Recaps

Chu Xisheng ordered Chu Ming to punish the Chu clansmen sent by Great Ning and hunt down the fleeing Chu Rulai, while he prepared for a Near-God-level Mediation of Creation and sought a way to counter Sleeping Dragon. As Chu Rulai fled north toward the Central Lands, he encountered the supposedly dead Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi.

• Ji Qianqian reported that Emperor Jianyuan had failed to hand over Chu Rulai and instead sent twenty-seven Chu clansmen in coffins; Chu Xisheng decided not to let the matter rest.
• Chu Xisheng used his Wish-Fulfillment Method and Twelve Dragon Divine Heavenly Guard to integrate and strengthen Chu Ming’s powers, weapons, and armor.
• Chu Xisheng ordered Chu Ming to work with Luo Yang and Xi Bitian to bury the twenty-seven Chu clansmen, then head north to find Chu Rulai and pressure Emperor Jianyuan.
• Chu Xisheng asked Luo Hanzong to help perform a Near-God-level Mediation of Creation at the Taiwei Enclosure and consulted him and Lu Chen about countering Sleeping Dragon’s dream hypnosis.
• Chu Ming and the two Household Guards verified the prisoners’ identities, punished those who insulted Chu Xisheng, and buried all twenty-seven in suppressive graves.
• Chu Rulai fled north, bitter over Emperor Jianyuan’s betrayal, but stopped when he recognized the supposedly dead Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi ahead.

Chu Ming ambushed Chu Rulai and defeated him, but an unknown Eternity God rescued him along with Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi. After learning what happened, Chu Xisheng ordered retaliation against the clans sheltering his enemies and sent Chu Yunyun to Wang'an City, while Chu Ming pursued Chu Rulai again.

• Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi escorted the wounded Chu Rulai to the Chan Sect Headquarters, where they removed Qin Xiyan's lingering Martial Intent before the formation forced them to leave.
• Chu Ming ambushed the three with her Nether Beasts, overwhelmed Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi, and crippled Chu Rulai while demanding that he return to Emperor Jianyuan.
• An Eternity God used Dipper Turns and Stars Shift to rescue Chu Rulai, Qin Fengxian, and Shu Huaishi, while Fang Buyuan obtained Chu Rulai's Godstar Bracelet in an attempted exchange.
• Chu Xisheng learned of the battle and ordered the Stone Spirit Clan and Guiche Clan to deliver Qin Fengxian and Shu Huaishi within one hundred days or face extermination.
• Chu Xisheng arranged for six Near-God fighters to aid Chu Ming, and Chu Yunyun decided to go to Wang'an City to force Sleeping Dragon and Emperor Jianyuan to help retrieve Chu Rulai.

At the Great Law Dynasty’s first court assembly, Chu Xisheng issued foundational laws and policies while Jian Zangfeng advanced his Heaven-Regulating secret ritual. Later, Deputy Grand Secretary Ding Cangsheng defended Chu Xisheng’s reforms to skeptical aristocrats, leaving several clan leaders reconsidering their opposition.

• Chu Xisheng had Jian Zangfeng read the Great Law Edict and Enthronement Grand Edict, and Jian Zangfeng’s Heaven-Regulating secret ritual resonated with the new dynasty’s laws.
• Chu Yunyun praised Jian Zangfeng’s prospects, while Chu Xisheng explained that completing his secret ritual would bind him to the edicts for centuries.
• After the assembly ended and Chu Yunyun departed for Wang'an City, Chu Xisheng spent Wish Stones and Heavenly Origin Points to strengthen his comprehension, physique, and fusion with the Hundun Heavenly Order.
• Chan Sect Envoy Bai Lingxi requested an audience with Chu Xisheng, whose Dao heart was stirred by her beauty as his Hundun secret ritual unexpectedly advanced.
• At a gathering in northern Qinhuai City, Ding Cangsheng defended Chu Xisheng’s land, tax, and education reforms against aristocratic critics and warned them not to resist.
• Ding Cangsheng described ways hereditary families could prosper under the new policies, prompting several clan leaders to reconsider their opposition.

