Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing awakened on the Destruction Throne and discovered that his main body retained its Great Dao, divine offices, and followers’ faith. After examining a legacy that revealed three traits needed for Transcendence, he began assessing how to strengthen himself and pursue the ultimate leap.

• Fang Xing checked his Attribute Panel and realized his Pan Wu Great Dao had grown, while his perfected Destruction Laws and True Self Law had formed two divine offices.
• Fang Xing reached through his faith to the mortal world and awakened the Life Slaughtering Sect Master, the Demigod Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Fang Xing delayed contacting the followers of the Truth Demon Lord to keep his two divine identities from being linked.
• Fang Xing reviewed the divine legacy in a broken black horn and learned that attaining Transcendence required becoming Eternal, undergoing Seeking Emptiness by Reduction, and condensing Transcendent Traits.
• Fang Xing compared the legacy’s Extraordinary Divine Power, Transcendent Divine Spark, and Great Divinity with his own power and divinity, then considered how to gain more traits.

Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone decided to visit the Great Zhou Dynasty while leaving Azure Wood Ridge to the Life Slaughtering Sect. At the sect’s headquarters, he revealed himself to Poison Hand Scholar as a God Favored One and arranged to join the war publicly as the Nature Sect’s ancestor.

• Fang Xing used Destruction Divine Power to raise a mountain and considered how his clone could act as a hidden agent of the God of Destruction.
• Fang Xing weighed the danger of confronting the Great Zhou God System and decided to investigate it in person while pursuing his true self’s advancement.
• Fang Xing arrived at the Life Slaughtering Sect’s camp at Ten Thousand Blood Plains and asked to meet Left Envoy Poison Hand Scholar.
• Fang Xing showed Poison Hand Scholar the God of Destruction’s holy emblem and revealed his divine favor.
• Poison Hand Scholar received a Divine Revelation and agreed to conceal Fang Xing’s identity while he fought as the Nature Sect’s ancestor to end the war.

Poison Hand Scholar announced that Nature Ancestor had joined the Life Slaughtering Sect, and Fang Xing prepared to lead its army against the Sect Alliance. At the Blood Shadow Sect’s mountain gate, the siege began with ritual-enhanced weapons striking the defenders’ formation.

• Poison Hand Scholar introduced Fang Xing as Nature Ancestor and reviewed the forces and battle plans with the Black White Dharma Protectors.
• The Sect Alliance’s leaders discussed the Life Slaughtering Sect’s advance and agreed to commit their hidden reserves, including the Upper God Hall’s Incense Gold Coins.
• Several months later, Fang Xing led the Life Slaughtering Sect’s army to the Blood Shadow Sect’s mountain gate and surveyed its layered defenses.
• Poison Hand Scholar ordered the siege, and the Life Slaughtering Sect’s catapults launched ritual-empowered stone projectiles at the Blood Shadow Sect’s formation.

The Great Zhou Dynasty attacked the Blood Shadow Sect, and both sides committed their powerful fighters as the sect’s defenses began to fail. Fang Xing summoned a host of Treants and transformed into a White Jade Flood Dragon, leaving the Blood Shadow Sect Master and the sect’s hidden defenders badly injured by his breath.

• Divine Beggar summoned three Golden Armor Divine Beings, but six High Sacrificers transformed into Fei Beasts and battered the Blood Shadow Sect’s formation.
• Poison Hand Scholar attacked the Third Generation Ancestor, while Black Law Lord fought the withered old monk and Black Feather Taoist.
• The Blood Shadow Sect unleashed tamed Demon Beasts, skeletal birds, and three hundred Golden Body Arhats, prompting Fang Xing to send out insects and summon rows of Treants.
• The Blood Shadow Sect Master and two hidden Yang God-level defenders rushed Fang Xing, who transformed into a White Jade Flood Dragon and burned them with his Flood Dragon Breath.

Fang Xing transformed into a divinely empowered Flood Dragon and overwhelmed the Blood Shadow Sect and Upper God Hall forces, destroying their ancestors and plundering their merit pool. The battle ended with the Third Generation Ancestor dead and the Upper God Hall’s incense power nearly consumed.

