Recaps

Jiang Yang gathered the Shang Dynasty army and forces summoned by the Kunlun Order to oppose the invading Devil Clan. As both armies prepared to meet on the plateau, the Devil Clan marshal ordered his forces to advance and crush the eastern army.

• Jiang Yang visited Shang Tang in West Bo and asked him to resettle western humans after their defeat, and Shang Tang agreed to send his son and an army on the campaign.
• Shang Tang's son led an elite army northwest alongside Jiang Yang and the Dark Bird.
• Jiang Yang and the Shang Dynasty army reached the plateau, where Di Jun and the Vermilion Bird had gathered Demon Race troops, divine beasts, strange beasts, and demigods.
• The Lord of the Clouds reported that the Devil Ghost Race had eighteen hundred fighters, many beasts, and tens of thousands of western humans, and estimated they would engage in about three days.
• After learning that another human army had arrived in the eastern camp, the Devil Clan marshal ordered his army to rest for two hours and then advance at full speed.

Jiang Yang led the Demon Race and the Shang Dynasty to victory over the Devil Clan and captured its commander. After learning that the Devil Ghost Race planned to retaliate, he persuaded Di Jun and Vermilion Bird to press westward and destroy the Devil Clan’s remaining forces on Earth.

• Jiang Yang considered the Devil Clan’s world as a possible refuge for the Demon Race when spiritual power vanished from Earth.
• The Devil Clan and the eastern forces began a fierce battle across the river, with Jiang Yang joining the fight in his Golden Crow form.
• Jiang Yang defeated and captured the Devil Clan commander, causing the devil army to flee while the demons and Shang Dynasty troops took prisoners.
• The captured commander warned that the Devil Ghost Race would return to avenge its defeat, so Jiang Yang proposed a westward campaign.
• Di Jun and Vermilion Bird agreed with Jiang Yang, and the demon army continued west after the Shang Dynasty’s troops returned.

After the Divine Realm defeated the Xuanye Court, Jiang Yang entered seclusion to pursue the seventh step, while the Demon Race drove the Devil Ghost Race from Earth. Jiang Yang then found materials for divine artifacts and began forging the bell as the great demons discussed an attack on the Devil Realm.

• The Divine Realm defeated the Xuanye Court when Jiang Yang killed Xiao Xuanye, annexed its territory, and entered seclusion to break through to the seventh step.
• In future space-time, a supreme emperor sensed that a timeline had failed, while a purple-haired woman at the Heroic Spirit Hall said the path to Supreme was nearly complete and there would be no second chance.
• The Demon Race's three lords led their people west, defeating the Devil Ghost Race's reinforcements when the Demon Emperor burned their strongest warrior to ashes.
• After the Devil Ghost Race fled Earth, Jiang Yang discussed attacking the Devil Realm with Di Jun, Vermilion Bird, Peng, the Lord of the Clouds, and the other great demons.
• Jiang Yang discovered materials for forging divine artifacts in the Devil Ghost Race's treasury and began casting the bell.

Jiang Yang forged a brass Divine Artifact intended to safeguard the Demon Race after his Golden Crow body died, then used a super AI and his own blood to give it intelligence and power. After the Demon Race prepared to invade the Devil world, Jiang Yang named the finished artifact the Demon Emperor Bell atop Mount Tai.

• Jiang Yang forged the bell's body, decorated it with elemental essences, and spent ten years tracing formations across its surface.
• Di Jun told Jiang Yang that a high-ranking Devil Clan captive had revealed the location of the Devil Ghost Race's Space-Time world beneath the far western sea, and Jiang Yang set a date to march on it in ten years.
• Jiang Yang asked Di Jun to gather a beam of Northern Lights and ten-thousand-year-old ice, then realized he could use a super AI to grant the bell intelligence.
• Jiang Yang retrieved a super AI from the Kunlun Refuge and integrated it into the bell, completing the artifact.
• Atop Mount Tai, Jiang Yang tempered the bell with his golden-red blood for three days and nights, then struck it and announced that he had forged the Demon Emperor Bell.

Ten years after the Demon Emperor Bell made Mount Tai famous, Di Jun rallied the Demon Race to launch a campaign against the Devil Ghost Race. Jiang Yang struck the bell, and the ten thousand demons marched toward the Devil World.

