Chapter Summaries

After defeating Dio and withdrawing from the Purgatory Demon Tower, Xu Long joined Wei Qing at the site of Huo Qubing’s tomb when its seal began to break. A terrifying Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage presence erupted from underground, leaving them unsure what had been sealed there.

• Dio tore open space and tried to drag Xu Long into the spatial turbulence, but Xu Long emerged unharmed and destroyed him.
• Xu Long chose not to continue attacking the battered Purgatory Demon Tower and expected news of the assault and the Red Spider Lily’s discovery to discourage other powers from causing trouble.
• Wei Qing told Xu Long that the seal on his nephew Huo Qubing was about to come undone, and Xu Long used Instant Transmission to reach him.
• Wei Qing led Xu Long to a small hill above Huo Qubing’s buried tomb, where the ground collapsed within a five-thousand-meter radius.
• A savage aura burst from underground, and Xu Long sensed a Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage monster nearing the Mahayana Stage.
• Xu Long and Wei Qing questioned whether the presence could be Huo Qubing and wondered if the imperial preceptor’s divination had gone wrong.

Xu Long and Wei Qing discovered a Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage Hou emerging from Huo Qubing’s tomb and tried to flee, but it sensed their spatial fluctuations and attacked. Xu Long escaped into spatial turbulence after wounding the beast with the Power of Oblivion, but the Hou struck him with lightning, leaving him close to death.

• Xu Long and Wei Qing watched a thousand-meter Hou emerge from the ground and recognized it as a powerful immemorial creature.
• Xu Long grabbed Wei Qing and tried to use Instant Transmission, but the Hou detected them and interrupted his attempts to flee.
• The Hou appeared in front of Xu Long, who opened a rift with the World-Breaking Blade and entered the spatial turbulence.
• Xu Long struck the Hou with Heaven and Earth One Sword, eroding a large hole in its body but failing to kill it.
• The enraged Hou attacked Xu Long with lightning, dispersing most of the Power of Oblivion protecting him.

Huo Qubing awakened and rescued Xu Long from the Lightning Hou, then reunited with Wei Qing and learned that thousands of years had passed. After hearing Huo Qubing’s account of Dongfang Shuo’s prophecy, Xu Long was identified as the prophesied God Above Gods who would lead the Great Wilderness back to the primordial era.

• Xu Long prepared to burn his life force against the Lightning Hou, but Huo Qubing appeared and calmed both him and the beast.
• Wei Qing recognized Huo Qubing, and the two tearfully reunited after awakening thousands of years later.
• Huo Qubing said the Great Han had fallen and that alien races were about to return, then revealed that the Lightning Hou was his former companion, Xiaolei.
• Huo Qubing returned to the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom with Wei Qing and Xu Long, where he recounted Dongfang Shuo’s prophecy of a turning point that could destroy the Ghost Demons.
• Huo Qubing told Xu Long that he believed him to be the prophesied God Above Gods, destined to lead the Great Wilderness back to the primordial era.

Huo Qubing explained the origins of humans and dragons to Xu Long, then left to guard China while Xu Long stayed behind. As the seals weakened, cultivators gathered at Fengdu City, where a mysterious bloody maw punished outsiders who attacked people.

• Huo Qubing told Xu Long that the Mount Tai God was a high god and described how the Phoenix Ancestor, Qilin Ancestor, and Kunpeng ranked among the gods.
• Huo Qubing revealed that humans and dragons shared Ancestor as their origin, and that he had been one of humanity's guardians during the primeval era.
• Xu Long wondered whether he might be an unrecorded God Above Gods, then told Huo Qubing he had no plans and could defend their position himself.
• Huo Qubing decided to return to China to protect the Great Han and its people, and Xu Long agreed.
• As the four factions' seals weakened, cultivators flocked to Fengdu City to seek Red Spider Lilies.
• When outsiders tried to attack people in China, a bloody maw appeared and swallowed them, forcing the other races to behave and retreat into Fengdu City.

The four great factions fought over the Red Spider Lilies in Fengdu City, and Xu Long learned of strange fluctuations beyond Naihe Bridge and decided to investigate deeper. At the River of Forgetfulness, the flowers drove the rival factions into a frenzy, turning their battle into a massacre.

