Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan entered Huang Ze's tomb realm, became separated from Tian Bai, and set out to find him while Qing Lan and the Celestial Demons searched for the tomb. The demons discovered that humans were also searching for Huang Ze's tomb and scattered to find its entrances first.

• Tu Shan Yuqi suggested that Qing Lan might resemble someone in the Demon Emperor's Palace, prompting the Celestial Demons to suspect she was related to the Demon Emperor.
• Feng Yichuan opened a passage to Huang Ze's tomb, and the Celestial Demons and human Heavenly Monarchs entered it.
• Spatial turbulence scattered Shi Lan and Tian Bai, so Shi Lan contacted him through the Lan Clan's ancestral mark and headed toward his approximate location.
• The Celestial Demons gathered around Qing Lan and agreed to search for Huang Ze's tomb, while Tu Shan Yuqi offered to travel with her and Qing Lan refused.
• The Celestial Demons clashed with human Heavenly Monarchs, then discovered Huang Ze's tomb had other entrances and scattered to search for them.

Tu Shan Yuqi confronted Qing Lan about the Lan Clan’s connection to the deaths of her family, but Shi Lan ambushed her and took her immortal herbs. As human and Demon Race forces clashed in Emperor Huangze’s tomb, its native guardians began targeting every outsider.

• Tu Shan Yuqi asked Qing Lan about the Lan Clan and the human imperial weapon that had killed her relatives, but Qing Lan denied having anything to tell her.
• Shi Lan attacked from the sky with a battle halberd, drove off Tu Shan Yuqi’s Heavenly Demons, and forced Tu Shan Yuqi to hand over her immortal herbs.
• Tu Shan Yuqi broke down sobbing as Qing Lan stood over her and told the gathered Demon Race Great Venerables that she was only the Lan Clan’s leader.
• Shi Lan reflected that she had ambushed Tu Shan Yuqi after the Great Venerable left and that she wanted the treasure-seeking beast as well as the herbs.
• As the human-Demon conflict intensified, Huangze’s tomb guardians began killing outsiders from both races.

Shi Lan refined an immortal herb and then was repeatedly pursued by the native beings of Huang Ze's world. The chapter ended as she fought hundreds of them, including their scythe-wielding leader, after drawing on the Qiong Luo Realm for power.

• Shi Lan swallowed a crimson immortal herb in a magma lake, strengthening her cultivation and restoring part of her Primordial Spirit.
• After hearing from Qing Lan that Tu Shan Yuqi had found more immortal herbs, Shi Lan left seclusion to search for them and planned to find Tian Bai later.
• The native beings, a fire-born race hostile to outsiders, had repeatedly hunted the Divine Phoenix Race demons because they could sense their bloodline.
• Tu Shan Yuqi and her companions were robbed again, while Qing Lan considered Tu Shan Yuqi a potential threat to the Lan Clan.
• Several hundred native beings surrounded Shi Lan, and she fought back against their leader's scythe and the attackers.
• Shi Lan opened the Qiong Luo Realm and unleashed its power as the battle escalated.

Shi Lan defeated the native beings attacking her and joined three human Heavenly Lords as she searched for Huangze's mausoleum. Elsewhere, a Divine Phoenix Clan Venerable discovered a fragment of the Undying Divine Phoenix Sutra and began breaking through toward the imperial domain.

• Shi Lan used the power of heaven and earth to slay the native beings and found an iron fragment engraved with an obscure Demon Race scripture.
• Nie Lin'an, Yun Zhen, and Tianxuan Jing arrived, introduced themselves, and invited Shi Lan to travel with them; she accepted.
• After hearing that no one had found Huangze's mausoleum, Shi Lan suspected it might be in the sky rather than on the ground.
• Seventeen Divine Phoenix Clan Heavenly Demons fought thousands of native beings, and two of them had already fallen.
• A Divine Phoenix Clan Heavenly Demon found a black iron fragment inscribed with the Undying Divine Phoenix Sutra and passed it to a red-clad Venerable, whose aura surged toward the imperial domain.

