Chapter Summaries

You and the allied fighters joined Peerless War King in battle against Gluttony, whose strength had grown through devouring countless lives. The chapter ended with you stabbing Gluttony through a gap in his carapace and flooding his body with Void Power.

• Gluttony recognized Peerless War King, and the two Great Emperors traded powerful blows that devastated the ruins.
• Gluttony wounded Peerless War King and proved stronger, while Peerless War King continued to charge at him.
• You coordinated with Luo Yiyi, Ye Chuxue, Situ Hao Yue, and Divine Silkworm War King to prepare a joint attack.
• Gluttony bound Peerless War King's arm with tendrils and struck him down again, prompting Peerless War King to call you in.
• You used Primordial Dragon Travel to stab Dingjun Sword into a gap in Gluttony's carapace and unleash Void Power, but Gluttony blasted you away.

The narrator and the human fighters wounded Gluttony, provoking him to unleash a mass of deadly tentacles across the battlefield. As the defenders struggled to protect their soldiers, the narrator realized Gluttony was guarding something inside his belly.

• The narrator wounded Gluttony with Void Power, and Luo Yiyi stabbed the weak point at the back of his neck.
• Gluttony erupted with barbed tentacles and attacked the battlefield, while the narrator and Luo Yiyi fought to save the soldiers.
• Ye Chuxue froze tentacles, Situ Hao Yue and the Divine Silkworm War King fought them off, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji shielded the wounded as the Peerless War King held Gluttony back.
• The narrator recovered from being hurled into a boulder and noticed that Gluttony repeatedly protected his belly.
• The narrator extended his perception through Gluttony's abdomen and the human faces struggling within it.

The Peerless War King discovered that Gluttony’s dark gold source crystal was his weakness, then took the Blood Burning Pill to gain enough power to attack it. He charged Gluttony at the cost of permanently losing his cultivation, leaving the fight poised at the moment Gluttony tried to shield his belly.

• You told the Peerless War King that Gluttony’s dark gold bead was his weakness and needed to be shattered.
• The Peerless War King revealed the Blood Burning Pill and explained that it would temporarily raise his cultivation by a major realm but permanently diminish it afterward.
• The Peerless War King took the pill despite your objections, and his aura rose above Gluttony’s.
• The Peerless War King charged Gluttony, punching through waves of tentacles and forcing him backward.
• Gluttony crossed his arms to protect his belly, and the Peerless War King declared that he could not protect it.

Peerless War King defeated and killed Gluttony, releasing the souls trapped within him, but the Blood Burning Pill left Peerless War King gravely weakened. With Gluttony dead, you led the remaining fighters toward the Fortress’s inner city to confront the Weird Cultivators still resisting.

• Peerless War King broke Gluttony’s arms and punched the Source Crystal from his body.
• Peerless War King killed Gluttony, freeing the countless Human Race souls trapped inside him.
• The Blood Burning Pill’s side effects caused Peerless War King’s cultivation to collapse, and Divine Silkworm War King caught him before he fell.
• You collected the dark gold bead, suppressed it with Gray Void Power, and placed it in your storage space.
• You ordered the remaining fighters to attack the inner city, raising the Human Emperor War Flag to shield them.

Su Ming and Luo Yiyi defeated Gluttony, shattered the Weird Barrier, and uncovered a second Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill hidden beneath the throne. Three days later, Su Ming found the Peerless War King still unconscious and learned his cultivation was continuing to decline.

• Luo Yiyi led the surviving fighters in a charge that broke the Fortress's inner-city formation and defeated its defenders.
• Su Ming destroyed Gluttony's throne, found a hidden passage, and recovered the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill left by an Alchemy Grandmaster.
• The Weird Barrier shattered, sunlight returned to the Canglan Immortal Domain, and Su Ming and Luo Yiyi celebrated their victory and planned to plant peach trees.
• Three days after the battle, the Peerless War King remained unconscious as the Blood Burning Pill's effects reduced his cultivation and aged his body.
• The Divine Silkworm War King asked Su Ming whether the Peerless War King would ever wake up.

The protagonist healed Peerless War King and helped Canglan Immortal Domain recover after Gluttony’s defeat. The Human Emperor War Flag recognized the protagonist as humanity’s commander, completing the War Banner Mark and granting a connection to the faith of the soldiers.

• The protagonist used the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill to restore Peerless War King’s life, meridians, and most of his cultivation.
• Peerless War King woke and joked with Divine Silkworm War King, who tearfully demanded that he repay his wine debt in this life.
• The protagonist confirmed Peerless War King had awakened to Luo Yiyi, then drank the medicinal soup she offered.
• The protagonist ordered the treasures recovered from Gluttony Fortress returned to Canglan’s people so they could rebuild.
• The Human Emperor War Flag asked the protagonist to accept its banner and lead humanity’s revival, and the protagonist agreed.
• The flag completed the War Banner Mark between the protagonist’s brows, revealing a bond with the soldiers whose conviction became the protagonist’s strength.

