Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu reached the Ice Clan settlement guarding the Ancient Demon Sealing Ground and discovered Frozen Demonic Qi while avoiding the clan’s checkpoints. The Ice Clan’s leaders recognized him as a Cold Blood Peak cultivator and chose not to interfere, as they continued a secret plan to produce a child who could help their clan rise.

• Wang Yu suspected the Ice Clan was delaying human cultivators from reaching the Ancient Demon Sealing Ground, then told Yu Shu he was traveling there to cultivate and hurried onward.
• Wang Yu used the Ice Transformation Secret Art to slip past Ice Clan giant beasts and reached the settlement near the sealing ground.
• Wang Yu sensed Frozen Demonic Qi, stored a wisp in a top-grade spirit stone, and headed toward a denser source without entering the settlement.
• The Ice Clan’s Great Priest and two Nascent Soul companions identified Wang Yu as a young Cold Blood Peak cultivator and decided to leave him alone.
• The Great Priest explained that the Ice Clan planned to imitate the Ice Phoenix’s old strategy, then used his Heart Blood to nourish a pregnant human woman carrying the clan’s hoped-for child.

Wang Yu escaped the Black Ice Cliff with Frozen Demonic Spirit Stones and chose Plum Ridge City as the site for his Nascent Soul Condensation. As war between the Seven Righteous Sects and Red Kite loomed, he rented a Fourth Tier Cave Abode and entered seclusion.

• Wang Yu gathered Frozen Demonic Qi into three Top Grade Spirit Stones while the Ice Clan's Great Priest spent his strength preparing the Child of Hope, and Bing Rui complained about the process.
• Wang Yu resisted a supernatural temptation near Black Ice Cliff, saw his grinning silhouette branded on the ice, and fled the Endless Ice Field.
• Wang Yu learned that the Seven Righteous Sects had declared war on Red Kite and traveled south as cultivators prepared for the coming conflict.
• Wang Yu arrived in Plum Ridge City, rented a Fourth Tier Cave Abode, arranged his formations, and entered seclusion.

Wang Yu completed his breakthrough to Nascent Soul, transforming his Nascent Soul into a demonic infant and advancing his Divine Sense. After surviving the Ninefold Thunder Tribulation, he emerged as the Ice Demon Child and returned to seclusion while Green Robe Old Ancestor began considering how to recruit him.

• Wang Yu shattered his Golden Core, formed a Nascent Soul with the Frozen Demonic Qi, and awakened his Demonic Fetus and Five Elements Spiritual Root.
• Wang Yu completed the Nascent Soul Dao Transformation, produced one hundred drops of Demonic Essence, and advanced his Divine Sense to the Fourth Tier middle stage.
• Green Robe Old Ancestor ordered the people near Wang Yu's Cave Abode to retreat and invited the newly breaking-through cultivator to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Wang Yu endured the Ninefold Thunder Tribulation and emerged as the Ice Demon Child, drawing congratulations from the gathered cultivators.
• Green Robe Old Ancestor invited Wang Yu to a banquet, but Wang Yu declined and returned to his Cave Abode to stabilize his realm.

After breaking through to Nascent Soul, Wang Yu reorganized his placement slots and waited for his Glass Pagoda to advance. He emerged from seclusion and met with the Green Robe Old Ancestor, who asked him to prove his allegiance by helping the Feng Clan deal with Tai Lake’s spies.

• Wang Yu assigned his seven placement slots to cultivation techniques and divine powers, then secluded himself to stabilize his realm and await the Glass Pagoda’s advancement.
• One year later, Wang Yu’s Glass Pagoda advanced to a Fourth Tier Low-Grade magical treasure, and the Grand Yin Nether Eye inheritance fully unlocked its Nascent Soul secret art.
• Wang Yu left seclusion and attended a banquet at the Plum Ridge City Lord’s estate with the Green Robe Old Ancestor and members of the Secluded Valley Feng Clan.
• The Green Robe Old Ancestor questioned Wang Yu about his origins, and Wang Yu admitted he had come from the Heaven Refining Demon Sect’s territory without revealing his homeland.
• The Green Robe Old Ancestor asked Wang Yu to stay and help refine Tai Lake’s spies into human pills as a pledge of allegiance.

Wang Yu exposed Green Robe Old Ancestor’s trap and fought him after refusing to help murder Thunder True Lord Yang’s son. He used the City Lord’s formation and a series of hidden techniques to gain the upper hand, but Green Robe survived Wang Yu’s killing strike by summoning a talisman bell.

