Chapter Summaries

The Human Race launched a counterattack, and Li Xuancang appeared on the battlefield, shocking both sides after everyone believed he had died in the Void. As the Otherworldly experts prepared to face him, Li Xuancang vanished without a trace, leaving his location and next move unknown.

• The Human Race charged out to attack, and Xue Wujiu and the other Otherworldly leaders sent their Divine Repository Realm experts to meet them.
• Li Xuancang's voice halted both armies, and he stepped onto the battlefield, revealing that he had survived his fall into the Void.
• Xue Wujiu, the Six-Eyed Great Demon, and others reacted with terror, but Heaven-Hating Old Man urged them to fight and the Human experts rallied around Li Xuancang.
• Li Xuancang vanished before the gathered fighters could attack, and the Otherworldly Races and watching factions searched for him in alarm.

Li Xuancang overwhelmed the Otherworldly Races on the battlefield, proving immune to the combined attacks of more than a dozen Divine Repository Realm experts. He crushed their forces beneath his Dharma manifestation as Lu Tianchen realized Li Xuancang might have reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.

• Li Xuancang appeared among the Otherworldly Races, seized the Northern Liang King, and emerged unharmed from the experts’ combined attack.
• Li Xuancang tossed the unconscious Northern Liang King back toward the Human Race and vanished again.
• Li Xuancang killed a Divine Repository Realm Demon with one punch, prompting Xue Wujiu and the others to flee.
• Li Xuancang summoned a towering crimson Dharma manifestation whose pressure crushed tens of thousands of low-cultivation Otherworldly soldiers.
• Lu Tianchen suspected Li Xuancang had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm as the Dharma manifestation pinned Xue Wujiu and the other fleeing enemies beneath its pressure.

Li Xuancang killed the Six-Eyed Great Demon, Heaven-Hating Old Man, and other Divine Repository experts, then destroyed the Otherworldly Races' army with a single punch. After confirming he had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm, he left to pursue his other goals, while the Human Race announced that he would execute the Northern Liang King in Yu Prefecture City three months later.

• Li Xuancang's Dharma manifestation crushed Xue Wujiu, Heaven-Hating Old Man, and more than a dozen other Divine Repository Realm experts, alarming the surviving Otherworldly Races.
• Li Xuancang struck the Otherworldly Races' army with a vast golden fist, killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers as Lu Tianchen and the others shielded the Human Race army from the shockwave.
• Li Xuancang seized the Northern Liang King and confirmed to Lu Tianchen and the gathered forces that he had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.
• Li Xuancang departed to seek treatment for Su Xinghai, draw out Xu Zinian, and settle old feuds with other forces.
• The Human Race spread word that Li Xuancang would execute the Northern Liang King in Yu Prefecture City three months later.

News of Li Xuancang’s overwhelming strength spread across the factions, forcing enemies to reconsider their plans. The Barbarians withdrew from Great Yan’s Imperial City, while Zhu Xuanye worried about how Li Xuancang would respond to the Emperor’s treatment of his family.

• Li Xuancang ordered Wang Xiaoniu to reject the Emperor’s gifts, and Wang Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianlong drove the imperial envoys from Yu Prefecture City with their resources discarded.
• After learning that Li Xuancang had defeated more than a dozen Divine Repository Realm experts and over a million soldiers, Evil Cultivators, demonic cultivators, Demons, and other factions hid or held back from acting.
• Barbarian leaders discussed Li Xuancang’s return and ordered their army to retreat from Great Yan’s Imperial City rather than risk facing him.
• Shen Tianyi and Zhu Xuanye watched the Barbarians withdraw as Great Yan celebrated, while Zhu Xuanye worried that Li Xuancang would not forgive the Imperial Clan.

Zhu Xuanye persuaded the emperor to grant Li Xuancang sweeping authority over Yu Prefecture to secure the Great Yan realm. The emperor’s edict reached Li Xuancang, appointing him Military Governor and granting Yu Prefecture as his hereditary fief.

