Chapter Summaries

Old Man Yinshan discovered that Buyu City had been sealed by a formation, and the powerful experts inside agreed to pool their strength to break it after securing the Saint's Relic key. Just as they were about to attack the formation, Old Man Yinshan warned that another Half-Saint was hiding among them.

• Old Man Yinshan realized Number One Mansion Under Heaven had sealed Buyu City, while the trapped experts gathered and learned the Saint's Relic key was at the South Gate.
• At the South Gate, the experts argued over how to share the key and agreed that the Half-Saint holding it should hand it over before they tried to break the formation.
• A woman offered to guard the key, and the scholar offered to protect her with a formation; the middle-aged Half-Saint gave her the key and sealed her cultivation, while another Half-Saint sealed the scholar's cultivation.
• The scholar urged everyone to strike one point of the city's formation together, but Old Man Yinshan stopped them by revealing that another Half-Saint was concealed among them.
• The middle-aged Half-Saint moved beside the woman and watched the crowd to prevent anyone from taking the key.

The scholar identified the city gate's barrier as the Ancient Spirit Devouring Great Formation after it swallowed a combined attack from the cultivators. He offered to attempt to break it if everyone gave him their divine stones and kept him undisturbed.

• Old Man Yinshan exposed the Ghost Face Masked Man, who appeared and joined the group preparing to attack the city gate.
• The Middle-aged Half-Saint led several hundred Divine Sovereign experts in a combined attack, but a Primordial Era giant beast swallowed the beam before it struck the gate.
• The scholar recognized the barrier as the Ancient Spirit Devouring Great Formation and explained that only strength beyond the formation's creator could break it by force.
• An old man revealed that a young man from Number One Mansion Under Heaven had defeated him with one palm, prompting one hot-tempered cultivator to demand an explanation before the others stayed put.
• The scholar agreed to try to break the formation if everyone handed over their divine stones and prevented anyone from disturbing him.

A scholar tricked the trapped experts in Buyu City into handing over their divine stones, ores, and spirit herbs, then escaped through the formation. The experts returned to Number One Mansion Under Heaven to confront Mu Qingling, but found it empty and left the city in fury.

• The middle-aged half-saint and the other experts gave the scholar their divine stones and removed his seal so he could study the formation.
• The scholar asked for their ores and spirit herbs, then laughed, took the materials, and walked out through the formation without breaking it.
• The experts realized they had been deceived and suspected the scholar and the missing woman were connected to Number One Mansion Under Heaven.
• The Ghost Face Masked Man vanished from the crowd as several hundred experts marched back to the mansion.
• The experts found Number One Mansion Under Heaven empty, and the middle-aged half-saint destroyed it before flying out of Buyu City.

Mu Qingling unmasked the Ghost Face Masked Man and learned that she was Li Yingying, whose family had been destroyed when she was an infant. After returning the Saint's Relic key to Li Yingying, Mu Qingling headed to help her mother and discovered that a city ahead had been slaughtered.

• Little Black removed the Ghost Face Masked Man's mask, revealing a woman who could not escape Mu Qingling's restraint.
• Mu Qingling offered Li Yingying the Saint's Relic key in exchange for her story, and Li Yingying explained that her Lineage had been destroyed when she was one year old.
• Li Yingying said she sought the key to reach the Saint realm and take revenge on the people who destroyed her family, so Mu Qingling had Little Fox return it to her.
• Mu Qingling and her companions set off to help her mother at the Spirit Immortal Palace.
• Mu Qingling smelled blood near a city, and Little Black reported that the city had been slaughtered; Mu Qingling decided to investigate.

Mu Qingling discovered that a mysterious figure had slaughtered a city and drained its people’s blood essence and souls, and she suspected the sealed Devil Race was responsible. She sent Mo Shan and the others to alert the Spirit Realm’s experts, then returned to the Spirit Immortal Palace to await the disciple selection and their news.

• Mu Qingling examined the city’s corpses, and Little Black suggested that Old Man Yinshan of the Myriad Ghosts Sect might be responsible.
• Mu Qingling used Time Reversal to witness a black-aura figure drain the city’s inhabitants of blood essence and souls.
• Little Black and Mo Shan recognized the figure’s aura as resembling Demonic Energy, and Mo Shan explained the Devil Race’s history and the Demon Realm’s ancient seal.
• Mu Qingling suspected the Devil Race was gathering blood essence to restore its injured Demon Saint and ordered Mo Shan and three others to alert the Spirit Realm’s powerful experts.
• Mu Qingling returned to the Spirit Immortal Palace, learned that her mother was cultivating in seclusion, and decided to wait for the disciple selection and Mo Shan’s return.

