Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze met Qiong, the eldest princess of the Barbarian Tribe, and asked the Demon Suppression Hall to reveal the tribe’s past. Its replay showed the Barbarian Tribe debating how to survive the war and deciding that Jiuyou could become their own god.

• Qiong introduced herself as the eldest princess of the Barbarian Tribe and said that she and the others had entered the Demon Suppression Hall willingly.
• Qiong told Qin Ze to ask the Demon Suppression Hall about the past, and it recreated a meeting of the Barbarian Tribe’s leaders.
• The elderly fox chief and the other leaders debated whether the Barbarian Tribe should seek a Pillar God’s protection or control its own fate.
• The chief declared that the Barbarian Tribe could create a god of its own, and the snake woman realized he meant Jiuyou.

Qin Ze and Qiong witnessed the Barbarian Tribe elders approve a plan to use the Demon Suppression Hall and the sacrifice of one hundred million warriors to make Jiuyou powerful enough to protect their people. Qiong said the plan had gone smoothly despite fate intervening, and they appeared in a bustling square before the Demon Suppression Hall.

• The fox elder revealed that Jiuyou had a divine body and Partial Divinity, and that a Star Gate was needed to complete his Divinity.
• The fox elder explained that the Demon Suppression Hall could refine those it suppressed into energy stones that might pass on their abilities and power.
• The fox elder proposed using the Hall to extract the power of one hundred million Barbarian Tribe warriors and fuse it into Jiuyou so he could defend the tribe.
• The elders unanimously approved the plan and signed Divine Contracts to keep it secret from everyone outside their meeting.
• Qin Ze asked Qiong whether a traitor had disrupted the plan, but Qiong said the elders had acted for the tribe and that the plan had gone smoothly.
• Qiong said the best-laid plans could not match the plans of heaven, and Qin Ze and Qiong appeared in a bustling square before the Demon Suppression Hall.

The chieftain deceived the Barbarian Tribe’s martial artists by calling their mass gathering a collective ascension, then revealed they would be sacrificed to make Jiuyou a god. As the Demon Suppression Hall reduced more than a hundred million martial artists to ash, the chieftain began fusing their power into Jiuyou.

• The old fox announced a collective ascension, and the World Will transported more than a hundred million Barbarian Tribe martial artists into the Demon Suppression Hall.
• Qin Ze and Qiong witnessed the old fox tell Jiuyou that the ascension was meant for him alone and urge him to protect the Barbarian Tribe.
• The old fox revealed to the gathered martial artists that they would be sacrificed to help Jiuyou become a god, prompting anger and grief among the crowd.
• Jiuyou was stunned by the truth, while the old fox admitted his guilt and called the martial artists heroes who would secure the tribe’s future.
• The Demon Suppression Hall’s smelting mode reduced the martial artists to ash, and the old fox fused their power into Jiuyou.

Qin Ze watched Jiuyou become a god through the Demon Suppression Hall’s mass refining, only for resentment and a strange byproduct to emerge. Qiong revealed that she too was a byproduct of the Hall, while the real Qiong had died long ago.

• Qin Ze and his clones discussed the Demon Suppression Hall as Jiuyou absorbed the vitality, spiritual power, and innate abilities of over a hundred million Barbarian Tribe martial artists.
• Black qi formed around Jiuyou, carrying the resentment of the martial artists refined by the Hall, before the fusion ended and Jiuyou manifested divine power and white Divine Markings like White Hair’s.
• Qin Ze suspected White Hair’s secret mission and the person atop the bronze coffin were connected to Jiuyou, possibly through the president.
• Jiuyou’s divine transformation triggered another accident as resentful figures appeared in a matchbox space and cursed him.
• Qiong explained that the figures were a byproduct of the Hall’s refining and revealed that she was also a byproduct, while the real Qiong had died long ago.

Qin Ze learned how Jiuyou became the Barbarian Tribe’s guardian god and why he brought the Demon Suppression Hall to the Northern Territory. After refusing to release its imprisoned shadows, Qin Ze found the white-robed sword cultivator and prepared to take him home.

• Qiong told Qin Ze that Jiuyou had been her fiancé and described how the grudges in the Demon Suppression Hall changed him.
• Jiuyou protected the Barbarian Tribe, imprisoned more and more people in the hall, and eventually left for the Land of the Gods to seek greater power.
• The Demon Suppression Hall showed Qin Ze Jiuyou’s battle against a black-robed coffin rider in the Northern Territory, but the vision ended before revealing its outcome.
• Qiong chose to remain in the hall and wait for Jiuyou, while Qin Ze left and found countless shadows swarming toward him.
• The Demon Suppression Hall told Qin Ze its barrier was close to collapsing, but Qin Ze refused to release the shadows and asked where the white-clad sword cultivator was.
• Qin Ze followed the hall’s directions to a white-robed figure sitting in another void and told him he had come to take him home.

