Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingyun appointed Li Xuancang to coordinate the defense of Guangyuan Commandery, but Bai Yidao challenged his authority. Li Xuancang easily defeated Bai Yidao, who drew a top-grade Heaven-rank divine weapon and drew the crowd's condemnation.

• Ye Qingyun said Youzhou had to defend Guangyuan Commandery and capture members of the Counter-God Cult, then put Li Xuancang in charge of coordinating the Night Watchers.
• Bai Yidao and several others objected to Li Xuancang's appointment, so Li Xuancang said strength mattered more than seniority.
• Bai Yidao challenged Li Xuancang to a fight, and Li Xuancang stood still as Bai Yidao's blade lights shattered against his body.
• Li Xuancang shattered Bai Yidao's powerful blade qi with a palm strike, sending Bai Yidao flying and vomiting blood.
• Bai Yidao refused to accept his defeat and drew a top-grade Heaven-rank divine weapon, prompting the others to condemn him for escalating the spar.

Li Xuancang proved his overwhelming strength and took command of the defense of Guangyuan Commandery as Youzhou's reinforcements arrived. After weeks of escalating Abyss attacks, a powerful white-furred demonic ape charged into the battlefield.

• Li Xuancang caught Bai Yidao's full-strength strike barehanded, then shattered his bones and won the crowd's submission.
• Ye Qingyun appointed Li Xuancang overall commander of the Guangyuan Commandery battlefield, and the reinforcements marched from Youzhou.
• The army reached Guangyuan Commandery, where Li Xuancang ordered the troops to take positions on the walls and guarded the Torch.
• The Demonic Beasts began nightly assaults, which grew fiercer until powerful Abyss beings joined the fighting and Divine Repository Realm cultivators suffered casualties.
• Li Xuancang stayed by the Torch searching for the Counter-God Cult as a white-furred demonic ape rampaged through the Human Race army.

The Demon Ape devastated the Human Race’s battlefield while Gu Feiyang and three other experts struggled to contain it. As Li Xuancang guarded the Torch, the Counter-God Cult appeared and attacked, only to discover that a Dharma Body Realm expert was stationed in Guangyuan Commandery.

• The Demon Ape shattered the city walls, slaughtered Human Race soldiers, and overwhelmed Gu Feiyang and three other Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm experts.
• Li Xuancang sensed hidden observers near the Torch and forced the Counter-God Cult members to reveal themselves.
• More than a hundred Counter-God Cult members charged toward the Torch while Abyss experts kept the Human Race fighters from helping.
• The Night Watchers defended the Torch, and Li Xuancang’s aura repelled the Counter-God Cult’s attack, revealing that a Dharma Body Realm expert guarded Guangyuan Commandery.
• Yan Chilin ordered the Counter-God Cult members to form an array, and they joined forces to withstand Li Xuancang’s descending palm.

Li Xuancang used his Blood Qi Force to empower the Torch, repelling the Demonic Beasts and confirming his breakthrough to the Dharma Body Realm. After the fighting subsided at Guangyuan Commandery, news of his breakthrough reached Youzhou City and caused an uproar.

• Li Xuancang fought the Counter-God Cult for control of the Torch after it began to dim, then fed it his Blood Qi Force to unleash its full power.
• The Torch destroyed more than a hundred Counter-God Cult members and forced the Demonic Beasts to flee into the Abyssal rifts.
• Gu Feiyang asked Li Xuancang whether he had reached the Dharma Body Realm, and Li Xuancang confirmed that he had.
• Li Xuancang recovered his spent Blood Qi Force, ordered Wang Kaishan to report to Ye Qingyun, and planned to obtain cultivation resources for Bai Meng, Su Xinghai, and Li Ling'er.
• After half a month without another attack on Guangyuan Commandery, word of Li Xuancang's breakthrough reached Youzhou City and stirred the province.

Li Xuancang broke through to the Dharma Body Realm but asked to leave Guangyuan Commandery, while the grand gathering at Pure Yang Palace brought Lower Realm and Upper Realm factions into conflict. The chapter left Li Ling'er under threat from Su Zhehua after Shen Tianyi drove him off temporarily.

