Chapter Summaries

Divine Lord Hao Tian arrived to protect Xiao Hei and took the Desolation Lord and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord into battle above the Demon King Domain. As the Supervisory Sacred Hall surrounded the domain and demanded the Fusheng Diagram, Nan Congyin ordered its inspectors to seize Xiao Hei and his companions.

• Divine Lord Hao Tian appeared beside Xiao Hei and challenged the Desolation Lord and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord to fight.
• The Desolation Lord and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord attacked Divine Lord Hao Tian, who led them into the sky to keep their battle from destroying the Demon King Domain.
• Mo Ji refused to hand over the key and revealed that he had alerted the Supervisory Sacred Hall as a second plan to kill Xiao Hei.
• A vast web covered the Demon King Domain, and White-Robed Inspectors appeared as Nan Congyin and He Shangke demanded the Fusheng Diagram.
• Hong Ying, Xiao Hei, and He Shangke argued over how the group had obtained the diagram, and Nan Congyin ordered the inspectors to seize them and kill them if they resisted.

Mu Fusheng confronted Nan Congyin and He Shangke after Ye Qiubai and the others defeated the White-Robed Inspectors. He revealed his hidden strength and shattered Nan Congyin’s pagoda, then trapped He Shangke as the battle continued.

• Ye Qiubai and the others defeated the White-Robed Inspectors while Ning Chenxin asked Mu Fusheng whether he had told Lu Changsheng about the conflict.
• Nan Congyin summoned a towering pagoda and sent it crashing toward Hong Ying and Demon King Main City.
• Mu Fusheng appeared beneath the pagoda, raised his cultivation to the late God Lord Realm with a talisman, and blocked the attack with a five-colored lightning dragon.
• Mu Fusheng strengthened the lightning dragon with another talisman, shattered Nan Congyin’s pagoda, and wounded him.
• Nan Congyin summoned a spatial barrier and called for He Shangke’s help, but Mu Fusheng trapped He Shangke inside the Eight Peaks Thunder Prison.

Mu Fusheng overwhelmed Nan Congyin and He Shangke with his lightning techniques, while the Divine Lord Hao Tian forced the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord to retreat. With Mo Ji desperate and Nan Congyin badly injured, Mu Fusheng dared the Supervisory Sacred Hall to call for reinforcements.

• Mu Fusheng trapped He Shangke in the Eight Peaks Thunder Prison while preparing a lightning orb made from five kinds of Ancient Divine Lightning to attack Nan Congyin.
• Mu Fusheng detonated the lightning orb inside Nan Congyin's barrier, shattering it and leaving Nan Congyin severely injured across the devastated Demon King Domain.
• Nan Congyin mistook Mu Fusheng's destructive power for peak God Lord realm strength, and Mu Fusheng privately thought he had overestimated Nan Congyin.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian, the Yin-Yang Divine Lord, and the Desolation Lord arrived, and the Desolation Lord and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord retreated after Hao Tian challenged them to keep fighting.
• Mo Ji despaired as the two Divine Lords fled, while Nan Congyin asked whether Mu Fusheng meant to oppose the Supervisory Sacred Hall and Mu Fusheng invited him to call for help.

Nan Congyin summoned Hall Master Tianyang, a God Emperor Realm powerhouse, who tried to seize the Fusheng Diagram from Mu Fusheng. The teacher from Mortal Village intervened, but Tianyang persisted until Lu Changsheng arrived and stopped his attack.

• Nan Congyin opened an azure scroll, summoning Hall Master Tianyang through the spiderweb around the Demon King Domain.
• Nan Congyin told Tianyang that Mu Fusheng had taken the Fusheng Diagram and injured him, and Tianyang demanded that Mu Fusheng hand it over.
• Tianyang attacked Mu Fusheng, who dodged with a talisman, while Divine Lord Hao Tian failed to intervene.
• The teacher from Mortal Village appeared and challenged Tianyang, but Tianyang reached for Mu Fusheng again despite his warning.
• Lu Changsheng stepped out of the shattered void and dispersed Tianyang’s attack on Mu Fusheng.

Lu Changsheng arrived at the Supervisory Sacred Hall and learned that Hall Master Tianyang planned to use the Fusheng Diagram to preserve only the Mortal Realm’s powerful cultivators, abandoning ordinary people and the less talented. After Hall Master Tianyang refused to change course, Lu Changsheng prepared to oppose him.

• Lu Changsheng blocked Hall Master Tianyang’s attack, and Ye Qiubai and the others greeted him as their master.
• The Teacher explained that Hall Master Tianyang intended to put the Mortal Realm’s strongest people into the Fusheng Diagram and leave the rest behind.
• Hall Master Tianyang defended abandoning mortals and cultivators without talent, claiming it was necessary to preserve the Mortal Realm’s strength.
• Ning Chenxin challenged Hall Master Tianyang over the lives of ordinary people, and Lu Changsheng removed the pressure preventing him from speaking.
• Hall Master Tianyang insisted on seizing the Fusheng Diagram, so the Teacher withdrew and Lu Changsheng stepped forward to confront him.

