Recaps

Lü Chunyang set out alone for the Green Lion Clan’s territory while the monk protected the fortune teller and revealed the grim history behind his mission. As the fortune teller began to suspect that his memories had been sealed and resolved to follow Lü Chunyang, Black Impermanence arrived to take him back.

• Lü Chunyang tried to force the fortune teller to guide him, but the monk intervened and condemned Lü Chunyang for risking other people’s lives.
• The monk explained that he was suppressing the demonic thoughts of Central Province and had brought the fortune teller out of the ruins of Marvelous Dharma Tianci Temple, where he planned to die after preserving the names and scriptures of its fallen monks.
• Lü Chunyang recalled fighting during the Jinzhou disaster and said at least three Demon Race branches had appeared, though he could not confirm whether the Green Lions controlled them.
• After receiving Su You’s map and records, Lü Chunyang left for the Green Lion Clan and sent Little Peacock back to Qi WuHuo’s room.
• The fortune teller realized he knew details absent from his apparent memories, suspected someone had set him up, and decided to follow Lü Chunyang to find Qi WuHuo.
• Black Impermanence appeared and ordered the fortune teller, whom he called [Hear All], to return.

Di Ting revealed how he had maneuvered events to bring Qi WuHuo and the Green Lion’s tribulation together, then warned that the Green Lion’s success could threaten Houtu and upset the balance among the Emperors. As Qi WuHuo faced danger alone, Little Peacock discovered the route to the Green Lion Clan’s sacred ground and set out to find him with two weapons.

• Black Impermanence captured Di Ting and returned him to the City of Wrongful Deaths, where Di Ting recovered his sealed memories and resumed his true appearance.
• Di Ting explained to Ksitigarbha King how he had guided events involving Qi WuHuo, the Green Lion, and the Jinzhou tribulation while concealing his role.
• Di Ting revealed that the Green Lion’s success could endanger Houtu and benefit [Emperor], then declared that the Green Lion deserved to die.
• Little Peacock found a map to the Green Lion Clan’s sacred ground in the spilled soup and decided to go to Qi WuHuo.
• Little Peacock shrank and swallowed the zither and sword, then followed Di Ting’s trail toward Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo studied the Green Lion’s formation while Great Emperor Dongyue taught him the seal art, then he learned that Huang Yao was the Demon Emperor’s envoy and negotiated for her help delaying the Green Lion. The chapter ended with Si You meeting a familiar Daoist and Little Peacock crashing into the Green Lion.

• Great Emperor Dongyue stopped Qi WuHuo from exhausting his Primordial Spirit and taught him the seal art, asking him to practice it over the next twenty-odd days.
• Qi WuHuo deduced that Huang Yao was Saint Yao, an envoy connected to the Demon Emperor, and asked her to teach him Demon Race formations.
• Huang Yao refused to teach Qi WuHuo but agreed to delay the Green Lion’s breakthrough and urged him to persuade Si You to take her pills.
• A bearded Daoist appeared before Si You and greeted her after a thousand years apart.
• Little Peacock became lost in the holy ground and collided with the Green Lion, who mistook her for a strange creature connected to Nine Spirits.

Green Lion taught Little Peacock the Swallowing Heaven and Devouring Earth art and urged him to follow his own path without regret. Si You renewed her cultivation to repay an old debt, while Qi WuHuo struggled with Green Lion’s formation and Xiao Pengcao pleaded with Huang Yao to help him.

• Green Lion recognized Little Peacock’s inherited aura, fed him spirit-seasoned fish, and taught him the Swallowing Heaven and Devouring Earth art while discussing self-determination and the Demon Race’s future.
• Lü Chunyang visited Si You and asked to discuss their past, but she rejected him and explained that her lasting memory was of Niu Jinnniu, the merchant who had once saved her people.
• Si You took a life-extending pill, resolved to repay her debt to Niu Jinnniu, and restored her aura to the Earth Immortal level.
• Qi WuHuo made no progress studying Green Lion’s formation and began considering how to interrupt its ritual instead of replacing it.
• Xiao Pengcao found Huang Yao and offered to sell herself in exchange for Huang Yao helping WuHuo.

