Chapter Summaries

Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi postponed Yuan Sect’s plans after Ren Yuanzi returned in a black heart and Demon Prison warned them about Burning Heaven Old Ghost and the Devouring Celestial Corpses. Meanwhile, Lu Bu gave the Palace Mistress the Thunder Ancestral Talisman, and after its test accepted her as its new wielder; Lu Bu then said they would go to the Great Yan Dynasty.

• Ren Yuanzi returned to Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi, explaining that Burning Heaven Old Ghost’s flames had destroyed his body and nearly consumed his Nascent Soul.
• Heavenly Nether King identified Burning Heaven Old Ghost and discussed the Devouring Celestial Corpses, while Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi agreed to postpone their plan and seek greater strength.
• Tian Yuanzi told Heavenly Nether King that a powerful, unidentified man likely controlled the Devouring Celestial Corpses, and Heavenly Nether King gave Yuan Sect one year to prepare.
• Lu Bu gave the Thunder Ancestral Talisman to the Palace Mistress and warned her that its test could kill her.
• The Palace Mistress endured the lightning trial until the Thunder Ancestral Talisman accepted her, after the Nine-Headed Thunder Snake intervened at Lu Bu’s urging.
• Lu Bu told the Palace Mistress that they would go to the Great Yan Dynasty.

Lu Bu brought the Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu to the Great Yan Dynasty to confront a sealed Demon King, but first visited Jiang Xue at Eagle Sect. Jiang Xue appeared before them and reproached Lu Bu for leaving without saying goodbye.

• The Palace Mistress mastered the Thunder Ancestral Talisman, while Ling Qingzhu returned from cultivation having sensed the Supreme and condensed Supreme Power.
• Lu Bu told the Palace Mistress that Ling Qingzhu could join them, then the three traveled through a transmission array to the Great Yan Dynasty and secretly headed for Great Desolation County.
• Lu Bu explained that Jiang Xue had become the Great Desolation Sect's inheritor and transformed Eagle Martial Hall into Eagle Sect.
• Lu Bu revealed his aura to summon Jiang Xue, who appeared and told him she had thought he forgot about her after he left without saying goodbye.

Lu Bu brought Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu into the Great Desolation Monument to confront the surviving demon responsible for destroying the Great Desolation Sect. After the seal weakened, the Ninth King's Palace escaped and mistook Lu Bu's apparent fear for helplessness.

• Lu Bu reunited with Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin at Eagle Sect, then told Jiang Xue that an old demon remained inside the Great Desolation Monument.
• Jiang Xue activated the altar and sent Lu Bu, Palace Mistress, and Ling Qingzhu into the ruined Great Desolation Sect.
• Lu Bu revealed that Jiang Yinyin was the reincarnation of the Life and Death Lord, and told Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu to prepare to fight the demon.
• The Ninth King's Palace exploited the weakened Devouring formation, used his demonic blood to break it, and escaped his seal.
• The Ninth King's Palace confronted Lu Bu, who pretended to be frightened and powerless.

Lu Bu lured the weakened Ninth King's Palace into revealing himself, then helped the Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu ambush him with the Devouring Heavenly Dog and their talismans. Though the demon survived their opening attacks, he was badly wounded and faced Ling Qingzhu’s second Flame Burning Universe Arrow as the fight continued.

• The Great Desolation Sect’s skeletal guardian attacked the Ninth King's Palace, and Lu Bu summoned the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and its spirit, the Devouring Heavenly Dog.
• The Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu launched a surprise Flame Burning Universe Arrow attack, concealing Ling Qingzhu’s sword strike that pierced the Ninth King's Palace’s heart and severely wounded him.
• The Devouring Heavenly Dog struck the Ninth King's Palace away, and Lu Bu ordered the Palace Mistress to lead the attack while Ling Qingzhu and the Heavenly Dog supported her.
• Ling Qingzhu used the Stillness Divine Token to restrain the Ninth King's Palace, while she and the Palace Mistress battered him with sword attacks that damaged his armor and exposed body.
• Ling Qingzhu drained her Yuan Power to form another Flame Burning Universe Arrow and launched it at the Ninth King's Palace’s back.

