Recaps

Qi Yuan comprehended the Myriad Paths Gate for twenty-seven years, gaining nearly a thousand mutation abilities before returning to No Return City. When an unusually powerful demonic horde attacked, he discovered that killing its creatures granted him Sin Source and revealed his strength as a Kingdom Protector.

• Qi Yuan bickered with Canary on Nine Bend Mountain, then spent years comprehending the Myriad Paths Gate as his body grew and his mutation abilities accumulated.
• The Myriad Paths Gate vanished, ending Qi Yuan’s comprehension; back in No Return City, he tested his new ability to create fire and wondered what mutation abilities could do.
• Qi Yuan took up his garrison post and spotted a demonic horde of about eight hundred creatures, including more than twenty at level forty-nine.
• Demon Controller Cai Xia tried to recruit Qi Yuan into the Northern Land camp, then sent the horde to attack him when he refused.
• Qi Yuan charged into the horde, killed its creatures, and gained Sin Source; Cai Xia realized he was a Kingdom Protector and fled.

Qi Yuan killed Cai Xia and the demonic abominations, then refused an invitation from Galan City to leave No Return City. As Yuan Qi pledged to stand with him, Qi Yuan remained determined to guard the city and welcomed the chance to fight more fiendish abominations.

• Qi Yuan killed Cai Xia and cleared the surrounding demonic abominations, then discovered a grain-sized wisp of Sin Source in his divine soul and considered refining it into his Golden Core.
• Two years later, Yuan Qi met Liu Wentai and Liu Wenmei on the road to No Return City and learned they planned to recruit its Garrison Envoy for Galan City.
• The siblings reached No Return City, found an invisible barrier at its wall, and met Qi Yuan, who emerged from beneath the sand.
• Liu Wentai and Liu Wenmei invited Qi Yuan to help Galan City attack Mi Sang, but he refused to abandon his post despite their warnings and offers.
• Qi Yuan told the siblings they could lead any surviving fiendish abominations toward him, while Yuan Qi declared that he was willing to die alongside him.

Qi Yuan continued guarding No Return City, rejecting Great Xia’s offer of wine and slaughtering a thousand demon fiends as his strength and Sin Source grew. Years later, Mi Sang warned Wu Tong about Qi Yuan and suspected the city’s Garrison Envoy was a disciple of the White Emperor.

• Qi Yuan told Yuan Qi that he guarded No Return City because it was his duty, then revealed that Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao had died there and let Yuan Qi pay his respects with Daughter Fragrance.
• Qi Yuan told Yuan Qi that Great Xia should stop sending people to No Return City unless they brought military banners, while Yuan Qi chose to remain there.
• Dong Long learned that Qi Yuan had refused to join him, then led Great Sui’s forces to defeat Mi Sang and wound him severely.
• Qi Yuan killed more than a thousand demon fiends at No Return City, while Yuan Qi reported Mi Sang’s defeat and Qi Yuan hoped more enemies would come.
• Ning Tao told Qi Yuan that he was becoming like a demon fiend and refused to release him from the Underground Palace; they argued over whether she should keep him imprisoned.
• Five years later, Wu Tong headed to Yu Province to conquer its cities, while Mi Sang revealed that he had deliberately lost to Dong Long and suspected Qi Yuan was a disciple of the White Emperor.

Qi Yuan revealed his overwhelming strength by annihilating Wu Tong’s vanguard army attacking No Return City, then used a new origin-comprehension opportunity to learn the human-fiend cultivation path from the Myriad Paths Gate. There, he reunited with Canary, who had taken human form after he had been gone for forty-seven years, and she wondered whether someone on Nine Bend Mountain still could not take human form.

• Liu Wentai and Liu Wenmei warned Qi Yuan that Wu Tong’s army was heading for No Return City and urged him to retreat to Galan City.
• Qi Yuan transformed into a thirty-meter blood-armored giant and killed thousands of demonic aberrations, including more than ten Kingdom Protector-level foes, with one sword strike.
• Qi Yuan killed the wounded general Tie Suo and annihilated the rest of Wu Tong’s vanguard, then sent Liu Wentai and Liu Wenmei back to Galan City.
• Qi Yuan used his level-90 origin-comprehension opportunity and, while near the Myriad Paths Gate on Nine Bend Mountain, gained a massive increase in the human-fiend path.
• Qi Yuan met Canary, who had taken human form and said he had been gone for forty-seven years and three months.