Lü Chunyang reunited with Xiao Die and joined the demons opposing the Green Lion, while Qi WuHuo prepared to disrupt the Green Lion's breakthrough ritual. Huang Yao offered to teach Qi WuHuo Demon Race formations after revealing that Xiao Pengcao had made a sacrifice for him, and asked him to choose what to do.

• Lü Chunyang encountered Xiao Die at the foot of the mountain, reunited with her, and followed her to a secret gathering of demons.
• Yu Zhizhang and the other demons explained their hatred of the Green Lion lineage and suspected the Green Lion's invitation was a trap, and Lü Chunyang agreed with them to gain their trust.
• Qi WuHuo decided to sever the breakthrough ritual just before the Green Lion succeeded and awaken the holy fetus, while the Great Emperor Dongyue warned him to escape afterward.
• Huang Yao visited Qi WuHuo and offered to teach him the core of Demon Race formations.
• Qi WuHuo suspected Xiao Pengcao had sold herself to Huang Yao, and Huang Yao confirmed his guess before asking for his answer.

Qi WuHuo refused Huangyao’s offer to trade Xiao Pengcao’s future for the formation foundation, instead asking her to protect the girl and agreeing to become her pawn. Huangyao gave him the Demon Race formation patterns, and after Qi Yuntun returned with Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor and a sword, the ancient qin awakened when Xiao Pengcao touched it.

• Qi WuHuo rejected Huangyao’s offer, explaining that he would not treat Xiao Pengcao as merchandise, and asked Huangyao to protect her during the coming ritual battle.
• Qi WuHuo declared that he would face the calamity rather than retreat, and Huangyao accepted his request and gave him the Demon Race formation patterns.
• Huangyao reported Qi WuHuo’s courage to the Demon Emperor, who recognized him as a man of divine courage and asked to meet him.
• Qi WuHuo combined the Demon Race, Buddhist, and sword formations, advancing his work on the Green Lion’s ritual while Great Emperor Dongyue prepared a formation to trigger the Sacred Fetus’s transformation.
• Qi Yuntun found Qi WuHuo and Xiao Pengcao and brought them Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor and a sword from the Zither Music Pavilion.
• Xiao Pengcao touched Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor, awakening the ancient divine weapon and releasing its formidable killing intent.

Qi WuHuo used the Great Sage Green Lion’s ascension ritual to spring a killing formation, interrupting the Green Lion’s challenge to the Demon Race’s Great Sages and breaking the formation trapping Prince Qin and the rescued humans. As Prince Qin led the humans toward home, Qi WuHuo faced the Green Lion and commanded the formation to execute.

• The Great Emperor Dongyue explained that Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor was a divine zither tied to the Fuxi Clan and the Feng Clan’s Wa lineage, and Qi WuHuo took it with its Earth string briefly empowered.
• Qi WuHuo prepared for the ritual while Su You visited the monk with Little Peacock, and Prince Qin gathered the humans he had rescued in the southeast, ready to leave if circumstances changed.
• At the Green Lion’s ritual, the Green Lion killed the Hellfire Flood Dragon and the Iron-backed Cangshan Bear, reconciled with Yu Zhizhang, then fought attacks from the Demon Race’s Great Sages.
• Prince Qin endured a guard’s whip and stopped his generals from retaliating until Qi WuHuo’s zither note broke the Green Lion’s momentum and breached the sacred grounds’ formation.
• Prince Qin killed the guard, rallied the more than one hundred thousand humans, and led them toward home as Qi WuHuo’s sword formation turned the ritual into a killing formation.
• Huang Yao realized Qi WuHuo had replaced the ritual’s formation, and Qi WuHuo identified himself to the Green Lion before commanding, “Execute.”