• Fang Xing killed the Blood Shadow Sect Ancestor after her three life-saving arts failed to help her escape.
• Wu Dianzhu summoned the Upper God Hall’s Fourth Generation Ancestor, whose arrow only shattered a few of Fang Xing’s scales before Fang Xing burned him to ash.
• The Treant army broke through the Blood Shadow Sect’s formation as Fang Xing’s attack and an earthquake ruined the mountain gate and forced Wu Dianzhu to order a retreat.
• Fang Xing charged into the Upper God Hall’s formation, killed scores of disciples, and emptied most of the Eight Treasures Lotus Merit Pool to strengthen his divinity.
• Poison Hand Scholar struck down the Third Generation Ancestor after his incense golden body faltered, destroying him in body and soul.

After the Life Slaughtering Sect conquered the Ten Righteous and Evil Factions and unified the Beyond-Region Land, Fang Xing planned to expand his Bamboo Grove across the captured sect grounds. He learned that two escaped Yang God True Monarchs were stirring up division between the Life Slaughtering Sect and the Nature Sect, and decided to curse them to death.

• The Life Slaughtering Sect defeated the remaining factions, killed Wu Dianzhu and Black Feather Taoist, and unified the Beyond-Region Land.
• At the victory banquet, Poison Hand Scholar and the assembled cultivators celebrated while Fang Xing read the Upper God Hall's scriptures and examined a letter seeking the Great Zhou Dynasty's help.
• Fang Xing ordered Poison Hand Scholar to protect the former sect headquarters and let him plant bamboo there as the Bamboo Grove expanded.
• Poison Hand Scholar told Fang Xing that some Yin God True Persons were trying to drive a wedge between the Life Slaughtering Sect and the Nature Sect, likely at the direction of two escaped Yang God True Monarchs.
• Fang Xing rejected Poison Hand Scholar's suggestion to use divine prophecy and said he would curse the two instigators to death using objects carrying their personal auras.

Years after the Beyond-Region Land settled under the Life Slaughtering Sect, Fang Xing infiltrated the Great Zhou Dynasty by slipping across Three Severance Pass in Azure Jade Beetle form. He reached Phoenix Tree Province and used a Truth Demon Lord believer to obtain travel permits and identification.

• Fang Xing inspected Three Severance Pass and its hidden restrictions, then used his Druid transformation to become a tiny Azure Jade Beetle and cross the wall unnoticed.
• Fang Xing surveyed the pass’s terracotta soldiers, spiritual ballistae, and moving golems before entering Great Zhou territory.
• Sang City God sensed a sign at Three Severance Pass, but he and the general concluded nothing had happened there and discussed the Life Slaughtering Sect’s unification of the Beyond-Region Land.
• Fang Xing reached a residence in Phoenix Tree Province and appeared before an old believer of the Truth Demon Lord.
• Fang Xing ordered the believer to obtain travel permits and identification documents so he could travel without being linked to the Life Slaughtering Sect.

Fang Xing entered Shangwu City under the assumed identity of Fang Yun and assessed how the Great Zhou’s divine authorities shaped life there. After witnessing a child thief empowered by the God of Shadow and Thieves and the City God’s far-reaching network, he left the city considering a visit to the Underworld.

• Fang Xing used Fang Yun’s identification and Travel Permit to enter Shangwu City, reflecting on the layers of false identities that protected him.
• Fang Xing struck away a child beggar’s attempt to steal from him and followed the beggars into an alley, where he recognized that one boy’s thieving ability came from the God of Shadow and Thieves.
• Fang Xing concluded that the thieves’ organization endured because a True God within the Great Zhou God System protected its interests, and he chose not to intervene.
• Fang Xing observed the City God Temple’s worshippers and divine network, then judged the Great Zhou’s Heavenly Court and mortal realm to be nearly flawless and difficult to overthrow.
• Fang Xing left the city and considered entering the Underworld, noting that living visitors faced great risks while his true body could retrieve souls for followers of the Life Slaughtering Sect and the Truth Demon Lord.

