Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng and Jin Yue fought Feng Yan and the Peak of Heaven’s forces, but the arrival of four powerful ancestors threatened to trap them. As Jin Yue urged Xie Feng to retreat, he told Feng Yan that he did not get to decide whether they could leave.

• Feng Yan attacked Xie Feng while Jin Yue held back Qing Yi, the elders, and the Black Robe Legion.
• Xie Feng used Little Sword to destroy Feng Yan’s flaming sword and shatter his giant flaming fist, leveling more than a dozen nearby mountain peaks.
• Xie Feng provoked Feng Yan by suggesting Feng Xuan was still alive, and Feng Yan lost his composure and attacked.
• Jin Yue summoned golden wings, a full moon, and immense waves as pillars of light rose in all four directions, signaling the arrival of the Peak of Heaven’s four ancestors.
• Jin Yue warned Xie Feng that the ancestors were at least God Emperor level and urged him to leave, but Feng Yan blocked their way and Xie Feng defied him.

Xie Feng escaped the Peak of Heaven with Jin Yue after Feng Ning arrived to rescue them. As Feng Ning flew them toward Returning Moon City, the trio was intercepted by Ming Dao and two other members of the Demon-Burying Clan.

• Feng Yan stopped his troops from shooting down the phoenix after realizing Feng Ning was an imperial prince, then cursed at Xie Feng as he escaped.
• Feng Ning revealed his identity to Xie Feng and accepted a jade gourd containing two hundred Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills as thanks for the rescue.
• Xie Feng admitted to Jin Yue that his claim of powerful backing had been a bluff, while Feng Ning hinted that Xie Feng might have influential connections.
• Feng Ning flew Xie Feng and Jin Yue toward Returning Moon City and explained that he enjoyed guarding gates despite being an imperial prince.
• Ming Dao and two other figures rose from below and blocked their path, prompting Feng Ning to recognize the Demon-Burying Clan.

Ming Dao tried to seize the power-source corpse from Xie Feng, but Xie Feng used his Chaos Physique to destroy Ming Dao’s body and overpower him. Just as Xie Feng moved to finish the fight, a powerful elder from the Demon-Burying Clan intervened.

• Ming Dao blocked Xie Feng, Jin Yue, and Feng Ning and demanded that Xie Feng sell him the corpse, but Xie Feng refused.
• Ming Dao attacked Xie Feng, and Jin Yue repelled his punch and warned him to leave.
• Ming Dao charged again, but Xie Feng’s sword split him in two; black mist restored Ming Dao’s body, and Feng Ning explained that the Demon-Burying Clan was difficult to kill.
• Xie Feng revealed his Chaos Qi and destroyed Ming Dao’s body, while the Chaos Qi killed Ming Dao’s two attendants.
• Xie Feng trapped Ming Dao with his Sword Intent, but a huge palm from a Demon-Burying Clan elder shattered the sky and crushed Xie Feng’s Sword Qi.

Xie Feng vowed to visit the Demon-Burying Clan to collect the land Ming Dao owed him, despite Burial King Yuan Ling's warning, and set off toward the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road with Jin Yue and Feng Ning. Meanwhile, Du Qin arrived at Misty Rain Island, killed Mu Tiandao after he tried to seize its ancient elephant skull, and faced an angry crowd seeking revenge for the island lord and his wife.

• Xie Feng told Burial King Yuan Ling that he would visit the Demon-Burying Clan and collect the promised land, while Yuan Ling warned him to bring more people.
• Jin Yue urged Xie Feng not to go, but he insisted on keeping his word and left with Jin Yue and Feng Ning for the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road.
• At Misty Rain Island, Mu Tiandao learned that Ming Dao had killed the island lord and his wife, then demanded their ancient elephant skull.
• Du Qin appeared with the skull and bound Mu Tiandao with a zither string when he attacked her.
• Du Qin identified herself as a King's Disciple of the Demon-Burying Clan and killed Mu Tiandao, prompting Misty Rain Island's people to charge at her for revenge.

