Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou advanced his Metal Element Dao and Melt Gold Body Refinement, then considered how the Yang Household could guide Wang Shan and the Myriad Forms Sect’s recovery. Yunhua told him the Guanghan Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm would open in a year, and they prepared to compete for entry places.

• Yang Tianyou’s Geng Metal Qi surged through the courtyard, and Yunhua explained to Duan Hongyu that he had deepened his understanding of the Metal Element Dao.
• Yang Tianyou refined Third-Tier Upper-Grade Spirit Gold into his body, using his breakthrough in the Metal Element Dao to remove the bottleneck in Melt Gold Body Refinement.
• Zhiming told Yang Tianyou that Wang Shan had grown close to Yang Xuanying, and Yang Tianyou considered helping Wang Shan rebuild the Myriad Forms Sect under the Yang Household’s control.
• Yunhua informed Yang Tianyou that the Guanghan Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm would open in a year and that they needed to reach Luochuan City in half a year to compete for limited places.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua discussed the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment entry places, and Yang Tianyou decided to bring more disciples so they could gain experience.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua tested the Illusion God Pearl before leading the Yang and Feng Households to Luochuan City for the gathering of forces bound for the Guanghan Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm. True Person Beigong set the expedition in motion, and the assembled cultivators traveled toward the Moon-Inviting Mountain Range.

• Little True Person Yueyang gave Yang Tianyou the Illusion God Pearl, and Yunhua used it to disguise herself as a Vengeful Ghost, fooling Yang Tianyou’s eyes and Zhiming’s hearing.
• After the six-month wait, Yang Tianyou, Yunhua, and their companions departed Purple Moon Mountain, picked up Feng Household cultivators at Clearwind Valley, and flew to Luochuan City.
• Yang Tianyou greeted the Golden Core leaders gathered in Luochuan City, and he and Yunhua were relieved when True Person Beigong arrived to lead the expedition instead of the Grand Elder.
• Yunhua questioned her nephew Yun Zhan about his progress cultivating her Divine Ability, and he admitted he had reached only Minor Achievement.
• Three days later, True Person Beigong brought the cultivators aboard a Fourth-Tier Flying Boat and set course for the Guanghan Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm in the Moon-Inviting Mountain Range.

Yang Tianyou read a Jade Slip explaining how the Guanghan Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm worked and the ancient war it recorded. He concluded that replacing an ancient cultivator was the better way to enter, since fulfilling that cultivator’s obsession could let him bring treasures out.

• The Jade Slip explained that Immortal-Demon Illusion Realms were limited records of the past, and that the Guanghan realm admitted only a few cultivators once every thousand years.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the realm recorded the sixty-year war in which White Sky Heavenly Lord sealed the Heavenly Demon in the Frostthunder Region.
• The Jade Slip described Guanghan Immortal leading the resistance against the Devil Race in Ancient Qin Province after the Azure Sky Tiger Clan was destroyed.
• Yang Tianyou learned that cultivation gains made inside the realm would remain, but unused resources would disappear when the one-year visit ended.
• The Jade Slip explained that entrants could either explore as outsiders or replace ancient cultivators and fulfill their obsessions to gain origin power.
• Yang Tianyou decided that replacing an ancient cultivator was preferable because it provided backing and could let him bring treasures out of the realm.

Yang Tianyou and the Luochuan Sect arrived at the Moon-Inviting Mountain Range, where Qin Province’s powers gathered for the Guanghan Grand Assembly and its qualifying fights. After the numbered tokens were distributed, Yang Tianyou learned he would face Feng Lieyang in seven days.

• True Person Beigong led the Luochuan Sect’s cultivators to the Moon-Inviting Mountain Range, where they encountered rival commandery-level powers and Rogue Cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou observed the Mountain and River Tower and the immense gathering of Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Yunhua set up a palace for the Yang and Feng Households, and ten days later True Person Yueshan announced the start of the Guanghan Grand Assembly.
• Yang Tianyou drew Jia 13, Yunhua drew Yi 5, Little True Person Yueyang drew Jia 1, and Feng Qingyang drew Jia 16.
• Feng Lieyang revealed he had also drawn Jia 13, matching him against Yang Tianyou, and accepted that he would likely lose.

