Chapter Summaries

Nie Li defeated Murong Yu, but the Flameless Venerable arranged a new assessment that barred powerful artifacts and sent Ye Chong to kill him. Nie Li fought back with his demon spirits, but Ye Chong trapped him in an ice cage and badly injured him.

• Nie Li defeated Murong Yu with his sixth-grade equipment, leaving him unconscious in his underpants and settling their score over the stolen Soul Scales.
• The Flameless Venerable ordered the martial arena to prohibit artifacts above the third grade, and Nanmen Tianhai required Nie Li to face another assessment before taking Murong Yu's rank.
• Nie Li refused Lu Piao's suggestion to withdraw, and the elders arranged two opponents, beginning with the higher-ranked Ye Chong.
• The Flameless Venerable secretly ordered Ye Chong to kill Nie Li, while Ye Chong struggled to obey because his wife and children were under the Venerable's control.
• Ye Chong merged with the Frost Dragon Beast, and Nie Li alternated between the Fangtooth Panda and Shadow Demon to hold him off.
• Ye Chong raised walls of ice around the arena, and Nie Li was badly injured while trying to dodge the attack.

Nie Li defeated Ye Chong by revealing his god-tier Sacred Blood Winged Wyrm, but the Flameless Venerable forced the assessment to continue and selected a stronger challenger. Nie Li refused to fight without his treasure artifacts, leaving the match unresolved as he resisted the Flameless Venerable’s pressure.

• Nie Li summoned the Sacred Blood Winged Wyrm, overwhelmed Ye Chong, and won their match, while Long Tianming and Situ Beiyan discussed Nie Li’s potential.
• Huang Yu declared Nie Li the winner, but the Flameless Venerable ordered Ye Chong imprisoned and demanded that Nie Li take a second test.
• Li Xingyun challenged the Flameless Venerable’s authority, who named Guo Huai, a Nine-Life Realm follower, as Nie Li’s next opponent.
• The Flameless Venerable forced Huang Yu and Nanmen Tianhai to their knees, but Nie Li refused to fight and the elders canceled the match.
• Nie Li agreed to continue only if he could wear his treasure artifacts, and he rebuffed the Flameless Venerable’s taunts.

Nie Li challenged Guo Huai after Heavenly Cloud Venerable urged him to show his full strength before the Feathered God Sect’s leaders. He fought with multiple Demon Spirits, but the battle continued with Guo Huai’s attacks battering him.

• Flameless Venerable accused Nie Li of being a Demon God Sect spy, but Li Xingyun, Gu Bei, and Long Yuyin accused Flameless Venerable of trying to kill a rival and vouched for Nie Li.
• Heavenly Martial Venerable and the other leaders discussed Nie Li’s talent and his prospects, while Heavenly Cloud Venerable said he would watch the dispute between the juniors.
• Heavenly Cloud Venerable told Nie Li to fight Guo Huai without holding back and promised to keep his Fate Soul from dispersing, so Nie Li agreed to enter the second test.
• Nie Li merged with the Shadow Demon Spirit, then switched to the Sacred Blood Winged Wyrm as he clashed with Guo Huai, who eventually merged with the Dark Moon Dragon Beast.
• Guo Huai’s punch exchange tore up the Training Ground, and Nie Li stood motionless as Guo Huai launched a frenzied attack.

Nie Li survived Guo Huai’s Wind Cannon assault, broke through to the Five-Fate Realm, and defeated him in the martial arena. Flameless Venerable left after the battle, while Nie Li’s allies celebrated his victory.

• Guo Huai used Wind Blade and then blasted Nie Li with repeated Wind Cannons, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Nie Li recalled a vision of a dark figure destroying Ye Ziyun and the souls connected to him, then resolved to rise again.
• As Gu Bei, Lu Piao, and Long Yuyin prepared to intervene, Li Xingyun stopped them and Nie Li condensed his fifth Fate Soul.
• Guo Huai tried to interrupt Nie Li, but Nie Li struck him down with a punch and a dragon-claw attack.
• The students cheered Nie Li’s victory, and Flameless Venerable left after realizing he could no longer secretly target him.

Nie Li was ambushed in his room by Long Yuyin’s mother, a powerful Dragonseal Family expert who demanded that he either marry Long Yuyin or be crippled. She explained that she considered him worthy because of his potential, leaving Nie Li to face her ultimatum.

• After reaching the Five-Fate Realm, Nie Li was ambushed and bound by a mysterious woman whose strength overwhelmed his attacks and abilities.
• The woman revealed that she had been sent by the Flameless Venerable, but Nie Li deduced that she was a powerful expert from the Dragonseal Family.
• The woman disclosed that she was Long Yuyin’s mother and said she would punish Nie Li for bullying her daughter, though she would not kill him.
• Long Yuyin’s mother gave Nie Li a choice: marry Long Yuyin or be crippled, and she insisted that Long Yuyin become his principal wife.
• Nie Li said he already had a family, but Long Yuyin’s mother dismissed his objection and explained that his Sacred Blood Winged Wyrm, his status as the Heavenly Cloud Venerable’s disciple, and his potential made him worthy of her daughter.