Chu Xisheng heard Bai Lingxi’s offer of aid from the Chan Sect Secret Assembly and considered bringing the ancient, powerful envoy into his court. In Wang'an City, Emperor Jianyuan prepared to confront Qin Muge, but Chu Yunyun detected hostile gods and attacked the imperial palace.

• Bai Lingxi told Chu Xisheng that the Chan Sect Secret Assembly opposed Shen Bore’s influence over the Chan Sect’s True Ancestor and offered him taichu mother qi, the location of a Taisu Divine Source, and her service.
• Liu Ruoxi confirmed that Bai Lingxi had been a Human Race expert active seven to eight thousand years earlier, and Chu Xisheng considered appointing her as a First-Rank Imperial Dragon Guard.
• Emperor Jianyuan learned that the gods had abandoned their attempt to kill Chu Ming, complained that Chu Xisheng had gained her as an ally, and asked Yu Kunlun about the altered Nation-Protecting Grand Array.
• Yu Kunlun explained how Lu Yuan had used Reversal of Yin and Yang to help Chu Xisheng seize Chu Ming, then warned Emperor Jianyuan against provoking Qin Muge.
• Emperor Jianyuan resolved to use the descended gods against Qin Muge, while Chu Yunyun sensed hostile Eternity Gods in Wang'an City and descended toward the imperial palace.
• Chu Yunyun saw Emperor Jianyuan in Zhenghe Hall and blasted Heaven-Bearing Gate into dust with her Saber Astral Force.

Bai Lingxi watched Chu Xisheng and Jian Zangfeng prepare to aid Chu Yunyun’s attack on Wang'an City, then a second Bai Lingxi appeared at the palace gates. In Wang'an City, Chu Yunyun defeated several divine incarnations, while Chu Xisheng’s attempt to send his Divine Sense there was blocked by her Heaven-Covering Art.

• Chu Xisheng took Bai Lingxi and Jian Zangfeng to the Altar of Heaven to prepare for Chu Yunyun’s assault on Wang'an City.
• Bai Lingxi recognized that the altar could help Chu Xisheng shorten the distance to Wang'an City, while he and Jian Zangfeng discussed the dynasty’s military preparations.
• A second Bai Lingxi arrived at the palace gates and requested an audience, startling Chu Xisheng, Bai Lingxi, Feng San, and Lu Luanli.
• Chu Yunyun broke through the gates of Wang'an City’s Imperial City and confronted Sleeping Dragon and the divine incarnations gathered around Zhenghe Hall.
• Chu Yunyun used her God-Defying Banner Spear to kill Wuqu Star Lord, Greedy Wolf Star Lord, Giant Gate Star Lord, and other divine incarnations.
• Chu Xisheng sent his Divine Sense toward Wang'an City with Inch-Earth Foot-Heaven, but Chu Yunyun’s Heaven-Covering Art prevented him from sensing anything.

Chu Yunyun killed the Heavenly Yue Star Lord and God Ruowang, then forced Sleeping Dragon to negotiate over Emperor Jianyuan. At the Temple of Heaven, Chu Xisheng discovered that two Bai Lingxis had separately claimed to serve the Chan Sect Secret Assembly and demanded they explain which of them was genuine.

• The Heavenly Yue Star Lord interrupted Chu Yunyun's attack on God Ruowang, but Chu Yunyun killed him with Myriad Gods Tribulation: Source Break and then destroyed God Ruowang with Godfall.
• Sleeping Dragon offered compensation to stop Chu Yunyun from attacking Emperor Jianyuan, and Chu Yunyun raised her spear's power to eighty-one orders before holding her attack.
• God Ruowang found Chu Yunyun's name, Nameless One, at the inner edge of the second layer of the Heavenly Dao-Severing Stele.
• Chu Xisheng withdrew his thoughts from Wang'an City, summoned Bai Lingxi Number Two, and accepted her taichu mother qi and Heaven-Executing Bloodstone.
• Chu Xisheng revealed Bai Lingxi Number One, who had already made the same claims, and asked both women which was genuine and why they had concealed their identities.

