Chapter Summaries

Jian Unrivaled and Wuxin fought the invading Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, easily destroying their towering skeleton forms. Behind them, cultivators discussed the fading resources of the Xuanhuang Great World and the Dawn Alliance, leaving the war’s survivors to face a world where becoming immortal seemed increasingly impossible.

• Jian Unrivaled warned Wuxin that the demons had arrived as enormous demonic hands erupted from the ground.
• Wuxin invoked the Buddha’s power while Jian Unrivaled summoned his Long Sword and charged the demons.
• The demons revealed themselves as towering black-purple skeletons, with frightened cultivators gathered behind them.
• Wuxin crushed a skeleton with a golden palm, while Jian Unrivaled cut down several more with his sword.
• The cultivators praised their strength and discussed the scarcity of resources for immortality in the Xuanhuang Great World.
• The cultivators noted that the Dawn Alliance, organized by Ye Lin, still had some resources left.

As cultivators discussed the desperate shortage of resources in the Heavenly Demon Great World, a voice reminded them to join the fighting, and they rushed to the battlefield. Wu Cang continued battling nine opponents while another demigod was overwhelmed by ten attackers, who began forming a trap around him.

• Cultivators realized the Heavenly Demon Great World's outskirts lacked resources and began attacking toward its core regions.
• A cultivator pointed out that Wu Cang and another fighter were battling alone, prompting the others to join the fight.
• Wu Cang charged the nine opponents again, who struggled to withstand him together.
• Ten attackers continued beating down the other demigod until he neared collapse.
• An Immortal Realm formation master called for the attackers to trap the demigod and began setting up a formation.

Ye Lin perfected One Breath Becomes Three Purities and prepared to hunt powerful experts for more Luck Value before venturing into the Star River. Elsewhere, the Emperor of the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty lamented that he was trapped between the Xuanhuang Great World and the Empress.

• Ye Lin perfected One Breath Becomes Three Purities and discovered that his clone could cultivate independently and feed its results back to him.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and saw that he had reached the mid-stage Earth Immortal realm with over four million Luck Value.
• Ye Lin decided to hunt powerful experts, hoping to build up his Luck Value before exploring the Star River.
• The Emperor of the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty stood beside a pitch-black pool and lamented that the Xuanhuang Great World confronted him while the Empress restrained him from behind.

The Xuanyuan Emperor learned that ten demigods could not stop the Xuanhuang Great World's forces and decided to release a divine spirit sealed beneath the Heavenly Demon Great World. The black qilin-like spirit emerged from the black pool, and its response to the Emperor's offer remained unknown.

• A black-clad envoy reported that the ten demigods could no longer hold back the enemy and sensed a powerful gaze in the Xuanhuang Great World.
• The Xuanyuan Emperor worried that losing the ten demigods would cripple the Empire and explained that an ancient Emperor had sealed a heaven-and-earth divine spirit in the black pool.
• The Xuanyuan Emperor offered the spirit freedom in exchange for helping repel the foreign enemies and promised it the enemies as nourishment.
• The Xuanyuan Emperor broke the seal with a black jade seal, and a pitch-black qilin-like creature with a dragon's head emerged from the pool.

A dragon-robed man unleashed the incomplete innate deity Qiang Wu to feed on the battlefield, while ordering his army to withdraw. Ye Lin encountered Qiang Wu and found himself unable to withstand its attacks.

• The dragon-robed man sent Qiang Wu toward a battlefield to devour its living beings and ordered the army to stay clear of the fight.
• Ye Lin encountered Qiang Wu and identified it as an incomplete innate divine being whose peak cultivation had been in the Divine Realm.
• Qiang Wu charged at Ye Lin, and its claw strike forced him to retreat.
• Ye Lin tried to cut Qiang Wu with a sword strike, but Qiang Wu crushed it with one claw.

Ye Lin fought Qiang Wu with his sword and the power of his Unrivaled Sacred Body, trading devastating blows with the innate divine being. The battle escalated into a clash between Ye Lin’s Saint-Falling Fist and Qiang Wu’s gigantic claw, with neither fighter yet defeated.

