Chapter Summaries

At the Yama Kings’ gathering, Nu Chang explained Changling’s demonic origins and why she could control the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture. She revealed that Hua Zhongdie’s memories had already become irreparably chaotic, leaving her a weapon of slaughter for the Demon Palace.

• Ning Chen credited Nu Chang with helping eliminate two members of the Seven Sins Sect and thanked her for the victory.
• Nu Chang explained that the world had been recreated from the Outer Heavens and revealed that Changling had once inherited a demonic lineage.
• Mu Qianshang asked Nu Chang how to counter the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture to save Hua Zhongdie.
• Nu Chang explained that she controlled the scripture’s flaw by also cultivating the Soul-Searching Art, which could disperse memories absorbed through devouring origins.
• Nu Chang told Mu Qianshang that Hua Zhongdie’s memories were already chaotic and that she had become an icy-cold weapon of slaughter in the Demon Palace’s hands.

After the Demon Palace ordered Jun Wentian to lead an army against the Red Luan Starfield, Ning Chen sought the Moon Worshipper Clan’s help in resisting the coming attack. Moon-Worshiping Venerable and her people refused, citing a Divine Edict forbidding them to leave their sacred ground.

• Wind-Letter Sect explained that an unexpected cultivator of the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture had helped defeat the Demon Palace’s forces, and Xie Tiance spared him from punishment.
• Yue Zhinv and Bai Wangran urged Xie Tiance to retaliate, and Xie Tiance ordered Jun Wentian to assemble the northern army and march on the Red Luan Starfield.
• Ning Chen lost a chess game to Shenji, then asked him for help securing the Moon Worshipper Clan’s aid; Shenji gave him a dragon-shaped jade pendant for Moon-Worshiping Venerable.
• Ning Chen arrived at the Moon Worshipper Sacred Land and presented Shenji’s pendant to Moon-Worshiping Venerable before asking the clan to fight the Demon Palace.
• Moon-Worshiping Venerable remained unmoved, and a white-haired elder explained that the Moon God’s Divine Edict forbade clan members from leaving the sacred ground.

Ning Chen persuaded the Moon God to let the Moon Worshipper Clan prepare to face the returning demonic calamity. The Moon-Worshiping Venerable began uncovering a divine artifact, alerting powerful figures beyond the sacred land.

• Ning Chen asked the Moon-Worshiping Venerable to defy the Divine Edict and send the clan to oppose the Demon Palace, but she refused.
• Ning Chen bowed before the Moon God Statue, and the Moon God appeared after ten thousand years.
• The Moon God revealed that a hidden object beneath the clan's lands had been left to contend with a future demonic calamity, and ordered the Moon-Worshiping Venerable to retrieve it.
• Ning Chen said he would remain attached to the mortal world for the people he cared for, and the Moon God departed after warning him he would change his mind.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable unleashed her power, opening a vast fissure as a sealed divine artifact began to emerge.
• A pair of eyes opened in a forbidden land in the Demon Realm, while Xie Tiance's Heavenly Curtain shattered as the artifact's power disrupted his divination.

Moon-Worshiping Venerable claimed the Moon God’s Bow and pledged the Moon Worshipper Clan’s support to Ning Chen against the Demon Palace, whose master might have reached the Fourth Realm. As the forces gathered for war, Yue Zhinv killed Qi Wenzhu in the first duel, and Bai Wangran prepared to fight as new figures arrived over the battlefield.

• The Moon God’s Bow recognized Moon-Worshiping Venerable, who warned Ning Chen about the Demon Palace master and gave him the Moon God’s Command.
• Moon-Worshiping Venerable pledged her clan’s aid, while tens of thousands of Demon Palace troops and allied forces assembled for war across the starfields.
• The Underworld Yamas donned their masks and headed for the northern battlefield as Jun Wentian ordered Yue Zhinv to lead the first engagement.
• Yue Zhinv defeated and killed Qi Wenzhu with the Moon Demon Divine Sword and her Heaven-Punishing Rainbow ultimate art.
• Jun Wentian sent Bai Wangran to fight next, Qi Xuan volunteered to face him, and savage-looking figures descended near the battlefield.

The underworld entered the war between the Demon Palace and Red Luan, and Luoshen fought Bai Wangran. Luoshen’s Divine Punishment sword defeated him, and he fell as heavenly fire stripped away his memories and cultivation.

