Chapter Summaries

Zhong Chen and Shen Jing detonated the souls and source powers they had seeded in Xiuwen and the others, devastating the Nine Immortal Pool and leaving Shu Ziheng gravely wounded. They looted him and escaped Xiang Zimo, who healed Shu Ziheng enough for him to demand revenge.

• Zhong Chen and Shen Jing activated the seeds inside Xiuwen and the others, causing more than ten Immortal Kings to self-detonate and destroy the Nine Immortal Pool.
• Shu Ziheng survived the blast but discovered his tortoiseshell was gone, and every treasure he tried to use was replaced by a Low-grade Spirit Stone.
• Zhong Chen and Shen Jing ambushed Shu Ziheng, knocked him unconscious, looted his supreme treasures, and decided to move on to new prey.
• Xiang Zimo attacked Zhong Chen and Shen Jing with a Silver Spear, but they dodged and fled through the shadows.
• Xiang Zimo restored Shu Ziheng's body and treated his injuries, and Shu Ziheng woke up demanding revenge.

After Shu Ziheng was humiliated, Xiang Zimo helped him capture Immortal Kings as hostages to lure Zhong Chen and Shen Jing out. Meanwhile, a mysterious Dao-robed youth and two Young Ancestors killed High-Level Heavenly Vault cultivators, while Hua Ziyang remained lost in an empty region.

• Xiang Zimo calmed the enraged Shu Ziheng and proposed taking hostages to force Zhong Chen and Shen Jing to appear.
• Xiang Zimo lent Shu Ziheng treasures, and the two captured Ao Cheng, Su Xin, and other Immortal Kings as their warning spread.
• A Dao-robed youth killed more than a hundred High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings, then poisoned and killed five more who approached him.
• The Young Ancestors of Enemy God Peak and Limitless Peak guarded Ninefold Mountain’s paths and killed every High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal King who arrived.
• Zhong Chen and Shen Jing heard that captives had been taken, while other descendants gathered forces to rescue them at Dark Summit.
• Hua Ziyang continued wandering through an empty mountain region and wondered where he had been sent.

Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng gathered forces at Dark Summit, using captured Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings to lure their enemies into a trap. Just as Shu Ziheng tried to kill a prisoner, the man vanished and was replaced by a low-grade spirit crystal.

• Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng captured Ao Cheng, Su Xin, the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Clan's heir, and many Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings, then summoned their enemies to Dark Summit.
• Six Imperial Alliance heirs rallied their forces and headed for Dark Summit, while the High-Level Heavenly Vault also gathered reinforcements.
• Emperor Lord and the other Overlords watched the forces assemble and worried that Hua Ziyang, stranded far from the battlefield, would not arrive in time.
• Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng held nearly a thousand captives at Dark Summit and waited for the Imperial Alliance to approach.
• After the three-day deadline passed, Shu Ziheng threatened to kill one captive every stick of incense and raised his saber to strike.
• The captive vanished in a flash and a low-grade spirit crystal appeared in his place, shocking Shu Ziheng, Xiang Zimo, and the surrounding Immortal Kings.

Zhong Chen and Shen Jing used the Black Hand Organization’s exchange ability to free the Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings, triggering a battle between the Imperial Alliance and the High-Level Heavenly Vault. As Xiang Zimo revealed his powerful Sun True Body and fought the nine successors, a Dao-robed youth began a bloodline summoning array to reverse summon Hua Ziyang.

• Zhong Chen and Shen Jing exchanged an Imperial Alliance Immortal King for a Low-grade Spirit Crystal, while the Ancient Ancestors realized that powerful elders were bearing the Karma.
• Xiang Zimo raised an array around the Dark Summit, but the Black Hand Organization exchanged away the imprisoned Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings and revealed that its members were hidden among the crowd.
• Xiang Zimo ordered the High-Level Heavenly Vault to kill the Imperial Alliance, and the nine successors led tens of thousands of Immortal Kings into battle against them.
• Xiang Zimo pulled the nine successors toward him and sent Shu Ziheng to attack the rest of the battlefield.
• Xiang Zimo revealed his Sun True Body, leaving the nine successors barely able to hold him off.
• A Dao-robed youth opened a Bloodline Summoning Array and prepared to reverse summon Hua Ziyang.