Qi Yuan took human form, settled on Nine Bend Mountain, and learned that emotional agitation caused heart demons to emerge from living beings. After spending twenty years comprehending the Myriad Paths Gate, he preached a wondrous method for trapping demons, drawing listeners from across the region.

• Qi Yuan used the Human-Fiend Path to take a handsome human form and continued comprehending the Myriad Paths Gate while Canary moved into a cabin nearby.
• Canary brought Qi Yuan to watch a quarrel among a rabbit and two dogs, whose emotions caused heart demons to burst from their bodies and attack the crowd.
• Qi Yuan killed the three heart demons with a flash of sword light and learned that agitation could make heart demons emerge.
• Canary persuaded Qi Yuan to fly around the Eighteen Mountains proclaiming her the greatest beauty, and Qi Yuan reluctantly complied.
• Twenty years later, Qi Yuan preached about heart demons and trapping them, drawing demons, spirits, and human cultivators to Nine Bend Mountain while Canary watched proudly.

After preaching the Demon Trapping Art, Qi Yuan made Nine Bend Mountain a sacred land and sent his followers to investigate the Myriad Paths Gate. He learned that the gate’s replica arose from the inner demons afflicting the Flowing Wind World, then returned to No Return City after spending 120 years comprehending the origin.

• Qi Yuan ended his forty-nine-day sermon by imparting the Demon Trapping Art, and humans and demons across Nine Bend Mountain knelt in gratitude.
• Twenty-seven followers stayed on Nine Bend Mountain, where Canary proudly introduced herself as Qi Yuan’s childhood sweetheart and led them to build homes.
• Over the next twenty years, the Demon Trapping Art spread across eleven continents, while Qi Yuan’s followers reported that someone seemed to be obstructing its further spread.
• Shang Yanran explained that Buddha became a great demon after the Demoness he loved died, triggering inner demons throughout the Flowing Wind World and summoning or creating a replica of the Myriad Paths Gate.
• Qi Yuan returned to No Return City after 120 years of comprehending the origin and wondered whether he would meet Canary again or enter the Myriad Paths Gate after reaching level 120.

Canary mourned the disappearance of Blood Bead and the Myriad Paths Gate while Qi Yuan’s growing Sin Source made him fear he might become a monster. As Wu Tong prepared to attack No Return City with a powerful weapon supplied by the Supreme One, Galan City’s leaders braced for the consequences, and scouts watched the city as Wu Tong’s army approached.

• Canary ran to the empty mountaintop after the Myriad Paths Gate vanished and wondered whether Blood Bead had been the Buddha and she had been the Demoness.
• After slaying more than a thousand demonic abominations, Qi Yuan worried that his rising Sin Source was changing him, but Little Bride’s presence calmed him.
• Wu Tong promised to lead all his forces against No Return City in a month, then received a pale violet droplet containing the Supreme One’s strongest strike.
• A purple-robed man studied an ancient tablet that identified No Return City as the Demoness’s burial place and the source of all Sin Sources, and planned to use Wu Tong to find it.
• Dong Long and Galan City’s Kingdom Protectors discussed No Return City’s likely fall and sent Liu Wentai and Zhao Ju to watch the city from afar.
• A month later, Liu Wentai and Zhao Ju hid with their scouts in the desert and debated whether Qi Yuan would stand against Wu Tong’s approaching army or flee.

Qi Yuan single-handedly faced Wu Tong’s army of demon fiends and turned Wu Tong’s Origin Divine Power against the attackers, destroying them all. He returned to No Return City, while Dong Long awaited the scouts’ report in Galan City.

