Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng and Lu Yinjian divided a list of Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race ministers to assassinate, and Xie Feng began hunting his assigned targets. After killing Elder Li and Qu Wen, he left Hun Wuchen alive, and Hun Wuchen sent Si Ming a warning about Xie Feng.

• Lu Yinjian gave Xie Feng a list of ministers and accepted Little Sword to use if he encountered Gu Xinglan.
• Xie Feng and the Imperial Evil Lord split the list and went after scattered Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race forces.
• Xie Feng killed Elder Li at Molten Vortex Valley with the Azure Profound Fan and took his valuables.
• Xie Feng killed Qu Wen at Mountain Phoenix Slope with the Emperor Beginning Sword while Hun Wuchen watched.
• Hun Wuchen recognized Xie Feng as a threat and sent Si Ming a voice transmission reporting Qu Wen's death and Xie Feng's location.

Xie Feng killed Hun Wuchen after catching him reporting Xie Feng’s identity, fueling rumors of a mysterious Great Emperor Killer. He met a strange little girl who said her aunt, Jin Yue, had left her in the wilderness for two months; after she refused to stay with him, Xie Feng resumed his assassination plan and approached Liu Lingbo, a Phoenix Lord defending a remote city.

• Xie Feng overheard Hun Wuchen informing on him and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Hun Wuchen’s name vanished from the Heavenly Ranking, prompting panic and rumors of a Great Emperor Killer.
• Xie Feng shared his Long-lasting Eternal Grass balls with a hungry little girl who said her aunt, Jin Yue, had left her there and would return in two months.
• The little girl decided Xie Feng seemed like a bad guy and ran off, while he complained that people kept mistaking him for one.
• Xie Feng continued his assassination plan and turned his attention to Liu Lingbo, a Phoenix Lord defending a remote city from the devil army.

Xie Feng confronted Liu Lingbo after overhearing him and a mysterious figure discuss harvesting powerful bloodlines, then overwhelmed Liu Lingbo with multiple Supreme-grade weapons. The chapter left Liu Lingbo terrified and focused on defending himself as Xie Feng’s flames engulfed the city.

• Liu Lingbo argued with the figure behind the screen, who demanded another three hundred people for his bloodline experiments.
• Liu Lingbo pointed the figure toward the Xuanji Sect and named Xie Feng, Sushang, Ze Ling, and A Ning as targets with powerful bloodlines.
• Xie Feng appeared and attacked Liu Lingbo with the Emperor Beginning Sword, but Liu Lingbo blocked it with the Lingbo Shield.
• Xie Feng revealed the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire and Azure Profound Fan, spreading golden flames across the city.
• Liu Lingbo panicked at Xie Feng’s collection of Supreme-grade weapons and concentrated on controlling his shield.

Xie Feng battled Liu Lingbo and was about to kill him when Meiying and a mysterious figure intervened. Meiying overwhelmed Xie Feng, who welcomed his bare-handed blows as training, but a tiny barefoot figure appeared just as Meiying’s sword threatened him.

• Xie Feng shattered Liu Lingbo’s Lingbo Shield and sent him flying, but Meiying blocked Xie Feng’s attempt to finish him.
• The silhouette behind the folding screen ordered Meiying to kill Xie Feng and revealed that he recognized him as Young Master Xie.
• Meiying punched through Xie Feng’s golden flame dragon and crushed both of his shoulders, while Xie Feng eagerly asked for more blows and healed himself with pills.
• Meiying drew a black longsword and attacked; Xie Feng’s Emperor Beginning Sword was knocked away, forcing him to prepare his Chaos Cultivation Technique.
• A tiny barefoot figure appeared and shattered Meiying’s sword strike with a punch, leaving Meiying visibly shocked.

Xiangxiang returned to save Xie Feng, killed Meiying and Liu Lingbo, and then reunited with him over food and conversation. After they rested together, Xie Feng went to catch fish for Xiangxiang, leaving them safe for the night.

