Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen reunited with Qing Ling and A'man in the underworld before visiting the Ghost Clan to seek information about materials for a new sword. The Ghost King revealed the clan's wariness of Ning Chen, while hidden powerful beings judged A'man and the Thirteen Heavenly Demon Sons to be dangerous.

• Qing Ling urged Ning Chen to stop carrying every burden alone, and he told her he would soon leave to find a sword after Ghost Sword was damaged.
• Ning Chen reunited with A'man and took her to Yinhai Ghost Prison, where the Ghost King welcomed them and discussed the destroyed Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• The Ghost King named the depths of the ocean, the stars, and earthfire as possible sources of divine materials, then warned Ning Chen that A'man's potential surpassed his own.
• The Ghost King admitted that the clan kept Ning Chen away from some places to preserve its means of self-defense, and Ning Chen promised not to harm them if they did not betray humanity.
• After Ning Chen and A'man left, powerful beings hidden within the Ghost Clan awakened and called A'man extraordinary and the Thirteen Heavenly Demon Sons terrifying, but the Ghost King ordered them back to sleep.

Ning Chen searched across the great starfields for the divine materials needed to forge a sword while the Primeval Demonic Realm prepared to invade the Purple Star Starfield. After finally gathering enough materials, he and his Phoenix Body began forging the weapon, while the Underworld remained uncertain how to respond to the approaching war.

• Ning Chen departed from A'man and searched oceans, dead stars, and volcanic depths for sword-forging materials, traveling across nearly a hundred great stars over ten months.
• The Primeval Demonic Realm assembled its hundred races in the Red Luan Starfield, and its Emperor ordered Asura to invade the Purple Star Starfield once the time arrived.
• Qing Ling and Peacock discussed the threat of an early invasion and debated whether the Underworld should fight or avoid the enemy, while Ning Chen remained away searching for materials.
• Ning Chen finally obtained enough divine materials in the Shaking Light Starfield and summoned his Phoenix Body.
• Ning Chen and his Phoenix Body used phoenix fire to begin forging a peerless divine weapon from three types of Sword Embryo materials.

Ning Chen and the Phoenix Body completed three divine swords after years of forging and endured a final lightning tribulation. As the demon army advanced on the Purple Star Starfield, eight underworld kings chose to fight, and Ning Chen set off to return to the underworld.

• Ning Chen and the Phoenix Body forged three swords from divine materials, tempering them with their blood and phoenix fire over more than two years.
• Ning Chen first sealed the swords from a premature heavenly tribulation, then allowed a later tribulation to temper them with lightning.
• One hundred thousand demon troops marched from the Red Luan Starfield toward the Purple Star Starfield, and Qing Ling ordered the underworld to retreat.
• Xia Ziyi, Consort Luo, Mu Qianshang, Luo Xingchen, Yin'er, Lin Yuzhen, Yi Xuanmiao, and Aizen Myōō requested battle, leaving eight kings committed to fighting.
• Ning Chen and the Phoenix Body destroyed the final scarlet lightning tribulation with their swords, completed the divine weapons, and Ning Chen headed back to the underworld.

The Heavenly Demon army found and surrounded the Underworld, where Xia Ziyi challenged Asura to a duel as the Human Race kings prepared to defend their home. The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor intervened, but Ning Chen returned to stop his fatal attack and began fighting the emperor.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi found the Underworld's location and sent the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor to assist Asura, while Kunyi confronted the Three Human Emperors in the Red Luan Starfield.
• Asura led the Heavenly Demon kings in an assault on the Underworld's divine restriction, and eleven Human Race kings emerged to defend it.
• Xia Ziyi challenged Asura to single combat, and their battle intensified as both unleashed powerful techniques.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor struck at Xia Ziyi during the duel, but Ning Chen appeared and blocked the attack with his sword.
• Ning Chen fought the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor, then manifested the ten volumes of the Heavenly Tome of Creation.

Ning Chen fought the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor at the Netherworld and killed him after a brutal battle, though the emperor’s sudden counterattack nearly turned the fight. With the emperor slain, Ning Chen ordered the Netherworld kings to kill the remaining enemies.

