Chapter Summaries

Shen Zhenru stayed in the Mortal Realm, gathered support, and sought to repay Diwa while preparing to counter Chu Xisheng. At Ji Yang's Tomb, Chu Xisheng arranged for Sleeping Dragon's spine to be forged into a saber and learned the Yellow Emperor's Pangu Spirits were missing.

• Shen Zhenru chose to hide in the Mortal Realm and ordered Shen Wuyun to contact her allies and announce her return.
• Shen Zhenru asked Shen Wuyun to arrange help for Diwa, then taught him a secret art to weaken Chu Xisheng's power and resist his saber.
• Chu Xisheng offered Sleeping Dragon's spine to Ji Yang, and Ji Yang entrusted it to Lu Luanli to forge into a saber.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Li Mountain Old Mother had stabbed the Yellow Emperor over gifts from Xiling Can and Shen Tianmo, while the Yellow Emperor's origin embryo was prepared for his return.
• Chu Xisheng assigned Jian Zangfeng the northern campaign, the capital's relocation, and efforts to free human slave tribes before asking where the Yellow Emperor's Pangu Spirits had gone.

Chu Xisheng learned that the two Pangu Spirits had chosen him as their third candidate, but the Yellow Emperor had warned him not to merge with one without careful preparation. At the Heavenly Dao Stele Forest, Shen Jingli learned that Shen Bore might have left a fallback and that her Heaven-Mending Divine Stone had drawn the attention of the Ancestral Gods, while the Primordial Profound Goddess arrived at the True Sect Headquarters to help unseal the human demigods.

• Jian Zangfeng told Chu Xisheng that the Yellow Emperor had hidden the two Pangu Spirits in the heaven and earth root origin and advised him to prepare before accepting one; Chu Xisheng discovered that both Spirits had chosen him as their third candidate.
• Chu Xisheng considered the Yellow Emperor’s advice to separate his Three Corpses and create a vessel for a Pangu Spirit, then decided to focus on advancing his cultivation toward eternity.
• Shen Jingli saw Chu Xisheng’s high rankings on the Dao Steles and learned from the Primordial Profound Goddess that the Yazi Dao Stele would continue advancing because Chu Xisheng had completed the Yazi Method and Secret Ritual.
• The Primordial Profound Goddess warned Shen Jingli that Shen Bore might have prepared a fallback and that the Ancestral Gods would pursue her for the Heaven-Mending Divine Stone, which Shen Bore had wanted to use to restore Shen Zhenru’s soul.
• The Primordial Profound Goddess descended to the True Sect Headquarters, where Chu Xisheng, his wives, and Great Law Dynasty Ministers were waiting to begin unsealing the human race’s demigods.

Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun awakened the Human Race Transcendent Ranks at the True Sect Headquarters and explained that war with the Gods was imminent. The revived fighters learned of the Human Race’s growing strength and were told to honor its alliance with the Stone God Lineage as they chose how to serve or leave.

• The Primordial Profound Goddess lifted the Forbidden Art, then withdrew her incarnation, allowing the Human Race Demigods to awaken.
• Luo Hanzong used the Magic Array to revive more than five thousand Transcendent Ranks, while Chu Xisheng sensed the Ninefold Clouds rejecting their spiritual activity.
• Chu Xisheng introduced himself as the Human Sovereign, announced the Yellow Emperor’s dissolution and Zangtian Venerable’s death, and called on the revived fighters to help defend the Human Race.
• Jian Zangfeng silenced the crowd and described the Human Race’s powerful allies and recent victories, which several awakened fighters independently verified.
• Chu Xisheng offered the fighters options to ascend, serve the Great Law Dynasty, or leave for the starry sky or Demon Realm Warzone.
• Chu Yunyun demanded that the awakened fighters avoid using Divine Power or absorbing Origin Spirits under the alliance with the Stone God Lineage, and Chu Xisheng sensed the Stone God withdraw beneath the earth.

Chu Xisheng strengthened his powers and cultivated in seclusion after the awakening of thousands of Human Race Transcendent Rank cultivators. He learned of Lu Luanli’s advances and the Great Ning Dynasty’s fall, then sensed that the White Emperor’s Son had come to claim their appointed meeting.