Qin Ze reunited with Yao Yuan in the Demon Suppression Hall and learned that Yao Yuan had bound himself to the hall to keep its ninety-eight million demons sealed. Qin Ze could not find a way to free him without risking the Human Race, leaving Yao Yuan to continue sacrificing himself as Qin Ze searched for another solution.

• Qin Ze found Yao Yuan, whose life was fading as shadowy strands connected him to the void.
• Qin Ze told Yao Yuan how the Human Race had grown stronger over the past three years and introduced him to Miss Sword Case.
• Yao Yuan explained that the Demon Suppression Hall had used him as an anchor to bind itself to the Human Race's world and suppress ninety-eight million demons.
• Qin Ze ordered the Demon Suppression Hall to unbind Yao Yuan, but the hall warned that unbinding would release all the demons, and Yao Yuan stopped him.
• Qin Ze and his clones considered ways to replace Yao Yuan, but they concluded that freeing him would let the demons escape during the transition.

Qin Ze left the Demon Suppression Hall determined to become a god and save Yao Yuan, while A Niu tried to kill White Hair to open a sealed coffin. White Hair’s white Divine Markings took control of her, and she opened the coffin, releasing a powerful presence.

• Qin Ze gave Yao Yuan his remaining Life Essence and promised to bring him out before he lost himself.
• The Demon Suppression Hall shook, and Qin Ze felt a familiar resonance in his chest.
• A Niu revealed that his real task was to open the coffin by killing White Hair and stabbed her with a black dagger.
• White Hair let the dagger pierce her chest, and the white Divine Markings spread across her face and eyes.
• White Hair approached the coffin and shattered its seal formations, sending the lid flying and releasing a vast aura.

Taurus released the power sealed inside Scorpio, and the possessed White Hair attacked the Demon Suppression Hall. The Hunters held him off with Little Deer's predictions until she reached her limit, and White Hair struck the hall's doors.

• Fairy warned the Hunters that Scorpio had become a vessel for a power targeting the Hall of Stars, and the Hunters took positions around the hall.
• White Hair absorbed the black gas and charged the Demon Suppression Hall, while Slacking on the Sidelines attacked him and was slammed into the ground.
• Fairy, Brother Biao, and the other Hunters fought White Hair, but he focused on Little Deer after she used Deduction to predict his moves.
• Little Deer exhausted herself predicting White Hair, and Taoist told her to retreat as White Hair unleashed a wide barrage of light swords.
• White Hair used Void Traversal to reach the entrance, broke through Taoist's talisman seal, and struck the closed doors while saying, "Open sesame."

White Hair entered the Demon Suppression Hall and revealed that Jiuyou’s resentment had merged with his origin, while Qin Ze discovered he could command the hall as its master. Jiuyou’s resentments opened the Demon Imprisonment Space, but Qin Ze stopped the demons from escaping and began fighting Jiuyou.

• White Hair entered the Demon Suppression Hall as the Hunters outside were barred from following.
• Qin Ze recognized the voices in White Hair’s black qi as Jiuyou’s resentments, which had merged with Jiuyou’s origin power from Scorpio.
• Qin Ze told the Demon Suppression Hall to bind Jiuyou, but Jiuyou claimed authority as a Barbarian Tribe member and confused the hall.
• Jiuyou’s resentments opened the Demon Imprisonment Space, and the trapped demons rushed for the doors.
• Qin Ze ordered the hall to close the doors, then struck Jiuyou with Miss Sword Case as Jiuyou unleashed blades of light and Qin Ze countered with Blazing Sun Fire.

Qin Ze struggled through the Demon Suppression Hall after Jiuyou disrupted its spatial rules and severed contact with its artifact spirit. With the resentful spirits also racing to claim the Hall, Qin Ze sent his clones to search for the artifact spirit and Brother Yuanzi, then charged into a space full of demons.

• Jiuyou endured Qin Ze's Blazing Sun Fire, then used hand seals to warp the Demon Suppression Hall and rise out of Qin Ze's reach.
• Qin Ze fell into the Hall's chaotic spaces as the demons escaped their confined areas, and Brother Devour reported that they had lost contact with the artifact spirit.
• Miss Sword Case explained that whoever released the artifact spirit first would become the Hall's master, while the resentful spirits could claim it independently of Jiuyou.
• Miss Sword Case used Fire Child and Water Child to steady Qin Ze and guided him toward the artifact spirit, while Qin Ze sent the Heavenly Kings to search for it and Brother Yuanzi.
• Qin Ze warned his allies outside the Hall to guard its open doors, then charged through a spatial barrier with Miss Sword Case.
• Several demons spotted Qin Ze and mistook him for Jiuyou, shouting that they should attack.

