Chapter Summaries

Shangguan Ye defeated Venerable Chi Ling in a spar, proving his martial skill surpassed his teacher’s. He then confronted Ying Ru Yue about sacrificing herself to change Nie Li’s fate and convinced her to trust that he would help protect the Dragon Void Realm.

• Venerable Chi Ling challenged Shangguan Ye to a weapon spar, but Shangguan Ye read his attacks and countered them.
• Shangguan Ye disarmed Venerable Chi Ling and defeated him with a series of strikes and kicks, and Venerable Chi Ling accepted the loss.
• Venerable Chi Ling told everyone to reflect on the battles, and Shangguan Ye returned with Nie Li and Lu Piao to Xiao Yu’s residence.
• Shangguan Ye visited Ying Ru Yue and asked why she had altered Nie Li’s fate and taken the danger upon herself.
• Shangguan Ye brought Ying Ru Yue into the Mountain River Space, where she confirmed her powers and aura were concealed.
• Shangguan Ye told Ying Ru Yue he would fight the Holy Emperor alongside Nie Li and asked her to live for herself.

Shangguan Ye received the Vermilion Bird, named her Feng Yu, and entered the Ghost Ruin Land with Nie Li and their companions to collect Soul Scales. After Murong Yu robbed Nie Li, Shangguan Ye killed him and warned his accomplice, while Murong Yu revived in the Soul Hall and vowed revenge.

• Shangguan Ye met the Vermilion Bird, named her Feng Yu, and learned she had reached Peak Martial Ancestor before she entered the Mountain River Space.
• Xiao Yu led Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, and the others into the Ghost Ruin Land, where demon souls dropped Soul Scales that could only be exchanged inside.
• Shangguan Ye annihilated demon souls with his power of law, created more than a hundred clones, and rapidly gathered Soul Scales.
• Murong Yu accused Nie Li of cheating, attacked him, and stole his Soul Scales.
• Shangguan Ye used Susanoo to crush Murong Yu, drove off the man who had provoked him, and returned Nie Li's Soul Scales.
• Murong Yu revived in the Soul Hall and vowed that he was not finished with Shangguan Ye.

Shangguan Ye and Nie Li gathered resources, and Nie Li sold god-level demon spirits while Ying Ru Yue joined him in the Mountain River Space. Feng Yu filled the space with Monster Beasts, and the chapter ended with Yu Yan challenging her to a contest.

• Shangguan Ye gave Nie Li and the others access to his abundant spirit stones in the Mountain River Space, where Nie Li reunited with Ying Ru Yue and learned she would accompany him from there.
• Feng Yu gathered Monster Beasts and brought them into the Mountain River Space, while Nie Li used the Nightmare Demon Pot to create demon spirits with god-level growth potential.
• Nie Li sold his demon spirits at the Heavenly Spirit Institute market, where Li Xingyun bought them and invited Nie Li and Shangguan Ye to join him.
• Shangguan Ye reshaped the Mountain River Space with a sea, an island, and Divine Pools for the Golden Saint Dragon King and Divine Tree.
• Yu Yan confronted Feng Yu over her criticism of Yu Yan's Fire Law, and Feng Yu agreed to compete while suppressing her cultivation to Yu Yan's level.

Feng Yu defeated Yu Yan in the Mountain River Space, and Nie Li refined Dragon Blood Demon Spirits before reuniting with Xiao Ning'er at the Heavenly Spirit Institute. The Tianyin Divine Sect and Fire God Sect’s arrival left Shangguan Ye and Xiao Ning’er together again, while Murong Yu recognized the bracelet linking them.

• Feng Yu absorbed Yu Yan’s flames with her Southern Bright Leaving Fire, won their contest, and accepted Shangguan Ye’s task of managing the Monster Beasts in the Mountain River Space.
• Nie Li refined several Dragon Blood Demon Spirits, fused with a mutated Holy Blood Winged Dragon, reached the Destiny Seventh Realm, and gave spirits to Lu Piao, Xiao Yu, and Gu Bei.
• Gu Bei led Shangguan Ye and the others to meet the arriving sect geniuses, where Xiao Ning’er waited with Xiao Xue and Shen Ling questioned her about whom she liked.
• Murong Yu noticed Xiao Ning’er’s Heart Connection Grass Bracelet and suspected it was connected to Shangguan Ye, while Ye Xuan gave up pursuing her after seeing them reunite.
• Xiao Ning’er ran into Shangguan Ye’s arms, and Gu Bei greeted her as his sister-in-law, making her blush.

