Chapter Summaries

Xu Zimo helped Lu Simiao confront the demon that had destroyed the Bliss Sect, allowing Lu Simiao to avenge his loved ones and Xu Zimo to gather the final kindness he needed. After Xu Zimo told Lu Simiao about Liu Ruyan, Demon City disappeared, leaving Lu Simiao free to begin a new life.

• Lu Simiao reacted to Xu Zimo calling him kind, and Xu Zimo explained that Lu Simiao’s healing and good deeds reflected his true intentions.
• The demon broke free of Xu Zimo’s control and regained its strength, but Xu Zimo said he could still deal with it.
• Xu Zimo pinned the demon in place and offered Lu Simiao the chance to kill it.
• Lu Simiao used a bloodstained blade tied to the destruction of the Bliss Sect to kill the demon.
• Xu Zimo gathered Lu Simiao’s kindness, told him about Liu Ruyan, and departed as Demon City disappeared.
• Liu Ruyan kowtowed in the direction Xu Zimo had left, grateful for their meeting.

Xu Zimo joined the good and evil gathered by Chaos and established the eighteen levels of hell and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, linking them through karma so the dead would return their power to heaven and face the consequences of their actions. He then entered the Ghost God Domain to find the missing Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, erasing the hostile gods and Ghost Spirits that attacked him along the way.

• Xu Zimo met Chaos, who had gathered evil, and thanked him for helping.
• Xu Zimo combined good and evil, then created the eighteen levels of hell and the Six Paths of Reincarnation to return the dead’s power to heaven and judge their deeds through karma.
• Living beings across the Divine Continent sensed the new order, with powerful figures fearing its restraints and mortals welcoming its protection.
• Xu Zimo returned to the Nine Domains World and entered the Ghost God Domain to investigate the long-silent Thousand Calamities Apocalypse.
• As Xu Zimo traveled toward the Ghost God Academy, hostile gods and Ghost Spirits attacked him, and he casually erased them.

Xu Zimo arrived at the Ghost God Academy during its once-in-a-millennium admissions, where rumors spread that the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse was injured and the gods and ghosts of the eight quarters were restless. After following a suspicious man from an inn, Xu Zimo discovered he was one of the gods and ghosts and demanded to know why he was spreading rumors.

• Xu Zimo reached the Ghost God Academy as tens of thousands of prodigies and millions of spectators gathered for the admissions assessment.
• Xu Zimo heard that Mount Bi Ghost would oversee a stricter examination and that the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse would not appear.
• Xu Zimo overheard a green-robed man claim that the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse was seriously injured and the gods and ghosts might take advantage of his weakness.
• Xu Zimo followed the green-robed man, who vanished in an alley and attacked him with an iron chain.
• Xu Zimo broke the chain, lifted the man into the air, identified him as one of the gods and ghosts of the eight quarters, and questioned his motives.

Xu Zimo forced a middle-aged man to reveal that the gods and Ghost Spirits were plotting against the Ghost God Academy and that Thousand Calamities Apocalypse might be injured. After extracting the man’s memories, Xu Zimo learned that powerful enemies had already infiltrated the academy, and he headed to its gates.

• Xu Zimo threatened to extract the middle-aged man's memories until the man confessed that the Giant Mountain God had sent him to spread rumors and disrupt the academy's recruitment ceremony.
• The middle-aged man said the gods and Ghost Spirits planned to destroy the Ghost God Academy, believing Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had been injured by power from the outer realms.
• The middle-aged man explained that the gods and Ghost Spirits were branches of the Spirit race, united against Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and that each side had eight strongest experts.
• Xu Zimo searched the middle-aged man's soul and discovered that the Eight Great Gods and Eight Great Ghost Spirits had already infiltrated the academy's city.
• Xu Zimo headed for the Ghost God Academy, where recruitment was due to begin in the coming days, and arrived at its imposing gates.

Xu Zimo entered the Ghost God Academy to find his old acquaintance, the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and forced his way past the guards and dean. After exploring the academy, he stopped at its neglected History Records Hall.

• Xu Zimo tore down the banners at the academy gate and entered despite Qingluan warning him to leave.
• Xu Zimo froze the guards and claimed he had come to meet the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse.
• Daoist Songshan confronted Xu Zimo, who slapped him flying before he could reveal himself.
• Xu Zimo told Qingluan to summon the Mountain Ghosts and walked into the academy to explore.
• Xu Zimo toured the academy and entered the neglected History Records Hall, where books lay scattered among collapsed shelves.

