Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Black Prison World, Nie Li enjoyed a brief rest in Glory City while Ye Mo built the Glory Guild into a powerful force in Blackstone City. The Sky Screen then showed Nie Li giving Ye Ziyun the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl and deepening the awkward romantic tension among him, Ye Ziyun, and Xiao Ning'er.

• Nie Li returned to Glory City, where Ye Zong urged him to rest because the city was safe and the Black Prison World offered a fallback stronghold.
• Ye Mo led the renamed Glory Guild in Blackstone City, allied with the Jade Seal Family, and drew new members with its Demigod Rank expert and skilled Inscription Masters.
• The Sky Screen showed Nie Li taking Ye Ziyun's hand and giving her the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl to aid her cultivation.
• Xiao Ning'er felt dejected as she watched Nie Li and Ye Ziyun together, while Ye Ziyun innocently approached her and asked if she was all right.
• Lu Piao teased Nie Li about his romantic entanglements, and Xiao Xue chased Lu Piao after he joked about learning to woo girls.
• Ye Zong considered arranging engagements for the youngsters, while Nie Li told Ye Ziyun about the places they had visited through Glory City's Magic Array.

Nie Li reunited with Ye Ziyun and Duan Jian in the City Lord's Mansion, then told Ye Zong about their trip to the Black Prison World and the Ancient Magic Array. Ye Zong's anger gave way to delight when Nie Li showered him with crimson blood crystals, while the Sky Screen audience watched his reactions.

• Duan Jian showed Ye Ziyun his Black Dragon Wings, and Nie Li called him a companion before greeting Ye Zong as his father-in-law and enraging him.
• Ye Xiu redirected the conversation to serious business, and Xiao Ning'er and Du Ze's group left before Nie Li gave Ye Zong the seal controlling the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Spirit Array.
• Nie Li explained that he had activated the Ancient Magic Array and reached the Black Prison World, prompting Ye Zong to scold him for risking everyone's lives.
• Nie Li gave Ye Zong two refined crimson blood crystals, then revealed two bags more, which Ye Zong ordered Ye Xiu to send to the Family Treasury.
• After the Sky Screen showed Ye Zong's reaction, Nie Li offered him ten more bags of crimson blood crystals, leaving Ye Zong speechless.

Ye Zong told Nie Li the Demon Lord’s history, leading Nie Li to realize the masked man he had met was the Dark Guild’s leader. Nie Li then helped Ye Zong plan a strike against the Dark Guild and Sacred Family, while the chapter ended with the group joking together at the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Ye Zong explained that the Demon Lord had once been an orphan adopted by a Red Jade Family retainer, and that the young man later destroyed the family before disappearing.
• Nie Li realized the man who had appeared before the Ancient Stele was the Demon Lord and suspected he had gone to the Black Prison World.
• Duan Jian told Ye Zong that he came from the Black Prison World and served Nie Li, who corrected him to say he was a subordinate.
• Ye Zong revealed that he had evidence of the Sacred Family’s collusion with the Dark Guild and asked Nie Li how to capture them both.
• Nie Li proposed summoning the families’ experts to the City Lord’s Mansion while forces attacked the Dark Guild branch and surrounded the Sacred Family.
• Ye Zong told Nie Li to focus on his classes and keep his distance from Ye Ziyun, while Nie Li, Ye Ziyun, Xiao Ning'er, and the others ended the gathering laughing together.

Shen Hong planned to divert suspicion from the Sacred Family as a millions-strong beast tide approached Glory City. Nie Li organized the southern defenses with ordinary warriors and began preparing trenches and traps, while Ye Zong kept Shen Hong under watch.

• Shen Hong ordered the Sacred Family to remain in place and considered how to distract the Wind Snow Family from its plans with the Dark Guild.
• A beast tide of several million creatures was reported less than ten hours from Glory City, and Ye Zong ordered the city put on alert.
• Nie Li told his companions to stay together, then asked Ye Xiu for five hundred ordinary warriors to defend the South City Wall.
• Shen Hong arrived with the Sacred Family's experts and declared his support for Glory City, so Ye Zong assigned him to the South City Wall under supervision.
• Nie Li led ordinary warriors in digging pits and trenches outside the walls, while Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun helped prepare potion-filled bamboo.

