Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing met with Jiang Yu'er, his former companions, and Guan Ya before the coming battle with the Star Lord, acknowledging the pain his past choices had caused. He then visited Ling Jun and revealed that he knew who had killed Ling Jun's mother.

• Zhang Yuanqing confessed to Jiang Yu'er that he regretted how he had treated her, and Jiang Yu'er explained how she had used the Stop-Killing Palace Lord identity to help him accept her feelings; they embraced.
• Zhang Yuanqing warned the Saints of Return of the Dead that the odds of defeating the Star Lord were below fifty percent and gave them access to powerful items to protect themselves amid possible upheaval.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Guan Ya he could not remain devoted to one person, and Guan Ya tearfully said she was willing to compromise for him.
• Zhang Yuanqing left the Spirit Realm instance dungeon and visited Ling Jun, who angrily confronted him about his Demon Lord identity.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Ling Jun that the one who had killed Ling Jun's mother was his father.

Zhang Yuanqing revealed how Star Lord caused Ling Jun’s mother’s death, reunited with Miao Teng’er, and made preparations for his coming battle. He offered Demon Eye Heavenly King a chance to withdraw his investment, but Demon Eye remained silent.

• Zhang Yuanqing told Ling Jun that Star Lord had manipulated his mother’s instance dungeon difficulty, and Ling Jun urged him to explain himself to Teng’er and Fengyun and wished him victory.
• Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Miao Teng’er, who burst into tears, then stood outside the basement where Aunt was held before leaving without disturbing her.
• Fu Qingyang brought Zhai Cai, Xiahou Aotian, and Little Round to Lian Sanyue to use the Hundred-Forged Furnace, revealing that they had collected several level-nine rule-type items from the nine elders.
• Zhang Yuanqing gave Huang Taiji Pure Yang Talismans for protection and visited his former team at the Kangyang District office, where Li Dongze found a sword Zhang Yuanqing had left behind.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered Demon Eye Heavenly King one of the remaining level-nine rule-type items and said he could withdraw his investment, but Demon Eye did not respond.

Zhang Yuanqing learned why Demon Eye Heavenly King chose to leave the evil faction, then claimed the Merit List and discovered its powers over merit, blessings, and retribution. As the coming battle approached, the Star Lord and Asura prepared to revive Dionysus, while the Lord of Myriad Demons was left without a chance at resurrection.

• Demon Eye Heavenly King told Zhang Yuanqing about his abusive childhood, his brief happiness with his adoptive parents, and how their deaths led him to seek justice.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted Demon Eye Heavenly King's choice to join the lawful faction and warned that they would be enemies if they met again.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered Ling Tuo's hidden instance dungeon and used the Solar Origin and Golden Crows to extract and claim the Merit List.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that the Merit List recorded merit, bestowed protection on the most meritorious, and inflicted unavoidable retribution on evildoers.
• The Star Lord and Asura prepared to use the Mother Goddess's Womb to revive Dionysus, but the Star Lord noted that the Lord of Myriad Demons's demigod item was with Void.

Star Lord revealed his alliance with the Free Faction and prepared to confront Yuanshi Tianzun, while the Chu Family Patriarch and his companions transformed Jiang Yu'er by merging her with Nüwa Sovereign's Cast-Off Body. The chapter ended as Star Lord gathered demigods in the War of the Gods instance to explain his plan to hunt the Sun Lord.

• Asura resurrected Wine God Old Mc in the Mother Goddess's Womb, and Star Lord explained that he had supported the Free Faction while using Ling Tuo as a decoy.
• Star Lord returned Old Mc's demigod items and revealed that Yuanshi Tianzun had become the Sun Lord; Asura then asked Star Lord how they would fight.
• The Chu Family Patriarch, the chairman, and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord entered Nüwa Palace and found Nüwa Sovereign's Cast-Off Body.
• The Xie Family Patriarch used the Demon Refining Pot to merge Jiang Yu'er with Nüwa Sovereign's Cast-Off Body, giving her power capable of affecting demigods.
• Star Lord summoned the Fear Heavenly King, Hex Dragon, and the Nihility Sect's two Illusory Gods to the War of the Gods instance and began outlining his plan to hunt the Sun Lord.

