Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu led the demonic cultivators in a devastating attack on the Sword Sect forces inside the Ghost Gate Pass, overpowering their formations and defeating their Nascent Soul experts. He trapped the survivors and prepared to prevent the injured Sword Sect cultivators from escaping.

• Wang Yu froze the battlefield and launched a Black Ice Spear that shattered the Mystic Gate Sword Formation, killing hundreds of Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivators.
• Wang Yu defeated Chang Xi and her Eighteen Sword Shadows Dragon Slaying Formation, then captured her in the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda while the demonic cultivators slaughtered the remaining disciples.
• Wang Yu struck the Eight Trigrams Exalted Master with Ice Soul Divine Light, cutting off his connection to the Eight Trigrams Swords and sending him plummeting.
• Hemp Robe Ancestor tried to help the Eight Trigrams Exalted Master escape, but Wang Yu unleashed Frost Snow Across the Sky and shattered their Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram.
• Wang Yu’s Frost Moon attack destroyed the bodies of the Eight Trigrams Exalted Master and Hemp Robe Ancestor, forcing them to emerge as Nascent Souls and leaving Hemp Robe Ancestor severely injured.
• Wang Yu filled the void with Space Chains to block their teleportation and ordered Nether Demon Savage Lord and Nether Tiger Demon Lord to attack.

Wang Yu and the two demon lords captured the Sword Sect’s Nascent Souls, then chose to wait for orders instead of risking themselves for uncertain gains. While Black Mountain Pass endured another costly siege, Wang Yu forged Yellow Springs Demon Sword 2.0 and began considering a plan involving Chang Xi and Snow Jade.

• Wang Yu’s Heaven’s Lock enabled Nether Demon and Nether Tiger Demon Lord to capture the Nascent Souls of Eight Trigrams Exalted Master and Hemp Robe Ancestor, while Wang Yu took their rings and bodies.
• Wang Yu proposed contacting the Saint Sect for reinforcements and striking Withered Leaf City, but Nether Demon Savage Lord and Nether Tiger Demon Lord prioritized clear personal benefits, so they agreed to wait in Withered Leaf Swamp for orders.
• Wang Yu examined the captured materials and began refining a stronger demon sword and upgrading the Ocean Heart Ring.
• Evil Soul Old Ancestor received word that five thousand Saint Sect disciples and thirty thousand affiliated troops would reinforce Black Mountain Pass, as well as confirmation that Wang Yu had annihilated the Sword Sect reinforcements.
• After half a month of refining, Wang Yu completed the Fourth Tier High-Grade Yellow Springs Demon Sword 2.0 and considered a plan involving Chang Xi that depended on Snow Jade’s cooperation.

Wang Yu intimidated the captive Chang Xi before joining a demonic force preparing to attack Withered Leaf City. The chapter ended as the city faced five Nascent Soul-level enemies and appeared to be in grave danger.

• Wang Yu confronted Chang Xi in the Glass Pagoda, reminded her of their old grievance, and frightened her with threats of torture before his incarnation vanished.
• Nether Demon Savage Lord and Nether Tiger Demon Lord told Wang Yu that reinforcements had arrived and that Evil Soul Old Ancestor had ordered an assault on Withered Leaf City.
• Wang Yu agreed to attack alongside Old Demon Fire Ghost, Nether Demon Savage Lord, and Nether Tiger Demon Lord, then led his fifty-four subordinates through a safe passage toward the city.
• Lady Liu Ying and True Lord Zi Yun discussed the city's defenses when the demonic army appeared, and Liu Ying ordered the defenders to prepare for battle.
• Old Demon Fire Ghost, Nether Demon Savage Lord, and Nether Tiger Demon Lord revealed their power outside Withered Leaf City, while Wang Yu arrived atop the Thunder Fiend Coffin with the Thunder Corpse, bringing the attackers' Nascent Soul strength to five.

