Chapter Summaries

Yang Chen defeated and killed Blazing Sun, then annihilated most of the Fire God Hall and gained more than one hundred million Slaughter Points. The Fire God learned that his temple had been destroyed but postponed revenge until after the effort to break into Chaos.

• Yang Chen shattered Blazing Sun’s borrowed power and killed him despite his warnings about the Fire God.
• Yang Chen killed a flame giant who tried to flee, saying he would punish anyone who bullied his disciple, Beigong Qing.
• Yang Chen used the Demon-Suppressing Sacred Body to destroy the Fire God Hall, killing nearly half its experts, including an Eight-Turn flame giant.
• Yang Chen gained more than one hundred million Slaughter Points and considered advancing his cultivation to seven turns.
• The Fire God discovered his divine temple had been destroyed, but agreed to set revenge aside until after breaking into Chaos.

Yang Chen freed Li Tianhua, a man imprisoned in the Fire God Hall who claimed to be the father of the Great Tang Emperor. After Yang Chen told him about Great Tang’s turmoil, Li Tianhua suggested he knew where his son had gone.

• Yang Chen reached the deepest part of the Fire God Hall prison and asked the chained prisoner what reward he could offer for his freedom.
• Li Tianhua revealed that he was a member of the Great Tang imperial family and persuaded Yang Chen to release him.
• Yang Chen severed Li Tianhua’s chains, and Li Tianhua regained his freedom and healed his burned face.
• Li Tianhua told Yang Chen that he had founded Great Tang and was imprisoned by the Fire God Hall, which used him as leverage against the empire.
• Yang Chen told Li Tianhua about Great Tang’s recent events, and Li Tianhua said he might know where his son had gone.

Yang Chen learned that an Immortal Realm visitor had once ordered the Great Tang emperor to guard the Ancestral Land, which he suspected was the Gods and Devils Battlefield. He focused on the Guides as a possible path to uncover how Li Yuanhao and others reached the Immortal Realm, then demanded that Li Tianhua serve him for ten years.

• Li Tianhua named his sons and guessed that Li Yuanhao had taken the throne because he was the most gifted.
• Li Tianhua recalled an Immortal Realm visitor who promised to help the Great Tang unify the universe in exchange for the emperor guarding the Ancestral Land.
• Yang Chen connected the Ancestral Land to the Gods and Devils Battlefield and wondered whether the Immortal Realm had once been a higher-level universe.
• Yang Chen realized the Guides might explain how Li Yuanhao and others entered the Immortal Realm, and Li Tianhua described them as representatives who maintained balance between universes.
• Yang Chen demanded ten years of service from Li Tianhua in return for saving him, and Li Tianhua reluctantly agreed.

Yang Chen considered the Immortal Realm’s mysteries before agreeing to meet Jade Rabbit, while the Wind God Hall Master confronted Lei Zhenyun in Thunder Gorge and revealed that the Fire God Hall had been destroyed.

• Li Tianhua prepared a meal for Su An while resenting having to serve him.
• Yang Chen reflected on the Immortal Realm, the Ancestral Land, and the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• Su An told Yang Chen that Jade Rabbit had come out of seclusion and wanted to see him, and Yang Chen agreed to meet her.
• The Wind God Hall Master entered Thunder Gorge and wounded a Thunder God Hall expert who challenged him.
• Lei Zhenyun confronted the Wind God Hall Master, who announced that the Fire God Hall had been destroyed.

Jade Rabbit left Cold Moon Palace after giving Yang Chen a snowflake mark containing the identity of the mysterious person, which he was warned not to open before reaching the Immortal realm. Meanwhile, Li Yuankuang learned that a mysterious Ninth Revolution expert had already destroyed the Fire God Hall before the Great Tang could act.

• Jade Rabbit told Yang Chen she was leaving for her master's side and revealed that she had broken through to the Seventh Revolution after being freed from her duties to Cold Moon Palace.
• Jade Rabbit gave Yang Chen a snowflake mark containing the mysterious person's identity and warned him that learning it before reaching the Immortal realm could expose him to catastrophic karma.
• Jade Rabbit vanished, leaving Yang Chen alone in Cold Moon Palace with the mark safely stored in his Space Ring.
• Li Yuankuang studied plans to fight the Three Halls and worried that their borrowed Immortal power could overwhelm the Great Tang.
• A soldier reported to Li Yuankuang that a mysterious Ninth Revolution expert had defeated the Fire God Hall Master and wiped out the Fire God Hall.

