Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen arranged for Gu Shengtian to ambush Xuanqi, but the Fourth Prince survived the duel and unleashed a devastating demonic force that destroyed both armies. Five days later, the Stone Race advanced again while the wounded Xuanqi returned to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land, and the five royal clans’ armies broke through across every front.

• Gu Shengtian attacked the wounded Xuanqi with Kun Heaven, but Ning Chen’s Heaven Talisman disrupted Xuanqi’s power and let Gu Shengtian grievously wound him.
• Ning Chen used a forbidden art that strained his body while Gu Shengtian continued fighting Xuanqi, eventually piercing him near the heart with a concealed strike.
• Xuanqi revealed an emerging imperial aura and fought Gu Shengtian to a mutual grievous wound, forcing Gu Shengtian to retreat after Ning Chen warned him to stop.
• Xuanqi’s demonic power engulfed the battlefield, turning more than a hundred thousand Devil Race and Stone Race soldiers to ash before his cultivation was reduced by ninety percent.
• Five days later, the Stone Race army returned under its imperial son, while the wounded Xuanqi withdrew to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land and the five royal clans pushed through the collapsed fronts.

As the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan’s armies faltered, Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor sent the Imperial Guards to the battlefields, weakening the defenses of the Three Imperial Cities. Unrest then erupted across the city, and Ninth Prince Xuan Que surrounded Ning Chen’s estate to conduct a search.

• Third Prince Xuanlie learned that a mysterious silver-clad swordsman had severely wounded Fourth Prince Xuanqi on the southeastern battlefield.
• Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor decided to deploy the Imperial Guards, sending Xuan Mo west and Xuan Qing southeast.
• Ning Chen learned that Xuan Mo and Xuan Qing had been summoned, and he told Yin Ji to prepare for the opportunity created by the Imperial Guards’ departure.
• Two hundred thousand Imperial Guards left the Three Imperial Cities, and Ninth Prince Xuan Que took charge of the weakened city defenses.
• On the fifth night, conspirators ignited unrest throughout the city, and Ning Chen told Yin Ji to fan the flames while Xuan Que struggled to contain the chaos.
• After dawn, Xuan Que surrounded Ning Chen’s estate and ordered his soldiers to search it.

Ning Chen evaded Xuan Que’s search and prepared a strike against the First Prince, while the turmoil in the imperial city continued to weaken the royal clan’s defenses. That night, Gu Shengtian reached Xuan Zhen’s manor and began cutting down its guards.

• Xuan Que searched Thirteenth Prince’s Manor but found nothing, and Ning Chen told Yin Ji to hide her people and avoid taking anything from the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.
• Ning Chen met with Gu Shengtian and arranged for him to act that night while the Imperial Guards and Commander Xuan Mo were away.
• Ning Chen visited Xuan Zhen and warned him not to leave his manor; Xuan Zhen and the Fifth Prince suspected Ning Chen had taken part in the previous night’s unrest.
• Gu Shengtian left Thirteenth Prince’s Manor, and Ning Chen ordered Yin Ji to have her people act an hour later.
• Gu Shengtian reached First Prince’s Manor and silently killed its guards before appearing in the royal hall, where Xuan Zhen rose as he sensed danger.

Gu Shengtian attacked Xuan Zhen at the First Prince’s Manor, but Xuan Luo betrayed the Crown Prince and stole his bloodline, allowing him to escape. Back at the Thirteenth Prince’s Manor, Ning Chen confronted Xuan Luo as chaos erupted across the imperial city.

• Gu Shengtian attacked the wounded Xuan Zhen with Kun Heaven, and Xuan Zhen fought back with his purple-gold spear as the royal hall’s array trapped them inside.
• Xuan Luo entered the battle after the manor guards called for his aid, giving Xuan Zhen time to withdraw and heal while the three King Realm Attendants fought Gu Shengtian.
• Xuan Luo suddenly pierced Xuan Zhen’s heart, then devoured his cultivation and bloodline; Gu Shengtian escaped while Xuan Luo vanished using a shattered golden ancient mirror.
• Ning Chen confronted Xuan Luo at the Thirteenth Prince’s Manor, and Xuan Luo fled after they exchanged blows and threats.
• Yin Ji gave the order to act, and fires and fighting spread through the imperial city.

