Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hei and Ye Qiubai’s group attacked the Evil Devil Domain’s rear strongholds, destroying troops and supplies while God Emperor Realm experts remained barred from intervening. Xiao Hei relentlessly battered a Half-Step God Emperor Realm expert as the Evil Lord and Devil God received news that most of their logistical supplies had been destroyed.

• A God Emperor ordered the Evil Devil Domain’s armies to attack Ye Qiubai and his companions, while the God Emperors remained forbidden to act.
• Xiao Hei shattered the combined palm strike of four Mid-Stage God Lord Realm commanders and killed them with a single punch.
• Xiao Hei charged into the army, and Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and the others joined the assault to create chaos and disrupt the front lines.
• Eight Half-Step God Emperor Realm experts confronted the group, and Xiao Hei traded injuries with a dark-faced man before hammering him into the ground with repeated blows.
• The elders, the Evil Lord, and the Devil God received word that the rear strongholds were under attack and eighty percent of their logistical supplies had been destroyed.

The Evil Devil Domain’s third assault nearly reached the city walls, but Ye Qiubai and the others’ attack on its rear forced the enemy to withdraw. The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm celebrated their defense, while the three Immortal Ancestors grew wary of the Evil Lord and Devil God’s unnerving calm.

• The Evil Devil Domain’s third assault overwhelmed the front lines, and the Immortal Emperor and the teacher feared the defenders could not hold the wall without Ye Qiubai and the others.
• The four elders learned that Ye Qiubai and the others had destroyed eighty percent of the supplies at the enemy base, and they debated withdrawing to protect their rear.
• The Evil Lord ordered the troops to withdraw, and the first elder relayed the command to the army.
• The Immortal Emperor announced that Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, Shi Sheng, Mu Wan'er, Xiao Shitou, and Fang Qiong had earned the greatest credit by attacking the enemy base.
• The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm celebrated the retreat, while the Evil Lord and Devil God warned the three Immortal Ancestors that the celebration might be premature.
• After the Evil Lord and Devil God departed, the three Immortal Ancestors exchanged grave looks and suspected the enemy had another plan.

After Ye Qiubai and his companions destroyed most of the Evil Devil Domain's supplies, the enemy paused its attacks while both sides recovered. As the group discussed Lu Changsheng and Huang Qian, Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin sensed that something was wrong.

• The Evil Devil Domain's soldiers condemned their failed offensives, but the Devil God revealed their attacks had worn down the defenders and ordered the protesting commander killed for undermining morale.
• Ye Qiubai and his companions returned to the city wall, where Divine Lord Hao Tian praised them and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and Desolation Lord tried to reconcile; Ye Qiubai rejected their overtures.
• The Immortal Emperor sent Ye Qiubai and the others to rest, while the Dark Lord assigned elites to watch for another enemy raid.
• The Evil Devil Domain did not attack for six days as both armies replenished and healed, with Lu Changsheng's formations saving many defenders.
• Ji Qianyao expressed regret that Lu Changsheng was absent, and Ye Qiubai's companions teased him about her feelings before Huang Qian silenced him with a hostile look.
• Fang Qiong asked Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin what troubled them, and both said something was wrong.

Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin suspected the Evil Devil Domain was stalling, and the cautious, prolonged attack strengthened their suspicions. Their inspection of the Mortal Realm’s army found no intruders, but Liu Ziru’s report that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord seemed unusually calm left Ning Chenxin questioning them.

• Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin noticed the Evil Devil Domain had waited six days after its third defeat, and Huang Qian offered to investigate its base.
• The Evil Devil Domain launched a slow, cautious attack that lasted seven days and six nights before withdrawing after advancing two-thirds of the way.
• Hong Ying, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng suspected the Devious Arts Imperial Guard might be infiltrating the Mortal Realm, so they asked the Immortal Emperor and the Teacher to inspect the army discreetly.
• The Devil God and the Evil Lord told the Devious King to continue the plan, while the Evil Lord revealed they were searching for someone who could raise the Evil Devil Domain’s power.
• After the inspections found no suspicious individuals, Mu Fusheng asked about the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord, and Ning Chenxin questioned Liu Ziru’s description of them as unusually calm.

