Chapter Summaries

Ye Wanyun used a newly comprehended hell sword intent to defeat the Heavenly Host King, and Qing Ying killed him in the crater. After learning how Ye Wanyun gained her power, Bai Yu decided not to search the remaining tribes and looked ahead to a possible clash with Di Muxue and the other prodigies.

• Ye Wanyun shattered the Heavenly Host King's barrier with her Hell Visualization Diagram sword intent and wounded him with a single strike.
• Qing Ying emerged from the crater and tore the helpless Heavenly Host King apart while Bai Yu watched.
• Bai Yu asked Ye Wanyun about her sword intent, and she explained that she had comprehended the Hungry Ghost Path from the power of hell.
• Ye Wanyun eagerly sought more chances to study Bai Yu's powers, while Bai Yu reflected on the flaws of the Dao of Heaven.
• Bai Yu rejected Zhang Baidao's suggestion to visit every tribe and considered the possibility of facing Di Muxue and the other prodigies.

Bai Yu and his companions reached Moon Lake, where cultivators were fighting an eighth-level Void Refinement Evil King formed from the fusion of four Evil Kings. After finding the badly wounded Meng Bingyan, Bai Yu faced the question of what to do as the battle raged on.

• Li Shuyu killed a fleeing birdman as Bai Yu and Zhang Baidao traced the Evil Calamity Clan’s retreat toward Clear Moon Tower’s core.
• Bai Yu’s group followed a trail of corpses and blood to a dried lake, where Void Refinement experts were battling a giant Evil King.
• Bai Yu found Meng Bingyan wounded at the lake’s edge and supported her as she explained that the giant was the fusion of four Evil Kings.
• Meng Bingyan told Bai Yu that the four Evil Kings had merged during the pursuit, creating an eighth-level Void Refinement foe that had overwhelmed many cultivators.
• Ye Wanyun identified Di Muxue and Zhuge Gewu’s group fighting the Evil King, while Li Shuyu asked Bai Yu what they should do next.

Bai Yu watched the Evil King overwhelm Di Muxue, Zhuge Muqing, and the other Nascent Void experts before preparing to intervene. He summoned the Great Pagoda Heavenly Demon Pillars and joined forces with Tantai Yanyue and Ye Shuying to draw power from the battlefield, leaving the lake transformed by demonic qi.

• The Evil King unleashed Saha Fire Tornado against Di Muxue, who gathered power from six followers and countered with the Yin-Yang Annihilation Great Unity Form.
• Zhuge Muqing attacked the Evil King by making waves of magical artifacts explode, but the Evil King used Saha Dance to freeze attacks and suppress the experts.
• The Evil King sent black handprints raining down, and Ye Wanyun shielded Bai Yu and his companions with the Black Tortoise Water-Suppressing Diagram.
• Bai Yu summoned eighteen Great Pagoda Heavenly Demon Pillars and sent them into the lake to absorb demonic qi from the corpses.
• Bai Yu called on Tantai Yanyue and Ye Shuying for their strength, activated the Eye of Destruction and his natal Gu, and began drawing demonic aura across the lake.

Bai Yu used the power of heaven and earth to form a terrifying geomantic terrain that bound and weakened the Evil King, allowing the experts to unleash their strongest attacks. After a blinding eruption destroyed the Clear Moon Tower, four figures emerged from the Moon Well, and the Moon Goddess’s consciousness asked whether Bai Yu was Zhang’s disciple.

• Bai Yu transformed the demonic qi into a swamp and bound the Evil King with gray ropes formed from wandering souls.
• Zhuge Gewu recognized the terrain as a weakened version of the legendary God-Stunning Immortal-Weeping Geomantic Formation, and Bai Yu urged the stunned experts to attack.
• Mirror Flower Madame struck the trapped Evil King with annihilating poison, while Di Muxue, Zhuge Gewu, He Lingsheng, and the other Void Refinement experts unleashed their strongest attacks.
• A burst of white light followed the attacks, and everyone found themselves outside the shattered Clear Moon Tower beside the Moon Well.
• Four illusory figures emerged from the Moon Well, and the Moon Goddess’s consciousness asked whether Bai Yu was Zhang’s disciple.

