Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie descended into the True Demon Abyss and was attacked by True Demon Worms and soul-devouring Black Shadows. As his divine power rapidly drained under their relentless assault, he remembered a treasure that might help him survive.

• Zhang Tie endured the abyss's extreme cold and identified an approaching swarm as True Demon Worms from Ghost Child's memories.
• Zhang Tie raced deeper into the abyss, where his Chaos Divine Thunder destroyed the worms that touched it, but the slowing cold let the swarm catch up.
• A Black Shadow bypassed Zhang Tie's defenses and attacked his soul, but the Indestructible Pearl sucked it away; Zhang Tie then destroyed two more shadows with the Divine Thunder Soul Annihilation Formation.
• The True Demon Worms engulfed Zhang Tie while more Black Shadows attacked his sea of consciousness, forcing him to defend against both threats as his divine power dwindled.
• Near exhaustion and considering using witchcraft to escape, Zhang Tie remembered a treasure and cried out in relief.

Zhang Tie used the Dragon Trapping Cauldron to devour the True Demon Worm swarm while defending his consciousness sea from relentless demonic shadows. After four days and nights, the insects fled, the cauldron’s black threads evolved through feeding, and the Indestructible Pearl absorbed more than a thousand demonic shadows and grew stronger; Zhang Tie was startled by a change in the cauldron when it returned to his hand.

• Zhang Tie summoned the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, whose awakened black threads drained the True Demon Worms attacking it.
• Zhang Tie defended against the demonic shadows for four days and nights, switching from the Divine Thunder Soul Annihilation Formation to the Ice Trapping Soul Formation and using the Indestructible Pearl to absorb the slowed shadows.
• The Dragon Trapping Cauldron’s black threads pursued and drained the True Demon Worms as the swarm tried to flee.
• Zhang Tie confirmed the insect clouds had vanished and called the Dragon Trapping Cauldron back into his hand.
• Zhang Tie noticed that the returned Dragon Trapping Cauldron had changed.

Zhang Tie reached the bottom of the abyss and found the True Demon Blood Crystal, but a massive monster erupted from a fissure and swallowed him before he could take it. The chapter left his fate unknown inside the creature’s maw.

• Zhang Tie descended through the abyss, where the demonic shadow attacks suddenly subsided.
• Zhang Tie reached the rocky bottom and searched through the thick demonic qi for the True Demon Blood Crystal.
• Zhang Tie sensed the crystal in a fissure and carefully checked the surrounding area for danger.
• Zhang Tie sent a divine-power hand toward the crystal, but the ground shook and a huge maw burst from the fissure.
• The maw swallowed Zhang Tie, his energy hand, and the True Demon Blood Crystal.

Zhang Tie collected nearly a hundred catties of True Demon Blood Crystals in the True Demon Abyss and refused to trust the mysterious woman sealed within an ancient stone stele, taking her offered crystals without helping her. After returning to the surface, he sensed through their reconnected contract that Powder Bone was gravely injured and close to death.

• Zhang Tie killed a giant crocodile-like demon beast and claimed its True Demon Blood Crystal.
• Over more than a month in the abyss, Zhang Tie found many True Demon Blood Crystals and defeated the demon beasts he encountered.
• Zhang Tie discovered an ancient sealing stele, and a hidden woman offered him crystals in exchange for his essence blood or divine power.
• Zhang Tie accepted the crystals the woman produced but refused to approach the stele, then escaped as she cursed him.
• Zhang Tie returned to the surface in less than half a month and sensed that Powder Bone's life was fading through their soul-contract connection.

Powder Bone desperately defended the badly wounded Chen Ping'an against Mei Ling, the master of the Demon-Monster Hall, and launched a concealed counterattack that wounded Mei Ling. As Mei Ling's killing dagger closed in on the exhausted Powder Bone, Zhang Tie appeared in ice armor to intercept it.