• Zhu Xuanye told the emperor that the Barbarians had withdrawn temporarily and urged him to win over Li Xuancang.
• Zhu Xuanye demanded that the emperor appoint Li Xuancang Military Governor of Yu Prefecture and grant him authority over its military and civil affairs.
• Zhu Xuanye resolved to risk a breakthrough into the Divine Repository Realm to protect the Imperial Clan’s realm.
• Xu Zinian learned that Li Xuancang had captured the Northern Liang King and planned to execute him in two months, then decided to go to Li Xuancang.
• The emperor’s envoy read an edict appointing Li Xuancang Military Governor of Yu Prefecture, granting him the prefecture as a hereditary fief and broad governing powers.

After receiving the appointment as Military Commissioner of Yu Prefecture, Li Xuancang arranged for a powerful formation to protect the city and faced the worsening condition of Su Xinghai. He left the formation’s costly materials to be procured while planning to seek treatment for Su Xinghai after resolving the Northern Liang King’s execution.

• The emperor appointed Li Xuancang Military Commissioner of Yu Prefecture, and Li ordered the Blacksteel Camp to recruit until it had fifty thousand men.
• Zheng Feng and the Array Origin Sect formation masters inspected the residence’s formation and proposed linking it with a mid-grade heaven-grade formation around Yu Prefecture City.
• Li Xuancang agreed to gather the enormous resources needed for the formation and sent Ouyang De and Ouyang Meng to Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain with two divine weapons as a deposit.
• Su Xinghai’s bloodthirsty resistance intensified, so Li Xuancang subdued him, healed his injuries, and realized that his condition could not be delayed much longer.
• Li Xuancang resolved to seek a treatment for Su Xinghai after dealing with the Northern Liang King’s impending execution.

Xu Zinian arrived at the execution of the Northern Liang King and tried to trade Shen Qingshan for him. Li Xuancang honored Shen Qingshan’s unspoken wish and killed the Northern Liang King, leaving Xu Zinian stunned and the exchange deal broken.

• Crowds gathered as Li Xuancang presided over the execution of the battered Northern Liang King.
• Xu Zinian appeared at the execution ground with Shen Qingshan as his hostage and demanded an exchange.
• Shen Qingshan silently urged Li Xuancang not to trade the Northern Liang King’s life for his own.
• Xu Zinian mocked Li Xuancang and pressured him to decide, while the Northern Liang King accused him of abandoning allies.
• Li Xuancang understood Shen Qingshan’s wishes and killed the Northern Liang King, shocking Xu Zinian and the crowd.

Xu Zinian killed the Northern Liang King, poisoned Shen Qingshan, and tried to escape after discovering that Li Xuancang was far stronger than expected. Li Xuancang chose to return to his family and found a Divine Repository Realm Demon attacking his residence, raising the threat of a catastrophe across the Wild Continent.

• Xu Zinian killed the Northern Liang King and infected Shen Qingshan with Heart-Attacking Corpse Poison, which Li Xuancang temporarily suppressed.
• Li Xuancang struck Xu Zinian with overwhelming force, but Xu Zinian used a jade plaque to block him long enough to flee.
• Xu Zinian warned Li Xuancang that his family and Shen Qingshan were in danger, and Li Xuancang abandoned the pursuit to return.
• Shen Qingshan briefly suppressed the poison and begged Zhang Tianlong to kill him, but Zhang Tianlong restrained him instead.
• Li Xuancang returned to the residence and found a Divine Repository Realm Demon attacking its grand formation.

Li Xuancang subdued Xu Zinian’s puppet and summoned the Human Race’s major powers, who identified it as a creation of the revived Corpse Demon Sect. Supreme Elder Qin then examined Shen Qingshan and declared that the Corpse Demon Poison had made him impossible to save.

