Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng confronted two Peak Stage God King Realm experts from the Departed Soul Spirit Palace after luring them to the Wilderness Realm. He revealed the God-Slaying Sword Array and left them shocked as a jade pendant opened a spatial teleportation array.

• In the Boundless Realm, Mu Zhengting defied the black-robed experts and warned that someone would return to kill them.
• Lu Changsheng finished preparing hidden defenses in the Wilderness Realm as the black-robed man and woman arrived.
• The pair discovered that their puppets and two companions had vanished, and Lu Changsheng confirmed their companions’ divine souls had been destroyed.
• The black-robed experts attacked, but Lu Changsheng’s God-Slaying Sword Array appeared and overwhelmed them with its power.
• Lu Changsheng named the array and asked whether their palace master had told them about it, while their jade pendant activated a spatial teleportation array.

Lu Changsheng faced the Soul Lord, who descended through a spatial array, and revealed that he could erase the Departed Soul Spirit Palace after killing its leader. After Lu Changsheng killed the two black-robed invaders, the Soul Lord challenged him with the Departed Soul Domain, which Lu Changsheng shattered in one strike.

• The Soul Lord emerged from the jade pendant’s spatial array, and the black-robed man and woman knelt to greet him.
• Lu Changsheng recognized the opportunity to reach the Departed Soul Spirit Palace and told the Soul Lord his name, then explained when he chose to reveal it.
• Lu Changsheng used the God-Slaying Sword Array to kill the black-robed man and woman and destroy their bodies.
• The Soul Lord created the Departed Soul Domain and challenged Lu Changsheng to break through it.
• Lu Changsheng used the Eye of Heaven Scrutiny to find the domain’s weak point and shattered it with a soul sword, stunning the Soul Lord.

Lu Changsheng defeated the Soul Lord, destroyed the Departed Soul Spirit Palace, and ended its threat to the Low-Latitude Realm. As the other realms recovered, Liu Ziru brought news of a new crisis in the High-Latitude Realm and looked toward Xiao Hei.

• Lu Changsheng shattered the Soul Lord’s Departed Soul Domain and destroyed the soul he had secretly gathered as a backup.
• Lu Changsheng killed the Soul Lord with the God-Slaying Sword Array, and the Wilderness Realm cultivators knelt to him in reverence.
• Lu Changsheng entered the spatial teleportation array, and the Departed Soul Spirit Palace was wiped out; the Dark Domain and Supervisory Sacred Hall could find no trace of it.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin purged the other realms and began reorganizing the Cloud Phoenix Empire, while Mu Fusheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru freed the Boundless Realm from its crisis.
• Liu Ziru reported dark Demonic Qi boiling in a city in the Divine Descent Star Region and turned to Xiao Hei.

The Cottage’s disciples spent a year strengthening their cultivation and abilities in the Changsheng Realm while Liu Ziru investigated the dark demonic Qi spreading through the Divine Descent Star Region. The chapter leaves the region’s two second-rate factions seeking help from the Demon King Domain as the corruption spreads.

• Liu Ziru reported that dense dark demonic Qi had corrupted cities and forests in the Divine Descent Star Region, and Xiao Hei suspected it might be a trap connected to the Demon King Domain.
• Xiao Hei chose not to investigate until he could withstand another soul fragment, while Lu Changsheng sent Liu Ziru to look into the matter and told the disciples to reach the Divine Realm before entering the High-Latitude Realm.
• Lu Changsheng created a cultivation environment in the Changsheng Realm, where the Cottage’s disciples trained in their specialties and Ye Qiubai taught Hao Tian and gave him the Nine-Foot Starfall Sword.
• Over the following year, Fang Qiong, Hong Ying, Mu Fusheng, Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, Xiao Shitou, and Mu Wan'er advanced to the God Soldier Realm, while Xiao Hei and Ning Chenxin grew strong enough to contend with God Soldier Realm experts.
• The dark demonic Qi spread across at least twenty percent of the Divine Descent Star Region, and its two second-rate factions sought outside help, including from the Demon King Domain.