• Xiangxiang appeared and killed Meiying, then crushed Liu Lingbo as he tried to flee.
• Xiangxiang told Xie Feng she had returned because she wanted more Long-lasting Eternal Grass balls, and he gave her a jar.
• Xiangxiang said she missed her aunt and described her distant home as a place where the moon set over the tides.
• Xie Feng shared the names of the many people he missed, then he and Xiangxiang rested on the hillside.
• Xie Feng crossed Liu Lingbo's name off the death list and fell asleep beside Xiangxiang beneath a protective net.
• After Xiangxiang woke hungry and asked for fish, Xie Feng caught three and roasted them with his supreme-grade weapons.

Xie Feng used Xiangxiang’s powerful punches to temper his body until he could withstand her full strength without injury. Chi Ling and Leng Hanyu then arrived on Realm Lord Lu Yinjian’s orders, and Xie Feng concealed that Xiangxiang had killed Liu Lingbo.

• Xiangxiang punched Xie Feng hundreds of times, breaking his bones while his body rapidly healed and grew stronger.
• Xie Feng endured Xiangxiang’s full-powered punches without pain or injury.
• Chi Ling arrived with Leng Hanyu, who presented Xie Feng with the severed heads of Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race experts as a gift.
• Chi Ling asked about Liu Lingbo, and Xie Feng said he was dead while letting Chi Ling and Leng Hanyu assume he had killed him.
• Leng Hanyu asked Xie Feng what he planned to do next and said they would follow his lead.

Xie Feng sent Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling to carry out a death list while he and Xiangxiang pursued another mission. Meanwhile, Gu Xinglan warned Cheng Hao about Xie Feng’s Origin Level sword and sent him to find Heavenly Soul Venerable; she then confronted someone who had been eavesdropping.

• Xie Feng gave Leng Hanyu a death list and Chi Ling a voice transmission talisman, then left with Xiangxiang to deal with others.
• Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling realized they had overlooked someone beside Xie Feng, then decided to work together against the threat posed by Gu Xinglan.
• Cheng Hao told Gu Xinglan that Xie Feng had killed Dao of Strength with help from a powerful little girl who might be from the Fifth Universe.
• Gu Xinglan told Cheng Hao to seek out Heavenly Soul Venerable and warned him not to challenge Xie Feng because he possessed an Origin Level sword.
• After Cheng Hao vanished, Gu Xinglan turned toward an unseen listener and asked if they were enjoying eavesdropping.

Gu Xinglan confronted Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling and demanded that they submit to the Devil Subduing Realm, but Chi Ling stalled by promising to summon someone who could change her mind. Xie Feng agreed to find backup, leaving Gu Xinglan waiting as Leng Hanyu warned that the Devil Emperor could retaliate if she went too far.

• Gu Xinglan detected Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling and used her overwhelming power to stop them, then demanded their submission.
• Leng Hanyu refused Gu Xinglan's offer, while Chi Ling stayed silent and looked for a way to buy time.
• Chi Ling asked Gu Xinglan to wait while he contacted someone who could persuade her to let them go, and Gu Xinglan agreed to hear them out.
• Chi Ling contacted Xie Feng, who warned them not to fight Gu Xinglan and promised to find someone to help.
• Xie Feng called another person and assured Chi Ling that the backup would work, while Gu Xinglan grew impatient waiting.
• Gu Xinglan wondered whether Chi Ling had contacted Devil Emperor Ge Ya, and Leng Hanyu warned that the Imperial Evil Realm's ruler might retaliate.

Gu Yu arrived to help Chi Ling and Leng Hanyu, but froze when he learned their opponent was his cousin, Gu Xinglan. He tried to persuade her to spare them by claiming Leng Hanyu and then Chi Ling were his partners, ending with both in his grasp.

