Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan accepted the Human Emperor's Throne after Lu Fengzong yielded his claim, and Lu Fengzong pledged the Demon Sect's allegiance before breaking through to the Sage Realm. As the allied forces prepared their battle plans, Du Shu revealed that he and Fang Xuan were members of Reach the Summit, whose leader was Tang Yan.

• Lu Fengzong left the Great Hall after the others favored Tang Yan for Human Emperor, but Tang Yan stopped him and offered him the throne.
• Tang Yan explained that the Human Emperor should serve the people, persuading Lu Fengzong to abandon his obsession and pledge the Demon Sect to Tang Yan.
• Lu Fengzong's Martial Dao shackles shattered, and he advanced to the Sage Realm as the gathering congratulated him and named Tang Yan the Flame Emperor.
• Tang Yan called for Fang Xuan to join the meeting, and Du Shu introduced him as Reach the Summit's Deputy Gang Leader and revealed Tang Yan was its leader.
• Du Shu explained how he and his fellow Reach the Summit members had come to the Spirit Wilderness Realm, joined the Demon Sect, and worked to unite it with the Famous Sects.

Fang Xuan presented the Human Clan’s strategy for surviving the Great Age, emphasizing alliances, trade, military displays, and a carefully timed defense. As Qi Yiyang negotiated with the Dragon Clan, Ao Zheng rejected the invitation to join the Human Clan’s camp.

• Lu Fengzong and Lin Jiuyuan discussed Du Shu and Tang Yan’s past, then Tang Yan asked Fang Xuan to assess the situation.
• Fang Xuan proposed winning over the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan, trading with resource-rich races, and displaying Human Clan strength to deter enemies.
• Fang Xuan explained that the Human Clan should delay activating the Shield, use Heavenly Communicators to track other races, and detonate them after securing allies; the sect leaders approved a battle plan.
• Zi Yun defeated the Dragon Lord and pressed him to support joining the Human Clan’s camp, while Ao Zheng received a request from the Human Clan to negotiate.
• Qi Yiyang urged Ao Zheng to join the Human Clan’s camp, but Ao Zheng argued that the Human Clan’s fortune had run out and rejected the proposal.

Qi Yiyang offered the Dragon Clan a chance to become one of humanity’s auspicious beasts, and an Engraving Realm Pearl showed the dragons the Human Clan’s formidable fighters. The demonstration ended with Human Emperor Tang Yan’s sword strike seeming to cut through the projection, leaving the Dragon Clan shaken as it weighed alliance against revenge.

• Qi Yiyang offered Ao Zheng a place for the Dragon Clan among humanity’s auspicious beasts and asked for a response within three days.
• Zi Yun released the Dragon Lord after the Dragon King ended his contact with the Human Clan, and the Dragon Lord reproached her for restraining him.
• The Engraving Realm Pearl arrived at the Dragon Clan and displayed the strength of Human experts including Lin Dongxue, Buddha Wuwang, Kong Baifeng, and Feng Chenye.
• The Dragon Clan watched nine Sages and twenty-two Venerables attack a skeleton identified as Human Emperor Tang Yan, who ignored them and struck toward the dragons through the projection.
• The dragons realized the sword strike was an illusion, but its speed and force left them alarmed about opposing the Human Clan.

The Dragon Clan agreed to ally with the Human Clan after seeing Tang Yan’s sword intent, while thirty-six other races prepared to invade. As the war began, Tang Yan slaughtered the Ancestral God and the forces accompanying him at Tingfeng Abyss.

• Zi Yun proposed an alliance with the Human Clan, and the Dragon Lord and the other dragons agreed after watching Tang Yan’s sword strike.
• Engraving Realm Pearls deterred many races, and the Dragon, Phoenix, Colorful Deer, Dream Tapir, and Heavenly Hou Clans joined the Human Clan’s side.
• Fang Xuan learned that thirty-six races had assembled an invading force of seventy-four Saints and 197 Heavenly Venerables under the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The Human Clan raised a barrier with eastern and western entrances, then sent its elites through hidden openings to engage the arriving invaders.
• At Tingfeng Abyss, Tang Yan fought the Ancestral God’s force, killing a God King, seven Heavenly Venerables, and finally the Ancestral God.

Tang Yan and the Human Clan’s forces used Heavenly Communicator intelligence to ambush the Other Races, while Fang Xuan secretly intercepted their communications and fed them false orders. The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God mistook the fabricated reports for victories and believed their forces were weakening the Human Clan, leaving the commanders confident as the real battle approached.

• Tang Yan reported killing two Sage Realm cultivators, seven Heavenly Venerables, and sixteen Heaven and Earth Realm cultivators, then set out for Great Wilderness Slope.
• The Other Races lost ten Saints and twenty-eight Heavenly Venerables as Human Clan fighters used their Heavenly Communicators to track and ambush them.
• Fang Xuan asked Xiang Xiaoyu to intercept the Other Races’ Heavenly Communicator signals and trained liaison officers to send false orders in the Nine-Tailed Fox’s name.
• Fang Xuan directed Human Clan elites, including Tang Yan, toward the locations named in the fabricated messages so they could attack the scattered forces.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God each heard false reports that the Human Clan was being defeated and concluded that their forces would soon overwhelm it.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God received more supposed reports of Human Clan fighters being killed and grew confident about the coming clash.

