Chapter Summaries

Su Qing persuaded the frightened True Monarchs to continue toward the Abyssal Secret Realm by explaining that Black Wukong could seize control of reincarnation and doom the living worlds. After the cultivators revealed their prepared weapons and allies, the mission seemed to have a chance, and they asked Su Qing to show his own trump cards.

• Aboard the North Sea Giant Kun, Su Qing told the gathered True Monarchs that Black Wukong and other powerful demons might await them in the Abyssal Secret Realm, prompting many to demand that they turn back.
• Su Qing warned that Black Wukong could claim the Six Paths of Samsara Disk and Samsara Dao Pattern, threaten the Celestial Origin Realm, and endanger the Myriad Worlds, convincing the True Monarchs that they had to fight for their own survival.
• Liu Gandang pledged the Liu Family's support, and True Lord Guangxian, True Monarch Hu De, and True Lord Gu Le said the Three Daoist Sects had prepared ways to fight Tier 6 enemies.
• The other cultivators revealed powerful treasures, formations, summoned beings, and allies they had brought, giving Su Qing hope that the mission had a thirty or forty percent chance of success.
• The True Monarchs asked Su Qing to reveal his own trump cards, and they found the Xing Tian Blood Axe and an Arhat Skeleton intended for his puppet Bear Two.

Su Qing’s group encountered swarms of Void Demonic Creatures attacking the North Sea Giant Kun as they traveled through a realm rift. After the Kun’s cannons drove most of them away, Gao Erqiang went outside alone and captured a shadow bat, while Su Qing stayed aboard to investigate who was behind the attack.

• A drunken True Monarch went outside to fight the shadow bats but returned wounded, warning that they were Void Demonic Creatures from the ancient void rifts.
• Su Qing ordered the North Sea Giant Kun to unleash its cannons, driving away most of the creatures but leaving several enormous ones in pursuit.
• When no one volunteered to investigate, Gao Erqiang agreed to go outside, and Su Qing sent him out alone to capture a shadow bat.
• Gao Erqiang fought the shadow bats with his pagoda and Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, resisting their attacks and striking one severely.
• Gao Erqiang clamped down on a shadow bat and carried it back into the North Sea Giant Kun.

Su Qing’s group discovered that the Cosmic Emperor was controlling Void Demonic Creatures, while Erqiang accepted a tainted Dharma Eye Puppet to help investigate. The North Sea Giant Kun reached the Abyssal Secret Realm, where the group prepared to use Erqiang’s puppet to scout beyond their sharply limited senses.

• Erqiang received Su Qing’s Fifth-tier Dharma Eye Puppet and used it to examine the Demonic Shadow Bat, seeing mysterious eyes watching through the puppet.
• Erqiang tried to discard the puppet, but Su Qing and the True Monarchs persuaded him to keep using it in exchange for promised benefits and support for his temples.
• Su Qing told the True Monarchs that someone was controlling Void Demonic Creatures, and they identified the hidden figure as the Cosmic Emperor, one of the Twelve Heavenly Demon Generals.
• Su Qing privately feared the Cosmic Emperor and the Demonic Buddha had already begun attacks on three fronts, but kept the group focused on reaching the abyss.
• The North Sea Giant Kun began pitching as it reached the Abyssal Secret Realm, and the True Monarchs found their divine senses limited to a hundred zhang.
• The True Monarchs urged Erqiang to use the Dharma Eye to scout outside the cabin before they stepped into the abyss.

Su Qing and the cultivators entered the Abyssal Secret Realm, discovered that demonic forces had destroyed a Huang Family camp, and learned that the realm’s transformed Di Ting and an ancient Demonic Sect predecessor were behind the danger. After Shi Li Jing killed the predecessor but fled from a vast herd of Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants, Su Qing opened the first battle with a barrage of cannons.

• Erqiang led the cultivators out of the North Sea Giant Kun, and Su Qing marked valuable mines while they gathered plants and materials along their route.
• The group found the Huang Family’s camp reduced to rubble, and a Spirit Investigator identified the vanished attackers as Di Ting and the Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants.
• True Monarch Bo Hei recognized a Wisdom-Reducing Halo from an ancient Demonic Sect power, while Shi Li Jing declared that he would distance the New Era’s New Demonic Sect from its predecessor.
• Shi Li Jing used his Spirit Patterns to kill the ancient Demonic Sect predecessor by tearing him apart, then hid when tens of thousands of Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants arrived.
• Su Qing rallied the cultivators and summoned more than ten million Blazing Fire Cannons to attack the approaching elephants.

