Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie accepted the Human Alliance's terms for the Lord of Rats' remains and claimed Rat God Star, then sent his Tree Ghost Warriors to attack Sky Rat Palace. With Yun Zhaoming's help, the Tree Ghost Legion defeated the Rat God Guard commander, while Rat God Clan chancellor Shu Yiheng offered to surrender.

• He Zhen explained the dangers of making weapons from too much of an Evil God's remains, and Yang Lie agreed to trade for Evil God Forbidden Objects and complete eighth- and ninth-order Dragon Species corpses.
• Yang Lie claimed Rat God Star and sent his Tree Ghost Warriors through a Dimensional Door to attack Sky Rat Palace.
• The Tree Ghost Warriors clashed with the million-strong Rat God Guard as the Tenth Order Tree Ghost fought their commander.
• Yun Zhaoming struck the commander with spider threads while the Tenth Order Tree Ghost distracted him, allowing vines to kill him.
• Shu Yiheng, the Rat God Clan's chancellor, offered to surrender and help Yang Lie take control of the world, but the Rat God Guard continued fighting.

Yang Lie rejected Shu Yiheng’s surrender and led the Tree Ghost army to exterminate the Rat God Guard and seize the Sky Rat Palace. He chose to develop Rat God Star as his private planet, then continued battling the spreading rat plague as Yun Shishi and Yuwen Liuli arrived with reinforcements.

• Yang Lie refused Shu Yiheng’s surrender and used Tree Ghosts to slaughter the fleeing Rat Demons; Shu Yiheng was killed while trying to escape.
• After a day of fighting, Yang Lie’s forces exterminated the Rat God Guard and the Rat Demons in the Sky Rat Palace.
• Yang Lie told Yun Zhaoming he would make Rat God Star a private planet and move his industries there, and Yun Zhaoming promised the Yun Family’s support.
• Yang Lie’s Tree Ghost army swept across Rat God Star, destroyed humanoid breeding farms, and fought the Rat Demons as they spread across the planet.
• Yun Shishi arrived with a division of Yun Family elites to help stabilize the planet, and Yuwen Liuli arrived with one hundred thousand soldiers.
• Yang Lie directed Yuwen Liuli’s forces to land on the Rat-infested Third Continent.

Yang Lie’s forces rapidly suppressed the Rat Demon Race on Rat God Star while he reached Martial Saint Ninth Heaven. He then learned that a newly visible planet in the Yin Yuan Star System had drawn the Evil Gods and killed Martial God Luo Haoran, and he decided to investigate it.

• Yun Shishi and Yuwen Liuli led armies to land on separate continents of Rat God Star, while Yang Lie sent Tree Ghosts to support them.
• Zhao Meixian, Xiao Zitong, Nangong Hui, and the others arrived with more Tree Ghost armies, and Yang Lie’s forces compressed the Rat Demon Race’s territory.
• Yang Lie chose to preserve the Lord of Rats’ sealed corpse and used ninth-rank Extraordinary Source Fruits to advance to Martial Saint Ninth Heaven.
• Xiao Zitong told Yang Lie that Vice-Principal He urgently wanted to speak with him, and Yang Lie contacted He Zhen.
• He Zhen told Yang Lie that Evil Gods were converging on a newly visible planet in the Yin Yuan Star System, where Martial God Luo Haoran had died.
• Yang Lie decided to take a close look at the mysterious planet.

Yang Lie entered the mysterious planet through the Dimensional Door and discovered that it restricted outsiders’ powers and rejected technology. Meanwhile, Tianji Zi warned Gongyang Yingnan that an Extraterrestrial Demon had disrupted fate and sent her to hunt a Blood Demon.

• Yang Lie inspected the evil gods’ nest from Kane’s warship and declined Boreas’s offer to sell access, saying his own Lord had the means to enter.
• Yang Lie returned to Rat God Star, opened the Dimensional Door, and sent an avatar into the mysterious planet to test its conditions.
• Yang Lie found that the planet had extreme gravity, weakened his connection to the power of heaven and earth, dissolved a summoned mech, and sealed a Ninth Order Tree Ghost at the Transcendence Eighth Order.
• Tianji Zi told Gongyang Yingnan that an Extraterrestrial Demon had thrown the heavenly secrets into chaos and endangered her fate.
• Tianji Zi gave Gongyang Yingnan the Sky Rainbow Sword and sent her south to slay a Blood Demon.

