Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi overcame the Seven Kill Stele’s soul attack and used the Heaven Interception Way to seize its Slaughter Origins. He brought the stele into the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and began refining its Seven Kill Remnant Will into the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blades, where the process remained underway.

• Zheng Yi’s Heavenly Demon Relic suppressed and assimilated the Seven Kill Blood Shadows in his Sea of Consciousness, leaving him able to approach the Seven Kill Stele.
• Zheng Yi realized that the stele’s seven blood-red “kill” characters held its true power and planned to transfer their Slaughter Origins through the Heaven Intercepting Vine.
• Zheng Yi used the Heaven Intercepting Vine and Seven Treasures Mystical Tree to intercept the seven origins, then took the entire Seven Kill Stele from the ruins.
• Zheng Yi brought the stele into the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, where the Mount Tai God’s worshippers and the Super Main God helped suppress it and transfer its Slaughter Origins into the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blades.
• Zheng Yi extracted the Seven Kill Remnant Will and drove it into the blades, whose transformation began amid surging blood qi and two twisting blood dragons.

Zheng Yi watched the Avici Sword and Yuantu Sword emerge as powerful slaughter weapons, then subdued them with the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and refined them for half a year. The newly tamed swords returned to his hands as weapons embodying death and slaughter.

• Zheng Yi used the Seven Kill Remnant Will, Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blades, and Heaven Intercepting Vine to forge the Avici Sword and Yuantu Sword.
• The swords rejected Zheng Yi and attacked when he tried to command them, so he summoned the Netherworld Son of Heaven Dharma Body to suppress them.
• Zheng Yi bound the swords with incense-fire chains and used the faith of millions to refine them for half a year.
• Zheng Yi named the swords Yuantu and Avici and commanded them to return to his side.
• Zheng Yi took hold of both swords and recognized their power as an embodiment of death and slaughter.

After refining Avici and Yuantu, Zheng Yi comprehended the cycle of life and death and gained a deeper understanding of the Mending Heaven Path’s Rejuvenation Nirvana Method, strengthening his foundation and potential. The chapter then introduced the Demon Subduing Dharma Assembly and ended as a young Blue-Clothed Daoist entered its banquet hall and fixed his gaze on a rugged middle-aged man.

• Zheng Yi rested in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and, aided by its origin and the Super Brain Main God, comprehended how life, death, and rebirth formed a cycle.
• Zheng Yi’s realization deepened his understanding of the Mending Heaven Path’s Rejuvenation Nirvana Method and transformed his body, Golden Core, and control over his dharma power.
• Zheng Yi resolved to seek the Phoenix Bloodline after returning to the Island Cultivation World so he could cultivate the Nirvana Method and overcome his bottleneck.
• The Demon Subduing Dharma Assembly held its annual banquet after celebrating a successful raid on a Flood Dragon Demon Court stronghold.
• A young Blue-Clothed Daoist entered the banquet hall as its gates crumbled to ash, then stared at the rugged middle-aged man seated in the fifth chair.

Zheng Yi found Bai Zujiang, the Faceless One, at the Demon Subduing Dharma Assembly and killed him with Yuantu. After Dou Yuehai fought Zheng Yi in his Eight-Armed Heavenly King Body, he stopped the assembly from pursuing him and let him leave.

• Zheng Yi traced the Seven Kill Remnant Will to Bai Zujiang, the Faceless One, who had escaped the destruction of the Vast Sea Demonic Path Main Altar.
• Zheng Yi cut through Bai Zujiang’s defenses with Yuantu and killed him at the banquet.
• Dou Yuehai summoned his Eight-Armed Heavenly King Body and challenged Zheng Yi after the assembly erupted in anger.
• Zheng Yi clashed with Dou Yuehai in the sky, and the battle sent one figure flying back.
• Dou Yuehai ordered the other cultivators not to pursue Zheng Yi and let him depart.

