Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei and the others waited for night on the city hall rooftop, then used ultraviolet light to attack the ghosts that appeared across the city. After sealing and capturing one ghost to search its memories, Lin Fei sensed a trace of twisted rule power trying to turn him into a ghost.

• Lin Fei explained that the ghosts were beings born under twisted rules and that they feared ultraviolet light, while warning that it might not resolve the source of the disaster.
• The group noticed that the frozen clock, the darkness's spread, and the first incident involving “The Ring” all connected to seven o'clock.
• Lin Fei refused to release the Heavenly Demon Body, fearing it could destroy the shattered plane or be possessed by the strongest ghost.
• When the clock in Lin Fei's sea of consciousness reached seven, ghosts emerged from the trees and surged toward the rooftop.
• At Lin Fei's command, the group raised ultraviolet beams that burned many ghosts, and Lin Fei sealed one and probed its memories.
• Lin Fei sensed a minute trace of twisted rule power trying to influence his consciousness and turn him into a ghost.

Lin Fei and his companions destroyed the ghosts and learned that the film The Ring could not be stopped or avoided, even without internet or electricity. Suspecting the movie was the source of the anomaly, Lin Fei went to a government office and powered up a computer to investigate it.

• Lin Fei resisted a ghost's attack on his sea of consciousness, found no useful information in its memories, and ordered the others to kill the remaining ghosts.
• Ye Wudi manifested his Solar Physique, illuminating the plane and burning countless ghosts as the mortals hailed the group as immortals.
• An elderly government worker explained that The Ring could not be removed from the internet and had played even on disconnected computers, infecting people who watched it or saw it in surveillance footage.
• Lin Fei concluded that the film was a powerful information entity and that examining a ghost that had watched it could expose its eerie nature.
• Lin Fei arrived at a government office and used a wisp of Immortal Essence to power a computer.

Lin Fei played The Ring, whose influence transformed the night sky and destroyed everyone beyond his protection, then recognized the ancient well it formed as an incomplete invader seeking to destroy the universe plane. He suspected someone was using whole planes to obtain the power of the Grand Terminus, and wondered whether the Multiversal Heavenly Dao itself was ill.

• Lin Fei played the movie, and it triggered a sinister force that destroyed his computer and caused the clock tower to chime.
• The movie appeared across the sky, and everyone outside Lin Fei's Chaos Lotus Pond disintegrated and became ghosts that Ye Wudi's golden sun destroyed.
• An ancient well formed in the sky and sent a hostile message about invading the plane and extinguishing hope.
• Lin Fei explained that the entity was an incomplete invader trying to destroy the universe plane and seize its Grand Terminus power.
• Lin Fei considered who could be behind the scheme and wondered if the Multiversal Heavenly Dao was ill.

A terrifying female ghost emerged from the ancient well and attacked the natives, but Lin Fei repeatedly destroyed her only for her to return. The chapter ended as another pale hand reached for Lin Fei from behind.

• Lin Fei calmed the terrified natives with his spiritual power as the female ghost emerged from the well and shattered Ye Wudi's golden sun.
• Xiangling struck the ghost with the Heavenly Demon Great Annihilation Tribulation, but her energy attack passed through it harmlessly.
• Lin Fei used Six Extinctions: Sword Twenty-Three to annihilate the ghost, but it reappeared and killed the government official.
• Lin Fei struck again with Six Extinctions Sword Qi, learning that the ghost could still move after losing its head and that touching it immobilized victims.
• The ghost grabbed a Lamp-Bearing Envoy, then Lin Fei ground it to pieces with six revolving diagrams before Xiangling warned him of a hand reaching for his neck.

Lin Fei destroyed the female ghost again, but she returned with a fourth wave of attackers and extreme cold. As the Lamp-Bearing Envoys fought to protect the natives, Lin Fei deployed his Chaos Eye and Chaos Golden Lotus Sword Formation, then faced a swarm of ghosts with a Six Extinctions · Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram.

• Lin Fei used the Profound Immortal Transformation and Six Extinctions sword qi to destroy the female ghost for the third time.
• Dozens of female ghosts emerged around the rooftops as darkness and frost spread, and Lin Fei warned everyone to protect the natives.
• Xiangling and the other nine Lamp-Bearing Envoys guarded the Chaos Lotus Pond while fighting the ghosts.
• Lin Fei activated his Chaos Eye and Chaos Golden Lotus Sword Formation, killing ghosts and saving Xiangling from being swallowed.
• Lin Fei leapt above more than twenty approaching ghosts and formed the Six Extinctions · Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram.

