Chapter Summaries

Duan De and Taiyi unleashed their powers of death and decay, devastating the land as they battled, while Dijun attacked Ren with the Demon Emperor Sword. Emperor Zun intercepted Dijun with the World Cauldron, leaving their clash raging as Ren continued refining the Origin.

• Duan De summoned the River of Death, and Taiyi answered with an army formed from decay runes.
• Their powers collided, unleashing storms that killed countless creatures and gravely wounded a Quasi-Saint.
• Dijun attacked Ren with the Demon Emperor Sword, hoping to seize the Celestial Dipper Origin.
• Emperor Zun intercepted Dijun with the World Cauldron, and their weapons shattered sword light and countless worlds.
• Great Powers recoiled from the battle as Ren remained absorbed in refining the Origin.

Dijun and Emperor Zun exchanged devastating attacks while Ren refined the Celestial Dipper Origin beside the collapsing Heavenly Dipper Layers. The Shadow Fiend explained that Ren was using the layers’ instinct to save them and could gain their willing obedience if he succeeded.

• Emperor Zun wielded the World Cauldron and a Heaven-Shrouding Handprint against Dijun, who answered with the Demon Emperor Sword’s Sever the Heavens.
• Kong Xuan dodged the battle’s shockwaves and wondered why Ren was openly refining the Origin in front of Dijun and Taiyi.
• The Shadow Fiend explained that all things had Spirituality and Instinct, and that the Heavenly Dipper Layers were letting Ren refine their Origin because they hoped he would save them.
• The Shadow Fiend said Ren might gain control of the layers by saving them and winning over their Instinct.
• The Demon Empress and the Three Demons realized Ren was pursuing control of the Heavenly Dipper Layers rather than provoking his enemies.

Ren continued refining the Origin while Taiyi and his allies fought to stop him. As the battles spread, Xihe and Zhu Jiuyin clashed, and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor confronted Taiyi’s Lunar Yin Avatar.

• Taiyi unleashed a decaying darkness that formed a despairing Primordial World and attacked Duan De, who countered with a deathly river and vines of vitality.
• Taiyi called for Xihe and others to help kill Ren, and Xihe emerged from a Small World to attack Zhu Jiuyin over his insults.
• Xuanming refused Zhu Jiuyin’s offer to fight Xihe, saying Ren needed protection, so Zhu Jiuyin turned to battle Xihe himself.
• Taiyi’s Lunar Yin Avatar and an armored giant moved toward Ren, but the Immortal Heavenly Emperor intercepted the avatar and clashed with its freezing storms using Phoenix wings and flames.

Ye Fan faced Demon God Ni Jun, who sought revenge on Xuanming and wielded the Exchange Beast race’s body-swapping Exchange Divine Ability. Their battle escalated as Ye Fan brought out the Desolate Pagoda, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Demon God Ni Jun approached Ren and Xuanming’s group, but Wushi used the Time River and Space River to block his aura.
• Ni Jun accused Xuanming of leaving him near death, and she recognized him as the original Ni Jun, who had survived by exchanging bodies with descendants.
• Xuanming warned Ye Fan about Ni Jun’s Exchange Divine Ability, and Ye Fan accepted the challenge.
• Ni Jun charged at Xuanming, but Ye Fan intercepted him with his True Self Fist, and the two exchanged powerful blows.
• Ni Jun summoned his Ancient Desolate Spear, which cut Ye Fan’s fist; Ye Fan then produced the Desolate Pagoda.

Ye Fan fought Demon God Ni Jun with his reforged Desolate Pagoda while Taiyi and Dijun joined forces against Ren. Kunpeng deduced that the former Demon Court's hidden reserves motivated their cooperation and warned the Fierce Beasts not to enter what was still a limited contest rather than a war.

• Ren gave the Desolate Pagoda to Ye Fan, who reforged it with the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron and Barbaric Beast remains before attacking Demon God Ni Jun.
• Ye Fan and Demon God Ni Jun clashed with the Desolate Pagoda and Ancient Desolate Spear as onlookers feared their fight could spark a war.
• Qiongqi questioned why Dijun and Taiyi had allied against Ren, and Kunpeng concluded they were pursuing the former Demon Court's hidden reserves.
• Qiongqi and Chaos urged Kunpeng to join the fight and claim a share of the reserves, but Kunpeng ordered the Fierce Beasts to stay out.
• Kunpeng explained that Taiyi and Dijun had not committed their armies, so the battle remained a contest rather than a full-scale war.

