Chapter Summaries

Willow God revealed that she had lured the Shi Household’s thirty experts into two overlapping High Antiquity killing formations, one that suppressed their strength and another that attacked them with golden swords. Shi Rong resisted the suppression with his armor and launched a powerful strike, but Willow God’s formation shattered it and sent its swords after him.

• Willow God trapped the Shi Household experts and herself beneath a golden formation curtain, while Shi Rong and Shi Yi assumed she planned to escape.
• Willow God revealed the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation and the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation, explaining that she intended to kill all thirty pursuers.
• The Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation weakened the Shi Household experts, and Shi Rong’s attack on Willow God collapsed under its pressure.
• Shi Rong’s black armor resisted much of the suppression, allowing him to unleash a massive black palm strike at Willow God.
• Willow God summoned thousands of golden swords that destroyed Shi Rong’s palm strike and surged toward him.

Willow God used the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation and Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation to overwhelm the Shi Household experts, leaving many dead or severely wounded. The survivors united to form a protective barrier, but Willow God began gathering power for another assault.

• Shi Rong narrowly dodged the golden swords, but several struck his armor and weakened its dark gleam.
• Willow God intensified both formations, and the golden swords shattered the experts’ defenses and wounded them with bone-eroding power.
• A Shi Household expert urged the survivors not to give up, but another pointed out that they might not live long enough to defeat Willow God.
• A less-wounded Shi Household expert ordered everyone to unite, and the survivors formed a circle and pooled their Divine Power into a protective barrier.
• Willow God looked down at the gathered experts and activated the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation again, drawing in power for another attack.

Shi Rong and Shi Yi attacked Willow God together after the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation weakened around them, but she countered their strikes with golden swords and her willow branches. Shi Yi was bound by the branches and unleashed a spear technique to break free.

• The Shi Household experts held a shared protective barrier against the golden swords while Shi Rong and Shi Yi noticed that the formation's attacks on them had weakened.
• Shi Yi and Shi Rong joined forces and launched a spear thrust and a saber strike at Willow God, who blocked both attacks with torrents of golden swords.
• Willow God sent her willow branches after the two Peak God Emperors; Shi Rong chopped through his attackers while Shi Yi's spear was bound and his movements restricted.
• Shi Yi gripped his spear with both hands and used his Azure Lotus Blooms technique to spin its tip and form a deadly azure lotus.

Shi Yi and Shi Rong fought Willow God at close range, but she used the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation, the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation, and her willow phantom to keep them under relentless attack. Shi Yi broke through with a spear thrust, only for it to clang harmlessly against divine armor that had appeared over Willow God's body.

• Shi Rong broke through the willow branches and attacked Willow God's phantom with his Eight Desolations Slash, drawing much of the formation's power away from Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi and Shi Rong closed in on Willow God, who countered with waves of golden swords and emerald willow branches, trapping both men in a desperate fight.
• Shi Yi used Wild Wind Sweeps the Earth to redirect the golden sword tide toward Willow God, then rushed through the willow branches to attack her at close range.
• Shi Yi unleashed Thunder's Wrath and thrust his spear at Willow God's lower abdomen, believing he had landed a decisive blow.
• Willow God's newly appeared emerald divine armor stopped Shi Yi's spear, leaving him stunned by its impenetrable defense.

Willow God used her emerald divine armor to withstand Shi Yi’s surprise attack, then captured him with willow branches. Shi Rong’s full-power counterattack failed against Willow God’s formations, leaving both Shi Household champions imprisoned and the remaining survivors in despair.

• Willow God’s divine armor blocked Shi Yi’s strongest surprise attack, and she dismissed his attacks as too weak to harm her.
• Willow God bound Shi Yi with countless emerald willow branches and sealed him inside a divine cocoon.
• Shi Rong unleashed his Black Light Dark Annihilation Slash, briefly breaking through the formations’ suppression before their attacks overwhelmed him.
• The golden swords shattered Shi Rong’s armor, and Willow God’s branches bound and captured him.
• The Shi Household survivors watched Shi Yi and Shi Rong fall, lost their hope of escaping, and despaired as the formations continued to trap them.

Willow God rejected the Shi Household experts’ pleas for mercy and declared that she would destroy their entire Lineage as part of her long-term vengeance. She attacked the trapped experts with countless willow branches, leaving them desperately defending themselves and hoping for reinforcements.

