Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu returned to the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest and challenged the Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable, offering a Stone Dragon Pearl for Nine Revolutions Gu God Tears. The Demon Venerable ambushed him, and Wang Yu retaliated by unleashing a meteor shower over Poison Dragon Lake.

• Xie Xie An used a leaf magical treasure to slide his squad out of the slaughter weapons’ encirclement, then told Demon Lord Qian Yuan that the Barren Ancient Plains had amplified the slaughter field and they needed to leave.
• Wang Yu entered the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest and reached Poison Dragon Lake, where he announced himself to the Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable.
• Wang Yu offered a Stone Dragon Pearl in exchange for a drop of Nine Revolutions Gu God Tears, and the Demon Venerable agreed to trade.
• The Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable poisoned Wang Yu’s divine sense and attacked him with the Poison Dragon Ripping Wind Claw, but Wang Yu’s defenses held.
• Wang Yu escaped the Demon Venerable’s physical toxin with help from the Red Rust Insect Swarm, then summoned a colossal Moonfall Stone over Poison Dragon Lake.
• The Demon Venerable transformed into a Green Poison Flood Dragon and smashed the meteorite, while Wang Yu ignited the fragments with Ice Flame to rain destruction over the forest’s core.

Wang Yu fought Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable at Poison Dragon Lake, severely wounding him with the Great Yin Vast Cold Arrow and prompting him to abandon his hostility. They completed a trade and agreed to cooperate if the war reached the Sword Sect Mountain Gate, while Wang Yu left with the Nine Revolutions Gu God Tears needed to create a Fifth Tier Ice Flame.

• Wang Yu unleashed the Ice Hell Demonic Seal and clashed with Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable, then struck him with the Great Yin Vast Cold Arrow, piercing his chest and suppressing his recovery.
• Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable called off the fight, and Wang Yu negotiated a peaceful exchange of the Stone Dragon Pearl for the Nine Revolutions Gu God Tears.
• Wang Yu and Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable completed the trade after a Spatial Rift appeared to draw the Demon Venerable's suspicion.
• Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Venerable gave Wang Yu a Qin Yuan Jade Pendant and offered to join an assault on the Sword Sect Mountain Gate or help him if he faced danger in Red Kite territory.
• Wang Yu accepted the pendant with precautions, then left the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest for the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, carrying the materials needed to create a Fifth Tier Ice Flame.

After thirty years of seclusion, Wang Yu refined the Ice Flame Butterfly swarm into the Fifth Tier Ice Dragon Pill Flame and completed preparations for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. He set out to join the Northern Demons, determined to claim the Spirit Transformation opportunity for himself.

• Wang Yu used the Nine Revolutions Gu God Tears to strengthen the Ice Flame Butterfly swarm, then made it fight the Red Rust Worms, Heavenly Poison Scorpions, and Ghost Ants inside the Ice Gu Container.
• During seclusion, Wang Yu worked on his Law Intent, planned to seek a Frost Dharma Idol legacy, arranged for Chang Xi to gather information on North Suppressing Pagoda's core disciples, and prepared for the secret realm.
• Wang Yu sent Cold Blood Peak disciples to hunt Ice Attribute Demon Beasts for materials to strengthen his Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations, while continuing to refine pills and cultivate.
• Thirty years later, the Ice Flame Butterflies won the Gu battle and advanced to the Fifth Tier, after which Wang Yu's Ice Dragon Pill Flame devoured them and gained their power.
• Yan Ling sent Wang Yu a route map and warned him about demon ambushes and the risks of trusting the Northern Demons.
• Wang Yu prepared to leave the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect for the Endless Ice Field, confident he was the strongest participant and resolved to seize the Saint Lord Heavenly Palace's Spirit Transformation opportunity.

