Chapter Summaries

Su Changsheng’s dragon transformation tribulation contaminated him and the Right Stronghold, but he learned to divert some of the contamination into other yao. After destroying the stronghold, he set out for Yin Islet to use its hundreds of thousands of yao to advance his mythical level.

• Su Changsheng’s mythical Torch Jiao form triggered a heavenly tribulation that flooded him with bizarre dragon transformation arts and began turning him into an uncanny anomaly.
• His contamination spread through the Right Stronghold, mutating its yao, including the Wolf King, the Poison Dragon King, and the Violent Tiger King into dragons.
• Su Changsheng realized his Azure Flame threads could divert contamination into other yao, but the three transformed kings attacked him uncontrollably, so he made them explode and stored the gray remains beneath his reverse scale.
• Su Changsheng forced Wu Nü to activate a spatial locator talisman and take him to Yin Islet, where he intended to use its hundreds of thousands of yao as vessels.
• Su Changsheng reduced the Right Stronghold to nothing with Azure Heavenly Fire, then passed through the spatial gateway toward Yin Islet.

After Azure destroyed Yin Islet’s Yao Market, Fallen Dragon Ridge’s demons gathered to rescue the Yin Palace’s captured Lords and seize the Black Tortoise Grand Formation. As they waited for Azure, the Sword Yao King I Am the Most Sword sensed his arrival, and an enormous eyeball surrounded by azure flames emerged through a spatial gateway.

• Heart Dust and the other demons examined the ruined Yao Market, debated whether Azure was a true Yao Emperor, and withdrew without disturbing his Azure Fire.
• The Yin Palace secretly asked the Twenty-Eight Yao Grottoes to rescue its captured Lords, offering them the Black Tortoise Grand Formation; Fallen Dragon Ridge gathered powerful demons to confront Azure and claim a share.
• More than half of the Twenty-Eight Yao Grottoes and other powerful demons assembled on Yin Islet, where they waited for Azure’s return.
• I Am the Most Sword arrived and slashed through the air, nearly splitting Yin Islet, then announced that Azure was coming.
• A spatial gateway opened amid black blood and a terrifying aura, revealing an enormous eyeball as azure flames poured onto Yin Islet.

Su Changsheng’s Flood Dragon Transformation Tribulation drove his Three Divine Abilities and mythical Torch Jiao body out of control, but the Lesser Yin-Yang Art helped stabilize his Heart Sea as he forced his way through a rift to Yin Islet. He arrived amid a spreading curse and unleashed his strongest strike against the gathered yao, declaring them sacrifices as the battle reached its climax.

• Su Changsheng’s body grew to a thousand meters as the Flood Dragon Transformation Tribulation made his Three Divine Abilities rampage and threatened to contaminate his Heart Sea.
• Su Changsheng used the evolving Lesser Yin-Yang Art to resist the contamination, then tore open a passage to Yin Islet and confronted Sword Slave over Fallen Dragon Ridge’s agreement.
• Su Changsheng attacked Sword Slave and the Sword Case with his claws, wind, rain, and yin energy, while Azure Flame Threads secretly infected the yao on Yin Islet.
• I Am the Most Sword rallied more than thirty powerful yao to strike the rift, but a curse transformed hundreds of thousands of beings into monstrous creatures and began infecting Great Yao.
• Su Changsheng’s thousand-meter Mythical Flood Dragon forced its way through the rift unharmed, and he blamed the gathered yao for the deaths caused by the curse.
• Su Changsheng invoked Yin-Yang Reversal and struck Yin Islet with his strongest attack, declaring the Demon Race sacrifices for forging his mythical body.

Su Changsheng fought nearly a hundred powerful yao on Yin Islet to purge the contamination from his Flood Dragon Transformation Tribulation, then refused Sword Emperor’s plea for a ceasefire and struck him down. As Sword Emperor’s spirit began to fade, it seized its sword and challenged Su Changsheng to one final battle.

