Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi and Tian Mang learned more about Yuan Ye and Shen Jun’s troubled past as the Giant Black Python drove them through a barrier into a hidden palace. There, the injured python collapsed in a pool of blood, leaving Lin Qi to suspect it had spent its remaining strength helping her.

• Tian Mang explained that Shen Jun’s master had sent Yuan Ye back to Devil Race territory to protect him and prevent conflict among the human, demon, and devil races.
• Tian Mang recounted how Yuan Ye broke through to Spirit Transformation, returned to the human race, and took Shen Jun back to Devil Race territory.
• Lin Qi connected the murals and a pair of detailed scepters to a possible Sky Demon Tribe inheritance hidden beyond the barrier.
• The Giant Black Python broke through the barrier, carrying Lin Qi and Tian Mang into a lavish palace unknown to both of them.
• Tian Mang found the Giant Black Python lying in a pool of blood, and Lin Qi suspected it had knowingly exhausted itself to help her.

After the Giant Black Python and Sky Witherwood appeared near death, Lin Qi and Tian Mang explored the unfamiliar underground spaces and discovered a vast source of Demonic Qi Origin. A sudden fissure and surging weak water separated them, carrying Lin Qi away while Tian Mang was drawn toward the demonic qi.

• Tian Mang grieved over the dying Giant Black Python and Sky Witherwood, and Lin Qi stored them in a ring for her.
• Tian Mang explained that she could blend into demonic qi and offered to scout, then sensed an underground space filled with tempting Demonic Qi Origin and another space that felt clean.
• Lin Qi decided to investigate the underground spaces with Tian Mang, but the ground suddenly split beneath her.
• The weak water surged into a torrent, scattering Lin Qi, Tian Mang, and the Sky-Piercing Green Vine; Tian Mang was drawn toward the Demonic Qi Origin while Lin Qi and the vine were swept away.

Lin Qi fought Lin Yun beneath a Sky Witherwood while Jin Jun went to assist Tian Mang and Luo Ci against Rong Shi over the Demonic Qi Origin. The Sky Witherwood and Demonic Qi Origin erupted, and the Spirit Array Secret Realm emerged above the Demon God Palace as formations surrounded it.

• Lin Qi discovered her cultivation had recovered and found Lin Yun meditating beneath a Sky Witherwood in the other space.
• Lin Qi provoked Lin Yun into a fight, wounded her, and concluded that Rong Shi was absent from their battle.
• Lin Qi contacted Jin Jun and asked her to help Tian Mang and stop Rong Shi from obtaining the Demonic Qi Origin.
• Lin Yun's blood struck the Sky Witherwood, causing it to change as Tian Mang and Luo Ci fought Rong Shi in the neighboring space.
• Jin Jun appeared to block Rong Shi, but the restriction vanished and the Demonic Qi Origin and Sky Witherwood erupted into turmoil.
• The Spirit Array Secret Realm appeared above the Demon God Palace, and high-level formations descended around it.

Lin Qi and Lin Yun were transported into a peach blossom realm, where Lin Qi discovered the Heavenly Spirit Scepter at the heart of a formation. Lin Qi protected the scepter from Lin Yun, whose resentment left Lin Qi fearing she might unleash the Blood Sea Samsara Array.

• Lin Qi and Lin Yun found themselves in a peach blossom grove after Demon God Palace’s formations activated and its gates closed.
• Lin Yun attacked Lin Qi with vines, but Lin Qi sent the Sky-Piercing Green Vine to deal with them and pursued Lin Yun toward the northwest.
• Lin Qi reached an altar and recognized the Heavenly Spirit Scepter, recalling that Lin Yun had once triggered the Blood Sea Samsara Array by taking it.
• Lin Qi placed a defensive Magic Tool and array disk around the scepter before fighting off Lin Yun’s attacks.
• Lin Yun refused to leave the scepter for Lin Qi, and Lin Qi grew alarmed that Lin Yun might deliberately unleash the formation.

Lin Qi and Lin Yun fought over the Heavenly Spirit Scepter until Lin Yun’s Fire Feather Token ignited the Sea of Blood Samsara Array. Lin Qi grabbed the scepter and was swallowed by the blood sea, where she found a floating human head staring at her.