• Ye Lin struck at Qiang Wu with a sword empowered by heaven and earth, but Qiang Wu twisted aside to evade the blow.
• Ye Lin attacked with his fist, and his golden punch broke through Qiang Wu’s enormous claw.
• Qiang Wu counterattacked and repeatedly struck Ye Lin, sending him flying and drawing blood.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Saint-Falling Fist, summoning a massive golden phantom that punched toward Qiang Wu.
• Qiang Wu met the golden phantom with a gigantic claw, and their collision scattered the power of laws across the battlefield.

Ye Lin fought Qiang Wu, a crippled Innate Sacred whose strength overwhelmed Ye Lin despite them being in the same realm. After Ye Lin counterattacked with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, Qiang Wu unleashed a devastating roar that Ye Lin tried to block.

• Ye Lin and Qiang Wu clashed, and Qiang Wu gained the advantage while Ye Lin's Reminiscence divine ability had no effect.
• Qiang Wu struck Ye Lin from behind, sending him across the earth and carving a vast ravine.
• Ye Lin summoned the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and attacked Qiang Wu with blood-red sword lights.
• Qiang Wu destroyed Ye Lin's petal tornado with a roar that shattered space and sent its remaining force toward Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin braced the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword in both hands to block Qiang Wu's roar.

Ye Lin unleashed his Seventh Sword against Qiang Wu, and its sword intent spread across millions of li, crushing countless beings and trapping Qiang Wu beneath its force. The sword continued to gather power as fear and thoughts of retreat took hold of Qiang Wu.

• Ye Lin evaded Qiang Wu’s giant claw, which crushed space where he had stood.
• Ye Lin invoked the Seventh Sword, One Sword Sweeps Nine Provinces, and used the surrounding rules and force of heaven and earth to hinder Qiang Wu.
• The sword intent spread across ten million li, forcing even Supreme Saints to struggle to stand and crushing ordinary beings to death.
• Blood qi from the dead gathered into Ye Lin’s growing sword light.
• Qiang Wu twisted in fear and considered retreating, but the viscous space made it difficult for him to move.

Ye Lin unleashed the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword’s power against Qiang Wu, whose counterattack shattered beneath the sword strike. Ye Lin survived but was left critically weakened, worrying that he would be outmatched by powerful Innate Divines in the Star River.

• Ye Lin swung the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, turning the sky and earth crimson and killing every living thing within ten thousand li.
• Qiang Wu sensed the sword’s threat and tried to flee, but Ye Lin’s attack had locked onto him.
• Qiang Wu summoned a towering black figure and roared, shattering space and sending waves crashing against Ye Lin’s sword light.
• The Destruction Sword Dao Rule crushed Qiang Wu’s ripples, and Sword Qi pierced him and destroyed the figure behind him.
• Ye Lin collapsed into weakness as his Immortal Qi ran dry and the sword’s Killing Intent began eroding his immortal body.
• Ye Lin considered his struggle against the crippled Innate Divine and feared that complete Innate Divines in the Star River could defeat him.

Ye Lin pursued the fleeing Qiang Wu but stopped when it headed for the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty, where a powerful opponent awaited him. He chose to recover and grow stronger before facing it again, while a dragon-robed man confronted the badly wounded Qiang Wu.

• Qiang Wu twisted away from Ye Lin's attack and fled, so Ye Lin swallowed a pill and chased after it.
• Ye Lin realized Qiang Wu was fleeing toward the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty and feared the powerful figure waiting there, especially while he was injured.
• Ye Lin decided to let Qiang Wu go, recover from his wounds, and digest the insights he had gained in battle.
• A dragon-robed man in the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty glared at the weakly breathing Qiang Wu and recalled the territory and troops lost in the failed campaign.

The dragon-robed man ordered the activation of the God Creation Plan to restore Qiang Wu to the God Realm using the blood and vital energy of hundreds of millions of living beings. Elsewhere, Ye Lin reflected on his battle, while an unnamed young man confronted a wounded Magic Beast.

