Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen turned the Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Spiritual Array against its leaders after declaring his intention to destroy the palace and rule the Northern Heavens Continent. The failed escape left Black Dragon Supreme facing Zhao Chen alone, and he prepared a final attack.

• Black Dragon Supreme offered surrender, but Zhao Chen rejected it and said he intended to destroy the Dragon Demon Palace and become ruler of the Northern Heavens Continent.
• Zhao Chen took control of the Ancient Spiritual Array, which formed azure sword qi and turned its attack on the Dragon Demon Palace Supremes.
• Black Dragon Supreme burned his blood essence to strengthen his Sovereign Dharma Body, while Yellow Dragon Sovereign and the other Supremes activated a Blood Array to escape.
• Zhao Chen shattered the teleportation Spirit Formation with the Ancient Spiritual Array, killing the Supremes attempting to flee and leaving Yellow Dragon Sovereign alive but broken.
• Black Dragon Supreme roared that he would fight Zhao Chen to the death and gathered the array’s sword qi into one blade for the Grass-Character Sword Art.

Zhao Chen defeated Black Dragon Supreme, and Luo Li accepted the Supreme’s surrender after binding him with a Servant Contract. Black Dragon Supreme persuaded Yellow Dragon Sovereign to submit as well, leaving the Dragon Demon Palace’s two surviving Supremes under Luo Li’s control.

• Zhao Chen destroyed Black Dragon Supreme’s Sovereign Dharma Body and left him too weak to resist.
• Nine Netherworld Dark Bird arrived with Luo Li, and Black Dragon Supreme recognized the danger of opposing her and Zhao Chen.
• Black Dragon Supreme offered Luo Li his Divine Soul and swore loyalty, and Luo Li bound him with a Servant Contract.
• Black Dragon Supreme told Yellow Dragon Sovereign to stay alive so they could return to their homeland and avenge their people.
• Yellow Dragon Sovereign calmed down and greeted Luo Li as his liege.

Luo Li absorbed Dragon Demon Palace into Luo God City, ordered it to stop targeting Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and had the criminals on the academy’s Bounty Ranking executed. Dean Ta Cang told the academy’s elders that Dragon Demon Palace had fallen and that Luo Li would now contend for dominance of the Northern Heavens Continent through Luo God City.

• Luo Li made Black Dragon Supreme and Yellow Dragon Sovereign her servants and ordered Dragon Demon Palace to cease actions against Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Luo Li decreed that everyone on the academy’s Bounty Ranking would be killed, then took control of Dragon Demon Palace’s headquarters and established Luo God City in its place.
• Dean Ta Cang received news of Dragon Demon Palace’s destruction and canceled Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s war preparations.
• Dean Ta Cang told the elders that Luo Li had destroyed Dragon Demon Palace alone and planned to make Luo God City the Northern Heavens Continent’s overlord.
• Elder Moyou objected that most of Dragon Demon Palace’s people had escaped punishment, but Dean Ta Cang revealed that the Bounty Ranking criminals’ heads had been displayed at Bluestone Square.
• Dean Ta Cang declared that Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy must support Luo God City.

After Luo Li unified the Northern Heavens Continent, she brought Black Dragon Supreme to White Dragon Hill to find White Dragon Supreme’s Spirit Treasury and the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar. Black Dragon Supreme admitted his guilt and asked her to deceive White Dragon Supreme’s lingering spiritual remnant, but Zhao Chen rejected the request.

• Luo Li led Black Dragon Supreme to the hidden location of White Dragon Supreme’s Spirit Treasury in White Dragon Hill.
• Black Dragon Supreme argued that the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar could help him fight powerful enemies, but Luo Li and Zhao Chen made clear that he would not control it.
• Black Dragon Supreme revealed that he and White Dragon Supreme came from the same Lower Plane and had hoped to return there to avenge their homeland.
• Black Dragon Supreme admitted that he had caused White Dragon Supreme’s death and asked Zhao Chen to tell the lingering remnant a well-intentioned lie.
• Zhao Chen refused, saying Black Dragon Supreme had already killed White Dragon Supreme and should not deceive him after death.