Ning Chen used the chaos surrounding the First Prince’s murder to slip into Three Emperors Hall and search for the Phoenix Race’s lost secret art. Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor pursued Xuan Luo into the Reincarnation Sea, where Xuan Luo vanished into its forbidden depths, while Ning Chen approached the imperial throne to continue his search.

• Xuan Que learned that the First Prince had been murdered, and the two Demonic Emperors were informed as the Three Imperial Cities fell into chaos.
• Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor arrived at First Prince’s Manor, identified Xuan Luo as the murderer, and pursued him across the Primeval Demonic Realm.
• Xuan Luo fled into the Reincarnation Sea’s black vortex, and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor chose not to follow him into its depths.
• With the emperors’ attention drawn away, Ning Chen sealed his aura and headed to Three Emperors Hall to find the Phoenix Race’s secret art.
• Ning Chen entered Kunyi Imperial Hall and climbed toward the imperial throne, where he hoped to find the secret art.

Ning Chen shattered Demonic Emperor Kunyi’s throne and sealed the Dragon Clan’s suppressed fortune, then returned to plan his next moves as the final battle approached. In the Purple Star Starfield, Xia Ziyi joined the Moonlit Tower Master to confront the Scaled King and the calamity threatening humanity.

• Ning Chen endured Kunyi’s Imperial Might, smashed the imperial throne with the Green Cauldron, and uncovered the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and the Dragon Qi beneath it.
• Ning Chen sealed the Dragon Qi inside the Green Cauldron and escaped as Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor returned and discovered the throne destroyed.
• Ning Chen bid farewell to Gu Shengtian, thanked Yin Ji for the ghost race’s aid, and decided to seek the Phoenix Secret Art in the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land and investigate Xuan Luo’s fate.
• The Scaled King used the Life Sacrifice Array to drain the Purple Star Starfield while the Queen Mother’s Hairpin absorbed the blood mist’s spiritual qi.
• The Moonlit Tower Master warned that the Scaled King’s actions threatened humanity, and Xia Ziyi vowed to buy Ning Chen time before unleashing the Twelve Wings of Sin.

The Moonlit Tower Master and Xia Ziyi fought the Scale King to delay the Life Sacrifice Array, then sent Consort Luo to seek Mu Chengxue. Meanwhile, Ning Chen investigated a deadly vortex in the Reincarnation Sea and arrived at Yinhai Ghost Prison to meet its ancient Ghost King.

• The Moonlit Tower Master and Xia Ziyi attacked the Scale King, but his armor withstood their combined strikes.
• The Moonlit Tower Master called for Mu Chengxue's help, and Consort Luo hurried to the Moon Worshipper Ancient Land while the others prepared to keep fighting.
• Ning Chen descended into the Reincarnation Sea, tested its black vortex with Sword Qi, and withdrew without entering it.
• Ning Chen arrived at Yinhai Ghost Prison, where Yin Ji and the Ghost Clan welcomed him as the Thirteenth Prince of Heavenly Demons.
• Ning Chen greeted the ancient Ghost King, who slowly opened her clouded eyes.

Ning Chen rejected the Ghost Clan’s marriage offer but accepted Six Paths of Reincarnation in exchange for promising to forge the clan an Imperial Dao divine weapon if he attained the Dao. The Demonic Emperor summoned Ning Chen and Xuan Que to court to compete for the royal succession, and Ning Chen prepared to leave Yinhai Ghost Prison.

• Ning Chen met with the Ghost King, who recalled his old connection to Ning Chen’s master, Xuan Jiuyou.
• The Ghost King offered Yin Ji in marriage and presented Six Paths of Reincarnation; Ning Chen refused the marriage because he already had a wife.
• Ning Chen accepted the Ghost Clan’s clan-guarding sword after promising to forge an Imperial Dao divine weapon for the clan if he attained the Dao.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor and the Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor agreed that Xuan Qing, Xuan Que, and Ning Chen should compete for succession by facing the five great royal clans.
• The Demonic Emperor summoned Xuan Que and Ning Chen to court, and Ning Chen told the Ghost King he had to return.

