Chapter Summaries

Cao Bing traveled for more than a thousand years to reach the Withered Willow Clan’s shrunken territory and found it devastated by repeated attacks. As he considered the clan’s likely extinction, he detected something nearby and vanished to investigate.

• The Withered Willow Clan’s territory, population, and strength had dwindled after sixteen attacks since Lord of the Withered Willow fell.
• Cao Bing traveled toward the clan’s gathering place, taking a winding route to explore the universe and collect treasures along the way.
• Cao Bing arrived in the Withered Willow Clan’s territory in the sixteen hundredth year and found it desolate, with few inhabitants and many regions ruined by battle.
• Cao Bing concluded that the clan might not survive much longer as its living region and resources continued to decline.
• Cao Bing detected something with his Spiritual Sense and instantly vanished from where he stood.

Venerable Peng Chu and the Chun Niu Clan threatened the Withered Willow Clan to seize its last supreme treasure, the Divine Wind Shield. After Yu Xi Tu helped Venerable Kui Jie see through Peng Chu’s coercion, Kui Jie refused to surrender it, and Peng Chu prepared to take it by force.

• Venerable Peng Chu demanded that Venerable Kui Jie surrender the Divine Wind Shield or face a devastating attack on the Withered Willow Clan.
• Venerable Kui Jie hesitated because the clan had already lost territory and surrendered three supreme treasures to the Chun Niu Clan to prevent further casualties.
• Yu Xi Tu warned Kui Jie that losing the Divine Wind Shield would leave the clan unable to resist other invaders.
• Venerable Kui Jie refused Peng Chu’s demand and threatened to fight the Chun Niu Clan rather than surrender the shield.
• Venerable Peng Chu revealed that he intended to seize the Divine Wind Shield by force.

Venerable Peng Chu led the Chun Niu Clan in a devastating attack on the weakened Withered Willow Clan, using treasures the clan had surrendered to strike them. Venerable Kui Jie was left severely injured after repeatedly shielding his people, while the battle continued to destroy the clan’s core region.

• Venerable Peng Chu abandoned his pretense of peace and attacked the Withered Willow Clan with the Chun Niu Clan’s venerables.
• Venerable Peng Chu used the Wave-Breaking Drum, a treasure taken from the Withered Willow Clan, to batter Venerable Kui Jie as the outmatched defenders struggled.
• Two Chun Niu Clan venerables overwhelmed Yu Xi Tu, severely injuring him, while the battle’s aftershocks devastated nearby star systems and killed Withered Willow Clan members.
• Venerable Peng Chu repeatedly targeted the Withered Willow Clan’s core region with lightning, forcing Venerable Kui Jie to block the strikes with his Divine Wind Shield.
• Venerable Kui Jie’s shield shattered, and a lightning strike destroyed part of the core region after he could no longer stop it.
• Venerable Kui Jie declared that although the Withered Willow Clan could not escape, they could drag the Chun Niu Clan down with them.

The Withered Willow Clan's Venerables tried to destroy themselves alongside the Chun Niu Clan rather than surrender, but Cao Bing intervened and killed Venerable Peng Chu with a surprise attack. The clash continued with the remaining fighters still facing off.

• Venerable Kui Jie and the Withered Willow Clan's Venerables began igniting their divine bodies to self-destruct and take the Chun Niu Clan's Venerables with them.
• Venerable Peng Chu and the others panicked and fled, while Venerable Kui Jie rejected Peng Chu's warning that the explosions would destroy the Withered Willow Clan too.
• Cao Bing arrived, saw the Chun Niu Clan oppressing the Withered Willow Clan, and used the Remnant Snow divine spear to ambush Venerable Peng Chu.
• Cao Bing repeatedly struck Venerable Peng Chu, devastating his divine body, consciousness, and soul until the spear devoured him completely.

Cao Bing intervened to save the Withered Willow Clan, killing Venerable Peng Chu and driving off the Chun Niu Clan attackers. After the battle, Venerable Kui Jie thanked him, and Cao Bing said he had come to the Withered Willow Clan for a reason but wanted nothing from them.

• Cao Bing killed Venerable Peng Chu before the stunned Chun Niu Clan and Withered Willow Clan Venerables.
• Cao Bing killed two more Chun Niu Clan Venerables with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear, prompting the attackers to flee.
• Venerable Kui Jie and the Withered Willow Clan powerhouses joined Cao Bing in pursuing the Chun Niu Clan, killing five more and allowing three to escape.
• Venerable Kui Jie thanked Cao Bing and offered the Withered Willow Clan's help, while his people kept their battle formation.
• Cao Bing told Venerable Kui Jie that he had come to the Withered Willow Clan for a reason, but not to seek anything from them.

