Chapter Summaries

Tao Yu rescued the cruise ship passengers, exposed the CIA-linked kidnapping scheme, and killed Ah Kau’s group with the Basilisk before confronting General Mather over the recorded footage. After arriving in Tokyo, Tao Yu gathered supporters for his next video and prepared to explore the city before turning his attention to America.

• Tao Yu used the Basilisk to destroy the attackers’ boats, while MacDonald confessed that the CIA had funded the kidnapping and planned to test and recruit Fu Kwong.
• Ferrari’s plot against Tao Yu was exposed by First Love, and Wong Sai Fu killed Ferrari with insecticide; Ah Kau and the zombie fled but the Basilisk swallowed them.
• General Mather demanded Tao Yu’s original video, threatened to ruin his title, then backed down when Tao Yu warned him to consult his superior.
• The cruise ship reached Tokyo, where Ko Chun agreed to promote Tao Yu’s videos and Chow Sing-cho and Chan Ka-kui agreed to accompany Tao Yu to America.
• Tao Yu noticed Tokyo’s lingering baleful energy, learned that Shohoku had eliminated the defending basketball champions, and began preparing his next video.

Hagoromo Gitsune and the Nura Clan learned of Tao Yu’s power as he arrived in Tokyo, while Dumbledore appointed him to lead a new supernatural investigation team. Tao Yu agreed to an alliance with the Nura Clan, then captured and incapacitated Hagoromo Gitsune’s spy, Ao Jizo.

• Hagoromo Gitsune watched footage of Tao Yu and the Basilisk, then ordered her followers to observe him rather than provoke him.
• Nura Rikuo and Nura Hyō discussed Tao Yu’s abilities and the growing supernatural threat, and Nura Hyō advised Rikuo to contact him.
• Tao Yu accepted Dumbledore’s appointment to lead the joint investigation team and signed the magical contract.
• Karasu Tengu invited Tao Yu to form an alliance with the Nura Clan, and Tao Yu agreed to discuss the terms with Nura Rikuo in person.
• Tao Yu detected an unseen watcher and sent a Dementor after him while the Basilisk ambushed Ao Jizo and shattered his soul.
• The Dementor reached the injured Ao Jizo and began drawing out what remained of his soul.

After killing Ao Jizo, Tao Yu brought Hagoromo Gitsune and the Nura Clan together, removed Seimei’s influence from her, and warned them that Seimei planned to resurrect through an uncanny creature. The Nura Clan tracked the creature’s spreading fragments to a basketball near the recovering Sakuragi Hanamichi, where Karasu Tengu stopped it before it could control him.

• Hagoromo Gitsune and the Nura Clan arrived at Tao Yu’s hotel to seek his support, and Tao Yu proposed peaceful coexistence between humans and yokai.
• Tao Yu used Obliviate to remove Seimei’s reinforced obsession from Hagoromo Gitsune, then destroyed Seimei’s exposed soul fragment and warned the Nura Clan to search for his resurrection scheme.
• Hagoromo Gitsune agreed to restrain her subordinates, while Tao Yu told the Nura Clan that Seimei was likely seeking an uncanny creature to inhabit.
• While Sakuragi Hanamichi recovered from his basketball injury, he and his friends discussed Tao Yu’s videos and rumors of supernatural incidents.
• A strange basketball intensified Sakuragi’s desire to play and eased his pain, but Karasu Tengu pinned it with his weapon and identified it as a fragment of a spreading supernatural entity.

Tao Yu tracked Seimei to the Imperial Palace and livestreamed his attempt to confront him, but officials and protesters delayed his entry until Seimei unleashed a deadly domain over Tokyo. Tao Yu defeated Seimei with the Killing Curse, shattered the domain, and left the survivors watching the world return to normal.

• Tao Yu used the bizarre objects and divination methods to locate Seimei at the Imperial Palace, then began livestreaming his approach.
• Japanese officials and protesters tried to stop Tao Yu from entering the Imperial Palace, despite his warning that Seimei could attack.
• Seimei activated a blood-red domain that drained vitality from people and damaged objects across the area, then struck at Tao Yu.
• Tao Yu withstood Seimei's attack and fired the Killing Curse, which grew stronger as Seimei repeatedly used people as substitutes.
• Tao Yu's Killing Curse struck Seimei, causing the domain to collapse, and Tao Yu captured Seimei's red spectral form in a golden film.

After revealing the Wizarding World and asking for gold to seal paranormal entities, Tao Yu openly set out to retrieve America’s reserves. When General Mather attacked his ghost ship, Tao Yu used Seimei’s power to destroy the missiles and split Mather’s flagship.

