Chapter Summaries

Shangguan Ye annihilated the treasure seekers, fought Divine Lord Xuan Ming, and then used the Phantom Palace and stored Heavenly Dao Power to break through to the Martial Ancestor Realm. He ended the chapter newly advanced and wondering whether his cultivation was finally sufficient.

• Shangguan Ye used Susanoo and Taotie Feast to wipe out the crowd pursuing the Phantom Palace, then accepted Wu Yazi’s pledge of loyalty.
• Divine Lord Xuan Ming arrived to avenge his disciple and demand the palace, so Shangguan Ye stayed behind to fight while Nie Li hid Xiao Yu in the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting.
• Shangguan Ye’s Susanoo-Clad Buddha was destroyed, but he combined several powers and struck Divine Lord Xuan Ming with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, forcing the Martial Ancestor to flee.
• Nie Li cultivated in the time-frozen Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting and reached the Ninth Heaven Rotation Realm, prompting Shangguan Ye to prepare his own breakthrough.
• Shangguan Ye converted the Spirit Stone Essence Gold into Divine Pools and absorbed the Phantom Palace and Heavenly Dao Power, advancing through the Dragon Path Realm and reaching the Martial Ancestor Realm.

Shangguan Ye returned to the Gu Clan after reaching the Martial Ancestor realm and learned that Gu Heng had been confined, leaving Long Tianming as his main opponent. In the Mountain River Space, Ying Ru Yue showed Xiao Ning'er what Shangguan Ye carried on his shoulders and reassured her of her place beside him.

• Shangguan Ye, Nie Li, and Xiao Yu returned to the Gu Clan, where Gu Tianlong sentenced Gu Heng to thirty years of confinement.
• Long Tianming learned that Gu Heng had been confined, gave an Elder two hundred thousand spirit stones for him, and decided to act personally against Gu Bei’s rise.
• Shangguan Ye warned Gu Bei that Long Tianming was his remaining opponent and told him to have Li Xingyun stay alert to Li Yufeng.
• Feng Yu led Shangguan Ye to Xiao Ning'er and Ying Ru Yue beneath the Divine Tree, but he fled the Mountain River Space when he saw them facing off.
• Ying Ru Yue showed Xiao Ning'er scenes revealing Shangguan Ye’s burdens and told her that he liked her and that she would stay with him from beginning to end.
• Shangguan Ye returned to the Mountain River Space, took Xiao Ning'er and Ying Ru Yue by the hands, and rubbed Feng Yu’s head when she looked disappointed.

Nie Li left to recruit experts while Long Yuyin secretly tracked him, but Li Yufeng was intercepted and killed by Shangguan Ye and a Dragon Demon assassin from Dawn. Shangguan Ye and Feng Yu expected the sects to soon notice Dawn’s attacks.

• Nie Li planned to recruit people from small towns and the Heavenly Origin Divine Clan while warning Long Yuyin to watch Long Tianming for possible ties to the Demon God Sect.
• Long Yuyin marked Nie Li with Thousand Mile Soul Chasing Incense and pursued him, but the incense vanished in a forest before she continued onward.
• Li Yufeng followed Long Yuyin’s trail with a group, then encountered a Dragon Demon assassin who said Dawn had been paid to kill him.
• Shangguan Ye trapped Li Yufeng with walls of ice, and the Dragon Demon caught up and snapped Li Yufeng’s neck.
• Feng Yu reprimanded the assassin and ordered him barred from the Mountain River Space for a week, while she and Shangguan Ye anticipated that the sects would soon notice Dawn.

Shangguan Ye reflected on the coming conflict with Nie Li while Dawn grew into a powerful force. When the Feather God Sect hired Dawn to kill Divine Lord Xuan Ming, Shangguan Ye and Feng Yu attacked the Demon God Sect, leaving the confrontation unresolved as Feng Yu charged her target.

• Shangguan Ye checked Dawn’s growth, then struggled with restlessness until he jumped into the sea.
• Gu Bei and Li Xingyun discussed Dawn’s reputation, while the Feather God Sect’s leaders decided to test it by hiring Dawn to kill Divine Lord Xuan Ming.
• Shangguan Ye and Feng Yu accepted the mission and flew to the Demon God Sect.
• Shangguan Ye raised his cultivation to the fifth level of Martial Ancestor, and he and Feng Yu broke the Demon God Sect’s protective array.
• Shangguan Ye refused to reveal the client’s identity and demanded that Sect Master Mu Yue hand over Xuan Ming, then Feng Yu charged at him.