• The dragon-robed man cursed Qiang Wu for returning grievously injured and ordered the release of all prisoners and the gathering of hundreds of millions of Blood Demons.
• The dragon-robed man told Qiang Wu he would use the God Creation Plan to restore him to the God Realm, then left.
• Ye Lin examined his cracked Unrivaled Sacred Body and admitted that the battle had shattered his confidence.
• A wounded Magic Beast begged an unruly young man to spare its life, and the young man corrected its use of the phrase “kill you to the last.”

Taiyuan killed a Magic Beast and its child, then destroyed a nation of Magic Beasts to obtain a scroll containing the completed Void-Shattering Sword Technique. Meanwhile, cultivators advanced as the Heavenly Demon Great World's army retreated.

• Taiyuan killed the young Magic Beast and destroyed its parent, then absorbed the parent’s soul and learned what he needed.
• Taiyuan traveled north and obliterated a nation of Magic Beasts with a single palm strike.
• Taiyuan obtained a scroll and discovered that it contained the complete Void-Shattering Sword Technique, which could perfect his Sword Dao Rule.
• Cultivators charged forward after discovering that the Heavenly Demon Great World's army was retreating across the board.

After reaching major accomplishment in mastering the rules, Ye Lin sensed that Qiang Wu was recovering and rushed toward the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty’s capital to investigate. He feared that Qiang Wu might break into the Divine Realm and escape the dynasty’s control.

• The Xuanhuang Great World’s forces captured thirty percent of the Heavenly Demon Great World’s territory, strengthening their world’s fortune and barrier.
• Ye Lin emerged from seclusion after attaining major accomplishment in mastering the rules, though he remained unsure how to enter the Domain.
• Ye Lin sensed a familiar, terrifying aura and identified it as Qiang Wu’s, seemingly rising as he recovered.
• Ye Lin worried that the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty was helping Qiang Wu break through and that he might become uncontrollable.
• Ye Lin sped toward the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty’s capital to investigate and planned to seek help from the one on Penglai Island if needed.

Li Cang sacrificed the Blood Demon race to restore Qiang Wu and raise him to the Divine Realm, disregarding the ancestors’ pleas and warnings. He left the three bound Blood Demon ancestors to await their own sacrifice as Qiang Wu prepared to drive back the Xuanhuang Great World.

• The Blood Demons condemned Li Cang for releasing Qiang Wu and sacrificing countless living beings to him.
• Qiang Wu recovered from Ye Lin’s sword wound as blood-red energy from the Blood Demons strengthened him and advanced his cultivation.
• Li Cang ordered more Blood Demons thrown into the sinkhole to nourish Qiang Wu.
• The three Blood Demon ancestors protested their people’s slaughter, but Li Cang said their race was natural nourishment and promised they would be sacrificed later.
• Li Cang claimed the Blood Demon race would be remembered for helping Qiang Wu drive back the Xuanhuang Great World.

Li Cang dismissed the Blood Demon Ancestor’s warnings about raising a monstrous creature to the God Realm, insisting that the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty’s fortune could suppress it. He remained defiant as thunder filled the sky without striking him.

• The Blood Demon Ancestor warned Li Cang that the creature had devoured the first Emperor of the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty and later caused devastation across the Heavenly Demon Great World.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor explained that the second Emperor had suppressed the creature at the demigod realm only by sacrificing countless troops and using the dynasty’s fortune.
• Li Cang claimed that he could likewise use the Imperial Dynasty Jade Seal and fortune to control the creature even if it reached the God Realm.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor condemned Li Cang as a danger to the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty and the Heavenly Demon Great World, and questioned how he had passed the Emperor’s scrutiny.
• Li Cang declared that his grand undertaking would leave him unafraid of the Heavenly Dao, while thunder flashed overhead but did not strike him.

