Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuzhen stormed the Ji Family after it refused to surrender the culprit who murdered her court’s High Priest. She fought through the family’s defenses and unleashed the Phoenix Cry Sword’s supreme power to protect Murong, while Ning Chen’s hand stirred faintly in his wheelchair.

• Lin Yuzhen confronted Ji Changkong and the Ji Family’s four Grand Elders, then broke through their formation after defeating them.
• Lin Yuzhen destroyed the Ji Family’s three Golden Armored Chariots and battled the Immortal Artifact with the Phoenix Cry Sword.
• The Ji Family used its Immortal Artifact to target Murong, forcing Lin Yuzhen to shield her and suffer injuries.
• The Ji Family’s Grand Elder ordered a combined attack, and Lin Yuzhen fought back while guarding Murong.
• Lin Yuzhen invoked Phoenix Splendor Returns to Origin, Three Lights Clear the Way, and Ning Chen’s right hand moved faintly as Yin'er watched nearby.

Lin Yuzhen battled the Ji family Grand Elders and nine Nether Cultivators, while Ji Yuechu watched the confrontation unfold without concern. As Murong faced a killing blow, swords appeared to shield her, and Lin Yuzhen returned to the battlefield.

• Lin Yuzhen shattered the immortal cauldron’s suppression and wounded the four Ji family Grand Elders and several peak Reality Realm experts.
• The Ji family Grand Elder sent nine black-clad half-step True Realm Nether Cultivators to attack Lin Yuzhen.
• Ji Yuechu told Ji Yuqing he expected the Grand Elder to seize the opportunity but doubted he could defeat Lin Yuzhen.
• The Nether Cultivators trapped Lin Yuzhen in black flames, and the Ji family experts assumed she had died.
• Ji Changkong ordered Ji Changfeng to kill Murong, but heaven and earth transformed into swords to protect her.
• Lin Yuzhen arrived from ten miles away and stepped into the battlefield.

Ning Chen and King Qi turned the battle at the Ji residence against the Ji family, defeating their forces and leaving Ji Baichuan gravely injured. Ning Chen then lowered his sword and asked King Qi to finish him.

• Ning Chen rescued Murong from the Ji family’s Sword Qi and sent her outside, then called King Qi out of the Netherflames.
• King Qi emerged unharmed, and the Moonlit Tower Master decided the Ji family could not overcome both King Qi and Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen borrowed Yin’er’s Vermilion Sword and joined forces with Lin Yuzhen, who challenged the four Grand Elders while he faced nine black-clad men.
• Ning Chen cut through the men’s chains and Netherflames, killed all nine, and helped Lin Yuzhen confront Ji Baichuan.
• Ji Baichuan activated the Immortal Artifact cauldron, but Ning Chen’s Green Cauldron struck it and left the elder gravely injured.
• Ning Chen lowered his sword and told King Qi to kill Ji Baichuan because he did not like killing people.

Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen left the Ji family after the battle, and Ning Chen reunited with Yin'er and Murong on the way back to Phoenix Cry City. There, he stopped before a familiar woman in green and announced that he was back.

• Lin Yuzhen moved to kill Ji Baichuan, but Ji Yuechu intervened and ordered the Ji family members to tend to their wounds.
• Ning Chen visited Ji Yuqing, inferred that Ji Yuechu and King Qi had planned the battle as a warning, and then left with Lin Yuzhen.
• Ji Yuechu told Ji Yuqing he would support her if she chose Ning Chen, but she said Ning Chen already had someone in his heart and could not be forced.
• Ning Chen reunited with Yin'er outside the Ji family and took Murong's hand as they headed for Phoenix Cry City.
• Ning Chen reached Phoenix Cry City and greeted a familiar woman in a green dress by saying, "I'm back."

Lin Yuzhen and Ning Chen went to Kylin Pavilion, where the Pavilion Master offered to reveal the path to the Fourth Realm in exchange for her cooperation in making Kylin Pavilion rule the Spirit Void Starfield. He then proposed a marriage alliance with his son, and Lin Yuzhen chose to leave.

