Arc 22Stranded Beyond Lingyang

Shi Lan battled invaders across the Fierce Nether King Realm, escaped as it was destroyed, and became stranded in a distant federation. She secured a ship and a partnership with the Morblay family, but a blasphemer’s brand drew a lower god’s attack and sent her toward another region of space.

  • Shi Lan entered the Outer Starry Sky battlefield, where Chu Hanzhou and the Human Emperors fought Huang Ze and intruders from the Tianyuan Great World while she gathered blood and learned about the danger to Lingyang.
  • Shi Lan used Bai Yu and the World-Burying Bow to destroy a guard and a passage, then joined the fight against the Reincarnation Hall’s forces in the Fierce Nether King Realm.
  • Shi Lan took the Asura children and treasury into her care, but after the Heavenly Dao struck down her attackers, she escaped to the Outer Starry Sky as three Supreme Venerables destroyed the realm.
  • Shi Lan fell onto Planet Gamma AE-87, recovered with Wen Ge’s help, and avoided discovery by the Federation’s investigators.
  • Shi Lan met Aiden Morrell Bray, agreed to help his family in exchange for energy crystals, and arranged a partnership between the Morblay Lineage and the Tianyan Sect.
  • Shi Lan departed on Resa’s spacecraft as Taishi granted her the title Peerless King and Chengtian Domain, while Qing Lan passed her tribulation and founded the Heavenfire Immortal Dynasty.
  • When Sog attacked the spacecraft, Shi Lan captured him and learned that a blasphemer’s brand could draw attacks from gods, so she left the region with Bai Yu carrying the Qiong Luo Realm.
Chapters 533–557 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 533The Outer Battlefront

Shi Lan accepted Chu Hanzhou’s support but declined an inheritance and personal guards, then traveled through the Imperial Palace’s dimensional gate to the Outer Battlefront with a group of human prodigies. The Demon Emperor learned that Shi Lan had left Lingyang and ordered Huang Ze to bring back her corpse, while Chu Hanzhou and six peak Emperor experts followed through the gate.

  • Chu Hanzhou offered Shi Lan command of three second-grade sects and secured her a royal title, advancing her quest to build a first-grade faction.
  • Shi Lan chose to visit the Outer Battlefront, and Chu Hanzhou arranged access to the Imperial Court’s dimensional gate while warning her to return within five years.
  • At the Imperial Palace, Shi Lan encountered Bai Weiyang, Yan Mobei, Gao Linyuan, and other prodigies before stepping through the gate ahead of them.
  • The Demon and Devil races detected the passage’s opening, and diviners determined that Shi Lan was beyond Lingyang and could not be precisely located.
  • The Demon Emperor ordered Huang Ze to bring him Shi Lan’s corpse within six months, then Chu Hanzhou and six peak Emperor experts followed the group through the gate.

Ch. 534Lingyang

Shi Lan entered the outer battlefield, where she captured a group of humanoid lifeforms who recognized her as a human from Lingyang. Meanwhile, Huangze followed a trace of Shi Lan’s spirit blood toward her and was intercepted by seven figures.

  • Shi Lan and the other prodigies arrived at the outer battlefield, where Sang Ze explained the dangers and gave them escape talismans.
  • Shi Lan left camp to explore, and Chu Hanzhou learned from Sang Ze that she had gone beyond the formation’s range.
  • Shi Lan traveled deep into the battlefield and suppressed a group of humanoid lifeforms after they recognized her and tried to send a message.
  • Huangze used Shi Lan’s spirit blood to track her and discovered she was outside human territory.
  • Seven figures surrounded Huangze as a voice accused the Demon Race of treacherous designs.

Ch. 535The Hunt

Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors fought Huang Ze, who inhabited a Demon Emperor’s body and carried imperial marks in her soul. As Chu Hanzhou prepared a blood-sacrifice weapon, Shi Lan sensed his aura from a nearby valley and questioned whether Supremes could enter the outer battlefield.

  • Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors attacked Huang Ze, whose remnant body withstood their strikes.
  • Huang Ze unleashed an Imperial Art to seal the surrounding space in fire, then fled as the Human Emperors pursued her.
  • A Human Emperor struck Huang Ze’s consciousness and discovered imperial marks in her soul, revealing that she was the real Demon Emperor.
  • Chu Hanzhou opened a world gate and summoned 108 blood-red flying knives, then asked the other Human Emperors to buy him time.
  • Shi Lan sensed Chu Hanzhou’s aura in the distant battle and questioned a captured man about whether Supremes could enter the outer battlefield.

Ch. 536The Battle Began

Shi Lan reached the Outer Starry Sky battlefield and witnessed Chu Hanzhou and six other Human Emperors fighting Huang Ze. As Tianyuan Great World reinforcements arrived, Chu Hanzhou prepared to face them while Shi Lan watched from hiding.

  • Shi Lan learned that powerful factions used the Outer Starry Sky battlefield’s spatial rifts to invade and destroy other worlds, then headed toward the fighting.
  • At the Demon Race's Lingyang encampment, Feng Yichuan attacked a Demon Emperor who insulted him, and a decree ordered the demons to kill Shi Lan and required Feng Yichuan to cooperate.
  • Shi Lan found charred corpses near the battlefield and watched from a fissure as Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors surrounded and wounded Huang Ze.
  • Huang Ze unleashed a devastating burst of power that shattered the Human Emperors’ seals and injured Shi Lan with its shockwaves.
  • Tianyuan Great World forces arrived, and Chu Hanzhou opened the World Gate and prepared to fight them.

Ch. 537Danger

Chu Hanzhou and the Human Emperors fought Huang Ze before joining forces with the demon emperors to eliminate the Tianyuan Grand World attackers. After the demon emperors withdrew, Chu Hanzhou discovered Shi Lan had been hiding beneath the battlefield and ordered everyone back to camp to guard against further threats.

  • Chu Hanzhou's throwing-knife formation badly wounded Huang Ze, while the Human Emperors withdrew and attacked five Tianyuan Grand World powerhouses emerging from a war chariot.
  • The Human Emperors killed one attacker, and the silver-robed leader urged the survivors to target Lingyang's camp and seek its coordinates.
  • Feng Yichuan and three other demon emperors arrived, rescued Huang Ze, and joined the Human Emperors in killing the Tianyuan attackers.
  • Shi Lan stayed hidden beneath the battlefield and absorbed the blood falling from the fighters into her imperial domain.
  • Chu Hanzhou learned Shi Lan was in the pit below, warned her about the Outer Starry Sky, and ordered the Human Emperors to return to camp and remain on guard.

Ch. 538The Visitors

Shi Lan watched the Human Emperors repel an assault by thirteen powerhouses from the Tianyuan Great World, then learned that Chu Hanzhou and the others hoped she would someday become an Ancient Great Emperor. Meanwhile, Di Luosha opened a sealed domain gate in the Boundless Devil Cave and entered the passage beyond.

  • Chu Hanzhou recalled nearby prodigies, and Duan Chenxing destroyed the approaching Tianyuan Great World's war chariots before its fighters attacked the camp.
  • Chu Hanzhou and six other Human Emperors fought the thirteen intruders, killing several before nightfall forced the Tianyuan fighters to retreat.
  • Shi Lan learned the identities and cultivation of the Human Emperors, and Chu Hanzhou explained that their hope of attaining the Dao depended on her reaching the Ancient Great Emperor realm.
  • Di Luosha entered a forbidden ground in the Boundless Devil Cave, dispelled the seal on a domain gate with her blood, and stepped through it.

Ch. 539The Burial of the Realm

Di Luosha retrieved the precious blood from Emperor Beichen’s corpse to unlock her sealed bloodline, preparing to face Shi Lan and the approaching calamity. Shi Lan equipped her allies with powerful battle armor and drew the nine-star divine weapon World-Burying, while the Tianyuan Great World’s incursions into the demon and devil camps were swiftly crushed.

