Chapter Summaries

Ying Zhou and Si Ming scouted the Demon Race army, which appeared to be heading toward Medicine King Valley despite the strategic risks. Si Ming sent Ying Zhou to attack the camp, where he encountered the supposedly dead Demon General Hujia.

• Ying Zhou and Si Ming shared a quiet drink beneath the moon, and Si Ming later took Ying Zhou to scout the Demon Race army.
• Si Ming studied the army’s route and reasoned that an attack on Medicine King Valley made little strategic sense, but he decided they could raid the camp.
• Si Ming ordered Ying Zhou to target the enemy leader and retreat if a Demon King or Demon Emperor appeared, while he covered him from behind.
• Ying Zhou entered the Divine Intent Halts Slaughter state and charged through the sleeping demon beasts, cutting a bloody path into their camp.
• Hujia blocked Ying Zhou’s attack, and Ying Zhou recognized the Demon General he had believed was destroyed; Hujia explained that his Primordial Spirit had let him reshape his body.

Ying Zhou fought Hujia and Xu Ming while Si Ming infiltrated the demon beast army and triggered a camp-wide riot. Ying Zhou gained the upper hand against the two demons and ended the chapter attacking Xu Ming.

• Ying Zhou defeated Hujia in their rematch, but Xu Ming interrupted before he could finish him.
• Si Ming entered the demon army in shadow and killed a Demon General, causing the suppressed beasts to riot and attack friend and foe alike.
• Hujia and Xu Ming attacked Ying Zhou together, but he turned their techniques against each other and wounded them both.
• Xu Ming warned Hujia to stop underestimating Ying Zhou, while Ying Zhou launched another attack at Xu Ming.

Ying Zhou battled Hujia and Xu Ming, using his Asura arts and newly comprehended saber move to overwhelm them before exhaustion stopped him from pursuing. Si Ming killed the two demons, and as their army fell into chaos, he dragged Ying Zhou off to search for the missing Demon Kings, Demon Emperor, and other demon armies.

• Ying Zhou killed Xu Ming's companion and used the Brahma Sea Asura Art to trap Hujia and the surrounding demons in an illusion.
• Xu Ming freed Hujia with Toad's Cry Across the Nine Heavens, and the two demons attacked Ying Zhou together.
• Ying Zhou defended against their assault and struck them with Asura Tempers the Heart, Crosses the Brahma Sea, severely wounding both.
• Xu Ming tried to flee with Hujia, but Si Ming intercepted and killed them both with Sword Qi.
• The demon soldiers and Demon Generals scattered, throwing the demon beast army into chaos.
• Si Ming noticed the Demon Kings, Demon Emperor, and many expected demon beasts were absent, then dragged the exhausted Ying Zhou to search for other armies.

After the Demon Emperor’s surprise attack on Rui State killed eighteen Spirit Transformation Grandmasters, Si Ming deduced that the Military God had used his victory as a feint and set out to find the fleeing Thunder King. He activated a hidden trump card—a Profound Armor stored in his bracelet—but the chapter ended as the armor materialized around him.

• Si Ming learned that the Demon Emperor and his forces had attacked Rui State’s meeting of national representatives, killing eighteen Spirit Transformation Grandmasters, while Thunder King Xing Daozhuang escaped with a group of survivors.
• Si Ming concluded that the Military God had used news of his victory and the demon army’s march to distract everyone from the attack on Rui State.
• Si Ming explained that the Demon Emperor’s subordinates had helped trap the Grandmasters, then decided to go rescue Xing Daozhuang and the people fleeing with him.
• Si Ming revealed a hidden trump card to Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue, activating a bracelet that deployed his Profound Armor.

Xing Daozhuang led representatives from Rui State, the Su Kingdom, and France through the forest after the Demon Race attacked the International Building. He agreed to let the exhausted group rest, but warned that the Demon Race might still be hunting him to frighten the Human Race.

• Xing Daozhuang guided several dozen survivors through the mountain forest after escaping the attack on the International Building.
• Lord Yunxia urged Xing Daozhuang to stop because the fleeing group was exhausted and injured.
• Xing Daozhuang agreed to let the survivors rest after seeing their condition.
• The Su Kingdom's representative asked Xing Daozhuang whether they were safe, recalling how the Russian representative had been killed.
• Xing Daozhuang explained that the Demon Race might have already achieved its goals or might continue hunting them, especially to kill him and spread panic.

Xing Daozhuang stayed behind to hold off Huang Yan, Mengying, and the Demon Generals while Lord Yunxia led the others in retreat. Lord Yunxia struggled to protect the retreating group as the battle continued and casualties mounted.