• Qi Yuan fused with Little Bride and charged alone into the demon fiend army, killing thousands with the Heaven Severing Sword Drawing Technique.
• Zhao Ju and Liu Wentai watched in alarm as Wu Tong ordered his Kingdom Protectors and demon fiends to surround Qi Yuan.
• Wu Tong used an Origin Divine Power against Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan dispersed it and transformed it into thousands of purple droplets.
• Qi Yuan sent the droplets through the army, killing Wu Tong, the Demon Controllers, and more than ten thousand demon fiends within three breaths.
• Qi Yuan returned to No Return City, leaving Zhao Ju and Liu Wentai stunned by his victory.
• In Galan City, Dong Long anxiously waited for the scouts returning from No Return City.

After clearing Yu Province of demonic spawn, Qi Yuan returned from the game to learn that Light Palace had demanded Great Shang hand him and Kang Fulu over. He devised a plan to annihilate Light Palace in a hundred days and asked the God Flower Society chat group for help.

• Dong Long and the Kingdom Protectors celebrated when a messenger reported that Qi Yuan had killed Wu Tong and wiped out his army in No Return City.
• Qi Yuan decided to use Wu Tong's death to sweep demonic spawn from Yu Province, and over seven years he cleared the province while growing stronger.
• Qi Yuan left No Return City in Yuan Qi's care, logged off, and found that his real-world cultivation had reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Jiang Lingsu told Qi Yuan that Light Palace had demanded Great Shang hand over him and Kang Fulu, and warned that cultivators from the Demonic Desire Sect had contacted Light Palace's envoy.
• Qi Yuan proposed killing the envoy as a way to thwart Light Palace, then wrote a hundred-day plan to annihilate Light Palace and shared it with the God Flower Society chat group.
• Rogue Immortal Venerable offered one Spirit Stone, while Iceberg Overlord Woman promised to send Qi Yuan five Profound-grade cultivation techniques.

Qi Yuan ambushed and killed Six-String True Lord and Ji Boying, then discovered a Demonic Desire Sect spy list while the group debated whether his hundred-day plan was real. The chapter ended with Qi Yuan hearing Ning Tao defend him as her son while seven Supremes demanded she surrender him.

• Qi Yuan proposed that the group borrow Spirit Stones from the Light Palace before he destroyed it, and Iceberg Overlord Woman spread news of the plan to her contacts.
• At Cloud Sesame Mountain, Ji Boying tried to persuade Six-String True Lord to help the Demonic Desire Sect oppose the Shinguang Sect, and Qi Yuan arrived to rob the Light Palace envoy.
• Qi Yuan ignored Six-String True Lord's soul attack, killed him with his Kitchen Knife, and killed Ji Boying when she challenged him.
• Qi Yuan took their Storage Bags, found a list of Demonic Desire Sect spies in Ji Boying's belongings, and told the group he had completed the first step of his plan.
• In the Northern Land, seven Supremes surrounded Ning Tao and demanded that she hand over the blood sphere, while she insisted it was her son and Qi Yuan protested from inside it.

Qi Yuan helped Ning Tao escape the seven Supremes who attacked her, then learned she had been hunted for decades because the Northern Land believed she was sheltering a Blood Demon. As Ning Tao’s injuries worsened and she refused to abandon him, Qi Yuan considered how to gain enough strength to face the Esteemed One and the White Emperor.

• Qi Yuan guided Ning Tao through the seven Supremes’ Origin Divine Powers, helping her escape their attack despite her grave injuries.
• Ning Tao told Qi Yuan that false reports about a Blood Demon at Sky Heart Palace had led more than ten Supremes to hunt her for nearly ten years.
• Qi Yuan stayed beside Ning Tao as she recovered, and she admitted she believed he was not a Blood Demon even though the world would not.
• Over the following decades, Ning Tao and Qi Yuan endured repeated sieges; she killed six Supremes while Qi Yuan grew to level 109 and often returned to No Return City.
• Ning Tao told Qi Yuan that the Esteemed One and White Emperor could each kill her with a finger, prompting him to imagine refining a whole world into a golden core.
• As Ning Tao’s life force weakened, she refused to abandon Qi Yuan and asked to see his face if she died, while Qi Yuan resolved to grow stronger.

