Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Futu Yun’s attack on the Western Heaven War Emperor draws in Demon Subduing King Qin Tian, who intervenes to prevent a wider conflict among the Great Thousand World’s factions. Futu Yun wounds Qin Tian but spares him because they are both Demon-Slaying Kings.
• Futu Yun then lets Mandala kill the opposing factions’ Heavenly Sovereigns, while Pagoda Ancient Clan forces kill Earthly Sovereigns who refuse to submit. Their bodies are piled in a grim display at Luo God City.
• The Green Shirt Sword Saint arrives to stop the bloodshed. Because Futu Yun once helped him, Futu Yun accepts his mediation—but first asks him for a wedding gift for Luo Li. The Sword Saint gives Luo Li a sword strike, which Futu Yun softens so she can absorb and study its sword intent.
• Qin Tian announces that the Divine Beast Origin is about to open. This confirms Futu Yun’s earlier claim that he was waiting for it before acting to rescue the Flame Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• Futu Yun demonstrates both overwhelming force and calculated restraint: he spares Qin Tian, honors the Sword Saint’s request, and uses the occasion to help Luo Li. His ability to predict the Divine Beast Origin’s opening leaves others questioning the source of his power.
• Mandala carries out Futu Yun’s retaliation, defeating the enemy Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Qin Tian tries to mediate but is forced into conflict when Futu Yun threatens the War Emperor; despite his injury, he later delivers the announcement about the Divine Beast Origin.
• The Green Shirt Sword Saint balances mediation with gratitude to Futu Yun, giving Luo Li a chance to learn from his sword intent.
• Xiao Xiao, believing Futu Yun had dismissed her with an excuse, has become resentful and withdrawn. She had nearly taken her own life over the Flame Emperor’s fate, and she has cut ties with her former friend Wen Qingxuan because of Wen’s engagement to Futu Yun. The revelation that Futu Yun was telling the truth may alter how she understands his delay.

Significant themes

• The cost of vengeance and restraint: Futu Yun’s retaliation is devastating, but the Sword Saint’s intervention prevents the conflict from expanding further.
• Gratitude and obligation: Futu Yun repays the Sword Saint’s kindness, while also showing that he distinguishes between enemies and people who have helped him.
• Misunderstanding and trust: Xiao Xiao’s despair and resentment stem from believing Futu Yun lied, underscoring how uncertainty can damage relationships.
• Power and hidden intentions: Futu Yun’s apparent strength and knowledge raise suspicions, while the chapter reveals that others misunderstand his cultivation plans: he intends to pursue the Great Solar Undying Body, not the Endless Light Body.

Key plot points

• Xiao Xiao visits Wen Qingxuan to apologize for previously misunderstanding Futu Yun and cutting ties with her. She hopes to repair their friendship—and fears Futu Yun might otherwise refuse to help rescue her father.
• Wen Qingxuan accepts her apology, understanding that Xiao Xiao’s panic had been worsened by a mysterious illness. She draws Xiao Xiao into a playful reconciliation.
• Elsewhere in the Wen Family, Futu Yun’s cultivation chamber collapses as he emerges with his newly formed Great Solar Undying Body, a colossal golden Dharma Body marked with sun-like patterns and a blazing halo.
• Futu Yun realizes his version is exceptionally powerful, potentially ranking among the top ten Supreme Dharma Bodies. Its strength comes from the Nine Yang Ganoderma, Void Great Sun Fruit, Immortal Divine Leaf, and the Immortal Golden Body origins of nine Earthly Sovereigns and one Heavenly Sovereign.
• Its nine Great Sun Crystals and Tenth Sun will unlock gradually as Futu Yun advances. Despite his formidable foundation, his unusual body makes progress exceptionally difficult.
• Futu Yun’s next goal is to travel to the Boundless Fire Territory and obtain a cultivation method he has long wanted.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Xiao shows remorse and vulnerability, taking the initiative to restore her bond with Wen Qingxuan.
• Wen Qingxuan demonstrates generosity and loyalty: she forgives Xiao Xiao and seeks to repair their relationship, partly to support Futu Yun’s connection with her.
• Futu Yun gains a powerful new Dharma Body but recognizes that its potential comes with demanding cultivation requirements.

Significant themes

• Forgiveness and reconciliation: Xiao Xiao’s apology and Wen Qingxuan’s acceptance mend a damaged friendship.
• Power built through sacrifice and cultivation: Futu Yun’s Dharma Body draws strength from rare treasures and absorbed origins.
• Potential versus difficulty: Exceptional power does not guarantee rapid advancement; Futu Yun’s breakthroughs will require patience and major cultivation milestones.

