Chapter Summaries

Ji Zining flew to the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele and climbed far above its known record, gaining the Force Artistic Conception along the way. She reached the stele’s summit at 330,000 meters, where the chapter left her poised to seek further enlightenment.

• Ji Zining flew straight toward the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele and rose into the sky, while Xiao Jing and the others approached from lower altitudes.
• At 10,000 meters, Ji Zining endured the pressure on her spiritual power, body, and soul, then surged upward with the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art’s combat-power boost.
• While climbing, Ji Zining comprehended the Force Artistic Conception and continued upward, hoping to improve her Sword Artistic Conception as well.
• Ji Zining passed the 100,000-meter record and kept ascending through increasingly heavy pressure.
• Ji Zining reached the platform at 330,000 meters and declared that she had arrived at the top of the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele.

Ji Zining reached the summit of the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele, where its profound presence enhanced her cultivation and enlightenment. She obtained the Nine Dragons World-Illuminating Grand Array and perfected her Sword Artistic Conception to ninety percent.

• Ji Zining climbed to the top of the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele and found that its presence deepened her comprehension of artistic conceptions.
• Ji Zining signed in and received the Great Emperor-level Nine Dragons World-Illuminating Grand Array.
• Ji Zining learned that the array could increase Spiritual Qi, nurture Imperial Dao Dragon Qi, withstand Peak Quasi-Emperor attacks, and empower its controller to kill intruders.
• Ji Zining decided the array would benefit the Flowing Moon Dynasty and stored it in her storage ring.
• Ji Zining cultivated on the dais, entered an enhanced state of enlightenment, and perfected her Sword Artistic Conception at ninety percent.

Ji Zining comprehended the third layer of the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art, greatly increasing her combat strength, then resumed contemplating the Force Artistic Conception. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Pride Ranking reshuffled dramatically, placing Ji Zining first with combat strength rated at Half-Step Quasi-Emperor.

• Ji Zining chose to comprehend the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art instead of deepening her Force Artistic Conception.
• Ji Zining mastered the third layer, gained a fourfold enhancement to her overall combat strength, and blasted a hole into the void with a flick of her finger.
• Ji Zining decided not to contact Xiao Jing and the others so she would not interrupt their contemplation, then returned to studying the Force Artistic Conception.
• The Heavenly Pride Ranking reshuffled as Ji Zining rose to seventy-eighth and Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, and Lin Shan entered the top ten.
• The Heavenly Pride Ranking named Ji Zining its new first-ranked heavenly pride and described her combat strength as Half-Step Quasi-Emperor, astonishing the gathered heavenly prides.

Ji Zining raised her Force Artistic Conception to seventy percent on the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele, then left with Xiao Jing and the others to seek the Ancient Chaos Graveyard. They arrived at the eerie mountain and wondered if it was the graveyard Li Chang'an had described.

• After five hours of comprehension, Ji Zining reached seventy percent mastery of the Force Artistic Conception.
• Ji Zining left the top of the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele and descended through its pressure, using the third layer of the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art to strengthen herself.
• Ji Zining found Xiao Jing and the others, awakened them from their comprehension, and left the stele with them.
• Xiao Jing and the others were shocked by Ji Zining's rapid improvement as they traveled toward the Ancient Chaos Graveyard.
• Ji Zining and the group reached a sinister mountain, and Ji Zining asked whether it was the Ancient Chaos Graveyard.

Ji Zining learned that the Ancient Chaos Graveyard held a dangerous mountain of graves and a powerful opportunity inside its enormous tomb. She entered with Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, and the others, resisted the soul-attacking whispers, and saw Yin spirits emerge from the graves.

• Li Chang'an explained that the Ancient Chaos Graveyard contained dormant Yin spirits and whispers that constantly attacked intruders' souls.
• Ji Zining told Xiao Jing and the others to leave if they could not withstand the graveyard's dangers, then guessed that its great opportunity lay in the enormous tomb.
• Li Chang'an revealed that he had found an opportunity in a side hall of the tomb, which deepened his sword cultivation and helped him rise on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
• Ji Zining decided to explore the graveyard, and Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, and the others followed her inside.
• Ji Zining used the Primordial Spirit Refining Art to stop the whispers from harming her soul, then watched countless Yin spirits crawl out of the surrounding graves.

