Chapter Summaries

Xu Zimo entered the forbidden ground surrounding the Divine Emperor's Mausoleum and attacked its seven Divine General guards. Meanwhile, Divine Slave investigated the fallen meteor and learned that its stone shell was protected by the True Martial Great Emperor's sword intent.

• Xu Zimo refused to take Xu Sanduo into the coming battle and told Old Ghost to reveal the route to the Divine Emperor's Mausoleum.
• Old Ghost pointed Xu Zimo east, explaining that the road beyond the Fire God Mausoleum was an unknown forbidden ground and that seven Divine Emperors were buried beyond it.
• Xu Zimo crossed the Fire God Mausoleum and entered the deathly forbidden ground, where its aura began draining his vitality.
• Seven Divine Generals confronted Xu Zimo, and he killed three with a single slash before the survivors crushed tokens to summon Lord Executor.
• Divine Slave questioned his subordinates about the enormous meteor, and they reported that the True Martial Great Emperor's sword intent protected its stone shell.

Xu Zimo entered the first section of the Divine Emperor’s tomb, where the Divine Slave and five powerful God Clan experts confronted him. After Xu Zimo killed a Divine Lord and the Blue Sea God King with ease, the survivors realized the Divine Emperor had feared him and fled to seek reinforcements.

• The Divine Slave gathered three Divine Lords and two God Kings after receiving an enemy-attack warning and went to investigate.
• Xu Zimo arrived at the tomb of the sixth-generation Kasyapa Divine Emperor, and the Blue Sea God King and Desolation God King recognized him as the man the God Clan had been hunting.
• Xu Zimo told the Divine Slave that he had come for the meteorite and to destroy the God Clan, prompting the Divine Slave and the others to attack together.
• Xu Zimo killed the Three Absolutes Divine Lord and the Blue Sea God King in a single exchange, overwhelming the other attackers.
• The Divine Slave and the surviving God Clan experts retreated and decided to split up and flee to the Divine Court for reinforcements.

Xu Zimo trapped the God Clan fighters and offered to spare whoever survived their battle, prompting the Desolation God King to turn on Divine Slaves. The Desolation God King fought through Divine Slaves and the two God Lords, then killed Divine Slaves, while Xu Zimo watched.

• Xu Zimo froze the surrounding time and space, trapping everyone and declaring that they had to kill him or die.
• Xu Zimo offered to let the last survivor live if the God Clan fighters killed one another, and the Desolation God King attacked Divine Slaves instead of Xu Zimo.
• The Desolation God King shattered Divine Slaves' heart, then fought him with the Heaven-Covering God Lord and the Star Dipper God Lord joining in.
• Divine Slaves struck the Desolation God King's heart, but the Desolation God King revealed he had moved his faith seed and continued attacking.
• The Desolation God King pierced Divine Slaves' forehead, destroyed his divine soul, and suppressed him with the Great Dao of Desolation.

Xu Zimo killed the Desolation Divine King and the remaining Divine Slaves, then met the remnant consciousness of Kasyapa Divine Emperor in the mausoleum. He unlocked the meteorite with the True Martial Great Emperor’s jade pendant and sank his consciousness into the strange mass inside it.

• The Desolation Divine King killed the Heaven-Covering Divine Lord and Star Dipper Divine Lord, then begged Xu Zimo to spare him.
• Xu Zimo revealed that he had never intended to let the Desolation Divine King live and destroyed him along with the Divine Slaves.
• Kasyapa Divine Emperor appeared as a remnant consciousness and calmly spoke with Xu Zimo about the God Clan’s fate.
• Xu Zimo placed the jade pendant on the meteorite, causing its outer stone layer to peel away and reveal a shapeless mass.
• Xu Zimo touched the mass with his Great Way Power, and his consciousness sank into it without resistance.

Xu Zimo witnessed True Martial Great Emperor’s final battle against the Heavenly Dao and learned why his attempt to fell Heaven had failed. The vision ended after True Martial Great Emperor cut away a piece of the Heavenly Dao, leaving Xu Zimo to conclude that only creation could overcome the dead end of refining worlds.

• Xu Zimo watched True Martial Great Emperor fight through the Great Way and the universe toward a nine-story Treasure Pagoda.
• The Treasure Pagoda stripped away True Martial Great Emperor’s Great Way power, so he summoned the Yuanyang Continent and fused it with the True Martial Sword.
• True Martial Great Emperor’s momentum waned as he clashed with the Treasure Pagoda, until Hongtian briefly suppressed it by merging her body with the Great Way.
• True Martial Great Emperor used his final strike to cut a piece of the Heavenly Dao’s flesh and blood, but his attempt to fell Heaven still failed.
• Xu Zimo realized that the Yuanyang Continent was too small to contend with the Nine Domains World and concluded that creating a world was the only way forward.