• The four great factions entered Fengdu City seeking Red Spider Lilies, and Holy Heaven and the Purgatory Demon Tower immediately clashed.
• After a Holy Angel found a blooming Red Spider Lily, battles spread and the flowers drew more cultivators into Fengdu City.
• The Red Queen told Xu Long that people had detected strange fluctuations deep inside the city, and he decided to investigate beyond Naihe Bridge.
• At the River of Forgetfulness, angels, demons, Fallen Angels, Saints, and berserkers fought over the flowers as the Red Spider Lilies bloomed in waves.
• The flowers drove the combatants into a frenzy, and the battle became a bloody slaughter that produced still more Red Spider Lilies.

Alien cultivators at the River of Forgetfulness slaughtered one another under the influence of the Red Spider Lilies and a strange mist, while the river filled with silent red water. Xu Long arrived to find seven survivors and immediately killed a demon with a stream of gray air.

• The Red Spider Lilies and whispers in the mist drove the alien cultivators into a bloody frenzy, and their dead sank silently into the River of Forgetfulness.
• Several aliens self-destructed, leaving only seven Late Spirit Severing Stage cultivators alive.
• The survivors noticed the red water in the river and the mist's influence, but a Silver Saint was gravely hurt when he released his consciousness toward it.
• Xu Long arrived, saw the churning river, and decided to kill the aliens before searching their souls.
• A ram-horned demon dismissed Xu Long as a weak human, but Xu Long pierced him with gray air and reduced him to flying ash.

Xu Long stopped three Body Integration Stage foes from reaching Fengdu City and was left facing a Ten-Winged Angel alone. Though she feared his power and could not return to Holy Heaven, Xu Long launched the fight against her.

• Six surviving members of the other races sacrificed themselves to summon powerful allies through spatial passages.
• A Ten-Winged Angel arrived, while Xu Long used his sword to engulf the other three passages and erase the sacrifices sustaining them.
• Three Body Integration Stage cultivators attacked Xu Long as their passages collapsed, but he escaped with Instant Transmission and they died before arriving.
• Xu Long faced the Ten-Winged Angel alone; she hesitated after witnessing his power and realizing she could not return to Holy Heaven.
• Xu Long decided to end the fight quickly and slashed at the Ten-Winged Angel.

Xu Long defeated the Ten-Winged Angel and gathered the Red Spider Lilies before a mysterious woman appeared above the River of Forgetfulness. Huo Qubing recognized her as the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, one of the sources of the Ghost Demons.

• Xu Long used the Power of Oblivion to shatter the space around the Ten-Winged Angel, killing her and collecting the Red Spider Lilies with his clones.
• A sorrowful woman appeared above the River of Forgetfulness and told Xu Long he could take the flowers.
• Huo Qubing arrived on the Lightning Hou, and he warned the woman that he recognized her from their past battle.
• The woman transformed into a terrifying ghost after Huo Qubing identified her as the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting.
• Huo Qubing revealed that the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting was one of the sources of the Ghost Demons.

Xu Long, Huo Qubing, and Lightning Hou confronted the Ghost Demons Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred in Fengdu City. Huo Qubing explained that the city’s Heavenly Dao had imprisoned the Ghost Demons, and the chapter ended with Xu Long laughing when the Holy Mother’s punch struck the seal.

• Xu Long learned from Huo Qubing that Ghost Demons were born from heaven and earth’s fury and could only be exterminated by the power of gods.
• Huo Qubing recognized the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and taunted her, then the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred emerged from the scarlet river.
• Huo Qubing explained that Fengdu City’s Heavenly Dao had trapped the two Ghost Demons inside the River of Forgetfulness.
• Xu Long and Huo Qubing mocked the Ghost Demons for challenging them to enter while they themselves could not leave.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting punched toward Xu Long, but Fengdu City’s seal stopped her, and Xu Long burst out laughing.

Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou fought the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred in the River of Forgetfulness while Xu Long cultivated with Red Spider Lilies. When the Holy Mother attacked Xu Long, his sword revealed that he wielded the Power of Oblivion, which erased her arm and left her terrified.

• Huo Qubing told Xu Long to wait outside the battle and entered the River of Forgetfulness with the Lightning Hou to weaken the two trapped Ghost Demons.
• The Lightning Hou fought the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, and Huo Qubing fought the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred.
• Xu Long refined Red Spider Lilies, advanced to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, and gathered more flowers from the riverbank to raise his cultivation further.
• The battle damaged the barrier, and the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting reached for Xu Long to kill him.
• Xu Long struck the Holy Mother with Heaven and Earth One Sword, and the Power of Oblivion erased her arm; she recognized the forbidden power before the Lightning Hou knocked her away.

