Chapter Summaries

Su Yutong spent his last Demon-Slaying Talisman to give Lin Xiao and the others a chance to escape, but the Heavenly Demons surrounded him. An unseen azure-robed Daoist taught Su Yutong an invocation that restored his strength, and a celestial figure began to manifest as he finished reciting it.

• Su Yutong used his Demon-Slaying Talisman to blast a gap through the Heavenly Demon servants, draining his spiritual energy and leaving him helpless.
• At the Radiant Dew Bottle Artifact Spirit's urging, Lin Xiao led the other three companions away, leaving Su Yutong behind.
• The Purple Mansion Realm Heavenly Demons decided to take Su Yutong captive, and he despaired as their servants closed in.
• An unseen azure-robed Daoist appeared beside Su Yutong and taught him an invocation to Grand Unity Cavern-Truth True Lord Yuchen Ling Yuan.
• As Su Yutong recited the invocation, his spiritual energy and soul recovered, and the Heavenly Demons grew alarmed and attacked him.
• Su Yutong finished the invocation, triggering thunder, flames, violet mist, and heavenly radiance as a figure began to manifest.

Jiang Sheng entered the Linghua Realm, destroyed the Heavenly Demons attacking Su Yutong, and healed him. After hearing Su Yutong’s account, Jiang Sheng suspected Lin Xiao was the realm’s child of destiny and set out for Anyang Commandery to investigate.

• Jiang Sheng descended into the Linghua Realm after Su Yutong invoked his honorific title.
• Jiang Sheng erased the Heavenly Demons within a thousand-mile radius with a single finger and healed Su Yutong’s injuries.
• Su Yutong told Jiang Sheng about his past, the Huaguang Realm’s seven immortal sects and True Lords, and the Heavenly Demons’ invasion.
• Jiang Sheng suspected the Linghua Realm’s Heavenly Dao had chosen Lin Xiao as a child of destiny after hearing about his sudden rise in talent.
• Jiang Sheng wondered why the seven True Lords and the seven Heavenly Demons were nowhere to be sensed, then decided to go with Su Yutong to Anyang Commandery.

Lin Xiao returned to Anyang City and reported what he had discovered, while Jun Yue learned he had survived the test Jun Yue arranged. Wu Lan watched events unfold from the Jade Tower Pavilion and welcomed the conflict as a way to throw Anyang into chaos.

• Lin Xiao and his three companions entered Anyang City and reported their discoveries to the Zhengyang Immortal Sect's Hall of Affairs.
• A Zhengyang Immortal Sect disciple secretly went to the Jade Tower Pavilion and told Jun Yue that Lin Xiao had returned alive.
• Jun Yue gave the disciple a reward and dismissed Lin Xiao as an insignificant rogue cultivator, explaining that he had acted after Ding Yi complained about Lin Xiao's ties to Xiao Ping and Wu Lan.
• Wu Lan learned that Jun Yue had begun testing Lin Xiao and said she was glad the situation might throw Anyang into chaos.

Wu Lan was revealed to be the Heavenly Demon Bimou, who planned to free seven imprisoned Heavenly Demons by turning the Spirit Radiance Realm’s Child of Destiny against its seven great Immortal Sects. She began by plotting to pit Lin Xiao against Qiu Huaiqing and weaken Zhengyang’s fortune.

• Wu Lan fed the koi in her pond, then returned to her chambers and listened to the imprisoned Heavenly Demons demand a way out.
• Bimou told the Heavenly Demons she had found the Spirit Radiance Realm’s Child of Destiny and intended to help him grow stronger.
• Bimou planned to provoke the Child of Destiny into opposing the seven great Immortal Sects and destroying their foundations, which would break the seal trapping the Heavenly Demons.
• Bimou explained that she had entered the realm by splitting herself into four and had found growing divisions within the Immortal Sects.
• Bimou ordered her allies to incite Qiu Huaiqing’s disciple to attack Lin Xiao, then help Lin Xiao and reveal information until he killed Qiu Huaiqing and ruined Anyang’s city-defending grand formation.
• Dread Desire warned Bimou not to underestimate the Child of Destiny, but Bimou dismissed the danger and compared him unfavorably with Ling Yuan.

Binmou cautiously plotted against Lin Xiao in Anyang City while Lin Xiao decided to attend Jun Yue’s banquet to identify his hidden enemy. Jiang Sheng and Su Yutong approached the city in disguise as Jiang Sheng searched for an old friend.

