Chapter Summaries

Budu Ancestor urged Qing Yanjing to marry Gu Han, but Gu Han proposed letting her choose and promised to find her missing father once his Spirit Soul reached the Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereign level. Qing Yanjing agreed to marry him if he fulfilled that promise, while the ancestors agreed to cooperate and Tai Ling Ancestor required Gu Han’s girlfriend to become the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Saintess.

• Budu Ancestor praised Qing Yanjing’s qualifications and urged her to choose Gu Han rather than settle for someone inferior.
• Gu Han objected to forcing Qing Yanjing into marriage and offered to become Dao Companions with her if she agreed.
• Gu Han promised to find Qing Yanjing’s missing father after his Spirit Soul reached the Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereign level, explaining that his divine ability could deduce Heaven’s secrets.
• Qing Yanjing agreed to marry Gu Han and follow him through life and death if he found her father.
• Budu Ancestor accepted the agreement, and Gu Han learned that Tai Ling Ancestor required his girlfriend to become the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Saintess.

Gu Han merged the Four Saints Pagoda into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and used it to suppress the four Heavenly Demon Emperors. Five years later, Black Tortoise Hall’s influence had spread across the Great Thousand World, and the Demon-Slaying Stele trembled as Gu Han returned.

• Gu Han persuaded Budu Ancestor that Ying Huanhuan could become the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Saintess and explained that Ancestor Qingtian had agreed after learning of realms beyond the Great Thousand World.
• Gu Han guided the Four Saints Pagoda into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, then used the Black Tortoise Seven Mansions Nether-Penetrating Art and Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique to restrain and devour the Heavenly Demon Emperors’ remnant souls.
• Over the next five years, Yan Emperor and Lin Dong rose to prominence, and their alliance revealed that both belonged to Black Tortoise Hall.
• Ying Huanhuan returned to the Ice Spirit Clan as the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Saintess and reclaimed her parents’ remnant souls, while Qing Yanjing returned to the Budu Ancient Clan and rejected the Mohe Ancient Clan’s marriage proposal.
• The Demon-Slaying Stele trembled on the Holy Abyss Continent as Gu Han returned.

Mr. Zhang recounted Xiao Yan’s rise and revealed that the Fire Spirit Clan ancestor’s true body had intervened against him. He began explaining how Black Tortoise Hall protected Xiao Yan, ending with a Giant Turtle Snake Shadow emerging from Xiao Yan’s body.

• Mr. Zhang told listeners that the Burning Art was connected to a shattered Primal Celestial Body and that the Dou Qi Continent’s people had a special opportunity to inherit it.
• Mr. Zhang described Xiao Yan’s achievements, including reaching the middle stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and repelling a Mystic Grade Primary Heavenly Demon Emperor with his Fire Lotus Divine Ability.
• A Water Spirit Clan Earth Sovereign asked why the Fire Spirit Clan ancestor had not used his true body against Xiao Yan, and Mr. Zhang revealed that it had already acted.
• Mr. Zhang explained that the Fire Spirit Clan ancestor’s true body had pursued Xiao Yan after his spiritual body forced Xiao Yan to flee using Body Transformation into Fire.
• Mr. Zhang said that a terrifying energy erupted from Xiao Yan and formed a Giant Turtle Snake Shadow when the Fire Spirit Clan ancestor attacked.

Mr. Zhang recounted how Gu Han’s Black Tortoise Hall had aided Yan Emperor and Martial Ancestor, then revealed Ying Huanhuan’s rise to Saintess of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan and Qing Yanjing’s recovery of a lost Budu divine ability. The gathered audience was left astonished by the extent of Gu Han’s power and discoveries.

• Mr. Zhang explained that Gu Han’s soul avatar had injured Huo Ling Ancestor and forced him to retreat from Yan Emperor.
• Mr. Zhang reported that Martial Ancestor had reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm and that Gu Han had suppressed a Heavenly Demon Emperor with an Eight-Colored Glazed Pagoda.
• Mr. Zhang revealed that Ying Huanhuan was Gu Han’s Dao Companion and had become the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Saintess after mastering Tai Ling Ancestor’s inheritance and gaining recognition from the Tai Ling Ancient Map.
• Mr. Zhang said that Qing Yanjing, Young Master of the Qing Lineage, had recovered the Budu Ancient Clan’s lost Eight-Part Budu with Gu Han’s help.
• The audience marveled at how Gu Han had found inheritances associated with several ancient ancestors.

