Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie obtained the dangerous Taotie essence blood and discovered that the Indestructible Pearl could protect him from its evil will, but he decided to wait until he reached Integration Grand Completion before refining it. Half a year later, a sudden demon offensive forced him to head to Chunyang City, where the coastal defenses were close to collapse.

• Master Xiūmù explained that the Taotie essence blood had driven everyone who used it to madness or possession, but Zhang Tie persuaded the elders to give it to him for puppet crafting.
• Master Xiūmù and Xie Jingchun delivered the sealed essence blood to Zhang Tie, who opened it and was nearly overcome by its evil will before the Indestructible Pearl protected him.
• Zhang Tie resealed the bottle and stored it, deciding to wait until Integration Grand Completion before attempting to refine it.
• Zhang Tie spent half a year refining the True Demon Blood Crystal and advancing his cultivation toward the peak of the Integration late stage.
• Chen Ping'an told Zhang Tie that the demon forces had doubled and several coastal cities had fallen, then gave him a battle map and a Tian Yuan City Elder Token.
• Zhang Tie bonded with the Elder Token and promised to reinforce Chunyang City, where the coastal defenses were nearly collapsing.

Zhang Tie arrived at Chunyang City as its barrier fell and its defenders faced a Demon Lord, then froze the demon army and killed the Bull-Nosed Demon Lord. After confirming Zhang Tie’s identity, Illusion Bow arranged to collect the remains and provide formation records so he could attempt to repair the city’s defenses.

• Illusion Bow led Chunyang City’s defenders to charge after the Bull-Nosed Demon Lord shattered the city-protecting barrier, but its suction attack left them unable to resist.
• Snowflakes froze the demons, the Wind Dragon, and the Bull-Nosed Demon Lord, freeing Illusion Bow and the soldiers from the Demon Lord’s grip.
• The Bull-Nosed Demon Lord broke out of the ice and fled, but a streak of black lightning struck him down and killed him.
• Zhang Tie appeared, confirmed to Illusion Bow that he had been sent by Tian Yuan City, and showed her his identity token.
• Zhang Tie summoned Powder Bone to gather every demon corpse and ordered Illusion Bow to find him lodging and send him the city-protecting formation diagram, core locations, and damage records.
• Illusion Bow flew to retrieve the formation materials while Powder Bone descended to clear the battlefield.

Zhang Tie repaired Chunyang City’s defenses, refined a mountain of demonic corpses to strengthen his cultivation, and set a trap to draw the demonic army back. As he waited in the city, a familiar but unexpected figure approached, leaving him shocked.

• Zhang Tie repaired the Azure Wave Water Heaven Array and secretly integrated a Four Yuan Metal Rain Array into its core, strengthening Chunyang City’s defenses.
• Zhang Tie set up a secluded refining array and absorbed the essence of the Bull-Nosed Demon Lord, a sealed Demon Lord, and numerous other demonic corpses during a month of cultivation.
• Zhang Tie found that his cultivation had advanced considerably but not enough, and he asked Illusion Bow when the demonic army would attack again.
• Illusion Bow said the demons were investigating Zhang Tie’s strength, so Zhang Tie ordered rumors spread that he could rival a half-step Mahayana cultivator.
• Zhang Tie settled into a pavilion to await the demons, but a powerful, familiar aura approached and left him stunned when he recognized its source.

Zhang Tie met Luo Fei Ye, who revealed that the Reincarnation Scripture had restored his life and cultivation, and explained how the Azure Luan Sword had awakened him. After returning the sword, Luo Fei Ye left to settle old karmic debts, while Zhang Tie began studying the scripture.

• Zhang Tie recognized Luo Fei Ye and invited him into his meditation chamber for tea.
• Luo Fei Ye sensed Zhang Tie's Guanghan Palace inheritance, then revealed that he had reincarnated using the Reincarnation Scripture created by a Golden Immortal.
• Luo Fei Ye explained the scripture's dangers and said the Azure Luan Sword had awakened his memories when Zhang Tie brought it to the Fengyuan Continent.
• Zhang Tie studied the jade slip for three hours and praised the scripture's profound principles.
• Zhang Tie returned the Azure Luan Sword to Luo Fei Ye, who warned him against cultivating the scripture and left to settle old karmic debts.
• Zhang Tie remained behind and began studying the Reincarnation Scripture in earnest.

