Chapter Summaries

Wen Zhong and the others planned a surprise attack on the North Sea Rebels, with Yang Chan proposing an Illusion Array and a powerful combatant to guard against unforeseen threats. Kong Xuan sent an incarnation to the Marquis of the North's Mansion while his true body stayed with the army, and the concealed troops set out north.

• Yang Chan warned that an expert might be supporting the North Sea Rebels and proposed using the Lotus Treasure Lamp to create an Illusion Array while surprise troops attacked.
• Kong Xuan created a Five-Colored Incarnation to go to the Marquis of the North's Mansion, while his true body stayed with the army to join the campaign.
• Yang Chan activated the Lotus Treasure Lamp to conceal the military camp, and Nezha, Yang Jian, and Yuan Hong helped lead the hidden troops north.
• Styx, Nuwa, and Houtu watched the preparations and praised Nezha, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan.

As rogue great powers joined the Marquis of the North, Chong Houhu’s covert role in the North Sea rebellion came to light. Kong Xuan sensed Hunyuan Golden Immortals both in Chong Houhu’s mansion and among the rebels, and realized the mission would be more complicated than expected.

• Kong Xuan's Incarnation entered the Marquis of the North's Mansion, while Nezha and the others reached the North Sea border, but their advance halted when they encountered a new problem.
• Rogue great powers, drawn by Dao Venerate Styx’s promise of an opportunity to Attain Dao and protection from Saint-level Powerhouses, entered the Virtual God Realm and joined the Marquis of the North.
• Chong Houhu grew ambitious with the rogue cultivators’ support and was revealed to have secretly encouraged Yuan Futong’s rebellion to test Great Shang’s strength.
• Kong Xuan sensed several Hunyuan Golden Immortal auras in Chong Houhu’s mansion and in the rebels’ camp, and concluded that the situation would not follow the plan they had discussed.

Yang Jiao proposed using Kong Xuan to hold off the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals while the Surprise Troops crushed Yuan Futong’s rebels and exposed the Marquis of the North. After Kong Xuan sent the plan to Wen Zhong, the army prepared to attack under Yang Chan’s concealment.

• Kong Xuan warned Nezha, Yang Jian, and Yang Jiao that Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals were stationed in the rebel camp and urged them to delay their operation.
• Yang Jiao proposed having Kong Xuan hold back the enemy immortals while the troops swiftly crushed the rebels, then using the Marquis of the North’s response to confirm his involvement.
• Yang Jian urged the group to capture Yuan Futong alive if possible, while Nezha pushed to send word to Wen Zhong and attack.
• Kong Xuan used a Jade Token to send the plan to Wen Zhong, who ordered the army to prepare for battle after learning the Marquis of the North harbored ulterior motives.
• Yang Chan strengthened the Illusion Realm with the Precious Lotus Lantern as the assembled legions prepared to attack the Marquis of the North’s Mansion.

Kong Xuan launched a surprise attack on Yuan Futong’s rebel camp while his incarnations and Wen Zhong prepared to secure the Marquis of the North’s Mansion. Nezha, Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yuan Hong led the Great Shang forces into battle as Yuan Futong ordered his allies to counterattack.

• Kong Xuan stationed his Earth Attribute incarnation at the Marquis of the North’s Mansion and attacked the rebel camp with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Kong Xuan trapped five Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage experts in his Five Elements World, while his four other incarnations attacked them and left to reinforce the mansion.
• Yang Jian led Nezha, Yang Jiao, Yuan Hong, and the Great Shang forces in an assault on the rebel army.
• Yuan Futong and the gathered vassal lords and Ten Thousand Spirits Tribe leaders reacted with disbelief as the Great Shang forces overwhelmed the rebels.
• Yuan Futong ordered the vassal lords and tribe leaders to return to their armies and counterattack.