As the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm approached, the North Suppressing Pagoda agreed to lend the Ice Clan ten Nascent Soul cultivators, while Wang Yu learned that the Five-Colored Saint Lord wanted him to refine a pill to heal the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable. The Northern Demon Kings grew wary of the Five-Colored Saint Lord, and Wang Yu set out with the Northern Demons’ main force toward the Endless Ice Field.

• At the North Suppressing Pagoda, Xue Wu Shuang agreed to provide Bing Jiu with ten Nascent Soul cultivators for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, though the Ice Clan would need to obtain its own Saint Tokens.
• The Five-Colored Saint Lord told Wang Yu that he wanted him to refine the Return Origin Revive Spirit Pill to heal the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable, and Wang Yu agreed to try.
• Sky Roc King and the other Demon Kings discussed their suspicions about the Five-Colored Saint Lord and realized that his position let him command the Northern Demons’ experts.
• Cultivators across the northern territory sought Saint Tokens, and some ambushed others to seize them.
• Three months later, Wang Yu traveled with more than forty Nascent Soul cultivators from the Northern Demons into the Endless Ice Field, where Snow Jade felt comfortable inside his sleeve.

Wang Yu learned that the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable was healing inside the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and that the Five-Colored Saint Lord’s plans might threaten the others’ interests. He revealed that the Ice Clan could enter the realm without Saint Tokens, then ordered a Sky Roc demon to attack an Ice Clan cultivator, setting off a confrontation.

• Wang Yu arrived at the platform with the Northern Demons, identified Bing Jiu and his Ice Clan party as major competitors, and quietly considered using his soul-searching technique on Bing Jiu.
• The Five-Colored Saint Lord warned the Ice Clan not to covet the Demon Race’s secret treasury, but Bing Jiu insisted that his people had a right to enter with their Saint Tokens.
• The Sky Roc King told Wang Yu that the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable was healing inside the secret realm and asked him to watch the Five-Colored Saint Lord and help with a precious pill.
• Wang Yu told the Sky Roc King that the Ice Phoenix Saint Lord had been Pure-Blood Ice Clan and that the Ice Clan could enter without Saint Tokens, prompting the Five-Colored Saint Lord to watch him closely.
• After Wang Yu gave an affirmative order, a Sky Roc Clan Nascent Soul cultivator killed an Ice Clan member with a single slap, and the victim’s Ice Crystal Nascent Soul called for Bing Jiu’s help.

Wang Yu helped the Northern Demons defeat the Mixed-Blood Ice Clan, killing Bing Jiu and a North Suppressing Pagoda elder while collecting spoils. Afterward, he searched Bing Jiu’s Nascent Soul and discovered dozens more Sons of the Ice God were preserved in transparent ice pillars.

• The Mixed-Blood Ice Clan attacked the Northern Demons, and the Thunder Kirin King, Sky Roc King, and Fire Crow King counterattacked.
• Wang Yu killed Bing Jiu with his Flesh Demon Sword and sealed his Ice Infant in the Glass Pagoda.
• Wang Yu used the Sun Piercing Demon Bow to destroy the North Suppressing Pagoda elder’s Frost Pagoda and kill his body.
• The Northern Demons routed the Mixed-Blood Ice Clan, whose survivors fled into the Endless Ice Field.
• The Three Kings compared intelligence about the Five-Colored Saint Lord and discussed precautions against him.
• Wang Yu searched Bing Jiu’s Nascent Soul and learned that at least thirty or forty other Sons of the Ice God lay dormant in transparent ice pillars.

Wang Yu entered the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and overcame an ancient Ice Phoenix mind trial, while the Ice Clan sent North Suppressing Pagoda forces to ambush the cultivators inside. He emerged in the Extreme Cold Hell Road, with the others still trapped in the deadly trial.

