Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan and his companions joined a caravan searching the desert for a Supreme Treasure of the Six Heavenly Demon Kings, said to grant any wish. The caravan reached a ruined palace after dark, where a guard became covered in pottery and porcelain shards after sinking into the sand.

• Liu Yihong attacked a caravan youth, but the balding old man blocked her strike and agreed to let Zhang Yuan's group join.
• The balding old man revealed that the caravan was searching for a Supreme Treasure in the desert that could grant any wish and provide a way out.
• Zhang Yuan told the old man that he had come from the human world to search for something, while one of his companions was seeking two people.
• Yu Zhen complimented Zhang Yuan's face as the caravan traveled, while other members watched their exchange.
• After nightfall, the caravan reached a half-collapsed palace, and a guard at the rear sank into the sand and emerged with his leg studded with pottery shards.

Zhang Yuan helped the survivors cross a deadly stretch of sand, but Gong Li died after being pierced by porcelain shards. When Mo Lian blamed Zhang Yuan for her death, Zhang Yuan killed him and claimed he had been possessed by a Ghost Deity, then turned his attention to Xie Guan.

• As the caravan crossed the sand, porcelain shards pierced travelers and dissolved them into blood; Zhang Yuan saved Yu Zhen from falling into the sand.
• Mo Lian carried the badly wounded Gong Li into the Palace, where she died after apologizing for failing to keep her promise.
• Liu Yihong mocked Mo Lian, and Mo Lian accused Zhang Yuan of causing Gong Li's death while Yu Zhen and Shu Mian defended Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan beheaded Mo Lian, saying he had been possessed by a Ghost Deity and that he had sent it on.
• Zhang Yuan said he had also noticed someone else possessed by a Ghost Deity and fixed his gaze on Xie Guan.

Zhang Yuan nearly killed Xie Guan after Xie Guan offended him, but the caravan's balding elder intervened and Zhang Yuan spared him. Shu Mian explained that they were in Boiling Sand Hell, where broken promises and agreements killed the prisoners, as Zhang Yuan wondered about the ruined temple and its statue.

• Zhang Yuan pressured Xie Guan and threatened him with the Nether-Illuminating Sword after Yu Zhen tried to defend him.
• The balding old man blocked Zhang Yuan's sword and persuaded him to spare Xie Guan, whom the caravan still needed.
• Zhang Yuan asked Shu Mian what she thought of his sword, and she called it dashing while Xie Guan seethed with resentment.
• Liu Yihong examined the collapsed temple, and Zhang Yuan suspected its weathered statue depicted Ao Ying.
• The balding old man refused to answer Zhang Yuan's questions, so Shu Mian explained that Boiling Sand Hell punished debtors and oath-breakers with shards from broken clay jars.

Zhang Yuan stopped himself from summoning a dangerous being after Shu Mian insisted she was no longer curious, and the group learned the Demon King's rumored supreme treasure was tied to a sealed remnant soul in Boiling Sand Hell. Xie Guan killed Yu Zhen to break the final promise needed to shatter the seal, then promised to rescue her as Zhang Yuan and Chi Guanguan exchanged teasing remarks.

• Zhang Yuan offered to summon the being Shu Mian had asked about, but she urgently stopped him and claimed she was no longer curious.
• Shu Mian explained that the group had searched several rumored locations for the Demon King's supreme treasure, and Uncle Peng revealed the final location was where they stood.
• Uncle Peng explained that Boiling Sand Hell sealed a terrifying remnant soul and that seven people had to break their promises to shatter the formation; Yu Zhen was the last one remaining.
• Xie Guan stabbed Yu Zhen with the sword she had chosen, remembered their past, and promised to rescue her after escaping.
• Zhang Yuan remarked on Xie Guan and Yu Zhen's love, while Xie Jingxin and Chi Guanguan doubted its depth; Zhang Yuan teased Chi Guanguan about pledging her life to him.

Zhang Yuan exposed Shu Mian as the lord of Boiling Sand Hell, but she refused to let him leave because someone had paid for his life. Xie Guan freed the ancient dragon Ao Zhi, who restored his body and power before ordering him to kill Zhang Yuan and the others.

• Zhang Yuan told Shu Mian that he had seen through her disguise, and she admitted she was the lord of Boiling Sand Hell.
• Shu Mian refused Zhang Yuan's request to open a door to the next layer, saying she had to keep him there because someone had paid for his life.
• Xie Guan, jealous as Zhang Yuan spoke with Shu Mian, thrust Yu Zhen's Waist Sword into the ground and triggered a great upheaval in Boiling Sand Hell.
• Ao Zhi emerged from beneath the temple as a colossal dragon and used profound yellow qi to restore her strength.
• Ao Zhi restored Xie Guan's body and cultivation, raised him to Immortal Lord level, and ordered him to kill Zhang Yuan and the others.