  • Di Luosha entered the ancient forest, took the precious blood from Emperor Beichen’s heart, and absorbed it to merge her divine and devil bloodlines.
  • Di Luosha left a snow devil orchid with Emperor Beichen, rejected his past ambitions for her, and bowed before the throne of corpses.
  • Shi Lan tested the system’s eight-star battle armor, kept one set, gave four to Bai Yu and the guards, and sealed the remaining five in the Heaven Evolution Sect’s vault.
  • Shi Lan used her limit draw for a magical treasure and obtained the nine-star divine weapon World-Burying, which appeared as a huge bow in the Qiong Luo Realm.
  • The Tianyuan Great World’s invaders were annihilated by the Lingyang Heavenly Dao in the devil camp and by the Demon Emperors in the demon camp.

Ch. 540Preaching the Dao

Huang Ze considered leaving Lingyang through a domain gate, while Shi Lan tested the World-Burying Bow, passed the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s Dao fruit to Bai Weiyang, and continued searching for the Divine Martial Great World. The chapter ended with Shi Lan encountering Wu De’s group and crushing Marquis Yuntian’s war chariot before asking who he was.

  • Huang Ze argued that the Demon Emperors should attack the humans while they were injured, but Feng Yichuan warned that a war could expose Lingyang to the Tianyuan Great World; Huang Ze then considered escaping through a domain gate.
  • Shi Lan failed to draw the World-Burying Bow by ordinary means, used her battle armor to pull its string slightly, and nearly damaged the Qiong Luo Realm when it snapped back.
  • Shi Lan left the camp to search for the Divine Martial Great World and encountered Yan Mobei, whom she offered the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s Dao fruit; Yan Mobei declined and recommended Bai Weiyang instead.
  • Bai Weiyang swore to honor the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor, accepted the Dao fruit from Shi Lan, and received a pass to Yunyan Star so he could visit Zhu Xiyang.
  • Shi Lan traveled north, subdued Wu De and his companions, and then destroyed Marquis Yuntian’s arriving war chariot, leaving him at her feet.

Ch. 541Sharpening the Blade

Shi Lan learned about the Jiyi Great World and headed toward newly opened worlds, while Qing Lan reacted fearfully to Shi Lan’s breakthrough and prepared the Lan Clan to move. In the Tianyuan Great World, Taishi Lingchu defeated Cang Zhuixian, and Taishi killed the three Supremes who intervened before taking Ling Chu back to Lingyang.

  • Shi Lan questioned Lü Yingou about the Jiyi Great World and its dynasties, then let him and Wu De leave before heading toward the newly opened worlds.
  • Qing Lan received the Lan Clan’s first newborn cub, but when Shi Lan’s breakthrough caused the ancestral blood pool to shine, Qing Lan ordered the clan to move once the children were born.
  • Taishi brought Ling Chu to a gathering in the Tianyuan Great World, where Ling Chu challenged Cang Zhuixian despite three Supremes sealing the area.
  • Ling Chu wounded Cang Zhuixian, and when Cang Zhuixian’s protector intervened, Taishi killed the old man while Ling Chu struck down Cang Zhuixian.
  • Taishi blocked the three Supremes from reaching the arena, then killed them as they fled; afterward, he told Ling Chu to remember the world and said they would return to Lingyang to send him into the Heavenly Realm.

Ch. 542The Unpredictability of Life

Shi Lan entered the Fierce Nether King Realm to reclaim her Primordial Spirit and evacuate Bian Qin’s Green Ghost Rakshasa clan as powerful outsiders invaded. After returning to the sealed passage, she and Bai Yu killed the gold-robed guard with World Burial, but the shot also destroyed the passage.

  • Shi Lan followed the newly opened passage to the Fierce Nether King Realm, where she sensed her Primordial Spirit and learned from Samsara that members of the Samsara Hall were present.
  • Shi Lan reunited with Bian Qin and led all 2,814 Green Ghost Rakshasas through a gate to the Qiong Luo Realm, then accepted Bian Qin calling her Master again.
  • A mission to plunder the Fierce Nether King Realm appeared in the Hall of Reincarnation, while Chu Hanzhou ordered the expedition beyond the domain to end in seven days.
  • Shi Lan found the passage guarded by a gold-robed expert with eight Supreme weapons and watched him seize a rival group’s Supreme cauldron after defeating them.
  • Shi Lan had Bai Yu fire World Burial from the Qiong Luo Realm, killing the gold-robed man and the nearby Tianyuan experts while shattering the eight divine swords.
  • Bai Yu confirmed that the guard was dead, then told Shi Lan that the passage had been destroyed as well.

