Chapter Summaries

Great Qin destroyed the Tian Household, Great You Heavenly Dynasty, and Black Mang Sacred Land to strengthen Zhong Shan before Great Qin left the world. As preparations to depart were completed, Ying ordered Li Si to eliminate Grand Sui’s conspiring academies.

• Ying destroyed the Tian Household, but the wounded Tian Chen Zi escaped; Ying explained that Great Qin had also destroyed Great You Heavenly Dynasty and Black Mang Sacred Land to make Zhong Shan less willing to abandon the underworld.
• Great Zheng’s northern expedition began under Lin Xiao, Yan Chongzhi, Zhao Suo Xiang, and Shui Jing, while news of Great Qin’s victories threw the underworld’s nations into alarm.
• In Grand Sui, Forget Dust conjectured that Great Qin was about to leave the world and was strengthening Zhong Shan to contain Grand Sui afterward; Kong Lietian ordered surveillance of Great Qin.
• A year later, Li Si reported that Great Qin’s preparations were complete and that Grand Sui’s academies were organizing for an invasion after Great Qin left.
• Ying ordered Li Si to use the old method and bury the restless scholars of those academies alive.

As Great Qin prepared to leave the Small Chiliocosm World in six months, Zhong Shan learned that the Eternal Life Realm’s Kong Xuan was a legendary powerhouse, while Kong Lietian sought his help. The chapter left Zhong Shan wondering which distant powerhouses were watching Bei Qing Si, Tian Ling'er, Gu Qian You, and Bao Er.

• Kong Lietian learned that Ying had used local officials and gentry to destroy Great Qin’s academies and burn the Confucian classics, then received Ying’s invitation to witness Great Qin’s departure in six months.
• Zhong Shan told his strategists that the Eternal Life Realm’s Kong Xuan was a gravely injured but legendary powerhouse, and he prepared Great Zheng for the coming conflict while ordering his people to strengthen their cultivation.
• Kong Lietian confronted Kong Xuan in the Eternal Life Realm, and Divine Crow Dao Lord emerged from seclusion just as Kong Lietian explained why he had come.
• Bei Qing Si, Tian Ling'er, and Gu Qian You told Zhong Shan they felt watched from afar, and Bao Er identified the presence as a powerhouse from the Great Chiliocosm World.

Zhong Shan sensed that someone was divining both his main body and Shadow Body, and the Red Phoenix Pink Lotus warned of a great calamity. He prepared for Kong Xuan’s possible attack, moved the High Heaven Court to the South Sea, and headed to Great Qin as Ying’s departure drew near.

• Zhong Shan confirmed that the divination persisted even in the Netherworld and kept the ominous warning from his ministers.
• After three days of deliberation, Zhong Shan ordered Yi Yan and King Skeleton to develop a communication system using mice, life tablets, and coded booklets.
• Zhong Shan ordered Lu Jianping to move the High Heaven Court to the South Sea within five months.
• Over the following six months, the ministers perfected the mouse communication method, while the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail consumed the Heaven Vein Sword and advanced one level.
• As Ying’s departure approached, Zhong Shan chose to attend the Great Qin ceremony with his main body while his Shadow Body commanded the High Heaven Court, then set out with Emperor Xuan Sha.

Ying departed the Small Chiliocosm World with Great Qin after advising Zhong Shan that opening the heavens could make a dream real. As Divine Crow Dao Lord and his allies trapped Zhong Shan, the chapter flashed back to Kong Xuan’s arrival and Zhong Shan’s preparations before their battle, then ended with the two facing off above the Southern Sea.

• Ying shattered a Great Power’s bones, advised Zhong Shan about the Small and Great Chiliocosm Worlds, and led Great Qin through a passage out of the Small Chiliocosm World.
• After the passage closed, Divine Crow Dao Lord, Kong Lietian, and Toad Lai surrounded Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha, then activated the Immortal Execution Sword Formation.
• Two days earlier, Kong Xuan appeared above High Heaven Court and declared that Zhong Shan had to die, while Zhong Shan drew him away toward the Southern Sea.
• Yi Yan secretly killed rats in a guarded hall as part of Zhong Shan’s plan, while Mud Bodhisattva, King Skeleton, and Corpse Mister used jade tablets to track events and hurried toward the Eternal Life Realm.
• Zhong Shan and Kong Xuan confronted each other above the Southern Sea, where Kong Xuan identified Zhong Shan as an outsider from beyond this world.