• Ning Chen returned to the Netherworld and met the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor in battle, using the Heavenly Tome of Creation and his divine sword to match the emperor’s power.
• Ning Chen and the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor traded sword techniques and demonic attacks until both were wounded, driving the emperor into a furious transformation into a ten-thousand-foot demon.
• Ning Chen used Sword Art, Taiyi, to cleave the giant demon in half, but the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor unleashed Chaos Demonic Essence and struck Ning Chen while he tried to finish him.
• An Immortal Bell blocked the emperor’s follow-up attack and its sound shattered the Chaos Demonic Qi suppressing Ning Chen, allowing him to resume fighting.
• Ning Chen endured the emperor’s attacks, severed his arm, and then beheaded him with the divine sword.
• Ning Chen ordered the Netherworld kings to kill the remaining enemies and leave none alive.

After defeating the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor, Ning Chen faced Demonic Emperor Kunyi but was overwhelmed while still injured. The Blue-robed Diviner and Lord of the Divine Realm intervened, sent Ning Chen away, and fought Kunyi in a final battle whose outcome was hidden by a catastrophic explosion.

• Ning Chen killed the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor, and Asura ordered the defeated Heavenly Demon army to retreat as the underworld's kings pursued them.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi arrived above the Purple Star Starfield, and Ning Chen drew him away so Xia Ziyi and the underworld's kings could escape.
• Ning Chen fought Kunyi while wounded, but his attacks failed to overcome Kunyi's Demonic Might, and Kunyi drove him toward death.
• The Blue-robed Diviner and Lord of the Divine Realm blocked Kunyi, declared Ning Chen the new Lord of the Divine Realm, and sent him away from the battlefield.
• The Blue-robed Diviner and Lord of the Divine Realm burned their lives to regain their peak strength and fought Kunyi; a vast explosion then swallowed the battlefield and all three auras vanished.

After surviving the battle that killed two human emperors, Kunyi vanished, and Ning Chen moved the Netherworld into the Divine Realm before receiving the Purple Star Sacred Seal as its new Realm Lord. Four months later, the human and demon armies mobilized for their approaching decisive battle.

• Kunyi survived the two human emperors’ self-destruction, then left the devastated Purple Star Starfield as the war temporarily ended.
• Ning Chen led the Netherworld’s kings in moving the Primeval Great Star into the Divine Realm.
• Peacock gave Ning Chen the Purple Star Sacred Seal, and the Divine Realm’s kings welcomed him as their new Realm Lord.
• Young Master Xiaobai asked Ning Chen about his father and whether humanity would win, and Ning Chen promised victory regardless of the cost.
• Qing Ling joined Ning Chen on the peak, where they discussed the demon-held Red Luan Starfield and the burden of restoring peace.
• Four months later, the Heavenly Demon Monarch and Ning Chen ordered their armies to deploy as the human and demon emperors gathered for the decisive battle.

At the decisive battle between the human and demonic realm armies, Young Master Xiaobai fought Scaly Emperor while three human leaders challenged the Western Sacred Lord. As Yu Luowu entered the fray, Ning Chen waited for reinforcements he expected to return soon.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi sent Scaly Emperor to fight Young Master Xiaobai, whose Dragon Emperor Sword and dragon might met Scaly Emperor's absolute defense in a fierce clash.
• Ning Chen and Demonic Emperor Kunyi blocked the emperors' battle shockwaves as the human and demonic armies watched.
• Ning Chen ordered Xia Ziyi, Ancient Sun Venerable, and Night Lord Ye Tianxing to face the Western Sacred Lord, and the three used their powers together to hold him at bay.
• The Western Sacred Lord identified Ancient Sun Venerable's Time Restriction and Xia Ziyi's Power of the Underworld King, while Night Lord attacked unseen with the Cloud Dragon Divine Halberd.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi ordered Yu Luowu into battle, and Ning Chen looked toward the All Heavens Starfield, wondering if the expected reinforcements had returned.

Ning Chen freed Black Phoenix from the Immortal Burial Forbidden Land after securing his oath to defend humanity against the Primeval Demonic Realm, then brought him to the battlefield at Purple Star and the Red Luan Starfield. Black Phoenix fought Yu Luowu, and their clash ended with both emperors wounded.