Ch. 543Misunderstanding

Shi Lan recovered a Supreme artifact after Burial Realm’s arrow destroyed the spatial passage, while the realm’s Heavenly Dao began to awaken. Experts gathered at the ruined battlefield passage, and reincarnators arrived to find no ninth-tier lifeforms but a dangerously sensitive Heavenly Dao.

  • Shi Lan learned that Burial Realm’s arrow had devastated the continent and stirred the sleeping Heavenly Dao, then found she lacked energy to open a passage to Lingyang Realm but could eventually afford one to the battlefield beyond the realms.
  • Shi Lan and Bai Yu recovered a damaged Supreme cauldron, and the artifact refiners began erasing its former owner’s imprint.
  • Bai Yu told the cauldron’s true dragon spirit to help, and its black flame began melting the imprint, which could disappear within three days.
  • Experts from the greater worlds and other groups rushed to the destroyed passage; stranded experts feared they would never return home and prepared to fight.
  • Reincarnators opened domain gates and scanned the Fierce Nether King Realm, learning that no ninth-tier lifeforms were present and the Heavenly Dao was in a shallow, easily disturbed slumber.

Ch. 544Rebirth

The Heavenly Dao sealed the Fierce Nether King Realm after Supreme artifacts disturbed its barrier, trapping Shi Lan and the invaders inside. Shi Lan sought a way to survive by absorbing Asura battle blood, while the chapter ended with Taishi presenting Ling Chu as his successor and Ling Yu'an hearing how formidable Shi Lan had become.

  • The Reincarnation Hall's forces entered the Fierce Nether King Realm, but Supreme artifacts awakened the Heavenly Dao, which sealed the barrier and trapped the invaders.
  • Shi Lan learned she could not yet afford a passage out, killed several reincarnators, questioned a captive about the Reincarnation Hall, and then killed him.
  • The Crimson Crow War Halberd led Shi Lan to the Asura clan, where she entered a pool of battle blood that rapidly transformed her body and advanced her cultivation.
  • Taishi introduced Taishi Ling Chu to the Human Emperors as a possible successor, prompting Li Jingzhou and the others to discuss the succession and Shi Lan's prospects.
  • Ling Yu'an told Ling Qing about her painful recurring dream, then asked about Shi Lan; Ling Qing described Shi Lan as a terrifying prodigy who could eclipse her contemporaries.

Ch. 545Situation

Taishi helped Lingchu overcome his Heavenly Human tribulation by using a barren minor world as nourishment and sealing the lightning away. Shi Lan’s transformation in the Blood Pool of War left her unable to return to Lingyang, and she told the Asura King that his people had no chance of winning before he offered the race’s treasury in exchange for taking some of them with her.

  • Taishi used a barren minor world to help Lingchu advance to the third stage of the Heavenly Human Realm, then sealed the tribulation with the Heavenly Treasure Records.
  • Shi Lan absorbed the Asura battle blood, advanced to the Sun-Moon Realm, and realized that her changed aura meant she could no longer return to Lingyang.
  • Shi Lan left the Blood Pool of War to retrieve the Crimson Crow War Halberd and agreed to meet the Asura King about her weapon.
  • A bloody lightning flash and torrential rain revealed that a Supreme had fallen somewhere in the Fierce Nether King Realm.
  • The Asura King asked Shi Lan about the realm’s chances of survival, and she answered that they had none.
  • The Asura King offered the Asura treasury in exchange for Shi Lan taking some of his people with her.

Ch. 546The Bitter Fruit

Shi Lan gathered the Asura King and other eighth-rank peak experts to ambush the Samsara Hall’s invaders, and an Asura archer severely wounded one of their supreme beings with the Burial Realm. Meanwhile, Huangze returned from searching for Shi Lan, while Chen Xin’s Demon Emperors grew suspicious of her dealings with the Tianyuan Great World.