Xie Feng reached the island where his senior brother had spent three years in the Past Like a Dream Mirror and shattered the mirror to awaken him. A black silhouette emerged amid a surge of spiritual fortune, while Jin Yue remained unaware of who was about to appear.

• Du Qin declared that Misty Rain Island belonged to the Demon-Burying Clan and covered it in black smoke that swallowed the island's people.
• Xie Feng, Feng Ning, and Jin Yue traveled across the Heavenly River toward the island, where a giant purple python greeted Xie Feng and offered to guide them.
• The purple python told Xie Feng that it had protected his senior brother from trouble in the Heavenly River for three years.
• On the island, Jin Yue recognized Old Man Pine Gatherer, who revealed that he had been guarding his master beside the Past Like a Dream Mirror.
• Xie Feng unleashed his Chaos Power and shattered the mirror, from which a black silhouette emerged amid a burst of light and spiritual fortune.

Xie Feng restored Kong Qiusu to life, but Kong Qiusu returned as a peak Great Emperor with only partial memories. As the group became lost in the fog, Jin Yue destroyed her marriage contract with him, leaving Kong Qiusu to question whether they had once been engaged.

• Xie Feng reunited Kong Qiusu's soul with his original body, and Kong Qiusu revived with peak Great Emperor cultivation.
• Kong Qiusu failed to recognize Jin Yue, while she explained that their marriage contract had been arranged by their elders and that she would not force a relationship.
• Feng Ning led the group away from the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road, then admitted he had become lost in the fog.
• Kong Qiusu asked Jin Yue whether they had a relationship, and she destroyed their marriage contract, saying she wanted to end their ties.
• Kong Qiusu asked whether the contract she destroyed had been his and hers.

Feng Ning and Xie Feng’s group landed on the Eternity Battlefield, where Feng Ning explained the Emperor Phoenix Clan’s war against the Demon-Burying Clan. After Feng Wen arrived with reinforcements, the group learned why she had reprimanded her warriors for kneeling to Feng Ning.

• Kong Qiusu claimed his memories had returned and reminded Jin Yue that they had once been engaged, prompting her to curse him until she fainted.
• Feng Ning and the others emerged from the fog onto the Eternity Battlefield, where he explained that the Emperor Phoenix Clan defended the Fifth Universe from the Demon-Burying Clan.
• A Demon-Burying Clan force attacked, and Feng Ning transformed into a golden phoenix and devoured its weaker members.
• Kong Qiusu warned Xie Feng not to reveal his Chaos Power, then several hundred Emperor Phoenixes arrived and wiped out the remaining demons.
• Feng Wen emerged from a black-hole vortex, scolded her warriors for kneeling to Feng Ning, and explained that an impostor had once posed as the Phoenix Lord and killed their people.

Feng Wen recognized the supposedly dead Kong Qiusu, who revealed how Feng Yan had attacked him twelve years earlier and forced him to flee as a remnant soul. As Feng Wen and Feng Ning learned the truth behind their hardships and Kong Qiusu’s supposed betrayal, Xie Feng and Old Man Pine Gatherer called for Feng Yan to be confronted.

• Feng Wen greeted Feng Ning and Jin Yue, teased Xie Feng and the masked Kong Qiusu, then recognized Old Man Pine Gatherer, who revealed that he had faked his death.
• Kong Qiusu removed his mask and told Feng Wen he had survived for twelve years as a remnant soul before being restored to life.
• Feng Wen recounted how Kong Qiusu had protected and taught her, and how Feng Yan later suppressed her and drove Feng Ning away from the Peak of Heaven.
• Kong Qiusu explained that Feng Yan had attacked him while he was weak, forcing him to abandon his body and flee the Fifth Universe with little memory.
• Feng Ning revealed that Feng Yan had publicly accused Kong Qiusu of refusing to fight the Demon-Burying Clan, while Kong Qiusu said he had been secluded and knew nothing of the accusation.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer demanded to attack Feng Yan, and Xie Feng insisted that he should handle the matter.

