Chapter Summaries

Chu Yang ascended as Emperor of the Golden Crow Empire, then left for Golden Crow Pass to secure its recognition. Ye Lin took charge of palace affairs and learned that Hong Batian had sensed a mysterious drop of blood that could transform him.

• Chu Yang entered the imperial palace, ending the fighting in the capital, and became the new Emperor of the Golden Crow Empire.
• Chu Yang left Ye Lin in charge of the palace and departed for Golden Crow Pass to seek its support.
• Ye Lin instructed Wusheng to arrange a court assembly for the next day.
• Hong Batian told Ye Lin that he had sensed a drop of blood that could help him reach an unknown realm, and Ye Lin promised to obtain it for him.
• Hong Batian gave Ye Lin a collection of cultivation techniques from the world.

After the Third Prince’s victory, Chu Zheng and the other princes feared the new emperor’s revenge and began fleeing the Golden Crow Empire. Chu Zheng planned to seek refuge in the Qilin Empire and hoped its impending war with the Golden Crow Empire would give him another chance at power.

• Ministers entered the imperial palace as the capital’s overnight damage was repaired and ordinary residents resumed their lives.
• Chu Zheng raged over his defeat, blaming the Blood Sword Manor and the Half-Emperor expert who had fled instead of fighting.
• A black-clad man advised Chu Zheng to escape beyond the empire’s borders, and Chu Zheng chose to flee to the Qilin Empire.
• Chu Zheng hoped the Qilin Empire’s coming attack would weaken his younger brother’s rule and allow him to make a comeback.
• The other princes, ministers, and jianghu factions involved in the succession struggle also packed their belongings and fled before the new emperor could retaliate.

After ascending the throne, Chu Yang summoned the ministers who had taken part in the struggle for succession and confronted them about the previous night’s events. The court remained too frightened to answer, leaving Chu Yang’s question hanging.

• The ministers hesitated outside the grand hall, while the old eunuch ordered them to enter and pay their respects.
• Founding ministers led the way into the hall, and the rest followed after delaying for more than ten minutes.
• The ministers bowed to Chu Yang, who sat on the imperial throne beside Ye Lin.
• Chu Yang asked whether the ministers refused to acknowledge him as Emperor, and they hastily denied it.
• Chu Yang asked what had kept them busy the previous night and whether they had heard about the imperial capital’s commotion.

Chu Yang had the former rival princes brought before the ministers and revealed that each had been captured after his failed bid for the throne. He rejected the Second Prince’s plea for mercy, saying the princes would be judged by evidence and that none of them were innocent.

• Chu Yang ordered the chained princes brought into the hall.
• The ministers recognized the princes, including the Eighth Prince, whom Myriad Sword Mountain had handed over to Golden Crow Pass.
• Chu Yang reproached his brothers for hiding from him and recalled how they had tried to defeat him.
• The Second Prince blamed the Eldest Prince and pleaded with Chu Yang to spare him because they shared the same blood.
• Chu Yang said he would restore the freedom of anyone proven innocent, but declared that none of the princes were innocent.

Chu Yang forced his brothers and ministers to take their own lives to spare their families, then let Ye Lin enter the Golden Crow Empire’s treasury to choose his promised treasures. Inside, Ye Lin found a terrifying drop of blood that he suspected belonged to the Golden Crow, leaving him stunned by its power.

• Chu Yang gave the princes a dagger and ordered them to die, promising to spare their families.
• Chu Zheng killed himself, and the other seven princes followed, leaving eight bodies in the grand hall.
• Chu Yang ordered the ministers to take their own lives after the court session, again promising not to harm their families.
• Chu Yang brought Ye Lin to the treasury and told him to choose three treasures as promised.
• Ye Lin entered the treasury, found the drop of blood Hong Batian had mentioned, and wondered if it was Golden Crow blood.

Ye Lin searched the Golden Crow Empire's treasury, finding the Chaos Art and a corpse larger than a planet. Unable to carry the corpse out, he and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar began devouring its power.

• Ye Lin discovered that he could not store the Golden Crow's blood in his Spatial Ring without risking the treasures inside.
• Ye Lin found the Chaos Art and put it away to study later.
• Ye Lin came across a corpse larger than a planet and realized it had blood vitality and vital essence.
• Ye Lin sat on the corpse's palm, circulated the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, and released the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar identified the corpse as belonging to a True Immortal and agreed to devour its power to restore itself.

Ye Lin absorbed the essence from a True Immortal’s corpse until he reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence, but stopped before demonic qi and the corpse’s evil intent could make him lose control. He prepared to leave with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which agreed to follow him and said it could store the nearby Golden Immortal essence blood for three hours.

• Ye Lin and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar spent three days absorbing vital essence and blood qi from the corpse while Chu Yang waited outside.
• Ye Lin reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence but stopped absorbing to avoid qi deviation and losing his reason.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said it would follow Ye Lin after enjoying its fullest meal in ten thousand years.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to store the Golden Immortal essence blood, and it said it could hold it for three hours.