  • The Asura King entrusted Shi Lan with the clan’s 1,243 children, treasury, and battle-blood pool, then agreed to help her fight the invaders.
  • Shi Lan recruited twelve other eighth-rank peak experts and learned that four Samsara Hall supreme beings were leading a slaughter across the realm.
  • An Asura archer used the Burial Realm to strike a Samsara Hall supreme being, destroying his defensive ring and forcing him to flee badly wounded.
  • Bai Yu rose inside the Qiong Luo Realm after Shi Lan told the injured archer not to waste another arrow.
  • Huangze told Feng Yichuan that Shi Lan had gone to another great world through a severed spatial passage, then rejected his warning about her conduct.
  • Chen Xin dismissed the Demon Emperors’ concerns about Huangze but threatened her if she proved rebellious.

Ch. 547A Lesson

Shi Lan survived the arrival of the Samsara Hall Supremes by provoking the Fierce Nether King Realm’s Heavenly Dao, then escaped through a newly opened passage as outsiders shattered the realm and took its world energy. The chapter ended with Yang Fujii witnessing the realm’s destruction from a safe distance.

  • Shi Lan killed a Supreme and discovered that his source force had been extracted, then absorbed what remained of his body and weapon.
  • Three Samsara Hall Supremes attacked Shi Lan; she was badly injured and captured, but the awakened Heavenly Dao struck them down and damaged the Burial Realm.
  • Shi Lan opened a spacetime passage to the Outer Starry Sky battlefield, released King Asura and the others, and left the Fierce Nether King Realm alone.
  • Three Supreme Venerables arrived outside the realm, shattered its barrier, and compressed its continents into a star before sealing its dissipating energy.
  • Yang Fujii watched the realm’s destruction from several star systems away and recognized the event as the death hexagram.

Ch. 548Otherworld

Shi Lan crashed onto Planet Gamma AE-87 after an attack disrupted her journey to the extraterritorial battlefield, and two Federation investigators discovered her. Unable to travel onward or safely access the Qiong Luo Realm while injured, she learned the planet’s location and date.

  • A faint spatial rift opened above Planet Gamma AE-87, and Shi Lan fell into the mountains, creating a huge crater.
  • Wen Ge and an older investigator found Shi Lan alive, but her blood melted Wen Ge’s armor; their scan revealed she was a cultivator from another starfield.
  • As Shi Lan awakened and space warped around her, Wen Ge refused to report her to corporate magnates who might exploit her.
  • Shi Lan restrained the immense energy of the immortal medicines in her body and found that her injuries and insufficient energy prevented her from reaching the extraterritorial battlefield.
  • Shi Lan avoided opening the Qiong Luo Realm because doing so could devastate the planet, then asked where she was.
  • Wen Ge told Shi Lan that she was on Planet Gamma AE-87 in the Soyerlan Galaxy and gave her the New Federation Calendar date.

Ch. 549Willingness

Shi Lan recuperated in a mine on Gamma AE-87, where she destroyed the recording chips and discovered energy crystals while Federation forces investigated. Meanwhile, Huang Ze negotiated with the Tianyuan Great World, Dustheart prepared to retrieve her, Qing Lan chose to establish a dynasty, and Shi Lan recovered in the Tianyan Sect’s spirit pool.

  • Shi Lan learned about the Sarovina Interstellar Federation, destroyed Wenge and Mond’s recording chips, and hid in their mine to recover.
  • Federation investigators arrived, accepted Mond’s account of magnetic interference, and left without discovering Shi Lan.
  • Huang Ze agreed to give the Tianyuan Great World the Lingyang Realm’s coordinates after her recovery, while Feng Yichuan and the Demon Emperors learned of her dealings.
  • Dustheart told the Demon Emperors to let Huang Ze go for now and departed for Tianyuan with the Myriad Demon Ruler to bring her back.
  • Qing Lan restored the Lan Clan’s ancestral blood pool, chose to settle in the Divine Martial Great World, and announced that she would establish a dynasty after her seclusion.
  • Shi Lan entered the Qiong Luo Realm, recovered with help from the Incense and Fire Prayer Power and the spirit pool, and awoke with her left leg healed.

