Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen announced he would face the organizations supporting the Forbidden Zones alone, while the kings mistook his attempts to keep them safe for a moving display of self-sacrifice. He left to carry out his plan, and the kings remained convinced he was protecting them at any cost.

• Jiang Chen paused his speech to ask Luo Li to refill his cup, prompting Ghost Qi notifications from the King of Reincarnation.
• Uncle Wei explained that Jiang Chen intended to defend the Nine Provinces alone by attacking every organization seeking to usher in the Forbidden Zones.
• The kings volunteered to accompany Jiang Chen, but he sternly forbade them from following.
• The King of the Metropolis and Sister Hong urged Jiang Chen to let them share the burden, while he turned away and told the King of Reincarnation to guard the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen left, and Tie Zhu told the kings that his father would give everything to protect the Nine Provinces.

Jiang Chen assessed his spoils, arranged to exchange unwanted treasures for Underworld Points and gather ingredients for restorative Elixirs, then left the Underground City to return to Jiangbei. With the Gods' Mausoleum nearing defeat and several threats still unresolved, he announced that he would help Tie Zhu enter the Supreme Powerhouse Realm.

• Jiang Chen reviewed the treasures he had gained, chose some as gifts, and exchanged the rest for Underworld Points and a bounty for spiritual flowers and rare herbs.
• Jiang Chen learned that his Demon Transformation had ended and his strength had settled at the peak of Nine-Step King, though he had not inherited either of the abilities he wanted.
• The kings of the Nine Provinces visited Jiang Chen before returning to their posts, and he used a class photo album and his graduation story to make them feel sorrowful.
• Jiang Chen said goodbye to Sister Hong and left the Underground City, planning to return to Jiangbei and then visit Formless City before deciding whether to go to Northern Europe or White Elephant Country.
• Jiang Chen discussed the remaining threats, including Barren Earth and the Gods' Mausoleum, whose organization was expected to fall within five to ten days without outside help.
• After Tie Zhu joked about his weakness, Jiang Chen agreed and declared that he would help his son enter the Supreme Powerhouse Realm that day.

Jiang Chen brought Tie Zhu to the Jiangbei Branch Bureau, where he planned to arrange Tie Zhu’s breakthrough in a Restricted Zone without making offerings to its Yin God. He greeted the branch’s Netherworld Messengers with a terrifying Ghost Domain that left them unharmed but terrified.

• Tie Zhu excitedly agreed to break through in a Restricted Zone after Jiang Chen promised to take him home first and then to Formless City.
• Jiang Chen resolved to find a way to protect Tie Zhu through the breakthrough without offering sacrifices to the Yin God.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu arrived at the Jiangbei Branch Bureau, where Sun Zhengwen greeted them.
• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self took the form of the Hundred-Handed Evil Sha and spread a blood-red Ghost Domain through the bureau.
• The Netherworld Messengers feared an attack until bloody hands wrote “Good morning” on them, revealing that Jiang Chen had been behind the scare.

Jiang Chen learned that No. 01 and Chen Xue had joined the Big Dipper, and reconsidered whether their opportunity to shape their own destinies was worth worrying about. He returned to Jade Garden Residential Complex as construction advanced on the Li Family’s new base.

• Jiang Chen learned that the Wake-Up Department had expanded to nearly ten cities and rewarded No. 02 with Teleportation Talismans.
• No. 02 reported that Po Jun had taken No. 01 into the Big Dipper and that Chen Xue had joined it too.
• Jiang Chen considered going to the Star-Spangled Nation, but Po Jun’s message and Chen Xue’s reassurance persuaded him to let her pursue her opportunity.
• Jiang Chen reflected that the Big Dipper might help Chen Xue control her fate during the coming upheaval, then hoped they could share drinks again when they met.
• Jiang Chen returned with Tie Zhu and Jiang Xiao Chen to Jade Garden Residential Complex, where construction was underway on the Li Family’s new base.

Jiang Chen learned that Xiaohai had gained power from a popular comic portraying him as a dream guardian, and Tie Zhu feared this could create a new god. Xiaohai’s account pointed Jiang Chen toward Old Zhang, leaving him to wonder what the mysterious man intended while he focused on growing stronger.

