Arc 55War Against Nine Nether

Ji Wuchang led the alliance against the Nine Nether Lineage, reached the Saint King Realm, and restored the World-Destroying Millstone while the Lord of the Nine Nether gathered blood and souls for his breakthrough. After evacuating the Ji Family and saving the Capital, Ji Wuchang gathered the allies as the Lord of the Nine Nether's Great Emperor tribulation began.

  • Ji Wuchang declared war, fused the principle of spacetime, and killed the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan patriarchs as the alliance reclaimed eight provinces.
  • Ji Wuchang seized the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner and destroyed one body of the hall master of Myriad Souls Hall, but the other escaped.
  • Ji Wuchang supplied the World-Destroying Millstone with a star domain origin and Supreme Weapons, refined chaos primordial purple qi, and reached the Saint King Realm.
  • The Lord of the Nine Nether sacrificed ten million defeated clan members to his Blood Pool, while Ji Yuan reached the Saint King Realm and led the alliance against a renewed invasion.
  • Ji Yuan and the alliance suffered millions of casualties and retreated as the Nine Nether Lineage gathered battlefield blood and remnant souls for the Lord of the Nine Nether.
  • Ji Yuan slew the Nine-Headed Nether Beast with Chu Tianheng's help, while Ji Wuchang completed the millstone's restoration and ordered the Ji Family to evacuate.
  • Ji Wuchang destroyed the Myriad Souls Hall forces besieging the Capital and stayed behind after the Ji Family departed through an ancient teleportation array.
  • Ji Wuchang reunited with Yu Ling and gathered the allies as the Lord of the Nine Nether began his Great Emperor tribulation, and Qing Shiwei arrived as the State Preceptor.
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Ch. 1351The Ji Family Declared War, and All Rose in Response

Ji Wuchang rallied the Heavenly Chen Continent and the Ji Family to declare war on the Nine Nether Lineage, then led a massive force toward the front lines. Aboard the warship, he received the Origins of Space and Time and began absorbing them as Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang entered seclusion with demon cores he gave them.

  • Ji Wuchang ordered the Ji Family to declare war on the Nine Nether Lineage and offered to erase past grudges for factions that joined the fight.
  • The Ji Family’s Supreme Decrees spread across the continent, and factions emerged from hiding to gather forces against the Nine Nether Lineage.
  • Ji Wuchang led several million cultivators, more than a million Demon Beasts and fierce beasts, and the First Ancestor toward the front lines.
  • Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang gave Ji Wuchang the Origins of Space and Time, which Great Emperor Tianchen had left for someone destined to receive them.
  • Ji Wuchang gave Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang six demon cores each, and both masters went into seclusion while Ji Wuchang began absorbing the two origins.

Ch. 1352Space principles successfully fused, arrival at the battlefield

Ji Wuchang arrived in Luohe Province after fusing the principles of time and space, where the Nine Nether Lineage had driven the defenders from Mang Province. He gathered a million Ji Family cultivators for an attack and stood ready to face the enemy as old acquaintances watched from the ranks.

  • Ji Wuchang reached Luohe Province with the First Ancestor and learned that the Nine Nether Lineage had occupied Mang Province and gathered millions of fighters, including two newly advanced Half-Saints.
  • Ji Wuchang revealed that he had fused the principle of spacetime and ordered the First Ancestor to assemble a million Ji Family cultivators for a battle the next day.
  • The First Ancestor assembled the army, including more than ten thousand specialized ballistae, and Ji Wuchang took the front of the ranks.
  • Zhen Miaoqing watched Ji Wuchang without approaching him, while Nian Yundie also saw him and buried her former feelings.

Ch. 1353The first battle

Ji Wuchang led a million cultivators and used repeating crossbows to devastate the Nine Nether Lineage’s first wave of beasts and surrendered human cultivators. He then sent nearly two hundred thousand beasts against the enemy, prompting the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan to charge and begin the true battle.

