Chapter Summaries

The Willow God effortlessly destroyed the Li Household Head’s strongest attack, then gravely wounded him and revealed her intent to eliminate the Joined Mountains Realm’s three great Lineages. After rejecting his plea for mercy, she resumed her assault, draining his vitality as he struggled to defend himself.

• The Li Household Head’s five-element sword strike shattered against a gale released by the Willow God’s breath.
• The Willow God crossed the distance instantly and struck the Li Household Head’s chest, breaking his ribs and sending him plunging into the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Li Household Head burned his remaining power to escape the sea, then demanded to know who the Willow God was.
• The Willow God said the Li Household would follow the Shi Household and declared that the Shi, Li, and Wang Households would all be destroyed.
• The Li Household Head begged for his life and offered his treasures, but the Willow God refused to relent.
• The Willow God attacked again, and the Li Household Head’s vitality and soul power drained with each clash as he defended himself.

Willow God overwhelmed the Li Household Head in battle while Late God Emperor cultivators watched from five thousand kilometers away and recognized the mysterious woman. As the Li Household Head was driven to the brink, he unleashed the Sky Star-Shattering Sword in a desperate attempt to escape.

• The shock waves from Willow God and the Li Household Head's battle startled a group of Late God Emperor cultivators who were gathering treasures nearby.
• The cultivators recognized the Li Household Head fighting an unfamiliar woman, and one of them remembered seeing Willow God at the secret realm entrance.
• The watchers saw Willow God steadily overpower the Li Household Head, though they doubted she could kill him.
• Willow God suppressed the Li Household Head with her attacks and Dao laws until he was nearly unable to move.
• The Li Household Head used his remaining power to unleash the Sky Star-Shattering Sword, hoping to force Willow God back and escape.

The Li Household Head unleashed his ultimate sword technique and fled, but Willow God effortlessly shattered the attack and pursued him. The exhausted Li Household Head raced to escape, fearing that his death would doom his Lineage.

• The Li Household Head unleashed the Sky Star-Shattering Sword, filling the sky with a lethal river of stars, then fled using the shock waves as cover.
• The adventuring party watching from a distant mountain saw the Li Household Head run and stared in disbelief.
• Willow God calmly blocked the Sword-Rays and destroyed the starry sword domain with the Willow-Brushing Star-Plucking Hand.
• Willow God transformed into a jade-green divine rainbow and pursued the fleeing Li Household Head.
• The Li Household Head pushed his depleted strength to its limit, abandoned his ambitions, and focused only on escaping alive.

The Willow God pursued the fleeing Li Household Head, who blindly entered an ancient forbidden forest and was crushed to death by its Saint Emperor pressure. The adventuring party witnessed his death and realized the Li Household’s collapse could overturn the balance of power in the Joined Mountains Realm.

• The Li Household Head fled the Willow God after she broke his killing sword strike, abandoning the known route through the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Willow God stopped pursuing directly, expecting the dangers ahead to kill the Li Household Head.
• The Li Household Head entered a forbidden ancient forest, where dormant Saint Emperor pressure awakened and annihilated his body, Divine Source, and soul.
• The Willow God returned to the Sea of Nirvana and resumed cultivating beside the growing divine willow.
• The adventuring party witnessed the Li Household Head’s death and predicted that the Shi Household and Wang Household would exploit the Li Household’s weakness.

Willow God refined the last of the Sea of Nirvana’s Saint Emperor power and underwent a tremendous cultivation transformation, unleashing an emerald pillar of light that shook the entire Nirvana Secret Realm. The Wang Household Head and his senior member determined the presence belonged to neither the Shi nor Li Household and was not yet that of a true Saint Emperor, leaving them to suspect a great fortuitous opportunity.

• The adventuring party recognized that survival depended on gathering treasures and rapidly increasing their strength amid the Joined Mountains Realm’s upheaval.
• Willow God drained and refined the Sea of Nirvana, repairing and strengthening her Great Dao as its waters turned into a lifeless black sea.
• Willow God absorbed her enormous willow manifestation and erupted with power that pierced the Nirvana Secret Realm’s barrier and shook the surrounding region.
• Cultivators throughout the secret realm panicked at the earthquake and energy fluctuations, then saw the emerald pillar spanning the realm and the starry sky.
• The Wang Household Head feared that the Shi Household or Li Household had reached the Saint Emperor Realm, but a senior Wang Household member ruled out both and judged the presence short of a true Saint Emperor.
• The Wang Household Head wondered whether the unknown expert had gained a major opportunity, such as a Saint Emperor Weapon left by the Nirvana Saint Emperor.

