Chapter Summaries

The Overlord Celestial Body fled to the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s imperial mausoleum after being robbed again, joining a crowd of powerful cultivators gathered around the hidden palace. The Sun Moon Divine Child revealed that he had secretly taken control of the mausoleum and raised it from the earth, sending the crowd fleeing.

• The Overlord Celestial Body was ambushed and robbed again, then headed for the crowded imperial mausoleum to avoid further attacks.
• Jixiang Ruyi Duo arrived at the mausoleum and spotted Li Xuange, who had pursued them there, while the Overlord Celestial Body also joined the crowd.
• The Sun Moon Divine Child flew to the palace gates unharmed, then revealed that the figure among the crowd had been his clone.
• The true Sun Moon Divine Child appeared atop the palace and used a hand seal to raise it from the ground, causing the ancient city to collapse.
• The gathered cultivators realized the Sun Moon Divine Child had taken control of the palace and fled in panic.

The Sun Moon Divine Child seized control of the golden-blue divine hall and slaughtered cultivators across the Emperor’s Road before returning to Hua Yunfei. When he demanded to be freed from Hua Yunfei’s control and attacked, Hua Yunfei defeated him instantly and ordered him to leave the Imperial Mausoleum behind.

• The Sun Moon Divine Child used the golden-blue divine hall to pursue and kill fleeing cultivators, raising his fortune rank as Jixiang, Ruyi, Li Xuange, and the Overlord Celestial Body escaped.
• Hua Yunfei remained among the ruins with Ye Bufan and Jia Duobao, while Backer Sect’s old and young ancestors went out disguised as the Black Hand Organization.
• Three days later, the Sun Moon Divine Child returned with the divine hall absorbed into his body and cyan fortune, and Jia Duobao asked him for the Imperial Mausoleum.
• The Sun Moon Divine Child demanded that Hua Yunfei remove the secret art mark from his divine soul and attacked when Hua Yunfei refused.
• Hua Yunfei shattered the Sun Moon Divine Child’s protective light, grabbed him by the throat, and ordered him to leave the Imperial Mausoleum behind.

Hua Yunfei tested the Sun Moon Divine Child’s resolve and offered to help him become an emperor, while survivors of the imperial mausoleum turned against the Sun Moon Divine Church. Three days after Leng Xiaojun challenged Li Xuange, both fighters were left gravely wounded, Li Xuange was ambushed and killed, and the mysterious Black Hand Organization plundered the onlookers.

• Hua Yunfei crushed the Sun Moon Divine Child’s resistance with a brick, then offered to help him become an emperor, leaving the Divine Child doubtful but less defiant.
• Li Xuange killed Tian Cheng and hung his head from a tree, prompting Leng Xiaojun to challenge him to a duel at Tianming Mountain.
• Li Xuange accepted Leng Xiaojun’s challenge and declared that he would kill him within a hundred moves, drawing cultivators and young ancestors to watch.
• After ten thousand moves left both fighters gravely wounded, Jixiang Ruyi Duo ambushed and killed Li Xuange, and an Overlord Celestial Body carried away his corpse.
• A monstrous genius tried to attack the injured Leng Xiaojun, but the Black Hand Organization clubbed and robbed him; Leng Xiaojun then killed him with one sword strike.
• The Black Hand Organization clubbed and robbed many spectators while Leng Xiaojun left to recover.

Hua Yunfei learned that Imperial Court was hunting Luo Hanyue and rushed toward Moon God Valley, where she and Duan Wuming were trapped. Duan Wuming took a lethal-looking attack to seize an opening against an assassin, leaving the fight's outcome uncertain.

• After parting from Ye Bufan and Jia Duobao, Hua Yunfei traveled through Yellow Province and entered Yu Province.
• Hua Yunfei heard Imperial Court had trapped Luo Hanyue and used the chess pieces to confirm she was in Moon God Valley.
• Luo Hanyue lay gravely wounded and poisoned in a cave while Duan Wuming repeatedly drew Imperial Court's assassins away from her.
• Duan Wuming returned badly injured, treated Luo Hanyue, and hinted at his long-standing feelings for her.
• An Imperial Court assassin stabbed Duan Wuming from behind, but Duan Wuming grabbed the attacker's hand and revealed he had deliberately allowed the strike to create an opening.

Duan Wuming protected Luo Hanyue from Imperial Court assassins while his poison and injuries brought him to the brink of death. Hua Yunfei arrived in time to stop Duan Wuming from self-destructing, leaving Luo Hanyue relieved as Duan Wuming collapsed with his life still fading.