Lin Fei and the others survived the fourth attack, and Lin Fei reasoned that the female ghost was limited to seven lives or attacks. As twelve televisions and telephones appeared around the lotus pond, the ghosts emerged and proved immune to the group’s attacks.

• Lin Fei destroyed the ghosts in the fourth wave without anyone dying, then explained that the female ghost had not gained absolute control of the world’s rules.
• Lin Fei proposed that the ghost’s limit was seven lives, or seven attacks, while the group prepared for the remaining waves.
• Twelve old televisions and twelve landline telephones appeared around the lotus pond, and the televisions briefly showed eerie images before displaying a woman in white.
• When the phones rang, Lin Fei told everyone not to move and picked up a receiver, but all the receivers rose into the air as female ghosts emerged from the televisions.
• Lin Fei, the Lamp-Bearing Envoys, and Ji Yaoguang attacked, but every strike passed through the female ghosts.

Lin Fei discovered that the female ghosts could only be harmed while attacking, then fought back against them as their bizarre slashes killed and wounded the Lamp-Bearing Envoys. The chapter ended with Lin Fei shielding a terrified boy from a ghost’s blade.

• The twelve female ghosts slashed with fruit knives, inflicting bizarre injuries that caused severed body parts to appear inside their victims’ stomachs; Lin Fei barely evaded the attack.
• Lin Fei deduced that the ghosts were invulnerable in an informational state but became vulnerable when they attacked, and ordered the others to strike back during their attacks.
• Lin Fei activated Heavenly Demon Transformation and struck a ghost with his Six Extinctions Taiji Diagram, but the exchange wounded him and killed two Lamp-Bearing Envoys.
• The remaining ghosts survived with severe injuries and continued attacking, while Lin Fei used the Taiji Diagram to destroy one more ghost after its opponent died.
• A ghost slashed at a terrified boy, and Lin Fei appeared with white wings of light to shield him.

After the fifth wave killed three Lamp-Bearing Envoys, Lin Fei discovered that the sixth wave’s female ghost could attack victims’ organs from within and merge with their bodies. He killed the ghost inside Ji Yaoguang by striking her directly, then began restoring her after destroying the spirit.

• Lin Fei destroyed the last female ghost of the fifth wave, but three Lamp-Bearing Envoys had died, and Ye Wudi warned that the coming attacks might overwhelm them.
• Lin Fei sensed a faint aura of danger as the sixth wave began, but a little boy suddenly vomited blood and organ fragments; Lin Fei’s sealing attack came too late to save him.
• Lin Fei realized the female ghost had attacked the boy’s organs from inside his body, then struck a middle-aged man when the ghost attacked him; the ghost merged with the man to escape, and Lin Fei revived him.
• When Ji Yaoguang began vomiting blood, Lin Fei struck her chest with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, destroying the ghost fused inside her while telling her to trust him.

Lin Fei fought the enormous ghost while the ancient well restored her, then destroyed the well and unleashed Heavenly Annihilation. The ghost exploded into pale smoke, leaving the frozen world shrouded as the battle reached its apparent end.

• Lin Fei healed Ji Yaoguang, then confronted the enormous female ghost emerging from the ancient well and ordered everyone else not to join the battle.
• Lin Fei used Immortal Demon Transformation and several techniques against the ghost, but her injuries continually healed from the well's uncanny power.
• Youyue awakened and urged Ye Wudi not to rush into battle, saying she believed in the Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Fei combined the Six Extinctions, Thunder Nether Void Hegemon, and Six Paths of Reincarnation to blast through the ghost, then attacked the ancient well with his Chaos Eye.
• Lin Fei destroyed the ancient well, endured the ghost's counterattack, and struck her with Heavenly Annihilation.
• The ghost exploded into pale smoke, shrouding the broken world.

Lin Fei destroyed the Anomaly’s source, stopping the world’s collapse and bringing sunlight back to the survivors. As the Heavenly Dao regained control, humanity’s long history and sacrifices manifested as a vast current of righteous qi.

• Lin Fei’s strike shattered the dark canopy, destroyed the invading source, and halted the world’s destruction.
• The surviving natives saw the sun return and thanked Lin Fei, while worrying about rebuilding their lives and civilization.
• The singing revealed humanity’s history, from primitive survival through successive eras of development and prosperity.
• The visions showed soldiers like Liu Chengzhu sacrificing themselves to protect humanity and destroy ghosts, with Liu Chengzhu dying in an electromagnetic grenade blast.
• The Heavenly Dao manifested humanity’s accumulated blood-red fortune and righteous qi across heaven and earth.

