Chapter Summaries

Zhengyang True Lord recovered as his fortune was replenished, and Lingxu True Lord told him that the Radiant Dew Bottle had apparently suppressed Vengeful Evil. The True Lords sent Zhengyang True Lord out to find the treasure and secure Vengeful Evil, leaving the story with him preparing to leave the formation.

• Lingxu True Lord checked on Zhengyang True Lord and reassured him that Radiant Light Immortal Lord's treasure remained in the Spirit Radiance Realm.
• Zhengyang True Lord's body and damaged fortune began to recover, signaling that something outside had changed.
• Lingxu True Lord concluded that the Radiant Dew Bottle had taken effect and proposed strengthening the formation's restrictions.
• Lingxu True Lord explained that the True Lords wanted Zhengyang True Lord to find the Radiant Dew Bottle and return Vengeful Evil to the formation.
• Zhengyang True Lord agreed to leave the formation and search for the treasure.

Zhengyang True Lord returned to the ruined Zhengyang Immortal Sect, learned that Jiang Sheng had slain Vengeful Evil, and met him to offer a flawed Chaos Green Lotus Seed. Zhengyang revealed that the Linghua Realm was a beacon to a lost great world, then stopped Jiang Sheng from leaving by claiming the Chaos Green Lotus’s mother plant was there.

• Zhengyang True Lord returned from Demon-Refining Hell, found his sect destroyed, and reunited with Qiu Huaiqing and the disciples as they migrated to rebuild.
• Qiu Huaiqing told Zhengyang True Lord that Jiang Sheng had driven off Binmou and slain Vengeful Evil, and Zhengyang went to meet Jiang Sheng.
• Zhengyang True Lord offered Jiang Sheng a flawed Chaos Green Lotus Seed, but Jiang Sheng refused it because he did not want to incur a favor.
• Zhengyang True Lord revealed that the Linghua Realm was a beacon pointing to a lost great world and warned that six demons and a superior Heavenly Demon Lord still threatened it.
• Jiang Sheng recognized Zhengyang True Lord’s request for outside aid and prepared to leave, but Zhengyang claimed the Chaos Green Lotus’s mother plant was in the lost great world.

Jiang Sheng exposed Lin Xiao and Su Yutong’s eavesdropping, demonstrated his overwhelming power, and warned the Radiant Dew Bottle’s Artifact Spirit against letting Lin Xiao act recklessly. Binmou learned of the lost great world and began using his Yin Moon Immortal Sect puppet to pursue his ambitions, triggering a major conflict in the Northern Continent.

• Lin Xiao and Su Yutong overheard Jiang Sheng and Zhengyang True Lord discuss a lost great world, the Chaos Green Lotus, and a guiding beacon, while the Artifact Spirit explained the dangers faced by cultivators in the upper three realms.
• After Zhengyang True Lord left, Jiang Sheng returned and kept Lin Xiao and Su Yutong trapped in the reeds for hours before confronting them and summoning a storm that left their hiding place exposed.
• Jiang Sheng rebuked the Artifact Spirit for involving Su Yutong in its test, warned that Lin Xiao’s reliance on it could lead to disaster, and vanished after questioning its interest in the lost world.
• Binmou, possessing a former Yin Moon Holy Maiden candidate, learned about the Linghua Realm’s secrets and resolved to set the Yin Moon and Spirit Void Immortal Sects in motion.
• In 1853 of the Spirit Radiance Demon-Warding Calendar, the Yin Moon Immortal Sect’s First Elder and Third Elder attacked the Second Elder, fighting spread across half the Northern Continent, and the newly elected holy maiden Xu Yingling disappeared.

Xu Yingling escaped her pursuers at the Cold Moon Pool but was left gravely weakened, while Jiang Sheng and Su Yutong boarded a ship across the Heaven-Reaching River. When the Sea-Overturning Demon Lord attacked the vessel, Jiang Sheng caught him with a fishing line and left the demon lord terrified by his overwhelming presence.

