Chapter Summaries

The Night Emperor awakened and unleashed a vast Sleeping Domain during the demigod conflict, while Asura revealed his Chiyou Blade and stabbed Ling Tuo. The chapter leaves the order demigods asleep, the Star Lord fleeing, and Asura confronting the mortally wounded Ling Tuo.

• Spirit Realm notifications announced that the awakened Wind and Thunder Twin Gods were slaughtering indiscriminately, prompting panic among factions and Spirit Realm Walkers.
• The Nine Elders debated whether to help Heaven's Punishment and worried that the Night Emperor might have awakened too.
• Zhai Cai prepared to flee to China with An Yeqi, while the Return of the Dead group learned that no demigods remained in the real world.
• The Taiyi Sect Master released the Night Emperor from a small cauldron, and the Night Emperor's Sleeping Domain put most of the order demigods to sleep as the Star Lord escaped.
• The Void President accused the Star Lord of betrayal, while Asura stabbed Ling Tuo with the Chiyou Blade and said he had saved it to kill him because he supported Ling Tuo's father, the Sun Lord.

Star Lord revealed that he had manipulated Ling Tuo, Asura, and the factions to secure the Sun, Moon, and stars, then killed Ling Tuo and absorbed the Lunar Moon. Ling Tuo’s remaining will could still threaten Star Lord if he rushed to fuse with the Lunar Moon, leaving the Void Demigod to decide how to act.

• Star Lord explained that the Spirit Realm’s defenses prevented further divine-power exchanges and revealed that he had supported Ling Tuo’s rise as Lunar Moon Lord to control the orderly faction.
• Star Lord described how he had manipulated the Light Compass, the Four Disciples of Unfettered, and Asura, and how the Sun Instance was arranged with the Demon Seed to eliminate Ling Tuo and entrap the orderly demigods.
• Vast Heaven explained that the First Emperor had sought immortality through the Five Elements Set, while Zhang Yuanqing considered whether Bad Commander had been the First Emperor.
• Ling Tuo asked Star Lord why he had killed Ling Jun’s birth mother, then died and collapsed into the Lunar Moon, which the Taiyi Sect Master absorbed.
• Star Lord warned that Ling Tuo’s lingering will could resist him if he forcibly fused with the Lunar Moon, then challenged the Void Demigod to decide whether to fight or retreat.

As the Wind and Thunder Twin Gods’ rampage drove the lawful faction to despair, Zhang Yuanqing asked Vast Heaven to let him enter the Sun Instance. Vast Heaven agreed, and Zhang Yuanqing received the details of the deadly War of the Gods instance, where demigods would fight over candidates for the Sun Lord.

• Zhai Cai, Xiahou Aotian, Guan Ya, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire discussed the Spirit Realm’s constant death notices and the lawful faction’s inability to stop the Wind and Thunder Twin Gods.
• Chen Shu returned from the Free Federation to her parents’ home, learned that Chen Yuanjun was searching for the missing Lei Yibing, and agreed to stay in the country longer.
• Chen Yuanjun’s subordinate Xiao Gao found Lei Yibing’s missing-person case file at the West Lake Public Security Bureau and reported it to him.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader visited Aunt Zhou and used his hypnotic ability to make her sleep so he could examine her dreams and forgotten memories about Lei Yibing.
• Vast Heaven told Zhang Yuanqing that three days had passed in the Chaos and invited him to make a request.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Vast Heaven to let him enter the Sun Instance, and Vast Heaven agreed, sending him into the War of the Gods instance to compete for the Sun Lord.

Star Lord subdued the Solar Power source and began fusing it with his body, while Pure Yang Sect Leader uncovered clues about Aunt Zhou’s missing son through her dream. In Hangzhou, Chen Yuanjun learned that Zhang Yuanqing had disappeared alongside Lei Yibing, awakening a buried memory as Aunt Zhou’s dream revealed the same disappearance.

• Star Lord explained his allegiance to the evil faction, then used his starlight robe to neutralize and absorb the Solar Power source as the demigods watched.
• Pure Yang Sect Leader entered Aunt Zhou’s dream and pushed past the hypnotic force that had blocked her memory of reporting her son missing.
• Chen Yuanjun’s subordinate Xiao Gao reported that Lei Yibing and Zhang Yuanqing had vanished together at West Lake Hidden Buddha Temple four years earlier.
• Chen Yuanjun reacted to Zhang Yuanqing’s name with sudden pain and apparent recovered memories.
• In Aunt Zhou’s dream, she saw Chen Yuanjun enter the interrogation room and cried that A Bing and Yuanzi had been missing for three days.