Little True Person Yueyang won his opening match with his shell and Illusory Spirit Technique, while Yang Xuanyun and Yunhua also won their arena bouts. After Yang Tianyou advanced past Feng Lieyang, he received the Jia No. 5 token, leaving him with a new match assignment.

• Little True Person Yueyang endured the Qingcheng Sword Cultivator’s sword attack, trapped him in an illusion, and won the match.
• Little True Person Yueyang teased Yang Tianyou, who pinched him while Yunhua watched their exchange.
• Yang Xuanyun destroyed her opponent’s Thousand-Star Fine-Hair Needles and forced the yellow-faced old man to surrender.
• Yang Tianyou advanced when Feng Lieyang surrendered and received the Jia No. 5 token.
• Yunhua overwhelmed a Talisman Cultivator with her Ice-Spirit Divine Light and Cold Moon Immortal Sword, forcing her opponent to surrender.

Yang Tianyou tested his newly perfected Melt Gold Body Refinement against Xiang Xi and won a place in the Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm. After the selected cultivators gathered for a month, the realm's gate opened and they began entering.

• Yang Tianyou endured Xiang Xi's strongest Heavenly Star Fist without injury, and Xiang Xi conceded the fight.
• Yang Tianyou told Xiang Xi he belonged to the Yang Household of Purple Moon County, and Xiang Xi recognized his reputation as Great White Blade Venerable.
• After more than four months of competition, Yang Tianyou and five other cultivators from the Yang and Feng Households secured places in the Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm.
• During the month of waiting, Yang Tianyou traded for spatial Spirit Material, Demon Beast Inner Cores, and Third-Tier Spirit Gold.
• At the thousand-year mark, a vast gate appeared under the moon, and True Person Yueshan announced that the Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm was open.
• Yang Tianyou and the other selected cultivators activated their Law Power and entered through the gate.

Yang Tianyou entered the Immortal-Demon Illusion Realm as Xu Tianyi, a Golden Core cultivator whose obsession was to kill Qingyin Demon King, and began planning how to fulfill it while collecting ancient resources. Meanwhile, Yunhua entered as Guanghan Immortal’s disciple Yuechan and found herself beside her master among the Lu Wu Realm’s gathered forces.

• Yang Tianyou inherited Xu Tianyi’s identity, memories, Storage Ring, and obsession to avenge the Yuan Yi Sect by killing Qingyin Demon King.
• Yang Tianyou resolved to seek Qingyin Demon King’s whereabouts, fulfill Xu Tianyi’s obsession, and gather ancient resources for his Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou found the Devil Race heads Xu Tianyi had collected and promised inwardly to pay tribute to the dead sect members if he could.
• The Lu Wu Realm’s forces gathered at Azure Sky Lake under Guanghan Immortal to fight the Devil Race.
• Yunhua realized she had entered the illusion realm as Yuechan, Guanghan Immortal’s personal disciple, and observed the powerful figures assembled in Guanghan Palace.

Guanghan Immortal learned that the Devil Race would attack from three directions and assigned forces to intercept Blood Sha Devil Lord’s reinforcements while the main army held its position. Yunhua received a protective jade pendant and a Fifth Tier Flying Boat with troops under her command, then wondered whether she could find Tianyou before the war began.

• Guanghan Immortal revealed that the Seven Stars Sacred Land had been defeated and Blood Sha Devil Lord was sending reinforcements, leaving their side outnumbered by the Devil Race.
• Yunhua recalled how Guanghan Immortal would win the coming battle and learned that Heart Devil Race insects had infiltrated several cultivators.
• Guanghan Immortal ordered Fengfu King and Yin Wumie to accompany her southeast to intercept the reinforcements, while the remaining forces defended their position with formation arrays.
• Guanghan Immortal gave Yunhua a jade pendant that could withstand three attacks from a Mid Sage Manifestation cultivator.
• Yunhua persuaded Guanghan Immortal to place a Fifth Tier Flying Boat, a group of cultivators, and five Nascent Soul Middle Stage Dao Soldiers under her command.
• Yunhua wondered whether she should use her position to look for Tianyou before the war began.