The Wang Household Head chose to protect his clan’s Heartfire Saint Stone mine rather than pursue the distant phenomenon, while Willow God absorbed the Sea of Nirvana’s power and headed for the Saint Emperor’s heart. She reached the Wang Household’s valley, where the patriarch and his elders confronted her.

• The Wang Household Head rejected the idea of traveling millions of miles to chase the phenomenon, deciding that their Heartfire Saint Stone mine was a safer and more valuable foundation.
• The Wang Household Head refined a Heartfire Saint Stone, strengthening his power with Saint Emperor essence but finding that transforming his God Emperor power remained difficult.
• Willow God finished absorbing the Sea of Nirvana and set off toward the Saint Emperor’s heart, passing through Saint Emperor pressure and danger without slowing.
• Willow God arrived at the Wang Household’s mining valley, startling the patriarch, the elders, and the clansmen at work.
• The Wang Household Head and the senior members gathered their power and pressed their cultivation pressure toward Willow God.

Willow God confronted the Wang Household over its claim to the Heartfire Saint Stone and proved far stronger than its Peak God Emperor experts. After recognizing her as the likely mysterious expert with a Saint Emperor opportunity and artifact, the Wang Household Head halted the fight and offered cooperation.

• Willow God resisted the combined pressure of the Wang Household's Peak God Emperor experts and declared that the valley belonged to her.
• A senior Wang Household member attacked Willow God, but she defeated his strike and left him injured and shaken.
• The Wang Household Head recognized Willow God's emerald presence as the one behind the secret realm's upheaval and feared she possessed a Saint Emperor Saint Artifact.
• The Wang Household Head stopped the battle and proposed that Willow God work with them to mine the Heartfire Saint Stone.
• Several senior Wang Household members echoed the offer, hoping to avoid fighting Willow God and gain her as an ally.

Willow God pretended to accept the Wang Household’s offer to share the Heartfire Saint Stones while planning to eliminate them using a dormant power deep in the mine. As the Wang Household Head led her underground, her question about why the miners avoided Divine Abilities and Method Formulas made his expression turn solemn.

• Willow God assessed the Wang Household’s forces and decided to feign cooperation while preparing to awaken a terrifying power hidden deep in the vein.
• Willow God negotiated for a larger share of the Heartfire Saint Stones, agreeing to thirty percent after the Wang Household Head offered that amount and promised future Dao discussions.
• Willow God gave her surname as Ye and followed the Wang Household Head into the valley mine to inspect its workings.
• Willow God observed the Wang Household members mining with tools and asked why they did not use Divine Abilities or Method Formulas to speed up the work.
• The Wang Household Head’s smile vanished, and he reacted to Willow God’s question with apprehension.

Willow God learned that twenty powerful Heartfire Monsters slept beneath the Wang Household’s mine and secretly planned to exploit a battle between them and the household. The monsters awakened on their own, targeted her, and she fled the mine as Wang Household Head was left stunned.

• Wang Household Head warned Willow God that twenty Peak God Emperor-level Heartfire Monsters lay dormant beneath the mine and could awaken if anyone used Divine Power.
• Willow God concealed her Saint Emperor-level divine soul and secretly planned to awaken the monsters and profit from the ensuing fight.
• All twenty Heartfire Monsters emerged from the magma sea and charged toward Willow God with hatred.
• Willow God realized the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s lingering resentment had awakened the monsters when she arrived.
• Willow God fled through the mine in emerald light, leaving Wang Household Head bewildered before a cataclysmic upheaval struck.

Willow God fled from twenty awakened Heartfire Monsters, whose ancient hatred for her drew them into a rampage against the Wang Household. As she led the monsters toward the household’s leaders and clansmen, the Heartfire overwhelmed their defenses and began spreading through the crowd.

• The Heartfire Monsters awakened beneath the mine, forcing the Wang Household clansmen to flee as the mine and basin shook apart.
• Twenty Heartfire Monsters emerged and recognized Willow God as the enemy tied to the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s death.
• Willow God drew the monsters toward the Wang Household leaders, and the monsters split their attacks between her and the leaders.
• Willow God led eight pursuing monsters toward the Wang Household clansmen, whose formation collapsed in panic.
• The eight monsters unleashed Heartfire that broke through the clansmen’s defenses and spread through the crowd, prompting desperate screams.

