Chapter Summaries

Yun Tian killed the toll collectors and confronted Divine Venerable Xuanming, mocking and fighting him before escaping with Nie Li and the others. Xuanming was left furious and battered, while Holy Son Li Huo was caught in the blast of his aura.

• Yun Tian killed the men collecting interspatial rings at the entrance.
• Yun Tian flew up to Divine Venerable Xuanming, slapped him twice, and taunted him until the people below fled.
• Yun Tian fought Divine Venerable Xuanming, then fled with Nie Li and the others.
• Divine Venerable Xuanming found everyone gone and his face swollen, then unleashed his aura and blasted Holy Son Li Huo into the rubble.

Nie Li used the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting to cultivate from nine-star Heavenly Mandate to nine-star Heavenly Star, while Gu Bei and Gu Heng faced the Gu Family patriarch over their conflict. The patriarch ordered Gu Bei to pay compensation and Gu Hen to reflect for thirty years.

• Nie Li activated the Demon Blood Sacrifice and absorbed Heavenly Way energy in the painting, ignoring a consciousness that tried to take over his body.
• Long Tianming criticized Gu Heng’s failure to handle Gu Bei and supplied more Spirit Stones to protect their plan for control of the Gu Family.
• Nie Li’s Soul Sea expanded, and he cultivated for nearly twenty years inside the painting, reaching the peak of nine-star Heavenly Star.
• Gu Heng’s side accused Gu Bei of destroying a Divine Pool, while Gu Bei argued that he had fought back against Gu Hen’s attack on the Monster Alliance.
• An elder who had accepted Gu Bei’s gifts acknowledged Gu Bei’s harsh response but said Gu Hen had committed many misdeeds.
• The patriarch ordered Gu Bei to pay money and Gu Hen to return home and reflect for thirty years, despite the Third Elder’s objection.

Nie Li gave Gu Bei and Lu Piao Spirit Stones and used his blood and a formation to help them cultivate, while Li Yufeng defeated Li Xingyun and killed him. The chapter ended with the Wind Alliance challenging the Heavenly Travel Alliance and Monster Alliance outside the Heavenly Spirit Institute.

• Long Tianming raged over Gu Hen's punishment but resolved not to give up his plans to change the Feather God Sect's balance of power.
• Nie Li returned from the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting and praised Gu Bei for dealing with Gu Hen.
• Nie Li gave Gu Bei and Lu Piao ten million Spirit Stones and agreed to consider recruiting members of the Heavenly Origin Divine Race.
• Nie Li brought Gu Bei and Lu Piao into the painting, gave them blood infused with the Demon Blood Sacrifice, and used a formation to strengthen them and their Demon Spirits.
• Li Yufeng used a powerful treasure artifact to overpower Li Xingyun, threatened him with captured subordinates, and killed him when Li Xingyun came out to fight.
• As Nie Li and the others cultivated and Lu Piao reached six-star, members of Li Yufeng's Wind Alliance taunted the Heavenly Travel Alliance and Monster Alliance outside the Heavenly Spirit Institute.

Li Xingyun restrained his allies as Li Yufeng attacked, while Nie Li slipped out of the Heavenly Spirit Institute and headed for the Wilderness. Yun Tian followed him there and promised to remove the Heavenly Origin Divine Race’s barrier, leaving Nie Li ready to recruit the entire race.

• Li Xingyun held the Monster Alliance and Heavenly Travel Alliance back, and an unknown figure intercepted Li Yufeng’s attack on him.
• Nie Li told Li Xingyun he suspected Long Tianming was backing Li Yufeng, then disguised himself and bribed a guard to leave the institute.
• Yun Tian’s five disciples woke after their encounter, and Xiao Yu revealed she had advanced to Martial Sect.
• Yun Tian divined that Nie Li was headed to the Heavenly Origin Divine Race and traveled to the Wilderness in his Emperor War Steed.
• Nie Li explained that he wanted to recruit the Heavenly Origin Divine Race, and Yun Tian promised to handle the Heavenly Way’s backlash so the entire race could leave.

