Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen killed the Kylin Pavilion Master despite the Kylin Old Ancestor’s intervention, then sealed the battlefield and faced the Fourth Realm expert. After Ning Chen and his dual bodies countered the Old Ancestor’s probing attacks, the Old Ancestor prepared a lightning assault.

• The Yin-Yang Divine Mirror shattered under the combined attacks of Ning Chen’s Phoenix and Demonic Dual Bodies, leaving the Kylin Pavilion Master gravely wounded.
• The Kylin Old Ancestor appeared and blocked Ning Chen’s attack, but Ning Chen turned his sword aside and severed the Kylin Pavilion Master’s throat.
• Ning Chen released Lin Xiaohan and the other six Kylin Pavilion Supreme Elders from the divine restriction, while Lin Yuzhen moved to hold them back.
• Ning Chen sealed the battlefield with Immortal Trapping and the Two Forms Array as he and his dual bodies prepared to fight the Kylin Old Ancestor.
• The Kylin Old Ancestor’s heavenly river overwhelmed Ning Chen’s stone pillars and ice barrier, but Ning Chen and his dual bodies split the cascade with their swords.
• The Kylin Old Ancestor dismissed Ning Chen’s powers as meaningless beneath the Fourth Realm and summoned ten thousand bolts of lightning.

Ning Chen and his dual bodies fought the Kylin Old Ancestor but were badly wounded by his Fourth Realm power. Lin Yuzhen revealed her Tengshe power and defeated the six Kylin elders, then rushed to Ning Chen.

• Ning Chen and his dual bodies attacked the Kylin Old Ancestor, but he shattered their sword attacks and wounded them.
• The Phoenix Body broke through the Kylin Old Ancestor's defense and cut his chest before being blasted away.
• Lin Xiaohan taunted Lin Yuzhen, who revealed her true form and summoned the divine beast Tengshe.
• Lin Yuzhen used dark waters and lightning to suppress the six Kylin elders, then struck them down with Fengming, killing three and dropping the other three.
• After coughing up blood from the backlash, Lin Yuzhen hurried toward Ning Chen.

Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen battled the Kylin Old Ancestor, whose Fourth Realm cultivation overwhelmed their attacks. After combining the power of their three bodies, the scrolls, and their strongest techniques, they launched a final assault, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Lin Yuzhen joined Ning Chen against the Kylin Old Ancestor, who used his Fourth Realm power to suppress them and summon heavenly thunder.
• Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen combined the Scroll of Nothingness, dark water, ice, and the demonic body's protection to withstand the thunder, while the phoenix body attacked and was badly wounded.
• Ning Chen sent Little Gourd to treat the phoenix body's injuries as the Kylin Old Ancestor unleashed another powerful attack.
• Ning Chen summoned Nianqing and fought with Lin Yuzhen and the demonic body, but the Kylin Old Ancestor broke through their sword and demonic techniques.
• Ning Chen, Lin Yuzhen, and the demonic body trapped the Kylin Old Ancestor in turbulent space and time, then detonated the Extreme Heaven Thunder Orb to break his defense.
• Ning Chen's three bodies gathered the four scrolls and unleashed their strongest powers together against the Kylin Old Ancestor.

Ning Chen and his three bodies fought the Kylin Old Ancestor, using the Time Divine Restriction and coordinated sword attacks to overcome the Fourth Realm expert’s strength. As the Kylin Old Ancestor remained dangerous despite being grievously wounded, Ning Chen drew Trap Immortal and unleashed Sword Twelve.

• Ning Chen’s three bodies combined their strongest techniques and wounded the Kylin Old Ancestor, while the Phoenix Body used the Divine Blood Battle Armor’s armguard to survive a counterattack.
• Ning Chen revealed that the Time Divine Restriction had been planted in the Kylin Old Ancestor, allowing Immortal-Slaying to pierce his heart and weaken him from within.
• Lin Yuzhen joined the battle and was struck back by the Kylin Old Ancestor’s Star Plucking Hand, giving Ning Chen an opening to attack again.
• The Phoenix Body’s forbidden sword severed one of the Kylin Old Ancestor’s arms, and Ning Chen’s close-range attacks crippled the other before the old man knocked Star Soul from his hand.
• Ning Chen retrieved Trap Immortal and unleashed Sword Twelve as the battle reached its climax.