Su Qing’s Exorcism Army destroyed most of Di Ting’s Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants, but a Mother-Child Blood River then flooded the Abyssal Secret Realm and made True Monarch Jiang Long pregnant. As the cultivators struggled to avoid the river water, blood mosquitoes swarmed in and forced them to prepare for battle.

• Su Qing recalled the Blazing Fire Cannons after discovering that the Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants regenerated from their injuries, then sent his Exorcism Army Group to blast most of the herd apart.
• Spirit Inquiry for Truth examined a Prison Suppressing Divine Elephant and identified the black qi controlling it, then removed its Soul Shepherd divine plaque and watched its designation vanish.
• A black-red river descended into the Abyssal Secret Realm, and True Monarch Jiang Long drank from it before discovering that he was about to give birth.
• The cultivators identified the river as a mixture of Nine Netherworld Blood River water and Mother-Child River Water, while Su Qing stopped Liu Yun'er, Ling Ying, and the other women from drinking it.
• Su Qing released the Nine Sons Dragon Ship to attack blood mosquitoes in the river, and the cultivators called for anyone with an anti-mosquito trump card to act as the swarm surged toward them.

Blood Mosquitoes overwhelmed the fleet until Gao Erqiang descended into the sea and drew them away, allowing Su Qing to lead the fleet onward. When the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas blocked their path, Tong Chang promised Gao Erqiang the title of Tianyuan War God if he faced the foe, and the gathered True Monarchs approved.

• Yao Guangquan abandoned his sinking Sea Dragon Ship and armed Wei De Bao and the others with his stores of talismans, weapons, and puppets.
• Gao Erqiang revealed that a blood-robed Daoist was reviving the Blood Mosquitoes, so Su Qing equipped Erqiang with powerful treasures and sent him into the sea.
• Su Qing led the fleet toward the site of Yama Palace after Erqiang drew the Blood Mosquitoes away, then Erqiang returned carrying a giant Blood Mosquito for Su Qing to use in a puppet.
• Su Qing asked Erqiang to confront the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, but Erqiang balked after learning the foe was a Tier 6 Void Refinement.
• Tong Chang offered to appoint Erqiang Tianyuan War God if he fought the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, and the True Monarchs unanimously approved.

Su Qing’s forces fought through the Abyssal Secret Realm as Erqiang challenged the sixth-rank Great Sage Who Covers the Seas to earn the office of Tianyuan War God. At the Bridge of Life and Death, Su Qing sent Jade Lotus and the Wooden Fish Special Forces against its sixth-rank Evil Entity while the Buddhist cultivators dealt with the resentful ghosts.

• Yao Guangquan and the other cultivators overwhelmed the aberrant demon horde while Su Qing and Tong Chang urged Erqiang to fight the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas without borrowing other artifacts.
• Erqiang blocked the Great Sage’s first staff strike, suffered severe injuries, and stood to block the second as Su Qing led the rest of the forces onward.
• Su Qing’s forces reached the Bridge of Life and Death, where its illusion broke and its ghosts attacked them as fierce spirits and resentful souls.
• The Buddhist cultivators engaged the ghosts while Su Qing judged that the Bridge of Life and Death was a sixth-rank Evil Entity too dangerous for his Exorcism Army Group.
• Su Qing gave Jade Lotus the Vajra Pestle and sent her with 3,672 Merit Wooden Fish and their Great Wood Spirits as the Wooden Fish Special Forces.

Su Qing and the Merit Special Operations Team fought the Bridge of Life and Death Evil, whose memories revealed how the ancient underworld spirit had been abandoned and corrupted. After defeating it, Su Qing gained the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and comprehended the Cause and Effect Dao Pattern.

• The Human Race True Monarchs urged the Demon Race True Monarchs to fight the Bridge of Life and Death Evil, but Su Qing stopped the Tiger Lord and Ox Lord and took responsibility for the battle.
• Jade Lotus and the Merit Wooden Fish bound the Evil Entity’s ox-headed Dharma Body with Buddhist light, while Su Qing’s merit strengthened Jade Lotus and her weapons.
• The Bridge of Life and Death Evil shed the Ox King Dharma Body and used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to divide space and time, but the Merit Wooden Fish tracked and bound it again.
• Jade Lotus attacked the Bridge of Life and Death Evil with the Vajra Pestle as the wooden fish burned away its malevolent energy, and Su Qing received the Evil Entity’s memories.
• Su Qing learned that the Bridge of Life and Death spirit had become evil after the ancient underworld collapsed and it was abandoned in the Abyssal Secret Realm, and he understood why Di Ting and the other underworld beings had suffered the same fate.
• Su Qing saved the Five Elders Evil Patterns, comprehended the Cause and Effect Dao Pattern, and obtained the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

Su Qing examined the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and recognized its merit-boosting, evil-slaying, and life-and-death speed abilities as valuable for the dangerous mission ahead. As the group reached the Yama Palace, they prepared to enter despite the danger, while Erqiang continued fighting the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas alone.

