Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen fought Divine Chief and the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader as the armies of Heaven Mending Pavilion and the Ning Clan clashed at Twin Peaks. After the Primordial Filth broke through his Dragon Qi and wounded him, Ning Chen unleashed the Black Phoenix flames and summoned three immortal swords, while a demon butterfly arrived from beyond the Heaven of No Desire.

• Divine Chief led Heaven Mending Pavilion's army into battle, and Ning Chen led the Ning Clan forces to meet them at Twin Peaks.
• Ning Chen fought Divine Chief while Yu Lian and the Nine Heavens Immortal Lord led their armies against Heaven Mending Pavilion's troops.
• Divine Chief pinned Ning Chen down as the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader attacked, but Ning Chen blasted them away with Dragon Qi.
• Divine Chief opened the Primordial Filth, corroding Ning Chen's Dragon Qi and allowing the Twelve Concubines to wound him with their crescent blades.
• Ning Chen unleashed the Black Phoenix flames, disrupted Night Leader's attacks, and hurled Divine Chief into a mountain before facing all thirteen opponents again.
• As Ning Chen fought on and promised the Ning Clan soldiers victory, he summoned three immortal swords, and a demon butterfly sped in from beyond the Heaven of No Desire.

Ning Chen unleashed three immortal swords and the Black Phoenix flames against the Divine Leader and the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader, but the swords’ Baleful Intent began to damage his body. Hua Zhongdie arrived in time to save him, then turned her attack on the Divine Leader.

• Ning Chen used three immortal swords and black flames to overpower the Divine Leader and hinder the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader, though their combined forces kept him from delivering a fatal blow.
• The Divine Leader realized Ning Chen would succumb to the swords’ backlash and urged the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader to endure until his body failed.
• Ning Chen fought the Divine Leader and four Night Leaders in a clash that left him and the Divine Leader badly wounded.
• Hua Zhongdie appeared and cut through the Divine Leader’s spear attack with Tears of Buried Flowers, then told Ning Chen to put away one sword.
• Ning Chen put away one immortal sword as his bodies began to heal, while Hua Zhongdie struck the Divine Leader with her split blade and pursued him with a net of sleeves.

Ning Chen fought the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader to a stalemate, while Hua Zhongdie battled the Mending Heaven Divine Leader. Hua Zhongdie killed the Divine Leader and devoured his life force and divine essence before racing toward Ning Chen’s battlefield.

• Ning Chen used his twin swords and Black Phoenix flames to kill three Night Leaders, whose remaining power strengthened the other nine.
• The nine Night Leaders pressed Ning Chen with coordinated attacks, but he held them off and the fight reached a stalemate.
• Hua Zhongdie used her water sleeves and twin blades to wound the Mending Heaven Divine Leader and pierce his defenses.
• Hua Zhongdie struck the Divine Leader’s throat and devoured his life force and divine essence with the Nine Netherworld Sky-Devouring Demonic Scripture.
• Hua Zhongdie turned toward Ning Chen’s battlefield and raced there at tremendous speed.

Hua Zhongdie joined Ning Chen against the Twelve Concubines of Night Leader, and they discovered a limit to the Night Leaders’ illusory movement that let Ning Chen kill three. The remaining six absorbed their power, so Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie split their targets as the battle began anew.

• Hua Zhongdie returned after killing the Divine Chief, then joined Ning Chen against the nine remaining Night Leaders.
• The Night Leaders targeted Hua Zhongdie, who fought them with her divine blades while Ning Chen watched for an opening.
• Ning Chen realized the Night Leaders could remain illusory for no more than ten breaths and told Hua Zhongdie to test the limit.
• Hua Zhongdie pressured three Night Leaders until their forms solidified, and Ning Chen struck them from behind with his black-flamed sword, killing all three.
• The remaining six Night Leaders absorbed the fallen trio’s power and grew far stronger.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie agreed to fight three Night Leaders each and charged back into battle.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie battled the Night Leaders as the survivors grew stronger whenever their companions fell. After killing four Night Leaders, they faced the final two in a desperate fight, and one Night Leader devoured the other amid Ning Chen’s sword attack.

• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie tested the Night Leaders’ transformations, then used their speed to kill one each, but the fallen enemies’ power returned to the survivors.
• Hua Zhongdie endured a fierce assault and unleashed a swarm of explosive black butterflies, then killed two Night Leaders with her twin blades.
• A black butterfly entered the final two Night Leaders, but their cultivation surged as they absorbed the power of their fallen companions.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie fought the final pair together, trading severe wounds while Ning Chen pierced one Night Leader and Hua Zhongdie struck the other.
• Ning Chen unleashed Grand Supreme Forbidden Sword, but divine might scattered his sword Qi, and Hua Zhongdie carried him a hundred li away.
• One Night Leader pressed her hand to the other’s head and devoured her with divine essence.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie battled the Night Leader after she reached the Path-Annihilating Realm, but her Boundless Dark Night threatened to consume them. Ning Chen shattered the Night Leader’s throat and destroyed her life force, yet she revived; the chapter ended with her Three Lives Stone breaking, leaving her without its protection.

