Chapter Summaries

The chapter compared the strength and major factions of the Lu Wu Realm’s regions, focusing on the Eastern Continent’s dominant races and powers before turning to the Southern Sea. It left the Southern Sea’s factions under review, highlighting the True Martial Sacred Land and Old Man Zhui Dao.

• The chapter ranked the Eastern Continent first among the six regions and described the Human Race’s powerful empires, provinces, sacred lands, and leading experts.
• The chapter outlined the Demon Race’s three kingdoms and the Savage Wilderness Great Domain, while Yang Tianyou noticed the old monkey Tongming, who recognized him as Little Xuanzi’s fortuitous opportunity.
• The chapter described the Blood Race, Spirit Tribe, and Barbarian Tribe, including the Spirit Tribe’s internal divisions and Barbarian Lord Bayu’s formidable combat strength.
• The chapter explained that the Eastern Continent’s many strong races and powers made it the Lu Wu Realm’s strongest region.
• The chapter introduced the Southern Sea as nearly comparable in strength to the Eastern Continent and named its major races and sacred lands.
• The chapter noted that the True Martial Sacred Land rivaled the Seven Stars Sacred Land and that Old Man Zhui Dao could contend with a Sage Manifestation Great Perfection cultivator despite being at Mid Sage Manifestation.

Yang Tianyou surveyed the races and major forces of the Southern Sea and Western Continent, noting their leaders, strengths, and histories. The chapter ended with an overview of the Western Continent’s Demon and Asura Tribes.

• The chapter described the Southern Sea’s Human Sacred Lands, Red Demon Apes, Water Tribe, Fire Spirit Tribe, Witch Tribe, and Flood Dragon Clan and compared their strengths.
• Yang Tianyou noticed Venerable Dikong, the Asura-born eminent monk who led Lanke Temple, and felt apprehensive about his influence over the mind.
• The chapter outlined the Western Continent’s Ghost Tribe, including the Yinyue Empress and its long conflict with the Buddhist Sect, which had eased in recent years.
• The chapter described the Western Continent’s Silent Pulse Tribe and Gold Spirit Tribe, then listed the Demon Race’s three royal lineages and the Asura Tribe’s Sage Manifestation experts.

Yang Tianyou attended the Lu Wu Realm Alliance Conference and witnessed the Will of Heaven and Earth descend as the gathering began. The conference unanimously approved forming a unified Cultivator Legion to resist the coming Interface War.

• The chapter described the Eastern Sea's major forces and the Chaotic Sea's Human and Foreign Race powers, including the Devil Dao Sects.
• Yang Tianyou surveyed the gathered experts and saw that two hundred Sage Manifestation experts and over a thousand Spirit Transformation experts had assembled.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion master opened the Alliance Conference, and the Will of Heaven and Earth descended as the cultivators bowed.
• The conference debated proposals, and its first agenda item, forming a unified Cultivator Legion, passed unanimously.

The Alliance Conference established the Lu Wu Army, a treasury and Merit Ranking, and a series of plans to prepare the Lu Wu Realm for the coming Interface War. It ended with the alliance organizing an expedition against the Demon Sea and preparing a secret refuge in case the realm lost the war.

• The major forces contributed resources to the alliance treasury, and the Spiritvoid Pavilion's master accepted sole charge under a blood soul contract.
• The alliance established the Merit Exchange Ranking and learned that the Lu Wu Secret Realm would open after the Interface War began, bringing resources and other opportunities.
• The conference approved plans to divide the realm into war zones, cultivate a hundred chosen experts every century, and establish large-scale Teleportation Formations.
• After the five great Heavenly Mechanists traced the war's culprit to the Demon Sea, the alliance excluded the Devil Cultivators and resolved to attack it in three months.
• The alliance approved building a secret refuge for the seeds of its major forces in case of defeat, then put its conference resolutions into effect.

