Chapter Summaries

Gu Qingshan learned that demons would invade the Human Realm after its guardian barrier fell, while Yellow Springs could provide no force capable of stopping them. As the worlds prepared to fuse, time was intercepted around him, and two cards in his Sea of Consciousness began to tremble.

• Mountain Girl appeared in the Human Realm, introduced herself as Gu Qingshan’s sword spirit, and learned that he had dealt with the crisis in Hell.
• Demons appeared above human cities as the World Guardian Barrier weakened, and the Goddess of Justice warned that it would vanish in one hour.
• The Forgetfulness River Soul Separation Hook revealed that the gods had abandoned the world and that Yellow Springs lacked enough fighters to stop the demons.
• The president and Queen Valona prepared to rally humanity, while Gu Qingshan found no way to defeat the approaching demons.
• The War God Operating Interface announced that Yellow Springs reinforcements would arrive when the worlds fused, but the Forgetfulness River Soul Separation Hook said they had no machines able to handle a Demon God.
• Time stopped around Gu Qingshan and his companions, while Mountain Girl said someone had deliberately used Time Interception and Gu Qingshan’s Revenge Card Set, Great Ghost General and Revenge Card Set, Asura King began to tremble.

Gu Qingshan kept the Red-Robed God talking while the Asura King prepared the Four Realms Contract using the thirteen sacrificed commanders’ Soul Contracts. When the God tried to kill Gu Qingshan, the skeletons appeared and the Asura King bound him with the Punishment Barrier.

• The Asura King asked Gu Qingshan to stall the Red-Robed God while he activated the Four Realms Contract, and the Great Ghost General prepared to fight.
• Gu Qingshan welcomed the Red-Robed God, served him wine, and prolonged their conversation as blood-soaked skeletons gathered in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Red-Robed God revealed that he had killed a Hell Ghost King ten thousand years earlier and offered to spare Gu Qingshan in exchange for his secrets.
• Gu Qingshan rejected the offer and said he would keep fighting demons even if he died and remained trapped in the Six Realms.
• The Red-Robed God raised his scepter to kill Gu Qingshan, but all thirteen skeletons appeared and the Asura King invoked the Punishment Barrier to bind him.

Gu Qing Shan helped Lan recognize that rescuing Qing Yin required trapping the gods and countering Time Interception, then watched Lan and Mountain Girl depart for the Heavenly Realm. As monsters threatened the world, the dead arrived from the Yellow Springs, and the Female Asura presented Gu Qing Shan with the Hell-Suppressing Ghost King Scepter to lead their reinforcements.

• The Asura King and Great Ghost General trapped the gods inside an oath barrier, and Lan prepared to rescue Qing Yin.
• Gu Qing Shan explained that they also needed a way to counter Time Interception, then sent Mountain Girl with Lan and his sword to help.
• Time resumed, and Gu Qing Shan saw that Yellow Springs reinforcements had arrived as the world continued to face the apocalypse.
• The Female Asura arrived with the seven leaders of Hell and countless dead, explaining that they had chosen to delay reincarnation and fight alongside Gu Qing Shan.
• The Female Asura gave Gu Qing Shan the Hell-Suppressing Ghost King Scepter, and the dead hailed him as their Ghost King.

Gu Qingshan used the Hell-Suppressing Ghost King Scepter to revive the dead instantly as they fought the first demon god to descend. After the dead devoured it, the demons above grew wary of becoming the next feast.

• The three-headed Black Serpent demon god pierced the world's protective barrier and declared that it would eat all the living.
• Gu Qingshan teleported the demon god to the Plains, where the dead swarmed it and were repeatedly killed by its green flames.
• Gu Qingshan activated the Source of the Dead, allowing the dead to revive on the spot, and the seven commanders realized they could fight without fear of dying.
• The dead overwhelmed and devoured the three-headed demon god, leaving only its bones.
• The dead looked to the sky and called for more food, while the demons fell silent and feared being eaten.