Key plot points and events

• Futu Yun arrives in the Divine Beast Origin, a land scarred by the ancient invasion of the Extraterrestrial Clan. The war devastated the Great Thousand World, and the invaders still threaten to return.
• Uninterested in other treasures, Futu Yun focuses on the dangerous Myriad Beast Graveyard, where three ancient Super Divine Beasts—the Ancient Undying Bird, Ancient Desolate Beast, and Ancient Myriad Spirit Bird—died.
• He joins with his two incarnations and uses a formation to combine their energy. By adapting the Three Beasts Desolate Art to his One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique, he plans to refine each beast’s inheritance blood essence.
• Futu Yun absorbs the Ancient Desolate Beast’s inheritance, while his incarnations take the other two inheritances. Their shared history and merged auras make the three inheritances easier to refine together.
• His cultivation rises from First-grade Sovereign to Fourth Grade Sovereign, and the bond between his original body and incarnations strengthens.

Character developments

• Futu Yun shows confidence and selectivity, dismissing treasures he already surpasses and pursuing the rare inheritances he specifically needs.
• He demonstrates ingenuity by combining techniques from different worlds and adding the Demon Ape Transformation to help refine the Ancient Desolate Beast’s bloodline.
• His two incarnations function as coordinated partners, enabling him to pursue all three inheritances at once.

Significant themes

• The lasting cost of war: The ancient invasion destroyed powerful factions and severed the bloodlines of rare divine beasts; the threat remains unresolved.
• Power through inheritance and adaptation: Futu Yun grows stronger by claiming lost legacies and blending techniques creatively.
• Unity and cooperation: The three bodies’ combined strength depends on their energies and auras working in harmony.
• Extinction and decline: Once-mighty species have vanished or diminished after losing their inheritances.

Character interactions

• Futu Yun coordinates closely with his two incarnations, using them to form the battle formation and absorb separate inheritances.
• The chapter also recalls how the Three Beast Venerables once joined forces against the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan; their merged auras now help Futu Yun unite their legacies.

Key plot points and events

• Futu Yun rescues the Flame Emperor by exchanging the sealed space holding him with a region of intact space. The Flame Emperor throws a Buddha’s Fury Lotus into the compressed space, and Futu Yun swaps it back, magnifying the blast enough to kill five Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Futu Yun claims the five Emperors’ remnant souls, assigning their Demon-Slaying King titles to Xiao Xiao, Lin Jing, Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, and Mandala. The Flame Emperor accepts, since he neither needs the titles nor wants to contest the spoils with his rescuer.
• When the Flame Emperor returns, he discovers that Wen Qingxuan has become involved with Futu Yun—and that his daughter Xiao Xiao is entangled with Futu Yun’s fiancée. He angrily beats Futu Yun.
• The chapter recalls Futu Yun’s recent defeats by the Martial Ancestor and the Flame Emperor. The Martial Ancestor counters him by layering two defensive enhancements, while the Flame Emperor can control the Emperor Flame power Futu Yun tried to use against him.

Character developments

• Futu Yun demonstrates clever, precise control of space, but his rescue does not erase his limitations in direct combat against Saint Grade experts. His confidence after earlier victories is checked by the two beatings.
• The Flame Emperor shows gratitude and generosity over the spoils, yet remains fiercely protective of his daughter and unwilling to tolerate her sharing a partner.
• The Martial Ancestor is established as a tactically perceptive fighter who exploits the limits of Futu Yun’s Seal ability.
• Wen Qingxuan appears to be encouraging Xiao Xiao’s involvement with Futu Yun, suggesting she may accept a shared relationship.

Character interactions

• Futu Yun and the Flame Emperor cooperate effectively in the rescue, combining spatial exchange with the Flame Emperor’s attack.
• Their alliance turns comic and confrontational afterward: Futu Yun’s joking retort about their respective wives and daughters earns him a beating.
• The Flame Emperor’s reaction is shaped by memories of his own youth, when his fiancée ended their engagement rather than helping him through hardship. He suspects Wen Qingxuan is arranging a different outcome for Xiao Xiao—but still cannot accept it.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Futu Yun’s unusual abilities can bypass certain defenses, but layered or controllable powers expose their weaknesses.
• Cooperation and ingenuity: The rescue succeeds through coordination and clever use of space rather than brute force alone.
• Family, romance, and jealousy: The life-saving mission quickly gives way to conflict over Futu Yun’s romantic relationships and the Flame Emperor’s protectiveness.
• Memory shaping judgment: The Flame Emperor’s past romantic disappointment informs how he interprets Wen Qingxuan’s actions.