• Su Changsheng rejected Sword Emperor’s offer to negotiate and battled the gathered yao, using their attacks to help expel the tribulation’s contamination.
• Sword Emperor coordinated the combined forces against Su Changsheng, but the fighting devastated Yin Islet and left roughly a third of their side dead or transformed into monsters.
• Su Changsheng sensed that the tribulation was nearly complete, saw his Mythology Points rise to 107, and decided the battle no longer needed to continue.
• Sword Emperor asked for a ceasefire, but Su Changsheng demanded its death or surrender and accused it of causing the curse.
• Su Changsheng pierced Sword Emperor’s spirit with an emerald sword that drained its lifespan, while the other yao withdrew and left it alone.
• Sword Emperor realized its own sword had abandoned it, then burned its remaining power, drew the blade, and challenged Su Changsheng to fight one last time.

Su Changsheng defeated the Sword Emperor after exposing that it was the Great Yao whose identity and memories had been warped by the Demon Sword and its Forked Path Demon Art. With the other yao spared, he began demanding compensation for Yin Islet and considered how to profit from their rivalries.

• The Sword Emperor underwent a final sublimation and attacked Su Changsheng with Myriad Swords Return to the Source, but failed to reach the Yao Emperor Realm and was defeated.
• Su Changsheng told the Sword Emperor that it was the Great Yao who had sacrificed itself to the Demon Sword, and the dying Sword Emperor recovered its memories before collapsing.
• Su Changsheng examined the Demon Sword and sensed that the blood on its tip belonged to an immensely powerful being, then announced that he would spare the surviving yao in exchange for compensation.
• Su Changsheng rejected the yao's request to fetch supplies from Fallen Dragon Ridge and threatened to make the three least generous donors rebuild Yin Islet.
• A Great Yao proposed reporting which Yao Kings and Great Yao Kings were withholding valuable possessions, and Su Changsheng approved of the idea.

After defeating the forces gathered at Yin Islet, Su Changsheng gathered tribute, punished three Great Yao Kings who had hidden treasures, and recruited the Great Yao who remained. As factions responded to his rise and sent information about the Longevity Dao Lord, Su Changsheng entered seclusion to prepare for his fifth shedding, which would purify and remake his Mythical Body into a Mythical Yao Body.

• Su Changsheng learned from Xiao Gen how he had uncovered the Lord of Heart Dust’s hidden divine spatial stone by secretly tracking her for years.
• Su Changsheng killed three Great Yao Kings who had concealed treasures, then ordered the fleeing yao to spread word of his planned expedition to the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and his search for information about the Longevity Dao Lord.
• Su Changsheng sheltered the Great Yao who stayed on Yin Islet, returned their offerings, and promised to help them become Great Yao Kings.
• News spread that the Azure Yao Emperor had defeated nearly a hundred powerful opponents and killed Sword Emperor I Am the Most Sword, prompting varied reactions among the factions of Fallen Dragon Ridge.
• Angsu Yao Grotto sent Su Changsheng its information about the Longevity Dao Lord and offered cooperation in the Black Tortoise Grand Formation expedition.
• Su Changsheng entered seclusion after his fifth shedding opportunity appeared, intending to remove the contamination from his Mythical Body and form a Mythical Yao Body.

Su Changsheng completed his fifth shedding, purifying his Yao Core into a Dragon Pearl and transforming his body into a mythical azure fire elemental form. With his path toward becoming a Yao Emperor now clear, he planned to seek the conditions for evolving into a Torch Jiao and to speak with Fallen Dragon Ridge and Yin Palace.