Feng Wen explained the Demon-Burying Clan’s campaign against the Peak of Heaven, and Xie Feng set out to reclaim land from them. He infiltrated their camp, killed a commander with one strike, and confronted the commander-in-chief, who was still trying to assess his power.

• Feng Wen warned that the Demon-Burying Clan’s war faction aimed to destroy the Peak of Heaven and invade the Fifth Universe, then told Xie Feng their camp lay ninety million li to the northwest.
• Kong Qiusu revealed that Xie Feng was his junior sect brother and had found his original body, convincing Feng Wen that Xie Feng was a major figure.
• Feng Wen took Xie Feng and the others toward her camp, while the Demon-Burying Clan’s commanders discussed the defeat of an elite unit and the unfamiliar fighters on the battlefield.
• Xie Feng entered the Demon-Burying Clan’s command tent and identified himself as the man in blue the commanders had been discussing.
• Xie Feng killed the young commander with a single sword strike, and the commander-in-chief recognized his weapon as a Universe Level sword before secretly gathering killing intent.

Xie Feng defeated and sealed the commander-in-chief and the commander, intending to present them to Burial King Yuan Ling. At Feng Wen’s camp, she warned Feng Ning to keep their uncle’s identity secret and offered him the dangerous Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture.

• Xie Feng used Chaos Power to seal the commander-in-chief and the commander as gray stones, then left the camp.
• Feng Ning offered to bring supplies to Feng Wen, who refused and explained why she accepted her difficult position.
• Feng Wen warned Feng Ning not to reveal their uncle’s identity and learned that he had met Grand General Pine Gatherer three years earlier.
• Feng Ning said an expert had awakened his bloodline but that he had never learned a cultivation technique or martial skills.
• Feng Wen offered Feng Ning the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture and warned that it burned life force and disrupted emotions.

Xie Feng killed Feng Chong after catching him trying to report Feng Xuan’s return to Feng Yan. At the Feng Royal Palace, Feng Yan sent Qing Yi to the Eternity Battlefield with resources for Feng Wen, while Qing Yi concealed his feelings for her and departed.

• Feng Chong secretly listened to Feng Wen and Feng Ning discuss Feng Xuan’s return, then tried to report the news to Feng Yan.
• Xie Feng destroyed Feng Chong’s transmission talisman and killed him after Feng Chong insulted Feng Xuan.
• Feng Yan’s transmission talisman turned to ash, so he ordered Qing Yi to investigate Feng Chong on the Eternity Battlefield.
• Qing Yi asked Feng Yan to replenish Feng Wen’s resources, and Feng Yan ordered him to deliver them himself.
• Feng Yan pressed Qing Yi about his feelings for Feng Wen, but Qing Yi denied them and left for the Eternity Battlefield.

After Feng Chong’s death, Xie Feng left the Eternity Battlefield for Returning Moon City with Feng Ning and their companions. They arrived to find Xiangxiang unconscious from overusing her ancestral power, and Xie Feng restored her with ten Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills, leaving Nether Dao and the others stunned by the identities of his companions.

• Qing Yi suspected Feng Yan was plotting to eliminate Feng Wen, but decided to keep quiet and watch events unfold.
• Xie Feng told Feng Wen and Feng Ning that he had killed Feng Chong because Feng Chong planned to inform Feng Yan about his existence.
• Feng Wen ordered her guards to take Feng Chong’s body back to the Peak of Heaven and accepted two Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills from Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng and his companions departed for Returning Moon City, where Nether Dao told them Xiangxiang had fallen unconscious.
• Jin Yue could not calm Xiangxiang’s failing ancestral power, so Xie Feng fed her ten Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills and brought her back to ordinary sleep.
• Nether Dao, Yu Meng, and Ye Die recognized Kong Qiusu and Old Man Pine Gatherer, and Nether Dao exclaimed that they had already perished.

