Chapter Summaries

The Four Sages coordinated attacks against Xiao Yang, but his Chaos God-Demon Body shattered the Ice Poison Chains and Anlan's Spear forced the Black Panther King back. The Peacock King's illusion briefly shook Xiao Yang by showing Ye Qingmei in danger, giving the Four Sages an opening to unleash their final attacks.

• The Golden Spider Poison King and Ice Plains Wolf King combined poison silk and Ice Breath into chains that bound Xiao Yang's legs as the Black Panther King struck his neck.
• Xiao Yang released his Chaos God-Demon Body, shattered the chains, and caused the Ice Plains Wolf King to suffer a backlash.
• Xiao Yang summoned Anlan's Spear and swept at the Black Panther King, forcing him to retreat into the shadows.
• The Peacock King trapped Xiao Yang in an illusion of Ye Qingmei surrounded by Demon Soldiers, briefly shaking his composure.
• The Four Sages seized the opening and unleashed Corrosive God Poison Fang, Shadow Soul Devour, Eternal Freeze Breath, and Illusion World Annihilation at Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang broke free of the Peacock King's illusion and fought the Four Sages of the Yao Clan, badly injuring each of them. The Four Sages then revealed their true forms and unleashed a combined attack, leaving Xiao Yang to face their world-destroying power with the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron.

• The Four Sages attacked Xiao Yang from every direction, but he shattered the Peacock King's illusion and summoned the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron.
• Xiao Yang struck the Golden Spider Poison King, Black Panther King, and Ice Plains Wolf King, while the Void Cracking Peng King's gale turned the poison from the Spider King's detonated poison sac against the Wolf King.
• Xiao Yang punched the Peacock King and then countered the Black Panther King's ambush, leaving all four Yao Clan Great Sages gravely injured.
• The Four Sages revealed their thousand-zhang true forms and combined their Lifeblood Divine Abilities into a domain of destruction that trapped Xiao Yang.
• Xiao Yang stood firm against the four attacks and called for the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron to rise.

Xiao Yang awakened the nine Immortal Golds in the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron and summoned the image of Heavenly Emperor Ye, who subdued the four Yao Clan Great Sages. Xiao Yang then turned the cauldron into a Purgatory Furnace and burned the Sages until they were near death.

• Xiao Yang infused the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron with his blood, qi, divine power, and Divine Soul energy, awakening the nine Immortal Golds and summoning Heavenly Emperor Ye's image.
• Ye Tianxiong and the Ye Clan recognized the phantom as their ancestor, and Human Race cultivators knelt in hope.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye's image erased the Four Sages' Lifeblood Divine Abilities and imprisoned them inside the cauldron.
• Xiao Yang used the Flame Emperor Burning Art and nine strange flames to transform the cauldron into a Purgatory Furnace.
• The Ice Plains Wolf King, Golden Spider Poison King, Peacock King, and Black Panther King were severely burned and reduced to battered, weakened forms.

Xiao Yang forced the four Yao Clan Great Sages and the millions of Yao soldiers to surrender, ending the battle and bringing peace to the Human Race. He then asked the defeated Sages where his mother, Ye Qingmei, was being held and what condition she was in.

• Xiao Yang made the Ice Plains Wolf King, Golden Spider Poison King, Peacock King, and Black Panther King swear eternal loyalty, binding their soul-blood to the Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Yang ordered the four Great Sages to kneel and offered the Yao Clan troops mercy if they surrendered, prompting millions of soldiers to lay down their weapons.
• Ye Tianxiong mourned the dead and proclaimed that peace had finally come, while the surviving Human Race warriors cheered for Xiao Yang and their victory.
• Xiao Yang asked Ye Tianxiong whether killing the Demon Ancestor could save his mother, and learned that he also needed to find her body and reunite it with her Divine Soul.
• Xiao Yang offered to spare the four Yao Sages as his mounts and servants, then demanded that they reveal Ye Qingmei's location and condition on Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain.