As demons poured through the failing world barrier, the dead devoured them across the Human Realm while Gu Qingshan and his allies waited for the barrier to return. The dead began reincarnating before it could form, leaving the world exposed as the Demon Gods approached and the Fiend Woman mocked Gu Qingshan before departing.

• The dead across the world devoured successive waves of demons that broke through the weakening barrier.
• Gu Qingshan learned that the dead had about five hours before reincarnating, while the barrier would take longer to restore, and warned his allies that the Demon Gods might return in the gap.
• The Federation president, Queen Valona, and the Goddess of Justice coordinated evacuations and moved the dead toward areas with heavy demon activity as everyone waited.
• Gu Qingshan saw that the barrier would form in thirty-seven minutes, but a vast light appeared and the dead began reincarnating.
• The Demon Gods appeared in the sky, and the Fiend Woman mocked Gu Qingshan before reincarnating.

As the dead began reincarnating and abandoning the fight, Gu Qingshan prepared the living for a final battle. The Female Asura showed them a newborn and asked Gu Qingshan whether he would rescue her from Hell; moved by the child and the mother, the remaining dead stayed to consider whether to defend the world until its protective barrier was ready.

• Several of the Ten Great Ones mocked Gu Qingshan and reincarnated, prompting many other dead to leave as their merits dwindled.
• Gu Qingshan ordered the Goddess of Justice to ready every weapon and told the President and Your Majesty to consider national mobilization.
• The Wolf King told Gu Qingshan that he and most of the dead had not left; the Hell-Suppressing Ghost King Scepter showed that eighty percent remained.
• The Female Asura showed the dead a newborn she was protecting and asked Gu Qingshan whether he would save her again if she returned to Hell; Gu Qingshan promised to get her out, even if he had to destroy every layer of Hell.
• The Wolf King said he needed time to decide whether the dead should stay and fight, and agreed to think until the world's protective barrier was ready in twenty-nine minutes and seventeen seconds.

As the New World's protective barrier drove the demons away, the dead earned merit for saving the Six Realms and prepared to reincarnate. The Female Asura stayed behind to duel Gu Qingshan, then departed in the curtain of light after confessing she did not want to forget him.

• Gu Qingshan recorded the demons as the New World's protective barrier unfolded and forced them out of the Human Realm.
• The Personal Merit Calculator canceled the reincarnated dead's merit and awarded the dead who remained merit for saving the Six Realms.
• The dead celebrated their reward and began entering the light to reincarnate, while the Seven Commanders departed from the villa.
• The Female Asura stayed behind to fulfill her promised duel with Gu Qingshan and charged at him without defending herself.
• The Female Asura embraced Gu Qingshan, said she did not want to forget him, and vanished into the curtain of light.

After the dead were reincarnated and the apocalypse vanished, Lan returned with Qing Yin’s soul and reunited with Lan Xiu, his other half. Lan Xiu rescued Qing Yin from the Red-Robed God and prepared to decide how to punish him and repay Gu Qing Shan.

• Anna watched the Female Asura depart and explained to Black Dog that she had let her spend her final moments in peace.
• Gu Qing Shan reassured Ye Feili that keeping his girlfriend in the human world had saved her from demons and spared her a brutal reincarnation.
• Mountain Girl returned with Lan, who confirmed that he had rescued Qing Yin’s soul and used a locator card to summon Lan Xiu.
• Lan merged back into Lan Xiu, who introduced himself as King of the Tian Lan Empire and thanked Gu Qing Shan for helping save Qing Yin.
• Lan Xiu used the Tian Lan Empire’s cards to seize the Red-Robed God and pull the oath barrier and its fighters into his world.
• Lan Xiu said he would consider how to ease Qing Yin’s pain and how to repay Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan received Qing Yin’s Fate Prediction Card and learned that the fusion of the Human Realm and Yellow Springs World was about to disrupt time and draw powerful beings’ attention to him. He explained his travels and the dangers to his companions before preparing to leave for another world.