As the million-strong beast tide neared Glory City, Nie Li’s preparations caught the Demon Beasts in a massive fire trap and destroyed thousands of attackers. The tide continued toward the city walls, while the experts watched in amazement at the first line of defense.

• Shen Hong criticized the preparations, while Ye Xiu warned that earlier beast tides had exacted a devastating cost from Glory City.
• After the ground shook and distant roars confirmed the beast tide was approaching, Ye Zong ordered everyone to take defensive positions.
• Nie Li told Ye Xiu to ask Ye Zong to wait until the beasts struck the walls, and Ye Zong held the family experts back despite Shen Hong urging them to act.
• As the Wind Snow Demon Beasts advanced, Lu Piao prayed and Xiao Xue kicked him, while Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er resolved to stand firm.
• The leading Demon Beasts ran into Nie Li’s pits of red oil and other flammable materials, and the resulting wall of fire burned thousands of them to ash.

Nie Li’s defensive plans stopped the beast tide before it reached Glory City’s walls, using explosives and poisoned Bright Bamboo to devastate and confuse the beasts. The chapter ended with the crowd recognizing Nie Li’s role while Shen Hong remained confident that the vast remainder of the horde would still attack.

• Ye Xiu and Ye Zong praised Nie Li as fire turned the beast tide aside and drove it toward the next defenses.
• Flaming arrows ignited liquid explosives, destroying tens of thousands of demon beasts and shocking Ye Zong, Shen Hong, and Huyan Xiong.
• Nie Li ordered the Third Line of Defense prepared, and guards threw poisoned Bright Bamboo into the charging horde.
• The poison made the beasts attack one another, plunging the tide into chaos before it reached the walls.
• Ye Xiu told Ye Zong that Nie Li had devised and implemented the defenses, while Shen Hong dismissed the losses because nearly a million beasts remained.

As Glory City’s defenses held back the beast tide, Ye Han grew resentful as Nie Li’s achievements pushed him farther from the City Lord position. The beasts reached the city wall, where Nie Li’s oil-and-fire defenses slowed them, but as Nie Li joined the fighting, the dead beasts’ soul force began surging into him.

• Ye Zong recognized that Nie Li’s accomplishments made him the ideal support for Ye Ziyun, while Ye Han watched his prospects of becoming City Lord fade and recalled Shen Xiu’s offer of help from the Sacred Family and Dark Guild.
• Lu Piao boasted after using Bright Bamboo to make demon beasts attack one another, but Xiao Xue twisted his ear, and Du Ze warned that the beast tide had only been reduced by a tenth.
• Nie Li ordered oil poured down the city wall, and Xiao Ning’er ignited it to create a sea of fire that stopped many climbing beasts.
• Duan Jian and the city’s experts killed the Gold Rank beasts that reached the wall as Huyan Xiong, Chen Zhenglong, and others arranged for more red oil to be brought in.
• Ye Zong focused on the Black Gold Rank beasts directing the assault, while Nie Li fought on the wall and began to feel unwell as soul force from the fallen beasts surged toward him.

Nie Li struggled to refine an overwhelming surge of Soul Force while Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun fought to protect him from Demon Beasts. Xiao Ning'er stopped a Wind Snow Demon Beast from striking Nie Li, but her lightning chain failed and she was left exhausted as the beast prepared to attack again.

• Duan Jian, Du Ze, and Lu Piao fought the Demon Beasts while Nie Li struggled to absorb the Soul Force flooding his Soul Sea.
• Xiao Ning'er tackled Nie Li out of a Wind Snow Giant Ape's path, and Ye Ziyun held back two apes with an ice wall.
• Nie Li collapsed while trying to refine his Soul Force, and Xiao Ning'er stayed to guard him as a Wind Snow Demon Beast attacked.
• Xiao Ning'er endured the beast's freezing breath and was struck into the city wall, while Ye Ziyun was kept from reaching her by a Giant Ape.
• Xiao Ning'er bound the Wind Snow Demon Beast's claw with a lightning chain to protect Nie Li, but the chain dissolved as her strength gave out.

