Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen defeated Chao Tianxi but spared her and negotiated an oath-backed withdrawal and peace talks, offering Tianfu’s civilians refuge in exchange for disbanding its army. After returning to Jingfeng City, he explained that keeping Chao Tianxi alive would deter both Tianfu’s sects and the Five Domains’ powerful factions as the refugees settled.

• Ning Chen revealed that Tianfu faced destruction, and Chao Tianxi agreed to withdraw its forces if the Five Domains accepted Tianfu’s civilians and disbanded its army; she swore an oath to uphold the agreement.
• Ning Chen promised formal peace talks in ten days and reassured Chao Tianxi that Xi Mujin was alive before leaving the icy battlefield.
• Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, and Sword Two found Ning Chen alive and accompanied him to Jingfeng City.
• Ning Chen told the gathered venerables that Chao Tianxi had agreed to peace talks and warned them not to sabotage the agreement; Qingyu Venerable objected to letting her live.
• At Wenxuan Palace, Ning Chen explained to Qing Ling that Chao Tianxi’s survival would deter sects from exploiting Tianfu’s civilians during their integration into the Five Domains.

After the peace talks ended the war, Ning Chen accepted Yin'er as his disciple and entrusted her future to Qing Ling in case his identity was exposed. As Chao Tianxi withdrew with the Tianfu army, two hidden attackers struck him from behind, shattering the hope for peace.

• Mu Qianshang, Luo Xingchen, and Sword Two bade farewell to Ning Chen before the peace talks.
• Ning Chen accepted Yin'er as his disciple, gave her the Heavenly Book, and asked Qing Ling to protect her if his identity was exposed.
• Supreme Heaven warned Ning Chen that his attachments could endanger him and that he must never test the human heart.
• Chao Tianxi, Xiao Bieli, Zhao Liusu, Venerable Lishan, and the others negotiated a peace agreement, and Chao Tianxi ordered the Tianfu army to withdraw.
• Chao Tianxi told Ning Chen that the Immortal Corpse Procession had gone east toward the Eastern Divine Continent.
• Two figures, one purple and one gold, appeared behind the unguarded Chao Tianxi and struck him with their palms.

Ning Chen rescued the mortally wounded Chao Tianxi after Purple Heaven Palace and the Demon Buddha attacked her, and Mu Changge’s reappearance as the Sword Venerable drove the attackers away. With peace talks shattered, Ning Chen promised to find Tianfu a satisfactory answer within ten days, then set out to confront the Demon Buddha with Bai Yunlian’s help.

• Purple Heaven Palace and the Demon Buddha ambushed Chao Tianxi, but Ning Chen intervened and fought them while the alliance Supremes watched without helping.
• Ning Chen broke through the Demon Buddha’s spatial seal to escape with Chao Tianxi, and Sword Eleven reappeared from Tianheng City to badly wound both pursuers.
• Xiao Bieli ordered the army to prepare for battle, while Ning Chen carried Chao Tianxi to Mu Changge, who healed her and challenged Ning Chen to secure peace for Tianfu.
• Ning Chen promised Mu Changge an answer within ten days, then asked Bai Yunlian to delay Purple Heaven Palace while he went to confront the Demon Buddha.
• Ning Chen arrived at Demon Aspect Valley, where demonic clouds gathered above the Demon Temple and its disciples watched in fear.

Ning Chen fought the Demon Buddha in Demon Aspect Valley while Bai Yunlian blocked Purple Heaven Palace from coming to his aid. With the Daoist Sect leaders strengthening his Two Principles Array, Ning Chen killed the Demon Buddha, leaving him standing alone amid the ruined valley.

• Ning Chen descended on Demon Aspect Valley and attacked the Demon Buddha, wounding him in their clash of demonic and Buddhist techniques.
• As the Demon Buddha called for Purple Heaven Palace to help, Bai Yunlian intercepted Purple Heaven Palace and fought him with water dragons.
• Ning Chen used ultimate speed to overwhelm the Demon Buddha, but demonic tribulation disrupted his cultivation and gave his opponent a chance to strike.
• The Demon Buddha unleashed Devour Bodhi, revealing a gigantic Qiongqi, while Ning Chen joined Chilian and Taishi to form the Two Principles Array with aid from the forty-nine leaders of the Daoist Sect.
• Ning Chen unleashed Heaven's Lament and killed the Demon Buddha, whose head fell to the ground as his soul dispersed.