Ling Qingzhu and the Palace Mistress joined forces with the Great Desolation Sect’s lingering wills to kill Ninth King's Palace. Afterward, the spirits rewarded them with Reincarnation insights, which Lu Bu also gathered for the Great Desolation Sect.

• Ling Qingzhu renewed her attack on Ninth King's Palace while Lu Bu replenished her power through the Devouring Heavenly Dog, and she and the Palace Mistress gradually weakened him.
• Ninth King's Palace used demonic corpses and mind-bewitching power to disrupt the women, but the Palace Mistress recognized that he was nearing exhaustion and struck off his right arm with the Thunder Ancestral Talisman.
• The lingering wills of the Great Desolation Sect rallied behind the women, strengthening the Palace Mistress's lightning sword as Ninth King's Palace formed the Heavenly Demon Life Gate.
• Ling Qingzhu used the Stillness Divine Token to halt Ninth King's Palace, allowing the Palace Mistress to pierce his head with the lightning sword and destroy him and his Demon Emperor Armor.
• The spirits led by Black Pupil gave the Palace Mistress and Ling Qingzhu Reincarnation insights, and Lu Bu gathered some for Jiang Xue, little Yinyin, and the Great Desolation Sect.

The Demon Prison’s leaders learned that the Ninth King’s Palace had died and planned to seek revenge after Lord Devourer healed the Sixth King. After Lu Bu returned to Taiqing Palace, Jiang Yinyin awakened as the reincarnated Life and Death Lord and Ling Qingzhu began cultivating Supreme Power; Lu Bu then headed for Dao Sect, where Ying Huanhuan sensed his arrival.

• The Seventh King Hall, the Eighth King’s Hall, and Old Ten discovered that the Ninth King’s Palace had been destroyed and planned to move against the killer after Sixth Brother recovered.
• Lu Bu left the Eagle Sect after confirming that Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin were unharmed, while Jiang Yinyin’s Reincarnation Seal caused her cultivation to surge.
• The Palace Mistress returned to Taiqing Palace and entered seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough to the Reincarnation Realm.
• Ling Qingzhu told Lu Bu she would enter seclusion to cultivate Supreme Power, then questioned him about his strength and his relationship with her master before leaving.
• Lu Bu observed that Yuan Sect was saturated with demonic qi and, with its leaders occupied, decided to visit Dao Sect.
• The Great Desolation Tablet opened for Dao Sect’s disciples, and Ying Huanhuan sensed Lu Bu’s arrival.

Lu Bu and Ying Huanhuan entered the Great Desolation Tablet to confront the Demon King sealed beneath it. They arrived in the tablet’s desolate inner world, while Ying Xuanzi and the Dao Sect disciples remained outside.

• Ying Xuanzi and a blue-robed elder discussed the Demon King sealed beneath the Great Desolation Tablet and Ying Huanhuan’s awakening Ice Master powers.
• Lu Bu visited Ying Huanhuan, confirmed that her previous-life power was awakening, and told her the tablet was a divine artifact sealing a Demon King.
• Lu Bu and Ying Huanhuan set out to destroy the Demon King, leaving Ying Xuanzi and the elder frozen on a mountain peak.
• At Desolate Hall, Ying Huanhuan ordered the Dao Sect disciples to retreat before she and Lu Bu entered the Great Desolation Tablet; Qing Ye watched them go with a complicated expression.
• Lu Bu and Ying Huanhuan arrived in the tablet’s barren inner world, where Ying Huanhuan said she had never been there before.

Lu Bu, Ying Huanhuan, and the Great Desolation Tablet ambushed and killed the Demon King sealed beneath the tablet. After the Demon King recognized Ying Huanhuan as the Ice Master, she wondered whether she had been a powerful figure in her past life.

• Ying Huanhuan admitted she had never visited the Great Desolation Tablet's inner space, and Lu Bu persuaded her to ambush the Demon King rather than fight honorably.
• Lu Bu concealed Ying Huanhuan while the Great Desolation Tablet released the Demon King from its underground prison.
• Lu Bu, the Devouring Heavenly Dog, and the Tablet Spirit fought the Demon King, weakening it and drawing its attention away from Ying Huanhuan.
• Ying Huanhuan ambushed the Demon King with an ice spear, and the Tablet Spirit struck it while the Devouring Heavenly Dog stopped it from escaping.
• Ying Huanhuan froze and destroyed the Demon King, then asked Lu Bu whether its recognition of her as the Ice Master meant she had been the Ice Master in a past life.

