Chapter Summaries

Dao Wuxin secured permission from Yao Zhi and Zang Tian to take five hundred thousand troops, and Xie Feng combined them with Shi Yan’s five hundred thousand War Faction demons. The million-strong army gathered at the Jade Pivot Sect, where the troops began arguing over whether their leader was Xie Feng or Jiaming.

• Dao Wuxin persuaded Zang Tian to sign the troop transfer order after showing him Yao Zhi’s signature and promising he would not oppose him.
• Dao Wuxin transferred five hundred thousand elite troops, which Xie Feng took to the Jade Pivot Sect instead of joining Yuan Ling at the Peace Faction.
• Xie Feng told Shi Yan he planned to attack the Peak of Heaven’s subordinate forces and took command of Shi Yan’s five hundred thousand Demon-Burying Demons.
• Xie Feng brought Yao Cang and Ren Yanyu to the Jade Pivot Sect and merged the Peace and War Faction troops into a million-strong army.
• The gathered Peace and War Faction demons argued over Xie Feng’s identity as Jiaming, and the Peace Faction troops nearly revolted.

Xie Feng revealed that he was Jiaming as well as himself, then forced the Peace Faction to accept his command and led a million-strong army against the Peak of Heaven’s affiliated sects. After the army destroyed more than a dozen sects, Feng Yan warned his clansmen not to seek revenge and to focus on becoming stronger.

• Xie Feng declared his hatred for the Peak of Heaven, and Kong Qiusu sealed the Jade Pivot Sect while Xie Feng killed more than a hundred Peace Faction resisters.
• Xie Feng established himself as the army’s sole commander and appointed Kong Qiusu and Ren Yanyu as his deputies.
• Xie Feng joked with Kong Qiusu and told Yao Cang that his future performance would determine what came next.
• A day later, Xie Feng led the million-strong army to destroy the Heavenly Saber Sect, Misty Rain Island, the Ten Thousand Demon Sect, the Pill Emperor Sect, and other affiliated forces within three days.
• Feng Yan raged over the destruction of his allied sects, then ordered his clansmen to avoid seeking trouble and focus on improving their strength.

Yao Zhi came to the Jade Pivot Sect to take Yao Cang back to the Star-Array Abyss, but accepted his choice to stay after he explained why he wanted to learn from Xie Feng. Xie Feng revealed that he had used the identities Xie Feng and Jiaming to secure an army of one million Demon-Burying Demons, then showed Yao Zhi the suffering inflicted by the Peak of Heaven as he hinted at his plans for the troops.

• Yao Zhi grabbed Yao Cang and tried to take him back to the Star-Array Abyss, believing Xie Feng had manipulated him.
• At the Jade Pivot Sect gate, Yao Cang told Yao Zhi he wanted to stay and learn from Xie Feng, and she let him remain after Xie Feng promised to protect him.
• Xie Feng told Yao Zhi that Jiaming was another identity of his and explained that he had maneuvered between Zang Tian and Dao Wuxin to borrow one million troops.
• Xie Feng led Yao Zhi and Yao Cang through a city where the Peak of Heaven's soldiers forced residents into dangerous labor.
• Xie Feng showed them a prison where humans and Demon-Burying Demons were abused and enslaved, and explained that the oppressed had little chance to rebel.

Yao Zhi reconsidered her neutrality after Xie Feng showed her the suffering caused by the Peak of Heaven. Two days later, the Blood Shadow Army ambushed Chen An and Steward Song, but Xie Feng arrived in time to block Shadow Blade’s attack.

• Xie Feng showed Yao Zhi how the Peak of Heaven enslaved people and persuaded her to reconsider her neutral stance.
• Yao Cang suggested changing Dao Wuxin’s mind, but Xie Feng said Dao Wuxin could only be eliminated.
• On a snowy night, Chen An and Steward Song encountered Shadow Blade and nine Blood Shadow Army fighters in a dark lane.
• Shadow Blade killed Steward Song and attacked Chen An, who tried to summon Xie Feng for help.
• Xie Feng appeared and blocked Shadow Blade’s saber with his arm, leaving Chen An unharmed.