Fang Xing entered a locust-plagued region in Yi Mountain Prefecture, where he discovered refugees had been reduced to hunger after giving their grain to churches. He used his Druid powers to destroy the locust swarm, then disguised himself as an evil cultivator when Temple Knight Lu Zhong came to judge him.

• Fang Xing met a group of refugees fleeing a Locust Plague and fed them breadfruit he grew with Plant Growth.
• Fang Xing learned that the refugees’ village grain had been spent on Divine Halls and churches, then headed into the disaster zone.
• Fang Xing summoned freezing rain to kill the locusts and used icicles to slay the demonic insects controlling them.
• Lu Zhong, a Temple Knight of the God of Redemption, detected the strange rain and turned toward what he judged to be a greater evil.
• Fang Xing disguised himself as a middle-aged scholar when Lu Zhong entered his Nature Domain, but Lu Zhong’s Detect Evil branded him an evildoer and he attacked with Supreme Saint Slash.
• Fang Xing released a Paper Figure Army from his Paper House Grotto-Heaven to confront Lu Zhong.

Fang Xing followed Lu Zhong into Scorching Hell, where he tested how his talent blocked divine contact and explored the structure of the Eighteen Levels of Hell. After feeding and reading the memories of the ghost Wu Yong, Fang Xing realized the God of War had condemned a still-faithful believer, leaving him to question the contract between humans and gods.

• Lu Zhong used his Banishment Amulet to drag Fang Xing from the mortal realm into Scorching Hell.
• Fang Xing healed Lu Zhong, whose prayers went unanswered because Fang Xing's talent interfered with divine contact.
• Fang Xing sensed that the Eighteen Levels of Hell formed an inverted-pyramid array that tortured souls and extracted their essence.
• Fang Xing grew Fire Jade Bamboo and a water-producing vine, then fed a starving ghost and learned his memories with the Bewitching Soul Art.
• Fang Xing discovered that the ghost, Wu Yong, had killed a priest after losing his wife and child, and the God of War had condemned him despite his continued faith.
• Fang Xing concluded that abandoning a faithful believer violated the contract between humans and gods.

Fang Xing uncovered how the Great Zhou gods abandoned some believers’ souls to the Eighteen Levels of Hell, causing Lu Zhong to reject his faith and become an avenger. After rescuing Lu Zhong from the underworld, Fang Xing left him wondering whether the Truth Demon Lord was a true god.

• Fang Xing fed wandering souls with Fire Jade Bamboo and concluded that the Great Zhou gods had abandoned some believers to suffer in hell.
• Lu Zhong witnessed the believers’ suffering, lost his faith, and reached the threshold of Legend as the souls’ faces burned away.
• Fang Xing and Lu Zhong crossed the Eighteen Levels of Hell, where Fang Xing found a divinity-bearing alms bowl formed from a monk’s resentment and brought a river and Other Shore Flowers to Avici Hell.
• Fang Xing used his authority to open a Gate and take Lu Zhong out of the underworld.
• Fang Xing vanished after calling himself a great demon, and Lu Zhong recognized him as the Truth Demon Lord and wondered if he was a true god.

Fang Xing concealed a strange Godspawn in Avici Hell, guided the Life Slaughtering Sect Master as the Great Zhou Dynasty prepared to attack, and gained a new Druid talent. He considered how to counter the Imperial Observatory while Lu Zhong set out on his own path against the gods.

• Fang Xing's true body hid the River Styx and caused a blood-red Buddha seal to appear on the battered alms bowl.
• Fang Xing received the Life Slaughtering Sect Master's prayer about the Imperial Observatory's five overseers and ordered him to teach them a lesson before withdrawing.
• Fang Xing considered teaming up with the Life Slaughtering Sect Master and the Truth Demon Lord's subordinates to defeat the overseers one by one.
• Fang Xing received a Nature Baptism, advanced his Druid class to Level 23, and gained Immunity to Time Stop.
• Fang Xing reflected that Lu Zhong would likely leave behind an inheritance as the first Avenger and that the God of Redemption would face trouble.

