Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming investigated Changchun Temple and planned to infiltrate it to rescue prisoners, hoping to find Liu Tianming. He encountered Wulu, who had been transformed into a bull-headed monster and raised to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, but learned that the Little Emperor’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Yuan Ming asked a blind old man about the imperial family and left him two bottles of healing medicine after learning that the emperor had stayed to fight and likely died.
• Yuan Ming used an illusion to subdue Wuyue Cult disciple Yan and searched his memories, learning that prisoners were held in Changchun Temple’s Discipline Hall.
• Yuan Ming planned to use Yan as an anchor to infiltrate the temple and search for Liu Tianming, but an approaching figure disrupted his attempt.
• Yuan Ming nearly attacked the bull-headed monster before recognizing his familiar eyes and learning that he was Wulu.
• Wulu explained that the Blood Demon Ancestor’s demonic qi and Blood Puppet Armor had transformed him and raised his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Wulu told Yuan Ming that he had not seen the Little Emperor among the prisoners from the Great Jin Kingdom.

Yuan Ming and Wulu joined forces to investigate the Wuyue Cult’s occupation of Changchun Temple, including its plans for the temple’s spiritual energy. Yuan Ming infiltrated Chaotian Peak and discovered that Demon Cloud Trees were producing a vast cloud of demonic qi, but he did not yet know why the Wuyue Cult had planted them.

• Wulu told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult had trapped prisoners as bait and sealed Chaotian Peak to contain Changchun Temple’s spiritual energy.
• Yuan Ming and Wulu agreed to infiltrate the temple near dawn using secret passages and investigate the Blood Demon Ancestor, the prisoners, and the Wuyue Cult’s plans.
• Yuan Ming and Wulu subdued the night guards and used a spatial passage to reach a cliff terrace on Chaotian Peak.
• Yuan Ming entered the peak alone after dense demonic qi poured through the passage, finding the surrounding vegetation withered and burned.
• Yuan Ming discovered Demon Cloud Trees spreading toward the summit and realized they were producing the demonic qi enveloping Chaotian Peak.

Yuan Ming’s Black Stone Pillar absorbed the strange demonic qi at Chaotian Peak, and he escaped the formation only to be intercepted by the Wuyue God. Yuan Ming shattered the god’s Great Black Heaven Divine Palm and struck him back, but he and Wulu remained under pursuit as they fled Changchun Temple.

• The Black Stone Pillar flew toward the demonic formation, absorbed its luminous black qi, transformed, and allowed Yuan Ming to store it in his bracelet.
• Yuan Ming returned to Wulu in the stone fortress and tried to open a spatial passage, but the Wuyue God’s pressure collapsed the fortress and interrupted it.
• The Wuyue God attacked Yuan Ming and Wulu with the Great Black Heaven Divine Palm, and Yuan Ming shattered it with a punch.
• The Wuyue God recognized Yuan Ming and accused him of surviving the Fierce Curse Kill, while Yuan Ming counterattacked with a Blood-colored Giant Elephant and drove him back.
• Yuan Ming and Wulu fled through Changchun Temple, with Wulu scattering pursuing Wuyue Cult members, but blood-colored lightning sealed their escape routes near the Mountain Gate.

Yuan Ming and Wulu escaped the Wuyue Cult, while the Blood Demon Ancestor revealed that Yuan Ming held two treasures sought by the Devil Lord. Yuan Ming reached the Yunhuang Alliance’s camp, where his identity as the Nether Moon God was exposed and questioned.

• Yuan Ming and Wulu used their powers to break through the Wuyue Cult’s pursuit and flee, while the Wuyue God could not curse Yuan Ming again.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor told the Devil Lord he had found the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar and Evil King Mirror, and the Devil Lord sent Xue Li to retrieve them.
• The Wuyue God learned that prisoners had escaped amid the chaos and ordered the cult to strengthen its defenses, while the Nine Yin Venerable’s remnant soul warned him about Yuan Ming’s possession ability.
• Wulu parted from Yuan Ming outside the Yunling Mountain Range, then suffered a severe backlash from the Blood Puppet Armor and the conflicting powers inside him.
• Yuan Ming arrived at the Yunhuang Alliance camp, where Xi Ying told him his identity as the Nether Moon God had been exposed.
• A golden-haired elder asked Yuan Ming whether he was the rumored Nether Moon God.