Chen Yuanjun recovered memories suggesting Aunt and Yuanzi were Spirit Realm Walkers, while Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang he had refined the Merit List and could prevent the Evil Faction’s massacre of civilians. The Star Lord then used the Spirit Realm to separate the demigods into lethal formations, leaving Zhang Yuanqing and the other factions about to face the Tai Chi Purple Star Six Fiends Array.

• Chen Yuanjun remembered that Aunt had hypnotized him into deleting files and suspected she had hypnotized the whole family after Yuanzi returned changed.
• Zhang Yuanqing gave Fu Qingyang a Perfect Skin figurine that could die in his place, then revealed that his refined Merit List let him kill Spirit Realm Walkers with low Moral Value.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang assessed the demigods’ strengths and concluded that the Star Lord would try to split them up and defeat them separately.
• The Spirit Realm assigned Zhang Yuanqing to break the Tai Chi Purple Star Six Fiends Array, which the Star Lord had created to seize the Solar Origin.
• The Xie Family Patriarch gave the Holy Infant to Jiang Yu'er, and the Xie Family Patriarch and Void Demigod received a quest to break the Tuoluo Formation.
• The Wind and Thunder Twin Gods and the Beauty Goddess received quests that sent them into the Mars Array and Earth Calamity Array.

Zhang Yuanqing fought Star Lord inside the Purple Star Six Fiends Array and used the Merit List, Shadow Roar, and his dream ability to attack him, but the array’s linked subsidiary formations helped Star Lord resist. Zhang Yuanqing asked Star Lord why he had killed Ling Jun’s birth mother and when he learned the truth about the gods’ conflict, while battles continued in the other formations.

• Star Lord trapped Zhang Yuanqing in the Purple Star Six Fiends Array, where the rotating forces drained his spiritual power as Star Lord worked to refine the Lunar Moon.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized Ling Tuo’s remnant spirit was weakening and suspected Star Lord was using the threat of its destruction to manipulate him into holding back.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Merit List to target Star Lord, then stripped away his protection and struck him with Shadow Roar before attempting to pull him into a dream.
• Two cloaked figures appeared in the dream and expelled Zhang Yuanqing, and he used the Merit List’s ensuing purification and lightning punishments only briefly before putting it away.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Star Lord to explain why he had killed Ling Jun’s birth mother and when he learned the truth about the gods’ conflict; Star Lord suspected he was stalling for the others to break the subsidiary formations.
• The Wind and Thunder Twin Gods faced Asura in the Mars Array, the Beauty Goddess endured an illusion in the Earth Calamity Array, and Void demigod confronted Old Mc in the Bell Star Array.

Zhang Yuanqing rejected the Star Lord’s offer and learned that Ling Jun’s birth mother had been killed because she studied swordsmanship under the old marshal, who suspected the Star Lord. As the decisive battle continued, Spirit Realm notifications drew people across the real world into auxiliary formations, including several who had not expected to enter.

• The Star Lord explained how he had arranged opponents to delay Zhang Yuanqing’s allies and offered to spare Zhang Yuanqing and his loved ones if he surrendered the Solar Origin.
• Zhang Yuanqing condemned the Star Lord’s plan to destroy the planet and refused to join him; the Star Lord then revealed why he had killed Ling Jun’s birth mother.
• At Fu Family Bay, Fu Qingyang received a notification that he would enter the Ram Star Formation and break its array.
• At the Xie Family, Jiang Yu’er received a notification assigning her to the Earth Void Star Formation as Xie Lingxi and Mother Xie watched.
• At Songhai Airport, Zhai Cai learned that he had been matched into a demigod instance, while An Dieqi reacted with concern.
• At Jiangnan Leather City, Xiahou Aotian was matched into the demigod instance, and the Qin Dynasty occultist begged him not to bring the tripod furnace into it; in Capital City, the Crimson Sun Executioner received a similar notification and hardened his resolve.

