Chapter Summaries

At the border of Nan Province, Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang held off two Northern Nether Sea Kings while Elder Jiang fought the Ink Shark King in a battle of mutual destruction. Elder Jiang sealed the basin and began sacrificing himself to annihilate everything inside it, declaring that the Ink Shark King would die.

• Meng Kuo blocked the Sea-Overturning King's attacks in the western sky and refused to let him advance.
• Xun Kuang used his righteous Qi domain to neutralize She Ming's attacks and keep him pinned down.
• Elder Jiang and the Ink Shark King traded devastating wounds, and the Ink Shark King realized Elder Jiang was near the end of his lifespan.
• When the Ink Shark King tried to flee, Elder Jiang used his essence blood to seal the basin in a spatial cage.
• Elder Jiang invoked Space Return to the Ruins, causing the basin and the Ink Shark King's Black Water Domain to collapse as he pronounced the Ink Shark King's death.

Elder Jiang used Return to the Ruins to destroy the Ink Shark King, then disappeared after seeing the Blackwater Domain Crystal left behind. With the battle reduced to two against two, the Sea-Overturning King and She Ming turned their attention to the crystal, and the Sea-Overturning King attacked Xun Kuang.

• Elder Jiang's Return to the Ruins erased the Ink Shark King's Black Water Domain and consumed him despite his desperate plea for help.
• Meng Kuo held the Sea-Overturning King back while Xun Kuang's rules prevented She Ming from leaving the eastern battlefield.
• The Ink Shark King's body dissipated into a Blackwater Domain Crystal, and Elder Jiang vanished after saying he had paved the road for Great Qin's future.
• The Sea-Overturning King and She Ming focused on seizing the crystal, while Xun Kuang declared that Great Qin would take it.
• The Sea-Overturning King ignored Meng Kuo and attacked Xun Kuang, whom he considered the weaker target.

Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang fought to protect the Blackwater Domain Crystal from the Sea-Overturning King and She Ming, but the crystal vanished at the moment all four King Realm experts attacked. Xun Kuang sensed a familiar trace and looked toward Xianyang, leaving the crystal’s whereabouts—and the culprit—unknown.

• The Sea-Overturning King attacked the Domain Crystal while She Ming sent shadow power toward it, but Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang blocked them.
• The Sea-Overturning King unleashed Ten Thousandfold Sea Pressure as She Ming’s spirit snake attacked Xun Kuang’s line of order, forcing Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang to move against the crystal too.
• The Blackwater Domain Crystal flashed with dark-gold light and vanished just before the four King Realm powers struck, causing their attacks to collide and injure them all.
• The Sea-Overturning King accused Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang of plotting to steal the crystal and threatened to raze Nan Province, but Meng Kuo denied having it.
• Xun Kuang told Meng Kuo that the trace left by the disappearance seemed familiar, then turned his gaze toward Xianyang.

Su Yu refused Elder Jiang’s Law of Space crystal so he could continue forging his own path, and Li Ning delivered the inheritance to Emperor Ying Lin. Ying Lin revealed that he had secretly claimed the Ink Shark King’s domain crystal and ordered the Flood Dragon Clan wiped out in Elder Jiang’s memory.

• Li Ning explained that Elder Jiang had left behind a Law of Space crystal, but Su Yu refused to use it and bowed to honor the fallen protector.
• Li Ning brought the Law of Space crystal to Ying Lin and reported Elder Jiang’s death and the events in Nan Province.
• Li Ning recognized the Ink Shark King’s Black Water Domain crystal in Ying Lin’s hand and realized the emperor had retrieved it from the distant battlefield.
• Ying Lin placed the Black Water Domain crystal beside Elder Jiang’s legacy and ordered the Flood Dragon Clan wiped out as an offering to him.

Ying Lin entered the Northern Nether Sea and attacked Jiao Guang to avenge Elder Jiang. Their Emperor Realm battle tore apart the Crystal Palace and devastated the sea, and they remained locked in combat.

• After Li Ning left the imperial study, Ying Lin vanished from Xianyang and appeared before Jiao Guang in the Crystal Palace.
• Ying Lin told Jiao Guang that he had received Elder Jiang's life and that the Northern Nether Sea would repay its debt.
• Ying Lin struck the Crystal Palace with a sword of rules, and Jiao Guang transformed into a giant flood dragon to meet the attack.
• Their collision destroyed the Crystal Palace, killed nearby water demons, and sent immense waves across the Northern Nether Sea.
• Ying Lin vowed to leave the Northern Nether without a single dragon, and he and Jiao Guang continued fighting as their powers split the sea and sky.

