Chapter Summaries

Jian Shang agreed to lead the Greece Region’s Cloth Factions in an assault on the Nether Realm’s headquarters to rescue Princess Dieyi. As the alliance prepared to march on Halkire City, Li Yanyan warned Jian Shang that the operation felt as though it would unleash a terrifying storm.

• Chengshalina and Sea Emperor Rotra explained their forces’ chances against the Nether Realm and why they sought Jian Shang’s aid.
• Jian Shang agreed to cooperate and lead the attack, while refusing to establish a permanent alliance with the Greece Region.
• The factions agreed to send their Cloth Warriors toward Halkire City and detailed the forces they would commit.
• Jian Shang and his companions planned to leave Patre City at noon the next day, before the Huan Kingdom’s navy reached the Marshall Islands and the Lost City emerged.
• Li Yanyan approached Jian Shang privately and said she feared the operation would unleash a storm beyond their control.

Jian Shang listened to Li Yanyan’s warning that rescuing Princess Dieyi could trigger upheaval beyond the Greece Region, then shared a tender moment with her. Four days later, the allied forces reached the Nether Realm’s entrance at Halkire City, where Jian Shang insisted on following the plan to storm its heart.

• Li Yanyan warned Jian Shang that his intervention might ignite a larger crisis and urged him to rescue Princess Dieyi quickly before withdrawing.
• Jian Shang took Li Yanyan’s hand, and she clasped it tightly as they stood together beneath the moon.
• More than a thousand allied fighters entered the death cloud surrounding Halkire City and approached Farrell Castle, the gateway to the Nether Realm.
• Chengshalina explained that they had reached the entrance, and Jian Shang laid out the plan for his forces to charge toward the Nether Realm’s center while the others drew off its defenders.
• Lilith and Kallie warned Jian Shang that the Nether Realm might be concentrating its forces for a decisive battle, but Jian Shang ordered the alliance to proceed.

Jian Shang and his companions entered the Nether Realm, where they learned its oppressive rules and reached the Three-Way River. Heavenly Star Charon demanded an exorbitant fare, and Hua Qiandai moved to attack him.

• Chengshalina, Lilith, and Kallie led the Cloth Faction into the gray vortex, and Jian Shang’s party followed after them.
• Jian Shang and his companions arrived at the Netherworld Gate and learned that the Nether Realm weakened living intruders while strengthening its Underworld Warriors.
• Jian Shang explained that the five God-Kings under his control were not living creatures and therefore were not suppressed by the Nether Realm.
• Di Wushuang and Li Yanyan warned the group about the dangers of crossing the Three-Way River, while Hua Qiandai and Chong Shiqie questioned its threat.
• Heavenly Star Charon arrived on a bone raft and demanded three thousand gold per living traveler and thirty thousand per God-King Warrior.
• Hua Qiandai stepped forward, ready to attack Heavenly Star Charon for his demand.

Jian Shang and his companions paid Heavenly Star Charon to cross the Three-Way River, then entered the First Hell, where Yingni demanded they answer for their deaths and sins. After Yingni killed the Cold Moon God-King and Li Yanyan challenged her, the judge teleported Li Yanyan to the Underworld King's Temple for judgment.

• Jian Shang paid Heavenly Star Charon with Diamond Coins, and his group crossed the Three-Way River on the bone raft.
• Jian Shang led the others through the First Hell's empty palace until Yingni of the Heavenly Hero Star appeared and demanded their names, causes of death, and sins.
• The Cold Moon God-King attacked Yingni, who bound him with Sin Entanglement and sentenced him to dismemberment, shattering his body.
• Li Yanyan revealed her Nether Blood and claimed passage, but Yingni warned her to stand down or face the Sinking Ice Hell.
• Li Yanyan struck Yingni with the Liyuan World-Swaying Qin, and Yingni used Words Become Law to teleport her to the Underworld King's Temple for judgment.

Jian Shang defeated Yingni of the Heavenly Hero Star and led his companions into the Second Prison, where the Nether Rain of Greed tortured them according to their inner greed. As they approached the Hellgate Hound, nearly a hundred figures appeared and blocked their way.

