Chapter Summaries

Jian Nu and the Golden Crow Patriarch fought fiercely as the Human Clan faced pressure to retreat, but Peng Tianlin arrived with ten giant dragons and called Jian Nu back. Peng Tianlin then challenged the Golden Crow Patriarch to force the Human Clan army to retreat.

• Jian Nu and the Golden Crow Patriarch exchanged attacks, with Jian Nu's nine swords breaking the Golden Crow Patriarch's black orbs.
• The Golden Crow Patriarch spread his Black Flame Domain across the battlefield, while Jian Nu countered with a domain of sword shadows.
• The Golden Crow Patriarch proposed that the Human Clan army withdraw as it had in past confrontations, but Jian Nu knew his people could retreat no further.
• Peng Tianlin arrived with ten giant dragons, and they flew before the Human Clan's battle formation as Jian Nu and the Golden Crow Patriarch fought.
• Peng Tianlin called Jian Nu back, then challenged the Golden Crow Patriarch to make the Human Clan army retreat even half a step.

Peng Tianlin’s confidence in Yi Xuan’s defenses was tested when the Golden Crow patriarch charged the Human Clan army. An unseen wall stopped the Golden Crow, who ordered the Demon Race to hold position, while Peng Tianlin learned that even he did not understand how Yi Xuan’s method worked.

• The Golden Crow patriarch dismissed the ten great dragons as weak and charged toward the Human Clan army.
• Peng Tianlin assured Jian Nu and the other Supreme Powerhouses that Yi Xuan’s method would work, though they prepared to respond if it failed.
• The Golden Crow patriarch struck an invisible wall and was forced backward, and Jian Nu confirmed that the barrier blocked his sword and could not be detected by Divine Sense.
• Jian Nu bowed toward the Human Clan’s rear and thanked Yi Xuan, while the Golden Crow ordered the Demon Race army not to engage and departed the battlefield.
• The Human Clan’s Supreme Powerhouses questioned Peng Tianlin about the wall, but he admitted he did not know how it worked.
• Peng Tianlin contacted Yi Xuan’s original body, who replied that Peng Tianlin would not understand even if he explained.

Yi Xuan explained that his invisible barrier had stopped the Golden Crow patriarch by changing the density of space itself, using technology that imitated the Space Principle. The Human Clan and Demon Race armies remained at a standoff, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow was trapped in a mysterious space surrounded by twelve illusory figures.

• Yi Xuan explained that immortals often struggled to understand technology as their cultivation rose, and contrasted Peng Tianlin with Shi Zhenghao.
• Yi Xuan described how ten spatial dragons changed the density of space to create an undetectable barrier that stopped the Golden Crow patriarch.
• Yi Xuan distinguished his spatial compression technology from spatial equipment, which altered a device rather than space itself.
• Yi Xuan explained that cultivators used Principles instinctively without understanding them, while technology required detailed investigation and calculation.
• The Demon Race army halted, and the Human Clan army settled into camp as both sides watched each other without attacking.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow remained inside a mysterious space surrounded by twelve illusory figures.

The Demon Race’s Great Sages halted their advance while the Human and Demon armies faced off for a century. The original body’s Good Corpse emerged from its device, displaying the pressure of a Great Sage, and learned that Peng Tianlin knew about him.

• The Demon Race’s Great Sages debated whether to attack the Human Clan and decided to hold their position while the Phoenix Ancestor’s work continued.
• Great Sage Hundun appointed the Three-Legged Golden Crow to command the Demon Race army and ordered it to stop advancing.
• Xingtian reported the Demon Race’s orders to the original body, who considered the news and returned his attention to the device containing the Good Corpse.
• The Human and Demon armies remained at a standstill for a hundred years, while the Human Clan rotated its Supreme Powerhouses back to the rear.
• The device containing the Good Corpse grew hot, then vanished in a blast of five-colored light as the Good Corpse appeared before the original body and Peng Tianlin.
• The Good Corpse opened his eyes and released pressure that made Peng Tianlin feel as if he faced a Great Sage; the original body explained that there was no longer a need to hide him.

