Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie stole an immortal’s remains after defeating a Dark Elf assassin, then witnessed the Evil Gods launch a full invasion of the Central Great World. A dazzling pillar of light appeared in Ancient Spirit Continent, drawing Yang Lie and countless other forces toward it as Blood Clan Warships approached.

• A peak Great Martial Saint Dark Elf ambushed Yang Lie with the Shadow Serpent Fang Dagger, but he blinded and dismembered her, forcing her to escape with a strange doll’s aid.
• Yang Lie took the dragon-headed immortal’s remains, which his Small World absorbed to produce a twelfth-tier Dragon Species Extraordinary Creature Source Fruit, then vanished with Qi Lingxian.
• Huyan Baixian and Long Yuxian arrived to find the remains gone and resumed fighting over the lost prize.
• Yang Lie saw Evil Gods tear open the sky and send Blood Clan Warships, insect hives, and Holy Dark Fortresses into the Central Great World.
• At Heavenly Mystery Cliff, Tianji Zi declared that the great calamity had begun as monsters poured from the sky and darkness covered Ancient Spirit Continent.
• A brilliant pillar of light rose from Ancient Spirit Continent, and Yang Lie, countless powerful beings, and over a hundred Blood Clan Warships headed toward it.

Yang Lie and the Central Great World experts discovered a Spring of Life guarded by a powerful immortal skeleton whose sword intent killed anyone who approached. As Huyan Baixian revealed that the sword intent was weakening, the gathered experts attacked the arriving Blood Clan and began feeding their soldiers to the skeleton’s defenses.

• Yang Lie reached the Spring of Life, saw the Jade Skeleton and its lingering sword intent kill a Ninth Order Wyvern, and told Qi Lingxian to hide.
• Ning Yingqiong, Long Yuxian, Huyan Baixian, Kou Feng, Huangpu Qingfeng, Monk Yuan Kong, and thousands of experts arrived, but the skeleton’s sword intent killed the Great Martial Saints who tried to seize the treasure.
• Huyan Baixian observed that each sword strike weakened the skeleton’s sword intent, and Long Yuxian said the arriving Blood Clan would provide the materials needed to wear it down.
• Blood Clan warships lost their power and crashed, while Ning Yingqiong and the Central Great World experts attacked the Blood Clan forces.
• Yang Lie chose to fight, and the Central Great World martial artists captured Blood Clan soldiers and threw them toward the Spring of Life, where the skeleton’s sword qi cut them down.

Yang Lie assassinated Blood Clan Grand Duke Daleili and Prince Enda Tais, then survived the Blood Clan Marquises’ counterattack and turned against their forces. The surviving Marquises fled as Yang Lie and his allies attacked the Blood Clan army, leaving the vampires surrounded by the Tree Ghost Warriors’ Wood Domain.

• Daleili killed a Martial Saint with his blood bow, but Yang Lie ambushed and killed Daleili, taking his corpse and bow.
• Yang Lie appeared behind Enda Tais and killed him with the Immortal Bone Staff, though Enda Tais struck Yang Lie in the head before dying.
• The ten Blood Clan Marquises unleashed a formation attack that wounded Yang Lie, but his immortal body healed him and he vanished with the Void Necklace.
• Yang Lie reappeared behind a Blood Clan Marquis and killed him, throwing the Marquis’s ten thousand vampire soldiers into chaos.
• The surviving Marquises ordered a retreat while Ning Yingqiong, Huyan Baixian, and Long Yuxian killed Blood Clan elites.
• Yang Lie released ten thousand Tree Ghost Warriors, whose Wood Domain trapped the fleeing vampires within a hundred-mile area.

Yang Lie and his allies killed the Blood Clan forces, then claimed the Spring of Life and Sword Immortal Legacy while the surviving martial experts challenged them. When Golden Eagle Mountain and Dragon Head Mountain attacked, Yang Lie killed Dragon Head Mountain’s Martial God Long Yuxiang, and the battle continued as Long Yuxian cut through the Wood Domain.