Wang Yu joined the assault on Withered Leaf City, helped shatter its defenses, and looted its treasury as the city fell. When Tai Lake reinforcements arrived, he and Nether Tiger Demon Lord divided the opposing Nascent Soul Cultivators between them, and Wang Yu moved to confront Purple Lightning True Lord.

• Lady Liu Ying used Withered Leaf City's formation and her Crescent Moon Scissor to block Nether Demon Savage Lord's attack, but the Thunder Corpse and Nether Demon Savage Lord soon broke through the defenses and killed thousands.
• Wang Yu unleashed his Thunder Corpse and Blood Slaughter Heart Rend Sword, shattered the eastern wall, and turned the cultivators' blood into human pills for his followers.
• Old Demon Fire Ghost broke True Lord Zi Yun's resistance as the city formation collapsed, while Wang Yu and Nether Tiger Demon Lord fought Lady Liu Ying and raided the City Lord's Mansion treasury.
• Tai Lake reinforcements arrived, including Burning Heart True Lord, Purple Lightning True Lord, and Xiao Fu Long of the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Wang Yu and Nether Tiger Demon Lord agreed to confront the reinforcements; Nether Tiger engaged Xiao Fu Long, Nether Demon Savage Lord took on Burning Heart, and Wang Yu targeted Purple Lightning True Lord.

Wang Yu and the demonic cultivators fought the Great Lake forces in Withered Leaf City, where Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord intervened through a strand of Divine Sense and then possessed Zi Dian. The battle ended with Liu Ying captured and Zi Yun, Xiao Fu Long, and Burning Heart fleeing, while Wang Yu remained locked in combat with the possessed Zi Dian.

• Wang Yu overwhelmed Purple Lightning and destroyed his Life-Bound Magic Treasure, but Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord appeared as a thunder face to protect him.
• Wang Yu attacked the thunder face with Soul Destroying Death Light, weakening it, and the demonic cultivators resumed fighting their opponents.
• Heavenly Capital took control of Zi Dian's body, and Wang Yu fought him while the other battles turned against the Great Lake cultivators.
• Wang Yu and the Thunder Corpse worked together to destroy Liu Ying's body and capture her Nascent Soul, while Zi Yun fled and Xiao Fu Long escaped.
• Burning Heart sacrificed his physical body to flee, leaving the demonic cultivators victorious as Wang Yu continued battling the possessed Zi Dian.

Wang Yu killed Zi Dian at Withered Leaf City, then led the demonic cultivators to withdraw and prepare to attack Black Mountain Pass. While inspecting Zi Dian’s spoils, he discovered a Thunder Fire Remnant Map pointing toward Accumulated Thunder Mountain, and the chapter ended as Evil Soul Old Ancestor asked whether they were ready for Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord’s arrival.

• Wang Yu used the Thunder Corpse and his Heaven’s Lock to defeat Zi Dian, suppressing the Nascent Soul in his Glass Pagoda.
• Wang Yu gave Liu Ying’s Nascent Soul to Nether Tiger and learned that the Yin Beast Dao’s sealed Ancient Demon was Míng, whose demonic spirit stone was held at the Nether Mountain Sect.
• Nether Demon Savage Lord ordered the demonic army to loot Withered Leaf City, rest in Withered Leaf Swamp, and march toward Black Mountain Pass.
• Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord arrived at the ruined city after Wang Yu’s army had withdrawn and vowed to remember him.
• Wang Yu found Zi Dian’s Thunder Fire Remnant Map and identified Accumulated Thunder Mountain as a possible source of wondrous thunder and spirit flames.
• Evil Soul Old Ancestor read Nether Demon Savage Lord’s report at Black Mountain Pass and asked whether they were prepared for Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord.

Evil Soul Old Ancestor and Secluded Blade Demon Lord launched another assault on Black Mountain Pass, where Righteous Qi Sword Chief and Silver Moon Granny prepared for the pass’s likely fall. As the battle turned against the defenders, Wang Yu slipped underground to approach the formation from another direction while avoiding Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord.