• Xu Yingling used an ice storm to escape her former junior sisters, then crawled away from the Cold Moon Pool and lost consciousness.
• Jiang Sheng and Su Yutong waited in East-Peace City and boarded a Four Directions Trading Company ship bound for the Northern Continent.
• Local tyrants in East-Peace City paid the Sea-Overturning Demon Lord to attack the ship, and the demon lord sent lesser demons against it.
• Jiang Sheng fished from the stern while speaking with Qin Chuan and advising Su Yutong not to let treasures or hesitation disturb his heart.
• The Sea-Overturning Demon Lord swallowed Jiang Sheng's bait, was caught on the fishing line, and recognized Jiang Sheng's terrifying power.

Jiang Sheng captured Sea-Overturning Demon Lord, learned that someone in East-Peace City had sent him to overturn the trading ship, and took him along as a servant. After traveling with Qin Chuan and Su Yutong to Azure Crag Prefecture, the group learned that the Yin Moon Immortal Sect was hunting its former Saintess, Xu Yingling, and arrived in the city as Qin Chuan noticed ruffians surrounding a beggar child.

• Jiang Sheng left with Su Yutong, while Qin Chuan discovered that his fishing line had no hook and regretted not asking her name.
• Jiang Sheng summoned Sea-Overturning Demon Lord from the creel, made him confess that someone in East-Peace City had ordered the ship overturned, and spared him on condition that he follow along.
• Qin Chuan invited Jiang Sheng and Su Yutong to travel with him to Azure Crag Prefecture, and Jiang Sheng accepted.
• A Golden Core cultivator of the Yin Moon Immortal Sect searched the carriage for Xu Yingling and offered lavish rewards for information or her capture.
• Qin Chuan learned that Xu Yingling had formerly been the Yin Moon Immortal Sect's Saintess, but no one could explain why the sect was hunting her.
• After several dozen days, the group reached Azure Crag Prefecture, where Qin Chuan spotted ruffians surrounding a beggar child.

After Zhuang Yi’s kindness led him to steal pills for the dying Xu Yingling, Jiang Sheng discovered that their providences were linked and agreed to save her at a great price. The chapter ended as Jiang Sheng began demonstrating his Heaven Mending, Sun Bathing technique.

• Xu Yingling endured the thugs’ threats, but Zhuang Yi confessed to stealing their pills and explained their crimes before Qin Chuan, Su Yutong, and the law-enforcement cultivator.
• The law-enforcement cultivator executed the thugs for their crimes and allowed Zhuang Yi to take restitution, while Qin Chuan gave him more pills and Su Yutong urged him to find Xu Yingling a warmer place to recover.
• Xu Yingling hid in a dark corner, but Jiang Sheng found her and had the Catfish Spirit carry her back to Zhuang Yi’s home.
• Zhuang Yi begged Jiang Sheng to save Xu Yingling and promised to serve him for ten years; Jiang Sheng examined their connected providences and agreed to help at an enormous price.
• The Three-Lotus Rebirth Pill failed to heal Xu Yingling because her meridians, dantian, and golden core were gravely damaged, so Jiang Sheng prepared to use Heaven Mending, Sun Bathing.

Jiang Sheng healed Xu Yingling, agreed to help her clear her master’s lineage of false accusations, and investigated Cold Moon Pool for the belongings she had lost there. At the pool’s bottom, he confronted a spirit born of Moon Spirit jade; its attack unleashed a deadly wave of cold that trapped his companions, and Jiang Sheng invoked Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Taming.

