Chapter Summaries

Murong Qingcheng emerged from seclusion at the peak of the second level of the Life and Death Realm and warned Ye Chen that the Devil Race had arrived. Ye Chen discovered a massive invading fleet and was cursed while spying on it, but he destroyed the curse with the Demon Slayer Sword.

• Murong Qingcheng returned to the Fallen Dust Sword Sect and reunited with Ye Chen after years apart.
• Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen and the Demon Flower Empress that the Devil Race had arrived, led by a figure with seven-star combat power.
• Ye Chen used his Soul Eye to see four hundred Puppet Warships and three powerful Devil Race figures over the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• The Curse Demon Emperor detected Ye Chen spying and sent a curse along his gaze, disrupting the Soul Eye and afflicting Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen drew the Demon Slayer Sword and used his Sword Intent to drive out and destroy the curse.

Ye Chen recognized the Curse Demon Emperor as a deadly threat and resolved to kill him first, while the True Spirit Continent’s fighters gathered in Seaview Domain for the coming war. Old acquaintances and former rivals prepared to fight together, and Ye Chen arrived as their spiritual pillar.

• Ye Chen dispelled the Curse Demon Emperor’s curse with his sword intents and the Demon Slayer Sword, then vowed to kill the Curse Demon Emperor first, with Murong Qingcheng offering to help.
• Fighters from across the True Spirit Continent gathered in Seaview Domain, where Chen Haoran, Lin Qi, and others joked about competing to kill the most enemies before acknowledging their willingness to sacrifice themselves.
• Ji Xueyan reunited with Shen Yuqing, who embraced her and told her she no longer blamed her for what had happened with Ye Chen.
• Zhuang Fei and Liu Wuxiang prepared to fight, while many of Ye Chen’s acquaintances and former rivals arrived and set aside their grudges.
• Life and Death Realm Kings assembled above Seaview Domain, and Ye Chen appeared at the forefront as the True Spirit Continent’s spiritual pillar.

Ye Chen and the gathered Kings prepared to face the Devil Race army, and two powerful veterans, Void Grand Ancestor and Infernal Ancestor, joined them. Just as they assessed Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng, the Devil Race’s Puppet Warships appeared on the horizon.

• Ye Chen reunited with Liu Wujian and greeted Chu Zhongtian, Dugu Jue, Tantai Mingyue, and Jiang Tian as the Kings assembled.
• Ye Chen warned Dugu Jue about the danger of the coming war, then secretly sent Ji Xueyan a green crystal for her protection.
• Nearly a million martial artists and more than five hundred Kings gathered along the Seaview Domain coast and waited four days for the Devil Race army.
• Infernal Ancestor and Void Grand Ancestor arrived, and the assembled forces learned that both had possessed six-star combat power centuries earlier.
• Void Grand Ancestor and Infernal Ancestor recognized Ye Chen’s formidable strength and turned their attention to Murong Qingcheng as the Devil Race’s Puppet Warships appeared.

The Devil Race invaded the Seaview Domain with a massive army and a crystal that spread devilish qi, while the True Spirit Continent’s warriors refused to surrender. The battle began with the joint soul attack killing Curse Demon Emperor, but the opening clash quickly claimed the lives of Kings on both sides.

• Nearly a thousand Demon Kings and two million Devil Race soldiers arrived, and the enemy deployed a crystal that filled the surrounding area with devilish qi.
• Ye Chen and the Demon Flower Empress recognized the danger, but the True Spirit Continent’s fighters remained determined to resist.
• Giant Demon Emperor demanded surrender, and Void Grand Ancestor and Infernal Ancestor declared that the True Spirit Continent’s Kings would fight to the death.
• Giant Demon Emperor ordered the attack, and Ye Chen led the True Spirit Continent’s Kings into battle.
• Dozens of soul-attack users joined forces to kill Curse Demon Emperor before the armies collided.
• The first collision killed more than twenty True Spirit Continent Kings and fewer than ten Devil Race soldiers.

Ye Chen and True Spirit Continent’s forces fought the Devil Race in a devastating battle that claimed many lives on both sides. After rescuing Murong Qingcheng from Giant Demon Emperor, Ye Chen clashed with him and realized he faced a foe with seven-star combat power.