Ning Chen and his three bodies fought the Kylin Old Ancestor, whose soul survived the loss of his physical body. After the Old Ancestor destroyed himself, Ning Chen survived behind the Green Cauldron, only to confront a mysterious woman with a red umbrella.

• Ning Chen and the Phoenix Body killed the Kylin Old Ancestor’s physical body, but his powerful soul emerged and continued fighting.
• The demonic form and Phoenix Body joined Ning Chen in attacking the Old Ancestor, while the King of Hell’s mysterious sound wounded his soul.
• The Phoenix Body’s injuries erupted and left him unable to fight, so the demonic form held off the Old Ancestor while Ning Chen restored the divine restriction.
• Ning Chen reopened the restriction, recalled the demonic form, and attacked the Old Ancestor with Sword Nine and Immortal Slaying as the years drained his soul.
• The Kylin Old Ancestor swallowed Ning Chen and exploded, but Ning Chen survived behind the Green Cauldron and emerged injured.
• A beautiful figure carrying a red umbrella descended and challenged the weakened Ning Chen.

After Kylin Pavilion was destroyed, Yue Zhinv confronted Ning Chen but withdrew without fighting, warning him that Hua Zhongdie remained in the Demon Palace. Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen escaped aboard the Heavenly Boat, and he decided to leave her to form an alliance with the Ji family while he sought out old friends for a hidden plan.

• Yue Zhinv appeared at the ruins of Kylin Pavilion and challenged the injured Ning Chen, then departed after warning him about Hua Zhongdie.
• Ning Chen spat blood as Lin Yuzhen supported him, and the two fled aboard the Heavenly Boat to recover from their injuries.
• Ning Chen told Lin Yuzhen that Yue Zhinv was the Demon Palace’s Third Protector and had likely sought to kill him while he was weakened.
• Ning Chen urged Lin Yuzhen to quickly ally with the Ji family and explained that his absence would keep others from treating her as a target.
• Ning Chen hinted that he intended to undertake a long-term plan and left to gather friends to help him.

After leaving Phoenix Cry City, Ning Chen's growing power unsettled the Ji Clan and the Demon Palace, while the Moon Demon and Moon Worshipper Clans began a holy war. Far away, Ning Chen encountered Luo Xingchen fleeing pursuers in Sky-Transcending Sacred City.

• Ji Yuechu told the Ji Clan's Ninth Grand Elder that their alliance with Northern Qi made the Ninth Son of Ink Sect a friend, despite concerns about his enemies and strength.
• Yue Zhinv reported to Xie Tiance that she had not killed Marquis of Knowing Fate because he still seemed dangerous, and Xie Tiance ordered her to act when the time came.
• The Moon Demon Clan invaded the Moon Worshipper Ancient Land, and the Moon-Worshiping Venerable ordered her followers to fight in the Holy War.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable drew power from the Moon God Statue and clashed with Yue Zhinv, whose Inverted Water Moon gave her the advantage in their battle.
• Luo Xingchen fled through Sky-Transcending Sacred City with powerful pursuers behind him, and Ning Chen appeared and greeted him as an old friend.

Yue Zhinv and the Moon-Worshiping Venerable fought to a draw until the Moonlit Tower Master intervened and Shenji ended the battle to preserve their strength against the Demon Palace. In Sky-Transcending Sacred City, Luo Xingchen fled toward Ning Chen for help, but Ning Chen stepped aside and left him facing the pursuing divine generals.

• Yue Zhinv unleashed her sealed demonic power and clashed with the Moon-Worshiping Venerable, who donned the Moon God Armor.
• Yue Zhinv summoned the Moon Demon's power and struck the Moon-Worshiping Venerable, then both fighters unleashed ultimate attacks and descended bloodied.
• Shenji called out the Moonlit Tower Master, who revealed that the Demon Palace had hired him and agreed to withdraw with Yue Zhinv and the Moon Demon Clan.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable demanded an explanation, and Shenji urged her to recover rather than exhaust the clan against the rising Demon Palace.
• In Sky-Transcending Sacred City, Luo Xingchen spotted Ning Chen while fleeing with the stolen sacred object and ran toward him for help.
• Ning Chen retreated and left Luo Xingchen facing seven Sky-Transcending Divine Generals.

