Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan secured the release of Feng Yuexi, Ugly Old Woman, and the Golden Horn Demon Emperor and Silver Horn Demon Emperor, then bargained with Heart Demon over teaching him the World Extinction Path. After cultivating in Heart Demon City, Ning Xiaochuan reached the peak of the sixth level of the Creation Realm and prepared to join Heart Demon against Tantai Xuechen.

• Heart Demon broke the divine-hair chains restraining Ugly Old Woman and removed Feng Yuexi's restriction, allowing them and the two Demon Emperors to leave for the Heavenly Court.
• Ning Xiaochuan warned the four travelers about the dangers across the Great Evolution World, and they departed Heart Demon City safely.
• When Heart Demon demanded the World Extinction Path, Ning Xiaochuan insisted that Heart Demon still had to help eliminate his Nemesis, the other World Extinction Path Successor.
• Heart Demon agreed to help kill Ning Xiaochuan's Nemesis in a few days and gave Ning Xiaochuan access to Heart Demon City's resources.
• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated in the God Shell for three years, reached the peak of the sixth level of the Creation Realm, and emerged as Heart Demon suddenly appeared before him.

Ning Xiaochuan endured a devastating mental assault from White Cliff Old Monster, a powerful god visiting Heart Demon, and learned that Heart Demon had escaped the seal. Heart Demon took Ning Xiaochuan into the Great Evolution World to hunt Tantai Xuechen, leaving Ning Xiaochuan to suspect that the barriers between hell and the world were close to failing.

• Heart Demon warned Ning Xiaochuan to stay hidden because an old friend had arrived in Heart Demon City.
• White Cliff Old Monster’s immense pressure subdued the city’s inhabitants, and his mental assault nearly made Ning Xiaochuan his Mind Slave before Ning Xiaochuan resisted with his Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Power.
• Heart Demon stopped White Cliff Old Monster from approaching Ning Xiaochuan, and White Cliff Old Monster remained in the city for two days before leaving.
• Heart Demon told Ning Xiaochuan they would immediately hunt Tantai Xuechen, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed while concealing his plans for the Demon Sword.
• Heart Demon transported Ning Xiaochuan out of the Ruins of Return and into the Great Evolution World, revealing that he had escaped the seal.
• Ning Xiaochuan concluded that the restrictions between hell and the Great Evolution World had nearly weakened, and feared a war between gods.

After leaving the Returning Ruins with Heart Demon, Ning Xiaochuan learned that the wager battle between the Great Evolution World and the God River Civilization had been interrupted by the opening of the fifth Human-God Gate. When a Buddhist Sub-God confronted Heart Demon, Ning Xiaochuan seized the chance to flee toward the Returning Ruins and enter hell, but Ming Le and Qian Ji blocked his way.

• Ning Xiaochuan saw the devastation left by Sub-God battles and learned from Heart Demon that the wager battle had ended without a result after the fifth Human-God Gate opened and new Sub-God reinforcements arrived.
• A young Buddhist monk came across the sea and demanded that Heart Demon return his captured junior brother.
• The monk struck his Wooden Fish, but Ning Xiaochuan resisted its attack with his Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Power while Heart Demon began fighting the monk.
• Heart Demon sent Ning Xiaochuan a thousand miles away, and Ning Xiaochuan took the opportunity to rush toward the Returning Ruins so he could seek a way into hell.
• Ming Le and Qian Ji blocked Ning Xiaochuan at the entrance to the Returning Ruins, and Qian Ji accused him of betraying the Ancestor.

Ning Xiaochuan fought off a Buddhist Sub-God at the entrance to the Return to Ruin, then used the World Extinction Demon Sword to draw Tantai Xuechen into the open. Heart Demon appeared as planned, while the monks revealed they had helped him in exchange for their junior brother’s release.

