Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen, Shenji, and Jing Shou traveled to the Reincarnators’ settlement to organize an assault on the believers of the gods. After Jiang Chen discovered that the Yin God Hammer grew greatly by absorbing their blood mist, he arrived at the settlement and learned the plan to target Blood Man in Divine Spirit Valley.

• A cracked-face believer attacked Jiang Chen, Shenji, and Jing Shou with divine powers, but Jing Shou killed him, and the Yin God Hammer absorbed his blood mist.
• Jiang Chen realized the believer’s divine power had greatly strengthened the Yin God Hammer, then charged ahead and killed more than ten believers along the way.
• Jiang Chen reached the Reincarnators’ settlement and saw Elder Sun guarding a Heavenly Sacrifice formation capable of deterring even a Yin God.
• Jiang Chen greeted the Reincarnators and joked with them until Shenji pulled him away from his inquiries about their Restricted Zone expeditions.
• Shenji outlined a plan for himself, Jiang Chen, and Jing Shou to enter Divine Spirit Valley, kill and seal Blood Man, and flee if God-Servant intervened.

Jiang Chen used the protection money he collected from the Reincarnators to summon the Netherworld Army and lead them through the believers of Divine Spirit Turmoil. As the army crushed the fanatics, the Reincarnators realized Jiang Chen’s forces seemed to be corrupting the apostles in return.

• Jiang Chen explained how fighting the believers caused Spiritual Pollution, and the Reincarnators prepared to escort the three top experts through the danger.
• At the edge of the Talisman Formations, Jiang Chen asked what the offerings he had taken from the Reincarnators were for, then demanded protection money again.
• The Reincarnators handed over their valuables, and Jiang Chen used a Spiritual Essence treasure with the Yin God Hammer to summon a vast army of Netherworld Soldiers.
• Jiang Chen ordered the army to attack, and the soldiers slaughtered the believers while their sacrificial inscriptions weakened even powerful opponents.
• The Reincarnators watched in amazement and suspected that Jiang Chen was polluting the Divine Beings’ apostles in reverse.

Jiang Chen led the Reincarnators toward Divine Spirit Valley as his Yin Army slaughtered Divine Beings’ apostles, but the believers’ repeated resurrections and suicide attacks nearly wiped out his forces. When the fanatics cornered him, Jiang Chen summoned a second, more powerful Netherworld Army and ordered it to kill them.

• Jiang Chen’s Yin Army swept through a city, killing its Evil Believers before continuing toward Divine Spirit Valley.
• Resurrected believers and powerful fanatics fought back with suicidal attacks, reducing the Yin Army to fewer than one in ten of its original numbers.
• The Reincarnators urged Jiang Chen to fight, but he refused, insisting that he had taken their money and would protect them.
• Fanatics surrounded Jiang Chen and the Reincarnators after destroying the remaining Yin Army, then prepared to attack.
• Jiang Chen pointed at the believers and commanded them to die, revealing a second Netherworld Army more than twice as powerful as the first.
• The renewed army tore through the believers, leaving the Reincarnators stunned by Jiang Chen’s power.

Jiang Chen’s forces attacked Zhang Daoyi in Divine Spirit Valley, where resurrected Fanatics and a powerful ancient believer guarded the altars. Shenji and Jing Shou fought the ancient believer while Zhang Daoyi unleashed blood thunder and pressed toward Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen, Shenji, Jing Shou, and the Reincarnators surrounded Zhang Daoyi’s valley and found it filled with altars built from earth and flesh.
• Zhang Daoyi revealed that he had been the Daoist School’s Last Heir before an Old Gatekeeper crippled and expelled him, then resurrected Fanatics from the altars through his worship of the gods.
• Jiang Chen ordered an attack, and sacrificial script seized control of the Gods Apostles, turning them into black-armored fighters who joined the Yin Sha legion against Zhang Daoyi.
• An ancient believer emerged from a cracked altar, and Shenji and Jing Shou confronted him after identifying him as a remnant of a former ninth-tier Supreme Powerhouse.
• Jiang Chen challenged Zhang Daoyi to summon his god, and Zhang Daoyi answered with blood-red heavenly thunder that devastated the attacking forces before he advanced toward Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen revealed the Ninth Stage power of his Nine-Spirit Primordial Sage card and repeatedly smashed Blood Man and the ancient believer, who kept reviving beneath Divine Spirit Valley. After the ancient believer was destroyed for good, Blood Man remained undying, and Jiang Chen laughed along with its claim that it could not be killed.

