Chapter Summaries

After refining the Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow, Chu Jiang awakened the Ice King Physique and advanced the Ice Emperor Canon, then received two first-rank marquis titles and lavish rewards from the Chu Emperor. The chapter ended with Wang Chao inviting Martial Province City's factions to a banquet, leaving them pressured to attend and bring gifts.

• Chu Jiang comforted Fu Yunxuan after their night together, then refined all three drops of Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow and awakened the Ice King Physique.
• Chu Jiang spent Demon Lifespan to bring the Ice Emperor Canon to sainthood, unlocking the Extreme Cold Domain and transforming the Nine Strikes of the Ice Emperor.
• An imperial decree praised Chu Jiang for quelling the three prefectures' crises and killing King Wuling, then granted him the titles of First-Rank Marquis Wu'an and Demon Suppression Marquis, two Death Exemption Scrolls, and a Four-Clawed Python Robe.
• The factions and noble families of Martial Province City reacted with shock and dread at Chu Jiang's promotion, while his subordinates and female admirers celebrated.
• Wang Chao announced that Chu Jiang had reserved the Drunken Immortal Tower for a banquet and invited the factions, pressuring them to attend and bring gifts.

Wang Chao ranked guests at Drunken Immortal Tower by the value of their gifts, while Chu Jiang cultivated in seclusion and learned that the Thunder Fire Abyss would open next month. He planned to seek several treasures and explore ancient ruins before entering the secret realm.

• Wang Chao assigned banquet guests to floors according to their gifts, prompting Marquis of Wuyang to offer a more valuable treasure for a seventh-floor seat.
• Little White and Long Teng attended Chu Jiang's banquet in his place, bewildering the powerful guests as they ate on the ninth floor.
• After refining the Heart of Lava and Heavenly Sun Crystal, Chu Jiang learned from Judge Cui that the Thunder Fire Abyss would open on the fifteenth of next month.
• Judge Cui told Chu Jiang that the Thunder Fire Abyss held rare treasures and Heaven Burning Crystals, but was filled with dangerous beasts, demons, and devils.
• Chu Jiang planned to visit the Yin Corpse Sect, respond to First Person in Qingzhou's invitation, and investigate a ruin at Duan Kong Mountain before contacting First Person in Qingzhou.

Chu Jiang led his forces into Bing Prefecture to hunt demons and arrived just as wolf demons besieged Tieyuan County. He killed their leader with one strike, but the Snow Moon Wolf King remained a threat.

• Chu Jiang learned the identities of several members of Judge Cui's group and arranged to meet them in Lingzhou in ten days.
• Chu Jiang selected twenty Qiankun Realm experts and seventy Dharma Aspect Realm experts, then set out to hunt demons across the Eastern Ten Prefectures.
• In Bing Prefecture, a wolf demon pack attacked Tieyuan County, demanding people despite the county's defenses and the wolf demons' former rules.
• Lin Han led the Demon Suppressing Guard out to stall the attackers while the Governor ordered the city's Divine Arm Bows to fire.
• Chu Jiang appeared on an Ice Throne, froze many wolf demons, and killed their Heaven Tier Eighth Level leader with the Ice Emperor Canon.
• The dying wolf demon leader warned that the Snow Moon Wolf King would not let Chu Jiang go, and Tieyuan County's defenders marveled at his power.

Chu Jiang led the Demon Suppression Guards across Bing Prefecture, slaughtering demons and using his accumulated lifespan to advance his Law Domain to the Fifth Level. As he hunted wolf demons, an urgent report arrived that the Tianlang Mountain Range had summoned a terrifying demon and released more than ten thousand demons.

• Chu Jiang arrived in Tieyuan County, ordered the aftermath handled, and learned that a mysterious fox demon had provoked the Snow Moon Wolf King to seize people across Bing Prefecture.
• Chu Jiang set out for the Tianlang Mountain Range, killing demons across several counties despite warnings about the Snow Moon Wolf King’s strength.
• Chu Jiang discussed the people’s worship of gods with Fu Yunxuan while the group rescued settlements and continued their advance across Bing Prefecture.
• Chu Jiang spent 1.5 million years of lifespan to break through to Law Domain Fifth Level, gaining strength comparable to a Heaven Fusion Sixth Level expert.
• Zhao Hu brought Chu Jiang an urgent report that the Tianlang Mountain Range had summoned a terrifying demon and unleashed more than ten thousand demons, prompting a request for reinforcements.

