Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie captured an Earth Spirit Clan cultivator who tried to rob his group, then questioned Li Sheng about the nearby factions and demonic calamity. After the group used the teleportation array in Earth Spirit City, an Integration stage Earth Spirit tribesman arrived seeking information about them.

• An armored Earth Spirit Clan man pressured Li Sheng and demanded that the group surrender their storage rings.
• Zhang Tie offered his Dragon Trapping Cauldron, then used it to seal the Earth Spirit man’s magic power and capture him.
• Zhang Tie collected the cauldron and the man’s yellow mountain, then asked Li Sheng about nearby factions and the demonic calamity.
• Li Sheng explained that the Human and Monster races lived on an island near Fengyuan Continent and faced demons emerging from a fragile spatial node.
• Zhang Tie’s group reached Earth Spirit City and teleported away, but less than an hour later an Integration stage Earth Spirit tribesman arrived asking about them.

Zhang Tie reached Tian Yuan City and learned that the Human race was weak among the Spirit Realm’s myriad races. While seeking Chaos Origin Spiritual Liquid, he discovered that it had appeared on the Sacred Island’s merit exchange list and learned that the Demon Clan’s invasion had opened a chance to earn merit points.

• A battle-armored High Emissary pursued Zhang Tie’s group to Gu Jin City, vowing to avenge his junior brother Shi Tao, but Zhang Tie and his companions had already left for Human and Monster territory.
• Zhang Tie learned that the Human and Monster races had only four Mahayana cultivators between them and ranked far below the Spirit Realm’s strongest races.
• At Tian Yuan City, the gate guard recognized Zhang Tie’s Night Clan Identity Token and summoned Xiaoyao Nian, who welcomed him into the city.
• Zhang Tie explained that he was originally Human and offered his services as a Seventh-tier Formation Master in exchange for spirit stones and Chaos Origin Spiritual Liquid.
• Xiaoyao Nian said the material had appeared on the Sacred Island’s merit exchange list and explained that the Sacred Island had issued missions because the Demon Clan had invaded.
• Xiaoyao Nian told Zhang Tie that he first needed the Sacred Island’s recognition to accept missions, then left him asking how to obtain it.

Zhang Tie secured Xiaoyao Nian’s sponsorship to travel to Holy Island and studied "Nirvana Transformation" aboard a merchant ship. When an early Integration stage octopus demon beast attacked the ship, Zhang Tie trapped it inside the Dragon Trapping Cauldron and returned to confront the people on deck.

• Xiaoyao Nian offered to vouch for Zhang Tie and take him to Holy Island, and Zhang Tie accepted.
• Xiaoyao Nian arranged passage for Zhang Tie aboard a merchant ship bound for Holy Island, a journey expected to take about a month and a half.
• Zhang Tie studied "Nirvana Transformation" during the voyage and realized it could be adapted for ordinary mortals, though the adapted version would not extend their lifespans.
• Seven people confronted the ship’s steward and guard, and an enormous octopus demon beast attacked the merchant ship with eight red tentacles.
• Zhang Tie used the Dragon Trapping Cauldron to capture the early Integration stage beast, then returned to the deck and challenged the people who had threatened him.

Zhang Tie and Xiaoyao Nian reached Sacred Island and met Master Xiūmù, one of its nine First Elders. Master Xiūmù revealed that he knew of Zhang Tie’s escape from a Mahayana expert, surprising Xiaoyao Nian.

• Xiaoyao Nian killed the bandit cultivators with his green spirit treasure, then spoke with Zhang Tie about the human race’s uncertain future.
• Zhang Tie returned to his room and considered how to develop a system for mortal cultivation in the Spirit Realm.
• Xiaoyao Nian told Zhang Tie that Sacred Island had arrived, and explained that Sacred City was only an entrance to the island’s secret realm.
• Zhang Tie recognized the spatial-law power in a stone stele and followed Xiaoyao Nian through it into Sacred Island.
• Master Xiūmù appeared and praised Zhang Tie’s strength, revealing that he had escaped a Mahayana expert of the Sea King Clan; Xiaoyao Nian reacted in shock.

Zhang Tie learned that the Chaos Origin Spirit Liquid was a prize in the upcoming Demon Extermination Prodigy Competition, so he agreed to participate. While staying at Master Xiūmù’s mountain, he was confronted by Ling Wei, who accused him of taking her competition quota.