• Ning Xiaochuan used Heart Demon’s name to make Ming Le and Qian Ji hesitate, but a fat Buddhist Sub-God arrived and attacked them with creatures formed from his Buddha Wheel.
• Ming Le and Qian Ji summoned golden war corpses to block the monk’s palms, while Ning Xiaochuan used the Undead Sub-God and Heavenly Emperor Blade to fight two Buddha Wheel creatures.
• The fat monk’s chanting weakened Ning Xiaochuan, so Ning Xiaochuan gave the World Extinction Demon Sword to the Undead Sub-God, which shattered two of the creatures and shocked the monk.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to break through to the Return to Ruin, but Tantai Xuechen arrived on the Crimson Ghost Ship after sensing the sword’s aura.
• Ning Xiaochuan called for Heart Demon to help him face Tantai Xuechen, and Heart Demon appeared as the two Buddhist monks revealed they had joined his plan to draw her out in exchange for their junior brother’s release.

The Heart Demon manipulated Wu Mu and Liu Dao into helping it draw Tantai Xuechen out, then tried to bargain with her for the World Extinction Path. When Tantai Xuechen attacked Ning Xiaochuan, he realized the apparent battle between them was part of the Heart Demon’s scheme.

• The Heart Demon denied making a deal with Wu Mu and Liu Dao, revealing that it had tricked them into helping lure Tantai Xuechen out.
• The Heart Demon offered to help Tantai Xuechen kill Ning Xiaochuan in exchange for the World Extinction Path, but she refused and attacked it.
• Wu Mu and Liu Dao joined Tantai Xuechen to fight the Heart Demon, which used a demonic horn to clash with their Buddhist powers.
• Tantai Xuechen turned on Ning Xiaochuan, and her Crimson Ghost Ship knocked the Undead Sub-God aside as he drew the World Extinction Demon Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan realized the Heart Demon had arranged the confrontation for its own benefit and cried out as Tantai Xuechen struck him with the World Extinction Palm Print Path.

Ning Xiaochuan used his own life to force Heart Demon to save him, then exposed Heart Demon’s attempt to secretly learn the World Extinction Path. He escaped into the Return to Ruins while Heart Demon fought Tantai Xuechen, Wu Mu, and Liu Dao, and discovered signs that Hell was breaking through below.

• Ning Xiaochuan charged into Tantai Xuechen’s strike, prompting Heart Demon to rescue him and reveal that he still wanted to learn the World Extinction Path.
• Ning Xiaochuan warned Tantai Xuechen that Heart Demon had secretly copied her World Extinction Palm Print Path, turning her killing intent against Heart Demon.
• Heart Demon fought Tantai Xuechen, Wu Mu, and Liu Dao as Ning Xiaochuan watched and then fled toward the Return to Ruins.
• Ning Xiaochuan flew past the Evil God strongholds toward the depths of the Return to Ruins, planning to meet his master before considering Hell.
• Ning Xiaochuan found the ground split by fissures leaking Evil Qi, and a jet-black crack suddenly burst open before him.

Ning Xiaochuan entered Hell by disguising himself as Bone Dragon and reached Refining Gold Mountain, where the environment awakened his insight into the World Extinction Devil Path. He settled in Bone Dragon’s former home to cultivate, while the Heart Demon remained outside Hell, unable to follow.

• Ning Xiaochuan ambushed and killed Bone Dragon and the other Devilish People who emerged from the cave, then used Bone Dragon’s memories and transformed appearance to enter Hell.
• The Heart Demon appeared after Ning Xiaochuan descended into the cave, but the unbroken seal prevented him from entering Hell.
• After flying through the cave for a day, Ning Xiaochuan crossed into Hell and identified the dark mountains below as Refining Gold Mountain.
• The evil aura of Hell helped Ning Xiaochuan comprehend the World Extinction Devil Path, which let him gather Demonic Power for attacks.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned from Bone Dragon’s memories about Hell’s harsh rules for survival and went to Bone Dragon’s former mountain hollow to cultivate.

Ning Xiaochuan discovered that hell drained the light and spiritual energy from items, so he avoided using the God Shell and cultivated the World Extinction Devil Path instead. When his growing Demon Core attracted a group of Devilish People, he killed them all by absorbing their life force and found that the devilish qi was not what he had expected.

