Chapter Summaries

Youruo emerged from ten months of cultivation and broke through from her previous realm to early God Emperor in a rapid, uninterrupted surge. Her cultivation kept fluctuating after the breakthrough, leaving the watching prodigies terrified that she might rise even further.

• The two light cocoons shook violently, signaling that Youruo and Xie Purou were nearing the end of their cultivation.
• Two immense beams of deep-blue water and scarlet lightning burst from the cocoons and rose into the sky, with the observers overwhelmed by their power.
• Youruo began her breakthrough and swiftly reached late God King, then peak God King.
• Youruo’s cultivation surged onward and broke through into early God Emperor, shocking the gathered prodigies.
• Youruo’s cultivation fluctuations showed no sign of stopping, and the watching prodigies feared she would continue breaking through.

Youruo and Xie Purou broke through from the middle God King stage to the middle God Emperor stage in the Myriad Dao Source Pool, stunning the other chosen and earning the Formless Saint Emperor’s praise. After leaving the Divine Capital with Ye Chen, they traveled to the Nether Blood Divine Kingdom to visit the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and arrived at the Blood Demise Realm.

• Youruo and Xie Purou each advanced to the middle God Emperor stage, leaving the gathered chosen in awe.
• The Formless Saint Emperor praised the two disciples’ talent after they returned to the imperial garden, then dismissed the young cultivators.
• Ye Chen and his disciples later left the Divine Capital, where rumors about Ye Chen’s power had frightened the ancestors of major factions into seclusion.
• Ye Chen told Youruo and Xie Purou they were visiting the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, whose domain was dominated by the High Antiquity Devil Race.
• After several months of travel, Ye Chen, Youruo, and Xie Purou reached the Blood Demise Realm to experience the Nether Blood Divine Kingdom.

Ye Chen disguised himself, Youruo, and Xie Purou as Blood Spirit royalty and led them into the Blood Demise Realm. After bluffing their way into the Bone Burning Domain, Ye Chen ordered its devil emperors to take him to the ascenders they had been interrogating.

• Ye Chen transformed Youruo and Xie Purou into Blood Spirit royalty, then changed himself into a towering, imposing royal figure.
• The trio descended into the Blood Demise Realm and entered the Bone Burning Domain, where Devil Race beings knelt before them.
• Youruo’s polite order confused the kneeling demons, so Ye Chen rebuked them and explained that Blood Spirit royalty was expected to treat them with contempt.
• The Bone Burning Domain’s ten devil emperors arrived to welcome the trio and recognized Ye Chen as a terrifyingly powerful figure.
• After learning that the devil emperors had been interrogating ascenders, Ye Chen ordered them to take him to the captives.

Ye Chen took the ascenders from the Bone Burning Domain prison, while Xie Purou and Youruo maintained their royal-bloodline disguise before Burning Bone Saint Emperor. Burning Bone Saint Emperor confronted them but could not identify Ye Chen, and Xie Purou’s threats left her uncertain about their true status.

• Evil Heart Devil Emperor tried to curry favor with Ye Chen, who threatened to kill him if he spoke again.
• Ye Chen ordered Evil Heart Devil Emperor to release the dying ascenders and took them into his small world.
• Burning Bone Saint Emperor arrived, sensed Ye Chen was a powerful Blood Spirit, and demanded to know who he was.
• Xie Purou rebuked Burning Bone Saint Emperor and invoked Nether Blood Saint Emperor to intimidate her.
• Burning Bone Saint Emperor hesitated, wondering whether Ye Chen and the two women were mysterious clan powerhouses.

Burning Bone Saint Emperor summoned Nether Blood Saint Emperor to identify Ye Chen and his companions, but Nether Blood Saint Emperor could not see through their disguises and confronted them. Ye Chen revealed himself, leaving Nether Blood Saint Emperor stunned to find that his former adversary had reached the same peak of the Saint Emperor Realm as he had.

• Burning Bone Saint Emperor activated a blood-colored token to contact Nether Blood Saint Emperor after Xie Purou challenged him to verify their identities.
• Nether Blood Saint Emperor examined Ye Chen and his companions, failed to see through their disguises, and entered the Blood Demise Realm to confront them.
• Ye Chen dispelled Nether Blood Saint Emperor's pressure and hinted that they had met before.
• Ye Chen removed his disguise, and Nether Blood Saint Emperor recognized him as the lower-realm cultivator he had once pursued.
• Nether Blood Saint Emperor was shocked to learn that Ye Chen had reached the Hundun Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm and realized he could no longer capture him.