  • Ji Wuchang declared that the Ji Family would lead the vanguard and ordered the million cultivators forward.
  • Ji Wuchang’s forces unleashed three successive volleys from repeating crossbows, killing most of the attacking beasts and many surrendered human cultivators.
  • Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Souls Banner to collect the escaping Primordial Spirits and prevent the Nine Nether Lineage from claiming them.
  • Ji Wuchang sent nearly two hundred thousand beasts, led by two dragons, into the Nine Nether Lineage’s ranks.
  • The Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan reacted by charging toward Ji Wuchang’s cultivators and beasts, beginning the true battle.

Ch. 1354Slaying a Half-Saint, Shocking the Onlookers

Ji Wuchang drew the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan patriarchs away from the main battle and killed the Giant Clan patriarch in a single breath. The Barbarian Clan patriarch remained alive as the onlookers reeled from Ji Wuchang’s strength.

  • Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Souls Banner to attack the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan forces, prompting their patriarchs to charge at him.
  • Ji Wuchang led the two Half-Saint patriarchs away while the Ji Family’s million cultivators and two hundred thousand ferocious beasts clashed with the enemy forces.
  • The Ji Family’s First Ancestor killed powerful Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan cultivators as his side gained the upper hand.
  • Ji Wuchang used the law of time and principle of space to reach the Giant Clan patriarch and stab his skull with the broken sword.
  • Ji Wuchang burned and split the Giant Clan patriarch’s body, seized his Primordial Spirit, and stored it in the Myriad Souls Banner.
  • The onlookers watched in shock as Ji Wuchang killed a Half-Saint in about a single breath, while the Barbarian Clan patriarch faced him.

Ch. 1355He Wouldn't Mind a Massacre

Ji Wuchang killed the Giant Clan chief and the fleeing Barbarian Clan chief, then used their corpses to empower his Black Hawks and the Ji Family’s two dragons. He ordered the annihilation of the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan and led a devastating assault as the battle engulfed the region.

  • Ji Wuchang killed the Barbarian Clan chief and fed his corpse, along with the Giant Clan chief’s, to the Black Hawks.
  • Ji Wuchang summoned the Ji Family’s two dragons, which devoured the remaining corpses and triggered Half-Saint Lightning Tribulations.
  • After Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan fighters charged at him for revenge, Ji Wuchang ordered the cultivators of the Heavenly Chen Continent to leave none alive.
  • Ji Wuchang and his eleven Soul Division avatars attacked the enemy forces, while the cultivators of the Heavenly Chen Continent joined the battle.
  • Ji Wuchang slaughtered the enemy cultivators with his broken sword and Seven Sha Cloud-Severing Palm, while the Myriad Souls Banner absorbed their Primordial Spirits and remnant souls.

Ch. 1356The Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall Attacks, Trapping the Main Banner

Ji Wuchang used the battlefield slaughter to lure out the Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall, then attacked him with several powerful weapons. The Heaven-Devouring Jar trapped the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner, and Ji Wuchang stepped forward to face the Hall Master as he retaliated.

  • Ji Wuchang and the Ji Family's First Ancestor killed the Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan experts while Heavenly Chen Continent cultivators surrounded their forces.
  • Ji Wuchang stopped attacking, gathered souls into his Myriad Souls Banner, and waited for the Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall to appear.
  • The Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall emerged to seize the Myriad Souls Banner Auxiliary Banner, but Ji Wuchang countered with the Heavenly Chen Cauldron and a sword strike.
  • Ji Wuchang used the Heaven-Devouring Jar and World-Destroying Millstone to injure the Hall Master and knock the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner from his grasp.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Jar swallowed and overpowered the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner, while Ji Wuchang put away his Auxiliary Banner and moved to confront the Hall Master.

Ch. 1357Failure to Kill the Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall

Ji Wuchang battled the hall master of Myriad Souls Hall, whose soul attack was stopped by the Nine Nether Tower. Ji Wuchang destroyed one of two seemingly real hall masters and suppressed the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner, but the other escaped into the void.

