Chapter Summaries

At the City Lord’s Mansion banquet, Huyan Lanruo defended Nie Li against Shen Fei, and Nie Li arrived with Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er. Ye Han tried to grow closer to Ye Ziyun, but Nie Li tested him by taking the precious bracelet Ye Han had offered her.

• Huyan Lanruo told Shen Fei she did not care about Nie Li’s other relationships and threatened to cripple him if he harmed Nie Li.
• Shen Hong criticized Huyan Lanruo, while Huyan Xiong and Ye Zong defended her and tried to calm the dispute.
• Yang Xin asked Ye Zong about Nie Li, who believed Nie Li was still unconscious, before Nie Li entered the banquet hall with Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er.
• Ye Han approached Ye Ziyun and offered her an Ice Jade Bracelet, but Nie Li took it and thanked him on Ye Ziyun’s behalf.
• Ye Han politely welcomed Nie Li as Ye Ziyun’s friend, and Nie Li judged him talented and excessively well-mannered.

At the City Lord’s Mansion banquet, Nie Li defended Xiao Ning’er and challenged Shen Fei and Ye Han, while Ye Zong and Yang Xin shielded him from the Sacred Family. The confrontation left Shen Hong wary of Ye Zong’s strength and puzzled by how many powerful allies Nie Li had.

• Ye Zong considered Ye Han’s awkward position in the Wind Snow Family, while Nie Li anticipated that Ye Han might take a desperate risk if he could not become City Lord.
• Shen Fei mocked Nie Li and Xiao Ning’er, but Nie Li’s Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword frightened him and Nie Li warned him to stop pestering Xiao Ning’er.
• Ye Han tried to order Nie Li out of the banquet hall, but Nie Li accused him of acting as though Ye Zong had abdicated and invoked the Wind Snow Family’s ancestor.
• Shen Hong attacked Nie Li with Soul Force, but Ye Zong blocked him and forced him back before dismissing the incident as a junior’s careless words.
• Yang Xin backed Nie Li and warned Shen Hong that the Alchemist Association would oppose any attempt to harm him, leaving Shen Hong furious and Huyan Xiong surprised by Nie Li’s influence.

At the City Lord’s Mansion banquet, Nie Li challenged Ye Han and drove Shen Fei and the Sacred Family away. Later, Ye Zong told Nie Li that he intended Ye Ziyun to succeed him as City Lord, with Nie Li’s support securing her position.

• Nie Li threatened to turn the City Lord’s Mansion upside down if Ye Ziyun did not become City Lord, angering Ye Han.
• Nie Li pointed his sword at Shen Fei and ordered him to leave; Ye Han declined to intervene, and Shen Fei departed with Shen Hong and the Sacred Family.
• Shen Hong slapped Shen Fei for bringing shame on the Sacred Family and warned his people to behave while the Wind Snow Family watched them.
• Shen Fei vowed that if the Sacred Family took over the City Lord’s position, Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er would not escape.
• Ye Zong met with Nie Li and said he planned to pass the City Lord’s position to Ye Ziyun, whose cultivation and support from Nie Li made her a suitable successor.

Ye Zong explained to Nie Li why he had treated Ye Ziyun harshly and supported Ye Han as a potential successor, while Nie Li warned that the Sacred Family might help the Demon Beasts attack Glory City. Ye Han later told Ye Zong he would withdraw from the succession contest and support Ye Ziyun.

• Ye Zong told Nie Li he had kept Ye Ziyun at a distance to shield her from the City Lord's burdens and encourage the Wind Snow Family elders to support Ye Han.
• Nie Li realized Ye Zong's concern for Ye Han was genuine and joked that Ye Zong could entrust Ye Ziyun to him; Ye Zong said it depended on Ye Ziyun's agreement.
• Nie Li explained that provoking the Sacred Family could isolate it and expose its plans, and warned Ye Zong that it might coordinate with the Dark Guild and Demon Beasts to attack Glory City.
• Ye Zong asked Nie Li to keep Ye Ziyun away from the final battle, angering and discouraging her beneath the Sky Screen.
• Ye Han told Ye Zong he had always been grateful to him, admitted he liked Ye Ziyun, and withdrew from the contest for City Lord so he could become her right-hand man.

After weakening the Sacred Family’s influence, Nie Li visited the Genius Class, where he made plans with his friends to explore the ancient buildings in Glory City. He revealed that the Demon Lord’s memories had told him what lay inside and asked Ye Xiu to prepare supplies for the expedition.

