Chapter Summaries

Ling Fei led Nangong Wentian and five others on a night mission to scout the Upper Heavens’ Yellow Fortress and prepare to break its defensive formation. After deciding not to kill the five enemy watchers, Ling Fei began secretly planting an enormous number of formation disks beneath the fortress, leaving the watching Ancient Ancestors stunned by how many he still had.

• Ling Fei told Nangong Wentian that they would attack the Upper Heavens’ Yellow Fortress before its defensive formation replenished its energy.
• Ling Fei, Nangong Wentian, and five others encountered five Upper Heavens watchers, overheard them boasting about their advantage, and chose to bypass them rather than kill them.
• The group reached Yellow Fortress and found its guards lax, while Ling Fei decided to break its formation by laying his own formation beneath it.
• Ling Fei handed out formation disks for Nangong Wentian and the others to bury around the fortress, then secretly buried another hundred thousand himself.
• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor and the other observers discovered that Ling Fei still had countless formation disks in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, and the Giant Demon Clan Ancient Ancestor called it cheating.

Ling Fei prepared to assault Yellow Fortress after discovering that overwhelming force was the only way through its defensive array. He unleashed the Heaven Severing Killing Array around the fortress, trapping its Upper Heavens defenders as he vowed to kill them.

• The Emperor Lord silenced the Ancient Ancestors after scolding the Giant Demon Clan Ancient Ancestor for his temper.
• Ling Fei finished cultivating, explained that he would break the defensive array by force, and had his companions bury more array discs while he prepared to avenge Xiaoqiang and Shuheng.
• Inside Yellow Fortress, Xiang Ruifeng, Shu Xingyang, and Sima Siqi discussed replenishing the fortress's energy and attacking the Emperor Alliance.
• Ling Fei arrived above Yellow Fortress with Nangong Wentian, Gouyuan Peak's little ancestor, and five others, and confirmed that he had come to attack.
• Ling Fei activated the Heaven Severing Killing Array, enclosing Yellow Fortress and threatening to send its defenders to the afterlife.

Ling Fei used the Heaven Severing Killing Array to break through Yellow Fortress’s defensive and offensive arrays and slaughter the Upper Heavens emperors. As the massacre continued, Shu Xingyang charged toward Ling Fei in a desperate bid to reach him.

• Sima Siqi activated Yellow Fortress’s offensive array, but its attacks vanished against the Heaven Severing Killing Array.
• Ling Fei unleashed Heaven Severing Annihilation, battering Yellow Fortress’s defensive array while the trapped emperors counterattacked in vain.
• Nangong Wentian and Gouyuan Peak’s young ancestor recorded the Upper Heavens emperors’ desperate struggle as the defensive array shattered.
• The Heaven Severing Killing Array destroyed the offensive array and refined the Upper Heavens emperors, killing them one after another.
• Shu Xingyang, bloodied and desperate, charged toward Ling Fei, but Ling Fei ignored him.

Ling Fei returned to the Emperor Alliance after using the Heaven Severing Killing Array to annihilate the Yellow Fortress and its defenders. The emperors celebrated the victory, while news of the feat spread and the Upper Heavens refused to believe it.

• Ling Fei used the array to kill the remaining leaders and defenders in the Yellow Fortress, then took its Fortress Flag.
• Ling Fei searched the fortress with the array, collected the four hundred thousand array disks, and departed with Nangong Wentian and their group.
• Ling Fei returned to the Emperor Alliance's Yellow Fortress, where the emperors were stunned to learn he had destroyed more than six thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• News that seven people had destroyed an entire fortress spread, and many people doubted the report.
• The Upper Heavens refused to believe that Ling Fei could have wiped out the fortress so quickly.

After the Emperor Alliance and Upper Heavens each lost fortresses, Ling Fei used his remaining array-disk power to destroy Heaven Fortress and launch a surprise attack on Earth Fortress. As Ye Bufan led reinforcements toward Mystic Fortress, Ling Fei’s assault on Earth Fortress was underway.

