Chapter Summaries

Han Shuo arrived in Withered Bones City and stopped the Jialan Family’s attack on the Han Family with his overwhelming power. After hearing how the family had been threatened and mistreated, he faced Hill and Shatuo as they pleaded that it was all a misunderstanding.

• The Han Family recognized Han Shuo’s approaching aura, and both sides halted their fighting in fear of the newcomer.
• Han Shuo arrived and intimidated the Divine Guards, Hill, and Shatuo into stopping their assault on the Han Family.
• The Han Family celebrated Han Shuo’s arrival while Hill and Shatuo realized they could not defeat him.
• Shatuo called the situation a misunderstanding, and Han Shuo asked what had happened.
• Old Monster Stassom and Emily described the threats, captures, and mistreatment the Han Family had endured.
• Gilbert denounced Hill and Shatuo for exploiting Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and trying to destroy the Han Family, while Shatuo continued pleading.

Han Shuo captured Shatuo and let Bolands exact revenge for the Jialan Family's abuses against the Han Family while the gathered forces of Withered Bones City stood powerless. The chapter ended with Han Shuo ordering Bolands to continue flaying Shatuo, and Livy fainting after hearing his screams.

• Hill and Shatuo pleaded with Han Shuo, claiming their actions against the Han Family had been a misunderstanding.
• Emily and Blood Spirit rejected their excuses, and Han Shuo bound Shatuo with his fiendish aura and delivered him to Bolands, Gilbert, and Blood Spirit.
• Five Jialan Family upper gods charged Han Shuo, who killed them with five flying swords and left their bodies suspended in the air.
• Bolands began flaying the immobilized Shatuo, whose heightened senses made the pain ten times worse, while the crowd dared not intervene.
• Livy begged Han Shuo to spare Shatuo, but Han Shuo ordered Bolands to continue, and Livy fainted at Shatuo's screams.

After killing Shatuo, Han Shuo spared Hill in Withered Bones City because Hill invoked the Death Main God's protection, then escorted the Han Family out of the Death Divine Domain. Once they reached safety, Han Shuo returned alone to pursue revenge against Hill and Wallace.

• Bolands killed Shatuo, and Emily identified Hill as the City Lord who had supported the attack on the Han Family.
• Hill warned Han Shuo that killing him would provoke the Death Main God, so Han Shuo led the Han Family out of Withered Bones City without attacking him.
• Han Shuo told Emily and Old Monster Stassom to take the Han Family to Ethereal City and seek McKinley after leaving the Death Divine Domain.
• Han Shuo escorted the Han Family across the Death Divine Domain, then slipped away and returned alone to seek revenge on Hill and Wallace.

After the Jialan Family was destroyed, Livy lost her sanity, and Han Shuo erased her memories so Daxiaxi could take her to safety. Han Shuo then prepared to confront Hill and the others responsible for targeting the Han Family, and his return to the City Lord's Mansion announced the start of his retaliation.

• Hill seized most of the Jialan Family's holdings, while other families hunted down its surviving members and nearly exterminated the bloodline.
• Han Shuo found Livy in a ruined temple with Daxiaxi and learned that the family's destruction had broken her mind.
• Han Shuo erased Livy's memories of the Jialan Family and told Daxiaxi to take her to Ethereal City.
• Daxiaxi warned Han Shuo that Hill bore a mark from the Death Main God, but Han Shuo confirmed he intended to punish Hill and heard the names of other participants.
• Han Shuo vanished from the temple, and his sinister power enveloped the City Lord's Mansion as Hill and the assembled family patriarchs recognized his return.

Han Shuo killed the patriarchs of Withered Bones City's great families and erased Hill's consciousness while preserving his soul to delay alerting the Death Main God. He then traveled to Cloudswallow City to kill Laklison, but discovered the Broadhurst Family was protected by a barrier and an aura suggesting that Yelus had reached the Main God Realm.

• Han Shuo destroyed the Council Hall's defenses and used the Heavenly Demon Jade Flame Shuttle and demon heads to kill the gathered family patriarchs.
• Han Shuo burned Hill, removed his soul's independent consciousness while leaving the Death Main God's mark intact, and stored the soul in a container.
• Han Shuo realized he could use similarly altered Upper God souls to help Emily and the other Han Family members gain insights into power.
• Han Shuo left Withered Bones City and reached Cloudswallow City seven days later to target Laklison of the Broadhurst Family.
• Han Shuo sensed the Broadhurst Family's powerful Darkness Wall and concluded that Cloudswallow City's lord, Yelus, had entered the Main God Realm.

Han Shuo waited for Laklison to leave Cloudswallow City so he could kill him, but Laklison led him into a trap set by Yelus alongside Wallace, Hofus, and Ralph. Yelus offered Han Shuo a place for the Han Family in Cloudswallow City, but Han Shuo refused to live under anyone else's authority.

