Chapter Summaries

Yuanshi Tianzun attacked the Demon Realm sages at Meng Chen’s urging and obliterated them with a single strike, despite Demon Saint Tongtian’s confidence in the Heavenly Slaughtering Sword Formation. Luo Hou appeared afterward to warn Yuanshi against starting the war before its destined time.

• Demon Saint Tongtian challenged Yuanshi Tianzun and boasted that his Heavenly Slaughtering Sword Formation could rival the Pangu True Body.
• Sage Laozi offered to handle Tongtian, while the Great Dream Demon Saint stepped forward to face Laozi.
• Meng Chen urged Yuanshi Tianzun to suppress the Demon Realm sages, and Yuanshi attacked all five with the Pangu Axe as Goddess Nüwa protected the conference attendees.
• Demon Saint Tongtian led the sages into battle, but Yuanshi’s axe shattered the sword formation and annihilated the demon sages, including Tongtian.
• Luo Hou appeared in blood-red lightning and warned Yuanshi that the time for a final war between the immortal and demonic paths had not yet arrived.

After Luo Hou’s forces were defeated, Ancestor Hongjun arrived and disputed whether the Demon Realm should be allowed into the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven. Hongjun offered a contest between their grand-disciples for four entry slots, leaving Luo Hou alarmed to learn Meng Chen was destined to lead the Xuanmen.

• Luo Hou pulled the five defeated Demon Sages from seclusion and berated them for their loss.
• Ancestor Hongjun arrived, and Yuanshi Tianzun urged his master to suppress Luo Hou and invade the Demon Realm.
• Luo Hou argued that the Demon Realm should be included in the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, while Hongjun mocked the strength of his disciples.
• Hongjun offered four slots to the Demon Realm if Luo Hou’s grand-disciples won a contest against Xuanmen’s grand-disciples.
• Luo Hou excluded Meng Chen from the contest, and Hongjun revealed that Meng Chen would become the second-generation headmaster of Xuanmen.

Ancestor Hongjun named Meng Chen as Xuanmen's next leader, prompting Demon Saint Tongtian to challenge the decision. Luo Hou and Ancestor Hongjun condemned Tongtian and the Intercepting Teaching, leaving Tongtian furious and isolated among both the immortal and demonic paths.

• Ancestor Hongjun declared Meng Chen the next leader of Xuanmen, and Luo Hou accepted his warning not to oppose the appointment.
• Demon Saint Tongtian argued that Sage Laozi was more qualified to lead Xuanmen than Meng Chen.
• Ancestor Hongjun criticized Tongtian's lack of contributions and called the Intercepting Teaching a cancer upon heaven and earth.
• Luo Hou agreed with Ancestor Hongjun and accused the Intercepting Teaching of killing half the Demon Realm's living beings.
• Ancestor Hongjun called Tongtian inherently evil for sheltering wicked fiends and demonic monsters in his sect.
• Demon Saint Tongtian realized that neither the Immortal Dao nor the demonic path welcomed him, but Luo Hou knew Tongtian had nowhere else to go.

Ancestor Hongjun arranged a lethal battle between the Xuanmen and demonic sects, and Meng Chen gained Queen Mother of the West’s method for breaking the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and Goddess Nüwa’s Demon-Slaughtering Four Swords. As the sides prepared for battle, Luo Hou blamed Ancestor Hongjun for Demon Saint Tongtian’s fall into the demonic path.

• Ancestor Hongjun declared that the second- and third-generation disciples of the Xuanmen and demonic sect would fight to the death on the White Jade Continent.
• Queen Mother of the West told Meng Chen she could explain how to break the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and Meng Chen accepted her help.
• Goddess Nüwa gave Meng Chen the Demon-Slaughtering Four Swords, which she had remade from the Four Immortal Slaughtering Swords.
• Meng Chen brought the swords to Guang Chengzi, Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, and Daoxing Tianzun and helped them refine the weapons.
• Luo Hou told Ancestor Hongjun that he bore responsibility for his disciple Tongtian’s descent into the demonic path, leaving Ancestor Hongjun silent.

Meng Chen distributed Innate Spiritual Treasures lent by Immortal Dao seniors as the five major factions prepared to fight the Demonic Path. Meanwhile, Golden Spirit Demon Mother grew enraged at the Chan Sect’s aid to Western Church disciples and ordered the Intercepting Teaching to attack the Chan Sect with the Ten Thousand Demons Formation.