• Qing Yin gave Gu Qing Shan her Fate Prediction Card, and Lan Xiu gave him a badge containing a route to the Tian Lan Empire.
• Lan Xiu left through the Void rift as the two worlds’ fusion changed the sky and increased the world’s spiritual energy.
• The War God Operating Interface warned Gu Qing Shan that the worlds’ internal laws were about to fuse, exposing his unusual temporal fluctuations to powerful gods and devils.
• Gu Qing Shan told his companions about the Cultivation World and a stronger world with realms beyond Sainthood.
• With three minutes remaining before he had to leave, Gu Qing Shan reassured Anna that he would hide in the other world during the fusion.

Gu Qingshan left for a powerful world despite Anna receiving a dire prophecy that he would face a death capable of ending that world. After he vanished, Anna chose to become an Apostle of the God of Death and departed to grow strong enough to keep up with him.

• Anna borrowed the Black Dog's power to ask the Eternal God of Death about Gu Qingshan, and the prophecy warned that a catastrophic death awaited him.
• Anna gave Gu Qingshan her pendant and begged him to live, but he vanished when the time came to leave.
• The Black Dog revealed that the prophecy said Gu Qingshan's soul would cease to exist if he died in that world.
• Ye Feili told Anna what had happened to Su Xue'er, and Zhang Yinghao gave her the Cultivation Method Gu Qingshan had left for her.
• Anna decided to become an Apostle of the God of Death, entrusted the Holy Kingdom to Valona, and left with the Black Dog for the God of Death's world.

Su Xue'er returned to find Gu Qingshan gone, learned he was traveling between worlds, and demanded to know what had happened with Anna. Meanwhile, Gu Qingshan neared a portal to another world and received a new God of War mission tied to understanding the Suspended World.

• Liao Xing, Ye Feili, the president, Queen Valona, the Yellow Springs weapons, and the machines agreed to help cultivate and stabilize the world after the crisis.
• Su Xue'er arrived at the villa, learned Gu Qingshan was traveling between worlds, and accepted a jade slip explaining his recent situation.
• Su Xue'er asked about Anna, and the White Bird revealed that Anna had hugged Gu Qingshan while another woman had grabbed his arm, provoking Su Xue'er to unleash the scepter's power.
• Gu Qingshan traveled through a Void Turbulence with Qing Rou and Wan Er toward a portal, expecting to face Qi Yan's father soon.
• The War God Operating Interface declared Gu Qingshan's World Collapse War mission complete and awarded him God of War's Divine Power (Saint Sealing Realm).
• The interface instructed Gu Qingshan to explore the Suspended World and understand its structure before a new mission began.

Gu Qingshan prepared to impersonate Qi Yan and entered a dangerous new world with Qing Rou, Wan Er, and Mountain Girl. They arrived during the Ominous Hour and learned that the world demon devoured anything that used Spiritual Power, leaving them to wait inside an Isolation Array.

• Gu Qingshan remembered that Wu San knew about the Divine Martial World and the Cultivation World, and reviewed the mission requiring him to kill Wu San before the secret was discovered.
• Gu Qingshan used a Gene Potion, a bamboo hat, and sword-inflicted scars to disguise himself as Qi Yan, while Qing Rou and Wan Er helped him imitate Qi Yan's manner and temperament.
• Gu Qingshan had Mountain Girl disguise herself as him and pose as his disciple so attention would be drawn away from his impersonation of Qi Yan.
• The four arrived on a Floating Island in an unfamiliar world, where an Isolation Array concealed them during the Ominous Hour.
• Wan Er demonstrated that a black mouth devoured a stone infused with Spiritual Power, and Qing Rou and Wan Er said no one had defeated the world demon's true form.

Gu Qingshan learned how the Ominous Hour and the Suspended World's dwindling resources affected its inhabitants, then rested until the danger passed. After seeing the Floating Islands light up, he discovered that the worlds the Suspended World had conquered had all been absorbed by the World Demons, leaving its people unable to find new worlds.

