Chapter Summaries

Bai Wangran and Earth Buddha Lord fought an evenly matched battle while sect experts waited for a chance to intervene. The experts trapped Bai Wangran in the Blood Essence Forbidden Formation and wounded him with their combined assault, and Bai Wangran called out to the Tower Lord, who had been watching from afar.

• Bai Wangran and Earth Buddha Lord exchanged powerful Buddhist and demonic techniques, shaking the battlefield and causing fissures that swallowed soldiers from both armies.
• The great sects’ experts agreed to strike Bai Wangran and joined the battle after Earth Buddha Lord bound him with Buddha chains.
• The experts activated the Blood Essence Forbidden Formation, restricting Bai Wangran’s power, but he broke the Buddha chains and fought off their attacks.
• Earth Buddha Lord unleashed Three Lights Purify the World and wounded Bai Wangran despite his resistance.
• Bai Wangran wiped the blood from his mouth and called on the Tower Lord to stop watching and join the fight.

Bai Wangran defeated the Earth Buddha Lord after the Moonlit Tower Master shattered the Blood Essence Forbidden Array and the two champions fought with divine weapons. As the demon army overran the Buddhist forces, Xie Tiance challenged Buddha Mountain to surrender or fight in three months.

• The Moonlit Tower Master used Yellow Springs to destroy the Blood Essence Forbidden Array, allowing Bai Wangran to unleash his full strength and kill the ten mighty figures.
• Bai Wangran struck down the Earth Buddha Lord, who revealed his asura form and fought back with Precept Punishment Silent Slaughter against Bai Wangran's nine wind beads.
• Yue Zhinv told the Moonlit Tower Master she trusted the Holy Director's arrangements as Bai Wangran and the Earth Buddha Lord exchanged increasingly powerful attacks.
• The Earth Buddha Lord sacrificed a hundred years of cultivation for a final strike, but Bai Wangran summoned Avici Hell Palace and shattered Precept Punishment Silent Slaughter, killing him.
• Bai Wangran ordered the demon army to kill the remaining Buddhist forces, while Xie Tiance told the Heavenly Buddha Lord that Buddha Mountain would change masters in three months and demanded a decision to fight or surrender.

The Demon Palace army reached Buddha Mountain, where the Heavenly Buddha Lord faced Bai Wangran, Yue Zhinv, and Lou Wanggu in battle. Shenji and Moon-Worshiping Venerable arrived to aid the Buddhist Nation, but the Moonlit Tower Master blocked them as another powerful figure watched from a distant peak.

• The Demon Palace army advanced across the Buddhist Nation after the Earth Buddha Lord fell, while Shenji asked whether A'man had found the Ninth Son of Ink Sect.
• Shenji and Moon-Worshiping Venerable set out for the decisive battle, which was ten days away.
• Bai Wangran led the Demon Palace army to Buddha Mountain, and the Heavenly Buddha Lord restored his youthful form and confronted the invaders.
• Yue Zhinv and Lou Wanggu joined Bai Wangran, and the three Demon Palace Protectors attacked the Heavenly Buddha Lord.
• Shenji and Moon-Worshiping Venerable arrived at Buddha Mountain, but the Moonlit Tower Master blocked their path as a man in a pale-blue cloak watched from a distant peak.

The Heavenly Buddha Lord fought the Demon Palace’s three protectors at Buddha Mountain and began to lose ground. Just as Xie Tiance’s arrow threatened to kill him, masked Yama appeared, and a red-robed figure demanded that the Demon Palace Holy Master withdraw his forces.

• The Heavenly Buddha Lord held off Lou Wanggu, Bai Wangran, and Yue Zhinv, but their combined attacks eventually wounded him and forced him onto the defensive.
• Yue Zhinv, Bai Wangran, and Lou Wanggu prepared their ultimate moves as the Heavenly Buddha Lord summoned the World-Honored Tathagata to meet them.
• As the Heavenly Buddha Lord invoked a forbidden move, Xie Tiance fired a terrifying broken arrow toward the battlefield.
• A ghost-masked figure in a black-and-white cloak shattered Xie Tiance’s arrow, and two more masked fighters appeared, identifying themselves as Yama of the underworld.
• Xie Tiance noticed another presence, and a red-robed, blood-haired Yama arrived on the peak and ordered the Demon Palace Holy Master to withdraw his forces.