Chu Xisheng exposed two identical Bai Lingxis and sent them to suppress the rebellion in Hezhou while he strengthened two divine artifacts and consolidated the Great Law Dynasty’s rule. After more than two months of cultivation, he prepared to advance to Upper Second-Rank and learned that Luo Hanzong’s Mediation of Creation was ready in the Taiwei Enclosure.

• Bai Lingxi Number One and Bai Lingxi Number Two demonstrated identical sword arts, then both accepted Chu Xisheng’s commission to suppress the rebellion in Hezhou.
• Chu Xisheng appointed the two women Probationary Dragon Guards and Deputy Commissioners for Suppressing Hezhou, and Mad Sword Feng San escorted them to obtain their official seals and documents.
• Chu Xisheng used Taichu Mother Qi to elevate the Myriad Manifestations Star Disc and Blood-Yazi Divine Saber to transcendent rank, then focused on cultivation.
• Chu Xisheng crushed resistance to the Great Law Dynasty’s land, tax, and household reforms, and the realm remained peaceful for two months after the peace treaty with Great Ning.
• Chu Xisheng completed his Lower Second-Rank cultivation and decided to travel north to take the Upper Second-Rank secret medicine.
• Chu Xisheng received word that Luo Hanzong had prepared the Mediation of Creation and eagerly set out for the Taiwei Enclosure.

Chu Xisheng reviewed the Great Law Dynasty’s campaigns and political situation before traveling to Hanzhou to obtain a Hundun Beast’s heart blood and advance to upper second-rank. After strengthening several bloodline powers, he headed south toward the Taiwei Enclosure near Formless Divine Mountain.

• Chu Xisheng learned that Bai Lingxi One and Bai Lingxi Two had expanded Great Law’s control across Hezhou, though he remained suspicious of their motives.
• Chu Xisheng reviewed the dynasty’s reforms and military buildup, Great Ning’s renewed strength, and the Giant Spirits’ preparations for war; he ordered his agents to cultivate ties with the mountain tribes.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Lu Luanli had reached second-rank and planned to bring the Cloudsea Immortal Palace and its sword puppets to Qinhuai City.
• Chu Xisheng traveled to Hanzhou, killed a first-rank pureblood Hundun Beast, and used its heart blood essence to advance to upper second-rank.
• Chu Xisheng raised Wind-Grasping, Lightning-Riding Hand and divine sorrow to the twenty-fourth rank and divine sun to the twenty-sixth rank, then flew south toward the Taiwei Enclosure.

Chu Xisheng accepted the Yuan Yi Clan’s offer to join Great Law as separately invested duchies and marquisates, while planning to use their cooperation to secure the Seven Provinces Beyond the Pass. At the Taiwei Enclosure, he began a Near-God-level Mediation of Creation by destroying his Nine-Turn War God Art cultivation and rebuilding it as the Hundun War God Art.

• Huang Lebai asked Chu Xisheng to invest the Yuan Yi Clan as a vassal, then offered to divide it into eighteen duchies and marquisates that would aid Great Law’s northern expedition.
• Chu Xisheng agreed to negotiate the Yuan Yi Clan’s investiture and said he welcomed the Giant Spirits’ fortifications near the Endless Icefield.
• Li Changsheng told Chu Xisheng that the Third-Generation Sage Emperor had ordered him to repay the Bow God Heavenly Yi’s kindness, while Xie Tianqing warned that the Yuan Yi Clan might only be pretending to submit.
• Chu Xisheng arrived at Taihao Hall with forty-eight Spellcasters to begin the Near-God-level Mediation of Creation.
• Chu Xisheng used the Divine Wish Heart to enhance the ritual, shattered his Nine-Turn War God Art cultivation, and swallowed the Heaven and Earth Root.
• Chu Xisheng rapidly rebuilt his Cultivation Body with the Hundun War God Art as Luo Hanzong activated Mediation of Creation.

