Chapter Summaries

Golden Peng King taunted Yan Ling into fighting without help, then used his speed to make Yan Ling’s soul attack kill members of the eight-sect alliance. Yan Ling unleashed his treasured sword, and Golden Peng King countered with the Myriad Souls Banner as their clash escalated into a battle hidden by destructive light and baleful qi.

• Cultivators from across the Cosmos gathered at Hundred Severed Mountain and discussed Golden Peng King’s fight with Yan Ling, while righteous and evil Dao forces debated Shangqing Sect’s rise and Penguin Jade Slips.
• Golden Peng King publicly dared Yan Ling to call for reinforcements, provoking the Reed Flame Valley disciple and disrupting his Dao heart.
• Yan Ling attacked Golden Peng King with a soul technique, but Golden Peng King dodged through the alliance camp, causing Yan Ling’s attack to kill several allied cultivators before Golden Peng King extinguished it.
• Yan Ling summoned a black-and-white treasured sword and sealed Golden Peng King’s escape routes with a vast sword radiance.
• Golden Peng King used the Myriad Souls Banner to draw out the slain cultivators’ souls and form a Ghost Puppet that clashed with Yan Ling’s sword radiance.
• The battle between Golden Peng King and Yan Ling vanished into destructive light and baleful qi, leaving the watching cultivators unable to see its outcome.

Golden Peng King used his battle with Yan Ling to capture him and lure the eight-sect alliance toward Shangqing Sect, where Daoist Qingwei prepared an ambush. As the alliance charged Silver Severed City, a barrage of shuttle-shaped objects rose to meet them.

• Golden Peng King fought Yan Ling while Myriad Souls Banner repeatedly restored Ghost Puppet, then attacked the alliance cultivators to draw their attention away from Yan Ling.
• Golden Peng King summoned a vast host of wandering souls, and Void Beast Bone seized Yan Ling and carried him into the void while Golden Peng King escaped.
• Situ Fang realized Golden Peng King had captured Yan Ling, but Xi Lun urged the alliance to pursue Shangqing Sect; Hidden Mist Alliance members also moved to target isolated alliance cultivators.
• Daoist Qingwei prepared Shangqing Sect to ambush the approaching alliance, while Tiger King revealed that Gui Li and Gui Xiao would help draw Shattered Ghost Sect's headquarters cultivators into the battle.
• Golden Peng King returned to Silver Severed City with Yan Ling as the eight-sect alliance arrived, and Xi Lun ordered an attack despite Reed Flame Valley's sect master's plea.
• As the alliance charged Silver Severed City, shuttle-shaped objects shot into the sky and attacked the advancing cultivators.

The Shangqing Sect used the Great Xia East Wind and a carefully timed ice-and-fire attack to bring down the Cosmos Eight Sects’ stone giant, then launched its forces against the exposed allied cultivators. As reinforcements from the Shattered Ghost Sect’s Cosmos headquarters arrived, the battle for Silver Severed City erupted into a full-scale war.

• Xi Lun ordered the allied cultivators to form the Crystal Stone Imperial Thunder Formation, creating a stone giant to advance on Silver Severed City while the Great Xia East Wind bombarded its shield.
• Daoist Qingwei ordered Yao Ruotong to concentrate the Great Xia East Wind’s firepower on one point, then Zhou Yi had her stop firing as the allied forces pressed forward.
• The Great Xia East Wind’s alternating heat and ice weakened the stone giant, and five black, top-shaped objects shook it apart, leaving its controlling cultivators exposed.
• The Tiger King opened the underground palace warehouses and sent black-clad fighters against the allied cultivators as the managers of the Eight Sects ordered their forces into battle.
• Gui Li led forty thousand reinforcements from the Shattered Ghost Sect’s Cosmos headquarters into the fight, while Wang Mei warned Li Shixiong not to wipe out the entire force.