Yang Tianyou prepared for the coming war at Yuan Qingshan, spending Xu Tianyi’s Merit on spirit medicines and seeds before attending Fairy Youruo’s briefing. As the Devil Race’s full assault began, the Guanghan Immortal secretly dispatched fifty thousand Flying Boats while leaving Guanghan Palace at the main battlefield, and the story revealed the Devil Race’s massive Demon Nests.

• Yang Tianyou exchanged Xu Tianyi’s Merit for spirit medicines and seeds, telling Daoist Friend Li that he intended to establish a Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Fairy Youruo summoned the Golden Core cultivators and ordered Yuan Qingshan’s defenders to keep the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation active ahead of the Devil Race’s full attack the next day.
• Fairy Youruo warned that Yuan Qingshan stood on the Second Line of Defense and that its defenders could not afford to let their guard down.
• The next day, the Guanghan Immortal sent fifty thousand Flying Boats southeast from Azure Sky Lake while Guanghan Palace remained behind to mislead the Devil Cultivators.
• A hundred thousand li from Azure Sky Lake, vast black Demon Nests dotted the mountains, serving as the Devil Race’s troop transports and support vessels.

The Bloodfiend Devil Lord learned that Guanghan had led forces to intercept the Blood Sha reinforcements, then brought his army to attack Azure Sky Lake. The allied fleet repelled the opening volley with its formations and Totem Pillar, but the battle settled into a stalemate as the Devils raised a vast sea of Demonic Qi.

• The Bloodfiend Devil Lord ordered the Blood Sha Devil Lord to delay Guanghan and the Gluttonous Devil Lord to help crush the allied army.
• Half a month later, the Bloodfiend Devil Lord's army attacked Azure Sky Lake without warning.
• Ba Lie activated the Purple Firmament Ringing Thunder Formation, which collided with and nullified the demon nests' demonic beams.
• The allied fleet activated its defensive formations and Ba Lie used the Sixth Tier Totem Pillar to raise a powerful shield.
• The Devils attacked the defenses while the allied fleet launched a counterattack, and the demon nests formed a Demonic Qi sea that weakened the incoming blows.
• The two armies' formations and demon nests wore each other down, leaving the battle in a stalemate.

Yang Tianyou and Fairy Youruo defended Yuan Qingshan against the Gluttonous Devil Lord’s forces as reinforcements increased the assault to five Nascent Soul Devil Race members. After Yang Tianyou warned Fairy Youruo that the allies’ defenses would soon collapse elsewhere, she chose to change the formation and attack rather than wait to retreat.

• The Devil Race forces under the Gluttonous Devil Lord attacked Yuan Qingshan, and Fairy Youruo ordered the cultivators to hold their posts while she and Yang Tianyou sustained the defensive formation.
• Yang Tianyou warned Fairy Youruo that the allied defenses would suffer heavy losses and that enemy forces might soon join the attack, so she prepared a Fourth-Tier Upper-Grade Demon-Subduing Flying Boat and a Fourth-Tier Lower-Grade Puppet.
• Devil Ox arrived with reinforcements, raising the enemy force to five Nascent Soul members, more than fifty Golden Core members, and tens of thousands of lower-level troops.
• Fairy Youruo announced that she would alter the formation after a quarter of an hour and use the Demon-Subduing Boat to catch the Devil Race off guard.
• After Fairy Youruo asked whether Yang Tianyou’s projected image was real, he swore it was, and she ordered the cultivators to prepare for battle despite their objections.

Fairy Youruo and the Immortal Dao cultivators used the Mountain-Guarding Formation and a Flying Boat to strike the Devil Race’s forces, killing thousands and grievously wounding the Demon Bull before both sides settled into a battle of attrition. Yang Tianyou waited for the demonic Formation to weaken enough for the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation to succeed.

