Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen asked Ren and Xuanming for Death Qi, souls, and corpses to strengthen the Undead Race against the Demon Race. He revealed that Ren’s Trash Station contained the Death Qi and remains of countless destroyed worlds, offering a vast new source of power for the war.

• Jiang Chen admitted that the Undead Race was losing ground to the Demon Race and chose to keep fighting despite the cost.
• Jiang Chen asked Ren for endless Death Qi and corpses, and proposed drawing Death Qi and souls from the Wu Clan’s Underworld.
• Xuanming agreed to send someone through the Sky Ranking to transfer the Underworld’s Death Qi, Hell’s souls, bones, and corpses into the Death Palace.
• Jiang Chen revealed to Ren that the Trash Station held Death Qi, undead, and corpses gathered from worlds Ren had destroyed.
• Jiang Chen asked Ren to channel the Trash Station’s reserves through the Sky Ranking into the Death Palace, and Ren realized how many worlds and lives had accumulated there.

Ren released the Trash Station’s vast reserves of Death Qi and skeletons to Jiang Chen, who used them to summon an enormous Undead army on the Northern Jambudvipa battlefield. Tens of billions of new troops emerged, turning the Demon Race’s numerical advantage against them as the battle resumed.

• Ren connected to the Trash Station and sent its accumulated Death Qi and skeletons through the Sky Ranking to Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the influx in the Death Palace, then emerged onto the battlefield and unleashed his Death Qi.
• Jiang Chen proclaimed himself the ancestor of the Undead and called the Undead of the Primordial World to awaken and fight.
• Death Qi erupted across Northern Jambudvipa as skeletons, ghosts, and zombies formed and charged toward the Demon Race.
• Tens of billions of Undead appeared, shifting the numerical advantage back to Jiang Chen’s forces.

Jiang Chen unleashed an immense undead army that overwhelmed the Demon Race and grew stronger as fallen undead were consumed. As Dijun used the war to probe his rivals and force a transaction with Jiang Chen, he awakened a golden-robed Daoist and sent him to deal with Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen’s undead multiplied across Northern Jambudvipa, surrounding the Demon Race and strengthening as they consumed their fallen.
• Bai Ze warned Dijun that the undead could grow stronger during the battle, but Dijun ordered the Demon Race to keep fighting and endure the trial.
• Dijun and a mysterious figure discussed Taiyi and Kunpeng’s likely interference, and Dijun revealed he intended to use the war to probe his rivals and secure a transaction with Jiang Chen.
• Dijun insisted Jiang Chen had to accept the deal because he lacked equal strength, and said the war would temper Jiang Chen’s heart as well as his body.
• Dijun awakened a golden-robed Daoist, who agreed to deal with Jiang Chen and vanished from the palace.

Jiang Chen unleashed an Undead Tide across Northern Jambudvipa, forcing the Demon Race to answer with formations that took the shapes of Demon Emperors and Sages. As the armies fought across the land and sky, heat and firelight began pushing back the darkness of Death Qi.

• Jiang Chen released Death Qi across Northern Jambudvipa and summoned countless Undead from the five races.
• The Skeleton, Ghost, Yaksha, Rakshasa, and Zombie races unleashed powerful combined attacks against the Demon Race.
• Bai Ze ordered the Demon army to form the Demon Sage Grand Formation and the Demon Emperor Grand Formation.
• Demon Soldiers and Generals formed enormous Demon Emperor and Demon Sage phantoms, which fought the Undead and used Bloodline Divine Abilities.
• Jiang Chen sat on a throne woven from Death Qi and taunted the Demon Race as the seemingly endless Undead pressed forward.
• Heat and firelight rose beneath the Death Qi and spread outward, driving back the darkness.

Jiang Chen fought Dijun’s Evil Corpse, the Nine Yang Daoist, after the Daoist arrived in place of Dijun. Jiang Chen unleashed the River of Death, and the Nine Yang Daoist answered with a blazing sun linked to the Solar Star.

• The Nine Yang Daoist emerged from the flames and praised Jiang Chen’s Death Dao before telling him that Dijun had sent him because Jiang Chen was no match for Dijun.
• Jiang Chen declared he would kill the Nine Yang Daoist to draw out Dijun, and they clashed with the Daoist’s Solar Divine Light against Jiang Chen’s Death Qi.
• Jiang Chen revealed his Black Coffin and unleashed the River of Death, which swept across the battlefield and consumed undead and members of the Demon Race.
• The Nine Yang Daoist cast Sun Illuminates the Firmament, summoning a blazing sun connected to the Solar Star above Northern Jambudvipa.