After Ying Lin and Jiao Guang vanished into the void to continue their battle, Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya discovered an ancient source beneath the Northern Nether Sea and descended to claim it. At the sea eye, a vast primordial will awakened and reduced their followers to ash.

• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya arrived at the devastated coastline after the Emperor Realm battle moved beyond mortal reach.
• Zhou Tong pointed out the exposed Ancestral Source of the Dragon Vein beneath the ruined Crystal Palace, and Nie Wuya agreed to help retrieve it.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya descended into the abyss while Nie Wuya's cultists formed a concealment formation above.
• They found a gigantic skeleton surrounding a blue sea-eye vortex at the abyss's bottom.
• The vortex awakened an ancient will, and the followers who had reached the bottom silently turned to ash.

Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya escaped the abyssal force that killed their followers, while cultists returned to harvest the battlefield’s demon corpses. The Lava Lobster King drove the cultists away, then noticed a fleeting golden light at the bottom of the abyss.

• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya survived the awakening beneath the sea but suffered severe injuries and fled, leaving their dead followers behind.
• Nie Wuya suggested that someone should answer for their factions’ losses, but Zhou Tong told him to survive first and vanished.
• Cultists from the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and the Demon God Cult arrived and harvested demon corpses across the battlefield.
• The Lava Lobster King appeared and scattered the cultists with its King Realm pressure.
• The Lava Lobster King spotted a faint golden point of light at the bottom of the abyss and wondered what it was.

Jiao Ba arrived at the ruined Northern Nether Sea, subdued the Lava Lobster King, and discovered that something had gnawed away part of the Flood Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Source of the Dragon Vein. Meanwhile, Ying Lin and Jiao Guang ended their three-day battle in the endless void, where Jiao Guang had lost.

• The Lava Lobster King sensed a strange golden light in the abyss but abandoned its plans to investigate when Jiao Ba’s overwhelming will descended.
• Jiao Ba appeared and listened as the Lava Lobster King recounted Jiao Wu’s defeat, the emperors’ battle, and the demonic fiends’ arrival.
• Jiao Ba used his Demonic Power to sink the demon corpses and mend the shattered seabed, then saw that the Ancestral Source of the Dragon Vein had been partly gnawed away.
• Jiao Ba remarked that the Flood Dragon Emperor was fighting Ying Lin while their home’s roots were being damaged, and noticed that a true dragon had emerged in the Great Qin Dynasty.
• After three days and nights of fighting, Ying Lin and Jiao Guang stood apart in the endless void, and the wounded Jiao Guang had lost.

Ying Lin ended his confrontation with Jiao Guang by establishing a Hundred-Year Pact that made Nan Province the battlefield between Great Qin and the Northern Nether Sea. After returning to Xianyang, he announced the pact and promised rich rewards to those who fought, leaving the empire mobilizing for war.

• Ying Lin refused to use his remaining sword strike against Jiao Guang, explaining that killing him would cost Great Qin thirty percent of its national fortune and expose it to other enemies.
• Ying Lin and Jiao Guang agreed to a Hundred-Year Pact: their Emperor Realm forces would not attack each other, and their peoples would contest Nan Province, with victory determining the fate of Great Qin or the Northern Nether Sea.
• Ying Lin returned to the imperial study, ordered Elder Jiang buried with full honors as the Sea-Pacifying King, and proclaimed the pact and military rewards to Great Qin.
• Ying Lin ordered the national treasury to triple supplies for those joining the Nan Province battlefield and predicted that the Northern Nether Sea would fall to Great Qin within decades.
• Across Great Qin, nobles, retired soldiers, monks, and Rogue Cultivator martial artists prepared to fight for the promised titles and rewards.

After hearing that Ying Lin had opened the Demon Suppression Bureau’s stores to him and would not wait a hundred years to confront the Northern Nether, Su Yu refused to rush to Nan Province as a pawn. He spent all one million Slaughter Points improving the Nine Heavens Thunder Control True Art, breaking through to Spirit Refinement Heaven Realm Fifth Level.

• Li Ning told Su Yu that the Demon Suppression Bureau’s stores were completely open to him and relayed Ying Lin’s message that he could not wait a hundred years.
• Su Yu realized that Ying Lin intended to use the Nan Province war to prepare him for the Emperor Realm, but decided he wanted to be able to overturn the board rather than serve as a pawn.
• Su Yu entered his secluded chamber and chose to spend all his Slaughter Points on the Nine Heavens Thunder Control True Art.
• The system raised the art to greater mastery, triggering a breakthrough in Su Yu’s Spirit Refinement cultivation to Heaven Realm Fifth Level.