• Li Xuancang asked Wang Kaishan to tell Ye Qingyun that he needed to leave Guangyuan Commandery and wanted someone else to take charge.
• Geniuses from across the Human Race gathered at Pure Yang Palace, where Upper Realm factions insulted and provoked the Lower Realm factions.
• Yang Cangfeng of the Profound Heart Sect fought Zhao Kong of the Azure Cloud Sect, drawing a crowd as the two exchanged fierce attacks.
• Su Zhehua leered at Li Ling'er and tried to provoke her, so she attacked him with Sword Qi.
• Elder Qingxuan shielded Li Ling'er, and Shen Tianyi repelled Su Zhehua, who left intending to return with help from the Hehuan Sect.

Yang Cangfeng defeated Zhao Kong, but Zhao Kong poisoned him and tried to kill him before Lu Tianchen intervened and forced the Azure Cloud Sect to provide an antidote. The Prison Tiger Bureau escorted the Profound Heart Sect to safety as tensions between the Upper and Lower Realms grew, while Wang Kaishan delivered Ye Qingyun’s permission for Li Xuancang to leave briefly and settle urgent affairs.

• Yang Cangfeng defeated Zhao Kong, but Zhao Kong attacked him from behind with a poisoned blade.
• Shen Tianyi tried to save Yang Cangfeng, but Azure Cloud Sect experts held him back while Zhao Kong moved to kill Yang Cangfeng.
• Lu Tianchen drove Zhao Kong away, demanded the antidote from the Azure Cloud Sect, and gave it to Shen Tianyi to save Yang Cangfeng.
• Lu Tianchen led the Profound Heart Sect away with the Prison Tiger Bureau as Upper Realm factions voiced anger and continued targeting Lower Realm geniuses.
• Wang Kaishan returned to Guangyuan Commandery City and told Li Xuancang that Ye Qingyun had allowed him to handle urgent affairs before returning to hold the city.

Li Xuancang returned to the Wild Continent while the Hehuan Sect moved to seize Li Ling'er for Elder Jiang. Liu Qingxuan and the Prison Tiger Bureau's allies confronted Elder Jiang, but he launched a powerful attack after dismissing their warnings.

• Li Xuancang exchanged military merits for cultivation resources in Youzhou City, slew two Divine Repository Realm demons in the Abyss, and returned to the Wild Continent.
• Su Zhehua revealed Li Ling'er's Yin Origin Physique to Elder Jiang, who pressured the Prison Tiger Bureau and Profound Heart Sect to hand her over.
• Lu Tianchen and Shen Tianyi refused to surrender Li Ling'er, and Elder Jiang's pressure wounded them and pinned them in place.
• Liu Qingxuan broke Elder Jiang's blockade and warned him that Li Ling'er had a special identity, while Lower Realm observers revealed she was Marquis Wu'an's younger sister.
• Elder Jiang dismissed the warning and attacked, forcing Liu Qingxuan, Lu Tianchen, and the others to join forces against him.

Li Ling'er activated Li Xuancang's safeguard when Elder Jiang tried to seize her, and Li Xuancang's Dharma Avatar crippled the Hehuan Sect members. After learning she had used the safeguard, Li Xuancang rushed toward the Pure Yang Palace, where the grand competition continued to favor the Upper Realm prodigies.

• Elder Jiang sent Liu Qingxuan and the others flying, then tried to seize Li Ling'er as the Profound Heart Sect disciples shielded her.
• Li Ling'er stepped forward and activated the safeguard Li Xuancang had left in her body, summoning his Dharma Avatar.
• The Dharma Avatar blasted Elder Jiang back and crippled the fleeing Hehuan Sect members, who Shen Tianyi and the others arrested.
• The Upper Realm people learned of Li Xuancang's rise and were shaken by his strength and reputation.
• Li Xuancang sensed Li Ling'er's safeguard activate, ordered Su Xinghai and the others to stay in Yu Prefecture City, and set off for the Pure Yang Palace.
• The Pure Yang Palace grand competition continued, with Upper Realm prodigies claiming most of the slots.

