Chapter Summaries

Hero Civilization’s forces disrupted the Immortal-God Alliance and helped Great Huan hold the wider battlefield, but the alliance then concentrated its strongest warships and adepts on the Tribulation Purple Lotus to target Xiao Ying. As enemies closed in and Great Huan’s defenders were pinned down, Xiao Ying ordered the Demon-Scaled Witch Guards to respond.

• Calamity God Emperor Arthas and Ghost Marquis Guo Jia led Hero Civilization’s forces in harrying the alliance, capturing or destroying many immortal warships and easing pressure on Great Huan.
• The Immortal-God Alliance ordered its earth-grade middle-tier and stronger warships, along with late King Realm and stronger adepts, to attack the Tribulation Purple Lotus and kill or capture Xiao Ying.
• The alliance’s attackers abandoned their pursuits of Great Huan’s formations and advanced toward the Tribulation Purple Lotus, throwing Great Huan’s defense into disarray.
• Zhao Yun coordinated Li Tong, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu’s legions with other troops, broke through in command ability, and formed a massive silver dragon that tore open the Thousand-Buddha Warship’s barrier.
• Xiao Ying ordered the three thousand Demon-Scaled Witch Guards to defend the Tribulation Purple Lotus as enemy forces closed in and Great Huan’s Emperor Realm adepts were pinned down.

Xiao Ying and the Tribulation Purple Lotus came under attack, but Lü Zhi used the Heaven-Destroying Finger to drive off the Holy War God Emperor and protect him. Xiao Ying then ordered the Demon-Scaled Witch Guards to attack with Great Huan’s Demonic Scales Fighters as the battle continued.

• Xiao Ying ordered the three thousand Demon-Scaled Witch Guards to defend the Tribulation Purple Lotus, and his Imperial Avatar repelled the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor’s strike.
• The Holy War God Emperor arrived and demanded that the other attackers clear the way so he could face Xiao Ying.
• Shi Nanqing offered to intervene, but Lü Zhi challenged the Holy War God Emperor and used the Heaven-Destroying Finger to make him flee.
• Xiao Ying recognized the cost Lü Zhi had paid, while Yu Ji supported her as she stood proudly before the watching factions.
• Xiao Ying ordered the Demon-Scaled Witch Guards to kill, and thousands of Demonic Scales Fighters appeared beside them.

The Great Huan Era unleashed its costly Demon-Scale Fleet against the approaching enemy ships, with War Immortal Han Xin directing the attack. The fleet shattered the Sea-Covering Demon Emperor’s advance and crippled or destroyed numerous warships, including the Heaven-Peng Demon Ship, while the remaining Demon-Scaled Witch Guards stayed behind to protect Xiao Ying.

• Xiao Ying revealed the Demon-Scale Fleet and kept the 2,500 guards in Demonic-Scale Sacred Garments around the Heaven-Supporting Emperor Pagoda.
• War Immortal Han Xin took command of the 500 Demonic Scales Fighters and ordered them to prioritize the immortal ships.
• The Demonic Scales Fighters pierced the Sea-Covering Demon Emperor’s Grand Overturning Technique and blasted his dragon whale manifestation aside.
• Three squads combined their attack to break through the Heaven-Peng Demon Ship’s defenses, and four more squads crippled it with further strikes.
• The Demon-Scale Fleet tore apart three Upper-Mid Earth-Grade Immortal Warships, battered more than ten other ships, and threw the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode into chaos.

The Demon-Scale Fleet pinned down much of the Immortal-God Alliance’s force, leaving four Emperor Realm figures to confront Xiao Ying on the Tribulation Purple Lotus. After the Fate Immortal Emperor failed to persuade the fighting to stop, the four attackers committed to an assault, led by the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor.

• Five hundred Demon-Scaled Witch Guards used their Demonic Scales Fighters to tie down six Heaven-Grade Immortal Battleships and numerous Earth Grade battleships.
• The Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor, the Sea-Covering Demon Emperor, the Wondrous Enlightenment Buddha Emperor, and the Void-Illuminating God Emperor circled the Tribulation Purple Lotus, wary of Xiao Ying’s treasures and remaining forces.
• The Fate Immortal Emperor urged the Blackwater Profound Emperor and the Chaos Demon Emperor to stop fighting, but neither responded.
• The Blackwater Profound Emperor attacked with Great Devouring Art: Black Vortex, and the Fate Immortal Emperor neutralized it while keeping him from reaching the Tribulation Purple Lotus.
• The four Emperor Realm figures charged the Tribulation Purple Lotus, and the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor opened with Great Giant Strength Art: Mountain Collision.

