Chapter Summaries

Empress Dugu reached the ninth level of the Heaven and Earth Deification Technique and ordered three sects to test the Great Qian Emperor. Meanwhile, Wang Pan pursued a universal method for demon beasts to Shape-shift, then ended his anger at the emperor by bullying Empress Dugu instead.

• Empress Dugu cultivated the ninth level of the Heaven and Earth Deification Technique and ordered her subordinate to contact the Mysterious Heaven Sect, the White Lotus Sect, and the Tianhua Sect to test the Great Qian Emperor.
• Wang Pan studied ancient texts and sought a way to let demon beasts Shape-shift into human form.
• After half a year of experiments, Wang Pan's Tiger Demon subject escaped with a human arm, while the other subjects had died.
• Wang Pan returned to the Scripture Repository to study more, then went to Kun Palace and took out his anger on Empress Dugu.
• Wang Pan declared himself magnanimous and said he forgave the Great Qian Emperor.

Wang Pan accompanied Empress Dugu to the Autumn Hunt, where the Great Qian Emperor formally bestowed the Azure Ox upon her. As the emperor appeared before the assembled officials and soldiers, the surge of Humanity's Destiny strengthened Wang Pan.

• Wang Pan carried Empress Dugu to meet the Great Qian Emperor, who warned him with a show of overwhelming pressure.
• Empress Dugu praised Wang Pan for finding an Ephemeral Bloom and asked the Great Qian Emperor to give the Azure Ox to her.
• The Great Qian Emperor granted Wang Pan to Empress Dugu, and she thanked him for the gift.
• The Great Qian Emperor and Empress Dugu arrived at the Autumn Hunt, where the officials and soldiers greeted them with a resounding cry.
• Humanity's Destiny surged over the Beast Taming Garden, killing minor demons and injuring great demons, while Wang Pan gained another thirty percent strength.

Wang Pan broke through to the Demon King Realm during the Autumn Hunt and took Empress Dugu away to cool off, while Emperor Qian hunted powerful demonic beasts in the Qilian Mountain Range. The chapter ended with Emperor Qian killing Mountain Eagle after revealing his plans and the limits placed on humanity in this world.

• Wang Pan gained control of his Killing Intent and ascended to the Demon King Realm as the Autumn Hunt began.
• Emperor Qian rode Mountain Eagle into the Qilian Mountain Range, while Wang Pan carried Empress Dugu into the forest and then to Skull Mountain.
• Wang Pan and Empress Dugu remained underground for two days before returning to the Beast Taming Garden Training Ground on the morning of the third day.
• Emperor Qian killed hundreds of Demon Kings and seven Demon Saints, saying he was close to success and that humans could not reach the Emperor Realm in this world.
• Mountain Eagle tried to flee after hearing Emperor Qian, but Emperor Qian disintegrated it and took its Essence Blood and Demon Core.

Emperor Qian waited in the Qilian Mountain Range for those sent to test his strength and effortlessly killed six Sage Realm attackers, including the White Lotus Sect Master. After warning the hidden onlookers, he abruptly fled when a shrill voice called out to them.

• The Mysterious Heaven Sect's ancestors discussed Emperor Qian's strength and learned that factions had outsourced the task of testing him.
• Emperor Qian waited in the Qilian Mountain Range until six Sage Realm figures emerged from hiding to attack him.
• Emperor Qian identified Daoist Bai Yun, True Person Chang Xiao, and the White Lotus Sect Master among the attackers.
• The White Lotus Sect Master cursed the other sects for sending him alone, and Emperor Qian killed all six men before they could resist.
• Emperor Qian warned the hidden observers to leave, then panicked and fled when a shrill voice called out.

Emperor Qian left the Qilian Mountain Range, where the demon beast clan revealed its long-running scheme to make him transform into a demon and strip the Human Race of its fortune. At the Beast Taming Garden, Emperor Qian returned to the Autumn Hunt, drawing everyone's attention.