Qi WuHuo destroyed the Green Lion’s ritual and severed its connection to the sacred embryo, then began refining the embryo while the Great Emperor Dongyue fought the Green Lion and Si You protected him. The chapter ended with Qi WuHuo transforming the embryo into a pure stone and declaring his Daoist sanctuary to be Square Inch Mountain.

• Qi WuHuo and the Great Sage Green Lion clashed with matching sword formations as Lü Chunyang provoked the demon clans into a melee and blocked Yu Zhizhang from reaching Qi WuHuo.
• Huang Yao joined the Green Lion and helped break Qi WuHuo’s formation, but Qi WuHuo redirected the Green Lion’s final strike into the ritual and destroyed it.
• The Great Emperor Dongyue rose from the earth to shield Qi WuHuo, who used the Blood River Sword to cut down demons and sever the sacred embryo’s connection to the Green Lion.
• The Green Lion urged the demons to seize the sacred embryo, while Si You defended Qi WuHuo and Dongyue battled the Green Lion.
• Qi WuHuo used the Eight Trigrams and the Purple Star Emperor Qi True Scripture to refine the sacred embryo into a pure stone, then named his Daoist sanctuary Square Inch Mountain.

Qi WuHuo and his allies fought to keep the Saint Embryo from the Great Sage Green Lion, but the Green Lion absorbed it and began his breakthrough. The monk and Great Emperor Dongyue sacrificed themselves to give Qi WuHuo a chance to escape with the Saint Embryo and the Dongyue Seal, and Qi WuHuo flew onward with Qi Yuntun as Dongyue held off the Great Sages.

• The demons rushed the Saint Embryo, and Lü Chunyang used Yu Zhizhang's voice to turn them against Great General Tengshe while Si You protected Qi WuHuo.
• The monk arrived, trapped Great General Tengshe in an alms bowl, and joined Si You in holding back the demons as he told Qi WuHuo that the plan had succeeded and he should withdraw.
• Qi WuHuo used the Kill the Bandits Sword to unleash Jinzhou's grief and despair, but Qing Jingwei endured the attack, absorbed the Saint Embryo, and declared his domain as Green Lion Mountain.
• The monk let his demonic thoughts consume him, shattered his Arhat Golden Body to break Qing Jingwei's Heavenly Manifestation, and hurled the Saint Embryo to Qi WuHuo.
• Great Emperor Dongyue held back Qing Jingwei and Great Sage Huangyao, entrusted Qi WuHuo with returning the name of Dongyue to the Empress, and urged him not to look back.
• Qi WuHuo sealed the wind, invoked Dongyue's power alongside the old emperor, and escaped on Qi Yuntun as Great Emperor Dongyue prepared to face the Great Sages.

Qing Jingwei killed the dying Great Emperor Dongyue in a final clash while Little Peacock carried Qi WuHuo away, then Little Peacock chose to return to the battle and make its own way. Left in the Demon Race's territory with Dongyue's seal, Qi WuHuo contacted Uncle Niu.

• Qing Jingwei transformed and fought Great Emperor Dongyue at full strength after Huang Yao destroyed the spatial rift, preventing Qi WuHuo from returning to the human world by that route.
• Qing Jingwei killed Great Emperor Dongyue, caught him as he fell, and honored him by leaving him standing before roaring, “Unmatched!”
• Little Peacock landed with Qi WuHuo, wounded from protecting him, and explained that it wanted to return to help the uncle who had taught it a divine ability.
• Qi WuHuo told Little Peacock that it could choose for itself and that every choice had consequences, and Little Peacock flew back toward the battlefield.
• Qi WuHuo held up the seal and contacted Uncle Niu, who immediately asked what had happened to him.

Old Yellow Ox warned Qi WuHuo about the looming conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Demon Race, then learned that Qi WuHuo was being hunted while carrying the Great Emperor Dongyue’s seal for Empress Houtu. Qi Yuntun drew the demons away so Qi WuHuo could hide, while Old Yellow Ox vowed to gather help.