The Four Saints opened their inheritances to the cultivators before sending them toward the true sealing ground of the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor. Bai Yu stayed outside with Zhang Baidao as the four Saints recognized their old acquaintance and questioned whether he could be restored.

• The Moon Goddess explained that the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor still lived and that the cultivators would have to travel to his true sealing ground, where the Four Saints and the Azure Ghost Clan would aid them.
• The Beast Venerable and Spear God created four inheritance vortices and invited everyone to enter and learn from the Saints’ accumulated techniques and insights.
• Di Muxue chose the Moon Goddess’s inheritance, Zhuge Gewu chose the Literary Saint’s, and Bai Yu urged Meng Bingyan and his companions to enter while he remained outside.
• Bai Yu sent Zhao Yun, the Red Emperor, Murong Qingyu, Qing Ying, and Black Charcoal into the inheritances, astonishing the Four Saints with his bold use of the opportunity.
• The Four Saints recognized the Great Pagoda Heavenly Demon Pillar’s inheritance on Bai Yu and then greeted Zhang Baidao with insults and concern.
• The Moon Goddess asked Zhang Baidao whether he had any remnant souls she could help restore.

The Four Saints rewarded Bai Yu for his role in confronting the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, using his heartblood to strengthen his treasures and giving him further inheritances. After the Four Saints vanished, Bai Yu pressed Zhang Baidao for answers, but Zhang Baidao dodged the questions and tried to claim some of the heartblood.

• The Sage of Letters rejected Zhang Baidao's suggestion that the Four Saints preserve themselves as ghost cultivators, and the Moon Goddess redirected their conversation to rewarding Bai Yu.
• The Moon Goddess fused half of the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor's heartblood into Bai Yu's Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads, raising the artifact to high grade.
• The Sage of Letters sealed the remaining heartblood inside the damaged Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, while the Beast Venerable gave Bai Yu the Demon Refining Pot technique and the Spear God offered him the damaged Moon-Envy Spear.
• The Moon Goddess told Bai Yu that the final aid lay in the Sealing Ground, then she and the other Four Saints vanished after exchanging wistful farewells with Zhang Baidao.
• Bai Yu asked Zhang Baidao about his secrets, but Zhang Baidao boasted about his former looks and tried to ask for some heartblood, prompting Bai Yu to threaten to beat him.

Bai Yu examined the Four Saints' gifts and watched the inheritance recipients emerge with powerful gains. As the King Conferral Ceremony's final stage began, the other contenders departed or declared their intentions, leaving Bai Yu and He Lingsheng to face the struggle for the Divine Mountain and King-Sealing slots.

• Bai Yu assessed the Evil Emperor's heartblood, the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, the Moon-Envy Spear, and the Beast Venerable's Demon Refining Pot, then gave the spear to the Black Feather King.
• After three days, the inheritance vortex expelled the cultivators, and Xia Chuxue, the Black Feather King, Dugu Yan, Di Muxue, Meng Bingyan, and Zhuge Gewu emerged with inheritances and improved powers.
• The Black Feather King thanked Bai Yu for the Moon-Envy Spear, while Dugu Yan, Meng Bingyan, and Xia Chuxue revealed who had received the Moon Goddess's, Beast Venerable's, and Literary Saint's inheritances.
• The teleportation array activated, and Zhuge Gewu and Di Muxue left with their companions for the final location.
• A woman in red and the other Rogue Cultivators withdrew from the final struggle, while He Lingsheng told Bai Yu he would pursue a King-Sealing slot but not compete for the Divine Mountain.

Bai Yu and the others reached the shattered battlefield where the Azure Ghost Emperor’s forces were struggling to keep the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor sealed. As the seal began to fail, Mo Dafu and the Green Ghost King bought time, and four Mountain God Seals flew out for the group to claim.