• Jian Shang used the Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip to bind Yingni of the Heavenly Hero Star, and the judgment of dismemberment destroyed her.
• Jian Shang and his companions entered the Second Prison, where Chong Shiqie explained that the gray rain punished souls burdened with greed.
• The five God-King Warriors crossed the rain unharmed, while Jian Shang, Hua Qiandai, Yu Ji, Di Wushuang, and Chong Shiqie endured different degrees of torment.
• Jian Shang carried Chong Shiqie onward as the group crossed the Bridge of White Bones and approached the Hellgate Hound.
• The Hellgate Hound swallowed departed souls as Jian Shang and his companions drew near, and nearly a hundred figures appeared to block their path.

Jian Shang and his companions encountered a powerful Nether Realm force blocking the bone bridge, and their attempt to break through was overwhelmed by the divine envoy Heavenly Hero Star Neo. Celestial Beast Star Eiffel used the Balance Nether Scales to tear Yu Ji's heart from her body, leaving Jian Shang attacking her in desperation.

• Jian Shang identified Celestial Beast Star Eiffel, Heavenly Hero Star Neo, and the other Underworld Warriors gathered with the Hellgate Hound, then ordered the God-King Warriors to force a path across the bone bridge.
• Heavenly Hero Star Neo revealed he had anticipated Jian Shang's plan, and the Cold Moon God-King's attack was shattered by Heavenly Wound Star Manluo's Hell Roar.
• The Golden-Bodied God-King struck at Heavenly Hero Star Neo, who sent him crashing into the bone bridge with Garuda's Wingbeat.
• Celestial Beast Star Eiffel played the Greed Demon Lyre and invoked Balance Nether Scales, causing Yu Ji to clutch her chest as her heart burst out of her body.
• Jian Shang roared Yu Ji's name and attacked Celestial Beast Star Eiffel with the Scarlet Firmament Divine Sword, but she remained unaffected by his sword rays.

Chapter Summary: “An Aside”

Key Plot Points and Events

• On the night of December 22, 2X12, Xiamen Island is overwhelmed by an unnatural dark cyan rainstorm that has lasted for more than a day.
• The rain transforms the prosperous city into an eerie, oppressive landscape, with poor visibility, strange lighting, and an atmosphere likened to the Netherworld.
• Authorities and military forces have reportedly been deployed because of widespread unrest and disorder. Citizens attempt to avoid the rain, though many continue working in it, leading to arguments, violence, and chaos.
• From the thirty-sixth floor of Gold Fortune Tower, Huang Tian watches the storm and the confused activity below.
• Television programs attempt to explain the phenomenon scientifically, linking it to acid rain and environmental damage while rejecting connections to the Maya Prophecy.
• The broadcast repeatedly introduces highly credentialed experts, but the host cuts them off before they can finish speaking, turning the serious coverage into something unintentionally comedic.
• Huang Tian, initially troubled by the situation, becomes amused and switches off the television.
• He then browses the internet, finding sensational theories about the apocalypse, “cyan poison rain,” the Maya Prophecy, earthquakes, sinkholes, the Earth expanding, technological breakthroughs, and the revival of ancient civilizations.

Character Development

• Huang Tian is introduced as observant, calm, and isolated, watching the crisis from a position of safety and privilege.
• His initial mood is tense and stifled, reflecting the ominous atmosphere, but his cynical sense of humor emerges when he laughs at the awkward television broadcast.
• His decision to search the internet suggests curiosity and growing interest in the unexplained rain, even though he remains skeptical of both official explanations and sensational rumors.

Significant Themes

• Apocalyptic uncertainty: The strange rain creates widespread fear and invites speculation that the world may be approaching catastrophe.
• Conflict between science and superstition: Official experts attribute the event to environmental causes, while the public connects it to prophecy, disasters, and lost civilizations.
• Social chaos under pressure: Despite the city’s prosperity, fear quickly produces arguments, violence, and disorder.
• The unreliability of information: The expert interviews are presented as authoritative but absurdly incomplete, while online reports are sensational and contradictory.
• Prosperity versus hidden danger: The glittering modern city appears powerful and successful, yet the rain reveals how fragile civilization may be.

