Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen overwhelmed the Azure Demon City Lord’s thunder techniques and survived the devastating Hundun Divine Thunder, leaving the spectators stunned. The Azure Demon City Lord grasped the True Intention of breaking through, and his presence began rising to King level.

• The Azure Demon City Lord unleashed Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens and Heavenly Thunder Slash, but Ye Chen calmly countered his attacks.
• The Azure Demon City Lord summoned divine lightning chains and released Hundun Divine Thunder from an ancient gourd, engulfing Ye Chen.
• The Azure Ghost City Lord, the Senluo City Lord, and the other spectators believed Ye Chen had been killed, but he emerged unharmed as the gray lightning faded.
• Ye Chen asked whether the Azure Demon City Lord had any stronger techniques, while the Azure Demon City Lord realized their battle had brought him closer to a breakthrough.
• The Azure Demon City Lord’s presence surged to King level, and the spectators cried out that he might be becoming a King.

The Azure Demon City Lord broke through to peak Hunyuan Divine Lord, becoming a new king and believing he could easily kill Ye Chen. He struck at Ye Chen, but Ye Chen snapped his fingers and made the attack vanish, leaving the onlookers bewildered.

• The Azure Demon City Lord’s presence surged as he broke through, while the Azure Ghost City Lord and Senluo City Lord realized how far behind him they were.
• The Azure Demon City Lord celebrated his new power and recognized the enormous gulf between himself and the true kings.
• The Azure Demon City Lord challenged Ye Chen, who calmly asked what had changed about him.
• The Azure Demon City Lord attacked Ye Chen with a palm strike that shocked the watching city lords.
• Ye Chen snapped his fingers, and the Azure Demon City Lord’s attack disappeared without a trace.
• The onlookers argued over what had happened, with some noticing that Ye Chen had snapped his fingers.

Ye Chen absorbed Azure Demon City Lord’s lightning attack and turned its power back against him. Azure Demon City Lord died as the lightning tore apart his body.

• Azure Demon City Lord tested Ye Chen with a compressed ball of blue lightning.
• Ye Chen caught the attack and absorbed its lightning, leaving himself unharmed.
• Ye Chen compressed the absorbed power into a lightning ball and hurled it at Azure Demon City Lord.
• Azure Demon City Lord raised a barrier of divine radiance and Principle runes, but the lightning ball broke through his defenses.
• The lightning struck Azure Demon City Lord’s chest and began destroying his body as he laughed in despair.

Ye Chen killed the newly ascended Azure Demon City Lord, leaving the city lords to recognize him as a king-level powerhouse. As they wondered how his rise would change the Demon Abyss Eye, the Blood Prison King appeared before him.

• Ye Chen's lightning erased the Azure Demon City Lord, shocking the gathered city lords.
• The Azure Ghost City Lord and Senluo City Lord realized they were powerless before Ye Chen and feared the changes his rise could bring.
• Ye Chen dismissed the other city lords and considered seeking out the five established kings to test his strength.
• A rift opened in the sky, and the city lords recognized the blood-lit arrival as the Blood Prison King.
• The Blood Prison King emerged in blood-red armor and reduced his towering size while his oppressive presence remained undiminished.

The Blood Prison King confronted Ye Chen and demanded to learn how an outsider had reached the peak Hunyuan Divine Lord realm despite the laws of the Myriad Realms of the Heavens. When Ye Chen offered to talk peacefully, the Blood Prison King demanded he submit, so Ye Chen prepared to fight him.

• The Blood Prison King was astonished to find that Ye Chen, an outsider, had reached king-level strength, and wondered whether the outside world had changed.
• Ye Chen told the Blood Prison King that Heavenly Emperor remained the limit of cultivation outside the Demon Abyss Eye.
• The Blood Prison King pressed Ye Chen for the secret behind his strength and ordered him to return and answer questions.
• Ye Chen offered to discuss the matter peacefully, but the Blood Prison King insisted that only he made the rules and threatened Ye Chen if he refused.
• Ye Chen declared that the Blood Prison King had lost his chance to change his mind, and the two prepared to fight as the city lords retreated.

Ye Chen fought the Blood Prison King and shrugged off his bloody techniques and resentment. He smashed the king’s divine palace with one punch and tore apart his arm, leaving their battle unresolved.