Key plot points

• The Great Thousand Palace recognizes five new Demon-Slaying Kings: Mandala, Xiao Xiao, Lin Jing, Luo Li, and Wen Qingxuan. The appointments surprise observers because the Palace had tightened the requirements after Futu Yun’s group’s campaigns.
• The seven Demon-Slaying Kings are divided by authority: Qin Tian, Futu Yun, and Mandala can command Palace forces; the other four have the title but not its power. Their prominent family ties and political standing nevertheless make their appointments difficult to challenge.
• After the Flame Emperor warns him, Futu Yun pauses his campaigns and prepares for the Ancient Saint Abyss, a perilous site filled with the inheritances of fallen Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Futu Yun hopes to recover the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light for Luo Li, giving her leverage over the Tai Ling Ancient Clan. He has less need for the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s Eight-Part Pagoda, since his Endless Light Body has made its inheritance-based succession rule irrelevant.
• During seclusion, a strange lightning tribulation carrying Battle Will strikes Futu Yun’s Supreme Sea. The Immortal Divine Tree absorbs much of its power and begins to flourish, while Futu Yun’s Supreme Sea convulses violently.

Character developments and interactions

• Futu Yun shifts from conquest to preparation for the Abyss, pursuing power and political influence for Luo Li while remaining protective of her autonomy.
• Mandala is established as both Futu Yun’s trusted confidante and a powerful clan representative; her Saint-grade strength earns her genuine Palace authority.
• Luo Li has recently advanced to Earthly Sovereign and receives the Western Heavens Continent’s Continental Power from Futu Yun to help stabilize and strengthen her cultivation.
• Wen Qingxuan, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Jing gain Demon-Slaying King status largely through their exceptional personal and political connections, rather than combat rank.
• The Flame Emperor’s warning influences Futu Yun’s decision to enter seclusion.

Significant themes

• Power and legitimacy: The chapter contrasts formal titles with real authority, showing how strength, lineage, and political influence all shape recognition.
• Ambition and legacy: The Ancient Saint Abyss offers immense rewards but recalls the catastrophic sacrifices made in the ancient war.
• Protection and control: Futu Yun seeks opportunities for Luo Li but insists she need not accept a role—even a prestigious one—that he does not want for her.
• Transformation through trials: The mysterious tribulation both threatens Futu Yun and strengthens the Immortal Divine Tree, hinting at a consequential change ahead.

Key plot points and events

• Futu Yun awakens to find his Immortal Divine Tree covered in leaves and a small island forming at its base. His Supreme Sea, once entirely liquid spiritual energy, has begun to solidify—an extraordinary development beyond the usual state of even the strongest Sovereigns.
• He had been studying the Three Spirit Battle Formation, an ancient formation designed to unite three closely connected fighters and amplify their strength. Its original creator used it with his two twin brothers to defeat an Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection, a feat normally impossible for three Upper Earth Supremes.
• Futu Yun realizes the formation suits him exceptionally well: his One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones creates incarnations whose minds are even more closely connected than those of twins. Studying the formation also lets him cultivate battle will without a separate inheritance.
• His five-attribute Divine Soul includes both battle will and lightning. Comprehending battle will brings him to Fifth-grade Sovereign; a tribulation lightning strike then lets him advance again to Sixth-grade Sovereign.
• The lightning gives his Supreme Sea vitality. Spiritual energy solidifies into land, while primitive microorganisms appear and develop into moss. Futu Yun witnesses the beginnings of a living world and can influence its internal flow of time through his Immortal Origin, though not without limits.

Character development

• Futu Yun advances from Fourth- to Sixth-grade Sovereign in one sequence, demonstrating how his unusual combination of abilities lets him turn a dangerous tribulation into an opportunity.
• He recognizes that his incarnations make him uniquely capable of mastering the Three Spirit Battle Formation and developing battle will.
• His understanding expands beyond combat: he begins to grasp the Supreme Sea as a developing world with its own stages of life.

Significant themes

• Uniqueness and adaptation: Futu Yun can reproduce an ancient achievement because his abilities provide a new equivalent to the original fighters’ twin bond.
• Risk and inheritance: Battle-will cultivation is rare and dangerous, requiring exceptional control and a suitable successor.
• Life and creation: The Supreme Sea’s transformation depicts a progression from spiritual energy to land, microorganisms, and primitive plant life.
• Seizing opportunity: Futu Yun’s dual battle-will and lightning attributes allow him to exploit a tribulation no ordinary Battle Array Master could use in the same way.