Character Interactions

• Huang Tian has no direct personal interaction with other characters in the chapter.
• His main indirect interactions are with:
  • The television host, whose increasingly frustrated expressions amuse him.
  • The government-backed experts, whose interrupted explanations he views skeptically.
  • The anonymous online commentators and theorists whose alarming claims broaden the mystery surrounding the storm.
    Overall, the chapter establishes an ominous supernatural or apocalyptic crisis while introducing Huang Tian as a detached but perceptive observer.

Jian Shang discovered the true power of the Cosmic Star Tribulation while Celestial Beast Star Eiffel’s Balance Nether Scales targeted him. His breakthrough in understanding caused Eiffel’s heart to burst and killed her, leaving Jian Shang transformed and lost in profound insight.

• The Balance Nether Scales showed Yu Ji’s heart and the Hellgate Hound miniature in perfect balance, restoring Yu Ji and revealing that her apparent death had been an illusion.
• Jian Shang bound Eiffel with the Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip, but realized it could not affect her as he suspected Nether Realm guardians followed special absolute laws.
• Eiffel targeted Jian Shang with the Balance Demon Zither, and Jian Shang used the Cosmic Illusory God Record to transform into an identical Celestial Beast Star.
• Under the scales’ mysterious power, Jian Shang comprehended the true Cosmic Star Tribulation and learned how it absorbed, converted, or redirected power imposed on him.
• Jian Shang’s Cosmic Myriad Emperors caused his and Eiffel’s heartbeats to shift; Eiffel’s shriveled heart burst out and failed to balance on the scales, killing her and ending the nether rain.
• Jian Shang remained absorbed in insight and still looked like Eiffel as Yu Ji stared in horror at Eiffel’s corpse.

Jian Shang weighed the powers of Cosmic Star Tribulation and Cosmic Myriad Emperors before confronting the Underworld Warriors at the fallen Second Prison. He shrugged off Heavenly Hero Star Neo’s attack, but Neo then unleashed the Great Galactic Illusion and the Nether Realm’s full force against him.

• Jian Shang concluded that Cosmic Star Tribulation was better understood than Cosmic Myriad Emperors, though he could not yet judge which power was stronger.
• The Hellgate Hound vanished after Celestial Beast Star Eiffel’s death, and Jian Shang told the remaining Underworld Warriors that their nine Great Adepts faced ten opponents.
• Jian Shang ordered Yu Ji to guard the rear while Hua Qiandai and the others each took an opponent, then Neo attacked him with Garuda’s Wingbeat.
• Jian Shang walked out of Neo’s devastating strike unharmed, leading Neo and the other Underworld Warriors to assume he had become Athena’s Saint Warrior.
• Neo unleashed Divine Skill: Great Galactic Illusion, summoning the Nether Realm’s forces as its divine envoys and Underworld Warriors attacked Jian Shang.

Jian Shang deceived Heavenly Hero Star Neo into dropping his guard and killed him, allowing his companions to slaughter the Underworld Warriors blocking the bone bridge. The group reached the corridor between the Second and Third Prisons and discovered the Paradise Garden, while two hidden figures questioned Jian Shang’s strength and ordered their plans changed.

• Jian Shang let Heavenly Hero Star Neo believe Great Galactic Illusion had failed, then beheaded him and received rewards for the kill.
• The five God-King Warriors ambushed Heaven-Spirit Star Xiya, Zhe Heavenly King Genasu, Taurus Ox, Capricorn Man-Slayer, and Pisces Blood Disciple, while Di Wushuang and Hua Qiandai killed other Underworld Warriors.
• Dragon Consort Chong Shiqie killed seven Earth-Rank Underworld Warriors, and Jian Shang’s group cleared the bone bridge and hurried toward their next destination.
• Di Wushuang asked Jian Shang how he had overcome Great Galactic Illusion, and he replied that he used Cosmic Star Tribulation.
• Jian Shang and his companions reached the corridor between the Second and Third Prisons, where Yu Ji admired the Paradise Garden beyond the wall.
• Two dark-purple-armored figures observed Jian Shang’s group, questioned how he had resisted Neo’s attacks, and decided to return to the temple and search for Lady Pandora.

Jian Shang’s group sent the Mighty God-King into Paradise Garden, where it encountered a mysterious, tranquil girl amid many petrified warriors. After the God-King and Umi were petrified on leaving the garden, Yu Ji suspected the girl might be a spirit of the garden.