• Wang Yu discovered that Green Robe Old Ancestor had arranged for him to kill Thunder True Lord Yang’s son and demanded the captive be exchanged, along with compensation.
• When Green Robe refused, Wang Yu attacked, seized the prisoners, and fought back as Green Robe ordered Feng Hua to activate the City Lord’s Mansion formation.
• Wang Yu used the Ocean Heart Ring to bypass the formation’s attacks, then unleashed the Ice Dragon Pill Flame and destroyed the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Green Robe tried to bind Wang Yu with Adamantine Wind Crystallization and charge his Wind Asura Giant Spirit Sword Qi, but Wang Yu escaped the formation’s restraint and concealed the battle with an ice-mirror domain.
• Wang Yu’s Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet drew out Green Robe’s Wind King Slash talisman, and Wang Yu followed with the Blood Slaughter Heart Rend Sword.
• Green Robe abandoned his charged attack and summoned a giant bell from a green talisman to block Wang Yu’s killing strike.

Wang Yu failed to kill the Green Robe Old Ancestor, who escaped by abandoning his body and using the Teleportation Technique, so Wang Yu tracked him to Strange Peak Pass. There, Thunder True Lord Yang launched a surprise attack, and Wang Yu prepared to use the captives he had rescued to approach him while continuing his pursuit.

• Green Robe Old Ancestor survived Wang Yu's attacks by using Golden Cicada Sheds its Shell and teleporting away as a Nascent Soul.
• Wang Yu captured Feng Hua, searched his memories, looted the City Lord's Mansion treasury, and used Feng Hua's blood to track Green Robe Old Ancestor westward.
• Wang Yu followed the trail to Strange Peak Pass and saw the pass come under attack from Thunder True Lord Yang's Crimson Sun Heavenly Lightning.
• Wang Yu released Li Mingsheng and the other captives from his Human Seed Bag, identified himself as connected to the Demon Luo Sect, and gave them Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yu returned to the ground and watched the battle from a distance, intending to kill Green Robe Old Ancestor before he could regain a body and escape again.

Wang Yu rescued Li Mingsheng and brought him to the Great Lake forces at Strange Peak Pass, where he met Lei Yao and Thunder True Lord Yang. Lei Yao revealed that she knew Wang Yu’s origins and questioned his view of the conflict between Great Lake and Red Kite, leaving him to consider her challenge.

• Wang Yu found the Staying Immortal Pavilion in Clear Far City and used the Great Lake Noble Daughter’s token to contact Lei Yao, who asked him to bring Li Mingsheng to her.
• Lei Yao arranged for Wang Yu to travel with Li Mingsheng through the Demon Cat Clan’s territory and across the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range to the Great Lake camp.
• Wang Yu reached the Thunder Fire Temple’s camp opposite Strange Peak Pass, where he met Lei Yao and Thunder True Lord Yang aboard a Cloud Firmament Warship.
• Wang Yu released Li Mingsheng and the other captured youths, and Thunder True Lord Yang scolded his son before giving Wang Yu twenty top grade spirit stones as thanks.
• Lei Yao revealed that she knew Wang Yu was from Stone Lake and said she believed he was different from people in Red Kite, then criticized the Seven Righteous Sects and asked what he thought.

Wang Yu joined Lei Yao’s team as the Tai Lake army prepared to attack Strange Peak Pass, then fought Cloud Mist Old Ancestor after the Cloud Firmament Warships launched a devastating assault. The battle continued away from the pass, with Cloud Mist pleading to know what the opposing side had offered Wang Yu.

• Wang Yu told Lei Yao he would join her team, while concealing his true age by claiming he was two hundred years old.
• After several days of feints, the Cloud Firmament Warships fired their Extinction Divine Light and devastated the demonic cultivators defending Strange Peak Pass.
• Thunder True Lord Yang assigned Wang Yu to fight Cloud Mist Old Ancestor, while Purple Lightning True Lord challenged Black Heaven Talisman Lord and Burning Heart True Lord intervened against Cloud Mist.
• Wang Yu struck Cloud Mist Old Ancestor from the sky and knocked him out of Iron Stone Forest, then wondered whether Cloud Mist had betrayed Green Robe Old Ancestor for the sake of advancement.
• Thunder True Lord Yang considered giving Wang Yu a military post as the battle continued, while Cloud Mist asked Wang Yu what the opposing side had offered him.

Wang Yu defeated Cloud Mist Old Ancestor, captured his Nascent Soul, and returned to the Cloud Firmament Warship with the demon’s corpse. Yang Thunder offered him the post of Demon Subduing General, but Zi Dian objected to entrusting the position to an outsider.

