Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang inspected the royal city’s completed defenses and prepared to advance beyond the transcendent realm, but a vision and the Village Building Order’s records revealed that Zhao Xianyu had influenced Great Chu’s founding. Zhang Yang concluded that Zhao Xianyu had preserved his civilization to cultivate it for a future invasion, leaving him furious and wary.

• Zhang Yang surveyed the royal city’s five fortresses and learned that a million Mirage Tribe Demons had sealed off the mountains.
• Zhang Yang ordered Wu Ya to defend North Beacon Tower Fortress while Zhao Zhou built a Level 5 county city to house refugees.
• Zhang Yang prepared to complete his class advancement but suffered a sudden vision of a yellow-sand ruin and spat blood.
• The Village Building Order’s reflection linked a mysterious mountain god who approached Duan Jiusi to Zhao Xianyu.
• Zhang Yang connected Zhao Xianyu to Great Chu’s rise and suspected he had prolonged Zhang Yang’s civilization to prepare it for invasion.

Zhang Yang discovered that Zhao Xianyu had hidden a curse and invasion scheme in two books about the Great Chu Dynasty. After using the Goddess of Love’s divine seat to expose and neutralize the books’ threats, he chose to fuse the resulting objects with his Village Building Order, risking a binding to this world’s civilization.

• Zhang Yang reasoned that Zhao Xianyu was likely behind the Great Chu Dynasty and prepared for a future conflict while trying to complete his Foundation Establishment.
• Zhang Yang used the Golden Scales to identify the Great Chu books as cursed World Books intended to replace this world’s civilization with an invading one.
• Zhang Yang awakened the Goddess of Love’s divine seat and used it to suppress the first book, revealing a paper figure and three talismans tied to him.
• Zhang Yang suppressed the second book, and the world’s civilization altered both books’ cursed objects so their curses could not take effect and they could communicate with him.
• Zhang Yang fused the four objects with his core Village Building Order after learning the fusion would bind him to protect the world’s civilization and grant him the title Civilization Guardian.

Zhang Yang accepted the Civilization Guardian task after learning his civilization was near collapse and had only two years to save it. He traded nearly all his resources for a Nascent Soul expert’s cultivation insight, then accepted the Salted Fish Terminator task and opened a passage to a battlefield.

• Zhang Yang fused with his village civilization and learned that it was under invasion, near collapse, and required him to evacuate at least one hundred thousand people from Wuwei and Yanming Commanderies within two years.
• Zhang Yang decided to confront Zhao Xianyu before attempting to save the threatened commanderies.
• Zhang Yang traded his remaining resources, five historical character slots, and seven points of King's Aura to activate the Golden Scales' ninth mode and obtain a fragment of divine consciousness from a Nascent Soul expert.
• Zhang Yang used the fragment to cultivate with thousands of Foundation Establishment Pills and Demon Cultivator essence, raising his Natal Spiritual Qi to 999 without advancing beyond Qi Condensation.
• Zhang Yang accepted the Salted Fish Terminator task, sacrificed the Goddess of Love's divine position, and opened a passage to either the Second Sequence battlefield or the Third Sequence battlefield.

Zhang Yang crossed into the target world aboard a strange ship and endured a rift of azure gales and golden lightning by spending Natal Spiritual Qi. He survived the landing in a vast forest and learned that he had invaded a world where powerful forces would hunt him, while his bound Deity Village Building Order had something to say.

• Zhang Yang traveled on a shadow-sailing ship with gray-cloaked passengers and witnessed strange ships and creatures along the way.
• Zhang Yang passed through a rift of azure gales and golden lightning, resisting the ordeal by consuming eighty-two breaths of Natal Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Yang crashed into a forest, broke dozens of bones, and recovered after lying there for more than ten minutes.
• Zhang Yang searched the forest with his Soul Force Field and climbed a mountain, finding no human structures nearby.
• Zhang Yang read the Village Building Order's warning that he had invaded the target world and would face suppression, then saw a notice that his Deity Village Building Order had something to say.