• Su Changsheng prepared for his fifth shedding in the shattered Right Stronghold, after checking on Yin Islet and leaving its affairs to Xiao Gen and Huang Nü.
• Creation power purged the Flood Dragon Transformation Tribulation's contamination from Su Changsheng's Torch Jiao Core and transformed it into a Dragon Pearl.
• Elemental spirit liquid from the Dragon Pearl dissolved and remade Su Changsheng's body as a mythical azure fire elemental form, strengthening his divine abilities.
• Su Changsheng realized the Dragon Pearl would gather his powers and rules as the foundation of his own Dao and eventual Yao Emperor advancement.
• Su Changsheng resolved to pursue the Torch Dragon Dao, find the conditions to evolve into a Torch Jiao, and speak with Fallen Dragon Ridge and Yin Palace.

After completing his shedding, Su Changsheng examined his increased power and worsening lifespan drain from the Black Sea, then used Mythology Points and the Space Divine Stone to turn Azure Fire Heaven into a real world. Its birth created the Creation Azure Flame, strengthening his Elemental Divine Body and helping his Torch Jiao Dragon Pearl evolve rules toward the Yao Emperor realm.

• Su Changsheng reviewed his attributes and realized the Black Sea was draining his lifespan five times faster than normal, leaving him increasingly uneasy about how much time he had to reach the Yao Emperor realm.
• After several days of secret cultivation, Su Changsheng chose to spend sixty Mythology Points on Azure Fire Heaven rather than on his other abilities or cultivation methods.
• Su Changsheng used the Space Divine Stone, his three Major Divine Abilities, and the Torch Jiao Dragon Pearl to open real space and stabilize a new world within Azure Fire Heaven.
• The newborn Azure Fire Heaven produced the Xiantian Creation Azure Flame, which strengthened Su Changsheng’s Elemental Divine Body and gave him over three minutes of sustained transformation.
• Su Changsheng watched the Creation Azure Flame help his Torch Jiao Dragon Pearl dismantle and combine divine abilities and rules, a slow process that could eventually support his advance to the Yao Emperor realm.

After surviving his tribulation, Su Changsheng established Creation Azure Flame Heaven and strengthened his rule over Yin Islet, while the Black Tide spread through the Black Mountain Range and toward Fallen Dragon Ridge. Leaders from across the region gathered on Yin Islet to seek the Azure Yao Emperor’s help, leaving his response undecided.

• Su Changsheng learned that Yin Palace was a surface branch of a larger, secretive faction and questioned its Lords about their goals, the Immortal City, and the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
• As Heaven’s Rift worsened, Su Changsheng created the Fire-Fusion Art, which let practitioners borrow Azure Fire Heaven’s power while secretly siphoning most of the flames they absorbed for his Creation Azure Flame Heaven.
• Huang Nü led an expedition into the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, where black crystalline monsters drained life and multiplied; Su Changsheng ordered a retreat and scorched-earth measures.
• The crystalline monsters spread as the Black Tide, forcing the yao to abandon the Black Mountain Demon Stockade and withdraw, while attempts to seal or contain the Tide failed.
• Representatives from Yin Islet, Fallen Dragon Ridge, and other factions gathered on Yin Islet, and Huang Nü reported that the scorched-earth evacuation remained incomplete.
• The gathered demons considered asking Su Changsheng to intervene against the Black Tide, while Fallen Dragon Ridge offered information about the Longevity Dao Lord and secret techniques in hopes of securing his aid.

Su Changsheng obtained and refined the Transforming into a Flood Dragon Method, strengthening his Torch Jiao powers and resolving to deal with the Black Mountain Demon Stockade. In the Black Mountain Range, White Mountain warned Black Mountain that the Azure Yao Emperor was closing in, and Black Mountain revealed he was waiting to confirm whether White Madam was alive before naming the Longevity Dao Lord.

