Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Xiang used his radar to slaughter swarms of Shadow Spiders in the Demon Sealing Tower, rapidly raising his cultivation. After the spiders retreated, their demon-level leader tried to make him a subordinate, but Zhuge Xiang provoked her and blocked her attack before striking back.

• Zhuge Xiang activated his Demon Luo Scripture and fought the Shadow Spiders, using his minimap radar to overcome their concealment.
• He slaughtered the spiders for an hour, raising his cultivation from the fifth to the sixth layer of the Gathering Origin Stage as their numbers continued to grow.
• A demon-level Shadow Spider drove the swarm away and offered to make Zhuge Xiang her subordinate, but he mocked her and refused.
• The Shadow Spider attacked at extreme speed, and Zhuge Xiang used Block Prediction to parry her blow.
• Zhuge Xiang revealed he could track her on his radar, moved behind her with Explosive Steps, and swung the Slaying Luo Sword at her back.

Zhuge Xiang fought the monster-level Shadow Spider in the Demon Sealing Tower, using his equipment, skills, and Little Fire Phoenix to overcome her stealth and summon waves of spiders. After three days of slaughter, he advanced from the Gathering Origin Stage to the first layer of the Void Core Stage, while the Shadow Spider remained alive.

• Zhuge Xiang wounded the Shadow Spider with the Slaying Luo Sword, exploiting his radar’s ability to reveal her position and her underestimation of him.
• Zhuge Xiang summoned Little Fire Phoenix, boosted his strength, and attacked the Shadow Spider with phoenix fire, but she dodged his strike.
• The Shadow Spider summoned countless fairy-level spiders to exhaust Zhuge Xiang, who fought them and used their numbers to gain experience.
• Zhuge Xiang obtained a reusable True Sight Vine that exposed stealth targets within a 500-meter radius.
• Zhuge Xiang slaughtered more than a thousand Shadow Spiders over three days, leveling up repeatedly until he reached the first layer of the Void Core Stage.

Zhuge Xiang broke through to the Void Core Stage while fighting the Shadow Spider and used the True Sight Vine and Heavenly Demon Zen Sound to gain the advantage. He pinned the Shadow Spider down, but she continued to resist as the chapter ended.

• The Shadow Spider realized Zhuge Xiang had used her offspring to strengthen himself and attacked him in anger.
• Zhuge Xiang planted the True Sight Vine, whose light illuminated the Shadow Spider’s dark domain and revealed her appearance.
• Zhuge Xiang used the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound to make the Shadow Spider feel remorse, but she resisted his offer to submit by trapping him in webs.
• Zhuge Xiang summoned the Little Fire Phoenix, burned through the webs, and seized the Shadow Spider.
• Zhuge Xiang used the Triple Rock Collapse Technique and his strength to pin the Shadow Spider down, but she continued to struggle.

Zhuge Xiang subdued the monster-tier Shadow Spider, Zhu Wan'er, and learned that she knew Li Batian. After Zhu Wan'er agreed to take him to Li Batian despite her fear, Zhuge Xiang prepared to pursue his goal in the Demon Sealing Tower.

• Zhuge Xiang pinned down the Shadow Spider and survived her attempt to bite his neck by using Decoy Straw Man.
• Zhuge Xiang overpowered Zhu Wan'er and warned her not to attack him again, then asked for her name.
• Zhu Wan'er told Zhuge Xiang her name and openly declared that she intended to kill him.
• Zhuge Xiang asked Zhu Wan'er to take him to Li Batian, and she refused because she feared Li Batian's strength.
• Zhuge Xiang insisted that Zhu Wan'er help him, and she reluctantly agreed.

Zhuge Xiang and Zhu Wan'er encountered a Scorpion Demon on their way to find Li Batian, and the demon challenged Zhuge Xiang over his relationship with Zhu Wan'er. Zhuge Xiang deliberately endured the Scorpion Demon's powerful punches to cultivate the second level of the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique, and the training began progressing.

• Zhuge Xiang and Zhu Wan'er headed up the Demon Sealing Tower toward Li Batian, but a Scorpion Demon blocked their way and addressed Zhu Wan'er.
• Zhuge Xiang pulled Zhu Wan'er into his arms and declared that she was his woman, provoking the Scorpion Demon to question his worth as her Dao companion.
• The Scorpion Demon threatened Zhuge Xiang and attacked him with a powerful punch, while Zhu Wan'er watched from the sidelines.
• Zhuge Xiang realized the Scorpion Demon's physical strength was suitable for tempering his body and deliberately took the punch head-on.
• Zhuge Xiang taunted the Scorpion Demon into continuing his assault, and the second layer of the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique began progressing.

Zhuge Xiang endured the Scorpion Demon’s attacks to temper his body and advance the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique. After Zhu Wan'er briefly intervened, he reached the second layer and gained a major increase in his attack, HP, and defense.

