Chapter Summaries

Qin Luo used a Heavenly Punishment Arrow to destroy a powerful phantom and kill its true body, then faced a True God projection that attacked him. He drew the bow again, declaring that even a god could not escape Heavenly Punishment.

• Qin Luo spent 3 million Villain Points to obtain three Heavenly Punishment Arrows, which could also temper the Sun-Shooting Bow.
• Fang Dingyuan charged the phantom protecting Chen Xiao, but its rebuke sent him flying and left him severely wounded.
• Qin Luo fired a Heavenly Punishment Arrow that tore apart the phantom and pursued its true body through the void.
• Qin Yang and the other Demigods surrounded Chen Xiao as the arrow killed the phantom's true body and revealed a divine fragment.
• A golden-armored True God projection appeared through Chen Xiao's saber and slashed at Qin Luo, who drew his bow and fired another arrow.

Qin Luo killed the golden-armored Divine Realm expert with the Heavenly Punishment Arrow, then forced Chen Xiao to submit by threatening Feng Qingyao and her father. Blood Soul Manor learned that its people had died and was further enraged when the Qin Clan declared war.

• Qin Luo's Heavenly Punishment Arrow pierced and annihilated the golden-armored man, and Qin Luo claimed the Godhead fragment.
• Lu Yingyue and Li Junhao were convinced by Qin Luo's overwhelming strength, while Chen Xiao despaired and lost Fortune Points.
• Qin Luo threatened Chen Xiao with Feng Qingyao's life and offered him the chance to submit; Chen Xiao knelt and agreed.
• Qin Luo used the Heart-Soul Enslavement Art on Chen Xiao, while Blood Soul Manor received word of the Qin Clan's attack and saw Qian Ning's and another Demigod's soul lamps go out.
• Blood Soul Manor grew furious after the Qin Clan declared war.

Qin Luo learned that Blood Soul Manor had declared war on the Qin Clan and strengthened Qin Yang with a Godhead Fragment and instant refinement. Qin Luo ordered the Qin Clan to take the initiative and destroy Blood Soul Manor.

• Qian Yuan ordered Blood Soul Manor to awaken its ancestors and declared that the Qin Clan must surrender within ten days or face extermination.
• Qin Luo received rewards for enslaving Chen Xiao and Feng Qingyao, including Divine Artifact Origins and fifty thousand years of sword drawing.
• Qin Yang told Qin Luo that Blood Soul Manor had declared war on the Qin Clan.
• Qin Luo gave Qin Yang a Godhead Fragment and used Villain Points to help him instantly refine it and reach the False God Realm.
• Qin Luo named Qin Yang the main force in the coming battle and ordered the Qin Clan to attack and annihilate Blood Soul Manor.

Qin Luo enslaved Ming Shiquan and Feng Yuanshan, then led the Qin Clan to attack Blood Soul Manor. Blood Soul Manor prepared its deadly Blood Soul Formation, while the Southern Ridge Alliance chose to wait and exploit whichever side survived.

• Qin Luo gave Ming Shiquan and Feng Yuanshan one chance to surrender, and both men eagerly begged for their lives.
• After enslaving the two Demigods and dealing with another Child of Destiny, Qin Luo led the Qin Clan toward Blood Soul Manor with 18.2 million Villain Points.
• Qian Yuan laughed at the Qin Clan's advance and ordered Blood Soul Manor to activate the Blood Soul Formation.
• Qian Yuan planned to use the invading enemies' flesh and souls to strengthen himself and help Blood Soul Manor dominate Southern Ridge.
• The Southern Ridge Alliance's seven major forces withdrew their Demigods from the Eastern Wasteland and agreed to let Qin Luo and Blood Soul Manor weaken each other before seizing the spoils.

Qin Luo advanced the Human Emperor Banner into a Semi-Divine Artifact, raising Xi Huang to the Demigod Realm, while a Divine Realm figure placed bounties on Qin Luo and Chen Xiao. As the God War and a Devil invasion loomed, the Great Xia Divine Dynasty prepared to fight the Winged Devil Clan.

