Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping endured Crow Heavenly Venerable’s sword attacks until a horde of chaos demonic beasts surrounded them and forced the half-immortals to retreat. Crow Heavenly Venerable warned that the beasts would soon dissipate, leaving Xu Taiping to face them again.

• Crow Heavenly Venerable struck Xu Taiping with a sword, and Xu Taiping used Heaven-Supporting Form to block the first blow, exhausting his chaos Dao essence power.
• Xu Taiping drew in the surrounding chaos qi as Crow Heavenly Venerable launched another attack, shattering his divine being phantom image while Xu Taiping endured the remaining sword intent.
• Chaos demonic beasts surged from Heavenly Thunder City and surrounded Xu Taiping as Crow Heavenly Venerable’s sword strikes hit them.
• The Chaos Void Banner and the Taiji Wheel of Tai Su charged Crow Heavenly Venerable and the other half-immortals, while the Taiji Wheel dismantled the Nameless Half-Immortal’s Dao-rhyme wall.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable stopped Zhechen and the Jade Dipper from attacking, warned Xu Taiping that the beasts would soon dissipate, and left with the others using the Nameless Half-Immortal’s purple radiance.

Xu Taiping sealed the Chaos Demonic Beasts in the Dragon-Trapping Tower and asked the veterans of Heavenly Thunder City for help with the restrictions that let Crow Heavenly Venerable track him. He learned that registering his name on a Demon-Suppressing Stele would prevent registered fighters from killing one another, and he needed to pass the stele’s trial to join the war.

• Xu Taiping entered the Dragon-Trapping Tower with several hundred Chaos Demonic Beasts, then emerged and sealed them inside to refine later.
• Veterans invited Xu Taiping into Heavenly Thunder City before its barrier was fully activated.
• Xu Taiping told Gu Huai and the other veterans that Crow Heavenly Venerable could find him, but they could not remove the tracking restrictions.
• Old Yu explained that people registered on the Demon-Suppressing Stele were forbidden from fighting one another, except for heretical cultivator Zhechen.
• Old Yu and Gu Huai described the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s history and its roles in suppressing demons, rewarding military merit, relaying messages, and issuing missions.
• Gu Huai told Xu Taiping that he had to reach the nearest Demon-Suppressing Stele and pass its trial to engrave his name.

Xu Taiping and the Eight Zhenwu Veteran Generals traveled to Langfeng City so he could attempt the Langfeng Demon-Suppressing Stele’s trial. After revealing that he had reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and commanded the Four Directions Military Formation, he left Gu Huai wondering how much of it he had commanded.

• Xu Taiping learned that the Langfeng Demon-Suppressing Stele formed a defensive triangle with the Yujing and Chaozhen steles and guarded the Human Race Army’s rear supply area.
• Xu Taiping and the veteran generals discussed the mystery behind the Nine Abysses’ attack on the abandoned Heavenly Thunder City, and Jiang Yu said its defenses could hold for over ten years.
• Xu Taiping arrived at Langfeng City on Xiaohei and learned that the hundred-thousand-strong Well Ghost Army guarded the stele.
• Xu Taiping told the veteran generals that he had reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, where he had briefly commanded the Four Directions Military Formation.
• Gu Huai asked whether Xu Taiping had commanded one formation or the entire Four Directions Military Formation, but the chapter ended before Xu Taiping answered.

Xu Taiping told the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army veterans about his victory in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and his command of all four armies, bringing them long-awaited hope. At Langfeng City, the group encountered two young Iron Armors, and Xu Taiping began the process of registering with the army.

• Xu Taiping explained that he had gathered the four Iron Armor pieces, commanded their armies, defeated the demonic forces in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, and ascended to its Thirteenth Layer.
• Gu Huai and the other veterans celebrated Xu Taiping as the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army’s first peerless Battle General in thirty thousand years, while Jiang Yu explained that General Song and sixty veterans were still transporting pills.
• Xu Taiping and the veterans landed outside Langfeng City after being warned that flying was forbidden, then met the young Iron Armors Ling Feng and Li Shi.
• Jiang Yu displayed the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army’s battle banner, and Li Shi recognized the veterans and explained their history to Ling Feng.
• Gu Huai said the group had come to register Xu Taiping, and Li Shi welcomed the prospect of a new young Iron Armor while Ling Feng questioned the celebration.

Xu Taiping went to register with the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, where Lei Xiao learned of the veterans’ sacrifices and rushed Xu into the drill ground for the final trial. The chapter ended with Lei Xiao taking Xu inside to put his name on the roster.