  • The hall master of Myriad Souls Hall used Ten Thousand Souls Draw the Thread, Return to Nine Nether to drain Ji Wuchang’s soul power, but the Nine Nether Tower stopped the attack and replenished Ji Wuchang’s soul.
  • Ji Wuchang and the hall master of Myriad Souls Hall traded soul attacks and powerful strikes while Ji Wuchang kept the Myriad Souls Banner Main Banner suppressed inside the Heaven-Devouring Jar.
  • A second hall master of Myriad Souls Hall appeared and attacked Ji Wuchang, who found through his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil that both figures seemed to be real physical bodies.
  • Ji Wuchang used Law of Time, Samsara and the Nine Nether Tower to destroy one hall master, while the other spat blood and escaped by scattering into countless figures.
  • Ji Wuchang failed to catch the fleeing hall master and realized that guarding the Heaven-Devouring Jar and avoiding the Myriad Souls Banner Auxiliary Banner had kept him from using his full strength.

Ch. 1358Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor

Ji Wuchang led the campaign that reclaimed eight provinces from the Nine Nether Lineage and then learned that the Lord of the Nine Nether was likely preparing a major scheme. Chu Tianheng and the First Ancestor gave him a plan called "Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor," which Ji Wuchang decided he might have to use.

  • Ji Wuchang killed tens of thousands of Giant Clan and Barbarian Clan cultivators, and the coalition slaughtered more than seven million of them over three days.
  • Human forces hunted down the remaining Nine Nether Lineage and its collaborators, while Ji Wuchang killed the Heavenly Qilin Clan patriarch and helped reclaim eight provinces.
  • Ji Wuchang returned to Heavenly Chen Academy, where Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang had reached the Supreme Realm Ninth Level.
  • Ji Wuchang merged and refined the Myriad Souls Banner, discovered the Myriad Souls Great Emperor's legacy, and suspected the Lord of the Nine Nether had learned its soul-gathering method from the Myriad Souls Hall's hall master.
  • Chu Tianheng and the First Ancestor gave Ji Wuchang an ancient scroll titled "Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor" and explained it could let him kill the Lord of the Nine Nether.
  • Ji Wuchang read the scroll, learned Great Emperor Tianchen had created the method, and considered using it.

Ch. 1359His second son, Ji Yuechen, and the World-Destroying Millstone's true form

After returning from the campaign, Ji Wuchang reunited with Qing Shiwei and Ji Zhiyi and met his newborn son, Ji Yuechen. Concerned that the Lord of the Nine Nether might summon a Chaos Vicious Beast, he sought the World-Destroying Millstone and discovered its damaged true form.

  • Ji Wuchang returned to the Capital of the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty and reunited with Qing Shiwei and their infant son, Ji Yuezheng.
  • Qing Shiwei warned Ji Wuchang that the Lord of the Nine Nether might summon a Chaos Vicious Beast, and urged him to restore the World-Destroying Millstone.
  • Ji Wuchang left for the Ji Family, met Ji Zhiyi and their newborn son, and named the boy Ji Yuechen.
  • Ji Wuchang declined to serve as acting patriarch and went to the rear mountain to contact the World-Destroying Millstone.
  • Ji Wuchang's divine soul entered the World-Destroying Millstone and saw its true form, a small millstone split by a nearly full-length crack.

Ch. 1360The Little Girl Artifact Spirit

Ji Wuchang spoke with the World-Destroying Millstone’s artifact spirit, a little girl who asked him to help restore her strength. She accepted the star-domain origin hidden inside him, gave him chaos primordial purple qi, and warned that a Great Emperor and a Chaos Vicious Beast could soon threaten the world.

  • The little girl appeared inside the World-Destroying Millstone and asked Ji Wuchang to help her return to her peak in exchange for her help against his enemies.
  • She sealed Ji Wuchang’s powers and drew a ball of light from his body, revealing it was the origin of a star domain that could help a cultivator reach the Great Emperor Realm.
  • Ji Wuchang agreed to give her the origin, and she promised to assist him when he pursued his own breakthrough.
  • The little girl gave Ji Wuchang a wisp of chaos primordial purple qi and recounted her battles with Chaos Vicious Beasts and her history with the Ji Family’s ancestor.
  • She asked Ji Wuchang to find Supreme Weapons to aid her recovery and warned that a Great Emperor would emerge within half a year and a Chaos Vicious Beast might be approaching.
  • Ji Wuchang asked whether his true body could bring the Supreme Weapons he had in his possession.

