Chapter Summaries

After the deadly bell vanished, Jiang Chen returned to the Underground City and tried to reassure its leaders as they feared the ongoing second round of turmoil and the coming Yin God. Er Leng then returned with reports on the Big Dipper, the Old Antiques, the Reincarnators, and other factions, while the wider situation remained dangerous.

• Jiang Chen led everyone back to the Underground City, where the Yamas and Dao Alliance sect masters concluded that the second round of turmoil was still underway because it was still dark and no False Gods had emerged.
• Jiang Chen proposed a drill for the coming Yin God, jokingly let Tie Zhu reveal the Underground City's location, and described plans to lure enemies into prepared formations, easing the group's anxiety.
• Er Leng reported that the Big Dipper had been hunting Spectral Angels and advancing in strength, but Po Jun was badly injured, No. 01 had exhausted his trump cards, and Giant Gate escaped with the group.
• Er Leng said the Old Antiques were building a fortified Fierce Land on an enormous shell-like stone at Overseas Lonely Island, while the Reincarnators were pursuing Sacred Artifacts for a Heavenly Sacrifice and had encountered a terrifying aura.
• Er Leng reported that several Fierce Lands had appeared and that Li Xuanzhen had tried to take his Pig-Butchering Knife, claiming the Land Temple could offer him safety if he surrendered it.

Er Leng reported worsening supernatural threats abroad and warned that the recovering Spiritual Qi signaled heaven and earth were dying, prompting Jiang Chen to prepare the Nine Provinces for the coming upheaval. As Jiang Chen set out to confront external enemies, a fog-bound city suffered a series of deadly disasters and reports of monsters.

• Er Leng told Jiang Taichong and the others that Calamity Ghosts were multiplying, the Polar Bear Empire was infiltrated by religious orders, and the Fierce Lands were acting with purpose.
• Er Leng revealed that the Spiritual Qi was recovering toward the Daochang age, and Jiang Taichong explained that the Heavenly Dao was weakening as heaven and earth approached their end.
• Jiang Chen connected the revelations to the Immortals and Buddhas Era and wondered about the Restricted Zones, the vanished Immortals and Buddhas, and his own origins.
• Jiang Chen ordered the Dao Alliance and Netherworld to expand recruitment, assigned Zhou Tai to manage the Nine Provinces, and left to eliminate external enemies.
• In a desolate city, a string of deadly accidents and an epidemic struck while fog trapped those trying to flee, and some disappearing residents shouted that monsters were there.

A horde of Calamity Ghosts crossed the wilderness, but a spreading black mist began abducting their warriors and showing their leader Batu eerie Netherworld Soldiers. Batu tried to lead his clan to safety, yet some Calamity Ghosts turned against him, and he killed one of them.

• The Calamity Ghost leader sent his horde across the land while a group carried human corpses toward the Barren Earth Portal for a sacrifice.
• Black mist surrounded the advancing Calamity Ghosts, and nineteen warriors vanished before the clan realized something was wrong.
• Batu led the survivors away, but the mist followed them and a huge black snake began snatching several Calamity Ghosts at a time.
• Batu pierced the mist and saw armored Yin-Person Soldiers beckoning to him, including figures bearing the auras of his missing clansmen.
• Batu tried to carry his followers out of the mist, but several Calamity Ghosts accused him of being controlled and attacked him.
• Batu killed one of the attackers, causing the remaining Calamity Ghosts to grow suspicious of him.

Jiang Chen used black mist to trick Batu and the Calamity Ghosts into slaughtering one another, then revealed his Yin Sha Commanders and confronted the survivors. Batu unleashed a devastating curse against Jiang Xiao Chen, and Jiang Chen revealed that he had raised the fallen Calamity Ghosts as Yin Sha, provoking Batu’s fury.