• The Emperor Alliance learned that Ouyang Zehui, a member of the Ancient Array Clan, had captured Barren Fortress and killed its defenders, leaving Heaven, Earth, and Mystic Fortresses undecided.
• Ouyang Zehui gathered more than twenty thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors from four Upper Heavens fortresses and marched toward Mystic Fortress, while Zhuang Lingyun and Jin Jin joined Ling Fei after their fortresses’ defeat.
• Ling Fei decided to support Heaven Fortress and then surprise-attack the Upper Heavens’ Heaven Fortress with Nangong Wentian, Zhuang Lingyun, and the Little Ancestors.
• Ling Fei and his allies destroyed the Upper Heavens’ Heaven Fortress with the Heaven Severing Killing Array, while Ye Bufan led Emperor Alliance forces toward Mystic Fortress.
• Ling Fei led another surprise attack on the Upper Heavens’ Earth Fortress, where the killing array began slaughtering its defenders.

Ling Fei and his allies escaped Earth Fortress after stealing its Fortress Flag, while Ouyang Zehui chose not to pursue them. Ouyang then discovered that Heaven Fortress had also been destroyed and returned to Mystic Fortress as both sides prepared for a decisive battle.

• Ouyang Zehui arrived at Earth Fortress with a hundred interlocking killing formations, forcing Ling Fei and his allies to retreat after Nangong Wentian stole the Fortress Flag.
• Zhuang Lingyun threatened the pursuing emperors with Little Match, and Ling Fei broke Ouyang Zehui’s sealing formation so the group could escape.
• Ouyang Zehui stopped the emperors from pursuing Ling Fei and said they would have a chance for revenge in the coming battle.
• Ouyang Zehui traveled to Heaven Fortress and found it razed, realizing Ling Fei and his allies had destroyed it before attacking Earth Fortress.
• Ouyang Zehui concluded that both armies were gathering for a decisive battle and led his men back to Mystic Fortress, where the news of Heaven Fortress’s fall caused an uproar.

After Ling Fei’s ambushes left the Upper Heavens furious, Ouyang Zehui organized their final battle and proposed a battlefield and a hidden formation to counter the Emperor Alliance. He set out to deliver a challenge letter while the emperors prepared to use Array Dao Pills as a contingency plan.

• Nalan Haochuan grew frightened of Ling Fei and decided to hide from everyone to stay alive.
• Xiao Luxia made Xiao Xukun massage her with a clone while Gongsun Liyue, Yuchi Lingye, Yin Xiaofei, and Kong Chenxing watched the angry emperors.
• Ouyang Zehui proposed fighting at the Tianwang Mountain Range to avoid the Emperor Alliance’s ambushes, and the emperors agreed.
• The emperors considered setting an ambush of their own, and Ouyang Zehui said he might be able to conceal their arrangements from Ling Fei.
• Ouyang Zehui decided to deliver the challenge letter himself and handed out Array Dao Pills that would let him form a powerful arrangement using the emperors.

Ouyang Zehui delivered the Upper Heavens’ declaration of war and proposed Tianwang Mountain Range as the final battlefield, warning that his array mastery made Mystic Fortress dangerous. After Zhuang Lingyun mocked him into leaving, the alliance leaders debated the proposal, and Ling Fei admitted that Ouyang Zehui might hold the advantage because the alliance had used up many of its preparations.

• After returning to Mystic Fortress, Ling Fei and the others drew praise for the Black Hand Organization’s methods, while Nangong Wentian explained that outsiders could not use its wooden clubs.
• Ouyang Zehui arrived, identified himself as the Ancient Array Clan’s leader and chief leader of the Upper Heavens, and delivered a declaration of war on their behalf.
• Ouyang Zehui proposed fighting the final battle in the Tianwang Mountain Range and warned that, as an array master, he could bury everyone in a pit if he had time to prepare.
• Zhuang Lingyun insulted Ouyang Zehui as an ordinary yet overconfident man, and Ye Bufan sent him away after saying the alliance would consider the declaration.
• Ye Bufan argued that the alliance should change battlefields, and Ling Fei warned that Ouyang Zehui’s preparations could endanger them because the alliance had already used up much of its own.

Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun inspected Tianwang Mountain Range before agreeing to hold the decisive battle there, but Ouyang Zehui sprang a trap by unleashing two supreme killing arrays. Ling Fei and Ye Bufan had anticipated his scheme, and Ye Bufan used the Cosmos Array Dao Brush to rewrite the arrays and turn them against Ouyang Zehui.

• Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun went to Tianwang Mountain Range to check for an ambush, and Ling Fei set the decisive battle for three days later.
• Ouyang Zehui revealed that he had hidden a Heaven Reaching Killing Array within himself and trapped the three in it.
• Ouyang Zehui added a Heaven Severing Killing Array, claiming the two arrays could kill any Quasi-Immortal Emperor who entered.
• Ouyang Zehui offered to spare the three if they admitted defeat, while Ling Fei and Jia Yu considered his offer.
• Ye Bufan emerged from Ling Fei's chest and used the Cosmos Array Dao Brush to rewrite both arrays and turn them against Ouyang Zehui.
• Ling Fei revealed that he and Ye Bufan had seen through Ouyang Zehui's plan and had prepared to turn the trap against him.

Ye Bufan, Ling Fei, and their allies faced Ouyang Zehui’s hidden army of Quasi-Immortal Emperors, while the Emperor Alliance arrived to meet them in battle. As the fighting began, Ling Fei challenged Ouyang Zehui to a Dao debate, and Huang Xuan cornered the fleeing Nalan Haochuan.

• Ye Bufan used Fair Trade to pull Ouyang Zehui back after he teleported away, and the four allies surrounded him amid the killing arrays.
• Ouyang Zehui collapsed his arrays and summoned more than thirty thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the Mystic Fortress, but he ordered them to offer surrender rather than attack.
• Ling Fei summoned the Emperor Alliance, surrounding the Upper Heavens Emperors and setting both sides on the brink of battle.
• Ouyang Zehui and Ye Bufan ordered their sides to attack, while Ling Fei challenged Ouyang Zehui to a perilous Dao debate.
• Huang Xuan stopped Nalan Haochuan as he tried to flee, and Nalan Haochuan claimed his father had forced him into the battle to get him killed.

The decisive battle between the Emperor Alliance and the Upper Heavens dragged on as their leaders secretly held back, while Ling Fei lost a ten-day Dao contest to Ouyang Zehui. With the Emperor Alliance’s morale collapsing, Ye Bufan stepped forward to avenge Ling Fei and revealed immense blood energy.

• Huang Xuan sent an attacking Quasi-Immortal Emperor flying, then used Fair Trade to keep Nalan Haochuan nearby while he shared his grievances.
• Zhuang Lingyun and the other leaders fought without serious intent, and the Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor challenged the Battle King over Heaven's Mandate Academy’s order to hold back.
• Over ten days, the battles continued, while Huang Xuan and Nalan Haochuan chatted, Zhuang Lingyun and Xiao Luxia grew close, and Ye Bufan and Xiao Xukun fought before making peace.
• Ouyang Zehui defeated Ling Fei in their ten-day battle of Dao discussion, leaving Ling Fei badly weakened and the Emperor Alliance’s morale shaken.
• Ye Bufan promised Ling Fei he would avenge him, then unleashed overwhelming golden blood energy that stunned both sides.

Ye Bufan blocked Ouyang Zehui while Ling Fei suspected Ouyang had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun, prompting her to fight him. The Upper Heavens’ Ancient Ancestors reacted with alarm to their leaders’ distractions as the battle continued on Tiangang Continent.

• The Sea Clan Progenitor and other Ancient Ancestors discussed Ye Bufan’s resemblance to a dead figure, while the black dragon declared that Huang Xuan deserved to die.
• Ye Bufan stopped Ouyang Zehui from leaving after his victory over Ling Fei, and Ouyang suggested Zhuang Lingyun fight him instead.
• Ling Fei suspected Ouyang Zehui had feelings for Zhuang Lingyun and shared the idea with her and Ye Bufan; Zhuang Lingyun agreed to battle Ouyang.
• Ye Bufan charged into the crowd and crushed the emperors with his golden vitality as Zhuang Lingyun and Ouyang fought in the sky.
• The Ancient Ancestors learned that Ouyang Zehui might be romantically interested in Zhuang Lingyun, and the Emperor Lord mocked them from the Eighteenth Layer.
• Jia Yu voiced concern that the leaders were slacking while others fought, and Ling Fei told him not to worry about it.

Ye Bufan overwhelmed the Upper Heavens’ Quasi-Immortal Emperors while Ouyang Zehui and Zhuang Lingyun discussed his feelings and their opposing sides. The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor and other Ancient Ancestors used their authority to force Ouyang Zehui to attack Zhuang Lingyun, who angrily denied trying to seduce him.