Zhao Chen persuaded Black Dragon Supreme to repent and revealed that White Dragon Supreme could be revived at a great cost. They entered White Dragon Supreme’s Sovereign Spirit Treasury, where Luo Li and Jiuyou set their sights on the sealed Great Sumeru Demon Pillar.

• Black Dragon Supreme apologized for deceiving White Dragon Supreme and knelt to Zhao Chen after learning White Dragon Supreme might be revived.
• Zhao Chen opened a spatial rift into the Sovereign Spirit Treasury, which had formed from White Dragon Supreme’s Sovereign Sea.
• Luo Li collected Flame Immortal Lotus seeds and left the Devouring Flame Python King alive so the treasury could become a cultivation ground for Luo God City.
• Jiuyou urged the group to seek the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar so she could return to the Nine Nether Palace and support it.
• Zhao Chen and the others reached the treasury’s depths and found the sealed, shattered Great Sumeru Demon Pillar.

Zhao Chen and Luo Li met White Dragon Supreme's spirit at the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, where Black Dragon Supreme promised to abandon his old ways and help revive him. White Dragon Supreme learned that Luo Li led the powerful Luo God Clan and asked whether it could save their fallen homeland.

• Black Dragon Supreme recognized the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, and Luo Li ordered him to stay quiet.
• Zhao Chen summoned White Dragon Supreme's spirit from the white pearl atop the pillar.
• White Dragon Supreme accused Black Dragon Supreme of returning to his old blood-sacrificing ways, but Black Dragon Supreme promised to change and revive him.
• Black Dragon Supreme told White Dragon Supreme that the Dragon Demon Palace had fallen and Luo God City had unified the Northern Heavens Continent.
• White Dragon Supreme recognized Luo Li's connection to the Luo God Clan, and Luo Li revealed that she was its young clan leader and future empress.
• White Dragon Supreme asked Luo Li whether the Luo God Clan could save their fallen homeland.

White Dragon Supreme told Luo Li and Zhao Chen that the Blood Evil Clan had conquered his homeland, but the weakened Luo God Clan could not spare forces to intervene. Luo Li promised to help when she had the ability, and White Dragon Supreme proposed seeking Martial Ancestor Lin Dong, who had once defeated an Extraterrestrial Evil Clan branch.

• White Dragon Supreme recalled how he and the other patriarchs had fled their invaded Lower Plane and how his conflict with Black Dragon Supreme had left his homeland's fate unresolved.
• Luo Li explained that the Blood Evil Clan was likely an Extraterrestrial Evil Clan branch and asked how powerful it was.
• White Dragon Supreme estimated that the Blood Evil Clan rivaled the strongest factions beneath Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Luo Li said the Luo God Clan could not spare resources to attack the Blood Evil Clan, but promised to go when she had the ability.
• Zhao Chen agreed that the Great Thousand World could not know peace while the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan remained.
• White Dragon Supreme suggested finding Martial Ancestor Lin Dong, believing he would deal with the Blood Evil Clan because he had defeated an Extraterrestrial Evil Clan branch before.

Luo Li and Zhao Chen discussed the difficulty of reaching Martial Ancestor and seeking his help against the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. After White Dragon Supreme entrusted them with his spirit pearl and the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, Zhao Chen cleansed the weapon, leaving Black Dragon Supreme to atone under Luo Li’s warning.

• Luo Li and White Dragon Supreme agreed that reaching Martial Ancestor in the distant Martial Realm and securing his help would be extremely difficult.
• Black Dragon Supreme pledged loyalty to Zhao Chen and asked him to help avenge the Blood Evil Clan’s destruction of their homeland.
• White Dragon Supreme gave Luo Li the White Dragon Spirit Pearl and the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, then vanished as his Supreme Spiritual Body faded.
• The Great Sumeru Demon Pillar broke free of its seal, and Luo Li warned Black Dragon Supreme never to slaughter innocents again.
• Zhao Chen used the Thunder Emperor Art to disperse the pillar’s resentment and cleanse it, renaming it the Great Sumeru Sacred Pillar.

