Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong and the Allied Forces defeated the Great Heavenly Demon and destroyed the Three Great Yuan Gate Giants before confronting the Fourth King Palace. Qing Zhi intervened to drive off the Demon Prison leader, then reunited with Lin Dong and paid his respects to Ying Huanhuan as the Ice Master.

• Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone to purify the Great Heavenly Demon and the Three Great Yuan Gate Giants, prompting cheers from the Allied Forces.
• Lin Dong confronted the Fourth King Palace, who revealed that Yuan Sect had been his pawns and threatened Lin Dong and Ying Huanhuan.
• Qing Zhi appeared and struck down the Fourth King Palace's avatar, forcing him to retreat after he placed Qing Zhi on the Demon Prison's Kill List.
• Qing Zhi reunited with Lin Dong and explained that he had been investigating Yuan Sect's ties to the Demon Prison.
• Qing Zhi greeted Ying Huanhuan respectfully as the Ice Master, and she acknowledged his growing strength.

After the Eastern Xuan Region was liberated, Lin Dong kept Little Marten and Little Flame in Dao Sect to reveal a chance for Little Flame to advance to the Reincarnation Stage. He explained that Primeval Desolation Hall was a contingency left by the Master of Primeval Desolation and that its ownerless Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol could suit Little Flame, leaving Little Marten concerned about taking an ally’s inherited treasure.

• Qing Zhi declined to return to Dao Sect, then left for the Chaotic Demon Sea to support Mo Luo while Mo Luo attempted a breakthrough.
• Lin Dong used his power to cleanse the Yuan Sect Ancestral Court and heal the Allied Forces, and the Allied Forces liberated the Eastern Xuan Region over the next ten days.
• The Seven Great Super Sects kept their alliance, Dao Sect took the leading position in the region, and the Four Symbols Palace army returned to the Demon Domain without Lin Dong, Little Marten, or Little Flame.
• Lin Dong told Little Marten and Little Flame that he had kept them in Dao Sect because the Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol might help Little Flame enter the Reincarnation Stage.
• Lin Dong explained that Primeval Desolation Hall was a contingency left by the Master of Primeval Desolation, and Little Marten questioned whether taking its inherited treasure from an ally was appropriate.

Lin Dong arranged for Little Flame to retrieve the masterless Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol and returned to the Demon Region to help Old Man Fen Tian enter the Reincarnation Stage. The chapter left Old Man Fen Tian indebted to Lin Dong and bound to serve him for twenty years.

• Lin Dong sent Little Flame and Yan to retrieve the Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol from the Primeval Desolation Hall, then told Little Marten he planned to visit his family in the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong left Little Marten behind and traveled to the Demon Region to find Old Man Fen Tian.
• Lin Dong used Life Force and Reincarnation Insight to restore Old Man Fen Tian and help him reach the Reincarnation Stage.
• Old Man Fen Tian pledged his life to Lin Dong, and they agreed that he would serve Lin Dong for twenty years.
• Lin Dong returned the Heaven Burning Cauldron after having it upgraded into an Ancient Divine Object, leaving Old Man Fen Tian moved by the gift.

Lin Dong returned to the Dao Sect with Old Man Fen Tian and reunited with Little Marten, who mocked him over choosing between Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu. Little Marten summoned both women to confront Lin Dong, but they agreed to travel with him to the Great Yan Dynasty, leaving Lin Dong to evade their questions.

• Old Man Fen Tian vowed to serve Lin Dong for fifty years after Lin Dong returned the Heaven Burning Cauldron, and Lin Dong took him to the Dao Sect to meet the Ice Master.
• Lin Dong returned the Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol to the sect and told Little Marten that Little Flame would soon enter the Samsara Stage.
• Little Marten teased Lin Dong about choosing between Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu, then admitted that he had notified both women of Lin Dong's return to the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu arrived together, and each declared that she would accompany Lin Dong to the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong claimed he needed to find Little Marten before they departed, while Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu privately discussed their worries about him.

Lin Dong returned to Lin City and reunited with Gu Mo, where he met An Ran, the Desolate Hall’s new chief and his devoted admirer. He directed An Ran to Little Marten to hear about his adventures, leaving Little Marten baffled by the sudden attention.

• An Ran eagerly asked Gu Mo whether Lin Dong was returning to the Great Yan Dynasty, and Gu Mo confirmed that he was among the arriving guests.
• Lin Dong arrived in Lin City, greeted Gu Mo, and thanked him for helping protect his homeland.
• An Ran introduced herself to Lin Dong and told him she had joined the Desolate Hall to follow in his footsteps.
• Lin Dong decided to bring An Ran and Little Marten together and suggested that Little Marten tell her about his adventures.
• An Ran turned her shining attention to Little Marten, who wondered what had just happened.