Xiao Yang learned that his mother was trapped in the Nine Absolute God Locking Array, which was bound to her life origin, and prepared to attack the Demon Ancestor and the array together. He entered the Myriad Monster Domain with his allies, where a vast swarm of Blood Shadow Demons blocked their path.

• The Peacock King showed Xiao Yang a map of the Sacred Mountain and explained that the array sustaining it was draining his mother's life and could not be broken without killing her.
• Ye Tianxiong said they could save Xiao Yang's mother by killing the Demon Ancestor and breaking the array at the same time, while Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue offered to restrain its critical points.
• Xiao Yang ordered the Void Cracking Peng King to take them into the Myriad Monster Domain, and human experts followed despite his instructions.
• The Void Cracking Peng King warned the group to avoid shedding blood because it could attract frenzied Demon Soldiers.
• The Golden Spider Poison King identified the enormous blood mist blocking their route as Blood Shadow Demons that could invade and devour their Divine Souls, and Xiao Yang summoned the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and ordered everyone to charge through.

Xiao Yang led his group through the Blood Shadow Demon's blood mist and into a Demon army's ambush, where he defeated the Black Wind Demon King. He killed the defeated king without mercy and continued to command the fear of his followers.

• Feng Qingxue stopped Ning Hongye from attacking the corpses of missing Ye Clan cultivators, and Xiao Yang used the Sea Calming Beads to guide the group through the blood mist.
• Xiao Yang ordered the Void Cracking Peng King to carry everyone out of the mist, where they found the Black Wind Demon King and his vanguard army waiting.
• The Ice Plains Wolf King froze the Black Wind Demon King's corrosive demonic wind while the Black Panther King wounded him and tore the bone banner from his grasp.
• Xiao Yang shattered the bone banner with one punch, then killed the Black Wind Demon King after he begged to become Xiao Yang's slave.

Xiao Yang and his group crossed the Bone-Corroding Poison Marsh, defeated its guardians, and learned that nine Demon Emperors protected the formation's core on Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain. As they approached the mountain, the Thousand-Armed Demon Emperor appeared to confront them.

• The Golden Spider Poison King spun a web that filtered the marsh's miasma, allowing the group to cross, but nine poison wyrms attacked them.
• Xiao Yang burned the poison wyrms with his otherworldly flames, then faced the Spirit of the Poisonous Fog and her swarm of venomous bees.
• Xiao Yang used the Void Devouring Flame to consume the bees and the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron to purify the Spirit's source venom.
• As she disintegrated, the Spirit of the Poisonous Fog revealed that nine Demon Emperors guarded the formation's core on Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain before Xiao Yang struck her down.
• Xiao Yang's group continued toward the bone-built Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain, where the Thousand-Armed Demon Emperor appeared amid destructive lightning.

Xiao Yang defeated the Thousand-Armed Demon Emperor and reached the Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain, where Ye Tianxiong revealed that Ye Qingmei had sacrificed herself to create the Nine Absolute God Locking Array. The chapter left Xiao Yang facing the truth that breaking the array would destroy the remnants of his mother’s Divine Soul.

• The Ice Plains Wolf King, Golden Spider Poison King, and Peacock King joined forces to resist the Thousand-Armed Demon Emperor’s lightning attack but were badly injured.
• Xiao Yang overwhelmed the Thousand-Armed Demon Emperor with his bloodline and physique, forcing him to kneel.
• Xiao Yang and his companions broke through the Yao Clan army and entered the Demon Ancestor Sacred Mountain.
• Ye Tianxiong read the Ye Clan Divine Stele and learned that Ye Qingmei had sacrificed herself to create the Nine Absolute God Locking Array.
• Ye Tianxiong told Xiao Yang that each formation core held a wisp of Ye Qingmei’s Divine Soul, so breaking the array would destroy it.

Xiao Yang learned that breaking the Nine Ultimate Formation could destroy his mother’s Divine Soul, but a blood relative might protect it through the Concentric Mirrors. He passed the mountain’s bloodline test, fought through its bone stairway, and reached the summit, where he finally saw his mother surrounded by the eight Demon Emperors.