Long Shuyun pressured Nie Li to marry Long Yuyin, but Nie Li repeatedly tried to delay the marriage. Long Yuyin stopped her mother from forcing him, though Nie Li’s relief left her feeling unwanted.

• Long Shuyun offered Nie Li the Dragonseal Family’s support if he married Long Yuyin and threatened him when he hesitated.
• Nie Li suggested waiting five years, but Long Shuyun demanded an engagement and a child before then.
• Nie Li claimed he needed to consult his parents, and Long Shuyun pressed a short knife to his neck when she realized he was refusing.
• Xiao Yu walked in, misunderstood Nie Li’s relationship with Long Shuyun, and left after Nie Li pretended she was his big sister.
• Long Shuyun brought Long Yuyin to speak for herself, and Long Yuyin told her mother to stop forcing Nie Li and said nothing had happened between them.
• Nie Li looked cheerful at the news, and Long Yuyin felt bitter that her master seemed to find her undesirable.

Long Shuyun agreed to support Nie Li after he explained his plan to reform the Feathered God Sect by helping Gu Bei, Long Yuyin, and Li Xingyun gain power. Heavenly Cloud Venerable also decided to back Nie Li, while the Sky Screen audience saw Nie Li privately admit that his noble-sounding motives were not entirely sincere.

• Long Yuyin stopped Long Shuyun from forcing her and Nie Li together, and Long Shuyun released him.
• Nie Li told Long Shuyun that factional infighting would destroy the Feathered God Sect unless its power structure changed.
• Nie Li proposed helping Gu Bei, Long Yuyin, and Li Xingyun secure the sect master's seat, and he asked Long Shuyun to support them.
• Long Shuyun agreed to help Nie Li and suggested that marrying Long Yuyin would benefit them both, but Nie Li refused to make marriage a bargain.
• Heavenly Cloud Venerable, who had watched the encounter, decided to support Nie Li with all his strength.
• Beneath the Sky Screen, Nie Li admitted that his claims of selfless generosity had been a ruse, while Ying Yueru laughed at her junior sister's reactions.

Nie Li and his allies attacked Gu Heng’s Divine Pools, extracting their Divine Roots and crippling the resources that sustained his forces. After two pools collapsed, Gu Heng pursued them toward the Thunder Divine Pool, where Nie Li and the others prepared to strike again.

• Nie Li planned to protect his Fate Soul and buy several courtyards as hiding places, then met Gu Bei, Li Xingyun, Xiao Yu, and Lu Piao the next morning.
• Gu Bei reported that they had killed Gu Heng three times, the Demon League had grown to more than six thousand members, and the Demon League, Heavenly Journey Alliance, and Profound Sound Alliance had secretly joined forces.
• Nie Li and the others attacked the Blood Moon Alliance at the Black Cloud Divine Pool, drove its members away, and extracted the Divine Root, causing the pool to collapse.
• Gu Heng arrived too late to save the Black Cloud Divine Pool, then reached the Ancient Domain Divine Pool and found it destroyed as well.
• Gu Heng split his men to search for the attackers and hurried toward the Thunder Divine Pool, while Nie Li and his allies raced there to destroy another of Gu Heng’s key assets.

Nie Li extracted the Thunder Divine Pool’s divine root while the Demon League and Heavenly Journey Alliance fought to protect him, then escaped with Xiao Yu using Xiao Yu’s Space-Time ring. A day later, Lu Piao, Gu Bei, and Li Xingyun worried that Nie Li and Xiao Yu had still not returned.

• Li Xingyun sent Heavenly Transformation Realm experts to escort Nie Li into the Thunder Divine Pool while the Demon League and Heavenly Journey Alliance fought Gu Heng’s men.
• Nie Li extracted the divine root as Gu Heng’s forces broke through the defensive array and attacked; Li Xingyun wounded Gu Heng with a punch.
• Nie Li placed the divine root in the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting and ordered the others to retreat, leaving Gu Heng’s pool to collapse.
• Gu Heng pursued Nie Li, but Xiao Yu used his glowing Space-Time ring to teleport them both away after shielding Nie Li from attacks.
• One day later, Lu Piao, Gu Bei, and Li Xingyun gathered in Xiao Yu’s Separate Courtyard, worried that Nie Li and Xiao Yu had not returned.

After escaping through Xiao Yu’s space-time ring, Nie Li treated Xiao Yu’s dragon-flame injuries despite his protests. Beneath the Sky Screen, the crowd watched their intimate-looking treatment, while Xiao Yu was mortified to see his exposed body displayed.