• Binmou reflected on his defeat by Jiang Sheng and, despite his reduced strength, considered whether Lin Xiao’s fate-bound treasure might threaten the Heavenly Demons.
• After receiving Jun Yue’s banquet invitation written by Fairy Xiao Ping, Lin Xiao discussed the danger with the Artifact Spirit of the Radiant Dew Bottle and chose to attend so he could uncover who was targeting him.
• The Artifact Spirit sensed Lin Xiao’s Qi fortune increase as he declared that even the Zhengyang Immortal Sect would not keep him from seeking revenge.
• Jiang Sheng told Su Yutong that he had come to the Linghua Realm to find an old friend, and explained that he was hiding his identity so the friend would not flee.

Jiang Sheng brought Su Yutong to Anyang City and urged her to join the Zhengyang Immortal Sect’s gathering of geniuses, while the sect prepared to recruit talent ahead of a likely Heavenly Demon attack. At the banquet, Yang Yu challenged Lin Xiao to a duel, and Lin Xiao accepted.

• Qiu Huaiqing arranged a talent-selection banquet at Jade Tower Pavilion to gather recruits for Anyang City’s defense against the Heavenly Demons.
• Jiang Sheng sensed Anyang City’s imposing aura and encouraged Su Yutong to compete, assuring her she would rank among the best.
• Jun Yue and the other Zhengyang Immortal Sect disciples surveyed the packed banquet, while Ding Yi grew jealous of Lin Xiao’s closeness to Xiao Ping.
• Jun Yue opened the gathering by inviting the cultivators to display their skills, and Yang Yu challenged Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao rose and accepted Yang Yu’s challenge.

At the Prodigy Banquet, Lin Xiao defeated Yang Yu after patiently weathering his assault. Then Su Yutong, controlled by Jiang Sheng, entered a duel as Su Yue and astonished the crowd by defeating a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator with one sword slash, leaving Lin Xiao and Binmou suspiciously recognizing something familiar.

• Yang Yu challenged Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao countered after Yang Yu's attacks lost momentum and defeated him in three moves.
• Jiang Sheng explained to Su Yutong that he would control his body in a duel to demonstrate sword techniques.
• Su Yutong, under Jiang Sheng's control, challenged a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator and cut down his fire-dragon flying sword with one slash.
• Su Yutong placed his sword at the opponent's neck, stunning the spectators and Lin Xiao, who thought his voice resembled Yu Tong's.
• Binmou found Su Yutong's sword move familiar, and Su Yutong gave the name Su Yue when Xiao Ping asked who he was.

Su Yutong, guided by Jiang Sheng, defeated two Purple Mansion cultivators at the Heavenly Prodigy Immortal Banquet, astonishing the gathered cultivators and leaving Lin Xiao convinced she was Yu Tong. As Binmou secretly probed Su Yutong with a heavenly demon ability, Jiang Sheng sensed her and recognized that she had been hiding her true nature.

• Lin Xiao recognized the sword-wielding cultivator calling herself Su Yue as Su Yutong, while the Radiant Dew Bottle's artifact spirit questioned how she had survived and gained such skill.
• Su Yutong challenged the banquet's Purple Mansion cultivators, and Daoist Kong took the stage to confront her with his green bamboo staff and yin wood attacks.
• Jiang Sheng instructed Su Yutong in the Seven Tribulations Dragon-Slaying Scripture and guided her sword strike, which let her bypass Daoist Kong's defenses and place her sword at his neck.
• The cultivators, Lin Xiao, and the Golden Core True Persons were astonished by Su Yutong's victory over a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, while Binmou wondered whether she was a hidden child of destiny.
• Binmou secretly used a heavenly demon divine ability to examine Su Yutong, and Jiang Sheng sensed the probe before opening his eyes in Anyang City.

Jiang Sheng disguised Su Yutong as a child of destiny to draw out the hidden Binmou, while Binmou plotted to exploit the apparent rivalry between Su Yutong and Lin Xiao. At the Prodigy Banquet, both youths went undefeated, and Lin Xiao’s refusal to duel Su Yutong stirred Ding Yi’s jealousy; Lin Xiao also learned that Su Yutong might carry a calamity threatening the Linghua Realm.