• Wang Yu broke Cloud Mist Old Ancestor’s formation with the Fiend Dragon Armor and his Silver Blood Divine Strength, then battered him until he abandoned his ruined body.
• Wang Yu’s Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet trapped Cloud Mist Old Ancestor’s Nascent Soul in the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda, where Wang Yu sealed it in black ice.
• Wang Yu returned to the Cloud Firmament Warship carrying Cloud Mist Old Ancestor’s corpse and claimed that the Nascent Soul had escaped.
• Yang Thunder offered Wang Yu the Demon Subduing General post, explaining its command, battlefield duties, and monthly War Merits stipend.
• Zi Dian objected to Wang Yu receiving the post because he was an outsider, and Wang Yu challenged him by asking whether he wanted it.

Wang Yu chose the Void Daoist Canon as his war-merit reward and discussed Lei Yao’s plan to avenge her senior sister by killing Yin Yang Demon Lord. He returned to his temporary residence to recover and sort through the spoils taken from Green Robe and Yunyan.

• Purple Lightning challenged Wang Yu’s authority, but Thunder True Lord Yang stopped the confrontation and Fen Xin warned that Purple Lightning was no match for the Cloud Mist Old Ancestor.
• Wang Yu selected a secret art from the Void Daoist Canon, and Thunder True Lord Yang agreed to obtain its original scripture within half a month.
• Lei Yao asked Wang Yu for help planning how to draw out Yin Yang Demon Lord, but Wang Yu warned that the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator could not be killed without a Sword Sect Spirit Transformation expert.
• Lei Yao gave up on seeking immediate revenge and resolved to avenge her senior sister herself.
• Wang Yu returned to his temporary Cave Abode, rested, and sorted the treasures from Green Robe’s and Yunyan’s Storage Rings.

Wang Yu obtained the Chains of Heaven secret art, then learned that Thunder Fire Temple no longer trusted him and had stripped him of real authority. After the army withdrew from Strange Peak Pass, he beat up Purple Lightning and fled north with Lei Yao to Feng Province.

• Wang Yu collected the Chains of Heaven inheritance from Thunder True Lord Yang and placed it in his Placement Slot to cultivate automatically.
• Thunder Fire Temple's forces withdrew after an eight-month siege, and Lei Yao explained that Zi Dian had persuaded Uncle Li to withhold Wang Yu's authority.
• Wang Yu learned that the Azure Cloud Sect and Moon Gazing Palace had captured Glacial River Pass and that Lei Yao planned to travel north to Feng Province to gather refugees.
• Wang Yu decided to beat up Purple Lightning before leaving, disguised himself as Zi Dian, and attacked him inside his cave abode.
• Wang Yu stole the valuable items from Purple Lightning's Storage Ring and escaped north with Lei Yao on her giant black eagle.

After taking Zi Dian’s wealth, Wang Yu agreed to travel with Lei Yao to the Northern Demons’ Demon King Banquet, hoping to gain access to its contests and Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain. While waiting on the Demon Cat Clan’s territory, he explored the demon settlement and discovered young demon cats studying the Thousand Character Classic.

• Wang Yu erased Zi Dian’s Storage Ring mark, took the Jade Void Thunder Kirin Fruit and other treasures, and found the Devouring Thunder Spitting Lightning secret art.
• Lei Yao told Wang Yu about the Demon King Banquet and the rewards available through the contests and Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, and Wang Yu agreed to go.
• Wang Yu released Snow Jade and brought her along as he and Lei Yao traveled toward the Northern Demons.
• Ten days later, Wang Yu and Lei Yao stayed on the Demon Cat Clan’s territory while waiting for the banquet, and Lei Yao continued directing the Demon Luo Sect’s work in Feng Province.
• Wang Yu explored Demon Cat Mountain Lake and saw demon cat cubs learning to read the Thousand Character Classic.

Wang Yu spent four years in seclusion refining spirit pills for the Demon Cat Clan and prepared to challenge the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain. After joining Lei Yao and traveling for half a month, he finally arrived at the mountain.

• Wang Yu explored the Demon Cat Clan Territory, then planned to refine the Thunder Corpse and sought treasures that could improve his comprehension.
• Wang Yu failed to receive a reply from the Dragon Python Clan about its damaged Heavenly Enlightenment Dao Platforms, so he prepared to trade spirit pills with the Demon Cat Clan.
• Wang Yu spent four years refining pills, and the Cat Demons welcomed him with a banquet and bought six of his Fourth Tier pills.
• Wang Yu told the Cat Demons he would challenge the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain and discussed the worsening conflict in Feng Province.
• Lei Yao accompanied Wang Yu to obtain permission to challenge the mountain, and they arrived after half a month of travel.