Yuan Ming joined the Yunhuang Alliance and revealed what he had learned at Changchun Temple, while alliance leaders questioned whether his weak soul could belong to the Nether Moon God. In private, he showed Xi Ying his Myriad Manifestations Body, discovered her soul was dangerously unstable, and offered help after finishing the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.

• Yuan Ming admitted to He Zha that he had founded the Mingyue Cult, and Tianjizi accepted him into the Yunhuang Alliance.
• Yuan Ming reported that Changchun Temple had become a demonic domain, prompting Tianjizi to send people to investigate.
• Wan Tianren and Gu Xuanyang wondered whether Yuan Ming was truly the Nether Moon God and discussed whether to continue praying to him.
• Yuan Ming demonstrated his Myriad Manifestations Body to Xi Ying, who inferred that tempering one's power of will was key to the breakthrough.
• Yuan Ming learned that Xi Ying's soul power had become unstable from forcing her growth, and promised to use the White Jade Lotus Platform to refine its impurities after he finished refining the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming gave Xi Ying a large collection of texts after she explained that reading eased her recurring head pain.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying discussed the Wuyue Cult’s plans and Xi Ying asked him to help her sister endure the Undying Immortal Pill. While recovering, Yuan Ming discovered that the Black Stone Pillar was the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar, and Qi Ye offered to reveal the Wuyue Cult’s formation plan in exchange for the Evil King Mirror.

• Xi Ying said the Chaos Hole Origin Stone was unknown to her and might only be found in the Overseas World, then agreed with Yuan Ming to prepare for a battle against the Wuyue Cult.
• Xi Ying explained that her sister needed Yuan Ming’s help with the Undying Tree when she took the Undying Immortal Pill, and promised to help Yuan Ming find ways to extend his parents’ lives.
• Yuan Ming sealed his room and tested the Black Stone Pillar, using his blood-qi techniques to subdue its true devil qi after it shattered two silver barriers.
• Qi Ye identified the pillar as the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar, a spirit treasure that could tear open the void, and linked its awakening to the demonic formation at Changchun Temple.
• Qi Ye said he had guessed the formation’s purpose and demanded the Evil King Mirror in exchange for explaining it; Yuan Ming refused to hand it over immediately but promised it after he understood the mirror.

Yuan Ming learned that the Wuyue Cult might be preparing to open a passage for the Devil Realm, then refined the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar. He helped Xiying give the Undying Immortal Pill to her sister Xiqian, whose recovery depended on Xiying using Six Jia Qimen to take on and burn away the chaos in Xiqian’s soul.

• Qi Ye told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult likely sought Changchun Temple’s spiritual vein to open a passage between the Devil Realm and the Yunhuang Continent.
• Yuan Ming refined the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar and discovered that it could pierce spatial barriers, though its Artifact Spirit remained hidden.
• Xiying brought Yuan Ming to Xiqian’s crystal coffin and asked him to protect her sister’s meridians while she administered the Undying Immortal Pill.
• The pill restored Xiqian’s body and mana, but chaotic forces continued to tear at her damaged soul.
• Xiying used Six Jia Qimen to transfer the chaos from Xiqian’s soul into her own, then burned it away with her Golden Crow Soul.

Xiying saved Xiqian with the Undying Immortal Pill, awakening a mutated spirit body with new abilities. As the sisters reunited, Yuan Ming learned that Eastern Sea cultivators were increasingly refusing to pray to the Nether Moon God, apparently testing him.

• The Undying Immortal Pill healed Xiqian and transformed her Azure Wood Spirit Body, while its emerald light also helped Yuan Ming and Xiying recover.
• Xiqian awoke, reunited with Xiying, and discovered that her mutated spirit body could accelerate cultivation, heal wounds, and infuse wooden objects with soul power.
• Yuan Ming left the sisters to talk and returned to his residence, where he refined the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron while restoring his magic power.
• Over the next seven days, Xiqian repeatedly challenged Yuan Ming to spar, but Xiying stopped her each time.
• Yuan Ming learned that Tianjizi's people could not enter Changchun Temple and that more than seventy percent of Eastern Sea cultivators had stopped praying to the Nether Moon God.
• Yuan Ming suspected the Eastern Sea cultivators were testing him and decided he would no longer protect them if they refused to believe in the Nether Moon God.