• Immortal Dao great figures lent Meng Chen numerous treasures, and Goddess Houtu also sent the Fengdu Emperor and the Burial World Coffin.
• Meng Chen gathered the five major factions and distributed treasures to their disciples for the coming battle.
• The four major Demonic Path factions assembled and planned to unite against Xuanmen, while the Intercepting Teaching remained apart.
• Wuyun Demon pointed out that Meng Chen was lending treasures to Western Church disciples, provoking Golden Spirit Demon Mother’s anger.
• Golden Spirit Demon Mother ordered the Intercepting Teaching disciples to activate the Ten Thousand Demons Formation against the Chan Sect once they entered the battlefield.

Meng Chen set rules and a reward for the coming war, then the immortal and demonic forces entered Ancestor Hongjun’s sealed battlefield. The demons began reshaping the arena to their advantage, while the immortals prepared defenses and cleared space ahead of their ranks.

• Meng Chen gave Xuanmen disciples methods to control their Innate Spiritual Treasures and offered three Undying Fruits to the faction that earned the second-highest merit.
• The Perfected Person of Donghua, Long Guang Daoist, Our Lady of Wudang, and the Heavenly Court and Bodhi Courtyard pledged to follow Meng Chen, while Daoist Maitreya stayed silent.
• The heavenly drum sounded, and Ancestor Hongjun announced the start of the war as both sides entered the battlefield and its barrier sealed them inside.
• The Great Dream Sect disciples released baleful Qi, while Wuyun Demon and Plague Demon spread pox and pestilence to transform the battlefield.
• The Perfected Person of Donghua had the Teaching of Humanity distribute protective and restorative pills, while Han Zhixian used a wind sack to clear a void ahead of the immortals.

Zhen Yizi slipped away from the main force and hunted for Demon Duo Bao, whom he found traveling with the World-Ending Palace demons. He fired the Cosmos Yin-Yang Bow at their entourage, and the sun and moon burst among them.

• Zhen Yizi entered the battlefield, used the void to avoid the main army, and headed to kill Demon Duo Bao.
• Zhen Yizi reached the Intercepting Teaching camp, judged its Ten Thousand Demons Formation, and left its slaughter to Guang Chengzi and the others.
• Zhen Yizi followed the joint army of Heart Demon Sect, World-Ending Palace, Great Dream Sect, and Yinyang Sect through the void.
• Demon Duo Bao taught his junior brothers how self-deception helped him feign compassion, while Golden Light Demon, Coiled Head Demon, Spirit Fang Demon, Long-Eared Dingguang Demon, and Pilu Demon listened.
• Zhen Yizi drew the Cosmos Yin-Yang Bow with a divine arrow and shot it into Demon Duo Bao's entourage, where the sun and moon exploded.

Zhen Yizi’s relentless ambush devastated the World-Ending Palace, while Luo Hou forced World-Ending Demon Saint to apologize to Meng Chen. Before the gathered Immortal and Demonic Dao figures, Yuanshi Tianzun passed the Chan Sect leadership to Meng Chen and gave him the Three Treasures Jade Scepter.

• Zhen Yizi continued firing arrows into the World-Ending Palace disciples, killing them as Amorous Demoness watched in alarm.
• World-Ending Demon Saint accused Yuanshi Tianzun and turned to attack Meng Chen, but Luo Hou cut off his arm and ordered him to apologize.
• World-Ending Demon Saint apologized to Meng Chen, and the gathered mighty figures wondered why Meng Chen was so highly valued.
• Yuanshi Tianzun announced that he was passing the Chan Sect leadership to Meng Chen and becoming its Supreme Patriarch.
• Yuanshi Tianzun gave Meng Chen the Three Treasures Jade Scepter, formally making him Chan Sect leader.

Yuanshi Tianzun abdicated as Chief of the Chan Sect and handed the position to Meng Chen, only for Ancestor Hongjun to assign Yuanshi Tianzun a new duty managing the laws of the Heavenly Dao. Meng Chen formally took charge of the sect as its allies celebrated, while the Demon Dao sages resolved to strengthen themselves.