Chu Jiang rushed to the western commanderies of Bing Prefecture as a summoned demon devastated the region, while Yang Jian gathered reinforcements to confront it. The Fox Immortal Lady revealed that the demon was the Brahma True Demon, who had returned and vowed revenge on Chu Jiang.

• After learning that a blood sacrifice had unleashed a powerful demon in Bing Prefecture, Chu Jiang led his forces through a void rift toward the western commanderies.
• On Bing Prefecture City's walls, Yang Jian dismissed clan leaders who blamed Chu Jiang and learned that reinforcements from Huai Prefecture, Yu Prefecture, and Yi Prefecture were coming.
• Yuan Zhaokong arrived first from Yi Prefecture, and Yang Jian organized the city's defenses before leading the remaining Demon Suppressing Guards out to fight the Snow Moon Wolf King and the summoned demon.
• At the devastated Dingyuan Commandery Governor's Residence, the Brahma True Demon mocked Chu Jiang while the Fox Immortal Lady explained that King Wuling had died at his hands.
• The Brahma True Demon, restored to Demon Marshal Third Level, vowed to make Chu Jiang suffer, while the Fox Immortal Lady anticipated his defeat.

The Brahma True Demon led the demons toward Bing Prefecture after devouring Dingyuan Commandery, where Great Chu’s forces confronted them. Chu Jiang arrived and faced the newly revealed Demon Marshal Snow Moon Wolf King as the battle intensified.

• The Fox Immortal Lady directed the Brahma True Demon toward Bing Prefecture, and he agreed to set out for its more powerful martial artists.
• Yuan Zhaokong, Yin Lie, Yang Jian, and other Great Chu forces attacked the demons at Dingyuan Commandery, but the Brahma True Demon overwhelmed Yuan Zhaokong.
• Chu Jiang’s Ancient Battle Spear struck the battlefield, killing more than a thousand demons, and he arrived to support the Great Chu forces.
• The Snow Moon Wolf King revealed that he had reached Demon Marshal First Level and blocked Chu Jiang, while the Fox Immortal Lady recognized how much Chu Jiang’s strength had grown.
• Chu Jiang challenged the demons’ claim to Bing Prefecture and unleashed the third form of the Sky Splitting Spear Art as the Snow Moon Wolf King charged him with freezing frost.

Chu Jiang killed the Snow Moon Wolf King with a single spear strike, then fought the Brahma True Demon again. He pierced the demon with his Heaven Execution technique as the Fox Immortal Lady began to retreat.

• The Snow Moon Wolf King attacked Chu Jiang with his moonlit wolf phantom, but Chu Jiang shattered it and pierced the king through with the Sky Splitting Spear.
• Chu Jiang crushed the Snow Moon Wolf King's soul with his divine sense, killing him and leaving the Bing Prefecture wolf clan stunned and enraged.
• Snow Phoenix, Fu Yunxuan, Yang Jian, and other cultivators arrived, and Chu Jiang recognized the Brahma True Demon as an old adversary.
• The Brahma True Demon summoned seven powerful Demonic Beasts, but their magical attacks disintegrated near Chu Jiang, who then killed them with his spear.
• Chu Jiang unleashed Heaven Execution, pierced the Brahma True Demon through the body, and sent him flying as the Fox Immortal Lady quietly retreated behind the wolf pack.

Chu Jiang killed Brahma True Demon and Fox Immortal Lady during the demon assault on Bing Prefecture, then ordered the allied forces to assess casualties and provide compensation and relief. He left with his companions after collecting useful demon corpses.

• Chu Jiang overwhelmed Brahma True Demon with his fifth-level domain and killed him, earning 120,000 years of lifespan as Brahma True Demon's Main Body vowed revenge.
• Chu Jiang charged into the battlefield and killed most of the more than ten thousand demons attacking the commandery city.
• Snow Phoenix captured the fleeing Fox Immortal Lady and brought her to Chu Jiang, who beat her to death.
• Chu Jiang ordered Yang Jian, Yuan Zhaokong, and the other leaders to count Bing Prefecture's casualties and provide compensation and relief.
• Chu Jiang collected valuable demon corpses and departed with the others.

