Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao defeated the Two-Headed White Moon Wolf with his Battle Art and Battle Saint Physique, then used his master's talismans to escape four would-be robbers. He was found at the blast site by Flame Tribe disciples heading to an ironstone mine.

• Shi Hao fought the Two-Headed White Moon Wolf, whose Wolf King Bloodline failed against Shi Hao's Battle Saint Physique, and beat it to death.
• Four Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators demanded that Shi Hao hand over a treasure and threatened to kill him.
• Shi Hao threw two talismans that obliterated the four attackers, nearly injuring himself in the explosion.
• Flame Tribe disciples arrived after hearing the blast, and a young girl in a flower-patterned dress found Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao learned that the newcomers were Flame Tribe disciples on their way to an ironstone mine, and that their tribe tempered its flesh with flames.

Yagyu Tajima no Kami saved Zhikong and the Eighteen Arhats from a demonic dragon, then fought off the Demon Race’s Saint-level attackers. After Yagyu revealed his name, the Demon Race army retreated.

• Zhikong and the Eighteen Arhats fought a black flood dragon, and Zhikong awakened the power of his Buddha-Demon Physique when they were overwhelmed.
• Yagyu Tajima no Kami severed the dragon’s tail and destroyed its external incarnation, then cut through the demonic beasts.
• Yagyu faced three waves of Saint-level demonic might and killed the black flood dragon with a single slash.
• Yagyu killed another demon who called for the Black Tiger to join the fight, then stood before the demonic beast army and gave his name.
• The Demon Race army retreated, leaving Zhikong and the Eighteen Arhats stunned by Yagyu’s strength.

Demonic armies poured through the Southern Region’s borders and overwhelmed the factions’ disciples, forcing the Sword Sect into a desperate retreat. Jian Wuji stayed behind to fight the demons, while the Sword Sect’s warship escaped after its aurora cannon wounded a greater demon.

• The Sword Sect and other major factions sent disciples out to hunt demonic beasts, unaware that vast demon armies had appeared along the Southern Region’s borders.
• The Sword Sect’s disciples fought the invading demons, but the growing horde overwhelmed them and killed their elders and senior disciples.
• Jian Wuji killed a mid-stage Spirit Body Realm demon genius with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect, then faced more than a dozen Spirit Body demons.
• Jian Wuji urged the Ninth Elder to take the others away and left alone to hold off the demons.
• More than a hundred Spirit Body Realm demons and a Body Integration Realm greater demon attacked the Sword Sect’s warship, whose aurora cannon devastated the demons and gravely wounded the greater demon before the ship fled.

Ye Changge used his monthly rewards to strengthen himself and his followers, then summoned the hundred-thousand Hell Legion to save humanity from the invading Demon Race. Under Black Impermanence’s command, the legion joined the Barbarian Race’s battle and annihilated the demon army.

• Ye Changge checked in, gained fifty years of cultivation, and rose to the peak of the early Great Emperor stage.
• Ye Changge used a Disciple Breakthrough Card, advancing Hua Qianyue and the dancing disciples by a major realm; Hua Qianyue thanked him with a kiss on the cheek.
• The system gave Ye Changge a mission to save humanity within half a month or lose cultivation, and he summoned the hundred-thousand Hell Legion led by Black Impermanence.
• Ye Changge named the force the Forbidden Zone First Legion, or Hell, and sent it to help the Barbarian Race fight the Demon Race.
• Black Impermanence led the Hell Legion into battle, and the Barbarian King rallied his forces as they attacked.
• Within five minutes, the Hell Legion and the Barbarian Race annihilated the demon army and burned away the Yao Qi.

Black Impermanence led the Hell Legion in a devastating assault on the Demon Race along the southern border, killing a Wind and Thunder Demon Saint with the Soul-Hooking Hook. When a Green Mountain Great Saint confronted his army, the first vanguard formed the Hell Battle Formation and wounded him, provoking his fury.