• Jiang Chen used the Soul Ancestor Commander’s black mist and his other commanders to weaken the Calamity Ghosts and turn them against one another.
• Batu and the two junior commanders joined the battle as the Calamity Ghosts slaughtered their own kin for over half an hour.
• Jiang Chen and his allies emerged from the mist, and Batu absorbed the accumulated misfortune of the dead warriors.
• Batu struck Jiang Xiao Chen with a curse, and Tie Zhu rescued him as he struggled against the misfortune.
• Jiang Chen invited Batu to join his group and revealed the fallen Calamity Ghosts standing behind him as Yin Sha.
• Batu recognized Jiang Chen as the one who had taken the warriors’ souls and unleashed a vast wave of misfortune at him.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen fought Batu and the Calamity Ghost commanders, while Jiang Xiao Chen insisted on facing Batu alone to master Great Cultivator-level power. After surviving a brutal beating, he developed Batu’s racial talent into his own Dao of Law and prepared to counterattack.

• Batu’s attack on Jiang Chen was disrupted by a backlash of calamity, and Jiang Xiao Chen rescued his father before challenging Batu.
• Jiang Xiao Chen clashed with Batu using his door slab and more than a hundred Daos of Law, while the Three Yin Sha Commanders engaged the two Calamity Ghost commanders.
• The Three Yin Sha Commanders destroyed both Calamity Ghost commanders, while Batu battered Jiang Xiao Chen.
• Jiang Chen withdrew the commanders at Jiang Xiao Chen’s request, and Jiang Xiao Chen endured Batu’s attacks until he developed Batu’s racial talent into a Dao of Law.
• Jiang Xiao Chen gained control of Great Cultivator-level power, took on an awe-inspiring aura, and raised the door slab for his counterattack.

Jiang Xiao Chen killed the Calamity Ghost Chief and reached Great Cultivator-level combat strength, while Jiang Chen empowered the Soul Ancestor commander. At Barren Earth, Tie Zhu explained that its gate was an ancient treasure refined by Earth Immortals in an attempt to seal the Restricted Zones.

• Jiang Xiao Chen crushed the Calamity Ghost Chief with his black gate technique, then took an elixir from Jiang Chen and recovered with greatly increased strength.
• Tie Zhu praised Jiang Xiao Chen in a way that pushed him toward taking on more dangerous fights, and Jiang Xiao Chen bowed to Jiang Chen and pledged his service.
• Jiang Chen collected the Calamity Ghosts' remains and used them to raise the Soul Ancestor commander to Great Cultivator level.
• Tie Zhu carried Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen to Barren Earth, where they found a massive black gate lying in a sinkhole.
• Tie Zhu explained that, according to legend, Earth Immortals had refined Barren Earth's gate from Primordial Immortal Jade to help seal the Restricted Zones.

Jiang Chen and his companions examined the Immortal-Burying Platform and learned why it had resisted attempts to open it, then continued toward the Polar Bear Empire. At Qingqiu, they encountered Li Xuanzhen after he emerged from the Fierce Land following a battle.

• Tie Zhu explained the history of the Immortal-Burying Platform and how the Restricted Zone portals had been sealed and opened across different eras.
• Jiang Xiao Chen asked whether sealing the portals could end the Disorder of the Ultimate Number, and Tie Zhu said the necessary methods were likely lost or ineffective for most portals.
• Jiang Chen touched the polluted Immortal-Burying Platform and found its cold made his body and soul sluggish.
• Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu left the portal and headed toward the Polar Bear Empire, but Tie Zhu detected a Fierce Land nearby.
• The group reached Qingqiu, where Li Xuanzhen emerged looking disheveled after a battle inside.

Jiang Chen ambushed the badly wounded Li Xuanzhen, stripped him of his possessions, and mocked him before letting him escape. After inspecting Li Xuanzhen’s loot, Jiang Chen hid with his companions, while Zhao Gujin appeared nearby carrying a legendary Fox Heart Stone.