Nie Li saved Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun during the Beast Tide, then helped Glory City repel Wind Snow Giant Apes with Bloodburst Demon Bottles. The beasts withdrew after a mysterious roar, but the city still faced a threat from an unusually intelligent Black Gold Rank demon beast.

• Nie Li reached Gold 2-Star cultivation, saved Ye Ziyun from demon beasts, and treated Xiao Ning'er, who had exhausted herself protecting him.
• Ye Ziyun helped Xiao Ning'er leave the battlefield while Nie Li returned to fight, and the defenders learned that at least a third of the million-strong Beast Tide had been killed.
• A powerful roar caused the Beast Tide to retreat, and Ye Zong and Nie Li suspected that a Black Gold Rank demon beast had awakened its intelligence.
• Wind Snow Giant Apes prepared to bombard Glory City with boulders, so Nie Li asked Ye Xiu to use giant crossbows to launch Bloodburst Demon Bottles.
• Ye Xiu fired a Bloodburst Demon Bottle into the apes, setting off chain explosions that killed many of them, and Nie Li warned that the bottles were dangerous at close range.

Nie Li used a Legendary Scroll to save Ye Zong from Shen Hong’s scheme and strike the Wind Snow Giant Ape with a devastating fire attack. The beast survived but was badly burned, while Shen Hong feared an unknown Legendary Rank expert was nearby.

• The Wind Snow Demon Beasts retreated after Nie Li thwarted their boulder attack, but Black Gold Rank beasts broke through the city wall and flooded into Glory City.
• Ye Zong and the family patriarchs battled the invading beasts, and Ye Zong tried to lure the intelligent Wind Snow Giant Ape toward the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Spirit Array.
• The Wind Snow Giant Ape refused the bait and knocked Ye Zong hundreds of meters away, while Shen Hong approached him with ill-intentioned concern.
• Nie Li activated a Legendary Scroll, sending a blazing fireball after the Wind Snow Giant Ape and blasting it through its ice wall.
• Shen Hong watched the charred Giant Ape and suspected an unknown Legendary Rank expert had unleashed the fire attack.

Ye Zong defeated the Wind Snow Giant Ape and Glory City survived the Beast Tide, though tens of thousands died and much of the city was destroyed. Afterward, Ye Zong thanked Nie Li and offered the ape’s Demon Spirit to Nie Li’s supposedly unseen master, leaving Nie Li awkwardly coughing.

• Ye Zong killed the Wind Snow Giant Ape, and Shen Hong restrained himself from trying to take its Demon Spirit.
• The surviving Demon Beasts fled, the guards celebrated the end of the Beast Tide, and Glory City began counting casualties and rebuilding.
• Nie Li reflected on how the devastated streets recalled the ruined Glory City of his previous life, then urged his companions to cultivate diligently.
• Ye Zong thanked Nie Li for helping defend Glory City and said he trusted Nie Li’s character more than Ye Han’s.
• Ye Zong credited Nie Li’s master with the Legendary Forbidden Technique and offered the awakened Black Gold Rank Demon Spirit to him, prompting Nie Li to cough awkwardly.

Nie Li persuaded Ye Zong to accept the Wind Snow Giant Ape demon spirit and approve his engagement to Ye Ziyun, while the Sky Screen revealed Shen Hong had poisoned Ye Zong’s first wife. Ye Ziyun fainted from the revelation, and the chapter left her considering Xiao Ning’er’s love for Nie Li and wondering whether to encourage them.

• Nie Li offered Ye Zong the Wind Snow Giant Ape demon spirit as a betrothal gift, and Ye Zong agreed to the engagement on the condition that Ye Ziyun wanted it.
• Ye Zong fused with the demon spirit as Shen Hong, furious at Ye Zong and Nie Li, learned that the City Lord’s Mansion had summoned the family experts.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Shen Hong had poisoned Ye Zong’s first wife, and Ye Zong’s fury awakened his legendary-level power.
• Ye Ziyun fainted after learning how her mother died, and Nie Li assured Ye Zong that she would recover after resting.
• On the Sky Screen, Ye Ziyun admitted she could not love Nie Li as Xiao Ning’er did, then drove Nie Li from her room when he barged in.
• Ye Ziyun teased Xiao Ning’er for defending Nie Li and considered encouraging their relationship.