Nie Li rescued enslaved members of the Heavenly Origin Divine Race from the Dragon Breath Merchant Association and offered the race a way out in exchange for joining his forces. The patriarch accepted, and the chapter ended as he gathered the race to share the news.

• Nie Li offered fifty thousand Spirit Stones for enslaved members of the Heavenly Origin Divine Race, then Yun Tian used the Shadowkhan Army to defeat the Dragon Breath Merchant Association's men.
• Nie Li extorted five million Spirit Stones from President Lin and his leaders, then kept the money for the Monster Alliance and Heavenly Travel Alliance.
• Nie Li and Yun Tian met the Heavenly Origin Divine Race's patriarch, and Nie Li offered to take the race out without Heavenly Way backlash in exchange for its help and support.
• The patriarch accepted Nie Li's offer and explained the race's dire circumstances; Nie Li learned that tens of thousands remained, including nearly a thousand Dragon Path fighters.
• The patriarch gathered the Heavenly Origin Divine Race and prepared to announce the news to them.

Nie Li and Yun Tian freed the Heavenly Origin Divine Race from their prison and began training them in the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting. After escaping an ambush, they met the remnant will of the Heavenly Origin Great Emperor, who believed Nie Li had come from a hundred years in the future.

• Yun Tian erased the Heavenly Way’s mark from the Heavenly Origin Divine Race, allowing the patriarch and his people to leave their prison safely.
• Nie Li brought the race into the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting and taught them cultivation arts and battle formations.
• Demon God Sect assassins ambushed Nie Li and Yun Tian, but Yun Tian sensed a spatial fluctuation and took Nie Li away.
• Yun Tian brought Nie Li to a mysterious altar, where the Heavenly Origin Great Emperor’s remnant will appeared.
• Nie Li told the Heavenly Origin Great Emperor that he had returned from a hundred years in the future, and the emperor said he believed him.

Nie Li prepared for the Feather God Sect’s Sect Master election with the backing of powerful allies, while Long Tianming revealed his ties to demonic forces and challenged him. After Long Tianming lost to Nie Li’s forces and insulted the Divine Venerables, Yun Tian froze time and bound Long Tianming’s soul to a cross.

• Nie Li swore to lead the Heavenly Origin Divine Race out of the Endless Wilderness and received the Ten Thousand Spirits Sword Formation and the Heavenly Origin Great Emperor’s Storage Ring.
• Nie Li refined Formless Divine Fruits into pills for his allies and the Feather God Sect, earning the Heavenly Cloud Divine Venerable’s support as a potential Sect Master candidate.
• Nie Li and his allies built their strength, while Long Yuyin took control of the Dragon Seal Family and Nie Li secured support from Situ Bei Yan and Gu Bei.
• At the election, Long Tianming defeated Situ Bei Yan, but Nie Li’s Heavenly Origin Divine Race experts overwhelmed Long Tianming’s forces.
• Yun Tian and the Divine Venerables defended Nie Li against Long Tianming’s accusations, and Long Tianming insulted them before Yun Tian froze time and bound his soul to a cross.

Yun Tian exposed Long Tianming as a Demon God Sect member and helped Nie Li take control of the Feather God Sect. As the sect grew stronger, Yu Yan revealed that the Temporal Demon Spirit Book in the Little Exquisite World could help them confront the Saint Emperor and uncover the truth behind Nie Li's rebirth.

• Yun Tian tortured Long Tianming, then revealed his Demon God Sect token to the Divine Venerables before Long Tianming died in the pot.
• The Sect Master retired behind the scenes and named Nie Li the true Sect Master of the Feather God Sect.
• Nie Li strengthened the sect with pills, cultivation, and efforts to root out spies, while Yun Tian agreed to help people from other divine sects as well.
• Half a year later, Nie Li had reached the third stage of the Dragon Path realm, and visitors from the Soaring Cloud Sect abandoned their schemes after seeing the Martial Sect realm cultivators in his hall.
• A Demon God Sect leader learned that Long Tianming's plan had failed and proposed involving the Sacred Demon Ancestral Grounds.
• Yu Yan told Yun Tian about the Sword of the Sacred Ancestor, the Blade of the Sacred Demon, and the Temporal Demon Spirit Book, prompting Nie Li to conclude that the book was vital to confronting the Saint Emperor and understanding his rebirth.