• Powder Bone refused to abandon Chen Ping'an, and Mei Ling threatened to dismember her before killing him.
• Mei Ling's black flying dagger severed Powder Bone's remaining right arm after destroying her blood shield.
• Mei Ling redirected her dagger toward Chen Ping'an, so Powder Bone charged her in a desperate bid to protect him.
• Powder Bone's hidden flying sword pierced Mei Ling's barrier and cut her cheek, enraging Mei Ling.
• Mei Ling sent another dagger at the helpless Powder Bone, but Zhang Tie appeared in ice armor just before it struck.

Zhang Tie rescued Powder Bone and Chen Ping'an, destroyed both of Mei Ling's natal flying daggers, and unleashed the transformed Dragon Trapping Cauldron against her and her demon guards. The cauldron's chains appeared around their bodies, but Zhang Tie had already paid a steep price in divine power to summon them.

• Zhang Tie blocked Mei Ling's flying dagger with his ice armor, seized it with black lightning, and crushed it, badly injuring Mei Ling.
• Zhang Tie broke Mei Ling's second dagger with his hands after teleporting in front of Chen Ping'an, further worsening her injuries.
• Mei Ling's three Integration late-stage demon guards surrounded Zhang Tie and unleashed a corrosive black mist, but Zhang Tie teleported away with Chen Ping'an and stored Powder Bone in his ring.
• Zhang Tie confronted Mei Ling and summoned the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, which drained nearly sixty percent of his divine power as he activated it.
• Black chains suddenly appeared around Mei Ling and her three guards, tightening around their necks and limbs.

Zhang Tie discovered that the repaired Dragon Trapping Cauldron could seal and control its captives, then let Powder Bone drain four demons to recover and grow stronger. After half a month, Powder Bone reached near the peak of the Integration late stage and attacked Zhang Tie while he rested.

• Zhang Tie found the four demons alive inside the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, their souls and Nascent Souls bound by runes that sealed and controlled them.
• Zhang Tie recalled the cauldron, released the sealed demons, and warned himself that using it consumed nearly seventy percent of his divine power.
• Zhang Tie ordered Powder Bone to devour the demons, and she drained their life essence and demonic energy while Chen Ping'an watched.
• Zhang Tie assured Chen Ping'an he could follow him until his cultivation recovered, then inspected the demons' storage rings and found nearly ten million high-grade demonic crystals.
• After half a month of devouring, Powder Bone recovered and grew close to the peak of the Integration late stage, leaving four skeletons behind.
• Powder Bone hid her killing intent, rushed behind Zhang Tie, restrained him with her scaled arms, and lunged to bite his neck as Chen Ping'an shouted a warning.

Zhang Tie subdued Powder Bone after her inner demon made her attack him, then gave her the Ice God Art to purify her soul. He sent her to Black Lotus Demon Mountain to capture its Demon Venerables for sacrifice, but an ancient demonic presence awakened within the mountain.

• Powder Bone attacked Zhang Tie under the influence of an inner demon, and he subdued her with Chaos Divine Thunder until she regained control.
• Zhang Tie gave Powder Bone the Ice God Art and warned that he would erase her intelligence if she rebelled again.
• Chen Ping'an hurriedly departed after Zhang Tie let him go, and Zhang Tie left in a different direction.
• Several days later, Zhang Tie set up the Sacrificial Conversion Grand Formation beside a valley and sent Powder Bone to capture the Demon Venerables in Black Lotus Demon Mountain with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• While Zhang Tie calculated that sacrificing the demons could help him reach the Primal Chaos middle stage, an ancient, powerful demonic presence awakened deep within Black Lotus Demon Mountain.

Zhang Tie intervened when seven Demon Venerables cornered Powder Bone at the Demon-Monster Hall, killing their snake-tailed leader and helping Powder Bone turn the battle around. As he faced the black-clad woman, she summoned a silver tree phantom that drained his divine power and sealed the surrounding space, leaving him trapped.