• Chu Xisheng and his companions rescued and treated the surviving Transcendent Rank cultivators at the Chan Sect Headquarters, a task that took ten days.
• Chu Xisheng began secluded cultivation, strengthened his bloodline abilities, and made wishes to improve his own powers and those of his companions.
• Lu Luanli sent word that she had reached upper First-Rank and completed five kinds of colossal Myriad Heavens Rites in the Black Prison.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Great Law Dynasty forces had captured Dugu Shou and ended the Great Ning Dynasty, but he set aside the question of Dugu Shou’s fate.
• The White Emperor’s Son arrived outside the Imperial Palace, signaling that the year set for their meeting had passed.

Chu Xisheng tested Saber Twenty-Nine against White Emperor's Son, whose sword broke through the strike after revealing its flaws. White Emperor's Son praised the move and suggested the Yin-Yang Sea could provide materials to improve Chu Xisheng's saber, then turned to face Chu Yunyun.

• Chu Yunyun and Chu Xisheng confronted White Emperor's Son outside the Imperial Palace and took him through a Void rift to fight over the ocean.
• Chu Xisheng announced Saber Twenty-Nine: Ten Thousand and unleashed it against White Emperor's Son.
• White Emperor's Son used the Heaven-Annulment Method and the Destructive Method to find flaws in Chu Xisheng's strike and break through it.
• Chu Xisheng stopped fighting and named the move Ten Thousand, explaining that he hoped to advance toward a future Saber Thirty called Dao.
• White Emperor's Son praised the strike, noted that the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber was too weak to bear its full power, and said the Yin-Yang Sea held materials that could improve it.
• White Emperor's Son turned toward Chu Yunyun as she swept her spear and kindled white flames around herself.

Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun discussed how to advance their power after facing the White Emperor's Son, and Chu Yunyun proposed opening a Lesser Thousand World with Chu Xisheng's help. Meanwhile, Shen Zhenru killed the Hundun Primordial Crocodile to reclaim his power, then sensed Sun Zhuzhao and Lunar Youying stirring in the Yin-Yang Sea.

• Chu Yunyun reflected on her spear exchange with the White Emperor's Son, and Chu Xisheng estimated that the White Emperor's Son had used no more than twenty percent of his power.
• Chu Xisheng explained that the White Emperor's Son sought flaws in his own path to perfection and studied the Inner Worlds they had formed.
• Chu Yunyun proposed opening a Lesser Thousand World with Chu Xisheng so she could pursue her heaven-creation secret ritual.
• Chu Yunyun summoned the Di Jiang Bird, whose strength had reached the God-Emperor level, and explained that his weak Hundun Method made him unsuitable for her attempt.
• Shen Zhenru confronted the Hundun Primordial Crocodile over his broken covenant, deceived his senses, and killed him to take his power and organs.
• Shen Zhenru prepared to remove the Primordial Crocodile's body, then sensed Sun Zhuzhao and Lunar Youying radiating yin-yang power across the sea.

As Water God Tiangong’s power spread through the rivers and the River of Time, Chu Xisheng strengthened the Great Law Dynasty’s control of waterways and prepared for the threat. During the capital relocation ceremony in Wangan, Lunar Yuexi and allied Ancestral Gods began reversing the positions of the sun and moon, and Chu Xisheng declared that the Yang God had fallen as Shen Zhenru joined a tiny Three-Legged Golden Crow with Sun Zhuzhao’s divine corpse.

• Water God Tiangong continued condensing his Star River and extending his power into the River of Time, alarming Zhu Guangyin and Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Xisheng appointed Dragon Lords, expanded the dynasty’s control over rivers and seas, and ordered armies and fleets to seize more waterways while he and Chu Yunyun cultivated their powers.
• Chu Xisheng, Chu Yunyun, and Lu Luanli moved the capital to Wangan in a grand procession, and Chu Yunyun recalled her death in the palace under Emperor Jianyuan.
• As Chu Xisheng prepared to receive the court officials, Lunar Yuexi and allied Ancestral Gods began the Yin-Yang Reversal Art against Sun Taihao, darkening the sky and challenging the Yang God.
• Chu Xisheng declared that the Yang God had fallen and forbade worship of him, while Shen Zhenru sent a tiny Three-Legged Golden Crow into Sun Zhuzhao’s divine corpse.