• Ning Chen’s Phoenix Body entered the Immortal Burial Forbidden Land and offered to free Black Phoenix if he swore to help humanity repel the Primeval Demonic Realm’s invasion.
• Black Phoenix swore the oath, and Ning Chen broke his chains; Black Phoenix attacked Ning Chen in anger before following him out of the forbidden land.
• At the battlefield, Ning Chen reunited with his Phoenix Body and ordered Black Phoenix to fight the Lord of Divine Capital, Yu Luowu.
• Black Phoenix trapped Yu Luowu in his black flames and wounded him with a powerful fist, but Yu Luowu answered with his azure currents and Crescent Moon Long Saber.
• Ning Chen and Demonic Emperor Kunyi shielded the armies from the emperors’ clash, which ended with Yu Luowu bleeding from his chest and Black Phoenix bearing a saber wound on his right hand.

The Lord of Divine Capital adapted to the Black Phoenix’s strange flames and wounded her, but the two combatants were left gravely injured after unleashing their strongest attacks. Demonic Emperor Kunyi entered the battlefield and attacked the Black Phoenix, and Ning Chen stepped in with the Scroll of Nothingness.

• Yu Luowu changed from defense to offense and adapted to the Black Phoenix’s black flames, forcing her to retreat and injuring her hand.
• The Black Phoenix invoked the Eye of the Underworld Phoenix while Yu Luowu unleashed a powerful saber strike, leaving both of them grievously wounded.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi entered the battle and sent a palm of Chaos Demonic Qi toward the Black Phoenix.
• Ning Chen stepped forth with the Heavenly Tome of Creation and used the Scroll of Nothingness to meet Kunyi’s attack.

Ning Chen battled Demonic Emperor Kunyi on the battlefield, using the Heavenly Tome of Creation and the Two-Form Grand Array but suffering heavy injuries as Kunyi overpowered him. With the array shattered and the human army unable to intervene, Ning Chen called upon the immortal swords across the Red Luan Starfield, and the four swords returned to the sky.

• Black Phoenix and Marquis of Knowing Fate entered the battle and helped the human forces withstand the demon realm’s attacks, while Ning Chen confronted Demonic Emperor Kunyi.
• Ning Chen used the Heavenly Tome of Creation to draw great stars toward Kunyi and detonate them, but Kunyi survived with only a light injury.
• Ning Chen merged with the Phoenix Body, summoned the Phoenix Sword, and formed the Two-Form Grand Array with the human sword and Heavenly Tome.
• Ning Chen fought Kunyi within the array, but Kunyi broke through its defenses and struck Ning Chen grievously, leaving him at a disadvantage.
• Luo Xingchen urged Ning Chen to keep fighting, and Ning Chen called out to the immortal swords across the Red Luan Starfield.
• The four swords returned to the human world, shocking the kings of both realms.

Marquis of Knowing Fate joined his three bodies and wielded the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to fight Demonic Emperor Kunyi in the decisive battle between the human and devil realms. Ning Chen and Kunyi both suffered injuries, and the chapter ended with Kunyi wary of the still-unused Immortal Severance Sword.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi recognized the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and summoned his Death Scythe as Marquis of Knowing Fate prepared to face him.
• Ning Chen united the power of his human, phoenix, and devil bodies, opened a crack in the Immortal Gate, and received immortal light.
• The armies of both realms retreated one hundred thousand li while Ning Chen and Kunyi began their battle across the starry sky.
• Ning Chen’s swords and Kunyi’s Death Scythe clashed in a fierce exchange, with the Trapping Immortal Sword repeatedly helping Ning Chen press his attack.
• Kunyi gained the upper hand and injured Ning Chen, but their continued exchanges also caused blood to spill from Kunyi’s mouth.
• Ning Chen used the Heavenly Tome’s Scroll of Life to heal while Kunyi watched the unused Immortal Severance Sword and suspected it was Ning Chen’s true trump card.