Ning Chenxin’s observation led the alliance to suspect the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord of working with the Evil Devil Domain, but the pair had already escaped. Clues linked them and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce to Xin Hongyi, and Ye Qiubai sent Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Huang Qian to investigate their likely next target, the Boundless Realm.

• Ning Chenxin pointed out that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord had seemed unnaturally calm, prompting the Immortal Emperor to order their arrest.
• Elder Yang and the Dark Lord returned after discovering that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord had escaped, and the Dark Domain began searching for them and possible Evil Devil Domain pawns.
• The Dark Domain found that the Yin Yang Divine Sect and Eight Desolations Divine Sect had vanished, while reports linked their disciples and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce to a campaign spreading despair across the Mortal Realm.
• Liu Ziru revealed that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord, the Desolation Lord, and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce were under the command of a woman in red, whom Ye Qiubai identified as Xin Hongyi.
• After tracing the group’s movements through places Ye Qiubai and his companions had visited, Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Hong Ying concluded that the Boundless Realm might be their next target.
• Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Huang Qian departed to investigate the Boundless Realm while Ye Qiubai and the others remained behind.

Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng traced their opponents’ clues from the Boundless Realm back to the Wilderness Realm, where they discovered dark Devil Qi at the place Xiao Hei had once been found. Zi Shan appeared and urged them to follow her to prevent the Wilderness Realm from being engulfed in war.

• Mu Fusheng visited Mu Zhengting and asked whether anything unusual had happened in the Boundless Realm.
• Xiao Hei noticed that their opponents had visited realms where they had previously stayed, and Mu Fusheng concluded that they were deliberately leaving clues.
• Mu Zhengting sent people to investigate, and they found a Tianjin Chamber of Commerce token and a note directing the group to where it all began.
• Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng returned to the Wilderness Realm and found dark Devil Qi rising from the place where Xiao Hei had been discovered.
• Xiao Hei recognized fragments of the black stone that had once sealed him, and Zi Shan arrived and told the group to follow her to avert war in the Wilderness Realm.

Zi Shan revealed that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had always been a hidden pawn of the Evil Devil Domain and demanded that Xiao Hei accompany her there. When Xiao Hei refused, the Devious Arts Imperial Guard attacked, and he killed one of its Half-Step God Emperor Realm members with a single punch before the others trapped him in the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation.

• Zi Shan told Mu Fusheng, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had been a hidden pawn of the Evil Devil Domain and that Xin Hongyi was absent on important business.
• Zi Shan said the Evil Devil Domain wanted Xiao Hei to come with them, then threatened that it might destroy the Wilderness Realm if he refused.
• Xiao Hei vowed to avenge the Wilderness Realm and attacked a black-robed member of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard, tearing through his thorny vines and crushing his head with one punch.
• The three remaining Imperial Guard members surrounded Xiao Hei from the sky above the Xin Clan and began forming an array as he charged them.
• Xiao Hei struck at an illusory figure, then found himself surrounded by many apparent copies as the Imperial Guard activated the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation.

The Immortal Emperor and his allies faced defections among the High-Latitude Realm factions while struggling to defend the Ancient Battlefield. In the Wilderness Realm, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng defeated a Devious Arts Imperial Guard squad, but a formation spanning the entire realm appeared overhead.

• The teacher told the Immortal Emperor that the Yin Yang Divine Sect, the Eight Desolations Divine Sect, and numerous other factions had stopped sending resources, and Divine Lord Hao Tian urged a counterattack that the Firmament Divine Lord and Primordial Sword Master opposed.
• The Immortal Emperor asked the teacher for a solution, but the teacher said every option risked disaster, while the Heaven-Overturning Divine Lord watched silently from the tent entrance.
• Over a hundred black-robed figures surrounded Xiao Hei in the Xin Clan’s Southern Region and prepared to unleash the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation, but the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda descended and Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng attacked with lightning and star power.
• Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng defeated the formation and pinned three Devious Arts Imperial Guards beneath the pagoda; Xiao Hei killed two when they refused to explain why they had been ordered to capture him.
• As Xiao Hei prepared to deal with the last guard, he and his junior brothers saw a formation spanning the entire Wilderness Realm overhead.