After learning from True Martial Great Emperor’s memories that the Divine Continent needed to become a large world, Xu Zimo took the Heavenly Dao fragment and turned his attention to the Divine Court. He reached Black Tortoise Island, uprooted the Heaven Pillar, and announced his arrival to the Divine Court.

• Xu Zimo emerged from True Martial Great Emperor’s memories, collected the jellyfish-like Heavenly Dao fragment, and reflected on the Emperor’s failure.
• Candle Dragon contacted Xu Zimo through a projection and admitted that the Sacred Court’s benefits had led him to oppose Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo shattered Candle Dragon’s projection with Overlord Shadow and declared that he would fight his way into the Divine Court.
• Xu Zimo traveled to Black Tortoise Island, drove away the people climbing it, and uprooted the Heaven Pillar that led to the Divine Court.
• The Heaven Pillar’s collapse alerted the Divine Court that Xu Zimo had arrived.

Candle Dragon gathered the God Clan’s forces and two Sacred Emperors to confront Xu Zimo, revealing that the Sacred Court had promised the God Clan control of the Niemo Domain. Xu Zimo rejected their arguments about fate and prepared to fight as Candle Dragon sent the divine soldiers and generals to test his strength.

• Candle Dragon appeared before Xu Zimo with God Kings, God Lords, divine soldiers, and generals, while Xu Zimo broke the Reversal God Lord’s domain and warned him not to interfere.
• Candle Dragon introduced the First Sacred Emperor and the Heaven-Reaching Sacred Emperor, confirming the Sacred Court’s involvement in the confrontation.
• Candle Dragon revealed that the Sacred Court had promised the God Clan the Niemo Domain if they killed Xu Zimo.
• The First Sacred Emperor and the Heaven-Reaching Sacred Emperor argued that challenging the heavens was futile, but Xu Zimo dismissed their claims and drew Overlord Shadow.
• Candle Dragon sent the divine soldiers and generals to attack Xu Zimo first so he could assess the Devil Master’s strength.

Xu Zimo slaughtered the God Clan’s forces on Black Tortoise Island while the Divine Emperor sent stronger fighters against him. He exposed the Divine Generals’ death-substitute technique and began severing their connection to it with Great Way Power.

• Xu Zimo expanded his body with Law Manifests Heaven and Earth and used Overlord Shadow to cut down countless divine soldiers and generals.
• People across the Kunxu Domain watched the battle, while the Divine Emperor ordered the God Clan’s Divine Generals and Divine Lords to attack Xu Zimo.
• Several dozen Divine Generals joined their power through the Undying Pattern and revived after Xu Zimo struck one of them down.
• Xu Zimo identified their apparent immortality as a death-substitute technique bound to their believers.
• Xu Zimo surrounded the Divine Generals with Great Way Power, causing their faith power to fade and their links to their substitutes to disappear.

Xu Zimo killed the Divine Generals who attacked him, then faced the Divine Lords and their faith-powered Gods and Buddhas. After learning that the Divine Lords used a formation and the mutated Reverse Devouring Great Way to share power, Xu Zimo put away his weapon and prepared to fight them barehanded.

• Divine General Fenglei charged Xu Zimo and was killed, after which the God Emperor ordered the other Divine Generals to attack.
• Xu Zimo slew all the Divine Generals with Overlord Shadow, shocking the spectators and shaking some believers’ faith in the God Race.
• The Divine Lords summoned Gods and Buddhas made from faith power, whose attacks grew stronger by sharing power through their formation.
• The Divine Lords revealed that they wielded the Reverse Devouring Great Way, a mutation of the Devouring Great Way that let them feed power to one another.
• Xu Zimo sheathed Overlord Shadow, invoked the Ten Great Divine Methods and the Great Ways of past, future, and present, then shattered half the cosmos with a wave of his hand.

Xu Zimo destroyed the Divine Lords’ fused golden body and killed them, then faced Candle Dragon and the Divine Emperor. The Divine Emperor called upon the Kunxu Domain’s believers, forcing them to chant scriptures as the battle escalated.

• Xu Zimo shattered the Divine Lords’ golden bodies with his fists and kicks, defeating their attempt to combine their power.
• Xu Zimo killed the wounded Divine Lords after the Divine Emperor refused to save them.
• Candle Dragon confronted Xu Zimo and said the Divine Court would become his burial ground.
• The Divine Emperor summoned faith power and forced the living beings of the Kunxu Domain to press their palms together and chant the Divine Race’s scriptures.

Xu Zimo faced the God Emperor and the God Kings after the God Clan drained the believers’ faith to empower their ruler. He crushed the Firmament God King’s attack and injured the God Emperor, then revealed his Creation Great Way as the battle continued.

