Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei arrived at the North Sea as the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree neared its end, and Han Qiling warned him that fighting could doom the Kunpeng Race. When the frozen battlefield reopened, Lin Fei shielded Cai Beiyu from the punitive coalition’s attack and clashed with Han Qiling.

• Lin Fei emerged from a shattered hole in space, and Han Qiling confronted him while the other Golden Immortals watched.
• Han Qiling said Lin Fei could not fight him without risking Cai Beiyu, the Kunpeng Race, and the Kunpeng Alliance, and Lin Fei sat down to recover instead of attacking.
• The Kunpeng Ancestral Tree burned out, the Taiji Diagram disintegrated, and the Golden Immortals on both sides regained their ability to move.
• The punitive coalition’s thirty-one Golden Immortals attacked Cai Beiyu, but Lin Fei appeared before her and blocked their combined strike with a Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram.
• The coalition shattered Lin Fei’s defenses and badly wounded him, but he swept Cai Beiyu into his arms and struck at Han Qiling’s mountain-sized claws.

Lin Fei arrived in the North Sea and overpowered Han Qiling, then ordered the Kunpeng Alliance to retreat while he held off the punitive coalition. After killing a Dark Tiger Clan Golden Immortal, he faced the remaining Golden Immortals and mocked them as a disorganized mob.

• Lin Fei met Han Qiling’s enormous Taiyin claw head-on, shattered its aegis, and forced Han Qiling to retreat.
• Cai Beiyu embraced Lin Fei, and he ordered the Kunpeng Alliance to retreat north while he covered them.
• Cai Beiyu chose to trust Lin Fei, and Mystic Yin Jellyfish and Thunderfire Lightning Eel swallowed the surviving alliance members to carry them away.
• A Dark Tiger Clan Golden Immortal charged after the retreating alliance, but Lin Fei killed him with Heavenly Demon Sovereign Emperor's Stomp.
• Han Qiling warned the other Golden Immortals to join forces against Lin Fei and leave the Kunpeng Alliance alone.
• Lin Fei taunted the coalition’s thirty-three Golden Immortals as a motley mob, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

Han Qiling used the Mystic Yin Qilin Formation to keep the Golden Immortals from attacking Lin Fei, judging that they could not defeat him while united only in appearance. Lin Fei left after warning Han Qiling, who then seized the Three-Horned Bull Demon for challenging his decision.

• Han Qiling opened the Mystic Yin Qilin Formation scroll and led the Golden Immortals into a formation that linked their Immortal Essence.
• The Golden Immortals urged Han Qiling to attack Lin Fei, but he refused because they could not rely on one another in a fight.
• Lin Fei and Han Qiling waited in silence until Lin Fei warned that he would destroy Han Qiling’s body and soul the next time they met, then departed through the void.
• Han Qiling told the Three-Horned Bull Demon to wait until Lin Fei was far away, but the demon accused him of wasting an opportunity to kill Lin Fei.
• Han Qiling seized the Three-Horned Bull Demon by the throat and warned the Golden Immortals that he could kill them easily and had saved their lives.

Han Qiling ordered the Golden Immortals to unite against Lin Fei while plotting to defeat his former master. In North-Subduing City, Cai Beiyu and the Kunpeng Alliance joined Lin Fei’s cause, and their Golden Immortals knelt to beg forgiveness for their past slaughter of humans.

• Han Qiling sent the Golden Immortals to rally the races into an alliance against Lin Fei and resolved to challenge the Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Fei returned to North-Subduing City and used his access to the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array to let the Kunpeng Alliance enter.
• Lin Fei asked Cai Beiyu about the First Race, and she warned that his projection might descend again within a month.
• Ye Wudi said he could contend for the human emperor authority and vowed not to let it fall into the First Race’s hands.
• Cai Beiyu told Lin Fei that she had killed the First Race’s previous projection and admitted the Kunpeng Alliance’s guilt for killing humans.
• Cai Beiyu knelt before Lin Fei and asked him to punish her alone, while the Kunpeng Alliance’s other eight Golden Immortals knelt and pleaded for a chance to atone.