Ning Chen watched the Sky-Transcending Sacred City's Divine Generals capture Luo Xingchen after he stole their sacred relic. At the City Lord's Mansion, Ning Chen visited his imprisoned friend and proposed negotiating his release in exchange for Luo Xingchen joining him as great chaos approached.

• Luo Xingchen evaded the seven Divine Generals and tried to escape beyond the city's border, but the Tian Yue City Lord struck him down and ordered the Generals to take him back.
• The Tian Yue City Lord thanked Ning Chen for not interfering, learned that Ning Chen and Luo Xingchen were friends through life and death, and invited him into the city.
• The Seventh Divine General locked Luo Xingchen in the Sky Lock Prison, where he pleaded with her to ask the City Lord for mercy.
• Ning Chen visited Luo Xingchen in prison, mocked his excuses for stealing the sacred relic, and refused to help him escape in exchange for half of it.
• Ning Chen offered to negotiate with the Tian Yue City Lord for Luo Xingchen's release if Luo Xingchen agreed to join him and help face the coming chaos.

Ning Chen negotiated with the Tian Yue City Lord for Luo Xingchen’s release and agreed to seek Sickness King Stone in Soulfall Abyss. As Ning Chen entered the abyss, the City Lord explained to the Fourth Divine General why he trusted him and why Luo Xingchen should serve his punishment.

• Ning Chen praised Skyreach City and discussed Luo Xingchen’s theft of the Sacred Mark Iron with the Tian Yue City Lord.
• The Tian Yue City Lord offered to release Luo Xingchen and lend him the Sacred Mark Iron if Ning Chen found Sickness King Stone in Soulfall Abyss.
• Ning Chen set out with the Seventh Divine General, reached Soulfall Abyss before sunset, and leaped into it after she warned him to be careful.
• The Fourth Divine General questioned whether the Tian Yue City Lord trusted Ning Chen, and the City Lord said Ning Chen’s strength was nearly at the Fourth Realm.
• The Tian Yue City Lord told the Fourth Divine General that Ning Chen had entered the abyss for Luo Xingchen rather than forcibly rescuing him because he wanted his friend to accept responsibility for his crime.

Ning Chen searched Soulfall Abyss for the Sickness King Stone, found a Yellow Springs Weak River, and descended into a fissure beneath its dried riverbed. In Sky Lock Prison, the Seventh Divine General whipped Luo Xingchen until she revealed that Ning Chen had been missing in the abyss for nearly two days, shocking him.

• Ning Chen searched Soulfall Abyss for the Sickness King Stone, resisting the oppressive laws as he traveled deeper into the dead land.
• Ning Chen found a Yellow Springs Weak River, gathered its water into the Green Cauldron, and split open the ground beneath its dried channel.
• Ning Chen descended into the fissure, driving his swords into its walls as he fell toward rising heat and ghostly light.
• The Seventh Divine General entered Sky Lock Prison and demanded that Luo Xingchen reveal where he had hidden the Sacred Mark Iron.
• The Seventh Divine General whipped Luo Xingchen while the Second and Sixth Divine Generals watched, then the Tian Yue City Lord arrived.
• The Seventh Divine General told Luo Xingchen that Ning Chen had entered Soulfall Abyss and had not returned for nearly two days, and Luo Xingchen grabbed her whip in alarm.

Ning Chen descended through Soulfall Abyss, harvested a Sickness King Stone, and reached the ruins of the Underworld Netherworld. After learning Ning Chen had gone into the abyss, Luo Xingchen followed him down to bring him back.

• Ning Chen and his Phoenix Body devoured the underground earthfire, then found and stored a Sickness King Stone in the petrified magma.
• Ning Chen continued deeper despite the Demon Body's warning that the laws could make the abyss a land of death, and the two agreed to proceed cautiously.
• Luo Xingchen learned Ning Chen was still searching for Sickness King Stones and leaped into Soulfall Abyss despite the Tian Yue City Lord and Seventh Divine General urging him to wait.
• Luo Xingchen descended through the increasingly powerful laws, using his Star Marks and vermilion arrow to press onward in search of Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen reached Senluo Hell and crossed the dried-up Yellow Springs River, recognizing the ruins as the Underworld Netherworld.
• Ning Chen stopped before a stone palace gate and read the words “Underworld Netherworld.”

Ning Chen reunited with Ghost Maiden at Ghost Gate Pass and told her about the century she had been unconscious, while Luo Xingchen descended into Forest Ghost Hell to find him. Ghost Maiden suddenly stabbed Ning Chen through the heart with a violet-gold longsword.

