Chapter Summaries

Gu Xinglan revived the Three Lords, who rose to the fourth stage of indestructible Saint Emperor and climbed to second place on the Heavenly Ranking. In the Imperial Evil Realm, a strange plague spread, and Xie Feng sensed a familiar, otherworldly presence in one of its victims.

• Gu Xinglan opened the crystal coffins in the frozen river and revived Lord Fenglan, Lord Haoyuan, and Lord Lieyang.
• The Three Lords revealed that they had reached the fourth stage of indestructible Saint Emperor, and their appearance pushed the Imperial Evil Lord and Lu Yinjian down the Heavenly Ranking.
• Gu Yu learned of the Three Lords’ return and wondered whether Gu Xinglan would also revive Xuan Li before returning to his cultivation.
• A plague spread through the Imperial Evil Realm, leaving victims covered in festering sores and gradually robbing them of all five senses.
• Sushang investigated the plague with the Imperial Evil Lord, while Xie Feng arrived and examined a victim.
• Xie Feng sensed a mysterious presence in the patient that seemed to come from beyond the Origin Realm.

Xie Feng traveled to the Devil Subduing Realm to confront Gu Xinglan about the Dao of Calamity and the plague in the Imperial Evil Realm. After he suggested Gu Xinglan was conspiring with someone from outside the Origin Realm, she sent her three lords away and demanded to know what he knew.

• Xie Feng sensed the Dao of Calamity's presence in the plague and decided to go to the Devil Subduing Realm.
• Xie Feng used the Cross-Dimensional Converter to reach the Devil Subduing Realm and found Gu Xinglan having tea with the three lords.
• Xie Feng confronted Gu Xinglan, planted Little Sword in the ground to deter her, and drank her tea while claiming to be immune to poison.
• Xie Feng demanded to know where the Dao of Calamity was and accused Gu Xinglan of allowing him to spread the plague in the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Xie Feng suggested Gu Xinglan was working with someone outside the Origin Realm, so she dismissed the three lords and asked what he knew.

Xie Feng demanded that Gu Xinglan summon the Heavenly Soul Venerable so he could ask for a plague antidote, but Long Cangxue intercepted the Venerable and destroyed half of Spirit Martyrdom City. The Heavenly Soul Venerable died after warning Ye Zheng not to provoke Xie Feng, while Xie Feng left Gu Xinglan without meeting his target.

• Xie Feng challenged Gu Xinglan’s loyalty to the Heavenly Soul Venerable and demanded to meet him or the Dao of Calamity for a plague antidote.
• Gu Xinglan used a mysterious compass-like device to send a message to the Heavenly Soul Venerable in the Fifth Universe.
• The Heavenly Soul Venerable decided to go to the Origin Realm, but Long Cangxue confronted him and hurled him into Spirit Martyrdom City, destroying half the city.
• Ye Zheng found the mortally wounded Heavenly Soul Venerable, who warned him not to provoke Xie Feng before dying.
• When the Heavenly Soul Venerable failed to respond, Gu Xinglan handed Xie Feng the device, and Xie Feng left with Little Sword.

Xie Feng learned that Long Cangxue had killed the Dao of Calamity and left the corpse for him, while Gu Xinglan responded to the growing threat by declaring war on the Imperial Evil Realm. She removed Xuan Li’s golden coffin from the Blood Forest and ordered Gu Yu to remain there, leaving him worried he would be forgotten.

• The Three Lords tried to stop Xie Feng from leaving the Devil Subduing Realm, but Gu Xinglan intervened and let him go after assuring him that Gu Yu was protected.
• After leaving, Xie Feng found the Dao of Calamity’s corpse and a note signed “Long,” realizing Long Cangxue had killed him.
• Gu Xinglan learned of the Dao of Calamity’s death, felt increased pressure, and declared war on the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Two months later, Gu Xinglan took Xuan Li’s golden coffin from the Blood Forest and warned Gu Yu not to leave until she allowed it.
• Gu Yu questioned Gu Xinglan about the war and his master, then panicked that she might forget him while he remained trapped in the Blood Forest.

Gu Yu was rescued from Gu Xinglan’s Blood Forest by Xiangxiang and Yu Qingzhu, who brought him back to Xie Feng. At the Xuanji Sect, Sushang continued improving the Kui Emperor Crow God, while Gu Yu recounted his captivity and the discovery of Xuan Li’s remains.