• Yang Lie realized he had gathered enough external merit to break his shackles and advance to Great Martial God in the Central Great World, while seven hidden Martial God protectors joined the fighting.
• The martial experts watched as the sword intent around the Sword Immortal’s corpse weakened with each Blood Clan powerhouse it killed, then turned their attention to Yang Lie and his Tree Ghost Warriors.
• Yang Lie demanded that the survivors leave the Spring of Life and Sword Immortal Legacy to Beyond Immortal Pavilion, but a Martial Saint refused and Huyan Fei attacked Yang Lie’s sword qi.
• Yang Lie’s Tree Ghost Warriors trapped Huyan Fei, Huyan Baixian, and the defiant Martial Saint in the Wood Domain, while Long Yuxiang intervened with Dragon Flame.
• Yang Lie ambushed and killed Long Yuxiang with the Human Immortal Bone Staff, then vanished before Huyan Fei could strike back.
• Huyan Fei cursed Yang Lie as Long Yuxian used the Dragon Spirit Sword to cut an opening through the Wood Domain.

Yang Lie killed Long Yuxian and Huyan Fei during the battle in the Wood Domain, taking their weapons and corpses into his Small World. As Huyan Baixian tried to escape, Yu Wushuang intervened, and Yang Lie attacked him.

• Yang Lie knocked away the Dragon Spirit Sword, killed Long Yuxian, and stored his corpse and sword in the Small World.
• Yang Lie refused Huyan Fei’s demands to surrender, then killed Huyan Fei and took the Golden Wolf Immortal Slaying Blade.
• Huyan Baixian used a burst of saber light to break through the Wood Domain and flee.
• Yang Lie pursued Huyan Baixian, but Yu Wushuang stepped in and asked him to spare the young master of Golden Eagle Mountain.
• Yang Lie attacked Yu Wushuang, who defended himself with the Sky Ring Sword Art.

Yang Lie killed Yu Wushuang and Huyan Baixian, driving the other martial artists to flee. He weakened the Sword Immortal’s sword intent, obtained the remains and discovered the Profound Heaven Sword Scripture, which he believed Ling Xian could cultivate.

• Yang Lie killed Yu Wushuang, and Fang Butong, Huangpu Qingfeng, Kou Feng, Master Fa Yan, and the other onlookers fled rather than confront him.
• Yang Lie stopped Huyan Baixian’s escape talisman and killed him after Master Fa Yan refused to intervene.
• Yang Lie sent millions of Tree Ghost Warriors to attack the Sword Immortal’s remains, weakening the sword intent while a Dark Elf woman escaped after he wounded her.
• Yang Lie stored the Sword Immortal’s remains in his Small World and retrieved a golden book that revealed the Profound Heaven Sword Scripture.
• Yang Lie learned that the scripture required a Lifebound Immortal Sword and concluded that Ling Xian could cultivate it.

Yang Lie absorbed the Spring of Life, claimed a Sword Embryo, and watched Qi Lingxian advance to Martial Saint before they parted. Back at the Dragon God Palace, he used powerful Source Fruits to reach the seventh level of Great Martial God and began cultivating the Profound Heaven Sword Scripture, leaving his Sword Embryo transforming within him.

• Yang Lie collected the Spring of Life and found a jade Sword Embryo beneath its source, then refined the embryo into his body as his Lifebound Immortal Sword.
• Yang Lie gave half the Spring of Life to Qi Lingxian, who drank it and broke through to Martial Saint while he stood guard.
• Yang Lie and Qi Lingxian agreed to part ways; he returned to the Dragon God Palace through a Dimensional Door to cultivate.
• Yang Lie swallowed the Ten Thousand Bones Devil Sword's Source Fruit, suppressed its mutating effects, and advanced to the second level of Great Martial God.
• Yang Lie refined the Dragon Spirit Sword's Source Fruit and reached the seventh level of Great Martial God.
• Yang Lie chose the Profound Heaven Sword Scripture and fed the Golden Wolf Immortal Slaying Blade's Source Fruit power into his Sword Embryo, beginning its transformation into an immortal sword.

Demon Spirit Crow Emperor led an assault on Angelie City, where Gold Dragon King Antonio and the Human Alliance forces fought to stop the Black Crow Demons. After Demon Spirit Crow Emperor ambushed and killed Antonio, it engulfed the city in darkness and stole the souls of its inhabitants.