Yun Tian accompanied Nie Li to the Heavenly Sound Divine Sect, where Nie Li planned to unite the Six Great Divine Sects against the Saint Emperor. After the meeting, Yun Tian reunited with the women there, who kept him busy attending to their needs.

• Yun Tian told Nie Li that he and Yu Yan would return to the Little Exquisite World, then agreed to accompany Nie Li to meet the sect masters.
• Nie Li, Yun Tian, Gu Bei, and the others arrived at the Heavenly Sound Divine Sect, where Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er learned of their arrival.
• Nangong Xianyin met with Nie Li, and they discussed gathering the sect masters of the Six Great Divine Sects to join forces against the Saint Emperor.
• Ye Ziyun, Xiao Ning'er, Nangong Xianyin, Mingyue Wushuang, Ling Yun, and Yu Yan pulled Yun Tian aside and whispered among themselves.
• The women made Yun Tian seat them and attend to their thirst, hunger, and discomfort while Nie Li's group settled into their accommodations.

Nie Li persuaded the six great divine sects to unite against the Saint Emperor and was chosen to lead their alliance. The meeting then turned to Yun Tian, whose relationship with Nangong Xianyin surprised the sect masters, as he faced Xiuming’s challenge by summoning Golden Egg.

• The Demon Lord told Nie Li that he had recovered his memories as a reincarnated Spirit God, and Nie Li gave him pure juice from the Formless Divine Fruit.
• Nie Li explained the Saint Emperor’s history and the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds to the gathered sect masters, who agreed that the six great divine sects should oppose him together.
• Nie Li distributed sacred medicine to the sects, and the sect masters chose him and the Feather God Sect to lead their alliance.
• Yun Tian revealed that he was Nangong Xianyin’s husband, shocking the sect masters and disappointing Xiuming, who challenged him to a sparring match.
• Yun Tian accepted Xiuming’s challenge and summoned Golden Egg from a Poké Ball.

Yun Tian and the others returned to Glory City after several years away, where they found the city greatly strengthened and reunited with Ye Xiu. As a beast tide approached, they headed to the walls, where Ye Zong and Ye Mo prepared the city’s defenses.

• Yun Tian sent Eggy to defeat Xiuming with a Thunderous Big Sit, impressing Baihua Xian and Nangong Xianyin.
• Nie Li traded sacred medicine for the Heavenly Ancestor Sword fragments, and the alliance of the Six Great Divine Sects helped the Feather God Sect grow into the strongest divine sect.
• Yun Tian warned Nie Li that a confrontation with the Saint Emperor was drawing near, and Nie Li finished arranging the sect and alliance before joining Yun Tian and their friends to return to Glory City.
• Yun Tian and the others emerged in the Little Exquisite World and traveled to Glory City, where Ye Xiu recognized Ye Ziyun and ran to welcome her back.
• Soldiers warned Glory City’s residents that a beast tide was approaching, and Yun Tian led the returning group to the walls as Ye Zong and Ye Mo prepared the defenses.

Ye Zong and Glory City's fighters defeated the demon beast tide, and Ye Ziyun reunited with her father and grandfather. Yun Tian returned to his courtyard and visited his family in the Small World, where Beiming Xue, Dongfang Xiong, and the others surrounded him while little Tian Yu laughed.

• Ye Zong ordered Glory City's Heavy Crossbows and explosives used against the demon beast horde, then sent elite fighters to finish off the survivors.
• Ye Xiu assured Ye Zong that the city was safe, and Ye Ziyun returned and embraced her father.
• Ye Mo arrived and reunited with Ye Ziyun after the battlefield had been cleared.
• Nie Li and the others went home, while Yun Tian visited his old courtyard and remembered its fruit tree.
• Yun Tian entered the Small World, picked up Tian Yu, and was surrounded by Beiming Xue, Dongfang Xiong, and the others as Tian Yu giggled.