• Japan’s interim cabinet apologized to Tao Yu after Seimei’s spirit domain devastated Tokyo, and Tao Yu introduced Dumbledore to the public as the president of the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Tao Yu explained that wizards needed gold to seal paranormal entities and argued that America’s roughly ten thousand tons of gold could be borrowed for that purpose.
• Tao Yu assimilated the spirit-domain entities belonging to Seimei and Fu Kwong, gaining control of their powers.
• Tao Yu appeared over Tokyo Bay aboard the ghost ship and announced that he would cross the ocean to retrieve gold from America.
• General Mather ordered warships and aircraft to block Tao Yu, then launched cruise missiles at the ghost ship.
• Tao Yu froze and detonated the missiles with Seimei’s power, then struck Mather’s flagship with an invisible force and split it in two.

Tao Yu crippled America's nuclear arsenal after its leaders threatened him, then exposed their false-flag nuclear attack on San Francisco and their attempt to blame the wizards. As Tao Yu's reputation soared and the gold he sought became easier to claim, Yang Jian worried about a supernatural video while awaiting a school lecture on supernatural threats.

• After American warships attacked him, Tao Yu destroyed those that had launched missiles, accepted the crews' surrender, and flew toward America aboard the ghost ship with his group.
• Tao Yu rejected America's demands to negotiate, and wizards seized most of its nuclear bases, though three sites protected by Ghost Controllers remained difficult to take.
• Tao Yu landed in San Francisco, where American leaders detonated a nuclear bomb and blamed the wizards, unaware that Tao Yu had survived using a magical projection.
• Tao Yu appeared at the press conference, subdued a Ghost Controller, and forced the spokesperson and officials to confess that they had planned the false-flag attack.
• News of the exposed plot stirred outrage, while Tao Yu's standing improved and claiming the gold became easier.
• At Dachang City No. 7 Middle School, Zhang Wei watched the news and reassured Yang Jian, who feared a deleted Ghost Knocking video might have been supernatural, before a special department's safety lecture.

During Zhou Zheng’s safety lesson, a ghost domain trapped Dachang No. 7 Middle School, and Luo Wensong’s Ghost Knocking threatened the students. Tao Yu arrived after Zhang Wei called for help, saved Zhou Zheng with a Golden Battle Suit that suppressed his ghost, and sealed Luo Wensong’s corpse.

• Zhou Zheng warned the students that controlling ghosts was dangerous, while Fang Jing volunteered to become a Ghost Controller.
• A black-robed old man appeared and spread a ghost domain through the school; after his knocking caused a student to collapse, Yang Jian identified the knocking as a likely trigger.
• Zhang Wei begged Tao Yu for help through his livestream, while Zhou Zheng restrained the old man long enough for the students to flee the classroom.
• Tao Yu arrived at the school, where Fang Jing’s human-skin paper announced the descent of the King of Ten Thousand Bizarre.
• Tao Yu created a Golden Battle Suit from Zhou Zheng’s reserved gold, suppressing the ghost inside him and allowing him to seize Luo Wensong.
• Tao Yu spread his ghost domain and sealed Luo Wensong’s corpse in layers of golden film, then told Zhou Zheng he could keep the suit if he wished.

After resolving the incident at Dachang No. 7 Middle School, Tao Yu took the Human Skin Paper from Fang Jing and traveled with Zhou Zheng to Huanggang Village, where he captured the Ghost Messenger and found Feng Quan alive. Wang Xiaoming and Old Qin then arrived to meet Tao Yu, who agreed to work toward ending the supernatural catastrophe.

• Zhou Zheng reported that Tao Yu had resolved the Ghost Domain incident and that the Golden Battle Suit had stopped his supernatural revival.
• Tao Yu took the Human Skin Paper from Fang Jing after it revealed that it had lied to him, while Zhou Zheng restrained Fang Jing.
• Tao Yu and Zhou Zheng discussed headquarters’ request to meet and set out for Huanggang Village to deal with the Ghost Messenger.
• Tao Yu found Feng Quan inside the Ghost Coffin, captured the Ghost Messenger, and explained that it was crucial to resolving the supernatural chaos.
• Wang Xiaoming and Old Qin arrived in Dachang, and Wang Xiaoming thanked Tao Yu for choosing to save the world and offered headquarters’ cooperation.

Tao Yu explained that the supernatural world overlapped with the Real World and drew the portals together to confront their source. After defeating Voldemort and sealing the opening with the Human Emperor Golden Book, Tao Yu used the supernatural world as an anchor to begin the Sixth Secret Realm, All Selves Return to One, and drew power from 129,600 Abyssal Evil Gods.