• Jiang Sheng used Heaven Mending, Sun Bathing to restore Xu Yingling’s body and soul, then learned that the Yin Moon Immortal Sect had put her on its wanted list after its First and Third Elders purged her master Ren Mei’s lineage.
• Xu Yingling offered access to the sect’s secret treasury in exchange for Jiang Sheng’s help, and he sent Su Yutong, Qin Chuan, and Zhuang Yi with her to the Yin Moon Immortal Sect.
• Xu Yingling led the group to Cold Moon Pool to retrieve her lost command token, jade seal, and storage pouch, and Jiang Sheng sent Nian Yu into the pool to investigate.
• Nian Yu encountered a white serpent deep in the pool and was pulled back to shore by Jiang Sheng, who then entered the water himself.
• Jiang Sheng identified the white serpent as a Void Refinement innate spirit born of Moon Spirit jade, and its Taiyin Profound Netherlight unleashed a wave of freezing cold that trapped his companions.
• Jiang Sheng’s voice called out Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Taming as the cold closed in on the group.

Jiang Sheng captured the Moon Spirit and recovered the moon essence, then allowed Xu Yingling to rally support against the Yin Moon Immortal Sect’s First and Third Elders. As a demon tide swept across Linghua Realm and the sects fractured, Binmou beguiled the two elders into plotting to break the seal on True Lord Yinyue’s prison.

• Jiang Sheng subdued the Moon Spirit, retrieved the moon essence and Xu Yingling’s surviving token and jade seal, and warned her that she must handle Nascent Soul opponents herself.
• Xu Yingling gathered followers and planned to rally loyal disciples and branch academies, while Binmou realized her return could help him provoke infighting in the Yin Moon Immortal Sect.
• Zhengyang True Lord emerged from seclusion, and news of his return spread as the First and Third Elders feared True Lord Yinyue might also return.
• Xu Yingling declared the First and Third Elders traitors, while the Northern Border grew chaotic and Jiang Sheng anticipated that another demon would escape its prison.
• A demon tide erupted across Linghua Realm, and the Spirit Void and Yin Moon Immortal Sects became consumed by factional conflict instead of resisting the demons.
• Binmou beguiled the First and Third Elders and persuaded them to break the seal on True Lord Yinyue’s prison.

Dread Desire escaped the Demon-Refining Grand Formation after the Yin Moon Immortal Sect’s fortune weakened, and its emergence plunged Yin Moon Holy City into demonic chaos. Su Yutong called on Jiang Sheng for help, only to learn that another great devil had escaped in the Eastern Continent as well.

• Dread Desire broke free after the destruction of the Yin Moon Immortal Sect’s forbidden grounds weakened its restraints, and True Lord Yinyue chased after it.
• Resplendent Wrath escaped the formation while Lingxu True Lord struggled to suppress it, and Mingxiang True Lord told Lingxu that Dread Desire had escaped too.
• Dread Desire’s demonic qi flooded Yin Moon Holy City, stirring its inhabitants’ desires and causing violence and chaos as Binmou left the city.
• Dread Desire manifested above True Lord Yinyue’s statue, and Xu Yingling and the gathered cultivators were overwhelmed by its presence.
• Su Yutong contacted Jiang Sheng, who confirmed that Dread Desire had escaped and revealed that another great devil had escaped in the Eastern Continent.

Resplendent Wrath escaped into the Eastern Continent and devastated the Spirit Void Immortal Sect before Zhengyang True Lord and Lingxu True Lord confronted him. In the Northern Border, Dread Desire overwhelmed True Lord Yinyue until Jiang Sheng arrived and unleashed his four swords to pursue the demon.

• Resplendent Wrath emerged from his prison, slaughtered the Spirit Void Immortal Sect, and faced Zhengyang True Lord and Lingxu True Lord in battle.
• Dread Desire destroyed Yin Moon Holy City and fought True Lord Yinyue, who spent his Immortal Source to unleash a powerful attack but could not stop the demon from recovering.
• Jiang Sheng told the artifact spirit he would handle Resplendent Wrath after the Northern Border battle, while Dread Desire weakened True Lord Yinyue and threatened to devour him.
• Jiang Sheng struck Dread Desire with Jiemie Sword Intent, then revealed his identity as Lingyuan and summoned four calamity swords.
• Dread Desire tried to flee, and Jiang Sheng pointed at him and invoked, "Execute, slaughter, ensnare, annihilate!"