Ning Tao learned that Purple Taoist was suspected of exposing the Blood Fiend's location, while Qi Yuan stayed in No Return City after the cities of Yu Province were ordered to retreat. When he learned Purple Taoist was among the Great Supremes advancing on the Thousand Cities region, Qi Yuan drafted a plan to help Chen Huan become a Supreme and hunt Supremes, but Chen Huan dismissed it as impossible.

• He Wu warned Ning Tao that her weakened condition might prevent her from surviving until the Myriad Paths Gate reappeared, and named Purple Taoist as a suspect in the plot against her.
• Qi Yuan returned to No Return City and discussed the path to Supreme power with Chen Huan, insisting that comprehending Human-Fiend Power was simple for him.
• Huang Mengling ordered the garrison envoys of Yu Province to abandon their cities and gather at Great Compassion City because three Northern Supremes, including a Great Supreme, had arrived.
• Qi Yuan refused to leave No Return City, and Chen Huan stayed with him after Huang Mengling departed to notify the other cities.
• Chen Huan told Qi Yuan that Purple Taoist was one of the strongest Great Supremes, and Qi Yuan wrote his name in his notebook as an enemy.
• Qi Yuan presented Chen Huan with a plan to teach him the source, make him a Supreme, and hunt Supremes, but Chen Huan called the plan impossible.

Qi Yuan taught Chen Huan Origin, helping him become a Supreme and swear to serve for a hundred years. They killed Yu Bai Supreme by exploiting flaws in her Origin Divine Power, then set out to attack more demon caves as Purple Taoist learned of her death.

• Qi Yuan taught Chen Huan Origin, and Chen Huan swore upon his inner demon to serve him for a hundred years if he reached Supreme.
• The Esteemed One sent a colossal crocodile toward the One Hundred Eight Thousand Cities, while the White Emperor's White Crane also flew out toward the region.
• Chen Huan became a Supreme, and Qi Yuan took him to hunt Supremes for experience and to advance his own level.
• Yu Bai Supreme discovered the devastation at Flowing River Demon Cave and ordered No Return City leveled, then Qi Yuan arrived and attacked her.
• Qi Yuan guided Chen Huan to exploit flaws in Yu Bai Supreme's Origin Divine Power, allowing Chen Huan to bind her defenses so Qi Yuan could kill her.
• Qi Yuan and Chen Huan left to attack other demon caves, while Purple Taoist learned that Yu Bai Supreme had died.

After reaching level 120 amid his assault on Punishment Ape Demon Cave, Qi Yuan began comprehending an Origin Divine Power and returned to a changed Nine Bend Mountain. He learned that the Purple Heaven Alliance had branded him a great demon and was moving to destroy the Blood Palace, so he set out toward the Ends of the Earth.

• Purple Taoist led the Supremes toward Punishment Ape Demon Cave while Qi Yuan and Chen Huan continued killing demon abominations; Qi Yuan reached level 120 and began comprehending an Origin Divine Power.
• Qi Yuan appeared at an abandoned Nine Bend Mountain, then encountered Black Yu and Bai Luo, who killed five Purple Heaven Alliance cultivators trying to capture him.
• Black Yu and Bai Luo explained that Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman had used the Destiny Stone Slab to claim Qi Yuan was dead and vilify him, while the Blood Palace had retreated to the Ends of the Earth.
• Qi Yuan learned Canary was with the Blood Palace and that the Purple Heaven Alliance and Seven Great Sects had sent an army to destroy it, then vanished after giving Black Yu and Bai Luo drops of blood-red liquid.
• Black Yu and Bai Luo returned to their village, where their master complained about his low rank on the Purple Heaven Alliance's wanted list and demanded to know what Qi Yuan looked like.

Bai Luo’s master confirmed that Qi Yuan was the revived Blood Master, and Qi Yuan stormed the Purple Heaven Alliance headquarters, killing its defenders and being branded the Great Demon. Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman learned of his return and set out for the Ends of the Earth, while Foolish Daoist tried to carry news back to the Blood Palace.