• Wang Yu searched Bing Jiu's and the North Suppressing Pagoda elder's memories, uncovering the Ice Clan's plans and the Eternal Frozen Yin God Dharma Idol inheritance.
• The Five-Colored Saint Lord opened the secret realm with a dragon-and-phoenix Ice Crystal Token, but Yan Ling's hidden Ice Phoenix mark did not react.
• Wang Yu and the other cultivators were drawn into a mental trial where an ancient Ice Phoenix attacked them, while the Sky Roc King suspected the slaughtered Mixed-Blood Ice Clan had triggered the trap.
• Bing Lie ordered Xue Wu Shuang to deploy the Eighty-One Eternal Frozen Yin Severing Formation, and Xue Wu Shuang led more than sixty Nascent Soul cultivators toward the secret realm.
• Wang Yu reshaped the trial into his Heart Lake Space and destroyed the Ice Phoenix remnant with Soul Destroying Death Light.
• Wang Yu passed through the trial and arrived at the secret realm's first region, the Extreme Cold Hell Road.

Wang Yu crossed the Extreme Cold Hell Road, where his Ice Dragon Pill Flame protected him and absorbed the cold while guiding him toward a treasure beneath the lake. Behind him, the other cultivators entered the road, and Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang were forced to scout ahead as Yan Ling trusted that Senior Brother Wang was nearby.

• Wang Yu stepped onto the bluestone road and discovered that his Ice Dragon Pill Flame could withstand and absorb its extreme cold.
• Wang Yu tested the lake water, sensed the flame's longing for something beneath it, and followed its guidance along the road.
• The Sky Roc King, Fire Crow King, Thunder Kirin King, and other cultivators emerged from the Mind Trap and found Evergreen True Lord frozen on the path.
• Fire Crow King shattered Evergreen True Lord's frozen body and took his Nascent Soul and Storage Ring, while Green Heron Hermit used his Saint Token to escape.
• Wang Yu traveled beyond halfway along the road, refining its cold qi and sensing the other cultivators catching up.
• Yu Hongchen and Ji Changjing forced Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang to scout ahead, and Yan Ling reassured Yu Tang Tang that Senior Brother Wang was just ahead.

Wang Yu followed the Ice Dragon Pill Flame to an Ice Palace beneath the lake and found the legendary Nine Layered Profound Ice Lotus. After defeating its guardian puppet and taking the treasure, he was joined by Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang.

• Wang Yu abandoned his plan to gather pill-refining resources and was dragged beneath the lake by its water tentacles after the Ice Dragon Pill Flame drew him toward the depths.
• Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang were also pulled underwater, while Ancient Beast True Lord, Yu Hongchen, and Luo Tianji escaped the water-curtain trap and left Wang Yushan behind.
• Wang Yu broke free of the ice at the lake bottom, followed the strongest yin-cold qi, and discovered an Ice Palace containing a Nine Layered Profound Ice Lotus.
• Wang Yu reached for the lotus and fought the Dark Blue Armored Puppet that guarded it, destroying the puppet with his strength and bow.
• Wang Yu took the Nine Layered Profound Ice Lotus, then saw Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang enter the Ice Palace.

Wang Yu parted ways with Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang after protecting them and defeating Wang Yushan, then refined the Nine Layered Profound Ice Lotus to comprehend the Vast Cold Law Intent. He left cultivation half a month later with his power greatly increased and prepared to venture deeper into the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.

• Wang Yu warned Yan Ling about the dangers of her True Spirit Ice Phoenix Soul Spirit Seal, gave her a protective treasure, and agreed to help her after they left the secret realm.
• Wang Yu fought and froze Wang Yushan, then used Soul Search to learn his cultivation methods and Buddhist inheritance.
• Wang Yu advised Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang to avoid the Five-Colored Saint Lord and seek help from the Sky Roc King if needed, then parted ways with them.
• Wang Yu refined the Nine Layered Profound Ice Lotus, fed its top three layers to the Ice Dragon Pill Flame, and consumed the remaining layers.
• Wang Yu comprehended Minor Accomplishment Vast Cold Law Intent, gained nearly twenty Demonic Essence Crystals, and set out toward the deeper secret realm.