Zhang Yang accepted a quest to bind and capture a powerful foreign deity, then opened his Deity Village Building Order and drew the attention of the native deities. Zhao Xianyu sent an eighteenth-level false deity to attack him, but Zhang Yang endured its blows and began steadily building binding progress.

• Zhang Yang listened to Zhao Xianyu’s recorded message and concluded that Zhao Xianyu was not in this world but had prepared a trap for him.
• A side quest appeared, offering civilization durability and a higher-level Binding Secret Art for capturing a foreign deity, and Zhang Yang accepted it despite the danger.
• Zhang Yang opened the Deity Village Building Order, triggering warnings that he had been discovered and would initiate a Civilization Hegemony War.
• Zhao Xianyu revealed his revenge plot, accused Zhang Yang of killing Ghost Lady, and declared that he intended to destroy Zhang Yang and his primary world’s civilization.
• An eighteenth-level false deity descended and struck Zhang Yang, who survived by spending one unit of spell power and repeatedly casting Binding Spell.
• Zhang Yang’s binding progress against the charging false deity rose from 12 to 24 out of 500.

Zhang Yang discovered that the Level 18 false god depended on a Divine Power Network and used his Soul Force Field to sever its connection to Zhao Xianyu's divine kingdom. After exhausting the false god's reserves with repeated Imprisonment Spells, Zhang Yang captured and killed him, completing his side quest and earning the Demon Imprisonment technique.

• Zhang Yang used Soul Tremor to detect that the false god's yellow radiance, representing the Divine Power Network, was vulnerable to his soul.
• Zhang Yang analyzed the network, identified how believers' faith flowed through Storm City, and severed the false god's connection to the divine kingdom.
• The false god attacked Zhang Yang, then fled when he realized he could no longer draw divine power.
• Zhang Yang repeatedly imprisoned the fleeing false god until it exhausted its reserves, then captured and killed it with the Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang completed his side quest, restored 130 points of civilization durability, and received the advanced Demon Imprisonment technique.

After binding a Level 18 demigod, Zhang Yang rejected a quest that urged him to flee and instead set up a deception to hinder Zhao Xianyu’s pursuit. He left the battlefield behind and began trying to create a genuine Earth-Walking Wood Demon.

• The Village Building Order gave Zhang Yang an Escape Alive quest, offering 500 Suanni Beasts and 300 Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains if he escaped his pursuers.
• Zhang Yang reasoned that Zhao Xianyu could not use Divine Descent again and decided that fleeing would be a dead end.
• Zhang Yang disguised three great trees as Earth-Walking Wood Demons to make the enemy believe the creatures had killed the Level 18 demigod.
• Zhang Yang spread false signs of Earth-Walking Wood Demons among nearby trees to make the pursuers waste time searching and burning suspected decoys.
• More than twenty li from the battlefield, Zhang Yang prepared a group of trees and began trying to catalyze a genuine Earth-Walking Wood Demon.

Zhang Yang used the forest to evade Zhao Xianyu’s search party, luring them into believing he could summon Earth-Walking Wood Demons. As the pursuers burned the forest to eliminate the threat, Zhang Yang escaped on a golden eagle, promising a future revenge by the Wood Demons.

• Zhang Yang hid in a tree and prepared nine birds as a diversion while waiting for the search party to arrive.
• A twenty-person team carrying Detection Talismans entered the forest, so Zhang Yang transformed the birds into Winged Demons and made the talismans burst into flames.
• The pursuers split up to follow the Winged Demons and search the forest, but Zhang Yang remained concealed in the canopy.
• The team found signs of the God of Storms’ death and suspected Wood Demon traces; when an Earth-Walking Wood Demon appeared, the pursuers panicked and retreated.
• The pursuers set fires around the forest, and Zhang Yang escaped on a Golden Eagle Wood Carving, vowing that the Earth-Walking Wood Demons would take revenge.