Shangguan Ye killed Divine Lord Xuan Ming, left the Demon God Sect, and explored the Thunder Bead, where he discovered a village descended from the Heavenly Origin Divine Clan. After the villagers showed him a portrait of Xiao Ning'er, he brought her into the bead to meet them.

• Feng Yu killed the injured Divine Lord Xuan Ming, and Shangguan Ye warned Mu Yue before leaving with Feng Yu.
• Shangguan Ye gave Wu Yazi an Image Recording Ball and supplies to spread news of the incident, then had Feng Yu take him into the Mountain River Space.
• Shangguan Ye used Space Law to enter a hidden world inside the Thunder Bead, where villagers confronted him and the village chief questioned him about the Holy Emperor.
• The village chief revealed that the villagers were the Earthly Origin Divine Clan, descended from people Emperor Tian Yuan had hidden inside the bead.
• A villager showed Shangguan Ye a portrait of Xiao Ning'er, so Shangguan Ye summoned her from the Tianyin Divine Sect and brought her into the Thunder Bead.

Xiao Ning'er became the Young Mistress of the Heavenly Origin Divine Clan and brought its clansmen into Shangguan Ye’s Mountain River Space. Meanwhile, Nie Li sought Heaven Cloud Divine Lord’s support in his bid to become acting sect leader, while Shangguan Ye’s mission reached seventy-five percent completion.

• Xiao Ning'er accepted the Heavenly Origin Divine Clan’s soul contract and agreed to lead the clan toward restoring its former glory.
• Shangguan Ye moved the clansmen into his Mountain River Space, built them houses, and gave Xiao Ning'er a Thunder Bead to aid her cultivation.
• Xiao Ning'er introduced Shangguan Ye as her fiancé, and Tian Yi apologized to him for shooting an arrow earlier.
• Nie Li told Heaven Cloud Divine Lord he would contend for acting sect leader and gave him a Sacred Medicine pill that raised his cultivation from the third to the fifth realm of Martial Ancestor.
• Nie Li gave Heaven Cloud Divine Lord more than thirty additional pills to help persuade other Martial Ancestors to support him.
• Shangguan Ye learned that his mission was seventy-five percent complete and decided not to join the contest for acting sect leader.

Long Tianming defeated Situ Beiyan in the contest for acting sect master, but Shangguan Ye challenged him with powerful allies while Nie Li was incapacitated. Nie Li appeared after Long Tianming conceded, leaving the sect leaders unsure who would become acting sect master.

• Long Tianming defeated Situ Beiyan after their demon spirits transformed, and Situ Beiyan collapsed with serious injuries.
• Shangguan Ye learned that Nie Li was unconscious and went to challenge Long Tianming in his place.
• Shangguan Ye summoned Feng Yu and other allies, whose Dragon Path Realm and Martial Ancestor strength stunned Long Tianming and the Divine Lords.
• The sect master declared that Long Tianming had lost, and Long Tianming was carried away.
• Nie Li appeared beside Shangguan Ye, who then conceded to him, leaving the sect master and Heaven Cloud Divine Lord uncertain how to proceed.

Nie Li took charge of the Feather God Sect and received Ling Kong, who came seeking an alliance through marriage to Long Yuyin. Shangguan Ye exposed the sect’s strength and pressured Ling Kong into submitting the Lingyun Sect, while Li Xingyun warned that the Dawn organization was killing Martial Ancestor experts across the region.

• Nie Li became acting sect master and announced that he would lead the Feather God Sect.
• Ling Kong arrived at the Feather God Sect and decided to propose marriage to Long Yuyin after hearing that Nie Li had taken over.
• Ling Kong asked to marry Long Yuyin, but Lu Piao and Long Yuyin rejected his advances.
• Shangguan Ye returned, ended the Lingyun Sect’s affiliate status, and used his peak Martial Ancestor pressure to force Ling Kong to submit.
• Li Xingyun warned that the Dawn organization had been killing Martial Ancestor experts from small righteous and demonic sects, and Nie Li agreed they should consult the major divine sects.

Yu Yan recovered memories of her past and present lives and asked Nie Li to return with her to the Little Exquisite World, where they needed the Sword of Ten Thousand Ancestors to reach the Book of Space-time Demon Spirits. At the Tianyin Divine Sect, Nie Li arrived with Shangguan Ye and Lu Piao to meet old friends, while a confrontation erupted over the sect’s marriage rules.

