Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen and the Flame Emperor fought across Northern Jambudvipa while Dijun and a mysterious observer discussed the Flame Emperor’s flaws and Jiang Chen’s breakthrough. Jiang Chen declared that he would end the battle by killing the Flame Emperor, and the fight stood poised to escalate.

• Jiang Chen and the Flame Emperor clashed with death and fire, as Jiang Chen used his speed to evade the Flame Emperor’s scorching attacks.
• Dijun criticized the Flame Emperor’s Half-Step Primordial Unity and explained that he had pursued perfection in the Three Corpses Severing Technique.
• The mysterious observer said Jiang Chen’s ruthless sacrifice of a hundred billion Undead Race troops had enabled his breakthrough, and warned Dijun that the Flame Emperor might die.
• Jiang Chen announced that he was done playing and explained that war and even the Undead Race were merely means to become stronger.
• The Flame Emperor challenged Jiang Chen to end the battle, and Jiang Chen answered that he would kill him.

Jiang Chen activated the Netherworld Land Grand Formation across Northern Jambudvipa, revealing that he had launched the war to gather the Primordial World's buried Death Qi. As the Flame Emperor called down the Solar Star's power, Jiang Chen used nine death-infused suns to begin forming a Death Sun.

• Jiang Chen sacrificed a hundred billion undead and ten billion Demon Race beings to awaken the Netherworld Land Grand Formation beneath Northern Jambudvipa.
• The formation drew buried Death Qi from across the Primordial World, turning Northern Jambudvipa black and suppressing the Flame Emperor's flames.
• The Flame Emperor summoned the Solar Star's power through the Solar Star Core and transformed into a blazing sun.
• Jiang Chen brought out nine black suns made from the drained vitality of Nine Yang Daoist's suns and used them with the formation to gather Death Qi into a towering Death Sun.

Jiang Chen defeated the Flame Emperor in a devastating clash, leaving him unable to resist. Before Jiang Chen could finish him, Dijun arrived with the Chaos Bell and intervened.

• Jiang Chen and the Flame Emperor's suns collided, unleashing destruction across the Primordial World.
• The aftermath revealed that Jiang Chen had pierced the Flame Emperor's chest while the Flame Emperor had struck and caved in Jiang Chen's chest.
• Jiang Chen remained able to move while the Flame Emperor could not, making Jiang Chen the victor.
• As Jiang Chen moved to bite the Flame Emperor's neck, Dijun rang the Chaos Bell.
• Jiang Chen roared against the bell's sound wave and turned back toward the Flame Emperor, but Dijun appeared and ordered him to stop.

Jiang Chen defied Dijun, tore out and devoured the Flame Emperor’s heart, and faced Dijun’s retaliation. After Dijun restored his incarnation with a new heart and recalled him, he attacked Jiang Chen with a palm imprint, leaving Jiang Chen to counter it.

• Dijun struck Jiang Chen with a sweeping gale of Dao Rhyme, cracking his bone wings and forcing him back.
• Jiang Chen ripped the Flame Emperor’s heart from his chest and devoured it despite Dijun’s attack.
• Dijun gave the weakened Flame Emperor a new heart, then drew him into his sleeve.
• Jiang Chen praised the heart’s blood and taunted Dijun, who attacked him with a compact golden palm imprint.
• Jiang Chen roared that Dijun had no right to kill him and slashed his claws at the incoming imprint.

Jiang Chen revealed that his perfected Zombie Physique made him nearly impossible to destroy, but Dijun threatened to seal him. Jiang Chen unveiled his prepared death treasures and transformed Northern Jambudvipa into a vast tomb and destination for the dead.