• Zhuge Xiang let the Scorpion Demon batter him while using the blows to strengthen his body, and his defensive equipment shattered as the technique’s progress climbed.
• Zhu Wan'er stepped between them when Zhuge Xiang neared collapse, then explained that she wanted to kill him herself and would not let anyone else do it.
• Zhuge Xiang sent Zhu Wan'er aside and provoked the Scorpion Demon into attacking him again, while his body grew strong enough to withstand the blows.
• The Great Strength Bull Demon Technique reached 100%, and Zhuge Xiang successfully cultivated its second layer, gaining 15000 Attack, 30000 HP, and 15000 Defense.

After breaking through while enduring the Scorpion Demon's attacks, Zhuge Xiang and Zhu Wan'er reached the top of the Demon Sealing Tower and found Imperial Uncle Li Batian, whom Zhuge Xiang knew as Old Man Li. Li Batian told Zhuge Xiang that the Nine-Orifice Demon Heart was meant for him, leaving Zhuge Xiang to consider whether to fully enter the demonic path.

• Zhuge Xiang advanced the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique to its second layer and the Demon Luo Scripture to its fourth, then overpowered the Scorpion Demon in a contest of strength.
• Zhuge Xiang and Zhu Wan'er continued through the Demon Sealing Tower, passed several fiend and ghost interceptions, and reached its top floor after two days.
• Zhuge Xiang recognized Imperial Uncle Li Batian as Old Man Li, whom he had met in the Great Tang Treasury, and offered him the Nine-Orifice Demon Heart.
• Li Batian refused to take the heart and explained that Zhuge Xiang needed it to complete his demonic body with a demonic heart.
• Zhuge Xiang hesitated over fusing with the Nine-Orifice Demon Heart because doing so would commit him fully to the demonic path.

Zhuge Xiang chose to fuse with the Nine-Orifice Demon Heart, becoming a Demonic Body with greatly enhanced strength and defense. After testing his new power, he asked Imperial Uncle Li Batian about the Great Tang emperor’s lineage, and learned that Li Batian had already been investigating the matter in secret.

• Zhuge Xiang weighed the risks of following the demonic path and decided to accept the Nine-Orifice Demon Heart.
• Imperial Uncle Li Batian awakened the heart, tore open Zhuge Xiang’s chest, and forced it inside to complete the fusion.
• Zhuge Xiang became a Demonic Body, gaining a permanent 50% increase to physical strength and defense.
• Zhuge Xiang tested his enhanced strength and struck the air hard enough to create spatial fluctuations, while Zhu Wan'er realized he had grown even stronger.
• Zhuge Xiang asked Imperial Uncle Li Batian about the Great Tang imperial lineage, and Li Batian revealed he had hidden in the palace to investigate the emperor’s origins.

Zhuge Xiang asked Imperial Uncle Li Batian about the false emperor and learned that the Great Qin Empire had stolen Great Tang’s national fortune and replaced the emperor’s soul. Imperial Uncle said he did not know how the theft was done, but that Zhuge Xiang would have to break the deadlock, and began explaining why.

• Imperial Uncle explained that his reputation was ruined and his strength had fallen after he removed his demon heart to escape its influence.
• Imperial Uncle admitted that Zhuge Xiang’s Nine-Orifice Demon Heart was the one he had removed and stored for him after glimpsing a corner of Heaven’s will.
• Imperial Uncle revealed that the emperor’s body was genuine, but another soul controlled it after the Great Tang’s national fortune was split and the emperor’s soul extracted.
• Imperial Uncle identified the Great Qin Empire as the mastermind, confirming Zhuge Xiang’s suspicions.
• Imperial Uncle told Zhuge Xiang that he would have to resolve Great Tang’s crisis and began explaining why only he could do so.

After learning that the Great Tang Emperor’s soul was sealed rather than destroyed, Zhuge Xiang decided to investigate the Great Qin Imperial Family. He arrived in the Great Qin Empire and was welcomed with great ceremony at Heavenly Dragon Temple, where the abbot was waiting for him.

• Imperial Uncle told Zhuge Xiang that the Great Tang Emperor’s soul had likely been sealed by the Great Qin Emperor, so Zhuge Xiang resolved to search the Great Qin Imperial Family for it.
• With Imperial Uncle’s help, Zhuge Xiang left the Demon Sealing Tower, ignored Zhuge Wan’er’s threat of revenge, and secretly flew toward the Great Qin Empire.
• Zhuge Xiang reached Heavenly Dragon Temple’s airspace, apologized to two monks for flying over it, and asked them to announce his visit.
• The head of the Disciplinary Hall recognized Zhuge Xiang and welcomed him with several senior monks after the temple opened its gates and rang its bell.
• Zhuge Xiang entered Heavenly Dragon Temple alongside the welcoming monks, who told him that the abbot was waiting inside.