• Ye Bufan crushed several Upper Heavens Quasi-Immortal Emperors with his Heavenly Emperor Fist, easing pressure on the Emperor Alliance.
• Ouyang Zehui fought Zhuang Lingyun without killing intent, and Zhuang Lingyun confronted him about his feelings for her.
• Ouyang Zehui admitted that he found Zhuang Lingyun beautiful and described how a woman had once deceived him to obtain the Ancient Array Clan’s secret arts.
• Zhuang Lingyun said she could never forgive Ouyang Zehui for killing people from her sect, but offered him a chance at friendship if he handed over the flags and made the Upper Heavens admit defeat.
• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor and other Ancient Ancestors mentally pressured Ouyang Zehui and ordered him to kill Zhuang Lingyun.
• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor accused Zhuang Lingyun of seducing Ouyang Zehui, and she angrily denied it.

Ouyang Zehui gave Zhuang Lingyun the Upper Heavens' Fortress Flags and surrendered the battle, angering the Ancient Ancestors but ending the fighting. The battlefield was left in confusion as he explained that losing the flags meant the Upper Heavens had already lost under the rules.

• The Emperor Lord shattered the nightmare in Ouyang Zehui's mind, and Ouyang offered Zhuang Lingyun all the Fortress Flags to oppose the Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor.
• Ouyang Zehui declared his feelings for Zhuang Lingyun, who refused the flags at first but agreed to become his friend; he then gave her the flags and opened his eyes.
• Ignoring the furious Ancient Ancestors, Ouyang Zehui called for all fighters to stop and announced the Upper Heavens' surrender.
• The battlefield erupted in confusion, while Ling Fei understood that the surrender followed the plan he had expected.
• Ouyang Zehui told the Upper Heavens cultivators that the fairy had taken their Fortress Flags, so they had already lost by the rules.

Ouyang Zehui admitted that he had surrendered the Fortress Flag because he had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun, then used the Array Dao Pill to restrain the Upper Heavens emperors and let her carry the flag back to Mystic Fortress. Zhuang Lingyun departed after telling him she found him handsome, while Ouyang Zehui remained behind to face the consequences.

• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor revealed that Ouyang Zehui had surrendered because he had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun, and Ouyang Zehui confirmed it.
• Ouyang Zehui argued that his array mastery had carried the Upper Heavens this far, but the Ancient Ancestor insisted that victory only counted if Zhuang Lingyun returned the Fortress Flag to Mystic Fortress.
• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor ordered the Upper Heavens emperors to hunt Zhuang Lingyun and seize the flag, but Ouyang Zehui used the Array Dao Pill to restrain them.
• Ouyang Zehui told Zhuang Lingyun to take the Fortress Flag back to Mystic Fortress, assuring her that he would be fine despite the danger to himself.
• Zhuang Lingyun told Ouyang Zehui that he was handsome and had a manly bearing before leaving, and he struggled to hide his delight.

Zhuang Lingyun returned the Fortress Flag and secured the Emperor Alliance’s victory, after which the factions exchanged farewells. The Invincible Celestial Lord killed Ouyang Zehui and warned the Upper Heavens emperors, while the Ancient Ancestors debated how to discipline the clans behind them.

• Zhuang Lingyun brought the Fortress Flag back to Mystic Fortress, and the Emperor Alliance won the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Battle.
• The Emperor Alliance emperors departed along the golden avenue, and Zhuang Lingyun and Ouyang Zehui exchanged tokens and promised to meet again.
• After Zhuang Lingyun left, the Invincible Celestial Lord killed Ouyang Zehui and stripped him of his qualification for revival, warning the others against similar acts.
• The Invincible Celestial Lord spared Nalan Haochuan and the other Upper Heavens emperors, who thanked him and departed.
• The Ghost Phoenix Clan Ancient Ancestor and the old man from the Radiant Sky Celestial Clan discussed why the Invincible Celestial Lord had not killed the emperors, while Pioneer Emperor called for the clans to be put in their place.

Invincible Celestial Lord pressured Thousand Leaf Emperor into reaffirming the Ancient Array Clan’s loyalty and returned Ouyang Zehui with some memories erased. He then tried to trace Zhuang Lingyun’s identity token, but its trail ended in chaos, leading the group to consider seeking help from the reclusive Karma Beast Clan.

