Chapter Summaries

Fantian, Li Wujiu, Dugu Wuya, Shi'e, and Jinpeng joined forces to target Xu Zimo while keeping the Demon King in mind. Xu Zimo entered the Demon Abyss, plunged through its crushing depths, and reached a maze of tunnels at its bottom.

• Fantian, Li Wujiu, Dugu Wuya, Shi'e, and Jinpeng gathered and agreed to search for Xu Zimo without alerting him, while also watching out for the Demon King.
• Observers outside suspected the group was targeting Xu Zimo and anticipated that his death would let others carve up the Yan Chi Dynasty.
• Xu Zimo reached the vast, pitch-black Demon Abyss and stepped inside, where its devouring force dragged at him and its foul air threatened to suffocate him.
• Xu Zimo formed a fiery red barrier, drove away the creatures around him, and plunged deeper into the abyss, destroying whatever stood in his way.
• Xu Zimo reached the bottom and found tunnels branching in every direction, where travelers could easily lose their bearings.

Xu Zimo traveled through the connected spaces of the Demon Abyss toward the strongest aura, but Brahma and the others attacked him on the way. After Xu Zimo tore off Golden Peng’s claws, the group prepared to fight him together, revealing their powerful forms and weapons.

• Xu Zimo sensed that the Demon Abyss consisted of countless connected spaces and headed toward its strongest aura.
• Golden Peng’s feather-like points of light unleashed a barrage that failed to harm Xu Zimo, who then faced Brahma, Shi'e, Dugu Wuya, Li Wujiu, and Golden Peng.
• Xu Zimo mocked the group, and Golden Peng attacked him, only for Xu Zimo to seize and tear off both of his claws.
• Brahma warned the others not to fight Xu Zimo alone, while Golden Peng revealed his Golden-Winged Great Peng true form.
• Dugu Wuya summoned seven divine swords, and Li Wujiu manifested a sea of blood as the group readied their combined assault.

Fantian, Dugu Wuya, and the others attacked Xu Zimo, but he easily pierced Fantian’s chest and severed Dugu Wuya’s head. As Shi'e intervened to protect Dugu Wuya, Li Wujiao formed a giant from his sea of blood and prepared to fight Xu Zimo.

• Fantian charged Xu Zimo first, but Xu Zimo shattered both his fists and pierced his chest with a single punch.
• Dugu Wuya sent his seven swords and their torrents at Xu Zimo, but Xu Zimo crushed their power and cut off Dugu Wuya’s head.
• Shi'e used his black-and-white power to divide the space between Xu Zimo and Dugu Wuya, giving Dugu Wuya time to recover his head.
• Fantian warned Dugu Wuya that Xu Zimo was too strong, while Dugu Wuya realized he had been completely outmatched.
• Li Wujiao turned his sea of blood into a giant and prepared to attack Xu Zimo.

Xu Zimo used the Origin Flame to evaporate Li Wujiao’s Blood Sea, then trapped Li Wujiao and Golden Roc in the void and unleashed a devastating strike. The chapter ended with the slash swallowing both of them from sight.

• Xu Zimo unleashed the Origin Flame, which surrounded the Blood Sea giant and evaporated its scattered droplets.
• Li Wujiao recalled the burning Blood Sea, drawing the Origin Flame into it, and called for help as Xu Zimo charged at him.
• Golden Roc broke through the flaming dragons and grabbed Li Wujiao to escape, but Xu Zimo froze the void with a “Forbidden” rune.
• Xu Zimo gathered the power of breaking through realms into Overlord Shadow while Li Wujiao and Golden Roc prepared their defenses.
• Xu Zimo brought down his strike, and its torrent swallowed Li Wujiao and Golden Roc from sight.

Xu Zimo effortlessly killed Golden Roc and Li Wujiu, then faced Shi E, Brahma, and Dugu Wuya. As Shi E prepared his trump card, Xu Zimo killed Dugu Wuya and pressured Brahma while Shi E remained unable to respond.

• Xu Zimo's slash erased Golden Roc and Li Wujiu, and Shi E confirmed they were dead.
• Brahma and Dugu Wuya offered to assist Shi E, who said he needed time to prepare his trump card.
• Shi E attacked Xu Zimo with the combined powers of Gods and Devils, but Xu Zimo suppressed them without injury.
• Shi E sat cross-legged to prepare while Brahma and Dugu Wuya guarded him.
• Dugu Wuya attacked Xu Zimo with seven swords merged into one, but Xu Zimo annihilated the strike and destroyed Dugu Wuya's body and remaining soul.
• Brahma backed away in fear as Xu Zimo mocked him, while Shi E continued preparing without answering.