• Officer Endett identified the Black Crow Demons attacking Angelie City and ordered the city's anti-aircraft guns to fire.
• A giant black crow descended and spread darkness through Angelie City, while Endett requested help from Gold Dragon King Antonio.
• Antonio arrived in the Golden Dragon King mech, destroyed the giant crow, and led the Golden Dragon Mecha Legion against the Black Crow Demons.
• The Black Crow Prince confronted Antonio, but Antonio's Golden Dragon Flame drove it back until it trapped him in a domain of dark crow feathers.
• Demon Spirit Crow Emperor revealed its true power, pierced Antonio and his mech, and dismissed Antonio's accusation of a sneak attack.
• Demon Spirit Crow Emperor unleashed Darkness Descends, draining every soul in Angelie City before the Black Crow Demons entered to devour the corpses.

Yang Lie condensed his Lifebound Immortal Sword and was summoned to a Martial God Roundtable meeting after the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor killed Antonio. As the Martial Gods discussed hiring the King of Anomalies to fight the Emperor, Toke revealed himself as the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor and ambushed Yang Lie, who counterattacked with his sword.

• Yang Lie drank the Spring of Life and successfully condensed his Lifebound Immortal Sword, then left seclusion after Yun Shishi alerted him to Thor's request for a Martial God Roundtable meeting.
• At the meeting, Yang Lie learned that the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor had killed Antonio and agreed to help defeat It in exchange for a greater share of the spoils and one hundred trillion Alliance Coins.
• Toke revealed himself as the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor and slashed at Yang Lie, cutting deeply into his neck despite the protection of the Profound Gold Kasaya.
• Yang Lie activated Vajra Dragon Transformation and launched his Lifebound Immortal Sword, Profound Dragon Sword, at the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor, which raised a dark barrier after sensing danger.

Yang Lie and the Human Alliance’s Martial Gods fought the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor using forbidden items and sealing boxes. After the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor offered to protect the alliance, Yang Lie rejected the offer and continued sealing Its remains in his Small World.

• Yang Lie pierced the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor’s head with the Profound Dragon Sword, then vanished using the Null Necklace.
• The Demon Spirit Crow Emperor sent crow-feather demons after the Human Alliance’s Martial Gods and attacked Qin Luoyan, who trapped part of Its soul in the Two-Realm Soul-Eating Mirror.
• Yang Lie dismembered the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor and sealed Its remains, while the strain of using the mirror aged Qin Luoyan; the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor killed Qin Luoyan and Luo Haoran.
• Kane bound the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor with the Chain of Fairness, and Yang Lie struck Its body apart again and stored the sealed pieces in his Small World.
• Yang Lie’s Small World consumed the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor’s soul and power, but Yang Lie rejected Its offer to protect the Human Alliance and kept sealing Its remaining body.

Yang Lie killed the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor and saved Kane from his fatal corruption with a rare spiritual medicine. He then revealed his Great Martial God cultivation and offered the Human Alliance a martial arts inheritance in exchange for its remaining Evil God-grade equipment and Forbidden Objects.

• Yang Lie's Central Divine Tree destroyed the Demon Spirit Crow Emperor, causing the Black Crow Demons to collapse.
• Kane revealed that his source had been damaged and asked his companions to look after his family as he prepared to die.
• Yang Lie gave Kane a bottle of spiritual medicine containing Ninth Order Transcendent source power, and Su Caiyun helped remove the remaining Evil God Power.
• Su Caiyun stabilized Kane's condition and said he would need a year of treatment to recover.
• Yang Lie told the Martial Gods that he had reached the Great Martial God Realm and possessed an inheritance leading to the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Yang Lie offered to share the inheritance with the Human Alliance in exchange for its remaining Evil God-grade mecha, bio-armor, and Forbidden Objects.

Yang Lie won the Martial Gods’ approval to share the Ander Unmoving Fundamental Scripture and traded rare spiritual medicines for monster corpses. Kane used the medicine and Su Caiyun’s secret art to purge his contamination, leaving him fully healed.

• Kane supported using the Alliance’s mechas, bio-armor, and forbidden objects to strengthen its Martial Gods, and the group authorized Yang Lie to share his cultivation method.
• Yang Lie presented the Ander Unmoving Fundamental Scripture, and the Martial Gods studied its path to Golden Immortal cultivation.
• He Zhen proposed that Yang Lie meet He Qingqing, then arranged for her to join Dragon God Palace as a secretary after Yang Lie declined to pursue the match.
• Yang Lie offered spiritual medicine in exchange for Transcendence Tenth and Eleventh Order monster corpses, and the Martial Gods eagerly completed trades.
• Kane swallowed the medicine and asked Su Caiyun to purge his contamination; after half an hour, he spat out black crow feathers and declared himself completely healed.