Zhong Shan drew on Great Zheng’s fortune to unleash the Great Reincarnation Tunnel against the wounded Kong Xuan, but Kong Xuan shattered it with the Five-Colored Divine Light. A black-robed man then appeared and used the Great Divination Fate Severing Art to injure Kong Xuan, who broke free of his restraints at the cost of his left hand.

• Zhong Shan summoned Great Zheng’s people to lend him strength, then used his Shadow Clone to stall Kong Xuan while he gathered power beneath the sea.
• Zhong Shan opened the Great Reincarnation Tunnel and trapped Kong Xuan in its Reincarnation Power, but Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light forced it apart.
• Kong Xuan shattered the Reincarnation Tunnel, sending Zhong Shan flying and turning the South Sea into a colossal Black Hole.
• A black-robed man appeared with a Jade Turtle and used the Great Divination Fate Severing Art to strike Kong Xuan inside a transparent pillar.
• Kong Xuan broke through the pillar with the Five-Colored Divine Light, but his injured left hand withered into sand and crumbled away.

Zhong Xuan sacrificed his life to help Zhong Shan drive Kong Xuan away, then vanished after revealing he might have a slim chance of reviving in the Great Chiliocosm World. Two days later, Mud Bodhisattva, Corpse Mister, and King Skeleton brought back the sealed Purple Giant Coffin Kong Xuan had guarded, leaving Zhong Shan to wonder what great secret it contained.

• Kong Xuan escaped Zhong Shan's Reincarnation Tunnel after the black-robed man's attacks worsened his injuries.
• Zhong Shan discovered the black-robed man was his son Zhong Xuan, who explained that his fate had been destroyed and that he had only a one-percent chance of reviving in the Fate Usurping Pagoda.
• Zhong Xuan vanished into dust after telling Zhong Shan he had sacrificed his life willingly, and Zhong Shan grieved for him.
• Yi Yan arranged for the Empresses and Crown Princes to return from the netherworld, and Zhong Shan later inscribed Zhong Xuan's name on the Investiture of the Gods.
• Mud Bodhisattva, Corpse Mister, and King Skeleton brought a sealed Purple Giant Coffin from the Eternal Life Realm, which Zhong Shan suspected concealed a world-shaking secret.

Zhong Shan and his allies opened the Purple Coffin, whose mysterious occupant caused Heaven and Earth and the High Heaven Court to mourn and left nearly everyone physically and spiritually exhausted. As a Purple Light struck toward Zhong Shan, the story shifted to Ying’s departure and Divine Crow Dao Lord’s confrontation with Emperor Xuan Sha inside the Immortal Execution Sword Formation.

• Corpse Mister removed the Purple Coffin’s ten nails, triggering dark skies, mournful horn calls, and a rainstorm over the High Heaven Court.
• Corpse Mister opened the coffin and revealed a black-robed corpse whose face no one could remember; its sorrowful presence made many people vomit blood and collapse from exhaustion.
• Zhong Shan ordered the coffin closed and its nails replaced, but a Purple Light broke through NanGong Sheng’s formation and shot toward the square.
• Two days earlier, Ying led Great Qin’s elite forces and Xianyang Saintly Capital through a spacetime tunnel, leaving the Divine Land.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord and Emperor Xuan Sha confirmed that they had both reached the Tian Ji Realm Twelfth Level, and Divine Crow Dao Lord proposed fighting Emperor Xuan Sha while Immortal Execution and Kong Lietian killed Zhong Shan.

Zhong Shan broke the Immortal Execution Sword Formation and fought Kong Lietian, overpowering his weapons with Nightmare and his hardened body. As Kong Lietian prepared to use a hidden treasure, Zhong Shan recalled Kui Er’s death at the hands of Sky Splitting Crown Prince and the Black Banner.

• Divine Crow Dao Lord and Emperor Xuan Sha left the formation to fight, while Zhong Shan summoned the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail and used it to break the Immortal Execution Sword Formation.
• Zhong Shan and Kong Lietian emerged from the formation and fought for more than a day, with their saber clashes leaving Kong Lietian’s hands numb.
• Zhong Shan shattered Kong Lietian’s golden saber, blocked most of his Three-Colored Divine Light, and endured the remaining force without his skin breaking.
• Kong Lietian sent an immortal iceberg crashing down, but Zhong Shan destroyed it with his fists.
• Kong Lietian announced that he would use a hidden treasure, and Zhong Shan remembered Sky Splitting Crown Prince killing Kui Er and capturing her figure in the Black Banner.