At a banquet for the three major sects, Shangguan Ye intimidated the gathering by causing Murong Yu to kill himself, then joined the auction with Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er. The auction continued as Shangguan Ye won Demon Soul Essence and declined to bid on Tianyin Dew, leaving the group together at the gathering.

• Shangguan Ye and Xiao Ning'er sat with Nie Li, Gu Bei, Li Xingyun, and the others, while Ye Xuan tried to toast the group.
• After Murong Yu challenged Shangguan Ye, Shangguan Ye used an unknown method to make Murong Yu draw his sword and slit his own throat.
• Long Tianming arrived and praised Shangguan Ye, who ignored him; Xiao Ning'er then introduced Saintess Mingyue Wushuang and Yan Yang.
• At the auction, Ye Xuan offered to buy a Blood Fury Earth Dragon for Xiao Ning'er, but she declined, and six Demon Spirits sold for about twenty-five thousand spirit stones each.
• At Nie Li's request, Gu Bei helped secure Demon Soul Essence; Shangguan Ye bid thirty thousand spirit stones and won it.
• Shangguan Ye told Xiao Ning'er that they could gather spirit stones from Divine Pools in the Mountain River Space, then agreed not to bid on Tianyin Dew after she offered to share hers.

Gu Bei won the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting for Nie Li at the auction, then the guests demonstrated their understanding of the Dao through music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Nie Li’s “sword” calligraphy impressed Yan Yang and Mingyue Wushuang, while Shangguan Ye’s “heaven” calligraphy overwhelmed the hall and left Ye Xuan unconscious.

• Nie Li asked Gu Bei to win the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting, and Gu Bei outbid Yan Yang to buy it for two hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Qin Yue opened the Dao discussion with a guzheng performance, and Ye Xuan wrote the character “love” before Long Tianming, Mingyue Wushuang, and Yan Yang demonstrated their arts.
• Nie Li wrote the character “sword,” which Gu Bei recognized as profound; Yan Yang offered one hundred thousand spirit stones for it, and Mingyue Wushuang also obtained a copy.
• Ye Xuan prompted Shangguan Ye to demonstrate his Dao, and Shangguan Ye wrote the character “heaven” as thunder struck the Sect Protection Array.
• The character’s pressure affected everyone differently, and Ye Xuan’s Sea of Soul nearly collapsed before Shangguan Ye’s words knocked him unconscious.
• Shangguan Ye burned the calligraphy, and the thunderclouds dispersed.

Shangguan Ye spent time with Xiao Ning'er while Venerable Tian Yun intervened against pressure on Shangguan Ye and Nie Li. Nie Li recruited Li Xingyun’s support, and Gu Bei brought the group to a Gu Clan competition where he prepared to make a name for himself.

• Shangguan Ye and Xiao Ning'er spent the night talking, and he dried her hair after she bathed.
• Venerable Chi Ling reported Shangguan Ye and Nie Li’s actions to Venerable Tian Yun, who told the Three Great Families to stop troubling them and asked for their calligraphy.
• Nie Li gave Xiao Ning'er a demon spirit for Zi Yun and invited Shangguan Ye to deliver a mutated demon spirit to Li Xingyun.
• Nie Li learned Hua Ling had killed Xiao Yu once and insisted that Xiao Yu join them to see Li Xingyun.
• Li Xingyun accepted Nie Li’s demon spirit and agreed to lend two hundred men to seek justice against Hua Ling.
• Gu Bei took Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, Xiao Ning'er, and Xiao Yu to a Gu Clan new-disciple competition and flew with Gu Lan toward the Elders.

Gu Bei revealed his hidden strength and mutated god-level growth demon spirit, earning recognition as a Gu Clan heir. As Shangguan Ye’s group backed his bid to become first-ranked heir, Feng Yu subdued the clan elders, and Gu Lan stood up, shocking everyone with her recovery.

• Gu Bei defeated Gu Kuan and Gu Yun, then overwhelmed Gu Bing with his mutated Dragon Bone Winged Tiger demon spirit.
• Gu Ya declared Gu Bei one of the Gu Clan heirs and said the elders would decide his ranking.
• Gu Bei brought Gu Lan, Shangguan Ye, and their companions to meet Gu Tianlong and the elders, while Gu Ya challenged the Third Elder over Gu Heng’s conduct.
• Shangguan Ye announced that his group would help Gu Bei secure the first-ranked heir position, and Feng Yu dispersed Gu Tianlong’s attack before revealing her peak Martial Ancestor aura.
• Gu Lan stood up and asked Shangguan Ye to let the Gu Clan leaders rise and speak.