• Su Qing assessed the Heaven-Measuring Ruler’s abilities and decided its merit amplification, increased damage against evil, and life-and-death speed could help the expedition.
• The North Sea Giant Kun passed the Bridge of Life and Death Evil and brought the True Monarchs before the open gates of the Yama Palace.
• The True Monarchs praised Su Qing’s Merit Wooden Fish as the group considered the dangers awaiting them inside the palace.
• Erqiang was badly beaten by the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas but kept the fight away from Su Qing and the other battlefield.
• Tong Chang stopped Su Qing from helping Erqiang, insisting that Erqiang had to face his trial himself and that Su Qing should save his prepared method for the Yama Palace.
• True Lord Taoyuan affirmed that the group would follow Su Qing into the palace, and Su Qing vowed to confront the Ancient Yama King and the Demon Ape Great Sage.

Su Qing and the True Monarchs entered Yama Palace and fought the twelve ancient High-ranking Demonic Evils sealed at its judgment platform. After the demons fell, Su Qing’s Merit Special Operations Team purified their evil patterns, gaining powerful Dao Patterns with new effects.

• The True Monarchs admired Yama Palace’s ancient splendor while remaining wary of the chilling presence within.
• At the judgment platform, the group found twelve demons imprisoned in Demon Sealing Ice, which cracked as they arrived.
• The True Monarchs unleashed their treasures and abilities to battle and kill all twelve weakened demons before Su Qing needed to act.
• Su Qing’s Merit Special Operations Team followed behind the True Monarchs, collecting merit and purifying the demons’ evil patterns.
• Su Qing gained Dao Patterns including Turn Stone into Gold, Accelerated Growth, and Tribulation Heavenly Thunder, each with significant powers.

Su Qing reviewed his cultivation and the Dao Patterns he had gathered, then discovered ancient theories explaining how Four Emperors Dao Patterns might ascend into Three Pure Dao Patterns. After imprinting twelve Five Elders Dao Patterns and enduring severe pain, he left the True Monarchs believing he had sacrificed himself to seal the Evil Demons as he underwent a profound transformation.

• Su Qing assessed his progress toward Puppet Immortal and concluded that he had gathered all the required Dao Patterns below the Four Emperors level.
• After years of searching ancient Daoist, Buddhist, and Empress Wa texts, Su Qing found theories that Three Pure Dao Patterns could be elevated from Four Emperors Dao Patterns.
• Su Qing learned that his Azure Dragon Dao Pattern might become the Human Pattern and that Yama Palace's possible Samsara Dao Pattern might become the Earth Pattern.
• Seeking a safe path toward Deity Transformation, Su Qing openly imprinted the twelve Five Elders Dao Patterns he had gained from the High-ranking Demonic Evils.
• The True Monarchs mistook Su Qing's pain and Corrupt Mark-like aura for self-sacrifice to seal the Evil Demons, and their admiration made them abandon thoughts of opposing him.
• Su Qing experienced the evolution of the twelve Five Elders Dao Patterns and felt his entire being undergo a true sublimation.

Su Qing imprinted twelve Five Elders Dao Patterns, completing the Four Emperors Dao Pattern Great Void Sun and Moon and becoming a Deity Transformation True Monarch. The gathered True Monarchs recognized him as a leading candidate for both Human Emperor and Heavenly Emperor, while Su Qing gained several new innate skills.

• Su Qing imprinted twelve Five Elders Dao Patterns, which harmonized with his Great Sun and Great Void Dao Patterns.
• The Dao Patterns merged into the complete Four Emperors Dao Pattern Great Void Sun and Moon, and celestial phenomena appeared around Su Qing.
• The gathered True Monarchs recognized the signs of the Heavenly Emperor’s ascension and debated Su Qing’s potential roles as Human Emperor and Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Qing condensed a Deity Transformation Dao Fruit, imprinted his Dao Pattern across the Universe and All Heavens, and advanced to Deity Transformation True Monarch.
• Su Qing gained Puppet Immortal proficiency and the innate skills Longevity Like Sun and Moon, Puppet Supreme, Lord of Storms, King of Light and Darkness, Emperor Gathers the Masses, and Transcend Mortal Become Spirit.