Lin Yingyue and the Six Desires Demoness discussed the Demon Dao’s plans as the alliance prepared to invade the Demon Sea. The allied fleets began attacking, and the Blood-Slaying Dao prepared to defend its secret realm while waiting for Sect Master Red Dust’s countermeasures to take effect.

• The Six Desires Demoness warned Lin Yingyue that his scheme to obtain the Heavenly Demon's power could backfire, but he dismissed her concerns.
• Three months later, the alliance assembled its fleets and divided them into ten armies to attack the Demon Sea’s Devil Dao sects.
• Yang Tianyou persuaded the Eight Desolations Saber Saint to join the army targeting the Blood-Slaying Dao.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord and other leaders used the Seven Stars Boat to take an elite fleet into the void and locate the Blood-Slaying Dao Master.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord demanded that the Blood-Slaying Dao Master open the secret realm, but the Dao Master ordered his people to defend it until Sect Master Red Dust’s measures disrupted the void currents.

The Seven Stars Sacred Lord and the alliance army attacked the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm, but its defenses withstood their combined assault. The Seven Stars Sacred Lord discovered chains anchoring the realm and sent a divine star sword to cut them.

• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord and the Blood-Slaying Dao Master exchanged accusations before their first clash, which ended with the Lifeless Killing Sword shattering against the Seven-Star Demon-Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm repelled the Seven Stars Sacred Lord's attack with its Origin power.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint, other Sage Manifestation experts, and the alliance's flying boats unleashed five rounds of attacks, but the realm remained intact.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord used the Star God Pendant and a Pupil Technique to reveal chains binding the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm to unknown places.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord sent a divine star sword slashing toward the chains.

The Immortal Dao Fleet struggled to break through the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm’s defenses as a massive Void Torrent swept in. Just as the Fleet seemed poised to retreat, Dao Disciple Yesang and the Cloud-Swallowing Walker detonated Four Symbols Thunder Pearls, opening a flaw in the defense.

• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord failed to cut Lin Yingyue’s spatial chains and resumed attacking the secret realm with the Seven-Star Demon-Slaying Sword Formation.
• A colossal Void Torrent struck the Immortal Dao Fleet, and the Seven Stars Sacred Lord used the Dark Star Immovable Formation to hold the ships in place.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord prepared to retreat, but the Eight Desolations Saber Saint said an inside agent from the Four Symbols Alliance could resolve the crisis.
• Dao Disciple Yesang and the Cloud-Swallowing Walker detonated Four Symbols Thunder Pearls, destroying Formation nodes and opening a flaw in the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm’s defense.

The Immortal Dao forces breached the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm and launched an overwhelming assault. As the battle spread through the realm, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage fighter used the Great White Life-and-Death Blade to crush a Devil Cultivator’s powerful Law Treasure and drive the wheel seal toward him.

• Dao Disciple Yesang and the Cloud-Swallowing Walker detonated two Four Symbols Thunder Pearls, opening breaches in the secret realm’s defenses.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint charged through the breach and attacked the Blood-Slaying Dao Master and his elites.
• The Blood-Slaying Dao Master and Demon Venerable Yelan fought back, but the arriving Immortal Dao experts and fleet overwhelmed the Blood-Slaying Dao forces.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage fighter unleashed the Great White Life-and-Death Blade against a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Devil Cultivator and swallowed his blood torrent.
• The Life-and-Death Wheel Seal shattered the Devil Cultivator’s Blood-Devouring Blade and pressed toward him.

Yang Tianyou tested the Great White Life-and-Death Blade against a Devil Cultivator while the Four Symbols Alliance’s Sage Manifestation forces overwhelmed the Blood-Slaying Dao leaders. The Blood-Slaying Dao Master detonated himself and activated the Blood Demon Refining Spirit Formation as the battle reached its climax.