Xu Zimo visited the Hall of Recorded History, then followed a Qingluan woman to meet Great Strength Mountain Ghost. There, he learned that Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had returned from an absence gravely injured and had been imprisoned because of his violent episodes.

• Xu Zimo met Shangguan Ya, Lu Xiong, and Liu Jin, the Hall of Recorded History’s three students.
• The Qingluan woman invited Xu Zimo to see Great Strength Mountain Ghost, who could not leave his cultivation ground.
• Xu Zimo entered the spirit-energy mist and found Great Strength Mountain Ghost and eight others suppressing a mysterious figure.
• Great Strength Mountain Ghost explained that Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had returned after being away for over a year, silent when calm and murderous during his episodes.

Xu Zimo accepted a mysterious crystal from the Mountain Ghost of Great Strength, then subdued the consciousnessless Thousand Calamities Apocalypse when he broke free. As Xu Zimo examined him, he glimpsed a peculiar bug that seemed to come from another world.

• The Mountain Ghost of Great Strength told Xu Zimo that Thousand Calamities Apocalypse was too powerful to contain and that the divine ghosts were growing restless.
• The Mountain Ghost of Great Strength offered Xu Zimo a mysterious purple crystal linked to Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and Xu Zimo accepted it.
• Thousand Calamities Apocalypse broke free of the Nine Great Mountain Ghosts' formation and attacked those present without consciousness.
• Xu Zimo struck Thousand Calamities Apocalypse back, then seized his throat and used demonic energy to suppress him.
• Xu Zimo examined Thousand Calamities Apocalypse and glimpsed a strange bug that did not seem to belong to this world.

Xu Zimo subdued Thousand Calamities Apocalypse and learned that an insect was attacking his divine soul, then began investigating the Hall of Recorded History for clues. While taking a teaching post there, he heard Shangguan Ya mention the Glazed Immortal Realm and found a story about it in her book.

• Xu Zimo sealed Thousand Calamities Apocalypse’s power, calming him temporarily, and explained that destroying the insect inside him was necessary to restore his consciousness.
• The Nine Great Mountain Ghosts told Xu Zimo that Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had last visited the Hall of Recorded History, where he had been looking something up.
• Xu Zimo told the Mountain Ghosts to continue the enrollment ceremony and arranged to teach in the Hall of Recorded History so he could search for clues.
• Xu Zimo found Shangguan Ya reading and asked about the ancient stories she enjoyed.
• Shangguan Ya told Xu Zimo about the Glazed Immortal Realm, and he found its brief description in the History of the Myriad People, written by Hu Fu.

Xu Zimo discussed reports of the Glazed Immortal Realm with Shangguan Ya, then advised Lu Xiong on how to advance his Bear Tyrant Body. The chapter ended with Xu Zimo identifying Liu Jin’s old injury as Ghost God Loathing and hinting that it could be treated.

• Xu Zimo learned from Shangguan Ya about accounts of the Glazed Immortal Realm, which no one had ever entered.
• Lu Xiong asked Xu Zimo how to evolve his Bear Tyrant Body and restore his family’s ancient Bear King bloodline.
• Xu Zimo gave Lu Xiong the Tempered a Thousand Times Body method and advised him to rebuild his foundation through repeated practice.
• Liu Jin asked Xu Zimo for help with his injuries, and Xu Zimo identified them as Ghost God Loathing.
• Xu Zimo told Liu Jin that the injury could be cured with the right method, while Lu Xiong asked what Ghost God Loathing was.

Xu Zimo discovered that the sigils in the Hall of Recorded History corresponded to stars and continued deciphering them as Ghosts and Gods Academy prepared to admit new students. He allowed several new students to visit the hall, though Shangguan Ya said almost nobody came there just to read.

• Shangguan Ya explained that Ghosts and Gods' Loathing was a curse placed around Spiritfolk burial grounds, and Liu Jin admitted that he had robbed the tombs of ghosts and gods.
• Xu Zimo told Liu Jin that powerful ghosts' and gods' blood could break the curse, and Liu Jin said their numbers in the city were increasing.
• After finding no clues elsewhere in the Hall of Recorded History, Xu Zimo studied the inner chamber's sigils and realized they corresponded to stars and connected to one another.
• A week later, Ghosts and Gods Academy opened its gates to new students while Xu Zimo continued deciphering the sigils.
• Shangguan Ya told Xu Zimo that several new students had chosen the Hall of Recorded History, and Xu Zimo allowed them to browse everywhere except the inner chamber.

Xu Zimo imposed strict rules on the three new students who came to the Hall of Recorded History, and Xu Xian sensed that he was far more powerful than he appeared. As the students sorted the books, Xu Zimo investigated mysterious runes while Xu Xian and Gongsun Hong planned to wait for the Day of Ghost Gods to retaliate.

