Chapter Summaries

After arriving in the Demon God's Record World with his Naruto abilities intact, Shangguan Ye inherited the Shangguan Family and began cultivating Soul Power. He tracked down Xiao Ning'er to offer his help, but their meeting ended with her accidentally cutting his throat.

• The system told Shangguan Ye that he was the twelve-year-old Patriarch of the Shangguan Family and that he needed Soul Power to use his retained abilities.
• At school, Nie Li woke from his rebirth, challenged Shen Xiu, and led Du Ze, Lu Piao, and the others to stand at the back of the classroom.
• Shangguan Ye returned to his estate, learned his authority over the family was absolute, measured 95 Soul Power, broke through to the Bronze Realm, and tested his Eternal Treasure Sky Pull ability.
• The system assigned Shangguan Ye a mission to befriend Xiao Ning'er and resolve her physical condition, promising him an Innate Demon Spirit and upgraded Demon Spirits for the family's Black Gold Masters.
• Shangguan Ye counted eleven Black Gold Masters in his household, promised to strengthen them, and went with two guards to find Xiao Ning'er at the Training Ground.
• Xiao Ning'er confronted Shangguan Ye with a dagger, and he twisted his neck into its blade, leaving her shocked as blood poured from his throat.

Shangguan Ye cured Xiao Ning'er's dangerous condition and grew closer to her, then agreed to help Nie Li acquire Purple Mist Grass. After rewarding the Shangguan Family with Dragon Blood Demon Spirits, he ordered Shangguan Xun to buy the herb in bulk.

• Shangguan Ye used the system to heal Xiao Ning'er, erase her bruises, and help her break through to the Bronze Realm.
• Xiao Ning'er shared breakfast with Shangguan Ye at school, while Nie Li and his friends suspected she had fallen for him and discussed helping him.
• Nie Li asked Shangguan Ye to purchase a large quantity of Purple Mist Grass, and Shangguan Ye agreed.
• Shangguan Ye used the system's rewards to gain a Golden Giant Dragon demon spirit and strengthen the Shangguan Family's demon spirits and cultivation.
• Shangguan Ye ordered Shangguan Xun to purchase as much Purple Mist Grass as possible.

Nie Li challenged Shen Xiu’s lesson on the Crimson Flame Burst Inscription, and Shangguan Ye backed him up, worsening the conflict with the Sacred Family. Nie Li and Shangguan Ye made a fortune selling Purple Mist Grass and agreed to join Chen Jianlin’s expedition to explore ruins, where Nie Li received a task to eliminate Dark Guild members.

• Shen Xiu called on Nie Li to explain the Crimson Flame Burst Inscription, and he exposed its origins in the Thunder Fire Burst Inscription and accused the Sacred Family of altering someone else’s work.
• Shangguan Ye mocked the Sacred Family and defended Nie Li, prompting Shen Xiu to end class in anger.
• Shangguan Ye gave Nie Li the Purple Mist Grass from his family, and Nie Li later sold it for three hundred million Demon Spirit Coins.
• Nie Li gave Shangguan Ye one hundred million Demon Spirit Coins, and Shangguan Ye told him about Chen Jianlin’s expedition to explore ruins.
• Nie Li agreed to join the expedition, and the system assigned him a task to eliminate any Dark Guild members they encountered.

Shangguan Ye strengthened his body through lightning attacks and medicinal treatment before joining Chen Linjian’s expedition to the ruins. After Shen Yue confronted him at the campsite, Shangguan Ye killed Shen Yue’s lackeys and erased their corpses with a Battle Skill he used without fusing with a demon spirit.

• Shangguan Ye had four Black Gold Demon Spirit Masters attack him with lightning Battle Skills, then tempered his injured body in a medicinal bath.
• Nie Li persuaded Chen Linjian to wait for Shangguan Ye, who arrived with Xiao Ning'er before the group departed for the ruins.
• At the campsite, Shen Yue warned Shangguan Ye to stay away from Nie Li and claimed Xiao Ning'er was his brother’s fiancée, but Xiao Ning'er rejected the claim.
• Shangguan Ye struck Shen Yue, used a substitution technique to redirect a lackey’s attack, and killed the attackers with the Sixth Gate of View.
• After Chen Linjian warned him about trouble from the bodies, Shangguan Ye erased the corpses with Dust Release: Primal World Separation, stunning the group by using a Battle Skill without fusing with a demon spirit.