• Yu Ji wanted to enter Paradise Garden, but Di Wushuang warned her of its dangers, so Jian Shang sent the Mighty God-King inside instead.
• The Mighty God-King found more than a hundred stone statues, including Umi and numerous Sea Warriors, Saints, Evil Warriors, and Dark Warriors.
• The Mighty God-King encountered a mysterious girl who ignored questions and did not resist when it seized her.
• The Mighty God-King carried the girl and Umi out of Paradise Garden, but it and Umi were petrified as they crossed the boundary.
• Yu Ji’s healing technique failed to reverse the petrification, and she asked the girl whether she was a spirit of the garden.

Chapter Summary: “The Maiden Tia”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jian Shang and his companions discover a mysterious young woman in Paradise Garden, located between the Nether Realm’s Second and Third Hells.
• Di Wushuang asks whether she is Pandora, commander of the Nether Realm. The girl silently shakes her head, and the group instinctively concludes that she is not Pandora.
• When asked who she is, the girl writes ancient characters on the ground. Chong Shiqie recognizes them as the name “Tia.”
• Tia also denies being an Underworld Warrior. Because she appears calm, innocent, and non-hostile, Yu Ji argues that the group should not treat her as an enemy. Jian Shang ultimately decides to leave without provoking her.
• Tia follows them anyway, catching up despite initially remaining behind. Although the group is wary, Jian Shang allows her to continue accompanying them.
• They enter the Third Hell, Rolling Stone Hell, where enormous black stone spheres constantly roll down a slope, crushing dead souls condemned there.
• Jian Shang leads the group through the hell by repeatedly using “Sword Suppresses the World,” destroying the incoming stones and maintaining a path for everyone.
• The Third Hell’s guardian, Horned Star Rake, does not attack, apparently intimidated by Jian Shang’s overwhelming and seemingly limitless power.
• Tia continues following the group and becomes increasingly focused on Jian Shang, apparently astonished by his ability to unleash a powerful sword technique continuously for over half an hour.
• The group reaches the Fourth Hell, Dark Swamp, a vast, filthy, corrosive swamp filled with suffering souls. Di Wushuang explains that crossing it will be extremely dangerous because of the swamp’s corrosive properties and its guardian, Sinful Star Jilie, who specializes in sonic attacks and corrosive curses.

Character Developments

• Jian Shang: Demonstrates remarkable confidence and power. He remains cautious about Tia but chooses not to attack her without evidence of hostility. His continuous sword technique proves him capable of overwhelming the Third Hell’s dangers almost single-handedly.
• Tia: Is introduced as an enigmatic, silent girl with extraordinary composure. She communicates through ancient writing, identifies herself as Tia, and denies belonging to the Nether Realm’s known hierarchy. Her ability to follow the group effortlessly and her intense interest in Jian Shang suggest that she possesses hidden abilities or knowledge.
• Yu Ji: Shows her characteristic compassion and trust. She quickly assumes Tia is harmless and persuades Jian Shang not to investigate or eliminate her.
• Di Wushuang: Acts as the group’s source of information, explaining the nature of the Third and Fourth Hells and warning the others about their guardians.
• Chong Shiqie: Uses her inherited ancient knowledge to interpret Tia’s writing, reinforcing her role as the group’s link to forgotten histories and secrets.
• Horned Star Rake: Unlike a mindless guardian, he appears capable of fear and self-preservation, choosing not to confront Jian Shang’s group.

Significant Themes

• Mystery and hidden identity: Tia’s unknown origins, ancient name, silence, and inexplicable abilities create a major mystery. Her denial of being Pandora or an Underworld Warrior leaves her true nature uncertain.
• Trust versus suspicion: The group debates whether Tia should be treated as a threat. Yu Ji relies on Tia’s innocent demeanor, while Jian Shang remains cautious without resorting to unnecessary violence.
• Overwhelming power: Jian Shang’s sustained use of Sword Suppresses the World establishes him as an extraordinary force, strong enough to frighten even Nether Realm guardians.
• The horrors of punishment: Rolling Stone Hell and Dark Swamp embody eternal torment based on earthly sins such as greed, wastefulness, discontent, and rage.
• Compassion in an inhuman realm: Yu Ji’s sympathy toward Tia contrasts with the brutal environment of the Nether Realm and prevents the group from responding to the mysterious girl with immediate violence.

