Chapter Summaries

Jing Yufei struggled to contain conflict within the Heavenly Sect Alliance as the Nine-Tailed Fox King, Bloodshadow, and Tianqi exploited its divisions and moved toward war. After Bloodshadow and Tianqi attacked alliance cultivators, Jing Yufei ordered the alliance to prepare for combat, and its factions united against the external threat.

• Jing Yufei favored the major powers while settling their dispute, angering moderate sects that felt ignored and oppressed.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox King ordered spies to deepen divisions in the Heavenly Sect Alliance while preparing the fierce-beast tide to invade the Sky Zenith Domain.
• Xingchen and Nethermist learned the alliance had blamed Bloodshadow and Tianqi for creating the fake Myriad Source Essence, then secretly planned retaliation.
• Bloodshadow and Tianqi began attacking alliance cultivators, prompting Jing Yufei to order all members to enter combat readiness.
• Jing Yufei rallied the alliance, and major and moderate powers joined together to prepare to fight Bloodshadow and Tianqi.

Jing Yufei led the Celestial Sect Alliance against Bloodshadow and Apocalypse, but their battle was overwhelmed by Apocalypse’s Ten Demonic Cranes and the beast tide. As the cranes repeatedly revived and threatened the Blood Moon’s orbit, Xingchen ordered Bloodshadow to intervene against Apocalypse, setting the rival factions against each other.

• Jing Yufei urged the Celestial Sect Alliance to unite as Xingchen sent Bloodshadow forces to sabotage its supply lines and Nethermist dispatched spies and assassins against its leaders.
• The alliance faced attacks from Bloodshadow and Apocalypse, then learned a ferocious beast tide was approaching the Sky Zenith Mountains.
• Jing Yufei divided the alliance’s forces, but the Ten Demonic Cranes appeared and ravaged its ranks with powerful demonic flames.
• Jing Yufei organized defenses and counterattacks, yet the cranes repeatedly re-formed after being defeated and grew stronger.
• Nethermist watched the battle and revealed that the cranes could revive through the Zhurong Ink Abyss, while their flames threatened to distort the Blood Moon’s orbit.
• Xingchen ordered Bloodshadow’s elites to protect the Blood Moon Calamity by sabotaging Apocalypse, weakening the cranes, and assassinating Apocalypse’s higher-ups.

As Tianqi and Bloodshadow prepared for war over the Blood Moon Calamity, the beastfolk and Heavenly Sect Alliance made their own plans. When Great Xia East East used nuclear weapons from Lihu City to devastate the Demon Cranes, Nethermist ordered Tianqi to investigate and attack Lihu City, whose power became the talk of the Sky Zenith Domain.

• Nethermist mobilized Tianqi against Bloodshadow, while Xingchen ordered the Bloodshadow elders to activate their secret altars and summon the Blood Moon Emissary.
• Nethermist summoned Shadowslay and tasked him with infiltrating Bloodshadow to destroy its Blood Moon Altars.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox King prepared the beastfolk to exploit the conflict, while Jing Yufei and the Heavenly Sect Alliance planned to weaken both factions and protect the domain.
• Long Ling ordered the Sky Vault Project activated, and the assembled leaders prepared their forces to fight the Demon Cranes.
• A besieged cultivator bought a nuclear strike from Great Xia East East, and Lihu City’s missiles scattered and destroyed many of the attacking Demon Cranes.
• Nethermist ordered Tianqi’s intelligence network and Shadow Squad to investigate and target Lihu City as rumors of Great Xia East East’s power spread across the domain.

After Lihu City’s Nuclear Weapon destroyed the demonic cranes, cultivators and factions across the Sky Zenith Domain considered joining or allying with the city for protection. Long Ling prepared for retaliation as Apocalypse sent the Shadow Squad to infiltrate Lihu City and Bloodshadow secretly proposed an alliance; the chapter ended with the Shadow Squad trapped and Nethermist dispatching reinforcements.

• Cultivators, merchants, rogue cultivators, families, and sects across the Sky Zenith Domain discussed Lihu City’s Nuclear Weapon and considered joining, allying with, or investigating the city.
• Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Zhang Zeduan agreed to accelerate the Sky Vault Project and strengthen Lihu City against an expected response from Apocalypse and Bloodshadow.
• Nethermist ordered the Shadow Squad to infiltrate Lihu City and destroy its defenses, while Xingchen sent an envoy to propose a Bloodshadow alliance.
• Long Ling told Bloodshadow’s envoy that Lihu City would consider the alliance, and he and his allies heightened defenses against the Shadow Squad.
• Lihu City’s defenses trapped the Shadow Squad, whose commander requested reinforcements from Nethermist.
• Nethermist ordered more troops to support the trapped Shadow Squad.