• The Blood Prison King attacked Ye Chen with blood blades and a shrieking ghost face, but Ye Chen shattered the blades and cut the ghost face apart.
• The ghost face’s resentment swept across the battlefield, killing some fleeing onlookers, but Ye Chen dispelled it with golden light.
• Ye Chen told the Blood Prison King to stop playing and end the fight, provoking the king to charge at him with a blood-coated palm.
• Ye Chen dodged the attack and struck back, forcing the Blood Prison King to retreat and summon a divine palace to suppress him.
• Ye Chen smashed the divine palace with one punch and sent a True Dragon-like fist into the Blood Prison King’s palm, destroying the hand and arm.

Ye Chen overwhelmed the Blood Prison King, who retaliated with a bow that fired arrows made of spiteful Qi. Ye Chen dissolved the arrow barrage with a barrier of Dao laws, leaving the Blood Prison King stunned.

• Ye Chen shattered the Blood Prison King's arm with a single punch, and the Blood Prison King regenerated it.
• The Blood Prison King summoned a jade bow and fired a spiteful Qi arrow at Ye Chen, then unleashed a barrage of arrows that pursued him.
• Ye Chen dodged the arrows while observing the Blood Prison King's methods, then stopped and faced the incoming storm.
• Ye Chen formed a seven-colored barrier of Dao laws and Principle runes, which suppressed the spiteful Qi and dissolved every arrow.
• The Blood Prison King stood gaping as the arrow barrage vanished without harming Ye Chen.

The Blood Prison King sealed Ye Chen inside a blood-soaked scroll and used his blood puppets and a sea of blood to refine him. The spectators believed Ye Chen was doomed to become the Blood Prison King's next puppet.

• Ye Chen dismissed the Blood Prison King's powerful strike as merely average, leaving the Blood Prison King furious and unsure how to defeat him.
• The Blood Prison King trapped Ye Chen inside a blood-soaked scroll, believing Ye Chen had exhausted his strength, and sealed it with multiple Secret Methods.
• The Blood Prison King summoned three blood puppets, which spectators recognized as missing or presumed-dead city lords.
• The blood puppets empowered the scroll while the Blood Prison King summoned a sea of blood and used its waves to reinforce the seal.
• The Blood Prison King watched over the sealed scroll as the spectators concluded that Ye Chen could no longer escape and would be refined into a blood puppet.

The Blood Prison King suppressed Ye Chen inside the painting and prepared to take him away, but the Nine Nether King appeared and demanded the painting. The Kings began to clash, and the painting suddenly shook as they faced off.

• The Blood Prison King strengthened the seal on the painting, believing Ye Chen had been subdued, and decided to refine him for ten thousand years.
• The Blood Prison King ignored the watching city lords and prepared to take the painting away.
• The Nine Nether King arrived, and the onlookers realized he had come to claim Ye Chen and the painting.
• The Nine Nether King demanded that the Blood Prison King hand over the painting, but the Blood Prison King refused and challenged him to fight.
• The Kings' powers collided and shook Black Wind Cliff, while the painting beside them suddenly began to tremble.

Ye Chen broke free of the Blood Prison King's scroll and faced the Blood Prison King and Nine Nether King together. After they launched a coordinated assault, Ye Chen countered their attacks and struck the Nine Nether King in the chest, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ye Chen tore apart the Blood Prison King's scroll and emerged, revealing that he had only been pretending to be suppressed.
• The Blood Prison King urged the Nine Nether King to seize Ye Chen, and the two Kings agreed to join forces against him.
• The Nine Nether King attacked with his heavy hammers while the Blood Prison King sent his curved sabers after Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen knocked away the Nine Nether King's hammers and repelled the Blood Prison King's blades, then forced the Blood Prison King to destroy his follow-up attack with black arrows.
• The Nine Nether King charged again, but Ye Chen appeared before him and struck him in the chest with a finger.

Ye Chen easily survived the Blood Prison King's strongest attack, crushed his saber, and killed him with a single strike. The Nine Nether King realized Ye Chen was far beyond his realm and was left terrified.

• The Nine Nether King recovered from Ye Chen's finger strike by consuming divine medicines, while the Blood Prison King gathered his power into a massive blood-red saber.
• The Blood Prison King brought the saber down on Ye Chen, who caught it with one hand without being wounded.
• Ye Chen crushed the saber, then struck the Blood Prison King with divine light that destroyed his vitality and killed him.
• The onlookers were shocked that a veteran King had died, and the Nine Nether King feared he would suffer the same fate.
• The Nine Nether King concluded that Ye Chen had surpassed the Hunyuan Divine Lord realm and had been holding back while toying with them.