Xu Zimo killed Brahma and waited for Shi'e to complete his life-consuming ultimate move, Gods Weep, Devil's Nightmare. Shi'e's attack was crushed by Xu Zimo's blade qi, and he faced the descending strike without resisting.

• Xu Zimo used Wind and Clouds Transform into Dragon to devour Brahma despite Brahma's desperate struggle.
• Xu Zimo let Shi'e finish preparing his move, while spectators at Sun Plaza wondered why he gave Shi'e the chance.
• Shi'e unleashed Gods Weep, Devil's Nightmare, spending his lifespan as the god and devil attacked Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo raised the Tyrant Blade and destroyed the god and devil with a torrent of blade qi.
• Shi'e gave up on dodging as Xu Zimo's blade qi descended, and the outside world erupted into chaos.

After Xu Zimo killed Shi'e and the other powerhouses, the rulers of the myriad nations feared he could become their uncontested emperor. In the Demon Abyss, the Demon King offered Xu Zimo the throne and the abyss demon armies, proposing that he become their new ruler.

• The people watching the projection stone saw that Brahma, Dugu Wuya, Shi'e, and other famed powerhouses had died, and the rulers considered what Xu Zimo's dominance meant for the myriad nations.
• Xu Zimo sensed the Demon King's divine soul observing him and traveled through space to meet him in an empty independent world.
• The Demon King, a white-haired man in black armor, told Xu Zimo that they could become friends and that the abyss demons could help him rule East Pole Island.
• The Demon King revealed an army of abyss demons, yielded his throne, and invited Xu Zimo to become the new Demon King and lead the race.

Xu Zimo rejected the Demon King's offer and killed him despite learning that he came from the powerful Chen Family and had sent them East Pole Island's coordinates. Xu Zimo then demanded the Abyssal Demons submit, leaving their army kneeling before him.

• The Demon King revealed that he came from the Chen Family of the Spring Domain and had found East Pole Island's coordinates while searching for them.
• The Demon King offered Xu Zimo the Abyssal Demon race's support and tried to deter him from killing him by invoking the Chen Family.
• Xu Zimo drew Overlord Shadow and killed the Demon King with a single slash.
• Xu Zimo ordered the Abyssal Demons to kneel if they submitted and warned that those who remained standing would die.
• The Abyssal Demons knelt before Xu Zimo, while the witnesses in Sun Square felt a chill run down their spines.

Xu Zimo brought the Abyssal Demons under the Yan Chi Dynasty and was hailed as the Lord of the Myriad Nations after the dynasties began submitting to him. He then asked Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao to rule the Yan Chi Dynasty, promising to leave them the means to do so.

• Xu Zimo named several powerful Abyssal Demons and ordered the race to obey Yan Chi Dynasty laws as its citizens.
• Xu Zimo returned to Sun City, where envoys from several dynasties offered submission and he invited everyone to a banquet three days later.
• The crowd acclaimed Xu Zimo as the Lord of the Myriad Nations, while the Yan Chi Dynasty's nobles celebrated its rise in status.
• Xu Zimo met with Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao in the Golden Palace Hall and asked them to become monarchs of the Yan Chi Dynasty.
• Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao doubted they could govern, but Xu Zimo promised to leave them the means to rule.

Xu Zimo persuaded Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to become the new rulers of his dynasty, then prepared to visit the Lin demon clan and investigate East Pole Island before leaving for Undying Star. At a vast banquet for the nations’ kings, he declared that all nations would be unified as the Number One Nation Under Heaven.

• Xu Zimo asked Leng Xiaoxiao and Su Qianyuan to rule the dynasty after he left, and both agreed.
• Xu Zimo promised to leave safeguards for the new rulers and explained that he wanted to pursue the world beyond East Pole Island.
• Xu Zimo planned to visit the Lin demon clan for clues about the Chen Family’s search for East Pole Island and the person who had sealed it away.
• Sun City filled with visitors for an unprecedented banquet attended by the kings of all nations and imperial dynasties.
• Xu Zimo declared that the nations would unite as the Number One Nation Under Heaven and forbade their former names, while the kings voiced their agreement.

Xu Zimo asked about East Pole Island’s origins, and King Chu recounted his theory that the island was sealed away after two ancient empires fought a war of mutual destruction. King Chu explained that the Void Rend Empire later collapsed under a foolish ruler and its history was deliberately erased, leaving the story with the island’s distant past only partly revealed.