• Wang Xiaoming examined Tao Yu's Golden Battle Suit as Tao Yu livestreamed an explanation of how it could regulate supernatural energy.
• Tao Yu revealed that the supernatural world was a parallel realm seeping into the Real World, then gathered its passages around the Yin-Yang Path in Dachang City.
• Tao Yu opened the golden gate, exposing an Abyss-corrupted supernatural world, and Voldemort emerged, empowered by fear spreading across the world.
• Tao Yu summoned the Human Emperor Golden Book, overwhelmed Voldemort, and sealed the opening as viewers' faith flowed to him.
• Tao Yu's true body began the Sixth Secret Realm, All Selves Return to One, and synchronized with 129,600 Abyssal Evil Gods, gaining power and a higher perspective.
• The seven God Kings sensed Tao Yu probing their projections and discussed the arrival of a new God King.

After reaching the Sixth Mystic Realm, Tao Yu considered absorbing the True Realm and ultimately making the Abyss his own, while preparing safeguards against the True Realm’s powerful inhabitants. In the Real World, his influence expanded after the Purification Hall’s defeat, and envoys from all seven Divine Kings arrived to invite the power backing the Oldest One to visit the Temple of Gods.

• Tao Yu assessed his new realm, considered ending the Abyss by absorbing worlds, and began preparing reservoirs of Abyssal power near the True Realm as a contingency.
• After the Purification Hall was destroyed, the Oldest One’s sphere of influence spread across the Real World’s heartland, and neighboring factions submitted as vassals.
• Ming Xin arrived in the Imperial Capital with gifts from the Wheel of Life and accepted the Glory Empire’s ordinary reception procedures without complaint.
• Ming Xin saw seven warships bearing the sigils of the Divine Kings arrive together, initially fearing the Oldest One had provoked them.
• The seven envoys congratulated the Oldest One and invited the powerful figure behind him to visit the Temple of Gods, stunning the gods in the city.

Tao Yu returned to the Real World and was recognized by the Seven God Kings' envoys as the God King known as the Oldest One. Meanwhile, the God Kings discussed the Dark Heavenly Court's growing threat and the Azure Emperor's latest assault, and they anticipated Tao Yu's arrival.

• Tao Yu used his new status and the Real World as an anchor to open a stable passage through the chaotic void, then traveled to the world linked to Earth's Samsara Seal.
• Ming Xin told the Imperial Capital that the Dark Heavenly Court could organize Dark Immortal Kings into an army, while the God Kings and nearby worlds struggled to contain them.
• Tao Yu emerged above the Imperial Capital, and the World Will recognized him and withdrew its suppressive force.
• The envoys from the Seven God Kings sensed Tao Yu's overwhelming status and welcomed him as the God King, the Oldest One.
• The Seven God Kings discussed how the Azure Emperor had grown stronger and how the Dark Heavenly Court was expanding its attacks beyond the worlds' protection.
• The Seven God Kings received news of the Oldest One's return and wondered how much he had grown.

After ascending as the eighth God King, Tao Yu learned that the Dark Heavenly Court had grown more dangerous and joined the effort to stop it. He used Human Dao power to project the Human Emperor Sword across the outer sea, rescuing a besieged group of Main Gods and making himself the Dark Heavenly Court’s chief obstacle.

• Tao Yu appeared before the world as the new God King, and the seven existing God Kings welcomed him into the Council of Eight Kings.
• Primordial and the other God Kings explained their alliance against the Dark Heavenly Court and described how the Azure Emperor had overwhelmed an ambush led by the Nefei Realm’s Supreme Main Gods.
• Tao Yu questioned the God Kings about the Supreme Main Gods’ power, then agreed that concept gods should be sent to confront the Azure Emperor.
• Dark Immortal Kings lured the Rainbow Venerable and eight other Main Gods into a trap by attacking the Rainbow Venerable’s divine realm and ambushing the reinforcements.
• Tao Yu sent a projection of the Human Emperor Sword across the outer sea, used the Nine Divine Kingdoms’ Human Dao power to form the Zhu Xian Sword Array, and trapped the attacking Dark Immortal Kings.
• The God Kings praised Tao Yu’s long-range intervention, which raised morale in the outer sea and made him the Dark Heavenly Court’s most troublesome enemy.

After rescuing nine main gods, Tao Yu and the Demon Emperor lured out Dark Immortal Kings and rushed to aid their allies fighting the Azure Emperor. The battle turned into a confrontation with three powerful rulers of the Dark Heavenly Court: Azure Emperor, Emperor Hong, and Emperor Yu.