Chu Xisheng set out for the outer realms to help Si Huangquan reclaim her heart, while the gods sensed that his plans were disrupting the River of Time. He arrived just as Si Wutian and Si Wufa prepared to take Si Huangquan into the dangerous Demon Realm Battleworld.

• Luo Hanzong entered the transcendent rank, and Chu Xisheng continued studying the Scripture Pavilion’s records about Bai Lingxi.
• Si Wutian sent Chu Xisheng a message asking whether he was ready to honor their Divine Covenant and help Si Huangquan reclaim her heart.
• Chu Xisheng judged his preparations sufficient, left Chu Yunyun to govern the Great Law Dynasty, and agreed to pick up Lu Luanli on his way.
• The River of Time shifted, alarming Shen Jingli and the gods, while the three goddesses’ attempt to discern the future ended in a violent backlash.
• Si Huangquan insisted on going to the Demon Realm Battleworld despite Si Wutian’s warnings, and Si Wutian decided to accompany her with Si Wufa.
• Chu Xisheng arrived with a woman at Si Wutian, Si Wufa, and Si Huangquan’s gathering.

Chu Xisheng accompanied Si Huangquan and her allies into the Demon Realm Battleworld to help her reclaim her mother's power, while the Star Gods arranged a bounty and hunter groups began preparing to kill him. The chapter left Chu Xisheng heading for the Battle Calamity Realm as Divine Gold Ding and his companion set out to pursue the bounty.

• Chu Xisheng reassured Si Huangquan and Si Wufa that he would join them in the Outer Realm, and Si Wutian opened the altar passage to the Demon Realm Battleworld.
• Chu Xisheng emerged in the War-Mystery Realm and killed every Demonic Beast within fifty li with his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• Si Huangquan chose to head first to the Battle Calamity Realm to retrieve the power her mother had left her.
• Metal God Baizhu ordered Golden Virtue Star Lord to involve Taibai in the effort to kill Chu Xisheng, while Seven Killings Star Lord revealed that the bounty was already widely known.
• Divine Gold Ding told the three-eyed girl that the bounty would be difficult to claim, then sent out swords of light to begin the hunt.

Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli accompanied Si Huangquan through the Demon Realm as he sought his mother’s scattered power. After Lu Luanli helped expose the Ghost Aunt God’s trap, Si Huangquan fought her while Chu Xisheng faced an ambush by eighteen Moon-Hidden Clan Giant Spirits and their rabbit-eared leader.

• Si Huangquan explained that his mother had entrusted portions of her power to seventy-two subordinates, and he intended to reclaim it and hold the Great Review of a Hundred Ghosts.
• Chu Xisheng spotted a Ghost Infant controlling an Abomination God beneath them, and Lu Luanli sealed the monster’s attack before using her bewildering art to make it destroy itself and the Ghost Infant.
• Si Huangquan followed the Ghost Aunt God’s scream and began fighting her, while Chu Xisheng warned that the battle might still require their help.
• A Shadow Ghost and a Qi-Devouring Ghost ambushed Si Huangquan, but Chu Xisheng’s Silver-Mirror Saber Astral Force reflected their attacks and allowed Si Wutian and Si Wufa to join the fight.
• Eighteen Moon-Hidden Clan Giant Spirits attacked Chu Xisheng, and their rabbit-eared leader struck him with a moonlit divine sword, but his Astral Force stopped her and reflected the attackers’ force back at her.
• The rabbit-eared Giant Spirit tried to flee after Chu Xisheng severed her right arm, but Lu Luanli struck her and cut off her left hand.

Chu Xisheng let the Moonshadow Clan flee with a curse mark on him, intending to use their pursuit while Si Huangquan recovered some of her mother’s power. As the Vermilion Bird Star Lord learned she could track Chu Xisheng, two of Tian Nailuo’s former subordinates worried that Huangquan was walking into a trap.

