Chapter Summaries

Shenji explained the Great Power and Dao Master realms to Jiang Chen, including how their strength compared with Yin Gods and Forbiddens. He recounted legends of the Sword Master and Martial Lord, while Jiang Chen remained curious about whether any Dao Masters still lived.

• Jiang Chen agreed to Shenji’s plan, and Shenji warned him that the Fierce Land might attract many visitors because it held Great Power-level remains.
• Shenji explained that Great Powers followed the Dao and could sacrifice themselves to grievously wound Yin Gods, while Dao Masters could fight them without that sacrifice.
• Shenji said three Dao Masters could erase a Forbidden by sacrificing themselves and described the Sword Master as the strongest Dao Master of the Dao Prosperity Era.
• Jiang Chen asked whether any top Dao Masters had survived, and Shenji admitted he did not know.
• Shenji recounted the Sword Master’s challenge to a Forbidden and the Martial Lord’s failed attempt to perfect his Martial Arts before vanishing as a ragged old beggar.

Jiang Chen organized a scheme to plant forged inscriptions and maps throughout the Dragon Palace, intending to lure the Weird Objects that would be drawn to the remains of a Great Power. As the group prepared for the Dragon Palace’s opening, Jiang Chen revealed that Blood Man had survived and could return from the Restricted Zone.

• Jiang Chen questioned Shenji about ancient history, then arranged to meet him on the Sea at nine that evening.
• Jiang Chen gathered Tie Zhu, Jiang Xiao Chen, Zhou Tai, and Er Leng to prepare for the operation, while each misread the others’ tense behavior.
• Jiang Chen assigned Tie Zhu a central role, gave Jiang Xiao Chen a support role, and tasked Er Leng with aging and carving forged inscriptions inside the Dragon Palace.
• Tie Zhu suggested planting maps to immortality secrets near Restricted Zone portals, and Jiang Chen approved the idea.
• Jiang Chen explained that the forged clues were meant for Weird Objects, which would be tempted by the Dragon Palace and its remains of a Great Power.
• Jiang Chen revealed that Blood Man had survived after the Yin God's phantom carried it into the Restricted Zone, and that the Gods could send it back into the world.

Jiang Chen and the Reincarnators entered the Dragon Palace to retrieve the Heavenly Sacrifice Item while the Nine Provinces searched its safe areas for treasures. After both groups escaped with their gains, Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen stayed behind as the Dragon Palace’s Old Antiques arrived.

• The Reincarnators lined up to give Jiang Chen valuables as protection money, while Jiang Chen assured them his people would help them retreat safely.
• Shenji used a golden net to shield the Dragon Palace, and Tie Zhu and the others rushed inside to search for the Heavenly Sacrifice Item and other loot.
• The Reincarnators found the Heavenly Sacrifice Item and gathered at the exit, where the King of Equality impressed them and recounted Jiang Chen’s past deeds.
• The Nine Provinces fighters emerged with uncanny corpses, and Tie Zhu returned bloodied with a glowing object before the group fled as the golden net collapsed.
• Jiang Chen exchanged a prepared Heavenly Sacrifice Item with Shenji, then stayed with Jiang Xiao Chen as powerful Old Antiques arrived, drawn by the Dragon Palace’s aura.

Jiang Chen blocked the Dragon Palace entrance and demanded an exorbitant admission fee from a gathering of powerful old cultivators. After he nearly killed a God-Raiser with a Ninth Stage attack, the outraged crowd chose to unite against him, leaving a major confrontation about to begin.

• Jiang Chen recorded and threatened to charge extra compensation to the old antiques who insulted him as they arrived at the Dragon Palace.
• Jiang Chen mocked a mustached God-Raiser carrying a Crystal Coffin, and the old man threatened him over his Human God-junior.
• Jiang Chen summoned a Netherworld Ghost Hand that shattered the God-Raiser's Scarlet Tempering Ancient Formation and blasted him into blood mist, though the Crystal Coffin helped him escape.
• Jiang Chen demanded one hundred High-Grade Sacrificial Offerings from each visitor to enter the Dragon Palace, angering the gathered cultivators.
• Dozens of old antiques gathered their strength and prepared to fight Jiang Chen, claiming their combined power could challenge even a Ninth Stage powerhouse.