• The believers lost control of their bodies as the God Clan drained their faith and life force to empower the God Emperor.
• The God Emperor attacked Xu Zimo with a giant hand formed from the domain’s faith, but Xu Zimo split it with his saber and charged into battle.
• The Firmament God King brought down the firmament to suppress Xu Zimo, who cleaved it apart and smashed the God King’s head with a kick.
• The God Emperor exchanged punches with Xu Zimo and ended up with a twisted arm, while Xu Zimo remained unharmed.
• The God Emperor unleashed a storm of rapid, powerful punches, and Xu Zimo gathered all ten million Great Ways into his Creation Great Way and raised his right hand.

Xu Zimo overwhelmed the Divine Emperor, pierced through his illusions, and wounded him with a slash that resisted healing. With the God Clan facing defeat, the Divine Emperor invoked a devastating plan that used the entire Kunxu Domain as an altar, draining the lives of its inhabitants.

• Xu Zimo sent the Divine Emperor flying and pressed his attack, treating the battle as a chance to hone his Great Way.
• The Divine Emperor created countless powerful avatars with his Way of Illusion and Reality, but Xu Zimo saw through them and struck his true body with Overlord Shadow.
• Xu Zimo’s slash wounded the Divine Emperor at the Great Way’s origin, preventing him from healing quickly.
• The Divine Emperor told the Divine Kings he would use a desperate move, and the God Clan agreed to bear its consequences to survive.
• The Divine Emperor began turning the entire Kunxu Domain into an altar, causing countless people to rapidly lose their life force.

Xu Zimo slaughtered the God Kings while the Divine Emperor absorbed life across the Kunxu Domain, and the Sacred Court's two Saint Emperors finally entered the battle. Xu Zimo tore the Heaven-Connecting Saint Emperor out of his hidden kingdom, while the Eternal Saint Emperor stepped out from the eternal future to save him.

• Xu Zimo killed God Kings with casual attacks as the survivors burned their essence blood and the Divine Emperor accelerated his life absorption.
• Xu Sanduo reflected on how the people who had scorned him for rejecting the gods were now being sacrificed, and worried whether Xu Zimo could end the crisis.
• The Eternal Saint Emperor and Heaven-Connecting Saint Emperor joined the battle after the God Kings demanded their help, using their unusual Great Daos to avoid confronting Xu Zimo directly.
• Xu Zimo entered the Heaven-Connecting Kingdom, broke through its defenses, and dragged the Heaven-Connecting Saint Emperor out from behind a bronze gate.
• The Eternal Saint Emperor stepped out from the eternal future and shouted that he would save the Heaven-Connecting Saint Emperor.

Xu Zimo killed the Saint Court’s two Saint Emperors and slaughtered the God Kings who fought for the God Clan. He then confronted the God Emperor, whose power had surged through sacrifices, and admitted he might need to reveal more of his strength to win.

• Xu Zimo traced the First Saint Emperor’s connection through the void, captured him, and killed him and the Heaven-reaching Saint Emperor, destroying their divine souls.
• A God King called on the others to die for the God Clan, and Xu Zimo cut down the charging God Kings with Overlord Shadow.
• Xu Zimo faced the demonized God Emperor, whose body was protected by the life force and blood essence of countless sacrificed believers.
• The God Emperor overpowered Xu Zimo and sent him flying, prompting Xu Zimo to acknowledge that he might not win without revealing more of his power.

Xu Zimo used the Scripture of Three Lives to awaken the countless lives absorbed by the God Emperor, disrupting his focus as they fought. The God Emperor lost his will to fight and offered to make peace, but Xu Zimo refused to let him withdraw without paying a price.

• Xu Zimo used the Scripture of Three Lives to stir the consciousnesses of the lives within the God Emperor.
• The God Emperor fought Xu Zimo through dozens of clashes as the voices in his mind grew louder and Xu Zimo’s Great Dao advanced.
• Xu Zimo fell into demonic madness and attacked relentlessly, while the God Emperor regained his clarity and began to fear for his life.
• The God Emperor admitted he did not want to die because the god clan would collapse without him, and he offered to meet any demand and stop opposing Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo told the God Emperor, whom he called Candle Dragon, that he could not simply withdraw and asked whether the god clan’s losses were enough to settle its crimes.

Xu Zimo killed the God Emperor by awakening the countless consciousnesses he had absorbed, leaving the Kunxu Domain’s dead to continue as the new Soul Race. Before heading to the Calamity Immortal Domain to confront the Sacred Court, Xu Zimo secluded himself to study the Heavenly Dao Core, only to discover that his Divine Continent wanted to devour it.