During the month-long eclipse, Chu Xisheng became a great sun to protect the Divine Land and suppress demons, strengthening the Great Law Dynasty’s Dragon Qi. As the Twelve Yellow Dragons reached God-Emperor, the Starry Sky Gods gathered in the Lunar Palace and recognized that Chu Xisheng’s growing power and northern campaign threatened them.

• Jian Zangfeng mobilized Great Law Dynasty troops and Transcendent Rank Martial Cultivators to suppress demonic disasters, while Chu Xisheng called on Martial Cultivators across the land to assist.
• On the fifth day of darkness, Chu Xisheng transformed into a great sun, used saber mirrors to monitor the Divine Land, and killed demons whose hostility he sensed.
• The disasters dwindled, and Chu Xisheng’s Dragon Qi grew stronger as the people turned to him for protection.
• On the twenty-ninth day, Chu Yunyun told Chu Xisheng she had nearly mastered his Hundun and Yazi methods, while he asked her to check on Luan Li’s progress.
• The Twelve Yellow Dragons formed Dragon Qi cores and broke through to God-Emperor, surpassing the Yellow Emperor’s Imperial Way Secret Art.
• In the Lunar Palace, Yuexi and the Starry Sky Gods discussed the Twelve Yellow Dragons, the Great Law army’s advance toward the Red Gobi, and the demonic disasters afflicting the Central Lands.

The Pangu gods investigated a spreading corpse-poison outbreak and postponed their plan to plunge the Divine Land into darkness while preparing new calamities against Chu Xisheng. Their plans were shaken when Si Huangquan was acclaimed common sovereign of the Netherworld, a development that surprised Chu Xisheng as well.

• Heavenly Stove Star Lord reported that corpse poison had infected at least three million Giant Spirits and that the Four Great Corpse Ancestors had likely joined the crisis.
• Void God Sheyuan ordered Heavenly Stove Star Lord to investigate the poison and its source, postponed Yin-Yang Reversal, and directed the gods to bring calamity to the Divine Land within three months.
• Yuexi, Yin God, announced that the Underworld Gods had acclaimed Second-Generation Yin Empress Si Huangquan common sovereign of the Netherworld, and that Si Huangquan had sealed it with the Way of Death.
• Chu Xisheng fed meat to the Heaven-Howling Hou as Shen Puzhao reported that the gods had discovered the corpse poison and that preparations were complete to direct suspicion toward Shen Bore.
• Shen Puzhao told Chu Xisheng that Si Huangquan had become common sovereign of the Netherworld, leaving Chu Xisheng surprised.

Chu Xisheng learned that Consort Zhuang, hidden as Bai Lingxi Number One, was about to give birth to the Great Luo Ant Clan’s last heir. He used his wish-fulfillment power to alter the unborn Ant Prince, leaving Consort Zhuang terrified and bound to serve his demands.

• Chu Xisheng explained why he had expected Si Huangquan might gain support in Youdu, then told Chu Yunyun that Fang Buyuan was ready to act.
• Shen Puzhao reported that Bai Lingxi Number One had stayed hidden in the government offices and was close to giving birth.
• Consort Zhuang labored in secret, using dragon qi to nourish the Ant Prince while planning to flee after the birth.
• Chu Xisheng appeared beside Consort Zhuang, recognized her as the Great Luo Ant Clan’s survivor, and examined the powerful bloodline abilities of her unborn child.
• Consort Zhuang explained how Shen Bore had made her imitate Bai Lingxi by having her devour Shen Jingli’s remains, and said Shen Bore had not contacted her recently.
• Chu Xisheng poured dragon qi into Consort Zhuang’s abdomen and used wish-fulfillment power to alter the Ant Prince, ordering her to keep working to atone.

Chu Xisheng took Consort Zhuang’s newborn Ant King Daughter and learned that Shen Jingli had arranged to borrow Shen Chixiao’s Treasure-Gathering Basin for three days. Meanwhile, Diwa learned that part of Shen Zhaojun’s spirit might be hidden in the Mortal Realm, and Wen Suyi was told that Chu Lingxi had arrived claiming to be Chu Xisheng’s ninth-generation ancestor and her old friend.