• Ye Chen, Void Grand Ancestor, Infernal Ancestor, Empress Xuan, and Murong Qingcheng killed numerous Demon Kings, while stronger Devil Race fighters cut through True Spirit Continent’s Kings.
• Chu Zhongtian defeated two Demon Kings at terrible cost, and Beiming Hui died saving Dugu Jue, who continued fighting in grief and fury.
• The armies of True Spirit Continent and the Devil Race collided, and Tuo Ba Ku, Leng Xinghan, Ye Xuan, and Ye Xiaoxiao fought among the soldiers.
• Ye Chen observed that nearly a hundred Kings had died on his side and more than sixty Demon Kings had fallen, then saw Murong Qingcheng endangered by Giant Demon Emperor.
• Ye Chen intercepted Giant Demon Emperor and exchanged blows with him, suffering an injury but forcing the Emperor back and recognizing his seven-star combat power.

Ye Chen fought the Giant Demon Emperor while helping the outnumbered kings of the True Spirit Continent, then used Fleeting Brilliance to destroy the emperor’s head. The Giant Demon Emperor recovered quickly and struck Ye Chen into a mist of blood, leaving Murong Qingcheng and Empress Xuan believing the continent was on the brink of defeat.

• The Giant Demon Emperor challenged Ye Chen, and the two clashed as the other kings fought to hold back the Devil Race’s forces.
• Void Grand Ancestor, Infernal Ancestor, Murong Qingcheng, Empress Xuan, and Void Emperor each struggled to contain multiple Demon Kings.
• Chu Zhongtian attacked a six-star Demon King, who mortally wounded him before Ye Chen’s flying sword struck and badly injured the demon.
• Ye Chen ordered Chu Zhongtian to withdraw and used the Ninety-Nine Unification Sword Art to keep the wounded demon under attack.
• Ye Chen unleashed Fleeting Brilliance, pierced the Giant Demon Emperor’s head, and was struck into a mist of blood when the emperor regained consciousness.
• Murong Qingcheng rushed toward Ye Chen and was hit by the three Demon Kings she had been fighting, while Empress Xuan feared the True Spirit Continent would fall.

Ye Chen survived the Giant Demon Emperor’s attack by using his advancing Undying Sword Intent to reassemble his body, then resumed their battle. As the True Spirit Continent’s Kings suffered heavy losses, Lu Shaoyou sacrificed himself with a final sword that surpassed Ye Chen’s swordsmanship.

• Ye Chen’s allies feared he had died, but he gathered his scattered blood with Undying Sword Intent and resurrected himself.
• Ye Chen told Murong Qingcheng to fight without worrying about him, and her Dark Witch Bloodline fully activated.
• Ye Chen fought the Giant Demon Emperor again, using his advanced Undying Sword Intent to withstand the Emperor’s attacks.
• The Devil Race’s numerical advantage overwhelmed the True Spirit Continent’s Kings, and Xiahou Zun died under two Demon Kings’ combined attack.
• Lu Shaoyou used a sword fueled by his life to pierce a six-star Demon King’s protective demonic power, then perished; Ye Chen recognized that Lu’s swordsmanship had surpassed his own.

As True Spirit Continent’s forces suffered heavy losses against the Devil Race, Xu Jing arrived on the battlefield in the form of a gigantic golden Divine Dragon. She began slaughtering Demon Kings, giving the besieged Kings a chance to survive.

• Jing Aoxuan killed five Devil Race fighters before Li Xiaoyun and Holy Maiden Youxin saved her from the remaining two.
• The Fallen Dust Sword Sect used Ye Chen’s Sword Formations to cut down Devil Race fighters, while the battle elsewhere left True Spirit Continent with only a little over two hundred Kings against more than seven hundred Demon Kings.
• Ye Chen finally killed the Devil Race elder with six-star battle power but remained locked in battle with the Giant Demon Emperor and hoped Xu Jing would arrive.
• Xu Jing emerged from a spherical space in the endless void as a golden figure and raced toward the Seaview Domain.
• Xu Jing appeared as a gigantic golden Divine Dragon and killed dozens of Demon Kings, including the four surrounding Yan Fengfeng.