The Imperial Observatory’s Horse Overseer and Incense Overseer used a failed raid on the Life Slaughtering Sect as bait, then faced the sect’s Right Envoy with a Great Zhou Golden Man. Fang Xing ambushed the overseers, seized the Golden Man, and discovered that its divine blessing could provide a link for cursing the gods who empowered it.

• The Horse Overseer and Incense Overseer watched the raid on a Life Slaughtering Sect hideout fail, while the Incense Overseer traced the Right Envoy through Destiny.
• The Right Envoy ambushed the two overseers, empowered herself with Destruction Divine Power, and attacked them with a Giant Python.
• The Horse Overseer and Incense Overseer revealed a Great Zhou Golden Man, which killed the Right Envoy’s Giant Python as she escaped and other experts pursued her.
• Fang Xing trapped the two overseers in his Illusory Paper House Grotto-Heaven, killed the Incense Overseer with a Destruction Wolf, and subdued the Golden Man.
• Fang Xing examined the Golden Man’s connection to the God of Shadow and Thieves and realized that the divine blessing could serve as a medium for curses.

Fang Xing ambushed and killed two Great Zhou Overseers, helping the Life Slaughtering Sect escape the court’s attack. Years later, he entered the Great Zhou Imperial Capital and reunited with Lu Zhong after the Avengers mistook him for a threat.

• Fang Xing killed the Horse Overseer after learning he carried no Great Zhou Golden Man, then concealed the fight inside his Paper House Grotto-Heaven.
• The Life Slaughtering Sect Master escaped the Heaven Observation Overseer and Life Observation Overseer after they learned Horse and Incense had fallen into an ambush.
• The Great Zhou Dynasty’s attack ended, the Life Slaughtering Sect went into hiding, and Fang Xing spent several years traveling before arriving in the Imperial Capital.
• Fang Xing met a young Avenger distributing steamed buns and learned that Lu Zhong was preparing to travel through the Southern Swamps.
• Avengers approached Fang Xing’s inn at night, but Lu Zhong stopped them, declared Fang Xing was not an enemy, and entered his room alone.

Fang Xing met Lu Zhong, strengthened his assassination sword, and learned that the Great Zhou had secretly moved six Golden Men to Beyond-Region Land. As the emperor’s procession began and the Golden Men marched toward Beyond-Region Land, the Great Zhou God System confronted Fang Xing in the Destruction Zone and demanded his surrender.

• Lu Zhong revealed that he planned to assassinate the Great Zhou Emperor with his Divine Artifact, and Fang Xing concealed the sword from Deities and named it the Fish Intestine Sword.
• Lu Zhong told Fang Xing that six of the Great Zhou Golden Men had been secretly transferred to Beyond-Region Land, prompting Fang Xing to suspect a military offensive against the Life Slaughtering Sect.
• Six Great Zhou Golden Men marched out from Three Severance Pass as Sang City God and the commander observed the campaign’s departure.
• Fang Xing watched the Emperor’s procession in the Imperial Capital, recognized that several Golden Men were fakes, and noticed the stars shining in daytime.
• Fang Xing’s destruction avatar appeared among Deities surrounding his divine kingdom, and the War Overlord demanded the Golden Men and an end to the Life Slaughtering Sect’s presence in Beyond-Region Land.

Fang Xing killed the Life Observation Overseer, stole the five golden men from the Imperial Capital, and returned to the Flying Sword Sect as the Great Zhou army advanced. As the Great Zhou Deities attacked the God of Destruction’s divine kingdom, Fang Xing’s true body descended into the mortal world and merged with his Nature Avatar, ascending to godhood.

• Fang Xing used the Illusory Paper House Grotto-Heaven to capture the five golden men, killed the Life Observation Overseer, and escaped after the Dragon Mourning Bell announced the Great Zhou Emperor’s death.
• The Left Envoy, Poison Hand Scholar, the White Law Lord, and the Black Law Lord faced the Great Zhou army and its six golden men near the Flying Sword Sect.
• Fang Xing teleported to the Flying Sword Sect and prepared to confront the Great Zhou forces as the Garrison General dismissed him as a mere Yang God Late Stage cultivator.
• The God of War and other Great Zhou Deities invaded the God of Destruction’s divine kingdom, prompting Fang Xing’s true body to leave it and descend into the mortal world.
• Fang Xing’s true body merged with his Nature Avatar, transformed into a colossal giant, and ascended into a Deity.

