Chapter Summaries

Immortal Elder Wuji made Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong swallow Heart-Confusing Worm Gu Pills and placed them under Xu Taiping’s command, securing their help against the Xingtian Divine Intent. The Divine Intent began battering Yundaozi’s seal, forcing Immortal Elder Wuji to urge Xu Taiping toward the sealed grounds.

• Xu Taiping agreed that Immortal Elder Wuji should kill Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong, but Shi Jianchen offered their help in resolving the Xingtian Divine Intent calamity.
• Immortal Elder Wuji demanded that the pair swallow Heart-Confusing Worm Gu Pills, which would control them for one day, and promised to let their Primordial Spirits leave if their bodies were destroyed.
• Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong swallowed the pills, and Immortal Elder Wuji put them under Xu Taiping’s command.
• The Xingtian Divine Intent struck Yundaozi’s seal, and Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping to hurry to the sealed grounds.

Xu Taiping reached the divine domain unleashed by Xingtian’s Divine Intent, where both the intent and Yundaozi’s seal were hidden. After learning that Xingtian’s awakening could plunge Shangqing into tens of thousands of years of misery, he chose to enter and fight for its living beings.

• Spectators and Xu Taiping’s companions debated whether Immortal Elder Wuji had secretly helped him withstand Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong.
• A golden shaft of light appeared in the ruins, and Heavenly Soldier and Divine General skeletons rushed toward it as Xu Taiping followed the bronze mirror’s guidance.
• The skeletons vanished into the light, and Zhu Huai and Xiahou Qingyuan recognized that Xingtian’s Divine Intent had unleashed its divine domain power.
• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping that Xingtian’s Divine Intent and Yundaozi’s seal were likely hidden inside the domain, and that victory could not be predicted.
• Xu Taiping asked what would happen to Shangqing if Xingtian awakened, then declared he would fight for its living beings and plunged into the divine domain.

Xu Taiping entered the divine domain and found Xingtian seated before a battle formation, while spells and divine abilities were forbidden. With Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong under his command, Xu Taiping faced the challenge of breaking through the formation as more skeletons descended to attack.

• Xu Taiping declared that he and Shangqing owed each other nothing before entering the divine domain, prompting Xiahou Qingyuan and Xiahou You to discuss what his words might mean.
• The image inside the divine domain vanished, and the Profound Elixir Palace steward elder said the Dragon-Slaying Ranking needed time to overcome the restrictions before spectators could watch again.
• Xu Taiping landed before Xingtian’s true body and a battle formation of several thousand soldiers, alongside Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong, who reluctantly agreed to follow his command.
• Xingtian’s archers destroyed the first skeletons to charge, and Xingtian warned that anyone using spells or divine abilities in his domain would suffer thunder punishment.
• As Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong discussed the difficulty of the battle, more skeletons descended, and Xu Taiping began forming a plan.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly King's Skull to gather and organize thousands of Heavenly Soldier and Heavenly General Skeletons as Xingtian's divine domain grew stronger. He led Shi Jianchen, Yue Chang Kong, and the skeleton army in a charge toward Xingtian's formation.

• Xu Taiping used the Heavenly King's Skull to command the Heavenly Soldier and Heavenly General Skeletons to gather behind him.
• Immortal Elder Wuji guessed that the skeletons were drawn to Xingtian's divine domain because they had once guarded Xingtian's seal.
• As Xingtian's formation grew to nearly six thousand, Xu Taiping organized more than three thousand skeletons into a battle formation.
• Xu Taiping's formation held firm against Xingtian's stronger military might, astonishing Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen.
• Xu Taiping ordered the skeleton army to charge, and he, Shi Jianchen, and Yue Chang Kong led the attack toward Xingtian's formation.

Xu Taiping led a skeleton army against Xingtian’s six-thousand-strong formation inside the divine domain. He used the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation to break into and tear apart Xingtian’s ranks, astonishing the spectators.