• Shen Hong, worried that Shen Ming might reveal the Sacred Family’s secrets, sent men to sever all ties with the Dark Guild and destroy evidence.
• Nie Li arrived at the Genius Class, where Long Yu mistook him for a newcomer and tried to recruit him before learning who he was.
• Nie Li, Lu Piao, and Du Ze decided to explore the ancient buildings near the City Lord’s Mansion rather than remain bored at the institute.
• Xiao Ning'er joined Nie Li and his friends, and Chen Linjian warned Nie Li that several Genius Class students were Sacred Family spies.
• Nie Li told Ye Xiu that the Demon Lord’s memories revealed what was inside the buildings and asked him to prepare supplies for the exploration.

Ye Han challenged Nie Li at the Holy Orchid Institute, and their fight revealed Nie Li’s extraordinary strength and Ye Han’s growing obsession with becoming City Lord. After Ye Han mutated his demon spirit, Nie Li knocked him down with the Knuckle Spikes, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Ye Han confronted Nie Li and challenged him to a fight, while Nie Li’s companions followed them to the training grounds.
• Ye Han merged with his Golden Armored Earth Dragon, and Nie Li merged with his Fangtooth Panda before they exchanged attacks.
• Ye Han’s Earth Dragon Blaze collided with Nie Li’s Light-Dark Primordial Qi Blast, and the explosion knocked Ye Han down while leaving Nie Li’s arm burned.
• Ye Han remembered being treated as an outsider in the Wind Snow Family and resolved not to let anyone take what he believed was his.
• Ye Han’s fury triggered a mutation in his demon spirit, but Nie Li recognized the strain and struck through its defenses with his Knuckle Spikes, knocking Ye Han down again.

Nie Li defeated Ye Han and warned him to abandon his ambitions, but Shen Xiu persuaded Ye Han to join the Sacred Family's plans against the Wind Snow Family. As the Sky Screen revealed this path, Nie Li focused on preparing Glory City’s defenses against the coming threat.

• Nie Li used Gravity Field and a well-timed Thunderous Heavy Strike to defeat Ye Han, then warned him not to pursue Ye Ziyun or challenge him.
• Shen Xiu found the injured Ye Han and offered to help him become City Lord and marry Ye Ziyun, persuading him to become the Sacred Family’s mole.
• The Sky Screen showed Ye Han choosing Shen Xiu’s offer, and Ye Zong and Ye Ming grieved as their hatred for the Sacred Family grew.
• Nie Li organized Glory City to build and inscribe stone pillars for two improved Lesser Killing Arrays that could be combined into one.

Nie Li opened the ancient barrier and led his companions into a strange space, where they found a ruined teleportation array that required twenty-three Radiant Stones to activate. As dozens of unknown beasts approached, the Sky Screen abruptly ended.

• Lu Piao fled from Xiao Xue, but Nie Li held him back until she caught up with him.
• After Nie Li recounted their previous-life fate, Lu Piao embraced Xiao Xue and vowed not to repeat his past mistakes.
• Nie Li identified the barrier as an Origin Barrier and activated inscriptions across all sixteen towers to open it.
• Nie Li, Lu Piao, Xiao Xue, and their companions entered a gloomy space containing a ruined teleportation array.
• Nie Li explained they needed twenty-three Radiant Stones to leave, then the group prepared to face dozens of approaching beasts.

Nie Li led Glory City’s experts into the Black Prison World to explore and claim new territory. After defeating a group of Red Ghosts without casualties, he took a small team into the mountains and found Silverwing Family men seizing supplies from a village.

• Nie Li and Ye Zong prepared an expedition, and Glory City assembled more than five hundred experts to enter the Black Prison World.
• Nie Li led the group through the Myriad Forms Space Array, where Ye Ming froze the approaching Red Ghosts.
• Nie Li sent scouts ahead and then took nine others toward the mountain range while the main force waited.
• Nie Li and Wei Nan entered a deserted village and followed the villagers’ presence to the other side.
• Nie Li and Wei Nan saw silver-armored Silverwing Family men taking bags from villagers who pleaded with them to stop.

Nie Li intervened when Sikong Hu and the Silverwing Family squad seized a village’s grain and threatened its people. He and his companions killed the squad, and the grateful villagers knelt before them.

• Sikong Hu’s squad took the villagers’ grain, and Sikong Xi attacked an old man when his son tried to protect him.
• Nie Li appeared in time to block Sikong Xi’s spear and killed him with his black arm blade.
• Sikong Hu ordered his six remaining men to surround Nie Li and threatened to kill everyone in the village.
• Nie Li told the villagers to seek safety as Chen Linjian, Lu Piao, Xiao Ning'er, Du Ze, Zhu Xiangjun, Xiao Xue, and Ye Ziyun joined the fight.
• Nie Li and his companions wiped out the Silverwing Family squad in less than three minutes.
• The villagers knelt and kowtowed to Nie Li and his companions, calling them benefactors.

Nie Li won the villagers’ agreement to make their village a base for Glory City in the Black Prison World, and the group built it into Bright Village. After Nie Li warned off Silverwing Family scouts, Sikong Yi ordered Sikong Red Moon to capture the intruders, while Duan Jian took satisfaction in hearing that Silverwing’s men had been killed.