• Invincible Celestial Lord dismissed the Dangling Heaven Immortal Clan as a threat and said Heaven’s Mandate Academy would not oppose them over minor conflicts.
• Thousand Leaf Emperor arrived to demand Ouyang Zehui’s life, but Invincible Celestial Lord overwhelmed his incarnation and persuaded him to keep the Ancient Array Clan committed to the war.
• Invincible Celestial Lord returned Ouyang Zehui’s soul light with his memories of Zhuang Lingyun erased, and Thousand Leaf Emperor restored him and took him home.
• Invincible Celestial Lord tried to use Zhuang Lingyun’s identity token to trace its owner, but his deduction was blocked by chaos.
• Pioneer Emperor suggested asking the Karma Beast Clan for help, and the group discussed the clan’s ancient knowledge of heavenly secrets and karma.

Invincible Celestial Lord sought Dao Wushuang’s help in bringing the Karma Beast Clan into the Upper Heavens’ conflict, while news of Ling Fei’s victories spread and Hua Yunfei prepared the dragon princes for an Immortal Emperor Battle. The princes agreed to fight in hopes of earning their freedom, but Hua Yunfei warned them that the Black Dragon Clan could pose a deadly threat.

• Invincible Celestial Lord visited Dao Wushuang and asked him to persuade the Karma Beast Clan to emerge from seclusion and support the Upper Heavens.
• Dao Wushuang accepted Zhuang Lingyun’s identity token and agreed to visit the Karma Beast Clan, while Invincible Celestial Lord warned him to restrain his disciples.
• Living beings celebrated Ling Fei’s two victories, and many shamelessly tried to lure the Black Hand Organization into knocking them out.
• Hua Yunfei struck Fourth Prince with a wooden club after Fourth Prince doubted him, then offered the princes a chance to earn their freedom by fighting in the Immortal Emperor Battle.
• Hua Yunfei warned Second Prince and Fourth Prince that the Black Dragon Clan might appear and that even Holy Dragon Emperor might not be able to save them from its experts.
• Duanmu Qingyue explained that Immortal Emperors were essential forces and that an Immortal Emperor Battle was no minor conflict.

Hua Yunfei received a fixed-point sign-in at Silent Extinction Ridge and learned from the Holy Dragon princes that the forbidden zone had once transformed the Holy Dragon Emperor. The Emperor granted Hua Yunfei permission to enter and opened an Overlord-level passage there, leaving Hua Yunfei and his companions ready to depart.

• Hua Yunfei asked the Second Prince and Fourth Prince about Silent Extinction Ridge after the system triggered a sign-in there.
• The Fourth Prince revealed that the Holy Dragon Emperor had entered Silent Extinction Ridge as a young dragon and overcome flaws in his Great Dao.
• Duanmu Qingyue offered to accompany Hua Yunfei, while Celestial Steed Liuxing teased them and the princes argued over their father's favor.
• Hua Yunfei asked the princes to contact the Holy Dragon Emperor, whose avatar appeared and faced Hua Yunfei in silence before Hua Yunfei greeted him.
• The Holy Dragon Emperor agreed to make an exception for Hua Yunfei and opened a spacetime passage to Silent Extinction Ridge.

Hua Yunfei’s group entered Silent Extinction Ridge, where a terrifying wind and aura seemed to signal a Silent Nether Spirit. Ao Miaomiao revealed that she had been teasing the princes, but then Hua Yunfei spotted the Coffin Bearer in the depths and led the group after her.

• The Holy Dragon Emperor sentenced the Second Prince and Fourth Prince to pull a carriage for ten thousand years, then sent Hua Yunfei’s group to Silent Extinction Ridge.
• Hua Yunfei’s group explored the ridge’s outer region, where the power of extinction stopped their natural power recovery and threatened to invade them.
• A chilling wind and Quasi-Overlord-level aura frightened the Second Prince and Fourth Prince, until Ao Miaomiao emerged and admitted she had staged the scare.
• A figure carrying a small Bronze Coffin appeared in the distant depths, and Hua Yunfei recognized her as the Coffin Bearer.
• Hua Yunfei led the group deeper into Silent Extinction Ridge to pursue the Coffin Bearer and uncover the truth about her.