Ning Chen destroyed the Demon Temple and, with Supreme Heaven’s aid, drove Purple Heaven Palace from the Divine Palace before returning to Jingfeng City. After questioning Zhao Liusu about her withheld arrow and asking whether the Venerables wanted peace, he left Central Province’s alliance behind and departed with Yin'er.

• Ning Chen destroyed the Demon Temple after killing the Demon Buddha, then went west to aid Bai Yunlian against Purple Heaven Palace.
• Ning Chen and Supreme Heaven joined forces in the demonic body and wounded Purple Heaven Palace, who escaped after drawing on the Divine Palace’s earth veins.
• Ning Chen met Bai Yunlian, then returned to Jingfeng City and told the Venerables that the Heavenly Palace Sword Venerable had entered the Immortal Ascension Realm and the Demon Buddha was dead.
• Ning Chen questioned Zhao Liusu about her unloosed arrow and asked whether the Venerables wanted peace before leaving the hall.
• Ning Chen went to Wenxuan Palace, reunited with Yin'er, and left with her after saying he had fallen out with the Venerables.

Ning Chen took Yin'er east to inspect the abandoned Four Directions Divine Pagodas and explain the conflict between Heavenly Palace and the realm within. As war drew closer, he reached the pagoda near the desolate city, where Jian Liuying recognized him.

• Ning Chen left Sword Forging Villa with Yin'er after the Sword Forger Master agreed to let her travel with him, and they headed for the Eastern Divine Continent.
• Ning Chen examined the ruined pagoda near the former Eternal Night Divine Cult to verify the construction methods of the Four Directions Divine Pagoda.
• With Chao Tianxi critically injured and the Heavenly Palace army demanding battle, Mu Changge awaited the reforging of Listening to the Heavenly Palace while Zhao Liusu warned the Venerables that Ning Chen's reply might determine whether war or peace followed.
• Ning Chen inspected more pagodas with Yin'er and explained that Heavenly Palace invaded to survive, while ordinary people bore the cost of war.
• Ning Chen entered the pagoda east of the desolate city, where Jian Liuying recognized him and Ning Chen greeted him as Sword Three.

Ning Chen inspected the Ice Divine Pagoda and reported to Mu Changge that the Four Directions Divine Pagodas might preserve Tianfu Star. After Mu Changge destroyed the Hall of Venerables and they traveled to Tianfu Star, they learned that the approaching star could collide with it in as little as five years, leaving Ning Chen to race against time to test the pagodas and arrange evacuations.

• Ning Chen met Jian Liuying at a Divine Pagoda, learned that Mu Chengxue had once searched for him, and asked Jian Liuying to tell Sword Two not to wait if he failed to return within three months.
• Ning Chen carried the sleeping Yin'er north to the Ice Divine Pagoda, examined its runes, and left after finishing at dawn.
• At Qitian Peak, Ning Chen admitted that he could not understand how the Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace had moved the Eastern Domain, and he agreed with Supreme Heaven that they had to attempt the method soon.
• Ning Chen arrived in Tianheng City and told Mu Changge that the Demon Buddha was dead and that the Four Directions Divine Pagodas might preserve Tianfu Star; Mu Changge then destroyed the Hall of Venerables with Sword Eleven.
• Ning Chen, Mu Changge, Yin'er, and four Human Sovereigns traveled to Tianfu Star, where Venerable Six Flowers warned that the approaching star could collide with it in five years or less.
• Ning Chen demanded at least three teleportation arrays within a month, and Mu Changge promised his realm would gather materials and handle the formations while Ning Chen worked on the Four Directions Divine Pagodas.

Ning Chen and the Venerables tried to move a Great Life Star to save Tianfu, but the star’s laws repelled their effort and they returned in failure. War resumed across Central Province, and heavenly punishment killed many of Tianfu’s Human Sovereigns.

• Ning Chen, Xiao Bieli, and four Venerables traveled with Yin'er to a primitive Great Life Star, where Ning Chen confirmed it had no humans and oversaw construction of the Four Directions Divine Pagoda.
• Ning Chen returned to Tianfu with Yin'er, then joined Xiao Bieli and Mu Changge on a barren star to use the pagodas and move the Great Life Star.
• The Great Life Star’s laws repelled their power, injuring Ning Chen, Xiao Bieli, and Mu Changge and ending the attempt.
• Mu Changge and Xiao Bieli returned to the battlefield, and Tianfu resumed its war against the allied sects while avoiding harm to ordinary people.
• The Military Advisor’s formation devastated the allied forces at Pingyuan Pass, while heavenly punishment killed forty percent of Tianfu’s twenty-three Human Sovereigns; Mu Changge bowed in respect to the fallen.

