Chapter Summaries

Xi Ying fought Wuyue God, who used Speech Manifests as Law and a soul-devouring ghost to weaken her and consume her Golden Crow manifestation. After surviving an illusion and a powerful Fierce Curse Kill, Xi Ying vanished in white light to escape Wuyue God’s grasp.

• Wuyue God immobilized the Golden Crows and sent Evil Ghosts to attack them, while Xi Ying used the Golden Dragon Shears and a sun formed from two Golden Crows to counter him.
• Wuyue God’s one-eyed ferocious ghost began devouring the Golden Crow sun, and Xi Ying wounded it with an unseen attack before Wuyue God used an illusion to make her believe she had killed him.
• Xi Ying used Fairy Jinxi’s Illusion Breaking Talisman, but the one-eyed ghost swallowed the Golden Crow sun, weakening Xi Ying’s soul, and Wuyue God praised her as Xi Zheng’s daughter.
• Wuyue God used a stone statue filled with negative wish power to strengthen Fierce Curse Kill, while Xi Ying’s Morning Glow Spear failed to stop him from sending the curse into her sea of consciousness.
• As Wuyue God’s giant hand reached for her, Xi Ying activated a white rune on the Morning Glow Spear and vanished, leaving him grasping empty air.

Xiying defeated Wuyue God with Sun Scorch and secured the Faceless God Statue and Storage Ring, though she collapsed from exhaustion. As she recovered and hoped Yuan Ming would win his fight, Wulu’s attempt to strike the Blood Demon Ancestor’s weakness turned out to be a trap, leaving him surrounded by attacks.

• Xiying confined the space and unleashed Sun Scorch, burning Wuyue God until he was reduced to a vulnerable soul.
• Wuyue God tried to flee with the Faceless God Statue, but the Morning Glow Spear tore his soul apart; Xiying then recovered the statue and Storage Ring and began healing.
• Wulu used his Insight Technique to find flaws in the Blood Demon Ancestor’s protective spiritual radiance while remaining hidden with the stone talisman.
• Wulu launched a diversionary attack, vanished, and then appeared behind the Blood Demon Ancestor to strike at the discovered weakness.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor revealed that he had anticipated Wulu’s plan, unleashed flesh balls, and redirected the Blood Transformation Divine Blade to block Wulu’s escape.

Wulu defeated the Blood Demon Ancestor by turning their conflicting powers against him, but the Blood Demon Ancestor tried to seize Wulu’s body through the Blood Puppet Armor. Wulu took control of the armor and began refining the Ancestor’s power as Yuan Ming’s battle with Xue Li began.

• Wulu used the Void Thought Technique to channel conflicting spiritual powers into the Blood Demon Ancestor, destroying his body and trapping his Nascent Soul.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor attempted to take over Wulu through the Blood Puppet Armor, but Wulu controlled the armor’s power and began refining him.
• Wulu activated the stone talisman to turn his body invisible while he slowly absorbed the Blood Demon Ancestor’s remaining power.
• Xue Li demanded that Yuan Ming surrender the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar and the Evil King Mirror, but Yuan Ming refused.
• Xue Li used a bloodburst escape technique to attack Yuan Ming, who activated Shared Life battle intent and drew the Soul Annihilation Sword.
• Yuan Ming swept the Soul Annihilation Sword at Xue Li, sending a vast Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi toward him.

Yuan Ming fought Xue Li until Xue Li trapped him with the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art and swallowed him into a corrosive space inside his abdomen. Yuan Ming tried to cut through the flesh walls, then used the Myriad Territories Map to absorb the poisonous gas.

• Xue Li suppressed Yuan Ming's Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi with a black bell and shattered his Great Black Heaven Divine Palm with a blood-powered punch.
• Yuan Ming and Xue Li fought at close range, and their speed and strength continued to rise as they matched each other.
• Yuan Ming struck Xue Li in the chest, but Xue Li engulfed him in dark-red smoke and invoked the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art.
• Yuan Ming's escape technique failed inside the smoke, and Xue Li's power pulled him into a dark-red, flesh-walled space.
• Yuan Ming found that the walls and gray gas were highly corrosive; after his sword strike failed to break through, he used the Myriad Territories Map to absorb the gas.