• Old Yellow Ox discussed the Demon Emperor and Qing Jingwei’s impending rise with the Heavenly Court’s immortals and worried that a war was near.
• Old Yellow Ox warned Qi WuHuo to hide in the Demon Realm and avoid seeking revenge while Qing Jingwei prepared to break through to Great Sage.
• Qi WuHuo told Old Yellow Ox that the Great Emperor Dongyue had given him his seal and asked him to deliver a letter to Empress Houtu if Qi WuHuo did not survive.
• Qi WuHuo ended the spell connection and concealed himself as demons searched nearby with a spirit hound.
• Qi Yuntun drew the demons away by attacking them and flying toward the Green Lion Clan’s sacred grounds, giving Qi WuHuo a chance to escape.
• Old Yellow Ox realized the Demon Race was hunting Qi WuHuo and vowed to rally the troops.

Old Yellow Ox sought help for Qi WuHuo, but the Heavenly Court’s orders and the Great Dao Lord’s refusal left him with no support. After breaking through the South Heavenly Gate to reach the Demon Realm, he was captured and revealed that Qi WuHuo was the second-generation Great Emperor Dongyue, prompting the North Emperor to lead the court toward action.

• Old Yellow Ox asked the Thunder, Fire, Battle, and Water Departments for help, but their generals refused because the Heavenly Court had forbidden them from entering the Demon Realm.
• Old Yellow Ox pleaded with the Great Dao Lord to rescue Qi WuHuo, but the Great Dao Lord refused because Qi WuHuo had chosen to face the calamity himself.
• Supreme Xuan Du also refused to intervene, telling Old Yellow Ox that he would retrieve and bury Qi WuHuo’s remains if he died.
• Old Yellow Ox charged through the South Heavenly Gate, striking down the Thunder Generals and Ju Ling Shen True Lord before setting off for the Demon Realm, but chains from the Immortal Slaying Platform captured him.
• The North Emperor questioned Old Yellow Ox, who declared that he had gone to save a friend and identified Qi WuHuo as the second-generation Great Emperor Dongyue.
• The North Emperor rose and ordered the assembled immortals and gods to go with him.

Qi Yuntun rescued Qing Jingwei and the corrupted monk before setting out for the Bodhi Tree, while Qi WuHuo was tracked down and fought a growing force of Demon Race immortals. After killing Great General Tengshe and being surrounded by more enemies, Qi WuHuo faced the arrival of Ju Ling Shen and the Northern Emperor.

• Qi Yuntun returned to help Qing Jingwei defeat the demons attacking the Green Lion Clan, then declined Qing Jingwei's offer to adopt him.
• Qi Yuntun rescued the monk, who asked to be taken beneath the Bodhi Tree, and the peacock decided to bring its rare Bodhi seed back for Qi WuHuo to try.
• The sacred embryo's aura let the demons track Qi WuHuo, so he broke their ritual link and fought Great General Tengshe.
• A qilin and Kui Niu joined Tengshe against Qi WuHuo, but Qi WuHuo fused his Shangqing and Yuqing arts, killed Tengshe, and broke the three Earth Immortals' formation.
• More demons and Earth Immortals surrounded Qi WuHuo, but Ju Ling Shen arrived with Heavenly troops as the Northern Emperor appeared above the battlefield.

Qi WuHuo refused the Northern Emperor’s offer to take the Dongyue Seal, choosing instead to honor his promise to return it to Empress Houtu. As Qi WuHuo departed for the Demon Realm, the Northern Emperor declared that if he survived his tribulation and kept his true heart, he might earn the title True Martial.

• Ju Ling Shen led the Heavenly Court’s forces in a thunderous attack, and Taibai killed the four Demon Immortals who had blocked Qi WuHuo.
• The Northern Emperor asked Qi WuHuo for the Dongyue Seal and offered to shield him from its karmic ties, but admitted he would not return it to Empress Houtu.
• Qi WuHuo refused to surrender the seal, explaining that Great Emperor Dongyue had entrusted it to him and that he had promised to return it to Empress Houtu.
• Qi WuHuo returned his Demon Queller token, thanked the Northern Emperor for saving his life, and left for the Demon Realm with the seal.
• The Northern Emperor told Taibai that Qi WuHuo could earn the title True Martial if he survived his tribulation, kept his promises, and faced the six realms’ calamity.

