Chapter Summaries

Ten months after Shen Ye vanished, Meng Qi and his companions discovered a human refuge in the Journey to the West World, protected by Shen Ye’s lingering power. Shen Ye, training on the Human Sovereign Ancient Path, answered their summons and agreed to shelter them if danger arose.

• Luo Shengyi returned to the group with news of a valley where a thousand humans lived safely beneath a statue of Shen Ye.
• The group debated whether to use the valley as refuge, with Meng Qi and Zhang Yuanshan insisting they could not rely on it completely or risk endangering its people.
• Luo Shengyi revealed that the valley’s people had once summoned Shen Ye’s will to defeat a demon siege, leading Zhang Yuanshan and Ruan Yushu to suspect Shen Ye had reached Half-step Dharma Body.
• Shen Ye continued cultivating on the Human Sovereign Ancient Path and learned that his Death Mission was to uncover the hidden hand behind Shaolin and expose its conspiracy.
• The valley’s people summoned Shen Ye through his statue, and Meng Qi asked whether the group could take refuge there if threatened.
• Shen Ye agreed to shelter Meng Qi and his companions in the valley if they encountered danger.

Shen Ye healed the injured Reincarnators and offered them protection from demons in exchange for bringing him into a future Reincarnation World. He revealed that the True Spirit Realm was also part of reincarnation, then departed after securing their agreement.

• Shen Ye healed Jiang Zhiwei and Ge Huaien and explained that he had slain thirteen External Scenery demonic creatures to protect a human sanctuary.
• Shen Ye told the group they could seek shelter among demon kings under his control, while Meng Qi urged Luo Shengyi to use the opportunity to train.
• Shen Ye asked the group to bring him into their next reincarnation mission with a Reincarnation Talisman, and said he would meet them at Shaolin to arrange a temporary contract.
• Shen Ye confirmed to Qi Zhengyan that his own Death Mission was in the True Spirit Realm, alarming the group with the revelation that their world was part of reincarnation.
• Shen Ye reminded them of their agreement, and the light faded from the statue's eyes.

Han Guang revealed his plan to open the Ananda Pure Land with help from Tai Li and Xuan Xin, while Shen Ye arrived at Shaolin for the Demon Slaying Convention. He reunited with He Jiu and Meng Qi’s group, then arranged to lead them on a future reincarnation mission.

• Han Guang told Xuan Xin that Guldo’s approaching forces could help open the Pure Land, where Han Guang, Tai Li, and Xuan Xin would each pursue their own goals.
• Two months later, Kongwen invited righteous leaders to Shaolin for a Demon Slaying Convention, claiming the temple had captured the Great Demon hidden within its walls.
• Shen Ye met He Jiu on the road to Shaolin, revealed that he had advanced three levels in a year, and received a warning that the convention might conceal another purpose.
• Shen Ye arrived at Shaolin and endured the monks’ hostile stares before settling into the guest quarters.
• Meng Qi and his companions thanked Shen Ye for helping them survive their Death Mission and asked whether he had killed the powerful Demon Vine King.
• Shen Ye gave the group a contract and two Reincarnation Talismans, and they agreed to join him on their next reincarnation mission.

Shen Ye negotiated with the Heavenly Emperor, who directed him to investigate a demon infiltrator at Shaolin as a way to fulfill his mission. Ten days later, Kongwen revealed that Shaolin’s so-called Great Demon was his own heart demon and explained its connection to Bodhidharma.

• The Heavenly Emperor confronted Shen Ye about taking Purple Star Lord’s title, and Shen Ye argued that he would be a more valuable ally than an ordinary subordinate.
• The Heavenly Emperor asked whether Shen Ye still had the heart-demon aura and pointed him toward Xuan Xin, a demon infiltrator seeking to free the beings beneath the Sarira Pagoda.
• Shen Ye considered whether Han Guang’s information about Shaolin’s conspiracy could satisfy his Death Mission, while Han Guang hoped the demon race would test Shen Ye’s hidden strength.
• Ten days later, Kongwen told the gathered sect leaders and elders that he was the Great Demon, though not in the sense they expected.
• Kongwen explained that Bodhidharma had gained Buddha’s Palm at a mysterious mountain, where a heart demon eventually separated from him and became Evil Bodhidharma.
• Kongwen said Bodhidharma’s heart demon had perished, and identified the Great Demon within Shaolin as his own heart demon, Evil Kongwen.

