Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng captured two Dark King Palace elders but won their sympathy by criticizing their leadership, then questioned and released them. He learned that Gu Xinglan had sent the Dao of Illusion to capture two hundred members of the Grand Yin Imperial Dragon Race for Cheng Hao, who was usually on Immortal Yao Island.

• Xie Feng revealed his identity as fourth on the Heavenly Ranking and sealed the black-robed and purple-robed elders in place.
• Xie Feng complained that Hun Wudao had sent the elders on a suicidal mission, and they agreed that their leader treated his subordinates unfairly.
• Xie Feng offered to spare the elders if they answered his questions, and they said the Dao of Illusion had captured two hundred members of the Grand Yin Imperial Dragon Race for Cheng Hao's needed physiques.
• The elders told Xie Feng that Cheng Hao was usually on Immortal Yao Island, but they did not know how he, Gu Xinglan, and the Dao of Illusion had become involved.
• Xie Feng let the elders go and invited them to join him if they could no longer get by in the Dark King Palace; they fled toward Gu Xuan City.

Xie Feng returned to Gu Xuan City, where Dao Hong reported that he had killed two Dark King Palace elders and confirmed a planned attack. Hun Wudao blamed Cheng Hao for the destruction of his forces, and their argument ended with Cheng Hao telling him to confront Gu Xinglan instead.

• Xie Feng met Cong Yun and Ze Ling in Gu Xuan City, where Cong Yun congratulated him on ranking fourth on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Dao Hong reported finding burned human remains and presented the severed heads of two Dark King Palace elders he had killed while patrolling.
• Cong Yun ordered the city's defenses strengthened and its residents evacuated to safety.
• Hun Wudao learned that more than seven hundred Dark King Palace members had been wiped out and went to confront Cheng Hao.
• Cheng Hao urged Hun Wudao to blame Gu Xinglan, but Hun Wudao admitted he would not dare confront her.

Cheng Hao warned Hun Wudao that the Imperial Evil Realm was rapidly expanding and extorted hush money from him by promising not to reveal his complaints about Gu Xinglan. At the Xuanji Sect, Gu Yu trained after losing an assessment, then learned that an unknown visitor was waiting for him at the foot of the mountain.

• Hun Wudao complained that the Dark King Palace had been chosen to confront the Grand Yin Imperial Dragon Race, and Cheng Hao promised to ask Gu Xinglan to assign the dangerous task elsewhere.
• Cheng Hao told Hun Wudao that the Imperial Evil Realm had destroyed the Purple-Feathered Azure Luan Race in fifteen days and warned that its ambitions threatened their alliance.
• Cheng Hao claimed that a powerful weapon was being made to fight the Imperial Evil Realm, then demanded hush money from Hun Wudao in exchange for keeping his complaints from Gu Xinglan.
• At the Xuanji Sect, Gu Yu continued practicing the Xuanji Sword Art after losing a swordsmanship assessment to A Ning, while Sushang held him to high standards.
• A disciple told Gu Yu that someone was waiting for him at the foot of the mountain, and Gu Yu reluctantly agreed to go find out who it was.

Gu Xinglan told Gu Yu how the Devil Subduing Realm helped the Imperial Evil Realm destroy the Purple-Feathered Azure Luan Race in fifteen days and used the war to gather three million people with yin constitutions. Worried that the coming great war would endanger him, she took Gu Yu from the Xuanji Sect and left him on unfamiliar land.

• Gu Xinglan froze Gu Yu when he tried to leave and told him the Imperial Evil Realm had destroyed the Purple-Feathered Azure Luan Race in fifteen days.
• Gu Xinglan revealed that the Devil Subduing Realm had infiltrated the race and secretly joined forces with the Imperial Evil Realm, allowing her to gather three million people with yin constitutions.
• Gu Xinglan warned Gu Yu that the final great war was coming and said she would protect him, then lifted him into the air to show how vulnerable he was.
• Gu Xinglan ordered Gu Yu to come with her, shifted the stars, and transported him from the Xuanji Sect to a strange stretch of land.