• Gu Qingshan learned that the Ominous Hour tightened Qing Rou and Wan Er's restraints and forced cultivators to hide their Spiritual Power from the World Demons.
• Gu Qingshan said he had no intention of saving a world built on slaughter and enslavement, then rested inside the Isolation Array during the Ominous Hour.
• Wan Er announced that the Ominous Hour had ended, and Gu Qingshan saw the glowing Floating Islands fill the sky.
• Qing Rou and Wan Er explained that the Suspended World's Spirit Stones were running out, forcing sects to abandon or kill low-ranking cultivators when their resources were exhausted.
• Gu Qingshan learned that the worlds conquered by the Suspended World had become part of the World Demons' domain and that its people could no longer find new worlds.

Gu Qingshan and the two maids traveled to Guangyang Sect while pretending he was the lecherous Hall Master Qi Yan. They arrived safely and entered Qi Yan’s courtyard, where the maids said they had passed the first hurdle.

• Gu Qingshan set out with Qing Rou, Wan Er, and Mountain Girl in a cramped flying boat to reach Guangyang Sect.
• The group saw the Realm Demon’s immense body consuming the land and learned that the world’s remaining great sects were either dead or had fled.
• Near Guangyang Sect, Gu Qingshan learned that the sect traded supplies to Rakshasa Peak for healing pills needed by the gravely injured Supreme Elder Wang Hongdao.
• A cultivator greeted Hall Master Qi, and Gu Qingshan acted like Qi Yan while the flying boat passed through the Mountain Protection Array.
• Gu Qingshan and the others entered Qi Yan’s courtyard, and Wan Er restored its protective array as the maids sighed with relief.

Gu Qingshan learned how scarce resources had become in the world ravaged by the World Demon and gave Qing Rou a precious pill to heal her injuries. After reading the sect’s announcements, he learned that Rakshasa Peak was coming and that a Six Arts competition would be held, with formations especially valued.

• Gu Qingshan examined Qi Yan’s room and learned that his prized Jade Toad stored spiritual energy.
• Wan Er collected Qi Yan’s monthly stipend, and Gu Qingshan was shocked that it contained only sixty Low-Grade Spirit Stones amid the world’s dwindling resources.
• Wan Er explained that Qing Rou had been injured by Icy-Cold Flames after trying to save slaves, and Gu Qingshan gave Qing Rou a Seven Transformations Life Creation Pill.
• Gu Qingshan read the jade slip and learned that Rakshasa Peak would soon visit while the Sect Leader crossed a tribulation and the Supreme Elder remained in seclusion.
• Gu Qingshan learned that the sect had delayed its Spirit Stone allowances to prepare a welcoming celebration and arranged a Six Arts competition that emphasized formations.

Gu Qingshan examined the remaining Two Worlds Traversing Array Disc and learned that finding the Divine Martial World's coordinates would require array expertise and far more Soul Power than he had. As he prepared to seek out Chu Liu, the sect council meeting was unexpectedly moved up, leaving him to face Guangyang Sect’s powerful leaders while impersonating Qi Yan.

• Gu Qingshan and Qing Rou and Wan Er determined that Qi Yan had concealed the Divine Martial World's coordinates and that the surviving array disc could not take them there.
• Gu Qingshan discovered that learning the disc’s traversal arrays required 10,000 Soul Power, while he had only 3/300 remaining.
• Wan Er and Qing Rou told Gu Qingshan that Chu Liu, an array-skilled Maid Qi Yan had given to a subordinate, might help them, and Gu Qingshan decided to retrieve her.
• A messenger announced that the sect council meeting had been moved up, and Qing Rou suspected the change involved the visiting Rakshasa Peak.
• Gu Qingshan reviewed the council’s political divisions, assured Qing Rou he had memorized the hall masters’ histories, and set out for the meeting.