Yuan Futong rallied the Vassal Lords and summoned a dozen young cultivators to help hold off the enemy generals. Nezha, Yang Jian, and the others gained the upper hand against their opponents, but Jin Zha and Mu Zha struggled under a group of well-equipped attackers.

• Yuan Futong roused the Vassal Lords, who formed Military Formations and launched a counterattack.
• Yuan Futong asked the young cultivators accompanying him to help hold back the enemy generals, and they obeyed.
• Qing Xu attacked Yang Jian with Heavenly Thunder and used his One Yuan Heavy Water Bead to block Nezha's flames.
• Nezha cracked Qing Xu's bead with the Universe Ring and trapped him in the Chaos Tunic, but another cultivator rescued Qing Xu.
• Nezha, Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and the others fought off their encirclement, while Jin Zha and Mu Zha struggled against five or six opponents.

Nezha, Yang Jiao, and Yang Jian helped stabilize the fighting against the North Sea army, while Yuan Futong used the Marquis's Golden Seal to rally his forces against Yuan Hong. The North Sea troops began regrouping, so the Great Shang fighters unleashed their strongest abilities to disrupt them again.

• Nezha, Yang Jiao, and Yang Jian pulled opponents away from Jin Zha and Mu Zha, allowing the brothers to fight one enemy each.
• Yuan Futong coordinated the North Sea army with the Marquis's Golden Seal, but Yuan Hong and the Six Freaks of Plum Mountain initially kept its larger forces disorganized.
• Yuan Futong rallied the North Sea troops and the forces of the Seventy-Two Vassal Lords and several hundred Ten Thousand Spirits Tribes, forcing Yuan Hong to regroup his own army.
• Yuan Hong warned Nezha, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and the others that the North Sea army was about to unleash its full strength.
• Yang Jiao empowered himself with the Law of Heaven Manifesting Earth, Yang Jian used his Heaven's Eye to pierce an opponent, and Nezha fought five enemies while shooting North Sea commanders with the Zhentian Bow.
• Yuan Hong led his army to delay Yuan Futong's formation as Jin Zha and Mu Zha drew their opponents away from the main battles.

Nezha, Yang Jian, and Yang Jiao overwhelmed the Rogue Great Powers' disciples defending the North Sea, killing several of them while the surprise attack devastated Yuan Futong's army. At the Marquis of the North's Mansion, Chong Houhu and the gathered great powers learned of the fighting and debated sending troops, but Chong Houhu had yet to give an order.

• Nezha bound and killed one of his five opponents with the Chaos Tunic and Golden Brick, destroying his Nascent Soul.
• Yang Jian killed a wounded opponent with his Heavenly Eye, and Yang Jiao smashed another disciple to blood mist with his Fangtian Huaji Halberd.
• Nezha, Yang Jian, and Yang Jiao continued to suppress their remaining opponents as Nezha used the Zhentian Bow to pick off North Sea army commanders.
• Chong Houhu and the great powers at the Marquis of the North's Mansion noticed the fighting and learned that a surprise force had caught the North Sea army off guard.
• Old Ancestor Xuan Shuang and True Lord Chi Xiao urged the gathering to rescue the five intercepted great powers and destroy the attackers, but Chong Houhu remained silent.

Chong Houhu suspected Wen Zhong had set a trap in the North Sea and decided to rebel while attacking Wen Zhong’s army from behind. Kong Xuan’s clones warned Wen Zhong and prepared a concealed Five Elements Great Formation at the Northern Lands border.

• Chong Houhu reasoned that Wen Zhong’s army at the Northern Lands border was baiting the Northern Lands forces into rescuing the North Sea.
• Chong Houhu announced his intent to secede from Great Shang and ordered the troops and cultivators to attack Wen Zhong’s army from the rear.
• Kong Xuan’s clone secretly sent Chong Houhu’s plan to his four other clones, who relayed it to Wen Zhong.
• Kong Xuan’s four clones changed course, reached the Northern Lands border, and concealed a Five Elements Great Formation made with the Five Needle Pine’s formation cores.

