Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Mortal Forbidden Zones were collapsing and the Other Race was emerging, Si Chen gathered allies and led the Demon Race army toward the crisis. The army marched to war under Red Bean’s command.

• Bai He reported that the Mortal Forbidden Zones were failing, the Other Race was breaking through, and mortals remained on some stars; Si Chen decided to go there.
• Si Ming explained that Earthbound Spirits had appeared as the seals weakened and suggested the danger had long been expected.
• Si Chen told the assembled Demon Sovereigns and allies about the crisis, and Red Bean, Feng Qing, the ten Demon Emperors, and his companions agreed to accompany him.
• Si Chen left Gray Gray behind to watch the Immortal Emperors while the Demon Race army assembled near Undying Mountain.
• Red Bean ordered the Demon Race army to follow her to war.

Si Chen led the Demon Realm fleet toward Floating Net Heaven but opened a Great Void Shift passage to the wrong destination, forcing Red Bean to correct it. At Floating Net Heaven, Bai He struggled to hold back the Other Race as a mass of black mist erupted.

• Si Chen chose Floating Net Heaven as the fleet's first destination and had Red Bean guide the army using Luo Hongyi's star chart.
• Si Chen opened a Great Void Shift passage, but it led to the Demon Realm instead of Floating Net Heaven.
• Red Bean joined her spatial power with Si Chen's and redirected the passage to Floating Net Heaven.
• Bai He fought the Other Race while his forces retreated from the spreading black mist.
• The black mist churned and exploded as Bai He sensed disaster.

A withered Immortal Emperor emerged from the black mist and overwhelmed the Floating Net Heaven army, forcing Bai He to stay behind and buy time for a retreat. Si Chen arrived with Red Bean, Feng Qing, and a million demon soldiers, then charged the Emperor with Little Lei transformed into a spear.

• A dead Immortal Emperor emerged from the black mist and raised slain Floating Net Heaven cultivators as black-mist puppets.
• Bai He ordered his soldiers to retreat, then charged the Emperor to buy them time.
• The Emperor surrounded Bai He with black mist, but Si Chen appeared through a spatial rift and dispersed it with golden light.
• Red Bean and Feng Qing arrived with Si Chen, followed by a million demon soldiers, and joked that he had gotten lost.
• Si Chen summoned Little Lei as a spear, called the Emperor a filthy thing, and charged at it.

Si Chen overwhelmed the awakened skeletal creature while the Demon Race army joined Floating Net Heaven’s forces to fight the remaining enemies. The creature re-formed after Si Chen shattered its head and warned that this was only one battlefield and that Si Chen could not save everyone.

• Si Chen battered the skeletal creature against meteor fragments until its body and head were repeatedly shattered.
• Black Mountain remarked that Si Chen was venting, while Luo Hongyi recorded his rampage and Feng Qing teased Red Bean before the Demon Sovereigns ordered the Demon Race to clear the battlefield.
• The Demon Race army divided into ten units and charged, while Bai He rallied Floating Net Heaven’s soldiers to support the reinforcements.
• Song Chi recognized that the enemy’s aura resembled Cang Xuan’s Demon Puppet and suspected Cang Xuan had been studying such beings.
• Si Chen stamped the skeletal creature’s head into fragments, but it re-formed and warned that this was only one battlefield and that Si Chen could not save everyone.

Si Chen confronted Shuijing, the former Immortal Emperor of the Mystic Ice Dao, after Shuijing froze the battlefield. Si Chen overpowered him with the Law of Time and solar true flame, then destroyed him completely.

• Shuijing re-formed his body and froze the starry sky, immobilizing most of the fighters.
• Si Chen remained unaffected, seized Shuijing by the throat, and used his power to thaw the battlefield.
• Si Chen burned Shuijing with solar true flame and warned him to flee beyond his sight if he wanted to survive.
• Si Chen pinned Shuijing down, reduced his body to a head, and crushed it, preventing the black mist from gathering again.

After Shuijing vanished, Si Chen rescued the allied forces from the Other Race and annihilated the remaining enemies with a vast bombardment of fireballs. He asked whether everyone was all right, and Black Mountain replied that he was fine, though a little hard of hearing.