Fang Xing used his fusion with nature and the Great Zhou Emperor’s death to turn the world source against the gods, forcing their true bodies out of their divine kingdoms. As the gods fell into the mortal world in Saint Form, the Twilight of the Gods began, though the God of Imperial System and Monarch expected the backlash to fade.

• Fang Xing restrained the six Great Zhou Golden Men with vines and overwhelmed the garrison with a wave of magma.
• Fang Xing invoked the world’s destiny and the grievances of abandoned believers, declaring the gods guilty and enemies of nature.
• With the divine dynasty’s authority disrupted after the Great Zhou Emperor’s death, the world source surged against the divine kingdoms and forced the gods’ true bodies to descend.
• The God of Shadow and Thieves fell first, losing its avatars and much of its power, followed by the God of Love and the God of Courage and Strength.
• The God of War and the God of Imperial System and Monarch also descended as the God of Imperial System and Monarch warned the God of War to survive the backlash.

Fang Xing took Eastern Azure Dragon form and hunted the God of Strength and Courage, killing him and claiming his divine authorities. He then flew off to pursue the God of Death as the Great Zhou faithful realized their god had fallen.

• Fang Xing ordered Poison Hand Scholar and the Black White Dharma Protector to spread the news that the gods had lost their positions and promised to raise new gods from those who helped hunt them.
• Fang Xing transformed into the Eastern Azure Dragon and used a Great Zhou Golden Man to locate the God of Strength and Courage.
• The God of Strength and Courage prepared his hidden temple for battle, but Fang Xing crashed into the valley and destroyed the temple and its defenders.
• The God of Strength and Courage descended in a golden giant body and pleaded for his life, but Fang Xing killed him and obtained divinity and the Divine Authorities of Courage and Strength.
• Fang Xing absorbed the strength authority, then flew away to hunt the God of Death as priests and Temple Keepers mourned the fall of their god.

Fang Xing killed the God of Death, took his Divine Authority, and learned the Karma Fire Monk captured the god’s surviving soul. He then headed for the God of War’s military camp, where the God of War prepared to face him.

• Fang Xing arrived at the God of Death’s temple and killed the God of Death Saint with his Azure Dragon Breath, obtaining the Divine Authority of Death.
• The God of Death revived as a skull, but the Karma Fire Monk trapped his soul flame and dragged him toward Avici Hell.
• Fang Xing reflected that the Strength and Death Laws could help form the Pan Wu Divine Authority, and that his Nature Divinity had passed 50 points.
• Fang Xing followed the God of War’s golden figure to the Dare-to-Die Army’s camp near the Imperial Capital and decided to attack directly.
• Fang Xing’s roar panicked the camp’s horses, and the God of War recognized him as Destruction and prepared for battle.

Fang Xing battled the God of War and defeated him after the god’s army and divine artifacts failed to stop his transformed forms. As Fang Xing gained War and other divine portfolios, his instincts warned him of a new danger, and he suspected the God of Imperial System and Monarch had interfered.

• The God of War empowered his troops with the War Drum and Heroic Spirit Banner, but Fang Xing destroyed the fleet and swept away most of the army.
• The God of War enlarged himself and injured Fang Xing with his divine greatsword, then used the Heroic Spirit Banner to bolster himself and charged again.
• Fang Xing restrained the God of War, but the god exploded and a powerful Dispel Magic stripped away Fang Xing’s East Azure Dragon form.
• Fang Xing transformed into his Nature Avatar, overwhelmed the God of War with natural disasters and blows, and killed him.
• Fang Xing received 25 Divinity points and the portfolios of War, Battle, Art of Command, and more, then felt his instincts warn him of danger.