Chapter Summaries

Sheng Huai'an refined a Ninth-Rank Healing Pill and revealed his ability to create an immortal pill to Han Jiangxue and the people of Longyang City. He brought the pill to Luojing to save the dying Han Wu, who still believed his life could not be extended.

• Sheng Huai'an refined a Ninth-Rank Healing Pill in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and its fragrance spread through the imperial palace and Longyang City.
• The pill underwent nine bolts of heavenly lightning before Sheng Huai'an caught it and gave it to Han Jiangxue.
• Sheng Huai'an left for Luojing, where news of his immortal pill caused an uproar and daoist cultivators wondered whether he could truly refine Ninth-Rank Pills.
• Han Shan brought Sheng Huai'an to the ninth floor of the Royal Armory, where Han Wu said his lifespan had ended and he had only a few days left to live.

Sheng Huai'an saved Han Wu with a Ninth-Rank Healing Pill, then anxiously awaited Han Jiangxue's delivery. Han Jiangxue gave birth to twins, and Sheng Huai'an ordered the Heavenly Martial Dynasty to announce the joyful news.

• Sheng Huai'an gave Han Wu a Ninth-Rank Healing Pill, restoring his health and helping him break through to the great completion of Martial Saint.
• As Han Jiangxue's delivery approached, Sheng Huai'an anxiously waited outside the hall while Han Wu reassured him.
• Han Jiangxue gave birth to a healthy boy and girl, and Han Wu ordered generous rewards for the attendants.
• Sheng Huai'an visited Han Jiangxue and learned she was well, but he still had not chosen names for the twins.
• Sheng Huai'an ordered the Imperial Guard to announce the birth of the dragon son and dragon daughter throughout the realm.

After Han Jiangxue and Sheng Huai'an welcomed a son and daughter, their names were settled and Sheng Huai'an spent the next year governing the dynasty. As he played with the children, demonic sects fleeing the Central Plains stirred conflict in the Southern Frontier.

• Officials, sects, and allies across the realm celebrated the birth of Sheng Huai'an and Han Jiangxue's children, while Old Soldier and Zhang Da Niu set out for Longyang City and Lan Wu carried gifts from Yin Yue Palace.
• Sheng Huai'an proposed naming his son Han Aotian and his daughter Sheng Xue'er, but Han Jiangxue chose Han Junyu for their son, who took her surname.
• Over the following year, Sheng Huai'an reorganized the government and military, promoted farming and commerce, and drove Demonic Cultivators from the Central Plains.
• The expelled demonic sects fled to the Western Regions and Southern Frontier, where they fought the Miao Tribe and added to the region's turmoil.
• After Han Junyu and Sheng Xue'er began walking, Sheng Huai'an cared for them while Han Junyu played roughly with a Grandmaster-realm tiger that Guo Xiaoping's group had sent from Demon Suppressing Pass.

After years away from public life raising his children, Sheng Huai'an received a plea for help from Demon Suppressing Pass and set out to reinforce it. As the demons launched another major assault, Xiao Yuan faced a Demon Saint while the defenders prepared to fight.

• Han Junyu and Sheng Xue'er moved into Heavenly Martial City with Sheng Huai'an, who entrusted their cultivation training to Han Wu before departing for Demon Suppressing Pass.
• Sheng Huai'an traveled southwest with Old Soldier, three Martial Saints, and his personal guards after receiving King Xiao Wu's urgent letter.
• At Demon Suppressing Pass, Xiao Yuan's army repelled a leopard demon attack, and Chi Tiansheng killed a Great Demon King.
• The demon army charged the Pass with one hundred thousand demons, and Xiao Jin led the defenders into position on the walls.
• A late-stage Demon Saint challenged Xiao Yuan, who left the Pass to confront him as Chi Tiansheng and the others attacked the incoming demons.

Sheng Huai'an watched the Demon Suppressing Army repel a Demon Race assault before arriving at the pass and meeting its defenders. He assessed the army's strength, authorized limited access to the Dragon Python Breath Absorption Technique, and gave his loyal subordinates seventh-rank Cultivation Pills to help them advance.