• Jiang Xiao Chen and the Soul Ancestor Commander attacked Li Xuanzhen, breaking his body and severely damaging his soul.
• Jiang Chen had Tie Zhu take Li Xuanzhen’s Sumeru Bag, then used nude photographs to demand five hundred High-Grade Sacrificial Offerings for the negatives.
• Jiang Chen twice had the Soul Ancestor Commander attack Li Xuanzhen as he tried to leave, until Li Xuanzhen finally vanished into the earth.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu examined the bag’s contents, including a spoiled Immortal Jade Fruit pit, and Jiang Chen decided to investigate it later.
• Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu disappeared into the black mist, and Zhao Gujin soon appeared with a legendary Fox Heart Stone.

Jiang Chen and his allies ambushed Zhao Gujin and other travelers emerging from the Fierce Land, forcing Zhao Gujin to escape and robbing the others. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen recognizing the next group as people from the Heavenly Dao Society.

• Zhao Gujin entered the black mist to recover the Fox Heart Stone, but Soul Spears and other attacks forced him into a difficult fight against Jiang Chen's forces.
• Zhao Gujin was struck by the Incense Burner and tore an Ancient Talisman to escape before Jiang Chen could decide whether to keep him there.
• Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu resumed collecting admission fees from people leaving the Fierce Land.
• Jiang Chen's group trapped Yue Chi, Ba, and Blood Man in the black mist, robbed their gains, and killed Blood Man repeatedly before they fled.
• Jiang Chen recognized the next group of old men by their rotten smell as people from the Heavenly Dao Society.

Jiang Chen used the Soul Ancestor Yin Sha Commander’s black mist to attack groups emerging from the Fierce Land, stealing their possessions while concealing his involvement. The ginseng child escaped after its keeper died, and Xu Fu, the Lord of the Hospital Ward, King You, and Shiqiu were trapped in the mist as they tried to leave with a sealed object.

• The old men recognized the black mist’s power as that of the Soul Ancestor, pierced their foreheads to unleash greater strength, and fled.
• Po Jun apologized to Xiao Ji’s group after No. 01 killed an Old Antique, but Xiao Ji led them away when more black mist arrived.
• Jiang Chen used the mist to attack the Old Antiques and Big Dipper members, and they fled after their treasures and No. 01’s severed head were stolen.
• Jiang Chen’s Yin Sha Commander killed the ginseng grower, but the ginseng child broke free and fled with an aura surpassing the Great Cultivator level.
• Xu Fu, the Lord of the Hospital Ward, King You, and Shiqiu emerged carrying a sealed object, then were surrounded by black mist.

Jiang Chen enhanced the damaged Immortal Jade into a powerful source of Immortal Qi before arriving in Voltoles, where his group confronted the Weird Objects surrounding the city. The Weird Objects were swiftly destroyed, and Jiang Chen’s group remained ready to continue their journey.

• Xu Fu, King You, and their companions were beaten and robbed in the black mist, then blamed the Land Temple for their humiliation.
• Jiang Chen enhanced the Immortal Jade repeatedly, using stolen treasures, Tie Zhu’s offerings, and the Restricted Zone’s portal as materials.
• The fully enhanced Immortal Jade increased cultivation speed, supplied abundant spiritual energy, and could devour the power of the Dao of Law to create Immortal Qi.
• Jiang Chen arrived in Voltoles and found Weird Objects lurking in the clouds and wilderness around the city.
• Tie Zhu attacked a flying snake, while Jiang Xiao Chen used his Great Dao and chains to destroy the Weird Objects.

Jiang Chen met the Church of the Gods in a city infiltrated by Weird Objects and learned that a powerful being had corrupted the elite to control its centers of power. He set out to confront the city’s highest-ranking believers, declaring that the divine beings would fall that night.

