Chapter Summaries

Nie Li shared lost alchemy formulas with the Alchemist Association and then spent three days redesigning Glory City's defenses. His plans launched a citywide overhaul as Glory City prepared to withstand future beast tides.

• Nie Li offered five lost pill formulas to the Alchemist Association in exchange for thirty percent of the revenue and asked that some profits support commoner children studying alchemy.
• President Gu Yan accepted Nie Li's proposal, while Yang Xin gave him an Advanced Alchemy Master's robe and badge; the fourth Sky Screen ended with Gu Yan reflecting on Glory City's need for a new era.
• Nie Li obtained Glory City's defensive layouts from Ye Zong and shut himself away to redesign the city's defenses using his knowledge of the Book of Time and Space Spirit.
• After three days, Nie Li finished a huge stack of plans, gave them to Ye Ziyun for Ye Zong, and immediately fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Ye Zong mobilized the Wind Snow Family and Sacred Nether Family to overhaul the city's defenses, while volunteers received wages, meals, and access to medicinal baths.

As Glory City prepared its defenses, Shen Ning and Shen Xiao uncovered the Dark Guild’s plan to unleash a ten-million-strong beast tide and secretly sent the intelligence to Nie Li. The warning reached Nie Li, who learned that the Sacred Family planned to retreat when the attack began.

• Glory City drew over a hundred thousand people to its defense renovations, while the Sacred Family was excluded and its business revenue fell by nearly ninety percent.
• Shen Ning and Shen Xiao decided to question Shen Xiu and Shen Fei for information about Shen Hong’s collusion with the Dark Guild.
• The two discovered Shen Xiu secretly visiting Shen Fei through a tunnel and overheard her reveal that the Dark Guild would unleash a ten-million-strong beast tide that month.
• Shen Ning disguised himself and left a hidden letter for Nie Li through the Wind Snow Family’s intelligence network.
• Nie Li received the warning and reacted angrily to Shen Hong and the Sacred Family.

Nie Li and Ye Zong learned that the Sacred Family planned to aid the Dark Guild in bringing a beast tide to Glory City, while Ye Mo remained missing. The next day, Nie Li and his companions attended the Red Moon Family’s auction, where he went to visit the rising Heavenly Marks Family.

• Nie Li delivered the Sacred Family’s letter to Ye Zong, revealing their plan to unleash a beast tide and breach Glory City’s wall with the Dark Guild.
• Nie Li and Ye Zong suspected the Dark Guild was responsible for Ye Mo’s failure to return, while Ye Zong said Glory City’s defenses should be completed in half a month.
• Ye Zong told Nie Li that the Red Moon Family had invited several great families, including the Heavenly Marks Family, to auction a treasure found in the Black Ruins.
• Nie Li traveled to the auction with Lu Piao, Xiao Xue, Xiao Ning’er, and Ye Ziyun aboard the Golden Feather Eagle, accompanied by Ye Xiu.
• After arriving at the Red Moon Family’s auction, Nie Li left the Wind Snow Family’s private box and went to the Heavenly Marks Family’s box.

Nie Li reunited with his parents and introduced them to Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er, then discovered that his young cousin Nie Yu had a rare heavenly marks body. He gave the cultivation art to the Heavenly Marks Family, accepted the title of Young Clan Leader, and prepared to pay for the auction.

• Nie Li knelt before Nie Ming and Xiao Yun, overwhelmed to see his parents again, and introduced them to Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er.
• Nie Li met his cousin Nie Yu and used a Soul Crystal to discover her soul force was forty at age nine and that she had a heavenly marks body.
• Nie Li explained the heavenly marks body’s history, gave Nie Yu its cultivation art, and entrusted Nie Hai with the full thirteen-section art to test the family.
• Nie Hai offered Nie Li the positions of Young Clan Leader and future Clan Leader, and Nie Li accepted after seeing his parents’ astonishment.
• As the auction began, Nie Li picked up his bidding paddle and decided to pay for the day’s purchases.

