Chapter Summaries

Li Xuancang learned that the Counter-God Cult’s lair was in the White Bone Wasteland and decided to destroy it himself. Yan Fa and Zhou Daoyuan warned him that the Abyss was too dangerous, but Li Xuancang remained determined to go.

• Li Xuancang sent Xuan Lingzi and his group into the Abyss to gather intelligence, while he imprisoned the Soul Hall members and warned Zhang Ruoxuan to watch for them.
• As the Abyss and Insect Race intensified their attacks, Li Xuancang deployed troops to reinforce the Divine Dynasty’s threatened regions and sent Wei Tianfeng to Azure Profound Fortress.
• Du Qimen met privately with Li Xuancang, while desperate beings in the great worlds began joining the Abyss and the Counter-God Cult expanded its influence.
• Zhou Daoyuan reported that the Counter-God Cult’s lair was in the White Bone Wasteland, where many Abyss forces and Late-stage Cave Heaven Realm experts had gathered.
• Li Xuancang announced that he would destroy the Counter-God Cult himself, but Yan Fa and Zhou Daoyuan urged him not to risk the Divine Dynasty’s future.

Li Xuancang and Su Xinghai secretly entered the Abyss and destroyed the Counter-God Cult. After Li Xuancang repelled the White Bone Demon Saint, they fled, wary of the Abyss's supreme will.

• Li Xuancang and Su Xinghai left the Imperial Capital in secret, and Su Xinghai used the Devouring Heaven Demon Art to erase Li Xuancang's Abyssal Mark.
• Su Xinghai attacked the Counter-God Cult at the White Bone Wasteland, and Li Xuancang struck down Ni Shenyuan and annihilated the sect.
• The White Bone Demon Saint attacked Li Xuancang and Su Xinghai with a skeletal hand, but Li Xuancang shattered it with a punch.
• The White Bone Demon Saint sent a divine light to investigate Li Xuancang after realizing his strength might exceed his own.
• Su Xinghai asked why they had not wiped out the White Bone Wasteland, and Li Xuancang explained that fighting in the Abyss risked drawing the supreme will's attack.

Li Xuancang returned from the Abyss with Ni Shenyuan captured alive, earning the Divine Dynasty’s acclaim and ordering the Judgment Court to hunt down hidden traitors. As traitors gathered to plan Ni Shenyuan’s rescue, the Judgment Court raided their meeting and moved to arrest them.

• Li Xuancang brought the barely alive Ni Shenyuan to the Judgment Court, where Yan Fa and Zhou Daoyuan recognized the Counter-God Cult leader and celebrated his capture.
• Li Xuancang ordered Ni Shenyuan’s public execution in three months and directed the Judgment Court to monitor the Divine Dynasty’s departments for traitors.
• News of Ni Shenyuan’s capture spread through the Imperial Capital, and the people praised Li Xuancang while Dongfang Shenhuo and the others resolved to support him.
• Elder Sun and dozens of Sacred Flame Palace members gathered to discuss rescuing Ni Shenyuan, with Elder Sun insisting they find where the Judgment Court held him.
• A Judgment Court force surrounded the courtyard and ordered the arrest of everyone inside, while Elder Sun urged the gathered traitors to fight their way out.

The Judgment Court uncovered and seized Counter-God Cult traitors across the Divine Dynasty as Li Xuancang’s purge continued. After three months of investigations and the public execution of many traitors, Ni Shenyuan was brought onto the execution platform, where the crowd demanded his death.

• Hong Xuanji confronted Elder Huang at Night Watchers headquarters, fought him with Elder Qian, and handed the subdued traitor to the Judgment Court.
• Elder Wu tried to disrupt the Torch in the Sacred Flame Palace, but Dongfang Shenhuo and the Judgment Court caught him and took him away.
• Li Xuancang used his power to investigate the major departments, and the Judgment Court exposed more traitors through interrogations after capturing Ni Shenyuan.
• After three months of purges, Yan Fa presided over the execution of many traitors, whose deaths took seven days and seven nights.
• Judgment Court members escorted Ni Shenyuan onto the execution platform, and the crowd roared for his death.

