Chapter Summaries

After 108 days of waiting, Ye Liang recognized the storm above Oversback's house as the tribulation of a divine artifact and joined Zi Ling to defend against it. They survived eight bolts of the Nine-Convergence Blood Lightning Tribulation, but Ye Liang was gravely weakened as the final strike gathered.

• A thunderclap woke Ye Liang, who realized the dark clouds marked the birth tribulation of Oversback's divine artifact.
• Ye Liang and Zi Ling flew above the house and prepared to withstand the Nine-Convergence Blood Lightning Tribulation.
• Ye Liang struggled against the first six blood lightning bolts while Zi Ling unleashed her Celestial Fox Shadow to help protect them.
• As the seventh bolt fell, Ye Liang used the Four Symbols Seal and his life force to create a barrier that dispersed the strike.
• The eighth bolt shattered Zi Ling's Celestial Fox Shadow and badly injured Ye Liang, who had lost more than half his life force.
• Zi Ling warned that the final bolt could annihilate them, then fled as Ye Liang remained in place.

Ye Liang survived the Nine-Convergence Blood Lightning Tribulation when Oversback’s Space-Time Ring destroyed its final strike, then learned the ring was an extraordinary divine artifact. Oversback drove Ye Liang and Zi Ling from Treasure Star after Ye Liang revealed that Oversback’s body had rotted away and his brother’s soul was gone.

• Ye Liang struggled to withstand the phoenix-shaped Nine-Convergence Blood Lightning Tribulation, but a golden ring shattered it.
• Ye Liang bound the ring with his blood, and Oversback explained how its Primordial Treasure Qi had absorbed the final stage of lightning tribulation.
• Oversback asked Ye Liang to release his spell so he could return to his body, but Ye Liang confessed that the body had rotted away.
• Ye Liang told Oversback that his brother’s soul had also vanished, and Oversback angrily ordered Ye Liang to leave Treasure Star.
• Ye Liang and Zi Ling departed through the teleportation array, and Zi Ling questioned whether Ye Liang had truly been careless with Oversback’s body.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling traveled to Light City to investigate a warlock and the Dragon Slaying Plan, but Ye Liang refused to interfere with the city’s doomed history. After Light City fell, he went to the imperial palace, where he found Zi Ling waiting and exposed her as an assassin.

• Ye Liang left Oversback’s lair with Zi Ling and warned her that he would not help investigate the Dragon Slaying Plan.
• Ye Liang and Zi Ling arrived in Light City, where Ye Liang spent more than half a year waiting for events to unfold.
• When foreign terrorists attacked Light City, Ye Liang witnessed civilians being killed but chose not to intervene.
• After the city fell, Ye Liang went to the imperial palace, where Zi Ling had been waiting for months.
• Ye Liang found Zi Ling standing on the city gate and loudly called for guards to arrest the supposed female assassin.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling watched the rebels destroy Light City’s palace, but an unexpected orbital cannon threatened to kill everyone. Ye Liang and Zi Ling joined forces to hold the blast above the city as a red-haired boy watched them from a military base.

• Ye Liang refused Zi Ling’s suggestion to stop the slaughter, warning that changing the established history could affect their own spacetime.
• The rebels stormed Light City’s palace, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians during their day-and-night assault.
• A satellite orbital cannon appeared, surprising Ye Liang because the Werewolf General had never mentioned it.
• A red-haired boy at a military command center watched Ye Liang and Zi Ling on a satellite screen and let the cannon continue toward them.
• Ye Liang flew up and formed a shield from nearby weapons, while Zi Ling summoned the Sky Fox Clan’s phantom to help him hold the orbital cannon above the palace.

After the imperial palace survived the attack, Ye Liang traveled west to investigate the Dark Race and discovered that the Freedom White Palace was secretly using its people in experiments. He found a map linking the palace to the Dragon Slaying Feast, then a mysterious green-haired girl ambushed him.

• A child destroyed his base after complaining that Sui Han and the others had not appeared, while Ye Liang and Zi Ling found no cultivators at the imperial palace.
• Imperial Guards defeated the attackers, Behemoth survived, and Zi Ling considered returning home as Ye Liang left to search for signs of the Dark Race in the west.
• Ye Liang entered the Freedom White Palace disguised as an attendant and learned that its warlock Trump was distributing Talisman Water during a deadly plague.
• Ye Liang discovered that the water contained Dark Race cells that could mutate people's cells, and he infiltrated the palace to investigate.
• Ye Liang found a secret map of the Dragon Slaying Feast, but a green-haired little girl appeared behind him and struck him in the back.

