Chapter Summaries

Li Yang entered the shattered world with Ning Xi after slaughtering the Nine Nether Dynasty's Demonic Path cultivators outside. When he found Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and a Demon Race Crown Champion pursuing a Blood-Haired Youth who held the Slaughter Dao Supreme Treasure, Li Yang attacked them and urged the youth to escape.

• Li Yang ordered Qin Feng to kill Mu Zangfeng or Holy Son Qianyang if they appeared, then returned to the formation and led the Sword Cultivators in wiping out the Demonic Path cultivators nearby.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi entered the shattered world through a breach, where they discussed their growing familiarity and Ning Xi teased him with flirtation.
• After several days, Li Yang sensed a battle and found Holy Son Qianyang and others pursuing a Blood-Haired Youth who appeared to possess the supreme treasure.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi attacked Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and a Demon Race Crown Champion, giving the Blood-Haired Youth a chance to flee.
• Mu Zangfeng questioned Li Yang's motives, while Holy Son Qianyang offered to spare him and forgo the treasure if Ning Xi joined his harem.

Li Yang wounded the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon with a reckless strike, then escaped Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang while protecting Ning Xi. The blood-haired young man returned with Sang Yan and four other Crown Champions, who joined forces with Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang to target Li Yang and Qin Feng.

• Ning Xi rejected Holy Son Qianyang and condemned his belief that he could win women through physical conquest.
• Li Yang crossed the unstable void and split the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon's skull with a surprise sword strike, but Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang struck Li Yang in return.
• Li Yang shielded Ning Xi, suffered severe wounds from Mu Zangfeng's sword and Holy Son Qianyang's solar lightning, and escaped with a talisman; the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon survived and fled.
• Ning Xi healed Li Yang's wounds with pills and Life Nectar, but immortal blood on Mu Zangfeng's sword prevented his back wound from healing.
• Li Yang retreated while counterattacking Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang, then encountered the blood-haired young man, Sang Yan, and four other Crown Champions.
• Sang Yan accused Ning Xi of leading her suitors on, and the Crown Champions joined Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang to kill the blood-haired young man and Qin Feng.

Li Yang and Tu Nine Provinces struggled to escape their pursuers while Tu Nine Provinces tried to merge with the Baleful Treasure. When Zi Yuan and two other demon cultivators blocked their way, Li Yang chose to fight them, and Tu Nine Provinces transferred the treasure to him before joining the battle.

• Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, Sang Yan, and the other Crown Champions attacked Li Yang and Tu Nine Provinces, while Ning Xi detonated her destruction talismans to open a chaotic route through the void.
• Holy Son Qianyang and the others pursued Li Yang as he shielded Ning Xi, and Tu Nine Provinces explained that the Baleful Treasure enhanced attacks but would not immediately grant overwhelming power.
• Zi Yuan and two Kan Prefecture demon cultivators intercepted them and demanded that Li Yang cooperate, revealing that Tu Nine Provinces was fourth on the Slaughter Ranking and that the demons had exterminated his clan.
• Li Yang rejected Zi Yuan's ultimatum and began burning his life to attack the three demon cultivators, telling Tu Nine Provinces and Ning Xi to escape.
• Tu Nine Provinces revealed that the sword intent came from the Baleful Treasure, transferred it into Li Yang, and stood before him with his blood sabers to fight.

Li Yang merged with the Baleful Treasure, drew on the minor world's killing intent, and defeated Mu Zangfeng after killing the Void Derivation Tribe's Crown Champion. Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang escaped, leaving Li Yang to face Sang Yan and the other suitors who had hunted Ning Xi.

• Li Yang rapidly merged with the Baleful Treasure, healed his wounds, and gained power from the minor world's killing intent.
• The Void Derivation Tribe's Crown Champion ambushed Li Yang, but Li Yang sensed the attack and killed him with one strike.
• Li Yang challenged Mu Zangfeng and overpowered him in a sword clash, then demanded that he use his Sword Pellet.
• Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang escaped through a formation powered by killing intent.
• Li Yang turned toward Sang Yan and the other suitors, and Ning Xi warned him not to expect her to show them mercy.

