Chapter Summaries

Heart Demon Thunder Emperor offered Lu Yuan the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, explaining that he saw his own reflection in the young Earth Supreme and wanted to invest in him. Lu Yuan accepted the secret cultivation manual, leaving their exchange at the start of a new opportunity for his cultivation.

• Lu Yuan hesitated to reveal his cultivation technique and Dharma body, so he asked Heart Demon Thunder Emperor to discuss the matter before he agreed.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor reflected on how exceptionally young Lu Yuan was compared with ordinary cultivators and other geniuses of the Myriad Heavens.
• The chapter detailed how grassroots cultivators progressed through academies and how their rules protected students from powerful factions and unfair treatment.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor told Lu Yuan that he saw his own reflection in him and wanted to invest in his future.
• Lu Yuan accepted the booklet bearing the title Supreme Heart Demon Scripture.

Lu Yuan offered to trade the Years Blade for the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s Supreme Heart Demon Scripture rather than accept it as a favor. The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor agreed to hear him out, and Lu Yuan explained the value and limitations of techniques involving time, space, and destiny.

• Lu Yuan told the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor that he would accept the scripture if they made an exchange, but first proposed another arrangement.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor dismissed the surrounding Earth Supremes, who remained under his control as they flew away.
• Lu Yuan offered his Years Blade in exchange for the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture and explained that he preferred not to owe a debt of gratitude.
• Lu Yuan described how the Years Blade and Red Dust Threads depended on mastery of time, space, and destiny, making them nearly impossible for most cultivators to learn.
• Lu Yuan explained that the Heavenly Emperor had been unable to practice Spatial Power while trapped as a soul, but had endured the passage of time and touched upon Time Force.

Lu Yuan offered the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor several cultivation arts in exchange for the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, explaining the origins and value of his collection while ruling out Qing Yan Jing’s inherited secret arts. The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor rejected a trade and instead asked Lu Yuan to become his disciple and inherit his legacy.

• Lu Yuan offered the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor the Years Blade, Red Dust Threads, and compatible cultivation arts as possible payment for the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture.
• Lu Yuan explained that his collection came from Gambling Duels, the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, the Endless Fire Territory, Qing Yan Jing, and his own research, and said he would not trade Qing Yan Jing’s inherited secret arts.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor said he preferred to befriend Lu Yuan rather than exchange cultivation arts.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor asked Lu Yuan to become his disciple and inherit his legacy, leaving Lu Yuan astonished.

Lu Yuan explained that his three teachers included Yao Chen and Xuan Yi, prompting Heart Demon Thunder Emperor to reveal his own origins and ask about Lu Yuan’s ability to resurrect people. The emperor then invited Lu Yuan to Tushan, hoping he could help restore his preserved Dao Companion to a suitable body.

• Lu Yuan explained that he already had three teachers, but Heart Demon Thunder Emperor insisted on learning about them and becoming his master.
• Lu Yuan described Yao Chen’s origins as a teacher from a Lesser Thousand World, and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor shared how he had entered the Myriad Heavens from one himself.
• Lu Yuan told Heart Demon Thunder Emperor that Xuan Yi had taught him advanced alchemy and that he and Xiao Yan had helped resurrect Yao Chen.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor heard about Yao Chen’s resurrection and asked whether Lu Yuan could resurrect others, so Lu Yuan explained the limits imposed by available materials and souls.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor revealed that Tushan had preserved his Dao Companion’s soul and invited Lu Yuan to help find or create a suitable body, offering the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, the Supreme Heart Demon Body, and a favor.

Lu Yuan and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor agreed on a fair exchange as they traveled to Tushan, where they encountered a grotesque creature Lu Yuan recognized as belonging to the Eye Demon Clan, a race under the Extraterrestrial Evil Gods. The creature remained imprisoned as Lu Yuan identified its leader as the Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor.

• Lu Yuan declined Heart Demon Thunder Emperor's offer of the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture and Body as payment, asking instead for help gaining access to Tushan's Skyfox Form.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor agreed to accept the Years Blade as the price for reviving his deceased confidante, and Lu Yuan began explaining the Dao to him during their journey.
• A sinister laugh interrupted them before they reached Tushan, and an unknown creature emerged to block their way.
• Lu Yuan sealed the Earth Supreme creature in place while he and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor examined its strange appearance.
• Lu Yuan recognized the creature as an Eye Demon and identified its leader as the Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor.

Lu Yuan and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor discussed why the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race threatened the Myriad Heavens, despite having originated as refugees fleeing dying worlds. The chapter explained how both sides were driven into conflict by survival, leaving Lu Yuan’s captured Eye Demon King and the wider struggle between the races unresolved.