The Divine Descent Star Region invited Mo Li of the Demon King Domain to investigate the dark demonic Qi, while Liu Ziru reported the news to Lu Changsheng and his disciples. Lu Changsheng began improving Xiao Hei’s bloodline with his own blood essence, and the chapter left Xiao Hei enduring a dangerous transformation.

• Mo Li agreed to help the Divine Descent Star Region in exchange for anything the Demon King Domain wanted within the dark demonic Qi and immediate reports of outsiders.
• Liu Ziru told Lu Changsheng and the others that the outbreak was unrelated to the Demon King Domain and that Mo Li had been invited to assist.
• Lu Changsheng reviewed the improvements he had made to his other disciples and decided Xiao Hei’s bloodline was the best way to strengthen him.
• Lu Changsheng placed his blood essence in Xiao Hei’s heart while arrays and the Willow Tree protected him.
• Xiao Hei roared in agony as the blood essence threatened to tear apart his internal organs, and Lu Changsheng watched closely, ready to save him.

After a month of agony, Xiao Hei absorbed Lu Changsheng’s blood essence and recovered with greatly increased strength. Lu Changsheng left Xiao Hei and three companions under the Hao Tian Divine Sect’s protection before they set out for the Divine Descent Star Region to investigate the dark Demon Qi.

• Xiao Hei endured a month of bloodline fusion until Lu Changsheng’s blood essence merged completely, restoring his body and strengthening him.
• Lu Changsheng explained that Xiao Hei would need to fight to absorb the remaining power in the blood essence.
• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong joined Xiao Hei, while Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Mu Wan'er, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Shitou pursued their own cultivation and duties.
• Lu Changsheng brought Xiao Hei and the others to the Hao Tian Divine Sect and asked Divine Lord Hao Tian to protect them from enemies far stronger than they were.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian gave the four jade pendants containing his soul avatars and arranged an elder escort for their journey to the Divine Descent Star Region.

Ye Qiubai and his companions entered the Divine Descent Star Region under false identities, where Xiao Hei sensed a connection between himself and the dark demonic Qi. They headed to the Divine Body Sect’s Assembly Hall to gather information, and a young woman approached them about choosing a mission.

• The grand elder explained that the Divine Body Sect and Divine Array Sect controlled most of the region’s secret realms, while the Demon King Domain was searching for Xiao Hei.
• Ye Qiubai presented the group’s Nebula Sect identities to the guards, who checked them with a spatial mirror before allowing them into the region.
• Xiao Hei reacted to the dark demonic Qi upon arrival, but Mu Fusheng concealed his presence and called him back to his senses.
• Ye Qiubai proposed visiting the Divine Body Sect and offering help to obtain information about the crisis.
• Ye Qiubai and his companions reached the Assembly Hall, where a young woman asked what mission they wanted to take.

Ye Qiubai and his companions joined Zhongchang Gong’s team for a mission to defend a city from a beast tide, suspecting he had ulterior motives. After Mu Fusheng investigated the team, he discovered Zhongchang Gong’s father was an inner sect elder with influence over the Assembly Hall, leaving the group wary of how the rewards would be distributed.

• Zhongchang Gong invited Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, Fang Qiong, and Xiao Hei to join his team, claiming their cultivation and origins made them suitable partners.
• Ye Qiubai’s group suspected Zhongchang Gong intended to exploit them, but agreed to join so they could gain information and respond if he caused trouble.
• Zhongchang Gong showed them a mission to defend a nearby city and obtain the cores of three Divine General-level devil beasts, then scheduled their departure for the next day.
• Mu Fusheng investigated Zhongchang Gong, Qi Wen, and Zhong Yan while Ye Qiubai, Fang Qiong, and Xiao Hei rested at an inn.
• Mu Fusheng learned that Zhong Yan and Qi Wen were ordinary inner sect disciples, while Zhongchang Gong’s father was an inner sect elder with influence at the Assembly Hall.

Zhongchang Gong and Lan Hai competed to defend Xingning City against an imminent beast tide, with Lan Hai betting three years of sect resources on completing the mission first. After the teams assigned their defensive positions, Ye Qiubai and the others recognized a chance to exploit their rivals’ conflict, while Xiao Hei planned to conceal his strength.