After helping Gu Lan and Gu Bei secure control of the Gu Clan, Shangguan Ye and Nie Li defeated Hua Ling's forces and took the Lingyu Divine Pool. The Demon Alliance expanded as Nie Li's group prepared to unite the Feather God Sect, while Shangguan Ye advanced to the Heaven Rotation Realm.

• Gu Tianlong named Gu Lan the first heir, Gu Bei the second heir, and Gu Heng the third, and Gu Heng left in fury.
• Shangguan Ye and Xiao Ning'er parted before Shangguan Ye's group flew north to the Lingyu Divine Pool, where Hua Ling surrounded them with his forces.
• Li Hu arrived with the Xingyun Alliance, and Nie Li, Shangguan Ye, Li Hu, and Xiao Yu wiped out Hua Ling's forces and claimed the Divine Pool.
• Nie Li took the Divine Root and destroyed the Divine Pool, while Gu Bei and Lu Piao recruited more than six hundred members for the Demon Alliance.
• Nie Li and Shangguan Ye discussed bringing the great noble families under their control and screening spies in the Demon Alliance.
• After several days of acquiring Divine Pools and cultivating, Shangguan Ye advanced from the Heavenly Star Realm to the Heaven Rotation Realm.

Shangguan Ye helped Nie Li and Li Xingyun seize a medium-sized Divine Pool guarded by Thunder Fire Winged Snakes while defeating Gu Heng’s ambush. After the group returned safely with the Divine Root, Shangguan Ye sensed Long Yuyin arriving and withdrew to the Mountain River Space.

• Shangguan Ye screened the Demon Alliance’s members for spies, then joined Nie Li and Li Xingyun to claim the Divine Pool.
• Shangguan Ye learned that Gu Heng and Hua Ling were following their group and arranged for Feng Yu to handle the ambush.
• Shangguan Ye lured away the Dragon Path Realm Thunder Fire Winged Snake and trapped it in the Mountain River Space while Nie Li and Li Xingyun’s group fought the remaining snakes and extracted the Divine Root.
• Feng Yu transformed into a firebird and burned Gu Heng’s group to ash, while Shangguan Ye returned and collected the remaining powerful Thunder Fire Winged Snakes.
• Shangguan Ye rewarded the group after confirming no one had died, then entered the Mountain River Space when Long Yuyin arrived at night.

Long Yuyin became Nie Li’s disciple, learned about the Holy Emperor and the resistance against him, and agreed to help Nie Li defeat him. After Nie Li opened her Scarlet Dragon Bloodline acupoints, her cultivation surged, and she confronted Hu Yong when he insulted her.

• Long Yuyin asked Nie Li to take her as his disciple, and he agreed on condition that she prove herself.
• Nie Li told Long Yuyin about the Holy Emperor, the Heavenly Evolution Technique, and the long resistance against him.
• Long Yuyin agreed to help defeat the Holy Emperor by becoming the Dragon Seal Family’s Patriarch and building her own force.
• Nie Li used Silver Needles to open Long Yuyin’s acupoints, and her cultivation rose to the fifth realm of Heavenly Fate.
• Hu Yong confronted Long Yuyin as she left Nie Li’s room, and she kicked him in the crotch and rejected him as her fiancé.

Gu Heng led a force of more than ten thousand people to ambush Gu Bei and demand that he disband the Demon Alliance, but Shangguan Ye arrived to rescue him and annihilated the attackers with Susanoo. After collecting their Spatial Rings, Shangguan Ye helped Ying Ru Yue conceal her aura so she could go out.

• Gu Heng recruited allies by promising them a copied version of the Gu Clan's True Word Art and planned to crush the Demon Alliance.
• Heng Yan reported that Heavenly Star experts had ambushed the Demon Alliance, so Gu Bei and Lu Piao gathered their members to return to the Heavenly Spirit Institute.
• Gu Heng surrounded Gu Bei's group, demanded that Gu Bei withdraw from the succession struggle and disband the Demon Alliance, then ordered his forces to attack.
• Shangguan Ye arrived and used spatial portals to help Gu Bei and the other Demon Alliance members escape, while he stayed behind to face Gu Heng's army.
• Shangguan Ye summoned Susanoo, killed the attackers, collected their Spatial Rings, and scattered their spirit stones in the Mountain River Space.
• Ying Ru Yue asked to go out, and Shangguan Ye used Space Law to conceal her aura.