• Chi Tiansheng and the other defenders fought the Demon Race, while Xiao Yuan battled Eagle Nine Saints above the pass.
• Sheng Huai'an secretly watched the battle with his companions, then saw the Demon Race withdraw by afternoon.
• Sheng Huai'an arrived at Demon Suppressing Pass, thanked the soldiers, praised his subordinates, and assigned Wenren Tingshu, Huangfu Liufeng, and Zhou Fuwei to help guard the pass.
• After assessing the Demon Suppressing Army, Sheng Huai'an allowed it to use the Dragon Python Breath Absorption Technique up to the Xiantian Realm and reserved its higher-realm portions for exchange through military merit.
• Sheng Huai'an gave Chi Tiansheng, Guo Xiaoping, Hu Bing, and the other loyal generals seventh-rank Cultivation Pills.

Sheng Huai'an stayed at Demon Suppressing Pass while Han Jiangxue strengthened the Heavenly Martial Dynasty by distributing Eighth-Rank Breakthrough Pills to trusted border defenders. Over ten years, the dynasty’s forces grew to thirteen Martial Saints, leaving even the Heavenly Sect wary.

• Sheng Huai'an urged Guo Xiaoping, Chi Tiansheng, Wu Cheng, Zhou Yuan, and the others to train while he continued guarding Demon Suppressing Pass and let them gain experience in battle.
• Sheng Xue'er asked Han Wu where Sheng Huai'an was, and Han Junyu encouraged her to train so she could fight demons with their father someday.
• Han Jiangxue consulted Han Wu and decided to give two Eighth-Rank Breakthrough Pills to Wu Changge and Xiao Yan, who entered seclusion and emerged a month later as early Martial Saints.
• Han Jiangxue granted Wu Changge and Xiao Yan the titles of Martial King, and they secretly returned to guard the empire’s borders.
• Over the following years, Xiao Yuan, Old Soldier, and Chi Tiansheng reached the Martial Saint realm, while Hu Bing, Guo Xiaoping, Zhou Yuan, and others rose to Great Grandmaster Perfected and received marquisates.
• Sheng Huai'an cultivated two more Martial Saints for Demon Suppressing Pass, bringing the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s total to thirteen and making even the Heavenly Sect avoid its strength.

Nine Demon Emperors agreed to launch a decisive assault on Demon Suppressing Pass, while Sheng Huai'an prepared to lead a campaign into the Hundred Thousand Mountains. After sending his children back to the imperial palace and gathering White Sacred Dragon and Han Wu, Sheng Huai'an assembled the army to eliminate the Demon Race and pursue a way beyond the world's seal.

• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor persuaded eight other Demon Emperors that the Demon Race should conquer human territory, hinting that victory would reveal a way to break the world’s seal.
• Han Junyu asked Sheng Huai'an to let him break through to Grandmaster and join the campaign, but Sheng Huai'an refused and sent him and Sheng Xue'er back to the imperial palace.
• White Sacred Dragon arrived at Sheng Huai'an’s invitation and agreed to join the campaign against the Demon Race.
• Han Wu arrived and confirmed that Han Junyu and Sheng Xue'er had safely reached the imperial palace, while Xiao Yuan reunited with his master.
• Sheng Huai'an ordered Xiao Yuan to assemble the army and prepare to depart for the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Sheng Huai'an reflected that he had reached Mid Martial Emperor and Second Level of Ascension and needed to destroy the Demon Race to gather Slaughter Value and break the heaven-and-earth seal.

The Heavenly Martial Dynasty launched a massive campaign into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, defeating demon tribes before the nine Demon Emperors rallied their forces. Human and demon armies clashed in a vast battle, which continued as the Tiger Clan’s Demon Emperor appeared.

• Xiao Yuan led seven hundred thousand soldiers out of Demon Suppressing Pass, with Martial Saint Xiao commanding alongside him and Sheng Huai'an holding the center.
• Chi Tiansheng’s vanguard defeated the Crimson Flame Cloud Leopard Clan and continued slaughtering demon tribes as news of the invasion spread.
• The nine Demon Emperors agreed to wage war, while experts from the Central Plains’ great Daoist sects set out for the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Human and demon armies met in battle, with Hu Bing, Guo Xiaoping, Zhou Yuan, Wu Cheng, Xiao Jin, and other generals leading human formations against the demon forces.
• Chi Tiansheng and other Martial Saints fought Demon Saints in the sky as the armies clashed across the mountains.
• The Tiger Clan’s Black Fiend Profound Tiger Demon Emperor appeared on the battlefield.