Li Yang killed Sang Yan and the other Crown Champions, then helped Tu Nine Provinces confront Zi Yuan. Zi Yuan escaped after triggering a dangerous charm that overwhelmed Li Yang and Ning Xi, leaving Li Yang to act to save her as a new bond began to form between them.

• Li Yang killed Sang Yan despite the intervention of Sang Yan's great-grandfather, then slew the other fleeing Crown Champions.
• Tu Nine Provinces held off Zi Yuan and two other Demonic Path Crown Champions until Li Yang arrived and killed the two companions.
• Li Yang defeated Zi Yuan, but her death-substitution puppet released a potent mist; she escaped the minor world with a Greater Spatial-Shift Talisman after a blade of grass cut off her feet.
• Li Yang discovered that the mist was overwhelming Ning Xi and threatening to destroy her cultivation and Vermilion Phoenix Body, so he tried to suppress its effects with his sword intent.
• When Ning Xi kissed him, Li Yang's restraint broke, and the two began forming a new bond amid the ancient battlefield.

Ning Qingfeng’s cultivation went out of control after her bond with Li Yang, while Li Yang escaped the collapsing minor world and returned to the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion. With the Nine Nether Dynasty launching an all-out war, he rallied the Sword Cultivators to join the battle.

• Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix markings spread as her body and phantom Phoenix reacted to her intertwined Dao resonance with Li Yang, and two Ning Lineage elders discussed her chances of finding a son-in-law worthy of becoming a second Xuanyuan.
• As the minor world collapsed, Lu Qingqiu urged the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion to continue its mission and offered to take command, but the Sword Cultivators remained unwilling to follow her.
• Li Yang cut through the minor world’s barrier and emerged carrying Ning Xi and the Phoenix Sword, silencing the worried Sword Cultivators.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress’s jade slip informed Li Yang that the Nine Nether Dynasty had begun an all-out war, and other messages delivered the same urgent news.
• Qin Feng returned the formation flag to Li Yang, who activated the sword formation and led the Sword Cultivators toward the war with the Nine Nether Dynasty.

Heavenly Origin suffered devastating losses as Nine Nether’s disciplined forces and Blood Glutton’s puppet army overwhelmed its troops. When the Heavenly Origin Empress faced dissent and the Bright Moon Emperor’s attempted power grab, Li Yang appeared with the imperial seal and declared himself Qin Feng, vowing to fight Nine Nether to the death.

• Blood Glutton revealed that fifty thousand blood puppets were attacking the formation master and the Heavenly Origin troops trapped inside the Blood River Formation.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress received reports of mass desertions and learned that Slay had sent her the heads of more than a dozen Nascent Soul commanders.
• The Bright Moon Emperor challenged the Empress’s leadership and announced he would withdraw his people, while she accused him of collaborating with the Demonic Path.
• Li Yang killed the Bright Moon Emperor and warned the assembled sovereigns that anyone who undermined military morale would be executed.
• Li Yang wielded the imperial seal, identified himself as Qin Feng, and vowed to kill or be killed fighting Nine Nether.

Li Yang returned to the Rosy Cloud Mountain Range checkpoint and rescued the formation masters from Blood Asura, then led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion against the Nine Nether vanguard. He urged the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to stop retreating and charged toward the approaching blood mist with the Heavenly Origin Empress at his side.

• Formation masters abandoned the checkpoint’s defense, while a few stayed behind to hold the grand formation against Blood Asura and the Nine Nether vanguard.
• Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion arrived, restoring the formation masters’ resolve as they repaired the checkpoint’s grand formation.
• A formation-focused Trial Taker sealed the region and stopped Blood Asura’s Greater Spatial-Shift Talisman, but Li Yang’s sword qi killed him despite his Blood Escape Technique.
• Li Yang led the Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation in slaughtering the thousand-strong Nine Nether vanguard inside the checkpoint.
• Li Yang challenged the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to stop retreating, then charged out of the checkpoint toward the approaching blood mist.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress followed Li Yang and vowed to die beneath the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s flag if necessary.

Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion broke through the Blood River Formation and killed Blood Glutton, rescuing the besieged cultivators. Mu Zangfeng then revealed more than a hundred million tortured mortals held in a Five-Element Small World and demanded that Qin Feng abandon his sword formation and follow him into the Nine Nether Dynasty.