Ning Chen and Xuan Que received commands to reinforce separate fronts after the Demonic Emperors granted Xuan Que the Nine Kings Pearl. Ning Chen led the Red Armored Army south, where Xuan Xiao was near defeat against the Scale Clan’s kings, and Ning Chen finally sent the Six Paths of Reincarnation into the battlefield.

• The Seven Luminaries and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperors granted Xuan Que the Nine Kings Pearl and ordered him to lead the Black Armored Army against the Witch Clan in the north.
• Ning Chen requested the southern battlefield, received ten thousand Red Armored Army soldiers, and departed with Yin Ji and the Ten Ghosts of the Ghost Sea.
• The Scale Clan’s five kings pressed Xuan Xiao and the depleted Heavenly Demon army back toward the final pass, leaving Xuan Xiao to face the kings alone.
• Xuan Xiao killed one Scale Clan king with the Heavenly Demon Seven Transformations, then used Doomsday Overture to wound the remaining four before King Li struck him down and his Demonic Flute shattered.
• Ning Chen arrived with the Red Armored Army as Xuan Xiao lay gravely wounded, raised his hand, and sent the Six Paths of Reincarnation into the battlefield.

Ning Chen took command after arriving on the southern battlefield, drove the Scale Race army back, and guarded Jiuzhou City while planning to mislead its spies. He lent Xuan Xiao the zither Yama to counter the Scale Race’s defenses and received the forbidden composition Doomsday Overture in return.

• Ning Chen arrived with the Red Armored Army, forced the wounded King Li and the other Scale Race kings to retreat, and led the Heavenly Demon army back to Jiuzhou City.
• Ning Chen greeted Xuan Xiao, ordered the army to rest, and told Yin Ji to leave suspected Scale Race spies alone so he could use them to deceive the enemy.
• Ning Chen spent the night watching the Scale Race camp from the city wall, while Xuan Xiao praised his efforts and saw him as a promising candidate for the Heavenly Demon throne.
• Ning Chen offered Yama as a replacement for Xuan Xiao’s destroyed Three Souls Flute, and Xuan Xiao accepted the zither and gave Ning Chen the forbidden score Doomsday Overture.

Ning Chen led a surprise attack on the exhausted Scaly Clan camp, joining forces with Xuan Xiao and the Heavenly Demon army to devastate the enemy. After killing three Scaly Clan kings, Ning Chen continued attacking King Li as the Scaly Emperor awakened in the distant Purple Scale Abyss.

• The Heavenly Demon army launched its long-awaited night raid on the Scaly Clan camp, catching the exhausted soldiers and their four kings off guard.
• Ning Chen challenged King Li with Six Paths of Reincarnation while Xuan Xiao played the Doomsday Overture and Yin Ji and the Ten Ghosts held back the other three kings.
• Ning Chen and Xuan Xiao unleashed a combined forbidden attack that shattered the Kirin Dragon, killed a Scaly Clan king, grievously wounded the remaining kings, and destroyed much of the camp.
• Ning Chen killed King Baichi and King Qingyi, then pursued King Li and repeatedly struck through his scales.
• The Scaly Emperor sensed the Scaly Clan's peril and awakened in the Purple Scale Abyss, unleashing Imperial Might.

Ning Chen escaped the Scaly Emperor’s attack on the southern battlefield after Xuan Xiao sacrificed himself to repel the emperor, then fled west as the weakened incarnation pursued him. He reached the western battlefield, apparently drawing the danger toward the Holy Domain and Heavenly Demon armies.

• The Scaly Emperor killed King Li with an Imperial palm, and Xuan Xiao burned his life to unleash Twilight of the Gods against him.
• Ning Chen escaped the clash with the Scaly Emperor, recovered the bloodied Yama ancient zither, and fled north while the emperor pursued him.
• Xuan Jiuyou struck the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation once, then let Ning Chen face the weakened emperor alone; Ning Chen changed course and fled west.
• Xuan Qi attacked the pursuing emperor with a sword strike, buying Ning Chen time to flee farther across the Demonic Realm.
• Ning Chen reached the western region, where Luojia and Xuan Mo realized he was drawing the Scaly Emperor toward their armies.

Ning Chen led the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation to the western battlefield, where its Imperial Dao attacks devastated the armies and overwhelmed his defenses. Asura returned from the Heaven and Earth Cage, destroyed the incarnation, and told Ning Chen that he was inferior to his master.