A red-robed woman of the Divine Phoenix Clan used her Emperor's Domain to slaughter native creatures and recover a fragment of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Scripture, then ordered their extermination to complete it. Meanwhile, Shi Lan and the Heavenly Lords discovered a hidden world above the sky, where Huang Ze's golden palace awaited them.

• The red-robed woman unleashed her Emperor's Domain, killing thousands of native creatures and forming an iron wall from their blood and light.
• The Heavenly Demons recognized the iron wall as a fragment of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Scripture, and the red-robed woman ordered them to exterminate every native in the realm.
• Shi Lan led Nie Lin'an, Daoist Yunzhen, and Tian Xuanjing toward the sun, despite their warnings about the heat and distance.
• Shi Lan broke through a hidden barrier with her Divine Phoenix blood, revealing a floating island and golden palace beyond the firmament.
• Tian Xuanjing discovered that the palace was built entirely from the rare immortal metal Red Nether Gold.

Shi Lan and three Heavenly Lords planned to lure the divine phoenixes to Huang Ze’s tomb and ambush them, but the leader proved to be a newly ascended Demon Emperor. As the phoenixes began opening the palace gates, Shi Lan swallowed rare herbs to awaken her power and prepared to fight.

• Shi Lan discovered that the palace gates required a living divine phoenix with a sufficiently pure bloodline, and the group agreed to lure the phoenixes there rather than force entry.
• Shi Lan used Qing Lan to send word to the divine phoenixes, prompting their leader to take eight heavenly demons toward Huang Ze’s tomb.
• Shi Lan and the three Heavenly Lords hid near the palace as nine divine phoenixes arrived, and their leader transformed and began opening the gates.
• Tian Xuanjing urged the group to summon help after sensing that the phoenix leader had reached the Tribulation Realm, but Shi Lan said she would fight her.
• Shi Lan swallowed a Yin Spirit Flower and Sunfire Grass, drew the Crimson Crow War Halberd, and began awakening her Primordial Spirit golden body.

Shi Lan consumed the Nine Sun Grass and fought the Divine Phoenix Clan’s emperor while the human Celestial Lords battled the other demons. As reinforcements arrived, Shi Lan pinned the woman in red with her halberd, but the palace’s light swallowed her and she vanished.

• Daoist Yunzhen warned Shi Lan that swallowing the Nine Sun Grass could make her qi and blood run backward and destroy her body.
• Shi Lan poured her surging qi and blood into the Crimson Crow War Halberd, summoned her Primordial Spirit Golden Body, and charged into the Divine Phoenix Clan’s imperial domain.
• Nie Lin'an trapped three divine demons with a starry diagram, Daoist Yunzhen blocked two more, and Tian Xuanjing killed a Sixth Tribulation divine demon with his five-colored sword.
• Shi Lan fought the Divine Phoenix emperor and wounded her, while the human Celestial Lords burned their minor worlds under pressure from the battle.
• Six divine demons and more than a dozen others arrived; Shi Lan pierced the woman in red with her halberd, but palace light swallowed her and she disappeared, leaving the weapon behind.

Shi Lan entered Huang Ze’s golden palace while the humans and demons continued fighting outside, and Samsara warned that a living Supreme was within. She followed a hidden presence through the palace and found the defeated woman in red lying on a phoenix throne.

• Shi Lan drove back the Divine Phoenix Clan’s Heavenly Demons and entered the palace before its doors closed.
• Human Heavenly Lords arrived, and a battle between the human and demon forces erupted in the sky.
• Qing Lan watched the fighting and began to realize that the universe extended beyond the Lingyang Realm.
• Samsara sensed a living Supreme inside the palace, and Shi Lan followed the trace of its presence.
• Shi Lan encountered the woman in red lying nearly motionless on a golden phoenix throne.

Shi Lan confronted Huang Ze in the golden palace and escaped her attempt to recruit or consume her by provoking Heavenly Punishment with the blood of an otherworldly Supreme Being. As the tribulation struck the palace and forced everyone to flee, Shi Lan emerged to find Tian Xuanjing lingering on the floating island to pry up its golden bricks.