• Master Xiūmù told Xiaoyao Nian about Zhang Tie’s famous battles and explained that the Chaos Origin Spirit Liquid was a third-place prize in the competition, now scheduled for the first day of the following month.
• Zhang Tie agreed to enter the competition to obtain the material and stayed in an immortal’s cave while studying the Nirvana Transformation.
• On the sixth day, Zhang Tie was about to check the Dragon Trapping Cauldron when an attack shook his cave.
• Ling Wei demanded that Zhang Tie fight her and accused him of taking her place in the competition; Zhang Tie said he did not dare, then offered to let her strike his defense for ten breaths.
• Ling Wei summoned her Heaven-Splitting Great Axe, but Zhang Tie stopped her before it could strike and suggested moving elsewhere to avoid destroying the immortal’s cave.

Zhang Tie learned that the Demon Extermination Prodigy Competition was a joint trial for Human and Monster prodigies to prepare for fighting demons. After defeating Ling Wei and receiving the competition token and records from Master Xiūmù, he tried to place the Dragon Trapping Cauldron in the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd, and the nearby black chain trembled.

• Ling Wei attacked Zhang Tie with the Heaven-Splitting Great Axe, but he blocked her strike and counterattacked until Master Xiūmù intervened.
• Master Xiūmù stopped Ling Wei, had her apologize to Zhang Tie, and punished her by ordering her to face the wall for ten years.
• Master Xiūmù gave Zhang Tie a red jade competition token and a jade slip explaining previous competitions, and they returned to their caves.
• Zhang Tie learned that the Demon Slaying Ground held captured demons and that the competition would test the prodigies’ fighting abilities and record their kills.
• Zhang Tie found the Dragon Trapping Cauldron empty, retrieved restored treasures from the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd, and prepared to put the cauldron inside it.
• The black chain trembled as Zhang Tie injected spiritual power into the Dragon Trapping Cauldron.

Zhang Tie activated the black chain inside the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, then followed a jade token through a portal to the Demon Extermination Prodigy Competition. After Hua Daozi announced the rules and rewards, Zhang Tie entered the demonic realm where the competition would take place.

• Zhang Tie poured divine power into the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, awakened the black chain’s Law of Sealing, and watched its threads root into the cauldron.
• Several days later, Zhang Tie’s jade token opened a red light gate that pulled him into a black palace.
• Zhang Tie joined more than twenty human and monster prodigies gathered in the palace.
• Hua Daozi explained that the one-year competition would rank participants by the number and rank of demons they killed, and revealed the prizes.
• The star-patterned ceiling released demonic qi, and Zhang Tie covered himself in black lightning before entering it.

Zhang Tie entered the Demon Slaying Ground, found a demon city, and learned through a soul search that the Demon God Hall lay nearby. Elsewhere, leaders of several demon factions discussed the coming calamity, and Ghost Child claimed he could soon reach the Sacred Ancestor realm.

• Zhang Tie discovered that the Demon Slaying Ground was filled with pure demonic energy and set off to scout it for demonic crystals.
• Zhang Tie entered a demon city and killed two demons before freezing a pig-faced demon and searching its memories.
• Zhang Tie learned that the Demon God Hall was one of the Demon God Continent's three great powers and headed toward it.
• Mei Ling, Chiguang, and other demon leaders met in a hidden chamber to discuss their clans' sacrifices and the coming calamity.
• Ghost Child warned that the Demon Realm would soon invade and claimed he could advance to the Sacred Ancestor realm, but Chiguang dismissed the claim as impossible.

Ghost Child persuaded Chi Guang and Mei Ling to give him the Demon Commanders and Demon Venerables so he could perfect his Yellow Springs Ghost Domain and pursue the Sacred Ancestor realm. Meanwhile, Zhang Tie infiltrated the Demon God Hall, found two hidden locations, and prepared to break the formations protecting a rear-mountain cave before abruptly stopping.

• Ghost Child offered to sever the passage between the secret realm and the Spirit Realm if Chi Guang and Mei Ling cooperated by handing over the Demon Commanders and Demon Venerables.
• Chi Guang and Mei Ling agreed on the condition that Ghost Child sign a Heavenly Demon Contract promising they would not harm one another.
• Zhang Tie bypassed the seventh-rank warning formation around the Demon God Hall and investigated its guarded grounds.
• Zhang Tie located a cave protected by three formations and a secret chamber underground, then chose to investigate the cave first.
• Zhang Tie set up a seventh-rank Ice Sealing Grand Formation around the cave and raised his Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, but suddenly halted.

Zhang Tie ambushed Chi Guang with the Dragon Trapping Cauldron after Chi Guang sensed danger and tried to awaken his Eye of Delusion. After capturing and soul-searching Chi Guang, Zhang Tie burned his corpse, only to discover a jade-white skull among the ashes.

