Chapter Summaries

Su Changge led Returning Origin Holy Land’s powerful forces into Nine Netherworlds after threatening the assembled factions and joining forces with Luo Yan Yu. As he sensed a familiar presence in the darkness, Niu Motian and the other Demon Race leaders set aside their plans to target him and entered the realm to pursue the Ancient Demon Court’s inheritance.

• Returning Origin Holy Land’s Sage Realm disciples and powerful leaders arrived, prompting an uproar among the gathered cultivators.
• Su Changge warned the other factions not to challenge him and reminded them that they had failed to withstand a single move from him at Ancient God Mountain.
• Su Changge told Luo Yan Yu to bring her people, and she wondered whether he intended to use her as cannon fodder.
• Before entering Nine Underworlds Gate, Su Changge sensed a familiar presence in the darkness and hoped to meet the old acquaintance again.
• Niu Motian, Feng Muxin, and Long Hao discussed retrieving the Ancient Demon Court’s inheritance and slowly killing Su Changge before entering Nine Netherworlds.

As factions entered the Nine Underworlds Gate, their leaders pursued the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin Fragments while Mu Yanxi and Heavenly Dao's Sons prepared to act against Su Changge. The Luo River Sword Sect recovered from Zhang Wangqing's beating, with Limitless Pride Heaven still unconscious.

• Ao Jiuyang told the Underworld group to avoid conflict with Su Changge and focus on retrieving the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin Fragments, while Xiu Qi said Su Changge had seemed to carry a similar aura.
• Mu Yanxi led the Netherwind Emperor Clan into the Nine Underworlds Gate and ordered them to covertly attack other peak factions, while excluding the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• Qin Xuanya entered the gate alone, reflecting that she had become Su Changge's enemy as one of the Heavenly Dao's Sons and wanted to settle the matter herself.
• Zhang Wangqing entered the gate seeking a worthy fight with Su Changge after retrieving a Sword Phantom from the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance.
• The Luo River Sword Sect emerged from a ravine after Zhang Wangqing had beaten them, and the Red Dust Young Sword Master confirmed that the swordsman was gone.
• The Luo River Sword Sect complained about Zhang Wangqing and looked at the unconscious Limitless Pride Heaven, whose clothes were shattered and whose face and buttocks bore Sword Qi cuts.

Su Changge led the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples into the eerie Nine Underworlds Gate, where they encountered a pack of ancient beasts. A hidden Heavenly Rat Clan prodigy provoked the beasts into attacking, leaving Su Changge’s group surrounded.

• Su Changge and his companions entered the Nine Underworlds Gate, and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter noted that its deathly aura resembled the Endless White Bone Sea.
• Mingsen Priest and other Blood Asuras watched the group and planned to use the beasts near the Red Beast Forbidden Zone to weaken them before the Blood Sacrifice.
• Yun Xinyan noticed that the area had grown unnaturally quiet as Su Changge’s group approached the Red Beast Forbidden Zone.
• A pack of ancient beasts emerged from the blood mist, and Su Changge stopped Ye Lintian from attacking while he studied them.
• A black-robed Heavenly Rat Clan prodigy threw a stone at Su Changge’s group, and Li Haotian struck him with divine light.
• The ancient beasts roared and charged at Su Changge’s group from all directions.

Su Changge wiped out the dark ancient beasts that had ambushed the Returning Origin Holy Land and Jade Pool Sacred Ground, then discovered Heavenly Demon God Mountain’s involvement. He proposed turning the tables on the Demon Race and asked whether the group had heard of the Secret Realm Bandit.

• The Returning Origin Holy Land disciples fought the charging dark ancient beasts, but the creatures dodged their attacks and endured their spells.
• Ye Lintian attacked with his spear, but the beasts repeatedly evaded his strikes as if they could foresee them.
• Su Changge summoned countless Light Swords and killed many beasts, driving the survivors back into the blood-colored fog.
• Su Changge found a Heavenly Demon God Mountain insignia among the rubble and told the group that its people had set them up.
• Su Changge urged the Returning Origin Holy Land and Jade Pool Sacred Ground to retaliate against the Demon Race and asked if they had heard of the Secret Realm Bandit.

