Chapter Summaries

Chu Xisheng trapped Timekeeping Star Lord in Guixu and offered to help him replace the Great Sun in exchange for aiding Zangtian’s resurrection. Meanwhile, Emperor Jianyuan prepared to unseal Ji Yang’s Tomb and use the Reversal of Yin and Yang array to control the Heaven-Gazing Hou and the Four Great Corpse Ancestors.

• Chu Yunyun, the Wooden Sword Immortal, Azure Dragon Star Lord, and Chu Xisheng blocked Timekeeping Star Lord’s escape until he admitted defeat and agreed to hear Chu Xisheng’s proposal.
• Chu Xisheng formed an embryo from his bloodline and explained that Zangtian could be resurrected, while Timekeeping Star Lord rejected the accusation that he wanted to murder his father.
• Chu Xisheng revealed his Hundun Method and offered to help Timekeeping Star Lord refine the Sun’s source essence and conceal Zangtian’s resurrection, leaving Timekeeping Star Lord tempted.
• At Ji Yang’s Tomb, Emperor Jianyuan inspected the nearly completed Reversal of Yin and Yang array and learned that it would not include the Yellow Emperor’s Nation-Protecting Grand Array.
• Emperor Jianyuan ordered Yu Kunlun to activate the array and break the seal, trusting that his Heaven-Gazing Hou Clone would keep the creature under his control.

Emperor Jianyuan chose to break the seal at Ji Yang’s Tomb despite Zong Shenhua’s warnings, while Ji Yang and her allies prepared to use Great Law Dynasty’s dragon qi and Li Mountain Old Mother’s spear to kill the Yellow Emperor. In the starry battle, Zangtian rekindled his power and severely wounded the Ice God, the Black Emperor.

• Zong Shenhua warned Emperor Jianyuan that Ji Yang’s Tomb and the Reversal of Yin and Yang Array could be traps, but Jianyuan insisted the seal must be broken to obtain the Heaven-Gazing Hou.
• Ji Yang explained that the Corpse Ancestors likely sought to use Guixu’s ruin core to balance their yin and yang, and Li Mountain Old Mother predicted that a divine battle could erupt over the Heaven-Gazing Hou.
• Ji Yang described how the Yellow Emperor had bound the Heaven-Gazing Hou with the Xuanyuan Dynasty’s remaining fortune, while Li Mountain Old Mother declared that they needed to kill him and end his suffering.
• Jian Zangfeng saw Great Law Dynasty’s dragon qi enter the completed Twelve-Capital Divine Dragon Nation-Guarding Grand Array as Li Mountain Old Mother’s spear, Years, rose to serve as their weapon against the Yellow Emperor.
• As the gods pressed their attack, Zangtian recalled Youchao Shi’s teachings and the injustices that drove humanity to rebel, then rekindled his divine power without falling into demonhood.
• Zangtian broke through the Ice God, the Black Emperor’s ice defenses and cut off his right arm and half his shoulder, horrifying the gods watching the battle.

Chu Xisheng secured the Timekeeping Star Lord's support for Zangtian's recovery and stored a primordial world embryo prepared for his rebirth. He then uncovered a hidden Mediation of Creation Array to prepare the Yellow Emperor's return and conceal the signs of Zangtian's resurrection.

• Chu Yunyun warned Chu Xisheng that the Timekeeping Star Lord might have divided his soul into avatars and concealed strength approaching an Ancestral God.
• The Timekeeping Star Lord supplied seven strands of Taichu Purple Qi and three pieces of Origin Blood Emperor Zhi in exchange for extensive cooperation against the Yang God.
• Chu Yunyun spared the Di Jiang Bird to study its Hundun Method and advance her Heaven-Creation method.
• Lu Luanli exhausted her True Essence creating Zangtian's primordial world embryo, and Chu Xisheng stored it in his Astral Authority Seal.
• Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun uncovered a second Mediation of Creation Array beneath the Ruin Core that the Four Great Corpse Ancestors had prepared.
• Chu Xisheng planned to use the hidden array to prepare a primordial world embryo for the Yellow Emperor while masking the omens of Zangtian's resurrection.

