Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Chen Family and learned from Chi Yue about Devil Ancestor Chiyou’s inheritance and Shi Tianxuan’s growing power. He spared Chi Yue to carry a message, sent Aoyue to the Fengdu Netherworld, and prepared to seek the inheritance on the Purple Tenuity Star.

• Chu Kuangren ordered a Golden Immortal Underworld General to kill the Chen Family head, then used his Six Paths Reincarnation Great World to destroy the Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides, sparing Chi Yue.
• Chi Yue offered Chu Kuangren an iron fragment that could help trace Devil Ancestor Chiyou’s inheritance on the Purple Tenuity Star.
• Chi Yue revealed that Shi Tianxuan had gained the God-Slaying Spear’s recognition and part of Devil Ancestor Rahula’s inheritance, and Chu Kuangren spared him to deliver a message.
• Chu Kuangren sent Aoyue to the Fengdu Netherworld to follow White Mei’s arrangements and opened the Ghost Gate to draw the dead souls into the Underworld.
• Chu Kuangren examined the iron fragment and decided to seek the Chiyou Inheritance.

Shi Tianxuan survived a sword strike from Chu Kuangren, who had used Chi Yue to test him before Chi Yue’s hidden sword qi killed him. Following a reacting iron fragment to the Jiuli Tribe, Chu Kuangren encountered Liu Feng pursuing Li Fei and threatening her clan.

• Shi Tianxuan killed a True Immortal Earth Black Bear while searching for opportunities on the Purple Tenuity Star.
• Chi Yue found Shi Tianxuan and warned him that Chu Kuangren had a clue to Chiyou’s inheritance, but the sword qi Chu Kuangren had planted in Chi Yue erupted and killed him.
• Chu Kuangren’s Dominating Presence of Zhou’s Sword clashed with Shi Tianxuan’s God-Slaying Art, Heaven-Breaking, and Chu Kuangren declared that Shi Tianxuan had earned the right to stand before him.
• Chu Kuangren sensed his iron fragment reacting and headed toward the Jiuli Tribe with Fu Yin and Shi Ying.
• Chu Kuangren saw Liu Feng pursuing Li Fei and threatening the Jiuli Tribe, while Liu Feng insisted he needed her to settle his regret before the World Child Contest.

Liu Feng attacked Li Fei and nearly subdued her, but Chu Kuangren appeared at her moment of despair and defended her. After defeating Liu Feng’s subordinates and wounding Liu Feng, Chu Kuangren let him flee while he turned back to Li Fei.

• Liu Feng threatened to destroy the Jiuli Tribe and attacked Li Fei, whose Chiyou demonic markings strengthened her but could not overcome his greater cultivation.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the inherited rune technique and suspected that Li Fei and the Jiuli Tribe carried Chiyou’s bloodline.
• Liu Feng and his allies battered Li Fei until she exhausted her demonic qi and believed she was doomed.
• Chu Kuangren appeared, erased Liu Feng’s attack, and declared that Liu Feng could not harm Li Fei.
• Chu Kuangren killed Liu Feng’s attackers with Demonic Annihilation of the Nine Heavens, then wounded Liu Feng with another strike.
• Liu Feng fled, and Chu Kuangren turned back to Li Fei instead of pursuing him.

Chu Kuangren rescued Li Fei and learned that the Jiuli Tribe believed he matched a prophecy about their savior. He accompanied her to the tribe, where its people welcomed him with hope, while Chu Kuangren investigated clues to Chiyou’s inheritance.

• Chu Kuangren let Liu Feng escape, then accepted Li Fei’s request to accompany her to the Jiuli Tribe after she identified his iron fragment as a relic of Great God Chiyou.
• Chu Kuangren told Fu Yin that Liu Feng would likely bring the Chi Mei Tribe back, giving him a chance to win the Jiuli Tribe’s gratitude by saving them.
• The Jiuli chief and elders worried that the Chi Mei Tribe would seize their bloodline runes and learned that Li Fei had returned with Chu Kuangren.
• Li Fei presented Chu Kuangren as the person in the High Priest’s prophecy, and the Jiuli Tribe recognized the fragment as Great God Chiyou’s token.
• The Jiuli chief welcomed Chu Kuangren despite doubting whether he could oppose the Chi Mei Tribe, and Chu Kuangren began seeking clues to Chiyou’s inheritance.