Ye Liang fought Sui Han, a demon who revealed that her group sought the Eastern Dragon Soul, and escaped a second demon who rescued her. He returned to his western residence and set up a protective array.

• Ye Liang evaded Sui Han’s attack with the Tenseigan, and she revealed that her group of six had been pursuing the Eastern Dragon Soul.
• Sui Han transformed into a demon and attacked Ye Liang, who used his remaining strength and the Flying Thunder God to knock her unconscious.
• A cloaked demon rescued Sui Han and told Ye Liang that the demons called themselves the Sacred Race before disappearing.
• Ye Liang returned to his residence and raised a transparent barrier around it with an array.

Ye Liang destroyed the last Talisman Water distribution site and rescued Third Princess Jeanne and her soldiers from infected villagers and cultists. After Jeanne revealed that the Queen and her two elder sons had contracted the plague, Ye Liang offered to try to treat them.

• Ye Liang found the final Talisman Water distribution site and prepared to destroy it.
• Third Princess Jeanne and her soldiers attacked the cultists, but the infected villagers overwhelmed them as Jeanne ordered the soldiers not to harm anyone.
• Ye Liang knocked out the villagers and killed the cultists with a trace of killing intent, then asked Jeanne why she had come there.
• Jeanne explained that she had followed refugees to the site and that the Queen and her two elder sons had contracted the plague.
• Ye Liang offered to examine and possibly treat the Queen and princes, and Jeanne welcomed his offer.

Ye Liang temporarily suppressed the Queen’s vampiric symptoms and discovered that a restriction had prevented her from revealing who infected her. After removing it, he learned that the Little Boy of the Sacred Race had infected her and planned to return on the tenth day of the tenth month.

• Ye Liang severed the Queen’s sensory nerves with Chakra, temporarily suppressing her urge to drink blood while leaving her fangs and illness intact.
• When the Queen struggled to explain the source of her illness, Ye Liang offered her paper and a pen, and a stream of black qi emerged from her ear to stop her from writing.
• Ye Liang seized and removed the black qi, allowing the Queen to write “Little Boy” and then speak freely.
• The Queen said the Little Boy of the Sacred Race had infected her with Dark Cells, called her an ant, and threatened to make her serve his plans; she suspected he had infected her children too.
• The Queen told Ye Liang that the Little Boy would return on the tenth day of the tenth month to take her life as the Sacred Race rose to power.
• Ye Liang concluded that the Queen was the source of the virus intended for Dark City, whose release had been delayed by his arrival.

Ye Liang cured the Queen by extracting the Dark Virus and kept the strain for later study, then went with Princess Jeanne to examine her sick brothers. They found a blood-soaked side palace filled with dead guards and maids, and Jeanne explained that her father’s orders and the soldiers outside had trapped them there.

• Ye Liang extracted the Queen’s virus strain, cured her, and learned that her children also needed treatment.
• Ye Liang told Princess Jeanne he would examine her brothers and followed her to the side palace where they had been confined.
• Ye Liang realized that the brothers’ hunger for meat and attacks on people suggested they had contracted a lycanthropic virus.
• Ye Liang and Jeanne found a mutilated guard and numerous dead servants inside the palace grounds.
• Jeanne explained that her father had forbidden the guards from leaving and that soldiers killed anyone who tried to escape.

Ye Liang discovered that demons were lurking among the artificial mountains while helping Jeanne investigate her brothers’ deaths. After destroying the second prince’s demon-infected aura, he followed his clone’s destruction to a tiger’s ghost that looked like Jeanne’s fourth brother.

• A wolf-headed demon toyed with Ye Liang, then killed his clone by biting off its neck as he searched the artificial mountains.
• Ye Liang destroyed the second prince’s black aura after the prince attacked Jeanne, and explained that her second and sixth brothers had only been infected by a demon’s aura.
• An explosion revealed that Ye Liang’s scouting clone had been destroyed, so he and Jeanne followed the sound to the ruined artificial mountain.
• Ye Liang recognized the ordinary-looking figure as a tiger’s ghost, a human soul whose body had been taken by a werewolf.
• Jeanne mistook the tiger’s ghost for her living fourth brother and rushed toward it to save him.

