Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang realized that the Foreign Races had lured the Patrol Envoys away from their base by pretending to obstruct their advance, then raced back with Yellow Sparrow. Near the base, he exposed and destroyed an impostor posing as Vermilion Bird, while the real Vermilion Bird confirmed that no large-scale attack had begun yet.

• Qin Yang watched Yellow Sparrow slaughter a swarm of Fiends, gave him precious soup, and learned that the Patrol Envoys had been lured deep into the Outer Battlefield by news that Qin Yang had been captured.
• Qin Yang concluded that the Fiends and beasts had drawn Blood Phoenix and most of the combat Patrol Envoys away while other Foreign Races prepared to cut off their retreat and attack the lightly defended base.
• Qin Yang turned back toward the base with Yellow Sparrow and inferred that the Foreign Races had exploited the report of his capture to draw the Patrol Envoys out.
• Qin Yang and Yellow Sparrow encountered Vermilion Bird near the base, and she reported that no large-scale attack had begun, though she did not know who planned to attack or where they were hiding.
• Qin Yang tested Vermilion Bird with the Blood Transformation Demon Blade, then used the Thinking Art to overwhelm her and destroy the impostor, which scattered into streams of divine light.

Qin Yang uncovered that Vermilion Bird’s divine ability came from a Heavenly Demon King fused into her manifestation, creating a Black Vermilion Bird who had secretly sabotaged the Array Cluster. After the trap opened a breach for Foreign Race experts, Qin Yang revealed that he had anticipated the sabotage and prepared a counterattack, leaving him facing Black Vermilion Bird.

• Qin Yang returned to the Array Cluster with Yellow Sparrow and ordered him to attack Vermilion Bird, then confirmed she was genuine by striking her with the Blood Transformation Demon Blade.
• Qin Yang entered a repaired Inverted Pyramid, where an attack destroyed its core and opened a massive breach in the Array Cluster.
• Yellow Sparrow recognized that Black Vermilion Bird had emerged from the real Vermilion Bird, and Qin Yang explained that she was the other half of a Heavenly Demon King Vermilion Bird had refined.
• Qin Yang revealed that he had deliberately destroyed the Inverted Pyramid and disguised his changes to the grand array, while Foreign Race experts began entering through the breach.
• Qin Yang summoned a starry formation and challenged Black Vermilion Bird, preparing to kill her.

Qin Yang trapped black Vermilion Bird in the Starfall Array and used doubts about her identity to make her reveal her original form, then destroyed her with the black sword in his consciousness. After using Corpse Touching on the remains, he obtained a memory and the Heavenly Demon Codex, whose writing he could not read.

• Qin Yang sent Vermilion Bird and Yellow Sparrow to confront the enemies who had entered through the breach while he faced black Vermilion Bird alone.
• Black Vermilion Bird fled through the Starfall Array, but Qin Yang lured her into a pavilion and questioned her about the Heavenly Demon King and the Three Bodies Treasure Technique.
• Qin Yang’s doubts drove black Vermilion Bird to abandon her current form and reveal herself as the Heavenly Demon King, allowing him to seize her with demonic aura and draw her into his consciousness.
• The black sword split black Vermilion Bird apart and killed her, while Qin Yang admitted he had only suspected she might be an incarnation rather than the Heavenly Demon King.
• Qin Yang used Corpse Touching to obtain a memory and a golden book, then discovered the book was the Heavenly Demon Codex and that he could not read its characters.

Qin Yang uncovered a dangerous watcher in the Black Vermilion Bird’s memories, then reached the battlefield and began rescuing Foreign Race members whose consciousness had not been fully twisted. He recruited a recovered Azure Ox Demon to help, but judged the next captive beyond saving.

• Qin Yang examined the Heavenly Demon Codex and the Black Vermilion Bird’s memories, then destroyed the memory fragments after a pair of eyes in the Void Great Hall seemed to spy on him.
• Qin Yang inferred that the Heavenly Demon King had struck a deal concerning the Land of Immortality and hurried to help Yellow Sparrow and the Vermilion Bird fight the Foreign Race experts.
• Qin Yang stopped Yellow Sparrow from exhausting himself and told him and the Vermilion Bird to hide while he searched for Foreign Race members who could still be saved.
• Qin Yang knocked out a nose-ringed Azure Ox Demon, removed the black qi twisting his consciousness, and persuaded him to help rescue others.
• Qin Yang identified a mouthless Foreign Race member as beyond saving and told the Azure Ox Demon to kill him.

