Chapter Summaries

Xuan Jian and the phoenix destroyed the regenerative giant beetle, but its remains released a Blood-Eyed Black Crow that hunted Fairy Cai Feng. After Cai Feng spent her life force to attack the crow, its third eye extinguished her Golden Flame, leaving her defenseless.

• Xuan Jian struck the giant beetle repeatedly, but its Black Qi regenerated its shattered body.
• The phoenix arrived and blasted the beetle apart with nine attacks, destroying it and dispersing its poison.
• Three black lights formed a strange black hole that released a Three-Eyed Crow, which attacked Fairy Cai Feng and pursued her through the sky.
• Fairy Cai Feng fought back with flames, then burned her Heart's Blood and life force to turn her fire Golden and charge the crow.
• The crow fired blood-red light from its third eye, extinguishing Fairy Cai Feng's Golden Flame and leaving her horrified and exposed.

Houyi battled a Blood-Eyed Black Crow until a gigantic creature emerged from a black hole and crushed the fleeing cultivators. Confucius and a cultivator attacked the creature, but its strange power resisted their blows as Houyi struggled to heal from its assault.

• Houyi used the Sun-Shooting Bow to wound the Blood-Eyed Black Crow, then raised his cultivation and fought its black power with a Dao arrow.
• The crow exploded and formed a black vortex, from which an enormous palm descended and crushed Fairy Cai Feng and Xuan Jian while Houyi and others fled.
• Confucius attacked the giant creature emerging from the black hole with three beams of Heavenly Dao power, but it nullified them and injured Houyi with its roar.
• A cultivator severed the creature's left arm with a spatial treasure, and the creature killed him with a sweep of its other arm.

The Dragon Crocodile and other cultivators fought the Ghost Ape, but a monstrous creature made from corpses seized the Dragon Crocodile. Sage Kong and Sage Guiguzi discussed the threat of the undying evil creatures, and Guiguzi prepared to travel to the Taiyi World.

• The Dragon Crocodile and a crane attacked the Ghost Ape, but the Ghost Ape crushed the crane and grievously wounded the Dragon Crocodile.
• A six-armed giant fought the Ghost Ape until both it and the Dragon Crocodile were exhausted, and the Immortal Slaying Sword intervened to tear the Ghost Ape apart.
• A giant Octopus Monster formed from flesh, bones, and broken weapons seized the Dragon Crocodile and tried to fuse its body with its own.
• A strange symbol opened a void and transported the Dragon Crocodile to a palace where Sage Kong and Sage Guiguzi discussed the evil creatures and their ability to annihilate the power of laws.
• Sage Kong asked Guiguzi to go to the Taiyi World, and Guiguzi drew black substance out of the Dragon Crocodile while his light rapidly melted around it.

Meng Ke, Xing Tian, and Houyi struggled to contain the Octopus Monster and its smaller offshoots, while Demon forces and the Three-headed Dog subdued two of them. The immense original creature avoided their prepared formation, leaving the cultivators fearing a calamity and wondering what purpose it served.

• Meng Ke, Xing Tian, and Houyi suspected the Octopus Monster was deliberately consuming refuse to generate a strange power, and cultivators told Meng Ke they had prepared a formation to trap it.
• Xing Tian attacked the monster, but it blocked his axe, struck him down, and split its severed tentacles into smaller Octopus Monsters.
• Meng Ke used his turtle-script book to weaken the creatures, and Houyi destroyed one with an arrow as flames and blue lightning burned away its regenerating flesh.
• Demon cultivators pinned one small Octopus Monster with the Pillars of Punishment and drained its power, while the Three-headed Dog tore another apart with its clones.
• The original Octopus Monster changed course and moved away from the prepared formation, leaving Meng Ke and the others unable to determine its purpose or how to destroy it.

Ao Cang fought the Octopus Monster as its Black Qi transformed the battlefield into a devouring swamp and produced a mud puppet. He discovered that the puppet redirected his attacks and their force back into his own body, leaving him weakened with no clear way to reach the monster.

• The Octopus Monster spread Black Qi across the ground, turning it into a vast swamp that threatened to swallow everything.
• A colossal muddy hand and a barrage of mud arrows trapped Ao Cang, but he used his Darkness Law and Destructive Power to break the enclosing space.
• The Octopus Monster submerged itself and formed an armored mud puppet that attacked Ao Cang with a broken sword.
• Ao Cang struck the puppet with his fist and then his sword, but its power clashed with his and sent destructive force back at him.
• Ao Cang flicked the puppet's head and later smashed it into the swamp, only to suffer backlash, pain, and weakness from his own attacks.

Ao Cang used his Darkness Law and doppelgangers to overcome the Octopus Monster’s strange attacks and trap it within his domain. He left the monster exposed in Eternal Night, but its true core remained hidden as a black spot rushed toward him.