• The Kings Yama arrived at the battlefield, and Luoshen, King Chu Jiang, challenged Bai Wangran.
• Luoshen and Bai Wangran exchanged attacks, but he used nine wind pearls to destroy the surrounding space-time laws and gain the advantage.
• The Red-robed King Yama said Luoshen’s divine body held greater power than Bai Wangran realized, while Jun Wentian warned Yue Zhinv that Luoshen ranked among the underworld’s strongest.
• Luoshen summoned Divine Punishment, Borrowing a Sword from Heaven, and the golden heavenly sword shattered three wind pearls before piercing Bai Wangran.
• Golden flames consumed Bai Wangran, stripping away his memories and cultivation before his body fell to the battlefield.

On Borneo, Luoshen defeated the Second Demon Palace Protector, and Shenji fought Jun Wentian in the third round, sacrificing his mortal body to reach the Fourth Realm and grievously wound Jun Wentian. After Shenji vanished, Ning Chen and Moon Worshipper prepared to continue the battle as the allied armies advanced.

• Luoshen killed the Second Demon Palace Protector with one strike, and the Red-robed King Yama told her their allies would make the next move.
• Ninth Son of Ink Sect, Shenji, and Moon Worshipper arrived with the Moon Worshipper Clan, and Shenji stepped forward to face Jun Wentian.
• Shenji and Jun Wentian unleashed their full strength and shattered their divine weapons in a clash of Black and White Mechanism against the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Shenji recited a poem, shed his mortal flesh to reach the Fourth Realm, sealed Jun Wentian's demonic eye, and forced him to retreat with grave injuries.
• Shenji vanished after entrusting the mortal world's affairs to Ning Chen, while Moon Worshipper urged Ning Chen to continue the fight.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master and the sect leaders ordered the hundred thousand Red Luan army to charge the demon troops.

The Demon Palace’s forces faced mounting danger on Borneo as Red Luan, the underworld, and Moon Worshipper’s forces pressed their attack. The Three Talents Sect arrived and reshaped the battle, while Ning Chen called on Moon Worshipper to intervene against the formidable Venerable Yangyu.

• Yue Zhinv carried the wounded Jun Wentian into battle, while the Red-robed King Yama and Moon Worshipper ordered their forces to attack.
• Hua Zhongdie fought Venerable Lady and Ning Chen, and Xie Tiance summoned four enormous demonic shadows that the Yamas moved to confront.
• The Red-robed King Yama and Qinguang joined forces against Yue Zhinv, but the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Sects arrived and their Demonic Might devastated the Red Luan ranks.
• The underworld’s demonic body appeared and fought the Star Radiance Sect Master, while the Moon Splendor and Yangyu Sect Masters entered the battlefield below.
• Venerable Yangyu stopped the Red-robed Yama from attacking Yue Zhinv and Jun Wentian, then caught and shattered Luo Xingchen’s arrow.
• Luo Xingchen warned the Phoenix Body about Venerable Yangyu, and Ning Chen asked Moon Worshipper to act.

As the battle in Borneo intensified, Moon-Worshiping Venerable fought Yang Yu while Star Radiance Sect Master faced Wuchang. Yue Zhinv shielded the unconscious Jun Wentian from the underworld Yamas, but was killed after sending him and the divine artifact out of the battlefield.

• The Three Talents Sect entered the battle, and Yang Yu and Moon-Worshiping Venerable left for the starry sky to fight.
• Star Radiance Sect Master blocked Wuchang’s King of Sickness Hundred Suns Sword, but its shattered black suns rained down on Borneo and killed tens of thousands of fighters.
• Red-robed King Yama and King Qin Guang overwhelmed Yue Zhinv, and Red-robed King Yama’s Star Plucking technique left her unable to raise her cultivation.
• Yue Zhinv borrowed the moon demon’s power and attacked Red-robed King Yama, but he used Phoenix Speed to strike her throat with his sword.
• Yue Zhinv sent Jun Wentian and the divine artifact out of the battlefield, then blocked Red-robed King Yama’s pursuit and died.