Yuan Ming was trapped inside Xue Li’s self-contained belly space and failed to escape with either spatial passages or the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar. He endured Xue Li’s corrosive mist by absorbing it with the Myriad Territories Map while draining Xue Li’s blood qi through the Undying Tree, until Xue Li expelled him and prepared to fight.

• Yuan Ming discovered that the belly space was sealed off from the outside, and Xue Li’s flesh walls absorbed the demonic qi he channeled into the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar.
• Xue Li squeezed the flesh walls toward Yuan Ming and filled the space with corrosive gray mist, which Yuan Ming absorbed with the Myriad Territories Map.
• Yuan Ming transformed into the Undying Tree, pierced the flesh walls with his roots, and used its Origin Power to resist corrosion while draining Xue Li’s blood qi.
• Xue Li intensified the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art, turning the gray mist black, but Yuan Ming continued resisting and absorbing Xue Li’s essence.
• Xue Li’s strength and resolve failed, so he expelled Yuan Ming from his belly; Yuan Ming emerged strengthened and mocked him.
• Xue Li erupted in rage, covered himself in blood-colored scales, and rose to confront Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming fought Xue Li, whose True Demon Body and desperate techniques made him a dangerous opponent. Yuan Ming ultimately killed Xue Li, captured his Demonic Infant, and absorbed his corpse, but the battle left him badly drained.

• Xue Li revealed his True Demon Body and attacked Yuan Ming with blood-colored bone blades.
• Yuan Ming used his Blood Qi True Body and Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique to counter Xue Li’s attacks and drive him back.
• Xue Li unleashed blood-colored lightning against Yuan Ming’s Giant Elephant, but the damaged construct continued charging and broke his will to fight.
• Yuan Ming’s illusion briefly stopped Xue Li’s escape, allowing the Giant Elephant to strike him and leave him severely wounded.
• Yuan Ming released the corrosive Black Mist from the Myriad Territories Map, extinguished Xue Li’s accumulated power, and beheaded him.
• Yuan Ming captured Xue Li’s Demonic Infant and drew his corpse into the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, then struggled to recover from the exhausting battle.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying rushed to Chaotian Peak to stop the World-Breaking Void-Shifting Array from opening a passage to the Demon Realm. They destroyed its outer defenses and Black Stone Pillars, but the array remained intact, leaving Yuan Ming blocked by solidified space before the blood-red eye.

• Xi Zheng surrendered after Xi Ying killed the Wuyue God, and Ni Mu defected and attacked the Wuyue Cult disciples after Wulu killed the Blood Demon Ancestor.
• Yuan Ming returned with Xue Li's head and urged the Wuyue Cult to surrender, but Luo Yongqi and other fighters continued resisting as they waited for the passage to the Demon Realm to open.
• Xi Ying questioned Xi Zheng, learned how the soul-seizing outer array could be broken, and warned Yuan Ming that the passage was nearly open.
• Yuan Ming struck Chaotian Peak's protective barrier, and a golden sun of soul power destroyed the ghost face that tried to seize his soul, breaking the barrier.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying burned the Demon Cloud Trees and destroyed the Black Stone Pillars, but the spatial array remained unchanged and Yuan Ming could not reach its blood-red eye through solidified space.

Yuan Ming and the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar destroyed the demonic formation on Chaotian Peak, but a phantom struck Yuan Ming and gravely injured his soul. While Xi Ying healed him, he broke through toward the Speech Witch Realm, leaving her urgently searching for enough soul force to keep his sea of consciousness from collapsing.

• Yuan Ming released the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar, which shattered the solidified space and broke the demonic formation as the Blood-colored Giant Elephant struck the blood-colored giant eye.
• Xi Ying announced that the demonic formation had been destroyed, prompting Wuyue Cult followers and their allies to flee or surrender as the Yunhuang Alliance took control.
• A gray phantom emerged from a black fissure and struck Yuan Ming, severely damaging his soul; Xi Ying shielded them with a formation and began treating him by joining their souls.
• In the healing space, Yuan Ming saw Xi Ying's true soul form, confessed his feelings through a verse, and heard her sincere reply.
• Yuan Ming's soul reached perfect harmony with Xi Ying's and began breaking through to the Speech Witch Realm, but Xi Ying feared his sea of consciousness would collapse without enough soul force.