As the Heavenly Palace army advanced north, Ning Chen gave Bai Yunlian weak water to help her attack Bodhi Venerable, then was ambushed by Purple Heaven Palace. Bai Yunlian’s battle at Golden Buddha Temple ended with the temple flooded, Bodhi Venerable’s golden body shattered, and Ghost Bodhi appearing.

• Ning Chen urged Yin'er to keep her promise and original intentions, then gave Bai Yunlian weak water from the Yellow Springs before she left to confront Bodhi Venerable.
• Purple Heaven Palace attacked Ning Chen, forcing him to reveal his demonic form and leaving him gravely wounded after their clash.
• Bai Yunlian flooded Golden Buddha Temple as she fought Bodhi Venerable, while he blocked the water from reaching villages downstream.
• Bai Yunlian used weak water and Nine Dragons Against the World against Bodhi Venerable, and the resulting battle destroyed Golden Buddha Temple and submerged the surrounding land.
• Bodhi Venerable’s golden body broke under the Yellow Springs water, and Ghost Bodhi reappeared amid the scattered golden light.

Bai Yunlian and Ghost Bodhi fought to the death at Yan Yun Mountain, while Ning Chen struggled against Purple Heaven Palace on Wild Goose Plain. As Ning Chen prepared his final forbidden sword, the true body of Knowing Fate arrived and took over the fight.

• Ghost Bodhi unleashed successive demonic techniques and grievously wounded Bai Yunlian, who transformed into the White Flood Dragon and drained Qingxi Lake to power her final attack.
• Ghost Bodhi defeated the White Flood Dragon, who fell lifeless from the sky, then began raising the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Ning Chen fought Purple Heaven Palace with Chilian and Taishi, but his injuries and demonic tribulation left him near defeat.
• Ning Chen opened the Two Forms Array to protect Yin'er, but Purple Heaven Palace shattered it and drove him to the brink of death.
• Ning Chen began summoning his Grand Supreme Forbidden Sword, but the true body of Knowing Fate arrived, stopped the swords, and knocked Purple Heaven Palace back.

Ning Chen defeated Purple Heaven Palace and recovered the Divine Continent's stolen origin, then raced to Golden Buddha Temple to rescue Bai Yunlian from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda. With Bai Yunlian dying and Nu Chang saying she could not be saved, Ning Chen risked his damaged foundation to force the Scroll of Life to restore her.

• Ning Chen overwhelmed Purple Heaven Palace, destroyed most of his cultivation, and drove him to unleash a blood-transformation technique and disappear.
• Ning Chen comforted Yin'er and took her toward Golden Buddha Temple to save Bai Yunlian.
• Ning Chen defeated Ghost Bodhi and shattered the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, but found Bai Yunlian near death with her demon core destroyed.
• Nu Chang told Ning Chen that Bai Yunlian could not be saved because the Soul-Suppressing Pearl and Three Souls Grass were unavailable.
• Ning Chen defied Nu Chang's warning and poured the Scroll of Life's power into Bai Yunlian, damaging his own foundation as he tried to save her.

Ning Chen saved Bai Yunlian by erasing her memories, then helped awaken Chao Tianxi and proposed a plan to crash the stars to stop Tianfu’s advance. At Qingxi Lake, he stood alone in the rain until Bai Yunlian approached and asked to share his umbrella.

• Ning Chen dispersed Bai Yunlian’s Demonic Essence, stabilized her body and souls, and erased her memories before leaving her in Moqiao Village.
• Ning Chen reached Tianheng City with Yin'er, identified himself to Mu Changge, and used the source of Transcending Immortality to help awaken Chao Tianxi.
• Ning Chen told Chao Tianxi that he wanted to discuss peace and proposed crashing the stars using the Underworld King Barrier.
• Ning Chen and Yin'er visited Qingxi Lake on the Double Ninth Festival, while Bai Yunlian came there separately, drawn by a sense of familiarity.
• As rain fell, Yin'er went to buy an umbrella and Ning Chen waited on Qingxi Bridge; Bai Yunlian appeared beside him and asked to share it.