Zhang Tie refined the Six Paths Reincarnation Crystal with the help of the Indestructible Pearl, then agreed to reinforce besieged Xiayu City and strengthened Chunyang City's defenses before departing. Six days after Xiayu City called for aid, a group of demons revealed they had prepared a trap for him, wary of his suspected role in killing Mo Tian.

• Zhang Tie condensed the Six Paths Reincarnation Crystal, which the Indestructible Pearl absorbed and contained, then fed the pearl a mountain of magic crystals.
• Powder Bone told Zhang Tie that Xiayu City was under attack, and Zhang Tie promised to send reinforcements within ten days despite the broken teleportation array.
• Zhang Tie ordered Illusion Bow and two generals to defend Chunyang City, then constructed a third Ice Snow Sky Thunder Formation and gave Powder Bone a token to operate it.
• Zhang Tie left Chunyang City after completing the new formation and entrusting its defense to Powder Bone.
• In Xiayu City's secret room, Wan Mo urged the assembled demons to attack Chunyang City, but a tiger-headed demon warned that Zhang Tie might have killed Mo Tian and said Xiayu City was prepared as his trap.

Zhang Tie entered Xiayu City and discovered a deadly ambush by ten peak Integration demonic cultivators. He unleashed his Nirvana Transformation, survived their combined assault, killed four attackers with Chaos Divine Thunder, and trapped the remaining six before striking at them with his colossal Dharma Idol.

• The Tiger-headed Demon Lord learned that Zhang Tie had arrived, while Zhang Tie entered Xiayu City and sensed an eerie calm and an unexplained blood stench.
• Zhang Tie detected a lethal seventh-rank killing array at the City Lord's Mansion and escaped the Tiger-headed Demon Lord's surprise spear attack.
• The Tiger-headed Demon Lord and nine other peak Integration cultivators surrounded Zhang Tie, and Myriad Demons Daoist launched the attack with his crystal skull.
• Zhang Tie manifested his thousand-yard Nirvana Transformation Dharma Idol, endured the attackers' combined assault, and rapidly healed its damage with the power of vitality.
• Zhang Tie summoned Chaos Divine Thunder, which killed four of the ten attackers, while the six survivors used defensive techniques to endure the strikes.
• Zhang Tie bound the remaining six with a golden ring and swung the Dharma Idol's six fists at them.

Zhang Tie defeated the Tiger-headed Demon Lord and Myriad Demons Daoist’s physical forms, though a mysterious seven-colored attack pierced his Dharma Idol and Myriad Demons Daoist’s soul escaped. After ordering Xiayu City’s survivors to Chunyang City, Zhang Tie pursued the retreating demon army to return their ambush with an attack of his own.

• Zhang Tie’s colossal punch killed four Integration Grand Completion enemies, while the Tiger-headed Demon Lord blocked the blow with a spatial void and Myriad Demons Daoist escaped by sacrificing his left leg and exploding his jade skeleton.
• Zhang Tie used the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd and Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel to strike Myriad Demons Daoist’s fleeing golden skull, while the Dragon Trapping Cauldron’s chain captured the Tiger-headed Demon Lord.
• A seven-colored streak emerged from a spatial rift and pierced Zhang Tie’s Dharma Idol shoulder, and the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel flew back carrying Myriad Demons Daoist’s empty skull.
• Zhang Tie collected eight storage rings, ordered the surviving guards to take refuge in Chunyang City, and declared Xiayu City a city of the dead.
• Zhang Tie followed the retreating demon army from a distance, intending to retaliate for its ambush.

Zhang Tie infiltrated the demons’ valley and used the Tiger Saint Demon Lord puppet to lure out the stronger Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord. He trapped them and many demons inside an ancient golden ring, detonated the puppet, and vanished as the explosion devastated the valley.

• Zhang Tie learned from the Tiger Saint Demon Lord’s memories that the Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord was his powerful companion and ruled the valley’s demon nest.
• Zhang Tie studied the strange crystal skull, then devised a plan using the golden confinement ring and the Tiger Saint Demon Lord puppet.
• Zhang Tie entered the valley under an invisibility technique and sent the puppet crashing into the demons’ gathering to draw out the Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord.
• The Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord rushed to attack the puppet and began searching for Zhang Tie, who threw the golden ring over the gathering and trapped them with hundreds of demons.
• Zhang Tie made the Tiger Saint Demon Lord puppet self-destruct inside the ring, badly injuring the Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord and devastating the valley before Zhang Tie teleported away.