Kong Qiusu and Xie Feng discussed how to treat Xiangxiang’s backlash from her ancestral power, while Old Man Pine Gatherer prepared to gather ingredients for pills. Later, Xie Feng rescued Feng Ning from Qi deviation, and Kong Qiusu corrected the flawed Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture so Feng Ning could cultivate it safely.

• Kong Qiusu introduced himself to Nether Dao and the others, who praised his return and strength.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer said Xiangxiang needed pills, powerful strength, and a different bloodline power to control her unstable ancestral energy, and identified Xie Feng’s Chaos Physique as the strongest bloodline.
• Xie Feng agreed to help Xiangxiang, while Old Man Pine Gatherer left to gather medicinal ingredients and Jin Yue stayed by the girl’s bedside.
• Feng Ning cultivated the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture, lost control, and began suffering Qi deviation.
• Xie Feng used the Dark Ink Fan to destroy the evil dragon’s energy and restore Feng Ning’s senses.
• Kong Qiusu corrected the scripture’s flaw, and Feng Ning resumed cultivating it without difficulty.

Feng Ning reached God Grade, Beginner Level after Kong Qiusu revised his cultivation scripture, while Old Man Pine Gatherer gathered herbs to make a pill for Xiangxiang. In Sleeping Wind Valley, Pine Gatherer defeated and killed the Cold King, then returned to refine pills, but five cauldrons exploded before Kong Qiusu and Xie Feng arrived.

• Kong Qiusu transformed the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture into a normal cultivation technique, and Feng Ning broke through to God Grade, Beginner Level.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer went to Sleeping Wind Valley to gather herbs for a pill that could help Xiangxiang absorb the ancestral power in her body.
• The Cold King recognized Old Man Pine Gatherer and attacked him, but Pine Gatherer crushed him and used his phoenix bones as medicinal ingredients.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer returned to Returning Moon City and began refining pills, but five cauldrons exploded.
• Kong Qiusu and Xie Feng arrived, and Xie Feng offered to inspect Pine Gatherer's failed pill refining.

Xie Feng perfected Old Man Pine Gatherer's Golden Saint Emperor Pill and helped Xiangxiang absorb her ancestral power. The process drew Xie Feng's soul into Xiangxiang's dantian, where he confronted a mysterious old man.

• Xie Feng refined the Golden Saint Emperor Pill until it manifested a Pill Soul, astonishing Old Man Pine Gatherer and the people of Returning Moon City.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer gave Xiangxiang the pill, and Xie Feng channeled Chaos Qi into her to help refine her ancestral power.
• The Chaos Qi and ancestral power clashed inside Xiangxiang, so Kong Qiusu used Tranquility Character Art to protect and soothe her.
• As the ancestral power surged, a powerful suction pulled Xie Feng's soul into the space formed by Xiangxiang's dantian.
• Xie Feng faced an illusory old man, who recognized his Chaos Physique and challenged his confidence.

Xie Feng confronted Great Emperor Returning Moon over his treatment of Xiangxiang, and their battle inside her dantian endangered her. Kong Qiusu arrived to help Xie Feng and faced the lingering will of Great Emperor Returning Moon, who realized he was confronting a peak Great Emperor.

• Xie Feng accused Great Emperor Returning Moon of harming Xiangxiang and challenged him to purify his power.
• Great Emperor Returning Moon attacked Xie Feng, and Little Sword fought the flood dragon he summoned.
• The clash made Xiangxiang spit blood, so Jin Yue and Old Man Pine Gatherer rushed to treat her.
• Great Emperor Returning Moon caught Little Sword's blade, but Kong Qiusu appeared and used Words Become Law to force him back.
• Kong Qiusu took over the fight, and Great Emperor Returning Moon recognized him as a descendant of the Emperor Phoenix Clan and a peak Great Emperor.