• Binmou saw immense fortune around Su Yutong and Lin Xiao, decided one was a false child of destiny, and planned to use both to ensnare the other.
• Jiang Sheng reasoned that Binmou was hiding in the Linghua Realm and deliberately made Su Yutong appear to be a child of destiny to force Binmou to reveal himself.
• Su Yutong and Lin Xiao won every match at the Prodigy Banquet, but Lin Xiao declined to duel Su Yutong and yielded first place.
• Jun Yue hosted Su Yutong and Lin Xiao at a feast, while Ding Yi grew jealous of Lin Xiao’s favor with Xiao Ping and the others.
• Jiang Sheng warned Su Yutong about Ding Yi and suggested approaching Wu Lan, while the Radiant Dew Bottle’s artifact spirit warned Lin Xiao about Ding Yi and urged him to investigate Su Yutong.
• The artifact spirit sensed calamity intent around Su Yutong, and Lin Xiao resolved to visit him after the immortal banquet to learn what he was hiding.

Jiang Sheng let Su Yutong confront Lin Xiao after Lin Xiao secretly entered his cave abode, while he trapped the Radiant Dew Bottle’s artifact spirit and revealed his overwhelming power. Su Yutong defeated Lin Xiao with the Seven Tribulations Dragon-Slaying Scripture and held a sword to his throat.

• Jiang Sheng explained to Su Yutong how cultivators of the upper realms drew on celestial power, then warned her that Lin Xiao was approaching.
• Lin Xiao used the Radiant Dew Bottle to bypass the cave abode’s wards, but Su Yutong confronted him inside.
• Jiang Sheng drew the Radiant Dew Bottle’s artifact spirit into the Void-Reality Realm and stopped its attack with a single word.
• Su Yutong rejected Lin Xiao’s familiar address and challenged him to settle their dispute with their swords.
• Su Yutong overpowered Lin Xiao, knocked away his magical artifact, and held his sword at Lin Xiao’s throat after using the Seven Tribulations Dragon-Slaying Scripture.

Jiang Sheng uncovered the Artifact Spirit’s past and struck a pact to help rescue Huaguang Immortal Monarch while hunting Heavenly Demons. After learning that a hidden demon planned to free seven sealed demons, Jiang Sheng chose to let the plan proceed so he could destroy all eight at once.

• Jiang Sheng deduced that the Artifact Spirit wanted Lin Xiao to grow strong enough to rescue his trapped master, then offered to help.
• The Artifact Spirit and Jiang Sheng signed a two-hundred-year Dao pact: the spirit would track Heavenly Demon Binmou, and Jiang Sheng would clear the Linghua Realm of demons and help seek aid for Huaguang Immortal Monarch.
• The Artifact Spirit explained how Pituo trapped Huaguang Immortal Monarch, damaged the Linghua Realm, and led Zhengyang True Lord and others to seal seven Heavenly Demons in the Demon-Refining Grand Formation.
• Jiang Sheng reasoned that Binmou might have scattered his power and learned that the Artifact Spirit could still detect traces of Heavenly Demons.
• When the Artifact Spirit urged him to stop Binmou from freeing the seven sealed demons, Jiang Sheng instead asked the spirit to help the plan so he could face all eight together.
• Jiang Sheng drew his sword and declared that he would cut down the demons if they emerged.

Bimou ordered a full-scale demon assault on Anyang City while planning to destabilize the Spirit Radiance Realm and seize power for himself. As the demon tide arrived, Jiang Sheng let Su Yutong see the Heavenly Demons’ true forms and warned her that they were the enemies she would face.

• Bimou contacted two demon generals and ordered them to attack Anyang City, while he planned to stir up wars across the Spirit Radiance Realm.
• Bimou resolved to test whether Lin Xiao or Su Yutong was the true Child of Destiny and plotted to gain the power of the imprisoned Heavenly Demons and Zhengyang’s Void Refinement cultivators.
• Urgent bells warned Anyang Commandery that the demon army was advancing, and Zhengyang Immortal Sect disciples saw its vast tide approach the city.
• Su Yutong doubted that the handsome, pure-aura figures were Heavenly Demons, so Jiang Sheng lent her the Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils.
• Su Yutong saw the demons’ monstrous true forms, and Jiang Sheng told her to remember their auras and prepare to destroy demons under his banner.