Wang Yu identified the Palace District’s hidden Eight Gates Heavenly Evasion Formation and entered, while Huo Wuji led the Northern Demons into a deadly gate and left them trapped among grotesque monsters. The chapter ended with the demon kings demanding Huo Wuji find a way out.

• Huo Wuji used a conjured moon to guide the Northern Demons through the bewildering formation and into the Palace District.
• Yan Ling’s Soul Spirit Seal flashed, drawing her through a Black Ice Wall, and Yu Tang Tang followed after her.
• Yu Hongchen and Ji Changjing planned to use Ancient Beast True Lord to help them navigate with the Heavenly Míng Guidance.
• Wang Yu used the Feng Shui Compass and Water Ancestral Decree to identify the Eight Gates Heavenly Evasion Formation, then entered the Palace District.
• The Northern Demons entered the Death Gate, where a Flesh Fungus Carpet spawned mutating monsters that suppressed their bloodline power.
• Sky Roc King ordered a retreat, Fire Crow King blamed Huo Wuji, and Thunder Kirin King mocked him as he tried to calculate a safe route.

Wang Yu discovered that he could refine the Eight Gates Heavenly Evasion Formation’s Demonic Life Force by transforming into a demonized beast, and he broke through to the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer. He left the plaza to explore the Palace District, while the Northern Demons battled ancient demonized beasts and suffered a comrade’s mutation.

• Wang Yu tested the plaza’s Demonic Life Force, identified the monsters’ demonic-beast bloodline traits, and froze them before realizing the force would eventually demonize him.
• Wang Yu used Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations to take on a One-Eyed Demon Person form, then refined Demonic Life Force into demonic essence without further mutation.
• The Northern Demons entered the Death Gate plaza, where Thunder Kirin King seized Huo Wuji as the group faced demonized ancient beasts.
• The Northern Demons fought the beasts until a Thunder Kirin Beast Clan expert succumbed to Demonic Life Force and attacked his comrades.
• After three days of cultivation, Wang Yu broke through to the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer and chose to explore the Palace District rather than remain in the formation to approach Nascent Soul Peak.

Wang Yu obtained the Seven Heart Treasure Wheel Saint Tree in Saint Heart Hall, turned aside the Five-Colored Saint Lord’s attempt to bargain for it, and refined it to break through to the Gleaming Realm. Meanwhile, the Northern Demons regrouped after devastating losses, and the Hehuan duo and Ancient Beast True Lord reached Phoenix Zenith Hall as the chapter ended with Wang Yu’s breakthrough.

• Wang Yu found the Seven Heart Treasure Wheel Saint Tree in Saint Heart Hall, but the Five-Colored Saint Lord emerged through a Spatial Rift and offered to trade it for Wang Yu’s alchemy services.
• Wang Yu attacked the Five-Colored Saint Lord with his Sun Piercing Demon Bow, but the Saint Lord redirected the arrow with Void Grand Evasion, warned Wang Yu, and disappeared, leaving the tree behind.
• Wang Yu stored the Seven Heart Treasure Wheel Saint Tree, returned to the Rest Gate plaza, and refined it in his Heart Lake as the Northern Demons’ six surviving members regrouped after their losses.
• The Fire Crow King, Sky Roc King, and Thunder Kirin King discussed finding Wang Yu and the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable, then set out to search the Palace District for treasures and a way forward.
• Yu Hongchen, Ji Changjing, and Luo Tianji used the Heavenly Míng Guidance to reach Phoenix Zenith Hall, where Luo Tianji sent his Bi’an ahead to test for traps.
• Wang Yu’s Seven Heart Treasure Wheel Saint Tree absorbed the Asura Killing Heart, grew in his Heart Lake, and helped him break through to the Gleaming Realm, reducing the Placement Slot’s cultivation time for his Spirit Transformation Dharma Idol.