• Blood Man wiped out King Chen’s Netherworld Soldiers, then attacked Jiang Chen with a powerful killing move.
• Jiang Chen activated the Nine-Spirit Primordial Sage card and struck Blood Man, destroying half its body with one palm.
• Jiang Chen repeatedly smashed Blood Man as it revived, while Blood Man recognized him as a Ninth Stage Supreme Powerhouse and demanded to know who he was.
• Shenji gave Jiang Chen a Formation Disc to seal Blood Man, and Jiang Chen destroyed Jing Shou’s Peerless Killing Array and the ancient believer with one hammer blow.
• Jiang Chen dragged Blood Man and the ancient believer out of Divine Spirit Valley and killed them repeatedly; the ancient believer finally perished when the Earth Altar exploded.
• Blood Man continued reviving and proclaimed itself imperishable, while Jiang Chen laughed and wished it a peaceful life.

Jiang Chen repeatedly killed Blood Man, weakening his revivals until he deliberately let him escape and followed him to find other supernatural beings. The Reincarnators feared Jiang Chen might turn on them, but they continued after him into a deserted city consumed by the First Round Turmoil.

• Jiang Chen killed Blood Man again and again, stripping away his strength and making each resurrection slower and weaker.
• The Reincarnators grew suspicious of Jiang Chen’s bloodlust and considered fleeing, but followed when Blood Man escaped and Jiang Chen warned them to keep up.
• Jing Shou told the Reincarnators that refusing to follow would mean certain death after Jiang Chen turned back and threatened them with a wink.
• Jiang Chen revealed through his actions that he had deliberately let Blood Man escape so he could use him to find other Weird Objects and the eighth-tier God-Servant.
• Jiang Chen and the Reincarnators reached an abandoned city emptied during the First Round Turmoil, where Jiang Chen killed Blood Man with the God-Suppressing Nail.

Jiang Chen slaughtered the Weird Objects gathered before the Restricted Zone and destroyed the corpse-python, but an incomplete ritual summoned a Yin God's incarnation. As Heaven and Earth Suppression restrained the serpent, a Great Power reached through the gateway, and Jiang Chen attacked it with his elemental abilities.

• Jiang Chen killed Blood Man and struck down the gathered Weird Objects with his sledgehammer.
• The God-Servant began an unfinished Descent Ritual, while the corpse-python repeatedly reassembled until Jiang Chen erased it with divine wind.
• A Yin God's enormous serpent incarnation appeared, trapping Jiang Chen and the Reincarnators inside its body.
• The serpent's movement drew down heavenly lightning, and Jiang Chen realized the incomplete ritual left it vulnerable to Heaven and Earth Suppression.
• The Yin God shook open the Restricted Zone gateway, allowing a Great Power's black hand to reach through.
• Jiang Chen faced the black hand and unleashed divine wind, thunder, earth, and fire against it.

Jiang Chen used the Nine-Spirit Primordial Sage’s Demon Ancestor Blood Body to shatter the demonic hand, but its severed wrist transformed into a head that summoned a vast army of terrifying creatures. As the creatures overwhelmed him, Jiang Chen revealed his Nine-Headed Lion form, devoured the demonic head, and shattered the attacking host.

• Jiang Chen’s hammer struck the demonic hand and forced it back, while sacrificial inscriptions crawled across its palm.
• Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Ancestor Blood Body and smashed the demonic hand’s palm with a full-force hammer blow.
• The severed hand transformed into a horned demonic head, which summoned more than a hundred powerful creatures to attack Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen transformed into the Nine-Headed Lion as the summoned creatures rushed him.
• The Nine-Headed Lion devoured the demonic head through the portal and shattered the remaining creatures with its nine heads.

Jiang Chen gravely wounded the servant of the Abyss Snake God and then devoured the Yin God's Incarnation, while the Reincarnators mistook him for an ancient supreme figure who had once suppressed a Forbidden existence. Torea dispersed its Incarnation to escape, leaving Jiang Chen mourning the loss of his source of Ghost Qi.