After Ni Shenyuan was executed and the Counter-God Cult was suppressed, the Divine Dynasty faced an increasingly fierce Insect Race assault at Azure Profound Fortress. Li Xuancang ordered reinforcements and arrived at the fortress, where he reunited with Li Ling'er and greeted Bai Meng.

• Yan Fa forced Ni Shenyuan to his knees and ordered his execution, which lasted three days and three nights and annihilated his body and soul.
• The Insect Race attacked Azure Profound Fortress relentlessly, while Linghu Shanhe, Li Ling'er, Bai Meng, and the Divine Dynasty's legions fought to hold the defensive line.
• After three more days and nights of fighting, the Insect Race retreated, and Linghu Shanhe urged that the battle's developments be reported to Presiding Judge Li.
• Li Xuancang ordered more troops to reinforce Azure Profound Fortress, then secretly traveled there with the army.
• Li Ling'er ran to embrace Li Xuancang, and Bai Meng bowed to him when he went to see them.

Li Xuancang joined the battle at Azure Profound Fortress and revealed overwhelming strength against the Insect Race. After he crushed its Cave Heaven Realm commanders, the Divine Dynasty army surged forward to attack.

• Linghu Shanhe told Li Xuancang that the Insect Race was learning the Divine Dynasty's techniques and moves, and Li Xuancang said he would personally fight in the next battle.
• Seven days later, the Insect Race attacked the fortress, where Li Ling'er and Bai Meng fought alongside Linghu Shanhe and the army.
• Li Xuancang struck the Insect Race commander fighting Linghu Shanhe with one finger, leaving him near death.
• Li Xuancang sealed the battlefield and used a giant hand to smash more than a dozen Cave Heaven Realm Insect Race experts into the ground.
• The Divine Dynasty forces cheered and charged the fleeing Insect Race after its Cave Heaven Realm commanders were defeated.

After Bai Meng broke through and Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial Capital, Elder Canglan of the Primordial Sect proposed an alliance against the Abyss. Li Xuancang demanded five times the offered resources and agreed to cooperate if the sect supported the Divine Dynasty.

• Bai Meng devoured the Cave Heaven Realm insect, broke through to the mid-stage Cave Heaven Realm, and joined the Divine Dynasty’s four mid-stage experts.
• Li Xuancang left Linghu Shanhe and the others in charge of Azure Profound Fortress and returned to the Imperial Capital.
• Yan Fa reported that visitors from the Origin Continent wanted an audience with the God Emperor, so Li Xuancang summoned Dongfang Shenhuo and the others to meet them.
• Elder Canglan of the Primordial Sect offered resources and Abyss intelligence in exchange for the Divine Dynasty’s continued resistance against the Abyss.
• Li Xuancang demanded at least five times the offered resources and said the Divine Dynasty would cooperate within its capacity if the Primordial Sect provided them.

Murong Yuntian secured Elder Jianmu’s agreement to meet Li Xuancang about an alliance between the Spirit Realm and the Eternal Divine Dynasty. As news spread that Elder Jianmu was nearing death, powers across the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms rushed toward the Spirit Realm, while Li Xuancang set out to meet him.

• Canglan Elder said he needed the Primordial Sect’s approval before granting Li Xuancang’s request for resources, and Zhang Mingyang warned that the Divine Dynasty’s treasury was running a deficit.
• Murong Yuntian offered the Spirit Realm the Eternal Divine Dynasty’s aid against the Abyss, and Elder Jianmu asked Li Xuancang to come discuss cooperation in person.
• Elder Jianmu told the Spirit Realm’s leaders that an alliance was necessary because he could no longer protect the realm for much longer, then ordered them to draw back their defensive lines.
• News of Elder Jianmu’s approaching death spread, drawing countless beings toward the Spirit Realm to claim its resources; news of the Origin Continent’s cooperation agreements also reached the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms.
• Murong Yuntian reported Elder Jianmu’s request to Li Xuancang, who ordered Xinghai to guard the Imperial Capital and left for the Spirit Realm.

Li Xuancang secured the Spirit Realm’s allegiance and ordered the Divine Dynasty to prepare its defense against the Abyss. After the Eternal Council opposed giving the Spirit Realm a seat, he vowed to abolish it, only to learn that the God Emperor had no authority over the council.