• Shuijing disappeared, and the cultivators of Floating Net Heaven and the Demon Realm surged against the remaining members of the Other Race.
• Si Chen judged the battle too slow and prepared a storm of orange-red fireballs, prompting Black Mountain and the others to recognize his destructive technique and flee.
• Si Chen used Great Void Shift to move the crowded allied armies behind him in a single instant.
• Si Chen unleashed the fireballs, wiping out the Other Race and clearing the surrounding void of debris.
• Si Chen asked whether everyone was all right, and Black Mountain said he was fine but had trouble hearing.

Si Chen saved Floating Net Heaven from the black mist and learned that the same threats had vanished from other Mortal Forbidden Zones. He set out for Purple Firmament Heaven, but Feng Qing and Red Bean insisted that Red Bean handle the spatial travel as the Immortal Realm’s situation remained uncertain.

• Bai He and the survivors of Floating Net Heaven hailed Si Chen as their Imperial Lord, and Si Chen lifted them to their feet.
• Bai He learned that the black mist and Other Race beings at other Mortal Forbidden Zones had collapsed into mist and disappeared.
• Si Chen told Bai He to tend to the evacuated mortals and alert him if the threats returned, then decided to inspect the other Immortal Domains.
• Feng Qing and Red Bean stopped Si Chen from using Great Void Shift, and Red Bean opened a golden spatial rift toward Purple Firmament Heaven.
• Feng Qing led the Demon Realm army through the rift with Si Chen, while Bai He ordered Floating Net Heaven’s forces to clear the battlefield, count casualties, and contact other outposts.

Si Chen led the Demon Realm army through a spatial rift to Purple Firmament Heaven, where its arrival rescued the cultivators from the Other Race. He entrusted Feng Qing and the Demon Emperors with the battle while he watched over the battlefield.

• Song Chi told Si Chen that the black enemies resembled Cang Xuan's Demon Puppets and admitted he had absorbed their energy crystals; Zhou Yan and Xie Changsheng joked about giving him a dignified death if he transformed.
• Si Chen and the demon army emerged onto Purple Firmament Heaven's battlefield, where the Other Race had pushed the cultivators into a desperate fight.
• Si Chen's Firefly technique struck down Other Race warriors, and the Immortal Kings Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua recognized him as their Imperial Lord.
• Si Chen ordered Feng Qing and the ten Demon Emperors to lead the attack, and Feng Qing commanded the million-strong demon army to crush the enemy.
• Song Chi, Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Murong Li, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Red Wind joined the fighting while Si Chen calmly monitored the battlefield.

Si Chen and the Demon Realm army helped Purple Firmament Heaven defeat the Other Race beings, and Si Chen healed the wounded with an ancestral craft. After learning where the remaining Mortal Forbidden Zones lay, he led the assembled forces to cleanse the Immortal Realm.

• Si Chen let the Eastern Region group temper themselves in battle while Zhu Yao and Feng Qing fought alongside the Demon Realm army to defeat the Other Race beings.
• Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua thanked Si Chen for saving Purple Firmament Heaven and explained that they had prepared for the attack after witnessing him break the first Mortal Forbidden Zone.
• Si Chen used an ancestral craft to restore the cultivators’ wounds and vitality, and their cries of gratitude made him sense a faint force flowing into his body.
• Si Chen asked about the other Mortal Forbidden Zones, and Chen Yong gave him a jade slip marking their locations.
• Red Bean memorized the coordinates, and Si Chen told the Eastern Region group and the Demon Realm army to follow him in cleansing the Immortal Realm.

Over ten years, Si Chen and his allies purged the collapsed Mortal Forbidden Zones across the Immortal Realm while the Eastern Region group grew stronger and Jiang Ling joined the campaign. After Canglan Heaven’s Immortal King’s hesitation led to the deaths of tens of billions of mortals, Si Chen destroyed his Dao Foundation and left him stranded among his ruined starfield.

• Si Chen, Red Bean, Feng Qing, and the demon army spent ten years cleansing starfields of Other Race creatures, while Gray Gray guarded the detained Immortal Emperors at Undying Mountain.
• Jiang Ling joined the cleansing army in the second year, and the Eastern Region group advanced to the Mystic Immortal realm through repeated battles.
• Canglan Heaven’s Immortal King had failed to evacuate its mortals after secretly delaying his decision, and tens of billions died when the black mist was released.
• Si Chen’s army slaughtered the Other Race creatures in Canglan Heaven, then Si Chen rejected the Immortal King’s excuses and shattered his Dao Foundation.
• Si Chen left the powerless Immortal King in the ruins and led the demon army toward the next starfield.