• Jiang Chen survived Dijun’s palm strike and declared that he would endure as long as the Primordial World, Heavenly Dao, Reincarnation, and living beings remained.
• Dijun acknowledged Jiang Chen’s perfected Zombie Physique and said he would seal him instead of trying to kill him.
• Jiang Chen revealed the Burial Earth Peak, Burial Person Stele, and Yellow Springs River, joining them with the Burial Heaven Coffin as his prepared treasures.
• Jiang Chen sent the treasures to Northern Jambudvipa and invoked his Burial Technique, declaring the continent a land of death and the final destination of beings across the Primordial World.
• The treasures fused with Northern Jambudvipa and its existing formation, creating the Burial Heaven Grand Formation as Death Qi formed black dragon veins beneath the continent.

Jiang Chen transformed all of Northern Jambudvipa into Netherworld Land, establishing a vast domain that absorbed souls and converted life into Death Qi. He then unleashed the Great Burial Technique against Dijun, forming a massive tomb bearing Dijun’s name above the heavens.

• Jiang Chen used Duan De’s methods to turn Northern Jambudvipa into Netherworld Land, while Taiyi, Ren, and others reacted to the transformation.
• The spreading Death Qi buried the Demon Race forces in Northern Jambudvipa and drained their life force.
• Dijun dismissed his dying subordinates as weak and challenged Jiang Chen’s ability to protect his new foundation.
• Jiang Chen declared that he would use the Great Burial Technique to bury Dijun, then drew Death Qi from the surrounding lands and living beings.
• Jiang Chen gathered the Death Qi into the Burial Person Stele and formed a vast phantom tomb called the Tomb of Dijun.

Jiang Chen used the Great Burial Technique to curse and wound Dijun, who then withdrew from Northern Jambudvipa with a few surviving Demon Kings. The chapter left the reason for Dijun’s retreat unclear as Jiang Chen and the Primordial World’s Great Powers wondered what he would do next.

• Dijun’s Dao Rhyme shattered Jiang Chen’s Death Qi until Jiang Chen invoked the Great Burial Technique and formed a phantom of Dijun.
• The technique buried Dijun’s phantom, cursed him, and made him cough up black blood.
• Jiang Chen charged again, but Dijun repelled him with a gale imbued with the Flame Great Dao.
• Dijun gathered Lei Bao, Shi Tian, Bai Ze, and a few other Demon Kings, then left Northern Jambudvipa without his remaining followers.
• Jiang Chen and the Great Powers questioned why Dijun had retreated despite his strength.

After Dijun vanished, Jiang Chen claimed Northern Jambudvipa and established the Burial Heaven Sect, using Merit to strengthen its founding treasure. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen and Ren unable to locate Dijun, who might have hidden in a sealed place or a special small world.

• Dijun retreated with his people and disappeared, ending the battle between the Undead and the Demon Race.
• Jiang Chen declared Northern Jambudvipa his Netherworld Land and established the Burial Heaven Sect for those seeking to become Undead.
• Merit descended upon the sect’s founding, and Jiang Chen fused it into the Burial Person Stele before naming it the sect’s Supreme Treasure.
• A nine-clawed Black Dragon formed from Destiny above the Burial Heaven Palace, while low-level cultivators began traveling toward Northern Jambudvipa to join the sect.
• Jiang Chen asked Ren whether he had found Dijun, and Ren said his search had uncovered no trail.
• Jiang Chen proposed that Dijun had either hidden behind a Formation Array or taken refuge in a special small world.

Jiang Chen and Ren considered Dijun’s unexplained retreat and discussed how Jiang Chen could improve his Dao and transform his Zombie Physique. As Taiyi sought a way to find Dijun through the Primordial World’s shadows, the Demon Empress met Shadow Fiend and asked about opening the Shadow Realm.