Xu Long overwhelmed the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting with the Power of Oblivion, but she self-destructed before he could search her soul. She then invaded his sea of consciousness, where Huo Qubing watched without concern.

• Xu Long tore open the barrier over the River of Forgetfulness with sword light and struck the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting.
• Xu Long surrounded the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting with sword light, destroying her body and leaving only her head.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting tried to self-destruct, and Xu Long escaped into the void before the blast collapsed the surrounding space.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting survived as a shadow and charged into Xu Long's sea of consciousness.
• Huo Qubing watched the invasion and showed no concern, recalling secrets known to humanity's ancient guardians.

The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting invaded Xu Long’s consciousness, but glimpsing his past-life eyes erased her completely. Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou weakened the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred, and Xu Long destroyed him, bringing one of the Ghost Demons’ two kings to an end.

• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting entered Xu Long’s sea of consciousness and tried to uncover his previous life.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting saw Xu Long’s past-life eyes, and her consciousness vanished completely.
• The Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred sensed the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting’s disappearance as Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou attacked him.
• Huo Qubing explained that the Ghost Demons were tools created by the Heavenly Dao and destined to be destroyed, driving the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred into despair.
• Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou weakened the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred, then withdrew as Xu Long struck him with gray sword light and destroyed him.

After Xu Long and Huo Qubing killed the Ghost Demons, Xu Long received a message from Dongfang Shuo warning that the Great Wilderness would soon flow back into the ancient era and face the return of powerful old gods. Dongfang Shuo also hinted at the Main God before his remnant soul vanished.

• Huo Qubing celebrated the deaths of Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred and Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, then gave Xu Long a jade talisman from the imperial preceptor.
• Xu Long activated the talisman and met Dongfang Shuo, who warned that the Great Wilderness would soon reach the Mahayana Stage and flow backward into the ancient era.
• Dongfang Shuo explained that Huo Qubing and other experts would awaken to protect humanity, but Xu Long would have to face threats beyond Huo Qubing's strength.
• Dongfang Shuo urged Xu Long to kill the old gods before they entered the Great Wilderness and recited a cryptic divination about impulse.
• Dongfang Shuo revealed that his divination had produced the words Main God, and Xu Long reacted with grave recognition.

Xu Long and Huo Qubing explored their past lives before crossing Naihe Bridge deeper into Fengdu City, where they found Xiang Yu imprisoned by the River of Forgetfulness. Xu Long urged the Hegemon-King to survive and fight again for humanity, but Xiang Yu had not yet answered.

• Huo Qubing discovered that his past life had been a peerless genius who died while reveling, and Lightning Hou revealed that he had been a breeding boar.
• Xu Long, Huo Qubing, and Lightning Hou crossed Naihe Bridge and encountered a sorrowful, armored figure at its far end.
• Xu Long recognized the figure as Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, who had pursued the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting into Fengdu City and been trapped.
• Xiang Yu dismissed himself as an unworthy leader of defeated men, and Xu Long argued that his name and deeds would endure beyond victory or defeat.
• Xu Long told Xiang Yu that humanity still faced danger and urged him to preserve his life and fight for the human race again.

Xu Long, Huo Qubing, Xiang Yu, and Lightning Hou reached the Homeward-Gazing Terrace in Fengdu City, where Xiang Yu relived a past life and had his karma washed away. Xiang Yu emerged transformed, and Huo Qubing hesitated when Xu Long invited him to step onto the terrace next.

• Xu Long invited Xiang Yu to explore Fengdu City and see the China of the present, and Huo Qubing urged Xiang Yu to help protect their people and descendants.
• Xiang Yu agreed to travel with Xu Long and Huo Qubing, and the group reached the Homeward-Gazing Terrace at the end of Naihe Bridge.
• Xiang Yu stepped onto the terrace, which revealed a past life in which he hunted down the bandits who had slaughtered his village and killed his pregnant wife.
• The terrace's vision rewound and vanished, and Xiang Yu's aura changed as the terrace washed away his karma and eased his inner turmoil.
• Xiang Yu declared that his former self was dead and that he was a new Xiang Ji, while Huo Qubing hesitated to step onto the terrace.

Xu Long stepped onto the Homeward-Gazing Terrace, and its attempt to erase his past-life karma triggered a clash with Fengdu City's Heavenly Dao. The scene ended with the Heavenly Dao's giant palm locked in a stalemate against the beasts from Xu Long's past life, while Xu Long regained the ability to move.