• Jiang Chen saw that he had gained a huge amount of Ghost Qi from wounding the enormous beast, though he received no death notification.
• Shenji identified Jiang Chen's Complete Demonization as a Dharma Body, and the Reincarnators concluded that King Chen was a peerless figure from the Glorious Era.
• Torea recognized Jiang Chen as the one who had polluted its tail, and Shenji identified the snake god as a Forbidden existence.
• Jiang Chen pounced on Torea's Incarnation and bit off its flesh, enraging the Abyss Snake God and earning more Ghost Qi.
• Torea attacked, but heavenly lightning destroyed half its Incarnation and prevented it from overcoming the world's rules.
• Torea dispersed its Incarnation to escape, and Jiang Chen's cries of farewell created a demonic anomaly where wandering snakes vanished.

After leaving the Reincarnators with the Earth Origin Pearl and a strengthened Yin God Puppet, Jiang Chen returned to the Nine Provinces and found evidence that several unfamiliar Eighth Tier powerhouses had fought there. He hurried toward the Underground City, alarmed by the blood of the Nine Provinces’ kings.

• Jiang Chen ended his Demon Transformation and confused the Reincarnators, who mistook him for a revered elder and promised to keep his information secret.
• Shenji and Jing Shou retrieved the Earth Origin Pearl from beneath Divine Spirit Valley, and Jiang Chen discovered it held more Spiritual Power than his previous supply and could be reused.
• Jiang Chen assessed his gains, including nearly a billion Ghost Qi, an improved Yin God Hammer, and a commander-level Yin Sha with power approaching the peak of the Eighth Tier.
• Jiang Chen returned to the Nine Provinces at dawn and found Northern Ridge devastated by a battle marked by several unfamiliar Eighth Tier auras and the blood of the Nine Provinces’ kings.
• Jiang Chen rushed toward the Underground City, fearing that multiple powerful outsiders had attacked the Nine Provinces.

Jiang Chen returned to the Underground City and learned that three eighth-tier powerhouses had ambushed Little King Chen and the Nine Provinces’ forces while targeting the King of Reincarnation. Though he agreed to let the matter go, he ordered Zhou Tai to gather information on the attackers and their families, leaving his intentions ominous.

• Jiang Chen arrived at the Underground City, where Zhou Tai explained that Little King Chen and the Nine Provinces’ forces had been badly hurt in an ambush.
• Zhou Tai recounted how the Asura Gate Sect Master, the Butcher, and another eighth-tier enemy attacked while the King of Reincarnation was targeted elsewhere.
• Jiang Chen suspected the Heavenly Dao Society had arranged the trap, but Zhou Tai urged him not to provoke its members.
• Jiang Chen agreed to let the attack go, then asked Zhou Tai to investigate the Asura Gate, the Sacred Soul Sect, the Butcher, and their surviving relatives.
• Jiang Chen’s chilling look silenced Zhou Tai, who agreed to prepare the information.

Jiang Chen led the Nine Provinces’ powerhouses and the Yin Sha Legion to the Sacred Soul Sect’s hidden stronghold, where they discovered the sect’s brutal practices and the withered arm it coveted. The legion began a silent invasion, and Jiang Chen called on Tie Zhu to steal the treasure without alerting the Supreme Powerhouse guarding it.

• Jiang Chen concluded that the King of Reincarnation had deliberately sought danger to practice his swordsmanship and had reached a bottleneck near the ninth stage.
• Jiang Chen gathered Zhou Tai, Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, Er Leng, Tang Yi, the King of Equality, the Old Celestial Master, and the Mount Tai King to attack the Sacred Soul Sect.
• Jiang Chen used the Yin Sha Legion to infiltrate the sect’s Eight Trigrams Yin Formation without raising the alarm.
• Jiang Chen saw that the Sacred Soul Sect exploited ordinary people and maintained Flesh-and-Blood Altars and impaled bodies to obtain a withered arm.
• Jiang Chen sent Yin Sha away from the island guarding the arm and told Tie Zhu to steal the treasure.

Jiang Chen showed the Sacred Soul Sect's master a video of his disciples being slaughtered, provoking him to call in the Asura Gate's master, Slaughter Saber, and their allies. Three hidden eighth-tier peak powerhouses then revealed themselves and ordered a joint attack on King Chen and the Nine Provinces, leaving the two sides on the brink of battle.