Mu Qingling visited the Spirit Immortal Palace’s recruitment assessment and chose ten rejected candidates to serve on her empty First Peak. She assigned four girls as maidservants and six boys as guards, then left their arrangements to Little Fox.

• Mu Qingling stopped fishing and went with Little Fox to watch the Spirit Immortal Palace’s Spiritual Root testing.
• Tian Long explained the Spirit Realm’s Spiritual Root standards, and Mu Qingling decided she wanted young, obedient attendants more than talented disciples.
• After the assessment eliminated more than a thousand candidates, Mu Qingling chose ten of them to accompany her to First Peak.
• Mu Qingling appointed four girls as her personal maidservants and six boys as guards, and told Little Fox to arrange their living quarters and resources.

Little Fox welcomed ten new disciples to Spirit Immortal Palace and warned them to remain loyal to Mu Qingling. Meanwhile, the Spirit Realm panicked over the Demon Realm’s failing seal, and Ascension City came under attack by a black-robed figure before a Spirit Immortal Palace expert intervened.

• Little Fox told the ten newcomers that Mu Qingling could improve their Spiritual Roots, warned them against betrayal, and gave them identity jade tokens and instructions for settling in.
• Reports of massacres spread across the Spirit Realm as people fled small cities and sects sent experts to guard major cities and investigate the Demon Realm.
• In a tavern, Yang Mingming and Mei Jing decided to gather other residents and travel by ark to Star River City.
• A black mist appeared over Ascension City, and a black-robed figure attacked the fleeing crowds by draining their qi and blood, cultivation, and souls.
• A Spirit Immortal Palace expert confronted the attacker, stopping the force that had been pulling at the residents, and challenged the figure to face the palace’s might.

After a Devil Race attacker tried to slaughter Ascension City, Bai Jing killed him and Tian Long’s allies planned a campaign against the Demon Realm. Mu Qingling led Little Black and ten thousand Spirit Immortal Palace forces, including ten Earth Saints, to depart for the Demon Realm aboard a Battle Ark.

• Bai Jing killed the Devil Race attacker who had tried to slaughter Ascension City and reassured its residents that Spirit Immortal Palace would protect them.
• Tian Long discussed the Devil Race’s attack with Spirit Immortal Palace’s higher-ups and sent Little Black to ask Mu Qingling how to respond.
• Mu Qingling learned from Mo Shan that sacred lands were assembling armies to enter the Demon Realm, then ordered Little Black to gather ten thousand disciples and ten saints.
• Mu Qingling told her four maids to stay behind and cultivate while Little Black assembled the expedition, including ten early Earth Saint experts.
• Little Black released Spirit Immortal Palace’s top-grade pseudo-Saint Battle Ark, and Mu Qingling led the ten thousand forces toward the Demon Realm.

Tian Long led the Spirit Immortal Palace and several sects safely across the Domain Rivers to the Demon Realm, where the other experts were absent. The arrivals then noticed Mu Qingling beside Tian Long, who stood half a step behind her.

• Chen Jia invited Tian Long and the Spirit Immortal Palace to cross the Domain River with the other sects, and Tian Long agreed to lead them safely.
• Tian Long released his Divine Venerate Perfection aura, making the Bloodthirsty Demons tremble at the riverbed as the arks crossed.
• The Blazing Flame Sect learned that the Spirit Immortal Palace had destroyed the Dream Return Sacred Land.
• After more than ten days, seven sects and more than a dozen arks reached the edge of the Demon Realm, where Chen Jia found no other experts.
• More than ten thousand people disembarked from the Spirit Immortal Palace's ark, and Chen Jia and the other sects' experts greeted them.
• Chen Jia noticed that Tian Long stood half a step behind a young woman, Mu Qingling.

Mu Qingling and Tian Long entered the Demon Realm with the sects following behind, then hurried toward a distant battle. There, the fleeing elder Ke Yu warned them that the Demon Realm contained an entrance to the Devil Race’s world where Saint Realm Devils could appear.

• Tian Long opened the Demon Realm’s formation, and Mu Qingling led the Spirit Immortal Palace inside as Chen Jia and the other sects followed.
• Mu Qingling and Little Black discussed how the Demon Realm differed from the Devil Race’s Small World in the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Tian Long sensed fighting ahead, and Mu Qingling urged the group to investigate.
• Three Devil Race experts overpowered Ke Yu, who fled toward Mu Qingling’s group after the Devils sensed them approaching.
• Ke Yu told the approaching humans that the Demon Realm held an entrance to the Devil Race’s world and that Saint Realm Devils could exist there, urging them to warn the Spirit Realm and summon Saints.