• Jiang Chen returned home with offerings and learned that Xiaohai had grown stronger while guarding the house.
• Xiaohai explained that a comic artist had depicted him as the Dream Guardian, and that people’s prayers had given him new strength and the ability to appear when called.
• Jiang Chen checked a top-secret report and learned that the comic artist did not exist and that the Netherworld had failed to stop the comic from spreading.
• Tie Zhu recognized the events as the possible creation of a new god, a development that could eventually rival the Mountain God and River God lineages.
• Xiaohai recalled a taped motorcycle light that led Jiang Chen to suspect Old Zhang, but the house and motorcycle they found offered no proof.
• Jiang Chen warned Xiaohai to keep the encounter secret, then took him home and resolved to pursue strength as the world’s hidden schemes advanced.

Jiang Chen and his group reached Formless City, where the Yama and Dao Alliance successors reacted nervously to his notorious reputation. After joking that they knew what he had done, Jiang Chen released a terrifying aura over them, leaving them fearing he meant to silence them.

• Jiang Chen and his group left Jiangbei City with Tie Zhu carrying sacrificial offerings and broken artifacts.
• Jiang Chen reviewed records about Formless City and concluded its sealed Yin God was probably not a forbidden Yin God.
• Jiang Chen and his group arrived at Formless City, where Su Ling and the other successors challenged the intruders.
• Jiang Chen revealed himself, and the successors recognized him and King Zhu, frightened by the rumors about Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen joked that they knew what he had done, then fixed them with a terrifying aura that made them fear for their lives.

Jiang Chen entered the Dragon Elephant Temple’s Ancestral Ground with Tie Zhu and discovered signs that a sealed Yin God was reviving by devouring Formless Zen. He chose the foot of the giant Buddha statue as the site of Tie Zhu’s breakthrough and urged him to proceed without restraint.

• Jiang Chen ordered Su Ling and the Yama Successors to open the Restricted Zone’s gate, then gave Su Ling the Supreme Powerhouse-level Blood Soul Banner.
• Jiang Chen entered the ancient city with Tie Zhu and learned that its headless Buddha statues and Formless Zen had once sealed an unkillable Yin God.
• Tie Zhu noticed that the colossal Buddha’s damaged face seemed to have regrown and warned that the Yin God beneath it was close to breaking free.
• Jiang Chen dismissed Tie Zhu’s fears and chose the base of the Buddha statue for Tie Zhu’s breakthrough.
• Tie Zhu prepared a Divine Sacrifice, and Jiang Chen rose beside the Buddha’s head and told him to break through without holding back.

Tie Zhu began his breakthrough under Jiang Chen’s watch, completing its first two stages before becoming trapped in the third trial as night fell and the Yin God’s corruption intensified. Jiang Chen confronted the terrifying manifestation and threatened to unleash the Blood River above Formless City.

• Tie Zhu began an extravagant Divine Sacrifice and broke through the first stage by manifesting alternating day and night across the Restricted Zone.
• The Yin God’s corruption made Tie Zhu want to ram the Buddha statue, but he resisted and quickly completed the second stage with the help of the Blood Spirit Fruit.
• Tie Zhu became motionless during the third tribulation as night fell, leaving Jiang Chen to wait amid the Restricted Zone’s eerie sounds.
• The Buddha statue transformed into a succession of terrifying forms, threatening Jiang Chen’s sanity and life.
• Jiang Chen tossed something out and asked whether the Yin God wanted the Blood River hanging above Formless City.

Jiang Chen used the white bone and his apparent connection to the River of Forgetfulness to intimidate the Yin God Tunxiang into retreating. He chased after Tunxiang but failed to stop him, then returned to the stone Buddha, while the author announced a hiatus due to illness.

• Jiang Chen showed Tunxiang the glowing white bone, and Tunxiang hesitated as he suspected Jiang Chen came from a place connected to it.
• Jiang Chen taunted Tunxiang and stepped beyond the bone’s protection, threatening to use his blood to summon the River of Forgetfulness and make them perish together.
• Jiang Xiao Chen concluded that Jiang Chen must have a way to withstand the Yin God and abandoned his resolve to oppose his brother.
• Tunxiang decided the risk was not worth taking and withdrew, causing the darkness and the stone Buddha’s face to return to their former state.
• Jiang Chen chased Tunxiang for eighty li, failed to catch him, and returned to the stone Buddha, where he lit a cigarette and lamented that Tunxiang had left.
• The author announced that the novel would go on hiatus for roughly half a month to a month while the author recovered from illness.

