Chapter Summaries

Three months into his cultivation in the Sky-Splitting King's palace, Gu Chenfeng accompanied her to the Chaos Star Assembly and tried to persuade her to cooperate against possible threats from Heavenly Saint City. He realized her injuries had not healed and hoped to contact the Chaos Star Domain's other two kings at the assembly.

• The Sky-Splitting King emerged from seclusion, and Yin Xiaohe summoned Gu Chenfeng to accompany her to the Chaos Star Assembly.
• Gu Chenfeng boarded the Sky-Splitting King's carriage and discussed becoming her royal consort and pursuing a broader alliance.
• The Sky-Splitting King revealed that she expected the space seal to break soon and planned to return to the Upper Realm with Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng warned that Heavenly Saint City might target the Sky-Splitting King, but she challenged him to explain what he could offer her.
• Gu Chenfeng noticed the Sky-Splitting King's injuries still weakened her, and she postponed their discussion until after the assembly before resuming cultivation.

Gu Chenfeng traveled with the injured Sky-Splitting King to Ten Thousand Demons City for the Chaos Star Assembly and met the Heavenly Demon King, Ji Qianqiu, and his daughter, Ji Yun. After presenting Gu Chenfeng as her personal bodyguard, the Sky-Splitting King carried him toward the city atop her enormous saber.

• Gu Chenfeng cultivated during the journey and considered how to protect himself at the Chaos Star Assembly while the Sky-Splitting King concealed her unhealed injuries.
• Ji Qianqiu and his party welcomed the Sky-Splitting King outside Ten Thousand Demons City, where Gu Chenfeng sensed Dragon Race bloodlines in Ji Qianqiu and Ji Yun.
• Ji Yun stared at Gu Chenfeng, and the Sky-Splitting King introduced him as her personal bodyguard, prompting the others to suspect he was her male favorite.
• Ji Qianqiu invited the party to the city, and the Sky-Splitting King had Tie Shan bring her huge saber before throwing it toward the mountaintop.
• The Sky-Splitting King grabbed Gu Chenfeng and leaped onto the flying saber, carrying him toward Ten Thousand Demons City.

Yin Hongluan attended the Chaos Star Assembly with Gu Chenfeng and used a show of force to rebuff Ming Nine Netherworlds’ attempt to probe whether she was injured. After the assembly settled the other factions’ disputes, Ming Nine Netherworlds raised a newly discovered top-grade blood crystal vein, setting up a struggle among the three royal cities over its shares.

• Yin Hongluan arrived at the assembly with Mountain-Slaying City’s delegation, where Ming Nine Netherworlds mocked her lateness and questioned her condition after her visit to Five-Thunder Divine Mountain.
• Yin Hongluan challenged Ming Nine Netherworlds to test whether she was injured, and their auras clashed, forcing him to stagger backward.
• Ji Qianqiu intervened and calmed the two kings before formally beginning the Chaos Star Assembly.
• The three royal cities mediated and settled the disputes brought forward by the attending powers.
• Ming Nine Netherworlds proposed resolving the three sides’ shares in a newly discovered top-grade blood crystal vein, shocking the attendees and making the atmosphere tense.

At the Chaos Star Assembly, the three royal cities agreed to divide a valuable blood crystal vein through a contest inside Heavenly Demon City’s Myriad Demon Formation. Nether River City and Ten Thousand Demons City joined forces against Mountain-Slaying City’s Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan, leaving them in danger as Yin Hongluan watched.

• Yin Xiaohe told Gu Chenfeng that the three royal cities had bought the same top-grade blood crystal vein from the Gnome Clan and were now deadlocked over it.
• Yin Gui King, Heavenly Demon King, and Sky-Splitting King agreed to divide the vein according to a contest among their subordinates.
• Ji Qianqiu activated the Myriad Demon Formation, where thirty-six fighters would compete for control of nine bronze pillars before the incense burned out.
• Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan helped Mountain-Slaying City claim two pillars, but they abandoned their attempt to secure a third when their opponents attacked.
• Evil Ghost General persuaded Ten Thousand Demons City’s fighters to join Nether River City in attacking Mountain-Slaying City’s two pillars.
• Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan began to falter under the combined assault, and Yin Hongluan’s expression darkened as Heavenly Demon King apologized for the turn of events.