Shangguan Ye secretly rescued Shen Yue from the Dark Guild, killed Steward Yunhua and his men, and gained Gold Rank strength. At the Ancient Orchid Ruins, he helped defeat the Armored Giant Apes and faced their Gold Rank leader alone.

• Shangguan Ye ambushed the Dark Guild men holding Shen Yue, killed Steward Yunhua and the other Spirit Masters, and claimed a reward that raised him to Gold Rank.
• Shangguan Ye returned to camp and resumed his place beside his Shadow Clone while Nie Li grew more wary of his strength.
• Chen Linjian led the group to the Ancient Orchid Ruins, where he divided everyone into teams to search the ruined city.
• Armored Giant Apes attacked the group, and Shangguan Ye used Almighty Push and Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation to kill several of them.
• A Gold Rank Great Ape Leader with Green Arms appeared, and Shangguan Ye stayed behind to fight it as Chen Linjian led the others away.
• The Great Ape Leader smashed the ground where Shangguan Ye stood, but Shangguan Ye remained unharmed and taunted it.

Shangguan Ye defeated the Armored Giant Ape leader and reunited with Xiao Ning'er, Ye Ziyun, and Nie Li in Emperor Kongming's ruins. After the group explored the ruins, buried the dead, and divided the treasure with Chen Linjian's party, they returned to Glory City, where Shangguan Ye prepared to take Shangguan Xun to the Sacred Family.

• Shangguan Ye killed the Armored Giant Ape leader with his Wood Dragon Technique and found that Xiao Ning'er, Ye Ziyun, and Nie Li had fallen into Emperor Kongming's ruins.
• Shangguan Ye joined the others, and they followed Nie Li through the ruins to a burial chamber filled with the remains of people who had died after Gulan City fell.
• Shangguan Ye persuaded Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun to take the chamber's treasures, promised to bury the dead, and gave Xiao Ning'er the Deep Gem Necklace.
• Nie Li underwent a painful transformation beside the coffin, and Shangguan Ye reassured Ye Ziyun that Nie Li was safe as the group buried the remains.
• Shangguan Ye broke into a hidden treasure chamber, where Nie Li found the Shadow Lamp, and Chen Linjian's party arrived to divide the loot with them.
• The group returned to Glory City, and Shangguan Ye learned that Shangguan Xun had reached Black Gold Peak and told him to prepare to go to the Sacred Family.

Shangguan Ye challenged Shen Fei over Xiao Ning'er’s engagement, defeated him in one move, and secured the Sacred Family’s agreement to dissolve it. He then proposed to Xiao Ning'er, who accepted, and returned home to cultivate for the upcoming final exam.

• Shangguan Ye led Black Gold Demon Spirit Masters to the Sacred Family estate and demanded a fight with Shen Fei over Xiao Ning'er.
• Shen Hong agreed to the duel, and Shangguan Ye knocked Shen Fei unconscious with a single move.
• Shen Hong agreed to break off Shen Fei and Xiao Ning'er’s engagement, and Shangguan Ye received the Golden Saint Divine Art mission reward.
• A Sacred Family messenger told Xiao Yunfeng that the engagement was dissolved, then Shangguan Ye arrived and proposed to Xiao Ning'er.
• Xiao Ning'er accepted Shangguan Ye’s proposal, and he returned home to cultivate for the final exam.

Shangguan Ye stunned the academy with his Gold Five Stars Soul Power before surviving an assassination attempt by Dark Guild members. With the attackers captured, he vowed to uncover the mastermind, leaving Shen Hong uneasy under his gaze.

• Shangguan Ye destroyed the strength-testing machine and revealed Gold Five Stars Soul Power, shocking the academy.
• After the exam, Shangguan Ye sensed several Men in Black waiting at his courtyard and repelled their attack with his Battle Skills.
• Shangguan Ye trapped the attackers in the Four Violet Flames Formation and used mist and a Limbo clone to kill one of them.
• Shangguan Xun and the Shangguan Family captured the three surviving attackers alive after they broke through the barrier.
• Shangguan Ye promised the gathered families he would interrogate the Dark Guild members and find the mastermind, while Shen Hong wondered whether Shangguan Ye suspected him.

