Chapter Summaries

Li Xuancang refused Shui Wulan’s plea for help, then gave two slain Demonic Beasts to Bai Meng. As the Heaven Origin Grotto-Heaven closed, Pei Qingyuan escaped her pursuers with the remnant soul’s aid, while the Azure Abyss Sect forced the Endless Sea Pavilion to choose between submission and destruction.

• Li Xuancang refused to aid the Rain Clan, and Shui Wulan departed; afterward, Li Xuancang gave Bai Meng the two Demonic Beast corpses to help him break through.
• When the Heaven Origin Grotto-Heaven closed, factions clashed outside as their Dharma Body Realm experts fought, allowing those emerging from the Cave Heaven to flee.
• The factions surrounded Pei Qingyuan, so the remnant soul took control of her body, reached the Dharma Body Realm, and killed her pursuers with one palm strike.
• The remnant soul fell into slumber after warning Pei Qingyuan that the Wild Continent would descend into chaos, leaving Pei Qingyuan badly injured.
• Du Ruofeng demanded that the Endless Sea Pavilion submit to the Azure Abyss Sect, killed more than a hundred disciples, and defeated two elders who attacked him.

Su Xinghai arrived to rescue the Endless Sea Pavilion and pursued Zhao Yanlin to the Azure Abyss Sect, where he battled its leader, Du Lingtian. After devouring Du Lingtian’s water-based attacks, Su Xinghai struck with a blood sword that tore open space toward the Azure Abyss Dharma Avatar.

• A terrifying aura swept across the battlefield, and a massive hand annihilated Du Ruofeng and the Azure Abyss Sect forces attacking the Endless Sea Pavilion.
• Su Xinghai and Zhao Yanlin arrived, and Su Xinghai asked Zhao Yanlin to lead him to the Azure Abyss Sect’s lair.
• Su Xinghai attacked the Azure Abyss Sect’s island, crushing its experts until Du Lingtian emerged to confront him.
• Du Lingtian manifested the Azure Abyss Dharma Avatar and attacked with water blades and eighteen water dragons, but Su Xinghai devoured their power with his Heaven-Devouring Vortex.
• Su Xinghai formed a blood sword from the devoured energy and slashed toward Du Lingtian’s Dharma Avatar, tearing open a spreading fissure in space.

Su Xinghai defeated Du Lingtian’s attack, but Du Lingtian sacrificed his Dharma Avatar and flooded Su Xinghai’s vortex with seawater to escape. After returning to Yu Prefecture City, Su Xinghai reported the battle to Li Xuancang, who offered supreme treasures for information about Misty Rain Pavilion and left for the Abyss.

• Du Lingtian sacrificed his Azure Abyss Dharma Avatar to lift and seal the surrounding sea, then forced the seawater into Su Xinghai’s vortex until it became unstable.
• Su Xinghai abandoned the vortex and fled with Zhao Yanlin before it exploded, destroying the island and killing everyone there; Du Lingtian escaped as well.
• Du Lingtian hid on a desolate island, vowed revenge on Endless Sea Pavilion, and tended to his injuries.
• Su Xinghai returned to Yu Prefecture City and told Li Xuancang that Endless Sea Pavilion wanted to settle disciples there for protection from Du Lingtian.
• Li Xuancang agreed to the arrangement, prepared to hunt Demonic Beasts in the Abyss, and ordered a bounty for Misty Rain Pavilion’s whereabouts.
• Su Xinghai and the others announced the bounty, and the valuable treasures offered by Li Xuancang stirred factions across the Wild Continent to search for Misty Rain Pavilion.

Li Xuancang learned that Great Sage Nanli was preparing to invade the Wild Continent, while Zhang Xuanyang and Ye Qingyun joined his forces after advancing to the Late Stage of the Dharma Body Realm. Meanwhile, the Misty Rain Pavilion repeatedly tried to assassinate Li Xuancang’s family, but Su Xinghai stopped the attacks, and the Pavilion decided to investigate before striking again.