The Timekeeping Star Lord reported that Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun had revived the Azure Dragon and that the Great Law Empress had forced him into a deadly battle in Guixu. As Demon God Zangtian killed Ice God Black Emperor and wounded Void God Sheyuan, he finally detonated himself and fell beneath the watching gods.

• The Timekeeping Star Lord told Taihao and Yuexi that Chu Xisheng had restored the Azure Dragon and that he had destroyed Demon God Zangtian's origin embryo, then admitted the Great Law Empress had gravely wounded Di Jiang and sealed Guixu's exit.
• The Gods detected another Mediation of Creation beneath Guixu, and Yuexi realized Chu Xisheng had been trying to revive the dying Yellow Emperor while exhausting the Pangu Gods' ability to send another God-Emperor-level force.
• Demon God Zangtian battered Ice God Black Emperor with his axe until Black Emperor exploded in a final burst of freezing power, but Zangtian broke free and the sunlight melted the ice.
• Shen Puzhao relayed that Chu Xisheng would try to rescue Youchao Shi and urged Zangtian to return or destroy his divine body before anyone could seize his source essence.
• Zangtian hurled his axe at Void God Sheyuan, shattering Sheyuan's arm and injuring his chest, then detonated his own divine body and fell.

After Zangtian and Ice God Black Emperor fell, Chu Xisheng learned that Zangtian’s Wraiths had formed a powerful blood cloud and realized the Gods might unite against the Human Race. In Ji Yang’s Tomb, Emperor Jianyuan ordered the seals broken, but Li Mountain Old Mother’s spear struck at the Yellow Emperor and Shen Bore appeared to stop it.

• Chu Xisheng sensed Zangtian’s death and continued preparing the Yellow Emperor’s Heaven and Earth Embryo while awaiting the chance to recover Zangtian’s True Spirit.
• Shen Puzhao reported that Ice God Black Emperor had fallen, Zangtian’s Source Essence was hidden, and Zangtian’s surviving Wraiths had formed a blood cloud still hostile to the Gods.
• Chu Xisheng concluded that Zangtian’s final strike against Sheyuan might have been orchestrated to remove the balance that protected the Human Race, and warned that the Gods could target threatening onlookers.
• In Ji Yang’s Tomb, Emperor Jianyuan urged Yu Kunlun to break the seals as the Four Great Corpse Ancestors realized Chu Xisheng had exploited their absence to use the Ruin Core.
• Yu Kunlun opened the tomb’s seal, revealing the Yellow Emperor and the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou as black energy and crimson lightning took shape.
• Li Mountain Old Mother’s spear Years hurtled toward the Yellow Emperor, but Shen Bore appeared and stopped it.

The Third-Generation Sage Emperor and Shen Bore fought while the Reversal of Yin and Yang formation came under threat from descending Gods. Yue Xiner activated Sun and Moon Sharing the Sky, weakening divine powers and restoring the Ninefold Clouds, allowing Yu Kunlun to begin the reversal as the chapter left his intentions uncertain.

• Shen Bore and the Third-Generation Sage Emperor clashed, while the Third-Generation Sage Emperor revealed that he had obtained the Ice God Black Emperor's Pangu Spirit.
• The First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou bound the Four Great Corpse Ancestors, and Emperor Jianyuan remained uneasy about their strange calm.
• The Heavenly Yue Star Lord and Giant Gate Star Lord attacked the formation, but Ying Gou knocked their weapons away and drove them back.
• Yue Xiner explained Sun and Moon Sharing the Sky, and the sun and moon appeared together, weakening divine powers and restoring the Ninefold Clouds.
• Yu Kunlun raised the Yin-Yang Reversal formation, drawing yin and yang Origin Spirits and Dragon Qi around the Heaven-Gazing Hou as the others watched him closely.
• Yu Kunlun announced that the Reversal of Yin and Yang had begun, while the Third-Generation Sage Emperor wondered whether Yu still remembered his former ambitions.