Wang Yu pursued the Eight Gates Heavenly Evasion Formation’s core and entered Phoenix Zenith Hall, where he discovered a tower containing combat-method inheritances. As a powerful black-flamed ice phoenix emerged and hunted the Northern Demons, Wang Yu began learning high-level techniques in the tower.

• Wang Yu completed his Mind Realm breakthrough, transformed into his Demon Person form, and headed toward Phoenix Zenith Hall to seek the formation core.
• The Northern Demons rampaged through the Palace District, while an ice phoenix with the aura of a powerful Spirit Transformation demon emerged from a flesh cocoon and flew toward them.
• Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang reached Phoenix Zenith Hall and suspected the terrifying aura belonged to a true Ice Phoenix, so Yan Ling tried to contact Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu entered Phoenix Zenith Hall with Snow Jade and used her Seven-tailed Treasure Lamp to reveal tracks and bloodstains left by earlier visitors.
• Wang Yu found the Secret Treasure Ancient Tower and discovered that its Jade Tablets taught combat methods rather than Divine Abilities or Secret Arts.
• Wang Yu chose the Aperture Combat Method and other advanced techniques that could strengthen his magical combat.

Wang Yu learned the Taiji Primal Chaos Hand as the Ice Phoenix Corpse devastated the Northern Demons and trapped their surviving kings inside Phoenix Zenith Hall. Following Snow Jade's nose into a strange illusion, Wang Yu found a Longevity Fruit and attacked the controlled cultivators gathered beneath it, capturing Yu Hongchen and Ji Changjing.

• Wang Yu used the Placement Slot to learn the Taiji Primal Chaos Hand and other combat techniques to minor attainment.
• The Ice Phoenix Corpse killed Peng Qing, defeated the Sky Roc King, and hunted down the fleeing demons; the Fire Crow King and Thunder Kirin King escaped into Phoenix Zenith Hall, where the corpse could not enter.
• Wang Yu left the Secret Treasure Ancient Tower and followed Snow Jade deeper into the palace, eventually entering a wooden-box building filled with an illusion of a spring forest.
• Snow Jade led Wang Yu to a giant tree bearing a Longevity Fruit, where Yu Hongchen, Ji Changjing, Ancient Beast True Lord, Bi'an, Yan Ling, and Yu Tang Tang appeared to be under control.
• Wang Yu attacked the group, broke through Bi'an's defense, redirected Yu Hongchen and Ji Changjing's combined attack with the Taiji Primal Chaos Hand, and sealed the two inside his Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda.

Wang Yu defeated Luo Tianji and Bi'an, broke the illusion concealing the so-called Longevity Fruit, and discovered that its true source was a Life Ancient Demon finger. He chose to refine the finger to break through his body-refinement realm, but Demonic Contamination seized him as the breakthrough began.

• Wang Yu defeated Luo Tianji, captured his Nascent Soul, subdued Bi'an, and absorbed Bi'an's bloodline with Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations.
• Wang Yu used an extending ice pillar to break the Mirage Pearl's illusion, revealing that the Longevity Fruit was a flower bud rooted around a Life Ancient Demon finger.
• Wang Yu found Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang alive, then told Snow Jade to learn from his decisions and sent her back to the Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Wang Yu decided to refine the ancient demon finger despite the risk of Demonic Contamination and swallowed it, using the Ice Soul Saint Demonic Scripture and Undying Spirit Body to process its life force.
• After three days and nights of removing demonic growths from his body, Wang Yu reached the breakthrough point, and scarlet overtook his eyes as Demonic Nature began to overwhelm him.

Wang Yu overcame the hidden influence of the Life Ancient Demon’s contamination and used the Ancient Demon Finger to break through to the fifth tier of body refinement. His Spirit Transformation Thunder Tribulation began, and the chapter ended as its final bolt shattered his spear and enveloped his armor, transforming his aura.