Su Changge and his allies stirred up conflict among the factions searching for the Nine Netherworlds, while Mu Yanxi prepared to eliminate groups she remembered as pawns of the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance. Mu Yanxi left Silver Moon with orders to attack those groups and protect Su Changge.

• Su Changge arranged for Returning Origin Holy Land and Jade Pool Sacred Ground disciples to disguise themselves as other factions and provoke hostility.
• Su Changge, Luo Yan Yu, and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter impersonated members of the Ancient Phoenix Clan and Ancient Dragon Clan, sparking a large-scale fight between them.
• King Yama's Palace and the Underworld clashed over the unrest, while the Netherwind Emperor Clan secretly joined the Returning Origin Holy Land's scheme under Mu Yanxi's orders.
• At Black Cliff Lake, Mu Yanxi recalled that the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance and its pawn factions would threaten Su Changge and affect the River of Reincarnation.
• Mu Yanxi ordered Silver Moon to lead elite Netherwind Emperor Clan members against Rosy Cloud Valley, Yangming Mountain, the Heavenly Cloud Sect, and Azure Thunder Hall, even if they could only grievously injure them.

Su Changge brought the Bone Sea Royal Daughter and Luo Yan Yu to Snow Heaven Peak, where he discovered that Heavenly Demon God Mountain had opened a sealed gate in search of one of four keys to the Nine Netherworlds. As Su Changge climbed the mountain, a lone zither player wondered whether the one fated by destiny had arrived.

• Su Changge searched the strange outer regions of the Nine Netherworlds for Niu Motian and the Heavenly Demon God Mountain forces, then found Snow Heaven Peak blocked by a suppressive law.
• Niu Motian and the Heavenly Demon God Mountain prodigies opened a frozen gate atop the peak, believing the first key to the Nine Netherworlds was inside.
• Niu Motian revealed that four keys were needed to enter the true Nine Underworlds World and said he had arranged for a powerful figure to guard the mountain path.
• Su Changge and his companions climbed Snow Heaven Peak, dispelling its deadly snowstorms and passing the bodies of Human Clan and Demon Clan prodigies.
• Su Changge heard zither music from higher up the mountain, where a black-haired woman played alone and asked whether the one fated by destiny had arrived.

Qin Xuanya challenged Su Changge with the Lyre Dao, and after his music overcame her opening attack, they agreed to decide their victory through a musical contest. Qin Xuanya began playing her piece, “Frost Snow Millennium,” as the snowfall intensified, while Su Changge remained poised to answer.

• Qin Xuanya unleashed a storm of frost and snow against Su Changge, but he stopped the Bone Sea Royal Daughter and faced the attack himself.
• Su Changge formed a lyre string from a Dao rune and used its resonant soundwaves to overcome Qin Xuanya’s musical assault.
• Qin Xuanya explained that she had to repay a favor, and Su Changge proposed that they use the lyre to decide victory; she agreed.
• Su Changge and Qin Xuanya sat apart in the snow while Luo Yan Yu and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter watched in silence.
• Qin Xuanya revealed her Harmony of Person and Lyre, manifested a sacred figure, and began playing her piece, “Frost Snow Millennium.”

Su Changge and Qin Xuanya clashed through their lyre music until his melody drew her into the wider world he had experienced. As she resonated with his song, Qin Xuanya began to see that life offered more than the loneliness she had known.