Cao Bing brought the Withered Willow Clan a branch left by the Lord of the Withered Willow, but it flew into Venerable Kui Jie and caused him to wither. The clan’s venerables attacked Cao Bing, who repelled them while insisting he had not harmed their elder.

• Cao Bing told Venerable Kui Jie he had come at someone’s request and showed him the withered branch left by the Lord of the Withered Willow.
• Venerable Kui Jie recognized the branch’s aura, took it from Cao Bing, and asked where it came from.
• The branch flew into Venerable Kui Jie’s glabella, and his body began to turn yellow and wither.
• Yu Xi Tu and the other Withered Willow Clan venerables blamed Cao Bing and attacked him as they tried to save Venerable Kui Jie.
• Cao Bing knocked back the clan’s venerables with his spear, including Yu Xi Tu, and warned them to calm down.
• Someone ordered the Withered Willow Clan venerables to stop and not disrespect their benefactor.

After receiving Lord of the Withered Willow's legacy, Venerable Kui Jie stopped his clansmen from fighting Cao Bing and agreed to make the Withered Willow Clan a vassal of the Human Race. Cao Bing prepared to help them migrate, while the clan's hidden survivors and their plan to fake the race's destruction were revealed.

• Venerable Kui Jie awakened, declared Cao Bing their benefactor, and ordered Yu Xi Tu and the others to apologize.
• Venerable Kui Jie told Yu Xi Tu that Lord of the Withered Willow's legacy could make him a Universe Hegemon within a hundred thousand years, and warned him not to ask about Cao Bing's identity.
• Venerable Kui Jie confirmed that Lord of the Withered Willow had told him about the treasure and that it now belonged to Cao Bing.
• Cao Bing offered the Withered Willow Clan the Human Race's protection, and Venerable Kui Jie immediately accepted the vassal arrangement.
• Cao Bing said he would stay while the Withered Willow Clan prepared to migrate from its distant starfield to Human territory.
• The Withered Willow Clan's hidden Universe Venerable, elite clansmen, and two Ordinary supreme treasures remained concealed, while Kui Jie's group had planned to die and make other factions believe the clan was destroyed.

After Peng Chu and five other Venerables died at the hands of a mysterious Universe Hegemon in the Withered Willow Clan, Venerable Chuyan and Venerable Chuquan discussed who the attacker might be. Chuyan set out to investigate, while Chuquan remained behind, uneasy about the journey and worried that the Chun Niu Clan’s enemies would exploit its losses.

• The Chun Niu Clan’s surviving Venerables reported Peng Chu’s death to Venerable Chuyan and Venerable Chuquan.
• Chuyan and Chuquan considered possible attackers, naming Venerable Kuican as their leading suspect.
• Chuyan decided to travel to the Withered Willow Clan to assess the situation and confront the mysterious expert if he was still there.
• Chuyan threatened to destroy the Withered Willow Clan if the attacker had already left, then departed in a streak of red light.
• Chuquan stayed behind, worried that the Chun Niu Clan’s loss of six of its nineteen Venerables would invite trouble from hostile races.

Cao Bing oversaw the Withered Willow Clan’s migration into Human Territory while concealing that some clan members had been kept behind. Before the transfer, Venerable Chuyan arrived to confront him over the death of Venerable Peng Chu, and Cao Bing admitted to the killing.

• Venerable Kui Jie and the Withered Willow Clan’s experts gathered nearly all the clan’s members for migration to Human Territory.
• Venerable Kui Jie asked whether Cao Bing would accompany them, and Cao Bing coldly warned him not to question his plans.
• Cao Bing sensed an approaching guest and expected trouble.
• Venerable Chuyan confronted Cao Bing about killing Venerable Peng Chu, and Cao Bing admitted he had done it to repay a favor to the Withered Willow Clan.
• Cao Bing introduced himself as Fire Spear Venerable and said the Chun Niu Clan had simply been unlucky; when Venerable Chuyan asked how he would finish repaying the favor, Cao Bing said he was not done.

Cao Bing confronted Venerable Chuyan, who attacked to avenge the Chun Niu Clan and demand compensation for their deaths. Cao Bing met him with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear and his Blood Blade techniques, and the battle intensified as Venerable Chuyan’s attacks began to overpower him.