Kong Xuan used the Five Needle Pine and his Destiny World to strengthen his Five-Colored Divine Light as he prepared an ambush for Chong Houhu’s army. Wen Zhong and Fairy Yang readied the Shang Army, and Kong Xuan’s formation trapped the Rogue Great Powers as the assault began.

• Kong Xuan’s Five Needle Pine became the World Tree in his Destiny World, strengthening his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Wen Zhong received Kong Xuan’s message, and he and Fairy Yang prepared the Shang Army and its formations.
• A scout reported that Chonghou Hu was leading a million-strong army toward the Northern Lands border, and Wen Zhong ordered the original plan to proceed.
• Chonghou Hu ordered his army to attack the Shang camp, but Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Great Formation separated him and his army from the trapped Rogue Great Powers.
• Kong Xuan’s incarnation attacked the Rogue Great Powers, then merged into the formation’s Earth position and increased its power.

Kong Xuan’s Five Great Clones trapped the Rogue Great Powers in the Five Elements Great Formation while Wen Zhong attacked Chong Houhu’s army. Chong Houhu was left to face Wen Zhong without his strongest allies and realized he had been drawn into an ambush.

• Kong Xuan’s Five Great Clones absorbed the formation foundations and moved the Five Elements Great Formation away with the Rogue Great Powers trapped inside.
• Chong Houhu failed to find the formation before Wen Zhong led the Yin Shang army in an assault.
• Chong Houhu reorganized his forces to meet Wen Zhong, but his planned advantages disappeared.
• Chong Houhu recognized that Wen Zhong had anticipated his battle plan and remained furious that the formation had separated his army from the Rogue Great Powers.

Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Great Formation separated Chong Houhu’s army from its powerful cultivator allies, allowing Wen Zhong’s elite troops to gain a decisive advantage. Wen Zhong expected to defeat the rebels before Kong Xuan’s trapped opponents could escape.

• Wen Zhong’s army used its Military Formation to destroy Chong Houhu’s forces while Wen Zhong praised Kong Xuan’s Formation.
• Nuwa explained that Kong Xuan’s Formation used Human Dao Destiny to expel Chong Houhu’s army while trapping the Rogue Great Powers outside it.
• Houtu, Dream Spirit, Nuwa, and Styx praised Kong Xuan’s understanding of Human Way Destiny and the Five Elements.
• Kong Xuan’s main body trapped the North Sea powers, while his five clones trapped the Great Powers on Chong Houhu’s side.
• Wen Zhong resolved to crush Chong Houhu’s army before the trapped Great Powers could escape, confident that Great Shang would then defeat them.

Nezha and the others eliminated the Rogue disciples at the North Sea while helping Yuan Hong overwhelm Yuan Futong’s army. Nezha killed Yuan Futong before he could turn the battle with a blood-fueled Military Formation.

• Kong Xuan left the Northern Lands battlefield to reunite with his Five Great Clones and strengthen his suppression of the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals.
• Yang Jian and Yang Jiao killed their opponents and helped Jin Zha and Mu Zha, while Nezha killed Qing Xu; all the Rogue disciples on the North Sea battlefield were eliminated.
• Nezha repeatedly shot Yuan Futong’s generals, preventing his Military Formation from fully forming as Yuan Hong’s army pushed through the North Sea rebels.
• Yuan Futong burned his vital blood to empower his Military Formation and summon a Black Tiger, but Nezha shot him with the Fire Tipped Spear and burned him to nothingness with Samadhi True Fire.

Yuan Hong and the others defeated the Northern Sea rebels and hurried to support the Northern Lands. Meanwhile, Styx left the Virtual God Realm and prepared to use the Earth God List and the Three-colored Lotus Platforms for a vast operation.

