Chapter Summaries

Evergreen Gate fought the six ancient factions in a devastating Saint War, with its Dou Sheng experts and puppet armies overwhelming their opponents. As Xiao Yan searched for a chance to break through, Wu Hao appeared on the battlefield radiating terrifying killing intent.

• Evergreen Gate's armies and the six ancient factions clashed, while Dou Sheng experts fought above the Nine Heavens.
• Xue Gan and the other ancient faction experts found their Dou Qi and techniques overwhelmed by Evergreen Gate's strange, superior power.
• Evergreen Gate's fighters killed several Dou Sheng from the Xue Clan, Sword Palace, and Taishi Clan, while its armies pushed back the six factions.
• Xiao Yan watched the battle, resolved to grow stronger, and sought a peak Dou Zong to challenge in hopes of breaking through to Dou Zun.
• The Blood Mist shifted as Wu Hao emerged from the void, and Xiao Yan sensed the overwhelming killing intent surrounding him.

As the Evergreen Gate gained the upper hand, Xue Gan and the other ancient powers summoned their ancestral weapons and the Taiqing Palace brought forth its founder’s image. The battle resumed with the Evergreen Gate’s living War Hammer absorbing attacks from the assembled relics and awakening toward the strength of a peak Sixth Stage Fighting Saint.

• Xue Gan summoned the Xue Clan’s Dragon Slaying Cleaver, while the Taiqing Palace, Sword Palace, and Taishi Clan revealed their own ancestral weapons and sacred image.
• Fusang City and the Triple Gate also displayed their artifacts, bringing the total to five weapons and one portrait against the Evergreen Gate.
• Xue Gan burned his lifespan to empower the Dragon Slaying Cleaver and threatened to destroy the Evergreen Gate.
• An elder of the Evergreen Gate manifested the War Hammer’s true form, and observers sensed that the weapon was alive and could suppress a Fourth Stage Fighting Saint even unactivated.
• The six weapons and the Taiqing Palace’s Spirit Body joined the battle, but their attacks failed to shake the War Hammer as its aura approached a peak Sixth Stage Fighting Saint.

The Xue Family awakened its dying Ancient Ancestor, who burned his life to unleash Six-star Dou Sheng power against Evergreen Gate. Zhai Tianxing emerged from Evergreen Gate and stopped him, leaving the battle under the pressure of a peak Six-star Dou Sheng.

• Xue Gan called for the Xue Family's Ancient Ancestor after the War Hammer overwhelmed the family's experts and weapons.
• The Ancient Ancestor emerged with four other Five-star Dou Shengs, revealing the Xue Family's hidden foundation.
• The Ancient Ancestor burned his remaining life to unleash a powerful attack on Evergreen Gate.
• Zhai Tianxing and two other alchemists emerged from the chaotic land behind Evergreen Gate.
• Zhai Tianxing blocked the Ancient Ancestor's attack with one finger, forcing him back and revealing his peak Six-star Dou Sheng strength.

The six factions summoned their ancient foundations to overwhelm the Evergreen Gate, but Senior Nangong’s Seventh Realm power gravely wounded them. Xue Family's Ancient Ancestor sacrificed himself to send the Xue family away, and he died as the clan escaped.

• The Taishi Clan summoned its peak Fifth Stage Ancient Ancestor, and Taiqing Palace, Sword Palace, Fusang City, and Triple Gate revealed their own powerful foundations.
• The six factions attacked together, prompting the woman in white to ask Senior Nangong to act.
• Senior Nangong appeared as a towering projection and used a surging river to crush the six peak Fifth Stage Dou Saints, leaving them gravely wounded.
• Xue Family's Ancient Ancestor burned his remaining life to recover his strength and opened spatial passages to send the Xue family away.
• Xue Family's Ancient Ancestor vanished in the flames and died after Xue Gan cried out as he was carried away.

The Evergreen Gate ended the Saint War, then unleashed a vast Half-Saint puppet army to destroy the Xue Clan and four other great factions and purge their allies. Dragon Gates and three Evergreen Gate branches established the sect’s new order across the Central Plains, leaving countless people hoping to join and seek Eternal Life.

• After the six great factions were defeated, the Evergreen Gate’s forces cleaned up the battlefield and disappeared for three days.
• Two men and three women emerged from the Evergreen Gate with more than a hundred thousand powerful puppets and led armies toward five of the six great factions.
• Wu Hao led a puppet army into the Xue Clan’s ancestral land, slaughtered its defenders, and ordered the clan’s remaining resources seized.
• Puppet armies breached Taiqing Palace, Sword Palace, the Taishi Clan, and Fusang City, while the Evergreen Gate also purged allied forces and took over their territories.
• The Evergreen Gate raised Dragon Gates across the Central Plains, drawing new recruits, and its Pill Hall, Commerce Hall, and Artifact Hall established branches and helped impose a new order.