Nie Li won the Nightmare Demon Pot at auction for eight hundred million Demon Spirit Coins, then received a torn page from the Book of Time and Space Spirit from Nie Hai. Back at the City Lord's Mansion, he tested the pot with ten silver-rank demon spirits, which vanished, and declared the pot priceless.

• Nie Li outbid the other families and bought the Nightmare Demon Pot for eight hundred million Demon Spirit Coins.
• After the auction, Nie Ming and Xiao Yun said goodbye to Nie Li, and Nie Hai gave him a family heirloom page from the Book of Time and Space Spirit.
• Nie Li confirmed that Nie Hai's page matched his own, rewarded him with pills, and sent Black Gold Martial Artists to buy demon spirits across Glory City.
• At the City Lord's Mansion, Nie Li tested the Nightmare Demon Pot with ten silver-rank demon spirits, but they vanished without producing a result.
• Nie Li explained that the Nightmare Demon Pot was a priceless treasure.

Nie Li used the Nightmare Demon Pot to refine nearly a million demon spirits, equipping his companions with god-tier spirits before entering the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm to cultivate. He reached Silver 5-Star and subdued the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword with Ancestor Ye Yan’s help.

• Nie Li explained that the Nightmare Demon Pot could fuse ten demon spirits into one with stronger growth potential, then spent a week refining nearly a million spirits into god-tier demon spirits.
• Nie Li replaced the demon spirits of his companions and obtained a stronger, mutated Fangtooth Panda for himself.
• After learning the Sky Screen had been silent for seven days, Nie Li set aside the mystery and went to the Holy Orchid Institute to enter the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm.
• Nie Li absorbed the realm’s soul force, advanced to Silver 3-Star, and met the soul of Ancestor Ye Yan, who offered to make him a disciple.
• Nie Li demonstrated his Heavenly Dao Divine Art to Ye Yan and asked him to help find the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword.
• Nie Li subdued the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword and advanced to Silver 5-Star.

Nie Li saved Ancestor Ye Yan by transferring his soul into a Spirit Puppet, then claimed treasures from the City Lord's Mansion and helped Glory City prepare for the coming Beast Tide. Half a month later, the city’s defenses and cultivation programs had improved, and several youths were close to reaching Gold Rank.

• Nie Li designed a Spirit Puppet, and Ye Zong gathered materials so Ancestor Ye Yan could escape the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword before his soul dissipated.
• Ye Yan entered the puppet and began adjusting to its body, while Ye Zong arranged for him to stay in the City Lord's Mansion and rewarded Nie Li with access to the treasury.
• Nie Li took Guardian God Stones, the Thunderclap Scepter, and a mysterious Golden Egg from the treasury, sharing some of the stones with Ye Ziyun.
• As Glory City awaited a Beast Tide of tens of millions, Nie Li completed the city’s defense renovations and donated cultivation arts and soul-sea testing guidance to the Holy Orchid Institute.
• Students and Nie Li’s friends advanced rapidly in cultivation, with Chen Linjian, Ye Ziyun, Xiao Ning'er, and Du Ze nearing Gold Rank.

As a massive beast tide approached Glory City, Nie Li and Ye Zong prepared the city’s defenses while the Sacred Family attempted to flee through the western wall. Nie Li intercepted Shen Hong and the Sacred Family, leaving them trapped before the coming battle.

• Shen Hong prepared the Sacred Family to escape as his cultivation neared Legendary Rank and Shen Ning and Shen Xiao grew stronger.
• Ye Zong received word that a nearly ten-million-strong beast tide, including a Legendary Rank beast, was advancing on Glory City and ordered the city alerted and evacuated.
• Nie Li learned the first defensive line had been triggered and set out with Ancestor Ye Yan to stop the Sacred Family’s escape through the western wall.
• Shen Hong ordered the Sacred Family’s main bloodline and promising members to abandon the rest and flee Glory City.
• Nie Li, Ye Ziyun, Chen Linjian, Xiao Ning'er, Du Ze, Lu Piao, Wei Nan, Zhang Ming, and Zhu Xiangjun confronted Shen Hong’s group at the western wall.

