Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi met Bai Suyin and the demon cultivators at Wisteria Ridge, where Geng Chenfeng attacked him over the deaths of his clansmen. Chen Sanshi defeated Geng Chenfeng after the tiger demon transformed into his true form, leaving him pinned to the earth.

• Geng Chenfeng ambushed Chen Sanshi with blood mist and servant ghosts, but Old Green Wood Demon, Bai Suyin, You Xun, and Zhe Yin arrived and stopped the fight to pursue a secret realm treasure.
• Chen Sanshi refused to spare Geng Chenfeng, who attacked again while the other demon cultivators watched.
• Chen Sanshi overwhelmed Geng Chenfeng in battle, shattering his Golden Saber and driving him into a valley.
• Geng Chenfeng transformed into a gigantic three-headed Heavenly Gang Tiger and charged Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi revealed his Three Heads Six Arms manifestation, severed the tiger demon's three heads, and pinned him to the earth with his spear.

Chen Sanshi killed a tiger demon and traveled with the demons toward the Xuanjing Mountain secret realm, where Baili Xuange ambushed You Xun. Huang Jiuyue and Tang Yingjue joined the fight against the late-stage martial cultivator, but Baili Xuange remained standing as he tore apart Huang Jiuyue’s phoenix attack.

• Chen Sanshi seized the tiger demon’s escaping essence soul and fed it to his Cracked Core Cicada Gu Worms, bringing them close to transformation.
• You Xun struck Bai Suyin for invoking Ancestor Bai Ze, then permitted her to continue to the secret realm with the group.
• Bai Suyin explained that Xuanjing Mountain was an ancient fortress lost in the void, and the group traveled toward the mist-covered eastern border of the Myriad Monster Kingdom.
• Baili Xuange attacked the group and fought You Xun, driving the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon into a severe disadvantage.
• Huang Jiuyue and Tang Yingjue joined You Xun against Baili Xuange, who withstood their combined assault and tore Huang Jiuyue’s jade phoenix in half.

Baili Xuange fought You Xun, Tang Yingjue, and Huang Jiuyue until human cultivators arrived and the fighting shifted toward the secret realm’s opening. After sparring with Chen Sanshi and giving him body-tempering pills, Baili Xuange departed, while Chen Sanshi and his companions reached the island where Geng Jingcheng was opening the gate.

• Baili Xuange was overwhelmed by the combined attacks of You Xun, Tang Yingjue, and Huang Jiuyue, but Shen Junzhuo and True Person Chongyuan arrived and agreed to cooperate with him.
• Cultivators from many factions gathered as a pillar of light revealed that someone was opening the secret realm, and the great cultivators rushed toward it.
• Baili Xuange questioned Chen Sanshi, tested his martial ability in a spar, and gave him Tianyuan Body Tempering Pills before leaving with a promise to fight him again.
• Chen Sanshi traveled with Old Green Wood Demon and Bai Suyin to the island at the eastern edge of the Myriad Monster Kingdom, where Geng Jingcheng controlled the formation opening the Teleportation Gate.

Chen Sanshi watched the great cultivators battle over the secret-realm formation, which collapsed after the key dagger shattered. The resulting Void Rifts offered a new way inside, and Chen Sanshi followed Mu Qing Ming through one, intending to grow stronger and deal with those watching him.

• True Person Chongyuan, Geng Jingcheng, Shen Junzhuo, and others fought to stop Baili Xuange from destroying the formation, while Master Nituan and Le Wen intervened to preserve the secret-realm entrance.
• The shockwave from Baili Xuange and Le Wen's clash shattered the dagger, causing the nearly opened entrance to collapse.
• The dagger's fragments tore hundreds and thousands of Void Rifts into the sky, and Huang Jiuyue led the cultivators into them before they closed.
• Baili Xuange, True Person Chongyuan, Shen Junzhuo, and other great cultivators followed into the rifts.
• Mu Qing Ming urged Chen Sanshi to enter, and Chen Sanshi flew into a rift, resolving to eliminate the people watching him once inside.

Chen Sanshi entered the secret realm, learned that the demon race’s saint ancestor was imprisoned in the Demon Suppressing Tower, and crossed the Black Fiend Nether Sea on a bamboo raft. He confronted three Evil God Path cultivators over a rare fruit and revealed that his strength had grown enough to overwhelm them.