After the world’s natives were saved, Lin Fei, Ye Wudi, and Ji Yaoguang absorbed most of its accumulated blood-colored fortune. The ruined world ascended into another plane but was halted there by a hostile False Heavenly Dao that Lin Fei named Dark Gaia.

• The human natives’ desperate resolve gathered as blood-colored fortune, which poured down from the heavens in recognition of the world-saving deeds.
• Lin Fei, Ye Wudi, and Ji Yaoguang received most of the fortune, while Xiangling and the other demon-born Lamp-Bearing Envoys received none.
• The planet’s accumulated fortune surged into the three humans, consuming more than two-thirds of its reserves before fading.
• Lin Fei revealed that the shattered world was rising from the sea of Primordial Darkness into a higher plane.
• The ruined world continued upward until an oppressive force halted it above the new plane’s central region.
• Lin Fei sensed a hostile will in the plane and identified it as Dark Gaia, a False Heavenly Dao that had stopped them.

Lin Fei explained that Dark Gaia was obstructing Water Blue Star’s ascension to preserve itself, then led the group into a demon world beyond Azure Heaven’s jurisdiction. Their encounter with the Peng King’s Third Prince turned hostile after Ye Wudi suggested he might be a crossbreed.

• Lin Fei explained the difference between Dark Gaia and Guangming Gaia and said Dark Gaia could only interfere through tricks because it could not act directly.
• Lin Fei surveyed the damaged demon world and found it small, cultivation-based, and lacking in spiritual energy.
• Demons debated Water Blue Star’s arrival, and the Peng King’s Third Prince flew over to confront the outsiders.
• The Peng King’s Third Prince discovered that Water Blue Star’s plane lay outside Azure Heaven’s jurisdiction and demanded that the group leave.
• Lin Fei asked Ye Wudi whether he knew of a Silver-Winged Peng, and Ye Wudi speculated that the prince was a crossbreed.
• The enraged Peng King’s Third Prince attacked by swinging his wing at the group.

Lin Fei effortlessly shattered the Peng King's Third Prince's wing and stopped the Old Peng King's silver feather with one hand. He left the gathered demons stunned and furious after claiming he had plucked and stewed a Golden-Winged Peng.

• Lin Fei shattered the Peng King's Third Prince's silver wing with a casual palm strike, stunning the demons watching.
• The Third Prince summoned an immortal artifact refined from his father's feather and launched it at Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei caught the silver feather, erased its imprint, and tossed it to Ji Yaoguang, dismissing it as weak.
• Lin Fei claimed he had plucked and stewed a Golden-Winged Peng, prompting the demons to accuse him of outrageous boasting.

Lin Fei forced the Silver-Winged Peng King's Third Prince to kneel and declared that he would take him as a mount, daring the Old Peng King to challenge him. The demons fled to summon the king, who emerged from his cave abode in a blaze of silver light.

• The Third Prince tried to leave to fetch his father, but Lin Fei stopped him and demanded that he kneel and kowtow.
• When the Third Prince threatened Lin Fei with the Silver-Winged Great Peng King's power, Lin Fei struck him down and ordered him to remain kneeling as a mount.
• Lin Fei told the demons to inform the Silver-Winged Great Peng King that he had taken his son as a mount and challenged the king to fight if he objected.
• Lin Fei threatened to kill anyone who failed to summon the king, so the demons scattered to the king's cave abode.
• The Silver-Winged Great Peng King burst from his cave in silver light, his golden eyes cold and his killing intent surging.

The Old Silver-Winged Peng King arrived to punish Lin Fei and claim the floating city, but Lin Fei fought back and overwhelmed him. Lin Fei left the king hurled into Xuanming Star, while the third prince and the watching demons were left stunned.

• The Old Silver-Winged Peng King crossed the silver road to the floating city and demanded that Lin Fei kneel, cripple himself, and become his human pet.
• Ji Yaoguang challenged the Old Peng King, who attacked her with silver light until Lin Fei deflected it.
• The Old Peng King struck at Ji Yaoguang with a giant Peng claw, but Lin Fei shattered it with a kick and launched his Six Extinctions technique.
• The Old Peng King countered with thousands of silver feather swords, but Lin Fei endured them with his bare hands and charged through the attack.
• Lin Fei struck the Old Peng King with a golden palm, seized him, and hurled him into Xuanming Star, flattening mountains and evaporating lakes.
• The third prince fell to his knees, and the watching demons stared in stunned silence.

Lin Fei defeated the Old Peng King, shattered his legendary technique, and showed him a vision proving he had killed its creator. He demanded that the Old Peng King become his mount or die, and the Old Peng King knelt while insisting he deserved a different spot from his son.

