Chapter Summaries

Feng Jiu realized he could use the creation legacy to awaken the potential inherited through countless generations and began testing his life essence with the blood of dead king-body prodigies. Meanwhile, an assassin from Hell was shocked to find that the Sacred Body had overpowered him in battle.

• Feng Jiu reasoned that Shrouding the Heavens’ immense history and bloodlines could hold dormant ancestral talents that creation might awaken.
• Feng Jiu decided that Saint Spirits born from heaven and earth could serve as references for his experiments, though he struggled to find a way to identify inherited traits.
• Feng Jiu revisited his past killings and refined the corpses of prodigies from several holy lands into masses of blood essence.
• Feng Jiu deliberately absorbed the foreign life essences, enduring violent clashes within his body as he tried to awaken his mortal body’s potential.
• An assassin from Hell was stunned when his bloody battle failed to defeat the Sacred Body at the Great Power level.

Ning Zhan revealed the terrifying power of his Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and defeated a Dao-Slaying King sent by Hell. After the battle, he worried that his display might have scared off the Heavenly Court’s assassins, while Hell prepared to escalate its pursuit.

• Ning Zhan manifested the Immortal King and used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist to grievously wound the king of assassins.
• The king of assassins summoned an incomplete Saint Weapon and vowed to kill Ning Zhan and seize his fortune.
• Ning Zhan wielded the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber and fought the king of assassins across the cosmos.
• Ning Zhan defeated the king of assassins and nailed him to the walls of Saint City, drawing attention from powerful observers and ambitious prodigies.
• Ning Zhan wondered whether his strength had frightened away the Heavenly Court’s assassins, while Hell’s assassins grew furious and prepared to retaliate.

The young Sacred Body explained why descendants of the Life Forbidden Zones would threaten prodigies on the Emperor Road, then insisted on facing the danger himself. Meanwhile, Feng Jiu advanced through creation and reincarnation, gaining insight that let him form his own Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.

• The young Sacred Body refused help from his hidden protector and said he would walk the Emperor Road alone unless a Killing Saint appeared.
• The young Sacred Body recalled how descendants of the Life Forbidden Zones had helped bring repeated defeats upon the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor and feared they would emerge again in his era.
• A fully accomplished king projected himself across the Heavenly Domain and attacked, but the young Sacred Body split the projection with the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Blade and escaped.
• Feng Jiu experienced repeated deaths and rebirths, using each life to deepen his understanding of the human body's origin and open hidden doors within his Five Great Secret Realms.
• Feng Jiu combined the Houtu Reincarnation Scripture with the Reincarnation Supreme Treasure and realized how souls and bodies related to reincarnation.
• Feng Jiu threw a punch that shifted heaven and earth, creating his own Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.

Feng Jiu discovered that the Nüwa Emperor Creation Scripture and Houtu Reincarnation Scripture let him reshape his flesh and temporarily simulate physiques he had once defeated. System 999 revealed that he might eventually simulate the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, leaving Feng Jiu dazzled by the possibilities.

• Feng Jiu realized the creation and reincarnation Daos resonated, then reshaped his flesh into different faces and body types without leaving detectable flaws.
• Feng Jiu changed his aura to simulate the Holy Light Body and other physiques he had once slain, though each imitation lasted only as long as an incense stick burned.
• Feng Jiu considered how mastering transformation might let him change species and create new forms of life.
• System 999 explained that Feng Jiu could try simulating the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, whose essence had mingled with him over the years.
• Feng Jiu became excited by the prospect of transforming into the lotus, which he regarded as far superior to other legendary physiques.

Feng Jiu explored the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus and briefly entered a transcendent state, then learned that Hell had failed to kill the Sacred Body he had been hired to eliminate. He decided to hunt the Sacred Body himself to protect his reputation and collect the rest of his payment.

• Feng Jiu resonated with the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus and briefly glimpsed a state beyond the world, but he could not sustain it.
• Feng Jiu left seclusion after a thousand years of cultivation inside his cave had passed in only three days outside.
• Feng Jiu examined his immortal tear green gold short blade and recalled that a young man still owed him a larger payment for a murder contract he had outsourced to Hell.
• Feng Jiu considered the Sacred Body's fate and wondered whether Wushi had obtained the Nine Secrets: Xing from Saint Cliff.
• Feng Jiu learned that Hell's assassin king had been killed and a Great Accomplishment King had failed to catch the Sacred Body, who wielded a secret blade and excelled at escaping.
• Feng Jiu decided to suppress the Sacred Body himself so he could defend his reputation and collect the outstanding payment.