• Ren and Jiang Chen agreed that Dijun’s gifts and retreat were suspicious, and Ren urged Jiang Chen to develop the Burial Heaven Sect as a hidden force.
• Jiang Chen concluded that improving his Dao could help him surpass the Three Corpses’ limits and asked Ren to lend him the Heaven-Earth Cauldron to make his Zombie Physique innate.
• After Jiang Chen and Ren ended their connection, a hidden mysterious person said Jiang Chen’s actions brought the day of his descent closer, then went back into slumber.
• Taiyi and Xihe discussed Dijun’s disappearance and strength; Taiyi planned to find him through the Primordial World’s shadows and ordered a gift sent to Jiang Chen.
• The Demon Empress met Shadow Fiend in the Demon Land of the Western Lands and asked whether he understood her wish to open the Shadow Realm.
• Shadow Fiend questioned whether the timing was right and explained that Demon Ancestor Luo Hou had created the Shadow Realm using the bodies of the Shadow Race and a trace of the Shadow Demon God’s Primordial Spirit.

The Shadow Fiend explained that Demon Ancestor Luohu created the Shadow Realm as a refuge for the Demon Cult and concealed Shadow Divine Ability seeds in three sets of keys. The Demon Empress realized she had given Ren portions of the Origin of All Evil containing one key, leaving the Shadow Realm’s opening—and Ren’s possible access to it—in doubt.

• The Shadow Fiend warned the Demon Empress that opening the Shadow Realm without its key could expose Luohu’s hidden refuge.
• The Shadow Fiend revealed that Luohu left three keys, with one hidden in the Origins of All Evil given to the Four Great Demon Kings.
• The Shadow Fiend explained Luohu’s plan to surpass Shen Ni by ruling both the Primordial World and its Shadow Realm, and described the dangers of the Ten Thousand Shadows Dao Scripture.
• The Shadow Fiend told the Three Demons and the Demon Empress that their shadow seeds could combine to open the Shadow Realm, while the Origins of All Evil held a perfected Shadow Divine Ability.
• The Shadow Fiend warned that Ren could gain access to the Shadow Realm because the Demon Empress had given him three portions of the Origin of All Evil.

The Three Demons decided to open the Shadow Realm despite the risk that Ren could enter it, hoping to recruit him and use the Three Sects to claim the Three Pure Ones’ Dao Fruit. The Shadow Fiend accepted their decision and showed them how to make a key to the realm.

• The Shadow Fiend warned that Ren could freely enter the Shadow Realm if he completed the Shadow Divine Ability, but the Three Demons chose to open it anyway.
• The Three Demons explained that they hoped to win Ren over, take control of the Three Sects, and gain an opportunity to attain Primordial Unity.
• The Shadow Fiend revealed that the Three Demons had secretly interfered in the Three Sects’ conflict and planned to use Buddhism as a vehicle for Demon Cult teachings.
• The Shadow Fiend told the Three Demons to connect with their shadows and fuse the divine ability seeds within them.
• The Three Demons merged their shadows into a dark, solid key, and the Shadow Fiend seized it with chains of darkness.

Shadow Fiend opened the Shadow Realm Gate with the Three Demons’ merged shadows, allowing the Great Dao Chains sealing it to shatter and enrich their Shadow Divine Ability. After Shadow Fiend and the Three Demons entered the realm, the Demon Empress prepared to meet Taiyi at the Demon Palace.

• Shadow Fiend revealed that Demon Ancestor Luohu had sealed the Shadow Realm Gate with Great Dao Chains forged from the Shadow Race’s Primordial Spirits and the Shadow Demon God’s divine thought.
• Shadow Fiend used the Three Demons’ merged shadows as a key, breaking the chains and revealing the Shadow Realm; the fragments strengthened their Shadow Dao insights.
• The Three Demons perfected the Shadow Race’s Bloodline Divine Ability, and Shadow Fiend made the gate accessible through shadows across the Primordial World.
• Jin Chanzi told the Demon Empress that Taiyi had come to see her, and Shadow Fiend departed.
• The Three Demons entered the Shadow Realm, while the Demon Empress arranged to meet Taiyi at the Demon Palace to keep him away from the secret-filled Demon Empress Hall.