• Venerable Chuyan demanded that Cao Bing repay the Withered Willow Clan, then attacked him with his longswords and armored wings.
• Cao Bing countered with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear, and their first clash destroyed the planet beneath them; Venerable Kui Jie and Yu Xi Tu sheltered the Withered Willow Clan’s King-level Immortals in their divine kingdoms.
• Venerable Chuyan recognized Cao Bing’s strength and suspected his spear was a Top-grade or Peak supreme treasure, while Cao Bing attacked with Blood Waves Billow.
• Venerable Chuyan unleashed enormous fiery crystal wings and a storm of feather-blade crystals, pushing back Cao Bing’s blood-wave attack.
• Cao Bing used Blood Battle in Eight Directions and My Will is Like a Blade against Venerable Chuyan.

Cao Bing fought Venerable Chuyan, whose wing supreme treasure initially overwhelmed Cao Bing’s blood-wave attacks. Cao Bing pierced Chuyan with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear, but Chuyan claimed his vast divine body could withstand many such blows.

• Cao Bing broke Venerable Chuyan’s feather-blade storm with his Blood Battle in Eight Directions secret art, prompting Chuyan to reveal the speed of his wing supreme treasure.
• Venerable Chuyan used Feather-Strangling Kill against Cao Bing’s blood dragon, and their collision destroyed the Withered Willow Clan’s core region.
• Venerable Kui Jie and Yu Xi Tu watched the battle from a safe distance as the surrounding wreckage made it dangerous for other experts to approach.
• Cao Bing’s Remnant Snow Divine Spear shattered Chuyan’s wings and pierced his chest, inflicting a wound that resisted healing.
• Venerable Chuyan acknowledged Cao Bing’s unusual consciousness power but insisted his vast divine body could endure many more spear strikes.

Cao Bing burned his divine body to overwhelm Venerable Chuyan with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear, while Venerable Chuyan used his winged armor and a fused saber to counterattack. Venerable Chuyan believed Cao Bing could not sustain the power, but Cao Bing’s enormous divine-body reserves and six available bodies meant he could keep fighting far longer than expected.

• Venerable Chuyan mocked Cao Bing’s strength, but Cao Bing revealed a much greater power by burning his divine body.
• Cao Bing knocked aside Venerable Chuyan’s blades, pierced his chest, and battered his winged armor with Heaven-Sweeping Spear Rain.
• Venerable Chuyan fused his three war blades into a saber and slashed Cao Bing away, then claimed Cao Bing could not maintain his strength.
• Venerable Chuyan assumed Cao Bing’s divine body would soon weaken, unaware that Cao Bing had immense reserves and six divine bodies present.

Cao Bing burned half of his clone’s divine body to overwhelm Venerable Chuyan with powerful spear attacks. After realizing Cao Bing could sustain that strength, Venerable Chuyan lost confidence and began considering retreat.

• Cao Bing burned half of his clone’s divine body and used the Nether Void wings to strike Venerable Chuyan, badly injuring him.
• Venerable Chuyan mistook Cao Bing’s sustained power for a near-suicidal detonation of most of his divine body.
• Cao Bing attacked again, and Venerable Chuyan burned his own divine body to meet the blow but was sent flying and injured further.
• Venerable Chuyan realized his assumptions about Cao Bing’s strength were wrong and considered withdrawing to his clan.

Cao Bing continued fighting Venerable Chuyan, breaking through his composite Gold-Fire Law Domain and detonating part of his divine body to overwhelm him. Venerable Chuyan survived with less than thirty percent of his divine body remaining, while Cao Bing prepared to use more methods to finish him.

• Venerable Chuyan tried to end the fight, but Cao Bing attacked again, determined to kill him.
• Venerable Chuyan unleashed a composite Gold-Fire Law Domain and trapped Cao Bing in the Gold-Fire Molten Mountain.
• Cao Bing broke through the domain with Blood Battle Eight Wastelands and closed in on Venerable Chuyan.
• Cao Bing detonated one-thousandth of his divine body, and the blast sent Venerable Kui Jie, Yu Xi Tu, and distant Universe Venerables flying.
• Cao Bing's spear struck Venerable Chuyan after the blast, leaving him with less than thirty percent of his divine body; Cao Bing regretted that the attack had not killed him.

Cao Bing reflected on the limits of wielding his enormous divine body before trapping the badly weakened Venerable Chuyan in a powerful domain-type supreme treasure. He ended the chapter by striking Venerable Chuyan with a final spear as he tried to escape.

• Cao Bing compared his divine body’s limitations with the Nine Nether Lord’s and recognized that he could not yet unleash its full power.
• After losing more than seventy percent of his divine body, Venerable Chuyan fled, hoping to survive and recover.
• Cao Bing activated his nine-bead bracelet and trapped Venerable Chuyan inside the Refining Fire Domain.
• Venerable Chuyan tried to resist the domain with his Golden-Fire Domain and cut his way out with his battle saber.
• Cao Bing concealed himself with Wuxu, detonated one-thousandth of his divine body, and pierced Venerable Chuyan’s chest with his final spear.