Lin Dong traveled to Eagle City and used the Ancestral Symbols to awaken Jiang Yingying as the Master of Life and Death. After she reunited emotionally with her sister Jiang Xue, the Master of Life and Death asked Lin Dong how he had recognized her.

• Lin Dong arrived in Eagle City and embraced Jiang Yingying, whose Reincarnation Seal and closeness to him suggested she was a Reincarnator.
• Lin Dong joined hands with Jiang Yingying and used the Ancestral Symbols and divine objects to awaken her memories as the Master of Life and Death.
• Jiang Yingying transformed into an adult woman with a vast Wheel of Reincarnation, but insisted she was still herself and remembered her family.
• Jiang Xue dismissed the Eagle Sect experts who had gathered and brought Lin Dong and her sister to an ancient hall.
• Jiang Yingying reassured Jiang Xue that she still remembered her family, and Jiang Xue tearfully asked her to visit often.
• After Jiang Xue left them alone, the Master of Life and Death asked Lin Dong how he had known who she was.

Lin Dong awakened the Master of Life and Death and learned that the Third Demon Suppressing Prison remained sealed, then brought her to the Great Desolate Sect ruins to save its Guardian. The Guardian had grown stronger by absorbing the lingering obsessions of the sect’s experts, but he had not returned to normal.

• Lin Dong explained that his Devouring Seal had resonated with the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, revealing the Master of Life and Death’s identity.
• Lin Dong asked about the Third Demon Suppressing Prison, and the Master of Life and Death explained that it held tens of millions of Yi Mo and that she had guarded it before entering reincarnation.
• The Master of Life and Death confirmed that the prison’s sealing formation still operated and activated another layer of concealment.
• Lin Dong asked the Master of Life and Death to help save the Guardian of the Great Desolate Sect and took her to the sect’s ruins.
• Lin Dong learned that the Guardian had absorbed the lingering obsessions of the sect’s experts, regained flesh, and reached the Peak Death Profound Stage, but remained confused.

Lin Dong and the Master of Life and Death freed Ming Xuan from his tribulation, and Lin Dong persuaded him to join the Eagle Sect. As Ming Xuan revealed that a True Demon King was sealed beneath the Great Desolation Tablet, the demon broke free.

• The Master of Life and Death used the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol’s power to purge Ming Xuan’s madness, helping him enter the Samsara Stage.
• Ming Xuan recognized Lin Dong as the youth he had helped six years earlier, and Lin Dong explained that he had returned to honor his oath.
• Lin Dong told Ming Xuan about the Eagle Sect, and Ming Xuan agreed to become its Grand Elder and protect the Great Desolation Tablet.
• The Great Desolation Stele explained its connection to the Great Desolate King and revealed that the Great Desolation Tablet was modeled on it.
• Ming Xuan revealed that the sect had sealed the True Demon King Ninth King Palace beneath the Great Desolation Tablet, and the ground split as the demon emerged.

Lin Dong and the Master of Life and Death killed the newly freed Ninth King Palace, and the Great Desolate Sect’s fallen forebears honored them with their Reincarnation Intent. Lin Dong absorbed the offering and sank into its profound aura.

• The Ninth King Palace broke free from its suppression and threatened the Great Desolate Sect before spotting Lin Dong, Ming Xuan, and the Master of Life and Death.
• The Ninth King Palace fled by splitting into Demonic Shadows, but the Master of Life and Death destroyed the decoys and trapped him with her Life and Death Wheel.
• The Ninth King Palace used the Demon Emperor Armor to resist the Life and Death Wheel, but Lin Dong infused it with Supreme Power, allowing the Master of Life and Death to destroy the armor and kill him.
• Ming Xuan celebrated the demon’s death, and the Great Desolate Sect’s fallen forebears appeared as figures of light to thank Lin Dong and the Master of Life and Death.
• The Master of Life and Death redirected all the figures’ Reincarnation Intent to Lin Dong, who absorbed it and sank into a profound state.

Lin Dong gave Master of Life and Death her Life and Death Coffin and asked her to revive the Devouring Master. She explained that Devouring had erased himself completely to save the other Ancient Masters, leaving no trace for her to restore.

• Lin Dong declined to challenge the Three-Stage Reincarnation Tribulation and told Master of Life and Death he planned to go to the Southern Xuan Region.
• Lin Dong took out the Life and Death Coffin and explained that the Undying Sacred Whale Tribe had given it to him so he could find her reincarnated body.
• Master of Life and Death agreed to let the clan elders learn she had returned, while asking Lin Dong to keep the news confidential.
• Master of Life and Death guessed Lin Dong wanted her to revive someone, and Lin Dong asked her to revive the Devouring Master.
• Master of Life and Death said Devouring had burned away his reincarnation completely to save the other Ancient Masters, then broke down in tears because she could not revive him.