• Gu Yu emerged from a spatial passage and announced that Xie Feng had sent him to help Chi Ling, then realized Gu Xinglan was his cousin.
• Gu Yu fawned over Gu Xinglan and offered her pills, but she kicked him face-first into the ground.
• Gu Yu told Gu Xinglan he had joined the Xuanji Sect under Xie Feng and asked her to spare Chi Ling and Leng Hanyu.
• Gu Xinglan agreed not to kill Leng Hanyu but still threatened Chi Ling, so Gu Yu declared Leng Hanyu his girlfriend.
• When Gu Xinglan continued to target Chi Ling, Gu Yu grabbed his hand and declared that Chi Ling was his girlfriend too.

Gu Yu, Lu Yinjian, and the others faced Gu Xinglan as she attacked them, but Lu Yinjian used Xie Feng’s Origin Level sword to force her to withdraw. The crisis ended with Gu Yu claiming credit as Xie Feng’s disciple and explaining that Elder Sushang had opened a spatial passage for him.

• Gu Yu tried to convince Gu Xinglan that he was saving Chi Ling, but she lost patience and launched a lightning attack.
• Lu Yinjian arrived and shattered Gu Xinglan’s lightning sword with the Cherished Wine Cup Sword, an Origin Level weapon.
• Lu Yinjian accused Gu Xinglan of seeking Cheng Hao as a new puppet after the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race’s defeat became likely.
• Gu Xinglan halted her attack when Lu Yinjian threatened to detonate the sword and Gu Yu declared that he stood with the others.
• Gu Xinglan withdrew, and Gu Yu told Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling that he was Xie Feng’s disciple and had reached them through a passage opened by Elder Sushang.

After Gu Yu returned to the Xuanji Sect, Lu Yinjian explained that the Imperial Evil Realm was close to defeating the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race, crediting Xie Feng for holding Gu Xinglan in check. Cheng Hao then told the Heavenly Soul Venerable that the Dao of Strength had died, only to learn that Xiangxiang and Xie Feng were too dangerous to provoke, leaving his plan in doubt.

• Gu Yu left through a spatial passage after Lu Yinjian asked him to tell Miss Sushang that Old Xie was fighting alongside the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Lu Yinjian told Leng Hanyu that the Imperial Evil Realm had pushed deep into the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race's territory and praised Xie Feng for restraining Gu Xinglan.
• Cheng Hao summoned the Heavenly Soul Venerable and reported that the Dao of Strength had died while helping him and the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race.
• Cheng Hao described Xiangxiang's strength, and the Heavenly Soul Venerable identified her as the lord of Returning Moon City and advised him to hide from her.
• The Heavenly Soul Venerable refused to get involved in matters concerning Xie Feng, and Cheng Hao worried that his plan would fail without his help.
• The Heavenly Soul Venerable asked Cheng Hao whether his plan involved Xie Feng.

Cheng Hao accepted Heavenly Soul Venerable’s help in pursuing control of the Origin Realm. After Xie Feng and Xiangxiang eliminated the final name on their death list, Xiangxiang fell unconscious, and a purple figure snatched her away.

• Heavenly Soul Venerable offered Cheng Hao more men to help him unite the Origin Realm, and Cheng Hao accepted while recognizing their mutual interests.
• Xie Feng and Xiangxiang ambushed Wan Su and the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race army, freezing time and engulfing the village in Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Wan Su detonated himself while charging Xie Feng, and Xiangxiang restored the scorched land with her powers of time and life.
• Xie Feng crossed Wan Su off the death list, but Xiangxiang collapsed unconscious despite taking Long-lasting Eternal Grass pellets and Golden Cores.
• Xie Feng sensed chaotic power sealed within Xiangxiang, then a purple figure rushed in, seized her, and retreated.

Jin Yue rescued Xiangxiang and confronted Xie Feng for letting her overuse her sealed ancestral power, but she calmed down after learning he had not known and had helped strengthen the girl with Long-lasting Eternal Grass. With enemies hunting her, Jin Yue left Xiangxiang in Xie Feng’s care and gave him the Dark Ink Fan as payment, leaving him with a new Origin Level weapon.