Chu Kuangren waited for the Jiuli Tribe Chief to trust him while searching for Chiyou's inheritance, then the Chimei Tribe Chief attacked the Jiuli Tribe. As the Jiuli Tribe faced defeat, Chu Kuangren opened the Ghost Gate and summoned an Underworld General.

• Chu Kuangren considered forcing the Jiuli Tribe to reveal Chiyou's inheritance but wondered whether the Chi Mei Tribe would attack soon.
• The Chimei Tribe Chief demanded that the Jiuli Tribe submit and surrender Chu Kuangren, then unleashed Ten Thousand Ghosts March upon them.
• Chu Kuangren protected Li Fei and the Jiuli children with sword qi and stepped forward to confront the Chimei Tribe Chief.
• The Jiuli Tribe Chief charged into the clouds but was defeated, and the elders prepared to fight the Chimei Tribe Chief to the death.
• Chu Kuangren opened the Ghost Gate and summoned a skeletal Underworld General to face the Chimei Tribe Chief.

Chu Kuangren’s Skeleton Underworld General defeated and killed the Chimei Tribe Chief, saving the Jiuli Tribe. After the Jiuli Tribe thanked him, Li Fei offered herself to repay him, but Chu Kuangren rejected her and told her he would act as though it had never happened.

• The Skeleton Underworld General obeyed Chu Kuangren’s command and confronted the Chimei Tribe Chief.
• The Skeleton Underworld General overpowered the Chimei Tribe Chief’s ghost attack and destroyed his body’s Golden Nature, killing him.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the Skeleton Underworld General and accepted the Jiuli Tribe Chief and elders’ gratitude while privately hoping they would reveal the Chiyou Inheritance’s location.
• Li Fei visited Chu Kuangren at night and offered herself to repay him for saving the Jiuli Tribe.
• Chu Kuangren rejected Li Fei’s offer and told her to leave, saying he would act as though the incident had never happened.

The Jiuli Tribe Chief brought Chu Kuangren to Chiyou’s hidden inheritance, where his iron fragment completed a three-legged cauldron and awakened a tremendous demonic aura. The Eighty-One Jiuli Demon Generals appeared above the cauldron as cultivators across the region, including Shi Tianxuan, rushed toward the source.

• Li Fei told the Jiuli Tribe Chief that Chu Kuangren had refused her, and the Chief affirmed that Chu was worthy of her trust.
• The Jiuli Tribe Chief led Chu Kuangren to a hidden spatial Secret Realm and revealed that it contained Great God Chiyou’s inheritance.
• Chu Kuangren’s iron fragment flew into the three-legged cauldron, completing it and unleashing a demonic pressure that shook the realm and reached nearby tribes.
• Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides sensed the aura and headed toward the Jiuli Tribe, while Shi Tianxuan recognized Chu Kuangren’s presence and hurried there.
• The cauldron revealed eighty-one figures, and the Jiuli Tribe Chief identified them as the legendary Eighty-One Jiuli Demon Generals.

Chu Kuangren faced Chiyou’s inheritance trial, watched an illusion of the Battle of Zhuolu, and then challenged Chiyou’s demonic generals. After learning the eighty generals would attack together, he stood ready to fight for the inheritance.

• Chiyou tested Chu Kuangren’s Dao Heart by showing him the Battle of Zhuolu, where Chiyou and the eighty-one demonic generals were defeated.
• Chiyou’s demonic generals challenged Chu Kuangren to defeat them to earn the inheritance.
• Chu Kuangren defeated two generals with single sword strikes and realized their soul Spirit Forms were far weaker than they had been in life.
• Chu Kuangren asked all the demonic generals to attack together, and Chiyou agreed after revealing Chu Kuangren was only a clone.
• The eighty demonic generals other than Chiyou stepped forward to attack Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren fought the eighty demon generals in Chiyou's trial, using his sword techniques, multiple immortal physiques, Fusang power, and the Academy's three great phenomena to overpower them. The demon generals then formed the Eighty Heavenly Demon Formation and began crushing him with its demonic barrier.

