Chapter Summaries

Situ Xuan was pinned by the Mountain Dragon King's final attack, giving Gu Yuena a chance to gather the Dragon God’s power and prepare to strike him. The chapter ended with Gu Yuena aiming a seven-element attack at Situ Xuan while the Mountain Dragon King sacrificed itself to help her revive the soul beast race.

• Situ Xuan continued attacking Gu Yuena despite his grievous wounds until the Mountain Dragon King’s gravity overwhelmed him.
• The Mountain Dragon King chose to honor Gu Yuena as the Master of Soul Beasts and condensed its remaining power into a final sacrifice.
• The Mountain Dragon King wrapped Situ Xuan in its brown light and urged Gu Yuena to kill him and revive the soul beast race.
• Gu Yuena mourned the Mountain Dragon King, absorbed the Energy Avatar’s Dragon God energy, and aimed a seven-element attack at Situ Xuan despite the pain tearing through her body.

Situ Xuan devoured the Mountain Dragon King’s power and formed its totem, but Gu Yuena’s devastating attack appeared to vaporize him. As Gu Yuena left the Dragon Tomb grieving, Situ Xuan drifted alive through the cosmic void, battered by its deadly conditions.

• Situ Xuan used the Ten Thousand Beast Heaven-Swallowing Chart to consume the Mountain Dragon King’s light mist and form its totem on his chest.
• Gu Yuena struck Situ Xuan with a massive seven-colored elemental blast that destroyed the area around him.
• Gu Yuena found no trace of Situ Xuan, mourned their friendship, and left the Dragon Tomb despite her injuries.
• Situ Xuan drifted through the void beyond the plane, where cosmic radiation, extreme cold, and vacuum damaged his body.

Situ Xuan endured endless damage and healing as he drifted unconscious through space, then awakened in the pure white space where the Bronze Codex had once granted him martial inheritances. He failed to awaken its final chain and left the silent book untouched.

• Radiation, extreme cold, and vacuum repeatedly damaged Situ Xuan, while his Six-Turn Golden Body and Soul Spirits repaired and protected him.
• Situ Xuan's consciousness faded, and his body drifted through space for an unknown length of time.
• Situ Xuan awoke in the pure white space and saw that six of the Bronze Codex's seven chains had broken.
• Situ Xuan tried to activate the final chain and draw an inheritance from the book, but nothing responded.
• Situ Xuan stopped trying and accepted that the final chain might require a particular opportunity or might hold no further martial art.

Situ Xuan meditated in the pure white space until his consciousness merged with its stillness, then encountered a mysterious armored figure seated on a Black Iron Throne. Asked what he sought, Situ Xuan declared that he fought for battle and for himself, determined to seize control of his fate.

• Situ Xuan suppressed his combative urge and meditated in the pure white space, polishing his heart.
• Situ Xuan sank into profound stillness, letting go of worldly thoughts and losing the distinction between himself and the space.
• A weathered voice spoke within Situ Xuan’s consciousness, and a Black Iron Throne with an armored figure appeared before him.
• The armored figure asked Situ Xuan what he sought, and Situ Xuan answered, “For battle! For myself!”
• Situ Xuan resolved to gain power so he could control his fate and prevent others from dictating his life or death.

Situ Xuan spoke with a mysterious armored man, who explained his belief that the strong should rule and urged Situ Xuan to consider what his path would ultimately mean. The man pointed out that Situ Xuan had overlooked loneliness, leaving him to confront what it meant to fight while remaining true to himself.

• The armored man interpreted Situ Xuan's creed of fighting for himself as a balance between striving outward and guarding his inner nature.
• The man revealed that he had once been a king who grew convinced that ugliness and darkness were inherent in the world.
• He explained that he had embraced rule by the strong as his Dao, while Situ Xuan said he wanted strength to protect those he cared about rather than to sit on a throne.
• The man beckoned Situ Xuan closer and asked what battle and the self would become if pursued to their ends.
• Situ Xuan said battle ended in victory or defeat and that the self meant knowing who he was and why he fought, and the man answered that he had missed loneliness.

