Chapter Summaries

Xu Zimo killed Gongsun Yu despite Brahma’s demand to release him, turning their conflict into a fight to the death. Brahma attacked, but Xu Zimo imprisoned him with the Great Dao character for Restriction and dismissed his strength as brute force.

• Xu Zimo tortured Gongsun Yu’s divine soul, and Brahma prepared to intervene when Gongsun Yu could no longer endure it.
• Wang Changqing mocked Brahma and offered to help Xu Zimo, but said he would wait for Xu Zimo to act first.
• Brahma demanded that Xu Zimo release Gongsun Yu and fight him, but Xu Zimo killed Gongsun Yu’s body and divine soul.
• Brahma charged at Xu Zimo in rage, and Xu Zimo formed the Great Dao character for Restriction to imprison him in the void.
• Xu Zimo called Brahma a slightly stronger ant as Brahma pushed his Indestructible Golden Body to its limit.

Brahma broke free of Xu Zimo’s suppression, but Tianjizi stopped his attack and forbade the two men from fighting inside Tianxia Tower. Their dispute remained unresolved, and the Long Wu King arrived, bringing the danger of another confrontation over his son’s death.

• Brahma shattered Xu Zimo’s spatial restraint and struck at him, but a Taiji leaf deflected his punch and set him aside.
• Tianjizi intervened and asked Brahma and Xu Zimo to end their conflict inside Tianxia Tower.
• Brahma agreed to Tianjizi’s terms, and Xu Zimo also agreed out of gratitude for Tianjizi’s earlier divination.
• The Long Wu King arrived with elite soldiers, prompting Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to worry because Xu Zimo had killed his son.
• The Long Wu King entered with two companions and greeted Tianjizi.

Long Wu, Lu Changqing, and a mysterious red-robed woman arrived at Tianxia Tower seeking Xu Zimo. Lu Changqing hoped to recruit Xu Zimo for the Yan Chi Dynasty’s upcoming Tournament of Myriad Nations, while Long Wu concealed his desire to avenge his slain son.

• Long Wu and Lu Changqing arrived at Tianxia Tower with a red-robed woman and told Tianjizi they had come by imperial decree.
• The woman said they were looking for someone, and Long Wu showed a portrait of Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo recognized Lu Changqing as the Dragon Guard Prefecture Lord and noted Long Wu’s concealed fury over his son’s death.
• Long Wu had traveled to Sun City to avenge his son, but Lu Changqing intervened by telling the sovereign about Xu Zimo’s strength.
• Lu Changqing investigated Xu Zimo and decided to recruit him to fight for the Yan Chi Dynasty in the Tournament of Myriad Nations.

The Sovereign ordered King Long Wu to postpone his revenge against Xu Zimo until after the Myriad Nations Conference, then summoned Xu Zimo to the palace. As Xu Zimo went to meet him, one of King Long Wu’s men invited Fan Tian to dine with his master.

• The Sovereign and Lu Changqing persuaded King Long Wu to set aside his grudge against Xu Zimo until after the conference, and King Long Wu agreed while warning that he would seek revenge later.
• The Sovereign sent Lu Changqing, King Long Wu, and Lian to bring Xu Zimo to him.
• Xu Zimo accepted the summons and told Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to return while he went to the palace.
• After Xu Zimo left Tianxia Tower, an old man told Fan Tian that King Long Wu wanted to invite him to a meal.

Fantian agreed to meet King Long Wu after learning they shared a grudge against Xu Zimo, while Tianjizi withdrew Qian Kun Hall from the Myriad Nations Conference. Xu Zimo entered the imperial palace to meet the monarch alone and stood before him without bowing.

• Fantian learned that King Long Wu's son had been killed by Xu Zimo and agreed to discuss joining forces against him.
• Tianjizi ordered Qian Kun Hall not to place bets or get involved in this year's Myriad Nations Conference because he could not see how events would unfold.
• Xu Zimo and his companions traveled through the Inner City and entered the Yan Chi Dynasty's imperial palace.
• Lu Changqing and King Long Wu stopped outside the Golden Palace Hall, leaving Xu Zimo to meet the monarch alone.
• Xu Zimo refused to bow to the monarch and asked him to state directly why he had summoned him.