• The spectators saw Xu Taiping commanding around three thousand Heavenly Soldier and Divine General skeletons against Xingtian’s larger army.
• The spectators debated whether Xu Taiping could command the skeleton army well enough to overcome Xingtian’s experience and numbers.
• Xu Taiping organized the skeletons into the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation, impressing the battle generals watching.
• Xu Taiping ordered a formation charge, and his army pierced into Xingtian’s formation before enveloping it.
• Xu Taiping used Under the Overlord to drive the skeletons forward, and they tore Xingtian’s formation apart, leaving Jiang Cuicui stunned by his skill.

Xu Taiping’s three-thousand-man formation overwhelmed the opposing army, but Xingtian’s true body broke through their attacks and turned the battle around. Though Shi Jianchen cut off Xingtian’s head, Xingtian unleashed his troops in a frenzied counterattack and again threatened Xu Taiping and the others.

• Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui recognized that Xu Taiping was directing forty or fifty formation units at once, giving his three thousand soldiers the combat power of six or seven thousand.
• Xingtian’s true body struck Xu Taiping, Yue Chang Kong, and Shi Jianchen with his shield and axe, repeatedly driving them back.
• Shi Jianchen asked Xu Taiping and Yue Chang Kong to hold Xingtian still while he prepared a sword strike, and their attacks exposed Xingtian’s neck.
• Shi Jianchen pierced Xingtian’s neck and severed his head, but Xingtian remained standing and roared for his troops to slay the enemy.
• Xingtian’s blood mist drove his army into a reckless charge that overwhelmed Xu Taiping’s formation, while his headless body swung its axe at Xu Taiping and the others.

Xu Taiping tried to awaken the battle intent of the skeletal heavenly soldiers and generals while Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen held off Xingtian. After repeated calls, one divine general answered, and battle intent began rising from the skeletons.

• Xingtian’s overwhelming strength scattered Xu Taiping’s formation and forced him, Yue Chang Kong, and Shi Jianchen to defend against its attacks.
• Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen offered to sacrifice their bodies and urged Xu Taiping to escape, but Xu Taiping asked them to hold Xingtian off while he tried to awaken the skeletons’ battle intent.
• Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong attacked Xingtian as Xu Taiping used his divine sense to connect with nearly three thousand skeletal soldiers and generals, enduring immense backlash.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly asked the heavenly soldiers and generals why and for whom they fought, suffering severe injuries as his battle intent surged.
• A divine general’s skeleton declared that they fought for the Heavenly Court and the human race, releasing a crimson streak of battle intent and astonishing Jiang Cuicui.

Xu Taiping rallied the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals with battle intent, turning their collapsing formation against Xingtian's forces. With Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong joining him, he wounded Xingtian's headless true body, which roared that it would fight without end.

• Xu Taiping rallied the Divine Generals and Heavenly Soldiers, awakening their battle intent and strengthening their formation.
• Xu Taiping led a charge that drove the deity armored soldiers from the Heavenly Soldiers' formation and left at least a hundred of them dead.
• Xu Taiping's formation broke through Xingtian's troops, killed thousands of deity armored soldiers, and carried him to Xingtian's headless true body.
• Xu Taiping struck Xingtian with the formation's battle intent, and his clone knocked him to the ground with the Heaven-Touching Stance of the Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Xu Taiping called Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong to join the fight, and their combined attacks severed Xingtian's shield arm.
• Xu Taiping wounded Xingtian's chest with his saber as Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong attacked, and Xingtian roared that he would fight without end.

Xu Taiping and Shi Jianchen struggled against Xingtian’s true body, which drew on the Deity Soldiers’ qi and blood to grow stronger. Xu Taiping wounded Xingtian with an ultimate Burning Blade Style, but its use of True Essence summoned Heavenly Punishment, and Yue Chang Kong intercepted the flaming mountain with his mutilated body.