• Bai Luo showed her master a blood-red drop Qi Yuan had given her, convincing him that the Blood Master had returned, and he decided to go to the Ends of the Earth.
• News spread that the Blood Master was destroying Purple Heaven Alliance strongholds, while Chief Steward Lin Xue Mei dismissed him as an impostor and prepared for his hundredth-birthday celebration.
• Qi Yuan arrived at Reaching Heaven City and killed more than sixty Terrestrial Myths and eleven Supremes with blood-red sword strikes.
• Lin Xue Mei called Qi Yuan the Great Demon and killed himself, while Qi Yuan rejected the label and the remaining Alliance members panicked at his presence.
• Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman read the Destiny Stone Slab’s warning that the Myriad Paths Gate would open in a month and ordered the Supremes to accompany her to the Ends of the Earth.
• Foolish Daoist tried to escape and return to the Blood Palace with news of Qi Yuan’s revival, but Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman struck him down.

Qi Yuan returned to the Blood Palace after three hundred years, reunited with Canary, and prepared to face the Purple Heaven Alliance, which had branded him the Great Demon. As the Myriad Paths Gate opened and a creature stirred within it, the great battle began.

• Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman revealed that the Destiny Stone Slab had identified Blood Master as a great demon, prompting the Purple Heaven Alliance to rally against him.
• Canary rushed to greet Qi Yuan, and the two sat together before the Myriad Paths Gate as he resumed comprehending it.
• Qi Yuan entered the Blood Palace, healed Foolish Daoist, and declared that he would not flee from the approaching Purple Heaven Alliance.
• Shang Yanran and Bai Ze prepared to support Qi Yuan while also making contingency plans, as the Blood Palace faced defections and growing panic.
• The Myriad Paths Gate opened, and Qi Yuan sensed a terrifying creature inside before the battle against the gathered forces began.

Qi Yuan destroyed Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman and the Supremes aboard her warship, but her corpse entered the Myriad Paths Gate and stirred the heart demons threatening everyone. He entered the gate to stop the calamity and continue comprehending the origin, where he met the dried corpse of a monk who asked him for release.

• Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman demanded that Qi Yuan surrender, but he mocked her accusations and summoned a blood-colored sword.
• Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman used the Destiny Stone Slab to block Qi Yuan’s first and ten-sword attacks, but it failed to respond when he unleashed over a hundred swords, destroying the warship and killing the Supremes.
• Purple Heaven Mysterious Woman’s corpse entered the Myriad Paths Gate, triggering the heart demons of Canary, Shang Yanran, Foolish Daoist, and others.
• Qi Yuan entered the Myriad Paths Gate to confront the emerging heart demon, telling Canary he would find her at the end of time.
• Inside the gate, Qi Yuan encountered a dried-up monk who revealed that he had come from the Buddhist Kingdom, bred heart demons, and asked Qi Yuan to kill him and climb the Ten Thousand Demons Stairs.

Qi Yuan absorbed the inner demons within the Myriad Paths Gate and condensed the seven deadly sins into a single Origin Divine Power, but the demons began transforming him into one of their own. Outside the gate, Canary waited as the world’s people prepared to leave, until Qi Yuan’s monstrous aura suddenly vanished and Shang Yanran said he had severed his own heart meridians and disappeared.

• Qi Yuan climbed through the Myriad Paths Gate, killing inner demons and converting them into Sin Source while comprehending new abilities.
• Kang Fulu’s master, True Lord Taiguang, explained that cultivators had to overcome the inner demon tribulation to condense a Golden Core.
• Qi Yuan decided to make the seven deadly sins his divine power, condensed each sin into an Origin Divine Power, and merged them into Void Realm Dominator Heart Demon Induction.
• The dried corpse declared that Qi Yuan had become a heart demon as his body transformed, while Canary waited outside the gate for the Blood Master to return.
• Bai Ze brought the Destiny Stone Slab, but Shang Yanran said it was too late to save the Blood Master, and Canary refused to leave the Ends of the Earth.
• The blood-red frost and seawater cleared as the demon’s aura weakened; Shang Yanran said Qi Yuan had awakened his humanity, severed his own heart meridians, and vanished.