Star Lord revealed his role in Huo Zhengkui’s assassination and the Same Boat Society’s destruction as he fought Zhang Yuanqing for the Golden Crow. Elsewhere, Demon Eye Heavenly King joined Fu Qingyang against Fear Heavenly King, while Xiahou Aotian and Zhai Cai were trapped in a frozen instance.

• Star Lord explained that he had arranged Huo Zhengkui’s assassination to prevent the Second District from establishing an official organization, and admitted that Torch Dragon’s corruption had led him to destroy a Same Boat Society branch.
• Star Lord described his conflict with Old Marshal and confessed that he had allowed the Light Compass battle to become a chance to kill him, but the Void’s strength had foiled his plan.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Merit List to curse Star Lord with misfortune and attacked him, while Star Lord used the Purple Star Six Calamities Formation and his items to resist and draw out the Golden Crow.
• Zhang Yuanqing awakened Ling Tuo’s resentful remnant spirit to hinder Star Lord, but Star Lord’s controlled spirits dispelled his bad luck as he continued draining the Golden Crow from Zhang Yuanqing.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King appeared beside Fu Qingyang in the Qingyang Formation and rejected Fear Heavenly King’s destructive worldview, declaring his love for the world.
• Xiahou Aotian and Zhai Cai found themselves trapped in a blizzard within the Earth-Sky Formation, where Xiahou Aotian’s Qin Dynasty Occultist cursed him from inside his ring.

Xiahou Aotian, Zhai Cai, Jiang Yu'er, and the Crimson Sun Executioner struggled against the Illusion God's deadly illusions until Lady of Three Paths Mountain used the Sun Lord's blood to reveal the dungeon's true form. The Southern Faction's Illusion God then tried to persuade the Crimson Sun Executioner to join the Star Lord's side.

• Xiahou Aotian revived Zhai Cai with a dark red coat, but both men suffered injuries as their thoughts made the illusion's cold real.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord arrived and healed them, but the group's attempt to imagine a hot desert made the illusion turn into a deadly sea of fire.
• Jiang Yu'er healed Xiahou Aotian and Zhai Cai after they restored the snowy landscape, and the Crimson Sun Executioner joined the group.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain arrived to help eliminate the heavenly demon, and Xiahou Aotian gave her the Sun Lord's blood.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain used the blood to dispel the illusion, revealing the Southern Faction's Illusion God, who urged the Crimson Sun Executioner to side with the Star Lord.

The Crimson Sun team exposed the Southern Faction Illusion God's hiding place and tried to trap him, while Zhang Yuanqing faced the Star Lord's test in the Purple Star Six Calamities Formation. In reality, Zhang Yuanqing's avatar visited Vinnie to ask for the Cat King Speaker, seeking a faint hope.

• The Crimson Sun Star Official and Taiyi Sect's Grand Elder attacked the Southern Faction Illusion God, but his meteor illusion steadily weakened their golden suns.
• Jiang Yu'er and Zhai Cai gave the Crimson Sun Executioner and Lady of Three Paths Mountain golden blood, restoring their power, while the Crimson Sun Executioner urged the others to find the Illusion God's true body.
• Zhai Cai used the Holy Knight Armor's rule to reveal the Illusion God inside the Earth Void Star, then suffered fatal backlash that the Willow Branch Crown transferred to a tree.
• Jiang Yu'er weakened the Illusion God with Gestation as the Crimson Sun Executioner and Lady of Three Paths Mountain attacked, but he vanished into Zhai Cai's dream; Xiahou Aotian used the Wish Furnace to summon Gao Feng's Coward's Quilt and throw it over Zhai Cai.
• Zhang Yuanqing confronted the Star Lord after losing two Golden Crows, then recognized that the Star Lord was waiting until his source Golden Crows fell to four before killing him.
• Zhang Yuanqing's avatar visited Vinnie and asked for the Cat King Speaker, saying he wanted it to seek a faint, elusive hope.