Wang Mei accepted the First Emperor’s rewards and a complete Myriad Souls Banner before joining the battle against the eight-sect alliance surrounding the Shangqing Sect. Tiger King’s taunts disrupted the righteous cultivators and helped provoke Xi Feng into a rage, which ended with Xi Feng breaking through the Primal Spirit Domain’s limit and exploding under heavenly lightning.

• Li Shixiong gave Wang Mei two storage rings containing ten million Celestial Essence each and presented him with a complete Myriad Souls Banner.
• Wang Mei and Li Shixiong entered the battlefield to collect souls as Gui Xiao and Gui Li led the Shattered Ghost Sect’s forces against the eight-sect alliance.
• Gui Xiao fought Xi Lun while Tiger King mocked the righteous cultivators and organized bets on the battle from Silver Severed City.
• Tiger King’s insults distracted Xi Lun and Xi Feng, allowing Gui Xiao to strike Xi Lun and Gui Li to injure Xi Feng.
• Xi Feng lost control, overstrained his life force, and charged at Gui Li, but heavenly lightning struck him after his cultivation exceeded the Primal Spirit Domain’s limit, causing him to explode.

Xi Lun battled Gui Xiao while Tiger King taunted him over Xi Feng’s death, and the Hidden Mist Alliance prepared to loot the battlefield rather than join the fight. Zhang Boduan ambushed Reed Flame Valley and trapped Situ Fang in purple fire, intending to make the deaths appear to be the work of the Purple Prefecture.

• Tiger King and Peng King mocked Xi Lun and urged him to die as they bet Celestial Essence on Gui Xiao’s victory.
• Xi Lun fought Gui Xiao, and Xi Lun declared that the Eight Great Sects would wage war against the Shattered Ghost Sect.
• Zhao Jianhua, Professor Song Ze, and Wu ZhengHao led Hidden Mist Alliance cultivators toward the battlefield to collect storage rings from fallen fighters.
• Zhang Boduan ambushed Situ Fang and killed more than a dozen Reed Flame Valley elders.
• Zhang Boduan trapped Situ Fang in a sea of Purple Sun True Fire and planned to blame Reed Flame Valley’s deaths on the Purple Prefecture.

Situ Fang and Xi Lun fell to a hidden attacker, and Zhang Boduan framed the Purple Palace for the deaths and the Myriad Souls Banner. The Seven Great Sects turned on Zi Haoyue’s forces, while Golden Peng King arrived to cover their retreat.

• Situ Fang’s purple-flame-bound Divine Soul Body self-destructed, killing nearby cultivators and leaving the alliance leaders stunned.
• Tie Bixin accused the Purple Palace of killing Situ Fang, while Niu Jingtian suggested the Purple Palace had sent an expert to help the Shattered Ghost Sect and Shangqing Sect.
• Xi Lun died in an explosion, and Gui Xiao accused Zi Haoyue of seeking the Myriad Souls Banner’s refining method.
• Zhang Boduan disguised himself as a Purple Palace expert, attacked the alliance, and provoked the Seven Great Sects into turning on Zi Haoyue’s forces.
• Zi Haoyue ordered the Purple Palace cultivators to withdraw as the Shattered Ghost Sect and Shangqing Sect pursued the alliance and the Purple Palace fled.
• Golden Peng King blocked the Seven Great Sects’ pursuit with a rain of golden swords, allowing the Purple Palace cultivators to escape.

Golden Peng King killed Yu Zhu, while Gui Xiao captured Tie Bixin’s Soul of Life and transformed it into the Myriad Souls Banner’s main soul. As the Taiyin Sacred Ground and Reed Flame Valley forces fled Silver Severed City, Reed Flame Valley cultivators began dying from unseen attacks.