• Li Xuancang bound the puppet with a crimson divine chain and called the Prison Tiger Bureau, the Profound Heart Sect, Star Palace, and the Divine Firmament Sect to investigate.
• Ouyang De and Ouyang Meng left Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain after its leaders refused to meet them, while the sect’s elders voiced their hostility toward Li Xuancang.
• Rumors spread across the Human Race accusing Li Xuancang of abandoning his friend, enraging Wang Xiaoniu and the others, though Li Xuancang ignored them.
• Supreme Elder Qin identified the puppet as a Divine Repository Realm creation of the Corpse Demon Sect and decided to warn the Black Heaven Domain.
• Li Xuancang allowed Supreme Elder Qin to take the puppet away, then brought him to see Shen Qingshan, whom Qin declared beyond saving because of the Corpse Demon Poison.

Li Xuancang refused to let Supreme Elder Qin kill Shen Qingshan and sought outside help to forge formation foundations so he could secure Yu Prefecture City and find cures for Shen Qingshan and Su Xinghai. Meanwhile, the Corpse Demon Sect and the Blood Race conspired to attack the Human Race, while Li Xuancang learned that Fire Dragon Mouth might be able to forge the foundations he needed.

• Li Xuancang stopped Supreme Elder Qin from killing Shen Qingshan, insisting he would not abandon him despite the Corpse Demon Poison in his heart.
• After Ouyang De and the other man returned, Li Xuancang sent them to the Bohai Sea to invite the Endless Sea Pavilion to Yu Prefecture City.
• Elder Wang promised the Blood Race that the Corpse Demon Sect would provide seven Divine Repository Realm cultivators and tens of thousands of puppets, while also releasing the Demonic Plague and seeking allies among other races.
• Ouyang De and the other man returned with Zhao Yanlin, whom Li Xuancang asked about overseas powers capable of forging low-grade Heaven-rank formation foundations.
• Zhao Yanlin recommended Fire Dragon Mouth, warning Li Xuancang that its artifact-forging schedule was booked years in advance.

Zhao Yanlin agreed to secure the formation foundation from Fire Dragon Mouth in exchange for Li Xuancang helping Endless Sea Pavilion once, and he told Li Xuancang that the Rain Clan might be able to treat qi deviation. A Demonic Plague then swept across Human Race territory, and the major factions sought pills from the Hundred Herbs Sect, whose Dan Xuanzi demanded protection from Li Xuancang before refining them.

• Zhao Yanlin offered to obtain the formation foundation from Fire Dragon Mouth, and Li Xuancang agreed to help Endless Sea Pavilion once in return.
• Zhao Yanlin told Li Xuancang that the Rain Clan in the Snow Region might be able to treat qi deviation, and Li Xuancang decided to visit them after completing the grand formation.
• The Demonic Plague spread across Human Race territory, and the Imperial Court sealed off Yang Prefecture as the Giant Whale Gang fled.
• Lu Tianchen identified the plague as the Corpse Demon Sect's work, and the major factions agreed to send the Hundred Herbs Sect and other alchemy sects to make pills.
• Dan Xuanzi said the Hundred Herbs Sect could not refine pills while fearing Li Xuancang, so Shen Tianyi offered five years of protection and Lu Tianchen raised the guarantee to seven years.

After securing a seven-year reprieve for the Hundred Herbs Sect, Li Xuancang agreed to spare it in exchange for resources. As enemy forces invaded Great Yan and Xu Zinian lured Li Xuancang away with a threat against Yu Prefecture City, the Human Race faced attacks on multiple fronts.

• Dan Xuanzi accepted the major powers' offer of seven years of protection for the Hundred Herbs Sect.
• Lu Tianchen and the other powers persuaded Li Xuancang to spare the sect for seven years, and he demanded resources in return.
• The Hundred Herbs Sect refined pills to suppress the Demonic Plague, but Barbarians and Grassland forces invaded Great Yan while the Blood Race, Demon Race, and Corpse Demon Sect infiltrated Human Race territory.
• The emperor sent an envoy to summon Li Xuancang to the Imperial City, while Xiong Yuan slowed the Barbarian advance because he distrusted Xu Zinian.
• Xu Zinian appeared with two Divine Repository Realm experts and threatened to destroy Yu Prefecture City if Li Xuancang left; when Li Xuancang attacked, Xu Zinian escaped aboard a swift warship.