The Tribulation Purple Lotus used the Karmic Fire Thunder Prison and the Thunder-Prison Ba Serpent to suppress the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor. The Immortal-God Alliance renewed its assault, but the Ba Serpent’s emergence made its leaders hesitate again.

• Xiao Ying unleashed the Karmic Fire Thunder Prison from the Tribulation Purple Lotus, sending its jailers and prisoners against the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor.
• The Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor charged through the prison’s forces but was overwhelmed by their numbers.
• The Thunder-Prison Ba Serpent swallowed the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor and carried him into the Tribulation Purple Lotus, where the prison suppressed him.
• The Sea-Covering Demon Emperor, Wondrous Enlightenment Buddha Emperor, and Void-Illuminating God Emperor hesitated to approach the Lotus after seeing the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor’s fate.
• The Immortal-God Alliance resumed its attack, and the Void-Illuminating God Emperor used Light of Divine Illumination to purify black mist and convert some prisoners.
• The Thunder-Prison Ba Serpent emerged from the Purple Lotus, confirming the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor had been suppressed and making the Void-Illuminating God Emperor and the other attackers hesitate.

The Immortal-God Alliance’s Jade Emperor broke the battle’s unspoken restraint, and the Dragon Mulberry Patriarch unleashed devastating attacks in response. As the fight spiraled into chaos, the Golden Sea Dragon rushed to aid the wounded Patriarch, severing Great Huan’s route both forward and home.

• The Jade Emperor used Great Origin-Returning Art: All Things Purified, erasing millions of Great Huan’s forces in a vast area of the battlefield.
• The Dragon Mulberry Patriarch unleashed Great Eternal Life Art: Life’s Elegy, killing hundreds of thousands and damaging the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Mountain and numerous warships.
• Great Huan forces charged into the breached Heaven-Piercing Ancient Mountain to try to capture it.
• The Genesis God Emperor struck the Dragon Mulberry Giant Tree with Great Genesis Art: Hand of Destruction, splitting its trunk while the Dragon Mulberry Patriarch fought two Supreme Rulers.
• The Golden Sea Dragon broke away from the Heaven-Supporting Emperor Pagoda and charged toward the Dragon Mulberry Patriarch, plowing through ships and fighters.
• The Golden Sea Dragon’s departure caused the Other Shore Golden Bridge to vanish, leaving most of Great Huan’s forces without a route to advance or return to Nine-Dragon Island.

Xiao Ying ordered Great Huan’s forces to attack the Immortal-God Alliance’s warships as the battle spiraled out of control and its giant warriors suffered heavy losses. He detonated the Annihilation Dharma Wheel to break the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode’s defenses, then sent the Tribulation Purple Lotus and its passengers to seize the ship while he stayed behind.

• Xiao Ying ordered the Golden Sea Dragon and Great Huan’s giant demons and witches to target enemy warships, and they rampaged through the Immortal-God Alliance’s ranks.
• Blood Venerating Island’s Immortal Emperor Xue Luo killed Zhu Yan, a Great Severing Technique killed the Azure-Heaven Demon Emperor, and many other Great Huan fighters fell under enemy attacks.
• The Genesis God Emperor attacked the wounded Dragon Mulberry Patriarch while the Jade Emperor renewed his assault on the Tribulation Purple Lotus, and Xiao Ying told the women around him to flee if they could.
• Xiao Ying used the Spirit-Detonating Technique to destroy the Annihilation Dharma Wheel, tearing through the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode’s protective barrier and devastating its forces.
• Xiao Ying sent the Tribulation Purple Lotus and its passengers to seize the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode, while the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor and other Great Huan fighters detonated spirit treasures to confront their pursuers.

Xiao Ying sacrificed several Pangu Spirit Treasures to protect the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode and confront the Immortal-God Alliance, while the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor revealed his new True Spirit power and urged others to join Great Huan. After Xiao Ying’s Merit Altar struck the Truth God Emperor with a devastating karmic backlash, he prepared to fight with his remaining treasures.

• The Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor emerged from the Tribulation Purple Lotus and held off the pursuing Great Adepts while Xiao Ying detonated two Pangu Spirit Treasures to clear a path for the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode.
• The Tribulation Purple Lotus entered the Cloudfloat Immortal Abode, and its guards, consorts, and prisoners joined the battle while Xiao Ying urged the women to stay safe and secure the abode.
• The Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor declared that he had no reason to remain the alliance’s pawn and invited the Sea-Covering Demon Emperor to submit to Great Huan in exchange for a chance to reach the True Spirit realm.
• The Truth God Emperor unleashed the Grand Truth Art, but Xiao Ying detonated the Merit Altar to block it and inflicted a massive karmic backlash on the Truth God Emperor.
• Xiao Ying summoned numerous Pangu Spirit Treasures, essence treasures, and essence artifacts as he challenged his enemies to fight.