Ch. 550Demon Sage

Shi Lan settled Bian Qin and the Green Ghost Rakshasa in the Qiong Luo Realm, then began preparing a home and guidance for the Asura children. Elsewhere, Wen Ge and Meng De found Shi Lan gone, while Chenxin arrived at the Tianyuan Cloud Summit and addressed Demon Sage Mingjun.

  • Shi Lan welcomed Bian Qin, assigned the Green Ghost Rakshasa to Li Canglan’s care, and promised to find Bian Qin a better cultivation method.
  • Bian Qin thanked the Crimson Crow War Halberd for bringing her to Shi Lan, and Tian Bai learned that Shi Lan considered him her retainer.
  • Shi Lan visited the Asura children’s residence, sealed their Battleblood Pool for them to open when grown, and formed a clone to guide them.
  • Mechs searched Wen Ge and Meng De’s mining site but found no abnormalities; Wen Ge discovered Shi Lan had disappeared, while Meng De admitted he had expected to die.
  • Chenxin entered the Great World of Tianyuan and met Demon Sage Mingjun at the Tianyuan Cloud Summit.

Ch. 551The Demon Emperor

Chenxin used the Myriad Demon Ruler to destroy the Seven Luminaries Imperial Dynasty, kill Hua Qiyao, and take Huangze back toward Lingyang. Meanwhile, Shi Lan emerged from the Qiong Luo Realm into a mine on Planet Gamma AE-87, where Aiden Morrell Bray’s guards attacked her and were immediately overwhelmed.

  • Mingjun told Chenxin that Lingyang’s transformation would come within a thousand years and revealed that Huangze had arrived at the Seven Luminaries Imperial Dynasty.
  • Chenxin sealed the dynasty and unleashed the Myriad Demon Ruler, which slaughtered its inhabitants and erased Hua Qiyao from history.
  • Chenxin protected Huangze from the destruction, then left a Dao Mark blaming the dynasty’s fall on the Lingyang Demon Emperor.
  • Aiden Morrell Bray arrived at a mine on Planet Gamma AE-87 and discussed its declining red silver production with Muir.
  • Shi Lan stepped through a portal from the Qiong Luo Realm, and Muir shouted that she was an assassin.
  • Aiden’s four armored guards charged Shi Lan, but her restrained true essence shattered their bones and sent them crashing into the mine walls.

Ch. 552Evolution Fluid

Shi Lan secured Aiden Morbray’s help in finding a faster ship to return to her homeland after effortlessly defeating his mech in a spar. At the spaceport, Aiden offered her a secret evolution serum, which she recognized as containing rich life energy.

  • Aiden Morbray stopped his mechs from attacking Shi Lan, apologized for Muer, and agreed to help her find a starship.
  • Aiden asked Shi Lan to spar, piloted a Beast God A-Type mech into space, and attacked her with its scythe.
  • Shi Lan trapped the mech in a true-essence palm and accidentally cracked it with her strength.
  • Three days later, Aiden showed Shi Lan the fastest ship he could obtain, but she asked whether he could find a faster one.
  • Shi Lan agreed to assist Aiden and his family in exchange for a long-term supply of energy crystals, and Aiden presented her with a ninth-generation Grade B evolution serum.

Ch. 553Lifespan

Shi Lan learned that B-grade evolution fluid could extend her lifespan and sought to meet Ressa, head of the Morblay family, to discuss a possible partnership. Three days later, she arrived at the Morblay main planet with Li Canglan, who would handle the negotiations.

  • Shi Lan absorbed the evolution fluid, discovered it had extended her lifespan by about a hundred years, and asked Aiden whether it could be mass-produced.
  • Shi Lan told Aiden she wanted to meet his father, and Aiden persuaded Ressa to receive her despite concerns about the risk.
  • Ressa agreed to host Shi Lan, and three days later the Morblay family gave her a grand welcome at the main planet's spaceport.
  • Aiden introduced Shi Lan to Ressa, and Shi Lan identified Li Canglan as her subordinate and the person who would handle their partnership.

Ch. 554Effectiveness

Shi Lan cultivated in the Qiong Luo Realm while arranging a partnership with Resa’s Morbray Lineage to obtain energy crystals and evolution potions. After approving the deal and setting conditions for the potions’ use, she learned that her requested spacecraft had arrived.