• Li Shi cautioned Ling Feng against dismissing the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, and Ling Feng asked Xu Taiping about his cultivation.
• Li Shi and the others arrived at the drill ground, where Lei Xiao discussed the stalled battle against the Nine Abysses with Li Shi.
• Lei Xiao bowed to the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army veterans and told them General Song had lost an arm and more than ten veterans had died delivering supplies to the North River Second Banner.
• Gu Huai urged the veterans not to grieve, and their unyielding battle intent impressed Ling Feng.
• Lei Xiao learned Xu Taiping was registering and carried him into the drill ground to put his name on the roster.

Xu Taiping arrived at the drill ground in Langfeng City and, with the help of Lei Xiao and Elder Wu, registered for the trial despite the roster being full. After his name was entered, the Demon-Suppressing Stele erupted in five-colored light and released a terrifying battle intent, leaving Lei Xiao suspecting Xu Taiping had caused its stirring.

• Lei Xiao hurried Xu Taiping to the registration table, where Elder Wu said the trial roster was full.
• After learning Xu Taiping came on the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army's recommendation, Elder Wu agreed to make an exception and register him.
• Xu Taiping gave a drop of essence blood, and Elder Wu wrote his name on the roster.
• The roster remained unchanged, but the table began trembling and the Demon-Suppressing Stele shone with five-colored light.
• The stele released a powerful battle intent as war drums sounded underground, and Lei Xiao wondered whether Xu Taiping had caused it.

Xu Taiping learned how the Demon-Suppressing Stele trial tested candidates and assigned soldiers’ grades, including the benefits of a Divine General’s Recruitment Token. After his name was added to the roster, he asked Gu Huai whether the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army had a token of its own.

• A disturbance at the Demon-Suppressing Stele was attributed to Nine Abysses spies, and Lei Xiao sent a warning to the others.
• Elder Wu explained that candidates had to withstand the Stele’s mountain spirit power and mental attacks to qualify for registration, while later rounds assessed their grades.
• Elder Wu told Xu Taiping that Divine Generals could choose an army, receive a Recruitment Token, and recruit soldiers.
• Xu Taiping reunited with Gu Huai, Li Shi, and Ling Feng and confirmed that his name had been added to the roster.
• Li Shi and Ling Feng left to see a friend, and Xu Taiping asked Gu Huai whether the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army had a Recruitment Token.

Xu Taiping joined the Demon-Suppressing Stele Trial while the Zhenwu veterans kept his Half-Immortal cultivation secret. He endured the first test with ease, then shattered the Stele’s divine-soul probe, prompting it to test him again.

• Gu Huai told Xu Taiping they lacked the military merit to exchange for a Recruitment Token, and the veterans urged him to focus on passing the trial’s first test.
• Lei Xiao summoned the trial participants to the platform and announced that they had to endure the Mountain Spirit Power of Ten Mountains and withstand the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s character test.
• The Ten-Mountain Power struck the platform, but Xu Taiping stood unmoved while other participants struggled and were removed.
• Ling Feng judged Xu Taiping’s physique impressive but doubted it would earn him a high rank, while Li Shi cautioned him not to be so sure.
• The Demon-Suppressing Stele’s divine-soul probe enveloped Xu Taiping, but his divine sense shattered it, causing the Stele to send more probes to test him again.

Xu Taiping broke through the Demon-Suppressing Stele's test of character and chose to continue to the second round, where the trial became far harsher than usual. He began driving back the armored heroic spirits with overwhelming strength, leaving the spectators questioning what kind of trial—and what kind of cultivator—they were witnessing.

• Xu Taiping declared his resolve to slay the Demon Mother, drive out the Nine Abysses, and seek an answer to the Great Void Calamity, causing the Demon-Suppressing Stele's divine-sense test to shatter.
• Commandant Lei Xiao announced that those who remained on the platform could enlist, and Xu Taiping stayed to attempt the second round after the bald martial artist left.
• The Demon-Suppressing Stele began the second round by increasing the mountain spirit power unusually quickly and summoning ninety-nine armored heroic spirits to attack Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping knocked away the first heroic spirits with his punches, revealed his true dragon divine being body, and sent half the remaining spirits off the platform with a powerful strike.
• Xu Taiping called on the remaining heroic spirits to attack together as a thousand-zhang Raging Tide Phantom Image rose behind him, and Li Shi realized the trial was no ordinary enlistment trial.

Xu Taiping endured the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s third trial, revealing a physique that Li Shi and Ling Feng judged to be at the Sky-Supporting Great Sage Realm. After the Geng Metal qi failed to injure him, Ling Feng conceded that Xu Taiping could earn a Grade A rating.

• Xu Taiping repelled the remaining heroic spirit phantoms with a single punch and advanced to Grade C.
• Lei Xiao began the third trial, subjecting Xu Taiping to the pressure of twenty mountains and continuous Geng Metal qi attacks.
• Xu Taiping grew into a dragon-scaled divine being whose golden, waterlike barrier shielded him from the mountain spirit power.
• Xu Taiping endured repeated Geng Metal sword strikes, including a sword shadow hundreds of zhang long, without injury.
• Ling Feng conceded that Xu Taiping’s Sky-Supporting Great Sage Realm physique could earn him a Grade A rating.