Xu Jing arrived on the battlefield as a giant Golden Dragon and quickly killed a six-star Demon King, boosting the True Spirit Continent’s morale. When the Giant Demon Emperor ordered more than fifty Demon Kings to surround her, Xu Jing fought through severe wounds, and Ye Chen called her toward him.

• Xu Jing arrived in her giant dragon form, and Ye Chen asked her to attack the six-star Demon Kings.
• Xu Jing shrank to several dozen meters, killed a six-star Demon King, and vaporized his attempt to reform.
• The Giant Demon Emperor ordered more than thirty Demon Kings to attack Xu Jing, forcing her to enlarge and trade injuries for their lives.
• After Xu Jing killed several Demon Kings but suffered devastating wounds, the Giant Demon Emperor sent another thirty to join the assault.
• Ye Chen realized Xu Jing could be overwhelmed by the combined forces and called her toward him as she swam through the attacks.

Ye Chen used Dream Wolf King's dream abilities to help Xu Jing and the True Spirit Continent Kings regroup while he kept the Giant Demon Emperor occupied. Around two hundred Kings gathered to face more than six hundred Devil Race Demon Kings, and Ye Chen prepared to risk Dream Wolf King's remaining strength to turn the battle.

• Ye Chen summoned Dream Wolf King, whose dream attack incapacitated many of the Demon Kings pursuing Xu Jing, allowing her to crush more than thirty of them.
• The Giant Demon Emperor tore Xu Jing's dragon body in two, but Ye Chen struck him with Ruthless Water and Fire, giving Xu Jing time to escape and reconnect.
• Ye Chen learned Dream Wolf King could use its large-scale dream ability only once more, so he ordered the Kings to gather near it while he held the Giant Demon Emperor back.
• The Void Emperor, Empress Xuan, the Void Grand Ancestor, and Murong Qingcheng escaped their opponents and made their way toward Dream Wolf King, though the Void Grand Ancestor was badly wounded by the Fear Demon Emperor.
• About two hundred True Spirit Continent Kings gathered beside Dream Wolf King to face more than six hundred Devil Race Demon Kings, while Ye Chen continued fighting the Giant Demon Emperor far away.

Empress Xuan used the Dream Wolf King's abilities and Space Profundity to help the True Spirit Continent forces ambush and kill around a hundred Demon Kings. The Giant Demon Emperor then ordered the Demon Army's Puppet Warships to mobilize, leaving the True Spirit Continent forces facing a new threat.

• The Dream Wolf King explained the range and limits of his dream ability, and Empress Xuan planned to use her Space Profundity to send him safely among the Demon Kings.
• Empress Xuan transported the Dream Wolf King near the Demon Kings, where his dream ability trapped those without seventh-tier willpower while mirrors repeatedly whisked him away from their counterattacks.
• The True Spirit Continent forces followed Empress Xuan's signal and unleashed more than two hundred attacks, killing sixty or seventy Demon Kings; the Golden Dragon then killed more than thirty with a wave of light.
• Empress Xuan ordered a retreat, and Ye Chen observed that the Dream Wolf King, Golden Dragon, and his own battle against the Giant Demon Emperor had driven the enemy's heavy losses.
• The Giant Demon Emperor ordered the Puppet Warships deployed, and the True Spirit Continent forces saw the massive warships approaching.

Over a hundred thousand Underground Humans arrived to reinforce the True Spirit Continent’s desperate battle against the Devil Race. Their willpower attacks and barriers disrupted the enemy and saved Lan Shanmei, but the fighting continued.

• The Underground Humans activated the Stone Man Array and traveled toward the battlefield to help defend the True Spirit Continent.
• Void Grand Ancestor, Infernal Ancestor, Empress Xuan, and the other survivors rejected the Devil Race’s offer to surrender and charged into battle against the Puppet Warships and Demon Kings.
• The Puppet Warships devastated the True Spirit Continent’s forces, while Dugu Jue destroyed several ships and Empress Xuan’s mirrors destroyed more.
• Over a hundred thousand Underground Humans arrived above Seaview Domain, attacking the Devil Race with willpower and forming protective barriers for the allied forces.
• The Underground Humans joined the battle among the Kings and raised a barrier that gave Lan Shanmei time to escape a joint attack by five Demon Kings.