Gu Xinglan brought Gu Yu to a blood-red forest in the Devil Subduing Realm and showed him the golden coffin where she had been trying to restore Xuan Li’s body. She explained her plan to revive him, but Gu Yu questioned whether a body without its soul could truly be Xuan Li, and Gu Xinglan struck him in anger.

• Gu Xinglan forced Gu Yu to open his eyes and led him through the Devil Subduing Realm to a blood-red forest.
• Gu Xinglan revealed that the forest’s blood came from three million Purple-Feathered Azure Luans she had killed.
• Gu Xinglan showed Gu Yu Xuan Li’s skeleton in a golden coffin beneath an ancient banyan tree.
• Gu Xinglan told Gu Yu she had spent over a hundred years preserving Xuan Li’s bones and believed she could restore his body.
• Gu Yu questioned whether reviving Xuan Li’s body without his soul and thoughts would make him anything but a puppet.
• Gu Xinglan hit Gu Yu with a blast of palm force, sending him flying and leaving him injured.

Gu Xinglan brought Gu Yu to guard Xuan Li’s remains and, after he angered her and tried to leave, crippled his cultivation and gave him the Ancient God Secret Art. She said she trusted him more than anyone else, while Gu Yu struggled to accept her actions and the price of cultivating the art.

• Gu Xinglan stopped Gu Yu from leaving and ordered him to guard Xuan Li’s remains.
• After Gu Yu complained about staying and mocked Xuan Li’s remains, Gu Xinglan revealed her face and intimidated him with her Indestructible Saint Emperor pressure.
• Gu Xinglan struck Gu Yu with a lightning-covered palm, destroying his cultivation.
• Gu Xinglan gave Gu Yu the Ancient God Secret Art and said it could make his cultivation a hundred times stronger if he reached major accomplishment.
• Gu Yu learned that the art required him to cripple his cultivation and that Gu Xinglan would turn him into a loyal enforcer if he mastered it.
• Gu Xinglan denied planning the incident and said Gu Yu was the only person she trusted most.

Gu Xinglan forced Gu Yu to remain with her and master the Ancient God Secret Art, while Xie Feng and Cong Yun uncovered five Coiled Dragon Jade Pendants hidden beneath Gu Xuan City. Cong Yun proposed forming an alliance against the Alliance, and Xie Feng appeared willing to help.

• Gu Xinglan ordered Gu Yu to master the Ancient God Secret Art within six months and refused to let him return home.
• At dawn, Cong Yun took Xie Feng to an abandoned courtyard in Gu Xuan City and revealed its passage to a hidden chamber.
• Cong Yun opened five boxes containing Coiled Dragon Jade Pendants, which had been left by an ancestor of the Grand Yin Imperial Dragon Race for a crisis threatening the race.
• Cong Yun told Xie Feng that the Alliance must be stopped from growing stronger and proposed that they form their own alliance.
• Xie Feng agreed with Cong Yun’s plan, and she asked for his help because of his connections.

Xie Feng learned that Gu Xinglan had taken his disciple Gu Yu and began investigating where she had brought him. The Imperial Evil Lord offered to search for Gu Yu while he and Old Lu prepared to enter seclusion, and Xie Feng set out to return to Eastern Dawn Valley.

• Cong Yun showed Xie Feng the Grand Yin Imperial Dragon Race's coiling dragon jade pendants and offered to lend them to him, then voiced concern about Gu Xinglan.
• Sushang told Xie Feng that Gu Yu had disappeared after meeting a cloaked stranger outside Eastern Dawn Valley, and Xie Feng promised to return.
• Xie Feng used his Double Pupils to reverse time and saw Gu Xinglan take Gu Yu away from the valley.
• The Imperial Evil Lord arrived, agreed to investigate Gu Yu's whereabouts, and told Xie Feng that he and Old Lu planned to enter seclusion for a month or two.
• Xie Feng agreed to wait for more information and headed back toward Eastern Dawn Valley.

Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and took charge of the Imperial Evil Realm while the Imperial Evil Lord and Lu Yinjian were in seclusion. After hearing reports of growing threats, he assigned plans to investigate the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan, build alliances and prepare the sect for war.

• Xie Feng collected Xiangxiang from Gu Xuan City and returned with her to the Xuanji Sect, where its leaders welcomed him.
• Gu Yuan told Xie Feng that Lu Yinjian had appointed him to lead the Imperial Evil Realm, and Xie Feng reluctantly accepted.
• Ziyun reported that Cheng Hao was expanding the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan's forces and building Earth Devil Towers, while Chi Ling and Leng Hanyu reported the Anti-Imperial Evil Realm Alliance's growth and Gu Xinglan's absence.
• Xie Feng planned to investigate the Earth Devil Towers with Sushang and tasked Yue Heng, Gu Yuan, and Chi Ling with recruiting allies.
• Xie Feng assigned Yu Qingzhu and Xiangxiang to search for Gu Yu, Leng Hanyu and the Seven Heroes to prepare supplies and defenses, and Tao Xue to guard the Xuanji Sect.

Xie Feng and Sushang traveled to the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan and began destroying its black towers, which were being used to forge weapons. After two days of attacks across the clan, they arrived at White Crow City, where ten towers stood.

• Xie Feng and Sushang left the Xuanji Sect and used the cross-dimensional converter to reach the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan's border.
• Xie Feng and Sushang spotted black towers forging weapons and demolished them with sword strikes before escaping unseen.
• Xie Feng and Sushang reached the clan's central plains and contacted Gu Yuan for a map of the towers in White Crow City.
• Xie Feng and Sushang destroyed towers as they traveled, spreading panic and forcing guards to increase patrols without stopping them.
• Xie Feng and Sushang arrived at White Crow City two days later.

Xie Feng and Sushang followed the Kui Emperor Crow God procession after sensing something strange about its sixth statue, then discovered Chiyu secretly sent it into a hidden chamber beneath the earth devil tower. Sushang confronted Chiyu and asked what the statues were for, but Chiyu refused to tell her.

• Xie Feng asked a bystander about the Kui Emperor Crow God procession and learned it symbolized the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan.
• Chiyu led ten statues through White Crow City, and Xie Feng and Sushang sensed a faint, unsettling presence and smell of blood around the sixth statue.
• Xie Feng and Sushang followed the procession into the earth devil tower, where Chiyu placed one statue on each of its nine floors.
• Chiyu opened a hidden floor compartment and sent the sixth statue into a deep underground opening, calling it the final weapon meant to help wipe out the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Sushang confronted Chiyu in the tower corridor and asked what the statues did, but Chiyu recognized her and refused to answer.

Sushang fought Chiyu and the Earth Devil Tower’s guardians while Xie Feng investigated the Kui Emperor Crow God Statue underground and discovered the horrific human engine hidden inside it. As Xie Feng prepared to take the statue, Cheng Hao appeared and confronted him.

• Sushang broke Chiyu’s sword and wounded her with the Mortal World Sword Art, forcing Chiyu to summon three tower guardians.
• Sushang called upon Great Cosmos Karmic Fire and fought the three guardians.
• Xie Feng examined the Kui Emperor Crow God Statue with his Double Pupils and saw nearly a million beings trapped inside, their bodies and blood used to transform the statue into a living war machine.
• Xie Feng decided to take the statue for study, but he blocked an incoming Sword Qi attack.
• Cheng Hao appeared and accused Xie Feng of trying to destroy his Kui Emperor Crow God.