Xin Hongyi and thirty Half-Step God Emperor Realm members of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard trapped Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng in a formation over the Wilderness Realm. Xiao Hei was badly injured by its first attack, and the three prepared to fight on without asking their master for help.

• Qin Tiannan and others watched as a formation spread across the Wilderness Realm and pressed everyone to the ground.
• Xin Hongyi revealed that the three baited attackers had stalled Xiao Hei and his companions while thirty commanders set up the formation.
• Xin Hongyi said she wanted revenge for the Xin Clan and planned to bring Xiao Hei to the Evil Devil Domain because its higher-ups were searching for someone like him.
• The thirty commanders attacked, and Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng joined Xiao Hei to resist the formation’s beams.
• The formation overwhelmed their defenses and sent Xiao Hei flying with several mouthfuls of blood.
• Mu Fusheng decided the three would fight on as their master had instructed, despite the danger.

Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Mu Fusheng fought the Evil God Heavenly Baleful Intent Formation with the power of their bloodlines, stars, and divine lightning. After Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng were driven into the earth, Mu Fusheng revealed a lightning spear whose power alarmed the Devious Arts Imperial Guard.

• Mu Fusheng used three Divine Talismans of Creation to boost his and his companions’ strength as they faced Xin Hongyi’s formation.
• Xiao Hei unleashed his bloodline power, suppressing the Evil Devil Domain bloodlines and convincing Xin Hongyi he was likely the person her lord sought.
• Shi Sheng wielded the Falling Star Divine Axe while Mu Fusheng gathered six kinds of ancient divine lightning, and Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng struck at the formation’s beams.
• Shi Sheng used the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda to absorb the formation’s suppressive power, but the Devious Arts Imperial Guard intensified the formation and blasted Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng into the earth.
• Mu Fusheng raised a lightning spear charged with destructive power, making the members of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard turn toward him in alarm.

Mu Fusheng and his companions survived a clash with the Devious Arts Imperial Guard’s God Emperor-level formation, but Xin Hongyi ordered them killed. Three yellow-robed elders then appeared, shielded the disciples, and revealed that they would not allow anyone to target the successor of the Nine Nether Underworld.

• Mu Fusheng hurled a spear fused with six kinds of Ancient Divine Lightning at the Evil God Heavenly Baleful Intent Formation as the Devious Arts Imperial Guard unleashed its devastating beam.
• The spear and beam collided, leaving Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng wounded in a crater while the formation’s power diminished.
• Mu Fusheng told Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng to escape with Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans, but Xin Hongyi ordered the Imperial Guard to kill them and keep the body cultivator alive.
• Three illusory yellow-robed elders emerged from underground and blocked the formation’s attack with a barrier of Yellow Springs Death Qi.
• One elder pierced the formation with an arrow of Yellow Springs Death Qi and warned the Evil Devil Domain not to target the successor of the Nine Nether Underworld.

The Nine Nether Underworld’s elders protected Xiao Hei from Xin Hongyi and the Devious Arts Imperial Guard, then summoned him to join the contest for Nether Lord. After Lu Changsheng urged him to go, Xiao Hei left with the elders while Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng headed back to report.

• A Devious Arts Imperial Guard member explained that the Nine Nether Underworld governed reincarnation, and the yellow-robed elders identified Xiao Hei as its chosen heir.
• Xin Hongyi and the Devious Arts Imperial Guard withdrew after the elders warned them against attacking, and the pressure over the Wilderness Realm disappeared.
• The elders asked Xiao Hei to go with them to the Nine Nether Underworld and explained that he could not yet use its power to intervene in the war.
• Xiao Hei initially refused to leave his senior and junior brothers fighting, but Lu Changsheng told him to go, and he agreed.
• The three elders departed with Xiao Hei, while Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng set off to report back at the Ancient Battlefield.