The Underground Humans joined the battle and helped the True Spirit Continent resist the Devil Race, with their white-haired Grand Clan Leader confronting Fear Demon Emperor. As Ye Chen struggled against Giant Demon Emperor, Primal Emperor warned that the seal on Devil Space was being broken, threatening to restore the Demon Kings to their full strength.

• Infernal Ancestor welcomed the arrival of the Underground Human Kings, but Fear Demon Emperor killed Void Grand Ancestor and charged at the Underground Humans’ white-haired elder.
• The white-haired elder used thought power to defend against Fear Demon Emperor’s attacks, then evaded his Blood-Soul Divine Fist with Dimensional Shield.
• The Underground Humans disrupted Puppet Warship attacks and reduced casualties, but the Devil Race’s greater numbers continued to turn the battle against the True Spirit Continent.
• Ye Chen realized the battle was dragging on and sensed an approaching crisis as he continued fighting Giant Demon Emperor.
• Primal Emperor told Ye Chen that the seal on Devil Space was being broken and that the Demon Kings could regain their full strength if the Demon Ancestor Tree emerged.

The True Spirit Continent’s forces suffered heavy losses as the Devil Race overwhelmed the Seaview Domain, while Dugu Jue’s father died and triggered a powerful awakening in him. After learning that Devil Space’s seal had been undone, Ye Chen resolved to break through to the Life and Death Realm Triple Heaven.

• Yan Jianhui, Dongfang Bai, Huang Sumei, Leng Xinghan, Ye Xuan, Ye Xiaoxiao, and Ye Yang formed the Lesser Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Formation and cut through the Devil Race army.
• Li Daoxuan, Yan Chi Huo, and Bing Ling fought the Devil Race, while Wang She, Wang Mei, Sun Xiaojin, and the Fallen Dust Sword Sect struggled against overwhelming numbers.
• Dugu Jue watched his father die, then unleashed the Blade Intent of Despair and killed five Demon Kings as his strength surged to the six-star level.
• The Primal Emperor told Ye Chen that the seal of Devil Space had been undone, and the Giant Demon Emperor celebrated the Devil Race’s impending advantage.
• Ye Chen steeled himself against despair and began forcing a breakthrough to the Life and Death Realm Triple Heaven.

Ye Chen endured the destruction of his body and broke through to the peak of the Life and Death Realm Triple Heaven as Nine-Colored Heavenly Flowers appeared across the True Spirit Continent. After learning that the rules had begun to mend, he took up the Demon Slayer Sword and attacked the Giant Demon Emperor.

• The Giant Demon Emperor watched as the rules of the True Spirit Continent destroyed Ye Chen's body, while Ye Chen insisted he would break through.
• Ye Chen's head exploded, but a silver sphere preserved his life, and Nine-Colored Heavenly Flowers descended as the Great Dao echoed.
• Empress Xuan and the Hall Spirit sensed that the world's rules were being mended, while the Giant Demon Emperor attacked Ye Chen's sphere and was struck back by an invisible Sword Light.
• Ye Chen reformed his body, absorbed a river of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, and reached the peak of the Life and Death Realm Triple Heaven.
• Ye Chen took up the Demon Slayer Sword and slashed at the Giant Demon Emperor, who challenged him to prove he could overcome his inexhaustible devil power.

Ye Chen devastated the Giant Demon Emperor with a series of sword techniques, but the emperor survived and revealed an ability to attack through two simultaneous bodies. After Ye Chen tested his defense and redirected the emperor’s punches, he turned to the battlefield and began slaughtering Demon Kings.

• Ye Chen unleashed four powerful sword techniques that blasted the Giant Demon Emperor into compressed fleshballs and destroyed a third of his cultivation, but failed to kill him.
• The Giant Demon Emperor reconstituted himself and attacked Ye Chen with a technique that let him appear in two places, but his full-power punch left only a shallow mark on Ye Chen’s chest.
• Ye Chen deflected the Giant Demon Emperor’s next punch and cut one of his bodies in two, then realized he could not harm the emperor unless he struck both bodies at once.
• Ye Chen used the Ninety-Nine Unification Sword Art to occupy the Giant Demon Emperor while he moved across the battlefield.
• Ye Chen killed several dozen Demon Kings with single sword strikes, including four-star, five-star, and six-star Demon Kings.

