Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Court came under attack when vast numbers of demons broke through its spatial grand array at all four gates. Elder Long asked whether Ziwei could be rescued, while the generals faced the possibility of a breakout.

• Dhṛtarāṣṭra discovered more than a trillion demons, including over a hundred King Level greater demons, gathered outside the east gate.
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra ordered the deputy general to lead troops toward a breach while he went to warn the Heavenly Emperor.
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra learned that demons had invaded through all four Tianmen, and the generals blamed the failed array as Elder Long silenced them.
• Elder Long asked Qianliyan whether Ziwei could be rescued, and Qianliyan reported that Three-Eyed had not replied to Shunfeng'er's decree.
• The generals considered whether to wait for Three-Eyed or organize a breakout, knowing that escape could doom the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Emperor ordered the Heavenly Court’s forces to reinforce its four gates and hold until Star Lord Ziwei returned, while its demon-origin generals doubted their rulers would protect them. The giant ape Boss considered fleeing to the Victorious Fighting Buddha or Chen Qing if the Heavenly Court fell.

• The Heavenly Court’s generals weighed the dangers of breaking out, knowing the concentrated stronghold could be lost and many of them abandoned.
• Shunfeng'er relayed Yang’s message that he would help the Heavenly Court once, then consider his debt repaid; Elder Long felt ashamed of having mistrusted him.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered the generals to reinforce all four gates and doubled the rewards for beheading demons.
• The giant ape Boss warned his followers not to rush into battle and to prepare to escape, since he feared the Heavenly Court’s leaders might sacrifice them.
• Boss said the Victorious Fighting Buddha might shelter them and argued that Chen Qing was powerful enough to be worth approaching.

Ziyue activated the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions’ teleportation formation, throwing the Heavenly Court into chaos and exposing her to Elder Long. He confronted her at the White Tiger Star Palace and demanded that she shut the teleportation down.

• Low-ranking heavenly generals abandoned the battle and fled toward the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions after the formation opened, while the Four Heavenly Kings tried to stop them.
• Elder Long realized someone inside had activated the teleportation formation and set out with Wang Lingguan to find the intruder.
• Ziyue withdrew from the grand spatial formation and headed for the White Tiger Star Palace to hide among the White Tiger Star Officer’s troops.
• Ziyue found the White Tiger Star Officer’s elite troops dead and encountered Elder Long beside a gigantic, eye-headed heavenly general.
• Ziyue and Elder Long argued over his claim that he had served the Eastern Federation and controlled history’s general trend, before he demanded that she shut down the teleportation.