Chapter Summaries

The King of Holy Radiance and the Lord of the Abyss plotted to unite the Light Domain and invade the Abyss Domain, while the King of Judgment remained imprisoned and defied Holy Radiance’s attempts to break her. Meanwhile, Lei Dong’s forces closed in on victory in Sky City after destroying its defenses.

• The King of Holy Radiance and the Lord of the Abyss discussed their plan to obtain a powerful treasure, subdue the King of Judgment, unite the Light Domain, and attack the Abyss Domain.
• The Lord of the Abyss refused to provide another Mind Devourer and said he would not force Michelle, who had saved him, to obey.
• The King of Judgment rejected King Liuyue’s plea to submit to Holy Radiance and threatened to self-destruct if he touched her.
• The King of Holy Radiance used King Liuyue to torment the King of Judgment, who recognized that his Evil Technique had enslaved her former friend.
• Lei Dong’s forces overran Sky City after its shields and Flying Boats were destroyed, and Lei Long blasted the temple’s protective barrier and demanded the defenders surrender.

Lei Dong's forces captured Sky City after its defenders' Winged Person officers surrendered and its human fanatics were defeated. While prisoners were questioned, Lei Dong studied how mages cultivated and recognized a possible way to strengthen himself.

• Lei Long's cannon and pressure broke the defenders' resolve, prompting Winged Person officers to surrender while fanatical humans launched futile attacks.
• Hirus surrendered, causing Sky City's defenses and many defenders' faith to collapse.
• Lei Dong moved into Sky City's main hall and began questioning captured mages, including a Law Saint and dozens of Archmages.
• Lei Dong examined a middle-aged mage's soul and body, then ordered him to demonstrate his cultivation.
• The Law Saint demonstrated meditation that focused on strengthening the soul and refining Spiritual Force, and Lei Dong considered how the method might improve his own strength.

Lei Dong studied the Light Domain mages’ distinctive methods and learned from the Law Saint’s expertise in the Space Law, improving his own understanding and gaining several spatial spells. The Law Saint and his Mage Group joined Lei Dong’s forces, where they could begin cultivating orthodox methods.

• Lei Dong compared the mages’ way of communicating with the Heaven and Earth Laws to his True Word Technique and considered how to adapt its advantages without adopting their cultivation system.
• Lei Dong focused on the Space Law and discovered that the Law Saint had extensive knowledge from a lifetime of spatial research and travel beyond the heavens.
• The Law Saint taught Lei Dong spatial spells, including Space Cage, meteorite summoning, and Space Distortion, and Lei Dong gained new insights into the Space Law.
• Lei Dong concluded that his powerful divine sense could let him learn to cast some spatial god-level spells after training its sensitivity.
• The Law Saint and his Mage Group, impressed by Lei Dong’s strength and cultivation methods, joined his ranks.

The King of Dawn faced continent-wide rebellions as Yi Kong rallied human resistance, while neighboring rulers withdrew their promised support to defend their own lands. After the King of Dawn led his main armies away to rescue a threatened Sky City, Lei Dong appeared near the lightly defended Dawn Main City.

• Yi Kong raised the banner of revenge and liberation, and heretical forces and human rebels spread uprisings across the Dawn Continent.
• The King of Dawn sought help from the King of Blazing Star and King Liuyue, but both turned back when rebellions erupted on their own continents.
• The King of Dawn learned that the enemy was attacking a Sky City and led three main armies aboard a fleet of Light Flying Boats to confront them.
• Lei Dong avoided a costly direct battle and appeared near Dawn Main City soon after the King of Dawn departed.

Lei Dong infiltrated Dawn Main City by hiding behind Hirus and broke into the Dawn Temple’s treasure chamber after triggering its alarm. He found five bottles of Life Divine Water and more than thirty Heavenly Spirit Stones as temple guards confronted him.

• Lei Dong used intelligence from Hirus and other captives to plan a covert entry into Dawn Main City and steal its Life Divine Water.
• Hirus pretended to return to the city exhausted, and the garrison commander let him enter alone despite the lockdown.
• Lei Dong used Space Distortion and Heavenly Concealment Art to slip in behind Hirus, then headed unseen to the Dawn Temple’s treasure chamber.
• Lei Dong triggered a hidden alarm while breaking through the chamber’s barriers, revealing that King of Dawn had not fully trusted Hirus.
• Lei Dong cut through the chamber door and released several Spirit Transmutation Experts from his Cave Heaven Blessed Land to fight the arriving guards.
• Lei Dong swept up the chamber’s valuables and found five bottles of Life Divine Water and more than thirty Heavenly Spirit Stones.