Feng Jiu set out believing he could easily defeat the Sacred Body, while the Sacred Body endured Hell’s relentless pursuit across the Eastern Wasteland. Before a Killing Saint arrived, he escaped through a Void Formation he had secretly prepared, though an unseen ray of light followed him.

• Feng Jiu convinced himself that his permanent divine prohibition gave him the advantage and set out to seize the Sacred Body.
• Hell’s fully accomplished King of Assassins and numerous other assassins pursued the Sacred Body, who repeatedly fought his way through the encirclement.
• Onlookers debated whether the Sacred Body could survive Hell’s escalating pursuit, and a being from Purple Mountain declared that a Saint-level figure had been dispatched.
• The Sacred Body stopped fleeing and revealed that he had secretly laid a Void Formation along his route during the chase.
• The Sacred Body entered the Domain Gate and escaped tens of millions of miles away before the Killing Saint arrived, while the formation collapsed and a barely perceptible ray of light followed him.

The young Sacred Body escaped Hell’s pursuit through the collapsing formations and reflected on how life-and-death battles could unlock his potential. Feng Jiu appeared behind him, revealed himself as the man from the Heavenly Court outpost, and realized the Sacred Body had hired an assassin to kill himself.

• The young Sacred Body used Nine Secrets: Xing! to cross the shattered formations and escape the pursuing killers.
• Onlookers marveled that the Sacred Body had survived the Killing Saint’s trap and escaped certain death.
• The young Sacred Body contemplated how bloody battles could help him break through the limits of cultivation.
• The Jade Pool Saint warned the young Sacred Body after someone secretly appeared and wrote “You suck. Practice more!” on his robe.
• The young Sacred Body spotted Feng Jiu and recognized him from the Heavenly Court outpost.
• Feng Jiu realized that the young Sacred Body had been the one who hired an assassin to kill him.

Feng Jiu confronted the recovering young Sacred Body and offered to spare him for the remaining immortal tear green gold. The Sacred Body admitted he had already given Feng Jiu the only genuine piece, leaving the two unscrupulous rivals to prepare for a fight.

• Feng Jiu and the young Sacred Body traded barbs about their past schemes and the Sacred Body’s pursuit by Hell.
• Feng Jiu warned the Sacred Body about the dangers facing Sacred Bodies and offered to let him live in exchange for the immortal tear green gold.
• Feng Jiu revealed that the job was private work and that he had never reported it to the Assassin Heavenly Court.
• The young Sacred Body said he had only ever possessed one genuine piece of immortal tear green gold and had already given it to Feng Jiu.
• The Sacred Body argued he owed no final payment unless Feng Jiu killed him, and Feng Jiu prepared to fight him after he recovered.

Feng Jiu faced the recovered young Sacred Body and overwhelmed him with the extreme speed of the Nine Secrets: Xing, nearly cutting him in half. When Feng Jiu attacked again, the Sacred Body unleashed his golden realm to resist.

• Feng Jiu let the young Sacred Body recover to his peak before their battle.
• The young Sacred Body attacked with Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, but Feng Jiu evaded him with overwhelming speed.
• Feng Jiu revealed that he had mastered the Nine Secrets: Xing through repeated reincarnations and struck the Sacred Body with a short blade.
• The Sacred Body survived the slash thanks to his tough physique, and Feng Jiu attacked again.
• The young Sacred Body roared and connected his manifestations into a golden realm to freeze eternity.

Wushi unleashed his Sacred Body’s countless manifestations and entered the divine prohibition, overwhelming Feng Jiu with a vast array of laws and secret arts. Feng Jiu survived long enough to ask his opponent’s name, and Wushi identified himself.

• Wushi’s Sacred Body manifested hundreds of different Dao phenomena that resonated into a supreme diagram.
• Wushi entered the divine prohibition, breaking the limits of the eight prohibitions and sublimating his combat power.
• Wushi combined his Sacred Body, Dao embryo, sacred blood, and ultimate Dao laws to unleash an overwhelming assault on Feng Jiu.
• Feng Jiu retreated through time with a shattered palm and asked the young Sacred Body for his name.
• Wushi told Feng Jiu that his name was Wushi.

Feng Jiu realized the young Sacred Body was Wushi, whose power and hidden preparation turned the hunt against him. As Wushi trapped Feng Jiu with karma and unleashed Six Paths of Reincarnation, Feng Jiu declared that Wushi was exactly the opponent he had come to fight and answered with the same technique.