• Huang Ze bound Shi Lan, tasted her blood, and offered to spare her if she became her emissary, but Shi Lan refused.
• Shi Lan unleashed Supreme Being essence blood, drawing Heavenly Punishment and escaping while Huang Ze recognized it as the blood of an otherworldly Supreme Being.
• Heavenly Punishment shattered the golden palace's protective formation and drove the gathered Heavenly Beings and Heavenly Demons to flee.
• Tian Xuanjing stayed behind to pry Scarlet Nether Gold bricks from the floating island as Shi Lan kicked through the palace gates and found him there.

Shi Lan and Tian Xuanjing escaped as the Divine Phoenix faced the Heavenly Punishment, while the survivors searched the ravaged realm for the missing portion of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Scripture. The Divine Phoenix Clan found the scripture but lacked a fragment, and Qing Lan secretly memorized the text as the deadline neared.

• Tian Xuanjing took more Crimson Nethergold and fled after Shi Lan raced beyond the tribulation clouds.
• The Heavenly Punishment shattered the floating island, destroyed nearby heavenly beings and demons with Divine Phoenix True Flame, then pinned and pierced the Divine Phoenix with lightning.
• Shi Lan wondered whether the Divine Phoenix had died, and Samsara said it could likely be reborn through nirvana; Shi Lan then hid underground to heal her injuries.
• The surviving heavenly beings and demons avoided another battle while the Divine Phoenix Clan wiped out the realm's remaining natives and recovered a red iron stele bearing most of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Scripture.
• Qing Lan memorized the scripture, while the Divine Phoenix Clan searched for the missing fragment before the month-long deadline.

Qing Lan found Huang Ze’s ruined remains but discovered no Dao-Extinguishing Flower or usable blood qi, then reunited with Shi Lan and Tian Bai after a month. As Shi Lan prepared to leave the realm, Qing Lan decided to take the Lan Clan beyond the domain and declared herself its master.

• Qing Lan searched Huang Ze’s charred corpse for the Dao-Extinguishing Flower and traces of his aura, but found nothing.
• The Divine Phoenix Clan buried Huang Ze’s remains, while its Heavenly Demons searched unsuccessfully for the flower and mourned the clan’s losses.
• A month later, Shi Lan emerged from seclusion and learned that Chu Hanzhou was ready to bring them back.
• Shi Lan found Qing Lan and Tian Bai, then considered how the Lan Clan could leave Lingyang without provoking another world’s Heavenly Dao.
• Samsara explained that worlds beyond the Great Thousand Worlds tolerated outsiders but guarded their source power, and Shi Lan resolved to take the Lan Clan to one without touching that power.
• Shi Lan left with Tian Bai, while Qing Lan looked at the shattered sky and declared herself master of the Lan Clan.

Shi Lan returned from the shattered realm, reported Huangze’s appearance to Chu Hanzhou, and prepared to travel to Immortal Martial City to heal her Primordial Spirit and build a passage to the Demon Domain. Meanwhile, Qing Lan told Feng Yichuan she planned to leave Lingyang Realm, and he warned her that she would miss coming opportunities.

• Shi Lan returned to the great hall and found that only fifteen of the forty expedition members had survived, including Tian Xuanjing but not Nie Lin'an or Daoist Yun Zhen.
• Shi Lan and the other Celestial Lords presented some of their gains, and the Human Emperors traded for the rarest treasures; Tian Xuanjing exchanged Emperor Huangze’s divine feather and Red Nether Gold for two top-grade spirit veins.
• Chu Hanzhou gave Shi Lan materials to repair her Primordial Spirit, asked about Nie Lin'an, and heard her account of Huangze and the Heavenly Punishment before leaving to report to the Celestial Master.
• Shi Lan left with Tian Bai and accepted Xue Tian’s escort to Chengtian Domain, Immortal Martial City.
• Qing Lan told Feng Yichuan that she intended to leave Lingyang Realm because it rejected outsiders, and he cautioned her that she would miss the realm’s coming opportunities.