• Small-nation rulers supported abolishing national titles and proposed appointing enfeoffed kings to govern lands far from their own nations.
• Xu Zimo asked who knew East Pole Island’s origins, and the ruler of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty directed him to King Chu.
• King Chu told Xu Zimo that clues pointed to the Sun-Chasing Empire and the Void Rend Empire as East Pole Island’s oldest known powers.
• King Chu explained that the empires fought an all-out war, and Sun-Chasing cultivators tore the world apart and banished it into the void to perish alongside the Void Rend Empire.
• King Chu said the stronger Void Rend Empire ruled most of the island until its final ruler, Huan Kui, brought it to ruin and popular revolts overthrew it.
• King Chu said people burned records of the Void Rend Empire to prevent its return, and its history gradually disappeared.

King Chu explained how the Void Rend Empire became the Myriad Nations, the Sun-Chasing Empire became the Lin Demon Clan, and the Heavenfall Forbidden Land was devastated by their war. Xu Zimo traveled to Mist Demon City with Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao, where Demon King Lin’s messenger welcomed him.

• King Chu said the Myriad Nations and the Lin Demon Clan had emerged from the former Void Rend Empire and Sun-Chasing Empire.
• King Chu explained that the Heavenfall Forbidden Land had been the heart of the empires’ war and remained a place of chaotic laws and deadly phenomena.
• After the banquet, Xu Zimo left Sun City with Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao and traveled to the Lin Demon Clan’s capital, Mist Demon City.
• A woman approached the three in Mist Demon City and said Demon King Lin wished to meet Xu Zimo, whom she recognized as the ruler of the Myriad Nations.

Xu Zimo was welcomed to the Lin Demon Clan’s Ninefold Palace Towers after Lin, the Demon King arranged a meeting to discuss the clan’s response to his unification of the myriad nations. Lin, the Demon King was relieved to hear Xu Zimo planned to leave, then invited him to a luncheon in Qianyuan Hall.

• The Lin Demon Clan’s intelligence network recognized Xu Zimo in Mist Demon City and alerted Lin, the Demon King, who invited him to meet.
• Xu Zimo accepted the invitation, and the woman led him through the Ninefold Palace Towers to meet Lin, the Demon King.
• Lin, the Demon King greeted Xu Zimo and asked whether he was leaving East Pole Island; Xu Zimo said he wanted to travel before departing.
• Lin, the Demon King invited Xu Zimo and his companions to a prepared luncheon in Qianyuan Hall, where they entered the lavishly decorated hall.

Xu Zimo questioned Lin, the Demon King, about why outsiders sought East Pole Island, and Lin revealed that the Myriad Blood Source might be their goal. As Lin went to retrieve an old bamboo scroll, an armored middle-aged man burst in and confronted Xu Zimo.

• Lin, the Demon King, asked Xu Zimo why he had come, and Xu Zimo demanded the truth in exchange for leaving the Lin Demon race unharmed.
• Xu Zimo told Lin that he had met someone from beyond East Pole Island and asked what outsiders wanted there.
• Lin suggested they were seeking the Myriad Blood Source and explained that his grandfather had returned from the Heavenfall Forbidden Land after a hundred years, crazed and clutching a bamboo scroll.
• Lin left to fetch the scroll, but an armored middle-aged man barged into the hall and asked Xu Zimo whether he was the lord who ruled the Myriad Nations.

Xu Zimo read a bamboo manuscript revealing that the Myriad Blood Source had sparked a devastating war over the promise of immortality, then warned Lin, the Demon King, that outside forces would soon reach East Pole Island. The Lin demon clan faced the prospect of losing its isolation and confronting powerful outsiders.

• Lin Yu panicked when he realized Xu Zimo had heard his complaints, apologized, and kowtowed until Lin, the Demon King, arrived with the bamboo manuscript.
• Xu Zimo read the manuscript and learned that the Myriad Blood Source had driven two great empires to war because it was rumored to grant immortality.
• Lin Yu suggested that the Myriad Blood Source might still lie in the Heavenfall Forbidden Zone, where Lin, the Demon King's ancestor had gone mad.
• Xu Zimo praised Lin, the Demon King, for his leadership and warned him that an outsider had sent coordinates that would bring powerful experts to East Pole Island.
• Lin Yu admitted that the island's inhabitants knew little about the outside world and were deeply uneasy about the coming changes.

Xu Zimo prepared to leave the Myriad Nations for the Heaven's Wound Forbidden Ground and chose Su Qianyuan to inherit the throne, with Leng Xiaoxiao as Grand Minister of State. As the enthronement began, ambitious factions started plotting to take advantage of the new empress, while Xu Zimo left her three soul-powered avatars for protection.

