Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming helped defeat Elder Sanjue, captured him, and refined his blood and qi to break through to the Aperture Opening Body. He comprehended the intent of Shared Life, while the Undying Tree vowed revenge and the survivors continued to face danger.

• Yuan Ming used Nightmare to trap Elder Sanjue in the fear of the Undying Tree, allowing Flower Branch to capture him in the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying blocked the Undying Tree from retrieving Elder Sanjue's divine soul, and the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron space cut off its summons.
• Yuan Ming searched Elder Sanjue's memories for the Nine Yuan Art, refined his essence blood, and turned his body into a Void Return Stage Blood Slave.
• Long Chong and Shi Yanshi killed Murong Yanyu at her request, while the Green-robed Man killed Tu Shixiong; the Undying Tree learned of Elder Sanjue's death and swore revenge.
• Yuan Ming absorbed Solar Power from the Golden Crow Divine Arrow and completed his Aperture Opening Body, comprehending the intent of Shared Life.

Yuan Ming confirmed that the Undying Tree Demon was temporarily weakened and decided to lead a group into Guanghan City through a teleportation formation. After they arrived in the cavern beside the sleeping demon, Flower Branch ordered everyone to follow her away from it.

• Yuan Ming explained that his Shared Life ability linked his injuries to another person, and Xi Ying recognized how his resilience could make the ability powerful.
• After checking the Undying Tree Demon's condition, Yuan Ming accepted Qi Ye's claim that its hidden ailment had flared up and decided to enter Guanghan City.
• Yuan Ming urged the others to join the battle; Yuan Wuji, the Green-robed Man, Wulu, Long Chong, Black Bamboo Old Man, and the other two agreed to go.
• Yuan Ming gave Flower Branch the teleportation Formation Disk and the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, then opened a passage into the white full moon's underground cavern.
• The group appeared close to the sleeping Undying Tree Demon, realized they had been misled about their freedom to act, and followed Flower Branch as she rushed away from it.

The Undying Tree Demon’s puppets attacked the cultivators as they tried to escape the cavern. Flower Branch’s group held a defensible position while the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance and other fighters struggled against the pursuing puppets, and a blue-skinned woman attacked Myriad Flower Aunt.

• Flower Branch led Black Bamboo Old Man and the others to a cavern recess, where Xi Ying’s Finger Pointing to Steel Formation fortified their position against attacks from behind and below.
• Qi Ye attacked the Green-robed Man with demonic qi, forcing him into a fierce battle that cleared the nearby puppets from the area.
• Yin Kong evaded the tree-man puppets by teleporting, while Wan Tianren and Jia Sifang led puppets against Yuan Wuji, Bing Li, and the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance.
• Black Bamboo Old Man, Shi Yanshi, and Myriad Flower Aunt used the Great Wood Formation to sustain their magic power while fighting off the pursuing puppets.
• A blue-skinned Nascent Soul Late Stage woman emerged from white mist and thrust her halberd at Myriad Flower Aunt.

Yuan Ming’s side turned the battle in the underground cave by freeing the Fifth-level Golden Crow, Jin Chao, who joined the Green-robed Man against Qi Ye. The rescued captives regrouped with Black Bamboo Old Man’s party, while the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance remained trapped as the fighting continued.

• Hong Ling, Blood Shadow, and the Blood Slaves arrived to aid Myriad Flower Aunt and helped Black Bamboo Old Man’s group hold off the treefolk puppets.
• Flower Branch captured injured treefolk puppets for Yuan Ming to feed to the black Undying Tree, while Wulu tried to cut open the Golden Crow’s cocoon and was struck down by a Nascent Soul Late Stage puppet.
• The Nether Moon God froze the nearby puppets, allowing Wulu to free Jin Chao, who killed the guarding puppet and rescued Fairy Jinyun.
• Yuan Ming secretly freed Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clan burly man, and the two escaped through a cleared area to join Black Bamboo Old Man’s group.
• Jin Chao and the Green-robed Man attacked Qi Ye together, while Wan Tianren and the others stopped the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance from fleeing.
• Yuan Wuji refused to use the group’s trump card yet, as Jin Chao’s arrival helped the assembled fighters gain the upper hand against the treefolk puppets.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying realized the Undying Tree Demon was using the sealed battlefield’s spiritual energy to heal its puppets, so they needed to break Guanghan City’s barrier. Wulu’s allies opened a breach with the Sun-Shooting Bow, while Ni Mu slipped into Guanghan Palace and tried to seize a powerful orb, provoking the Undying Tree Demon.

