Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng brought Yu Meng and the others into the Fifth Universe after bribing gatekeeper Feng Ning to let them pass without recording their arrival. When Feng Ning learned that Xie Feng was wanted by Spirit Martyrdom City, he vowed to protect him and storm the city if anyone harmed him.

• Yu Meng was stunned to hear that Xie Feng, a God, had killed Heavenly Soul Venerable, a God King.
• Xie Feng comforted Little Sword, promising to help it find the sword it admired in the Fifth Universe.
• At the Fifth Universe gate, Xie Feng recognized Feng Ning, who let the group through after receiving a bottle of Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills.
• Feng Ning learned from his boss that Xie Feng was wanted by Spirit Martyrdom City for a hundred million in Emperor's Fortune and had killed Heavenly Soul Venerable.
• Feng Ning told his boss to help protect Xie Feng and threatened to storm Spirit Martyrdom City and kill its city lord, Ye Zheng, if they harmed him.

Feng Ning bribed Boss to protect Xie Feng, while Xie Feng and his companions learned that Returning Moon City had fallen to Ink Mysteries City. Nether Dao explained that Returning Moon City was too weak to fight back, leaving the group to decide how to proceed.

• Feng Ning told Boss that Xie Feng was his friend and promised him half the Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills in exchange for protection.
• Yu Meng guided the starship into Returning Moon City's territory, but a strange bank of fog stopped them from approaching the city.
• Ye Die warned Nether Dao and Yu Meng that Returning Moon City had fallen after the Dao of Destruction and three thousand troops from Ink Mysteries City occupied it.
• Ye Die urged the group to take refuge in Evil Sound Hollow, but the Imperial Evil Lord challenged Nether Dao's willingness to surrender the city.
• Nether Dao admitted that Returning Moon City lacked powerful successors and could not match Ink Mysteries City's strength, prompting Xiangxiang to blame herself.

The Imperial Evil Lord entered Returning Moon City and met Dao of Destruction, claiming an old friendship with Xuanyuan Yu. Xuanyuan Yu arrived, recognized him, and ordered Dao of Destruction to withdraw the troops surrounding the city.

• The Imperial Evil Lord told Ye Die, Yu Meng, and Nether Dao that he knew Dao of Destruction and went to Returning Moon City alone.
• Xie Feng and the others flew toward Evil Sound Hollow while Xie Feng read biographies of Ink Mysteries City's notable figures.
• The Imperial Evil Lord slipped past the troops surrounding Returning Moon City and found Dao of Destruction drinking tea in the rear garden.
• The Imperial Evil Lord claimed he was an old acquaintance of Xuanyuan Yu, and Dao of Destruction reluctantly agreed to let him contact the city lord.
• Xuanyuan Yu arrived, recognized the Imperial Evil Lord, and ordered Dao of Destruction to withdraw the troops surrounding Returning Moon City.

Xie Feng disguised himself as Xuanyuan Yu to withdraw Ink Mysteries City's army from Returning Moon City, then protected the city and went to the Divine Secrets Pavilion to search for Jin Yue. He met the pavilion's owner, Nalan Yan, who asked what kind of person he wanted to find.

• Xuanyuan Yu ordered the Dao of Destruction to take three thousand elites to the Great Fall Land to capture Jin Yue, whose whereabouts had been exposed.
• After the Dao of Destruction left, Xie Feng revealed to the Imperial Evil Lord that he had been disguised as Xuanyuan Yu and had used the Records of the People of Ink Mysteries City to guide his actions.
• Xie Feng and the Imperial Evil Lord agreed that Xie Feng would defend Returning Moon City and search for Jin Yue while the Imperial Evil Lord went to Ink Mysteries City to investigate the conflict.
• Xie Feng opened Returning Moon City's gates, settled everyone inside, and laid down the Ten Stars Linking the Moon Grand Formation.
• Xie Feng traveled to the Divine Secrets Pavilion, where Nalan Yan introduced herself as its owner and asked whether he sought an ordinary person, royalty or nobility, or a powerful figure of the martial world.

Xie Feng tried to hire Nalan Yan to find Jin Yue, but she refused because Ink Mysteries City's powerful backer made the search too dangerous. The Divine Secrets Pavilion's gatekeeper offered to help if Xie Feng found an Origin Level alchemist for his ill wife, and Xie Feng discovered a strong death Qi in her home.

• Xie Feng asked Nalan Yan to find Jin Yue, but she refused after learning that Ink Mysteries City had issued the bounty for her.
• The gatekeeper told Xie Feng that Nalan Yan feared the powerful backer behind Ink Mysteries City and offered to reveal more for a fee.
• The gatekeeper caught up with Xie Feng and offered to help find Jin Yue if Xie Feng found a powerful alchemist to treat his wife.
• Xie Feng said he was an Origin Level alchemist, and the gatekeeper led him to his secluded home.
• Xie Feng entered the house and sensed the heavy death Qi surrounding the gatekeeper's bedridden wife.