• Chu Xisheng examined the half-human Ant King Daughter, suppressed her rapid growth, and took her into his sleeve after Consort Zhuang begged him to spare her.
• Consort Zhuang warned Chu Xisheng that the gods were using disasters and plagues to undermine his rule and urged him not to rush after Ketu; Chu Xisheng then learned Shen Jingli had secured a three-day loan of Shen Chixiao’s Treasure-Gathering Basin.
• Diwa failed to locate her daughter Shen Zhaojun’s true spirit, but Shiyin revealed that a Wide-Eyed Fine-Crested Red Peacock might have carried a soul lamp containing part of it into the Mortal Realm.
• Diwa agreed to examine samples of the plagues and poisons threatening the Divine Land, while Shiyin reported that Wen Suyi planned to freeze the Central Lands during the sun and moon’s absence.
• Shen Jingkong told Wen Suyi that a man calling himself Chu Lingxi had arrived seeking an old friend, leaving Wen Suyi embarrassed because she had married his ninth-generation descendant.

Wen Suyi received Yang God Taihao’s offer through Chu Lingxi, while Chu Xisheng used the Golden Treasure-Gathering Basin to recover much of the Two Books of Precepts and Laws. As he began gathering fragments of the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele, new laws rang across heaven and earth and Tiangong, the Water God, attacked the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.

• Chu Lingxi told Wen Suyi that Yang God Taihao would reveal a Divine Artifact material in exchange for Chu Xisheng helping him escape the reversal of yin and yang, and offered the Torch Dragon’s Eye as a deposit.
• Wen Suyi read Taihao’s personal letter and received the Book of Precepts, which had recovered at least twenty-three of its pages.
• Chu Xisheng explained that he had used the Golden Treasure-Gathering Basin to reclaim twenty-three pages of the Book of Precepts and fifty-seven pages of the Book of Laws.
• Divine Ao Rogue Person advised Chu Xisheng that he could forge the remaining pages himself, and Lu Luanli reported that the formations were ready.
• Chu Xisheng placed the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele in the basin and activated it, as new laws forbidding plague poison near Wang'an City and fire-based Dharma Methods near four sacred mountains spread across the world.
• Tiangong, the Water God, rose from the sea and reached for the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.

Chu Xisheng and his allies fought off Water God Tiangong long enough for Wen Suyi’s Primordial Ice Wheel to reach the Mortal Realm and unleash a devastating cold wave across the Central Lands. Tiangong withdrew to the Starry Sky, and Chu Xisheng learned that Long Kui had been found sealed there.

• Water God Tiangong descended into the Mortal Realm and attacked the Cloudsea Heavenly Palace as Chu Xisheng used the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele to borrow the Heaven-Gathering Method.
• Shen Puzhao relayed Chu Xisheng’s order to Wen Suyi, while Lu Luanli explained that Tiangong already understood their plan to freeze the Northern Domain and borrow Ketu’s Heavenly Order of Ten Thousand Calamities.
• Kunpeng, Nine-Headed Ying, Water-Origin Wuhuai, the Twelve Yellow Dragons, and other allies attacked Tiangong, weakening his assault on the Cloudsea Heavenly Palace.
• Li Mountain, Zhu Guangyin, and Wind God Disha interfered with Tiangong’s attempt to redirect Wen Suyi’s Primordial Ice Wheel, allowing it to land in the Iceberg Forbidden Region and send a cold wave toward the Central Lands.
• Water God Tiangong withdrew to the Starry Sky, and the Hundun water gods retreated as Chu Xisheng continued gathering the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele fragments.
• Shen Puzhao told Chu Xisheng that Azure Dragon Star Lord and Ji Yang had located Long Kui, who was sealed in the Star River by Water God Tiangong.

Chu Xisheng assembled most of the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele and used its power to borrow Wind God Disha’s heavenly orders before switching to Ketu’s power of catastrophe to intensify the cold in the Central Lands. Disha withdrew to the Starry Sky, where Nine-Phoenix challenged him over whether he had truly tried to stop Chu Xisheng.