• Geng Jingcheng learned that Geng Chenfeng had killed three of his clansmen and rushed off to seek revenge despite You Xun’s warning that they needed Chenfeng’s Guardian Envoy token.
• Chen Sanshi reunited with Wang Jun, who explained the Demon Suppressing Tower’s history and offered a Spirit Transformation Tribulation treasure in exchange for help retrieving the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Sword; Chen Sanshi declined to travel with him.
• Chen Sanshi discovered that bamboo on the deserted island could disperse the Black Mist and fashioned it into a raft to cross the Black Fiend Nether Sea.
• Cihang, Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord, and Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official fought over a four-thousand-year-old Dragon Phoenix Condensing Profound Fruit, which Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official seized.
• Chen Sanshi appeared and challenged the three cultivators over what happened in Guangren Dao, then broke free of their attacks and countered them with overwhelming strength.
• Cihang, Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord, and Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official realized they were no match for Chen Sanshi and decided to flee.

Chen Sanshi killed two Evil God Path Cultivators and helped Elder Miaotan subdue Master Cihang, then fled from Geng Jingcheng. He encountered Dugu Ao, who ordered him to help release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor and attacked when Chen Sanshi questioned him.

• Chen Sanshi killed Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord and the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official, collecting their treasures and the Dragon Phoenix Condensing Profound Fruit.
• Elder Miaotan intercepted Master Cihang, defeated him with Buddhist Dharma, and sealed away his cultivation after he agreed to repent.
• Chen Sanshi discussed compassion with Miaotan, then detected Geng Jingcheng approaching and split up with her to escape.
• Chen Sanshi fled using the Blood Burning Method and Void Shifting Ruler, leaving talismans behind to delay Geng Jingcheng.
• Dugu Ao told Chen Sanshi to help release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor, then attacked him with a golden cauldron when Chen Sanshi questioned his motives.

Chen Sanshi was forced to travel with the demon elders toward the Demon Suppressing Tower, but he secretly led human cultivators to them and fled when battle broke out. After refusing to help Bai Suyin release the Demon Ancestor, he escaped the demons only to encounter Le Wen and the Inverse Mage demanding the same unknown item.

• Chen Sanshi fought Geng Jingcheng until Huang Jiuyue intervened with Ancestor Bai Ze's order, and the demon elders insisted he accompany them to the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• The demon group crossed the secret realm, broke through a powerful sword formation, and found ancient spirit plants near the tower.
• Baili Xuange, Shen Junzhuo, True Person Chongyuan, and Ximen Yu confronted the demon elders, while Chen Sanshi used a Gu Worm to guide them there and slipped away.
• Bai Suyin admitted that the demons intended to release the Demon Ancestor at Dugu Ao's request, but Chen Sanshi refused to trust her and escaped the Old Green Wood Demon's vines.
• Le Wen and the Inverse Mage blocked Chen Sanshi's path and demanded the item the demons had sought.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue were overwhelmed by Wen Le and Master Nituan until Wang Jun broke their barrier and helped them escape. The three evaded pursuit and fled deeper into the secret realm, where Wang Jun accepted Chen Sanshi’s thanks as an old friend.

• Chen Sanshi threw a bottle of immortal fire to drive back Wen Le and Master Nituan, but Wen Le attacked with the Soul Severing Plain Fan and an imitation Eternal Book that summoned mirror phantoms of Mu Chutai and three demons.
• Master Nituan used the Blood Lotus Sin Sea Basket to manifest Chen Sanshi’s victims, but he destroyed their phantoms before her Purple Rapier struck him and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Jiang Xiyue arrived and fought Wen Le and Master Nituan, while Chen Sanshi warned her not to awaken the demon seed and urged her to escape.
• Wang Jun broke the barrier with a sword aura of Late Nascent Soul strength and held off the pursuers long enough for Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue to flee.
• Wang Jun joined them in escaping deeper into the secret realm, and the three shook off pursuit after half a day of deploying formations.

Chen Sanshi reflected on his long acquaintance with Wang Jun, who addressed Chen Sanshi's distrust of him. Wang Jun said he had left Tianshui Sect and become an independent cultivator, leaving no conflict of interest between them.