Mr. Zhang revealed that Heavenly Secret Pavilion could not deduce Gu Han’s secrets and warned the Great Thousand World against provoking Black Tortoise Hall. The Demon-Slaying Stele then named Gu Han a Demon-Slaying King above Qin Tian, spreading news of his overwhelming power across the world.

• Mr. Zhang said Gu Han had found four Ancestor inheritances through his ability to deduce heaven’s workings and warned others not to provoke Black Tortoise Hall.
• Mr. Zhang revealed that Mr. Heavenly Secret had learned he would become Gu Han’s master and had disclosed information about Gu Han to see how he responded.
• The Demon-Slaying Stele shook, shone with golden light, and added Gu Han’s name above Qin Tian as a Demon-Slaying King with ten thousand points.
• People in Holy Abyss City speculated that Gu Han had killed powerful Demon Emperors or many other Outer Realm Evil Clan members in an instant.
• News of Gu Han’s ranking spread throughout the Great Thousand World, prompting powerful clans and factions to consider where he would establish his territory.

The Great Thousand World's forces searched for Black Tortoise Hall while uncovering hidden Outer Realm Evil Clan schemes, including an infiltrator in the True Phoenix Realm exposed by Feng Qing'er. After learning Feng Qing'er’s master was Gu Han, the Outer Realm Evil Clan made plans to kill him, then received word that he had appeared on Cangyuan Continent in the Demon Realm.

• The Great Thousand World's powers searched for Black Tortoise Hall and debated whether Gu Han would establish it on the West Heaven, southern, or Tianluo Continent.
• The powers began inspecting their territories and discovered signs of Outer Realm Evil Clan infiltration and covert schemes.
• The True Phoenix Clan discovered that a Heavenly Sovereign-level True Phoenix had defected to the Outer Realm Evil Clan while still in a lower plane and had infiltrated the clan.
• Feng Qing'er opposed the Phoenix King's attempt to undo her master's soul restriction, and Gu Han appeared as a spiritual body, revealing himself as her master.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan's Sequence Heavenly Demon Emperors discussed encircling and killing Gu Han after his plans had disrupted their schemes.
• The Sequence Heavenly Demon Emperors learned that Gu Han had appeared in the Demon Realm on Cangyuan Continent.

Gu Han reclaimed territory across the Demon Realm, inspiring the Great Thousand World to counterattack. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan returned to the Fire Spirit Clan to take Emperor Flame, and Lin Dong joined him by attacking the clan’s barrier.

• Gu Han killed the Outer Realm Evil Clan forces guarding continents and lower planes, then carried each reclaimed territory away with the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Over three years, Gu Han evaded the Demon Emperors and repelled two Heavenly Demon Emperors, while cultivators across the Great Thousand World grew bolder and began counterattacking.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Fire Spirit Clan and demanded Emperor Flame and its inherited sacred flame from Huo Ling Ancestor.
• Huo Ling Ancestor demanded that Xiao Yan hand over the Burning Art, and Xiao Yan refused.
• Lin Dong arrived and attacked the Fire Spirit Clan’s protective barrier, insisting that he and Xiao Yan would take Emperor Flame away.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong overwhelmed the Fire Spirit Clan, while Gu Han recruited Mandala and prepared to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace to break through to Sacred Grade. When Gu Han sensed a summons and viewed the battle, he confronted a figure from the Mohe Ancient Clan for interfering.