Ye Liang tried to protect Jeanne from the wraith, but a powerful wolf hide attacked him and revealed itself as the demon behind the apparent haunting. Unable to tell how strong it was, Ye Liang confronted it with a show of fiery power.

• Jeanne embraced the wraith she believed was her younger brother, while Ye Liang approached cautiously.
• The wraith covered Jeanne's mouth and dragged her behind an ornamental rock as a wolf hide crept up behind Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang escaped the wolf hide's bite by slipping into the void, then sent three clones armed with Alloy Swords to attack it.
• The wolf hide dodged two attacks, bit through a sword and a clone, and showed no serious injuries from the earlier Explosive Tags.
• Ye Liang claimed to be an exorcist from the upper realm and combined several kinds of flames in his palm to intimidate the demon.

Ye Liang drove the Nightmare Wolf Lord to use the Demonic Disintegration Art, freeing Jeanne and ending the threat to the Western Empire’s heir. Half a month later, Mysterious Boy arrived, discovered the newborn cells were gone, and decided to seek reinforcements.

• The Nightmare Wolf Lord transformed and retreated from Ye Liang, then detonated his cultivation so his base cells could escape.
• With the Wolf Lord’s restrictions gone, Thin-Skinned Chang Gui turned to ashes, and Jeanne mourned her brothers and the lost heir apparent.
• Half a month later, Mysterious Boy appeared above the royal palace and demanded to know who had killed his foremost general.
• Sui Han mocked Mysterious Boy, who blasted her apart, but she reassembled herself with her Immortal Body and continued taunting him.
• Mysterious Boy sensed Immortal Power where the dark genes had been planted, realized the newborn cells were gone, and opened a rift to find reinforcements.

Ye Liang repeatedly encountered a persistent little Demon Race girl who wanted him to become her male consort, and he kept banishing her from the palace. After she bypassed his precautions yet again, he activated Amenominaka to confront her.

• The little girl mocked Old Day for fleeing from Ye Liang, and Ye Liang ignored her and passed through the void.
• The girl appeared above Ye Liang as he woke in the Queen's palace, so he pulled her into Amenominaka and sent her away after she asked him to become her male consort.
• The girl reappeared the next morning and again begged Ye Liang to marry her in exchange for Demon Race cultivation techniques, but he pushed her through an opening and returned to sleep.
• Ye Liang added a Four Symbols Seal to keep the girl out, but she appeared beside him again as he woke, and he activated Amenominaka.

Ye Liang agreed to study magic with Sui Han for one hour each morning, hoping to avoid her pestering him. During their first lesson, he chose the Sacred Race’s Path of Soul Amplification, and Sui Han began explaining the race’s unusual powers and history.

• Ye Liang agreed to learn magic from Sui Han on the condition that she wait outside the palace and meet him there each morning.
• After waking from a nightmare about Sui Han, Ye Liang kept his promise and went to their agreed meeting place.
• Sui Han offered to teach Ye Liang the Sacred Race’s three great arts, and he chose the Path of Soul Amplification because he hoped to strengthen his soul.
• Sui Han used Genjutsu to change their surroundings and explained that souls could absorb power, while Ye Liang could see only spiritual energy in the trees.
• Sui Han revealed her Fearless Dojutsu and explained that the Sacred Race could not absorb spiritual energy and had nearly been exterminated by human cultivators before an ancestor appeared centuries ago.

Ye Liang learned the Fearless Dojutsu from Sui Han, a Sacred Race girl, and used it to recover much of his soul power. On the deadline set by the Little Boy, the Little Boy finally appeared before Ye Liang and recognized him as the one who had disrupted his plans on the Eastern Continent.

• Sui Han explained that the Fearless Dojutsu could strengthen souls by absorbing wandering soul particles, the newly dead, and evil ghosts without draining the vital essence of living beings.
• Ye Liang accepted Sui Han's instruction and began learning the Fearless Dojutsu, returning to the Queen's palace each day to continue his cultivation.
• By the tenth day of the tenth month, Ye Liang had learned the incantation and recovered nearly half of his soul power.
• While Ye Liang waited for the Little Boy, Sui Han watched from hiding and hoped the general would appear so he would face Ye Liang's newly learned art.
• The Little Boy appeared before Ye Liang, and Ye Liang recognized him as the Sacred Race's conquering general with top-tier Saint Spirit Realm strength.
• The Little Boy told Ye Liang that he had seen him on the Eastern Continent and that Ye Liang had disrupted his plans.