Zhong Shan shattered Kong Lietian’s Spring Autumn Scroll with his fists and pressed him with powerful saber attacks, but the sudden departure of the Immortal Execution Sword interrupted their fight. The chapter ended with Zhong Shan charging at Kong Lietian again as Toad Lai lay unconscious and the sword’s disappearance remained unexplained.

• Kong Lietian attacked Zhong Shan with the Spring Autumn Scroll, but Zhong Shan shattered all seventy-two bamboo strips with his fists.
• Zhong Shan used Three Thousand Layers of Waves and an Overbearing and Unrestrained Saber to force Kong Lietian to spend his strength defending with Three-Colored Divine Light.
• Kong Lietian retreated from the Black Hole after noticing the Immortal Execution Sword emerge with Toad Lai’s body.
• Purple Light left Toad Lai and merged with the Immortal Execution Sword, which then shot away despite Divine Crow Dao Lord calling after Zhu Xian.
• Zhong Shan emerged from the Black Hole and charged toward Kong Lietian again while Toad Lai remained unconscious.

After Divine Crow Dao Lord and Kong Lietian retreated, Zhong Shan realized the Immortal Execution Sword had gone to the High Heaven Court because the Purple Giant Coffin had been opened. As the coffin was closed, a purple light pierced the High Heaven Court’s formation and rushed toward Zhong Shan.

• Divine Crow Dao Lord and Kong Lietian abandoned the battle and flew away, and Zhong Shan stopped Emperor Xuan Sha from killing the unconscious Toad Lai.
• Zhong Shan told Emperor Xuan Sha that Kong Xuan had killed Zhong Xuan and that King Skeleton’s group had opened the Purple Giant Coffin in the High Heaven Court.
• Zhong Shan realized the Immortal Execution Sword had rushed to the High Heaven Court after the coffin was opened.
• Ye Qingcheng suppressed the Immortal Trapping Sword with the Eternal Life Realm’s merit after it struggled to fly away.
• Zhong Shan ordered Corpse Mister to close the coffin as a purple light descended, broke through NanGong Sheng’s formation, and shot toward him.

The Immortal Execution Sword arrived at the High Heaven Court and guarded the Purple Giant Coffin, while Zhong Shan decided to wait until he could subdue it with certainty. Ten days earlier, Hao Meili and Xiao Jin prepared to rally the dragon clan behind Xiao Jin, as Ao Mian received support from the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty.

• The Immortal Execution Sword tore through the High Heaven Court's formation, closed the Purple Giant Coffin, and threatened Zhong Shan's group.
• Zhong Shan refused King Skeleton's offer to attack the sword and resolved to wait for his true body and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail.
• Hao Meili agreed to leave the dragon clan's struggle to Xiao Jin and began studying the Heavenly Secret Great Technique after cursing the unseen observer she sensed.
• Xiao Jin gathered three supporters and learned that Ao Mian had the backing of the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty, including former Burning Heaven Crown Prince Lu Fentian.
• Ao Mian met with seven or eight people at Mian Palace, among them Se Kong of the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty.

Ao Mian sought the Dragon Clan Supreme position with Grand Sui support, while an ambush, a suspicious rumor, and Kong Shang’s sudden explosion unsettled the Eastern Sea before the Ten Thousand Dragons Assembly began. As the election opened, Ao Si Hai was on his way back to the Eastern Sea, where a new Supreme was about to be chosen.

• Ao Mian accepted Lu Fentian’s offer of help, and Se Kong fled after sensing deadly danger near Li Long’s residence.
• Lu Fentian proposed winning support from more than half the Dragon Clan, and the chapter later revealed that Kong Shang’s actions had helped Ao Mian gain half the clan’s backing.
• Zhao Long was killed in an ambush and Ao Mian was left severely wounded, prompting dragons to suspect the remaining candidates and shift their support.
• Hao Meili offered to curse Zhao Long’s killer, while Kong Shang’s poisoned body erupted in a massive explosion.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Assembly began before the Crystal Palace, with the dragons choosing among the three remaining candidates until the Hai Hour.
• Ao Si Hai hurried toward the Eastern Sea and learned that the new Supreme was about to be selected.

Ao Jin won the dragon clan’s Supreme election after Zhou Long and Li Long revealed Zhao Long’s support for her and a Memory Crystal exposed Ao Mian’s role in Zhao Long’s death. As Ao Jin completed the Dragon Clan Contract with Hao Meili, Ao Si Hai arrived, leaving the dragons faced with two Supremes.