Zhang Tie captured the Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord inside the Dragon Trapping Cauldron and returned to his cave, where Powder Bone identified a crystal skull as a sinister imitation of Nether Bone. As she examined it, the skull activated and began pulling her soul from her body, leaving her crying out for Zhang Tie’s help.

• Zhang Tie found the Flood Dragon Saint Demon Lord concealed inside a black egg and sealed it in the Dragon Trapping Cauldron.
• Zhang Tie returned to his cave residence and showed Powder Bone the crystal skull and the black egg.
• Powder Bone identified the skull as an imitation of Nether Bone made from countless skulls and souls, and explained that it could store and release law power.
• Powder Bone infused the crystal skull with the Law of Blood, causing it to glow and display flowing crimson patterns.
• The skull hovered above Powder Bone and began drawing phantoms of her true form from her head, prompting her to plead with Zhang Tie to save her.

Zhang Tie entered the crystal skull’s inner world to rescue Powder Bone and found the supposedly dead Myriad Demons Daoist controlling a horde of ghosts. The old demon escaped through a spatial rift toward Zhang Tie’s body, while Powder Bone waited for the ghosts to devour her and the chapter ended as the attack suddenly fell silent.

• Zhang Tie realized Powder Bone’s soul still existed and followed their lingering bond into the crystal skull with his soul avatar.
• Zhang Tie found Powder Bone fighting ghosts under the control of the supposedly destroyed Myriad Demons Daoist, then pierced the old demon with his lightning-wreathed sword.
• The Myriad Demons Daoist healed himself with black qi and unleashed a ghost hurricane against Zhang Tie, while Powder Bone charged back to protect her master.
• Zhang Tie held off the ghosts with a thunder sword net as the Myriad Demons Daoist opened a rift and fled toward Zhang Tie’s physical body.
• Powder Bone made a final farewell as she awaited the ghosts’ attack, but the expected pain never came and the surrounding cries faded into silence.

Zhang Tie used the Gate of the Underworld to absorb a mark formed from its opposing black and white currents, then opened the gate and entered a narrow stone path over an absolute void. He found a strange pool at the path’s end and began fishing in it with a soul-power rod, leaving the mystery of what it contained unresolved.

• Zhang Tie sent Powder Bone back through a spatial rift to guard his body, then followed the ghosts’ passage to the Gate of the Underworld.
• Zhang Tie traced soul-power marks that awakened the gate, then guided its black and white currents into a chaotic mark and absorbed it.
• Zhang Tie formed a black-and-white key mark, opened the Gate of the Underworld, and entered before it shut behind him.
• Zhang Tie discovered that the gate led to a narrow stone path surrounded by an absolute void and recoiled when the void’s danger nearly overwhelmed him.
• Zhang Tie examined a small, apparently ordinary pool at the path’s end and formed a bare-hook fishing rod from his origin soul power.

After spending a month reliving the life of an Azure Blood Cold Silkworm, Zhang Tie gained insight into the Ice Law and returned from the Lesser Netherworld to resume cultivation. He emerged from thirty years of seclusion to find Chunyang City besieged by demons, its defenses on the verge of collapse beneath the assault of three Demon Venerables while a Sacred Ancestor watched.

• Zhang Tie caught a golden soul fish in the Lesser Netherworld and devoured it before it could dissipate.
• Zhang Tie learned that the fish had been an Azure Blood Cold Silkworm and relived its more than two-hundred-thousand-year life, gaining Ice Law insights and its frost ability.
• Zhang Tie returned to his cave dwelling, merged the crystal skull into his origin, and comprehended the Ice Law for three days and nights.
• After receiving three message talismans, Zhang Tie appeared at Chunyang City and found Illusion Bow, Powder Bone, and the other defenders facing a massive demonic siege.
• Illusion Bow told Zhang Tie that the city had held out for years but that no reinforcements had arrived from Tian Yuan City after a Sacred Ancestor and three powerful Demon Venerables appeared.
• The city's Nine Revolutions Profound Gang Great Array cracked across nearly half the sky and neared collapse under the Demon Venerables' attacks.

Zhang Tie captured three Demon Venerables, then unleashed his Kunpeng transformation and powerful artifacts against the black-robed Holy Ancestor. After shattering the Holy Ancestor’s sword and wounding him, Zhang Tie tried to capture him, but the Holy Ancestor stopped the cauldron’s chain with an ancient oil-paper umbrella.