• Golden Peng King defeated Yu Zhu with his golden peng Faxiang, and Yu Zhu exploded his Divine Soul Body before the Taiyin Sacred Ground disciples fled.
• Gui Xiao demanded Tie Bixin’s Soul of Life in exchange for sparing him, and Golden Peng King snatched it away as Tie Bixin handed it over.
• Gui Xiao refined Tie Bixin’s Soul of Life with the Myriad Souls Banner, turning it into a baleful main soul that stripped Tie Bixin of his two souls and seven spirits.
• The Reed Flame Valley cultivators fled after Tie Bixin fell, but their chests were pierced by an unseen force as they escaped the battlefield.

Reed Flame Valley cultivators advanced through a suspected ambush in a linked formation, while Professor Song Ze devised a way for the hidden Hidden Mist Alliance to exploit its unusual arrangement. The chapter ended as the alliance launched thousands of flaming bundles at the approaching disciples.

• Reed Flame Valley cultivators formed connected rows and attacked in alternating groups as they advanced toward the site where their fellow disciples had died.
• Zhao Jianhua warned Fei Zhu against risking his life to collect Storage Rings, and Song Ze advised him to abandon dangerous gains.
• Song Ze ordered the Hidden Mist Alliance cultivators to remove their clothes and arrange themselves at a lower height than the Reed Flame Valley formation.
• Song Ze explained that the height difference would let the alliance attack upward while the Reed Flame Valley cultivators' counterattacks passed overhead.
• When the Reed Flame Valley cultivators entered range, Song Ze gave the signal and more than ten thousand fireballs shot upward toward the first wave.

The Hidden Mist Alliance defeated the Reed Flame Valley force, capturing those who surrendered and killing those who refused, while learning that the Sky Zenith Domain lay above the Primal Spirit Domain. After returning to the Silver Severed City battlefield, they saw the Ember Sky Formation summon a Five-Headed Eight-Winged Bull-Horned Fire Lizard, leaving the battle poised to shift again.

• Fireballs and hidden attacks devastated the Reed Flame Valley cultivators, while a black vortex swallowed many of the wounded.
• Professor Song Ze offered to spare those who surrendered their Souls of Life; the Hidden Mist Alliance killed the holdouts and captured the survivors.
• Professor Song Ze led the Hidden Mist Alliance back to Silver Severed City, where Fei Zhu mistook Zhang Boduan for a Zifu expert.
• The Ember Sky Formation appeared as a Five-Headed Eight-Winged Bull-Horned Fire Lizard, controlled by Feng Youxiang, Chu Mengji, Zi Tiandu, Long Zhantian, and Lei Ze.

The Ember Sky Formation devastated the battlefield, but its flames unexpectedly forced the Myriad Souls Banner to begin transforming its baleful energy into Nine Nether Force. As the allied sects argued over whether to send more troops into the formation, Qing Kun’s outburst sparked a confrontation with Wu Feng and Manager Wan.

• Zhou Yi recognized the Myriad Souls Banner’s changing power as Nine Nether Force, and the banner began its metamorphosis under the Ember Sky flames.
• The Ember Sky Formation burned cultivators from the Shangqing Sect, Shattered Ghost Sect, and allied forces while Wu Feng celebrated the shift in battle.
• The other allied sects demanded that Manager Wan send the twenty thousand Heaven’s Secret Pavilion cultivators into battle, but he hesitated to expose them to the formation.
• Qing Kun insulted the allied sects, and Wu Feng knocked him into a pit before Manager Wan apologized to their representatives.
• Qing Kun summoned a giant spear to attack Wu Feng, but Manager Wan ordered him to withdraw, and Qing Kun left after threatening Wu Feng.

Heaven's Secret Pavilion's Manager Wan gave the four sects Heaven's Secret Black Tokens to keep them fighting, but Zi Tiandu learned that the Purple Palace had been driven away and turned the Ember Sky Formation against the allied forces. The chapter ended with Ember Sky Flames engulfing the allied experts as the formation's controllers pretended they could not stop him.