• Chen Sanshi recalled that he and Wang Jun had known each other for a long time.
• Wang Jun acknowledged that Chen Sanshi distrusted him because he had represented Tianshui Sect in the Eastern Continent.
• Wang Jun denied having a personal grudge against Chen Sanshi and said he was now an independent cultivator with no conflicting interests.

Chen Sanshi learned that the Flowing Years Candle Palace could accelerate cultivation by trapping him in a world where time passed faster, but that entering it risked losing his memories and dying there. Determined to reach Deity Transformation before looming troubles arrived, he chose to enter alone.

• Gu Qingya led Chen Sanshi and the others to Lingyuan Mountain, where they found the Luoxiao Sect’s scripture repository mostly burned and discovered a Primordial Five Elements Flower in its Medicine Garden.
• Chen Sanshi asked about a place for a cross-realm breakthrough, and Gu Qingya explained that the Flowing Years Candle Palace on the Demon Suppressing Tower’s Eighth Floor could grant years of cultivation for days outside but erased entrants’ memories and could trap them forever.
• Chen Sanshi decided to risk entering the Flowing Years Candle Palace because he needed to cultivate quickly, while Wang Jun and Jiang Xiyue declined to join him.
• As the group climbed the tower, Wang Jun revealed that Luoxiao Sect had sought to seal the world’s spiritual veins, and Gu Qingya questioned whether Dantai Duanhong was still alive.
• At the Eighth Floor, Gu Qingya showed them the formation, and Chen Sanshi stood as the sole person prepared to enter; Gu Qingya gave him a wooden box and let him choose one item to bring.

Chen Sanshi entered Flowing Years Candle Palace with a white robe to recover his memories, while Gu Qingya’s allies trapped the arriving fiends in the Lightning Pool Bewildering Divine Great Array. Inside the secret realm, Chen Sanshi lived as Chen Xianyü, rose from a martial prince to a powerful cultivator, and continued seeking the truth about his unfamiliar life as he approached the limits of the realm.

• Chen Sanshi chose to bring a white robe into Flowing Years Candle Palace and plunged through its Teleportation Gate.
• Gu Qingya and Wang Jun discussed the fiends arriving for the Demon Suppressing Tower and hoped Chen Sanshi would return in time.
• The Lightning Pool Bewildering Divine Great Array trapped Geng Jingcheng, Wen Le, Master Nituan, and the other arriving cultivators.
• Chen Xianyü was born as the heir of King Yan Chen Zhi, grew into a gifted martial warrior, and learned that the emperor had arranged his father's death.
• After Jia Yu revealed the emperor's plot and died, Chen Xianyü raised an army, overthrew the imperial court, and later entered the Cultivation World.
• Chen Xianyü spent centuries cultivating both Immortal and Martial arts, reaching Late Nascent Soul as he sought to understand the realm's limits and his strange sense of familiarity.

Yun Feiyang, Su Yao, Xing Hui, Liu Qinglan, and Lin Qingfeng strengthened their abilities and disrupted the Dark Forces’ plans before reuniting in the Realm of Stars. They defeated an assault, completed the ritual that restored the Wheel of Fate, and set out to face new challenges.

• Yun Feiyang gained the Starlight Sky-Breaking Arrow from the Heart of Stars, healed an afflicted Star Spirit Deer, and concealed himself when dark cultivators arrived to seize the Heart.
• Su Yao and the vengeful spirits destroyed a summoning altar in the Nether Illusion Realm and repelled the dark cultivators who came to stop them.
• Xing Hui survived a lightning trap in the Ancient Tower, while Liu Qinglan advanced her swordsmanship and Lin Qingfeng learned how to awaken the Wheel of Fate.
• Months later, the five reunited in the Realm of Stars and fought off the Dark Forces as Lin Qingfeng guided the Wheel of Fate ritual.
• The fragments fused into a complete Wheel of Fate, whose power dispelled the Dark Forces’ evil aura and strengthened the five before they departed on a new journey.

After three years in the Flowing Years Candle Palace, Chen Sanshi emerged as a great cultivator just as demons attacked the Teleportation Gate. He drew the attackers away from the Demon Suppressing Tower and faced six towering Dharma Images in the wilderness, revealing a Golden Body fused with his Dharma Image and unleashing the Flame Lord Domain.