Xi Ying used the Soul Suppressing Pot to gather the battlefield’s ghosts and stabilize Yuan Ming’s breakthrough into the Word Witch realm. After he recovered, Yuan Ming explained his transformed abilities and new Path of Life and Death Reincarnation technique, then he and Xi Ying examined the Wuyue God’s Storage Ring and found an unidentified spiritual material.

• Xi Ying released the ghosts around Changchun Temple from the battlefield into Yuan Ming’s sea of consciousness, helping stabilize his breakthrough.
• Yuan Ming awoke and reassured Xi Ying, then completed his recovery and embraced her before they discussed the changes to his divine abilities.
• Yuan Ming demonstrated Path of Life and Death Reincarnation, which broke down a soul into pure soul power and a crystal recording its memories.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying unsealed the Wuyue God’s Storage Ring and found Supreme Grade Spirit Stones, six soul cultivation techniques, and a lump of dark red spiritual material.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying could not identify the spiritual material, so they put it away for later investigation.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying examined the Wuyue God’s soul cultivation methods, and Xi Ying decided to switch to the Moon Gazing Art so she could keep pace with Yuan Ming. Later, Xu Che visited a prisoner claiming to be a Fire Origin Sect undercover agent and found Zhou Lu calling for Senior Chu.

• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying found six complete soul cultivation methods in the Wuyue God’s ring and identified serious drawbacks in four of them.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying speculated that the Moon Gazing Art and Nether Moon Art shared an origin and that Moon Essence Power might explain the flaws in the other methods.
• Yuan Ming discovered that the Moon Gazing Art’s altar could grant an honorific name and collect wish power, prompting Xi Ying to recall the Heaven Seeking Record.
• Xi Ying chose to switch from the Nether Moon Art to the Moon Gazing Art, and Yuan Ming told her he would not slow down for her.
• Xu Che learned that a prisoner claimed to be an undercover agent for Elder Chu and went to see him in the spirit prison.
• Zhou Lu lunged toward the cell bars and asked whether Senior Chu had arrived.

Xu Che confronted Zhou Lu in the spirit prison and left after confirming that his mother had died of illness, finally letting go of the past. Meanwhile, Yuan Ming questioned Purple Thunder and Crimson Firmament about Katu, learned of his origins in Luota Town, and prepared to investigate the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s history.

• Xu Che asked Zhou Lu how his mother died, then left after Zhou Lu claimed she had died of illness.
• A Changchun Temple cultivator warned Chu Changkuang about Xu Che’s connection to Zhou Lu and secretly ordered the prison guards to torment Zhou Lu and record it for Xu Che.
• Yuan Ming had King Kong bring Purple Thunder and Crimson Firmament to him and questioned them about Katu.
• Purple Thunder recalled that Katu had come from a farming family in Luota Town, after which Yuan Ming sent the prisoners to Tianjizi.
• Yuan Ming resumed cultivating and planned to visit Luota Town to investigate the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s origins.
• Wulu visited Yuan Ming, noticed his breakthrough to Word Shaman, and remarked that he himself was nearing Return to Void.

Yuan Ming dealt with the remaining Demon Cloud Trees at Chaotian Peak and reunited with Xiqian and Flower Branch, who had captured the Spirit Gathering Blood River. He and Xiying decided to return to the Eastern Sea, and Yuan Ming prepared to leave at dawn.

• Wulu told Yuan Ming he had devoured the Blood Demon Ancestor's Nascent Soul, and Yuan Ming examined him and found no harm to his soul.
• Yuan Ming collected the remaining Demon Cloud Trees and demonic qi from Chaotian Peak with the Crimson Ancient Scroll.
• Xiqian and Flower Branch returned with the Spirit Gathering Blood River, which Xiqian planned to take back to her lineage.
• Xiying gave Yuan Ming lifespan-extending items for his parents, and they agreed to return to the Eastern Sea after she visited her lineage.
• Yuan Ming told Yan Siyun that the Mingyue Cult should not join the purge of sects that had followed the Wuyue Cult, then accepted incense ashes from Xu Che.
• Yuan Ming returned to his residence, made preparations, and planned to leave for the Eastern Sea at dawn.