Chen Yuanjun began recovering memories of Aunt Zhou and Zhang Yuanqing as Zhang Yuanqing entered the Sun Instance and discovered that Star Lord had betrayed the orderly faction. As the Sun Origin awakened and called to Zhang Yuanqing, he answered its summons and it broke free from Star Lord's restraints, rushing toward him.

• Chen Yuanjun suffered a painful rush of fragmented memories and recalled Aunt Zhou telling him to forget what happened and delete the files.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the War of the Gods as a level-nine Dominator and learned from Uncle that Star Lord had betrayed the orderly faction and obtained the lunar moon and the Sun Origin.
• The Void Demigod shouted for the Sun Origin to wake, causing nine Golden Crows to emerge from Star Lord and pull out the Light Compass's core fragment.
• The Sun Origin's call caused Zhang Yuanqing intense pain, while Star Lord wrapped it in starlight and ordered the evil demigods to kill him.
• The Beauty Goddess, Xie Family Patriarch, and Void Demigod held off the attackers as Asura pursued Zhang Yuanqing.
• Uncle urged Zhang Yuanqing not to resist or fear his fate, and Zhang Yuanqing called, “Come!” as the Sun Origin broke free and rushed toward him.

Zhang Yuanqing absorbed the Sun Origin and recovered the memories of his past as the Demon Lord, revealing that his apparent life and resurrection had been part of a hidden plan. He became the Sun Lord as the demigods watched.

• Yuanshi Tianzun contained the Sun Origin while Asura failed to break through his golden domain.
• The Star Lord deduced that Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord, and President Void and Beauty Goddess explained Zhang Zizhen's plan to restore him as the Sun Lord.
• President Void revealed that the Demon Lord had split his soul into three parts, leaving one hidden in the Sun Origin and another protected by the Lunar Moon Origin Fragment.
• Zhang Yuanqing remembered how Brother Bing, Judge of Ghostly Eyes's corruption, and Uncle's intervention had shaped his earlier life and resurrection.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that his head condition was caused by his powerful soul and that his resurrection began when Brother Bing gave him the Role Card.
• The Golden Crows returned to Zhang Yuanqing, and he became the Sun Lord.

A golden sun appeared across the world, purifying corruption and restoring lost memories as Zhang Yuanqing ascended to become the Sun Lord. Star Lord sent the evil demigods away to prepare for a contest over the Sun’s and Lunar Moon’s origins, while Zhang Yuanqing returned from the dungeon.

• A golden sun appeared in the sky and purified corrupted people around the world, while the Pure Yang Sect Leader recovered memories identifying Yuanshi Tianzun as Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing became the Sun Lord and used his sunlight authority to burn the evil demigods during the War of the Gods.
• Star Lord triggered the mission settlement, sending Zhang Yuanqing and the other orderly demigods out of the dungeon.
• Star Lord told the evil demigods to return to their faction dungeons and prepare for his attempt to accommodate the Lunar Moon’s origin.
• Star Lord gave Luo Shu to Asura and tasked him with finding the Sun’s origin fragments while the other evil demigods investigated the lawful god who had sent Zhang Yuanqing into the dungeon.
• Star Lord spread the Lunar Moon’s power across the dungeon and concealed it within the Spirit Realm.

Zhang Yuanqing became the Sun Lord, surveyed the evil gods in the Spirit Realm, and restored the Wind and Thunder Twin Gods’ reason long enough for them to choose temporary balance. Back at his family home, he summoned Chen Shu and Uncle and began to reveal the change in himself.

• Zhang Yuanqing entered the Spirit Realm, identified the evil gods above it, and saw a dead divine tree in the unopened Third District.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered the Wind and Thunder Twin Gods freedom or temporary relief from their madness, and they chose the second option.
• Zhang Yuanqing placed a Blazing Sun mark in the Wind and Thunder Twin Gods’ consciousness, and she departed for Heaven’s Punishment.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader connected Yuanshi Tianzun’s identity to Lei Yibing’s disappearance and decided to consult Dark Night Rose’s upper ranks rather than act against Aunt Zhou.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned home and called Chen Shu and Uncle into his bedroom, where he said he had become the Demon Lord he once despised.