The sovereign tried to recruit Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo demanded the imperial throne and openly declared that he wanted to become emperor. The sovereign ordered his people to seize Xu Zimo, and Lian and Lu Changqing attacked him.

• The sovereign offered Xu Zimo rewards and a place in the Yan Chi Dynasty, but Xu Zimo said he wanted the throne beneath him.
• The sovereign called Xu Zimo treacherous and ordered his men to seize him after Xu Zimo said emperors took turns and it was his turn.
• Lu Changqing and Lian rushed into the Golden Palace Hall, while Long Wu followed at his own pace, and they learned Xu Zimo wanted to be emperor.
• The sovereign ordered Lian, Lu Changqing, and Long Wu to attack Xu Zimo.
• Lian sent torrents of black lotus petals at Xu Zimo, and Lu Changqing summoned golden dragons to attack him.

Xu Zimo fought King Long Wu, Lu Changqing, and Lian, redirecting their combined attack and destroying the Golden Palace Hall. As the battle moved into the air, Xu Zimo revealed that his second fruit had ripened and granted him the power called Tracing the Source.

• King Long Wu, Lu Changqing, and Lian joined forces to attack Xu Zimo, but he restrained their assault and sent it back at them.
• The three dodged the redirected attack, which destroyed the Golden Palace Hall and darkened the monarch's expression.
• Xu Zimo and his three opponents rose into the air, where he rejected Lu Changqing's attempt to persuade him and said he wanted the throne.
• Xu Zimo revealed that his second fruit had ripened, marking his advancement to the Second Heaven of the Nine Heavens Beyond Bounds.
• The fruit fell from the ancient tree within Xu Zimo, and he gained the ability called Tracing the Source.

Xu Zimo used the power of tracing origins to undo the three opponents’ Great Ways, returning their powerful manifestations to their weakest primordial forms. Lu Changqing, Lian’s confidant, and Long Wu were left reeling as their years of cultivation and effort unraveled.

• Lu Changqing, Lian’s confidant, and Long Wu unleashed their Great Ways against Xu Zimo, sending golden dragons, the Gods and Devils Lotus, and the Time-Space Millstone to attack him.
• Xu Zimo said their power was strong on the outside but weak within, then spread the power of tracing origins across the sky.
• Xu Zimo returned the Gods and Devils Lotus to a lotus seed, leaving Lian’s confidant shocked as the core of her Great Way was undone.
• Xu Zimo reduced Long Wu’s Time-Space Millstone to a Gate of Time and Space, leaving Long Wu with less than a tenth of his power.
• Xu Zimo turned Lu Changqing’s golden dragons into fry, undoing the Dragon Guard Manor’s costly cultivation efforts.

Xu Zimo killed King Long Wu, Lian, and Lu Changqing after using Reversion to Origin to strip away their strength, then defeated the King with Breaking Through Realms. The King ultimately chose to hand over the jade seal, leaving Xu Zimo poised to take control of the Yan Chi Dynasty.

• Xu Zimo used Reversion to Origin to weaken King Long Wu, Lian, and Lu Changqing, then killed them with saber qi.
• The King summoned the Son of Heaven Sword, which carried the Yan Chi Dynasty's dragon fortune and Dragon Vein, and challenged Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo met the King's faith power with Breaking Through Realms and pierced him with his saber.
• Xu Zimo demanded that the King yield the throne, explaining that he wanted the dynasty's intelligence and manpower.
• The King turned away and took out the jade seal that represented supreme authority and the Heavenly Mandate.

Xu Zimo forced the Sovereign to hand over the imperial jade seal and arranged for him to announce his abdication at court. The chapter ended with the Sovereign declaring his intention to abdicate, shocking the assembled officials.

• Xu Zimo took the jade seal after the Sovereign admitted defeat and agreed to surrender the throne.
• Xu Zimo spared the Sovereign so he could formally cede the throne and give Xu Zimo legitimacy.
• The Sovereign ordered the palace soldiers to withdraw and called a large morning court at Qilin Hall for the next day.
• Officials gathered at Qilin Hall and questioned the Sovereign about the battle and the assembly.
• The Sovereign told the officials that he had ruled for several hundred years, could no longer govern, and wished to abdicate.

