Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan and his companions boarded the Gu Family’s merchant ship to travel to Martial Gathering Island, where Yao Yan planned to treat the Desolate Master and pursue the Flame Ancestral Symbol. Ying Huanhuan learned that Yao Yan had two wives and that he considered Ling Qingzhu his Dual Cultivation Partner, leaving her upset as Yao Yan calmly continued his plans.

• Gu Mengqi asked Gu Ling about the battle in the Heavenly Lightning Sea Region, and he warned her that its combatants were beyond their reach.
• Yao Yan and his companions arrived atop the Undying Sacred Whale Xiao Yu and asked the Gu Family to take them to Martial Gathering Island.
• Gu Ling arranged Guest Rooms and warned the Gu Family disciples not to offend the travelers, whom he believed were connected to the Undying Sacred Whale Clan.
• Yao Yan considered making a pill to heal the Desolate Master and having the Underworld persuade Mo Luo to hand over the Flame Ancestral Symbol.
• Yao Yan told Ying Huanhuan that he had two wives and that he and Ling Qingzhu were Dual Cultivation Partners; Ying Huanhuan left the room with Jiang Yinyin and Mu Lingshan.
• Yan observed that the Ice Master seemed to have fallen for Yao Yan, and Yao Yan replied that they would see what happened.

Yao Yan told Gu Ling that the Desolate Master was sleeping inside the Desolate Tower and that he intended to take the tower to help him recover before the next Heaven and Earth Calamity. After overpowering the Five Great Clans' defenses and entering the tower, Yao Yan found the Desolate Master badly injured and realized the Great Desolation Ancestral Symbol was missing.

• Yao Yan told Gu Ling to inform the Five Great Clans that he would take the Desolate Tower, explaining that the Desolate Master slept inside and needed to awaken before the next Heaven and Earth Calamity.
• Yao Yan seized the Desolate Tower from Martial Gathering Island, overcoming the guarding elders and their protective formation as witnesses watched helplessly.
• Yao Yan shrank the tower and entered it with Ying Huanhuan and the others, while Yan described how the Ancient Eight Masters had neglected the Symbol Ancestor's arts.
• Yao Yan reached the top floor and found the Desolate Master recovering from a devastating wound to his heart.
• Yao Yan discovered that the Great Desolation Ancestral Symbol was not with the Desolate Master.

Yao Yan awakened the Desolate Master and planned to heal and strengthen him with medicinal herbs and Ancestral Symbols. After the group split up to search for the Ice and Great Desolation Ancestral Symbols, Yao Yan returned to the Underworld, where the Nether Lord ordered the Underworld to unify the Demon Region within three years.

• Yao Yan explained that the Desolate Master’s heart wound contained corrosive Demonic Qi and offered to refine pills to strengthen his body if the Desolate Master gathered the needed resources.
• The Desolate Master awoke, recognized Ying Huanhuan and Jiang Yinyin, and agreed to help search for the Great Desolation Ancestral Symbol.
• Yao Yan sent Ying Huanhuan, Jiang Yinyin, and the others to find the Ice and Great Desolation Ancestral Symbols while he returned with Mu Lingshan and Yan to the Undying Sacred Whale Clan’s territory.
• Yao Yan continued refining his Chaos Body in the Underworld using a vast pool of beast essence blood, then judged that Tianxuan Continent’s resources could no longer advance him much further.
• The Nether Lord ordered the Underworld to unify the Demon Region within three years and reincarnate anyone who refused to submit.

Qing Zhi told Mo Luo that the Heavenly Emperor opposed the Nether Lord and wanted the Tianxuan Continent’s forces to resist the Underworld, and Mo Luo agreed to help. Meanwhile, the Underworld rejected the Ten Kings Hall’s offer of cooperation, attacked him and his generals, and captured their souls.

• Qing Zhi informed Mo Luo that the Ancient Eight Masters were awakening and that the Heavenly Emperor was on their side, then urged Mo Luo to unite with him against the Underworld; Mo Luo agreed.
• The Ten Kings Hall tried to negotiate an alliance with the Miesheng Judge, offering the Demon Prison’s help in exchange for the Underworld’s cooperation.
• The Miesheng Judge declared that the Underworld would not cooperate with the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and ordered his subordinates to attack the Ten Kings Hall and his three generals.
• The Underworld’s Soul Hall members overwhelmed the three Otherworldly Demon Generals and dragged out their souls while the Ten Kings Hall fought back with his Demon Emperor Armor.
• Hun Miesheng killed the Ten Kings Hall, stored his Soul Imprint in the Book of Life and Death, and let the Soul Hall members take the generals’ souls.