• Yang Tianyou’s Life-and-Death Wheel Seal killed a blood-robed Devil Cultivator and expanded to two hundred zhang.
• Yang Tianyou attacked a Spirit Transformation Early Stage witch, who burned her Primordial Spirit and lunged for him while the middle-aged cultivator hurled mountains at her.
• The Life-and-Death Wheel Seal struck the witch, and the middle-aged cultivator killed her after she broke free of the seal.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint killed Demon Venerable Yelan, and the Seven Stars Sacred Lord killed the Blood-Sha Demon Venerable with the Demon-Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Blood-Slaying Dao Master detonated himself, broke the hall’s seal, and activated the Blood Demon Refining Spirit Formation.

The Immortal Dao faction survived the Blood-Slaying Dao Master's formation and began clearing blood demons while the Eight Desolations Saber Saint refined the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm's origin. The Blood-Slaying Dao Master escaped to the Six Desires Secret Realm, and the wider campaign against the Ten Great Demon Sects remained unfinished after the Void Torrent intervened.

• The Blood-Slaying Dao Master activated a formation that killed every living being in the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm and trapped the Immortal Dao cultivators in a sea of blood.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint and the other experts gathered the survivors, and Yang Tianyou used the Fire God Dao Soldier to protect himself and reach them.
• The Sage Manifestation cultivators agreed that the Eight Desolations Saber Saint would refine the secret realm's origin, while the others drove back the blood demons.
• Wuhuang returned with the Demon Puppet Venerable's head and protected Yang Tianyou before attacking a giant blood demon.
• Lin Yingyue confronted the weakened Blood-Slaying Dao Master in the Six Desires Secret Realm and gave him a Storage Ring to restore his cultivation.
• A Void Torrent disrupted the campaign against the Ten Great Demon Sects; only the Blood-Slaying Dao, Eagle Sky Sect, and Netherworld Sect secret realms had been breached.

The Lu Wu Realm’s leaders abandoned further assaults on the Demon Sea and agreed to watch the three captured secret realms while conserving resources for the coming Interface War. In the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm, the four Sacred Lands divided the territory and spoils, and the Four Symbols Alliance established a guarded portal.

• The Lu Wu Realm’s leaders discussed the Demon Dao’s spatial chains and decided to station forces in the three captured secret realms and monitor the Demon Sea rather than continue attacking.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint purified the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm’s origin, leaving a sphere of blood-soul power that Yang Tianyou obtained for the Blood Moon Secret Realm.
• The four Sacred Lands divided the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm, granting the Four Symbols Alliance its central region while allocating the remaining territory and resources according to merit.
• The Yang Household received many Contribution Points for providing the insider, and Yang Tianyou exchanged some of his share for resources for the Lineage.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint established a portal on Four Symbols Island, where Spirit Transformation cultivators from the four Sacred Lands would guard access to the secret realm.

Thirty years after the Battle of the Demon Sea, the Lu Wu Realm flourished, and the Yang Household grew stronger. The realm’s leaders were summoned by the Will of Heaven and Earth, where Lu Wu and Qiongqi joined forces against Nine-Phoenix.

• After the Battle of the Demon Sea, the major powers peacefully divided newly appearing ruins and Secret Realms as a golden age of cultivation began.
• Yang Tianyou saw the Blood Moon Secret Realm expand and noted the Yang Household’s growing resources and Purple Moon Army.
• More than a dozen Yang Household members reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while several others failed their breakthroughs but survived.
• Thirty years after the Demon Sea battle, Spirit Transformation Cultivators and stronger figures were drawn into a Dark Space by the Will of Heaven and Earth.
• Nine-Phoenix and Qiongqi appeared as the wills of their respective realms, and Lu Wu arrived as the will of the Lu Wu Realm.
• Lu Wu and Qiongqi joined forces and pounced on Nine-Phoenix.

As realm gates opened across the Lu Wu Realm, the Alliance detected five large gates and dispatched reinforcements. At the Eastern Sea gate, the Nine Phoenix Realm’s Demon Race vanguard annihilated the Water Tribe guards and clashed with a massive Water Tribe force.