• The Demon Race ambushed Xing Daozhuang and the representatives with Pale Flame and a force of Demon Generals.
• Mengying attacked with swarms of insects, while Huang Yan wounded Xing Daozhuang with a flaming harpoon.
• Lord Yunxia shielded Xing Daozhuang from Mengying’s ghostly attack, and Xing Daozhuang drove the figures back with lightning.
• Xing Daozhuang ordered Lord Yunxia to lead the others away while he stayed to hold the rear.
• Huang Yan narrowed the Pale Flame around Xing Daozhuang, and Mengying declared that she would kill him to avenge her earlier defeat.
• Lord Yunxia fought to protect the retreating group, pushing her Cultivation Body to its limit as casualties mounted.

Si Ming arrived as Lord Yunxia and the others were overwhelmed by Demon Generals, then killed nearly all their attackers. After learning Thunder King was holding off the Military God and Demon King Mengying alone, Si Ming set out to save him.

• Lord Yunxia’s sword attack weakened the Demon Generals, but Qianzhang swallowed one fighter and the Wild Boar King wounded her badly.
• The vulture demon attacked Lord Yunxia, but Si Ming arrived and killed him before he could reach her.
• Si Ming unleashed his sword wings and slaughtered nearly all the Demon Generals, then killed the Wild Boar King with a flaming Vermilion Bird strike.
• Si Ming pursued the fleeing demons and killed them all except Qianzhang, which escaped underground.
• Lord Yunxia told Si Ming that Thunder King was holding off the Military God and Demon King Mengying, and Si Ming agreed to save him.

Si Ming killed the thousand-zhang centipede and rushed toward Lord Yunxia’s destination. Meanwhile, Huang Yan and Mengying defeated Xing Daozhuang through coordinated attacks, leaving him mortally wounded.

• Si Ming used the Vermilion Flame Sword to kill the centipede, then flew away at great speed after Lord Yunxia prayed he would arrive in time.
• Xing Daozhuang wounded Mengying with the Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd, while Huang Yan injured Xing Daozhuang with Pale Flame.
• Mengying explained that the halberd was made from Bai Ze’s bones and restrained demons, and he and Huang Yan agreed to coordinate their attacks.
• Huang Yan defended against Xing Daozhuang while Mengying attacked, forcing Xing Daozhuang to the foot of the mountain.
• Xing Daozhuang unleashed his supreme thunder techniques, but Huang Yan weakened his attack and Mengying struck him through the chest.

Si Ming arrived as Huang Yan and Mengying prepared to leave after defeating Xing Daozhuang, then provoked Mengying into fighting instead of escaping. Si Ming overwhelmed the exhausted Demon King, while Huang Yan struggled to intervene.

• Huang Yan prepared to kill the near-dead Xing Daozhuang, while Mengying transformed the Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd into a bone weapon and healed himself with its power.
• Si Ming struck Mengying into a crater, then protected Xing Daozhuang and drove Huang Yan back when he attacked.
• Huang Yan urged Mengying to retreat, but Si Ming taunted him about killing Qianzhang, Xu Ming, Hujia, and Youtong until Mengying lost control and charged.
• Si Ming fired the Vermilion Flame Cannon and nearly destroyed Mengying, while Huang Yan used Void Ash Earth Core to give him time to escape the blast.
• Mengying attacked Si Ming with the halberd as Si Ming kept Huang Yan at bay with his sword wings and gained the upper hand in their duel.

Si Ming killed Mengying by turning Huang Yan’s flame dragon against him, but Huang Yan escaped. Si Ming then found Xing Daozhuang and helped him conceal the severity of his injuries as they returned to the survivors.

• Si Ming used Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars to transform Huang Yan’s flame dragon into a devastating firestorm that annihilated Mengying.
• Si Ming searched for Huang Yan but found that the Military God had escaped, then realized Xing Daozhuang’s halberd had melted in the blast.
• Xing Daozhuang awoke, and Si Ming offered to take him to Medicine King Valley for treatment.
• Xing Daozhuang insisted that they first reassure the survivors, so Si Ming transferred True Qi to help him pretend his injuries were minor.
• Lord Yunxia and the others welcomed Si Ming and Xing Daozhuang back, unaware that Xing Daozhuang was barely holding himself together.

Xing Daozhuang exposed and killed a suspected Demon Race spy before Si Ming took him to Medicine King Valley, where doctors treated his severe injuries. As Xing Daozhuang began a long recovery, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue surprised Murong Wu with a birthday celebration beneath the moon.