• Yuan Ming observed the Undying Tree Demon absorbing the cultivators’ scattered spell energy to strengthen itself and heal its treant puppets, and Xi Ying explained that breaking Guanghan City’s white barrier was their only way out.
• Wulu summoned Luo Qi, Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow, and a black-and-white chessboard through a formation; the chessboard transformed enemies into pieces and killed them, while the bow’s arrow pierced Venerable White Scale and blasted a hole in the barrier.
• Ni Mu used the Void Transformation Art to reach Guanghan Palace and employed a Restriction Breaking Talisman to enter its upper hall.
• Ni Mu tried to seize a silver-white orb at the center of a great formation, but its attack shattered his crimson flying sword and hurled him back, leaving his Tongchen gauntlet damaged.
• The Undying Tree Demon noticed the disturbance and furiously demanded to know who was trying to steal its supreme treasure.

The Undying Tree Demon trapped the Lan Ke Chessboard, Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow, and their allies in a cavern, where its roots drained spiritual power and overwhelmed the group. Yuan Ming’s attempt to stop it with the Nightmare Art failed, while Guoguo headed for Guanghan City with Xi Ying’s soul; Yuan Ming suspected Qi Ye might have betrayed him and considered escaping with the Formation Disk.

• The Undying Tree Demon blocked Spiritual Sense in the cavern and attacked the group with black Tree Roots and treant puppets as a concealed Black Treant avatar fled into the ceiling.
• Yuan Wuji and the other Tide Rider Rogue Alliance members escaped toward Guanghan City, and Xi Ying sent her soul into Guoguo to follow them.
• The Undying Tree Demon’s roots absorbed the group’s attacks, then drained the Golden Crow Divine Arrow and killed its Golden Crow soul.
• Flower Branch’s group joined the desperate defense, and Yuan Ming used the Nightmare Art on the Undying Tree Demon, but its Black Mist absorbed his Spiritual Sense and broke the spell.
• Yuan Ming tried to contact Qi Ye for help but received no response, suspected Qi Ye had deceived him, and considered using the Formation Disk to escape.

Yuan Ming rescued Queen Mingkong and two others from the Undying Tree Demon, but the demon captured and corrupted the Lan Ke Chessboard before it unleashed a devastating explosion. Elsewhere, Ni Mu was discovered in the Undying Tree’s treasure vault, and Yuan Wuji’s group prepared to attack the demon’s avatar.

• The Undying Tree Demon attacked Flower Branch and the others, draining Queen Mingkong, the Water Ape clansman, and Myriad Flower Aunt through his roots.
• Yuan Ming used a spatial passage and Six Jia Qimen to move the three believers’ Nascent Souls, Storage Artifacts, and treasures into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• The Undying Tree Demon overwhelmed the Lan Ke Chessboard with roots and black mist, while Yuan Ming and his allies tried to free it.
• The Lan Ke Chessboard erupted with black-and-white light and exploded after Yuan Ming’s Nightmare divine ability briefly distracted the Undying Tree Demon.
• An Undying Tree avatar found Ni Mu in Guanghan Palace and struck him out of concealment.
• Yuan Wuji and the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance arrived, and Yuan Wuji ordered an attack on the avatar.

Yuan Wuji and his allies failed to break the formation protecting the silver pearl, but Xi Ying arrived in Guoguo’s body and offered to lead them through it. The group accepted her instructions and took their assigned positions to begin the assault.

• Blood Realm Venerable, Bing Li, Lan Xiao, and Yuan Wuji attacked the Immortal Tree clone, while Tongchen’s golden puppet wounded it and Ni Mu used the Thousand Illusions Mirror to interrupt its spell.
• The clone escaped into the formation and connected itself to the pillars, whose white rainbow attacks wounded the group and drove them back.
• Yuan Wuji and Blood Realm Venerable argued with Ni Mu over their failure to break the formation before Yuan Wuji spotted Guoguo, carrying Xi Ying’s soul and power.
• Xi Ying told the group that the people below were held up by the Undying Tree Demon and agreed to help break the formation on the condition they follow her command.
• Xi Ying explained how to break the formation, and the group moved to their assigned positions as the clone sent rainbow attacks at them.

After the Immortal Demonic Tree was struck down, Yuan Ming absorbed the tree puppets’ vitality and advanced his Gou Mang Spiritual Art to the fourth realm. He merged a Split Soul into an Undying Tree Heart to gain control of a new tree demon, then began testing its abilities.