• Qing Ling gave Ning Chen the Grand Beginning Sword and ordered him to accompany Lin Yuzhen to Kylin Pavilion.
• On the way, Lin Yuzhen told Ning Chen that half her cultivation remained, and he promised to protect her if Kylin Pavilion caused trouble.
• At Kylin Holy Hall, the Pavilion Master offered Lin Yuzhen knowledge of the Fourth Realm if she helped Kylin Pavilion become the sole power in the Spirit Void Starfield.
• Lin Yuzhen refused to help Kylin Pavilion dominate the starfield, but the Pavilion Master urged her to hear his offer of cooperation.
• The Pavilion Master proposed a marriage alliance and introduced his son, Lin Chaoyin, as a prospective match for Lin Yuzhen.
• Lin Yuzhen shattered her wine cup, told Ning Chen they were leaving, and rose from her seat.

Lin Yuzhen fought to escape Kylin Pavilion while Ning Chen tried to break the surrounding formation. Lin Chaoyin used the Yin-Yang Mirror to overpower her, but Ning Chen intervened and appeared to accept his offer before turning against him.

• Lin Yuzhen resisted the Kylin Pavilion Master's attempt to detain her and battled the pavilion's experts as Ning Chen followed.
• Ning Chen wounded the Kylin Pavilion Master, then worked to break the formation while Lin Yuzhen fought off the pursuing experts.
• Lin Chaoyin arrived with the Yin-Yang Mirror and used its power to weaken Lin Yuzhen and seal her dantian.
• Ning Chen rescued the unconscious Lin Yuzhen and listened as Lin Chaoyin offered him a place in Kylin Pavilion and knowledge of the Fourth Realm.
• Ning Chen pretended to accept the offer, then unleashed his killing aura and attacked Lin Chaoyin with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

Ning Chen rescued the gravely injured Lin Yuzhen from Kylin Pavilion and spent weeks treating her soul wounds on a distant Great Life Star. After Lin Yuzhen recovered enough to travel, she asked him to help destroy Kylin Pavilion, but he declined, leaving her to consider other allies before they set out for Phoenix Cry City.

• Ning Chen wounded Lin Chaoyin with the Immortal Slaying Sword and escaped Kylin Pavilion with the unconscious King Qi as the Kylin Pavilion Master intervened.
• Ning Chen discovered that King Qi's Three Souls were damaged, then searched the starry sky for a Great Life Star where he could treat her.
• Ning Chen gathered Medicine Kings and cared for King Qi until she awakened and revealed that her name was Lin Yuzhen.
• Lin Yuzhen asked Ning Chen to help destroy Kylin Pavilion, but he told her to recover first and left to find more medicine.
• Lin Yuzhen considered possible allies against Kylin Pavilion, then told Ning Chen they should return to Phoenix Cry City.

After returning to Phoenix Cry City, Ning Chen learned that Hong Wulei had disappeared after the Ji Clan was attacked and her breakthrough failed. He went to White Emperor City to bring her back, and Ji Yuechu allowed him to visit her in Qixin Palace while asking to speak with him about the mysterious attackers.

• Ning Chen returned to the royal palace with the injured Lin Yuzhen and reunited with Qing Ling, Murong, Ruoxi, and Yin'er.
• Ning Chen discovered that Murong's poison had spread into her organs and could only be suppressed by Pure Heaven Lotus Breath.
• Qing Ling told Ning Chen that the Ji Clan had suffered a devastating attack, Hong Wulei's breakthrough had failed, and the clan had refused to let Ruoxi see her.
• Lin Yuzhen suspected that the mysterious attackers were behind the High Priest's murder and the attempt to set Northern Qi against the Ji Clan.
• Ning Chen went to the Ji Clan and faced hostile Grand Elders, but Ji Yuechu permitted him to visit Hong Wulei in Qixin Palace.
• Ji Yuechu privately asked Ning Chen to wait so they could discuss the mysterious experts who had attacked the Ji Clan.

Ning Chen refused to join Ji Yuechu’s planned attack on the Nether Hall and left the Ji clan carrying the injured Hong Wulei. Back at Phoenix Cry Palace, he discussed her recovery and his damaged bodies with Qing Ling, while Ji Yuechu summoned the masters of the Kylin Pavilion and Heaven Mending Pavilion to negotiate.

