Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen entered devilhood after killing Water Cloud Heavenly Maiden, and the Divine Realm’s rulers sent Azure Face and an army of divine generals to stop him. Ning Chen overwhelmed the attackers and absorbed their divine essence as the man in white descended to confront him.

• Ning Chen devoured Water Cloud Heavenly Maiden despite Teacher’s demand that he stop, then left, while Li Blacksmith concluded that he had chosen devilhood willingly.
• Teacher departed to deal with the devilish calamity, and the worried young man in blue went after him.
• At a gathering in the Hall of Gods, Vermilion Bird Divine Lord ordered Azure Face to confront Ning Chen and Flowing Stream to accompany him.
• Three days later, Azure Face attacked Ning Chen beneath a vast force of chariots, but Ning Chen struck him back and unleashed his devil sword against the approaching divine generals.
• Ning Chen’s Cycle of Rebirth Hell swallowed the battlefield, killing and devouring thousands of divine generals as their essence strengthened him.
• The man in white descended from his Bronze Chariot after watching Ning Chen slaughter the army.

Ning Chen defeated Flowing Stream Divine Monarch and Qingmian, then killed Flowing Stream and disguised himself to infiltrate the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple. There, he learned that the Kirin Divine Lord was emerging from seclusion to slay gods.

• Ning Chen overwhelmed Flowing Stream Divine Monarch and Qingmian with the power gathered inside Senluo Hell.
• A giant hand rescued Qingmian as Ning Chen cut off its arm, while Flowing Stream escaped aboard the Bronze Chariot.
• Ning Chen caught Flowing Stream, killed him, and took his appearance and clothing to impersonate him.
• Ning Chen entered the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple and told its gods that the mission was complete.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord announced that the Kirin Divine Lord was emerging from seclusion to slay gods.

Ning Chen took advantage of the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord’s departure to secretly kill the Divine Monarchs of the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple, devouring their cultivation. After his killings were exposed, he faced the last two survivors, the Purple Rhyme Divine Monarch and Changbai Divine Monarch, as Cycle of Rebirth Hell appeared around him.

• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord revealed that the Kirin Divine Lord planned to slay the Rising Sun God and left for the Central Heaven Realm, entrusting the southern territory to the other experts.
• After the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord departed, Ning Chen killed the Blazing Flame Divine Monarch by surprise and devoured his cultivation, then concealed the death from the divine servants.
• Ning Chen killed the Heavenly Rainbow Divine Monarch and, over the following month, secretly slew the Divine Monarchs in the surrounding halls, devouring their cultivation.
• When the seventh Divine Monarch broke through a divine restriction in an attempt to flee, Ning Chen captured and devoured his divine soul, alerting the Purple Rhyme Divine Monarch and Changbai Divine Monarch.
• Ning Chen revealed himself to the final two Divine Monarchs and challenged them to attack together; as they moved against him, he unleashed Cycle of Rebirth Hell.

Ning Chen destroyed the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple, killed its Divine Monarch defenders, and absorbed the Vermilion Bird into his phoenix fire. As he entered the Great Yu Dynasty, the Confucian Sect Dragon Head sent Teacher to kill him with the Pardoning Edict.

• Ning Chen defeated Purple Rhyme and Changbai, drawing strength from the blood of those killed in the battle.
• Ning Chen awakened the Vermilion Bird statue, overcame the Vermilion Bird, and absorbed it into his phoenix fire before leaving the ruined temple.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord discovered the temple's destruction and followed Ning Chen's demonic energy toward the Great Yu Dynasty.
• The Confucian Sect Dragon Head interpreted a divination as a warning that demons would descend when the dragon was about to perish, and the Great Yu Emperor considered its meaning.
• The Confucian Sect Dragon Head ordered Teacher to kill Ning Chen and gave him the Pardoning Edict.
• Ning Chen entered an ancient city in the Great Yu Dynasty, where frightened pedestrians moved aside.

Ning Chen fought the Teacher through the streets of an ancient city and was ultimately captured by the Confucian Sect. The Teacher then escorted Ning Chen to the Great Yu Emperor, whose purpose for summoning him remained unknown.