• A junior sister died inside the Nine Suns Illuminating the Sky Formation, and her senior brother sacrificed his life to strengthen its barrier.
• Blood Glutton ordered the Blood River cultivators to scatter and wear down the arriving Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion, but Li Yang sensed their killing intent and precisely struck their hidden positions.
• Li Yang and the Sword Cultivators severed Blood Glutton's enormous bloody palm, and Tu Nine Provinces killed Blood Glutton with twin sabers.
• The Nine Suns Illuminating the Sky Formation illuminated the battlefield, and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion routed the Blood River cultivators and destroyed the Blood Puppets.
• Mu Zangfeng showed Qin Feng mortals imprisoned and tortured inside a Five-Element Small World, then demanded that Qin Feng abandon his sword formation and follow him into the Nine Nether Dynasty in exchange for their release.

Li Yang rejected Mu Zangfeng’s attempt to lure him into a duel by threatening captured mortals and instead turned the confrontation into a slaughtering contest against the Nine Nether Dynasty. The chapter ended with both sides escalating the bloodshed as Mu Zangfeng killed millions of mortals and Li Yang urged the sword cultivators to keep fighting.

• Mu Zangfeng offered to release the captured mortals if Li Yang fought him, while Holy Son Qianyang planned to trap them both in a confinement formation.
• Li Yang agreed to Mu Zangfeng’s proposal to slaughter without rules, but clarified that he meant a contest of killing rather than a duel.
• Li Yang ordered the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion and the sword cultivators to attack the Nine Nether Dynasty’s forces.
• Mu Zangfeng caused natural disasters inside the minor world, killing millions of mortals, and accused Li Yang of forcing his hand.
• Li Yang vowed to answer the mortals’ deaths by killing Nine Nether cultivators and urged the sword cultivators not to stop slaughtering.

Ye Zhiqiu received a combat experience pack from his system, grew stronger, and gained a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body while the battle in the Void-Slaying Realm turned against the Nine Nether Dynasty. He resolved to defeat Qin Feng and take back the women he had lost.

• Mu Zangfeng attacked the top-ranked Slaughter Ranking experts, but Tu Nine Provinces confronted him and tied him down in battle.
• The Nine Nether army began retreating as Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion helped turn the battle around.
• Ye Zhiqiu watched Qin Feng's influence on the battlefield and blamed his system for failing to make him strong enough to defeat Qin Feng.
• Ye Zhiqiu absorbed a Millennium Combat Experience Pack, killed more than a dozen Golden Core experts, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The system revealed that it had exchanged Ye Zhiqiu's life on Blue Star for the combat experience pack, and Ye Zhiqiu decided to pursue power regardless.
• Ye Zhiqiu claimed a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body, sensed the laws of the slaughter Dao, and vowed to reclaim everything from Qin Feng.

After the battle paused, Ning Xi helped Li Yang temper his body until it reached Crown Champion-level strength. They then visited the Demon-Suppressing Market, where a Nine Cauldron Merchant Association representative invited Li Yang to a private meeting and hinted that the association knew details about Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang.

• Li Yang withdrew the exhausted Sword Cultivators into the Checkpoint Grand Formation and dismissed them to recover while the war remained in a truce.
• Ning Xi brewed a body-tempering medicine from rare treasures, and Li Yang endured its painful refinement until his flesh, meridians, and bones were rebuilt.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi visited the Heavenly Origin Empress, who sought his approval of military tactics, but he left the planning to the others.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi went to the Demon-Suppressing Market to sell resources from his spoils, and Ning Xi explained how merchant-association candidates profited from the war.
• A maid invited Li Yang to meet her Nine Cauldron Merchant Association master and privately claimed the association knew about Mu Zangfeng's and Holy Son Qianyang's cultivation foundations.

Li Yang confronted Gu Luoyuan and Saintess Su Yao at the Nine Cauldrons Treasure House over their past inaction against evil fiends. He slapped Su Yao and sent Gu Luoyuan crashing through the shop, then turned to discuss Mu Zangfeng’s and Holy Son Qianyang’s secrets with the merchant association’s candidate.

