Chapter Summaries

The First Pavilion Under Heaven intervened to save the unconscious Young Master Xiaobai and forced the Heavenly Demon princes to withdraw. Meanwhile, Ning Chen returned injured to the Underworld, secured a meeting with the Divine Realm’s Lord, and arrived there with Peacock.

• The Night Lord and the four Profound Realm Lords arrived in the Red Luan Starfield, rescued Young Master Xiaobai, and clashed with Xuanlie and Xuanqi before the princes withdrew.
• Qingshuang identified the injured man as a member of the Dragon Clan, and the First Pavilion Under Heaven departed to investigate him.
• Ning Chen returned to Yama King’s Hall injured and asked Peacock to arrange a meeting with the Lord of the Divine Realm.
• The Lord of the Divine Realm agreed to receive Ning Chen after Peacock reported his request, and Peacock took him toward the Divine Realm.
• Peacock asked Ning Chen about the Phoenix Body and the Black Phoenix Origin while they traveled, and he said the heavenly soul and phoenix origin had fused.
• After more than ten days, Peacock and Ning Chen reached the Divine Realm, and Peacock announced their arrival to her Master.

Ning Chen entered the Divine Realm with Peacock and met the Lord of the Divine Realm, who urged him to take responsibility for the Human Clan’s future. The Lord admitted that the Human Clan could not defeat the Primeval Demonic Realm or Demonic Emperor Kunyi, though he reminded Ning Chen that the present threat was not as hopeless as the Nether King.

• Peacock brought Ning Chen into the Divine Realm, where he saw the many Human Clan experts gathered on floating islands.
• Ning Chen exchanged greetings with Ancient Sun Venerable, who had reached the King Realm and was nearing its peak.
• Peacock explained that the Divine Realm no longer gathered every Human Clan expert and that the Netherworld was now the strongest Human Clan force outside it.
• Peacock introduced Ning Chen to the Lord of the Divine Realm, who told him that the Human Clan would soon depend on his generation.
• Ning Chen thanked the Lord for stopping the Scaly Emperor and asked how the Human Clan could oppose the Primeval Demonic Realm.
• The Lord said that even he and Venerable Changsheng could not defeat Demonic Emperor Kunyi, but noted that the threat was less absolute than the Nether King.

After learning about the Phoenix Clan’s secret art, Vermilion Bird sought confirmation from Xuan Jiuyou and then encountered Xuyao at the passage between realms. The two Fire Deities fought to the death, and Xuyao fell while Vermilion Bird remained standing.

• Ning Chen told Peacock that he carried the Dragon Clan’s fortune and Dragon Emperor Sword, and Peacock later learned her senior brother was in trouble and received a calling card from the old man.
• Ning Chen traveled to the Red Luan Starfield and asked the Divine Realm’s hidden agents for news of the Ghost Clan.
• Vermilion Bird asked Xuan Jiuyou whether Ning Chen had obtained the Phoenix Clan’s secret art, and Xuan Jiuyou confirmed that he had.
• Vermilion Bird and Xuyao met above the Eastern Continent and began fighting because the Fire Deities could not coexist.
• Vermilion Bird and Xuyao unleashed their ultimate arts and struck each other through the chest, but Xuyao fell as Vermilion Bird staggered and survived.

Ning Chen arrived at the Ghost Clan’s stronghold to demand whether the clan still honored its oath of allegiance, and the Ghost King challenged him to prove he could make them submit. Their battle left both powerful figures still fighting in the heavens, with Ning Chen’s eight dragons reduced to three.

• Ning Chen confronted the Ghost King and demanded to know whether the Ghost Clan’s oath of allegiance still held.
• The Ghost Clan Grand Elder attacked Ning Chen, who knocked him back with the Qihuang forbidden art.
• The Ghost King demanded that Ning Chen prove his strength, and the two rose into the sky to fight.
• Ning Chen and the Ghost King traded powerful attacks, including their clan’s signature arts and ultimate techniques.
• Ning Chen’s defenses held against the Ghost King’s Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, but five of his eight Giant Dragons shattered as the battle continued.

Ning Chen defeated the Ghost King by using his mastery of time to wear down her rejuvenation art, forcing the Ghost Clan to submit to him. After ordering the clan to join him in three months, he learned that the Phoenix Body needed time to fuse the Black Phoenix and Fire Phoenix origins and would be unable to help him.