Xin Hongyi reported that Xiao Hei was the heir to the Nine Nether Underworld, and the Devil God ordered the Evil Devil Domain to continue its campaign in the Mortal Realm. As the Mortal and Immortal Realms faced a crisis on both the front line and their rear, Hong Ying proposed abandoning the front and retreating to wage guerrilla warfare, winning the leaders’ approval.

• Xin Hongyi told the Devil God that Xiao Hei’s powers matched the presence and bloodline abilities he had described, but that an expert from the Nine Nether Underworld had taken him away.
• The Devil God said the Nine Nether Underworld would not interfere in outside power struggles and ordered Xin Hongyi to continue eroding the Mortal Realm’s rear forces.
• The Immortal Emperor gathered the Mortal and Immortal Realm leaders, who could find no way to defend the front line while dealing with forces turning traitor in the rear.
• Hong Ying proposed retreating from the front and using the Mortal Realm’s vast territory for guerrilla attacks while investigating and dealing with traitorous forces.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian, the Primordial Sword Master, and the valley master of Fen Yan Valley supported Hong Ying’s plan, and the Immortal Emperor asked the gathered leaders for their agreement.

The Evil Devil Domain army found the Mortal Realm’s battlefield abandoned, while the Ancient Battlefield was dragged into the Endless Sea. In the Nine Nether Underworld, Xiao Hei began the Ghost Gate Pass trial and was trapped in blue ice as Yin Cold Qi threatened to pull his soul from his body.

• The Evil Devil Domain army broke through the empty walls and advanced, and the Ancient Battlefield was dragged beneath the Endless Sea.
• Xiao Hei arrived at the Nine Nether Underworld trial with eight other candidates and rebuffed a fair-skinned man from the Chaos Realm.
• The trial’s voice announced the Ghost Gate Pass trial, and white mist revealed the enormous archway.
• Xiao Hei stepped beneath Ghost Gate Pass while the other candidates watched, and blue ice rapidly encased him.
• The Yin Cold Qi froze Xiao Hei’s blood and began trying to strip his soul from his body.

Xiao Hei broke free of Ghost Gate Pass by unleashing his bloodline power and learned from Tan Zongzhao that the assessment had five stages. He agreed to ally with Tan Zongzhao during the fourth-stage free-for-all so he could move through the trials quickly.

• Xiao Hei used his bloodline power to shatter the blue ice and passed through Ghost Gate Pass despite the chilling Qi.
• Tan Zongzhao crossed Ghost Gate Pass easily with a white light shielding him from the chilling Qi.
• Tan Zongzhao told Xiao Hei that the assessment had five stages and described the later free-for-all and final duel.
• Tan Zongzhao proposed that Xiao Hei ally with him during the free-for-all, and Xiao Hei agreed after learning Tan Zongzhao had seen two Nine Nether Underworld elders bring him there.

Xiao Hei and Tan Zongzhao crossed Yellow Springs Road, where Xiao Hei’s powerful Demonic Qi shattered the ghosts attacking his soul. At the River of Forgetfulness, Xiao Hei watched his Demonic Qi drift into the river as the remaining trial participants struggled to stay above it.

• Xiao Hei and Tan Zongzhao entered Yellow Springs Road together, and Tan Zongzhao defended his choice to associate with Xiao Hei after Shen Jie criticized him.
• Ghostly memories overwhelmed Xiao Hei until black Qi formed a figure in his sea of consciousness and destroyed the fragments with demonic halberds.
• Xiao Hei’s Demonic Qi shattered the ghosts along the road, and he followed it after realizing it was drawn toward the final soul fragment of one of his three souls.
• Xiao Hei and Tan Zongzhao reached the end of Yellow Springs Road after a day, and Tan Zongzhao stopped Xiao Hei from going farther while they waited for the others.
• The voice announced the River of Forgetfulness, where one participant sank and was devoured by ghosts while the others used Spiritual Qi to keep from sinking.
• Xiao Hei stared into the blood-yellow river as his mass of black Demonic Qi drifted into its riverbed.