After the Hall of Stars released Leo and Cancer from their confinement, Leo followed the president’s order to find its artifact spirit, but he and Cancer encountered Dark Night Lion King instead. Leo and Cancer fought the powerful intruder, whose strength left Leo struggling to hold his own.

• Cancer grew desperate with hunger while she and Leo remained trapped in the matchbox.
• The matchbox vanished, and Leo said the president had ordered him to find the artifact spirit and seize the Hall of Stars.
• Leo and Cancer were teleported elsewhere, where Brother Devour appeared and introduced himself as the Circus’s chief Heavenly King, Dark Night Lion King.
• Leo struck Brother Devour’s head, but Brother Devour transformed and caught Leo; Cancer’s punch failed to move him.
• Leo escaped with a lion’s roar and fought Brother Devour using the Nine-Headed Lion’s power, but Brother Devour broke through the spatial lock and overpowered him in close combat.

Leo fought Brother Devour with the lion soul’s power, but Brother Devour overwhelmed him and survived the lion soul’s self-destruction. Cancer revealed that the president had ordered Leo to find an artifact Spirit, while Brother Devour left her with food and continued through the spatial barrier.

• Leo merged with the lion soul and fought Brother Devour, but Brother Devour’s attacks badly wounded him.
• Cancer said she was too hungry to help, and Brother Devour used his extra arms to smash the space around them into a Domain.
• Leo sent the lion soul to self-destruct in front of Brother Devour, then escaped through a spatial barrier as his hair turned white and he aged.
• Brother Devour emerged unharmed, and Cancer offered information about the president in exchange for her life.
• Cancer told Brother Devour that the president had told Leo to find an artifact Spirit, and Qin Ze concluded over the Local Area Network that the president wanted the Hall of Stars.
• Brother Devour gave Cancer the food in his storage ring and passed through the spatial barrier.

Qin Ze searched the Demon Suppression Hall for its artifact spirit while purifying waves of demons who mistook him for Jiuyou. He finally found the spirit, but gray energy spread from it over his arm as soon as he touched it.

• Qin Ze and his clones defeated and purified a seventh wave of demons, while Magician accidentally turned another group into chickens.
• Brother Devour reported that Leo had blown up his soul ring and been displaced, and the group continued searching for Brother Yuanzi and the artifact spirit.
• The president ordered Leo to stay put and survive until he reached the artifact spirit, promising him an SSS-rank exotic beast; Leo rested and accepted the orders.
• Miss Sword Case guided Qin Ze close to the artifact spirit, but a spatial shift occurred just as he was about to cross the barrier.
• The artifact spirit appeared before Qin Ze, and when he touched it, a gray layer spread from it up his arm.

Resentment marked Qin Ze and tried to fuse him with White Hair Jiuyou to complete the Barbarian Tribe True God. As the resentment engulfed them, Qin Ze unexpectedly accepted the connection and entered a strange state where he saw a figure covered in white Divine Markings approaching.

• Qin Ze severed his infected arm and burned it, but the resentment remained and reappeared on his shoulder.
• White Hair Jiuyou revealed that the resentment had targeted Qin Ze and planned to use him and Jiuyou's Source to complete the Barbarian Tribe True God.
• Brother Devour explained that the resentment had hidden on the artifact spirit and marked Qin Ze when he touched it, while the gray prevented others from reaching the spirit.
• The resentment wrapped Qin Ze in a gray film and linked him to Jiuyou, while Qin Ze felt an instinctive urge to let the fusion happen.
• Miss Sword Case attacked the resentment to save Qin Ze, but it ignored her as Qin Ze and Jiuyou's Divine Markings spread across them.
• The resentment tornado filled the space, and Qin Ze entered a dazed state in which he saw a figure covered in white Divine Markings walking toward him.

Qin Ze met Jiuyou’s remnant thought, learned that they were connected through the Mystery in the Womb, and was warned to beware of the God of the Underworld. After Jiuyou merged with Qin Ze, the resentful spirits tried to seize his body, but they discovered they could not control him.

• Qin Ze met Jiuyou, who said they were both one another and more than themselves, and that he had come to find people capable of resonance.
• Jiuyou told Qin Ze that seeing his remnant thought meant Qin Ze had been exposed, warned him not to follow in his footsteps, and cautioned that the God of the Underworld could not be trusted.
• Jiuyou merged with Qin Ze, whose divine power surged as a clover pattern briefly appeared on his forehead.
• The resentful spirits poured into Qin Ze, believing they could use Jiuyou’s original Source to make him the Barbarian Tribe’s true god.
• Qin Ze remained in control of his body and sneered at the resentful spirits, telling them they had mistaken him for Jiuyou.