Canary and the others risked becoming irreversibly ugly to enter the Ten Thousand Demons Gate and awaken Blood Bead, while Qi Yuan comprehended the Great Forgetfulness Sutra and erased the heart demons. He was awakened by Canary, completed his origin comprehension, and left her with Reincarnation Power; centuries later, Canary still waited for him at the Ends of the Earth.

• Shang Yanran explained that entering the Ten Thousand Demons Gate could awaken Blood Bead but would inflict terrible pain and make the entrant unbearably ugly, and Canary and the others volunteered to go.
• Inside the Myriad Paths Gate, Qi Yuan discovered that forgetfulness was his path and formed the Great Forgetfulness Sutra, causing the dried corpse and all the heart demons to vanish.
• As Qi Yuan began forgetting himself during heavenly tribulation, Canary entered the Ten Thousand Demons Gate, endured its pain, and called out to him.
• Qi Yuan heard Canary, remembered who he was, completed the Great Forgetfulness Sutra, and gave her Reincarnation Power before preparing to leave the Myriad Paths Gate.
• Centuries later, Canary lived alone at the Ends of the Earth and lamented that Blood Bead still had not come to see her.

Qi Yuan became a Supreme and used his Origin Divine Power to kill five Supremes before confronting Purple Taoist, a Great Supreme. By exploiting Purple Taoist’s doubts about his cultivation, Qi Yuan made him briefly forget his rank and exposed a flaw in his power.

• Qi Yuan emerged from his enlightenment as a Supreme while the incoming Supremes surrounded him and Chen Huan.
• Five Supremes attacked Chen Huan, but Qi Yuan guided him through their Origin Divine Powers and then killed them by drawing out their heart demons.
• Purple Taoist offered to make Qi Yuan his disciple and demanded No Return City's secrets, but Qi Yuan refused and attacked him.
• Purple Taoist blocked Qi Yuan's sword with his engraved Origin Divine Power, while Qi Yuan claimed that Purple Taoist was not a true Great Supreme.
• Qi Yuan used the Great Forgetfulness Sutra to make Purple Taoist forget his rank for an instant, exposing a flaw that let Qi Yuan's Heart Demon Induction take hold.

After killing Purple Taoist and claiming the Destiny Stone Slab, Qi Yuan founded the Blood Palace in No Return City to find Canary and awaken his former companions’ memories, offering to help Terrestrial Myths become Supremes. Meanwhile, Ning Tao agreed to travel to the Ends of the Earth with He Wu to seek answers about the demons, while continuing to hope her husband would find her.

• Qi Yuan killed Purple Taoist by triggering his inner demon, reached level 132, and seized the Destiny Stone Slab, whose visions of his future supremacy he recognized as illusions.
• Qi Yuan established the Blood Palace in No Return City and announced that he could help Terrestrial Myths break through into the Supreme realm.
• Chen Huan traveled to Great Compassion City to recruit Terrestrial Myths, but Huang Mengling dismissed his claims until he revealed that he had become a Supreme and forced her to step aside.
• Wang Gai left Great Compassion City for No Return City, hoping to find a chance to become a Supreme before his lifespan ended.
• He Wu invited Ning Tao to join the Thirteen Northern Demons on an expedition to the Ends of the Earth, and Ning Tao agreed while insisting she could not abandon the Blood Demon because her husband might lose her.

Qi Yuan preached the Dao in No Return City, and Wang Gai and the other three Terrestrial Myths began comprehending origin and advancing toward the Supreme realm. News of their breakthrough and the disappearance of Purple Taoist reached Great Compassion City, where Huang Mengling decided to alert Eldest Senior Brother.

