Chapter Summaries

Bai Pu stood up to the Black Emperor's phantom, then raided the Profound Water Palace and escaped with its treasures. After reporting the victory to Bei Ming Ji Hu, Bai Pu received the secret teachings of the Bei Ming Xuan Jing Style and an S+ difficulty, SS-rated quest reward.

• Bai Pu resisted the Black Emperor's pressure, and the Black Emperor warned that Black Sky Descent was near before his phantom vanished.
• Bai Pu looted the Profound Water Palace and split the treasures into six shares, giving two to Leien and Liya.
• Bai Pu learned that Demon General Cang Ming and the Tide Demon Subordinates were approaching, so he led his team in retreat.
• Bai Pu reported the destruction of the Yellow Springs Belt and Tide Demon Mother Pool and the defeat of the Black Emperor's forces to Bei Ming Ji Hu.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu gave Bai Pu the secret teachings, and the Spirit Realm Will rated the completed quest S+ difficulty and SS.

Bai Pu accused Star Plucking Tower of betraying the war plan, and Bei Ming Ji Hu confronted the Dragon King and his Wild Warrior squad. When the Dragon King revealed that he had planted bombs aboard the turtle ship, Bei Ming Chuan exposed that he had already disabled them, and the Dragon King attacked the deck.

• Bai Pu told Bei Ming Ji Hu that the demons had been waiting at the Profound Water Palace, suggesting someone aboard the turtle ship had leaked the plan.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu summoned Bei Ming Shan and questioned him, while Bei Ming Mian testified that North Wind Elder had asked about the war plan.
• The Dragon King denied betraying the group and accused Bei Ming Ji Hu of targeting Star Plucking Tower to curry favor with Bai Pu.
• The Dragon King revealed that the Black Emperor’s six demon generals were approaching and ordered Mount Tai to detonate the bombs planted aboard the turtle ship.
• Mount Tai reported that the bombs would not respond, and Bei Ming Chuan explained that he had drained their energy with the Energy Absorption Incantation.
• The furious Dragon King drew his saber and slashed at the turtle ship’s deck.

Bai Pu and the Guardian Faction defeated Star Plucking Tower aboard the turtle ship, and Bai Pu killed the Dragon King to settle their score. After the ship escaped, Bei Ming Chuan reported that the White Tiger Oath had suffered heavy losses on the Obsidian Plain.

• Bai Pu and Leien used their domains to trap Star Plucking Tower's Awakened while the Profound Mirror Stream disciples attacked.
• Bai Pu killed Mount Tai Elder with Dongbo Cheng Zhi's help, then impaled the Dragon King with Doomsday's Edge and cleared his remaining Health Points.
• Bai Pu collected Mount Tai Elder's Bloody Treasure Chest and sensed a connection between it and his Immortal King Four-Piece Set.
• Bai Pu warned Bei Ming Ji Hu and Dongbo Cheng Zhi that North Wind might be contacting the demon army, and the turtle ship set sail.
• Bei Ming Chuan told the Guardian Faction that the Rock Emperor's army had rallied neutral demons and badly wounded the White Tiger Oath's Extermination Team.

Bai Pu and the others discussed the Demon Emperors’ growing alliance and agreed to gather with the Oath Extermination Teams at the Abandoned Scorched Earth Fortress. The first Main Quest was forcibly submitted, earning Bai Pu three Golden Return Scrolls and the group the option to accept Main Quest Two: Black Sky Descent.

• Bai Pu, Leien, and Bei Ming Chuan discussed how the Xi Yuan Family had been ambushed and escaped the Rock Emperor’s Territory after heavy losses.
• Bai Pu reported that the Black Emperor’s Avatar had warned him the Three Emperors’ Meeting was progressing and Black Sky Descent was approaching.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu and Dongbo Cheng Zhi said the Demon Emperors were likely nearing an agreement to resurrect the Great Dark Sky, and Bei Ming Ji Hu proposed assembling the four Oath Extermination Teams.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu announced that Xiyuan Zhang had invited the teams to meet at the Abandoned Scorched Earth Fortress in Red Extinction River.
• The Spirit Realm Will submitted Main Quest One and awarded Bai Pu an SS-Rank evaluation and three Golden Return Scrolls; Leien, Liya, and the others also received scrolls and considered accepting the next quest.