• Ning Xiaochuan tested a Crystal Ball, a pill, and another spiritual item, discovering that hell rapidly absorbed their power.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided not to risk taking out the God Shell and cultivated until his Demon Core absorbed devilish qi across Refining Gold Mountain.
• Three Devilish People brothers and their followers ate human flesh to replenish the blood qi drained by hell.
• The brothers sensed a breeze from Ning Xiaochuan's mountain peak and led their followers there, expecting to confront Bone Dragon.
• Ning Xiaochuan attacked the group and used a suction force to drain their life force, killing them all.
• Ning Xiaochuan stood among the corpses and remarked that the devilish qi differed from what he had imagined.

Ning Xiaochuan left Refining Gold Mountain and reached a hell city, where he sought entry and information. After demonstrating his strength to the guards, he was invited to meet the Commander, who might recruit him as a personal guard.

• Ning Xiaochuan realized that the World Extinction Devil Path’s devilish energy suppressed the evil Devilish People and decided to seek further insight in a city.
• Ning Xiaochuan flew for two days from Refining Gold Mountain and arrived at a city glowing with ghostly white light.
• Ning Xiaochuan stopped the guards’ Bone Spear with his bare hand, gave his name as Bone Dragon, and waited for his city-entry credential.
• An old man forced eighteen-year-old Devilish People with insufficient cultivation out of the city, killing those who went mad under hell’s bewitching power.
• The guards told Ning Xiaochuan that the Commander wanted to meet him, and he followed a soldier into the city’s military camp.
• Dozens of figures rushed out of the barracks after the soldier announced Ning Xiaochuan’s arrival.

Ning Xiaochuan infiltrated a remote Yan Quan Tribe city, enslaved its commander Quan He, and cultivated in the God Shell until he broke through to Creation Realm Seventh Level. When the City Lord summoned the city’s experts, the City Lord’s gaze fixed on Ning Xiaochuan and a strange force enveloped him.

• Ning Xiaochuan disguised his strength as Eternal Realm Fourth Level and was assigned as the personal guard of the Eternal Realm Seventh Level commander.
• Ning Xiaochuan subdued the commander with Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Power, learned his name was Quan He, and inspected his memories.
• Ning Xiaochuan hid inside the God Shell and cultivated for twenty-one years, breaking through to Creation Realm Seventh Level with an unstable aura.
• Ning Xiaochuan emerged and considered hunting Devilish People below demigod level to gather devilish energy and stabilize his cultivation.
• Quan He warned Ning Xiaochuan that the City Lord might expose his identity, then led the city’s experts to the City Lord Manor.
• The Creation Realm City Lord arrived with four Eternal Realm Ninth Level experts and several thousand others, then fixed his gaze on Ning Xiaochuan and enveloped him in a strange force.

Ning Xiaochuan fought Yan Que, the city lord who borrowed power from the Corpse Beast bones beneath his city. After discovering that the bones contained demonic aura that could advance his World Extinction Devil Path, Ning Xiaochuan chased Yan Que as he fled.

• Ning Xiaochuan seized Yan Que and tried to control him, but the city’s Corpse Beast power broke the attempt and strengthened Yan Que.
• Yan Que explained that city lords could draw on Corpse Beast bones, then attacked Ning Xiaochuan with borrowed power.
• Yan Que used the bones to slaughter the devilish people in half the city and formed a skeletal behemoth that tried to drain Ning Xiaochuan’s power.
• Ning Xiaochuan absorbed demonic aura from the behemoth, while Yan Que sacrificed the remaining townspeople to gain nearly demigod-level power.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered that the bones could help him cultivate the World Extinction Devil Path, then pursued Yan Que as he fled.

Ning Xiaochuan absorbed Yan Que’s demonic aura and bones, then hid in a bone shelter to cultivate in Hell. As a Corpse Beast approached and threatened his God Shell, a sub-god arrived nearby.