Lin Dong revealed that he had preserved a defective Primal Spirit of the Devouring Master, and the Master of Life and Death took it to attempt his resurrection. After returning to the Dao Sect, Lin Dong reunited with Little Flame and Little Marten, who vowed to reach the Reincarnation Stage.

• Lin Dong showed the Master of Life and Death the Devouring Master's incomplete Primal Spirit and explained how he had gathered and preserved its remnants.
• The Master of Life and Death placed the Primal Spirit in the Life and Death Coffin, resolved to retrieve the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, and asked Lin Dong to keep the resurrection plan secret from the other Ancient Masters.
• Lin Dong left with Ming Xuan to meet Jiang Xue, then returned to Lin City and told Ying Huanhuan that the Ninth King Palace had been defeated.
• Lin Dong, the Blind Old Man, An Ran, and the Dao Sect elites returned to the Dao Sect through the spatial teleportation array.
• Little Flame told Lin Dong that he had refined the Primeval Desolation Ancestral Symbol and entered the Reincarnation Stage, prompting Little Marten to vow to return to the Demon Domain and cultivate.

Lin Dong reunited with Qing Tan in Darkness City and met with Bo Xuan, then explained the Darkness Sacred Scythe's history and asked about its damaged spirit. The chapter left Bo Xuan confirming he knew how the First Generation Hall Master restored the scythe.

• Lin Dong traveled to Darkness City to bring Qing Tan home and investigate the absent Master of Thunder.
• Qing Tan welcomed Lin Dong warmly, surprising her Darkness Tribunal guards with her affectionate behavior.
• Qing Tan introduced Lin Dong to Chen Kui and brought him to meet Bo Xuan, who had entered the Reincarnation Stage.
• Lin Dong asked Qing Tan for the Darkness Sacred Scythe and told Bo Xuan that it had been damaged during the Ancient Great War.
• Bo Xuan confirmed that the First Generation Hall Master had sacrificed himself to restore the scythe's spirit.

Bo Xuan confronted the Two Grand Elders over the disappearance of the Darkness Sacred Scythe’s Scythe Spirit, and Lin Dong helped force the issue into a fight. Lin Dong drained the two Cycle Stage experts of their Origin Energy, leaving them helpless.

• Bo Xuan revealed that the Scythe Spirit had vanished several hundred years earlier and suspected his two senior uncles of taking it.
• Bo Xuan ordered Chen Kui to summon the Two Grand Elders and accused them of stealing the Scythe Spirit.
• The Two Grand Elders denied the accusation and rebuked Bo Xuan for concealing the Scythe Spirit’s disappearance.
• Lin Dong attacked the Two Grand Elders with Devouring Chains after they insulted him.
• The Two Grand Elders launched a Great Darkness Palm, but Lin Dong’s chains pierced it and bound them.
• Lin Dong used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to drain the Two Grand Elders’ Origin Energy and leave them weak on the ground.

Lin Dong freed the Scythe Spirit from the Grand Elders’ curse, restoring the Darkness Sacred Scythe and revealing its fusion with the First Generation Hall Master. Bo Xuan took control of the defeated Grand Elders, leaving the Darkness Palace with its ancestor restored and Qing Tan wielding the Scythe.

• Lin Dong exposed the black bead the Grand Elders had hidden and summoned the Scythe Spirit in the First Generation Hall Master’s form.
• Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone’s Purification to remove the curse, restoring the Scythe Spirit’s consciousness and raising its power to the Second Reincarnation Tribulation.
• The Scythe Spirit explained that it and the First Generation Hall Master had fused into one being after the Demon Emperor shattered its consciousness.
• The Scythe Spirit recognized Yan, the Great Desolation Stele, and Profound Heaven Hall, then told Bo Xuan to deal with the treacherous Grand Elders.
• The Scythe Spirit entered Qing Tan’s Black Giant Scythe, while Bo Xuan used Darkness Sacred Symbols to enslave the two Grand Elders.

Lin Dong pursued the Demon Prison’s Seventh King Palace and fought him in the mountains beyond Darkness City. After killing five False Kings and wounding the Seventh King Palace, Lin Dong evaded his counterattack, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Dong sensed a Demon Prison spy, left Qing Tan a message, and pursued the demon with the Space Ancestral Symbol.
• The Seventh King Palace revealed himself and summoned five False Kings to ambush Lin Dong, but Lin Dong killed them with a Space Storm.
• Lin Dong said he had killed the Tenth King Palace and Ninth King Palace, then attacked the Seventh King Palace with Thunder Emperor Starfall Hand.
• The Seventh King Palace countered with Great Heaven Forest Demon Hand, and their collision flattened nearby mountain peaks.
• Lin Dong briefly immobilized the Seventh King Palace and slashed his throat with the Blade of Space, then dodged the demon’s desperate counterattack.