After Fire God Hall fell, Li Yuankuang repositioned Great Tang’s forces and considered asking Yang Chen for help against the remaining halls. Yang Chen agreed to aid Great Tang if needed, and then announced that Li Tianhua’s son was coming.

• Li Yuankuang learned that Fire God Hall had been destroyed and ordered the army withdrawn from Blazing Flame Territory and deployed along Thunder Gorge’s border.
• Yang Chen reflected on his progress toward the Immortal Realm and discussed Cold Moon Palace’s history with Li Tianhua.
• Li Tianhua explained that he had little attachment to the current Great Tang but wanted to protect his sons and grandsons from danger.
• Li Tianhua asked Yang Chen to help Great Tang in a crisis, and Yang Chen agreed to step in if the opportunity arose.
• Yang Chen sensed a guest was coming and told Li Tianhua it was his son.

The Northern Suppressing King and Liu Hong traveled to Cold Moon Palace to meet Yang Chen, while Li Tianhua learned that one of his sons was coming. After Liu Hong blundered into the Nine Heavens Purgatory Array, the Northern Suppressing King entered Human Hall and was stunned to find his father alive.

• Li Tianhua heard that his son was coming and hurried outside, while Yang Chen waited in his seat.
• The Northern Suppressing King and Liu Hong traveled to Cold Moon Palace, where Li Tianming met them and led them to Human Hall.
• Liu Hong complained about being kept waiting and tried to enter Human Hall, but the Nine Heavens Purgatory Array swallowed him.
• The Northern Suppressing King entered Human Hall and recognized the aged man inside as his supposedly dead father.

The Northern Suppressing King discovered that Li Tianhua had returned and realized Yang Chen was likely connected to the Fire God Hall’s destruction. Yang Chen promised to keep Great Tang safe for ten years, but clarified that he had not agreed to act on its behalf; the Northern Suppressing King left after another beating from his father.

• The Northern Suppressing King mistook Li Tianhua for an illusion, tugged at his face, and was slammed into a crater by him.
• The Northern Suppressing King suspected that Yang Chen was the mysterious Nine-Turn Gods and Devils behind the Fire God Hall’s destruction.
• The Northern Suppressing King asked whether Yang Chen’s earlier promise still stood, and Yang Chen pledged to keep Great Tang free from trouble for ten years.
• The Northern Suppressing King asked when they would travel to the Imperial City, but Yang Chen explained that he had promised protection, not service to Great Tang.
• Li Tianhua called the Northern Suppressing King an idiot and beat him until he escaped, after which the Northern Suppressing King remembered Liu Hong was still in the formation.

The Northern Suppressing King and Liu Hong met Yang Chen, who freed Liu Hong from the Nine Heavens Purgatory Array and promised to help Great Tang if it faced hardship. As the Northern Suppressing King prepared to leave with Li Tianhua staying behind, Li Tianhua asked how the second one had been.

• The Northern Suppressing King asked Yang Chen to release Liu Hong, whom the Nine Heavens Purgatory Array was tossing between flaming dragons.
• Li Tianhua beat the Northern Suppressing King after taking offense at being called old, then Yang Chen pulled Liu Hong out of the array.
• Liu Hong greeted Yang Chen and learned that the old man beside him was Li Tianhua, the Supreme Emperor.
• Liu Hong realized Yang Chen had destroyed the Fire God Hall and bowed to Li Tianhua, who asked after Liu Hong's father and the other old men.
• Yang Chen promised to help Great Tang in a crisis but said he would not go to the Imperial City for now.
• As the Northern Suppressing King prepared to leave, Li Tianhua asked how the second one had been, and the Northern Suppressing King stiffened.

Li Tianhua learned that Li Tianba had died after the Great Tang Iron Law erased him for rebelling, and Yang Chen received a mission to obtain a temple's faith crystal. The chapter ended with Li Tianba appearing at Thunder Gorge and demanding to see its Hall Master.

• Liu Hong explained that the Iron Law had erased Li Tianba after he tried to seize the throne, leaving no bones to bury.
• Li Tianhua accepted that his son had rebelled, then grieved over his death as the Northern Suppressing King confirmed what had happened.
• Li Tianhua told Yang Chen about Li Tianba's poor cultivation, sharp mind, and ambition, and Yang Chen comforted him before leaving.
• Yang Chen checked in and received a Nine-Turn Usage Card, then got a mission to obtain the temple's faith crystal in exchange for a full-power strike from an Immortal Realm expert.
• Yang Chen suspected the Fire God Hall had possessed faith crystals and wondered where else to find them.
• Li Tianba arrived at Thunder Gorge unharmed by its lightning and announced that he had come to see the Hall Master.