• A hidden Heaven Refining Demon Sect expert offered to test Heavenly Capital Divine Lightning, while Evil Soul Old Ancestor arranged reinforcements and prepared the attack with Secluded Blade Demon Lord.
• Righteous Qi Sword Chief ordered the remaining Core Formation cultivators to withdraw, and Silver Moon Granny sent her avatar into the formation while revealing she wanted Moon Gazing Palace’s half of the Inheritance Moon Disc.
• Evil Soul Old Ancestor challenged Righteous Qi Sword Chief and unleashed the Myriad Souls Ghost Emperor Dharma Idol, while Secluded Blade Demon Lord delayed the Sword Chief’s retreat and helped drive him into Black Mountain Pass’s wall.
• Wang Yu chose to approach the pass alone, and after taking a Formation Breaking Nail, he used the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet to travel underground.

Wang Yu and his allies broke Black Mountain Pass’s protective formation, but the battle among the Nascent Soul experts remained dangerous. Secluded Blade Demon Lord defeated Silver Moon Granny, and the Tai Lake experts ultimately withdrew, leaving the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect with the pass still in hand.

• Wang Yu, You Mo, Nether Tiger, and Old Demon Fire Ghost struck Black Mountain Pass with their Formation Breaking Nails and shattered its protective formation.
• Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord attacked Wang Yu, but the Blood God Guard Commander arrived and blocked the lightning while defending Wang Yu.
• Secluded Blade Demon Lord used the Nether Three Forms to shatter Silver Moon Granny’s Moonlight Sea domain and defeat her.
• Evil Soul Old Ancestor fought on despite his damaged Ghost Emperor Dharma Idol, while Wang Yu, You Mo, and Nether Tiger stayed out of the ongoing battles.
• Silver Moon Granny persuaded Righteous Qi Sword Chief that continuing to fight risked their paths to Spirit Transformation, and the three Tai Lake experts withdrew.

After the fall of Black Mountain Pass, Wang Yu declined Evil Soul’s offer to stay at the front and returned to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect with Xu Ruozhou. He received Starry Demon Stones from the Sect Master in exchange for war merits, agreed to refine pills for the sect, and went to visit Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon.

• Evil Soul praised Wang Yu for killing Zi Dian and offered him a place under his command, but Wang Yu declined and left Black Mountain Pass.
• Wang Yu let Situ Hong, Yang Xiong, and Qingyang stay to earn war merits, while Xu Ruozhou chose to return to the sect with him.
• Wang Yu returned to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, sent Xu Ruozhou to Evil Sword Peak, and met the Sect Master in Blood Demon Hall.
• The Sect Master granted Wang Yu two Starry Demon Stones and asked him to refine pills for the sect, which Wang Yu accepted.
• Wang Yu left Blood Demon Hall and visited Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon, calling out to Senior Yu at his cave abode.

Wang Yu learned that Yu Tang Tang was a Primordial Remnant Species whose growth required her to leave the Ice Prison Realm, and he agreed to help her when he could. He then secluded himself to advance his alchemy, eventually refining Zi Dian’s Nascent Soul into a Longevity Blood Infant Pill.

• Old Flood Dragon told Wang Yu that Yu Tang Tang was a Primordial Remnant Species and asked him to help her leave the Ice Prison Realm after his own death.
• Wang Yu agreed to look after Yu Tang Tang and joked with Old Flood Dragon about inheriting his collection and Flood Dragon Pearl.
• Wang Yu returned to the sect, received two Starry Demon Stones, and entered seclusion to develop the Human Pill Technique and Blood Pill Technique.
• Wang Yu advanced the Human Pill Technique to Fourth Tier Perfection after three years of study.
• Wang Yu used the Glass Pagoda and a Starry Demon Stone to refine Zi Dian’s Nascent Soul into a Longevity Blood Infant Pill.