Qin Yang rescued Foreign Races whose minds had been twisted by the Chou Ge Beasts, foiling their scheme and turning the races against them. After the defensive line was rebuilt, Vermilion Bird begged for death over the losses she had caused, but Blood Phoenix exiled her instead.

• Qin Yang and Old Ox rescued several Foreign Races from the evil art, while killing those whose consciousness could no longer be saved.
• Qin Yang persuaded the rescued Foreign Races to delay seeking revenge and sent them away with tokens, expecting their anger to fall on the Chou Ge Beasts.
• Blood Phoenix returned from battle, and Qin Yang urged the Patrol Envoys to rebuild the three Inverted Pyramids and repair the defensive line.
• Three months later, Vermilion Bird, sealed and grieving the deaths of the formation master and Red Phoenix, asked Blood Phoenix to kill her.
• Qin Yang slapped Vermilion Bird and demanded that she live to honor the dead and defeat their enemy.
• Yellow Sparrow told Qin Yang that Blood Phoenix had exiled Vermilion Bird from the base and forbidden her from returning to the Great Wilderness.

Qin Yang waited for the Puppet Master to return with the item while studying the outer-space races, and the Puppet Master finally crossed the Gale Wind Layer and delivered it to Li Capital. As tensions among the Foreign Races escalated, Qin Yang told Blood Phoenix he planned to go out and deal with the Chou Ge Beasts so he could end the crisis and return to the Great Wilderness.

• Qin Yang studied the Patrol Envoys' records on outer-space races while he waited for the passage to be repaired and the Puppet Master to return.
• The Puppet Master survived the Gale Wind Layer, emerged over the Eastern Sea, and alarmed its powerful inhabitants, who feared he might bring another calamity.
• The Puppet Master delivered the item to Li Capital, gave it to Shen Xingluo, and later killed Qin Yang's small avatar after releasing it from his abdomen.
• As Foreign Races were exterminated and fighting intensified, the Patrol Envoys prepared Yellow Sparrow to cross the Gale Wind Layer, but Qin Yang stopped him after learning the item had been delivered.
• Qin Yang told Blood Phoenix he wanted to build friendly relations with the Foreign Races and openly interfere with the Chou Ge Beasts' plans so the crisis would end sooner.

Qin Yang left the Patrol Envoy Base to investigate his foreboding and discovered that the Mouthless Monsters transformed captives into new members of their kind. He destroyed their habitat, rescued Old Ox, and learned that a traitor had helped capture him.

• Qin Yang left a clone at the Patrol Envoy Base and traveled to a shattered land fragment, collecting its pieces and discovering a living, scale-patterned stone egg.
• Qin Yang flew to a Mouthless Monsters habitat, planted clones and Destruction Balls throughout it, and saw the monsters transform a Green Ox Demon into one of their own.
• Qin Yang detonated the Destruction Balls, wrecking the habitat and freeing Old Ox, while he and his clones gathered the scattered fragments.
• Old Ox killed surviving Mouthless Monsters as Qin Yang collected the remaining debris, then explained that a traitor had allied with them and ambushed him and his clansmen.
• Qin Yang reacted with furious indignation and asked Old Ox to identify the traitor.

Qin Yang destroyed the tiger-headed demons’ land, took its Star Nucleus and eight guardian statues, and followed the survivors’ trail through the void. He reached a colossal tree that might be the Chou Ge Beasts’ lair, but he had no Destruction Balls left and could not bring himself to destroy or take it.

• Qin Yang and Old Ox attacked the tiger-headed demons’ planet, where Qin Yang discovered its Star Nucleus and blew the land apart with Destruction Balls.
• Qin Yang collected the Star Nucleus, fragments, lava, and all eight guardian statues while Old Ox held off the tiger-headed demons.
• Qin Yang rescued the wounded Old Ox, received an Azure Ox Demon positioning method, and used it to understand the Star Guiding Art.
• Qin Yang traced the tiger-headed demons’ lingering heat through the void, expecting them to lead him to the Chou Ge Beasts.
• After pursuing the trail for months, Qin Yang found an enormous, life-filled tree that he suspected was the Chou Ge Beasts’ lair.
• Qin Yang realized he had used all his Destruction Balls and could neither destroy nor take the giant tree.

Qin Yang entered the divine tree’s world, discovered that Green Uncle’s people lived there, and made contact with their settlement. An elderly man recognized the Three Lives Ghost Willow branch and welcomed Qin Yang as the descendant of an old friend, while sending others after the Tiger Head Great Demons.