Zhuge Xiang met the abbot of Heavenly Dragon Temple to discuss the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound, hoping to see the temple’s remaining diagrams. The abbot offered to share them if Zhuge Xiang joined the temple, but Zhuge Xiang refused to betray the Asura Sect; just as he gave up, the abbot suggested there was another possibility.

• The abbot praised Zhuge Xiang’s cultivation and asked him to explain how he had mastered the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound.
• Zhuge Xiang admitted that he had learned five diagrams and asked to study Heavenly Dragon Temple’s complete set because the others he had seen had burned to ash.
• Several eminent monks objected to revealing the remaining diagrams, but the abbot offered to share them if Zhuge Xiang joined Heavenly Dragon Temple.
• Zhuge Xiang refused to leave the Asura Sect, explaining that Luo Ba had treated him well and passed down the Demon Luo Scripture.
• Zhuge Xiang abandoned his request, but the abbot stopped him and said there was no need to decide so quickly.

Zhuge Xiang became an honorary elder of the Heavenly Dragon Temple and mastered all nine Heavenly Demon Zen Sound scrolls. He then entered the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda and climbed toward the seventh floor, where powerful fiends attacked him.

• The abbot offered to make Zhuge Xiang an honorary elder so he could receive the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound, and Zhuge Xiang accepted.
• After the other monks left, Zhuge Xiang studied the four missing scrolls and used skill points to master all nine diagrams.
• Zhuge Xiang explained some of the diagrams’ mysteries to the abbot, helping loosen the abbot’s cultivation bottleneck, then left the temple.
• Zhuge Xiang gained absolute control of the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda and entered it, passing the fiends on the lower floors without stopping.
• On the seventh floor, several powerful fiends, demons, ghosts, and monsters lunged at Zhuge Xiang.

Zhuge Xiang used the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda’s sealing power to subdue the fiends and demons on its upper floors after mastering the nine illustrations of the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound. He ignored their pleas for release and reached the ninth floor under his own power.

• Zhuge Xiang bound the fiends and demons on the seventh floor with the Demon Suppressing Chains, and Liao Wufa wondered if Zhuge Xiang had succeeded in mastering the pagoda.
• On the eighth floor, the One-armed Corpse King and an Evil Ghost tried to attack Zhuge Xiang, while an Asura King sensed his strength and held back.
• Zhuge Xiang summoned the Demon Suppressing Chains and restrained the Evil Ghost and One-armed Corpse King, revealing that he could control the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda.
• The fiends and demons pleaded with Zhuge Xiang to release them, but he ignored them and bound aside anyone blocking his way.
• Zhuge Xiang climbed to the ninth floor on his own strength, returning nearly ten years after his previous visit.

Zhuge Xiang returned to the ninth floor of the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda and freed Liao Wufa, fulfilling his promise from years earlier. The two swore brotherhood, and after Liao Wufa divined that Zhuge Xiang faced a dangerous but survivable tribulation, he left to repair the Sky-Slaying Sword while Zhuge Xiang headed for the Asura Sect.

• Zhuge Xiang lifted the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda’s seal and freed Liao Wufa from his chains.
• Liao Wufa thanked Zhuge Xiang, and the two swore brotherhood under the Heavenly Dao’s witness.
• Liao Wufa retrieved the damaged Sky-Slaying Sword and divined that Zhuge Xiang’s path ahead was perilous but would ultimately lead to safety.
• Liao Wufa promised to help Zhuge Xiang through his coming tribulation and left to find someone who could repair the Sky-Slaying Sword.
• Zhuge Xiang put away the Town Evil Pagoda and flew toward the Asura Sect before returning to Great Qin.

After completing the rescue of Liao Wufa, Zhuge Xiang advanced to the Golden Core Stage and received a Fighting Emperor Cloak and an Ultimate Detoxification Pill. On his way to the Asura Sect, he found three fairies attacking an Asura Warship carrying recruits and prepared to intervene.

• Zhuge Xiang’s quest reward raised his cultivation to the Golden Core Stage as heart fire tempered his virtual core into a golden core.
• Zhuge Xiang examined the Fighting Emperor Cloak and Ultimate Detoxification Pill, then put on the cloak and flew toward the Asura Sect.
• Zhuge Xiang sensed a battle in the Endless Mountain Range and discovered three fairies attacking an Asura Warship full of prospective disciples.
• Zhuge Xiang recognized the attack as occurring during the Asura Sect’s annual recruitment and noted that the recruits had encountered him this time.

Zhuge Xiang returned to the Asura Sect after driving off three fairies threatening an Asura Warship. He reunited with Luo Ba, who marveled at his Golden Core Stage cultivation and offered him a floating mountain instead of Lingbao.