Situ Xuan spoke with Pluto King about loneliness and accepted the battle Pluto King offered. As Pluto King awakened his power in a desolate battlefield, the two introduced themselves and prepared to fight.

• Situ Xuan told Pluto King he was not afraid of standing alone at the summit, and Pluto King praised his clearheadedness.
• Pluto King transformed the white space into a desolate battlefield under a dark red sky and fivefold gravity.
• Pluto King rose from his throne, revealing an overwhelming battle intent that Situ Xuan recognized as similar to Bloody Battle Across the Eight Wilds.
• Pluto King declared his name, and Situ Xuan gave his own in return.
• Pluto King said they would have become companions one hundred thousand years earlier, then closed his eyes.

Pluto King and Situ Xuan fought a fierce close-quarters battle, each matching the other's strength and technique. The fight remained unresolved as Pluto King showed excitement at finding a worthy opponent.

• Pluto King vanished and struck Situ Xuan, who charged forward and traded injuries with him.
• Situ Xuan used Sheath Breaker and Five-Finger Blazing Bullet, while Pluto King caught his wrist and counterattacked.
• Situ Xuan dodged Pluto King's grasp, used North Star Soft Rending Slash, and forced him backward with a leg attack.
• Situ Xuan activated Violent Foot and attacked with Blade Chaos Thunder, driving Pluto King back with a rapid barrage of kicks.
• Pluto King met Situ Xuan's leg-blade with a punch, sending him tumbling through the air, but Situ Xuan left a blood mark on Pluto King's hand.
• Pluto King recognized Situ Xuan as a worthy opponent and watched him with excitement.

Situ Xuan and Pluto King fought an escalating fist-to-fist battle across the Barren Land until Pluto King revealed a punch that overwhelmed Situ Xuan's combined strength, speed, and battle intent. Situ Xuan was blasted away and crashed to the ground.

• Pluto King compared Situ Xuan's relentless attacks to those of a long-dead enemy.
• Situ Xuan met Pluto King's punches head-on, and the two traded blows until both their hands were badly injured.
• Situ Xuan and Pluto King continued fighting across the ground and air, then locked fists and acknowledged each other's strength.
• Pluto King told Situ Xuan he had found the road to the peak but was missing one thing, then demonstrated the Netherking Punch.
• Situ Xuan charged into the Netherking Punch with all his power, speed, and battle intent, but its vast will erased his attack and sent him crashing onto the Barren Land.

Pluto King defeated Situ Xuan with a punch that shook his will, then explained that Situ Xuan had lost his way by letting his goals and resolve bend with outside pressures. Situ Xuan questioned the advice to slow down, insisting that he would fall behind if he did.

• Pluto King struck Situ Xuan into a crater, leaving his right arm injured and his will shaken.
• Pluto King helped Situ Xuan out of the crater and revealed an illusory view of the Fifth Parallel Universe, his homeland from a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Pluto King told Situ Xuan that his resilient will had been swayed like a flame by the winds around him.
• Pluto King urged Situ Xuan to slow down on his pursuit of strength, control over fate, and the summit.
• Situ Xuan questioned the logic of slowing down and argued that others would catch up if he did.

Pluto King challenged Situ Xuan to question why he kept pursuing strength and to face the emptiness in his heart. Situ Xuan resisted the lesson, accusing Pluto King of wanting him to stop, give up, and admit he was nothing.

• Pluto King recalled spending three years alone after becoming ruler of the Fifth Parallel Universe, wondering what came after victory.
• Pluto King asked Situ Xuan what awaited him at the peak, and Situ Xuan admitted he did not know.
• Pluto King explained that Situ Xuan kept fighting to escape his fear and the hollow place in his heart.
• Situ Xuan clenched his bleeding fist and angrily demanded to know whether Pluto King wanted him to stop, give up, and admit he was nothing.