• Ning Chen found Ghost Gate Pass and discovered the altar where the demon blade and divine sword had once been displayed.
• Ghost Maiden appeared before Ning Chen, and they embraced after she told him she had returned.
• Ning Chen told Ghost Maiden he had come to find the Sickness King Stone and bring Luo Xingchen back, then began recounting the events of the past hundred years.
• Luo Xingchen followed Ning Chen's aura into Forest Ghost Hell, breaking through the heavenly barrier with a blood-red arrow.
• After listening to Ning Chen's account, Ghost Maiden said there was no chance to hear more and stabbed him through the heart with a violet-gold longsword.

Ning Chen was gravely wounded by the red-clad woman at Ghost Gate Pass, and Luo Xingchen fought to save him while escaping the collapsing Underworld Netherworld with the Sickness King Stone. After they reached Sky-Transcending Sacred City and recovered in the Holy Pool, Ning Chen awoke, resolved to leave his painful illusion behind, and healed Luo Xingchen.

• The red-clad woman stabbed Ning Chen and struck him again, leaving him unconscious with severely damaged heart meridians.
• Luo Xingchen carried Ning Chen through a battle with the woman and four Soul Reapers, then escaped as the cave collapsed with the Sickness King Stone.
• Luo Xingchen reached Sky-Transcending Sacred City with Ning Chen, and the Tian Yue City Lord brought both injured men to the Holy Pool for treatment.
• Ning Chen's heart meridians began healing on their own, while his injuries froze much of the Holy Pool and drained its spiritual power.
• Ning Chen awoke, accepted that his attachment to the illusion had made him vulnerable, and used Frost Bloom and the Scroll of Life to heal Luo Xingchen.

Ning Chen recovered in Sky-Transcending Sacred City while Luo Xingchen survived his wounds, then used the Sacred Mark Iron and Sickness King Stone to forge powerful treasures. The forging drew down heavenly tribulation, and Ning Chen met it with his sword as the King of Sickness's Divine Arrow emerged.

• Ning Chen thanked the Tian Yue City Lord for saving him and explained that an illusion array in Soulfall Abyss had grievously wounded him.
• When Luo Xingchen passed through the crisis, Ning Chen accepted Star Soul and the Sickness King Stone, split the stone, and gave half to the Tian Yue City Lord as promised reward.
• The Tian Yue City Lord lent Ning Chen Sacred Mark Iron, and Ning Chen stayed by Luo Xingchen instead of resting in a guest room.
• Ning Chen used phoenix fire and frost qi to temper Luo Xingchen's Star Scar Bow and transform the Sickness King Stone while the Seventh Divine General stood guard.
• A day later, tribulation lightning struck the newly forged Star Scar Bow, but Ning Chen cleaved it apart with the Invisible Sword.
• The King of Sickness's Divine Arrow emerged from the transformed stone, provoking Xuan Cang; Ning Chen continued sharpening the Immortal-Slaying Sword against the remaining stone as its radiance surged skyward.

Ning Chen forged the King of Sickness Divine Sword, survived its heavenly tribulation, and watched Luo Xingchen recover in the Holy Pool. After the two left Sky-Transcending Sacred City, Xie Tiance ordered the Demon Palace’s hundred-thousand-strong army to march and reclaim rule over the world.

• Ning Chen named his reforged sword the King of Sickness and used the King of Sickness Three Suns Sword to burn away the blood-red tribulation clouds.
• Luo Xingchen awakened in the Holy Pool, reached the pinnacle of the Realms of Reality, and reunited with Ning Chen after receiving his Star Soul Bow and King of Sickness Arrows.
• Luo Xingchen apologized to the Tian Yue City Lord, who urged him to return to the Sacred City and warned him not to disgrace it again.
• Ning Chen returned Sacred Mark Iron to the Tian Yue City Lord, explained that he and Luo Xingchen would leave, and named Lin Yuzhen as a contact in the Spirit Void Starfield.
• Ning Chen and Luo Xingchen departed together, while Xie Tiance summoned the Four Demon Palace Protectors and ordered the Demon Palace army to begin its campaign.
• The Four Demon Palace Protectors led a hundred-thousand-strong army out of the demon realm to reclaim rule over the world.

