Chapter Summaries

Zhang Sanfeng returned to the Great Hall of Zhenwu and confronted Dong Tianbao, the former ally he had imprisoned after a Ghost Demon assimilated him. Dong Tianbao revealed that he had fused with the Ghost Demon and gained a power that might let him summon long-dead gods, leaving Zhang Sanfeng stunned.

• After the Seven Heroes of Wudang descended the mountain, Zhang Sanfeng returned to the Great Hall of Zhenwu, where its appearance shifted into a hellish scene and Dong Tianbao addressed him.
• Dong Tianbao warned that Zhang Sanfeng’s wavering heart would slow his progress and insisted he could break through the Fragment World’s limit by absorbing the vital essence of its inhabitants.
• Zhang Sanfeng recounted how he and Dong Tianbao had sealed a Ghost Demon, and how he had imprisoned Dong Tianbao in the Fragment World after the demon assimilated him.
• Dong Tianbao briefly appeared righteous before explaining that he had reached a temporary balance by fusing with the Ghost Demon and borrowing its power.
• Dong Tianbao summoned a vast, ancient aura that pushed Zhang Sanfeng out of the hall, and Zhang Sanfeng realized he intended to summon gods who had died long ago.

Dong Tianbao summoned the remnant soul of a powerful god, hoping to gain the power of “Extreme” and escape the Ghost Demon’s erosion. The god refused to grant him power, then left Dong Tianbao with understanding before vanishing.

• Dong Tianbao knelt and invoked a god with titles that made Zhang Sanfeng fear the being’s immense power.
• Dong Tianbao’s yin-and-yang ritual filled the sky with darkness and summoned a blood-eyed god, forcing Zhang Sanfeng to his knees.
• Zhang Sanfeng sensed that the god was an ancestor of humanity, while Dong Tianbao begged for its blessing.
• Dong Tianbao revealed that he had absorbed the Ghost Demon’s memories but was being corrupted, so he had summoned the god to obtain the power of “Extreme.”
• The god did not choose Dong Tianbao or Zhang Sanfeng, but an invisible light gave Dong Tianbao understanding before he bade the god farewell.

Xu Long and Zhao Min reached Ice and Fire Island, where Xu Long told Xie Xun about Cheng Kun's schemes and proposed taking him back to the Central Plains for revenge. Xu Long restored Xie Xun's sight and received the Dragon Slaying Sabre.

• Xu Long sensed a powerful aura from Mount Wudang while traveling at sea with Zhao Min.
• Xu Long spent several months stabilizing his Golden Core Stage cultivation as Rice Bucket propelled their boat to Ice and Fire Island.
• Xu Long identified himself as Wuji to Xie Xun and told him that the Five Great Sects had driven his parents to their deaths.
• Xu Long revealed that Cheng Kun had assumed the alias Yuanzhen and orchestrated the Six Great Sects' siege of Bright Peak.
• Xu Long removed Xie Xun's damaged eye and restored it with green liquid, while his defensive treasure blocked Xie Xun's angry attack.
• Xie Xun handed Xu Long the Dragon Slaying Sabre and removed his other damaged eye so Xu Long could restore his sight completely.

After Dong Tianbao returned to himself, the Ghost Demon's surviving consciousness found a new host in Song Qingshu, who transformed into a monster. Months later, Yuanzhen (Cheng Kun) led the Six Great Sects toward Bright Peak while secretly preparing to destroy the Ming Cult with explosives.

• Dong Tianbao told Zhang Sanfeng that the Ghost Demon's consciousness still existed and could cause greater trouble.
• Song Qingshu accepted a tempting voice's offer of power, transformed into a monster, and vanished toward Mount Wudang.
• The Six Great Sects gathered at One-Line Sky and agreed to use a secret passage Yuanzhen provided to attack Bright Peak.
• The Wudang experts suspected Yuanzhen but followed the others through the passage, where they fought Ming Cult disciples.
• Yuanzhen slipped into another passage containing explosives, intending to blow up Bright Peak and kill the Ming Cult's leaders and forces.

Xu Long and Zhao Min entered Bright Peak, where Xu Long found the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth manual and set out to confront Cheng Kun. Cheng Kun revealed his identity and described his decades-long plot to destroy the Ming Cult, just as Xu Long approached.

• Xu Long used mechanical insects to scout the passage and learned that Yuanzhen had ambushed Xiao Zhao, then fought Yang Xiao and the Ming Cult members.
• Xu Long told Zhao Min about Cheng Kun and Liu Xinru, then found Yang Dingtian's remains and recovered the Persian manual for the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth.
• Xu Long and Zhao Min headed toward the Ming Cult headquarters to deal with Cheng Kun.
• Cheng Kun revealed to Yang Xiao and the others that he was not Yuanzhen but Cheng Kun, and recounted his vow to destroy the Ming Cult and his plot against Xie Xun.