• Long Xiu'ao and the other sect managers threatened to withdraw their disciples unless Manager Wan gave them compensation, and they demanded Heaven's Secret Purple Tokens.
• Manager Wan refused to hand over Purple Tokens but eventually gave one Heaven's Secret Black Token to each of the four sects after they threatened to leave the battlefield.
• Zi Tiandu heard that the allied cultivators had driven the Purple Palace from the battlefield and grew furious as Zhang Boduan and Golden Peng King provoked him.
• Zi Tiandu redirected the Ember Sky Formation's attacks toward the allied forces, while Lei Ze, Feng Youxiang, Chu Mengji, and Long Zhantian secretly let him take control.
• Manager Wan begged the formation's controllers to stop Zi Tiandu as flames burned Heaven's Secret Pavilion's cultivators and set Sky Dragon Gate's experts ablaze.

Zi Tiandu and the Hidden Mist Alliance trapped the five sects’ forces between the Ember Sky Formation and a surprise assault, and the sect leaders’ attempt to break free ended in their defeat. The Golden Peng King captured the Heaven’s Secret Pavilion cultivators who escaped Manager Wan’s sacrifice.

• Long Xiu'ao and Manager Wan searched for a way to escape the Ember Sky Formation while Zi Tiandu used the Five-Headed Eight-Winged Bull-Horned Fire Lizard to attack them.
• Wu Feng learned that his son Wu Yong had died, charged at Zi Tiandu, and was swallowed by the fire beast.
• Zhao Jianhua ordered the Hidden Mist Alliance to attack the trapped sect forces, while its cultivators killed survivors and stole their storage rings.
• Azure Wave Palace and other sect cultivators sacrificed themselves to damage the formation spirit, and the leaders broke through the Ember Sky Formation.
• Lei Ze and the other hidden figures escaped the sect leaders’ grasp, used Divine-Suppressing Nails and Myriad Souls Banners to subdue them and the elders, and trapped the survivors.
• Manager Wan sacrificed himself to open a gap for Heaven's Secret Pavilion, but the Golden Peng King captured its escaping cultivators with the Human Pet Pouch.

Golden Peng King forced the surviving Heaven's Secret Pavilion cultivators to surrender, while Li Shixiong captured the Shattered Ghost Sect's main-branch cultivators with a Human Pet Pouch. In the Shangqing Sect, Long Zhantian and the other Cosmos cultivators received the Houtu Reincarnation Visualization and pledged themselves to the Demon Master.

• Golden Peng King and the Hidden Mist Alliance trapped the Heaven's Secret Pavilion survivors, who surrendered after he killed a cultivator attempting to resist.
• Li Shixiong welcomed the surviving Shattered Ghost Sect main-branch cultivators, then used a Human Pet Pouch to capture them for Qin Shi Huang.
• Professor Zhou Yi assured Long Zhantian, Lei Ze, and the other Cosmos cultivators that their sect leaders would return to them after meeting the masters of Qiguang Temple.
• Professor Zhou Yi presented the four cultivators with the Houtu Reincarnation Visualization, a cultivation method created by the Demon Master.
• Long Zhantian and the others knelt in gratitude, and Zhang Boduan told them that serving the Demon Master could lead them to immortality.

The Golden Peng King sent Long Zhantian, Lei Ze, Chu Mengji, Feng Youxiang, and Zi Tiandu to provoke a hunt that would turn the Cosmos’ righteous forces against the Purple Prefecture. As rumors and raids plunged the Primal Spirit Domain into chaos, Zi Tiandu and the Purple Prefecture became infamous, while the chapter ended with a Rogue Cultivator spreading a lurid rumor about Xi Lun.

