Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen unleashed the Immortal’s Finger and grievously wounded Xiao Changzai, the Master of the Artifact Gate, after revealing the weapon as his trump card. Though Jiang Chen was left near death and Xiao Changzai began to regenerate, Jiang Chen ordered his four companions to kill every remaining Artifact Gate disciple.

• Xiao Changzai attacked Jiang Chen with the Hundred-Weapons Tide, while other Supreme Powerhouses discussed whether Jiang Chen had a chance to survive.
• Jiang Chen revealed the Immortal’s Finger and released a devastating sword attack that shattered Xiao Changzai’s defenses and blasted him underground.
• The Supreme Powerhouses identified the weapon as one of the Six Sword Steles Suppressing the Abyss, and the Artifact Gate disciples rushed to find their Ancestor.
• Jiang Chen collapsed, aged and barely breathing, while Xiao Changzai’s scattered flesh began to gather and regenerate.
• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu, Second, Uncle Wei, and Er Leng to kill every Artifact Gate disciple and bury them at the Thousand-Li Lonely Grave.

Jiang Chen defied the ancient powerhouses who tried to stop him from taking revenge on the Artifact Gate, and ordered his allies to keep killing its disciples. The powerhouses halted before him, unwilling to test his threat, while the slaughter continued behind him.

• Ancient powerhouses warned Jiang Chen that killing Artifact Gate disciples could drive Xiao Changzai into a rampage and bring disaster to the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen mocked the powerhouses for threatening him while refusing to attack a gravely wounded King-Level fighter.
• Tie Zhu, the Evil Self, Er Leng, and Uncle Wei began slaughtering Artifact Gate disciples and kings.
• As ancient powerhouses pressured them to stop, Jiang Chen rose with the Yin God Hammer and ordered his allies to keep killing.
• Jing Shou explained that the ancient powerhouses were unwilling to risk their lives without a major blood feud, and they stopped more than thirty meters from Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen and his allies crushed the Artifact Gate members beneath a hill of ominous tomb soil, then prepared to leave as the Blood River approached. Uncle Wei considered staying to eliminate the Master of the Artifact Gate, but Jiang Chen reassured him and teased him about challenging the King of Reincarnation.

• Jiang Chen told his allies to wound the Artifact Gate members and herd them together, and Tie Zhu broke their defenses.
• The River Earl raised a hill of ominous tomb soil and crushed the wounded Artifact Gate members beneath it.
• The Blood River arrived, and Tie Zhu carried the weakened Jiang Chen away while the Master of the Artifact Gate began regenerating from scraps.
• Uncle Wei considered staying to lure a twelve-pupiled horror and eliminate the Master of the Artifact Gate, but Jiang Chen told him the King of Reincarnation had become a Supreme Powerhouse.
• Jiang Chen joked that Uncle Wei planned to take Reincarnation's position, and Er Leng wrote the supposed plot in his notebook.

Jiang Chen and his companions boarded the River of Forgetfulness Blood River as the Master of the Artifact Gate hurried to catch up. The river escaped into the void just before Xiao Changzai reached it, forcing him to burn precious Sacrificial Offerings to pursue it.

• Jiang Chen recalled the power of the World-Suppressing Sword and discussed helping King Wei Wu seize power with Evil Sha, Er Leng, and Tie Zhu.
• The River of Forgetfulness Blood River arrived, and Jiang Chen's group boarded while the Master of the Artifact Gate tried to rebuild his body and aura.
• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu he had backing below, then fled with Evil Self and Er Leng when Xiao Changzai approached, leaving Tie Zhu to chase after them.
• Xiao Changzai caught up with the Blood River near the edge of the Restricted Zone, furious over his disciples' deaths and intent on killing the Master of the Artifact Gate.
• The Blood River suddenly accelerated into the void, and Xiao Changzai burned valuable Sacrificial Offerings to protect himself as he pursued it.

Jiang Chen was blasted out of the River of Forgetfulness Blood River with a bone lodged in his chest, prompting the gathered powerhouses to doubt his connection to the river and plot against him. He then ordered Tie Zhu to use the Jiang family's Ancestral Treasure against the Master of the Artifact Gate, and Tie Zhu reluctantly prepared to act.