• Lin Yun fought Lin Qi recklessly, refusing to let her claim the Heavenly Spirit Scepter.
• Lin Qi pierced Lin Yun’s abdomen with the God-Slaying Saber, but Lin Yun countered by throwing a Fire Feather Token.
• The token set the peach blossom tree and altar ablaze, and the flames destroyed Lin Yun’s escape scroll.
• The Sea of Blood Samsara Array erupted, and Lin Qi rushed to seize the Heavenly Spirit Scepter as the blood sea swallowed the altar.
• Lin Qi landed in a black-red space beside a vast river of blood and saw a human head floating in the water.
• The floating head lifted itself and stared at Lin Qi with bright black eyes.

Lin Qi encountered an injured young Yuan Ye in the Devil Race’s Blood Demon Sea and learned that his knowledge of the outside world was limited. As they discussed how she had arrived, Lin Qi questioned the links between the Devil Race, the Peach Blossom Spring, and the Blood Sea Samsara Array, while Yuan Ye explained that the trial ground had opened early for him.

• Lin Qi recognized the injured child as Yuan Ye after lassoing him and dislocating his jaw, then claimed she had been searching for her fated person.
• Yuan Ye questioned Lin Qi about the outside world and revealed that the Sky Demon Tribe lacked complete spell manuals and array knowledge.
• Lin Qi described entering through a Peach Blossom Spring and a Sea of Blood Samsara Array, but Yuan Ye said no Peach Blossom Spring existed in Devil Race territory.
• Yuan Ye explained that his Fifth Uncle’s transplanted peach tree had withered in the Devil Race’s dense demonic qi, deepening Lin Qi’s doubts about the Peach Blossom Spring and the array’s origins.
• Yuan Ye identified their location as the Blood Demon Sea, a Sky Demon Tribe trial ground, and said the Witch God had opened it early so he could train.

Trapped in the Blood Demon Sea, Lin Qi discussed whether its barriers could weaken and leave a way out, then questioned Yuan Ye about the Devil Race’s lost scepters and his future ambitions. She warned him that he would achieve great power but cause countless massacres, leaving him shocked and wary.

• Lin Qi told Yuan Ye that the Blood Demon Sea’s barriers might have weakened over time, despite his claim that even Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators could not break them.
• Lin Qi and Yuan Ye agreed to exchange one question and one answer, and Yuan Ye explained that the Heavenly Spirit Scepter and Heavenly Demon Scepter had vanished during the war between the Upper and Lower Demon Tribes.
• Lin Qi suggested that the Heavenly Spirit Scepter might be with the Lower Demon Tribe or concealed by the Upper Demon Tribe, then asked Yuan Ye about relations among the five clans.
• Yuan Ye said the five clans were united against the Lower Demon Tribe, and Lin Qi questioned whether he would slaughter them if he gained limitless power.
• Lin Qi identified herself as a confused person, described the abilities of a Heavenly Mechanism Master, and told Yuan Ye that he would achieve great things while causing countless massacres.

Lin Qi learned how the Blood Demon Sea formed and how Yuan Ye trained within it. After hearing that Yuan Ye’s next trial was in three days, she encouraged him and began searching the sea for clues.

• Yuan Ye told Lin Qi that the Blood Demon Sea had once been a demonic sea rich in Demonic Qi Origin, then was stained red during a devastating war between the Upper and Lower Demon Tribes.
• Yuan Ye explained that Devil Race experts had sealed the sea’s resentful souls and baleful aura, and that the Upper Demon Tribe later used the resulting Killing Intent as a training ground.
• Yuan Ye described the Blood Demon River’s nine thresholds, which appeared every half month, and said he had crossed one before failing at the second and being badly injured.
• Yuan Ye told Lin Qi his next trial was in three days, and she assured him he would succeed.
• Lin Qi cast several Thousand Jin Thunder spells into the darkness, but they made no ripple, so she focused her attention on Yuan Ye as her only clue.

Lin Qi refused to teach Yuan Ye spells but answered his questions, then concluded that the Blood Sea Samsara Array originated in the Blood Demon Sea. Yuan Ye sensed an elusive third person there, and Lin Qi asked him to help find her opponent before she could endanger the Blood Demon Sea.

