Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen opened his Medium Projection gateways and brought the White Phoenix Fief’s Demon Lords and King of Pride into battle against the ambushing forces. As the Demon Lords overwhelmed their enemies, an assassin named Qi Zeng attacked Bai Xiaowen, who blocked the strike and forced him to flee.

• Bai Xiaowen summoned thirteen Demon Lords and Arigante, King of Pride, through his first Medium Projection, then opened a second gateway to bring in the White Phoenix Fief’s army.
• The Bone-Melting Fief troops fled in terror, and Bai Xiaowen sealed the Bone-Melting Fief’s Plane Portal to prevent passage.
• Arigante killed several ambushing experts with an instant-death spell and green-flame attacks while the Demon Lords attacked the remaining forces.
• Xia Jincheng of the Great Evolution Territory fought two Demon Lords at once, and Bai Xiaowen ordered Arigante to deploy the Eye of the Demon to record the battle.
• Qi Zeng, the Star Alliance’s second-ranked assassin, attacked Bai Xiaowen with Impermanence Cones, but Bai Xiaowen blocked them with the Silver Throne and his Spirit Force barrier.
• Bai Xiaowen used the Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal against Qi Zeng, who escaped by leaving a wooden stump behind.

Bai Xiaowen hunted down Qi Zeng after the assassin escaped his first attack, using the Seven-Star Formation and Lightning Strike to overcome Qi Zeng’s concealment and agility. Qi Zeng died in their first encounter, while Xiao Xing remained alive but unconscious and Imprisoned.

• Bai Xiaowen knocked Xiao Xing unconscious and Imprisoned his Spirit Force circulation to preserve his secondary authority over Bone-Melting Fief.
• Bai Xiaowen used his restored Spirit Sense to locate Qi Zeng hiding underground, then activated the Seven-Star Formation to slow him.
• Qi Zeng burst from the ground and evaded repeated Lightning Strikes by making rapid changes of direction, but Bai Xiaowen predicted his movements.
• Bai Xiaowen struck Qi Zeng with Lightning Strike, paralyzed him, and followed with three more bolts that killed him.

As Arigante and the Demon Lords fought the Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Great Evolution Territory forces, Bai Xiaowen mastered the fourth-tier Daoist art Heavenly Lightning. Xia Jincheng then charged at Bai Xiaowen to interrupt his casting.

• Arigante used Mass Chaos and Soul Annihilation Ripple to devastate the Heavenly Prefecture Territory army, while Yu Hong struggled to hold her off.
• A young support-oriented lord from the Great Evolution Territory dispelled Mass Chaos and gave the army protection against Arigante's soul attacks.
• Bai Xiaowen supported Arigante with Snake Lightning and realized how to master Heavenly Lightning.
• Bai Xiaowen began casting Heavenly Lightning, darkening the sky over the Bone-Melting Fief as lightning gathered.
• The young support specialist's Counterspell failed to disrupt Bai Xiaowen, so Xia Jincheng rushed at him with a sword strike to stop the casting.

Bai Xiaowen’s Heavenly Lightning devastated the Heavenly Prefecture Territory army while his summons kept Xia Jincheng at bay. As Meng Chuan fled the losing battle, Bai Xiaowen ordered Arigante to capture him alive if possible.

• Bai Xiaowen summoned Butcher, Abaddon, a Dark Rebirth Demon Lord, and other creatures to block Xia Jincheng while he prepared Heavenly Lightning.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Heavenly Lightning struck the battlefield, killing hundreds of soldiers and severely injuring many Evolvers, while Arigante helped trap the army with Demon Prison Cage.
• Meng Chuan survived the strike but recognized the battle was lost and fled toward the breach in the protective barrier.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered Arigante to pursue Meng Chuan and capture him alive if possible.
• Arigante flew after Meng Chuan, eager to make up for cursing Bai Xiaowen.

Bai Xiaowen joined his summoned Lords in fighting Xia Jincheng after Qi Zeng died and the Heavenly Prefecture Territory troops fled. He weakened Xia Jincheng with Origin Lightning and the assault left Xia Jincheng gravely wounded, but Xia Jincheng crushed a black sphere and vanished into smoke.

