Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi learned the Blood Burning Method from Mu Chutai and fused it with the Wind Splitting Seal to create Triple Blood Burning, then prepared to investigate the captives at Mingquan Lake. Before he could set out, he followed Jiang Xiyue after spotting Xue Xianrong’s group pursuing her, and they ambushed her with a giant ape.

• Mu Chutai taught Chen Sanshi the Blood Burning Method in exchange for a thousand-year-old Danzhu Leaf and other promised supplies.
• Chen Sanshi combined the Blood Burning Method with the Wind Splitting Seal, creating Triple Blood Burning, which greatly increased his flying speed at the cost of consuming blood essence.
• Chen Sanshi planned to investigate the demonic cultivator territory near Mingquan Lake and learned that Shangguan Siheng wanted to meet him.
• After seeing Jiang Xiyue head toward Star Peak Mountain with Xue Xianrong’s group following her, Chen Sanshi pursued them with Lu Zhiyong.
• Xue Xianrong’s group ambushed Jiang Xiyue with a Mountain-Moving Ape, and Xue began chanting to summon the Wutong God's shrine and expose her demonic nature.

Chen Sanshi led a group of disciples into the Demon Realm to investigate Mingquan Lake and search for captured cultivators, learning that Dugu Ao had recently attacked the area. After reaching Chongming City and beginning his inquiries, he spotted Shangguan Siheng fleeing through the city.

• Lu Zhiyong and Chen Sanshi’s group killed Xue Xianrong’s Mountain-Moving Ape, ruining Xue’s plans and driving him to accuse Lu and Jiang Xiyue of protecting demonic cultivators.
• Chen Sanshi and ten Qi Refinement disciples left Dragon Elephant City, crossed the Heaven-Reaching River, and entered the Demon Realm through White Bone Mountain before splitting up to investigate Mingquan Lake.
• While traveling toward Chongming City, Chen Sanshi learned that Dugu Ao had recently slaughtered cultivators near the city and heard how the Demon Realm’s Blood Tax forced families to surrender living people.
• Chen Sanshi entered Chongming City, bought most of the ingredients for a Nine Revolutions Blood Amber Pill, and planned to question the Blood Feather Division about captured Tianshui Continent cultivators.
• A commotion broke out in the city when Chen Sanshi saw Shangguan Siheng fighting through an encirclement and fleeing toward the gates.

Chen Sanshi agreed to help Dugu Ao gather resources in exchange for help rescuing the cultivators imprisoned in Chongming City, while the Slay Immortal Sect investigated whether dead villages were linked to mortals joining the war. He infiltrated the Blood Feather Division’s alchemy workshop, stole a spatial Alchemy Furnace, and prepared to use it to smuggle the prisoners out.

• Shangguan Siheng brought Chen Sanshi to meet Dugu Ao, who asked him to gather treasures and offered to help hold off the Golden Core Cultivator guarding the death cells.
• Shangguan Siheng told Chen Sanshi that dead villages might be connected to an earlier battle where mortals wielded blood-fiend Profound Energy, and asked him to deploy his soldiers if the threat returned.
• Chen Sanshi told the Qingxu Sect Disciples that they would attempt a prison break during Dugu Ao’s planned attack on Chongming City, then devised a way to carry the prisoners in an Alchemy Furnace.
• Chen Sanshi disguised himself as a demonic cultivator, killed the man delivering children to the alchemy workshop, and killed the old Daoist overseeing the furnace.
• Chen Sanshi disguised Lu Zhiyong as the old Daoist and told him to wait with the Alchemy Furnace until the signal, while Chen Sanshi headed to the death prison.

Chen Sanshi approached death row disguised as an old Daoist's disciple and claimed that his master had sent him to fetch Great Medicine. Two demonic cultivators blocked him and warned that Jade Bone Venerable had already reserved the captives.

• Chen Sanshi approached the entrance to death row disguised as an old Daoist's disciple.
• Two demonic cultivators blocked Chen Sanshi's way and addressed him as Li Feng.
• Chen Sanshi told the guards that his master had sent him to fetch two kinds of Great Medicine.
• The demonic cultivators refused to let Chen Sanshi touch the captives because Jade Bone Venerable had specifically ordered them in advance.