• Lin Fei stamped the Old Peng King into a crater and forced him to his knees.
• The Old Peng King unleashed the Heavenly Peng Dragon-Grappling Technique, but Lin Fei shattered its silver claw with one kick.
• Lin Fei revealed that he had eaten the Golden-Winged Peng who created the technique, then showed the Old Peng King a vision of its death.
• Lin Fei demanded that the Old Peng King become his mount or have his body and soul annihilated.
• The Third Prince knelt and urged his father not to resist, and the Old Peng King knelt too, claiming a Human Immortal should not kneel in the same place as a Mahayana cultivator.

Lin Fei discovered that Dark Gaia had turned the old Peng King into a puppet and erased its mark, provoking Dark Gaia to summon a terrifying Yin Lightning tribulation over Xuanming Star. He entered the lightning willingly and began absorbing it, converting some of it into Yang Lightning.

• Lin Fei gave the Peng Race father and son Primal Life Disks and took control of their life souls.
• The old Peng King suddenly attacked Lin Fei under Dark Gaia's influence, but Lin Fei subdued him and revealed that he had been made a puppet.
• Lin Fei erased Dark Gaia's mark from the old Peng King's primordial spirit, causing Dark Gaia's furious face to appear in the lightning above Xuanming Star.
• Dark Gaia unleashed massive bolts of Yin Lightning, while the demons fled or feared for Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei plunged into the tribulation and sat cross-legged in the lightning, breathing it in as taiji patterns converted some Yin Lightning into Yang Lightning.

Lin Fei endured Dark Gaia’s Heavenly Dao Sage Tribulation, broke through to Human Immortal Third Tier Fifth Layer, and drove the thunderclouds away. When Dark Gaia demanded the method of sublimating a plane, he answered by threatening to throw Xuanming Star into the Primordial Darkness.

• Lin Fei absorbed the lightning tribulation and broke through to Human Immortal Third Tier Fifth Layer as demons watched in shock.
• Lin Fei charged into the thunderclouds, but Dark Gaia’s lightning soon dissipated before he could advance further.
• Old Peng King declared himself Lin Fei’s master, while other demons envied his position and sought to follow Lin Fei.
• Dark Gaia formed a message demanding the method of plane sublimation, and the demons translated it for Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei lifted a huge piece of land from Xuanming Star and hurled it into the Primordial Darkness, warning Dark Gaia not to threaten him again.

Lin Fei negotiated with Dark Gaia for the energy of Heavenly Dao Thunderclap Regret and asked why the plane had fallen. Dark Gaia revealed that it had absorbed the plane’s overwhelming negative emotions, then showed the group scenes of slaughter and destruction across the universe.

• Lin Fei threatened Dark Gaia until it agreed to negotiate through the Old Peng King.
• Lin Fei demanded Heavenly Dao Thunderclap Regret, and Ye Wudi explained that its energy could grant Lin Fei lightning authority within Xuanming Star’s plane.
• After Dark Gaia said the rules prevented it from handing over the authority, Lin Fei asked it to exhaust Heavenly Dao Thunderclap Regret’s energy by striking him with lightning, and Dark Gaia agreed.
• Lin Fei asked how Dark Gaia had come into being and why the plane had fallen, and Dark Gaia said it had been born after the plane’s collapse and absorbed its negative emotions.
• Dark Gaia showed the group visions of widespread violence across the universe, including a father killing his son and a technologically advanced planet devastated by mushroom clouds.

Dark Gaia explained how Guangming Gaia had been corrupted while absorbing the plane’s darkness, then refused Lin Fei’s plan to destroy the darkness because it would kill him. Lin Fei survived a two-hour Heavenly Dao sage tribulation and broke through to Human Immortal Fourth Stage.

• Dark Gaia revealed that Guangming Gaia had absorbed the plane’s negative energy to save it, but the darkness corrupted it and made it desperate to survive at any cost.
• Lin Fei asked Dark Gaia what had caused the plane’s upheaval, and Dark Gaia suggested either the multiverse’s Heavenly Dao had malfunctioned or an overwhelmingly powerful force was secretly manipulating events.
• Dark Gaia asked Lin Fei how to achieve planar ascension, and Lin Fei said the root cause of the plane’s collapse had to be destroyed.
• Dark Gaia refused to destroy the darkness fused with him and offered Lin Fei the energy of heavenly Dao thunderclap regret, then left the Old Peng King’s body and triggered another sage tribulation.
• Lin Fei endured a two-hour Heavenly Dao sage tribulation, broke through to Human Immortal Fourth Stage, and consumed the world’s remaining spiritual energy.
• The Old Silver-Winged Peng King marveled at Lin Fei’s breakthrough and wondered whether he might be the legendary Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Emperor.