Lei Dong broke into Dawn Main City to seize its wealth and obtain Life Divine Water, but King of Dawn used the Great Teleportation Art to return with a secret army of a thousand Nascent Soul-level Winged People. The chapter ended as Lei Dong summoned his allies and Netherflame Ghost Banner to defend against the advancing army.

• Lei Dong detected a spatial fluctuation in the Dawn Divine Temple as the city guards attacked him.
• King of Dawn teleported into his bedchamber with more than a thousand elite Guard Army soldiers, each a Nascent Soul-level Winged Person.
• Lei Dong realized King of Dawn's secret army was far beyond what his known forces should have been able to assemble.
• Lei Dong warned Lei Long, Mystic Snake, Flame Devil King, and Mò Yáo not to charge recklessly, then positioned them around him.
• Lei Dong summoned the Netherflame Ghost Banner and formed defensive ranks of ghost soldiers as the Big Belly Cannon Ghosts opened fire on the charging Dawn Guard Army.

Lei Dong’s forces fought King of Dawn’s White Armored Army inside the cramped Side Hall, where both sides took heavy losses. King of Dawn withdrew his soldiers and proposed negotiations, while Lei Dong pretended to consider them and concealed his plans to strike.

• The White Armored Army charged through Lei Dong’s cannon fire and Suicide Ghosts until Mò Yáo and Mystic Snake transformed and blocked their advance.
• Lei Long fired the Blazing Dragon Cannon into the winged soldiers, while the Flame Devil King used fire to weaken them.
• King of Dawn realized Lei Dong’s forces were inflicting heavy casualties and ordered the White Armored Army to withdraw from the Side Hall.
• King of Dawn called for negotiations, and Lei Dong challenged him to enter the Side Hall in person.
• King of Dawn offered to make concessions, while Lei Dong hid his intention to attack and avoided deploying his Fierce Ghost Army.

Lei Dong confronted the King of Dawn over the Life Divine Water and learned that the King planned to use his elite White Armored Soldiers to unite the Bright Holy Domain. As the King revealed his ambitions and tried to recruit Lei Dong’s allies, Lei Dong invoked his King's Reign Over the World transformation and declared time frozen.

• Lei Dong called the King of Dawn out and explained that he had attacked the Dawn Continent to obtain Life Divine Water.
• The King of Dawn offered Lei Dong thirty percent of the resources if they joined forces to unite the Bright Holy Domain.
• Lei Dong examined the King’s White Armored Soldiers and suspected they had been created through an unusual method.
• The King of Dawn claimed he could raise ten thousand White Armored Soldiers and believed they could force the Twin Kings of Radiance to submit.
• Lei Dong entered King's Reign Over the World and decreed that time was frozen, leaving the King of Dawn immobilized.

Lei Dong used the True Word Technique and Space Law to help his allies capture and badly injure King of Dawn. With the White Armored Army halted, King of Dawn bargained for his life, while Lei Dong’s promise stirred complicated feelings in Flame Devil King.

• Lei Dong used the Devil Emperor True Word Technique to immobilize King of Dawn with Space Law as Lei Long and the other Spirit Transmutation experts attacked.
• Mystic Snake transformed into a colossal serpent, shattered the solidified space around King of Dawn, and crushed him in his coils.
• Lei Dong threatened King of Dawn, who ordered the White Armored Army to stop and then retreat from the Side Hall.
• King of Dawn asked Lei Dong what he would demand in exchange for sparing his life, and Lei Dong offered to swear an oath.
• Lei Dong explained that he valued his brothers’ trust more than King of Dawn’s life, moving Flame Devil King as he recalled being betrayed by his own brothers.

After forcing King of Dawn to surrender information, Lei Dong took control of the White Armored Soldiers and learned that their refining method tied him to a power struggle in the Abyss Domain. The escaped former Lord of the Abyss had joined forces with King of Holy Radiance, leaving the current Abyss ruler unable to simply retrieve him.

• Lei Dong threatened King of Dawn with soul-searching, then swore to preserve his Primordial Spirit for a hundred years if he answered honestly.
• Several days later, Lei Dong sat on King of Dawn’s throne and commanded the remaining nine hundred and fifty White Armored Soldiers.
• Lei Dong reflected on the Abyss Domain’s violent customs and the brutal competition that shaped its races and rulers.
• Lei Dong learned that the White Armored Soldiers’ refining method came from the current Lord of the Abyss, who had seized power decades earlier.
• The former Lord of the Abyss escaped the coup and joined forces with King of Holy Radiance, complicating the current ruler’s effort to eliminate him.

Lei Dong weighed how to obtain the current Lord of the Abyss’s exotic treasure, then entered the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda to force its uncooperative artifact spirit to submit. The artifact spirit warned that without her help, Lei Dong could never defeat the Supreme of the Three Realms, as the Netherworld Inferno continued to burn her soul.

