Chapter Summaries

Song Changming fought Great King Jiuyou, a Three-Eyed Ox Demon, in the Heavenly Ruins Realm and wounded him with the God Devourer Blade. Great King Jiuyou escaped, but discovered that the blade had damaged his Great Demon core and devoured part of his soul.

• Great King Jiuyou attacked Song Changming, but Song matched his strength and drew the God Devourer Blade to begin their duel.
• Great King Jiuyou struck Song with his third-eye beam, but Song endured the blast and remained unharmed.
• Song used the Silent Blade to sever Great King Jiuyou's left arm and badly wound his body.
• Great King Jiuyou blocked Song's next Silent Blade with his horns, then fled after firing a volley of eye beams to cover his escape.
• After flying two thousand miles, Great King Jiuyou discovered that Song's blade had damaged his core and swallowed part of his soul.

Great King Jiuyou retreated to heal while demons and humans explored the shifting Heavenly Ruins Realm and encountered its strange regions and ancient ruins. Qiaoqiao Bird followed the Heavenly Phoenix Feather toward possible Heavenly Phoenix ruins, and Yi Lang and Bian Bohong arrived at a ruin guarded by a powerful repulsive force.

• Great King Jiuyou ordered his demons to search for ruins, then had Blood Bird carry him somewhere safe to heal.
• Qiaoqiao Bird used the Heavenly Phoenix Feather and Little Phoenix Bird’s bloodline resonance to locate possible Heavenly Phoenix ruins.
• Song Changping and Song Chang'an followed the corpse man into a frigid region, where Song Chang'an turned an attacking demon into a yin-baleful ghost.
• A Greater Demon uncovered an ancient hall marked with monkey totems but was repeatedly blasted away by its repulsive force, prompting the gathered demons to consider sharing the burden.
• Yi Lang and Bian Bohong arrived at the ruins, and Bian Bohong recognized the danger of trying to claim them among so many demons.

Bian Bohong and Yi Lang fought the Great Demons over an ancient foreign-race ruin, but Heavenly Venerable Mo captured Yi Lang and attacked the humans. Song Changming arrived with Hua Sichen, rescued Yi Lang, and turned on the retreating demons.

• Bian Bohong and Yi Lang charged into the ruin, but its repulsive force injured them and the Great Demons fighting nearby.
• Heavenly Venerable Mo arrived, sent Great Demons after Bian Bohong and Yi Lang, and captured Yi Lang with his white clone.
• Hua Sichen arrived and confronted Heavenly Venerable Mo, but the demon seized Yi Lang to drain his Grandmaster Essence Blood.
• Song Changming rushed in, broke Heavenly Venerable Mo's hold on Yi Lang, and fought beside Hua Sichen until the two forms of Heavenly Venerable Mo retreated.
• Song Changming pursued the remaining Great Demons, immobilizing them with the spider-beast marking on his neck.

Song Changming left the empty foreign race ruins and entered a frigid land filled with Yin Sha, where he discovered an ancient temple buried beneath rocks. He began uncovering the ruin, while the Little Phoenix Bird remained missing.

• Song Changming gathered the essence of the Great Demons’ flesh and blood, while Yi Lang and Bian Bohong declined to travel with him so they could recover from their injuries.
• Song Changming continued through the Heavenly Ruins Realm, hoping to find the Little Phoenix Bird, and eventually left the sand sea for a cold, sinister region.
• Song Changming endured the life-draining Yinfeng and used his Grandmaster power to block the ghostly creatures carried within it.
• Song Changming spotted a corner of brick and tile beneath a rocky hill, flew over, and cleared away the stones to reveal the ruins of a temple-like complex.

Song Changming entered an ancient temple in the Heavenly Ruins Realm, where ghostly monks and sinister statues attacked him with illusions and chanting. After escaping, he reunited with Song Changping and Song Chang'an, while the senior zombie searched the temple and then fixed his attention on Song Changming as a living person.

