Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang killed the red flood dragon and silver snake, broke the formation beneath the plaza, and absorbed a mysterious white light before escaping the valley. The hall master of Myriad Souls Hall arrived too late, recognized the Ji Family’s presence, and vowed revenge.

• Ji Wuchang severed the red flood dragon and silver snake, absorbed their bodies into the Heaven-Devouring Jar, and collected four beads containing powerful principles.
• Ji Wuchang shattered the plaza’s formation with the Yellow Springs Ashen Annihilation Slash and seized a mysterious white light that merged into his body.
• Sensing a powerful presence approaching, Ji Wuchang escaped the valley and used a jade token to enter a spatial passage.
• The hall master of Myriad Souls Hall arrived in the valley, discovered that the hidden treasure had been taken, and followed Ji Wuchang’s trail.
• The hall master recognized the Ji Family’s presence and swore to kill the person who had taken the treasure; he was an avatar of the Lord of the Nine Nether.

Ji Wuchang returned from the Purgatory Mystic Realm far stronger than before and reunited with Ji Zhiyi, who had advanced her cultivation and was carrying their child. Their time together was interrupted by news that the Myriad Souls Hall and Nine Nether Lineage had allied and begun slaughtering cultivators across three provinces.

• Ji Wuchang emerged from the Purgatory Mystic Realm, and his overwhelming Sha Qi shocked Ji Boshang and the Ji Family elders.
• Ji Wuchang reunited with Ji Zhiyi, who had reached the Supreme Realm fifth level peak and gained more than a hundred devil cores from him to strengthen her bloodline.
• Ji Wuchang checked on Ji Qinglan and learned that she was asleep while awakening her bloodline power.
• Ji Wuchang spent several days with Ji Zhiyi before an old woman reported that the Myriad Souls Hall and Nine Nether Lineage had joined forces and seized Long River Province, White Ape Province, and Azure Sea Province.
• The old woman said the allied forces had massacred cultivators in the three provinces and were collecting remnant souls and Primordial Spirits.

Ji Wuchang learned of the Nine Nether Lineage’s growing threat and the latest dangers facing his allies and the Ji Clan. In seclusion, he fused the white flame from the Purgatory Mystic Realm with his two Divergent Flames and began refining Principles in pursuit of Half-Saint.

• Ji Zhaojin told Ji Wuchang that Chu Tianheng had reached Half-Saint and led an alliance against the Nine Nether Lineage, while Yu Ling entered her clan’s secret realm and Zhan Wuyuan announced his plan to destroy the Ji Clan.
• Ji Wuchang went into seclusion after Ji Zhiyi prepared to test the new demonic cores.
• Ji Wuchang swallowed the white pearl from the great white bird, and its flame devoured the Thousand Star Flame and Glacial Glazed Fire.
• Ji Wuchang imprinted his soul on the resulting icy-blue flame, which held specks of starlight and surpassed the power of the three original flames.
• Ji Wuchang began merging streams of Power of Principle into his body to pursue a breakthrough to Half-Saint.

As the Nine Nether Lineage ravaged the Heavenly Chen Continent, Chu Tianheng warned Heavenly Chen Academy that the Myriad Souls Hall might be gathering spirits to create a Great Emperor. He sent Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang to alert the Ji Family, leaving the academy to brace for the danger.

• The Myriad Souls Hall and the Nine Nether Lineage attacked across the continent, and Chu Tianheng’s forces withdrew to defend Heavenly Chen Academy after the Myriad Souls Hall master wounded him.
• The Myriad Souls Hall master failed to breach the academy’s defenses, which were protected by the Heavenly Chen Cauldron.
• Chu Tianheng told the academy’s leaders that the Nine Nether Lineage was collecting remnant souls and primordial spirits to create a Great Emperor.
• Chu Tianheng reasoned that the absent Lord of the Nine Nether and the Myriad Souls Hall master’s rapid rise supported his suspicions, and urged the factions to unite against them.
• Xiao Xueguang and Zhen Xian volunteered to warn the Ji Family, and Chu Tianheng gave each a jade slip containing one of his full-power strikes.
• Zhen Xian asked Zhen Qingqing to remain with Leng Si, then departed with Xiao Xueguang for the Ji Family.

Ji Zhiyi emerged from seclusion as a Supreme Realm Seventh Layer cultivator, while the First Ancestor and Ji Wuchang each underwent Half-Saint Lightning Tribulations. Ji Wuchang’s tribulation lasted five days and nights, leaving the Ji Family in awe of his strength.

• Ji Zhiyi emerged from a month and a half of seclusion after two demon cores helped her advance from the Supreme Realm Fifth Level to the Seventh Layer.
• Thunderclouds gathered over the Ji Family, and the First Ancestor flew away from the family to undergo a Half-Saint Lightning Tribulation.
• Ji Wuchang appeared from the rear mountain and used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to move far from the Ji Family before his own tribulation began.
• The First Ancestor’s tribulation ended after two days and nights, and he returned to the Ji Family with a rejuvenated appearance and the strength of a Half-Saint.
• Ji Wuchang’s more powerful Lightning Tribulation lasted five days and nights before dispersing, deepening the Ji Family’s reverence for him.