Bai Pu learned that the second Main Quest could grant Gaia Faction Military Merit and accepted it with Leien and Liya, who each saw a powerful opportunity in its rewards. He summoned Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun to join the mission as the turtle ship headed toward the Red Extinction River.

• The second Main Quest, Black Sky Descent, tasked Bai Pu with preventing the Demon Ancestor, Great Dark Sky, from fully reviving within ten days, with Military Merit as its reward and penalty.
• Bai Pu learned that failing could leave him with negative Military Merit and suspend his monthly Equivalent Exchange privilege, but would not strip his One-Star Major General status.
• Bai Pu, Leien, and Liya accepted the mission; Liya said completing it could directly promote her to Major General Gaia.
• Bai Pu decided to summon his teammates Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun, believing their Golden Return Scrolls could help them survive the world's extreme difficulty.
• After the turtle ship set course for the Red Extinction River, Bai Pu summoned Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun and shared the mission with them.

Bai Pu reunited with Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun, assessed how their strength had developed, and opened Taishan’s Bloody Treasure Chest. The chest yielded two more pieces of Bai Pu’s Immortal King set, leaving the team stunned by the unlikely match.

• Bai Pu assessed Wu Mingyue’s progress in the Life and Flowing Water Profound Truths and learned that she had created the Reverse Life True Qi Shield.
• Bai Pu found that Wu Qingyun had reached Level 9, though she had made less progress in cultivating Profound Truths.
• Bai Pu explained that the Red Race team and Star Plucking Tower had been wiped out, then prepared to draw from Taishan’s Bloody Treasure Chest with a Reshaping Dice as backup.
• Bai Pu drew the Iron Chestguard of the Undying King and the Iron Cloak of the Undying King, both completing his six-piece Immortal King set.
• Wu Qingyun wondered whether Bai Pu was Gaia Will’s biological son because the chest had produced such a perfect match.

Bai Pu completed the Immortal King Set, gaining powerful set skills, then spent military merits to strengthen himself and his teammates. After reflecting on how he had grown closer to others, he began comprehending the Space Profound Truth with a rare item from a treant’s treasure chest.

• Wu Mingyue and Bai Pu concluded that Taishan had used a fate-related item to target Bai Pu for his equipment on behalf of someone more powerful.
• Bai Pu equipped the final two Immortal King Set pieces and discovered the set’s Ancestral Protection and Immortal Incarnation skills.
• Bai Pu spent military merits on permanent enhancements and equipment, then relaxed while Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun helped him recover.
• Bai Pu overheard Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun discuss how his personality had changed, and he considered his shift from a loner to a team leader.
• Bai Pu kissed Wu Mingyue, then secluded himself to study the Space Profound Truth using a rare item dropped by a Lord-level treant.

Bai Pu comprehended the Space Profound Truth and combined it with the Mountain Shattering Mystery through Lasso Strike, creating Dimensional Grasp. The turtle ship reached the Steam Hills near the Red Extinction River, where the Oath Warriors assembled.

• Bai Pu used the Root of Distortion and his stored memories of the Swordsmanship Handbook to comprehend the Space Profound Truth over two days.
• Bai Pu developed Dimensional Grasp by using space to restrict targets’ movement and accelerate Lasso Strike’s Battle Qi chains.
• Bai Pu discovered that Dimensional Grasp retained the Mountain Shattering Mystery’s Suppression effect, forming an initial combination of the two powers.
• The turtle ship reached the Steam Hills, and Bei Ming Chuan called the Oath Warriors to assemble before entering the Red Extinction River’s territory.
• Bai Pu joined Wu Qingyun, Wu Mingyue, Leien, Liya, Salacia, and the others on deck, where Salacia learned that Wu Qingyun and Wu Mingyue belonged to Steel Heart’s team.