• Peacock King deciphered the inscription, revealing that a close blood relative could use a Concentric Mirror to shield the Divine Soul during the formation’s collapse.
• Xiao Yang used his golden blood to pass the Nine-Eye Formation Gate, while Ye Tianxiong, Ning Hongye, and Feng Qingxue stayed behind to hold off the Demon Ancestor’s avatars.
• Xiao Yang entered the bone passage alone and used his Kunpeng Dharma Image to destroy the slaughter attacks on the stairs.
• Xiao Yang used the Now Tathagata Sutra to purify the ghost claws that reached for him from the abyss beneath the collapsing stairs.
• Xiao Yang reached the summit, saw his mother lying on the stone platform, and found eight Demon Emperors gathered around her.

Xiao Yang confronted the Eight Demon Emperors and learned they had bound the last wisps of Ye Qingmei’s Remnant Soul to their origins. As the Demon Ancestor attacked him, Ning Hongye and Qing Xue disrupted the formation, and Ye Qingmei began to stir.

• The Lava Demon Emperor warned Xiao Yang that killing any Demon Emperor would destroy Ye Qingmei’s bound Remnant Soul.
• Ye Qingmei moved a finger, and her jade pendant glowed as Xiao Yang sensed that she was still conscious.
• The Demon Ancestor appeared, recognized Xiao Yang as a descendant of Heavenly Emperor Ye, and attacked him.
• Xiao Yang blocked the Demon Ancestor’s first strike with the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron, then endured its twelve annihilating arrows with the True Martial Sword Domain.
• Ning Hongye and Qing Xue attacked the formation nodes with ice and fire, weakening the blood pact and making Ye Qingmei furrow her brows as if she might awaken.

Xiao Yang destroyed the Nine Absolute God Locking Array, defeated the Demon Emperors, and freed Ye Qingmei, but the Sacred Mountain’s collapse released the real Demon Ancestor from beneath the earth. The Demon Ancestor emerged at full size and declared that he had only been playing along with Xiao Yang.

• Xiao Yang struck the Demon Ancestor's phantom and awakened the Concentric Mirror with his Ye Clan bloodline, severing the Demon Emperors' links to the formation nodes.
• Xiao Yang used Anlan's Spear to kill the Lava Demon Emperor, the Mysterious Ice Demon Emperor, and the other Demon Emperors.
• Xiao Yang restrained the Demon Ancestor's phantom with the Void Devouring Flame and smashed the final formation node with the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron, collapsing the Nine Absolute God Locking Array and Sacred Mountain.
• Xiao Yang caught Ye Qingmei as she drifted down from the stone platform and held her while the mountain continued to collapse.
• The real Demon Ancestor climbed out of a vast abyss beneath the Sacred Mountain and announced that he had been playing along with Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang fought the Demon Ancestor after breaking the formation to save Ye Qingmei, using the Heavenly Emperor Ye’s Divine Soul and his allies’ sacrifices to weaken the monster. With his Kunpeng Dharma Image shattered and his body badly injured, Xiao Yang summoned a rusted broken sword and unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art.

• The Demon Ancestor attacked Xiao Yang and his allies, while Xiao Yang handed the unconscious Ye Qingmei to Ye Tianxiong for protection.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Heavenly Emperor Ye’s Divine Soul, which extinguished the Demon Ancestor’s End Flame with a single word.
• The Demon Ancestor unleashed the Myriad Monster Banner, but Xiao Yang’s Kunpeng Heaven Swallowing Art devoured its monster souls.
• The Golden Spider Poison King sacrificed itself to corrode the Myriad Monster Banner, allowing Xiao Yang and the Heavenly Emperor Ye to shatter it with the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron.
• The enraged Demon Ancestor tore apart Xiao Yang’s Kunpeng Dharma Image, and Xiao Yang summoned a rusted broken sword and began the Grass Character Sword Art—Sever the Dao.