After a ten-year purge erased the Other Race from the Immortal Realm, Si Chen suspected their lack of resistance meant they had used the campaign to accomplish something elsewhere. He led the exhausted army toward Jade Qiong Heaven to rest, where Murong Li could visit her father.

• Si Chen stripped Immortal Kings who had stood aside of their cultivation and left them to live among the ruined domains they had ruled.
• Red Bean, Feng Qing, and Si Chen questioned whether the Other Race had stalled the purge to achieve a greater purpose, possibly in the Demon Realm.
• Si Chen ended the campaign and agreed to rest the army in Jade Qiong Heaven so Murong Li could see her father.
• Zhou Yan tried to dissuade the group from entering Jade Qiong Heaven, and Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, and Black Mountain teased him about his embarrassing past with the Murong family.
• Luo Hongyi stopped the others from joking further, and Si Chen ordered Feng Qing to restrain the army's demonic auras so they would not disturb local cultivators.

Si Chen arrived at Jade Qiong Heaven with Murong Li and the Undying Mountain group, where Murong Yuan welcomed them and Zhou Yan was unnerved by Nanny Wang. Later, Heartguard warned Si Chen that black mist was spreading through the Lower Realm and raising the dead, prompting him to turn cold at the news.

• Murong Yuan and Jade Qiong Heaven's cultivators welcomed Si Chen's fleet, and Si Chen stopped Murong Yuan from bowing to him.
• Murong Li reunited with her father, and Murong Yuan thanked Si Chen for looking after her before inviting the group to stay at the Murong Residence.
• Murong Yuan enthusiastically greeted Zhou Yan, while Nanny Wang's remarks about examining him in the past left him terrified and embarrassed.
• Si Chen left the welcoming banquet and contemplated his next plans in a secluded pavilion.
• Heartguard contacted Si Chen to report that black mist was appearing across the Lower Realm, corrupting cultivators and reviving corpses as the Eastern Region descended into chaos.

Si Chen learned that the invaders had reached the lower realms and left the pavilion with killing intent. He told the assembled group at the Murong residence, whose laughter stopped as they realized their loved ones and home realms might be in danger.

• Si Chen realized the invaders could reach the lower realms and vanished from the pavilion, thinking of his family and old acquaintances.
• At the Murong residence, Feng Qing and the others teased Zhou Yan and Song Chi about their embarrassing pasts while the gathering celebrated.
• Si Chen entered the hall, silencing everyone with his cold demeanor, and asked Murong Yuan to clear out the Jade Qiong Heaven guests.
• Si Chen told Xie Changsheng, Luo Hongyi, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and the others that the invaders had gone to the lower realms.
• The group paled and thought of the people and places they cared about across the lower realms.

Si Chen and the Eastern Region’s allies returned to the Lower Realm to fight the creatures attacking it, while Red Bean and Feng Qing stayed behind to guard the Immortal Realm. As two cultivators were cornered by the monsters, Li Tiezhu arrived with a dramatic declaration.

• Si Chen learned that creatures had infiltrated the Lower Realm and attacked it, then prepared to return with the Eastern Region’s cultivators.
• Si Chen left Red Bean and Feng Qing to guard the Immortal Realm and told Murong Li to stay with her father.
• Si Chen opened a spatial rift, and Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the others went through to the Lower Realm.
• Two besieged Nascent Soul Realm cultivators tried to flee and sabotaged each other, but the creatures surrounded them.
• A pillar of light struck the battlefield, and Li Tiezhu of the Joyous Union Sect announced his arrival as the leader of the righteous path.

Li Tiezhu battled a horde of regenerating Other Race monsters, but his first attack failed to stop them. After borrowing 88,888 points from his system for a special countermeasure, he transformed his staff and destroyed the monsters, leaving Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang in awe.

• Li Tiezhu arrived dramatically and crushed hundreds of Other Race monsters with his staff, saving Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang.
• The monsters and black mist reassembled, stronger than before, while Li Tiezhu’s system failed to identify them.
• The system revealed that its shop held an item to counter the monsters and loaned Li Tiezhu 88,888 points to obtain it.
• Li Tiezhu’s staff transformed into a gold-capped weapon with dragon patterns and a powerful aura.
• Li Tiezhu struck the monsters with the transformed staff, burning them away so they could not regenerate.
• Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang praised Li Tiezhu as he stood with his staff on his shoulder.