• Shen Puzhao reported that Long Kui remained conscious but was trapped in a time loop, likely through a plot involving Water God Tiangong and Yuexi, Yin God.
• Wind God Disha broke into the Cloudsea Heavenly Palace, but Chu Xisheng shattered his wind saber with Twilight of the Gods before Time God Zhu Guangyin attacked Disha with the Temporal Sequence Scythe.
• Chu Xisheng gathered more than a thousand Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele fragments, assembled roughly three-quarters of the artifact, and borrowed Disha’s wind and movement heavenly orders.
• After Disha escaped Zhu Guangyin and returned to the Starry Sky, Chu Xisheng borrowed Ketu’s method of catastrophe and designated an ice disaster to strengthen the cold across the Central Lands for Wen Suyi.
• Disha watched the cold spread across rivers, lakes, and nearby seas, then returned to the Lunar Divine Hall, where Nine-Phoenix questioned whether he had gone to stop Chu Xisheng or secretly help the Human Race.

Wind God Disha suppressed Nine-Phoenix and warned the gods that Chu Xisheng’s growing power could make him a grave threat once he reached Illuminating Eternity. As a cold wave and the Two Books of Precepts and Laws hampered Ketu’s disasters, Ketu vowed to devastate the Divine Land within a day.

• Wind God Disha confined Nine-Phoenix’s Nirvana Divine Fire, then withdrew his power after the Vermilion Bird Star Lord and Mars Star Lord spread their wings.
• Void God Sheyuan accepted Disha’s apology and the gods discussed Chu Xisheng’s strengthened Heavenly Orders, the cold wave, and their conflicting plans.
• Vermilion Bird Star Lord reconsidered the Phoenix Clan’s position and thought of Si Huangquan, while Wood God Lingwei urged the gods to address the cold wave.
• Void God Sheyuan ordered the Three Great Heaven Administrators and other forces to intensify the Divine Land’s misfortunes while they waited to see what Ketu would do.
• Lord of Ten Thousand Plagues God Bingliang and Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons God Ruowang told Ketu that the Two Books of Precepts and Laws and Wen Suyi’s ice had stopped their plagues and poisons from spreading.
• Lord of Myriad Calamities Ketu declared that within one day he wanted the Divine Land reduced to devastation, with the heavens collapsing and the earth splitting.

Chu Xisheng borrowed Ketu’s Entropy Heaven method and learned that Ketu’s Three Calamities and Eight Difficulties were attacking the Divine Land. As earthquakes, fires, and hurricanes spread, Chu Yunyun returned to Wang'an while Lu Luanli and Azure Dragon Star Lord disrupted the hurricanes threatening the coast.

• Time God Zhu Guangyin warned Chu Xisheng that Ketu would retaliate and explained that Ketu wielded the hidden Entropy Heaven method.
• After the Golden Treasure-Gathering Basin was returned to Shen Chixiao, Chu Xisheng borrowed Ketu’s Entropy Heaven method and discovered it could strengthen his Hundun method.
• Shen Puzhao reported an earthquake near Wang'an City and the spread of fires, hurricanes, abnormal weather, and the powers of Ketu’s Three Calamities and Eight Difficulties.
• Chu Yunyun returned to Wang'an to guard the city, while Lu Luanli took responsibility for the hurricanes over the Endless Ocean.
• With Azure Dragon Star Lord and the Dragon Clan helping her cover the sea with clouds and mist, Lu Luanli split and redirected the hurricanes with her saber strike.

Chu Xisheng summoned the Four Great Corpse Ancestors and ordered them to spread the Heaven-Howling Hou’s Corpse Poison among the Giant Spirits while he prepared to confront the gods at Mount Buzhou. After learning that human tribes were suffering under the cold and Giant Spirit oppression, he vanished to the mountain’s foot.