Xiao Yang killed the Demon Ancestor with the Mysterious Broken Sword and reunited with his awakened mother, Ye Qingmei. After she revealed why she had sacrificed herself, the survivors faced the unstable Myriad Monster Domain, and the Void Cracking Peng King volunteered to stay and guard its rift.

• Xiao Yang poured his remaining divine power and life essence into the Mysterious Broken Sword, destroying the Demon Ancestor and leaving only his demon core.
• Ye Qingmei awoke, and Xiao Yang rushed to reunite with her while Ye Tianxiong, Ning Hongye, and Feng Qingxue watched.
• Ye Qingmei told Xiao Yang that she had sacrificed herself to form the Nine Absolutes Formation and stop the Demon Ancestor from sacrificing the Myriad Monster Domain to open the Immortal Gate.
• Ye Tianxiong warned that the fallen sacred mountain and blood sacrifice had left the Myriad Monster Domain unstable and its rift to the Outer Regions rapidly expanding.
• The Void Cracking Peng King volunteered to guard the rift, and Xiao Yang gave it the secrets of the Kunpeng Dharma Image.

After returning from the Myriad Monster Domain, Xiao Yang asked Ye Qingmei about his biological father. She revealed that Xiao Wuji came from the Immortal Realm, survived a persecution by the Eastern Emperor Hall, and later left the Kunlun Ruins to protect his family; his fate remained unknown.

• Xiao Yang and Ye Qingmei returned to the Kunlun Ruins, where the gathered cultivators celebrated the Human Race’s victory.
• Xiao Yang asked Ye Qingmei why she had left him at King Zhenbei’s Mansion and who his biological father was.
• Ye Qingmei revealed that Xiao Yang’s father was Xiao Wuji, a cultivator from the Immortal Realm who had been hunted by the Eastern Emperor Hall.
• Ye Qingmei showed Xiao Yang a memory of Xiao Wuji fighting the Eastern Emperor and escaping into a rift in space.
• Ye Qingmei explained that Xiao Wuji survived and reached the Kunlun Ruins, where they fell in love and had Xiao Yang.
• Ye Qingmei said Xiao Wuji secretly left the Kunlun Ruins to protect her and Xiao Yang, and no one had heard from him since.

Ye Qingmei urged Xiao Yang to seek his missing father, Xiao Wuji, in the Immortal Realm and take revenge on the Eastern Emperor Hall. After Xiao Yang gifted Ning Hongye the Demon Ancestor's Inner Core, he received Di Jun's Inheritance and learned that gathering nine Heavenly Court Tokens could let him rebuild the Ancient Heavenly Court.

• Ye Qingmei told Xiao Yang that Xiao Wuji had vanished while saving the Kunlun Ruins and asked him to find his father in the Immortal Realm's Eastern Profound Region.
• Xiao Yang promised Ye Qingmei that he would find Xiao Wuji and make the Eastern Emperor Hall pay for its blood debt.
• Xiao Yang gave Ning Hongye the Demon Ancestor's Inner Core, which suited her Fire God's divine core and Phoenix Bloodline.
• Xiao Yang received Di Jun's Inheritance and learned that his Broken Sword was the Ancient Heavenly Court's Immortal Slaying Platform.
• Xiao Yang discovered that the Heavenly Court Restart Method required an inheritance mark and all nine Heavenly Court Tokens to rebuild the Ancient Heavenly Court.

Xiao Yang left the Kunlun Ruins to pursue his own path after accepting that Ye Qingmei would stay behind to rebuild the Ye Clan and oversee the Yao Clan forces. Before departing, he ordered the Hundred Dynasties to keep the peace, and Feng Qingxue returned to the Divine Wind Imperial Dynasty to handle her family affairs.

• Ye Qingmei told Xiao Yang she would remain in the Kunlun Ruins to rebuild the Ye Clan and restrain the Yao Clan forces, and Xiao Yang promised to return.
• Yao Lingtian gave Xiao Yang healing Saint Medicines for his dangerous journey, and Xiao Yang departed while Ye Qingmei watched him go in tears.
• Hong Qingcheng and representatives of the Hundred Dynasties pledged to follow Xiao Yang, who ordered them to return home, restore peace, and avoid disputes for three years.
• Feng Qingxue told Xiao Yang she needed to return to the Divine Wind Imperial Dynasty, and he promised she could contact him if she faced trouble.

Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye returned to Great Xia as Martial Gods, and their arrival stunned the people of the imperial city. Meanwhile, Xia Wushuang emerged from the Kunlun Ruins with the Giant Spirit God’s inheritance and planned to seize the throne and kill Xiao Yang.

• Xia Wushuang emerged from a forbidden zone as a Martial God and vowed to reclaim Great Xia’s Imperial Seat and destroy Xiao Yang.
• Xia Wushuang used black powder to awaken wraiths around an altar and revealed that he needed the hearts of nine Martial Gods to complete his fusion with the Giant Spirit God’s inheritance.
• Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye arrived in Great Xia Imperial City, where the crowd recognized them and cheered their return.
• The city guards stepped aside despite Xia Wushuang’s order to stop Xiao Yang, and Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye reflected on how much their strength and outlook had changed.
• Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye walked through the cleared streets toward the palace.

Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye returned to Changle Palace as Martial Gods, astonishing Princess Fuyao and the Imperial Observatory’s Director. Xiao Yang recounted his rise and conquest of the Kunlun Ruins, leaving Fuyao to realize his ambitions now reached far beyond Great Xia.

• Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye returned to Changle Palace, where Princess Fuyao sensed their overwhelming power and recognized them as Martial Gods.
• Xiao Yang’s Spiritual Sense swept across the imperial city, and the Imperial Observatory’s Director sensed his return and declared that Great Xia was entering a new era.
• Princess Fuyao served Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye tea and asked about their experiences in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Xiao Yang described the Hundred Dynasty War, his inheritance at Five Finger Mountain, and how he subdued the Yao Clan and took control of the Kunlun Ruins.
• Princess Fuyao realized that Xiao Yang’s ambitions had surpassed the throne, while Ning Hongye joined him in mocking Hong Gaishi and recalled that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had abandoned him.

After returning to the imperial city as a Martial God, Xiao Yang settled in the palace to study Di Jun’s inheritance and prepare for the Immortal Path. Princess Fuyao, fearing they would soon part, confessed her feelings and asked to stay by his side until he left.

• Princess Fuyao asked Xiao Yang where Xia Wushuang was, and Xiao Yang said he had not seen him in the Kunlun Ruins and dismissed him as a clown.
• Princess Fuyao invited Xiao Yang and Ning Hongye to rest in the palace, and Xiao Yang agreed so he could consolidate his cultivation and study Di Jun’s inheritance.
• News of Xiao Yang’s return and his Martial God realm spread through Great Xia, stirring celebration, anxiety, and secret attempts to gain his favor.
• Xiao Yang secluded himself in the palace hall, studying Di Jun’s inheritance and preparing for the Immortal Path.
• Princess Fuyao visited Xiao Yang at night and asked to stay by his side until he left, study the Great Yin-Yang Art with him, and become his woman.

Xiao Yang accepted Princess Fuyao’s affection in the imperial palace while Xia Wushuang, empowered by the Giant Spirit God’s legacy, attacked the Ning Family in Ningzhou and demanded its allegiance. The chapter left Xia Wushuang preparing to strike the family and its generals after they refused to betray the court.

• Xiao Yang embraced Princess Fuyao and shared a tender interlude with her in the hall.
• Xia Wushuang arrived at the Ning Family’s residence in Ningzhou and blasted open its gates, overwhelming its guards with his aura.
• Xia Wushuang claimed to have reached the Martial God realm and accused the Ning Family of plotting rebellion.
• Xia Wushuang ordered the Ning Family and the three hundred thousand Southern Territory border troops to submit and march on the imperial capital.
• The Ning Family head and a general refused to betray the court, so Xia Wushuang raised his arm to unleash Giant Spirit God Palm—Heavenbreaker.