Character interactions

• The chapter contains no direct conversations. Its central interactions are between Futu Yun and his incarnations through their shared formation, and between Futu Yun and the forces shaping his Supreme Sea—especially battle-will tribulation lightning and the emerging life within the sea.

Key plot points and events

• The group reaches the Saint Abyss Continent, a perilous former battlefield now polluted by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. It contains powerful legacies and artifacts, but its unstable space and roaming enemies make exploration deadly.
• They are still on the outskirts; the Ancient Saint Abyss at the continent’s center can only be entered when its space-time storms weaken, and those storms may transport people into enemy territory.
• Futu Yun travels with Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Jing. Though most of the women are only Lower Earth Supreme, Xiao Xiao and Lin Jing may have powerful family-backed safeguards.
• Wen Qingxuan’s research leads them to the Spirit Butterfly Ruins, where she obtains the legacy of the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal, famed for valuable divine pills and exceptional pill-refining skill.
• Futu Yun reveals that the ruins also conceal the Profound Dragon Space, protected by the pill furnace’s dangerous flames. The space holds the sleeping Undying Dragon Warriors of the Profound Dragon Army, an ancient force created by the Profound Dragon War Emperor.
• Rather than recruit this formidable army, Futu Yun intends to devour the warriors’ battle will to advance his Divine Soul from sixth to seventh grade.

Character developments and interactions

• Wen Qingxuan emerges as the group’s most prepared researcher and gains the key legacy needed to access the hidden space. Her priority is the pill-refining inheritance.
• Futu Yun demonstrates foreknowledge and reveals that his goal is personal cultivation, not military power. His revelation also shows how the Spirit Butterfly and Profound Dragon legacies are linked.
• Luo Li is the only member of the group to have reached Upper Earth Supreme; Xiao Xiao, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan are Lower Earth Supreme.
• Xiao Xiao and Lin Jing join despite the expedition’s dangers. Their famous fathers— the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor—are implied to have equipped them with safeguards. Futu Yun accepts the group after being pressured by the two legendary fathers.
• Wen Qingxuan’s information-gathering and Futu Yun’s knowledge complement each other: she uncovers the advertised ruins, while he identifies the far more consequential hidden army.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and danger: The continent promises rare legacies and resources, but its hazards can kill even top-tier cultivators.
• Preparation and hidden knowledge: Research and foreknowledge reveal opportunities that ordinary explorers would miss.
• Power as personal growth or collective force: Futu Yun chooses to strengthen himself rather than command an army capable of matching an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The lingering cost of war: The continent remains a frontline, its unstable landscape and preserved warriors reflecting the ancient conflict that devastated it.

Key plot points and events

• The Four Ancestors’ Ruins appear together with the ruins of the four fallen Heavenly Demon Emperors. Their lingering wills are ancient enemies, making a major confrontation unavoidable.
• The Ancestors’ inheritances offer a rare chance to reach Heavenly Sovereign, but the group must also stop the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan from breaking the seals and connecting the Saint Abyss Continent to the Demon Realm.
• Futu Yun unleashes a powerful Minor Spirit Formation, amplified by his Great Sun Crystals and Emperor Flame Seals, wiping out the enemy force near the Four Saints Pagoda. He had warned everyone to leave first.
• At the Pagoda, Futu Yun assigns Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Jing one story each. Each must defeat the Heavenly Demon Emperor on that level to secure the title of Demon-Slaying King.
• Futu Yun declines to pursue the Eight-Part Pagoda inheritance. He believes refining the Western Heaven War Emperor into a powerful puppet would be more valuable. Lin Jing chooses the story associated with Ancestor Futu.

Character developments

• Futu Yun demonstrates overwhelming power and a willingness to make ruthless choices for the greater mission. His cultivation has reached seventh-grade Sovereign, but his unusual abilities make him far more dangerous than his rank suggests. He also shows confidence in his existing resources and goals by turning down the Pagoda inheritance.
• Lin Jing acts decisively, claiming the Ancestor Futu story and recognizing the inheritance’s potential value in dealings with the Pagoda Ancient Clan.
• Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, and Xiao Xiao are tasked with proving themselves by confronting the Heavenly Demon Emperors individually.

Character interactions

• Xiao Xiao asks whether Futu Yun’s devastating attack was a Spirit Formation; he confirms that it was a Minor Spirit Formation.
• Wen Qingxuan questions why Futu Yun will not seek the inheritance. He explains that it offers him little compared with his plan for the Western Heaven War Emperor.
• Futu Yun gives the four women their assignments. Lin Jing volunteers first, while the others are left to choose among the remaining stories.