Xie Guan used the Divine Dragon’s power to confront Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin, while Liu Yihong fled and left a note promising to return. Xie Jingxin shielded Zhang Yuan and fought Xie Guan, who discovered his old spells were ineffective and unleashed the black-yellow qi’s pressure on them.

• Xie Guan felt the Divine Dragon’s immense power and prepared to kill Zhang Yuan and the others.
• Zhang Yuan realized Liu Yihong had disappeared, then found her saber and a note saying she had left temporarily and would return to save him.
• Xie Jingxin stepped in front of Zhang Yuan and severed Xie Guan’s casting arm with Gazing into the Netherworld, but it quickly regenerated.
• Xie Guan recognized something familiar about Xie Jingxin but could not remember meeting her.
• Xie Jingxin’s blood-gold qi-blood burned Xie Guan when he caught her sword, forcing him to retreat and extinguish the flames.
• Xie Guan decided his old spells were ineffective and unleashed a wave of black-yellow qi pressure at Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and the others.

Zhang Yuan weakened the pressure of Ao Zhi’s Xuanhuang Long Sword, prompting the balding old man to rush for the treasure and die to Ao Zhi’s attack. Ao Zhi ordered Xie Guan to kill the others, and Xie Guan reached Zhang Yuan despite Xie Jingxin cutting off his legs.

• Zhang Yuan agreed to help the balding old man escape the pressure, then used his Talents and Celestial Person Status to weaken it by nearly half.
• The balding old man seized the chance to fly past Xie Guan toward Ao Zhi’s Xuanhuang Long Sword.
• Ao Zhi fired a beam of Black-Yellow Qi that killed the balding old man.
• Ao Zhi ordered Xie Guan to kill Zhang Yuan and the others, so Xie Guan charged Zhang Yuan to end the suppression.
• Xie Jingxin cut off Xie Guan’s legs, but he continued flying and reached Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan killed Xie Guan and confronted Ao Zhi, who tried to make peace after learning he was a Great Yi cultivator from the Dust-Dyed Realm. When she refused to hand over the Xuanhuang Long Sword, Zhang Yuan prepared to fight her with Xie Jingxin, empowered by the Blood Baleful Great Saber.

• Zhang Yuan annihilated Xie Guan with the Three-Colored Qi Light, tearing open the barrier between Boiling Sand Hell and the hell above.
• Ao Zhi withdrew her Black-Yellow Qi from Xie Guan and offered Zhang Yuan her True Dragon Treasury to settle their dispute.
• Zhang Yuan asked to examine the Xuanhuang Long Sword and invoked Ao Ying's name, leading Ao Zhi to suspect the Ancestor had sent him.
• Ao Zhi refused to hand over the sword and defended herself with the Dragon Clan's supreme treasure against Zhang Yuan's attack.
• The Blood Baleful Great Saber flew into Zhang Yuan's hand and filled him with killing intent, giving him the confidence to fight Ao Zhi.
• Zhang Yuan gave Xie Jingxin the Nether-Illuminating Sword and proposed they slay Ao Zhi; Xie Jingxin asked if she could eat the dragon meat afterward.

Zhang Yuan’s attack on Ao Zhi triggered a golden Sword Qi that tore through the Thirty-Six Hells and carried them out. In the Yin Netherworld’s upper heavens, the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess confronted the Demon Kings as she continued toward Boiling Sand Hell.

• Zhang Yuan used the blood-baleful Great Saber to wound Ao Zhi despite her sword-qi defenses.
• The Thirty-Six Hells began to shake, and a golden Sword Qi from the Outside World pierced every level, carrying Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, Ao Zhi, and Shu Mian out of the prison.
• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess arrived in the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] and demanded that Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao open the way to the [Prison-Warden Soul-Pitying Palace].
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao received orders to stop her, while the Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King tried to reach the Dragon Clan’s Supreme Treasure.
• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess severed the Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King’s route and sent golden Sword Qi toward Boiling Sand Hell.

The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess faced three Demon Kings who joined forces to drive her from the six heavens. After she cut through Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao’s renowned shield, the Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King prepared to test her with a Blood Baleful Great Saber.