• Meng Chuan fled through the air with Arigante pursuing him, and the remaining Heavenly Prefecture Territory troops retreated through the barrier breach.
• Great Evolution Territory’s Evolvers considered retreating as Bai Xiaowen’s summoned Lords besieged Xia Jincheng after Qi Zeng’s death.
• Xia Jincheng used his superior swordsmanship to suppress Abaddon, Butcher, and the Demon Lords of Dark Rebirth, while Bai Xiaowen’s Nerfed Lightning Strike failed to harm him.
• Bai Xiaowen changed tactics and struck Xia Jincheng with Origin Lightning, briefly numbing his wrist and weakening his protective Spirit Force.
• Abaddon and Butcher attacked Xia Jincheng, and Butcher’s Fel-Fire Sawblade carved a severe, bleeding wound across his body.
• Xia Jincheng crushed a black sphere, releasing black smoke.

Bai Xiaowen killed Xia Jincheng and routed the Great Evolution Territory forces, then defeated the remaining Heavenly Prefecture Territory troops. The survivors from Heavenly Prefecture surrendered, and Guo Baisheng and the other Great Xia Fief Evolvers approached Bai Xiaowen to discuss what came next.

• Xia Jincheng used a smoke grenade and powerful sword techniques to attack Bai Xiaowen, then tried to escape while two Great Evolution Territory experts covered his retreat.
• Bai Xiaowen used Position Swap to intercept Xia Jincheng, evaded his desperate sword strike, and cut him in half with the Formless Blade.
• With Xia Jincheng dead, the Great Evolution Territory forces lost morale, and Bai Xiaowen ordered the thirteen Demon Lords to slaughter them.
• Bai Xiaowen sent the White Phoenix Fief Five Elements Banners army against the remaining Heavenly Prefecture Territory troops, who surrendered when defeat became clear.
• Guo Baisheng and the other Great Xia Fief Evolvers approached Bai Xiaowen to discuss what came next.

After defeating Xiao Xing’s forces, Bai Xiaowen questioned the Bone-Melting Fief army and discussed the unreliable information about Xia Feng with Guo Baisheng. He said he had guessed where Xia Feng was and revived Xiao Xing to confirm it.

• Guo Baisheng praised Bai Xiaowen’s strength and explained that Qi Zeng and Xia Jincheng had been supported by the Great Evolution Territory’s Extreme Dao Hall, where Xia Feng had once been a member.
• Arigante returned with Meng Chuan’s severed arm and reported that Meng Chuan had escaped through a Realm Gate despite her catching up with him three times.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered the Bone-Melting Fief army commander brought before him and challenged him over confronting Guo Baisheng’s group and possibly aiding the invasion.
• Bai Xiaowen questioned the Bone-Melting Fief soldiers, who lowered their heads rather than openly supporting Xiao Xing.
• Guo Baisheng doubted the information Xiao Xing had given them about Xia Feng, and Bai Xiaowen said he had a guess before jolting Xiao Xing awake.

After defeating the allied armies and subduing the Bone-Melting Army, Bai Xiaowen pressured Xiao Xing into revealing that Xia Feng had been trapped in the Bone-Melting Fief’s Forbidden Grounds. Bai Xiaowen and Guo Baisheng prepared to go there and try to rescue Xia Feng, while Xiao Xing was imprisoned pending Xia Feng’s decision.

• Bai Xiaowen used Xiao Xing’s reaction to confirm that Xia Feng had been lured into the Bone-Melting Fief.
• Guo Baisheng reminded Xiao Xing of Xia Feng’s past support, and Xiao Xing finally revealed that Xia Feng was sealed in the northern Forbidden Grounds.
• Xiao Xing explained that Fu Jun had prepared a formation there to trap Xia Feng and wear down his strength before the Great Evolution Territory attacked.
• Bai Xiaowen decided to inspect the Forbidden Grounds and attempt to break the formation.
• Guo Baisheng ordered Xiao Xing imprisoned until Xia Feng could decide his fate.

Bai Xiaowen freed Xia Feng by having Xiao Xing shut down Bone-Melting Fief’s Territory Formation, then Xia Feng confronted Xiao Xing about his betrayal. Xiao Xing admitted that envy had driven him, while Bai Xiaowen questioned whether a mistaken belief about the forbidden ground had fueled his resentment.