• Xiao Yan struck the Fire Spirit Clan’s protective array with a hidden Fire Lotus, and Lin Dong used the War Emperor Dharma Image and allied battle intent to join the fight against Huo Ling Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong suppressed the Fire Spirit Clan as Huo Ling Ancestor struggled against them.
• Gu Han appeared before Mandala in the Daluo Golden Pool, revealed her origins, and invited her to accompany him into the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Gu Han offered Mandala the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritances if she acknowledged him as her master, and Mandala accepted.
• Gu Han told Mandala he was a peak Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and was waiting for the Ancient Heavenly Palace to appear so he could pursue its power and break through to Sacred Grade.
• Gu Han sensed a summons, viewed the battle at the Fire Spirit Clan, and asked whether the Mohe Ancient Clan intended to make an enemy of the Black Tortoise Hall.

Gu Han confronted Mohe Ming and Huo Ling Ancestor over the Fire Spirit Clan’s capture of the Emperor Flame, exposing the history behind it and rejecting Mohe Ming’s challenge. The chapter ended as Gu Han sealed Mohe Ming’s power and unleashed a black-and-white tornado against him.

• Gu Han recognized the Mohe Ancient Clan’s Mohe Boundless Body and recalled its failed attempts to arrange Qing Yanjing’s marriage to Mohe Tian.
• Mohe Ming defended the Mohe Ancient Clan’s intervention, but Gu Han accused it of bullying the weak while he was fighting the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Gu Han revealed that Huo Ling Ancestor had captured the Emperor Flame after it helped the Fire Spirit Clan’s Clan Chief, and Huo Ling Ancestor abandoned his denial when Gu Han offered to verify the account.
• Huo Ling Ancestor claimed the Fire Spirit Clan had the right to take the Emperor Flame because it was a treasure belonging to the strong, and Gu Han challenged the clan’s logic.
• Mohe Ming proposed a contest, but Gu Han vanished, sealed his power, and attacked him with a black-and-white tornado.

Gu Han killed Mohe Ming’s spirit body and forced the Fire Spirit Clan to promise Emperor Flame, its Inheritance Flame, and resources. Seven days later, he took Mandala through a dangerous spatial barrier into the ruined Ancient Heavenly Palace and reached the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, where he sought the Nine-Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s two hearts.

• Gu Han’s Yin Yang Twin Dragons shattered Mohe Ming’s spirit body, stunning the watching powerhouses.
• Gu Han demanded that Huo Ling Ancestor return Emperor Flame, surrender the Fire Spirit Clan’s Inheritance Flame, and provide resources, threatening to destroy the clan if he was dissatisfied.
• Martial Ancestor Lin Dong suggested using Gu Han’s remaining spirit bodies to destroy the Fire Spirit Clan, but Huo Ling Ancestor promised to comply instead.
• Back on Tianluo Continent, Gu Han told Mandala to seize the Eternal Undying Body in the future and assured her he would help.
• Seven days later, Gu Han brought Mandala through a chaotic spatial storm and a special barrier into the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Gu Han traveled to the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum and identified the Nine-Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s two hearts as his destination.

Gu Han exposed and suppressed the Nine-Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s deception in the Ancient Heavenly Palace, then preserved the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul and arranged for Mandala to inherit his techniques. A year later, a Tai Xu Dragon Phoenix’s evolved Bloodline sparked a conflict among the True Dragon, True Phoenix, and True Huang Clans.

• Gu Han used the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and the Heavenly Emperor Sword to reveal the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor hidden within the apparent Heavenly Emperor phantom.
• Gu Han explained how the Nine-Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor had disguised himself and planned to escape, then began refining him to aid Gu Han’s breakthrough.
• Gu Han stabilized the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, and Chu Fan agreed to live on as a cultivator rather than as the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chu Fan consented to pass the Undying Golden Body, One Qi Transforms Three Purities, and his Lingxiao Palace inheritance to Mandala, whom Gu Han sent to merge with her true body and break through.
• A year later, the True Dragon and True Phoenix Clans went to war over a Tai Xu Dragon Phoenix whose Bloodline had evolved, while the True Huang Clan supported the True Dragon Clan.

Mr. Zhang revealed how Gu Han’s Black Tortoise Sword helped Ying Huanhuan repel the Phoenix King and demanded the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood Art from the True Phoenix Clan. The Ancient Heavenly Palace reappeared as the Black Tortoise Hall, and a mysterious woman in the Divine Beast Sea wondered why she could not calculate something.