Zhang Yang abandoned his plan to corrupt Zhao Xianyu’s prosperous kingdom and decided to fight him openly, but a village execution led him to discover a possible alternative. After saving a young Evil God follower from the flames, he resolved to cooperate with her god and cultivate believers against Zhao Xianyu.

• Zhang Yang saw the vast population and prosperity of Zhao Xianyu’s kingdom and concluded that corrupting it would require atrocities, so he abandoned the Salted Fish Terminator mission.
• Zhang Yang heard a village bell, learned that a man had been murdered, and watched Lord Fatty Pig investigate the suspected Evil God follower.
• Lord Fatty Pig condemned a young girl to be burned, and Zhang Yang heard her pray to the Evil God.
• Zhang Yang used his Soul Force Field to shield the girl from the flames, revealing her survival as a miracle to the villagers.
• Zhang Yang knocked the villagers unconscious with a Soul Tremor and decided to cooperate with the Evil God by cultivating believers against Zhao Xianyu.

Zhang Yang disguised himself as a knight and hired Aisha to take him to Aquino Valley, where she believed her nameless god resided. After learning that the god lived inside a tower, Zhang Yang realized Zhao Xianyu had hidden his lost Wood Demon Tower there.

• Zhang Yang found Aisha beside the unconscious villagers, posed as a virtuous knight, and accepted her gold coin to escort her to Aquino Valley.
• Zhang Yang took supplies and Zhao Xianyu's original talisman paper before setting out with Aisha, who said they would travel through Anya City to reach the valley.
• Zhang Yang discovered Aisha was directionally challenged and persuaded her to describe the nameless deity she worshiped.
• Aisha described her god as a kind, weakened presence living inside a tower, and Zhang Yang drew the Wood Demon Tower for her to identify.
• Zhang Yang realized Zhao Xianyu had taken and hidden his lost Wood Demon Tower in Aquiluo Valley and vowed not to share the same sky with him.

Zhang Yang and Aisha reached Anya City, where they learned the route to Aquino Valley was dangerous and joined the local Demon Hunter Guild to enter the Lost Land. The chapter left them riding out with a team to hunt Three-Headed Demonic Rats.

• Nader offered to help Zhang Yang and Aisha, but when Aisha asked about Aquino Valley, he tried to expose them as followers of an evil god, so Aisha shot him and Zhang Yang dragged her into Anya City.
• Zhang Yang welcomed Aisha into the Dried Fish Demon Hunting Squad and planned to leave for the Lost Land after buying hunting supplies.
• A burly Guild representative told Zhang Yang that newcomers needed a Guild referral, and Zhang Yang paid three gold coins to join a hunt led by One-Eyed Hank.
• The next morning, Zhang Yang showed the Guild badge at the North City Gate and rode out with Aisha toward the Three-Headed Demonic Rat hunting grounds.

Zhang Yang and Aisha joined One-Eyed Hank’s hunting party, helped it defeat a swarm of Three-Headed Demonic Rats, and returned to the Ruined City. There, repeated distress calls and a sudden surge of yin energy suggested a much larger danger, possibly connected to someone investigating Aquiluo Valley.

• Zhang Yang introduced Aisha as a Wild Priestess, and One-Eyed Hank accepted her into the hunting party with a seventy-percent share of the spoils.
• One-Eyed Hank assembled thirty hunters, and the party traveled west to the Ruined City before riding north to hunt Three-Headed Demonic Rats.
• Zhang Yang and Tommy charged in to cover the hunters’ retreat, clearing the pursuing rats without anyone being injured.
• The party returned to the Ruined City and saw cavalry units sent out twice, followed by an urgent call for aid to Brute Bull’s hunting party.
• One-Eyed Hank ordered everyone to abandon their baggage and flee to Anya City as the sky darkened and the temperature plunged; Zhang Yang wondered if someone had gone to Aquiluo Valley.