• Duan Wuming killed a godson-level Imperial Court assassin and carried the poisoned Luo Hanyue from their hiding place as reinforcements approached.
• Duan Wuming defended Luo Hanyue from repeated ambushes and, as his injuries worsened, placed her inside a sword formation for protection.
• Duan Wuming fought off nearly a hundred attacks before the Imperial Court assassins struck him down and mocked him for protecting Luo Hanyue.
• Duan Wuming rose again, seized an Imperial Court godson, and prepared to self-destruct, but Hua Yunfei arrived and suppressed the explosion.
• Duan Wuming collapsed with his strength exhausted, and Luo Hanyue rejoiced at Hua Yunfei’s arrival.

Hua Yunfei rescued Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming, then killed the Imperial Court assassins who had attacked them. He went on to destroy the Imperial Court’s Yu Province base, leaving the province’s cultivators to debate who was responsible.

• Hua Yunfei healed Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming with leaves from the True Phoenix Divine Elixir, and their bodies began to transform as they fell asleep.
• Hua Yunfei killed the Divine Son who had attacked Duan Wuming, then slaughtered the Imperial Court assassins surrounding them.
• Hua Yunfei pursued the fleeing assassins and wiped them out with a sweeping sword strike before declaring that the Imperial Court would pay for its actions.
• Hua Yunfei left the violet-robed young man to watch over Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming, then flew toward the Imperial Court’s main base in Yu Province.
• News spread that the Imperial Court’s Yu Province base had been destroyed, and Li Chengyuan and Wang Long denied responsibility.
• Cultivators found the base in ruins, with nearly three hundred heads displayed on the cleaved divine mountain, while reports said Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming had also defeated more than a hundred assassins and four Divine Sons.

Hua Yunfei eliminated the Imperial Court assassins in Zhou Province and discovered that the Imperial Court’s old Holy Lord had entered the Emperor’s Road to oversee a scheme involving stolen life essence and blood. After Hua Yunfei left for Hong Province, Wang Taichu appeared at the scene, drawing the attention of the Black Hand Organization.

• Hua Yunfei cornered the Holy Son Assassin beneath an ancient mountain and searched her soul for the Imperial Court’s secrets.
• The Holy Son Assassin’s soul restriction killed her, but Hua Yunfei learned that the Imperial Court’s old Holy Lord had entered the Emperor’s Road and secretly planned its harvest of life essence and blood.
• Hua Yunfei displayed the Holy Son Assassin’s headless corpse and the heads of several dozen other assassins outside an ancient city, then departed for Hong Province.
• Man Dahai arrived and lamented that the Holy Son Assassin had already been killed, while onlookers recognized him and kept their distance.
• Wang Taichu appeared, prompting the crowd to flee because the Black Hand Organization often followed him; as he turned to leave, wind stirred behind his head.

Hua Yunfei reunited with Jiang Ruoyao in Wildlands Province, and they set out to hunt members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization. Meanwhile, the Space-Time Human King and two companions triggered a safeguard at the Celestial Star Great Emperor’s tomb, bringing a vast figure into the Emperor’s Road sky.

• Hua Yunfei encountered Jiang Ruoyao in an oasis and learned she had entered the Emperor’s Road to deal with the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao agreed to identify and kill everyone recruited into the organization, then traveled deeper into the Star Gazing Desert under concealment.
• The Space-Time Human King and her two companions activated the stone wall at Star Gazing Valley and witnessed the Celestial Star Great Emperor create the Myriad Ages Starry Sky Chart.
• The Celestial Star Great Emperor’s safeguard recognized the three as Heaven-Stealing Organization traitors and attacked them for seeking his legacy.
• A colossal figure formed from hundreds of millions of stars appeared above the Nine Provinces, and onlookers recognized him as their ancestor.

Hua Yunfei spared Space-Time Human King after the Celestial Star Great Emperor’s soul-blade killed her companions, then recruited her to help hunt Heaven-Stealing Organization members. After steering Cao Jixing away from imitating his ancestor, Hua Yunfei began luring the organization’s members into a trap and learned who its strongest entrants were.