• Su Changsheng discovered that the Eastern Yi Wood Azure Flood Dragon Method contained a genuine but incomplete dragon-transformation method, and Fallen Dragon Ridge delivered the original Transforming into a Flood Dragon Method to him.
• Su Changsheng used Mythology Points to purify and improve the method, then cultivated it for more than ten days, increasing his ferocity and strengthening his Torch Jiao Core and other powers.
• Su Changsheng decided it was time to settle the Black Mountain Demon Stockade's problem, having devised a plan after a chance encounter with an old friend.
• White Mountain found Black Mountain hidden in a Blood Cavern, where he was devouring a giant turtle skeleton, and warned him that the Azure Yao Emperor had sealed off the region.
• Black Mountain refused to leave his hiding place until he confirmed whether White Madam was alive, and White Mountain speculated that she might be connected to the Longevity Dao Lord.
• Black Mountain named the Longevity Dao Lord, leaving White Mountain shocked by the possibility that White Madam was that figure.

Black Mountain Yao King negotiated with White Mountain over the Black Tortoise Yao Emperor’s remains while learning that Azure Yao Emperor had discovered his hiding place. Meanwhile, Su Changsheng prepared a blood ritual to advance as a Torch Jiao, then unleashed a flood meant to destroy the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and everyone gathered there.

• Black Mountain Yao King told White Mountain that he had seen the ultimate of the world in the Black Mountain Range, then agreed to give him Black Tortoise Yao Emperor’s blood essence and help kill Zhou Hu King.
• White Mountain revealed that a great yao had reported Black Mountain Yao King’s hiding place to Azure Yao Emperor, leaving Black Mountain furious and exposed.
• Su Changsheng used White Mountain’s information to obtain Black Tortoise Yao Emperor’s blood essence and learned that his Torch Jiao advancement required a ritual involving the blood of powerful yao.
• Su Changsheng gathered the Twenty-Eight Yao Grottoes and his followers at the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, intending to use the assembled yao and hidden enemies to complete his ritual.
• Unable to find the Black Tide’s source or Zhou Hu King, Su Changsheng commanded the waters of the Heavenly River and unleashed a catastrophic flood toward the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
• Su Changsheng sent the flood against the formation and all the gathered yao, including those who had pledged allegiance to him.

Su Changsheng diverted a tributary of the Heavenly River to devastate the Demon Race gathered at the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and complete the sacrifices for his Torch Jiao advancement. After defeating the Eight-Origin Yao Formation and devouring its surviving Half-Step Yao Emperors, he began transforming into a Torch Jiao as the Yao Emperor Realm came within reach.

• Su Changsheng unleashed the Heavenly River Water across a thousand miles, destroying the black tide and killing or injuring many Demon Race spectators.
• Seven Half-Step Yao Emperors surrounded Su Changsheng with the Eight-Origin Yao Formation and claimed its elemental powers would suppress his azure flames.
• Su Changsheng revealed his Earth-Origin Power, shattered the formation's defenses, and killed and devoured the venomous Snake Yao.
• Su Changsheng transformed into a dark, savage Torch Jiao and swallowed the remaining demons, including the fleeing Stone Demon.
• Su Changsheng completed his advancement ritual as a dark power of rules formed in his Yao Core and thunder heralded the birth of another Yao Emperor.

Su Changsheng completed his transformation into an Extreme Yin Torch Jiao by unleashing the Heavenly River flood and destroying the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, then condensed his own Yao Emperor law. Lightning descended as he advanced to the Yao Emperor Realm, leaving his Flame Calamity Dao blazing across the region.

• Su Changsheng realized the Torch Dragon God Dao required him to gather immense ferocity and transform into a creature of utmost yin and evil.
• Su Changsheng refused the demons’ pleas for mercy, killed Wu Nü, and rejected Xu Xian’s warning not to destroy the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
• Su Changsheng unleashed the Heavenly River flood across the formation, destroying its foundations and gathering more ferocity as Xu Xian evacuated six Great Yao and chose not to intervene.
• Su Changsheng’s body became a fully black Extreme Yin Torch Jiao, and he condensed a complete fire-element Yao Emperor law centered on calamity and destruction.
• Su Changsheng’s Yao Emperor Dao, Flame Calamity Burns the Cosmos, spread across the region as lightning tribulation struck and he attained the Yao Emperor Realm.

