Chapter Summaries

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable and Yellow Springs Temple Master fought a destructive battle inside Eastern Peak Capital, while Wang Yu escaped and weighed his next move. After deciding to leave the Red Kite Demon Domain, Wang Yu transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered one last risky action.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable summoned his Wrath Blood Dharma Idol and clashed with Yellow Springs Temple Master's White Bone Demon God Dharma Idol amid the Purple Qi Divine Fire.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master used the Yellow Springs Treasure Vase to sustain his Dharma Idol, then shed his shell and attacked Crimson Heaven's followers.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master wounded Crimson Heaven's primordial spirit with the Azure Heavens World Cleansing Demon Sword and seized the three Jiao and two Child Attendants, but Imperial Palace restrictions killed both attendants.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators who escaped Eastern Peak Capital realized that the battle could reshape the demonic factions and affect the Cloud Ridge Province Battlefield.
• Wang Yu escaped through the Underground Dark River, decided to leave the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and Red Kite Demon Domain, and transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered a risky job.

Wang Yu triggered the hidden calamity beneath Eastern Peak Capital and fled as the city collapsed, leaving Crimson Heaven and Yellow Springs Temple Master to face a crimson Sinful Dragon. Heaven Refining Demon Venerable arrived, subdued the dragon, and tried to refine Wang Yu, who escaped the attack, while Yellow Springs Temple Master was left at his mercy.

• Wang Yu activated the Coiling Dragon Scepter, unleashing the accumulated resentment and the Yin Yang Slaughter Formation across Eastern Peak Capital, then fled toward the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Eastern Peak Capital collapsed, trapping Crimson Heaven and Yellow Springs Temple Master as the crimson Sinful Dragon rose from the ruins.
• The Sinful Dragon shattered Crimson Heaven's defenses, but Heaven Refining Demon Venerable arrived and captured it inside the Heaven Refining Demon Formation.
• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable targeted Wang Yu with the Heaven Refining Demon Flame, but Wang Yu abandoned his body below the neck, restored himself, and escaped at high speed.
• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable told Crimson Heaven that Yellow Springs Temple Master would be killed during the Righteous-Demonic War, and Yellow Springs Temple Master silently accepted the threat.

Wang Yu escaped Eastern Peak Capital with Heaven Refining Demon Venerable’s demon flame still burning him, and Yin Gui took him toward a hidden teleportation formation in Hundred Flowers Valley. They intercepted and killed the disguised Proud Sun Old Demon before reaching the secret grounds, where Wang Yu prepared to return to his sect while Yin Gui and Lian Yan faced the fallout.

• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable fought the Sinful Dragon while the Yellow Springs Temple Master tried to turn Chi Tian against pursuing Wang Yu.
• Yin Gui met Wang Yu, who arrived with only his head remaining, and hurried with Lian Yan toward Hundred Flowers Valley’s Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Wang Yu identified a fellow traveler as a Nascent Soul possessing a Core Formation body, and Yin Gui intercepted him as Proud Sun Old Demon.
• Wang Yu exposed Proud Sun, and Yin Gui and Lian Yan helped destroy Proud Sun’s Nascent Soul and took his Cosmos Ring.
• Yin Gui brought Wang Yu and Lian Yan to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Wang Yu wished Yin Gui success in reaching Nascent Soul Late Stage before they parted.

Wang Yu fled the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect after the events in Eastern Peak Capital and hid in the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range to recover from the Heaven Refining Demon Flame. After learning that the flame could only be subdued through years of cultivation, he set out for Water Cloud Province to seek refuge and continue healing.

• Wang Yu teleported away from Yin Gui, sealed the formation route, and arranged to meet Old Geezer Yu, Tantai Chan, Yu Tang Tang, and Snow Jade at the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon's cave.
• Wang Yu gave Old Geezer Yu the Crimson Jade Longevity Peach, warned him about the fallout from Eastern Peak Capital, and asked him to pass word about Ancestor Lie's death to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect's Sect Master.
• Wang Yu said farewell to Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan, passed Cold Dragon Alchemy to Tantai Chan, and left with Snow Jade through Old Geezer Yu's hidden teleportation route.
• Old Geezer Yu sent Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan toward the Black Water Mysterious Snake settlement, while Wang Yu reached Desolate City and began healing in seclusion.
• Wang Yu restored his Undying Spirit Bone but discovered that the Heaven Refining Demon Flame's artistic conception would take years to weaken with the Prajna Heart Sutra.
• The Heaven Refining Demon Sect blamed Wang Yu for the Eastern Peak Capital deaths and ordered the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect into the Vanguard Army; after half a year, Wang Yu left seclusion and headed for Water Cloud Province.

