Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi left the Western Ox Continent with its immortals to seek justice for the Guiyuan World, while Xi Muran missed him at Golden Ao Island and reunited with Shaoguang. Shaoguang discovered that Chen Shi had killed Li and turned the Yuan Bug against him, then headed to seize control of the world and confront Chen Shi.

• Chen Shi arrived in the Western Ox Continent, accepted the welcome of its officials, and prepared five treasure ships to set sail with its immortals and Witch Covenant.
• Chen Shi promised Luo Yu that he would seek justice for the Guiyuan World, then departed aboard the Fengtian.
• Xi Muran failed to find Chen Shi at Golden Ao Island, met Shaoguang at Tianjin Ferry, and warned him to beware of Li in the Dark Sea.
• Shaoguang traveled to a world in the Xunjiang Star Domain, took control of the Yuan Bug, and learned from its memories that Chen Shi and his allies had killed Li.
• Shaoguang discovered that Chen Shi had forced the Yuan Bug to abandon part of its star domain and resolved to assimilate the Guiyuan World before confronting him.

Shaoguang used the yuan-worms to destroy Dayuan City and overrun Guiyuan World, killing Moluo Xing and Luosheluo as the Devil Race fled across the Dark Sea. Chen Shi arrived aboard a Treasure Ship and melted the yuan-worm flesh with his Limitless Dao Field, driving it into retreat.

• Shaoguang’s yuan-worms crushed Dayuan City, killing Moluo Xing and the Shijia clansmen, while Luosheluo’s attempt to avenge them ended with the yuan-worm draining his cultivation and killing him.
• Shaoguang spread the yuan-worms across Guiyuan World, turned devil cultivators into evil spirits, and drove the surviving Devil Race toward the coastline.
• Devil cultivators fought the yuan-worms so women and children could escape by ship, but tentacles seized the fleeing vessels from the Dark Sea.
• The yuan-worms dragged a Treasure Ship carrying Chen Shi and True Man Zhang to the coastline, where Chen Shi’s Limitless Dao Field melted the flesh and forced it to retreat.

Chen Shi and the Western Ox Continent immortals confronted the primordial insect, while True Man Zhang trapped and refined a portion of it. Shaoguang tried to recruit Chen Shi to the Immortal Court, but Chen Shi rejected its cause and declared that both the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court had to be eradicated.

• Zhong Wuwang, Li Tianqing, Wu Qi, and the others used the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection to turn the primordial insect's tentacles against it, but it severed the controlled flesh and fled toward outer space.
• True Man Zhang froze the primordial insect with his Taiji Dao Field, then drew it into a world of Yin and Yang and refined its flesh into the Breath of Primordial Chaos, advancing his cultivation.
• Shaoguang recognized Chen Shi and claimed that Senior Brother Li had passed down the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection, while Chen Shi explained that he had reverse-engineered it from techniques spread by the Heavenly Venerate.
• Shaoguang invited Chen Shi to submit to the Immortal Court and defended its use of the primordial insect to nurture a refuge from the Heavenly Court, despite the sacrifices it required.
• Chen Shi challenged Shaoguang over the destruction of the Western Ox Continent and rejected the Immortal Court's cause, saying that both it and the Heavenly Court had to be eradicated.

Chen Shi confronted Shaoguang over the Immortal Court’s defense of a system that denied later immortals a place to stand, then fought him in the corrupted Guiyuan World. Chen Shi used the world’s Dao power and the Heaven and Earth Return Heart transformation to defeat and kill Shaoguang.

• Shaoguang told Chen Shi about a talented young immortal who proposed refining the Dao within one’s body, and revealed that Fan Xiao had killed him to protect the Immortal Court’s power.
• Chen Shi recognized Zhong Wuwang as someone who practiced internal Dao refinement while Shaoguang explained that the Immortal Court relied on meta-insects to protect its immortals from tribulations.
• Chen Shi and Shaoguang began fighting at Guiyuan World’s center, where Chen Shi’s Limitless Dao Field absorbed the meta-insects’ evil Dao and drew on the world’s power.
• The two exchanged matching Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection techniques, but Chen Shi’s Dao Field expanded to ten thousand miles as the fight continued.
• Shaoguang unleashed the Minor Heavenly Tribulation Array, and Chen Shi answered with its next transformation, Heaven and Earth Return Heart.
• Chen Shi shattered Shaoguang’s array, pierced him with Greater Celestial Circuit starlight, and killed him.

