Chapter Summaries

Li Fan learned from the Investiture of the Gods that the company had planned the Grand Tutor’s rise as the Tai Su Demon Emperor and designed the world as a game for outsiders. As blood rain and the company’s power transformed the underground Wang Jing, the Tai Su Heavenly Demon Emperor began to awaken.

• Xiao Qingzhi told Li Fan that the Grand Tutor would likely seize the chance to become Demon Emperor, then sent Li Fan into Ziwei Yuan to deliver Manifestation Dao Lord’s invitation.
• The Grand Tutor showed Li Fan the Hetu Luoshu, which revealed plans to divide the world among new player factions and turn the old Three Great Sects into enemies and dungeon bosses.
• Li Fan realized the company had made the Grand Tutor’s future a dungeon role and told him to resist Heaven, but the Grand Tutor did not dare turn against the company.
• Blood rain engulfed the Three Enclosures as the underground Wang Jing and its inhabitants twisted into flesh, devouring god-demon generals and raising monstrous giants.
• Li Fan stood beside Hou Gu’s head and watched the Tai Su Heavenly Demon Emperor awaken.

Li Fan watched the Grand Tutor transform into a rapidly strengthening Celestial Devil Emperor and chose to study the process rather than interfere, knowing the company could repeat its plans at the mortal world's expense. As the transformation triggered a massacre across the Twelve Countries and the celestial enclosures, Li Fan reached the blood-shrouded Ziwei Immortal Palace, where its fall seemed imminent.

• Li Fan decided not to stop the Grand Tutor's transformation, reasoning that the company could create another Devil Emperor and that he could learn from the process.
• The Grand Tutor absorbed the formation's baleful energy and sacrificed forces to become a young Celestial Devil Emperor, then vanished at tremendous speed.
• Li Fan emerged from the collapsing underground Wang Jing and found the noble families and civilians of the royal city dead as the city sank into the earth.
• Li Fan flew into the heavens and saw palace guards and possessed armies slaughtering one another while the celestial palaces burned.
• Li Fan reached Ziwei Immortal Palace and saw blood devils assaulting its remaining defenders as its wards and walls eroded.

Qin Jiu woke from his injuries to learn he had become Yuntai Sword Master, while Shi Kai met the Celestial Devil Emperor and learned the Open Heavens Slash. At Nine Yin Mountain, Li Fan faced the newly ascended Celestial Devil Emperor and the Xuan Sect leaders, then summoned Chun Jun and drew them all into a closed string.

• Qin Jiu awoke in the medicinal cauldron, and Shi Kai told him he had won the Yuntai Grand Tournament after the Xuan Sect disciples withdrew.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor took Shi Kai's saber, learned the Open Heavens Slash from him, and used it to break the Nine Yin Sword Array and defeat the seven Profound Maiden apparitions.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor reached the Enlightenment Stage and returned to the Nine Luminaries Sword Pavilion, where the Xuan Sect leaders arranged for Li Fan to face him.
• Li Fan told the Celestial Devil Emperor that he had tried to help the commoners caught in the blood-transformation tribulation, then summoned the Chun Jun Sword and wrapped it in his Dustlike Dao Body.
• Li Fan vanished with the Celestial Devil Emperor and the nine sect masters of the Xuan Sects inside a closed string.

Li Fan trapped the Celestial Devil Emperor and seven Dao Lords inside his Tai Sha Star Realm, then fought them with the Chun Jun Sword. He nearly killed the Devil Emperor before the Purple Void Dao Lord’s attack struck the same wound, leaving Li Fan furious that she had stolen his kill.

• Li Fan sealed the eight Enlightenment Stage opponents inside the Tai Sha Star Realm and tore apart their projected bodies, absorbing some of their power.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor recovered first, and Li Fan transformed into a humanoid combat form and attacked all eight with the Chun Jun Sword’s Profound Heaven Lightning Sword.
• Li Fan drove the Chun Jun Sword toward the Devil Emperor’s heart while using the Third Flower to block his Heaven-Opening Slash.
• The Purple Void Dao Lord recovered and attacked Li Fan with her Moon-Grasping Hand, but Li Fan’s Zhu Long Dao body was destroyed by her Void Star Great Radiance.
• The Purple Void Dao Lord redirected her next blast into the Devil Emperor’s wound, nearly destroying him, and Li Fan shouted that she had stolen his kill.