The monarch announced that he would abdicate and named Xu Zimo as his successor, shocking the ministers and provoking the West Garrison General. When Xu Zimo attacked the general with a blade aura, its power startled him.

• Grand Chancellor Xu Qingyun and the ministers urged the monarch to withdraw his abdication, but he insisted he had chosen a successor.
• The monarch introduced Xu Zimo and declared that he would yield the throne to him that day.
• The West Garrison General challenged Xu Zimo and argued that the ministers should approve the successor so they could control the new emperor.
• Xu Zimo unleashed a blade aura at the West Garrison General, who drew his sword and then realized the attack's power was far greater than expected.

Xu Zimo killed the General Who Suppressed the West and the General Who Conquered the North, then demanded that the ministers accept his rise to the throne. The ministers stayed silent, the monarch declared the matter settled, and Xu Zimo took the Dragon Throne as Grand Sacrificer Zhou Bo became the first to kneel and support him.

• Xu Zimo killed the General Who Suppressed the West with a single saber strike, shocking and angering the court officials.
• The General Who Conquered the North attacked Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo extinguished his power and killed him with a palm strike.
• Xu Zimo asked the ministers who supported or opposed his becoming emperor, and no one dared object.
• The monarch declared the matter settled and urged the ministers to assist the new emperor.
• Xu Zimo sat on the Dragon Throne, and Grand Sacrificer Zhou Bo knelt to congratulate him and declare his support.

Xu Zimo consolidated his authority by rewarding Zhou Bo and reshuffling senior court positions. The Grand Chancellor and his allies yielded, while Zhou Bo became Minister of Personnel.

• Zhou Bo backed Xu Zimo and prompted several other officials to kneel in support.
• Xu Zimo learned Zhou Bo was Grand Sacrificial Master and ordered him to replace the Grand Chancellor, who would take Zhou Bo’s former post.
• The Grand Chancellor and his faction protested until Xu Zimo challenged them for refusing to acknowledge him as His Majesty.
• The Grand Chancellor yielded to Xu Zimo’s command, and much of the civil official faction followed.
• Zhou Bo pretended to reject the promotion, so Xu Zimo appointed him Minister of Personnel instead.

After becoming emperor, Xu Zimo secured the ministers’ public submission while allowing them to retain much of their authority, intending to consolidate power gradually. He then freed the abdicated Monarch, who left the Imperial City that afternoon.

• The ministers agreed to yield the Minister of Personnel position to Xu Zimo, while planning to keep control of the court through other offices and armies.
• Zhou Bo became Minister of Personnel after supporting Xu Zimo, and the officials knelt as Xu Zimo took the throne.
• The ministers presented reports on regional problems to burden Xu Zimo, but he delegated them to the Six Ministers and the generals while demanding that his orders be obeyed.
• After court, the Monarch asked Xu Zimo whether he would kill or imprison him, and Xu Zimo said he would let him go.
• The Monarch left and gazed wistfully at the Imperial City that afternoon.

After becoming emperor, Xu Zimo investigated East Pole Island and learned that the Heaven's Sorrow Forbidden Land might be the only route to the outside world. Zhou Bo described its three trials and a past ruler who was rumored to have crossed it, leaving Xu Zimo seeking more information.

• Xu Zimo's accession caused an unprecedented uproar, while he trusted the army would not rebel and gave the remaining generals a chance to consolidate their forces.
• Xu Zimo ordered an investigation of East Pole Island and its surrounding lands, learning from the Book Pavilion that the island held the myriad nations, the Lin Demon Clan, and the Heaven's Sorrow Forbidden Land.
• Zhou Bo told Xu Zimo that the forbidden land had three trials: the Heaven-Climbing Ropeway, the Hell of Heads, and the Withered Tomb Within the Sword.
• Zhou Bo said a ruler three generations before the previous ruler of the Yan Chi Dynasty was rumored to have crossed the forbidden land amid extraordinary celestial signs.