After wiping out the wolf demons and raising his Law Domain to the sixth level, Chu Jiang set out for Qing Prefecture to explore Duan Kong Mountain. Meanwhile, the Ghost Domain resurrected Fox Immortal Lady and prepared, alongside the Heavenly Demon Palace, to kill Chu Jiang within three months.

• Chu Jiang used the lifespan gained from slaughtering demons to advance his Law Domain to the sixth level, then headed toward Jiuli Commandery in Qing Prefecture with his followers.
• The Heavenly Ghost King used an altar and seven maidens to recreate Fox Immortal Lady as a being with a Ghost Domain body.
• Fox Immortal Lady reported Chu Jiang's strength and the power of his Blood Puppet to the Heavenly Ghost King.
• The Heavenly Ghost King revealed that the Ghost Domain and Heavenly Demon Palace were gathering forces to kill Chu Jiang, after Mystic Tortoise Exalted divined that Chu Jiang threatened the demons' future.

Chu Jiang reached the Yin Corpse Sect seeking Heaven Corpse Rebirth Lotuses to refine Heaven Fusion-level puppets. After presenting Corpse Ancestor’s Blood Token, he was summoned to meet the sect’s ancestor, who greeted him in a spirit herb garden.

• Chu Jiang left Old Monster Extreme Yin’s ruins with spirit stones, lifespan, and magic treasures, then decided to travel to the Yin Corpse Sect for Heaven Corpse Rebirth Lotuses.
• Chu Jiang crossed the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and arrived at White Bone Gorge, the only route into the Yin Corpse Sect.
• Chu Jiang showed the Black and White Twin Fiends his Demon Suppression Division token and explained that he had come for the Heaven Corpse Rebirth Lotus.
• White Fiend recognized Corpse Ancestor’s Blood Token, and Black Fiend sought instructions from the ancestor.
• The ancestor summoned Chu Jiang, and Black Fiend guided him through the Yin Corpse Sect while explaining its disciples’ corpse puppets.
• In the spirit herb garden, the red-robed ancestor asked Chu Jiang how Corpse Ancestor was doing.

Chu Jiang obtained four Heaven Corpse Rebirth Lotuses from the Yin Corpse Sect, whose leaders were preparing to complete the Corpse God Plan. In the Miao Frontier, the Great Priest ordered Yue Xuanji’s capture to advance the Weapon God Project, and Chu Jiang set out for Lingzhou the next day.

• Chu Jiang accepted four Heaven Corpse Rebirth Lotuses from the Yin Corpse Sect ancestor in exchange for using the Corpse Ancestor’s token to settle an old debt.
• Yin Tianli told the ancestor that the Corpse God was nearly ready for mass production, and the ancestor ordered him to oversee its final stage.
• Yin Jiuli berated the Elder Council for failing to capture Yue Xuanji and demanded progress on the Weapon God Project within a month.
• The Elder Council suspended Yue Tianyun and sent the Cave Masters of Corpse Silkworm Ridge, Blood Thorn Ridge, and Heart Devouring Ridge to bring Yue Xuanji back unharmed.
• Chu Jiang left for Lingzhou as agreed with Yan Jinsheng.

Chu Jiang refined two more Heaven Merging Blood Puppets, then joined Yan Jinsheng, Hua Junzi, and Yue Xuanji to enter a Great Qin Dynasty ruin hidden behind a waterfall. As the group explored its vast desert, the Three Cave Masters arrived outside and considered risking entry themselves.

• Chu Jiang created Blood Puppets 003 and 004, then disguised himself as the Chu Emperor to meet Yan Jinsheng and Hua Junzi in the Falling Cloud Mountain Range.
• Yue Xuanji joined them, and the four opened a passage into the Great Qin Dynasty ruin using a Three Talents Formation and Void Worm Blood.
• The group emerged in a desert beside a South City Teleportation Array stele and found that the ruin's space was unusually stable.
• Chu Jiang and the others traveled deeper into the desert, while Chu Jiang's divine sense reached far beyond the others' range without finding any living creatures.
• The Three Cave Masters gathered at the waterfall, and the master of Corpse Silkworm Ridge urged them to gamble on entering the ruin.