Liu Qingxuan and Tang Xuanming’s duel for a grotto-heaven position was interrupted when Li Xuancang arrived and turned his fury over Li Ling’er’s mistreatment on the Upper Realm factions. After annihilating the Azure Cloud Sect and thousands of other cultivators, Li Xuancang set his sights on everyone from the Upper Realm.

• Liu Qingxuan and Tang Xuanming prepared to decide their evenly matched duel with their ultimate seals, but Li Xuancang’s warship appeared and his pressure shattered both attacks.
• Li Xuancang checked that Li Ling’er was safe, then heard her accuse the Azure Cloud Sect and Hehuan Sect of targeting her and the Lower Realm factions.
• Li Xuancang asked where the Azure Cloud Sect was and killed more than ten thousand Upper Realm cultivators when they failed to answer.
• The terrified survivors revealed the Azure Cloud Sect’s location, and Li Xuancang wiped out its members with a wave of pressure.
• Li Xuancang continued to glare at the remaining Upper Realm cultivators, intending to exterminate them all.

Li Xuancang slaughtered the Upper Realm faction after they attacked Li Ling'er, then returned to Yu Prefecture City and prepared for their retaliation. He traveled to the Snow Region to seek the Rain Clan’s help and asked to see its High Priest.

• Li Xuancang killed the remaining Upper Realm beings despite Lu Tianchen's plea, wiping out tens of thousands and more than a hundred Divine Repository Realm experts.
• Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture City, gave Li Ling'er cultivation resources and ways to protect herself, and let her spend time with her family.
• Bai Meng sparred with Su Xinghai and was decisively defeated; Su Xinghai said the Spirit Platform Demon-Suppression Art had resolved the dangers in his soul.
• Li Xuancang considered how to protect his family from the Upper Realm's expected retaliation and decided to seek allies.
• Li Xuancang traveled by Bronze Warship to the Snow Region, where Shui Xingyun welcomed him, and asked to meet the Rain Clan's High Priest.

Li Xuancang failed to secure an alliance with the Rain Clan and found the Upper Realm factions too afraid to retaliate after he slaughtered their prodigies. He later agreed to help the Profound Heart Sect deal with a sealed prison of wicked cultivators and brought Su Xinghai along to devour them.

• Shui Xingyun refused Li Xuancang's proposed mutual defense alliance because the Rain Clan wanted to avoid outside conflicts.
• The Upper Realm factions raged over Li Xuancang's slaughter of their people but chose to wait until the New Continent collapsed before confronting him.
• Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture City, found Zhang Tianlong and the others had improved their cultivation, and rejected Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain's apology and gifts.
• Shen Tianyi asked Li Xuancang to help the Profound Heart Sect eliminate the wicked cultivators imprisoned in its Sealed Land, which the Corpse Demon Sect had tried to infiltrate.
• Li Xuancang agreed and took Su Xinghai to the Profound Heart Sect so he could devour the prisoners.

Li Xuancang and Su Xinghai entered the Profound Heart Sect’s Sealed Land to eliminate its evil cultivators. After Li Xuancang subdued the fiends, Su Xinghai devoured them and broke through to the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.

• Zhang Chiyuan welcomed Li Xuancang and led him to the Sealed Land, but Li Xuancang entered only with Su Xinghai.
• Dozens of evil cultivators awakened and attacked Li Xuancang and Su Xinghai when they sensed their Blood Qi Force.
• Li Xuancang suppressed the Divine Repository Realm fiends and defeated the three Dharma Body Realm cultivators who tried to flee.
• Su Xinghai devoured the suppressed fiends while Li Xuancang captured the three fleeing cultivators and brought them to him.
• Su Xinghai devoured the three Dharma Body Realm cultivators and broke through to the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.

After resolving the sealed land crisis, Li Xuancang led Night Watchers to suppress the Counter-God Cult’s rebellion in Ancient Tomb Commandery. As they neared the commandery, Demonic Beasts ambushed them, and Li Xuancang faced a golden ape and a concealed swordsman who managed to wound him.