• Su Changge and Qin Xuanya summoned their musical laws and fought with lyre melodies that shook the earth.
• Qin Xuanya unleashed Frost Snow Millennium, while Su Changge countered with Formation Breaking Divine Melody and pierced her divine soul with his killing intent.
• Qin Xuanya continued playing through the pain, remembering how her unmatched talent had isolated her from everyone in the Ancient Lyre Sect.
• Su Changge played a melody shaped by his travels, battles, and experiences across the world.
• Qin Xuanya's fingers began to follow Su Changge's melody, and she experienced the colorful world depicted in his music.
• Qin Xuanya stood in the snowy vision and realized that the world held more than loneliness and that the snow might not be as cold as people said.

On Snow Heaven Peak, Su Changge’s lyre music moved Qin Xuanya, who refused the Heavenly Dao’s demand to kill him and chose to die rather than remain his enemy. After the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance learned of her death, Su Changge reached the summit and found signs that others had entered the Ice Gate before him.

• Su Changge and Qin Xuanya stopped playing, and he told her she had let him win before they went their separate ways.
• The Heavenly Dao’s voice accused Qin Xuanya of sparing Su Changge and began reclaiming her power, but she refused to become his enemy.
• Qin Xuanya leaped from the cliff on Snow Heaven Peak, hoping she and Su Changge could have become true friends.
• San learned that one of the Four Great Heavenly Dao’s Sons had died by suicide and raged that someone had disrupted the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance’s plans.
• Su Changge reached the summit, sensed lingering Demonic Qi at the Ice Gate, and said he and his companions would go claim what was inside.

Su Changge arrived at the Frost Ice Corridor’s end with Luo Yan Yu and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter, where Niu Motian had found an Ice Blue Key. When Niu Motian refused to surrender it, Su Changge attacked the demon clan prodigies, who formed a combined technique to resist him.

• Niu Motian blasted apart ice and found an Ice Blue Key, then mocked Su Changge for not appearing.
• Su Changge, Luo Yan Yu, and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter entered the hall, startling Niu Motian and the demon clan prodigies.
• Su Changge demanded that Niu Motian hand over the key and unleashed a giant palm attack against Heavenly Demon God Mountain’s people.
• Niu Motian called on the prodigies to form the Ancient Word Divine Seal, and their gathered divine light became a massive golden ancient character.

Su Changge overwhelmed the Heavenly Demon God Mountain prodigies while Luo Yan Yu and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter attacked Niu Motian, who awakened the Power of Heavenly Dao and fought back with a thunder axe. The chapter ended with the prodigies defeated and Su Changge facing Niu Motian alone.

• Su Changge clashed with the prodigies' Rupture Word Incantation as they tried to hold him off until Niu Motian finished gathering power.
• Luo Yan Yu suppressed Niu Motian, but he awakened the Power of Heavenly Dao and reached the Holy Master Realm with a thunder axe.
• The Bone Sea Royal Daughter sent a torrent of bones and skeletons against Niu Motian, whose lightning attacks failed to destroy them.
• Su Changge smashed the prodigies' combined attack and left them scattered and badly injured.
• Su Changge turned to Niu Motian and said it was time for him to die if he had no last words.

Su Changge overwhelmed Niu Motian and revealed a terrifying devouring power that consumed his Thunder Divine Bull and drained his strength. Niu Motian tried to flee and invoke his status as a Heavenly Dao’s Son, but Su Changge killed him.

• Su Changge destroyed Niu Motian’s thunder battle-axe and shattered his thunder defenses with his physical strength.
• Niu Motian summoned a Thunder Divine Bull, but Su Changge stopped the women from intervening and suppressed it with Myriad Realms Devour.
• Niu Motian realized Su Changge possessed the Devouring Sacred Body and blamed the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance for giving him false intelligence.
• Su Changge bound Niu Motian with devouring chains as he tried to escape, then crushed and devoured him despite his threats invoking Heavenly Demon God Mountain.

Su Changge absorbed Niu Motian, took his key, and ordered the Returning Origin Holy Land to hunt the Ancient Dragon Clan and Ancient Phoenix Clan. As the clans reeled from the attacks and Niu Motian’s disappearance, the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace approached Long Hao and Feng Muxin with an alliance proposal against Su Changge’s forces.