Demon Prison's leaders decided to accelerate Yuan Sect's plan to unify the Eastern Xuan Region and sacrifice its inhabitants to summon the Different Demon Emperor. Revived under Nether Lord's control, Ten Kings Hall revealed Demon Prison's secrets and was ordered to warn them that the Underworld would attack Flame Divine Hall for the Flame Ancestral Symbol.

• After learning that the Underworld had killed the Tenth, Heavenly King Hall and the others agreed to avoid a direct confrontation and let Yuan Sect act early.
• Ten Kings Hall awakened in a new body, discovered that Nether Lord had replaced his allegiance to the Different Demon Emperor, and followed Miesheng Judge to meet Nether Lord.
• Ten Kings Hall involuntarily revealed Demon Prison's location, forces, and plans to Nether Lord and Miesheng Judge.
• Soul Emperor and Profound Emperor asked to hunt the Different Demon Race, but Nether Lord told them not to disrupt the plan to release the Different Demon Emperor and allowed them to target Reincarnation Realm experts elsewhere.
• Nether Lord ordered Ten Kings Hall to warn Demon Prison that the Underworld would soon attack Flame Divine Hall and seize the Flame Ancestral Symbol.

Yao Yan helped Mo Luo prepare to enter the Reincarnation Realm and planned the Desolate Master's transformation in the Flame Divine Hall's Dead Flame Spirit Pool. In the Demon Prison, the revived Ten Kings Hall revealed what he knew of the Underworld, including the fearsome strength of its Ghost Emperors.

• Yao Yan used a Reincarnation Seed to illuminate Mo Luo's path to the Reincarnation Realm and urged him to enter seclusion.
• Yao Yan learned about the Ancestor Palace Tower and planned to locate it once the Ancestral Symbol searchers returned.
• Yao Yan assessed the Dead Flame Spirit Pool as a place to transform the Desolate Master and began setting up a formation there.
• Mo Luo entrusted Flame Divine Hall's affairs to Tang Xinlian before leaving to cultivate with the Flame Ancestral Symbol.
• Ten Kings Hall reappeared in the Demon Prison and told the other halls that the Nether Lord had revived him as a Netherworld Soldier.
• Ten Kings Hall described the Underworld's hierarchy and said its Five Direction Ghost Emperors could slaughter Reincarnation Realm experts at will.

The Demon Prison Ten Kings Hall learned that the underworld possessed overwhelming strength and planned to seize the Flame Ancestral Symbol, but the Ten Kings Hall was destroyed before the group withdrew from the Demon Region. At the Dead Flame Spirit Pool, Yao Yan began refining the Desolate Master's body with five Ancestral Symbols and spiritual herbs, leaving the painful process underway.

• The Ten Kings Hall warned the Demon Prison group that the underworld could revive its dead, planned to seize the Flame Ancestral Symbol, and intended to expand across Tianxuan Continent before he was annihilated.
• The Four Kings Hall ordered the group to withdraw from the Demon Region and inform the Heavenly Emperor of the underworld's plans, while the Heavenly King Hall proposed letting the two sides clash.
• Ying Huanhuan and the Desolate Master returned to the Dead Flame Spirit Pool with the Ice Ancestral Symbol and Great Desolation Ancestral Symbol for Yao Yan.
• Yao Yan placed the Desolate Master in the pool and activated five Ancestral Symbols to break down and rebuild his body, while Yan helped maintain the formation.
• Jiang Yinyin worried about the Desolate Master, but Yao Yan explained that the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol protected him as his body and Great Desolation Qi were stripped away.
• Tang Xinlian delivered spiritual herbs, which Yao Yan refined into medicinal liquid and poured into the pool as Ying Huanhuan watched her warily.

Yao Yan refined the Desolate Master's body with the Six Ancestral Symbols while Mo Luo completed his breakthrough, but Qing Zhi and Thunder Master brought news that the Underworld had nearly overrun the Demon Region. As the group assessed the looming threat, an otherworldly demon warned that the Underworld also targeted the Flame Divine Hall and the Ancestral Charms.