• Yuanshi Tianzun confirmed to Ancestor Hongjun that he was giving up the Chief of the Chan Sect, and Ancestor Hongjun appointed him to manage the laws of the Heavenly Dao.
• Sage Laozi, Goddess Nüwa, and Sage Zhunti watched Yuanshi Tianzun accept his new burden as Ancestor Hongjun prepared to retire.
• The Demon Dao sages, alarmed by Xuanmen's strength and Meng Chen's potential to transcend, vowed to cultivate harder.
• Meng Chen accepted the chief seat, and the Wu Clan, Phoenix Clan, Dragon Clan, Plant Spirit Race, and Chenghuang Clan lined up to congratulate him.
• The Twelve Great Witches, Kong Xuan, the Archaic Dragon Clan, and the Plant Spirit Race pledged their service to Meng Chen, while most heavenly powers offered him goodwill.
• Demon Saint Tongtian brooded over Meng Chen's rise and the Chan Sect's growing prosperity.

Meng Chen assessed the Chan Sect’s rising fortune as the Immortal-Demon Great War began, then watched Guang Chengzi and three fellow disciples confront the Jie Sect. The Chan Sect trapped the Ten Thousand Demons Formation inside a powerful Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation.

• Meng Chen examined the Chan Sect’s calamity fate and found Pangu’s divine painting suppressing it as the Immortal-Demon Great War broke out.
• Zhen Yizi had already eliminated the World-Ending Palace, while the Great Dream Sect, Heart Demon Sect, and Yinyang Sect stayed guarded against his attack.
• Guang Chengzi and the other Chan Sect disciples met Golden Spirit Demon Mother, Turtle Spirit Demon Mother, and the Jie Sect forces, who recognized their former treasures in the Four Immortal Slaughtering Swords.
• Yu Ding Zhenren learned that Jie Sect disciples took pride in violating moral conventions, so his insult about their origins sounded like praise to them.
• Guang Chengzi, Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, and Daoxing Tianzun summoned the Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation and sealed the Ten Thousand Demons Formation within a world of sword Qi.

The Ten Thousand Demons Formation revealed Intercepting Teaching’s demonic power as it clashed with Guang Chengzi’s Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation. Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao arrived to confront their sisters, while Haotian God faced criticism for their return to the battlefield.

• Golden Spirit Demon Mother and Turtle Spirit Demon Mother rallied Intercepting Teaching’s disciples, who joined their formations into the Ten Thousand Demons Formation.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Formation summoned Taotie, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Hundun, while its inner demons attacked the sword-qi creatures.
• Turtle Spirit Demon Mother, Holy Mother Jinling, and the other disciples transformed into demonic forms and challenged Guang Chengzi.
• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao left Eternal Mother’s forces and entered the battlefield, seeking Qiongxiao and Bixiao.
• Haotian God asked Ancestor Hongjun to punish him for failing to control Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao, but Ancestor Hongjun excused him and ordered former Intercepting Teaching disciples excluded from future wars between immortals and demons.

Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao abandoned the Heavenly Court’s forces to plead for Qiongxiao and Bixiao, who had become old sprites after joining the Demonic Dao. When Guang Chengzi attacked them, they fought back with the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and the Sea Pacifying Pearls, but the formation crumbled and they faced death without regret.

• Qiongxiao and Bixiao urged Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao to join the Demonic Dao, while Zhao Gongming pleaded with Guang Chengzi to spare them.
• Guang Chengzi rejected their pleas and attacked Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao alongside the Ten Thousand Demons Formation.
• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao deployed the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and the Sea Pacifying Pearls to resist the Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation.
• Guang Chengzi used the Primordial Nine Seals to disrupt the formation and extinguish the spiritual radiance of one Sea Pacifying Pearl.
• As the formation collapsed, Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao accepted that they would soon be reincarnated and said they had no regrets about defending their sisters.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao Fairy, disciples of Haotian God, are killed by the Demon Slaughtering Sword for their betrayal.
• Haotian God expresses regret and disappointment in his former disciples.
• The World-Ending Demon Saint accuses Yuanshi Tianzun's Teaching of being more ruthless than the Demon Sect.
• Yuanshi Tianzun threatens to declare war on the Demon Realm if the World-Ending Demon Saint continues to interfere.
• The Great自在 Demon Saint and others accuse the World-Ending Demon Saint of being a spy for the Dragon Clan.
• Yuanshi Tianzun considers sealing the Demon Realm's sages instead of killing them.