• Emperor Qian cursed the ancient demon beasts, vowed to kill them, and planned to target the White Lotus Sect and take its Holy Maiden.
• Heaven Scorpion rampaged in the Qilian Mountain Range until a centipede and a Golden-haired Roar warned it not to disrupt the Great Venerable's plan.
• The Golden-haired Roar explained that the demon beast clan had planted incomplete records to lure Emperor Qian into believing demon beasts alone could break through to the Emperor Realm.
• The demon beasts' scheme aimed to make Emperor Qian transform into a demon, shifting the world's fortune away from the Human Race; Wang Pan's human form had already strengthened the demon beast clan's fortune.
• Empress Dugu noticed Emperor Qian's return to the Beast Taming Garden's Training Ground, and Wang Pan immediately stopped his secretive antics when he saw him.

After Emperor Qian ordered the White Lotus Sect destroyed, Wang Pan and Empress Dugu received Lin Wuyou, who asked for help marrying Duke An’s eldest daughter. Empress Dugu warned him that the match could make his brothers see him as a rival for the throne, then promised to consider a solution.

• Emperor Qian ordered the Minister of War to destroy the White Lotus Sect within three days and secretly demanded that its Holy Maiden be captured unharmed.
• The army breached the White Lotus Sect’s mountain gate, killed its leaders, suppressed its scattered followers, and captured the Holy Maiden for the palace.
• Lin Wuyou visited Empress Dugu while Wang Pan was with her, and they concealed the sounds of their activity by claiming a servant was slapping herself as punishment.
• Lin Wuyou asked Empress Dugu to help him marry Duke An’s eldest daughter, Lin’er.
• Empress Dugu warned Lin Wuyou that his powerful future father-in-law could make his brothers suspect he coveted the throne, then told him she would think of a way to help.

After three years of study, Wang Pan returned to Kun Palace to ask Empress Dugu for materials to practice artifact refinement, despite their unresolved quarrel. He intended to make his own Transverse Bone and ox horns into a Natal Divine Weapon, but the chapter ended as he embraced Empress Dugu from behind.

• Empress Dugu beat Wang Pan after he tried to explain himself, and he fled Kun Palace.
• Wang Pan studied ancient texts for three years while the Tiger Demon maimed its own lesser demons and Heaven Scorpion drove Emperor Qian from the Qilian Mountain Range.
• Empress Dugu grew irritable over Wang Pan's absence, while Great Qian remained stable after the White Lotus Sect's destruction.
• Wang Pan secretly beat the Dugu Family, including its spirit dogs, and Empress Dugu rebuked the family when it demanded justice.
• Wang Pan finished studying artifact refinement and decided to practice with materials from Empress Dugu's private stash before making his Natal Divine Weapon.
• Wang Pan entered Kun Palace, dismissed the attendants, and embraced Empress Dugu from behind.

Empress Dugu secretly weighed whether to discard Wang Pan after using his fortune, but chose to keep their mutually beneficial arrangement. The next morning, Emperor Qian visited Kun Palace, unaware of Wang Pan’s presence, while his own hidden demonification research threatened to expose him.

• Empress Dugu admitted to herself that she had used Wang Pan for his fortune and that he had become unnecessary, but she decided to keep him because she enjoyed their arrangement.
• Wang Pan and Empress Dugu spent the morning together until Maidservant warned that Emperor Qian had arrived outside Kun Palace.
• Wang Pan reverted to his Azure Ox form and hid behind a folding screen while Empress Dugu composed herself before Emperor Qian entered.
• Emperor Qian praised Azure Ox for keeping Empress Dugu cheerful, unaware of the secret between them.
• Emperor Qian concealed the dark golden scales from his demonification research and recalled killing the White Lotus Saintess to protect his secret.

Emperor Qian rewarded Wang Pan with a Demon Saint’s Demon Core for making Empress Dugu happy. After Emperor Qian left, Wang Pan asked Empress Dugu for help obtaining materials and a Natal Divine Weapon, then continued their private intimacy.