Li Fan used Chun Jun and the Great Slaughter Sword Scripture to destroy Purple Void Dao Lord’s avatar and corner the Celestial Devil Emperor inside his Tai Sha Star Realm. The other Dao Lords joined forces against him, defeating Li Fan, consuming all seven of his Ephemeral Flowers, and shattering Chun Jun.

• Li Fan unleashed Starfire with Chun Jun, then killed Purple Void Dao Lord’s avatar with Great Slaughter Flying Star.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor transformed into a heavily armored mecha and tried to cut through the star realm, but Li Fan stabbed him from behind.
• Li Fan trapped the fleeing Dao Lords in a topological maze, while Purple Void split into seven avatars and joined forces with them.
• The seven opponents formed a Big Dipper sword array and attacked Li Fan with Beichen sword techniques.
• Li Fan countered with Great Slaughter Starbreaker, but the Starflow Sword Array sent their combined Dao power through Chun Jun and struck him seven times.
• Li Fan lost all seven Ephemeral Flowers, and Chun Jun shattered.

Li Fan fought the Celestial Devil Emperor and the leaders of the Xuan Sects inside his Great Fiend Star Realm, using talismans and Heavenly Book Magic Puppets to subdue his opponents. After the sect leaders conceded, Li Fan learned he had won the Cloud Platform Tournament, though Yuepo warned that Nine Yin Mountain was in danger.

• Li Fan escaped the Seven Star Sword Array with Chun Jun Sword's fragments, and the Celestial Devil Emperor broke the weakened array with his Heaven-Opening Slash.
• The six remaining Xuan Sect leaders transformed into primordial Divine Beasts and joined Purple Void Dao Lord in battling the Celestial Devil Emperor, whose awakened demon generals made him even stronger.
• Li Fan dragged Xieluo Mountain's Sect Leader into a deep dream and used Heavenly Book Magic Puppets to seal him, then tried to repeat the tactic against the other leaders.
• Yuepo entered the star realm, and Li Fan defeated Purple Void Dao Lord with the False Moon's spirit before sealing her head.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor and the remaining Sect Leaders used the Kui Ox as a final attack, then conceded and named Li Fan the Cloud Platform Sword Master.
• Yuepo told Li Fan that the elders of Song Mountain had brought her in and warned that Nine Yin Mountain would be destroyed if he did not stop soon.

Li Fan returned to Nine Yin Mountain after the Yuntai Tournament rules freed the Xuan Sect leaders from his Star Realm, only to find the Celestial Devil Emperor had learned to wield Tai Sha power. As Zhi Jingzi and the sect leaders nearly killed the Emperor, Li Fan struck Zhi Jingzi, and a mysterious figure appeared and devoured the Emperor.

• Li Fan trapped 𬸚𬸦, Kui Ox, and Jiuying in the Tai Sha Sword Array, then returned to Nine Yin Mountain and confronted the surviving sect leaders and Celestial Devil Emperor.
• The Celestial Devil Emperor revealed a Tai Sha Demon Saber, accepted his loss, and began descending the mountain while the sect leaders held back.
• Zhi Jingzi ambushed the Celestial Devil Emperor, then joined the five sect leaders in trapping and refining him.
• Li Fan secretly struck Zhi Jingzi with his Tai Sha Formless Sword, forcing him to flee and giving the Celestial Devil Emperor a chance to escape.
• A blue figure tore the Celestial Devil Emperor apart, devoured his remains, and declared itself the manifestation’s father.

Li Fan drove Zhi Jingzi away with his new Beichen Killing Sword and found the Three Enclosures in ruins after the Celestial Devil calamity. At Songshan, he rescued Qin Jiu during a massacre of the Grand Tutor's allies and Songshan disciples, then left with the unconscious boy for Ink Bamboo Mountain.

• Li Fan used the Tai Sha Formless Sword to ambush Zhi Jingzi, but Zhi Jingzi fled beyond the sword's range and escaped.
• Li Fan found Wang Jing devastated and recovered his Blood God Child Dao Body from a vast pool of blood before deciding to wipe out the Nangong family.
• Li Fan divined that Qin Jiu was in danger at Songshan and flew there, where Divine Sect blood demons were attacking the mountain.
• Fu Lanshu abandoned his post, breaking the Grand Tutor's faction's defenses and allowing the blood demons to massacre the refugees and Songshan disciples.
• Li Fan saved Qin Jiu and Shi Kai from a Divine Lord; Qin Jiu mourned among the dead, and Li Fan tucked a golden chrysanthemum into his bandages before taking him away.