Yuan Ming reunited with Tuya and Wei Die while traveling through Southern Frontier and rescued them from two Nascent Soul cultivators pursuing the Senluo Sect remnants. He revealed that Wei Die had saved his life years earlier, leaving them to reflect on the causality behind their reunion.

• Yuan Ming agreed to travel with Luo Zhu toward Southern Frontier and arranged to meet her seven days later in Tu Cha City.
• On his way to Katu's hometown, Yuan Ming encountered Gan Ye and Monk Zhong attacking Wei Die and her disciples.
• Wei Die offered Yuan Ming the Flower Transferring Willow Technique for help, while Gan Ye threatened him with the Yunhuang Alliance's power.
• Tuya recognized Yuan Ming as her benefactor, and he stopped Gan Ye's attack with Speech Manifests as Law before driving the pursuers away.
• Yuan Ming reminded Wei Die that she had saved him by the Feichang River in Shangshan Valley, and he called their reunion a possible instance of causality.

Yuan Ming freed Wei Die and her disciples from tracking Gu Worms, then killed their pursuers and searched Luota Town for clues about Katu. There he encountered the blind Night Watchman again, who revealed that he was Xia Jie, a former Heaven-Stealing Cauldron holder from the Overseas World.

• Yuan Ming removed the tracking Gu Worms from Wei Die and her disciples, gave them a token to join the Mingyue Cult in the Eastern Sea, and accepted the Flower Transferring Willow Technique.
• Yuan Ming killed Gan Ye, the Monk surnamed Zhong, and their disciples after they realized he had discovered their tracking Gu Worms.
• Yuan Ming searched Luota Town for information about Katu and found an abandoned courtyard before spotting the blind Night Watchman from the Great Jin imperial palace.
• The Heaven-Stealing Cauldron reacted violently to the blind old man, who beckoned Yuan Ming into his courtyard.
• The old man introduced himself as Xia Jie, a cultivator from the Overseas World who had once possessed the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Xia Jie said he had rejected cooperation with the Wuyue God over the god’s alliance with the demon realm, then shared food and wine from the Overseas World with Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming learned about the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s past and Xia Jie’s hope that he would reach the Life Witch Realm to heal Xia Jie’s soul injury. Xia Jie also warned Yuan Ming that relying on Wish Power Pills after reaching Speech Witch could prevent him from advancing further.

• Xia Jie told Yuan Ming that he had come from the Overseas World, had sent the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron to others, and had erased traces of its successive masters; Yuan Ming was its thirteenth master.
• Xia Jie explained that Black Incense could possess sufficiently powerful objects, but Yuan Ming would need to refine one hundred of the cauldron’s restrictions first.
• Xia Jie revealed that he needed a Life Witch to heal his long-standing soul injury and urged Yuan Ming to seek the next Nether Moon Art techniques at Bright Moon Palace.
• Xia Jie advised Yuan Ming to use the Soul Illuminating Heavenly Fire in the White Jade Lotus Platform to cleanse impurities from his soul.
• Xia Jie warned Yuan Ming that using Wish Power Pills to increase his soul power after reaching Speech Witch could keep him from ever breaking through to Life Witch, and Yuan Ming considered giving or selling the pills instead.

Yuan Ming met with Xia Jie, who gave him advice, explained the Broken Sword Fragment, and handed him the Black Incense formula before Yuan Ming went to meet Luo Zhu and Water Spirit Holy Mother. He helped them break open the stone door in Snake King Valley, where a surge of unusually dense and pure demonic qi left him wondering what had changed inside.

• Xia Jie advised Yuan Ming to cultivate steadily, discussed the Broken Sword Fragment and the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, and gave him the Black Incense formula.
• Yuan Ming met Luo Zhu and learned that Water Spirit Holy Mother wanted his Myriad Manifestations Body to open a stone door.
• Luo Zhu and Water Spirit Holy Mother led Yuan Ming to the underground palace in Snake King Valley.
• Yuan Ming struck the stone door twice, breaking it open after his first punch only cracked it.
• Black demonic qi poured from the doorway, and Yuan Ming sensed it was denser and purer than before.

Yuan Ming and the Water Spirit Holy Mother found that her stolen water essence body lay within the sealed Demon Eye, but the array erupted and released a Black Iron Coffin containing the Reincarnation Demon Lord. Xia Jie appeared, restrained the coffin, and ordered Yuan Ming to use the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar to widen the Spatial Rift, which opened beneath the altar.