Peng Tianlin brought Yi Xuan to the Longevity Domain to ask whether technology could help the gravely injured Great Sage of Longevity recover faster. The Great Sage revealed that healing naturally could take more than ten million years, leaving Yi Xuan to consider how technology might aid him.

• After returning to the Mother Planet, Yi Xuan gave Peng Tianlin two Space Giant Dragons, while Peng Tianlin remained concerned about the Human Clan's need for more.
• Yi Xuan recalled that researchers had completed a Space Giant Dragon only after thousands of attempts, and that later dragons had been created with his ability of Creation.
• Peng Tianlin asked Yi Xuan to accompany him to the Longevity Domain, and Yi Xuan agreed.
• Yi Xuan was stunned to see the Great Sage of Longevity aged and withered by his grievous injuries.
• The Great Sage of Longevity explained that he had refused the Pillar of Creation's power to avoid weakening the Human Clan's defenses, but natural recovery could take over ten million years.
• The Great Sage of Longevity asked whether technology could help him heal.

Yi Xuan eagerly questioned the Great Sage of Longevity about his injuries and the nature of Great Sages before bringing him to the Mother Planet for treatment. He gave the Great Sage a month to prepare, while Mother Planet researchers began discussing how to uncover Great Sage secrets and develop ways to restrain them.

• Yi Xuan excitedly accepted the Great Sage of Longevity's request for help and spent several days questioning him about his injuries, Great Sage traits, and corrupted Echo of Life.
• Yi Xuan invited the Great Sage of Longevity to the Mother Planet, where residents greeted him with curious, predatory stares and whispered about studying his blood, genes, and energy.
• Yi Xuan warned the crowd and reassured the puzzled Great Sage of Longevity with an explanation of the researchers' behavior.
• Yi Xuan assigned the Great Sage of Longevity lodging and told him to prepare for a month before treatment began.
• The Great Sage of Longevity began cultivating, while Mother Planet researchers held a seminar on cracking Great Sage secrets and developing ways to restrain them.

The original confronted the researchers over their reckless plans to test the injured Great Sage of Longevity and reminded them that their priority was healing him. He left them with another half a month to prepare a detailed treatment plan.

• Liang Shi, Niu Keli, and the other researchers argued over who should test the Great Sage of Longevity first and whether they should draw his blood.
• Liang Shi reminded the researchers that the Great Sage deserved respect, and the original arrived and rebuked them for discussing him like a test subject.
• The original asked the departments to present their plans, and Niu Keli displayed dangerous equipment, including a Space-Shattering Bomb powerful enough to destroy a galaxy.
• After hearing several plans, the original stopped the presentation and told the researchers to focus on healing the Great Sage rather than dissecting or harming him.
• The original left and gave the researchers another half a month to produce a detailed treatment plan.

Yi Xuan’s researchers spent months preparing to examine the Great Sage of Longevity, whose treatment was postponed as they gathered data. Meanwhile, Xingtian struggled to understand how a Supreme Powerhouse could advance beyond the limits of the universe.

• Liang Shi brought the researchers’ revised treatment plans to Yi Xuan, who heard them present their proposals over the course of a three-month conference.
• Yi Xuan told the Great Sage of Longevity that examinations would take a long time, and the Great Sage agreed to proceed despite his discomfort.
• Yi Xuan devoted the Mother Planet’s research resources to examining the Great Sage and established a department to develop specialized equipment.
• After a century of examinations, the researchers had gathered an estimated one percent of the Great Sage’s data, while treatment remained far off.
• Xingtian asked Feng Jiu about his stalled cultivation, then wondered how he could break through the universe’s limits when even a Great Sage could not do so.

