Chapter Summaries

A vast Red Mist tide and Monster Tide struck the Sacred Griffin Empire, destroying cities and fortresses as corruption spread through its territory. Mu Yuan received increasingly alarming reports, and Sophia warned that the empire could eventually be devastated or destroyed if it failed to contain the calamity.

• A Red Mist tide and dense Monster Tide swept into Dawn City, whose defenders failed to activate its barrier before the monsters breached the walls and destroyed the city.
• The Iron Blood Firearm Fortress prepared to withstand the attack, but a Monster Grand Duke infiltrated it and killed the marshal, allowing the fortress to fall.
• Cities and fortresses across the Sacred Griffin Empire were breached as corruption spread and Red Mist darkened the empire's skies.
• Mu Yuan received reports that the Sacred Griffin Empire was suffering catastrophic losses, while Sophia said its destruction was possible if the calamity continued spreading.

The Sacred Griffin Empire suffered a sudden calamity as a breach in the Red Mist opened in its heartland, prompting Tai Xuan to convene an emergency conference and prepare defenses. Although the empire’s forces initially pushed back the monsters, the Red Mist surged again, overwhelming its reinforcements and costing it 3,600 cities.

• The One Hand Guild Leader explained that a Monster Tide and spreading Filth Red Mist had erupted in the Sacred Griffin Empire’s heartland, breaching cities and fortresses.
• Mu Yuan told the Cold Moon City Lord that the empire’s cities had stronger defenses than Tai Xuan’s, while he watched the calamity through the Creation Night Crows.
• The Four Pillars of the Nation convened Tai Xuan’s lords, described the breach and its spreading Red Mist, and ordered stronger patrols and defenses.
• Tai Xuan’s Peak Lords discussed aid for the Sacred Griffin Empire, while the empire’s Saints dismissed the need for foreign assistance and rallied their forces.
• The Sacred Griffin Empire’s legions and powerhouses drove back the monsters, but dense Red Mist then corrupted soldiers and experts as new monsters overwhelmed the battlefield.
• The Sacred Griffin Empire lost 3,600 cities.

After the Sacred Griffin Empire suffered devastating defeats against seven monster hegemons, Lin Guozhu and the Tai Xuan lords decided to send aid. Mu Yuan committed Tian Yuan City’s powerful forces to the mission, and allied nations began arriving at Sacred Radiance Royal City as the enemy’s advance drew near.

• Lin Guozhu learned that seven powerful monster hegemons had invaded the Sacred Griffin Empire and killed a True King Realm expert and more than twenty Grand Lords and Monarchs.
• Lin Guozhu urged Tai Xuan to aid the Sacred Griffin Empire, and the Peak Lords debated how many troops they could spare without weakening their own defenses.
• Mu Yuan offered six Sacred Realm experts, ten Law Realm powerhouses, and two Legendary Legions from Tian Yuan City, prompting other lords to contribute forces as well.
• Tai Xuan assembled its allied army to gather at Sacred Radiance Royal City, the central city of the Sacred Radiance Left Flank Defense Line.
• As monsters approached the defense line, the Seven Cities Alliance arrived with three Epic Mage Towers, followed by reinforcements from the Divine Wood Dynasty.

Mu Yuan brought Tian Yuan City’s Ark of Creation to Sacred Radiance Royal City, eclipsing the other allied delegations and drawing the Sacred Griffin Empire’s citizens’ attention. At the strategy meeting, the empire described defilement erupting inside protected cities, while Mu Yuan searched the capital with the Night Crow and sensed something was wrong.

• The Divine Wood Dynasty, Western Desert Empire, and Star Luo Holy Temple arrived with imposing war platforms, including a procession carrying a True King Realm existence.
• The Divine Glory Empire’s delegation worried that Tai Xuan would outshine its limited forces, then saw Mu Yuan arrive aboard the enormous Ark of Creation instead of the Ancient Mage Tower.
• The Ark of Creation overshadowed the Divine Glory Empire’s fleet, and Tai Xuan’s reinforcements received a fervent welcome from Sacred Radiance Royal City’s citizens and True Kings.
• At the allied meeting, the Sacred Griffin Empire reported that defilement had appeared inside forty-one protected cities and explained its new defenses against its spread.
• Mu Yuan used the Night Crow to survey Sacred Radiance Royal City during the meeting and sensed that something was wrong.