• Li Xuancang heard that Great Sage Nanli had opened a rift to the Wild Continent and was gathering Abyssal forces for an invasion.
• Li Xuancang saw Zhang Xuanyang and Ye Qingyun lead the Fifth Legion into Great Sage Nanli’s domain, and learned that both had reached the Late Stage of the Dharma Body Realm.
• Misty Rain Pavilion assassins attacked Father Li, Mother Li, and Du Ruomei, but Li Xuancang’s protections shielded them and the defenders captured two attackers.
• Misty Rain Pavilion made further attempts on Li Xuancang’s family, but Su Xinghai seized two assassins and killed a third who tried to flee through the Void Realm.
• Misty Rain Pavilion learned that Blood Three had failed and decided to send someone to investigate before attempting another attack.

The Abyssal Will opened a passage into the Wild Continent, beginning an invasion that forced the continent’s factions to unite and prepare to resist. Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture City, strengthened its defenses, and moved to protect his family as the city became a refuge.

• Great Sage Nanli led a ritual that summoned the Abyssal Will, which tore open a passage into the Wild Continent and began spreading its aura.
• The Wild Continent’s Heavenly Dao halted the Abyss’s expansion, while Great Sage Nanli sent low-ranking Demonic Beasts through the passage to test the continent’s strength.
• The five great overlord forces announced the invasion and rallied the Wild Continent’s inhabitants to resist.
• Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture City, gave Bai Meng two Dharma Body Realm corpses for his breakthrough, and learned that the Misty Rain Pavilion had threatened his family.
• Li Xuancang ordered Ouyang De to bring Li Ling'er from the Profound Heart Sect to Yu Prefecture City and reinforced protections for his family.
• Zheng Feng and the others upgraded Yu Prefecture City's grand formation to a top-grade Heaven-level formation, drawing people seeking safety.

As the Abyss spread across the Wild Continent, Li Xuancang learned that the Judgment Court could not immediately pursue the traitors and returned to face the growing invasion. After demonic factions sacrificed the Nine Nether Demon Cult’s territory and the Snow Region fell, Li Xuancang resolved to defend the Wild Continent.

• The darkness around the Abyss Channel killed those who approached, prompting the factions to unite against the expanding threat while Li Xuancang refused the Prison Tiger Bureau’s summons.
• Li Xuancang told Cui Haoyuan that Zhang Xuanyang and the others were in the Abyss with Great Sage Nanli, but the Judgment Court chose to report the matter and await its leaders’ decision.
• Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the Wild Continent’s defenses as the factions sent reinforcements to the front lines.
• The Nine Nether Demon Cult’s leaders summoned the Abyssal Will and sacrificed their territory, causing the Abyss Channel to expand and empowering demonic cultivators.
• The Rain Clan retreated from the Snow Region after Shui Xingyun stayed behind to cover their escape, and only several million clansmen survived.
• As demonic factions sacrificed the Snow Region and darkness spread further, Li Xuancang resolved that the Wild Continent could not fall.

After the Snow Region fell, the Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the Human Race’s defensive line in Great Gan Dynasty, leaving Supreme Elder Liu and the other experts on the verge of death. Li Xuancang arrived in time, saved them, and seized the Nine Nether Demon Cult’s Grand Elder with overwhelming ease.

• Li Xuancang left Bai Meng behind and led Su Xinghai and an army of one hundred thousand to reinforce the Human Race’s defensive line.
• The Demonic Beasts battered through the formations, forcing the Human Race to retreat despite half a month of desperate fighting and incoming reinforcements.
• The evil demons’ seven Dharma Body Realm experts defeated Supreme Elder Liu, Zhang Chiyuan, and the other defenders, then launched a final attack to kill them.
• Li Xuancang appeared before Supreme Elder Liu and the others and intercepted the demon lords’ attack.
• The Nine Nether Demon Cult’s Grand Elder charged Li Xuancang, but Li Xuancang caught his fist, shattered his body with a shoulder strike, and seized him by the throat.

Li Xuancang turned the tide of the battle at the Human Race’s defensive line, while Su Xinghai devoured the Grand Elder and struggled to control his bloodthirst. After the demonic beasts retreated, Li Xuancang remained to guard the line as the wider Wild Continent continued to fall to the evil fiends.

• Li Xuancang’s Spirit Transformation Art let him kill six Dharma Body Realm fiends, while Su Xinghai devoured the Grand Elder and suppressed his bloodthirst with Li Xuancang’s help.
• After seven days and seven nights of fighting, the demonic beasts retreated into the Land of Darkness, and the Human Race held its defensive line.
• Li Xuancang kept five captured fiends alive for Su Xinghai to devour, despite Supreme Elder Liu’s concerns.
• Supreme Elder Liu returned to the Prison Tiger Bureau to enter seclusion and seek a breakthrough, leaving the defensive line in Li Xuancang’s care.
• The evil fiends seized more territories across the Wild Continent as the factions failed to unite against them.