• Zhang Tie froze the three Demon Venerables with falling snow and captured them in the Dragon Trapping Cauldron while evading the black-robed Demon Venerable’s sword qi.
• The black-robed Demon Venerable revealed himself as a Holy Ancestor and demanded Zhang Tie submit, but Zhang Tie refused and armed himself with the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor.
• Zhang Tie transformed into a Kunpeng-backed giant, used a silver tree phantom to drive back the Holy Ancestor’s Myriad Demons’ Descent domain, and smashed the domain with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• The Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel shattered the Holy Ancestor’s Demon Spine God Slaying Sword, leaving him badly wounded.
• Zhang Tie sent the Dragon Trapping Cauldron and its sealing chain after the injured Holy Ancestor, but the Holy Ancestor opened an ancient oil-paper umbrella that stopped the chain in a gray-white barrier.

Zhang Tie shattered the black-robed Holy Ancestor’s spatial umbrella, captured him in the Dragon Trapping Cauldron, and transformed into a Three-headed Kunpeng to annihilate the demonic army. Afterward, he told Chunyang City’s defenders not to disturb his cultivation unless disaster threatened everything, then disappeared.

• Zhang Tie broke the black-robed Holy Ancestor’s umbrella with repeated blows and injured him with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• Zhang Tie used the golden disk to bind the Holy Ancestor, then sealed him inside the Dragon Trapping Cauldron.
• With their leaders captured or dead, the demonic army lost discipline and fled, but Zhang Tie transformed into a Three-headed Kunpeng and pursued them.
• Zhang Tie slaughtered the fleeing demons with devouring force, ice, and lightning until hundreds of thousands of demons had been destroyed.
• Zhang Tie addressed Powder Bone and the other defenders, ordered them not to interrupt his cultivation unless disaster threatened everything, and vanished.

Zhang Tie collapsed in his cave abode after using the Kunpeng Transformation, losing cultivation but capturing three Demon Venerables and an incarnation of the Six Extremes Saint Ancestor. In the Demon Realm, the Six Extremes Saint Ancestor learned his incarnation had been captured alive and suspected the Spirit Realm’s powerful cultivators had secretly intervened.

• Zhang Tie staggered into his cave abode and collapsed from the backlash of the Kunpeng Transformation, with his cultivation falling from the Primal Chaos middle stage to the early stage.
• Zhang Tie reflected that the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor had recovered most of its energy and that the Dragon Trapping Cauldron held three Demon Venerables and a Saint Ancestor incarnation.
• The Six Extremes Saint Ancestor erupted in rage after realizing his incarnation sent to attack the Spirit Realm had been captured alive, destroying the table and killing the demon women in the hall.
• The bald Demon Venerable and the man in white protected themselves from the Saint Ancestor’s aura and asked what had provoked his fury.
• The man in white questioned how the incarnation could have been captured and wondered whether powerful beings from the Spirit Realm’s major races had secretly intervened.

After ten years of cultivation, Zhang Tie found himself still short of the late stage of the Primordial Chaos Realm and left his refuge to seek more resources. Powder Bone then reported that the Gold, Water, and Fire races had attacked Tian Yuan City, and Zhang Tie set out to aid it while ordering her to evacuate Chunyang City.

• Saint Ancestor Liùjí decided to send his third incarnation, Black Crow, to investigate the disturbance, then resumed the banquet with Saint Ancestor Shenxu and Saint Ancestor Tiger-Elephant.
• Zhang Tie used the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor to turn three Demon Venerable corpses and a Saint Ancestor remnant into four puppets, but their realms fell during the process.
• Zhang Tie spent ten years absorbing True Demon Blood Crystals and resources brought by Powder Bone and the Four Little Ghosts, yet remained short of the late stage of the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Powder Bone brought Zhang Tie an urgent message that the Gold, Water, and Fire races had broken their alliance and were besieging Tian Yuan City.
• Zhang Tie agreed to rush to Tian Yuan City and gave Powder Bone the Mountain Sea Bead and the Three Little Ghosts to help evacuate Chunyang City's residents to Boulder City.

Zhang Tie infiltrated the Gold Clan’s Gengjin City while the allied Gold, Fire, and Water Clans besieged Tian Yuan City, where Mo Jianli and Master Xiūmù prepared to hold the Nine Heavens Cloud Thunder Seal until Zhang Tie arrived. After killing the guards he encountered, Zhang Tie deployed a Great Ghost to capture the city’s Integration-stage cultivators alive.