Significant themes

• Duty versus individual gain: The group seeks powerful inheritances, but preventing a demonic invasion is the greater purpose.
• Risk and responsibility: Futu Yun warned others away before attacking, framing the deaths of those who stayed as the consequence of their own choices.
• Ambition and preparedness: The characters pursue opportunities that match their abilities and aims, while Futu Yun values what he can build from his existing advantages over a prestigious inheritance.

Key plot points and events

• The Martial Ancestor senses that his daughter, Lin Jing, may soon leave him to join Futu Yun. The Flame Emperor teases him, noting that his own daughter was persuaded to join the group by Futu Yun’s fiancée.
• The Flame Emperor has discovered a legendary, primordial treasure in a Lower Plane: a milky liquid powerful enough to strengthen even the Great Thousand World’s highest-level Heavenly Sovereigns. Its appearance raises questions about how it came to exist.
• The Flame Emperor found corpses belonging to a people who could cultivate both spiritual energy and evil qi. The Martial Ancestor identifies them as the Evil Spirit Clan, a hybrid race secretly bred by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.
• Unlike the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, the Evil Spirit Clan can become Plane Masters of Lower Planes. Such a Plane Master can rewrite a plane’s laws, potentially explaining the creation of the Flame Emperor’s treasure.
• In the Demon Realm, Mu Chen learns that Futu Yun destroyed the Lower Plane where Mu Chen had become Plane Master. Mu Chen had recovered his Nine Divine Veins with the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s help and sacrificed many Evil Spirit Clan members to gain their dual cultivation ability.
• Mu Chen is especially enraged because Futu Yun’s attack may also have killed several young demon allies who had come to respect him, including a young woman from the Heart Demon Clan.

Character developments and interactions

• The Martial Ancestor shows anxiety over Lin Jing’s attachment to Futu Yun, while the Flame Emperor responds with humor and shares his own family’s involvement.
• The two powerful emperors exchange information and connect the Evil Spirit Clan’s unusual abilities to the treasure’s origin.
• Mu Chen has grown closer to the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan and its younger generation, despite his bitter history with Futu Yun. His resentment deepens after the destruction of his plane and the possible deaths of his allies.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, leader of the Saint Demon Clan, is introduced as Mu Chen’s superior and the commander of the demon hosts since the Heavenly Evil God was sealed.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: The Evil Spirit Clan’s creation and Mu Chen’s rise show the lengths the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan will go to gain strategic power.
• The cost of advancement: Mu Chen’s restored strength came through sacrifice, while Futu Yun’s actions have devastated a world and threatened people Mu Chen valued.
• Family and attachment: The Martial Ancestor’s worry about Lin Jing contrasts with the Flame Emperor’s teasing, adding a personal dimension to the powerful figures’ lives.
• Hidden consequences: A seemingly isolated discovery—the treasure in a Lower Plane—reveals a broader scheme involving hybrid races, plane-level transformation, and the demon clans.

Key plot points and events

• The chapter explains that the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan had secretly cultivated Mu Chen as an asset, using brainwashing and relationships with women who were assigned to win his affection. The women had entered the Ancient Saint Abyss seeking a breakthrough, but Futu Yun killed them, enraging Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen fully fuses spiritual energy and evil energy, becoming a true member of the Evil Spirit Clan. The fusion grants him a new power—evil spirit energy—and makes him far stronger than before.
• His transformation alters the balance between the Great Thousand World and the Demon Realm. Evil energy is no longer wholly rejected by the Great Thousand World and can now draw strength directly from its natural energy.
• The shift triggers a chain of breakthroughs among the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s Demon Emperors, while lower-ranking clan members and countless beings from the Great Thousand World are sacrificed to fuel their advancement.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Chen changes from a manipulated outsider into a being with a fully fused evil-spiritual nature. His anger over the women’s deaths accompanies a transformation that empowers both him and the Evil Clan.
• The women who had become his lovers and confidantes are revealed to have been placed in his life by the Evil Clan. Their deaths at Futu Yun’s hands make Mu Chen’s connection to the clan—and its broader plans—more consequential.
• Qin Tian is cited as another powerful figure secretly compromised by a demon seed planted by the Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor, showing that even a Heavenly Sovereign can be vulnerable to the clan’s schemes.
• The Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor sense the disturbance but cannot intervene directly, as they are occupied guarding their respective territories. The Evil Clan’s supreme figures, including the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, recognize the change’s source.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and betrayal: The Evil Clan uses brainwashing, planted influence, and manufactured intimacy to control powerful individuals.
• Power gained at a terrible cost: Mu Chen’s transformation strengthens the Evil Clan, which converts its own expendable members and Great Thousand World inhabitants into fuel for advancement.
• A changing balance of worlds: Mu Chen’s fusion changes the relationship between spiritual and evil energy, weakening the Great Thousand World’s defenses and removing a limit on the Demon Realm.
• The danger of hidden influence: The chapter suggests that even the strongest defenders can be compromised or unable to respond when a threat unfolds.