Li Xuancang answered Cui Haoyuan’s plea for help and fought to defend Chongzhou City’s Torch from the Counter-God Cult and the Abyss. He reignited the failing Torch with his Blood Qi Force and battled for control of it, while Zhao Tianxiong held off two powerful enemies.

• After receiving Cui Haoyuan’s distress call, Li Xuancang rushed to Chongzhou City, where Cui was besieged and the Counter-God Cult fought Zhao Tianxiong for the Torch.
• Li Xuancang confronted the Demon Ape and a black-robed saber wielder, breaking the Demon Ape’s club and blasting both enemies away with his fists.
• When Zhao Tianxiong was gravely wounded and the Torch was close to going out, Li Xuancang fed it his Blood Qi Force, restoring its flames and suppressing the Demonic Beasts.
• Li Xuancang began reclaiming control of the Torch as Zhao Tianxiong, despite his injuries, intercepted the Demon Ape and the black-robed saber wielder.
• Li Xuancang sent his divine soul into the Torch and heavily injured the Counter-God Cult members, who prepared to fight him to the death.

Li Xuancang held Chongzhou City’s defenses through the night, then faced a full assault by the Abyss’s Dharma Body experts. After revealing his enormous crimson Dharma Avatar, he struck at five enemies as they joined forces to block him.

• Li Xuancang saved Zhao Tianxiong and battled the Counter-God Cult while Zhao went to support Cui Haoyuan.
• The Abyss and the Counter-God Cult retreated when the Torch in the heavens ignited, leaving Chongzhou City’s defenders exhausted and badly wounded.
• Li Xuancang warned that traitors in the Divine Dynasty might have coordinated the Abyss’s attack, then took responsibility for the coming battles.
• At night, Li Xuancang entrusted the Torch to Zhao Tianxiong and went to face the Abyss’s twenty-three Dharma Body Realm experts.
• Li Xuancang fought five experts for hours without suffering serious injury, then manifested a crimson Dharma Avatar more than five thousand meters tall and attacked them.
• The black-robed saber wielder and the other four experts unleashed their strongest techniques together to block Li Xuancang’s enormous strike.

Li Xuancang repelled the Counter-God Cult and Abyss forces at Chongzhou City, while Bai Meng revealed his Dharma Body Realm strength by defeating and capturing a Misty Rain Pavilion assassin in Yu Prefecture City. The assassin's failed attack spread news of Bai Meng's breakthrough and left Xu Zinian unable to pursue his own plan against Li Xuancang's people.

• Li Xuancang killed three of the five experts who had attacked him, forcing the black-robed bladesman and Demon Ape to flee before the Counter-God Cult escaped with their tokens.
• After the Abyss forces withdrew from Chongzhou City, Li Xuancang stayed there to await reinforcements from the Divine Dynasty.
• Bai Meng discovered a Misty Rain Pavilion assassin in Yu Prefecture City and revealed that he had reached the Dharma Body Realm while fighting him.
• Bai Meng let the assassin's sword pierce him, struck the assassin down, and later returned with him captured alive.
• Xu Zinian abandoned his plan to attack after witnessing Bai Meng's strength and the city's activated formation.
• News of Bai Meng's breakthrough and Misty Rain Pavilion's loss spread throughout the Human Race and its major factions.

The Rain Clan fled to Great Qi territory, while Pei Qingyuan settled in Yu Prefecture City to help a remnant soul rebuild her body. Li Xuancang and Cui Haoyuan reached the Imperial Capital, where Yan Fa ordered the Judgment Court to keep watching suspected traitorous forces and warned its members to stay vigilant.

• The Rain Clan’s High Priest sent the Third Elder to ask Young Master Li for refuge and a place to settle.
• Pei Qingyuan settled in Yu Prefecture City and began assisting the remnant soul in rebuilding her body.
• After the Divine Dynasty’s reinforcements arrived in Chongzhou City, Li Xuancang and Cui Haoyuan traveled to the Imperial Capital.
• Cui Haoyuan showed Li Xuancang around the Judgment Court and the Imperial Capital, and Li Xuancang exchanged battle merits for treasures and cultivation techniques.
• Yan Fa summoned the Judgment Court members in the Imperial Capital and ordered them to monitor the Fifth Legion, the Night Watchers, and the Sacred Flame Palace.
• Yan Fa warned the Judgment Court members that the forces they had investigated might target them and urged them to be careful when traveling.