• The Alliance’s Armillary Sphere revealed more than three hundred realm gates, including five that rapidly expanded to large size.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master reported the gates’ growth, and the Alliance Elder Council sent reinforcements to their locations.
• A four-headed Demon Phoenix emerged from the Eastern Sea gate and burned the Water Tribe soldiers and nearby sea creatures to nothing.
• The Demon Phoenix, giant silver rat, and giant mosquito identified the Lu Wu Realm as a target and assembled a hundred-thousand-strong Demon Race army with ten War Fortresses.
• More than a thousand Flood Dragons and three War Flying Vessels carrying two hundred thousand Water Tribe soldiers arrived, and Jiufeng Huangge ordered the Demon Race to form ranks and defend.
• The Demon Race vanguard and the Water Tribe forces began a brutal battle at the realm gate.

The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan and Water Tribe fought the Nine Phoenix Realm’s army, until the Abyss Lord’s arrival gave the Flood Dragon King and Grand Elder an opening to unleash their clan’s treasures. The Sea Beasts then arrived as reinforcements, while the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces retreated behind their barrier.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm’s legions and fortresses held off the Flood Dragon Clan’s assault as their Sage Manifestation fighters battled in the sky.
• The Abyss Lord arrived and stunned Jiufeng Huangge and the other Sage Manifestation Demon Race experts with a wave of mental force.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King and Grand Elder struck with the Eastern Sea Dragon Pearl and Azure Dragon Bow, killing the giant silver rat and enormous blood-colored mosquito and leaving Jiufeng Huangge badly wounded.
• The Flood Dragon King and Grand Elder used their treasures again to kill four more Sage Manifestation Demon Race experts, forcing the survivors to withdraw behind their army’s barrier.
• The Sea Beasts arrived in a vast tide, including more than a dozen Sage Manifestation Sea Beasts.

Jiufeng Huangge’s army was overwhelmed by the Lu Wu Realm’s Sea Beasts and Water Tribe, and the Grand Elder broke through their barrier with a supreme arrow. The invasion force then failed to breach the defenses beyond the Realm Gate and began fortifying the gate instead.

• Jiufeng Huangge and the Hundred-Thousand Army held their Defensive Barrier against the Sea Beasts, Water Tribe Legion, and War Flying Vessels, suffering heavy losses.
• The Grand Elder and the Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King attacked together, and the Grand Elder shattered the barrier with the Azure Dragon Bow and Scarlet-Gold Dragon-Scale Arrow.
• Jiufeng Huangge retreated through the Realm Gate as the Water Tribe Legion and Sea Beasts pursued; the Grand Elder killed two more Sage Manifestation Demon Beasts.
• The Water Tribe Legion and Sea Beast horde returned from the space between the worlds after failing to break through its defensive system, with seven Sage Manifestation experts dead.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King ordered a Sealing Formation and a defensive fortress around the Realm Gate, and a massive cylindrical crystal wall was built.

As the Nine Phoenix Realm seized most World Interstices across the Lu Wu Realm, Yang Tianyou led the Purple Moon Army to investigate a small Realm Gate near the Yang Household. He entered the World Interstice with two battalions after scouts found no nearby living beings.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm captured four of five contested World Interstices, while Old Man Zhui Dao helped the True Martial Sacred Land seize the fifth.
• A small Realm Gate appeared in the Yang Household’s territory, and Zhiming reported its location to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Purple Moon Army to investigate and cautioned its leaders not to underestimate the danger.
• Scouts entered the Realm Gate and reported that they had found no living beings within a hundred-li radius.
• Yang Tianyou left Yunhua and three battalions outside, then led the first two battalions through the Realm Gate into the World Interstice.

Yang Tianyou entered the World Interstice, fought off a herd of bison Fierce Beasts, and established a foothold at the Realm Gate. After capturing a Qiongqi Realm Cultivator and reading his memories, Yang Tianyou learned about the realm’s scarce resources and brutal society, and considered the world beyond the gate.