Nie Li led Glory City’s forces against the Sacred Family, while Chen Linjian blocked the traitors at the city gate. The fighting left Shen Xiu captured and Shen Yan dead, as the battle against the Sacred Family continued.

• Nie Li accused Shen Hong of betraying Glory City, and Ye Ming intervened when Shen Hong attacked him.
• Nie Li ordered the allied families’ experts to attack the Sacred Family as he rode a Golden Feather Eagle into their ranks.
• Chen Linjian reached Gold 1-Star Rank, challenged the Sacred Family’s troops at the gate, and fought their experts with help from the Sacred Nether Family.
• Chen Linjian defeated Shen Fei with a sword strike.
• Nie Li subdued Shen Xiu with his Fangtooth Panda’s Gravity Field and Thunderous Heavy Strike, then sent her flying onto the Golden Feather Eagle to be taken prisoner.
• Shen Yan attacked Nie Li, but Nie Li blocked him with a Guardian God Stone and Black Gold Rank Inscription Scroll before Ancestor Ye Yan shattered Shen Yan’s heart meridians.

Nie Li and Glory City's forces defeated the Sacred Family, and Ye Yan killed Shen Hong after Shen Ning and Shen Xiao betrayed their clan. Nie Li's group headed for the South City Wall as the Beast Tide drew near, while Dragon Fiend struggled against Ye Mo.

• Nie Li's allies overwhelmed the Sacred Family's fighters, while Ye Yan and Ye Ming kept Shen Hong occupied.
• Shen Ning and Shen Xiao used Soul-Explosion Pills to interrupt the Elders as they prepared to summon a Shadow Demon.
• Ye Yan killed Shen Hong, and Nie Li collected scrolls that could summon Shadow Demons.
• Nie Li gave Shen Ning and Shen Xiao Healing Pills and ordered them to guard the western wall while he and his allies went to the South City Wall.
• Ye Zong learned the Beast Tide was two hours away, while Dragon Fiend struggled to hold off Ye Mo.

As the beast tide approached Glory City, Nie Li’s defenses and incendiary traps destroyed hundreds of thousands of Demon Beasts. The Snow Feather Ice Phoenix arrived at the city walls and challenged the defenders, leaving the battle against the Legendary Rank beast about to begin.

• Nie Li told Ye Zong that Shen Hong was dead, and Ye Han secretly felt relieved that their collusion would not be exposed.
• Ye Zong and the noble family experts learned that the defensive lines had reduced the beast tide from nearly ten million to a little over a million, though thousands of Black Gold Rank beasts and a Legendary Rank beast remained.
• Ye Zong, Ye Yan, and Chen Zhenglong prepared to attack the Legendary Rank beast while Nie Li planned to direct the battle against the other beasts.
• Ye Zong ordered the catapults to fire flaming boulders, which ignited Nie Li’s buried volatile liquid and destroyed hundreds of thousands of Demon Beasts.
• The Snow Feather Ice Phoenix descended before Glory City, spoke to the defenders, and asked whether they thought they were enough.

Nie Li and Glory City's defenders used an array of weapons, fire, and the Shadow Demon to hold back the Wind Snow Demon Beasts. The battle intensified when the Black Gold Rank beasts breached the fire line and Ye Zong and Chen Zhenglong charged the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix.

• Nie Li ordered catapults, poisoned repeating crossbows, and fire oil to strike and slow the advancing beasts.
• The Snow Feather Ice Phoenix tried to extinguish the flames with freezing wind, but Nie Li summoned the Shadow Demon using scrolls taken from the Sacred Family's elders.
• The Shadow Demon killed beasts that crossed the fire line while the defenders held the Iron Wall Inscription Magic Array's city wall.
• The nearly ten thousand Black Gold Rank beasts charged through the fire, prompting Ye Zong and Chen Zhenglong to reveal their Legend Rank auras and attack the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix.
• Black Gold Rank beasts attacked the wall, but Glory City's experts fought them back with help from the Shadow Demon.