Mu Chen entered Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and discovered that Yang Hong, whom Luo Li had killed on the Spirit Road, had returned to life and joined the academy. When Yang Hong provoked Mu Chen, senior student An Ran struck him and declared that anyone who opposed Luo Li was her enemy.

• Mu Chen arrived at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and recognized fellow King-Sealing Prodigies Bing Qing and Mu Kui.
• Mu Chen saw Yang Hong alive and learned that he had been revived and become a powerful student at the academy.
• Mu Chen considered that Ji Xuan might also have been revived, then resolved to face Yang Hong and future rivals while admiring Luo Li.
• Yang Hong and Mu Chen traded insults, and Yang Hong unleashed spiritual energy against him.
• An Ran appeared, slapped Yang Hong twice, and declared that whoever opposed Luo Li was her enemy.

An Ran revealed that Luo Li had become a force to be reckoned with at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, while Mu Chen resolved to catch up to her. Before leaving for Tianluo Continent, Luo Li recruited Su Xuan to manage the Luo God Society and laid out her plans to strengthen her position for the Luo God Clan’s future.

• An Ran had Yang Hong dragged away after beating him and warned the freshmen that Luo Li was a taboo even Dean Ta Cang would not dare cross.
• An Ran explained that Luo Li had founded the Luo God Society and invited the freshmen to join its ranks of elite students.
• Mu Chen wondered what would happen to Yang Hong, then vowed to work hard and catch up to Luo Li.
• Luo Li asked Su Xuan to take charge of the Luo God Society while she was away, and Su Xuan agreed.
• Luo Li explained that the Luo God Society and Luo God City were essential to protecting the Luo God Clan, then promised Su Xuan they would one day stand at the summit of the Great Thousand World.

Little Nine Netherbird explained the Great Thousand Domain’s power structure and her troubled Nine Nether Palace as she traveled there with Luo Li and Zhao Chen. Luo Li and Zhao Chen considered taking the Blood Eagle King’s place among the Nine Kings, while Little Nine Netherbird prepared to settle her faction’s affairs.

• Little Nine Netherbird told Luo Li that the Great Thousand Domain was one of the Northern Border’s seven top factions, ruled by the Three Emperors and Nine Kings, and that she herself was the Nine Nether King.
• Little Nine Netherbird explained that the Blood Eagle King had repeatedly harassed the Nine Nether Palace, which lacked Supreme Realm experts, and that the Spirit Eye Emperor supported him while the Heavenly Vulture Emperor backed her.
• Little Nine Netherbird described the Sleep Emperor’s role as the Great Luo Domain Lord’s sole contact within the Great Thousand Domain.
• Luo Li considered replacing the Blood Eagle King among the Nine Kings, and Zhao Chen asked whether he could become one too.
• Little Nine Netherbird said Zhao Chen was strong enough to defeat the Blood Eagle King and take his place.

Little Nine Netherbird returned to Great Luo Heaven with Zhao Chen and Luo Li and reached Nine Nether Palace, where her loyal followers welcomed her home. She found the palace still standing, though its future had been uncertain during her long absence.

• Little Nine Netherbird announced her return at Great Luo Heaven's gate, and the guards admitted her after the Thunder Emperor released his Supreme Realm pressure.
• Little Nine Netherbird worried that Nine Nether Palace might have been disbanded or annexed, while Luo Li believed the Heavenly Vulture Emperor had protected it.
• Zhao Chen spotted Nine Nether Palace and reassured Little Nine Netherbird as their vessel approached its mountain stronghold.
• Tang Bing and Tang Rou were instructing more than a thousand followers when they noticed the approaching vessel.
• Tang Bing recognized Little Nine Netherbird, and Tang Rou rushed forward in tears to welcome her back.

Little Nine Netherbird learned how the Blood Eagle King and his allies had weakened Nine Nether Palace, then set out with Zhao Chen and Luo Li to confront him. She destroyed his hall and declared that she had come to kill him, leaving the two sides on the brink of battle.