Ch. 1361Refining the Chaos Primordial Purple Qi

Ji Wuchang gave the World-Destroying Millstone’s artifact spirit his Supreme Weapons so she could restore her power, then refined Chaos Primordial purple qi in seclusion. As his transformation continued, two months passed outside, and events unfolded across the Heavenly Chen Continent.

  • Ji Wuchang gave the artifact spirit a mass of Supreme Weapons, and she said she could recover enough to wield eighty percent of her former power.
  • The artifact spirit explained that Immortals existed above Great Emperors and that Chaos Vicious Beasts matched their strength, then absorbed the Chaos Primordial purple qi and the weapons’ power of principle.
  • Ji Wuchang refined the Chaos Primordial purple qi, which transformed his mark, Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb, blood, and fundamental nature.
  • Ji Wuchang resolved to grow strong enough to enter Chaos and continued cultivating inside the World-Destroying Millstone, where time passed ten times faster.
  • Two months passed outside, surprising the Ji Family members, while several events took place on the Heavenly Chen Continent.

Ch. 1362The Yu Clan Ancestor's Hope

As the Heavenly Chen Continent drove back the Nine Nether Lineage, Chu Tianheng ordered the Heavenly Chen Academy to evacuate because of a growing threat from the north. At the Yu Clan, the ancestor received Ji’s demon-core gift and entered seclusion for a final attempt to become a Half-Saint, leaving Yu Ling in charge.

  • The Nine Nether Lineage lost the final two provinces after two months of fighting, while its Lord and the Myriad Souls Hall master remained unseen.
  • Chu Tianheng sensed an oppressive presence from the north and ordered the Heavenly Chen Academy to leave for the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty; Leng Si had become a Half-Saint, while Qin Longhai and Yu Shixiong failed to break through.
  • Ji Yaoyao emerged from seclusion at the Supreme Realm Eighth Layer and learned that Ji’s young master had become a Half-Saint and killed several Half-Saints.
  • The Yu Clan ancestor learned from Yu Gang that Yu Ling was close to Ji’s young master, then accepted the storage ring Ji had sent her.
  • The Yu Clan ancestor found demon cores containing pure soul power and spiritual power, distributed some to the elders, and entered seclusion for a final attempt to become a Half-Saint.
  • Yu Gang and the Yu Clan elders also entered seclusion, while the ancestor left the remaining demon cores for Yu Ling and warned the elders not to oppose her.

Ch. 1363Ji Yuan attained sainthood, the cruel Lord of the Nine Nether

Ji Yuan broke through to the Saint King Realm, bringing the Ji Family joy, while the Lord of the Nine Nether sacrificed three defeated clans to strengthen his bid to become a Great Emperor. The Lord of the Nine Nether vowed to destroy the Ji Family after emerging from seclusion.

  • The Ji Family gained four Half-Saint experts, though the Eighth Ancestor and a clan elder died and Ji Zhanbo and Ji Wudao suffered injuries from failed breakthroughs.
  • Ji Yuan overcame a Saint King Lightning Tribulation, and radiant clouds across the continent revealed his breakthrough.
  • The Lord of the Nine Nether saw Ji Yuan's breakthrough and promised to slaughter the Ji Family once he left seclusion.
  • The Lord of the Nine Nether ordered Three Eyes to send the defeated Heavenly Qilin Clan, Giant Clan, and Barbarian Clan into the Blood Pool.
  • Three Eyes's forces drove the remaining ten million members of the three clans into the formation, where they exploded into blood mist that greatly increased the Blood Pool's power.

Ch. 1364Breaking Through to Saint King, a New World Takes Shape in the Purple Mansion

Ji Wuchang endured a hundred days of Saint King Lightning Tribulation inside the World-Destroying Millstone, while the artifact spirit recognized the mysterious significance of the nine leaves protecting him. After the tribulation, his Purple Mansion had become a living inner world, and he emerged with a transformed body and a powerfully enhanced presence.

  • Lightning struck the World-Destroying Millstone, and the Ji Family ancestors sensed a terrifying presence before it vanished.
  • Ji Wuchang fought the Saint King tribulation as nine enormous leaves shielded him and his divine beasts battled lightning beasts.
  • The artifact spirit remembered seeing nine similar leaves shelter Chaos Vicious Beasts in the Chaos Lightning Sea and suspected Ji Wuchang bore great providence.
  • During the hundred days of tribulation inside the millstone, Ji Wuchang’s Purple Mansion expanded into a more complete inner world, and its divine beasts rose to Half-Saint strength.
  • After the lightning ended, Ji Wuchang’s mysterious mark became nine leaves protecting his primordial spirit, and he summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow from his transformed Purple Mansion.