• The Demon Emperor Bell’s toll spread across the world, making Mount Tai and Jiang Yang renowned.
• Ten years later, ten thousand Demon Race warriors assembled above Mount Tai with Di Jun, Taiyi, and Vermilion Bird.
• Di Jun declared that the Demon Race would attack the Devil World and promised rewards for killing Devils.
• The Demon Race roared its oath to destroy the Devil Clan and its realm.
• Jiang Yang struck the Demon Emperor Bell, and the Demon Race set out for war.

Tushan Yi struggled to survive as the western demon army neared defeat in the Devil Realm. Just as he prepared to die fighting, Demon Emperor Taiyi arrived, giving him hope that the army could be saved.

• Tushan Yi recovered amid a battlefield of corpses after losing an eye and six tails in combat with two devils.
• Tushan Yi saw the Devil Lord Alliance overwhelm the western demon army and trap Vermilion Bird and Lord of the Clouds in the sky.
• Tushan Yi recalled how Di Jun, Jiang Yang, and Vermilion Bird had led the Demon Race into the Devil Realm and divided their forces to attack the Devil Clan.
• Tushan Yi picked up a saber and resolved to die fighting for the Tu Shan Nine-Tailed Fox Clan.
• Taiyi arrived carrying a great brass bell, and Tushan Yi recognized the Demon Emperor and cried that they were saved.

Jiang Yang appeared on the battlefield as Demon Emperor Taiyi and freed Vermilion Bird and Lord of the Clouds from the five Devil lords. When the Devils tried to retreat, he used his bell to bring down their army, leaving the Demon Race cheering for victory.

• Jiang Yang arrived above the battlefield, and the Demon Race recognized him as their emperor while the Devil Ghost Race lost morale.
• Demon Emperor Taiyi shattered the Devils' cage, freeing Vermilion Bird and Lord of the Clouds and forcing the five Devil lords to retreat.
• The Devil army began withdrawing after a gong sounded, and Tushan Yi and other Demon Race fighters pursued them.
• Demon Emperor Taiyi declared that none of the Devils would leave and tolled his bell three times.
• The Devils fell from the sky, and the Demon Race celebrated their emperor's victory.

Jiang Yang rescued the western army from the Devil Ghost Race’s trap and folded its campaign into his central army. He granted Tushan Yi the battlefield as Qingqiu, a territory where he could honor his fallen brothers and comrades.

• Jiang Yang defeated the Devil Ghost Race’s ambush on the central army’s route, captured its chief librarian, and learned that the western army faced another trap.
• Jiang Yang rushed to the western army and used his bell to rescue its survivors, though two-thirds of its demons had died.
• Jiang Yang found that Vermilion Bird and Lord of the Clouds were exhausted but unharmed, then incorporated the western army into his central army.
• Jiang Yang promised the surviving warriors territory if the Demon Race conquered the Devil World.
• Tushan Yi asked to receive the battlefield as territory so he could build tombs for his fallen brothers and comrades.
• Jiang Yang named the battlefield Qingqiu and granted it to Tushan Yi, who vowed that the Tu Shan Clan of Qingqiu would fight for the Demon Race.

Jiang Yang rallied the Demon Race by promising territory and titles to those who helped defeat the devils. Three months later, Di Jun, Vermilion Bird, and Taiyi faced the Devil Monarch’s army on the Blood-Colored Plains, where the Devil Monarch recalled the coup that founded his dynasty and his vow to defeat the gods.

• Jiang Yang declared Tushan Yi the first Demon King and promised that other demons could rule territories after victory over the devils.
• Jiang Yang ordered the wounded to stay behind and led the able demons to attack the devils’ main force.
• Three months later, Di Jun, Vermilion Bird, and Taiyi stood with more than ten thousand demons opposite the Devil Monarch and his army on the Blood-Colored Plains.
• The Devil Monarch remembered overthrowing the previous Devil Royal Clan after it refused to invade Earth.
• The Devil Monarch recalled promising the former Devil King that he would one day gain the power to defeat gods.

The Devil King led his elite Transcendent Devils into battle against the Demon Race, confident they would become the true masters of the earth. As the charge began, Jiang Yang rang the Brass Great Bell, and its toll filled the battlefield with terror.

• The Devil King dismissed the old king's warning and declared that the devils would one day replace the gods.
• The Devil King praised his loyal Transcendent Devils and ordered them to attack the Demon Race, promising promotions for kills.
• The devil army charged while Di Jun asked Jiang Yang to make the opening move.
• Jiang Yang rang the Brass Great Bell, sending waves across the battlefield and filling the devil warriors with fear.