• Mr. Zhang explained that Ying Huanhuan used the Tai Ling Ancient Map to help Zi Yan escape the Phoenix King, and revealed that Zi Yan was Gu Han’s Dao Companion and a Void Dragon Phoenix.
• Mr. Zhang said Gu Han had refined the Black Tortoise Sword from the Heavenly Emperor Sword and used it with the Tai Ling Ancient Map to severely injure the Phoenix King.
• Gu Han’s phantom demanded that the True Phoenix Clan hand over the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood Art if it wished to survive.
• The Ancient Heavenly Palace reappeared as the Black Tortoise Hall, with entrances established across the Great Thousand World and an invitation for people to travel to Tianluo Continent.
• A mysterious woman sat on a Mysterious Turtle shell in the Divine Beast Sea and wondered why she could not calculate something.

Gu Han subdued Xuan Ling with the Turtle Snake Seal and assigned her a period of powerlessness to temper her state of mind. He then outlined the Mysterious Turtle Clan’s future role in his Netherworld Realm before visiting Luo Shen and beginning to explain the origins of the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

• The beautiful woman failed to locate the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s gates and insisted she would not acknowledge Gu Han as her master.
• Gu Han appeared in the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, branded Xuan Ling’s divine soul with the Turtle Seal, and confined her in an ordinary turtle’s form to reflect and cultivate her state of mind.
• The Supreme Elder of the Mysterious Turtle Clan thanked Gu Han, who said the clan would bridge the yin and yang realms and that their ancestor could become a Protector of his Netherworld Realm.
• Gu Han traveled to the Sacred River and gave the recovering Luo Shen wine made from a top-tier Heavenly Demon Emperor’s golden lotus.
• Gu Han told Luo Shen that the Outer Realm Evil Clan called themselves the Saint Clan and came from the Tian Yuan World.

Gu Han explained Tian Yuan World's cultivation system and its gods to Luo God, comparing it with the Great Thousand World and describing how the Sky Ranking constrained cultivation. He offered to weaken the Sky Ranking's influence for Luo God, leaving her surprised when he said she did not need to do anything.

• Gu Han explained Tian Yuan World's realms, the sequence of its innate gods, and how the Outer Realm Evil Clan's invasion had hindered the Great Thousand World's potential.
• Gu Han described the Heavenly Evil God's strength and explained that defeating him required Supreme God power, attainable through the Sky Ranking and the Power of All Living Beings.
• Luo God asked what realm the Ninth Sequence Heavenly Demon Emperor had reached, and Gu Han said it was at the peak of the Saint Realm before explaining Saint cultivation.
• Luo God asked whether she could cultivate Tian Yuan World's methods without demonic qi, and Gu Han said the Sky Ranking still rejected other paths.
• Gu Han offered to weaken the Sky Ranking's suppression for Luo God, then said he would handle it himself when she asked what she needed to do.

After recovering at the Luo God Clan, Gu Han traveled to Azure Wave and intervened as the Outer Realm Evil Clan attacked a human city. He battled the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor and left him suppressed inside the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.

• Gu Han left the Luo God Clan after nearly half a year and headed for the Demon Realm to hunt Demon Emperors and gather Golden Lotus Origins.
• Gu Han arrived on Azure Wave, where the Outer Realm Evil Clan was attacking humans and besieging a giant city.
• As the city lord prepared to burn her origin, Gu Han purified the evil forces around the city and drew the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor's attention.
• The Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked Gu Han, but Gu Han struck him with the Black Tortoise Step and blocked his blood-sacrifice attack with the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Gu Han and the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor fought inside the pagoda, where its suppressive power steadily put the Demon Emperor at a disadvantage.

Gu Han suppressed the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor in the Demon Realm before three more Heavenly Demon Emperors arrived and the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor broadcast the confrontation to the Great Thousand World. As the new battle began on the Azure Wave Continent, Gu Han effortlessly evaded the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attack and nullified the Demon Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor’s soul curse.