Zheng Yi left the Demon Subduing Banquet after killing the Fifth Vice Chief, while Dou Yuehai stopped his followers from pursuing him and revealed his identity as the Azure Wave Island Lord. The assembly searched the dead Vice Chief and discovered that he had been wearing a human-skin mask.

• Zheng Yi departed after defeating Dou Yuehai and killing the Fifth Vice Chief, whom he had identified as a remnant of the Vast Sea Demonic Path.
• Dou Yuehai rebuked the cultivators who tried to chase Zheng Yi and warned them that the stranger had overwhelmed him in a brief exchange.
• Dou Yuehai identified Zheng Yi as the famed Azure Wave Island Lord, the strongest Golden Core Cultivator beneath Nascent Soul.
• The cultivators recalled that Zheng Yi had called the dead Fifth Vice Chief the Faceless One and wondered why he had targeted him.
• Dou Yuehai ordered a search of the corpse, and a cultivator peeled an intact human-skin mask artifact from its neck.

Zheng Yi exposed and killed the Faceless One, an infiltrator who had impersonated a vice president of the Demon Subduing Dharma Assembly, then departed after clashing with Dou Yuehai. Rumors spread about Zheng Yi’s strength while he pursued insights to improve his Dao Foundation and continued raiding the Flood Dragon Demon Court for resources.

• Zheng Yi revealed that the supposed Old Five was the Faceless One, who had murdered the real vice president and infiltrated the Demon Subduing Dharma Assembly.
• Dou Yuehai ordered a fresh investigation of the assembly’s members, while Zheng Yi reflected on Dou Yuehai’s technique and gained insights into his own cultivation.
• News of Zheng Yi’s attack spread, and one storyteller claimed that Zheng Yi had killed the Faceless One to avenge the assembly and that Dou Yuehai had praised his strength.
• Zheng Yi focused on gathering resources for his advancement and continued attacking the Flood Dragon Demon Court under the banner of defending humanity.

Zheng Yi purchased information from the Horizon Sea Pavilion and learned that Fan Xian'er might possess the Phoenix Bloodline he needed, though she had disappeared after Immortal Crane Island was destroyed. He returned to the Apocalyptic World, where the Soul Hall had expanded its rule and a faith-based Divine Dao Civilization had taken shape.

• Zheng Yi visited the Horizon Sea Pavilion on Horizon End Island and paid for information about the Phoenix Bloodline.
• A Horizon Sea Pavilion elder told Zheng Yi that Fan Xian'er, the daughter of Immortal Crane Island's lord, might awaken Phoenix Blood.
• The elder revealed that Fan Xian'er disappeared after the Flood Dragon Demon Court destroyed Immortal Crane Island, though clues suggested she had survived.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World and saw how the Three Realms Tree and his seizure of Heavenly Dao Authority had helped restore the world's rules.
• The Soul Hall expanded across the Western Continent, subduing other forces and establishing a faith-based Divine Dao Civilization.

Zheng Yi opened the Demon Realm as a fourth space between the Human Realm, Heavenly Realm, and Underworld, drawing the dangerous demons and ghosts into it and stabilizing it with the Three Realms Tree. After the realms settled, he returned to the Island Cultivation World and comprehended the distinct laws of life and death.

• Zheng Yi established the Yin Yang Realm, also called the Demon Realm, and its suction pulled demons and ghosts from the Western Continent into its black mist.
• Zheng Yi’s three bodies linked the Three Realms, and the Three Realms Tree extended a branch into the Demon Realm to stabilize its heaven and earth.
• The Demon Realm became a buffer between the Human Realm and Underworld and a future junction where powerful figures from the realms could clash.
• Zheng Yi left the Apocalyptic World and returned to the East Origin Sea Area, where he sat in meditation on a deserted island.
• Zheng Yi’s yin-yang vortices formed an absolute domain in which plants flourished on one side and withered on the other, manifesting his understanding of life and death.