• Yuan Ming absorbed the underground palace’s demonic qi with the Myriad Territories Map, then blocked the Water Spirit Holy Mother and Luo Zhu from approaching the sealing array until she explained that her stolen water essence body was inside it.
• The altar erupted with demonic qi, and Luo Zhu and the Water Spirit Holy Mother disappeared as the weakened Thirty-Six Star Constellation Sealing Array struggled to contain it.
• A Black Iron Coffin emerged within the array’s curtain of starlight and attacked Yuan Ming with a soul strike, which he narrowly resisted.
• Xia Jie appeared and identified the coffin’s occupant as the Reincarnation Demon Lord, then began manipulating the Thirty-Six Star Constellation Sealing Array to restrain it.
• Xia Jie told Yuan Ming to use the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar to widen the Spatial Rift, and Yuan Ming struck the altar until a narrow black crack opened in the air.

Xia Jie sent the Reincarnation Demon Lord’s coffin through the Spatial Rift and revealed that he planned to use Liu Tianming’s Chaos Demon Seed in his ongoing struggle with the Six Paths Demon Lord. Yuan Ming left Snake King Valley, then possessed Luo Zhu and discovered she was being carried through an unstable spatial passage toward the demon realm.

• Xia Jie used the Starlight Giant Bird to seal the Reincarnation Demon Lord inside the Black Iron Coffin and send it through the Spatial Rift, which Yuan Ming closed with the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar.
• Xia Jie explained the mausoleum’s sealing array and said Yuan Ming’s two companions had likely been sent to the demon realm with the Reincarnation Demon Lord.
• After Yuan Ming left, Xia Jie implanted a Chaos Demon Seed in Liu Tianming, sent him into the Spatial Rift, and destroyed the rift with a starlight spear.
• Yuan Ming watched Snake King Valley collapse, then used the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and Black Incense to possess Luo Zhu.
• Yuan Ming discovered Luo Zhu was bound atop the Reincarnation Demon Lord’s coffin as it traveled through an unstable spatial passage, and he hid his consciousness to avoid detection.

Yuan Ming returned to Azure Sky Island to visit his parents, gave them life-extending treasures, and prepared to cultivate nearby. He possessed Luo Zhu again and discovered she was imprisoned in the demon realm, where a jailer came to take her away.

• Yuan Ming returned to Azure Sky Island and reunited with Yuan Ming's mother and Yuan Zuochong.
• Yuan Ming gave his parents life-extending treasures, but the items added little to Yuan Ming's mother's lifespan.
• Yuan Ming settled in his parents' courtyard, strengthened its spiritual energy with the Spirit Gathering Tree, and asked Xu Che to search for qi-and-blood-based life-extending items.
• Yuan Ming possessed Luo Zhu again and found her in a demon-realm prison with her mana and soul sealed.
• Yuan Ming broke through Luo Zhu's soul restriction with his Spiritual Sense and successfully used the Dream Butterfly Illusion on a nearby bull-headed prisoner.
• A red-skinned jailer entered Luo Zhu's cell and ordered her to come out.

Luo Zhu endured the Demon Wind Cave’s painful demonic-qi baptism while Yuan Ming learned about the Demonic Qi Art through possession. After attending to his companions and discovering that his Demon Cloud Trees were merging, Yuan Ming began seclusion on Azure Sky Island to cultivate.

• Luo Zhu entered the Demon Wind Cave with a one-horned burly man and a three-eyed woman, then used the Demonic Qi Art to withstand the demon wind reshaping her body.
• Yuan Ming’s possession ended, and he recorded the Demonic Qi Art before finding that a Soul Illuminating Fire net blocked his path through the White Jade Lotus Platform.
• Yuan Ming gave King Kong the refined Blood Source essence to absorb and supplied Flower Branch with demonic qi for cultivation.
• Yuan Ming discovered that the Demon Cloud Trees in the Crimson Ancient Scroll were entwining and devouring one another, and Qi Ye said they would metamorphose and produce purer demonic qi.
• Yuan Ming swallowed a drop of Five Elements Spiritual Marrow and began secluded cultivation on Azure Sky Island, focusing on the Nine Yuan Art by day and the Nether Moon Art at night.