Wang Yu settled in Water Cloud Immortal Capital to conceal himself and recover from his wounds, disguising himself as a mortal and opening a wine shop. Three years later, he was thriving in his quiet new life while continuing his cultivation and healing.

• Wang Yu arrived in Water Cloud Immortal Capital, accepted breakfast from a young girl of the West Mountain Dou Clan, and learned who she was after leaving without giving his name.
• Wang Yu exchanged spirit stones for mortal money, bought ordinary clothes, and moved into a two-courtyard house on the edge of the Outer City Area, where he arranged a formation to conceal his aura.
• Wang Yu began cultivating secret arts and reciting the Prajna Heart Sutra, steadily recovering while discovering that the Heaven Refining Demon Flame was also refining his body.
• Wang Yu drove off hoodlums who targeted him after he displayed his wealth, planted two jujube trees, and rented a nearby shop to sell wine.
• Three years later, Wang Yu ran Wang's Herb Wine Shop with two shop hands, rejected matchmakers, and relaxed in the spring sun as his wounds continued to heal.

Wang Yu continued recovering in seclusion while living as a liquor-shop owner, and Dou Zhao discovered that his token belonged to an ancestor of her clan. As winter deepened and war brought extreme cold to the Water Cloud Immortal Capital, Wang Yu took in a starving girl and learned that a cultivator had likely killed her mother.

• Wang Yu showed Dou Zhao the Blood Token, and she recognized it as an eight-hundred-year-old heirloom of her clan; he claimed she should call him Ancestor Uncle.
• Several months later, Wang Yu heard that demonic forces had intensified the war and Cold Blood Peak was manipulating the weather, bringing deadly cold to the region.
• Wang Yu gave a hungry girl named Nannan a meal and learned that her mother had left that morning to buy charcoal.
• Wang Yu found Nannan's mother dead in an alley, her soul destroyed by what appeared to be a cultivator's attack.
• The next day, Wang Yu reunited Nannan with her father and learned from a neighboring teahouse owner that an Azure Cloud Sect cultivator had attacked a woman who had bumped into them while buying charcoal.

Wang Yu recovered from his injuries, refined the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill, and reached Nascent Soul Peak Divine Sense before returning to Water Cloud Immortal Capital. There, Qing Fang begged him to save the Dou Clan, which faced punishment as the Azure Cloud Sect shifted blame for the winter deaths onto local families; the chapter ended as an enforcement elder arrived at the Dou residence.

• Wang Yu learned that Azure Cloud Sect disciples had mishandled winter relief, but chose to focus on healing and cultivation rather than intervene.
• Wang Yu recovered, strengthened his body, then secluded himself to refine the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill and reached Nascent Soul Peak Divine Sense.
• Dou Zhao searched for Wang Yu after the Dou Clan was implicated in the Azure Cloud Sect's investigation, while Qing Fang waited for his return.
• The Azure Cloud Sect blamed the West Mountain Dou Clan and other local families for embezzling relief supplies as it sought to explain the mass deaths caused by the cold current.
• Wang Yu returned to his shop, where Qing Fang knelt and begged him to save the Dou Clan.
• At the Dou residence, the clan discussed its lack of allies and considered contacting Dou Quan before a servant announced the arrival of an enforcement elder from the City Lord's Mansion.

Wang Yu intervened after Gu Yanping threatened the Dou Family, then went to confront Water Cloud Immortal Capital’s city lord over the scheme to make the clan take the blame. He left the Dou Family protected for the moment and began assessing the city lord’s character at their meeting.

• Gu Yanping told the Dou Family to surrender its shops to the Gu Clan within three days or face destruction, and insulted Dou Zhao as a prospective concubine.
• Dou Xiong attacked Gu Yanping, whose defenses failed under Wang Yu’s Divine Sense pressure, and Wang Yu revealed himself as a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator.
• Wang Yu ordered Gu Yanping to tell the city lord that he would visit the City Lord’s Mansion at noon the next day, then warned Dou Zhao about his demonic identity and suggested Red Kite as a refuge.
• Wang Yu met the city lord and another Nascent Soul at the City Lord’s Mansion, recognized that the city lord had consumed pills made with the Blood Pill Technique, and judged his methods crude.

Wang Yu resolved the threat to the Dou Family, made Chang Xi his Demon Slave, and refined a Blood Infant Pill that greatly increased his Demonic Essence. As he returned to Water Cloud Immortal Capital, he encountered an Azure Cloud Sect disciple inciting a crowd against a scapegoated man and secretly searched the disciple’s soul.