• Yuan Ming had Flower Branch collect the scattered tree puppet corpses while his black Undying Tree absorbed their remaining vitality.
• The black-and-white Artifact Spirits reappeared through the Great Luo Chessboard and warned everyone that the Immortal Demonic Tree was wounded but not dead.
• The cultivators unleashed another wave of attacks, and Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow fired three Golden Crow Divine Arrows that broke the Immortal Demonic Tree into pieces.
• Yuan Ming sensed the Immortal Demonic Tree’s aura and soul power collapse, then used the puppets’ vitality to break through to the fourth realm of the Gou Mang Spiritual Art.
• A spiritual energy vortex formed an Undying Tree Heart, and Yuan Ming followed Xi Ying’s advice by merging a Split Soul into it to control the black Undying Tree.
• Yuan Ming learned to move the tree demon smoothly and found that its roots could reach about ten zhang, though he still felt a phantom-limb sensation after extending one.

Yuan Ming discovered that the black Undying Tree could pierce the void and used a spatial passage to feed it the remains of Tree Puppet. As Qi Ye and the others attacked the Undying Tree Demon's hidden soul, it revived by gathering its scattered remains into a towering tree.

• Yuan Ming tested the Undying Tree's void-piercing roots, failed to reach beyond the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron directly, then opened a spatial gate using Black Bamboo Old Man as an anchor.
• Yuan Ming sent roots through the gate to drain a slain Tree Puppet, nourishing the black Undying Tree and sensing the Tree Demon's remnants converging on a severed trunk.
• Qi Ye tried to stab the Tree Heart, but the Undying Tree Demon's soul emerged, seized him, and immobilized him.
• Yuan Ming warned Flower Branch, who alerted the group and led them in attacking the Undying Tree Demon's soul.
• The Undying Tree Demon formed five powerful Tree Puppet to repel the attacks, then joined them back into a towering tree that sent roots into the void and revealed it had revived.

Yuan Ming's group struggled against the Immortal Demonic Tree, which captured Qi Ye after revealing him as the inside man. After Qi Ye died, the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram struck the Tree Soul with black lightning, leaving it badly weakened as Yuan Ming ordered Black Bamboo Old Man to attack.

• The Immortal Demonic Tree pierced the group with roots, but Yinkong used Spatial Folding to save the Green-robed Man, and Fairy Jinyun emerged with Solar True Fire to free Jin Chao.
• The Immortal Demonic Tree bound Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow and surrounded the group with treefolk puppets, while Yuan Ming noticed that some puppets had disappeared.
• The Undying Tree Soul accused Qi Ye of leaking information and, after Qi Ye refused to explain how he had escaped its control, killed him and absorbed his body and Nascent Soul.
• The Asura Blood Devouring Diagram flew out from Flower Branch and pierced the Undying Tree Soul with Qi Ye's black sword, unleashing black lightning that froze the puppets and badly injured the Tree Soul.
• Yuan Ming ordered Flower Branch to retrieve the diagram and sent the controlled Black Bamboo Old Man toward the weakened Immortal Demonic Tree.

Yuan Ming used the Golden Crow Divine Arrow and his nightmare ability to weaken and trap the Immortal Demonic Tree, absorbing its Origin Power until his black Undying Tree reached the fourth rank and his Gou Mang Spiritual Art reached consummation. When the tree retaliated and began draining him, Yuan Ming turned the Evil King Mirror’s curse against it, trapped its soul again, and called on his allies to eliminate its puppets while he continued extracting its power.

• Black Bamboo Old Man struck the Undying Tree soul with the Great Black Heaven Divine Palm, giving Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow time to break free and pierce the Immortal Demonic Tree with the Golden Crow Divine Arrow.
• Yuan Ming trapped the Undying Tree soul in a nightmare and drained its Origin Power, raising his black Undying Tree to the fourth rank and completing the Gou Mang Spiritual Art.
• Yuan Ming's black Undying Tree remained inside his body, then the Immortal Demonic Tree awoke, seized control of the roots, and began draining Yuan Ming's vitality.
• Yuan Ming invoked the Evil King Mirror's curse through the Soul Annihilation Sword, disrupting the Immortal Demonic Tree's demonic power and stopping it from draining him.
• Yuan Ming struck the tree soul with the Dream of All Beings Rune and trapped it in another nightmare, then ordered Nether Moon God, Shi Yanshi, and the others to destroy the treant puppets without attacking the tree's true body.

Yuan Ming absorbed the Immortal Demonic Tree’s upper half, but the black demonic mirror fused with its remaining half and created a powerful Black Armored Demon General. After Yuan Ming rescued three puppets, Gu Xuanyang’s imitation Immortal Slaying Sword was drawn to the sword-mark ravine and awakened a tremendous Sword Qi.