Ye Chen devastated the Devil Race forces, turning the battle in the True Spirit Continent’s favor as the Demon Kings’ numbers dwindled. The Demon Ancestor Tree then descended, threatening to transform the battle and empower the Devil Race.

• Ye Chen killed wave after wave of Demon Kings and deflected the Puppet Warships’ combined barrage with a single sword strike, causing many warships to explode.
• Giant Demon Emperor ordered the remaining Puppet Warships to withdraw and announced that the Demon Ancestor Tree was about to descend.
• Ye Chen killed Tuogula, and the True Spirit Continent’s Kings rallied to counterattack as their forces gained the advantage in numbers and high-end combat power.
• Ye Chen and the white-haired elder joined forces to kill Fear Demon Emperor, then prepared to attack Giant Demon Emperor.
• The Demon Ancestor Tree descended from the sky and rooted itself in the seafloor, spreading demonic qi across the world.

The Demon Ancestor Tree descended, but Ye Chen and the True Spirit Continent’s Kings continued killing the Devil Race while its laws could not reach them. Just as eight powerful Demon Kings emerged to aid Giant Demon Emperor, the Undying Tree awakened and confronted the Demon Ancestor Tree.

• The Demon Ancestor Tree appeared above the continent, spreading demonic qi and its laws through the surrounding region, while Ye Chen urged everyone to keep fighting beyond its reach.
• Ye Chen killed Nine Abyss, and the True Spirit Continent’s Kings reduced the Devil Race’s forces to fewer than one hundred and fifty as Giant Demon Emperor fled.
• Eight restored Demon Kings emerged from the Demon Ancestor Tree and charged toward Giant Demon Emperor, threatening to overwhelm the defenders.
• Eight vines rose from the sea, seized the Demon Kings, and dragged them beneath the water as the Undying Tree emerged.
• The Undying Tree revealed that its vine had restrained the Demon Ancestor Tree and drove it farther away, then the two supreme trees clashed across the sky.

The Demon Ancestor Tree’s leaves strengthened the Devil Race, reviving its army and restoring the Giant Demon Emperor’s power as he turned to face Ye Chen. As Ji Xueyan was about to be killed, a phantom identical to Ye Chen appeared to protect her.

• The Giant Demon Emperor lost an arm to Ye Chen, but escaped the white-haired old man’s Dimensional Shift and called on the Demon Ancestor Tree for aid.
• The Demon Ancestor Tree sent countless leaves toward the battle, while the Undying Tree blocked most of them with its vines.
• The escaped leaves armored the Demon Kings, raised their strength, and restored the Giant Demon Emperor’s depleted power.
• The leaves also strengthened part of the Devil Race army in the Seaview Domain, allowing it to surge forward against the True Spirit Continent’s forces.
• Ten half-step Demon Kings cornered Ji Xueyan, but a black Sword Light annihilated nearby Devil Race warriors and a phantom identical to Ye Chen appeared behind her.

Ye Chen’s Sword Intent True Essence repeatedly saved people across the Seaview Domain, while the battle between Ye Chen and the Giant Demon Emperor intensified. The chapter ended with both fighters enlarging themselves and clashing again.

• Ye Chen’s Sword Intent True Essence emerged from the Soul Seas of Ji Xueyan and many others, killing attackers and revealing that he had secretly protected them.
• The Fallen Dust Sword Sect disciples recognized Ye Chen’s protection and continued fighting, while Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing’s Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Formation held against the enemy.
• The Demon Kings’ black armor strengthened them, making the battle above the sea more dangerous for Xu Jing and the other Kings.
• Ye Chen countered the Giant Demon Emperor’s Phantom Demon Martial Way and blocked its hidden follow-up strike with the hilt of the Demon Slayer Sword.
• The Giant Demon Emperor grew to a hundred miles tall, and Ye Chen expanded to his ten-mile limit before they clashed again.