Lin Fei planned North-Subduing City’s preparations for war against the myriad races, including restoring the Kunpeng Golden Immortals and producing weapons, while searching for a military adviser. Shu Zimo answered the call and presented himself to Lin Fei, offering his service.

• Lin Fei comforted Cai Beiyu, then led a meeting on preparing North-Subduing City for war.
• Lin Fei proposed using the Thirty-Three Heavens’ resources to strengthen Kunpeng Golden Immortals and investing the alliance’s resources in the Eight-Nine Mystic Armament Grounds.
• Cai Beiyu warned that Han Qiling was a formidable commander, and Lin Fei announced he would seek a capable adviser in North-Subduing City.
• Lin Fei inspected the armament grounds as Ye Wudi oversaw production and the Kunpeng Golden Immortals restored their strength.
• Shu Zimo saw the notice seeking an adviser, tore it down, and went to the city lord’s residence to offer his service to Lin Fei.

Shu Zimo joined Lin Fei’s city lord’s manor as a strategist and began assessing North-Subduing City’s forces as it prepared for war. Meanwhile, Han Qiling gathered hundreds of Golden Immortals to discuss the alliance’s overwhelming strength and the obstacle posed by Lin Fei’s defenses.

• Lin Fei accepted Shu Zimo as a strategist after learning how Shu had used cunning plans to preserve humans and guide them safely to North-Subduing City.
• Shu Zimo asked for a detailed account of the city’s combat strength, and Ye Wudi helped him gather information about the city and the ancient reserves of powerful races.
• The Immortal Ancestor used the Heavens Stars Diagram to convene a meeting attended by projections of more than five hundred Golden Immortals, alongside the Immortal Race’s nine Golden Immortals in person.
• Han Qiling told the assembled Golden Immortals that the united races had an overwhelming advantage, prompting the Three-Horned Bull Demon ancestor to demand that they simply attack Lin Fei.
• Han Qiling explained that the alliance could not bring its advantage to bear because Lin Fei held North-Subduing City, protected by the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array, and the hall erupted in curses.

Han Qiling planned to use captured humans to pressure Lin Fei and undermine his blood-colored fortune. Shu Zimo recognized the danger and devised a preemptive strike, deciding the Heavenly Venerable must not be trapped by moral blackmail.

• Han Qiling told the Golden Immortals to gather humans and negotiate with Lin Fei, threatening mass deaths and possibly demanding Kunpeng in exchange for human lives.
• Han Qiling explained that forcing Lin Fei to refuse a trade could turn humans against him and diminish his blood-colored fortune, while strengthening the venerable one behind the First Race.
• Shu Zimo reasoned that the myriad races could demand Cai Beiyu for a hundred million humans, then slaughter and torment them to make Lin Fei appear responsible for their deaths.
• Shu Zimo concluded that the Heavenly Venerable could not be allowed to face the ultimatum and proposed a surprise attack on an ancestral land to force the myriad races to defend their rear.
• Shu Zimo resolved to reject moral blackmail, declaring that the enemy could not blackmail him if he had no morals.

Shu Zimo persuaded Lin Fei to leave North-Subduing City and strike behind enemy lines rather than face the ten thousand races’ demand to sacrifice human captives. Entrusted with the city’s authority, Shu Zimo prepared its defenses and revealed that Lin Fei had left the protection of the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array to attack the enemy.

• Shu Zimo proposed that Lin Fei avoid the dilemma over the captives by launching a surprise attack on the territories of the ten thousand races.
• Lin Fei approved Shu Zimo’s plan, promised him a chance at nirvana rebirth after conquering the Phoenix Race’s ancestral land, and entrusted him with a jade token containing a strand of his primordial spirit.
• Lin Fei gave Shu Zimo full authority over North-Subduing City’s major policies before departing.
• Shu Zimo sealed the city, halted outside activities and spirit ore mining, redirected treasury resources to the Eight-Nine Mystic Armament Grounds, and assembled strategists to simulate battles.
• When the strategists concluded that the city could not defeat the ten thousand races, Shu Zimo pointed out that Lin Fei had left the city and its protective array to kill enough enemies to force their response.