Bai Pu reunited with the Four Great Oaths at the Abandoned Scorched Earth Fortress, where Xiyuan Zhang revealed the Demon Ancestor’s plan to revive. The Ancestor Shell’s Land of Crystals beneath the Rock Emperor’s throne remained its only usable Source of Demonic Power.

• Bai Pu introduced his companions to Flame Blade Princess Zhu Lingyan, who apologized for doubting his strength and thanked him for his help.
• A Vermillion Bird Oath martial artist invited Bai Pu and his companions to the High-Level Meeting at Red Bright Palace.
• Xiyuan Zhang announced that the Demon Ancestor’s shell was housed in Black Sky Absolute Palace in Black Sky Abyss and that the three Demon Emperors planned to awaken it.
• Xiyuan Zhang explained that destroying the Ancestor Shell’s four Sources of Demonic Power would hinder its revival, and said the Land of Crystals beneath the Rock Emperor’s Crystal Throne was the only one still usable.

Xiyuan Zhang revealed a teleportation array and intelligence that could let the allied army strike the Crystal Throne, then led the leaders toward a second spatial-fluctuation site in the Black Sky Abyss. Before they departed, Bai Pu persuaded Xiyuan Zhang to lend him the Xiyuan Family’s secret manual, promising to read it after helping stop Great Dark Sky’s resurrection.

• Xiyuan Zhang explained that he had set up a teleportation array near the Crystal Throne and introduced Hundred-Eyed Lian as the source of his intelligence about the demons.
• Xiyuan Zhang proposed searching the Black Sky Abyss near the Black Sky Absolute Palace for a place with spatial fluctuations, and the allied leaders agreed to depart at once.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu lamented that the planned duel with Bai Pu and Dongbo Cheng Zhi would have to wait, and Dongbo Cheng Zhi promised they could fight after defeating the demons.
• Xiyuan Zhang asked Bai Pu where he had learned demon-taming, and Bai Pu used his answer to request the Xiyuan Family’s inherited manual.
• Xiyuan Zhang gave Bai Pu the Xiyuan Family Demon Taming Secret Manual, and Bai Pu said he would read it after helping destroy the Land of Crystals and stop Great Dark Sky’s resurrection.

Bai Pu activated an S-Rank Golden Side Quest by persuading Xiyuan Zhang to help destroy the Land of Crystals and prevent the Great Dark Sky’s revival. After sharing the quest with the Great Witch and Little Witch, the allied army reached the Black Sky Abyss, where Bai Pu secretly observed Xiyuan Zhang constructing a teleportation array.

• Bai Pu triggered a two-objective Golden Side Quest and obtained permission for the Great Witch and Little Witch to share its rewards.
• Xiyuan Zhang refused Bai Pu’s attempt to include more companions, then led the allied army north to the Black Sky Abyss.
• The allied army climbed down the eastern vines and reached the abyss’s bottom, where Xiyuan Zhang identified the route to the Black Sky Absolute Palace.
• Xiyuan Zhang began building an Incantation Teleportation Array while Bai Pu studied the spatial fluctuations and secretly recorded the construction process.
• Xiyuan Zhang completed the array and called everyone to step onto it.

Bai Pu joined the Guardian Faction in attacking the Crystal Throne, where he enslaved Demon General Hard Rock after Dark Cinder exploded during the attempt. Xiyuan Zhang opened the gateway to the Land of Crystals, and the experts descended through it.

• Xiyuan Zhang led the Guardian Faction to the Crystal Throne and challenged Dark Cinder and Hard Rock, who called for reinforcements.
• Bai Pu and the Four Great Oaths overwhelmed the demon generals and their troops, and Bai Pu asked that Dark Cinder and Hard Rock be spared.
• Bai Pu's attempt to enslave Dark Cinder caused the obsidian giant to explode, but Bai Pu stopped the fragments with Dimensional Grasp.
• Bai Pu successfully enslaved Hard Rock, gaining a second demon general servant.
• Xiyuan Zhang opened the gateway beneath the Crystal Throne, and the Guardian Faction entered the Land of Crystals.