• Ning Xiaochuan pursued Yan Que, absorbed the demonic aura from his Skeletal Behemoth, and watched Yan Que self-destruct rather than face him.
• Ning Xiaochuan gathered Yan Que’s bones and left to cultivate, while Yan Xue learned that his younger brother had been killed and was ordered to return to Yan Quan City within three days.
• Ning Xiaochuan built a bone shelter, entered the God Shell, and stabilized his cultivation at the seventh level of the Creation Realm, advancing toward its middle stage over the following year.
• A giant rat-like Corpse Beast nearly swallowed Ning Xiaochuan and the God Shell, forcing Ning Xiaochuan to emerge and confront it.
• Dozens of Devilish People watched Ning Xiaochuan face the Corpse Beast as a radiant sub-god flew overhead.

Ning Xiaochuan used the World Extinction Devil Path to fight Yan Xue, who had come to avenge his brother, and destroyed Yan Xue’s avatar before driving him back with a powerful attack. After exhausting his devilish energy, Ning Xiaochuan joined forces with the Corpse Beast, whose body contained an unexpectedly powerful, familiar devilish aura.

• Yan Xue tracked Ning Xiaochuan down and attacked him with a Mind Avatar while his main body fought the Corpse Beast.
• Ning Xiaochuan’s World Extinction Devil Path destroyed Yan Xue’s avatar, making Yan Xue covet his cultivation technique.
• Yan Xue attacked Ning Xiaochuan with a Bone Blade, but Ning Xiaochuan’s skull-shaped devilish energy broke the blade and sent Yan Xue flying.
• After exhausting his devilish energy, Ning Xiaochuan climbed onto the Corpse Beast’s head to face Yan Xue alongside it.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed extraordinarily powerful devilish energy within the Corpse Beast.

Ning Xiaochuan drew on a Corpse Beast’s Demonic Power to fight Yan Xue, a Sub-God of the Yan Quan Tribe, and drove him off. As Yan Xue continued watching from the darkness, Ning Xiaochuan began to sense a new way to overcome the World Extinction Devil Path’s reliance on the beast.

• Ning Xiaochuan failed to control the Corpse Beast with the Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Power and instead absorbed its Demonic Power.
• Ning Xiaochuan claimed to belong to the Azure Emperor Tribe, and Yan Xue spoke of the hell tribes’ alliance and their efforts to awaken their deities.
• Yan Xue attacked Ning Xiaochuan, but the Corpse Beast swallowed his sphere of Sub-God Power.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Corpse Beast’s power to strike Yan Xue and make him retreat, catching several drops of his Sub-God blood before they vanished.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed Yan Xue still tracking him and began to glimpse a new method for drawing enough Demonic Power.

Ning Xiaochuan developed a new way to link the World Extinction Paths and considered which path would best strengthen his World Extinction Devil Path. After Yan Xue returned to Yan Quan City, the tribe’s ancestor awakened briefly and recognized the World Extinction Path’s aura in Ning Xiaochuan’s memories.

• Ning Xiaochuan remained atop the Corpse Beast while Yan Xue tracked him, then sensed Yan Xue retreating to return to Yan Quan City.
• Ning Xiaochuan realized the World Extinction Paths should complement one another like connected points in an array and considered cultivating the Darkness, Origin, or Hell Path.
• Yan Xue reported to Great Priest Yan Wushuang that Ning Xiaochuan could cultivate with devil qi beside a Corpse Beast and injure a Sub-God.
• Yan Wushuang said awakening the tribe’s ancestor was their priority, but a voice suddenly asked where Ning Xiaochuan was.
• The Yan Quan Tribe ancestor manifested as a strand of consciousness, examined Yan Xue’s memories, and was astonished by Ning Xiaochuan’s World Extinction Path aura.

The Yan Quan Demon God's consciousness formed a physical incarnation and set out to find the mysterious youth from the Azure Emperor Tribe. Ning Xiaochuan parted from the Corpse Beast, followed a streak of light, and found an unconscious woman whom he rescued from a group of Devilish People.

• The Yan Quan Demon God's consciousness absorbed Yan Xue's memories, formed a bone-jade incarnation, and told Yan Wushuang to keep gathering energy to awaken his true body.
• Ning Xiaochuan failed to subdue the Corpse Beast, said goodbye to it, and flew off to search for a city.
• After several days without finding a city, Ning Xiaochuan spotted a streak of flowing light and searched for where it had fallen.
• Ning Xiaochuan found several dozen Devilish People surrounding an unconscious woman with long azure hair and powerful cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan carried the woman away and killed the Devilish People surrounding her, realizing she was the streak of flowing light he had followed.