Lu Changsheng confronted Hall Master Tianyang over the attack on his disciples and killed Nan Congyin after Nan Congyin insulted him. Hall Master Tianyang then attacked Lu Changsheng, who caught his full-force strike barehanded.

• Lu Changsheng asked his disciples about the Fusheng Diagram, and they denied knowing what it was while Fang Qiong looked confused.
• Nan Congyin demanded that Lu Changsheng hand over the diagram, and Lu Changsheng seized him with an invisible force.
• Lu Changsheng crushed Nan Congyin's neck and destroyed his soul, killing the deputy hall master before Hall Master Tianyang could stop him.
• Mu Fusheng prevented Mo Ji from fleeing as the onlookers recoiled at Lu Changsheng's strength.
• Hall Master Tianyang attacked Lu Changsheng with a blazing-sun cane, and Lu Changsheng caught the strike with his bare hand.

Lu Changsheng confronted Hall Master Tianyang and revealed overwhelming power by uniting four supreme Dao laws in a nine-sword array. After the array destroyed Tianyang’s attack, Lu Changsheng named it the God-Slaying sword array, leaving Tianyang facing death.

• Lu Changsheng blocked Hall Master Tianyang’s full-powered strike with his bare palm and rejected Tianyang’s attempt to persuade him.
• Hall Master Tianyang drew the sun’s power into himself, transformed into a younger form, and sent hundreds of blazing suns crashing toward Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng summoned nine swords and merged the supreme Daos of Yin, Yang, Life, and Destruction into them, stunning Hall Master Tianyang and the watching powerhouses.
• Lu Changsheng warned everyone not to interfere in his disciples’ affairs or investigate him, then sent the nine swords to shatter every falling sun.
• Hall Master Tianyang asked the name of Lu Changsheng’s sword technique, and Lu Changsheng called it the God-Slaying sword array.

Lu Changsheng exposed He Shangke as a remnant of the Evil Devil Domain and killed him after learning his mission was complete. He then rejected the Teacher’s plea to spare Hall Master Tianyang and prepared to use the Sword of Reversal to find Tianyang’s true body.

• Hall Master Tianyang realized He Shangke had encouraged him to use the Fusheng Diagram, and the Teacher identified He Shangke as a remnant of the Evil Devil Domain.
• He Shangke admitted his identity and declared that his mission was complete, so Lu Changsheng struck him down and confirmed he had killed He Shangke’s true body.
• Lu Changsheng suspected He Shangke had already passed information to accomplices and regretted not using Soul Search before killing him.
• The Teacher asked Lu Changsheng to spare Hall Master Tianyang, but Lu Changsheng argued that Tianyang’s desire to control everyone through the Fusheng Diagram showed evil intentions.
• Hall Master Tianyang revealed that he was only an External Avatar, and Lu Changsheng produced the Grand Primordium Sword of Reversal to locate his true body.

Lu Changsheng used the Sword of Reversal to kill Hall Master Tianyang and his main body, then eliminated the White-Robed Inspectors. With the outside threats gone, Xiao Hei confronted Mo Ji over their personal grudge.

• Lu Changsheng trapped Hall Master Tianyang inside the Demon King Domain and used the Sword of Reversal to kill his External Avatar and main body.
• The teacher accepted that Tianyang had to pay for his mistakes, while Divine Lord Hao Tian and Grand Elder Dongcheng Wan reacted to Lu Changsheng's strength.
• Lu Changsheng killed the remaining White-Robed Inspectors because accomplices of the Evil Devil Domain might be hidden among them.
• Xiao Hei told Mo Ji that their fight was now a personal grudge, and Mo Ji asked Lu Changsheng whether he would stay out of it.

Xiao Hei defeated and killed Mo Ji, reclaiming leadership of the Demon King Domain. After its people recognized him as Devil Master, Xiao Hei asked Lu Changsheng to save his younger sister.

• Xiao Hei attacked Mo Ji and overwhelmed him with his strength, despite both being in the same realm.
• Xiao Hei rebuked Mo Ji for ruling harshly over his own people while yielding to outsiders, and said Mo Ji had failed to seize the opportunities he had been given.
• Xiao Hei impaled Mo Ji with the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd, killing him after Mo Ji tried to bargain with the key.
• Shang Yin, Patriarch Mikaer, Le Xun, Mo Teng, and the Demon King Domain's other people knelt and recognized Xiao Hei as Devil Master.
• Xiao Hei bowed to Lu Changsheng and asked him to save his younger sister.