• Feng Jiu recognized the young Sacred Body as Wushi and understood that Hell’s pursuit had served as Wushi’s training and bait for the Heavenly Court assassin.
• Feng Jiu recalled Wushi’s exceptional talent for formations and inferred how he had learned to conceal his strength and endure danger.
• Wushi used his mother’s research into curses and karma to hinder Feng Jiu’s Nine Secrets: Xing and bind his speed.
• Wushi attacked Feng Jiu with Six Paths of Reincarnation, intending to end the battle with the Sacred Body Lineage’s strongest divine ability.
• Feng Jiu smiled, said Wushi was exactly who he had come to fight, and invoked Six Paths of Reincarnation in return.

Feng Jiu overwhelmed Wushi with a time-based blade technique that reduced his body to scattered flesh and nearly killed him. At the brink of death, Wushi drew on the Western Emperor Scripture and Feng Jiu’s methods to awaken a way to make the past overwrite the present.

• Feng Jiu filled the battlefield with dust and revealed a time-based technique distinct from the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Wushi answered with six forbidden chapters from the Western Emperor Scripture, unleashing his Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Technique.
• Feng Jiu transformed his body into dust-like traces and struck with a blade moving at the speed of thought, cleaving Wushi apart.
• Feng Jiu’s endless blade-light destroyed Wushi’s body faster than his healing could restore it, leaving him close to death.
• Wushi used the Western Emperor Scripture and insights from Feng Jiu to glimpse a way to reverse an unfavorable present through his departed self and Dao self.
• Wushi’s scattered flesh ignited and resonated with the greater universe, causing the past to overwrite the present.

Wushi and Feng Jiu fought a desperate battle in which Wushi’s improvised temporal domain disrupted Feng Jiu’s attacks and let him land a near-fatal blow. Wushi thought he had killed Feng Jiu, but the assassin survived by creating a living clay double and struck back.

• Feng Jiu used his thoughts to unleash a lightning-fast blade, but Wushi’s blood and temporal domain overlaid the battlefield with its past and disrupted Feng Jiu’s footwork.
• Wushi charged Feng Jiu with every secret art he knew and fought him inside a black hole until the clash ended with Wushi standing and Feng Jiu apparently dead.
• Wushi praised Feng Jiu’s skill, complained about his tricks, and taunted the body he believed was the assassin’s grave.
• Feng Jiu appeared behind Wushi and severed his head, revealing that he had used bloodied dust and soul light to create a living double.
• The two Feng Jius mocked Wushi’s Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and challenged him to compare it with their own Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Feng Jiu defeated Wushi by creating a clay double from his own flesh and blood, then explained how his ideas about reincarnation drew on the past and present selves. He spared Wushi and challenged him to develop his technique, while a stabbing pain between Feng Jiu’s brows hinted at an approaching danger.

• Feng Jiu used Creating Humans from Clay to make a powerful double, which fought Wushi until Wushi was nearly exhausted.
• Feng Jiu appeared and beheaded Wushi, who restored himself and admitted defeat.
• Wushi asked about Feng Jiu’s reincarnation technique, and Feng Jiu linked it to the departed self, Dao self, and the passage of time.
• Feng Jiu described his ambition to awaken the departed selves of beings who had died and establish reincarnation for all living beings.
• Feng Jiu spared Wushi but warned that he would kill him if he failed to improve before their next meeting.
• Wushi vowed to do better, as Feng Jiu sensed a faint stabbing pain between his brows.

Feng Jiu and Wushi exchanged inheritances after their battle, while Feng Jiu used the threat of forbidden-zone Supremes to keep Wushi from acting against him. They parted with clues about the Nine Secrets, and Wushi learned that the Assassin Heavenly Court did not have many fighters like Feng Jiu.

• Wushi offered to recommend Feng Jiu to Jade Lake Holy Land, but Feng Jiu declined and asked to read the Western Emperor Scripture instead.
• Feng Jiu accepted the scripture and warned Wushi that he could draw forbidden-zone Supremes after him by revealing his extraordinary parentage and constitution.
• Wushi backed down, and Feng Jiu discovered that his Nine Secrets: Xing booklet had fallen out; Wushi then agreed to pass on his mother's imperial arts despite Jade Pool's rules.
• Feng Jiu asked Wushi about the other Nine Secrets, and Wushi offered to search his mother's records for clues from the Emperor Road.
• Wushi asked whether the Assassin Heavenly Court had others who mastered Xing, and Feng Jiu assured him that there were not many like him.

Feng Jiu teased Wushi about having children and argued they could carry on his quest for immortality, while Wushi grew exasperated and summoned an Emperor Tower to cow him. Amid the clash of imperial pressure and System 999’s power, the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus stirred and began to bloom.