Pluto King taught Situ Xuan that Exo-Energy came from the strength of a person's will and belief, then disappeared after urging him to defeat himself and fate. Situ Xuan repeated Pluto King's words as the illusory world began to collapse around him.

• Pluto King explained that his punch embodied his understanding of the world and that Exo-Energy grew from a person's will and belief.
• Pluto King began to fade and revealed his face before placing a hand on Situ Xuan's shoulder.
• Pluto King told Situ Xuan, "The height of a fountain will not exceed its source," and urged him to swing his fist with his will and defeat himself and fate.
• Pluto King vanished into specks of deep-blue light, leaving Situ Xuan reaching for him.
• Situ Xuan repeated Pluto King's words as the sky split, the stone pillars collapsed, and white light surged from cracks in the earth.

After the Fifth Parallel Universe collapsed, Situ Xuan meditated in the pure white space and drifted through deep space for an unknown time. He awoke when an enormous starry-sky giant whale appeared beside him and studied him.

• The light destroyed Pluto King's Fifth Parallel Universe, and Situ Xuan returned to the pure white space.
• Situ Xuan sat in meditation beneath the Bronze Book, reflecting on Pluto King's final words.
• Situ Xuan drifted through deep space for an unknown time, his body weathered by cosmic cold and radiation.
• A vast azure-glowing giant whale appeared beside Situ Xuan and called out directly into his consciousness.
• Situ Xuan opened his eyes and looked at the giant whale as it examined him.

Situ Xuan was swallowed and carried through space by the Star Sea Giant Whale, then spat onto the Holy Demon Continent. He survived his fiery fall into a wasteland and found himself surrounded by a vast horde of demons.

• The Star Sea Giant Whale swallowed Situ Xuan and vanished into the starry sky with him inside its mouth.
• The whale spat Situ Xuan from its mouth, sending him plunging through the planet’s atmosphere toward the Holy Demon Continent.
• Situ Xuan struck the wasteland, creating a huge crater and killing nearby low-level demons with the impact.
• Situ Xuan stood up unharmed, listened to the sounds approaching through the dust, and saw a black torrent of creatures surrounding the crater.

Situ Xuan found himself surrounded by an organized demon army after the Star Sea Giant Whale left him to graze on the planet. When the demons refused to negotiate and attacked, he unleashed his martial arts and slaughtered the charging Berserk Demons.

• Situ Xuan learned that the Star Sea Giant Whale had gone hunting and expected him to graze until it returned.
• Thousands of demons surrounded Situ Xuan in the pit, arranged into ranks of Dual-Blade Demons, Berserk Demons, and Demon Eye Warlocks.
• Situ Xuan asked the demons to let him explain, but a high-level demon ordered them to kill him.
• Hundreds of Berserk Demons charged, and Situ Xuan vanished with Violent Foot before striking the lead demon dead.
• Situ Xuan used Blade Chaos Thunder to slice through the Berserk Demons, killing them by the dozens.

Situ Xuan unleashed his pent-up killing intent against the demons in the pit, slaughtering the Berserk Demons and then the Zelin Clan’s Dual-Blade Demons. After casually killing their sixth-tier Gold-Veined Dual-Blade Demon Lord, he fixed his gaze on the Demon Eye Warlocks hovering behind the horde.

• Situ Xuan slaughtered the charging Berserk Demons without breaking a sweat.
• The Gold-Veined Dual-Blade Demon Lord led the Dual-Blade Demons in a mass charge against Situ Xuan.
• Situ Xuan tore through the black flood of Dual-Blade Demons, killing dozens with each attack.
• The Gold-Veined Dual-Blade Demon Lord attacked Situ Xuan, who shattered its blades and head with one punch.
• Situ Xuan looked past the advancing Dual-Blade Demons toward the hovering Demon Eye Warlocks.