Nie Li was driven out of Ye Ziyun’s courtyard after she accused him of seeking power through her, leaving him hurt and determined to leave the City Lord’s Mansion. In the present, Ye Ziyun watched the Sky Screen and tearfully insisted she had never said those words, while Nie Li prepared to send Nie Yu back to the Heavenly Marks Family.

• Ye Ziyun told Nie Li to leave her courtyard and said she believed he wanted to marry her to gain power in Glory City.
• Nie Li argued that he did not care about becoming City Lord, but Ye Ziyun insisted they came from different worlds and ordered him to take his belongings and go.
• People across Glory City and the Wind Snow Family reacted in shock as they watched the exchange on the Sky Screen.
• In the City Lord’s Mansion, Ye Ziyun woke and tearfully told Nie Li she had not said those things, while Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er comforted her.
• Nie Li asked Duan Jian to take Nie Yu back to the Heavenly Marks Family and deliver a letter to his father, and Duan Jian guessed Ye Ziyun was the reason Nie Li was upset.

Nie Li arranged for the Alchemist Association to stockpile potions, then shared a drink and a tender farewell with Yang Xin. At the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Han raised concerns about the people staying with Ye Ziyun, while Ye Zong increasingly favored Nie Li as her match.

• Nie Li asked Yang Xin to have the Alchemist Association stockpile several hundred thousand jin of potions within a year.
• Nie Li and Yang Xin drank together and spoke about the wider world and their lives; Yang Xin kissed his cheek before leaving him to sleep.
• After Yang Xin left, Nie Li revealed he was not drunk and began cultivating.
• Ye Han told Ye Zong that outsiders had been staying in Ye Ziyun's courtyard, and Ye Zong explained they were her classmates and friends.
• Ye Zong suspected Ye Han still cared for Ye Ziyun but found himself more inclined to marry her to Nie Li, while Ye Han clenched his fists behind his back.

Ye Han stabbed Ye Zong with a Dragon Tongue Grass-poisoned dagger and revealed his alliance with the Dark Guild, hoping to seize the City Lord position. Ye Zong defeated him, but the poison spread, and he summoned Ye Ziyun and Nie Li to make his final arrangements.

• Ye Han pretended to despair over losing his chance to become City Lord and marry Ye Ziyun, then stabbed Ye Zong in the back.
• Ye Han told Ye Zong he planned to blame the assassination on Nie Li and seize power with the Dark Guild’s help.
• Ye Han revealed that his dagger was poisoned with Dragon Tongue Grass and prepared to kill Ye Zong, but Ye Zong fused with the Wind Snow Giant Ape and struck him down.
• Ye Han escaped after ordering the guards to protect Ye Zong and pursue the supposed assassin.
• Ye Xiu found Ye Zong poisoned, and Ye Zong ordered him to bring Ye Ziyun and Nie Li so he could make his final arrangements.

Nie Li saved Ye Zong from dragon tongue grass poisoning after Ye Han’s betrayal, and Glory City’s Sky Screen ended before viewers could see the treatment. Later, Nie Li became engaged to Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning’er, then spent his free time putting the Heavenly Marks Family’s younger generation through brutal training.

• Ye Ziyun and Ye Xiu found Ye Zong near death, and Nie Li recognized that dragon tongue grass had poisoned him.
• Ye Zong asked Nie Li to care for Ye Ziyun, but Nie Li revealed he could save him and began treating him before the Sky Screen faded.
• Ye Mo returned from the Nether Realm to oversee Nie Li’s engagement to Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning’er, while Glory City celebrated.
• Ye Mo scolded and chased Ye Zong after learning about Ye Han’s betrayal, and Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning’er privately reflected on their engagements.
• Nie Li drilled hundreds of Heavenly Marks Family juniors in the heavenly marks body, while sparing his younger sister Nie Yu from the training.