Yuan Ming failed to possess Blood Demon Ancestor, then successfully possessed Venerable Zi Zai and discovered a suspicious soul talisman that might reveal Wuyue God's knowledge of his ability. He investigated Chaotian Peak under the guise of checking for sabotage and found that the formation's Black Stone Pillars were crucial to its operation, leaving him with a possible way to interfere with it.

• Yuan Ming's attempt to possess Blood Demon Ancestor failed under overwhelming soul pressure, so he waited seven days before trying again.
• Yuan Ming successfully possessed Venerable Zi Zai and found an active Black Mist talisman protecting Zi Zai's soul, which made him suspect Wuyue God might know about his possession ability.
• Yuan Ming questioned an azure-robed cultivator at Chaotian Peak and used a fabricated concern that Heavenly Puppet Venerable might have been possessed to gain permission to inspect supplies and the formation.
• Yuan Ming examined the incomplete formation and realized that its Supreme Grade Spirit Stone-powered Black Stone Pillars were essential to its operation and could potentially be damaged to disrupt it.

Yuan Ming’s attempt to destroy the demonic formation failed when Wuyue God’s restriction reflected the blast and killed Venerable Zi Zai, leaving Yuan Ming’s soul origin severely weakened. Xiqian treated Yuan Ming with her awakened healing ability, restoring some of his strength, though his condition remained unresolved.

• Yuan Ming tricked the blue-robed cultivator and detonated Venerable Zi Zai’s branch-shaped magic treasure against a stone pillar, but Wuyue God’s restriction absorbed and reflected the explosion, killing Venerable Zi Zai.
• Wuyue God searched the blue-robed cultivator’s nascent soul, learned that a sect traitor had attempted to attack the formation, and ordered Xi Zheng to investigate why Zi Zai’s soul talisman had not activated.
• Xi Zheng’s Art of Heavenly Derivation produced the judgment that an illusory spirit had stolen another’s body, prompting Wuyue God to suspect Yuan Ming possessed a special item and remain to guard the formation.
• Yuan Ming returned to his true body and suffered the consequences of Venerable Zi Zai’s death; the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s Substitute Calamity stabilized his soul but could not prevent severe exhaustion and apparent damage to his soul origin.
• Xi Ying brought Xiqian to examine Yuan Ming, and Xiqian used her Azure Bloom Life Creation Technique to ease his exhaustion and restore some of his vigor.

Yuan Ming revealed that the Wuyue Cult’s formation was likely a spatial array meant to bring the Devil Race into Yunhuang, prompting the Yunhuang Alliance to accelerate its counterattack and rally new forces. Yuan Ming remained gravely weakened in seclusion, leaving Tianjizi uncertain whether anyone could match the Wuyue God.

• Yuan Ming showed Xiying the formation diagram, and she judged that the Wuyue Cult’s array was probably a spatial formation.
• Yuan Ming informed Tianjizi that the Wuyue God and Blood Demon Ancestor planned to open a passage for the Devil Race, and Tianjizi confirmed the array’s nature and urged the Alliance to attack before it was completed.
• Yuan Ming refused Tianjizi’s request to fight the Wuyue God because his injuries would not improve, even after Xiqian’s healing technique failed.
• Tianjizi publicized Changchun Temple’s records about the Devil Race, and the Yunhuang Alliance drew reclusive sects and Rogue Cultivators to join its cause.
• Black Scale Son set out with Daoist Yu He for the Yunling Mountain Range, while Zhang Zhifeng escaped Xu Feng Island with help from Little Qing to head for the Central Plains.
• The Yunhuang Alliance regained strength, but Tianjizi continued searching for Jin Chao and checking on Yuan Ming because the Alliance still lacked Return to Void strength.

Yuan Ming used Xiying’s body to comprehend formations while Mingyue Cult believers prayed to fill the White Jade Lotus Platform with wish power. The Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s changes let him return to its space and use the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar to escape, purify his divine soul, and recover; he then proposed the method to Xiying, and they entered seclusion together to try it.