After defeating Shaoguang, Chen Shi pursued the Yuanworm through space and fought its vast tentacles with a bronze bell. He learned that the Yuanworm was sentient and left it with a suspicion that could drive it to oppose the Immortal Emperor.

• Chen Shi saw the Yuanworm retreating from the Guiyuan World and pursued its withdrawing flesh into space.
• The Yuanworm’s tentacles attacked Chen Shi, and he used the bronze bell to disrupt its thoughts and fend it off.
• The Yuanworm contacted Chen Shi through his Sea of Consciousness and explained that it was sentient and had been herded by the Immortal Court to consume worlds.
• Chen Shi refused to let the Yuanworm go freely, since the Immortal Emperor could trace his disciple’s murderer through its thoughts.
• The Yuanworm accused Chen Shi of trying to turn it against the Immortal Emperor, then withdrew; Chen Shi believed the suspicion he had planted would eventually force a conflict between them.

Mei Zhenqing discovered that the yuan worm had returned from the Xunjiang Star Domain in a chaotic state, while the creature secretly began considering how to escape control by the Immortal Emperor. In the Guiyuan World, Chen Shi carefully studied its outer Dao and mended the heavens, leaving Luo Yu to report that the world’s outer Dao seemed more complete than before.

• Mei Zhenqing noticed the yuan worm absorbing flesh and blood from Xunjiang and sent a golden immortal to report the disturbance to the Immortal Emperor.
• The yuan worm recalled Chen Shi’s words and decided that it might seize the initiative rather than remain an instrument of the Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Shi questioned Luo Yu about his cultivation and examined his Dao field to understand the Guiyuan World’s outer Dao.
• Chen Shi refined his Dao field to match the Guiyuan World and gradually restored its barren land, rivers, weather, and plant life.
• True Man Zhang, Zhong Wuwang, Little Duan, and the others returned and marveled at the transformed world.
• Luo Yu told the group that Chen Shi’s repair seemed to have made the Guiyuan World’s outer Dao more exquisite and complete.

Chen Shi restored the Guiyuan World’s external Dao, then returned to the Western Ox Continent and began enriching its Great Dao with laws he had learned in the Green Palace. His work produced sacred grounds across the continent, while Yang Gongwang abandoned his plan to escape by treasure ship and accepted that the Heavenly Immortal Realm was real.

• Chen Shi completed the Guiyuan World’s external Dao, causing its spiritual energy to grow stronger and more than ten sacred grounds to appear.
• Chen Shi left Luo Yu to protect Guiyuan and appointed Dragon Roaming Rogue Cultivator and Empress Shao to assist him and teach him the higher realms.
• On the voyage back, Chen Shi and Xiaoduan discussed how the Dark Sea’s worlds might have fragmented from a once-complete world.
• Chen Shi met Yang Gongwang, an Earthly Immortal Realm ascendant who begged to return home, and told him he could not leave the Dark Sea.
• Chen Shi discussed the Immortal Emperor position and Guiyuan’s settlement with Empress Houtu, then began adding Green Palace Heavenly Dao laws to the Western Ox Continent.
• As treasure ships prepared to leave for Guiyuan, Yang Gongwang tried to board one to escape, but the appearance of new sacred grounds convinced him to disembark and accept the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Yang Gongwang chose to remain in the newly transformed Heavenly Immortal Realm, while True Person Zhang left Western Ox Continent to avoid its coming conflicts. As Chen Shi’s Dao Field expanded with the continent, he brought Fairy Xiaoduan to Western Penglai and revealed his position as the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s confidant and Marshal of Soldiers and Horses.

• Yang Gongwang decided to stay in the Heavenly Immortal Realm, believing it offered more opportunity than the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• True Person Zhang left Ganyang Mountain and declined Chen Tang’s invitation to help build the Heavenly Immortal Realm, warning that its growing prosperity would invite conflict and monopolies.
• Chen Tang and Wu Qingyu worried that Western Ox Continent might eventually become as unequal as the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• True Person Zhang sailed into the Dark Sea as Western Ox Continent expanded, raised new land, and sent immortal mountains floating into the sky.
• Chen Shi discovered that Western Ox Continent’s growth was expanding his Dao Field and increasing his cultivation, then showed Fairy Xiaoduan its Jade Capital.
• Chen Shi took Fairy Xiaoduan to Western Penglai, introduced it as his garrisoned territory, and told her he served as the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s confidant and Marshal of Soldiers and Horses.

Chen Shi brought Xiaoduan to the Dao ruins, where she discovered that Fulou Village’s elders were remnants of the Great Shang who recognized her as their queen. After deciphering the village’s green stele, Chen Shi realized it was designed to suppress the Dark Sea’s Dao and suspected that this Dao remained within the ruins, shaping his own Dao realm.