Gu Qingshan attended Guangyang Sect’s meeting with Qing Rou and Wan Er and discovered that the White Fox represented the mysterious Rakshasa Woman. He provoked Zhao Wuchui into a potential fight, but the White Fox’s presence and Ye Yingmei’s intervention stopped the confrontation.

• Gu Qingshan recognized the pink mark on the White Fox’s mask as the sign of the Rakshasa Woman’s divine art and realized the Rakshasa Woman was observing the meeting through her spirit pet.
• Gu Qingshan entered the platform, concealed himself behind his Qi Yan disguise, and asked why the meeting had been moved up.
• Zhao Wuchui demanded an explanation for Zhanwei Hall’s missing members and challenged Gu Qingshan to fight.
• Gu Qingshan mocked Zhao Wuchui for fighting shirtless and called for the formations to be shut down so they could spar.
• The White Fox asked to stay and watch, causing Zhao Wuchui to reconsider the fight, and Ye Yingmei persuaded both hall masters to stand down.

At a sect meeting, Gu Qingshan learned that his subordinates had killed Chu Liu after she damaged an Array, and he executed them despite the sect’s rules. He left Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui wary of his volatile power and disregard for the sect.

• Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui presented two of Qi Yan’s subordinates, accusing them of fighting over Chu Liu and causing damage to an Array.
• Gu Qingshan questioned Wu San, who confirmed that the two subordinates had killed Chu Liu after the incident.
• When the Hall Masters cited the sect’s rules and proposed punishment, Gu Qingshan said he did not care about the rules governing Zhanwei Hall.
• Gu Qingshan ordered Getai to kill the two subordinates, explaining that they had killed his Maid to cover themselves.
• Gu Qingshan insisted that only he could decide what happened to his Maids, leaving Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui deeply wary of him.

Gu Qingshan attended a private meeting with Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui, where Rakshasa Woman sent him her personal mask and Zhao tested Mountain Girl's swordsmanship. The hall masters gave Mountain Girl valuable gifts, but Gu Qingshan grew wary of their unusually generous attention.

• The White Fox presented Rakshasa Woman's jade mask to Gu Qingshan, who had Qing Rou accept it and set it before him.
• After the White Fox and other attendants left, Gu Qingshan introduced Mountain Girl to Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui as his new disciple.
• Zhao Wuchui struck Mountain Girl with a distant punch, and she used the Six Realms God Mountain Sword, Earth Sword, and Tidal Sound to stop it.
• Zhao Wuchui recognized Mountain Girl's swordsmanship as Sword Immortal-level despite her Divine Transformation stage and gave her a Saint Sealing Pill.
• Ye Yingmei gave Mountain Girl a defensive talisman, while Gu Qingshan suspected the hall masters had an ulterior motive for their generosity.
• Gu Qingshan sent Mountain Girl away and remained with Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui to discuss sect affairs.

Gu Qingshan tried to navigate a confidential dispute between Guangyang Sect’s hall masters without knowing what Qi Yan had proposed. He finally learned that Qi Yan wanted to become the Rakshasa Woman’s dual-cultivation partner, a proposal the others feared would provoke Rakshasa Peak.

• Gu Qingshan checked the War God Operating Interface and saw that killing Wang Qichen and Xiong Jiu had earned him 1,200 Soul Power, which he hoped to use to master interworld traversal formations.
• Ye Yingmei asked Zhao Wuchui and Gu Qingshan to discuss Qi Yan’s proposal, and Zhao Wuchui said he opposed it.
• Zhao Wuchui and Ye Yingmei warned that Rakshasa Peak could crush Guangyang Sect and suspected the Rakshasa Woman meant to use Qi Yan against the sect.
• Ye Yingmei urged Gu Qingshan to withdraw the proposal when Rakshasa Peak’s people arrived, but he asked what he would gain in return.
• Zhao Wuchui revealed that Qi Yan had been pursuing the Rakshasa Woman as a dual-cultivation partner, and Gu Qingshan finally understood the dispute.