• You Xun, Tang Yingjue, and Huang Jiuyue entered the Demon Suppressing Tower after the Lightning Pool Great Array broke, while True Person Chongyuan, Li Linyuan, and Shen Junzhuo followed them.
• Wang Jun, Gu Qingya, and Jiang Xiyue guarded the Flowing Years Candle Palace Teleportation Gate as Geng Jingcheng, Wen Le, and Master Nituan attacked and threatened to destroy it.
• Gu Qingya fought the attackers with the sword formation, but Geng Jingcheng broke through and wounded his Soul Body as the Demon Suppressing Tower’s seals began to loosen.
• Chen Sanshi emerged from the Flowing Years Candle Palace as a great cultivator, drove Geng Jingcheng back, and drew the three attackers out of the tower to fight in the wilderness.
• Master Nituan, Wen Le, Geng Jingcheng, and their allies formed six Dharma Images around Chen Sanshi, who transformed his Dharma Image with a Glazed Golden Body and spread the Flame Lord Domain across the battlefield.

Chen Sanshi defeated Geng Jingcheng and Nituan, but Huang Jiuyue’s arrival turned the battle into a larger clash around the Demon Suppressing Tower. Huang Jiuyue broke the seal on its lower floors and unleashed the Myriad Demon Array to absorb the escaping demons.

• Chen Sanshi fought off Geng Jingcheng, Wen Le, and Nituan inside his domain, killing Geng Jingcheng and obliterating Nituan with his arrows.
• Huang Jiuyue blocked Chen Sanshi’s arrow aimed at Wen Le, then joined You Xun and Tang Yingjue against Chen Sanshi and his arriving allies.
• You Xun used a blood pearl to trap the fighters in an illusion while Huang Jiuyue reached the Demon Suppressing Tower and struck it with a powerful talisman treasure.
• Huang Jiuyue’s attack broke the seal on the tower’s lower eight floors, releasing the demons imprisoned inside.
• Huang Jiuyue activated the Myriad Demon Array, which began devouring the escaping demons.

Huang Jiuyue used the Myriad Demon Array to reach Deity Transformation power and forced Chen Sanshi to agree to release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor. Chen Sanshi entered the seal to draw the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Sword, while a pillar of demonic energy erupted from the tower.

• Huang Jiuyue devoured demon and monster souls, reached Deity Transformation power, and overwhelmed the human cultivators.
• Huang Jiuyue seized Jiang Xiyue and Wang Jun to threaten Chen Sanshi into surrendering the token.
• Chen Sanshi agreed to help release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor, then entered the Demon Suppressing Tower with the great demons.
• Chen Sanshi used the Guardian Envoy token to open the seal and entered the mural to approach Chaos and the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Sword.
• Shen Junzhuo, True Person Chongyuan, and Li Linyuan retreated from Huang Jiuyue as Baili Xuange stayed to fight.
• A tremendous crash sounded, and demonic energy erupted from the Demon Suppressing Tower in a pillar of black light.

The Demon Suppressing Tower collapsed and freed Chaos Saint Ancestor, who turned on the demons after suspecting their plan to help Bai Ze devour him. Chaos escaped the ensuing battle, but Dugu Ao trapped him on an island and demanded answers.

• The Demon Suppressing Tower crumbled, and Chaos Saint Ancestor emerged as Huang Jiuyue and the other demons welcomed him.
• Chaos devoured Tang Yingjue, attacked Huang Jiuyue and the others, and accused them of helping Bai Ze consume him.
• Chen Sanshi returned the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Sword to Wang Jun, then fled with Wang Jun and Jiang Xiyue as Chaos vanished through a Void Rift.
• Bai Ze admitted that he had intended to devour Chaos, then went to pursue him after Huang Jiuyue reported the failed rescue.
• Chaos searched for a sect to feed on, but Dugu Ao lured him into an illusion array and pinned him down with golden chains.

Chen Sanshi learned that the fifth realm of martial arts was the Divine Intent Realm when Baili Xuange challenged him to a death battle to comprehend his own divine intent. Chen Sanshi defeated Baili, but Baili refused to stop fighting and burned his essence blood for one final attack.