• Yuan Hong announced Yuan Futong’s defeat, and the Northern Sea soldiers surrendered as the Six Freaks of Plum Mountain killed the remaining resisting generals.
• Yang Jian confirmed the Northern Sea was pacified and led Yuan Hong, Nezha, and the others toward the Northern Lands, leaving Jin Zha and Mu Zha to guard the prisoners.
• Styx left the Virtual God Realm and arrived at the summit of Zhou Mountain, where he summoned the Earth God List.
• Styx awakened the 1,296 million Earth Vein Incarnations, who turned their attention to the Three-colored Lotus Platforms in their secret realms.
• Styx’s lotus platforms held enough accumulated spiritual energy to restore the Great Wilderness’s Innate Spiritual Qi to its level during the Dragon-Han Kalpa.

Styx began transforming the 1.296 billion Earth Vein Secret Realms into independent Mortal Realms, using their vast foundation to ease pressure on the Great Wilderness and cultivate stronger ascendants. He left the realms poised for the creation of their own Origin Laws.

• Styx had his Earth Vein Incarnations distribute Innate Spiritual Qi through the earth veins and Earth Vein Secret Realms, strengthening them while the Three-colored Lotus Platforms regulated their growth.
• The important Earth Vein Secret Realms became Great Thousand Worlds, and their Earth Vein Incarnations reached the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage.
• Styx awakened all 1.296 billion Earth Vein Incarnations, causing the Earth Vein World and the Primordial Continent to tremble as the Three-colored Lotus Platforms shone.
• Styx determined to separate the Earth Vein Worlds from the earth veins and weave independent Origin Laws for them without damaging the Great Wilderness.
• Styx planned for the Mortal Realms to divert pressure from the Great Wilderness while giving their strongest cultivators a solid foundation for ascending or pursuing a higher Dao.

Styx began transforming the 1.296 billion Earth Vein Secret Realms into independent Mortal Realm worlds while preserving connections to the Great Wilderness. The worlds began replacing Great Wilderness Rules with their own rules, and their transformation was underway.

• Styx directed his 1.296 billion Earth Vein Incarnations to separate the Secret Realm worlds from the Great Wilderness Earth veins while nourishing those veins with their World Origin Power.
• Styx's incarnations used his Blood Great Dao to weave Mortal Realm Origin Dao Principles into the worlds as the Three-colored Lotus Platforms replenished them and took over suppressing the Earth veins.
• Styx infused the Three-colored Lotus Platforms with blood-colored Mana, causing each one to form and release a Three-colored Lotus Seed.
• Styx's Mortal Realm Rules connected with the Three-colored Lotus Seeds and merged into their respective Secret Realm worlds.
• The 1.296 billion Secret Realm worlds began replacing the Great Wilderness Rules with independent rules and underwent a massive transformation.

Styx transformed the 1.296 billion Earth Vein Secret Realm worlds into independent Mortal Realms, each with unique Laws and a path to ascension into the Great Wilderness. After realizing their Laws still lacked a final step, he began integrating the Mortal Realms into the Earth Vein Nodes.

• Styx and the Earth Vein Incarnations poured World Power into the Three-colored Lotus Seeds, completing the transformation of the 1.296 billion worlds into Mortal Realms.
• Styx established unique Law systems in each Mortal Realm, along with Heavenly Tribulation trials and an Ascension Platform leading to the Great Wilderness Main Realm.
• Styx realized the Mortal Realms' Laws had not fully integrated and decided to add another step to complete their formation.
• Styx spread the Earth God List across the Great Wilderness's Earth veins and commanded the Mortal Realms to retract into their corresponding Earth Vein Nodes.
• The Three-colored Lotus Platforms detached from the Mortal Realm cores and took their places on the Earth veins, continuing to suppress them and maintain the Heaven and Earth Samsara Mountain Protection Array.

Styx transformed the 1.296 billion Earth Vein Secret Realm worlds into unstable Lotus Seeds inside the Inner Chaos, where they absorbed Chaos Spiritual Qi in preparation to become Mortal Realms. As the Great Wilderness’s Saints reacted to his plan, the Witch Clan moved to help stabilize the earth veins and nurture more of their people.

