Chapter Summaries

After Su Chen freed the Su Clan’s Great Emperors, Su Ya showed them evidence of how the Black-Yellow Realm had slandered the clan. Su Chen explained why he had spared half the devils, and the Su Clan members agreed they owed the realm nothing before returning to the clan as the devils’ feast began.

• Su Chen opened spatial rifts and released the nine Su Clan Great Emperors trapped in the Realm Sea.
• Su Ya told the Great Emperors what had happened and distributed recording stones showing how the Black-Yellow Realm had treated the Su Clan.
• Su Shuang'er and the others were enraged by the recordings, and Su Shuang'er realized Su Chen had deliberately let the devils escape.
• Su Chen asked whether sparing the devils was cruel, and Su Shuang'er and Su Ting argued that the Su Clan had already protected the Black-Yellow Realm for tens of thousands of years.
• Su Chen said the Su Clan owed the realm nothing, sensed the devils beginning their attack, and led everyone through a spatial passage back to the clan.

The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings ordered the Devil Race to slaughter humans across the Black-Yellow Realm, believing Su Chen would not intervene because he saw mortals as insignificant. After the Devil Race split into ten armies, he revealed a monstrous body and sent its tentacles to attack people below.

• The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings ordered the Thousand-Faced Devil Emperor and the other Devil Emperors to lead armies against the human territories governed by the Imperial Clans.
• The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings explained that Su Chen was likely possessed by an immortal and intended to punish the other Imperial Clans for abandoning the Su Imperial Clan.
• The Thousand-Eyed Devil Emperor and the All-Hearing Devil Emperor showed the others evidence that the Liu Imperial Clan had condemned the Su Imperial Clan and that humans believed the Devil Race had been destroyed.
• The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings sent the Devil Race forces in ten directions to slaughter humans across the Black-Yellow Realm.
• The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings transformed into a huge mass of rotting flesh and used tens of thousands of tentacles to pierce the heads of people in the cities, villages, and sects below.

The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings absorbed humanity’s negative emotions and revealed the Source of All Evil, who planned to reclaim his lost origin from the Liu Imperial Clan. The three devils headed for the clan, while people below realized the Devil Race had returned.

• The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings absorbed the evil thoughts and other negative emotions of humans, regaining Great Perfection Peak Devil Emperor strength.
• The Source of All Evil emerged from the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings and forced Blood Annihilation and Soul-Devouring to kneel.
• The Source of All Evil said a quarter of his origin was held by the Liu Imperial Clan and planned to reclaim it before taking the devils to other worlds.
• The Source of All Evil warned that Su Chen was immensely powerful and said the devils would comply with his wishes for now, then escape his control after recovering.
• The Source of All Evil merged into the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, and the three devils flew toward the Liu Imperial Clan as humans below recognized the returning Devil Race.

At the Heavenly Mist Sect, Zhou Lingxuan and the disciples dismissed the Devil Race as extinct and mocked them as dogs driven from their homes. The Devil Race then attacked the sect, and a Blood Bat Devil confronted the disciple who had insulted them.

• Zhou Lingxuan showed off his Heaven-Penetrating Palm and flirted with Lingyue and Guo Xiaofu before Elder Cheng Shan and Elder Gu Yu reminded him to focus on the Azure Cloud Challenge.
• Zhou Lingxuan and the other disciples claimed the Su Imperial Clan had deceived the Black-Yellow Realm about guarding the Realm Sea and accepted resources after the Devil Race was wiped out.
• A disciple mocked the Devil Race as dogs driven from their homes, and Elder Gu Yu ordered everyone to stop talking and return to cultivation.
• The Heavenly Mist Sect's mountain gate exploded as Devil Creatures swept into the sect, and a Blood Bat Devil devoured a disciple.
• The Blood Bat Devil asked who had called the Devil Race dogs driven from their homes and fixed its scarlet eyes on the speaker.

The Blood Bat Devils revealed that the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array had been broken and the Devil Race had returned to attack the sects of the Seven Stars Prefecture. The Heavenly Mist Sect's master and Zhou Lingxuan were killed, and the Devils began slaughtering everyone.

• The Blood Bat Devil leader mocked the Heavenly Mist Sect disciples and elders, then tore off a disciple's arm and killed him.
• Elder Gu Yu received a message showing the Tyrant Saber Sect under attack, and watched as Kuang Ba was killed by a Devil.
• The Blood Bat Devil leader revealed that the Devils had broken free and would destroy the eleven imperial clans as well as the human sects.
• The Heavenly Mist Sect master attacked the Blood Bat Devil leader, who killed him with a Blood Bat Howl and revealed his Emperor Realm strength.
• Zhou Lingxuan shoved two junior sisters aside as he fled, but the Blood Bat Devil leader killed him and ordered the Devils to slaughter the sect.