After reclaiming the Canglan Immortal Domain and defeating Gluttony, Ming returned to Xuanji Hall with the wounded army and was welcomed by its people. At an after-action review, he recounted the battle, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji warned that the Abnormal Clan would not let Gluttony's death go unanswered.

• Ming led the army home ten days after reclaiming the Canglan Immortal Domain, tending to the many wounded along the slow journey.
• Ming and the soldiers arrived at Xuanji Hall a month and a half later, where Su Qingyuan, Situ Xiao Yue, and others welcomed them.
• Situ Xiao Yue learned from Ming that Situ Hao Yue would recover the ability to walk, though he would not run as fast as before.
• On the fifteenth day after the reclamation, Ming reported the Battle of Canglan to Xuanyuan Tian Ji and the Peerless War King.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji warned that the Abnormal Clan would not let Gluttony's death go unanswered.

After learning that the six remaining Bizarre Emperors would retaliate for Gluttony’s death, Xuanyuan Tian Ji prepared Xuanji Hall for war and sent Su Ming and Luo Yiyi to seek help from the All-Race Alliance. Su Ming begged the Demon Race for aid, but The Ancestor offered only thirty thousand soldiers, leaving the Human Race facing the coming threat with little support.

• The Peerless War King warned that the Bizarre would attack to restore their reputation, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji ordered Xuanji Hall to prepare for war.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji assigned Luo Yiyi to contact the All-Race Alliance, the Peerless War King to train recruits, the Divine Silkworm War King to organize the outer defenses, and Ye Chuxue to reinforce the Main Peak’s formations.
• Three days later, Su Ming set out with Luo Yiyi and thirty routes of messengers to seek aid from the races allied with the Human Race.
• Su Ming appealed to The Ancestor in the Demon Race Royal Court, reminding him of the Human Emperor’s past rescue and the Demon Race’s oath of alliance.
• The Ancestor cited threats from the Devil Race and Sea Race and offered only thirty thousand demon soldiers, while the twelve Elders remained silent.

After twenty-nine races refused to help, Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Su Ming prepared to defend Xuanji Hall with the Human Race and thirty thousand Demon Race soldiers. Three months later, the Abnormal Army attacked, and Ye Chuxue, Situ Hao Yue, and the Divine Silkworm War King fought to hold the line as the battle began.

• The Demon Race Ancestor promised thirty thousand troops, while the other twenty-nine races refused to join the fight.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji mourned that the myriad races had forgotten the alliance sworn ten thousand years earlier and asked Su Ming to remember those who had sacrificed for the Human Race; he promised he would.
• Three months later, the Abnormal Army approached Xuanji Hall, where the Human Race gathered with only two Great Emperor powerhouses remaining.
• Three days later, three Immortal Emperor Supremes and fifty thousand Abnormal soldiers attacked, shattering three layers of Xuanji Hall's protective formation in the first assault.
• Ye Chuxue infused the formation with her Taiyin Power to stop the vanguard, then collapsed from exhaustion and was carried to the Alchemy Hall by Situ Hao Yue.
• The Divine Silkworm War King led a thousand elites around the Abnormal Army and killed hundreds of soldiers before an Immortal Emperor Supreme attacked him; he invoked the Ninth Transformation of the Divine Silkworm and Cocooning with Life.

The Human Race drove back the Abnormal Vanguard Army at great cost, and Divine Silkworm War King sacrificed himself in battle. Two days later, Jin Lin arrived with thirty thousand Demon Race soldiers to reinforce Xuanji Hall, though the three Great Emperors and the main Abnormal Army still threatened the defenders.

• Divine Silkworm War King self-destructed to cripple an Immortal Emperor Supreme, and Peerless War King silently watched his death.
• Luo Yiyi took Divine Silkworm War King's place and fought through the battlefield, killing Abnormal soldiers until the Vanguard Army retreated after seven days.
• Luo Yiyi told Su Ming she feared dying before she could reclaim the Qingqiu Tribe's people, and Su Ming held her hand and promised she would survive.
• Jin Lin arrived at Xuanji Hall with thirty thousand Demon Race soldiers and twelve Immortal Emperor-level generals, apologizing for coming late and promising to help defend against the Abnormal Clan.
• Jin Lin explained that the Demon Race could spare no more troops because the Devil Race and Sea Race threatened its borders, while Xuanyuan Tian Ji asked Su Ming for the Crown Prince's name.

As the Human and Demon Races made their final preparations, the three Great Emperors arrived with the Abnormal Army and launched an assault on Xuanji Hall. Ye Chuxue, Luo Yiyi, and Jin Lin fought to hold the walls, but the enemy’s overwhelming numbers left the battle unresolved as Desire Great Emperor grew impatient.