• Ning Chen walked through the ancient city, repelled the four divine generals, and destroyed their sacrificial Demon Slaying Sword.
• The Teacher confronted Ning Chen, and their battle ended with the Teacher binding him with golden chains and taking him away.
• At Dragon Garden, the Teacher pleaded with the Confucian Sect Dragon Head to spare Ning Chen, explaining that he had chosen demonhood while retaining his reason.
• A scholar delivered the Emperor's order for the Confucian Sect to send Ning Chen to the Sacred Hall, and the Dragon Head sent the Teacher to carry it out.
• The Teacher freed Ning Chen from the dungeon runes and escorted him to the imperial palace, where the Great Yu Emperor awaited him in the Sacred Hall.

Ning Chen was sentenced to the Extreme Lightning Punishment, but a purple-robed young man secretly gave him a cyan pearl and urged him to kill the Confucian Sect Dragon Head. At the execution, Ning Chen survived the lightning, broke his restraints, and struck down the Dragon Head, while the Great Yu Emperor watched with a cold smile.

• Teacher brought Ning Chen before the Great Yu Emperor, who condemned him to the Divine Prison and ordered his execution at noon.
• A purple-robed young man gave Ning Chen a cyan pearl to survive the Extreme Lightning Punishment and asked him to kill the Confucian Sect Dragon Head.
• Ning Chen persuaded more than a hundred prisoners to swear submission in exchange for his help escaping.
• At the execution platform, Ning Chen endured the first lightning strike and used the second to shatter the restraints in his body.
• Ning Chen escaped his chains, appeared before the Confucian Sect Dragon Head, and killed him with a demonic sword.

Ning Chen killed the Confucian Sect Dragon Head, freed more than a hundred prisoners from the Divine Prison, and escaped while they wreaked havoc in the Great Yu Imperial Palace. Three days later, as the Dragon Head’s funeral took place, Ning Chen reunited with the escaped criminals outside the imperial city.

• Ning Chen killed the Confucian Sect Dragon Head, then broke the Divine Prison’s formations with the Green Cauldron and freed its prisoners before escaping.
• The freed criminals attacked and badly damaged the Great Yu Imperial Palace, then withdrew as the palace guards mobilized.
• Ning Chen fought the enraged Teacher near Dragon Garden, wounded him, and escaped through a sea of phoenix fire.
• Ning Chen investigated the abandoned Dragon Garden and suspected the Great Yu Emperor had arranged the Dragon Head’s death.
• Three days later, the Teacher questioned the Great Yu Emperor during the Dragon Head’s funeral, while Ning Chen appeared before the escaped criminals outside the imperial city.

Ning Chen unleashed the escaped sinners and demons across the Great Yu imperial city to draw out the dynasty’s fortune and awaken its Dragon Vein. After helping the Dragon Vein break free and striking down the Great Yu Emperor, Ning Chen was asked by the revived Confucian Sect Dragon Head to spare him in exchange for a favor.

• Ning Chen and more than a thousand demons joined the Hundred Great Sinners in attacking the imperial city while Teacher confronted Ning Chen in battle.
• As the city’s formations collapsed, Ning Chen descended into a fissure with Teacher and attacked the Great Yu Divine Dynasty’s Dragon Vein.
• Ning Chen helped the awakened Dragon Vein escape the Great Yu Emperor’s suppression, then summoned his forces and trapped the battlefield in a vortex.
• Ning Chen told the Dragon Vein it could gain its freedom by killing the Great Yu Emperor, and the Dragon Vein stopped resisting him.
• The Confucian Sect Dragon Head emerged from his coffin as Ning Chen struck the Great Yu Emperor’s throat, then asked Ning Chen to spare him in return for a favor.

Ning Chen defeated the Confucian Sect Dragon Head’s attempt to reclaim Great Yu’s fortune and escaped with the Hundred Great Sinners, while the Dragon Head’s conspiracy was revealed to Teacher. Ning Chen then headed west with Little Gourd, refined the dynasty’s Dragon Qi, and left a homeless ghost behind at a ruined temple, where a monk destroyed her.