Zhang Yuanqing recovered the Cat King Speaker from Vinnie Berent and decided to listen to his recordings from after reaching the Saint Realm. In the Qingyang Formation, Fu Qingyang and the Demon Eye Heavenly King attacked the Fear Heavenly King, but his blood-fueled transformation turned the fight against them.

• Zhang Yuanqing professed his love to Vinnie Berent, who returned the Cat King Speaker to him before his avatar disappeared.
• Zhang Yuanqing's avatar appeared in a boarded-up house and asked to hear every recording he had made after reaching the Saint Realm.
• The Fear Heavenly King proposed that he, Fu Qingyang, and the Demon Eye Heavenly King coexist peacefully in the Qingyang Formation, but Fu Qingyang and the Demon Eye Heavenly King resisted his influence and attacked.
• The Demon Eye Heavenly King used his Bewitching Eye to disrupt the Fear Heavenly King's spiritual energy, while Fu Qingyang struck him with a long-range slash.
• The Fear Heavenly King recovered under blood-colored light, reattached his severed head, and entered Bloodthirsty Frenzy after resisting their attacks.
• Fu Qingyang and the Demon Eye Heavenly King agreed to have the Demon Eye Heavenly King handle the damage while Fu Qingyang supported him.

Fu Qingyang and Demon Eye Heavenly King fought Fear Heavenly King, but the battle turned against them when Fear Heavenly King’s puppets killed Demon Eye. Elsewhere, the Southern Faction Illusion God emerged from the Sole-Heir Knight and unleashed a demigod-level Shadow Roar as Xiahou Aotian tried to protect himself.

• Demon Eye Heavenly King summoned the Rain Master Drum-Beating Statue, weakening Fear Heavenly King with rain and wind, but Fear Heavenly King struck back and impaled him.
• Fu Qingyang used his rule-infused Slash to cut Fear Heavenly King’s tendons and destroy the astrolabe warning him of danger.
• Fu Qingyang froze Fear Heavenly King with the Yin-Yang Demon Blade while Demon Eye and Fu Qingyang’s bronze soldier puppets attacked.
• Fear Heavenly King took control of the bronze soldier puppets, which turned on Demon Eye Heavenly King and cut him apart.
• The Southern Faction Illusion God emerged from the Sole-Heir Knight and unleashed Shadow Roar, prompting Xiahou Aotian to wrap himself in bedding.

The Stop-Killing Palace Lord and her allies tried to restrain the Southern Faction Illusion God, but his planted influence over Zhai Cai let him disable Sunrise and unleash a devastating Shadow Roar. Meanwhile, Fu Qingyang rescued the wounded Demon Eye Heavenly King, then faced the Fear Heavenly King, who revealed his authority over artifacts and turned the Rain Master's Drum-Beating Statue against him.

• The Southern Faction Illusion God killed the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, but she revived and helped Zhai Cai return early from his own death.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord connected Zhai Cai to her life force, allowing him to use the Holy Knight Armor without dying outright.
• The Illusion God triggered a mental seed in Zhai Cai, who forbade the use of Sunrise and suffered the armor's backlash.
• The Illusion God unleashed Shadow Roar, and the Crimson Sun Executioner died protecting his allies after using the Sun Lord's blood to ignite the Illusion God in eternal flames.
• Fu Qingyang reassembled the Demon Eye Heavenly King's severed body, administered Life Essence, and sent him away from the battlefield.
• The Fear Heavenly King revealed his Lord of Myriad Weapons authority, seized the Rain Master's Drum-Beating Statue, and attacked Fu Qingyang with its disease-inducing drumbeats.