Abbot Kongwen revealed that his inner demon had contacted the demon race and called martial artists to help destroy it, while offering them the Pure Land’s opportunities. Shen Ye exposed Xuan Xin as a demon and began overwhelming him in battle, leaving the assembled monks and martial artists stunned.

• Kongwen revealed that Han Guang had infused him with Demonic Qi ten years earlier, forcing him to sever and suppress his inner demon in the Pure Land.
• Kongwen said the inner demon had contacted the demon race and invited martial artists to help destroy it, promising them opportunities from the back mountain.
• Chonghe asked about the demon race’s presence, and Kongwen credited Shen Ye with helping uncover an unusual demon.
• Shen Ye challenged Xuan Xin, who denied being an eminent monk until Shen Ye attacked him.
• Xuan Xin transformed into a white-furred, winged demon, and Shen Ye sent him crashing through the Mahavira Hall.
• Shen Ye battered Xuan Xin in the air, smashing his horn and continuing to punch him before he could fall.

Shen Ye defeated Xuan Xin despite his Formless Calamity Finger and a surprise attack, then took possession of Xuan Xin’s gourd, which concealed the Demon-Summoning Banner. As the battle paused, three great Demon Kings arrived together, and Master Lu struck down Tai Li’s attack.

• Xuan Xin transformed and used Shaolin’s Formless Calamity Finger, but Shen Ye broke through his attacks and damaged his Demon Core.
• Xuan Xin fired a hidden weapon from his gourd and pierced Shen Ye’s shoulder, but Shen Ye healed the wound and continued attacking.
• Shen Ye seized the gourd, and Xuan Xin tried to conceal the Demon-Summoning Banner inside it by claiming the vessel was his wine flask and chamber pot.
• Tai Li sent a Five-Colored Divine Light at Shen Ye, but Master Lu destroyed it with one sword strike.
• Tai Li arrived with a white tiger and a one-horned kui ox, bringing the three great Demon Kings together to cause trouble.

The three Demon Kings attacked Shaolin and demanded that Shen Ye be handed over, while Han Guang’s disguise as Abbot Kongwen was exposed. As the Dharma Body masters fought, Shen Ye used the Demon-Summoning Banner to restrain Tai Li and destroyed him with Gai Jiuyou’s decree.

• Tai Li demanded Shen Ye and threatened to bathe Shaolin in blood, while revealing that Shen Ye cultivated the Human Sovereign Golden Tome.
• The White Tiger Demon King exposed Kongwen as Han Guang in disguise, and Kongwen revealed his true form.
• Chonghe trapped Tai Li and Han Guang in the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, while Lu Da severely wounded the Kui Niu Demon King and He Qi fought the White Tiger Demon King.
• Tai Li hurled the Demon Saint Spear at the Sarira Pagoda, bringing it down and awakening powerful demons beneath it.
• Shen Ye revealed the Demon-Summoning Banner, caught Tai Li off guard, and blasted him into dust with Gai Jiuyou’s decree.

Shen Ye killed the Peacock Demon King and helped the gathered human experts turn the demons’ escape from the Sarira Pagoda into a massacre. Han Guang escaped, but Lu Da secretly altered his destination, leaving him stranded in an ancient Time Shard.

• Shen Ye’s hidden power killed the Peacock Demon King, shocking Han Guang and the gathered humans and demons.
• Baize Zhu Wu fled, while Lu Da and He Qi trapped the Kui Niu Demon King and Chonghe used Shen Ye’s Demon-Summoning Banner to weaken the demons.
• Han Guang persuaded the White Tiger Demon King to hold off the human experts while he prepared an escape, then teleported away and left the demon king to die.
• Chonghe and Lu Da revealed that they had sensed Abbot Kongwen inside a Time Shard and had deliberately let Han Guang escape.
• Lu Da disclosed that he had altered Han Guang’s teleportation destination, and Han Guang found himself in an ancient Time Shard facing a dinosaur.