Xiao Ying used the threat of treasure detonations and the promise of bloodline advancement to draw Demon Race cultivators away from the Immortal-God Alliance. The Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor and Life-Bearing Witch Emperor then appeared with the Barbarian Venerable Alliance, openly supporting Great Huan as the battle escalated.

• Xiao Ying invited sincere cultivators to enter the Lightning Prison for a bloodline advancement ritual, and the Sea-Covering Demon Emperor accepted.
• The Nine-Headed Jia Serpent and more than a hundred figures joined Great Huan, while hundreds of thousands of cultivators and many warships left the Immortal-God Alliance.
• The Undying Ghost Emperor attacked, but the Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor shattered his ghostly hand with the Great Spell-Breaking Art and warned him to stop.
• The Life-Bearing Witch Emperor healed Great Huan's wounded and revived the dead with the Great Life Art.
• Ten Witch Emperors and ten Earth-Grade Immortal Warships arrived as the Barbarian Venerable Alliance openly backed Great Huan.

Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor and the Barbarian Venerable Alliance intervened to halt the fighting, and both sides regrouped to assess their forces. The Great Huan Faction emerged nearly even with the Immortal-God Alliance, but a neutral contingent began advancing toward it, renewing the threat of battle.

• Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor challenged the Undying Ghost Emperor, and Heavenly Word Witch Emperor used his Great Roaring Art to stop much of the fighting.
• The armies separated around Xiao Ying, then spent hours regrouping, repairing warships, and treating the wounded.
• Life-Bearing Witch Emperor rapidly healed Dragon Mulberry Patriarch and other badly injured Great Adepts.
• The Immortal-God Alliance recognized that the Great Huan Faction’s forces were nearly equal in strength, and both camps settled into a stalemate.
• Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor urged Xiao Ying to leave, but a voice questioned the Barbarian Venerable Alliance’s motives as more than half of the neutral camp advanced toward the Great Huan Faction.

The Immortal-God Alliance brought concealed Supreme Rulers and fleets into the battle, while the Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor urged the remaining neutral forces to support Great Huan. The Witch Clan fleet joined Great Huan, turning the conflict into a war between races, but the Ultimate Immortal Venerable arrived and demanded the Heavenly Emperor Staff or the Tribulation Purple Lotus.

• The Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor declared Xiao Ying a Heaven-Grade High Priest and defended the Barbarian Venerable Alliance’s support for Great Huan.
• The Genesis God Emperor revealed six Supreme Rulers and more than a dozen Emperor Realm great adepts, while hostile neutral fleets advanced on Great Huan.
• The Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor appealed to the remaining neutral forces, but the World-Crossing Buddha Emperor warned them not to join Great Huan.
• The Heaven-Given Bone Battleship and Witch Clan warships moved to support Great Huan, while most of the remaining Demon and other fleets withdrew.
• The Ultimate Immortal Venerable appeared and demanded that Great Huan surrender the Heavenly Emperor Staff or the Tribulation Purple Lotus.

Xiao Ying refused the enemy faction’s demand to surrender the Heavenly Emperor Staff or Tribulation Purple Lotus, and the Ultimate Immortal Venerable launched an attack. The two fleets began their final battle, with Grand Commandant Han Xin ordering the Great Huan warships to ram the enemy.

• The Ultimate Immortal Venerable demanded that Xiao Ying give up the Heavenly Emperor Staff or Tribulation Purple Lotus, but Xiao Ying refused to compromise or let them fall into enemy hands.
• The Ultimate Immortal Venerable attacked with his Ultimate Finger, and fourteen Great Huan warships combined their firepower to stop the strike.
• Both factions opened fire with their immortal warships as their fleets advanced toward each other in the Outer Void.
• Fifty Demon-Scale Fleet detachments and hundreds of Great Huan legions deployed to support Great Huan’s ships.
• As the fleets closed to ramming distance, Grand Commandant Han Xin ordered the Great Huan warships to charge into the enemy.

The Great Huan Faction won the opening clash of the warships, but both sides suffered heavy losses as the battle turned into a rout of the Immortal-God Alliance. Xiao Ying confronted the Ultimate Immortal Venerable, declared he was willing to die, and launched a mass attack with his treasures.