The Underworld’s Ten Kings of Hell intervened at Buddha Mountain, fighting the Demon Palace Protectors while shielding the Buddhist forces. After learning that the Underworld had merely reemerged, Xie Tiance ordered the Demon Palace troops to retreat.

• Yue Zhinv fought an ink-cloaked swordsman inside the Landscape Ink Realm, and Zhuanlun joined him to hinder her with a second manifested moon.
• King Equality clashed with Bai Wangran, who unleashed a storm with nine wind pearls; the Heavenly Buddha Lord protected the novice monks while King Equality dispersed the storm with Apocalyptic Fury.
• The Heavenly Buddha Lord faced Lou Wanggu as Zhuanlun left to assist the battle in the Landscape Ink Realm.
• A red-robed Yama confronted Xie Tiance and demanded that he order a retreat, then exchanged sword and palm attacks with him.
• The red-robed Yama told Xie Tiance that the Underworld had never been destroyed and had only emerged again, and Xie Tiance ordered all troops to retreat.

After Buddha Mountain’s siege ended, Ning Chen’s allies withdrew to the Underworld and reunited with him. Ning Chen resolved to organize a direct campaign against the Demon Palace, whose ambitions threatened the worlds beyond and within the boundary.

• The Demon Palace army withdrew from Buddha Mountain, ending the battles, and the combatants parted after exchanging names and warnings.
• The Red-robed Yama reported that the Demon Palace Holy Master had concealed his true strength, while the Heavenly Buddha Lord warned that the Demon Palace would return and considered using the Buddhist Ultimate Purity Method.
• The Red-robed Yama and the other Yamas returned to the Underworld, where they reunited with Ning Chen and their old friends.
• Ning Chen introduced Lin Yuzhen, lord of Phoenix Cry City, to Mu Qianshang, who warned her about Ning Chen’s habit of misleading people.
• Ning Chen told Sword Two and his friends that he would arrange plans to oppose the Demon Palace, and Luo Xingchen urged him to protect those around him by growing stronger.

Ning Chen gathered his allies in King Yama's Hall and assigned them a covert campaign against the Demon Palace's Protectors. The group donned masks and departed as the underworld emerged, beginning their war against the Demon Palace.

• Ning Chen proposed that the group turn to covert attacks and eliminate the Demon Palace's Protectors one by one, and the gathered allies agreed.
• Ning Chen assigned Xia Ziyi, Consort Luo, and Mu Qianshang to target the Fourth Protector while Sword Two and Luo Xingchen guarded their base.
• Ning Chen asked Lin Yuzhen to accompany him in testing the First Protector, explaining that their attack would draw the Demon Palace's attention.
• Ning Chen ruled out targeting Yue Zhinv and Bai Wangran for now because of their formidable defenses and the shortage of forces.
• The allies put on their masks, opened the divine restriction, and emerged from the underworld to begin the campaign.

Jun Wentian fought the Red-robed Yama and the Chu River Yama while three other Underworld Yamas intercepted the Demon Palace's southbound army. The Black-robed King defeated Lou Wanggu despite taking a sudden wound, leaving Lou Wanggu buried beneath the earth.

• Jun Wentian challenged the two Yamas and exchanged powerful blows with the Red-robed Yama and the Chu River Yama.
• The Ink-White Cloaked Yama, the Black-robed King, and the Moon-White Dressed Woman blocked the Demon Palace's army, with the Ink-White Cloaked Yama guarding the formation.
• The Black-robed King unleashed Apocalyptic Fury and overpowered Lou Wanggu in a fierce close-range battle.
• The Black-robed King used Autumn Water Pierces Two Polarities, Cloud Sea Reveals Heavenly Light, injuring both himself and Lou Wanggu before knocking Lou Wanggu into a mountain.
• Lou Wanggu struck the Black-robed King with a ghostly beam from the eye between his brows, but the king recovered and drove Lou Wanggu beneath the earth with a punch.

Jun Wentian and the Red-robed Yama fought to a draw before ending their sparring and withdrawing. At the southern battlefield, Jun Wentian revealed himself as the First Demon Palace Protector after absorbing Lou Wanggu, then warned the Black-robed King that their next meeting would be a fight to the death.