Li Xuancang refused the Emperor’s decree to leave Yu Prefecture City, fearing Xu Zinian’s scheme, while the Corpse Demon Sect, Blood Race, and Demon Race attacked the Profound Heart Sect. Grand Elder Zhang emerged to confront Li Tian Old Devil, but he saw that the sect faced overwhelming odds.

• Xu Zinian repeatedly released his aura and fled whenever Li Xuancang moved, keeping Li Xuancang confined to Yu Prefecture City.
• Li Xuancang refused Liu Jin’s order to reinforce the Imperial City, choosing to stay and protect his family and complete the grand formation.
• The Corpse Demon Sect attacked the Profound Heart Sect with five puppets, and Zhou Zhiyuan and two other experts fought them off.
• A Blood Race fighter and several powerful enemies joined the assault, leading tens of thousands of fighters to attack the sect.
• The Profound Heart Sect’s grand formation blocked the attackers, but Li Tian Old Devil struck it with the Netherworld Demon Claw.
• Grand Elder Zhang emerged to face Li Tian Old Devil, then recognized that the Profound Heart Sect was in grave danger.

The Profound Heart Sect fought desperately against the Corpse Demon Sect, the Demon Race, and the Blood Race as its grand formation faltered. Li Ling'er and Zhang Cuier fought side by side, while reinforcements rushed to the sect, but Blood Race warriors broke through the barrier on ferocious birds.

• Li Tian Old Devil attacked the grand formation while fighting Grand Elder Zhang, and the enemy forces corroded breaches in its barrier.
• Li Ling'er saved the wounded Zhang Cuier, and the two fought together before retreating to recover.
• The Profound Heart Sect spent spirit stones to repair the formation as its disciples held the enemy back through three days and nights of battle.
• Human Race factions dispatched reinforcements, while Li Xuancang resolved to kill Xu Zinian and Shen Tianyi rushed back to his sect.
• Blood Race members rode ferocious birds through gaps in the barrier, and Profound Heart Sect elders and disciples rushed to stop them.

The Profound Heart Sect faced destruction until Zhou Zhiyuan activated the Divine Tower, a top-grade Heaven-rank divine weapon, to drive back the attackers. After Grand Elder Li destroyed five puppets and the sect’s formation was restored, Xue Liuyun’s forces retreated, leaving the sect to tend its wounded and mourn its dead.

• The Blood Race and Demon Race armies broke through the Profound Heart Sect’s defenses, and Grand Elder Yuan fell gravely wounded as Zhou Zhiyuan and his allies were pushed toward defeat.
• Zhou Zhiyuan summoned the Divine Tower, trapping Xue Liuyun and the other attackers in its divine light and gravely injuring them in their counterattack.
• Unable to fight further, Zhou Zhiyuan handed control of the Divine Tower to another Divine Repository Realm expert, while Xue Liuyun refused to risk another clash.
• Elder Wang sent five damaged puppets against the Divine Tower, but Grand Elder Li used its power to crush them into dust.
• The Profound Heart Sect’s grand formation was restored, forcing Xue Liuyun and the enemy armies to retreat as the sect’s elders began treating the wounded.

Li Xuancang overwhelmed Xu Zinian in Yu Prefecture City, forcing him to spend his puppets and final escape talisman to survive. Xu Zinian fled wounded while Li Xuancang claimed and refined the Bronze Warship.

• Elder Zhang returned to the sect and vowed vengeance for the disciples killed by the Blood Race, Demon Race, and Corpse Demon Sect.
• Xu Zinian appeared in Yu Prefecture City to provoke Li Xuancang, but Li Xuancang struck him with a devastating punch.
• Xu Zinian escaped the punch aboard the Bronze Warship, but Li Xuancang trapped the vessel in a giant hand and crushed his two puppets as they opened a path out.
• Li Xuancang blocked Xu Zinian with a towering crimson Dharma form, forcing Xu Zinian to use his final life-saving talisman to flee.
• Li Xuancang seized the Bronze Warship, erased Xu Zinian's soul imprint, and refined it, while Xu Zinian suffered backlash and lamented his losses.