Li Xuancang strengthened the Human Race’s defenses, accepted refugees, and raised a bounty against the Misty Rain Pavilion as the Wild Continent changed under the Abyss’s invasion. After the Grassland People invaded Human Race territory, the Human Race prepared to retaliate.

• Yan Fa rewarded Li Xuancang with a Void Battleship, and Li Xuancang returned to the Human Race’s defensive line, where the Rain Clan’s Third Elder asked for refuge.
• Li Xuancang agreed to shelter the Rain Clan in exchange for thirty thousand fighters and the High Priestess’s aid, then gave Su Xinghai a Soul Suppression Stone and increased the bounty on the Misty Rain Pavilion.
• Su Xinghai used the stone to devour demon lords while Li Xuancang guarded him, and Zhao Yanlin secured refuge for Endless Sea Pavilion in Yu Prefecture City.
• The High Priestess accepted Li Xuancang’s conditions, and he granted the Rain Clan a province; extraordinary births and breakthroughs spread across the Wild Continent as Li Xuancang’s strength grew.
• The Grassland People invaded Great Yan, Great Li, and the Great Yin Dynasty, killing civilians and plundering resources, and the Human Race vowed to destroy the invaders.

Li Xuancang led half the Human Race army to fight the Grassland, only to discover the Grassland had joined forces with the Abyss to trap and kill him and the Human Race experts. He revealed Late-Stage Dharma Body Realm strength and foiled their ambush, leaving him facing Old Man Yinli and the other Abyssal Demonic Beasts.

• Li Xuancang ordered half the troops to attack the Grassland while Zhang Chiyuan stayed behind to guard the defensive line.
• The Human Race army met the Grassland's main force and began slaughtering its soldiers, while Lang Xiaotian called on seven Abyssal beings to intervene.
• Old Man Yinli immobilized Duanmu Qingsong and the other Human Race experts, then reached out to crush them.
• Li Xuancang struck Old Man Yinli's hand with crimson lightning, freeing the Human Race army and revealing his Late-Stage Dharma Body Realm strength.
• Li Xuancang realized the Grassland had betrayed the Wild Continent to lure him and the Human Race experts into a trap.

Li Xuancang fought Old Man Yinli, endured his freezing techniques, and overpowered him in a devastating battle. Old Man Yinli was left gravely wounded in a crater as the Abyss powerhouses retreated.

• Old Man Yinli unleashed an arctic chill and attacked Li Xuancang with ice blades, an ice mountain, and a colossal ice spear, but Li Xuancang broke through his assaults.
• Old Man Yinli used Ice Heaven Seals Earth to freeze Li Xuancang, prompting Duanmu Qingsong and the others to try to rescue him while their enemies blocked them.
• Li Xuancang shattered the ice seal, seized Old Man Yinli by the throat, and evaded his attempts to freeze him again.
• Li Xuancang smashed through Old Man Yinli's ice wall and shattered the bones in his arms with a punch.
• Li Xuancang struck Old Man Yinli again and sent him crashing into the ground, leveling the area for hundreds of miles.
• The Abyss powerhouses retreated as Old Man Yinli lay bleeding and unable to move in the enormous crater.

After the Grassland betrayed the Wild Continent, Li Xuancang led the Human Race to defeat its army and captured Abyss-aligned experts. Su Xinghai survived a dangerous breakthrough after devouring them, while the Human Race grew stronger and the threat of the Abyss continued to spread.

• The Grassland and Abyss forces fled after Li Xuancang nearly killed Old Man Yinli, and the Human Race chased them down.
• Duanmu Qingsong led the Human Race in sweeping through the Grassland while Li Xuancang returned to the defensive line with Old Man Yinli and two other captured experts.
• The Grassland's betrayal alarmed the Wild Continent's factions, which discovered that two-thirds of the Grassland had been sacrificed to the Abyss.
• Shen Wuji called for the factions to contain the Abyss, and Daoist Ziyun agreed to coordinate the Heavenly Dao Sect with the Human Race.
• Su Xinghai nearly lost control while devouring the captured experts, but Li Xuancang, the High Priestess, and two treasures stabilized him, and Su Xinghai broke through.
• The High Priestess entered seclusion, while Supreme Elder Liu and Supreme Elder Zhou advanced, further strengthening the Human Race.