Zhang Yuanqing learned how his family concealed his identity as the Demon Lord and created a replacement life for him, then realized an unknown power had interfered with their plans at Rebirth Spring. He began searching for a missing Solar Origin fragment, but Xie Su’s call suggested the spring’s strange loop was still affecting people.

• Chen Shu and Uncle explained how they hid Zhang Yuanqing’s Demon Lord identity, hypnotized him into leaving home, and used a puppet to live his ordinary life and help restore his body.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Uncle concluded that an unknown force had caused Xie Su and others to loop while discovering Zhang Yuanqing’s corpses at Rebirth Spring.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked the Cat King Speaker about his past, but it played an embarrassing recording of the Demon Lord instead.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Uncle that the Solar Origin was incomplete and that a mysterious third party had taken a fragment, whose location was both in the past and the future.
• Xie Su called Zhang Yuanqing and said he remembered that Rebirth Spring had been full of Zhang Yuanqing’s clones.

After becoming an incomplete Sun Lord, Zhang Yuanqing searched for the Sun Source fragment while Star Lord moved to find it first. The Cat King Speaker revealed that Zhang Yuanqing had once relied on a Supreme Existence that caused time loops, and Zhang Yuanqing recognized the clue in an electronic watch.

• Xie Su reported that the Xie Family ancestor had returned and remembered Zhang Yuanqing advancing to become the Sun Lord.
• Zhang Yuanqing failed to summon Vast Heaven and concluded that the deity war had begun, then searched the Spirit Realm for Star Lord and Asura.
• Asura received Star Lord’s oracle to find the Pure Yang Sect Leader, who had clues to the Sun Source fragment.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Princess Yinyao that he had become the Sun Lord and revealed that he was the Demon Lord; the Cat King Speaker confirmed her shock with a remark about taking a thief for her father.
• The Cat King Speaker recited Zhang Yuanqing’s past words about a Supreme Existence that caused time loops, and Zhang Yuanqing took out a long-sealed electronic watch.

Zhang Yuanqing realized the electronic watch had protected his identity through a loop tied to Vast Heaven, then revealed himself as the Sun Lord to the Taiyi Sect elders. After announcing Star Lord’s betrayal and the coming battle, he stayed behind with Yin Ji and revealed his identity as the Demon Lord.

• Zhang Yuanqing deduced that Vast Heaven had used the electronic watch to conceal his connection to the Demon Lord and resolved to gather the remaining treasure-map fragments from his former lovers.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at Elder Sun’s courtyard and declared that he had become the Sun Lord, summoning the Taiyi Sect’s Day Wanderers to pay homage.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the elders that Ling Tuo was dead, Star Lord had joined the evil faction and taken the Star and Lunar Moon Origins, and he would fight Star Lord in a few days.
• Crimson Sun Executioner pledged the elders’ loyalty to Zhang Yuanqing, who dismissed them and asked Yin Ji to stay.
• Yin Ji handed Zhang Yuanqing her treasure-map fragment, and he took her hand and told her in the Demon Lord’s voice, “Big Sister Yin Ji, it’s me!”

Zhang Yuanqing revealed to Yin Ji that he was the resurrected Demon Lord, then left to gather the treasure map fragments. Meanwhile, Pure Yang Sect Leader sought out Forest King with intelligence about Yuanshi Tianzun, and Zhang Yuanqing confronted the Five Elements Alliance elders.

• Zhang Yuanqing recounted his past with Yin Ji and proved that he was the Demon Lord, then explained how he had returned from death.
• Yin Ji embraced Zhang Yuanqing, asked whether he could defeat Star Lord, and agreed to wait for him in Capital City; he left as a streak of golden light.
• Yin Ji told Elder Hongying that Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord, leaving her teacher stunned.
• Pure Yang Sect Leader appeared at Forest King's villa, revealed that he had planted seeds in the souls of Dark Night Rose's protectors, and asked Forest King to contact Everlasting Rivers and Mountains with intelligence about Yuanshi Tianzun.
• At the Five Elements Alliance headquarters, Zhang Yuanqing faced the nine elders and asked whom he should settle accounts with first.