• Nie Li spoke to the villagers in the Wulan language, offered grain and protection, and persuaded them to accept Glory City’s help.
• Nie Li sent a signal flare, and Ye Ming led more than five hundred people to the village to build defenses, houses, and a Killing Array.
• Nie Li named the transformed settlement Bright Village, and the villagers gratefully welcomed their new homes and food.
• When Silverwing Family scouts searched near the village, Nie Li showed them a severed head and ordered them to warn the family to stay away.
• Sikong Yi learned of the warning and told Sikong Red Moon to lead a team to capture the intruders, while Duan Jian felt pleased at the news of Silverwing’s losses.

The Sky Screen revealed Nie Li’s memories to the Black Prison World, prompting the Silverwing Family to move against the outsiders. On the screen, Nie Li led his group through a Red Ghost swarm and toward a Nether Lantern Behemoth, which began devouring their pursuers.

• A golden Sky Screen appeared over the Black Prison World and Glory City, showing memories of Nie Li, his rebirth, and the way to the outside world.
• The thirteen families reacted to the revelations, while Sikong Yi ordered the Silverwing Family to find and destroy the Myriad Forms Space Array.
• On the Sky Screen, Nie Li recognized approaching Red Ghosts and led his group into a desperate escape, fighting off the beasts before using the Vanish Combat Technique to catch up.
• Lu Piao spotted a distant light, and Nie Li recognized it as the antenna of a Nether Lantern Behemoth and led the group toward it.
• Nie Li told everyone to hold their breath and move slowly, while the Nether Lantern Behemoth’s tongues seized the Red Ghosts and dragged them into the darkness.

Nie Li rescued Xiao Ning'er and Xiao Xue from the Nether Lantern Behemoth, using an inscription from the remnant page of the Book of Time and Space Spirit to kill it. The seven survivors resumed their journey while people watching the Sky Screen reacted to their escape.

• Lu Piao severed the tongues holding Xiao Xue and caught her, while Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er stayed behind to cover the group's retreat.
• The Nether Lantern Behemoth's tongues overwhelmed Xiao Ning'er, but Nie Li blasted the beast and freed her.
• Nie Li activated an inscription from the remnant page of the Book of Time and Space Spirit, killing the Nether Lantern Behemoth before its body collapsed onto him and Xiao Ning'er.
• Du Ze and the others searched the fallen tongues until Nie Li emerged carrying Xiao Ning'er, and Lu Piao returned carrying Xiao Xue.
• Nie Li said the rain would conceal the group from the Red Ghosts, and the seven set off again.

Nie Li and his companions fought off the Red Ghosts, gathered crimson blood crystals, and discovered a stele bearing Emperor Kongming’s life account. The chapter left Nie Li facing the stele’s erased Ten-Character Formula while the group continued searching the space.

• Xiao Xue and Xiao Ning'er woke and climbed down from Lu Piao and Nie Li, while Nie Li wondered what secret the space concealed.
• Nie Li recognized that the distant Nether Lantern Behemoths might be a village and prepared for the Red Ghosts to attack once the rain stopped.
• Nie Li made Bloodburst Demon Bottles from Red Ghost blood, and the group used them to kill the pursuing Red Ghosts and collect ten crimson blood crystals.
• In the Black Prison World, Nie Li welcomed Ye Ming after he retrieved the Myriad Forms Space Array, and the group returned with hundreds of crimson blood crystals.
• Du Ze spotted a huge stone stele, and Nie Li approached it alone after the Red Ghosts fled from its vicinity.
• Nie Li read Emperor Kongming’s life account on the stele and found that the Ten-Character Formula had been scraped away.

Nie Li learned that Emperor Kongming’s Ten-Character Mantra had drawn five inheritors into a deadly struggle, then was confronted in the Black Prison World by a powerful inheritor who recognized his comprehension. A mysterious black orb saved Nie Li from the old man’s first attack, but the old man still demanded that Nie Li die and revealed his hatred for Emperor Kongming.

• Nie Li comprehended Emperor Kongming’s Ten-Character Mantra and learned that five inheritors would fight until one absorbed the others’ understandings.
• Nie Li witnessed the Demon Lord erase the mantra from the Stone Stele, then realized he was seeing the past and decided to keep his comprehension secret.
• A crazed old man appeared in Bright Village, seized Nie Li by the throat, and hurled Du Ze, the others, and Ye Ming away with his oppressive aura.
• The old man said that only one of the five inheritors could survive, while a black orb from Nie Li’s Space Ring struck him and sent him flying.
• The old man demanded that Nie Li die but promised not to harm his companions, and Nie Li guessed that the old man hated Emperor Kongming.