• Li Yang recognized Gu Luoyuan and Saintess Su Yao leaving a neighboring room and unleashed his killing intent, frightening everyone in the Nine Cauldrons Treasure House.
• The merchant association’s candidate identified Gu Luoyuan as a Demon Scion who fought for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, while Li Yang confronted him and Su Yao about their past inaction in Myriad Phenomena City.
• Li Yang warned Su Yao not to dodge and slapped the merchant association’s candidate after she teleported in to take the blow for Su Yao.
• Li Yang slapped Su Yao into the wall and told her and Gu Luoyuan to leave, saying he would wait for them to seek revenge outside the Secret Realm.
• Li Yang struck Gu Luoyuan through the shop’s formation and part of the building, then warned him that displaying killing intent again would mean death.
• Li Yang asked the merchant association’s candidate about Mu Zangfeng’s and Holy Son Qianyang’s cultivation secrets and trump cards.

Li Yang and Ning Xi traded their spoils with Shen Yaoyin, who revealed secrets about Mu Zangfeng and gave Li Yang a weapon that could exploit Holy Son Qianyang’s weakness. After they left, Shen Yaoyin secretly arranged to sell information about Li Yang to his enemies.

• Li Yang and Ning Xi sold their spoils to Shen Yaoyin and received intelligence on Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang.
• Shen Yaoyin explained that Mu Zangfeng was trying to control the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet by using the Purple Mansion Furnace Art to consume other sword cultivators’ sword pellets.
• Shen Yaoyin told Li Yang that Holy Son Qianyang’s Qianyang emperor body could be countered by superior masculine charm and gave him a pink bead refined from a Mahayana-stage Void Immortal’s remains.
• Li Yang swore not to reveal Shen Yaoyin’s involvement, then left with Ning Xi.
• After their departure, Shen Yaoyin ordered an unseen associate to sell information about Li Yang to Holy Son Qianyang and Jiang Xingzhou.

Li Yang learned that the Heretic-Suppression Office suspected Ye Zhiqiu of being an Outer-Domain Celestial Demon empowered by a system. After discovering Ye Zhiqiu had become a powerful Nine Nether Dynasty fighter, Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion back into battle, where the two faced each other.

• Li Yang checked on the sword cultivators and found Qin Feng with his five senior sisters and a sword envoy from the Heretic-Suppression Office.
• The envoy explained that the office hunted system-bearing Outer-Domain Celestial Demons and suspected Ye Zhiqiu because of his abrupt influence, suspicious resources, and sudden arrival.
• Li Yang learned that Ye Zhiqiu had risen to sixth on the Slaughter Ranking, transformed into a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body, and joined the Nine Nether Dynasty.
• Several days later, Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion into battle and saw Ye Zhiqiu, whose power now rivaled Tu Nine Provinces and Holy Son Qianyang.
• Ye Zhiqiu looked at Li Yang and declared that Qin Feng was not the only one who had transformed.

Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion through the final campaign against the Nine Nether Dynasty, reaching Nascent Soul Great Perfection and conquering its capital. With the dynasty defeated and one month left before the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm closed, he faced Mu Zangfeng for their promised duel.

• After rebuilding and expanding the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion, Li Yang led the Heavenly Origin Dynasty's counteroffensive and became the Void-Slaying Realm's strongest cultivator.
• Li Yang killed three supreme Crown Champions and advanced to Nascent Soul Great Perfection just as the realm announced that the secret realm would close in one month and rewards would depend on the Slaughter Ranking.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress ordered the war to continue, and Li Yang's battalion broke through five defensive lines before reaching the Nine Nether Dynasty's old capital.
• The Nine Nether Emperor fled, leaving Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and Ye Zhiqiu at the capital, where Mu Zangfeng challenged Li Yang to fight inside a Sixth-Rank Trapping Formation.
• Li Yang released Ning Xi's hand, gripped the Phoenix Sword, and accepted Mu Zangfeng's challenge.

Li Yang entered the Nine Nether Imperial Capital’s trapping formation to face Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and Ye Zhiqiu, while Ning Xi worried over his chances. Tu Nine Provinces joined him, and Zi Yuan entered the formation as the battle began with Ye Zhiqiu’s hammer strike.