After the demon battle, Shen Ye received Chonghe’s Dharma Body Token and declined to enter the rear mountain. A month later, Shaozai and Xifeng arrived in Guangling looking for Shen Ye and asked Meng Qi where they could find him.

• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation awarded Shen Ye three thousand Merit Points and a Reincarnation Talisman for surviving the Death Mission.
• Chonghe returned the Demon-Summoning Banner to Shen Ye and gave him a Dharma Body Token for protection from demons seeking revenge.
• Shen Ye declined Lu Da’s offer to accompany them up the rear mountain, wary of the inheritance and its dangers.
• Shaozai and Xifeng heard a storyteller recount Shen Ye’s role in defeating the three Demon Kings and realized he might know where Shen Ye was.
• Meng Qi recognized Shaozai and Xifeng as young Exterior Scenery masters, and they asked him where to find Hero Shen Ye.

Shaozai and Xifeng proposed establishing a nation in the Western Region for Shen Ye and offered the support of their Human Sovereign Remnant clan. In the Reincarnation Space, Meng Qi and his companions met Zhao Heng, the sole survivor of his previous team.

• Meng Qi confirmed that Shaozai and Xifeng practiced the Human Sovereign Golden Tome and escorted them to Shen Ye at the Wang Family.
• Shaozai and Xifeng recommended founding a nation in the Western Region, where they said the Human Sovereign Remnants could build a foundation for Shen Ye.
• Xifeng revealed that their clan had forty-seven members, including ten Exterior Scenery experts and an ancestor with a Human Immortal Dharma Body.
• Shen Ye accepted their help with Western Region arrangements and said he might leave the True Spirit Realm soon.
• A new reincarnation began, and Meng Qi's team met Zhao Heng, who revealed that he alone had survived his previous mission after their team drew the Nine Heavens Thunder God.

Zhao Heng brought Shen Ye and the reincarnators to the ruins of Everlasting Spring Temple, where Shen Ye’s Dao Palace incarnations swiftly killed the demons threatening the righteous martial artists. With the strongest demons already dead, Shen Ye left the remaining three for Meng Qi and his companions to face.

• Zhao Heng met Meng Qi and his companions, then summoned Shen Ye and another figure with the Reincarnation Talisman.
• At Everlasting Spring Temple, Zhao Heng introduced Shen Ye as a Martial Arts Myth who had come to help resist the Eight Demons.
• Shen Ye sent five Dao Palace incarnations to hunt the demons, and they returned with the corpses of Fire Demon, Dragon Demon, Weapon Demon, and Iron Demon.
• The giant incarnation returned with Extreme Heaven True Demon’s corpse, stunning Daoist Master Baizhang and the gathered martial artists.
• Shen Ye left the remaining three demons for Meng Qi and his companions, then let Meng Qi take the five corpses.

Daoist Master Baizhang asked Shen Ye to close the passage to the Demon Realm Fragment, and Shen Ye agreed before the group continued toward Extreme Heaven Palace. Empress of Azure Dawn revealed the contest between Immortal Traces and Myth over Buddha's Palm, but Shen Ye declared that he belonged to Myth and intended to take the inheritance for himself.

• Daoist Master Baizhang explained that the Demon Realm Passage had to be sealed, and Shen Ye agreed to help.
• Meng Qi and the others defeated the Corpse Demon and took his Demon Crystal after he escaped their first attack.
• Empress of Azure Dawn approached Meng Qi and asked to meet Shen Ye, revealing that she had been injured by the giant he summoned.
• Empress of Azure Dawn told Shen Ye that Immortal Traces and Myth had sent powerful Reincarnators to compete for Buddha's Palm.
• Shen Ye revealed that he had joined Myth after coercing its members, and said he would take Buddha's Palm's inheritance rather than ally with Immortal Traces.