• Empress Dugu praised Wang Pan for making her happy, and Emperor Qian summoned Wang Pan to reward him.
• Wang Pan modestly declined credit, but accepted a precious Demon Core from Emperor Qian.
• Emperor Qian departed after teasing Empress Dugu and Wang Pan about balancing work and rest.
• Wang Pan asked Empress Dugu to let him use her artifact-forging materials, and she offered to have the Artifact Forging Department make his weapon instead.
• Empress Dugu agreed to arrange the weapon, and Wang Pan seized the moment to resume their intimacy despite her protests.

Wang Pan reached Skyfire City with Empress Dugu’s decree and sought the Artifact Forging Department to have a divine weapon made. The artifact forger recognized the unusual formations on Wang Pan’s horns and asked to keep them, offering to forge a weapon from Haotian Gold instead.

• After beating Empress Dugu, Wang Pan left Kun Palace with her written decree and traveled to Skyfire City.
• Wang Pan released his Demonic Qi to attract attention, then showed the soldiers Empress Dugu’s decree and waited for verification.
• A Human King gave Wang Pan a passage token and led him through the volcano’s grand formation to the Artifact Forging Department.
• The Department Head introduced Wang Pan to a short, sturdy artifact forger, who asked him to demonstrate his combat techniques and inspected his Transverse Bone and ox horns.
• The artifact forger discovered formations naturally inscribed on Wang Pan’s horns and offered Haotian Gold in exchange for them.

Wang Pan received a divine sword forged from his ox horns, transverse bone, and blood, then named it the King Pan Sword. He stayed in the Special Simulation World to investigate Empress Dugu, Emperor Qian, and the demon beast race after suspecting Empress Dugu had approached him for some unknown benefit.

• The artifact refiner refused to trade for Wang Pan's ox horns and transverse bone and took them into the forging chamber.
• The artifact refiner used Wang Pan's blood to forge the materials into a sword and refined its appearance by heating and hammering it.
• Wang Pan named the weapon the King Pan Sword and branded his divine soul mark into it.
• Wang Pan decided to remain in the Special Simulation World to investigate Empress Dugu, Emperor Qian, and the demon beast race.
• Wang Pan suspected Empress Dugu's sudden change in attitude was driven by a benefit she gained from him, but he could not determine what it was.

Wang Pan spent seven years strengthening himself while keeping his perfected demon-beast Shape-shifting technique secret. Empress Dugu poisoned demon beasts with the Demon Poison Flower to make Emperor Qian die if he transformed into a demon, while the surviving Demon Emperors discovered and destroyed the poisoned corpses.

• Wang Pan returned to the Qian Capital, studied ancient texts, refined Emperor Qian's Demon Saint inner core, and secretly perfected the demon-beast Shape-shifting technique.
• Several thousand minor demons isolated themselves after the Shape-shifting technique weakened them and brought them into conflict with other demon beasts.
• After finding records about humans transforming into demons, Empress Dugu suspected Emperor Qian planned to become a demon and prepared the Demon Poison Flower from her treasury.
• During the Autumn Hunt, Empress Dugu poisoned demon beasts in the Qilian Mountain Range, causing thirteen Demon Kings and one Demon Saint to vanish.
• Empress Dugu realized the pollen would lie dormant in Emperor Qian after he used poisoned demon beasts' Essence Blood and Demon Cores, then become lethal if he transformed into a demon.
• Heaven Scorpion burned the rotting corpses of several hundred Demon Kings, while Golden-haired Roar identified the cause as the Demon Poison Flower.

Emperor Qian used the imperial Clan Elders to test his plan to transform into a demon, while secretly cultivating the Heavenly Demon Scripture and investigating the apparent conspiracy behind the Demon Transformation Technique. He left the decoy Blood Pool beneath Qian Palace and traveled to a hidden chamber beneath a volcano in Skyfire City to continue his preparations.