• Nine main gods thanked Tao Yu for saving them, and the Demon Emperor told him that Nefei Realm was watching his rise as a God King.
• Tao Yu and the Demon Emperor patrolled the Endless Sea, killing a Dark Immortal King and leaving time for him to send word to the Dark Heavenly Court.
• The Enlightened summoned Tao Yu and the Demon Emperor to help Primordial and God of Wealth, who were battling the Azure Emperor far from the Abyss Great Wall.
• The Pillar of Heaven God King and the Demon Venerable joined the fight, and the Demon Emperor summoned God of Luck, surrounding the Azure Emperor with six God Kings and three supreme Conceptual Gods.
• God of Luck dispelled a hidden karmic attack, and Emperor Hong appeared beside the Azure Emperor.
• Emperor Yu arrived with a bloodied spear, completing a three-sided attack with Azure Emperor and Emperor Hong.

Tao Yu questioned the God Kings and uncovered the Enlightened’s scheme to exploit the World Will’s injury and divide its authority. When the Dark Quasi-Emperors demanded his submission, Tao Yu opened a new world within the Abyss and killed Emperor Yu with one sword strike, leaving Emperor Hong pleading for rescue as a terrifying presence threatened to break in.

• Emperor Yu offered to let the God Kings withdraw, while Primordial and Demon Venerable declared they would leave and the others debated their next move.
• Tao Yu asked how the Dark Quasi-Emperors had found them, and Emperor Yu revealed that people in several worlds had conspired with them.
• Tao Yu identified the Enlightened as the God King who had helped arrange the attack, and the Enlightened admitted he intended to divide the World Will’s authority among the God Kings.
• The God Kings accepted that they would have to pursue a share of the World Will’s power, while Primordial and the Enlightened urged Tao Yu to kowtow to Emperor Yu.
• Tao Yu drew the Human Emperor Sword and reshaped the Abyss into a world under his dominion, shocking the God Kings and the three Dark Quasi-Emperors.
• Tao Yu killed Emperor Yu with a single sword strike, and Emperor Hong called for help as a terrifying presence began trying to enter Tao Yu’s world.

Tao Yu defeated Emperor Yu, Emperor Hong, Azure Emperor, Primordial, and the sentient Enlightened, but Elder World-Destroyer attacked from the Abyss and was ultimately dragged away by a tentacled force before the Corpse Immortal Emperor intervened. Back at the Temple of Gods, Tao Yu learned that the God of Death, Chaos, and Stargazer had also been captured, leaving the surviving God Kings to face a powerful enemy in the Abyss.

• The Demon Emperor, Demon Venerable, Pillar of Heaven God King, and three Conceptual Gods sided against Primordial and the Enlightened as Tao Yu's created world came under attack from Elder World-Destroyer.
• Tao Yu killed Emperor Hong and Azure Emperor with a sword strike, and Elder World-Destroyer destroyed Tao Yu's world and tried to devour everyone present.
• Tentacles formed from disorder overwhelmed Elder World-Destroyer, but the Corpse Immortal Emperor struck from the void and dragged him away in chains.
• Tao Yu killed Primordial after he dispersed his own True Spirit and erased the Enlightened's information, memories, and legends; the remaining God Kings returned with Tao Yu to the Temple of Gods.
• The World Will showed that the God of Death, Chaos, and Stargazer had been bound by chains of dark Dao and taken away for refinement.

After four God Kings fell, Tao Yu explained the Dark Immortal Emperor’s condition and kept the Outer Sea gods from retreating, while neighboring realms sought his protection. As he consolidated his power through wish energy, envoys from nearby worlds arrived, and he wondered what was accelerating the True Realm’s development.

• Tao Yu and the other three God Kings addressed the gods, and Tao Yu stopped the Main Gods from abandoning the Outer Sea.
• Tao Yu explained that the Dark Immortal Emperor had been corrupted by the Abyss and that his restored Primordial Spirit allowed him to retain consciousness.
• The Dark Heavenly Court eased its pressure on the Xuan Realm and attacked nearby worlds, prompting some gods to consider selling their holdings or secretly praying to the 'Oldest One.'
• The High Gods of the Nefei Realm discussed Tao Yu’s growing influence and decided to send an emissary to him and involve other realms.
• Tao Yu absorbed wish power, assessed the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s plans, and wondered what was accelerating the True Realm before envoys arrived.