• Jun Wentian and the Red-robed Yama traded powerful attacks while Lin Yuzhen held back the Demon Generals and withdrew when Jun Wentian ordered it.
• After both fighters were wounded, Lin Yuzhen signaled Ning Chen to stop; Ning Chen ended the sparring, and he and Lin Yuzhen departed as Jun Wentian watched them leave.
• Ning Chen told Lin Yuzhen that Jun Wentian was exceptionally powerful, and they discussed Xia Ziyi and the battle-hardened survivors of the War of Sending Gods.
• The Black-robed King overwhelmed Lou Wanggu, but the moon-white-robed Shura froze time and space, allowing the king's sword to pierce Lou Wanggu.
• Jun Wentian appeared, devoured Lou Wanggu's blood qi and soul, and transformed his halberd into a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Jun Wentian identified himself as the First Demon Palace Protector, warned the Black-robed King that their next meeting would be a fight to the death, and vanished.

Xie Tiance secured Jun Wentian’s cooperation against the Underworld, while the Seven Halls discussed Jun Wentian’s growing strength and the threat of the Moonlit Tower Master’s Scroll of Light. Ning Chen dispatched the others to prepare for war and set out to deal with the Moonlit Tower Master and conceal his own identity.

• Xie Tiance learned that Jun Wentian was interested in fighting the Red-robed King Yama and agreed that the Demon Palace’s campaign would draw the Underworld out.
• Xia Ziyi reported that Jun Wentian had devoured the Fourth Protector, prompting Ning Chen and the others to suspect the Fourth Protector had been Jun Wentian’s independent incarnation.
• Ning Chen warned that Jun Wentian’s returned incarnation could greatly increase his strength and revealed that the Moonlit Tower Master possessed the Scroll of Light and had sided with the Demon Palace.
• Ning Chen assigned Consort Luo to alert the sects, sent Mu Qianshang and Luo Xingchen to find old allies, and ordered Xia Ziyi and Sword Two to remain in place.
• Ning Chen told Lin Yuzhen he would act to dispel suspicion about the Ninth Son of Ink Sect, then left the hall as the others departed in separate directions.

Ning Chen attacked the Demon Palace army near Buddha Mountain to repay the Heavenly Buddha Lord’s kindness and delay the eastern army. After devastating the army and battling Bai Wangran, he withdrew, leaving Buddha Mountain safe from another attack for the time being.

• Ning Chen arrived at Buddha Mountain and told the Heavenly Buddha Lord he would not stand by while the mountain was in danger.
• Ning Chen and his demonic body attacked the Demon Palace army three thousand li away, while Ning Chen fought Bai Wangran to keep him from intervening.
• Ning Chen used the Scroll of Earth against Bai Wangran as his demonic body slaughtered Demon Palace soldiers, inflicting heavy losses on the army.
• Ning Chen’s demonic body unleashed Demonic Phoenix Tribulation, destroying nearly half the Demon Palace army, while Ning Chen stopped Bai Wangran from reaching it.
• Ning Chen and his demonic body escaped after Bai Wangran summoned the Avici Hell Palace, and Ning Chen returned to tell the Heavenly Buddha Lord that the eastern army would not attack for some time.

Xie Tiance sent Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie to kill Ning Chen, exploiting his feelings for his former Senior Sister. As they trapped him in the starry sky and wounded him, Ning Chen fought back without using the Immortal Slaying Sword, but the battle remained unresolved.

• After learning that Ning Chen had appeared, Xie Tiance ordered Hua Zhongdie to deal with him and sent Yue Zhinv after him with a tracking pearl.
• Ning Chen summoned the Scroll of Chaos to locate the Scroll of Light, drawing the Moonlit Tower Master to him.
• Ning Chen paid the Moonlit Tower Master for his silence about the Underworld King Barrier and explained that the Immortal Corpse Procession had made him a new body.
• Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie arrived, and Ning Chen recognized Hua Zhongdie as his Senior Sister Die, now the Demon Palace's Fourth Protector.
• Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie attacked Ning Chen from both sides, wounding him as Hua Zhongdie rejected his appeal and declared that she was no longer Hua Zhongdie.
• Ning Chen countered with Taishi, Nianqing, and Nirvana, refusing to use the Immortal Slaying Sword as Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie continued their killing assault.

