Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ji Wuchang revealed that the recovered World-Destroying Millstone could easily kill the Lord of the Nine Nether, but he planned to trap him and use his power to strengthen their allies. After laying out the Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor formation, he left everyone considering the plan’s chances of success.

• Ji Wuchang showed the World-Destroying Millstone and explained that it was his life-bound Chaos Divine Weapon, fully recovered and capable of suppressing the Lord of the Nine Nether.
• Ji Wuchang proposed the Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor formation to trap the Lord of the Nine Nether and channel his power into the formation’s operators.
• Ji Wuchang revealed the Heaven-Devouring Jar, Myriad Souls Banner, Heavenly Chen Cauldron, and Nine Nether Tower as the four Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons needed for the formation.
• Ji Wuchang assigned Ji Yuan, Yu Ling, the Yu Clan Ancestor, Chu Tianheng, and Qing Shiwei to operate the weapons, predicting breakthroughs for the group and warning Yu Ling not to rush into a tribulation.
• Ji Yuan and the others studied the ancient scroll describing the formation, then Ji Yuan asked Ji Wuchang how likely the plan was to succeed.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yuan prepared to kill the Lord of the Nine Nether as he completed his breakthrough, while the allied army grew frightened and divided. The Lord of the Nine Nether arrived in Heavenly Sword Province as a Great Emperor, and three Half-Saints from the Heavenly Sword Sect knelt to submit to him.

• Ji Wuchang persuaded the others that they could use the Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor formation and the World-Destroying Millstone to kill the Lord of the Nine Nether, then planned to send disloyal factions to die fighting the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Yuan and the Ji Family set up the formation in secret, while Ji Wuchang spent the following days with Qing Shiwei, Yu Ling, and Ji Yaoyao.
• As panic spread through the allied army, Ji Yuan told the Nangong Family's ancestor and the Xia Family's ancestor that he and Ji Wuchang would strike first and urged them to watch the fence-sitters.
• The Lord of the Nine Nether completed his Lightning Tribulation and crossed millions of li to arrive above Heavenly Sword Province.
• The Nine Nether Lineage hailed him as the Nine Nether Great Emperor, while three Heavenly Sword Sect Half-Saints and their descendants knelt and offered to become his servants.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yuan trapped the Lord of the Nine Nether in a formation powered by four Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons, draining his strength as the Heavenly Chen Continent fought the Nine Nether Lineage. The Emperor’s aura awakened the weapons fully, leaving the six figures protected while the battle raged below.

• The Lord of the Nine Nether mocked Ji Yuan and Ji Wuchang, then attacked them, only for their apparent bodies to vanish as soul avatars.
• Ji Wuchang activated the Four Ghosts Refining an Emperor Formation, which bound the Lord of the Nine Nether and drained his aura into six figures.
• Ji Yuan ordered the Heavenly Chen Continent to attack the Nine Nether Lineage while the Lord of the Nine Nether urged his followers to break the formation.
• The Second Ancestor, Fifth Ancestor, and others attacked three human Half-Saints who had sided with the Nine Nether Lineage, and the fighting spread across Heavenly Sword Province.
• Ji Wuchang warned those secretly allied with the Nine Nether Lineage to turn against them or face extermination after the war.
• The Lord of the Nine Nether unleashed his full power, triggering the four Emperor Weapons to awaken completely and shield Ji Wuchang, Yu Ling, and the others.

The Lord of the Nine Nether was drained of his power and destroyed, while the six cultivators absorbed his power of principle and advanced. As lightning tribulations gathered, Ji Wuchang began killing the Nine Nether Lineage’s allies and collecting their Primordial Spirits.

• Yu Ling broke through to Saint King, followed by Qing Shiwei and Chu Tianheng as they absorbed the Lord of the Nine Nether’s power.
• Ji Wuchang transformed into a Taotie and broke through to Quasi-Emperor as the Lord of the Nine Nether’s true body withered in Chaos.
• Yu Ling lent her spiritual power to the Yu Clan ancestor, who broke through to Saint King.
• The Lord of the Nine Nether and his true body were reduced to ash, ending his Great Emperor reign and releasing the six from the four Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons.
• Ji Wuchang told everyone to split up for their lightning tribulations, then killed a Half-Saint of the Nine Nether Clan and seized the Three-Eyed Clan chief’s Primordial Spirit.

Ji Wuchang and his allies destroyed the Nine Nether Lineage while six experts completed Lightning Tribulations and rose to new realms. After Ji Wuchang finished his own tribulation, he hurried back to the Ji Family over a crisis involving the World-Destroying Millstone.

• Ji Wuchang killed three more Half-Saints, while the remaining Nine Nether Lineage cultivators were slaughtered and more than ten million were nearly exterminated.
• The Yu Clan's ancestor, Chu Tianheng, Qing Shiwei, Ji Yuan, and Yu Ling completed their tribulations over the following days, attaining powerful new realms.
• Ji Yuan sent the Second Ancestor and Fifth Ancestor north with a hundred thousand Ji Family cultivators to claim the Nine Nether Lineage's territory.
• Yu Ling asked the Yu Clan's ancestor to let Yu Gang become clan head and said she planned to explore new worlds with Ji Wuchang; the ancestor told her their Great Emperor might still be alive in Chaos.
• After completing his tribulation on the twentieth day, Ji Wuchang returned to the Ji Family to handle a matter involving the World-Destroying Millstone.