• Tie Zhu boasted about the Jiang family's connections, while Uncle Wei and the Evil Self realized that Tie Zhu's pursuers were after him for pleasure.
• Jiang Chen entered the River of Forgetfulness Blood River to retrieve Mortal World Bone but was blasted back out with a white jade leg bone embedded in his chest.
• The powerhouses concluded that Jiang Chen could not safely enter the river at will and discussed confronting him and the Supreme Powerhouse from the Mortal World later.
• Jiang Chen blamed the river for striking him, then decided to vent his anger on the pursuing Master of the Artifact Gate.
• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu to make the Master of the Artifact Gate witness the Jiang family's Ancestral Treasure, and Tie Zhu declared that he would show the might of a raging True Dragon.

Tie Zhu and Jiang Chen’s Evil Self attacked Xiao Changzai as he struggled through the Blood River, leaving him wounded and humiliating him with yellow water. Xiao Changzai threatened Jiang Chen’s family and vowed to kill him once he left the Restricted Zone.

• Tie Zhu drenched Xiao Changzai with dragon fluid, but Xiao Changzai blocked it while contending with the dangers around him.
• Jiang Chen fed elixirs to the Evil Self and gave it the Immortal's Finger, which it used to strike Xiao Changzai.
• Xiao Changzai burned a Divine Sacrifice Item to block the attack, but the Immortal's Finger still punched a hole through his chest.
• Tie Zhu and the Evil Self coordinated to pour yellow water over Xiao Changzai, freezing the spectators in shock.
• Jiang Chen played off the humiliation as a child’s mischief, while Xiao Changzai threatened his family and vowed to kill him after he left the Restricted Zone.

Jiang Chen and the others emerged from the Restricted Zone, where the King of Equality greeted them and learned that several had reached the Ninth Step. Jiang Chen introduced his Evil Self, Jiang Xiao Chen, as his brother and a new worker in the Nine Provinces, and the King of Equality welcomed him.

• Jiang Chen taunted the Master of the Artifact Gate as the Blood River shook and carried the group out of the Restricted Zone.
• High-Rank Kings hurried away, while the King of Equality welcomed Jiang Chen and King Wei Wu and was astonished to find three Ninth-Step Kings among them.
• Jiang Chen introduced Tie Zhu and joked that the dragon was a formidable son, then pushed Uncle Wei forward as a candidate for Nine Provinces' Top Leader.
• The King of Equality grew alarmed when Uncle Wei identified Jiang Xiao Chen as Jiang Chen's Evil Self, but Jiang Chen explained that he was his brother and would work in the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Xiao Chen introduced himself as a good person, and the King of Equality shook his hand and welcomed him to the Nine Provinces.

The King of Equality told Jiang Chen that the ten-star sun-executing aspect had triggered turmoil across the Nine Provinces and forced heaven and earth into a brief return to the Dao Decline Era. Jiang Chen realized Supreme Powerhouses could now use their full strength in the Mortal World, and Tie Zhu panicked as Xiao Changzai neared the exit.

• The King of Equality explained that Yuan Tiansuan had warned the King of Reincarnation that the ten-star sun-executing aspect signaled the start of a great upheaval.
• The King of Reincarnation sent forces to guard the Nine Provinces' Restricted Zones, but several zones across other regions suffered breaches and released dangerous beings.
• The widespread rise in Yin Qi caused ghosts, natural disasters, and continental shifts until the Heavenly Dao strengthened the world's rules at the cost of its lifespan.
• Jiang Chen realized that Supreme Powerhouses could now use their strength in the Mortal World, and Tie Zhu feared the King of Reincarnation would pursue them.
• Tie Zhu urged Jiang Chen to flee as Xiao Changzai began emerging from the sealed Restricted Zone.