• Fairy Youruo transformed the Mountain-Guarding Formation into the Withered Wood Corrodes Heaven Formation, which rotted more than ten thousand low-level Devil Race members.
• The Devil Race formed a powerful demonic Formation, while Fairy Youruo and the Immortal Dao cultivators established the Heavenly Gang Demon-Subduing Formation aboard a Flying Boat.
• Fairy Youruo sent the Heavenly Gang Demon-Subduing Token into a weak point in the enemy Formation, where the Demon Bull took the attack and was grievously wounded.
• The Devil Race sacrificed more than half its Demon Nests to repair the Formation’s flaw, and the opposing formations clashed in a destructive stalemate.
• Yang Tianyou conserved his strength with the Mountain-Sea Pearl and waited for the demonic Formation to weaken so the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation could strike.

Fairy Youruo and Yang Tianyou exploited the weakened formations to break the Devil Race’s formation and turn the battle around. Yang Tianyou sealed and killed the two-headed devil leopard, while Fairy Youruo pursued the remaining Devil Kings.

• Fairy Youruo sent a Fourth-Tier Lower-Grade Puppet to draw the Devil Race’s defenses and opened a path for Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou summoned his Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts and used the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation to seal a Nascent Soul devil bull.
• Fairy Youruo killed the devil bull with the Heavenly Gang Demon-Subduing Token and broke the Devil Race’s formation, leaving its forces badly injured.
• Fairy Youruo trapped the fleeing Devil Race and ordered Yang Tianyou to pursue the two-headed devil leopard.
• Yang Tianyou endured the leopard’s desperate attack, sealed it with the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation, and killed it with the Great White Heavenly Blade.

After the victory at Yuan Qingshan, Fairy Youruo led the battered survivors to the rear, where they received Merit for the battle. Yang Tianyou exchanged Devil Race spoils and Merit for a Vajra Ape Puppet, then set out to find Qingyin Demon King.

• Fairy Youruo and Yang Tianyou helped defeat the Devil Race forces at Yuan Qingshan, though their side suffered heavy losses and Fairy Youruo's puppet was badly damaged.
• Fairy Youruo withdrew the survivors to the Fourth Line of Defense, where the cultivators received their Merit allocations; Xu Tianyi was credited with 51,234 Intermediate Merit.
• Yang Tianyou visited the Merit Hall and chose a Vajra Ape Puppet to improve his chances against Qingyin Demon King.
• Yang Tianyou sold Devil Race materials for more than 30,000 Merit and exchanged the remaining Merit for the puppet and eighty high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Tianyou left the Merit Hall and set out to find Qingyin Demon King.

Guanghan Immortal’s allied forces fought the Devil Race army on the grasslands, while three Sage Manifestation devils planned to retreat rather than face her directly. When Guanghan Immortal intercepted their withdrawal, the devils abandoned their escape plan and prepared to fight.

• Guanghan Immortal’s allied forces clashed with the Devil Race army, whose leaders discussed retreating to preserve their strength.
• An Kuang persuaded the Rhino Demon and the six-armed devil to withdraw with the main force while leaving troops behind to cover them.
• Three days later, Guanghan Immortal spotted the retreat and ordered Fengfu King and Yin Wumie to encircle the Devil Race from both flanks as she attacked from the front.
• Fengfu King and Yin Wumie led elite allied troops around the Devil Race army, trapping its leaders and cutting off their escape.
• An Kuang, the Rhino Demon, and the six-armed devil decided to fight rather than abandon their army, and they readied their Devil Treasures.

The Guanghan Immortal led the allied army in a fierce battle against the Devil Race and killed the Rhino Devil with her Taiyin Tribulation Light and sword. An Kuang escaped into the Void Surface but was forced back by the Taiyin Mirror, while the Six-Armed Devil also struggled to flee.

• The Guanghan Immortal repeatedly struck the Devil Race army with powerful sword attacks as the Rhino Devil charged at her.
• The Guanghan Immortal wounded the Rhino Devil, while An Kuang and the Six-Armed Devil held off Yin Wumie and the Fengfu King on the flanks.
• The Guanghan Immortal used Taiyin Tribulation Light to slow the Rhino Devil and beheaded him after seventy moves.
• An Kuang used a single-use Devil Treasure to escape into the Void Surface, while the Six-Armed Devil prepared to flee.
• The Guanghan Immortal activated the Taiyin Mirror and forced An Kuang out of the Void Surface, leaving him despairing as the Six-Armed Devil remained unable to shake off the Fengfu King.