Shangguan Ye learned that Shen Hong had ordered the attack on him, then attended Glory City's Genius Battle to support Xiao Ning'er and wagered on her match. After Xiao Ning'er defeated Shen Ning, Shangguan Ye fought Nie Li and won, leaving the competition with their rivalry unresolved.

• The three captured Dark Guild members died from a Forbidden Curse before they could identify who hired them, and Shangguan Ye concluded Shen Hong was behind the attack.
• Shangguan Ye decided to attend the Genius Battle after learning Xiao Ning'er would compete, and he saved her a seat at the event.
• Nie Li defeated Shen Fei, then Shangguan Ye wagered two hundred million that Xiao Ning'er would beat Shen Ning.
• Xiao Ning'er used her Wind Thunder Sky Sparrow and Lightning Power to defeat Shen Ning, winning Shangguan Ye's wager.
• Nie Li challenged Shangguan Ye, who used his Flying Thunder God Daggers, clones, and battle skills to evade Nie Li's attacks.
• Shangguan Ye absorbed Nie Li's final Light-Dark Yuan Qi Blast, and Nie Li conceded.

Xiao Ning'er, Ye Ziyun, Shangguan Ye, and Nie Li entered the Sky Fantasy Sacred Realm to cultivate, where Shangguan Ye revealed his extraordinary power to Progenitor Ye Yan. After Nie Li retrieved the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword, Shangguan Ye offered to revive Ye Yan, despite Nie Li’s warning about the risks.

• Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun entered the Sky Fantasy Sacred Realm, followed by Shangguan Ye and Nie Li.
• Progenitor Ye Yan entered Shangguan Ye’s Sea of Soul, offered to take him as a disciple, and was frightened by an illusion Shangguan Ye created.
• Ye Yan found Nie Li, who persuaded him to reveal the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword’s location.
• Shangguan Ye received a system mission to revive Ye Yan as Nie Li went to retrieve the sword, while the others cultivated and advanced in rank.
• Nie Li returned with the sword, and Ye Yan agreed to take Shangguan Ye to the Wind Snow Family cemetery so he could attempt the revival.
• Nie Li warned Shangguan Ye that reviving Ye Yan could draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention, but Shangguan Ye insisted Glory City’s safety mattered more.

Shangguan Ye helped revive Ye Yan, then received the Mountains and Rivers Painting as a reward and cultivated inside it. After reaching Black Gold Peak, Shangguan Ye joined Nie Li and the others at the ruins behind the City Lord's Mansion, where they entered a new space.

• Ye Ziyun led the group to the Wind Snow Family’s ancestral grounds, and Ye Zong allowed them to enter after Shangguan Ye and Nie Li promised to help him.
• Shangguan Ye used Impure World Reincarnation and the Cycle of Rebirth Technique to revive Ye Yan in the body of a captured Dark Guild member.
• Ye Zong welcomed the revived Ye Yan, and the group left the ancestral grounds for the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Shangguan Ye received the Mountains and Rivers Painting as a system reward, entered its inner world, and cultivated until he reached Black Gold Peak.
• Shangguan Xun relayed Nie Li’s message, and Shangguan Ye joined Nie Li and the others at the ruins behind the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Nie Li led the group through a teleportation gate into another space.

Nie Li and Shangguan Ye led their companions through Black Prison, where they fought Red Ghosts and encountered the Silver Wing Family. Nie Li secured permission to take Duan Jian as a test subject for making an antidote, while Sikong Yi privately regarded him and Shangguan Ye with suspicion.

• Nie Li identified the attacking creatures as Red Ghosts, and the group turned to fight them together under his and Shangguan Ye's support.
• Shangguan Ye discovered that the Divine Tree in his Sea of Soul absorbed residual Soul Power from slain enemies and concluded he needed to feed it to advance to Legendary Rank.
• Nie Li comprehended Emperor Kongming's Ten-Character Mantra at a stone stele, then he and Shangguan Ye went ahead to investigate a settlement and mine.
• Sikong Hongyue met Nie Li and Shangguan Ye, believed Nie Li's claim of Silver Brilliance Family ancestry, and brought them to her father, Sikong Yi.
• Nie Li saw Duan Jian being whipped and asked Sikong Yi to let him take Duan Jian to test an antidote; Sikong Yi agreed, while privately warning Sikong Hongyue that Shangguan Ye was formidable.