Ning Chen prepared for the approaching collision with Tianfu, seeking Venerable Lady’s help and warning that the plan to redirect the Great Life Star might fail. He gave twelve Venerables two choices for facing the impact, leaving them to decide whether to evacuate early or guide their Withered Star until the final moment.

• Ning Chen and Chao Tianxi assessed the Great Life Star’s powerful laws, and Ning Chen returned to Changling to ask Venerable Lady to help if needed.
• Venerable Lady agreed to leave Changling, and she offered to teach Yin'er cultivation techniques and formations.
• Ning Chen, Venerable Lady, and Yin'er returned to Tianfu, where the Six Flower Venerables said the stars would collide in two years and four months.
• Xiao Bieli and Chao Tianxi reported that they had found three Withered Stars, but the Great Life Star’s increasing speed could make the impacts miss their targets.
• Ning Chen warned Chao Tianxi to prioritize moving the star when a brief flaw appeared in its laws, then explained two possible courses to the twelve Venerables: evacuate before impact or guide their Withered Star until the final moment.

Ning Chen and the twelve Venerables began the plan to move Tianfu by driving three Withered Stars into a Great Life Star, with the Venerables sacrificing themselves to create the force needed. The collision succeeded, but the Ice Divine Pagoda cracked and halted the star’s movement, leaving Ning Chen and Chao Tianxi to repair it as Venerable Taixuan died.

• Ning Chen explained the chances of moving the star, and four Sacred Land Venerables agreed to sacrifice themselves while urging the others to make their choice.
• In the third month, Ning Chen, Xiao Bieli, and the Six Flower Venerables joined Chao Tianxi, Mu Changge, and Nu Chang to begin moving the stars.
• The twelve Venerables stayed inside the pagodas as all three Withered Stars struck the Great Life Star, and the Four Directions Divine Pagodas began pulling it toward the barren star.
• The northern Ice Divine Pagoda cracked under the collision, so Ning Chen and Chao Tianxi left Mu Changge and Nu Chang to hold the star while they went to repair it.
• Ning Chen determined that all twelve Venerables had died, and Chao Tianxi found Venerable Taixuan dying at the damaged Ice Divine Pagoda.
• Ning Chen used the Scroll of Life to repair the pagoda, but the Great Life Star’s movement remained in jeopardy.

Ning Chen and the surviving Venerables repaired the Ice Divine Pagoda and changed the Great Life Star’s course, but the transmission formation was destroyed, leaving Ning Chen’s main body stranded as his demon body carried the gravely injured Chao Tianxi away. The Heavenly Palace ended its invasion, while Ning Chen left with Yin'er to continue his journey.

• Chao Tianxi sacrificed her strength to slow the Ice Divine Pagoda’s collapse, and Ning Chen repaired it with the Scroll of Life and the four scrolls of reincarnation.
• Mu Changge, Venerable Lady, Xiao Bieli, and the Six Flowers Venerable helped shift the Great Life Star, while Chao Tianxi collapsed and Ning Chen carried her to the transmission formation.
• Ning Chen’s demon body took Chao Tianxi through the unstable formation, while his main body and the three Venerables stayed behind to stabilize it; the Great Life Star then vanished into the cosmos.
• On the Withered Star, Mu Changge treated Chao Tianxi, and the demon body explained that Ning Chen’s main body had been stranded on the Great Life Star.
• Ning Chen reunited with Yin'er in the Heavenly Palace Sacred Land, then left with her for Tianheng City and said they would visit Sister Bai before seeking the Immortal Corpse Procession.
• The Heavenly Palace withdrew its forces from the realm, and Mu Changge sent Sword Eleven across Central Province as a farewell to Knowing Fate.

Ning Chen and Yin'er left Bai Yunlian in Moqiao Village, but three Human Sovereigns soon attacked them on the Alliance Venerable’s orders. Ning Chen killed Venerable Lishan and drove off the other two, then continued east with Yin'er as his demonic tribulation weakened him.

• Ning Chen and Yin'er watched Bai Yunlian work in Moqiao Village, then left without disturbing her; Bai Yunlian watched them go and wept.
• Venerable Lishan and two other Human Sovereigns blocked Ning Chen and demanded that he meet the Alliance Venerable, so Ning Chen fought them while protecting Yin'er.
• Ning Chen wounded the Red Chamber Venerable and overwhelmed the three Sovereigns with his sword techniques, including River of Forgetfulness and Nirvana.
• Ning Chen killed Venerable Lishan after revealing that he was the Red Serpent Demon, while the Red Chamber Venerable and the other Sovereign fled.
• Ning Chen declined to pursue the survivors as his demonic tribulation weakened him, then reassured Yin'er and told her he was kind-hearted and peace-loving.