Lin Fei attacked the Three-Horned Bull Demon Clan’s ancestral land to seize resources for his warship fleet. After breaking its defenses and killing fleeing Bull Demons, he faced the enraged Bull Demon Patriarch, who challenged him to fight on the mountain.

• Lin Fei used golden feathers and scales from Kunpeng Race Golden Immortals to accelerate his passage through space and time.
• Lin Fei traveled to the Three-Horned Bull Demon Clan’s ancestral land, near North-Subduing City.
• Lin Fei shattered the clan’s protective barrier with a punch, alarming its five Golden Immortals.
• The five Golden Immortals chose to fight, while Lin Fei’s attack slaughtered fleeing creatures and destroyed the beams meant to rescue Bull Demons.
• The Bull Demon Patriarch challenged Lin Fei to come up the mountain and fight.

Lin Fei fought five Bull Devil Race Golden Immortals inside the Earth Fiend Bull Demon Formation and overwhelmed them despite their rapid regeneration. The Bull Demon Patriarch then revealed the Heavenly Court’s Five Elements Bells and launched a final attack.

• The Bull Demon Patriarch activated the Earth Fiend Bull Demon Formation, empowering the five Golden Immortals with earth-fiend qi.
• Lin Fei entered the formation, transformed into Late Golden Immortal, and smashed through their Innate Grand Void Gang Qi attack.
• Lin Fei wounded the Bull Devil Race Golden Immortals with his techniques, while the formation rapidly regenerated their bodies and the Chaos Eye and Chaos Lotus Pond countered their attacks.
• The Ancestor intervened with fiendish qi to save the Bull Demon Patriarch from the Chaos Eye.
• The Bull Demon Patriarch summoned the five ancient Five Elements Bells, and the five Golden Immortals activated them to attack Lin Fei.

Lin Fei withstood the Five Golden Immortals’ combined assault with the Five Elements Bells and unleashed Heavenly Annihilation. He destroyed one bell with a punch and killed its wielder, leaving the remaining Golden Immortals stunned.

• The Five Golden Immortals attacked Lin Fei with the Five Elements Bells, while the bells’ protective power shielded them.
• Lin Fei countered the bells’ elemental attacks with his Chaos Eye, Chaos Lotus Pond, and Six Extinctions Yin-Yang Diagram, shocking the Five Golden Immortals.
• Lin Fei unleashed Heavenly Annihilation, killing every cultivator below Golden Immortal on the mountain.
• Lin Fei struck the fire-attribute ancient bell, caving it in and scattering fragments through its wielder’s defenses.
• Lin Fei’s punch killed the Golden Immortal wielding the damaged bell, and silence fell over the battlefield.

Lin Fei endured the backlash of his techniques as he fought the Bull Demon Golden Immortals, killing the Bull Demon Forefather and turning the enemy’s attacks against them. He destroyed another Golden Immortal’s body, leaving its tiny golden primordial-spirit remnant exposed as he prepared to finish it.

• Lin Fei mocked the Bull Demon Golden Immortals and seized control of the ancient fire bell before abandoning the struggle to attack the Bull Demon Forefather.
• Lin Fei’s Six Extinctions Taiji Diagram crushed the Bull Demon Forefather and annihilated his blood mist.
• The three surviving Golden Immortals shattered Lin Fei’s Chaos Lotus Pond and grievously wounded him, but failed to kill him.
• Lin Fei used the Seven Steps of the Heavenly Demon and the Wuming Sword Art to exchange positions with the Bull Demon Patriarch, turning the enemies’ attacks back on them.
• The combined assault destroyed the body of a Golden Immortal beside the Bull Demon Patriarch, leaving only a tiny golden remnant of its primordial spirit.
• Lin Fei immediately launched a Six Extinctions Taiji Diagram at the exposed remnant.