• A veteran Shi Household expert asked Willow God why she pursued their destruction, and she mocked their sudden concern for grievances.
• The Shi Household experts offered to negotiate with their Lineage, but Willow God said she wanted to destroy it completely.
• Willow God explained that the Shi Household was the first force she intended to uproot on her path of vengeance.
• The Shi Household experts claimed they could secure her safety, but Willow God refused to spare them and announced their deaths.
• Willow God sent countless emerald willow branches crashing into the experts’ protective divine light as they fought to withstand the assault.

Willow God defeats the Shi Household experts, captures them alive, and stores them in a secret realm before retreating to a secluded valley. There, she absorbs their life essence to replenish her damaged origin and strengthen her Great Dao of Life, but realizes she remains far from reaching the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

• Willow God shatters the Shi Household experts’ protective divine light and overwhelms them with her two formations.
• Willow God binds the injured Shi Household experts in emerald cocoons and stores them in a secret realm.
• Willow God collapses the formations, leaves the devastated battlefield, and conceals herself in a secluded valley.
• Willow God draws life essence from the captured experts to nourish her origin and Dao foundation.
• Willow God manifests her ancient willow true form and senses that she remains far from breaking through to the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

Willow God absorbed the last of the Shi Household experts’ vital essence, while the Shi Household discovered that thirty God Emperors had died and gathered to identify the culprit. Its leaders feared the attacker might be a Saint Emperor, then tried to convince themselves that such a powerful figure would not target them.

• Willow God absorbed the remaining vital essence, leaving more than a dozen drained corpses in the secluded valley.
• Thirty of the Shi Household’s God Emperor soul lamps went out, prompting the Shi patriarch and senior members to erupt in fury.
• The Shi Household’s leaders vowed to find and punish the culprit, fearing the loss would undermine their standing before a secret realm trial in three months.
• A bearded senior member suspected the other two supreme powers, but the Shi patriarch argued that an enemy from beyond the Joined Mountains Realm was more likely.
• A senior member raised the possibility that a Saint Emperor had attacked them, terrifying the council.
• The Shi Household’s senior members reassured themselves that a Saint Emperor would have destroyed their entire lineage rather than leave them alive to debate the attack.

The Shi Household investigated the slaughter of its thirty-member search squad, then shifted its focus to preparing for the Nirvana Secret Realm trial. As the realm opened, Shi, Li, and Wang forces and cultivators from across the Joined Mountains Realm departed for the secret realm, while Willow God remained hidden among them.

• The Shi Household Head ordered coordinated search squads to investigate the hidden enemies without engaging them alone, then directed the clan to prepare for the Nirvana Secret Realm opening in three months.
• Willow God concealed her appearance and presence after absorbing the life essence and Divine Power of the thirty God Emperors she had killed.
• The Shi Household sent its elite disciples aboard five ancient warships toward the Nirvana Secret Realm as the opening day arrived.
• The Li and Wang Households mobilized their own elites, and sects, factions, and rogue cultivators across the Joined Mountains Realm also set out.
• Cultivators broke through the Joined Mountains Realm's world barrier and headed into the starry expanse, where the Nirvana Secret Realm awaited.

Willow God traveled in disguise to the Nirvana Secret Realm, a vast world formed from the remains of the Saint Emperor who once hunted her. She concealed her power and waited for a chance to absorb his life essence, while the gathered cultivators and the three great households faced the realm’s residual Saint Emperor pressure.

• Willow God disguised herself and recalled how she had grievously wounded the Nirvana Saint Emperor when he joined others in hunting her.
• Cultivators reached the immense Nirvana Secret Realm, and a Middle God Emperor Stage expert retreated after the realm’s residual pressure nearly crushed him.
• Willow God chose not to force her way through the barrier, planning instead to conceal herself and absorb the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s life essence Qi.
• Willow God spotted the Shi Household, Li Household, and Wang Household warships gathered near the realm.
• The head of the Shi Household gazed at the secret realm and dreamed of claiming its core opportunity to become a Saint Emperor.

The Li and Wang Household Heads taunted the Shi Household Head over the loss of more than thirty late God Emperor experts, driving him into a furious standoff with the Wang Household Head. The Shi Household Head ultimately restrained himself and waited for the Nirvana Secret Realm to open, while the gathered factions learned of the Shi Household’s devastating losses.