Xiyuan Zhang led the group to the Land of Crystals and urged them to destroy the Crystal Sky Pillar to sever the Rock Emperor’s control. After their attacks barely scratched it, Bai Pu studied the Bei Ming Xuan Jing Style manual, leaving the group to guard him from demon reinforcements as he contemplated.

• Xiyuan Zhang explained that damaging the Crystal Sky Pillar could disrupt the Land of Crystals’ energy channels and weaken the Rock Emperor’s control.
• The Rock Emperor’s phantom appeared, dismissed the group’s chances, and announced that he was taking control of the Ancestor Shell.
• Dongbo Cheng Zhi, Bei Ming Ji Hu, and the others tried their attacks and techniques, but they could only scratch the Crystal Sky Pillar.
• Bai Pu struck the pillar with Doomsday, but his attack also left only a faint mark, prompting the Rock Emperor to mock him before vanishing.
• Xiyuan Zhang despaired, while Dongbo Cheng Zhi suggested returning to the Black Sky Absolute Palace and Bei Ming Chuan noticed Bai Pu studying the Bei Ming Xuan Jing Style manual.
• Dongbo Cheng Zhi told everyone to stay quiet and sent a team to watch the entrance for demon reinforcements while Bai Pu contemplated.

Bai Pu studied Bei Ming Xuan Jing Style and fused the Mountain Shattering Mystery, Tidal Profound Truth, and Space Profound Truth into the Three Calamities Profound Truth. He prepared to test whether his new strength could break the Crystal Sky Pillar as the demon army gathered outside.

• Bai Pu deepened his mastery of the Space Profound Truth and declined to condense a True Meaning Prototype so he could pursue a broader fusion later.
• At the Crystal Throne, Dongbo Cheng Zhi and the native leaders watched three divisions of the Rock Emperor’s demon generals gather and debated retreating to the Black Sky Abyss.
• Bai Pu awoke and announced that he had fused Mountain Shattering, Tidal, and Space into the Three Calamities Profound Truth, but had failed to incorporate the Sea Heart Flame Composite Profound Truth.
• Bai Pu activated Calamity of Mountains and Seas, a new skill that disrupted enemies’ ability to lock onto him through spirit perception, and prepared to test it against the Crystal Sky Pillar.

Bai Pu destroyed the Crystal Sky Pillar, disrupting the Rock Emperor’s control of the Land of Crystals, and the human forces launched a breakout through the arriving demon generals. As the battle continued, Bai Pu used his first chance to comprehend the Xi Yuan Family Demon Taming Secret Manual.

• Bai Pu used the Doomsday Long Spear’s Calamity of Mountains and Seas—Bombardment to crack and rupture the Crystal Sky Pillar.
• The Rock Emperor, furious that Bai Pu had destroyed the pillar, ordered his assembled demon general troops to attack the humans.
• The human fighters charged through the demon formation, with Bei Ming Ji Hu leading the vanguard and Wu Mingyue and Wu Qingyun fighting their way forward.
• Xiyuan Zhang ordered two Wind Sword Style experts to guard Bai Pu, whom the group regarded as the Guardian Faction’s strongest expert.
• Bai Pu used his first chance to comprehend the Xi Yuan Family Demon Taming Secret Manual while riding Hard Rock.

The Extermination Team struggled to push through the overwhelming demon army as even powerful faction lords had to rotate at the front. Bai Pu took the field atop Hard Rock, killed a Warrior Level demon with one spear thrust, and caught a Sand Demon Mage with Dimensional Grasp, leaving the mage unable to escape.

• Leien tried to hold the front line with Liya's support but retreated after only a few dozen steps under the pressure.
• Hard Rock carried Bai Pu into the battle, prompting the Extermination Team to cheer as Steel Heart took the field.
• Bai Pu shattered an Obsidian Armor Soldier's shield and pierced its brain core, killing it with a second spear thrust.
• A Sand Demon Mage urged nearby demons to keep fighting, relying on Quicksand Body to resist physical attacks.
• Bai Pu used Dimensional Grasp to restrain the Sand Demon Mage, whose attempt to escape with Quicksand Shift failed.