Ye Chen confronted the Nether Blood Saint Emperor over the Frenzied Blood Armor and Heavenly Demon Pearl, then fought him in a universe-shaking battle. The two peak Saint Emperors remained evenly matched as their clash continued across the depths of the universe.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor demanded that Ye Chen return the Frenzied Blood Armor and Heavenly Demon Pearl, but Ye Chen refused because he had given them to the Kunlun Holy Land.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor attacked Ye Chen in the Blood Demise Realm, and their powers threatened to destroy the world.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor moved the battle into the universe, where Ye Chen caught and crushed his blood-red spear before countering with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Ye Chen injured the Nether Blood Saint Emperor's shoulder, then deliberately took a Nether Blood Slash and rapidly healed from the wound.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor summoned his blood-red bone wings and attacked with claws that distorted time and space, while Ye Chen parried his moves as their battle continued.

After Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor left the Blood Demise Realm, the Burning Bone Saint Emperor learned that Ye Chen was the Lord of Kunlun and followed the two peak Saint Emperors into the depths of the universe. Ye Chen struck the Nether Blood Saint Emperor hard enough to smash his shoulder, but the Nether Blood Saint Emperor insisted he had yet to reveal his full strength.

• The Blood Demise Realm recovered after Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor departed, while the Burning Bone Saint Emperor realized Ye Chen was a peak Saint Emperor and the Lord of Kunlun.
• The Burning Bone Saint Emperor left his war spear to protect the Blood Demise Realm and traveled toward the battle, shielding himself with Saint Emperor weapons as he followed its destructive traces.
• Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor exchanged powerful attacks across the universe, while the Burning Bone Saint Emperor watched from a distance and repeatedly retreated from the aftermath.
• Ye Chen’s golden dragon attack shattered the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s chaotic space defenses and smashed apart his shoulder.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor acknowledged Ye Chen’s strength but declared that he had not yet used his full power.

Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor tested their pupil techniques, with Ye Chen’s Hundun Immortal Pupil matching and slightly overpowering the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s Blood Baleful Intent Demonic Pupil. The clash frightened beings across the universe and drew a growing group of Saint Emperors toward the battle, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor seethed at Ye Chen’s praise.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor unleashed his Blood Baleful Intent Demonic Pupil, and Ye Chen answered with the Hundun Immortal Pupil.
• The two techniques collided, sending terrifying shock waves through the universe and causing living beings and Saint Emperors to fear for their lives.
• A Saint Emperor chose to approach the battle, protected himself with three Saint Emperor Weapons, and persuaded other curious Saint Emperors to join him.
• The pupil techniques exploded after neither yielded, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor suspected that Ye Chen’s technique had been slightly stronger.
• Ye Chen praised the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s pupil technique, leaving him more aggrieved because he took the praise as mockery.

Ye Chen and Nether Blood Saint Emperor traded powerful techniques before Nether Blood Saint Emperor escalated the fight with his Saint Emperor Weapons, only for Ye Chen to counter with the Hundun Immortal Bell and a deadly immortal sword. Ye Chen launched his first full offensive, sending tens of millions of streams of Sword Qi at Nether Blood Saint Emperor, who realized he had underestimated him.

• Nether Blood Saint Emperor used Nether River Severed Flow and Ten Thousand Devils Worship, but Ye Chen countered with Zhoutian Stars Instruction and Immortals Form an Array, destroying the demonic phantoms.
• More than fifty Saint Emperors activated their Saint Emperor Weapons to withstand the battle’s aftershocks and moved closer to watch.
• Nether Blood Saint Emperor summoned a crescent-bladed halberd and a battle saber and attacked Ye Chen, but Ye Chen blocked him with the Hundun Immortal Bell.
• Ye Chen used an immortal sword to knock away Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s halberd and unleashed tens of millions of streams of Sword Qi against him.

Ye Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Sword to overpower the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, drawing the attention of nearby Saint Emperor experts. The Nether Blood Saint Emperor, driven to desperation, prepared his final move as the spectators began retreating.

• Ye Chen relentlessly attacked the Nether Blood Saint Emperor with the Immortal-Slaying Sword, forcing him onto the defensive despite his saber and square-bladed halberd.
• The Burning Bone Saint Emperor watched in disbelief as dozens of Rogue Cultivator Saint Emperors arrived and gathered to observe the battle.
• The watching experts realized the Immortal-Slaying Sword, not the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, was the source of the overwhelming killing aura, and they failed to recognize Ye Chen.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor abandoned his saber at first and fought with his square-bladed halberd alone, but Ye Chen continued beating him back.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor declared that Ye Chen would have to withstand his final move before he admitted defeat, then took up both weapons and unleashed a terrifying presence.
• The watching Saint Emperor experts feared the coming attack and began retreating.