• Song Changming entered the ancient temple and used the God Devourer Blade to devour the ghosts that attacked him.
• Inside the temple, Song Changming resisted the monks’ chanting and the central statue’s illusory attack, then broke through the doors as the statues began to pursue him.
• Song Changping and Song Chang'an arrived with the senior zombie and helped Song Changming withstand the ruin’s repulsive force outside the temple.
• Song Changming and Song Changping exchanged accounts of how they had entered the Heavenly Ruins Realm and reunited at the ruin.
• The senior zombie entered the temple, destroyed the ghostly monks, and emerged without finding what he sought.
• The senior zombie noticed Song Changming was alive, and his presence made Song Changming’s Grandmaster power flare up involuntarily.

Song Changming parted ways with Song Changping and Song Chang'an and continued exploring the Heavenly Ruins Realm, while Situ Ming learned of a Divine Tree from two Void-tail Demons. His attempt to take them there was interrupted by Great King Jiuyou, and the two powerful fighters clashed.

• Song Changming declined to travel with Song Changping and Song Chang'an, left the ancient temple ruins, and continued exploring another region.
• Two Void-tail Demons escaped pursuers using copper mirror fragments and planned to return to a Divine Tree they had found in the Heavenly Ruins Realm.
• Situ Ming overheard them, subdued the Void-tail Demons, and forced them to reveal the Divine Tree's location.
• A rat great demon seized one Void-tail Demon and presented a copper mirror fragment to Great King Jiuyou, who ordered the surviving demon kept alive and demanded Situ Ming's fragment.
• Situ Ming refused to surrender the fragment, and he and the injured Great King Jiuyou began fighting.

Situ Ming learned about the Divine Tree and used a Void-tail Demon and a bronze mirror fragment to enter the vast ring-shaped Black Mountain range. Song Changming followed the fragment’s trail to the mountain but could not cross it, leaving him to suspect that spatial travel was the only way inside.

• Situ Ming escaped Great King Jiuyou with the Void-tail Demon and a bronze mirror fragment, then forced the demon to reveal the Divine Tree’s location.
• Song Changming killed a Great Demon, gathered its essence to advance his body refinement, and sensed his bronze mirror fragments resonating toward the west.
• Situ Ming found that the Black Mountain range could not be crossed by climbing, circling, or force, so he made the Void-tail Demon open a passage with the bronze mirror fragment and followed it inside.
• Song Changming tracked the energy left by the passage to the Black Mountain, but his attempt to climb over it failed.
• Song Changming saw Bai Qing try and fail to enter the mountain range, then concluded that the bronze mirror fragments’ spatial travel was likely the only way through.

Situ Ming found a Divine Tree behind a counterattacking barrier inside Black Mountain, where Great King Jiuyou soon confronted him. Outside, Song Changming and others sensed repeated energy disturbances spreading across the Heavenly Ruins Realm, drawing humans and demons toward the western ring mountains as a group of white-haired demons began hunting Human Grandmasters.

• Situ Ming reached the Divine Tree with the Void-tail Demon, saw its nearly ripe crystal-like fruits, and discovered that its barrier reflected attacks with twice their force.
• Great King Jiuyou tried to breach the barrier from the far side, then spotted Situ Ming and greeted him.
• Song Changming let a cautious old great demon stay near Black Mountain after the demon said he sensed an opportunity within it.
• Song Changming, Bai Qing, and the old great demon sensed successive energy disturbances that spread across the Heavenly Ruins Realm and drew human and demon forces toward Black Mountain.
• A white-haired demon intercepted and killed a traveling Martial Arts Grandmaster, swallowed his corpse, and continued toward the gathering forces with two similar demons.

As Black Mountain erupted and its ancient immortal tree awakened, Song Changming followed an old tree demon inside and found a lush world around the giant tree. Humans and demons gathered to pursue its fruits, while Song Changming’s arrival led Great King Jiuyou and Heavenly Venerable Mo to set aside their feud and regard him as their common threat.