• Great Qian's imperial Clan Elders agreed to become demons after a fellow elder died and their fear of death overcame their objections.
• Emperor Qian used the elders as experimental subjects while preparing superior demonic beast essence blood and Demon Cores for his own transformation.
• Emperor Qian revealed that he had stopped his completed Demon Transformation Technique at the last moment because he suspected a conspiracy, and said he had created the Heavenly Demon Scripture from its inspiration.
• Emperor Qian said the Scripture's eleventh level let him challenge Demon Emperors and that transformation would let him cultivate its twelfth level to face the ancient Demon Emperors in the Qilian Mountain Range.
• Emperor Qian left the Blood Pool beneath Qian Palace, which he had set up as a decoy, and appeared deep inside a volcano in Skyfire City.
• Emperor Qian used a crimson phoenix-spine divine weapon to reach a heatless hidden space beneath the volcano's lava.

Emperor Qian completed his demon transformation using the Ten Thousand Demons Pool, but discovered that it had cost humanity its destiny and left him poisoned. Determined to fight for humanity despite his impending death, he revealed the demon beast race’s plot to the human Sages.

• Emperor Qian placed the Essence Blood and Demon Cores of more than a hundred Demon Kings and Demon Saints into the pool beneath the Phoenix’s remains, where the Phoenix blood subdued their violent auras.
• A year later, Empress Dugu warned Wang Pan to stay in the Library Pavilion and avoid the Qilian Mountain Range.
• Three days later, Emperor Qian transformed into a demon, reached the limit of the Emperor Realm, and flew out of the volcano as a phoenix bird.
• Emperor Qian realized that Humanity’s Destiny had collapsed because the demon beast race had devoured its favor, and he discovered that poison would kill him within ten years.
• Emperor Qian stormed into the major sects and clans to tell the Sages about the demon beast race’s plot, and they cursed him for endangering humanity’s future.

Emperor Qian rallied Great Qian’s ancient powers to prepare for war against the demonic beasts, offering them the Demon Transformation Technique and the empire’s secret resources. After Empress Dugu revealed her hidden strength and confessed she had poisoned him, they prepared to carve a path for humanity despite their coming deaths.

• Emperor Qian gave the patriarchs the Demon Transformation Technique, opened Great Qian’s Secret Vault, and gave them three years to prepare for war.
• Emperor Qian told the royal Clan Elders he would unite humanity against the demonic beasts, and Empress Dugu killed the Clan Elder who opposed the plan.
• Emperor Qian purged unrest across Great Qian and told Empress Dugu to take the Last Spark of Humanity and flee when he went to war.
• Empress Dugu revealed she had poisoned Emperor Qian and unleashed her concealed power, which rivaled his strength before he transformed into a demon.
• Empress Dugu regretted that she had failed to kill Emperor Qian, while he left Kun Palace knowing he had little time to live.

Wang Pan declared his loyalty to humanity and underwent a breakthrough after Empress Dugu told him that demon beasts had taken humanity’s Fortune. As demon beasts prepared to dominate the world, human forces slaughtered demon beasts in the Tongtian Mountain Range to strengthen themselves.

• A Seven-Colored Phoenix Bird slept inside a volcano in the Qilian Mountain Range as Geomantic Fire repaired its damaged origin.
• Empress Dugu told Wang Pan that Emperor Qian had become a demon and that demon beasts had devoured humanity’s Fortune; Wang Pan declared that he was human and would face death for humanity.
• Wang Pan awakened the Humanity's Way Intent, which consumed his Life and Death Intent and Slaughter Intent, and his cultivation rose to Demon King Peak.
• Empress Dugu praised Wang Pan’s resolve, and he explained that every version of himself was genuine; she then accepted him as her man.
• Wang Pan spread the demon beast Shape-shifting art and became known as the Demon Master, while Demon Emperors in the Qilian Mountain Range celebrated their plans for the demon beast race.
• Human experts slaughtered demon beasts across the Tongtian Mountain Range and gathered their Essence Blood and Demon Cores at its Heavenly Lake.