Zheng Yi comprehended the surface of yin-yang, life, death, and temporal laws, forging a domain that cycled through the four seasons and rapidly aged living things. He left the island and bought several incomplete cultivation texts from Horizon Sea Pavilion, including an ancient ode that he hoped would deepen his understanding.

• Zheng Yi used his Dao arts to unite life and death, making an entire island cycle through flourishing growth and desolate decay.
• Zheng Yi spent nearly half a year cultivating on the island, where a seabird that flew into his domain aged from vigorous life to death in moments.
• Zheng Yi finished cultivating and left the island, with his eyes briefly showing the sun and moon.
• Zheng Yi returned to Horizon Sea Pavilion seeking information and techniques related to yin-yang laws.
• Zheng Yi bought several incomplete cultivation codices, including the ancient Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Gods Cry Ghosts Wail Great Compassion Ode.

Zheng Yi tested the fragmentary “Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Birth Gods Cry Ghosts Wail Great Compassion Ode” in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and found that its musical laws deepened his understanding of yin-yang and life-and-death rules. After receiving word that Fan Xian'er had come to meet him, he hurried to see her, learning that she had changed greatly since the destruction of Immortal Crane Island.

• Zheng Yi played the fragmentary score in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, where its divine and demonic manifestations clashed until the Netherworld Son of Heaven suppressed them and Zheng Yi dispelled the resulting sorrowful power.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the damaged score could aid his comprehension of yin-yang, life and death, and the rules of withering and flourishing, bringing him closer to a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Zheng Yi’s informants reported that Fan Xian'er had requested a meeting at the Azure Wave Island branch in Taihua City, and he rushed to Cloud Ring Island because she possessed the Phoenix Blood he needed.
• Zheng Yi met Fan Xian'er and saw that she had become guarded and distant since their earlier encounter.
• Zheng Yi learned that Immortal Crane Island had been destroyed by the Flood Dragon Demon Court ten years earlier and that Fan Xian'er alone had escaped.

Zheng Yi agreed to help Fan Xian'er awaken her dormant Phoenix Bloodline in exchange for some Phoenix Blood Essence. On Taihua Island, he entered her origin soul space and uncovered the faint outline of a gigantic fiery-red egg.

• Fan Xian'er asked Zheng Yi whether his Golden Core was at least Eighth Rank and explained that she needed his help to awaken her Phoenix Bloodline for revenge.
• Zheng Yi agreed to purify and awaken Fan Xian'er's bloodline in exchange for a portion of her Phoenix Blood Essence.
• Zheng Yi and Fan Xian'er began the bloodline procedure in a secret chamber on Taihua Island.
• Zheng Yi sent his Divine Soul will into Fan Xian'er's origin soul space and searched its chaotic void.
• After an exhausting search, Zheng Yi found the faint outline of a gigantic fiery-red egg.

Zheng Yi awakened Fan Xian’er’s Phoenix Bloodline, beginning her dangerous Nirvana transformation, then returned to the Apocalyptic World with the Phoenix Blood needed to cultivate the Mending Heaven Dao Nirvana Method. There, he began refining his body with the Incense Fire Dharma Realm’s opposing Heavenly and Underworld origins.

• Zheng Yi entered Fan Xian’er’s soul and activated the Phoenix Bloodline hidden within her, awakening a phoenix sealed inside a giant egg.
• The phoenix broke free in Fan Xian’er’s soul space, and Zheng Yi seized a flame containing Phoenix Blood before withdrawing.
• Fan Xian’er’s Phoenix Bloodline awakened, but she entered Nirvana inside a crimson egg that Zheng Yi buried three hundred zhang underground to protect for at least twenty years.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World with the Phoenix Blood, completing the resources needed to cultivate the Mending Heaven Dao Nirvana Method.
• Zheng Yi entered the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and used the Netherworld Son of Heaven, the Heavenly Dao Body, and the Super Brain Main God to gather and calculate the Underworld and Heavenly Realm origins.
• The opposing Yin Yang powers formed a Taiji Diagram around Zheng Yi and began transforming his muscles, bloodline, bones, and Divine Soul.