• Zhuge Xiang suppressed the three fairies attacking the Asura Warship and let them flee, earning the gratitude and admiration of the disciples aboard.
• Zhuge Xiang flew to the Asura Sect headquarters, where the disciples praised his remarkable progress over the past ten years.
• Wu Xuefei met Zhuge Xiang outside Luo Ba's grand hall and remarked on his cultivation before leaving to pursue a Dragon's Eye with her Dragon Binding Rope.
• Luo Ba was astonished by Zhuge Xiang's Golden Core Stage cultivation, and Zhuge Xiang jokingly asked him for Lingbao.
• Luo Ba refused to give Zhuge Xiang Lingbao but offered him one of his remaining floating mountains.

Luo Ba gave Zhuge Xiang Futuo Mountain, helped him refine it, and announced that he would become an Asura Sect elder at a grand assembly three days later. As news of the assembly spread and Myriad Flowers Elder plotted against him, reports of a major attack in Heavenly Mystery Valley and a bloody upheaval in the Yin Yang Demonic Sect shook the Great Qin Empire.

• Luo Ba gave Zhuge Xiang Futuo Mountain and helped him refine it into his own treasure.
• Luo Ba announced that Zhuge Xiang would receive an elder's position at a grand assembly three days later, and the Asura Sect spread the news across the empire.
• Dongfang Qingmu told Dongfang Yan that they would attend the assembly, while the Heavenly Dragon Temple decided to send eminent monks to congratulate Zhuge Xiang.
• Myriad Flowers Elder, still bearing a grudge against Zhuge Xiang, resolved to watch for him to make a fool of himself at the assembly.
• Old Man Xuanji was found gravely injured and unconscious, while the Yin Yang Demonic Sect's sect master was killed and the sect changed hands.

After reclaiming the Yin Yang Demonic Sect, Liao Wufa accepted an invitation to Zhuge Xiang’s Floating Mountain ceremony and prepared to attend in person. Lu Yuling returned to Ice Maiden after reaching the Golden Core Stage, while the ceremony began with major sects gathering and the Yin Yang Demonic Sect’s new sect master arriving.

• Liao Wufa killed the Yin Yang Demonic Sect’s former master, took the sect master’s throne, and won the sect’s powerhouses’ submission.
• Liao Wufa accepted the Asura Sect’s invitation to Zhuge Xiang’s ceremony and decided to choose a precious congratulatory gift himself.
• Lu Yuling returned to Ice Maiden after reaching the Golden Core Stage, and Ice Maiden declared that the time for their fusion had arrived.
• Three days later, representatives from major factions gathered at the Asura Sect for Zhuge Xiang’s Floating Mountain ceremony.
• The Heavenly Dragon Temple’s senior monks arrived, and the gathering was startled when Liao Wufa arrived in person as the Yin Yang Demonic Sect’s sect master.

Liao Wufa arrived at Zhuge Xiang’s Floating Mountain ceremony, while Myriad Flowers Elder secretly arranged to accuse Zhuge Xiang of murder. The ceremony was interrupted as Myriad Flowers Elder presented his disciple’s corpse and demanded justice from Luo Ba.

• Liao Wufa greeted Luo Ba and Zhuge Xiang, then coldly drove away the monks from Heavenly Dragon Temple because of his grudge against their temple.
• Myriad Flowers Elder’s disciple brought him Zhuge Xiang’s stolen identity jade token, and Myriad Flowers Elder killed the disciple and consumed his soul to advance his plan.
• Zhuge Xiang began raising Futuo Mountain as part of the Asura Sect’s formation, but Myriad Flowers Elder interrupted the ceremony.
• Myriad Flowers Elder presented his disciple’s corpse and claimed the disciple had feared Zhuge Xiang would kill him, then asked Luo Ba to grant justice.

Myriad Flowers Elder accused Zhuge Xiang of killing his disciple and presented Zhuge Xiang’s identity token as evidence, but Zhuge Xiang denied the charge and accused the elder of framing him. The two demanded a life-or-death duel, which Luo Ba approved, and they began preparing to fight before the gathered witnesses.

• Myriad Flowers Elder brought his disciple’s corpse before Luo Ba and accused Zhuge Xiang of murder, producing Zhuge Xiang’s identity token as evidence.
• Zhuge Xiang denied the accusation, argued that the token did not prove guilt, and suggested Myriad Flowers Elder was seeking revenge for the destruction of his physical body.
• Myriad Flowers Elder challenged Zhuge Xiang to a life-or-death duel, and Zhuge Xiang accepted and requested the same battle.
• Luo Ba approved the duel, while Myriad Flowers Elder grew uneasy at Zhuge Xiang’s confidence.
• Zhuge Xiang drew the Slaying Luo Sword as Myriad Flowers Elder revealed his own Lingbao sword and unleashed his sword intent.