• Gu Han sealed the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor inside the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and refined it until it vanished.
• The Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor, the Three-Eyed Heavenly Demon Emperor, and the Demon Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor arrived as Gu Han sensed their approach.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor projected the confrontation across the Great Thousand World, where observers learned Gu Han had suppressed the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• The Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked Gu Han with a blood-colored claw while the Demon Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor launched a Soul-Devouring Demon Curse.
• Gu Han dodged the claw with the Black Tortoise Step and used a Black Tortoise phantom to neutralize the soul curse, astonishing the Demon Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Gu Han summoned the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body and overwhelmed the three Heavenly Demon Emperors despite their coordinated assault. He sealed and refined all three, leaving the Great Thousand World’s forces victorious and cheering.

• The Three-Eyed Heavenly Demon Emperor sealed the surrounding space while the Blood Zombie and Demon Heart Heavenly Demon Emperors attacked Gu Han with blood and soul techniques.
• Gu Han summoned the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body, broke the spatial confinement, and used its power to disperse the blood sea and destroy the soul spears.
• Gu Han pursued the retreating Demon Emperors, bit off the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s arms, and used the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda’s light to damage all three.
• Gu Han unleashed Black Tortoise Suppresses Demons, Heaven and Earth Sealed, and the pagoda enveloped and refined the three Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Gu Han emerged from the battle slightly pale but steady as the Great Thousand World’s onlookers erupted into cheers.

Gu Han’s victory over four mid-grade Heavenly Demon Emperors inspired the Great Thousand World, but the peak Heavenly Demon Emperor Heaven-Slaying arrived to challenge him. As the two prepared to fight, Gu Han revealed the Black Tortoise Emperor Sword.

• Gu Han’s battle and declaration to suppress and kill invaders reached the Great Thousand World, whose people responded with gratitude and hope.
• Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor appeared and threatened Gu Han with blade intent that pierced the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda’s defenses.
• Gu Han strengthened his Black Tortoise manifestation and answered Heaven-Slaying’s warning that he could become another Immortal Great Emperor.
• Heaven-Slaying’s attack silently erased several layers of Gu Han’s defensive barrier, prompting Gu Han to praise his control and address him as Three Lotus Saint.
• Gu Han drew the Black Tortoise Emperor Sword, and Heaven-Slaying showed fighting spirit at the sight of the unfamiliar peak Sacred Grade Peerless Sacred Object.

Gu Han used Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s devastating attack to transform his Black Tortoise True Body and absorb the collapsing Azure Wave Continent into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda. He escaped with the strengthened treasure, leaving Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor furious and promising to fight him head-on next time.

• Gu Han blocked Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s law-erasing slash with the Black Tortoise Emperor Sword and the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Gu Han deliberately let the Emperor’s deathly blade intent penetrate his defenses, then unleashed Heaven-Devouring Earth-Devouring to disperse his Black Tortoise True Body across the Azure Wave Continent.
• Gu Han used the Emperor’s blade intent, the continent’s mountains and rivers, and the remaining life force and wishes of its living beings to swallow the collapsing continent into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor realized Gu Han had used his attack and prepared a powerful strike, but Gu Han escaped with Void Escape before it could land.
• Gu Han and the strengthened Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda vanished, leaving Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor amid the resulting void and chaos.

After Gu Han’s victory on the Azure Wave Continent made him a legend across the Great Thousand World, he returned to the Luo God Clan to refine the captured Demon Souls and harness the continent’s origin. As his cultivation advanced, the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and the worlds within it grew stronger.

• The Great Thousand World celebrated Gu Han’s defeat of the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor and his transformation of the Azure Wave Continent into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• The Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor vowed to kill Gu Han and departed through the chaotic void.
• Gu Han returned to the Luo God Clan and began refining the Demon Souls of Shadow, Three-Eyed, Blood Zombie, and Demon Heart with the Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique.
• The refined power strengthened Gu Han’s aura and helped stabilize his realm as he pressed toward a higher level.
• The Azure Wave Continent’s origin revitalized the Ancient Heavenly Palace and Immortal Heavenly Tomb inside the pagoda, while nourishing its collected lower planes.
• Gu Han sensed the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda becoming sturdier, larger, and more powerful.