• Yu Yan told Nie Li that the Sword of Ten Thousand Ancestors could unlock the Little Exquisite World, where the Book of Space-time Demon Spirits might help them defeat the Holy Emperor, and Nie Li agreed to accompany her.
• Xuan Yue tried to persuade Xiao Ning'er to pursue Young Master Xiu Ming, but Xiao Ning'er learned that Shangguan Ye was coming and resolved to reach the Martial Ancestor Realm before he arrived.
• Nie Li, Shangguan Ye, and Lu Piao entered the Tianyin Divine Sect’s main hall and met Sect Master Nangong Xianyin and Xiu Ming.
• Nie Li told Xiu Ming that Ye Ziyun was his fiancée and Xiao Ning'er and Xiao Xue were engaged to his companions, prompting Xiu Ming to experience Shangguan Ye’s intimidating aura.
• Nangong Xianyin objected that Tianyin Divine Sect disciples could not marry, and Shangguan Ye insulted the rule before revealing his peak Martial Ancestor aura.

Shangguan Ye and the others left the Tianyin Divine Sect after Xiao Ning'er, Ye Ziyun, and Xiao Xue bid farewell to Nangong Xianyin, while Nie Li traded sacred medicine for a Sword of Heavenly Ancestor fragment and bonded with the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword. The group then learned that the Demon God Sect had invaded the sect.

• Shangguan Ye reunited with Xiao Ning'er, who revealed she had reached the Martial Ancestor Realm and planned to leave the Tianyin Divine Sect with Ye Ziyun and Xiao Xue.
• Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun presented Nangong Xianyin with more than twenty talented female disciples, and Nie Li traded five portions of sacred medicine for a fragment of the Sword of Heavenly Ancestor.
• Nie Li used the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword to absorb the Sword of Heavenly Ancestor's power, but the sword attacked him in an attempt to turn him into its sword spirit.
• Shangguan Ye used the Silver Moon Spear to frighten the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword into releasing Nie Li, who later merged with the sword.
• A Corpse Charm from the Demon God Sect broke into the Tianyin Divine Sect and killed several female disciples and a deacon.
• Shangguan Ye warned the others of the invasion, and they set out to confront it.

Shangguan Ye summoned Xuanwu and appointed him the public leader of Dawn, which arrived at the Tianyin Divine Sect’s battlefield to fulfill two contracts. Dawn crippled Yaolie and named Ouyang Ruoxue as its other target, while Xuanwu revealed himself as the organization’s leader, Mo Xuan.

• Shangguan Ye summoned Xuanwu and made him Dawn’s public leader, then watched as the Tianyin Divine Sect fought the Demon God Sect.
• Lingxu Fairy revealed her Martial Ancestor cultivation by piercing Corpse Charm, who fled as the Demon God Sect’s main army arrived.
• Nangong Xianyin activated the Tianyin Great Array, but Yaolie’s demonic qi corroded its defenders until thousands of Dawn members arrived.
• Long Ming announced Dawn’s contracts to target Yaolie and Ouyang Ruoxue, then used Dawn’s array to wound Yaolie and repel his attack.
• Luoyu, Xu Long, Xu Hu, and the Demon God Sect’s forces attacked Dawn, cracking Long Ming’s defensive barrier.
• Xuanwu appeared, suppressed the battlefield, and identified himself as Dawn’s leader, Mo Xuan, while demanding that everyone except Yaolie and Ouyang Ruoxue retreat.

Mo Xuan and the Dawn organization drove back the Demon God Sect’s attack on the Tianyin Divine Sect, where Feng Yu exposed and killed the traitor Ouyang Ruoxue. Afterward, Nie Li arranged for the Feather God Sect to protect Tianyin and sent fifty thousand disciples there under the pretense of finding partners, further binding the two sects together.

• Mo Xuan killed Yaolie, forced the Demon God Sect to retreat, and fought Shangguan Ye while Long Ming summoned reinforcements.
• Feng Yu emerged from the spatial portal, killed Ouyang Ruoxue with white flames, and revealed the black qi that marked her as a Demon God Sect traitor.
• Mo Xuan knocked Shangguan Ye away and escaped with Feng Yu and the other Dawn members, while Nie Li wondered why the organization had appeared in this life.
• Nie Li persuaded Nangong Xianyin to let the Feather God Sect station experts at the Tianyin Divine Sect, offering her several bottles of pills.
• The Feather God Sect’s elders discussed how to secure Nie Li’s loyalty, while Li Xingyun announced that fifty thousand disciples would defend Tianyin and seek partners there.