• Qin Yang reported that the Southern Ridge Alliance planned to exploit the conflict between the Qin Clan and Blood Soul Manor, and Qin Luo dismissed the threat.
• Qin Luo spent three million Villain Points to advance the Human Emperor Banner, which became a Semi-Divine Artifact and raised Xi Huang to the Demigod Realm.
• Xi Huang thanked Qin Luo, and Qin Yang cleared the warship's deck so they could be alone.
• A golden-armored man in the Divine Realm offered an ascension quota to anyone who killed Qin Luo and a Godhead Fragment to anyone who killed Chen Xiao.
• Experts in multiple worlds anticipated the opening of the Ancient God Battlefield and a new God War, while six Devil Race temples backed Wing Shadow Demon God and declared war on the Human Race.
• King Tian Nan learned that the Southern Ridge Alliance had withdrawn and assembled five False God Realm experts to attack the Winged Devil Clan, which had three False God Realm experts.

Shen Yixing learned that a catastrophe would arrive within a hundred years and set out for the Western Marshes to seek a Bronze Divine Hall Token, while Great Emperor Xia prepared his dynasty for the coming upheaval. Urged on by the System, Qin Luo moved to attack Blood Soul Manor, where Qian Yuan opened a mist-shrouded gateway to lure him inside.

• Shen Yixing unsealed his master's message, which warned of a coming catastrophe and instructed him to obtain an opportunity from the Bronze Divine Hall.
• Shen Yixing divined that the Western Marshes might yield a Bronze Divine Hall Token and changed course toward them.
• After the Imperial Astronomical Bureau reported great changes, Great Emperor Xia ordered preparations for the Ancient God Battlefield and commanded King Tian Nan to purge the Eastern Wasteland and find the Eastern Wasteland Cauldron.
• The System urged Qin Luo to hunt Children of Destiny, so he ordered Qin Yang to demand Blood Soul Manor's surrender and declared his intention to conquer the Southern Ridge and Eastern Wasteland.
• Qian Yuan invited Qin Yang's forces into Blood Soul Manor, and Qin Luo recognized the gateway's connection to the Human Emperor Banner before ordering the System to help the banner drain their enemies.

Qin Luo used five million Villain Points to replace the Blood Soul Formation’s core with the Human Emperor Banner, bringing the formation under Xi Huang’s control. After the Qin Clan entered Blood Soul Manor, Qin Luo revealed that the formation had changed masters and turned against Qian Yuan.

• Qin Luo accepted the System’s suggestion to spend five million Villain Points on the Human Emperor Banner and prepared to destroy Blood Soul Manor.
• Qin Yang led the Qin Clan’s False God and fifteen Demigod experts toward Blood Soul Manor as the Southern Ridge Alliance watched and considered sending reinforcements.
• Qian Yuan taunted Qin Yang from within Blood Soul Manor, but Qin Yang followed Qin Luo’s order and led the Qin Clan into the Blood Soul Formation.
• Qin Luo sent the Human Emperor Banner into the formation eye, replacing the Blood Soul Formation’s core and giving Xi Huang control of the formation.
• Qian Yuan raised the formation, only for Qin Luo to reveal that it now belonged to him and was about to turn against Blood Soul Manor.

Qin Luo and the Qin Clan overwhelmed Blood Soul Manor, with Qin Luo killing Qian Yuan and securing the manor. He then lured seven Southern Ridge Alliance Demigods into a renewed Blood Soul Formation and offered them a chance to kneel and live.

• Qin Luo ordered the resentful spirits to attack Blood Soul Manor, and the manor's ancestors arrived to fight them.
• Qin Luo fused the Human Emperor Banner with the Blood Soul Formation while Qin Yang and the others attacked Blood Soul Manor's Demigods.
• Qian Yuan tried to seize control of the formation, then attempted to capture Qin Luo, but Qin Luo killed him with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art.
• The Qin Clan defeated Blood Soul Manor, and seven Southern Ridge Alliance Demigods entered the manor to claim the spoils.
• Qin Luo reactivated the Blood Soul Formation, revealed sixteen Demigods waiting in ambush, and offered the newcomers a chance to kneel and live.

