Chapter Summaries

Xu Zimo tested his strength against Queen Mother of the West in Jade Pool, clashing with the powers of her Heaven-Peering Staff and Kunlun Mirror. The Kunlun Mirror sent him flying, but he laughed and continued attacking it with his body.

• Queen Mother of the West challenged Xu Zimo and attacked with the Heaven-Peering Staff, raining down meteors beneath a blood-red sky.
• Xu Zimo shattered the meteors with Overlord Shadow, while Queen Mother of the West changed the seasons and tried to freeze him beneath snow and ice.
• Wang Ya and Grandpa Wang watched with the gathered Jade Pool experts, who debated whether Xu Zimo or Queen Mother of the West had the advantage.
• Xu Zimo broke through the ice and struck Queen Mother of the West, but the Kunlun Mirror blocked his blows and then sent him flying.
• Xu Zimo praised the Kunlun Mirror and rammed into it with his fleshly body, repeatedly being thrown back.

Xu Zimo used his clashes with the Kunlun Mirror to temper and advance his Great Way, eventually forcing Queen Mother of the West to draw on the Kunlun Mountains’ power to suppress him. As the mirror pinned him down, Xu Zimo released his demonic energy and began to grow stronger.

• Xu Zimo repeatedly clashed with the Kunlun Mirror, using its pressure to improve his Great Way until he could confront it head-on.
• Grandpa Wang recognized that Xu Zimo was tempering his Great Way through battle, while Queen Mother of the West sensed that the mirror could no longer suppress him.
• Queen Mother of the West borrowed the Kunlun Mountains’ power, damaging the land, and enlarged the Kunlun Mirror to cover the sky and seal the void.
• The Kunlun Mirror descended and forced Xu Zimo downward, prompting Queen Mother of the West to offer to end the contest.
• Xu Zimo rejected her offer, saying that even Heaven’s Way could not suppress him, then unleashed demonic energy that increased his strength.

Xu Zimo defeated Queen Mother of the West at the Jade Pool and set out for the Kunxu Domain, intent on reaching one hundred million Great Ways before confronting the Holy Court. At the Immortal Gate, the Immortal Lord sensed that the road of cultivation had reached its end, as a three-headed, six-armed man approached.

• Xu Zimo broke free of the Kunlun Mirror’s suppression, shattered it with a punch, and struck Queen Mother of the West.
• Queen Mother of the West conceded defeat, and Xu Zimo accepted her offer of help against Heaven but refused it.
• After staying at the Jade Pool for several days, Xu Zimo left the Cang Xuan Domain and headed toward the Kunxu Domain.
• The Immortal Lord reflected that the road was broken and that cultivation could advance no further without striking against Heaven.
• A burly man with three heads and six arms walked toward the Immortal Lord.

The Immortal Lord used Dijiang’s inheritance to draw Xu Zimo toward the Sacred Court while planning to use the Divine Race to infiltrate the Kunxu Domain. Xu Zimo arrived in Yunzhong Prefecture to search for a fallen meteorite and challenge the Divine Emperor, reaching the city as its God Sacrifice Ceremony entered its final day.

• Jiuxuan Sacred General reported that the Divine Emperor and the Divine Race had agreed to cooperate with the Sacred Court.
• The Immortal Lord ordered Thirteen and Thirty-Five to act while revealing that he held Dijiang’s inheritance as bait for Xu Zimo.
• The Immortal Lord explained that the Divine Race was a pawn meant to test Xu Zimo and divide the Nine Domains’ alliance.
• Xu Zimo traveled to the Kunxu Domain to find the meteorite left by the True Martial Great Emperor’s failed attempt to fell Heaven and to challenge the Divine Emperor.
• Xu Zimo arrived unseen in Yunzhong Prefecture during the final day of its three-day God Sacrifice Ceremony.

During the God-Inviting Ceremony in Cloud County, Xu Zimo met Xu Sanduo, a candied hawthorn seller shunned for refusing to worship gods. After buying all of Xu Sanduo’s goods, Xu Zimo said he had slain gods, leaving Xu Sanduo stunned and excited.

• Xu Zimo walked through Cloud County during the God-Inviting Ceremony and examined a portrait of the Food God at a wonton stall.
• The crowd mocked Xu Sanduo for not believing in gods, and the wonton shop owner warned Xu Zimo to avoid him.
• Xu Zimo revealed that he also did not believe in gods, prompting the shop owner to drive him away.
• Xu Zimo bought Xu Sanduo’s candied hawthorns with Spirit Crystals, while Xu Sanduo accepted only what he considered fair payment.
• Xu Zimo told Xu Sanduo that he had slain gods, and Xu Sanduo trembled with excitement and asked whether he was joking.