Ch. 1365A contract, someone in the Yu Clan broke through to Half-Saint

Ji Wuchang formed an equal contract with Fairy Mo, allowing the World-Destroying Millstone to recover by drawing on his spiritual power. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan celebrated his breakthrough, and thunderclouds gathered over the Yu Clan as a cultivator appeared to be breaking through to Half-Saint.

  • Ji Wuchang summoned his divine beasts and confirmed they each possessed peak Half-Saint strength.
  • Fairy Mo proposed becoming Ji Wuchang’s lifebound divine weapon, and they swore equal Heavenly Dao Oaths before the World-Destroying Millstone entered his soul sea.
  • Fairy Mo explained that Ji Wuchang’s unique physique let him refine chaos primordial purple Qi, so he began replenishing the spiritual power the millstone drained.
  • Ji Yuan emerged after breaking through and learned that Ji Wuchang had defeated several Half-Saints of the Nine Nether Lineage.
  • Yu Gang emerged from seclusion at the Supreme Realm ninth level, and thunderclouds gathered over the Yu Clan as Zhen Miaoqing and Xia Wufeng watched, suspecting a Half-Saint breakthrough.

Ch. 1366Zhan Wuyuan was surrounded and targeted for death

The Yu Clan produced two Half-Saints, while Zhan Wuyuan also broke through and set out to destroy the Ji Clan. As the Nine Nether Lineage invaded the southern provinces, Zhan Wuyuan arrived at the Ji Clan, where Yu Ling and two Shadow Guard commanders awaited him.

  • The Yu Clan ancestor and Yu Ling both broke through to Half-Saint, astonishing the Great Immortal Province, and Yu Ling left the clan to visit Ji Yaoyao.
  • Zhan Wuyuan reached Half-Saint in Qian Province and swore vengeance on the Ji Family and Ji Yaoyao.
  • Tens of millions of Nine Nether Lineage cultivators invaded the southern provinces, slaughtering all living creatures as the Ji Family and other cultivators mobilized to fight them.
  • Yu Ling told Ji Yaoyao that she had gained the Yu Clan's Great Emperor's inheritance and advanced within his secret realm.
  • Zhan Wuyuan appeared over Great Yan City and threatened to wipe out the Ji Clan.
  • Azure Dragon and White Tiger arrived to confront Zhan Wuyuan, having been stationed there by Ji Wuchang to kill him.

Ch. 1367Zhan Wuyuan Dies, All Head to the Front

Azure Dragon and White Tiger killed Zhan Wuyuan while protecting Ji Yaoyao, who then rallied Yan Province’s factions to join the war at the front. Ji Wuchang remained in secluded cultivation as the World-Destroying Millstone neared recovery, despite its constant drain on his spiritual power.

  • Azure Dragon and White Tiger attacked Zhan Wuyuan and repeatedly destroyed his body until White Tiger seized his Primordial Spirit, killing him completely.
  • White Tiger told Ji Yaoyao that Ji Wuchang remained in secluded cultivation and that they planned to head to the front.
  • Ji Yaoyao and Yu Ling decided to join the war, gathered nearly a hundred thousand cultivators from Yan Province, and led them toward the front.
  • Ji Wuchang continued cultivating as the World-Destroying Millstone recovered to around ninety-five percent, refining his spiritual power and feeding wisps of world-destroying power into his body.

Ch. 1368A brutal battle (Part one)

Ji Yuan gathered the human forces to resist the Nine Nether Lineage, which had slaughtered the inhabitants of every province it conquered. The battle began with a million ferocious beasts charging the alliance, and Ji Yuan’s forces met them with repeating crossbows and sword strikes.

