Chapter Summaries

Li Tan warned Zangtian that Shen Bore was spreading rumors about his imminent fall into demonhood and urged him to remain secluded for a year. Meanwhile, Emperor Jianyuan received the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou's blood essence, and Chu Xisheng launched a surprise attack on the Northern Underworld Palace to confront the Timekeeping Star Lord.

• Li Tan told Zangtian that the Four Great Shenshan were gathering Slave Tribes for a massive blood sacrifice, and Zangtian accepted that it should proceed rather than let the threat sway him.
• Li Tan asked Zangtian to stay in seclusion for the next year, and Zangtian promised to do his best.
• Emperor Jianyuan celebrated the refinement of a powerful Heaven-Gazing Hou, then received a Talisman Book and a Pill Bottle containing the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou's blood essence; a corpse-like bluish hue appeared on his face as he laughed.
• Chu Xisheng joined Chu Yunyun, Lu Luanli, and Jian Zangfeng outside the Northern Underworld Palace, where Shen Puzhao confirmed the Timekeeping Star Lord was inside.
• Chu Xisheng struck the Northern Underworld Palace with Silver-Mirror Saber Astral Force, devastating its halls and formations and injuring or killing many disciples; a white-robed elder and the Timekeeping Star Lord reacted in shock.

Chu Xisheng attacked the Northern Underworld Palace to punish it for betraying and exploiting the Human Race, while the Timekeeping Star Lord tried to use the palace as shelter. Chu Xisheng and his allies destroyed the palace’s three sect-guarding divine beasts, but the Timekeeping Star Lord launched a fierce counterattack.

• Chu Xisheng accused Ren Jianxi and the Northern Underworld Palace of betraying the Human Race and ordered them to submit to judgment.
• Chu Xisheng’s Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber struck the palace, killing and suppressing its disciples and shattering Ren Jianxi’s body.
• Ren Jianxi transformed into a giant black peng and summoned the sect’s three divine beasts: a Kunpeng, a golden-winged peng, and a Bifang.
• Chu Xisheng used Divine Intent Bans the Sky to ground the divine beasts, and Chu Yunyun and the two Bai Lingxis killed all three.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord attacked Chu Xisheng with tens of thousands of fiery feathers, while Chu Xisheng and the Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor’s incarnation fought back.

Chu Xisheng battled the Timekeeping Star Lord’s true-soul incarnation in the Northern Underworld Palace, revealing his Saber God authority and defending himself with Twelve Dragons Eternity. The Timekeeping Star Lord strengthened his incarnation through the Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Pillar, while Kunpeng and the other chaos gods refused to descend, wary of the altered heavenly laws around Jian Zangfeng.

• The Timekeeping Star Lord’s battle with Chu Xisheng devastated the Northern Underworld Palace, killing more than a hundred thousand disciples, while Ren Jianxi repeatedly reconstituted himself.
• Chu Xisheng seized control of nearby blades as the Saber God, but the Timekeeping Star Lord’s Twelve Chen Saber Formation broke through his defenses and wounded Chu Ming.
• Chu Yunyun refused Lu Luanli’s request to intervene, saying Chu Xisheng needed the battle and that Jian Zangfeng’s presence made the outcome safe.
• Chu Xisheng blocked the Timekeeping Star Lord’s temporal saber attacks with Twelve Dragons Eternity and counterattacked with strength empowered by dragon qi.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord activated the Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Pillar in the Northern Underworld Palace’s Back Mountain, increasing the power of his incarnation.
• Kunpeng, Golden Wings, and Bifang watched from the starry sky, but Kunpeng refused to help because the altered heavenly laws around Jian Zangfeng made sending manifested bodies down ineffective.

Chu Xisheng and his allies trapped the Timekeeping Star Lord in a severed temporal space and weakened him with the Great Law Dynasty’s national fortune. As Chu Xisheng prepared a god-slaying strike, the Timekeeping Star Lord offered Chu Yunyun a bargain to let his true-soul incarnation escape.

