Chapter Summaries

Di Chen shattered the Cangnan Domain Lord's Firmament Pagoda and wounded Li Xinghe, but the three Half-Emperors joined forces and left him severely injured. As they moved to finish him, Elder Wang arrived and stood between them and Di Chen.

• Di Chen was thrown back and bloodied when his first strike hit the Firmament Pagoda, then vowed to show the three Half-Emperors his true strength.
• Di Chen used Sword Shatters Sun and Moon to destroy the Firmament Pagoda and sent Li Xinghe crashing to the ground with a sword strike.
• The Cangnan Domain Lord, Li Xinghe, and the Imperial Preceptor joined their laws to the Firmament Pagoda and attacked Di Chen together, severely injuring him.
• Li Xinghe and the Imperial Preceptor believed Di Chen was defeated and approached to kill him, while onlookers assumed he had fallen.
• Elder Wang teleported to Di Chen's side, exchanged a blow with the Imperial Preceptor, and refused to surrender Di Chen.

Di Chen recovered from his injuries and unleashed the Law of the Sword, overwhelming the Cangnan Domain Lord and his allies. Just as he moved to finish the wounded Domain Lord, a powerful, mysterious figure emerged from a spatial rift and stopped his strike.

• Di Chen revealed that his Undying Sword Physique had healed his injuries, then stepped forward to confront Li Xinghe and the others.
• Di Chen’s Sword Intent manifested as the Law of the Sword, and his Sword Slays All Living Beings technique shattered the Firmament Pagoda.
• Di Chen’s sword gravely wounded the Cangnan Domain Lord and killed the Imperial Preceptor, while Li Xinghe’s dantian was destroyed and his cultivation was lost.
• Di Chen raised another sword strike against the Cangnan Domain Lord, but a massive black hand emerged from a spatial rift and dispersed it.
• A mysterious figure stepped out of the rift, rebuked Di Chen for trying to kill them all, and forced everyone present to their knees.

Di Chen faced a Great Emperor’s clone until his grandfather Di Ku arrived and overwhelmed the attacker. The Cangnan Domain Lord escaped in a burst of blood, and Di Ku offered to catch him.

• A Great Emperor’s clone struck Di Chen and summoned Cangxuan City to suppress him.
• Di Chen crushed the jade talisman given to him by the Tenth Ancestor, summoning his grandfather, Di Ku.
• Di Ku slapped the Great Emperor’s clone aside and stopped its halberd before destroying it.
• The Cangnan Domain Lord used Blood Escape to flee, and Di Ku asked Di Chen if he wanted him to pursue the man.

Di Ku appeared to protect Di Chen, destroyed a Great Emperor’s clone, and gave his grandson a ring before leaving. Di Chen killed Li Xinghe, ordered Elder Wang to punish those involved in the earlier attack, and later cultivated in a cave as rumors of his power spread throughout the Nine Heavens.

• Di Ku reunited with Wang Wu, then praised Di Chen and gave him a ring filled with jade talismans before departing.
• A middle-aged man discovered that his Great Emperor clone had been destroyed and set out to find the culprit.
• Di Chen killed Li Xinghe after revealing that he was from the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Di Chen ordered Elder Wang to punish everyone who had attacked him two years earlier and instructed him to leave most of the Domain Lord's Manor's resources behind.
• Stories about Di Chen spread throughout the Nine Heavens, and he cultivated in a cave while attempting another breakthrough.

Di Chen and Elder Wang traveled toward the Cangnan Dao Domain, crossing a dangerous gorge and entering the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. After spotting Fang Jiang and Yang Linna in a city, they continued into the mountains, where they encountered a wounded group pursued by three men.

• Di Chen gave Elder Wang precious heavenly treasures and chose to travel through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains rather than detour to the Misty Rain Pavilion.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang crossed a deep gorge, fought off demonic beasts, and entered a small city near the mountains.
• Di Chen recognized Fang Jiang and Yang Linna at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, while an unseen observer watched him and a red-haired man vowed revenge for his slain clansman.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang entered the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains despite warnings about powerful demonic beasts.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang encountered three wounded people being pursued by three fierce-looking men, and Di Chen asked Elder Wang why the pursuers ran like beasts.