Tie Zhu’s breakthrough altered the Restricted Zone, prompting Jiang Chen to help Jiang Xiao Chen break through as well. While the two advanced, Jiang Chen spent one hundred million Ghost Qi to enhance his unstable Death-Curse Yin God Hammer, and a mysterious transformation began.

• Tie Zhu’s breakthrough caused the Restricted Zone’s vegetation and time to shift, and Jiang Chen realized the world’s rules had become more solid.
• Jiang Chen wondered about Tie Zhu’s hidden origins, then gave Jiang Xiao Chen sacrificial offerings so he could break through alongside Tie Zhu.
• Jiang Xiao Chen began manifesting powerful figures from his past, including the deceased Master of the Artifact Gate, as his body cracked under the strain of his ambitious breakthrough.
• Jiang Chen guarded the two during their breakthroughs, then chose to enhance the Death-Curse Yin God Hammer despite the cost of one hundred million Ghost Qi.
• The enhancement consumed the Ghost Qi and offerings, freezing the Restricted Zone’s winds as fiery red light and mysterious golden Ancient Characters appeared around Jiang Chen’s hands.

Tie Zhu's breakthrough triggered an unexpected Dragon Transformation tribulation as Formless City's restrictions sealed the zone, trapping King Chen and others inside. The King of Reincarnation failed to break the formation, while the Unusual Person World turned its attention to ancient sects returning and recruiting disciples.

• A mysterious figure activated ancient talismans around Formless City, channeling vast spiritual essence into the restricted zone.
• The spiritual essence disrupted Tie Zhu's breakthrough and forced him into a Dragon Transformation tribulation before he was ready.
• Su Ling discovered that Formless City's entrance had sealed, and the King of Reincarnation and formation experts concluded the zone had become a dead formation.
• The King of Reincarnation failed to breach the gateway and ordered the others to prepare for the coming calamity; Su Ling and other allies later visited the sealed entrance without finding a way in.
• News spread that King Chen, the Iron-Blooded Flood Dragon King, and Little King Chen were trapped, but ancient sects returning to the world soon drew widespread attention as they recruited disciples based on talent.

Zhou Tai restored the Mountain God Lineage and became a Supreme Powerhouse, but the King of Reincarnation and Zhou Tai were badly injured fighting the returning Asura Gate and Sacred Soul Sect. As unrest spread through the Restricted Zones and six cities fell to contamination, the Unusual Person World grew stronger while its factions focused on their own gains rather than confronting the horrors.

• The King of Reincarnation announced the Mountain God Lineage’s return, and Zhou Tai performed an ancient rite that awakened the mountains and rivers to destroy Weird Objects and attack threats.
• Zhou Tai inherited the treasury of the vanished River Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage, became a Supreme Powerhouse, and was recognized as a new guardian of the Nine Provinces.
• The Asura Gate and Sacred Soul Sect returned, and after the Nine Provinces threatened to purge their members, Great Asura and the Sacred Soul Sect’s master challenged the King of Reincarnation.
• The King of Reincarnation and Zhou Tai fought the two sect leaders, then withdrew to the Underground City with serious injuries, weakening the King of Reincarnation’s reputation and prompting some Unusual Persons to join the evil sects.
• Reincarnators and ancient sects pursued Pseudo-Restricted Zones and Sacrificial Offerings as the first wave of Restricted Zone unrest contaminated six cities around the SSS-Class-3 Sage Domain.
• The chapter established that the strongest emerging Sacred Spirit had sixth-tier Supreme Powerhouse strength, while even Li Xuanzhen had displayed only fifth-tier combat power.

The Supreme Powerhouses formed the Dharma-Ending Era God-Slaying Pact to find and destroy the God-Making Medical Academy’s manufactured god, but their search stalled as the next Restricted Zone upheaval approached. In the East Sea, the Mystery Sect Inheritor Tang Yi was badly injured by a powerful Drought Demon, revealing another threat amid the uneasy alliance.