After killing Great General Tengshe, Qi WuHuo hid beneath the earth, united the insights of Yuqing and Shangqing, and advanced his cultivation. When Yun Qin found him, she recognized his loneliness and promised she would never leave him.

• Qi WuHuo's surging qi forced him to hide beneath the earth, where exhaustion drove him into a deep sleep.
• In his dream, Qi WuHuo realized that the Dao of Yuqing and the Calamity Sword's Dao were one, and his Teacher tested his understanding.
• Qi WuHuo awakened with his Primordial Spirit beginning to merge with his qi, attaining the Fourth True Gate of Breath Settled.
• Qi WuHuo deduced that the Jade Emperor was unwell, then erased the words after instinct warned him against leaving them written.
• Yun Qin found Qi WuHuo after a month apart and confronted him about his grief over losing the people he loved.
• Yun Qin told Qi WuHuo that she belonged to him and promised she would never leave him.

Qi WuHuo was forced to abandon earth evasion and disguise himself while crossing the Demon Realm, where the Demon Emperor challenged the Northern Emperor to battle. Meanwhile, Yun Qin secretly prepared to descend to help Qi WuHuo and invited the Great Dao Lord to join her.

• Qi WuHuo refused to let Yun Qin come looking for him, then learned that a Demon Race Great Sage had forbidden earth evasion throughout the Demon Realm.
• Qi WuHuo killed the demons who recognized him, disguised himself as a country demon, and entered a Demon Race city while trying to blend in.
• The Demon Emperor revealed himself and challenged the Northern Emperor, who answered, "Get lost," before the two began fighting.
• Yun Qin decided to help Qi WuHuo despite promising to stay away, gathered pills, treasures, talismans, and a sword, and left Heaven with a note for her parents and Uncle Niu.
• Yun Qin visited the Great Dao Lord at the Shangqing Library and invited him to sneak down to the mortal world with her.

The Great Dao Lord gave Yun Qin a gift to pass to Qi WuHuo, while Qi WuHuo witnessed the Northern Emperor and Demon Emperor clash and gained insight into the holy embryo’s power. After slipping into a checkpoint on his way toward the human realm, Qi WuHuo was ordered to submit to a bloodline inspection.

• The Great Dao Lord stabilized Yun Qin’s Primordial Spirit, taught her the East Mountain Edict, and sent her to deliver it to Qi WuHuo.
• Yun Qin entered the mortal world, hoping to find Qi WuHuo and give him pills.
• Qi WuHuo watched the Northern Emperor destroy the Demon Emperor’s world-forming attack and realized the holy embryo could absorb and release immense demonic power.
• Qi WuHuo used the holy embryo to absorb the battle’s lingering demonic power, then passed through the Demon Race’s city gate formation.
• Qi WuHuo discovered the checkpoint was screening travelers for him, and he approached the guards while preparing to act.

Qi WuHuo escaped a fortified city after killing the Green Luan and hundreds of demons, then fled from the pursuing Earth Immortal, the Ancestor of the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant. He entered the Demon Race’s forbidden mountains and glimpsed an immense dragon skeleton in the miasma.

• Qi WuHuo broke through the city guards, destroyed the formation, killed the Green Luan and hundreds of demons, and fled as an Earth Immortal pursued him.
• The Ming Zhen Dao Alliance learned of Qi WuHuo’s feat, and Lü Chunyang discovered that the sixteen-year-old had cultivated for only two years and admitted he was not his equal.
• Qi WuHuo used Soaring Golden Light and clouds to evade the Ancestor of the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant as the demon king pursued him across mountains and rivers.
• The Ancestor hurled a vast lightning spear at Qi WuHuo near the forbidden mountains, and Qi WuHuo absorbed its force with the holy embryo before falling into the miasma.
• Qi WuHuo saw an immense dragon’s bones in the forbidden land as he disappeared into its depths, leaving the Ancestor unable to find him.