Jiang Chen hesitated as the Master of the Artifact Gate, Xiao Changzai, unleashed Heavenly Flame and threatened the Nine Provinces. The King of Reincarnation intervened and fought Xiao Changzai, leaving the other Supreme Powerhouses to wonder whether the newly ascended fighter could defeat an elder.

• Jiang Chen counted the Supreme Powerhouses and worried about how difficult his situation would be, while Tie Zhu urged him to flee and seek Reincarnation's help.
• Xiao Changzai emerged with Heavenly Flame, declared that Supreme Powerhouses were no longer restricted from acting, and set the surroundings ablaze.
• Jiang Chen rebuked Xiao Changzai for endangering innocent people, and Xiao Changzai attacked him with a barrage of flaming weapons.
• The King of Reincarnation arrived, cut through Xiao Changzai's attack, and struck him hard enough to crack his arms.
• The King of Reincarnation announced his name and swung another sword strike, while Jiang Chen told the King of Equality that Reincarnation could handle the fight.

The King of Reincarnation defeated Xiao Changzai with a sword strike that copied his spear technique, but Xiao remained determined to kill someone and sent the King of Equality toward the Fengdu Forbidden Domain. Jiang Chen refused to abandon his allies, and the Master of the Artifact Gate offered to forge or improve a Supreme Weapon for anyone who helped, drawing Blade Maniac Lin Xiao into the fight.

• The King of Reincarnation fought Xiao Changzai while using only his swordsmanship and ghostlike footwork, then mocked Xiao for repeatedly asking who he was.
• The King of Reincarnation used Xiao Changzai's spear technique in a sword thrust and pierced Xiao's chest, despite Xiao powering up Heavenly Flame with his blood essence.
• Xiao Changzai seized the King of Reincarnation's sword, admitted his strength had been depleted over the centuries, and told the King of Equality to go to the Fengdu Forbidden Domain.
• Jiang Chen declared that the sons of the Nine Provinces would stand together rather than retreat, though the watching Old Antiques did not join them.
• The Master of the Artifact Gate promised to forge or improve a Supreme Weapon for anyone who helped him hold off the King of Reincarnation, and Blade Maniac Lin Xiao stepped forward.

Lin Xiao and the King of Reincarnation fought to a standstill while the King of Reincarnation cut down the Master of the Artifact Gate, who later recovered. The Master of the Artifact Gate recruited allies against the King, and Jiang Chen provoked the Master of the Movement Gate as he joined the fight.

• Lin Xiao and the King of Reincarnation exchanged dozens of blows, devastating the surrounding battlefield.
• The Master of the Artifact Gate confronted Jiang Chen, but the King of Reincarnation split him apart with a sword strike; Xiao Changzai reformed and recovered some of his strength.
• The Master of the Artifact Gate offered Supreme Weapons to anyone who would help Lin Xiao hold off the King of Reincarnation, and the Master of the Talisman Gate briefly attacked before withdrawing at a warning.
• Lü Qiu, the Master of the Movement Gate, entered the battle with a hundred phantom images and a range of attacks.
• Jiang Chen taunted Lü Qiu by threatening to chop up his grandson, startling the onlookers.

The King of Reincarnation unleashed the Reincarnation Sword Formation to hold back the Master of the Artifact Gate, Lin Xiao, and Lü Qiu, but the effort left him unable to attack. The Master of the Artifact Gate offered Heavenly Sorrow as a reward for killing Jiang Chen and his four Kings, and one concealed powerhouse stepped forward.

• The King of Reincarnation activated the Reincarnation Sword Formation, manifesting sword intents and techniques from across history and trapping the three Supreme Powerhouses.
• Lin Xiao and Lü Qiu realized the King of Reincarnation had exhausted himself sustaining the formation and could not control its swords to attack.
• The King of Reincarnation lit a cigarette and glanced at Jiang Chen, signaling that he had done all he could to help.
• The Master of the Artifact Gate offered the Supreme Weapon Heavenly Sorrow to anyone who killed Jiang Chen and his four Kings.
• A concealed powerhouse stepped forward to claim the reward, and the King of Reincarnation threw away his cigarette and gripped his sword.