Xie Feng confronted Cheng Hao and damaged the Kui Emperor Crow God Statue, but Dao of Calamity and Dao of Wisdom arrived to aid Cheng Hao. Dao of Wisdom broke one of Xie Feng’s fan attacks with Words Become Law, and Xie Feng mocked him for celebrating such a weak feat.

• Cheng Hao attacked Xie Feng, but Xie Feng’s Dark Ink Fan overwhelmed him and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Xie Feng struck the Kui Emperor Crow God Statue with the fan’s handle, cracking its neck, then wounded Cheng Hao when he charged to stop him.
• Dao of Calamity and Dao of Wisdom arrived, and Cheng Hao asked them to kill Xie Feng on Heavenly Soul Venerable’s orders.
• Dao of Wisdom attacked Xie Feng with Literary Dao power and used Words Become Law to break a gust from the Dark Ink Fan.
• Xie Feng laughed at Dao of Wisdom’s pride and called him weak for celebrating the feat.

Xie Feng defeated the Dao of Wisdom with Emperor Su's Eight Returns, leaving him mentally disabled. The Dao of Calamity concluded that Xie Feng was the Peak of Heaven's illegitimate second young master and fled with the Dao of Wisdom.

• Xie Feng taunted the Dao of Wisdom and attacked him with a speck of light that became a net, disabling him instantly.
• Cheng Hao realized Xie Feng had cultivated both the Literary and Martial Daos and feared he could not defeat him.
• The Dao of Wisdom recognized Emperor Su's Eight Returns as a supreme technique of the Peak of Heaven and demanded to know Xie Feng's connection to it.
• Xie Feng claimed he was the Peak of Heaven's second young master, then pretended the secret was an embarrassing one.
• The Dao of Calamity believed Xie Feng was an illegitimate son of the Peak of Heaven and escaped through a spatial tunnel with the Dao of Wisdom.

After Xie Feng destroyed the Kui Emperor Crow God, Cheng Hao absorbed the bloody water and surged to the tenth stage of Indestructible Saint Emperor. Sushang and Xie Feng confronted him, and Xie Feng raised his own strength to the seventh stage of Indestructible Saint Emperor before Cheng Hao charged at him.

• Xie Feng shattered the Kui Emperor Crow God statue, releasing a flood of bloody water and the power it contained.
• Cheng Hao transformed into a giant white crow and devoured the bloody water, reaching the tenth stage of Indestructible Saint Emperor and taking first place on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Sushang revealed her tiger manifestation and used Great Cosmos Karmic Fire to hold off Cheng Hao, while Xie Feng wounded the two Kui Emperor White Crow Clan elders.
• Xie Feng told Sushang to fight Chiyu and the elders, then raised his cultivation to the seventh stage of Indestructible Saint Emperor through Little Sword.
• Cheng Hao charged directly at Xie Feng.

Xie Feng killed Cheng Hao and escaped the destruction of the Earth Devil Tower with Sushang, leaving the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan in turmoil. When he learned that Jiang Feng had seized power and wanted to cooperate with the Devil Race, Xie Feng captured Chiyu and offered her the choice to surrender.

• Cheng Hao's pecks failed to harm Xie Feng, who struck him down with Dissipation like Smoke; Cheng Hao acknowledged Xie Feng before dying.
• Sushang killed two elders as the Earth Devil Tower exploded, and Xie Feng and Sushang fled while Chiyu escaped separately.
• Thousands of black crows gathered over White Crow City, and the clan recognized them as a sign of Cheng Hao's death.
• A man in black told Chiyu that Jiang Feng had declared himself the new king and sought cooperation with the Devil Race; Chiyu refused to join his rebellion.
• Xie Feng trapped Chiyu and the others with Sushang's Great Cosmos Karmic Fire and demanded that Chiyu either surrender or be taken as a gift to Jiang Feng.

After Cheng Hao’s death, Jiang Feng took the throne of the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan and sought to join the Imperial Evil Realm. Xie Feng welcomed the offer but demanded money, mines, and resources, leaving Jiang Feng uneasy about the price of allegiance.