• Zhang Tie prepared the Dragon Trapping Cauldron as Chi Guang approached the Ice Sealing Grand Formation.
• Chi Guang twice sensed danger, stopped to investigate, and began activating his Eye of Delusion.
• Zhang Tie used Shift to draw Chi Guang into the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, where black threads restrained and drained him.
• Zhang Tie pulled out the dying Chi Guang, searched his soul, and took his storage ring.
• Zhang Tie absorbed Chi Guang's soul into the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor and burned his corpse, revealing a jade-white skull.

Zhang Tie opened Demon Lord Chi Guang’s hidden stone cave, collected its treasures, and dismantled its defensive array. He then headed for the Demon Ghost Hall to ambush Ghost Child Demon Lord during a planned blood sacrifice, but spotted a young man and woman fighting four demons nearby.

• Zhang Tie examined a mysterious skull marked with seven Spiritual Patterns, but neither he nor Powder Bone and the Water Kirin could identify it, so he sealed it away.
• Using the black token and Demon Lord Chi Guang’s memories, Zhang Tie opened the stone cave’s array and stone door.
• Zhang Tie collected nearly fifty million high-grade magic crystals, hundreds of millions of medium-grade magic crystals, and the cave’s magic treasures, pills, and materials.
• Zhang Tie dismantled the core of the rare seventh-rank earth-attribute defensive array and left the area three days later.
• Zhang Tie headed for the Demon Ghost Hall, planning to kill Ghost Child Demon Lord during the blood sacrifice and seize the hall’s treasures.
• Zhang Tie noticed a young man and woman battling four demons dozens of miles away.

Zhang Tie disguised himself as Demon Lord Yiguang and intervened in the battle between a young man and woman and four Demon Lords. After overpowering the pair’s attacks, he faced their golden-and-blue Phoenix transformation.

• Zhang Tie watched the young man and woman fight four Demon Lords, then transformed to resemble Demon Lord Yiguang and absorbed demonic qi from shattered demon crystals.
• Zhang Tie ordered the four Demon Lords to leave and blocked the young man’s golden sword dragon with a blue barrier that froze and shattered it.
• Zhang Tie struck at the black-robed young man, knocking away his flying sword and breaking the woman’s Ice Crystal jade tree.
• The young man and woman joined their metal and ice law powers through a three-foot flying sword, transforming it into a golden-and-blue Phoenix that rushed toward Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie defeated Senior Brother Xu and Junior Sister Bai, who fled after the Thousand Mechanisms Treasure Seeking Plate revealed an immortal treasure on him. He then found the blood sacrifice altar beneath the Demon Ghost Hall, modified its array, and had Powder Bone investigate a strange presence below it.

• Zhang Tie blocked the Five Elements True Spirit Swords, seized one of them, and forced Senior Brother Xu and Junior Sister Bai to retreat.
• Senior Brother Xu told Junior Sister Bai that his Thousand Mechanisms Treasure Seeking Plate had detected an immortal treasure on Zhang Tie and said they would gather their companions to form the Five Elements Demon Annihilation Sword Array.
• Zhang Tie found the blood sacrifice altar beneath the Demon Ghost Hall and examined its seventh-rank grand array.
• Zhang Tie modified the Sacrifice Array with new inscriptions and formation flags, then summoned Powder Bone to connect specified points with the Law of Blood.
• While working on the array, Powder Bone discovered something extraordinary beneath the altar.

Zhang Tie discovered a hidden soul pool and learned that it contained soul liquid made from the cruel refinement of cultivators’ souls. He began absorbing the liquid with his Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor, but Powder Bone warned him that someone was approaching.

• Powder Bone detected a concealed fluctuation underground, and Zhang Tie found a soul pool hidden behind a barrier of soul-law power.
• Powder Bone explained that the pool refined divine souls into soul liquid and that its contents had overwhelmed her with soul fragments.
• Zhang Tie entered the underground space and saw twisted faces trapped in the black liquid.
• Zhang Tie used his Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor to draw soul liquid out of the pool.
• Powder Bone warned Zhang Tie that someone was coming.

Zhang Tie captured Ghost Child with the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, obtained useful information before the Demon Lord died, and continued restoring the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor. After discovering Ghost Child’s vast treasury and waiting five days, Zhang Tie received a message signaling that the next event was beginning.

• Zhang Tie trapped Ghost Child in the Dragon Trapping Cauldron and began a soul search, but the cauldron’s black chains killed Ghost Child before the search was complete.
• Zhang Tie gained information that confirmed what he had learned from Chi Guang Demon Lord, then returned to the pool to let the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor absorb its soul liquid.
• Zhang Tie found the pool drained after more than two hours, though the armor still needed more power to recover fully, and he continued activating formation nodes with Powder Bone.
• Zhang Tie inspected Ghost Child’s storage ring and found a great hoard of demon crystals, along with the Yellow Springs Mirror and techniques he could use as references for creating his own.
• Zhang Tie waited five days, then opened the glowing communication jade slip and realized the next show was beginning.