After reuniting with Nie Li and the others, Yun Tian began searching the Little Exquisite World for its treasures and revealed Yu Yan’s ancient identity. He found the incomplete Temporal Demon Spirit Book, but its seals meant Nie Li would have to retrieve it after collecting the Heavenly Ancestor Sword pieces and returning from the Dragon Whisker Domain.

• Yun Tian escaped the Small World after exhausting himself with Beiming Xue, Yu Yan, Dongfang Xiong, and the others, then drank kidney tonic to recover.
• At the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Zong and Ye Mo thanked Yun Tian for protecting their group and supporting Nie Li.
• Yun Tian used a detector to locate treasures and identified the incomplete Temporal Demon Spirit Book, whose remaining pages he suspected were with the Saint Emperor.
• Yun Tian explained that Yu Yan had once been Heartfire, the Jin Yan Goddess, who became the Fire Spirit God after sacrificing her body to suppress a Demon Bone.
• Yun Tian sent the Shadow Soldiers to collect treasures and brought Nie Li to the wasteland where the Temporal Demon Spirit Book was sealed.
• Yun Tian told Nie Li that the outer seal required the Heavenly Ancestor Sword pieces and the Little Exquisite World's Seal, while the inner seal required Nie Li's Space-Time Aura.

Nie Li learned Goddess Yu Yan's past identity and entered the ruins to use the Temporal Demon Spirit Book, accepting that its aura would eventually alert the Saint Emperor. As Nie Li and Yu Yan remained inside, powerful figures elsewhere sensed a disturbance, and Candle Dragon received another order from the Demon God Sect's Sect Master.

• Yun Tian told Nie Li that the goddess statue depicted Yu Yan's previous life as Heartfire, the Jin Yan Goddess, who became the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds to suppress one of the Saint Emperor's Demon Bones.
• Yun Tian warned Nie Li that using the Temporal Demon Spirit Book would alert the Saint Emperor, and Nie Li chose to proceed after receiving a Formation Disk that could conceal its aura for up to ten years.
• Nie Li entered another space among the statues, and Yu Yan touched her statue and disappeared in a flash of red light.
• Yun Tian examined the statue of Great Emperor Kongming and reflected that Kong Ming had planned for a long time to kill the Saint Emperor.
• An old man in an unknown location and the Netherworld Controller sensed unease, while the Demon God Sect's Sect Master ordered Candle Dragon not to fail again.

Nie Li met Great Emperor Kongming in a sealed space and learned how the Saint Emperor betrayed the other Spirit Gods and how Kongming preserved his legacy. Kongming explained that space-time inheritors would eventually meet, leaving Nie Li to choose whether they would unite against the Saint Emperor or devour one another.

• Nie Li was drawn into another space, where a figure revealed himself as Great Emperor Kongming.
• Kongming told Nie Li that a mysterious man from another world had fought the Spirit Gods and left behind the Temporal Demon Spirit Book before vanishing.
• Kongming explained that the Saint Emperor had feigned his injuries, killed the other Spirit Gods, and sought the power of the foreign treasure.
• Kongming said he had mastered the law of space-time, sensed the Saint Emperor, and sealed the Little Exquisite World while leaving behind his legacy.
• Kongming revealed that the space-time inheritors would eventually meet and could either share their knowledge to fight the Saint Emperor or devour one another.

Nie Li and Yu Yan inherited the memories and power of Great Emperor Kongming and Jin Yan, learning that the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds were suppressing the Saint Emperor’s Demon Bone. After helping their allies grow stronger, Nie Li visited the ancestral grounds and found the seal nearly failing.

• Great Emperor Kongming told Nie Li that the inheritors needed to unite against the Saint Emperor and seek help at the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds before passing his energy to him.
• Jin Yan restored Yu Yan’s memories, warned that the Demon Bone’s seal would soon break, and transferred his power to her while preserving a remnant of his soul.
• Candle Dragon nearly defeated the Netherworld Controller, who escaped to Glory City using Nie Li’s Temporal Demon Spirit Book fragment.
• Months later, Nie Li and Yu Yan reached Half-Step Heavenly Way, and Nie Li killed a fellow inheritor and devoured his insights on their way back to Glory City.
• Nie Li and Yun Tian helped their allies rapidly improve their cultivation, causing the Demon God Sect to abandon plans to attack.
• Nie Li went to the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds and discovered that the Saint Emperor’s Demon Bone was stirring beneath a failing seal.