  • The Second Ancestor reported that the Nine Nether Lineage had occupied six more provinces than before and slaughtered everyone there.
  • Ji Yuan assembled more than thirty Half-Saints, including representatives of several lineages, and warned them that the coming battle could bring heavy casualties.
  • Ji Yuan ordered the forces to fight the next day, recruit more cultivators, and evacuate civilians from behind their lines.
  • The alliance deployed fifty thousand repeating crossbows as the Nine-Headed Nether Beast led a million ferocious beasts into battle.
  • The crossbow bolts exploded among the beasts, and nearly a million cultivators followed with a barrage of sword light.

Ch. 1369A Brutal Battle (Part Two)

The Nine Nether Lineage unleashed its full forces on the alliance in Luohe Province, overwhelming its defenses and turning the battle into a vast slaughter. As the fighting continued, the blood from the battlefield flowed through a hidden formation into the Lord of the Nine Nether’s Blood Pool, accelerating his approach to becoming a Great Emperor.

  • Ji Yuan warned the Ji Family’s crossbowmen about the Nine Nether Divine Lightning, then charged the Nine-Headed Nether Beast and fought it high above the battlefield.
  • The Nine Nether Divine Lightning killed more than ten thousand crossbowmen, broke the alliance’s formation, and let ferocious beasts pour through its defenses.
  • The Three-Eyed Clan’s patriarch sent all five million of the Nine Nether Lineage’s ferocious beasts into battle, and the Second Ancestor answered by launching the alliance’s beasts against them.
  • The Nine Nether Lineage committed millions of cultivators to the battle, forcing the alliance’s fighters into scattered groups across Luohe Province.
  • Blood from the battlefield passed through a hidden formation and spatial passage into the Lord of the Nine Nether’s Blood Pool, where he said he would become a Great Emperor within about a month and a half.
  • Nine Nether Lineage fighters began self-destructing to kill their opponents, and a Supreme Realm Seventh Layer old man fled in terror.

Ch. 1370A brutal battle (Part two)

The Nine Nether Lineage’s clansmen fought recklessly under the Lord of the Nine Nether’s threat, while Ji Yuan struggled to defeat the Nine-Headed Nether Beast. Yu Ling arrived to save the Yu Clan’s ancestor, but after three days of battle, the alliance suffered over three million losses and retreated from Luohe Province.

  • The Nine Nether Lineage’s cultivators and Half-Saints detonated themselves to kill alliance fighters, driven by the Lord of the Nine Nether’s threat to slaughter their clans unless they brought enough blood.
  • Ji Yuan fought the Nine-Headed Nether Beast and realized the battle was costing the alliance millions of lives, but he could not force the beast back.
  • Yu Ling arrived with a Saint Weapon and killed two Half-Saints who had trapped the Yu Clan’s ancestor.
  • Savage beasts surrounded Yu Ling and the Yu Clan’s ancestor, preventing her from helping elsewhere as the battle continued.
  • After three days of fighting, the alliance lost more than three million people and withdrew from Luohe Province.

Ch. 1371The situation grew ever worse

As the alliance army regrouped in New Dragon Province, Ji Yuan and the other leaders realized the Nine Nether Lineage was collecting blood and souls while launching attacks across several provinces. Ji Yuan ordered a desperate counterattack, and Yu Ling left with Ji Yaoyao to defend Great Immortal Province as the Yu Clan's ancestor stayed behind.

  • The alliance army counted millions of dead cultivators and beasts after the battle in Luohe Province, then fortified its position in the New Dragon Mountain Range.
  • Ji Yuan, Chu Tianheng, and the other leaders questioned the Nine Nether Lineage's motives, while Chu Tianheng noted that battlefield blood and remnant souls were disappearing.
  • The Ji Family's Second Ancestor reported that Myriad Souls Hall had appeared in the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty's Capital and that Nine Nether forces were slaughtering people in several provinces, with another force heading for Fire Phoenix Province.
  • Ji Yuan recalled that the Myriad Souls Great Emperor had refined countless souls to become a Great Emperor and concluded the Nine Nether Lineage might be gathering blood and souls for a breakthrough.
  • Ji Yuan ordered the alliance to fight the Nine Nether Lineage, triggering brutal battles across multiple fronts.
  • Yu Ling and Ji Yaoyao departed for Great Immortal Province, while the Yu Clan's ancestor remained behind, prepared to risk his life.