As Mountain-Slaying City struggled against Nether River City and Heavenly Demon City, the Yin Gui King used a staged spear attack to test the Sky-Splitting King through Gu Chenfeng. Gu Chenfeng stopped the attack and killed the assailant, revealing his strength as the battle continued.

• Nether River City and Heavenly Demon City pressed Mountain-Slaying City’s fighters, leaving Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan outmatched as the incense continued to burn.
• The Yin Gui King sent a concealed divine-sense signal, prompting a black-robed Nether River City fighter to stage an attack toward Yin Hongluan’s viewing seats.
• Yin Hongluan prepared to intervene, but Gu Chenfeng caught her wrist and stopped the spear inches from his throat.
• Gu Chenfeng crushed the spear, then drove its broken tip through the black-robed man’s skull, killing him.

Gu Chenfeng stunned the arena by defeating the Nether River City fighters and then overwhelming a combined group from Nether River City and Heavenly Demon City. He rescued Yin Xiaohe from the Evil Ghost General and Shadow Blade General and told her to help Tie Shan.

• Gu Chenfeng entered the Ten Thousand Demon Grand Formation and killed a black-robed powerhouse with one strike, drawing attention from the combatants and spectators.
• Four first-rate powerhouses from Nether River City surrounded Gu Chenfeng, but he assembled his spear, disarmed them, and pierced their Dantians.
• The remaining Nether River City and Heavenly Demon City powerhouses joined forces against Gu Chenfeng, who vanished from their encirclement and swiftly incapacitated them all.
• Gu Chenfeng rushed to Yin Xiaohe as the Evil Ghost General and Shadow Blade General attacked her, then blocked their blows and drove them back.
• Gu Chenfeng stood before Yin Xiaohe and told her to leave the two generals to him and go help Tie Shan.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Nether River City's Evil Ghost General and Shadow Blade General after revealing his full strength, stunning the gathering. He then appeared before Ghost Hand General, who was guarding three bronze pillars, and ordered him aside.

• Yin Xiaohe left Gu Chenfeng to help Tie Shan, who was being driven back by the Fierce Tiger General and Phantom Face General.
• Gu Chenfeng told the Evil Ghost General and Shadow Blade General that Mountain-Slaying City would take the entire blood crystal vein, then blocked their attacks with his spear.
• The Evil Ghost General and Shadow Blade General unleashed their ultimate techniques, but Gu Chenfeng powered up and broke through their assault with Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes.
• Gu Chenfeng struck both generals with the Starry Sky Divine Sense Art and sent them flying out of the square with a spear strike.
• As the spectators watched in shock, Gu Chenfeng appeared before Ghost Hand General, guarding three bronze pillars, and told him to get out of the way.

Gu Chenfeng defeated the remaining generals in the contest, securing all nine bronze pillars for Mountain-Slaying City and earning Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan’s apologies. As the incense burned out, the Yin Gui King attacked him, but just as Gu Chenfeng faced a second blow, a fiery figure intervened.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated the Poison Hand General, the Blood Slaughter General, and the two transformed Great Demons, marking all nine bronze pillars with Mountain-Slaying City's aura.
• After the incense burned out, Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan apologized to Gu Chenfeng, and he accepted their words calmly.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Yin Hongluan whether she was satisfied, and she praised him and promised him a reward.
• The Yin Gui King attacked Gu Chenfeng with a ghost claw, destroying his spear, but Gu Chenfeng blocked the strike with his fist and resisted the invading energies.
• As the Yin Gui King prepared another attack, a fiery figure swept in and challenged him to a move.

Yin Hongluan drove Yin Gui King and Nether River City from the assembly, cementing Mountain-Slaying City's rise while offering Heavenly Demon City a share of the ore vein. At the farewell banquet, Ji Yun secretly slid her bare foot up Gu Chenfeng's leg, leaving him startled by her advances.