Cheng Kun confessed how he had fueled the conflict between the Ming Cult and the Six Great Sects, while denying that he had killed Yang Dingtian. Xu Long captured Cheng Kun, stopped Xie Xun from killing him, and left Yang Xiao asking who he was and why he had helped the Ming Cult.

• Cheng Kun admitted that he had framed the Demon Cult and stirred up conflict between it and the Six Great Sects, and said Yang Dingtian had died after discovering Cheng Kun’s affair with Liu Xinru.
• Xie Xun attacked Cheng Kun with the Dragon Slaying Sabre, but Xu Long trapped Cheng Kun in the Iron Curtain and said he needed him alive to resolve the conflict.
• Cheng Kun taunted Xie Xun about his wife, and Xu Long retorted by condemning Cheng Kun and Liu Xinru, provoking Cheng Kun into a furious but futile struggle.
• Xu Long shattered Cheng Kun’s limbs, then used his true qi to keep him alive and prevent him from killing himself.
• Yang Xiao praised Xie Xun’s return and asked Xu Long for his name and reason for helping the Ming Cult.

Xu Long healed the Ming Cult’s leaders, secured their recognition as cult leader, and led them to meet the Six Great Sects on Bright Peak. After confronting Abbess Miejue, he knocked her down and took the Heavenly Sword, while the sight of the Dragon Slaying Sabre and Xie Xun sparked chaos.

• Xu Long revealed that he was Zhang Wuji, healed Yang Xiao, Wei Yixiao, and the Five Wanderers, and proposed becoming the Ming Cult’s leader.
• Wei Yixiao’s Icy True Qi was cured, and Wei Yixiao, the Five Wanderers, and then Yang Xiao accepted Xu Long as cult leader.
• Xu Long ordered the Ming Cult disciples to withdraw and leave Bright Peak undefended as the Six Great Sects approached.
• Song Yuanqiao and the Wudang disciples recognized Xu Long as Zhang Wuji, while Abbess Miejue rebuked him for joining the Ming Cult.
• Abbess Miejue attacked Xu Long with the Heavenly Sword, but he knocked her down and took the sword.
• Someone shouted that the Dragon Slaying Sabre and Xie Xun were present, and the gathering descended into chaos.

Xu Long exposed Cheng Kun as the culprit behind the conflict between the Six Great Sects and the Ming Cult, using a recording to prove his story. He then confronted Abbess Miejue over her murder of Ji Xiaofu, leaving her fearful as he advanced.

• Xu Long seated himself as Ming Cult leader and said he had given the Six Great Sects a chance to settle their grudges peacefully.
• Xu Long revealed that Cheng Kun, disguised as the Shaolin monk Yuanzhen, had engineered the conflict and was Xie Xun’s master.
• Kongwen denied the accusation, so Xu Long showed a recording of Cheng Kun’s actions, shocking the assembled martial artists.
• Abbess Miejue tried to reach for the Heavenly Sword, but Xu Long reminded the crowd that Cheng Kun had caused the conflict and urged them to unite against the Yuan.
• Abbess Miejue insisted that Emei’s enmity with the Ming Cult went beyond Cheng Kun, and Xu Long accused her of killing Ji Xiaofu as he approached her.

Xu Long ended the dispute with Shaolin, then shattered the Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre to reveal and share the manuals hidden inside. He gave the Book of Wumu to Zhu Yuanzhang while privately deciding that the ambitious Ming Cult member would have to die.

• Xu Long ended the conflict and invited the sects to leave if they would not join the fight against the Yuan; Kongwen withdrew Shaolin.
• Xu Long smashed the Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre and revealed the Nine Yin Manual, the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and the Book of Wumu hidden inside.
• Xu Long told Yang Xiao to arrange for each sect to copy the manuals and return the originals.
• Xu Long gave the Book of Wumu to Zhu Yuanzhang, who vowed to study it and serve the Ming Cult.
• Yang Xiao warned Xu Long that Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless and calculating, and Xu Long secretly resolved to kill him.

Xu Long and the rebel forces prepared to enter Central Secretariat Province, but Zhang Sanfeng warned that Zhang Shicheng and his southern army had been wiped out by a powerful demonic creature. Xu Long realized that Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao knew more about demons—and about him—than they had revealed.

