Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan broke through Demon Conch Mountain’s barrier and led the cultivators inside, where the Black Phoenix Valley Master helped them cut down the defenders. Void Devil Master prepared to confront Lin Xuan as the advancing group dodged a sudden lightning ambush.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to tear open Demon Conch Mountain’s barrier and urged his allies through the breach.
• Black Phoenix Valley Master joined Lin Xuan, killing dozens of Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons with a single attack as Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators followed.
• Void Devil Master ordered the Demon Venerables into battle, then set out with Mie Long to face Lin Xuan himself.
• Lin Xuan and the cultivators swept through the defenses, destroying formations and Heavenly Demons in their path.
• Lin Xuan sensed a black lightning ambush and escaped with most of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators before the strike engulfed several li.

Over a thousand Demon Venerables appeared at Demon Conch Mountain, including Xu Wu, whom Lin Xuan had believed dead. Xu Wu trapped Lin Xuan in a restriction with his disciple Mie Long and demanded that he surrender to the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.

• More than a thousand Demon Venerables emerged from a patterned array, and Lin Xuan recognized the purple-robed Xu Wu among them.
• Black Phoenix Demoness and Wanxiao Immortal Monarch questioned how Xu Wu could be alive, while Lin Xuan realized the enemy's strength would decide the battle.
• Xu Wu challenged Lin Xuan to a one-on-one fight, then used a Banner Flag to teleport him into a wasteland within Demon Conch Mountain.
• Lin Xuan found himself facing Xu Wu and the rat-faced Demon Venerable Mie Long, who claimed to be Xu Wu's disciple and boasted about his master's power.
• Xu Wu asked Lin Xuan to surrender to the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, and Lin Xuan questioned his confidence.

Lin Xuan and Void Devil Master clashed with their supernatural powers and domains, escalating their battle into a contest between Lin Xuan’s silver sword threads and Void’s destructive force. Their laws devoured the surrounding energy, leaving the plain as a pale, lifeless space.

• Void Devil Master attacked Lin Xuan with a giant demonic python formed from his fist.
• Lin Xuan countered with the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art and destroyed the python’s head.
• Void used a destructive vortex to swallow the space where Lin Xuan had stood, but Lin Xuan evaded it.
• Lin Xuan unleashed his domain and Sword into Silk Technique, prompting Xu Wu to recognize the Hundun Domain.
• Xu Wu manifested a Demon Blade and deployed his Destruction Force domain against Lin Xuan’s silver threads.
• Their domains eroded each other and consumed the demonic energy and vital energy around them.

Lin Xuan and Void Devil Master ended their evenly matched domain battle and escalated the fight with increasingly dangerous supernatural powers. Lin Xuan summoned his True Spirit Transformation Sword Art to face Void’s five demons, while Xu Wu recognized the secret art as the Heavenly Witch Goddess’s prized technique.

• Lin Xuan withdrew his domain after neither he nor Void Devil Master gained the advantage, and the two prepared to continue fighting amid unstable spatial rifts.
• Void summoned a Nine-Eyed Blood Toad whose tongue Lin Xuan shredded with the Ten Thousand Sword Map, but the toad’s remains exploded into bloodred devilish energy that corrupted Lin Xuan’s Azure Dragon sword attack.
• Void transformed his Demon Blade into a Round Disc and used his essence blood to manifest five demons, including Painting Demon, a True Devil Progenitor.
• Lin Xuan sent his Ten Thousand Sword Map against the corrupted Azure Dragon and summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords and nine True Spirit Void Shadows.
• Lin Xuan fused the nine True Spirits with his Immortal Swords to perform the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art, and Xu Wu recognized it as the Heavenly Witch Goddess’s prized secret art.

Lin Xuan used the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art against Xu Wu while Yue'er and Xiao Die held back Xu Wu’s five demon heads. Just as Xu Wu protected his rat-faced disciple from Lin Xuan, the disciple attacked Xu Wu from behind and detonated his lifebound Demon Treasure.

• Xu Wu recognized Lin Xuan’s True Spirit Transformation Sword Art but sent his five demon heads to attack him anyway.
• Lin Xuan summoned Yue'er and Xiao Die, and Xiao Die used endless illusions to trap the five demons.
• With the demons held back, Lin Xuan unleashed his spirit beasts and forced Xu Wu to defend himself.
• Xu Wu pulled his rat-faced disciple out of danger when the disciple tried to attack Lin Xuan.
• The rat-faced Demon Venerable turned his scissor-like treasure on Xu Wu, pierced his Protective Aura, and detonated the treasure.

Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person trapped Void Devil Master, whose new disciple had been Nailong’s disguised vessel all along. Void’s escape attempt failed, and Nailong prepared to detonate the Demon Venerable’s body as Void charged him.

• Void Devil Master’s Life-Bound Demon Treasure caught him off guard, allowing Lin Xuan to attack with the Nine-Heads True Spirits and Ten Thousand Sword Map.
• Void severed his own arm and detonated it to block the assault, then tried to escape.
• Nailong True Person, possessing the body of a newly advanced Demon Venerable, appeared in Void’s path and revealed his deception to Lin Xuan and Void.
• Nailong explained that his Split Soul had seized the Demon Venerable’s body, while Void realized he had been fooled by Nailong’s shameless act of submission.
• Enraged, Void charged Nailong, who met him head-on and began swelling his body to detonate it.

Lin Xuan pressed his attack after Nailong True Person’s self-detonation left Xu Wu gravely wounded, but Xu Wu’s own self-detonation let his Nascent Soul escape in two halves. Lin Xuan destroyed one half, while an unknown woman seized the other in Demon Fire.

• Nailong True Person’s self-detonation trapped Xu Wu in the blast, and Lin Xuan struck him with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Xu Wu survived with most of his body destroyed, raised a Bone Shield, and accused Lin Xuan of winning dishonorably.
• Lin Xuan empowered his sword with Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder, Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and the Laws of Heaven and Earth, forcing Xu Wu to self-detonate.
• Xu Wu sent his Nascent Soul fleeing in two halves, but a black attack split it and Lin Xuan vaporized one half with the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.
• A woman reached from the darkness, caught the remaining half of Xu Wu’s Nascent Soul, and ignited Demon Fire in her palm.

After Xu Wu fell, Lin Xuan and his companions escaped the strange space and reached the battle at Demon Conch Mountain. Lin Xuan announced Xu Wu’s death to the fighters, leaving the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons stunned and their opponents ready to exploit their shaken morale.

• Zheyi vanished after helping Lin Xuan defeat Xu Wu, and Yue'er and Xiao Die subdued the Five Devils.
• Lin Xuan, Yue'er, and Xiao Die left the strange space, broke through its formations, and dealt with any Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons they encountered.
• Lin Xuan arrived at a massive battle where over a thousand Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and Demon Race fighters were struggling against the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• Lin Xuan announced that Xu Wu had been executed and offered the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons a chance to surrender and return to the Outer Heaven Demon Domain.
• The cultivators and Demon Race, believing Lin Xuan had defeated Void, praised him loudly to further weaken the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons’ morale.

Lin Xuan tried to break the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons’ resolve by killing a doubter in one strike and showing them Xu Wu’s Five Devils. As the demons accepted that Xu Wu had fallen and reinforcements attacked, one Demon Venerable fled, leaving the rest to decide whether to fight or escape.

• Lin Xuan killed a middle-stage Demon Venerable who claimed Xu Wu could not have fallen, terrifying the watching demons.
• Retreating Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons reported that Penglai Immortal Island had sent powerful reinforcements.
• Yue'er revealed Xu Wu’s five Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage devils, convincing the Demon Venerables that Xu Wu was dead.
• A Demon Venerable with a Copper Bell Eyeball fled into the sky, urging the others to rely on themselves and escape.

Lin Xuan faced a standoff with the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons after killing Wu Hong, but Qin Yan arrived and offered to mediate. She revealed that she and Lin Xuan had once studied under the same sect and that the former Grand Commander, the Flying Heavenly Demon Ancestor, was her blood elder brother.

• Lin Xuan killed Wu Hong by burning him, his Nascent Soul, and his soul to ash with Five-Colored Glaze.
• The Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons refused to surrender, and Lin Xuan prepared for battle as the standoff grew tense.
• Qin Yan appeared and offered to act as a peacemaker between Lin Xuan and the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• Qin Yan called Lin Xuan her Junior Brother, and Lin Xuan answered by calling her Senior Sister.
• Qin Yan explained that she and Lin Xuan had studied under the same sect long ago and that the Flying Heavenly Demon Ancestor was her elder brother by blood.