• Yin Hongluan defeated Yin Gui King's attack, challenged him, and forced him to withdraw with his injured subordinates.
• The assembled factions recognized that Mountain-Slaying City had upset the balance of power through its strength and sole claim to the top-grade blood crystal ore vein.
• Ji Qianqiu conceded the vein to Mountain-Slaying City, but Yin Hongluan offered Heavenly Demon City a twenty-percent share and secured his pledge of support.
• Heavenly Demon City hosted a farewell banquet where Gu Chenfeng drank and socialized with Ji Qianqiu's party and the demon generals.
• Ji Yun secretly rubbed her bare foot up Gu Chenfeng's leg, and he used his Divine Sense to discover her advances.

At the banquet, Yin Hongluan thwarted the Heavenly Demon King’s attempt to arrange a marriage between Gu Chenfeng and Ji Yun by claiming Gu was the father of her unborn child. After returning to Mountain-Slaying City, Yin Hongluan took Gu to the Harem and attacked him, demanding to know his real identity and purpose in the Saint-Seizing Land.

• Ji Qianqiu praised Gu Chenfeng and proposed that he marry Ji Yun, but Yin Hongluan refused, claiming Gu was the father of her child.
• Ji Yun secretly gave Gu Chenfeng her life-bound jade pendant so they could contact each other and meet again.
• Yin Hongluan left the banquet and traveled back to Mountain-Slaying City with Gu Chenfeng and the others; Gu sensed a chaotic aura and chilling force in her body and stood guard while she cultivated.
• Several days later, Yin Hongluan brought Gu Chenfeng to the Harem, sealed its entrances, and demanded to know who he was and why he had come to the Saint-Seizing Land.
• Yin Hongluan attacked Gu Chenfeng with a powerful finger strike, but he blocked it with azure scales; both were surprised by what the exchange revealed about the other’s strength and condition.

Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan revealed their deceptions and agreed to ally against Heavenly Saint City after he showed her a Marquis Decree from the Feathered Ascension Divine Dynasty. They began planning to unite the Chaos Star Domain, learning that the Yin Gui King and Heavenly Saint City would attack Mountain-Slaying City in ten days.

• Yin Hongluan revealed that she had faked her injuries with Seven-Extinction Meridian-Severing Grass, while Gu Chenfeng admitted he came from the Seven Star Continent.
• Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan discussed Heavenly Saint City's plans and her refusal to cooperate with the Four Great Clans because they had betrayed the Feathered Ascension Divine Dynasty.
• Yin Hongluan proposed bearing Gu Chenfeng's child as a condition for cooperation, but he offered to help her unite the Chaos Star Domain instead.
• Gu Chenfeng showed Yin Hongluan his Marquis Decree and promised to help restore her lineage, persuading her to form an alliance with him through a blood oath.
• Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan began planning to unite the Chaos Star Domain, and Yin Hongluan revealed that the Yin Gui King and Heavenly Saint City planned to attack Mountain-Slaying City in ten days.

Yin Hongluan revealed the Yin Gui King’s plan to attack Mountain-Slaying City and worked with Gu Chenfeng to devise a counterplot. Three days later, a disguised meeting began in her palace, where the Shadow Blade General delivered a false proposal as a hidden spy watched.

• Yin Hongluan told Gu Chenfeng that the Yin Gui King planned to attack Mountain-Slaying City with Heavenly Saint City in ten days, and she proposed striking Nether River City first.
• Gu Chenfeng asked how messages were sent in the Saint-Seizing Land and secretly explained a counterplan to Yin Hongluan.
• Yin Hongluan warned that the Shadow Blade General’s distinctive movement technique could expose their scheme, but Gu Chenfeng said he was confident.
• Three days later, Yin Hongluan dismissed Yin Xiaohe and Tie Shan from the harem, then opened a gap in its defensive formation.
• The Shadow Blade General slipped into Yin Hongluan’s bedchamber as a hidden spy followed and watched him present the Yin Gui King’s token.
• The Shadow Blade General told Yin Hongluan that Nether River City would join Mountain-Slaying City in attacking Heavenly Saint City’s forces seven days later.

Yin Hongluan plotted with a mysterious envoy to lure the Yin Gui King and Heavenly Saint City’s forces into an ambush, while a spy secretly watched their meeting. Seven days later, the Yin Gui King led Nether River City’s experts to the rendezvous, where a blood formation trapped them and revealed the ambush.