Dugu Ao protected Lu Shengzhi from Cao Zhi, while Chen Sanshi returned from a dangerous rescue mission with a greatly increased Copper Coin ranking. After mourning Zhao Qiao and recovering, Chen Sanshi sought a faster way to earn Copper Coins and decided to pursue the dangerous Little Witch Mountain mission, despite Dragon Elephant City offering only eight hundred fighters.

• Dugu Ao thwarted Cao Zhi’s attack, named his Spine Sword Dragonbone, and forced him to flee with a formation disk.
• Xue Xianrong’s group learned that Lu Shengzhi had gone missing during the Mingquan Lake rescue, but Chen Sanshi returned alive after Lu Zhiyong reported that Lu had stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Chen Sanshi rose to third place on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, then ordered Zhao Qiao honored with a posthumous marquis title and burial at Wuhao Palace.
• After recovering and spending a month defending Star Peak Mountain, Chen Sanshi decided to capture Little Witch Mountain for its thousand-Copper-Coin reward.
• The steward told Chen Sanshi that Dragon Elephant City could provide only eight hundred cultivators to face the mountain’s Golden Core defender and four thousand demonic troops, but Chen Sanshi said he had enough manpower.

Plans to transfer cultivators into Tianyong City were complicated by the need to conceal Lu Shengzhi's connection to Eastern Continent and protect Master's Wife and Hundred Flowers Valley. In separate scenes, several groups confronted threats and obstacles, ending with Muyue ordering Luoli to kill a man to prevent future trouble.

• Plans were considered to transfer several thousand cultivators into Tianyong City without exposing Lu Shengzhi's identity.
• Liang Long told Helena and the Dragon Warriors to use Spiritual Power to sense the underground insect-beast nest.
• Zhuling proposed inspecting the contents of Grandfather's bones before deciding whether to let someone retrieve them.
• Several Dharma Kings of the Ming Cult and Monk Budai stepped forward to shield Zhou Qing and Xu Yan after a hidden-arrow attack.
• Su Mu faced the problem of entering the secret space beneath his feet.
• Muyue ordered Luoli to kill a man to eliminate a potential source of future trouble.

Ye Chen seized Fairy Chu and descended toward Earth despite Zai's threat, while Yang Ta'a resisted an attack on his formation and Long Xingyu studied the Law of Life. Fan Yanyan prepared to examine Xia Jie's information with Ouyang Xueqi, and Weiyang was left unsettled by Shang Qing's words.

• Li Cheng, Wu Yuanhao, and Cheng Wei reviewed the satellite brain's responses and found its solutions better than their own.
• Ye Chen seized Fairy Chu and plunged toward Earth despite Zai's threat.
• Yang Ta'a circulated his aura and neutralized the force striking his grand formation.
• Long Xingyu sensed the life energy flowing through his body and used the pillar of the Law of Life to test his understanding.
• Fan Yanyan took out the information Xia Jie had sought and prepared to study it with Ouyang Xueqi.
• Weiyang became more unsettled after Shang Qing spoke earnestly to her.

Chen Sanshi followed Cao Zhi to Yici Mountain, where he discovered that the Great Song Eighth Prince Zhao Xun was their target. He helped Zhao Xun survive Cao Zhi’s ambush, but Cao escaped, and Zhao invited Chen Sanshi to join Great Song.

• Chen Sanshi traded a thousand-year Blood Remaining Charcoal to Zhao Xun for Extreme Yin Cordyceps and realized that Cao Zhi was watching the Eighth Prince.
• Chen Sanshi waited at Yici Mountain until Cao Zhi and Baili Zhe followed Zhao Xun out, then warned Zhao and helped him flee toward the mountain.
• Chen Sanshi trapped Cao Zhi’s Golden Body puppet in a formation while Elder Deng and other corpse cultivators joined the battle.
• Cao Zhi used the Heaven and Earth Odd Gates talisman treasure to escape with the puppet, abandoning Baili Zhe, whom Zhao Xun captured and killed after learning of the Horse Groomer’s plot.
• Zhao Xun thanked Chen Sanshi, learned that he called himself Sun Yan, and invited him to join Great Song as an Immortal Marquis.