• Bai Yu’s group found a pit filled with countless ghost-cultivator soul fragments and saw the Azure Ghost Emperor’s forces guarding a stone coffin with four Mountain God Seals.
• Mo Dafu arrived and warned that the Azure Ghost Clan was near ruin as the coffin began devouring the power of the Void Refinement experts around it.
• Mo Dafu suppressed the coffin, but the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor’s power shattered the Nine Suns Illuminate the World seal and caused nine suns to fall across the Saha World.
• Mo Dafu urged Bai Yu’s group to refine the Mountain God Seals, while the Green Ghost King summoned ancestral power to reinforce the coffin.
• Meng Bingyan joined Bai Yu, while Di Muxue and Zhuge Gewu held two Divine Mountains; Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu rushed toward the four seals as Zhang Baidao retreated behind the others.

Bai Yu faced Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu after they teamed up to seize the Yellow Springs Mountain Seal, while their followers fought his companions. He revealed the Dragon Treasury Zen Scripture and the Nine Dragons War God Tower, raising his strength to the eighth level of Tribulation Crossing as he prepared to fight the two women.

• Di Muxue, Zhuge Gewu, and He Lingsheng pursued three Divine Mountain Seals while Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu contested the Yellow Springs Mountain Seal.
• Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu joined forces against Bai Yu and summoned their Void Refinement and Tribulation Transcendence followers.
• Bai Yu sent Ye Wanyun and the other women to fight the followers while he challenged Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu himself.
• Jiang Moyu and Zhao Yuemei unleashed their power, and Bai Yu activated the Dragon Treasury Zen Scripture to raise his cultivation to the fourth level of Tribulation Crossing.
• Bai Yu summoned the Nine Dragons War God Tower and boosted his strength to the eighth level of Tribulation Crossing before warning the women of the price of defeat.

Bai Yu used the Heavenly Demon Soul-Devouring Gu and the Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array to fight Jiang Moyu and Zhao Yuemei, trapping them after a fierce exchange. As the women tried to break through his illusions, Bai Yu considered detonating the restrictions in two great medicines as a new attack.

• Zhao Yuemei and Jiang Moyu unleashed sword intent and divine thunder against Bai Yu, who counterattacked with the Heavenly Demon Pillars, the Soul-Devouring Gu, and his bronze sword.
• Bai Yu repeatedly attacked from shifting angles, briefly suppressing the two women before their combined power blasted him away.
• Jiang Moyu and Zhao Yuemei realized the Heavenly Demon Pillars had sealed them inside an array, and Bai Yu identified it as the Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array.
• Zhao Yuemei attacked Bai Yu's apparent body, but Jiang Moyu recognized it as an illusion and stopped her from wasting further power.
• Bai Yu watched from within the demonic qi and considered detonating the restrictions in two great medicines to create a powerful attack.

Bai Yu used the Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array and explosive Great Medicines to capture Zhao Yuemei and pressure Jiang Moyu. Jiang Moyu remained trapped in the battle and prepared to resist as Bai Yu continued attacking from concealment.

• Jiang Moyu recognized that the array was manipulating their emotions and warned Zhao Yuemei to stay calm and search for its core.
• Bai Yu’s disguised Great Medicines exploded, blasting Zhao Yuemei into the Heavenly Demon Pillar, where golden ropes bound her.
• Bai Yu seized Zhao Yuemei, struck her with Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and tossed her out of the array for Brother Zhang to watch.
• Bai Yu sent fabricated Great Medicines toward Jiang Moyu, who countered with thunderous sword intent.
• Bai Yu detonated three more Great Medicines against Jiang Moyu’s lightning, while she feared the cost of defending against his attacks and unleashed boundless muffled thunder.

Jiang Moyu unleashed her lightning divine ability against Bai Yu, but he destroyed her thunder beast with a seventh-grade Great Medicine and weakened the Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array. She then revealed her Five Thunder Stone Talisman, and Bai Yu prepared to answer with his own divine ability.

• Jiang Moyu summoned a sea of silver lightning and formed a Holy Spirit Thunder Beast to attack Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu infused a seventh-grade Great Medicine with destructive power and sent it against the beast, shattering it and weakening the demonic qi around the array.
• Jiang Moyu recognized Bai Yu's hidden strength and revealed the Five Thunder Stone Talisman she had nurtured since beginning cultivation.
• Bai Yu raised five top-grade seventh-rank Great Medicines and gathered yin and yang auras, preparing to demonstrate a divine ability.