• Bai Xiaowen identified Fu Jun’s Star Cluster Formation and explained that stopping Bone-Melting Fief’s Territory Formation would disable it.
• Bai Xiaowen released Xiao Xing’s Imprisonment, and Xiao Xing shut down the Territory Formation, allowing Xia Feng to emerge from the forbidden ground.
• Xia Feng thanked Bai Xiaowen for rescuing him, and Bai Xiaowen asked him to deal with Xiao Xing before they spoke privately.
• Xia Feng asked Xiao Xing why he had betrayed him, and Xiao Xing admitted he had envied Xia Feng’s talent, status, and success.
• Xiao Xing asked whether the forbidden ground held a secret to Xia Feng’s strength, and Xia Feng denied it.
• Bai Xiaowen challenged Xiao Xing’s suspicion, pointing out that Xia Feng had handed Bone-Melting Fief over to him rather than keeping it for himself.

Xia Feng dismissed Xiao Xing from the Bone-Melting Fief and then took Bai Xiaowen aside to tell him the history of the territory, revealing that he recognized Bai Xiaowen’s connection to its former founder. He led Bai Xiaowen into the forbidden land’s grotto and confirmed that he could see through Bai Xiaowen’s concealed appearance.

• Xia Feng stripped Xiao Xing of the Bone-Melting Fief’s Boundary Stele authority and ordered him to leave, despite the Great Xia Fief Evolvers’ demands for harsher punishment.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Xia Feng privately about the Bone-Melting Fief, and Xia Feng led him to a mountain summit overlooking the sand where a plum grove had once stood.
• Xia Feng said the territory had once been the Snow Li Fief and revealed that he had destroyed both its plum grove and its former mistress.
• Bai Xiaowen identified the Snow Li Fief’s founder as Bai Xiaohua, and Xia Feng recognized him as the person he had been waiting to confirm.
• Xia Feng protected Bai Xiaowen from the broken blade guarding the grotto and led him inside, where he said Bai Xiaowen looked like Xiao Hua and that he could see his true appearance.

Bai Xiaowen learned that Bai Xiaohua had arranged for Xia Feng to take over Snow Li Fief after she was cursed and doomed to die. Their discussion pointed to Great Evolution Territory as a likely force behind the curse, possibly acting under orders from a higher power.

• Xia Feng revealed that he had hidden his gray hair and brought Bai Xiaowen to Bai Xiaohua’s crystal coffin.
• Xia Feng explained that Bai Xiaohua had suffered a Soul Curse and asked him to inherit Snow Li Fief and eventually hand it to Bai Xiaowen.
• Xia Feng admitted that he had pretended to become Bai Xiaohua’s enemy and kill her, then concealed her traces to protect her plans.
• Bai Xiaowen comforted Xia Feng, recognizing the burden of having killed the person he loved most.
• Xia Feng said he had investigated the forces that explored the Cosmic Secret Realm and suspected Gondor Fief and Great Evolution Territory.
• Bai Xiaowen argued that Great Evolution Territory’s actions risked its standing in the Pan-Asia Alliance, suggesting Xia Yan might have followed orders from a higher power.

Bai Xiaowen suspected that Xia Yan had targeted Xia Feng under orders from a god, and proposed building an Economic Alliance to unite neutral Lords against Great Evolution Territory. After they left the restricted area, Guo Baisheng reported that Xiao Xing had died, leaving Bai Xiaowen doubtful that he had truly committed suicide.

• Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng discussed the gods’ Chosen Ones, and Xia Feng revealed that he served the God of Truth.
• Bai Xiaowen suspected Xia Yan was a Chosen One acting on a god’s orders and decided to keep secrets about Bai Yuantang from the gods.
• Bai Xiaowen told Xia Feng he had recorded Great Evolution Territory aiding Heavenly Prefecture Territory’s invasion and proposed forming an Economic Alliance under Xia Feng’s leadership.
• Xia Feng agreed to help and said Bai Xiaowen reminded him of Bai Xiaohua as they left her sleeping place.
• Guo Baisheng told Xia Feng and Lu Wang that Xiao Xing had committed suicide, and Xia Feng ordered his body returned to Great Xia Fief for burial.
• Bai Xiaowen questioned whether Xiao Xing had really killed himself and considered whether he had been driven to it or secretly murdered.