Yu Kunlun halted the Reversal of Yin and Yang and revealed that Emperor Jianyuan’s Dragon Qi depended on the Dream-Illusion Method he had spread across the northern Divine Land. The Heaven-Gazing Hou and twelve Red Dragons completed their exchange, leaving the array’s future in Yu Kunlun’s hands.

• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor confronted Shen Bore, who revealed that Sleeping Dragon’s actions had been a counterattack against him.
• Li Mountain Old Mother struck the Xuanhuang Golden Cauldron with the Years Divine Spear, allowing some of the Yellow Emperor’s Scarlet Thunder to escape.
• Yu Kunlun stopped the Reversal of Yin and Yang, declaring that the Heaven-Gazing Hou could not be controlled by Emperor Jianyuan or handed to the Yin-Yang Gods.
• Yu Kunlun rejected Emperor Jianyuan’s rule and said Chu Xisheng should control the Heaven-Gazing Hou for the revival of the human and dragon races.
• As the array resumed under Yue Xiner’s spellcasters, Yu Kunlun explained that its source was the Dragon Qi sustained by his Dream-Illusion Method.
• After the Heaven-Gazing Hou and twelve Red Dragons exchanged positions, Yu Kunlun warned that lifting his Dream-Illusion Method would affect the nearly completed reversal, shocking Emperor Jianyuan, Yue Xiner, and the Four Great Corpse Ancestors.

Wang Dalong woke from the Dream-Illusion Method and remembered the starvation and deaths hidden beneath his happy dreams. In Ji Yang's Tomb, Yu Kunlun let the illusion collapse, accepted the karmic consequences, and entrusted his dragon spine to Emperor Wen as an apology to Chu Xisheng, whom he said was the only one who could preserve the Heaven-Gazing Hou's consciousness.

• Wang Dalong remembered that his mother and father had died, the authorities had taken his grain, and his youngest son was in the kitchen as the dream ended.
• Emperor Jianyuan and Yu Kunlun were burned by karmic fire as the Dream-Illusion Method fell and the people of He and Luo Provinces awoke to their suffering.
• Yu Kunlun explained that he had used the suffering to turn the people against Great Ning and prepare them to support the Great Law Dynasty.
• The First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou drained Blood Qi from Emperor Jianyuan, Yu Kunlun, Yue Xiner, and others as the Reversal of Yin and Yang continued.
• Yu Kunlun tore out his own dragon spine and gave it to Emperor Wen to deliver to Chu Xisheng as an apology and a weapon-making material.
• Yu Kunlun told Emperor Wen that Chu Xisheng was the only one who could preserve the Heaven-Gazing Hou's consciousness.

Yue Xiner died after realizing Sleeping Dragon’s scheme, while the Heaven-Gazing Hou drained Emperor Jianyuan and Yu Kunlun and the gods attacked it and the Yellow Emperor. In Guixu, Chu Xisheng received Yu Kunlun’s jade slip, which revealed Emperor Jianyuan had seized bloodline power from Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun, and he considered taking control of the Heaven-Gazing Hou.

• Yue Xiner understood that Sleeping Dragon had used the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele to make the Heaven-Gazing Hou seek Chu Xisheng’s help, then died as her life essence ran out.
• The Four Great Corpse Ancestors broke free of the Heaven-Gazing Hou’s control, leaving Emperor Jianyuan as its main source of Origin Power.
• Emperor Jianyuan accused Yu Kunlun of betraying him, while Yu Kunlun prepared to die with him and arranged for them to be buried alive.
• The gods attacked the Heaven-Gazing Hou and helped Shen Bore keep the Yellow Emperor sealed, while the Third-Generation Sage Emperor began his ninth metamorphosis.
• Yu Kunlun sent Chu Xisheng a jade slip revealing that Emperor Jianyuan had seized bloodline power from Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun, along with the array diagrams and the medium he had used.

Chu Xisheng used the Origin Spirit tide to imprint Zangtian’s Primordial Spirit on the Heaven and Earth Embryo, then began refining the Ruin Core into his body. When the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou, desperate and nearly destroyed, accepted Chu Xisheng’s Divine Covenant, Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli realized he had found a way to win without giving it dragon qi.