Su Qing used his empowered cannon puppets to destroy the Seven Hells Black Dragon King and its offspring, demonstrating power that placed him above the other Deity Transformation True Monarchs. The group pressed onward through the darkness of Yama Palace, where they found themselves surrounded by stone-carved divine statues.

• Su Qing’s three puppet divine arts greatly increased the Blazing Fire Spirit Explosion Cannon Group’s power and let its cannons combine into an Emperor Blast Great Sun Sky Burning Cannon.
• Su Qing’s cannons slaughtered the Seven Hells Black Dragon King’s offspring and erased the king, while the watching True Monarchs recognized his overwhelming strength.
• Su Qing purified the king’s Corrupt Marks into a True Dragon Seed Sowing Dao Pattern, then saw that darkness had swallowed both the road ahead and their retreat.
• Su Qing urged the True Monarchs onward, and True Lord Guangxian illuminated the path with his Glazed Treasure Lamp.
• The cultivators discovered that Stone Carved Divine Human Statues in divine robes and Daoist garments had surrounded them.

Su Qing and the True Monarchs faced an army of ancient Stone Officials guarding Yama Palace, and their attempts to fight or reason with the Innate Elementals failed. They obtained Liu Gandang’s Investiture of the Gods, and Su Qing prepared to use it to claim authority over the officials.

• Three thousand six hundred Stone Officials surrounded the True Monarchs and declared they would suppress the intruders under ancient orders.
• Su Qing sent Father-Slaying Feng Xian and the Heavy Knight Regiment to attack, but the Stone Officials’ superior troops and equipment overwhelmed them.
• True Lord Guangxian argued that the Stone Officials might be guarding Yama Palace’s trapped evils, so the True Monarchs sheltered inside True Monarch Hou Zang’s Immortal Divine Coffin instead of fighting head-on.
• True Lord Guangxian proposed using the Investiture of the Gods to make the Stone Officials recognize Su Qing’s authority as Heavenly Emperor’s Emissary.
• The True Monarchs pressured Liu Gandang into handing over Penglai’s Investiture of the Gods, and Su Qing donned imperial regalia as General Hu led him toward the Stone Officials.

Su Qing used the Investiture of the Gods to win the allegiance of the 3,600 Stone Officials guarding Yama Palace, promising them divine posts and rewards after they returned to Celestial Origin Realm. As he prepared to lead them onward, someone asked what post Erqiang would receive.

• Su Qing revealed the Investiture of the Gods, whose divine seats had awakened, and showed the Stone Officials he could appoint them to heavenly offices.
• The Stone General recounted the Stone Person Army’s long service guarding Yama Palace and condemned the wicked minister who had seized control of the Underworld.
• Old Daoist Tong proclaimed Su Qing’s decree appointing the Stone General an Earthly Fiend Star and granting the other Stone Officials places in the Dipper Department, with rewards to be fulfilled in Celestial Origin Realm.
• The Stone General and the 3,600 Stone Officials accepted Su Qing’s offer and pledged to obey him.
• As Su Qing prepared to lead the Stone Officials onward, someone asked what divine post Erqiang would receive.

After Erqiang survived his battle with Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, the demon ape escaped the Abyssal Secret Realm with Black Wukong’s Black Soul, setting up a future rivalry with Erqiang. Su Qing’s party learned the dangers awaiting them in Yama Palace and continued forward toward an eerie, heavenly-looking realm.

• Erqiang returned to Su Qing’s group and explained that Great Sage Who Covers the Seas had escaped after acquiring Black Wukong’s Black Soul.
• Old Daoist Tong warned Erqiang that the demon ape’s new power bound them together in a future battle, while Su Qing suspected it might break from the evil demon faction.
• Su Qing organized the Stone Officials and reunited with the rest of the party, counting their losses as they advanced through Yama Palace.
• The Stone General described the Samsara King, the Ten Great Yama Kings, the Four Great Demon Lords, and the corrupted underworld officials waiting ahead.
• Su Qing urged the group forward, and they approached a region filled with strange fragrance and immortal light.

The cultivators confronted the Ten Great Yama Demons in the Ancient Underworld, but the Samsara King escaped with the Six Paths of Samsara Disk. Su Qing faced the three Tier 6 Yama Demons while the Four Great Demon Lords arrived to overwhelm the other True Monarchs.