Xie Feng and Ren Yanyu killed the Blood Shadow Army members who had discovered her, but Chen An’s steward Song died from his wounds. After burying Song at Peaceful Mountain Manor, Chen An agreed to fund Xie Feng’s army of a million Demon-Burying Demons.

• Xie Feng arrived at Ziyun Bank and told Chen An he had come to ask for money.
• Ren Yanyu blocked the Blood Shadow Army’s retreat, and Xie Feng killed all ten of its members with one sword strike.
• Xie Feng failed to revive Steward Song with a Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pill, and Chen An vowed to help bring down the Peak of Heaven.
• Chen An carried Song’s body to Peaceful Mountain Manor, buried him with treasure, and grieved beside his grave.
• Xie Feng asked Chen An for a billion Emperor’s Fortune to support his million Demon-Burying Demons at the Jade Pivot Sect, and Chen An agreed to provide it.

Nalan Yan joined Xie Feng’s alliance and promised to investigate why the Emperor Phoenix Clan maintained stability in the Fifth Universe. The Emperor Phoenix Army then attacked Peaceful Mountain Manor with artillery, and Xie Feng let the army enter through a breach in Ren Yanyu’s barrier to trap them.

• Nalan Yan arrived and asked to join Xie Feng’s alliance against the Peak of Heaven, which he welcomed.
• Nalan Yan asked who would maintain the Fifth Universe’s stability if the Emperor Phoenix Clan were destroyed, and offered to investigate the clan’s role.
• Xie Feng began cultivating at Peaceful Mountain Manor, but an artillery shell struck a nearby hut at daybreak.
• Chen An identified the Emperor Phoenix Clan’s emblem on the shell as artillery fire continued to rain down on the manor.
• Ren Yanyu raised a defensive barrier against the approaching thousand-strong Emperor Phoenix Army, whose cannons eventually broke through it.
• Xie Feng told Ren Yanyu not to repair the breach so the army would enter and be trapped.

Xiangxiang awakened after absorbing her ancestral power and helped Xie Feng annihilate the Emperor Phoenix Army attacking Peaceful Mountain Manor. The survivors revealed that Feng Yan planned to attack Returning Moon City in three days, while Xiangxiang reunited with Xie Feng and ate the captured phoenix.

• Feng Yan sent the Emperor Phoenix Army to retaliate against Xie Feng, who slaughtered their ranks with Sword Qi and the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Xiangxiang descended from the sky in her awakened form, transformed into a Taotie, and devoured the attacking phoenixes until the army was annihilated.
• Xiangxiang returned to human form, reunited with Xie Feng, and handed him a surviving phoenix for questioning.
• Ren Yanyu's bloodline pressure forced the phoenix to talk, and Nalan Yan used her crystal ball to discover that Feng Yan would attack Returning Moon City in three days.
• Xiangxiang roasted and ate the phoenix, then apologized to Ren Yanyu after Xie Feng reminded them they were family.

Xie Feng returned to Returning Moon City and warned Jin Yue and the others that the Emperor Phoenix Army planned to attack, then set out to prepare a refuge for the city's residents. A mysterious silver lightning struck him in the wilderness, but a white-robed scholar arrived with the Literary Crown Sword and drove it back.

• Xie Feng left Ren Yanyu to protect Chen An and returned to Returning Moon City with Xiangxiang, where he warned Jin Yue, Yu Meng, Nether Dao, and Ye Die about Feng Yan's plans and arranged to evacuate residents to the Jade Pivot Sect.
• Xie Feng departed for the Heaven Realm to build more formations, but a silver lightning bolt appeared in the wilderness and struck him, shattering his Ten Thousand Thunderbolts Inner Armor.
• Xie Feng fought the silver lightning with Little Sword and Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm, but his attacks failed to stop its overwhelming assault.
• A silver-white sword called Literary Crown flew in and overcame the lightning, after which a white-robed scholar drew the sword and introduced himself through a boast about its sharpness.