Zheng Yi transformed his body and forged Avici and Yuantu into the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, completing his preparations for a future advance to the Nascent Soul realm. He then extended the Incense Fire Dharma Realm’s authority across the Western Continent as he pursued his goal of replacing the Heavenly Dao with the Human Dao.

• Zheng Yi’s body evolved through the cycling Yin-Yang Energy and the Mending Heaven Dao Nirvana Method.
• Zheng Yi used the faith flames of millions of believers to fuse Avici and Yuantu into the Immortal Slaughtering Sword.
• Zheng Yi completed his preparations for the Nascent Soul realm but decided to wait until his Nirvana evolution was secure.
• Zheng Yi emerged from the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and stood atop the Sky Patrol Palace’s highest altar with his Netherworld Son of Heaven Dharma Body and Heavenly Dao Body.
• The Soul Hall brought the Western Continent under its control, while faith altars across the land fed their incense fire power into Zheng Yi’s Dharma Realm.

Zheng Yi sealed the Western Continent within an evolving Earthly Divine Domain and created the Investiture of the Gods to prepare for establishing a divine court. The chapter ended with the Human Realm’s Ghost Immortal and Human Immortal paths beginning to develop under the Divine Soul system.

• Zheng Yi’s Divine Path network and the Incense Fire Dharma Realm sealed the Western Continent inside an Earthly Divine Domain that he gradually shaped with his will.
• Zheng Yi inscribed the Investiture of the Gods onto bark from the Progenitor Tree God and revealed the divine list to powerful beings across the domain.
• Humans, Soul Hall experts, Demonic Beasts, and sinister entities learned that those recognized by the list could become gods and receive the power of heaven and earth.
• Zheng Yi observed that the Human Realm’s cultivation system was developing along Ghost Immortal and Human Immortal paths, alongside emerging curses, shamanic spirits, and demonic martial arts.

Zheng Yi established the Nine Provinces Divine Realm by separating the Western Continent from the Apocalyptic World and transforming it into a true Divine Domain. The Progenitor Tree God absorbed the realm’s power, stabilized its laws, and became its guardian, while Zheng Yi began facing rejection from the world he had challenged.

• The Investiture of the Gods and Super Brain Main God organized the Human Realm’s cultivation systems into foundations for its developing orthodoxy.
• The Progenitor Tree God spread its roots across the Western Continent, absorbed Source Power, Incense Fire Power, and earth rules, and stabilized the new Divine Domain.
• The Progenitor Tree God’s life energy restored the ruined continent, raising forests and bringing back plants, insects, birds, and animals.
• Zheng Yi named the transformed land the Nine Provinces Divine Realm, and its inhabitants celebrated its rebirth.
• The Progenitor Tree God became the realm’s guardian and replaced the earth’s Gaia Consciousness, helping Zheng Yi sever the Western Continent from the Apocalyptic World.
• Zheng Yi began to suffer the Apocalyptic World’s rejection after turning the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into a true Divine Kingdom upon the land.

Zheng Yi surveyed the Underworld of the Nine Provinces Divine Realm as its God Spirit Eggs absorbed the Tree of Death's End's power. He foresaw the birth of the Eighteen Levels of Hell Lord, the first step in building the Underworld's divine system and advancing his plan to make his Divine Domain consume the Apocalyptic World.

• Zheng Yi reflected on his goal of assimilating the Apocalyptic World's Heavenly Dao and turning the Nine Provinces Divine Realm into a self-sustaining Divine Dao System.
• Zheng Yi directed his gaze into the Underworld and observed the Progenitor Tree God, known there as the Tree of Death's End, nourishing the God Spirit Eggs with death power.
• Zheng Yi recognized that the gestating Yin Spirits would become Wild Gods unless he granted them divine offices and brought them into his system.
• The Super Brain Main God's deductions revealed to Zheng Yi that the Eighteen Levels of Hell Lord would be born that day.
• Zheng Yi planned to hatch further Underworld deities, including Black and White Impermanence, Meng Po, and the Ten Kings of Hell, to complete the Underworld's divine system.