• Jiang Chen absorbed the Weird Objects’ corpses with the Immortal Jade Prototype, causing a strand of Immortal Qi to begin forming.
• Jiang Chen met the Church of the Gods’ contact at an underground lounge and learned that Lady Scarlett, a King-Level expert, was secretly guarding the entrance.
• The Church of the Gods’ leaders explained that a Shapeshifting Weird Object had infiltrated their former base and that monsters had already infiltrated the city.
• The old man told Jiang Chen that a being called the Blood Man had corrupted the city’s wealthy, politicians, and gang leaders by offering Divine Blessing and power.
• Jiang Chen refused to limit his help to killing the strongest names on the Church’s list and asked to meet the city’s most influential people.
• Jiang Chen headed into the corridor and declared, “Tonight, the divine beings shall fall.”

Jiang Chen confronted the powerful believers gathered in Cooper District and demanded a way to approach their god. After killing several who defied or failed to help him, he forced the surviving dignitaries to offer a plan.

• Influential believers across Voltoles gathered at the old residence in Cooper District to meet the Gods Religion's pontiff and Getuofu.
• Jiang Chen interrupted Getuofu and killed him with a flash of black light before he could finish speaking.
• Jiang Chen killed another dignitary who panicked and a young believer who denounced him as a blasphemer.
• Jiang Chen said he had come to slaughter the god and demanded to know how to get close to it.
• One of the remaining dignitaries knelt and offered Jiang Chen a plan.

Jiang Chen tortured the Evil Believers into revealing that their most meritorious members gathered after midnight for divine blessings, then organized a mass meeting and led the sole survivor toward the Sacred Land. He arrived at the Divine Beings' evening gala intending to kill the god and manipulate the cult's leaders into sacrificing their followers.

• Jiang Chen killed the fat old man and had a terrifying companion slaughter half the gathered Evil Believers when they tried to flee.
• Jiang Chen forced the survivors to devise plans until only a mustached middle-aged man remained, then learned that top believers visited the Sacred Land after midnight for divine blessings.
• Jiang Chen ordered the survivor to gather the city's believers, gave a speech, and urged the crowd to sacrifice themselves to avert a calamity threatening the Divine Beings.
• The mustached man led Jiang Chen to a brightly lit banquet hall near the Gods' Mausoleum Restricted Zone, where believers from many cities had gathered.
• A merchant greeted the mustached man, and Jiang Chen claimed he eagerly awaited meeting the Divine Being.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen attended a banquet held by Evil Believers, where Old Hogg revealed his monstrous new form and welcomed their grotesque deity. As the deity prepared to bless Bunyan Shambi, Jiang Chen killed it with his Black Iron Hammer and told the believers their god was dead.

• Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen sat silently in a corner while the banquet guests watched them.
• Old Hogg arrived as a goat-headed demon, declared himself a new God Envoy, and displayed his power to the believers.
• The believers welcomed their deity, a writhing mass of human organs, and Bunyan Shambi stepped forward to receive its blessing.
• Jiang Chen overtook Bunyan, approached the deity, and assessed that it had weakened to roughly the fifth or sixth tier of Supreme Powerhouse.
• Jiang Chen struck the deity with his Black Iron Hammer, splattering blood, then told the petrified believers that their god was dead.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen overwhelmed the Divine Being’s servants and the Weird Objects attacking them in the banquet hall. Jiang Chen offered the Evil Believers a chance to cooperate, then killed those who hesitated to submit.

• After the Divine Being died, a green lizard servant attacked, but Jiang Xiao Chen crushed its head with an invisible force.
• A bat-like creature confronted Jiang Chen, and Jiang Xiao Chen struck it through the roof as more powerful Weird Objects arrived.
• The Weird Objects attacked Jiang Chen, but armored warriors emerging from his shadows fought them off while the hall collapsed around the Evil Believers.
• Nearly half the Evil Believers agreed to cooperate with Jiang Chen, while the rest waited to see who would win.
• Jiang Chen had a streak of black light kill the believers who had not submitted immediately.

Jiang Chen defeated the Restricted Zone’s Weird Objects and gathered their followers to expose the death of their Divine Being. When he told the believers to be buried with their dead god, the transformed monsters attacked, but Jiang Chen’s forces surged from the darkness to meet them.