• The Night Leader absorbed the Twelve Concubines’ cultivation and reached the Path-Annihilating Realm, forcing Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie to confront her.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie attacked together, then Ning Chen fought the Night Leader alone and held his own despite her stronger divine essence.
• The Night Leader unleashed Boundless Dark Night, creating a black hole that devoured laws and objects, and Hua Zhongdie pulled Ning Chen out of its reach.
• Ning Chen entered the black hole, endured its annihilating laws, and crushed the Night Leader’s throat, but she revived and struck him back.
• Hua Zhongdie rescued the gravely injured Ning Chen, while the Night Leader’s Three Lives Stone shattered and Venerable Xuan warned her not to be careless again.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie defeated Ye Kui at Twin Peaks, but learned that the Heaven Mending Pavilion had at least three Path-Annihilating Realm experts. After the battle, Hua Zhongdie approached A'man and told her she was too weak.

• Ning Chen recovered from Ye Kui's counterattack and sent Hua Zhongdie into the black hole, protected by eight Giant Dragons.
• Hua Zhongdie fought Ye Kui with her twin blades and unleashed her Crimson Turning to Topple the City technique, wounding Ye Kui.
• Ning Chen joined Hua Zhongdie's attack and killed Ye Kui with Immortal-Ending, then carried Hua Zhongdie out as the Path-Annihilation laws consumed Ye Kui's body.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Lord and Yu Lian ordered their forces to pursue the retreating Heaven Mending Army, while Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie discussed the threat of other Path-Annihilating experts.
• Hua Zhongdie told Ning Chen that Xia Ziyi and their other companions were coming, then approached A'man and said she was too weak.

Hua Zhongdie took A'man away to make her stronger, while Ning Chen waited at Twin Peaks as the Ning Clan and Heaven Mending Pavilion fought through years of costly wars. When Heaven Mending Pavilion finally advanced with a million troops led by Venerable Rain, Ning Chen faced him in battle, and the story left off as several figures descended through a crack in the sky.

• Hua Zhongdie urged A'man to abandon her naïveté and grow stronger, then took her away and told Ning Chen to avoid a direct clash with Heaven Mending Pavilion until Xia Ziyi and the others arrived.
• The Ning Clan army won another battle, and the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master rebuked his silent subordinates for fearing Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen held Twin Peaks for fifteen years, repeatedly answering Yu Lian's calls to advance with the command to wait while both sides rebuilt their forces.
• Heaven Mending Pavilion gathered a million troops and sent Venerable Rain, whose rain dispersed Ning Chen's sword attack and forced the Ning Clan to prepare for battle.
• Ning Chen fought Venerable Rain but was wounded by his Path-Annihilating law; as Ning Chen prepared to summon the three immortal swords, figures descended from a crack in the sky.

Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, Xia Ziyi, and Consort Luo joined Ning Chen above Twin Peaks and fought Rain Venerable together. They killed Rain Venerable, then left the battle below to the armies as they continued to clash.

• Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, Xia Ziyi, and Consort Luo arrived to help Ning Chen face Rain Venerable, and Luo Xingchen agreed after Ning Chen promised him two treasures.
• Xia Ziyi and Mu Qianshang attacked Rain Venerable, while Luo Xingchen wounded him with an arrow and Consort Luo used the Scroll of Moon to restrain him.
• Ning Chen, Xia Ziyi, and Mu Qianshang joined forces with their swords, creating an opening for Luo Xingchen to strike Rain Venerable with another arrow.
• Consort Luo briefly stalled Rain Venerable's counterattack, allowing Ning Chen to pierce his chest, Xia Ziyi to sever his right arm, and Mu Qianshang to kill him with a sword through the brow.
• Ning Chen and his friends decided to leave the armies below to fight on, while the battle continued amid the rain and mounting bloodshed.

Ning Chen left the Ning Clan army to prove itself against Heaven Mending Pavilion while he and his friends infiltrated the Chaos Heaven Divine Temple to retrieve the Three Souls Grass and restore his sight. They found the herb, but an old man revealed that he had been waiting for them.

• Ning Chen refused to help the Ning Clan army, and the army eventually drove Heaven Mending Pavilion's forces into retreat.
• Ning Chen told Consort Luo, Luo Xingchen, Xia Ziyi, and Mu Qianshang that the Three Souls Grass could heal his eyes, then persuaded Luo Xingchen and Mu Qianshang to join his plan to steal it.
• Ning Chen, Luo Xingchen, and Mu Qianshang slipped into Heaven Mending Pavilion and headed for the Chaos Heaven Divine Temple, while Consort Luo secretly followed them.
• Ning Chen found the Three Souls Grass in a medicine case, but an old man announced that he had been waiting for them and the case flew deeper into the temple.

Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen stole the Three Souls Grass from the Chaos Heaven Divine Temple and escaped the Heaven Mending Profound Venerable. At Twin Peaks, Ning Chen consumed the grass, reunited his three souls, and awakened as a god.

• Ning Chen and his companions seized the Three Souls Grass and fought off the Heaven Mending Profound Venerable’s attacks as they fled.
• The Heaven Mending Profound Venerable confronted the three, allowed Ning Chen to keep the Three Souls Grass, and struck at their pursuers while they escaped.
• Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen reached Twin Peaks, where Xia Ziyi and Consort Luo learned how dangerous the Heaven Mending Pavilion had been.
• Ning Chen’s three souls became whole, his eyes opened, and divine light radiated across the Southeast Territory.

After recovering his three souls and reaching godhood, Ning Chen resolved to lead the Ning Clan army against Heaven Mending Pavilion. The forces gathered for the final battle, which began as Ning Chen and his allies arrived before the Pavilion.

• Ning Chen recovered his immortal, divine, and demonic forms, opened a mysterious stone gate, and spoke with the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm.
• Ning Chen announced his intention to fight Heaven Mending Pavilion, and Yu Lian received orders to prepare for the final battle.
• Ten days later, Ning Chen led six hundred thousand troops east, while Heaven Mending Pavilion prepared to meet them.
• After a hundred days, Ning Chen’s million banners and one hundred thousand war chariots reached Heaven Mending Pavilion, and Demon Butterfly and A'man joined the army.
• Ning Chen summoned ten thousand bolts of lightning that became qilin and struck toward Heaven Mending Pavilion.

Ning Chen led the Ning Clan’s six hundred thousand troops in an assault on the Heaven Mending Pavilion, overcoming its initial defenses before its hidden weapons and ancient experts emerged. The battle continued as Ning Chen noticed an eleventh coffin open behind the Pavilion’s ten half-step Dao-Extinguishing Realm elders, revealing a woman in a red bridal gown.

• Ning Chen summoned thunder Qilin and led the Ning Clan army in attacking the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s formation while exchanging respectful words with the Heaven Mending Profound Venerable.
• The Ning Clan’s forces broke through the Pavilion’s defenses, and Ning Chen sent twenty Heavenly Venerables to confront its twelve Heavenly Venerables.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion unleashed eight hundred Bronze Chariots, which Mu Qianshang, Xia Ziyi, the Nine Heavens Immortal Lord, and the Green-Robed Protectors fought and destroyed.
• Ten wooden coffins rose from the ground, and ten elderly half-step Dao-Extinguishing Realm experts emerged to face Hua Zhongdie, A'man, Xia Ziyi, and Mu Qianshang.
• Ning Chen noticed an eleventh coffin open behind the elders, and a beautiful woman in a bright red bridal gown stepped out.

Ning Chen fought the red-clad woman who emerged from the wooden coffin, recognizing her techniques as the Ghost Maiden’s and trying to capture her alive. He sealed her in an azure coffin and turned to confront the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s leaders.

• The red-clad woman emerged from a wooden coffin, and Ning Chen rushed forward to fight her as her ghost qi clashed with his divine power.
• Ning Chen recognized the Ghost Maiden’s techniques and pressed the attack, while the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master and Profound Venerable watched and discussed his strength.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, the red-clad woman struck Ning Chen and sent him reeling, prompting Luo Xingchen to mock him from the sky.
• Ning Chen used an illusory transformation to evade her next attack, seized her shoulder, and drove her into the ground with Azure Dragon Descent.
• Ning Chen sealed the red-clad woman inside an azure coffin, put it away, and challenged the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master and Profound Venerable.

Ning Chen fought the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master while Xia Ziyi, Hua Zhongdie, and their allies battled the Pavilion’s hidden forces. The Pavilion Master unleashed the Heaven Mending Art, and its successive attacks drove Ning Chen back and left him bleeding.

• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master entered the battle, and Ning Chen met him with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Ning Chen and the Pavilion Master fought fiercely as Xia Ziyi and the others pushed through the Heaven Mending Army and battled the Pavilion’s hidden experts.
• The Pavilion Master offered Ning Chen a place in the Heaven Mending Pavilion, but Ning Chen refused and declared that he had not come alone to turn back.
• The Pavilion Master summoned the Heaven Mending Art, and Ning Chen countered its catastrophe with the combined Dao and demonic move, Sword Reversing Xuanhuang.
• The Pavilion Master used Hundred Refinements of the Universe and Wind of Heaven and Earth to blast Ning Chen back, leaving him wounded as the battle tipped in the Pavilion Master’s favor.