Elder Mingyuan and the Shadow Squad struggled to operate in Lihu City under its surveillance and uncovered the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s Automaton Puppets and rumored secret of immortality. They resolved to report what they learned, find the sect’s weaknesses, and seek allies against it.

• Elder Mingyuan told the Shadow Squad to stay concealed and adapt to Lihu City’s deadly surveillance treasures.
• Shadow Squad members ambushed patrol disciples and discovered that the seemingly human targets were Automaton Puppets.
• Elder Mingyuan learned that Automaton Puppets might make up sixty percent of the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s patrols and ordered the news sent to Heaven’s Revelation.
• The Shadow Squad discussed rumors that the sect could grant immortality and had recruited old monsters as hidden guest elders.
• Elder Mingyuan rejected a direct confrontation and urged the Shadow Squad to find the sect’s weaknesses and secretly join forces with resentful factions.

King of Ten Thousand Rats captured the Shadow Squad with Myriad Souls Powder and interrogated one of its members. The captive agreed to reveal Aegis’s organization and strength, including its secret cultivators and the Aegis Eye.

• King of Ten Thousand Rats learned that Aegis Shadow Cultivators were hiding near the missing cultivation robots and led an elite squad to capture them.
• King of Ten Thousand Rats’s subordinate released Myriad Souls Powder, knocking out the Shadow Squad, and the squad’s members bound and transported the captives to a secret base.
• King of Ten Thousand Rats offered an awakened Shadow Cultivator a pill in exchange for information, then threatened him with torture and the possible danger to his family.
• The Shadow Cultivator agreed to cooperate after King of Ten Thousand Rats promised to protect his family.
• The Shadow Cultivator described Aegis’s Sect Master, four Grand Elders, twelve core disciples, and the Shadow Squad’s role in secret missions and assassinations.
• The Shadow Cultivator revealed that Aegis had cultivators who wielded an ancient Heaven-and-Earth-controlling art and possessed the legendary Aegis Eye, said to foresee the future.

After learning that Aegis was searching for the Primal Core of Chaos, the King of Ten Thousand Rats planned a covert operation to locate it while Aegis prepared a counterattack. The Longyuan Celestial Sect’s infiltrators found a Chaos Stone underground, but Aegis trapped them in the cave and confronted them.

• Shadow Cultivator told the King of Ten Thousand Rats that Aegis’s sect master sought the Primal Core of Chaos to rule the Sky Zenith Domain, and the King promised to protect Shadow Cultivator’s household.
• The King of Ten Thousand Rats ordered the Longyuan Celestial Sect to investigate the Primal Core, strengthen its defenses, and use false clues to distract Aegis while real agents searched elsewhere.
• Nether Sect Master learned that Shadow Cultivator had disappeared and dispatched Aegis disciples to infiltrate Longyuan Celestial Sect territory and disrupt its plans.
• Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples infiltrated Aegis territory, avoided patrols, and ignored a strange stone on an abandoned altar, suspecting it was a trap.
• The infiltrators found a hidden underground altar and placed its black crystal, which they identified as a Chaos Stone, in a box.
• Aegis disciples sealed the cave entrance and confronted the trapped Longyuan Celestial Sect infiltrators as Nether Sect Master watched through a crystal ball.

Zhen Yuanzi and Daoist Duobao intervened when the Nether Sect Master threatened the Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples, and Zhen Yuanzi declared that he would help the Jie Sect. As the Saints prepared to continue their contest, Dao Ancestor Hongjun recognized Ye Qin as a major variable, while the Jie Sect disciples revealed they had watched Duobao’s apparent peril as a prank.

• Zhen Yuanzi and Daoist Duobao confronted the Nether Sect Master to rescue the Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples, while observers across the Myriad Worlds reacted to Yuanshi Tianzun’s ambush of Duobao.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun observed the changes in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, called Ye Qin a great variable, and reaffirmed that the Heavenly Dao’s grand momentum could not be reversed.
• Zhunti questioned Zhen Yuanzi’s arrival, and Zhen Yuanzi announced that he would repay the Jie Sect’s kindness even if doing so destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Zhen Yuanzi confronted Zhunti over the death of Daoist Hongyun, while Laozi called on Master Tongtian to send a Jie Sect representative for the next contest.
• The Jie Sect disciples revealed that Zhen Yuanzi had already returned to Golden Ao Island and promised to help Duobao, so they had watched his apparent danger and teased him for being frightened.

