Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong and his allies discovered that Profound Heaven Hall's experts had become Demonic Aliens and were targeting him. As six transformed monsters prepared to fight, Little Marten revealed his royal Sky Demon Marten form, giving the onlookers hope that he could face them.

• Lin Dong warned Little Marten and Lin Qingtan that the Profound Heaven Hall experts seemed dangerous, while Liu Xiangxuan confronted the elders who had turned against her.
• Pang Hao and several Nine Netherworld Gate elders joined forces with the Profound Heaven Hall experts, but the elders killed them and revealed themselves as Demonic Aliens.
• The Profound Heaven Hall monsters absorbed the corpses' flesh and blood, increasing their strength before transforming into six grotesque creatures.
• Mo Luo remained hidden so the gathered experts could witness the Demonic Aliens' methods and understand the danger they posed.
• Little Marten told Lin Dong to help hold off one monster, then transformed into his enormous royal Sky Demon Marten form.
• The onlookers recognized Little Marten as a candidate for chief of the Sky Demon Marten Tribe and hoped his strength could handle the monsters.

Lin Dong and his allies fought the demonized Profound Heaven Hall experts while Lin Dong seized the Thunder Emperor Scepter and Little Flame transformed to hold off their strongest foe. The Heavenly Underworld King arrived with four Otherworldly Demon Generals, and Bo Xuan appeared to face him as both sides prepared for battle.

• Liu Xiangxuan urged Lin Dong to seize the Thunder Emperor Scepter, and Little Flame offered to hold back the peak Death Profound Realm demonized man.
• Lin Dong took the scepter and suppressed its violent lightning power, while Little Flame transformed into a Sky Demon Tiger and raised his strength to the peak of the Death Profound Realm.
• The Heavenly Underworld King emerged and demanded Mo Luo's Flame Ancestor Symbol, then revealed four Otherworldly Demon Generals at the Revolving Wheel Realm.
• Mu Lan shielded Mu Lingshan and the others, while Lord of Universe Cave Heaven, Wu Xuan, and Little Marten joined Mo Luo's side.
• Bo Xuan appeared in the Thunder Hall and confronted the Heavenly Underworld King, then summoned the Darkness Ancestor Symbol and Darkness Holy Scythe from Lin Qingtan.

Bo Xuan summoned the spirit of the Darkness Ancestor Symbol and faced off against Heavenly Underworld King, who tried to bargain for the key and the Otherworldly Demon King. Mu Feng and Lin Xuan arrived with reinforcements, and Lin Xuan revealed a Devouring Corpse made from the Nine Kings Hall as the chapter ended with it poised to fight Heavenly Underworld King.

• Bo Xuan summoned the Darkness Ancestor Symbol’s spirit, prompting Heavenly Underworld King to reconsider his plan to capture all the Ancestral Symbol wielders.
• Heavenly Underworld King ordered Heart-Corroding King to seize the key and proposed trading the key for the Otherworldly Demon King, but Bo Xuan and Mo Luo refused to yield.
• Mu Feng arrived to support the group and revealed that Mu Lingshan was his great-granddaughter, promising to make the Blood Demon Shark Clan’s patriarch her mount.
• Lin Xuan and Tang Dongling appeared, and Lin Xuan told Heavenly Underworld King that he had brought a gift for the Demon Prison.
• Lin Xuan revealed two Devouring Corpses, including one made from the Nine Kings Hall, and explained that the Great Desolate Sect’s two generations of sect masters had killed him.

Lin Xuan and his allies cornered the Heavenly Underworld King and defeated his forces, but he escaped into spatial turbulence after sacrificing his body and losing half his Demonic Fetus. Lin Xuan let him go so Demon Prison would underestimate their remaining strength and come seeking revenge.

• Lin Xuan, Bo Xuan, and Xuan Tianzun pinned down the Heavenly Underworld King while Mu Feng and Mo Luo overwhelmed the Heart-Corroding King and the others fought the four Otherworldly Demon Generals.
• Lin Xuan and Bo Xuan attacked the Heavenly Underworld King, who severed his own arm to escape Xuan Tianzun's grasp and then regenerated it.
• Bo Xuan badly wounded the Heavenly Underworld King, while Mo Luo killed the Heart-Corroding King and turned toward the remaining Demonic Alien generals.
• The Heavenly Underworld King burned his body, fled as a Demonic Fetus into spatial turbulence, and lost half of it to Lin Xuan's sword.
• Lin Xuan stopped Mo Luo from pursuing, explaining that the wounded king could carry false confidence back to Demon Prison and draw it into a future confrontation.