• The Ten Great Yama Demons and their officials demanded that the True Monarchs bow to the false Heavenly Sovereign, but the cultivators refused and prepared to fight.
• The Samsara King vanished with the Six Paths of Samsara Disk, and Su Qing charged the Ten Great Yama Demons while Gao Erqiang helped the other fighters.
• Su Qing's authority as Human Emperor and Heavenly Emperor nullified the Yama Kings' power to sentence him, so the Yama Demons transformed and attacked with their own abilities.
• The possessed officials revealed their demonic forms, and a Literary Judge Demon used its Judge's Brush and Punishment Scroll to afflict a True Monarch before Shi Gandang identified its weapons.
• Qin Guang Demon, Zhuan Lun Demon, and Chu Jiang Demon blocked Su Qing, while he refused Gao Erqiang's offer to help.
• The Dragon God Crown Prince, Great Black Buddha Demon, Prison Suppressing White Elephant, and the wielder of the soul banner arrived, forcing the True Monarchs to divide their strength.

Su Qing fought the Ten Great Yama Demons as the Human Emperor and Heavenly Emperor, wielding the Human Emperor Armor and Xing Tian Blood Axe while the armies below battled fiercely. He overwhelmed the demons with his grotto-heavens and divine abilities, leaving several trapped or stripped of their underworld authority.

• Su Qing manifested a gigantic golden body and donned the Human Emperor Armor, stunning Gao Erqiang and the Human Race True Monarchs.
• The Stone Officials fought the underworld forces with desperate resolve, and one Stone Official self-detonated to destroy dozens of Judge Evils.
• Shao Delong, the True Persons, the True Monarchs, and Wei De Bao’s group joined the intensifying battle against the demons and evil entities.
• Su Qing broke King Qin Guang’s Netherworld Hell with a punch and beheaded three Yama Demons with the Xing Tian Axe.
• Qin Guang Demon, Chu Jiang Demon, and Zhuan Lun Demon attacked Su Qing with their underworld powers, but he seized Qin Guang Demon’s seal, swallowed Chu Jiang Demon into his grotto-heavens, and had Human Race Past Heroic Spirits erase Zhuan Lun Demon’s summoned forces.

Su Qing and the assembled True Monarchs discovered that a surviving High-ranking Demonic Evil had absorbed the Samsara Dao Pattern and was trying to become a Samsara Demon Lord. The demon began seizing the Ancient Underworld’s founding shares from the group, and the chapter ended as they gathered their treasures to resist it.

• Su Qing realized the Abyssal Secret Realm contained a surviving High-ranking Demonic Evil that was corrupting the Ancient Underworld and digesting the Samsara Dao Pattern.
• Old Daoist Tong, Gao Erqiang, and True Lord Guangxian assessed the demon’s threat, while Su Qing stopped Gao Erqiang from challenging it directly.
• True Monarch Qing Feng saw the Samsara Demon steal the Five Villages Monastery Ancestor’s Tablet, and Su Qing’s attacks failed to stop it.
• Su Qing summoned the Netherworld River Sect’s Reincarnation Mirror and recognized that the demon needed to reclaim the founding shares containing pieces of the Samsara Dao Pattern.
• The True Monarchs and other allies brought their founding-share treasures and sacred weapons to Su Qing as they prepared to confront the demon.

Su Qing protected the five remaining Samsara Supreme Treasures from the Samsara Demon, then chose to destroy them and imprint their Samsara Dao Pattern so he could challenge the demon directly. The first imprint weakened his Puppet Immortal, but he pressed ahead, leaving the True Monarchs to hope his risky plan would save the Myriad Worlds.

• The True Monarchs realized the Samsara Demon wanted the six Supreme Treasures to complete the Samsara Dao Pattern, and Su Qing used his Azure Dragon and Great Void Sun and Moon Dao Patterns to shelter five treasures inside his Grotto-Heaven.
• The True Monarchs warned that the demon would grow stronger by devouring the Abyssal Secret Realm's undead grudges, while Su Qing accepted their support and assurances that he could act without restraint.
• Su Qing struck the Reincarnation Mirror with the Xing Tian Blood Axe, destroying it and imprinting its Samsara Dao Pattern fragment onto himself.
• Su Qing discovered that the Samsara Dao Pattern conflicted with the Puppet Immortal and reduced its Proficiency, overturning his earlier theory about refining it.
• Su Qing resolved to seize the Samsara Dao Pattern from the demon by destroying the other five Supreme Treasures, and the True Monarchs accepted the risk as their best chance to win.