Zhao Xun told Chen Sanshi that the Great Song Imperial Court had been a puppet for thousands of years despite its immortal dynasty title. Su Mu and the Black Emperor lost their bearings in the Immortal Realm, while Gu Mo's anger faded when he accepted a bite of bread.

• Chen Sanshi feigned confusion about an actual immortal dynasty, and Zhao Xun explained that the Great Song Imperial Court handled burdensome work without sharing in valuable discoveries.
• Huang Lao Jiu joined the Gou Chen Imperial Palace as an honorary elder and took a disciple there.
• Su Mu and the Black Emperor left Ascension Valley and became unsure where to go in the unfamiliar Immortal Realm.
• Feng Lai Xi killed the convulsing fat dog and kicked its corpse out of the Ground Rail Bus as the vehicle started.
• Xia Nuan held Mu Mu's hand and followed Teacher Zhu's instructions to line up for entry to the playground.
• Gu Mo's anger vanished when a girl offered him bread, and he lifted his mask slightly to take a bite.

Jiang Xiyue told Chen Sanshi that Master had sent her to help him retrieve the Jade Dew of Creation, and he accepted her help after checking her recovery. Elsewhere, Chu Chen entered a spatial vortex with Bai Tiansha, Ye Yu suffered severe internal injuries, and two figures watched A Ju attack through thick fog.

• Jiang Xiyue told Chen Sanshi that Master had asked her to help retrieve the Jade Dew of Creation, and Chen Sanshi accepted her help.
• Ouyang Tian opened his eyes after the Taiji Diagram above him blurred and vanished.
• Bai Tiansha grabbed Chu Chen's arm and swept into the spatial vortex with him.
• Ye Yu spat out blood after his spiritual power struck a meridian, leaving him unable to withstand many more attempts.
• Liu Han placed Gan Lin in Xiaotong's carriage and ordered his troops to travel overnight toward Jicheng.
• Two figures concealed by thick fog became worried when A Ju launched an attack.

Chen Sanshi killed Xue Zhu and claimed his head, but Shentu Ye and Xue Xianrong’s group confronted him before he could leave with Jiang Xiyue. Xue Xianrong’s evil god statue triggered Jiang Xiyue’s demonic energy, and the chapter ended as she transformed before everyone’s eyes.

• Chen Sanshi defeated Xue Zhu, took his head and artifacts, and returned to Little Witch Mountain disguised as Lu Shengzhi.
• After the Tianyong City soldiers captured Little Witch Mountain, Shentu Ye challenged Chen Sanshi for Xue Zhu’s head, and Xue Xianrong’s group watched from the forest.
• Xue Xianrong summoned his father and revealed a wooden-carved evil god statue, whose purple mystic qi caused Jiang Xiyue to collapse in agony.
• Chen Sanshi destroyed the statue, but its eerie influence remained and caused Demonic Qi to emerge from Jiang Xiyue.
• Shentu Ye and Xue Xianrong’s group fought Chen Sanshi, while Jiang Xiyue’s hair turned white, her eyes were revealed as blood-red, and demonic patterns spread across her face.

Jiang Xiyue revealed a terrifying demonic transformation as battles and confrontations unfolded across several storylines. The chapter also showed Zhou Yao and Black Vipers gaining official posts, while Gu Mengli remained undefeated against the Earth Chosen Team.

• Jiang Xiyue rose with white hair, crimson eyes, and coiling demonic energy, halting the fighting around her.
• Li Changjiang joined the battle with his sniper rifle, Zhao Da unleashed sword light with his gaze, and Ruan Erniu signaled his teammates to press down.
• Omankhu White challenged the warning that he could not provoke someone, while Xiong Qingzhou glared furiously at Li Changjiang.
• Zhou Yao received a Fifth Rank post in the Ministry of Justice Central Investigation Department, and Black Vipers' followers gained official identities.
• Gu Mengli defeated all thirty-six members of the Earth Chosen Team, remaining alone in the sky after their combined assault.

Chen Sanshi escaped with the unconscious Jiang Xiyue and the Jade Dew of Creation as Dugu Ao killed Xue Xianrong, while the Heavenly Sects investigated the upheaval in Sixue Dao. At the Imperial Mausoleum, Zhao Rui admitted to following the demonic path for the sake of the common people and rebuilding Immortal Song, just as Cao Xie confronted the Corpse Cultivator Daoist Zuoqiu.