Ke Yu was rescued by Mu Qingling and Tian Long after fleeing three Devil Race experts, and he described the danger posed by the Demon Realm. Mu Qingling ordered the Spirit Immortal Palace to rescue the captives and confront the Devils while Ke Yu organized the Spirit Realm’s forces; Tian Long set out to find the prisoners as Mu Qingling occupied a city.

• Ke Yu reached Tian Long’s group and warned them about the Demon Realm, but Tian Long kicked away a Devil Race expert attacking him.
• Mu Qingling pulled the three fleeing Devils back and sealed their cultivation with a single word, shocking Ke Yu and the Devils.
• Ke Yu explained what he knew about the Demon Realm, and Tian Long warned that the region blocked the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions on Saint Realm strength.
• Mu Qingling told Ke Yu to organize the Spirit Realm’s forces and seek help from the Holy Realm, leaving Saint Realm Devils and stronger foes to the Spirit Immortal Palace.
• Tian Long took five Earth Saints and Ke Yu to rescue the captured people, while Mu Qingling led the remaining forces to clear and occupy a city.

Tian Long and Ke Yu reached the Devil Race stronghold in the Demon Realm, where they found a massive force preparing to invade the Spirit Realm and demanded the captured humans be released. Tian Long crushed three Devil Race leaders, but their Primordial Spirits fled toward a nearby devil cave as he tried to destroy them.

• Mu Qingling asked Little Black to set up a teleportation array linking the city to the Spirit Immortal Palace, but Little Black suggested waiting for Tian Long.
• Tian Long and Ke Yu arrived at the Devil Race stronghold and were attacked by its soldiers and experts, whom the five Earth Saints knocked back.
• Mo Bajun accused the Demon Race group of trespassing and joined two other Devil Race members in trying to capture them for the Twelfth Prince.
• Tian Long seized Mo Bajun and the two others with a spiritual-energy dragon claw, then sent the five Earth Saints to rescue the captured humans.
• Tian Long crushed the three leaders and collected their divine crystals, but their Primordial Spirits escaped toward a devil cave as he struck at them.

Tian Long rescued the captured humans and prepared to return with them, but the Devil Race’s Twelfth Prince, Shu Tianfeng, arrived with two powerful clan elders and tried to claim Tian Long as a battle pet. When one elder attacked, he discovered Tian Long was an Immortal Saint, and the chapter ended with the elders scrambling to protect the prince.

• Tian Long killed two of Mo Bajun’s companions and let the badly injured Mo Bajun escape through the Demon Realm teleportation gate.
• Tian Long waited while the five Earth Saints rescued nearly a thousand captured humans, then ordered them to return and report to Mu Qingling.
• Shu Tianfeng arrived with two clan elders and demanded that Tian Long surrender and become his battle pet.
• Tian Long suggested enslaving Shu Tianfeng for Mu Qingling, prompting Shu Tianfeng to order an elder to capture him.
• Tian Long sent the Earth Saints and sect experts ten thousand li away and charged at the elder, who recognized him as an Immortal Saint and ordered the other elder to take Shu Tianfeng back to the Demon Realm.

Tian Long captured Devil Race prince Shu Tianfeng and two Chaos Heavenly Venerables, then reported the Devil Race invasion to Mu Qingling. Mu Qingling ordered Little Black to organize the rescued people into a human legion, while the Devil Race prepared to report the prince's capture to the Demon God.

• Tian Long defeated and sealed the two elders protecting Shu Tianfeng, then captured the prince and left the Devil Race troops behind.
• A Devil Lord ordered a Demon General to report Shu Tianfeng's capture to the Demon God while he guarded the transmission entrance.
• Tian Long brought the rescued sect powerhouses to the city where Mu Qingling and Little Black were staying.
• Tian Long told Mu Qingling that Devil Race legions were entering through a transmission array and that the Spirit Realm's forces could not stop them alone.
• Little Black mocked Tian Long for letting a devil essence escape, and Tian Long insisted he had chosen not to pursue it.
• Mu Qingling told Little Black to arrange the rescued people into a human legion as quickly as possible.

Tian Long brought the Devil Race's Twelfth Prince, Shu Tianfeng, to Mu Qingling, who used her newly developed Heavenly Dao Contract to enslave him. After testing its control over Shu Tianfeng, she asked Tian Long to check whether anyone could detect the contract.

• Tian Long told Mu Qingling he had captured the Devil Race's Twelfth Prince and proposed sending him back to kill the Devil Race's disciples.
• Tian Long brought Shu Tianfeng and his two protectors out of an alternate space, and Mu Qingling inspected Shu Tianfeng's horns and mocked his strength.
• Shu Tianfeng threatened Mu Qingling, but she declared him her servant and cast the Heavenly Dao Contract on him.
• Mu Qingling tested the contract by ordering Shu Tianfeng to slap himself, choke himself, and roll on the ground, and he obeyed each command.
• Mu Qingling asked Tian Long to inspect Shu Tianfeng and determine whether the contract could be detected.