• Yao Yan used the Five Great Ancestral Symbols, the Flame Ancestral Symbol, and spiritual herbs to melt the Desolate Master's body and began slowly rebuilding it in the Dead Flame Spirit Pool.
• Mo Luo emerged from seclusion after breaking into the Reincarnation Realm, while Tang Xinlian and Ying Huanhuan argued over their interest in Yao Yan.
• Thunder Master arrived carrying the badly injured Qing Zhi, who reported that the Underworld had invaded the Demon Region and that five Reincarnation Realm experts had nearly killed him.
• Thunder Master said two of the Five Direction Ghost Emperors had appeared and had killed numerous Reincarnation Realm experts, and he admitted he could not defeat them.
• An otherworldly demon warned that the Underworld was also targeting the Chaotic Demon Sea, the Flame Divine Hall, and the Eight Great Ancestral Charms gathered there.

Yao Yan rejected the Third King Hall’s offer and prepared to restore the Desolate Master while the Chaotic Demon Sea gathered at the Flame Divine Hall. The Underworld launched its assault, and the battle began as the hall’s defenders faced overwhelming forces.

• The Third King Hall warned Yao Yan that the Underworld planned to attack the Flame Divine Hall and offered the Demon Prison’s support, but Yao Yan rejected the offer and erased his avatar.
• Yao Yan told the Thunder Master and Mo Luo to hold off the Underworld while he forged a body for the Desolate Master, whose reconstruction had begun reaching the Ancestor Realm.
• Factions gathered at the Flame Divine Hall, but few Reincarnation Realm experts arrived, and the Thunder Master’s forces discovered and eliminated demon spies.
• The Miesheng Judge arrived with Netherworld experts and thousands of soldiers, demanded that the Flame Divine Hall submit, and ordered an attack when the defenders refused.
• The Thunder Master fought the Miesheng Judge while the Underworld’s Reincarnation Realm experts battered the protective array; Mo Luo entrusted Tang Xinlian with directing the defense as the array began to collapse.

The Netherworld invaded the Flame Divine Hall, where Qing Zhi and Mo Luo struggled against Black White Impermanence while Thunder Master fought Miesheng Judge. As Yao Yan completed Desolate Master's body tempering, he refused to abandon Tianxuan Continent and promised to protect it.

• Black White Impermanence used a Soul Hooking Chain to seize Qing Zhi's soul, but Mo Luo interrupted their attack with Heavenly Flame Palm.
• Qing Zhi and Mo Luo battled Black White Impermanence as the others defended against the Netherworld forces, while Thunder Master clashed fiercely with Miesheng Judge.
• Tang Xinlian organized the Flame Divine Hall's experts into formations that temporarily held the Netherworld invasion outside.
• Third King Hall and Four Kings Hall watched the battle and wondered whether the Flame Divine Hall could withstand the Netherworld until the Heavenly Emperor acted.
• Yao Yan used the Six Great Ancestral Charms to finish tempering Desolate Master's body and told Ying Huanhuan not to force her fusion with Ice Master's power.
• Yao Yan reassured Jiang Yinyin, Ying Huanhuan, and Yan that he would protect Tianxuan Continent rather than flee or burn his Soul Imprint.

The Thunder Master battled Miesheng Judge and was nearly killed by the Book of Life and Death’s reincarnation power, but the Lord of Space rescued him. The Profound Emperor arrived, trapped both Masters in a crimson fire net, and crushed them with a devastating kick.

• The Thunder Master unleashed the Nine Tribulation Thunder Prison against Miesheng Judge, but Miesheng Judge erased it with a palm formed from the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• The Lord of Space appeared and saved the Thunder Master from the incoming palm, then explained that the Profound Emperor had been pursuing him.
• The Profound Emperor arrived and drew the attention of the battlefield, while the Lord of Space told the Thunder Master that one clash with him had nearly left him seriously injured.
• The Profound Emperor trapped the Lord of Space and the Thunder Master in a crimson fire net, disrupting the surrounding space.
• The Lord of Space summoned a silver rune and the Thunder Master prepared to fight, but the Profound Emperor stepped down and shattered the cage, injuring them both.

Profound Emperor overwhelmed the Thunder Master and Lord of Space, but Yao Yan arrived before Profound Emperor could take them. Xiao Xuan challenged Yao Yan to break free of his resentment and prove the limits of the Heavenly Emperor’s Soul Imprint, but Yao Yan crushed Xiao Xuan’s strongest attack with his bare hand.