Li Xuancang rushed to Yangzhou to reinforce the city and confronted the Abyssal forces, revealing strength great enough to overwhelm a Demon Ape. After Battle Maniac struck him in the heart, the chapter left Li Xuancang’s fate uncertain.

• Li Xuancang ordered Su Xinghai to guard Yu Prefecture City and called Bai Meng to join him, then received the Judgment Court’s order to destroy the Counter-God Cult in Yangzhou.
• At Yangzhou, Meng Haotian revealed he had joined the Counter-God Cult, which had prepared a formation to trap the reinforcements and sacrifice the city.
• Li Xuancang joined thirty-two Judgment Court members in the battle, and their arrival rallied the Human Race forces.
• Li Xuancang blocked the golden Demon Ape’s staff, shattered it, and pierced the Demon Ape’s chest before attempting to seize it.
• Battle Maniac intervened, then struck Li Xuancang in the heart with a palm that released enough force to destroy nearby soldiers and beasts.

Li Xuancang battled Battle Maniac to a standstill, while Meng Haotian activated a hidden formation that drained the Torch and trapped the Human Race with the Abyss and Counter-God Cult. As the formation tilted the fight against them, Li Xuancang remained outside and attacked Battle Maniac again.

• Li Xuancang endured Battle Maniac’s attacks, wounded him repeatedly, and seized his war spear before Battle Maniac unleashed a forbidden art.
• Li Xuancang and Battle Maniac fought fiercely as the Human Race and their enemies watched, with the Human Race recognizing Li Xuancang’s strength.
• The Torch began to falter, and Meng Haotian and the black-robed man activated a grand formation that drained the Torch and enveloped the city.
• Meng Haotian admitted he had betrayed the Divine Dynasty, and the Abyss and Counter-God Cult forces entered the formation to attack the suppressed Human Race.
• Battle Maniac tried to frighten Li Xuancang into fleeing, but Li Xuancang answered by sending blood-colored dragons at him.

Li Xuancang and the Human Race turned the battle against the Abyss and the Counter-God Cult after Meng Haotian reversed the great formation and sacrificed his soul to the torch. The enemy was routed, Battle Maniac was killed, and Li Xuancang returned to the defensive line with seven Demonic Beast corpses.

• Li Xuancang wounded Battle Maniac, who fled into the great formation as the Human Race struggled against the enemy.
• Meng Haotian reversed the formation, suppressing the Abyss and the Counter-God Cult, then sacrificed his soul to the torch to strengthen it.
• Li Xuancang killed Battle Maniac and led the Human Race in wiping out the fleeing enemy forces.
• The battle ended with the Abyss and the Counter-God Cult losing fifty-four Dharma Body Realm experts and thousands of Divine Repository Realm cultivators, while Cui Haoyuan stayed to lead the Night Watchers.
• Li Xuancang took seven Demonic Beast corpses and returned to the defensive line, where Bai Meng greeted him.

Li Xuancang learned that the Wild Continent’s defeat against the Abyss stemmed from the shattered Wild Continent Divine Hall and the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race refusing to restore it. He sent Supreme Elder Liu to reinforce the Heavenly Dao Sect while remaining behind to guard the Human Race’s defensive line.

• Li Xuancang refused to trade the seven great demon corpses, reserving them for Bai Meng’s breakthrough, and Bai Meng entered seclusion.
• Jiang Guanhai arrived on behalf of the Heavenly Dao Sect to request Human Race reinforcements for the worsening Grassland battlefield.
• Jiang Guanhai revealed that the Wild Continent Divine Hall had shattered into seven fragments after driving back the Abyss ten thousand years earlier, and that the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race refused to surrender their fragments.
• Li Xuancang agreed to send aid and suspected that the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race might be siding with the Abyss.
• Li Xuancang initially planned to lead half the Human Race’s forces himself, but agreed that Supreme Elder Liu would command the reinforcements while he guarded the defensive line.
• Supreme Elder Liu led Zhang Chiyuan and Human Race cultivators to reinforce the Heavenly Dao Sect as most other factions also sent aid.