• Chu Xisheng asked Star Lord Putian to carry out another task, then used the Origin Spirit tide to imprint Zangtian’s Primordial Spirit on the Heaven and Earth Embryo before putting it away.
• Chu Xisheng continued refining the Yellow Emperor’s embryo and planned to merge the Ruin Core with his Nine Orifices of Primordial Yang.
• The First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou failed to obtain enough power from Emperor Jianyuan and Sleeping Dragon to reverse yin and yang, so Chu Xisheng sent it a Divine Covenant.
• The First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou accepted the covenant without inspecting it, while Lu Luanli warned that Shen Bore might benefit if Chu Xisheng supplied it with dragon qi.
• Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli understood that Chu Xisheng could secure victory without giving the Heaven-Gazing Hou dragon qi, and Chu Xisheng made clear he had no intention of making it his spirit pet.

Mad Sword Feng San found the Heaven-Stealing Divine Hands in the Imperial Palace and used them to carry out Chu Xisheng’s plan, but he was bewildered when he reached the Nation-Guarding Array. At Ji Yang’s Tomb, Shen Bore revealed his parasitic power before the Heaven-Gazing Hou suddenly broke free and rose into the sky.

• Mad Sword Feng San abandoned the underground cave south of Wang'an City and found the Heaven-Stealing Divine Hands in the Imperial Palace after Changsun Bingquan withdrew.
• Bai Lingxi Number One and Bai Lingxi Number Two turned on each other, while Feng San used the divine artifact to exchange the stolen Bloodline Talents for the price of a Divine Covenant.
• Feng San headed for the underground palace to retrieve the Nation-Guarding Array’s fragments and twelve red dragon souls, but froze when he arrived.
• At Ji Yang’s Tomb, Shen Bore revealed that he had parasitized thousands of Human Race demigods, Divine Sins, Tai Sui, the Twelve Zodiacal Spirits, and dragon souls in the Nation-Protecting Arrays.
• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor shattered Shen Bore’s blood astral force with the Heaven-Decomposing Art, but Shen Bore remained confident as golden dragon qi flowed into the Heaven-Gazing Hou.
• The Heaven-Gazing Hou took shape again, broke free of the gods, and charged above the clouds.

Shen Bore used the Heaven-Substitution Method to scatter the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou’s flesh and blood, while drawing Emperor Jianyuan out of danger and setting him on a path north. In Guixu, Chu Xisheng finished refining the Ruin Core and agreed to spar with Chu Yunyun after the war.

• Shen Bore explained that he had deceived heaven and earth to restore the Heaven-Gazing Hou temporarily, then caused it to explode into countless incarnations that the gods tried to intercept.
• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor shielded the Divine Land and pressed the Three-Legged Golden Cauldron back into place while Shen Bore used divine power to pull Emperor Jianyuan free of Sleeping Dragon.
• Emperor Jianyuan regained his strength, escaped Sleeping Dragon, and flew north using Heaven-Substitution Escape; Zong Shenhua transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow and followed him.
• Shen Bore admitted that he had paid a great price to unseal Diwa, though he withheld the reason from the Third-Generation Sage Emperor.
• Chu Xisheng completed refining the Ruin Core and agreed to spar with Chu Yunyun after the war.

Chu Xisheng strengthened his bloodline powers and learned that Shen Bore was moving to unseal Diwa while manipulating Emperor Jianyuan. As Chu Xisheng and his companions rushed to intervene, Shen Bore revealed that the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor, Shen Zhenru, might be reborn through Diwa.

• Chu Xisheng upgraded several bloodline powers with the Heavenly Origin Points he had gained, then left Guixu with Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli to investigate Emperor Jianyuan's movements.
• Chu Xisheng sent the Azure Dragon Star Lord to carry the Yellow Emperor's Heaven and Earth Embryo to the Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor for protection.
• In Ji Yang's Tomb, the Third-Generation Sage Emperor questioned Shen Bore about the Human Race's Ancestral Gods, and Shen Bore revealed that Yuexi, Yin God, had arranged their release.
• The Third-Generation Sage Emperor suspected Shen Bore had resurrected the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor, Shen Zhenru, and Shen Bore hinted that she might return through Diwa.
• Emperor Jianyuan reached a mountain in the northern Central Lands and struck it with his sword, apparently beginning to unseal Diwa.