A few months after the staged fight, Nie Li reunited with his allies and met with the sect masters, while the Demon Lord showed him evidence of a danger connected to Shangguan Ye. At the banquet, Nie Li warned the leaders that the Holy Emperor planned to refine the entire Dragon Ruins Territory.

• Xiao Ning'er told Shangguan Ye that the Tianyin Divine Sect wanted him to rein in the Feather God Sect disciples, and he agreed only to ask them to be more discreet.
• Nangong Xianyin convened a meeting where Duan Jian knelt before Nie Li and called him Master, revealing their past relationship to the gathered sect masters.
• The Demon Lord exchanged an Imprint Stone and a Soul Mirror for medicinal liquid from the Formless Divine Fruit, and Nie Li learned that a beast was lying in wait for Shangguan Ye.
• Nie Li reunited with Du Ze, Wei Nan, and his other brothers, then reassured the sect masters at the banquet that he did not intend to dominate them.
• Nie Li told the sect masters that the Holy Emperor was a powerful Spirit God who intended to refine the entire Dragon Ruins Territory.

Nie Li united the major Divine Sects to prepare for the Holy Emperor, while Glory City faced a devastating Monster Beast invasion after the Red Python opened a passage into the Little Exquisite World. As the Myriad Demon Spirit Array began to fail, a mysterious pillar of light appeared and destroyed a large swath of the Beast Tide.

• The sect masters agreed to follow Nie Li, who ordered the sects to recruit more disciples and cultivate the Divine Soul Dao Art while secretly teaching his allies a way to absorb the released soul force.
• Ye Mo and Progenitor Ye Yan learned that five human settlements had been destroyed, and Ye Mo entrusted them with the key to the Spirit God's Ancestral Land as Glory City's final hope.
• A Red Python emerged from a newly opened passage, swallowed Monster Beasts, and ordered its subordinates to capture the humans in the Little Exquisite World.
• Ye Mo and Ye Yan fought two peak Legendary Monster Beasts and retreated into Glory City after Ye Xiu activated the Myriad Demon Spirit Array.
• The Monster Beasts summoned a massive Beast Tide against Glory City, and Ye Mo and its defenders chose to stand and fight as the array neared collapse.
• A pillar of light appeared in the center of the Beast Tide and instantly wiped out a huge swath of Monster Beasts.

Shangguan Ye returned to Glory City, where he learned that the Shangguan Family had been destroyed and was blamed for rebellion, then attacked the city in rage. After he razed Glory City, he found the imprisoned Ye Zong, who admitted the city had wronged him.

• Yang Xin and Gu Yan distributed Soul Burning Pills as the Myriad Demon Spirit Array shattered, but Du Ze and the others arrived and quickly wiped out the Monster Beasts.
• Ye Mo reunited with Ye Ziyun, then told Shangguan Ye that the Shangguan Family had been eradicated for rebellion and collusion with the Dark Guild and expelled him from Glory City.
• Shangguan Ye sent the Winged Dragon Family into the Mountain River Space, killed Ye Mo, and unleashed powerful attacks on Glory City.
• Nie Li saved the major families, the Alchemist Association, and the others in the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting, but Shangguan Ye's attacks destroyed Glory City.
• Shangguan Ye discovered Ye Zong imprisoned beneath the City Lord's Mansion, told him he had killed Ye Mo and destroyed the city, and demanded an explanation for Uncle Xun and the others' deaths.

After learning that the Black Prison had manipulated the City Lord's Mansion into helping destroy the Shangguan Family, Shangguan Ye confronted its creator and was defeated. Feng Yu rescued him, overwhelmed the old man, and took him away for Shangguan Ye to deal with.

• Ye Zong told Shangguan Ye that a white-haired old man had controlled the City Lord's Mansion and framed the Shangguan Family, leading several major families to destroy it.
• Shangguan Ye sent Ye Zong into the Myriad Mountains and Rivers Painting, where Ye Zong reunited with Ye Ziyun and explained what had happened.
• Shangguan Ye entered the Black Prison and unleashed his strongest techniques, but the old man destroyed his attack, sealed his power, and knocked him unconscious.
• Feng Yu intervened, sent Xiao Ning'er and Ying Yueru to carry Shangguan Ye away, and unleashed her power against the old man.
• Feng Yu destroyed the Black Prison World, restored the old man's body, and repeatedly crushed him before deciding to leave him for Shangguan Ye.