• Ning Chen and the Ghost King fought fiercely until he struck her with the Soul Scattering Hand and gained the advantage.
• The Ghost King reversed time to restore her youth, but Ning Chen used the Time Restriction to drain her lifespan until she admitted defeat.
• The Ghost King and the other Ghost Clan kings knelt before Ning Chen, who ordered them to leave with him in three months.
• The Ghost King explained that the clan accepted Ning Chen's rule because she had lost their wager and because the human race might yet prevail against the hundred clans.
• The Phoenix Body awakened and praised Ning Chen for subduing the Ghost Clan, then revealed it could not help him while it fused the Black Phoenix and Fire Phoenix origins.

The Night Lord returned to the human world and tried to save a grievously wounded Dragon Clan expert. Meanwhile, Ning Chen secured agreement to accept the Ghost Clan as allies and sent Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, and Yi Xuanmiao to escort their people out of the Red Luan Starfield, warning them to prioritize their own survival.

• The Night Lord established the Four Symbols formation around First Pavilion Under Heaven at the border of the Red Luan and Spirit Void Starfields.
• Qing Shuang told the Night Lord that she could only delay the Dragon Clan expert’s injuries, and he ordered her to do everything possible to save him.
• Ning Chen explained to the Ten Yama Kings and the Wuchang why the Ghost Clan might surrender, and argued that their strength could benefit humanity despite their uncertain loyalty.
• Ning Chen asked the Underworld leaders to help evacuate the Ghost Clan from the Red Luan Starfield, which the hundred clans had occupied.
• Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, and Yi Xuanmiao accepted the mission, while Ning Chen placed Xia Ziyi in command of the Underworld during his absence.
• Before the group departed, Ning Chen ordered the three to preserve their lives above all else, even if the Ghost Clan’s people died.

Ning Chen led the Ghost Clan’s migration toward the Human Race, but the Heavenly Demon army intercepted them at the edge of the Red Luan Starfield. The Ghost King, Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang, and Yi Xuanmiao faced the enemy’s four leaders as Luo Xingchen prepared to strike from the shadows.

• Ning Chen verified that the Ghost Clan had gathered on the Primeval Great Star, then led the clan’s war chariots into the starry sky while Mu Qianshang and Yi Xuanmiao guarded the rear.
• After more than ten days of uninterrupted travel, Ning Chen sensed danger ahead and warned Mu Qianshang and Yi Xuanmiao to stay alert.
• Luo Xingchen spotted the Heavenly Demon army led by Xuanlie, Xuan Mo, Garuda, and Gandharva, and Ning Chen halted the Ghost Clan procession.
• The Ghost King and Ning Chen agreed to face Xuanlie and Xuan Mo, while Mu Qianshang and Yi Xuanmiao took on Garuda and Gandharva as the Heavenly Demon army charged.
• Ning Chen and Xuan Mo began their duel, and Luo Xingchen drew Star Scars to its full arc and readied four arrows from beyond the battlefield.

Ning Chen, the Ghost King, Mu Qianshang, and Yi Xuanmiao battled the Heavenly Demon Kings to open a path for the Ghost Race to escape the Red Luan Starfield. After the Ghost Race convoy fled with heavy losses, Ning Chen sent Yi Xuanmiao ahead with them and stayed behind with Mu Qianshang and Luo Xingchen to strike back at the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.

• Ning Chen revealed his blade and sword abilities and fought Xuan Mo's ultimate attack with his own forbidden technique.
• The Ghost King seized Xuanlie's distraction to wound him, then met his Chaos Demonic Essence with her near-Imperial Dao power.
• Mu Qianshang and Garuda fought within the Landscape Sword Domain while the four battlefields shook from the clashes between the strongest fighters.
• Four arrows suddenly struck the Heavenly Demon Kings, allowing Ning Chen, the Ghost King, Mu Qianshang, and Yi Xuanmiao to unleash their ultimate moves and break through the encirclement.
• Xuanlie ordered Gandharva and Garuda to secretly follow the escaping group and investigate Ning Chen's identity.
• Ning Chen caught up with the Ghost Race convoy, learned it had lost thirty percent of its people, and ordered Yi Xuanmiao to escort them to safety while he, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen stayed behind.

Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen ambushed the pursuing Heavenly Demon Royal Clan experts Gandharva and Garuda. Ning Chen killed Gandharva, but Garuda broke through during the battle and reached half a step into the Imperial Dao.

• Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang ambushed Gandharva and Garuda as they pursued Yi Xuanmiao’s ghost clan party.
• Ning Chen used his poison immunity and superior swordsmanship to grievously wound Gandharva, while Mu Qianshang held Garuda back in the Landscape Sword Domain.
• Luo Xingchen struck both demons with hidden arrows and helped block their retreat.
• Gandharva detonated her cultivation in a final attack, but Ning Chen defeated her and she died.
• Ning Chen and Luo Xingchen joined Mu Qianshang against Garuda, who broke through under their combined assault and reached half a step into the Imperial Dao.

Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen drove Garuda into retreat, while Peacock visited the First Pavilion Under Heaven to take the wounded Young Master Xiaobai back to the Purple Star Divine Realm. The Night Lord learned that Xiaobai carried Dragon Emperor blood and that the human race still had an Imperial Dao expert, and he let Peacock leave as part of his plan to reconnect the pavilion with the human race.

• Garuda broke through to half a step into the Imperial Dao, but Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang fought him while Luo Xingchen struck from afar, forcing Garuda to flee wounded.
• Ning Chen led Luo Xingchen and Mu Qianshang back toward the Purple Star Starfield to support the Ghost Clan as the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan suffered further losses.
• Peacock arrived at the First Pavilion Under Heaven and told the Night Lord she had come to take her senior brother, Young Master Xiaobai, home.
• Peacock revealed that Xiaobai carried the blood of the Dragon Emperor, and the Night Lord ordered Qingshuang to bring him from the Northern Profound Realm.
• Peacock took Xiaobai, still sealed in an Ice Coffin, and said her master in the Purple Star Divine Realm could treat him; she identified her master’s realm as the Imperial Dao.
• Before Peacock departed, the Night Lord asked about Ning Chen, and Peacock said he was the master of the Underworld and would meet the Night Lord again soon.

Ning Chen settled the Ghost Clan in the Underworld and lent the Dragon Emperor Sword to save Young Master Xiaobai, whose recovery awakened the sword and drew the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan toward war. The chapter ended with Demonic Emperor Kunyi confronting Xuan Jiuyou over his past and the coming conflict.

• Ning Chen brought the Ghost Clan to the Underworld, created a new ancestral abyss for them, and placed Luo Xingchen in charge of their safety.
• The Peacock borrowed the Dragon Emperor Sword from Ning Chen to save the gravely injured Young Master Xiaobai.
• The Lord of the Divine Realm used Imperial Dao Law and the Dragon Emperor Sword to heal Young Master Xiaobai, who then departed beneath gathering tribulation clouds.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi ordered Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor to summon the emperors of the four royal clans and begin a full-scale campaign against the human race.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi confronted Xuan Jiuyou in the Nine Nether King's Estate, and Xuan Jiuyou challenged his belief that the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan's power made it fit to rule.

Demonic Emperor Kunyi failed to persuade Xuan Jiuyou to join the war, while Tian Xin refused the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor’s demand to exterminate humanity. The Hundred Races launched a full-scale assault on human starfields, and Ning Chen declared he would fight against Heaven as the war began.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi confronted Xuan Jiuyou, who refused to help invade the human race unless the Heavenly Demon Clan faced extermination.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor urged Tian Xin to support a full-scale attack and wipe out humanity, but she refused to take part in exterminating an entire race.
• The Lord of Divine Capital, the Scaly Emperor, and the Lord of the Holy Domain prepared for the conflict as the Witch Race assessed the heavenly secrets.
• Ten days later, the Hundred Races split into four divisions and attacked human starfields, carrying out an extermination campaign that spread fear across the human race.
• The Lord of the Divine Realm told Venerable Changsheng that the war had begun, and the Blue-robed Diviner left his fortune-telling stall to answer the call.
• While playing chess with the Moonlit Tower Master in Wuchang Hall, Ning Chen declared that he would fight against Heaven.

Ning Chen discussed humanity’s military weakness and the risks of relying on the Divine Realm as the Underworld prepared for the demonic war. When the Sacred Domain attacked the Buddhist Nation, Ning Chen and the returned Buddhist Lord Aizen Myōō led the defenders, and Ning Chen began fighting Luojia.