• Jiang Xiao Chen and the Soul Ancestor Commander killed the last bat-like Weird Object after Blood Man refused to help it.
• Jiang Chen persuaded the surviving Evil Believers to gather other followers and the divine servants for a seminar.
• Nearly ten thousand believers and Weird Objects assembled at the banquet hall ruins, where Jiang Chen recalled how their Divine Being had won their loyalty.
• Jiang Chen announced that their god was dead and told the believers to be buried with Him, provoking many to attack.
• The high-level believers knelt while the transformed monsters charged, and Jiang Chen’s armed forces emerged from the darkness.

After the Yin Sha Legion defeated the Evil Believers, Jiang Chen formed a strand of Immortal Qi, but Tie Zhu swallowed it and drained the Immortal Jade Prototype. Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen tried to cut open Tie Zhu’s belly, but even their strongest attacks failed to break his skin.

• The Yin Sha Legion slaughtered the Evil Believers, and Jiang Chen absorbed the residual power from the Restricted Zone’s Weird Objects.
• Jiang Chen discovered that the Immortal Jade Prototype had formed a strand of Immortal Qi, but Tie Zhu swallowed it and drained the jade’s power.
• Jiang Chen caught Tie Zhu and recovered the depleted Immortal Jade Prototype from his mouth, then threatened to cut open his belly to remove the black-gold ball of light.
• Tie Zhu eagerly agreed to the operation because he wanted to cook Dragon Meat, and Jiang Chen handed the knife to Jiang Xiao Chen.
• Jiang Xiao Chen, Jiang Chen, and a Soul Ancestor Commander attacked Tie Zhu with increasingly powerful weapons, but none could break his skin.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen discovered that Tie Zhu had gained a golden protective ability after absorbing Immortal Qi and receiving an incantation from the Dark Gold Light Orb. Jiang Chen then met the surviving Saints Organization members, who described how Sacred Artifacts had turned nearly a hundred ordinary people into Supreme Powerhouses and destroyed a city.

• Tie Zhu revealed that its body had become tougher, then activated golden patterns using an incantation it had learned from the Dark Gold Light Orb.
• Jiang Chen recognized the golden patterns as a powerful defensive layer and teased Tie Zhu about testing it against Old Tun.
• Jiang Chen traveled with Jiang Xiao Chen to meet the nine remaining members of the Saints Organization near Jerusalem.
• Gray and Elder Queto declined Jiang Chen's offer to take them to the Nine Provinces, insisting they would remain in their homeland.
• Queto explained that the Stone Sun Disc had appeared during the Second Round of Turmoil and that Sacred Artifacts had possessed ordinary people, granting them Supreme Powerhouse-level strength.
• The newly empowered people fought one another, but after their minds were contaminated and their city was devastated, they joined the destruction and turned the city into an Asura Field.

Jiang Chen confronted the Sacred Artifact wielders slaughtering civilians and sent his forces to rescue survivors while pursuing their main group. In a city battle, he and his allies stripped two Great Cultivators of the vitality fueling their powers, driving them to summon their Sacred Object despite the expected bloodshed.

• Jiang Chen found Sacred Artifact wielders resting in a seaside city after massacring its inhabitants, and his soldiers pinned them and inflicted relentless punishment while he called the Saints to rescue survivors.
• Jiang Chen arrived in another city where Sacred Artifact wielders were defeating the army, and his forces slaughtered most of them while protecting the civilians.
• Jiang Chen watched Jiang Xiao Chen and the Soul Ancestor Commander struggle against two powerful Great Cultivators and realized the Sacred Artifacts burned the vitality of living beings.
• Jiang Chen ordered Jiang Xiao Chen to use Tunxiang's ability to drain the stored vitality, while Tie Zhu blocked and provoked the two opponents.
• Unable to escape or defeat Jiang Chen's allies, the two Great Cultivators decided to summon their Sacred Object, knowing its descent would cause widespread deaths, including among its summoners.