• Lu Luanli questioned why Chu Xisheng had spared the Moonshadow Clan, and he showed her the Moon Yin Curse Mark he had allowed Shen Ruoyin to place on him so he could draw their pursuit.
• Si Huangquan absorbed three portions of Tian Nailuo’s power, began forming ghost meridians, and sensed another of her mother’s former subordinates in the War-Extinction Realm.
• Shen Ruoyin and her injured clansmen discussed whether to pursue Chu Xisheng, then greeted the arriving Vermilion Bird Star Lord, Lingguang, who burned away the lingering saber force in Shen Ruoyin’s wound.
• Shen Yingluo told Lingguang that the Moonshadow Clan could track Chu Xisheng through its curse mark, and Lingguang showed interest in finding him.
• Yulei told Shentu that Si Huangquan had arrived with Chu Xisheng but was walking into a trap, and feared that she would summon the hundred ghosts and force them to attack their late liege’s descendant.

Si Huangquan continued reclaiming Yin Empress Crystal Cores while Chu Xisheng sensed gods gathering around them. As deathly Yin Power began destroying Si Huangquan’s body, Chu Xisheng used his Wish-Fulfillment power to create a temporary heart and convert the corruption into life energy, just as a gigantic black tiger’s paw attacked.

• Si Huangquan defeated the Pipa Ghost and reclaimed her Yin Empress Core; the Pipa Ghost warned that reclaiming the Yin Empress’s power would bring a deathly catastrophe.
• Si Huangquan reclaimed another Yin Empress Core from Funa Yūrei, then Chu Xisheng revealed that gods were secretly following their group.
• Si Huangquan reclaimed eight more cores, bringing her total to twenty-four and her power to the upper Transcendent Rank, near godhood.
• Si Wutian struck Si Huangquan and exposed how badly deathly Yin Power was eroding her body; Si Wufa said she needed to reach Illuminating Eternity to survive.
• Chu Xisheng placed a hand on Si Huangquan’s back and used Wish-Fulfillment to give her a temporary heart, converting the deathly Yin Power in her body into Yang Essence Life Power.
• Chu Xisheng warned that their enemies would not let Si Huangquan restore all her Yin Veins, and a gigantic black tiger’s paw smashed through the void toward them.

Chu Xisheng and his companions fought Qiongqi as hidden powers watched, while Star God Guchen intervened to divide the battlefield. Shentu and Yu Lei arrived to rescue Si Wutian and urged Chu Xisheng to retreat to the War-Extinction Realm.

• Lu Luanli and Si Huangquan fought Qiongqi while Si Wutian and Si Wufa supported them, and Chu Xisheng watched with his Rahū Star God ready.
• Divine Gold Ding and the Three-Eyed Young Girl observed the battle and discovered that the White Emperor's Son was nearby.
• In the Warwind Realm, Ji Ziyu confronted Sword God Shen Taibai, then let him pass after warning him not to cross his boundary.
• Star God Guchen separated the fighters into different spacetimes, allowing Qiongqi to threaten Si Wutian.
• Shentu and Yu Lei broke Guchen's temporal barriers, knocked Qiongqi away, and Shentu urged Chu Xisheng to retreat to the War-Extinction Realm.

Chu Xisheng and his companions entered the Warwind Realm after escaping Qiongqi, where they found Shentu and Yulei waiting beside an ancient palace terrace intended to help Si Huangquan conduct the Great Review of a Hundred Ghosts. The chapter left them approaching the palace amid suspicions of a trap, as Wuxian Yue greeted Si Huangquan as her ruler.

• Si Huangquan decided he needed the Ten-Thousand-Bone Soul-Devouring Banner, while Si Wutian warned that the gods wanted him to summon it before he was ready; Chu Xisheng proposed visiting the Warwind Realm.
• The Vermilion Bird Star Lord recognized that Chu Xisheng's Divine-Intent Saber had wounded her through karma, then warned Star Lord Ghost Mansion about the dangers of joining the struggle over the Yin Empress's power.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions crossed into the Warwind Realm, where Si Wufa explained its history as the Yin Empress's refuge for human yin spirits.
• Shentu and Yulei revealed that they had moved Shichi Guo's ancient palace terrace to the Warwind Realm, claiming its divine formation could draw out Si Huangquan's yin-vein power for the Great Review of a Hundred Ghosts.
• Si Huangquan approached the palace despite Si Wutian's suspicions, while Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli followed cautiously.
• Wuxian Yue emerged from the palace with attendants and bowed to Si Huangquan, identifying herself as his subject.