Ye Zong, Chen Zhenglong, and Nie Li killed the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix, but Glory City’s battle against the beast tide continued for three days and nights. As Nie Li fought on, Ye Han’s soul force failed, and a Wind Snow Giant Ape crushed him.

• Ye Zong and Chen Zhenglong fought the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix while Nie Li sent the Shadow Demon to attack it.
• Nie Li ordered the Shadow Demon to disregard its wounds and seize the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix, giving Ye Zong and Chen Zhenglong an opening to strike it down.
• Ye Zong killed the Snow Feather Ice Phoenix and extracted its demon spirit, then rallied Glory City’s fighters to keep fighting.
• The beast tide continued breaking through the city wall, and the battle lasted three days and nights; the Shadow Demon dissipated on the second day.
• Ye Han’s soul force faltered while he fought, and a Wind Snow Giant Ape smashed him to death as Nie Li kept killing demon beasts.

Ghost Fiend led the Dark Guild’s forces into the battle for Glory City and tried to capture Nie Li, but Ye Zong and Nie Li trapped him. Dragon Fiend rescued Ghost Fiend before Ye Mo returned and sealed their escape routes.

• Ghost Fiend arrived and attacked Ye Zong before opening Dark Space Gates to send Black Gold experts into the battle.
• Ghost Fiend vanished and struck at Nie Li, but Nie Li crushed the Guardian God Stone and exposed him.
• Nie Li used a Legendary Rank scroll to seal space as Ye Zong wounded Ghost Fiend and his forces fell.
• Dragon Fiend broke through the spatial prison and carried Ghost Fiend away, explaining that he had let his guard down.
• Ye Mo returned, surrounded the pair with ice and snow, and blocked their escape.

Dragon Fiend escaped after Ye Yan captured Ghost Fiend, while Glory City recovered from the Beast Tide and Ye Mo discussed the Underground World and Dark Guild with Nie Li. The chapter ended with Ye Mo revealing that the Dark Guild’s headquarters lay in a hidden world beneath Glory City.

• Dragon Fiend used the Demon Lord’s treasure armor to flee with Ghost Fiend, but Ye Yan cut off his hand and rescued Ghost Fiend as Ye Mo and the others drove Dragon Fiend away.
• Dragon Fiend’s armor shattered after he escaped, and Ye Mo restrained Ghost Fiend before Ghost Fiend could self-destruct and sealed his Soul Sea for interrogation.
• Ye Mo and the survivors wiped out the Beast Tide, and Glory City began rebuilding after losing close to a hundred thousand people.
• Ye Mo welcomed Nie Li and the others, praised Nie Li, and suggested that Nie Li and Ye Ziyun get engaged.
• Nie Li redirected the conversation to the Dark Guild, and Ye Mo revealed that its headquarters was in an Underground World he had discovered five years earlier.

Ghost Fiend died after the Dark Guild shattered his soul sea, while Ye Zong mourned Ye Han’s death and Glory City rebuilt and prepared for the Dark Guild. A month later, the Sky Screen returned and showed a future in which the Alchemist Association sold powerful pills, Shen Yue schemed against Nie Li, and the imprisoned Shen Yue watched his own embarrassing display.

• Ye Xiu told Ye Mo that Ghost Fiend had died when his soul sea burst, and Ye Mo found Kongming Stones among Ghost Fiend’s possessions.
• Ye Zong learned that Ye Han had been killed by a Wind Snow Giant Ape, grieved, and then returned to his duties as city lord.
• Glory City rebuilt after the beast tide, while its residents cultivated; Nie Li deciphered a fragment of the Wind Snow Spirit God’s Divine Core and helped Ye Mo approach Demigod Rank.
• The Sky Screen returned and showed Yang Xin, Gu Yan, and the Alchemist Association producing and selling pills that greatly increased soul force.
• Shen Ming verified the pills’ effects, Chen Linjian reserved the next batch with medicinal herbs, and Shen Yue fantasized about using a pill to defeat Nie Li.
• Shen Yue watched his own smug behavior on the Sky Screen from his prison cell and wondered why it would not leave him alone.