Chu Jiang guided Yue Xuanji and their companions through a sand sea filled with deadly black bats toward a protective Black Tower. After Yue Xuanji brought down a giant red bat, they reached the tower, while the Three Cave Masters entered the desert and struggled to find a safe route.

• The Three Cave Masters calmed the spatial vortex with blood from the Heart Devouring Ridge Master's bone gourd and entered the ruins with their followers.
• Chu Jiang directed Yue Xuanji, Hua Junzi, and Yan Jinsheng through swarms of black bats, and they followed his route toward the Black Tower.
• The group reached the tower's bat-free perimeter, but a giant red bat attacked Chu Jiang on the way.
• Yue Xuanji's soul-suppressing nails struck the red bat, while Chu Jiang secretly crushed its soul with his divine sense and gained two hundred years of lifespan.
• The group entered the Black Tower, and the Three Cave Masters' party arrived in the sand sea battered as the Corpse Silkworm Ridge Master tried to divine a safe path.

Inside the Black Tower, Chu Jiang and the others activated a Great Qin Xuanji City Demon Suppressing Platform and each chose a relic. Chu Jiang obtained a full map of Xuanji City, and the group set out to explore with its help.

• Yan Jinsheng identified the Black Tower as a Demon Suppressing Platform from the lost Xuanji City, a mechanism city built by the Mohist School and the Gongshu Family.
• After the group fed it thousands of High-grade Spirit Stones, the Black Tower activated as Great Qin Xuanji City’s No. 007 Demon Suppressing Platform, though its data was damaged.
• Hua Junzi chose a purple pill that appeared moldy, Yan Jinsheng received a usable fire-attributed magic treasure spear, and Yue Xuanji obtained a Divine Speed Talisman.
• Chu Jiang selected a blank sheet that turned into a full map showing Xuanji City and the locations of its Demon Suppressing Platforms.
• After resting, Chu Jiang and the others used the map to continue exploring, while a gear inside the Black Tower quietly shifted after they left.

Chu Jiang and the others reached Demon Suppressing Platform No. 009 and found the diary of Yang Liwan, its first and final guardian. His account revealed how Xuanji City’s defenders endured isolation and disaster to keep the Heaven Fiend Hall Master sealed, leaving the platform standing long after Great Qin fell.

• Chu Jiang and the others entered Platform No. 009 and discovered a skeleton beside a dusty diary.
• Yang Liwan described Xuanji City’s construction and the defenders’ battle against corpse puppets and the Heavenly Fiend Hall.
• Yang Liwan recorded how the city’s supplies failed, its people died, and the Mohist Grandmaster sacrificed himself to strengthen the seal.
• A Human Demon General told Yang Liwan that the Qin Emperor was dead and Great Qin had fallen, deepening his doubts as he continued guarding the platform.
• As an old man, Yang Liwan shut down most of Platform No. 009 to conserve energy and carved a vow on the wall to defend Xuanji City forever.

Chu Jiang learned that the Heaven Fiend Hall Master was close to awakening and received a mission to activate all thirty-six Demon Suppressing Platforms and reseal him. He led Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi away from the Number Nine Demon Suppression Platform while Yan Jinsheng stayed behind, and the chapter ended with hostile forces mobilizing and the Three Cave Masters pursuing Yue Xuanji.

• Chu Jiang learned that the Heaven Fiend Hall Master was an immortal human demon whose strength had degraded to the Heaven Fusion Fourth Level, and the system tasked him with resealing Heaven Fiend within three days.
• Chu Jiang explained his plan to activate the thirty-six Demon Suppressing Platforms, and Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi chose to follow him while Yan Jinsheng stayed at the Number Nine Demon Suppression Platform.
• Chu Jiang, Yue Xuanji, and Hua Junzi activated the Number 009 Demon Suppression Platform and vanished into the yellow sands, while Yan Jinsheng left for Mechanism City.
• A white-haired old woman saw a Demon Suppression Stele strengthen Heaven Fiend's failing seal and ordered the strange beasts of the Sea of Sand to attack outsiders at every Demon Suppressing Platform.
• At the Number 014 Demon Suppression Platform, the Three Cave Masters learned Yue Xuanji might be nearby and led their followers after her.