• Jiang Chen played footage showing the Sacred Soul Sect's disciples being killed across the islands, and the sect master vowed revenge.
• The Sect Master of the Asura Gate and Slaughter Saber appeared, and Slaughter Saber ordered the Sacred Soul Sect elders and Chen Ying to attack the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Ying asked to fight Zhou Tai, Er Leng, and Tang Yi, while King You questioned who would face King Chen.
• Three hidden eighth-tier peak figures emerged from beneath the sea, alarming the Nine Provinces group and prompting one to warn Sacred Soul that his sect would be exterminated if this happened again.
• The Puppeteer Sect Leader shouted at King Chen, and the three hidden figures ordered the six eighth-tier Supreme Powerhouses to attack.

Jiang Chen’s allies fought the Sacred Soul Sect and its powerful allies, while the Yin Sha commander revealed that the Sacrificial Texts made him immune to attacks governed by the Dao of Law. The commander’s advantage faded against experienced opponents, and the Sacred Soul Sect’s master began awakening the withered arm Jiang Chen had taken.

• Three Eighth Tier enemies attacked Jiang Xiao Chen while Jiang Chen faced three Eighth Tier Peaks, and the Yin Sha commander intercepted them.
• Chen Ying challenged three Seventh Tiers, but Er Leng stabbed him and escaped after being wounded by Chen Ying’s saber force.
• Jiang Xiao Chen struggled against Slaughter Saber and the Asura Gate Sect Master, while Jiang Chen repeatedly sent the Yin Sha back into battle with the Earth Origin Pearl.
• The Yin Sha commander ignored the living fossils’ Dao of Law attacks and smashed through their defenses, forcing them into close combat.
• A living fossil recovered from the commander’s axe strike as two others joined forces with a Sword Dao wielder to stop him.
• The Sacred Soul Sect’s master invoked strange syllables and awakened the withered arm in Jiang Chen’s hand.

Jiang Chen enhanced and seized control of the Netherworld Ghost Hand, then used it to defeat a Ninth Stage living fossil and drive the three living fossils into retreat. He turned his attention to Slaughter Saber, the Sect Master of the Asura Gate, the Sect Master of the Sacred Soul Sect, and the Sacred Soul Sect's elders.

• The Sect Master of the Sacred Soul Sect unleashed the Netherworld Ghost Hand and attacked Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen used white flames to sever the sect master's control and claim the hand.
• Jiang Chen enhanced the Netherworld Ghost Hand until its power surpassed the peak of the Eighth Tier, startling the three living fossils.
• A living fossil invoked Ninth Stage power and raised the Black Tortoise Ancient Formation, but the Yin Sha Commander sacrificed itself to help Jiang Chen shatter the barrier.
• Jiang Chen's Netherworld Ghost Hand struck the living fossil, leaving him gravely wounded, and the other two living fossils used their restored power to escape with him.
• Jiang Chen decided to let the living fossils flee for now and turned his gaze toward Slaughter Saber, the Sect Master of the Asura Gate, the Sect Master of the Sacred Soul Sect, and the Sacred Soul Sect's elders.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen defeated the Sacred Soul Sect and Dark Alliance forces, killing their leaders and destroying the Sacred Soul Sect’s islands. King You escaped through a hidden formation, while Jiang Chen left the islands marked with the name Chen.

• The Yin Sha Commander pinned the Sect Master of the Asura Gate and helped Jiang Xiao Chen overpower Slaughter Saber.
• Tie Zhu recognized Slaughter Saber’s weapon as stolen property, and Slaughter Saber was blasted apart and pinned to the void after trying to flee.
• The Yin Sha Commander restrained the Sect Master of the Sacred Soul Sect while the Yin Sha slaughtered his elders, then killed him.
• King You escaped as a shadow through a hidden Void Spell Formation, and Jiang Chen stopped Jiang Xiao Chen from pursuing him.
• The Yin Sha Commander killed Chen Ying and Slaughter Saber, while the Sect Master of the Asura Gate was tortured to death.
• Zhou Tai, the King of Equality, and the others evacuated the ordinary people, and the island ruins were marked with a billboard bearing “Nine Provinces” and “Chen.”

The Nine Provinces announced harsh reprisals against those who had attacked them, while three powerful figures returned to the ninth stage after claiming immortal spiritual qi aura inside Immortal Mountain Yingzhou. As the Great Sword Cultivator’s return fueled expectations of a clash with King Chen, Jiang Chen answered the criticism by threatening to charge enormous fees at the next Fierce Land, and the Reincarnators publicly backed the Nine Provinces.