Zhang Yang and Aisha entered the Yin Energy Cloud unharmed, but Aisha revealed herself as a demoness seeking the Wood Demon Tower and attacked him. After Zhang Yang drove her off, he told the survivors that their kingdom depended on the tower and offered to become their new king, while a new quest tasked him with taking the tower and at least one hundred thousand human survivors back with him.

• Zhang Yang and Aisha stood unharmed in the Yin Energy Cloud, and Aisha’s power convinced the desperate survivors to follow them toward Aquiluo Valley.
• An Apprentice Priest accused Zhang Yang and Aisha of causing the disaster, but Zhang Yang claimed the God-King had sacrificed the people of the ruined city to suppress the ghosts.
• Aisha turned the Yin Energy Clouds against Zhang Yang, revealed that the Wood Demon Tower belonged to the Demon Race, and fled after Zhang Yang used Divine Seal.
• A Divine Official and a Demon Hunter captain questioned Zhang Yang about Aquiluo Valley, and he explained that the Wood Demon Tower suppressed the ghost race and that the kingdom’s collapse was imminent.
• Zhang Yang offered to become the survivors’ new king and take them with him when he retrieved the tower, while his new quest required him to bring at least one hundred thousand human survivors back.

Zhang Yang took control of Anya City and prepared to move its people to his Royal City, then began Foundation Establishment to protect them from hidden threats. The Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order presented five foundation paths, leaving him to choose one.

• Zhang Yang rejected complaints about fairness, gathered three Demon Hunter squads and two cavalry units, and set out to take control of Anya City.
• Zhang Yang led his forces to Anya City, seized the gates and supplies, imposed martial law, and brought the city and its more than eighty thousand residents under his control.
• Worried that the Demon Race might be hiding among the residents, Zhang Yang cultivated through the night and chose the Village Building Order's safe, guided Foundation Establishment mode.
• The Village Building Order evaluated Zhang Yang's cultivation and offered him five foundation paths: Inner Core, Outer Core, Spirit Sea, Sword Core, and Demonic Heart.

Zhang Yang chose Sword Core cultivation and underwent a complete transformation, gaining the Nine Heavenly Meridians of Sword Cultivation and instantly mastering the Azure Cloud Sword Control Art. He demonstrated its invisible sword by piercing twenty-eight walls, then emerged to confront a terrified old man.

• Zhang Yang compared the five Foundation Establishment paths and chose to establish a Sword Core.
• The choice reshaped Zhang Yang’s body and meridians, forming Sword Cores in his Soul and Heart Meridians.
• Zhang Yang advanced to Legendary as a sword cultivator and learned about the Nine Heavenly Meridians and their nine Sword Cores.
• Zhang Yang discovered he could now understand and perfectly master the Azure Cloud Sword Control Art.
• Zhang Yang released an invisible sword through his Soul Meridian Sword Core, piercing twenty-eight stone walls across 180 meters.
• Zhang Yang walked into the garden, where a frightened old man trembled as a strand of his hair fell.

Zhang Yang patrolled Anya City, killed a Demon Race spy, and cultivated by absorbing only pure Spiritual Qi as the world’s upheaval began. Zhao Xianyu’s divine kingdom fell into chaos as Spiritual Qi Resurgence broke his Divine Power Network, leaving it exposed to an otherworldly invasion.

• Zhang Yang intimidated Zhao Xianyu’s messenger, rejected his request for reinforcements, and destroyed a divine talisman.
• Zhang Yang patrolled Anya City, detected and killed a fleeing Demon Race spy, then guarded the city while sensing the world’s turbulent Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Yang chose to absorb only pure Spiritual Qi and gained three streams over three days, then gained four more while defending Anya City from River-Crossing Dragons during a meteor shower.
• Spiritual Qi Resurgence caused widespread mutations and awakenings across Zhao Xianyu’s divine kingdom, where the army’s power rose dramatically.
• Ten days later, a paladin claimed he could slay gods, the population abandoned its faith, and Zhao Xianyu’s Divine Power Network collapsed.
• With Zhao Xianyu’s kingdom no longer protected, otherworldly demons invaded after a delay of two thousand years.