• Feng Jiu praised Wushi’s rare constitution and suggested he have many children to preserve his bloodline and pass on his Dao.
• Wushi refused to start a family, but Feng Jiu argued that descendants could continue the search for the severed path to immortality.
• Feng Jiu demanded the rest of his payment, and Wushi warned that Feng had not truly been able to kill him.
• Wushi summoned an Emperor Tower, unleashing overwhelming imperial pressure that forced the surrounding mountains and rivers to bow.
• System 999 shone against the pressure as the lotus leaves trembled, its bud swayed, and the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus began to unfurl.

Feng Jiu escaped Wushi and the Western Emperor Pagoda by resonating with the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, then traveled from the Southern Region to the Northern Region. He arrived at the Jade Lake Holy Land disguised as an injured young man and used his identity as its founder’s son to obtain precious resources.

• Feng Jiu transformed into temporal light with the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus and escaped the Western Emperor Pagoda, while Wushi resolved to catch up with him.
• The Western Emperor Pagoda urged Wushi to have children and raise Emperor’s Sons to help defend against the Underworld, prompting Wushi to curse Feng Jiu.
• Feng Jiu’s power ran dry in the Northern Region, where he cursed Wushi and revealed that he had collected Wushi’s golden blood during their battle.
• Feng Jiu set off toward the Jade Lake Holy Land with Wushi’s blood and arrived there pretending to be gravely injured.
• The Jade Lake elder accepted Feng Jiu’s orders for Flat Peaches, Dragon Loaches, and medicine kings because she believed he was the founder’s son, an Emperor’s Son.

Feng Jiu recovered from his battle with Wushi by cooking the Jade Pool’s treasures and speculated about the Western Emperor’s plans to protect her son from the Underworld. He left the Jade Pool with one Flat Peach and two Dragon Loaches, while Wushi sensed that something was wrong.

• Feng Jiu used transformation techniques to study a Dragon Loach and a medicine king, then cooked them with an eighty-thousand-year-old mountain yam and healed most of his injuries.
• Feng Jiu learned that Lady Nuwa’s inheritance of creation included insights into cuisine and considered taking the Jade Pool’s treasures before the Western Emperor Pagoda made the place too dangerous.
• Feng Jiu wondered whether the Western Emperor had sacrificed her life to leave a powerful contingency for Wushi against the Underworld.
• Feng Jiu took one Flat Peach and two Dragon Loaches from the Jade Pool and departed without stripping it bare.
• Wushi, meditating in a secret chamber after his fight with Feng Jiu, felt a bad premonition and clenched his fist as Feng Jiu’s face came to mind.

Wushi returned to Jade Pool to find that Feng Jiu had taken valuable treasures and a Medicine King, then decided to eat the medicinal food left behind. Meanwhile, Wushi attacked a Hell stronghold and publicly declared war on the assassin organizations before a young man quietly reclaimed his deposit from the wreckage.

• Wushi planned to forge a primal-chaos bell to counter Feng Jiu’s time-domain technique and left the Western Emperor Pagoda behind to escape its marriage lectures.
• Wushi learned that Feng Jiu had taken two Flat Peaches, three Dragon Loaches, and a Medicine King from Jade Pool, but chose to eat the remaining medicinal food instead of pursuing him.
• Wushi stormed a Hell stronghold, defeated its assassins, and declared that he would wipe out Hell and the other assassin organizations.
• A young man took less than half a cubic unit of nine heavens divine jade from the ruined stronghold, saying he was recovering the deposit he had paid Hell.

Feng Jiu used his knowledge of the assassin organizations to destroy their strongholds while making Wushi appear responsible. As the Eastern Wasteland descended toward chaos, Feng Jiu set his sights on the Assassin Heavenly Court’s Book of Time and prepared to implicate Wushi again.

• Feng Jiu slaughtered the assassins in a Hell hall, reclaimed his deposit, and decided to target more of Hell’s strongholds.
• Feng Jiu used his insider knowledge to destroy twelve Hell strongholds, building Wushi’s reputation as the apparent culprit.
• Feng Jiu attacked Human World and the Assassin Heavenly Court, destroying eighteen training camps and looting an important hall that held Dao Tribulation Gold.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court arrived at the ruined hall with the Book of Time and a Quasi-Emperor Artifact, while Feng Jiu coveted the Book of Time and considered taking the Lord’s position.
• Feng Jiu planned to continue attacking the Assassin Heavenly Court and leave clues pointing north so the real Wushi would be blamed.