• Ning Chen asked the Moonlit Tower Master to compare his spear skills with Asura’s, and the Tower Master said he had at most a thirty percent chance of winning.
• Ruoxi returned without finding Venerable Lady or Senior Sister Die, reporting that they and Xuan Luo had vanished after a battle; Ning Chen said he still needed true masters of palm techniques and blade arts.
• Ning Chen warned that the Underworld could ally with the Divine Realm but could not trust its Lord without reservation.
• Qing Shuang, Yun Huo, and Cong Feng led First Pavilion Under Heaven’s forces against Divine Capital Mountain, killing three Divine Capital Kings, while the Sacred Domain army advanced across the starfields.
• Luojia’s forces gathered to crush the Buddhist Nation, but Ning Chen, Aizen Myōō, Luo Xingchen, and the Underworld’s four Yamas arrived to defend it.
• Ning Chen and Luojia began a fierce duel as the four Yamas confronted the other Sacred Domain Palace Masters.

Ning Chen and Luojia fought a devastating battle above the Sumeru Buddhist Kingdom, with Luojia’s Sacred Art ultimately countering Ning Chen’s demonic power and grievously wounding him. Mu Chengxue arrived to help, but Ning Chen prepared to continue with his blade and Ghost Sword after learning her Chengying had broken.

• Ning Chen seized the advantage over Luojia, while Luo Xingchen and Mu Qianshang joined forces against the Twelfth Palace Master and Aizen Myōō and Lin Yuzhen attacked the Eighth Palace Master.
• Luojia revealed his near-Imperial strength, and he and Ning Chen traded devastating attacks without either gaining the upper hand.
• Luojia challenged Ning Chen to stop holding back, and Ning Chen unleashed Six Paths of Reincarnation with Ghost Qi as Luojia used Sacred Art, Twin Star Explosion.
• Luojia’s holy light countered Ning Chen’s demonic arts and hurled him away with grievous injuries, while Mu Qianshang, Lin Yuzhen, and the others were kept from reaching him.
• Mu Chengxue caught Ning Chen and said Sister Qing Ling had sent her to help; Ning Chen noted her Chengying had broken and readied Mad Bone Blade and Ghost Sword instead.

Ning Chen fought Luojia in a desperate battle above the Buddhist Kingdom while armies clashed across the starfield. As the world watched, both kings unleashed their final moves, and the exploding Golden Light Illusion swallowed the battlefield.

• Ning Chen joined Mu Chengxue against Luojia, and the two repeatedly clashed blade and sword against the Sacred Law until both were badly wounded.
• Luojia trapped Ning Chen in the Golden Light Illusion and struck him with exploding stars, but Ning Chen survived with the Qihuang Secret Art and charged back into battle.
• The Divine Realm’s Seven Shadow Kings and a mysterious human inheritance blocked Sacred Domain and Scale Clan forces, while the Heavenly Demon Clan captured more than half of the Luojia Starfield.
• The Lord of the Divine Realm and the Blue-robed Diviner discussed humanity’s sacrifices and placed their hope in Ning Chen, whose battle was projected across the Great Life Stars.
• Ning Chen unleashed the Nine Nether Battle Art’s tenfold attack with “Blade and Sword Sing Together, the Ultimate Path Knows No Bounds,” while Luojia answered with “Limit of the Universe.”
• Ning Chen and Luojia’s final moves collided, destroying the Golden Light Illusion and sending a shockwave across the battlefield.

Ning Chen defeated Luojia in the Buddhist Kingdom, but the battle left him gravely injured from the backlash of the Soaring Swan Art. As Mu Chengxue carried him toward the Divine Realm, the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan’s forces caught up, and she prepared to fight a path through them.

• Ning Chen defeated Luojia, who ordered the Sacred Domain army to withdraw from the Buddhist Kingdom.
• Ning Chen collapsed from his injuries and ordered Aizen Myōō, Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, and King Qi to protect the Buddhist Kingdom before leaving with Mu Chengxue.
• The human world took hope from Ning Chen’s victory as the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan, Divine Realm, and Underworld mobilized to find him.
• Ning Chen told Mu Chengxue to avoid returning to the Underworld and head for the Divine Realm instead.
• Mahoraga, Garuda, and a hundred winged demons caught up with Mu Chengxue and Ning Chen as his blood and vitality continued to fade.
• Mu Chengxue took Ning Chen’s sword and vowed to carve out a path of life through the pursuing demons.