• Chiyu slit her throat rather than be captured, and Xie Feng ordered Chu Fei to bury her.
• Chu Fei led Xie Feng to White Crow City, where Jiang Feng had become the new king after Cheng Hao’s death.
• Jiang Feng praised Xie Feng and asked whether the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan could join the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Xie Feng said the clan would need to prove its sincerity by giving the Imperial Evil Realm money, mines, and resources.
• Jiang Feng objected that Xie Feng was asking too much, and Xie Feng explained that the Imperial Evil Realm was short on resources.

Xie Feng secured Jiang Feng’s resources under the pretense of peace, then helped establish the Xuanji Alliance, which immediately attacked the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan. Jiang Feng sought Gu Xinglan’s aid, while Gu Xinglan learned of Cheng Hao’s death and reacted with anger and sorrow.

• Jiang Feng agreed to give Xie Feng thirty billion Origin Coins and use of ten mines, but told Chu Fei he still intended to uphold Earthborn Devil Creatures’ supremacy.
• Xie Feng returned to find Lu Yinjian and the Imperial Evil Lord had both advanced to the third stage of Indestructible Saint Emperor, then told them about Jiang Feng.
• Xie Feng, Lu Yinjian, and the Imperial Evil Lord agreed to have the realm leaders play the villains and attack the Kui Emperor White Crow Clan despite Xie Feng’s promise.
• Gu Yuan brought Cong Yun, Yue Heng, Gu Yuan, Chi Ling, A Ning, Su Jin, and Qianying to help establish the Xuanji Alliance, with Xie Feng as its leader.
• The Xuanji Alliance attacked the unprepared Kui Emperor White Crow Clan, and Jiang Feng sent for Xie Feng’s explanation before mobilizing a counterattack and asking Gu Xinglan for help.
• Gu Xinglan sent thirty thousand Dark King Palace experts to aid Jiang Feng and learned of Cheng Hao’s death, which left her furious and sorrowful.

Gu Xinglan resolved to seize control of the White Crow faction, openly wage war on the Imperial Evil Realm, and act against Xie Feng. Meanwhile, Gu Yu rapidly grew stronger in the Blood Forest but begged to escape; Gu Xinglan arrived and ordered him to drag something inside.

• Gu Xinglan told Dao of Calamity she would take control of the White Crow faction and declare war on the Imperial Evil Realm, while he pledged to cooperate with her and outlined a plan against Xie Feng.
• Gu Yu completed half a month of training with the Ancient God Secret Art and reached the Indestructible Realm Seventh Stage.
• Gu Yu complained to the skeleton in the golden coffin about being trapped, hungry, and abandoned by Gu Xinglan, then cursed her and threatened to smash the skeleton.
• Gu Xinglan appeared at the entrance to the Blood Forest, scolded Gu Yu, and ordered him to drag something inside.

Gu Xinglan’s latest attempt to resurrect Xuan Li with a borrowed body failed, and she refused Gu Yu’s attempts to bargain for his freedom. As the Xuanji Alliance raised the stakes of the war, she mobilized the Devil Subduing Realm and traveled to the glacier guarded by two elders for two centuries.

• Gu Xinglan used golden lightning to fuse a dead Indestructible Saint Lord’s body with Xuan Li’s bones, but the body exploded when it could not withstand Xuan Li’s power.
• Gu Yu proposed capturing powerful figures as replacement bodies and tried to use the offers to secure his release, but Gu Xinglan saw through him and ordered him to stay put.
• Gu Xinglan mobilized the Devil Subduing Realm’s battle-hardened forces in response to the growing threat posed by the Xuanji Alliance.
• Gu Xinglan questioned the two elders guarding the northern glacier, and they reported that it had remained peaceful and that the time was ripe.
• Gu Xinglan agreed and fired a streak of lightning into the glacier, where it exploded with a thunderous blast.