• The Timekeeping Star Lord realized Chu Xisheng intended to draw the hundun gods into the mortal realm, while Chu Xisheng continued resisting his attacks with renewed golden shields.
• When the hundun gods refused to descend, the Timekeeping Star Lord abandoned the Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Pillar and tried to flee, but the little fatty used Heaven-Regulating Earth-Rectifying to sever his route through the sky.
• Chu Xisheng cut the Timekeeping Star Lord into a temporal cross-section, while the Great Law Dynasty’s national fortune weakened the god’s divine power and innate body.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord recognized Chu Xisheng’s Heavenly Dao Divine Source and saw the little fatty briefly attain Sage-level power.
• As Chu Xisheng and the giant Blood Pine prepared the Twilight of the Gods strike, the Timekeeping Star Lord asked Chu Yunyun to let his incarnation leave in exchange for information and other concessions.

Chu Xisheng killed Ren Jianxi and interrogated the Timekeeping Star Lord, who revealed Shen Bore’s plans for Zangtian and clues about the plots surrounding Diwa and Chu Xisheng’s past. Before the Timekeeping Star Lord could answer where Long Kui was, Moon Regent attacked and helped him escape.

• Chu Xisheng killed Ren Jianxi with a saber strike from afar, annihilating his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord told Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun that Shen Bore planned to make Zangtian fall into demonhood through schemes including a Corpse Calamity, an attack on Si Huangquan, and blood sacrifices.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord explained that the Yang God and Shen Bore had helped Emperor Jianyuan achieve Yin-Yang Unity, and suggested that Shen Jingli might know why they wanted Diwa unsealed.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord answered questions about the Azure Dragon Star Lord’s true body and revealed that Shen Bore had seen Old Sage’s plans, while Chu Fengge had somehow freed Chu Xisheng from Shen Bore’s control.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord gave Chu Xisheng records of the human God-Emperors’ remains, but Moon Regent attacked before he could answer about Long Kui.
• Chu Yunyun identified Moon Regent as the attacker, and the Timekeeping Star Lord escaped in the darkness.

Chu Xisheng responded to Emperor Jianyuan’s plan to unseal Diwa by sending allies to Wang’an and mobilizing forces against the corpse army and blood sacrifices. He then took Lu Luanli to the Nether Sea’s Youdu with Si Huangquan and Jingwei to pursue the power needed for the crises ahead.

• Chu Xisheng and his allies discussed the Dark Moon Goddess, the looming threat of Zangtian’s fall into demonhood, and the dangers of war and a possible Corpse Calamity.
• Shen Puzhao told Chu Xisheng that Emperor Jianyuan planned to release Diwa from her seal, and Chu Xisheng sent Feng San and the Bai Lingxis to Wang’an to oversee the release and investigate the corpse army.
• Chu Xisheng ordered Chu Ming and Chu Yunyun to capture the direct descendants of the Water God and Fire God, assigned Jian Zangfeng to keep order at home, and brought Lu Luanli with him.
• At the Nether Sea’s Youdu, Jingwei and Si Huangquan prepared to open a path into the underworld for Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that he had come because the remains of the sixth- and seventh-generation Heavenly Emperors were in Youdu and his side needed more power.

Chu Xisheng entered the Netherworld with Si Huangquan, Azure Bird Jingwei, and Lu Luanli to search for the buried remains of ancient God-Emperors, while learning that Water God Tiangong was gathering the world’s water power to create a Star River. Their arrival drew Blackwater Sovereign’s attack, but Blood Sea Ancestor and Water God Tiangong began battling nearby, leaving Youdu Sovereign Shen Qingxuan to confront them; Chu Xisheng reflected Shen Qingxuan’s power of withering and decline.

• Chu Xisheng and his companions traveled through Dark Spring toward Youdu, and he realized Water God Tiangong was gathering water power to condense a Star River.
• The group reached the Nether Sea near Youdu, where Chu Xisheng searched for the buried remains of God-Emperors from humanity’s ancient war against the gods.
• Blackwater Sovereign Duming attacked the four with a giant hand of seawater, and Chu Xisheng prepared to counter him.
• Blood Sea Ancestor attacked Water God Tiangong, and the two Ancestral Gods clashed across the Nether Sea.
• Youdu Sovereign Shen Qingxuan confronted Chu Xisheng and Si Huangquan from above Youdu, but Chu Xisheng reflected Shen Qingxuan’s power of withering and decline.