Jiang Sheng slew Dread Desire with four immortal swords, then rushed to the Eastern Continent to aid Zhengyang True Lord and Ling Xu True Lord against Resplendent Wrath. The chapter ended as Jiang Sheng met Resplendent Wrath’s attack with Heaven-Cutting.

• Jiang Sheng split the demonic qi over the Northern Border and killed Dread Desire with four immortal swords.
• Yin Moon True Lord admired Jiang Sheng as he departed for the Eastern Continent, while the catfish demon watched him leave.
• Zhengyang True Lord and Ling Xu True Lord battled Resplendent Wrath, whose demonic flames and lightning threatened the surrounding lands.
• The artifact spirit and Lin Xiao awaited Jiang Sheng, and Jiang Sheng arrived as the two True Lords weakened.
• Jiang Sheng identified himself as Ling Yuan and declared that he had killed Vengeful Evil and Dread Desire.
• Resplendent Wrath attacked with Six Heavens Shattered, and Jiang Sheng answered with Heaven-Cutting.

Jiang Sheng slew Resplendent Wrath with two strikes, then joined Zhengyang, Lingxu, and Yinyue in preparing to hunt the remaining Heavenly Demons. In hiding, Binmou learned of the coming banquet and approached the imprisoned demons with a promise to free them if they followed his plan.

• Jiang Sheng broke Resplendent Wrath’s Six Heavens Shattered with the Qingping Sword, then killed him with Severing Time as Zhengyang True Lord and Lingxu True Lord watched.
• The artifact spirit sent Lin Xiao toward the Northern Border to seek hidden realms and temper himself, while Zhengyang and Lingxu thanked Jiang Sheng for saving the Eastern Continent.
• True Lord Yinyue arrived after recovering, and Jiang Sheng agreed to a joint banquet after learning that the True Lords would help him search for the remaining Heavenly Demons.
• Zhu Xinghan invited Binmou to attend the banquet, but Binmou declined and resolved to act before Jiang Sheng and the True Lords could find him.
• Binmou entered the Void-Reality Realm and told Burial Joy, Sorrow Thorn, Rising Fear, and Waning Love that he could release them if they cooperated with him.

Jiang Sheng attended Zhengyang True Lord’s banquet, where Linghua Realm’s leaders offered him three Chaos Green Lotus Seeds and asked for his help protecting the realm. He agreed to help hunt the four remaining Heavenly Demons after they helped locate Binmou, and ended the chapter determined to destroy him.

• Burial Joy reluctantly agreed to Binmou’s plan to trade demon generals and Heavenly Demon origin qi for a way out, while Binmou secretly preserved traces of the three demons Jiang Sheng had killed.
• Zhengyang Immortal Sect held a grand banquet for Jiang Sheng, and envoys from across Linghua Realm presented him with gifts.
• Jiang Sheng noticed a familiar aura around Zhu Xinghan of the Myriad Laws Immortal Sect and decided to keep watch on him.
• Zhengyang True Lord, Lingxu True Lord, and True Lord Yinyue revealed three Chaos Green Lotus Seeds entrusted to them by Huaguang Immortal Monarch and asked Jiang Sheng to help Linghua Realm.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to help deal with the four remaining demons if the True Lords helped him find Binmou, and they devised a plan to search the sects and keep the other demons sealed.
• Jiang Sheng shared Dao insights and blessed the banquet guests with celestial flowers and sweet dew, then vowed to destroy Binmou.

Binmou prepared his demon forces and went to Molten Fire Valley to seize Sun Soul, hoping to use it as a key to escape Linghua Realm for Mountain Sea Realm. Jiang Sheng learned Binmou’s likely goal and rushed south, while Binmou found the Sun Soul’s spirit far stronger than expected and was attacked by its Fire Sparrow.