Qin Luo’s forces killed six of the seven Southern Ridge Alliance Demigods who came to Blood Soul Manor, then withdrew before the Alliance’s reinforcements could investigate. Qin Yang claimed the Qin Clan had destroyed Blood Soul Manor and demanded that he be made alliance leader, leaving the reinforcements to confront his brazen bid for power.

• Qin Luo activated the Blood Soul Formation and ordered Qin Yang and the others to kill the seven Alliance Demigods; six died, while the middle-aged woman surrendered.
• Qin Luo inspected the underground advances of Xi Huang and the Human Emperor Banner, then ordered Qin Yang to prepare a Southern Ridge Prodigy Ranking.
• Wang Tengfei and the Alliance reinforcements arrived, learned that six Demigods’ Soul Lamps had gone out, and hesitated to enter Blood Soul Manor.
• Qin Luo ordered Qin Yang and the Qin Clan Demigods to leave, and Qin Yang told Wang Tengfei that the Qin Clan had destroyed Blood Soul Manor.
• Qin Yang demanded a reward and declared that he would reluctantly become the Southern Ridge Alliance leader, asking whether anyone objected.

Qin Yang used Blood Soul Manor’s resources to win support and become the Southern Ridge Alliance leader, promising to distribute the wealth among the region’s young prodigies. He announced a Tea-Tasting Assembly in Tea City one year later, with Semi-Divine Artifacts among the prizes.

• Qin Yang revealed that fifteen Demigods stood with him, while three False God Realm experts arrived with Wang Tengfei’s group.
• Qin Yang challenged Wang Xiuyuan to accept a war between the Wang Household and the Qin Clan, but the other factions refused to back the Wang Household.
• Qin Yang offered Blood Soul Manor’s resources to Southern Ridge’s prodigies through a new Prodigy Ranking and swore a Heaven’s Will Oath that the Qin Clan would take none of them.
• Qin Luo let Xi Huang devour Blood Soul Manor’s Blood Pool resources while Qin Yang displayed the manor’s treasury to the assembled factions.
• Qin Yang became Southern Ridge Alliance leader and announced that Tea City would host a Tea-Tasting Assembly one year later, with at least one Semi-Divine Artifact for each of the top three contestants.

The four Western Marshes heirs discussed attacking Southern Ridge and Misty Palace, while learning that a sealed genius was about to awaken and that a chance to become gods might be approaching. In the Eastern Wasteland, King Tian Nan launched a decisive battle against the Devil Race, only for six more Devil Race False God Realm experts to arrive and turn the fight against the Great Xia Divine Dynasty.

• Cui Xiaoyan, Zhang Mingcheng, Zhao Jinbao, and Liu Mochuan discussed Southern Ridge's rewards and planned to hunt its prodigies after their own Tea-Tasting Assembly.
• Liu Mochuan said he would visit the Eastern Wasteland after the Western Marshes dealt with Misty Palace, and the four heirs discussed forming a Western Marshes Alliance.
• Zhao Jinbao revealed that the Zhao Family planned to awaken a monstrous genius sealed for several hundred years, and Liu Mochuan warned that the world was approaching chaos and they might all have a chance to become gods.
• Liu Mochuan said Misty Palace's division could give him access to powerful female cultivators, including a hidden genius he intended to use as a cultivation furnace.
• King Tian Nan ordered the Great Xia Divine Dynasty's forces to attack the Devil Race, and he and four False God Realm experts surrounded three enemy experts.
• Six Devil Race False God Realm experts arrived, and a Winged Devil Clan expert declared that the Great Xia Divine Dynasty's forces were finished.

Qin Luo discovered Li Ji, a promising Child of Destiny, and secretly marked him after Li Ji fled with his master. As the Devil Race attacked the Great Xia Divine Dynasty, Qin Luo ambushed the escaping King Tian Nan and another False God Realm expert with Xi Huang’s Human Emperor Banner.