• Little Nine Netherbird learned that the Blood Eagle King had seized Nine Nether Palace’s cities, withheld its Sovereign Spirit Liquid, and taken its Great Luo Golden Pool slot.
• She discovered that Cao Feng had repaid Nine Nether Palace’s support by defecting to Blood Eagle Hall, and she vowed to punish him.
• Little Nine Netherbird gave Tang Bing Sovereign Spirit Liquid to help her break through, then departed with Zhao Chen and Luo Li as Tang Bing ordered Nine Nether Palace to reclaim its lost territory.
• The Blood Eagle King heard that Little Nine Netherbird had returned and dismissed the threat, but an urgent report soon announced that she had arrived at Blood Eagle Hall.
• Little Nine Netherbird kicked apart the hall, threw the wounded Wu Tian and Cao Feng before the Blood Eagle King, and declared that she was there to kill him.

Little Nine Netherbird killed the Blood Eagle King and destroyed his followers after reclaiming the Blood Eagle Hall for the Nine Nether Palace. Though she anticipated retaliation from the Spirit Eye Emperor, Zhao Chen believed they could handle it and planned to grow stronger by consuming the Blood Eagle King's spirit liquid.

• The Blood Eagle King attacked Little Nine Netherbird, but she tore apart his assault, killed him, and burned his body into spirit liquid.
• Little Nine Netherbird claimed the Blood Eagle Hall for the Nine Nether Palace and warned others against offending her.
• Little Nine Netherbird burned Wu Tian and Cao Feng, including the Nine Nether Palace traitor, without asking him why he betrayed them.
• Little Nine Netherbird acknowledged that the Spirit Eye Emperor would likely retaliate for the Blood Eagle King's death.
• Zhao Chen reassured Little Nine Netherbird, noting his recent breakthrough to the Fourth-grade Sovereign Realm and his plan to consume the spirit liquid to advance further.

Little Nine Netherbird gave Luo Li forty thousand Sovereign Spirit Liquid for her cultivation and prepared to return to Nine Nether Palace with Zhao Chen. The Spirit Eye Emperor arrived to punish her for killing the Blood Eagle King, but Little Nine Netherbird defied him and challenged his authority.

• Little Nine Netherbird explained that Blood Eagle Hall had accumulated substantial Sovereign Spirit Liquid, while Zhao Chen said he would soon reach the Fifth-grade Supreme Realm.
• Zhao Chen urged Luo Li not to rush her cultivation and suggested she use the Great Luo Golden Pool to cultivate the Luo God Dharma Body after reaching the Supreme Realm.
• Little Nine Netherbird promised to provide Luo Li with the resources she needed and transferred forty thousand Sovereign Spirit Liquid from Blood Eagle Hall's treasury to her.
• Before Little Nine Netherbird, Zhao Chen, and the others could return to Nine Nether Palace, the Eighth-grade Sovereign Spirit Eye Emperor appeared and accused her of killing the Blood Eagle King.
• Little Nine Netherbird admitted that she had killed the Blood Eagle King and asked the Spirit Eye Emperor what he could do about it.

Little Nine Netherbird confronted Spirit Eye Emperor over Blood Eagle King's death and refused to submit to his judgment. Zhao Chen intervened, overwhelmed Spirit Eye Emperor with a black phoenix claw, and proposed that he join the Nine Kings.

• Little Nine Netherbird argued that killing Blood Eagle King was a private grievance allowed by the Great Luo Domain Lord's rules, then suggested a Nine Nether Palace commander take Blood Eagle King's vacant seat among the Nine Kings.
• Spirit Eye Emperor tried to capture Little Nine Netherbird with his eye-based divine technique, but a black-robed figure shattered it.
• Zhao Chen introduced himself as the Thunder Emperor of Nine Nether Palace and revealed that he had advanced to the Fifth-grade Supreme Realm.
• Spirit Eye Emperor attacked Zhao Chen, but Zhao Chen's enormous black phoenix claw overwhelmed him and forced him to retreat.
• Zhao Chen taunted Spirit Eye Emperor and asked whether he could step down so Little Nine Netherbird could take his place, then proposed that Zhao Chen become one of the new Nine Kings.