• The Li Household Head mocked the Shi Household Head’s losses and weakened position, provoking his threat of war.
• The Wang Household fleet arrived, and the Wang Household Head publicly feigned sympathy while further humiliating the Shi Household Head.
• The Shi Household Head erupted with peak God Emperor pressure, and the Wang Household Head met it with equal force as the two faced off.
• The Li Household Head secretly hoped the Shi and Wang Households would weaken each other in battle.
• The Shi Household Head restrained his fury, withdrew his pressure, and sat waiting for the Nirvana Secret Realm to open.
• The gathered experts learned that the Shi Household had lost more than thirty late God Emperor stage experts.

Willow God entered the Nirvana Secret Realm and used her insight into the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s body to plot a route toward its vital cores. A crowd of God Emperors followed her despite her warnings, as she reached a deadly stone forest filled with dormant Saint Emperor pressure.

• Willow God concealed her role in slaughtering the Shi Household’s God Emperors while cultivators speculated about the killer’s identity.
• The Saint Emperor pressure around the Nirvana Secret Realm receded, and the three great Lineages led the cultivators inside.
• Willow God deduced that the secret realm formed from the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s body and set a route from her location in its left leg toward its Dantian, heart, and head.
• Willow God raced through the secret realm along a route she could safely endure, and more than a hundred God Emperors followed her despite her warning that it was dangerous for them.
• Willow God reached a stone forest and sensed that its rocks concealed dense, dormant Nirvana Saint Emperor Dao essence and lethal pressure patterns.

Willow God crossed a stone forest whose Saint Emperor pressure annihilated more than a hundred pursuing God Emperors, while she remained unharmed and continued toward the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s former Dantian core. Meanwhile, the Li Household reached the Sea of Nirvana and prepared to enter its waters to cultivate from the remaining Saint Emperor origin power.

• Willow God entered the stone forest, and the jade pendant Ye Chen had given her shielded her from its awakened Saint Emperor pressure.
• More than a hundred God Emperors rushed into the stone forest and were instantly destroyed, bodies and souls alike, by the pressure.
• A dozen trailing experts stopped at the entrance, blamed Willow God despite recalling her warning, and abandoned the idea of pursuing her.
• Willow God raced onward toward the former core region of the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s Dantian.
• The Li Household’s fleet arrived at the Sea of Nirvana, and its Head ordered the warships to land and the clan’s elites to prepare for the trial.

The Li Household sent its chosen members into the Sea of Nirvana to endure the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s power, while its Household Head used the trial to strengthen himself and approach the Saint Emperor realm. Willow God appeared in the sea and headed toward its depths, revealing her contempt for the dead Nirvana Saint Emperor.

• The Li Household members entered the Sea of Nirvana, where many died under the crushing Holy Power and a few endured its torment to temper their bodies and souls.
• The Li Household Head joined the trial, absorbed Saint Emperor origin power, and sensed that the gate to the Saint Emperor realm had begun to open for him.
• Willow God appeared above the sea, parting its waters with her presence and startling the Li Household members.
• The Li Household Head watched Willow God head toward the more dangerous depths and expected the Holy Power to kill her.
• Willow God dismissed the cultivators around her and scorned the Nirvana Saint Emperor for leaving behind the power she intended to use.

Willow God summoned a colossal willow and rooted it in the Sea of Nirvana to draw and refine the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s source power. The Li Household Head watched in terror, unsure whether she was a Saint Emperor or a Peak God Emperor with extraordinary means.

• Willow God drove her cultivation method to its fullest and formed an immense willow phantom behind her.
• The willow’s roots pierced the sea and spread through its depths, anchoring themselves in the Sea of Nirvana.
• Willow God’s roots drew in Saint Emperor source power and life essence, refining the violent Holy Power into a purer stream that flowed into her Dao body.
• The Li Household Head saw her absorb the power effortlessly and feared she might be a Saint Emperor.
• The Li Household Head considered fleeing with his surviving clansmen but doubted his own conclusion because Willow God’s cultivation pressure seemed to match the Peak God Emperor Stage.