• Profound Emperor crushed the Thunder Master’s and Lord of Space’s defenses, leaving the Thunder Master badly wounded and forcing both Ancient Eight Masters to burn their Reincarnation Power.
• Profound Emperor defeated the Thunder Master and attacked the Lord of Space, who prepared to self-detonate rather than be taken to the Underworld.
• Yao Yan seized Profound Emperor’s wrist and stopped him from taking the Lord of Space, then burned nearby Underworld Soldiers with his power.
• Profound Emperor challenged Yao Yan and broke free after Yao Yan snapped off his arm, then raised his strength by consuming the flesh and blood of Reincarnation Realm experts.
• Xiao Xuan burned his power and summoned the Emperor-tier Godslaying Spear, but Yao Yan stopped and crushed the attack with his bare hand.

Yao Yan’s Soul Imprint crushed the Profound Emperor and scattered Nether Lord’s soul body, then warned the Tianxuan Continent to hold back the Underworld until his main body arrived in about three years. In the Underworld, his main body discussed a less violent strategy for expansion with Hun Jue and considered how to win support in the Great Thousand World.

• Yao Yan’s Chaos Fire Finger destroyed the Profound Emperor, wiped out many Underworld forces, and crushed Nether Lord’s black palm before Nether Lord’s soul body was scattered.
• Miesheng Judge and Black White Impermanence escaped, while Yao Yan let the remaining Different Demon forces flee and explained that Nether Lord wanted to consume the Tianxuan Continent to form a Plane Womb.
• Yao Yan told Ying Huanhuan, Ancestor Stone, Qing Zhi, and the others that his main body would arrive in about three years and urged them to resist the Underworld until then.
• Yao Yan reassured Ying Huanhuan that she did not have to bear the continent’s responsibility alone and said they would return to the Eastern Xuan Region after the Desolate Master broke through.
• Yao Yan’s main body summoned Hun Jue and asked about his plans for the Demon Region; Hun Jue proposed combining selective force with recruitment and using revivals to gain other factions’ support.

Yao Yan reorganized the Underworld and helped the Desolate Master break through to the Ancestor Realm before leaving the Chaotic Demon Sea with Ying Huanhuan, Jiang Yinyin, and Mu Lingshan. Back at Dao Sect in the Eastern Xuan Region, he told Ying Huanhuan he could remain for now, while the Desolate Master and others prepared to resist the Underworld.

• Hun Jue agreed to recruit dying experts into the Underworld, and Yao Yan abolished the Soul Clan name and divided responsibility for the living and dead between Hun Jue and Miesheng Judge.
• Ling Xi visited Yao Yan beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and they spent time together before half a month passed.
• The Desolate Master emerged from seclusion with his physical body at the Ancestor Realm, thanked Yao Yan, and accepted responsibility for dealing with the Underworld.
• Yao Yan departed the Chaotic Demon Sea with Ying Huanhuan, Jiang Yinyin, and Mu Lingshan, leaving the Desolate Master, Qing Zhi, and the Lord of Space to organize resistance.
• Yao Yan and his companions returned through a silver gate to Dao Sect, where Ying Huanhuan asked how long he could hold on and he said he would not leave for now.
• Mu Lingshan obediently massaged Yao Yan's legs, while Jiang Yinyin reflected on the strangeness of her new life.

Ying Huanhuan returned to Dao Sect changed by her experiences, while Yao Yan and Ying Xuanzi prepared to confront Yuan Sect during the Sect Competition. As Yuan Sect’s leaders waited to merge with a Great Heavenly Fiend’s body, the Hundred Empires War’s final battle began, and Lin Dong prepared to prove himself.

• Ying Huanhuan reunited with Ying Xiaoxiao, denied that she liked Yao Yan, and learned that Ying Xuanzi had left seclusion.
• Yao Yan told Ying Xuanzi that they would deal with Yuan Sect during the Sect Competition in one year.
• Tian Yuanzi, Ren Yuanzi, and Di Yuanzi discussed Demon Prison, their controlled Great Heavenly Fiend’s body, and their plan to unify the Eastern Xuan Region.
• Tian Yuanzi ordered that willing Hundred Empires War disciples could receive Demon Seeds while the unwilling would be handled according to the usual rules.
• The Hundred Empires War’s final battle began, and Lin Dong entered the contest determined to prove his strength.

Lin Dong and his companions fought the Wind Cloud Dynasty at the start of the Hundred Empires War finals, overwhelming their opponents despite coming from a low-level dynasty. Lin Dong killed Feng Cang with the Great Desolate Heaven Imprisoning Finger and realized he had surpassed the Super Dynasty geniuses.