At Demon Suppressing Platform No. 017, Chu Jiang and his companions were confronted by the Miaojiang Elder Council’s Three Cave Masters. Chu Jiang crushed two of them with his bare hands, leaving Hua Junzi wondering whether Imperial Uncle could really be the Chu Emperor.

• Chu Jiang, Yue Xuanji, and Hua Junzi activated Demon Suppressing Platform No. 017 before the Three Cave Masters and their followers caught up with them.
• Yue Xuanji prepared to hold off the pursuers, but Chu Jiang stepped forward and told her and Hua Junzi to stand back.
• The Three Cave Masters attacked Chu Jiang together with their strongest techniques, while Hua Junzi protested their unfair numbers.
• Chu Jiang shattered the Blood Thorn Cave Master's weapon and punched a bloody hole through his abdomen.
• Chu Jiang's aura dispelled the Corpse Silkworm Cave Master's palm and Gu Worms, and he broke the Cave Master's arm with a single punch.
• The Heart Devouring Cave Master retreated in fear as Hua Junzi stared at Chu Jiang's strength and wondered if he was the Chu Emperor.

Chu Jiang rescued Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi from the Miao Territory elders, then fled across the sea of sand to reach another Demon Suppressing Platform. The injured Cave Masters and elders were left to face an enormous swarm of bats, whose leader ordered them killed.

• Chu Jiang tore apart the Heart Devouring Ridge Master's soul attack, wounded him, and carried Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi away.
• Chu Jiang explained that he had spared the Miao Territory fighters so the approaching black bats would keep them occupied while he hurried to the next Demon Suppressing Platform.
• The Blood Thorn Cave Master, Corpse Silkworm Ridge Master, and Heart Devouring Ridge Master used their Life Gu to heal their wounds and decided to seek a Demon Suppressing Platform.
• The Miao Territory group spotted the vast bat swarm and fled, while a dark-red bat announced the Star Lord's order to kill all outsiders.

Chu Jiang activated more Demon Suppressing Platforms as the Xuanji Ruins grew more oppressive, while the Heaven Fiend avatar emerged and began hunting him. After slaughtering the Miaojiang survivors, the avatar captured Yan Jinsheng, and Chu Jiang’s mission countdown fell to twelve hours.

• Chu Jiang activated Demon Suppressing Platforms 019, 023, and 016, bringing the total to twenty-eight as red mist spread across the ruins.
• The Bat King and four Half-step Heaven Fusion monsters ambushed Chu Jiang, but he killed them with the Sky Splitting Spear.
• The Heaven Fiend avatar revealed itself by killing the Corpse Silkworm Cave Master and the last Miaojiang elder, while Blood Thorn Cave Master escaped.
• The Heaven Fiend avatar absorbed the battlefield’s monster corpses, then captured Yan Jinsheng and forced him to submit as a slave.
• Chu Jiang activated Demon Suppressing Platform 032, and the panel reported twelve hours remaining after detecting Heaven Fiend’s intense resistance.

Chu Jiang fought and defeated the Heavenly Fiend clone while Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi tried to activate the remaining Demon Suppressing Platforms. He returned in time to kill Yan Jinsheng for betraying them, leaving Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi safe.

• Chu Jiang identified the Heavenly Fiend clone as a Heaven Fusion Fifth Level monstrosity and told Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi he would handle it alone.
• Chu Jiang used his fifth-level Law Domain and repeated punches to overwhelm the Heavenly Fiend clone, ignoring its offer to cooperate.
• Yan Jinsheng ambushed Yue Xuanji and Hua Junzi on the Demon Suppressing Platform, then used a Heavenly Poison Demon Pill to knock Hua Junzi unconscious and weaken Yue Xuanji.
• Yan Jinsheng tried to seize Yue Xuanji, but Chu Jiang returned after killing the Heavenly Fiend clone and dragged him away.
• Chu Jiang crushed Yan Jinsheng’s throat and annihilated his soul, declaring that all traitors deserved death.