• Zhang Tie arrived above the Demon-Monster Hall and saw Powder Bone struggling against seven Demon Venerables and a suppressive wooden carving.
• Zhang Tie attacked the black-clad late-stage Demon Venerable, then used a black bell and a bronze bell to trap her and freeze the snake-tailed Demon Venerable long enough for his black sword to pierce the demon’s sea of consciousness.
• The black-clad woman broke free of the black bell and attacked Zhang Tie with a flaming flood dragon, but Zhang Tie froze and shattered it.
• Powder Bone broke free after the snake-tailed Demon Venerable lost control of the wooden carving and killed an early-stage Demon Venerable with her Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• The black-clad woman summoned a silver tree phantom with her blood essence and demonic power, draining Zhang Tie’s divine power and preventing his Spatial Shift from working.

Zhang Tie survived the black-clothed woman’s Heavenly Dao-isolating domain by hiding in the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, then escaped and defeated her. After turning her into a demonic armored puppet, he discovered that Powder Bone and the remaining demon experts had vanished.

• Zhang Tie realized the phantom silver tree’s domain isolated Heavenly Dao, endured a silver-leaf strike, and transformed into a Kunpeng to flee.
• The black-clothed woman trapped Zhang Tie with Space Law and sent more silver leaves after him, but the Dragon Trapping Cauldron swallowed the attacks and shielded him.
• Zhang Tie waited inside the cauldron until its seal lifted, escaped, dragged the woman out of her teleportation attempt, and struck her into a crater.
• Zhang Tie used the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor to devour the wounded woman and create a purple-armored puppet under his control.
• Zhang Tie sensed that Powder Bone and the remaining demon experts had disappeared, leaving only a faint trace of Powder Bone’s spatial fluctuations.

Zhang Tie reclaimed Powder Bone and confronted Ao Zhu, Su Jiubai, and Su Yan aboard their warship. He froze and defeated the three, but Powder Bone suddenly turned on him with a point-blank attack.

• Zhang Tie located Powder Bone and hurried after it.
• Ao Zhu, Su Jiubai, and Su Yan discussed their spoils, including the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and Powder Bone.
• Zhang Tie and Powder Bone appeared aboard the warship, and the three cultivators attacked them.
• Powder Bone blocked Ao Zhu’s fire dragons while Zhang Tie froze the dragons and then froze Ao Zhu, Su Jiubai, and Su Yan.
• Zhang Tie drew the three storage rings toward himself, but Powder Bone attacked him with five flying blades aimed at his vital points.

Zhang Tie defeated Su Yan, Su Jiubai, and Ao Zhu with his Ice Law, then sacrificed them in his array to strengthen himself. As he packed away the array, Chen Ping'an arrived in a state of panic, and Zhang Tie waited to learn what was pursuing him.

• Su Yan, Su Jiubai, and Ao Zhu attacked Zhang Tie with an illusion and the Azure Star Myriad Realms Spear, but Zhang Tie seized the spear and healed his wound.
• Zhang Tie used Floating Snow to freeze Ao Zhu, Su Yan, and Su Jiubai, then had Demon Puppet retrieve the fleeing fox demons.
• Zhang Tie took the demons' storage rings and recovered Powder Bone and the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, scolding Powder Bone for her failure.
• Zhang Tie sacrificed the three demons in his Sacrifice Refining Array, absorbing their blood vitality and soul power before storing the array in the Mountain Sea Bead.
• Powder Bone warned Zhang Tie that an old acquaintance was approaching, and Zhang Tie recognized the terrified Chen Ping'an and searched for whatever had frightened him.

After learning that a devouring demon tide had surged out of the True Demon Abyss, Zhang Tie flew toward it and harvested True Demon Worms to strengthen his cultivation. A violent spatial shock then blasted him and Powder Bone away, and Zhang Tie sensed a mysterious spatial grand array of at least eighth rank.

• Chen Ping'an warned Zhang Tie that a demon tide was pouring out of the True Demon Abyss, but Zhang Tie went to investigate while Chen Ping'an fled.
• Zhang Tie used the Sacrifice Refining Array and Powder Bone to lure in and refine a swarm of True Demon Worms, absorbing their blood and qi power.
• For half a month, Zhang Tie repeatedly hunted and refined True Demon Worms, bringing his cultivation close to a breakthrough into the middle stage of the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Zhang Tie ventured out for one final hunt, but an immense spatial shock shattered his protective lightning and hurled him more than a hundred li away, while Powder Bone was flung thousands of li away.
• Zhang Tie sensed an extraordinary spatial fluctuation and realized it came from a spatial grand array of at least eighth rank.

