Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang watched a Dark Gold Fighter Jet destroy a black dragon, then gave the Azure Dragon his Mechanical Soul Gold. When a World Fragment fell toward them, Zhang Yang captured it and fought off a green-skinned attacker, discovering that the attacker was the Nine-Armed Demonic God.

• A Dark Gold Fighter Jet killed a black dragon, and the Azure Dragon admired its power.
• Zhang Yang gave the Azure Dragon his Mechanical Soul Gold after learning of the Azure Dragon’s interest in mecha puppet techniques.
• Zhang Yang bound a falling World Fragment with the Central Earth Meridian after sensing that someone was steering it.
• A green-skinned burly man leaped from the fragment, broke through Zhang Yang’s defenses, and pursued him with powerful punches.
• Zhang Yang used Blood Sacrifice Cousin to sharpen his danger sense and struck the attacker with Sword Soul Seals, exposing a three-headed, nine-legged monster.
• Zhang Yang recognized the monster as the Nine-Armed Demonic God.

After recovering his main body's memories, Zhang Yang used the Sword Soul Seal to destroy the Nine-Armed Demonic God and free a stolen city. As Zhang Yang considered bringing the city into his village, Brick warned that it might be a sacrifice.

• Zhang Yang recovered memories explaining how the Heavenly Sword Clan's three Sword Seals had been created to counter Demonic God armies.
• Zhang Yang used the Sword Soul Seal to erase the Nine-Armed Demonic God, leaving the Azure Dragon astonished by his strength.
• The World Fragment descended, revealing Chentang Pass and its sleeping residents inside.
• Brick identified the city as Chentang Pass, and Zhang Yang considered inspecting it and incorporating it into his village.
• Brick detected suspicious planar coordinates and warned Zhang Yang that the city and its residents might be a sacrifice.

Zhang Yang discovered that Chentang Pass and its inhabitants had been marked as sacrifices for Fourth Sequence heavenly gods, but he absorbed the city’s spiritual resources into the Village Building Order and brought his followers inside to cultivate. He told the Azure Dragon that it had been raised as food for the gods, leaving it devastated by the revelation.

• Zhang Yang learned from the Brick that the mark branded on him was a Heavenly God Mark used to designate victims for Fourth Sequence heavenly gods.
• Zhang Yang entered Chentang Pass, recognized its inhabitants and spiritual resources as a prepared feast, and had the Brick absorb the city into the Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang sent his subordinates and the Azure Dragon into the city to cultivate, and the Azure Dragon recognized the mark as belonging to the Great Sun Golden Crow Buddha.
• Zhang Yang told the Azure Dragon that the gods had raised it as food and that the marked people in Chentang Pass were sacrifices, shattering its belief that its past suffering was punishment for wrongdoing.

After the six thousand people in Chentang Pass decayed and vanished, Zhang Yang learned that they had been Ascension Bodies intended as sacrifices and that the Heaven Heavenly God Mark would bring evil ghosts after him and his companions. He unlocked the second seal of Brick Village Building Order, accepted a Law of War quest, and saw an army of Antivirus Hunters descend toward his village.

• Zhang Yang discovered that all six thousand sleeping people had died and rapidly decayed into nothing.
• Zhang Yang explained to Azure Dragon that the people had been sacrificial Ascension Bodies and that the Heaven Heavenly God Mark would draw evil ghosts to kill them.
• Brick Village Building Order opened its second seal and revealed options connected to Nie Xiaoqian's Well and the Law of War.
• Zhang Yang activated the Law of War quest, which required him to lead 50 to 100 soldiers through 100 victorious battles or kill 10,000 enemies of the same level.
• Zhang Yang saw an army of Antivirus Hunters teleport through Firewall World's boundary toward his village.

Zhang Yang met Augustus and learned the Antivirus Hunters knew little about heavenly demons, then secretly reunited with Mu Shaoan and explained the dangers of the Remnant Soul of Destiny and Mechanical Soul Gold. Mu Shaoan remained committed to the Antivirus Hunters, leaving their future alliance uncertain.