Jiang Chen and the Nine Yang Daoist fought across Northern Jambudvipa, unleashing powers that stunned the onlookers. The Nine Yang Daoist formed his Nine Yang True Body, but Jiang Chen gathered death qi from the Undead Race to empower the Burial Heaven Coffin, and their battle continued as the Daoist drew power from the Solar Star.

• Jiang Chen and the Nine Yang Daoist clashed with their weapons as their battle spread across Northern Jambudvipa.
• The Nine Yang Daoist formed the Nine Yang True Body and attacked Jiang Chen with the Nine Yang Great Sun Seal.
• Jiang Chen called on the Undead Race, and countless Undead sent their death qi to him.
• Jiang Chen used the Burial Heaven Coffin to gather the death qi and commanded it to bury the Nine Yang True Body and its suns.
• The Nine Yang Daoist invoked Bathing in the East Blue, drawing the Solar Star's flames and heat into his true body.

Jiang Chen sacrificed ten billion Undead to empower the Burial Heaven Coffin in his battle against the Nine Yang Daoist. After the Daoist challenged him with a blazing palm, Jiang Chen answered with a Death Dao claw, and their attacks collided again.

• Jiang Chen summoned ten billion Undead and sacrificed them to strengthen the Burial Heaven Coffin.
• Jiang Chen drove the empowered coffin at the Nine Yang Daoist, who countered with flames from his Nine Yang True Body.
• The Nine Yang Daoist tried to turn the Undead against Jiang Chen by condemning his sacrifice, but Jiang Chen defended his actions and dismissed the lowliest Undead as expendable.
• The Nine Yang Daoist unleashed Blazing Solar Inferno, forming a giant palm from a sun drawn from the suns circling his body.
• Jiang Chen formed a colossal Death Claw with the Death Dao, and its aura drained life across half of Northern Jambudvipa.
• The Nine Yang Daoist's flaming palm and Jiang Chen's Death Claw collided, shaking the Primordial World and sending seawater into the air.

Jiang Chen fought the Nine Yang Daoist while Taiyi and Xihe discussed Dijun’s hidden strength and Taiyi sent Jiang Chen an Innate Demon God's Heart. Jiang Chen seized the heart and began consuming it as his aura grew stronger, while the Nine Yang Adept tried to stop him.

• Jiang Chen formed the Infinite Death Claw and fought the Nine Yang Daoist across Northern Jambudvipa and the stars.
• Taiyi and Xihe discussed Dijun’s Three Corpses and agreed that helping Jiang Chen could force Dijun to reveal more of his strength.
• Taiyi sent Jiang Chen an Innate Demon God's Heart carried through the river of Death Qi.
• Jiang Chen caught the heart, recognized Taiyi’s gift, and drew shocked reactions from the watching Great Powers.
• Jiang Chen bit into the heart and absorbed its vital blood and energy as his aura strengthened.
• The Nine Yang Adept unleashed flames and tried to stop Jiang Chen from consuming the heart.

Jiang Chen devoured the Innate Demon God's Heart and reached the Quasi-Saint Peak before clashing with the Nine Yang Daoist in a battle of Death and Flame. After emerging from the destruction, Jiang Chen revealed he had trapped the Nine Yang Daoist’s nine suns inside the Burial Heaven Coffin.

• The Nine Yang Adept attacked Jiang Chen to stop him from devouring the Innate Demon God's Heart, but Jiang Chen shielded himself with Death Qi and swallowed it.
• Jiang Chen instantly absorbed the heart’s power, rose to the Quasi-Saint Peak, and charged the Nine Yang Daoist.
• The Nine Yang Daoist unleashed the Great Nine Yang Hand, while Jiang Chen merged with the Burial Heaven Coffin and struck with the Claw of Extinction.
• Their attacks collided, unleashing a destructive clash between the Death Dao and the Flame Great Dao that shook the Primordial World.
• Jiang Chen emerged from the explosions stronger, while the wounded Nine Yang Daoist followed him out.
• Jiang Chen revealed that the Nine Yang Daoist had forged his nine suns from Solar Origin and that the Burial Heaven Coffin had trapped all nine fireballs.

Jiang Chen sealed Nine Yang Daoist’s nine suns inside the Burial Heaven Coffin, weakening him and gaining the upper hand in their battle. As Dijun chose to continue despite the apparent defeat, Nine Yang Daoist’s flaming whisk began resisting its wielder and burned him.

• Jiang Chen used the Burial Heaven Coffin’s Death Qi to extinguish and bury the nine suns, then charged Nine Yang Daoist with the coffin.
• The onlookers recognized that losing the suns had weakened Nine Yang Daoist and believed Jiang Chen was winning.
• The mysterious figure explained that the nine suns had been Nine Yang Daoist’s greatest strength and weakness, while Dijun criticized his incarnation for exposing that flaw.
• Dijun told the mysterious figure that useless subordinates and incarnations could become nourishment for the strong, hinting at his intentions.
• Nine Yang Daoist’s whisk erupted in golden flames, rejected his control, and burned him as Jiang Chen and the crowd watched in confusion.