• Gu Yu failed to break Gu Xinglan’s barrier around the Blood Forest and feared he would remain trapped there.
• Xiangxiang and Yu Qingzhu broke through the barrier, found Gu Yu, and took him out of the Devil Subduing Realm.
• Sushang tested the remodeled Kui Emperor Crow God and considered how to make Long-lasting Eternal Grass provide more power.
• Xie Feng suggested cultivating stronger Long-lasting Eternal Grass with pills, inspiring Sushang to embrace and kiss him.
• Gu Yu, Xiangxiang, and Yu Qingzhu arrived as Xie Feng and Sushang were about to kiss, and Gu Yu pretended he had seen nothing.
• Gu Yu told Xie Feng about his time in the Blood Forest, including the golden coffin and Xuan Li’s remains.

Gu Yu complained about Gu Xinglan and showed Xie Feng the Ancient God Secret Art, while Xiangxiang revealed Jin Yue’s eclectic collection of cultivation scrolls. Sheng Haotian arrived at the Xuanji Sect to seek peace, saying he no longer wanted to risk his life for Gu Xinglan.

• Gu Yu recounted Gu Xinglan’s mistreatment and presented Xie Feng with the Ancient God Secret Art, which required practitioners to cripple their cultivation.
• Xiangxiang brought out eight scrolls from Jin Yue’s brocade pouch, including two Origin Level cultivation arts and several eccentric books, and lent Xie Feng the Qilin King Secret Key Diagram and the Tracing Moon Diagram.
• Cang Tong announced that Sheng Haotian had come to see Yu Qingzhu, and Xie Feng agreed to meet him with her on Sword Peak.
• Sheng Haotian arrived alone, admitted he had come to seek peace, and said the war’s growing intensity had convinced him he no longer wanted to risk his life for Gu Xinglan.

Sheng Haotian pledged the Immortal Firmament Manor to Xie Feng and accepted a mission to prove his loyalty. Xie Feng remained cautious as the chapter ended with Dark King Palace forces preparing to attack a city of the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race.

• Sheng Haotian condemned Gu Xinglan for sacrificing her followers and asked Xie Feng to accept the Immortal Firmament Manor into the Xuanji Alliance.
• Xie Feng rejected Sheng Haotian’s offers of money, resources, and female cultivators, then demanded Hun Wudao’s head as proof of sincerity.
• Sheng Haotian accepted the task, and Xie Feng gave him a Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pill before he departed.
• Xie Feng asked Yu Qingzhu about his influence in the Immortal Firmament Manor, and Yu Qingzhu said it was second only to Sheng Haotian’s.
• At night, three thousand elites from the Dark King Palace waited in the woods to attack a major city of the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race.

Sheng Haotian betrayed the Dark King Palace, killed Hun Wudao, and helped the Immortal Firmament Manor destroy the Dark King Palace forces before joining Xie Feng’s side. Xie Feng learned that Lord Lieyang planned to hunt the Heavenly Gu Emperor Pythons and stayed to guard them, then began studying Xiangxiang’s Origin Level Tracing Moon Diagram.

• Sheng Haotian told Hun Wudao to retreat and switch targets, then killed him when Hun reached for a voice transmission talisman.
• Sheng Haotian led four hundred Immortal Firmament Manor elders in wiping out three thousand Dark King Palace elites.
• A Ning and Feng Jia confronted Sheng Haotian, who offered Hun Wudao’s head as proof that he had defected.
• Xie Feng arrived, inspected the head, and accepted Sheng Haotian’s account of the slaughter.
• Sheng Haotian warned Xie Feng that Lord Lieyang would lead Devil Subduing Realm cultivators to hunt the Heavenly Gu Emperor Pythons, so Xie Feng ordered heightened security and stayed to guard the pass.
• At an inn, Xie Feng opened the Origin Level Tracing Moon Diagram that Xiangxiang had given him.

Xie Feng studied an Origin Level cultivation art through the night while A Ning and Feng Jia patrolled near the city. At daybreak, Devil Subduing Realm forces attacked them, and Sheng Haotian joined the battle before Lord Lieyang arrived and turned his attention on him.