Xu Zimo and Xu Sanduo bonded over their shared desire to slay gods, until the Divine Attendant Guards arrived with a wanted notice bearing Xu Zimo’s likeness. After the crowd exposed him and the guards surrounded them, Xu Zimo prepared to face the God Clan openly, while Xu Sanduo stood by him.

• Xu Zimo told Xu Sanduo that gods were merely powerful cultivators, and Xu Sanduo was moved to find someone who shared his family’s goal of slaying gods.
• The Divine Attendant Guards arrived in Yunzhong Prefecture and announced a reward for information about a criminal wanted by the gods.
• Xu Zimo recognized himself in the wanted portrait and decided to march into the Divine Court rather than hide from the God Clan.
• Xu Sanduo recognized Xu Zimo in the portrait but said he was unafraid and remained at his side.
• The wonton stall owner identified Xu Zimo, and the crowd backed away as the Divine Attendant Guards surrounded Xu Zimo and Xu Sanduo.
• The guards urged the crowd to help capture Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo dismissed them as noisy.

Xu Zimo froze Yunzhong Prefecture and decided to kill the Divine Attendant Guards who had helped expose his whereabouts, arguing that the God Clan’s brainwashing could only be ended by slaying the gods themselves. Xiao Tianzhu arrived carrying seven divine statues, including the Heavenly God, and Xu Zimo invited him to use them.

• Xu Zimo immobilized the people in Yunzhong Prefecture and asked Xu Sanduo how he should deal with the Divine Attendant Guards and the commoners who had exposed him.
• Xu Sanduo said the guards could be killed while the ordinary people were not implicated, but Xu Zimo called those who supplied clues accomplices and explained how the God Clan had indoctrinated the Kunxu Domain.
• Xu Zimo concluded that the believers would only wake up if the gods were slain, then took an arrest warrant and questioned a Divine Attendant Guard about why the God Clan was hunting him.
• Xu Zimo began compressing space around the Divine Attendant Guards, but Xiao Tianzhu arrived and asked him to leave Yunzhong Prefecture without further bloodshed.
• Xu Zimo challenged Xiao Tianzhu to protect the guards, noticed the seven statues he carried, and learned that the central statue represented the Heavenly God while the other six represented genuine divine attendants.

Xiao Tianzhu and Yunzhong Prefecture’s people recited the Divine Initiation Scriptures, opening a gateway through which six divine attendants descended. Xu Zimo seized control of their Divine Net and killed them, then faced the powerful figure emerging from the vortex.

• Xiao Tianzhu led the people of Yunzhong Prefecture in reciting the Divine Initiation Scriptures, causing the seven stone statues to open a golden vortex.
• Xu Sanduo explained that the scriptures served as a threshold for worshipping gods, while Xu Zimo warned that the believers were nourishment for the gods.
• Six divine attendants emerged from the vortex and accused Xu Zimo of opposing the gods and threatening Yunzhong Prefecture.
• The six divine attendants cast a Divine Net over Xu Zimo, but he took control of it and ensnared them.
• A force from the vortex struck at the net, but Xu Zimo destroyed it and used the net to kill all six divine attendants.
• A powerful figure slowly stepped out of the vortex.

Xu Zimo confronted the Heavenly God of Cloud County and discovered that the Divine Clan drew its strength from the faith of its followers. After the Heavenly God attacked him, Xu Zimo shattered his spear and moved in to strike, but the god turned insubstantial to evade him.

• The Heavenly God appeared and recognized Xu Zimo as the Devil Master, then challenged him for killing his attendants and causing trouble in Cloud County.
• Xu Zimo accused the Divine Clan of making a deal with the Holy Court, and the Heavenly God attacked with the Sky-Covering Great Palm.
• Xu Zimo withstood the attack and realized that the Divine Clan borrowed power from the faith of its people.
• The Heavenly God encouraged the crowd to condemn Xu Zimo, drawing more faith and strengthening himself.
• The Heavenly God thrust his spear at Xu Zimo, who crushed its tip and rushed at him.
• The Heavenly God turned insubstantial to avoid Xu Zimo's punch, but Xu Zimo struck at the empty space with a palm.

Xu Zimo overwhelmed the Heavenly God, who forcibly drained the lives of nearly a hundred thousand people in Yunzhong Commandery to empower himself. Xu Zimo cut down the god and left him begging for his life.