Ning Chen and Demonic Emperor Kunyi fought through a ten-move duel, trading devastating attacks as both healed from their wounds. Ning Chen summoned the restored Immortal Severance Sword and gained the upper hand with his speed, leaving Kunyi braced for the remaining four moves.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi used the ninth transformation of the Heavenly Demon, and Ning Chen shattered its reincarnation manifestation with King Yama's Divine Zither and three immortal swords.
• Ning Chen unleashed Sword Eleven, Sword Twelve, and Sword Thirteen, wounding Kunyi and forcing him to defend against their combined force.
• Asura and Xuan Mo watched the battle, while Kunyi declared that five moves remained in their showdown.
• Ning Chen summoned the complete Immortal Severance Sword, restored with the Immortal Divine Tree's origin, and bonded it to his right arm.
• Ning Chen struck faster than Kunyi could track, forcing Kunyi to protect his vital points as Knowing Fate's voice declared that four moves remained.

Ning Chen and Demonic Emperor Kunyi fought a decisive battle beneath the stars, each suffering grave wounds as the final moves approached. Ning Chen unleashed a forbidden sword powered by countless living beings' resentment and struck Kunyi down, leaving the monarch's body split apart as Chaos Demonic Qi tried to restore him.

• Ning Chen used Immortal Slaying to pierce Demonic Emperor Kunyi's chest, but Kunyi struck him into an asteroid and both fighters suffered severe injuries.
• Ning Chen's Phoenix Body appeared behind Kunyi and Immortal Slaying pierced his left shoulder, grievously wounding him.
• Ning Chen's two bodies absorbed the resentment of countless living beings, causing their flesh to collapse as Qing Ling and A'man watched.
• Ning Chen's two bodies combined their forbidden sword techniques into a black-and-white divine sword and drove it down at Kunyi.
• The divine sword and Death Scythe shattered, and Ning Chen's Four Immortal Slaying Swords beheaded Kunyi and split his body into five pieces.

Ning Chen defeated the Heavenly Demon Monarch, crippled the Scaly Emperor, and faced his master Xuan Jiuyou in a duel that ended the fighting between the realms. After the demon army withdrew and the souls of the dead departed, Ning Chen left the battlefield with Qing Ling.

• Ning Chen and the Phoenix Body sealed the Heavenly Demon Monarch's body parts in separate Minor Worlds, but Xuan Luo escaped with the Monarch's head after Ning Chen wounded him.
• Ning Chen overwhelmed the Scaly Emperor, destroyed his cultivation, and burned him with Phoenix Divine Flame.
• Xuan Jiuyou challenged Ning Chen to one move; Ning Chen's Nirvana sword strike prevailed, and Xuan Jiuyou ordered the demon forces to withdraw.
• Ning Chen ordered the human army to pursue the retreating Heavenly Demon army as the resentment of billions of souls left his body.
• The remnant souls saluted Ning Chen before dispersing, and he departed with Qing Ling after telling A'man he had fulfilled his promise.

After the human victory drove the demonic armies from the Red Luan Starfield, Ning Chen secretly returned to Great Xia with Qing Ling and visited the Zhiming Marquisate. His return was discovered as he approached Heavenly Edict Hall to meet Xia Chi, leaving the palace poised for a reunion with its legendary guardian.

• The human army defeated the Primeval Demonic Realm, and the Ghost King thanked Yin Ji for helping the ghost clan become Dragon-Following Vassals and gain a foundation in the Red Luan Starfield.
• Ning Chen and Qing Ling returned to Great Xia and entered the Zhiming Marquisate, where Ning Chen suppressed the hidden royal Attendants without harming them.
• Bai Ye recognized Ning Chen as his master, and Ning Chen gave him a silver sword containing his insights before sending him away to avoid causing unrest.
• Xia Chi learned that someone had entered the marquisate and ordered an investigation, while Bai Ye told Kong Yu and another Martial Marquis that Ning Chen had returned.
• Ning Chen and Qing Ling entered the imperial palace, and Ning Chen climbed the thousand-tier staircase toward Heavenly Edict Hall as Xia Chi sensed his presence.

Ning Chen returned to the Great Xia palace, reunited with Xia Chi and Qing Ling, and advised the court while strengthening Kong Yu and curbing the Martial Marquises’ authority. He then learned that Mingyue had abdicated the Northern Mongol throne twenty years earlier and disappeared.