• Li Xuancang met Elder Jianmu, promised to protect the Spirit Race, and accepted the Spirit Realm’s allegiance.
• Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial Capital and learned that the Primordial Sect had rejected his demands.
• Li Xuancang informed the Eternal Council of the Spirit Realm’s allegiance and ordered the Formation Hall and army to prepare for its defense.
• Li Xuancang proposed reserving a seat on the Eternal Council for the Spirit Realm, but Dongfang Shenhuo, Meng Youran, and others opposed him.
• Li Xuancang threatened to abolish the Eternal Council and went to the Imperial Palace to report to the God Emperor.
• Qin Shouqian told Li Xuancang that the Eternal Council had been established independently by various departments and that the God Emperor did not interfere with it.

Li Xuancang abolished the Eternal Council and consolidated control of the Divine Dynasty as the Abyss invaded the realms. After Elder Jianmu passed away and gave Li Xuancang his tree heart, Li Xuancang defended the Spirit Realm from factions seeking to plunder it.

• Li Xuancang dissolved the Eternal Council and reclaimed its authority, while Dongfang Shenhuo and the other leaders failed to persuade Qin Shouqian to oppose him.
• The Abyss invaded the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms, and the Origin Continent sent resources to help turn the realms into a battlefield.
• Factions from across the realms gathered outside the Spirit Realm to claim its resources when Elder Jianmu died.
• Elder Jianmu entrusted the Spirit Race to Li Xuancang and gave him a green crystal formed from his branches.
• Li Xuancang killed many would-be plunderers as they charged into the Spirit Realm, then declared that the realm belonged to the Eternal Divine Dynasty and ordered the rest to leave.

Li Xuancang confronted the factions seeking to seize the Spirit Realm and demonstrated overwhelming strength by destroying Cloud City and annihilating the Profound Realm forces. The other realms fled, abandoning their claim to the Spirit Realm.

• Li Xuancang faced the gathered factions and warned them that none would leave after refusing to withdraw.
• Li Xuancang shattered Cloud City's defenses, seized the city, and suppressed its five Cave Heaven Realm experts, revealing his Late-stage Cave Heaven Realm strength.
• Li Xuancang crushed Cloud City and killed its inhabitants, then captured and sealed the five experts.
• Li Xuancang attacked the Profound Realm forces and destroyed their bodies and souls as they tried to flee.
• The Beast Realm and the other factions panicked and fled, giving up their attempt to claim the Spirit Realm.

Li Xuancang drove the Eternal Divine Dynasty’s campaign against the Abyss Demonic Beasts in the Spirit Realm while the Soul Hall captured Zhang Ruoxuan in the Profound Heaven Realm. After learning of the capture, Li Xuancang ordered Tai Haotian to negotiate an exchange.

• Li Xuancang ordered reinforcements into the Spirit Realm and directed the Divine Dynasty to expel the invading Demonic Beasts.
• Fang Yuan defeated Zhang Ruoxuan, crippled his Cave Heaven, and probed his memories while Soul Hall members fought the Third Legion.
• Tai Haotian arrived to aid the Profound Heaven Realm, but Fang Yuan used Zhang Ruoxuan as a hostage and withdrew with him.
• Tai Haotian reported Zhang Ruoxuan’s capture to Li Xuancang, who was destroying Abyssal Rifts in the Spirit Realm.
• Li Xuancang instructed Tai Haotian to exchange Soul Hall prisoners for Zhang Ruoxuan.

After the Divine Dynasty secured the Spirit Realm, Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial Capital and learned that Zhang Ruoxuan remained unconscious after the Soul Hall’s attack. He used the Jianmu Treeheart and his soul power to restore Zhang Ruoxuan, who awakened and thanked him.

• Fang Yuan exchanged the gravely injured Zhang Ruoxuan for the detained Soul Hall members and warned the Divine Dynasty not to withhold the Immaculate Ones.
• After the Divine Dynasty drove the Abyss Demonic Beasts from the Spirit Realm, Li Xuancang formed five new legions and ordered a realm-wide formation.
• Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial Capital, assigned five Cloud City cultivators to Su Xinghai, and heard reports about the Divine Dynasty and the Holy Spirit Realm.
• Li Xuancang used the Jianmu Treeheart to restore Zhang Ruoxuan’s body and Cave Heaven, then discovered chains binding his divine soul.
• Li Xuancang protected Zhang Ruoxuan’s divine soul as he shattered the chains, allowing Zhang Ruoxuan to awaken and thank him.