Ye Lin left the treasury with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which had stored the Golden Immortal blood essence but could only contain it for three hours. He learned that Chu Yang had made him Regent Duke and given him a residence in the imperial palace, where Hong Batian came to meet him.

• Ye Lin urged the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to absorb the Golden Immortal blood essence, and the jar warned it could hold it for only three hours.
• The jar swallowed the blood essence and suffered from the strain, so Ye Lin put it in his Spatial Ring and left the treasury.
• An old eunuch told Ye Lin that Chu Yang had appointed him Regent Duke, granting him authority over the Golden Crow Empire’s armies and forces.
• The old eunuch led Ye Lin to his new residence beside the court hall, and Ye Lin dismissed him before entering alone.
• Hong Batian arrived outside Ye Lin’s hall, hoping the thing he needed had come into Ye Lin’s possession.

Ye Lin gave Hong Batian the blood from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, then endured the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art’s backlash in seclusion. After forty-nine days, he purged the evil thoughts and regained control of himself.

• Ye Lin presented the blood to Hong Batian, who swallowed it and departed without thanking him.
• Ye Lin sat down to purge the evil thoughts contaminating his divine soul as the demonic art’s backlash ravaged his body and mind.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art explained that Ye Lin had to endure the backlash alone and would face it again whenever he used the art.
• After forty-nine days of seclusion, Ye Lin’s aura steadied, the evil thoughts vanished, and his Unrivaled Sacred Body shone again.

After enduring the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art’s side effects, Ye Lin reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence and learned that the ordeal had tempered his divine soul. Hong Batian then revealed he had become a true Earth Immortal, far beyond the world’s strongest experts.

• Ye Lin examined his cultivation and realized he was one step away from the Mahayana stage.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar congratulated Ye Lin for surviving the art’s side effects and warned him not to lower his guard.
• Hong Batian arrived surrounded by flames and boasted about his newfound power.
• Ye Lin asked whether Hong Batian had entered the Loose Immortal realm, and Hong Batian said he had reached the Earth Immortal realm instead.
• Hong Batian said his divine sense covered one-tenth of the greater world and that no expert there could withstand a single finger of his.

Ye Lin learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that peak cultivators had to leave their sealed Great Worlds and that the Immortal World lay beyond the starry sky. He decided to reach the Earth Immortal realm in this world before returning to the Xuanhuang Great World, while Hong Batian proposed destroying the Qilin Empire.

• Hong Batian suggested that he and Ye Lin destroy the Qilin Empire, since they had become the strongest people in the world.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recognized Hong Batian's Earth Immortal cultivation and explained that Earth Immortals could enter the starry sky, though Ye Lin could not yet survive its storms.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that the Immortal World was a higher-level Great World in the upper reaches of the starry sky, accessible only to True Immortals.
• Ye Lin concluded that he should reach the immortal realm in this world before returning to the Xuanhuang Great World, where his cultivation might be suppressed.

Ye Lin learned that Devourers had sealed the Xuanhuang Great World and planned to consume it through the Ascension Gate, so he decided to return there with Hong Batian. He found Chu Yang facing a two-sided invasion of the Golden Crow Empire.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Devourers sealed great worlds and used the Ascension Gate as a trap to consume those who sought ascension.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned that the Xuanhuang Great World was in danger and recognized Hong Batian as a royal-blooded descendant of the divine beast Phoenix.
• Ye Lin decided to find Chu Yang and return to the Xuanhuang Great World, worried about its fate and Xiaoyao’s need for rescue.
• Ye Lin found Chu Yang agonizing over the Qilin Empire’s invasion, which had captured fifty Golden Crow Empire cities in ten days.
• The Great Qing Dynasty also deployed troops against the Golden Crow Empire from behind, seeking to rise among the Eight Nations.

Chu Yang weighed the Golden Crow Empire’s war on two fronts and chose to attack the Great Qing Dynasty first. He ordered a major campaign while keeping the Qilin Empire’s possible interference in mind.

• A Ministry of War elder advised Chu Yang to destroy the Great Qing Dynasty and use it as a supply base while defending against the Qilin Empire.
• Chu Yang questioned whether the Qilin Empire might intercept the Golden Crow army, but the elder dismissed the threat.
• Chu Yang appointed General Zhang Donglei commander of an army of billions and ordered him to capture the Great Qing Dynasty’s imperial capital quickly.
• Chu Yang assigned ten True God experts and two God King experts to the campaign, explaining that the Qilin Empire might use unexpected methods.

Ye Lin returned from seclusion and offered to help Chu Yang attack the Qilin Empire, persuading him to trust the plan and send the troops. The chapter ended as Chu Yang reached the Ministry of War and its officials wondered why he had come back so soon.

• Chu Yang decided not to send God King experts to the front and returned to address the court and recruit ministers.
• Ye Lin and Hong Batian arrived, and Ye Lin told Chu Yang he had come to help.
• Ye Lin proposed sending troops against the Qilin Empire and said Chu Yang need not worry about what came afterward.
• Chu Yang trusted Ye Lin and said he would order the three grand marshals to set out.
• At the Ministry of War, an old official asked Chu Yang why he had returned so quickly after leaving to handle court affairs.