After defeating the Demon King, Lu Bu stayed at the Dao Sect with Ying Huanhuan, who claimed the Great Desolation Tablet and chose to remain by his side despite his relationship with Ling Qingzhu. When Ling Qingzhu emerged from seclusion with a strange, powerful force, Lu Bu decided it was time to take Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu to the Demon Region.

• Ying Huanhuan teased Lu Bu over an Image-Recording Jade, then insisted she would repay him by giving herself to him and learned that he and Ling Qingzhu had made their relationship official.
• Ying Huanhuan took the Great Desolation Tablet, while Lu Bu agreed to stay at the Dao Sect with her; she froze Ying Xuanzi when he tried to interfere.
• During the following half month, Ying Huanhuan told Ying Xiaoxiao that she intended to follow Lu Bu, knowing the world faced a grave demonic crisis.
• Lu Bu sensed Ling Qingzhu emerge from seclusion at Taiqing Palace with an unfamiliar power and decided to take her and Ying Huanhuan to the Demon Region.
• Ying Huanhuan also sensed the strange power and wondered what it was.

Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan fought to a standstill before Lu Bu took them to the Demon Region. They arrived at Wuhui Island to repair the Great Desolation Tablet in the Primordial Pagoda, where they discovered the tower was the Primordial Lord’s resting place.

• Ling Qingzhu emerged from seclusion after breaking through, and Lu Bu and Ying Huanhuan arrived to meet her.
• Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan sparred fiercely for an hour until both were exhausted, and Lu Bu caught them in his arms.
• Lu Bu told Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan he planned to take them to the Demon Region, then brought them to Wuhui Island to repair the Great Desolation Tablet.
• Ying Huanhuan froze the five family elders who confronted them, and Lu Bu led the women into the Primordial Pagoda.
• Lu Bu explained that the pagoda was the resting place of the Primordial Lord, while Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan declined to cultivate in its Primordial qi.

Lu Bu sealed the Primordial Pagoda after Ying Huanhuan used the Great Desolation Tablet to defeat the five Wuhui Island clan heads, then traveled to the Flame God Hall to borrow the Flame Ancestral Talisman. Moluo accepted Lu Bu’s challenge to withstand three moves, and prepared to fight.

• The Great Desolation Tablet returned to Ying Huanhuan after recovering, and Lu Bu, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu left the Primordial Pagoda.
• Ying Huanhuan used the Great Desolation Tablet to crush and defeat the five patriarchs who confronted them outside the pagoda.
• Lu Bu sealed the Primordial Pagoda and departed with the two women through a spatial rift, leaving the patriarchs shaken by his strength.
• Lu Bu arrived at the Flame God Hall and demanded that Moluo lend him the Flame Ancestral Talisman.
• Moluo agreed to Lu Bu’s challenge to survive three moves, then summoned his flames and prepared to attack.

Lu Bu defeated Moluo in two moves and took the Flame Ancestral Talisman, then asked him to find Xin Qing of the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe. After learning the tribe had fallen from its former power, Lu Bu decided to investigate it.

• Tang Xinlian and the Flame God Hall watched as Lu Bu shattered Moluo’s first attack and sent him crashing into the sea.
• Moluo unleashed a thousand-zhang fire phoenix for his second move, but Lu Bu dispelled it and defeated him again.
• Moluo admitted defeat and gave Lu Bu the Flame Ancestral Talisman, and Lu Bu restored his injuries and revealed that he might reach the Reincarnation Realm.
• Lu Bu asked Moluo to find Xin Qing, and Tang Xinlian brought the timid young woman before him.
• Lu Bu explained that the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe had once produced a powerful expert, and he and Moluo decided to investigate why it had become so weak.

Lu Bu brought Xin Qing, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan through the Demon Region toward the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe, intending to find an ancient divine object. In the Beast War Domain, a band of armed men blocked their path and tried to seize them.