The Ten Heavenly Lords faced Grand Master Xuandu and a group of Chan Sect disciples after both sides tried to deceive the other about their strength. When Xuandu overwhelmed Qin Wan, the Ten Heavenly Lords stopped hiding their cultivation and revealed themselves as mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortals.

• Master Tongtian sent the Ten Heavenly Lords to fight, and they planned to suppress their cultivation and use the Ten Deadly Formations against the Chan Sect.
• Yuanshi Tianzun hesitated over whether the Ten Heavenly Lords were truly weak, until Laozi offered to send Grand Master Xuandu with supreme treasures.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent ten weaker Chan Sect disciples, including Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, while Golden Light Holy Mother devised a plan to feign defeat and lure them into another battle.
• The Ten Heavenly Lords and Xuandu clashed, and Qin Wan was knocked back when Xuandu unleashed his strength.
• As the Ten Heavenly Lords struggled against Xuandu, Zhao Jiang urged them to stop holding back, and all ten revealed mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivation.

The Ten Heavenly Lords revealed their mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivation and killed nine Chan Sect disciples, prompting Grand Master Xuandu to wield two supreme treasures against their Ten Deadly Formations. After a fierce battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and Xuandu was blasted back, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Ten Heavenly Lords revealed their concealed cultivation, and Golden Light Holy Mother drew on their shared power to kill the nine Chan Sect disciples.
• Yuanshi Tianzun ordered Grand Master Xuandu to kill the Ten Heavenly Lords, and Xuandu brought out the Leaving Earth Flame Light Banner and the Exquisite Pagoda of Heaven and Earth.
• Heavenly Lord Qin Wan and the other Ten Heavenly Lords formed the Ten Deadly Formations around Xuandu, who attacked them with waves of fire.
• The battle exhausted both sides as the Ten Deadly Formations struck Xuandu and shattered the black-yellow qi protecting him.
• The Ten Heavenly Lords and Xuandu were left severely injured after Xuandu was blasted backward, and the spectators were stunned by the near-draw.

The Ten Heavenly Lords demanded another battle with Grand Master Xuandu, then escalated their challenge to all the Chan Sect disciples, convincing their opponents they were determined to die. As Xuandu and the Chan Sect forces charged, the Ten Heavenly Lords began forming an ancient formation, while the Jie Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island revealed that the Ten Heavenly Lords’ weakness and despair had all been staged.

• Laozi stopped Grand Master Xuandu from continuing his battle with the Ten Heavenly Lords and proposed a draw, but Heavenly Lord Qin Wan insisted that the Jie Sect had not lost.
• Qin Wan and the other nine Heavenly Lords demanded another fight to dispel their obsessions, and Qin Wan then challenged the entire Chan Sect alongside Xuandu.
• Master Tongtian accepted the challenge, while Yuanshi Tianzun armed the Chan Sect disciples with treasures from the Treasure-Splitting Cliff.
• The Myriad Worlds’ observers admired the Ten Heavenly Lords’ apparent courage, while the Jie Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island complained that the ten were ending their game with an elaborate act.
• Laozi equipped Xuandu with the Exquisite Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, the Leaving Earth Flame Light Banner, and Jieyin’s Twelfth Grade Golden Lotus of Merit before Xuandu and the Chan Sect disciples attacked.
• Qin Wan called for the Ten Heavenly Lords to set up their formation, and ancient formation patterns began appearing as the Chan Sect forces charged without concern.

The Ten Heavenly Lords revealed their full strength and used their formation to destroy Grand Master Xuandu and every Chan Sect disciple who entered it, provoking the fury of Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi across the Primordial World. As the Ten Heavenly Lords revealed that Master Tongtian had helped stage the trap, the enraged Saints prepared to fight them.

• The Ten Heavenly Lords unveiled their concealed Quasi-Saint cultivation and activated their ancient formation against Xuandu and the Chan Sect disciples.
• Qin Wan and the Ten Heavenly Lords unleashed the formation’s killing power, turning Xuandu and the Chan Sect disciples into remnant souls.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi’s fury shook the Primordial World, while Hongjun watched from Purple Cloud Palace and the Jie Sect disciples prepared for battle.
• Jieyin and Zhunti urged the Ten Heavenly Lords to join the Western Sect or submit to the Investiture of the Gods, but the Ten Heavenly Lords laughed at them.
• Master Tongtian revealed that he had been acting alongside the Ten Heavenly Lords, who had prepared their evolved Ten Deadly Formations to deal with Saints.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi emerged from their grief and faced the Ten Heavenly Lords with overwhelming killing intent.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi prepared to attack the Jie Sect after the Chan Sect disciples were wiped out, but Ancestor Kunpeng arrived with a host of demons to join the conflict. Zhen Yuanzi confronted Kunpeng over Daoist Hongyun’s murder, while Zhunti and Jieyin stepped in to fight Zhen Yuanzi and Lady Nuwa.

• Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi advanced on the Ten Heavenly Lords, but Master Tongtian blocked them and mocked them over the Chan Sect’s defeat.
• Jieyin and Zhunti joined Yuanshi Tianzun and Laozi, then the Saints sensed a new force approaching Golden Ao Island.
• Ancestor Kunpeng arrived with countless demons, and Master Tongtian learned that the demons had been promised help finding Hongyun’s Hongmeng Violet Qi.
• Zhen Yuanzi revealed his Heavenly Dao power and confronted Kunpeng over Daoist Hongyun’s murder, but Zhunti intervened and challenged him to a fight.
• Zhen Yuanzi brought out the Earth Book to face Zhunti, while Jieyin chose Lady Nuwa as his opponent after she explained she was protecting the Sanxiao Sisters.

As Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun prepared to attack the Jie Sect, Yunxiao and the other Sanxiao sisters challenged their enemies, while more powerful Jie Sect disciples poured out of Golden Ao Island. The chapter left Kunpeng and the assembled opponents confronting hundreds of thousands of Jie Sect disciples and dozens of supreme Quasi-Sage powerhouses.

• Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun threatened to destroy the Jie Sect disciples, and Master Tongtian summoned the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation as battle loomed.
• Yunxiao emerged at Quasi-Sage Grand Completion and offered to deal with Kunpeng's great demons, then Qiongxiao and Bixiao joined her and challenged Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Master Tongtian agreed to let the Sanxiao sisters fight Yuanshi Tianzun, and Zhao Gongming appeared with the power of Heaven and Earth's order.
• Golden Spirit Mother, Turtle Spirit Mother, Impartial Spirit Mother, and other Jie Sect disciples emerged, mocking Kunpeng and the rival forces.
• Hundreds of thousands of Jie Sect disciples poured out of Golden Ao Island, leaving Kunpeng and the observers stunned by the sect's overwhelming strength.

The Jie Sect’s immense forces shocked the Saints and Ancestor Kunpeng as Master Tongtian ordered an all-out attack on the demons. The battle spread across the Ancient Starry Sky and firmament, where the Sanxiao Sisters trapped Yuanshi Tianzun in a vast formation.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao Saints were astonished by the Jie Sect’s millions of powerful disciples, while Jieyin and Zhunti plotted to seize disciples and Ancestor Kunpeng regretted joining the battle.
• Master Tongtian ordered the Jie Sect to attack the demons, and millions of disciples charged into the Ancient Starry Sky.
• Daoist Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Golden Spirit Mother, Turtle Spirit Mother, and Impartial Spirit Mother surrounded and attacked Ancestor Kunpeng as the Seven Immortal Attendants supported the Jie Sect forces.
• The Saints began fighting atop the firmament, and the Sanxiao Sisters joined forces against Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao used their magic treasures to activate an ancient formation that trapped Yuanshi Tianzun across a vast region of chaos.

The Sanxiao Sisters trapped Yuanshi Tianzun in their ancient formation, where he overcame successive illusions and worlds with the Pangu Banner but remained caught in a renewed battle. Elsewhere, Master Tongtian and Laozi fought to a stalemate inside the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

• Yuanshi Tianzun defeated more than a hundred Qiongqi within the formation, but the Sanxiao Sisters continued the battle by conjuring chains of Heaven and Earth and an illusion of Pangu.
• Yuanshi Tianzun saw through the Pangu illusion, shattered it with the Pangu Banner, and broke free from the Sanxiao Sisters' first formation.
• The Sanxiao Sisters immediately pulled Yuanshi Tianzun into another world, where he fought a giant hand and the karmic fire while drawing on Heavenly Dao Power.
• Master Tongtian attacked Laozi inside the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, while Laozi used the Taiji Diagram, Leaving Earth Flame Light Banner, and Exquisite Pagoda of Heaven and Earth to withstand him.
• Master Tongtian intensified the sword formation after Laozi glanced toward Yuanshi Tianzun, but Laozi held firm and their battle remained deadlocked.