Nie Li and Duan Jian returned from the Black Prison World with Shangguan Ye and their companions, who had grown much stronger through cultivation. When the Dark Guild attacked the City Lord's Mansion with an Abyssal Demon, Nie Li's group confronted the monster while Shangguan Ye hunted down and killed the attackers.

• Nie Li used Silver Needles for ten days to strengthen Duan Jian, who emerged with powerful Black Dragon Bloodline abilities and pledged loyalty to him.
• Shangguan Ye led the others to cultivate inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting, and the system assigned him a mission to reach the Legendary level in exchange for severing Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er's karmic connection.
• After ten days, Shangguan Ye and the others emerged amid a battle and helped Nie Li and Duan Jian defeat their Black Gold pursuers before the group returned to Glory City.
• The Dark Guild summoned an Abyssal Demon at the City Lord's Mansion, and Ye Xiu directed the defenders as the monster wrecked buildings and spawned Lesser Flame Demons.
• Nie Li and his companions attacked the Abyssal Demon while Shangguan Ye tracked down the Dark Guild members and killed them with Dust Release.
• Shangguan Ye left to finish off the Abyssal Demon.

Shangguan Ye killed an Abyssal Demon, helped Xiao Ning'er awaken Wood Style, and prepared Glory City as a massive Beast Tide approached. The chapter ended with the city mobilizing against ten million demonic beasts, including three Legendary Demonic Beasts, while Shangguan Ye warned that haste makes waste.

• Shangguan Ye rescued a child and absorbed the Abyssal Demon's Soul Power with Wood Style, killing it without breaking through.
• Shangguan Ye visited Xiao Ning'er, recognized her potential to awaken Wood Style, and taught her how to use it.
• Shangguan Ye received a system ability that let Wood Style users carrying his cells absorb Soul Power from enemies they killed, then shared his cells and method with others.
• A masked man revealed that he had unleashed a massive Beast Tide and recruited three Legendary Demonic Beasts from the Sacred Ancestor Mountain Range to destroy Glory City.
• During a meeting, Shangguan Ye sensed the approaching enemy and advised Glory City to defend; a soldier reported that a ten-million-strong Beast Tide was a hundred miles away.
• Ye Zong ordered the city to sound the alarm and mobilize as Shangguan Ye was left alone in the meeting room, reflecting that haste makes waste.

Shangguan Ye fought the Beast Tide to help defend Glory City and broke through to Legendary Rank after defeating waves of Monster Beasts. He arrived in a towering Susanoo to save Ye Zong and faced the remaining Legendary Demonic Beasts.

• Nie Li used Shangguan Ye's clones and prepared traps and Confusing Bamboo to weaken the Beast Tide.
• Shangguan Ye entered the Beast Tide, killed many Monster Beasts, and defeated a dozen Black Gold Monster Beasts with Wood Style.
• A peak Legendary Rank Monster Beast struck Shangguan Ye through the city wall, but he survived and broke through to Legendary Rank.
• Shangguan Ye reunited with Xiao Ning'er, then flew to help Ye Zong as he battled the Legendary Demonic Beasts.
• Shangguan Ye appeared in Susanoo, saved Ye Zong from a Monster Beast, and prepared to fight the remaining enemies.

Shangguan Ye fought two Blizzard Giant Beasts during the Beast Tide, protected Glory City, and defeated them with Nie Li’s help. After the city celebrated its victory, Shangguan Ye learned that Shangguan Yue had died and resolved to become stronger.

• Shangguan Ye sent the injured Ye Zong back to the city walls and promised to deal with the threat, while Ye Zong agreed to address the Sacred Family’s suspected collusion with the Dark Guild if Glory City survived.
• Shangguan Ye held off the Blizzard Giant Ape and Blizzard Giant Lizard while Nie Li struck them with a Legendary scroll, but the beasts strengthened their defenses and injured Susanoo.
• Shangguan Ye battled the beasts, formed the Four Red Yang Formation to protect Glory City, and used Tengai Shinsei and Eternal Treasure Sky Pull to crush them with a meteor.
• Shangguan Ye used Wood Style to absorb the weakened beasts and restore the battlefield, and Glory City’s defenders celebrated their victory.
• Shangguan Ye learned from Shangguan Xun that Shangguan Yue had died, ordered him buried in the clan grounds, and resolved to become stronger.