Chu Xisheng faced the Youdu Sovereign, then turned from the confrontation to explore the ancient battlefield beneath the Nether Sea. After Blackwater Sovereign gave Si Huangquan the Spring-Sealing Stone, the group entered the sealed battlefield and found the remains of a Human Race Divine Army surrounded by lingering Blood Baleful Intent.

• The Youdu Sovereign used Soul Synchronization to suppress the Yin Spirits of Youdu's Inner Third Layer, but Chu Xisheng's Yazi Saber still surprised him, and Chu Xisheng chose not to fight.
• Chu Xisheng asked Si Huangquan and the Azure Bird Jingwei to investigate the Youdu Sovereign while they led him to the ancient battlefield beneath the Nether Sea.
• Lu Luanli used the Great Luo Divine Mirror to break the formation sealing the battlefield entrance and move aside the enormous Eternity Stone.
• Blackwater Sovereign gave Si Huangquan the Yellow Springs' Spring-Sealing Stone and urged her to defend the Nether Sea and Nine Springs from Tiangong.
• Lu Luanli opened the battlefield's nine sealed layers, and Chu Xisheng sensed the remains of Human Race soldiers and their immense Blood Baleful Intent.

Chu Xisheng entered an ancient netherworld battlefield, where his God-Slaying Blood Astral Force resonated with the dead soldiers and he discovered sealed God-Emperors, including the Eastern Emperor. Meanwhile, Shen Bore learned that Chu Xisheng’s trip might be a distraction for an attack on his foundation, as Chu Xisheng’s Spellcasters prepared a ritual to reclaim the True Sect Patriarchs.

• Chu Xisheng found that his God-Slaying Blood Astral Force was being assimilated by the battlefield’s dead human and dragon soldiers, and Jingwei explained that their shared hostility and obsessions had caused it to resonate with them.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions saw seven sealed God-Emperors, including the Eastern Emperor and Second-Generation Yinglong, pinned beneath enormous Eternity Divine Stones; Lu Luanli said she could not break the seals without summoning the Ancestral Gods.
• Chu Xisheng urged Lu Luanli to seek a way to break the seals, prayed for the God-Emperors, and sensed his bonded Divine Artifact more clearly than ever before.
• Shen Bore confronted Sheyuan about the gods’ inaction while Chu Xisheng was in the netherworld and learned that Shen Puzhao had stopped answering summons.
• Shen Bore asked Sheyuan to locate Chu Yunyun, and they discovered that Chu Xisheng’s Spellcasters were preparing an array in the Underground Space to reverse yin and yang and reclaim the True Sect Patriarchs under Shen Bore’s control.

Chu Xisheng proposed killing Xuanhuang as a way to free him and gained new possibilities for recovering the sealed dead on the Primordial Battlefield. His newly manifested Heaven's Will Mirror strengthened his abilities, enabled contact with the battlefield's Baleful Spirits, and brought him recognition as a Sage of Wish-Fulfillment.

• Li Mountain Old Mother conveyed Chu Xisheng's proposal to kill Xuanhuang to the Primordial Profound Goddess, who recognized it as a move against Shen Bore and agreed to cooperate.
• Lu Luanli proposed using Fang Buyuan and Jian Zangfeng's arts to exchange the sealed God-Emperors' remains for objects of equal value, and Chu Xisheng judged the method possible but beyond their current capabilities.
• Lu Luanli selected yellow dragon corpses for the Great Law Dynasty's Nation-Protecting Grand Array, and Si Huangquan confirmed that suitable corpses could be revived with impaired intelligence.
• Chu Xisheng examined his newly manifested Heaven's Will Mirror, tested its enhancements to his defenses, and inferred that it had created his system in response to his wishes.
• Chu Xisheng used the Heaven's Will Mirror to raise Divine Sorrow to the thirty-seventh rank and connected with the blood-colored Baleful Spirits throughout the battlefield.
• Shen Jingli sensed that Chu Xisheng had become a Sage of Wish-Fulfillment despite his unchanged ranking on the Wish-Fulfillment Dao Stele.