• Qin Yang spent a month crossing the divine tree’s protective halo and entered its cloud layer, where dense spiritual energy restored his True Essence.
• Qin Yang explored the enormous tree, avoided poisonous death energy from decaying leaves, and found a settlement of green-skinned humanoids resembling Green Uncle.
• Qin Yang disguised himself in bark clothes and approached the settlement, but living vines captured him and carried him inside.
• The settlement’s people questioned Qin Yang, then summoned an elderly man who asked whether he knew Bai A'nong and whether he carried anything from the clan.
• Qin Yang showed the old man a Three Lives Ghost Willow branch, revealed his true appearance, and explained that he was Green Uncle’s junior.
• The old man welcomed Qin Yang as the descendant of an old friend and sent several people to pursue the Tiger Head Great Demons while he took Qin Yang inside.

Qin Yang accepted the Green Race elder’s hospitality while secretly uncovering records about the Sacred Tree and the Li Clan, then left to find the Chou Ge Beast. A hidden shadow killer ambushed him outside the territory, and Qin Yang began countering it by relying on his body-refining instincts rather than sight.

• Qin Yang drank Sacred Tree sap, learned about the Green Race’s cultivation and Bai A'nong’s Three Lives Ghost Willow, and secretly imprinted jade slips that the elder had selectively shown him.
• The Sacred Tree Race’s elder and a pointed-eared Green Race man discussed Qin Yang, sent the Tiger Head Great Demons to die in the forbidden land, and ordered Chou Ge Beast to leave their territory.
• Chou Ge Beast dismissed Qin Yang as a threat, left the area, and ordered his shadow to kill Qin Yang once he departed the Sacred Tree Race’s territory.
• Qin Yang left after telling the elder he was seeking Chou Ge Beast, then dodged repeated blows from an invisible attacker and discovered that it was a shadow wielding a weapon against his own shadow.
• Qin Yang endured the shadow’s executioner-blade strike by activating the fourth layer of Overlord's Armor Removal, realized the shadow grew stronger when it became clearer, and closed his eyes to fight by instinct.

Qin Yang captured a shadow assassin and imprisoned him beneath the Sea Eye Demon Stone after discovering that he could not kill him. While the Blood Transformation Demon tormented the captive, Qin Yang waited outside the Sacred Tree Race’s settlement, and the Chou Ge Beast prepared to carry the Void Great Hall toward the Great Wilderness.

• Qin Yang tested how light affected the shadow assassin, then seized him by synchronizing his own shadow and body with the assassin’s shadow.
• Qin Yang poured conflicting powers and aged poison into the assassin, but failed to kill him and imprisoned him beneath the Sea Eye Demon Stone.
• The Blood Transformation Demon explained that the captive could escape only with Seclusion Incense or if Qin Yang chose to release him, then taunted him.
• Qin Yang healed his wounds, flew beyond the sacred tree’s halo, and began upgrading the Starfall Array Disk while waiting to see who emerged.
• The Chou Ge Beast discovered that his shadow was gone, reached the Void Great Hall, and carried it away from a pile of skeletons that crumbled into dust.

Qin Yang questioned Chou Ge Beast’s shadow-bound parasite and learned that Chou Ge Beast had already left the Sacred Tree. The parasite revealed that Chou Ge Beast had escaped through the deathly lower level, sending Qin Yang back in pursuit.

• Qin Yang completed the upgraded Starfall Array Disk and waited outside the Sacred Tree, then left an avatar watching while he entered the Sea Eye.
• Qin Yang told the paper-like shadow that he could help the Sacred Tree Race reach the Great Wilderness, and the shadow fell silent.
• Qin Yang threatened the shadow with endless imprisonment, prompting it to reveal that it was the last member of the Ji Ying Race and that it parasitized Chou Ge Beast’s shadow.
• The Ji Ying Race member explained that Chou Ge Beast wanted to enter the Great Wilderness and had left the Sacred Tree through its deathly lower level.
• Qin Yang agreed to kill the Ji Ying Race member after killing Chou Ge Beast, then returned to his flying vessel and headed back.

The Chou Ge Beast slaughtered the void Foreign Races and consumed them through the Void Great Hall while Qin Yang raced toward the Patrol Envoy Base and uncovered evidence of the killings. The Vermilion Bird entered the hall seeking death, and Qin Yang learned from her message that she had gone to reclaim her pride; the Sacred Tree Race also discovered death qi spreading through the Sacred Tree.