• The Celestial Star Great Emperor’s hidden soul technique killed two Heaven-Stealing Organization members but spared Space-Time Human King, who encountered Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao.
• Hua Yunfei told Space-Time Human King that she was one of his people and led her and Jiang Ruoyao away from Star Gazing Valley.
• Hua Yunfei warned Cao Jixing that copying the Celestial Star Great Emperor’s path would hold him back, and Cao Jixing chose to walk his own path.
• Hua Yunfei killed an Imperial Court assassin hiding beneath an ancient city, then asked Space-Time Human King to lure Heaven-Stealing Organization members to a supposed opportunity so they could kill them.
• Space-Time Human King named Gold-Wood Ghost King, Nine-Eyed Wolf King, and Divine Flame Human King as the strongest members besides herself, and said they were hiding in other provinces.

Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and the Space-Time Human King used the Human King as bait to capture members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization and uncover their recruits in Wildlands Province. After no more enemies arrived, Hua Yunfei decided they would hunt down the remaining names on their list.

• Qingyang Quasi-Emperor brought Wang Ling and Wang Tian to meet the Space-Time Human King, and Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei killed all three.
• The Serpent Emperor approached the Space-Time Human King, who fought him, before Jiang Ruoyao's Crimson Slaughter Sword killed his soul.
• Hua Yunfei told Jiang Ruoyao to capture Heaven-Stealing Organization members for information, but she killed three who confessed the names of their recruits.
• The Space-Time Human King realized she needed to find a way to survive, while Hua Yunfei assured her that she was different.
• Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and the Space-Time Human King subdued and killed eight more arrivals, including recruits and older experts.
• After several hours without further arrivals, Hua Yunfei proposed hunting the remaining recruits listed on his roster, and Jiang Ruoyao offered to lead the attack.

At Yin Moon Ancient City, the Blood Clan Prince was repeatedly beheaded by an invisible attacker before the Soul Clan Crown Prince revealed her position. The attacker killed the Blood Clan Prince and his guards, then struck others in the crowd, prompting the strongest cultivators to attack her concealed location.

• Huang Xuan offered to seize anything connected to the Tai'e Yin Moon Scripture for Chu Qing'er, who sensed that something beneath Yin Moon Ancient City was linked to Empress Tai'e.
• An invisible attacker beheaded the Blood Clan Prince twice, and the Soul Clan Crown Prince pointed out the abnormal patch of space where she was hiding.
• The Blood Clan Prince attacked the patch with the Blood Emperor Palm, but the attacker destroyed his move, killed him, and annihilated his soul.
• The attacker killed the Blood Clan experts who rushed her and then beheaded several bystanders, causing the crowd to defend itself with Mystic Body Auras.
• The Soul Clan Crown Prince confronted the attacker, while the Sky Phoenix Fairy, Old Man of the Northern Desert, White Tiger Holy Son, and other top geniuses attacked her concealed location.

Jiang Ruoyao slaughtered people in Yin Moon Ancient City while refusing to explain herself, as Sky Phoenix Fairy rallied the crowd against her. When Sky Phoenix Fairy demanded an answer, Jiang Ruoyao abruptly slapped her, leaving the crowd stunned and Sky Phoenix Fairy furious.

• Jiang Ruoyao emerged from an explosion and killed a man who seemed to have been targeted for his choice, alarming the people gathered in Yin Moon Ancient City.
• Jiang Ruoyao declared that her rules were the rules, then killed nearly a hundred more people while Hua Yunfei secretly checked for further targets.
• Sky Phoenix Fairy and the White Tiger Holy Son challenged Jiang Ruoyao to explain the killings, and Sky Phoenix Fairy threatened to have the crowd attack her if she refused.
• Hidden voices mocked Sky Phoenix Fairy as a green-tea bitch, enraging her as she demanded that Jiang Ruoyao answer.
• Jiang Ruoyao teleported in front of Sky Phoenix Fairy, grabbed her collar, and slapped her across the face, prompting Sky Phoenix Fairy to scream that she would kill her.

Jiang Ruoyao fought off Sky Phoenix Fairy’s attempt to rally the crowd, while a hidden expert killed the Soul Clan Crown Prince when he attacked. After Hua Yunfei urged her to stop showing restraint, Jiang Ruoyao killed Sky Phoenix Fairy and left her nailed to the ground.