After reaching the fifth level of the Heaven Realm, Su Yu was ordered to rush to Yang Province, where devils had massacred three cities and begun blood sacrifice formations. He arrived in Qingyang City and faced the Blood-Winged Wolf Devil, whose attack vanished before reaching him.

• Su Yu broke through to the fifth level of the Heaven Realm and gained a rudimentary ability to wield the rule of disintegration.
• Li Ning sent Su Yu an emergency report that three high-level Heaven Realm greater demons had attacked Qingyang, Luoxia, and Yunshui, wiping out the local Demon Suppression Bureau branches.
• Su Yu suspected the attacks might be a trap but left for Yang Province to stop the blood sacrifices.
• In Qingyang City, the Blood-Winged Wolf Devil prepared a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation atop a mound of corpses.
• Su Yu confronted the Blood-Winged Wolf Devil, and its Devil Wolf Howls at the Moon attack disappeared against an invisible barrier in front of him.

Su Yu killed the Blood-Winged Wolf Devil in Azure Yang City and learned that three sacrificial pillars were meant to summon the Devil Race’s king. He raced to Falling Rosy Clouds City, where the Ten Thousand Illusions Heart Turtle attacked his soul with an illusion.

• Su Yu erased the Heaven Realm eighth-level Blood-Winged Wolf Devil with a single bolt of rule-level lightning.
• The dying devil revealed that sacrificial pillars in Azure Yang, Falling Rosy Clouds, and Cloud Water would summon its king, then its remnant soul was purified.
• Su Yu received distress signals from Falling Rosy Clouds City and Cloud Water City and chose to head to the nearer Falling Rosy Clouds City.
• After Su Yu left, Zhou Tong appeared in Azure Yang City, assessed Su Yu’s lightning arts, and said the bait had been swallowed.
• Su Yu arrived in Falling Rosy Clouds City and saw its residents trapped in a deadly illusion created by the Heaven Realm ninth-level Ten Thousand Illusions Heart Turtle.
• The Ten Thousand Illusions Heart Turtle sent a powerful illusion wave toward Su Yu’s soul and sea of consciousness.

Su Yu killed the Rotting Fallen Plague Devil in Cloud Water City, completing his assault on all three great demons. As the city’s powerless formation continued to turn, he sensed that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s real backup move was about to arrive.

• Su Yu shattered the Ten Thousand Illusions Heart Turtle’s illusion and destroyed its soul by striking the faces covering its shell with lightning.
• Su Yu spotted a Blood Baleful Intent Hall observer but let them escape, suspecting Cloud Water City was the site of the real ambush.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya watched Su Yu approach Cloud Water City, and Zhou Tong dismissed the two slain demons as pawns.
• Su Yu used Devil-Breaking Divine Thunder mixed with Buddhist essence to purify the poison, the Rotting Fallen Plague Devil, and its domain.
• Su Yu saw that the city’s formation kept turning despite losing its power and braced for the coming backup move.

Su Yu faced Baer, the Battle-Mad Demon General who came through a devil-domain gate to avenge the Bone-Eroding Demon General. Their fight began with Baer’s physical might matching Su Yu’s lightning defenses, and Baer ended the chapter trapped in Thunder Prison but still powering through it.

• After the Rotting Fallen Plague Devil was purified, three blood-red pillars converged above Yunshui City and opened a gate to the devil domain.
• Baer emerged from the gate, identified Su Yu as the one who killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General, and challenged him to fight.
• Baer struck Su Yu with a punch, but Su Yu blocked it with Thunder Wall, scorching Baer’s fist with lightning.
• Baer healed his wound and condemned Su Yu’s lightning arts before rushing around the Thunder Wall to close the distance.
• Su Yu trapped Baer in Thunder Prison, but Baer endured the lightning and unleashed a surge of Devil Qi.

Su Yu wounded Baer with annihilation lightning before switching to the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture and overpowering him in close combat. Baer awakened his Devil King blood, summoned the Abyss Bone-Shattering Halberd, and unleashed a storm of attacks that engulfed Su Yu.

