether to join his counterattack against the Demonic Beasts. The chapter left them preparing to reconcile with Gu Jinlai, with Duanmu Chengyun volunteering to meet him and discuss supplies.

• Duanmu Ren and Duanmu Congyun concluded that Gu Jinlai had wielded True Immortal power to destroy Xuanyang Demon God.
• More than sixty Void Immortals and over a hundred Saints watched the battle recording, and the gathered leaders debated the Sacred Dynasty’s response to the Demonic Beasts.
• Si Wuya opposed cooperation with the Immortal Kingdom, while Zhang Yingzhen and Zhang Piaomiao argued that an alliance might be necessary.
• Duanmu Ren learned that Gu Jinlai was spreading recordings of his victory throughout the Sacred Dynasty, pressuring the six great grotto-heavens to act.
• The leaders agreed that the counterattack could no longer be avoided and that they should ease tensions with Gu Jinlai.
• Duanmu Chengyun volunteered to take the supplies Gu Jinlai planned to exchange and speak with him personally.

True Person Wuzhong confronted Lingxiao Palace over Xuanyue and the World Sword, accusing the palace of sheltering a traitor. Xuanzun Tian arrived as a Saint, and True Person Wuzhong fled in terror, leaving the Three Pure Ones Hall’s forces facing the shocked crowd.

• True Person Wuzhong surrounded Lingxiao Palace and demanded that it surrender Xuanyue and the World Sword, while Xin Tianqi and Zhang Lihuo challenged his accusations.
• Xuanyue appeared as a newly advanced Celestial and told True Person Wuzhong that Xuanzun Tian had given him the World Sword.
• Xuanzun Tian arrived and revealed that he had become a Saint, shocking everyone present.
• Xuanzun Tian ordered True Person Wuzhong to repeat his accusations, and True Person Wuzhong screamed and fled.

Xuanzun Tianji resisted the urge to kill Xuanyue and threatened to destroy the Three Purities Hall, while Gu Jinlai’s victory over the Demon Emperors spread across the Sacred Dynasty. As Wind and Rain City’s leaders awaited Gu Jinlai’s return, they learned the Sacred Dynasty planned to appoint him an imperial Attendant and grant him the title Prince Liyang.

• Xuanzun Tianji suppressed his violent impulse, confronted Xuanyue, and threatened to destroy the Three Purities Hall unless Xuanyue mastered more of the World Sword’s power.
• Xuanzun Tianji flew away, and Xin Tianqi concluded that he might be heading to the Three Purities Hall while deciding against using Xuanyue to influence him.
• Gu Jinlai’s footage of killing eleven Demon Emperors and the Profound Sun Demon God spread through the Sacred Dynasty, stirring excitement among humans and concern among its officials.
• Zhao Yushu read Chao Jiuyin’s writing and reflected on her standing and Gu Jinlai’s power before Feng Shuanglie, Yuhualou, and Yu Shaoqin arrived seeking news of him.
• Zhao Yushu said Gu Jinlai would return after Flowing Fire City’s reconstruction stabilized, and Yu Shaoqin revealed the Sacred Dynasty planned to appoint him an imperial Attendant and title him Prince Liyang.

After learning that Gu Jinlai had become a True Immortal, Zhao Yushu asked him to rescue Chao Jiuyin from the Celestial Master Hall, and he agreed to go to the Imperial Capital. Before leaving, Gu Jinlai advanced his incomplete Spirit Mechanism Art to great achievement and prepared to meet the Sacred Dynasty’s rulers.

• Yuhua Lou, Yu Shaoqin, and Feng Shuanglie told Zhao Yushu that Gu Jinlai had become a True Immortal and was being offered the post of Imperial Grand Attendant and the title of King Liyang.
• Zhao Yushu contacted Jin Sixian, who asked whether Gu Jinlai could rescue Blue Light Association president Chao Jiuyin from the Celestial Master Hall.
• Zhao Yushu asked Gu Jinlai to save Chao Jiuyin, and he agreed to go to the Imperial Capital and bring her and the others back.
• Gu Jinlai used clear light to advance his incomplete Spirit Mechanism Art from minor achievement to great achievement, but found that it still lacked crucial sections.
• Gu Jinlai decided to travel to the Imperial Capital and meet the Sacred Dynasty’s rulers.