• Zhongchang Gong and Ye Qiubai’s team arrived in Xingning City and met Lan Hai’s stronger team, whose leader challenged Zhongchang Gong to wager three years of sect resources on who completed the mission first.
• The city lord of Xingning explained that the next beast tide would strike at midnight the following day and showed a map marking seven God General-level Devil Beasts.
• Lan Hai agreed to defend the northern wall against three Devil Beasts, while Zhongchang Gong took the eastern wall and the city lord guarded the western wall with another God General realm expert.
• In their guest room, Ye Qiubai called the rivalry between the teams an opportunity, Fang Qiong agreed they could use it, and Xiao Hei said he would conceal his strength because people from the Demon King Domain were in the star region.
• The teams rested and recovered as the day of the beast tide arrived.

As a beast tide threatened Xingning City, Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei argued with Zhongchang Gong over whether to help defend the walls before targeting the Divine General-level Devil Beasts. As the battle began, Zhongchang Gong ordered his team to wait, but Ye Qiubai and the others unleashed their powers.

• Ye Qiubai proposed helping defend the city while seeking a chance to kill the Divine General-level Devil Beasts, but Zhongchang Gong insisted that their mission came first.
• Dark demonic Qi spread, the ground shook, and the Firelight Array illuminated Xingning City as a massive beast tide charged toward its walls.
• The defending general rallied the soldiers, who fired sacred-fire arrows before fighting the Devil Beasts at the wall.
• Zhongchang Gong told the team to conserve their strength and wait for the two tiger-shaped Divine General-level Devil Beasts to approach.
• Immortal Sword Sword Intent, talisman power, lightning, and array power surged into the sky beside Zhongchang Gong.

Ye Qiubai and his companions reinforced the western city wall and unleashed powerful attacks against the beast tide, while Zhongchang Gong plotted to use them as bait. Zhongchang Gong covered Ye Qiubai with Demon-Luring Powder and drew a Divine General-level Devil Beast toward him, leaving Ye Qiubai facing its charge.

• Ye Qiubai strengthened the western wall with his Sword Domain and talismans despite Zhongchang Gong's objections, and Mu Fusheng estimated the defenses could last at most one day.
• Ye Qiubai, Fang Qiong, and Mu Fusheng coordinated their attacks to tear a gap in the beast tide and raise the soldiers' morale.
• Zhongchang Gong realized the trio might survive until the beast tide receded, so he told Zhong Yan and Qi Wen to prepare and crushed a sachet of Demon-Luring Powder beside Ye Qiubai.
• Zhongchang Gong scattered more Demon-Luring Powder over a tiger-shaped Divine General-level Devil Beast, which charged toward Ye Qiubai as Zhongchang Gong predicted he would not survive.

Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong drew an enraged Divine General-level Devil Beast away from Xingning City's western wall and severely wounded it. The beast was still alive in the lightning cage, while Zhongchang Gong and his companions went to fight another Divine General-level Devil Beast.

• Ye Qiubai used the Sword Domain to cut a path through the beast tide, and Mu Fusheng raised a lightning cage to keep other Devil Beasts from closing the gap.
• Ye Qiubai lured the tiger-shaped Devil Beast into the cage, while Zhongchang Gong, Zhong Yan, and Qi Wen moved to attack another Divine General-level Devil Beast.
• Ye Qiubai struck the tiger-shaped beast's head with the Primordial Immortal Sword, opening a deep wound, and Fang Qiong followed with a punch that crushed its chin.
• The defending general watched Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong severely injure the beast and marveled at their strength.

Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong fought the dark-qi-enhanced tiger Devil Beast inside Mu Fusheng’s lightning cage, but its sudden burst of strength knocked them into the ground. They reappeared above its head and prepared another combined attack as Mu Fusheng restrained it with lightning chains.