• The Chou Ge Beast gathered the giants who followed him and drained them of their power and vitality inside the Void Great Hall.
• Qin Yang found a Foreign Race's dried corpse, recorded its memory of the Chou Ge Beast's slaughter, and hurried toward the Patrol Envoy Base.
• The Demon Head tracked the Chou Ge Beast by following the resentment left behind at slaughtered settlements and agreed to take the Vermilion Bird to him.
• The Vermilion Bird carved nine runes into her forehead, transformed into a Weeping Blood Flying Luan, and plunged into the Void Great Hall, where the black qi consumed her.
• Old Ox delivered the Vermilion Bird's Jade Slip to Qin Yang, who read her clues and promised to help the Azure Ox Demon Race survive.
• An elder of the Sacred Tree Race saw death qi spreading up the Sacred Tree and lamented trusting the Chou Ge Beast.

The Sacred Tree Race realized Chou Ge Beast had sabotaged the sacred tree and chose to risk driving it into the Great Wilderness rather than wait for the spreading death qi to destroy them. Meanwhile, Chou Ge Beast’s plan advanced after Vermilion Bird emerged from the darkness, and Qin Yang discovered a connection between two secret arts.

• The Sacred Tree Race and the other powerful beings agreed to push the dying sacred tree toward the Great Wilderness, since remaining where they were offered no hope of survival.
• Qin Yang studied the information Vermilion Bird had sent, while Chou Ge Beast vanished and the foreign races abandoned the Outer Battlefield.
• Vermilion Bird emerged from the darkness after absorbing the vitality of dead foreign races, revealing that she had refined two Dao Traces and could now leave the Void Great Hall.
• Chou Ge Beast said the Sacred Tree Race would make a desperate attempt to enter the Great Wilderness, which suited their plan.
• Qin Yang studied the secret arts Vermilion Bird had recorded and found that two seemingly unrelated cultivation methods were connected and complementary.

Qin Yang learned that the dying Sacred Tree was forcing its way through the Gale Wind Layer to enter the Great Wilderness, while Chou Ge Beast used the crisis to draw the Patrol Envoys’ attention away from their base. Qin Yang followed the Sacred Tree and waited for Chou Ge Beast at the roots, where they prepared to fight as the tree crossed into the Gale Wind Layer.

• The Patrol Envoys discovered the Sacred Tree approaching the Great Wilderness, and Qin Yang realized Chou Ge Beast had likely caused its decline to force the Sacred Tree Race to act.
• Qin Yang traced the Sacred Tree’s route toward the old path of the Sea Eye Demon Stone and decided to pursue it while Blood Phoenix kept the Patrol Envoy Base defended.
• Qin Yang questioned Paper Shadow about Chou Ge Beast’s visit to the Sacred Tree, then spent nearly a month catching up and entering the Sacred Tree’s main body.
• Chou Ge Beast attacked the Patrol Envoy Base, where the gathered Patrol Envoys stopped him, while the Sacred Tree began forcing its way through the Gale Wind Layer with Qin Yang aboard.
• Qin Yang waited near the Sacred Tree’s death qi-covered roots and confronted Chou Ge Beast when he emerged; Qin Yang drew his demonic blade and said he would wear him down to death.

Qin Yang fought the Chou Ge Beast at the Sacred Tree, using the Great Sun Divine Light and Blood Transformation Demon Blade to counter its blood-and-qi defenses until the Sacred Tree natives forced it to retreat. As the Sacred Tree’s protective halo collapsed, Qin Yang’s actions drew the Chou Ge Beast and a black-robed Vermilion Bird out with a great hall, and he realized the events had been arranged to use him for a purpose.

• Qin Yang wore down the Chou Ge Beast with Overlord’s Armor Removal, the Great Sun Divine Light, and the Blood Transformation Demon Blade, which devoured the beast’s blood-and-qi armor.
• The Green Caterpillar and other Sacred Tree natives attacked the Chou Ge Beast, who retreated into the death-qi-covered region rather than face them with Qin Yang.
• Qin Yang tried to speak with the Sacred Tree, then used lightning from the Gale Wind Layer to drive back the death qi around its roots.
• The Chou Ge Beast emerged carrying a great hall as Qin Yang’s demonic aura and lightning drew out its defenses, revealing a black-robed Vermilion Bird.
• Qin Yang severed the black aura connecting him to the hall and concluded that the Chou Ge Beast had orchestrated events to use him for a purpose.