Ji Zining led the group through the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, effortlessly slaying waves of increasingly powerful yin spirits. After Li Chang'an warned her about a Peak Saint King Realm commander, an enormous black yin spirit appeared ahead.

• Ji Zining used Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to destroy the yin spirits at the graveyard entrance before Li Chang'an or the others could fight.
• Ji Zining continued deeper into the graveyard, cutting down every yin spirit while the group followed behind her.
• Li Chang'an recognized a gravestone and warned Ji Zining that a Peak Saint King Realm yin spirit commander was ahead.
• A towering black yin spirit appeared with the other spirits gathered meekly behind it, and Ji Zining eagerly asked if it was the commander.

Ji Zining challenged the Yin Spirit Commander and used the Asura Seven Steps to overwhelm it in close combat. After defeating the commander, she rejoined Li Chang'an and the others, and they continued onward.

• The Yin Spirit Commander warned Ji Zining to leave the Chaotic Ancient Forbidden Land, but she challenged it to a fight instead.
• The Yin Spirit Commander attacked, and Ji Zining put away the Immortal-Slaying Sword to face it with her close-combat skills.
• Ji Zining used the first six Asura Seven Steps to batter the Yin Spirit Commander through the air while Li Chang'an watched in disbelief.
• Ji Zining landed the seventh step, leaving the Yin Spirit Commander badly injured as the Yin Spirits gathered to protect it.
• Ji Zining told Li Chang'an and the others that they should keep moving, while Li Chang'an struggled to process her one-sided victory.

Ji Zining led her companions deeper into the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, where the peaceful landscape differed from Li Chang'an’s previous visit. They discovered a Black Demon among enormous black eggs, leaving them to face the mystery of why the creatures were there.

• Ji Zining spared the weakened yin spirit commander because it had been guarding the entrance, then continued into the graveyard with Xiao Jing and the others.
• Li Chang'an caught up and said the landscape and the commander’s behavior differed from his last visit; Ji Zining concluded that unknown changes had occurred and told everyone to stay close.
• The group advanced through the unusually quiet graveyard until a Black Demon’s roar came from a dense forest.
• Ji Zining sensed something in the forest and led the others to a clearing, where they found enormous black eggs and a Black Demon growing stronger as it ate eggshells.

Ji Zining and her companions discovered Black Demon eggs and growing Black Demons in the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, then found an enormous city inhabited by countless Black Demons. Unsure what had changed during the Martial Emperor Secret Realm’s hundred-year closure, they prepared to enter Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining and her companions destroyed the giant Black Demon eggs and the newly hatched Black Demon in the forest.
• Li Chang'an said the forest had not been there on his previous visit, and the group wondered what had happened during the hundred years the Martial Emperor Secret Realm was closed.
• Ji Zining led the group deeper into the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, where they encountered and killed Black Demons in the Great Saint Realm.
• Several hours later, the group found a gateway marked “Black Demon City” and saw countless Black Demons living in an enormous city beyond it.
• Ji Zining drew the Immortal-Slaying Sword and told the others to prepare to enter the city.

Ji Zining followed her intuition into Black Demon City alone to investigate a possible opportunity. After testing how the Demonic Qi reacted to her spiritual power, she realized the city did not harm her when she held no hostile intent, and she began exploring its strange rules.

• Ji Zining told Xiao Jing and the others that her intuition sensed an opportunity in Black Demon City and decided to enter alone while they waited outside.
• Ji Zining crossed the city gate and found that the Demonic Qi did not harm her while she refrained from using spiritual power against it.
• When Ji Zining circulated spiritual power to resist the Demonic Qi, it corroded her power and threatened to attack her flesh, so she stopped.
• Ji Zining wrapped spiritual power around her body without directing it against the Demonic Qi and found that it did not corrode her.
• Ji Zining concluded that Black Demon City responded to hostile intent and would not affect those who harbored no hostility toward anything inside.

Ji Zining explored Black Demon City, where the demonic Qi and Black Demons left her unharmed, and discovered the Spiritual Qi-filled Abyssal Spirit Hall. There she met a preserved soul who identified himself as Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel.