Qing Lan arranged with Feng Yichuan to take willing members of the Lan Clan beyond the domain, while he agreed to divert the great clans’ attention. In Immortal Martial City, Shi Lan arrived at the Jade Heavenly Lord’s Manor, where Yu Hong feared she might uncover his past attempt to kill her.

• Qing Lan told Feng Yichuan she would take only Lan Clan members who chose to leave and would destroy the passage after they crossed beyond the domain.
• Feng Yichuan agreed to handle matters behind the scenes and urged Qing Lan to choose her moment to depart.
• Yu Hong asked Young Master Lan for protection and offered to seek a rare life-prolonging immortal medicine for the Lan family’s ancestor.
• Yu Hong recalled that he had secretly arranged to intercept and kill Shi Lan, and feared her rapid rise would lead her to expose him.
• Shi Lan’s carriage broke through Immortal Martial City’s aerial-restriction formation and hovered above the Jade Heavenly Lord’s Manor.
• Shi Lan stepped out of the carriage and looked down at the manor with a cold gaze.

Shi Lan confronted Yuhong over the ambush he had arranged and killed him with a single touch, settling their old score. She left in her imperial carriage as Yuhong’s relatives watched with killing intent.

• Heavenly Human Realm experts recognized Shi Lan as a Heavenly Lord, while Luo Xiuhan watched from a teahouse and wondered if she was the great terror.
• Yuhong tried to deny responsibility for the ambush, but the young man beside him distanced himself from Yuhong.
• Shi Lan warned Yuhong that she had come to settle their grudge and offered him a chance before threatening his clan.
• Yuhong accepted her challenge, and an old man urged them to fight in the Martial Arena to protect the city.
• Shi Lan suppressed Yuhong with her laws, touched his brow, and declared their grudge settled as his body crumbled into ashes.
• Shi Lan ignored the killing intent from Yuhong’s possible descendants and entered her imperial carriage.

Shi Lan returned home after entering the Heavenly Human Realm and rising to the top of the Prodigy Ranking, then told Shi Tianlu she planned to venture beyond the domain after reaching Emperor Grade. After resting with her family, she received word from Qing Lan that the passage to the Lan Clan’s ancestral lands was ready.

• Shi Lan’s rise to the Heavenly Human Realm and victory over a newly ascended Demon Emperor spread across the three races, placing her first on the Prodigy Ranking.
• Shi Lan arrived quietly at Shi Mansion, where Shi Tianlu worried that her fame could endanger her family.
• Shi Lan considered helping Su Lanyue extend her lifespan gradually, while learning that Shi Qinghu was away training and Shi Yiming had joined the Holy Spirit Academy.
• Shi Lan told Shi Tianlu she intended to go beyond the domain after reaching Emperor Grade, and he warned her not to let affection cloud her judgment.
• After resting at home for several days, Shi Lan heard from Qing Lan that a spatial passage to the Lan Clan’s ancestral lands was open.

Shi Lan sent Qing Lan and the remaining Lan Clan demons through a spacetime passage to the Divine Martial Great World, then returned to Shenzhou and destroyed the route. In the Demon Domain, six Demon Emperors accused Feng Yichuan of treason, and Chenxin warned him that the accusation was only a pretext for the wrath gathering against him.

• Shi Lan opened a passage to the Divine Martial Great World, and Qing Lan led Cang Yue and roughly five hundred thousand demons through it with the Ancestral Blood Pool.
• Shi Lan cast the passage into the void and returned to Shenzhou, while Qing Lan and the Lan Clan disappeared into the new world.
• Demon Emperors searched the Lan Clan's former ancestral grounds, then six Demon Emperors accused Feng Yichuan of betraying his clan and colluding with the Human Race.
• Rumors claimed Qing Lan was Shi Lan's clone, but most demons doubted the claim and focused on the six Demon Emperors turning against the Feather Emperor's Hall.
• Feng Yichuan refused to defend himself against the accusations, and Chenxin told him the charges were a pretext for the anger he had earned from other Demon Emperors.