Qin Ze fought the resentment for control of his body as he approached the Demon Suppression Hall's artifact spirit. Leo arrived and, at the president's command, became possessed, leaving the president face-to-face with Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze endured the resentment's assault and continued toward the artifact spirit, while Miss Sword Case worried about him.
• Leo was teleported to the artifact spirit and contacted the president, who promised to grant him divine power.
• Leo allowed the president to descend into his body, and Qin Ze attacked him with Blazing Sun Fire before the possession was complete.
• The possessed Leo swept aside Qin Ze's flames and healed his burns as the president spoke through him.
• The president recognized Qin Ze and said, "So... it really is you."

The president revealed that Qin Ze was a Resonator and used Jiuyou’s power and the Mystic Coffin to strip away his Source of God and suppress the resentments. As Qin Ze and his allies became trapped, clones crossed the spatial barriers to rescue him.

• The president explained that he had been watching Qin Ze and intended to join with him, then summoned Jiuyou’s apparition to begin stripping the Source of Jiuyou from Qin Ze.
• The president summoned the Mystic Coffin, which sealed the spatial barriers and immobilized Qin Ze, Miss Sword Case, Fire Child, and Water Child.
• Miss Sword Case’s Daydream Seed failed to affect the president’s vessel, and Brother Devour arrived but was trapped by the coffin’s barrier.
• The president began drawing the resentments into the coffin while Qin Ze realized he also wanted the Demon Suppression Hall.
• Clones crossed all six spatial barriers and arrived, declaring that they had come to save Qin Ze.

Qin Ze used Devouring to refine the Source of Jiuyou as the president tried to strip it from him, while Brother Devour and the Circus fought to break the coffin’s suppression. The president summoned an endless stream of Wandering Corpses, and the last of Qin Ze’s resentment was transferred into the coffin.

• The Self-Destruct Squad blew themselves up to weaken the ward and advanced toward the president and Qin Ze.
• Brother Devour forced himself upright and struck the coffin, while Dharma King attacked it with lightning and the president restored its ward.
• Qin Ze activated Devouring to refine the Source of Jiuyou as the president pulled it from him, causing the president’s hook to disappear.
• The president moved to attack Qin Ze directly, but the clones formed a shield while Brother Devour engaged him.
• The president opened a spatial vortex in Leo’s chest and released Wandering Corpses, then used them to keep Brother Devour and the Self-Destruct Squad at bay.
• The president’s efforts stripped the last of Qin Ze’s resentment from him and placed it inside the coffin.

Qin Ze and his clones battled the president and the resurrecting Wandering Corpses while trying to keep the president from reaching the coffin. After Magician reversed the Domains and Qin Ze finished refining the Source of Jiuyou, both Qin Ze and the president raced toward the coffin.

• Qin Ze warned everyone that the president could merge with the resentful thoughts by touching the cracked coffin, and Brother Devour knocked the president away from it.
• Dharma King led the clones toward the coffin, while A Bing and Mist Lord arrived with buffs that helped them fight through the gray fog and confuse the Wandering Corpses.
• Magician used a Skill of Arts that doubled the Wandering Corpses, then drew a Skill of the God that reversed the Circus and Wandering Corpses' Domain effects.
• Qin Ze finished refining the Source of Jiuyou, and the president's attempt to separate the Origin of Jiuyou from it failed.
• The president merged with Jiuyou and reached for the coffin as Qin Ze entered Void Traversal and raced toward it.

Qin Ze fought the chairman for control of the coffin and discovered that the chairman could inflict equal damage on him. Qin Ze shattered the coffin to release the resentment, leaving the chairman to choose whether to pursue the Demon Suppression Hall at the cost of being haunted by it.

• Qin Ze and the chairman clashed over the coffin as the gray fog repeatedly restored their duplicates and Wandering Corpses.
• Qin Ze and the chairman traded blows, while the chairman used Aries's blue arms and a silver bell to repel Fire Child and Water Child.
• Qin Ze had Brother Devour restrain the chairman and struck him with Miss Sword Case, but the chairman's equal-damage ability injured Qin Ze as well.
• Qin Ze realized he could break the stalemate by targeting the coffin and shattered it with his strongest blow.
• Qin Ze released the resentment from the coffin and told the chairman that anyone seeking the Demon Suppression Hall would now be pursued by it until death.