Xu Taiping passed the Grade A troops and armor test by defeating a thousand Grade B armored heroic spirits alone. He then asked the Demon-Suppressing Stele to send down a divine general-level trial, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Xu Taiping requested the Grade A test, and the Demon-Suppressing Stele sent down a trial requiring him to endure the power of twenty mountains and face a thousand-strong battle formation.
• Xu Taiping transformed into a towering divine-being form and met the Grade B formation's charge with the Human Sovereign Sword and Thunder Sound Banner.
• Xu Taiping broke the battle formation's manifested wilderness lion with a punch, then shattered the formation with his Heaven's Wrath attack.
• Commandant Lei Xiao announced Xu Taiping as Langfeng City's first Grade A armored warrior in three years.
• Xu Taiping refused to leave the platform and twice asked the Demon-Suppressing Stele for a divine general-level trial.

Xu Taiping began the divine general trial, which transported the spectators and trial participant into an illusion recreating the desperate Yanyuntai Blood Battle. As the Zhenwu Army faced an overwhelmingly larger Nine Abysses force, Li Shi explained the battle’s tragic history, leaving Xu Taiping’s prospects uncertain.

• Li Shi told Ling Feng that the First Divine General, the True Martial Great Emperor, had come from the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and predicted its fortune was returning.
• Xu Taiping unleashed his full power, prompting Elder Wu to identify him as possessing an ultimate Dao body.
• The Demon-Suppressing Stele began the divine general trial and sent Xu Taiping into an illusion where he had to lead the human army to victory against the Nine Abysses.
• The illusion placed the spectators above the snowy battlefield as Commandant Lei Xiao warned that Xu Taiping would suffer the battle general’s injuries if he lost.
• A Zhenwu general rallied nearly one hundred thousand soldiers to defend Yanyuntai as more than two hundred thousand Nine Abysses troops charged.
• Li Shi recounted how Old General Di Qing’s army had died after three months without reinforcements, and how the lost stronghold had thwarted later human counterattacks.

Li Shi and Ling Feng watched the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army repeatedly charge the Nine Abysses Demonic Army after Old General Di Qing fell, revealing that the soldiers’ battle intent—not their general—had sustained them. The scene reset, and Lei Xiao gave Xu Taiping the trial’s true task: command the army after Di Qing’s death and rout the Nine Abysses forces.

• Li Shi explained that simulations had found no battle general short of the True Martial Great Emperor could defeat the Nine Abysses army in this battle.
• The Nine Abysses general killed Old General Di Qing, but successive Zhenwu commanders rallied the soldiers to keep charging.
• As the commanders and most soldiers fell, a one-armed young soldier raised the tattered banner and led the remaining troops in one last charge.
• A badly wounded soldier rose from the battlefield, picked up the broken banner, and charged before all one hundred thousand soldiers had fallen.
• The scene reset to the moment before Di Qing’s death, and Lei Xiao told Xu Taiping to take command and rout the two-hundred-and-thirty-thousand-strong Nine Abysses army.

Xu Taiping accepted the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s divine-general trial and took command of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army against the Nine Abysses Demonic Army. As the armies clashed, he rallied his troops and began leading them in a formation charge.

• Xu Taiping descended onto the battlefield and shattered the Nine Abysses Demonic Army’s spear with a powerful slash, revealing that he was a Half-Immortal Realm expert.
• Xu Taiping announced that he would command the defenders of Yanyuntai, and the hundred thousand soldiers of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army accepted his leadership.
• Li Shi identified the opposing commander as Xuan Zhong Demon Emperor, one of the Nine Abysses’ top demonic generals.
• Xuan Zhong Demon Emperor led more than two hundred thousand soldiers in a formation charge toward Xu Taiping and the Demon-Slaying Army.
• Xu Taiping rallied his troops to avenge Old General Di Qing, seized the battle banner, and began directing the army’s formation charge.

Xu Taiping turned the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle against the larger Nine Abysses force by sharing his power with its soldiers and combining their strength against Xuan Zhong. After Xu Taiping slew the demonic general, Li Shi declared that the divine general had returned.

• Xu Taiping used the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle intent to suppress the Nine Abysses Demonic Army, but Xuan Zhong strengthened his troops with the Seed-Burning Art and pushed them back.
• Xu Taiping gave the Demon-Slaying Army his qi, blood, and magic power, restoring its strength and allowing its formation to break through the Nine Abysses ranks.
• Xuan Zhong transformed and merged with his army’s battle intent, then attacked Xu Taiping with a spear formed from that power.
• Xu Taiping gathered the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle intent and killing power into a towering divine general phantom and unleashed the Demon-Slaying Blade Form: Heaven-Opening.
• Xu Taiping cleaved Xuan Zhong apart, and Li Shi proclaimed that the divine general had returned.