Xie Feng rescued an old woman from a possessing black mist and learned that the Peak of Heaven stood behind Ink Mysteries City. The old man revealed that the Peak of Heaven controlled the Fifth Universe’s order and called its members the Stability Maintainers.

• Xie Feng dodged the old woman’s icy attack and recognized her black claw as the same kind of creature he had seen in Ye Die’s liquor.
• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire to force the black mist out of the old woman, then burned it away and revived her with a Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pill.
• The old man and his wife thanked Xie Feng, and he asked the old man about Ink Mysteries City.
• The old man told Xie Feng that the Peak of Heaven backed Ink Mysteries City and controlled the Fifth Universe’s order as the Stability Maintainers.
• The old man explained that his former work as a gatekeeper at the Divine Secrets Pavilion had given him access to the secret information.

Xie Feng learned that Feng Yan had forced Jin Yue to flee and discovered that the Moon Mark could contact her through fear, but he could not trigger it. He followed the old man into the Divine Secrets Pavilion to steal its technology and entered the Cocoon Tower's secret chamber just as Nalan Yan opened it.

• An old man told Xie Feng that Feng Yan had threatened Jin Yue and Xiangxiang, forcing Jin Yue to flee, and that Feng Yan had sent people to hunt them.
• The old man spotted Xie Feng's Moon Mark and explained that fear could use it to alert Jin Yue, but Xie Feng failed to feel afraid.
• The old man offered to help Xie Feng steal the Divine Secrets Pavilion's technology in exchange for fifty million strands of Emperor's Fortune, then revealed when and where to enter.
• Xie Feng and the old man hid near the Cocoon Tower's secret chamber and waited for Nalan Yan to arrive.
• Nalan Yan opened the chamber door, and Xie Feng slipped inside before it closed behind him.

Xie Feng broke into the Cocoon Tower and forced Nalan Yan to help him find Jin Yue, offering to protect the Divine Secrets Pavilion from the Peak of Heaven. Nalan Yan doubted his promise until he revealed his Universe Level sword, Little Sword.

• Nalan Yan used the Cocoon Tower's instruments to locate someone and record their position.
• Xie Feng startled Nalan Yan, asked her to find Jin Yue, and disarmed her before taking her jade token.
• Nalan Yan refused to search for Jin Yue and tried to escape, so Xie Feng trapped her in a ring of Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Xie Feng promised to protect the Divine Secrets Pavilion if the Peak of Heaven retaliated, but Nalan Yan questioned whether he could challenge that force.
• Xie Feng revealed Little Sword, and its Universe Level pressure shocked Nalan Yan.

Xie Feng asked Nalan Yan to search for Jin Yue, and her deductions revealed that Jin Yue was not in the Fifth Universe. After learning of Xie Feng’s bounty, Nalan Yan agreed to help him enter Spirit Martyrdom City and split the reward.

• Xie Feng asked Nalan Yan to use the Divine Secrets Pavilion’s instruments to search for Jin Yue while he watched her methods.
• Nalan Yan found no trace of Jin Yue and concluded that she was not in the Fifth Universe.
• Nalan Yan told Xie Feng that Jin Yue might be in another universe and mentioned her connection to Feng Xuan.
• Nalan Yan demanded payment for helping with the search, and Xie Feng showed her his bounty notice from Spirit Martyrdom City.
• Xie Feng offered to split the bounty with Nalan Yan if she helped hand him over, and she agreed after initially objecting.
• Xie Feng urged Nalan Yan to leave for Spirit Martyrdom City at once, and she agreed to abandon her work.

Nalan Yan brought the bound Xie Feng to Spirit Martyrdom City and collected the bounty from Ye Zheng. After she left, Xie Feng revealed that he had been pretending to be unconscious and taunted Ye Zheng about the Gods who had fallen.

• Nalan Yan traveled with Xie Feng to Spirit Martyrdom City and told Huang Quandao she had a major deal for Ye Zheng.
• Nalan Yan presented Xie Feng as the captured fugitive, and Ye Zheng confirmed his identity and paid her a hundred million strands of Emperor's Fortune.
• After Nalan Yan left the hall, Ye Zheng approached the seemingly unconscious Xie Feng to kick him.
• Xie Feng sprang up, claimed his backer would frighten Ye Zheng, and provoked him by recounting the deaths and defeats of Spirit Martyrdom City's Gods.

Xie Feng defeated Ye Zheng with the Universe Level Dark Ink Fan and forced the lord of Spirit Martyrdom City to help Returning Moon City, search for Jin Yue, and repay the debt for the higher-dimensional invasion of the Origin Realm. When Ye Zheng could not provide one billion strands of Emperor's Fortune, he offered ancient War God blood, and Xie Feng searched Kong Qiusu's library for information about Ziyun Mountain Manor.