• Zhang Boduan and the Tiger King convinced Long Zhantian and the other four that the Demon Master could revive the dead, and they pledged to follow his orders without fear.
• The Golden Peng King ordered Long Zhantian, Lei Ze, Chu Mengji, and Feng Youxiang to hunt Zi Tiandu while staging a killing of righteous disciples to provoke conflict between the sects.
• The staged pursuit sparked fighting between the Purple Prefecture and other sects, while Zi Haoyue seized Taiyin Sacred Ground and Reed Flame Valley properties and the Hidden Mist Alliance looted other strongholds.
• The Ten Great Evil Forces joined the looting, and the Primal Spirit Domain descended into chaos as the righteous sects blamed the Purple Prefecture for their losses and issued orders and bounties against Zi Tiandu.
• Rogue Cultivators spread rumors that the Purple Prefecture was allied with the evil path, then a Rogue Cultivator at a restaurant claimed Xi Lun had been caught playing hide-and-seek with his wife.

Mu Ya and Lei Wuya confronted Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators who had tracked them down over rumors, and Mu Ya fought Jiu Tai while trying to provoke Lei Wuya into showing more emotion. Jiu Tai unleashed his poisonous Nether Sunflowers, leaving Mu Ya dodging their attacks as the battle continued.

• Lei Wuya worried that Mu Ya's rumors about the Taiyin Sacred Ground and Purple Mansion would bring a widespread kill order, but Mu Ya urged him to use his identity as Lei Ze's son.
• Zhang Miao and six Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators arrived with a bruised man who had identified Mu Ya and Lei Wuya; one cultivator froze the man and shattered him.
• Mu Ya pretended to be Lei Wuya's lover to taunt the Taiyin cultivators, then fought Jiu Tai after Zhang Miao ordered him captured alive.
• Mu Ya kicked Jiu Tai into a rock, knocked out his front teeth, and mocked his disfigured face until Jiu Tai flew into a rage.
• Jiu Tai summoned poisonous Nether Sunflowers, and Lei Wuya warned Mu Ya about their purple mist while Zhang Miao explained the danger.
• Mu Ya dodged the Nether Sunflowers as Jiu Tai pursued him and boasted that he had nowhere to escape.

Mu Ya transformed himself by merging with the Myriad Souls Banner after Jiu Tai’s Nether Sunflower nearly crushed him. He attacked Jiu Tai and his Nether Sunflowers, and their battle continued as nine ghost dragons clashed with the two enormous flowers.

• Jiu Tai strengthened his Nether Sunflowers and trapped Mu Ya in their tongue while Lei Wuya remained calm and Zhang Miao urged him to intervene.
• Jiu Tai punched the bound Mu Ya, but the Nether Sunflower’s tongue ruptured and released black mists that forced the flower to bite it off.
• Mu Ya absorbed countless spirits and merged with the Myriad Souls Banner, revealing his plan to nourish its eleven nether meridians with Jiu Tai’s Nether Sunflowers.
• Mu Ya drove Jiu Tai back with a wall of ghosts and demanded the Nether Sunflowers, but Jiu Tai stood in their defense.
• Mu Ya sent nine enormous ghost dragons against Jiu Tai and his two Nether Sunflowers, and the creatures began tearing into one another.

Mu Ya used the Myriad Souls Banner’s powers to turn the battle against Jiu Tai and Taiyin Sacred Ground, capturing Jiu Tai after his Nether Kui attacked him. Zhang Miao fled, but Lei Wuya intercepted him with the Great Thundergod’s Hand.

• Zhang Miao begged Mu Ya to spare Jiu Tai, but Jiu Tai refused to back down and strengthened his Nether Kui with blood qi and Taiyin Power from the purple moon.
• Mu Ya summoned the character "Zhan" and ten orbs that drew out dark emotions, causing Sang Yuan and other Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators to attack their companions.
• The orbs seized control of the Nether Kui, which attacked Jiu Tai and forced him to sever their connection, triggering a painful backlash.
• Mu Ya captured the weakened Jiu Tai in the Human Pet Pouch and promised to arrange a transformation surgery with Professor Zhou Yi.
• Zhang Miao killed two possessed disciples to escape, but Lei Wuya appeared ahead of him and seized him with the Great Thundergod’s Hand.