• Chen Sanshi carried Jiang Xiyue back to Dragon Elephant City, exchanged Xue Zhu's head for the Jade Dew of Creation, and left after learning that hundreds of thousands of corpses had vanished in Sixue Dao.
• Dugu Ao killed Xue Xianrong before Elder Xue Jingfeng could reach him, then vanished as Xue Jingfeng recognized his son had been silenced.
• Cao Xie, Yun Shuzi, and True Person Chunyang investigated the ruins at Little Witch Mountain and concluded that Zhao Rui might know what had happened.
• True Person Chunyang killed a Gold Tablet commander who insisted that the envoys go to the Imperial Mausoleum, and the three Nascent Soul Cultivators went there to confront Zhao Rui.
• Zhao Rui admitted that he had cultivated demonic arts and explained that he sought to restore order, protect the common people, and rebuild Immortal Song.
• Cao Xie spotted Daoist Zuoqiu in a black jade coffin and stepped forward to confront the Corpse Cultivator.

Zhao Rui’s imperial mausoleums trapped the Heavenly Sect envoys in a tribulation while Great Song and the demonic path overwhelmed Sixue Dao. Chen Sanshi returned to Qingxu Sect, recovered, and prepared to form his Golden Core as the war spread across Tianshui Continent.

• Zhao Rui awakened successive Great Song emperors as Corpse Puppets, using their rising power and the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Tribulation formation to make Cao Xie, True Person Chunyang, and Yun Shuzi bear the Nascent Soul tribulation.
• The nine Corpse Puppets fused into a Nascent Soul Corpse Cultivator, while hundreds of thousands of dead formed an army and the demonic path and Demon Suppression Division attacked Star Peak Mountain.
• Chen Sanshi fled Sixue Dao with Jiang Xiyue and Lord of Mount Tai, then returned to Qingxu Sect and recovered from his injuries with the Taiyi Qinghua Life-Death Flame.
• Chen Sanshi spent a year preparing to form his Golden Core and began the process in May of the twenty-fourth year of Tianwu.
• The aftermath revealed that Chunyangzi had died, Yun Shuzi had escaped grievously injured, Cao Xie had slain Daoist Zuoqiu, and Sixue Dao had fallen to the demonic path and Great Song’s expanding army.

Chen Sanshi's preparations for closed-door cultivation were interrupted by True Person Yuling's visit. She apologized for what had happened to Xiyue and for nearly costing him his life, but Chen Sanshi told her not to blame herself.

• Chen Sanshi set aside his plans for closed-door cultivation and greeted True Person Yuling at the entrance of his cave abode.
• True Person Yuling said she had returned from the Demon Slaying Great Wall and accepted responsibility for what had happened to Xiyue.
• True Person Yuling apologized for nearly causing Chen Sanshi to lose his life.
• Chen Sanshi told True Person Yuling that she need not blame herself.

The chapter compilation contained disconnected scenes about flame fusion, an illness, and events involving numerous unrelated characters. It left each storyline at a different point without a single continuing plot.

• Chen Sanshi merged the Sky Burning Fire with the Myriad Beasts Blazing Fire, then began fusing two other flames.
• Sui Jiang reported that someone had vomited blood and feared the poison had flared up.
• Li Luo relied on his technique against Duncan O'Neal despite their gap in physical strength.
• Chu Feng received fried rice from Bart, who told Basali to wash their hands before eating.
• Lin Tianfan joked with Qin Keyi that he had never asked Lin Yingkong to be his cook for life.

An instructor explained how to begin cultivating the Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm, and Pan Shangjie attacked the person responsible for a crooked idea. Wang Feng shattered Wang Ke's arm, while Ye Han later abandoned his plan to flatten the Main Family after Yaochi pleaded with him.