Yang Lie rescued Qi Mingwei and his family from Mu Chengli, a Ghost Yin Sect expert who tried to take Qi Lingxian. After killing Mu Chengli, Yang Lie learned from his memories that this world's ancient martial cultivation system closely resembled the Human Alliance's.

• Yang Lie refused Lu Ziming's offer of silver and stayed in the ruined temple as Qi Mingwei's convoy arrived.
• Mu Chengli entered the temple, demanded that Qi Mingwei surrender Qi Lingxian, and attacked Lu Ziming and the guards when Qi Mingwei refused.
• Yang Lie struck Mu Chengli with Saint Dragon Sword Qi, killing him instantly.
• Yang Lie gave Qi Mingwei his real name and claimed his sect had no fear of the Ghost Yin Sect.
• Yang Lie dragged Mu Chengli's corpse outside and used the Box of Oddities to read his memories, discovering the ancient martial system's resemblance to the Human Alliance's martial arts.

After learning more about the world, Yang Lie accepted Qi Lingxian as his disciple and offered to teach her parents as well. Daoist Kong Chi then invited Yang Lie to join him in hunting a Blood Demon in Yellow Banner Prefecture.

• Yang Lie learned from Mu Chengli's memories that Human Immortals were rare and that Sky Yin Hook could harm even Martial Saints.
• Yang Lie asked Qi Lingxian to become his disciple, and she accepted after her parents urged her to agree.
• Yang Lie offered to teach Qi Mingwei and Wang Ningshuang his sect's martial arts, and they gratefully accepted.
• Daoist Kong Chi of Sky View Mountain arrived and asked to take Qi Lingxian as his disciple, but Yang Lie's Martial Saint aura made him withdraw.
• Daoist Kong Chi told Yang Lie about a Blood Demon terrorizing Yellow Banner Prefecture and invited him to join the hunt.

Yang Lie taught Qi Lingxian martial arts as they traveled toward Yellow Banner Prefecture, where they sought help investigating the Blood Demon. The prefect assigned Constable Liu Minghe to assist their hunt.

• Yang Lie taught Qi Lingxian the Primal Chaos Art and Ten Dragon Divine Art, then gave her secret medicine that accelerated her cultivation.
• Yang Lie, Qi Lingxian, Qi Mingwei, and Wang Ningshuang set out for Yellow Banner Prefecture, where Qi Mingwei would take up his post as county magistrate.
• As they traveled, Qi Lingxian advanced rapidly in cultivation under Yang Lie's guidance and with his Extraordinary Creature Source Fruit juice.
• Prefect Fu Tianyi learned that the Blood Demon had killed more than a thousand people across Yellow Banner Prefecture and welcomed Daoist Kong Chi and Yang Lie's group.
• Yang Lie asked Fu Tianyi for help destroying the Blood Demon, and Fu assigned Constable Liu Minghe to assist them.

Yang Lie tracked the Blood Demon to Zhao Tongzhi’s residence, where he exposed its Blood Slaves and a Blood Clan expert. Gongyang Yingnan joined the fight and wounded the expert, who healed and counterattacked her.

• Liu Minghe told Yang Lie that the Blood Demon had drained young women and killed Iron Blood Spear King Lei, while White Dragon Guard Thousand Household Fang Jin had disappeared.
• Yang Lie used the Blood Dragon Transformation to trace a blood thread from a corpse to Zhao Tongzhi’s residence.
• Yang Lie broke into the residence and attacked Zhao Wuji and the guards, identifying them as Blood Slaves, but Gongyang Yingnan blocked his sword qi.
• Yang Lie struck a building and revealed a Blood Clan expert, who attacked him and Gongyang Yingnan.
• Gongyang Yingnan severed the Blood Clan expert’s right arm with the Sky Rainbow Sword, but he quickly healed and launched blood arrows at her.

Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan killed a powerful Blood Clan expert and learned that the Blood Demon calamity extended beyond Yellow Banner Prefecture. Gongyang Yingnan invited Yang Lie to join her in hunting the Blood Demons, while Daoist Kong Chi departed to aid the Great Cloud Empire against the Great Wei Empire.