Zhang Yang defended Anya City from Variant Parasite Demon Bugs, traded their souls for pills, and advanced his Soul Meridian Sword Core to the Second Layer. He then saw Storm City falling and spoke with the dying Zhao Xianyu, who bid him farewell.

• Zhang Yang killed 415 Variant Parasite Demon Bugs that flew toward Anya City and gained demon souls, Gray Fragments of Hope, and demon blood.
• Zhang Yang traded demon souls for First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, consumed them to build Natal Spiritual Qi, and advanced his Soul Meridian Sword Core to the Second Layer.
• Zhang Yang gained three Formless Soul Swords and reflected on how the Soul Sword and Heart Sword served different purposes.
• Zhang Yang saw through the Deity Village Building Order that the Demon Race, Devil Race, and ghost soldiers were overrunning Storm City.
• Zhao Xianyu spoke to Zhang Yang from Storm City's divine throne, explained his betrayal and defeat, and said farewell.

After Zhao Xianyu died, three Stars of Hope emerged from the Mountain God Civilization, and Zhang Yang obtained a small portion of one before fleeing the collapsing world. He sent 45,000 refugees back to his world, then escaped alone toward a survivor settlement, exchanging the Star of Hope for 30,000 First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Zhao Xianyu died, causing the Mountain God Civilization to vanish and three Stars of Hope to rise.
• Alien forces seized two Stars of Hope, while the third was battered and flew toward Anya City.
• A native attack split the remaining Star of Hope, and its smaller portion reached a crying boy before Zhang Yang took it.
• Zhang Yang opened a teleportation channel and sent 45,000 refugees to his world, then closed it and fled alone using the Soul Sword.
• Zhang Yang headed toward a survivor settlement and exchanged the Star of Hope for 30,000 First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

Zhang Yang investigated a mysterious royal city and discovered that its soldiers could easily defeat Demons, Ghosts, and devils. After advancing his Soul Meridian Sword Core, he uncovered a memory suggesting that someone had been reborn and stolen the destiny he remembered as his own, leaving him wary of the city and its unknown ruler.

• Zhang Yang watched the isolated royal city and followed its native soldiers as they slaughtered ghosts and returned with enormous spoils.
• After half a month of observation, Zhang Yang spent one thousand portions of Natal Spiritual Qi to raise his Soul Meridian Sword Core to the third level.
• Zhang Yang explored his sea of souls, used twenty-seven Formless Soul Swords to stir it, and found a hidden gray, transparent chain.
• Zhang Yang captured the chain and received a memory of an alternate past in which he worked with Rom to reclaim the Wood Demon Tower and secured a complete Star of Hope.
• Zhang Yang concluded that a reborn person had changed his fate and stolen opportunities he had expected to obtain, and he resolved to remain cautious while watching the royal city.

Zhang Yang tracked a Reincarnator army, discovered the Five-Element Stone Demon annihilating its soldiers, and killed the demon by striking its hidden purple core. A Reincarnator arrived afterward and realized the demon he had wanted to secure was gone.

• Zhang Yang watched a Stone Demon destroy more than fifteen hundred Reincarnator soldiers in under a minute.
• Zhang Yang decided to attack the demon, testing it with the Formless Heart Sword and a Great Fireball before binding its fragments with the Divine Imprisonment Art.
• Zhang Yang’s twenty-seven Soul Swords found and shattered the demon’s purple vital core, and he fled after plundering it.
• Half an hour later, a Reincarnator arrived, found the Five-Element Stone Demon missing, and panicked over the consequences for his mission.