As the battle in the Sky Ranking intensified, Ren continued refining the Heavenly Dipper Origin while Xuanming feared the weakened fourth layer would collapse. Taiyi tried to reach Ren but was held off by Duan De, whose life-and-death treasure clashed with Taiyi’s decay and destruction.

• Kunpeng told the Four Great Fierce Beasts to watch the battle and stop coveting the hidden resources.
• Xuanming worried that the battle’s shockwaves would shatter the weakened Fourth Heavenly Dipper Layer and endanger Ren as he refined the Origin.
• Taiyi tried to charge toward Ren, but Duan De distracted him with relentless chatter.
• Taiyi unleashed Kill! Decay World-Destroying, combining decay with the World-Destroying Golden Wheel to attack Duan De.
• Duan De summoned the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disk and sent it against Taiyi’s attack.
• The collision created a black hole and shattered space, leaving Duan De and Taiyi both wounded but still ready to fight.

Duan De demanded that Taiyi compensate him for damaging his Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disk while they fought. Taiyi exposed Dijun’s hidden Demon Race reserves, and Dijun’s response revealed Flame Emperor, his avatar, as Emperor Zun battled him.

• Duan De complained that Taiyi’s World-Destroying Golden Wheel had damaged his Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disk and demanded compensation.
• Taiyi attacked Duan De with Decaying Divine Light, and Duan De countered with divine wheels formed from life and death.
• Taiyi revealed that Dijun had hidden at least half of the Demon Race’s reserves in the heavens, drawing the attention of the Primordial World’s Great Powers.
• Dijun unleashed Earth-Splitting Slash against Emperor Zun, who answered with the World Cauldron’s Dao-Evolving Cauldron technique.
• As Emperor Zun prepared to charge, Dijun summoned Flame Emperor, his avatar, from the flames.

The Flame Emperor trapped Emperor Zun in the Great Sun Prison while Dijun and the Flame Emperor attacked Ren. Xuanming and Wushi intervened, and Dijun’s sword was about to strike Wushi’s Emperor Bell when an ancient aura arrived.

• The Flame Emperor used the Great Sun Prison to bind Emperor Zun, who could not break free with the World Cauldron.
• Dijun revealed that he had kept the Flame Emperor’s avatar inside his body and charged toward Ren with the Demon Emperor Sword.
• Xuanming froze time and space to stop Dijun, but the Flame Emperor countered her Ice Dao with flames drawn from the Solar Origin.
• Wushi summoned a Spacetime Long Dragon, which Dijun cut apart, then grew rapidly and raised the Emperor Bell to protect Ren.
• Dijun thrust the Demon Emperor Sword toward Wushi’s Emperor Bell, and an ancient aura arrived, calling, “Transform!”

Ruthless appeared in time to save Ren, neutralized the Demon Emperor Sword, and freed Wushi from the Time River’s influence. She confronted Dijun over his attempt to kill Ren, and their first clash ended in a draw.

• Ruthless appeared and used her Dao Rhyme to strip the Demon Emperor Sword of its deadly edge.
• Dijun recognized Ruthless and was shocked by how much her strength had grown.
• Ruthless warned Wushi that following the Time River’s path would bind him to Destiny, then returned him to childhood and dissolved the gathered river.
• Wushi respectfully called Ruthless his mother, and she turned her anger toward Dijun for attacking Ren while he was defenseless.
• Dijun met Ruthless’s palm strike with a punch, and their clash appeared evenly matched.

Ruthless revealed her immense power and fought Dijun with a star-filled Immortal Sword, matching his Demon Emperor Sword. Their battle ravaged the heavens and earth before Dijun unleashed the Vast Solar Fist.

• Dijun recognized that Ruthless had reached a level of power beyond what she displayed during the Buddhism-Extermination War, and she challenged him to fight.
• Wushi offered Ruthless his Emperor Bell, but she summoned a mask that transformed into a ring and then an Immortal Sword containing the stars.
• Dijun and Ruthless clashed with their signature sword techniques, sending destructive Sword Aura across the land and into the heavens.
• As their duel continued, Dijun gathered the power of countless suns and struck Ruthless with the Vast Solar Fist.