• Su Changge absorbed Niu Motian, discovered that his Heavenly Dao power could not be absorbed, and took the key needed to enter the Nine Netherworlds.
• Su Changge sent a golden signal ordering the Returning Origin Holy Land to encircle and exterminate the Ancient Dragon Clan and Ancient Phoenix Clan.
• Niu Wang sensed that the mark he had left on Niu Motian had vanished, but reassured himself that his son might merely be trapped in a secret land.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land and Jade Pool Sacred Ground ambushed the two clans, leaving Long Hao and Feng Muxin with little more than a thousand survivors and two keys lost.
• Ao Jiuyang and Xiu Qi told Long Hao and Feng Muxin that Niu Motian was dead and proposed an alliance to destroy the Returning Origin Holy Land.

Su Changge encountered Zhang Wangqing, the youngest peak master of the Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect, at the Promised Land, and the two sword cultivators clashed with their opposing Sword Qi Worlds. As prodigies watched from afar, Zhang Wangqing launched the first direct strike at Su Changge.

• Su Changge waited at the Promised Land and wondered why Niu Motian and Long Hao had not arrived.
• Zhang Wangqing approached Su Changge and declared that he would defeat him without relying on outside help.
• Zhang Wangqing unleashed his sword intent, drawing the attention of nearby prodigies, including the injured Limitless Pride Heaven.
• Su Changge and Zhang Wangqing released their sword qi, forming two clashing Sword Qi Worlds that devastated the surrounding forest and kept onlookers at a distance.
• Zhang Wangqing formed a sword gesture and slashed at Su Changge, shouting, “Sever!”

Su Changge evaded Zhang Wangqing’s sword storm before shattering his enormous descending sword with a single strike of sword intent. Zhang Wangqing drew his inheritance sword, Supreme Forgetfulness, and Su Changge recognized his sect, recalling his teacher’s order to break the bones of anyone from the Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect.

• Su Changge used Zhang Wangqing’s sword qi to practice his movement technique, dodging every attack.
• Zhang Wangqing gathered the sword qi into a massive Heaven Piercing Divine Sword and sent it crashing toward Su Changge.
• Su Changge struck the giant sword with Godslaying Sword Intent, One Thought of Gods and Devils, and split it into scattered light.
• Zhang Wangqing introduced his inheritance sword, Supreme Forgetfulness, and drew it for the first time against a younger-generation opponent.
• Su Changge recognized Zhang Wangqing’s Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect and decided to get serious, remembering his teacher’s command.

Su Changge and Zhang Wangqing fought a fierce sword duel, and Zhang Wangqing awakened the power of the Supreme Forgetfulness Sword. Su Changge broke Zhang Wangqing’s strongest technique with a sword taught by the Ghost Sword Immortal and left him defeated with the Azure Heaven Sword at his throat.

• Su Changge drew the Azure Heaven Sword and clashed with Zhang Wangqing, sending waves of sword qi across the battlefield.
• Zhang Wangqing realized Su Changge had suppressed his attacks, then awakened the Supreme Forgetfulness Sword’s power and invoked the Heavenly Mountain Sword Immortal’s legacy.
• Zhang Wangqing unleashed his strongest technique, Limitless Skyfall, as Su Changge chose to fight with swordsmanship alone.
• Su Changge used the Ghost Sword Immortal’s technique, Solar Crown, Lunar Splendor, to shatter Zhang Wangqing’s sword strike.
• Su Changge pointed the Azure Heaven Sword at Zhang Wangqing’s throat and told him he had lost.

Su Changge defeated Zhang Wangqing and broke several of his ribs while delivering his master's message to the Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect. Zhang Wangqing gave Su Changge a fiery crimson key and asked him to tell Zhang Wudao that the sect still missed him; the Nine Burials Sword Box then revealed Zhang Wudao's lingering figure facing home.