• Ning Chen fled west with the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation in pursuit, then fought it above the camps of Xuan Mo and Luojia’s armies.
• The Scaly Emperor’s attacks struck the Heavenly Demon camp, destroying a hundred-li stretch and killing countless soldiers as Xuan Mo and Luojia struggled to shield their forces.
• The Scaly Emperor used Golden Scale Transformation to summon a massive Kirin Dragon, breaking Ning Chen’s Divine Restriction and threatening both armies.
• A Messenger Envoy reported that the five kings of the Scale Clan, Prince Xuan Xiao, and the Scale Clan army had fallen on the southern border.
• Asura emerged from the Heaven and Earth Cage, stopped the Kirin Dragon with his body, then pierced the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation with Beacon Fires Across the City.
• Asura turned to Ning Chen and said that he was inferior to his master.

Asura emerged after defeating the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation, while Ning Chen returned to the Three Imperial Cities and faced questions about his place in the Heavenly Demon succession. As emperors across the realm sensed the weakened royal clan, the other powers prepared to act.

• Asura returned to the battlefield after defeating the Scaly Emperor’s incarnation, and Xuan Mo departed with Ning Chen for the Three Imperial Cities.
• The Scaly Emperor erupted in fury over the Scaly Clan’s losses, prompting the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor to leave the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land.
• The Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor ordered Xuan Mo back to his post and acknowledged Ning Chen’s deeds without offering a reward.
• Ning Chen told Xuan Jiuyou he would strive for the supreme throne alone, and Xuan Jiuyou agreed not to interfere.
• Witch Emperor Tian Xin failed again to divine Ning Chen’s origins and wondered about his role in the war.
• The emperors of the Western Sacred Domain, the Stone Clan, and Divine Capital Mountain turned their attention toward the weakened Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.

As the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan’s fortune weakened, Ning Chen defended his choice to destroy the Scaly Clan army while the four allied emperors discussed how to break the royal clan’s defenses. Meanwhile, Consort Luo sought help against the Scaly King, and Qing Ling arranged for Yin'er and Mu Chengxue to join the mission.

• The elder in the Fortune-Watching Pavilion learned that the two Demon Emperors had offered no response as the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan’s fortune declined.
• Ning Chen told Tian Xin he distrusted the Scaly Clan and warned that the four royal clans must not massacre innocent civilians.
• Tian Xin told Yu Luowu, the Stone Emperor, and the Holy Lord of the Golden Lion Clan that Ning Chen’s fate could not be divined, then ordered the Twelve Witch Queens to attack the northern defenders.
• Consort Luo told Mu Chengxue that the Scaly Clan's king was draining the Purple Star Starfield’s living origins to restore the Queen Mother's Hairpin, and that Xia Ziyi and the Moonlit Tower Master could not stop him.
• Mu Chengxue said she could not unleash her full strength and identified Yin'er as another fighter with absolute speed; Qing Ling asked Mu Chengxue to accompany Consort Luo and Yin'er.

Xia Ziyi and the Moonlit Tower Master fought the Scaled King to buy humanity time, while the Witch Clan and three royal clans drove the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan toward defeat. As the demon emperors recalled Xuan Qing to inherit the throne of supreme rule, Ning Chen sent word urging Xuan Que to seize his last chance and hinted that Xuan Qing first had to survive the battlefield.

• Xia Ziyi invoked the Underworld King's power and wounded the Scaled King, but the king's forbidden technique left the Moonlit Tower Master's arm withered before his strange cultivation art restored it.
• A Fire Phoenix and a woman in white raced toward the Purple Star Starfield as the Twelve Witch Queens and three other royal clans intensified their attacks on the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.
• Seven Luminaries and Eight Desolations ordered Xuan Qing recalled to inherit the throne of supreme rule, and Ning Chen sent Yin Ji to warn Xuan Que that this was his final opportunity.
• Yin Ji delivered the warning to Xuan Que, who said he understood what he had to do.
• Yin Ji asked why Ning Chen was not contesting the throne, and Ning Chen replied that Xuan Qing would not inherit it easily and first had to return alive.