• Xu Long let the major sects study the two martial arts at the Ming Cult, and the rebel armies captured most of the realm within a year.
• Zhu Yuanzhang described the forces poised to clash in Central Secretariat Province, while Yang Xiao reported that Shaolin monks and other experts had stopped his attack on Chen Youliang's allies.
• Xu Long said Zhang Shicheng's territory was the greater concern, and Zhang Sanfeng arrived with his senior brother Dong Tianbao.
• Zhang Sanfeng revealed that Zhang Shicheng and the entire southern allied army had been destroyed by a powerful demonic creature.
• Xu Long recognized that Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao had detected his secret, while their knowledge of demons exposed their own secrets to him.

Xu Long learned that Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao had once fought the Ghost Demons, and that an unknown sea-linked deity might now be awakening. He joined forces with the two elders and headed to meet Chen Youliang, but their spaceship was met by armed defenders.

• Xu Long dismissed the others and asked Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao to explain their history with the Ghost Demons.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao recounted how a Ghost Demon entered Dong Tianbao, who later assimilated it and drove out its consciousness with help from a deity's remnant soul.
• Dong Tianbao and Zhang Sanfeng warned Xu Long that the Ghost Demon's consciousness might be connected to a strange deity that had been sleeping in the sea.
• Xu Long suspected a reincarnator was involved with Chen Youliang and invited Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao to meet him.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao boarded Xu Long's spaceship, and Xu Long explained how its technology resembled a formation.
• Xu Long's spaceship approached its destination, where archers and heavy crossbowmen prepared to attack it.

Xu Long tried to recruit the Nether Emperor and Maitreya to join forces against a powerful god, but their grudges led them to refuse. He then investigated the god’s territory and discovered that its madness-inducing soul power also disrupted technology.

• Xu Long projected his image before the Nether Emperor, Maitreya, and the black bear, and invited them to fight the enemy alongside him.
• The black bear denounced Xu Long as a wanted criminal, while Maitreya and the Nether Emperor refused to cooperate and insisted on facing the enemy alone.
• Xu Long told Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao that the talks had failed, then flew south toward Zhang Shicheng’s Southern Allied Army.
• Xu Long found a desolate area where the air carried madness-inducing power and identified the enemy’s strength as soul-based with an aspect of madness.
• Xu Long sent miniature robots to scout, but the area’s shifting energy disrupted their electrical systems and made the technology aboard his spaceship ineffective.

Xu Long, Zhang Sanfeng, and Dong Tianbao investigated a spreading madness and encountered monsters disguised as people, including an old woman selling oranges. Xu Long sent out blood-made scouts and learned that the Southern Allied Army had been transformed and that the monsters were heading toward Dadu, while the unknown deity remained unlocated.

• Xu Long used a Divination Talisman to trace the strange aura toward Dadu and led Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao deeper into the affected area.
• An old woman offered Xu Long oranges, then transformed into a monster and unleashed waves that could turn mortals into crazed creatures.
• Xu Long destroyed the old woman and discovered that the talking orange was part of her body and could turn anyone who ate it into her puppet.
• After meeting another stench-ridden figure, Xu Long concluded that the Southern Allied Army had likely been wiped out and sent out scouts formed from his blood.
• Xu Long learned that the Southern Allied Army had become twisted monsters moving toward Dadu, but he found no trace of the unknown deity.

Xu Long and the western commanders prepared to send their strongest fighters toward Dadu, where a deity’s corrupting aura made ordinary troops useless. Xu Long secretly returned to investigate and found a group of humans who transformed into monsters, leaving the story with him facing the surviving creature.

• Xu Long told Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao that the warped aura near Dadu would keep ordinary soldiers and weaker cultivators from fighting, so they returned to camp to gather experts at the Innate Stage and above.
• The Nether Emperor, Maitreya, Black Bear, and their allies discussed the deity’s power, ruled out using the spaceship, and decided to advance toward Dadu with everyone above S-rank.
• Xu Long left a thirty-percent-strength blood-and-energy clone behind, then flew toward Dadu to investigate without Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao.
• Xu Long encountered a dozen ordinary-looking humans, killed them, and spared one little girl as a specimen.
• The surviving girl transformed, revealing tentacles in place of her eyes and other body parts, and spoke a maddening language through the soul.

Xu Long investigated how the deity's power transformed people and found that its influence on the soul made the changes irreversible. At Dadu, he exposed the hidden Cthulhu deity with a thermonuclear bomb, but its tentacle struck again before he could escape.

• Xu Long injected a mutated little girl with his gene-altering serum, but the clash between his power and the deity's soul energy destroyed her body and soul.
• Xu Long entered another monster's soul and confirmed that the deity's power irreversibly warped its victims, then flew toward Dadu.
• At Dadu's outskirts, Xu Long dodged a huge tentacle and searched for the hidden deity while using an unstable clone limited to thirty percent of his main body's strength.
• Xu Long detonated a miniature thermonuclear bomb, destroying the monsters concealing the deity and forcing its enormous tentacle to emerge.
• The deity lunged at Xu Long twice, and he tried to flee as its tentacle's suckers contracted, but it was already too late.