Jiang Chen’s group faced a deadly formation, but the King of Reincarnation pinned its Supreme Powerhouse controller with a sword drawn from the river of time. As the King weakened, Li Xuanzhen revealed himself and overpowered his sword intent, only for an unseen speaker to challenge the Great Sword Cultivator.

• A blurred Supreme Powerhouse deployed the Luo Tian Blood Hands formation against Jiang Chen and his four companions, leaving them trapped under its crushing pressure.
• The King of Reincarnation struck the formation’s controller with a strand of sword intent, pinned him to the ground, and forced him to stop threatening the Nine Provinces.
• Li Xuanzhen stepped forward, caught the King of Reincarnation’s sword intent between two fingers, and entered the Reincarnation Sword Domain with his spirit sword knocking aside its attacks.
• Li Xuanzhen declared that he would take the King of Reincarnation’s life and sword, while the weakened King continued to bleed.
• An unidentified voice behind Li Xuanzhen asked whether a Great Sword Cultivator had ever had his sword broken.

Jiang Chen underwent Demon Transformation and challenged Li Xuanzhen, revealing strength and a divine weapon that made the Sword Cultivator use his strongest attacks. The chapter ended as Jiang Chen swung the Huntian Staff against Li Xuanzhen’s two advancing sword strikes.

• Jiang Chen transformed, gaining the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, the Ancient Blood-Burning Method, the Chaos God-Demon Body (false), and the Huntian Staff.
• Li Xuanzhen broke free of Jiang Chen’s attempt to stir his inner demons and demanded to know who he was.
• Jiang Chen named himself the Chaos Divine Bull King serving under King Wei Wu and challenged Li Xuanzhen to prove his sword had never been broken.
• Li Xuanzhen attacked with a giant sword strike as the King of Reincarnation and the other spectators withdrew from the battlefield.
• Jiang Chen grew to several thousand zhang and burned his blood to enhance his power, prompting Li Xuanzhen to release a sword stone containing a strike from his peak.
• Jiang Chen swung the Huntian Staff at Li Xuanzhen’s two sword strikes.

Jiang Chen overwhelmed Li Xuanzhen with the Huntian Staff, forcing the great Sword Cultivator to stake his life on his Dao Sword. Jiang Chen endured the attack, seized Li Xuanzhen’s spirit sword, and snapped it in two.

• The Master of the Talisman Gate raised a vast talisman formation and announced that the Talisman Gate would no longer enter the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen shattered Li Xuanzhen’s two pinnacle Sword Intents, recovered his strength by absorbing spiritual qi, and attacked again with the Huntian Staff.
• Jiang Chen broke through Li Xuanzhen’s many defensive treasures and sealed the surrounding area, preventing him from escaping.
• Li Xuanzhen sacrificed his Dao of Law to unleash his Dao Sword, wounding Jiang Chen with a storm of Sword Qi.
• Jiang Chen advanced through the sword storm as his body transformed under a hazy gray power, then seized Li Xuanzhen’s spirit sword and broke it in two.

Jiang Chen shattered Li Xuanzhen’s sword and nearly killed him, but the Land Temple rescued the wounded Sword Cultivator through an underground escape technique. After chasing down fleeing Supreme Powerhouses, Jiang Chen returned with the Master of the Artifact Gate dead, while the King of Reincarnation worked to secure goodwill from the remaining forces.

• Jiang Chen broke Li Xuanzhen’s Dao sword with his bare hands, stunning the watching experts and Reincarnators.
• Jiang Chen battered Li Xuanzhen and struck him with the Yin God Hammer, but the Land Temple seized Li Xuanzhen and escaped underground.
• Jiang Chen pursued the escapees through the earth, recognized the Land Temple’s technique, and threatened to visit the local land deity.
• Jiang Chen created a Dharma Body Outside the Body and sent both bodies after the fleeing Supreme Powerhouses, while the King of Reincarnation courted the remaining Old Antiques.
• Jiang Chen returned carrying the dead Master of the Artifact Gate and items taken from another Supreme Powerhouse he had killed.