• Outside Black Demon City, Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, and Lin Shan wondered why the demonic Qi ignored Ji Zining and stayed ready to rescue her.
• Ji Zining walked among the Black Demons, finding them docile and friendly as she followed the summons from deep within the city.
• Ji Zining discovered the Abyssal Spirit Hall, entered it, and found that it contained Spiritual Qi instead of demonic Qi.
• A voice from the hall told Ji Zining that its speaker was human and that the Abyssal Spirit Hall preserved the last wisp of his soul.
• The delicate figure clarified that he was a man, then introduced himself as Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel.

Ji Zining met Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel, a powerful remnant from the Primordial Era who asked her to take him and the Abyssal Spirit Hall with her in exchange for guiding her cultivation. After she explained that the Great Emperors had sacrificed themselves to defeat It, he asked whether she had decided to take him away.

• Ji Zining tried to leave Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel, but he stopped her and realized that the Abyssal Spirit Hall had been moved to Black Demon City.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel offered to guide Ji Zining's cultivation if she took him and the Abyssal Spirit Hall with her.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel explained that Ancient Emperor was his title and said he came from the True Martial Dao Domain in the Primordial Era.
• Ji Zining told Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel that four eras had passed and that the current Emperor's Fall Era could no longer produce Great Emperors.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel learned that all the Great Emperors had self-destructed to kill It, and he asked Ji Zining whether she would take him away.

Ji Zining agreed to help Jun Yi leave Black Demon City after trusting his account of his past, and he transferred ownership of the Abyssal Spirit Hall to her. After learning the hall’s abilities, she promised to take him and the imperial weapon outside once she had explored the deepest part of Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining warned Jun Yi not to deceive her or bring chaos to the True Martial Dao Domain, and he insisted that he had acted in good faith.
• Jun Yi revealed his real name, Jun Yi, and offered to relinquish the Abyssal Spirit Hall so Ji Zining could claim it and take them both out.
• Jun Yi severed his ownership, and the Abyssal Spirit Hall stopped resisting when he urged it to cooperate with Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining claimed the Abyssal Spirit Hall and learned it could preserve divine souls and suppress enemies.
• Ji Zining promised to take Jun Yi and the hall outside after she explored the deepest part of Black Demon City, and Jun Yi agreed to answer her questions.

Ji Zining collected the Abyssal Spirit Hall and continued through Black Demon City to a golden hall, where Jun Yi identified the light as the power of a long-dead Great Emperor of the Great Dao of Light. A voice inside the hall recognized Ji Zining’s Exquisite Immortal Physique and said it had been waiting for her, so she entered seeking answers.

• Ji Zining shrank the Abyssal Spirit Hall and fastened it in her hair, disturbing the nearby Black Demons before they let her pass.
• Ji Zining reached a golden hall that filled her with unsettling peace, and Jun Yi explained that it had likely been left by a Great Emperor of the Great Dao of Light.
• Jun Yi taught Ji Zining the Heavenly Purity Mystic Art to protect her mind from the golden light.
• A low voice inside the hall told Ji Zining it had been waiting for the bearer of the Exquisite Immortal Physique.
• Ji Zining questioned the voice about the Ancient Chaos Graveyard’s changes, then entered the hall to learn more.

Ji Zining entered the golden hall and met the Light Emperor Venerable, a Great Emperor who had been trapped there in a grotesquely altered form. He revealed that he had built Black Demon City with Black Demons and was a descendant of Empress Linglong, but he knew nothing about the Ancient Chaos Graveyard’s changes.

• Jun Yi warned Ji Zining that the voice in the hall belonged to an abnormal Great Emperor, but the hall cut off their connection when she entered.
• Ji Zining questioned the figure, who identified himself as the Light Emperor Venerable and turned around to reveal his hideously altered face.
• The Light Emperor Venerable said he could not leave the hall or kill himself and had summoned Ji Zining because of her Exquisite Immortal Physique.
• He explained that he built Black Demon City by assimilating the local Black Demons with light, while the building on Ji Zining’s head had been there before he awoke.
• The Light Emperor Venerable said It had infected the Great Emperors who self-destructed, leaving them unable to live or die, and revealed that he was descended from Empress Linglong.