• Black Impermanence charged the Demon Race’s southern army with his troops and the Hell Legion, killing more than a hundred thousand demons.
• Black Impermanence used the Soul-Hooking Hook to kill the Wind and Thunder Demon Saint, whose corpse the Three-Headed Dog of Hell devoured to grow stronger.
• Black Impermanence and his army annihilated the Demon Race’s experts and forces on the southern border.
• The Green Mountain Great Saint descended to attack Black Impermanence’s army as it moved toward another region.
• The first vanguard formed the Hell Battle Formation, and its commander used the Thirteen Spears of Hell to pierce the Great Saint’s palm and wound him.

The First Vanguard and Black Impermanence defeated two Green Mountain Clan Great Saints, but Black Impermanence was wounded when another enemy ambushed him. Cao Zhengchun stepped in and killed the Wind and Thunder Ancestor with the power of his Virgin Boy Skill.

• The First Vanguard used the battle formation to defeat Green Mountain Great Saint, while Black Impermanence captured his soul and the hellhound swallowed his corpse.
• A second Green Mountain Clan Great Saint attacked Black Impermanence, who broke his mountain attack and used the Soul-Hooking Hook to kill him.
• A peak Great Saint ambushed the weakened Black Impermanence, wounded him, and sent the Three-Headed Dog of Hell flying.
• Cao Zhengchun emerged to protect Black Impermanence and fought the peak Great Saint, whose wind and thunder attacks could not penetrate Cao Zhengchun's Virgin Boy Skill.
• Cao Zhengchun punched through the Wind and Thunder Ancestor's head and killed him.

Aotian attacked the Wind and Thunder Demon Race after its ancestor died, overpowering its forces and demanding their spatial rings. When three Supremes, a Quasi-Emperor, and two Half-Step Demon Emperors confronted him, Aotian revealed his late-stage Quasi-Emperor cultivation and prepared to fight them.

• Aotian descended on the Wind and Thunder Demon Race while Xiongba headed for the Green Mountain Demon Race.
• Aotian tore apart the Wind and Thunder Ancestor’s coffin and clashed with him, sending the Wind and Thunder Staff flying and injuring him.
• Aotian demanded the Wind and Thunder Demon Race’s spatial rings and forced its members to hand them over by threatening their ancestor.
• Three Supremes and two Quasi-Emperors arrived, but Aotian’s sword strike blasted the four Supremes and the Black Flood Dragon Quasi-Emperor backward.
• Aotian drew a quasi-imperial weapon and attacked the Black Flood Dragon Quasi-Emperor, prompting two Half-Step Demon Emperors to intervene.

Aotian and Xiongba plundered several Demon Realm powers for their cultivation resources, devastating their opponents and spreading fear across the realm. They returned with their haul, which Ye Changge handed to Dugu Jian for the Primordial Forbidden Zone.

• Aotian defeated the two half-step Demon Emperors, killed the Flood Dragon Demon Emperor, and seized the Flood Dragon Sword.
• Aotian broke the Wind and Thunder Demon Race’s formation, defeated its revived imperial weapon, and plundered its treasury and resources.
• Xiongba beat the Green Mountain Clan’s Supreme, took its resources, and set his sights on the Black Iron Ant Demon Race.
• Aotian warned the Demon Realm to prepare more cultivation resources as he and Xiongba returned with their loot.
• Ye Changge praised Aotian, collected Xiongba’s resources, and gave the spatial rings to Dugu Jian to sort.

After the Demon Race retreated, a voice announced that the Primordial Forbidden Zone would recruit disciples and the Southern Region Heaven’s Chosen Rankings would appear. As the rankings began listing powerful young talents and their rewards, Ye Changge brought his disciples back to prepare for recruitment and make the Primordial Forbidden Zone known.