Lin Fei annihilated the Bull Devil Race’s five Golden Immortals, claimed their treasures and resources, and stayed behind to heal. Meanwhile, Han Qiling gathered an alliance army at the Kunpeng Sea and ordered it to march on North-Subduing City before Lin Fei could react.

• Lin Fei killed the fleeing Golden Immortal and absorbed the Earth Fiend formation’s baleful energy into the mountain.
• Lin Fei took the Five Elements Bells and emptied the earth fiend yin vein, then remained at the ancestral land to heal his injuries.
• More than two hundred Golden Immortals and their armies gathered at the Kunpeng Sea using their races’ transport methods.
• Han Qiling judged the assembled force of 231 Golden Immortals sufficient to defeat North-Subduing City and called for an immediate advance.
• The first wave of the allied army departed for North-Subduing City.

North-Subduing City prospered under Lin Fei’s rule until the allied army of the myriad races arrived and surrounded it. The enemy demanded Cai Beiyu in exchange for more than seventy-six million human captives, while Lin Fei remained absent.

• North-Subduing City flourished as its residents worked, traded, and enjoyed themselves, and the Eight-Nine Mystic Armament Grounds completed its eighth Heavenly Immortal Dao Rhythm Warship.
• The allied army of the myriad races approached, triggering the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array and frightening the city’s residents.
• Cai Beiyu and the Kunpeng Alliance’s eight other Golden Immortals took the city wall and faced more than two hundred enemy Golden Immortals, including Xian Taixuan, Mo Taixu, Long Ao Tian, and Fenghe Chu.
• Fenghe Chu and the Mystic Tiger Ancestor taunted Cai Beiyu, while Han Qiling noticed that Lin Fei was absent and a weak Human Race cultivator stood beside her.
• Xian Taixuan demanded that Cai Beiyu be exchanged for the human captives and released nearly a million prisoners, who fell toward the ground as the allied army displayed its hostages.

Shu Zimo exposed Han Qiling’s failed plan, but refused to exchange a Kunpeng captive for ten million human captives. As the captives and North-Subduing City’s residents reacted with fury and fear, Han Qiling watched Shu Zimo closely.

• Shu Zimo admitted he had uncovered Han Qiling’s plan, and Han Qiling conceded that he had lost by arriving half a day too late.
• Han Qiling proposed exchanging ten million human captives for one Heavenly Immortal of the Kunpeng Race, prompting mockery from both sides.
• Shu Zimo declared that North-Subduing City would not barter its allies’ lives, and Yin Chenglin angrily demanded that he save the captives.
• Shu Zimo ordered Cai Beiyu to stop Yin Chenglin, and she made him collapse unconscious.
• The human captives screamed and cursed Shu Zimo for refusing the exchange while Han Qiling watched his reaction and smiled.

Han Qiling forced ten million human captives to slaughter one another, while Shu Zimo watched helplessly from North-Subduing City. As the massacre continued, Uncle Luo rescued Lanlan and told her that Shu Zimo was responsible for her mother’s death.

• Shu Zimo refused to sacrifice the nonhuman captive, and Han Qiling announced that ten million humans would have to fight until only one million survived.
• Han Qiling began the countdown, and the human captives attacked one another with their cultivation.
• A man killed a young girl, prompting her father to detonate his Nascent Soul and kill the attacker and nearby captives.
• A cold-faced man killed Lanlan’s mother, but a careworn middle-aged man named Uncle Luo rescued Lanlan and killed the attacker.
• Uncle Luo promised to get Lanlan through the massacre alive and blamed Shu Zimo for her mother’s death.

Shu Zimo refused the Immortal Ancestor’s offer to trade the Heavenly Immortals for the surviving human captives, even after discovering his father among them. As his father was killed and the city condemned him, Shu Zimo realized Han Qiling had maneuvered him into another trap and suspected a third move was coming.