• Han Xin ordered the Great Huan warships to ram the enemy fleet, and their overloaded ships crippled seven opposing Heaven-Grade battleships at the cost of heavy casualties.
• The Great Huan Demon-Scale Fleets and legion formations exploited the wreckage zone to overwhelm the Immortal-God Alliance's forces.
• Xiao Ying asked the Ultimate Immortal Venerable whether this devastation was what he wanted, and the Venerable confirmed that the alliance sought Great Huan's destruction because Xiao Ying would not surrender its ambitions.
• Xiao Ying declared that he could afford to lose and was not afraid to die, then unleashed his treasures after completing their ritual refinement for the Spirit-Detonating Technique.
• Xiao Ying roared "World destruction!" and sent the World-Destroying Black Lotus and a host of other treasures toward the enemy formation.

Xiao Ying risked his life by detonating dozens of treasures, devastating the Immortal-God Alliance and shifting the balance of the Great Adepts' battle. As Great Huan launched a counterattack, the Ultimate Immortal Venerable struck back, and the Great Huan Faction's three Supreme Rulers joined forces to stop him.

• Xiao Ying used the Spirit-Detonating Technique to destroy more than twenty Essence Artifacts and nine Essence Treasures, killing nearly half the Immortal-God Alliance's Great Adepts and injuring most of the survivors.
• The World-Destroying Black Lotus and other Pangu Spirit Treasures returned to Xiao Ying, who was left weakened until Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Life-Bearing Witch Emperor restored him.
• The Fate Immortal Emperor ordered Great Huan's Great Adepts to attack the wounded enemy forces.
• The Ultimate Immortal Venerable unleashed the Ultimate Palm of the Great Annihilation Art, killing and injuring cultivators across the battlefield.
• The Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor, the Fate Immortal Emperor, and the Dragon Mulberry Patriarch joined forces to withstand the Ultimate Immortal Venerable's strike.

The Great Huan Faction struggled to hold back the Immortal-God Alliance’s Supreme Rulers as the battle threatened to overwhelm its forces. With Immortal Emperor Nuwa’s help, Xiao Ying broke the isolation around him and shattered the Paradise God Emperor’s attack, but the wider battle remained unresolved.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches trapped the Slaughter Demon Emperor in the Twelve-Capital Gods-and-Devils Baleful Formation, while the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation and Limitless Life-and-Death Demon Domain Formation contained the Senluo Ghost Emperor and Three-Life Buddha Emperor.
• The Great Huan Faction’s remaining forces struggled to hold back the Alliance’s Supreme Rulers, and the Blackwater Profound Emperor and Truth God Emperor exposed Xiao Ying to the Paradise God Emperor’s attack.
• Battle Immortal Emperor Shi Nanqing could not cross the Truth God Emperor’s isolation, and Xiao Ying realized that none of his available defenses could withstand the incoming strike.
• Immortal Emperor Nuwa returned to Xiao Ying and reminded him of the Evil Moon Legend, allowing him to borrow her power and cleave Divine Realm Paradise apart with the Dao-Splitting Golden Blade and Killing Blade.
• Xiao Ying summoned the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Aspect and struck with the Heavenly Emperor Staff, shattering Divine Realm Paradise.

Xiao Ying and his allies killed the Paradise God Emperor, then the Blue Sky Empress unleashed a devastating attack across the battlefield. The Ultimate Immortal Venerable arrived with the Ultimate Seal and targeted the Blue Sky Empress, while Immortal Emperor Nuwa stepped in front of the attack and reminded Xiao Ying of the Evil Moon Legend.

• Xiao Ying struck the Paradise God Emperor with the Heavenly Emperor Staff, and the Blue Sky Empress and Immortal Emperor Nuwa helped destroy him.
• Xiao Ying handed the Heavenly Emperor Staff to Immortal Emperor Nuwa after she asked to use it.
• The Blue Sky Empress merged with her Mystifying Mermaid Dharma Aspect and unleashed the Mystifying Voice, inflicting widespread casualties and chaos on the Immortal-God Alliance.
• The Ultimate Immortal Venerable descended and attacked the Blue Sky Empress with the Ultimate Palm of the Great Annihilation Art, reinforced by the Ultimate Seal.
• Immortal Emperor Nuwa stepped before the Ultimate Seal and told Xiao Ying to remember the Evil Moon Legend.

Immortal Emperor Nuwa transformed herself into a Heavenly Emperor and struck the Ultimate Immortal Venerable with the Heavenly Emperor Staff, leaving his fate uncertain. As Nuwa disintegrated, Xiao Ying used Evil Moon Legend to sacrifice nine Imperial Avatars and preserve her lifeless remains.