Character Interactions

• Di Wushuang directly questions Tia about being Pandora, while Jian Shang and the others silently assess whether she is dangerous.
• Chong Shiqie challenges Tia to identify herself and recognizes the ancient writing she produces.
• Yu Ji warmly addresses Tia as “little sister,” accepts her apparent harmlessness, and argues against treating her as an enemy.
• Jian Shang attempts to leave Tia behind by taking Yu Ji with him, anticipating Yu Ji’s compassion, but Tia follows the group regardless.
• Di Wushuang repeatedly warns the party about the dangers ahead, while Jian Shang leads and protects them.
• Tia silently observes Jian Shang throughout their journey, becoming increasingly intrigued by the scale and endurance of his power.

Summary: “Overwhelming Momentum”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jian Shang’s group reaches the Dark Swamp and discovers that flying is impossible because of its corrosive surface and strange buoyancy. Swimming across would be extremely dangerous, especially for Hua Qiandai, Yu Ji, and the other women.
• Jian Shang asks the mysterious Tia for help. She petrifies a broad path across the swamp, revealing that she possesses extraordinary power and knowledge of the Nether Realm. However, the petrified path is rapidly corroded and disappears.
• Yu Ji proposes sustaining Tia’s power so she can continue petrifying the swamp, but Tia refuses. Chong Shiqie then freezes a path with her water-based technique, though her ice also melts away quickly. Jian Shang uses the Water God Art to create another temporary path.
• The group realizes that alternating between Chong Shiqie, Jian Shang, and the Cold Moon God-King will allow them to cross safely. Yu Ji supports them, while the others remain alert for attacks.
• An Underworld Warrior, Sinful Star Jilie, triggers a massive wave of swamp water and mud in an attempt to attack them. Jian Shang freezes and disperses the wave, while Chong Shiqie, Yu Ji, Hua Qiandai, and Di Wushuang help the group advance rapidly.
• Jilie briefly appears but retreats into the swamp instead of fighting directly. Jian Shang warns everyone to guard against attacks from below, but the enemy does not strike again.
• After sustained coordination, the group successfully crosses the Dark Swamp and reaches the opposite shore.
• They then encounter Netherfire Purgatory, the fifth prison of the Nether Realm, and learn about the dangerous prisons ahead: Blood Pool Hell, Forest Nether Prison, Great Blood Waterfall, and Endless Purgatory.
• Despite the dangers, the group proceeds with overwhelming momentum. Because the Underworld Warriors and prison guardians offer little resistance after their earlier encounter, Jian Shang’s party passes several checkpoints in succession.

Character Developments

• Jian Shang demonstrates leadership, adaptability, and growing confidence. He organizes the crossing, combines multiple techniques, protects the group from the swamp’s attack, and recognizes that Tia’s strength is far beyond what she reveals.
• Tia remains enigmatic and emotionally detached. Her petrification ability is vastly more powerful and durable than Jian Shang’s or Chong Shiqie’s ice techniques, suggesting an extraordinary cultivation level and possibly a connection to Paradise Garden or the Nether Realm. She helps indirectly but refuses to actively carry the group across.
• Chong Shiqie takes a central combat and support role. She creates the first usable ice path, alternates with Jian Shang during the crossing, and shows unusual consideration by reassuring him about the quality of his power.
• Yu Ji acts as a cooperative support figure, offering to sustain Tia’s power and later using her zither to assist the group’s advance and cut through the swamp’s chaotic energy.
• Hua Qiandai and Di Wushuang contribute directly to combat, destroying the frozen swamp wave and helping defend the group.
• Sinful Star Jilie is introduced as a dangerous but cautious Underworld Warrior. Although he launches a surprise attack, he retreats rather than confront Jian Shang’s group directly.