After reaching Legendary Four Star, Shangguan Ye attended a banquet where Ye Han provoked him and was swiftly humiliated. The gathering then turned toward the planned reckoning with the Sacred Family, while Shen Hong sensed danger approaching.

• Shangguan Ye broke through to Legendary Four Star and decided to attend the Wind Snow Family's banquet welcoming Ye Han.
• Ye Han confronted Shangguan Ye over arriving late, and Shangguan Ye broke his legs, forced him to the ground, and stepped on his head.
• Ye Ziyun arranged for Ye Han to be carried away, and Ye Zong accepted that Ye Han had deserved the punishment.
• Shangguan Ye offered to interrogate Shen Ming and help expose the Sacred Family's ties to the Dark Guild, and Ye Zong agreed.
• Shen Hong grew worried as the banquet continued, sensing that something would happen that night.

At a public hearing, Ye Zong and Shangguan Ye exposed Shen Hong’s orders to attack Nie Li and his ties to the Dark Guild through Shen Ming’s memories, including Shen Hong’s role in Ye Ziyun’s mother’s death. Shen Hong and the Sacred Family fought back, but the battle turned against them until Dark Guild Enforcement Elder Gui Sha appeared.

• Ye Zong called the gathering to investigate corruption and brought Shen Ming and his accomplices before the assembled families.
• Shen Hong claimed Shen Ming had acted on his own, but a Tongue Restraining Curse killed Shen Ming before he could testify.
• Shangguan Ye revived Shen Ming through Impure World Reincarnation and used the Human Path to reveal his memories in an Image Recording Ball.
• The memories showed Shen Hong ordering Shen Ming to kill Nie Li, working with the Dark Guild, and arranging Ye Ziyun’s mother’s death.
• Ye Zong and Shangguan Xun attacked Shen Hong as the families surrounded the Sacred Family, while Ye Xiu used the Snow Wind Spirit God to freeze the Shadow Demon.
• Gui Sha appeared and blocked the Snow Wind Spirit God as it moved to seize the Sacred Family Elders.

Glory City defeated the Dark Guild’s assault, and Shangguan Ye drove off the Demon Lord after killing Dragon Sha and Gui Sha. With the Sacred Family erased, Shangguan Ye began planning his proposal to Ning'er and received a letter saying Nie Li had left to gain experience.

• Gui Sha’s forces tried to retreat, but Nie Li sealed the teleportation array and trapped them with the Myriad Demon Spirit Array.
• Ye Zong broke through during the battle, Shangguan Xun revealed his Legendary Rank strength, and Shangguan Ye killed Dragon Sha and Gui Sha.
• Shangguan Ye repelled the Demon Lord from Glory City and struck him with a Soul Jade as he fled.
• Glory City recovered, and the other Three Great Families absorbed the Sacred Family’s businesses.
• Shangguan Ye asked his family to help plan his proposal to Ning'er, then read Nie Li’s letter saying he had left to gain experience.

Shangguan Ye ventured into the Black Demon Forest for training, defeated an illusionary reflection of himself, and reached a hidden lake guarded by a powerful Silver Flood Dragon. He launched an all-out attack to seize the silver-white Spear, and the Silver Flood Dragon tried to flee into the water.

• Shangguan Ye entered the Black Demon Forest and fought a reflection that copied his abilities until he used Sage Mode to defeat it and locate the Rinnegan-eyed spider that had cast the illusion.
• After a month of battling Monster Beasts, Shangguan Ye found a hidden lake and spotted a silver-white Spear on an island.
• The Silver Flood Dragon emerged from the lake, warned Shangguan Ye away, and refused to let him take the Spear.
• Shangguan Ye trapped the Silver Flood Dragon with the Four Red Yang Formation and rushed toward the Spear, but the dragon broke free and forced him back to shore.
• Shangguan Ye combined Sage Mode, Susanoo, the Gate of Death, and Reincarnation Eye Mode to unleash a massive attack, prompting the Silver Flood Dragon to dive toward the water.