• Gongsun Hong, Chen Hu, and Xu Xian arrived at the Hall of Recorded History and gave Xu Zimo perfunctory reasons for choosing it.
• Xu Zimo ordered the three to attend lessons from nine in the morning until nine at night and said they would earn freedom only by passing examinations.
• When Xu Xian challenged Xu Zimo, Xu Zimo's aura terrified him, and Xu Xian agreed to follow his instructions.
• Xu Zimo assigned the three students to organize the Hall of Recorded History's books, then returned to study the mysterious runes in the inner room.
• Xu Xian told Gongsun Hong that Xu Zimo could kill them effortlessly, and they decided to wait for the Day of Ghost Gods before seeking revenge.

Xu Zimo investigated the strange characters in the Record Hall and learned that the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had created the Prison of Words to study the languages of the Myriad Races. He entered the prison and found records of their languages, along with a notebook that caught his attention.

• Gongsun Hong questioned Shangguan Ya about Teacher Xu, the inner chamber, and whether he could transfer out of the Record Hall, but learned he had to study there for a full year.
• Xu Zimo experienced the talismanic seals in the inner chamber coming alive as unfamiliar characters and realized they did not belong to the Nine Domains World.
• Xu Zimo asked Shangguan Ya about scholars of language and learned of the Prison of Words, then confirmed with the Mountain Ghost of Giant Strength that the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse had created it.
• Xu Zimo went to the Back Mountain, suppressed the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse's seal, and pushed open the crystal gate to the prison.
• Xu Zimo passed the cells holding members of the Myriad Races and found records of their languages and a notebook on a table.

Xu Zimo learned that the mysterious sigils were connected to the vanished Enlightenment Great Emperor, then prepared to leave Ghost God Academy for the Cang Xuan Domain. As the ghost gods attacked the academy, Gongsun Hong and Xu Xian tried to slip away, but Liu Jin blocked their path.

• Xu Zimo read Thousand Calamities Apocalypse’s notebook and learned about the vanished Enlightenment Great Emperor, then left the trapped Myriad Races behind.
• Xu Zimo questioned the Nine Great Mountain Ghosts, learned the Enlightenment Great Emperor’s Lineage had declined in the Cang Xuan Domain, and heard that ghost gods were probing the academy.
• Xu Zimo copied the sigils in the Hall of Recorded History while the academy-protecting formation began to crack under an attack from sixteen ghost gods.
• The Nine Great Mountain Ghosts and the academy’s teachers fought the attacking ghost gods and Spirit Race forces as students prepared to defend the academy.
• Lu Xiong offered to protect Shangguan Ya, while Gongsun Hong and Xu Xian decided to escape; Liu Jin waited at the end of their path.

Liu Jin stopped Xu Xian, Gongsun Hong, and Chen Hu from escaping the Ghost God Academy, then lured the Giant Mountain God into confronting him. As the Giant Mountain God attacked, a mysterious swordsman struck from behind and severed his arm.

• Liu Jin blocked Xu Xian, Gongsun Hong, and Chen Hu as they tried to leave the academy, and Chen Hu attacked him.
• Liu Jin defeated Chen Hu, Xu Xian, and Gongsun Hong, then used a Corpse Dragon to seize the fleeing pair.
• The Giant Mountain God arrived to save Gongsun Hong and injured Liu Jin with a powerful attack.
• Liu Jin revealed that someone else had been waiting for the Giant Mountain God.
• A calm voice claimed it could kill the Giant Mountain God, and a saber strike severed his arm.

Xu Zimo confronted the Giant Mountain God and overwhelmed the gods and ghosts who attacked him. The sixteen gods and ghosts were left bloodied and reeling as they realized Xu Zimo had drawn them into a trap.

• Xu Zimo emerged from the Hall of Recorded History and severed the Giant Mountain God's other arm with Overlord Shadow.
• The Giant Mountain God transformed into a mountain to crush Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo impaled him and forced him to call for help.
• The Lightning God attacked Xu Zimo from behind, but Xu Zimo seized and snapped his wrist.
• Xu Zimo killed the Annihilation Ghost Spirit with a blade aura that pierced its brow.
• The eight great gods and eight great Ghost Spirits attacked Xu Zimo together, but his river of blade aura blocked their strikes and sent all sixteen flying, covered in blade wounds.

Xu Zimo fought the sixteen Ghost Gods after they merged into a three-headed, six-armed monster. He destroyed their fused body with Great Dao saber intent and left the Ghost Gods begging for mercy as he demanded an answer.