Jiang Chen forced the Old Antiques to pay a toll before entering the Dragon Palace, then returned to the Underground City and learned that King You was traveling with Xu Fu and the Lord of the Hospital Ward aboard a ship hiding something terrifying. When the Dragon Palace’s visitors emerged with little to show for their troubles, Li Xuanzhen demanded their loot, only to find that most had none.

• Jiang Chen used his powerful auras and puppets to make the Old Antiques pay admission to the Dragon Palace, then let them pass and left without entering himself.
• Jiang Chen learned that Er Leng, Zhou Tai, and Tang Yi had encountered King You aboard a ship with Xu Fu and the Lord of the Hospital Ward, but Tie Zhu had warned them not to attack because something terrifying was aboard.
• Jiang Chen suspected that the God-Slaying Battle had failed and wondered whether his old acquaintances might create a god for him to fight.
• A Yin God, a bronze-skinned monster, and the youth Li Xuanzhen appeared over the sea as groups of Old Antiques began emerging from the Dragon Palace.
• The visitors complained that they had found no Weird Objects’ remains, though some had gained other opportunities, while others returned empty-handed.
• Li Xuanzhen demanded that the Old Antiques hand over everything they had gained, and they were dumbfounded because most had no loot.

Jiang Chen and his companions divided the Great Power-level Weird Object remains they had looted from the Dragon Palace, while Li Xuanzhen, Ba, and Yue Chi set out for the Nine Provinces after deciding King Chen had taken the treasures. Jiang Chen sensed the approaching visitors and prepared to greet them.

• Ba killed an Eighth Tier Old Antique during questioning, but Li Xuanzhen found no Weird Object remains after searching the Dragon Palace with Ba and Yue Chi.
• The Old Antiques accused King Chen of looting the Dragon Palace before collecting their admission fees, and Yue Chi confirmed that they believed what they said.
• Li Xuanzhen, Ba, and Yue Chi headed for the Nine Provinces, followed by the excited Old Antiques who expected them to kill King Chen.
• In the Underground City, Jiang Chen set aside one Great Power-level corpse each for Er Leng and Zhou Tai before dividing the rest with Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen noticed the growing ghost qi and sensed his old acquaintances approaching, so he told his companions to pause their choices and go greet them.

Jiang Chen confronted Ba and Li Xuanzhen, who arrived with a group of powerful experts and demanded that Mountain Xiao and Old Hou be handed over. After Jiang Chen matched Li Xuanzhen’s opening strike, Li Xuanzhen and Ba launched their attacks, leaving the battle underway.

• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu to stay behind and examine the Dark Gold Light Orb lodged in its belly.
• Ba arrived off the East Sea coast with Li Xuanzhen and other powerful experts, alarming the Nine Provinces guards.
• Jiang Chen and the King of Equality mocked Ba about its past, provoking its fury.
• Li Xuanzhen demanded that Jiang Chen hand over Mountain Xiao and Old Hou, but Jiang Chen refused.
• Li Xuanzhen struck Jiang Chen, who used a Six-Star Card and met the sword attack with golden light.
• Li Xuanzhen unleashed Reverse-Birth Sword Lotus as Ba attacked with scorching fists, tearing open a spatial fracture.

Jiang Chen fought Li Xuanzhen and Ba as the two Ninth Stage opponents unleashed their strongest techniques against him. The battle escalated as Li Xuanzhen prepared a peak-strength sword strike and Ba forced its body into a more powerful state, leaving all three ready to attack again.

• Jiang Chen evaded the combined attacks of Li Xuanzhen and Ba, then wounded Li Xuanzhen with his Heaven-Opening Art and Eternal Close Quarters.
• Li Xuanzhen summoned thousands of swords into a Sword Net, while Jiang Chen used his speed to attack from multiple directions.
• Li Xuanzhen’s blood swords drew Jiang Chen into the Sword Net as Ba struck him from behind, but Jiang Chen blocked the blow with the Yin God Hammer and stood firm.
• Jiang Chen endured the Sword Net and seized its swords, while Li Xuanzhen began charging a stored sword strike inside a Sword Stone.
• Ba drove bloody holes into its chest to unleash greater strength, then leaped toward Jiang Chen as Li Xuanzhen’s Tongtian Ancient Sword phantom finished forming.