• Ning Chen fought the Fifth Realm Confucian Sect Dragon Head, then escaped with the Hundred Great Sinners after demanding that the Dragon Head remember his promise.
• The Confucian Sect Dragon Head admitted to Teacher that he had arranged the plot against the emperor, and the white-robed scholar confessed to being the traitor.
• Teacher returned his Iron Certificate of Amnesty and left Dragon Garden with the Sword of Enforcement.
• Ning Chen made the Giant Dragon swear loyalty, entrusted it to Little Gourd, and set out west with them.
• At a ruined temple, Ning Chen restored the white-clad ghost’s appearance and sheltered Little Gourd from her, then shielded her from the morning sun before leaving.
• A monk in green robes tracked the ghost to the temple and destroyed her with Buddhist power.

Ning Chen sought Buddhist help to achieve Spirit Transformation, but after the old monk rejected him for being a demon, he killed the monk and committed to slaughtering blue-robed monks. Months later, as rumors of ghosts spread, Ning Chen killed another monk and freed the souls trapped in his alms bowl while a girl watched nearby.

• Ning Chen killed a blue-robed monk who was destroying a group of wronged souls, then entered a mountain temple to ask its old monk for help with Spirit Transformation.
• When the old monk insisted that Ning Chen was a demon and turned him away, Ning Chen killed him before the Buddha statue.
• Ning Chen told Little Gourd he would no longer hesitate to follow the method of killing ten thousand monks to become a demon, then began hunting blue-robed monks and saving ghosts and monsters.
• Months later, a girl went into a dark forest to disprove rumors about ghosts and witnessed a green-robed monk destroy wronged souls and capture their lingering power in his alms bowl.
• Ning Chen arrived and killed the green-robed monk, then crushed the alms bowl and freed the souls as the girl watched.

Ning Chen continued killing blue-robed monks across the Western Buddhist Realm, defying the Western Buddha and later facing Cihang Bodhisattva’s attempt to capture him. Meanwhile, Underworld King Yama forced her way through the Divine Court and continued westward; the chapter ended as Cihang Bodhisattva unleashed a towering wave against Ning Chen.

• Ning Chen killed a blue-robed monk in a city, and the Western Buddha confronted him but could not stop him from leaving.
• Ah Ling witnessed Ning Chen’s encounter with the Western Buddha and followed him out of the city.
• Underworld King Yama arrived at the Divine Court in an Immortal Palanquin, defeated War General Qing Jian, and compelled the Divine Court Master to let her pass.
• Ning Chen continued slaughtering blue-robed monks as demons and other creatures spread through the Western Buddhist Realm.
• Cihang Bodhisattva found Ning Chen outside a bloodied temple and pursued him with the Great Divine Ability of Boundless Buddhist Dharma.
• Ning Chen refused to return to Buddha Mountain, and Cihang Bodhisattva sent a towering wave crashing down on him.

Ning Chen fought Cihang Bodhisattva across the Western Buddhist Realm, struggling against her overwhelming Fifth Realm power and revealing that his ice-and-fire abilities could hinder Buddhist holy power. After wounding her and being trapped by her blood-based attacks, he drew on the divine dynasty’s fortune and fled.

• Cihang Bodhisattva pursued Ning Chen with the White Jade Purifying Vase and Willow Branch, badly wounding him before his demonic body healed.
• Ning Chen counterattacked with sword techniques and the Heavenly Tome, but Cihang Bodhisattva blocked his attacks and destroyed the mountains he raised around her.
• Ning Chen transformed into a Fire Phoenix to escape, but Cihang Bodhisattva sealed the surrounding void and forced him back into human form.
• Ning Chen’s frost power weakened Cihang Bodhisattva’s Buddhist holy power, and he opened the Two-Form Grand Array to resist her attacks.
• Ning Chen’s swords struck Cihang Bodhisattva’s palm and drew blood, but her blood spread into a sea that summoned bloody hands and a giant Asura, threatening to collapse his array.
• Ning Chen restored his strength with the divine dynasty’s fortune and turned to flee from Cihang Bodhisattva.