• Long Chong sealed his father, True Man Jinhua, with talismans while Yuan Ming drew out the Immortal Demonic Tree’s Origin Power and took its shrunken upper half into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming combined his nightmare divine ability with the Dream Butterfly Illusion through the Dream of All Beings Rune, subdued the tree’s soul, and devoured its upper half, advancing his Undying Tree to the peak of the fourth level.
• The black demonic mirror fused with the Immortal Demonic Tree’s remaining half and transformed it into a Black Armored Demon General, who devoured a blue-skinned puppet and began drawing in Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and Jia Sifang.
• Yuan Ming interrupted the Black Armored Demon General’s pull and rescued Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and Jia Sifang by controlling them with illusions and placing them in the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll.
• Gu Xuanyang’s imitation Immortal Slaying Sword flew to the sword-mark ravine, where a powerful Sword Qi enveloped it and greatly increased its power.

Yuan Ming forced Qi Ye to reveal the truth about the Evil King Mirror and learned that it was racing to seize the Great Desolate Star River Pearl, which could let it escape the Three Immortal Islands’ secret realm. He pursued the Black Armored Demon General, while Wu Yuezhi emerged from hiding after the cavern emptied.

• The Black Armored Demon General fled toward Guanghan City, and Qi Ye warned Yuan Ming that the Evil King Mirror was heading for the Great Desolate Star River Pearl.
• Yuan Ming questioned Qi Ye about his survival and discovered that Qi Ye’s Split Soul was the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram’s Artifact Spirit; he seized it and threatened Qi Ye into telling the truth.
• Qi Ye revealed that he came from the Demon Realm, that the Evil King Mirror had destroyed his clan, and that the Great Desolate Star River Pearl could open passages through spatial barriers and secret realms.
• Realizing the pearl might be the only way out of the Three Immortal Islands’ secret realm, Yuan Ming chased after the Black Armored Demon General, followed by Flower Branch and the others.
• After everyone left the cavern, Wu Yuezhi crawled out from beneath a stone slab, surveyed the area with a sinister expression, and vanished.

Xi Ying and the others broke the formation in Guanghan Palace, but the Undying Tree avatar escaped with the Great Desolate Star River Pearl. After teleporting just outside Guanghan City, he confronted the Black Armored Demon General and began using a green vortex to tear apart his body.

• Xi Ying guided Yuan Wuji, Ni Mu, and the others as they cracked the eighth pillar and destroyed the formation, forcing the Undying Tree avatar to flee with the Great Desolate Star River Pearl.
• Ni Mu, Bing Li, Lan Xiao, and the others pursued the avatar, but his Six Jia Qimen trick and the orb’s spatial power let him teleport outside Guanghan City.
• Xi Ying sensed the avatar’s soul outside the city, and Ni Mu and the others rushed after him while he tried to activate the Great Desolate Star River Pearl again.
• The Black Armored Demon General confronted the avatar and tried to pull the Great Desolate Star River Pearl toward his Heart Mirror, but the avatar repelled the force.
• The avatar opened a green vortex that made the Black Armored Demon General’s body crack and begin to fall apart.

Yuan Ming exposed the Black Armored Demon General as the Evil King Mirror and urged everyone to stop it from escaping with the Great Desolate Star River Pearl. After a brief clash, the Evil King Mirror halted the attack by threatening to destroy the Pearl and offered the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance a bargain to guide them into the Overseas World.

• The Green-robed Man, Yin Kong, Jin Chao, Fairy Jinyun, Yuan Wuji, and others surrounded the Black Armored Demon General and the black-robed old man, while Yuan Ming arrived from refining half of the Undying Tree.
• Yuan Ming warned everyone that the Black Armored Demon General was the Evil King Mirror, a Devil Realm treasure that incited conflict and could escape through space with the Great Desolate Star River Pearl.
• Ni Mu and Jin Chao agreed that the Evil King Mirror could not be allowed to escape, while the Black Armored Demon General and the black-robed old man secretly agreed to cooperate to break through the encirclement.
• Yuan Ming attacked the pair and used his Emotion Stirring ability to provoke the others into joining the assault, but their attacks were repelled by the Evil King Mirror’s demonic qi and curse power.
• The Black Armored Demon General threatened to have the black-robed old man destroy the Great Desolate Star River Pearl, so Jin Chao stopped Yuan Ming and allowed the Evil King Mirror to speak.
• The Black Armored Demon General offered to guide the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance into the Overseas World in exchange for them not making trouble for him, leaving Yuan Wuji and the others uncertain.