• Ao Cang created four doppelgangers and used one to destroy the mud puppet, discovering that the monster could erase only one of them at a time.
• Ao Cang charged the Octopus Monster, but its divine-power tide repelled him and dragged him into a vortex while the monster evaded his counterattack.
• Ao Cang and his remaining doppelgangers merged their domains and summoned Mingyue, whose light hardened the quagmire and exposed the Octopus Monster’s tentacles.
• Ao Cang unleashed Eternal Night, which crushed the tentacles and swallowed the quagmire’s Darkness Power as the Octopus Monster tried to flee.
• Moonlight revealed the monster’s fossilized head, but Ao Cang still could not find its true core, and several black spots appeared in the darkness as one shot toward him.

Ao Cang gained immense power by absorbing dark energy, then faced a giant attendant of the Darkness Divine Emperor who tried to recruit and restrain him. The attendant bound Ao Cang with a Dark Halo and took him toward an undisclosed destination.

• A black speck of light transformed Ao Cang's body, reforged his bones, and raised his cultivation to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The giant revealed that he served the Darkness Divine Emperor and had entered the world to find the Divine King, whose escape from prison had brought him there.
• Ao Cang rejected the giant's invitation to join the Darkness Sacred Mountain and condemned the slaughter committed to open the passage.
• The giant used black threads to attack Ao Cang, who tried to counter with a clone, but the giant destroyed the decoy and shattered Ao Cang's dragon form.
• The giant explained that he had kept Ao Cang alive to prevent others from detecting the crisis, then trapped him with a Dark Halo that blocked his clone and threatened his Divine Soul.
• Ao Cang asked where they were going, and the giant said he would find out when they arrived.

A giant from the Dark World used a false battle to evade the Saints, then took Ao Cang to the Land of Gentlemen and challenged the virtue behind its customs. He persuaded Ao Cang that Saints and Heaven and Earth had denied him advancement, leaving Ao Cang questioning the world as his vision of its destruction shook his consciousness.

• The giant showed Ao Cang an illusion of a battle with a Black Dragon, explaining that it would keep the Saints occupied while they traveled.
• At the giant's request, Ao Cang brought him to the Land of Gentlemen, where the giant criticized two people for turning a simple trade into a contest over reputation.
• The giant argued that the Land of Gentlemen's courtesy concealed selfishness and hypocrisy, and Ao Cang began to doubt the society he had once admired.
• The giant claimed that Saints had restricted cultivation and taken control of Heaven and Earth's laws, and Ao Cang blamed them for his own stalled progress.
• As the giant urged Ao Cang to reject Heaven and Earth, Ao Cang's consciousness filled with a vision of the world turning to dust and perishing.

At the Confucius Temple, Wang Mang explained to the giant how the Taiji World’s crystal wall could be broken and awaited the completion of his Divine Soul. In a secluded valley, the giant forced Wang Mang’s Spiritual Sense into Ao Cang’s body, overcoming the Black Dragon’s resistance until their souls fused.

• The giant sensed Confucian Righteous Qi at the Confucius Temple, while Wang Mang warned that it could assimilate his power and explained that his Divine Soul would be ready after one more night.
• Wang Mang told the giant that the eight fierce beasts inside the Taiji crystal wall had to be killed simultaneously, with a Primordial Saint coordinating the final strikes of eight mortal-world saints.
• The giant tried to transfer Wang Mang’s Spiritual Sense into Ao Cang’s body, but golden energy from Ao Cang’s broken reverse scale resisted the black light and divine rings.
• The giant strengthened the divine rings until they trapped Ao Cang’s golden rune, then swallowed the rune to seek insight into its Destructive Power.
• After the Black Dragon was covered in black light and his body settled, Wang Mang’s Spiritual Sense finally fused with the Black Dragon’s Divine Soul.

Wang Mang entered the eastern Taiji Hall and negotiated with its Mirage Dragon, offering to help it escape in exchange for its cooperation. The Mirage Dragon tested Wang Mang by sending him into an illusion of the Three Kingdoms, where Zhang Fei and Lu Bu began fighting at Hulao Pass.

• Wang Mang and the giant entered the eastern Taiji Hall, where the Mirage Dragon trapped the giant in binding bubbles.
• Wang Mang calmed the Mirage Dragon and offered to help it escape if it would assist him against a Saint.
• The Mirage Dragon recreated Earth in the Mortal Realm to test Wang Mang’s abilities.
• At Hulao Pass, Gongsun Zan challenged Lu Bu, then fled after two exchanges, and Lu Bu pursued him.
• Zhang Fei confronted Lu Bu, and their weapons clashed before Zhang Fei thrust his spear toward Red Hare Horse.

Lu Bu fought Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei to a standstill before Wang Mang decided to alter the Three Kingdoms illusion by merging with Lu Bu. The giant merged with Lu Bu during the battle, leaving him frozen as Liu, Guan, and Zhang struck at him.