• Huo Qubing's past-life scenes embarrassed him as Xiang Yu and Xu Long watched and laughed.
• Xu Long stepped onto the Homeward-Gazing Terrace, and Fengdu City's yin energy gathered overhead.
• Huo Qubing explained that the terrace and Fengdu City's Heavenly Dao feared Xu Long's past life.
• Scenes of Xu Long's past life revealed countless divine beasts, exotic beasts, and vicious beasts confronting the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao formed a giant palm and pressed it toward Xu Long, but the beasts' power stopped it.
• Xiang Yu used his four pupils to peer into Xu Long's past, while Xu Long broke free and realized the terrace had collided with his powerful past life.

Xu Long unleashed his power and broke the stalemate between Fengdu City's Heavenly Dao and the scene from his past life, but the Heavenly Dao manifested its Eye and overwhelmed everyone. The chapter ended as its light destroyed the scene and Yinglong vanished.

• Xu Long unleashed his full power, causing the giant hand's fingers and many of the exotic beasts in the scene from his past life to explode and disappear.
• Yinglong remained alone, challenged the giant hand, and drew the Heavenly Dao of Fengdu City to open a fissure at its center.
• The fissure revealed the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, whose dark domain restrained Xiang Yu and Huo Qubing.
• Huo Qubing explained that Xu Long had been chosen through the plans of humanity's predecessors and reflected on the mysteries of the immemorial era.
• The Eye's blood-red light pierced the scene from Xu Long's past life, destroying its mountains and rivers and making Yinglong disappear.

Xu Long and his companions explored deeper into Fengdu City after his previous incarnation destroyed the city's Heavenly Dao. They found foreign cultivators being consumed by Red Spider Lilies around an ancient forbidden formation, whose full danger remained unclear.

• Xu Long's previous incarnation shattered the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, destroying the giant palm and clearing the way into Fengdu City.
• Xu Long, Huo Qubing, Xiang Yu, and their beast traveled deeper and discovered more than thirty Body Integration Stage foreign cultivators rooted in Red Spider Lilies.
• Xu Long saw that the flowers were draining the cultivators while piles of bones covered the ground around eighteen enormous pillars.
• Xu Long blew away the bones and exposed a vast formation, which Huo Qubing identified as the forbidden Living Beings Death Sacrifice Grand Formation.
• Huo Qubing explained that the formation drained all living beings in its range and, once activated, could not be voluntarily stopped.

Huo Qubing confirmed that the Living Beings Death Sacrifice Grand Formation could not be broken by ordinary means, while Xu Long discovered that even the Power of Oblivion was slowed by manifested laws. The formation collapsed, and a voice from its center declared that the gods no longer watched over humanity and that the era belonged to it.

• Huo Qubing examined the formation and concluded that it was flawless, linked to the realm, and beyond his ability to break.
• Xu Long noticed that the outsiders trapped in the Red Spider Lily were being kept alive, and he killed a Gold Saint at the man's request, though the Power of Oblivion worked slowly.
• Huo Qubing identified the light on the Red Spider Lily as manifested laws and wondered whether they had existed since before the Great Wilderness was shattered.
• The pillars and ground began to crack as energy surged inside the formation, so Huo Qubing led Xu Long, Xiang Yu, and the beast to retreat.
• Xu Long used Heaven and Earth One Sword to breach the barrier, but the formation collapsed before he could stop the destruction.
• A voice emerged from the formation's center, claiming it had gained its promised freedom and that the coming era belonged to it.

Xu Long and his companions confronted Flower Lord, an ancient being who revealed her hatred of humanity and the history behind it. After Xu Long wounded her with the Power of Oblivion, Flower Lord explained that she had created many races to take revenge on humans, and the chapter left her poised to face the intruders.

• Xu Long absorbed the energy from the pillars and formation, but Flower Lord emerged and recognized the Power of Oblivion when it pierced her chest.
• Xiang Yu stood between Xu Long and Flower Lord as she revealed her true form and condemned humanity.
• Flower Lord identified herself as the Mother of Ten Thousand Flowers and blamed humans for imprisoning her, drawing her blood, and plucking her petals.
• Huo Qubing explained that Flower Lord had been the first flower in heaven and earth, captured by a human expert who repeatedly harvested her Innate Qi to save his child.
• Flower Lord recounted how she survived the ages, gathered bloodline power, and created angels, demons, vampires, werewolves, and other races to destroy humanity.
• Flower Lord said that just as she had prepared to emerge and bring despair to humanity, someone had come knocking at her door first.