After Jing Xing reverse-summoned Hua Ziyang from an isolated region, Hua joined the battle and revealed overwhelming strength against the High-Level Heavenly Vault. He confronted Xiang Zimo and wounded him, prompting Xiang Zimo to recognize Hua as a descendant of the feared clan.

• Hua Ziyang answered Jing Xing's bloodline summons after days alone in the Northwest Region and appeared beside him above the battlefield.
• Jing Xing explained that the fighters had gathered at the battle and warned Hua to beware of Xiang Zimo, while Hua volunteered to fight.
• Hua Ziyang caught an injured Imperial Alliance Immortal King and killed his High-Level Heavenly Vault pursuer with one strike.
• Hua sent the nine successors away and challenged Xiang Zimo's Taiyin and Sun True Bodies, then caught the Silver Spear and drove its shattered head into Xiang Zimo's chest.
• Xiang Zimo recognized Hua Ziyang as a descendant of the clan that the Ancient Ancestors had warned him to watch for.

Xiang Zimo merged his Taiyin and Sun True Bodies to fight Hua Ziyang at the same realm, but Hua Ziyang overwhelmed him in a brutal clash. Meanwhile, the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak toyed with Shu Ziheng by exchanging his weapon for a Low-grade Spirit Stone, then savagely attacked him after Shu crushed it.

• Xiang Zimo merged his Taiyin and Sun True Bodies and unleashed the Xiang Family's Lunar Bridge, but Hua Ziyang shattered the technique and forced him into a fierce battle.
• Hua Ziyang punched through Xiang Zimo's chest, and their fight carried them across the sky, Void Space, and deep beneath the Tiangang Continent.
• The Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak severed Shu Ziheng's legs and mocked him over his stolen treasures and injuries.
• The Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak used Equivalent Exchange to turn Shu Ziheng's long blade into a Low-grade Spirit Stone, then lent the blade back to him.
• Shu Ziheng crushed the Low-grade Spirit Stone, so the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak attacked furiously, shredding his arm and blasting apart his chest.

Limitless Peak's Young Ancestor killed Shu Ziheng, and Hua Ziyang crushed Xiang Zimo in their duels. With the enemy's strongest fighters defeated, Zhong Chen sealed Dark Summit with a formation, leaving the trapped Immortal Kings of the High-Level Heavenly Vault to face Hua Ziyang's rampage.

• Limitless Peak's Young Ancestor overwhelmed Shu Ziheng and destroyed him with a giant blade strike.
• Hua Ziyang mocked Xiang Zimo, broke the Golden Sacred Spear, and killed him with the Hua Clan Secret Art—Super Serious Punch.
• The Sea Race Progenitor and the old man of the Huangtian Immortal Race lamented their defeat, while the Emperor Lord and his allies welcomed Hua Ziyang's victory.
• As the Immortal Kings of the High-Level Heavenly Vault prepared to retreat, Zhong Chen activated a formation with Shen Jing and the Young Ancestor of Enemy God Peak, sealing Dark Summit.
• Hua Ziyang challenged the trapped enemies and began killing Immortal Kings with one punch each.

Hua Ziyang defeated the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s fighters, but a blond Gu clansman forced the Imperial Alliance to lift its formation by revealing captured allies. Jing Xing then revealed he could track the captives and invited Hua Ziyang to attack the enemy’s heart.

• Hua Ziyang drove back the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Immortal Kings after defeating Xiang Zimo, but a blond young man arrived and struck the formation with a golden arrow.
• Hua Ziyang used Fair Trade to bring the blond man within reach and punched him, but the man revealed that the Sun Moon Holy Emperor and other Imperial Alliance leaders were imprisoned and near death.
• The blond man summoned ten copies of himself to attack the formation, and Jing Xing ordered Zhong Chen, Shen Jing, and the other controllers to let it fall in exchange for the captives’ lives.
• The blond man identified himself as belonging to the Gu surname, collected Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng, and led the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Immortal Kings away.
• Hua Ziyang punched Jing Xing for yielding, and Jing Xing explained that the Gu man’s Dao art let him track the prisoners before urging Hua Ziyang to charge into enemy territory with him.

Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang revealed their connection to the Black Hand Organization and persuaded the Imperial Alliance’s successors to wait while their enemies gathered their forces. Afterward, Jing Xing scolded the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak for winning too easily and undermining their plan to make the enemy underestimate them.

• Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang let the nine successors identify them as members of the Black Hand Organization after helping rescue Xiang Zimo, Shu Ziheng, and the others.
• Jing Xing told the successors to rest and wait until the High-Level Heavenly Vault assembled all one hundred thousand Immortal Kings before making their move.
• Hua Ziyang vouched for Jing Xing as the Black Hand Organization’s leader among the Immortal Kings, and the successors agreed to trust his plan.
• Jing Xing met Zhong Chen, Shen Jing, and the others, then twisted the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak’s ear for killing his opponent too quickly.
• The Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak promised to put on a more convincing performance next time, while Jing Xing threatened the others for laughing.

Jing Xing kept the Young Ancestors in line and revealed that the hostages’ release was part of a plan, while the Young Man of the Gu Clan secretly held the captives. The chapter ended with him preparing to publicly execute them once his army had gathered.

• Jing Xing stopped Zhong Chen, Shen Jing, and the Young Ancestor of Enemy God Peak from fighting and made them draw lots, which left Zhong Chen and Shen Jing set to lose.
• Jing Xing said Wu Zixin would arrive when the time was right and told the Young Ancestors that rescuing the Sun Moon Holy Emperor and the others was part of the plan.
• Jing Xing warned that Gu was a dangerous opponent and agreed that they could launch a rocket if the situation became desperate.
• The Young Man of the Gu Clan told the High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings that the Imperial Alliance had released them because it valued its people’s lives.
• The Young Man of the Gu Clan revealed that he had imprisoned the Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, the Ice Emperor, Liu Mengyu, and other captives beneath the Immortal Lake.
• The Young Man of the Gu Clan planned to gather one hundred thousand Immortal Kings and execute the captives before the Imperial Alliance.

Gu Hanfei rescued Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng, then restored them with the Five-Colored Divine Liquid and promised to lead the High-Level Heavenly Vault against the Imperial Alliance. He revealed that he had captured Wu Zixin and tried to force her to disclose where her people were hiding, but she refused.

• The High-Level Heavenly Vault's kings welcomed Gu Hanfei's plan to gather a hundred thousand Immortal Kings and defeat the Imperial Alliance.
• Gu Hanfei placed Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng in the Five-Colored Divine Liquid, where they recovered and awoke.
• Gu Hanfei told Xiang Zimo and Shu Ziheng that he would lead them against the Imperial Alliance after the High-Level Heavenly Vault gathered its forces.
• Gu Hanfei visited Wu Zixin, whom he had captured, and demanded that she reveal her people's hiding place.
• Wu Zixin refused to talk, and Gu Hanfei tortured her in the poison pool before leaving her to suffer until she gave in.

Gu Hanfei met with the Sima brothers after they captured Primordial Era emperors and sect Young Ancestors, and they discussed the Imperial Alliance’s strength and how to defend the Immortal Lake secret realm. After one hundred thousand High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings gathered, Jing Xing emerged from Wu Zixin’s body in the Poison Pool.

• Gu Hanfei interrogated the captured Primordial Era emperors and sect Young Ancestors, but they refused to reveal their hideout, so he locked them away.
• Sima Jie and Sima Hao learned that Xiang Zimo had lost to the clan’s successor and that Gu Hanfei had been struck by the successor’s Exchange Divine Ability.
• Gu Hanfei showed the Sima brothers Wu Zixin imprisoned in the Poison Pool and said she was likely a successor of a peak.
• Sima Hao proposed having the All Kings form a perimeter around the Immortal Lake secret realm, and Gu Hanfei agreed to let the brothers arrange it.
• Three days later, all one hundred thousand High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings had gathered at the Immortal Lake secret realm.
• Wu Zixin raised her head in the Poison Pool, and Jing Xing stepped out of her body in black robes.