Kong Qiusu drove off the silver lightning after it attacked Xie Feng, who resolved to investigate its origins and traveled toward the Peak of Heaven to find powerful commanders. The Imperial Evil Lord intercepted the lightning in the Seventh Universe and transformed into a mysterious black-clad man, whom the lightning recognized and tried to persuade to betray Xie Feng.

• Kong Qiusu used the Literary Crown Sword to repel the silver lightning from the Jade Pivot Sect and warned Xie Feng that it shared a lineage with the beings pursuing their Master.
• Xie Feng asked Kong Qiusu about the lightning’s origins, then arranged for him to reinforce the sect while Xie Feng went to the Peak of Heaven to seek powerful commanders.
• The silver lightning fled through the universes, but the Imperial Evil Lord intercepted it on its way to the Eighth Universe.
• The Imperial Evil Lord shattered the lightning’s attack, then transformed into a black-clad man whose appearance made the silver lightning retreat.
• The black-clad man claimed Xie Feng was his friend, and the silver lightning urged him to kill Xie Feng in exchange for a chance to regain his former status.

Ge Ya emerged from a purple nebula at Peak Great Emperor cultivation and captured Silver Lightning, who had been fleeing through the universe. He forced Silver Lightning to lead him to the Lightning Pool in the Tenth Universe, then devoured him and began absorbing the pool’s lightning as its young imperial clansmen fought back.

• The man in black’s thought-power form attacked Silver Lightning, but Silver Lightning shattered him and fled to report its discoveries.
• Ge Ya emerged from the purple nebula after absorbing its power and reaching Peak Great Emperor cultivation.
• Ge Ya seized Silver Lightning, revealed that its clansmen had once injured him, and threatened to kill it unless it led him to the Lightning Pool.
• Silver Lightning brought Ge Ya to the Lightning Pool in the Tenth Universe, where Ge Ya swallowed it despite promising to spare it.
• Ge Ya charged into the Lightning Pool, absorbing its lightning while its young imperial clansmen attacked him.

Ge Ya broke through to Half-Step Heavenly Emperor while Xie Feng and Gu Yu entered the Nine-Star Cold Pool to strengthen themselves and confront the Peak of Heaven’s War Gods. Xie Feng killed Ruyan, then led Gu Yu onward to clear out further threats before cultivating.

• Ge Ya absorbed the power and advanced from Peak Great Emperor to Half-Step Heavenly Emperor.
• Xie Feng brought Gu Yu to the Nine-Star Cold Pool using the route Ren Yanyu had revealed.
• Xie Feng directed Gu Yu to a pool where Ruyan was bathing, and Ruyan attacked him.
• Xie Feng rescued Gu Yu and killed Ruyan with the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm.
• Gu Yu tried to enter the freezing pool, but Xie Feng stopped him and said they needed to eliminate the remaining trouble first.

Xie Feng killed Yu Zheng and defeated Qing Yi at the Nine-Star Cold Pool, then realized Qing Yi’s hatred came from believing Xie Feng had killed Feng Wen. He spared Qing Yi and contacted Ren Yanyu, leaving the reason for the call unrevealed.

• Gu Yu provoked Yu Zheng, and Xie Feng killed him with a single sword strike, leaving his body to be devoured by man-eating fish.
• Xie Feng used his soul perception to locate Qing Yi, who had just broken through to Intermediate Divine Saint and challenged him to a fight.
• Xie Feng shattered Qing Yi’s sword, wounded him, and caught him when Qing Yi attacked with a punch.
• Qing Yi tried to self-destruct, but Xie Feng stopped him and asked whether he had delivered supplies to Feng Wen on the Eternity Battlefield.
• Xie Feng inferred that Qing Yi hated him because he loved Feng Wen and believed Xie Feng had killed him, so Xie Feng released Qing Yi and contacted Ren Yanyu.