Plot and key events

• In the Four Saints Pagoda, Lin Jing, Xiao Xiao, Wen Qingxuan, and Luo Li each enter the level associated with one of the Four Ancestors. Luo Li chooses Tai Ling Ancestor’s level, as she had planned.
• Luo Li awakens Tai Ling Ancestor’s long-sleeping will by summoning the Luo God Dharmakaya. Tai Ling, who had loved Luo Li’s ancestor, mistakes the moment for a reunion with her and passes his inheritance to Luo Li before fading away.
• On Futu Ancestor’s level, Lin Jing uses a trump card from her father, the Martial Ancestor, to destroy the Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant. She explains her intentions, and Futu passes on the Eight-Part Pagoda inheritance, moved that she wants to return it to the Pagoda Ancient Clan rather than claim it for herself.
• Xiao Xiao and Wen Qingxuan also defeat their levels’ remnant souls and receive their inheritances. All four remnants have now been defeated.
• The Demon-Slaying Stele updates its rankings: Luo Li, Lin Jing, Xiao Xiao, and Wen Qingxuan rise above Futu Yun and other powerful Demon-Slaying Kings because each has slain two Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• The rankings reveal that all four ancestral inheritances have been claimed. The Tai Ling Ancient Clan, unwilling to let its ancestor’s inheritance go to an outsider—especially under Futu Yun’s leadership—storms into Saint Abyss City. Grand Ancestor Taiming leads them, and their Heavenly Sovereign pressure darkens the sky.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Li shows resolve in pursuing Tai Ling Ancestor’s inheritance, deliberately using the Luo God Dharmakaya to awaken him. She understands that Tai Ling sees her ancestor, not her, and quietly reacts with amusement to his old, unrequited love.
• Tai Ling Ancestor reveals his enduring affection for the Luo God. Despite his nostalgia, he fulfills his duty by passing on his inheritance.
• Lin Jing demonstrates both strength and candor: she defeats the remnant with her father’s trump card and honestly tells Futu her reasons. Her selfless wish to return the inheritance earns his respect.
• Futu Ancestor is persuaded by Lin Jing’s character and the importance of preserving the Eight-Part Pagoda, which cannot be safely cultivated without the Sacred Futu Pagoda.
• Grand Ancestor Taiming acts to protect the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s claim, setting up a confrontation with Futu Yun’s group and the new inheritor.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and responsibility: Power is dangerous without the knowledge, tools, or lineage needed to use it properly.
• Love across generations: Tai Ling’s devotion to the Luo God persists through ages, but his inheritance passes to her descendant.
• Selflessness and legitimacy: Lin Jing’s intent to restore the Eight-Part Pagoda matters as much as her ability to obtain it.
• Power and political conflict: The Demon-Slaying rankings turn private achievements into public knowledge, provoking a struggle over who has the right to claim an inheritance.

Plot points

• Grand Ancestor Taiming arrives in Saint Abyss City prepared to oppose the Pagoda Ancient Clan, but messengers from the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor order him to leave. Outmatched if the conflict escalates, he withdraws with the Tai Ling Ancient Clan forces.
• The confrontation ends without a battle, protecting the Demon-Slaying Kings and avoiding a damaging feud between the Great Thousand Palace and one of the Great Thousand World’s major clans.
• Afterward, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan learns that Luo Li has inherited the Tai Ling Ancestor’s legacy. It joins the Maha Ancient Clan in pressuring the Pagoda Ancient Clan, while avoiding a direct fight with its Saint-grade experts.
• The Maha Ancient Clan also opposes Futu Yun because he wielded the Great Solar Undying Body, whose ultimate inheritance—the myriad ancient immortal body—is under its protection.
• Futu Yun retaliates by placing bounties on the two clans’ powerhouses, offering Demon-Slaying Points and spirit god liquid as rewards.