• Black Mountain shook and shed burning rocks as demons and human Martial Arts Grandmasters arrived and began fighting over old grudges.
• The ancient tree’s enormous roots burst through Black Mountain, and the old tree demon rushed inside with Song Changming following him.
• Song Changming and the old tree demon crossed the mountain’s repulsive force and found a lush interior dominated by a thousand-zhang ancient immortal tree.
• Song Changming rescued the wounded Situ Ming, who explained that his fight with Great King Jiuyou had awakened the Divine Tree and opened the way inside.
• Great demons and Martial Arts Grandmasters rushed toward the tree’s fruits but were repelled by its barrier, while Situ Ming warned Song Changming not to hurry.
• Great King Jiuyou told Heavenly Venerable Mo that Song Changming had severed his arm, and the two demon kings tacitly agreed to unite against him.

Song Changming and the others gathered before the barrier surrounding an ancient immortal tree as the old tree demon tried to communicate with it. Three powerful Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm demons arrived seeking revenge for Day Heavenly Master's death, and Chong Yin attacked Song Changming, who met his strike with a lightning blade.

• Great King Jiuyou and Heavenly Venerable Mo targeted Song Changming while the old tree demon urged the gathered humans and demons not to resume fighting and approached the barrier.
• Song Changming examined the barrier, sensed the ancient immortal tree reviving, and watched a ripe crimson fruit fall and vanish into the ground.
• The old tree demon transformed into his tree form and tried to awaken the ancient immortal tree, while more Grandmasters and demons entered the area.
• Chong Si, Chong Yin, and Chong Hao arrived, identified Song Changming as the killer of their bloodline's Day Heavenly Master, and prepared to avenge him.
• Chong Yin attacked Song Changming, but Song Changming stepped in front of Situ Ming and used Scarlet Cloud Slash to cleave through the demon aura without retreating.

Song Changming battled the Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm demons at Black Mountain, using his Heavenly Dipper Spirit Sword Formation to overwhelm Chong Yin before Chong Hao’s interference and Chong Yin’s venomous attack injured him. Song Changming and Chong Yin were both badly hurt as their fight continued.

• Chong Yin transformed and attacked Song Changming, while Chong Si and Heavenly Venerable Mo chose not to intervene.
• Chong Hao attacked Situ Ming, but Song Changming rescued him and then resumed fighting Chong Yin.
• Song Changming formed the Heavenly Dipper Spirit Sword Formation, wounded Chong Yin, devoured part of his divine soul with the God Devourer Blade, and drove him underground.
• Chong Hao unleashed a swarm of insect phantoms that ravaged the battlefield, and Song Changming survived the attack with minor injuries.
• Chong Yin resumed his assault and spat corrosive venom; Song Changming’s eye was injured, while Chong Yin remained weakened by his severed arms, damaged soul, and blinded eye.

Song Changming fought the Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm demons as a battle erupted around the immortal tree, unveiling his Heavenly Dipper Spirit Sword Formation and severely injuring Chong Yin. Chong Yin then struck back with poisonous acid and his tongue, damaging Song Changming’s eye and leaving him dizzy as the fight continued.

• Chong Yin transformed and battled Song Changming, while Chong Hao attacked Situ Ming and the surrounding demons and humans joined the conflict.
• Song Changming rescued Situ Ming from Chong Hao, then faced Chong Yin’s eight-armed assault and formed the Heavenly Dipper Spirit Sword Formation with thirty-six spirit swords.
• The spirit swords trapped and wounded Chong Yin, and Song Changming’s God Devourer Blade severed two of his arms and devoured part of his divine soul.
• Chong Hao unleashed a wave of insect phantoms that stripped flesh and bone from those caught in its path, interrupting Song Changming’s assault on Chong Yin.
• Chong Yin attacked Song Changming with corrosive acid and his spike-like tongue; Song Changming’s instinctive command briefly stopped the tongue, but it still damaged his eye socket and poisoned him.

Song Changming nearly killed Chong Yin with Martial Law · Silent Saber, but Heavenly Venerable Mo and Great King Jiuyou intervened as the humans and demons reached a tense standoff. The Ancient Immortal Tree stirred again, drawing everyone’s attention before either side withdrew or resumed fighting.