Feng Jiu explained to Xingtian that Supreme Powerhouses could not advance beyond their realm because the universe itself restricted them, not because their bodies or comprehension were inadequate. He told Xingtian that differences in their strength came from how much Power of Principle they mastered, leaving Xingtian focused on comprehending the Principle of Fire.

• Feng Jiu questioned Xingtian about bottlenecks and challenged his belief that they came from cultivation advancing too quickly.
• Feng Jiu explained that Supreme Powerhouses had explored advancement for hundreds of millions of years before a Great Sage declared that the road ahead had ended.
• Xingtian objected that the Golden Crow patriarch, Jian Nu, and the Great Sages stood above ordinary Supreme Powerhouses.
• Feng Jiu explained that the universe restricted Supreme Powerhouses and that the Golden Crow patriarch and Jian Nu had an advantage because they mastered more Power of Principle.
• Xingtian learned that he should comprehend as many Principles as possible and began focusing on the Principle of Fire.

After realizing the Principle of Fire did not suit him, Xingtian discovered that his negative emotions and the cultivation texts in his mind made the Principle of Battle his true path. With the war paused, he challenged the Demon Race’s Supreme Powerhouses to keep improving, and after five thousand years his Principle of Battle matched his Principle of Fire, though he continued seeking a breakthrough.

• Xingtian recognized that his affinity for fire came from his bloodlines and past choices, not from his own nature, and began searching for a better-suited Principle.
• His original self transmitted the Cultivation Assistance System’s texts to him, and Xingtian found that his negative emotions suited the Principle of Battle.
• Xingtian realized the Demon Race generally comprehended Principles through bloodline inheritance, while his own path relied on battle and emotion.
• When the Human-Demon war stopped, Xingtian began challenging Supreme Powerhouses in the Demon Race’s army to cultivate the Principle of Battle.
• Over five thousand years, Xingtian’s combat awareness and Principle of Battle grew until they matched his Principle of Fire, but he kept seeking a qualitative change.

The original body discovered that Great Sages gained their overwhelming advantage by fusing with the universe, then began treating the Great Sage of Longevity and the Echo of Life. After five thousand more years, Xingtian challenged the Golden Crow patriarch and neared the Demon Race’s strongest Supreme Powerhouses, while the Phoenix Ancestor stayed silent about his rise.

• The original body concluded that Great Sages were recognized as part of the universe, which gave them privileges beyond their measurable strength.
• The original body discarded the old treatment plan and began treating the Great Sage of Longevity and the Echo of Life using the examination data.
• Five thousand years passed, and the Human-Demon Battlefield remained peaceful as the Human Clan developed and its Space Giant Dragons increased to one hundred and fifty.
• Xingtian absorbed the ancient combat texts, refined his Principle of Battle, and challenged the Golden Crow patriarch, narrowly losing.
• The Golden Crow patriarch reported Xingtian’s strength to the Demon Race’s Great Sages, but the Phoenix Ancestor said nothing.

Yi Xuan completed the Echo of Life’s repair and returned it to the Great Sage of Longevity on the Mother Planet. The Great Sage vanished after sensing trouble, and Yi Xuan reacted with a complicated expression.

• Metal spiders restored the Echo of Life’s surface, then eight dragons bound it in a membrane and returned it to its snow-white state.
• Mirrors surrounded the Echo of Life and poured energy into it until it regained its emerald-green appearance.
• The original body inspected the repaired Echo of Life and said its enhancements would require Longevity’s cooperation for testing.
• The original body released the Echo of Life, which immediately vanished to find the Great Sage of Longevity.
• The Echo of Life appeared in the Great Sage of Longevity’s hand in a Mother Planet laboratory, where he thanked Yi Xuan.
• The Great Sage of Longevity suddenly vanished after exclaiming that something was wrong, and Yi Xuan’s expression turned complicated.