• The Nine Provinces declared that anyone involved in the siege against them, along with their associates and allies, would face a reckoning, provoking fear and anger across the Unusual Person World.
• Those who emerged from Immortal Mountain Yingzhou revealed that a damaged ancient formation held three strands of immortal spiritual qi aura, which King Tang, Zhao Gujin, and Li Xuanzhen subdued.
• King Tang, Zhao Gujin, and Li Xuanzhen returned to the ninth stage, while other experts seized the formation’s tangible spiritual qi and began advancing.
• After an eighth-tier old antique mocked the Nine Provinces and invoked Li Xuanzhen’s return, Jiang Chen said the criticism had hurt him and announced enormous admission fees for the next Fierce Land.
• The Reincarnators declared support for the Nine Provinces and asked Jiang Chen to reserve some regularly priced admission slots for them.

Jiang Chen learned that Luo Li and Zhao Dayuan were robbing Old Antiques for Mortal World Bones along the River of Forgetfulness Blood River, which was gathering the souls of people killed by Restricted Zones. When the Death Book surfaced, it slaughtered several Supreme Powerhouses, and observers suspected the river was selecting an Underworld Marshal to command the gathered souls.

• Jiang Chen divided his spoils among Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Yin God Hammer, then set aside resources to extend the Nine Provinces' Trial Grounds by five years.
• News reached Jiang Chen that the River of Forgetfulness Blood River had appeared in the Polar Bear Empire, drawing powerful figures seeking Mortal World Bones.
• Er Leng reported that Luo Li and Zhao Dayuan were seizing Mortal World Bones, aided by a Ghost General that nearly killed two eighth-tier Old Antiques.
• Jiang Chen recognized Luo Li and Zhao Dayuan and wondered whether the Ghost General was an ancient figure from the Unusual Person World.
• The Blood River gathered the souls of people killed in destroyed cities, and its surging waters swallowed two King-Level experts.
• The Death Book rose from the river and killed five eighth-tier Supreme Powerhouses before the other contenders fled; an ancient observer suggested the river was choosing an Underworld Marshal to control the assembled souls.

Jiang Chen pondered the secrets behind the River of Forgetfulness Blood River and the Ancient Heavenly Court, while Jiang Xiao Chen misread Shenji’s deference to his brother as proof of a hidden ancient agreement. The chapter ended with Jiang Xiao Chen resolving to grow stronger.

• Jiang Chen examined White Jade Immortal Maiden’s leg bone and wondered whether immortals and the Ancient Heavenly Court had existed.
• Jiang Chen’s question about how the Ancient Heavenly Court disappeared triggered a terrifying warning, and he stopped thinking further.
• Jiang Chen sent Jiang Xiao Chen to beat Tie Zhu, who pretended to be hurt so it could later mislead Jiang Chen.
• Shenji addressed Jiang Xiao Chen as “Elder Jiang” before clarifying that he had come to see Jiang Chen, prompting Jiang Xiao Chen to suspect a secret connection between his brother and the ancient Reincarnators.
• Jiang Xiao Chen entered a Cultivation Room, determined to become strong enough to save the world or his brother.

In the Underground City, Shenji invited Jiang Chen to cooperate in entering the Dragon Palace, where they could claim the remains of Legendary Weird Objects and a Heavenly Sacrifice Item. As Shenji explained the Dragon Palace trap and the corruption of ancient creatures, Jiang Chen realized Tie Zhu could guide them through the palace and that human factions had helped bring down the Li Family.

• Shenji told Jiang Chen that Elder Sun could conceal the Spiritual Qi leaking from the Dragon Palace for a hundred breaths, allowing them to enter early and search its dangerous treasures.
• Shenji explained that he and the Reincarnators wanted a Heavenly Sacrifice Item brought into the Dragon Palace by an Old Hou, while promising to leave the Weird Objects’ remains to the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen realized Tie Zhu knew the Dragon Palace’s routes and could lead them to its deepest treasure, making the proposed expedition appealing to him.
• Jiang Chen asked Shenji about Legendary Weird Objects, and Shenji said they were ancient creatures that had not been tainted by Restricted Zones.
• Shenji recounted how an ancient figure had trapped and slaughtered nearly all Legendary Weird Objects to prevent their corruption, earning the hostility of Daoist lineages connected to them.
• Jiang Chen connected that history to the Li Family’s decline and realized that people, as well as Weird Objects, had played a part in it.