Ye Chen killed the Nine Nether King after the King begged for mercy, leaving only three of the Demon Abyss Eye’s five Kings. The Crimson Yang King, Qilin King, and Evil King appeared and accompanied Ye Chen to the Qilin King’s cave abode, while witnesses stayed behind to spread the news.

• The Nine Nether King begged Ye Chen to spare him and offered to share information, but Ye Chen continued his attack.
• The Nine Nether King used a secret technique to block Ye Chen, but Ye Chen cut through it and killed him with a palm strike.
• Ye Chen searched the Demon Abyss Eye and drew out the Crimson Yang King and the Qilin King, while the Evil King soon approached as well.
• The Qilin King invited Ye Chen and the others to his cave abode, and they entered a spatial rift together.
• Witnesses remained in shock or hurried away to spread news of the Kings’ deaths and the events they had seen.

Ye Chen asked the Qilin King, the Evil King, and the Crimson Yang King about cultivation realms and the origins of the Nine Nether Demon Abyss. They explained that the Demon Abyss had once been the Nine Nether Immortal Realm, home to the powerful Wuhen Saint Sect, which had ties to the Heavenly Divine Realm.

• News spread through the Demon Abyss Eye that the Azure Demon City Lord, the Blood Prison King, and the Nine Nether King had been killed by Ye Chen.
• The Qilin King brought Ye Chen into his small world, where the Qilin King, the Evil King, and the Crimson Yang King offered him wine and answers.
• Ye Chen asked about cultivation realms, and the Crimson Yang King said they had reached the peak Hunyuan Divine Lord realm, one step below Hunyuan Divine King.
• The Qilin King began explaining the Nine Nether Demon Abyss, and the Evil King said it had once been the Nine Nether Immortal Realm.
• The Evil King revealed that the Wuhen Saint Sect had been the realm’s strongest power and could communicate with the Heavenly Divine Realm, whose envoys sometimes visited.

The Evil King and Crimson Yang King told Ye Chen how the Wuhen Saint Sect fell when the previous chaos epoch ended and the upper and lower realms were cut off. They explained that an upper-realm treasure saved some survivors but trapped them in the world that became the Nine Nether Demon Abyss, leaving Ye Chen curious about the treasure.

• The Evil King described the Wuhen Saint Sect’s former power and explained that the end of a chaos epoch would bring mass extinction across the Myriad Realms of the Heavens.
• Ye Chen realized that the Evil King and Crimson Yang King had lived in the previous chaos epoch, and they confirmed that they had both been Immortal Kings of the Wuhen Saint Sect.
• Crimson Yang King explained that an upper-realm powerhouse sent down a Law Treasure to protect their world during the great destruction.
• The Evil King and Crimson Yang King said the survivors could not leave the world after the new chaos epoch began, and its chaotic laws transformed it into the Nine Nether Demon Abyss.
• The survivors gathered beneath the treasure at the Demon Abyss Eye, while Ye Chen wondered what kind of treasure had saved them.

Ye Chen told the Crimson Yang King, the Evil King, and the Qilin King that the Heavenly Divine Realm remained unreachable and the outside world's cultivation rules had not changed. The Qilin King learned that Ye Chen alone could surpass those rules because he had merged with multiple World Origins, leaving the Qilin King’s hopes of escape shattered.

• The Crimson Yang King and the Evil King explained that the supreme treasure bound them to the Demon Abyss Eye and prevented them from reaching the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• The Qilin King asked whether the outside world had reconnected with the Heavenly Divine Realm, but Ye Chen said he came from the Myriad Realms of the Heavens and contact between the realms was impossible.
• The Qilin King realized Ye Chen’s strength might mean the outside world's rules had changed, allowing him to leave without being suppressed.
• Ye Chen denied that the rules had changed and said he alone could cultivate beyond the Heavenly Emperor Realm Stage because he had merged with many World Origins.
• The Qilin King’s hopes of leaving the Demon Abyss Eye collapsed, while the Crimson Yang King and the Evil King remained trapped there.