• Zhang Wangqing admitted defeat and asked Su Changge where he had learned his sword technique, and Su Changge named Ghost Sword Immortal of Yellow Springs as his master.
• Su Changge awakened the bloodlines of two great physiques and punched Zhang Wangqing into the ground, breaking several of his ribs.
• Limitless Pride Heaven cheered from a hidden cave because Su Changge had avenged the injury Zhang Wangqing had inflicted on him.
• Zhang Wangqing accepted the beating as a way to ease Zhang Wudao's anger, then promised Su Changge they would fight again on the Emperor's Path.
• Zhang Wangqing gave Su Changge a crimson key taken from a Dragon Clan member and asked him to tell Zhang Wudao that the Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect missed him and wanted him to come home.
• The Nine Burials Sword Box glowed, and Zhang Wudao's vague figure appeared beside an old man as they smiled and looked toward the Heavenly Mountain Divine Sword Sect.

Zhang Wangqing destroyed the Sword Phantom, prompting San to accelerate the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance’s plan and send Fourteen after Su Changge. Meanwhile, the Demon Race challenged Returning Origin Holy Land to battle at the Asura River, as Mu Yanxi prepared to join the conflict and pursue the Heavenly Dao Inheritor’s early awakening.

• Zhang Wangqing rejected the Sword Phantom’s temptation and shattered it, while San learned he had lost contact with it and ordered Nine to advance the plan.
• San summoned Fourteen, who had mastered the Three Heavenly Dao Styles and reached the Holy Master Realm, and sent him through a Space Channel to kill Su Changge.
• Ao Jiuyang and Xiu Qi proposed luring Su Changge to the Blood Asuras, and Long Hao and Feng Muxin challenged Returning Origin Holy Land to a decisive battle at the Asura River.
• Su Changge ordered Returning Origin Holy Land to gather and told Luo Divine Daughter to prepare for war.
• Mu Yanxi received orders to accelerate the awakening plan, then commanded her people to exterminate targeted factions and ambush the Demon Race at the Asura River.

Su Changge led Returning Origin Holy Land to the Asura River after ruthlessly silencing Demon Race agents who tried to undermine the Holy Land’s morale. His followers entered the dangerous blood mist emboldened by his confidence.

• Demon Race agents spread rumors that Returning Origin Holy Land was too afraid to attend the agreed battle at the Asura River.
• Su Changge arrived with the Young Supremes and identified and killed the people who had insulted Returning Origin Holy Land.
• When disguised Demon Race members criticized Su Changge, he killed them with sword qi that carved an abyss into the ground.
• Su Changge declared that he could break any schemes alone, then ordered his followers toward the Asura River.
• Su Changge entered the blood mist first, and Returning Origin Holy Land and Jade Pool Dao Domain disciples followed with their morale restored.

Su Changge and the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples entered the blood-mist territory of the Blood Asura Clan, where he destroyed the Dark Blood Ancient Beasts and confronted the clan. The Blood Asura Priest sent a powerful clansman to challenge them, and Li Haotian stepped forward to fight, awakening his Chaos Planting Green Lotus phenomenon.

• Long Hao and other leaders hid in the Asura River and planned to use the Blood Asura Clan’s retaliation to ambush Su Changge’s group for the fourth key.
• Su Changge warned the disciples to stay alert, cut off a strange tentacle, and destroyed a swarm of Dark Blood Ancient Beasts with a golden palm strike.
• The Blood Asura Clan emerged from the mist, and its Priest called the intruders sacrificial pigs before ordering a powerful clansman to attack Su Changge.
• Li Haotian, Ye Lintian, and Bi Qingxia asked Su Changge for permission to fight, and Su Changge granted it to them.
• Li Haotian awakened his Ancient Sacred Body Phenomenon, Chaos Planting Green Lotus, while Su Changge promised Ye Lintian more chances to show off against the Demon Race.