• Lu Bu wounded Zhang Fei, then blocked Guan Yu's surprise strike and continued fighting both brothers.
• Liu Bei joined the battle as Lu Bu used the horses' movements to turn the struggle against Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
• Wang Mang explained that he had disrupted the Mirage Dragon's magic and planned to expose the illusion by changing its events.
• Wang Mang and the giant decided that Lu Bu should kill Dong Zhuo and gain control of the emperor to reshape the realm.
• The giant merged with Lu Bu, who suddenly stiffened as Liu, Guan, and Zhang's attacks converged on him.

Lu Bu defeated Guan Yu but let him go, insisting he served the Han court rather than Dong Zhuo. Emperor Xian of Han Liu Xie then appeared at Hulao Pass, where the Eighteen Vassal Lords bowed to him after Cao Cao led the way.

• Guan Yu awakened his Martial Soul and fought Lu Bu, but Lu Bu overwhelmed him and asked him to submit to the Han court.
• Guan Yu refused to trust Lu Bu's claims about Dong Zhuo, and Lu Bu allowed him to leave.
• Emperor Xian of Han Liu Xie absorbed the Platform of Investiture and announced that he would go to Hulao Pass to put down the rebels.
• Yuan Shu challenged the Eighteen Vassal Lords over whether they truly respected the Han court, then left the camp.
• Liu Bei bowed to Emperor Xian at Hulao Pass, and Dong Zhuo apologized for his past actions.
• Cao Cao bowed to Emperor Xian, prompting Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and the other vassal lords to follow.

Lu Bu and his allies defeated Dragon Son Chi Wen, but the Mirage Dragon appeared and unleashed crushing pressure. Wang Mang revealed that he had used the Platform of Investiture and the world’s flaws to create a world he now controlled, then challenged the Mirage Dragon to test his claim.

• Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, and Jia Xu fought the golden dragon, which called itself a Divine Dragon and attacked their warship.
• Jia Xu trapped the dragon in his Heavenly Net, and Huang Zhong pierced its skull with a divine arrow as Vengeful Spirits entered its wound.
• The dragon, identified as Dragon Son Chi Wen, fell, and an immense pressure descended, killing soldiers and threatening Lu Bu and Jia Xu.
• The Platform of Investiture appeared and absorbed the pressure and the soldiers’ remains.
• Wang Mang confronted the Mirage Dragon and explained that he had exploited flaws in its illusory world, connected them with formations, and taken control of the resulting world.
• The Mirage Dragon threatened to destroy the inhabitants to deprive Wang Mang of the Power of Faith, and Wang Mang challenged it to try.

Wang Mang awakened from the Mirage Dragon’s illusion and used the black Platform of Investiture to force the dragon to hear his plan for escaping their world. The Mirage Dragon agreed to help, and they prepared to persuade the other Hall Spirits to join them.

• The Heavenly Fox Venerable survived the ninefold Lightning Tribulation, but his Primordial Spirit was destroyed after it plunged into a black hole.
• The Black Python fell through a Spatial Rift into a world where spiritual energy was suppressed, while Wang Mang later escaped the black space by awakening his Righteous Qi.
• Wang Mang revealed that he had prepared destructive formations inside the Mirage Dragon’s illusory world and gathered the beings’ freely offered power into the black Platform of Investiture.
• Wang Mang said the Hall Spirits could escape by condensing their laws into Law Stone Tablets and using them to activate their altars; the Mirage Dragon agreed to help.
• Lu Bu warned that the other Hall Spirits might resist, and the Mirage Dragon proposed starting with Ji Che, with whom he had some rapport.

Wang Mang endured Ghost Cart’s misfortune domain, then used Dark Matter Origin to erase it and force Ghost Cart to submit. He learned that Mirage Dragon and the Dark Giant had not entered the domain with him and prepared to help Ghost Cart leave the Taiji Hall.

• Wang Mang’s substitute body was crushed by a series of disasters, but his true body appeared and found the curse of misfortune had multiplied rather than broken.
• Wang Mang leaped into a fissure to face the disasters head-on, then was battered by boulders, a tree root, and falling debris while his strength remained suppressed.
• Wang Mang summoned a black hole and unleashed Dark Matter Origin, erasing Ghost Cart’s domain despite the curse tightening around him.
• Ghost Cart surrendered, and Wang Mang regained his suppressed strength; Ghost Cart said Wang Mang had entered alone, so Wang Mang inferred Mirage Dragon had tried to tame it.
• Wang Mang showed Ghost Cart the Platform of Investiture and offered to help it form a clone and leave the Taiji Hall using the Law Stone Tablet.