Su Chen told the Su Imperial Clan that the Liu Imperial Clan was plotting against them and ordered everyone to improve their cultivation, promising to provide resources and personally impart the Dao. He transformed their protective formation into a Spiritual Qi-gathering formation, and Heaven and Earth energy began raining down as spiritual liquid.

• Su Ting asked Su Chen whether the clan could return to Two Forms Continent, but Su Chen warned that the Liu Imperial Clan had not kept its promises and was plotting to lure them back.
• Su Chen ordered the clan members to focus on improving their cultivation and promised to provide resources and personally impart the Dao.
• Su Chen used profound runes to transform the clan's protective formation so that it could gather Spiritual Qi as well as defend and attack.
• The formation drew Heaven and Earth energy through a rift, causing Spiritual Qi to condense into droplets of spiritual liquid that filled the formation and began seeping into the clan members.

Su Chen drew energy from the Heavenly Dao to strengthen the Su Imperial Clan, helping its members break through and transforming the clan’s Great Emperors. The clan’s cultivation continued to surge as more members advanced through their realms.

• Su Chen borrowed energy from the Heavenly Dao, whose childlike form protested before disappearing after he threatened to drain its original power.
• Su Chen gave energy sources to Su Ting, Su Yun, Su Hao, Su Yi, and Su Shuang'er, evolving their physiques and abilities.
• Su Chen shared Dao insights that cleared the clan members’ cultivation obstacles and helped Su Ya, Su Hong, Su Nian, and other Quasi-Emperors enter the Great Emperor Realm.
• The ten other Great Emperors began breaking through, while clansmen who had already advanced started breaking through again.

After three days of breakthroughs among the Su Imperial Clan, Su Chen received the Eternal Imperial Palace as a system reward and fused it with the clan’s residence. He made the transformed palace the clan’s ancestral land and gave its members seals that allowed them to enter and leave safely.

• Members of the Su Imperial Clan advanced in cultivation, including Su Ya and more than thirty others who became Great Emperors.
• The system rewarded Su Chen with an increase of three hundred and thirty years to his lifespan and the Eternal Imperial Palace for completing his first mission.
• Su Chen ordered the Eternal Imperial Palace fused with the Su Imperial Clan’s residence, transforming its grounds, buildings, and defensive formation.
• Su Chen declared the palace the Su Imperial Clan’s ancestral land and granted every clan member an Imperial Palace Seal, which would also appear in newborn descendants with the clan’s bloodline.

Su Ting wanted to return to the Two Forms Continent and confront the Liu Imperial Clan, but Su Chen told him to wait for the right opportunity. The Su Imperial Clan then organized squads to observe the other continents and livestream what they found, while the chapter ended with Su Ting noticing Su Yun seemed troubled.

• Su Ting asked Su Chen to return to the Two Forms Continent and seek justice from the Liu Imperial Clan, but Su Chen said they would go when the time was right.
• Su Yi volunteered to visit the other imperial clans’ continents and see how they would fare against the Devil Race, and many clansmen joined him.
• Su Ting approved eleven squads led by Su Ya and the other elders, ordering them to observe the eleven great continents, relay their findings in real time, and prioritize safety.
• Su Chen gave each squad member a star from the Nine Heavens Mystic Origin Star River and Cosmos Reversal Grand Array that could transport them back to the clan if they faced danger.
• After the squads departed and the clan dispersed, Su Ting noticed Su Yun seemed troubled and asked him what was wrong.

Su Yun revealed that the Su Clan patriarch's body housed a different soul, and Su Ting explained why he had already suspected the truth. The siblings agreed to keep the secret and accept the new Su Chen as their patriarch, while Su Chen watched their conversation and was pleased with their response.

• Su Yun told Su Ting, Su Shuang'er, and the others that the soul in their father's body was not the original Su Chen.
• Su Ting said he had realized the truth when the new Su Chen had beaten him too lightly, and explained that their father had likely died five hundred years earlier after exhausting his lifespan.
• Su Ting reminded the siblings that the new Su Chen had saved him, protected the Su Clan from destruction, and given them all a second life.
• Su Ting ordered the siblings to keep the truth from the rest of the clan and show the new Su Chen respect, and they agreed.
• Su Chen watched the siblings' conversation from a hidden courtyard and decided they had accepted him, though he regretted not hitting Su Ting harder.