Ren investigated a strange resonance between Jiang Chen’s Origin of All Evil and Jinao Island, which had produced an unfamiliar Shadow Divine Ability rune. After sending Jiang Chen the Heaven-Earth Cauldron and flames to temper himself, Ren kept the rune for further study and asked Xuanming to accompany him to Jinao Island.

• Jiang Chen told Ren that a new sensation from his Origin of All Evil pointed toward Jinao Island and had formed a Shadow Divine Ability rune.
• Ren suspected that something on Jinao Island might be connected to another Origin of All Evil, possibly the one belonging to Desire Demon.
• Ren told Jiang Chen to stay in seclusion and sent him the Heaven-Earth Cauldron, Emperor Flame, and Zhurong Flame to temper his body and Origin.
• Jiang Chen sent Ren the pitch-black rune, and Ren found its aura unusually powerful but chose not to refine it yet.
• Xuanming examined the rune but could not identify its origin, and Ren asked her to accompany him on a trip.

Ren left with Xuanming for Jinao Island, intending to investigate Jiang Chen’s Origin and later observe reincarnation in the Underworld. Meanwhile, Taiyi met the Demon Empress at the Demon Palace, where he revealed that he had arranged for Lu Ya to infiltrate Buddhism and help free her.

• Ren told Xuanming he planned to visit Jinao Island and the Underworld, and she agreed to accompany him.
• Ren and Xuanming departed using escape techniques to avoid drawing attention.
• Taiyi arrived at the Demon Palace and asked Jin Chanzi why the Demon Empress’s other disciples were absent.
• Taiyi praised Jin Chanzi and offered him a powerful position if he joined him.
• The Demon Empress confronted Taiyi, who explained that he had influenced Lu Ya to infiltrate Buddhism and help release her.

Taiyi offered the Demon Empress information about Ji Du in exchange for all the Demon Cult knew about Dijun, but his knowledge of the secret Shadow Realm alarmed her. Meanwhile, Demon Madara broke through to the Daluo Realm under the Demon Empress’s Primordial Unity aura and went with Canaan to claim a promised opportunity.

• Taiyi told the Demon Empress he had clues about Ji Du and proposed another deal.
• The Demon Empress unleashed her Primordial Unity aura, and Demon Madara used his Killing Dao to withstand it and break through to the Daluo Realm.
• Canaan praised Demon Madara’s breakthrough and took him to the Demon Palace to claim the opportunity he had been promised.
• The Demon Empress agreed to trade for any genuine clue about Ji Du, while Taiyi warned her that he could also unleash a Primordial Unity strike.
• Taiyi demanded all information on Dijun as payment and revealed that he knew about the Shadow Realm, shocking the Demon Empress.

Taiyi traded information about Ji Du for the Shadow Realm’s records of Dijun. The records revealed that Dijun had faked his death, visited several important locations, and eventually died in Northern Jambudvipa, leaving Taiyi questioning what he had done during his long disappearance.

• The Demon Empress accepted Taiyi’s offer to exchange information about Ji Du for intelligence on Dijun.
• The Shadow Fiend explained that the Shadow Realm could record scenery but had limited access to hidden places and living beings.
• The Shadow Fiend gave Taiyi a jade slip containing records of Dijun’s movements, and Taiyi learned that Dijun had faked his death.
• The Shadow Fiend said Dijun had visited the Phoenix Ancestor, the former Penglai Three Islands, the North Blue, and Northern Jambudvipa before disappearing for centuries.
• Taiyi learned that Dijun had appeared again in Northern Jambudvipa a thousand years later and truly died, and he wondered what Dijun had done during his absence.

Taiyi told the Demon Empress and the others that Ji Du was likely hidden in the Seventy-Two Layers of Earthly Fiend, and explained what made those layers so dangerous. He then revealed that Zhu Jiuyin would soon reappear and began describing the methods he had prepared for his own revival.