• Ao Mian rallied support by calling for Zhao Long’s death to be avenged, while Zhou Long and Li Long said Zhao Long had wanted Ao Jin to become Supreme.
• Ao Jin arrived, and most dragons shifted their support to her because of her Source Bloodline.
• Ao Jin revealed a Memory Crystal showing Kong Shang poisoning and beating Zhao Long to death, turning the dragons against Ao Mian and Lu Fentian.
• The dragons hailed Ao Jin as Supreme, and she claimed the Dragon Clan Contract and named Hao Meili its new contract holder.
• Ao Si Hai arrived during the celebration and angrily confronted Ao Jin, leaving the dragons uncertain between the old Supreme and the new one.

Ao Jin rejected Ao Si Hai’s demand for the Dragon Clan Contract and reclaimed the Supreme position, then the clan chose to join Great Zheng. With the dragons asking Ao Si Hai to Ascend, Hao Meili summoned heavenly lightning, and Ao Si Hai began his tribulation as the clan surged out to protect him.

• Ao Si Hai returned and learned that Ao Mian had allied with Lu Fentian, so he stripped Ao Mian of his Dragon King position and expelled him from the Dragon Clan.
• Ao Si Hai dismissed Hao Meili as an outsider, but Ao Jin stopped her from attacking him and called him Supreme out of gratitude for his past kindness.
• Ao Jin asked whether the Dragon Clan should join Great Zheng or Grand Sui, and Hao Meili read Zhong Shan’s offer from the Purple Brocade Pouch.
• Ao Jin refused to hand over the Dragon Clan Contract, declared himself the Supreme, and ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to pursue Lu Fentian and his group.
• The dragons asked Ao Si Hai to Ascend because his hostility toward Great Zheng threatened the clan, and Hao Meili’s curse brought down the Sun Obscuring heavenly tribulation.
• Ao Si Hai burst from the sea to undergo tribulation, and Ao Jin ordered the dragons to protect and see off the old Supreme.

Zhong Shan and his allies suppressed the Purple Giant Coffin’s dangerous Corpse Qi and drove the Coffin Nails back into it, learning that they had narrowly prevented a Sage Corpse’s transformation. He sent Toad Lai to Divine Crow Dao Lord with an offer to trade all the Immortal Steles for the coffin.

• Corpse Mister identified the figure in the coffin as a likely Sage Corpse, while Huan Ji warned Zhong Shan that the coffin had been absorbing an unseen aura.
• Zhong Shan, Emperor Xuan Sha, King Skeleton, and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail attacked the Immortal Execution Sword, and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed it.
• The coffin’s Purple Light vanished, revealing Corpse Qi and a black character reading “thirty”; King Skeleton drove all ten Coffin Nails back into the coffin.
• Corpse Mister explained that the nails suppressed Corpse Transformation and warned that a transformed Sage Corpse could destroy High Heaven Court.
• Zhong Shan rejected suggestions to hide or feed the coffin to the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail and ordered Liu Wushuang to bring Toad Lai.
• Zhong Shan told Toad Lai to deliver an offer to Divine Crow Dao Lord: exchange all the Immortal Steles in his possession for the coffin, then let him go.

Zhong Shan learned that the corpse in the Purple Giant Coffin would inevitably undergo Corpse Transformation, giving him three hundred years to unify the world and defeat the Eternal Life Realm and Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty. Meanwhile, Kong Lietian sent Forget Dust to investigate the mysterious Human Venerable, and Tian Chen Zi witnessed a terrifying disturbance at the Yellow Springs Sea.

• Corpse Mister discovered eighty-one corpse marks on the Purple Giant Coffin and warned Zhong Shan that Corpse Transformation would happen within at least three hundred years.
• Zhong Shan ordered Yi Yan to lead the Northern Expedition and prepare to seize the northern world.
• Kong Lietian appointed Forget Dust Three Armies Grand Marshal and ordered him to march east against Great Qin and test Human Venerable.
• Tian Chen Zi observed the Yellow Springs Sea erupt as ghostly creatures were blasted away and the water level began to sink.

Divine Crow Dao Lord discovered that the Purple Giant Coffin had vanished from the Eternal Life Realm and learned that Zhong Shan was offering to trade it for an Immortal Stele. He met Zhong Shan outside the High Heaven Court’s South Heaven Gate, where Zhong Shan demanded to see the stele before revealing the coffin.