Jiang Yang transformed into a Golden Crow and killed the Devil King with a single blaze, turning the battle in the Demon Race’s favor. After the devils surrendered, Jiang Yang named their conquered world the Demon Realm, giving the Demon Race a home of its own.

• Di Jun led the Demon Race army into battle as Jiang Yang’s bell wiped out devils by the millions.
• The Devil King and his forces attacked Jiang Yang, hoping to seize his bell and suppress its power with a Formation.
• Jiang Yang discarded the bell, transformed into a Golden Crow, and burned the Devil King to ash with Sun True Fire.
• Jiang Yang declared the Devil King dead and offered the Devil Ghost Race surrender or death, prompting most of the devil army to surrender.
• Jiang Yang named the conquered world the Demon Realm, and the Demon Race cheered its new home.

As supernatural energy faded in the Mortal Realm, the Demon Race and many other supernatural beings settled in the Demon Realm, while human cultivators established the Taiyi Sect on Mount Tai. In year 891 of the Demon Chronicles, Jiang Yang prepared the Demon Race for his death, entrusted it to his successors and the Demon Emperor Bell, and passed away as the demons mourned.

• The Demon Race moved its court into the Demon Realm, leaving Mount Tai to human cultivators who later established the Taiyi Sect.
• As Jiang Yang neared death, the Demon Kings gathered outside the Demon Emperor Palace and wept for Taiyi.
• Jiang Yang instructed Di Jun and Vermilion Bird to appoint the Lord of the Clouds as Demon Lord and Peng as Demon Master, and asked Di Jun to marry Xihe.
• Jiang Yang addressed the assembled demons, urging them to keep the Demon Race flourishing, then asked for the Demon Emperor Bell.
• Jiang Yang told the intelligent bell to protect the Demon Race in his place, then dissolved into the wind as the bell tolled nine times and the demons mourned.

After Taiyi's passing, Di Jun took up leadership of the Demon Race, while the Divine Realm advanced under Aulisel and Li Xiaowa and established the Heaven Realm. Jiang Yang received a mysterious ray of golden light and emerged from meditation ready to break through.

• After Taiyi passed away, Di Jun resolved to cultivate seriously and shoulder the Demon Race's leadership.
• Di Jun married Xihe, and the Three-Legged Golden Crows gradually became the Demon Race's imperial clan; Xihe later gave birth to the Golden Crow Child.
• Aulisel and Li Xiaowa led the Divine Clan's scientists in developing intelligent robots and creating the Heaven Realm.
• A mysterious ray of golden light entered Jiang Yang as he sat on the Space Divine Throne.
• Jiang Yang opened his eyes and declared that, after countless battles and lifetimes of reincarnation, the day of his breakthrough had arrived.

In the Immortal Realm, the Dao Ancestor’s attendants noticed his incense burning down while he watched over events from the mortal world. In the Divine Realm, Jiang Yang awakened a new power and became the Overlord of the Suns of All Heavens, extending his will into the Solar System’s Sun.

• In the ninth heaven, the fourth stick of Dao incense burned seven-tenths of the way down, and the two attendants prepared to notify the Dao Ancestor.
• On the Immortal Continent, the white-haired Dao Ancestor smiled and said that the future held promise.
• Jiang Yang rose from the Sky Divine Throne, causing the Divine Realm’s Sun to blaze with light.
• Jiang Yang opened his eyes, revealed a Flame River of worlds, and sent golden rays of his Life-Bound Sun into the Suns and vital flames of those worlds.
• Jiang Yang became the Overlord of the Suns of All Heavens, and a ray of his golden light entered the Sun in Earth Space-Time’s Solar System.

Jiang Yang experienced the Sun’s ancient memories, witnessing the rise and disappearance of civilizations across successive eras. The history tempered his will and carried him into the Seventh Step, where he gained the ability to manifest incarnations and journey through countless worlds.