Character Developments

• Haotian God: Shows regret and disappointment in his former disciples, revealing his emotional investment in their growth.
• World-Ending Demon Saint: Remains silent and cooperative as others label him a Dragon Clan spy, indicating his political acumen.
• Yuanshi Tianzun: Considers sealing the Demon Realm's sages instead of killing them, showing strategic thinking and a desire to keep his hands clean.

Significant Themes

• Betrayal and its consequences: Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao Fairy's betrayal leads to their deaths, emphasizing the severity of betrayal in this world.
• Power dynamics and politics: The Demon Realm's sages' actions highlight the complex power dynamics and political maneuvering among the sages.
• Indestructibility and its limitations: Yuanshi Tianzun's indestructibility is not a guarantee of safety against other sages, emphasizing the need for strategic thinking.

Character Interactions

• Haotian God and his former disciples: Haotian God's regret and disappointment in Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao Fairy shows his emotional investment in their growth and his disapproval of their betrayal.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and the World-Ending Demon Saint: Their interaction highlights the tension between the Immortal Path and the Demonic Path, with Yuanshi Tianzun threatening war and the World-Ending Demon Saint accusing Yuanshi Tianzun's Teaching of hypocrisy.
• The Demon Realm's sages: Their interaction showcases their political maneuvering and lack of unity, with the Great自在 Demon Saint and others labeling the World-Ending Demon Saint a Dragon Clan spy to protect themselves.

Guang Chengzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Chijingzi, and Daoxing Tianzun mastered the Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation and shattered the Intercepting Teaching's Ten Thousand Demons Formation. They entered the broken formation and slaughtered its disciples, leaving Demon Saint Tongtian stricken as the massacre continued.

• The Four Symbols Demon Slaughtering Formation and the Ten Thousand Demons Formation clashed across past, present, and future, with both sides wielding power at the Great Luo level.
• Guang Chengzi's group of four adapted to their formation and gradually gained the upper hand over the Intercepting Teaching's four ferocious beasts.
• The four Chan Sect disciples unleashed their combined sword qi, destroyed the ferocious beasts, and caused the Ten Thousand Demons Formation to backlash against its practitioners.
• Guang Chengzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Chijingzi, and Daoxing Tianzun entered the shattered formation and began killing Intercepting Teaching disciples, including Guang Chengzi's revenge on Yu Shui Demon and Daoxing Tianzun's killing of Golden Spirit Demon Mother.
• The Intercepting Teaching disciples tried to flee or resist but were slaughtered, while Demon Saint Tongtian watched in anguish.

After Luo Hou revived the Ten Thousand Demons Palace disciples but left the fallen Disciples of Intercepting Teaching dead, Meng Chen flaunted his vast collection of Innate Spiritual Treasures. He angered Demon Saint Tongtian while winning the goodwill of powerful figures, advancing his plan to build alliances for the Chan Sect.

• Luo Hou proposed reviving disciples who died on the battlefield, and Ancestor Hongjun agreed with limits on who could return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luo Hou revived the Ten Thousand Demons Palace disciples but did not revive the fallen Disciples of Intercepting Teaching, leaving Demon Saint Tongtian heartbroken.
• Meng Chen announced rewards for Guang Chengzi and the other three, then displayed eighty-six Innate Spiritual Treasures before the assembled immortals and demons.
• Demon Saint Tongtian recognized Meng Chen's display as deliberate provocation, while the great powers began to regard Meng Chen as a valuable ally.
• Great Immortal Zhen Yuan and Old Ancestor Styx showed Meng Chen goodwill, and he planned to use his treasures to draw powerful figures into the Chan Sect's circle.

Guang Chengzi and the other three wiped out the World-Ending Demon Palace and Intercepting Teaching forces as the battle against the remaining Demon Dao sects continued. The Eternal Mother killed the Passionate Demon Prince, then faced the Greed Demon, whose belly bounced her Vacuum Great Hand Seal back at her.

• Guang Chengzi and the other three slaughtered the Intercepting Teaching demons, and Guang Chengzi urged them to join the fight against the remaining Demon Dao sects.
• The Amorous Demoness trapped Perfected Person of Donghua in her flames and tried to seduce him, but he guarded his mind with the Scripture of Supreme Forgetfulness.
• The Eternal Mother pulled the Passionate Demon Prince into the Vacuum Hometown and destroyed him with her vacuum power.
• Demon Saint Tongtian remembered his past as Intercepting Teaching’s sect master and regretted how he had treated the Eternal Mother and his other former disciples.
• The Greed Demon challenged the Eternal Mother, and his elastic belly bounced her Vacuum Great Hand Seal back at her.