Mu Yuan sensed that Sacred Radiance Royal City was in danger, but the city’s residents and defenders remained complacent. When conflicts triggered a sudden filth outbreak that overwhelmed the city, Mu Yuan unleashed Borrowed Divine Power—Light of Heavenly Purity, and dawn arrived.

• Mu Yuan noticed subtle changes in fate and warned the Tai Xuan representatives that Sacred Radiance Royal City might not be safe.
• The allied forces split between pushing into the Red Mist Land and stabilizing the defenses; Mu Yuan chose to rescue civilians, while Heaven's Peak Monarch assigned Divine Glory to secure the line and receive refugees.
• Mu Yuan observed the royal city’s carefree residents and the growing number of refugees, then warned Tai Xuan’s forces to replace their base’s city defense barrier.
• Conflicts erupted across Sacred Radiance Royal City, and visible monsters and invisible memetic contamination spread from each fight, turning residents against one another.
• A Two-Winged Angel failed to stop the crimson worms and transformed, while True King Tianyao’s highest-level barrier could not contain the outbreak.
• Mu Yuan identified the filth as related to Red Mist and invoked Borrowed Divine Power—Light of Heavenly Purity, causing dawn to arrive amid the city’s disaster.

Mu Yuan used the Ark of Creation to spread Creation Pure Land across Sacred Radiance Royal City, suppressing a Filth outbreak and helping the defenders repel monster Saints. The chapter ended with the Sacred Griffin powerhouses learning that Divine Griffin Royal City had suffered devastating losses, while Sacred Radiance had escaped almost unscathed.

• Mu Yuan’s Light of Heavenly Purity burned back the Filth in Sacred Radiance Royal City, surprising the Divine Glory and Sacred Griffin powerhouses.
• True King Tianyao thanked Mu Yuan, who warned that the Filth could only be suppressed and that the monster forces might attack before it was fully cleared.
• Mu Yuan connected the Ark of Creation to the city’s defense barrier, spreading Creation Pure Land throughout Sacred Radiance and steadily suppressing the Filth.
• Monster Saints attacked outside the city, and Sacred Griffin’s powerhouses fought them off after the Pure Land stabilized the royal city.
• The monster Saints abandoned three destroyed Saint bodies and fled, while Mu Yuan reflected that the defenders could have trapped more enemies if the allied forces had coordinated better.
• True King Tianyao reported that Divine Griffin Royal City had suffered severe losses, and a Holy Griffon Saint was stunned to hear that Sacred Radiance had escaped almost unscathed.

After Sacred Radiance Royal City survived the filth attack, Mu Yuan studied the nearly undetectable carriers, gained 43.99 million Miracle Power, and persuaded the nations’ Saints to launch a coordinated offensive. As Tian Yuan City’s six Saints raced toward the front, Dolei found the Locust Sky Swarm’s True King, the Locust Star Mother, and prepared to fight it.

• Mu Yuan and Tian Yuan City researchers collected Sources of Filth from the royal city and found that ordinary detection and most purification methods could not reveal or cleanse the carriers.
• Mu Yuan gathered 43.99 million Miracle Power from the people of Sacred Radiance Royal City and considered using it to advance Tian Yuan City’s research and Challenge Tower.
• Mu Yuan convinced the gathered Saints to attack, and Tian Yuan City’s generals split into routes while the nations’ forces advanced more cautiously.
• Dolei raced ahead with Tian Yuan City’s five other generals, prompting the nations’ Saints to realize that all six were Saints themselves.
• Dolei attacked monster forces to draw out a True King, then found the Locust Star Mother and descended upon it as World Devourer.

Dolei devoured a large portion of the Locust Star Mother’s domain and returned safely, while Tian Yuan’s forces fought across the monster front. Aboard the Ark of Creation, Mu Yuan and Deathbone inferred that the celebrated rulers called Supremes might be Pseudo-Supremes and began outlining the perilous requirements for true ascension.

• Dolei escaped the Red Mist after devouring part of the Locust Star Mother’s body and domain, forcing the insect mother to retreat.
• A Xun, Seventeen, Xylia, and the Rakshasa Hellmaster fought monsters as the allied armies advanced, while the Ark of Creation rescued survivors and placed them in provisional cities for quarantine.
• Tian Yuan’s Great Generals counted their spoils, and Dolei expected to become a True King after refining her gains.
• Mu Yuan studied an ancient book about realms beyond the True King Realm and compared its fragments with Tian Yuan’s knowledge.
• Deathbone proposed that King of Kings might be a Pseudo-Supreme, and Mu Yuan reasoned that true ascension required severing one’s ties to the world and risking complete erasure.
• Deathbone outlined further requirements for Supreme ascension, including a fourth-order Saint Body and high-level concepts of time and space.