• Binmou summoned the demon generals Ju Zhi, Ai Da, and Ai Xing, gave each a demon seed, and ordered them to sleep until he awakened them; he also instructed Xi Fu to hide with a seed so Burial Joy could return in Xi Fu’s place.
• Binmou left the Myriad Laws Immortal Sect and headed toward Molten Fire Valley, intending to take Sun Soul and use it as an anchor and key to leave Linghua Realm for Mountain Sea Realm.
• Jiang Sheng’s detection artifacts exposed more than a thousand of Binmou’s puppets across the realm, and True Lord Yinyue reasoned that Binmou was likely seeking Sun Soul or Moon Spirit to escape.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that he had obtained Moon Spirit Cold Marrow from Cold Moon Pool and hurried south to investigate Molten Fire Valley after realizing Binmou might be there.
• Binmou confronted Sun Soul’s Fire Sparrow in Molten Fire Valley, but its Great Sun Golden Flame remained powerful; the Fire Sparrow summoned a storm of flaming feathers that engulfed Binmou.

Binmou defeated the Fire Sparrow, concealed himself beneath Molten Fire Valley, and began preparing the Spirit-Splitting Thought-Transformation Grand Formation. Meanwhile, Lin Xiao reached Cold Moon Pool and set out to retrieve its hidden lunar yin treasure.

• Binmou used the Purple Sun Fire-Repelling Bell and other treasures to survive the Fire Sparrow's Great Sun True-Fire Arrows, then subdued the Fire Sparrow with puppet threads.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Molten Fire Valley after Binmou had hidden, and Binmou began secretly constructing the Spirit-Splitting Thought-Transformation Grand Formation beneath the valley.
• Binmou planned to use the formation to exchange demonic servants for Burial Joy and the other demons, then escape to the Mountain Sea Realm amid the chaos.
• Lin Xiao and the artifact spirit found Cold Moon Pool empty, but the artifact spirit revealed that a lunar yin treasure and a paired solar yang treasure remained hidden beneath the two sites.
• Following the artifact spirit's directions, Lin Xiao found the concealed Ice Cavern and approached its Ice Mystic Spirit Restriction.

The author explained the novel’s fast early progression, the Linghua Realm arc, and planned plotlines while acknowledging readers’ criticism and promising to continue updating. The Linghua Realm arc was nearing its end, with the Mountain Sea Realm planned next; the author also said heavy rain had damaged his roof and described arranging repairs.

• The author admitted that the story had progressed too quickly, that major scenes sometimes sidelined the protagonist, and that recent updates had been poor.
• The author outlined future main-world plotlines involving the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal, the Great Sun Emperor, Ye Fan, Huang Wensheng, True Lord Wuxiang of Southern Ming, and Jiang Sheng’s disciples.
• The author explained that the Linghua Realm arc had been planned around seven Heavenly Demons representing human desires and evils, with future Divine Abilities and a magic treasure foreshadowed.
• The author said Binmou was designed to be scheming, hard to kill, and constantly changing, and noted that the protagonist was only at the Void Refinement stage and could make mistakes.
• The author said the Linghua Realm arc would end in a few chapters and that the Mountain Sea Realm would follow, with a later world connected to the Daoist Tradition.
• The author promised another update that night and said he had hired two workers to repair his rain-damaged roof, with help from his father.

Lin Xiao obtained the Lunar Yin Instrument, then endured a relentless pursuit across the Linghua Realm until he confronted Jiang Sheng at Blazing Flame Mountain. Jiang Sheng revealed that Binmou had been hiding on Lin Xiao and forced the four imprisoned demons to emerge, setting the stage for a battle in the Southern Frontier.