The Holy Spirit Realm offered Li Xuancang the whereabouts of the Saint Spirit Flame in exchange for Cloud City, while secretly planning to alert the Origin Continent and provoke a conflict. After agreeing to inspect the flame in three months, Li Xuancang returned to the Imperial Capital, where his allies urged him not to enter the trap.

• The Black Tortoise Great Saint and the other Saint Spirits decided to expose the Origin Continent's schemes and use the Eternal Divine Dynasty against it.
• The Holy Spirit Realm met Li Xuancang in the starry sky and offered to reveal the Saint Spirit Flame's location in exchange for Cloud City.
• Li Xuancang agreed to the exchange only if he could see the Saint Spirit Flame first, and the Black Tortoise Great Saint set the meeting for three months later.
• After Li Xuancang departed, the Six-Winged Golden Cicada recognized that he saw through their scheme, and the Holy Spirit Realm resolved to inform the Origin Continent.
• Li Xuancang told the Imperial Capital about the deal, and Zhang Mingyang, Yan Fa, Nangong Cang, Hong Xuanji, and others urged him to stay behind.

Li Xuancang entered the Holy Spirit Realm with Su Xinghai and Tai Haotian to retrieve the Saint Spirit Flame, despite knowing the trip could be a trap. After the Black Tortoise Great Sage took Cloud City and a formation surrounded them, Li Xuancang overwhelmed Tai Yunzi, leaving the battle unresolved as he stomped down on him.

• Li Xuancang refused to reconsider his journey and ordered the Divine Dynasty to prepare a counterattack against the Abyss after he retrieved the Saint Spirit Flame.
• Li Xuancang brought Su Xinghai and Tai Haotian to the Holy Spirit Realm, where the Black Tortoise Great Sage received him and asked for Cloud City.
• The Black Tortoise Great Sage showed Li Xuancang the Saint Spirit Flame's location, took Cloud City, and left as Li Xuancang charged into the volcanic range.
• A formation activated around Li Xuancang, Su Xinghai, and Tai Haotian, and Li Xuancang sent Su Xinghai to retrieve the Saint Spirit Flame while he and Tai Haotian held off the attackers.
• Tai Yunzi attacked Li Xuancang with his whisk and the Primordial Seal, but Li Xuancang endured the blows and shattered the seal with a headbutt.
• Li Xuancang struck Tai Yunzi into the air and stomped down on him, crushing his body without blood appearing.

Li Xuancang fought Tai Yunzi and the Origin Continent cultivators while Su Xinghai searched for the Saint Spirit Flame. After seven days of battle, Li Xuancang captured the flame, but the Holy Spirit Realm began to disintegrate.

• Tai Yunzi and more than a dozen Cave Heaven Realm cultivators attacked Li Xuancang, while Tai Haotian joined him in resisting them.
• Great Sage Ze Yuan ordered the Heaven-and-Earth Origin extracted so the Abyssal Will could descend and destroy the Holy Spirit Realm.
• Su Xinghai searched the magma for the Saint Spirit Flame, then used his Cave Heaven to devour nearly all of it.
• After seven days and nights of fighting, Tai Yunzi ordered a retreat, but the Saint Spirit Flame emerged from the collapsing volcanoes and drew Li Xuancang away.
• Li Xuancang caught and captured the Saint Spirit Flame despite its heat, then discovered that the Holy Spirit Realm was disintegrating.

As the Abyssal Will consumed the Holy Spirit Realm, Li Xuancang fought to escape with Tai Haotian and Su Xinghai while Tai Yunzi and the Origin Continent cultivators perished. Li Xuancang was crushed after throwing Tai Haotian and Su Xinghai to safety, but he regenerated and escaped the Holy Spirit Realm.