Li Tianba met with the Thunder God Hall Master and proposed attacking the mysterious Nine-Revolution expert he believed came from Cold Moon Palace. Meanwhile, Yang Chen chose the Wind God Hall as his next target for obtaining faith crystals and arrived in the Wind God Domain.

• Li Tianba entered Thunder Gorge and told the Thunder God Hall Master that he had killed Qiao Feng but had not been behind the attack on Fire God Hall.
• Li Tianba identified Cold Moon Palace as the likely source of the mysterious Nine-Revolution expert and urged the Thunder God Hall Master to strike first.
• Li Tianba offered to deal with the Cold Moon Palace expert, while the Thunder God Hall Master agreed to coordinate with Wind God Hall.
• Yang Chen studied records on Wind God Hall and Thunder God Hall, judged Wind God Hall slightly weaker, and decided to attack it for faith crystals.
• Yang Chen reinforced the Nine Heavens Purgatory Array around the Human Hall's small world, then traveled to the Wind God Domain and emerged before Wind God Hall.

Yang Chen secretly searched the Wind God Hall for its Faith Crystal and discovered Li Tianba, who claimed to know the identity of a mysterious ninth-revolution powerhouse. The Wind God Hall Master lent Li Tianba the crystal for three days, giving Yang Chen a chance to take it.

• Yang Chen searched the Wind God Hall with his Divine Soul Power for its Faith Crystal, but the Wind God Hall Master sensed the intrusion.
• Li Tianba appeared before the Wind God Hall Master, and Yang Chen hid above them as a cloud.
• Li Tianba told the Wind God Hall Master that the mysterious powerhouse came from the Cold Moon Palace of the Nine Heavens Icefield.
• Li Tianba asked to borrow the Faith Crystal so he could eliminate the powerhouse, and the Wind God Hall Master agreed to lend it to him for three days.
• Yang Chen decided to seize the Faith Crystal after the Wind God Hall Master brought it out.

The Wind God Hall Master refused to give Li Tianba the Faith Crystal, calling him a pawn, and Li Tianba revealed that he had concealed his true strength. Their battle erupted, leaving the Wind God Hall Master engulfed by Li Tianba’s vast fire-crow flames as he brought out the Faith Crystal.

• The Wind God Hall Master questioned Li Tianba about how he used a Faith Crystal to advance, then refused to hand it over.
• Li Tianba rejected being called a pawn and attacked the Wind God Hall Master to take the crystal himself.
• Yang Chen realized Li Tianba’s cultivation had secretly reached the Nine-Turn Gods and Devils Realm.
• The Wind God Hall Master summoned Wind God’s Wrath and unleashed wind blades, but Li Tianba evaded them.
• Li Tianba transformed into a massive fire crow and engulfed the battlefield in flames, prompting the Wind God Hall Master to reveal the Faith Crystal.

Li Tianba killed the Wind God Hall Master with a surprise attack from his shadow and claimed the Faith Crystal. Yang Chen confronted him, and when Li Tianba vanished to attack, Yang Chen struck at the shadow beneath his feet and demanded the crystal.

• The Wind God Hall Master summoned an azure figure that attacked the Fire Crow, but Li Tianba disappeared amid the flames.
• Yang Chen spotted Li Tianba hiding in the Wind God Hall Master's shadow, and Li Tianba stabbed the Hall Master with a scarlet dagger.
• The Wind God Hall Master died, leaving the Faith Crystal behind, which Li Tianba claimed as the key to reaching the Ninth Revolution.
• Yang Chen arrived and identified himself as the mysterious Ninth Revolution, prompting Li Tianba to vanish and attack him.
• Yang Chen activated the Demon-Suppressing Sacred Body, punched the shadow beneath his feet, and demanded that Li Tianba hand over the Faith Crystal.

Yang Chen confronted Li Tianba and discovered that a crimson figure in the void was gathering overwhelming power. Li Tianba fired a crimson arrow at Yang Chen, who used a Nine-Turn Usage Card and shattered it with a punch.

• Yang Chen struck Li Tianba, but Li Tianba's body dispersed and reappeared, revealing that Yang Chen had detected him despite his concealment.
• Li Tianba grew furious when Yang Chen called him a prince and summoned his Fire Crow Dharma Manifestation.
• A crimson figure emerged from the void and began drawing a bow while Li Tianba explained his resentment over being denied the throne.
• Li Tianba urged Yang Chen to join him, then ordered the crimson figure to attack when Yang Chen refused.
• As the crimson arrow flew toward him, Yang Chen used the Nine-Turn Usage Card, activated the Demon-Suppressing Sacred Body, and shattered the arrow with a punch.