• He Wu warned Ning Tao that Purple Taoist was in Bloodfall Thousand Cities and left, while Ning Tao hinted she still intended to seek him out.
• Qi Yuan welcomed Chen Huan and four Terrestrial Myths into the Blood Palace and began preaching the Dao without requiring an oath or contract.
• Li Yunzhi and two companions watched from outside No Return City, then realized Wang Gai and the others had begun comprehending origin and hurried inside to join the Blood Palace.
• Chen Huan told the three newcomers that Qi Yuan would preach again only after ten people had gathered, prompting Li Yunzhi to set out for Great Compassion City to recruit listeners.
• Huang Mengling learned that Wang Gai and the other three were nearing the Supreme realm and that Purple Taoist and other Demon Controller Supremes had vanished, so she asked Sound Heaven Supreme to investigate and not obstruct the Thirteen Northern Demons.

Yun He learned of Blood Master and the possible Destiny Stone Slab, while six years later Qi Yuan’s Blood Palace had grown powerful and No Return City had flourished. When Ning Tao was trapped by a group of Supremes, Qi Yuan arrived with a hundred Supreme enforcers and prepared to fight them himself.

• Yun He decided to travel to No Return City to meet Blood Master and told the second disciple to inform the White Emperor about the possible Destiny Stone Slab.
• Six years later, Yuan Qi guarded No Return City as its population and the Blood Palace’s ranks of Supremes grew, and Qi Yuan slaughtered devilspawn outside the city.
• Chen Huan told Qi Yuan that more than twenty Supremes in Bloodfall Thousand Cities planned to attack No Return City, so Qi Yuan chose a hundred loyal Supremes to accompany him.
• Blue Charm Supreme and the other Supremes ambushed the wounded Ning Tao, intending to kill her and seize the Blood Demon she carried.
• Qi Yuan appeared, summoned a hundred Supreme enforcers, transformed into a giant in crimson armor, and prepared to attack Ning Tao’s besiegers.

Qi Yuan slaughtered twenty-seven Supremes with one strike, then expanded the Blood Palace while searching for Canary. Three years later, Yun He arrived in Great Compassion City and suspected a trap, while Mi Luo Supreme approached Qi Yuan with an offer from his father, Mi Kong Great Supreme.

• Qi Yuan used Void Realm Dominator Heart Demon Induction to awaken the Supremes’ heart demons, killing all twenty-seven as the Blood Palace’s followers watched in terror.
• Qi Yuan made the surviving Supremes swear not to reveal the battle, and Ning Tao promised to look for Canary before leaving.
• Three years later, Yun He reached Great Compassion City, learned that Huang Mengling had left and Mi Luo Supreme was in No Return City, and suspected the Great Supremes there were plotting against him.
• Qi Yuan described the Blood Palace’s growing ranks and his progress with Origin Divine Power before agreeing to meet Mi Luo Supreme.
• Mi Luo Supreme offered his father’s support in making Qi Yuan the world’s ruler and proposed sending his younger sister as a consort, but Qi Yuan rejected the offers while allowing Mi Luo to attend his upcoming Dao lecture.
• After Mi Luo left, Qi Yuan remarked that the pig had been fattened and its wings had grown hard.

Mi Luo Supreme and his allies plotted to seize control of No Return City, while Wang Gai trusted that the Blood Master could defeat them. As the sermon began, Qi Yuan exposed Mi Luo Supreme’s intentions indirectly, then dismissed the idea of demanding anyone’s loyalty.

• Mi Luo Supreme met with a hidden Supreme who reported that the Blood Palace was disorganized and the Blood Master appeared vulnerable, though Mi Luo Supreme remained wary of a trap.
• Wang Gai and Li Yunzhi discussed rumors that someone planned to move against the Blood Master, and Wang Gai insisted that no scheme could harm him.
• Qi Yuan recalled Little Bride tugging his clothes while he had been lost in the Myriad Paths Gate and pondered his cultivation, the world’s strange abundance of Supremes, and the dangers beyond it.
• The White Emperor reflected on the fiends inside the Ten Thousand Demons Gate and prepared to join his true body there as the Thirteen Northern Demons approached the Ends of the Earth.
• At the sermon gathering, Qi Yuan asked Mi Luo Supreme what he would do before preaching; Mi Luo Supreme advocated requiring heart-demon oaths, and Qi Yuan suggested the crowd swear loyalty before revealing that he was joking and beginning the sermon.