• Jiang Yang cast part of his will into the Sun and experienced its memories from the Solar System’s formation onward.
• Through the Sun’s perspective, Jiang Yang witnessed the rise and disappearance of the Human Civilization, the Ghost Clan Civilization, the Immortal Clan Civilization, and the Morgan Civilization.
• Jiang Yang saw that the Divine Clan Civilization’s history had not been obscured and that the Sixth Epoch continued into the present.
• The Sun’s billions of years of memories strengthened Jiang Yang’s will until he broke through a barrier.
• Jiang Yang ascended the Sky Divine Throne as projections of countless suns appeared in the Divine Realm, and he declared that he had reached the Seventh Step.
• Jiang Yang said he could now manifest countless incarnations and journey through endless worlds, as Cui Yu had done.

Jiang Yang broke through to the Seventh Step, sending a mighty aura across the Divine Realm. Cui Yu and a forlorn young man recognized his breakthrough and discussed how he might seek out the Immortal Realm; the chapter ended with Cui Yu expecting Jiang Yang to ask him for directions.

• Across the Divine Realm, people felt Jiang Yang's powerful aura after the manifestation of countless suns faded, and they praised the God King.
• The young man refused to take back disciples who had left him, saying he wanted them to live freely, while Cui Yu praised his recovery from failure.
• Jiang Yang's manifestation appeared in the sky, and Cui Yu identified his aura as that of someone who had reached the Seventh Step.
• Cui Yu and the young man discussed Jiang Yang's likely search for the Immortal Realm and the other civilizations of All Heavens.

After consolidating his Seventh Step cultivation, Jiang Yang strengthened the Divine Realm’s rule and expansion, then set out with Cui Yu to find a route to the Immortal Realm. They identified a nearby world whose sun Jiang Yang could use to travel there.

• Aulisel and the others resumed the Divine Realm’s conquests, with Chen Yunfan joining the expeditions to hold the battle line.
• The Divine Realm distributed its upgraded trans-space-time teleportation system, Rainbow Bridge 2.0, while its people celebrated Jiang Yang’s breakthrough.
• Decades later, Jiang Yang finished consolidating his cultivation, visited Sky God City, and discussed the Divine Clan’s future with Aulisel, Li Xiaowa, Qing Fengxi, and Li Zhe.
• After gathering with Zeus, Odin, and the others, Jiang Yang asked Cui Yu about reaching the Immortal Realm, since he still could not teleport there directly.
• Jiang Yang and Cui Yu found a world near the Immortal Realm and planned to use its sun as a route there.

As supernatural energy declined during the Shang Dynasty, Filiya and Yuhua reached the fifth step but stayed on Earth while their successors remained. The discovery of a qi-rich subsidiary space gave the Qi Refiners a refuge for preserving their legacy, and it was named the Earthly Immortal Realm.

• Pan Geng surveyed the Shang Dynasty and decided to move its capital to Yin as supernatural energy declined.
• Filiya emerged from seclusion with fifth-step cultivation and learned that Yao had become Di Jun, founded the Demon Race, and joined the Divine Realm.
• Filiya took responsibility for maintaining the gods' God Blood reincarnations and gathered energy on Kunlun to protect the remaining demigods.
• Yuhua broke through to the fifth step but remained on Mount Kongtong because Shennong and Xuanyuan had not yet advanced.
• Zhenyuan discovered a qi-rich subsidiary space of Earth, and the Qi Refiners named it the Earthly Immortal Realm to preserve their legacy.

Jiang Yang entered a new Great World that resembled the pre-Apocalypse Mortal Realm, but intelligent animals ruled its modern cities and humans were often enslaved or eaten. He discovered that the Dog Clan offered humans the strongest protection, even sheltering a human city.

• The Earthly Immortal Realm flourished as cultivators and other settlers brought their families, disciples, and living things there.
• Filiya stood atop Kunlun Mountain and wondered whether her old friend was well.
• Jiang Yang entered the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens and sensed a force suppressing humans, though it barely affected him.
• Jiang Yang and Cui Yu observed modern but dilapidated cities populated by intelligent animals who walked upright.
• Jiang Yang saw that humans were enslaved in most animal-ruled cities and treated as meat by some races, while the Dog Clan protected them and had a human city in its territory.

Lili, the last member of the Pear Blossom Cat Clan, dug at a graveyard in Modai Town to uncover the secret recorded on her ancestral parchment and restore her clan. A striped tiger watched her from nearby while Jiang Yang and Cui Yu descended into the area.