Xie Feng negotiated for Great Emperor Returning Moon to transfer his ancestral power to Xiangxiang and help Xie Feng rebuild a body in exchange for sparing him. Xie Feng absorbed the power and, with Little Sword's help, destroyed Returning Moon's lingering will, leaving Xiangxiang and Xie Feng with the Great Emperor's power.

• Kong Qiusu attacked Great Emperor Returning Moon with Sword Intent until Xie Feng ordered him to stop so they could negotiate.
• Xie Feng agreed to help Returning Moon find a fleshly body if he transferred his power to Xiangxiang and let Xie Feng shoulder a third of it.
• Returning Moon softened the ancestral power, which Xiangxiang absorbed as her cultivation rose while Xie Feng advanced to Advanced God King.
• Xie Feng's absorption began drawing in Returning Moon's lingering will, and Little Sword scattered it with Sword Intent.
• Xie Feng woke from his breakthrough and asked Kong Qiusu where Great Emperor Returning Moon had gone.

Xie Feng and his companions confronted Ming Dao while he was completing the merger of his soul and a replacement body, then demanded land from him. Ming Dao survived the merger but claimed he lacked authority to grant it, leaving Gu Yu furious.

• Xie Feng and Kong Qiusu emerged from the dantian space after Xiangxiang was sealed inside a golden cocoon to absorb her ancestral power.
• Ming Dao began merging his soul with the replacement body Burial King had found for him, and the process continued for half a month.
• Xie Feng, Gu Yu, and Kong Qiusu appeared in Ming Dao’s secret chamber, disrupting the spiritual energy and interrupting his final merger.
• Gu Yu threatened Ming Dao with the Emperor Beginning Sword, while Kong Qiusu froze Ming Dao’s soul and prevented him from continuing the merger.
• Xie Feng agreed to let Ming Dao finish merging in exchange for land, and Ming Dao completed the process before claiming he lacked authority to grant it.
• Gu Yu flew into a rage over Ming Dao’s refusal and called on Xie Feng to hold him back.

Xie Feng confronted Burial King Yuan Ling and demanded the land the Demon-Burying Clan had promised him, using a display of power to pressure Yuan Ling. When Yuan Ling finally prepared to attack, an overwhelming force descended and made him fear that someone powerful was backing Xie Feng.

• Kong Qiusu and Gu Yu concealed themselves while Ming Dao led Xie Feng to meet Yuan Ling.
• Xie Feng reminded Yuan Ling of their agreement and demanded the land, while Ming Dao and Yuan Ling argued that Xie Feng had not delivered the energy source.
• Xie Feng evaporated the stream and Yuan Ling's fish with a palm technique, then threatened to destroy the Demon-Burying Clan's imperial capital.
• Yuan Ling raised his palm to attack Xie Feng, but a crushing pressure suddenly descended across a million li and left Yuan Ling shaken.

Xie Feng used Kong Qiusu’s hidden power to force Yuan Ling to hand over a key to the Demon-Burying Clan’s finest land. Before leaving, he gave Yuan Ling the sealed souls of two War Faction leaders, leaving Yuan Ling wary of Xie Feng’s intentions.

• Xie Feng threatened Yuan Ling and had Kong Qiusu secretly slap him, then seize Ming Dao by the throat until Yuan Ling agreed to give up the land.
• Yuan Ling handed Xie Feng a blue-gold token granting entry to a heavenly realm in the east.
• Xie Feng gave Yuan Ling two stones containing the souls of Shi Yan’s commander-in-chief and commander, and said he supported the Peace Faction’s desire for reconciliation with the Peak of Heaven.
• Ming Dao praised Xie Feng, but Yuan Ling scolded him for being naive and said Xie Feng did not know what awaited him.