Zhang Tie disguised himself as Ghost Child and led seven Demon Venerables onto the underground altar to fuel a formation, but a Toad-faced Demon Race member suddenly attacked him. Zhang Tie stopped the demon’s spear with Ice Crystal, but the demon called for it to explode as he drifted toward the stone doors.

• Zhang Tie transformed into Ghost Child and summoned seven Demon Venerables to follow Powder Bone into the underground palace as sacrifices.
• Zhang Tie promised the Demon Venerables a painless death and watched them step onto the altar, then activated the formation to feed Powder Bone and restore the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor.
• A Toad-faced Demon Race member suddenly lunged at Zhang Tie with a black spear, striking his forehead and sending him flying without injuring him.
• The Toad-faced Demon Race member thrust his spear toward Zhang Tie’s dantian, but Zhang Tie seized the shaft and froze it with Ice Crystal.
• The Toad-faced Demon Race member drifted toward the stone doors and roared, “Explode!”

Zhang Tie trapped Toad-face beneath a cauldron and nearly drained his life before sparing him after learning he was Master Xiūmù’s disciple. Chen Ping'an revealed his identity and began recovering while Zhang Tie activated the altar’s blood-red array against the Demon Venerables.

• Toad-face’s black spear cracked, but Zhang Tie appeared and pinned him beneath a giant cauldron.
• Zhang Tie recognized Master Xiūmù’s Buddhist aura in Toad-face and spared him after questioning their relationship.
• Zhang Tie returned to his original appearance and moved Toad-face to a secluded corner.
• Chen Ping'an identified himself as Master Xiūmù’s eldest disciple and began treating his injuries.
• Zhang Tie activated the altar’s blood-red array, enveloping the sealed Demon Venerables in red mist as they struggled silently.

Zhang Tie absorbed the Demon Venerables’ energy for over a month, strengthening his cultivation and Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor. He evacuated Powder Bone and Chen Ping'an, removed Demon Ghost Hall, and fled as the mountain collapsed, while five figures arrived in pursuit.

• After the Demon Venerables dissolved, Zhang Tie absorbed the crimson energy while Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor devoured the black energy.
• Over a month, Zhang Tie refined the energy and significantly improved his Primal Chaos stage cultivation.
• Zhang Tie ordered Powder Bone to take Chen Ping'an away and had her bind and escort him out.
• Zhang Tie dug Demon Ghost Hall free, stored it in the Mountain Sea Bead, and fled with Powder Bone and Chen Ping'an.
• After the trio left, the mountain collapsed, and five figures arrived, tracking the auras of the Gold Spirit Sword and Water Spirit Sword.

Zhang Tie used a devastating sword strike to stop five pursuers who were chasing him and Powder Bone. After the Five Elements Defensive Formation barely withstood the attack, the crimson-armored man decided to continue pursuing Zhang Tie and sent him a message to explain their intentions.

• The crimson-armored man led four companions toward Zhang Tie after sensing his location.
• Zhang Tie spotted the pursuers and told Powder Bone to continue ahead while he stayed behind.
• Zhang Tie filled his green longsword with blue chill and black lightning, then unleashed a massive sword wave at the five pursuers.
• The five formed the Five Elements Defensive Formation and endured the shockwave, though their sphere was nearly overwhelmed by ice and lightning.
• The crimson-armored man ordered Junior Brother Xu and Junior Sister Bai to apologize to Zhang Tie and said they still needed to retrieve the Five Elements True Spirit Gold Sword and the water sword.
• The crimson-armored man activated a yellow talisman and sent it toward Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie pursued the True Demon Blood Crystals in the dangerous True Demon Abyss, hoping they could help him break through his cultivation bottleneck. After leaving Powder Bone and Chen Ping'an at the valley entrance, he descended into the abyss alone.

• Zhang Tie caught a yellow flying sword sent by a Five Elements Sword Sect disciple, then returned the two spirit swords he had taken and continued on with Powder Bone and Chen Ping'an.
• Three months later, Zhang Tie and his companions reached a valley shrouded in black mist, and Zhang Tie told Powder Bone to protect Chen Ping'an while he entered alone.
• Zhang Tie recalled from Ghost Child's memories that the True Demon Abyss contained True Demon Blood Crystals, True Demon Ants, and soul-attacking True Demon Shadows.
• Zhang Tie found a vast abyss where demonic energy restricted his divine sense, covered himself in ice armor and black lightning, and leaped inside.