• Jiang Ruoyao beat Sky Phoenix Fairy and dismissed the Sky Phoenix Clan experts’ threats, but Sky Phoenix Fairy offered the Sky Phoenix Divine Tome to anyone who would kill her.
• Old Man of the Northern Desert backed down after Jiang Ruoyao silently broke his cane, and the White Tiger Holy Son refused Sky Phoenix Fairy’s offer to fight.
• Sky Phoenix Fairy promised half the Sky Phoenix Divine Tome to the Soul Clan Crown Prince, who attacked Jiang Ruoyao with his Nine Revolutions Yama secret art.
• A hidden expert crushed the Soul Clan Crown Prince with a pair of enormous hands and killed the Soul Clan experts who rushed to avenge him.
• Hua Yunfei told Jiang Ruoyao to stop yielding, and she cut Sky Phoenix Fairy in two before pinning her head to the ground with the Crimson Slaughter Sword.

Jiang Ruoyao killed the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s recruits in Yin Moon Ancient City, while Chu Qing’er received treasures from Empress Tai’e and Hua Yunfei prepared her for refining them. After searching Wildlands Province for the organization, Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao went to Sky Province, where they learned the Imperial Court had killed Zhao Zhu and Hua Yunfei reacted with alarm.

• Jiang Ruoyao killed Sky Phoenix Fairy and the other members of the Sky Phoenix Clan, then warned the crowd about the cost of joining factions that promised techniques beyond the Emperor level.
• Empress Tai’e’s power emerged beneath Yin Moon Ancient City, and Jiang Ruoyao retrieved the Tai'e Yin Moon Scripture and Tai'e Dao Seed for Chu Qing’er.
• Hua Yunfei gave Chu Qing’er an Ember Dragon Essence Pearl to balance the Tai'e Dao Seed’s yin energy and told her to find a supreme-yang Dao Seed as well.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao searched Wildlands Province for members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, then the Space-Time Human King left when the curse in her mind began stirring.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao traveled to Sky Province and learned that Backer Sect was gathering allies to attack the Imperial Court after it captured the Darknight Immortal Body and killed Zhao Zhu.
• Hua Yunfei seized an informant by the collar and demanded to know whether Zhao Zhu had truly been killed.

After Zhao Zhu’s death, Hua Yunfei’s allies gathered at the Imperial Court headquarters in Sky Pearl Mountains to rescue the captives. Their diversionary assault began, while a hidden team of ancestors infiltrated the stronghold.

• Hua Yunfei learned that the Imperial Court’s old Holy Master had killed Zhao Zhu, then rushed away in anger as Jiang Ruoyao watched.
• A purple-clad woman killed a man who tried to block her and hurried toward the gathering place, while others across Sky Province mobilized against the Imperial Court.
• Li Duxiu led nearly three hundred people to Sky Pearl Mountains and demanded that the Imperial Court hand over its captives, but several hired fighters withdrew before the attack.
• Li Duxiu led the remaining fighters in a diversion while the Backer Sect’s ancestor-level rescue team infiltrated the mountains.
• A Daoyuan Peak ancestor used a token to disable the Imperial Court’s defensive and offensive formations, and the assault began under Yaoguang Holy Son’s lead.
• A Celestial Secrets Peak ancestor used a chessboard to solidify the surrounding void and force weaker Imperial Court assassins out of hiding.

The Backer Sect camp fought the Imperial Court and Earth Mausoleum forces while powerful allies and enemy reinforcements joined the battle. Jiang Ruoyao arrived after identifying the Heaven-Stealing Organization as the mastermind and charged at the Nine-Eyed Wolf King.

• The Little Ancestor of Celestial Secrets Peak sealed the void, weakening the assassins, while other little ancestors killed enemies with music, formations, and brute force.
• Earth Mausoleum assassins and powerful figures including the Nine-Eyed Wolf King, the Qiongqi Crown Prince, and the Taotie Crown Prince joined the Imperial Court, causing some of Li Duxiu’s outside allies to withdraw.
• The Backer Sect’s little ancestors held off the enemy’s strongest fighters despite being outnumbered, and a woman in purple killed the Qiongqi Crown Prince and battered the Nine-Eyed Wolf King.
• A young man in white killed the Taotie Crown Prince, while the Nine-Eyed Wolf King called for more reinforcements.
• Jiang Ruoyao sensed the Heaven-Stealing Immortal Records on the Nine-Eyed Wolf King, identified the Heaven-Stealing Organization as the force behind the alliance, and charged into battle.

Jiang Ruoyao cut down her enemies while the Imperial Court's old Holy Lord used the Devouring Heaven Art to rejuvenate himself and strengthen his body. Hua Yunfei revealed himself in Mu Qiuxue's prison cell, where his curse and the ambush by the hidden ancestors left the old Holy Lord dying and unable to use his power.