Qiongqi was summoned from its lazy life as Qingyang Altar Master after the Pure Dharma Kings learned that the Saintess claimed to have destroyed the Three Enclosures and Demon Palace. The Dharma Kings decided to attack the Central Plains and ordered Qiongqi to lead the vanguard, leaving it stunned.

• Galsang Medo and Dunjul Zhuoma summoned Qiongqi from its den with a feast and told it to attend a meeting at headquarters.
• Qiongqi flew to the Kunlun headquarters, where the three Pure Dharma Kings asked what the Saintess had done in the Central Plains.
• Qiongqi said it knew nothing about the Saintess's plans or the Demon Palace's disappearance.
• A Pure Dharma King explained that the Grand Preceptor had fallen to the demonic path and died in his tribulation, while the Saintess had arranged for sect elites to destroy the Three Enclosures.
• The Pure Dharma Kings decided to send troops to Kunzhou and attack the Central Plains, then ordered Qiongqi to lead the vanguard.

Daoist Qiongqi struggled to pass the Divine Sect’s military academy exam until Li Fan used Guiche’s hacking techniques to help him cheat, then prepared him as a scapegoat. Meanwhile, Li Fan learned that company investigators had obtained a search warrant and were heading toward the Taiji Realm to investigate a suspected leak of his unknown Level Nine chip.

• Daoist Qiongqi failed to answer the make-up exam questions and summoned Guiche for help.
• Guiche sealed the exam hall’s senses, allowing Qiongqi to copy the questions while Li Fan planted protective Blood Crow Magic Puppets in his Divine Court.
• Li Fan contacted the system and learned that the company had reported Grand Tutor’s death and might investigate the Celestial Devil Emperor’s remains.
• Li Fan heard that the company’s Security Department Third Office had entered the Zhuanxu branch with a search warrant and might descend into the Taiji Realm.
• Li Kun and Li Gan identified Li Fan’s chip as unknown Level Nine technology, and Li Fan agreed to deal with the agents while planning to blame the legion.

Li Fan weighed the flaws in his combat methods and prepared for the dangerous arrival of Earth 0 agents from the Third Department, planning to keep his main body hidden and use Qiongqi and Guiche to misdirect them. While the agents had not yet appeared, he tested Guiche’s puppet techniques and began preparing God Sect war beasts as additional weapons.

• Li Fan abandoned his plan to cultivate in seclusion and decided to deal with the Nangong Family while preparing for the Third Department’s mission.
• Li Fan learned that the agents from Earth 0 were likely to carry Level Seven technology and could threaten the Taiji Realm.
• Li Fan planned to hide his main body, send Guiche’s clone to support the operation, and use Qiongqi as bait posing as a Legion apostle.
• Li Fan tested Guiche’s Nascent Soul techniques and found it could briefly control Divine Transformation cultivators as blood puppets.
• Li Fan identified the God Sect’s hidden army of roughly ten thousand modified demons and beasts as potential puppets for the coming fight.

Li Fan surveyed the Divine Cult’s vast demon forces and decided to support the cult to preserve a balance among it, the Profound Sect, and the company. As the Divine Cult launched its invasion of Kun, Li Fan joined the Qingyang vanguard with Guiche and two newly controlled demon birds.

• Li Fan flew over Kunlun and saw the Divine Cult unsealing hordes of demons, beasts, and monsters for its campaign.
• Li Fan reasoned that the Divine Cult could keep the demons organized, while destroying its leadership might let the company take control of them and bring about a world reboot.
• Li Fan used Guiche’s spirit-origin arts to turn Qutu and Shusi into demon puppets and test his ability to control multiple beasts.
• Li Fan assessed the Qingyang battlegroup’s forces and realized the Divine Cult intended to invade the Central Plains and crush the Immortal Palace’s remaining armies.
• Pure Dharma King sent Qiongqi to lead the Qingyang assault group toward Kun, and Guiche followed with Qutu and Shusi as the vanguard moved out.

Li Fan and System Pisces planned to exploit the Divine Church’s attack on the Immortal Army to ambush the Fourth Department’s hackers. At Juelong Ridge, Qiongqi rallied the Church’s generals for a surprise assault, and the Protectorate Army began its pre-battle blood sacrifice.