Qi WuHuo escaped the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant by transforming the Cloud Rain Chess Game Chapter into a nimble azure dragon, then fled deeper into the Demon Race's Forbidden Land as the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant battled a colossal Báshé. After hiding from both, he was dragged by a soul-chain to Fengdu, where the Ghost Emperors demanded proof that he was the Northern Emperor's envoy.

• Qi WuHuo glimpsed the Dragon Emperor's enduring will in the skeleton and transformed the Cloud Rain Chess Game Chapter, using an azure dragon to steer his fall and escape the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant.
• The Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant pursued Qi WuHuo, but Qi concealed himself in the Forbidden Land's miasma after striking back with his cloud dragon.
• Qi WuHuo suspected the Dragon Emperor had died in the Forbidden Land and that his corpse might be keeping dangerous beings there in check.
• A gigantic Báshé attacked the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant, while Qi WuHuo fought through demon beasts and hid in a cave until both creatures withdrew.
• The Northern Ghost King used a soul-chain to pull Qi WuHuo's Primordial Spirit to Fengdu, where the Central Ghost Emperor and the Seventy-Two Departments demanded the Northern Emperor's token.

Qi WuHuo faced the Five Ghost Emperors in Fengdu without a token proving he was the Northern Emperor’s envoy, so he used gifts and quick wits to win the Seventy-Two Departments’ support and secure ten days. Alone in the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s former residence, he began preparing to imitate the Northern Emperor’s secret technique before the proof deadline.

• The Central Ghost Emperor demanded that Qi WuHuo produce the Northern Emperor’s token, intending to kill him if he could not.
• Qi WuHuo claimed he had proof greater than a token and persuaded the spirits to host him at a banquet rather than attack.
• Qi WuHuo gave treasures to the department heads, winning their favor, and revealed that he had emptied the Ten Hall Yama Kings’ treasury.
• When the Central Ghost Emperor pressed him for proof, Qi WuHuo secured ten days to prepare, with Diao Yongzhong supporting the delay.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor escorted Qi WuHuo to the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s former residence, where Qi WuHuo began studying how to imitate the Northern Emperor’s secret technique and survive.

Qi WuHuo used the Northern Ghost Emperor’s wine to endure the damage from repeatedly studying the Northern Emperor’s attack, hoping to imitate it and survive the Five Ghost Emperors. As Zhou Qi moved to cripple him before their planned uprising, the Northern Ghost Emperor chose to warn Qi WuHuo to leave.

• Qi WuHuo repeatedly visualized the Northern Emperor’s attack, using the Yellow Springs wine to heal his injured Primordial Spirit as he worked to imitate its killing intent.
• Qi WuHuo concluded that Zhou Qi intended to kill the Northern Emperor’s Envoy and lead the seventy-two Underworld Departments against the Ten Hall Yama Kings.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor confronted Zhou Qi, insisting that the Envoy might be genuine and that mistreating him could anger the Northern Emperor.
• Zhou Qi told the Southern Ghost Emperor that he planned to kill the Envoy and seize the Underworld, hoping to shatter the Six Realms’ balance and escape Fengdu City.
• Zhou Qi agreed that they could cripple Qi WuHuo before the planned confrontation in ten days.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor approached Qi WuHuo and told him to leave.

Qi WuHuo stayed in Fengdu City and gained the Northern Ghost Emperor’s protection while preparing to reveal himself as the Northern Emperor’s Envoy. As he risked his Primordial Spirit to master the Northern Emperor’s Control the Stars technique, the Northern Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court and discovered his daughter had gone missing.