• Xu Zimo told Lin, the Demon King, that outsiders might soon reach East Pole Island, and Lin agreed to prepare and seek peaceful relations with the Myriad Nations.
• Lin, the Demon King, offered to ally with Xu Zimo over the Myriad Blood Source, but Xu Zimo rejected the offer and returned to Sun City with Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao.
• Xu Zimo decided Su Qianyuan would become empress and Leng Xiaoxiao would serve as Grand Minister of State, then gave Su Qianyuan three avatars made from his divine soul power.
• Su Qianyuan and Leng Xiaoxiao asked whether Xu Zimo would return, and he said they might meet again if they reached a certain realm.
• Xu Zimo announced that he would pass on the throne, prompting private grumbling and schemes among those who hoped to control the new empress.
• The enthronement ceremony began as Xu Zimo prepared to leave the Myriad Nations.

Su Qianyuan ascended the throne as emperor of the Myriad Nations, and Xu Zimo left Sun City the next night for the Heaven's Wound Forbidden Ground. At the Great Wall separating the forbidden ground from normal lands, he found a nearby village and learned that the Wang Family recruited people to enter the dangerous territory.

• Xu Zimo advised Su Qianyuan on how to establish authority and manage her ministers before taking the throne.
• Su Qianyuan accepted the imperial jade seal and robes at the ceremony, becoming the new emperor amid cheers and declarations of loyalty.
• Xu Zimo secretly left Sun City the next night and traveled toward the Heaven's Wound Forbidden Ground.
• Xu Zimo reached the towering wall that separated the forbidden ground from normal lands and noticed a small village nearby.
• Several scarred men confronted Xu Zimo, and one told him to approach the Wang Family if he wanted to risk his life for wealth and glory.

Xu Zimo spoke with desperate people recruited by the Wang Family to search the Heaven's Sorrow Forbidden Ground and asked to join their next expedition. When a Wang Family enforcer attacked him, Xu Zimo killed him and his subordinates, leaving the villagers afraid of the consequences.

• Xu Zimo learned that the Wang Family paid people to search the Heaven's Sorrow Forbidden Ground, and several recruits explained the hardships that drove them there.
• Xu Zimo refused to meet the Wang Family but asked Third Brother if he could accompany the recruits on their next trip.
• A big-bellied Wang Family enforcer arrived and accused Xu Zimo of trespassing, then ordered his men to seize him.
• Xu Zimo swept away the enforcer's seven or eight subordinates and killed them when they crashed to the ground.
• Xu Zimo held the enforcer in midair, rejected his plea for mercy, and smashed him headfirst into the ground.
• The villagers warned Xu Zimo that he had caused a disaster and begged him not to implicate them.

Xu Zimo reached the Heavenly Ruin Forbidden Land, where Elder Zhou recognized him as the former ruler of the Ten Thousand Kingdoms and offered the Wang Family’s knowledge. After studying their map, Xu Zimo learned about the forbidden land’s dangerous terrain, lingering horrors, and the rules that could keep some of them from attacking.

• Xu Zimo told the villagers he would wait for the Wang Family’s people instead of leaving.
• Elder Zhou arrived with nearly a hundred black-armored soldiers, recognized Xu Zimo, and led everyone in kneeling to greet him.
• Xu Zimo forgave the Wang Family and asked Elder Zhou about the Heavenly Ruin Forbidden Land.
• Elder Zhou gave Xu Zimo a detailed map of the forbidden land, which Xu Zimo memorized.
• Elder Zhou explained that the land’s dangers came from deadly terrain and rulebound horrors left by the Void Rend Empire and the Sun-Chasing Empire.
• Elder Zhou said wearing the Void Rend Empire’s clothing could prevent its horrors from attacking, but would make the Sun-Chasing Empire’s horrors hate the wearer.

Xu Zimo entered the Heavenly Sorrow Forbidden Ground with Wang Heng and Wang Xian as guides, hoping to find the Myriad Blood Source and explore the forbidden land. When he asked for its most dangerous locations, Wang Xian pointed him toward the Doomsday Tree.

• Elder Zhou declined to persuade Xu Zimo further and assigned Wang Heng and Wang Xian to guide him into the Heavenly Sorrow Forbidden Ground.
• Xu Zimo crossed a gap in the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles and surveyed the blood-red sky, black-and-white ground, and damaged void.
• Wang Xian asked where Xu Zimo wanted to go, and Xu Zimo admitted he had no specific destination yet.
• Xu Zimo asked the guides to identify dangerous places where twisted rules produced bizarre tales, hoping one might lead him to the Myriad Blood Source.
• Wang Xian named the Doomsday Tree as one of the forbidden ground's dangerous locations.