The Devil Master intervened in the battle on Borneo, forced the armies to withdraw, and recovered two fallen bodies. Afterward, A'man returned to Shenji Peak to mourn her foster father, while Mu Chengxue arrived on Borneo and sensed that Ning Chen and his friends had been there.

• After Yue Zhinv died, Moon Splendor Sect Master attacked the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master and the two protectors, while Xie Tiance reported Yue Zhinv and Bai Wangran's deaths to the Devil Master.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable and Yang Yu unleashed powerful attacks, and Ning Chen, Changling Venerable Lady, and Star Soul joined forces against the demon butterfly.
• The Devil Master appeared, forced back the fighters across the battlefields, ordered the demons to withdraw, and took two mutilated bodies away.
• Ning Chen and the allied forces retreated, and Yin'er told Ning Chen that A'man had left without explaining why.
• A'man returned to Shenji Peak, planted Violet Heaven in the mountain, and knelt to mourn her foster father.
• Mu Chengxue arrived on Borneo, sensed the familiar auras of Ning Chen and his friends, and flew away into the night.

Xie Tiance unsealed Earth Sovereign to lead the Demon Palace’s renewed campaign as Ning Chen worried over the looming conflict and visited A'man at Shenji Peak. He left after promising to return in three years with a peaceful world, while A'man remained to mourn her adoptive father.

• Xie Tiance asked the Devil Master for a battle-hardened commander, and the Devil Master ordered him to unseal Earth Sovereign.
• Earth Sovereign emerged from the black cocoon, accepted Xie Tiance’s command token, and led the demon troops north.
• Ning Chen and Nu Chang discussed the Demon Palace’s strength and likely targets, then Ning Chen decided to visit A'man at Shenji Peak.
• Ning Chen and Yin'er found A'man mourning Shenji, and she said she would remain at the peak for three years.
• A'man warned Ning Chen that the Devil Master had entered the Fourth Realm, and Ning Chen departed with Yin'er after saying he would return to her in three years.

Demon Palace’s Earth Sovereign led an army into the Red Luan Starfield and drove Heaven Mending Pavilion to the brink of defeat. Ning Chen arrived ahead of the Underworld’s Yamas, just as Earth Sovereign appeared to challenge him and the pavilion’s defenders.

• Nu Chang summoned the Yamas after learning that Demon Palace had invaded the Red Luan Starfield under the command of a newly emerged Earth Sovereign.
• Ning Chen returned to the Ten Halls, heard about the attack on Heaven Mending Pavilion, and set out alone to help.
• Earth Sovereign and the Demon Palace army defeated the Red Luan allied forces and advanced toward Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Heaven Mending Pavilion’s elders argued over their desperate situation while they waited for help from the Underworld.
• Ning Chen arrived at Heaven Mending Pavilion and explained that the Yamas could not reach it in time.
• Earth Sovereign descended with the Demon Halberd, Doomsday Myth, and declared that Heaven Mending Pavilion would fall.

The Demon Palace attacked the Heaven Mending Pavilion with overwhelming force, and its leaders killed the pavilion’s defenders while Ning Chen fought to survive their trap. As the four Demon Palace powerhouses closed in, a woman in white broke the heavenly net and helped Ning Chen escape.

• Earth Sovereign, Moon Splendor Sect Master, and Star Radiance Sect Master attacked the Heaven Mending Pavilion while Ning Chen fought Moon Splendor Sect Master and the Grand Elders faced Star Radiance Sect Master.
• Earth Sovereign overwhelmed the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, Qi Xuan, and Jiang Yun, while Yang Yu Sect joined the battle and killed the Pavilion Master and both Protectors.
• Star Radiance Sect Master killed the Heaven Mending Grand Elders, leaving Ning Chen to face Earth Sovereign, Moon Splendor Sect Master, and Star Radiance Sect Master.
• Yang Yu Sect trapped Ning Chen between a heavenly net and an earthly net, and the four Demon Palace powerhouses surrounded him.
• Ning Chen’s Sword Eleven damaged the heavenly net, but Yang Yu Sect blocked his escape until a woman in white broke the net with her sword and helped him flee.

After Heaven Mending Pavilion fell, Mu Chengxue reunited with Sword Two and Ning Chen’s companions and gave Yin'er the Scroll of Motion. The group faced the threat of the Demon Palace’s next invasion, and Ning Chen remained at the conference table searching for a way to keep the war from reaching the Purple Star Starfield.