• Augustus approached Zhang Yang to recruit him and questioned how Chentang Pass had appeared, but Zhang Yang dismissed his inquiries and revealed that he had killed the giant who once carried the city.
• Augustus returned with Turtle, Xiao Wuwang, and Mu Shaoan, and Zhang Yang used the Central Earth Meridian and binding spells to secure the meeting.
• Brick assessed Mu Shaoan as a powerful, fate-controlled Law Breaker whose Mechanical Soul Gold fusion threatened to turn him into a puppet.
• Mu Shaoan used his white shield to shield himself and Zhang Yang from outside observation, then told Zhang Yang that Mu Shaojun had died at the age of 120.
• Zhang Yang explained the Six Great Sequences and warned Mu Shaoan that the Remnant Soul of Destiny and Mechanical Soul Gold threatened him, urging him to keep cultivating the Law of Immortality.
• Mu Shaoan thanked Zhang Yang but said he could not abandon the Antivirus Hunters or their civilization.

Zhang Yang learned that the Investiture of the Gods List world had gone offline and received intelligence and an Immortal Holy Shield Shard from Mu Shaoan. After Mu Shaoan departed, Zhang Yang prepared to enter the world and investigated a way to force open the Territory Stone’s malfunctioning teleportation coordinate.

• Mu Shaoan tested the Heavenly God Mark, found his Law of Immortality could withstand it at great cost, and decided not to enter Chentang Pass.
• Mu Shaoan gave Zhang Yang an Immortal Holy Shield Shard, explained how it sustained the Law of Immortality and linked their locations, and passed him intelligence about the Investiture of the Gods List’s past outages.
• Mu Shaoan left, and Zhang Yang reflected on how time had separated them from their families before reading the intelligence and preparing to depart for the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhang Yang assigned Azure Dragon to guard the village and had Brick evaluate the Territory Stone, which could still lock onto the world’s temporal coordinates despite its failed teleportation function.
• Brick reported that forcing open the Territory Stone’s teleportation gate required connecting to the Central Earth Meridian and consuming at least 500 units of secondary law.

Mu Shaoan kept his connection to Zhang Yang’s cousin secret as Zhang Yang forced a passage toward the Investiture of the Gods List world. The passage instead dragged Zhang Yang and Chentang Pass into the Great Wilderness, where Azure Dragon recognized the world as its birthplace and the Brick’s cards revealed they had been diverted to a place called Great Wilderness Prison.

• Mu Shaoan told Great Emperor, Turtle, and Xiao Wuwang to keep his cousin’s existence secret, then transformed the Steel Fortress into a tank and drove off to meet Arthur and the others.
• Zhang Yang used the Central Earth Meridian to tear open a passage toward the Investiture of the Gods List, but the force of the passage hurled him, his soldiers, the dragon, and Chentang Pass through it.
• Zhang Yang woke in a mud pit beneath a red sky and found that the Brick would not answer him, while Azure Dragon recognized the world as the Great Wilderness.
• Azure Dragon said it could not remember the name of the world’s most famous person, and Zhang Yang found cards in the Brick revealing that a hidden method in Azure Dragon had diverted their journey to Great Wilderness Prison.
• The Brick’s final card told Zhang Yang to survive.

Zhang Yang used the Immortal Holy Shield Shard to awaken Immortal Heroic Spirits and gather the Law of Immortality on the decayed battlefield, then faced an aerial attack by the Blood Feather Patrol Guard of the Heavenly Court. He killed twelve Blood-Feathered Birdmen, but their Golden Souls escaped, so he sent the Immortal Heroic Spirits after them.

• Zhang Yang placed the Immortal Holy Shield Shard on the battlefield, and its light awakened skeletons as Immortal Heroic Spirits.
• The shard collected the Law of Immortality and awakened twelve Immortal Heroic Spirits before Zhang Yang moved on to search more of the battlefield.
• A squad of Blood-Feathered Birdmen attacked from the sky, and Zhang Yang and his companions formed a defensive network with their Soul Force Fields and Imprisonment Spears.
• Zhang Yang used twelve Imprisoning Ice Spears to kill twelve Blood-Feathered Birdmen.
• Azure Dragon warned Zhang Yang that the attackers were the Blood Feather Patrol Guard of the Heavenly Court and urged him to stop their Golden Souls.
• Zhang Yang sent the twelve Immortal Heroic Spirits after the escaping Golden Souls.