Qin Yan revealed that she was the Flying Heavenly Demon Ancestor’s younger sister and declared that she opposed the war, asking the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons to follow her. Lin Xuan backed her effort to end the conflict, and she began compelling the assembled Demon Venerables to submit with the Illusion Heart Lotus Fire.

• Qin Yan declared that Void, King Yao Ling, and their allies had started the war for selfish reasons and asked the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons to take her as their master.
• Lin Xuan supported Qin Yan and said he would spare those who sincerely repented, while warning the demons not to continue resisting the Spirit World.
• Man Huo submitted to Qin Yan, and she branded him with the Illusion Heart Lotus Fire.
• Qin Yan used the flame to secure the submission of Demon Venerables, until a sudden change arose as nearly half had joined her.

Fairy Zheyi revealed her overwhelming power by killing two mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence Demon Venerables, forcing the remaining demons to submit. Lin Xuan wondered about her origins, while Nailong True Person greeted her with a teasing remark.

• The fat and thin Demon Venerables fled in opposite directions as Lin Xuan watched to see how Qin Yan would respond.
• Fairy Zheyi killed the fat Demon Venerable with a black streak of light, leaving his Nascent Soul no chance to escape.
• Zheyi used Thousand-Mile Instantaneous to appear before the fleeing thin Demon Venerable and destroyed him with a swarm of demonic pythons.
• The remaining Demon Venerables submitted after recognizing the legend of Zheyi, and the cultivators and Demon Race were astonished.
• Lin Xuan asked Nailong True Person about Zheyi's origins, but Nailong instead praised her beauty and waved at her, angering her.

After Lin Xuan and his allies defeated Void Devil Lord, the story shifted to Guanghan Realm, where True Person Huanglong was fighting three Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons. A strange change overtook the Heaven Origin Sea, interrupting the battle and leaving both sides wary.

• Lin Xuan reflected that Qin Yan had gained much from the victory and planned to discuss their interests with her later.
• In Guanghan Realm, True Person Huanglong was besieged by three Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons and struggled despite revealing his Half-Dragon Body.
• The demons’ Undying Body let them recover from their wounds as they mocked Huanglong and pressed their attack.
• The Heaven Origin Sea abruptly turned black and unnaturally still, forcing Huanglong and the three Demon Venerables to break apart.

A mysterious Cocoon in the Heaven Origin Sea attacked True Person Huanglong and three Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, while Tian Xiaojian awoke within it. At a victory banquet, Lin Xuan received Fairy Yutong’s message that the Kingdom of Qingqiu had suffered a disaster and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox had disappeared.

• Black tentacles emerged from the Cocoon and attacked True Person Huanglong and the three Demon Venerables in the Heaven Origin Sea.
• The four discovered the tentacles came from a Cocoon surrounded by powerful sea beast corpses, and the Long-Eared Green-Eyed Demon Venerable urged them to flee.
• Tian Xiaojian opened his eyes inside the Cocoon.
• Lin Xuan hosted a victory banquet at Demon Conch Mountain with Nailong True Person, Qin Yan, Zheyi, and other Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators.
• A Flying Sword Message from Fairy Yutong arrived, and Lin Xuan learned that the Kingdom of Qingqiu had met with misfortune and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox had vanished.

Lin Xuan worried about the missing Qingqiu Kingdom Lord and her disciple Xiang'er, while Elder Tree gathered the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon leaders to discuss a mass disappearance in Qingqiu. They suspected the strange light might be tied to a legend offering a way to ascend to the Immortal World, and agreed to investigate it.

• Lin Xuan feared an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon might have caused the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord's disappearance and worried about Xiang'er, her disciple.
• Elder Tree contacted several Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon leaders and revealed that King Qiqiao and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox had disappeared.
• Elder Tree reported that more than one-third of the cultivators and demons in Qingqiu, including Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, had vanished after being drawn into an arc of light.
• Devil Lord Bailing and King Yao Ling connected the arc of light to a legend, while the Demon Dragon King questioned whether the legend was true.
• Elder Tree argued that the legend could offer a path to the Immortal World, and the leaders agreed to try to pursue it.

Bingpo and other powerful figures learned that an anomaly in the Kingdom of Qingqiu was tied to a prophecy about an arc of light opening the immortal path. Nailong True Person decided to investigate, and Lin Xuan agreed to go with him as the Three Realms’ experts began converging on Qingqiu.