Lei Wuya killed Zhang Miao, and Mu Ya planted evidence to provoke the Taiyin Sacred Ground as the two headed to reinforce the Shangqing Sect. Old Man Xuan Han arrived, was enraged by the taunting inscription, and vowed to destroy the Purple Abode, while Lei Wuya and Mu Ya reached the Shangqing Sect and reunited with its leaders.

• Lei Wuya destroyed Zhang Miao with the Great Thundergod's Hand, despite Zhang Miao invoking his ties to the Taiyin Sacred Ground.
• Mu Ya carved a taunting message on a mountain blaming the Purple Abode for killing Taiyin Sacred Ground cultivators, then left with Lei Wuya toward Silver Severed City.
• Cosmos cultivators discussed the conflict over the Primal Spirit Domain, the Purple Abode's alliance with evil forces, and the Giant Spirit Arena Tower and Sky-Turning Tower's intervention.
• Old Man Xuan Han found Mu Ya's inscription, erupted in fury, killed hundreds of nearby cultivators with his aura, and vowed to exterminate Purple Abode cultivators.
• Mu Ya and Lei Wuya arrived at the Shangqing Sect, where Zhao Zhenhua, Professor Song Ze, and Wu ZhengHao welcomed them and led them toward the secret grounds.

Silver Severed City flourished under the Shangqing Sect’s popular services while the sect’s leaders prepared for a new assault. After learning that Sky Zenith Domain cultivators might join the fight, they planned to investigate the threat and exploit tensions between the orthodox factions and Purple Manor; powerful figures then gathered to discuss the Shangqing Sect.

• Silver Severed City attracted cultivators with Penguin Jade Slip services and invitations to join the Shangqing Sect, while its disciples’ reputation helped prevent fights.
• Professor Zhou Yi warned the sect leaders that gifted disciples from the cosmos’s great factions were entering the Primal Spirit Domain to challenge them.
• Daoist Qingwei, Tiger King, and Golden Peng King argued that the sect could resist another attack with its strong cultivators, divided enemies, and support from Monkey King’s ferocious beasts.
• Lei Wuya revealed that cultivators from the Sky Zenith Domain might descend into the Primal Spirit Domain, prompting the leaders to discuss warning the First Emperor and investigating the hidden realm.
• Mu Ya proposed exploiting conflict between Purple Manor and the orthodox factions to distract the great sects, as powerful figures gathered in a dead star domain to discuss the Shangqing Sect.

The masters of the cosmos’s major Daoist lineages gathered in Doomsday Star Region to discuss Shangqing Sect and confront Old Man Zi over Purple Mansion’s actions in Primal Spirit Domain. Old Man Zi defended Purple Mansion’s seizure of their bases as protection, then demanded payment before returning them.

• The Taiyin Sacred Lord, Heaven’s Secret Pavilion Master, Reed Flame Valley Lord, Wind Thunder Pavilion Master, Azure Wave Palace Master, and Fuyang Sect Master arrived in Doomsday Star Region and called for Shangqing Sect to be eliminated.
• Old Man Zi appeared, and the Taiyin Sacred Lord accused Purple Mansion of abandoning the alliance and causing cultivators from seven factions to die; Old Man Zi blamed the other sects and challenged him to fight.
• The Reed Flame Valley Lord accused Purple Mansion of seizing the orthodox lineages’ bases in Primal Spirit Domain, and the Heaven’s Secret Pavilion Master demanded that Old Man Zi explain himself.
• Old Man Zi argued that Shangqing Sect would have taken the undefended bases if Purple Mansion had not occupied them, and Chu Xueyan agreed that Shangqing Sect would have benefited most.
• Old Man Zi claimed Purple Mansion had safeguarded the bases and insisted the other lineages could not take them back for free; the Taiyin Sacred Lord told him to name his price.