Shen Jingli resisted Shen Bore’s demand for the Heaven-Mending Origin Stone and realized that a power linked to the True Sect Patriarch had let her see through his incarnation. In Wang’an City, Feng San’s forces uncovered a corpse calamity at Ding Li’s residence and moved toward the Imperial Palace, where Emperor Jianyuan learned that the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou remained alive and that the gods opposed unsealing Diwa.

• Shen Jingli rejected Shen Bore’s pressure to surrender the Heaven-Mending Origin Stone and discovered that the figure outside Heaven-Cleansed Star was only his true-soul incarnation.
• Feng San led 128 third-rank experts to break into Ding Li’s residence, declaring that Ding Li had become a poison corpse and ordering the estate cleansed.
• Bai Lingxi One revealed that Ding Li had stopped breathing, and Dutian Divine Thunder destroyed him after he realized he had been feeding on his family and friends.
• Feng San and the two Bai Lingxis decided to enter the Imperial Palace and investigate Emperor Jianyuan’s secret underground caves while Wang’an City remained trapped in a dream-illusion.
• The Purple Tenuity High Chief Priest warned Emperor Jianyuan not to unseal Diwa and revealed that the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou was hiding in Ji Yang’s Tomb with the Second-Generation Sage Emperor.

Chu Xisheng gained Gouchen’s divine power through the Astral Authority Seal and revealed his plan to draw Nine-Phoenix into the Netherworld while forcing his enemies to divide their attention. Nine-Phoenix arrived and attacked, as Shen Bore watched a separate upheaval begin on Mars with Fire God Yanrong moving to reclaim the star.

• Chu Xisheng’s Astral Authority Seal absorbed Gouchen’s power and became an Upper Eternity Rank divine artifact capable of commanding heavenly orders and suppressing Star Gods.
• Chu Xisheng told Lu Luanli and Si Huangquan that they would wait in the ancient battlefield while his broader plan pressured Shen Bore and Emperor Jianyuan.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that he had spread a rumor claiming Si Huangquan would inherit the First-Generation Nether Emperor’s power and become ruler of the Netherworld, hoping to lure Nine-Phoenix into a trap.
• Azure Bird Jingwei gave Chu Xisheng a report about the Youdu Sovereign, but Nine-Phoenix appeared at the battlefield entrance and launched an attack with flames and crimson lightning.
• Shen Bore spoke with a hidden figure outside the Netherworld and watched flames erupt on Mars as Fire God Yanrong moved to retake the star from the Phoenix Clan.

Shen Bore’s schemes threatened Chu Xisheng in the Netherworld, while Li Tan learned that Zangtian might be forced to fight for Youchao Shi. After Chu Xisheng urged him to act, Zangtian left his Devil Palace to attack Rahū, stirring the Eternity Gods.

• Shen Bore revealed that Great Emperor Rahū had already been resurrected and sent him into the Netherworld along the path opened by the Seven Killings Star Lord.
• Li Tan asked Zangtian what could force him to fight Rahū, and Zangtian named Chu Xisheng and his adoptive father Youchao Shi.
• Zangtian explained that Youchao Shi had raised him, and said he would act if even a wisp of Youchao Shi’s True Spirit remained.
• Li Tan relayed Chu Xisheng’s request for Zangtian to attack Rahū and condense his star while Chu held back Shen Bore and the gods.
• Zangtian ignited his God-Defying Fire and charged out of his Devil Palace, causing every Eternity God to react.

Zangtian attacked Rahū eight days early, triggering a battle across the heavens as Shen Bore and the Pangu Gods moved to stop him. While Chu Xisheng fought Rahū and his allies in the Netherworld, he swore that the Human Race would destroy anyone who obstructed Zangtian, and his vow rang throughout the universe.