Shangguan Ye absorbed the old man and began a major breakthrough while Nie Li went to the Nether Realm to confront Candle Dragon and Ye Han. Nie Li swiftly killed the attackers and revealed his Martial Ancestor Realm cultivation, then began explaining Shangguan Ye’s uncertain future to Ming.

• Shangguan Ye woke, absorbed the captured old man, and began breaking through as Feng Yu said trouble had arisen in the Nether Realm.
• Nie Li received the Soul Mirror containing Uncle Xun’s and the other Shangguan Family members’ souls, then hurried to the Nether Realm.
• At the Black Flame Tower, Candle Dragon and Ye Han attacked the defenders, but Ming and the others held them back with the tower’s formation.
• Ming exhausted himself striking Candle Dragon with a black-flame blade, and Nie Li caught him before he fell.
• Nie Li released his pressure and killed Candle Dragon, Ye Han, and the other enemies, then told Ming he had reached the Martial Ancestor Realm and become Sect Master of the Feather God Sect.
• Nie Li assured Ming that Shangguan Ye was safe but said he might no longer share their path, and began explaining what had happened.

Shangguan Ye resurrected his fallen clansmen and arranged for his father to manage the Earthly Origin Divine Clan before investigating a spatial formation beneath the Black Demon Forest. Inside it, he found a space that replayed his past life, and watching his younger self led him into enlightenment.

• Shangguan Ye used Impure World Reincarnation to restore Shangguan Xun and the others, then revived their bodies with the Cycle of Rebirth Technique.
• Shangguan Ye put Shangguan Xun in charge of Dawn’s behind-the-scenes affairs and arranged for Xiao Yunfeng to manage members of the Earthly Origin Divine Clan.
• Shangguan Ye searched the Black Demon Forest for a spatial formation and discovered one beneath the lake where he had fought the Silver Flood Dragon.
• Shangguan Ye entered an independent space and found Konoha Village, where he encountered scenes from his earlier life.
• Shangguan Ye watched his younger self’s battles and training across the ninja wars, then entered a state of enlightenment as the system’s companions noted he was comprehending the Time Law.

Shangguan Ye mastered the Time Law and prepared to infiltrate the Demon God Sect using White Zetsu, while Nie Li organized the sects to attack the Dawn Organization. The chapter ended with Nie Li’s forces preparing to strike its headquarters and Shangguan Ye’s agents positioned to act inside the Demon God Sect.

• Shangguan Ye mastered the Time Law, letting him greatly accelerate time in the Mountain River Space, and advised Xiao Ning'er to cultivate faith among the Earthly Origin Divine Clan.
• Nie Li told the sect masters that the Dawn Organization posed a threat and resolved to unite the sects to destroy it, assigning Lu Piao and others to help defend them.
• Shangguan Ye discovered that the Divine Tree had produced White Zetsu, named their leader A Fei, and ordered them to infiltrate the Demon God Sect with help from Wu Yazi.
• Shangguan Ye warned Mo Xuan that Nie Li’s forces might target the Dawn Organization, while Mo Xuan claimed its strength and Cloud Bat Formation made it secure.
• Nie Li’s allies located the Dawn Organization’s headquarters and planned to prevent Mo Xuan and his forces from forming their powerful formation.

The six divine sects launched an attack on the Dawn Organization, whose leader, Mo Xuan, ordered a Beast Tide and sent twelve fighters to block the six advancing teams. Nie Li’s group encountered Long Ming and Long Xiao, whose strange abilities wounded one of his Martial Ancestors, while Lu Piao and Duan Jian also faced dangerous opponents.

• Nie Li led the Feather God Sect’s forces toward the Dawn Organization as Heaven Cloud Divine Lord joined the expedition.
• Mo Xuan learned the six sects had sent sixty Martial Ancestors and ordered a Beast Tide to weaken them; Shangguan Ye told him to send out several fighters.
• Two Dawn Organization fighters blocked each of the six teams, and Nie Li sent four Martial Ancestors to test Long Ming and Long Xiao.
• Long Ming blocked the four Martial Ancestors’ combined water attack, while Long Xiao used a mysterious ability to transfer damage to one of them and knock him down.
• Long You’s exploding clay birds blasted Lu Piao away, and Duan Jian discovered that his opponent had been an illusion that dispersed into crows.