• Xu Zimo's palm strike tore the Heavenly God out of the void and left him badly injured, shocking the people below.
• The Heavenly God forcibly made the people recite the Divine Entry Scripture, draining their life force to gather faith power.
• Xu Zimo condemned the believers for surrendering their autonomy, while Xu Sanduo watched their suffering.
• The empowered Heavenly God grew enormous and stomped down, killing countless people, but Xu Zimo severed one of his legs with Overlord Shadow.
• The Heavenly God tried to flee, but Xu Zimo pinned him down and cut off his remaining leg.
• The Heavenly God begged Xu Zimo to spare him and promised to stop the God Clan's hunt, but Xu Zimo rejected his offer.

Xu Zimo killed the Heavenly God and declared his intention to destroy the God Clan. He then created and taught Xu Sanduo the Art of Commanding Heaven, leaving him with a path to challenge the surviving gods.

• Xu Zimo killed the Heavenly God, destroying his divine soul and causing his borrowed divine power to dissipate.
• Xu Sanduo asked Xu Zimo to teach him the art of slaying gods, and Xu Zimo said any art mastered fully could slay gods.
• Xu Zimo offered to create a cultivation art that would guide Xu Sanduo to the Great Emperor Realm.
• Xu Zimo created the Art of Commanding Heaven so Xu Sanduo could contend with the gods for control over all things.
• Xu Zimo passed the art's secrets into Xu Sanduo's mind, and Xu Sanduo closed his eyes as he received them.

Xu Zimo learned that a meteorite had fallen toward the Divine Ruins and set out with Xu Sanduo to find it. As they passed over Beginningless City, a powerful divine sense detected Xu Zimo, and State Preceptor Sikong Zhaixing rose to ask who had arrived.

• Xu Zimo gave Xu Sanduo knowledge of the Art of Guiding Heaven, then asked whether he knew where the meteorite had fallen.
• Xu Sanduo said the meteorite had fallen northwest, but a giant hand from the Divine Ruins had seized it.
• Xu Zimo agreed to let Xu Sanduo guide him to the Divine Ruins beneath the Divine Court, in the Divine Soil.
• As they flew over Beginningless City, Xu Zimo noticed a divine sense locking onto him from a hazy aura surrounding the city.
• More than a dozen figures rose from the Beginningless Palace, and State Preceptor Sikong Zhaixing asked Xu Zimo to identify himself.

Xu Zimo arrived in Wushi City, where Sikong Zhaixing struggled to decide whether to obey the Divine Court’s wanted notice or avoid provoking him. After Xia Long Wu offered a divine command token in exchange for capturing Xu Zimo, Sikong Zhaixing agreed to invoke the ancestral artifact, the Wushi Bell.

• Xu Zimo appeared before Sikong Zhaixing and said he had lingered in Wushi City out of interest.
• Grand General Xia Long Wu attacked Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo’s cold snort shattered Xia Long Wu’s meridians and left him near death.
• Xia Long Wu offered Sikong Zhaixing a divine command token and promised the Divine Court would withdraw its faith from Wushi Imperial Dynasty territory if Xu Zimo were captured.
• Sikong Zhaixing weighed the offer, then agreed with the others to invoke the ancestral artifact against Xu Zimo.
• Sikong Zhaixing called on Lord Wushi Bell to act in the imperial dynasty’s grave peril.

The Beginningless Bell emerged to protect Beginningless City after Xu Zimo defeated Xia Long Wu and threatened to wipe out the city. Xu Zimo drew Overlord Shadow and warned the Bell that he was on a higher level than the Beginningless Imperial Lord, setting the stage for their battle.

• The Beginningless Bell, a sapient entity left by the Beginningless Imperial Lord to guard the city, had been the source of the divine consciousness that targeted Xu Zimo.
• Sikong Zhaixing and the others prayed for the Bell to appear while Xu Zimo told Xu Sanduo that he would likely destroy Beginningless City, though he had no interest in destroying the entire dynasty.
• The Beginningless Bell tolled across the city, and azure light rose into the sky as citizens realized the divine artifact had emerged.
• An ancient man in an azure robe appeared from the Bell and told Xu Zimo that he had not encountered an opponent like him since the Beginningless Imperial Lord.
• Xu Zimo drew Overlord Shadow and warned the Beginningless Bell that he was not the Imperial Lord, but a being on a higher dimension, leaving Sikong Zhaixing and the others pale.

The Beginningless Bell challenged Xu Zimo to free the Beginningless Imperial Dynasty from the Divine Court’s influence, and the two fought. The bell trapped Xu Zimo inside its body, where its power began refining his Great Way.