• Zangtian charged at Rahū, prompting Nine-Phoenix God Lord and Vermilion Bird Star Lord to summon Chongming as Yanrong and Ketu attacked the Phoenix Clan’s forces near Mars.
• Shen Bore manipulated the Blood Baleful Intent around Zangtian, while the Wood God Lingwei, Wind God Disha, and other Ancestral Gods and God-Emperors sent divine-power incarnations to assault him.
• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor fought Shen Bore, but Shen Bore focused on holding him off until Zangtian fell into demonhood.
• In the Netherworld, Chu Xisheng entered the demigod realm and used Divine Power Rekindling to resist Rahū and Seven Killings Star Lord while his allies engaged the firebird and other enemies.
• Chu Xisheng cut his wrist and swore that the Human Race would destroy anyone who obstructed Zangtian, and his vow resounded throughout the universe.

Chu Xisheng’s oath rallied human and demon forces while persuading the Void God lineage to let Zangtian attack Rahū. As Zangtian battered Rahū Star and Chu Xisheng’s battle with Shen Bore continued, Chu Xisheng struck Rahū with the tenth move of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.

• Wen Suyi, Li Tan, Ziyu, and the Demon Army swore to oppose anyone who obstructed Zangtian, while Ming Eternal Ages, Guan Yunsheng, human heroes, Chu Yunyun, and the Wooden Sword Immortal answered Chu Xisheng’s call.
• The Purple Tenuity Star Lord convinced Void God Sheyuan to hold back, arguing that the Void God lineage should let Zangtian shatter Rahū and remain wary of Shen Bore.
• Shen Bore’s allied gods withdrew from the battlefield, allowing Zangtian to strike Rahū Star twice and split its core with deep gashes.
• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor continued fighting Shen Bore and gradually began locating his true body, while Shen Bore diverted more power away from Zangtian.
• Rahū’s body cracked and his divine blood flowed toward Chu Xisheng, who cut into Rahū’s divine core with the tenth strike, Twilight of the Gods.

Chu Xisheng trapped Rahū in his soul sea and devoured the source essence Rahū had stolen from the Human Race, while the Seven Killings Star Lord tried to stop him. Rahū’s fate remained in Chu Xisheng’s hands as the Seven Killings Star Lord’s assault battered Chu Xisheng’s defenses.

• Chu Xisheng struck Rahū with Twilight of the Gods and Heaven Follows Human Wishes, destroying his body and drawing in his blood-colored remains.
• Zangtian struck Rahū Star, damaging Rahū’s primordial spirit and allowing Chu Xisheng to absorb more of his source essence.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord attacked Chu Xisheng with nine sword strikes, but Chu Xisheng’s Eternity Wall endured and his absorption continued.
• Rahū willingly followed the blood threads into Chu Xisheng’s soul sea, intending to seize his body, but found the fallen Human God-Emperors and twelve golden dragons waiting there.
• Chu Xisheng used his wish-fulfillment power and the Eastern Emperor Mirror to trap and grind away Rahū’s spiritual sense, forcing him to surrender stolen source essence and more of his own.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord wounded Azure Bird Jingwei and redirected his attacks toward Chu Xisheng, eventually breaching the Eternity Wall without stopping Chu Xisheng’s defenses from regenerating.

Chu Xisheng absorbed Rahū’s source essence while fighting off the Seven Killings Star Lord, who eventually withdrew as Rahū neared destruction. Chu Xisheng took Lu Luanli and headed back to the Mortal Realm, intending to reach Guixu before Zangtian met his fate.

• Shen Bore stopped fighting the Third-Generation Sage Emperor and conceded that Zangtian’s attack on Rahū had defeated his plans, though he hinted that the next act would decide Zangtian’s fate.
• Chu Xisheng refined Rahū’s source essence and ground away his Primordial Spirit and True Spirit while resisting the Seven Killings Star Lord’s attacks.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord unleashed a barrage to force back Azure Dragon and the Wooden Sword Immortal, then seized Divine Bird Huoyi and withdrew.
• Lu Luanli and Si Huangquan questioned Chu Xisheng about absorbing Rahū’s source essence, and Chu Xisheng said Shen Bore had likely planted a hidden contingency in it.
• Chu Xisheng took Lu Luanli toward the Mortal Realm and told Si Huangquan to lie low, planning to reach Guixu before Zangtian fell.