Zhen Yuanzi reversed his defeat against Zhunti by unleashing an evolved He Hua Zi Zai Great Magic that transformed him into a Pangu-like fighter. Meanwhile, Nuwa and Daoist Jieyin remained evenly matched, and Jie Sect’s forces continued to overwhelm the Demon Race as Ancestor Kunpeng was trapped by multiple opponents.

• Nuwa and Daoist Jieyin fought to a standstill as their spiritual treasures clashed across the shattered battlefield.
• Zhunti drove Zhen Yuanzi into a perilous position with the Seven Treasure Tree and Six Roots of Purity Bamboo, but Zhen Yuanzi resisted with Sleeve Universe and his horsetail whisk.
• Zhen Yuanzi summoned a figure from the river of time and used his evolved He Hua Zi Zai Great Magic to transform into a Pangu-like combatant, forcing Zhunti into a stalemate.
• The Lord of the Great Wilderness and other observers marveled that Zhen Yuanzi’s He Hua Zi Zai Great Magic was more complete and powerful than the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s version.
• Jie Sect disciples slaughtered the Demon Race’s forces in the Ancient Starry Sky, protected by Quasi-Saints who prevented the demons from killing them.
• Daoist Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Golden Spirit Mother, Turtle Spirit Mother, and Impartial Spirit Mother cornered Ancestor Kunpeng, leaving him repeatedly in danger.

Daoist Duobao revealed a chaotic-colored treasure sword and killed Ancestor Kunpeng with one strike, despite Kunpeng wielding the Chaos Bell. The watching cultivators marveled at the sword, and Empress of Talent wondered whether Ye Qin had given it to Daoist Duobao.

• Ancestor Kunpeng summoned the Chaos Bell and used its bell chimes to unleash devastating sound waves against Daoist Duobao and the Jie Sect disciples.
• Daoist Duobao refused Zhao Gongming's offer to help restrain the Chaos Bell and challenged Ancestor Kunpeng to use all his methods.
• Daoist Duobao drew a chaotic-colored treasure sword and sent a sword radiance that split apart the Chaos Bell's sound waves.
• Daoist Duobao's sword radiance struck Ancestor Kunpeng, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit in a single blow.
• Zhao Gongming, Golden Spirit Mother, Impartial Spirit Mother, Turtle Spirit Mother, and the watching powerhouses were stunned by Daoist Duobao's strength.
• Empress of Talent noted that the sword's aura resembled a pagoda's and asked whether Ye Qin had given the treasure to Daoist Duobao.

Daoist Duobao slew Ancestor Kunpeng with the Chaos Nirvana Sword, which he revealed Ye Qin had given him, stirring greed and astonishment among the Saints. The Jie Sect nearly wiped out the invading Demon Race army, but Duobao stopped his disciples from rushing into the still-raging battles between the Heavenly Dao Saints.

• Daoist Duobao killed Ancestor Kunpeng with the Chaos Nirvana Sword, and the Saints and observers marveled at its power.
• Daoist Duobao told Master Tongtian that Ye Qin had gifted him the Chaos Nirvana Sword, shocking Tongtian and the other Saints.
• The Demon Race forces panicked after Kunpeng’s death, and the Jie Sect disciples trapped and slaughtered most of them, keeping a few million survivors as mounts.
• The Jie Sect won at the other two battlefields, leaving four battles between Heavenly Dao Saints still raging.
• The Jie Sect disciples prepared to join the fights, but Daoist Duobao stopped them and warned they would only become a burden.

Daoist Duobao rallied the Jie Sect disciples to support the battles against the Heavenly Dao Saints as the fighting ravaged the Primordial World. Meanwhile, Ye Qin completed refining the Tree of Life in the Chaos World and received the Primordial Divine Tree as a critical-hit reward, while Bixiao received a strand of Primordial Qi.

• Daoist Duobao assigned the Jie Sect disciples to join the battles or return to Golden Ao Island, then joined Zhen Yuanzi and Zhao Gongming against Zhunti.
• Zhunti called upon the Heavenly Dao's power and fought Duobao, Zhao Gongming, and Zhen Yuanzi to a standstill as the battles' destruction spread across the Primordial World.
• Master Tongtian revealed another ancient formation inside the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, leaving Laozi weakened and in greater danger.
• The Ten Heavenly Lords joined the Sanxiao Sisters' formations against Yuanshi Tianzun, making it increasingly difficult for him to break free.
• Ye Qin shattered the restrictions within the Tree of Life and successfully refined it, prompting the tree to acknowledge him as its master.
• Ye Qin received the Primordial Divine Tree as his critical-hit reward, and Bixiao received one strand of Primordial Qi.