• Song Changming recovered from his injuries and fought Chong Yin and Chong Hao, while Hua Sichen, Situ Ming, Bai Qing, Hua Qingchi, and two other Grandmasters blocked Chong Si.
• Chong Yin awakened an ancient Worm Race bloodline power, but Song Changming struck with Martial Law · Silent Saber and nearly split him in two.
• Heavenly Venerable Mo rescued Chong Yin with a Yin Yang Fish, and Great King Jiuyou forced Song Changming back with beams of polar light.
• Chong Si freed Chong Yin from the Yin Yang Fish, and Heavenly Venerable Mo used a Copper Fish to remove the lingering energies; Chong Yin rewarded him with a promise of future aid.
• The human Grandmasters and the three White Worm Great Demons gathered in a standoff, while an old Grandmaster advised the humans to withdraw.
• The Ancient Immortal Tree stirred again, drawing the attention of both humans and demons.

Song Changming nearly killed Chong Yin with Silent Saber, but Heavenly Venerable Mo and Great King Jiuyou intervened as the battle widened into a standoff between the human Grandmasters and the demons. With both sides weighing whether to continue fighting, the Ancient Immortal Tree stirred again.

• Song Changming recovered from his injuries and battled Chong Yin and Chong Hao while Hua Sichen, Situ Ming, Hua Qingchi, Bai Qing, and two other Grandmasters held off Chong Si.
• Chong Yin awakened ancient Worm Race bloodline power, but Song Changming cut him nearly in half with Martial Law · Silent Saber.
• Hua Sichen wounded Chong Hao, while Heavenly Venerable Mo rescued Chong Yin and Great King Jiuyou forced Song Changming back.
• Chong Si and the human Grandmasters regrouped, and Heavenly Venerable Mo used a bronze fish to remove the lingering Silent Blade energy from Chong Yin, earning a promise from him.
• The human Grandmasters considered withdrawing because the demons had the advantage, but the Ancient Immortal Tree stirred and drew everyone's attention.

The barrier around the ancient tree vanished, revealing that its Red Origin Fruits were guarded by deadly vines that devoured anyone who tried to take them. After the old tree demon identified it as the Red Origin Immortal Tree and explained that its fruits were Fortune Fruits, Chong Hao decided to test the tree himself.

• The barrier disappeared, and Black Mountain's repulsive force pressed the gathered humans and demons toward the ground as they approached the tree.
• The tree's vines seized a lion Great Demon and drained him to death when he tried to reach a fruit.
• A leopard Great Demon dodged the vines long enough to swallow a fruit's juice, but the tree ensnared and devoured him, and another fruit grew in its place.
• Ming Tie identified the tree as the Red Origin Immortal Tree and said its fruits were Fortune Fruits that could transform an ordinary living being.
• A Bird Tribe Great Demon tried to fly past the vines but was dragged into the tree and devoured.
• Chong Yin asked whether Eldest Brother would approach the tree, and Chong Hao said he would try.

Song Changming and the others fought the immortal tree’s vines to seize Red Origin Fortune Fruits, whose immense energy threatened to destroy their cultivation if left unrefined. After Song Changming absorbed his fruit and advanced his Grandmaster cultivation, he repelled Great King Jiuyou’s demons, leaving Great King Jiuyou confronting him.

• Chong Hao, Hua Sichen, and Song Changming approached the immortal tree, while Hua Sichen and Chong Hao resumed their fight amid the attacking vines.
• Song Changming touched a Red Origin Fortune Fruit, absorbed its energy, and escaped the vines by using his Thunder Seed when his Grandmaster power became dangerous to mobilize.
• Heavenly Venerable Mo, Great King Jiuyou, Situ Ming, Bai Qing, Hua Qingchi, and others joined the scramble for the fruits, and some fruit-takers were caught and killed by the vines.
• Song Changming formed a protective array and refined the fruit’s energy, gaining multiple drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood, while Hua Sichen and Chong Hao also obtained fruits and began refining them.
• Song Changming interrupted his cultivation when demons sent by Great King Jiuyou attacked his array, then trapped and killed them with his sword array and lightning.
• Great King Jiuyou returned and shouted for Song Changming to stop, but Song Changming killed the remaining demons with five bolts of lightning.

Song Changming took a Red Origin Fortune Fruit from the immortal tree and survived its vines by relying on his body and Thunder Seed while his Grandmaster power was unusable. After refining the fruit and advancing his cultivation, he killed several great demons sent to test him, ignoring Great King Jiuyou’s demand to stop.