Zhang Yuanqing told the Nine Elders that the Star Lord had betrayed the lawful faction and demanded their rule-type items to prepare for the coming battle. He also revealed that he was the Demon Lord, while Pure Yang Sect Leader sought allies and Sun Miaomiao, Zhao Chenghuang, and Ling Jun struggled with the revelation.

• Zhang Yuanqing told the Nine Elders that the Star Lord had sided with the evil faction and that their final showdown would decide Earth's fate.
• Zhang Yuanqing demanded the elders' level-nine rule-type items, then revealed that he was the Demon Lord, causing Elder Miao to disappear from the projection.
• Pure Yang Sect Leader forced Forest King to contact Dark Night Rose, learned that several Protectors were unreachable, and ordered him to arrange a meeting with a Lord of Weapons Cult Heavenly King.
• Sun Miaomiao and Zhao Chenghuang learned that Yuanshi Tianzun was both the Sun Lord and the Demon Lord, and Zhao Chenghuang tried to comfort Sun Miaomiao.
• Ling Jun arrived distraught, vowed to kill Yuanshi Tianzun, and grew furious when Zhao Chenghuang reminded him that his father had been a fallen one.

Zhang Yuanqing retrieved Demon Lord’s treasure map fragment from Vinnie Berent in exchange for the Cat King Speaker, then left without revealing their past, leaving Vinnie heartbroken. The speaker later played his explanation and told her to wait if she still loved him, while Fear Heavenly King met Pure Yang Sect Leader and revealed that the battle for the Solar Origin had ended.

• Zhang Yuanqing visited Vinnie Berent’s villa and traded the Cat King Speaker for the treasure map fragment.
• Zhang Yuanqing left to face the Star Lord, and Vinnie cried after he departed without discussing their relationship.
• Vinnie recalled learning Yuanshi Tianzun was the resurrected Demon Lord and how she had hoped he would seek to rekindle their relationship.
• The Cat King Speaker played Zhang Yuanqing’s explanation for leaving Vinnie and told her to wait if she could not let him go.
• Fear Heavenly King met Pure Yang Sect Leader at a night market and said the battle for the Solar Origin had ended.
• Pure Yang Sect Leader asked who had won the battle.

Fear Heavenly King told Pure Yang Sect Leader that Yuanshi Tianzun had become the Sun Lord, then revealed the Evil Faction planned to destroy the planet. As Yuanshi Tianzun and Asura fought Fear Heavenly King and Void, Void evacuated the city, and Yuanshi Tianzun appeared before the stranded Pure Yang Sect Leader.

• Fear Heavenly King told Pure Yang Sect Leader that Yuanshi Tianzun had become the Sun Lord, the Lunar Moon Lord had fallen, and the Star Lord had joined the Free Faction.
• Fear Heavenly King said the Evil Faction intended to destroy the planet and that Pure Yang Sect Leader might hold a clue to stopping Yuanshi Tianzun from obtaining the Solar Origin Fragment.
• Void ambushed the pair as Pure Yang Sect Leader began sharing intelligence about Yuanshi Tianzun, but Fear Heavenly King evaded Void's Exile and tried to escape through fog.
• Yuanshi Tianzun arrived and fought Fear Heavenly King, while Pure Yang Sect Leader fled through the dreamworld and Asura attacked the Sun Lord.
• Asura fought Yuanshi Tianzun as Void teleported everyone out of the city, leaving Pure Yang Sect Leader alone before an ordinary-looking Yuanshi Tianzun.

Zhang Yuanqing killed the Pure Yang Sect Leader and learned why Asura could not become a god by seizing Fear’s authority. After declaring he would kill the Star Lord within three days, he headed to Chris’s estate to obtain the last Solar Origin Fragment.

• Zhang Yuanqing trapped the Pure Yang Sect Leader and burned him to ashes, while the dying man remembered his promise to purge the sect if either he or his disciple fell into the demonic path.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Asura discussed the limits of evil demigods, and Zhang Yuanqing challenged the Star Lord to face him within three days.
• A woman under Forest King woke from the Pure Yang Sect Leader’s dream and revealed that she had learned Zhang Yuanqing’s real-world identity.
• Asura recovered from Zhang Yuanqing’s flames, then received the Star Lord’s revelation to contact the followers of the Lord of Weapons Cult.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at Chris Gustav’s estate, where the final Solar Origin Fragment was held.