• Gu Bei learned that Gu Heng had gathered elders to pressure the family head into stripping Gu Bei of his place as heir, and he planned to record the elders involved.
• Nie Li and Xiao Yu emerged from the space-time array beneath a cherry blossom tree, where Xiao Yu collapsed from his injuries.
• Xiao Yu explained that his ring was the only remaining link to his origins, and Nie Li reassured him that his existence did not depend on the object.
• Xiao Yu refused treatment, but Nie Li sealed his acupoints, removed his clothes, and healed his burns and other injuries in less than two hours.
• Nie Li noticed a mysterious golden inscription on Xiao Yu’s chest as golden energy gathered around him.
• The crowd beneath the Sky Screen misread their closeness, and Xiao Yu felt humiliated when his exposed body appeared before everyone.

Nie Li learned that Xiao Yu was the daughter of two powerful experts and that her awakened bloodline would expose her to the Sacred Emperor, so her father entrusted Nie Li with protecting her. After Xiao Yu’s identity as a girl was revealed, they found themselves in a valley where powerful beings were approaching.

• Nie Li entered the Void Spirit Array and heard Xiao Yu’s father explain that Xiao Yu’s bloodline contained her parents’ cultivation and that he had sent her into the future to save her.
• Xiao Yu’s father warned that her bloodline would awaken at the Martial Ancestor realm or when she became someone’s wife, and asked Nie Li to hide her in the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting before then.
• Nie Li emerged from the array after Xiao Yu’s identity was exposed, and Xiao Yu shoved him away and angrily told him to pretend nothing had happened.
• Below the Sky Screen, the students were shocked to learn Xiao Yu was a girl, while Xiao Yu stormed into the Separate Courtyard in embarrassment and anger.
• On the Sky Screen, Nie Li sensed powerful auras approaching the valley, grabbed Xiao Yu, and hid with her as two strange figures descended nearby.

Nie Li and Xiao Yu encountered Wuyazi, a fox-eared Demon Race expert, while hiding from two pursuers. Wuyazi revealed the red smoke stone he had fought to obtain, and after Nie Li identified its limited use, Wuyazi decided to sell it to his unsuspecting friends.

• Nie Li and Xiao Yu hid from two Demon Race experts until a red lightning bolt drew one away, then Wuyazi appeared and questioned which Divine Sect they belonged to.
• Wuyazi sensed space-time fluctuations from Nie Li and asked whether they had come for the Phantom Palace, but Nie Li said nothing about how they arrived.
• Wuyazi explained that he belonged to the Rain Spirit Hall and that Fire Spirit Hall experts were pursuing him after he killed people over an unidentified object.
• Wuyazi showed Nie Li and Xiao Yu the object, and Nie Li identified it as red smoke stone that could forge a fifth-grade treasure artifact.
• Wuyazi checked the Craftsman God Book, learned the stone was less valuable than he had believed, and decided to sell it to friends who might not recognize it.

Nie Li persuaded Wuyazi to use the Demon Blood Sacrifice so he and Xiao Yu could disguise themselves as demons and enter the Phantom Palace. After Nie Li absorbed some of Wuyazi’s blood and advanced to the sixth fate, the three set off together while Wuyazi secretly resolved to kill them and reclaim his blood.

• Wuyazi invited Nie Li and Xiao Yu to help him reach the Phantom Palace and promised to split its treasures, but Nie Li initially refused.
• Nie Li proposed using the Demon Blood Sacrifice to disguise the humans, and Wuyazi agreed on the condition that they stay within two li of him.
• Wuyazi performed the ritual, revealing his Divine-Blood Demon Civet lineage, and Nie Li and Xiao Yu gained demonic features.
• Nie Li absorbed Wuyazi’s remaining demon blood and broke through to the sixth fate, then kept the blood instead of returning it.
• The three set off for the Phantom Palace, and Wuyazi resolved to kill Nie Li and Xiao Yu after they left.

Nie Li’s companions reached the Thousand Illusions Soul-Confusing Array as the sky screen ended, then he spent the following century growing powerful enough to defeat the Sacred Emperor and restore the Book of Time and Space Spirit. The story ended with Nie Li reunited with his family and friends in Glory City, living peacefully with Ye Ziyun, Xiao Ning'er, and their daughter.

• Nie Li urged Wuyazi toward Long Tianming’s group, but a masked man approached and the sky screen displayed a blessing for the future Demon God before going dark for good.
• Over the next year, Nie Li expanded the Demon League, became Feathered God Sect Master, strengthened the sect, and helped his allies rise in their respective sects.
• At age one hundred, Nie Li mastered the Heavenly Dao Divine Art, gathered the seven demon spirits, learned all thirty-six Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword forms, and recovered all four remnant pages of the Book of Time and Space Spirit.
• Nie Li defeated the Sacred Emperor, retrieved the remaining pages, and completed the Book of Time and Space Spirit as the Human Alliance Army celebrated.
• Nie Li reunited with Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er, and they raised their daughter together in Glory City alongside their friends and family.