• The defending general rallied the city soldiers after Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong wounded the tiger Devil Beast.
• The tiger Devil Beast healed, grew larger, and struck Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong with a paw, sending them crashing into the ground.
• Mu Fusheng used lightning chains to halt the tiger Devil Beast, while Xiao Hei held back from intervening.
• The tiger Devil Beast broke free and smashed the ground again as Zhong Yan and Qi Wen assumed Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong were dead.
• Mu Fusheng restrained the tiger Devil Beast once more, and Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong appeared above its head to launch a coordinated attack.

Ye Qiubai, Fang Qiong, and Mu Fusheng coordinated their attacks to kill a Divine General-level tiger-shaped Devil Beast and wipe out much of the beast tide. After the defense continued, Zhongchang Gong returned and tried to restore their cooperation by offering information.

• Mu Fusheng bound the tiger-shaped Devil Beast with lightning chains while Ye Qiubai and Fang Qiong prepared a coordinated attack.
• Ye Qiubai struck the beast with the Primordial Immortal Sword as Fang Qiong's Annihilation Killing Formation erupted inside its body.
• Mu Fusheng unleashed a pillar of lightning and detonated the lightning cage, killing the beast and sweeping away nearly forty percent of the beast tide.
• The defending soldiers' morale surged, while Zhongchang Gong, Zhong Yan, and Qi Wen watched in shock as the three God Soldier Realm disciples surpassed them.
• Half a day later, Zhongchang Gong and the others killed their own Devil Beast and returned to find Ye Qiubai and his companions still defending the city.
• When Ye Qiubai threatened to join Lan Hai's side, Zhongchang Gong asked what information he wanted.

Zhongchang Gong secured Ye Qiubai and his companions’ cooperation by offering them information, while Mo Li’s expedition into the dark Demon Qi suffered heavy losses and could not reach its source. Mo Li reported his theory that the phenomenon was connected to the former Devil Master to Mo Ji, who ordered him to keep investigating and identify everyone entering the area.

• Zhongchang Gong recognized Ye Qiubai and his companions needed information and rewards, so he offered to provide information to keep them on the team until the mission ended.
• A God King Realm expert from the Demon King Domain was overwhelmed by the dark Demon Qi and exploded, prompting Mo Li to learn that more than seventy people had died.
• Mo Li concluded the dark Demon Qi was far more powerful than the Demon King Domain’s and might be connected to the former Devil Master, who could have reached the High-Latitude Realm.
• Mo Li withdrew from the central area and sent his conjecture to Mo Ji, who ordered him to station people there, keep trying to break through, and report every new development.
• Mo Li instructed the Divine Array Sect and Divine Body Sect to provide images of everyone who had entered, then warned that the former Devil Master would face a deadly trap if his theory proved true.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong helped the defenders hold Xingning City’s western wall, then questioned Zhongchang Gong about the dark Demonic Qi and received a map and regional intelligence. As the Demon King Domain increased surveillance of outsiders, Lan Hai’s group learned of the four’s feat and looked grim.

• After two days of fighting, the beast tide receded, and the battered defenders thanked Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong for saving the western wall.
• Zhongchang Gong promised to honor his deal, and Mu Fusheng asked what lay within the dark Demonic Qi; Zhongchang Gong said nobody knew.
• Zhongchang Gong revealed that the Demon King Domain had sent reinforcements and ordered increased surveillance of outsiders, including Ye Qiubai’s group.
• Mu Fusheng requested a map and intelligence on the Divine Descent Star Region, and Zhongchang Gong gave him a detailed scroll.
• Xiao Hei worried that the Demon King Domain might know he was there, but Ye Qiubai reassured him that the increased surveillance suggested otherwise.
• The city lord praised the group’s defense, while Lan Hai’s group looked grim after hearing that the outsiders had killed a Divine General-level Devil Beast.

Ye Qiubai and his companions rejected Lan Hai’s offer to join his team and continued gathering intelligence about the Demon King Domain. When Mo Ge arrived carrying a black-and-gold wooden box, Xiao Hei’s bloodline reacted and the dark demonic Qi surged, triggering an early beast tide; facing three enhanced Divine General-level Devil Beasts, Ye Qiubai offered to take one on himself.