After Rahū Star shattered, Zangtian became the Sage of destruction and devastation but could not remove the Baleful Spirits consuming his power before the gods attacked. Acting on Chu Xisheng’s advice, he abandoned Star Condensation and charged the Ice God Black Emperor, seeking to seize his Pangu Spirit and weaken the gods.

• Rahū Star’s destruction completed Zangtian’s Secret Ritual, making him the Sage of destruction and devastation, while the Baleful Spirits continued draining him.
• Zangtian ordered Li Tan and the Demon Army to retreat, but they refused to leave him.
• Shen Puzhao relayed Chu Xisheng’s advice that Zangtian should kill a Pangu Sovereign so the Third-Generation Sage Emperor could obtain that Sovereign’s Pangu Spirit.
• Zangtian chose the Ice God Black Emperor as his target and spent time purging Baleful Spirits while the gods’ armies closed in.
• When the Ice God’s forces advanced, Zangtian charged toward them and killed a hundred thousand troops with one attack.
• The Ice God ordered his offspring to wear down Zangtian before he faced him, and they rushed to the front lines.

Demon God Zangtian broke through the Cold-System Gods’ formation and pressed toward Ice God Black Emperor, while Void God Sheyuan and Metal God Baizhu arrived to intervene. Outside the Netherworld, Shen Bore battled the Third-Generation Sage Emperor and suspected Chu Xisheng’s retreat concealed a larger plan.

• Zangtian slaughtered the Cold-System Gods’ forces, grievously wounded their leaders, and shattered Black Emperor’s Cold Heaven Pot, though Shen Gushe helped Black Emperor withdraw his invested Divine Sense.
• Zangtian broke through the rear formation and advanced toward Black Emperor, who transformed into his Beast Body and attacked him with the Ice-Soul Cold Light blade.
• Void God Sheyuan and Metal God Baizhu arrived in their divine artifact vessels and clashed with Zangtian, while Black Emperor joined the fight.
• Outside the Netherworld, the Third-Generation Sage Emperor fought Shen Bore and accused him of letting Zangtian punish the gods for their failure to protect Rahū.
• Shen Bore focused on Chu Xisheng’s retreat to the Mortal Realm and suspected that Chu was concealing a purpose beyond Black Emperor and the Pangu Spirit.

Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli entered Guixu to use the Ruin Core for Mediation of Creation and revive the Twelve Yellow Dragons while Zangtian fought the Ice God and the Black Emperor. As the array began working, the Lord of Ten Thousand Deceptions Who Deceives Heaven arrived outside Guixu.

• Chu Xisheng told Lu Luanli that Han Ba and Hou Qing had gone to Ji Yang's Tomb, where Emperor Jianyuan and the Four Great Corpse Ancestors were using the unfinished Reversal of Yin and Yang array.
• Lu Luanli subdued Guixu's inhabitants with her treasured saber while Chu Xisheng arranged the twelve Yellow Dragon corpses around the Ruin Core.
• Lu Luanli built a Mediation of Creation Array, and Chu Xisheng used the Eastern Emperor Essence Soul to complete about thirty percent of the Ruin Core's Heavenly Rules and reduce its energy leakage.
• Chu Xisheng spent fifty thousand Wish Stones to strengthen the array, then enlisted the Wooden Sword Immortal's Life Heavenly Order and borrowed Wood God Lingwei's Life Heavenly Order to reduce the creation power it consumed.
• Chu Xisheng revived the Twelve Yellow Dragons and inscribed the Great Law Dynasty's Nation-Protecting Grand Array onto their scales.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Deceptions Who Deceives Heaven arrived outside Guixu and looked into its depths.