The allied army failed to destroy the Great Void in the Sacred Griffin Empire, and its Saints retreated as the breach continued to pour out Red Mist. In secret, Sacred Emperor I revealed his reincarnation plan and Supreme ambitions, but the red moon corrupted and killed him before he could emerge.

• The allied army discovered that the Great Void led deep into the Red Mist Land, then failed to destroy it despite Slaying Light True King’s attack and Duo Lai’s devouring power.
• Eight Monster True Kings and a Supreme aura forced the allied Saints to retreat, leaving the Sacred Griffin Empire’s breach in place.
• At the Imperial Court, King of Kings visited Sacred Emperor I, who revealed that he had reincarnated to build a path to the Supreme Realm and hoped to claim a supreme godhood.
• A blood moon appeared in Sacred Emperor I’s hidden Small World, and its corruption overtook him before he could unleash his power.
• A voice from the blood moon declared that Sacred Emperor I had been vulnerable after reincarnation and confirmed that the revived sacrifices were complete.

After the Sacred Griffin Empire’s capital was destroyed by a sudden Filth disaster, Mu Yuan and the other nations debated whether to withdraw while Sophia investigated from a distance. A second catastrophe struck the Star Luo Holy Temple, and Wei Xingzi realized the earlier disasters had only been a prelude to the great calamity.

• Sophia showed Mu Yuan the red-mist destruction of the Sacred Griffin Empire’s capital, where the King of Kings and many Saints appeared to have perished.
• Mu Yuan warned Sophia not to enter the capital and alerted other nations; the gathered leaders debated evacuation as the Sacred Griffin Empire fell into chaos.
• Mu Yuan kept some Tian Yuan City experts behind to aid their allies, while most allied forces withdrew from the Sacred Radiance Royal City.
• Three days later, Sophia created a powerful Crow avatar to investigate the capital after the surrounding filth began to disperse.
• After the allied armies withdrew, news spread that the Star Luo Holy Temple’s headquarters had suffered a devastating attack following the sudden deaths of several Divine Kings.
• At the Star Observation Association, Wei Xingzi saw a prophecy declaring that the great calamity had begun and that filth had returned to bring the cosmos to its end.

Prophecies warned that the great calamity had only begun, and a spreading surge of Red Mist spawned Legendary Monsters across the Living Being Region. As monster tides converged on Tai Xuan, the Heaven Severing City Wall defense line answered with a vast golden wall that divided the world.

• Isroya said the stars and the world had revealed that the great calamity was only beginning.
• Red Mist concentrations rose sharply, causing monsters to mutate and advance into the Legendary Realm across war zones and cities.
• The Divine Glory Empire abandoned outer territories, prompting Fak and other lords to consider defecting to Tai Xuan, while other great nations also lost territory.
• Legendary Monster factions gathered into massive tides and attacked the great nations, while Tai Xuan refused to contract its defensive lines.
• At observation post B0399 on Tai Xuan's Heaven Severing City Wall, a golden light froze dozens of approaching Legendary Monsters and formed a wall stretching across countless miles.

As the red mist engulfed the Eternal World, Tai Xuan’s Heaven Severing City Wall protected its territory while ancient forces descended to establish themselves. Mu Yuan and the Tai Xuan Alliance negotiated with the Earth Prison Faction, and a powerful red Dragon appeared as the Beastmen Alliance claimed the Dragon Court Land.

• Mu Yuan wondered why the Monster Monarchs had not attacked during the rising tide of red mist and concluded they had more important goals.
• Paradise descended in the Sacred Griffin Empire, and True King Tianyao accepted its help despite fearing the loss of his empire’s sovereignty.
• Mu Yuan learned that the Alchemy Guild had secured mineral rights from the Divine Glory Empire and that the Earth Prison Faction had arrived near Tai Xuan.
• Lin Guozhu, Bai Guozhu, Mu Yuan, Dolei, Asun, and Lian Yue met the Earth Prison Saints, whose Primal Witch agreed to an alliance with the Tai Xuan Alliance.
• Colossal Dragons descended on the Dragon Court Land and claimed it for the Beastmen Alliance, but a red Dragon’s bloodline presence made one of them instinctively recoil.