• Xuanyuan Tian Ji assessed Jin Lin’s strength, while you recognized that their eighty thousand defenders faced overwhelming odds.
• The Peerless War King trained recruits, Ye Chuxue reinforced the city wall, Luo Yiyi patrolled despite her wounds, and Su Qingyuan prepared pills with her disciples.
• On the fourth day, Desire, Sloth, and Arrogance arrived with hundreds of thousands of abnormal troops and ordered an attack on Xuanji Hall.
• Ye Chuxue froze waves of attackers at the wall, and Luo Yiyi cut down those who broke through.
• Jin Lin led thirty thousand demon soldiers in a charge against the Abnormal Army’s flank, but enemy reinforcements kept coming.
• Desire Great Emperor watched the assault and complained that the battle was moving too slowly.

Great Emperor Arrogance and Great Emperor Desire attacked Xuanji Hall's Main Peak, forcing Xuanyuan Tian Ji, Jin Lin, and Peerless War King to defend it at great cost. Just as Arrogance was about to kill Jin Lin and the fallen War King, Luo Yiyi appeared and pierced his palm with her Primordial Origin.

• Xuanyuan Tian Ji used her Human Emperor Bloodline to shield Main Peak from Great Emperor Desire's attack, despite her worsening injury.
• Jin Lin blocked Great Emperor Arrogance's strike meant for Xuanyuan Tian Ji and suffered a wound that would not heal.
• Peerless War King intercepted Arrogance's attack on Jin Lin and fought him despite their vast difference in strength, until Arrogance knocked him into the plaza.
• Jin Lin stood between Arrogance and the badly injured Peerless War King, refusing to let Arrogance kill him.
• Luo Yiyi emerged from the void and pierced Great Emperor Arrogance's palm with her Primordial Origin as he brought it down on Jin Lin.

As the defenders of Xuanji Hall fought Great Emperor Arrogance, Ye Chuxue sacrificed her life to create the Eternal Night Ice Coffin and seal the Abnormal Army's eastern route. Su Ming and the Peerless War King faced the desperate defense of the remaining three sides, knowing their forces were nearly exhausted.

• Luo Yiyi survived Great Emperor Arrogance's attack and challenged him to fight again, while Great Emperor Desire admired the Human Race's defiance.
• Ye Chuxue burned her life source and used Taiyin: Eternal Night Ice Coffin to become an ice mountain that blocked the Abnormal Army's advance to the east.
• Su Ming mourned Ye Chuxue as the Peerless War King praised her sacrifice and warned that the Abnormals would attack from the west, north, and south.
• Su Ming told the Peerless War King he would hold out until the last moment, and the War King went to defend the western wall.
• Su Ming surveyed Xuanji Hall's dwindling troops and supplies, gripped the Dingjun Sword, and prepared to fight despite expecting to die.

Su Ming left Ye Chuxue’s iceberg defense to reinforce the southern wall as Luo Yiyi reaffirmed that she would die before letting him fall. Meanwhile, the Peerless War King’s western defense crumbled under the Abnormal Army’s assault, while Jin Lin led the Demon Race in a desperate stand to the north.

• Great Emperor Arrogance struck Ye Chuxue’s Eternal Night Ice Coffin but could not break it, then ordered the Abnormal Army’s warships to circle west around the iceberg.
• Luo Yiyi reminded Su Ming of her promise to stand in front of him if he was going to die, thanked him, and headed for the southern City Wall.
• Su Ming left for the south while the Peerless War King and his old soldiers fought the Abnormal Army on the western wall, dwindling from three thousand to a handful.
• The wounded Peerless War King remembered the Divine Silkworm War King and charged the enemy again, determined to keep the western wall from falling.
• Jin Lin led thirty thousand demon soldiers against the Abnormal Army’s northern flank after his Qilin died, urging his troops not to retreat.

The narrator and the Human and Demon forces fought for three days and nights against the Abnormal Army, defending Xuanji Hall at the cost of enormous casualties. As the battle neared its end, the narrator condemned Ouyang Lie and Sima Kong for abandoning the Human Race, and no one answered.

• Jin Lin and the Demon soldiers refused to retreat and charged the enemy in the north.
• The narrator fought at the southern City Wall with the Dingjun Sword while Luo Yiyi stood beside him and refused to fall back.
• The battle lasted three days and nights, leaving the southern wall destroyed repeatedly and the Human and Demon forces decimated.
• The Peerless War King continued fighting in the west despite losing his left hand and breaking his right leg, while Jin Lin fought on with his weapons and Qilin lost.
• The narrator realized Ouyang Lie and Sima Kong would not come to help Xuanji Hall.
• The narrator called out Ouyang Lie and Sima Kong and declared that they were unworthy to be Great Emperors of the Human Race, but no one replied.