Jing Xing, Wu Zixin, Hua Ziyang, and the others infiltrated the Immortal Lake Secret Realm despite its grand formation and planned to ambush its guards. Gu Hanfei failed to detect them and was beaten unconscious by Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang.

• Wu Zixin revealed that she had faked her defeat to Gu Hanfei and left an incarnation in the Poison Pool to deceive him.
• Jing Xing and the others emerged from concealment, agreed to preserve their act, and split up to attack Gu Hanfei and the Sima brothers.
• Gu Hanfei sensed something might be wrong but saw no signs of an intrusion and reassured himself that the High-Level Heavenly Vault's formation could defeat the Imperial Alliance.
• Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang ambushed Gu Hanfei in his time chamber, struck him repeatedly with wooden sticks, and left him twitching on the floor.

Jing Xing, Hua Ziyang, and Wu Zixin’s group ambushed and incapacitated Gu Hanfei and the Sima brothers, while the Emperor Lord taunted the Seventeenth Layer Heavenly Vault’s Ancient Ancestors. When the High-Level Heavenly Vault activated the Immortal Lake Secret Realm formation against the seven intruders, Zhong Chen countered with a super formation that summoned all one hundred thousand Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings.

• Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang beat Gu Hanfei unconscious and continued kicking him while the Ancient Ancestors watched.
• The Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor tried to expose Wu Zixin’s group to the Sima brothers, but the Emperor Lord stopped him; Wu Zixin’s group then ambushed and subdued the brothers.
• The Emperor Lord traded taunts with the Ancient Ancestors, silencing them as Shen Jing and Zhong Chen mocked the incapacitated Sima brothers.
• Sima Hao and Sima Jie activated the Immortal Lake Secret Realm formation, summoning the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Immortal Kings to target the seven intruders.
• Zhong Chen and the others joined their formation patterns into a super formation that summoned all one hundred thousand Imperial Alliance Immortal Kings.

Jing Xing and the others summoned the Imperial Alliance's hundred thousand Immortal Kings and used the seven-colored pills to shield and strengthen them, turning the battle against the High-Level Heavenly Vault. As the fighting spread, Hua Ziyang engaged Gu Hanfei, the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak captured Sima Hao and Sima Jie, and Xiang Zimo confronted Jing Xing.

• Zhong Chen explained that the seven had summoned the Imperial Alliance's hundred thousand Immortal Kings through their formation expertise, while the seven-colored pills had transported the fighters and made them untargetable by formations.
• Gu Hanfei ordered the secret realm's grand formation to attack, but its strikes missed the Imperial Alliance's Immortal Kings, who then charged the High-Level Heavenly Vault's forces.
• The Imperial Alliance activated Xia Qiuer's mortal blessing and the seven-colored pills' effects, gaining a combined thirty-percent increase in strength and pushing the High-Level Heavenly Vault onto the defensive.
• Gu Hanfei used a character bearing the Gu name to break free and attacked Jing Xing and Hua Ziyang, so Hua Ziyang intercepted him and fought him away from the Bronze Divine Hall.
• The Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak collected Sima Hao and Sima Jie's souls and body fragments after their defeat, while Shu Ziheng and Dongfang Fengyun charged toward Jing Xing and Xiang Zimo reached him to fight.

Shu Ziheng, Dongfang Fengyun, and their allies fought Zhong Chen, Shen Jing, Wu Zixin, and their companions while Jing Xing confronted Xiang Zimo inside the Bronze Divine Hall. Jing Xing poisoned Xiang Zimo without touching him, stole everything from his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, and left him to die.

• Shu Ziheng, Dongfang Fengyun, Zhong Chen, Shen Jing, and the Young Ancestor of Enemy God Peak rushed to rescue Sima Hao and Sima Jie but arrived too late, then engaged their opponents in five battles.
• Shu Ziheng used Sima Hao's battle saber to drive back the Young Ancestor of Limitless Peak, while Wu Zixin struggled against Dongfang Fengyun.
• The blue-haired young man blasted apart Shen Jing's arm and broke his karma formation, forcing Shen Jing to retreat, while Zhong Chen fortified his formations against the red-haired man's attacks.
• The Young Ancestor of Enemy God Peak and the Black-robed Man fought evenly, both sustaining injuries.
• Jing Xing's poison rapidly weakened Xiang Zimo's essence and divine soul, and Xiang Zimo discovered his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven had been emptied.
• Jing Xing walked away as Xiang Zimo's body rotted into black-purple blood and his essence and divine soul crumbled.