Zhang Tie escaped a devastating spatial wave, used the True Demon Blood Crystal to break through to the mid Primordial Chaos Realm, and comprehended the introductory power of World Law. After testing his new abilities and learning their costs, he heard an order summoning all competitors to the Demon Slaying Ground’s core coordinates.

• Zhang Tie teleported away from the spatial upheaval, summoned Su Jiubai’s warship, and ordered Powder Bone to pilot it while he began cultivating with the True Demon Blood Crystal.
• After seven days, Zhang Tie broke through to the mid Primordial Chaos Realm and comprehended the introductory truth of World Law.
• Zhang Tie used his new World Law domain to teleport Powder Bone, silence it, halt and redirect its bloody sword, and bind it with vines that turned to sand.
• Zhang Tie determined that World Law let him control a temporary domain, but that using supreme laws consumed a large portion of the Indestructible Pearl’s energy.
• A commanding voice announced that an anomaly had erupted in the Demon Slaying Ground and ordered all competitors to assemble at the core coordinates shown by their jade talismans.

Zhang Tie reunited with Chen Ping'an and left the secret realm with the surviving competitors, who gathered before a black stele to await their final rankings. When the list appeared, Zhang Tie found his placement far different from what he expected, while the crowd reacted with shock and doubt.

• Zhang Tie followed the jade talisman to Hua Daozi's cave abode, where he joined Chen Ping'an and the other surviving prodigies.
• Hua Daozi sent the group through a teleportation formation out of the realm, where they pressed their jade talismans against a black stele.
• Hua Daozi explained that the stele would reveal the rankings once all survivors had arrived, and Chen Ping'an anxiously waited for someone to appear.
• Five more figures arrived, including another Hua Daozi, bringing the total number of survivors to twenty-one; Hua Daozi then merged with his avatar.
• Hua Daozi activated the stele, and its golden rankings appeared, leaving Zhang Tie and the gathered competitors stunned by the results.

After learning that the demonic calamity might arrive early, Zhang Tie began cultivating the Nirvana Transformation with the Chaos Origin Spirit Liquid and other rare materials. Three years later, his Golden Body Dharma Idol had begun to form as Master Xiūmù protected his seclusion while Chen Ping'an answered Dao Sacred Island’s emergency summons.

• Hua Daozi announced that Zhang Tie had placed third and ordered the top three to collect their rewards at the Sacred Hall the next morning.
• After reviewing suspicious clues from the competition and mystic realm, Zhang Tie decided he would need Chen Ping'an’s knowledge to uncover the truth.
• At the Sacred Hall, Hua Daozi warned Zhang Tie, Mo Jianli, and Ao Xiao that the demonic calamity might erupt ahead of schedule and gave each of them a storage ring of rewards.
• Zhang Tie returned to his cave abode, obtained the Chaos Origin Spirit Liquid, and began cultivating the Nirvana Transformation with eight heavenly spiritual materials.
• Three years into Zhang Tie’s seclusion, the first step of the secret art had formed an embryonic Three Heads Six Arms Golden Body Dharma Idol.
• When Chen Ping'an reported Dao Sacred Island’s emergency summons, Master Xiūmù chose to protect Zhang Tie through his dangerous cultivation and sent Chen Ping'an to receive his assignment.

After thirty years of Zhang Tie’s cultivation, a world-shaking Dharma Idol manifested and its pressure knocked Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an from the air. A peak ancient demon then attacked Zhang Tie’s cave dwelling, and Master Xiūmù defended it as the demon launched a massive demonic stele at their barrier.