Fu Qingyang fought the Fear Heavenly King under the Sunrise Talisman’s suppression while Chen Yuanjun learned the truth about his family and Zhang Yuanqing’s avatar searched old recordings. The chapter ended with Chen Yuanjun recalling that Yuanzi had visited him two years earlier and a recording of Zhang Yuanqing addressing his cousin beginning to play.

• Fu Qingyang used a Sunrise Talisman to suppress the Fear Heavenly King’s skills and fought him with swords, while the Fear Heavenly King taunted him and tried to force a close-range duel.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King attacked the Fear Heavenly King, who beat him and used him as a weapon against Fu Qingyang as the three fought without skills or items.
• Chen Yuanjun told Jiang Yu'er that he remembered the memories she had erased, and she explained that Yuanzi had been controlled, replaced by a puppet, and returned to their side the previous April.
• Jiang Yu'er revealed that Yuanzi was a demigod, she was roughly a peak Sovereign, and Chen Yuanjun’s father had also been a demigod, leaving Chen Yuanjun shocked.
• Chen Yuanjun remembered that Yuanzi had come looking for him two years earlier.
• In New Covenant County, Zhang Yuanqing’s avatar listened to recordings from the Cat King Speaker, including one in which his voice said he had something to ask his cousin.

Jiang Yu'er hypnotized Chen Yuanjun to investigate Yuanzi’s secret visit, while Zhang Yuanqing listened to a recording that revealed Yuanzi had erased Chen’s memory of an important request. Meanwhile, Demon Eye Heavenly King and Fu Qingyang fought the Fear Heavenly King under the Sunrise Talismans, and Fu Qingyang died after helping cripple him as Sunrise went out.

• Jiang Yu'er confirmed that Yuanzi had secretly visited Chen Yuanjun and hypnotized him to recover the conversation, but Chen could not remember its details.
• Zhang Yuanqing listened to a recording in which Yuanzi told Chen Yuanjun to look at a watch and forget their conversation and Yuanzi’s request.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King and Fu Qingyang, badly injured and suppressed by the Sunrise Talismans, planned to cripple Fear Heavenly King before the Sunrise ended.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King charged Fear Heavenly King to buy Fu Qingyang time, but Fear tore off his head while Demon Eye held on to him.
• Fu Qingyang used Dam-Breaking Swordsmanship to sever Fear Heavenly King’s tendons and neck, then died from the strain after Fear struck him.
• The sun disk behind Fu Qingyang’s head went out.

The Star Lord tried to persuade Zhang Yuanqing to surrender the Solar Origin while their battle continued, and the Southern Faction Illusion God overwhelmed the wounded allies with a snowstorm and endless wolves. After Solar Power went out, Fu Qingyang and the Fear Heavenly King recovered, while Demon Eye rebuilt himself into a demonic god.

• The Star Lord told Zhang Yuanqing that surrendering the Solar Origin could spare billions of lives and keep him alive, but Zhang Yuanqing remained composed and asked whether the Star Lord had foreseen something.
• Jiang Yu'er revived Zhai Cai, who repeatedly invoked his knightly decree to prevent the Southern Faction Illusion God from escaping while Lady of Three Paths Mountain attacked with the Demon Subduing Pestle.
• The Southern Faction Illusion God spread a blizzard illusion, summoned wolves, and used Shadow Roar to disrupt the group; Xiahou Aotian hid with Jiang Yu'er under Coward's Quilt while Lady of Three Paths Mountain shielded Zhai Cai.
• Zhai Cai warned that the Illusion God was draining the Sun Lord's power as Lady of Three Paths Mountain struggled to hold off the wolves.
• When Solar Power went out, Fu Qingyang and the Fear Heavenly King recovered, while Demon Eye activated the Demon God's Will and rebuilt his body as a three-headed, eight-armed demonic god.