• Yin Hongluan told the envoy that she would ambush the Yin Gui King’s forces two thousand li inside the Chaos Star Domain and attack alongside him when he led Heavenly Saint City’s troops into the trap.
• The envoy left Mountain-Slaying City, and a hidden spy also vanished; Yin Hongluan resolved to follow Gu Chenfeng’s plan and force the Yin Gui King and Heavenly Demon King into submission.
• On the seventh night, Ming Nine Netherworlds led the Evil Ghost General, the Shadow Blade General, the Poison Hand General, and Nether River City’s experts toward the southeastern border to meet Heavenly Saint City.
• Ming Nine Netherworlds dismissed his unease after the Poison Hand General assured him the meeting arrangements were confirmed, then led the group into a fog-filled valley.
• When Nether River City’s forces found the valley empty, a blood-colored formation sprang up beneath them and trapped them as cries of “Kill!” came from the fog.

Nether River City’s force was ambushed by Heavenly Saint City and trapped in a formation that drained their blood qi. As Yan Jin pressed Yin Gui King toward defeat, a familiar blade aura appeared and stopped the fatal blow.

• Nether River City’s experts were attacked by Heavenly Saint City’s forces while a formation weakened them and drained their blood qi.
• Yin Gui King tried to lead his generals out, but Yan Jin and three Half-Saints blocked them and forced them back into the formation.
• Yin Gui King and Yan Jin accused each other of betrayal, then fought while the three generals battled Heavenly Saint City’s Half-Saints.
• Yan Jin gained the advantage as the formation weakened Yin Gui King and his forces, leaving many Nether River City experts wounded or dead.
• Yan Jin launched a killing blow at Yin Gui King, but a familiar blade aura struck the attack and drove Yan Jin backward.

Yin Hongluan arrived to save the Yin Gui King, and their forces joined with Mountain-Slaying City's reinforcements to defeat Heavenly Saint City’s ambush. Yan Jin escaped with a talisman, while Gu Chenfeng intercepted Tie Shan as he tried to flee the gorge.

• Yin Hongluan arrived at the gorge and battled Yan Jin, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Gu Chenfeng, Yin Xiaohe, and Tie Shan led Mountain-Slaying City's reinforcements to aid the Yin Gui King, who broke free of the formation and joined the fight.
• The forces of Nether River City and Mountain-Slaying City drove Heavenly Saint City's experts into retreat.
• Yin Hongluan and the Yin Gui King attacked Yan Jin together, but he used a talisman to escape despite their strikes.
• Heavenly Saint City's experts fled with similar talismans, and Gu Chenfeng blocked Tie Shan at the gorge's exit as he tried to leave.

Gu Chenfeng exposed Tie Shan as a spy for Heavenly Saint City and spared him after he swore a Blood Pact to serve Mountain-Slaying City. After the battle, Yin Hongluan persuaded the hesitant Yin Gui King to form an alliance against Heavenly Saint City, leaving Mountain-Slaying City and Nether River City bound to fight together.

• Gu Chenfeng blocked Tie Shan at the gorge exit, revealed that he had been secretly passing information to Heavenly Saint City, and defeated him when he tried to flee.
• Gu Chenfeng offered Tie Shan a chance to atone, and Tie Shan swore a Blood Pact to dedicate himself to Mountain-Slaying City.
• The Yin Gui King surveyed the battle's casualties and hesitated when Yin Hongluan proposed an alliance against Heavenly Saint City.
• The Poison Hand General urged the Yin Gui King to accept, while Yin Hongluan and Gu Chenfeng reinforced the pressure by preparing to leave without an agreement.
• The Yin Gui King changed his mind and agreed to sign a Blood Pact with Yin Hongluan, committing Nether River City to fight Heavenly Saint City alongside Mountain-Slaying City.

Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan secured the Yin Gui King’s alliance through a deception that turned him against Heavenly Saint City, then headed to recruit the Heavenly Demon King. On the journey, Yin Hongluan explained that a powerful recluse at Five-Thunder Divine Mountain might be a True Saint, a realm beyond the Sub-Saints.