• Ye Zheng attacked Xie Feng with his Peak God Grade power, but Xie Feng revealed the Dark Ink Fan and shattered Ye Zheng's tiger, then injured and subdued him.
• Xie Feng demanded that Ye Zheng send a hundred thousand troops to protect Returning Moon City and report any information about Jin Yue.
• Ye Zheng admitted that he had ordered part of Heavenly Soul Venerable's expedition to the Third Universe, and Xie Feng demanded one billion strands of Emperor's Fortune as repayment.
• Ye Zheng said he could not pay the sum and offered inherited ancient War God blood in exchange, naming Ziyun Bank as a place to trade it.
• While Ye Zheng reattached his arm, Xie Feng searched Kong Qiusu's library for information about Ziyun Mountain Manor.

Xie Feng, Nalan Yan, and Ye Zheng headed to Ziyun Bank after Xie Feng collected half of Ye Zheng’s Emperor’s Fortune, leaving Ye Zheng to realize he had been tricked. Meanwhile, Dao of Destruction discovered Xie Feng had misled him, and Imperial Evil Lord sought out Ink Mysteries City’s city lord Xuanyuan Yu.

• Xie Feng learned that Ziyun Bank was the Fifth Universe’s largest bank and that Ye Zheng planned to exchange the ancient War God’s blood there.
• Nalan Yan gave Xie Feng fifty million in Emperor’s Fortune, and Ye Zheng realized the two had deliberately swindled him.
• Xie Feng, Nalan Yan, and the miserable Ye Zheng boarded a starship for Ziyun Bank.
• Dao of Destruction learned that Xuanyuan Yu had never summoned him to the Great Fall Land and decided to retake Returning Moon City before returning to face him.
• Imperial Evil Lord tore up Ink Mysteries City’s bounty notice for Jin Yue, drawing Ruyan’s attention and asking her to take him to the city lord.
• Imperial Evil Lord reunited warmly with Xuanyuan Yu, recalling their swordsmanship match two hundred years earlier.

The Imperial Evil Lord reunited with Xuanyuan Yu, learned that Feng Yan and the Peak of Heaven had ordered the hunt for Jin Yue, and secured Xuanyuan Yu’s help in finding her. The story then shifted to Ziyun Bank, where its owner, Chen An, reluctantly prepared for the annual God of Wealth worship day.

• Xuanyuan Yu welcomed the Imperial Evil Lord to Ink Mysteries City and spent two days entertaining him.
• Xuanyuan Yu revealed that Feng Yan had ordered Jin Yue hunted after she refused to marry him, and promised to help the Imperial Evil Lord and Xie Feng find her.
• Xuanyuan Yu warned the Imperial Evil Lord that Ruyan was a Peak of Heaven War God sent to watch over Ink Mysteries City.
• Steward Song closed Ziyun Bank’s main branch for its annual God of Wealth worship day and found Chen An lounging inside.
• Chen An got up to pay his respects while complaining that the yearly closure cost the bank a fortune.

Chen An prayed for the prosperity of Ziyun Bank and asked Steward Song to buy him defensive armor, but made Steward Song cover most of the cost. A knock at the door interrupted them as Steward Song prepared to leave.

• Chen An scolded Steward Song for criticizing him and prayed to the God of Wealth for the bank's success and good fortune.
• Chen An asked whether Steward Song had arranged the defensive soft armor, and Steward Song admitted he had forgotten.
• Steward Song explained the costs of armor made with mystic star stone and told Chen An that emperor bone stone was unavailable.
• Chen An gave Steward Song a card with only three million Emperor's Fortune and asked him to cover the remaining seven million.
• Steward Song asked for a raise, and Chen An promised he would not shortchange him before a knock sounded at the door.

Xie Feng accompanied Ye Zheng and Nalan Yan to Ziyun Bank, where he sold Chen An a huge piece of Emperor Bone Stone for only one hundred thousand Emperor’s Fortune. After Ye Zheng offered an ancient War God blood drop in exchange, Chen An revealed privately that he and Ye Zheng planned to kill their targets at the bank and that the blood was fake, leaving Xie Feng to question why Chen An had warned him.

• Xie Feng, Ye Zheng, and Nalan Yan entered Ziyun Bank after Chen An ordered Steward Song to let them in.
• Xie Feng offered Chen An a massive piece of Emperor Bone Stone for one hundred thousand Emperor’s Fortune, and Chen An accepted it.
• Ye Zheng offered a drop of ancient War God blood, which Chen An valued at eight hundred million; Ye Zheng insisted it was worth at least one billion.
• Chen An drew Xie Feng into a private room and told him that he and Ye Zheng lured people to the bank to rob and kill them, and that Ye Zheng’s blood was fake.
• Xie Feng asked Chen An why he had told him about the scheme.