Bai Yu defeated Jiang Moyu by reversing her thunder attack and overpowering her within the Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array. After Jiang Moyu admitted defeat and confirmed that Bai Yu had refined Yellow Springs Mountain's Mountain God Seal, Bai Yu freed Zhao Yuemei and presented the confrontation as a sparring match, leaving Zhuge Gewu suspicious about what had happened.

• Jiang Moyu unleashed the Five Thunder Stone Talisman's attack, but Bai Yu's yin-yang energies reversed the lightning and empowered his five Great Medicines.
• The Seven Emotions Soul-Locking Array immobilized Jiang Moyu as evil qi stirred her inner demons, and Bai Yu emerged from the attack with demonic patterns across his body.
• Bai Yu struck Jiang Moyu and caught her as she fell, choosing not to plant a slave seal because he feared provoking the Grand Void Sect and endangering the situation with the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor.
• Jiang Moyu cried in Bai Yu's embrace, then flew into a rage when he threatened to throw her out for others to see.
• After the array faded, Jiang Moyu admitted defeat and said Bai Yu had refined Yellow Springs Mountain's Mountain God Seal; Bai Yu freed Zhao Yuemei and described the clash as a sparring match.
• Zhuge Gewu wondered what had happened in the array and remained unable to gauge Bai Yu's limits.

Bai Yu and the others joined forces to suppress the Evil Calamity Clan’s stone coffin, destroying the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor’s corpse. The Moon Goddess then appeared from the black sphere, leaving Bai Yu wary as the Azure Ghost Emperor recognized her ancestor.

• Mo Dafu, the Azure Ghost Emperor, Bai Yu, Di Muxue, Zhuge Gewu, and He Lingsheng used the Divine Mountain’s power to seal the stone coffin with a lotus of four forces.
• Bai Yu warned the women to return to the grotto-heaven and prepared for danger while teasing Di Muxue; Meng Bingyan joined him after he nodded.
• The lotus purified the stone coffin’s evil aura, shattered it, and reduced the corpse inside to a black sphere.
• The Azure Ghost Emperor mourned the Azure Ghost Clan’s destruction, while Mo Dafu and He Lingsheng reflected on the end of the battle and the King Conferral Ceremony.
• The Moon Goddess emerged from the black sphere, greeted those present, and reassured the Azure Ghost Emperor; Bai Yu scrutinized her with his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes.

Bai Yu recognized that the Moon Goddess was a trap, but the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor struck before the others could save the Azure Ghost Emperor. The Azure Ghost Emperor began transforming into an Evil Calamity, leaving everyone to face the revelation that their enemy had survived.

• Zhuge Gewu questioned whether the Moon Goddess was one of her Three Corpses, while Bai Yu and Zhang Baidao sensed something was wrong.
• The Moon Goddess invited the Azure Ghost Emperor forward, and Bai Yu warned her not to approach.
• Mo Dafu tried to stop the Azure Ghost Emperor, but the Moon Goddess reached her first and unleashed a sinister aura.
• The Moon Goddess vanished as evil qi and the black sphere fused with the Azure Ghost Emperor, severing Mo Dafu's left arm and transforming her.
• Mo Dafu identified the Azure Ghost Emperor as the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, and Bai Yu asked Zhang Baidao how the enemy had deceived him.

The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor revived through the Azure Ghost Emperor and began slaughtering the people trapped in the Saha World. Bai Yu gathered the surviving geniuses inside the Nine Dragons War God Tower and escaped as the world collapsed, but the Evil Emperor pursued him.

• The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor emerged through the Azure Ghost Emperor, revealed her rebirth, and declared that the gathered cultivators would become her cultivation furnaces.
• Bai Yu and the others tried to flee, but the Evil Emperor attacked them and absorbed several cultivators, while their allies self-destructed to open a path.
• Zhang Baidao warned that escape from the Saha World offered a chance to survive, and Mo Dafu explained that the world was contracting around them.
• Bai Yu summoned the Nine Dragons War God Tower and let Meng Bingyan, Zhang Baidao, Mo Dafu, Di Muxue, He Lingsheng, Zhuge Gewu, and the other geniuses enter.
• Bai Yu used spatial power to escape as the Saha World vanished, but the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor transformed into black light and pursued him.