• The Sky-Splitting King and the Yin Gui King swore a Blood Pact to resist Heavenly Saint City, and Yin Hongluan proposed recruiting the Heavenly Demon King.
• Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan traveled toward Heavenly Demon City together and reviewed how they had used the Ghost King Token, Gu Chenfeng’s disguise, and planted informants to trick the Yin Gui King into allying with them.
• Yin Hongluan said Tie Shan had severed contact with Heavenly Saint City and was supplying intelligence, while she and the Yin Gui King would pressure Ji Qianqiu to join their alliance.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Yin Hongluan about Heavenly Saint City’s strength and the mysterious figure at Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, and she said the figure had seized the mountain from Heavenly Saint City and was feared by every faction.
• Yin Hongluan explained that Sub-Saints could become True Saints by perfecting their Domain Power into a Flawless Domain.

Gu Chenfeng learned that a True Saint might be concealed in the Saint-Seizing Land and resolved to find the treasure that could restrain him. At Ten Thousand Demons City, the group discovered Heavenly Demon King and Ji Yun were missing, but Ji Yun’s Jade Pendant revealed a direction to search.

• Yin Hongluan explained that True Saints could enter lower planes only by using special methods to hide their power from the Plane Laws, and Gu Chenfeng suspected the Golden Divine Hall was such a treasure.
• Three days later, Gu Chenfeng, Yin Hongluan, and Ming Nine Netherworlds arrived at Ten Thousand Demons City and learned Heavenly Demon King was absent after Ji Yun disappeared and he received a secret letter from Heavenly Saint City.
• Gu Chenfeng and Yin Hongluan concluded Heavenly Saint City had likely lured Heavenly Demon King out by taking Ji Yun, while Yin Gui King worried the king had been captured or forced into an alliance.
• Gu Chenfeng produced Ji Yun’s personal Jade Pendant, which Phantom Face General recognized, prompting Yin Gui King to tease him as the man on the side.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the Jade Pendant, and a blue point of light appeared in its northeastern direction, giving the group a lead to follow.

Gu Chenfeng used a Soul-Seizing Talisman to free Ji Yun from a Soul Devouring Beast that had possessed her and led him to a trap. Yin Gui King controlled the beast and made it guide the group toward the Heavenly Saint City gathering place, while Ji Yun was sent back to Ten Thousand Demons City.

• Gu Chenfeng followed the Jade Pendant to a mountain spring and found Ji Yun bathing, then pretended to profess his love for her.
• Gu Chenfeng secretly struck Ji Yun with Yin Gui King's Soul-Seizing Talisman, driving the Soul Devouring Beast out of her body.
• Yin Gui King restrained and controlled the Soul Devouring Beast, explaining that it had possessed Ji Yun to investigate Gu Chenfeng and lure him away.
• Yin Hongluan and the eight generals arrived and scolded Gu Chenfeng after hearing his act, while Yin Gui King cast Soul-Seizing Guidance on the beast.
• The group flew after the Soul Devouring Beast toward its gathering place, and one bird carried Ji Yun back to Ten Thousand Demons City.

Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, and Gu Chenfeng uncovered the hidden mountain where Dark Owl and Yan Yu were holding the Heavenly Demon King, Ji Qianqiu. Gu Chenfeng reached the cave and found Ji Qianqiu bound in a blood ritual, along with a familiar young man at its center.

• Ming Nine Netherworlds detonated a Soul Devouring Beast to break the formation hiding the mountain.
• Dark Owl and Yan Yu emerged with six Soul Devouring Race Half-Saints, and Dark Owl revealed that the Heavenly Demon King was inside.
• Yin Hongluan attacked Dark Owl while Ming Nine Netherworlds fought Yan Yu, and the generals engaged the Half-Saints.
• Gu Chenfeng, Yin Xiaohe, and Tie Shan broke the cave barrier and entered as the battle began outside.
• Gu Chenfeng found Ji Qianqiu chained above a blood pool while a ritual drained his demon qi and infused him with a foreign power.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the pale young man in the blood-red robe sitting at the center of a smaller pool.