Han Wu, White Sacred Dragon, and Xiao Yuan fought the Demon Emperors as the armies clashed, but Sheng Huai'an turned the battle when he revealed his Martial Emperor strength. He left the Demon Race’s million-strong army terrified after a single sword swept away more than fifty Demon Saints and Demon Emperors.

• Han Wu fought the Tiger Emperor, White Sacred Dragon faced the Bear Emperor, and Xiao Yuan engaged the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor.
• Six more Demon Emperors and dozens of great Demon Saints appeared, while both armies continued their bloody battle.
• The Blazing Nether Ape Emperor moved to attack the human army, but Sheng Huai'an appeared and wounded him with a sword strike.
• Sheng Huai'an killed the Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor with one blow, shocking the Demon Race experts.
• The Demon Emperors and Demon Saints charged Sheng Huai'an together, but his sword severed their heads and left the million-strong Demon Race army in terror.

Sheng Huai'an destroyed the Demon Race's leaders and led the human army through the Hundred Thousand Mountains. At the Purple Gold Divine Dragon Clan's ancestral land, he confronted the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor, and both were shocked to discover the other's cultivation realm.

• Sheng Huai'an killed the fleeing Silver Moon Wolf Emperor, Tiger Emperor, and Ironback Fierce Bear Emperor, after already slaying most of the Demon Race's Demon Saints.
• The surviving Demon Saints fled, and the human army routed the leaderless demon forces while Sheng Huai'an and the others slaughtered the retreating creatures.
• Zhang Weizhi, Zhang Xuantong, True Lord Qingyang, and True Lord Zichen headed into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to meet Sheng Huai'an and investigate his sword strike.
• Sheng Huai'an led the army deep into the mountains, where they raided demon strongholds and advanced toward the Purple Gold Divine Dragon Clan's ancestral land.
• Sheng Huai'an hurled the Kunlun Seal at the dragon nest, shattering its formations and drawing out the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor.
• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor and Sheng Huai'an recognized that each had reached a realm beyond their expectations.

Sheng Huai'an challenged the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor, who revealed that he had reached Emperor Realm Grand Perfection after breaking through the world's seal. Their devastating battle left Sheng Huai'an at a disadvantage, and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor demanded his submission before deciding to kill him.

• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor explained that he had cultivated for more than three thousand years and asked how Sheng Huai'an had reached the Emperor Realm without Immortal Qi Spiritual Energy.
• Sheng Huai'an questioned why the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor had let the Demon Race be destroyed, and the emperor said he cared only about the Dragon Race and his own breakthrough.
• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor attacked Sheng Huai'an, and their clash shattered the surrounding mountains as Han Wu, Xiao Yuan, White Sacred Dragon, and the others retreated.
• The two fighters unleashed their full strength and moved their battle into the heavens, where the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor struck Sheng Huai'an back and injured him.
• Recognizing Sheng Huai'an as a worthy opponent, the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor offered to spare him if he became a follower, but Sheng Huai'an refused and said the fight had let him fight freely.
• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor declared that he would kill Sheng Huai'an for refusing to submit.

Sheng Huai'an fought the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor, survived a blow from the Dragon God Spear, and spent Slaughter Value to break through to Late Martial Emperor. Their battle escalated until their strongest attacks made the heavens collapse, leaving everyone below staring in horror.

• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor struck Sheng Huai'an with the Dragon God Spear, blasting him into a vast crater, but Sheng Huai'an recovered and returned to the sky.
• Sheng Huai'an spent two million Slaughter Value to break through from Mid Martial Emperor to Late Martial Emperor.
• Sheng Huai'an fought the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor with the Kunlun Seal and his fists, trading hundreds of blows as the Emperor's divine dragon armor protected him.
• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor injured each other with the Sun God Fist and Divine Dragon Slash while Zhang Weizhi, True Lord Qingyang, and others watched from afar.
• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor unleashed the World Suppressing Divine Fist and Dragon Shatters the Nine Heavens, shaking the world and shattering the sky above them.

Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor broke through the sealing canopy and continued their battle in the Outer Realm, where a gray-clad Martial Immortal Guardian confronted them. After the Guardian overwhelmed them, the two faced a desperate fight for survival.

• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor tore open the heaven-and-earth seal, letting Immortal Qi Spiritual Energy reach Han Wu, Xiao Yuan, White Sacred Dragon, Zhang Weizhi, and True Lord Qingyang.
• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor entered the Outer Realm and resumed their fierce battle, absorbing Immortal Qi as they fought.
• A gray-clad old man appeared and revealed himself as a Martial Immortal Guardian sent to guard the sealed world.
• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor attacked the Guardian together with the Kunlun Seal and Dragon God Spear, but he blasted them away and left them bloodied.
• The Guardian offered to spare the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor if he became his mount, but the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor refused and was struck down again.

Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor joined forces against a vastly stronger gray-robed old man, and Sheng Huai'an raised his cultivation to Martial Emperor Grand Perfection to fight him. After Sheng Huai'an was badly wounded but continued to recover and battle, the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor completed his breakthrough, drawing the old man's attention.

• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor asked Sheng Huai'an to hold off the gray-robed old man while he broke through, and Sheng Huai'an attacked with the Kunlun Seal.
• The gray-robed old man blasted the Kunlun Seal away, so Sheng Huai'an spent three million Slaughter Value to reach Martial Emperor Grand Perfection.
• Sheng Huai'an used the Kunlun Seal to block the old man's palm, then fought him with the Sun God Fist as the battle shook the starry sky.
• The gray-robed old man struck Sheng Huai'an with the World Suppressing Divine Fist, exploding his right arm and badly injuring him, but Sheng Huai'an recovered and kept fighting.
• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor completed his breakthrough, and the gray-robed old man turned his attention toward him.

Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor battled a gray-robed old man in the starry void beyond the domain, with Sheng Huai'an pushing his Martial Emperor cultivation to its limit and using the Broken Blade. They escaped through a spatial rift, while Sheng Huai'an’s final slash cracked the Sealing Array and let Immortal Spiritual Energy pour through.

• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor broke through to the Demon Immortal Realm and fought the gray-robed old man while Sheng Huai'an healed and spent four million Slaughter Value to reach the limit of the Martial Emperor Realm.
• Sheng Huai'an attacked with the Broken Blade, startling the gray-robed old man, who drew a bloodstained war halberd and revealed his intent to kill them for their treasures.
• Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor joined forces against the gray-robed old man, injuring him and enduring a two-hour battle that tempered their combat strength.
• The gray-robed old man summoned an ancient figure and unleashed his ultimate move, sending Sheng Huai'an and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Emperor into a spatial rift.
• Before the rift closed, Sheng Huai'an slashed the Sealing Array and opened a crack that released Immortal Spiritual Energy, which Han Wu, White Sacred Dragon, Zhang Weizhi, True Lord Qingyang, and the others hurried to collect.

After Sheng Huai'an vanished beyond the realm, the Heavenly Martial Dynasty defeated the Hundred Thousand Mountains’ Demon Race, while his family and allies mourned his uncertain fate. Sheng Huai'an then emerged from a void rift in the Crimson Sun Realm, where he killed a band of Marauder Cultivators and learned he had landed at the border of the Savage Wilds.

• The gray-robed elder vowed to kill anyone who emerged from the realm, while Han Wu and the others wondered what had happened to Sheng Huai'an.
• Han Wu, Xiao Yuan, White Sacred Dragon, and the army crushed the Demon Race in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, prompting cultivators to claim its spiritual mountains.
• Han Jiangxue learned that Sheng Huai'an had disappeared, and she comforted Sheng Xue'er by saying he would return when she grew up.
• Chen Bin's team discovered that their companion Jin Liang was the disguised Marauder Cultivator Jin Si, who had plotted with other Marauder Cultivators to steal their Crimson Fire Lotus.
• Sheng Huai'an fell from a void rift into the Savage Wilds, rose from the crater, and killed the Marauder Cultivators with a single palm strike.
• Sheng Huai'an questioned Chen Bin's team and learned he was at the junction of the Eastern Wasteland and the Savage Wilds in the Crimson Sun Realm.