Ning Chen fought Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie in a heart-slaying trap but could not bring himself to harm Hua Zhongdie, and his blades and body suffered severe damage. Aizen Myōō intervened and carried the wounded Knowing Fate away, while Yue Zhinv stopped Hua Zhongdie from pursuing him and ordered her to return to the Demon Domain.

• Ning Chen unleashed Sword Twelve and clashed with Yue Zhinv’s Void Buries the Moon, but his hesitation to strike Hua Zhongdie left him open to attack.
• Hua Zhongdie used Butterfly Dance, Nether King, and Ning Chen’s Nianqing Blade cracked as he defended himself and counterattacked.
• Ning Chen combined his blade and sword in a powerful final move, then brought forth the Knowing Fate Sword and wounded Yue Zhinv with Sword Art, Supreme One.
• Hua Zhongdie broke the divine restriction sealing her and attacked Ning Chen with Butterfly Dance, Heavenly Inquiry, while the Moonlit Tower Master watched the battle.
• Aizen Myōō arrived with Buddha Demon power, clashed with Yue Zhinv and Hua Zhongdie, and carried the grievously wounded Knowing Fate away.
• Hua Zhongdie tried to pursue them, but Yue Zhinv warned her that the plan had changed and ordered her to return to the Demon Domain.

Ning Chen brought Aizen Myōō to the reopened Underworld and appointed her to King Dushi’s Hall, while his friends urged him to rest and stop carrying every burden alone. The chapter ended with Ning Chen sealing himself inside the frozen Yama King’s Hall to recover from severe injuries, as Aizen Myōō wondered how badly Hua Zhongdie had wounded him.

• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō traveled to the Underworld, where he offered her the position of King Dushi in the Eighth Yama Hall.
• Aizen Myōō accepted the Yama mask and asked Ning Chen to fulfill his promise to protect her path; Ning Chen agreed.
• Sword Two and Xia Ziyi told Ning Chen to rest and wait for Consort Luo and the others before making further plans.
• Aizen Myōō reminded Ning Chen that more than a century had passed and that people inside the barrier had grown strong enough to protect themselves.
• Ning Chen entered Yama King’s Hall and sealed it in ice to recover, while Sword Two, Xia Ziyi, and Aizen Myōō sensed his weakness and considered Hua Zhongdie’s role in his injuries.

Ning Chen’s allies returned to the Underworld and learned that he had been injured by Hua Zhongdie. As Yin'er waited outside Yama King's Hall, Ning Chen finished healing and emerged from seclusion.

• Yin'er reunited with Sword Two and hurried to Yama King's Hall to see Ning Chen.
• Luoshen sensed that Ning Chen was injured, and Sword Two explained that Hua Zhongdie had wounded him.
• Yin'er waited outside the frozen hall while Aizen Myōō offered to teach her Buddhist cultivation, but Yin'er refused.
• Consort Luo told Luoshen that Ning Chen would regain his former edge now that conflict had returned.
• The ice melted from Yama King's Hall, Ning Chen emerged, and Yin'er ran to him.

Ning Chen completed the Ten Yama Halls and declared war on the Demon Palace, which answered by ordering an attack on the Buddhist Nation. He assigned the Underworld’s forces to protect the Buddhist Nation and left Yin'er behind to awaken the Heaven Speaker’s power.

• Yin'er returned to the Underworld and asked Ning Chen for a position, so he made her a reserve while explaining that she had inherited the Heaven Speaker’s legacy.
• Luo Xingchen, Qi Yanxia, and Yi Xuanmiao arrived, and Luoshen agreed to temporarily serve as Chu River Yama King; Ning Chen appointed the remaining Yamas and completed the Ten Halls.
• Ning Chen ordered Luo Xingchen to send the Yama Token and formally declare war on the Demon Palace.
• Xie Tiance intercepted the Yama Token and accepted the declaration of war, then ordered Jun Wentian to wipe out the Buddhist Nation within one hundred days.
• Ning Chen assigned the Yamas to defend the Buddhist Nation, with Xia Ziyi tasked to stop Jun Wentian, while Yin'er was told to remain behind and awaken the Heaven Speaker’s power.