• Li Yang charged through the Sixth-Rank Trapping Formation to fight Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and Ye Zhiqiu alone.
• Ning Xi told Su Miao and Lu Qingqiu that Li Yang’s chances were poor but vowed not to let him die.
• Tu Nine Provinces arrived carrying the Nine Nether Emperor’s head and joined Li Yang in the fight.
• Zi Yuan entered the formation and threatened Tu Nine Provinces, who promised to avenge his murdered clan.
• Ye Zhiqiu overcame his fear and swung his hammer at Li Yang as Li Yang raised the Phoenix Sword and vowed to kill their enemies.

Li Yang confronted Mu Zangfeng, Ye Zhiqiu, and Holy Son Qianyang in the sky above the Nine Nether Imperial Capital, refusing to retreat as he endured Mu Zangfeng’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet and struck back. After Li Yang gained the upper hand against Mu Zangfeng, Qianyang and Ye Zhiqiu attacked him together.

• Li Yang blocked Ye Zhiqiu’s hammer with the Phoenix Sword, notched it, and refused to back down from the three enemies.
• Zi Yuan engaged Tu Nine Provinces to keep him from joining the attack on Li Yang.
• Mu Zangfeng unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet, filling the sky with sword light and charging Li Yang with the Ancient Bronze Sword.
• Li Yang endured the sword light’s wounds and clashed with Mu Zangfeng, knocking him backward and notching his sword.
• Li Yang accused Mu Zangfeng of stealing another’s sword dao and pressed his advantage as his wounds rapidly healed.
• Holy Son Qianyang called on Ye Zhiqiu to attack; Qianyang summoned a crushing finger while Ye Zhiqiu commanded the power of heaven and earth to immobilize Li Yang.

Li Yang and Ning Xi fought Mu Zangfeng, Ye Zhiqiu, and Holy Son Qianyang in a grueling battle, with Li Yang repeatedly targeting the weakest opponent. After Ye Zhiqiu escaped the formation, Holy Son Qianyang unleashed the Qianyang Emperor Body, but he was stunned by Li Yang and Ning Xi’s reaction.

• Li Yang broke Ye Zhiqiu’s restraint and fought through attacks from Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang, while Ye Zhiqiu used Spatial-Shift Talismans to evade him.
• Ning Xi joined Li Yang and used her own Escape Talismans to help him pursue Ye Zhiqiu, forcing the opponents into a prolonged chase.
• Li Yang wounded Ye Zhiqiu repeatedly, but Ye Zhiqiu healed himself with the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Immortal Body and eventually escaped the trapping formation with a Formation Flag.
• Ye Zhiqiu stopped to heal outside the formation as the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion attacked him, and Li Yang shifted his focus to Holy Son Qianyang.
• Holy Son Qianyang unleashed the Qianyang Emperor Body, suppressing the men around him and disrupting Tu Nine Provinces’ fight with Zi Yuan.
• Holy Son Qianyang saw Li Yang and Ning Xi withstand his power and exclaimed in disbelief.

Ning Xi defended Li Yang’s character and condemned Holy Son Qianyang, who attacked Li Yang with solar true fire. Li Yang survived the explosion and launched a reckless assault, but after Mu Zangfeng intervened, Holy Son Qianyang unleashed a nearly unavoidable killing strike at close range.

• Ning Xi told Holy Son Qianyang that Li Yang’s courage, principles, and the loyalty he inspired made him far superior, provoking Qianyang into attacking.
• Holy Son Qianyang summoned a blazing sun of solar true fire, and Ning Xi entered her necklace’s minor world to avoid the shock waves.
• Li Yang cleaved the sun apart, but Qianyang detonated it; Li Yang emerged behind him and struck him, knocking his Ancient Cauldron into him and making him spit blood.
• Li Yang pressed his attack, and Mu Zangfeng stepped in to protect Holy Son Qianyang, trading sword blows with Li Yang before being sent flying.
• Holy Son Qianyang thrust out a silent, space-piercing killing strike at close range, leaving Li Yang no time to dodge.