Wang Yu perfected the Grand Yin Nether Eye, refined three top-grade Longevity Blood Infant Pills, and used them to break through to the Nascent Soul Third Layer. Meanwhile, Frost Demon Monarch learned that Cold Blood Mountain Lord was considering siding with the Alchemy Hall against Wang Yu and warned him and the Sect Master.

• Wang Yu cultivated the Grand Yin Nether Eye to Void Moon perfection and discovered that its power could bind targets by distorting space.
• Wang Yu opened the Taihe Blood Cauldron and obtained three top-grade Longevity Blood Infant Pills made from Nascent Soul materials.
• Cold Blood Mountain Lord told Frost Demon Monarch that the Alchemy Hall wanted to move against Wang Yu, citing Mountain Guardian Old Flood Dragon’s approaching end and offering Cold Blood Peak priority access to pills.
• Frost Demon Monarch rejected the proposal, warned Cold Blood Mountain Lord against antagonizing the Sect Master, and sent Wang Yu a Divine Sense Jade Slip before heading to inform the Sect Master.
• Wang Yu refined all three Longevity Blood Infant Pills during three years of meditation and broke through to the Nascent Soul Third Layer with 6,320 drops of Demonic Essence.

Wang Yu investigated why Cold Blood Mountain Lord had agreed to the Alchemy Hall’s demand, then focused on mastering the Second Nascent Soul Secret Art and Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations. After Jin Miaoshan invited him to help kill Jin Lin, Wang Yu left the sect for Guiling City, where she greeted him with startling intimacy.

• Wang Yu suspected that Zhuo Clan geniuses were behind the Alchemy Hall’s plan and asked Xu Ruozhou to investigate them.
• Wang Yu studied the Second Nascent Soul Secret Art and considered combining it with Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations to create a body with two Nascent Souls.
• Wang Yu refined the Jade Spirit Soul Fusion Pill for Sky Roc King while following the war’s progress and continuing his secluded cultivation.
• Jin Miaoshan told Wang Yu that Jin Lin would travel to Guiling City, and Wang Yu agreed to help kill him.
• Wang Yu memorized the Zhuo Clan’s list of Heaven’s Chosen, left Snow Jade in the care of Tantai Chan, and departed the sect for Guiling City.
• Jin Miaoshan met Wang Yu in Guiling City and embraced him, surprising him with her closeness.

Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan discussed an ambush against Jin Lin and the powerful allies protecting him. Jin Miaoshan promised other helpers would join them once they reached Peach Province, and Wang Yu agreed to follow her arrangements.

• Jin Miaoshan tested Wang Yu's reaction to her seduction, but he turned the conversation toward their business.
• Jin Miaoshan explained that Jin Lin was bringing a Treasure Transport Team to retrieve the damaged Fifth Tier Nether Springs Earth Piercing Mirror for Yellow Springs Temple.
• Jin Miaoshan warned that attacking Jin Lin over the treasure would make Gold Abundance Pavilion treat them as traitors, so Wang Yu let go of the idea.
• Jin Miaoshan outlined Jin Lin's forces, including five Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, the Nascent Soul Late Stage Shadowless Mysterious Monarch and his assassins, Curse Ghost Demon Lord, and Jin Yan Daoren.
• Wang Yu asked whether Jin Miaoshan had formed her Nascent Soul, and she said she had only reached Peak Core Formation.
• Jin Miaoshan said they had other helpers waiting in Peach Province, and Wang Yu agreed to follow her arrangements.

Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan prepared an ambush for Jin Lin’s treasure transport team after securing Peach Blossom Immortal’s help and a Crimson Jade Longevity Peach. The ambush began with Jin Xi Yuanjun drawing away Shadowless Mysterious Monarch, while Wang Yu killed Curse Ghost Demon Lord and Jin Miaoshan trapped Jin Lin.