Xiao Hei rescued Mo Xinxin and began consolidating his rule over the Demon King Domain, while the teacher revealed his ancient ties to the Human Ancestors and the purpose of Mortal Village. Lu Changsheng agreed to visit the village with his disciples, then learned that Xin Hongyi’s growing power might be linked to the Xin Clan and He Shangke.

• Xiao Hei and Lu Changsheng freed Mo Xinxin from the eighteenth level of the Demon Prison, and Lu Changsheng healed her.
• Xiao Hei announced an enthronement ceremony and ordered everyone to remain in Demon King City while he and Mo Xinxin went to the Demon King Hall.
• The teacher revealed that the Human Ancestors had been his students and that he had founded Mortal Village to nurture innate Dao bodies.
• The teacher invited Lu Changsheng to visit Mortal Village, and Lu Changsheng agreed to bring his disciples.
• Ye Qiubai told Lu Changsheng that Xin Hongyi was a remnant of the Evil Devil Domain and that her sudden power might be connected to the Xin Clan and He Shangke.

Xiao Hei ascended as Devil Master of the Demon King Domain, while prominent forces gathered to witness his coronation and offer gifts. He restored the old rules, reshaped the domain’s leadership, and executed Mo Ji’s remaining confidants.

• The Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord decided to attend Xiao Hei’s coronation after concluding they could not oppose him.
• The Primordial Sword Master ordered Du Yun to prepare to accompany him to the Demon King Domain, though he said he was not going for Xiao Hei.
• Xiao Hei arrived at Demon King Main City aboard a ship drawn by two flood dragons and took his place on the throne as the domain’s people hailed him as Devil Master.
• Xiao Hei reinstated the rules from his previous reign, disbanded the Demon King Imperial Guard, appointed Ye Qiubai and the others as guest elders, and elevated the Mikaer Lineage.
• Xiao Hei ordered the execution of Mo Ge, Grand Commander He, and Mo Ji’s other captured confidants, and the visiting forces began presenting gifts.

At Xiao Hei’s ascension celebration, the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord sought forgiveness for their sects’ past attack, but Xiao Hei rejected their gifts and declared war. As the two lords departed, the Primordial Sword Master arrived to offer congratulations.

• The Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord came to Xiao Hei’s celebration with lavish gifts and congratulated him on becoming Devil Master.
• Xiao Hei silently scrutinized the two lords, then challenged whether he should accept their gifts.
• The Desolation Lord offered compensation for their past grievances, but Xiao Hei demanded that the two lords kill themselves.
• The two lords abandoned their plea and threatened war, and Xiao Hei accepted, warning that their sects could be destroyed.
• Xiao Hei privately stopped Lu Changsheng from intervening, choosing to settle his feud himself, and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord left.
• A guard announced that the Primordial Sword Master had arrived to offer congratulations.

The Primordial Sword Master attended Xiao Hei’s ascension ceremony and then sought out Ye Qiubai. He revealed that he and Ye Qiubai were the Azure Cloud Sword Master, divided into two beings by a secret art.

• Du Yun announced the Primordial Sword Sect’s congratulations on Xiao Hei’s ascension, and the Primordial Sword Master remained after the other forces departed.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian praised Xiao Hei until an unseen voice warned him not to teach the disciple crooked ways, prompting him to back away.
• The Primordial Sword Master told Ye Qiubai that he had come for him, then led him outside the Demon King Main City.
• The Primordial Sword Master identified Ye Qiubai’s Primordial Sword Physique and confirmed that he had one too.
• The Primordial Sword Master revealed that the Azure Cloud Sword Master had split his soul and bodily talent, creating Ye Qiubai and himself as two beings with different consciousnesses.

Ye Qiubai learned that he and the Primordial Sword Master were two halves of the Azure Cloud Sword Master, destined to fight over which one would retain his memories and divine soul. After they parted, Lu Changsheng led the group toward Mortal Village, while Mo Xinxin stayed behind as Xiao Hei continued seeking the fragments of his soul.

• The Primordial Sword Master told Ye Qiubai that they had been split from the Azure Cloud Sword Master and would eventually merge, but only one could keep his memories and divine soul.
• The Primordial Sword Master declined to fight Ye Qiubai before their cultivation levels were closer, and Ye Qiubai returned to Demon King Main City.
• Ye Qiubai told Hong Ying and the others what he had learned, and Ning Chenxin said that only Ye Qiubai could resolve his destined battle.
• Lu Changsheng announced that the group would travel to Mortal Village, where the Teacher had once expounded the Dao and left traces that could aid their cultivation.
• Mo Xinxin stayed behind to oversee the Demon King Domain's reconstruction as Xiao Hei joined the group, while she withheld his true identity until he recovered his remaining soul fragments.