• Xiaoduan examined Chen Shi’s seal as Grand Marshal of All Under Heaven, while Crippled Jiao arrived too late to meet him and hosted the injured Heavenly King Li outside Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan entered his Dao realm, where he noticed its Dao phenomena differed from those in the Western Ox Continent.
• Shang Dugong and the villagers recognized Xiaoduan’s Shang royal bloodline and bowed to her as their queen, then explained that the Three Pure Ones had imprisoned them to guard the green stele.
• Chen Shi studied the stele’s Dao patterns with unusual ease and discovered that they countered the Dao of the Green Palace Heaven.
• Chen Shi concluded that the Dark Sea’s Dao might remain within the Dao ruins and had combined with the phenomena of his Dao realm.

Chen Shi investigated how the green stele and the Dao of the Dark Sea affected his Dao realms, then used his Hunduan Wuji Demonic Dao to strengthen the Demon Blood Treasure Tree. In Fulou Village, Fairy Xiaoduan's companions awakened the power in her bloodline, revealing the ancient might of Great Shang.

• Muzha repeatedly found Heavenly King Li beaten by the Great God of the Three Altars and sought help from Golden Ao Island, while Jin Zha accompanied him on a later visit.
• Chen Shi realized that the green stele had been weakened by its long struggle against the Dao of the Dark Sea and left Fulou Village to inspect his Dao realms.
• Fairy Xiaoduan's companions gathered around her and raised their Primordial Spirits to break the seal on her bloodline Dao power.
• Chen Shi found that the purple wheel and Three Elements Dao images had absorbed remnants of the Dao of the Dark Sea, then went to inspect the expanded Well Demon Domain.
• Chen Shi identified the Demon Blood Treasure Tree as a weapon of the Dao Ruins Heavenly Dao and spread his Hunduan Wuji Demonic Dao around it to make up for its deficiencies.
• Yuanjun Niangpo sensed the power of Great Shang's bloodline awakening near Fulou Village and recognized its ancient, battle-lustful force.

Fairy Xiaoduan awakened her Great Shang bloodline and reached the Golden Immortal Realm, but her cultivation stalled because her technique lacked the complete royal inheritance. She and Chen Shi prepared to return to Huaxia to find the suppressed Shang emperors, then learned that Chen Shi had been ordered to lead an expedition against demons in the ancestral court.

• Fairy Xiaoduan refined her awakened bloodline power with the Heavenly Mandate Profound Yellow Art and advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm, where her cultivation stopped.
• Shang Dugong told Fairy Xiaoduan that the nine suppressed Shang emperors knew the true Black Bird True Domain Art and were held in Qiongshi, Huaxia.
• Chen Shi arrived and agreed to take Fairy Xiaoduan to the ancestral court, then the pair returned to Golden Ao Island after spending the night together.
• Crippled Jiao told Chen Shi that Li Jing was waiting for him, and Chen Shi found Li Jing gravely injured after a fight with his son, the Great God of the Three Altars.
• Li Jing relayed the Great Heavenly Venerate's order for Chen Shi to lead the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to Huaxia and suppress a stirring demon, then asked to serve as his deputy.
• Chen Shi accepted the mission and named Fairy Xiaoduan as Li Jing's temporary deputy while Li Jing recovered.

Chen Shi led twenty thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals through Hangu Pass toward the Huaxia Divine Continent, after promising the injured Heavenly King Li a future deputy marshal position. He arrived at the pass’s far side to find a land of bones, demonic energy, and outer dao beneath a banner marked Great Shun.

• Chen Shi reassured Heavenly King Li that he could become deputy marshal after recovering, then received the Jade Emperor’s imperial edict and learned the route to the Huaxia ancestral court ran through Hangu Pass.
• Chen Shi stayed on Golden Ao Island to stabilize Xiaoduan’s cultivation and refine Western Penglai’s outer dao, then assembled twenty thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals for the expedition.
• Chen Shi led the army to Hangu Pass, where Daoist Wu checked his edict and military seal before admitting them to the star gate.
• Chen Shi asked Daoist Wu about the Great Heavenly Venerate’s nephew and learned the Manifested Sage True Lord had passed through with two daoists.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan crossed the star gate and found the far side of Hangu Pass facing a bone-covered wasteland filled with demonic energy and outer dao, where a tattered Great Shun banner stood.