Yang Lie cultivated with the Human Alliance’s Source Fruits and decided he needed to hunt enemies and refine the Profound Dragon Sword to advance further. When Dark Eagle infiltrated Yang Mansion to assassinate him, Yang Lie killed him with the sword and began reading his memories.

• Kane and the other Martial Gods discussed hunting Starry Sky Giant Beasts for Life Essence Spiritual Medicine.
• Yang Lie consumed the Human Alliance’s matured Extraordinary Twelfth-Rank Source Fruits and strengthened his Profound Dragon Sword, though he still needed time to reach Human Immortal Status.
• Dark Eagle entered Yang Mansion to assassinate Yang Lie, but the Tree Ghost Warriors detected him and warned Qi Lingxian, who hid in a spatial rift.
• Yang Lie emerged from seclusion and destroyed Dark Eagle’s shadow blades with Saint Dragon Sword Qi.
• Yang Lie killed Dark Eagle with the Profound Dragon Sword and used the Box of Oddities to read his memories.

Yang Lie killed a Great Martial God assassin from Golden Eagle Mountain, then survived an attempt by Shen Lan'er, the Heavenly Devil Holy Church's Saintess, to kill him in the imperial palace. After agreeing to support the front against the Blood Demon Clan, he learned that most of Chen Province had fallen and prepared to fight through the Blood Demons.

• Yang Lie searched Dark Eagle's memories and learned about Golden Eagle Mountain and its Eagle God Transformation art, then dismissed Yan Feilong's apology for arriving too late to help.
• Li Renxin summoned Yang Lie to the palace, where Shen Lan'er attacked him while disguised as a young eunuch, and Yang Lie killed her with the Profound Dragon Sword.
• Yang Lie read Shen Lan'er's memories, confirmed Li Renxin had been forced to summon him, and spared the emperor.
• Li Renxin told Yang Lie that six hundred thousand Blood Demons were attacking the Great Cloud Empire and asked him to reinforce Duke Mingshan; Yang Lie agreed and departed with three thousand Cloud Dragon Guards the next day.
• In Chen Province, Yang Lie learned that five of its seven prefectures had fallen to the Blood Demons and that the regional troops had suffered a crushing defeat.
• Yang Lie ordered the two scouts to return to the ranks and declared that his force would kill its way through the Blood Demons.

Yang Lie and his Tree Ghost Warriors slaughtered a massive vampire horde and hurried to Qi Yun Prefecture, where more than a million vampires besieged the city. As Blood Clan forces moved against Yang Lie’s group, Zhou Hao refused to send the city’s experts outside its walls.

• Yang Lie ordered his five hundred Cloud Dragon Guards to stand against hundreds of thousands of vampires, then used Tree Ghost Warriors to kill them in under ten minutes.
• He Yinglan revealed she was a scout from Qi Yun Prefecture and begged Yang Lie to save the city from the Blood Demon army, so he agreed to go there.
• Yang Lie reached Qi Yun Prefecture and saw more than a million vampires attacking its walls while human defenders fought them off.
• Yang Lie spotted twenty thousand Blood Clan experts, and Bona ordered Rafa to lead three thousand of them against his group.
• An officer asked Zhou Hao to send reinforcements, but Zhou Hao refused to risk the city’s experts by sending them outside.

Yang Lie and the Cloud Dragon Guard annihilated the Blood Clan forces and more than a million vampires threatening Qi Yun Prefecture. After the city was saved, Yang Lie entered with his people and planned to rest there for a day.

• Yang Lie ordered the Tree Ghost Warriors to ambush and kill the three thousand Blood Clan experts, including Marquis Rafa.
• Bona recognized Yang Lie and ordered the Blood Clan to retreat, but Yang Lie used the Profound Dragon Sword to kill her and most of the fleeing high-ranking Blood Clan.
• Yang Lie sent Qi Lingxian to pursue the survivors and ordered ten thousand Tree Ghost Warriors to slaughter the vampires outside the prefectural city.
• The Tree Ghost Warriors killed more than a million vampires, then Yang Lie and his group reached Qi Yun Prefecture's city gate.
• Feng Shutong welcomed Yang Lie into the city, and Yang Lie asked him to arrange accommodations for his people so he could rest for a day.