Zhen Yizi killed Greed Demon and the Amorous Demoness, taking their Innate Spiritual Treasures as Eternal Mother and Perfected Person of Donghua fought them. Luo Hou objected to Hongjun's disciples seizing Demon Realm treasures, but Hongjun reminded him of the treasures Luo Hou had made from other great powers.

• Greed Demon fought Eternal Mother with the Greed Wolf Sword until Zhen Yizi crushed him with a finger and took the Greed Wolf Sword and Sky Wolf Garment.
• Eternal Mother recognized Pangu's aura and thanked Zhen Yizi for saving her.
• Perfected Person of Donghua attacked the Amorous Demoness with the Pure Yang Sword, but her Sky Fox Demon Garment repelled his strikes.
• Zhen Yizi cleaved the Amorous Demoness into fragments with a silver great axe and took the Sky Fox Demon Garment.
• Luo Hou protested to Ancestor Hongjun that his disciples and granddisciples were taking the Demon Realm's treasures.
• Ancestor Hongjun pointed out that Luo Hou had refined other great powers into treasures, and Luo Hou stopped demanding their return.

Daoist Maitreya ordered Great Mount Sumeru Temple disciples to self-detonate against the Demonic Path, destroying the Great Dream Sect and triggering a deadly escalation. The Heart Demon Sect and Yinyang Sect retaliated with their own self-detonations, and Manjusri, Heavenly Lord of Broad Law, was killed.

• Daoist Maitreya decided the Western Church should sacrifice disciples to destroy Demonic Path practitioners and improve its chance of obtaining the Undying Fruit.
• Great Mount Sumeru Temple disciples burned their primordial spirits and self-detonated, eliminating the Great Dream Sect at the cost of more than ten disciples.
• The Teaching of Humanity, Heavenly Court, and Bodhi Courtyard recognized Great Mount Sumeru Temple's strategy, but the battle had already shifted.
• The Heart Demon Sect and Yinyang Sect began using self-detonations against the Immortal Dao factions.
• A Demonic Path expert dragged Manjusri, Heavenly Lord of Broad Law, into a demonic self-detonation vortex and killed him.

Meng Chen resurrected Manjusri, Heavenly Lord of Broad Law, after he fell in battle, while White Crane Disciple gained an immortal, indestructible body through Meng Chen’s reward. The Demonic Path was wiped out, and Zhen Yizi collected many treasures as the story turned toward Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.

• Meng Chen drew Manjusri, Heavenly Lord of Broad Law, out of the River of Fate and resurrected him, then rewarded White Crane Disciple with an Undying Fruit for his loyalty.
• Manjusri, Heavenly Lord of Broad Law, regretted having resisted Meng Chen after seeing White Crane Disciple receive great benefits.
• The Demonic Path unleashed the Earth Veins Detonation Art, devastating the Western Church and attacking the Chan Sect, whose treasures shielded its disciples.
• Guang Chengzi and the other three arrived late and planned to help Zhen Yizi gather treasures in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.
• The Demonic Path disciples were wiped out, and Zhen Yizi seized many Innate Spiritual Treasures before shielding Meng Chen from Luo Hou’s gaze.

Meng Chen established his authority as the Chan Sect’s new Supreme Patriarch, honored Yuanshi Tianzun, and reorganized the sect’s leadership. Yellow Dragon True Man watched Yun Zhongzi rise in the sect and began to regret choosing love over power and treasures.

• The factions prepared to send only capable disciples into Buzhou Grotto-Heaven after the Chan Sect returned their seized treasures.
• Meng Chen accepted the Chan Sect disciples’ homage, unveiled a divine statue of Yuanshi Tianzun, and led the sect in worshipping him.
• Meng Chen told the disciples that Juliusun and Wu Liangzi were trapped in calamities and announced that Yun Zhongzi would replace Juliusun in the Jade Void Twelve Sumeru Great Immortal Formation.
• Guang Chengzi warned Yellow Dragon True Man about his association with Hairy and Horned creatures, while Meng Chen let Yellow Dragon True Man follow his own karmic destiny.
• Yellow Dragon True Man envied Yun Zhongzi’s promotion and realized that he regretted choosing Fairy Magu over power and Innate Spiritual Treasures.