After the Human Clan exploited the Heavenly Communicators to mislead the Other Races Allied Army, the scattered forces regrouped and launched an assault on the eastern battlefield. Tang Yan halted their charge with a hundred thousand Mountain-Piercing Cannons, and the chapter ended as the allied army’s shield cracked under the bombardment.

• Blood God discovered that false intelligence had lured the Spirit Puppet Race into an ambush, then his Heavenly Communicator exploded and devastated his army.
• Nine-Tailed Fox activated the God-Summoning Order, drawing the scattered allied forces east; Fang Xuan also sent human forces to the eastern Battle Zone.
• Little Dot and Little Meatball insisted on going east, so Yan Biao carried them toward the battlefield on a flying Magic Treasure.
• Blood God joined Nine-Tailed Fox, and the leaders counted heavy allied losses before Nine-Tailed Fox ordered an attack on the human entrance.
• Tang Yan ordered a hundred thousand Mountain-Piercing Cannons to fire, and their barrage cracked the allied army’s joint Shield and began causing casualties.

The Human Clan’s Mountain-Piercing Cannons devastated the invading army but exhausted their ammunition, leaving Tang Yan and the defenders to face a much stronger enemy in battle. After the Nine-Tailed Fox trapped Tang Yan in black sludge and the Human Clan suffered mounting losses, Fang Xuan told Lin Dongxue to lure the Other Races into a forbidden zone like the Heavenly Wailing Ruins Secret Realm.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox rallied the Other Races after the Mountain-Piercing Cannons ran out of ammunition, while Tang Yan and the Human Clan launched their counterattack.
• Tang Yan assassinated enemy experts from the shadows until the Nine-Tailed Fox trapped him in a bowl of black sludge that resisted his sword and Heaven-Earth Creation Flame.
• The Human Clan suffered heavy losses over two days as the Other Races continued slaughtering its defenders.
• Lin Dongxue contacted Fang Xuan for a way to break the deadlock, and he urged her to draw the Other Races Allied Army into a forbidden zone.
• Lin Dongxue accepted Fang Xuan’s plan and said she would organize it.

Lin Dongxue began sealing the forbidden zone while Tang Yan remained trapped, but Little Dot and Little Meatball rescued him with their five-colored divine blood. Tang Yan broke free and turned the battle against the Other Races, then entered the Fate-Killing Chessboard; with Du Shu and the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable joining him, the Human Clan won.

• Lin Dongxue persuaded the five auspicious races to help raise the forbidden zone and used a pearl to begin sealing the area as the Other Races attacked.
• Little Dot and Little Meatball flew into the black mist and poured their five-colored divine blood over Tang Yan, allowing the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron to restore his body.
• Tang Yan shattered the sludge prison, killed several enemy leaders and Heavenly Venerables, and had Kong Baifeng trap the fleeing allied army behind a formation.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox invoked the Fate-Killing Chessboard, and Tang Yan entered the game after demanding that the Other Races submit to the Human Clan.
• Du Shu and the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable joined the Human Clan's side, strengthening its black dragon until it defeated the white dragon after seven days and destroyed the Other Races Allied Army.

In Peace City, Feng Chenye and Meng Yao joked about the Human Clan’s flourishing life and upcoming weddings before debating the ending of Feng Chenye’s story. The novel concluded with Old Three explaining the ending and thanking readers, while promising possible side stories.

• Feng Chenye and Meng Yao walked through Peace City and discussed Du Shu’s success, Fang Xuan’s strict management, and the upcoming weddings.
• Feng Chenye played a prank on Meng Yao with a finger snap, and she teased him about readers criticizing his story’s ending.
• Feng Chenye defended his choice to end The First Sage of Pill Dao with An Ran’s peaceful life, and Meng Yao reassured him that the ending was good.
• Old Three explained the choice to end the story through supporting characters, reflected on the novel, and thanked readers.
• Old Three invited readers to suggest side stories and wished them happiness.

Yan Biao's diary recounted his life on Clear Sky Peak, from being beaten by Master and bonding with Tang Yan to surviving a chaotic war. It ended with Yan Biao learning that Master was marrying Tang Yan and getting beaten for calling her his younger sister-in-law.

• Yan Biao recorded hunting and eating a red bird, then getting beaten by Master when she discovered it was the bird she had asked about.
• Master left on a long trip, and Yan Biao celebrated until she returned with Tang Yan, who became his friend and defended him.
• Tang Yan exposed an extortion scheme, taught the disciples alchemy, and later helped them escape Spirit Cliff Cave.
• Yan Biao grieved after hearing Tang Yan had died, then recorded that Tang Yan was alive and had become the Human Emperor.
• After the war ended, Yan Biao learned Master was marrying Tang Yan and was beaten for calling her his younger sister-in-law.