• Lan Hai tried to recruit Ye Qiubai and his companions by promising double the rewards, but Ye Qiubai refused and Zhongchang Gong promised to share intelligence with them.
• During the next three days, Ye Qiubai’s group learned that Mo Ge had entered the Divine Descent Star Region carrying a concealed black-and-gold wooden box.
• Xiao Hei reacted violently to the box, and the resulting surge in dark demonic Qi caused beast tides to attack cities ahead of schedule.
• The three remaining Divine General-level Devil Beasts gathered at Xingning City’s northern wall with stronger, altered forms, while Lan Hai and Zhongchang Gong each prepared to fight one.
• Ye Qiubai warned that the city lord might not be able to hold off the third beast and said his group would deal with it.

Ye Qiubai and his companions chose to protect Xingning City rather than help Lan Hai and Zhongchang Gong attack the other Devil Beasts. Ye Qiubai killed a Divine General-level Devil Beast with one strike of the Azure Cloud Sword, leaving both groups shocked.

• Ye Qiubai refused to join Lan Hai and Zhongchang Gong, explaining that the city walls could not withstand an unrestrained Divine General-level Devil Beast.
• Lan Hai and his companions charged toward one Devil Beast while Zhongchang Gong, Qi Wen, and Zhong Yan attacked another; Ye Qiubai waited for the third to approach the city.
• Mu Fusheng bound the approaching Devil Beast with lightning chains, and Fang Qiong struck it with the Annihilation Array.
• Ye Qiubai drew the Azure Cloud Sword and unleashed a massive sword strike that killed the trapped Devil Beast instantly.
• Lan Hai, Zhongchang Gong, Zhong Yan, and Qi Wen watched in shock as Ye Qiubai put away his sword.

Ye Qiubai’s single sword strike killed a Divine General-level Devil Beast and helped Xingning City survive the beast tide, but it also drew Zhongchang Gong and Lan Hai’s attention to the Azure Cloud Sword. Suspecting they planned to seize it, Ye Qiubai and his companions still set out for the Assembly Hall to obtain a map of the dark Demonic Qi and the Demon King Domain’s movements.

• Ye Qiubai used the Azure Cloud Sword to kill a Divine General-level Devil Beast with one strike, winning Zhongchang Gong’s wager against Lan Hai.
• Zhongchang Gong and Lan Hai killed the other Divine General-level Devil Beasts, and the beast tide retreated from Xingning City.
• At the victory banquet, Zhongchang Gong questioned Ye Qiubai about his sword, while Ye Qiubai asked for maps of the dark Demonic Qi and the Demon King Domain’s search areas.
• Back in their courtyard, Mu Fusheng and Fang Qiong noticed Zhongchang Gong and Lan Hai exchanging glances, and the group suspected they intended to rob them for the Azure Cloud Sword.
• Ye Qiubai decided to go to the Assembly Hall for the maps despite the danger, while Mu Fusheng prepared more talismans.
• The next day, Ye Qiubai’s group traveled with Zhongchang Gong and Lan Hai toward the Assembly Hall, keeping up friendly conversation as suspicion simmered beneath it.

Ye Qiubai’s group collected the mission reward and map information, but Elder Zhong accused them of stealing a Divine Body Sect supreme treasure and demanded its return. The sect trapped them inside the Assembly Hall, but Fang Qiong then cast a powerful illusion formation, leaving the confrontation poised to turn against their attackers.

• Zhongchang Gong invited Ye Qiubai’s group to visit the Divine Body Sect, but Ye Qiubai declined and asked for their mission reward and map information.
• Xiao Hei sensed powerful cultivators surrounding the Assembly Hall, while Fang Qiong detected a formation sealing the space outside.
• Elder Zhong gave Ye Qiubai the map information, then demanded that he return the sword Zhongchang Gong had supposedly lent him.
• Ye Qiubai called the accusation a flimsy excuse, and Elder Zhong ordered the Assembly Hall sealed as powerful Divine Body Sect cultivators surrounded the group.
• Ye Qiubai revealed that his group had anticipated the ambush, and Fang Qiong enveloped the Assembly Hall in an enormous illusion formation.