• Chu Kuangren used the Cruelty Sword and Ninefold Sword Barrier to withstand the eighty demon generals' coordinated attacks.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Dominating Presence, the Two-Aspects Yin-Yang Diagram, and Fusang power, sending the demon generals flying.
• The eighty demon generals strengthened themselves with demonic markings, while Chu Kuangren activated the Hundred Schools Diagram and the All-Realms Life-and-Death Wheel.
• The eighty demon generals deployed the Eighty Heavenly Demon Formation and contracted its barrier around Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren answered with the Azure Leaf Sword Sea.

Chu Kuangren broke the Eighty Heavenly Demon Formation by finding and striking its flaw, defeating the Eighty Demon Generals. Chiyou agreed to fight him for the chance to test his limits, and unleashed his destructive aura as he declared his name.

• Chu Kuangren used the Azure Leaf Sword Sea and Six Paths Reincarnation Great World to resist the Eighty Heavenly Demon Formation while searching for its weakness.
• The Eighty Demon Generals increased the formation's power, but Chu Kuangren found a flaw as their barrier grew more unstable.
• Chu Kuangren combined his two-aspects immortal physique with the Academy's three great phenomena and shattered the barrier with Yin-Yang Creation Divine Light.
• The formation's backlash sent the Eighty Demon Generals flying, and Chu Kuangren declared that they had lost.
• Chu Kuangren challenged Chiyou, who accepted and gathered demonic qi before declaring, “My name is Chiyou!”

Chu Kuangren’s clone battled Chiyou with the Scarlet Blood Sword, thrilling both warriors with their clash of strength. After Chiyou overwhelmed him, Chu Kuangren revealed his Human Emperor aura and summoned nine Imperial Dao Golden Dragons, leaving Chiyou delighted by the unexpected challenger.

• Chu Kuangren fought Chiyou with the Scarlet Blood Sword, matching his Long Halberd and Great Wilderness Halberd Technique with Zhou’s Sword.
• Chiyou praised Chu Kuangren’s skill but said his clone could not defeat him, then overwhelmed Chu Kuangren with Howl Through the Nine Heavens.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his Human Emperor aura and summoned nine Imperial Dao Golden Dragons.
• Chiyou laughed at the revelation, recalling that he had once competed with Xuanyuan for the position of Human Emperor.

Chu Kuangren fought Chiyou to prove himself worthy of receiving the Devil Ancestor’s inheritance. After Chu Kuangren endured Chiyou’s final halberd strike, Chiyou accepted him as his inheritor and entrusted him with the will to uphold the Human Emperor’s legacy.

• Chu Kuangren declared that he would overthrow the Immortal Courts and raise the Human Emperor above heaven, prompting Chiyou to challenge his skill.
• Chu Kuangren used the Imperial Dao Golden Dragons and Zhou’s Sword to counter Chiyou’s Great Wilderness Halberd Technique, impressing him with the sword art created by King Zhou.
• Chiyou unleashed the final form of his halberd technique, Pacify the Great Wilderness, and Chu Kuangren met it with Zhou’s Sword, Wu Dao.
• The clash wounded Chiyou more severely, and he declared Chu Kuangren worthy of receiving his inheritance and taking up the Human Emperor’s throne.
• Chiyou urged Chu Kuangren not to tarnish the Human Emperor’s name or lose to Xuanyuan’s inheritor, while the demonic generals encouraged him to honor their eldest brother’s legacy.

Chu Kuangren obtained Chiyou’s inheritance and began refining its treasures in seclusion while the Jiuli Tribe guarded him. News of the inheritance spread, drawing powerful factions to Jiuli and leaving the tribe in grave peril.