• Ning Chen learned from Ji Yuechu that the Nether Hall and Di Mingtian had attacked the Ji clan, taken Ji Yu Qing’s Divine Bloodline, and left her unconscious.
• Ji Yuechu asked Ning Chen to help attack the Nether Hall and recover Ji Yu Qing’s bloodline, but Ning Chen refused because Murong was gravely poisoned and he needed to stay with her.
• Ning Chen took Hong Wulei from Qixin Palace, and Ji Yuechu let him leave before ordering that the Kylin Pavilion and Heaven Mending Pavilion masters be summoned.
• Ning Chen returned to Phoenix Cry Palace and learned from Qing Ling that Wulei might never reach the Reality Realm without an exceptional opportunity.
• Ning Chen told Qing Ling that his demon body might recover with enough demonic essence, while restoring his main body would take much longer.
• Two illusory figures appeared in the Ji clan’s sacred hall, and the Kylin Pavilion Master asked Ji Yuechu why he had summoned them.

Ji Yuechu secured support from the Kylin Pavilion and Heaven Mending Pavilion for a campaign against the Nether Hall, then concealed what he knew about three women and an unconscious young man. As Murong's poison left her with only ten days to live, Ji Yuechu arrived at Phoenix Cry Palace and questioned King Qi's absence, just as Ning Chen was summoned to meet him.

• Ji Yuechu negotiated for the Kylin Pavilion and Heaven Mending Pavilion to each send one late-stage and two early-stage True Realm experts in exchange for a share of the Western Ridge spirit mine's profits.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master asked Ji Yuechu about three women and an unconscious young man, but Ji Yuechu denied knowing anything and then ordered a visiting card delivered to Phoenix Cry Palace.
• Murong coughed blood as her Yellow Springs poison erupted, and Ning Chen suppressed it with Phoenix Essence before telling Ruoxi and Yin'er that Murong had at most ten days left.
• Yun Ji showed Ning Chen Ji Yuechu's visiting card and asked him to help hide King Qi's injury and absence while the Ji family's Holy Lord visited.
• Qing Ling urged Ning Chen not to blame himself for Murong's condition and to restore his two bodies after accompanying her through her final days.
• Ji Yuechu arrived at Phoenix Cry Palace and questioned Yun Ji about King Qi's absence; after a maid announced Ning Chen's request to enter, Yun Ji permitted him to come in.

Ning Chen agreed to help the Ji Family reclaim Ji Yu Qing’s Divine Bloodline by attacking the Nether Hall, and received the Phoenix Cry Sword from King Qi’s palace. After Murong died from the Yellow Springs poison, Ning Chen left to meet the Ji Family, his grief hidden behind a terrifying calm.

• Ji Yuechu asked Ning Chen to help reclaim his daughter’s bloodline, and Ning Chen agreed to act ten days later with support from the Ji Family, Kylin Pavilion, and Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Yun Ji lent Ning Chen King Qi’s Phoenix Cry Sword, and Ning Chen told Qing Ling that he would settle his grudge with the Nether Hall while helping the Ji Family.
• Ning Chen and Qing Ling planned for Ruoxi and Qing Ling to take the injured Wulei and Yin’er back to Central Province, while Ning Chen went to spend time with the recovering Murong.
• Over the next ten days, Ning Chen stayed beside Murong as the Yellow Springs poison worsened, and Murong died after asking him to remember her.
• Ning Chen asked Qing Ling to arrange Murong’s burial, took the Phoenix Cry Sword, and left for the Ji Family as the earth cracked along his path.

The Ji family, Kylin Pavilion, and Heaven Mending Pavilion attacked the Underworld Hall to reclaim Yu Qing’s Divine Bloodline while Ning Chen faced Di Mingtian in a separate duel. As Ning Chen’s awakened power turned their battle into a devastating clash, Moluo Tian called on the Ten Ancestors to intervene.

• Ji Yuechu led the allied forces to the Primordial Forbidden Land, where Moluo Tian and Di Mingtian confronted them outside the Underworld Hall.
• Ning Chen and Di Mingtian left the main battlefield to settle their old grudge, while Moluo Tian ordered his forces to attack the allied armies.
• Ning Chen and Di Mingtian exchanged increasingly powerful attacks, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.
• Ning Chen activated Phoenix Ancestral Return and entered the Divine Domain, then countered Di Mingtian’s meteors and Six Sins of Annihilation with Nirvana and Absolute Nothing.
• The battle’s shockwaves disrupted the fighting at the Underworld Hall, and Moluo Tian asked the Ten Ancestors to take action.