After defeating Gu Heng’s attack, Nie Li, Shangguan Ye, and their allies planned to target the Blood Moon Alliance’s leader. Heaven Cloud Divine Lord invited Nie Li and Shangguan Ye to become his disciples, but both resisted the arrangement, and Shangguan Ye received a mission to establish his own force in the Big World.

• Nie Li, Shangguan Ye, Li Xingyun, Lu Piao, and Gu Bei planned to strike Gu Heng and the Blood Moon Alliance by targeting its Divine Pools and exploiting an opening.
• Venerable Chi Ling brought Nie Li and Shangguan Ye to meet Heaven Cloud Divine Lord, who offered to accept them as his thirty-ninth and fortieth disciples.
• Venerable Wu Yan objected to Nie Li’s acceptance because of his cultivation and seniority, but Nie Li defended his request to come and go freely from Heaven Cloud Hall.
• Nie Li agreed to become Heaven Cloud Divine Lord’s disciple, while Shangguan Ye declined and rejected Venerable Wu Yan’s angry reprimand.
• The system assigned Shangguan Ye a mission to establish his own force in the Big World and promised Xuanwu as the reward.

Shangguan Ye’s group forced He Gui to report Gu Heng’s movements, then bought several treasures in Ming Mountain Stronghold, including a Thunder Bead that contained a small world. After the East Court selections were announced, Shangguan Ye revealed that Feng Yu was establishing a new force called Dawn.

• Shangguan Ye controlled He Gui and ordered him to report wherever Gu Heng went.
• Gu Bei led the group to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, where Nie Li bargained for Treasure Artifacts and Shangguan Ye bought the Thunder Bead for one hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Shangguan Ye explained that the bead contained a small, chaotic world and planned to give it to Ning'er.
• Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, Lu Piao, Gu Bei, and Long Yuyin were selected for the East Court and went to register.
• Shangguan Ye told Nie Li that Feng Yu was establishing Dawn with Monster Beasts that had taken human form.

At the East Court’s ranking challenges, Nie Li defeated Murong Yu and then Ye Chong, whom Venerable Wu Yan had ordered to kill him. Venerable Wu Yan turned his attention to Shangguan Ye, who defeated Zhu Wen and made Wu Yan’s demon spirit react violently as he left.

• Nie Li challenged Murong Yu and defeated him without using a demon spirit.
• Venerable Wu Yan arranged a test for Nie Li, and the elders barred the use of Treasure Artifacts above the third grade.
• Ye Chong attacked Nie Li with lethal intent, but Nie Li used his Shadow Demon and Fanged Panda demon spirits to defeat him.
• Venerable Wu Yan chose Zhu Wen to challenge Shangguan Ye, and Shangguan Ye agreed.
• Shangguan Ye defeated Zhu Wen by countering his dragon flames and draining his Heavenly Dao Power.
• Shangguan Ye stirred his Dragon Might, causing Venerable Wu Yan’s demon spirit to become agitated and forcing Wu Yan to leave.

After Gu Heng’s Black Cloud Divine Pool was seized, he used a spatial teleportation scroll to ambush Shangguan Ye’s group at the Thunder Divine Pool. Shangguan Ye lured three Dragon Path Realm experts away, leaving Nie Li and the others to face Gu Heng’s forces.

• A black-clad woman entered Nie Li’s room, bound him with pink energy, and Shangguan Ye escaped into the Mountain River Space rather than intervene.
• Feng Yu told Shangguan Ye that the Dawn organization had one peak Martial Ancestor and seven peak Dragon Path Realm experts, while the system said its mission required attention from the Five Great Sects.
• Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, Gu Bei, Li Xingyun, and their allies set out to seize Gu Heng’s Divine Pools as the Demon Alliance grew beyond six thousand members.
• Several thousand attackers overwhelmed the guards at the Black Cloud Divine Pool, and Gu Heng arrived too late to stop them from destroying it.
• Gu Heng followed Chai Yue’s suggestion to the Ancient Domain Divine Pool, found it gone, and used a spatial teleportation scroll to reach the Thunder Divine Pool.
• Gu Heng’s forces surrounded Shangguan Ye’s group, and Shangguan Ye drew three Dragon Path Realm experts away while warning that Nie Li was on his own.