Emperor Jianyuan broke the seal on Diwa’s coffin, while Shen Bore’s plan to bring forth the child she carried succeeded. Chu Xisheng and Qin Muge arrived as Diwa lay near death, and Chu moved to protect her from the surrounding gods.

• Emperor Jianyuan struck through the divine seal as Lingwei restrained Shiyin, who tried to stop him.
• Emperor Jianyuan opened Diwa’s stone coffin, and the gods watching learned that she had been pregnant before her sealing.
• The coffin revealed Diwa unconscious and emaciated, with her abdomen swollen, while Emperor Jianyuan collapsed under the karmic fire.
• Chu Xisheng and Qin Muge arrived, and Chu realized Shen Bore’s scheme had succeeded and Diwa needed protection.
• Chu Xisheng attacked Zong Shenhua, Qin Muge struck at him with her spear, and Chu guarded Diwa while sensing the infant was draining her power.

Chu Xisheng fought the gods while trying to save Diwa, whose unborn daughter was draining her life essence and might have been altered by Shen Bore. Just as Chu Xisheng prepared to strike the fetus, a mysterious figure appeared and interrupted him.

• Chu Xisheng severed Diwa's umbilical cord temporarily and used primordial yang and dragon qi to sustain her, while Chu Yunyun became inexplicably emotional at the sight of Diwa.
• Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun fought Gouchen Star Lord and Purple Tenuity Star Lord while protecting Diwa, and Black Tortoise Star Lord refused to use his full strength against them.
• Lu Luanli summoned Azure Dragon Star Lord to drive back Army-Breaker and Greedy Wolf, while Earth Virtue Star Lord shielded Diwa and relayed Stone Mother's request to kill or wound the fetus.
• Chu Xisheng decided to strike Diwa's abdomen again to prevent the fetus from draining her life essence, but a laughing stranger appeared before his saber reached her.

Shen Zhenru emerged from Diwa’s sealed body and learned that the world had changed, while Chu Xisheng and the gods fought to contain her. As Shen Zhenru turned her borrowed powers against Chu Xisheng, he unleashed a vast retributive saber strike, and Chu Yunyun attacked her, prompting an unexpected connection between them.

• Shen Wuyun arrived, shielded Diwa from Chu Xisheng’s saber strikes, and greeted the awakened Shen Zhenru as the God-Emperor.
• Shen Zhenru emerged from Diwa’s belly, asked for Shen Bore, and learned from Shen Wuyun that he was fighting the Third-Generation Sage Emperor.
• Shen Zhenru stole powers through the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele, while Chu Xisheng stole Wood God Lingwei’s Heaven-Drawing method and enabled Stone God Shiyin to overpower him.
• Shen Zhenru formed a more complete Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele and used borrowed Heaven-Suppressing methods against Chu Xisheng, while Divine Gouchen shattered his Eternity Wall.
• Chu Xisheng released Retribution Has No Gate, drawing Hostile Killing Intent from billions of Giant Spirits and striking the gods’ Primordial Spirits across the battlefield.
• Chu Yunyun shattered Purple Tenuity Star Lord’s left arm, then attacked Shen Zhenru, who sensed an unusual connection between them.

Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun drove the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor and the gods into a desperate battle, revealing Chu Xisheng’s Wish-Fulfillment power and crippling Shen Wuyun. As the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor’s escape was blocked, Chu Xisheng prepared the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber’s tenth form, Twilight of the Gods.