Tao Yu rebuffed envoys from the Nefei and Broken Realms who objected to his growing worship, then learned that the Nefei Supreme Main Gods were preparing to exploit the Xuan Realm’s weakness. In the True Realm, the Human Emperor’s Alternate Self Clone watched as the world’s powers stirred and sensed a change in his other self.

• Fen Xin and Dark Shadow arrived at the Temple of Gods with gifts and raised the spread of worship for the “Oldest One,” citing an agreement protecting each realm’s faith.
• Tao Yu said he had never signed the agreement and openly welcomed the envoys to preach, then gave them new realm charters to deliver.
• After Fen Xin and Dark Shadow departed, the Nefei Supreme Main Gods condemned Tao Yu and discussed waiting for the Dark Heavenly Court to attack the weakened Xuan Realm before taking advantage of the conflict.
• Tao Yu judged that the Nefei Supreme Main Gods were cautious and planned to make the True Realm his core as he pursued the Seventh Secret Realm and All Realms Unite.
• In the True Realm, Tao Yu’s Alternate Self Clone discussed the world’s changes with the Azure Bird as Meng Qi reached Dharmakaya and rumors of Celestial Immortals spread overseas.
• Tao Yu’s other-self aura rippled, and the Azure Bird sensed the change and bowed her head further.

Tao Yu secured an alliance with the Golden Emperor after she revealed her plans involving the Three Pure Ones and Meng Qi. Later, Meng Qi brought Tao Yu information about the Investiture of the Gods and its holder, Lu Ya, while Tao Yu considered his next move.

• Tao Yu summoned the Azure Bird's true form and insisted she visit him immediately, then learned that the woman who came was the Golden Emperor.
• The Golden Emperor asked Tao Yu to ally with her and stay out of her contest with Meng Qi, promising to spare Meng Qi's True Spirit and revealing that she had disguised herself as Venerable Lingbao after the Heavenly Court battle.
• Tao Yu agreed to the alliance, and the Golden Emperor asked whether he planned to compete for a Dao Fruit; he said he had his own Dao and would not pursue the True Realm's Dao Fruit.
• Meng Qi arrived in the Divine Capital and told Tao Yu that Lu Ya held the Investiture of the Gods, which could be used to control those listed within it.
• Meng Qi explained that he had bargained with Lu Ya to recover three friends' True Spirits, and Tao Yu thanked him for the information because the Investiture was important to his next step.

Tao Yu took Meng Qi and the others toward the Nine Heavens to retrieve the Haotian Mirror fragment, but the Peerless Demon Lord confronted them at the Ice Snow Immortal Palace. Tao Yu knocked the Demon Lord into the Jade Pool and reshaped the realm to contain his power, leaving the revived Demon Lord trapped and facing Tao Yu’s strange authority.

• Tao Yu discussed recruiting Human Dao power to rebuild the Nine Heavens and asked Meng Qi about the God-Beating Whip and Zhenwu’s Mausoleum.
• Meng Qi explained that Lu Ya had sent him to retrieve a Haotian Mirror fragment from the Jade Pool, and Tao Yu decided to join him.
• Tao Yu transported the Imperial Garden to the Ice Snow Immortal Palace, where he exposed and challenged the Peerless Demon Lord inside a bronze coffin.
• Tao Yu knocked the bronze coffin into the Jade Pool and followed it, prompting the Demon Lord to revive and unleash his demonic power.
• Tao Yu analyzed the Jade Pool, restored and sealed its damaged space, and absorbed the Demon Lord’s demonic qi, leaving the realm under his control.

Tao Yu defeated and replaced the Demon Lord, moved Jade Pool into the Divine Capital, and prepared with Meng Qi to pursue the Investiture of the Gods. When a Heavenly Immortal envoy arrived with an invitation to Golden Ao Island, Tao Yu crushed it and ordered the island master to come pay his respects and beg forgiveness.

• Tao Yu sealed Jade Pool, destroyed the Demon Lord with Human Dao power, and recreated him as an Alternate Self Clone.
• Tao Yu let Meng Qi and Gao Lan take treasures from Jade Pool, then moved the realm into the imperial palace of the Divine Capital.
• Tao Yu and Meng Qi discussed using the Haotian Mirror fragments and God-Beating Whip to seize the Investiture of the Gods from Lu Ya.
• Tao Yu sensed Heavenly Immortal envoys visiting Dharmakaya experts and identified their master as Meishan Great Saint Yuan Hong.
• A Heavenly Immortal envoy delivered an invitation from Golden Ao Island, but Gao Lan and Tao Yu forced him to kneel before the imperial palace.
• Tao Yu crushed the invitation and ordered the island master to come in person, pay his respects, and beg forgiveness.