Nie Li attended the Holy Orchid Institute’s assessment after two months of cultivation and spoke with Xiao Ning'er about the Sacred Family’s pressure on his family’s business. The chapter ended when Shen Fei approached Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er at the assessment grounds.

• Yang Xin brought Nie Li his share of the pill profits and cultivation pills, then erupted in anger when Lu Piao and Du Ze called her Auntie.
• Two months later, students gathered for the Holy Orchid Institute’s assessment, where Vice Principal Ye Sheng discussed the new cultivation pills and the wager between Nie Li and Shen Xiu.
• Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er sought out Nie Li, and Xiao Ning'er warned him that the Sacred Family was suppressing his family’s business.
• Nie Li assured Xiao Ning'er that money was no problem and joked that he would freeload at her place if he became penniless.
• Shen Fei arrived at the assessment grounds with Shen Yue and attendants, then approached Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er.

Nie Li defended Xiao Ning'er when Shen Fei tried to claim her as his fiancée, and Xiao Ning'er publicly rejected Shen Fei and his threats. Shen Fei challenged Nie Li to the Sacred Family's Genius Martial Arts Tournament, and Nie Li prepared to accept.

• Nie Li stopped Xiao Ning'er from leaving and struck Shen Fei when he tried to grab him.
• Nie Li provoked Shen Fei by calling Xiao Ning'er his, and Xiao Ning'er publicly denied ever accepting Shen Fei as her fiancé and accused him of abusing a schoolgirl.
• Shen Fei threatened Xiao Ning'er and the Winged Dragon Family, while Nie Li shielded her and Xiao Ning'er insisted she would rather die than marry Shen Fei.
• Beneath the Sky Screen, Xiao Ning'er leaned on Nie Li, Ye Ziyun rested on his other shoulder, and Xiao Yunfeng considered arranging an engagement for Xiao Ning'er and Nie Li.
• On the Sky Screen, Xiao Ning'er said she would seek entry to the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm, and Nie Li declared that she could pass its trial.
• Shen Fei challenged Nie Li to fight in the Sacred Family's Genius Martial Arts Tournament, and Nie Li was ready to face him despite being at bronze rank.

Nie Li accepted Shen Fei’s deadly challenge and tried to explain his motives to Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er, while the Warrior Junior Class began its tests. Lu Piao stunned the class with exceptional strength scores, and the chapter left Shen Xiu wondering how Nie Li would perform.

• Nie Li accepted Shen Fei’s challenge, and Shen Yue warned him to prepare for his death as Xiao Ning'er worried that Nie Li had risked himself for her.
• Ye Ziyun urged Nie Li to treat Xiao Ning'er well, but Nie Li misread her reaction as jealousy and hurt Xiao Ning'er by deciding to explain himself to Ye Ziyun later.
• Nie Li taunted Shen Xiu about their wager before the Warrior Junior Class began its tests, and Shen Yue recorded a strength score of 135 and a soul force score of 115.
• Lu Piao took his turn at the strength-testing machine and scored 265, then 325, then 370, leaving Shen Yue shocked and Shen Xiu doubtful that strength alone mattered.

Lu Piao, Wei Nan, Zhang Ming, and Du Ze displayed extraordinary strength and soul force, with Du Ze's power shattering the Soul Crystal. Nie Li deliberately hid his true strength during his test, leaving the observers to wonder what his soul force would reveal.

• Lu Piao tested at bronze three-star and entered the Genius Class, while Wei Nan and Zhang Ming also posted impressive results.
• Du Ze scored 500 in strength and shattered the Soul Crystal with soul force above its 600-point limit, so Ye Sheng arranged for him to be tested separately.
• Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er each shattered their Soul Crystals in the Demon Spirit Master Junior Class, while both wondered about Nie Li's help and affection.
• In the City Lord's Mansion, Nie Li worked on a spare Spirit Puppet as he watched the Sky Screen.
• Nie Li deliberately scored exactly 100 on all three strength punches, fooling Shen Xiu and the others, though Ye Sheng noticed the repeated scores were suspicious.