The Thunder Emperor awakened and learned that Demon Prison was preparing for a second war between heaven and earth. He entrusted the Thunder Ancestor Symbol to Lin Dong, then opened the seal on an Otherworldly Demon King, leaving the gathered allies facing their imprisoned enemy.

• The Thunder Emperor awakened in the Thunder Realm and was astonished by the experts and four other Ancestral Symbols gathered there.
• Lin Xuan told the Thunder Emperor that Demon Prison and the Heavenly King Hall were preparing for a second war, and the Thunder Emperor resolved to help if needed.
• After Lin Xuan declined the Thunder Ancestor Symbol, the Thunder Emperor chose Lin Dong to inherit it, and Lin Dong solemnly accepted.
• The Thunder Emperor opened a vortex beneath the thunder-slurry sea, and Lin Dong's Ancestral Stone purified the demonic qi rising from it.
• A chained Otherworldly Demon King appeared in the vortex and threatened the gathered humans, while the Thunder Emperor mocked its bravado.

Lin Xuan and his allies destroyed a sealed Otherworldly Demon King and planned to lure the Demon Prison into another trap by announcing that Lin Xuan would take a disciple. In the Yuan Sect Ancestral Land, the Ten Kings Hall confronted Tian Yuanzi and the other leaders over their failed intelligence, then recognized the announcement as bait.

• Mo Luo and the others revealed several Ancestor Symbols and divine objects to the sealed Otherworldly Demon King, then destroyed it with a combined attack.
• Lin Xuan explained that he had let the Heavenly Underworld King escape so the Demon Prison would underestimate the danger and be lured into future traps.
• Mo Luo, Bo Xuan, and Mu Feng proposed drawing Demon Prison experts to the Chaotic Demon Sea by announcing that Lin Xuan would take a disciple.
• The chapter showed Yuan Sect's disciples trapped in a decaying, demon-contaminated stronghold and suffering under the Three Great Sect Leaders.
• The Ten Kings Hall rebuked Tian Yuanzi over the failed Thunder Emperor Cave Abode intelligence, then identified Lin Xuan's succession announcement as deliberate bait.

The Ten Kings Hall planned to counter the Sword Saint by sending Yuan Sect agents to target Lin Dong and the Chaotic Demon Sea’s young experts, while he led Demon Prison’s forces to confront the Sword Saint himself. He hoped to ruin the Sword Saint’s reputation, recover the Nine Kings Hall’s corpse, and create an opening to eliminate the Ice Master and advance Demon Prison’s plans.

• The Ten Kings Hall decided Demon Prison had to answer the Sword Saint’s challenge or risk losing its influence and the fear it inspired.
• The Ten Kings Hall ordered Tian Yuanzi to have Yuan Sect’s agents and their allies target Lin Dong and the strongest young cultivators in the Chaotic Demon Sea, aiming to force the Sword Saint into a damaging public choice.
• The Ten Kings Hall announced he would personally lead Demon Prison’s experts to the Chaotic Demon Sea, crush the Sword Saint’s group, and seize the Nine Kings Hall’s corpse.
• The Ten Kings Hall considered the threats posed by the Ice Master, Ling Qingzhu, and the Sword Saint, and resolved to kill the Sword Saint so Demon Prison could use his death to draw the women into a trap and free the Emperor.

At the Flame God Hall, Qing Zhi, Mo Luo, Lin Xuan, and the others discussed the Demon Prison’s infiltration and the New Talent Ranking, which listed Lin Dong third and Lin Qingtan fifth. Qing Zhi planned to test Lin Dong’s cultivation and seek the Dragon Clan’s approval for him to enter the Dragon Transformation Pool.

• Qing Zhi arrived at the Flame God Hall, where Mu Feng and Bo Xuan discussed how the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion’s ranking could pit prodigies and factions against one another for the Demon Prison’s benefit.
• Lin Xuan warned that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion’s intelligence dealings might have enabled the Demon Prison’s infiltration of the Profound Heaven Hall, reminding Mo Luo of his clan’s destruction.
• Qing Zhi read the ranking’s extensive account of Lin Dong in third place and Lin Qingtan in fifth, while Mo Luo noted that his disciple Tang Xinlian ranked second.
• Lin Xuan suspected that the top-ranked Faceless Man Xu Xiu was a Demonic Alien pawn intended to cause trouble during the grand ceremony.
• Qing Zhi said he would assess Lin Dong’s Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art and decide whether he could be admitted to the Dragon Transformation Pool, while Mu Feng considered how the Undying Holy Whale Clan might support Lin Dong’s cultivation.