Guanghan Immortal and the allied forces defeated the Devils at the battlefield, though her Incarnation was grievously injured. At Azure Sky Lake, the allied fleet feigned a breakout to lure Bloodfiend Devil Lord into battle, where ten Sage Manifestation combatants met his elite force.

• Guanghan Immortal fought An Kuang while Yin Wumie and Fengfu King helped break through the Six-Armed Devil’s defenses and kill him.
• Guanghan Immortal killed An Kuang and destroyed his Demon Soul, then told the others that her true body would help them lure Bloodfiend Devil Lord into a decisive fight.
• The allied army’s Main Fleet advanced northeast as if attempting to break out, prompting Bloodfiend Devil Lord to pursue it with the Demon Nest and an elite force.
• Bloodfiend Devil Lord led eleven Devil Lords and more than nine hundred other Devils through the allied fleet’s formations while the Devil Race army pinned down its lower-level cultivators.
• Ba Lie and nine other Sage Manifestation combatants stepped forward to face Bloodfiend Devil Lord’s eleven Sage Manifestation Devils.

The Guanghan Immortal lured the Bloodfiend Devil Lord into a prepared trap and used her incarnation, the Taiyin Mirror, and three formations to seal the battlefield. The alliance gained a decisive advantage, but the fighting continued as the Guanghan Immortal and her incarnation killed three Devil Lords and the incarnation was finally disabled.

• Ba Lie fought the Bloodfiend Devil Lord for a full day while the Devil Race broke through more than half of the alliance's defenses.
• The Guanghan Immortal struck the Bloodfiend Devil Lord with Taiyin Tribulation Light and cut off his head, but a treasure absorbed him and let him escape.
• The Taiyin Mirror released five Sage Manifestation experts and sealed the surrounding space while three Sixth Tier Formations enclosed the battlefield.
• The alliance's sixteen Sage Manifestation combatants attacked the ten Devil Lords, and the Guanghan Immortal and her incarnation killed three of them.
• The Devil Lords fought back desperately, and the Guanghan Immortal's badly injured incarnation lost all combat strength and was taken into a spatial Law Treasure.

After the allied forces defeated the Devil Lords, they pushed their counteroffensive forward. Yunhua killed a Spirit Transformation Early Stage Bat Devil with the Five-Elements Reversal Formation, while Yang Tianyou tracked down and killed the Qingyin Demon King.

• The allied forces killed eight of the ten Devil Lords, then surrounded and killed the Gluttonous Devil Lord and another Sage Manifestation Devil Lord.
• Yunhua trapped the Bat Devil in the Five-Elements Reversal Formation, weakening and disorienting it before freezing and crushing its body and destroying its devil soul.
• Yang Tianyou led his scout squad to corner the Qingyin Demon King and sealed him inside the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation.
• The Vajra Ape Puppet wore down the Qingyin Demon King, then smashed his head while Yang Tianyou's Blade Intent destroyed his devil soul.

After fulfilling his obsession by killing Qingyin Demon King, Yang Tianyou looked for his companions through a coded notice in the Mission Hall. The others began making their way to Purple Jade Mountain, where Yang Tianyou reunited with Yunhua.

• Yang Tianyou learned the Illusion Realm Origin would let him take out resources worth about 150,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones and considered which resources and knowledge to acquire before leaving.
• Yang Tianyou found coded replies from Yunhua, Little True Person Yueyang, and Yang Xuanyun, but saw no messages from Yang Xuande or Feng Lieqing.
• Little True Person Yueyang left his scout squad, and Yang Xuanyun traveled toward Westflow Lake near Purple Jade Mountain.
• Yang Xuande and Feng Lieqing recognized each other during a battle and later survived the war together, but had not seen Yang Tianyou's notice.
• Ten days later, Yang Tianyou met Yunhua at Purple Jade Mountain and saw that she had arrived with tens of thousands of cultivators.