• Chu Xisheng asked Li Mountain Old Mother to protect Lu Luanli from the Ancestral Gods while he handled another urgent matter.
• Chu Xisheng met Han Ba, Hou Qing, Jiang Chen, and Ying Gou, showed them the Heaven-Howling Hou, and promised the Sun God Core and Yin-Yang Reversal if they served him without tricks.
• Chu Xisheng told Han Ba that he had found her husband sealed by Water God Tiangong and said he expected to free him soon.
• Hou Qing reported that Gouchen and other gods had descended to investigate the Corpse Poison and were gathered at Mount Buzhou.
• Chu Xisheng gave the Four Great Corpse Ancestors poisonous blood and ordered them to spread the Heaven-Howling Hou’s Corpse Poison through Giant Spirit food and water.
• Shen Puzhao told Chu Xisheng that human tribes were struggling through the cold and had lost food to the Giant Spirits; Chu Xisheng then appeared at the foot of Mount Buzhou.

Ji Qianqian and Chu Ming discussed the harsh measures used to keep Wang'an City and the southwestern provinces under control as divine disasters stirred unrest. In the imperial prison, Jian Zangfeng and Fang Buyuan persuaded Dugu Shou to aid the Great Law Dynasty in exchange for preserving Great Ning’s State Altars, and he agreed if Chu Xisheng personally promised the terms.

• Ji Qianqian kept watch over Wang'an City during the curfew while Dijiang extinguished fires across the surrounding region.
• Chu Ming arrived and discussed her campaign against suspected rebels in the southwestern provinces, while Ji Qianqian warned her that executions without evidence could put Chu Xisheng in a difficult position.
• Chu Ming warned Ji Qianqian that divine powers were threatening Wang'an City and said she was watching Chu Rulai before flying to report to the Empress.
• Jian Zangfeng and Fang Buyuan offered Dugu Shou a vassal kingdom for Lu Luanli’s son in exchange for his help and the preservation of Great Ning’s State Altars.
• Dugu Shou agreed to aid the Human Race in its crisis, provided Chu Xisheng personally promised the arrangement.

Chu Yunyun appointed Dugu Shou to a major post and reviewed Chu Ming’s actions in the Southwest, ordering an investigation and punishing her for breaking the law. After killing Mao Hong for slaughtering Great Law’s subjects, Chu Yunyun discovered that Tang Yi, the Demigod assigned to guard Tianbu Commandery, had fallen into cultivation deviation.

• Chu Yunyun appointed Dugu Shou Policy Consultant of the Grand Secretariat and Northwest Pacification Commissioner, then heard Chu Ming’s assessment of the Transcendent Ranks in the Southwest and her report that the Gu God had accepted Chu Xisheng’s invitation.
• Chu Ming agreed to an investigation by Minister of Justice Tie Kuangren, and Chu Yunyun stripped her of her official posts pending the findings while promising to help perfect her Inner World afterward.
• Chu Yunyun rushed to a village in Tianbu Commandery, where she found Mao Hong had killed more than fifty people using a demonic Blood Sacrifice Method.
• Mao Hong argued that other Demigods also used the method, but Chu Yunyun pursued and killed him with her God-Defying Banner Spear.
• Chu Yunyun went to confront the Demigod assigned to guard Tianbu Commandery and found Tang Yi in cultivation deviation, realizing that Gods who wielded the power of emotions were also acting against the Human Race.

Chu Xisheng pressured Shen Shaomiao into directing a Corpse Calamity against the Giant Spirits, then revealed that his real aim was to use the outbreak to target God-Emperor Gouchen. Shen Shaomiao refused to help him attack Gouchen, but Chu warned that her Divine Power had already become part of the plan.

• Shen Shaomiao confronted Chu Xisheng for luring her to Mount Buzhou under false pretenses and involving her in a Corpse Calamity.
• Chu Xisheng argued that the Gods would suspect Shen Shaomiao regardless, and that cooperating could earn her power and protection.
• Shen Shaomiao examined the Heaven-Howling Hou's blood essence, found the Corpse Poison had spread across the Central Lands, and delayed its outbreak while making it harder to detect.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that Gouchen and six other Gods were on Mount Buzhou and said his Secret Ritual for Illuminating Eternity had begun.
• Shen Shaomiao refused to help Chu Xisheng target Gouchen, so Chu showed her the Heaven-Howling Hou and warned that her Divine Power had already tainted the Corpse Poison.