Sheng Huai'an recovered from his fall into the Crimson Sun Realm enough to travel with Chen Bin and the others to Liyang Immortal City, where he began learning about the realm's powerful forces and abundant cultivation resources. He settled at an inn, preparing to explore a world where stronger opponents could yield more Slaughter Value.

• Sheng Huai'an declined the marauder cultivators' spatial rings and agreed to travel with Chen Bin's group to Liyang Immortal City.
• Chen Bin explained that the Crimson Sun Divine Court ruled the Crimson Sun Realm, and that the late-stage Martial Immortal Realm Ye family ancestor governed Liyang Immortal City.
• Chen Bin and the others brought Sheng Huai'an safely to the immense, heavily defended Liyang Immortal City.
• Chen Bin paid the city gate fee in Immortal Spirit Jade, and Sheng Huai'an learned that the jade served as both currency and a cultivation resource.
• Sheng Huai'an found an inn with Chen Bin's group and considered how the realm's powerful cultivators could provide more Slaughter Value.

While recovering from severe injuries in Liyang Immortal City, Sheng Huai'an sought healing medicines and learned of a Nine-Colored Sacred Lotus in The Savage Wilds. After three months of recovery, he prepared to investigate as adventurers set out to claim the Tenth-Rank Spirit Medicine.

• Sheng Huai'an asked Chen Bin and the others to find Martial Immortal-level healing medicines, then gave them resources to buy spirit medicines and a quiet courtyard.
• Sheng Huai'an refined Ninth-Rank Healing Pills and used them alongside Immortal Qi Spiritual Energy to slowly heal his injuries.
• Over three months, Sheng Huai'an recovered a third of his injuries and regained the strength of the Martial Emperor Realm.
• Chen Bin told Sheng Huai'an that adventurers had discovered a Nine-Colored Sacred Lotus, a Tenth-Rank Spirit Medicine, in The Savage Wilds.
• Sheng Huai'an sent Chen Bin to confirm the news, while adventurers across Liyang Immortal City prepared to risk their lives for the lotus.

Sheng Huai'an joined Chen Bin's team to enter the Savage Wilds after the Nine-Colored Sacred Lotus was confirmed, where the Luo Family army forcibly conscripted adventurers. The group was taken to the Luo Family camp, and Sheng Huai'an chose to wait and learn what the family was planning.

• Chen Bin confirmed that the five great families had entered the Savage Wilds, and Sheng Huai'an agreed to go with his team in search of the Nine-Colored Sacred Lotus.
• Tu Jia killed a Saint Realm Tiger Demon and returned it to his settlement, where Chief Tu Xiu warned him that powerful humans were entering the Savage Wilds.
• The Luo Family army stopped Sheng Huai'an's group and arrested another adventurer party, killing one member who resisted.
• Luo Fang ordered the soldiers to conscript Sheng Huai'an's group, and they were taken to a camp holding hundreds of captured adventurers.
• Sheng Huai'an sensed powerful figures in the camp and decided to wait, believing the Luo Family might have useful information about the Nine-Colored Sacred Lotus.

The Luo Family forced over a thousand adventurers to accompany its expedition to the Yanxu Secret Realm, and Sheng Huai'an learned about the treasures said to lie within it. At the mountain where the realm was located, rival human families and a powerful Demon Race force gathered, while Ye Ling arrived and drew the attention of Luo Jian and Wei Ran.

• Luo Jian ordered Zheng Tong to escort the captured adventurers toward the Yanxu Secret Realm as expendable explorers.
• Sheng Huai'an learned from Chen Bin that the secret realm formed around a peerless Flame Sparrow's remains and contained treasures such as Longevity Liquid.
• After three days, the Luo Family party reached the mountain, where Wei Ran and the Wei Family were already waiting.
• The Wu and Shi Families arrived, bringing the number of gathered great human families to four.
• A Netherworld Mysterious Wolf Clan force appeared and challenged the humans' claim to the secret realm.
• Ye Ling arrived at the head of the Ye Family's Golden Fire Cavalry, and Luo Jian and Wei Ran eagerly greeted her.