• Yuan Ming failed to heal his divine soul with the methods Xiying had gathered, and Xiqian identified the fused portion of his soul as the source of his illness.
• Xiying offered to let Yuan Ming possess her so he could study formations, and Yuan Ming accepted using Black Incense.
• Yuan Ming ordered Xu Che, the Yan sisters, and Mingyue Cult followers to pray, while he possessed Xiying and advanced his formation arts.
• After half a month, the White Jade Lotus Platform filled with wish power, which formed a white-flame vortex inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming used the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar to open a gap in the cauldron’s spatial barrier and return his main soul and first Split Soul to his body.
• Yuan Ming’s divine soul recovered and was purified, so he told Xiying the method and they went into seclusion together to try it.

Xi Ying absorbed a crystal of refined willpower in the White Jade Lotus Platform and broke through to the Speech Witch Realm. Meanwhile, Wulu searched the alliance’s bustling trading fair for materials to ease his suffering and encountered a blind fortune-teller.

• Xi Ying entered the White Jade Lotus Platform, where its white flames purified her soul and a collapsing vortex drew a White Orb into her.
• The White Orb filled Xi Ying with pure willpower, shattered the barrier to the Speech Witch Realm, and allowed her to escape before the space sealed.
• Xi Ying returned to her body, stabilized her breakthrough, and told Yuan Ming that her new power seemed related to the sun.
• Wulu disguised himself and searched the Yunhuang Alliance’s trading fair for materials to suppress the conflicting powers tormenting him.
• Wulu found a blind old fortune-teller with an empty stall and warned him that he would gain nothing there, prompting the old man to protest.

Wulu met a blind fortune-teller who taught him the Void Thought Technique, which began harmonizing the conflicting powers in his body. Meanwhile, Xue Li demanded that Blood Demon Ancestor and Wuyue God guard the array, but Wuyue God refused to obey him, and Xue Li vanished after he left.

• Wulu gave the hungry blind old man wine and beast meat, and the old man insisted on telling his fortune.
• The blind old man used a bowl of water and a star map to reveal Wulu’s trapped condition and summon him to a misty mountain peak.
• The old man taught Wulu the Void Thought Technique, and Wulu endured a dangerous surge as the powers in his body began to merge.
• The blind old man disappeared while Wulu continued cultivating in a mountain valley.
• At Changchun Temple, Xue Li learned that the World-Breaking Void-Shifting Array needed more than ten days to recharge and ordered Blood Demon Ancestor and Wuyue God to guard it.
• Wuyue God refused to take orders without Devil Lord’s instruction and left; Xue Li watched him go and vanished.

Xue Li defeated and swallowed the Wuyue God before releasing him, then prepared to face the approaching Yunhuang Alliance. The alliance marched on Changchun Temple, while a blind elder led the soulless Liu Tianming south and Yuan Ming discussed the battle’s uncertain outcome with Xi Ying and Yan Siyun.

• Xue Li shattered the Wuyue God’s shield, swallowed him and the Evil Ghosts, then released him and ordered him to guard the formation.
• Xue Li learned that the Yunhuang Alliance was approaching and dismissed its forces, while the Blood Demon Ancestor ordered the devil guards strengthened.
• Tianjizi approved an immediate attack, and the Yunhuang Alliance’s forces marched toward Changchun Temple.
• The blind elder found Liu Tianming and led him south to deal with the tomb of the Reincarnation Demon Lord.
• Yuan Ming estimated that the alliance had an eighty percent chance of victory, while Xi Ying worried that the devil realm had prepared for the battle.

Yuan Ming and the Yunhuang Alliance reached Changchun Temple, where the Wuyue Cult’s Demon Lightning Array injured Ancestor Mingquan and blocked their advance. As Yuan Ming examined the formation with his powerful Spiritual Sense, the East Sea cultivators realized his strength had not waned, leaving Wan Tianren regretting his secret attempt to undermine him.

• Yan Siyun admitted that her divination had failed and injured her, and Xiqian explained that the battle’s immense karmic entanglements made its outcome impossible to divine safely.
• Yuan Ming ordered Wulu to infiltrate Changchun Temple during the battle and destroy the realm-breaking demon formation.
• The Yunhuang Alliance arrived at Changchun Temple and found the Wuyue Cult protected by a new Demon Lightning Array that had drained the surrounding land.
• Ancestor Mingquan’s Spiritual Sense triggered the formation, whose lightning pierced his shield and blasted through his chest before Tianjizi saved him with Healing Pills.
• Yuan Ming volunteered to investigate the formation, revealing Spiritual Sense near the Speech Witch Realm and shocking Wan Tianren and the East Sea cultivators who had doubted his strength.