• Su Xinghai stabilized his realm, and Li Xuancang reported that the fiends in the sealed land had been killed before returning with him.
• Su Xinghai entered seclusion in Yu Prefecture City while Li Xuancang traveled to the Heaven-Abandoned Land and met Ye Qingyun in Youzhou City.
• Ye Qingyun told Li Xuancang that Ancient Tomb Commandery had rebelled under the Counter-God Cult and that the Imperial Court had ordered the Youzhou Night Watchers to help suppress it.
• Ye Qingyun revealed that the Imperial Court had not responded to reports that the Counter-God Cult could influence the Torch, and he rejected Li Xuancang’s suggestion to make the matter public.
• Li Xuancang led more than ten thousand Night Watchers toward Ancient Tomb Commandery, where Demonic Beasts ambushed them after nightfall.
• Li Xuancang fought off a golden ape and blocked a surprise blade attack, but the blade cut through his protective divine radiance and left a bloody wound.

Li Xuancang survived an Abyss ambush and joined the Fifth Legion at Ancient Tomb Commandery, where he fought the Counter-God Cult. Colonel Zhang Xuanyang betrayed him with a spear strike, but Li Xuancang survived and healed his wound.

• Li Xuancang fought off the golden ape and black-robed swordsman, forcing them to withdraw after they discovered he was a mid-stage Dharma Body Realm expert.
• Li Xuancang led the survivors to Ancient Tomb Commandery and agreed to support Zhang Xuanyang and the Fifth Legion in their final battle.
• The Fifth Legion and Night Watchers charged into battle, where the Counter-God Cult unexpectedly rushed out of the city and the golden ape and black-robed swordsman attacked Li Xuancang again.
• Zhang Xuanyang pretended to aid Li Xuancang but instead drove his spear into Li Xuancang's back while the two enemies restrained him.
• Li Xuancang blasted the golden ape and swordsman away, forced Zhang Xuanyang to retreat, and healed his wound after destroying the lingering spear qi.

Zhang Xuanyang and the Counter-God Cult trapped Li Xuancang and the Night Watchers in a grand array, then annihilated the Night Watchers while six Dharma Body Realm experts besieged Li Xuancang. As the attackers tried to destroy his token, Li Xuancang revealed a five-thousand-meter Dharma Avatar and struck back, though the array’s beam pierced its arm and shoulder.

• Zhang Xuanyang and the black-robed saber wielder activated a grand array while the Fifth Legion turned on the Night Watchers.
• The Counter-God Cult and Fifth Legion joined forces to slaughter the trapped Night Watchers, killing all of them as Li Xuancang was held at bay.
• Zhang Xuanyang and five other Dharma Body Realm experts attacked Li Xuancang for hours, then shifted their focus to destroying his token.
• Li Xuancang summoned a crimson Dharma Avatar over five thousand meters tall and raised one hand to support the array while gathering power in the other.
• The six experts unleashed their strongest attacks, and the array’s concentrated beam pierced the Dharma Avatar’s arm and shoulder before Li Xuancang threw his fist.

Li Xuancang escaped the Counter-God Cult’s ambush, exposed Ye Qingyun and the others’ betrayal, and was denounced by the Divine Dynasty as a traitor. Ye Qingyun’s faction prepared to seize Youzhou, while Li Xuancang returned to the Wild Continent and received word that a Rogue Cultivator had information for him.

• Li Xuancang escaped into the Abyss after being gravely wounded by Zhang Xuanyang and five other experts, then suspected Ye Qingyun had arranged the Night Watchers’ deaths.
• After recovering, Li Xuancang spread the news that Ye Qingyun, Zhang Xuanyang, and the Fifth Legion had betrayed the Divine Dynasty and joined the Counter-God Cult.
• The Divine Dynasty branded Li Xuancang a traitor, issued a wanted order, and publicly denied his accusations; Li Xuancang realized the Counter-God Cult controlled Youzhou’s government, Night Watchers, and army.
• Ye Qingyun and the black-robed swordsman decided to abandon their earlier plan and seize Youzhou, sending forces to Ancient Tomb Commandery and leaving other commanderies exposed to Abyssal Demonic Beasts.
• Li Xuancang returned to the Wild Continent, where Wang Xiaoniu told him that a Rogue Cultivator had come with information he wanted.