After Xu Taiping led the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army’s lingering souls to victory over the Nine Abysses Demonic Army, he passed the trial and was named a Divine General. The veteran generals celebrated his achievement but worried their dwindled army could not offer him room to realize his potential, and Lei Xiao told Xu Taiping he could choose any army on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.

• Xu Taiping rallied the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army’s remnant souls, and they destroyed the Nine Abysses Demonic Army before fading away.
• Li Shi realized the soldiers had been remnant souls and lingering obsessions, and Ling Feng said the battle had honored their spirits.
• Lei Xiao announced that Xu Taiping had passed the trial, and thunder inscribed “Divine General Xu Taiping” on the Demon-Suppressing Stele.
• The veteran generals celebrated Xu Taiping’s rank but worried their fewer-than-a-hundred survivors could not make good use of his abilities.
• Lei Xiao told Xu Taiping he could choose any army on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, while Gu Huai encouraged the veterans to look forward to his future leadership.

Xu Taiping rejected invitations from the four great armies and chose to remain with the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army. He revealed that he planned to use his Recruitment Token to rebuild the depleted army, leaving its veteran generals stunned.

• Huo Xuan, Wei Ming, Bai Lu, and Zhao Cangbai appeared through the Demon-Suppressing Stele and invited Xu Taiping to join their armies.
• Xu Taiping told Lei Xiao and the four generals that he had already joined an army and had no intention of leaving it.
• Xu Taiping declared that he belonged to the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, prompting its veteran generals to urge him to choose a more powerful army.
• Xu Taiping requested and received a Recruitment Token from Lei Xiao.
• Xu Taiping announced that the token would let the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army recruit a thousand troops and called on its veterans to restore the army, leaving them stunned.

Xu Taiping revived the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and accepted the burden of gathering a thousand soldiers, but an attack by Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts interrupted preparations. After half a month of secluded cultivation, he reached six-inch Void Insight and gained three powerful strands of Edict Power.

• Xu Taiping declared that he would revive the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, and its eight veteran generals vowed to follow him.
• Wei Ming, Huo Xuan, Bai Lu, and Zhao Cangbai departed after acknowledging Xu Taiping's choice, while Zhao Cangbai hoped their armies would fight together against the Nine Abysses.
• Lei Xiao explained that Xu Taiping could claim a month's provisions and pay for a thousand armored soldiers, then war drums signaled that Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts were attacking.
• After half a month of seclusion in the Dragon-Trapping Tower, Xu Taiping found that Crow Heavenly Venerable and the other half-immortals had stopped probing him.
• Xu Taiping fused the Chaos Demonic Beasts he had brought from the Land of Chaos, advancing to six-inch Void Insight and gaining three powerful strands of Edict Power.

Xu Taiping emerged from seclusion with stronger edict powers and combat techniques, then learned that the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army had been assigned to rescue a trapped convoy at Yujing City. As he accepted the mission, the Lotus Eye revealed a familiar face: Buyu.

• Xu Taiping reunited with his Origin Beginning Clone's insights and gained eight origin edict powers along with improved movement, blade, and fist techniques.
• Xu Taiping ended his seclusion and learned that Gu Huai and the other veteran generals faced a rescue mission at Yujing City, where a convoy was besieged by nearly two thousand demonic armors and over a thousand demonic beasts.
• Gu Huai explained that the three-hundred-person convoy had been trapped for three days, had supplies for only half a day, and could not be rescued by other armies fighting on their rear fronts.
• Jiang Yu told Xu Taiping that Veteran General Song and the others were among the trapped, and Xu Taiping promised to accept the mission.
• Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye revealed a divine soul mark showing Buyu.

Xu Taiping led eight veteran generals to rescue Yujing City's trapped convoy, while leaving his Origin Beginning Clone and the remaining generals to defend Heavenly Thunder City from an expected Nine Abysses attack. As the rescue force neared the siege, Xu Taiping prepared to summon the Demon-Slaying Cavalry heroic spirits and break through the enemy formation quickly.

• Xu Taiping foresaw that Nine Abysses planned to attack Heavenly Thunder City after he left, likely using the trapped convoy as bait.
• Xu Taiping told Yu Lang and the other generals that his Origin Beginning Clone would hold Heavenly Thunder City for at least half an hour, giving them time to rescue Yujing City's force.
• Xu Taiping planned to summon the Demon-Slaying Cavalry heroic spirits and have the veteran generals command them to conserve his strength for the return journey.
• Yu Lang sensed explosions ahead and reported that the trapped convoy was about thirty li away.
• Xu Taiping probed the battlefield and confirmed that nearly three thousand Nine Abysses soldiers were besieging a Human Race Army force.