• Lin Qi refused Yuan Ye’s request for spells but agreed to answer questions about the outside world.
• Lin Qi asked Yuan Ye whether he could sense anyone else in the Blood Demon Sea, and he said he could not explore its dangerous depths.
• Lin Qi concluded that the Blood Demon Sea was the source of the Blood Sea Samsara Array and discussed its threat with Yuan Ye.
• Yuan Ye sensed a third presence whose aura flickered in and out, but he could not locate it.
• Lin Qi told Yuan Ye that her opponent might also be in the Blood Demon Sea and asked him to help find her before she did something reckless.
• Lin Qi urged Yuan Ye to hurry through the Blood Demon River threshold so the Blood Demon Sea’s restrictions could open.

Lin Qi searched for Lin Yun and suspected she had fallen to the bottom of the Blood Demon Sea, where deadly Killing Intent and resentment made descent perilous. After the Small Wooden Sword reacted to the sea, Lin Qi tried striking its surface, and its crimson threads were consumed by a pale-blue radiance as she unleashed the Five Imperial Phoenix Swords.

• Lin Qi told Yuan Ye to keep cultivating while she searched the Blood Demon Sea, inspiring him to dream of exploring human territory and bringing spell manuals back to the Devil Race.
• Lin Qi found no trace of Lin Yun and used the Small Wooden Sword to make the Blood Demon Sea’s surface clearer, leading her to suspect Lin Yun was at its bottom.
• Yuan Ye warned Lin Qi that the Killing Intent and resentment below could overwhelm him, but Lin Qi said she would investigate and went down alone.
• Lin Qi considered using a devil tool to disguise her aura, then struck the sea with the Small Wooden Sword and watched red threads climb its blade.
• A pale-blue radiance from the sword’s hilt destroyed the red threads, and Lin Qi unleashed the Five Imperial Phoenix Swords toward the sea.

Lin Qi's Small Wooden Sword unleashed a fierce chill that froze the Blood Demon Sea and drained her spiritual energy before transforming into an Ice Phoenix-adorned sword. After Yuan Ye barely survived the second trial and failed the third, he recognized the sword's carvings as resembling the Ice Phoenix on his clan's Heavenly Spirit Scepter, leaving Lin Qi to wonder about her mother's connection to it.

• Lin Qi's Small Wooden Sword froze the Blood Demon Sea and clashed with the Killing Intent rising from its depths, draining her spiritual energy over three days and two nights.
• The Blood Demon Sea summoned a towering blood river and crimson gatekeeping puppets, while Yuan Ye defeated the puppet at the second threshold and was badly wounded trying the third.
• The blood river vanished after Yuan Ye failed the trial, and Lin Qi checked that he was still alive before restoring her spiritual energy.
• Lin Qi examined the transformed Small Wooden Sword and saw Phoenix Feather carvings and an Ice Phoenix emblem that reminded her of her mother, Gong Shaojun.
• Yuan Ye said the sword's carvings resembled the Ice Phoenix on his clan's Heavenly Spirit Scepter, startling Lin Qi.

Lin Qi was dragged into the Blood Demon Sea, where she discovered that the Five Heavens Water Swallowing Thunder Art could absorb and restrain the sea’s power. Protected by two Wood-Lightning Ice Fish, she began using its bloodwater to temper her body, but her current cultivation could not endure it for long.

• Lin Qi suspected that the Small Wooden Sword and Heavenly Spirit Scepter were connected, then returned to the Blood Demon Sea to investigate.
• After Lin Qi struck the sea three times, a blood-red arm seized her ankle and dragged her a hundred meters underwater.
• Lin Qi used the Five Heavens Water Swallowing Thunder Art and Pure Heart Art to resist the sea’s crushing pressure and overwhelming negative emotions.
• Lin Qi released two Wood-Lightning Ice Fish, whose lightning restrained the wronged souls and cleared a safe area around her.
• Lin Qi used the Five Heavens Water Swallowing Thunder Art to absorb the bloodwater’s energy and temper her body, realizing the sea could serve as heavenly water but was too dangerous for her to endure for long.