• Taiyi learned from the Shadow Fiend that Dijun had likely spent his disappearance in a world he created in the East Blue, and that Lu Ya's sacrifice seemed to have completed Dijun's revival.
• Taiyi honored his bargain by telling the Shadow Fiend that Ji Du was connected to the Earthly Fiend and likely hidden in the Seventy-Two Layers.
• The Demon Empress and the Shadow Fiend explained that the Earthly Fiend Layers remained an intact and deadly Forbidden Zone, unlike the weakened Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper.
• Taiyi said Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Houtu had once returned safely from the Earthly Fiend Layers, and that Zhu Jiuyin had revealed a secret linking Ji Du and Luo Hou.
• When the Demon Empress questioned how Zhu Jiuyin could have spoken with Taiyi, Taiyi said Zhu Jiuyin would reappear soon and began describing the methods he had prepared to revive himself.

Taiyi explained how Zhu Jiuyin survived inside frozen time and developed extraordinary powers, then warned the Demon Cult against confronting him. The exchange of information ended with Shadow Fiend cautioning Taiyi not to enter Northern Jambudvipa while investigating Dijun.

• Taiyi told the Demon Empress and the others that Zhu Jiuyin knew secrets about Ji Du, but only four Ancestral Shamans had witnessed what happened in the Earthly Fiend Layer.
• Demon Madara suggested approaching Zhu Jiuyin directly, and Taiyi explained that Zhu Jiuyin's time-infused Primordial Spirit and balanced body made him too dangerous to threaten.
• Shadow Fiend agreed that Taiyi's information about Zhu Jiuyin and Dijun made their trade fair, with the Demon Cult gaining an additional lead about Ji Du.
• Shadow Fiend warned Taiyi that Dijun's secrets were linked to Northern Jambudvipa and the North Blue, but that entering Northern Jambudvipa was too dangerous.

Taiyi left Demon Land after warning the Demon Cult about the dangers of the Earthly Fiend Layers and Northern Jambudvipa. In the Demon Palace, the Demon Empress and Shadow Fiend explained that Luo Hou had left cryptic clues about Ji Du, which the Demon Cult had searched for without success.

• Taiyi cautioned the Demon Cult that the Seventy-Two Layers of Earthly Fiend had grown more dangerous, then departed Demon Land in disguise.
• Kong Xuan asked about the Shadow Realm, the Shadow Fiend, and Ji Du, and the Demon Empress explained that Luo Hou had kept many of his reserves secret.
• The Shadow Fiend and Demon Empress revealed that neither of them knew what Ji Du was, though Luo Hou had left the phrases “Ketu Rahu, Rahu Ketu” and “To seek the demon, first seek Ketu.”
• Kong Xuan reasoned that finding Ji Du might be necessary to find Luo Hou.
• The Demon Empress said the Demon Cult had searched for Ji Du since Luo Hou's defeat, while the Shadow Fiend admitted that years of searching the Primordial World had yielded no answer.

The Demon Empress revealed that Ji Du was tied to Luo Hou’s resurrection and ordered the Demon Cult to keep the secret. She sent the Shadow Fiend to investigate the Seventy-Two Layers of Earthly Fiend and directed Kong Xuan to explore the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper for Zhu Jiuyin and evidence supporting Taiyi’s account.

• The Demon Empress rejected Jin Chanzi’s suggestion to trade with Ren for information, warning that Ren could uncover Ji Du’s importance.
• The Demon Empress told the Demon Palace that Ji Du was connected to Luo Hou’s resurrection, and she forbade everyone from revealing the secret.
• The Demon Empress ordered the Shadow Fiend to begin exploring the Seventy-Two Layers of Earthly Fiend for clues about Ji Du.
• Kong Xuan asked to return to seclusion, but the Demon Empress told him to investigate the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper instead.
• Kong Xuan agreed to search for Zhu Jiuyin and verify Taiyi’s account, while the Demon Empress reached into a patch of darkness.