After Evergreen Gate flourished following the Saint War, Lin Qingyun decided to take the women in his life on a journey. He visited Xi Yue and their daughter Xi Xi, faced Xi Yue’s resentment over his long absence, and invited her and Qinglin to join him as they set out for anywhere they wished.

• Evergreen Gate drew crowds of hopeful recruits and grew rapidly under Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and the others’ efforts.
• Lin Qingyun told Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei that he wanted to take them out for a stroll, then left to visit Xi Yue and Xi Xi.
• Xi Xi recognized Lin Qingyun as her father and threw herself into his arms, moving him deeply.
• Xi Yue confronted Lin Qingyun over neglecting her, and he embraced her as she struggled against him.
• Qinglin arrived, and Lin Qingyun invited her to join them on a journey with Xi Yue and the others.
• Lin Qingyun said they could travel anywhere they wanted, even to the ends of the earth.

Lin Qingyun wandered the Central Plains under a false identity, defeated the Pill Tower's three giants in an alchemy contest, and helped Evergreen Gate grow while traveling with his companions. At the end of three years, his group reached the Demon Country and its Empress agreed to trust him to bring it out of the turbulent currents of nothingness.

• Lin Qingyun left Evergreen Gate after making Lu Mu Pill Hall master and entrusting the sect's affairs to Zi Yi.
• A year into his travels, Lin Qingyun competed against Xuan Kongzi and the other two Pill Tower giants in Qingfeng Town, and they conceded defeat after half a month of refining.
• Xiao Yan learned that Wu Hao had surpassed him among the younger generation, while Murong Yanlan also challenged him to improve.
• Lin Qingyun traveled the Central Plains for another two years, evaded Hall of Souls pursuers, and then led his companions into the Southern Region, where some Magical Beast races joined Evergreen Gate.
• At the end of the third year, Lin Qingyun's group entered the Demon Country and met its Empress, who agreed to trust him to bring the country out of the turbulent currents of nothingness.

Lin Qingyun and his companions reached the border of the Southern Region and Central Plains just as the legendary Light and Shadow Space appeared, and they learned of its treasures and deadly entry restrictions. Lin Qingyun hinted that he had a way for the group to enter, and half a month later Qinshan Town filled with experts gathering for the opening.

• Lin Qingyun stopped at the Light and Shadow Space and heard an old man explain that the dangerous realm had been left behind by two Dou Di and appeared every five hundred to a thousand years.
• Lin Qingyun gave the old man a bottle of pills for the story, and the old man fell after Xiao Yi Xian tripped him with a wooden branch.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xi Yue argued over how severely to punish the old man, while Lin Qingyun told Xi Yue not to teach Xi Xi violent behavior.
• Lin Qingyun asked whether the group wanted to explore the Light and Shadow Space, and he claimed he had a clever plan despite their realms exceeding the entry limit.
• Half a month later, experts from major factions and hidden powerful figures arrived in Qinshan Town for the opening, while Lin Qingyun's group stayed in a quiet courtyard.

Lin Qingyun, Xi Yue, and Xi Xi entered the Light and Shadow Space, where the group was scattered and they found themselves in a dangerous underground realm. After Huang Wen approached them and ran off, he returned as a transformed attacker, revealing a ghost-faced insect hidden inside his body.

• The Light and Shadow Space opened, and Lin Qingyun entered with Xi Yue, Xi Xi, and the others.
• Lin Qingyun saw a vision of two ancient Dou Di battling before he and his family were transported to an underground cavern, separated from their companions.
• Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue teased each other as they walked through the gloomy underground world with Xi Xi.
• Huang Wen appeared and claimed he meant no harm, so Xi Yue and Lin Qingyun told him to leave.
• Huang Wen later attacked them with peak Dou Zong strength, and Lin Qingyun burned his body away with spirit flame, exposing a six-winged, eight-clawed ghost-faced insect.

Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue fought the Gu mothers in a strange desert and destroyed them, while Xi Xi briefly revealed an unusual power before falling asleep. Lin Qingyun then found a Green Paulownia Leaf hidden in the Gu insects’ cave dwelling.

• Lin Qingyun recognized and destroyed an Eight-legged Ghost-faced Blood Gu, then led Xi Yue and Xi Xi into a desert illusion beside a pool.
• The insect women attacked Xi Yue, but she suppressed and killed the Gu mothers with her sword.
• Xi Xi briefly released a powerful aura that frightened the Gu mothers before Xi Yue finished them off.
• Lin Qingyun collected the magic cores, and Xi Yue questioned him about the power he had sensed; he suspected Xi Xi was extraordinary.
• Lin Qingyun found human bones, larvae, and poisonous eggs in a cave dwelling and burned them, revealing a Green Paulownia Leaf.

Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue followed a Bronze Betel Leaf map through the Light and Shadow Space, whose hazards and strange cycles of light and darkness revealed its ancient nature. They reached a barrier at the edge of the space, nearing the place marked by the character “Art.”

• Lin Qingyun discovered that the Bronze Betel Leaf mapped the Light and Shadow Space and pointed toward a possible Burning Art inheritance.
• Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue crossed the desert, collecting ancient treasures before emerging onto a grassland where vast numbers of light and dark exotic beasts fought.
• A Dou Zong was overwhelmed and killed by the light exotic beasts, but the Bronze Betel Leaf later sent out a ripple that dispersed the beasts around Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue.
• Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue crossed the plain and a dangerous forest, where the shifting sun and moon intertwined the powers of light and darkness.
• Lin Qingyun and Xi Yue found human corpses left by a battle between people, then continued toward a barrier at the edge of the space.

Lin Qingyun and his companions crossed the haunted swamp, used two Bronze Betel Leaves to enter the hidden space, and reached the Light Altar. There, Lin Qingyun recognized the Flame Emperor’s aura and confirmed that the Burning Art was a deliberate backup plan left behind in the Light and Shadow Space.

• Lin Qingyun, Xi Yue, and Xi Xi crossed the swamp and found signs of battles fought by those who had passed through earlier.
• Lin Qingyun joined two Bronze Betel Leaves, revealed the true key, and opened the Spatial Barrier.
• The group entered the Light and Shadow Space and approached the massive Light Altar beneath the Flame Emperor’s illusory figure.
• Lin Qingyun reunited with Xi Yue’s acquaintances, including Zi Yan, as other powerful visitors gathered around the altar.
• Lin Qingyun sensed the Flame Emperor’s aura in the altar’s seven-colored firelight and realized the Burning Art was the Flame Emperor’s backup plan.

Lin Qingyun discovered that the Light Altar held the Burning Art and an Extraterrestrial Fiend sealed beneath the Radiant Light Cauldron. After the inheritance chose Xi Xi and Lin Qingyun drove off the attackers, the seal broke, and the fiend emerged as a Demonic Finger.

• Lin Qingyun recognized the Radiant Light Cauldron and the Burning Art’s script, and suspected an Extraterrestrial Fiend was sealed beneath the altar.
• Lin Qingyun, Ya Fei, and the others climbed the altar, where the Burning Art appeared in cyan Qi after Zi Yan destroyed the light barrier.
• Several people rushed to seize the inheritance, but the cauldron’s seven-colored flames killed them, and the Burning Art chose the sleeping Xi Xi.
• More attackers tried to take the inheritance, and Lin Qingyun killed them with several palms; their blood flowed beneath the cauldron and stirred the seal.
• Lin Qingyun sent the women away and prepared to fight as the Radiant Light Cauldron was thrown aside and a Demonic Finger broke free, battling the seven-colored Divine Chains.

Lin Qingyun fought the Extraterrestrial Fiend’s severed finger in the Light and Shadow Space, destroyed its remaining will, and took the finger bone away for suppression. The women escaped, and news of the fiend spread across the Central Plains before attention shifted to the survivors and rising geniuses.

• The severed finger released demonic aura and controlled people near the altar, so Yun Yun, Xi Yue, and Zi Yan stopped the crowd from approaching.
• Lin Qingyun battled the finger bone, breaking its defenses and driving back its demonic shadow while the women escaped through a passage he opened.
• Lin Qingyun returned to the women with the Radiant Light Cauldron, saying he had slain the finger bone’s remaining will but could not destroy it.
• The group left together, while Lin Qingyun’s nearly exhausted clone admitted he could no longer accompany them on their trip.
• News identifying the finger bone as an Extraterrestrial Fiend spread through the Central Plains, and survivors of the Light and Shadow Space quietly kept their gains as new geniuses emerged.

A year after the Light and Shadow Space, the Central Plains revered Evergreen Gate’s God of Slaughter and Goddess of War while stories of the Extraterrestrial Fiend faded. Wu Hao and Nangong the Madman tracked a fiend’s presence to Emperor Falling Valley and uncovered a powerful Demon Hall hidden in the void.