Xie Feng and Gu Yu followed Qing Yi to the Secret Pool, where Gu Yu began absorbing its powerful energy. When Feng Yan’s black snake attacked, Qing Yi killed it without hesitation, proving his loyalty to Xie Feng’s side.

• Ren Yanyu told Xie Feng to kill Qing Yi if he could not be trusted, but Qing Yi pledged his allegiance to her side and Xie Feng spared him.
• At Gu Yu’s prompting, Qing Yi revealed the Secret Pool beneath the Nine-Star Cold Pool and led Xie Feng and Gu Yu there.
• Gu Yu entered the purple vortex and was trapped in flames that tempered him as the Secret Pool’s energy began strengthening his body.
• Xie Feng struck an enormous black snake with the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire after it attacked them.
• Qing Yi identified the snake as Feng Yan’s pet and killed it when it silently asked him for help.

Xie Feng, Qing Yi, and Feng Luo uncovered a mysterious golden egg in Feng Luo’s hidden treasure pit. The egg attached itself to Xie Feng and began siphoning his Chaos Power, leaving its nature unknown.

• Qing Yi explained that Feng Yan no longer trusted him, then nearly killed Feng Luo before Xie Feng stopped him and revealed Feng Luo was his little brother.
• Feng Luo showed Xie Feng and Qing Yi his hidden stash and admitted he had taken treasures, including Qing Yi’s gold chain.
• Xie Feng sensed a presence at the bottom of the pit and threw Little Sword into it.
• A tremendous eruption of water and fire shook the space, and a golden egg with a thin black tail emerged alongside Little Sword.
• The egg clung to Xie Feng, resisted Little Sword’s attacks, and secretly absorbed a small amount of his Chaos Power.

Xie Feng and his companions left the Nine-Star Cold Pool after he and Feng Luo broke through, but Jin Yue warned that the Emperor Phoenix Army was attacking Returning Moon City. Qing Yi diverted the army toward the Jade Pivot Sect, where he revealed they had walked into an ambush.

• Xie Feng decided to take the mysterious golden egg back to the Jade Pivot Sect for Nalan Yan to identify, then cultivated in the cold pools with Qing Yi and Feng Luo while Gu Yu remained asleep in the Secret Pool.
• Xie Feng reached Peak Divine Saint, and Feng Luo reached Advanced God King.
• Jin Yue told Xie Feng that eight hundred thousand Emperor Phoenix Army troops were attacking Returning Moon City and that fires had broken out near the evacuated people; Xie Feng left Feng Luo to watch Gu Yu and hurried to the city with Qing Yi.
• At Returning Moon City, General Feng used Qing Yi's false claim that Feng Yan ordered a withdrawal to lead the Emperor Phoenix Army away from the city and toward the Jade Pivot Sect.
• General Feng ordered the army to attack the Jade Pivot Sect, but Qing Yi withdrew and told him he was walking into a net; General Feng realized it was an ambush and called for the army to stop.

Xie Feng and the Demon-Burying army defeated the Emperor Phoenix Army, and Xie Feng ordered the surrendered troops buried alive rather than risk turning them. After the battle, Feng Ning visited the Jade Pivot Sect and learned that a nearby valley held the dead.

• Qing Yi revealed his allegiance to Xie Feng, then killed General Feng as the Demon-Burying army attacked the Emperor Phoenix Army.
• With General Feng dead, the Emperor Phoenix Army lost morale and surrendered as Xie Feng's forces overwhelmed them.
• Xie Feng ordered Yao Cang to bury the eight hundred thousand surrendered soldiers alive, explaining that killing them was safer than trusting them.
• Qing Yi joined the Jade Pivot Sect, and the group rested there after the battle.
• Feng Ning visited the Jade Pivot Sect, where Xie Feng warned him to avoid the valley and Yao Cang argued with him until Xie Feng explained that Feng Ning was his friend.

Feng Ning joined the Jade Pivot Sect and encountered Feng Yan near the valley where the Emperor Phoenix Clan’s army had been buried. Feng Yan confronted him over his allegiance, and their argument revealed Feng Yan’s belated theory about why Qing Yi had betrayed him.