Xuan Qing’s return to the imperial city became a gauntlet of ambushes, as the Four Xuan Guards sacrificed themselves to keep him moving. At the end of the journey, Xuan Qing and Xuan Que fought to the death while Ning Chen watched, and the chapter ended with both princes crashing into the earth.

• Xuan Qing received a secret edict and set out for the imperial city with the Four Xuan Guards and three thousand elite devil soldiers.
• Black-clad assassins attacked the army and destroyed the dragon carriage, while Xixuan Yufeng drove them off and a decoy party led by Xuan Qing drew another attacker away.
• Xuan Qing continued north as Nanxuan Yangyi and Beixuan Yaoxue held off separate ambushes, then Dongxuan Yuting fought a powerful demonic shadow and sent Xuan Qing onward.
• Xuan Que confronted Xuan Qing and fought him in a fierce duel, while Ning Chen and Yin Ji watched from a distance.
• Xuan Que seized Xuan Qing and carried him into a fatal plunge; they struck the earth with enough force to collapse the Ten Thousand Li Wasteland, and Ning Chen declared the battle over.

Xuan Que killed Xuan Qing, while Ning Chen concealed the body and left the Four Xuan Guards searching the battlefield. As the Witch Clan advanced and the Demonic Emperors summoned Ning Chen and recalled Xuan Que, they questioned Ning Chen about Xuan Qing’s disappearance, which he denied.

• Xuan Que defeated and killed Xuan Qing, who warned him to beware of Thirteenth Brother before he died.
• Ning Chen concealed Xuan Qing’s body from the Four Xuan Guards and departed, leaving them to search the ruined battlefield.
• The Witch Clan army pushed south as the other powers kept the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan from sending reinforcements.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor and the Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor suspected Ning Chen and summoned him, while also ordering Xuan Que back to the city.
• Xuan Que worried that he had left Ning Chen to bear suspicion for Xuan Qing’s death, but his godfather urged him to focus on inheriting the throne.
• The Demonic Emperors confronted Ning Chen at the Three Emperors Hall, and Ning Chen denied knowing about Xuan Qing’s disappearance.

Ning Chen refused the imperial throne, prompting the Demonic Emperors to suspect Xuan Que, who was appointed Crown Prince. As the Witch Emperor and other powerful sovereigns moved toward the Primeval Demonic Realm, Ning Chen made his final move in a deadly chess game.

• The Seven Luminaries and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperors questioned Ning Chen about Xuan Qing's assassination, but Ning Chen stood firm under their pressure.
• Ning Chen refused to inherit the royal throne, leading the Demonic Emperors to suspect that Xuan Que had orchestrated the recent events.
• Xuan Que accepted the mantle of the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan, and the Demonic Emperors appointed him Crown Prince.
• Xuan Que received the Crown Prince's Token, while his Godfather warned him to prepare to receive the royal clan's destiny before the Witch Clan army arrived.
• The Witch Emperor set out for the Primeval Demonic Realm as other sovereigns stirred, and the awakened Demonic Emperors sensed their approach.
• The Witch Emperor appeared before the Witch Clan army, and Ning Chen dropped a black piece onto the chessboard in his manor.

Tian Xin led the Witch Clan into a decisive battle against the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan, using her knowledge of their cultivation techniques and the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ power to gain the upper hand. Though both emperors were wounded and Tian Xin was injured, the Heavenly Demon forces retreated as the Witch Clan army advanced toward the imperial city.

• Tian Xin attacked the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land with falling stars, and Seven Luminaries countered with demonic suns before their first exchanges left him wounded.
• Ning Chen realized Gou Huang had passed her knowledge of the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan’s cultivation weaknesses to Tian Xin, but Seven Luminaries soon adapted by abandoning those techniques.
• Tian Xin ordered the Twelve Witch Queens to advance and summoned the Twelve Ancestral Witches, empowering the Witch Clan army as it marched south.
• The Witch Clan and Heavenly Demon armies clashed five thousand miles north of the imperial city while Tian Xin and Seven Luminaries fought at close range, each suffering severe wounds.
• Emperors from three clans struck Seven Luminaries, and Eight Desolations carried him away from the battlefield.
• The Witch Clan routed the Heavenly Demon defenders and continued toward the Heavenly Demon Imperial City as Tian Xin watched, injured and unable to pursue.