Significant Themes

• Cooperation and coordinated strength: No single technique can maintain a path across the Dark Swamp for long. Success depends on the group alternating abilities and supporting one another.
• Hidden power and mystery: Tia’s abilities reveal that appearances and known classifications are unreliable. Her true identity, cultivation, and motives remain unclear.
• Leadership under pressure: Jian Shang repeatedly evaluates dangers, issues tactical orders, and keeps the group moving despite environmental hazards and enemy threats.
• Overwhelming momentum: Once the group survives the Dark Swamp, their confidence and coordination allow them to break through successive Nether Realm obstacles with little resistance.
• The Nether Realm as a system of punishment: The descriptions of the prisons emphasize a world structured around eternal suffering, with each region embodying different forms of sin and torment.
• Caution amid strength: Although the group possesses overwhelming power, Jian Shang continues warning them against ambushes and unknown threats, particularly from beneath the swamp.

Character Interactions

• Jian Shang cautiously pressures Tia to prove her usefulness, exposing the group’s distrust of her.
• Yu Ji appeals directly to Tia and offers assistance, but Tia’s refusal reinforces her independence and secrecy.
• Chong Shiqie supports Jian Shang emotionally by explaining that his technique is impressive despite his lower cultivation realm.
• Jian Shang, Chong Shiqie, and the Cold Moon God-King work in rotation to maintain the ice path, while Yu Ji, Hua Qiandai, and Di Wushuang provide support and defense.
• Jian Shang’s warnings unite the group around a disciplined battle strategy, allowing them to repel Jilie’s ambush and cross the swamp safely.

Jian Shang’s party reached the Sky Chief Palace, where Di Wushuang warned that its formidable guardian and gathered adepts made an assault too dangerous. After Di Wushuang received an urgent summons, Jian Shang agreed to wait for the Cloth Faction while warning that he would ally with the Nether Realm if it broke its agreement to return Princess Dieyi and Consort Qin.

• Jian Shang and his companions reached the Sky Chief Palace in the Nether Realm’s Fourth Garden and sensed many powerful adepts inside.
• Di Wushuang explained that Sky Chief Kairos possessed fearsome powers over time, space, and memory, and warned that he had not appeared since the first generation.
• Chong Shiqie realized that the Sky Chief Star might have appeared, while Jian Shang recognized that the forces inside the palace made an attack perilous.
• Di Wushuang received an urgent summons in the real world, and Jian Shang told her to go, saying he would wait for her return.
• Jian Shang ordered his companions to wait for the Cloth Faction and said they would cooperate with the Nether Realm if the faction failed to honor its agreement.

The factions gathered at the Nether Realm’s final destination, Sky Chief Palace, and compared their losses and encounters. Di Wushuang then warned Jian Shang that a vast vampire army was advancing toward Eastern Europe, raising the possibility of an undead invasion.

• Chengshalina arrived with the surviving Athena Camp members, reported Gemini Mark’s death, and confirmed they had found no trace of Princess Dieyi.
• Chengshalina suspected Tia was Pandora, but Tia denied it; Diro later recognized her as someone who had been in the cursed Paradise Garden.
• The Sea Emperor, Evil Warrior, and Dark factions arrived, and Hua Qiandai accused the Cloth Faction of cowardice for arriving late.
• The factions recounted their battles in the Nether Realm, including the Huan Kingdom’s losses in Serpent Hell and the Athena Camp’s losses in the Paradise Garden.
• Di Wushuang secretly told Jian Shang that vampires had swept through Western Europe and a huge army was heading toward Eastern Europe, prompting him to suspect an impending undead storm.

After learning that the Dark Council’s eastward advance was linked to a growing Undead Alliance, Jian Shang decided to force the Nether Realm to release Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi before withdrawing from Eastern Europe. He led his allies into the Sky Chief Palace and threatened the Nether Realm with a battle that would cripple both sides.

• Di Wushuang warned Jian Shang that the Dark Council and other undead powers were expanding, making him a likely target if he remained in Eastern Europe.
• Jian Shang gave the Cloth Faction a choice between joining his assault on the Nether Realm or letting the Huan Kingdom act alone to rescue Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi.
• Jian Shang summoned Golden Body, Silver Head, Copper Skin, and Cold Moon and led his companions toward the Sky Chief Palace, while Di Wushuang inferred that he planned to bluff the Nether Realm into surrendering the captives.
• Jian Shang and the others entered the Sky Chief Palace and faced a Nether Realm army whose forces greatly outnumbered theirs.
• Chengshalina challenged Heavenly Chief Kairos and Dharma about Pandora’s absence, but the Underworld Warriors showed no sign of recognizing Tia.
• Jian Shang demanded the release of Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi and gave the Nether Realm thirty breaths to decide, threatening mutual devastation.