Mu Yuan gathered Tian Yuan City’s strongest experts in the World Vine secret realm and used Miracle Power to elevate the Challenge Tower into an Innate Supreme Treasure. Its new Level 8 challenge revealed the existence of Universal Grades and vacant supreme positions, while Holy Light Flame mistook the tower’s seven-colored radiance for a sign that Universal Grade fragments would appear in the Red Mist Land.

• Xylia’s authority and power secured the Beastmen Alliance’s share of the Dragon Court Land, while the Divine Glory Empire’s representative was driven away.
• Mu Yuan recalled Tian Yuan City’s Great Generals from Sacred Radiance Royal City and gathered all seventeen direct-line Great Generals and saints in the World Vine secret realm.
• Mu Yuan sealed the secret realm with Tian Yuan City’s treasures and abilities, then began evolving the Challenge Tower with Miracle Power.
• After three days, the Challenge Tower became an Innate Supreme Treasure, revealing Level 8 challenges and the unique Universal Grades that granted access to a realm above the Eternal Realm.
• Mu Yuan learned that the supreme positions for Death and Starry Sky appeared vacant, while Lapis’s Holy Light path was already occupied.
• At the Paradise Faction headquarters, Holy Light Flame saw the seven-colored sign and ordered preparations to advance into the Red Mist Land, believing Universal Grade fragments were about to appear.

The Universal Allied Army entered the Great Void to attack the Red Mist Land, with Duolai’s ability to devour the red mist offering only temporary relief from its corrosion. The expedition encountered the Filth’s monstrous forces and a terrifying power that mutated their abilities, leaving the Saints facing an escalating threat.

• Paradise and the Beastmen Alliance invited the nations and factions to join a campaign against the Filth, and Tai Xuan agreed to participate.
• Mu Yuan selected Duolai, Sophia, and Lian Yue for the expedition, while the One Hand Guild Leader joined to gather intelligence and survive dangerous encounters.
• Deathbone and the other representatives traveled to the Sacred Griffin Empire’s Great Void and entered the Red Mist Land’s core, where its red mist rapidly corroded them.
• Holy Light Flame asked Duolai to test her ability against the red mist, and she swallowed several hundred miles of it before the mist immediately surged back.
• Holy Light Flame led the joint army into battle as Legendary Monsters and Monster Monarchs emerged, and the nearby Filth headquarters revealed the heart of the storm.
• An enormous entity made from the Heavenly Aberration Mountain Range reached toward the army and mutated the Saints’ powers under the rule that everything not borne by flesh would mutate.

Mu Yuan’s forces observed the Eternal Realm authorities during a disastrous expedition into the Red Mist Land, while Duo Lai secretly absorbed traces of aberration and Holy Flame. Paradise’s Supreme Ruler failed to break through Filth and chose to wait ten years; the calamity continued, and the chapter ended after ten years of hardship and shifting alliances.

• Deathbone studied the Eternal Realm authorities and concluded that each could define only a single rule, while Mu Yuan and Duo Lai observed the Holy Flame and aberration powers.
• Duo Lai swallowed aberrated flesh and a wisp of Holy Flame, gaining an Authority Element, as Deathbone tested how aberration affected his deathly black mist.
• The Holy Flame authority gained ground against aberration, but more monster Eternal Realm powers emerged, forcing Paradise and the Beastmen Alliance to withdraw from the expedition.
• The retreating Saints discovered that Filth had contaminated them, while Mu Yuan’s group returned with little harm and Duo Lai gained enough to advance.
• Six days after the expedition, Duo Lai entered the True King Realm, and several days later the Supreme Ruler of Paradise unleashed holy light but failed to eradicate Filth.
• The Supreme Ruler chose to wait ten years for Filth’s power to weaken; during the calamity, the Mysterious Merchant Alliance entered the Eternal World, factions formed alliances, and ten years passed.

Mu Yuan weighed whether to use the incomplete Universal Grade Miracle as his route to supremacy or to pursue an All Origins Authority of his own. As the filth’s revival drew nearer, he remained uncertain about his path until he considered whether the world itself could encompass everything.

• Deathbone ascended to supremacy and chose the Resurrection of the Dead authority, while several Tian Yuan Great Generals reached the True King Realm.
• Duo Lai entered the Supreme Eternal Realm in the second year, and Tian Yuan City’s strength and ties with the angels discouraged outside factions from challenging it.
• Lapis and Isroya ascended to the Supreme Realm in the fourth year, and Uta slew seven Monster True Kings before taking charge of the Fist authority.
• Mu Yuan investigated the filth’s revival and concluded that the Three Sons of Filth might become Supremes as the Lord of Paradise waited.
• Mu Yuan considered using Miracle as an aid rather than the core of his path, and explored gaining insight into authorities through his generals and evolution.
• After questioning whether an All Origins Authority existed, Mu Yuan looked at the world and wondered whether it could encompass everything.