• The Demon Race armies vanished, and a booming voice announced that the Primordial Forbidden Zone would recruit disciples in three days.
• A golden light announced the Southern Region Heaven’s Chosen Rankings, prompting powerful factions to prepare their chosen talents for the Human Ranking.
• The Sword Sect’s sect master and the Pill Pavilion’s master discussed the rankings’ significance and the great tide of heaven and earth.
• The Nascent Soul ranking listed Liu Ruyan in tenth place and Gu Chen in ninth, and Gu Chen rejected the challenges issued against him.
• Ye Changge returned with Shi Hao, Lei Qianshan, and the others, explaining that they would use their reputations to support the Primordial Forbidden Zone’s upcoming disciple recruitment.
• Shi Hao and Lei Qianshan left rather than help with recruitment, while Ye Changge resolved to make the Primordial Forbidden Zone’s name known before leaving the Southern Region.

The Human Ranking revealed Lin Cheng and Nie Xiaoqian among its top cultivators, while news of the Primordial Forbidden Zone’s recruitment drew ordinary people toward it. When robbers targeted the prospective disciples, Aotian intervened and attacked the Saber Sect, leaving its destruction uncertain as its Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon emerged.

• The Human Ranking announced Lin Cheng of the Saber Sect in eighth place and Nie Xiaoqian in seventh, revealing their abilities and rewards.
• The Human Ranking said it would reveal only four places that day, while news spread that the Primordial Forbidden Zone would recruit disciples in three days.
• Ye Changge sent Aotian to deal with groups robbing and blocking prospective disciples on the roads to the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Aotian killed the robbers and warned that anyone interfering with recruitment would share the Saber Sect’s fate.
• Aotian led twenty thousand members of the Hell Legion to the Saber Sect and killed its powerful defenders with a sword strike.
• The Saber Sect’s blood-colored saber released Extreme Dao might, and Aotian confronted it as other Southern Region factions debated whether to intervene.

Aotian led the Primordial Forbidden Zone in attacking the Saber Sect and defeated the Batian Emperor despite his Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. The Saber Sect’s ancestor was killed, and Black Impermanence devoured his soul.

• Aotian grievously wounded the Saber Sect’s peak Supreme and ordered Black Impermanence to destroy the sect while he held off the Batian Emperor.
• Black Impermanence killed the fleeing Supreme, but Yagyu and Cao Zhengchun stopped him as the Saber Sect revealed an army led by eight Great Saints and thirty-six Saints.
• Aotian revealed middle-stage Quasi-Emperor combat strength and knocked the Batian Emperor’s battle saber away in their first clash.
• The Batian Emperor burned his heaven-dominating power to awaken the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, but Aotian broke through his defenses with a stronger slash and wounded him.
• The Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon fled, Aotian beheaded the Batian Emperor, and Black Impermanence swallowed his escaping soul.

After the Saber Sect’s Quasi-Emperor was slain, Aotian and Xiongba confronted Quasi-Emperors from the other great powers as the Primordial Forbidden Zone began claiming the Saber Sect’s reserves. Xiongba revived the Sand Drum, prompting Huang Taixu to emerge with another revived Emperor Weapon as the battle escalated.

• Aotian and his allies beat the Saber Sect’s Supreme and went to seize the sect’s treasury.
• Quasi-Emperors from the Five Elements Holy Land, Yin-Yang Holy Land, Sword Sect, Pill Pavilion, and Artifact Sect challenged them, and Xiongba answered with Heavenly Frost Fist.
• Xiongba and Aotian overwhelmed their opponents, severely wounding the Artifact Sect and Pill Pavilion Quasi-Emperors and grievously injuring the Yin-Yang Holy Land Quasi-Emperor.
• The Five Elements Holy Land’s Quasi-Emperor summoned the Five Elements Sword, so Xiongba struck the Sand Drum and unleashed its revived power.
• Yuwen Tuo demanded that Huang Taixu revive the Saber Sect’s Emperor Weapon, and Huang Taixu appeared with a revived battle saber while Xiongba’s attack continued.

Xiongba and Aotian clashed with the major factions’ Quasi-Emperors, who brought out their Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons. Aotian overwhelmed five opponents with his blood sword, while the larger battle against the Demon Saber Great Emperor’s imprint remained underway.