Ning Chen fought the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, endured the Heaven Mending Art, and revealed his mastery of yin-yang reversal and a new sword domain. After Ning Chen nearly killed the Pavilion Master with a strike that stilled time, Xuan Zun intervened, and the two enemies joined forces against him.

• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master used the Heaven Mending Art to overwhelm Ning Chen, while Xuan Zun suspected that Ning Chen was still holding back.
• Ning Chen studied the Pavilion Master's techniques, then unleashed his understanding of yin-yang reversal to form a Taiji Array Diagram and match the Pavilion Master's power.
• Ning Chen struck with an ordinary but impossibly fast sword slash, wounding the Pavilion Master and threatening to kill him before Xuan Zun intervened.
• Xuan Zun proposed that he and the Pavilion Master join forces, and the wounded Pavilion Master agreed.
• Ning Chen manifested a second immortal sword and revealed his Divine Domain as he prepared to face them both.

Ning Chen fought Venerable Xuan and the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, gradually wounding and overpowering both. Hua Zhongdie and Xia Ziyi joined him in the sky as the three demons launched a renewed assault, while Consort Luo froze the space around the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

• Ning Chen used his twin swords to hold off Venerable Xuan’s lightning attacks and the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master’s palms, eventually wounding both opponents.
• Mu Qianshang and Luo Xingchen fought the pavilion’s forces as Hua Zhongdie and the others continued battling its half-step Dao-Extinguishing experts.
• Hua Zhongdie and Xia Ziyi rose to aid Ning Chen, who transformed his three bodies into demonic energy and joined them in the Three Demons Ascended to Heaven.
• Hua Zhongdie unleashed Butterfly Dance, Underworld King, and Xia Ziyi invoked Apocalyptic Fury as the three demons attacked Venerable Xuan and the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master.
• Consort Luo used moonlight and divine radiance to freeze the void around the Heaven Mending Pavilion as blood splashed across the sky.

Ning Chen and his allies defeated the Heaven Mending Pavilion, killing its master and taking control of the Southeast Territory, while Xuan Zun left with the Pavilion Master's divine soul. As the other seven great sects sent annihilation-path powerhouses toward the southeast, Ning Chen opened the Azure Coffin and seized the woman who emerged.

• Ning Chen, Xia Ziyi, and Hua Zhongdie overwhelmed the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master and Xuan Zun, and Ning Chen killed the Pavilion Master and swallowed his divine soul.
• Ning Chen returned the Pavilion Master's divine soul to Xuan Zun, who promised to leave and vanished; the Heaven Mending Pavilion army then collapsed and retreated.
• After a day and night of fighting, Ning Chen rebuilt the Heaven Mending Divine Temple, and ten days later elders from nearly a hundred Immortal Mountain Sects paid homage to him as the Southeast Territory's new ruler.
• The seven strongest great sects learned of the Pavilion's defeat and each sent an annihilation-path powerhouse toward the southeast, while Ning Chen focused on quelling resistance in the territory.
• Ning Chen opened the Azure Coffin, seized the woman in red who emerged, and demanded to know who she was.

Ning Chen captured a dead woman who was confirmed to be the Ghost Maiden, then confronted seven Dao-Extinguishing envoys who came over the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s destruction. After defeating them, he welcomed his master Xuan Jiuyou and a host of powerful figures from the human realm to Heaven of No Desire.

• Hua Zhongdie searched the woman in red’s memories and confirmed she was the dead Ghost Maiden, so Ning Chen sealed her in the Azure Coffin.
• Seven Dao-Extinguishing experts arrived and challenged Ning Chen over his destruction of the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Ning Chen defeated three envoys in individual contests, then repelled all seven when they attacked together.
• Xuan Jiuyou arrived with powerful human-realm experts, and Ning Chen respectfully welcomed his master.
• Lin Yuzhen greeted Ning Chen, then Yin'er rushed to him and said she had missed her master.

Ning Chen welcomed his friends from the human world to the Heaven of No Desire, where Xuan Jiuyou revealed that his heaven's decree was approaching. Ten days later, Ning Chen and Yin'er entered the Southern Bright Divine Dynasty's palace, where the Southern Bright Emperor awaited them.

• Ning Chen dismissed the seven sect envoys and welcomed the human world's powerhouses to the Heaven of No Desire.
• Xuan Jiuyou told Ning Chen that his heaven's decree was approaching and promised to help him sweep clean the Heaven of No Desire before he had to leave.
• Xuan Jiuyou entered seclusion, and Ning Chen departed with Yin'er to visit the seven great sects.
• Ten days later, Ning Chen and Yin'er arrived in the Southern Bright Divine Dynasty and walked unchallenged through its imperial city and palace.
• Ning Chen entered the Southern Bright Divine Temple and told the Southern Bright Emperor, "I have come."