Ye Mo returned to the Nether Realm as its new Wind Snow Spirit God, while Nie Li treated Ye Zong and helped mend things with Ye Ziyun. After Ye Zong rewarded Nie Li, Nie Li and Ye Ziyun explored the City Lord's treasury, where Nie Li found dark stones he wanted.

• Ye Mo returned to the Nether Realm with supplies from Glory City, and Du Ze, Wei Nan, Zhang Ming, and Zhu Xiangjun chose to accompany him.
• Nie Li treated Ye Zong overnight, removing most of the Dragon Tongue Grass poison and stabilizing him.
• Ye Ziyun thanked Nie Li and kissed his cheek, but Ye Zong interrupted their closeness and briefly fought Nie Li before coughing up blood.
• Ye Zong ordered that Ye Han could be killed if found and offered Nie Li anything he wanted from the City Lord's treasury.
• Nie Li and Ye Ziyun entered one of the City Lord's eighteen treasuries, where Nie Li selected several dark stones.

Nie Li and Ye Ziyun searched the City Lord's Mansion's treasury, where Nie Li collected treasures and established a connection with an unknown Demon Beast inside a Golden Egg. After they left, Ye Yan reported that he had found the Dark Guild's hiding place and traces of Troglodytes and Dark Elves.

• Nie Li repaired six Guardian God Stones, gave three to Ye Ziyun, and filled his Space Ring with treasures from the treasury.
• Nie Li discovered that the Golden Egg's barrier resisted his Soul Force, but the remnant page of the Book of Time and Space Spirit resonated with it.
• As cracks formed in the Golden Egg's barrier, Nie Li established a connection with it and put it in his Space Ring.
• Nie Li and Ye Ziyun left the treasury, while Ye Zong lamented that Nie Li had emptied several more treasuries' worth of items.
• Ye Yan returned to Nie Li and reported finding the Dark Guild's cavern hideout, where he had found traces of Troglodytes and Dark Elves.

Shen Hong prepared to exploit Ye Zong’s apparent death at a gathering of Glory City’s major families, while Nie Li made plans to protect Ye Ziyun from the coming confrontation. The banquet began with Ye Zong absent, and Nie Li found Ye Xiu and the mysterious Elder Ye Shuo seated in his place.

• Shen Xiu told Shen Hong that Ye Zong had been poisoned and that the City Lord’s Mansion was hiding his death, while Shen Hong arranged for Ye Han to leave the city with help from the Dark Guild.
• Shen Hong attended the gathering at the City Lord’s Mansion and secretly gave instructions after noticing the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Spirit Array.
• Huyan Lanruo clung to Nie Li until Ye Ziyun’s arrival gave him a chance to escape with her.
• Nie Li trapped Ye Ziyun inside the Mansion’s secret chamber behind its Guardian Barrier, explaining that she would be a vulnerable target in the coming battle.
• At the banquet, Nie Li noticed that Ye Zong’s seat was occupied by Ye Xiu and Elder Ye Shuo, who oversaw the Wind Snow Family’s Secret Forces and viewed Nie Li favorably.

At the banquet, Nie Li warned his friends that trouble was coming and stood up to Shen Xiu when she threatened Xiao Ning'er over her engagement to Shen Fei. As Shen Yan challenged Duan Jian, their clash revealed that Duan Jian was unharmed while Shen Yan was forced back.

• Ye Shuo accepted the crimson blood crystals Nie Li had given him, and the Wind Snow Family elders welcomed Nie Li as Ye Ziyun's future husband.
• At the banquet, Nie Li warned Lu Piao and Du Ze to protect themselves and told Duan Jian to keep his eyes on Shen Hong if a fight began.
• Shen Hong sent Shen Xiu and Shen Yan to test Duan Jian, while Shen Xiu confronted Xiao Ning'er over her broken engagement to Shen Fei.
• Shen Xiu demanded that Xiao Ning'er kneel and apologize, but Nie Li mocked Shen Fei and challenged Shen Xiu's threats, prompting Duan Jian to step forward.
• Shen Yan exchanged punches with Duan Jian, but Duan Jian remained unharmed and Shen Yan was driven back several steps.