• Chu Kuangren claimed the Asura Mask, Great Wilderness Halberd, and Demon General Cauldron, completing Chiyou’s inheritance.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Jiuli Tribe Chief to protect Fu Yin and Shi Ying while he refined the inheritance in seclusion.
• The Jiuli Tribe Chief locked down the tribe and ordered its elders to guard Chu Kuangren’s cultivation.
• News that Chiyou’s inheritance was in Jiuli spread, and a Taotie Heavenly Pride demanded that the tribe surrender it.
• Heavenly Prides from the Demonic Dao, the Kunlun Immortal Court, the Eastern Emperor Immortal Court, and other factions arrived to seize the inheritance, putting Jiuli in peril again.

The Jiuli Tribe faced a coalition demanding the Chiyou Inheritance, and Qin Fei attacked after the tribe refused to submit to the Qin Family. Fu Yin intervened with the Fusang Tree and blocked his strike, then confronted Qin Fei as he used the Five Dragons Dominate the World Art to resist her Netherworld Rare Flame.

• Gui Ming and the other Heavenly Prides demanded that the Jiuli Tribe hand over the Chiyou Inheritance, while the Jiuli Tribe Chief feared for his clan.
• Qin Fei arrived aboard the Qin Family warship and offered protection in exchange for Jiuli becoming Qin Family retainers and surrendering the inheritance.
• The Jiuli Tribe Chief refused to betray Great God Chiyou, and Qin Fei launched the Red Dragon Shadow at Jiuli while a Qin Family Great Encompassment expert restrained the elders.
• Fu Yin appeared with the Fusang Tree and blocked Qin Fei's attack, prompting the Heavenly Prides to search the tribe for Chu Kuangren, whom they did not find.
• Qin Fei resisted Fu Yin's Netherworld Rare Flame with the Five Dragons Dominate the World Art and offered her wealth to become his; Fu Yin answered that she wanted his life.

Fu Yin fought Qin Fei while the Heavenly Prides and World Children attacked the Jiuli Tribe in search of the Chiyou Inheritance. When the tribe seemed close to defeat, Chu Kuangren emerged from a spatial Secret Realm and confronted the invaders.

• Fu Yin clashed with Qin Fei, whose five streams of Dragon Qi forced her back despite her use of the Netherworld Rare Flame and Fusang Power.
• Gui Ming, Zi Yunxi, and the other Heavenly Prides and World Children attacked the Jiuli Tribe, while Shi Ying protected children and Li Fei defended the tribespeople.
• A cultivator wielding a black Demonic Sword challenged Shi Ying for the Ninefold Sword Barrier, and they began fighting as the tribe fell into chaos.
• Qin Fei prepared to unleash Five Dragons World Collapse against Fu Yin, but a vast surge of Demonic Qi erupted from a spatial Secret Realm.
• Chu Kuangren stepped out of the Secret Realm, offered the invaders a choice between dying by their own hands or facing him, and asked if they were ready to face despair.

Chu Kuangren defended the Jiuli Tribe from a coalition of Heavenly Prides and World Children, overwhelming them with his sword arts. After Qin Fei’s powerful attack failed, Chu Kuangren sent him flying, and Qin Fei realized he had to flee.

• One Heavenly Pride tried to escape, but Chu Kuangren struck him with the God-Shocking Dao Sword as Zi Yunxi rallied the others to fight.
• The Taotie, Gui Ming, Zi Yunxi, and the other attackers launched a combined assault that also threatened the Jiuli Tribe, but Chu Kuangren’s Ninefold Sword Barrier protected them.
• Chu Kuangren retaliated with the Azure Leaf Sword Eyes, slaughtering many of the attackers with a sweeping torrent of sword qi.
• Qin Fei rejected Fu Yin’s warning and attacked Chu Kuangren with Five Dragons World Collapse, but Chu Kuangren’s Zhou’s Sword, Dominating Presence shattered his attack and wounded him.
• Qin Fei admitted he was no match for Chu Kuangren and called for a retreat.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Qin Fei and the other Heavenly Prides until Shi Tianxuan arrived to challenge him. Their first clash drove Chu Kuangren back several dozen feet, leaving the watching Heavenly Prides stunned.