Xu Zimo secured his rule by ordering the Five Mountains Elder’s son killed, while Fantian sought allies to stop him at the Myriad Nations Assembly. Fantian warned the four highest-ranked contestants that Xu Zimo had killed King Long Wu and would overwhelm them individually.

• Xu Zimo reflected on his plans for the Myriad Nations Assembly and the Lin Demon Clan, then ordered the Five Mountains Elder’s son killed.
• Fantian learned that King Long Wu had been killed and his residence sealed, leaving him furious and afraid of facing Xu Zimo alone.
• Fantian invited Dugu Wuya, Li Wujiu, Jin Peng, and Shi E to a banquet to seek their help against Xu Zimo.
• The four guests resisted Fantian’s request, but he argued that Xu Zimo had likely killed King Long Wu and would claim victory if they fought him separately.

Brahma persuaded the strongest figures at the Myriad Nations Assembly to join forces against Xu Zimo, warning that his power and ambitions threatened them all. Before the assembly began, Xu Zimo met Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan and discussed traveling alone because his enemies might put them in danger.

• Brahma urged Li Wujiao, Jin Peng, Dugu Wuya, and the others to take Xu Zimo seriously, claiming none could defeat him alone.
• Brahma proposed that they kill Xu Zimo together before competing in the Myriad Nations Assembly and promised to withdraw afterward.
• Shi'e questioned the plan but agreed after Brahma warned that Xu Zimo might seek to rule the Myriad Nations; the others agreed as well.
• Xu Zimo met Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan in the palace, where they reacted cautiously to his new status as monarch of the Yan Chi Dynasty.
• Xu Zimo told Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan that he planned to travel alone at the assembly because his enemies would target him and might endanger them.

Xu Zimo told Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to hide during the Assembly of Myriad Nations and proposed that they succeed him as empresses when he leaves. The Assembly began in Sun City, where Xu Zimo welcomed the envoys and announced that its contestants would compete to kill the abyssal demons.

• Xu Zimo arranged for Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to lie low until he had defeated their rivals in the Assembly of Myriad Nations.
• Xu Zimo suggested that Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan take his throne after he left, promising to give them trump cards to protect themselves.
• The Assembly of Myriad Nations began in Sun City, and envoys from many nations gathered at the Yan Chi Dynasty's royal posthouse.
• Xu Zimo welcomed the envoys and confirmed that the competition's goal was to attack the abyssal demons and win first place by killing one.

Xu Zimo led the Conference of Myriad Nations ceremony in Sun City and took the gathered contestants through teleportation gates to the Demon Abyss. The envoys and crowd stayed behind to watch the expedition on Void Stone screens as the contestants arrived near their destination.

• A Zen-Confucian Dynasty envoy questioned whether Xu Zimo would personally fight, and Xu Zimo dismissed his mockery and warned him to keep admiring him after the conference.
• Xu Zimo led the rites to Heaven at Sun Square before a vast crowd and invited the contestants to follow him to the Demon Abyss.
• The Yan Chi Dynasty used Void Gates to send the contestants toward the Demon Abyss while the envoys and commoners remained behind to watch through Void Stone screens.
• Xu Zimo and the other contestants passed through the gates and appeared near the Demon Abyss.

Xu Zimo entered the Demon Abyss’s barren outskirts and faced a Wasteland Storm that aged him with its power of desolation, but he recovered instantly. After the storm killed the fleeing participants, Xu Zimo continued searching for the true Demon Abyss, while other experts began gathering and forming alliances.

• Xu Zimo arrived in the Demon Abyss with several groups of participants, who kept their distance because of his reputation and strength.
• A Wasteland Storm swept toward the groups, and the participants fled across the ground while Xu Zimo walked toward it to test its power.
• The storm’s power of desolation made Xu Zimo’s body visibly age, but his aura of life restored him at once.
• The storm swallowed the fleeing participants despite their pleas for Xu Zimo to save them, while he remained unmoved.
• After the storm passed, Xu Zimo continued searching for the true Demon Abyss beyond the fringe region.
• Other experts began gathering together and joining forces using information about one another’s locations.