The Primordial Sword Master left the sect to temper himself after admitting that someone had made him feel pressured. Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng sent Huang Qian and her companions to the Wilderness Realm to find and destroy the Xin Clan, remnants of the Evil Devil Domain; they sealed the clan’s compound and Huang Qian set it ablaze.

• The Primordial Sword Master ordered the Supreme Elder to oversee the Primordial Sword Sect while he went out to temper himself.
• Zhu Jiuyin attacked Liu Ziru at the Cottage, but stopped when Huang Qian called him off.
• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to find the Xin Clan in the Wilderness Realm and wipe it out, bringing companions to seal the space and capture survivors if possible.
• Liu Ziru’s intelligence network located the Xin Clan’s compound, though Xin Hongyi was not there.
• Xiao Shitou sealed the space around the compound, and Huang Qian engulfed it in Divine Phoenix Fire.

Huang Qian’s group attacked the Xin Clan, but the clan head burned away his soul before he could be interrogated. While searching the ruined grounds, the group found a blood pool and a mysterious blood-red token, whose inscription Xiangliu seemed to recognize.

• Huang Qian burned the Xin Clan with Divine Phoenix Fire and bound the clan head, but he ignited his bloodline and destroyed himself before she could question him.
• Liu Ziru suggested the group search the courtyard for clues, and Huang Qian, Liu Ziru, Xiao Shitou, and Xiangliu examined the damaged hidden chambers.
• Liu Ziru found a blood pool and inferred that Xin Hongyi had used it for bloodline replacement and cultivation infusion.
• Liu Ziru collected the remaining bloodline traces to help track Xin Hongyi and planned to ask the Dark Lord to send searchers across the star domains.
• Xiao Shitou found a blood-red token hidden in a spatial tear beneath the pool, causing all the blood in it to vanish when he retrieved it.
• Xiangliu said he seemed to recognize the token’s strange incantation.

Lu Changsheng brought his group to Mortal Village as the Evil Devil Domain’s seal neared its breaking, and the Teacher arranged for them to cultivate in a clearing rich with ancient Dao Laws. Lu Changsheng moved the clearing into the Fusheng Diagram and began cultivating many Dao Laws, while the Teacher suggested that he alone might approach a level beyond even the four Human Ancestors.

• Huang Qian told Lu Changsheng about the recent events and the blood-red token, and he asked her to have Xiangliu investigate it.
• The Teacher warned the village chief that the Evil Devil Domain would break through its seal in about ten days and told Mortal Village to prepare to emerge into the world.
• The Teacher brought Lu Changsheng and the others to the clearing where generations of students had imprinted their Dao Laws, and Hong Ying questioned why her Dao Law of Samsara resonated there.
• At the group’s urging, Lu Changsheng dug up the clearing, sealed its Dao Laws in the soil, and moved the land into the Fusheng Diagram.
• Lu Changsheng began cultivating numerous Dao Laws, and the Teacher told the artifact spirit that Lu Changsheng was the only person in the Mortal Realm who might approach that level.

Lu Changsheng suspected a hidden force was guiding his and his disciples’ actions after their Dao Laws resonated with rules in a mysterious place. He found a matching rune on a stone in Cloud Dream Marsh and decided to investigate its connection to the Immortal Realm.

• Lu Changsheng sensed his Dao Laws resonating with the local rules, grew furious at the possibility that someone had predicted or controlled their actions, and left his disciples to cultivate.
• Lu Changsheng searched Cloud Dream Marsh for matching Dao Laws, but Xiangliu noticed that the marsh and hills had vanished without signs of battle.
• Xiangliu searched the altered landscape for the rune from a blood-colored token and found the same rune carved into a milky-white stone beneath a crooked-necked tree.
• Lu Changsheng detected a trace of Immortal Qi in the stone and concluded that the token likely came from the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng brought Xiangliu along and planned to return the Fusheng Diagram to the Changsheng Realm before investigating the connection in the Immortal Realm.

Lu Changsheng brought a milky-white stone bearing a mysterious rune to the Immortal Emperor, who led him to three ancient masters. They identified the rune as the symbol of the vanished Demon Realm Imperial Clan and gave Lu Changsheng the matching half of the stone, while voicing concern that the Divine Realm might oppose someone of his strength.

• Lu Changsheng left his disciples in the Changsheng Realm and hurried to the Immortal Realm after seeing Evil Devil Qi spreading through the passage.
• Lu Changsheng visited the Immortal Emperor and asked him to identify the rune on a stone he had found in a Mortal Realm forbidden ground.
• The Immortal Emperor took Lu Changsheng to three ancient masters, who said the rune belonged to the Demon Realm Imperial Clan and that the stone had been entrusted to them by someone.
• The middle master gave Lu Changsheng the matching half of the stone, saying the object might contain answers about the mysterious person.
• After Lu Changsheng left, the three masters wondered whether the Divine Realm would allow someone as powerful as him to appear and questioned its role in the Mortal Realm's past war.