After the Profound Heart Sect was devastated, Li Xuancang secured formation foundations to strengthen his defenses while the Blood Race and its allies attacked Northern Liang Pass. A Blood Race Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm titan annihilated Human Race forces, openly escalating the conflict with Li Xuancang.

• Human Race factions reached the ruined Profound Heart Sect and demanded retaliation, but their weakness and internal divisions prevented an immediate counterattack.
• Li Xuancang learned Li Ling'er was safe and arranged for treasures to protect her.
• Zhao Yanlin delivered formation foundations from the Endless Sea Pavilion, and Li Xuancang ordered Zheng Feng and the others to begin building the grand formation.
• The Blood Race, Demon Race, Corpse Demon Sect, and Evil Cultivators assaulted Northern Liang Pass as the Barbarians and Grassland cavalry intensified their attacks.
• A Blood Race Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm titan crushed Human Race experts and devastated the army at Northern Liang Pass, declaring war on Li Xuancang.

After the Human Race was annihilated at Northern Liang Pass, the Imperial Clan decided it could not defend the Imperial City and prepared to retreat to Qing Prefecture. The emperor stayed behind to die with Great Yan, while Zhu Xuanye left to protect the clan; the Grassland cavalry later found the Imperial City abandoned.

• News that the Blood Race had destroyed the Human Race's army at Northern Liang Pass sparked fury and despair, and many forces fled Great Yan.
• The emperor told the Imperial Clan that the Imperial City could not hold and ordered the clan to retreat to Qing Prefecture.
• The emperor refused to leave, but told Zhu Xuanye that the Imperial Clan needed him to survive and set their departure for three days later.
• After the Imperial Clan publicly announced its retreat, allied forces abandoned the defense, and the emperor opened the city gates for the people to flee.
• Hundreds of thousands of Grassland cavalry reached the empty Imperial City, sent scouts inside, and learned that its people and resources had been removed.

The Great Yan Emperor detonated the Imperial City Grand Formation, killing hundreds of thousands of Grassland troops and three Divine Repository Realm experts. As the Otherworldly Races advanced into Great Yan, Li Xuancang reinforced Yu Prefecture’s border and ordered officials to shelter the growing flood of civilians.

• The Grassland army occupied the Imperial City and spent three days plundering it before the Emperor activated the grand formation.
• The Emperor detonated the formation, destroying the Imperial City and killing the Grassland army, including its three Divine Repository Realm experts.
• Zhu Xuanye paid his respects to the Emperor, while news of the blast spread and the Barbarians turned their attention to occupying Great Yan’s territory.
• The Barbarians advanced toward Cool Prefecture, while the Blood Race, Demon Race, Corpse Demon Sect, and Evil Cultivators pressed deeper into Northern Liang.
• Li Xuancang ordered Bai Meng to lead twenty thousand Blacksteel Camp soldiers to the Yu Prefecture border.
• Li Xuancang told Liu Yun'an to accommodate civilians fleeing into Yu Prefecture, where tens of millions had already arrived.

Li Xuancang completed Yu Prefecture’s linked city-protecting array and left the city to join Bai Meng at the border, where the Barbarians had paused to await powerful reinforcements. He arrived at the Blacksteel Camp undetected and listened to Bai Meng’s report.

• Li Xuancang ordered the Blackbird Merchant Association to bulk-purchase supplies for Yu Prefecture as the Human Race’s situation worsened and its forces retreated across Great Li and Great Yan.
• Zheng Feng and the Array Origin Sect completed the grand array, linking the city’s defenses to Li Xuancang’s residence array.
• Li Xuancang tested the array, confirmed it could withstand attacks from a Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm expert, and thanked Zheng Feng and his companions before they departed.
• Li Xuancang left Zhang Tianlong and his brothers in Yu Prefecture City and traveled to the border, where Bai Meng’s Blacksteel Camp faced the Barbarian and Grassland armies.
• Xiong Yuan told the Barbarian commanders to wait for a Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm reinforcement and seek a matching Grassland ally before attacking Yu Prefecture.
• Li Xuancang arrived at the Blacksteel Camp without alerting nearby observers and listened as Bai Meng reported to him.