Shen Ye ambushed and killed the Purple Star Lord after their battle drew him toward Taiyi Zhenren and the groups gathered outside Extreme Heaven Palace. He took the Purple Star Lord mask and declared himself the new Purple Star Lord.

• The Purple Star Lord attacked Shen Ye, and both fighters used Dharma Body Tokens to unleash a strike across space.
• Shen Ye and the upgraded Xingtian No. 2 pursued the injured Purple Star Lord, who fled toward Taiyi Zhenren at Extreme Heaven Palace.
• Taiyi Zhenren questioned the members of Mythology about the Purple Star Lord’s whereabouts, then sensed him approaching.
• Shen Ye used multiple enhancements to launch a killing blow alongside the Xingtian Warlord, and the Purple Star Lord fell onto Ultimate Heaven Peak.
• Shen Ye took the Purple Star Lord mask, put it on, and announced himself as the new Purple Star Lord.

Shen Ye destroyed the Demon Realm Fragment with Little Flame, received Zen Master Jiuzhen’s inheritance of the first move of Buddha’s Palm, and ended the mission. He and Hua Yue returned to Reincarnation Plaza and departed for their next world, while powerful observers speculated about the force behind him.

• Shen Ye drove Taiyi Zhenren and the others to withdraw from the contest for Buddha’s Palm, while Queen Mother of the West vowed to remember his insult to the demon race.
• Shen Ye entered the Demon Realm Fragment and learned from Zen Master Jiuzhen that destroying it would also destroy the Primordial Demon consciousness.
• Shen Ye unleashed Little Flame, bringing the Demon Realm Fragment to the brink of destruction, and Jiuzhen passed him a bodhi seed containing the inheritance of Buddha’s Palm’s first move.
• Empress of Azure Dawn met Taiyi Zhenren and the others as a great blast erupted from Ultimate Heaven Peak and the Demon Realm Passage’s aura vanished.
• Shen Ye ended the mission, and Hua Yue exchanged twelve thousand Merit Points for a top-grade Treasured Weapon-class konghou before they left Reincarnation Plaza.
• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation speculated that an Other Shore being was concealing Shen Ye’s karma, while an elderly Daoist at Tushita Palace wondered what changes the new variable would bring.

Shen Ye and Hua Yue entered a world he recognized as Swallowed Star, where newcomers had to cultivate Genetic Primal Energy to earn permanent residency on the Sacred Mountain. After adjusting time between universes, Shen Ye began comparing his strength with the power levels of this world.

• Shen Ye and Hua Yue emerged from Death Forest, registered as probationary disciples of Tianlan Star, and received translator watches.
• Tianlan Star disciples gathered more than a hundred thousand newcomers and told them to cultivate from the eight stone steles and reach Sky Knight within three years to remain on the Sacred Mountain.
• The first thousand newcomers' translator watches became a source of conflict, and fighting broke out as others tried to secure help or seize the devices.
• Shen Ye avoided the unrest, cultivated beneath the fire-element stele, and examined how Genetic Primal Energy was stored throughout the body.
• Shen Ye recognized the universe as Swallowed Star, used the Destiny Orb to adjust the flow of time, and estimated how his current strength compared with this world's ranks.

Shen Ye realized his Genetic Primal Energy had reached a twentyfold Gene Level and found a model for understanding this universe’s Laws. After displaying a Flame Domain, he drew the attention of Tianlan Star’s authorities and learned about the Star Lord and the universe’s power hierarchy.

• Shen Ye compared his Genetic Primal Energy with others’ and concluded that his Gene Level had reached twentyfold through cultivating multiple systems.
• More than thirty people surrounded Shen Ye and Langya, demanding their cultivation treasures, and Shen Ye drove them away with his Flame Domain.
• A Tianlan Star disciple recognized Shen Ye’s Domain, identified himself as Langya, and hurried to notify the supervisor.
• The supervisor confirmed Shen Ye’s achievement and ordered Langya to show him around Tianlan Star while he reported to the Star Lord.
• Langya explained Tianlan Star’s place in the Nine Emperor Mountain Empire and described the Star Lord as a peak World Lord.