The Black Armored Demon General recruited the Green-robed Man, the Yin Kong Tree Demon, and Yuan Wuji’s Tide Rider Rogue Alliance by promising access to a Blood Refining Demon Spring. Yuan Ming and his allies rejected the alliance and fought the defectors, leaving Yuan Ming to face the Black Armored Demon General and discover that the general’s saber could break the Soul Annihilation Sword’s curse power.

• The Black Armored Demon General offered the Green-robed Man and the Yin Kong Tree Demon a way to strengthen their bloodlines, and they agreed to cooperate in exchange for the Great Desolate Star River Pearl as collateral.
• Yuan Wuji joined the Black Armored Demon General, and the Blood Realm Venerable, Bing Li, and Lan Xiao followed him; Yuan Ming and his allies prepared to hold them off.
• The Black Armored Demon General attacked Yuan Ming, while Jin Chao fought the Green-robed Man and Fairy Jinyun engaged the Yin Kong Tree Demon.
• Elder Sanjue and the black-robed elder clashed as Guoguo knocked Bing Li unconscious, Ni Mu attacked with the Dust Assimilation Puppet, and Yuan Wuji sent the Blood God Seed after him.
• Yuan Ming attacked the Black Armored Demon General with the Soul Annihilation Sword, but the general’s black horse-cleaving saber tore apart its curse power.

Yuan Ming defeated the Black Armored Demon General and captured the black-robed old man, while Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow reclaimed the Great Desolate Star River Pearl. Yuan Wuji and the Blood Realm Venerables fled, and Guoguo, Fairy Jinyun, and Xiying brought the Yin Kong Tree Demon under their control.

• Yuan Ming used his first Split Soul to trap the Black Armored Demon General in an illusion, but the general broke free and attacked with the Evil King Skull Seal.
• Yuan Ming dragged the Black Armored Demon General into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and used the Immortal Slaying Sword to cleave him in two over the sword-mark chasm; the damaged Evil King Mirror remained, with the general's aura still inside it.
• The black-robed old man tried to escape with the Great Desolate Star River Pearl, but Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow shot him down, Yuan Ming struck him with lightning, and Elder Sanjue gravely wounded him with sword attacks.
• Yuan Ming subdued the black-robed old man with the Dream of All Beings Rune and stored him in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron; Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow then summoned the Great Desolate Star River Pearl away.
• Yuan Wuji and the three Blood Realm Venerables retreated, while Guoguo and Fairy Jinyun forced the Yin Kong Tree Demon out of the void and Xiying's divine soul took control of its body.

The Green-robed Man escaped Jin Chao through a Spatial Rift while Luo Qi trapped Yuan Wuji and his companions to demand information about the Blood Puppet Armor. Yuan Wuji betrayed his allies and revealed himself as the Blood Demon Ancestor, whose power had reached the Void Return Stage, leaving Yuan Ming to wonder how he had survived for so long.

• The Green-robed Man transformed into an azure giant bird and escaped through a Spatial Rift after Jin Chao chose not to pursue him.
• Luo Qi and Wulu trapped Yuan Wuji and his companions with the Great Luo Chessboard and demanded information about the Blood Puppet Armor.
• Yuan Wuji offered Luo Qi a Jade Slip, but Blood Shadow warned that it contained the Blood Slip Art, and Luo Qi destroyed the blood-red phantom it released.
• Yuan Wuji used the Blood Puppet Armor to pierce the Blood Realm Venerable and two others, then escaped the chessboard as his appearance and power changed.
• Yuan Wuji revealed that he was only the Blood Demon Ancestor's puppet, and Blood Shadow recognized the Blood Demon Ancestor as his Senior Brother.
• Yuan Ming wondered how the Blood Demon Ancestor had survived from Blood Shadow's era until the present.

Luo Qi and the others battled the Blood Demon Ancestor, who escaped through a Spatial Rift after exploiting Wulu and the Blood Puppet Armor. Ancestor Mingquan then recognized Yuan Ming and asked about his identity, leaving a possible reckoning between them unresolved.

• Ni Mu and Luo Qi challenged the Blood Demon Ancestor over the destruction of the Blood Transformation Sect and his use of sect masters as Blood Food.
• Luo Qi expanded the Great Luo Chessboard formation and recruited Yuan Ming, Ni Mu, Wu Yuezhi, and others to pursue the Blood Demon Ancestor.
• Yuan Ming realized the Blood Demon Ancestor was targeting Wulu, but the ancestor corrupted Wulu's chess pieces, damaged the formation, and escaped with him through a Spatial Rift.
• Ancestor Mingquan used a jade ring that revealed azure and violet lights around Yuan Ming, then asked whether his surname was Yuan.
• Yuan Ming challenged Ancestor Mingquan about whether he had intended to fight him.