Character developments and interactions

• Grand Ancestor Taiming recognizes that the Tai Ling Ancient Clan cannot safely fight the Flame Emperor, Martial Ancestor, and Saint-grade defenders, and retreats despite his confidence in the clan’s Ancient Diagram.
• The Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor intervene together to contain the crisis, prioritizing stability while making clear they will protect the Demon-Slaying Kings.
• Futu Yun shifts from defending allies in person to using his resources and influence to retaliate. His control of the Ancestral Pagoda and strength make him a formidable target—and opponent.
• The Maha Ancient Clan is motivated less by clan ranking than by its desire to control the rare immortal-body inheritance. It therefore treats Futu Yun’s power and ambition as a threat.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Strength determines which conflicts can be pursued; the Tai Ling Ancient Clan backs down when faced with overwhelming opposition.
• Political alliances and restraint: Even rival clans avoid open war when the wider world faces threats from the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.
• Inheritance and possessiveness: The struggle over the immortal-body legacy reflects the tension between guarding a treasure and allowing an outsider to claim it.
• Resourceful retaliation: Futu Yun turns otherwise unusable Demon-Slaying Points and renewable spirit god liquid into incentives that could mobilize powerful hunters across the world.

Futu Yun’s bounties drove cultivators across the Great Thousand World to target the Maha and Tai Ling Ancient Clans, while he pressured the Tai Ling Ancient Clan to surrender Mu Chen or Yun Ye'er. The Tai Ling Ancient Clan could not hand over Yun Ye'er, giving Futu Yun a pretext to portray the clan as rejecting his goodwill and prepare a justified conflict.

• Futu Yun’s bounties for Earthly Sovereign corpses and Heavenly Sovereigns drew desperate cultivators and powerful experts toward the Maha and Tai Ling Ancient Clans.
• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan contacted the Pagoda Ancient Clan privately, and Futu Yun demanded that it surrender Mu Chen or Yun Ye'er.
• Futu Yun offered to help Luo Li become the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden if the clan handed over Yun Ye'er.
• Futu Yun had secretly arranged Yun Ye'er’s rise through the Holy Maiden candidates and her death before the Ancient Saint Abyss opened.
• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan could not surrender Yun Ye'er, allowing Futu Yun to frame its refusal as a rejection of his goodwill and a cause for war.

Futu Yun repelled the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s invasion and broke through to Earthly Sovereign, transforming his Supreme Sea into a real world. His breakthrough continued as the Great Solar Undying Body’s Tenth Sun absorbed the descending Spirit Tribulation.

• Futu Yun’s forces and bounty hunters devastated the two ancient clans’ external forces, while the resulting turmoil sparked infighting across the Great Thousand World.
• The Extraterrestrial Evil Clan invaded amid the chaos, but Futu Yun killed three Saint-grade Heavenly Demon Emperors with one sword strike.
• Futu Yun advanced to Ninth-grade Sovereign and used the eight Great Sun Crystals to give his Great Solar Undying Body the characteristics of a Supreme Dharma Form.
• Futu Yun’s Supreme Sea shattered and became omnipresent throughout his body as he broke through to Earthly Sovereign.
• Futu Yun re-formed his Supreme Sea as a genuine world, where nine suns scorched the land and boiled the seas, purifying his spiritual energy through a cycle of rain and evaporation.
• The Spirit Tribulation descended repeatedly, but the Great Solar Undying Body’s Tenth Sun devoured every strike.

After Futu Yun killed three Heavenly Demon Emperors and struck the Demon Realm through a hidden spatial passage, public criticism of his war disappeared. He forced the Tai Ling Ancient Clan into a settlement with Luo Li as its holy maiden and turned his pursuit toward the Maha Ancient Clan.

• Futu Yun's ambush killed three Heavenly Demon Emperors, and his spatial passage let Great Thousand World experts bombard the Demon Realm.
• The Extraterrestrial Evil Clan fled for its homeland as Great Thousand World forces pursued and slaughtered many of them.
• Futu Yun installed Luo Li as the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's holy maiden and secured the Tai Ling Sacred Body and Spirit God Liquid through a dowry agreement.
• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan accepted the settlement to avoid further war and the risk of losing its place among the Five Great Ancient Clans.
• Futu Yun shifted his relentless campaign against the Maha Ancient Clan, which faced greater danger than during its earlier conflict with the Flame Emperor.

The Maha Ancient Clan’s attempt to negotiate with the Pagoda Ancient Clan ended in slaughter, as Futu Yun destroyed the mediators and made clear he intended to fight it to the death. The Maha Ancient Clan called on the Black Heaven Ancient Clan and prepared to strike, while Futu Yun remained in secluded cultivation, leaving the coming war’s outcome uncertain.