Chu Yang ordered a full-scale campaign against the Qilin Empire, despite his ministers’ warnings, and Ye Lin backed him. Golden Crow Pass rejected the order, leaving Chu Yang unable to mobilize most of the empire’s strongest experts.

• Chu Yang ordered the grand marshals to invade the Qilin Empire through the teleportation points and demanded that Golden Crow Pass support the campaign.
• The Ministry of War elders warned Chu Yang that the Golden Crow Empire was unstable and that war could ruin it, but he threatened anyone who tried to stop him.
• The elders asked Ye Lin to persuade the Emperor, but Ye Lin declared that Chu Yang’s intentions were his own.
• A messenger reported that Golden Crow Pass had rejected Chu Yang’s edict and thrown him out before he could finish reading it.
• Chu Yang looked to Ye Lin for help, knowing that Golden Crow Pass controlled most of the empire’s top experts.

Hong Batian went to Golden Crow Pass after Chu Yang pointed out its location, and easily destroyed its protective formation. He defeated the pass's First-Tribulation Loose Immortal elder with a single finger and demanded to see the master.

• Chu Yang pointed Hong Batian toward Golden Crow Pass, and Hong Batian left to confront it.
• Hong Batian gave the people inside three seconds to come out, but no one answered.
• Hong Batian shattered Golden Crow Pass's formation and flattened the peak of its golden mountain.
• A First-Tribulation Loose Immortal elder appeared and offered compensation, but Hong Batian demanded to see the master.
• The elder attacked Hong Batian with a vast golden palm, but Hong Batian pierced the elder and shattered the attack with a flick of his finger.

Hong Batian confronted Jin Yang at Golden Crow Pass and demanded that the Golden Crow Empire obey Chu Yang. He left Jin Yang’s golden phantom shattered, showing that even the empire’s God Emperor could not stop him.

• Hong Batian easily injured an old man, who recognized him as a God Emperor.
• Jin Yang appeared as a golden phantom and asked why Hong Batian was interfering in the Golden Crow Empire’s affairs.
• Hong Batian said he was acting under Chu Yang’s orders and demanded that everyone at Golden Crow Pass obey Chu Yang.
• Jin Yang warned that he could use the Golden Crow Empire’s national fortune to fight Hong Batian.
• Hong Batian attacked Jin Yang’s true body, and his fiery-red flames shattered Jin Yang’s golden phantom.

Hong Batian defeated Jin Yang and forced Golden Crow Pass to obey Chu Yang. Jin Yang accepted the order, hoping Chu Yang’s powerful ally might help the Golden Crow Empire gain access to the Holy Pool.

• Hong Batian crushed Jin Yang’s golden divine mountain and revealed that he was far beyond the Divine Emperor realm.
• Hong Batian demanded that everyone at Golden Crow Pass obey Chu Yang, and Jin Yang reluctantly agreed.
• Hong Batian tossed Jin Yang to the ground and left the ruined Golden Crow Pass.
• A wounded Divine King asked Jin Yang what to do, and Jin Yang ordered him to take people to Chu Yang.
• Jin Yang hoped that helping Chu Yang would let the Golden Crow Empire rise in status and claim a share of the Holy Pool.

Chu Yang ordered the Golden Crow Empire to launch an all-out war against the Qilin Empire after Golden Crow Pass agreed to support him. An old courtier asked to join the front lines, while the chapter also recounted how the God Race crushed two Immortal Sects and established its rule.

• The God Race defeated two Immortal Sects in a three-day battle, killing their God Emperor experts and leaving no survivors.
• Hong Batian arrived at the Ministry of War, and Ye Lin confirmed that Golden Crow Pass had agreed to support the war.
• Chu Yang ordered the Golden Crow Empire to mobilize its entire army and declare all-out war on the Qilin Empire.
• Chu Yang said Jin Yang would remain in the capital to deter other forces from attacking the empire.
• An old courtier, convinced by the support from Golden Crow Pass and Hong Batian's presence, asked Chu Yang to let him fight on the front lines.

Chu Yang granted a group of Ministry of War officials troops to command, then agreed to go with Ye Lin and Hong Batian to the Qilin Empire. Hong Batian revealed he had found a powerful force that might complete Ye Lin’s defective Unrivaled Sacred Body.

• Chu Yang gave a Ministry of War official ten million troops to command, and other officials begged for troops as well.
• Chu Yang ordered the officials to receive their troops from Marshal Li and told them to say he had authorized it.
• Ye Lin suggested that he and Chu Yang go to the Qilin Empire first, while Chu Yang would later lead the army to its imperial capital.
• Ye Lin and Hong Batian vanished from Chu Yang’s presence and discussed a special power Hong Batian had found.
• Hong Batian said the power might complete Ye Lin’s Unrivaled Sacred Body, shocking Ye Lin.