After defeating the fiends, Li Tiezhu learned that Ancient Gaze City was overrun and Si Qing was trapped there. The system gave him emergency travel gear for free, and he raced toward the city to rescue her.

• Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang praised Li Tiezhu, then handed over their spirit stones as compensation for his cloak.
• The two survivors told Li Tiezhu that fiends had overwhelmed Ancient Gaze City and that the black mist revived the dead as attackers.
• Li Tiezhu recalled Si Ming's urgent message that Si Qing had gone to Ancient Gaze City and needed rescue.
• Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang revealed that City Lord Yellow Crane had fled with the treasury's spirit stones and his wife's younger sister.
• The system issued Li Tiezhu a Somersault Cloud, Shrinking the Land to an Inch, armor, boots, and a crown at no cost.
• Li Tiezhu flew toward Ancient Gaze City at tremendous speed, leaving Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang behind.

Si Qing was cornered by evil entities in the ruins of Ancient Gaze City, where her terrified flailing fists destroyed every monster that attacked her. Li Tiezhu arrived to rescue her but was accidentally punched into the rubble, leaving Si Qing unaware of what had happened.

• Si Qing hid among the ruins as evil entities approached, then unknowingly obliterated them with her panicked punches.
• Thousands of evil entities surrounded Si Qing, and the star necklace at her neck began to glow.
• Li Tiezhu descended on his Somersault Cloud and charged toward Si Qing, planning to rescue his Little Martial Aunt.
• Si Qing launched another blind flurry of punches, wiping out the horde and striking Li Tiezhu in the face.
• Li Tiezhu flew into a distant pile of rubble, while Si Qing opened her eyes and wondered where the monsters had gone.

Si Qing accidentally revealed immense strength while fighting evil spirits in Western City, and Wang Yan arrived with a huge rescue force after learning she was trapped. Wang Yan recognized Si Qing as his Junior Granduncle and vowed to protect her, just as Li Tiezhu emerged from the rubble and angrily confronted him.

• Si Qing realized her wild punches had sent the monsters flying, then found herself surrounded by thousands of hesitant evil spirits.
• Wang Yan arrived in Ancient Gaze City with cultivators he had rallied by calling in favors and promising free pill refining.
• Wang Yan offered the rescuers thirty years of free pill refining in exchange for protecting Si Qing, and they attacked the evil spirits.
• Wang Yan knelt before Si Qing and explained that she was his master's younger sister and his Junior Granduncle.
• Li Tiezhu emerged from the rubble with a swollen face, saw Wang Yan beside Si Qing, and shouted Wang Dacong's name in fury.

Li Tiezhu reunited with Wang Yan and Si Qing amid the battle against the Evil Entities, while Wang Yan mistook Li Tiezhu’s old coded phrases for signs of a brain disorder. The cultivators then discovered that the monsters could not be killed and were merging.

• Li Tiezhu recalled how Wang Yan had misunderstood his coded phrases years earlier and concluded that he had a brain disorder.
• Wang Yan greeted the injured Li Tiezhu and explained that he had brought an army of cultivators to protect Si Qing.
• Li Tiezhu bowed to Si Qing and introduced himself as Brother Chen’s eldest disciple.
• Si Qing called Li Tiezhu an uncle, and Wang Yan told her that Li Tiezhu believed chickens could turn into lotus roots.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Rogue Cultivator warned Master Wang that the monsters could not be killed and were merging.

Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan faced a fused void refinement-level monster after the cultivator army fled, while Wang Yan refused to abandon his senior brother. The system activated Li Tiezhu’s Heavenly Dharma Form and BGM domain, and Li Tiezhu struck the monster with his Sky-Supporting Pillar.

• The evil spirits fused into a thousand-foot monster whose aura reached the void refinement stage, frightening the cultivators into fleeing.
• Li Tiezhu ordered Wang Yan to escape with Si Qing, but Wang Yan misread his intentions and set up defensive formations and gave Li Tiezhu pills.
• The monster charged, shattered Wang Yan’s formations, and forced Li Tiezhu to call on the system for help.
• The system granted Li Tiezhu the Heavenly Dharma Form and activated his Exclusive BGM Domain, causing him to grow to the monster’s size in golden armor.
• Li Tiezhu raised the Sky-Supporting Pillar and struck the monster.