Willow God absorbed the Saint Emperor power and vitality throughout the Sea of Nirvana, nourishing her strength and Great Dao of Life while weakening the sea's pressure. The Li Household members realized their pain had eased because the sea's power was being drained, not because they had grown stronger.

• The Li Household Head concluded that Willow God might be borrowing power from a Saint Emperor-grade treasure and watched her cautiously.
• Willow God drew Saint Emperor power and vitality through her roots, causing her ancient willow to grow to five thousand zhang and helping restore her cultivation and Great Dao of Life.
• As Willow God drained the Sea of Nirvana, its Holy Power, annihilating pressure, and Dao resonance weakened, easing the Li Household members' torment.
• The Li Household members initially mistook their relief for progress in their cultivation, then saw the towering willow greedily extracting the sea's essence.
• The Li Household members realized that their pain had diminished because Willow God was draining the sea, not because they had adapted or grown stronger.

The Li Household Head mistook Willow God’s power for a secret method and ordered his fleet to seize it. After her defenses withstood the fleet’s cannon barrage, Willow God charged straight at the Li Household’s formation as it prepared to fire again.

• The Li Household Head convinced himself Willow God was extracting the Sea of Nirvana’s origin power with a secret method and ordered his kin to attack her.
• The Li Household fleet sailed toward Willow God, who struck first with the ancient willow’s strands and tested its defensive barriers.
• The Li Household Head dismissed Willow God as no true Saint Emperor and ordered all five ships to fire their Divine Light Cannons.
• Willow God blocked the combined cannon strike with a wall of willow strands, which shattered after absorbing its power without allowing her to be harmed.
• The Li Household Head ordered a second cannon barrage, but Willow God charged directly at the fleet’s battle formation before it could fire.

Willow God battered the Li Household warships with a palm strike and a storm of willow leaves, overwhelming their defenses despite the Li Household Head’s belief that her power would run out. The ancestral formation finally shattered, leaving the Li Household exposed to Willow God’s attack.

• Willow God absorbed the combined fire of five Divine Light Cannons and struck the Li Household’s defensive barrier with an enormous jade-green palm.
• Willow God unleashed countless sharp willow leaves, forcing the Li Household to hold its formation while the Li Household Head planned to exhaust her and seize her supposed Saint Emperor Secret Method.
• The Li Household’s formation began to crack under Willow God’s relentless bombardment, and the Li Household cultivators panicked as their confidence in its protection collapsed.
• The Li Household Head declared that he would face Willow God at the Peak God Emperor Stage, while Willow God’s willow-leaf assault continued to intensify.
• Willow God’s attacks shattered the Li Household’s defensive formation, and the exposed Li Household members activated their protective treasures.

The Willow God overwhelmed the Li Household Head and his followers, defeating their attacks with her willow powers and Saint Emperor-level Willow Leaf Flying Flower Palm. The Li Household members fell into the Sea of Nirvana’s central core, where its Saint Emperor power tore through their bodies and left their survival in doubt.

• The Li Household Head used an ancient evergreen sword to attack the Willow God, but she broke his sword-ray and forced him to fend off her branches.
• The Li Household Head escaped the branches and struck at the Willow God again, but she dodged and countered with a torrent of willow leaves that he blocked with Eight Thousand Star-Shattering Swords.
• The surviving Li Household members charged the Willow God with their secret techniques, but her Willow Leaf Flying Flower Palm shattered their attacks and grievously wounded them.
• The Willow God’s palm force sent the Li Household members plunging into the Sea of Nirvana’s central core, where its Saint Emperor power began tearing apart their bodies and divine souls.

The Li Household Head watched his clansmen perish in the Sea of Nirvana and launched a frenzied attack on Willow God. After she suppressed his sword technique, he burned his reserves to break through her defenses, leaving his ultimate strike descending toward her.

• Willow God watched the Li Household members sink and die in the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Li Household Head saw his entire force perish, lost himself to rage, and attacked Willow God with his Five Elements Dao-Slaying Sword.
• Willow God used her resilient branches to dismantle his sword assault and steadily overpower him while replenishing her strength from the sea.
• The Li Household Head burned his cultivation reserves, severed Willow God's branches, and condensed his power into a devastating sword strike.
• Willow God caught the strike between her Wood Emperor World-Subduing Seal palms, but the Li Household Head poured in more power until the Sword-Ray broke through and slashed toward her head.