Jiang Sheng prepared Su Yutong to spread the Demon-Slaying Ancestor's name as Anyang City faced a demon tide. Meanwhile, the seven Heavenly Demons decided that Bimou could not be trusted and planned to free Vengeful Evil themselves.

• Jiang Sheng taught Su Yutong the Seven Tribulations Dragon-Slaying Scripture and Seven-Star Demon-Sealing Sword, then left her to prepare for the demon tide.
• Anyang City's defenses blocked the demon tide's opening attacks as Qiu Huaiqing assigned Jun Yue and the other true disciples to guard the city's sides.
• Trapped in the Demon-Refining Grand Formation, Vengeful Evil spoke with Zhengyang True Lord while secretly contacting the other six Heavenly Demons.
• The seven Heavenly Demons discussed their distrust of Bimou and suspected he might use them for his own ambitions.
• Vengeful Evil proposed testing Bimou's intentions by seeing whether he attacked the Zhengyang Immortal Sect after Anyang fell.
• The seven Heavenly Demons agreed to use the formation's weaknesses to free Vengeful Evil and surprise Bimou and the True Lords.

As Anyang City’s demonic siege intensified, Qiu Huaiqing was drawn out to fight Evil Claw and Wrath Fang while Binmou infiltrated the Forbidden Palace and corrupted the city’s formation core. Lin Xiao and Su Yutong hurried toward the palace as Binmou’s followers blocked the streets, leaving Anyang City’s defenses failing.

• Lin Xiao watched Ding Yi display Golden Core Realm power and refused to surrender to the Zhengyang Immortal Sect, causing his fortune to rise.
• Evil Claw and Wrath Fang ordered the demonic assault intensified to draw Qiu Huaiqing away from the city’s formation core.
• Qiu Huaiqing confronted Evil Claw and Wrath Fang outside Anyang City, and all three revealed their enormous Dharma Images.
• Binmou used Wu Lan’s form to enter the Forbidden Palace and corrupted the core of Anyang City’s formations, weakening its wards and defenses.
• Jun Yue, Ji Hua, Ding Yi, and others raced toward the Forbidden Palace as hostile Heavenly Demons appeared throughout the city to block them.
• Jiang Sheng directed Lin Xiao and Su Yutong toward the palace, while Su Yutong evaded the demons and Jiang Sheng recognized them as Binmou’s followers.

Bimou’s assault plunged Anyang City into chaos as Jun Yue and the other Golden Core cultivators confronted the Heavenly Demon disguised as Wu Lan. Just as Bimou prepared to kill them, Lin Xiao delivered a message asking whether Bimou remembered an old friend.

• Bimou unleashed Heavenly Demon spawn and puppet-controlled cultivators across Anyang City, while Xiao Ping and Jun Yue raced to protect the formation core.
• Qiu Huaiqing held off Evil Claw and Wrath Fang outside the city and raised a white sun to reassure Anyang’s defenders that he remained in place.
• Lin Xiao identified the figure before the Cloud Palace as a Heavenly Demon who had replaced Wu Lan, and Jun Yue led eight Golden Core cultivators up the stairs to confront her.
• Bimou revealed that she was the Heavenly Demon Bimou and used her power to drain Jun Yue and the others of their strength, leaving them helpless.
• Lin Xiao appeared before Bimou and asked whether she still remembered an old friend from years past.

Lin Xiao’s escape from Binmou helped bring down Anyang City’s defensive formation, weakening the Zhengyang Immortal Sect’s fortune and the seal on the seven heavenly demons. Vengeful Evil broke free, slaughtered the Zhengyang Immortal Sect, and headed toward Anyang to confront Binmou.

• Lin Xiao tricked Binmou for an instant and escaped with Jun Yue and the others, but their departure left no one to protect the core of Anyang City’s defensive formation.
• Binmou destroyed the formation’s core, and Anyang City’s barrier collapsed as demonic forces poured inside.
• The fall of Anyang City weakened the Zhengyang Immortal Sect’s fortune and destabilized the Demon-Refining Grand Formation; Vengeful Evil broke free while the True Lords struggled to contain the other heavenly demons.
• Vengeful Evil killed Elder Gao, then devoured the Zhengyang Immortal Sect’s inhabitants and reclaimed their power.
• Vengeful Evil tore through the sect’s formation and set out for Anyang, spreading demonic corruption and declaring that Binmou would pay.