• Han Shuo sensed that Yelus had reached the Main God Realm and decided to wait outside the Broadhurst estate for Laklison rather than risk an attack there.
• After learning from the Wind Transmission Agency that Laklison was in Cloudswallow City, Han Shuo waited three days until Laklison left with Broadhurst Divine Guards.
• Han Shuo followed Laklison out of the city, but Laklison fled through a spatial rift, and Han Shuo chased him into a trap surrounded by Barriers and enemies.
• Yelus welcomed Han Shuo while Wallace, Hofus, Ralph, and Laklison stood among the assembled deities; Wallace and Han Shuo argued over the conflict between their families.
• Yelus rebuked Laklison and offered Han Shuo's family a home and support in Cloudswallow City if Han Shuo abandoned his grudge against Laklison.
• Han Shuo declined Yelus's offer, saying that the Han Family would no longer live under anyone else's authority.

Han Shuo refused Yelus's offer to join Cloudswallow City, and Yelus began preparing to kill him with a combined Darkness Power attack. As the Black Hole Vortex gathered strength, Han Shuo released his Demonic Nascent Soul and poured the Myriad Demon Cauldron's demon heads into it, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Han Shuo refused to join Yelus, who declared that he would kill him rather than let him remain a threat.
• Han Shuo confirmed from Wallace's words that Kamelita and Andrei had not known about the plot against him.
• Blackwater and Blackstone joined Yelus, Wallace, Hofus, and other Darkness cultivators inside the layers of barriers surrounding Han Shuo.
• Yelus began forming a Black Hole Vortex as the others poured their Darkness Power into it, while Han Shuo's Flying Swords failed to break through the barriers.
• Han Shuo summoned his Demonic Nascent Soul and absorbed the power of countless demon heads from the Myriad Demon Cauldron.
• The giant Demonic Nascent Soul unleashed a shrill howl whose sound waves pierced the barriers and killed many Broadhurst Family deities.

Han Shuo used Myriad Demon Transformation to fight Yelus and the others, but their dark vortex shredded his demonic form and Divine Sense. He reassembled himself, killed Wallace, and revealed that the vortex had failed to destroy him.

• Han Shuo gathered his essence, energy, and Divine Sense into his Demonic Nascent Soul and transformed into a giant demon, whose howls injured nearby Broadhurst Family deities.
• Yelus and the others poured their darkness power into a dark vortex while Han Shuo punched through dozens of their barriers and seals.
• Yelus brought the vortex down on Han Shuo, tearing apart his demonic form and Divine Sense before it vanished into a Spatial Rift.
• Wallace approached Han Shuo's motionless main body to destroy it, but Han Shuo reassembled himself from the scattered Demon Head power and crushed Wallace.
• Han Shuo explained that his Divine Sense and the Demon Heads' souls had split into strands and survived the vortex, leaving him alive.

Han Shuo killed Wallace and overwhelmed the Broadhurst Family’s forces, but the deaths of the city lords drew the Darkness Main God to Cloudswallow City. Realizing he could not fight the god, Han Shuo escaped using the Blood Escape Technique.

• Han Shuo re-formed his demonic body, crushed Wallace, and swallowed his divine soul to refine later.
• Han Shuo attacked Yelus while his Seventeen Flying Swords trapped Hofus, Ralph, Laklison, Blackwater, and Blackstone in the Heavenly Absolute Net; Ralph died first.
• Blackwater and Blackstone turned on Hofus and Laklison, killing Laklison and leaving Hofus to rot inside the sword net.
• Yelus unleashed his full power and charged at Blackwater and Blackstone, but Han Shuo withdrew the sword net after sensing dark elements gathering across Cloudswallow City.
• The Darkness Main God enveloped the city, stripped Yelus, Blackwater, and Blackstone of their power, and forced darkness deities to prostrate themselves.
• Han Shuo recognized the Darkness Main God’s overwhelming strength and fled Cloudswallow City with the Blood Escape Technique.

The Darkness Main God ended the fighting in Cloudswallow City, appointed new City Lords, and let Han Shuo escape the Darkness Divine Domain. Han Shuo reached Longsen Grand Canyon, where he learned that Godhunters were gathering intelligence on families traveling from the Death Divine Domain to the Destruction Divine Domain.

• The Darkness Main God ordered Yelus, Blackwater, and Blackstone to stop fighting, appointed Andrei as Shadow City's new City Lord, and named Field as Veilshade City's new City Lord.
• Yelus and the two City Lords questioned why the Darkness Main God had spared Han Shuo, then left Cloudswallow City after the darkness receded.
• Han Shuo recovered from his Blood Escape injuries and flew for seven days before leaving the Darkness Divine Domain.
• At Longsen Grand Canyon, Han Shuo found a Godhunter and identified himself as a member of the Han Family and Han Hao's relative.
• The Godhunter explained that the Godhunters were gathering information on families traveling from the Death Divine Domain to the Destruction Divine Domain, and Han Shuo suspected they had returned from Withered Bones City after learning it had fallen.