Situ Xuan endured the Demon Eye Warlocks’ barrage and broke through to the seventh level of Black Heart Evil Palm, Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring. He turned the entire battlefield into a Malevolent Qi domain and began cutting through the demon army.

• The Demon Eye Warlocks bombarded Situ Xuan with dark spells, but he emerged unharmed and criticized them for dragging their feet.
• Situ Xuan used the seventh form of Black Heart Evil Palm, Darkness Overcasting Heaven and Earth, to summon the battlefield’s Malevolent Qi.
• Situ Xuan broke through to the seventh level, Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring, and absorbed the Malevolent Qi to strengthen himself while weakening the demons.
• The demons panicked as the spreading Malevolent Qi corroded their bodies, slowed their movements, and dulled their thoughts.
• Situ Xuan charged through the demon ranks and shaped the Malevolent Qi into black blades that tore through the army.

Situ Xuan slaughtered the demon army, growing stronger as he cultivated Black Heart Evil Palm amid the battle. As reinforcements arrived and two Heaven-Piercing Demon Pillars rose, he faced an immense swarm of flying demons with anticipation.

• Situ Xuan killed tens of thousands of demons and destroyed a seventh-tier Crimson Blood Berserk Demon with Five-Finger Blazing Bullet.
• Situ Xuan used Darkness Overcasting Heaven and Earth to seal the retreating demons’ path and continued slaughtering them.
• Situ Xuan grew stronger as the battlefield filled with malevolent qi and demon corpses.
• Two Heaven-Piercing Demon Pillars rose behind the army, intensifying the demonic qi and invigorating the demons.
• A vast swarm of flying demons gathered above Situ Xuan, who watched them from atop a mountain of corpses without fear.

Situ Xuan faced Marchosias and Bifrons after slaughtering demons across Marchosias’s territory, refusing to leave and daring the Demon God to attack. Marchosias hesitated, but Bifrons charged at Situ Xuan.

• Marchosias confronted Situ Xuan and demanded to know why he had invaded demon territory.
• Marchosias offered Situ Xuan a chance to leave, but Situ Xuan said he had not killed enough demons yet.
• Marchosias warned Situ Xuan that his hundred thousand Beta Flying Demons could kill him, and Situ Xuan mocked him and beckoned him closer.
• Marchosias prepared to attack but hesitated, while Bifrons charged at Situ Xuan after taking his taunt as a provocation.

Situ Xuan transformed and met Bifrons’s charge head-on, overpowering the demon god with close-combat techniques. He left Bifrons crippled and bleeding, with his spine exposed beneath a barrage of punches.

• Bifrons charged Situ Xuan, intending to crush him with a punch.
• Situ Xuan activated six soul rings and manifested the Ice Crystal Nether Whale, Demon Soul Great White Shark, and Mountain Dragon King.
• Situ Xuan met Bifrons’s punch with Eight Extremes Heaven, Sui Ba, and staggered him.
• Situ Xuan used Violent Foot and North Star Soft Rending Slash to topple Bifrons and damage his knee.
• Situ Xuan climbed onto Bifrons’s back and attacked with Black Heart Evil Palm and North Star Hundred Rending Fists, tearing open his back and exposing his spine.

Situ Xuan battled Bifrons and Marchosias, injuring Marchosias despite his own wounds. Marchosias transformed into his Beta True Form as both demons summoned their Heaven-Piercing Demon Pillars.

• Marchosias used Bifrons to create an opening and attacked Situ Xuan, but Situ Xuan dodged and grabbed his spear before blocking most of his wind blades.
• Situ Xuan used Burning Step to rush Marchosias and punched through his demonic armor, injuring him.
• Bifrons got back up despite his wounds, and he and Marchosias faced the bloodied Situ Xuan together.
• Marchosias invoked Demon God Transformation and became a ten-meter-long Beta True Form beast.
• Bifrons and Marchosias summoned their Heaven-Piercing Demon Pillars, which surged with demonic qi.