• The City Lord and the Garrison Commander let Wang Yu’s intervention on the Dou Family’s behalf pass without testing him, and Wang Yu returned to his quiet life.
• Wang Yu offered Chang Xi death or servitude; she accepted the Demon Seed and became his Demon Slave, after which he released her near the border of Water Cloud Province.
• Wang Yu spent eighteen months refining Longevity Blood Infant Pills, consumed one, and increased his Demonic Essence by three thousand drops.
• The Ice Flame Butterflies emerged at Fourth Tier strength, and Wang Yu returned to Water Cloud Immortal Capital in his Boss Wang disguise.
• Dou Xiong argued with Dou Zhao about her attachment to Wang Yu and urged her to leave the city’s affairs to pursue cultivation.
• Wang Yu saw an Azure Cloud Sect disciple label a man a criminal and invite the crowd to beat him, so he sent a Soul Gouging Evil Boat into the disciple to search his soul.

After discovering that Azure Cloud Sect and Joyful Union Demon Sect cultivators had caused the deaths of a father and daughter, Wang Yu buried them and spent twenty years cultivating, reaching Nascent Soul Fifth Layer. Seeking life force to advance his body refinement, he headed for Water Cloud Immortal Capital, where Dou Zhao was being questioned about him.

• Wang Yu uncovered a Qi Refining cultivator’s role in Azure Cloud Sect’s scheme and Joyful Union Demon Sect’s trafficking, but the father and daughter he had tried to protect died from their injuries.
• Wang Yu buried the pair, abandoned his liquor shop, and devoted himself to cultivation for twenty years.
• Wang Yu reached Nascent Soul Fifth Layer, advanced his Ice Hell Demon Seal, and concluded that he needed to replenish his life force to improve his Undying Spirit Body.
• Wang Yu decided to harvest life force from cultivators in Water Cloud Immortal Capital and rushed toward the city.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, Yuan Tianyu and Hong Hai discussed the war and the mysterious Nascent Soul Great Perfection; they summoned Dou Zhao to question her about Wang Yu.

Wang Yu destroyed the City Lord's Mansion, killed City Lord Yuan and Old Daoist Hong Hai, and took Dou Zhao away as his disciple. After gathering information at Glacial River Pass, he secluded himself and broke through to Body Refinement Fourth Tier Late Stage, then gave Dou Zhao the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Art.

• Dou Zhao told City Lord Yuan that she had only briefly met Wang Yu, but the old servant ordered her to meet the Third Young Master, and Yuan threatened her when she refused.
• Wang Yu stormed the City Lord's Mansion, killed City Lord Yuan and Old Daoist Hong Hai, drained their life essence, and destroyed the mansion before escaping with Dou Zhao.
• Dou Zhao chose to leave with Wang Yu, said farewell to her family, and accepted his offer to become his disciple as they headed toward Icy Plains Province.
• Wang Yu gathered news about the fighting near Glacial River Pass, settled Dou Zhao at a secluded Second Tier Spirit Vein, and spent a year preparing for a breakthrough.
• Wang Yu broke through to Body Refinement Fourth Tier Late Stage, then gave the newly Foundation Establishment Dou Zhao the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Art and told her to consult him while cultivating it.

Wang Yu introduced Dou Zhao to Snow Jade, whose bloodline had transformed to Heavenly Grade Lower, and prepared to use his Hunting Plan to secure a suitable place for her breakthrough. He and Dou Zhao reached Kuang Mei Mountain, where Wang Yu went ahead alone to scout and contact allies.

• Wang Yu explained that he had taken Dou Zhao as a disciple to build a network of allies and introduced her to Snow Jade.
• Snow Jade showed off her new seven-tailed form and transformed bloodline, and Wang Yu discussed helping her break through and cultivate the Human Desire Art.
• Snow Jade described how her Snow Fox Garment and Heavenly Fox Seven Transformations had gained new forms and abilities.
• Wang Yu chose Kuang Mei Mountain as the site for Snow Jade's breakthrough and brought Dou Zhao and Snow Jade there.
• After Snow Jade declined to seek a breakthrough site among the Northern Lands Demon Clan, Wang Yu told her and Dou Zhao to wait and went alone to scout Kuang Mei Mountain.

Wang Yu gathered information from Ice Soul Fairy and devised a plan to draw Azure Cloud Sect forces away from Glacial River Pass by threatening Water Cloud Province. He then brought Snow Jade to a secluded spirit spring on Kuang Mei Mountain, where her transformation began beneath a heavenly tribulation.