• The Blood Clan expert fled Gongyang Yingnan, but Yang Lie intercepted him and fought him while Gongyang Yingnan struck with the Sky Rainbow Sword.
• Gongyang Yingnan pierced the expert’s hand, and Yang Lie shattered his heart; the wounded expert unleashed a secret art and attacked them with blood arrows.
• Yang Lie used thirty-six treants to shield himself, and their vines drained the Blood Clan expert’s blood essence until he died, causing Zhao Wuji and the other Blood Slaves to die as well.
• Yang Lie realized that killing the expert had weakened the shackles on his strength, and Gongyang Yingnan apologized and asked him to help eliminate the Blood Demons in King Zhao’s territory.
• Daoist Kong Chi told Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan that Shen Chengxian had attacked Crimson Sunset Province and left to aid the Great Cloud Empire; Gongyang Yingnan said she would go there after hunting the Blood Demons.
• Yang Lie sent Liu Minghe to report the Blood Demons’ defeat to Prefect Fu, and Liu Minghe brought constables to handle the aftermath.

Yang Lie used the Blood Clan expert Duke Salen’s memories to learn that Prince Moluodo was hiding in King Zhao’s Residence, then consumed an eighth-rank Extraordinary Life Essence Fruit and advanced to Great Martial Saint. After King Zhao refused to meet them, Yang Lie warned his companions about poison, and the three came under attack at their inn.

• Yang Lie read Duke Salen’s memories, learned that Prince Moluodo was hiding in King Zhao’s Residence, and fed Salen’s corpse to a tenth-rank Blood Clan Extraordinary Creature Source Fruit.
• Yang Lie drank the juice of an eighth-rank Extraordinary Life Essence Fruit and advanced to Great Martial Saint, drawing congratulations from Qi Lingxian and Gongyang Yingnan.
• Gongyang Yingnan sought an audience with King Zhao, but his gatekeeper said the King was unwell and could not receive them.
• Yang Lie told Qi Lingxian and Gongyang Yingnan to avoid outside food and water because he suspected someone would try to poison them.
• Yang Lie exposed an inn waiter as an assassin, killed him, and blocked a surprise sword-qi attack from beneath the inn while Gongyang Yingnan fought back and Qi Lingxian saw nine black-clad swordsmen below.

Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan escaped a trap involving assassins and corrupt constables, then secretly followed their pursuers into King Zhao's Mansion. There, they discovered that King Zhao was allied with Prince Moluodo, who was helping the Extraterrestrial Evil God Mother of Spirit Blood prepare to enter the world.

• Yang Lie killed the nine black-clad swordsmen, and Fu Shuang arrived with constables who tried to arrest the group and seize their weapons.
• Yang Lie killed four constables who lunged at him, then warned Gongyang Yingnan that Fu Shuang's men had been sent to exploit her sense of justice.
• Fu Shuang and the remaining constables pretended to faint, allowing Yang Lie, Gongyang Yingnan, and their companion to leave the inn.
• Yang Lie concealed their group in a deserted alley, where they overheard Nie Long's experts report that the fugitives had disappeared.
• Yang Lie and his companions followed Nie Long's group into King Zhao's Mansion without being detected.
• King Zhao worried that Immortal Opportunity Cliff had found him, while Prince Moluodo assured him that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Mother of Spirit Blood would break through the world's barrier.

Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan confronted King Zhao, who had become a Blood Clan immortal under Prince Moluodo. Prince Moluodo unleashed an overwhelming forbidden object, forcing Yang Lie to protect himself and Qi Lingxian and prepare to flee.

• Yang Lie and his companions appeared before King Zhao, and Yang Lie blasted his head apart with Saint Dragon Sword Qi, but King Zhao regenerated.
• Gongyang Yingnan attacked King Zhao, and Prince Moluodo intervened, only for her sword to sever his arm before it regenerated.
• Prince Moluodo summoned twenty eighth-order blood demon monsters, while Yang Lie countered with thirty eighth-order treants and attacked Prince Moluodo as a Great Martial Saint.
• Prince Moluodo opened the Box of Blood Sea, whose blood domain overwhelmed the treants and swallowed Yang Lie's sword attack.
• Yang Lie used the Box of Oddities to shield himself and Qi Lingxian as he realized Prince Moluodo's forbidden object was too powerful to withstand.

Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan killed Prince Moluodo and King Zhao, while a failed attempt by the Mother of Spirit Blood to enter the world revealed that powerful beings were guarding it. Gongyang Yingnan asked Yang Lie to join her in supporting the Great Cloud Empire's army in Crimson Sunset Province.

• Gongyang Yingnan broke through to become a Great Martial Saint and severed Prince Moluodo's hand and the Box of Blood Sea with the Sky Rainbow Sword.
• Yang Lie and Gongyang Yingnan wounded Prince Moluodo, and Yang Lie drained him to death with the Wood Dragon Transformation.
• Yang Lie killed King Zhao and the deathsworn who charged him, while Nie Long and the other mansion experts fled.
• Yang Lie used the Box of Oddities to read the memories of King Zhao and Prince Moluodo, then took the Box of Blood Sea.
• The Mother of Spirit Blood's demonic eye was shredded by invisible chains, and a green gourd collected the fallen flesh containing evil god power.
• Gongyang Yingnan asked Yang Lie to travel with her to Crimson Sunset Province to support the Great Cloud Empire's army against the Heavenly Devil Holy Church.

Yang Lie armed and trained Qi Lingxian before traveling with her to Crimson Sunset Province, where the Great Cloud Empire faced the Great Wei Empire. He reached Great Martial Saint Third Heaven, then chose to stay hidden until the Great Wei Empire was close to defeat.

• Yang Lie let Gongyang Yingnan travel ahead, then looted King Zhao’s secret treasury with Qi Lingxian.
• Qi Lingxian awakened the Crimson Spirit Sword, and Yang Lie gave her nine strands of True Dragon Source Qi to help her cultivate a Grade One Martial Dao Golden Core.
• Yang Lie purified and consumed Source Fruits from the treasury and Blood Clan foes, breaking through to Great Martial Saint Third Heaven.
• Yang Lie and Qi Lingxian reached the Red Glow Plains and saw the Great Cloud and Great Wei armies facing off.
• Yang Lie warned Qi Lingxian about the Heavenly Devil Holy Church’s strength and decided to wait until the Great Wei Empire was near defeat before helping.

Yang Lie and Qi Lingxian watched the Great Wei Empire’s Black Demon Soldiers and the Great Cloud Empire’s Yellow Dragon Soldiers deploy powerful formations before the two armies withdrew without fighting. Yang Lie then offered Duke Mingshan his help as a Direct Disciple of Beyond Immortal Pavilion, and Duke Mingshan welcomed him.

• Yang Lie explained the Black Demon Soldiers’ strength and watched Shen Chengxian use ten bronze pillars to form the Eight Desolations Ten Demons Heaven Severing Grand Array.
• Duke Mingshan deployed the Yellow Dragon Soldiers and their Ten Directions Yellow Dragon Heaven Suppression Grand Array, then traded threats with Shen Chengxian as the armies remained deadlocked.
• Shen Chengxian and Duke Mingshan withdrew into their respective mists, and both armies returned to camp.
• Yang Lie decided Duke Mingshan was worth helping and brought Qi Lingxian to the Great Cloud Empire’s camp.
• Yang Lie introduced himself as a Direct Disciple of Beyond Immortal Pavilion, and Duke Mingshan welcomed his aid alongside Daoist Kong Chi and Gongyang Yingnan.

Yang Lie faced Huangpu Qingfeng’s challenge to defend Beyond Immortal Pavilion’s honor and defeated him in a sparring match. Huangpu accepted the loss but insisted Extremity Heaven Sect still had many experts who could surpass Yang Lie.

• Duke Mingshan introduced Yang Lie to four other holy land disciples: Kou Feng, Monk Yuan Kong, Ning Yingqiong, and Huangpu Qingfeng.
• Huangpu Qingfeng questioned Yang Lie’s identity, and both men refused to back down, so Gongyang Yingnan arranged a sparring match with rules against killing.
• Huangpu Qingfeng used Extremity Heaven Seven Transformations to attack Yang Lie, but Yang Lie blinded him with Radiant Dragon Transformation and trapped him in a Storm.
• Huangpu escaped into the void with Void Transformation, but Yang Lie used Void Dragon Transformation to seal the space, force him out, and defeat him with a kick.
• Gongyang Yingnan declared Yang Lie the winner, and Yang Lie urged respect between Beyond Immortal Pavilion and Extremity Heaven Sect.