Ye Chen opened a spacetime gate to let the Qilin King test whether he could survive in the Myriad Realms of the Heavens. The world’s laws suppressed the Qilin King and threatened to destroy him, forcing him to retreat to the Nine Nether Demon Abyss.

• Ye Chen opened a spacetime gate to the outside world, and the Qilin King charged through it.
• The Qilin King rejoiced at reaching the Myriad Realms of the Heavens and tried to travel across the starfield.
• The world’s laws unleashed cosmic torrents and a vast sea of lightning while suppressing the Qilin King’s cultivation to the Heavenly Emperor Realm Stage.
• The Crimson Yang King and the Evil King watched from the gate as the Qilin King realized he was in mortal danger.
• The Qilin King returned through the gate, and Ye Chen closed it as the outside world’s disturbances subsided.
• The Qilin King thanked Ye Chen for saving him, and the Crimson Yang King asked whether he still doubted Ye Chen’s warning.

Ye Chen reasoned that the barrier between the upper and lower realms had never opened during the current chaos epoch, explaining why so little information about the Heavenly Divine Realm remained. He and the Evil King questioned whether a new chaos epoch was supposed to restore contact between the realms.

• The Qilin King learned that the rules of the Myriad Realms of the Heavens had suppressed his cultivation, while Ye Chen remained unaffected.
• The Evil King and the Crimson Yang King explained that the Heavenly Gate had closed at the end of their chaos epoch before the great annihilation.
• Ye Chen questioned why records of the Heavenly Divine Realm were so scarce if the current chaos epoch had once restored contact with the upper realm.
• Ye Chen concluded that the barrier had never opened during this chaos epoch and that most surviving information came from the previous one.
• The Evil King and the others wondered whether the restart of a chaos epoch necessarily restored the old order.

Ye Chen and the three kings discussed why the current chaos epoch had not restored contact with the Heavenly Divine Realm, then examined the treasure protecting the Nine Nether Demon Abyss. He identified it as a Saint Emperor-level nine-story pagoda, leaving the others curious about the power of Saint Emperors.

• Ye Chen agreed that communication with the upper realm normally resumed during a chaos epoch but closed as great annihilation approached, and the Qilin King recalled never seeing such contact in his long life.
• Ye Chen asked to inspect the treasure, and the three kings agreed before leading him to the center of the Demon Abyss Eye.
• The Evil King opened the space concealing the palm-sized, nine-story pagoda that served as the Demon Abyss Eye's core.
• Ye Chen sensed the pagoda's immense power and judged it to be a Saint Emperor-level Law Treasure.
• The Crimson Yang King asked what a Saint Emperor was, and Ye Chen explained that Saint Emperors were terrifyingly powerful and that the Nether Blood Saint Emperor's avatar had exceeded the lower realm's limits.

Ye Chen unleashed the Frenzied Blood Armor inside the Demon Abyss Eye, revealing the Saint Emperor treasure’s terrifying power. As it clashed with the nine-story pagoda and threatened the world, Ye Chen suppressed it before the destruction went further.

• Ye Chen took out the Frenzied Blood Armor, whose blood-soaked will terrified Crimson Yang King, Qilin King, and Evil King.
• Ye Chen explained that the armor had belonged to a Saint Emperor and that he had already refined it.
• The armor’s power erupted throughout the Nine Nether Demon Abyss, shaking the world and causing its inhabitants to fear destruction.
• The nine-story pagoda sent ripples to suppress the armor, but the armor resisted and ground them away.
• Ye Chen suppressed the armor again to prevent it from damaging the world further.

After calming the Frenzied Blood Armor and preventing the world from collapsing, Ye Chen prepared to leave the Nine Nether Demon Abyss with Murong Qing and Mo Ba. He invited the Crimson Yang King, Qilin King, and Evil King to seek out Kunlun Holy Land if they ever reached the Heavenly Divine Realm.

• Ye Chen suppressed the Frenzied Blood Armor, ending the upheaval that had threatened the world and the nine-story tower.
• Ye Chen put away the armor and invited the Crimson Yang King, Qilin King, and Evil King to join Kunlun Holy Land if they reached the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• Ye Chen summoned Murong Qing and Mo Ba, who rejoiced at finding him safe after his battles with the city lords and Kings.
• Ye Chen introduced the three Kings to Mo Ba, who bowed to them in awe.
• Ye Chen told Murong Qing and Mo Ba they were leaving, and Mo Ba pleaded to go with his master.