Han Shuo slaughtered the Godhunters at Longsen Grand Canyon and spared Wenman because she had helped the Han Family. He invited her to leave for the Chaos Lands with Han Hao, and then offered to remove her facial scars.

• Han Shuo sent a Demon Head into the meeting cavern, then killed the Godhunter who blocked his way and wiped out the squad outside the waterfall.
• Han Shuo summoned Demon Heads to overwhelm the Godhunter leaders and their forces, taking their Divine Souls while Lan Mu and Wenman survived.
• Han Shuo told Wenman that Han Hao had spoken of her help and invited her to join him in the Chaos Lands so she would not become Han Hao's enemy.
• Wenman agreed to leave Longsen Grand Canyon as soon as possible after learning Han Hao wanted her to go.
• Han Shuo offered to remove Wenman's facial scars, and she eagerly approached him.

Han Shuo healed Wenman's scars and learned how she had survived her family's massacre before leaving for the Chaos Lands. Meanwhile, Saras agreed to join three Godhunter Alliance commanders in a plot to kill Han Shuo as he returned.

• Han Shuo removed Wenman's scars, gave her medicine, and urged her to join Han Hao in the Chaos Lands after settling Longsen Grand Canyon.
• Wenman explained that she had scarred herself to escape rape after her family was massacred, and told Han Shuo she had already avenged them.
• Han Shuo left Wenman and set out to return to the Chaos Lands.
• A Godhunter Alliance commander told Saras that Han Shuo was returning and proposed joining forces against him.
• After warning that Han Shuo was dangerous and difficult to defeat, Saras agreed to join three Godhunter Alliance commanders in the attack.

Han Shuo entered the Misty Sea and discovered that its unusual conditions concealed an ambush by Saras and three Godhunter commanders who wielded death, darkness, and destruction powers. The destruction commander recognized Han Shuo from their past encounters and remarked on how quickly he had grown into a threat to their alliance.

• Han Shuo found the Misty Sea unusually dense with elemental energy and devoid of Godhunters after killing more than five hundred of them during his journey.
• Han Shuo sensed danger in the sea and sped toward its edge, prompting the death and darkness energies to gather and barriers to close around him.
• The sea rose under Destruction power as lightning formed a net overhead, and Han Shuo recognized Saras as one of the ambushers.
• Saras said the other three had arranged the ambush and that he had merely joined them; Han Shuo realized the Godhunter commanders were retaliating for his attacks on their forces.
• The three commanders of destruction, darkness, and death appeared while concealing their identities, and Han Shuo recognized the giant destruction manifestation from earlier encounters.
• The destruction commander acknowledged their past meetings and said Han Shuo had grown from an insignificant figure into a threat to the alliance.

Han Shuo was trapped in the Misty Sea by Saras and three Godhunter Commanders, but he used the Demon Heads’ power and his sword formation to break their encirclement. He escaped as his pursuers chased numerous real-seeming copies, leaving them unable to track his vanished aura.

• Saras, Daka, and the other two commanders closed their powers around Han Shuo to prevent his escape.
• Han Shuo drew on the Myriad Demon Cauldron’s Demon Heads and unleashed the Godslaying Slash at Saras, who retreated and opened a gap.
• Han Shuo charged through the opening as Daka sent Destruction Orbs raining down on him.
• Han Shuo detonated his Explosive Destruction Bead, triggering explosions that shattered Saras’s Barrier and cleared the mist.
• Han Shuo split into more than a dozen fleeing bodies and escaped the Misty Sea while the commanders pursued his Demon Head decoys.

Han Shuo escaped the Godhunter Alliance Commanders’ trap in the Misty Sea and learned they planned to invade the Chaos Lands by targeting his loved ones. While traveling, he encountered Donna and the weakened Rivers Family, whose members feared he had come to kill them, and Donna asked to speak with him alone.

• Saras, Daka, Dagmar, and Aselst blamed one another for Han Shuo’s escape, then agreed to invade the Chaos Lands and use his loved ones in Demon-Hidden Valley to force him to fight.
• Han Shuo reflected on how narrowly he had escaped the four Commanders and decided to return to the Chaos Lands to prepare for the Godhunter Alliance’s invasion.
• Han Shuo sensed Donna’s presence near the border between the Death and Space-Time Divine Domains and flew to meet her and the Rivers Family.
• Field and the Rivers Family members feared Han Shuo would kill them, but he said he had come only to see Donna and defended his past actions against their family.
• Donna asked Han Shuo to speak with her alone, and they walked toward a dense forest.