• Lu Yuan agreed that the title Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor sounded unsuitable and explained that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race’s passive contamination of spiritual energy made its members a threat to cultivators.
• The chapter described how the Myriad Heavens named its major realms and contrasted those titles with the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race’s identity as invaders from other worlds.
• The narrator explained that the earliest members of the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race fled dying worlds and began absorbing clean power from other worlds to ease the mutations caused by their journey.
• The chapter explained that native races whose worlds were conquered faced the same choice between dying at home and invading elsewhere, and identified Dragon Demon Palace as refugees who escaped through connected worlds.
• The narrator described how the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race’s family groups multiplied and fought desperately for survival, including Heavenly Evil God’s devastating war against the Myriad Heavens.
• The chapter concluded that neither side could accept the other’s survival strategy, so their conflict could end only in battle and the burial of the fallen.

Lu Yuan explained the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race and its history to the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor, who deduced how its ranks compared to those of the Myriad Heavens. After the Eye Demon King refused to explain himself, Lu Yuan let the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor examine him, and the captive warned that his clan’s Spirit Imprint protected its members’ memories.

• Lu Yuan told the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor that the Eye Demon Clan belonged to the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race and described why that race had once invaded the Myriad Heavens.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor compared the Extraterrestrial Demon ranks to those of the Myriad Heavens and asked the Eye Demon King to confirm his deductions.
• Lu Yuan loosened the Spatial Power restraining the Eye Demon King, but the captive refused to explain himself and mocked them.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor asked Lu Yuan for permission to probe the Eye Demon King, and Lu Yuan agreed.
• The Eye Demon King warned that his clan’s Spirit Imprint prevented outsiders from searching its members’ memories, but the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor prepared to try anyway.

Heart Demon Thunder Emperor tested the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme who claimed expertise in mental power and turned him into a Heart Demon Puppet. The puppet retained its memories and could pass as its former self, leaving Lu Yuan to recognize the technique’s potential as an undetectable spy.

• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor assessed Lu Yuan’s abilities and explained why their shared traits made them suited to becoming master and disciple.
• The Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme boasted of his skill in Spirit One Dao, and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor judged his threat to be hollow.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor triggered the Earth Supreme’s heart demon, shattered the seal in his mind, and allowed the heart demon to devour his consciousness.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor enhanced the heart demon’s authority, causing the Earth Supreme to kneel and worship him.
• Lu Yuan identified the transformed Earth Supreme as a Heart Demon Puppet, a creation that retained its victim’s memories and could infiltrate the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race unnoticed.

After turning an Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme into a Heart Demon Puppet, the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor questioned Lu Yuan about why the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race had come to the Myriad Heavens. Their discussion exposed the danger of the race’s ability to breach worlds and foreshadowed an invasion whose strength would overwhelm even the Myriad Heavens’ greatest defenders.

• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor asked Lu Yuan to guess why the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme had come to the Myriad Heavens.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor reasoned that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race possessed a way to bypass a world's defenses and might threaten humanity.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor considered using his Heart Demon Puppets to gather intelligence and coordinate attacks against the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race.
• The chapter revealed that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race had prepared for war and possessed enough strength to overwhelm the Myriad Heavens’ forces, including the Half-Step Dominator Realm Immortal Emperor.

Lu Yuan considered four possible ways the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme’s encounter with the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor might have unfolded, while explaining the Emperor’s mastery of heart demons. In the present, the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme had been exposed, and Lu Yuan had traced him to the Eye Demon Clan’s headquarters.

• Lu Yuan reasoned that the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme might have stayed still in the past, been killed after attacking, been discovered and spared after his memories were erased, or helped the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor locate the Heavenly Devil Emperor.
• Lu Yuan explained how cultivators suppressed heart demons and how the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor used them to disrupt and defeat his enemies.
• Lu Yuan described how cultivators who ascended from Lesser Thousand Worlds converted their cultivation and recultivated, leaving them without the same Spirit Soul foundation as cultivators who had trained in the God Soul Realm.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the Eye Demon Clan Earth Supreme had failed to conceal his secret and followed the trail to the Eye Demon Clan’s headquarters.

Lu Yuan and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor concluded that the Extraterrestrial Demons’ passive pollution made their conflict with the Myriad Heavens a fight for survival. They planned an attack on the Eye Demon Clan, with Lu Yuan proposing to eliminate its lesser members and Earth Supremes while Heart Demon Thunder Emperor faced the three Heavenly Devil Emperors.