• Li Fan contacted System Pisces, which revealed that the Fourth Department had sent search teams and a stealth ship carrying a planet-destroying neutron bomb.
• Li Fan and System Pisces planned to lure the Fourth Department’s hackers into an ambush during the battle and capture one of them.
• System Pisces supplied updated intelligence as the Divine Church army marched toward Juelong Ridge, where General of Anxi’s larger army faced the Church’s weakened forces.
• Qiongqi presented Guiche’s detailed battlefield map and persuaded the Divine Church’s generals to launch a night attack despite the Enforcement Venerable’s absence.
• The Divine Church prepared its monsters and artillery for the assault, while the Protectorate Army performed the Song of Rebirth and offered its blood to the Divine Lord.

The Divine Church launched a coordinated surprise attack on General of Anxi’s army, and Qiongqi’s squad broke through to destroy the rear supply camp. After Li Fan saved Qiongqi from Yang Polu and unleashed its suppressed nature, the fiend rampaged through the Kuisu Immortal Guards as a new threat descended toward the battlefield.

• The Legion began its artillery assault, destroying the Immortal Army’s shrines and formations while Divine Church protectors assassinated officers and Qiongqi’s squad infiltrated the defenses.
• The first two lines of General of Anxi’s camps collapsed into fire and confusion, and Qingyang’s assault group advanced on the unprepared central army.
• Qiongqi led the demons and Divine Church soldiers in an attack on the rear camp and its granaries, where Yang Polu rallied the Kuisu Immortal Guards and charged the beast.
• Yang Polu nearly pierced Qiongqi’s skull, but Li Fan used his Primordial Spirit Art to alter the spear’s course, allowing Qiongqi to crush the general’s chest.
• Li Fan applied a series of Primordial Spirit Arts to Qiongqi, unleashing its full strength as it slaughtered the Kuisu Immortal Guards and devoured the dead.
• Guiche watched a meteor descend toward the battlefield as Li Fan declared that the prey was ready.

Zhang Xiang survived the destruction of the Tabai Army’s camp by hiding in a muddy pond, then witnessed Heluo and her drones attack a red tiger while a brain-wave incursion incapacitated both armies. Heluo’s hunt ended in a devastating explosion, and Zhang Xiang appeared behind her with the Raven’s Eye as communications failed.

• Zhang Xiang hid among the dead after artillery and demons wiped out the Tabai Army, then realized fire had cut off the rear camp’s retreat.
• Heluo and her unseen companions coordinated a hunt, while Zhang Xiang recognized their speech as an ancient form of common speech and remained concealed.
• Heluo triggered a battlefield-wide brain-wave incursion that knocked out many fighters, killed the rear commanders, and freed the Divine Church’s monsters from their restraints.
• Heluo authorized her drones to attack a red tiger, which they trapped and battered with homing projectiles and gravitational devices.
• The red tiger exploded in a burst of ion flames, disrupting communications and briefly exposing Heluo’s camouflage.
• Zhang Xiang emerged behind Heluo and struck at her, but her shield stopped his fist; he showed her the Raven’s Eye as the team’s communications filled with static.

Li Fan’s crew lost control of their covert operation after Qiongqi killed Ear Mouse and the Security Bureau’s emergency response escalated into a battle. As the demon gods fought the descending combat mechs, Li Fan’s team seized Heluo’s equipment and activated Second Impact, shooting down the Night Curtain.

• Li Fan’s blood crows took control of Chongming, while Qiongqi refused to retreat and killed Ear Mouse, triggering a soul-shattering scream that incapacitated the nearby agents.
• The Security Bureau shuttle arrived to rescue its citizens, but Qiongqi destroyed it and fought off its drones.
• The Security Bureau deployed eight combat mechs, so Li Fan authorized Plan B and linked the subnets to make the demon gods rampage against them.
• Li Fan’s team tried to use Heluo’s equipment, but Heluo’s automatic defenses activated until Zhang Xiang restrained her and blood crows hacked a nearby drone carrier.
• Li Fan authorized the system, and Li Kun activated Second Impact, which shot down Night Curtain.

Li Fan’s group escaped with Heluo’s neural interface while Qiongqi and the Divine Cult fought the Immortal Palace mechs. Qiongqi broke through during battle, but the remaining mechs detonated their reactors, leaving Li Fan caught in the blast wave.