Lin Qi encountered Lin Yun trapped in the Blood Demon Sea, where Lin Yun’s Auspicious Purple Qi was fading, before Yuan Ye’s challenge helped Lin Qi escape. She warned Yuan Ye that the sea might be intensifying his hostility and ended by telling him that Lin Yun could no longer struggle.

• Lin Qi’s cultivation in the Blood Demon Sea became dangerous as resentment and Killing Intent accumulated and threatened her golden core and consciousness.
• Lin Qi spotted Lin Yun trapped in the depths, with dark blood qi eroding her and her Auspicious Purple Qi rapidly vanishing.
• Lin Qi was swept to the sea’s surface while Yuan Ye challenged the third threshold, and his efforts helped her break free.
• Yuan Ye failed the trial again, and Lin Qi noticed his growing impatience and warned that the Blood Demon Sea might be affecting him.
• Lin Qi told Yuan Ye she had found her enemy, Lin Yun, trapped deep in the sea and unable to struggle.

Lin Qi returned to the Blood Demon Sea, hoping to reach Lin Yun and purify its resentful energy, but her Killing Intent triggered the sea and helped Lin Yun break free. Lin Yun escaped through a blood-red barrier and reached for the Heavenly Spirit Scepter, revealing the artifact at the center of the mystery.

• Lin Qi told Yuan Ye she intended to save all living beings under heaven, then plunged back into the Blood Demon Sea.
• Lin Qi used her Small Wooden Sword and two Wood-Lightning Ice Fish to clear a path through the bloody water as she descended toward Lin Yun.
• Lin Qi found Lin Yun almost completely cocooned in blood-red strands and aimed her sword at her.
• Lin Qi's Killing Intent stirred the Blood Demon Sea, and Lin Yun broke free from the blood-red restraints.
• A blood-red curtain surrounded Lin Qi and Lin Yun, and Lin Yun tore through it toward a white light that Lin Qi recognized as the Heavenly Spirit Scepter.

Lin Qi fought Lin Yun, who had been overtaken by the Blood Demon Sea’s corrupting force, and seized the Heavenly Spirit Scepter. She discovered the scepter could drive back and dissolve the sea’s resentful Baleful Intent, then began clearing it away.

• Lin Qi pursued Lin Yun and wounded her with the Small Wooden Sword and lightning, suspecting that remnant souls had taken control of her.
• Lin Qi outmaneuvered Lin Yun and seized the Heavenly Spirit Scepter despite the agony it caused her.
• Lin Yun released the scepter as its power blackened her body, and Lin Qi pierced her heart with the Small Wooden Sword.
• Dark crimson blood overwhelmed Lin Yun and trapped Lin Qi, who poured spiritual energy into the scepter to force the Blood Demon Sea to retreat.
• Lin Qi realized the Heavenly Spirit Scepter countered the sea’s Baleful Intent and began using it to clear the corruption.

Lin Qi cleansed nearly all the Blood Fiend Qi from the Blood Demon Sea, then confronted its final, most dangerous concentration. Lin Yun, controlled by the Blood Demon consciousness, appeared among the blood giants and prepared a powerful attack as Lin Qi realized something was wrong.

• Lin Qi cleansed most of the Blood Demon Sea, while Yuan Ye watched in awe and longed to see the outside world.
• Lin Qi recovered her spiritual energy, advanced in the Fivefold Black Water Swallowing Thunder Art, and suspected Lin Yun had been controlled by the Blood Fiend Qi.
• Lin Qi attacked the final concentration of Blood Fiend Qi with the Small Wooden Sword, Five Imperial Phoenix Swords, and Heavenly Spirit Scepter.
• The Blood Fiend Qi formed enormous humanoid giants, and Lin Qi discovered Lin Yun sitting on the central giant's shoulder, alive and possessed.
• Lin Yun sent blood giants to attack and encircle Lin Qi while gathering Blood Fiend Qi in her palm for a major move.
• Lin Qi realized Lin Yun's plan posed a danger despite the Heavenly Spirit Scepter's advantage over Blood Fiend Qi.