After refining the Thunder Ancestor Symbol, Lin Dong emerged far stronger and learned that the Thunder Emperor’s remnant soul could guide him in battle. Yan then concluded that Mu Lingshan was likely the living form of the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol, leaving Lin Dong astonished by her true nature.

• Lin Dong completed the refinement of the Thunder Ancestor Symbol, reaching Half-Step Death Profound Realm, Great Accomplishment Immortal Symbol Master, and vastly greater physical strength.
• The Thunder Emperor told Lin Dong that his remnant soul had stabilized and could guide him, while he and Yan marveled at Lin Xuan’s methods and recalled the Demon Prison’s defeat.
• The Thunder Emperor and Yan discussed Mu Lingshan’s unusual identity, and the Thunder Emperor said she reminded him of an Ancestor Symbol spirit.
• Yan connected Mu Lingshan’s reaction to Lin Dong’s Devouring Ancestor Symbol, her control of the Life and Death Coffin Lid, and her ties to the Lord of Life and Death.
• Yan proposed that Mu Lingshan was the true body of the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol, and Lin Dong realized she was a living being with an exceptionally pure Undying Holy Whale bloodline.

Lin Dong and his companions left the Thunder Emperor Cave Abode and learned that the Sword Saint’s ceremony in the Flame Sea Region had become a contest of prestige with the Demon Prison. As they headed for Flamefire City, Gu Mengqi identified the mysterious Xu Xiu as a likely opponent for Lin Dong.

• Yan concluded that Mu Lingshan’s condition showed the Lord of Life and Death had successfully entered reincarnation, and Lin Dong realized that six of the eight Ancestral Symbols had been accounted for.
• Lin Dong and Little Marten’s group left the Thunder Emperor Cave Abode and traveled toward the Flame Sea Region as news of the Sword Saint’s disciple-seeking ceremony drew crowds to Flamefire City.
• Gu Mengqi told Lin Dong that the ceremony could become a major clash with the Demon Prison, and Little Marten explained that Lin Dong would need to win publicly to protect the Symbol Ancestor’s prestige.
• Gu Mengqi showed Lin Dong the New Talent Ranking and pointed out Xu Xiu, a mysterious newcomer who had killed a peak Death Profound Realm expert after suddenly appearing a year earlier.

The Ten Kings Hall resolved to target the Sword Saint, believing his death would let the Demon Prison exploit the Ice Master and Ling Qingzhu and free the Emperor. At Dao Sect, Ying Huanhuan warned that the Demon Prison would strike on multiple fronts and prepared to reinforce Lin Xuan’s plan in the Chaotic Demon Sea and at his upcoming Apprentice Acceptance Ceremony.

• The Ten Kings Hall judged the Sword Saint to be the Demon Prison’s greatest threat and devised a plan to kill him and use the grief of the Ice Master and Ling Qingzhu to advance the Emperor’s release.
• At Dao Peak, Ying Huanhuan warned the Taiqing Palace Master that the Demon Prison’s Demonic Contamination and imminent King Hall awakenings made Lin Xuan’s plan dangerous.
• Ying Huanhuan said the Demon Prison would likely confront Lin Xuan at his Apprentice Acceptance Ceremony and could ruin his standing if one of its members won first place.
• Ying Huanhuan asked Ling Qingzhu and Ying Xiaoxiao to go to the Chaotic Demon Sea and help protect the Flame Master and the Primordial Lord’s sleeping places.
• Ying Xiaoxiao agreed to go with Ling Qingzhu, while the Taiqing Palace Master recognized the strength of Ying Xiaoxiao’s Fu Zhu inheritance.

Ying Huanhuan sent Ling Qingzhu to seek the Life and Death Coffin and prepare to awaken the Lord of Life and Death, while the Flame God Hall discussed Demon Prison’s infiltration and its New Talent Ranking. The ranking named Lin Dong third, Lin Qingtan fifth, and Faceless Man Xu Xiu first, whom Lin Xuan suspected was a Demon Prison pawn.