Xia Feng gave the Bone-Melting Fief to Bai Xiaowen under the guise of a reward, allowing him to reclaim his family’s territory and receive Bai Yuantang’s second Spirit Thought. Bai Yuantang revealed the soul-curser’s appearance and pointed Bai Xiaowen toward the Origin Land, where he could find his final Spirit Thought and possibly learn how to save Bai Xiaohua.

• Xia Feng announced that he was gifting the Bone-Melting Fief to Lu Wang’s White Phoenix Fief as thanks for exposing Xiao Xing’s scheme.
• Bai Xiaowen took control of the Bone-Melting Fief’s Boundary Stele and received Bai Yuantang’s second Spirit Thought.
• Bai Yuantang identified Bai Xiaohua’s attacker as a Chosen One of the Curse God and showed Bai Xiaowen the pale young man’s appearance, but said he did not know his name or connection to the Great Evolution Territory.
• Bai Yuantang told Bai Xiaowen that the Origin Land held the answers to many mysteries and that he would need to find a ticket to enter it.
• Bai Xiaowen asked whether he could revive Bai Xiaohua and whether Bai Yuantang knew the God of Truth; Bai Yuantang said there was great hope for Bai Xiaohua and nodded before fading away.

After claiming Bone-Melting Fief, Bai Xiaowen met with Xia Feng and Great Xia Fief’s Evolvers to discuss an alliance and evidence against Great Evolution Territory. He agreed to accept Xia Yan’s compensation while suspecting a hidden plan, then asked Xia Feng about the Dark Age Plane.

• Bai Xiaowen accepted lord authority over Bone-Melting Fief, and Great Xia Fief’s Evolvers congratulated him and sought closer ties with White Phoenix Fief.
• At a meeting in Bone-Melting Fief’s lord city, Bai Xiaowen and Guo Baisheng discussed expanding an economic alliance and using evidence of Great Evolution Territory’s attack to damage its reputation.
• Xia Yan offered Bai Xiaowen one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals and Xia Feng one ton of Ice Jade to settle the matter; Bai Xiaowen countered for two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, and Xia Yan agreed to meet at the Blue Star Evolver Platform arena.
• Bai Xiaowen agreed that compensation could benefit their territories, but warned that Xia Yan’s unusually rational offer might conceal another move and said they should use the time to prepare.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Xia Feng whether he knew of the Dark Age Plane, and Xia Feng confirmed that he did.

Bai Xiaowen invited Xia Feng to explore the Dark Age Plane, then arranged territorial inheritances and an economic alliance. At a meeting with Xia Yan, Bai Xiaowen recognized the sickly young man responsible for Bai Xiaohua’s soul curse, while the three leaders agreed to a one-year non-aggression pact enforced by the Blood Oath Cauldron.

• Bai Xiaowen told Xia Feng about the Dark Age Plane and invited him to continue exploring it together.
• Bai Xiaowen returned to the White Phoenix Fief, transferred the White Stone Fief inheritance to Cecilia and the Snow Li Fief inheritance to Qiao Rui, and assigned companions to help Zhen Mi establish an economic alliance.
• Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng met Xia Yan and recognized one of his attendants as the man who had cursed Bai Xiaohua’s soul.
• Bai Xiaowen, Xia Feng, and Xia Yan agreed that their territories would not target one another and that the Great Evolution Territory’s involvement in the war would remain secret.
• The three leaders sealed their one-year contract with blood and Spirit Force Marks in the Blood Oath Cauldron, which would punish anyone who broke it.

After securing a one-year truce with the Great Evolution Territory, Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng returned to the Dark Age Plane to strengthen their forces and pursue its remaining Divine Scions. Bai Xiaowen ordered reconnaissance on Tyrant Nibroz, whom he planned to confront first.

• Xia Yan warned Xia Feng and Bai Xiaowen against provoking the Great Evolution Territory, but Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng stood by their ambitions as the visitors departed.
• Xia Feng explained that his Heart Mirror was a Grandmaster Tier talent ability and described the higher levels of Combat Specialization to Bai Xiaowen.
• Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng agreed to use the truce to build strength by conquering the Dark Age Plane and improving Bai Xiaowen's Combat Specialization.
• Sigrdrifa reported that New Silver City commanded over twelve thousand demons, more than ten thousand undead, and a little over four hundred Soulkin.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered Sigrdrifa to send Ghosts into the Eastern Continent to gather intelligence on Tyrant Nibroz, his first target among the remaining Divine Scions.