• Stories spread about the Heavenly Ranking, which placed Evergreen Gate’s God of Slaughter and Goddess of War beyond the other Heavenly Prodigies.
• A storyteller recounted the God of Slaughter’s supposed battle at Mangdang Mountain before fleeing without finishing the tale.
• Wu Hao told Nangong the Madman that his master’s refined finger bone had led him to an Extraterrestrial Fiend’s presence at Emperor Falling Valley.
• Nangong the Madman shattered the void above the valley with his hammer, revealing a palace concealed in the darkness.
• Wu Hao and Nangong the Madman recognized the palace as a Demon Hall and reacted to its immense pressure.

Wu Hao and Nangong the Madman confronted the Ice Emperor, who had become an evil demon, and Wu Hao was drawn into a supernatural palace illusion. Wu Hao fought his way through its seductive visions and found a possible escape route, but a monster emerged from the fairies’ shattered remains.

• The Ice Emperor moved and revealed one ice-blue eye and one dark eye, while Wu Hao vanished before Nangong the Madman could stop him.
• Wu Hao entered a palace illusion filled with celestial maidens and music, but repeated attempts to leave returned him to the same place.
• Wu Hao used the character “kill” and a Blood Sea of mountains and rivers to attack the fairies, but they broke free and his constructed scene collapsed.
• Wu Hao followed a faint sense of falseness toward a breakthrough and used Tai Chi to repel several fairies.
• The shattered fairies joined together and formed an eerie monster.

Wu Hao fought through endless monsters in a false world while Nangong the Madman battled the Extraterrestrial Fiend in chaos. When the fiend recovered his strength and threatened everyone, the Sect Master of Evergreen Gate appeared and destroyed him, leaving the danger seemingly ended.

• Wu Hao recognized the peaceful land as an illusion and fought through a flood of monsters until they overwhelmed him.
• Nangong the Madman drove back the Extraterrestrial Fiend, while Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi watched and guarded against its escape.
• Wu Hao emerged bloodied from the illusionary world, and Nangong the Madman healed him as he neared a breakthrough.
• The Extraterrestrial Fiend recovered some strength and attacked, but a shattered object summoned the Sect Master of Evergreen Gate's projection.
• The Sect Master of Evergreen Gate stopped the fiend from fleeing, shattered its saber, and struck its body apart.
• The Sect Master's power dispersed the fiend's black energy and demonic spirit, bringing the battle to a standstill.

The hazy figure crossed the Lost Land, destroying its fiends and forbidden regions while Wu Hao, Gu Yuan, and the others followed. As a terrifying hand emerged from a black hole and unleashed the Finger of Oblivion, the figure stopped and the world was driven to the brink of collapse.

• The hazy figure led Wu Hao, Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and the others toward the Lost Land, where Gu Yuan recognized the place as the source of the ancient era’s destruction.
• The hazy figure entered the Lost Land and annihilated the monsters and fiends that attacked or were buried there.
• The hazy figure broke through an inverted region and crossed other forbidden areas, easily suppressing the fiends within them.
• An Extraterrestrial Fiend called the hazy figure more terrifying than the Supreme King as distant voices announced that the Supreme King had awakened.
• A black light covered the world, and a hand emerged from a strange black hole and pointed the Finger of Oblivion, bringing the remaining living beings to the brink of death.

Wu Hao and the others faced a terrifying woman in white whose filthy blood unleashed a destructive black beast, while Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation fought to protect them. Lin Qingyun's Black Flame destroyed the beast, but a wisp of black qi remained.

• Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation collapsed the life-draining finger, which transformed into a heart seized by a mysterious hand as powerful figures watched from afar.
• A woman in white formed from black mist, and her presence filled the Lost Land with an overwhelming threat of death.
• A Nether Phoenix tried to flee but was erased completely, frightening the living beings into prostrating themselves.
• Filthy blood fell from the woman's dress and became a black giant beast that devastated the Lost Land and attacked Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation.
• Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation blasted the beast apart and burned its filthy blood with Black Flame, leaving a wisp of black qi behind.

Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation defeated the woman in white and captured a drop of ominous Black Blood, but the blood showed him glimpses of an ancient altar, a corpse-filled Black River, and a vast creature hidden in mist. The creature's enormous pupils then appeared, staring into the void.

• The woman in white unleashed darkness that cracked Lin Qingyun's Manifestation Incarnation, but he recovered, fought through her attacks, and overpowered her with Chaotic Fire.
• Lin Qingyun's incarnation burned the woman in white with Chaotic Fire and captured the strange Black Blood she revealed.
• Lin Qingyun looked into the Black Blood and saw an ancient altar bearing a beating golden heart that threatened to overwhelm his consciousness.
• Lin Qingyun saw a Black River filled with terrifying corpses and an enormous, mist-shrouded mouth swallowing them.
• As Lin Qingyun tried to look elsewhere, the mist surged and enormous pupils appeared, staring into the void.