Si Huangquan entered the ancient palace, prepared to inherit the Yin Empress’s power, and began her accession ceremony despite the Yama Bell tormenting the Warwind Realm’s Yin Spirits. As she summoned the Hundred Ghosts and uncovered a startling secret within the palace’s illusory gate, Guchen, Qiongqi, and a mysterious black-robed old man arrived to challenge her rule and demand Chu Xisheng’s seat.

• Si Huangquan explored the palace and accepted its Palace Seal and Yin Vein crystal core, while Wuxian Yue accused Shentu and Yulei of serving the Fierce Beasts as Changshi Ghosts.
• Shentu offered Chu Xisheng and his companions Innate Bloodstone Marrow, Realm Stones, and a Blood-Melting Wish-Fulfillment Pill, but Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli put their wine cups away rather than risk using them.
• As the Yama Bell’s increasingly frequent peals tormented the Warwind Realm’s Yin Spirits, Si Huangquan completed her preparations and began her accession ceremony at midnight.
• Si Huangquan summoned the Ten-Thousand-Bone Soul-Devouring Banner and took powerful armor and letters from the illusory gate, then gave gifts and final letters to Shentu, Yulei, Wuxian Yue, Chu Xisheng, and his companions.
• Si Huangquan and Chu Xisheng saw something inside the illusory gate that shocked them, and Lu Luanli realized the secret; Si Huangquan then called the Hundred Ghosts to pay homage.
• A black-robed old man broke into the palace with Guchen and Qiongqi, and Guchen ordered Chu Xisheng to leave his seat.

Chu Xisheng used his Divine-Intent Saber to repeatedly dismember Star God Guchen and Qiongqi, then drove the Blackwater Sovereign’s Clone Manifestation from the Imperial Platform. Elsewhere, Li Tan revealed that Yin Empress Tian Naluo had been Gu Huo and that her daughter Si Huangquan carried the phoenix lineage’s future, prompting the Vermilion Bird Star Lord to rush toward her as Li Tan blocked the way.

• Chu Xisheng’s Divine-Intent Saber bypassed Star God Guchen’s defenses and repeatedly cut him apart, while the Blackwater Sovereign drew death from him to keep him alive.
• When Qiongqi intervened, Chu Xisheng’s saber shattered his body, and the Blackwater Sovereign fought Chu Xisheng and Si Huangquan’s Ten-Thousand-Bone Soul-Devouring Banner to cover Qiongqi and Guchen’s retreat.
• Divine Gold Ding and the Three-Eyed Girl watched from afar and decided to keep observing, while Shen Yingluo refused Shen Ruoyin’s request to warn their clan about Chu Xisheng’s strength.
• The Vermilion Bird Star Lord confronted Li Tan, who revealed that Yin Empress Tian Naluo had been Gu Huo and had passed her power and phoenix lineage to Si Huangquan.
• The Vermilion Bird Star Lord fled toward Si Huangquan, but Li Tan opened a gate and sent chains after her, determined to stop her from disrupting Chu Xisheng’s plans.

Chu Xisheng halted the battle and Si Huangquan dismissed the weaker Yin Spirits as rival gods gathered in the hall to contend for her inherited power. As Si Huangquan absorbed the Hundred Ghosts’ crystal cores and her wings grew stronger, the assembled gods watched with mounting greed.

• Chu Xisheng stopped fighting, and Si Huangquan ordered the weaker Yin Spirits to leave the palace platform while Wuxian Yue gave way to her authority.
• The Blackwater Sovereign remained in the hall, and the Youdu Sovereign arrived but backed down after Chu Xisheng blasted him away with his saber intent.
• The South Pole Star Lord and Ghost Mansion entered, while a bright moon appeared overhead and a dangerous beast stirred beneath petrified ground outside.
• The Hundred Ghosts arrived and submitted to Si Huangquan, who absorbed their Yin Empress Crystal Cores and expanded her scarlet Yin Vein wings.
• The gods recognized that Si Huangquan’s wings carried immense power and coveted them, while Ghost Mansion sensed that they could make their possessor the sovereign of death.