• Chu Yunyun attacked the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor while Chu Xisheng’s saber intent exposed the weaknesses of her damaged, incomplete body.
• Shen Wuyun and the Eternity Gods unleashed their full strength against Chu Xisheng, but Chu Xisheng used Mirror Reflection Heaven and Earth to blast Gouchen Star Lord and Purple Tenuity Star Lord away and destroy the incarnations of Tianshu, Tianquan, and Tiangang.
• Chu Xisheng used the Ruin Core and Wish-Fulfillment power to immobilize Shen Wuyun, while the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor’s failed Heaven-Substitution Method left him severely maimed.
• Chu Yunyun injured the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor and seized Shen Wuyun as they attempted to escape, but Chu Xisheng’s Twelve Yellow Dragons disrupted the Heaven-Substitution Method.
• Chu Xisheng gathered saber force for the tenth form, Twilight of the Gods, and declared that none of them would leave.

Chu Xisheng built up a devastating saber strike to force a kill on Shen Bore while Chu Yunyun joined him against the gods. Shen Bore fled toward the Demon Realm Heaven Domain, but Wind God Disha intercepted him and crushed his heart.

• Chu Xisheng shattered Shen Wuyun’s Divine Body and used his wish-fulfillment power to trap the gods and build momentum for Twilight of the Gods.
• Purple Tenuity Star Lord and Gouchen Star Lord attacked Chu Xisheng, while Black Tortoise Star Lord’s rain weakened his saber moves until Azure Dragon Star Lord turned the rain to mist.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that he intended to force a kill on Shen Bore, and Chu Yunyun abandoned her fight with the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor to pierce Gouchen Star Lord’s Divine Body.
• Shen Bore fled Ji Yang’s Tomb and evaded the Third-Generation Sage Emperor before heading toward the Demon Realm Heaven Domain to prepare a blood sacrifice.
• Wind God Disha confronted Shen Bore, rejected their former alliance, and crushed Shen Bore’s heart.

Chu Xisheng nearly killed the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor and the gods aiding her, but the Earth Virtue Star Lord intervened and let her escape. The Star Lord explained that she was not truly Shen Zhenru: much of her True Spirit came from Diwa’s youngest daughter, while Shen Bore survived by taking possession of Ancestral God Yujia’s body.

• The First-Generation Heavenly Emperor regained her Sage seats after Shen Bore fell, then tried to flee as Shen Wuyun warned her about the Ancestral Gods.
• Chu Xisheng unleashed Twilight of the Gods, destroying the Divine Power and Primordial Spirits of many gods, while Chu Yunyun killed the Purple Tenuity Star Lord.
• The Earth Virtue Star Lord blocked Chu Yunyun’s spear and endured Chu Xisheng’s saber, allowing the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor to escape.
• Shen Bore recovered in the Lunar Palace’s Taiye Xianchi in Ancestral God Yujia’s body, which he had seized through Heaven-Seizing and deception.
• Yuexi, Yin God, deduced that the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor had never fully returned to life and that Shen Bore had concealed the truth about her identity.
• The Earth Virtue Star Lord told Chu Xisheng that Diwa’s youngest daughter’s True Spirit made up at least half of the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor, while Shen Zhenru’s portion was severely incomplete.

After defeating the gods, Chu Xisheng dealt with the unresolved threat of Diwa’s daughter’s divided true spirit and strengthened his Heavenly Orders. As Chu Yunyun suspected she might be the missing half, Chu Xisheng revealed a newly created Heaven-Howling Hou, a weapon for the coming war between humans and gods.

• Chu Xisheng learned from Earth Virtue Star Lord that the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor contained part of Diwa’s daughter’s true spirit, while the other half remained hidden by Shen Bore’s methods.
• Chu Xisheng asked Earth Virtue Star Lord to take Diwa to safety and bury Emperor Jianyuan deep underground with seals preventing his rebirth.
• Shiyin drove Wood God Lingwei from the Mortal Realm, stripping the bark from his body as he fled into the Starry Sky.
• Chu Xisheng sensed that his Yazi, Hundun, and Wish-Fulfillment Heavenly Orders had grown stronger, then checked his greatly increased Wish Stones.
• Chu Yunyun admitted that seeing the First-Generation Heavenly Emperor had made her furious and wondered whether she was Diwa’s daughter’s missing true spirit, though she doubted the idea.
• Chu Xisheng showed Chu Yunyun a newly born Heaven-Howling Hou, which he had created from the Heaven-Gazing Hou’s remains through their Divine Covenant.