• Xie Feng traced formation patterns as he studied the Origin Level cultivation art, gaining a general understanding by daybreak.
• A Ning and Feng Jia encountered about three hundred Devil Subduing Realm elders in red and white robes, who surrounded them in the mountain forest.
• Sheng Haotian arrived with four hundred elders from Immortal Firmament Manor and fought the Devil Subduing Realm forces, while A Ning summoned the city guards.
• Lord Lieyang arrived and attacked Sheng Haotian after a red-robed figure accused him of betraying the Devil Subduing Realm and killing Hun Wudao.
• Lord Lieyang fired a flame-wrapped explosive at Sheng Haotian, who retreated and raised a shield as the shell pursued him.

Xie Feng saved A Ning and joined the battle against Lord Lieyang, while Sheng Haotian and the Dark King Palace fought alongside him. Reinforcements arrived for both sides, and the chapter ended as Xie Feng and Mo Yi prepared to fight.

• Xie Feng used the Dark Ink Fan to dispel Lord Lieyang’s poisonous-mist attack and rescued A Ning as Lord Lieyang declared his intent to wipe out the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race.
• Xie Feng unleashed the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire, and he and his allies fought Lord Lieyang’s forces while Sheng Haotian recovered using Xie Feng’s Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pill.
• Sheng Haotian led the Dark King Palace into battle, and Qianying and Su Jin arrived with thirty thousand troops from the Xuanji Alliance.
• Lord Lieyang summoned reinforcements, including Xuanyuan Feng and Mo Yi with their armies, giving the Devil Subduing Realm a stronger force.
• Mo Yi challenged Xie Feng, who pointed out that he ranked above her on the Heavenly Ranking before summoning flaming swords as their fight began.

Ling Quan emerged from seclusion as an indestructible saint lord after absorbing the Longevity Domain’s earth veins, taking first place on the Heavenly Ranking. Her former master, Yue Heng, confronted her over the damage, and Ling Quan produced three golden spheres.

• Ling Quan emerged from seclusion, and her power caused the Longevity Domain’s land to age and its Spiritual Qi to vanish.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Ling Quan, an indestructible saint lord at the sixth stage, above Gu Xinglan and the other ranked figures.
• Ling Quan entered the Longevity Domain’s imperial capital, where Yue Heng confronted her and accused her of consuming the domain’s earth veins.
• Ling Quan admitted she did not care about being considered a sinner and said she could build another Longevity Domain, while Yue Heng warned her against pursuing further schemes amid the world’s chaos.
• Ling Quan fell silent, then summoned three small golden spheres in her palm.

Yue Heng offered Ling Quan an Earth Fortune Orb to end their master-disciple relationship and urged her to join the war on the Xuanji Alliance’s side, and Ling Quan appeared to agree. Meanwhile, Xie Feng’s outnumbered forces faced a growing Devil Subduing Realm army until Gu Yuan arrived with two hundred thousand demon troops and declared the battle would be fought to the end.

• Ling Quan gave Yue Heng an Earth Fortune Orb and ended their master-disciple relationship, while Yue Heng warned that the war would engulf the Origin Realm.
• Yue Heng asked Ling Quan to join the war on the Xuanji Alliance’s side and offered to recognize her claim as domain lord; Ling Quan said Yue Heng could take her answer however she liked.
• Xie Feng killed Mo Yi and Xuanyuan Feng with his sword techniques, while Lord Lieyang retreated from the barrage of blades and attacked Su Jin and Qianying.
• Lord Haoyuan and Lord Fenglan arrived with a hundred thousand Devil Subduing Realm troops, leaving Xie Feng’s side badly outnumbered.
• Gu Yuan arrived with two hundred thousand Imperial Evil Realm demon troops, surrounded Lord Haoyuan’s army, and challenged the enemy to a final battle.

Xiangxiang split the battlefield into three separate spaces with her moonlight power, scattering the armies and their leaders across different realms. Xie Feng was stranded in the first battlefield with Xiangxiang and Yue Heng, who arrived with the powerful Ling Quan as an uneasy ally.