• Lei Dong considered whether to cooperate with the current Lord of the Abyss or King of Dawn to seize the Lord of the Abyss’s exotic treasure.
• Lei Dong retreated in King of Dawn’s secret chamber and entered the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda to deal with its artifact spirit.
• Lei Dong freed the artifact spirit from her sealed room, struck her with a divine-sense hammer, and bound her.
• Lei Dong burned the artifact spirit with Netherworld Inferno after she refused to cooperate, and she warned that the Chaos Pagoda would be far weaker without her.
• The artifact spirit told Lei Dong he would never defeat the Supreme of the Three Realms without her help, but Lei Dong continued burning her soul.

Lei Dong forced the Chaos Pagoda's artifact spirit to submit and bound her as his spirit servant. With her under control, he turned to unlocking the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda's potential and learned how its original purpose differed from the Devil Emperor's modifications.

• Lei Dong burned the little artifact spirit with nether flames until she begged him to spare her and promised to obey.
• Lei Dong stopped the flames, demanded that she accept blood sacrifice and soul refinement, and made her his spirit servant.
• Lei Dong considered how Mò Yáo had chosen to submit to him and how that differed from the little girl's resistance.
• Lei Dong focused on unlocking the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda's potential and learned it had been designed by the Nether King to oppose the Supreme Sovereigns of the Three Realms.
• The chapter explained that the Devil Emperor had refined a Chaos Origin into the pagoda and developed its ability to absorb Soul Force, create Soul Pills, and improve Spirit Ghosts.

Mei Xiang explained the Chaos Pagoda’s origins and its ability to devour souls and convert them into Chaos Spirit Qi and Chaos Origin. Lei Dong learned how the Nether God, Hades King, and Devil Emperor had shaped the artifact, then resolved to stay discreet until he could challenge the Three Supremes.

• Lei Dong named the artifact spirit girl Mei Xiang, who explained that the Hades King had inherited the Nether God’s legacy.
• Mei Xiang revealed that the Hades King designed the Chaos Pagoda as the foundation of a new world called the Ghost Realm, using it to devour souls and produce Chaos Spirit Qi and Chaos Origin.
• Mei Xiang explained that the Devil Emperor had developed Soul Pills from souls, but their impure Chaos Origin carried Baleful Intent that harmed humans and Monster Beasts.
• Lei Dong learned that the Devil Emperor had contributed a genuine piece of Chaos Origin to the Chaos Pagoda, giving it much of its power.
• Lei Dong reflected on the tragic fates of the Nether God, Hades King, and Devil Emperor and decided to keep a low profile until he could overthrow the Three Supremes.

Lei Dong fully activated the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda and discovered that its restored formations could turn souls into Chaos Spirit Qi and Chaos Origins for creating a new world. His first tests confirmed the process worked, but showed that producing a Chaos Crystal required enormous numbers of weak souls.

• Lei Dong used Mei Xiang's memories and the Devil Emperor's Chaos Origin to restore the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda's complete formation system.
• Lei Dong learned that the pagoda held the embryonic form of a new world designed by Lord Nether King, and promised Mei Xiang he would find her a body with a Primordial Spirit.
• Lei Dong fed prepared souls into the pagoda's vortex to test how it produced Chaos Spirit Qi and Chaos Origins.
• Mei Xiang reported that more than ten thousand Qi Refining-level souls yielded only one hundred-thousandth of a low-grade Chaos Crystal.
• Lei Dong tested stronger souls and learned that around ten million Foundation Establishment-level souls or one hundred thousand Golden Core-level souls could produce one Chaos Crystal.

Lei Dong learned that the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda could refine powerful beings into valuable Chaos Spirit Qi, then consolidated his rule over the Dawn Continent. He returned to the Yaksha Sea to thank Yaksha King and visit Tianmo, whose condition left him deeply moved.

• Lei Dong learned from Mei Xiang that Chaos Crystals were rare, precious stores of Chaos Spirit Qi, and that more evolved beings yielded far more of it when refined.
• Lei Dong set aside plans to test the Lord of the Abyss and focused on strengthening his forces before dealing with the remaining resistance in the Light Domain.
• Lei Dong and Lei Long purged Dawn Main City of suspected traitors, feeding their flesh to the Fierce Ghost Army and their souls to the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda, while controlling survivors with Ghost Gu.
• Lei Dong sent his armies to seize the Dawn Continent's major fortresses and teleportation arrays, trapping the three remaining enemy forces and preparing to offer them a chance to surrender.
• Lei Dong quietly returned to the Yaksha Sea, presented Yaksha King with Life Divine Water in gratitude, and stood before Tianmo, who remained suspended in the Soul of Water Separation.