Zhang Yang killed the hidden creature inside the Azure Dragon’s spine, then led his group out of the ancient battlefield to Spring Return County. The city’s lord invited the human travelers to join Spring Return City, leaving Zhang Yang to decide how to respond.

• Zhang Yang let two Golden Souls escape while he destroyed the hidden eyeball in the Azure Dragon’s spine and killed the remaining Blood Feather Patrol Guards.
• Zhang Yang led his group away before the Blood-Feathered Birdmen’s corpses burned and their Golden Souls restored them.
• Zhang Yang reached Spring Return County, where the Azure Dragon recognized the Mountain and River Sun and Moon Demon-Slaying Steles and identified his old friend as their maker.
• Zhang Yang told the Azure Dragon to conceal his identity and aura, renaming him Mu Yiji, then crossed the steles with his group without being harmed.
• A knight from Spring Return City invited Zhang Yang and his companions to join the city as human reinforcements during the Era of Demise Calamity.

Zhang Yang and his companions entered Spring Return City, where he recognized Yun Chuzi and Qingfengzi from the Great Dao Sect and learned that their world had suffered a devastating calamity. He withheld what he knew about the world’s reduction to the Fifth Sequence and planned cautious cooperation while investigating the Heavenly God Marks and the dead god’s legacy.

• Zhang Yang entered Spring Return City and recognized its city lord, Yun Chuzi, as his former senior brother from the Great Dao Sect.
• Yun Chuzi tested Zhang Yang’s group with Soul Nourishing Talismans, and Zhang Yang revealed that he had been an outer disciple of the sect.
• Qingfengzi arrived, recognized Azure Dragon as his old friend Zhuye, and described the invasion that destroyed the Great Dao Sect and devastated their world.
• Zhang Yang challenged Qingfengzi and Azure Dragon to prove their identities and refused to disclose what he knew about the world’s history.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the world had fallen from the Fourth Sequence to the Fifth after its heavenly god died, and planned limited cooperation with Spring Return City while investigating the Heavenly God Marks and the god’s legacy.

Zhang Yang joined Yun Chuzi’s patrol outside Spring Return City and learned about the Immortal Law Knights and the Blood-Feathered Birdmen. The patrol left the city as Yun Chuzi offered to recommend Zhang Yang to learn another core Immortal Law of the Great Dao Sect.

• Zhang Yang assigned four groups to guard the courtyard and cultivate Soul Nourishing Talismans, then led sixty-six fighters out of Spring Return City.
• Zhang Yang met Yun Chuzi at the city gates and agreed to patrol alongside him and his hundred Immortal Law Knights.
• Yun Chuzi explained that Immortal Law Knights used Immortal Law Components to wield Golden Core-level combat power, though their range depended on logistical support.
• Yun Chuzi described the Blood-Feathered Birdmen’s emergence from the Crimson Heavenly Palace and his vow to confront the beings who slaughtered the survivors.
• After they passed the Demon-Slaying Stele Forest, Yun Chuzi offered to recommend Zhang Yang to learn the Mountains, Rivers, Sun, and Moon Demon-Slaying Stele.

Zhang Yang joined Yun Chuzi’s patrol around Spring Return City, then led his troops beyond the city’s safe zone to hunt Eerie Entities and demon fiends. There, the Brick identified a motionless Demon King's Bone that was attracting monsters and warned Zhang Yang to attack it quickly.

• Yun Chuzi taught Zhang Yang an immortal law technique and led the Immortal Law Knights on a patrol that crushed eerie spaces around Spring Return City.
• After the patrol, Zhang Yang refused to return to the city and led his troops beyond its fifteen-li boundary.
• Zhang Yang activated the War Banner and ordered the Destruction Knights and other troops to fight through the wilderness’s Eerie Entities.
• The troops found a bone mountain crowned by a red-caped skeleton, with a boar-man, a blood coffin, and a dragon skeleton behind it.
• The Brick identified the mountain’s Demon King's Bone as a source attracting Eerie Entities and advised Zhang Yang to strike early.

Zhang Yang and his troops fought through a horde of powerful white-bone monsters near the Demonic Overlord's Bone, using the Immortal Holy Shield Shard and Luck to complete a war quest. After a sudden soul-suppression threat and the Boar Demonkin's roar, Zhang Yang led his soldiers in a breakout from the dangerous area.