Jiang Chen weakened Nine Yang Daoist and helped free the Fusang Tree, revealing Flame Emperor, Dijun’s Benevolent Corpse. Flame Emperor explained that he and Nine Yang Daoist were meant to defeat and devour each other, then prepared to make the weakened Nine Yang Daoist his nourishment.

• Jiang Chen struck Nine Yang Daoist with Death Finger, breaking through his flames and disrupting his control of the whisk.
• The whisk broke free and revealed itself as the Fusang Tree, which formed an armored figure resembling Dijun and bound Nine Yang Daoist.
• Jiang Chen identified the figure as another of Dijun’s incarnations, and it named itself Flame Emperor, the Benevolent Corpse.
• Flame Emperor crushed Nine Yang Daoist’s bones and explained that their opposing vessels and dispositions had been chosen so they could devour each other.
• Flame Emperor declared that Nine Yang Daoist would become nourishment for his growth.

Jiang Chen learned that Dijun had severed all Three Corpses and might unite them to reach the Primordial Unity Realm, while the Flame Emperor devoured Nine Yang Daoist and drew power from the Solar Celestial Star. The Fusang Tree then bore nine miniature suns, leaving Jiang Chen unable to stop the Flame Emperor's growth.

• Taiyi learned that Dijun had used the Fusang Tree as a vessel for Corpse Severing, and Xihe explained how Dijun could unite his Three Corpses.
• Nine Yang Daoist warned the Flame Emperor that Dijun's Obsessive Thought Corpse remained hidden, but the Flame Emperor crushed and devoured him.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he had let the Flame Emperor and Nine Yang Daoist talk to learn about Dijun's Three Corpses, then tried to stop the Flame Emperor from growing stronger.
• The Flame Emperor invoked Great Sun Radiance, sending the Fusang Tree's roots into the Solar Celestial Star to drain its flames and burn away Jiang Chen's Death Qi.
• The Flame Emperor's aura surged as a vast Fusang Tree rose in a sea of fire, and its flowers formed nine golden fruits that looked like miniature suns.

The Flame Emperor used the nine fruits of the Fusang Tree to break through to Half-Step Primordial Unity, shattering the limits thought to bind Three Corpses incarnations. Ren chose not to interfere, while Taiyi prepared to use Jiang Chen to stop the breakthrough and handed over resources valuable to the Zombie.

• The Fusang Tree bore nine sunlike fruits as the Flame Emperor's aura surged and he began breaking through.
• Jiang Chen and observers across the Primordial World recognized that the Flame Emperor was approaching Half-Step Primordial Unity.
• Ren rejected Xuanming's offer to interrupt the breakthrough and decided to let the Flame Emperor test Jiang Chen.
• Taiyi decided not to intervene personally or expose his forces, and instead chose Jiang Chen to oppose the Flame Emperor.
• Taiyi gave Jiang Chen a small coffin filled with Death Qi and flesh and blood to support his growth.

Kunpeng sent Jiang Chen stores of Barbaric Beast and Innate Demon God remains to help him oppose Flame Emperor, whose breakthrough and blazing solar aura devastated the Undead forces in Northern Jambudvipa. Jiang Chen accepted the resources as Flame Emperor mocked him, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Kunpeng judged that Dijun's incarnation posed a threat and ordered Qiongqi to send the useless Barbaric Beast corpses from the treasury to Jiang Chen.
• Kunpeng admitted he distrusted Jiang Chen's sudden rise but chose to support him because he was fighting Dijun.
• Flame Emperor's rising Primordial Unity aura scorched Northern Jambudvipa, burned away Death Qi, and reduced many Undead to ash as the Demon Race advanced.
• Jiang Chen confronted Flame Emperor, who mocked his ambitions and claimed Jiang Chen could not match his solar origin.
• Kunpeng and Taiyi's supplies arrived in a coffin and tiny palace, which Jiang Chen seized and found packed with fragmented Barbaric Beast and Innate Demon God remains.
• Flame Emperor dismissed the remains as filthy trash and declared that Jiang Chen could never equal him.

The Flame Emperor transformed into a sun and engulfed Northern Jambudvipa in fire, burning away the Undead and threatening Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen endured the heat by devouring flesh and told Ren that the flames were tempering his body as he had hoped.