• Wang Yu infiltrated the Red Kite camp and asked Ice Soul Fairy about the battle situation, sect deployments, and Kuang Mei Mountain’s spirit veins.
• Ice Soul Fairy revealed that Dark Roc Bishop had deliberately favored attrition, leaving Glacial River Pass in a prolonged stalemate.
• Wang Yu considered ways to lure Azure Cloud Sect experts into a hunt, and Dou Zhao suggested looking at the wider war and the threat to Water Cloud Immortal Capital.
• Wang Yu realized pressure on Water Cloud Province could force Azure Cloud Sect to transfer powerful cultivators south, creating a target for his plan.
• Wang Yu took Snow Jade and Dou Zhao to a secluded spirit spring on Kuang Mei Mountain, where Snow Jade began her transformation as heavenly might descended.

Wang Yu watched Snow Jade complete her tribulation as cultivators gathered at Kuang Mei Mountain, including Demon Lord Tang Yang, who attacked him. Wang Yu defeated Tang Yang and captured his Nascent Soul, while Snow Jade emerged from her tribulation and called to her master.

• Wang Yu told Dou Zhao that reaching Snow Jade’s realm could take her five hundred years, then urged her to cultivate independently and earn resources through hardship.
• Wang Yu sent Dou Zhao into the Human Seed Bag when Nascent Soul cultivators from the Nether Mountain Sect, Azure Cloud Sect, and Blazing Sun Sect arrived to watch Snow Jade’s tribulation.
• Demon Lord Tang Yang attacked Wang Yu with his Fire Crow Flame Feather Sword Wings, but Wang Yu compressed the attack into a golden orb and sent it exploding across Kuang Mei Mountain.
• Wang Yu captured the fleeing Nascent Soul of an Azure Cloud Sect cultivator and injured Tang Yang, whose magic treasures then began to self-destruct.
• Wang Yu avoided the explosions, killed Tang Yang, and captured his Nascent Soul in the Glass Pagoda.
• Snow Jade completed her tribulation and called out to Wang Yu.

Wang Yu killed Tang Yang and cultivated the Human Desire Art with Snow Jade and Dou Zhao before refining Tang Yang’s Nascent Soul to strengthen his Demonic Essence. As Wang Yu settled into cultivation, the Yellow Springs Temple Master and the Blood Demon Hall Master joined forces at Black Mountain Pass and prepared to unleash the Yellow Springs Great River.

• Snow Jade found Wang Yu after he killed Tang Yang and the old cultivator, and they left the scene as the Nether Mountain Sect priests fled to report the deaths.
• Snow Jade persuaded Dou Zhao to join her and Wang Yu in cultivating the Human Desire Art, and Dou Zhao later approached Wang Yu herself.
• Wang Yu delayed his Hunting Plan, refined Tang Yang’s Nascent Soul into a Blood Infant Pill, and reached the peak of Nascent Soul Fifth Layer while planning to stabilize his foundation.
• Snow Jade showed Wang Yu her Heavenly Fox Illusion, and he offered suggestions before beginning to refine the pill.
• The Yellow Springs Temple Master presented Zhuo Shouyun to the Blood Demon Hall Master and proposed they cooperate to draw in the Yellow Springs Great River and destroy the Great Lake Spirit Domain.

The Yellow Springs Temple Master and Blood Demon Hall Master agreed to create mass death sacrifices to summon the Yellow Springs Great River and help both of them reach Spirit Transformation. Months later, Wang Yu ambushed Azure Cloud Sect’s reinforcement fleet in Feng Province, destroying one war spirit boat and killing its cultivators before confronting two Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivators.

• The Yellow Springs Temple Master and Blood Demon Hall Master agreed to cooperate, selecting four locations for death sacrifices, including Water Cloud Immortal Capital.
• Months later, the Red Kite faction advanced north, and Wang Yu traveled through the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range to intercept Azure Cloud Sect’s reinforcements in Feng Province.
• Wang Yu and Snow Jade triggered a concealed Feng Shui formation that shattered a Heavenly Yin Water Pool, scattering three war spirit boats and killing over a thousand cultivators.
• Wang Yu attacked one boat, killed its Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, and destroyed its core with the Ice Dragon Pill Flame.
• Wang Yu killed two more Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators and, with Snow Jade’s Heavenly Fox Illusion, killed Lan Xin and wiped out the remaining cultivators aboard the boat.
• Two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators reached Wang Yu, and the next battle began.

Wang Yu defeated the Azure Cloud Sect force, capturing or killing eight Nascent Soul cultivators while the survivors fled. He escaped with Snow Jade toward the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range, as news of his victory spread and the Azure Cloud Sect’s council hall fell into a grim silence.