Humanity launched its decisive battle against the beasts in the Qilian Mountain Range, deploying its awakened reserves and every available legion. Wang Pan and other human powerhouses fought overwhelming enemy numbers as the battle raged on.

• The sects, clans, and faiths awakened their Sage Realm reserves, while Great Qian secretly sent a few selected people away under Emperor Qian's orders.
• Three years later, Emperor Qian led Human Kings and Sage Realm experts into the Qilian Mountain Range, followed by Great Qian's armies.
• Human powerhouses who had used Emperor Qian's Demon Transformation Technique and Wang Pan's Beast-to-Human Transformation Technique fought in human form against the vastly more numerous beasts.
• Wang Pan split a toad Demon Saint's tongue, then killed it with a strike of Humanity's Way before turning to fight another Demon Saint.
• A blood-red crow killed several human powerhouses with sonic waves and began refining their blood, but a dark-gold arrow pierced its shield and head, killing it.

Emperor Qian fought Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors, refusing their offer to join the demonic beasts. After revealing his Phoenix True Flame, he was caught by the crimson roots’ weakening effect, and the Demon Emperors launched a renewed attack.

• Wang Pan saved an elderly Human King from a Demon King, but the Human King was soon killed by demonic beasts.
• Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors tried to recruit Emperor Qian, then resolved to surround and kill him when he refused.
• Emperor Qian used the Phoenix True Flame to destroy the mountain-sized insect’s poisonous mist and scorch Heaven Scorpion’s stinger, making the Demon Emperors hesitate.
• Crimson roots wrapped around the Demon Emperors and weakened the Phoenix True Flame, prompting them to attack Emperor Qian with their divine weapons and abilities.
• Emperor Qian mounted Heaven Scorpion and struck it with his fists, then vanished from its stinger’s attack and punched out one of Golden-haired Roar’s fangs.

Emperor Qian turned the battle in the Qilian Mountain Range by scattering the demonic beasts, then fought the Demon Emperors and plunged into the Giant Worm to destroy it from within. Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors watched, waiting for Emperor Qian to weaken.

• Emperor Qian unleashed the Phoenix Fate Wheel, Burning Heaven, killing hundreds of Demon Saints and over a thousand Demon Kings and sending the surviving beasts and humans fleeing.
• Wang Pan fled with the human sages and Human Kings as Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors chased Emperor Qian, crushing anyone caught in their battle’s aftershocks.
• The Giant Worm struck Emperor Qian with its tail, but the Phoenix True Flame burned through its wound and kept it from healing.
• The Giant Worm formed a Purple Lightning Ball and spat it at Emperor Qian, who shattered the Phoenix Fate Wheel’s power within himself and charged through the attack.
• Emperor Qian transformed into a phoenix and plunged into the Giant Worm’s body, while Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors refused to help.

Emperor Qian nearly completed Phoenix Nirvana, but the four Demon Emperors attacked and Golden-haired Roar killed him. The Willow Tree absorbed his essence, survived the Demon Poison Flower’s poison, and ascended to the Demon Sovereign Realm as heaven and earth celebrated.

• Emperor Qian used Phoenix Nirvana inside the Giant Worm, while Golden-haired Roar and the other Demon Emperors tore the worm apart and attacked his cocoon.
• The four Demon Emperors struck Emperor Qian’s cocoon with their strongest abilities, interrupting his nirvana before it could finish.
• Golden-haired Roar killed the wounded Emperor Qian, but roots emerged from the ground and consumed his corpse and the Giant Worm’s body before the Demon Emperors could claim them.
• The Willow Tree recognized that Emperor Qian’s essence carried Demon Poison Flower poison and severed the contaminated Aerial Roots, losing roughly one-tenth of them.
• The Willow Tree announced that its reserves were sufficient, and a world-spanning rain and celestial celebration marked its emergence as a Demon Sovereign.