• Feng Cang confronted Lin Dong at the finals entrance, and Lin Dong accepted his challenge without hesitation.
• Lin Dong overwhelmed Feng Cang in close combat while Little Marten, Little Flame, Fat Head Tiger, and Su Rou held off the Wind Cloud Dynasty's other fighters.
• Feng Cang unleashed the Great Demon Wind Palm, but Lin Dong shattered it with the Great Desolate Heaven Imprisoning Finger.
• Lin Dong killed Feng Cang with a second attack, frightening the Wind Cloud Dynasty and the watching Super Dynasty fighters.
• Lin Dong judged Feng Cang weak and recognized that he had surpassed the geniuses of the Super Dynasties.

Yao Yan reviewed Lin Dong’s progress and left him to grow on his own while preparing to visit the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. Before departing, he teased Ying Huanhuan about her feelings, leaving her flustered and fleeing as he set out to help Ling Qingzhu improve her strength.

• Ying Huanhuan brought Yao Yan information showing Lin Dong had excelled in the Hundred Empires War and attracted the Eight Great Super Sects’ attention.
• Yao Yan explained that Lin Dong was his nominal disciple and said Lin Dong would need to win the Hundred Empires War to become his true disciple.
• Yao Yan told Ying Huanhuan he was going to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and she questioned how he would explain the visit to his wives.
• Yao Yan teased Ying Huanhuan about her blush, and she shoved him away before fleeing in embarrassment.
• Mu Lingshan asked whether she should call Ying Huanhuan Mistress, and Yao Yan praised her before leaving Jiang Yinyin and Mu Lingshan at the Dao Sect.
• Yao Yan departed for the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace to help Ling Qingzhu advance toward the Death Profound Realm.

Yao Yan devoured the Six Great Ancestral Charms, strengthening his Chaos Body and evolving his world into a Small World before preparing to leave for Tianxuan Continent. At the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, Ling Qingzhu comprehended the Supreme with Yao Yan’s unseen help, and he vanished as her halo appeared.

• Yao Yan refined and devoured the Six Great Ancestral Charms, absorbing their Rule Power and strengthening his Chaos Origin and Chaos Cauldron.
• The Life Ancient Tree drew in Heaven and Earth Rule Power, expanding Yao Yan’s world into a Small World over nine days.
• Yao Yan told Ling Xi he would leave to settle matters on Tianxuan Continent, and she accepted the identity of Nether Empress before he embraced her.
• At the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, Ling Qingzhu struggled to comprehend the Supreme as the elders exhausted themselves sustaining the ancient formation.
• Yao Yan secretly supplied Source Power to the formation, helping Ling Qingzhu manifest the Supreme halo; as the elders hailed her, he vanished.

Yao Yan failed to catch the Plane Womb, but his pursuit interrupted Ling Qingzhu’s attempt to comprehend Supreme Force and left her in mortal danger. He saved her and took her away to recover, while the elders were warned not to investigate his identity.

• Yao Yan pursued the Plane Womb through the void, but it escaped into Tianxuan Continent, leaving him determined to devour it.
• Yao Yan’s interference interrupted Ling Qingzhu’s Supreme Force comprehension, and the backlash caused the formation’s Source Power to surge toward her.
• Yao Yan appeared in time to heal Ling Qingzhu, calm the Source Power, and restore the elders’ vitality.
• Yao Yan took Ling Qingzhu to her residence to recuperate, intending to study the Supreme Force imprint within her.
• The Supreme Elder told the gathered elders to keep Yao Yan’s appearance secret and not speculate about his identity.

Yao Yan helped Ling Qingzhu master Supreme Force and rebuild her cultivation, while studying the Supreme Induction Art himself. After leading her home and asking about the promise she made when she left the Dao Sect, he confirmed that he had come in person as his main body.

• Yao Yan brought Ling Qingzhu to Lake Cottage and told her that she had retained the Plane Womb’s power and could cultivate Supreme Force.
• Ling Qingzhu activated her Supreme Imprint, and Yao Yan confirmed that it could not connect to the Plane Womb, though it let her convert source qi into the stronger Supreme Force.
• Yao Yan formed an array to supply Ling Qingzhu with source qi and urged her to convert her existing cultivation into Supreme Force; while she trained, he deduced the Supreme Induction Art.
• After half a month of cultivation, Ling Qingzhu reached the peak of the Reincarnation Realm and thanked Yao Yan for helping her.
• Yao Yan led Ling Qingzhu toward the house, asked whether she remembered the promise she had made when leaving the Dao Sect, and confirmed that he was his main body.