• Feng Ning told Xie Feng he wanted to join the Jade Pivot Sect, and Xie Feng welcomed him and gave him a courtyard.
• Feng Ning visited the valley where eight hundred thousand Emperor Phoenix Clan soldiers had been buried, reaffirmed his choice, and encountered Feng Yan as he headed back.
• Feng Yan confronted Feng Ning for joining the Jade Pivot Sect and accused him of betraying the Emperor Phoenix Clan, while Feng Ning told him to reflect on why his children opposed him.
• Feng Ning said Feng Yan’s distrust had driven Qing Yi to betray him, and Feng Yan realized Qing Yi might have acted out of love for Feng Wen.
• Feng Yan admitted he had not loved Feng Wen or her mother and awkwardly apologized to Feng Ning, who told him he would be happy if Feng Yan left the Jade Pivot Sect and the Heaven Realm.

Feng Ning severed his ties with Feng Yan by stabbing himself, but Xie Feng and the others saved him as Feng Yan fled from Kong Qiusu’s Sword Qi. Meanwhile, Gu Yu reached Initial Divine Saint in the Nine-Star Cold Pool, only to be confronted by Ancestor Haiyun as he and Feng Luo tried to leave.

• Feng Ning stabbed himself to repay Feng Yan for raising him, and Feng Yan tried to take him back before fleeing from Kong Qiusu’s Heavenly Emperor-level Sword Qi.
• Xie Feng treated Feng Ning, who declared that Feng Yan and the Emperor Phoenix Clan meant nothing to him and vowed to bring Feng Yan down.
• The little golden egg absorbed Feng Ning’s blood, briefly turning its shell red.
• Gu Yu emerged from the Nine-Star Cold Pool after four days and four nights with his cultivation raised to Initial Divine Saint.
• Feng Luo led Gu Yu toward the exit, where Ancestor Haiyun confronted them and questioned why Gu Yu was in the Secret Pool and where Yu Zheng and the other War Gods had gone.

Gu Yu and Feng Luo tried to escape Ancestor Haiyun after being caught at the Secret Pool, but Yao Cang arrived and attacked the ancestor. The chapter ended with Yao Cang charging into battle while Gu Yu and Feng Luo prepared to flee.

• Ancestor Haiyun questioned Feng Luo about the missing War Gods, then blocked Feng Luo and Gu Yu from leaving the Secret Pool.
• Gu Yu offered Ancestor Haiyun a bottle of liquid energy, but the ancestor refused and ordered Feng Luo to go to Feng Royal Palace.
• Ancestor Haiyun attacked Feng Luo, and Gu Yu used the Emperor Beginning Sword to give Feng Luo time to retreat.
• Ancestor Haiyun destroyed Feng Luo's voice transmission talisman and pursued the pair as they tried to escape.
• Yao Cang arrived, demolished the Secret Pool cave, and warned Feng Luo and Gu Yu that he could only protect himself.
• Yao Cang unleashed his killing intent and charged at Ancestor Haiyun.

Yao Cang survived his apparent self-detonation by using the Nirvana Dao Art and reunited with Gu Yu and Feng Luo. Nalan Yan then explained the Emperor Phoenix Clan’s role in the Fifth Universe and revealed that a past Phoenix Lord might have prevented the current crisis.

• Gu Yu and Feng Luo escaped the destroyed Nine-Star Cold Pool and feared Yao Cang had died in the blast.
• Yao Cang appeared alive and explained that the Nirvana Dao Art let him revive after self-detonating, though it left him in pain for days.
• Gu Yu and Feng Luo prepared to return after learning Yao Cang was safe.
• Nalan Yan told Xie Feng that the Emperor Phoenix Clan maintained order partly by consuming Demon-Burying Demons and dark matter, while also protecting its own rule over the Fifth Universe.
• Nalan Yan said a past Phoenix Lord had been best suited to oppose the Demon-Burying Clan, and Xie Feng asked who he was.