Su Yutong summoned Jiang Sheng and the Zhu-Xian Sword to confront Binmou, who had been controlling the Zhengyang Immortal Sect disciples. Jiang Sheng struck at Binmou but spared the puppets, then chased Binmou’s fleeing True Spirit through the sky, where Binmou cried out to Vengeful Evil for help.

• Vengeful Evil escaped the Void-Reality Realm, and his scarlet heavenly star appeared over Anyang City as he headed toward Binmou.
• Su Yutong confronted Binmou at the Cloud Palace while Lin Xiao and the others watched from the Dao Palace.
• Su Yutong summoned the Zhu-Xian Sword and revealed Jiang Sheng, whom Binmou recognized as Lingyuan.
• Jiang Sheng slashed at Binmou, but Binmou escaped in the form of his Heavenly Demon True Spirit while Jiang Sheng’s sword spared Wu Lan and the Zhengyang Immortal Sect disciples.
• Jiang Sheng pursued Binmou through the sky, and Binmou called to Vengeful Evil to save him.

Jiang Sheng confronted Vengeful Evil, survived his demonic palm, and struck him down with a devastating sword attack. As Vengeful Evil rose to fight in his full Heavenly Demon form, Jiang Sheng’s other sword found the fleeing Binmou and destroyed his True Spirit.

• Vengeful Evil attacked Jiang Sheng with the Great Evil Heavenly Demon Palm, but Jiang Sheng emerged unharmed within an Azure Lotus.
• Jiang Sheng’s sword intent terrified Vengeful Evil, who fled across reality and illusion, but Jiang Sheng’s sword pursued and wounded him severely.
• Vengeful Evil recognized Jiang Sheng as Penglai Lingyuan and realized Binmou had used him as a distraction.
• Vengeful Evil expanded into a hundred-thousand-zhang Heavenly Demon and prepared to battle Jiang Sheng, who grew into his own towering true form.
• Binmou tried to escape and free Resplendent Wrath, but Jiang Sheng’s Immortal Slaughter sword pierced and annihilated his True Spirit.

Jiang Sheng battled Vengeful Evil across the Eastern Continent and the Linghua Realm's Star Sea, overwhelming the heavenly demon with his immortal swords. He left Vengeful Evil pinned and helpless before annihilating his true spirit and body with a third sword.

• Jiang Sheng held off Vengeful Evil's spear attacks and followed him into the Star Sea, where they exchanged spells and hurled stars at one another.
• Jiang Sheng used the Zhu-Xian Sword to shatter a heavenly star and damage Vengeful Evil's demon spear, then closed in and battered the weapon with repeated strikes.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Lu-Xian Sword, promised to spare Vengeful Evil if he survived three strikes, and struck him with a combined wind-and-lightning attack that shattered his spear and pierced his true spirit.
• Jiang Sheng struck Vengeful Evil down from the Star Sea into the Eastern Continent's ocean and pinned him with the Zhu-Xian Sword and Lu-Xian Sword.
• Jiang Sheng drew a dark, profound sword and annihilated Vengeful Evil's true spirit and body.

Jiang Sheng slew Vengeful Evil, cleansed the Zhengyang Immortal Sect’s ruined headquarters, and gathered its disciples’ souls while its ancestor remained trapped stabilizing the Demon-Refining Grand Formation. Afterward, he explained to the Artifact Spirit why he saved people when he could, leaving the spirit to wonder whether Jiang Sheng had the makings of a Mahayana.

• Jiang Sheng annihilated Vengeful Evil’s remains, while the sea creatures witnessed the Heavenly Demon’s defeat and the restoration of their home.
• Qiu Huaiqing saw Evil Claw crumble to dust, then pursued Wrath Fang as cultivators cleared Anyang City of the masterless thralls.
• Jiang Sheng recited Dao verses at the Zhengyang Immortal Sect, cleansing its land and calming the ghosts of its slain disciples.
• Elder Gao told Jiang Sheng how the sect had fallen, and Jiang Sheng showed the disciples Vengeful Evil’s broken spear before sealing their souls in the Qingping Sword.
• Jiang Sheng purified Vengeful Evil’s demonic traces on his way back to Anyang City, where he watched Lin Xiao and the others finish clearing the city.
• Jiang Sheng told the Artifact Spirit how he had once used civilians as bait to slay a demon and why he now saved people whenever he could, prompting the spirit to suspect he had the makings of a Mahayana.