Xu Long’s clone destroyed a Cthulhu Mythos deity’s tentacle and returned with news that the group would need to clear away its lesser monsters to expose its true body. At the northern camp, he recognized Lin’s attempt to drug him and steal his power, then deliberately let her escape so he could see what she would become.

• Xu Long severed the deity’s tentacle, prevented it from healing, and destroyed it with his elemental power.
• Xu Long’s clone returned to the northern camp with information about the deity’s hidden true body and the need for the experts to clear away its monsters.
• Zhao Min brought Xu Long ginseng soup, but Lin had used her identity to approach him and drug him.
• Xu Long recognized Lin by her scent and revealed that he had seen through her plan to obtain his Extreme Yang, Absolute Yin power.
• Lin crushed a jade talisman and escaped with what she needed to extract and reverse Xu Long’s power, while Xu Long deliberately let her go.

Xu Long led the allied experts into Dadu to fight the deity’s twisted monsters, but the battle grew deadlier as the monsters became stronger and corruption began turning fighters into new sources of infection. Xu Long warned the army that they had to fight to the death, and Yang Xiao and Abbess Miejue were the first to take syringes meant to grant them a swift death rather than let them become monsters.

• The northern and western allied armies gathered their Innate Stage and Golden Core Stage experts and advanced on foot toward Dadu, where the twisted monsters had gathered.
• The experts fought through the monsters, learning to destroy their bodies repeatedly so the creatures would waste energy recovering.
• After ten days, stronger monsters began appearing, and Xu Long treated He Taichong after a monster’s tentacle badly wounded him.
• The northern and western armies met after more than half a month, but the monsters continued growing stronger and the allied forces suffered casualties.
• On the nineteenth day, an Innate expert mutated and triggered further infections, prompting Xu Long to warn the fighters that they could become sources of infection and show them syringes intended to provide a swift death.
• Yang Xiao and Abbess Miejue each took a syringe, declaring their resolve to fight to the death.

Xu Long and the surviving martial arts experts fought through Dadu, losing nearly everyone before reaching a Lovecraftian god weakened by their assault. They found Song Qingshu battling it, while the god summoned four monsters to attack them.

• Xu Long led the martial arts experts forward, and the drug helped the mutated fighters retain human forms as they died.
• The group reached central Dadu with fewer than thirty survivors, having cleared the foot soldiers and reduced the god's power by at least thirty percent.
• Shi Huolong mutated after seeing the god and died after repeatedly returning to human form.
• Xu Long recognized Song Qingshu fighting the god, while Red Queen identified its babbling as a call for help.
• The god's call gathered nearby monsters into four new creatures, which charged at Xu Long and the others.
• The surviving experts chose to fight the four monsters rather than retreat.

Xu Long and the others fought the Lovecraftian god and its mutated monsters while Song Qingshu’s hatred-driven transformation was revealed. Xu Long blasted Song Qingshu apart with a shot that began destroying the Ghost Demons’ power, leaving Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao to finish him as they prepared to visit the Great Wilderness.

• Xu Long learned that the Ghost Demons’ consciousness had possessed Song Qingshu and that Song Qingshu’s resentful aura had awakened and drawn the Lovecraftian god to Dadu.
• Xu Long and his allies battled the god’s four mutated monsters while Song Qingshu and the god stopped fighting and tried to retreat.
• Dong Tianbao went after Song Qingshu while Xu Long aimed his sniper rifle at him using the Azure Firmament Celestial Star Formation Diagram.
• Xu Long’s shot, formed from the Power of Extreme Yang, Absolute Yin, blasted away Song Qingshu’s upper body and began erasing his power.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao caught up with Song Qingshu, and Dong Tianbao said they would finish him before going to the Great Wilderness.

Song Qingshu realized that Xu Long’s power came from a force in the Great Wilderness capable of communicating with gods, then fought Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao as Xu Long confronted a Cthulhu Mythos god. Xu Long resisted the god’s soul erosion, burned it with Divine Might of the Sun, and unleashed a massive bombardment that left the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Dong Tianbao revealed that Xu Long came from the Great Wilderness, and Song Qingshu recognized that the Ghost Demons were doomed.
• Song Qingshu laughed and wailed, then attacked Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao alongside them, determined to keep fighting despite knowing he would lose.
• Xu Long held off the Cthulhu Mythos god’s soul erosion and began eroding its soul in return.
• The god attacked Xu Long with its tentacles, but his Iron Curtain Defense stopped them.
• Xu Long burned the god with Divine Might of the Sun, then gathered energy from the surroundings and bombarded it with thousands of projectiles.