Chen Shi investigated the outer Dao that had turned Hangu Pass’s defenders to dust, then fortified the pass and taught his troops the Cycle of Life and Death Art to resist it. At Earthly Immortal Realm Hangu Pass, True Man Wenshi concluded that someone intended to destroy the Huaxia ancestral grounds and ordered Daoist Wu to investigate eight hundred years of travel records.

• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan examined the remains outside Hangu Pass and suspected that a powerful outer Dao had invaded from the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shi ordered the troops to hold Hangu Pass and guard the Star Gate, then devised the Cycle of Life and Death Art and had the army learn it.
• Chen Shi captured scouts arriving through the Star Gate, imprisoned Heavenly King Li’s men, and executed an unidentified scout who refused to reveal who sent him.
• True Man Wenshi awoke and learned from Daoist Wu that several parties had sent scouts into the ancestral grounds.
• True Man Wenshi explained that the attack aimed to destroy the ancestral grounds and sever the Heavenly Court’s roots, then ordered Daoist Wu to bring records from the past eight hundred years to identify the culprit.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan traveled from Hangu Pass to Qiongshi to investigate the external Dao and the demonic chaos, finding the ancestral land devastated and its immortals corrupted. At Baishi Ancient City, they encountered demon cultivators searching for the place where the Three Pure Ones had suppressed the Nine Emperors of Great Shang.

• True Man Wenshi learned that a demon seed was being nourished by famine and popular grievance, while the Great Heavenly Venerate revealed that Chen Shi's expedition was meant to draw out the hidden instigator.
• True Man Wenshi found records showing that True Lord Erlang had returned to the ancestral land and Immortal Wencheng had remained there for over eight hundred years under Emperor Wenchang's decree.
• Chen Shi left Hangu Pass with Fairy Xiaoduan and discovered that external Dao had devastated Lingbao County and polluted its immortals.
• A sick Daoist told Chen Shi that Qiongshi lay in Shandong Dezhou and warned that it was a perilous place associated with Da Yi and the Great Xia army.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan crossed regions scarred by demonic warfare and slaughter before reaching Qiongshi and identifying Baishi Ancient City as the site where the Nine Emperors of Great Shang had been suppressed.
• A sharp-eyed young man in a fur cloak arrived with demon cultivators and declared that Baishi Ancient City must be the place where the Three Pure Ones had suppressed the Nine Emperors of Great Shang.

Chen Shi and Little Duan followed the Nine Emperors’ signal beyond the Ancestral Land, where they found a vast sea of blood and the remains of Great Xia soldiers. As Chen Shi fought the awakened skeletons, both his party and Kundulun’s approached the Nine Emperors’ location.

• Chen Shi and Little Duan resisted Kundulun’s Inner Demon Grand Magic, while Kundulun revealed his plan to devour the Nine Emperors of Great Shang and explained how Immortal Wencheng had cultivated him into a powerful demon.
• Little Duan sensed the Nine Emperors, and Baishi Ancient City was carried beyond the Ancestral Land through the Great Shang royal family’s sea of blood to an ancient battlefield filled with Great Xia skeletons.
• Chen Shi recognized the simple witchcraft sacrifice Dao patterns carved into the skeletons as a valuable source for studying the Dao.
• Little Duan headed toward the Nine Emperors’ aura as Kundulun and his followers pursued them, and awakened Great Xia soldiers attacked the travelers.
• Chen Shi used Dark Sea Dao patterns through his sword technique to bind the attacking skeletons and protect Little Duan as the two groups drew near each other.

Chen Shi and Xiaoduan fought through the Great Xia Heavenly Court ruins, where Chen Shi killed several demonic immortals and discovered another Azure Palace. Kundulun attacked them to seize the opportunity, but Chen Shi and Xiaoduan overwhelmed him and prepared to divide the remaining enemies between them.

• Ning Gongfu's spellcraft backfired when he tried to curse Chen Shi and Xiaoduan using the names Zhong Wuwang and Wen Wuyu, and Chen Shi killed him.
• Chen Shi killed True Person Yanyan and True Person Muzhai while battling Great Xia fierce soldiers alongside Xiaoduan.
• Chen Shi realized the Great Xia commanders were deities and that an Azure Palace stood within the Great Xia Heavenly Court ruins.
• Kundulun absorbed the surrounding malevolent and vengeful Qi, then attacked Chen Shi with a time-destroying heterodoxy.
• Xiaoduan blocked Kundulun while Chen Shi struck his acupoints with the Jade Pure Carefree Finger, and Xiaoduan crushed him to his knees.
• Chen Shi told Xiaoduan to eliminate Kundulun while he confronted True Person Changbo, Shui Qianyi, and the other pursuing demonic experts.