Ye Lin sent Xiaoyao and Delusion to hold Li Cang back while he tried to kill Qiang Wu and claim the fortune from his death. Delusion immobilized Li Cang’s guards, and Xiaoyao attacked Li Cang with a devastating sword strike.

• Li Cang ordered the three Blood Demon Ancestors to help Qiang Wu complete his transformation into a divine being.
• Ye Lin judged that Li Cang was too strong to defeat directly and summoned Xiaoyao and Delusion to help him.
• Ye Lin told Xiaoyao and Delusion to restrain Li Cang while he went after Qiang Wu.
• Li Cang summoned two black-robed guards, but Delusion used the Dao of Time to freeze them in midair.
• Xiaoyao charged Li Cang and unleashed a sword strike stronger than an ordinary Supreme Sage’s peak attack.

Li Cang faced Xiaoyao and Delusion’s attacks, then summoned a black-purple spear and prepared to fight back. Three elders watched from above, approving his decision while discussing the threat posed by Qiang Wu.

• Xiaoyao’s sword light killed the two golden-armored warriors, but Li Cang crushed it with his hand.
• Xiaoyao unleashed his true sword strike, and Li Cang tried to seize him with his bare hands.
• Delusion attacked Li Cang with the Yin-Yang Millstone, while a Sky-Propelling Palm rose from the ruins and collided with it.
• Li Cang laughed, declared that he would suppress his attackers, and summoned a black-purple spear.
• Three elders decided to let Li Cang fight, while one voiced concern about Qiang Wu and the threat he posed to the Xuanhuang Great World.

Li Cang fought Xiaoyao and Wu Wang, breaking through Wu Wang’s time techniques and overwhelming Xiaoyao with his spear. Xiaoyao and Li Cang clashed with powerful lightning attacks, leaving the battle unresolved.

• An elderly man watched Li Cang fight and wondered whether his pursuit of profit had cost him his humanity.
• Wu Wang stopped time, but Li Cang broke free and drove Xiaoyao back with a fierce spear attack.
• Wu Wang reversed Li Cang’s movements, allowing Xiaoyao to strike, but Li Cang’s dragon robe blocked the sword light.
• Xiaoyao unleashed Nine Bolts of Lightning, and Li Cang broke free of Wu Wang’s restraint to counter with Thunderclap Break.
• Li Cang and Xiaoyao’s attacks collided, collapsing heaven and earth and making the surrounding space viscous.

Wu Wang and Xiaoyao battered Li Cang, with Wu Wang using time reversal to strip away one hundred thousand years of his lifespan. Li Cang rose despite his injuries and threatened to kill Wu Wang and claim his time-path insights, while Wu Wang relied on Xiaoyao’s support to keep holding him back.

• Xiaoyao’s thunderbolt sword blades knocked the spear from Li Cang’s hand and blasted him into a crater.
• Wu Wang used Time Shun Reversal to age Li Cang and remove one hundred thousand years from his lifespan.
• Xiaoyao struck Li Cang with the Thunder of the Nine Heavens, worsening his injuries.
• Li Cang forced himself to his feet, praised his opponents, and threatened to devour Wu Wang’s soul for his time-path insights.
• Wu Wang mocked Li Cang and recognized that his own move had cost him considerable strength, though Xiaoyao remained beside him.

Li Cang fought Wu Wang and Xiaoyao without using the Imperial Dynasty’s fortune, while three elders discussed the weakening fortune of the Heavenly Demon Great World and Li Cang’s long-term plan. The central elder revealed that Li Cang aimed to become a god and that the elders planned to sacrifice and renew the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty.

• Li Cang summoned his spear and resumed fighting Wu Wang and Xiaoyao without drawing on fortune to suppress them.
• One of the three elders warned that the Xuanhuang Great World’s conquest was draining the Heavenly Demon Great World’s fortune and weakening the Imperial Dynasty’s power.
• The central elder said Li Cang had long feared an existence in the Xuanhuang Great World and planned to become a god without relying on the world.
• The central elder said the elders would let the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty be washed in blood so it could be rebuilt and regain its glory.