• The Demon Palace’s army continued north after destroying Heaven Mending Pavilion, while Mu Chengxue arrived in the Underworld with Ning Chen and reunited with Sword Two.
• Ning Chen introduced Mu Chengxue to Yin'er, who accepted the Scroll of Motion despite Ning Chen trying to return it.
• Mu Qianshang and the others joined them, and Ning Chen explained that the Demon Palace’s Earth Sovereign and three Sin Venerables had destroyed Heaven Mending Pavilion and nearly trapped him.
• The group worried that the Demon Palace would next target Purple Star or Heavenly Mist, and Luo Xingchen urged Ning Chen to prevent the war from reaching Purple Star.
• Ning Chen stayed behind to think through their choices while Mu Chengxue began teaching Yin'er how to brew tea.

Ning Chen sent Mu Chengxue out as White Impermanence to help expose the underworld’s location and divert the demon palace’s attention. Earth Sovereign fought the two Impermanence while Jun Wentian and the Three Sects searched for the underworld, and Sword Two realized they had found its hidden boundary.

• Ning Chen gave Mu Chengxue a white mask and appointed her White Impermanence before they left the underworld together.
• Xie Tiance detected changes in heavenly fate, sent Jun Wentian to attack the underworld, and gave him a token to command the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Sects.
• Yangyu ordered the Three Sects to join Jun Wentian, while Earth Sovereign remained behind to continue conquering the starfields.
• Black and White Impermanence confronted Earth Sovereign, and the three began fighting with their divine weapons.
• Jun Wentian and the Three Sects searched the border of the Red Luan, All Heavens, and Purple Star starfields for the underworld.
• Sword Two sensed them beyond the underworld’s divine restriction and realized the demon palace had found the hidden location earlier than planned.

Black-robed and White-robed Impermanence fought Earth Sovereign, then hurried back after sensing trouble near the Underworld. Jun Wentian and the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Sects found the Yellow Springs Divine Restriction and battered it until the Impermanences intervened, leaving White-robed Impermanence to hold off the attackers.

• Black-robed and White-robed Impermanence fought Earth Sovereign for more than a hundred exchanges before Black-robed Impermanence ordered a retreat, suspecting something had happened at the Underworld.
• Sword Two told the gathered Kings of Hell to prepare for battle while Jun Wentian and the Three Sects of Demon Palace searched for the Underworld’s location.
• Jun Wentian and the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Sects discovered the Yellow Springs Divine Restriction and repeatedly attacked it as the Kings of Hell joined forces to defend it.
• Jun Wentian used Inverted Water Moon to damage the restriction, and both the attackers and defenders suffered backlash as the formation began to weaken.
• Black-robed Impermanence arrived and drove Jun Wentian and the three sect leaders back with the Hundred Suns Sword before entering the restriction.
• White-robed Impermanence blocked Jun Wentian and the three sect leaders from following Black-robed Impermanence into the restriction.

The Underworld Yamas battled Jun Wentian and the Three Sects after their forces attacked the divine barrier. Black-clad Impermanence revealed his demonic power and wounded Yang Yu Sect, while the Red-robed Yama was caught off guard when a blue-skirted, blood-haired woman intervened.

• Ning Chen divided into Black-clad Impermanence and the Red-robed King Yama, then led the Yamas out to confront Jun Wentian and the Three Sects.
• The Yamas and their opponents split into four battles, with Jun Wentian facing the Red-robed King Yama and Black and White Impermanence confronting Yang Yu Sect.
• Jun Wentian and the Red-robed Yama exchanged devastating attacks, and both were wounded when their ultimate techniques collided.
• Black and White Impermanence pierced Yang Yu Sect's divine sun, but he unleashed Heavenly Desolation Interdiction and forced them back.
• Black-clad Impermanence unsealed his demonic essence and struck Yang Yu Sect with Heaven's Cry, shattering the divine sun and shaking the surrounding battlefields.
• Jun Wentian transformed his divine weapon and pierced the Red-robed Yama's shoulder, but a blue-skirted, blood-haired woman appeared and bound him with her water sleeves.