• The Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King arrived after someone cleaved open her Grotto-Heaven and agreed to join Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao and the Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King against the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess.
• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess warned the Demon Kings to stand aside, then attacked them with golden Sword Qi.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao’s Luo Mo Ten-Thousand-Soul Shield failed to stop the Sword Qi, and all three Demon Kings evaded it by traversing space.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao recognized that the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess wielded Grand White Edge, explaining her exceptional killing power.
• The Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King gathered four kinds of Earthly Sha into a Blood Baleful Great Saber and prepared to test the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess.

The three Six Heavenly Demon Kings ambushed [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] in the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace], believing they had slain her. As powerful beings watched from beyond the palace, they revealed that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan had provoked the Demon Kings and was far more than a master of killing swordsmanship.

• [Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King] attacked [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] while [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] froze the space around her and [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] empowered the saber.
• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] cut through the sealed space and split the Blood Baleful Great Saber, foiling the apparent killing blow.
• [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] struck [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] from behind with an azure giant claw, tearing apart the palace plains and seemingly killing her.
• The three Demon Kings noticed the palace dome remained open and sensed powerful beings watching them from across several realms.
• The watchers discussed why the three Demon Kings had provoked Cui and noted that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan was notorious for his formidable and shameless magical combat.

The Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord appeared alongside the Gengyao Great Void Star Lord, revealing that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan had three incarnations wielding the Grand White Edge. She struck the Six Heavenly Demon Kings with a sword they could not prevent, and the chapter left them sensing that the attack carried something beyond sword qi.

• The Gengyao Great Void Star Lord descended from Primordial Era Venus and greeted Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao and the other two Six Heavenly Demon Kings.
• The Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord arrived, revealing herself as the third incarnation of the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan and another Great Luo wielding the Grand White Edge.
• The Gengyao Great Void Star Lord asked who would strike, and the Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord chose to raise her Immortal Sword.
• The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King urged the others to stop her, but Fatefall made her sword descend before they could act.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao and the other two evaded most of the sword qi but suffered injuries, then sensed something beyond the strike and looked toward a familiar location.

[Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] revived instantly through [Heaven-Joining] and continued attacking the Demon Kings in [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace]. As [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] and [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] struggled to withstand her and the other two Great Luo, reinforcements arrived and a young girl called for the fighting to stop.

• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] revived at full strength after [Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord] struck, revealing that [Heaven-Joining] restored her whenever her other two incarnations attacked.
• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] unleashed sword qi at the three Six Heavenly Demon Kings, and [Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King] fled [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace].
• [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] and [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] stayed to fight, while [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess], [Gengyao Great Void Star Lord], and [Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord] surrounded them with devastating sword attacks.
• Sword qi battered [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] and disrupted the other Six Heavens, leaving the Demon Kings unable to find a way to counter their attackers.
• A young girl called for [Qiming] to stop fighting and talk, as [Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King] and [Miasma-Ravaging Silent-Qi Demon King] arrived as reinforcements.

Zhang Yuan and the others fell into the Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace after a sword qi attack tore through the upper Demon King Palace. He discussed the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess with Xie Jingxin, whose question about whose swordsmanship was better he carefully answered, while Ao Zhi was left gravely wounded by the attack.

• Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, Xie Jingxin, and the others fell from the Prison-Warden Soul-Pitying Palace into the Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace.
• Zhang Yuan noticed the sword qi had damaged his Sun-Moon Seven-Hue Robe and speculated that the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess had attacked the Six Heavens Demon King Palaces.
• Zhang Yuan considered sending the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess a message asking her to treat Wei Liu.
• Xie Jingxin asked whether her swordsmanship was better than the Goddess's, and Zhang Yuan praised Xie Jingxin while saying the Goddess was beyond his understanding.
• Ao Zhi collapsed with a severe sword wound and summoned the Xuanhuang Long Sword's Black-Yellow Qi to heal herself.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin faced the wounded Ao Zhi, whose Xuanhuang Long Sword kept her protected, until the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King appeared. The Fiend King seemed ready to help Zhang Yuan, but instead turned its Slaughter Divine Ability on him.

• Ao Zhi threatened Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin with the power of her Supreme Treasure, while Zhang Yuan offered to heal her with his Divine Abilities.
• Zhang Yuan attacked Ao Zhi with the Blood Baleful Great Saber, but the Xuanhuang Long Sword blasted him away.
• Zhang Yuan tried to rouse the saber, Heavenly Sorrow, but Liu Yihong threatened him through it instead of lending her power.
• The Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King appeared, and Zhang Yuan relied on its arrival to pressure Ao Zhi into surrendering.
• The Fiend King aimed its glowing palm at Zhang Yuan rather than Ao Zhi.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin fought the powerful figure impersonating the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' inside the [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace], while he explained that the Outside World could not see into the isolated Six Heavens Yin Netherworld. As Zhang Yuan prepared to use the [Three Calamities Gourd], Ao Zhi launched a surprise attack with the Xuanhuang Long Sword.