• Jin Yue appeared, took unconscious Xiangxiang from Xie Feng, and used her power to stabilize the girl.
• Jin Yue blamed Xie Feng for Xiangxiang’s dangerous overuse of her ancestral power, and Xie Feng sincerely apologized and explained that he had not known about her condition.
• After hearing how Xie Feng had met Xiangxiang and discovering that Long-lasting Eternal Grass had strengthened her constitution, Jin Yue’s anger subsided.
• Jin Yue told Xie Feng that enemies were hunting her and asked him to look after Xiangxiang while she hid in the Origin Realm.
• At Xie Feng’s request for payment, Jin Yue gave him the Dark Ink Fan, an early Origin Level weapon, before leaving.

Xie Feng received a Moon Mark from Jin Yue so she could find him, and she left after revealing that she was fleeing an arranged marriage. Xiangxiang woke after Jin Yue saved her, and her description of her aunt’s pursuers led Xie Feng to suspect a connection to the mysterious snowy peak and the Peak of Heaven.

• Jin Yue placed three Moon Marks on Xie Feng’s arm and explained that they would let her sense his whereabouts, then admitted she was running from an arranged marriage and departed through a spatial vortex.
• Xiangxiang woke and apologized to Xie Feng for using her power despite the danger, explaining that she had wanted to help him in return for his kindness.
• Xiangxiang described her aunt’s pursuers as black-armored figures wearing white capes and black masks with fang-like teeth, and Xie Feng connected them to the men he had encountered near the mysterious snowy peak.
• Xie Feng asked Xiangxiang about the Peak of Heaven, but she said she knew nothing about the world beyond the city.
• Xie Feng told Xiangxiang that Jin Yue had saved her and would return in a few days, and Xiangxiang accepted staying with him while she waited.

Xie Feng and his companions headed for No Return Pass after learning that the final battle between the Imperial Evil Realm and the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race had begun. After Leng Hanyu killed Elder Huang, Si Ming appeared and attacked them, leaving the group facing a powerful new enemy.

• Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling told Xie Feng that the Realm Lord had launched an all-out assault and assigned them to guard No Return Pass with him.
• Xie Feng, Leng Hanyu, Chi Ling, and Xiangxiang set out for the pass, where they encountered Elder Huang and his followers.
• Elder Huang tried to retreat, but Leng Hanyu blocked him and killed him after a brief fight.
• Xie Feng praised Leng Hanyu and invited her to join the Xuanji Sect, while Chi Ling joked about Xie Feng poaching talented people.
• Si Ming arrived and unleashed a powerful palm attack, threatening the group over Elder Huang's death.

Leng Hanyu, Chi Ling, and Xie Feng fought Si Ming as the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race’s forces collapsed, but a hundred thousand reinforcements arrived and turned the battle against them. Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling charged into the army while Xie Feng shielded Xiangxiang with his fire.

• Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling broke Si Ming’s energy attack and fought him until Xie Feng joined them with the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Si Ming summoned ten powerful incarnations, surrounding the three fighters, while Xie Feng used the Dark Ink Fan to destroy one incarnation.
• Lu Yinjian’s forces hunted the scattered Nine Netherworld Phoenix troops across their territory after the race’s defeat.
• A state preceptor returned with a hundred thousand surviving troops instead of escaping through No Return Pass, shifting the battle in Si Ming’s favor.
• Xie Feng raised a wall of fire to protect Xiangxiang as enemy soldiers surrounded them, and Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling charged into the army.

Si Ming’s army gained strength from the dark night, forcing Leng Hanyu, Chi Ling, and Xie Feng into a fierce battle as Si Ming tried to escape. Lu Yinjian and the seven-million-strong devil army arrived as reinforcements, but Little Sword’s power-draining antics left Xie Feng joking that he no longer needed it.