Vermilion Bird Star Lord was trapped by Li Tan while Si Huangquan gathered the Yin Empress Crystal Cores in the stone hall, where the Gods weighed an attack. God Poxun struck at Si Huangquan, but Chu Xisheng severed his hand; Poxun then targeted Chu Xisheng as Blackwater Sovereign urged Shentu and Yulei to act.

• Vermilion Bird Star Lord tried to reach Si Huangquan, but Li Tan restrained her and explained that the Phoenix race needed the Netherworld Phoenix to resolve its bloodline crisis.
• Great Strength Ghost King's offering brought Si Huangquan's total to fifty-four Yin Empress Crystal Cores, and Jingwei then sent the final core, bringing the total to fifty-five.
• Youdu Sovereign and Blackwater Sovereign offered seventeen more crystal cores laced with poison, but Si Huangquan separated the toxins and absorbed the remaining power.
• God Poxun reached into the hall and attacked Si Huangquan, whose heart he controlled, while Si Wufa and Si Wutian joined the defense and were thrown aside.
• Chu Xisheng severed God Poxun's arm with his saber, prompting Poxun to attack him; Blackwater Sovereign then ordered Shentu and Yulei to act.

Chu Xisheng and his allies fought the gods’ assault as the Blackwater Sovereign revealed his Evil-Swallowing Corpse Puppet and used it to target Si Huangquan’s Yin Vein Wings. As Chu Xisheng prepared his tenth Divine-Intent Saber move, Si Huangquan tore off the wings and cast them toward her attackers.

• Lu Luanli struck the skeletal Bashé away from the dais while the South Pole Star Lord aided God Poxun against Chu Xisheng.
• The Blackwater Sovereign revealed that he had refined Chiguo, the Yellow Father Evil-Swallowing God, into a Corpse Puppet and unleashed it against Si Huangquan.
• The Corpse Puppet’s soul law and divine poison disrupted Si Huangquan’s Yin Vein Wings, and Lu Luanli and Chu Xisheng tried to protect her.
• Chu Xisheng told Si Huangquan he was preparing a god-slaying saber technique, the tenth move of his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• A mysterious white-robed man appeared outside the hall, and Si Huangquan tore off her Yin Vein Wings and threw them toward the gods who wanted them.

Si Huangquan’s Yin Vein Wings drew the gods into a fierce battle, but the South Pole Star Lord realized they were only a key to Tian Nailuo’s true power, which began awakening in Si Huangquan. When the gods attacked Chu Xisheng to reach her, he unleashed Twilight of the Gods, crippling their forces and declaring that Si Huangquan would become Lord of the Netherworld.

• Si Huangquan cast out the Yin Vein Wings, and the Blackwater Sovereign, Youdu Sovereign, and Ghost Mansion Star Lord each sent forces to seize them.
• The South Pole Star Lord disrupted the Mysterious Willow Great God’s attack, while Chu Xisheng drew most of the poison from Si Huangquan and helped Shentu and Yulei escape Youdu’s control temporarily.
• Chu Xisheng and the others sealed Wuxian Yue as the gods’ battle devastated the surrounding land and destroyed its Yin Essence Fruit Trees.
• The South Pole Star Lord recognized the Yin Vein Wings as a key to Tian Nailuo’s power, and bone wings and a nine-headed netherworld phoenix manifested behind Si Huangquan.
• God Poxun, the Youdu Sovereign, and the Blackwater Sovereign attacked Chu Xisheng, who strengthened himself and unleashed Twilight of the Gods through the Rahū Star God.
• Twilight of the Gods severed God Poxun’s head and crippled the Blackwater, Youdu, and Ghost Mansion forces; Chu Xisheng declared Si Huangquan would rule the Netherworld as Jingwei arrived in alarm.