• Styx brought the Earth God List and the 1.296 billion Secret Realm worlds into the Inner Chaos, then used his Earth Vein Incarnations to transform them into Lotus Seeds.
• Styx left the Lotus Seeds to absorb Chaos Spiritual Qi and returned his Earth Vein Incarnations to the earth veins to guard them.
• The Earth Vein Incarnations maintained the Heaven and Earth Samsara Mountain Protection Array as a faint barrier and tiny space formed around them.
• Taiqing Lao Tzu, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Tongtian Sect Leader, Jieyin, and Zhunti reacted with awe and concern to Styx’s creation of the Mortal Realms.
• The Ancestral Witches sent their clansmen to help stabilize the earth veins, while the eleven Ancestral Witches and other powerful members of the Witch Clan used their blood to nurture more members.

Styx watched the Lotus Seeds transform into World Seeds as they absorbed Chaos Qi, laying the foundation for the future Mortal Realm. In the Virtual God Realm, Wen Zhong’s forces crushed the North Sea rebellion and the Marquis of the North’s army, while news of their victory sparked a dispute at the Great Shang court.

• Styx observed the Lotus Seeds absorb Chaos Qi and merge with the Blood Great Dao’s World Law, bringing them closer to becoming the Mortal Realm’s World Singularities.
• Nezha and the vanguard returned to the Northern Lands, where Wen Zhong’s army defeated Chong Houhu’s forces and captured Chong Houhu.
• Wen Zhong and Yuan Hong joined Kong Xuan, who used the Ambush from Ten Sides Military Formation and the Five Elements Great Formation to kill the trapped Rogue Great Powers.
• Wen Zhong’s army pacified the North Sea rebellion and wiped out the forces of the Marquis of the North’s Mansion, earning great acclaim in Zhaoge.
• Bi Gan, Shang Rong, and the Conservative Faction condemned the destruction of the Marquis’s forces without the Human Emperor’s decree, while the Radical Faction defended Wen Zhong’s actions as a response to rebellion.

Di Xin silenced the court by dismissing Shang Rong and stripping Bi Gan of his post as Deputy Chancellor. He then used the Northern rebellion to bring the northern territories under direct court control, leaving Wen Zhong, Kong Xuan, and Huang Feihu to enforce his orders.

• Di Xin dismissed Shang Rong from office and ordered him to retire to his hometown.
• Di Xin transferred Bi Gan from Deputy Chancellor to Chief of the Imperial Clan Court, tasking him with disciplining the imperial family.
• Di Xin warned officials against disrupting court affairs and defended Wen Zhong’s actions in suppressing the rebellion.
• Di Xin ordered Wen Zhong and the northern Vassal Lords and the Ten Thousand Spirits Tribe’s chieftain to return to Zhaoge for reporting and instruction.
• Di Xin placed the northern territories and the Ten Thousand Spirits Tribe under direct court rule, appointed Kong Xuan Protector-General, and sent Huang Feihu north with one hundred thousand troops.

Di Xin decreed that the imperial court would take direct control of the Northern Lands and warned that anyone who resisted would be treated as a rebel. After debating whether to submit or join the other vassal lords against Great Shang, the Northern forces bowed to the decree and prepared to go to Zhaoge with Wen Zhong's army.

• An official warned Di Xin that the Northern Lands were weakened by war and that the vassal lords might panic at direct imperial rule.
• Di Xin defended his decree as necessary to quell unrest and declared that anyone who caused trouble before the Tribulation ended would be executed as a rebel.
• Di Xin dismissed court, and officials accepted his decision without objection.
• The Northern vassal lords and chiefs debated whether to go to Zhaoge, resist the decree, or join the other vassal lords against Great Shang.
• Under the threat of Great Shang's army, the Northern forces submitted and prepared to travel to Zhaoge with Wen Zhong's army.