Ye Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to overwhelm Nether Blood Saint Emperor, destroy his attack, and gravely damage his Great Dao foundation. Facing the threat of death, Nether Blood Saint Emperor admitted defeat, and Ye Chen released him from the formation.

• Nether Blood Saint Emperor combined his battle saber and square-bladed halberd to unleash a devastating attack that annihilated the void and forced the watching Saint Emperor experts to retreat.
• Ye Chen summoned the four immortal swords and formed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which erased Nether Blood Saint Emperor's attack and battered him and his weapons.
• The formation cut Nether Blood Saint Emperor apart and damaged his Great Dao foundation, leaving him trapped and fearing that he might die or lose his cultivation.
• Ye Chen asked Nether Blood Saint Emperor whether he still wanted to fight and kept the sword formation poised around him as he hesitated.
• Nether Blood Saint Emperor admitted defeat, and Ye Chen dispersed the formation; Burning Bone Saint Emperor and the other observers were left shaken.

The Nether Blood Saint Emperor admitted defeat to Ye Chen, then killed three Saint Emperor experts who tried to flee. Ye Chen stopped him from killing the rest and sent them away, leaving the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s surviving witnesses alive and grateful to Ye Chen.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor admitted defeat sincerely, and the Burning Bone Saint Emperor arrived to support him.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor confronted the gathered Saint Emperor experts, and three fled after fearing he would silence them.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor killed the three fleeing Saint Emperor experts with his saber, square-bladed halberd, and punch.
• Ye Chen told the Nether Blood Saint Emperor to stop killing, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor spared the remaining experts.
• The remaining Saint Emperor experts thanked Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor before Ye Chen dismissed them.

Ye Chen spared the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and accepted his invitation to the Nether Light Realm, where he let his disciples Youruo and Xie Purou explore the demon-populated capital. He arranged for them to keep their human appearances as a trial, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s chief steward Ji Ren prepared to guide them.

• Ye Chen told the bewildered Nether Blood Saint Emperor that he had spared him because they were old friends, then accepted his invitation to a banquet.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor brought Ye Chen to the Nether Light Realm and welcomed him with the highest honors.
• Ye Chen released Youruo and Xie Purou, who questioned him about his battle before the Nether Blood Saint Emperor entered and overheard them.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor warned that humans would attract hostility, but Ye Chen insisted that his disciples keep their appearances and treat the danger as training.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor introduced his chief steward Ji Ren of the Blade Devil Race to assist the visitors, then discussed the Dao with Ye Chen while Youruo and Xie Purou set out to explore.

Youruo and Xie Purou toured the Nether Light Realm with Ji Ren, where Xie Purou provoked a Mist Devil Race expert and Ji Ren killed him instantly. After Ji Ren slaughtered thousands of demons for calling the women his human pets, they asked to visit the Slaughter Arena, eager to fight.

• Xie Purou insulted a Mist Devil Race expert, who attacked her and Youruo with black mist and mist-born clones.
• Ji Ren killed the Mist Devil Race expert with blade rays before the women could fight him.
• When demons called Youruo and Xie Purou Ji Ren’s human pets, Ji Ren killed at least ten thousand of them with a sweeping blade attack.
• Youruo and Xie Purou discussed the Nether Light Realm’s human pets with Ji Ren and said they would not intervene unless they could not help themselves.
• Ji Ren suggested the Slaughter Arena, and both women eagerly agreed to visit it first.

Ji Ren took Youruo and Xie Purou to the killing arena, where demons mistook them for human pets and challenged them. Xie Purou fought a Corpse Devil Race expert with destructive crimson lightning, and her counterattack struck his claws as he attacked from above.

• Ji Ren led Youruo and Xie Purou through a teleportation array to the killing arena on a blood-red planet.
• Flame Devil Race and Corpse Devil Race experts ogled the women and tried to buy them, prompting Youruo and Xie Purou to insist on fighting them.
• Youruo chose the Flame Devil Race expert, while Xie Purou challenged the Corpse Devil Race expert despite Ji Ren's warning that both demons were stronger.
• The Corpse Devil Race expert unleashed corrosive corpse mist, but Xie Purou's crimson lightning burned through it and carved a path toward him.
• The Corpse Devil Race expert circled behind Xie Purou and struck down at her with poisoned claws, but she thrust a bolt of crimson lightning upward to meet them.