Ning Chen fled Cihang Bodhisattva across the northern seas until a giant sea creature swallowed them both before their agreed duel could begin. Meanwhile, Ghost Maiden reunited with the Underworld King Yama, whose return awakened the underworld’s battle souls, and Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion returned to the Divine Realm after ten thousand years.

• Ning Chen fled Cihang Bodhisattva for more than two months across the seas, repeatedly using the Green Cauldron to withstand her Immortal Bracelet.
• Cihang Bodhisattva offered to settle their pursuit with one unavoidable strike, and Ning Chen agreed to face it.
• A gigantic black sea creature swallowed Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva before either could deliver their decisive attack.
• The Underworld King Yama arrived too late to find them and watched Ghost Maiden return her soul to Yama, restoring Yama’s full power.
• The underworld’s undying battle souls welcomed King Yama back and began to return to life as Divine-Demonic experts sensed her aura.
• Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion emerged from the void and returned to the Divine Realm after ten thousand years.

After Kunpeng swallowed Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva, they joined forces to summon Heaven’s Wrath from outside its stomach. Ning Chen opened a crack in Kunpeng’s inner world and rushed toward the exit with Cihang Bodhisattva.

• Kunpeng swallowed Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva, trapping them in its stomach, where Cihang Bodhisattva said they could not escape by force.
• Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva agreed to a temporary truce, and she agreed to help him reach Spirit Transformation so they could summon Heaven’s Wrath.
• Cihang Bodhisattva used the White Jade Purifying Vase’s stored origin of heaven and earth to help Ning Chen cultivate inside Kunpeng.
• Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva summoned Heaven’s Wrath, and the lightning drove Kunpeng to the sea’s surface, where Western Buddha struck it down with a giant palm.
• Ning Chen sensed a crack form in Kunpeng’s inner world, widened it with the Human Sword, and called to Cihang Bodhisattva as he rushed toward the opening.

Ning Chen completed his transformation into Chaos True Essence and fought Cihang Bodhisattva until her depleted cultivation forced her to abandon the attempt to capture him. After returning the injured Kunpeng to the sea, Ning Chen resumed his journey through the Buddhist Realm, while the Western Buddha resolved that he must die.

• Ning Chen emerged from the Kunpeng with Cihang Bodhisattva's help, transformed his power into Chaos True Essence, and refused to return to Buddha Mountain.
• Ning Chen fought Cihang Bodhisattva with his human, phoenix, and demon bodies until she admitted she could no longer capture him and departed after warning him that Buddha Mountain would pursue him.
• Ning Chen promised to spare the wounded Kunpeng and carried it back to the sea, where it recovered enough to swim away.
• Ning Chen told Little Gourd he was going to kill monks and continued through the Buddhist Realm in his demonic form.
• The Western Buddha learned that Cihang Bodhisattva had failed and decided that Ning Chen could not be allowed to live.

Ning Chen slaughtered ten thousand blue-robed monks to complete his demonic Dao while Buddha Mountain pursued him. As Cihang Bodhisattva and Golden-winged Great Peng Venerable caught up, Ning Chen awakened the Undying Demonic Body and faced the assembled Buddhist experts.

• Ning Chen freed the spirits of murdered women and continued killing blue-robed monks as karmic fire tempered his demonic body.
• Western Buddha ordered Cihang Bodhisattva and Golden-winged Great Peng Venerable to capture Ning Chen, and they led Buddhist experts in pursuit.
• Little Gourd counted the deaths of blue-robed monks as Ning Chen searched for the last one with the Scroll of Light.
• Ning Chen killed the ten-thousandth blue-robed monk, completing his demonic Dao and manifesting the Undying Demonic Body.
• Ning Chen turned to face the arriving Bodhisattvas and Arhats.

Ning Chen fought Cihang Bodhisattva’s Buddhist forces and demonstrated the regenerative power of his perfected Undying Demonic Body. After Cihang intervened and Ning Chen fled, the Golden-winged Great Peng Venerable pursued him, but Ning Chen severed a claw and broke a wing.