• Qi WuHuo refused the Northern Ghost Emperor’s offer to escape, and the Northern Ghost Emperor agreed to guard him for ten days.
• The Southern Ghost Emperor tried to entice Qi WuHuo, but the Northern Ghost Emperor drove her away and then shared Yellow Springs wine and food with Qi WuHuo.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor taught Qi WuHuo to neutralize the wine’s power and use Size as Desired, then promised him the Heart of the Yellow Springs if he survived the coming test.
• Qi WuHuo used the wine to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and risked taking the Northern Emperor’s place in his perception, reaching the true power of Control the Stars.
• The Northern Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court, found a note saying his daughter had gone to study, and began searching for her.

The Northern Emperor reconstructed Yun Qin’s past and discovered that she had descended to the mortal world for Qi WuHuo, prompting him to go bring her back. Shangqing Great Dao Lord confronted him, and the two fought until they sensed Qi WuHuo below and cried out in surprise.

• The Northern Emperor watched Yun Qin raid her family’s treasure vault, take gifts for Qi WuHuo, and leave an IOU.
• The Northern Emperor initially allowed Yun Qin to stay in the mortal world, but changed his mind after seeing her comfort Qi WuHuo and ordered that she be brought back.
• The Northern Emperor decided to retrieve Yun Qin himself, but Shangqing Great Dao Lord intercepted him and defended her right to undergo a tribulation.
• The Northern Emperor and Shangqing Great Dao Lord argued over Yun Qin’s bond with Qi WuHuo and clashed above the heavens.
• The Northern Emperor and Shangqing Great Dao Lord abruptly sensed Qi WuHuo below and exclaimed at his presence.

Qi WuHuo wielded the Fire Star’s power to recreate the Northern Emperor’s might and defeat the Central Ghost Emperor, ending the battle in Fengdu City. He stood before the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s statue and ordered the gathered ghosts and gods to kneel.

• Qi WuHuo condensed the power of the stars in his Spirit Charm, but the Southern Ghost Emperor ambushed him while he was drinking Yellow Springs wine.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor protected Qi WuHuo and fought the Southern Ghost Emperor, while the Seventy-Two Departments and imprisoned spirits joined the escalating battle.
• Qi WuHuo told the Northern Ghost Emperor that he was the Northern Emperor’s Envoy, then drew on the Dongyue Seal to suppress the Demon Emperor’s power.
• Qi WuHuo seized the Fire Star’s power and used it to strike the Central Ghost Emperor through the chest with a swordlight.
• The fighting stopped as Qi WuHuo stood before the statue of the Northern Yin Great Emperor and commanded Fengdu City’s ghosts and gods to kneel.

Qi WuHuo subdued Fengdu City by invoking the Northern Emperor’s power and used its accumulated yin essence to forge the Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor’s final Ghost string. As he remained in Fengdu, Zhou Qi concluded he was a peerless hero, while the Northern Emperor recognized a resemblance between Qi WuHuo and himself and asked Great Dao Lord whose disciple he was.

• Qi WuHuo’s display of stellar power made the Ghost Emperors and the Seventy-Two Departments kneel and salute him as the Northern Emperor’s Envoy.
• Qi WuHuo used the Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor to draw blood and yin essence from Zhou Qi, the Seventy-Two Departments, and Fengdu City’s imprisoned spirits, forging the zither’s Ghost string with the Shangqing Spirit Treasure Tempering Method.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor willingly gave his heart’s blood, while the Southern Ghost Emperor reluctantly contributed; the completed zither absorbed the gathered essence and rang with renewed power.
• Qi WuHuo told Zhou Qi that his provocation had helped him obtain the zither, then asked the Ghost Emperors to find him a quiet, comfortable place to stay.
• Zhou Qi decided Qi WuHuo was a peerless hero and speculated that he might be the Northern Emperor’s son.
• Watching from the Nine Heavens, the Northern Emperor said Qi WuHuo was just like him, and Great Emperor Ziwei asked Great Dao Lord whose disciple Qi WuHuo was.