• Wang Yu trapped Black Wind Mysterious Monarch with his body, then shot him with a Vast Cold Arrow and suppressed his Nascent Soul in the Glass Pagoda.
• After the Guanyu Cultivator tried to retreat, Wang Yu used the Aurora Escape Technique and a spear throw to hold him back, then killed the two supporting Nascent Soul Mid Stage cultivators.
• Snow Jade fought the fleeing Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators while Wang Yu pursued and defeated the Guanyu Cultivator, leaving four early-stage cultivators to escape aboard two War Spirit Boats.
• Wang Yu refused to chase the survivors and headed with Snow Jade toward the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range to seek cultivation territory from the Northern Lands Demon Clan.
• News of Wang Yu’s victory spread across Tai Lake and Red Kite, making the Extreme Law Demon Lord famous throughout the Ice Prison Realm.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s council hall fell into a tense silence as its members faced the news.

Azure Cloud Sect leaders debated Wang Yu’s attack and decided to investigate whether he had taken refuge among the Northern Lands Demon Clan. Wang Yu stayed near Heart Beast Tower, arranged for Dou Zhao and Snow Jade to climb Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, and sought to trade his alchemy skills for resources while cultivating there.

• Azure Cloud Sect elders questioned four survivors about their defeat, and the survivors blamed Wang Yu’s strength and the deadly ambush.
• The sect leaders discussed whether an insider or the Northern Lands Demon Clan had helped Wang Yu, then resolved to investigate the demon clan and ask its Five-Colored Saint Lord to hand him over if he was there.
• At Heart Beast Tower, Wang Yu played chess with Third Master while Dou Zhao and Snow Jade prepared to climb Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain.
• Wang Yu questioned Third Master about the Northern Lands Demon Clan’s Spirit Transformation Demon Venerable and its plans, but Third Master instead offered the clan’s shelter in exchange for Wang Yu refining pills.
• Wang Yu declined the offer of protection, explaining that he intended to visit the Sky Roc Clan and could use alchemy commissions to obtain materials for his cultivation and treasures.

Wang Yu met with the Five-Colored Saint Lord and agreed to refine pills for the Northern Demon Clan, while the Saint Lord arranged for the Truth Speech King to stall an Azure Cloud Sect envoy seeking Wang Yu. Two years later, Wang Yu completed the pills and began discussing a larger alchemy deal with the Saint Lord.

• Wang Yu arrived at the Northern Demon Saint Lord Palace and met the Five-Colored Saint Lord, who invited Sky Roc King, Truth Speech King, and Shadow Hound King to join them.
• Wang Yu agreed to refine Fourth Tier pills for Truth Speech King and Shadow Hound King, then secluded himself to begin alchemy.
• Truth Speech King vouched for Wang Yu, and the Five-Colored Saint Lord revealed that he intended to enter the Saint Lord Heavenly Palace and bring back the Azure Dragon Venerable.
• The Azure Cloud Sect's Soul Spirit Yuan Lord arrived to demand Wang Yu, but Truth Speech King stalled him with a prolonged quarrel.
• Two years later, Wang Yu produced three nearly perfect Fourth Tier Top Grade pills in each of two bottles, and the Five-Colored Saint Lord invited him to discuss further business.

Wang Yu agreed to investigate the Ice Clan’s Son of the Ice God and uncovered signs that North Suppressing Pagoda might be involved in the Ice Clan’s secret plans. After arranging for Dou Zhao to train in Tai Lake for a hundred years, he prepared to approach Ice Soul Fairy and set the investigation in motion.

• Wang Yu agreed to the Sky Roc King’s request to have Cold Blood Peak investigate whether the Ice Clan’s Gatekeeper Tribe had a Son of the Ice God, and he suspected the matter was connected to the Saint Lord Heavenly Palace.
• Wang Yu and Sky Roc King inferred that North Suppressing Pagoda might be tied to the Ice Clan’s mixed-blood secret art, and the Five-Colored Saint Lord expected the Demonic Dao to intervene.
• Snow Jade and Dou Zhao left the Ancient Beast Ancestral God Mountain, with Snow Jade reaching the Nascent Soul Second Layer and Dou Zhao reaching the Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
• Wang Yu gave Dou Zhao pills, talismans, and magic treasures, then ordered her to train in Tai Lake and reach Core Formation within a hundred years if she wanted to return.
• Wang Yu told Dou Zhao to deliver a letter about North Suppressing Pagoda to Lei Yao of the Demon Luo Sect, while he planned to speak with Ice Soul Fairy at Kuang Mei Mountain and invite her to use a Fifth Tier Treasure Pill.