Su Changsheng completed his advance to Yao Emperor and comprehended Flame Calamity Burns the Cosmos, a destructive flame rule that could burn even lightning tribulation. After enduring the Wilds' blood lightning, he established his calamity Dao and emerged as the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor, Lord of Calamity.

• The Torch Jiao Dragon Pearl completed its transformation, and Su Changsheng comprehended the Flame Calamity Burns the Cosmos rule as his first divine flame ring formed.
• Su Changsheng tested the rule by burning away the first wave of his lightning tribulation, provoking the Wilds' Everlasting Heaven to unleash a vast storm of blood lightning.
• Xu Xian explained to the Great Yao Kings that Su Changsheng's strength already rivaled that of a Yao Emperor with a complete divine rule ring.
• Su Changsheng endured the blood lightning with his body, absorbing its contamination and allowing the tribulation to temper his body and stabilize his flame rule.
• After the final nine bolts struck, the tribulation ended and creation descended; Su Changsheng absorbed the surrounding energy and declared himself the Lord of Calamity.
• In the thirty-sixth year, Azure's achievement of the Yao Emperor Realm became known across the Wilds as the rise of the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor.

Su Changsheng defeated Zhou Hu King and captured the Black Tide core, while White Mountain escaped. After the Black Tortoise Grand Formation shattered, Su Changsheng sensed that the world was alive and heard the mysterious voice from the Cat Woman call him the Longevity Dao Lord.

• The Black Tide core took over Zhou Hu King, who attacked White Mountain as the hall shook.
• Su Changsheng arrived and burned through the hall, defeated Zhou Hu King, and took the three-faced heart into Creation Azure Flame Heaven.
• Zhou Hu King died after warning that the Black Tortoise’s imbalance would bring the Wilds to ruin.
• White Mountain tried to claim loyalty, then escaped Su Changsheng’s attack by abandoning a turtle shell.
• Su Changsheng sensed the Black Sea draining his lifespan and heard the familiar voice beneath the shattered formation call him the Longevity Dao Lord.

Xu Xian explained the Black Tide Core and watched the Azure Yao Emperor destroy Zhou Hu King, while Su Changsheng encountered the Black Tortoise Heavenly Yao beneath the Black Tortoise Grand Formation. The Heavenly Yao revealed the Other Shore Sea’s nature and the Black Tortoise Yao Emperor’s fate, gave Su Changsheng the true Black Tortoise Body-Forging Art, and ended by saying the Longevity Dao Lord had died long ago.

• Xu Xian told the Great Yao Kings that Zhou Hu King’s Black Tide Core had produced the Black Tide and that the Azure Yao Emperor had crushed him almost effortlessly.
• Xu Xian refused to investigate the presence inside the formation and told the demons to watch, warning that a Yao Emperor could kill them with a thought.
• Su Changsheng ignored the voices from the skull-filled Memorial Hall, and the Black Tortoise Heavenly Yao dispersed the gray mist and described it as the Other Shore Sea.
• The Black Tortoise Heavenly Yao showed Su Changsheng the Other Shore Sea, explained the Gray Wall and the lost Black Tortoise Yao Emperor, and gave him the true Black Tortoise Body-Forging Art.
• Su Changsheng asked about the Longevity Dao Lord, and the Black Tortoise Heavenly Yao said Changsheng had died long ago and that apparent successors were reflections of the Other Shore Sea.

After emerging from the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, Su Changsheng assessed his new Yao Emperor powers and learned more about the looming struggle to escape the dying world. Xu Xian offered him a precious Divine Flame Stone, while disasters spread through the Heavenly River and factions began preparing to fight for passage.