• Jiang Chen challenged the Flame Emperor’s belief in racial superiority while consuming Demon God flesh and Barbaric Beast corpses.
• The Flame Emperor unleashed Great Sun Descent, absorbed the Fusang Tree and its nine miniature suns, and broke through to Half-Step Primordial Unity.
• The Flame Emperor’s fire engulfed Northern Jambudvipa, killing many members of the Demon Race and burning the Undead so completely that they could not revive.
• Onlookers saw Jiang Chen devouring flesh within the flames and worried that the conflicting energies would ruin his body.
• Ren contacted Jiang Chen, who reassured him that the heat was tempering his body as he had anticipated.

Jiang Chen endured the Flame Emperor’s Solar flames to purify the mixed energies in his body into pure Corpse Qi, while observers believed he had been incinerated. The flames finally receded, revealing Northern Jambudvipa transformed into a scorched wasteland, and everyone searched for Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen told Ren that he intended to use the Flame Emperor’s extreme heat to refine his body and purify his Corpse Qi.
• Jiang Chen devoured fallen Demon Race members as the Flame Emperor’s flames burned away impurities in his body and strengthened his Corpse Qi.
• The Flame Emperor and observers mistook Jiang Chen’s restrained aura and vanished shadow for his death.
• The Flame Emperor reduced his flames, revealing Northern Jambudvipa’s devastated landscape of blackened ground, lava, and crystallized Fiendish Qi.
• The Great Powers searched the ruined land for Jiang Chen.

After surviving the Flame Emperor’s devastating fire, Jiang Chen emerged from the Burial Heaven Coffin and revealed that he had reached Half-Step Primordial Unity. He entered deathly stillness to pursue Great Annihilation as pure Death Qi flowed into his coffin, while the enraged Flame Emperor prepared to destroy it.

• The Flame Emperor boasted that his flames had killed Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen appeared alive inside the Burial Heaven Coffin.
• Jiang Chen blocked the Flame Emperor’s attack with a punch and revealed that he had reached Half-Step Primordial Unity by refining his body and absorbing the Death Qi left by the burned Undead.
• Jiang Chen declared that he would bury himself, sacrifice his body to the Dao, and attain Great Annihilation before closing his eyes inside the coffin.
• Pure Death Qi rose from Northern Jambudvipa and flowed into the Burial Heaven Coffin, causing a powerful aura to emerge.
• The Flame Emperor vowed to smash the coffin and destroy Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen continued his breakthrough inside the Burial Heaven Coffin as his Zombie Body began reaching Great Accomplishment. The Six Kings held off the Flame Emperor for a time, but the Flame Emperor eventually broke through their formation and blasted them back.

• The Six Kings emerged from the Burial Heaven Coffin at Quasi-Saint Peak and formed the Undead Formation to stop the Flame Emperor.
• The Flame Emperor attacked the Six Kings while the Burial Heaven Coffin absorbed Death Qi and protected Jiang Chen's breakthrough.
• Inside the coffin, Jiang Chen absorbed Death Qi from the nine small Death Suns and began transforming into a Great Accomplishment Zombie Body.
• The Flame Emperor tore through the darkness and struck the Six Kings, sending the Ghost King, Rakshasa King, Blood King, and Yaksha King flying.

Jiang Chen emerged from the Burial Heaven Coffin transformed, with his body and Primordial Spirit reaching Half-Step Primordial Unity. He attacked the Flame Emperor, and their battle began with a clash powerful enough to shatter the void.

• The Flame Emperor sent the Corpse King crashing toward the Burial Heaven Coffin and charged after Jiang Chen, believing the Six Kings could no longer protect him.
• Jiang Chen burst from the Burial Heaven Coffin, empowered the Corpse King with Death Qi, and transformed as bones formed into wings and his eyes and fangs turned crimson.
• Jiang Chen's transformation brought his body and Primordial Spirit to Half-Step Primordial Unity, shocking and angering the Flame Emperor.
• Jiang Chen charged the Flame Emperor, and their punch and palm collided, blasting apart the void and sending destructive shockwaves across the Cold Sea Region and Starry Sky.
• Jiang Chen followed with a corpse-qi-coated claw attack, and the Flame Emperor answered with a mighty flaming fist.

Jiang Chen and the Flame Emperor tested their new Half-Step Primordial Unity strength before the Flame Emperor brought out the Solar Star Core and attacked with a world of golden flames. Jiang Chen answered the fire beasts with his Life-and-Death Universe, and their forces collided.

• Jiang Chen and the Flame Emperor fought with raw physical attacks as their battle shook Northern Jambudvipa and the Primordial World.
• The Flame Emperor formed the Flame World from the Flame Great Dao and revealed the Solar Star Core.
• The Flame Emperor explained how he had found and lost the Solar Star Core, and how it had eventually returned to him through Nine Yang Daoist.
• The Flame Emperor unleashed golden fire beasts from the Solar Star Core and sent them charging at Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen invoked his Life-and-Death Universe and met the fire beasts with a rotating force of death and vitality.