• An old man told Li Ji that the Eastern Wasteland’s fate rested on him, and Qin Luo identified Li Ji as a seventh-rank Purple Child of Destiny with 6.8 million Fortune Points.
• Li Ji sensed danger and fled with his master, who tore open the void with a Semi-Divine Artifact; Qin Luo spent 500,000 Villain Points to mark Li Ji’s location.
• Qin Luo anticipated that King Tian Nan might escape the Devil Race’s encirclement, while Qin Yu found a Bronze Coffin beside a Dragon Tomb and believed he had discovered a great treasure.
• The Devil Race attacked King Tian Nan and four other False God Realm experts; King Tian Nan and one companion escaped while the remaining three were overwhelmed and killed.
• Xi Huang used the Human Emperor Banner to capture King Tian Nan and his companion, and Qin Luo taunted King Tian Nan about joining his dead son, Xia Yi.

Qin Luo used a System prompt to replace Xia Botao’s soul with a departed soul, turning the Great Xia commander into his servant, while King Tian Nan remained under threat of death. After another False God Realm expert submitted, Qin Luo opened the Human Emperor Banner and challenged the Devil Race to come inside and kill him.

• King Tian Nan attacked Qin Luo but was immobilized by soul-level suppression, and Qin Luo prepared to kill him.
• The System suggested replacing Xia Botao’s soul, and Qin Luo used 500,000 Villain Points to make the departed soul devour him.
• Qin Luo released Xia Botao, who knelt and greeted him as Master, shocking the other False God Realm expert.
• Qin Luo threatened the remaining expert, who chose to submit and became Qin Luo’s servant through the Heart-Soul Enslavement Art.
• The Devil Race debated whether to attack the Human Emperor Banner, and Qin Luo opened its golden doorway and invited the devils inside to kill him.

Qin Luo used Xi Huang to kill two Winged Devil experts who entered the Human Emperor Banner, while the Devil Race kept its distance. After Wing Shadow offered three Godhead Fragments for Qin Luo’s death, Qin Luo traveled to the Kunxu Realm to recruit Lu Yunting and offered him a cheat.

• Two Winged Devil experts entered the Human Emperor Banner, where Xi Huang’s pressure suppressed them and allowed King Tian Nan and Xia Botao to escape.
• Qin Luo ordered Xi Huang to kill the two Winged Devil experts, while the Human Emperor Banner blocked the Devil Race outside from seeing their deaths.
• Wing Shadow offered three Godhead Fragments to anyone who killed Qin Luo and warned the other Demon Gods that Qin Luo could become a major enemy.
• Qin Luo left the Human Emperor Banner and traveled to the Kunxu Realm to seek backup from Lu Yunting.
• Qin Luo found Lu Yunting cultivating and asked, “Master, want a cheat?”

Qin Luo spent six million Villain Points to make Lu Yunting a True God and give him three chances to unleash power beyond the world's limits. He then set off with Lu Yunting for the Western Marshes, intending to find someone and become her backer.

• Qin Luo used the System to obtain a True God Pill and three sealed bursts of Lu Yunting's power beyond the world's limits.
• Qin Luo gave Lu Yunting the pill, and Lu Yunting became an early True God with Godheads of wind and fire.
• Qin Luo told Lu Yunting that his strength would help protect him as he prepared to cause a huge disaster.
• Qin Luo and Lu Yunting agreed to go to the Western Marshes so Qin Luo could find someone and become her backer.

As the Devil Race ravaged the Eastern Wasteland, the Demon-Slaying Alliance lost hope in the Great Xia Divine Dynasty and the Southern Ridge Alliance, until the One Unity Dao Sect took control by claiming Li Ji was the Child of Heaven’s Will. At the Divine Tomb, Qin Yu escaped with a trove of treasures and a True Dragon bone puppet, resolved to grow strong enough to take revenge on Qin Luo.