• The Beginningless Bell explained that destroying the Divine Court would make it an enemy of the whole world, but it chose to fight Xu Zimo instead.
• Xu Zimo dismissed the bell’s probing attacks and struck its manifested human form, prompting the bell to reveal its enormous bronze true body.
• The Beginningless Bell rang nine times and suppressed Xu Zimo before descending over him and trapping him inside.
• Sikong Zhaixing and the others celebrated, believing no one could escape the bell’s refining power.
• Inside the bell, Xu Zimo endured its chimes and realized that its Great Way power was refining his own Great Way.

Xu Zimo endured the Beginningless Bell's refining power and used it to temper his Great Way Power until the bell could no longer suppress him. He lifted the bell unharmed and confronted Sikong Zhaixing and the others, who had expected him to die.

• Xu Zimo sat inside the Beginningless Bell and endured its chimes as it gradually wore away his Great Way Power.
• While waiting outside, Sikong Zhaixing and the others discussed taking control of the dynasty after Xu Zimo's death, though Sikong Zhaixing warned them not to speak carelessly around the bell.
• After seven days, Xu Zimo's Great Way Power remained resilient, and the Beginningless Bell failed to refine it completely.
• Xu Zimo opened his eyes, declared the tempering had reached its limit, and lifted the Beginningless Bell with one hand.
• Sikong Zhaixing and the others saw Xu Zimo unharmed and stronger than before, and Xu Zimo asked how they wanted to die.

Xu Zimo fought the Beginningless Bell and shattered it with repeated punches, while Sikong Zhaixing and the others failed to help. The bell’s fragments tried to flee with its consciousness of wisdom still intact, but Xu Zimo stopped them in midair.

• The Beginningless Bell recalled how the Imperial Lord had helped it evolve and chose to repay that kindness by fighting Xu Zimo to the death.
• Sikong Zhaixing urged the others to help the bell, and they launched attacks alongside its charge.
• Xu Zimo erased their attacks and struck the Beginningless Bell with his fists, cracking its bronze body as the clash’s shockwaves killed people in Beginningless City.
• Xu Zimo battered the bell until it exploded into fragments, leaving its consciousness of wisdom intact within them.
• The fragments fled in different directions, but Xu Zimo froze them in place.

Xu Zimo refined the Beginningless Bell, restored its intelligent entity to its original form, and razed Beginningless City into a desert. He then took Xu Sanduo to the Divine Ruins to seek Twilight of the Gods, arriving at a busy market to gather information.

• Xu Zimo sealed the fragments of the Beginningless Bell and refined them, erasing the bell’s influence on its intelligent entity.
• The intelligent entity took human form, and Xu Zimo decided it could become Overlord Shadow’s soul during its next tempering.
• Xu Zimo buried Beginningless City and its fertile surroundings beneath yellow sand, turning the land into a desert.
• Xu Zimo told Xu Sanduo that they would settle the Divine Court’s matter first and that he wanted Twilight of the Gods.
• Xu Zimo and Xu Sanduo reached the Divine Ruins, entered a nearby market during a fair, and began looking for information.

Xu Zimo took Xu Sanduo to the Earth God Hall auction near the Divine Ruins and entered by taking a token from another attendee. Inside, they found the crowded auction hall was as crude as its exterior.

• Xu Zimo noticed that many people in the ordinary market near the Divine Ruins were powerful and suspected the Earth God Hall was an opportunity connecting the inside and outside of the ruins.
• Xu Zimo and Xu Sanduo learned that entry required a token, which members received by presenting an ancient relic.
• Xu Zimo froze a black-robed attendee and took his token, prompting Shuang'er to accuse him of robbery while her older sister tried to calm her.
• Xu Zimo entered the Earth God Hall with Xu Sanduo after one guard waved them through, and the guards discussed how refusing him might have cost them their lives.
• Xu Zimo found the packed Earth God Hall to be as crude inside as it was outside, with seats for thousands and boxes arranged on a raised platform.

Xu Zimo and Xu Sanduo attended an auction featuring artifacts excavated from the Divine Ruins, where Xu Zimo clashed verbally with Zhou Tongtong of the Left Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals. The auction’s significance grew when Elder Yu of the Earth God Institute appeared to preside over it.

• Xu Zimo learned that the auction items had been dug up from the Divine Ruins and considered whether any materials could help reforge Overlord Shadow.
• Zhou Yunque introduced herself and Zhou Tongtong as members of the Left Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, but Xu Zimo dismissed their attempts to engage him.
• Zhou Tongtong mocked the Beginningless Imperial Dynasty and argued that the potential rewards made excavating the Divine Ruins worth the danger.
• Elder Yu arrived at the platform, drawing attention from the crowd as the Earth God Institute’s prominent auctioneer.