• Ying Huanhuan asked Ling Qingzhu to visit the Undying Holy Whale Clan and bring back the Life and Death Coffin, and the Taiqing Palace Master agreed to build a Space Teleportation Array with Ying Huanhuan.
• At the Flame God Hall, Qing Zhi, Mu Feng, Bo Xuan, Lin Xuan, and Mo Luo discussed Heavenly Mystery Pavilion’s role in Demon Prison’s plots and its New Talent Ranking.
• The group read the ranking’s detailed entries for Lin Dong in third place and Lin Qingtan in fifth place, along with the warnings not to provoke them.
• Mo Luo took pride in Tang Xinlian’s second-place ranking, while Qing Zhi and Bo Xuan dismissed the list as unreliable.
• Lin Xuan recognized Faceless Man Xu Xiu, ranked first, as a likely Demon Prison pawn intended to spread panic.

Lin Xuan’s opponents tried to undermine the ceremony, while the Yuan Sect’s disciples suffered under their masters’ restrictions. At Yuan Gate, Ten Kings Hall confronted the Three Great Sect Masters over their unreliable intelligence, as Lin Dong suspected Xu Xiu’s sudden rise came from siding with the Demonic Aliens.

• Lin Xuan laughed off his opponents’ attempts to disrupt the ceremony, while many Yuan Sect disciples despaired and took their own lives.
• The Three Great Sect Masters of Yuan Gate placed restrictions inside their disciples to make suicide difficult.
• Ten Kings Hall appeared in person before Tian Yuanzi and the other two Sect Masters, unsettling them despite their Reincarnation Stage cultivation.
• Ten Kings Hall criticized the Sect Masters’ intelligence about Xu Xiu, whose sudden rise suggested he had gained a peerless opportunity.
• Lin Dong reasoned that Xu Xiu was more likely aided by the Demonic Aliens than in possession of an Ancestral Symbol.

Qing Zhi and Mu Feng considered how to help Lin Dong, while Lin Dong completed his lightning refinement in the Thunder Emperor Cave Abode and greatly increased his strength. He emerged powerful enough to threaten Samsara Stage experts with his strongest attacks, though Yan reminded him that the Demon Prison would not take him seriously until he reached that realm.

• Qing Zhi explained that Lin Dong had to prove himself before the Dragon Clan elders would approve his entry into the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Mu Feng and Mu Lan considered offering Lin Dong the Undying Holy Whale Clan's help with cultivating life force and preparing for the Samsara Stage.
• Lin Dong endured a hundred thousand lightning bolts and completed his refinement of the Thunder Ancestor Symbol.
• Lin Dong advanced to the half-step Death Profound Realm, strengthened his body, and reached the Great Accomplishment Immortal Symbol Master level.
• Yan praised Lin Dong's progress but warned that the Demon Prison would only send real experts after him once he reached the Samsara Stage.

Lin Dong discussed the Thunder Emperor’s recovery and learned that Mu Lingshan might be connected to the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol. The chapter ended with Yan explaining why he suspected Mu Lingshan was the symbol itself.

• Lin Dong asked the Thunder Emperor how he felt, and the Thunder Emperor described his survival and the Demon Prison’s failed attack.
• Yan and the Thunder Emperor remarked on Lin Xuan’s extraordinary ability to stabilize the Thunder Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The Thunder Emperor and Yan recalled that Mu Lingshan’s identity and the way others treated her seemed unusual.
• Yan connected Mu Lingshan’s presence to the Devouring Ancestor Symbol’s reaction and its bond with the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol.
• Yan suggested that Mu Lingshan could be the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol itself, citing her connection to the Undying Holy Whale Clan and her effortless use of the Life and Death Coffin Lid.

Lin Dong and Yan realized that Mu Lingshan was born from the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol and the Lord of Life and Death’s body, and that the Lord had likely entered reincarnation. The chapter left them with six of the eight Ancestral Symbols accounted for, while the Ice and Great Desolation Ancestor Symbols remained missing.