Gu Jinlai arrived at the Imperial Capital to seek the Heavenly Master Hall’s help in forging a weapon tailored to his unusual cultivation. He insisted that Chao Jiuyin come to his residence, but Duanmu Chengyun and the other False Immortals urged him to forge it inside the guarded hall instead.

• Gu Jinlai assessed the Imperial Capital’s strength and concluded that humanity’s war against the Demonic Beasts depended on powerful combatants and the Heavenly Master lineage.
• Gu Jinlai probed the Heavenly Master Hall, drew out Dong Yuanzi and two Saints, and identified Dong Yuanzi as a False Immortal of Taixuan Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Jinlai asked to meet the Heavenly Master Hall’s vice hall masters and requested Chao Jiuyin’s help forging a weapon suited to him.
• Gu Jinlai demanded that Chao Jiuyin visit his residence and challenged Dong Yuanzi’s authority when he suggested forging the weapon in the hall.
• Duanmu Chengyun, Dongxuanzi, and Si Wuya arrived, and Duanmu Chengyun argued that the weapon should be forged within the Heavenly Master Hall for the Heavenly Masters’ safety.

Gu Jinlai challenged Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuyai, and Dongxuanzi to test their strength against his, arguing that their borrowed spiritual energy and divine weapons could not match him. As the three prepared to fight above the Imperial Capital, Gu Jinlai began his first lesson about external power.

• Gu Jinlai confronted Duanmu Chengyun over the Celestial Master Hall’s refusal to let him take Celestial Masters to Wind and Rain City, then challenged the three peerless Void Immortals to spar.
• Dongyuanzi left the Celestial Master Hall to watch the fight, while Chao Jiuyin discussed his research into using the Heavenly Net to connect to the Spirit World’s network.
• Duanmu Chengyun led Gu Jinlai and the others to a spot above the Imperial Capital, where he activated the Mountains and Rivers State Map and drew in spiritual energy.
• Gu Jinlai said Duanmu Chengyun alone was not enough, so Si Wuyai and Dongxuanzi joined the fight and activated the Haotian Divine Sword and Celestial Origin Chess.
• As the three Void Immortals prepared to attack, Gu Jinlai stirred the colors in his eyes and declared that external power would always be external power.

Gu Jinlai overwhelmed Si Wuya, Dong Xuanzi, and Duanmu Chengyun by disrupting their spiritual energy and turning his thunder rings and magnetic field against them. As Si Wuya faced imminent destruction, Duanmu Chengyun surrendered on their behalf.

• Gu Jinlai disrupted the spiritual energy the three Void Immortals drew from their paradises, but Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuya, and Dong Xuanzi used their paradises to strengthen their divine weapons.
• Si Wuya attacked Gu Jinlai with the Haotian Divine Sword, but Gu Jinlai seized control of the sword and the Heavenly Origin Chess, blasting both weapons away from their masters.
• Gu Jinlai formed enormous opposing thunder rings that shredded Duanmu Chengyun's attack and trapped the three Void Immortals in a powerful magnetic pull.
• Si Wuya and Duanmu Chengyun tried to break through the rings, but Gu Jinlai's lightning struck Si Wuya and began destroying his holy body.
• With Si Wuya near death and the World-Subduing Landscape Diagram unable to rescue him, Duanmu Chengyun declared their surrender to Gu Jinlai.

Gu Jinlai defeated Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuya, and Dongxuanzi, then negotiated to take their divine weapons in exchange for unused weapons and materials. He reached the Celestial Master Hall and told Chao Jiuyin to prepare to leave, with the Grotto-Heaven leaders no longer able to stop him.

• Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuya, and Dongxuanzi admitted defeat, and Gu Jinlai stopped his lightning attack before it killed Si Wuya.
• Gu Jinlai claimed the Haotian Sword and Tianyuan Chess, then secured an agreement to receive five stored divine weapons and five thousand portions of thunder-magnetic origin gold.
• Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuya, and Dongxuanzi agreed to Gu Jinlai's demands after judging that they could not oppose him.
• Gu Jinlai and the Grotto-Heaven leaders descended to the Celestial Master Hall while Susu and Zhang Yingzhen stayed away to preserve the Saint Dynasty's appearance of strength.
• Gu Jinlai told Chao Jiuyin to prepare to leave and said Dongxuanzi and Elder Dongyuan would no longer obstruct him.