• Cihang Bodhisattva led eighteen Golden-Bodied Arhats and four Bodhisattvas against Ning Chen, who met them head-on with his demonic sword.
• The four Bodhisattvas struck Ning Chen with a combined attack that collapsed the mountain, but his Undying Demonic Body quickly healed his wounds.
• Ning Chen wounded the four Bodhisattvas and broke the Arhats’ formation before the Bodhisattvas trapped him with Sacred Walls and a rain of golden swords.
• Ning Chen turned the sword rain back on the Bodhisattvas, but Cihang Bodhisattva intervened with Buddhist Light World and suppressed his escape.
• Ning Chen fled the battlefield, and the Golden-winged Great Peng Venerable pursued him; Ning Chen severed one of the peng’s claws and broke its wing.

Ning Chen fought Cihang Bodhisattva and the Buddhist experts in the southern Buddhist Realm until Aizen Myōō arrived and ended the stalemate. He agreed to accompany her to Mount Sumeru, where she explained her return to the Divine Realm and said she had possessed a body rather than reincarnated.

• Ning Chen defeated the Golden Peng, wounded the eighteen Golden-Bodied Arhats, and used the Enlighten Me Dao Sword to strike down the four Bodhisattvas.
• Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva fought for a day and a night while Ning Chen absorbed the other Buddhist experts' blood qi and origins.
• Two old monks observed the battle and chose not to intervene, while the Western Buddha welcomed Aizen Myōō back to Mount Sumeru and ordered her to retrieve Ning Chen.
• Aizen Myōō appeared between Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva, and Cihang withdrew after recognizing her.
• Ning Chen restored his original appearance and agreed to accompany Aizen Myōō to Mount Sumeru because he trusted her.
• Aizen Myōō told Ning Chen she had descended to the human world by possessing a body, leaving him wondering how Xin Yu's reincarnation could be explained.

Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō faced judgment on the Buddhist mountain, where Aizen exposed that the Buddhas sustained their immortality by consuming believers’ lifespans. As Cihang Bodhisattva questioned the practice and the Western Buddha rejected the accusation, Ning Chen’s demonic energy surged.

• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō arrived before the Western Buddha, and Four-Browed Ancient Buddha demanded that Ning Chen be sent to Nine Nether Hell.
• Aizen Myōō declared Ning Chen not guilty and clashed with Four-Browed Ancient Buddha over his defense of him.
• The Western Buddha questioned Ning Chen about killing blue-robed monks, then proposed crippling his cultivation and suppressing him beneath the mountain for five hundred years.
• Ning Chen refused the punishment, and the Western Buddha unleashed his power as Aizen Myōō stepped forward to defend him and condemned the Buddhist mountain’s method of immortality.
• Aizen Myōō revealed that the Buddhas consumed believers’ lifespans through faith, creating resentful ghosts, and Cihang Bodhisattva urged the Western Buddha to reconsider the practice.
• Ning Chen watched the Buddhas quarrel, apologized to Aizen Myōō, and let demonic energy rise as the Demonic Mark appeared on his brow.

Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō fought Buddha Mountain’s forces after condemning its practice of devouring people, while Cihang Bodhisattva openly opposed the tradition. As Green Pagoda Ancient Buddha joined the battle and Western Buddha refused to change the rules, Cihang renounced her Bodhisattva status and unleashed her long-suppressed killing intent.

• Cihang Bodhisattva sided with Aizen Myōō, and Ning Chen fought Four-Browed Ancient Buddha, shattering his Dharma form and wounding him.
• Western Buddha attacked Ning Chen, but Aizen Myōō took the blow; Ning Chen prepared his Reincarnation Boundary before Aizen stopped him.
• Western Buddha ordered five hundred Arhats to seize Ning Chen and Aizen, and the two fought back as the seventy-two Bodhisattvas joined the attack.
• Green Pagoda Ancient Buddha entered the battle and trapped Aizen with his pagoda, but Ning Chen used the Phoenix Secret Art to pull him clear before confronting his former master.
• As the remaining Buddhas prepared to fight, Western Buddha refused Cihang Bodhisattva’s appeal to change Buddha Mountain’s rules, so she renounced her Bodhisattva Dao Fruit and released her suppressed killing intent.