Ji Zining learned from the Light Emperor Venerable that Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard occupied opposite sides of a two-sided world whose spaces had switched. The Light Emperor Venerable gave her his inheritance in the Light Seed and urged her to leave before her friends entered Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining believed the Light Emperor Venerable's account of being cursed after joining the final battle against it, then questioned his claim of descent from Empress Linglong.
• The Light Emperor Venerable showed Ji Zining the mixed immortal spirit Qi of the Exquisite Immortal Physique and explained that Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard had always existed on opposite sides of the same location.
• Ji Zining realized the two spaces had switched places, explaining the changes in the Ancient Chaos Graveyard.
• The Light Emperor Venerable gave Ji Zining the Light Seed containing his inheritance and cautioned her that its condition might be affected by his state.
• The Light Emperor Venerable warned that Ji Zining's friends were about to enter Black Demon City and told her to leave before the Black Demons swarmed them.

Ji Zining left Black Demon City and stopped Xiao Jing and the others before they could trigger an attack, then explained the city’s rules and her discoveries. After revealing the Abyssal Spirit Hall and the Light Emperor Venerable’s story, she left them stunned by the truth about Black Demon City and the two-sided world.

• Ji Zining asked the Light Emperor Venerable whether he could leave or regain his appearance, then departed after learning he could do neither.
• Ji Zining hurried back to Black Demon City and found Xiao Jing and the others entering, then led them outside before they provoked the Black Demons.
• Ji Zining explained that Black Demons and demonic Qi would leave them alone unless they showed hostility, and Xiao Jing and the others realized how close they had come to being surrounded.
• Ji Zining showed Xiao Jing and the others the Abyssal Spirit Hall and told them it could restore a dispersed divine soul and housed a Great Emperor’s soul.
• Ji Zining recounted the Light Emperor Venerable’s account of Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, leaving Xiao Jing and the others shocked that the world had been inverted into two sides.

Ji Zining and her companions realized they were in a parallel world and decided to find the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard. They broke through an overlapping space in the forest and entered the other world.

• Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, and the others concluded that they had crossed into a parallel world after passing the Yin Spirit commander.
• Ji Zining realized that the group had spent most of their time in the Martial Emperor Secret Realm and asked whether they should keep exploring or leave.
• Lin Shan suggested visiting the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard, and Ji Zining agreed.
• Ji Zining sensed a passage to the other world and led the group to the forest where they had found the giant Black Demon egg.
• Xiao Jing recognized that the unusually stable space around the egg marked an overlap between the two worlds.
• Xiao Jing and the others broke open the overlapping space, and Ji Zining led them through the breach into the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard.

Ji Zining and her companions reached the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard and began climbing the grave-covered mountain toward the great tomb. They left Qing Tan behind when the mountain’s intense Yin Cold Qi became too much for her, then continued toward the summit.

• Ji Zining found a passage from the empty void into the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard, and Li Chang'an recognized its Yin Baleful Qi.
• Li Chang'an identified the mountain’s peak as the entrance to the great tomb, while Xiao Jing and the others cleared a path through attacking Yin Spirits.
• The party reached the mountain, where the Yin Spirits refused to approach, and Ji Zining led everyone up on foot because a formation prevented flight.
• Li Chang'an realized the mountain differed from his previous visit because powerful Yin Cold Qi filled it.
• Qing Tan struggled with the worsening cold and, with Ji Zining’s permission, returned to wait near the mountain’s foot.
• Ji Zining and the others continued climbing toward the summit and the great tomb entrance.

Ji Zining and her companions reached the summit of the Ancient Chaos Graveyard and entered a side hall, where her check-in rewarded her with the Immortal-Gazing Art. After using it to identify the only safe exit, Ji Zining led the group toward the left-hand doorway.

• Ji Zining and her companions reached the summit, where Li Chang'an led them to a stone platform that teleported them into a side hall.
• Ji Zining checked in before the others arrived and received the Immortal-Gazing Art, which let her observe the fortune and past paths of living beings and the dead.
• Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, Qingshuang, and Li Chang'an joined Ji Zining in the hall, where Li Chang'an recalled receiving a Sword Dao inheritance from a figure that had emerged from the coffin.
• Ji Zining used the Immortal-Gazing Art on the coffin and learned that only one of the four doorways was safe.
• Ji Zining identified the left doorway as the life gate and led Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, Qingshuang, and Li Chang'an toward it.