• Wang Yu took the five Outer Dao Golden Cores from Jin Xi Yuanjun and asked to study them.
• Jin Miaoshan and Wang Yu persuaded Peach Blossom Immortal to track the Treasure Transport Team in exchange for a Crimson Jade Longevity Peach, and Wang Yu revealed his Thunder Corpse and Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet.
• Jin Xi Yuanjun and Jin Miaoshan joined Wang Yu in ambushing Jin Lin’s team at the Peach Province border, where Jin Xi Yuanjun engaged Shadowless Mysterious Monarch.
• Wang Yu used his techniques and Thunder Corpse to kill Curse Ghost Demon Lord while Jin Yan Daoren fought the Thunder Corpse.
• Jin Miaoshan sealed the space around Jin Lin, and Wang Yu’s Chains of Heaven immobilized his Void Shuttle as Jin Lin realized he was trapped.

Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan killed Jin Lin, then fought and defeated Golden Jade Dragon Lord’s Spiritual Sense Incarnation after it possessed Jin Yan Daoren. The battle ended with Jin Yan captured and stored in Wang Yu’s Glass Pagoda, while Jin Miaoshan said they would wait for word from Peach Blossom Immortal and Senior Jin Xi before leaving.

• Wang Yu froze Jin Lin and broke his turtle-shell protective treasure with Black Ice spears.
• Jin Miaoshan used the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet to seize Jin Lin’s pearl treasure, then sealed his Cosmos Ring and killed him with the Asura Divine Sword.
• Golden Jade Dragon Lord’s Spiritual Sense Incarnation emerged through a talisman and possessed Jin Yan Daoren, then attacked Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu used the Soul Destroying Death Light and the Thunder Corpse’s Soul Suppressing Roar to disrupt Golden Jade Dragon Lord’s control and destroy the incarnation.
• Wang Yu defeated Jin Yan Daoren, froze his Nascent Soul, and suppressed him in the Glass Pagoda before sending his corpse to the Thunder Fiend Coffin.
• Jin Miaoshan checked on Wang Yu and said they would wait for Peach Blossom Immortal and Senior Jin Xi before setting out.

After killing Jin Lin, Wang Yu parted from Jin Miaoshan and traveled to Accumulated Thunder Mountain to search for a rumored heaven-and-earth thunder. He reached the mountain and used the Thunder Fire Remnant Map to narrow down his search, heading west toward Heaven Refining Demon Sect territory.

• Peach Blossom Immortal told Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan that Shadowless had withdrawn and the Treasure Transport Team had halted at Peach Province’s southern border.
• Wang Yu told Jin Miaoshan to return to Gold Abundance Pavilion and break through to Nascent Soul, while she warned him that Yellow Springs Temple would be the greater danger.
• Jin Xi Yuanjun returned after fighting Shadowless, and Jin Miaoshan asked her to wait at the ancient teleportation formation before taking Wang Yu into the peach forest.
• Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan spent several days together in Peach Blossom Immortal’s shelter, then parted ways.
• Wang Yu reached Accumulated Thunder Mountain and compared its terrain with the Thunder Fire Remnant Map.
• Wang Yu headed west through the mountain toward Heaven Refining Demon Sect territory to continue his search.

Wang Yu absorbed the extraordinary lightning at Accumulated Thunder Mountain and developed a black Lightning Spirit Root. After learning from Old Man Kurong that the Primeval Ruins Eastern Peak Capital had resurfaced, Wang Yu set off to investigate, suspecting Yellow Springs Temple might be involved.