Shangguan Ye defeated three Dragon Path Realm experts, then searched for Nie Li and Xiao Yu and found them treating Xiao Yu’s injuries. Nie Li and Shangguan Ye were pulled into the Void Spirit Array, where Xiao Yu’s father revealed that he had sent his daughter into the future to protect her, leaving Nie Li to ask why he had placed the array on her.

• Shangguan Ye used Six Paths Mode and his strange techniques to defeat three Dragon Path Realm experts, then learned that Gu Heng was pressuring the Elders to make Gu Bei surrender his position or pay for the destroyed Divine Pools.
• Shangguan Ye left Lu Piao with Gu Bei and used Space Law to find Nie Li and Xiao Yu, whom Nie Li was treating for injuries.
• Nie Li examined the inscription on Xiao Yu’s chest and touched it, causing both him and Shangguan Ye to faint.
• Nie Li and Shangguan Ye awoke inside the Void Spirit Array, where a deep male voice identified the array and explained its connection to the Heavenly Evolution Technique and the Holy Emperor.
• Xiao Yu’s father revealed that he had died fighting the Holy Emperor millions of years ago and sent his daughter into the future to protect her; Nie Li then asked why he had set the Void Spirit Array on Xiao Yu.

Nie Li and Shangguan Ye learned about Xiao Yu’s sealed bloodline and the threat of the Holy Emperor, then joined Wu Yazi on the way to the Phantom Palace. After Wu Yazi revealed Shangguan Ye’s demon clan bloodline, the group disguised themselves as demon clansmen, and Shangguan Ye attacked Long Tianming at the palace.

• Xiao Yu’s parents explained that her sealed power would awaken later and asked Nie Li to protect her in the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting.
• Nie Li and Shangguan Ye woke beside Xiao Yu, and Shangguan Ye killed two demon clansmen who attacked them.
• Wu Yazi joined the group and revealed that Shangguan Ye carried a powerful demon clan bloodline because his demon spirit had transformed him.
• Nie Li used Wu Yazi’s blood to disguise himself and Xiao Yu as demon clansmen, and the group traveled to the Phantom Palace.
• Shangguan Ye spotted Long Tianming, changed his appearance, and shot at him with the Bow of Amaterasu.

Shangguan Ye and Nie Li led their group through the Phantom Palace’s illusions and traps, collecting treasures and reaching the Spirit Void Wall. Nie Li broke through to the Three-Star Realm, and the chapter ended as the Demon Lord appeared, prompting Nie Li to wonder if he had awakened.

• Shangguan Ye attacked Long Tianming, who escaped using a Treasure Artifact, while Nie Li’s group entered the Phantom Palace through the Thousand Illusions Soul-Confusing Array.
• Shangguan Ye saw through the illusion of Thunder Fierce Beasts, and Nie Li guided Wu Yazi and Xiao Yu through the Heaven Lock Inscription Array to collect treasures.
• Shangguan Ye used Space Law to bypass the traps and shared the remaining treasures with the group.
• Nie Li opened the main hall, and the group passed through a corridor of Black Water Poison Spiders that Shangguan Ye destroyed with Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• The group reached the Spirit Void Wall, where they could not use Heavenly Dao Power, and Nie Li cultivated with a Bixie Jade Slip until he reached the Three-Star Realm.
• The Demon Lord entered, and Nie Li wondered whether he had awakened.

Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, and the Demon Lord met Patriarch Dao Zang in the Phantom Palace, where they learned about the Holy Emperor, the torn pages of a space-time treasure, and the reincarnations needed for the final battle. After Patriarch Dao Zang’s consciousness vanished, Shangguan Ye used the Heavenly Dao to shrink the Phantom Palace and take control of it.

• Shangguan Ye joined Nie Li and the Demon Lord at Patriarch Dao Zang’s statue, and the three heard Dao Zang offer his legacy to those willing to serve the human race.
• Patriarch Dao Zang explained that the Holy Emperor had sealed space-time, that six powerful figures were undergoing reincarnation, and that pages of a space-time treasure could help defeat him.
• Nie Li told Patriarch Dao Zang that he already possessed two torn pages, so Dao Zang gave him a third; Dao Zang also revealed that the Demon Lord was one of the six reincarnations.
• The Demon Lord entered a secret realm to cultivate, and Patriarch Dao Zang’s consciousness dissipated after telling Nie Li and Shangguan Ye to take the hall’s treasures.
• The Phantom Palace announced that it had developed its own consciousness and intended to control the twenty thousand people inside, but Shangguan Ye used the Heavenly Dao to shrink it and teleport everyone out.