Bai Xiaowen learned from Xia Feng that the Irreversible Unification Law made Grand Unification increasingly inevitable in conquered planes, even when Evolvers tried to prevent it. Meanwhile, Tyrant Nibroz settled on a remote island and trapped its wildlife as food.

• Xia Feng told Bai Xiaowen that conquered planes inevitably moved toward Grand Unification, with disasters or a Plane Chosen One eventually upsetting the balance.
• Xia Feng estimated that a Plane Chosen One could emerge in the Dark Age Plane within three to five years and cautioned Bai Xiaowen against investing too deeply in it.
• Bai Xiaowen said he might not need to occupy the Dark Age Plane long-term and shifted the discussion to dealing with its two Divine Scions.
• Tyrant Nibroz migrated to an island in the southern Eastern Continent after exhausting the food in its previous habitat.
• Nibroz's subordinates used Demonic Runes to seal the island's surrounding waters, trapping the seabirds and sea beasts so Nibroz could feed there for a month.

Bai Xiaowen led the Undead Legion across the sea on rafts to surround Nibroz and prevent his escape. After Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng silently killed the island’s four sentries, Bai Xiaowen began setting up an Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation and learned more about Xia Feng’s mastery of Spatial Law.

• Bai Xiaowen rejected luring Nibroz ashore and ordered the undead to build rafts so they could approach the island without alerting him.
• Bai Xiaowen, Sigrdrifa, and Xia Feng swam to the island, where Bai Xiaowen learned from a captured demon that four Demon Lords guarded its corners and could warn one another.
• Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng agreed to kill the four sentries at nearly the same time, with Bai Xiaowen taking the southern post and Xia Feng taking the other three.
• Bai Xiaowen killed the southern Demon Lord with the Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal and three precise Lightning Strikes, while Xia Feng used Spatial Law to kill the other three.
• Xia Feng explained his use of Spatial Law and offered to teach Bai Xiaowen as Bai Xiaowen began placing the talismans for the formation.

Bai Xiaowen confronted Tyrant Nibroz and demanded the Demon God Remains, threatening him with Ismen’s Demon Core when he refused. Their forces clashed, and although Xia Feng swiftly killed several Demon Lords, Nibroz’s strength and defensive divine artifact left Bai Xiaowen searching for a way to overcome him.

• Bai Xiaowen surrounded Nibroz’s island with his undead army and demanded the Demon God Remains in exchange for sparing Ismen’s Demon Core.
• Nibroz rejected the deal and unleashed his Overawing Presence, but Bai Xiaowen’s troops and Xia Feng resisted it.
• Bai Xiaowen bound Nibroz with Spirit Force Giants while Xia Feng killed the goat-headed Demon Lord and three other Demon Lords with his spatially empowered blade.
• Nibroz broke free, attacked Bai Xiaowen with demonic fire, and forced him to use Position Swap to escape.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Spirit Force spears struck Nibroz’s chest, revealing a defensive divine artifact that blocked their damage.

Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng discovered that Nibroz’s divine armor could only activate a limited number of times, then coordinated their attacks to make him waste its protection. Nibroz’s armor remained formidable, but the chapter left him under pressure as Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng exploited its finite Divine Might.

• Bai Xiaowen used the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation to weaken Nibroz’s attacks while the Undead Legion’s Fortified Wall Formation withstood his demonic flame.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Snake Lightning paralyzed Nibroz’s Demon Lords, allowing Xia Feng to kill them and then recover before facing Nibroz again.
• Bai Xiaowen empowered the Spirit Force Giants with Flag Sacrifice and God Sacrifice, and they restrained Nibroz while Xia Feng’s Dimensional Slash failed to penetrate his divine armor.
• Bai Xiaowen inferred that Nibroz’s divine armor had limited activations, and Nibroz answered by unleashing a rain of Fel Energy fire.
• Bai Xiaowen and Xia Feng pressured Nibroz with attacks that forced him to activate his armor, then wounded him when he refused to summon it.
• Bai Xiaowen realized that each activation consumed the armor’s Divine Might, confirming that Nibroz could not use it indefinitely.