Jiang Chen overwhelmed Ba and Li Xuanzhen, then returned to the Nine Provinces badly weakened with a handful of hair from a Yin God. He sent the terrified King of Equality to collect payment from the watching Old Antiques and urged him to use Avici Purgatory if they refused.

• Jiang Chen summoned a golden avian head from his palm and tore away most of Ba’s body, then used the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle to block Li Xuanzhen’s Tongtian Ancient Sword.
• Jiang Chen killed Li Xuanzhen’s body, but the incense ash from one of his brow’s three sticks let him escape into the earth before Jiang Chen could strike him again.
• Jiang Chen pursued Ba and later returned from a clash with Yue Chi carrying a handful of hair, while his aura had weakened and he had reverted to human form.
• The Nine Provinces’ people gathered around Jiang Chen, who reassured them and demanded performance fees from the Old Antiques watching nearby.
• Jiang Chen ordered the King of Equality to collect payment, and when the King of Equality balked, Jiang Chen told him to kill the Old Antiques with Avici Purgatory if they refused.

The King of Equality collected spectator fees from the Old Antiques while they avoided fighting King Chen, and the Nine Provinces' forces then entered seclusion. At Wuzhuang Temple, the powerhouses explored the ancient compound, and an Old Antique later broke through to the ninth stage peak after their group obtained a mysterious treasure.

• The King of Equality demanded treasures from the Old Antiques in King Chen's name, and they paid spectator fees instead of attacking.
• The Nine Provinces' powerhouses entered secluded cultivation as Jiang Chen worked on the remains of a great power-level Weird Object.
• Wuzhuang Temple appeared on an overseas island, where powerful figures gathered and Xu Fu revealed the ninth-stage-peak Yin God Shiqiu.
• King Tang struck Shiqiu with the Ancient Bronze Cauldron, severely wounding him, then claimed his hand had slipped.
• The ninth-stage powerhouses explored Wuzhuang Temple together, fought through its dangers, and discovered they were searching for a book in an abandoned subsidiary temple.
• The Old Antiques emerged with a mysterious dried corpse, and one of them soon broke through directly to the ninth stage peak.

Xiao Ji seized power from Ba and Yin God Yue Chi, then joined the ninth-stage powerhouses in a raid on the Peach Garden, where they found rare immortal spiritual qi. Their struggle over the qi escalated into a chaotic battle between the era’s strongest fighters, leaving the Fierce Land trembling.

• Xiao Ji defeated Ba and Yin God Yue Chi, took their blood, and used the Blood-Slaying Ancient Arts to enter a more terrifying realm.
• The ninth-stage powerhouses joined forces to break through the Peach Garden’s defenses and reached a grove filled with spiritual treasures and immortal spiritual qi.
• Li Xuanzhen, King Tang, Zhao Gujin, and Xiao Ji disputed who would claim the immortal qi, while Shiqiu seized a strand and Po Jun decapitated it.
• Shiqiu revived after Po Jun reduced it to dust, while Ba struck Li Xuanzhen and King Tang attacked Yue Chi with his bronze cauldron.
• Zhao Gujin challenged Xiao Ji, and the ninth-stage powerhouses erupted into battles that shook the Peach Garden.

King Tang defeated Yue Chi and seized an Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura as the great powerhouses fought over the remaining strands. After the battles ended, the Second Round of Turmoil loomed, while Jiang Chen completed the Yin God Hammer in his secluded Cultivation Room.