• The factions summoned their Emperor Weapons after Xiongba’s Sand Drum matched the Demon Saber Great Emperor’s saber, and Aotian revealed a blood-colored Emperor Weapon of his own.
• Xiongba and Aotian released their Quasi-Emperor auras, and Xiongba displayed mastery of ice, wind, and cloud Daos before attacking with Three Parts Return to Origin Qi.
• Aotian struck the Five Elements Holy Land’s Quasi-Emperor twice, injuring him and sending the Five Elements Sword flying before the Yin-Yang Mirror intervened.
• The Yin-Yang Quasi-Emperor urged the others to attack together, but Aotian sent all five powerhouses flying within three minutes.
• Aotian unleashed his sword heart again as the blood sword’s pressure peaked.

Duan Lang crushed the Demon Saber Great Emperor’s soul imprint, stripped the Saber Sect of its resources, and accepted Lin Cheng for testing at the Primordial Forbidden Zone. He then led Aotian and Xiongba to the Sword Sect to demand its resources.

• Aotian and Xiongba struggled against the six major forces’ Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons until Duan Lang entered the battle and restrained them.
• The Demon Saber Great Emperor’s soul imprint broke free and attacked Duan Lang, but Duan Lang crushed it instantly, prompting the other forces to flee.
• Duan Lang beat Huang Taixu and took all the Saber Sect’s resources before Lin Cheng asked to leave with him.
• After learning Lin Cheng was ranked eighth on the Heaven’s Chosen Rankings and had been cast out as a bringer of calamity, Duan Lang agreed to have him tested at the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Duan Lang led Aotian and Xiongba to the Sword Sect and demanded that it cooperate, while a Heavenly Demon Sect protector watched in hiding.

Duan Lang destroyed the Sword Sect’s Dragon-Slaying Formation and plundered its treasures before moving on. The Human Ranking announced Xie Wen and Dugu Qiubai, while the Sword Sect and Saber Sect withdrew from worldly affairs.

• Duan Lang entered the Sword Sect, shattered its Dragon-Slaying Formation, and beat its four controllers.
• Duan Lang forced the Sword Sect’s leaders to guide him to the treasury, then looted its treasury, scripture pavilion, and weapons pavilion.
• The Human Ranking named Xie Wen sixth and announced rewards including Human Emperor blood essence, exciting Duan Lang.
• The Human Ranking named reincarnated Quasi-Emperor Dugu Qiubai fifth and awarded him the Dugu Nine Swords and other rewards.
• Ye Changge noticed Dugu Qiubai’s ranking while relaxing in the Primordial Forbidden Zone, then returned his attention to his disciples.
• The Sword Sect and Saber Sect announced that they would withdraw from worldly affairs.

Duan Lang plundered the Yin-Yang Holy Land on Ye Changge’s orders, prompting six major factions to seal themselves away while the Temple of Light cautioned its disciples against provoking the Primordial Forbidden Zone. The Human Ranking then named Shi Hao of the Primordial Forbidden Zone first, awarding him powerful cultivation treasures and a token that let him call on strong fighters.

• Duan Lang stormed the Yin-Yang Holy Land, demanded its resources, and stripped its members of their possessions, including Xie Xiaofeng’s ranking rewards.
• The six major factions announced that they would seal their mountains for a thousand years, and Abbot Guangming ordered the Temple of Light’s disciples not to provoke the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Duan Lang, Xiongba, and Aotian returned to the Primordial Forbidden Zone and handed their plundered spatial rings to Ye Changge.
• The Human Ranking revealed Shi Hao as its first-place entry, naming him a possessor of the Battle Holy Land and granting him a battle stone, battle stele, War God Staff Technique, cultivation pills and insights, and a Human Ranking Token.