Ruthless fought Dijun, first dissolving his divine abilities with her Myriad Transformations Sacred Art before their sword techniques clashed. The chapter ended as Ruthless unleashed the Flying Immortal Sword Art and Dijun answered with One Sword Slashes Chaos.

• Ruthless used the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art to reduce Dijun's divine beam to ordinary fire.
• Dijun unleashed All-Heaven Stars, but Ruthless dissolved the star-shaped abilities into streams of light.
• Dijun explained that his will-driven Sword Aura could resist Ruthless's art, then cut through her Sword Aura with the Demon Emperor Sword.
• Ruthless used the Flying Immortal Sword Art to send a devastating beam from her Immortal Sword.
• Dijun roared One Sword Slashes Chaos and unleashed a sword strike that turned everything in its path into Chaos before cleaving it apart.

Ruthless and Dijun continued their sword duel, with Dijun praising his Demon Emperor Sword and Ruthless insisting that a weapon's wielder mattered more. Ruthless fused two Great Divine Abilities into his Sword Aura and unleashed their combined attack against Dijun.

• Ruthless and Dijun clashed swords, and their collision sent destructive sparks across the sky.
• Dijun bled from his palm and declared that his Demon Emperor Sword surpassed Ruthless's jagged Immortal Sword.
• Ruthless said a weapon's strength depended on its wielder, then struck at Dijun with his battered sword.
• Dijun used Great Sun Condensation to temper his Sword Aura into countless blazing beams aimed at Ruthless.
• Ruthless used A Flower Blossoms with a Thought, Dominating the World and Flying Immortal Sword Art to transform his Sword Aura into a vast attack that plunged toward Dijun.

Ruthless’s sword barrage battered Dijun, but he emerged from the flames, healed, and prepared to answer with his strongest sword strike. He unveiled Shen Ni’s Finger and began moving the shadowy giant’s fingertip toward Ruthless.

• Ruthless’s Sword Auras overwhelmed Dijun’s defenses and wounded him, but he burned through the attack and stepped out of the flames.
• Dijun praised Ruthless’s skill, healed his wounds, and declared that he would show her his strongest sword strike.
• Ruthless agreed to face the strike as powerful figures across the Primordial World paused to watch.
• Dijun merged his presence with the Demon Emperor Sword and formed an immense shadow bound by chains of divine order.
• Dijun named the technique Shen Ni’s Finger, and the shadow raised its arm and extended a fingertip.

Dijun revealed that his sword strike, Shen Ni, drew on a phantom formed from memories of Shen Ni’s severed finger. Ruthless answered the descending finger with her Great Dao Treasure Vase, and their collision shook the Primordial World, leaving the Fiendish Qi layer torn and unstable.

• Dijun’s strike revealed a phantom of Shen Ni formed through the Demon Emperor Sword and Dijun’s memories.
• Ren worried for Ruthless, but Ruthless faced Shen Ni’s descending finger with solemn resolve.
• Ruthless transformed the damaged Immortal Sword and manifested her Great Dao Treasure Vase.
• Ruthless’s vase devoured Spiritual Qi, Fiendish Qi, Death Qi, Heavenly Dipper Fragments, and Heavenly Dipper Qi.
• Ruthless attacked Shen Ni’s finger with the vase, and their collision sent devastating shockwaves across the Primordial World.
• The impact shattered stars, shook the Heavenly Court and Primordial Stars, and tore apart the Fiendish Qi layer.

Ruthless and Dijun's attacks shattered the Great Dao Treasure Vase and Shen Ni Phantom, but the phantom spoke with Shen Ni's own will and suggested he was still alive and might return. Dijun and Ruthless were injured, while Ren helped Ruthless recover as the Primordial World's Great Powers reeled from Shen Ni's words.

• Ruthless's Great Dao Treasure Vase and Dijun's Shen Ni Phantom shattered in their clash, leaving both combatants injured.
• The Shadow Fiend and other Great Powers watched as the collapsing Shen Ni Phantom seemed to awaken and spoke about Chaos, the Primordial World, and the future.
• The Great Powers realized that Shen Ni himself had spoken, and many concluded that he was alive and might return.
• Dijun flew free of the dissolving phantom, spat blood, and stared in disbelief at the dimmed Demon Emperor Sword.
• Ren caught the injured Ruthless and gave her Yellow Plums, and she said she would recover and refine her Dao Rhyme further.

As the Fourth Heavenly Dipper Layer began to collapse, Ren used his command to halt the sky and demonstrated control over all the Heavenly Dipper Layers. He then summoned the scattered Heavenly Dipper Qi to gather before him.