• Qingfengzi told the Azure Dragon that Zhang Yang had gone southeast into a deadly domain guarded by a Boar Demonkin, a Blood Coffin Head, and an Underworld Bone Dragon, while Yun Chuzi secretly watched with amusement.
• Zhang Yang formed a shield circle against a vast horde of white-bone monsters and kept the Reincarnated Sword Souls from fighting to conceal their connection to his main body.
• Zhang Yang sacrificed his cousin for Luck and placed the Immortal Holy Shield Shard, which channeled the Law of Immortality into the War Banner and rapidly advanced the Hundred-Battle Elite quest.
• When soul suppression weakened his luck and shield shard, Zhang Yang used the Sword Soul Seal to kill the remaining enemies and complete the quest, granting nearby soldiers increased Law Concentration.
• After the Boar Demonkin roared in response to the Sword Soul Seal, Zhang Yang ordered his troops to charge and break away from the Demon King's Bone.

Zhang Yang led his soldiers through a dangerous breakout, using Azure Dragon blood to stop the pursuing Boar Demonkin and learning that Yun Chuzi had likely been possessed by a dead Heavenly God. He then spent his remaining Law Concentration and Three-Colored Spiritual Plants to advance his troops, ending with thirty powerful Destroyers, including fourteen Legendary Realm Destroyer Captains.

• Zhang Yang used fireballs to guide the soldiers’ escape, resisted the Blood Coffin Head with the brick, and wounded its nine heads with a Sword Soul Seal.
• Zhang Yang fed the Boar Demonkin five chunks of chilled Azure Dragon blood, stopping it three thousand meters from the Demon King's Bone.
• The brick revealed that Yun Chuzi had likely been possessed by the escaped soul of a dead Heavenly God, while Zhang Yang decided to postpone returning to Spring Return City.
• Zhang Yang assessed his soldiers and advanced twelve Dragonblood Warriors into Dragonblood Berserkers, then chose to transform his thirty Destruction Knights into Demonic Dragon Knights.
• Zhang Yang used Three-Colored Spiritual Plants to strengthen the Knights’ True Souls and reduce the effects of demonic transformation.
• The thirty Knights completed their advancement as fourteen Legendary Realm Destroyer Captains and sixteen Epic Realm Destroyers.

Zhang Yang led his forces against the Blood Coffin, Boar Demonkin, and Underworld Bone Dragon, hoping to destroy the Demon King's Bone. Qingfengzi arrived, defeated the threats, and claimed Zhang Yang as his first disciple, leaving Zhang Yang stunned by the revelation that Qingfengzi knew the truth about their world.

• Zhang Yang upgraded his forces into Silent Ones and Forbidden Magic Knights, then ordered them to battle the skeletal monsters while he drew the Boar Demonkin away and his captains engaged the Underworld Bone Dragon.
• Zhang Yang's four Reincarnated Sword Cultivators struck the Demon King's Bone with the Rushing Stream Sword Array while the Destroyer Captains kept the Bone Dragon occupied.
• The Underworld Bone Dragon scattered the sword array and blasted the Destroyer Captains aside, but Qingfengzi arrived and destroyed the Bone Dragon, the Blood Coffin, and the Demon King's Bone.
• Qingfengzi subdued the Boar Demonkin and made it kneel, then told Zhang Yang that he would become his first disciple, Yun Yangzi.
• Qingfengzi explained that he had deduced the truth about the world's decline and offered to teach Zhang Yang the Mountains, Rivers, Sun, and Moon Demon-Slaying Stele.

Zhang Yang used Qingfengzi’s Mountains, Rivers, Sun, and Moon Demon-Slaying Stele to rebuild his body and rapidly restore his cultivation. He emerged in his true form with a powerful new sword, while Brick merged with him and left behind the unfinished Small Mud Boat.

• Zhang Yang sent for his eight subordinates, left the Azure Dragon in Spring Return City with Qingfengzi, and continued traveling while his group mined and refined ore.
• Zhang Yang secluded himself for seven days and combined the Demon-Slaying Stele with his Heaven and Earth Sword Intent to transform his body and strengthen his foundation.
• Zhang Yang advanced his Soul Nourishing Talisman to the thirty-second level, established his Spirit Domain and sword-core foundation, and restored his cultivation to the Golden Core Stage.
• Zhang Yang used the Demon-Slaying Stele and Heaven and Earth Sword Intent to forge a powerful sword from steel ingots.
• Zhang Yang emerged in his true form, declared that he had returned, and found that Brick had merged with him, leaving the unfinished Small Mud Boat behind.