After rescuing He Yinglan, Yang Lie accepted her as his disciple and attended a banquet in Chen Province, where he met the powerful song-and-dance artist Xiao Shufang. Xiao Shufang revealed that she had come for He Yinglan, and Yang Lie left the choice of sect to He Yinglan as the others departed.

• He Yinglan reunited with her father, He Zifeng, and agreed to become Yang Lie's disciple.
• Qi Lingxian arrived and welcomed He Yinglan as her junior sister.
• Feng Shutong led Yang Lie and his companions to Jingxiang Restaurant for a lavish banquet.
• Xiao Shufang performed for the gathering, and Yang Lie sensed that she was a formidable expert.
• Xiao Shufang privately told Yang Lie that He Yinglan was fated to join her and asked him to give He Yinglan to her in exchange for a favor.
• Yang Lie proposed letting He Yinglan choose for herself, then dismissed the guests while asking Qi Lingxian and He Yinglan to stay.

He Yinglan chose Yang Lie as her master despite Xiao Shufang’s offer, and quickly advanced her cultivation under his guidance. As Yang Lie led his group through Chen Province to hunt vampires, they reached Muyang Prefecture and encountered Blood Clan Prince Barbara atop a giant monster made from human faces.

• He Yinglan rejected Xiao Shufang’s offer and chose Yang Lie, then rapidly cultivated the Ander Unmoving Fundamental Scripture and reached the Heaven and Human Realm.
• Xiao Shufang joined Yang Lie’s group as he set out to wipe out vampire forces in Chen Province.
• Yang Lie’s group reached the ruined Muyang Prefecture and learned from Xiao Shufang that the vampires were underground and had become another kind of monster.
• Barbara appeared atop a gigantic, human-faced monster and offered Yang Lie power and pleasure if he joined the Blood Clan; Yang Lie refused and vowed to kill her.
• Barbara ordered the monster to attack Yang Lie and the five hundred Cloud Dragon Guard elites with blood arrows, and the Tree Ghost Warriors raised wooden shields with their Wood Domain.

Yang Lie and Xiao Shufang discussed the returned mad immortals and the coming war before reaching Storm Fortress, where the Blood Clan had gathered a massive army. Yang Lie began scouting the siege camps as Duke Mingshan welcomed him into the fortress.

• Yang Lie used the Profound Heaven Sword Art to destroy the Blood Winged Monster, allowing Barbara to escape.
• Xiao Shufang told Yang Lie that the Evil Gods were mad immortals from the Central Great World and that their return could trigger another war among immortals.
• Yang Lie explained that he had obtained the Profound Heaven Sword Scripture on the Ancient Spirit Continent, and Xiao Shufang connected it to the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect and the Three Heroes and Four Immortals.
• Yang Lie's group found no survivors or eleventh-rank monsters in the other prefectures of Chen Province and then traveled to Storm Fortress.
• Duke Mingshan welcomed Yang Lie at Storm Fortress, and Yang Lie flew ahead to scout the Blood Clan camps and their siege preparations.

Yang Lie launched a massive assault on the Blood Clan Camp, sending his Tree Ghost Warriors against its vampires and elite forces. He destroyed one Blood Monster with the Profound Dragon Sword, but as the battle continued, Long Peter put on the Blood Crown to confront him.

• Yang Lie opened a Dimensional Door and unleashed his Tree Ghost Warriors against the Blood Clan Camp, while Qi Lingxian, Gongyang Yingnan, and Ning Yingqiong flew to join him.
• Long Peter ordered the vampires into battle, and the Tree Ghost Warriors used their Wood Domains and vine attacks to repel them.
• Kai Rod deployed ten Blood Monsters, whose crimson beams withered the Wood Domains and killed many Tree Ghost Warriors.
• Yang Lie used the Profound Dragon Sword to destroy one Blood Monster and then attacked the others as the armies clashed.
• Kai Rod questioned whether to retreat or fight, and Long Peter decided they had to kill Yang Lie before placing the Blood Crown on his head.