• The Abyssal Will descended as the Holy Spirit Realm collapsed, trapping Li Xuancang, Tai Haotian, Su Xinghai, and the Origin Continent cultivators.
• Li Xuancang used his Blood Qi Force to lead Tai Haotian and Su Xinghai through the Abyssal Will's pressure while Tai Yunzi and the other cultivators died.
• The Holy Spirit Realm's Heavenly Dao was devoured just as Li Xuancang, Tai Haotian, and Su Xinghai neared escape, leaving all three severely injured.
• Li Xuancang bound the Saint Spirit Flame to Su Xinghai and hurled him and Tai Haotian out of the Holy Spirit Realm.
• The Abyssal Force shattered Li Xuancang, but he regenerated, escaped the Holy Spirit Realm, and left Great Sage Black Tortoise and the others horrified.

Li Xuancang returned from the ruined Holy Spirit Realm with the Saint Spirit Flame and learned of the Eternal God Emperor’s sacrifice to protect the Human Race. He began preparing to reclaim the Heaven-Abandoned Land, bringing the Saint Spirit Flame to the Sacred Flame Palace.

• Li Xuancang escaped the collapsing Holy Spirit Realm with Su Xinghai and Tai Haotian, while the Great Saint Black Tortoise and the other Saint Spirits fled.
• The Great Saint Black Tortoise and his group blamed the Origin Continent for the Holy Spirit Realm’s destruction, stirring outrage and driving Origin Continent residents from some great worlds.
• After returning to the Imperial Capital, Li Xuancang met the Eternal God Emperor and received his memories and the latter half of the Indestructible Scripture.
• Li Xuancang learned that the God Emperor had endured ten thousand years of torment to suppress the Abyssal Rift and protect the Human Race, and that he had entrusted the Divine Dynasty to Li Xuancang.
• Li Xuancang resolved to counterattack and reclaim the Heaven-Abandoned Land, then brought the Saint Spirit Flame to Dongfang Shenhuo and the other leaders at the Sacred Flame Palace.

Li Xuancang activated the Imperial Grand Formation and helped Dongfang Shenhuo and the Sacred Flame Palace destroy the black haze over Heaven-Abandoned Land. With the sun, moon, and stars restored, the Divine Dynasty celebrated before Li Xuancang ordered the army to wipe out the Abyssal Rifts and Demonic Beasts.

• Li Xuancang persuaded Sacred Flame King to cooperate by promising to find strange flames for him to devour.
• Li Xuancang activated the Imperial Grand Formation and used the Judgment Divine Sword to pierce the black haze as Dongfang Shenhuo and the Torch ascended.
• Li Xuancang and the Imperial Capital's experts repelled the dark forces that tried to block Dongfang Shenhuo and the others.
• Dongfang Shenhuo, Sacred Flame King, and the Sacred Flame Palace combined the Saint Spirit Flame with the Eternal Divine Flame and struck the dark vortex.
• The black haze shattered, restoring the sun, moon, and stars over Heaven-Abandoned Land, and the people of the Divine Dynasty celebrated.
• Li Xuancang ordered the army to sweep through Heaven-Abandoned Land and destroy every Abyssal Rift as tens of millions of troops began a campaign against the Demonic Beasts.

As the Abyss and the Insect Race overwhelmed the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms, Li Xuancang captured Cloud City and continued searching for a way to free the Eternal God Emperor. Tiandao Xuan asked the Divine Dynasty to save the besieged Heaven Realm and offered to meet any condition.

• The Insect Race abandoned its stalemate at Azure Profound Fortress and invaded other great worlds, prompting Li Xuancang to withdraw the exhausted First and Second Legions and monitor the crisis.
• Li Xuancang used a divine-soul imprint in Cloud City to capture Black Tortoise Great Sage and the others, then gave them to Su Xinghai to devour.
• Three years passed as the Divine Dynasty reclaimed most of its lost territory, while the Abyss and Insect Race drove the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms toward collapse.
• Tiandao Xuan told Li Xuancang that the Heaven Realm had expelled the Origin Continent's forces after discovering they wanted its resources, and requested aid against the Abyss and Insect Race.
• Li Xuancang asked what the Divine Dynasty would gain for helping, and Tiandao Xuan offered to agree to any condition.