• Xu Zimo used the Three Lives Scripture to awaken the consciousnesses within the God Emperor, who begged for mercy before exploding in body and soul.
• The God Emperor’s absorbed consciousnesses emerged as soul bodies, forming a new race that Xu Zimo believed would lead the future Kunxu Domain.
• Xu Zimo remained unable to break through to one hundred million Great Daos and planned to prepare for his coming confrontation with the Sacred Court.
• Xu Zimo secluded himself to study the Heavenly Dao Core, but found it hostile and difficult to comprehend.
• Xu Zimo released the Divine Continent’s power, and the Heavenly Dao Core fled from it as the two forces chased each other within his body.

Xu Zimo’s Divine Continent devoured the Heavenly Dao Core, showing him visions of the Nine Domains World’s creation and the Nine Domains Immortal Venerable’s departure. He began reshaping his world toward a universe, starting with a black hole, while the Sacred Court received the Sacred Ancestor’s decree.

• Xu Zimo realized the Divine Continent and Heavenly Dao Core were both trying to devour each other, then used the Divine Continent to corner and consume the core.
• As the Heavenly Dao Core was devoured, Xu Zimo saw the Nine Domains World at its creation and the Nine Domains Immortal Venerable leaving in a light blue robe.
• Xu Zimo learned from the vision that the Heavenly Dao gained self-awareness after the Immortal Venerable left, and the Nine Domains World began to decline and became sealed off.
• After absorbing the core, Xu Zimo’s Divine Continent began evolving, and he chose the universe as his model for its future form.
• Xu Zimo found that evolving a universe required far more power than he had, so he began developing his world’s rudimentary form into a black hole.
• The Sacred Ancestor’s sacred decree was issued within the Sacred Court.

The Sacred Ancestor issued the Sacred Court Token and ordered the Sacred Court to seal the Calamity Immortal Domain and stop Xu Zimo before he could fell Heaven. As the battle approached, memories revealed that the Sacred Ancestor had once admired the Great Ancient Divine King and wanted to fell Heaven himself.

• The Sacred Ancestor learned that the First-Life Sacred Emperor and the Heaven-Piercing Sacred Emperor had died, and the Ox Demon Sacred Emperor said the God Race had failed to reveal Xu Zimo's full strength.
• The Sacred Ancestor confirmed the Sacred Court Token had been issued and heard that people across the Nine Domains were gathering at the Sacred Court.
• The Sacred Ancestor ordered the Thirty-Six Emperors to seal the Calamity Immortal Domain and defend the Nine Domains passageways, even if they perished with Xu Zimo.
• The Sacred Ancestor recalled his youth as a member of the Longevity Tree race, when he revered the Great Ancient Divine King and believed he would succeed in felling Heaven.
• The Sacred Ancestor remembered that the Great Ancient Divine King had lost the battle to fell Heaven.

The Sacred Ancestor recalled how fear drove him to serve the Heavenly Dao and staked everything on his battle in the Hall of Eternal Cry. Meanwhile, Xu Zimo evolved a black hole prototype for the Divine Continent and realized that the Ancient Demon Cave might hold the key to breaking through the hundred million Great Daos.

• The Sacred Ancestor remembered submitting to the Heavenly Dao after witnessing its power, then being humiliated when the Devil Master ignored him and walked past.
• The Sacred Ancestor declared that he was willing to stake everything on the battle against an unknown existence above the heavens.
• Xu Zimo completed the black hole prototype by digesting the Heavenly Dao Core, advancing the Divine Continent's growth and enriching its spiritual qi.
• Xu Zimo realized that his opportunity to break through the hundred million Great Daos lay within the Ancient Demon Cave beyond the outer realms.
• Xu Zimo recalled that Ancient Gods' power could break the Sacred Court's seal on the outer realms and that he had gathered eight of the nine Ancient Gods.

Xu Zimo chose to avoid a premature war with the Holy Court and focused on gathering allies and freeing the Devil Race. He convened representatives from six domains to discuss his plan to defy Heaven, but the Queen Mother of the West questioned whether the time was right.

• Xu Zimo realized the Holy Court possessed Emperor Jiang's inheritance and decided to build his strength before confronting the Holy Ancestor and Immortal Lord.
• After the Divine Emperor's death released the souls of Kunxu Domain's dead, Xu Zimo resolved to find a way to unseal the Devil Race.
• Xu Zimo traveled through layers of space to meet representatives of six domains, including Fan Mo Great Emperor, the Lord of the Dead, Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and Zhuge Yan.
• Zhuge Yan greeted Xu Zimo as Ancestor and reported that the True Martial Sacred Sect was safe.
• Xu Zimo declared that he desired to defy Heaven, and the Queen Mother of the West asked whether it was too soon.