Zhang Yang discovered a ruined altar that summoned an Abyssal Demon Tribe army and used the invasion to complete his War Banner mission. After killing the Underworld Bone Dragon, he ordered his forces to pursue the retreating demons into their territory despite his severe injuries.

• Zhang Yang investigated a great rift and found an intact altar where Blood-Feathered Birdmen summoned an Underworld Bone Dragon.
• Zhang Yang camped near the altar, built defenses, and waited as the bone dragon remained at the site.
• The altar opened a rift that released demon legions, and Zhang Yang’s steles, sword arrays, and troops slaughtered the advancing forces.
• Zhang Yang unleashed his techniques when the Underworld Bone Dragon dived within range and killed it, suffering severe backlash.
• Zhang Yang completed the Thousand Cavalry Raid mission and ordered his troops to pursue the retreating demons into their territory.

Zhang Yang and his forces escaped a devastating trap, then fought their way through the Devil Race’s home territory to complete War Banner missions and kill a giant demon. With the enemy reorganizing in overwhelming numbers, Zhang Yang led a desperate breakout and ordered everyone to keep running rather than get bogged down.

• Zhang Yang’s group rushed through the Teleportation Array as the Devil Race retreated, and the Heavenly Palace’s stone statues later annihilated the area behind them.
• The group emerged amid a vast Devil Race legion, where the Destroyer Captains attacked the ranged troops while Zhang Yang activated the War Banner’s One Man Against Ten Thousand mission.
• As the group struggled to hold formation against the powerful home-soil defenders, Zhang Yang advanced eight stragglers into new classes and used Three-Colored Spiritual Plants to heal his true soul.
• Zhang Yang’s Ancient Demonic Language: Intimidate stunned much of the battlefield, allowing the Reincarnated Sword Cultivators and Destroyer Captains to strip a giant demon’s protection before Zhang Yang killed it with the Sword Heart Seal.
• With the Devil Race army regrouping, Zhang Yang led his forces in a breakout, then shouted for everyone to run when another enemy force swept in behind them.

Zhang Yang led his exhausted subordinates into the abyss region of the Fifth Sequence, where the living world and its hostile environment threatened their Law Concentration. After inspecting the Underworld Bone Dragon’s spoils, he discovered a demigod’s bone and prepared to make use of it.

• Zhang Yang explained that they had reached the abyss region of the River of Time, where ordinary Sky Dome beings could not survive.
• Zhang Yang assessed his group’s fatigue and diluted Law Concentration, noting their uneven mission rewards and the progress of the Ten-Thousand-Against-One mission.
• Zhang Yang maintained his Spirit Domain while the group rested, knowing they needed to find a solution before he exhausted its thirty-day limit.
• After the group recovered, Zhang Yang examined the white bone sphere taken from the Underworld Bone Dragon and opened it by channeling spiritual energy into it.
• Zhang Yang found a demigod’s bone inside the sphere and estimated that it held at least 300 percent Law Concentration.

Zhang Yang and his companions defended themselves from a purple demonic-aura cloud, then turned the monsters and flame-soaked soil it brought into fertile farmland. Their rapid harvests strengthened the group and offered hope that they could resist the Demon Realm’s aura.

• Zhang Yang reinforced his Spirit Domain with twelve Demon-Slaying Steles as the purple demonic-aura cloud swept over the group.
• Two Agou Monsters broke through the Spirit Domain, but the Destroyer and Destruction Knight Captains trapped them in Lotus Vats and killed them after their purple flames were stripped away.
• Zhang Yang’s companions harvested deep-green soil and processed the monsters and purple-flame soil while fighting off the cloud’s attacks.
• After the cloud passed, the group planted high-evolution Wheat Seeds in black-ice vats filled with the fertile mixture.
• The group harvested spiritual plants after two days and distributed them to Zhang Yang, the captains, and the rest, boosting their morale and strengthening their true souls.