Wang Mang used the Mirage Dragon’s illusion to lure Taotie with carefully prepared food and teach him to savor it, offering him a way to ease his uncontrollable gluttony. Taotie agreed to help Wang Mang, while Taotie’s account of his mistreatment left Wang Mang questioning whether freeing the imprisoned beasts defied Heaven.

• Wang Mang entered Taotie’s realm with the Mirage Dragon and transformed it into the late Eastern Han era.
• Wang Mang used Cao Cao’s identity to bring Taotie to a military banquet and tempt him with ribs prepared by a chef.
• Taotie devoured the first rack of ribs in a few bites, and Wang Mang explained that fine food had to be savored slowly.
• Taotie admitted that his gluttony made him miserable and agreed to help Wang Mang if he could experience satisfaction.
• Wang Mang offered Taotie the Mirage Dragon’s ability to let him enjoy food through a human, without requiring his spiritual energy.
• Taotie revealed that the Dragon Clan had bullied him, and Wang Mang wondered whether releasing the imprisoned beasts would violate Heaven’s law.

Wang Mang and Lu Bu opened a sealed passage in Taiji Hall, where a rune stele attacked Lu Bu and forced him to flee into the Platform of Investiture. Wang Mang and Taotie passed through to a lava realm, where Wang Mang faced a molten giant wielding a Bone Whip.

• Wang Mang and Lu Bu combined the altars’ power to reveal a passage hidden above Taiji Hall.
• A rune-covered divine stele’s golden light began destroying Lu Bu’s Darkness Power, so Wang Mang shielded him and Taotie blocked the stele’s attacks with the Taotie Cauldron.
• The rune stele unleashed a sealing force that trapped them, and Lu Bu’s Soul Shadow escaped into the Platform of Investiture as the golden waves dispersed.
• Wang Mang and Taotie were pulled through the passage and emerged beside a sea of lava, where Taotie’s green barrier struggled against the heat.
• A molten giant rose from the lava and struck at Wang Mang with a Bone Whip, which Wang Mang met with the Taotie Cauldron and the Black Dragon’s Icy Power.

Wang Mang fought a lava giant whose Bone Whip could shatter his icy domain and overwhelm his defenses. Just as the giant was about to kill him, Disaster Beast Fei swallowed the whip and drained its flames, while a Golden Armored Divine Insect began draining the giant's power.

• The lava giant shattered Wang Mang's snowy domain with its Bone Whip and battered the Taotie Treasure Incense Burner, leaving Wang Mang badly injured.
• Wang Mang knocked the Bone Whip aside and struck the giant, then used Black Dragon Annihilates Heaven to repel its palm and whip.
• The lava giant absorbed more magma and blasted Wang Mang with fire, leaving him unconscious and unable to defend himself.
• Disaster Beast Fei emerged from the Platform of Investiture, swallowed the Flame Bone Whip, and devoured much of the fire around the giant.
• A Golden Armored Divine Insect pierced the giant and drained its crimson energy as Disaster Beast Fei protested that it had wanted to devour the giant itself.

Wang Mang and Disaster Beast Fei were trapped in a sealed magma space, where Fei was swallowed by a vortex and Wang Mang struggled to survive a torrent of magma. After the Platform of Investiture collapsed, its runes merged with the red stone pillar and transformed it into a new divine platform.

• Wang Mang and Disaster Beast Fei fought off magma monsters until a vortex swallowed Fei, the monsters, and the Bone Whip.
• Wang Mang found himself stranded on a red stone pillar in a sealed space surrounded by magma and darkness.
• A torrent of magma poured from the void, and Wang Mang used source Dark Matter and the Platform of Investiture to protect himself.
• As the Platform of Investiture cracked under the magma, Wang Mang inscribed 9,999 runes with the Darkness Law to save it.
• The Platform of Investiture collapsed, but its runes joined with energy from the red stone pillar and formed a new black divine platform.

Wang Mang survived the lightning tribulation as the Platform of Investiture transformed into a spatial treasure, then confronted a Chaos God Demon's remnant consciousness inside its altar. After the consciousness withdrew, Wang Mang and Taotie discussed the collapsed Forbidden Land and prepared to recover in the treasure's newly formed space.

• The Platform of Investiture absorbed the Lightning Tribulation, fused with the red stone pillar, and gained the Power of Time and an immense inner space.
• Wang Mang found a black stone in the altar and resisted a Chaos God Demon's attempt to make him acknowledge that he was formed from its scale.
• The Chaos God Demon's divine thought withdrew into the altar after Wang Mang refused to submit, and the black stone broke apart.
• Taotie appeared and told Wang Mang that the surrounding world had collapsed, while Wang Mang explained that a Chaos God Demon's remains had formed the Forbidden Land.
• Wang Mang told Taotie that Fei had gone deeper into the magma world and that the others remained sealed in Dimensional Space.
• Taotie discovered another space beyond the altar, and Wang Mang suggested he recover there.