Lin Qi fought Lin Yun in the Blood Demon Sea, but Lin Yun escaped with the Blood Fiend sphere as the space shattered. The Blood Fiend Qi then broke free into the Southern Continent, where Lin Qi foresaw widespread devastation.

• Lin Qi destroyed the blood-colored giants and drove the Blood Fiend Qi into a sphere held by Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun tore open the space, and the Blood Fiend sphere carried her toward a fissure leading to Taoyuan.
• Lin Qi used the Scattered Phoenix Shadow Dance to pursue them, but Lin Yun threw a Fire Feather Token that engulfed the ice phoenix in flames.
• Lin Qi chased Lin Yun and the Blood Fiend Qi through the fire, while Yuan Ye witnessed the battle and resolved to pursue the Dao and immortality.
• Lin Qi arrived in Taoyuan, but the Blood Fiend Qi shattered the secret realm and escaped into the Southern Continent.

Lin Qi escaped the collapsing Taoyuan space with Jin Jun and Tian Mang, then learned that Luo Ci had become a cultivator of both demonic and spiritual paths and that Yuan Ye had likely hidden the Blood Demon Sea to prevent a catastrophe. Trapped in the chaotic Heavenly Demon Palace, Lin Qi had to find a way out and rescue the sect disciples inside.

• Jin Jun rescued Lin Qi from the collapsing Taoyuan space and brought her to the Heavenly Demon Palace with Tian Mang.
• Tian Mang and Jin Jun told Lin Qi that Luo Ci had taken the Heavenly Demon Scepter, absorbed part of Rong Shi's Demonic Qi Origin, and fled after Jin Jun wounded him.
• Tian Mang's account of the Blood Demon Sea's history led Lin Qi to suspect Yuan Ye had suppressed it with the Heavenly Spirit Scepter and erased records of it.
• Lin Qi said Lin Yun had escaped with the Blood Fiend Qi after Lin Qi had repeatedly wounded her.
• Lin Qi learned that Azure Sea Pavilion elders controlled the Heavenly Demon Palace's exits and that disciples inside were in danger, so she resolved to find a way out and rescue them.

Lin Qi reunited with Ye Jian, Ning Sangye, and the others after a year in the Heavenly Demon Palace and decided to lead them toward the exit despite the arrays and Azure Sea Pavilion guards. She began breaking their first fifth-grade array, while Jin Jun warned that she could not help with the arrays.

• Lin Qi used Jin Jun, Tian Mang, and the Sky-Piercing Green Vine to find the two scattered teams, whose members had stayed together by hiding in an array.
• Ye Jian explained that the group had used the scattered arrays for concealment and worried that Azure Sea Pavilion had captured Lin Qi.
• Ning Sangye asked how they could escape, and Lin Qi learned from Zhe Yuan that about a year had passed since she left.
• Lin Qi argued that the other sects had likely responded to Azure Sea Pavilion by now and led the group toward the exit, with Jin Jun's presence helping persuade them.
• Lin Qi encountered a fifth-grade array that Jin Jun could not break and began working on it herself.

After spending three years trapped in the Heavenly Demon Palace’s formations, Lin Qi and her companions reached the exit and emerged from the Weak Water. Dao Lord Guan Xuan and Azure Cloud Pavilion Master Fu Qingyun seized Lin Qi, with Fu Qingyun demanding her life for killing her disciple.

• Lin Qi spent a month breaking the first fifth-grade formation, then studied and practiced formations until her skills advanced through higher grades.
• Lin Qi wondered who had created the Sea of Blood Samsara Array, since Shen Jun and Yuan Ye did not seem capable of making it.
• Lin Qi borrowed Jin Jun’s power to break the final sixth-grade formation, and the group reached the Heavenly Demon Palace entrance after three years.
• Lin Qi took Jin Jun across the Weak Water to gather news and help her leave without exposing herself.
• Dao Lord Guan Xuan and Fu Qingyun grabbed Lin Qi as soon as she emerged, and Fu Qingyun accused her of killing her disciple.
• Guan Xuan defended Lin Qi and challenged Fu Qingyun to answer for the Azure Sea Pavilion beasts that had slaughtered disciples from other sects.