• Li Xuanzhen fought Ba and eventually defeated it, claiming an earthen-yellow Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura.
• Po Jun trapped Shiqiu with a Secret Art and forced it to flee, then obtained another wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura.
• King Tang crushed Yue Chi with a bronze cauldron, claimed a strand of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura, and warned that she had not died.
• Zhao Gujin defeated Xiao Ji and took the final wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura, while Xiao Ji escaped with help from a hidden Ninth Stage expert.
• The powerhouses left the Fierce Land as preparations for the Second Round of Turmoil began across the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen admired the completed Yin God Hammer, now marked with strange scarlet patterns.

Jiang Chen’s allies emerged from seclusion stronger as Fengdu’s next turmoil approached, and they began fortifying Ghost Gate Pass. Reports showed that the Old Antiques and Reincarnators were also preparing for what was coming.

• Jiang Chen summoned three peak ninth-stage Yin Sha Commanders and tested their growing power alongside the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, and the others emerged from seclusion with substantial breakthroughs, including three ninth-stage powerhouses and Xiaohai at the supreme powerhouse fourth level.
• Jiang Chen ordered the powerhouses to defend the restricted zone, and the group gathered before Ghost Gate Pass while he tried to pry its characters and doors loose.
• Zhou Tai and Tang Yi guided the others as they set up formations and seals, while Er Leng continued gathering intelligence.
• Er Leng reported that Old Antiques were regaining ninth-stage strength and that Shenji and Jing Shou had reached the ninth stage as the Reincarnators collected eight Heavenly Sacrifice Items.

As the Ghost Gate opened into the Fengdu Forbidden Domain, Jiang Chen made Tie Zhu mark its entrance with dragon fluid, enraging Yin God She Sha. A harmless-looking phantom then began taking shape in the sky, leaving Jiang Chen wary of what it might become.

• The Ghost Gate opened slowly, spreading soul-chilling yin qi while ordinary people across the Nine Provinces reacted to the unnatural dawn and the Netherworld and Dao Alliance guarded against unrest.
• Jiang Xiao Chen, Zhou Tai, and the King of Equality sensed a terrifying presence beyond the gateway, and Tie Zhu warned Jiang Chen that something inside was watching them.
• Jiang Chen forced Tie Zhu to urinate into the gateway, provoking Yin God She Sha and earning Jiang Chen a large amount of ghost qi.
• Tie Zhu announced that he had marked his territory in the Fengdu Forbidden Domain, while the King of Equality and the other powerhouses reacted to his boast.
• Black strands of energy rose inside the domain and formed patterns in the air; Jiang Chen found he could not touch them and feared what they might create.

Jiang Chen and the others failed to affect a forming bronze bell, which Xiaohai identified as the projection of a Wish Power artifact. As the group prepared for a possible catastrophe, they learned that elite monsters had emerged from Barren Earth.

• Jiang Chen ordered the group to unleash their formations and secret techniques, but their combined attacks left the black energy unharmed as it formed into a bronze bell.
• People in nearby cities filmed the supernatural display, and the Netherworld warned civilians to stay away while online discussion of the supernatural world surged.
• The Nine Provinces' powerhouses recognized death-like characters on the bell and feared it would bring death when it rang.
• Xiaohai touched the bell and explained that it was the projection of an absent artifact linked to Wish Power; he offered to analyze it after it finished forming.
• Jiang Chen agreed to wait, ordered the evacuation of two nearby cities, and asked for news from Reincarnation.
• The King of the Fifth Office relayed Minister Wuhen's report that Barren Earth had unleashed hairless, gray-white humanoid monsters that crawled on all fours and spread an aura of extinction.

King of the Fifth Office warned that Calamity Ghosts had begun spreading disaster, while King of Equality vowed to deal with them. King of Reincarnation was ambushed by the Heavenly Dao Society over the Book of Life and fought six Ninth Stage powerhouses alone.

• King of the Fifth Office described the Calamity Ghosts, their strength, and the devastation they had already caused.
• King of Equality promised to deal with the Calamity Ghosts after the group handled the bell.
• A Formless Gate member used a Mysterious Mirror to expose King of Reincarnation's hiding place and accused him of killing his senior brother.
• King of Reincarnation killed an Eighth Tier Peak Supreme Powerhouse and faced six Ninth Stage members of the Heavenly Dao Society, who wanted the Book of Life for their dying Old Ancestor.
• King of Reincarnation mocked the Old Ancestor and held his own against the six attackers despite being wounded and weakened.