Ch. 1372The World-Destroying Millstone recovers, Ji Wuchang arranges the Ji Family's evacuation

Ji Wuchang recovered his strength, refined the World-Destroying Millstone, and learned that a Chaos Vicious Beast was approaching the Ji Family estate. He ordered the family to evacuate to its ancestral grounds while he stayed behind, parting from Ji Zhiyi.

  • Ji Yuan and the allied army fought the Nine Nether Lineage for more than twenty days, and Ji Yuan slew the Nine-Headed Nether Beast with Chu Tianheng's help before suffering grave injuries.
  • Myriad Souls Hall cultivators attacked the Capital with the Wen Household's aid, while the Ji Family sent the Seventh Ancestor, the Fourth Elder, a Half-Saint vicious beast, and other elders to help defend it.
  • Ji Wuchang completed his recovery as the World-Destroying Millstone's crack vanished, then refined the millstone and revealed that he and his father had broken through on the same day.
  • Ji Wuchang told the First Ancestor that a Chaos Vicious Beast was approaching and ordered the Ji Family to evacuate to its ancestral grounds.
  • Ji Wuchang told Ji Zhiyi to leave with the children, but she refused and embraced him before he persuaded her that they would reunite soon.

Ch. 1373Exterminating the Myriad Souls Hall Cultivators

Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Souls Banner to crush the Myriad Souls Hall siege of the Capital, then returned to evacuate the Ji Family through an ancient teleportation array. After his family departed, he remained alone at the Ji Family grounds, his murderous intent rising.

  • Ji Wuchang comforted Ji Zhiyi, then tore through the void and arrived above the besieged Capital.
  • Ji Wuchang unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner, killing the four Half-Saints and slaughtering the Myriad Souls Hall forces attacking the imperial palace.
  • Ji Wuchang told the Seventh Ancestor and Ji Shen to finish off the remaining Myriad Souls Hall cultivators, then returned to the Ji Family.
  • The First Ancestor activated an ancient teleportation array, and the Ji Family members entered it in groups of ten thousand.
  • Ji Wuchang asked Ji Qinglan to help Ji Zhiyi care for Ji Yuechen, then stayed behind alone after everyone had departed.

Ch. 1374A Great Emperor's Lightning Tribulation, hearts gripped by fear

As the Lord of the Nine Nether began his Great Emperor tribulation, the allied forces in Heavenly Sword Province faced despair and the threat of defections. Ji Wuchang headed toward the Lord of the Nine Nether, while Ji Yuan prepared to deal with those planning to surrender.

  • Ji Wuchang sensed the Lord of the Nine Nether beginning his breakthrough and tore through the void to go confront him.
  • Ji Yuan learned that Ji Wuchang had reached the Saint King Realm, but the Lord of the Nine Nether’s Great Emperor tribulation soon filled the northern sky with clouds and lightning.
  • Yu Ling refused her ancestor’s plea to flee the Heavenly Chen Continent, believing Ji Wuchang had a plan and relying on the sealed strike she had obtained.
  • The Nine Nether Lineage cheered as the allied army’s morale collapsed, and some cultivators began considering surrender.
  • Ji Yuan ordered the Second Ancestor to let the defectors leave and vowed to destroy their clans before the Lord of the Nine Nether arrived.

Ch. 1375The State Preceptor Arrives

Ji Wuchang returned to his family, gave Ji Yuan three demon cores to help heal his injuries, and reunited with Yu Ling before gathering allies to discuss how to deal with the Lord of the Nine Nether. The meeting began with the arrival of Qing Shiwei, the State Preceptor Ji Wuchang had been waiting for.

  • Ji Wuchang gave Ji Yuan three demon cores and said he would explain everything the next day.
  • Ji Wuchang reunited with Yu Ling, and the two spent the night together.
  • Ji Wuchang emerged with Yu Ling and introduced her to the Yu Clan's ancestor, then joined Ji Yuan and the others.
  • Ji Wuchang told the gathered allies to wait for one more person before discussing how to deal with the Lord of the Nine Nether.
  • Qing Shiwei arrived, and Ji Yuan and the Second Ancestor recognized her as the State Preceptor.
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