Lin Dong killed the Seventh King Palace with the Spear of Judgment while the Master of Thunder ambushed and wounded the Fifth King Palace. The Master of Thunder emerged from hiding and joined Lin Dong after the battle.

• The Seventh King Palace healed his severed neck, donned the Demon Emperor Armor, and challenged Lin Dong to a fight to the death.
• Lin Dong immobilized the Seventh King Palace with Stasis and hurled the Spear of Judgment, piercing his armor and destroying his body.
• The Fifth King Palace reached through a spatial fissure to attack Lin Dong, but the concealed Master of Thunder struck him with a thunder lion and severely wounded him.
• The Seventh King Palace's Demonic Soul tried to flee, but Ancestral Stone Power purified it and ended his escape.
• The Master of Thunder revealed himself, praised Lin Dong, and confronted the wounded Fifth King Palace.

Lin Dong and Master of Thunder drove the Fifth King Palace away after Lin Dong killed the Seventh King Palace, then returned with Qing Tan to the Eastern Xuan Region. At the Dao Sect, Ying Huanhuan revealed that her power had fully recovered and melted the ice covering the lake.

• The Fifth King Palace fled after Lin Dong and Master of Thunder pretended they could join forces to defeat him.
• Qing Tan and the Darkness Palace forces arrived, and Lin Dong explained that he had killed the Seventh King Palace while Master of Thunder drove back the Fifth King Palace.
• Bo Xuan recognized Master of Thunder, who told the Darkness Palace forces to prepare for a possible Demon Prison counterattack.
• Qing Tan traveled with Lin Dong and Master of Thunder to the Eastern Xuan Region and reunited with Lin Xiao and his wife in the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong found Ying Huanhuan at the Dao Sect, where she said her power had fully recovered and shattered the ice covering the lake.

Lin Dong, Ying Huanhuan, and the Master of Thunder learned that the Demon Prison was stirring in the Chaotic Demon Sea, likely to free the Great Heavenly Demon King. They traveled to the Primeval Desolation Tower and awakened the Master of Primeval Desolation to join their response.

• Lin Dong received word from his teacher that Demonic Corpses and the Demon Army were emerging across the Chaotic Demon Sea, and Ying Huanhuan identified the Great Heavenly Demon King as the likely target.
• Lin Dong proposed using the Great Heavenly Demon King as bait to ambush the Demon Prison’s forces, and Ying Huanhuan took him and the Master of Thunder to the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• Ying Huanhuan, Lin Dong, and the Master of Thunder entered the Primeval Desolation Tower and found the Master of Primeval Desolation asleep on its eighth floor.
• The Master of Thunder woke the Master of Primeval Desolation, who recognized Ying Huanhuan and agreed to follow her to the Master of Flames.

Beneath Mysterious Spirit Island, the Ancient Masters reunited and Ying Huanhuan revealed that Lin Dong was her man, shocking everyone and leaving the Master of Flames heartbroken. The group began their plan to defeat the Great Heavenly Demon King, whom the Master of Flames awakened from its long imprisonment in the Flame God Ancient Array.

• The Master of Space welcomed the arriving Ancient Masters, while the Master of Primeval Desolation teased him for spreading Ying Huanhuan's past.
• Lin Dong returned the Flame God Ancient Token to the Master of Flames and greeted him.
• Ying Huanhuan took Lin Dong's hand and introduced him as her man, shocking the Ancient Masters and prompting the Master of Flames to accept her rejection.
• The Master of Darkness reported that she had purified the Yi Mo in the Demon Suppressing Prison, and the Master of Flames described the remaining Demon Generals, Demon Kings, and Great Heavenly Demon King.
• The Master of Thunder explained the plan to kill the Great Heavenly Demon King and ambush the royal commanders who came to rescue it.
• The Master of Flames activated the Flame God Ancient Array, and the chained Great Heavenly Demon King awoke and roared at him.

Master of Flames and the other Ancient Masters joined forces to destroy the Great Heavenly Demon King and clear the Yi Mo from the Demon Suppressing Prison. Ying Huanhuan split the group’s forces, sending Master of Primeval Desolation and Lin Dong toward the Primeval Desolation Tower as bait while she and the others stayed behind as the main force.

• Master of Flames revealed six other Ancient Masters, and the Great Heavenly Demon King realized it was surrounded.
• The Ice Master used Eternal Freeze to kill the Great Heavenly Demon King in one strike.
• Six Ancient Masters and a Cycle Stage Expert joined forces to wipe out the Yi Mo in the Demon Suppressing Prison.
• Ying Huanhuan ordered Master of Primeval Desolation to take Lin Dong to the Primeval Desolation Tower and draw away part of the Demon Prison’s forces.
• Master of Primeval Desolation carried Lin Dong through a Space Channel he smashed open, while Ying Huanhuan and the others remained behind.