• Su Changsheng reflected on the Black Tortoise Heavenly Yao’s warnings, examined his strengthened attributes, and resolved to investigate the Black Tortoise Spiritual Root and seek a way out of the world.
• Xu Xian explained the benefits and dangers hidden beneath the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and revealed that the Extreme Yin Yao Court used Yin Palace to harvest the Black Tortoise True Lord’s humanity.
• Su Changsheng questioned Xu Xian’s motives, and Xu Xian offered him a Divine Flame Stone containing Earth-Core Yao Flame in exchange for a chance to contact him about future passage.
• The Black Mountain Demon Stockade incident ended, leaving the Twenty-Eight Yao Grottoes and other factions fearful of Su Changsheng’s power.
• Terrifying anomalies and disasters spread from the Heavenly River’s outskirts toward its depths as the Other Shore Sea’s influence grew, prompting Demon Race factions to prepare to fight for passage.

Su Changsheng cultivated in seclusion for nearly half a year, strengthening Creation Azure Flame Heaven and stabilizing his Yao Emperor realm, while Green Mountain Yao King warned the Human Lord about Immortal City's dangers and the plans disrupted by Zhou Hu King's death. After investing Mythology Points to complete Creation Azure Flame Heaven's mythology, Su Changsheng opened a gate to the newly revealed Ice Heaven, the second realm of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• The Human Lord met Green Mountain Yao King near Chang'an and learned that White Mountain had helped bring about Zhou Hu King's death and the destruction of the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
• Green Mountain Yao King told the Human Lord that Immortal City contained dangerous phenomena and might be contaminated by a Heavenly Fiendish Being.
• During the following half year, Su Changsheng stabilized his Yao Emperor strength, merged the Earth-Core Yao Flame into Creation Azure Flame, and raised its mythology progress to 98%.
• Su Changsheng invested forty Mythology Points into Creation Azure Flame Heaven, completing its mythology and causing a Heavenly Gate to appear.
• Su Changsheng saw the gate reveal Ice Heaven, the second realm of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Su Changsheng prepared to proclaim his Yao Emperor status at an enthronement ceremony on Yin Islet, despite warnings that enemies might try to disrupt it. As the ceremony began before a vast crowd of demons and lurking eerie entities, Su Changsheng appeared in his imposing Yao Emperor form.

• Su Changsheng learned that the enthronement ceremony would embed his divine ring of rules in heaven and earth, and he decided to proceed despite possible obstructions and attacks.
• Hundreds of thousands of demons and powerful observers gathered on Yin Islet, while Su Changsheng built a grand Heaven-Sacrificing Terrace and sold participation spots and viewing places.
• The Human Lord and Green Mountain Yao King attended with Great Yao Bai Ling, while a mysterious old demon predicted that Su Changsheng would be killed for his blood essence.
• At noon, Bai Ling served as chief officiant and proclaimed Su Changsheng's ascension as the will of heaven and the Demon Race, condemning rival factions as having reached the end of their allotted fate.
• The assembled demons knelt as Su Changsheng appeared amid thunder and azure-red flames, and his Yao Emperor aura silenced everything within ten thousand li.

Su Changsheng proclaimed himself the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor, but powerful Heavenly River factions rejected his rule and tried to force him to withdraw. He used millions of followers of the Fire-Fusion Art to win Everlasting Heaven’s recognition and establish his imperial domain, then threatened the dissenting factions with death.

• Su Changsheng accepted the imperial edict, named himself the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor, and promised protection to the forces of the Heavenly River’s outskirts.
• A Half-Step Yao Emperor and hundreds of yao refused to accept Su Changsheng’s rule, and the seven Star Lord kingdoms, the Extreme Yang Imperial Court, the Extreme Yin Yao Court, and the twelve regional lineages joined the opposition.
• Yaozhao urged Su Changsheng to choose another territory, but Su Changsheng rejected the demand and declared that the million-li region was not theirs to command.
• Su Changsheng summoned millions of yao who had studied the Fire-Fusion Art, used their worship to form a Heavenly Throne and Flame Crown, and embedded his Rule Divine Ring into Everlasting Heaven.
• Su Changsheng struck Yaozhao away, sat upon the throne, and demanded that the opposing powers either kill themselves or be beaten to death.