• The Martial Sect elder and Yama King helped the Saints Organization remnants destroy the inverted Headless Holy Spirit and wound the Six-Pattern Holy Spirit, while the Yama King reached the peak of Nine-Step King.
• Big Dipper slaughtered the Spectral Angels in SSS-Class-6 Heaven, while the Gods' Mausoleum and Barren Earth brought escalating disasters, including the God-Making Medical Academy’s attempt to create a Yin God.
• Led by the King of Reincarnation, the Supreme Powerhouses agreed to the Dharma-Ending Era God-Slaying Pact and began searching for the academy’s elusive fleet, as the Asura Gate and Sacred Soul Sect planted false trails.
• The Mystery Sect Inheritor Tang Yi was injured by a Drought Demon in the East Sea, and those who arrived found a vast dried-out pit and learned the creature had reached a formidable level of power.

Tang Yi faced accusations from Lü Qiu and his grandson Lü Qing, while other Old Antiques used the dispute to challenge the Nine Provinces. The King of Reincarnation intervened, escorted Tang Yi and Zhou Tai away, and warned the assembled powers that the Nine Provinces was a God-Burial Ground.

• Lü Qiu accused Tang Yi of hiding Ba's strength after Ba ambushed him, and Lü Qing insulted her as other Old Antiques criticized her and the Nine Provinces.
• Tang Yi moved to strike Lü Qing, but Lü Qiu destroyed her green hand and the surrounding powers urged her to apologize.
• The King of Reincarnation appeared, struck Lü Qing into the sea, and held a sword to Lü Qiu's neck while claiming he had granted Lü Qing's request for a slap.
• The King of Reincarnation dismissed the accusations with jokes, then left with Tang Yi and Zhou Tai as the Old Antiques watched them go.
• The King of Reincarnation warned that the Nine Provinces was a God-Burial Ground and challenged anyone unwilling to fight the god to tear up the pact, leaving the Old Antiques shaken.

As the God-Slaying Pact held the Ancient Sects back from attacking the Netherworld, a mysterious young man drove off the Yin God's left hand and led the search to Xu Fu's Fleet. Shenji concluded that Xu Fu was using his disciples to complete the Yin Embryo and seize control of a Yin God, prompting the gathered powerhouses to act before it was born.

• The Ancient Sects agreed to uphold the God-Slaying Pact, while their followers urged them to kill the King of Reincarnation and return to the Nine Provinces.
• Jing Shou was ambushed by an attacker whose strange left hand could pierce a fifth-tier Supreme Powerhouse's defenses, and an Old Antique was killed and dragged away.
• A young man carrying a Three-Legged Ancient Bronze Ding defeated the Yin God's left hand and said it would not return during the encirclement.
• The young man found the God-Making Medical Academy's Fleet and a Sea Within the Sea filled with the corpses of Xu Fu's Three Thousand Disciples.
• Shenji reasoned that Xu Fu had put his disciples into the nearly completed Yin Embryo to become the master of a Yin God, and the powerhouses set out to stop him.

Supreme Powerhouses ambushed Xu Fu’s fleet as it carried the Yin God fetal body through the deep sea. A recovered Yin God youth and a mysterious man with the bronze cauldron joined the battle, while the fleet fled and the remaining fighters clashed.

• A three-legged bronze cauldron struck Xu Fu’s fleet, damaging its formations and driving the ships into an underwater cliff.
• Lin Xiao and the Supreme Powerhouses surrounded the fleet, and Shenji identified its weakness and led the attack.
• A young man with two restored hands and a Yin God’s heart repelled two Supreme Powerhouses, forcing one to sever his arm.
• A mysterious man wielding the bronze cauldron pressed down on the Yin God youth with mountains of seawater as Xu Fu steered the fleet away.
• Young Ba fought the Masters of the Movement Gate and Talisman Gate, while the King of Reincarnation faced the corrupted Vajra Arhat.

The Supreme Powerhouses defeated the Yin Embryo and drove off or killed its defenders, though Xu Fu and the Lord of the Hospital Ward remained at large. On the way home, the King of Reincarnation warned his companions not to pursue Xu Fu and turned his attention to Formless City and King Wei Wu.