Yuan Ming proved his Myriad Manifestations Body could withstand the Demon Lightning Array, then studied the formation and arranged a way to weaken it. He persuaded Luo Zhu and the hidden soul in her Purple Hairpin to help seal Changchun Temple’s spiritual vein, leaving the Demon Lightning Array dimmed.

• Yuan Ming blocked the array’s Black Lightning with Houtu Peak and his blood-red body-protecting radiance, revealing his Myriad Manifestations Body to the gathered cultivators.
• Yuan Ming examined the Demon Lightning Array and told Tianjizi, He Zha, and Luo Zhu that he had found a way to break it with their help.
• Yuan Ming confronted Luo Zhu about the powerful soul hidden in her Purple Hairpin, and the elderly soul agreed to help in return for a future favor.
• Luo Zhu placed four Yellow Stone Pillars around the Demon Lightning Array, and the pillars sealed the underground spiritual vein and cut off the Killing Intent, dimming the formation.

The Yunhuang Alliance attacked the Magic Luo Er Lei Array while Yuan Ming disrupted its spatial nodes and He Zha broke through its rear. Blood Demon Ancestor then shifted the damaged array to Chaotian Peak, and the battle widened as more than ten thousand corpse refinements emerged from a blood-colored vortex.

• Tianjizi ordered the Yunhuang Alliance to attack the Magic Luo Er Lei Array and used the Azure Sea Profound Water Pearl to block its Black Lightning.
• Yuan Ming pierced the array’s spatial nodes with Undying Tree roots, destabilizing it as Blood Demon Ancestor urged his allies to hold out until the World-Breaking Void-Shifting Array activated.
• He Zha struck the array’s rear with his King Kong Triple Strike, opening a breach that Wulu passed through toward Chaotian Peak.
• Blood Demon Ancestor crushed a Formation Disk and shifted the Magic Luo Er Lei Array onto Chaotian Peak, forcing Wulu to withdraw without attacking the World-Breaking Void-Shifting Array.
• The Yunhuang Alliance advanced in three trained echelons and drove back the Wuyue Cult, while Blood Demon Ancestor summoned a Blood-red Orb that Yuan Ming failed to restrain.
• More than ten thousand corpse refinements emerged from a blood-colored vortex, and nearly half were recognizable as people from the Central Plains.

Yuan Ming and the Yunhuang Alliance faced Wuyue Cult’s blood-reinforced corpse refinements and powerful leaders while debating how to engage the enemy. Xi Ying revealed that she had reached the Speech Witch Realm and took on the Wuyue God, leaving the two sides evenly matched in top-tier combat strength as Tianjizi ordered the alliance to attack.

• Thousands of black-and-red corpse refinements attacked the Yunhuang Alliance, healing with blood from the Spirit Gathering Blood River and slowing its advance.
• Xiqian and Flower Branch went underground to investigate the crimson vortex, while King Kong charged at Purple Lightning and Crimson Firmament and Yuan Ming rescued him from the Heavenly Ghost Saber.
• Yuan Ming repelled the Wuyue God’s attack and recognized how the Wuyue God used Speech Witch soul power to disrupt his techniques.
• Xi Ying revealed her Speech Witch Realm strength and confronted the Wuyue God, balancing the top-tier fighters on both sides.
• Tianjizi rallied the Yunhuang Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered them to attack.

The Yunhuang Alliance fought the Wuyue Cult as Yuan Ming assessed the battlefield and learned that Xue Li might come from the Demon Realm. Xue Li attacked Yuan Ming, Wulu confronted the Blood Demon Ancestor, and Xi Ying continued battling the Wuyue God as the clash remained unresolved.

• Yuan Ming watched the Nascent Soul Realm battles while Wulu reported that Xue Li carried pure demonic qi and might be from the Demon Realm.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor asked Xue Li to intervene, and Xue Li agreed to fight Yuan Ming and Xi Ying while leaving the other enemies to him.
• Xue Li attacked Yuan Ming with a blood-colored spiked mace, and Yuan Ming met the blow with his Demon Elephant Sky-Twisting Force.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor fired blood-colored lightning at Yuan Ming, but Wulu appeared and blocked it before Xue Li struck Wulu and the Blood Demon Ancestor aside.
• Xi Ying summoned Golden Crows and confronted the Wuyue God’s demonic flames and Evil Ghosts with her word-shaman power.