Lei Dong’s forces swept across the Netherworld and beyond, killing powerful beasts and claiming their resources. Ghost Thorn delivered Life Divine Water and the alliance Jade Slip to Elder Li, then announced that Lei Dong had another important matter to discuss.

• Green Ghost led the Fifth Division of the Fierce Ghost Army in wiping out a Howling Moon Netherwolf pack and distributing the spoils by merit.
• Lei Dong’s armies and allies swept through the Domain Outside Space, the Great Desert, and the Yaksha Sea, hunting powerful creatures and collecting their souls.
• Ghost Thorn visited Elder Li and Li Chuchu in the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, delivered Lei Dong’s regards, and gave Li Chuchu mechanical trinkets from Ding Wanyan.
• Ghost Thorn presented Elder Li with the promised Life Divine Water and received the alliance Jade Slip in return.
• Ghost Thorn told Elder Li that Lei Dong had an important matter he wanted to discuss.

Elder Li agreed to join Lei Dong’s alliance against the Abyss Domain after learning that eleven Spirit Transmutation-level experts would take part. At Lei Dong’s lair, the first Chaos Crystal was refined, and Mu Yanmei was chosen to use it first as she prepared to attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transmutation.

• Ghost Thorn told Elder Li that Lei Dong had assembled eleven Spirit Transmutation-level experts for an expedition to the Abyss Domain, and Elder Li accepted the invitation.
• Lei Dong fed beast souls and Demon Infants into the Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda until Mei Xiang refined its first Chaos Crystal.
• Lei Dong offered the Chaos Crystal to Mu Yanmei and Ding Wanyan, explaining that both had reached the Nascent Soul Peak and had better chances of breaking through than he did.
• Ding Wanyan urged Mu Yanmei to use the crystal first, citing Mu Yanmei’s sacrifice to save Lei Dong and her strength in battle.
• Mu Yanmei accepted the crystal and teased Lei Dong, while the group settled on her being the first to attempt Spirit Transmutation.

Ajana urged King of Holy Radiance to reclaim the Dawn Continent, but he refused to send an army while the Winged God Clan faced threats elsewhere. He revealed that the Lord of the Abyss had gained resources from a foreign realm, and he planned to strike the Abyss Domain before it grew stronger.

• Ajana visited King of Holy Radiance and asked him to rally the other kings for a counterattack on the Dawn Continent, offering to lead the vanguard.
• King of Holy Radiance explained that sealed teleportation formations and dangerous Void Devils made the journey through the Endless Void difficult.
• King of Holy Radiance warned Ajana that unrest among humans and the unification of the Netherworld Ghost Domain's races posed threats to the Winged God Clan.
• King of Holy Radiance revealed that the Lord of the Abyss had acquired resources from a foreign realm and was building an elite force.
• King of Holy Radiance told Ajana that the Winged God Clan must strike the Abyss Domain and seize the foreign realm's resources, arguing that the Dawn Continent might be a trap.

The Netherworld Ghost Emperor welcomed the Purgatory Devil King, who visited in the form of a Flame Monarch clone and met Xiao You. The two sovereigns then went inside to discuss an operation that might help them reach the late Spirit Transmutation stage.

• The Purgatory Devil King's Flame Monarch clone arrived at the Netherworld Palace and bantered with the Netherworld Ghost Emperor about the clone and Lei Dong.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor introduced Xiao You to the Purgatory Devil King, who praised her and gave her a storage ring as a congratulatory gift.
• The Purgatory Devil King asked the Netherworld Ghost Emperor to visit his palace and favor his descendants, but the Netherworld Ghost Emperor refused.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor invited the Purgatory Devil King inside to discuss an operation that could help them advance to the late Spirit Transmutation stage.

Lei Dong arrived at the Netherworld Palace for a gathering of peak experts, bringing Ding Wanyan, the Heavenly Devil, Profound Ice Devil Venerable, Lei Long, and a puppet—all Spirit Transmutation-level experts. His mastery of the Space Law impressed the assembled seniors, and he reunited with Xiao You before meeting Long Qianqiu.

• Peak experts gathered at the Netherworld Palace, where the Netherworld Ghost Emperor struggled to keep their old conflicts under control.
• Lei Dong arrived with five Spirit Transmutation-level companions, astonishing the experts who had come out to watch.
• Xiao You greeted Lei Dong affectionately, and he praised her for advancing to the Spirit Transmutation level.
• Ding Wanyan drew Xiao You aside to catch up with her while Lei Dong went to greet the gathered seniors.
• Lei Dong demonstrated his perfected mastery of the Space Law, surprising even the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Purgatory Devil King.
• Evil Phoenix introduced Long Qianqiu to Lei Dong, and Long Qianqiu quickly assured him that he wanted no quarrel.