• Chong Hao, Hua Sichen, and Song Changming approached the immortal tree as its vines attacked them, and Song Changming touched a Red Origin Fortune Fruit.
• Song Changming absorbed the fruit’s energy, avoided the vines with his Thunder Seed, and retreated to form a protective formation and cultivate.
• Heavenly Venerable Mo, Great King Jiuyou, Situ Ming, Bai Qing, Hua Qingchi, and others joined the struggle, and several cultivators and demons died after taking fruits and being caught by the vines.
• Song Changming refined the fruit’s energy into successive drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood before disturbances forced him to stop and seal the remaining energy.
• Several great demons sent by Great King Jiuyou attacked Song Changming’s formation, but he trapped them with his spirit swords and killed them with lightning despite Great King Jiuyou’s command to stop.

After the Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast attacked the Immortal Tree’s roots, the ground beneath Black Mountain collapsed and dragged Song Changming, his brothers, and the other cultivators into an underground space. There, they found an ancient obelisk and a formation of Ghost Fire, while the Sun Devouring Beast fell in among them.

• Song Changming and the other Grandmasters and Great Demons took Immortal Fruits or Flowers from the Immortal Tree, then retreated as its vines devoured those who stayed behind.
• The Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast emerged underground, bit into the Immortal Tree’s roots, and exposed an ancient obelisk bearing human script before the tree struck it back underground.
• The earth around the Immortal Tree collapsed, and its powerful pull dragged Song Changming and the others who had obtained its treasures into the depths; Song Changping and Song Chang'an fell after trying to save him.
• Song Changming, his brothers, and Situ Ming gathered beside the obelisk in the underground space, where they sensed dense deathly energy and saw Ghost Fire appear in a square formation.
• The Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast fell from above and struck the ground among the Ghost Fire, which quickly returned to its original formation.

Song Changming and the others were dragged beneath Black Mountain when the immortal tree’s roots churned the earth, and they discovered an underground space marked by a black obelisk and dense deathly energy. Ghostfire appeared in ordered formations, and the Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast fell into the chamber as the gathered survivors faced the hidden danger.

• After the immortal tree’s fruits and flowers were claimed, the Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast emerged and bit into its roots, uncovering a black obelisk carved with ancient human script.
• The immortal tree’s roots struck the beast, and the ground around it collapsed, pulling Song Changming, Song Changping, Song Chang'an, and other fruit-bearers underground.
• Song Changming reunited with his brothers and Situ Ming in the underground space, where they found the black obelisk and sensed dense deathly energy.
• A zombie senior descended into the chamber, then ghostfire lit up in orderly formations and the fallen Grandmasters and Great Demons rose to their feet.
• The Black Hunger Sun Devouring Beast crashed down from above, extinguishing a patch of ghostfire before it reformed in its original position.

Song Changming and the others discovered an immense burial ground filled with tombstones of ancient divine beast clans and human families, including Hua Sichen’s ancestors. When demons tried to dig beneath the markers, ghostfire and death qi formed spectral divine beasts that attacked the intruders, leaving the gathered Grandmasters surrounded by ancient horrors.

• Song Changming and the others learned from the Frost Zombie that the black obelisk was a tombstone of the ancient Qilin clan and that the underground space held tens of thousands of markers for ancient beast clans and humans.
• The Frost Zombie identified tombstones bearing the names of human families, and Hua Sichen confirmed that the Yunzhou Hua Clan names belonged to his ancestors.
• The gathered Grandmasters and demons failed to move the tombstones, and a demon’s attempt to dig beneath one triggered ghostfire and death qi to form a Vermilion Divine Sparrow.
• The Vermilion Divine Sparrow killed a great demon and attacked a Human Grandmaster, but Hua Sichen shattered much of its spectral form and saved him.
• More death qi gathered, forming spectral shadows of the Sea Covering Whale, Ancient Kunpeng, and Heavenly Phoenix Divine Bird, while Song Changming reassured the frightened group that the beasts had not truly descended.
• The divine beast shadows pounced toward the intruders as the gathered humans and demons braced for the attack.