Little Nine Netherbird and Zhao Chen forced Spirit Eye Emperor to retreat, securing Nine Nether Palace’s standing in the Great Thousand Domain. At the Nine Kings Conference, Little Nine Netherbird introduced the assembled kings and openly called out those under Spirit Eye Emperor’s command, leaving them terrified.

• Spirit Eye Emperor fled after Little Nine Netherbird and Zhao Chen challenged him, while Little Nine Netherbird said they had established their foothold in the Great Thousand Domain.
• Zhao Chen checked in and received the Great Thousand Alchemy Scripture, then considered how to combine his fire with Little Nine Netherbird’s flames for pill refinement.
• The Great Thousand Domain convened the Nine Kings Conference early after Nine Nether King’s return, Blood Eagle King’s death, and Spirit Eye Emperor’s defeat.
• Little Nine Netherbird brought Zhao Chen into Great Thousand Hall and identified Asura King, Mountain-Splitting King, and the other kings.
• Little Nine Netherbird began naming the kings under Spirit Eye Emperor’s command, frightening them with the reminder of Blood Eagle King’s fate.

Little Nine Netherbird forced Spirit Eye Emperor to step down, became the new Nine Nether Emperor, and appointed the black-robed Thunder Emperor to the Nine Kings. The pair secured a foothold in the Great Thousand Domain and turned their attention to the Northern Border.

• Spirit Eye Emperor demanded that Nine Nether King answer for Blood Eagle King's death, but Heavenly Vulture Emperor openly supported her and Sleep Emperor remained indifferent.
• Little Nine Netherbird threatened Spirit Eye Emperor with Blood Eagle King's fate unless he stepped down, and Heavenly Vulture Emperor warned him not to defy the Domain Lord.
• Sleep Emperor told Spirit Eye Emperor to accept the decision, stripping him of his status as one of the Three Emperors.
• Spirit Eye Emperor took Blood Eagle King's place among the Nine Kings, while Little Nine Netherbird declared herself Nine Nether Emperor and appointed the black-robed Thunder Emperor as a new king.
• Zhao Chen congratulated Nine Nether Emperor and reflected that their next destination was the Northern Border beyond the Great Thousand Domain.

After Nine Nether Emperor’s victory, Nine Nether Palace received congratulations and prepared to send Luo Li and Tang Bing to the Great Luo Golden Pool. At Golden Pool Peak, Spirit Eye King tried to provoke Thunder Emperor King, who warned him that he might lose his life.

• The Great Thousand Domain’s forces brought gifts to Nine Nether Palace after Nine Nether Emperor destroyed Blood Eagle Hall and replaced Spirit Eye Emperor among the Three Emperors.
• Tang Rou asked Luo Li about Thunder Emperor King, and Luo Li said they had lived and died together.
• Luo Li accepted one of Nine Nether Palace’s two Great Luo Golden Pool places and gave Tang Rou Black God Thunder Liquid.
• At Golden Pool Peak, Spirit Eye King challenged Thunder Emperor King and arranged for numerous forces to block Nine Nether Palace’s commanders from the competition.
• Thunder Emperor King mocked Spirit Eye King’s new faction and warned that he might kill him.

Zhao Chen backed Nine Nether Palace’s claim to the Great Luo Golden Pool, and Luo Li swept away every challenger with one sword. The kings competed for the remaining spot, which sold for twenty thousand Sovereign Spirit Liquid.

• Spirit Eye King held back from challenging Zhao Chen, while Zhao Chen declared that everyone from Nine Nether Palace would enter the Great Luo Golden Pool.
• Heavenly Vulture Emperor announced the battle, and Luo Li told Tang Bing to stay out of the fight.
• Luo Li defeated the assembled Supreme Realm cultivators with a single sword strike, leaving only herself and Tang Bing on the platform.
• Zhao Chen claimed three of the four cultivation spots for Luo Li, Tang Bing, and Tang Rou, and argued that Nine Nether Palace could have claimed all four under the rules.
• Spirit Eye King left in anger, and the kings bid against one another until the final spot reached twenty thousand Sovereign Spirit Liquid.