• Shu Zimo recognized his wounded father among the human captives, and the Immortal Ancestor offered to exchange a Heavenly Immortal Kunpeng for every surviving captive.
• Despite pleas and accusations from North-Subduing City, Shu Zimo refused the exchange, and Han Qiling praised him as ruthless.
• The Immortal Ancestor resumed the captives’ fight, and Shu Zimo’s father cursed him before the humans brutally killed him.
• Shu Zimo wept while reasoning that yielding would invite further demands and rebellion within the Kunpeng Alliance, and he concluded that Han Qiling had another scheme.

Shu Zimo refused Han Qiling’s demand to trade for the human captives, even as the slaughter and unrest in North-Subduing City intensified. Cai Beiyu then offered herself in exchange for a hundred million human captives, leaving both sides in uproar.

• Fewer than a million captives survived the first slaughter, and Han Qiling ordered the arena cleared before sending in another ten million.
• Cai Beipeng warned Shu Zimo that the Kunpeng Alliance would not become a bargaining chip, while Shu Zimo remained grief-stricken and silent.
• Han Qiling asked Shu Zimo whether he would trade, and Shu Zimo answered, “No trade!”
• Residents of North-Subduing City turned on Shu Zimo and his allies, and a Kunpeng Heavenly Immortal defended the sacrifices his people had made.
• Han Qiling changed the rules and demanded that the captives slaughter one another until only a hundred thousand remained.
• Cai Beiyu removed her crown, placed it on Cai Beipeng’s head, and offered herself in exchange for a hundred million human captives.

Cai Beiyu defended Shu Zimo’s refusal to trade people, while Shu Zimo rejected Han Qiling’s offers to exchange prisoners for the Eight-Nine Mystic Armament Grounds or Heavenly Immortal Dao Rhythm Warships. Han Qiling conceded the bargaining failed and suggested Lin Fei’s attack on the Bull Demon ancestral grounds had begun the real war.

• Cai Beiyu explained to North-Subduing City’s residents why Shu Zimo could not agree to repeated prisoner exchanges, warning that concessions would divide the Kunpeng Alliance.
• Han Qiling offered nearly sixty-seven million prisoners for the Eight-Nine Mystic Armament Grounds, but Shu Zimo refused to hand it over.
• Han Qiling then offered two million lives for each Heavenly Immortal Dao Rhythm Warship, and Shu Zimo refused to trade any of them, arguing that the Zhou Heavenly Dao Rhythm Warship Array was essential to the Primordial Wilderness Human Race’s survival.
• Shu Zimo declared that protecting the greater cause required him to sacrifice even his kin and the lives of tens of millions, leaving the city silent.
• Han Qiling admitted the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races had lost the confrontation and said Lin Fei had likely attacked the Bull Demon ancestral grounds, beginning the real war.

Lin Fei encountered a projection of Ye Zhenbei, who had fused with a Spirit Race woman from the Other Shore Heavenly Capital and blamed Lin Fei for disrupting his bid to become Human Emperor. Lin Fei prepared to destroy the projection and planned to learn how the woman had escaped the Heavenly Capital.

• After avoiding the ambushes Han Qiling had likely prepared at nearby ancestral lands, Lin Fei gathered corpses by the river and sat down to cultivate.
• Lin Fei sensed a blood-colored mist overhead and recognized the figure within it as Ye Zhenbei, the traitor who had helped bring down North-Subduing City.
• Ye Zhenbei revealed that he was fused with a woman, and Lin Fei identified her as a Spirit Race member who had escaped the Other Shore Heavenly Capital.
• Lin Fei realized Ye Zhenbei's fusion had prevented him from fully claiming the Human Emperor status, and Ye Zhenbei vowed to kill him for ruining his plan.
• Lin Fei dismissed Ye Zhenbei's taunts, said he wanted to question the woman after destroying the projection, and summoned his Immortal-Demon Twin Wings and Chaos Lotus Pond to attack.