• Divine Crow Dao Lord questioned Ye Qingcheng about his use of the realm’s merit and learned that the Immortal Trapping Sword had nearly been lost on the same day the Immortal Execution Sword was summoned.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord took Ye Qingcheng to the Patriarch’s residence and found that the Purple Giant Coffin was gone, then ordered disciples to investigate while warning Ye Qingcheng about his negligence.
• Toad Lai returned and recounted Zhong Shan’s offer to exchange the Purple Giant Coffin for an Immortal Stele, prompting Divine Crow Dao Lord to travel to the High Heaven Court with Ye Qingcheng.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord confronted Zhong Shan outside the South Heaven Gate, and Zhong Shan demanded to see the Immortal Stele before showing him the Purple Giant Coffin.

Zhong Shan exchanged the Purple Giant Coffin for Divine Crow Dao Lord’s eleven Immortal Steles and let him leave, using the public handover to draw hidden enemies into the open. Divine Crow Dao Lord encountered a masked man wielding the Chaos Bell, while Tian Chen Zi watched a giant peacock swallow the Yellow Springs Sea and begin devouring the Heaven-Connecting Yellow Springs Road.

• Zhong Shan exchanged the Purple Giant Coffin for Divine Crow Dao Lord’s eleven Immortal Steles and declined to ambush him, explaining that the coffin had to leave High Heaven Court and that the public handover would expose hidden forces.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord and Ye Qingcheng were attacked near the Eternal Life Realm by a masked man whose Chaos Bell repelled the Slaying Immortal Flying Knife, so Divine Crow Dao Lord chose to return without pursuing him.
• Forget Dust emerged from hiding two days later, suspected the masked man was Human Venerable and that the Chaos Bell attack concerned the Purple Giant Coffin, then hurried toward the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty.
• Tian Chen Zi watched a giant peacock absorb nearly all the Yellow Springs Sea, after which it began drawing in the Heaven-Connecting Yellow Springs Road.

Kong Xuan swallowed the Yellow Springs Sea and Road, tearing open a passage between the Yin and Yang Realms. Tian Chen Zi crossed into the Yang World and set out for High Heaven Court to seize the Sky Decree, while Zhong Shan later heard Hao Meili describe how she had driven off attackers during Ao Si Hai’s ascension.

• Kong Xuan drank the Yellow Springs Sea dry and swallowed the Yellow Springs Road, causing catastrophic tremors throughout the netherworld and Yang World.
• Tian Chen Zi found a passage to the Yang World where the Yellow Springs Sea had been, crossed it, and learned that the nearby site had once been Xianyang Saintly Capital of Great Qin.
• Tian Chen Zi killed a man who told him High Heaven Court lay to the south, then flew south, determined to obtain the Sky Decree and leave the world.
• Zhong Shan ordered Liu Wushuang to investigate the tremors, while Kong Lietian sent out investigators and told Forget Dust to keep spying on Human Venerable.
• Half a year later, Hao Meili returned and told Zhong Shan that she had cursed attackers trying to stop Ao Si Hai’s ascension, killing several and driving the rest away.

Hao Meili gave Zhong Shan all 108 Immortal Steles after revealing they were Witch Clan Boundary Steles that could bar anyone below the Great Immortal level from entering a dynasty’s territory. Ten years later, Great Zheng prepared for the coming struggle over the Netherworld and the mortal world, while Tian Chen Zi and Grand Sui made plans of their own.

• Zhong Shan transferred the final eleven Immortal Steles to Hao Meili, completing the set of 108, and Hao Meili revealed their origins and power.
• Hao Meili gave Zhong Shan the Immortal Steles in exchange for his agreement to fulfill three requests that did not violate his principles.
• Ten years later, Zhong Shan’s ministers reported that Kong Xuan was still recovering, Great Zheng would need forty years to unify the Netherworld, and a war with Grand Sui would follow the division of the former Great Qin territory.
• Zhong Shan ordered his people to investigate the Chaos Bell and directed Great Zheng to broaden the subjects taught at Great Confucian Academies rather than dismantle them.
• Tian Chen Zi waited in hiding for a chance to reclaim the Sky Decree from Tian Ling'er, while Forget Dust told Kong Lietian that Human Venerable’s formations could help Grand Sui defeat Great Zheng.
• Kong Lietian expected Kong Xuan to recover in ninety more years and declared that Zhong Shan would meet his end then.