• Gu Yuan and the other reinforcements arrived, and the Three Lords prepared to fight them.
• Xiangxiang shielded Xie Feng from Lord Lieyang by slicing the moonlight into three moons, dividing the battlefield into three spatial realms.
• Xie Feng and Xiangxiang landed in the first battlefield, while Su Jin, Qianying, Lu Yinjian, and the Imperial Evil Lord faced Lord Haoyuan and Lord Fenglan in the second.
• A Ning, Feng Jia, Cong Yun, Yu Qingzhu, and Gu Yuan faced Lord Lieyang and his forces in the third battlefield, where they were badly outmatched.
• Xiangxiang said she could not use more power to travel between battlefields without risking her inheritance, so Xie Feng and Xiangxiang remained in the first realm.
• Yue Heng arrived and introduced Ling Quan as an ally; Xie Feng recognized her power and suspected she had drained the Longevity Domain's earth veins to gain it.

Xie Feng persuaded Ling Quan to give him an Earth Fortune Orb, then absorbed it and surged to the top of the Heavenly Ranking. Gu Xinglan soon overtook him, and as Ling Quan left to make arrangements in the Longevity Domain, Xiangxiang offered to take Xie Feng to another battlefield.

• Xie Feng convinced Ling Quan to give him an Earth Fortune Orb, which he immediately began refining.
• Xie Feng's cultivation rapidly rose to indestructible saint lord seventh stage, putting him first on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Gu Xinglan broke through to indestructible saint lord ninth stage and took first place from Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng said they needed to kill the Three Lords before Gu Xinglan arrived, while Ling Quan departed to make arrangements in the Longevity Domain.
• Xiangxiang told Xie Feng she had recovered some power and offered to take him to whichever battlefield he chose.

Gu Xinglan used a scheme to lure the Imperial Evil Realm’s strongest fighters away, then launched a million-soldier surprise attack while relying on Emperor Xun’s Secret Art. On the third battlefield, Lord Lieyang nearly killed A Ning before the Cherished Wine Cup Sword arrived and destroyed him completely.

• Gu Xinglan rejected Elder Bai’s concerns about her secret arts and ordered him to mobilize troops for an attack on the Imperial Evil Realm.
• Gu Xinglan revealed that Emperor Xun’s Secret Art was made from an emperor’s bones, then destroyed the book after completing her practice.
• Gu Xinglan led a million-strong army from the Devil Subduing Realm in a surprise attack on the Imperial Evil Realm.
• A Ning, Yu Qingzhu, Cong Yun, and Gu Yuan fought Lord Lieyang, but he grew into a giant and threatened A Ning.
• The Cherished Wine Cup Sword struck Lord Lieyang through the heart and obliterated his body and soul.

Xie Feng joined the Xuanji Alliance’s victory over the Devil Subduing Realm army, but Chi Ling revealed that Gu Xinglan had devastated the Imperial Evil Realm and killed Shuangyan and the other six heroes. Gu Xinglan then arrived with a million soldiers to attack the alliance, and the chapter ended as she and Xie Feng began fighting.

• Xie Feng, Xiangxiang, and Yue Heng arrived, and Xie Feng’s presence helped the Xuanji Alliance defeat the leaderless Devil Subduing Realm troops.
• Chi Ling told the alliance that Gu Xinglan had invaded the Imperial Evil Realm, killing Shuangyan and six others, while Cangming Island sank.
• Gu Xinglan appeared and brought a million-strong army against the Xuanji Alliance’s hundred thousand soldiers.
• Xie Feng confronted Gu Xinglan, who fired two bolts of lightning at him; he raised the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire to defend himself.

Ling Quan returned to help Xie Feng, and the connected battlefields converged into a decisive clash against Gu Xinglan and her allies. As Xie Feng’s side struggled to hold their ground, Cong Yun distributed Coiled Dragon Jade Pendants that required five minutes to refine, leaving the fighters to protect those who took shelter in his defensive formation.