The King of Reincarnation killed Old Zheng, escaped the other five Ninth Stage powerhouses, and used the Book of Life to form a younger body. He resolved to stay away from the Nine Provinces for now, while at Ghost Gate Pass the great bell finished taking shape.

• Old Zheng broke his seal and attacked the King of Reincarnation with his Earth-Collapse sword strike.
• The King of Reincarnation regained Ninth Stage peak power and killed Old Zheng with Heaven-Opening.
• The other five powerhouses broke their seals, but the King of Reincarnation let the Nine Dragons Heavenly Swords tear him apart and escaped as a remnant soul into the Book of Life.
• The Book of Life formed a new body for the King of Reincarnation deep in an undersea canyon, and he said he could not return to the Nine Provinces yet.
• At Ghost Gate Pass, the great bell took shape, making the gathered Nine Provinces powerhouses feel its terrifying presence.

A brass Death Knell appeared to everyone across the Nine Provinces, triggering panic and empowering ghosts until the Special Handling Bureau and Netherworld forces intervened. After the bell tolled, more than a thousand villagers died instantly, and Jiang Chen and the other Supreme Powerhouses tried to uncover its killing rules while weighing the danger of destroying its true body.

• Ordinary people across the Nine Provinces saw the bell and photographs of it showed each viewer their own corpse, sparking widespread fear and chaos.
• A director of the Special Handling Bureau and the Netherworld Messengers killed ghosts in the cities, calming the unrest and reassuring civilians.
• The Death Knell tolled, and people across the Nine Provinces felt as if they had passed through Ghost Gate Pass.
• Tie Zhu brought the King of the Fifth Office back with news that 1,123 villagers, including Netherworld and Dao Alliance personnel, had died instantly without warning.
• Tang Yi, Zhou Tai, and other Supreme Powerhouses investigated the victims and sought patterns in the bell's killings while Xiaohai analyzed it.
• Jiang Chen concluded that destroying the bell required entering the Restricted Zone, but a Yin God guarded its entrance and a battle could attract even more dangerous beings.

The Death Knell killed people across the Nine Provinces every fifteen minutes, while the Netherworld and Dao Alliance struggled to discover how it selected its victims. After reports revealed that disasters were devastating the world and even the Nine Provinces were no longer safe, Yuan Tiansuan deciphered the bell’s method and identified its next targets in Dian City.

• The Death Knell tolled again and killed hundreds in a city, while Sister Hong suspected the victims’ five-element attributes were connected to their deaths.
• King of Equality and Tie Zhu failed to save people selected by later tolls, and a Netherworld Bureau Director died despite having undergone King-Sealing.
• Yuan Tiansuan urged the investigators to keep searching as the bell continued killing people and panic spread throughout the Nine Provinces.
• Reports from other countries revealed deadly ghosts, disasters, strange artifacts, and ancient gods destroying cities around the world.
• At the tenth toll, Yuan Tiansuan identified the Inverse Star Position and named the targeted people in Dian City’s Cloudbird Town.
• Tie Zhu hurried away with Jiang Chen, Zhou Tai, and King of Equality to reach the newly identified targets.

Jiang Chen faced the Great Bell’s death toll in Cloudbird Town after the King of Equality evacuated the residents. The bell vanished after cracking under Jiang Chen’s resistance, leaving him alive but questioning the karmic burden tied to his Demon Transformation.

• The King of Equality and his allies evacuated Cloudbird Town’s residents, while Jiang Chen entered the town to face the bell in their place.
• Jiang Chen challenged the Great Bell, and it tolled three times as a Yin God attempted to kill him.
• The bell cracked, its characters changed, and it vanished after Jiang Chen’s transformed forms shattered its tolling.
• The Nine Provinces’ powerhouses celebrated the bell’s disappearance and rushed to check on Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen stood among the ruins and realized his Demon Transformations had bound him to immense karma that he might need to help ancient beings resolve.