Wang Yu arrived at the Northern Lands Demon Clan’s Demon King Banquet, then went with Lei Yao to the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain and obtained permission to climb it. He began ascending the mountain’s Longevity Steps, quickly drawing the attention of the elders in the Heart Beast Tower.

• Lei Yao introduced Wang Yu to the Northern Lands demon clans and brought him to the Sky Roc Clan’s banquet venue, where he saw more than a hundred Shapeshifting Great Demons and a Yellow Springs Temple Great Cultivator.
• Wang Yu received a temporary pass for the banquet and agreed to attend the Treasure Exchange Meeting and the coming battle for the Saint Lord.
• Lei Yao asked Wang Yu to meet her after the banquet, gave him a sachet containing a Spirit Jade with a location recorded on it, and said he would understand how to help her later.
• Lei Yao introduced Wang Yu to Third Master at the Heart Beast Tower, where Wang Yu signed a True Spirit Contract and received a token that let him resume his climb from resting platforms.
• Wang Yu stepped onto the Longevity Steps, endured the first three trials of mental pressure, crushing force, and flames, and climbed quickly enough to attract the elders’ notice.

Wang Yu climbed the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, gaining body-refinement progress from its trials and rewards. Meanwhile, the four Northern Lands Demon Kings debated the demon clan’s divisions and considered expanding into Red Kite amid its turmoil.

• Wang Yu passed the first level of the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain and absorbed blood mist that strengthened his body and began refining his skull into an Undying Bone.
• Wang Yu endured the second level’s steadily increasing physical pressure, refined Moon Fiend power, and received a greater reward before continuing upward.
• The Sky Roc King, Lu Ming, the Thunder Kirin King, and the Fire Crow King gathered at the Demon King Banquet as the leading contenders for Saint Lord.
• The Sky Roc King reminded the others that the Four Spirits had withdrawn or weakened and that the Azure Dragon Old Ancestor remained in seclusion, warning that internal strife threatened the demon clans.
• Lu Ming and the Thunder Kirin King argued over the Thunder Kirin King’s subordinates eating members of the Spirit Fat Sheep clan, while the Sky Roc King watched.
• The Fire Crow King proposed a way for the demon clans to claim territory, and the other kings focused on expanding into Red Kite with the Heaven Refining Demon Sect’s tacit approval.

The Four Kings staged a contest for the Northern Lands Demon Clan’s Saint Lord position, using Five-Colored King Lu Ming’s apparent Spirit Transformation power to secure his victory and prepare for possible alliances in the wider war. Wang Yu arrived too late to see the decisive bout, but watched the Nine Kings contest and assessed the formidable strength of the Demon Kings.

• The Two-Tailed Shadow Cat weighed whether the Demon Cat Clan should support the Sky Roc King or Five-Colored King as the Northern Lands Demon Clan’s forces shifted.
• The Thunder Kirin King and Fire Crow King fought, and the Sky Roc King intervened before declaring that he was deliberately playing dirty, provoking objections from the crowd.
• Five-Colored King Lu Ming displayed a damaged Ancient Treasure’s simulated Spirit Transformation might, defeating the other three kings in a staged bout and winning cheers as the Five-Colored Saint Lord.
• Wang Yu stopped his climb of the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain after Brother Hei’s message announced that the Four Kings contest had ended, then hurried toward the arena.
• Wang Yu arrived as the Nine Kings contest resumed and watched the Adamantine Ape battle the Dragon Python while Brother Hei considered how to join Five-Colored King’s camp.

Wang Yu considered which divine ability to focus on while the Northern Lands’ demon kings were chosen and the Treasure Exchange Meeting began. He offered a Mid-Grade Nascent Soul Pill for Lu Ming’s Danxin Deer Antler Pearl, but Lu Ming demanded three pills.