Jiang Chen killed the Master of the Artifact Gate, and the Yin God Hammer became eligible for enhancement. At the new headquarters outside Fengdu, the King of Reincarnation reported the losses and threats facing the Nine Provinces as the upheaval spread.

• Jiang Chen hammered the Master of the Artifact Gate to death, and the Yin God Hammer absorbed his remains and became eligible for enhancement.
• Jiang Chen and the kings hurried to the Fengdu Forbidden Domain, where the King of Reincarnation announced that the Underground City had fallen and moved the headquarters outside the Forbidden Zone.
• The King of Reincarnation explained that the Yin God's heart and right hand had escaped after destroying the Yuan Family's seal, and Yuan Tiansuan took over as family head.
• The King of Reincarnation reported that a God Envoy and Blood Man had revived the Old God Sect and forced the Gods Organization to abandon half its territory.
• The King of Reincarnation said Xu Fu and the master of the Hospital Ward had established a God-Making Medical Academy at sea after Barren Earth's defenses fell, capturing people to create monsters.

The King of Reincarnation told Jiang Chen how the upheaval had unfolded across the other Forbidden Zones and how powerful allies had intervened. As he described the choices facing the Nine Provinces, Jiang Chen noticed a terrifying power within Luo Li and began to suspect the King of Reincarnation’s long-standing secret.

• The King of Reincarnation explained that the Tribunal had attacked the Church after Heaven fell, but the Big Dipper helped the Church hold the Original Church Hall.
• He told Jiang Chen that the Saints Organization escaped the Sage Domain’s control and that the Yama King went with Jiang Lao to resist the Holy Slave.
• The King of Reincarnation described how he stopped the Yuan Family’s Yin God calamity and how an awakened Martial Gate senior halted the Asura Gate’s attack.
• He praised Luo Li as the one most favored by fortune, prompting Jiang Chen to use the Heavenly Eye and sense her terrifying power.
• Jiang Chen recalled rumors about the King of Reincarnation and the little girls who had accompanied him for centuries, while the King of Reincarnation turned the meeting to the Blood-Colored City.

Jiang Chen recounted his survival in the Restricted Zone, mixing impassioned claims about inspiring its oppressed inhabitants with tales of looting and hard-won intelligence. He left the Nine Provinces’ leaders stirred by his account and better informed about the dangers within the Restricted Zone.

• After the King of Reincarnation asked about his experiences, Jiang Chen claimed he and King Wei Wu had fought for the Nine Provinces and that he had barely escaped the Restricted Zone while gravely wounded.
• Jiang Chen said he had shared the Nine Provinces’ ideas with oppressed evil sha and led them in resisting, but a vastly powerful monster had crushed their efforts.
• The King of Reincarnation interrupted Jiang Chen’s rousing speech and urged him to focus on what had happened to him.
• Jiang Chen described robbing evil sha, Reincarnators, and ancient kings, as well as raiding sinister tombs and stealing from the dead.
• Jiang Chen used his stories to warn the leaders that a powerful monster hunted Outsiders in the Blood-Colored Building Region and that entering the Grave Region without a Supreme Powerhouse’s protection was nearly certain death.

Jiang Chen recounted the dangers and survivors of the Restricted Zone, prompting the Nine Provinces leaders to debate how to respond to the Disorder of the Ultimate Number. Unable to agree on a strategy, they asked Jiang Chen for his view, and he proposed defending their home while attacking their enemies.

• Jiang Chen's account of Tie Zhu humiliating Xiao Changzai shocked the gathering, while Tie Zhu basked in the praise and Jiang Chen shared the videos.
• Jiang Chen warned the leaders about Young Ba, a Living Dead sent by Xu Fu and the Lord of the Hospital Ward, Dark Alliance Kings, King You, and other powerful survivors who had left the Restricted Zone.
• The leaders debated the uncertain motives of the Fierce Lands and the threats posed by the Forbidden Zones, but they could not settle on a course of action.
• The King of Reincarnation asked Jiang Chen for his honest opinion, and Jiang Chen proposed that they guard the interior while he attacked their enemies.