Ji Wuchang arrived in the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty to deal with a rebellion backed by the Nine Nether Lineage and Myriad Souls Hall. After planning to let the enemy gather in the Capital so the Ji Family could eliminate them at once, he went to Heavenly Secrets Hall to confront the Imperial Preceptor, who had refused to see him.

• Ji Wuchang arrived in the Capital with Ji Boshang and other Ji Family members after four lineages rebelled and escaped the Ji Family's attack.
• Ji Shen told Ji Wuchang that the Wang, Cao, Bai, and He Families had joined the rebellion, and that traces of the Nine Nether Lineage and Myriad Souls Hall had been found.
• Ji Boshang argued that the rebellion was meant to tie down the Ji Family while the Nine Nether Lineage pursued a larger plan, and Ji Wuchang agreed.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Ji Boshang to reveal his presence and let the enemy bring more forces into the Capital so the Ji Family could destroy them together, while keeping Ji Wuchang's own arrival secret.
• Ji Wuchang went to Heavenly Secrets Hall to question the Imperial Preceptor about his lost days and sudden breakthrough, but two maids told him she would not see him.
• Ji Wuchang threatened the maids, and his pressure made them tremble as he demanded they move aside.

Ji Wuchang confronted Qing Shiwei about conceiving his child, and the two reconciled as he named their unborn son Ji Yuezheng. Qing Shiwei then revealed the Lord of the Nine Nether's plan to gather souls and Primordial Spirits to reach Great Emperor, leaving Ji Wuchang weighing how to stop him.

• Ji Wuchang entered Qing Shiwei's tower room and accused her of knocking him unconscious to conceive his child.
• Qing Shiwei admitted her actions, and Ji Wuchang embraced and kissed her before she fell asleep in his arms.
• The next morning, Ji Wuchang named their unborn son Ji Yuezheng, and the child kicked in response.
• Qing Shiwei revealed that the Myriad Souls Hall Master was a clone of the Lord of the Nine Nether, who planned to use hundreds of millions of souls to become a Great Emperor.
• Qing Shiwei explained that destroying the clone would require two ultimate Dao emperor weapons, while destroying the gathered souls and Primordial Spirits would be even harder because most had already been delivered.

Qing Shiwei revealed the Lord of the Nine Nether’s origins and the hidden history behind the Heavenly Chen Continent’s Great Emperors and Nine Nether Lineage. Ji Wuchang was left weighing the danger of confronting the Lord and the significance of the Nine Nether Tower in his possession.

• Ji Wuchang considered Qing Shiwei’s revelation that the master of Myriad Souls Hall was an avatar of the Lord of the Nine Nether and weighed the difficulty of stopping him.
• Qing Shiwei described a last-resort formation that could let a Saint King contest the Lord of the Nine Nether for remnant souls and Primordial Spirits, though the attempt would provoke a destructive Lightning Tribulation and the Lord would survive.
• Qing Shiwei explained that the Lord of the Nine Nether came from chaos and recounted the origins and histories of the five Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons and their associated Great Emperors.
• Qing Shiwei said that Great Emperor Tianchen had summoned later Great Emperors to wage war in the universe and explained how the Nine Nether Clan and the true Nine Nether Lineage became one.
• Ji Wuchang realized the Nine Nether Tower’s presence in his hands might be fate and resolved to preserve a legacy for the Nine Nether Great Emperor.

Ji Wuchang responded as rebellious Capital families activated a teleportation formation to summon the Nine Nether Lineage. As the Capital erupted into battle, Shadow Guards struck the rebels’ hidden escape site outside the city.

• Cao Household’s ancestor rallied more than forty families and began activating a teleportation formation to bring Nine Nether Lineage cultivators into the Capital.
• Ji Wuchang assigned White Tiger to defend the imperial palace and went to confront the formation as Ji Boshang and others fought the rebels.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Vermilion Bird and Divine Martial to mobilize the Shadow Guards and leave no one alive among the rebellious families’ forces.
• At a valley outside the Capital, a figure destroyed the formation prepared for nearly twenty thousand younger members of the rebellious families.

Ji Wuchang and the Ji Family crushed the forces attacking the Capital, while Qing Shiwei killed a Supreme Realm ninth layer cultivator at the imperial palace. Ji Wuchang slaughtered the invading army with the Myriad Souls Banner and ordered Ji Boshang to hunt down the remaining looters.

• Black-clad figures slaughtered nearly twenty thousand people in the valley and collected their storage rings.
• Ji Shen’s allies fought the palace invaders, and Qing Shiwei killed a Supreme Realm ninth layer cultivator with a massive sword strike.
• Ji Wuchang sealed the courtyard in spatial barriers as more than ten thousand cultivators emerged from a teleportation formation, including human cultivators who had joined the Nine Nether Lineage.
• The Cao Household’s ancestor and other trapped cultivators broke through a barrier, but Ji Wuchang’s Myriad Souls Banner killed them and absorbed their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Wuchang collected the storage rings and told Ji Boshang to exterminate the remaining looters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.