Mu Qingling’s Heavenly Dao Contract tormented Shu Tianfeng whenever he harbored murderous intent toward her, while Tian Long dealt with the two other captured elders. At the Demon God Palace, Shu Batian refused to believe the Demon General’s report that the Twelfth Prince had been captured.

• Tian Long failed to detect Mu Qingling’s Heavenly Dao Contract in Shu Tianfeng, and Mu Qingling named him Bull Devil King and warned him to obey.
• Shu Tianfeng attacked Mu Qingling, but the contract caused unbearable pain until he stopped wishing her dead and began to fear her.
• Mu Qingling left the two peak Chaos Heavenly Venerate Demon Saints to Tian Long, who contracted them and ordered his subordinates to take Bull Devil King away.
• The Demon General returned to the Demon God Palace and was brought before Shu Batian to report what had happened to the Twelfth Prince.
• The Demon General said the Twelfth Prince had been captured, but Shu Batian dismissed the report and threatened to kill him for speaking nonsense.

After learning that Shu Tianfeng had been captured, the Demon God killed the reporting Demon General and ordered the Devil Race to conquer the Spirit Realm within a year. He found his son and confronted Tian Long, but Mu Qingling interrupted their duel and made Shu Tianfeng slap his father.

• The Demon God killed the Demon General for failing to protect Shu Tianfeng and ordered Phantom to accelerate the invasion of the Spirit Realm.
• The Demon God arrived in the Demon Realm, threatened the Devil Lord, and went to find Shu Tianfeng.
• Shu Tianfeng told the Demon God that Tian Long had captured him and placed a seal on him, prompting the Demon God to threaten Tian Long.
• Tian Long challenged Shu Batian to fight beyond the starry sky, but Mu Qingling stopped them to question the Demon God.
• Mu Qingling ordered Shu Tianfeng to slap his father, and Shu Tianfeng struck Shu Batian twice against his will.

Mu Qingling used her Heavenly Dao Contract to make Shu Tianfeng slap Shu Batian, while Shu Batian failed to detect the contract and threatened to capture her. Shu Batian and Tian Long went beyond the outer starry sky to fight, and Little Black agreed to take Mu Qingling to watch.

• Shu Tianfeng explained that Mu Qingling had bound him with a Heavenly Dao Contract, but Shu Batian began inspecting his mind and caught his hand when Mu Qingling ordered another slap.
• Shu Tianfeng struck Shu Batian with his other hand, and Shu Batian sealed his movement before searching his mind several more times without finding the contract.
• Mu Qingling revealed that only she could detect her Heavenly Dao Contract, and Shu Batian ordered two clan elders to take Shu Tianfeng back before deciding to capture her.
• Tian Long told Shu Batian that the two clan elders were his slaves and challenged him to fight beyond the outer starry sky, where their battle would not destroy the Spirit Realm.
• Tian Long left for the outer starry sky, and Little Black agreed to take Mu Qingling there to watch the battle.

Mu Qingling watched Tian Long battle the Demon God and learned from Little Black how difficult it was to kill powerful Saints. She sent Little Black to help Tian Long, confident that her father could protect her if the Demon God attacked.

• Little Black led Mu Qingling into outer space and explained how experts could travel between planets using their coordinates.
• Mu Qingling watched Tian Long and the Demon God fight to a stalemate and criticized Tian Long for failing to hurt his opponent.
• Little Black explained that powerful Saints could survive death through blood or soul fragments, but Mu Qingling learned that destroying their essence could prevent their return.
• Mu Qingling ordered Little Black to join Tian Long and suggested capturing the Demon God as a potential ally.
• Little Black warned that the Demon God might attack Mu Qingling, but she said she could call her father, whom Little Black believed could defeat the Demon God with one slap.

The Demon God, Shu Batian, escaped Tian Long and Little Black, then returned to the Demon Realm and summoned the Devil Race elders to plan his son’s rescue. Mu Qingling began cultivating while Tian Long prepared a teleportation array, and Shu Batian’s elders grew concerned about the powerful force behind her.

• Little Black joined Tian Long against the Demon God, who used a black-mist escape ability to flee.
• Mu Qingling said the Demon God would likely return for his captured son and ordered Tian Long to set up a teleportation array.
• Tian Long returned with Mu Qingling to the Demon Realm, where he began constructing the array as she cultivated with her stored resources.
• Shu Batian returned to the Demon Realm, vented his anger, and awakened the Devil Race elders to ask for help rescuing his son.
• Shu Batian told the elders that two Chaos Immortal Saints at Perfection served a human woman, prompting him to worry that her backing might surpass the Devil Race.