Fear Heavenly King defeated and beheaded Demon Eye Heavenly King, while the Lunar Moon Lord opened a black hole that began pulling Zhang Yuanqing into it. In the Earth-Sky Formation, Zhai Cai reflected on his past and chose to sacrifice himself by using a stamp.

• Demon Eye Heavenly King used his demigod power to attack Fear Heavenly King, while Fu Qingyang supported Fear with sword light.
• Fear Heavenly King used his swords and rule powers to set Demon Eye Heavenly King on fire, disable him, and cut off his head.
• The Lunar Moon Lord merged two tornadoes into a black hole that targeted Solar Power, and Zhang Yuanqing was drawn toward it as the Star Lord entered.
• Zhai Cai recalled how his careless advice had shaped Xia Zuo's sacrifice, then used a stamp to exchange for a reward.
• Jiang Yu'er and Xiahou Aotian remained trapped beneath Coward's Quilt while Zhai Cai faced the wind, snow, and wolves.

Zhai Cai used borrowed knightly power to kill the Southern Faction Illusion God, then vanished as the power ended. Demon Eye Heavenly King and Fu Qingyang also died after defeating Fear Heavenly King, while Zhang Yuanqing’s Golden Crow escaped the weakened black hole and he prepared to counterattack.

• Zhai Cai declared rules that barred the Southern Faction Illusion God from using illusions and other abilities, then killed him with rule-enforced sword strikes after Lady of Three Paths Mountain blocked the celestial body’s power.
• Zhai Cai told Xiahou Aotian that he had shown what a protagonist looked like, then collapsed into ashes as his borrowed power expired.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King snapped Fear Heavenly King’s two rule-based swords in a final counterattack, completed his mission, and died while returning in a vision to his parents.
• Fu Qingyang burned his lifespan to pierce Fear Heavenly King’s chest and destroy his soul, then died after looking toward the blood-red sky.
• The main formation shook, weakening the black hole and restoring the Golden Crow’s connection to the Solar Origin; Zhang Yuanqing recalled it and declared that the offense and defense had changed places.

Chen Yuanjun met Zhang Yuanqing and tested an old electronic watch tied to a forgotten favor, while Zhang Yuanqing fought the Star Lord inside the dungeon. After Ling Tuo’s remnant soul vanished, a wraith identifying itself as the Lunar Moon Lord’s Spirit Servant appeared before Ling Jun and Victoria.

• Chen Yuanjun reflected on learning that his father was a demigod and realized he could not remember the details of a favor Zhang Yuanqing had once asked of him.
• Zhang Yuanqing activated an electronic watch, causing Chen Yuanjun’s own watch to tremble in response.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the weakened formation to attack the black hole with a Golden Crow arrow, then transformed the Solar Origin into a giant sun and collided it with the Star Lord’s black hole.
• The Star Lord and Zhang Yuanqing fought a contest of endurance as their opposing powers consumed each other, and Ling Tuo’s remnant soul finally dispersed.
• Ling Jun and Victoria spotted a powerful wraith outside the villa, and it identified itself as the Spirit Servant of the Lunar Moon Lord.

Zhang Yuanqing completed the electronic watch and used it to travel back in time, where he defeated Black Impermanence and took the Golden Crow. After a random second journey brought him to April 13, 2022, he entered the Spirit Realm to visit Old Clapper.

• Zhang Yuanqing realized Demon Lord had entrusted the electronic watch’s straps to Chen Yuanjun, completed the watch, and read that it allowed four trips to the past.
• Zhang Yuanqing traveled to the night he fought Black Impermanence, froze time, killed him, claimed the Golden Crow, and shattered the Fallen Holy Grail.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the watch again and arrived on April 13, 2022, where he considered what he could change without creating greater uncertainty.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the Spirit Realm and went to the Mountain God Temple to visit Old Clapper and try to guide her toward helping his younger self.