• The Ghost Gods combined their seals and transformed into a single monster with three heads and six arms.
• The monster attacked Xu Zimo with corrosive beams, storms, and weapons, then petrified him with rays from its third eyes.
• Xu Zimo broke free of the petrification and split the monster in two with Overlord Shadow.
• Xu Zimo used Great Dao intent to destroy the monster's divine soul and power, overcoming the Ghost Gods' belief that they were immortal.
• The Ghost Gods tried to separate and flee, then begged Xu Zimo for mercy and offered to submit to him.
• Xu Zimo asked the Ghost Gods to answer his final question.

Xu Zimo learned that heavenly punishment had injured Thousand Calamities Apocalypse after he entered the Glazed Immortal Realm, then took him from Ghost God Academy to seek a cure in the Cang Xuan Domain. As Xu Zimo traveled, cracks spread across the sky, signaling that the True Martial Great Emperor's heaven-defying campaign was nearing its end.

• Xu Zimo killed the sixteen Ghost Gods after learning they had seen heavenly punishment strike Thousand Calamities Apocalypse outside the Glazed Immortal Realm.
• The Nine Great Mountain Ghosts thanked Xu Zimo and began restoring order at Ghost God Academy while he considered how the heavenly punishment and the insect in Thousand Calamities Apocalypse were connected.
• Xu Zimo mastered the inner chamber's talisman seal and decided to take Thousand Calamities Apocalypse to the Cang Xuan Domain to seek a cure.
• Xu Zimo placed Thousand Calamities Apocalypse in a living-space ring, recommended Shangguan Ya to the Nine Great Mountain Ghosts, and gave Liu Jin Ghost God flesh and blood to help break his seal.
• Xu Zimo set off for the Cang Xuan Domain, and the sky erupted with cracks as the True Martial Great Emperor's heaven-defying campaign approached its end.

After True Martial Great Emperor’s campaign against the heavens ended, Xu Zimo entered the Cang Xuan Domain to search for the fallen object and the homeland of the Enlightenment Great Emperor. He reached the Demonfire Phoenix’s besieged ancestral court, where the Tyrannosaur Clan’s Baotian was told that a human wanted to enter.

• Disasters erupted across the Nine Domains World, the heavens became whole again, and the passages between the domains began closing.
• Xu Zimo crossed into the Cang Xuan Domain and headed for the Demonfire Phoenix’s territory to seek clues about the fallen object and the Enlightenment Great Emperor’s homeland.
• Xu Zimo found the Demonfire Phoenix holding its ancestral court, Phoenix Imprisoning Phoenix, against twelve rebel Demon Race factions.
• Baotian, patriarch of the Tyrannosaur Clan, discussed the rebels’ next move when a demon reported that a human wanted to enter the ancestral court.
• Baotian reacted with a cold snort when he heard that the visitor was human.

Baotian sent Pig Tiangang to hunt Xu Zimo after learning a human was heading to Phoenix Seeking Its Mate. Xu Zimo reached the Flaming Mountain gateway, where Elder Jin and the Golden Pangolin Race discovered him.

• Baotian decided to kill the human heading toward Phoenix Seeking Its Mate and sent Pig Tiangang to pursue him.
• Pig Tiangang found the corpses of the demons Xu Zimo had killed and ignored a little demon’s warning to report back.
• Pig Tiangang flew east after Xu Zimo, wielding a massive club and surrounded by Demonic Qi.
• Xu Zimo examined the oppressive terrain and the Undying Demonfire surrounding Phoenix Imprisoning Its Mate.
• Xu Zimo arrived beneath the Flaming Mountain, where Elder Jin and the Golden Pangolin Race guarded the gateway and noticed him.

Xu Zimo reached Flaming Mountain seeking records about Enlightenment, but Elder Jin tried to bar his way. Pig Tiangang arrived to attack Xu Zimo, who crushed his weapon and drove his head into the earth, while Elder Jin watched from the mountain entrance.

• Elder Jin emerged from the ground and asked Xu Zimo why he had come to Flaming Mountain.
• Xu Zimo said he was looking for records about Enlightenment and announced he would enter, but Elder Jin warned that the place was closed to outsiders during wartime.
• Pig Tiangang arrived seeking revenge for the Demon Race, and Elder Jin fled underground toward Flaming Mountain's entrance.
• Pig Tiangang attacked Xu Zimo with a spiked club, but Xu Zimo caught it with one finger and crushed it.
• Pig Tiangang charged at Xu Zimo with his teeth, and Xu Zimo pressed his head into the earth as the Golden Mountain Armor watched.