Qin Yang uncovered the Black Robed Woman’s plan and realized Vermilion Bird had trapped her inside a dying body, preventing her from possessing him. Rather than fight Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman directly, Qin Yang entered the river of rushing thunder to harness its power against them.

• The Black Robed Woman pierced Qin Yang’s chest with a lethal black force but demanded that he help her in the Great Wilderness instead of killing him.
• Qin Yang used his abilities to remove the spreading corruption and deduced that the Black Robed Woman was trapped in Vermilion Bird’s body and could no longer possess another host.
• Qin Yang recognized that Vermilion Bird had sacrificed herself to imprison the Black Robed Woman, whose death would follow when Vermilion Bird’s body failed.
• As the river of rushing thunder battered the divine tree, Qin Yang challenged Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman, then drew lightning toward himself with demonic energy.
• Qin Yang adapted to the thunder using the Thunder Punishment Scripture and Burial Sea Marrow Refinement Canon, then plunged into the sea of rushing thunder to turn it against his pursuers.

Qin Yang adapted to the sea of rushing lightning and used its cycle to survive the divine tree’s passage, while Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman were worn down protecting the great hall. After the tree entered a powerful curtain of heavenly fire, Qin Yang sent Ugly Chicken to draw in the flames and pressure the pair, leaving their auras erupting as the fire reached the trunk.

• Qin Yang merged with the sea of rushing lightning, guiding its power into a cycle that reduced the effort needed to control it.
• Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman defended the great hall against the looping lightning for over ten days, while the divine tree lost leaves and deathly aura.
• Qin Yang left the lightning sea, gathered damaged leaves and wood, and cut off a nearly broken rootlet as the divine tree moved on.
• Heavenly fire engulfed the divine tree, and Qin Yang summoned Ugly Chicken to draw in the flames and attack the two exhausted defenders.
• Ugly Chicken flew into the heavenly fire and formed a blazing sun, while Qin Yang watched from the other side of the tree until the flames reached the trunk and Chou Ge Beast’s and the great hall’s auras erupted.

Qin Yang made a deal with the Green Caterpillar to help it survive its Heavenly Tribulation in exchange for its help gathering Sacred Tree materials. As heavenly fire engulfed the tree, Qin Yang sheltered in a hollow and Ugly Chicken rescued the badly burned Rainbow Myna; then the Sacred Tree suddenly shook and the fire began to recede.

• Qin Yang refused the Green Caterpillar’s first offer, then agreed to help it with visible tribulation lightning or fire in exchange for its assistance collecting leaves and branches.
• Qin Yang and the Green Caterpillar scavenged materials for over half a month before heavenly fire swept down from the Sacred Tree’s crown.
• Qin Yang, the Green Caterpillar, and Ugly Chicken took shelter in a tree hollow, with the Radiant Sun Treasure Bell blocking the opening.
• As the creatures on the Sacred Tree struggled against the flames, Ugly Chicken rescued the scorched Rainbow Myna and carried it into the hollow.
• Qin Yang fed the injured Rainbow Myna a bottle of healing pills and warned it not to repay their kindness with enmity.
• The Sacred Tree shook violently, and the heavenly fire outside rapidly disappeared.

Qin Yang and his companions endured the divine tree’s passage through the Gale Wind Layer, where he discovered and killed a shell-less heavenly demon whose memories revealed several powerful figures, including South Sea Dao Lord. After the tree emerged and crashed through three secret realms into the sea, Qin Yang recognized the island below as the severed left hand of Black Shadow’s true body.

• Qin Yang saw a shell-less heavenly demon sneak into the divine tree, caught and destroyed it, then viewed its memories of Burial Sea Dao Lord, a green-robed swordsman, and South Sea Dao Lord.
• Qin Yang reflected on the survival of powerful figures and resolved to avoid drawn-out grudges as the divine tree continued through the Gale Wind Layer.
• The divine tree emerged beneath a blue sky and was struck by lightning; Qin Yang helped the Green Caterpillar endure the tribulation while the featherless Black Bird also shrank and weakened.
• Qin Yang warned everyone as the divine tree fell into the sea, smashed through three secret realms, and came to rest above a chaotic realm.
• Qin Yang recognized the island below as the severed left hand of Black Shadow’s true body and realized the Chou Ge Beast and Black Robed Woman may have been seeking it.