Jing Xing killed Xiang Zimo and joined the battle on Tiangang Continent, where his overwhelming strength began turning the tide against the High-Level Heavenly Vault. The battlefield remained in turmoil as Hua Ziyang and Gu Hanfei continued their duel.

• Jing Xing killed Xiang Zimo, leaving the Seventeenth Layer Heavenly Vault powerhouses stunned and calculating that the Xiang Family Ancient Ancestor would be enraged.
• In the Primordial God Realm, Wude and Ao Kun traded barbs while Gaishi and the others discussed Gaishi's past strength.
• The Imperial Alliance's boosted Immortal Kings and their allies fought the High-Level Heavenly Vault forces on Tiangang Continent, but remained at an overall disadvantage.
• Jing Xing emerged from the Bronze Divine Hall and told Shu Ziheng and Dongfang Fengyun that Xiang Zimo was dead.
• Jing Xing joined the battlefield and swiftly poisoned High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings, causing the enemy forces to fear him.

Jing Xing used his poison and strange Dao techniques to fight a powerful newcomer, Nalan Qingqing. He tricked her into leaving the Immortal Lake secret realm, leaving the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s defenders without her support.

• Jing Xing caught Nalan Qingqing’s jade ruler and fought her, then used Equivalent Exchange to take her ruler and immortal robe.
• Gu Hanfei warned Nalan Qingqing that Jing Xing could use Equivalent Exchange and Fair Trade, but she remained fascinated by his abilities.
• Jing Xing offered to trade divine abilities if Nalan Qingqing withdrew from the battle, and she agreed despite his lack of sincerity.
• Nalan Qingqing left the secret realm, and Jing Xing admitted he had only been teasing her.
• The Sea Race Progenitor urged Nalan Qingqing to return, but she refused and threatened to tell her father if he kept scolding her.

Jing Xing massacred the opposing Immortal Kings with concealed poison formations while Nalan Qingqing refused to intervene. Above the Tiangang Continent, Hua Ziyang revealed his overwhelming strength against Gu Hanfei and steadily advanced through his attacks.

• Jing Xing used concealed, poison-laced Formation Scripts to kill High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Kings, prompting the Ancient Ancestors to ask Nalan Qingqing to stop him.
• Nalan Qingqing rejected their appeals, saying she did not want to get involved and feared Jing Xing's poison.
• Gu Hanfei invoked Ancient God Shoots the Sun and fired a golden arrow at Hua Ziyang, who shattered it with Hua Clan Secret Art—Killing Intent Fist.
• Gu Hanfei unleashed ten arrows of light, but Hua Ziyang released his King's Might and extinguished them.
• Hua Ziyang walked through Gu Hanfei's repeated attacks, casually snuffing out his arrows as Gu Hanfei roared in disbelief.

Hua Ziyang overwhelmed Gu Hanfei and killed him, then turned against the other top Immortal Kings from the High-Level Heavenly Vault. He left their side routed as Nalan Qingqing watched him in admiration.

• Gu Hanfei transformed with his three-headed, six-armed manifestation and unleashed his strongest techniques, but Hua Ziyang remained unhurt and beat him down.
• Gu Hanfei invoked Wrath of the Ancient God, but Hua Ziyang countered with Hua Clan Secret Art—Flamefall and obliterated him.
• After Gu Hanfei died, the High-Level Heavenly Vault's Immortal Kings lost their fighting spirit, and Hua Ziyang challenged them.
• Hua Ziyang killed Shu Ziheng, Dongfang Fengyun, the blue-haired youth, the red-haired man, and the third man with single punches.
• Nalan Qingqing watched Hua Ziyang's victory and remarked that he was strong and handsome.