• Jiang Ruoyao slaughtered her opponents as the Celestial Secrets Peak junior ancestor admired her and asked whether she was already Daoyuan Peak's daughter-in-law.
• The Imperial Court's old Holy Lord absorbed the blood pool beneath the Sky Pearl Mountains, restored his youth, and raised his physical strength to half-step Approaching Dao Realm.
• The Imperial Court's old Holy Lord tried to devour Mu Qiuxue's Darknight Immortal Body, but Hua Yunfei revealed himself after secretly replacing her and rescuing her.
• Hua Yunfei's curse weakened the Imperial Court's old Holy Lord, and Hua Yunfei showed him the severed heads of the Lord of the Earth Tomb, the Gold-Wood Ghost King, and other enemies.
• Ten old ancestors surrounded the Imperial Court's old Holy Lord, and the Celestial Secrets Peak Old Ancestor taunted him as he collapsed from the curse.
• The Imperial Court's old Holy Lord roared out Devour Heaven and Swallow Earth while lying on the ground.

Hua Yunfei stopped the Imperial Court's old Holy Lord from escaping and ordered the Backer Sect to kill everyone present. Jiang Ruoyao offered five Emperor Scriptures as a reward, drawing a huge crowd into the battle, and several Imperial Court leaders died in the ensuing slaughter.

• The Imperial Court's old Holy Lord tried to devour the curse inside himself, but Hua Yunfei crushed his head, captured his divine soul, and sealed him away.
• Hua Yunfei ordered the Backer Sect's ancestors to spare no one, then told the fighters below that the captives had been rescued and to leave none alive.
• Jiang Ruoyao offered five Emperor Scriptures to anyone who helped, and proved her identity as the Holy Maiden of the Primordial Divine Territory with her token.
• More than two hundred onlookers and many prodigies joined the Backer Sect's side, overwhelming the Imperial Court's forces.
• The Qiongqi Crown Prince, the Taotie Crown Prince, the Ten Thousand Caves Mountain God Child, and the Black Tortoise Holy Son were killed in the group assault.

Hua Yunfei’s forces crushed the Imperial Court camp in the Sky Pearl Mountains, while Jiang Ruoyao traded Emperor Scripture chapters for the heads of enemy leaders. After the battle, Hua Yunfei gave Emperor Blood to the allied forces who had come to help, and he and Jiang Ruoyao planned to investigate a bronze fragment that might undo her Heaven-Stealing Curse.

• Cangyuan Ancient Sage begged the Backer Sect for mercy but was killed, and Hua Yunfei took a mysterious bronze fragment from the Decrepit Old Man before killing him too.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that her Primordial Divine Body reacted to the bronze fragment and that she believed it might help undo her Heaven-Stealing Curse.
• The Backer Sect and its allies defeated the Imperial Court forces in the Sky Pearl Mountains, leaving the battlefield devastated.
• Jiang Ruoyao gave Emperor Scripture chapters to people who brought her the heads of the Qiongqi Crown Prince, the Ten Thousand Caves Mountain God Child, and other enemies.
• Hua Yunfei gave drops of Emperor Blood to Yaoguang Holy Son, War Clan Holy Son, and the other allied forces to thank them for their help.

After distributing Emperor Blood to their allies, Hua Yunfei reassured Luo Hanyue and Mu Qiuxue that Zhao Zhu would recover and promised to seek justice against the Imperial Court. Jiang Ruoyao then punished a Celestial Secrets Peak little ancestor for hitting on her, and he earned another beating after making advances toward Luo Hanyue and Mu Qiuxue.

• The Jiang Family Dao Child and the Inviting Moon Palace Holy Maiden accepted Emperor Blood from Hua Yunfei, and the visiting allies departed.
• Luo Hanyue stayed behind to see Mu Qiuxue and Zhao Zhu, while Duan Wuming left for Minyue Ancient City.
• Hua Yunfei told Luo Hanyue and Mu Qiuxue that Zhao Zhu's divine soul was stable and promised to seek justice against the Imperial Court after the Emperor's Road ended.
• A little ancestor from Celestial Secrets Peak offered Jiang Ruoyao a rose, so Hua Yunfei left the others to handle the situation and departed.
• Jiang Ruoyao beat the little ancestor from Celestial Secrets Peak, leaving him with a swollen butt and the rose stuck between his cheeks.
• After the little ancestor asked Luo Hanyue and Mu Qiuxue to date him, the two women kicked him from either side.