Underworld Palace's Ten Ancestors awakened and tried to kill Ning Chen, while Ji Yuechu fought to protect him. Ning Chen used the Time Restriction to exploit the ancient powerhouse's dwindling lifespan and struck with a fatal sword, leaving the battle's outcome poised on that attack.

• Moluo Tian summoned Underworld Palace's Ten Ancestors, who ordered two True Realm blood sacrifices and named Ning Chen as his target.
• Ji Yuechu blocked the Ten Ancestors' attacks with the Scroll of God and was wounded while refusing to let him reach Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen arrived and told Ji Yuechu to stop Di Mingtian, claiming Miss Ji's bloodline power might be hidden on him.
• Ning Chen evaded the Ten Ancestors' attacks with sword techniques and ultimate speed, then revealed that he held the Time Restriction.
• Ning Chen opened Yellow Springs's restriction to drain the Ten Ancestors' remaining lifespan and leaped forward with a fatal sword strike.

Ning Chen helped Ji Yuechu’s forces defeat the Ten Ancestors of Underworld Palace and wound Di Mingtian, but they retreated when a powerful presence began awakening. Back in White Emperor City, Ning Chen asked to study the Ji family’s Scroll of God to break through to the Immortal Treading Realm, and Ji Yuechu offered access if Ning Chen married Yu Qing.

• Ning Chen destroyed the Ten Ancestors of Underworld Palace’s body, then sealed his soul inside the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Ning Chen joined Ji Yuechu against Di Mingtian, helping him recover sixty percent of Yu Qing’s divine blood before a new terrifying aura forced their retreat.
• Ning Chen and Ji Yuechu escaped with the Ji family and pavilion forces, using a rain of falling suns to drive off their pursuers.
• Qi Wenzhu, the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s martial champion, and Lin Xiaohan parted ways with Ji Yuechu and Ning Chen on the return journey.
• Ji Yuechu told Ning Chen that Yu Qing could recover the remaining bloodline power over time and warned him that the pavilion leaders seemed wary of him.
• Ning Chen asked to study the Scroll of God to break through to the Immortal Treading Realm, and Ji Yuechu offered it on the condition that Ning Chen marry Yu Qing.

Ning Chen rejected Ji Yuechu’s marriage proposal, left Phoenix Cry City, and searched the Demon Cult’s ruins for demonic essence to revive his demon body. There he confronted Yue Zhinv over Hua Zhongdie, and their battle devastated the ruins as a hundred suns fell upon them.

• Ning Chen told Ji Yuechu that he was already married and refused to marry into the Ji Family, then left the Sacred Hall.
• Ning Chen returned the Phoenix Cry Sword to Lin Yuzhen, told her to wait for a chance to oppose Kylin Pavilion, and departed Phoenix Cry City.
• A hundred days later, Ning Chen searched the former Demon Cult headquarters in the Shaking Light Starfield for traces of demonic essence.
• Yue Zhinv appeared and said Ning Chen should not have come; he attacked her after realizing she had used the Soul-Searching Art on Hua Zhongdie.
• Ning Chen and Yue Zhinv exchanged powerful sword and fire techniques, and Ning Chen unleashed a hundred suns that buried both fighters beneath the collapsing Demon Palace ruins.

Ning Chen fought Yue Zhinv at the Demon Palace ruins, forcing her to reveal her demonic identity and answer questions about Hua Zhongdie. After learning Hua Zhongdie was in the Demon Palace and had cultivated the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture, Ning Chen followed Yue Zhinv’s directions to Thousand Demon Cave in search of demonic essence, where he encountered a strange spirit.

• Ning Chen repeatedly attacked Yue Zhinv’s Inverted Water Moon, cracking the divine sword before their ultimate arts collided and Yue Zhinv pierced his chest.
• Ning Chen restrained Yue Zhinv and unleashed Nirvana, but she broke free by releasing her sealed demonic power and dispelled his sword torrent.
• Yue Zhinv revealed she was a member of the Moon Demon Clan and the Demon Palace’s Third Protector, then told Ning Chen Hua Zhongdie was safe in the Demon Palace and was cultivating the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture.
• Yue Zhinv refused to let Ning Chen visit Hua Zhongdie until he reached the Immortal Treading Realm, but directed him to Thousand Demon Cave in exchange for a future favor.
• Ning Chen reached Thousand Demon Cave, spent ten days recovering, then entered and found that a powerful formation suppressed his divine sense.
• Ning Chen burned away a white phantom with Phoenix fire, then realized the black mist it left behind was not a human soul.