• Xingtian absorbed the Deity Soldiers’ qi and blood, then struck Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen and forced Xu Taiping’s blade attack to shatter against his axe.
• Zhu Huai explained that the soldiers’ formation and Xingtian’s true body sustained and strengthened each other, leaving Xu Taiping and Shi Jianchen unable to break the stalemate.
• Xu Taiping unleashed the Burning Blade Style at the Ultimate Realm with Thousand-Army Battle Intent, and its thunderflame dragon severely wounded Xingtian’s true body before bursting apart.
• Xu Taiping’s use of True Essence brought down Heavenly Punishment in the form of a flaming mountain.
• Yue Chang Kong charged into the falling mountain and detonated his mutilated body to destroy it, revealing that Xu Taiping’s allies had planned for him to take the punishment.

Xu Taiping and the three thousand Heavenly Soldier and Divine General skeletons destroyed Xingtian’s body, but Xingtian regenerated from a severed arm and attacked the formation. After Shi Jianchen sacrificed a true body to block Heavenly Punishment, Xu Taiping returned to the formation and prepared to command nearly eight thousand soldiers.

• Xu Taiping used two powerful saber strikes to reduce Xingtian’s ruined body to ash.
• Xingtian’s severed arm grew enormous, leaped into the military formation, and survived the attack.
• A Flame Mountain descended as the second Heavenly Punishment, and Shi Jianchen blocked it by sacrificing one true body.
• Shi Jianchen, now a Primordial Spirit, saw that Xu Taiping had returned to the formation instead of leaving the divine domain.
• Xu Taiping incorporated nearly five thousand more Heavenly Soldier Skeletons into the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation, prompting Shi Jianchen to fear the formation would backlash.

Xu Taiping gathered nearly ten thousand Heavenly Soldier Skeletons and several hundred skeleton divine generals into his formation, determined to raise its battle intent enough to face Xingtian. As Xingtian grew stronger, Xu Taiping began his only chance to form the ranks.

• Xu Taiping told Immortal Elder Wuji he would fight with everything he had, and Wuji decided to witness the battle rather than send him out of the Divine Domain.
• Xu Taiping expanded his Divine Sense and drew nearly ten thousand Heavenly Soldier Skeletons and several hundred skeleton divine generals into his military formation.
• Immortal Elder Wuji sensed the formation’s immense military might and recalled that only Xiang Kui had once made him feel the same.
• Xingtian absorbed the qi and blood of his troops, grew to over a hundred zhang tall, and revealed that his seal had weakened further.
• Xu Taiping steadied himself, raised the Heavenly King’s Skull, and ordered the gathered troops to form ranks.

Xu Taiping completed ranks for his ten-thousand-strong Skeleton Heavenly Soldier formation and tried to draw out the battle intent of the remaining troops as Xingtian's formation gained strength. He rallied the skeletons by warning that defeat would make their families slaves to the gods, leaving their response and the clash unresolved.

• Xu Taiping's skeleton troops completed their formations and roared for his command, sending their battle intent surging against Xingtian's army.
• Xingtian's True Body fed its qi and blood into the Deity Armored Soldiers Military Formation, whose growing might pushed toward Xu Taiping's formation.
• Immortal Elder Wuji, Shi Jianchen, and Yue Chang Kong watched as the outcome depended on whether Xu Taiping could awaken the battle intent of his entire army.
• Xu Taiping used his Divine Soul Power to envelop the lingering Divine Sense of nearly seven thousand more skeleton soldiers and generals.
• Xu Taiping invoked Xingtian's assault on the Heavenly Court and asked the skeletons whether they would bow to the gods and become slaves again.

Xu Taiping roused the battle intent of more than eight thousand skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals, broke through Xingtian’s military formation, and knocked down his one-armed true body. As Xu Taiping’s avatar continued striking Xingtian, his true body appeared behind him with another Heaven-Touching Stance, leaving Shi Jianchen fearing Xingtian would die.