• Xuanming worried that the Fourth Heavenly Dipper Layer's collapse would badly injure Ren as he refined its Origin.
• Ren released Ruthless, rose into the sky, and commanded the Heavenly Dipper to halt.
• The fractures in the sky stopped spreading, and falling Heavenly Dipper Fragments hung motionless.
• Dijun and the other Great Powers stared in disbelief as Ren controlled the vast Heavenly Dipper Layers.
• Ren commanded the Heavenly Dipper Qi to gather before him, and the fragments and scattered Qi surged toward him.

Ren forged the Heavenly Dipper Tower by gathering Heavenly Dipper Qi and fusing the thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Pearls into it, then used it to repair the damaged fourth Heavenly Dipper Layer. Dijun recognized that Ren had communicated with the Heavenly Dipper Will and asked how he had gained such control from its weak Instinct.

• Ren condensed Heavenly Dipper Qi into a thirty-six-layer Heavenly Dipper Tower and announced that he would use it to repair the Heavenly Dipper Layers.
• Ren fused the thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Pearls with the tower using Heavenly Dipper Flame, forming a special Spirit Treasure.
• Ren sent the completed tower into the cracks in the fourth layer, and the damage gradually healed.
• Dijun explained that the stars and Heavenly Dipper Layers possessed weak Instincts, then asked how Ren had used the Heavenly Dipper Will to gain the power to repair them.

Ren revealed that he had used Dijun’s Shen Ni Phantom to awaken and control the Heavenly Dipper Layers’ survival instinct, then refused to disclose his secret art. Dijun and Taiyi withdrew after warning that the Demon Race would return for the Sky Ranking, while Ren repaired the shattered fourth layer.

• Ren explained that Dijun’s Shen Ni Phantom had intensified the Heavenly Dipper Layers’ survival instinct, enabling him to transform it into Will and gain control of the layers.
• Dijun asked Ren to reveal his method, but Ren refused, and Dijun acknowledged his strength before leaving with the Flame Emperor.
• Taiyi declared that the Demon Race would return to reclaim the Sky Ranking, and Ren accepted the challenge as Taiyi departed with his allies.
• Ruthless asked Ren about the Heavenly Dipper’s condition, and he said it was not fully restored despite most fissures disappearing.
• Ren used a secret art to draw in Heavenly Dipper Qi and completely restored the shattered fourth layer.

Ren used the Heavenly Dipper Pearls to restore the three destroyed Heavenly Dipper Layers and stabilize the damaged fourth, leaving all thirty-six layers connected again. Dijun recognized that Ren had spread the damage across the whole system, weakening it and creating openings for an attack.

• Ren shattered the Heavenly Dipper Pearls and merged them into the Heavenly Dipper Tower, replenishing the damaged fourth layer.
• Ren used the remaining pearls to form fragile outlines of the three destroyed layers.
• Ren commanded the thirty-six layers to connect, drawing Qi and spatial energy from the intact layers to rebuild the damaged ones.
• Bai Ze told Dijun that Ren had restored the Heavenly Dipper Layers.
• Dijun explained that Ren had weakened all thirty-six layers by sacrificing their overall strength to restore the damaged sections.

Ren restored the shattered Heavenly Dipper Layers by sacrificing their quality to preserve all thirty-six layers, a choice the Demon Empress and other powers interpreted as a gamble on their future growth. After feeling humiliated and overshadowed, Kong Xuan resolved to cultivate the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou’s dangerous Demon Scripture, while the Heavenly Dipper was fully repaired.

• Dijun told Bai Ze that there was a difference between being whole and incomplete, prompting Bai Ze to understand Ren’s choice to restore the Heavenly Dipper’s full number of layers.
• The Shadow Fiend explained to the Demon Empress and the Three Demons that Ren hoped the intact Heavenly Dipper Layers could grow, though the gamble could weaken the Heavenly Court’s defenses if it failed.
• Kong Xuan declared that he would cultivate the Demon Scripture left by the Demon Ancestor to overcome his humiliation and grow stronger, then raced back to the Demon Land.
• The Demon Empress and the Three Demons agreed to let Kong Xuan try the Scripture, while warning that its domineering path could destroy his foundation.
• Ren completed the repair, restoring the first three layers and thickening the Heavenly Dipper Qi.