Xiao Hei plunged into the River of Forgetfulness to search for one of his missing soul fragments, relying on his master's blood essence to withstand the poison. At the riverbed, surrounded by powerful ghosts and unable to locate the fragment, he decided to undo his bloodline seal.

• Xiao Hei ignored Tan Zongzhao's warning and plunged into the River of Forgetfulness, while Shen Jie mocked Tan Zongzhao and Tan Zongzhao continued toward the opposite bank.
• The Underworld elders worried that Xiao Hei was seeking death, but their lord allowed him to proceed, trusting that he had his reasons.
• Xiao Hei's master's blood essence dissolved the river's poison as he sank through swarms of venomous creatures and ghosts.
• Xiao Hei fought off ghosts with his Demon God Armor and Nine Heavens Devil Halberd, but their attacks left him badly wounded.
• Xiao Hei reached the riverbed, found his black Devil Qi spread in every direction, and decided to undo his bloodline seal so he could sense the soul fragment.

Xiao Hei endured the River of Forgetfulness, absorbed his final soul, and recovered memories that revealed a mysterious secret surrounding his identity. His parents had been entrusted with him by an unknown man in white, while Mo Xinxin planned to give him a Holy Devil Condensation Pearl when his bloodline awakened.

• Xiao Hei awakened his bloodline power, drove away the ghosts, and found his final soul amid powerful Devil Qi.
• Xiao Hei merged with the soul and endured three days of agony as Tan Zongzhao and Shen Jie waited on the opposite bank of the River of Forgetfulness.
• Xiao Hei advanced to the Early God Emperor Realm and gained the Bloodline Boiling ability.
• Xiao Hei recalled Mo Xinxin speaking to his parents’ gravestones about concealing his identity and giving him the Holy Devil Condensation Pearl once his bloodline awakened.
• Xiao Hei remembered that a man in white had rescued his parents and entrusted them with him, but he could not see the man’s face.

Xiao Hei emerged from the River of Forgetfulness with increased strength and Devil Qi, then entered the fourth trial, a melee in which only the last two standing would advance. As Shen Jie and the others targeted Tan Zongzhao, Xiao Hei charged at Shen Jie, and their fight began.

• Xiao Hei recovered his memories in the River of Forgetfulness and wondered whether the man in white had arranged for his soul fragments to appear in specific places.
• After four days, Xiao Hei burst out of the River of Forgetfulness unharmed, with greater physical strength and more oppressive Devil Qi.
• The trial’s voice announced a melee, and the River of Forgetfulness vanished, leaving a battlefield of bones, gravestones, and broken weapons.
• Shen Jie and the other five moved against Tan Zongzhao and Xiao Hei, while Tan Zongzhao offered to fight Shen Jie.
• Xiao Hei ignored Tan Zongzhao’s warning and charged at Shen Jie, who sent the others to attack Tan Zongzhao.

Xiao Hei fought Shen Jie, a powerful cultivator of the Seven Treasures Holy Sect, and destroyed his Void Refining Seal despite suffering severe injuries. Shen Jie then invoked two more treasure seals, leaving Xiao Hei facing an even greater attack.

• Shen Jie used the Void Refining Seal to trap Xiao Hei in a furnace of flames, badly burning him.
• Xiao Hei recovered quickly, used Bloodline Entanglement to strengthen the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd, and shattered Shen Jie's furnace.
• Shen Jie acknowledged Xiao Hei's strength and said he would stop holding back.
• Shen Jie summoned the Seven Slaughter Seal and Sea Overturning Seal, calling forth seven spears and towering waves, and urged Xiao Hei to surrender.