• Xu Taiping endured the soul-weeping backlash and roused nearly seven thousand more skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals by asking whether they accepted their kin’s enslavement and suffering.
• Xu Taiping led more than eight thousand skeletons in a charge that shattered Xingtian’s military might and sand wall, while Xingtian ordered his formation to counterattack.
• Xu Taiping slashed Xingtian’s one-armed true body with a Burning Blade Style strike infused with the skeleton army’s battle intent, sending him crashing into his formation.
• Xu Taiping’s Mysterious Origin Avatar struck Xingtian twice with the Heaven-Touching Stance, badly injuring his palm and smashing several fingers.
• Xu Taiping appeared behind Xingtian’s fallen true body and assumed the Heaven-Touching Stance, prompting Yue Chang Kong to marvel at his force and Shi Jianchen to fear Xingtian would die.

Xu Taiping kept leading the Skeletons Heavenly Soldiers against Xingtian, determined to mobilize the ten-thousand-army battle intent and contend with him. As Xingtian began regenerating and the battle turned, Gu Yu left the Dragon-Trapping Tower and joined Xu Taiping’s formation.

• Xu Taiping’s true body and clone struck Xingtian’s one-armed body, shattering it, but Xingtian formed a blood sphere and placenta to regenerate.
• Xingtian rallied his remaining Deity Soldiers, whose formation stopped the Skeletons Heavenly Soldiers’ charge and began counterattacking.
• Shi Jianchen, Yue Chang Kong, and Immortal Elder Wuji urged Xu Taiping to retreat, but he asked Immortal Elder Wuji to send his three gravely injured friends out and said he wanted to contend with Xingtian using the ten-thousand-army battle intent.
• Gu Yu rose despite his injuries, used the Jade Shatter Art, and convinced Immortal Elder Wuji to let him leave the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Gu Yu heard Xu Taiping command the generals to form ranks, then charged into the formation to fight beside him.

Xu Taiping used Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath to awaken ten thousand strands of battle intent in the Skeletons Heavenly Soldier Military Formation, enduring severe backlash each time. The battle intent failed to manifest a form, but it still shattered Xingtian's military might as the two formations clashed.

• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping that he had helped get the others out, and Lotus Eye warned that using Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath would intensify the backlash.
• Xu Taiping combined Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath and rallied the skeletal soldiers, summoning seven thousand strands of battle intent before enduring severe pain in his Divine Soul.
• Xu Taiping shouted again, drawing out another thousand strands and bringing the battle intent total to eight thousand, while discovering the Dao Essence could support more uses.
• Xingtian charged toward Xu Taiping with nearly eight or nine thousand armored troops, and Xu Taiping summoned the remaining two thousand strands, raising the total to ten thousand despite another wave of backlash.
• Xu Taiping saw that the battle intent had not manifested a form, then led his army into a charge against Xingtian's formation and shattered its military might.
• Xingtian roared and spread his Qi and Blood Power over his formation after his military might was broken.

Xu Taiping and Gu Yu fought the enormous Xingtian True Body, but the ten thousand strands of battle intent still would not take form. Realizing he might need to control the skeletal army with his own will, Xu Taiping dropped the Heavenly King's Skull as Gu Yu fought desperately to hold Xingtian back.

• Xu Taiping used the ten thousand strands of battle intent to wound Xingtian, but Xingtian restored his body by absorbing the armored soldiers and grew to three hundred zhang tall.
• Xingtian battered Xu Taiping’s battle-intent deity phantom with his shield, axe, and newly grown pair of arms, shattering it and forcing Xu Taiping to conserve his Dao Essence Power.
• Gu Yu arrived and struck Xingtian with hundreds of blade shadows, then used the Jade Shatter Art to fight on despite being badly injured.
• Xu Taiping ordered the skeletal army to charge, but its battle intent still would not take form, prompting him to suspect he had to direct the army himself.
• Xu Taiping dropped the Heavenly King's Skull, shocking Immortal Elder Wuji inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.