• Immortal Emperor Nuwa invoked Evil Moon Legend and used the Heavenly Emperor Staff to transform into a true Heavenly Emperor.
• Nuwa clashed with the Ultimate Immortal Venerable, leaving the Ultimate Seal damaged and purple-gold blood behind while his fate remained unknown.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Life-Bearing Witch Emperor tried to restore Nuwa as her body began crumbling into ash.
• Xiao Ying used Evil Moon Legend to share the disintegration, sacrificing his nine Imperial Avatars and stopping Nuwa from completely vanishing.
• Nuwa's serpent-tailed form remained as a lifeless object, and Xiao Ying realized she had truly died.

Chapter Summary

• Key events: Yan Yun confronts the wealthy young masters at the gathering while openly eyeing Meng Yazhi. Li Anshan accuses him of trying to use his compensation from being abandoned by the Li family to pursue her, arguing that Yan Yun’s offer is far too small. Yan Yun realizes the Li Family publicized the compensation to prevent him from retracting his promise.
• Competition among prodigals: Yan Yun boasts that, as Qing Province’s greatest prodigal, money is meaningless to him. Du Yifan counters by describing how he once gambled away several brothels, restaurants, an inn, and shops. Wu Qifu claims to have lost an entire city—his father’s fief—in a single wager. Li Anshan surpasses them all by boasting that his actions led to his father losing a Second-Rank Marquis title after Li Anshan offended Princess Qiaobo. Because his grandfather is the Xia King, the family could afford the loss.
• Character developments: Yan Yun presents himself as arrogant and extravagant, but he is increasingly stunned by the other young masters’ outrageous behavior. Li Anshan, Du Yifan, and Wu Qifu reveal themselves as unapologetic, competitive wastrels who take pride in their immense losses rather than feeling shame. Meng Yazhi’s unusually forceful demeanor also draws the attention and admiration of the young men present.
• Character interactions: Li Anshan mocks Yan Yun and challenges his qualifications as a prodigal. Yan Yun responds by belittling the others, triggering a contest of increasingly absurd gambling achievements. The exchange becomes a battle of pride, with each young master trying to prove that he is more extravagant and reckless than the rest.
• Themes: The chapter satirizes extreme wealth, inherited privilege, and decadent aristocratic culture. It presents prodigality as a warped form of status competition, where ruining fortunes, estates, and titles becomes a source of honor. The ending reflects on how even extravagance requires exceptional resources and skill, portraying these men as products of material excess and distorted values.

After Nuwa’s sacrifice left the Ultimate Immortal Venerable missing, Xiao Ying weighed whether to continue the battle as both sides hesitated. He chose to fight, killing a Tianjia Devil Emperor and attacking another Emperor Realm opponent.

• Nuwa’s counterattack devastated the Immortal-God Alliance, killed the Paradise God Emperor, and left the Ultimate Immortal Venerable severely wounded and missing.
• Xiao Ying asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Life-Bearing Witch Emperor about Nuwa, but they could not explain what had happened to her.
• As both sides considered ending the battle, Xiao Ying decided to continue fighting and called back his four Sacred Concealment Clones.
• Xiao Ying used the Heavenly Emperor Staff to kill a middle-stage Tianjia Devil Emperor with a single strike.
• Xiao Ying immediately attacked a middle-stage lion Demon Emperor with the Imperial Fist Manual and the Heavenly Emperor Staff.

Xiao Ying slaughtered his way to the Half-Step Immortal Emperor realm as Great Huan gained the upper hand against the Immortal-God Alliance. The Ninefold Pure Immortal Venerable then appeared with the Ninefold Pure Pagoda and unleashed a deadly strike at Xiao Ying.

• Xiao Ying and the Great Huan forces resumed their assault, increasingly suppressing the Immortal-God Alliance on both battlefields.
• Over roughly a day of fighting, Xiao Ying killed dozens of Emperor Realm opponents and wounded the Slaughter Demon Emperor and Azurewood Demon Emperor, reaching the Half-Step Immortal Emperor realm.
• The Ninefold Pure Immortal Venerable arrived and attacked Xiao Ying with the Ninefold Pure Pagoda's primordial purple qi.
• The Fate Immortal Emperor, Blue Sky Empress, Hongjun, and the Life-Bearing Witch Emperor tried to stop the attack, but their techniques failed to impede the pagoda.
• Xiao Ying met the strike with the Heavenly Emperor Staff and Heavenly Emperor's Wrath.