• Bingpo discovered the words “When the arc of light appears, the immortal path connects” and used a formation to learn that the anomaly was in the Kingdom of Qingqiu.
• Heavenly Sha Bright King received a secret report about the legend and Qingqiu in Underworld Hell.
• Nailong True Person summoned Lin Xuan and explained that Qingqiu’s anomaly involved ancient secrets connected to the Asura King.
• Nailong True Person invited Lin Xuan to travel with him to Qingqiu, and Lin Xuan agreed because of Yue'er and Little Snow Fox.
• Nailong True Person said the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons would likely head to Qingqiu, leaving the Spirit World less exposed to attack.

After leaving the Nailong Realm, Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person arrived in the Kingdom of Qingqiu to meet Fairy Yutong and investigate the prophecy surrounding the immortal road. They found themselves in a desert and spotted a familiar-looking Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage woman fleeing a huge swarm of strange insects.

• Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person traveled to the Kingdom of Qingqiu by Shattering the Void, leaving Qin Xin behind in the Nailong Realm and keeping Xiao Die and Yue'er in the Moment Cave Heaven Map.
• The two brothers appeared in a barren desert and discovered countless corpses and bones buried beneath the sand.
• Nailong True Person said they should find Fairy Yutong, and the pair flew west to determine their location.
• Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person noticed a distressed woman with a powerful aura flying toward them.
• They saw that more than a hundred thousand strange mantis-like insects with miniature Flood Dragon heads were chasing the woman.

Lin Xuan recognized the fleeing Mystic Phoenix Fairy and intervened to save her from the Fighting Flood Dragon Insects. After Nailong True Person explained that the insects came from the Cloud Insect Realm, the two prepared to capture their cultivator and question him about the realm’s seal.

• Nailong True Person suggested the Fighting Flood Dragon Insects might have come from the Cloud Insect Realm, one of the realms sealed away from the Spirit World.
• Mystic Phoenix Fairy attacked the pursuing insects with the Heaven Phoenix Divine Claw, but they countered with a giant spear and shattered it.
• Lin Xuan recognized Mystic Phoenix Fairy from the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art and appeared beside her using his mastery of Space Laws.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Sword into Silk Technique, killing many Fighting Flood Dragon Insects and forcing the rest to regroup as an ugly cultivator.
• Nailong True Person explained that Cloud Insect Realm cultivators were formed from swarms of insects and possessed a mother insect instead of a Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person decided to capture the Cloud Insect Realm cultivator and question him about the ancient seal.

Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person defeated a Cloud Insect Realm powerhouse who had nearly neutralized Lin Xuan’s sword treasure. After Mystic Phoenix Fairy thanked her rescuers, the three stood together, with her still unaware of their names.

• The Cloud Insect Realm powerhouse made his Demon Insects self-destruct, coating Lin Xuan’s sword filaments in blood mist and weakening his control of them.
• As the enemy transformed into a ghostly face and attacked Lin Xuan, Nailong True Person trapped it in a web of spatial cracks and warned that struggling would unleash Spatial Turbulence.
• Lin Xuan used Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to cleanse the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, then put it away and joined Nailong True Person.
• Mystic Phoenix Fairy bowed to Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person, thanked them for their help, and offered to repay them.

Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person rescued Mystic Phoenix Fairy and learned that seals across the parallel planes had loosened, drawing powerful figures toward the Kingdom of Qingqiu. After half a month of encounters with experts from other planes, they came upon terrifying fluctuations ahead in a swamp.

• Lin Xuan told Mystic Phoenix Fairy that he had obtained her legacy treasure on Demon Spirit Island and showed her his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.
• Nailong True Person pulled the Cloud Insect Realm expert’s mother insect from a Spatial Rift, searched its soul, and destroyed it, causing the remaining Fighting Flood Dragon Insects to disappear.
• Nailong True Person revealed that the seal had loosened across the Cloud Insect Realm and other parallel planes, and that powerful figures from the three thousand worlds would come to the Kingdom of Qingqiu.
• Lin Xuan and his companions encountered several waves of experts from other planes over the next half month, while Lin Xuan resolved to ask Fairy Yutong about the ancient secrets.
• As they crossed a swamp, Lin Xuan sensed terrifying fluctuations ahead and reacted with astonishment.