Shen Ye explored Tianlan Star and entered the Virtual Universe’s Slaughter Arena to hone his combat skills. After he rapidly advanced his Flame Domain, the Star Lord summoned him and learned how he had improved.

• Langya explained Tianlan Star’s two factions, gave Shen Ye and Hua Yue Intelligent Optical Brains, and took Shen Ye to the Slaughter Arena.
• Shen Ye requested one thousand Planetary Level First Rank opponents with First Layer Domains and fought them using a body limited to his Apprentice Seventh Rank strength.
• Langya spectated Shen Ye’s ongoing battle, saw his precise kills and Third Layer Flame Domain, and received an order to bring him to the Star Lord.
• Carter brought Shen Ye before the Star Lord, who questioned Carter about Shen Ye’s Third Layer Domain.
• Shen Ye told the Star Lord that he had advanced from the First Layer after fighting in the Slaughter Arena with Langya.

Shen Ye became Cang Lei’s personal disciple and began training in the Illusion Martial Artist Path. During a sparring match against three senior disciples, Shen Ye defeated them and revealed that he had reached the threshold of laws.

• Cang Lei offered Shen Ye a place as his nineteenth personal disciple, and Shen Ye accepted.
• Cang Lei explained the Illusion Martial Artist Path and began teaching Shen Ye how to combine illusions with his Flame Domain.
• Two months later, Shen Ye met registered disciples Carlos, Baitian Xing, and Lionheart, whom Cang Lei assigned as sparring partners.
• Shen Ye used his Flame Domain and illusions to eliminate Carlos and injure Baitian Xing while the three fought under strength restrictions.
• After Cang Lei raised their permitted strength, Shen Ye unleashed a dazzling sword strike that destroyed Lionheart and Baitian Xing.
• Cang Lei realized that Shen Ye had reached the threshold of laws despite being only Planetary Level third rank.

After four years of training under the Star Lord, Shen Ye’s fellow disciples watched Cang Lei’s Lionheart spar with a visiting genius before Cang Lei decided to reveal his hidden disciple. The chapter ended with Lionheart going to fetch Shen Ye, as the Genius Battle drew near.

• The Star Lord praised Shen Ye’s Source Law attack and ordered a nutrient pod to raise him directly to Stellar Level Rank 9 while they trained in the Virtual Universe.
• Four years later, Cang Lei and a three-eyed old man watched their disciples spar on the Sacred Mountain as the Genius Battle approached.
• Sith challenged Lionheart and claimed he would defeat him in one move, but Lionheart lasted ten moves before losing.
• Baitian Xing told the watching Tianlan Star disciples that their Eldest Senior Brother could defeat Sith easily.
• Cang Lei agreed to reveal his hidden disciple and sent Lionheart to call Shen Ye to the arena.

Shen Ye defeated Sith with the Illusion Martial Artist Path and continued pursuing his goal of comprehending Origin Profundity. When the Universal Human Peak Genius Battle opened for registration, Shen Ye signed up, anticipating how winning might increase the Destiny Orb’s fate energy.

• Shen Ye made Sith collapse unconscious with an illusion, prompting the three-eyed elder to recognize his Illusion Martial Artist Path.
• Cang Lei praised Shen Ye’s prospects, while Shen Ye returned home and reflected on his Fire Law comprehension and his ambition to reach Origin Profundity.
• A proclamation announced the Universal Human Peak Genius Battle, and Cang Lei urged Shen Ye to register.
• Shen Ye registered for the competition and resumed comprehending the Fire Element Law as millions of Stellar Level fighters signed up.
• After Shen Ye’s reputation spread slightly, the Destiny Orb absorbed a small surge of fate energy, and Shen Ye wondered how much it would gain if he won the battle.