Nie Li persuaded the crazed old man to spare him by offering possible ways to resurrect his younger brother, and the old man left the Black Prison World under an agreement. The Sky Screen showed Nie Li meeting Sikong Red Moon at a crimson blood crystal mine, and Nie Li began searching for its location in the Black Prison World.

• The crazed old man explained how his younger brother had sacrificed himself, and Nie Li offered several possible ways to resurrect him.
• Nie Li reached an agreement with the old man, who gave him control of the Black Prison World and left after placing a Thousand-Mile Soultracking Mark on him.
• Nie Li’s companions asked how he had changed the old man’s mind, but Nie Li said he would explain when the time was right.
• The Sky Screen showed Nie Li discovering a settlement and crimson blood crystal mine, where Sikong Red Moon confronted him.
• Nie Li claimed to be Lei Duo, a descendant of the Silver Radiance Family, and Sikong Red Moon lowered her sword.
• Nie Li asked the crowd in the Black Prison World whether anyone knew the mine’s location and decided to pursue it.

Nie Li entered the Silverwing Family’s palace, where he learned of Duan Jian’s torture and the feud between the Silverwing and Black Dragon Families. Sikong Yi ordered Nie Li killed until Nie Li merged with his Demon Spirit, convincing Sikong Yi that he might truly come from outside.

• Sikong Red Moon brought Nie Li to the Silverwing Family’s palace and warned him that five of the thirteen families were their enemies.
• Nie Li saw Duan Jian being whipped, learned that his parents had died for their forbidden relationship, and recognized the strength of his black dragon bloodline.
• Duan Longfei realized Duan Jian was his son, while Duan Jian silently endured Sikong Red Moon’s lashes and waited for a chance to take revenge.
• Nie Li decided he might rescue Duan Jian when he attacked the Silverwing Family.
• Sikong Yi ordered his guards to behead Nie Li after dismissing his claim to be a Silver Radiance Family descendant, but stopped them when Nie Li merged with his Demon Spirit.

Nie Li manipulated Sikong Yi with the promise of a cure for silverwing rejection and used the patriarch’s hospitality to enter the Silverwing Family’s territory with his companions. After the Sky Screen ended, Nie Li led more than a hundred experts toward the Silverwing Family Mine.

• Nie Li told Sikong Yi that he knew how to cure silverwing rejection, eased his pain with heavenly remedy grass, and withheld the full prescription while seeking suitable substitute herbs.
• Sikong Yi agreed to let Nie Li bring his companions into the Silverwing Family’s territory and sent Sikong Red Moon to escort them.
• Nie Li’s group joined him, and Du Ze introduced them as Lei Duo’s friends when Sikong Red Moon asked who they were.
• At the banquet, Nie Li requested that Sikong Yi hand over Duan Jian so he could use him to test the medicine, and Sikong Yi eyed him suspiciously.
• The Sky Screen ended, and Sikong Yi returned to the hall while Duan Jian continued to endure the whipping.
• Nie Li led more than a hundred experts toward the Silverwing Family Mine with a local guide.

Nie Li and his allies seized a Silverwing Family mine, freed its enslaved miners, and prepared to defend it from reinforcements. As Ye Ming faced Patriarch Sikong Yi’s troops, Nie Li vanished to carry out a secret plan.

• Ye Ming used Blizzard to freeze the Silverwing Family guards without harming the miners, while Nie Li’s forces secured the mine.
• Nie Li promised the miners their freedom, and Du Ze, Lu Piao, and Chen Linjian revealed the corpses of the inscription masters who had made their slave marks.
• Nie Li crippled Sikong Shou and let the miners beat him, then offered them wages to stay or travel funds to leave.
• Silverwing Family reinforcements approached, so Nie Li whispered a plan to Ye Ming, merged with the Shadow Demon Spirit, and disappeared while Ye Ming formed a defensive line.
• Patriarch Sikong Yi arrived with his troops, saw Ye Ming’s much stronger force, and received Ye Ming’s silent challenge to attack.

Nie Li infiltrated the Silverwing Family's treetop palace and freed Duan Jian, then helped him fight off the guards. With Nie Li's Gravity Field pinning Sikong Red Moon down, Duan Jian killed her, beginning his revenge against the family.

• Nie Li used his shadow demon spirit to enter the palace, killed the two Gold Rank warriors whipping Duan Jian, and freed him.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian the Black Dragon Heaven-Burning Sword as the Silverwing Family's guards discovered them.
• Sikong Red Moon confronted Nie Li and Duan Jian, and Nie Li blasted a crater into the palace with his Light-Dark Primordial Qi Blast.
• Duan Jian attacked Sikong Red Moon while Nie Li used Gravity Field to pin her down and block the other guards from entering.
• Duan Jian forced his way through the crushing gravity and killed Sikong Red Moon with the Black Dragon Heaven-Burning Sword.