After Rogue Cultivator Kong Tianming reported a Misty Rain Pavilion stronghold, Li Xuancang led Su Xinghai to destroy it and capture five assassins. Back in Yu Prefecture City, Li Xuancang rewarded Kong Tianming and announced a bounty for information to hunt down Misty Rain Pavilion.

• Kong Tianming told Li Xuancang that Misty Rain Pavilion had disguised a stronghold in the Qilian Mountains, and Li Xuancang promised him cultivation resources.
• Li Xuancang ordered Wang Xiaoniu to take Kong Tianming away, then set out for the Qilian Mountains with Su Xinghai.
• Su Xinghai defeated the five Divine Repository Realm assassins, while Li Xuancang sealed the area and the pair wiped out the stronghold’s other assassins.
• Su Xinghai tortured the five captured assassins, but they refused to reveal information about Misty Rain Pavilion, so Li Xuancang ordered them killed.
• Li Xuancang rewarded Kong Tianming with cultivation resources and techniques, then announced a bounty for information about Misty Rain Pavilion.

After destroying four Misty Rain Pavilion strongholds, Li Xuancang was forced to turn his attention to the impending collapse of the Upper Realm and the return of its factions to the Wild Continent. At Pure Yang Palace, the Divine Martial Sect killed an elder and demanded the sect surrender its territory within a month, leaving Zhang Daoyuan and the others furious and cornered.

• Li Xuancang destroyed four Misty Rain Pavilion strongholds, killing thousands of assassins and crippling the organization.
• News spread that the Upper Realm was nearing collapse and its factions would return to the Wild Continent, where conflict over territory seemed inevitable.
• Qi Shanhai and other Divine Martial Sect cultivators demanded that Pure Yang Palace give up one-third of its territory, and Qi Shanhai killed a Pure Yang Palace elder when they resisted.
• Cao Zihuan arrived, but Qi Shanhai threatened to exterminate Pure Yang Palace unless it vacated the area within a month.
• Qi Shanhai ordered Pure Yang Palace to leave behind everything except its cultivation methods and scriptures, threatening to kill ten disciples for every missing spirit stone.

Upper Realm factions seized Lower Realm territories by force, while the Moon Palace faced an imminent attack from the Hehuan Sect. Yu Linglong decided to seek help from the Prison Tiger Bureau and Marquis Wu'an, and the Moon Palace sent two groups to request aid.

• Cao Ziheng ordered Pure Yang Palace to evacuate rather than risk annihilation by the Divine Martial Sect.
• Elder Du of the Profound Nether Palace killed more than ten thousand people at Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain before forcing Duan Lian and the others to submit.
• Yu Linglong and the Moon Palace elders concluded that they could not resist the Hehuan Sect's Dharma Body Realm expert alone.
• Yu Linglong proposed asking the Prison Tiger Bureau and Li Xuancang for help, citing his enmity with the Hehuan Sect.
• The Moon Palace sent one group to the Prison Tiger Bureau and another toward Yu Prefecture City to seek aid from Marquis Wu'an.

As Upper Realm forces invaded the Human Race’s lands, Li Xuancang rejected an alliance and went to the Demon Territory with Bai Meng to hunt demons and strengthen his followers. They began killing and devouring demons, leaving Li Xuancang’s campaign underway.

• Li Xuancang ordered Zhang Tianlong to execute any Upper Realm forces that crossed into his territory, while Azure Cloud Sect planned to seize Yang Prefecture, expecting Li Xuancang to be defeated.
• As Upper Realm factions conquered dynasties and sects, Lu Tianchen invited Li Xuancang to join an alliance as deputy leader, but Li Xuancang refused.
• Li Xuancang decided to seek breakthroughs for Bai Meng and Su Xinghai by hunting Demon Race experts, then heard Hua Qingxiao’s warning that Hehuan Sect would arrive at Moon Palace in two months.
• Li Xuancang resolved to wait until Hehuan Sect had gathered at Moon Palace before attacking them, then secretly left for the Demon Territory with Bai Meng.
• Bai Meng killed and devoured a giant black bear, and he and Li Xuancang charged deeper into the Demon Territory to hunt more demons.