Nie Li visited the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds and learned that its seal on the Saint Emperor's Demon Bone was close to failing. He warned Lin Zhan and the elders that the Saint Emperor might appear within ten years and explained that their enemy could revive through other points in time and space.

• Nie Li reunited with Wu Yazi, who had awakened his memories as a reincarnated Spirit God and gained great influence in the Demon God Sect.
• Nie Li and Wu Yazi helped their sides reach a preliminary agreement to cooperate.
• Nie Li continued studying the Temporal Demon Spirit Book and advanced his mastery of time and space.
• Nie Li visited the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds, where Lin Zhan and the elders told him that Jin Yan had formed the grounds to suppress the Saint Emperor's Demon Bone.
• Nie Li warned Lin Zhan and the elders that the Saint Emperor could appear within ten years, and explained that the Saint Emperor could revive as long as he existed in another time and space.

Nie Li revealed the Temporal Demon Spirit Book to Lin Zhan and secured cooperation against the Saint Emperor. As the seal’s collapse drew closer, everyone devoted themselves to raising their strength for the coming battle.

• Nie Li explained that the Temporal Demon Spirit Book could break the Saint Emperor’s space-time seal and revealed that he possessed it.
• Lin Zhan and the others recognized the hope the book offered, and Nie Li arranged a united front with them against the Saint Emperor.
• Nie Li spent several months discussing cooperation with Lin Zhan and obtained resources to improve his cultivation.
• Ye Ziyun, Xiao Ning'er, Mingyue Wushuang, Nangong Xianyin, Yu Yan, and Long Yuyin cultivated while Yun Tian supplied his essence energy and resources to help them advance.
• Years passed as everyone trained, the Saint Emperor’s Demon Bone grew more active, and tremors in the Heavenly God Ancestral Grounds signaled that the seal’s collapse was approaching.

As the seal on the Temporal Demon Spirit Book neared its collapse, Nie Li united the Sacred Demon Ancestral Grounds with the others and prepared to face the Saint Emperor. The seal shattered, and the Saint Emperor appeared in the sky as his forces gathered for battle.

• Nie Li told the assembled fighters that this was their final chance to defeat the Saint Emperor and urged them to make their last preparations.
• Nie Li and his allies planned to bring the Sacred Demon Ancestral Grounds into their coalition before confronting the Saint Emperor and his Shikigami.
• The Sacred Demon Ancestral Grounds joined the alliance after Nie Li showed them evidence that the Saint Emperor was refining the world.
• Yun Tian gave the fighters protection that could remove them from the battlefield once and helped Yu Yan restore Jin Yan from his gathered soul.
• The Temporal Demon Spirit Book’s seal shattered, and the Saint Emperor fixed his gaze on the gathered fighters as enormous eyes appeared in the darkened sky.

The Saint Emperor emerged after the seal shattered, and Nie Li and his allies launched an attack to stop him from claiming the Demon Bone and ruling the Dragon Whisker Domain. Yun Tian resurrected Xiao Yu’s parents, whose arrival finally wounded the Saint Emperor as the battle continued.

• The Saint Emperor appeared through a rift in the sky, and his immense pressure devastated the surrounding land and killed ordinary people.
• The Saint Emperor confronted Nie Li and Goddess Jin Yan, then tried to reclaim the Demon Bone while Goddess Jin Yan held it back.
• Nie Li used the Temporal Demon Spirit Book to shatter the Saint Emperor’s space-time, and the group attacked him and his twelve Shikigami.
• Yun Tian resurrected Xiao Yu’s parents while Nie Li’s allies struggled to damage the Saint Emperor.
• Xiao Yu’s parents joined the fight and wounded the Saint Emperor, while the other fighters battled his Shikigami.