Cao Bing killed Venerable Chuyan despite his pleas to spare the Chun Niu Clan. After learning of Chuyan’s fall, Venerable Chuquan gathered the clan’s Universe Venerables and ordered them to prepare for defense and possible flight.

• Venerable Chuyan pleaded with Cao Bing to spare the Chun Niu Clan, but Cao Bing refused and Chuyan died.
• Venerable Chuquan sensed Chuyan’s fall and summoned every Universe Venerable still in the clan.
• Venerable Chuquan told the gathered Venerables that Chuyan had gone to investigate Peng Chu’s death and had not returned.
• Venerable Chuquan explained that the killer of Peng Chu had likely killed Chuyan and that the clan could not seek revenge.
• Venerable Chuquan ordered the Chun Niu Clan to gather its clansmen, prepare defenses, and flee with its elite if necessary.

Cao Bing killed Venerable Chuyan and helped the Withered Willow Clan evacuate to a prepared settlement under the Hong Alliance. He then considered his next steps, including visiting Crafting God Star and eventually retaliating against the Chun Niu Clan.

• Cao Bing gathered the surviving treasures after Venerable Chuyan dissipated, then confirmed that Venerable Kui Jie and the Withered Willow Clan were ready to leave.
• Cao Bing summoned one of King Cang Jin's Marquis-level Immortal Soul Slaves, who opened a passage to his divine kingdom for the Withered Willow Clan.
• Venerable Kui Jie, Yu Xi Tu, and the clan members entered the divine kingdom after Kui Jie thanked Cao Bing for honoring his promise to the Lord of the Withered Willow.
• Cao Bing asked Venerable Liu Ye in the Virtual Universe to oversee the Withered Willow Clan's settlement, which the Chaos City Lord had already arranged.
• Cao Bing left the devastated area and weighed visiting Crafting God Star against settling his score with the Chun Niu Clan.

Cao Bing arrived at the Chun Niu Clan’s holy land and attacked Venerable Chuquan and the clan’s gathered Universe Venerables. He left the clan battered but paused the assault, then faced Chuquan and asked to confirm his identity.

• Venerable Chuquan gathered the Chun Niu Clan’s Universe Venerables in the divine hall and warned them to prepare for Cao Bing’s possible arrival.
• Cao Bing entered the Chun Niu Holy Land, activated the Fire Refining Bracelet, and sealed the area with its Refining Fire Domain.
• Cao Bing ambushed the gathered Venerables with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear, then drove Venerable Chuquan through the holy land’s mountain walls.
• Venerable Chuquan counterattacked with his Time-and-Wind Law Domain, but the Refining Fire Domain weakened it as the two exchanged blows.
• Cao Bing stopped pressing the attack as other Chun Niu Venerables arrived, then addressed Venerable Chuquan, who cautiously asked his name.

Cao Bing, using the alias Venerable Fire Refining, confronted the Chun Niu Clan and demanded compensation for Venerable Chuyan’s ambush. When negotiations failed, he attacked and killed one of the clan’s Venerables, leaving the rest trapped in his domain.

• Cao Bing introduced himself as Venerable Fire Refining and accused the Chun Niu Clan of responsibility for Chuyan’s death.
• Cao Bing threatened to destroy the clan’s territory and continue killing its Venerables unless it paid him.
• Cao Bing demanded materials worth three Supreme Treasures, but Chuquan said the clan could not provide them.
• Cao Bing lowered his demand to three Supreme Treasures and enough premium materials to forge another.
• When a hot-tempered Venerable urged the clan to fight, Cao Bing activated his Refining Fire Domain and pierced the Venerable with his spear, blasting him into fragments.

Cao Bing overwhelmed the Chun Niu Clan’s Universe Venerables and used the danger to their clansmen to force Venerable Chuquan to accept harsher terms. The Chun Niu Clan surrendered supreme treasures and materials, though they still had not produced all five treasures Cao Bing demanded.

• Cao Bing killed a Chun Niu Clan venerable and blasted Venerable Chuquan back while fighting within the Refining Fire Domain.
• Cao Bing evaded the clan’s combined attacks and redirected their residual force through Chun Niu Clan territory, killing and wounding many clansmen.
• Venerable Chuquan stopped the others from continuing the fight and agreed to Cao Bing’s conditions.
• Cao Bing raised the price to top-grade materials sufficient to forge one supreme treasure and five supreme treasures.
• Venerable Chuquan surrendered three supreme treasures and several top-grade materials, then had two other Chun Niu Clan Universe Venerables each surrender a treasure.