The Goddess of Wisdom launched an attack before the Huan King and the Nether Realm could reach an agreement, triggering a battle between the Cloth Faction and the Nether Realm. Jian Shang was caught between rescuing Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi and watching the two sides tear each other apart, and the fighting began to engulf Sky Chief Hall.

• Jian Shang and the assembled leaders waited as the Nether Realm weighed whether to surrender Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi or fight.
• Chengshalina attacked Heavenly Chief Kairos with War Storm, forcing Kairos to counter with Alternate-Dimensional Space.
• Rotra attacked Dharma while Lilith and Heavenly Demon Kui unleashed their divine skills against each other.
• The Cloth Warriors and Underworld Warriors launched a host of attacks, and their clashes wrecked Sky Chief Hall and devastated fighters caught nearby.
• Jian Shang cursed Chengshalina's scheme but recognized he could not stand aside while the Cloth Faction was destroyed.
• Heavenly Micro Star attacked Jian Shang with Node Shatter.

Jian Shang killed Heavenly Micro Star and joined the battle against the Underworld Warriors, with his Cosmic Star Tribulation letting him withstand their attacks as he advanced through Sky Chief Hall. Just as the fighting escalated, Lady Pandora and four companions arrived and asked him to show mercy.

• Jian Shang turned Heavenly Micro Star’s explosive attacks aside with the Cosmic Star Tribulation, then killed him with Sword Points at the Human Sovereign and received system rewards.
• Jian Shang ordered the Cloth Warriors to kill, and Hua Qiandai, Chong Shiqie, Di Wushuang, and the four elite God-King Warriors engaged the Heaven-Rank Underworld Warriors.
• Heavenly Sword Star struck Jian Shang with the Heavenly Sword, but Jian Shang blocked the blow and wounded him with Heaven-Splitting Claw.
• Heavenly Might Star, Sky Star, and Heaven-Full Star attacked Jian Shang with binding, space-shattering, and meteor techniques, but he continued advancing while enduring their assaults.
• A woman shouted for the fighting to stop as five powerful figures arrived at Sky Chief Hall, and the Underworld Warriors greeted the black-robed Lady Pandora.

Pandora returned to the Nether Realm’s confrontation with Jian Shang and tried to negotiate for an alliance, but he demanded that Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi be released. After Jian Shang swiftly wounded a vampire who attacked him, Pandora summoned Hypnos and Thanatos, leaving the opposing forces facing two true gods.

• Pandora arrived and halted the battle, then learned from Heavenly Chief Kairos what had happened during her absence.
• Jian Shang demanded that Pandora hand over Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi, while Carlos Ventrue Chevalier Carlen introduced himself and Di Wushuang identified the vampires.
• Prince Grot attacked Jian Shang, but Jian Shang endured his strikes and severed his arm with the Scarlet Firmament Divine Sword before Grot rapidly healed.
• Pandora questioned whether Jian Shang would risk a fight, but he refused to compromise and said the Nether Realm’s offer of an alliance had come too late.
• Pandora reaffirmed her offer of an alliance and summoned Hypnos and Thanatos, the twin gods of the Nether Realm.

Jian Shang faced the Nether Realm and the Blood Princes over Consort Qin and Princess Dieyi, demonstrating overwhelming power before accepting a trial by the twin gods. The dream gods revealed that both captives were imprisoned in separate dream realms, leaving Jian Shang to learn their fate and seek their release.

• Chengshalina and Di Wushuang realized the Nether Realm and its allies vastly outnumbered them, but Jian Shang refused to retreat and attacked the Blood Princes with a Buddhist palm strike.
• Jian Shang badly injured Mokavi Mara and wounded the other Blood Princes, while Yu Ji secretly restored his depleted true qi.
• Tia spoke up to urge an end to the conflict, and Pandora offered to release one captive for each strike Jian Shang endured from the twin gods.
• Jian Shang accepted Pandora's terms, and the four dream gods appeared and showed Princess Dieyi and Consort Qin imprisoned in separate dream realms.