• The Demon-Slaying Alliance learned that the Southern Ridge Alliance refused to help because its leader, Qin Yang of the Qin Clan, was preparing for the Southern Ridge Tea-Tasting Assembly.
• The One Unity Dao Sect pledged to lead the war against the Devil Race, revealed three False God Realm experts, and announced that Li Ji was the Child of Heaven’s Will who had foreseen a Divine Tomb containing a Godhead.
• The One Unity Dao Sect led the Demon-Slaying Alliance toward the Divine Tomb, where they saw a Bronze Coffin and watched a tomb raider flee on a gigantic bone dragon.
• The alliance speculated that the fleeing tomb raider might be the Child of Heaven’s Will, while Qin Yu celebrated his haul and thanked Qin Luo for driving him onto this path.
• Qin Yu revealed that he had obtained a Divine Bone and a True Dragon bone puppet, and vowed to reach the Ninth Heaven of Emperor Realm and take revenge on Qin Luo within ten years.

Qin Luo, Xi Huang, and Lu Yunting traveled to Phoenix Perch City, where Qin Luo spotted Child of Destiny Xu He and Daughter of Destiny Liu Yiyi aboard their ferry. When the Liu Clan tried to take Liu Yiyi back, Qin Luo stepped in and challenged them.

• Qin Luo traveled with Xi Huang and Lu Yunting toward Misty Palace aboard a ferry bound for Phoenix Perch City.
• Qin Luo discovered that Xu He was a Child of Destiny and that Liu Yiyi, the woman with him, had a marriage agreement she had fled to avoid.
• Liu Clan members surrounded Xu He and Liu Yiyi and demanded that Liu Yiyi return with them.
• Xu He appealed to the ferry's rules against fighting, but the Liu Clan showed its token and made the Dingyuan Chamber of Commerce guards back down.
• Qin Luo declared that he would intervene and shouted for the Liu Clan to come at him instead.

Qin Luo intervened when the Liu Clan tried to take Liu Yiyi, killing the clan’s experts despite their threats. After the surviving elder summoned reinforcements, Qin Luo killed him too, and a powerful Liu Clan member arrived seeking revenge.

• A lecherous onlooker eyed Xi Huang, who silently killed him with an attack on his soul.
• Qin Luo confronted the Liu Clan over Liu Yiyi and killed their elder with a sword strike.
• Xi Huang pulled Liu Yiyi to her and held her while Qin Luo challenged the Liu Clan to fight.
• Qin Luo killed the Liu Clan fighters and wounded their surviving elder, who crushed a Jade Talisman to summon reinforcements.
• Qin Luo killed the elder as a Ninth Heaven of Emperor Realm expert arrived, then ordered Xi Huang to make the newcomer bark like a dog.

Qin Luo and Xi Huang overwhelmed the Liu Clan’s forces, forcing Liu Sandao to bark like a dog and submit to Qin Luo to save his life. With Liu Changfeng gravely wounded, Qin Luo asked whether he wanted to live.

• Xi Huang forced Liu Sandao to his knees and ordered him to bark, while Qin Luo threatened to kill him if he refused.
• Three Ninth Heaven of Emperor Realm experts and Liu Changfeng arrived to aid the Liu Clan, but Xi Huang crushed the three attackers with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Liu Changfeng tried to flee, but Lu Yunting struck him down and severely wounded him.
• Liu Sandao barked to beg for his life and offered to lead the Seven-Star Sword Sect in submitting to Qin Luo.
• Qin Luo spared Liu Sandao and asked Liu Changfeng if he wanted to live, while Liu Sandao urged him to bark for mercy.

Qin Luo captured Liu Changfeng and Xu He, but Xu He's mysterious ancestor appeared and offered a warning about a coming calamity in exchange for his life. Qin Luo rejected her threats and discovered that his system could let him condense and control a piece of her avatar.

• Qin Luo sealed the ferry inside the Human Emperor Banner and cast Liu Changfeng into the sea of departed souls.
• Qin Luo demanded Xu He submit, but Xu He refused and was spared when a seductive phantom appeared from his body.
• The phantom asked Qin Luo to spare her descendant and revealed that a calamity would strike within ten years, urging him to reach the Ancient God Battlefield and offering passage to the Divine Realm.
• Qin Luo rejected the phantom's offer and challenged her threats.
• The system offered Qin Luo a way to condense the phantom into a controllable wisp of her avatar for 1,000,000 Villain Points.