• Lu Bu revealed that Xin Qing's ancestor, the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox, had fought beside the Devouring Lord, and Moluo suggested Tang Xinlian cultivate with him; Lu Bu refused after Ying Huanhuan froze Tang Xinlian with a finger.
• Lu Bu took Xin Qing, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan through a spatial rift to the Beast War Domain, where he planned to visit the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe and seek an ancient divine object.
• Xin Qing explained that the Beast War Domain was ruled by eight rival Demon Marshals and that her tribe had fled there after refusing to provide ten young women each year to a powerful tribe.
• Xin Qing named her current protector as Demon Marshal Xu Zhong of Thunder Abyss Mountain, and Lu Bu recalled that Xu Zhong had refined his twin brother into a puppet named Shadow.
• A burly man and more than ten armored soldiers blocked Lu Bu's group in the sky, boasting that they would capture the two Nine-tailed Foxes and the three women.

Ying Huanhuan defeated the Blood Python City raiders and rescued Xin Qing’s sisters, while Cao Mang plotted to turn Hundred Beasts Ridge against their group. Lu Bu and the others reached the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s village, where Ling Qingzhu’s show of strength brought the Clan Leader out to greet them.

• Ying Huanhuan froze the bandits who had captured Xin Qing’s sisters, killed their leader, and wounded Young City Lord Cao Mang before letting him live.
• Xin Qing reunited with her two sisters, and Lu Bu led the group onward as Cao Mang told his brother Cao Ying about the encounter.
• Cao Mang persuaded Cao Ying to spread word that Xin Qing was with the humans, hoping Qin Gang of Hundred Beasts Ridge would attack them.
• Lu Bu and the others arrived at the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s suspended village, and Ling Qingzhu released her aura to summon the Clan Leader.
• The Nine-tailed Fox Clan Leader hurried out to welcome Ling Qingzhu, while Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu eyed Lu Bu warily amid the village’s many fox women.

Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu learned about Thunder Abyss Mountain from Aunt Xin, while Xin Qing revealed that Lu Bu had defeated the Flame God Hall master and might be able to solve the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s cultivation problem. The next morning, armed riders arrived at the village demanding tribute.

• Aunt Xin warned Ying Huanhuan that Thunder Abyss Mountain was led by Demon Commander Xu Zhong and had eight powerful war generals, with Great Demon Commander Tianlong behind it, but she agreed to provide intelligence.
• Aunt Xin learned from Xin Qing that Lu Bu had defeated the Flame God Hall master Moluo with one palm strike and that he had come to investigate the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s cultivation problems.
• Aunt Xin decided to wait for Lu Bu’s judgment about the tribe’s problems and asked Xin Qing to recount everything she knew about him.
• Lu Bu was driven from the bed while Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu slept together, so he began cultivating early the next morning.
• A band of riders arrived at Nine-tailed Fox Village and demanded that the tribe hand over its tribute.

Ying Huanhuan, Lu Bu, and Ling Qingzhu defeated Qin Gang and headed to Thunder Abyss Mountain Range, where Ying Huanhuan provoked its rulers into a fight. The chapter ended as Xu Zhong and his seven war generals charged the three humans, unaware of the Great Desolation Tablet’s power.

• Xu Zhong ordered his Iron Mountain Guard to confront the humans at Nine-tailed Fox Village, while Huo Miao explained that Qin Gang was collecting tribute for Hundred Beasts Ridge.
• Ying Huanhuan crushed Qin Gang and his army with the Great Desolation Tablet, and Ling Qingzhu captured him with the Devouring Celestial Corpse.
• Lu Bu, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu traveled to Thunder Abyss Mountain Range with Qin Gang, and the Mountain General warned Xu Zhong that the humans had killed him.
• The three humans smashed through Thunder Abyss Mountain Range’s formation and destroyed its hall, then Ying Huanhuan claimed Qin Gang belonged to the mountain range.
• Xu Zhong ordered his seven war generals to capture the humans, and Ying Huanhuan sent the Great Desolation Tablet toward them as the Mountain General warned them of its power.