• The Supreme Powerhouses killed the Weird Objects and their allies, while the Yin God youth and Ba escaped and the Blood Man proved to be an incarnation.
• The Supreme Powerhouses shattered the Yin Embryo, and two kings escaped aboard a nearby ship using an ancient formation.
• Shenji wondered whether the Weird Objects had used the battle to conceal the removal of something from the Yin Nest, then left without sharing his suspicion.
• The King of Reincarnation, Zhou Tai, and Tang Yi discussed Xu Fu's apparent trap, but the King of Reincarnation told them not to bother pursuing him.
• The King of Reincarnation learned that Formless City had become more tightly sealed and that King Wei Wu had returned from the Fengdu Forbidden Domain and entered seclusion.
• The King of Reincarnation predicted that King Wei Wu would become another Supreme Powerhouse and led the group back to stand guard.

King Wei Wu’s rise and the recovery of the Yin God and Blood Man brought fresh upheaval to the Unusual Person World, while Penglai proved deadly to nearly everyone who entered. As disappearances spread and turmoil loomed, the King of Reincarnation discovered a new danger growing near Formless City: a miraculous grove that might be the Peach Garden or Wuzhuang Temple.

• King Wei Wu entered the Supreme Powerhouse Realm with mastery of the Great Daos of life and death, earning renown as a rare dual-Dao powerhouse.
• The Yin God recovered a fourth body part in the Kuril Islands despite Zhou Tai, Jing Shou, the Young Sect Master of the Formation Gate, and a mysterious figure trying to stop him, and Black Mist turned the islands into a sinister realm.
• Ancient Sects entered Penglai after learning it had once been an immortal mountain, but every contemporary Unusual Person who went inside died, while only a few Old Antique sect leaders survived.
• A Blood Man connected to the Gods' Mausoleum attacked a Reincarnator settlement and formed an altar from flesh and earth, then met resistance from an Ancient Sect using a formation left by the early peoples.
• As disappearances spread and Yin Qi thickened around the Restricted Zones, the King of Reincarnation ordered his forces back to the Underground City and sent King Realm fighters to defend the borders.
• The King of Reincarnation went to Formless City and saw nearby trees and plants growing at an astonishing rate, then wondered whether the place was the Peach Garden or Wuzhuang Temple.

The King of Reincarnation recognized a newly emerged Fierce Land as the Peach Garden, while eerie signs around Penglai and reports of Dark Alliance blood sacrifices deepened the Unusual Person World's fears. When a terrifying Penglai Immortal Slave emerged and spread a bloody calamity, an ailing old man stopped it and ordered it back.

• The King of Reincarnation identified the expanding Fierce Land as the Peach Garden after a Dragon Jiao Vine wounded him, then left hoping its inhabitants would respect their ties to the Ancestral Ground.
• Blood-red seas and fiery clouds appeared around Penglai Immortal Island, alarming Old Antiques who feared a recurrence of an ancient disaster.
• A Dark Alliance disciple accused the alliance of luring Unusual Persons into becoming blood sacrifices, and a young pill refiner helped him spread the news.
• At midnight, a being emerged from Penglai and spread a bloody hue that mutated creatures and threatened the world.
• An ailing old man halted the calamity by calling the being the Penglai Immortal Slave and ordering it to return, while indistinct figures watched from the sea.

The Heavenly Dao Society forced the ancient being at Penglai back inside, and Zhou Tai and the King of Reincarnation explained the group’s purpose and the Heavenly Dao’s gradual decline. As everyone faced the looming Disorder of the Ultimate Number, a surge of spiritual energy announced that a blessed land had emerged in the Nine Provinces, drawing the attention of powerful outsiders.

• Supreme Powerhouses felt a terrifying pressure vanish, while Jiang Lao and other senior figures left without explaining what had happened.
• Yama King revealed that he had glimpsed a path to the Void Dao and could force a breakthrough using a Great Power-level Mortal World Bone from Jiang Lao.
• Tang Yi named the Heavenly Dao Society as the faction that had driven the ancient being back into Penglai, and Zhou Tai described its long history of guarding the Dao.
• Zhou Tai said the Heavenly Dao was dying because its laws had been collapsing since the distant Glorious Great Era, and the King of Reincarnation warned everyone not to count on the Heavenly Dao Society to save humanity.
• A surge of spiritual energy spread across the Nine Provinces, and powerful outsiders recognized that a blessed land had emerged and turned their attention toward it.