• Si Ming summoned dark clouds that strengthened the hundred thousand Nine Netherworld Phoenix soldiers to the Indestructible Realm.
• Xie Feng used the Dark Ink Fan to destroy Si Ming’s external incarnation and unleashed a black dragon from the fan.
• Leng Hanyu and Chi Ling struggled to hold back the empowered army while Si Ming raced toward No Return Pass.
• The Imperial Evil Lord and Lu Yinjian arrived with seven million devil soldiers, overwhelming the battlefield with their numbers.
• Little Sword destroyed another of Si Ming’s incarnations by draining Lu Yinjian’s power, prompting Lu Yinjian to send it to Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng told Little Sword that the Dark Ink Fan was less costly to use and that he might no longer need it.

Si Ming called for Gu Xinglan’s help, but she ignored his signal and chose to ally with Cheng Hao for the sake of his Dark Night Imperial Physique. Near No Return Pass, Si Ming unleashed his final technique and drew the remaining Nine Netherworld Phoenix troops into merging hurricanes.

• Little Sword attacked the Dark Ink Fan, and Xie Feng recalled it while Si Ming caught his breath.
• Si Ming sent a distress signal to Gu Xinglan, but no help arrived, and he realized she had abandoned him.
• Gu Xinglan told Cheng Hao she had withdrawn from supporting Si Ming and revealed that she wanted Cheng Hao’s Dark Night Imperial Physique to resurrect someone.
• Cheng Hao questioned whether Gu Xinglan would abandon him if she found a better physique, and she said he already knew the answer.
• The seven million devil troops overwhelmed the Nine Netherworld Phoenix army, killing twenty thousand of its hundred thousand soldiers.
• Si Ming unleashed the Nine Netherworlds Secret Art: Devil God Descent and swept the remaining eighty thousand troops into hurricanes that began to merge.

Si Ming unleashed the Nine Netherworld Phoenix God as his final weapon, but Xiangxiang’s moonlight ended his control of the darkness and Xie Feng helped destroy the giant. Si Ming refused a chance to escape and faced Lu Yinjian and the others alone as the final battle began.

• Si Ming summoned the Nine Netherworld Phoenix God, formed from eighty thousand Nine Netherworld Phoenixes, and called for an all-out attack.
• Xiangxiang used the moon’s power to flood the battlefield with light, disrupting Si Ming’s darkness-based strength, and Xie Feng blocked Si Ming’s attack on her.
• Xie Feng, Lu Yinjian, the Imperial Evil Lord, and their allies attacked the Nine Netherworld Phoenix God until Xie Feng’s Eternal sword strike shattered it.
• The state preceptor detonated himself to open an escape route for Si Ming, but Si Ming chose to stay and fight rather than abandon his people.
• Lu Yinjian and the others surrounded Si Ming, while Xie Feng withdrew to recover; Si Ming was soon driven back and gravely injured.

Lu Yinjian killed Si Ming, ending the war and wiping out the Nine Netherworld Phoenix Race, while the survivors argued over ambition, war, and their own motives. The Heavenly Ranking broadcast Si Ming’s final moments, provoking widespread hostility toward the Imperial Evil Realm across the Origin Realm.

• Lu Yinjian struck Si Ming with the Autumn Duckweed Sword, and Si Ming delivered his last words before turning to foam and vanishing.
• Xie Feng told Lu Yinjian that he had won, then argued with him and the Imperial Evil Lord about the war and why they had taken part.
• Tao Xue arrived with Gu Yuan and the Seven Heroes, teased Lu Yinjian about expanding the Imperial Evil Realm, and prompted him to consider conquering the Fifth Universe.
• Si Ming’s name disappeared from the Heavenly Ranking, which displayed his final moments to the Origin Realm.
• People across the Origin Realm condemned the Imperial Evil Realm and began boycotting, expelling, and even killing those associated with it, worsening relations with other factions.