• Lin Dong and Yan reasoned that Mu Lingshan could control the Life and Death Coffin Lid because she was connected to the Lord of Life and Death.
• Lin Dong realized Mu Lingshan was a living Undying Holy Whale born from the Lord of Life and Death’s body combined with the Life and Death Ancestor Symbol.
• Yan concluded that the Lord of Life and Death had likely entered reincarnation, preserving a chance of survival.
• Lin Dong counted the Ancestral Symbols they had found and noted that only the Ice Ancestor Symbol and the Great Desolation Ancestor Symbol remained missing.
• Yan explained that gathering all eight Ancestral Symbols and the King Extinguishing Heavenly Disk could defeat most of Demon Prison’s King Halls.

Lin Dong and his companions left the Thunder Mansion and traveled toward the Flame Sea Region as the Sword Saint’s ceremony drew widespread attention. The story left off with people speculating that Lin Xuan might create puppets capable of giving entire factions Samsara Stage combat power.

• Lin Dong decided to leave the Thunder Mansion, while the Thunder Emperor reflected on the ruin of his former home.
• Lin Dong, Little Marten, and the others headed back toward the Flame Sea Region and saw excitement building around the ceremony.
• People across the Chaotic Demon Sea praised Lin Xuan as the Sword Saint for defeating a powerful Otherworldly Demon True King and refining the Xuan Tianzun.
• Young talents hoped to win Lin Xuan’s favor and obtain powerful puppets, imagining that even a Samsara Stage puppet could establish a superpower.

Lin Dong was expected to face a fair challenge from the Demon Prison, while Shen Jun set aside thoughts of transmigration and shared a tender wedding night with Su Yueyao. After an awkward but completed wedding ceremony, Shen Jun followed his bride to the bridal chamber.

• Lin Dong accepted the pressure of representing the Symbol Ancestor's successor, and his likely opponent was expected to be a peak Death Profound Realm expert.
• Shen Jun reassured Su Yueyao that he did not resent marrying into the Su Family, and she happily asked him to call her by her given name.
• Shen Jun carried Su Yueyao from the bridal chamber and joined her in the wedding procession, noticing her elaborate golden phoenix dress and her tense grip on the wedding ball.
• Su Yueyao's father urged Shen Jun not to betray her devotion, and Shen Jun promised to cherish her.
• Shen Jun stumbled through the wedding bows by copying Su Yueyao, then followed her toward the bridal chamber after the ceremony ended.

Lin Dong and his companions investigated the mysterious Xu Xiu, while Shen Jun studied the history of his new world and met Cai Wan in the Su residence’s Library Hall. The chapter ended with Shen Jun sitting down to ask Cai Wan for her help, as Su Yueyao arranged to lure Cai Wan’s sister to Yangzhou.

• Gu Mengqi and Lin Qingtan showed Lin Dong the New Talent Ranking, and Little Marten explained that Xu Xiu had appeared from nowhere and killed a peak Death Profound Realm expert.
• Shen Jun read a general history of the world’s dynasties and realized that its powerful figures could live for centuries and wield terrifying strength.
• Shen Jun recalled that he had insulted a monk from Golden Mountain Temple and worried the monk might seek revenge.
• Shaoyao reported Shen Jun’s meeting with Cai Wan to Su Yueyao and suggested eliminating Cai Wan, but Su Yueyao instead ordered her to have Lao Bai lure Cai Wan’s older sister to Yangzhou.
• Shen Jun met Cai Wan, learned she used the name Zhen Ji, and accepted her invitation to tea in the Library Hall.
• Shen Jun sat across from Cai Wan and asked to consult her about something.

Lin Dong and his companions identified the mysterious Xu Xiu as a likely Demon Prison opponent, while Shen Jun read a history of the world and met Cai Wan in the Su Residence’s Library Hall. The chapter left Shen Jun seeking Cai Wan’s guidance as Su Yueyao arranged to lure Cai Wan’s older sister to Yangzhou.

• Gu Mengqi showed Lin Dong the New Talent Ranking, and Little Marten explained that the obscure Xu Xiu had appeared about a year earlier and killed a Death Profound Realm Great Accomplishment expert.
• Cai Wan gave Shen Jun a general history, which described the mythic and martial history of the realm and left him worried about the dangerous monk he had once insulted.
• Shaoyao reported Shen Jun and Cai Wan’s meeting to Su Yueyao, who ordered her to have Lao Bai lure Cai Wan’s older sister to Yangzhou.
• Shen Jun found Cai Wan in the Library Hall, mistook her for a maid and then for Zhen Ji of the Zhen clan, and accepted her invitation to tea.
• Shen Jun sat with Cai Wan and asked her to share her knowledge with him.