After Xu Taiping put down the Heavenly King's Skull, he sustained the skeletal army’s formation with his own battle intent and asked the soldiers to fight for him. They willingly rallied behind him, forming an Azure Dragon of battle intent as he led their charge toward Xingtian’s army.

• Xu Taiping set down the Heavenly King's Skull, and the skeletal military formation began to weaken as Xingtian’s army advanced.
• Xiahou Qingyuan realized Xu Taiping was maintaining the formation with his own battle intent, and Zhu Huai recognized that the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers had submitted to him willingly.
• Xu Taiping declared himself a mortal and asked the skeletal soldiers whether they would fight for him.
• Divine Generals Zhao Chong, Cao Lei, Zhou Yue, Kong Wei, Gao Haoran, and others pledged their support, and the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers joined them.
• The soldiers’ combined battle intent formed an enormous Azure Dragon, and Xu Taiping led the army in a charge against Xingtian’s formation.

Xu Taiping used overwhelming ten-thousand-army battle intent to destroy Xingtian and shatter the divine domain. The domain’s collapse revealed Yundaozi’s seal, which Xu Taiping still needed to undo while eliminating the remaining Xingtian divine intent.

• Xu Taiping’s skeleton heavenly soldier formation broke through Xingtian’s formation, and Xu Taiping shattered Xingtian’s axe, shield, and body with successive Heaven-Touching punches and Heavenly Wrath strikes.
• Xu Taiping’s forces annihilated all the armored soldiers, and he ordered his troops to form ranks and await the final battle.
• The divine domain shattered and collapsed after Xingtian’s defeat.
• Xiahou Qingyuan warned that Xu Taiping still had to undo Yundaozi’s seal and eradicate the remaining Xingtian divine intent.
• The collapsed domain revealed palace ruins and a five-colored crystal that Chu Xiaoxiao identified as Yundaozi’s seal.

Xu Taiping broke Yundaozi's seal in the crystal, releasing Xingtian's divine intent at the moment Yundaozi's weakening power took effect. With the ten-thousand-strong Skeleton Army, Xu Taiping destroyed the phantom and asked the Ranking Spirit to end the viewing.

• Xu Taiping sent the unconscious Gu Yu into the Dragon-Trapping Tower and approached the crystal sealing Yundaozi and the Golden Chalice.
• Immortal Elder Wuji advised Xu Taiping to defeat Xingtian's divine intent, then secretly keep the Battle Merit Ledger and Golden Chalice.
• Xu Taiping injected his true essence into the crystal, causing it to crack and explode, and the Golden Chalice released Xingtian's enormous phantom.
• Yundaozi's divine intent suppressed Xingtian's phantom with a golden palm and rune chains.
• Xu Taiping led the Skeleton Army in a formation charge and used Burning Blade to unleash the Azure Dragon's Thunderflame Dragon Breath, destroying Xingtian's phantom.
• Xu Taiping watched the Golden Chalice fall and asked the Ranking Spirit to end the viewing.

After the viewing ended, Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji secured the ruins and approached Yundaozi’s remains to investigate his legacy. The Life-and-Death Seal reacted to a treasure inside Yundaozi’s ring, leading them to suspect it was another fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.

• The spectators worried that the viewing had ended before they could see whether Xu Taiping destroyed the Xingtian Divine Intent, while his companions believed he had prevailed.
• Xu Taiping tested the Golden Chalice with thunderflame, and Immortal Elder Wuji identified it as primordial chaos metal essence.
• Immortal Elder Wuji used three formation flags to form a Golden Summit Cloud-Covering Formation that blocked and burned away probing divine senses.
• Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji went to inspect Yundaozi’s remains, where they found a ring sealed by the Heaven-Mending Art.
• Xu Taiping’s Life-and-Death Seal flew from his Iron Gourd and hovered over Yundaozi, prompting Immortal Elder Wuji to suspect the ring contained another fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.