Ning Xiaochuan rescued Ailinsi after she fell from the Returning Ruins and learned that the passage between Hell and the Returning Ruins would soon open. After she left, he considered the threats facing the Great Evolution World and yearned for demigod-level strength, then sensed someone approaching.

• Ning Xiaochuan recognized the injured Ailinsi, blocked her attack, and let her believe he was an expert of the Yan Quan Tribe.
• Ailinsi told Ning Xiaochuan that the passage between Hell and the Returning Ruins would soon open, and he concealed his identity while questioning her about the Great Evolution World.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Ailinsi had returned to Hell searching for Han Jin, whom she still believed might be alive, but he chose not to reveal that he had killed him.
• After Ailinsi left, Ning Xiaochuan recalled that the Source World’s experts had helped the Great Evolution World reach a stalemate with the God River Civilization while the Returning Ruins’ Devilish Persons prepared to invade.
• Ning Xiaochuan lamented his lack of demigod-level strength, then sensed a presence and demanded that it come out.

Ning Xiaochuan met Yan Quan Old Ancestor, who revealed that Hell was a cage built to imprison gods and an entire eighth-rank civilization. Yan Quan Old Ancestor then recognized the Heart Demon’s seed within Ning Xiaochuan and asked whether he had met Heart Demon.

• Yan Quan Old Ancestor appeared beside Ning Xiaochuan, introduced himself, and created a bonfire in Hell.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor removed Ning Xiaochuan’s disguise and identified him as the Fourth Generation Successor of the World Extinction Path, while denying interest in it.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor explained that Hell was designed to imprison gods and the people of an eighth-rank civilization.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yan Quan Old Ancestor his name after listening to his account of Hell’s origins.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor asked Ning Xiaochuan if he had met Heart Demon because Heart Demon had left a seed inside him.

Yan Quan Old Ancestor told Ning Xiaochuan that the Heart Demon had planted a seed inside him, then asked him to help destroy the God River Civilization. Ning Xiaochuan refused to embrace that goal, but followed Yan Quan Old Ancestor to Hell’s center, where he was urged to cultivate inside a destructive vortex.

• Ning Xiaochuan searched his body for the Heart Demon’s seed but could not find it, and questioned Yan Quan Old Ancestor about why he had come.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor proposed joining forces to destroy the God River Civilization, but Ning Xiaochuan said the plan was unrealistic and explained that he did not want to destroy everything.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor transported Ning Xiaochuan for more than half a day to an enormous vortex at the center of Hell, weakening himself in the process.
• Ning Xiaochuan found that the vortex devoured life force, light, and even his Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Power when he tried to sense it.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor said the vortex was the core of the formation beneath Hell and urged Ning Xiaochuan to enter it to advance his World Extinction Path.

Ning Xiaochuan entered a deadly vortex to cultivate the World Extinction Path and grow strong enough to face the coming war. Meanwhile, Source World experts strengthened the Heavenly Court, while Ning Xiaochuan’s friends feared his return because the Source World sub-gods had ordered him killed.

• Ning Xiaochuan hesitated over the vortex, but entered after Yan Quan Old Ancestor challenged him to risk his life for the World Extinction Path.
• Yan Quan Old Ancestor watched Ning Xiaochuan enter and reflected that his resolve could lead to great attainments.
• Ning Xiaochuan endured the vortex’s tearing force and spent two days pushing deeper to cultivate.
• Source World experts shared cultivation methods, pills, and treasures with the God Heir Palace disciples, greatly boosting their strength.
• Yue Mingsong complained that Source World prodigy Zhao Wen had bullied them and cursed the sub-gods’ kill-on-sight order for Ning Xiaochuan.
• Xue Lingxu said Ning Xiaochuan’s associates had been arrested as bait, and she hoped he would not return to the Heavenly Court.