Willow God sabotaged the Wang Household’s coordinated defense against eight Heartfire Monsters, turning their initial advantage into a massacre. The Wang Household regrouped into eight combat teams and prepared to attack the monsters directly.

• The Wang Household formed defensive lines and pinned the eight Heartfire Monsters beneath their numbers.
• Willow God struck the Wang Household from within, killing more than a dozen cultivators and breaking their formation.
• A Heartfire Monster smashed through the weakened defense and slaughtered Wang Household members with its flames and claws.
• The other Heartfire Monsters also broke through the separate formations, inflicting heavy casualties across the battlefield.
• The Wang Household’s senior experts rallied their scattered clansmen and divided them into eight teams to attack the monsters.

The Wang Household’s formations suppressed all eight Heartfire Monsters on the battlefield below, but the Wang Household Head was trapped by three Peak God Emperor beasts above. He badly wounded one monster at the cost of severe injuries, and the monster began drawing power from the valley’s Heartfire Saint Stones to heal.

• A Late God Emperor ancestor led a thousand Wang Household clansmen in the Celestial Stars Grand Formation, suppressing one Heartfire Monster as the other teams likewise restrained their targets.
• Three Peak God Emperor Heartfire Monsters cornered the Wang Household Head after he blocked their fire attack and lost his chance to flee.
• The Wang Household Head activated his armor and spear, sacrificed much of his defense, and pierced one monster, blasting apart more than half its body.
• A third monster tore and dented the Wang Household Head’s armor, then smashed him through a cliff and left him severely injured.
• The wounded Heartfire Monster began healing as tens of thousands of Heartfire Saint Stones released crimson source flames into its body.

The Wang Household Head fought three peak Heartfire Monsters and learned that they could restore themselves by absorbing heartfire saint stones, making a prolonged battle dangerous for him. He killed one monster after a costly struggle, but its remains began absorbing the stones while the two survivors pressed their attack.

• The Wang Household Head realized the Heartfire Monsters could heal and replenish themselves from heartfire saint stones, while his own recovery consumed his reserves.
• He fought off the three monsters with spear techniques and wounded one badly, then pursued it as it tried to retreat.
• He used a growing mountain treasure to delay the other two monsters and plunged his spear through the wounded monster, apparently destroying it.
• The Wang Household Head resumed fighting the two remaining monsters as the destroyed monster’s remains crawled onto heartfire saint stones and began absorbing their power.
• With his Divine Power depleted, the Wang Household Head fought while retreating and suffered further injuries from the monsters’ pincer attack.

Willow God disrupted the Wang Household’s formations, killed a middle-aged Wang Household member, and destroyed the formation suppressing a Heartfire Monster. She blended into the injured crowd as the monster regained its strength and leaped into the Wang Household members.

• Two senior members of the Wang Household struggled against three Heartfire Monsters each while the ground formations weakened eight others.
• Willow God sent ten willow branches at a Wang Household formation, and a middle-aged man left it to confront her.
• Willow God shattered the man’s blood-red blade strike, bound him with willow branches, and drained his vitality until he died.
• Willow God attacked the formation and broke it, leaving more than a thousand Wang Household members injured and freeing the Heartfire Monster.
• Willow God moved into the crowd as the Heartfire Monster roared, sensed her presence, and leaped down toward the Wang Household members.

Willow God released the Heartfire Monsters, stole the Wang Household’s Heartfire Saint Stones, and hid underground to absorb them while the monsters ravaged the household. The battle continued to turn against the Wang Household, and the Wang Household Head watched a senior member die in agony.

• Willow God and the first Heartfire Monster attacked the Wang Household members, whose broken ranks left them unable to defend themselves effectively.
• Willow God destroyed the remaining formations and freed the other Heartfire Monsters, worsening the chaos across the battlefield.
• Willow God collected the Heartfire Saint Stones from the mine and concealed herself underground with Ye Chen’s jade pendant.
• Willow God began absorbing and refining the stolen stones while the Heartfire Monsters fought the Wang Household without their usual source of replenishment.
• Three Heartfire Monsters killed a Wang Household senior with their flames as the Wang Household Head watched in fury.

The Wang Household Head discovered that the Heartfire Monsters were healing far more slowly because Willow God had apparently taken all the heartfire saint stones. With their power source gone, the surviving Wang Household clansmen fought back, though the battle had already killed or wounded half their forces.