• Wang Yu searched Accumulated Thunder Mountain for the special lightning recorded on the Thunder Fire Remnant Map and used the Devouring Thunder Spitting Lightning secret art to absorb the white lightning.
• Wang Yu discovered that refining the lightning grew a black Lightning Spirit Root and strengthened his body through its interaction with the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art.
• Old Man Kurong arrived to investigate the vanished thunderstorm and introduced himself to Wang Yu, who identified himself as Extreme Law of the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Old Man Kurong told Wang Yu that the Primeval Ruins Eastern Peak Capital had reappeared in Cloud Ridge Province, and Wang Yu considered whether the event was connected to Yellow Springs Temple and the Burial Pit Secret Realm.
• Wang Yu thanked Old Man Kurong and left for Eastern Peak Capital, while Old Man Kurong realized Extreme Law was Wang Yu and wondered how he would fare against Yellow Springs Temple.

Wang Yu entered the newly emerged Eastern Peak Capital after refining Black Demon Lightning and used his Feng Shui skills to seek out its hidden treasures. He joined forces with Yin Gui Demon Lord to reach an underground palace, where Yin Gui attacked three Core Formation cultivators and Wang Yu suspected they had walked into a trap.

• Wang Yu refined the Black Demon Lightning, which strengthened his body and formed a Yin Lightning Spiritual Root in his Dragon Spine.
• Wang Yu surveyed Eastern Peak Capital with Qi Gazing Golden Eyes and entered its Outer City to investigate the layout.
• Yin Gui Demon Lord led three Feng Shui cultivators to a courtyard, where they used their compasses to escape underground and evade his control.
• Wang Yu met Yin Gui Demon Lord and agreed to help find the Heavenly Yin Water Pool in exchange for a share of its treasure and the Water Token.
• Wang Yu used the Feng Shui Compass to guide Yin Gui through a Multiple Soul Confusion Formation into an underground palace.
• Yin Gui Demon Lord attacked the three Core Formation cultivators, and Wang Yu suspected their escape had lured them into a trap.

Wang Yu and Yin Gui Demon Lord fought an Eclipse Yin Python’s molt and suspected that a more powerful creature guarded the Heavenly Yin Water Pool. While they searched the Underground Palace’s waterways, an Extreme Yin Dragon King emerged and struck Yin Gui through the brow.

• Yin Gui Demon Lord battled the Eclipse Yin Python molt while Wang Yu realized it was not the true beast and suspected the python’s real body was nearby.
• Wang Yu identified the molt as a rare treasure, explained that the Eclipse Yin Python could become an Extreme Yin Dragon King, and joined Yin Gui in searching for three feng shui masters and their Water Tokens.
• Wang Yu and Yin Gui concluded that the Heavenly Yin Water Pool might conceal a tomb and followed the formation’s waterways, while feng shui geomancers arrived and entered the Underground Palace.
• Wang Yu detected a presence in the fourth waterway, and a tiny, dragon-headed Extreme Yin Dragon King burst from the water and pierced Yin Gui Demon Lord through the brow.

Wang Yu outmaneuvered Yin Gui Demon Lord and the pursuing cultivators, then found the hidden Heavenly Yin Water Pool and seized it with his spatial techniques. He killed the three Core Formation cultivators guarding it and took the Water Ancestral Decree and their treasures.

• Wang Yu used illusions to stall the Extreme Yin Dragon King, then exposed Yin Gui Demon Lord's feigned death and hurled him into the underground palace.
• Wang Yu disguised himself as Yin Gui, prompting the gathered cultivators to attack the real Yin Gui, who escaped after his Yin lightning killed several of them.
• Wang Yu sent the pursuers after Yin Gui and the Extreme Yin Dragon King while he searched the underground palace for the Heavenly Yin Water Pool.
• Wang Yu discovered the pool-space and used the Feng Shui Compass and Chains of Heaven to sever its connection to the formation and drag it within reach.
• Wang Yu's Ancient Soul incarnation trapped three Core Formation cultivators in the pool-space and killed them with a gray beam.
• Wang Yu collected the Water Ancestral Decree, the cultivators' corpses, and their Storage Rings, then dispersed his Divine Sense.