Zhao Haoyang persuaded Zhao Wu to sneak away from the Zhao Imperial Clan to visit women, but they were caught in a sea of blood by a Blood Serpent Devil Emperor. She bewitched them with red mist and they charged at her, leaving their fate in her hands.

• Zhao Haoyang urged Zhao Wu to slip past the guards and go with him to the Kui Flower Sect, despite warnings about the clan's heightened security and his engagement to Xiao Li.
• Zhao Wu hesitated, then agreed to go with Zhao Haoyang and followed him away from the floating island.
• The scenery changed into an endless sea of blood, and the youths' beads shattered as they sensed the highest level of Devil Qi and realized a Devil Emperor was nearby.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor appeared, enveloped Zhao Haoyang and Zhao Wu in red mist, and made them charge at her.

The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor led hundreds of thousands of Blood Serpent Devil Race troops to attack the Zhao Imperial Clan, killing its guards and forcing the clan leader to summon help. Zhao Fengtian requested support from the Empress and prepared to hold out behind the clan’s protective array.

• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor ordered her army to break through the Zhao Imperial Clan’s defenses and leave no survivors.
• Zhao Deming and another guard dismissed rumors of the Devil Race’s return until the army attacked, killing Zhao Deming and wounding his companion.
• The Zhao Imperial Clan’s protective array activated, trapping and crushing several Blood Serpent Devil Race members inside it.
• Zhao Fengtian arrived with clan experts, ordered them to wake the ancestor, and sent a request to the Empress for reinforcements.
• Zhao Fengtian assessed the enemy’s superior strength and hoped the array would hold until the Liu Imperial Clan’s reinforcements arrived.

The Devil Race surrounded the Zhao Imperial Clan, and its leaders mocked the clan for refusing to help suppress them in the Realm Sea. As the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor attacked the clan-protecting formation, she revealed that the Emperor had prepared something to overcome it.

• Zhao Fengtian ordered the Zhao Imperial Clan to reinforce its protective formation and rejected the Devil Emperors’ accusations about the Su Imperial Clan’s past role in suppressing them.
• Zhao Qianjun arrived and asked whether the Devil Race had attacked the Su Imperial Clan, whose name filled the devils with terror.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor announced that the Zhao Imperial Clan would be the Devil Race’s first imperial-clan target and struck its formation with her Devil Qi.
• Zhao Qianjun trusted the formation and warned that reinforcements were coming, but the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor said the Emperor had prepared for it and produced a three-foot-long sword-like object.

The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor’s forces attacked the Zhao Imperial Clan’s protective formation with Formation-Breaking Shuttles. After the first strike weakened the formation, a second attack shattered it, leaving the clan exposed as the Devil Race launched its assault.

• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor gave a Formation-Breaking Shuttle to a Devil Emperor, who struck the Zhao Imperial Clan’s formation while Zhao Qianjun ordered the clan to reinforce the impact point.
• The formation survived the first strike, but Zhao Qianjun and Zhao Fengtian spotted cracks and realized repeated attacks could destroy it before reinforcements arrived.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor revealed that another Devil Emperor had disappeared, and he attacked the formation’s weakened rear-left point with a second Formation-Breaking Shuttle.
• The second strike shattered the Zhao Imperial Clan’s protective formation, exposing its members to the Devil Race.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor ordered her forces to kill the Zhao Imperial Clan and charged at Zhao Qianjun.

The Devil Emperors overwhelmed the Zhao Imperial Clan, while Zhao Qianjun and Zhao Fengtian were unable to turn the battle. As the clan lost hope, several presences approached, one carrying Emperor Realm pressure, and the Zhao clansmen believed reinforcements had arrived.

• Zhao Qianjun drew the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor away from the floating island, but she gradually gained the advantage as the devil army attacked the Zhao Imperial Clan.
• Two peak Devil Emperors defeated Zhao Fengtian, while the other Zhao Great Emperors were trapped and the devils slaughtered the clan’s members.
• Zhao Fengtian invoked the Liu Imperial Clan as a threat, but a Devil Emperor claimed the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings had reached Half-Step Immortal and attacked the Liu Imperial Clan.
• Zhao Qianjun lost focus and the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor struck him down near Zhao Fengtian.
• Several presences rushed toward the floating island, including one with Emperor Realm pressure, and the Zhao clansmen celebrated the apparent arrival of reinforcements.

Su Ya and ten members of the Su Imperial Clan arrived as the Devil Race attacked the Zhao Imperial Clan, but Su Ya told the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor they had only been passing through. The devils eased their assault, while Zhao Fengtian realized they feared the Su Imperial Clan and whatever power stood behind it.