The Demon Palace and the underworld faced off at Buddha Mountain as their strongest fighters began battling, while the Red-robed Yama challenged Xie Tiance to a ten-move wager over Avici Hell Palace. At the five-move mark, Yue Zhinv unleashed Moonfall Silence from below as the two leaders fought over the hall.

• Bai Wangran led the Demon Palace army to Buddha Mountain, where Jun Wentian waited for the Yamas to arrive rather than attack.
• Jun Wentian fought the Black-robed King, Yue Zhinv battled the Ink-White Cloaked Yama while Consort Luo watched, and Yi Xuanmiao and Qi Yanxia fought Bai Wangran.
• Bai Wangran summoned Avici Hell Palace, prompting the Red-robed Yama and Xie Tiance to appear and confront each other.
• The Red-robed Yama wagered that he would reclaim Avici Hell Palace within ten moves; Xie Tiance accepted, with the outcome determining whether their forces would withdraw for one hundred days.
• After five moves, the Red-robed Yama tried to seize the hall with the Nine Heavens Star Plucking Hand, Xie Tiance blocked him, and Yue Zhinv unleashed Scroll of Moon, Moonfall Silence.

The Red-robed Yama defeated Xie Tiance in their ten-move wager and reclaimed Avici Hell Palace, forcing the Demon Palace army to withdraw. Jun Wentian refused to retreat and faced the Red-robed Yama and the Black-robed King alone, summoning the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade as their battle intensified.

• The Red-robed Yama’s final Star Plucking Hand broke through Xie Tiance’s defenses and struck Ghost Palace, while Yi Xuanmiao and Qi Yanxia’s attacks helped Bai Wangran lose control of Avici Hell Palace.
• Xie Tiance accepted defeat and ordered the Demon Palace troops to withdraw, but Jun Wentian continued fighting the Black-robed King.
• The Red-robed Yama moved to join the fight, while the seventh Yama King blocked Xie Tiance from intervening.
• Jun Wentian challenged the two Yama Kings to attack together and fought them amid a surge of demonic qi and thunder.
• Jun Wentian blasted the Red-robed Yama and the Black-robed King back, then summoned the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.

At Buddha Mountain, Jun Wentian fought the Black-robed King and Red-robed Yama while Demon Palace figures discussed the Underworld and their plans for Hua Zhongdie. After Jun Wentian wounded the King, the Red-robed Yama drew a divine sword and unleashed a technique that Consort Luo recognized as hers.

• Jun Wentian battled the Black-robed King and Red-robed Yama with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, and their clash split Buddha Mountain.
• Yue Zhinv and Bai Wangran discussed the Underworld, Hua Zhongdie's memories, and the Demon Palace's plans to delay sending troops into the realm.
• Xie Tiance questioned Luoshen about the Underworld's hierarchy, while Luoshen challenged his authority over the First Demon Palace Protector.
• After a hundred exchanges, Jun Wentian forced back the King and asked why the Red-robed Yama had not drawn his sword.
• The Black-robed King was injured when he intercepted an attack aimed at Jun Wentian, and the Red-robed Yama drew a divine sword and unleashed Lingering Wind Shadow.
• The Red-robed Yama formed immense sword wings and sent countless blades at Jun Wentian, prompting Consort Luo and the others to recognize the move.

Jun Wentian fought the Red-robed Yama and the Black-robed King together, then unleashed a power beyond the Third Realm that wounded both sides and left the King near death. The Underworld retreated, and Ning Chen could only suppress the strange power in Xia Ziyi's body, leaving his life in danger as the survivors prepared for what came next.

• Jun Wentian was injured and driven into a disadvantage as the Red-robed Yama and the Black-robed King attacked him together.
• Xie Tiance refused to intervene, while Luoshen questioned whether he intended to use the Underworld to eliminate Jun Wentian.
• Jun Wentian opened a third eye and unleashed a strange radiance that shattered half of Buddha Mountain and pierced the Black-robed King's body.
• The Red-robed Yama declared the battle lost and withdrew with the unconscious King as Jun Wentian collapsed from his own injuries.
• Ning Chen used the Scroll of Life to treat Xia Ziyi but could only suppress the foreign power, warning that his life remained in danger.
• Mu Qianshang urged Ning Chen to stay composed and guide them through the next stage of the conflict.