• Xing Daozhuang killed a guard he accused of being a Demon Race spy, and the leader of Rui State accepted the accusation to keep the group secure.
• Si Ming told the gathered survivors that Demon King Mengying was dead and the Military God had fled, then took the unconscious Xing Daozhuang to Medicine King Valley.
• Xing Daozhuang received emergency treatment, and Lord Yunxia arrived to look after him while Si Ming went to inform the Holy Maiden and the others.
• Murong Wu told Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue that Xing Daozhuang would survive but could take years to recover, and that his bone age and body structure were unusual.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue took Murong Wu to a moon-viewing feast and wished him a happy birthday.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue traded insults and turned Murong Wu’s suggestion of sworn brotherhood into a drinking contest. They both passed out after drinking Medicine King Valley’s specially prepared wine, and Ying Zhou woke the next morning refreshed and wondering whether Xia Guanxue was still asleep.

• Murong Wu suggested that Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue become sworn brothers, but both rejected the idea and insulted each other.
• Murong Wu persuaded the two to avoid fighting and settle their rivalry with a contest of civility.
• Ying Zhou challenged Xia Guanxue to drink without using Internal Cultivation, and Xia Guanxue accepted.
• Unaware that Medicine King Valley had added stupefying incense to the wine, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue kept drinking until they both passed out.
• Ying Zhou woke refreshed the next morning, planned to ask for more wine, and considered drawing a turtle wearing a green hat on Xia Guanxue’s face.

Ying Zhou, Xia Guanxue, and Murong Wu received poison-detecting weapon tassels before the Demon Race’s repeated surprise attacks revealed its strategy. The chapter ended with Xing Daozhuang explaining that the Military God aimed to weaken the Northern Continent’s Spirit Transformation Grandmasters while preserving a balance that kept Su State from intervening.

• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue argued over who won their drinking contest until Murong Wu gave each of them a poison-detecting tassel he had woven as a birthday thank-you.
• Xia Guanxue’s memories of his younger sister surfaced as he accepted the sword tassel, but Ying Zhou mistook his expression for romantic interest in Murong Wu and challenged him to a fight.
• The Demon Emperor’s forces left Rui State for France, then attacked Yi State’s capital and killed five Spirit Transformation Grandmasters while French parliament refused Si Ming’s request to pursue the demon beast army.
• The Mohist School’s experts routed the demon beasts, but Huang Yan regrouped them and used their strength and fearlessness to draw human armies away from the Demon Emperor’s attacks.
• Xing Daozhuang concluded that the Demon Race was targeting Spirit Transformation Grandmasters rather than ordinary people to weaken the Northern Continent’s nations without giving Su State grounds to intervene.

Si Ming and the other defenders waited at the Nation of Beauty’s border wall, where they discussed the likely Demon Race attack and prepared for the Demon Emperor. Tu Wangyue revealed that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons was guarding Russia and said she would face the Demon Emperor herself while Si Ming held off the Demon Kings and the Military God.

• Shi Yuan joked around while waiting for the Demon Race, and Tu Wangyue told him to stop distracting the defenders.
• Si Ming and Xia Guanxue discussed Xia Guanxue’s new sword, Listening to the Rain, which Teng Baixin had forged and named after Xia Guanxue’s younger sister.
• Si Ming asked Tu Wangyue whether Russia was guarded, and she revealed that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons had secretly taken her place there.
• Tu Wangyue said she would fight the Demon Emperor alone if he arrived and ordered Si Ming to hold off the Demon Kings and the Military God.

Si Ming and the allied forces waited for the Demon Race to arrive, while he and Si Jingyu discussed the Demon Emperor’s likely plans and the possibility that the Eternal Barrier was behind the growing demon tides. When Chongjing finally appeared, Tu Wangyue challenged him with the Mohist School Sacred Sword.

• Xing Daozhuang assembled an international alliance and directed its armies to drive the demonic beast army toward Russia and the Nation of Beauty.
• After Xing Daozhuang’s injuries worsened, he recommended Ba Shenhuang to command the allied force while keeping the change secret from the other countries.
• Si Ming, Si Jingyu, and Si Huaruo speculated about the Demon Race’s route, its leader’s character, and the cause of increasingly powerful demon tides.
• Shi Yuan spotted Chongjing and his forces approaching, and the defenders released their presences to meet them.
• Chongjing demanded that Si Ming fight him, but Si Ming deferred to Tu Wangyue, who drew the Mohist School Sacred Sword and invoked the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword.

Si Ming fought Demon Kings Chang Qing and Zhen Hu while the Holy Maiden and Demon Emperor battled inside the Sacred Sword’s formation. After driving Zhen Hu back and countering Chang Qing’s attacks, Si Ming faced the two Demon Kings’ coordinated assault as they proved more formidable together than before.