Ye Liang’s bluff was exposed when the Sacred Race boy summoned a powerful force, but the Guardian Clan suddenly mobilized to confront them. As the two sides clashed, the boy pursued Ye Liang into the royal palace, where Ye Liang hid underground and tried to stall him.

• The Sacred Race boy summoned more than ten Saint Spirit Realm generals to surround Ye Liang.
• The Guardian Clan arrived with fourteen Saint Spirit Realm immortals and accused the Sacred Race of disrupting the mortal world’s order.
• The Guardian Clan leader revealed that Ye Liang was not an immortal, and the boy regretted not killing him earlier.
• The boy ordered his generals to fight the Guardian Clan, then flew past the clash to attack Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang used Body Flicker, Triple Rashomon, and Earth Release to escape underground and began using guerrilla tactics to delay the boy.

Ye Liang used the Soul Absorption Technique to turn the souls of slain Sacred Race members into a shield against the boy’s Extinction Eye Light. As Ye Liang pushed the attack back, a girl stepped in front of him.

• The Sacred Race boy unleashed the Extinction Divine Light and locked onto Ye Liang underground with his eye.
• Ye Liang activated the Soul Absorption Technique, disrupting the fighters and allowing the Guardians to kill six Sacred Race members.
• Ye Liang absorbed the six souls and formed a shield to protect himself and the mortal world from the boy’s attack.
• The Extinction Eye Light drove the shield downward and shattered Ye Liang’s collarbone, but Ye Liang absorbed more souls and gradually pushed the attack back.
• The boy was shocked by Ye Liang’s use of the Sacred Race’s absorption technique, and Ye Liang pressed his shield toward him.
• A girl stepped in front of Ye Liang.

Ye Liang finished his battle in the Western Empire, but a hidden Sacred Race guard emerged afterward and planned to exploit the Guardian Clan’s retreat. Ye Liang then traveled to a technological world to seek help making an antidote for Dark City, only to arrive in the middle of a battlefield.

• Sui Han stood between Old Day and the out-of-control Soul Giant Shield, and the attack shattered both their souls before Ye Liang burned their bodies to ash.
• The Guardian Clan captured the fleeing Sacred Race generals and withdrew after suffering heavy losses, while a hidden Sacred Race guard found Old Day and Sui Han dead and plotted to use black witchcraft against the Westerners.
• Ye Liang left through the Space-Time Ring, worried that changes to time might cause further trouble, and resolved to finish an antidote for Dark City.
• After informing the Immortal Realm’s higher-ups through Zi Ling, Ye Liang took the Dark Race’s original Virus Strain to a technological world, intending to ask Bai Hengshan for help analyzing it.
• Ye Liang arrived on Earth in the Nine Heavens in the midst of a battlefield, dodged a laser shot, and flew into the sky.

Ye Liang was mistaken for an enemy during a Star Dou Empire military exercise and fought two mecha generals, discovering that their weapons could affect the void. After freezing their combined mecha with Time Stop, he learned its pilots were Imperial Army soldiers and cautiously agreed that the encounter had been a misunderstanding.

• Ye Liang rose above the battlefield, drew fire from both sides, and saw the artillery threaten him even within the void.
• A white and a red mecha general joined forces against Ye Liang, and their attacks cut through the void and damaged his clothing.
• The mechas combined into a six-armed super mecha and immobilized Ye Liang with Disorderly Force.
• Ye Liang used Time Stop to freeze the super mecha and raised his Alloy Sword to strike.
• Two women inside the mecha identified themselves as Imperial Army soldiers conducting a military exercise and apologized for attacking him.
• Ye Liang released the time freeze, explained that he had arrived from the First Plane by a faulty teleportation array, and apologized for disrupting the exercise.

Ye Liang reached the Ninth Plane and found Bai Guo, whom he had been seeking for years. Their awkward reunion turned romantic, and they went to the bedroom together.

• Ye Liang asked the pilots about Bai Hengshan, and Bai Dandan recognized him as the Senior Ye Liang her grandmother had spoken of.
• Bai Dandan took Ye Liang to Bai Hengshan's seaside villa and left with her companion in an Integration Stage mech.
• Bai Guo prepared herself after seeing Ye Liang through the peephole, then opened the door and reunited with him.
• Ye Liang and Bai Guo stood awkwardly together until Bai Hengshan came home and teased them.
• Ye Liang and Bai Guo entered the bedroom together.