Chen Shi and Xiaoduan fought their way through the Great Xia warriors and entered the green palace with the unkillable Kundulun, whom Chen Shi repeatedly used to deflect attacks. Inside, nine golden coffins addressed Xiaoduan as a descendant of Ziqi and acknowledged her return to seek her ancestors’ inheritance.

• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan defeated Kundulun’s allies, but discovered that Kundulun regenerated from attacks and could not be killed by their techniques.
• Chen Shi proposed sending Kundulun to a Demon Suppressing Well, then used him as a shield and weapon while he and Xiaoduan fought past a mighty Great Xia warrior.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan reached the green palace as its gates opened and resentful demonic fire poured out, then entered before the gates closed behind them.
• Chen Shi examined the palace and found nine golden coffins in its front hall.
• Xiaoduan bowed to the coffins, and an ancient voice recognized Ziqi’s bloodline and welcomed her return for her ancestors’ inheritance.

Chen Shi learned that Kundulun was a Child of Destiny born to revive the former Heavenly Dao, and he resolved to use his refined Heavenly Dao Revival Ground to kill him. After Fairy Xiaoduan obtained the Black Bird True Domain Art and grew stronger, she helped Chen Shi escape with Kundulun from the Great Xia Heavenly Court aboard Baishi Ancient City.

• Fairy Xiaoduan entered the Green Palace and received the Black Bird True Domain Art from the imprisoned ancestors of Great Shang, awakening her bloodline power.
• Chen Shi deciphered the seal on the Green Palace doors, named his new technique the Green Palace Cloud Concealing Hand, and used it to further seal Kundulun.
• Chen Shi learned from Kundulun that Great Dao anomaly points were Heavenly Dao Revival Grounds and that Great Demons were Children of Destiny tasked with restoring the former Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Shi argued that the Three Pure Ones and Kundulun were each acting for their people’s survival, then said he could use his Heavenly Dao Revival Ground to refine Kundulun to death.
• Fairy Xiaoduan emerged with greatly increased power, and Chen Shi left the Green Palace carrying Kundulun while she fought their way through the Great Xia soldiers.
• Fairy Xiaoduan lifted Baishi Ancient City into the air and drove it through the Dark Sea toward the Huaxia Ancestral Court.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan encountered Immortal Wencheng, who revealed his role in creating the demonic chaos and demanded Kundulun on behalf of the Immortal Court. Chen Shi refused, and the confrontation was interrupted by the arrival of Black Pot, the Howling Celestial Hound Daoist, and a young immortal general.

• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan captured Kundulun and headed toward Hangu Pass, but a strange fog led them to a village where Immortal Wencheng confronted them.
• Immortal Wencheng recounted the suffering he had endured as a low-ranking immortal and explained that he had joined the Supreme Sovereign to overthrow the heavenly court.
• Immortal Wencheng revealed that the Supreme Sovereign had sent him to destroy the ancestral realm and that he had fueled wars and supported the demon seed to accomplish this.
• Immortal Wencheng demanded that Chen Shi hand over Kundulun, but Chen Shi refused.
• Black Pot and the Howling Celestial Hound Daoist arrived, followed by a young immortal general carrying a three-pointed, double-edged halberd.

True Lord Erlang confronted and killed Immortal Wencheng, then returned to Chen Shi and agreed to exchange insights into their cultivation arts. Chen Shi learned that Erlang wanted to study the witch sacrifice Dao patterns behind the Immortal Profound Art to find the origins of the Eight-Nine Profound Art.

• Immortal Wencheng deployed the Coiled Dragon Xiu Zhang and Yaohua Immortal Gourd against True Lord Erlang, but Erlang shattered the seal and burned through the gourd.
• Immortal Wencheng tried to escape with the Harmony Fan, but True Lord Erlang pursued and beheaded him, sealing his head in a jade casket.
• True Lord Erlang returned to the village and greeted Chen Shi, who asked him to compare the Immortal Profound Art with the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• True Lord Erlang ordered Howling Celestial Dog to eliminate the villagers transformed from magic-path immortals, and Xiaoduan went to help.
• True Lord Erlang recognized Xiaoduan’s Great Shang bloodline but said he would not harm her unless she attacked him.
• True Lord Erlang explained that the witch sacrifice Dao patterns in Chen Shi’s Immortal Profound Art could help him trace the Eight-Nine Profound Art to its source, and he agreed to exchange pointers with Chen Shi.