• The Holy Maiden’s Sacred Sword formed a yin-yang sword formation that enclosed her and the Demon Emperor, while Si Ming stalled Chang Qing and Zhen Hu with taunts.
• Chang Qing attacked Si Ming with roots and leaves as Zhen Hu unleashed Dragon Whale Raises a Hundred Tides, but Si Ming stopped the dragon whale and struck Zhen Hu with Scorched Earth for a Thousand Li.
• Chang Qing tried to ensnare Si Ming with draining branches, but he cut them down and used the Dragon Scale Sword to attack her with the Imperial Dragon Heaven-Defying Sword Art.
• Chang Qing blocked Si Ming’s first sword strike with Myriad Phenomena Arrayed Like a Forest, but Si Ming’s next attack overwhelmed her and forced her into her original demon form.
• Chang Qing fired a storm of feathers while Zhen Hu summoned a demon dragon, and the two Demon Kings joined forces to press Si Ming with a coordinated attack.

Tu Wangyue used the Mohist School Sacred Sword and its sword formation to overpower the Demon Emperor, while Si Ming survived Chang Qing and Zhen Hu’s attack. The Demon Emperor realized the Sacred Sword’s first divine ability made Tu Wangyue’s strength, speed, and cultivation power exactly thirty percent greater than his.

• Si Ming emerged almost unharmed from Chang Qing and Zhen Hu’s cloud-dragon attack and warned them he was ready to get serious.
• The Demon Emperor attacked Tu Wangyue with Demon Blade: Rushing Thunder, but her sword shattered his strike and sent him flying.
• Tu Wangyue explained that the Sacred Sword’s first divine ability was called “Stronger Against the Strong,” then used it to defeat the Demon Emperor’s speed-focused Demon Blade: Gale.
• The Demon Emperor used Demon Blade Ice Trace to freeze Tu Wangyue, but she broke free and struck him with cultivation power that had reached Peak Void Returning.
• The Demon Emperor calculated that Tu Wangyue’s strength, speed, and cultivation power were each exactly thirty percent greater than his, confirming the effect of the Sacred Sword’s ability.

Tu Wangyue fought the Demon Emperor, whose attacks revealed that the Demon Blade Art could combine its forms into a powerful Void Returning-level technique. She survived his combined assault with a new sword art and wounded both of his bodies, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tu Wangyue asked the Demon Emperor to surrender, but he refused and unleashed Demon Blade: Sun Devourer followed by a concealed Demon Blade: Moon Eclipse; she deflected the first attack and suffered a minor injury from the second.
• Tu Wangyue countered with Eight Kun Split the Sacred Ground, forcing the Demon Emperor back, then explained that the Demon Blade Art's strongest individual move was limited to Peak Spirit Transformation.
• The Demon Emperor split into two bodies using his innate ability and revealed that lowering his Cultivation Body would reduce the sword formation's enhancement.
• The two Demon Emperors combined Demon Blade: Gale and Demon Blade: Torrent into the Void Returning-level Demon Blade: Raging Torrent Burial, trapping Tu Wangyue in violent water and wind.
• Tu Wangyue used Purple Haze Sword Heart Stabilizes Nine and One to break the combined attack, then struck both Demon Emperors and wounded their palms.
• The Demon Emperors responded with Demon Blade: Red Lotus and Demon Blade: Rushing Thunder.

Demon Emperor Chongjing accepted defeat after Tu Wangyue countered the Demon Emperors’ attacks, but he secretly planned to kill her by detonating his avatar at close range. The chapter ended with Chongjing apparently surrendering while waiting for an opportunity to strike.

• Tu Wangyue defeated the Demon Emperors’ attacks with the Sacred Sword’s abilities and asked them to surrender.
• The Demon Emperors refused, and Tu Wangyue wounded both with powerful sword moves before breaking free of their eye-based restraint.
• Tu Wangyue asked the wounded Demon Emperors again whether they would surrender.
• Demon Emperor Chongjing expelled the lingering Sword Qi from his wound and recognized that he could not overcome Tu Wangyue by ordinary means.
• Chongjing gave up resisting but secretly resolved to sacrifice his avatar in a close-range self-destruction to kill Tu Wangyue.

Tu Wangyue defeated Chongjing but let him leave, arguing that the Human Race needed the Demon Race as a threat. When the sword formation collapsed, the battlefield mistook Tu Wangyue’s injured escape for victory before Chongjing’s clone self-destructed, unleashing a devastating blast.

• Tu Wangyue allowed Chongjing to leave, and he accepted her mercy so he could continue fighting for his people.
• Chongjing recognized Tu Wangyue as the one who had widened the seal’s breach and accused her of pursuing a hidden agenda, but she urged him to hurry back to his people.
• Si Ming remained occupied with Zhen Hu and Chang Qing, who threatened the sword formation whenever he pressed his advantage.
• The sword formation collapsed, and Tu Wangyue flew out injured, leading the battlefield to believe the Demon Emperor had defeated her.
• Tu Wangyue warned everyone that Chongjing’s clone was about to self-destruct, and the enormous blind bird’s explosive blast tore through the surrounding space.