The Demon Palace began its campaign across the surrounding lands, and Xie Tiance challenged the Buddhist Kingdom to meet him at Windless City. Yue Zhinv confronted the Human Buddha Lord there, but as their ultimate attacks collided, a blue-clad, blood-haired woman stabbed him from behind.

• The Demon Palace's armies crushed resistance across its territory, prompting Xie Tiance to challenge the Buddhist Kingdom at Windless City.
• The three Buddha Lords placed the Buddhist Kingdom on war readiness and sent the Human Buddha Lord to Windless City.
• Yue Zhinv led three thousand demon soldiers toward Windless City, where the Human Buddha Lord raised a Buddha formation to defend it.
• Yue Zhinv fought the Human Buddha Lord with Inverted Water Moon, broke his Buddhist chains, and unleashed her ultimate technique.
• As Yue Zhinv and the Human Buddha Lord's ultimate attacks collided, a blue-clad, blood-haired woman stabbed him through the back.

Yue Zhinv and the blue-robed woman fought Human Buddha Lord above Windless City, while Bai Wangran intercepted Earth Buddha Lord. Human Buddha Lord died defending the city, and the Demon Palace withdrew its army before Bai Wangran warned that the Buddhist realm’s fall was unavoidable.

• Yue Zhinv and the blue-robed woman wounded Human Buddha Lord in a fierce battle as demon soldiers overwhelmed the Buddhist cultivators above Windless City.
• Human Buddha Lord unleashed the Eight Truths of Salvation and sacrificed his relic and cultivation to protect the city, while Yue Zhinv and the blue-robed woman answered with their ultimate attacks.
• Bai Wangran blocked Earth Buddha Lord from intervening, and Human Buddha Lord died after the final clash with the two demons.
• Bai Wangran allowed Earth Buddha Lord to take Human Buddha Lord’s body and ordered Yue Zhinv to withdraw the demon army, sparing Windless City’s citizens.
• Bai Wangran told Earth Buddha Lord that the Buddhist realm’s fall was unavoidable and that submission was its only choice.

After the Buddha Kingdom lost Human Buddha Lord, the Demon Palace’s armies swept across the All Heavens Starfield, forcing the Buddha Kingdom and other powers to plan a desperate ambush against Bai Wangran. Meanwhile, Ning Chen and his companions prepared to relocate Kylin Pavilion as the great war spread.

• Xie Tiance ordered Bai Wangran to continue the plan, and the Demon Palace’s four armies accelerated their invasion across the All Heavens Starfield.
• At Sumeru Buddha Mountain, Earth Buddha Lord and Heavenly Buddha Lord agreed to let the assembled powers try to trap Bai Wangran by stripping away the aura of heaven and earth.
• Earth Buddha Lord told Heavenly Buddha Lord that the woman in blue had appeared before the Ancient Battlefield and seemed connected to the Ninth Son of Ink Sect.
• Above Kylin Pavilion’s former site, Ning Chen explained to Luo Xingchen, Sword Two, and Lin Yuzhen that they would use a Four Directions Divine Pagoda to move the landmass.
• Ning Chen sent Sword Two, Lin Yuzhen, and Luo Xingchen to take positions around the landmass while his demonic body remained with him to help relocate it.

Ning Chen moved the Kylin Continent into a hidden meteor-filled starfield and began concealing it with the Yellow Springs Restriction. Meanwhile, the Demon Palace’s eastern army invaded the Buddhist Nation, where Bai Wangran faced the Earth Buddha Lord as sect experts prepared to intervene and Yue Zhinv watched.

• Ning Chen and the four experts used the Four Directions Divine Pagoda to move the Kylin Continent through space, then sealed the towers after it reached the meteor-filled starfield.
• Ning Chen arranged the meteors and carved Yellow Springs restriction arrays into them while Lin Yuzhen, Luo Xingchen, and Sword Two helped.
• The Demon Palace’s eastern army advanced under Bai Wangran and destroyed major sects along its route.
• Xie Tiance ordered Bai Wangran to show no mercy, and the Demon Palace army invaded the western border of the Buddhist Nation.
• Bai Wangran and the Earth Buddha Lord raised Heavenly Pillars and prepared to fight while hidden sect experts waited nearby.
• The Moonlit Tower Master and Yue Zhinv watched the impending battle, and Yue Zhinv said no one had yet required two Demon Palace protectors to fight together.