• Brother Hei explained that comprehending law intent required deep specialization, and Wang Yu weighed focusing on the Aurora Escape Technique, Minor Asura Killing Fist, or Yellow Springs Great Handprint.
• The Adamantine Ape King defeated the Dragon Python King, and Di Mingzi secured the Evil Dragon Spider clan’s position as Sixth Demon King by defeating the Silver Back Violent Bear King.
• Brother Hei and Wang Yu went to congratulate the Giant Strength Ant Clan, then attended the Treasure Exchange Meeting as Lu Ming was proclaimed the Northern Lands Demon Race Saint Lord.
• Lu Ming opened the exchange by offering his Danxin Deer Antler Pearl, a treasure that could restore a body and help break through cultivation bottlenecks.
• After Lu Ming declined the Golden Horn Demon King’s offer of Supreme Harmony Silver Flowing Gold, Wang Yu offered a Mid-Grade Nascent Soul Pill for the pearl.
• Lu Ming said he would exchange the Danxin Deer Antler Pearl for three pills, leaving Wang Yu dissatisfied with the price.

At the Demon King Banquet, Wang Yu traded cultivation pills and plundered treasures for rare materials, including the Thunder Fire Remnant Map, while attracting the attention of demon clans seeking his alchemy. He agreed to meet the Dragon Python Clan at the Demon Cat Clan territory and left to challenge the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, while Brother Hei prepared to secure a powerful backer for the coming negotiations.

• Wang Yu exchanged a Danxin Deer Antler Pearl with the Five-Colored Saint Lord for a Nascent Soul Pill and two high-grade Saint Abyss Demon Essence Pills, revealing himself as a rare Fourth Tier Alchemist Master.
• The Dragon Python King learned his clan had ignored Wang Yu’s earlier message and sent a damaged Heavenly Enlightenment Dao Platform as an apology, hoping to arrange future pill trades.
• Wang Yu exchanged ten Saint Abyss Demon Essence Pills and several magic treasures for Fourth Tier materials, including the Thunder Fire Remnant Map, which he wanted for cultivating Devouring Thunder Spitting Lightning.
• Wang Yu invited demon cultivators interested in alchemy to visit him at the Demon Cat Clan, prompting Brother Hei to choose the Sky Roc King as the clan’s prospective backer.
• After accepting gifts and invitations from several demon clans, Wang Yu agreed to discuss a pill exchange with the Dragon Python Clan after the banquet and set out for the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain.

Wang Yu climbed the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, tempered his body and mind, and reached the summit, where he met the Beast God’s remnant soul. He received a Moon Core Shard, the secret art [Six Senses Obscured], and revelations about the realms beyond the Ice Prison Realm, leaving with a promised task to fulfill when his eye technique matured.

• Wang Yu asked Third Master about the summit’s inheritance and learned he could obtain it safely by leaving a copy in the Heart Beast Tower.
• Wang Yu passed the sixteenth layer’s illusory battles and the seventeenth layer’s physical torment, then endured the eighteenth layer’s Spirit Transformation-level pressure for two months.
• Wang Yu reached the summit and entered an inheritance space, where he recognized the Beast God as a Divine Soul Remnant.
• The Beast God gave Wang Yu a Moon Core Shard to strengthen his connection with the Grand Yin Star and explained the dangers of demon contamination in the Ancient Demons’ inheritance.
• The Beast God described the cultivation realms above Spirit Transformation and gave Wang Yu a stone scale to cast into the void after his eye technique matured.
• The Beast God revealed that the Six-Eared Thief was an Immortal Palace Dao-soldier and taught Wang Yu [Six Senses Obscured].

Wang Yu received the Beast God’s Human Desire Art inheritance and shared it with the demon elders before negotiating alchemy work with the Demon Kings. After securing access to the Dragon Python Clan’s Heavenly Enlightenment Dao Platform, he prepared to refine their bloodline-transformation pill while continuing to gather intelligence against Nine Evil Sword Lord.

• Wang Yu studied the Human Desire Art, a dual-cultivation method that could strengthen bodies and purify demon bloodlines, then gave the demon elders a jade slip containing it and Six Senses Obscured.
• The Demon Clan elders debated the inheritance’s implications, while Wang Yu left for the Demon Cat Clan Territory to negotiate a large alchemy deal with the gathered demon representatives.
• Wang Yu set his fee at one Fourth Tier Spiritual Material per furnace, prioritized materials and comprehension treasures, and agreed to refine familiar cultivation pills or study new recipes for a longer period.
• The Dragon Python Clan offered its damaged Heavenly Enlightenment Dao Platform to advance its place in the queue, and Wang Yu agreed to refine its bloodline-transformation pill.
• Wang Yu asked Brother Hei to arrange continued pill refining for the Demon Cat Clan and have Orange Cat Instructor collect intelligence from Feng Province, then received the Dragon Python Clan’s platform and materials.