• Lili recalled that her ancestor, a pet of an ancient human Scientist, had passed down a parchment containing a secret through the Pear Blossom Cat Clan.
• Lili resolved to uncover the secret and restore her declining clan to the Nineteen Illustrious Clans.
• Lili used a glowing shovel to dig at the marked spot in the abandoned graveyard.
• A party of assorted races watched Lili from a hilltop, led by a striped tiger with binoculars.
• Jiang Yang and Cui Yu descended from the sky within Modai Town.

Lili dug beneath a barren graveyard and uncovered an ancient human laboratory hidden behind a metal door. After opening it with a passage in the language of the Ancient Humans, she entered and learned that Pear Blossom was her ancestor.

• Lili dug more than fifty meters into the graveyard while Kun Lord and Danglu watched from a nearby hill.
• Kun Lord told Danglu to wait until Lili opened the treasure, since only the Pear Blossom Cat lineage knew how to unlock it.
• Lili dug roughly a hundred meters down and uncovered a rusted metal door, then followed the parchment’s instructions to recite an ancient passage to its blue crystal.
• The crystal verified Lili and opened the door, revealing an underground laboratory built by the Ancient Humans.
• A human woman's phantom greeted Lili as a descendant of Pear Blossom, and Lili stepped into the laboratory.

Lili explored an ancient human laboratory and found Huang An preserved in a glass coffin. After he awoke, Huang An discovered he could see a line of text identifying Lili and her clan.

• Lili searched the laboratory for valuable medicines but found that most of its objects had decayed.
• Lili entered a dim, mist-filled chamber and found a young human frozen inside a glass coffin.
• Lili wondered whether the human was the hope her ancestor had described and considered destroying that hope, but hesitated to kill him.
• The glass coffin opened, and Huang An sat up, startling Lili.
• Huang An examined Lili and saw golden text identifying her as Lili, a direct descendant of the Pear Blossom Cat Clan.

After waking from cryogenic sleep ten thousand years later, Huang An learned from Black Cat Lili that intelligent animals ruled the world and watched a recording explaining humanity’s collapse. The video revealed that humans had destroyed their civilization in a war, while researchers prepared exceptional intelligent animals to inherit the world.

• Huang An woke in a glass ice coffin and mistook Black Cat Lili for an ordinary pet, while she identified him as an ancient human.
• Black Cat Lili told Huang An that intelligent animals ruled the world, but he dismissed her claim as a prank.
• Huang An noticed corrosion on supposedly imperishable alloys and followed Black Cat Lili through the deserted facility.
• Huang An and Black Cat Lili watched a recording from Han You, who described a devastating war among the Empire, Federation, and Alliance after Huang An fell unconscious.
• Han You explained that the Director had lost faith in humanity and that researchers raised eighteen laboratory-born intelligent animals, along with Black Cat Lihua, to lead their kind.

Huang An watched Xiao You’s final message, learning how the intelligent animals were raised, united under Rhine, and went to war with humanity after the Old Director’s death. After Xiao You explained why she had preserved him and left the world’s future to him, Huang An asked Lili what the world was like now and how long ago Xiao You had lived.

• Xiao You explained that the Research Institute raised nineteen intelligent animals, who gained humanlike intelligence but grew to distrust humanity.
• Xiao You said Rhine led the intelligent animals to war after humans killed the Old Director, and their forces eventually claimed half the world.
• Xiao You recalled asking Rhine to honor his oath, but he showed her human factions’ surrender letters and declared that surrendered humans would become food for animal races.
• Xiao You told Huang An she had preserved him in ice because she believed his awakening ability would let him fulfill his role, then disappeared from the recording.
• Huang An and Lili mourned Xiao You, and Lili reconsidered the origins of the Nineteen Illustrious Clans.
• Huang An asked Lili to explain the present world and how much time had passed since Xiao You’s era.

Huang An learned that humans had lost the war to intelligent animals and had been enslaved or eaten for ten thousand years. A group of powerful animal clans then appeared at the research hall, led by Kunshan Xu of the Kunshan Tiger Clan.

• Lili told Huang An that ten thousand years had passed since his time.
• Lili explained that intelligent animals had won the war, founded the Rhine Empire, and left humans enslaved, hunted for food, or confined to a few fearful cities.
• A tremendous noise interrupted Huang An and Lili as they discussed humanity's fate.
• Huang An and Lili saw more than a dozen animals arrive at the research hall, led by the upright tiger Kunshan Xu.
• Huang An read golden labels identifying the newcomers as members of powerful animal clans, including clans known to eat humans.