Yang Lie volunteered to intercept Huyan Wei, the Heavenly Devil Holy Church Protector transporting provisions to the Great Wei Empire, and killed him after an ambush turned into a direct battle. He took Huyan Wei’s Void Whale Pouch and discovered intelligence about the Great Wei Empire’s treasury.

• Yang Lie offered to intercept Huyan Wei, and Duke Mingshan told him where he would travel.
• Yang Lie and Qi Lingxian crossed the mountains into Great Wei Empire territory and waited for Huyan Wei.
• Huyan Wei attacked Yang Lie with the Universe White Bone Soul Snatching Claw, but Yang Lie’s Saint Dragon Sword Qi struck him down.
• Yang Lie used the Box of Oddities to read Huyan Wei’s memories and learned the location of the Great Wei Empire’s treasury.
• Yang Lie took Huyan Wei’s Void Whale Pouch, finding provisions for the army and several dozen demonic artifacts.

Yang Lie looted the Great Wei Empire Royal Treasury after using Tree Ghost Warriors to draw the palace’s defenders away. He escaped through a Dimensional Door before the empire’s Great Martial Saints could catch him, leaving the treasury empty and his trail lost.

• Yang Lie released Tree Ghost Warriors to attack the palace and draw its experts away from the Royal Treasury.
• Yang Lie ambushed and killed Tuo Ba Lihen, then used the Box of Blood Sea to overwhelm the treasury’s defenders and kill the Black Demon Soldiers.
• Yang Lie broke into the Royal Treasury and used Wind Dragon Transformation to send all its treasures into his Small World.
• Yang Lie escaped through a Dimensional Door as eleven Great Martial Saints approached the treasury.
• Ji Fangyan ordered Li Dong to track Yang Lie, but Li Dong’s Lamp Flame Search Technique failed to find him.

Yang Lie returned Huyan Wei’s Void Whale Pouch to Duke Mingshan, while Shen Chengxian withdrew after losing his supplies. Duke Mingshan refused to pursue the retreating Great Wei army, and Shen Chengxian eventually abandoned his ambush and returned home.

• Yang Lie gave Duke Mingshan Huyan Wei’s Void Whale Pouch and declined to claim he could break Shen Chengxian’s formation.
• Shen Chengxian ordered the Great Wei Empire army to withdraw after learning its provisions had been intercepted.
• Huangpu Qingfeng and the Great Cloud generals urged Duke Mingshan to pursue, but he ordered the army to hold its position.
• Shen Chengxian concealed Black Demon Soldiers in ambush, expecting Duke Mingshan to chase the retreating army, but Duke Mingshan stayed in camp and sent out scouts.
• After two months of waiting, Shen Chengxian led his army back to the Great Wei Empire.

After the battle, Yang Lie accepted Duke Mingshan’s invitation to Cloud Capital City and agreed to serve the Great Cloud Empire as Deputy Commander of the Cloud Dragon Guard so he could pursue demons more effectively. His uncompromising conduct at court unsettled the emperor, who told Duke Mingshan to befriend him and hoped his motives were truly limited to fighting evil.

• Huangpu Qingfeng, Kou Feng, Ning Yingqiong, Gongyang Yingnan, and Monk Yuan Kong declined Duke Mingshan’s invitation and left, while Yang Lie agreed to accompany him to Cloud Capital City.
• Duke Mingshan introduced Yang Lie and Qi Lingxian to his wife, Lin Minglan, then offered Yang Lie an official post; Yang Lie asked to join the Cloud Dragon Guard instead.
• Duke Mingshan secured an imperial edict appointing Yang Lie Deputy Commander of the Cloud Dragon Guard.
• At court, Yang Lie refused to kneel before Li Renxin and intimidated Cao Feng with his Great Martial Saint pressure; Li Renxin permitted him to use a cupped-fist salute, and Cao Feng apologized.
• After the court session, Li Renxin called Yang Lie unruly and ordered Duke Mingshan to befriend him, while expressing hope that Yang Lie truly intended only to fight evil.