• The supreme powers avoided choosing sides, while the Maha Ancient Clan sought allies and the Pagoda Ancient Clan showed no sign of preparing for war.
• The Maha Ancient Clan sent a Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign to negotiate and invited three allied supreme powers to mediate, but Grand Ancestor Taiming refused to help.
• Futu Yun refused to meet the envoy, drove him out, and slaughtered the three mediators and their forces.
• The Maha Ancient Clan abandoned hopes of peace and declared that it would fight Futu Yun to the death, prompting the other powers to reconsider their positions.
• The Maha Ancient Clan called in its favor from the Black Heaven Ancient Clan and allied with it against the Pagoda Ancient Clan.
• Futu Yun remained in secluded cultivation as the two sides prepared for war.

Futu Yun reached earthly sovereign great perfection after gaining insight into the creation of a world within his Supreme Sea. He accelerated the world’s evolution with Supreme Spiritual Liquid, and its warring tribes eventually united under the First Emperor.

• Futu Yun’s nine suns merged into the Tenth Sun, bringing him to half-step great perfection.
• Futu Yun tasted milky-white liquid from his Supreme Sea and experienced a vision of heaven and earth forming, then broke through to earthly sovereign great perfection.
• Futu Yun discovered that the Tenth Sun had restored life to his internal world, where the Southern Emperor’s and Northern Emperor’s tribes had begun warring.
• Futu Yun recognized himself as the world’s god and decided not to interfere with its natural evolution.
• Futu Yun poured Supreme Spiritual Liquid into his internal world, accelerating its development until one man unified the continent as the First Emperor.

Futu Yun’s inner world repeatedly produced rulers who defied him, blocking his attempt to control its growing consciousness and advance to Heavenly Sovereign. Unable to solve the problem before the Maha Ancient Clan’s Eternal Gathering, he left seclusion.

• The First Emperor’s enthronement strengthened Futu Yun and brought him to earthly sovereign great perfection and the Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign realm, but the inner world began rejecting him.
• Futu Yun discovered that the First Emperor defied him, burned his own soul, and passed on his rebellious will.
• Successive rulers united the world and challenged Futu Yun, who killed emperors, toppled dynasties, and repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt the world without ending the defiance.
• Futu Yun realized that his inner world’s consciousness prevented him from relying on it for resurrection and blocked his breakthrough to Heavenly Sovereign.
• With no solution in hand, Futu Yun emerged from seclusion as the Maha Ancient Clan’s Eternal Gathering approached.

Futu Yun arrived at Eternal City to claim the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body, but his true target was a powerful fragmentary consciousness inside the Eternal Pagoda. After entering the pagoda with his Great Solar Undying Body, he was teleported directly before the pseudo-myriad ancient immortal body formed from stolen immortal origin.

• The Maha Ancient Clan's past clashes with the Flame Emperor and the Pagoda Ancient Clan had left it struggling to maintain its standing among the Five Great Ancient Clans.
• Futu Yun came to Eternal City for the Eternal Gathering, where superpowers would compete over the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body.
• Futu Yun knew that a fragmentary consciousness had consumed immortal origin in the Eternal Pagoda and kept the dormant Myriad Ancient Immortal Body from awakening.
• The fragmentary consciousness had grown into a dark-gold pseudo-myriad ancient immortal body that threatened to devour the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body.
• Futu Yun used the Pagoda Ancient Clan's influence to enter the Eternal Pagoda despite lacking an Immortal Golden Body.
• The Eternal Pagoda detected Futu Yun's Great Solar Undying Body and teleported him before the pseudo-myriad ancient immortal body.

Futu Yun sought to advance his exceptional Great Solar Undying Body by sacrificing a perfected counterpart, then used the Eternal Pagoda’s aid to merge two flawed myriad ancient immortal bodies with his clones. He reached the third realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, leaving his original body and two clones united so that all three would have to be destroyed to kill him.

• Futu Yun learned that advancing the Great Solar Undying Body to the Immortal Golden Body required perfecting it, obtaining the corresponding legacy, and sacrificing another perfected Great Solar Undying Body.
• The Eternal Pagoda transported Futu Yun to a pseudo-myriad ancient immortal body and suppressed it with its own origin.
• Futu Yun struck the dark-gold figure and devoured it with his Great Solar Undying Body, triggering a breakthrough that produced two mysterious glazed figures.
• Futu Yun merged the two flawed myriad ancient immortal bodies with his two clones and harmonized their power using the Three Spirit Battle Formation and the Three Beasts Desolate Art.
• Futu Yun’s clones reached the three-god realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, making his original body and both clones interdependent and requiring all three to be killed at once.