Ten years after Mu Yuan reshaped the region, Tian Yuan City had grown into a vast, orderly world-class metropolis, even as the Universal Forces overshadowed the Eternal World’s native powers. At Tian Yuan Academy, Tong Tianchen warned a newly graduated genius that polluted Laws made cultivation dangerous and urged him to grow stronger before disaster arrived.

• Newcomers arriving by train marveled at Central Hub City’s scale, its floating mountains, and the aerial buildings near Tian Yuan City proper.
• A Legendary Expert told his younger cousin Little Lin that Tian Yuan City was unusually safe because the Filth Red Mist was absent and Tian Yuan Army forces guarded the region.
• Travelers discussed the Universal Forces’ powerful Saints and True Kings, while one resident argued that Tian Yuan City still offered ordinary people a safe place to build a future.
• Tong Tianchen objected to students comparing Tian Yuan City unfavorably with the Universal Forces and explained the Academy Faction’s strengths.
• Tong Tianchen questioned a newly graduated genius about comprehending the Heaven and Earth Laws, then warned that their pollution made cultivation dangerous and time was running short.

True King Tianyao and Saint Light Flame worried that the rising Red Mist would bring the revival of the filth and three new Cosmic Supremes. Meanwhile, the nations celebrated a surge in Saints, with Taixuan gathering sixteen Saint Realm lords as the era of competition unfolded alongside the looming calamity.

• True King Tianyao inspected the Sacred Radiance Left Flank Defense Line and worried that the Red Mist would eventually swallow the Sacred Griffin Empire despite Paradise’s victories.
• Saint Light Flame recalled how the filth had once devastated the cosmos and feared the birth of Supreme Beings associated with Flesh, Shadow, and Birth.
• A Divine Glory national pillar announced that the empire had nine Saints and that its hero Tianzun had become a Great Lord.
• Sixteen Saint Realm lords attended Taixuan’s meeting, where they discovered how many peers had secretly ascended to Sainthood.
• Lin Guozhu credited Taixuan’s growing strength to Tian Yuan City while noting that breakthroughs were occurring across the nations as calamity approached.

The Eternal Star Emperor and the Lord of the Stars pursued the supreme opportunity, each seeking a path to the Universal Grade. Duo Lai failed a difficult Challenge Realm trial but gained another chance to experience the Universal Grade, leaving her unsure how to progress.

• The Saint Radiance Empire’s ancient Saints blamed the Eternal World’s lack of favor for their slow advancement and resolved to seize opportunities through their own efforts.
• The Eternal Star Emperor revealed that he had reached the Eternal Realm and sought to claim the starry sky’s vacant Main Authority, while recognizing other Eternal Realm experts as competitors.
• The Eternal Star Emperor suspected that the hidden power behind the Council of Stars was one of two newly arrived Eternal Realm experts on the starry-sky path.
• The Lord of the Stars used the Stone of Miracle, a remnant of the fallen 'Miracle,' and vowed to grind away every obstacle to obtaining the Universal Grade.
• Duo Lai failed the Level Eight · Difficult Challenge Realm trial after facing overwhelming opponents, but received one opportunity to experience the Universal Grade.
• Duo Lai condensed several subordinate authorities but could not piece together the Main Authority system, so she decided to eat.

The Mysterious Merchant Alliance’s leader visited Tian Yuan City and the Undead Kingdom to assess their strength and warn them about the defilement’s possible return, discovering that Deathbone was an ancient Eternal Realm expert. Back in Tian Yuan City, Lu Six broke through to the Eternal Realm, while Great Lord Mu entered seclusion.

• The Mysterious Merchant Alliance’s leader examined Tian Yuan City and decided to pass a warning to the Tian Yuan City Lord through Kiye about the danger posed by the defilement.
• The mysterious man visited the Undead Kingdom and discovered that its lord, Deathbone, was an established Eternal Realm expert.
• Deathbone shared how he and other generals had broken through, while Mu Yuan reviewed Tian Yuan City’s experts and reflected on what he still lacked.
• Lu Six realized that the Heaven Severing City Wall was Taixuan’s as much as his own, broke through to the Eternal Realm, and gained the Barrier authority.
• Great Lord Mu began his seclusion.