After Ning Chen slaughtered the forces sent to stop him, Tianji City identified him as the Red Serpent Demon, giving the sects a pretext to rally against him. Surrounded by Venerables, Half-Venerables, and armies, Ning Chen rejected their accusations and revealed his demon form.

• Bu Chunqiu proposed using Tianji City's divination and the demon-slaying campaign to justify killing Knowing Fate, then sent disciples to intercept him.
• Ning Chen killed the Half-Venerable's force that blocked his path while Yin'er slept on his back.
• The seven White-robed Youths divined that Knowing Fate was the Red Serpent Demon, and sect envoys began recruiting allies for a new demon-slaying campaign.
• Emperor Yuan agreed to join the campaign, while Taibai Manor and Bailu Academy declined the invitation.
• As allied forces repeatedly blocked the road east, ten Venerables, thirty Half-Venerables, and thousands of Innate warriors surrounded Ning Chen and demanded his true form.
• Ning Chen dismissed their claims, declared that they had made him the Red Serpent Demon, and transformed as demonic energy engulfed the land.

Ning Chen fought through a massive alliance of Venerables and troops to escape with Yin'er, while Zhao Liusu and the Taibai Manor Lord tried to help him. His demonic power grew unstable near Luojia Mountain as Qing Ling rushed toward the battlefield.

• Ning Chen revealed his demonic form and fought his way through the Venerables and their army while protecting Yin'er.
• Emperor Yuan and Bu Chunqiu joined the assault, but Zhao Liusu intervened before Xi Piaoxu blocked her and let the pursuit continue.
• Ning Chen battled through the troops, and the Taibai Manor Lord arrived to hold off his pursuers so Ning Chen and Yin'er could flee.
• Ning Chen continued toward Luojia Mountain, growing increasingly unstable as he unleashed Demonic Art, Bury Heaven against the encirclement.
• Qing Ling hurried toward the battlefield to reach Ning Chen.

Ning Chen fought his way through the armies and Venerables at Luojia Mountain while protecting Yin'er, as Mu Chengxue and A'man sought to leave their obligations and reach him. When the Venerables unleashed their final attack, Qing Ling intervened and was pierced by Ning Chen's sword, leaving him with her last plea: “Ning Chen, become a demon.”

• Ning Chen was wounded in battle but severed Venerable Luo Xiao's arm, while Yin'er was injured by a Half-Venerable and Ning Chen killed her attacker.
• Mu Chengxue pleaded with the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master and Wu Qingying to let her leave, while A'man obtained permission from the former Barbarian King to go and took the Sword of Original Heart.
• Ning Chen unleashed Heaven's Lament and Nirvana, broke the killing formation, and fought his way toward Luojia Mountain with Yin'er.
• The eight Venerables cornered Ning Chen and gathered their strength for a final attack as his injuries left his demonic energy unstable.
• Qing Ling rushed in to take the Venerables' fatal strike, then fell onto the Red Serpent Sword and told Ning Chen to become a demon.

After Yan's death at the hands of the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, Ning Chen fell into demonhood and unleashed a massacre at Luojia Mountain. The Demonic Phoenix Tribulation destroyed the mountain and its armies, while Zhao Liusu and Yin'er escaped with the Taibai Manor Lord's help; Ning Chen remained a demon amid the ruins.

• Yan fell from the cliff after telling Ning Chen that he must live, and Ning Chen's grief drove him to fall into demonhood.
• Ning Chen slaughtered the soldiers and defeated the Venerables, killing two and gravely wounding the rest, including Emperor Yuan and Bu Chunqiu.
• The Taibai Manor Lord stopped Zhao Liusu from approaching Ning Chen, while Zhao Liusu worried over Yin'er near the cliff.
• Ning Chen unleashed the Demonic Phoenix Tribulation, raining black sword lights over Luojia Mountain and annihilating its armies.
• Zhao Liusu grabbed Yin'er and fled behind her shattered Nine-Wheel Soul Disk as the Taibai Manor Lord used his Dao Sword to help them escape.
• Luojia Mountain vanished beneath the attack, and Ning Chen stood above the ruins with blood dripping from his sword.