  • Resa settled Shi Lan and Li Canglan in a manor on the Federation’s main star while they waited for a spacecraft.
  • Shi Lan absorbed the blood essence of disassembled Supremes to strengthen her cultivation and prepare for a long wait before returning to the Lingyang Realm.
  • Li Canglan reported that Resa had finalized a cooperation contract and wanted the Tianyan Sect to train about a thousand qi refiners.
  • Shi Lan approved the contract, which exchanged the Morbray Lineage’s energy crystals and evolution potions for military support from the Tianyan Sect.
  • Li Canglan reported that energy crystals greatly accelerated cultivation and that evolution potions strengthened bodies while reducing life essence, so Shi Lan left their use to each disciple’s choice.
  • Li Canglan told Shi Lan that her requested spacecraft had arrived at the port.

Ch. 555Enfeoffed as King

Shi Lan left for the Lingyang Realm with supplies and a crew, while Taishi enfeoffed her as Peerless King and granted her Chengtian Domain. The decree stirred speculation across Shenzhou, and Yun Shun questioned Shi Feng about his past with Shi Lan as unease grew over her rise.

  • Shi Lan departed aboard Resa’s compact spacecraft with supplies and a crew, leaving Shen Tu Jinglong and two thousand Tianyan Sect disciples behind.
  • Liu Yunzheng drafted Taishi’s decree naming Shi Lan Peerless King, and the Human Race’s historical records located her far away.
  • Taishi declined to send anyone to meet Shi Lan, trusting the Linglong Great Emperor’s favor and choosing not to interfere with her path.
  • The enfeoffment decree shook Shenzhou Vast Land as people reacted to Shi Lan’s unprecedented title and her grant of Chengtian Domain.
  • Yun Shun questioned Shi Feng about Shi Lan, and Shi Feng concealed what he knew about her and the twins.
  • After Shi Feng left, Yun Shun felt foreboding about the turmoil Shi Lan might bring.

Ch. 556Metamorphosis

Shi Lan’s spacecraft detoured around a vast life-bearing great world, while Qing Lan survived the Gate of Life tribulation and prepared to found the Heavenfire Immortal Dynasty. Two years later, Shi Lan remained uncertain which powerful beings to imprint into her Imperial Dao Domain when a violent impact shook the spacecraft.

  • Shi Lan agreed to help Samsara find someone after they returned to the Outland Battlefield.
  • Shi Lan ordered Karin to steer the spacecraft around the Divine Martial Great World’s star system rather than risk crossing it.
  • Qing Lan resisted the Gate of Life’s vitality and defeated an illusion of Shi Lan, passing the Life-and-Death Fate Tribulation.
  • Qing Lan told Cang Yue to proceed with founding a dynasty and chose the name Heavenfire Immortal Dynasty.
  • Shi Lan weighed the dangers of imprinting the Ancient Divine King or Great Emperor Linglong into her Imperial Dao Domain.
  • A violent tremor struck Shi Lan’s spacecraft and tilted it sharply.

Ch. 557The Divine Spirit

Shi Lan defeated and captured Sog, a lower god who attacked her and called her a blasphemer. She learned that a brand on her linked her to higher gods and could draw their attacks, then fled the star region with Bai Yu while questioning Sog about the gods and their domains.

  • Shi Lan found that a three-headed, four-armed being named Sog had attacked the spaceship, and she moved Karin and the damaged ship to an enormous inhabited world.
  • Shi Lan fought Sog in her Imperial Domain, pierced his body with the Crimson Crow War Halberd, and captured him with her Primordial Spirit after he tried to flee and summon reinforcements.
  • Sog told Shi Lan that she bore a blasphemer's brand and that he was a lower god; Shi Lan suspected the brand came from a statue and its world crystal she had taken from reincarnators.
  • Shi Lan suppressed Sog in the Qiong Luo Realm and left the region with Bai Yu, who carried the realm through space because the brand could draw attacks from gods.
  • Sog said the brand would remain until the god who placed it and its believers were eliminated, and he told Shi Lan that thirteen chief gods governed separate star systems, with three more systems nearby.
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