Zheng Yi witnessed the birth of the first Innate Yin Gods from the Progenitor Tree God and welcomed Blood Robe Zhong Kui, a powerful new god born from a red lotus. He charged Blood Robe with cultivating diligently and helping him subdue demons.

• More than a dozen Black Eggs hatched into enormous Innate Yin Gods, spreading death qi through the Underworld.
• Zheng Yi welcomed the new Gods and Devils, including former Ghost Kings reborn as the Lords of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, and charged them with suppressing evil.
• Zheng Yi watched a high-ranking red Black Egg break free from the Progenitor Tree God and fall into a blooming red lotus.
• Blood Robe Zhong Kui emerged from the egg as a three-hundred-zhang-tall god in a blood-red robe, carrying a Purple Golden Gourd and Demon Subduing Sword.
• Zheng Yi recognized Blood Robe as his old companion and ordered him to cultivate diligently and help subdue demons.

Zheng Yi explained how he had seized control of the Three Realms and developed the Sole Dominance Path, becoming their Creator God despite losing his human emotions. He began merging his main body and two avatars with Phoenix Blood, the Investiture of the Gods, and fragments of the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram.

• Blood Robe Zhong Kui and the Eighteen Levels of Hell Lord were named in the Investiture of the Gods as powerful Innate Underworld Gods.
• Zheng Yi reflected that the Apocalyptic World's damaged Heavenly Dao and Blood Moon corruption had led him to build the Incense Fire Divine Domain and secretly claim control of the Western Continent.
• Zheng Yi described his Sole Dominance Path, through which he governed the Three Realms and controlled the gods recorded in the Investiture of the Gods.
• Zheng Yi stood with his Heavenly Dao Body and Netherworld Son of Heaven avatars as Phoenix Blood fueled their transformation toward fusion.
• Zheng Yi used the Intercepting Heaven Path to draw energy from the Nine Provinces Divine Realm, while the Investiture of the Gods absorbed demon gods revived from the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram fragments.
• Golden divine light rose from Zheng Yi's main body and spread over the three avatars as they fused in the flames.

Zheng Yi underwent nirvana in the Incense Fire God Realm, using the Nine Rank Golden Core and phoenix Nirvana Fire to unite his Past, Future, and true bodies. Their fusion culminated in a vast Primal Dharma Body that covered the Nine Provinces Divine Kingdom.

• Zheng Yi used the Nine Rank Golden Core’s radiance to awaken mysterious source power within his body.
• A colossal Fire Phoenix entered Zheng Yi, and its Nirvana Fire burned through his body and expanded his Sea of Consciousness.
• Zheng Yi’s Future Body merged with the Heavenly Dao Body, bringing it fully under his control.
• Zheng Yi’s Past Body merged with the Netherworld Son of Heaven, joining the power of his past and future.
• The source power of the Nine Provinces Divine Realm fused Zheng Yi’s three bodies into a Primal Dharma Body that sealed the realm.

Tai Yue Divine Lord completed the union of the Three Bodies and sent the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill into the Cultivation World to reincarnate Zheng Yi as an Origin Innate Divine Body. The pill reached a snowbound tribe just as a laborer’s wife began giving birth, and strange golden lightning gathered overhead.

• Tai Yue Divine Lord unified the Three Bodies, stabilized the Nine Provinces Divine Realm, and became its supreme deity.
• Tai Yue Divine Lord transformed the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill with his divine source and sent it across worlds to begin Zheng Yi’s rebirth.
• The pill descended into the snowy Southern Domain Wasteland, where Zheng Yi was meant to be reborn with an Origin Innate Divine Body.
• In the Vulture Tribe, a lowborn man anxiously waited as his wife gave birth.
• Dark clouds and thunder engulfed the tribe, and golden lightning gathered over the man’s home.