• An instructor explained that entering the initial stage of the Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm required opening the Tailbone Pass, the Spine Pass, and the Jade Pillow Pass.
• Pan Shangjie grabbed the person who had proposed the crooked idea and punched him in the face.
• Wang Feng shattered Wang Ke's arm, and the Grand Elder unlocked the cell door and walked out after seeing Wang Ke unconscious.
• Gu Nanzheng took Mu Qingyu by the hand and personally drove her to school after receiving her assurance.
• The long-faced middle-aged man summoned a water-blue planet inside the spacecraft and projected scenes from it.
• Ye Han abandoned his plan to flatten the Main Family after Yaochi desperately pleaded with him.

Chen Sanshi sparred with Chen Duhe, learned that his son had become a weak incense deity, and stayed in the palace while preparing to locate and refine the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation. In Kunxu, the orthodox sects appointed Cao Xie to establish Great Sheng and prepare an attack on Eastern Continent, but Li Guanfu demanded that they instead seek aid from Chen Lei, sparking Cao Xie's objection.

• Chen Sanshi sparred with Chen Duhe, demonstrated Mystic Spirit Six Arms, and advised him to remember that his incense power came from the people.
• Chen Duhe explained his plan to travel to the Cultivation World and build temples for the people, and Chen Sanshi agreed not to stop him.
• Chen Sanshi stayed with his family while studying arrays and preparing to destroy the Mount Mang Ancestral Vein by refining the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation.
• At Kunxu, the Nascent Soul elders chose Cao Xie and the Cao Clan to establish Great Sheng and assigned Cao Xie to prepare to reclaim Eastern Continent.
• Cao Xie vowed to kill Chen Lei and reclaim the ancestral vein, but Li Guanfu arrived and proposed seeking Great Han's aid against the Blood Demon Army in exchange for leaving Eastern Continent alone.
• Cao Xie rejected Li Guanfu's proposal and argued that the orthodox sects should reclaim Eastern Continent and use its mortal armies against the Blood Demon Army.

Li Guanfu forced the Holy Sect to agree to an alliance with the Eastern Continent, while Chen Sanshi completed a third-rank formation and discovered where the Far North secret realm would appear. After hearing Kunxu’s demands, Chen Sanshi agreed to send Great Han troops to Tianshui on the condition that he choose their station.

• Li Guanfu threatened the Nascent Soul Cultivators and Huangfu Zhengze until the Holy Sect agreed to form an alliance with the Eastern Continent, though the agreement’s terms remained subject to discussion.
• Huangfu Zhengze told Chongxu Zhenren to follow their earlier plan and keep more of Chen Sanshi’s group alive and controllable.
• Chen Sanshi completed the Grand Unity Golden Light Formation, advanced his formation mastery to the third rank, and deciphered the compass’s directions for finding the Far North secret realm in Guangren Dao within two years.
• Chen Sanshi granted Shangguan Siheng an official rank and noble title to help him avoid the seal’s suppression, then received the Holy Sect’s request for Great Han to reinforce the righteous-demonic battlefield.
• Dongfang Jingxing read Kunxu’s terms, which demanded that Great Han later surrender the Eastern Continent or face Chen Lei’s cultivation being abolished, and Shangguan Siheng urged Chen Sanshi to send troops.
• Chen Sanshi agreed to send Great Han troops to Tianshui but insisted that he personally choose where they would be stationed.

Chen Sanshi agreed to send Great Han’s army into Tianshui while preparing to search for the Far North secret realm, then returned to Qingxu Sect and learned its elders were divided over resources and Supreme Elder Zhang Huaiqing’s leadership. The dispute escalated when Xue Jingfeng accused Jiang Xiyue of demonic cultivation and blamed her for his son Xue Xianrong’s death.

• Shangguan Siheng accepted Chen Sanshi’s condition that Great Han choose its own garrison location and promised to relay it to the Sacred Sect.
• Great Han mobilized more than 2.6 million troops for the campaign, and Chen Sanshi appointed commanders before giving Chen Yunxi a Hundred Beasts Scroll to keep her in the capital.
• Chen Sanshi returned to Qingxu Sect as Lu Shengzhi and attended a meeting where the elders argued over the sect’s border assignment and fourth-rank spirit vein.
• Several elders criticized Zhang Huaiqing’s leadership and resource decisions, including his support for True Person Yuling and Xu Taisu.
• Xue Jingfeng accused Jiang Xiyue of cultivating demonic arts and killing his son, claiming Xue Xianrong had exposed her before Dugu Ao silenced him.