• Chu Kuangren used the Six Paths Reincarnation Great World and the All-Realms Life-and-Death Wheel to crush Qin Fei, Zi Yunxi, Gui Ming, and other Heavenly Prides despite their defenses.
• Three monsters fell, and a Qin Family Great Encompassment cultivator vowed that the family would make Chu Kuangren pay.
• A demonic attack shattered Chu Kuangren's reincarnation world and swept away the remaining Heavenly Prides.
• Shi Tianxuan arrived with the God-Slaying Spear, declaring that he had come to repay Chu Kuangren for their previous fight.
• Chu Kuangren and Shi Tianxuan clashed with their sword and spear techniques, and both were driven back, prompting astonished reactions from the watching Heavenly Prides.

Chu Kuangren revealed Chiyou’s Great Wilderness Halberd and used the Great Wilderness Halberd Technique to match Shi Tianxuan’s God-Slaying Spear Technique. Their ultimate attacks collided, shaking the cosmos, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Shi Tianxuan drove Chu Kuangren back with the God-Slaying Spear Technique and challenged him to use the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Chu Kuangren summoned Chiyou’s Great Wilderness Halberd instead, and observers identified it as a Dao Integration Immortal Artifact.
• Shi Tianxuan unleashed Slaughter All Living Beings, but Chu Kuangren countered with Shatter the Stars and revealed that he had mastered the Great Wilderness Halberd Technique.
• Shi Tianxuan and Chu Kuangren traded attacks as their destructive techniques and weapons clashed.
• Shi Tianxuan used Bury the Gods and Buddhas while Chu Kuangren answered with Pacify the Great Wilderness, and their ultimate moves collided with a roar that shook the cosmos.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Shi Tianxuan in battle, but Shi Tianxuan escaped when extraordinary auspicious phenomena appeared across Purple Tenuity Star. Chu Kuangren turned toward the phenomena’s source, leaving the new development unresolved.

• Chu Kuangren and Shi Tianxuan’s clash manifested phantoms of Devil Ancestor Rahula and Chiyou, astonishing the onlookers.
• Chu Kuangren activated the Chiyou Demonic Markings and Asura Mask, overpowering Shi Tianxuan despite his God-Slaying State.
• Chu Kuangren struck Shi Tianxuan with the Azure Leaf Sword Sea and Yin-Yang Two-Aspects Creation Divine Light, leaving him badly injured.
• Chu Kuangren restrained Shi Tianxuan with the Spacetime Sealing Art and nearly finished him with the Great Wilderness Halberd.
• Auspicious phenomena spread across Purple Tenuity Star, allowing Shi Tianxuan to burn his Lifespan Origin, break free, and flee into the void.
• Chu Kuangren abandoned the pursuit and looked toward the source of the phenomena.

After defeating Shi Tianxuan, Chu Kuangren learned of the Four Cardinal Heavenly Dao Towers and prepared to pursue their opportunities. He secured the Jiuli Tribe’s allegiance and headed for the eastern tower with his companions, where powerful contenders from across Purple Tenuity Star gathered.

• Shi Tianxuan hid on a mountain after Chu Kuangren defeated him, and wondered about the mysterious fluctuations that had erupted during their battle.
• Purple Tenuity Star’s Heavenly Dao manifested four towers, each with 999 floors and rewards for those who passed its trials.
• The Jiuli Tribe Chief agreed to lead his people under Chu Kuangren, and Chu promised to free them when he became Lord of the Immortal Realm.
• Chu Kuangren set out for the eastern Heavenly Dao Tower with Fu Yin, Shi Ying, and Li Fei, whom the Jiuli Tribe Chief had sent along to gain experience.
• The Heavenly Dao Seed entered the eastern tower as Wujie Monk, the Yincao Netherworld successors, the Purple Tenuity Pavilion’s Little Tian Lord, and Qin Fengyun arrived.