• Ling Quan returned and joined Xie Feng, while Gu Xinglan opened a passage between the second and third battlefields and brought Lord Haoyuan and Lord Fenglan to reinforce her side.
• Xie Feng signaled the Xuanji Alliance for troops and built the Ten Stars Linking the Moon Grand Formation, letting A Ning, Xiangxiang, Feng Jia, Qianying, and Su Jin attack safely from within it.
• Xie Feng, Ling Quan, and Tao Xue fought Gu Xinglan as the Imperial Evil Lord, Gu Yuan, and Cong Yun engaged Lord Haoyuan, while Lu Yinjian, Yue Heng, and Yu Qingzhu fought Lord Fenglan.
• Gu Xinglan revealed that she had compressed her true strength and drove the fighters back with the Xinglan Sword, while Yue Heng warned that their side could not keep fighting at that pace.
• Cong Yun distributed five Coiled Dragon Jade Pendants to Xie Feng, the Imperial Evil Lord, Lu Yinjian, Tao Xue, and herself so they could refine them for greater strength.
• Gu Xinglan attacked Xie Feng to stop the refining, but their weapons clashed and a crack appeared in her sword; Tao Xue entered the formation and began refining her pendant.

As Xie Feng refined the Coiled Dragon Jade Pendant and Ling Quan’s Earth Fortune Orb, the Xuanji Alliance’s new powerhouses killed Lord Haoyuan and Lord Fenglan, only for Gu Xinglan to turn their souls into powerful Thunderstorm Giants. As the alliance struggled to protect Xie Feng, Geng Long and Gui Ze arrived with millions of troops to help, shifting the battle against the Devil Subduing Realm.

• Tao Xue, Cong Yun, the Imperial Evil Lord, and Lu Yinjian completed their refinements and gained powerful cultivation, while Ling Quan gave Xie Feng her last Earth Fortune Orb so he could prepare to face Gu Xinglan.
• The Imperial Evil Lord killed Lord Haoyuan, and Lu Yinjian killed Lord Fenglan, but Gu Xinglan seized their souls and transformed them into third-stage Indestructible Saint Lord Thunderstorm Giants.
• The Thunderstorm Giants wounded the alliance fighters, so Yue Heng organized a plan to keep them occupied while Xie Feng continued refining inside the Ten Stars Linking the Moon Grand Formation, guarded by Xiangxiang.
• Geng Long and Gui Ze arrived with three armies numbering in the millions and declared that they had come to help the Xuanji Alliance, turning the battle’s numbers against the Devil Subduing Realm.

Sushang and Gu Yu arrived with nineteen Kui Emperor Crow Gods, which destroyed Gu Xinglan’s Thunderstorm Giants before she overwhelmed the puppets with her sword. Gu Xinglan began preparing to resurrect Xuan Li, and the chapter ended with Gu Yu urgently calling for the others to stop her.

• Sushang and Gu Yu arrived with nineteen Kui Emperor Crow Gods, and Gu Xinglan was shocked to see Gu Yu had escaped.
• Sushang sent the Kui Emperor Crow Gods to fight the Thunderstorm Giants while Gui Ze, Geng Long, Yue Heng, and the others withdrew.
• The Kui Emperor Crow Gods destroyed both Thunderstorm Giants, but Gu Xinglan knocked the puppets down with her Sword Qi before Sushang restored them.
• Gu Xinglan gathered terrifying lightning and revealed she had spent three hundred years trying to bring Xuan Li back to life.
• Gu Yu pleaded with Gu Xinglan to stop, but she blasted him away, and A Ning’s Heavenly Gu Emperor Pythons pulled him into the grand formation.
• Gu Xinglan raised her palm again to summon Xuan Li, and Gu Yu called for everyone to stop her.

Gu Xinglan resurrected Xuan Li, who emerged with the highest cultivation in the Origin Realm and overwhelmed the Xuanji Alliance's forces. As the Imperial Evil Lord and his allies tried to buy Xie Feng time to finish refining, Gu Xinglan told Xuan Li she would capture the strongest soul to bring him back completely.

• Gu Xinglan's summons tore open the blood-red cocoon, and Xuan Li emerged with Indestructible Saint Ancestor tenth-stage cultivation.
• Xuan Li shattered space and froze countless Xuanji Alliance fighters, while the grand formation began to falter.
• Gu Yu, A Ning, the Imperial Evil Lord, Ling Quan, Cong Yun, and Lu Yinjian discussed their chances and decided to buy Xie Feng half a cup of tea to finish refining.
• Gu Xinglan reunited with Xuan Li and recounted the sacrifices she had made to resurrect him.
• Gu Xinglan told Xuan Li she would capture the strongest soul to bring him back completely, then defended her actions to the gathered enemies.