• Lin Xiao broke the seal of the Ice Cavern, survived the deadly pool, and claimed the Lunar Yin Instrument with the Artifact Spirit's guidance.
• Jiang Sheng learned that Lin Xiao had taken the Lunar Yin Instrument and asked True Lord Yinyue to have the Yin Moon Immortal Sect issue a warrant to test him.
• Lin Xiao fled across the Northern Border and Central Continent, evading Xu Yingling and other sect pursuers before reaching the Southern Frontier.
• At Blazing Flame Mountain, Lin Xiao confronted Jiang Sheng, who returned the Lunar Yin Instrument and revealed that Binmou had been hiding on Lin Xiao's robe.
• Binmou escaped his hiding place and released Burial Joy, Waning Love, Rising Fear, and Sorrow Thorn from their prison beneath Molten Fire Valley.
• The four demons manifested their devil bodies, and Jiang Sheng summoned his power and four swords before challenging them to attack together.

Jiang Sheng resisted the four Heavenly Demons’ attacks and revealed his Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, transforming into a ten-thousand-li giant. He drew an enormous immortal sword and gave the demons half an hour before sending them into reincarnation.

• The four demons tried to suppress Jiang Sheng and corrupt his Dao Heart, but Lin Xiao recovered from their influence with the Artifact Spirit’s warning, while Su Yutong held firm.
• Waning Love, Rising Fear, and Sorrow Thorn attacked Jiang Sheng, but his four immortal swords blocked their assaults, and he wounded Rising Fear with the Immortal-Slaying Sword and Immortal-Slaughter Sword.
• Burial Joy struck Jiang Sheng with its demonic sword, but Jiang Sheng crossed his swords to hold it back and announced that he would fight the demons in martial combat.
• Jiang Sheng manifested his Heavenly Star and used Heavenly Law, Earthly Form to grow to ten thousand li tall, causing the four demons to hesitate.
• Jiang Sheng drew an enormous black immortal sword wrapped in green lotuses and declared that he would send the four demons into reincarnation within half an hour.

Jiang Sheng overwhelmed the four Heavenly Demons, killing Waning Love and trapping the remaining three in his End-Calamity Formation Diagram. Burial Joy, Rising Fear, and Sorrow Thorn burned their origins and launched a desperate attack as Jiang Sheng faced them inside the formation.

• Jiang Sheng forced Burial Joy back with a sword strike, then shattered Rising Fear's twin hammers with the Azure Duckweed Sword.
• Burial Joy, Rising Fear, Sorrow Thorn, and Waning Love coordinated their attacks, but Jiang Sheng blocked all four demons at once.
• Jiang Sheng severed Waning Love's six demonic awls and killed him with the Heaven-Cutting Sword.
• Jiang Sheng stopped Rising Fear and Sorrow Thorn from fleeing, then unfolded the End-Calamity Formation Diagram to trap them with Burial Joy.
• Burial Joy, Rising Fear, and Sorrow Thorn ignited their Heavenly Demon origins and charged Jiang Sheng from three directions.

Jiang Sheng activated the Demon-Refining Grand Formation and sent his avatar out of Linghua Realm to seek reinforcements while he fought the trapped demons. He killed Burial Joy and wounded Rising Fear and Sorrow Thorn, then prepared to finish the two remaining demons.

• Zhengyang True Lord, Lingxu True Lord, and True Lord Yinyue joined the other True Lords in raising the protective formation across Linghua Realm.
• Jiang Sheng sent his avatar with the Artifact Spirit, Lin Xiao, and Su Yutong through the world barrier to seek reinforcements, while Pituo warned Binmou that he would arrive in seven days.
• Burial Joy, Rising Fear, and Sorrow Thorn attacked Jiang Sheng together, but Jiang Sheng used Severing Time and the four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords to pin Rising Fear and Sorrow Thorn down.
• Burial Joy unleashed his World Annihilation attack, but Jiang Sheng shattered his demonic blade and beheaded him with Heaven-Cutting.
• Jiang Sheng turned to Rising Fear and Sorrow Thorn, ran his four swords through them, and swung the Qingping Sword down with Sever.