Mu Chengxue fought through a demon army while carrying the nearly unconscious Ning Chen, then fled with him toward the Divine Realm. With Garuda and Mahoraga closing in, she unleashed all her Forbidden Essence through Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion, leaving her transformed beneath gathering tribulation clouds.

• Mu Chengxue used the Ghost Sword and Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion to fight through a hundred black-winged demons as Mahoraga joined the battle.
• Garuda entered the fight, and Mu Chengxue nearly killed both demon kings before they renewed their attacks and wounded her.
• Mu Chengxue broke through the encirclement, carrying the exhausted Ning Chen away as Garuda, Mahoraga, and the surviving demons pursued them.
• Ning Chen asked Mu Chengxue whether she regretted her choice, and she accepted his answer that he had no regrets.
• With the pursuers nearing, Mu Chengxue opened the seals within her body and released all her Forbidden Essence beneath gathering tribulation clouds.

Mu Chengxue stripped Mahoraga of his senses, bones, and souls, then killed Garuda’s demon forces and left the Marquis of Knowing Fate in the Divine Realm’s care. After recovering an ancient sword on a ruined star, she encountered Underworld King Yama, and the two prepared to fight.

• Mu Chengxue killed Mahoraga by stripping away his five senses, martial bones, seven souls, and three ethereal souls, then killed the demons Garuda sent against her as Garuda escaped.
• Peacock and the Divine Realm’s experts found Mu Chengxue and the unconscious Marquis of Knowing Fate; Mu Chengxue left him and flew away.
• The Lord of the Divine Realm learned that Mu Chengxue had become the Supreme One and ordered Silver Moon to invite Ye Tianxing to the Divine Realm.
• Mu Chengxue traveled to a ruined Great Life Star, found an ancient sword on an altar, and restored it by touching it.
• Underworld King Yama appeared in an Immortal Palanquin and raised Yandi as she confronted Mu Chengxue.

Night Lord visited the Divine Realm and met with Ning Chen, discussing humanity’s preparations against the hundred races and warning of Divine Capital Mountain’s hidden King Realm fighters. Meanwhile, Underworld King Yama and Mu Chengxue clashed in a devastating battle that destroyed a Great Life Star, and Yama summoned an army of one hundred thousand to kill Taishang.

• Ye Tianxing met the Divine Realm Lord and exchanged intelligence about the hundred races and their royal clans.
• Peacock brought Night Lord to visit the injured Ning Chen, where he learned Qing Ling was Ning Chen’s elder sister and warned of Divine Capital Mountain’s concealed strength.
• Qing Ling told Peacock she had known Ning Chen for more than a hundred years, and Peacock urged her to help him endure Mu Chengxue’s situation.
• Underworld King Yama and Mu Chengxue fought with Yandi and the Taishang Divine Sword, unleashing powers that shattered the Great Life Star.
• Underworld King Yama summoned one hundred thousand spirits from the Underworld and declared that Taishang would die.

Underworld King Yama and Mu Chengxue ended their fierce battle when Underworld Soldiers approached, while four emperors of the Primeval Demonic Realm gathered and invaded the Purple Star Starfield. As the emperors threatened the human Divine Realm, Mu Changge emerged from seclusion to face them, and Ning Chen rushed after him.

• Underworld King Yama sensed approaching Underworld Soldiers, withdrew to the Immortal Palanquin, and departed; Mu Chengxue watched before leaving as well.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor invited Yu Luowu to join him in pressuring humanity's emperors, and they traveled with the Scaly Emperor and the Lord of the Western Sacred Domain to the Outer Heavens.
• The four emperors entered the Purple Star Starfield, where their Imperial Might shattered stars and put the human experts on guard.
• Mu Changge emerged from seclusion and left the Heavenly Palace to confront the invading emperors, while Chao Tianxi agreed to protect the sacred ground.
• Ning Chen recognized Mu Changge's sword pressure and set out after him despite Qing Ling's warning about his injuries.
• Mu Changge arrived before the four emperors, and the Scaly Emperor stepped forward to block his Sword Qi.