• Lu Yuan explained that the Extraterrestrial Demons continuously polluted their surroundings and could not simply be expected to die out.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor decided the Extraterrestrial Demons had to be killed and reviewed the Eye Demon Clan’s strength and the wider balance of forces.
• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor proposed starting chaos to draw out the three Heavenly Devil Emperors, then opening the Great Demon Domain so they would kill one another if they stayed hidden.
• Lu Yuan offered to use a bloodline-tracking technique to eliminate the Eye Demon Clan’s other members and Earth Supremes, leaving the three Heavenly Devil Emperors to Heart Demon Thunder Emperor.

Heart Demon Thunder Emperor released a Heart Demon Lure into the Eye Demon Clan’s abyss, causing its members to see illusions of calamity. An Eye Demon Clan Sovereign was arrested after believing he had killed his family, but the chapter left him impaled through his father while still unable to distinguish illusion from reality.

• Heart Demon Thunder Emperor sent a Heart Demon Lure into the abyss and waited for it to take effect.
• An Eye Demon Clan Supreme stopped cultivating after sensing his inner demons and went outside when he heard a commotion.
• The Supreme stepped into a group of arguing clan members, where he saw what appeared to be his wife’s severed head beneath his foot.
• Two guards arrested the Sovereign for killing his wife, then told him that his family had been slaughtered and restrained him with Bracers.
• The Sovereign entered his home and saw a mountain of corpses before a guard urged him to wake up.
• The guard appeared as the Sovereign’s father, and the Sovereign realized his hands had pierced through his father’s chest.

An Eye Demon Clan Supreme caught in an inner demon mistook the Guard for part of his delusion and attacked them, while the Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and the Eye Demon Clan leaders tried to respond to the spreading crisis. The Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor proposed searching for the culprit, unaware that his assumptions about the hidden attackers could lead to a fatal misjudgment.

• An Eye Demon Clan Supreme experienced shifting visions of his family and the Guard, then realized that his spiritual energy was circulating and the restraints he had seen were illusions.
• The Eye Demon Clan Supreme attacked two approaching Guards, believing they were inner demons trying to deceive him.
• The two Guards hesitated to subdue the unrestrained Supreme because they had used their Bracers elsewhere and feared the destruction a fight would cause.
• The Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor reviewed the escalating numbers of people afflicted by inner demons and concluded that the effect was spreading in half-hour cycles.
• The Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor proposed leaving some forces behind to control the outbreak while he led others to find the culprit, and the leaders began voting on the plan.

The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and Lu Yuan confronted Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and the Eye Demon Clan, whose leaders could not abandon their people even if escape was possible. The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor captured Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and forcibly turned him into a Heart Demon Puppet.

• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and Lu Yuan revealed themselves after Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor arrived with another Heavenly Devil Emperor, Earth Supremes, and Supremes.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor assessed the Eye Demon Clan’s strength and recognized that most members below the Supreme Realm had no chance to escape.
• Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor chose to protect the Eye Demon Clan’s elderly, weak, women, and children rather than abandon them.
• The chapter explained that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race’s pollution and dependence on war left its leaders with no real choice but to fight for their people.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor captured Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and forcibly made him a Heart Demon Puppet.

The chapter explained the Wen Family Old Ancestor’s status as a Pseudo Heavenly Sovereign and how her breakthrough established a path for her descendants. It then described how transcendent power shaped the structure of major families and sects, before revealing that the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s greatest gain from capturing three Heavenly Devil Emperors was the intelligence they provided.

• The narrator explained that the Wen Family Old Ancestor had used Xiao Yan’s pill to become a Pseudo Heavenly Sovereign and raise the Wen Family’s inherited Supreme Dharmakaya to the Heavenly Sovereign level.
• The narrator described how the Old Ancestor’s breakthrough gave future Wen Family descendants a proven path to follow and helped secure the family’s standing.
• The narrator compared the Old Ancestor’s role in the Wen Family to Yun Shan and Yun Yun’s reliance on Yun Leng to handle the Yun Lan Sect’s affairs.
• The narrator explained that a faction’s strength depended chiefly on its strongest experts, while lower-ranking figures managed daily operations.
• The narrator stated that Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns were rare across the Myriad Heavens but were insignificant beside the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor gained extensive intelligence from the Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and the two other captured Heavenly Devil Emperors.

The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor learned that the Heavenly Evil God was a Half-Step Dominator Realm powerhouse and considered how to exploit three captured Heavenly Devil Emperors while concealing the Eye Demon Clan’s destruction. Lu Yuan proposed a cover story, which the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor accepted despite warning that it could make Lu Yuan a target.

• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor learned from the Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and the other puppets that the Heavenly Evil God was a Half-Step Dominator Realm expert with elusive whereabouts.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor resolved to inform the Immortal Emperor and considered using the three captured Heavenly Devil Emperors to infiltrate the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor recognized that the Eye Demon Clan’s destruction could not be concealed easily because the Heavenly Evil God would notice the loss of millions of his subordinates.
• Lu Yuan proposed claiming that an Earth Supreme from the Eye Demon Clan had attacked him, prompting him to kill the attacker, find the clan’s base, and defeat its three Heavenly Devil Emperors.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor agreed to Lu Yuan’s cover story but warned that it could draw the attention of the Heavenly Evil God and other powerful enemies onto Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan and the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor set a trap meant to provoke Heavenly Evil God into confronting Lu Yuan, then traveled to Tushan to revive the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s confidante. At Tushan, they met the First Elder, who learned Lu Yuan could create a compatible body through a resurrection Secret Technique.

• Lu Yuan explained that he would risk acting as bait to draw Heavenly Evil God into the conflict, while the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor worried about the danger to him.
• Lu Yuan wounded Lightless Heavenly Devil Emperor and the other two Heart Demon Puppets to make their defeat appear convincing, then sent them back carrying his Years Master title as a warning.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor took Lu Yuan to Tushan, where the First Elder welcomed them and explained that the Clan Chief was in seclusion.
• Lu Yuan introduced himself to the First Elder and explained his connections to the Heavenly Emperor and the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor.
• The First Elder asked whether Lu Yuan wanted to see Little Thirteen, and the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor revealed Lu Yuan’s resurrection Secret Technique.

Lu Yuan explained the limits and costs of his resurrection ability to the Tushan First Elder and the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor. Both accepted that he could restore the Thunder Emperor’s deceased beloved, even if she might return with reduced strength and need to cultivate again.

• The Tushan First Elder asked Lu Yuan whether resurrection had limits or side effects, and Lu Yuan explained that it required medicinal resources and could work as long as the soul remained intact.
• Lu Yuan said he had resurrected his alchemy teacher, Yao Lao, and explained that he could guarantee resurrection but could not promise to restore a Heavenly Sovereign or Earth Supreme to their former strength.
• The Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and the Tushan First Elder accepted Lu Yuan’s limitations, since a chance to bring back the Thunder Emperor’s beloved mattered more than her level of cultivation.
• The chapter recounted how the Thunder Emperor’s beloved had died protecting him, and how Tushan had sheltered him and helped him escape his pursuers.
• The chapter also recounted how Xiao Yan resurrected Ying Huanhuan, while Lin Dong gathered medicinal treasures and gave the unused ingredients to Zi Yan.

Lu Yuan discussed the terms for resurrecting Tushan Qing, whose remnant soul remained intact, and urged Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and Tushan's First Elder to respect her wishes about receiving a bloodline. They agreed that the First Elder would shape Tushan Qing's body, while Heart Demon Thunder Emperor insisted on observing.

• Lu Yuan examined Tushan Qing's Spirit Crystal and confirmed her remnant soul had not lost its origin.
• Tushan's First Elder advocated integrating a bloodline, while Heart Demon Thunder Emperor argued that Tushan Qing should be asked what she wanted.
• Lu Yuan sided with Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and persuaded the First Elder to let them consult Tushan Qing about the bloodline.
• Lu Yuan raised the question of who would shape Tushan Qing's body, explaining that the process required Mental Power and close attention.
• The First Elder argued that her knowledge of fox anatomy made her the better choice, and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor agreed to let her shape the body while he observed.

Lu Yuan gathered substitute ingredients from Tushan’s Treasure Vault and refined a Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill to restore a Fox Spirit’s body. He handed the pill to Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and Tushan's First Elder, leaving them to oversee the day-long melting and shaping process.

• Tushan's First Elder agreed that she and Heart Demon Thunder Emperor could observe Lu Yuan refining the pill, provided his cauldron could withstand the process.
• Lu Yuan searched Tushan’s Treasure Vault and selected substitute herbs to compensate for ingredients that were unavailable or insufficient.
• Tushan's First Elder determined that Tushan could afford materials for one hundred Bone Growing Blood Melting Pills if the first resurrection succeeded.
• Lu Yuan refined the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill without difficulty or Pill Lightning.
• Lu Yuan gave the pill to Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and instructed him and Tushan's First Elder to maintain the heat while the pill melted around the soul and they helped shape the body.