Ning Chen entered the Thousand Demon Cave seeking demonic essence and agreed to help its imprisoned demons destroy the Soul Suppressing Banner in exchange for it. After learning the history of the Heavenly Demon Clan and restoring his demonic body, he trapped the demons in a Yellow Springs Restriction and revealed he had deceived them.

• Ning Chen refined wraiths into demonic qi and encountered powerful demons that awakened when night fell.
• The demons offered boundless demonic essence if Ning Chen destroyed the Soul Suppressing Banner, and he negotiated to confine them in a restriction first.
• Ning Chen absorbed the demonic essence into his black-robed demonic body, which the demons identified as a Royal Heavenly Demon, and learned the clan's history.
• After restoring his demonic body, Ning Chen sealed the demons inside the Yellow Springs Restriction and approached the Soul Suppressing Banner with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Ning Chen stopped his sword before destroying the banner, admitted he had lied because he was a demon too, and summoned the King of Hell and the Divine Zither Demon Slayer.

Ning Chen slaughtered most of the devils trapped in the Thousand Demon Cave, then forced the survivors, including the Desolate Devil, to submit their soul imprints and serve him. After learning the Heavenly Buddha Lord had imprisoned them, Ning Chen pulled free the Soul Suppressing Banner as Yue Zhinv waited outside and then departed.

• Ning Chen used the King of Hell zither, Phoenix fire, and the Immortal Bell to devastate the devils inside the Yellow Springs Divine Restriction.
• The Desolate Devil and the remaining great devils used the Shared Life Curse against Ning Chen, but he replenished his life force from his original body.
• Ning Chen demanded the devils' soul imprints; the survivors submitted, and the Desolate Devil eventually knelt and offered his imprint too.
• The Desolate Devil told Ning Chen that the Heavenly Buddha Lord of the Sumeru Buddhist Kingdom had trapped them ten thousand years earlier.
• Ning Chen approached the Soul Suppressing Banner and drew it from the stone wall as Buddhist light filled the cave.
• Yue Zhinv watched from outside, mocked the Buddha's recognition of Ning Chen, and left after he obtained the banner.

Ning Chen left Thousand Demon Cave after restoring his demon body and true body as far as he could, then set out to kill someone. Meanwhile, Moonlit Tower Master failed to gain an audience with Buddha Mountain’s Buddha, and Ning Chen arrived at the Yin Gui Sect to destroy it.

• Ning Chen dismissed the demons into the Soul Suppressing Banner and learned that he needed abundant life essence to restore his two bodies.
• Ning Chen rejected the Desolate Demon’s suggestion to seize resources from Buddha Mountain or the Demon Palace and said he would first go kill someone.
• Moonlit Tower Master visited Buddha Mountain to ask about the Fourth Realm, but the Buddha Lords refused him an audience with their Buddha.
• The Heavenly Buddha Lord told the other Buddha Lords that Marquis of Knowing Fate was deeply sentimental and might return to aid Buddha Mountain during its coming tribulation.
• Ning Chen arrived at the Yin Gui Sect, sealed the area with the Immortal-Entrapping Sword, and declared that the sect would be erased from the world.

Ning Chen annihilated the Yin Gui Sect and then confronted Qi Wenzhu and three Heaven Mending Pavilion venerables, who attacked him over the sect’s destruction and Qi Feiyin’s death. He gained the upper hand in their opening clash and vowed to kill them before visiting the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

• Ning Chen defeated the seven Heavenly Maidens and grievously wounded the Yin Gui Sect Master as he advanced on the sacred hall.
• Ning Chen unleashed the Grand Supreme Forbidden Sword, destroying the Yin Gui Sect and allowing the demons from his Soul Suppressing Banner to devour its remaining origin power.
• Qi Wenzhu arrived at the ruins with three Heaven Mending Pavilion companions, identified Ning Chen as the culprit, and ordered them to pursue him.
• Qi Wenzhu confronted Ning Chen about the Yin Gui Sect and Qi Feiyin, and the four attacked after Ning Chen admitted responsibility.
• Ning Chen countered their coordinated assault with the phoenix, the Green Cauldron, and Taishi, then wounded Qi Wenzhu in a clash of water and fire.