Bai Pu used his Calamity of Mountains and Seas to crush the demons blocking the allied army’s advance and unlocked an upgraded special effect. He continued leading the charge with the Doomsday Long Spear as the army neared the edge of the demon formation.

• Bai Pu’s Bombardment killed the Sand Demon Mage and nearby demons, and the Spirit Realm Will upgraded Mountain Collapse and Earth Shatter to Heaven Collapse and Earth Shatter.
• Bai Pu’s punch shattered the demons’ morale and cleared a path through the formation, pushing the team forward thirty steps.
• Bai Pu used Gene Fusion to raise his Long-Handled Weapons Combat Expertise to level 13 and killed elite and reinforced demons with near-effortless spear strikes.
• Xiyuan Zhang worried about how long Bai Pu could sustain his charge, while Dongbo Cheng Zhi estimated he could continue for six or seven hundred steps.
• Bai Pu’s rapid advance sped up the allied army’s breakthrough, and they approached the edge of the demon battle formation.

Bai Pu led the allied army out of the demon encirclement, earning Bei Ming Ji Hu’s respect and a promise of a future duel. When the group reached the Incantation Teleportation Array, it failed to connect to the Black Sky Absolute Palace, and Bai Pu suspected Xiyuan Zhang might be preventing its repair.

• Bai Pu led the allied army beyond the Crystal Throne’s range, and Bei Ming Ji Hu volunteered to guard the rear while naming Bai Pu the main attacker for the coming battle.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu insisted that he and Bai Pu duel after the battle at the Black Sky Absolute Palace, and Bai Pu accepted.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu stayed behind to face the pursuing demons while the allied army reached the Incantation Teleportation Array.
• Xiyuan Zhang could not make the array resonate with the Black Sky Absolute Palace, and Zhu Que demanded that he repair it quickly.
• Bai Pu explained how the hidden spatial array could fail, then suggested Xiyuan Zhang might not want to repair it.

Bai Pu accused Xiyuan Zhang of being a demon spy and claimed he had deliberately sabotaged the Incantation Teleportation Array. To prove it, Bai Pu began activating the array himself while Bei Ming Ji Hu restrained Xiyuan Zhang and the others watched.

• Bai Pu accused Xiyuan Zhang of being a demon spy, but Xiyuan Zhang, Zhu Que, and others challenged the accusation.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu arrived and demanded a brief explanation before the demons found them.
• Bai Pu said Xiyuan Zhang had mixed up two incantations and offered to activate the array himself to prove his claim.
• Bai Pu promised to kill himself if he failed, and asked Bei Ming Ji Hu to suppress Xiyuan Zhang's power during the test.
• Bei Ming Ji Hu used his True Meaning Prototype to restrain Xiyuan Zhang as Bai Pu began activating the 108-incantation array.

Bai Pu exposed Xiyuan Zhang as the Black Emperor’s pawn, explaining how he had betrayed the Guardian Faction and manipulated it into destroying the Rock Emperor’s Source of Demonic Power. The Black Emperor’s power then emerged from Xiyuan Zhang, revealing itself before the gathered coalition.

• Bai Pu and the Guardian Faction leaders restrained Xiyuan Zhang during teleportation, and the group arrived at Black Sky Abyss instead of their intended destination.
• Xiyuan Zhang claimed he had merely made a mistake, while Xiyuan Lin defended his record and insisted he had helped humanity.
• Bai Pu explained that Xiyuan Zhang had lied about the Black Emperor’s Source of Demonic Power and betrayed the Xiyuan Family Extermination Team in Black Stone Canyon.
• Bai Pu accused Xiyuan Zhang of guiding the Guardian Faction to destroy the Rock Emperor’s Source of Demonic Power so the Black Emperor could gain control of Black Sky Absolute Palace.
• A sinister voice spoke from Xiyuan Zhang, and demonic power emerged as the Black Emperor’s presence, alarming the coalition.