• Su Yu broke Baer's lightning restraints and slashed through his arms and chest with an annihilation lightning saber.
• Su Yu transformed his lightning saber into dark-gold devil-flame armor and charged Baer in close combat.
• Su Yu's Wisdom King Prison-Subduing Aspect struck Baer back and broke his right arm in a contest of strength.
• Baer consumed the power of his injured arm, awakened his Devil King blood, and summoned the Abyss Bone-Shattering Halberd.
• Baer regenerated his arm and attacked Su Yu with a storm of halberd strikes.

Su Yu endured Baer’s relentless halberd assault before revealing the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture’s perfected Extreme Hell Fierce Demon Body. He overwhelmed Baer with a brutal counterattack, ending the chapter as a demon-god phantom struck the demon general in the back.

• Baer unleashed Three Thousand Devil Prison Slashes, cracking Su Yu’s Wisdom King Prison-Subduing Aspect and driving him into a crater.
• Su Yu announced that his warm-up was over and transformed into the Extreme Hell Fierce Demon Body.
• Su Yu vanished from Baer’s senses, appeared in front of him, and caught the Bone-Shattering Halberd with one hand.
• Su Yu punched Baer through his armor, then stomped his abdomen and struck his spine with a flaming elbow.
• Su Yu intercepted Baer as he fell and struck him in the back with a crimson-gold demon-god phantom.

Su Yu defeated Baer and unleashed the Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus, but Baer survived after Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya rescued him. Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya appeared before Su Yu, and Zhou Tong declared that Su Yu had to die.

• Su Yu battered Baer into a crater and gathered Buddhist essence and devil flames into the Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus.
• Su Yu sent the lotus toward Baer, but it exploded and obliterated Cloud Water City, leaving a gigantic sinkhole.
• Su Yu realized Baer was still alive and that someone had rescued him, then looked toward Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya's hiding place.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya emerged from distorted space while Baer's battered body remained inside a spatial rift.
• Zhou Tong told Su Yu that his talent made him too dangerous and declared that he would kill him, while Su Yu mocked him as a rat.

Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya attacked Su Yu with their strongest techniques, but Zheng Xuan intervened under the Qin Emperor’s orders and protected him. The imperial guard commander confronted the two King Realm experts and asked whether they intended to obstruct his escort mission.

• Su Yu mocked Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya for fearing his future strength, while the two prepared to kill him.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya unleashed Blood River Surges to the Heavens and Ten Thousand Demons Devour Souls against Su Yu.
• Zheng Xuan emerged from underground and used Thick Earth Domain to shield Su Yu from both attacks.
• Zheng Xuan identified himself as commander of the Imperial City Guard Army, sent by His Majesty to protect Su Yu.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya realized the Qin Emperor had secretly assigned a King Realm eighth level guard to Su Yu.
• Zheng Xuan told Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya that he had orders to escort Su Yu and asked whether they intended to stand in his way.

Zheng Xuan protected Su Yu from Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya, whose attacks could not break his defensive domain. Su Yu let the two escape so they would warn the forces behind them, and he vowed to settle his debts in person.

• Nie Wuya accused Zheng Xuan of interfering in a personal feud, and Su Yu mocked him and Zhou Tong for joining forces to ambush a Heaven Realm cultivator.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya attacked Zheng Xuan, but his Myriad Phenomena Wall absorbed their strikes without a ripple.
• Zheng Xuan prepared to stop the two as they fled, but Su Yu told him to let them go and warned them to wash their necks and wait for him.
• Zhou Tong warned that the Qin Emperor could not protect Su Yu forever, then he and Nie Wuya vanished.
• Su Yu explained that he had let them escape to warn the forces hiding in the shadows, and Zheng Xuan reassessed the young Demon Suppression Envoy.

After purging Yang Province of the remaining demonic forces, Su Yu headed toward Nan Province, determined to grow stronger as enemies closed in. The Blood Baleful Intent Hall learned of his power and Zheng Xuan’s protection, and its sixth hall master set out to hunt him beyond Great Qin’s borders.

• Su Yu swept Yang Province with his divine sense and destroyed the remaining demon strongholds, including two hidden branches of the Demon God Cult.
• Zhou Tong reached the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s underground palace and used the highest-grade Blood Baleful Intent Decree to summon the hall masters.
• Zhou Tong showed the hall masters how Su Yu defeated Baer and how Zheng Xuan blocked the combined attack of Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya.
• The hall masters concluded that Ying Lin regarded Su Yu as a future pillar of Great Qin and feared Zheng Xuan’s protection.
• The sixth hall master volunteered to pursue Su Yu beyond Great Qin’s borders and asked Zhou Tong to send him all available information.