• Chen Ping'an warned Master Xiūmù that the Demon Realm was invading the Demon Slaying Ground and urged him to awaken Zhang Tie and flee.
• A golden spiritual-energy vortex formed above Zhang Tie’s cave dwelling, and Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an rushed to protect him as his Dharma Idol reached its final perfection.
• Zhang Tie’s three-headed, six-armed Dharma Idol appeared, unleashed overwhelming pressure, and then vanished after completing its manifestation.
• A peak ancient demon emerged through the golden clouds, knocked Chen Ping'an back into a crater, and tried to crush Zhang Tie’s cave dwelling.
• Master Xiūmù used his golden monk’s staff to shield the cave dwelling and those nearby from the demon’s attack.
• The demon summoned a hundred-zhang demonic stele and hurled it at Master Xiūmù’s weakened barrier.

Zhang Tie emerged from seclusion and stopped the Demon Lord’s assault on the Sacred Island, revealing powers that shocked Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an. As Zhang Tie and the Demon Lord clashed, both were caught by sealing techniques, and Zhang Tie summoned the Heaven-Forging Gourd to counter Town Sea Mountain.

• Master Xiūmù prepared to face the falling stone stele rather than abandon Chen Ping'an, but Zhang Tie appeared and sealed the stele, shrinking it to a small tablet that he put away.
• Zhang Tie thanked Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an, then confronted the Demon Lord and recalled how the Demon Lord had seized his soul blood and damaged his divine soul in the Lesser Demon Realm.
• The Demon Lord attacked with Town Sea Mountain and the Law Banning Golden Ring, while Zhang Tie sent chains from the Dragon Trapping Cauldron to bind and seal the Demon Lord.
• The Law Banning Golden Ring trapped Zhang Tie as Town Sea Mountain bore down on him, but Zhang Tie summoned the five-colored Heaven-Forging Gourd and called on it to act.
• The Heaven-Forging Gourd fired a concentrated golden beam toward Town Sea Mountain.

Zhang Tie captured Demon Venerable Mo Tian and returned with Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an to Tian Yuan City, where the elders revealed that a massive demon invasion threatened the Human race. When asked to help relocate ordinary people into the wilderness, Zhang Tie proposed a different solution: enabling people without spiritual roots to cultivate.

• Zhang Tie split Demon Venerable Mo Tian's Town Sea Mountain with the golden light from his gourd, then dragged Mo Tian into the Dragon Trapping Cauldron and claimed the demon's ring.
• Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an watched Zhang Tie defeat the Demon Venerable, then joined him on Master Xiūmù's kasaya as they fled the battlefield.
• Two demons inspected the ruined battlefield, feared that Venerable Mo Tian had been captured, and hurried to report their suspicions to the Saint Ancestor.
• Zhang Tie, Master Xiūmù, and Chen Ping'an reached Tian Yuan City and met Xie Jingchun, who reported that a massive demon invasion had put the Human race's coastal settlements in danger.
• Xie Jingchun asked the three cultivators to find a wilderness refuge for ordinary people, and Master Xiūmù and Chen Ping'an agreed to help.
• Zhang Tie proposed allowing ordinary people without spiritual roots to cultivate instead of relocating them, astonishing the others.

Zhang Tie presented the Vajra Technique, a body-refining method that let mortals without spiritual roots gain strength rivaling Nascent Soul cultivators, and Tian Yuan City's elders praised its importance to humanity. After completing the technique, he revealed the transformed Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and asked the elders to seek true spirit or divine beast essence blood as compensation.

• Zhang Tie gave Master Xiūmù a jade slip containing the first three levels of his body-refining method, and Master Xiūmù and Xie Jingchun examined it with astonishment.
• Master Xiūmù named the method the Vajra Technique, and Xie Jingchun promised that Tian Yuan City's elders would discuss a fitting reward for Zhang Tie.
• Chen Ping'an asked to inspect the jade slip, but Master Xiūmù and Xie Jingchun told him to wait until Zhang Tie completed the full method.
• In his chamber, Zhang Tie inspected the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, which had developed metal-element law power while being nourished by the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd.
• Three days later, Zhang Tie presented complete copies of the Vajra Technique to Tian Yuan City's elders, who praised its potential to help mortals resist demons.
• Zhang Tie thanked the elders for their offer of compensation and asked them to seek true spirit blood or divine beast essence blood.