Lu Bu, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan defeated Thunder Abyss Mountain’s generals and drove off Sky Dragon Demon Commander after revealing their interest in the Divine Object Mountain Range. They returned toward Nine-tailed Fox Village, leaving Chen Tong alive and Xu Zhong at his mercy.

• Ying Huanhuan’s Great Desolation Tablet crushed Xu Zhong and several Thunder Abyss Mountain generals, while Ling Qingzhu beheaded Heavenly Crocodile General and General Mengshan.
• Sky Dragon Demon Commander arrived and attacked Lu Bu’s group, but Ling Qingzhu shattered his strike and wounded him in their clash.
• Lu Bu subdued Xu Zhong and took the Ancient God Token, revealing that the group planned to visit the Divine Object Mountain Range.
• Sky Dragon Demon Commander fled after realizing the group was dangerous, and Chen Tong swore allegiance to Nine-tailed Fox Village, but Lu Bu dismissed his offer.
• Lu Bu, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan headed back to Nine-tailed Fox Village as Chen Tong turned on the helpless Xu Zhong.

Lu Bu and his companions entered the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s Ancestral Soul Hall to investigate the corruption of the tribe’s bloodline. They exposed and defeated three Demon Kings hiding in the false ancestor, leaving the Nine-tailed Fox’s true spirit to regain her senses.

• Aunt Xin told Lu Bu that Thunder Abyss Mountain had been destroyed, and he proposed investigating the Ancestral Soul Hall for the cause of the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe’s bloodline problem.
• Aunt Xin used the tribe’s bloodline and a fox statue to open the Ancestral Soul Hall, and Xin Qing led Lu Bu, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan inside.
• Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan sensed demonic aura in the blood sea, while a beautiful figure claiming to be the Nine-tailed Fox appeared before Xin Qing.
• Lu Bu pulled Xin Qing away and revealed that the figure was not her ancestor but a host for three Demon Kings, who attacked the group and targeted Ying Huanhuan.
• Lu Bu used the Flame Ancestral Talisman and the Devouring Ancestral Talisman to sever the Demon Kings’ connection to the blood sea and bind them.
• The true Nine-tailed Fox spirit regained her senses and recognized the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.

Lu Bu, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu freed the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox and destroyed the Demon Kings that had tormented her tribe. After helping secure the tribe’s recovery, they headed to the Divine Object Mountain Range to take the Xuantian Hall, while the Sky Dragon Demon Commander and other Beast War Domain leaders prepared to watch their move.

• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox embraced Xin Qing after Lu Bu let the girl answer her bloodline’s call, and Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu annihilated the three Demon Kings.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox explained how the Demon Kings had weakened her tribe and turned its clansmen into energy for the sea of blood, then promised to restore the bloodline and asked the group to seal the mountain.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox sent Xin Qing to receive her inheritance, and Lu Bu left with Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu after hearing her final message.
• Lu Bu told the two women that he had already received part of the Devouring Lord’s inheritance, then led them to the Divine Object Mountain Range to claim the Xuantian Hall.
• The Sky Dragon Demon Commander learned that Lu Bu and the two women had arrived, while Ghost Eagle and Golden Ape insisted on waiting to see what they would do.

Lu Bu, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu entered the Xuantian Hall and discovered that Demon King aura had corrupted it through the weapons stored inside. They began destroying the demonic sea and suppressing the Demon King consciousness, while the Beast War Domain’s Demon Commanders prepared to attack outside.

• The Great Desolation Tablet opened the Divine Object Treasury, and Ghost Eagle Demon Commander, Sky Dragon Demon Commander, and Golden Ape Demon Commander led their forces toward it.
• Lu Bu used the Ancient God Token to open the Xuantian Hall and entered with Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu before Ghost Eagle Demon Commander could get inside.
• Inside the hall, the group met the Tablet Spirit, who guided them to a sealed chamber; Ling Qingzhu removed the Demon King aura from its door.
• Lu Bu shattered the dark realm beyond the door, revealing a Myriad Demon Erosion Array that was corrupting the Xuantian Hall with Demon King aura.
• Ling Qingzhu used Supreme Power to destroy the demonic sea while Ying Huanhuan froze the demonic shadow; the Xuantian Hall recognized the Ice Master.