Su Ming and Luo Yiyi prepared to face Great Emperor Arrogance after two distant Human Race wills refused to help. Luo Yiyi stood between Su Ming and the emperor and began burning her Primordial Spirit Fox Origin with the Qingqiu Fox Tribe’s forbidden divine ability, Primordial Return to Void.

• Su Ming sensed two distant wills watching the battlefield choose not to intervene, and he turned to face the Abnormal Army alongside Luo Yiyi and the remnant troops.
• Great Emperor Arrogance left his warship and gathered golden light to destroy the southern City Wall and the surviving soldiers.
• Luo Yiyi stepped in front of Su Ming and revealed that she would use the Qingqiu Fox Tribe’s forbidden divine ability.
• Luo Yiyi transformed into her Nine-tailed Celestial Fox form and began burning her Primordial Spirit Fox Origin.
• Su Ming tried repeatedly to reach Luo Yiyi, but her power threw him back as she told him she was not afraid to die.

Luo Yiyi sacrificed her Primordial Spirit Fox Origin to devastate the enemy army and wound the three Great Emperors, leaving behind only a Golden Fox Mark Imprint. As Great Emperor Arrogance attacked again, the narrator stood against him, and Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul awakened.

• Luo Yiyi unleashed her Primordial Spirit Fox Origin, destroying much of the Abnormal Army and forcing the three Great Emperors to defend themselves.
• Luo Yiyi vanished, leaving a glowing Golden Fox Mark Imprint that the narrator held while grieving.
• The Peerless War King told the narrator that Luo Yiyi would return through reincarnation.
• Great Emperor Arrogance charged the narrator, who joined the Peerless War King, Jin Lin, and the surviving soldiers to face him.
• The narrator blocked Great Emperor Arrogance's strike with the Dingjun Sword and wounded his fist.
• Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul awoke at Xuanji Hall.

Su Ming accepted Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul’s sacrifice to gain enough strength to face the three Great Emperors. After reaching the Immortal Sovereign Late Stage, he confronted Great Emperor Arrogance, Great Emperor Desire, and Great Emperor Sloth, declaring that his borrowed power would be enough to hurt them.

• Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul awakened within Su Ming and learned how many of his allies had died or been crippled.
• Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul decided to burn away their remnant souls to lend Su Ming their strength.
• Their sacrifice raised Su Ming’s cultivation from the Immortal Sovereign Early Stage to the Immortal Sovereign Late Stage and restored the Dingjun Sword’s blade.
• Great Emperor Arrogance, Great Emperor Desire, and Great Emperor Sloth recognized that Su Ming had borrowed power from two burning remnant souls.
• Su Ming told the three Great Emperors that one incense stick’s worth of power was enough to make them hurt.

The narrator fought Great Emperor Arrogance and wounded him, but Great Emperor Desire and Great Emperor Sloth joined the battle and overwhelmed the already injured narrator. As their combined attack approached, the Human Emperor War Flag gathered the surviving soldiers’ beliefs around the narrator, who stood to defend the final line.

• The narrator clashed with Great Emperor Arrogance, wounded his fist, and forced him back before both fighters struck each other.
• Great Emperor Arrogance called on Great Emperor Desire and Great Emperor Sloth to attack, and their powers wounded and weakened the narrator.
• The narrator resisted Desire’s illusions and Sloth’s sleep-inducing mist, but his cultivation began to fall as his injuries worsened.
• The narrator advanced toward the three Great Emperors and refused to retreat because two thousand surviving soldiers stood behind him.
• The three Great Emperors unleashed a combined attack, and the Human Emperor War Flag gathered the soldiers’ courage, will, and hope around the narrator.

Su Ming survived the battle and forced three Great Emperors to retreat, but the battered defenders had only three days to recover before Envy, Fury, and Greed arrived with a regrouped Abnormal Army. The Peerless War King explained that the enemy wanted to exterminate the Human Race because they feared its return and revenge.

• Su Ming endured the combined attack of Great Emperor Arrogance, Great Emperor Desire, and Great Emperor Sloth, wounding all three until Great Emperor Desire ordered them to retreat.
• Su Qingyuan caught the collapsing Su Ming, while Peerless War King, Jin Lin, and the surviving soldiers were found alive among the ruins.
• Three days later, Su Ming stood beneath the Human Emperor War Flag with his cultivation reduced and Chen Xuanji and the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul gone.
• Envy, Fury, and Greed arrived with hundreds of thousands of Abnormal Army soldiers as fewer than a thousand wounded defenders remained.
• The Peerless War King told Su Ming that the Abnormal Clan sought to exterminate the Human Race because it feared the humans would rise again and take revenge.