• Mo Jianli learned from Master Xiūmù that Zhang Tie had promised to reach Tian Yuan City within ten days, and left the defense of the Nine Heavens Cloud Thunder Seal to the elders.
• Zhang Tie traveled to the Gold Clan’s territory and slipped through the restriction around Gold Mountain into its hidden realm.
• Zhang Tie froze and killed two entrance guards, searched their souls, and used the information to pass through another spatial restriction.
• Five elite Gold Clan guards confronted Zhang Tie inside the realm, and he froze and destroyed them with his cold power.
• Zhang Tie identified the city as Gengjin City and summoned a Great Ghost, ordering it to capture all Gold Clan cultivators of Integration stage strength with the Dragon Trapping Cauldron.

Chen Ping'an and Master Xiūmù feared that the allied army was waiting to target Zhang Tie, while Mu Yan, Fairy Biyuan, and Hei Qing discussed Zhang Tie’s whereabouts. Zhang Tie was secretly inside the Gold Clan’s ancestral land, draining its elders and treasury as he advanced his cultivation and charged the Golden Light Glazed Lamp.

• Chen Ping'an and Master Xiūmù suspected the three-race army’s siege was a diversion and worried that Zhang Tie was its real target.
• Mu Yan questioned Fairy Biyuan and Hei Qing about their failed search for Zhang Tie, then dismissed concerns that Zhang Tie could threaten the Gold Clan’s ancestral land.
• Mu Yan revealed that the Gold Clan’s Golden Light Glazed Lamp guarded its ancestral altar, and Fairy Biyuan concealed her reaction to learning the treasure was not with the expedition.
• Zhang Tie absorbed the soul origin and Geng Metal power of twenty-three Integration-stage elders and a half-step Mahayana elder, while Great Ghost’s armor accumulated soul power and gained a new ability to temporarily increase its strength.
• Zhang Tie’s insider helped him plunder the Gold Clan’s spirit stones and mineral veins, while the Golden Light Glazed Lamp absorbed spirit stones and gathered power above the altar.

Zhang Tie used the Golden Light Glazed Lamp to accelerate his cultivation, recovered his strength, and advanced further before leaving the Gold Clan blessed realm. As the three Mahayana leaders prepared to attack Tian Yuan City, their warship abruptly turned back and fled, leaving the city’s defenders bewildered.

• Zhang Tie cultivated beneath the Golden Light Glazed Lamp, absorbed the Gold Clan’s remaining bloodline power, and strengthened himself and Great Ghost.
• Zhang Tie shut down the altar formation, collected the altar and Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, stored the Golden Light Glazed Lamp in the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd, and headed for the blessed realm’s exit.
• Mu Yan, Patriarch Hei Qing, and Fairy Biyuan decided to attack Tian Yuan City after Zhang Tie missed the ten-day deadline and ordered their warship forward.
• Mo Jianli ordered Tian Yuan City’s defenses to full strength while Master Xiūmù reassured the worried Chen Ping'an that Zhang Tie would return.
• The warship reached Tian Yuan City but suddenly turned away and sped back toward where it had come from without attacking.

After driving the allied army from the human city, Zhang Tie raided the Fire Spirit Race’s deepest cities and returned to the Gold Spirit Race’s cave heaven to begin a sacrificial cultivation ritual. Old Ancestor Hei Qing and his companions rushed toward the Water Spirit Race, believing Zhang Tie had attacked there next.

• The warships and allied army withdrew, and Master Xiūmù and Mo Jianli credited the change to Elder Zhang Tie while hoping Fellow Cultivator Ao would arrive soon.
• Zhang Tie and Great Ghost entered the Burning Heaven Mountain Range, where they defeated Integration cultivators and looted the Fire Spirit Race’s fifth and fourth layers, leaving dangerous ice pearls behind.
• Zhang Tie returned to the Gold Spirit Race cave heaven, froze the teleportation hall guards, sealed the hall, and began a sacrificial array using thirty-eight unconscious Fire Spirit Race Integration cultivators and a mountain of fire spirit stones.
• Old Ancestor Hei Qing, Fairy Biyuan, and Mu Yan found the Fire Spirit Race’s ruined cities and concluded Zhang Tie was probably attacking the Water Spirit Race.
• Old Ancestor Hei Qing and his companions used a long-distance spatial teleportation technique to pursue Zhang Tie.