Xie Purou and Youruo fought High Antiquity Devil Race experts in the slaughter arena, revealing powerful lightning and water abilities that countered their opponents’ attacks. Youruo’s clash with the Flame Devil Race expert escalated into a battle between his Spark Devil Seal and her summoned ocean beasts, leaving the battlefield shrouded in steam.

• Xie Purou struck the Late God Emperor Stage Corpse Devil Race expert with Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning, crippling him and shocking the spectators.
• Ji Ren recognized Xie Purou’s lightning as a sign of the human race’s Nine Tribulations Immortal Physique and worried that her strength might not last.
• Youruo sliced through the Flame Devil Race expert’s fiery beam with a deep-blue waterline and narrowly missed striking him as it cut through buildings and stone.
• The Flame Devil Race expert summoned the Spark Devil Seal and unleashed a storm of flaming stars at Youruo.
• Youruo formed water dragons to shield herself, then summoned an ocean filled with water beasts to meet the meteor shower.
• Youruo’s water beasts and the flaming stars collided in a massive explosion that drove back the spectators and filled the battlefield with steam.

Youruo defeated a Late God Emperor Stage Flame Devil Race expert with her ocean-based special bloodline, astonishing Ji Ren and the watching evil demons. The defeated expert rose from the ruins and prepared to fight again as Youruo summoned a forest of water columns for their next clash.

• Youruo summoned deep-sea beasts that overwhelmed the Flame Devil Race expert's Spark Devil Seal and hurled him into the ruins.
• Ji Ren recognized the extraordinary power of Youruo's special physique and reconsidered his assumptions about her and her companion.
• The Flame Devil Race expert returned to the sky, blamed his defeat on underestimating Youruo, and threatened to kill her.
• Youruo answered the expert's threats by raising hundreds upon thousands of spinning water columns from the ocean.
• The watching evil demons questioned how a Middle God Emperor Stage human could wield such power and speculated that Youruo came from a transcendent power or divine kingdom.

Youruo overwhelmed and killed the stronger Flame Devil Race expert with her water technique, shocking the watching evil demons. After she descended, Xie Purou remained locked in an even fight with the Corpse Devil Race expert.

• The Flame Devil Race expert unleashed his inherited Devil Flame Spear against Youruo, who answered with dozens of water dragons.
• Youruo's endless waterspouts wore down the spear's flames and left the Flame Devil Race expert unable to resist.
• The Flame Devil Race expert tried to flee, but Youruo's waterspouts bound and imprisoned him, destroying his body and soul.
• The watching High Antiquity Evil Demons were stunned that Youruo had killed a stronger opponent, while Ji Ren regarded her with a heavy gaze.
• Xie Purou continued fighting the Corpse Devil Race expert, and their lightning and corpse mist clashes left them evenly matched.

Xie Purou ended her fight with the Corpse Devil Race expert by summoning a massive hammer of Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning infused with the true intention of her Saint Emperor Weapon. After destroying his attack, body, and soul, she dispersed the lightning and descended onto the devastated battlefield.

• Youruo told Xie Purou to stop playing and finish the battle.
• Xie Purou formed a hundred-zhang hammer from Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning and swung it at the Corpse Devil Race expert.
• The expert burned his Essence Blood and origin power to unleash Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood, but Xie Purou’s lightning destroyed the corpse horde and purified the Corpse Qi.
• The lightning hammer crushed the expert’s body, pulverized his skeleton, and annihilated his soul, leaving no chance of revival.
• Xie Purou dissolved the remaining lightning and drifted down as the battlefield’s air currents settled.

Youruo and Xie Purou killed two High Antiquity Evil Demons, impressing Ji Ren, who then punished the demons that had insulted them. The battlefield fell silent after Ji Ren slaughtered the fleeing offenders, ignoring one Blood Spirit cultivator’s threats about his royal connections.

• Youruo and Xie Purou stood together after defeating two Late God Emperor Stage High Antiquity Evil Demons, astonishing the watching demons and Ji Ren.
• Ji Ren praised the women and told them he would handle the remaining demons who had insulted them; Youruo agreed that the offenders deserved punishment.
• Ji Ren released his Saint Emperor pressure, and the gathered evil demons tried to flee when they sensed danger.
• Ji Ren sent out white blade rays that killed the fleeing demons and destroyed their divine souls.
• A Blood Spirit Race cultivator claimed royal connections and threatened Ji Ren, but Ji Ren ignored him and continued killing the offenders until the battlefield fell silent.