• Li Gan explained how the group had used the company’s stolen nuclear weapons to destroy the Night Curtain and warned that corporate and security teams were hacking into their network.
• Qiongqi fought eight combat mechs while Li Fan and the others prepared to flee; Li Kun overloaded himself and collapsed.
• Li Fan extracted Heluo’s neural interface, and the group used Zhang Xiang as bait to lure two mechs away before escaping underground.
• The Divine Cult joined Qiongqi’s fight, but the mechs used chemical smoke and plasma fire to damage the Blood God Children.
• Qiongqi broke through mid-battle, destroyed several mechs, and drove the last three to coordinate a reactor detonation.
• The explosion raised a golden column over Juelong Ridge and hurled Li Fan through the air.

Li Fan fled the nuclear devastation at Juelong Ridge and checked on his companions and the Gate mission while his main body traveled toward Ink Bamboo Mountain. Li Gan explained the corporate conflict behind Division Three’s attack and offered Li Fan an acorn in exchange for signing a contract, leaving Li Fan uncertain about what he had summoned.

• Li Fan escaped south with Guiche after losing contact with Qiongqi and suspected the nuclear strike had destroyed most of the forces at Juelong Ridge.
• Li Fan found that Amao was traveling safely south with a merchant convoy and left him to continue with his companions while his main body took Qin Jiu and Kun toward Zhen Province.
• Li Fan contacted Li Gan and learned that the Taiji Realm was Earth 49327, that no warship had been authorized to cross the Gate, and that Earth 0’s authorities were concealing Division Three’s losses to avoid escalating corporate tensions.
• Li Gan explained that Division Three had targeted Qiongqi for information about the black pot, not for Heluo’s chip, and suspected the pot’s buyer or an intermediary had drawn the attackers’ attention.
• Li Gan demonstrated that the pot could reveal the true origins of things, then offered Li Fan an acorn and promised answers if he signed a contract.
• Li Fan awakened beneath the False Moon with the acorn in his hand and wondered what he had summoned.

Li Fan accepted Danxia Mountain’s offer to negotiate for Chonglingzi’s return, then carried his disciples through demon-infested Xun Province. He learned that Qiongqi had survived and that the Xuan Sects and the God Sect were moving toward another confrontation in Kun Country.

• Li Fan received an acorn from the system, encouraged the battered Qin Jiu, and summoned Yuepo to guard the group while he met Danxia Mountain’s Lin Xuanzhen and Wei Xuanfa.
• Lin Xuanzhen and Wei Xuanfa offered Danxia Mountain’s wealth and techniques in exchange for Li Fan’s help rescuing Chonglingzi from the Tai Su Star Heaven, and Li Fan agreed to discuss the matter further in a month.
• Li Fan returned to his disciples and carried them into Xun Province, where they saw that demons and monsters had overrun the region and Qin Jiu’s hometown.
• Li Fan reflected that Xun Province’s devastation showed the collapse of the old order and could not be stopped by a few people killing monsters.
• The company’s counterintelligence department informed Li Fan that Qiongqi was alive and had been caught by the Fourth Department.
• Yuntai Peak and the Xuan Sects moved to Kun Country to confront the God Sect after the battle at Juelong Ridge.

Li Fan traveled to Yuntai Peak as a primordial spirit to find Qiongqi, but the company’s coordinates led him to wrecked combat mechs and no clear sign of Qiongqi. He followed a Fourth Department agent into a ruined palace, where he found the agent working alongside Zhi Jingzi, Jade Toad Granny, and a mysterious old man.

• Li Fan prepared his disciples and Kun to guard his body, then used the Lou Guan Dao’s secret art to send his primordial spirit to Juelong Ridge.
• Li Fan arrived at Yuntai Peak and learned that the Fourth Department had captured Qiongqi, but its agents had gone missing amid interference and fighting.
• Li Fan found the wreckage of combat mechs at the mountain’s base and concluded that powerful Dao-Enlightenment beings had torn them apart.
• Li Fan used a Xuan Girl Seal to command a Yuntai attendant and followed its route through the mountain, where an invisible trap destroyed the puppet.
• Li Fan followed a disguised Fourth Department combat body into a ruined palace, where he found Zhi Jingzi, Jade Toad Granny, another agent, and an old man who warned him to be quiet.