The Yamas left to guard the divine barrier joined the battle after the Black-robed King judged their injuries no longer a concern. The Demon Palace Holy Master and Earth Sovereign arrived with Heavenly Sovereign, dividing the fighting into new confrontations as Sword Two stayed behind to face Xie Tiance.

• The Red-robed Yama and Jun Wentian traded ultimate techniques while the demonic butterfly attacked alongside Jun Wentian, forcing the Red-robed Yama onto the defensive.
• Sword Two urged the Yamas guarding the divine barrier to intervene, but Consort Luo and Aizen Myōō argued that they should follow Knowing Fate's orders.
• The Black-robed King left Pingdeng King's Hall and ordered everyone bearing the Yama's mandate, except the Venerable Lady and Miss Qingying, to join the battle.
• The Black-robed King, Consort Luo, Aizen Myōō, and Sword Two emerged from the divine barrier, prompting the Demon Palace's four supreme powerhouses to react.
• Xie Tiance arrived with Earth Sovereign and Heavenly Sovereign; Heavenly Sovereign departed with the Black-robed King, while Aizen Myōō stepped forward to face Earth Sovereign alone.
• Sword Two remained before the divine barrier to confront Xie Tiance, gathering sword intent and streams of Sword Qi.

The Demon Palace’s forces pushed the underworld’s Yamas toward defeat, and Yin’er’s intervention nearly cost her life. Just as Ning Chen prepared to reveal his identity, King Qi Lin Yuzhen and the Ji Clan’s Holy Lord, Ji Yuechu, arrived to reinforce the underworld.

• Sword Two confronted Xie Tiance, who copied his sword techniques with black and white chess swords and wounded him.
• The twin champions of Heaven and Earth overwhelmed the Yamas while Jun Wentian and Hua Zhongdie pressed their attacks.
• Consort Luo defended the divine barrier until Yin’er emerged and struck at Xie Tiance with the Queen Mother’s Hairpin.
• Xie Tiance evaded the Immortal Artifact and attacked Yin’er, but the Red-robed Yama caught his black chess sword and shielded her.
• As Ning Chen prepared to remove his Yama demon mask, Lin Yuzhen and Ji Yuechu arrived with reinforcements.

After the Demon Palace withdrew from the underworld, Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue raced to the Demon Domain to investigate its defenses before its forces returned. They infiltrated the Sacred Hall and stole the Devil Master's demonic artifact, Sacred Radiance, but the awakened Devil Master noticed their escape.

• King Qi and the Ji Clan Holy Master led reinforcements to the underworld, forcing Xie Tiance and the Demon Palace experts to retreat.
• Ning Chen stopped Mu Chengxue outside the divine barrier and took her with him toward the Demon Domain to investigate its strength.
• Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue entered the Demon Domain in disguise, using the Heavenly Book and Scroll of Chaos to conceal themselves as they evaded its guards.
• Ning Chen recognized the Demon Palace's Sacred Hall and used his Phoenix Essence, with Mu Chengxue's help, to suppress and swallow the royal demonic artifact Sacred Radiance.
• The artifact struck back and wounded Ning Chen, while the Devil Master awakened and attacked; Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue escaped, and the Devil Master ordered the Holy Master to meet him upon returning.

Ning Chen returned to the underworld with Mu Chengxue and revealed that they had stolen Demonic Artifact: Sacred Radiance from the demon realm, warning that the Demon Palace Holy Master might soon emerge. As the underworld prepared for war and a possible evacuation, Mu Qianshang and others chose to use Changling’s cultivation-accelerating formation despite its severe cost, while Ning Chen tried to dissuade them.

• Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue returned to the underworld and showed the Yamas Demonic Artifact: Sacred Radiance, which they had taken from the demon realm.
• Ning Chen warned that the Demon Palace Holy Master had awakened and that the underworld’s location was exposed, so he planned new defenses and a search for another base.
• Ning Chen explained that Northern Qi’s conflict with the demon palace would force the Ji family to ally with King Qi, and Nu Chang assessed the demon palace’s powerful forces.
• Mu Qianshang proposed using Changling’s restricted formation to accelerate cultivation, but Ning Chen warned that it rapidly consumed lifespan and could cause lasting damage.
• Mu Qianshang, Nu Chang, Luo Xingchen, and Sword Two chose to enter the formation, and Consort Luo volunteered while asking Xia Ziyi to remain and assist Ning Chen.