After Chu Xisheng’s saber strike unsettled the Gods and God Hunters, Divine Gold Ding and Lingwei, the Wood God, discussed the threat he posed and the hunt for Song Yannian. In the Mortal Realm, Chu Yunyun prepared Wen Suyi to seize a rare chance at godhood, then learned Wen Suyi had awakened enough to ask where Chu Xisheng was.

• Shen Jingkong feared Chu Xisheng’s saber technique, while Divine Gold Ding said it exploited a flaw in the Eternity Gods’ connection to the world’s origin essence but remained difficult to use.
• Shen Yingluo decided she had to find a way to speak with Chu Xisheng, provided the Human Sovereign survived.
• Lingwei, the Wood God, ordered the Heavenly Candle Star Lord to hold his star and told South Pole to pressure Chu Xisheng in hopes of drawing out Song Yannian.
• After witnessing Chu Xisheng’s saber strike, Lingwei, the Wood God, acknowledged his talent and directed the Gods to eliminate both Chu Xisheng and Song Yannian.
• At the Li Tan Catacomb, Chu Yunyun broke the Mystic Ice enough to awaken Wen Suyi’s consciousness and left pills and a Lower Eternity bracer for her ascension attempt.
• Wen Suyi’s cold aura spread through the catacomb, and Chu Yunyun sensed her asking where Chu Xisheng was before telling her he was in the outer domain.

Jingwei destroyed the Clone Manifestations of Blackwater and Youdu, while South Pole Star Lord offered God Poxun and Ghost Mansion Star Lord a bargain and revealed his true body. Chu Xisheng produced the Book of Life, and Song Yannian appeared at the South Pole Star, apparently preparing to destroy it.

• Jingwei struck Blackwater and Youdu with Divine Firmament Sky Thunder, annihilating their Clone Manifestations.
• God Poxun weighed retreat as South Pole Star Lord offered Tian Naluo’s remains to him and her law of death to Ghost Mansion Star Lord in exchange for their help.
• South Pole Star Lord revealed his true body as a giant Stone Sophora, and Chu Xisheng showed him the Book of Life.
• Vermilion Bird Star Lord tried to send word while Li Tan watched Jingwei, but Li Tan destroyed her fiery feathers and warned her not to interfere.
• Vermilion Bird Star Lord received an image of Song Yannian outside the South Pole Star and realized he intended to cleave the star apart.

Chu Xisheng and his allies fought the South Pole Star Lord, whose life law and magnetic power nearly overwhelmed them until Si Huangquan’s Divine Domain briefly restored their strength. As God Poxun and Ghost Mansion joined the assault, Chu Xisheng revealed that Song Yannian was attacking the South Pole Star, and Shen Tianhuai’s power faltered as he called on the Ancestral Gods and God-Emperors for help.

• The South Pole Star Lord attacked Chu Xisheng with countless lightning-wreathed wooden hands, while Jingwei, Shentu, Yulei, Lu Luanli, and the Si siblings tried to defend him.
• The South Pole Star Lord’s law of life mutated Chu Xisheng’s body, forcing him to sever his swollen left arm and lose his left leg as the attackers drove his defenses back.
• Si Huangquan spread his wings and unleashed a Divine Domain that healed Chu Xisheng and strengthened their defense, but the South Pole Star Lord seized her heart from God Poxun and suppressed her power.
• Ghost Mansion attacked Jingwei with the Zhongli Battle Puppet, while God Poxun pressed Chu Xisheng; Chu Xisheng struck Poxun with the Divine-Intent Saber and nearly reduced him to minced flesh.
• Chu Xisheng told Shen Tianhuai that Song Yannian was trying to destroy the South Pole Star, and Shen Tianhuai felt its first strike cleave away one-seventh of the star.
• Shen Tianhuai’s power and composure collapsed, and he called on the Ancestral Gods and God-Emperors to help him kill Song Yannian as the Warwind Realm changed around them.