Di Chen and Elder Wang rescued a woman from black monkeys and uncovered that someone had removed the marks once used to control them. After a group of black-robed cultivators attacked, Elder Wang killed them and learned through further soul searches that the events were part of a conspiracy by the previous Cangnan Domain Lord.

• Elder Wang struck down three black monkeys who had attacked a woman, and Di Chen told her to take her companions and leave.
• Di Chen ordered Elder Wang to search a black monkey’s soul, revealing that the black monkeys descended from slaves and had once been marked for remote control.
• Elder Wang suspected someone had removed the marks, while the black monkeys begged for mercy.
• Ten black-robed cultivators arrived, and Di Chen ordered Elder Wang to kill them.
• Elder Wang trapped the ten cultivators in a runic cage and destroyed them, then searched the souls of the two remaining black monkeys and discovered a conspiracy by the previous Cangnan Domain Lord.

Di Chen learned of the black monkeys’ history in the Cangnan Dao Domain and used a Location Space-Breaking Talisman to travel there with Elder Wang. After arriving in Cang City, he ordered Elder Wang to kill a black monkey and the woman who mourned him, then continued exploring the city.

• Elder Wang told Di Chen how the former Cangnan Domain Lord had enslaved black monkeys and how a mysterious woman later secured their equality, possibly with ties to the Holy Mother Sect.
• Elder Wang gave Di Chen three Location Space-Breaking Talismans, and Di Chen crushed one to travel with him to the Cangnan Dao Domain.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang arrived in Cang City and walked through its busy streets, where Di Chen admired the ordinary bustle.
• Di Chen ordered Elder Wang to kill a black monkey who threatened a kneeling woman, and Elder Wang pierced the black monkey with a streak of light.
• When the woman cursed the killer, Di Chen ordered Elder Wang to kill her too, and they left as the onlookers reacted.

Di Chen rejected Zi Yan’s invitation, then joined Elder Wang in attacking the Cangnan Domain Manor over its ties to the black monkeys. Elder Wang crippled a Quasi-Emperor and pursued the fleeing black monkey guards.

• Di Chen listened to diners discuss the black monkeys and missing girls in Cang City before refusing Zi Yan’s invitation to lunch.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang went to the Cangnan Domain Manor and unleashed an attack that shattered its formation and buildings.
• A thousand black monkey guards appeared, and onlookers recognized Di Chen and speculated about his ties to the Sword Sect.
• Elder Wang defeated a charging Quasi-Emperor with one punch and crippled him after Di Chen ordered him kept alive.
• Black monkey guards fled, and Elder Wang called them beasts as he prepared to pursue them.

Elder Wang destroyed the Black Gou Clan’s monkey army and tortured a surviving peak Quasi-Emperor for information, but an unknown powerful figure killed the captive before he could finish speaking. Di Chen confronted the mysterious figure, then left with Elder Wang as the conflict threatened to spread.

• At Di Chen’s order, Elder Wang killed all one thousand black monkeys and defeated their black-robed leader.
• Elder Wang revealed his Half-Emperor strength, captured the peak Quasi-Emperor, and tormented him until he agreed to share the Black Gou Clan’s secrets.
• The captive began explaining that the clan had members across multiple Dao Domains and the Immortal Domain, but an unseen attacker killed him.
• The unseen attacker killed another Quasi-Emperor before Di Chen detected him and shattered his attack with a sword strike.
• A golden-mist-shrouded figure mocked Di Chen and warned that someone would come to kill him, then vanished.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang departed, and the next day a shriek rang out across the heavens.

A treasure’s appearance drew powerful figures to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, including Di Chen and Lin Yuyu. After Di Chen entered the mountains with Elder Wang, the crowd recognized him as the feared Baleful God, while Lin Yuyu also headed toward the depths.

• Auspicious clouds appeared over the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and Di Chen and Elder Wang set out from Cang City to investigate.
• Powerful figures from across the domains rushed toward the mountains as a dense, mysterious presence suggested an immortal treasure had emerged.
• Lin Yuyu arrived in a golden war chariot, dismissed Zhao Yang and the other young geniuses, and looked toward the mountains’ depths.
• A young man recognized Di Chen as the Baleful God, and the crowd gave him a wide berth as he entered the mountains with Elder Wang.
• Lin Yuyu flew toward the depths, while many onlookers followed and others stayed behind, afraid to enter.