Xie Feng stayed at Ziyun Bank after Chen An protected him from Ye Zheng and learned that Jin Yue might visit that night. While practicing outside the bank, he was ambushed by five Gods from Spirit Martyrdom City and killed two of them.

• Chen An recognized the Moon Mark on Xie Feng's arm, revealed his friendship with Jin Yue, and said she would come to collect money that night.
• Chen An rejected Ye Zheng's supposed ancient War God blood, defended Xie Feng, and drove Ye Zheng from Ziyun Bank.
• Chen An invited Xie Feng to stay at the bank, while Nalan Yan left and Xie Feng waited for evening.
• Xie Feng practiced the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm outside the bank and was confronted by five Gods from Spirit Martyrdom City.
• Xie Feng fought the five Gods, killed the monster-like opponent, and then slew one of the women with a sword strike.

Jin Yue arrived in time to rescue Xie Feng from three Gods of Spirit Martyrdom City and learned that Xiangxiang had given him the Qilin King Secret Key Diagram. After the danger passed, she joined Xie Feng and Chen An at the bank for a meal.

• Three Gods of Spirit Martyrdom City combined their swords to attack Xie Feng, but Jin Yue appeared and killed them with her golden flood dragon.
• Jin Yue confirmed that Xiangxiang was safe in Returning Moon City and noticed that Xie Feng's Dark Ink Fan had risen from Origin Level to Universe Level.
• Xie Feng told Jin Yue that Xiangxiang had given him the Qilin King Secret Key Diagram and that it had led him to the Qilin King in the Fourth Universe.
• Chen An arrived, learned that the slain attackers were from Spirit Martyrdom City, and watched Jin Yue turn their bodies to ash.
• Jin Yue asked for donkey dishes, and Chen An agreed to have Steward Song prepare them at the bank.

At Ziyun Bank, Xie Feng assured Jin Yue that she could stay openly in Returning Moon City despite the Peak of Heaven, and she decided to return there to see Xiangxiang. Meanwhile, Ye Zheng arrived alone to destroy the city, but its defensive formation stopped his attack and Yu Meng and Nether Dao confronted him.

• Jin Yue woke from a nap and told Xie Feng she planned to take Xiangxiang away from the Fifth Universe to protect her from the Peak of Heaven.
• Xie Feng urged Jin Yue to stop hiding and promised to have anyone who bullied her beaten up; he also told her about Sushang, the alchemist who had helped Xiangxiang.
• Jin Yue said she missed Xiangxiang, and Xie Feng agreed to return with her to Returning Moon City.
• Ye Zheng arrived at Returning Moon City and repeatedly punched its defensive formation, vowing to destroy the city and make Xie Feng suffer a loss.
• Yu Meng and Nether Dao confronted Ye Zheng, and he transformed into a powerful tiger-man as they prepared to fight.

Ye Zheng attacked Returning Moon City, but Jin Yue returned and killed him with the Ten Stars Linking the Moon Grand Formation. As Jin Yue reunited with the city’s people, a hostile army appeared, heading straight for Returning Moon City.

• Ye Zheng manifested his tiger form, reached intermediate god king cultivation, and fought Yu Meng and Nether Dao, who repeatedly charged back into battle.
• Xiangxiang rushed out to challenge Ye Zheng, but he struck her into the sky before Jin Yue appeared and caught her.
• Jin Yue handed Xiangxiang to Xie Feng, then killed Ye Zheng with a golden flood dragon unleashed by the Ten Stars Linking the Moon Grand Formation.
• Jin Yue apologized to the people of Returning Moon City, and they reassured her that they understood her actions.
• As Xie Feng led everyone back toward the city, they saw an army approaching with weapons and armored horses.

Jin Yue and Xie Feng captured Dao of Destruction and his elite troops, then summoned Ink Mysteries City’s lord, Xuanyuan Yu, to Returning Moon City to ransom them. Xuanyuan Yu arrived with the Imperial Evil Lord, and Xie Feng began negotiating the price for the prisoners.

• Dao of Destruction returned to Returning Moon City with two thousand elite soldiers, but Xie Feng trapped them in a ring of Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Jin Yue overwhelmed the Ink Mysteries City troops and released two soldiers to summon Xuanyuan Yu to ransom Dao of Destruction and the others.
• The two soldiers reached Ink Mysteries City after ten days, and Xuanyuan Yu traveled to Returning Moon City with the Imperial Evil Lord.
• Xie Feng met Xuanyuan Yu outside the city and said the prisoners were being treated well inside.
• Xuanyuan Yu offered five million Emperor's Fortune, and Xie Feng asked whether that amount covered Dao of Destruction, the troops, or each prisoner.