The original body learned that the Demon Race had broken the sixty-thousand-year truce and sent all twelve Great Sages to war, destroying the Space Giant Dragons on the front lines. He and the Good Corpse headed to the battlefield as Liang Shi took charge of the Mother Planet and the Human Clan relied on newly advanced weapons to resist the Demon Race.

• Liang Shi showed the others a screen indicating that more than a thousand Space Giant Dragons had died, and the original body confirmed they had been wiped out.
• The original body revealed that all twelve Demon Race Great Sages had gone to war, prompting the Mother Planet's researchers to prepare to fight.
• The original body ordered Liang Shi to oversee the Mother Planet and wait for his signal, then left for the Human-Demon Battlefield with the Good Corpse.
• Xingtian told the original body that the Space Giant Dragons had fallen and that upgraded Human Clan weapons had killed a Supreme Powerhouse.
• The original body reflected that Human Clan technology had advanced enough to threaten Supreme Powerhouses, while the Demon Race's population had more than tripled.

The Human Clan used the Starry Sky Annihilation Cannon to destroy more than fifty Demon Race Supreme Powerhouses, while the Demon Race’s Great Sages faced the Great Sage of Longevity above the battlefield. Yi Xuan’s original body stayed hidden as the Good Corpse joined the Human Clan’s army, leaving the decisive confrontation to the Great Sages.

• The Human Clan fired the Starry Sky Annihilation Cannon, killing more than fifty Demon Race Supreme Powerhouses and making Xingtian and Feng Jiu wary.
• The Human Clan’s leaders looked to the Great Sage of Longevity and noticed that he had repaired the Echo of Life; Peng Tianlin realized Yi Xuan must have done it.
• Yi Xuan’s original body emerged with the Good Corpse beyond the battlefield and told him to go ahead alone while he remained hidden.
• The Good Corpse entered the Human Clan’s army, where soldiers recognized him, and reached Peng Tianlin’s side.
• The Good Corpse told Peng Tianlin that Yi Xuan had other matters to attend to and looked up at the twenty-two Great Sages facing each other above the armies.

Xingtian secretly guided the Starry Sky Annihilation Cannon’s attacks toward the Demon Race’s Supreme Powerhouses, devastating them and revealing his role as an undercover agent. The Great Sages finally intervened when the Phoenix Ancestor attacked the Human Clan army and Great Sage Biqing blocked him.

• The Starry Sky Annihilation Cannon struck the Demon Race’s Supreme Powerhouses, killing several and badly injuring Feng Jiu.
• Xingtian urged the weakened Feng Jiu to retreat, then shared a knowing smile with the Good Corpse.
• The Good Corpse’s adjustments to the cannon, guided by Xingtian’s reports from inside the Demon Race, had made the attacks unusually accurate.
• The Phoenix Ancestor sent a flaming wing toward the Human Clan army, and Great Sage Biqing blocked it with weak water.

Great Sage Xumi accepted Hundun’s challenge as the Human and Demon Races fought for survival. On the battlefield below, Peng Tianlin’s shield formations slowed the Demon Race’s advance, but their immense numbers and the strain on Human soldiers made victory uncertain.

• Hundun challenged Great Sage Xumi to fight, and Xumi accepted, rousing the Human Clan with the stakes of their battle.
• As the Great Sages fought in the void, Xingtian and the Good Corpse focused on the war below while the Demon Race pushed through the Human Clan’s weakening firepower.
• Peng Tianlin ordered the immortal soldiers to form shield ranks, link their energy barriers, and attack the Demon Race with spears.
• Human soldiers took turns firing the energy weapons, growing pale from exhaustion as the Good Corpse and Peng Tianlin worried over the Demon Race’s overwhelming numbers.
• The Demon Race reached the shield formations and continued charging through their deadly barriers, even eating the flesh of fallen demons as they advanced.

Peng Tianlin activated the shield formation’s hidden attack, trapping the demons in a force that destroyed nearly all of them as Great Sage Canglan intercepted Great Sage Qilin. The attack reached full power and wiped out the remaining Demon Supreme Powerhouses, leaving a vast vacuum zone between the armies.