• The 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' broke through Zhang Yuan's defenses and blasted him through several walls, leaving a bloody hole in his chest.
• The 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' told Zhang Yuan that the Six Heavens Yin Netherworld was isolated from the heavens and that lingering Sword Qi had cut off outside sight and contact.
• Xie Jingxin attacked with [Gazing into the Netherworld] and then Illuminating Netherworld, but the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' shattered both swords and blasted her back beside Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan reached for the [Three Calamities Gourd] but calmly told the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' he did not need it yet.
• Ao Zhi attacked from behind with the enlarged Xuanhuang Long Sword, striking toward the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King''s head.

Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi escaped the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King after Zhang Yuan’s sword strike failed to kill him. They hid in the palace, where Ao Zhi took human form, while Zhang Yuan searched for the Xuanhuang Long Sword and she grew wary of him.

• Zhang Yuan urged Ao Zhi and Xie Jingxin to flee after striking the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King with the Xuanhuang Long Sword.
• The Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King emerged unharmed and ordered the palace ghost deities to kill the three intruders on sight.
• Ao Zhi carried Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin through the palace, smashing through walls until Zhang Yuan told her to stop and conceal their traces.
• Ao Zhi shrank into human form, and Zhang Yuan searched her for the Xuanhuang Long Sword.
• Xie Jingxin called Zhang Yuan a lecherous Daoist, making Ao Zhi freeze and regard him warily.

Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, and Xie Jingxin discovered a talking treasure chest that called itself [Wish Well], a Ghost Deity merchant capable of granting wishes for a price. Zhang Yuan wished to become a Demon King, but [Wish Well] claimed he would achieve that without its help, leaving the trio to consider what else to ask for.

• Zhang Yuan surveyed the enormous empty room while recovering from the Ancient True Lord's attack and warned himself not to meet that opponent again unprepared.
• Xie Jingxin spotted an ornate chest, and Ao Zhi sensed treasure inside it.
• Zhang Yuan struck the chest with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword], breaking its protective shield and prompting it to complain that he was rude.
• [Wish Well] introduced itself as a merchant from the [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace] that could grant wishes in exchange for a price.
• Zhang Yuan wished to become a Demon King, and [Wish Well] said the wish was already effectively granted because he could become like the Six Heavenly Demon Kings on his own.

Zhang Yuan asked the Wishing Treasure Chest for rare materials needed to restore his spirit root, and it produced nine-heavens divine hemp soil and nine-heavens immortal peak jade. After discovering Zhang Yuan had effectively limitless lifespan, the chest accepted 99,990,000 years in exchange, and Zhang Yuan completed the trade.

• Zhang Yuan named the rare materials he needed, and the Wishing Treasure Chest said it possessed two of them.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest revealed the nine-heavens divine hemp soil and nine-heavens immortal peak jade, which Zhang Yuan confirmed were genuine.
• The chest explained that it accepted lifespan rather than gold, silver, or spirit stones and examined Zhang Yuan's remaining lifespan.
• The chest found that Zhang Yuan had 999,990,000 origin cycles of vitality and recognized him as a Great Yi.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest offered the two treasures for 99,990,000 years of lifespan, and Zhang Yuan agreed.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest handed Zhang Yuan the treasures and collected the lifespan through its divine ability and karma.

Zhang Yuan learned that the Nine Heavens lay in the Yin Netherworld Six Heavens and bought Spirit Swords for Xie Jingxin through [Wish Well]. The Wishing Treasure Chest revealed that Ao Zhi had only five days of lifespan left, and she turned to Zhang Yuan for help.

• Zhang Yuan asked [Wish Well] about the nine-heavens heavenly dragon fruit and nine-heavens heavenly heart fire, and learned they were on the First Mountain of the Nine Heavens, ruled by the [Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King].
• Zhang Yuan paid [Wish Well] eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight years of lifespan for the information.
• [Wish Well] checked Xie Jingxin's lifespan and found she had three hundred thousand years remaining.
• Xie Jingxin traded three thousand years of lifespan for twenty high-grade Spirit Swords to help restore [Gazing into the Netherworld].
• [Wish Well] checked Ao Zhi's lifespan and found she had only five days left, so Ao Zhi held out her hand to Zhang Yuan and asked him for help.