Bai Yu and the other cultivators faced the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor after she followed them out of the House Gu and sealed the battlefield. Qing Ying used her Evil Eye Emperor power to shield the group, but the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor launched another attack as their defenses began to fail.

• Bai Yu escaped the House Gu and released Di Muxue and the other cultivators into Fengdu City, but the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor pursued them and shattered the House Gu.
• The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor sealed the surrounding space, then attacked the cultivators and devoured more than a dozen powerful fighters.
• The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor targeted Bai Yu's group, and Qing Ying summoned the Soul-Devouring Spirit-Refining Array to protect them from her demonic skull attack.
• Di Muxue, Zhuge Gewu, and the other cultivators joined forces to defend Qing Ying while Bai Yu considered using the Divine Baleful Gu and Taiji Geomancy Gu.
• The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor recognized Qing Ying's twelve Evil Eyes and unleashed another terrifying assault.

Dusk Maiden arrived in Fengdu City and saved Bai Yu and the others by devouring the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor’s qi with her power of desire. Bai Yu reunited with Qin Yuxi and Li Shishi, who had become Dusk Maiden’s disciples, as Dusk Maiden prepared to fight the Evil Emperor.

• As Qing Ying’s cracks widened and the group faced annihilation, Dusk Maiden appeared and used torrents of desire to consume the evil qi.
• Saha Heaven Evil Emperor recognized Dusk Maiden as someone from the Desire God Palace, and the cultivators were shocked by her presence and strength.
• Bai Yu discovered that Qin Yuxi and Li Shishi had arrived with Dusk Maiden and reunited with the two senior sisters.
• Qin Yuxi and Li Shishi explained that Dusk Maiden had brought them to the Eternal Battlefield, revealed their divine physiques, and taken them as disciples.
• Dusk Maiden confronted Saha Heaven Evil Emperor and summoned a rope filled with the power of desire, declaring that she would kill him again.

Dusk Maiden used the Slave-Controlling Rope to overpower the weakened Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, whose soul had fused with the Azure Ghost Emperor. At the Azure Ghost Emperor’s request, Dusk Maiden unleashed pink flames to destroy the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, leaving the Azure Ghost Emperor’s fate tied to the attack.

• The Saha Heaven Evil Emperor attacked with Saha Desire-Enticing Hand, but Dusk Maiden’s rope purified her black arms and pierced her barrier.
• Dusk Maiden bound the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, and pink flames burned away her evil aura, briefly restoring the Azure Ghost Emperor’s consciousness.
• Bai Yu realized the Azure Ghost Emperor’s soul had completely fused with the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, so destroying one would erase the other.
• The Azure Ghost Emperor asked Dusk Maiden to destroy the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor and fulfill the Azure Ghost Clan’s mission.
• Dusk Maiden pressed down a seal, engulfing the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor in pink flames as her soul emerged and began to fade.

Dusk Maiden, revealed as Luo Lianyi, destroyed the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, and the Four Saints arrived after learning how dangerous the sealed enemy had been. Before departing, Luo Lianyi gave Bai Yu the Evil Emperor’s corpse as a karmic bond, while the ceremony’s leaders prepared to announce its results.

• The Azure Ghost Emperor faded away after the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor fell, leaving Mo Dafu grieving for his friend and partner.
• Dusk Maiden confirmed that the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor was beyond her ability to destroy if given enough time, then froze its corpse.
• The Blood Emperor, the Sword Emperor, the Beast Emperor, and Daoist Taixu arrived and thanked Luo Lianyi for ending the crisis.
• The Four Saints decided to end the King Conferral Ceremony and summon the cultivators back to Eternal City to announce the results.
• Luo Lianyi gave Bai Yu the Evil Emperor’s corpse, saying his Slave-Controlling Rope connected him to the Desire God Palace, while Qin Yuxi and Li Shishi told him they would await him in the Upperstream.
• Mo Dafu handed Bai Yu a token before leaving, and the Blood Emperor said it was time for the Midstream’s new king to appear.