The Primordial Forbidden Zone’s three disciples took the top spots on the Human Ranking, drawing a huge crowd to its recruitment. Cao Zhengchun opened the gates and explained that applicants would be tested in the Tower of Illusion, with their floor reached determining their disciple rank.

• Shi Hao ranked first on the Heavenly Genius Rankings, prompting countless people to seek entry into the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Ye Changge decided to use the Tower of Illusion to recruit only candidates with steadfast hearts, while Hua Qianyue and Wang Xue discussed the test’s difficulty and nature.
• The Human Ranking placed Wang Yuyan first on the Spirit Transformation Rankings and Lei Qianshan first on the Void Refinement Ranking, both representing the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• The Nine Heavens Holy Son saw Wang Yuyan’s ranking and blamed her for the destruction of his holy land, while a voice in his mind argued over her samsara physique.
• A crowd gathered outside the Primordial Forbidden Zone, and its gates opened as Cao Zhengchun, Yagyu, Shi Zilin, and the others appeared.
• Cao Zhengchun announced that passing the Tower of Illusion’s floors would earn applicants progressively higher disciple ranks and rewards.

Cao Zhengchun opened the Tower of Illusion to applicants seeking to join the Primordial Forbidden Zone, while Ye Changge noticed a promising youth with the Azure Dragon Battle Physique. Li Xiaolong passed the first floor and began the second-floor test, where his aptitude for cultivation astonished Dugu Jian.

• Cao Zhengchun summoned the Tower of Illusion and announced that applicants who passed its first floor could stay and cultivate in the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• An eliminated applicant told Wu De that the test disregarded talent and background, urging him to hold fast to his true heart.
• Ye Changge sensed two promising youths in the tower, and the system identified one as a nine-star genius with the Azure Dragon Battle Physique, outside Ye Changge's recruitment range.
• Li Xiaolong activated his Azure Dragon Battle Physique and passed the first floor, then told Dugu Jian that he was hungry before agreeing to continue the test.
• Dugu Jian fed Li Xiaolong and gave him the Basic Qi Nourishing Art; Li Xiaolong understood it quickly and drew Spiritual Qi toward himself within minutes.

Li Xiaolong passed the talent test, while Ye Changge observed several exceptional candidates, including Fang Xiaoxiao with the White Tiger Battle Physique and a boy with Blood Pupils. The discovery of Su Ning’s Chaos Physique stunned Ye Changge and the elders, who feared the powerful attention and danger the young genius would attract.

• Dugu Jian was shocked when Li Xiaolong mastered a basic cultivation technique in an hour, confirmed that he passed the talent test, and watched him enter the third floor.
• Fang Xiaoxiao fought a demonic beast with the White Tiger Battle Physique, and Ye Changge recognized him as a nine-star genius whose hatred of the Demon Race could fuel his cultivation.
• Ye Changge saw a blood-robed boy use his Blood Pupils to battle a level-three demonic beast and resolved to help awaken the boy’s eyes.
• Ye Changge noticed Su Ning enter the fourth floor, learned from the system that he possessed the Chaos Physique, and was stunned by the discovery.
• Dugu Jian and the other elders discussed Su Ning’s destined place as Ye Changge’s disciple and the dangers that the Chaos Physique could bring upon him.

Su Ning, a reincarnated Immortal King with a Chaos Physique, passed the Tower of Illusion’s fourth floor and met Ye Changge on the fifth. She refused his offer to become his disciple and confessed that she wanted to be his wife, after which Ye Changge kissed her and took her away.

• Su Ning defeated her replica on the fourth floor by using her immortal soul’s power.
• Ye Changge sent a clone to the fifth floor while battling Wang Xue and discovered Su Ning’s identity and desire to marry him.
• Ye Changge introduced himself as the master of the Primordial Forbidden Zone and offered to take Su Ning as his disciple.
• Su Ning removed her mask, revealed her beauty, and confessed that she wanted to be Ye Changge’s wife.
• Ye Changge kissed Su Ning and took her away as onlookers outside marveled that someone had reached the fifth floor.