• Wang Yu resisted the Life Ancient Demon’s contamination with the Prajna Heart Sutra, though its health-preserving impulse remained rooted in his subconscious.
• Wang Yu used the Ancient Demon Finger’s life force to refine his body, advancing his Undying Spirit Bones, golden blood, and Control of Strength over nearly two months.
• Thunder Kirin King and Fire Crow King left the Secret Treasure Ancient Tower and discovered Wang Yu beneath a Spirit Transformation Thunder Tribulation.
• Wang Yu absorbed the early thunderbolts to strengthen his Black Demon Lightning, then used his magic treasures and strength to withstand the later bolts.
• The final golden thunderbolt shattered Wang Yu’s Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and engulfed his Fiend Dragon Armor as his aura began to transform.

After breaking through to the Fifth Tier of body refinement and unlocking his eighth placement slot, Wang Yu agreed to help the Northern Demon kings search for the wounded Azure Dragon Demon Venerable. He then confronted the Ice Phoenix guarding Phoenix Zenith Hall, hoping to weaken it and claim its body and flame.

• Wang Yu reached the Fifth Tier of body refinement, unlocked his eighth placement slot, and placed the Śāgara Dragon Phase Divine Power Method in it.
• The Fire Crow King and Thunder Kirin King told Wang Yu that the Northern Demons had lost track of the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable, and Wang Yu agreed to search with them and assess the demon's condition.
• Wang Yu released Yan Ling and Yu Tang Tang from the Ice Hell Demon Seal and asked Yan Ling to help with the Ice Phoenix guarding Phoenix Zenith Hall.
• Wang Yu tested the Ice Phoenix's flame attack, then concealed himself and moved outside the hall to study its methods.
• Wang Yu emerged beside the Ice Phoenix and struck it with a punch.

Wang Yu defeated and sealed the Ice Phoenix vicious corpse, then led the others toward Phoenix Abyss Cold Pool. There, the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable confronted the Five-Colored Saint Lord before the Prison King Spirit Official appeared and forced him to his knees.

• Wang Yu battered the Ice Phoenix with his physical techniques, weakened its recovery, and sealed it inside the Glass Pagoda.
• Wang Yu notified the others in Phoenix Zenith Hall, and Fire Crow King and Thunder Kirin King followed him toward Phoenix Abyss Cold Pool.
• The Azure Dragon Demon Venerable awoke at the bottom of the cold pool and challenged the Five-Colored Saint Lord about his position and the Medicine Horn Deer Clan.
• The Five-Colored Saint Lord revealed that he had become Northern Demons' Saint Lord, and the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable suspected someone had arranged his rise.
• The Prison King Spirit Official appeared through a tear in the void, released his Void Refining Peak aura, and forced the Azure Dragon Demon Venerable to kneel.

The Azure Dragon Demon Venerable escaped the Prison King Spirit Official’s attempt to recruit him and met Wang Yu and his party at Phoenix Abyss Cold Pool. After learning about the Northern Demons’ plight, he gave Wang Yu an ancient recipe for a pill that could counter the Heaven Refining Demon Flame.

• The Azure Dragon Demon Venerable rejected the Prison King Spirit Official’s promise of future ascension and fled the Phoenix Abyss Cold Pool.
• The Prison King Spirit Official ordered the Five-Colored Saint Lord to find the Heavenly Human Spirit Communication Treasure Vine and break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Wang Yu’s party reached the cold pool, where Yan Ling sensed the True Ice Phoenix’s imprisonment and the Sorrowful Phoenix Ice Blood Stone.
• The Azure Dragon Demon Venerable appeared before Wang Yu and the Northern Demons, then criticized the Fire Crow King and Thunder Kirin King for their handling of the clan.
• The Azure Dragon Demon Venerable gave Wang Yu a recipe for the Frosty Sky Ghost God Pill, and Wang Yu recognized it as a pill that could eliminate the Heaven Refining Demon Flame.