Yang Chen shattered Li Tianba’s attack and demanded the Faith Crystal, but Li Tianba tried to stab him and was crushed by Yang Chen’s Demon-Suppressing Sacred Body. Yang Chen claimed the crystal and completed his mission, earning a full-power strike from an Immortal Realm expert.

• Yang Chen destroyed Li Tianba’s red arrow feather with his fist, leaving Li Tianba injured and terrified.
• Li Tianba tried to flee, but Yang Chen caught up with him and demanded the Faith Crystal.
• Li Tianba handed over the Faith Crystal, then attacked Yang Chen with a short sword when he saw him distracted.
• Yang Chen’s body resisted the sword and flames, and he crushed Li Tianba with a punch empowered by demonic qi.
• Yang Chen took the Faith Crystal, and the system rewarded him with a full-power strike from an Immortal Realm expert.

A blood-red presence recalled being killed by the stranger’s Nine Revolutions and declared that it would soon overcome its captive’s will and rule Great Tang. Meanwhile, Yang Chen used a Faith Crystal to meet the Wind God, resisted its influence, and rejected its offer to become its spokesperson.

• The blood-red presence remembered its defeat by the stranger’s Nine Revolutions and said its plan had been interrupted, but it would soon wear down the young man it held captive and become sovereign of Great Tang.
• Yang Chen returned to his residence in the Human Hall’s small world, secured the room with barriers, and connected his Divine Soul Power to the Faith Crystal.
• Yang Chen reached a universe where he recognized the Wind God, who said Yang Chen was the first God or Devil in tens of millions of years to reach his world and complained that his inheritance had been severed.
• The Wind God offered Yang Chen his power if he became his spokesperson, but Yang Chen used the Black Hole Dharma Form to resist the offer’s influence.
• Yang Chen steadied himself and told the Wind God that it was not worthy of having him as its spokesperson.

Yang Chen provoked the Wind God while his fragile Divine Soul incarnation faced the god’s overwhelming power. The Wind God hesitated to attack because of Yang Chen’s immense karmic entanglements, but finally struck, and Yang Chen called on the system’s Immortal Realm attack as the pressure threatened to shatter him.

• Yang Chen told the Wind God he was not qualified, and the god laughed as his power shook the universe and shattered nearby stars.
• The Wind God recognized the Black Hole Dharma Form behind Yang Chen and inspected Yang Chen’s karma, finding countless threads and one vast strand.
• The system issued Yang Chen a mission to resist the gods and promised a cultivation increase and one full-power strike from an Immortal Realm expert.
• Yang Chen continued taunting the Wind God, who held back because killing him could entangle the god in Yang Chen’s karma, including Fire God’s thread.
• The Wind God erupted in anger and crushed Yang Chen with immense pressure, and Yang Chen ordered the system to use the Immortal Realm strike.

Yang Chen summoned a full-power Immortal Realm strike, and a mottled finger emerged from a cosmic rift to overwhelm Wind God. Wind God destroyed Yang Chen’s soul incarnation, then wondered how the lowly ant had become connected to “that one.”

• Yang Chen activated the system’s full-power Immortal Realm strike, causing a mottled finger to emerge from a rift in the universe.
• Wind God attacked the finger with his azure sword and Wind God Domain, but the finger shattered his attacks and began collapsing the domain.
• The finger pursued Wind God and struck him, blasting him hundreds of thousands of miles away and leaving chaotic energy to corrode his body.
• Wind God cleared the chaotic currents and crushed Yang Chen’s soul incarnation with a surge of energy.
• Wind God stared at where Yang Chen had been and wondered how the lowly ant had become connected to that one.

Yang Chen advanced to the eighth turn after completing a mission, then spent several years watching Great Tang's enemies remain quiet. When a crimson light appeared over the Imperial City, a mysterious old man warned Huang Shilong that Great Tang's danger would come from within and glimpsed a white figure severing the light with one sword.

• Yang Chen completed his mission, rose to the eighth turn of Gods and Devils, and learned that the system would not explain the mysterious finger.
• Yang Chen checked in and received a Level 9 Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Over several years, Great Tang prepared for conflict while Wind God Hall and Thunder God Hall remained subdued.
• A crimson pillar of light pierced the sky above Great Tang's Imperial City, and the white-haired old man told Huang Shilong that Great Tang's hour of peril had arrived.
• The white-haired old man said the danger could come from within, then privately recalled seeing a white figure sever the crimson light with one sword.