• Mu Yun, Sikong Sheng, and Lu Wendao found Hundun's corpse and discovered that someone had taken its heart; they suspected a powerful unknown cultivator was responsible.
• Mu Yun told Sikong Sheng to investigate Hundun's death and resolved to deal with Chen Lei after the conflict with the Demon Race ended.
• Chen Sanshi returned to Bicheng Province, prepared for the Demon Race's withdrawal, and learned that his Spirit Pets were nearing human form.
• Baili Xuange forced his way into Chen Sanshi's camp and explained that martial cultivators reached the Divine Intent Realm by comprehending their intent through death battles.
• Chen Sanshi and Baili Xuange fought on a desolate plain, and Chen Sanshi broke through Baili's defenses and brought him to his knees.
• Baili Xuange refused to yield, burned his essence blood, and continued attacking until he collapsed from exhaustion.

Chen Sanshi rejected Kunxu Sect’s demands to surrender the Demon Seed and Eastern Continent, then advanced his alchemy, formation, and beast-taming skills. He guarded Qianxun as the warhorse began its tribulation to take human form, and the first bolt of purple lightning struck.

• Baili Xuange died after Chen Sanshi pierced his Dharma Image, and Mu Qing Ming collected his remains.
• Mu Qing Ming urged Chen Sanshi to yield Eastern Continent and the Demon Seed in exchange for Great Han’s survival and access to Kunxu’s Ascension Platform, but Chen Sanshi refused unless Kunxu stopped spirit-grain cultivation in mortal fields.
• Chen Sanshi explained that he would not abandon mortals, while Mu Qing Ming warned that Kunxu would soon act and left hoping they would not become enemies.
• Chen Sanshi reached Tier 5 alchemy and formation arts, gaining the abilities One Thought Pill Formation and Reverse Array Trace Source.
• Chen Sanshi went to Purple Martial Mountain and prepared a guarded formation while Qianxun and the other beasts readied themselves for tribulation.
• After about sixty days, Qianxun’s tribulation began at Nine Heavens Peak, and a massive purple lightning bolt descended.

Qianxun, Azurebird, White Jade, and the Heaven-Splitting Cicadas completed their transformations, while Chen Sanshi assessed Great Han’s growing strength and considered where to cultivate next. He learned that Kunxu Sect had taken his Master’s Wife hostage and summoned him as a Guest Elder, forcing him to confront the sect’s scheme.

• Qianxun survived her final lightning tribulation, took human form, and explained that she excelled at escaping danger and pursuing enemies.
• After the border war subsided, Azurebird, Bai Ling, Dan Tuichen, and Dan Qiwu successfully transformed and received their abilities or assignments from Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi led the Great Han army back to the Eastern Continent and realized its national fortune had grown enough for its forces to threaten any sect without a Deity Transformation cultivator.
• Chen Sanshi rejected cultivating at Qingxu Sect and wrote to his master about obtaining the Dragon Scripture’s fifth-stage cultivation art.
• Jiang Qiongsu arrived on Kunxu Sect’s behalf and told Chen Sanshi that his Master’s Wife had been placed under house arrest to compel him to become a Guest Elder.

The Deity Transformation cultivators learned that Chen Sanshi had become the Child of Destiny and debated how to deal with him and the devil seed. Mu Yun visited imprisoned Nangong Qingyao, revealed that Jiang Xiyue was her daughter and carried the devil seed, and tried to persuade her to cooperate, but she refused and asked about Mu Chutai.

• Mu Yun revealed an immortal decree naming Chen Sanshi the bearer of Human Race Destiny, and An Chuzhi offered to kill him in exchange for sparing Shentu Hai's descendants.
• Mu Yun agreed to An Chuzhi's terms and sent Li Chen to contact powerful cultivators across the world about the devil seed and the Witch's approaching breakthrough.
• Mu Yun learned that Jiang Xiyue was the daughter of Mu Chutai and Nangong Qingyao, and decided to deal with Mu Chutai himself.
• Mu Yun found Nangong Qingyao imprisoned in Kunxu's Immortal Prison and told her that Jiang Xiyue carried the devil seed.
• Mu Yun promised to preserve Jiang Xiyue's life if Nangong Qingyao cooperated, but she refused and asked how Mu Chutai had been; Mu Yun angrily accused him of betraying her and her mother.