• Yang Tianyou and Yang Xuanli entered the World Interstice and saw its abundant resources and turbulent manifestations of the Dao.
• A bison Fierce Beast herd charged the Yang Household’s Flying Vessel, and the Purple Moon Army killed the leader and defended itself against a spatial black hole.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Tongming to build a defensive fortress and waited with Yunhua for Cultivators from the other side of the Realm Gate.
• A party of Qiongqi Realm Cultivators entered the World Interstice, and Yang Tianyou captured the hooked-nose elder and read his memories.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Qiongqi Realm was plagued by demons, scarce resources, and the mistreatment of mortals, then expressed interest in exploring it.

The Nine Phoenix Realm invaded the Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm, slaughtering inhabitants and destroying Spirit Veins as both sides fought with equal brutality. After the Nine Phoenix Realm overwhelmed the unprepared Qiongqi Realm, its factions formed an alliance with the Lu Wu Realm to resist the invaders.

• Nine Phoenix Realm experts poured through a Medium Realm Gate into the Sun-Moon Empire, and many escaped before its army could stop them.
• Demon Race attackers destroyed a city in the Sun-Moon Empire, devoured its inhabitants, and extracted the Spirit Vein beneath it.
• The invasion spread across the Lu Wu Realm as Nine Phoenix Realm and Lu Wu Realm forces slaughtered and plundered in each other's territories.
• The Nine Phoenix Realm occupied all six Large Realm Gates in the Qiongqi Realm and initially overwhelmed its unprepared demons.
• The Qiongqi Realm's major factions set aside their rivalries, formed the Qiongqi Realm Alliance, and joined forces with the Lu Wu Realm against the Nine Phoenix Realm.

At an alliance meeting on Four Symbols Island, the Spiritvoid Pavilion master briefed the leaders of the Lu Wu Realm on the Nine Phoenix Realm and its major powers. The chapter ended with an assessment of the Nine Phoenix Realm’s strongest known experts and the threat they posed.

• Yang Tianyou attended the meeting by projection while his true body remained stationed between worlds, after leading Lu Wu Realm forces through the Realm Gate into the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion master displayed a map of the Nine Phoenix Realm and described its seven continents and the races that controlled them.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion master explained that the Nine-Phoenix Clan ruled the realm, while the Demon Race, Human Race, Fire-Bathing Tribe, Divine Wind Clan, Fire Spirit Tribe, and Giant Spirit Tribe held power across the other continents.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion master recounted how the Nine-Phoenix Clan had defeated the sea powers and crippled the surviving races’ cultivation paths.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion master identified the Nine-Phoenix Emperor as the realm’s strongest being and named several other renowned experts who had reached Late Sage Manifestation or might have advanced further.

Yang Tianyou and the Lu Wu Realm Alliance learned about the Qiongqi Realm and compared its forces with those of the Nine Phoenix Realm. The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master outlined how the Armillary Sphere tracked Realm Gates, battles, Merit, and communications, and warned the alliance against trying to force Realm Gates shut.

• Yang Tianyou and the other experts grew more determined to win after hearing how defeated peoples were treated, and the Lu Wu Realm factions contributed more treasures to the alliance treasury.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master described the Qiongqi Realm's regions, factions, Fierce Beasts, and Seven Great Fiend Demons, explaining that its forces could aid the Lu Wu Realm against the stronger Nine Phoenix Realm.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master presented the Armillary Sphere and explained how it monitored Realm Gates and battles, recorded Merit, and transmitted information among the alliance's factions.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master said the number of Realm Gates would eventually stabilize at eight hundred, with sixty percent connecting to the Nine Phoenix Realm and forty percent to the Qiongqi Realm.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master warned that destroying the gaps between worlds was unlikely to close Realm Gates and could instead expand them, while an attempt by the Nine Phoenix Realm would cost it most of its experts.