• The Zhao Imperial Clan welcomed the arrival of human reinforcements, but Zhao Fengtian wondered why an unfamiliar Emperor Realm expert had come so quickly.
• Su Ya descended with ten others, and the Devil Emperors recognized him and feared Su Chen’s backing more than Su Ya himself.
• Zhao Fengtian mistook Su Ya’s group for members of the Liu Imperial Clan and asked them to help defend the Zhao Imperial Clan.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor questioned whether Su Ya intended to stop the devils, and Su Ya said they were merely passing through.
• The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor agreed to leave the Zhao Imperial Clan alone after Su Ya affirmed that the Su Imperial Clan would not interfere.
• Zhao Fengtian and the Zhao Imperial Clan realized the devils feared the Su Imperial Clan, despite Su Ya’s comparatively modest cultivation.

Su Ya withdrew the Su Imperial Clan from the Zhao Imperial Clan’s battle against the Devil Race, leaving the Zhao clansmen to face the massacre alone. As the Su Clan watched recordings of the events, Zhao Fengtian and Zhao Qianjun fled, and the remaining Zhao clansmen lost hope.

• Su Ya told Zhao Fengtian that the Su Imperial Clan would no longer guard the Realm Sea for the other eleven great imperial clans, and the Zhao clansmen cursed the Su Clan for abandoning them.
• Su Ya withdrew more than a thousand meters, and the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor ordered the devils to resume their attack on the Zhao Imperial Clan.
• Su Ya’s young companions recorded the battle, while thousands of Su Imperial Clan members watched the projections at the Eternal Imperial Palace and mocked the Zhao Clan’s accusations and the other recorded scenes.
• Su Heizi provoked a devil by claiming a Zhao clansman had insulted its mother, and the devil killed the man after he denied it.
• Zhao Fengtian and Zhao Qianjun used a blood-red light to escape, leaving the remaining Zhao clansmen to collapse in despair as the devils continued their slaughter.

The Devil Race devastated the Zhao Imperial Clan and attacked the sects of Flying Moon Province as the Su Imperial Clan prepared to confront the Liu Imperial Clan. In the Yuwen Imperial Clan, a woman was seized from behind and sensed that the presence holding her was dangerous.

• The Bloodline Bell tolled nine times, and a Saint Emperor learned that the Devil Race was attacking the Heavenly Severance Nine Sects.
• The sect master activated the Heavenly Severance Nine Sects' grand formation, but Devil Race members surrounded it and consumed human corpses.
• Su Ting received a message from Su Chen and led the Su Imperial Clan's Great Emperors to the Liu Imperial Clan to demand justice.
• Su clansmen watched as Su Ting and the others departed, while some stayed behind to avoid becoming a weakness in a fight.
• In the Yuwen Imperial Clan, a woman watering flowers was pulled against a man's chest and realized that his presence was wrong.

Liu Tiandao visited Yingying in the Yuwen Imperial Clan patriarch’s bedchamber and revealed that the Liu ancestor was approaching the immortal domain. He warned that the Liu Imperial Clan would demand submission from the other clans, then pressured Yingying into continuing their affair by threatening her husband and child.

• Liu Tiandao entered the Yuwen Imperial Clan’s forbidden inner quarters and met Yingying while Yuwen Shendu was away at the Liu Imperial Clan.
• Liu Tiandao told Yingying that the Liu Imperial Clan’s ancestor had touched upon the immortal domain and that their clan intended to rule the Black-Yellow Realm.
• Liu Tiandao implied that imperial clans that resisted would be destroyed, and Yingying feared that the Yuwen Imperial Clan could become a target.
• When Yingying resisted his advances in her bedchamber, Liu Tiandao threatened that her husband and child could become sacrifices to the new era.
• Yingying wept and submitted to Liu Tiandao’s pressure.

Liu Ruyan gathered the imperial clan leaders to coordinate their defense against the Devil Race and revealed that she had surpassed the Emperor Realm. The leaders were stunned by her achievement as they faced the threat of the Half-Immortal Devil Emperor of All Living Beings.

• A Yuwen Imperial Clan elder dismissed concerns about a strange fluctuation in the protective array and ordered increased vigilance against the Devil Race.
• Liu Ruyan told the imperial clan leaders that the Su Imperial Clan had colluded with the Devil Race, while Zhao Fengtian and Zhao Qianjun grieved for their ruined clan.
• Liu Ruyan proposed that the Liu Imperial Clan establish temporary teleportation arrays so the clans' Emperor Realm experts could reinforce one another.
• Yuwen Shendu warned that their plan could not stop the Half-Immortal Devil Emperor of All Living Beings.
• Liu Ruyan unleashed a presence beyond the Emperor Realm, revealing that she had touched the domain of the immortal path.