Zhang Yuanqing recovered the treasure map fragment from Chris and told her he was the Demon Lord but no longer the man he had been. Meanwhile, Asura learned that Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord, and the Star Lord concealed the Feather Ascension Immortal Sect instance just before a golden light arrived in the Spirit Realm.

• Zhang Yuanqing fought Chris at her estate, defeated her, and demanded the treasure map fragment.
• Chris gave Zhang Yuanqing the fragment, and he told her he was the Demon Lord but no longer the same person before leaving.
• Asura visited a Lord of Weapons Cult stronghold and learned that people who discovered Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord entered a cycle of memory loss.
• The Star Lord used Lunar Power to hide the Feather Ascension Immortal Sect instance from the Spirit Realm.
• A golden light arrived in the Spirit Realm just after the instance disappeared.

Zhang Yuanqing confronted Star Lord after Star Lord hid the Feather Ascension Immortal Sect instance dungeon in the unopened Third District. Zhang Yuanqing awakened Ling Tuo’s remnant consciousness to disrupt Star Lord’s lunar fusion, while Zhai Cai and Xiahou Aotian were caught enjoying Fu Qingyang’s collections when he returned.

• Star Lord used Lunar Power and Star Origin to hide the Feather Ascension Immortal Sect instance dungeon in the Third District, and Zhang Yuanqing discovered it despite Star Lord’s interference.
• Zhang Yuanqing challenged Star Lord over his past manipulation of instance dungeons, then fired a golden arrow through the War of the Gods instance dungeon and pierced Star Lord.
• Zhang Yuanqing extinguished the flames on Star Lord and summoned a consciousness-devouring vortex that called to Ling Tuo, stirring Ling Tuo’s remnant spirit into a struggle for control of Star Lord’s body.
• At Fu Family Bay, Zhai Cai and Xiahou Aotian drank and smoked Fu Qingyang’s collectibles while discussing the demigod battle and the possibility that Fu Qingyang would not return.
• Fu Qingyang suddenly appeared beside the desk, startling Xiahou Aotian as he held his drink.

Fu Qingyang returned from an S-rank instance dungeon as a level nine Sovereign and learned that Yuanshi Tianzun had become the Sun Lord while Star Lord betrayed the lawful camp. At the Xie Family residence, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord learned the stakes of the coming battle, and Mr. President arrived with word that the Sun Lord was summoning them after falling for Star Lord’s scheme.

• Fu Qingyang returned to his study, where Xiahou Aotian and Zhai Cai told him Yuanshi Tianzun had become the Sun Lord and Star Lord had turned against the lawful camp.
• Fu Qingyang learned that Yuanshi Tianzun and Star Lord were racing to complete their powers, then ordered Xiahou Aotian and Zhai Cai out so he could convene the Nine Elders.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord returned to the Xie Family residence after advancing to level eight and discussed containing the Nüwa Sovereign's Body with the Xie Family Patriarch.
• The Xie Family Patriarch explained that the outcome depended on whether Yuanshi Tianzun completed the Solar Origin and whether Star Lord fused with the Lunar Moon.
• Mr. President arrived and said the Sun Lord was summoning them because Yuanshi Tianzun had fallen for Star Lord's scheme.

Zhang Yuanqing told the lawful demigods that he could no longer reach the treasure needed to complete the Solar Origin and called for an early final battle against Star Lord. He prepared to attack the War of the Gods instance the next day, entrusted his allies with protecting the real world, and was left alone with Yu'er.

• Zhang Yuanqing explained that the Feather Ascension Immortal Sect treasury held his only hope of completing the Solar Origin, but the Star Lord had moved the instance into a forbidden zone.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the demigods discussed how the Spirit Realm could use demigod powers and items against them, and they agreed to begin the final battle early.
• Zhang Yuanqing announced that the attack on the War of the Gods instance would begin at noon the next day.
• Zhang Yuanqing gave his allies rule-type items and asked them to defend the real world while the demigods entered the instance.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent his allies away and apologized to Yu'er, acknowledging her place in his heart.