• The Wang Household Head wounded a Heartfire Monster and noticed its recovery had slowed, then risked his life to badly injure it while suffering a grave wound himself.
• The Wang Household Head saw that the heartfire saint stones had vanished and concluded that Willow God had taken them, leaving the Heartfire Monsters unable to replenish their power.
• The Wang Household Head swallowed medicinal pills and returned to battle as the Wang Household's casualties mounted and its surviving fighters gained ground against the weakened monsters.
• More than a hundred Wang Household clansmen attacked a Heartfire Monster, gradually ravaging it with repeated strikes until a clansman wielding two battle-axes cleaved through its body.

The Wang Household clansmen discovered that the Heartfire Monsters could be killed after Willow God drained the heartfire saint stone that fueled their recovery, and they continued fighting at terrible cost. Hidden nearby, Willow God watched as a wounded Wang Household higher-up faced two monsters and chose to sacrifice himself to take one down.

• A twin-axe Wang Household clansman noticed a Heartfire Monster was no longer recovering, and he and the others hacked it apart until its final flame vanished.
• The clansmen celebrated their victory, then rushed to reinforce the other battlefields as the fighting continued.
• Willow God finished refining most of the heartfire saint stone, judged that she was near the Saint Emperor realm, and chose to strengthen her foundation before breaking through.
• Willow God emerged from seclusion and secretly watched the battle, noting that ten Heartfire Monsters had died and fewer than three thousand Wang Household clansmen remained able to fight.
• A wounded Wang Household higher-up, after killing one of the three Heartfire Monsters he faced, embraced one of the two remaining monsters and refused to let go despite its heat scorching him.

The Wang Household defeated all twenty Heartfire Monsters at the cost of nearly its entire force, but the Wang Household Head discovered that all the heartfire saint stone had vanished. He ordered the survivors to leave, suspecting a trap, and confirmed that neither he nor their clansmen had collected the ore.

• A Wang Household elder self-destructed while holding a Heartfire Monster, killing it and gravely wounding another nearby.
• The Wang Household Head and surviving clansmen killed the remaining Heartfire Monsters, leaving fewer than a thousand survivors from a force of more than ten thousand.
• The Wang Household Head rallied the grieving survivors and warned that their weakened Lineage might face attacks from the Shi Household and the Li Household.
• Finding no heartfire ore in the collapsed mine, the Wang Household Head ordered everyone to leave immediately.
• The clansmen asked who had taken the heartfire saint stone, and the Wang Household Head said that he and none of their people had collected it.

Willow God confronted the wounded Wang Household remnants after they tried to flee, then overwhelmed them and absorbed their strength and vitality. After draining the last of them, she flew off in another direction.

• Wang Household Head led the battered survivors toward the exit, fearing Willow God would attack them.
• Willow God appeared before the Wang Household, and Wang Household Head pleaded for her to let them live.
• Willow God told them to end their own lives; when they refused and threatened to fight, she unleashed her power and forced many to their knees.
• Willow God defeated Wang Household Head and the other surviving peak God Emperor, then bound dozens of Wang Household members who tried to self-destruct.
• Willow God ensnared the remaining Wang Household survivors in her branches and absorbed their power and vitality until they became dried corpses.
• Willow God discarded the corpses and flew swiftly in a certain direction.

Willow God headed toward Nirvana Saint Emperor’s head to absorb the power remaining in his divine soul, while the Shi Household cultivated at Saint Head Peak and its head entered the Saint Soul Space. The Shi Household Head pursued his plan to transform his divine soul and eventually become a Saint Emperor, though the space could drive its occupants mad.

• Willow God left the site of the Wang Household’s deaths and made her way toward Nirvana Saint Emperor’s head, hoping to absorb his remaining power and erase his lingering consciousness.
• The Shi Household gathered at Saint Head Peak to absorb divine soul power and Dao law fragments released from the Saint Soul Space.
• The Shi Household Head drifted into the cave with the retreating divine soul power, avoiding the backlash that could result from forcing his way inside.
• The Shi Household Head entered the Saint Soul Space with several senior figures and reflected on his plan to use its power to transform his divine soul and surpass the Li Household and Wang Household.
• The Shi Household Head and the senior figures began cultivating inside the space, whose power could strengthen their souls but also disrupt their minds and drive them mad.