• Peng Tianlin activated the shield formation after the Good Corpse urged him not to wait, and the formation’s surface blazed with light.
• The Starry Sky Annihilation Cannon fired again, killing more than fifty Demon Supreme Powerhouses, while Xingtian feigned injury to avoid entering the battlefield.
• The demons charged the shield formation, triggering an invisible force that swept them into increasingly rapid, uncontrollable movement and reduced most of them to cosmic dust.
• Great Sage Qilin attacked the Human Clan’s army, but Great Sage Canglan blocked the shockwave and challenged him to fight in the dimensional space.
• Peng Tianlin ordered the shield formation raised to one hundred percent, and its attacks killed the remaining Demon Supreme Powerhouses, creating a vast vacuum zone between the armies.

The Human Clan used the Heaven and Earth Force Field to wipe out huge numbers of demons, then sent more than ten thousand Supreme Powerhouses through the shield formation to fight the advancing army. The Demon Race's Supreme Powerhouses joined the battle, where Xingtian and the Good Corpse stood out with strange, powerful fighting styles and turned their attention toward each other.

• The Heaven and Earth Force Field cleared most of the battlefield and killed over a thousand Demon Race Supreme Powerhouses, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow replenished the ranks and the armies resumed fighting.
• Peng Tianlin sent more than ten thousand Human Clan Supreme Powerhouses through gaps in the shield formation, where they slaughtered the weaker demons.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow ordered the demon soldiers to retreat as the Demon Race's Supreme Powerhouses descended and joined the fight.
• A veteran Demon Race Supreme Powerhouse found Xingtian recovering and brought him back into the battle.
• The two armies withdrew as the Supreme Powerhouses fought, and the other combatants avoided Xingtian and the Good Corpse because of their unusual attacks.
• Xingtian and the Good Corpse turned toward one another after being left isolated on the battlefield.

Xingtian and the Good Corpse turned their apparent standoff into a battle, revealing Xingtian’s Phoenix True Body and the Good Corpse’s enormous mecha form. Their clash ended when unstable dimensional space forced both armies back and the Great Sages began fighting in earnest, while the original body sensed a strange power entering that space.

• Xingtian and the Good Corpse realized the battlefield had mistaken their private conversation for a standoff, so they exchanged blows to keep up appearances.
• Xingtian revealed his Phoenix True Body, while the Good Corpse emerged from a five-colored sphere in a gigantic mecha form.
• The Good Corpse shattered two of Xingtian’s flaming sabers and repelled the Demon Race’s Supreme Powerhouses with a five-colored barrier.
• The Good Corpse killed several Demon Race Supreme Powerhouses as they tried to flee, but spatial rifts forced him to stop attacking.
• The Human Clan and Demon Race armies retreated as the Great Sages entered dimensional space and began fighting.
• The original body watched the dimensional space and sensed an unfamiliar energy that he guessed was the power of the Pillar of Creation.

The original body and the armies waited as the battle between twenty-two Great Sages raged inside the dimensional space, while the Pillar of Creation’s power dwindled away. After the universe was overcome by supernatural mourning, three dead Human Clan Great Sages fell from the dimensional space, revealing that the Human Clan had suffered a devastating loss.

• The original body noticed that the power of the Pillar of Creation was fading and could not enter the dimensional space to help the Human Clan’s Great Sages.
• Sixth Brother heard unexplained crying, and the sobbing spread through the universe, making people and even powerful beings weep.
• The crying stopped and returned three times before the battlefield’s chaos subsided and the dimensional space cracked open.
• Great Sage Chenhuan, Great Sage Leiji, and Great Sage Piaomiao fell from the dimensional space, dead.
• Peng Tianlin and the original body realized that Great Sages had fallen and the universe was mourning their deaths.