• Ning Chen and Qing Ling reunited with Xia Chi in the Heavenly Edict Hall, where Great Xia’s officials gathered to meet the returning Marquis of Knowing Fate.
• Ning Chen told the officials that he had reached the peak of the King Realm and explained that mastering a law of heaven and earth was necessary to enter the Fourth Realm.
• Ning Chen used the Heavenly Book and spiritual energy to refine Kong Yu’s foundation, repaying him for the time he had sacrificed in Great Xia’s wars.
• After an old minister named Ji Rong raised concerns about the Martial Marquises’ power, Kong Yu, Bai Ye, and the third Martial Marquis agreed to relinquish their authority.
• Ning Chen asked Xia Chi about Mingyue, and Xia Chi said she had left the Northern Mongol throne twenty years earlier and vanished.

Ning Chen and Qing Ling returned to Changsun’s grave, then traveled to Northern Mongolia to learn that Mingyue had left with Zijing twenty years earlier. At the Moon Worshipper Ancient Land, the Moon God urged Ning Chen to enter the Divine Realm before his cultivation failed, but he chose to remain in the mortal realm and wait nine hundred years for someone.

• Ning Chen and Qing Ling knelt at Changsun’s grave, shared a century of stories, and Ning Chen asked her to bless his search for Xin Yu’s reincarnation.
• Ning Chen and Qing Ling traveled to Northern Mongolia, where Ning Chen met Su Feiyan and learned that Mingyue had passed down the throne and departed with Zijing twenty years earlier.
• Ning Chen and Qing Ling decided not to search for Mingyue and left Northern Mongolia.
• Months later, Ning Chen returned to the Moon Worshipper Ancient Land, where the Moon God warned that his body and cultivation were failing and urged him to enter the Divine Realm.
• Ning Chen refused to ascend, saying he would wait nine hundred years for someone in the mortal realm.

Ning Chen watched over humanity as it recovered and entered a prosperous age, while his ruined foundation and years of bearing the resentment of the dead steadily weakened him. When the Black Phoenix attacked a newly ascended Sovereign, Ning Chen helped Young Master Xiaobai defeat him, then suffered a violent relapse that left him unable to draw his sword again.

• Ning Chen returned to the Purple Star Divine Realm and spent centuries watching over humanity as its kings rebuilt the starfields and the Underworld kings eventually departed.
• Humanity recovered, martial cultivation flourished, and a newly ascended Sovereign visited Ning Chen, who defeated his Imperial Dao Law with a single sword.
• When a second Sovereign attained the Dao, Ning Chen ordered Young Master Xiaobai to pursue the Black Phoenix, who attacked the wounded Sovereign and was confronted by the Dragon Emperor.
• Young Master Xiaobai fought the Black Phoenix for a thousand days until Ning Chen summoned billions of swords from across the human world, incapacitating him.
• Young Master Xiaobai brought the Black Phoenix to the Divine Realm, where Ning Chen ordered him sealed and imprisoned beneath Purple Star Peak.
• After using his sword to capture the Black Phoenix, Ning Chen coughed blood as Peacock warned him not to fight again; he admitted he could no longer draw his sword.

After centuries of guarding the human world, Ning Chen investigated a mysterious spatial rift after a human emperor died and Young Master Xiaobai was attacked by a gigantic hand that destroyed the Dragon Emperor Sword. Ning Chen found no trace of the force behind the attack and returned to Purple Star Divine Realm, while the threat remained concealed as the eighth century began.

• Xuan Luo watched from the edge of the starry domain but avoided confronting Ning Chen, who sensed a presence in the distance.
• Peacock underwent Dao Transformation, and the peach tree that had accompanied Ning Chen for a century died after blooming once more.
• A human emperor died mysteriously, and Ning Chen sent Young Master Xiaobai to investigate the remains.
• A gigantic hand emerged from a spatial rift, destroyed the Dragon Emperor Sword, and grievously wounded Young Master Xiaobai before he escaped.
• After Young Master Xiaobai reported the attack, Ning Chen traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Star Domain and waited decades before returning without finding the hidden force.
• Ning Chen reunited with Qing Ling, while the danger behind the spatial rift remained unresolved as the eighth century began.