Field stopped the Rivers Family from seeking revenge against Han Shuo, recognizing that he was too powerful and influential to oppose. In the forest, Donna confronted Han Shuo about killing the man she had been with, and he admitted his possessive feelings before she embraced him in tears.

• Dolores urged Field to contact the Darkness Main God and ask him to kill Han Shuo, but Field warned that doing so could destroy the Rivers Family.
• Field told the Rivers Family to behave themselves in Veilshade City and never attack Han Shuo, then reflected that Donna had always recognized people's potential better than he had.
• Donna told Han Shuo that Field had been ordered to return to Veilshade City as its City Lord and said Andrei had succeeded Hofus in Shadow City.
• Donna asked Han Shuo why he had killed the man she had been with, and accused him of acting out of selfish jealousy rather than concern for her.
• Han Shuo acknowledged that he would not let another man touch a woman he wanted, and Donna held him and sobbed with relief.

Han Shuo confessed his feelings to Donna, and the two reconciled before she left to help the Rivers Family establish itself in Veilshade City. Field accepted Donna’s relationship with Han Shuo and chose to put her happiness ahead of the family’s grudges.

• Han Shuo admitted that he had long regarded Donna as his, and Donna cried in his arms as years of resentment faded.
• Donna teased Han Shuo, then told him she had to go to Veilshade City and promised she would find him once the Rivers Family gained a foothold there.
• Han Shuo kissed Donna goodbye and returned to the Chaos Lands.
• Donna emerged from the woods looking joyful, and Field urged the Rivers Family members to get moving.
• Field told Donna he would not interfere with her relationship with Han Shuo and acknowledged his own mistakes as a father and family head.
• Donna asked whether Field approved of her being with Han Shuo, and Field said he would set the family’s interests aside for her.

Han Shuo returned to Ethereal City after defeating Hill and the other enemies, then prepared to take the Han Family to the Chaos Lands. Before leaving, he agreed to help McKinley take revenge on Jia'er, the Light Guardian who had separated McKinley's Divine Body and Divine Soul.

• Phoebe, Emily, Blood Spirit, Bolands, and the others discussed their success in Ethereal City and worried about Han Shuo's return from the Death Divine Domain.
• Han Shuo arrived and told the group that Hill, Hofus, Wallace, Laklison, Ralph, and the other enemies were dead.
• Han Shuo announced that the group would leave for the Chaos Lands and went to visit McKinley at the City Lord's Mansion.
• McKinley gave Han Shuo a Spatial Ring containing communication devices, escape scrolls, and tools for freezing space.
• McKinley asked Han Shuo to help him get revenge on Jia'er, and Han Shuo agreed before departing for the Chaos Lands.

Blood Spirit, Bolands, Gilbert, and fifty Han Family Guards left the main group to travel toward Deep Valley, confident they could handle the Chaos Lands without Han Shuo’s protection. They were surrounded by a stronger force whose leader ordered them killed despite learning they were connected to Brian, leaving Bolands to face an overwhelming attack.

• Blood Spirit and Gilbert boasted that they could make a name for themselves in the Chaos Lands, while Bolands warned them not to underestimate its dangers.
• Blood Spirit and Gilbert persuaded Bolands to leave the Han Family’s main group with fifty guards and head for Deep Valley on their own.
• The trio and the guards defeated smaller forces as they traveled deeper into the Chaos Lands, drawing the attention of larger powers.
• A band of fiends led by two Upper God Late Stage experts surrounded the group and demanded that they submit to Lord Rogg or die.
• Bolands identified the group as the Han Family of Demon-Hidden Valley and pointed out that Blood Spirit was Brian’s disciple.
• The bald leader ordered his men to kill everyone so Brian could not learn who had attacked them, and Bolands realized they were in serious trouble.

Luca’s men attacked Bolands, Blood Spirit, Gilbert, and the Han Family guards, but Boro arrived with a larger force and halted the assault. After confirming with Han Hao that the three were genuine allies, Boro ordered his men to kill Luca’s forces.

• Luca ordered his men to surround and attack Bolands, Blood Spirit, and Gilbert while his underlings attacked the Han Family guards.
• The Han Family guards inflicted heavy casualties, but Luca sent two upper gods to turn the fight against them.
• Blood Spirit hesitated over abandoning the guards and was pierced by a bone spear as Luca moved in to attack.
• Boro arrived with more than three hundred men, stopped Luca’s attack, and demanded that the captives be released.
• Gilbert told Boro that he had known Han Hao since the Qio Continent, and Boro contacted Han Hao through a Magic Mirror Surface.
• After Han Hao confirmed their identity, Boro ordered his men to kill Waka’s forces and spare none of them.