Feng Yichuan accepted a hundred-year exile on the Extraterritorial Battlefield as punishment, while the Demon Emperor’s remarks about Qing Lan and a woman who stole his blood unsettled him. In the Divine Martial Great World, Qing Lan settled the Lan Clan and learned that a dynasty official had arrived to question them.

• The Demon Emperor explained Lingyang’s decline and ordered Feng Yichuan to lie low on the Extraterritorial Battlefield for a hundred years.
• The Demon Emperor recalled a woman who stole his blood in Chengtian Domain and noted her resemblance to Shi Lan, leaving Feng Yichuan shaken by the possible connection to Qing Lan.
• Qing Lan brought five hundred thousand Lan Clan demon beasts to the Divine Martial Great World, where their strength surged, and established their ancestral blood pool in a mountain range.
• A man and his saber-carrying attendant arrived above the Lan Clan settlement, and the attendant challenged Cang Yue over entering territory under the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty.
• Cang Yue sent Qing Lan a message, and she considered what she had learned about how newcomers from other worlds were exploited in the Divine Martial Great World.

Qing Lan learned that Commandant Qiu intended to exploit the Lan Clan by registering its weaker members as livestock and offering others to nobles. She sent Cang Yue toward the border to contact the Great Meng Sacred Court and find out the price on Qiu’s head, while Qiu ordered his men to watch the clan.

• Commandant Qiu told Qing Lan that the unregistered Lan Clan had to provide labor, accept servile status, leave the dynasty, or seek protection through his introductions to nobles.
• Cang Yue and Chi Xun urged Qing Lan to avoid confronting Qiu, but she studied the map and considered the dynasty’s western border.
• Qing Lan ordered Cang Yue to travel to the border and learn how much the Great Meng Sacred Court would pay for the head of a fourth-rank commandant.
• Yan Pan questioned Qiu’s harsh terms, and Qiu admitted he planned to profit from selling the Lan Clan’s demons and ordered surveillance of them.

Cang Yue reported that the Great Meng Sacred Court had placed bounties on Heavenly Fortune Dynasty officials, while Qiu Huai prepared to attack the Lan Clan. Qing Lan broke through to the Dao Integration Realm, killed Qiu Huai and his cavalry, then led the Lan Clan toward the border.

• Cang Yue returned to the Lan Clan and reported the bounties and the dynasties’ neutrality toward wandering clans.
• Qiu Huai ordered Yan Pan to mobilize five thousand Silver Heaven Guards to suppress the Lan Clan, while Yan Pan asked for leave.
• Qing Lan faced her tribulation and entered the Dao Integration Realm as Qiu Huai’s cavalry surrounded her.
• Qing Lan shattered the tribulation clouds, defeated the five thousand cavalry, and killed Qiu Huai despite the protection of his dynastic fortune.
• Qing Lan ordered the Lan Clan to migrate toward the border and resolved to establish her own immortal dynasty on the bloodstained land.

Qing Lan brought the Lan Clan into the Great Meng Sacred Court’s territory by trading Qiu Huai’s head and official seal for passage, supplies, and a border map. Shi Lan returned home to recover and strengthen herself before facing the Emperor Grade World-Destroying Calamity.

• Marquis Ningwu learned that Qiu Huai and five thousand Silver Sky Guards were dead, then ordered his troops to march for Tiger Pass.
• Qing Lan led five hundred thousand members of the Lan Clan toward the Great Meng border, wary of exposing them to the war between the dynasties.
• Qing Lan gave the Great Meng army Qiu Huai’s head and official seal and received origin stones, a passage token, and a border map.
• Qing Lan guided the Lan Clan through the Great Meng Sacred Court’s territory without incident.
• Shi Lan returned home to recover from her injuries and strengthen her foundations before confronting the Emperor Grade World-Destroying Calamity.