Chapter Summaries

Zhu Fengdan agreed to support war over the Sun and Moon Path and revealed that he had secretly helped deceive Heaven’s Will, while his conversation with the old man created countless worlds. In hell, Li Qi struggled to keep pace with the Demon Prince’s attack and faced a sudden shift to close combat.

• Zhu Fengdan and the old man discussed his relationships and the Imperial Flowing Sap he had obtained from the Demon Race.
• As they talked, their joy created tens of thousands of worlds and formed a new cluster of worlds.
• Zhu Fengdan voted for war over the Sun and Moon Path, promised to lead the fighting, and urged the old man to support the war faction.
• After Zhu Fengdan left, the old man realized Zhu Fengdan had helped conceal their actions from Heaven’s Will.
• Li Qi weighed the danger of using a third-rank being’s head while he and the Demon Prince grew mentally exhausted, and Canghou asked what to do next.
• A black shadow fell toward Li Qi as the Demon Prince moved to fight him hand-to-hand.

Li Qi prepared a fortified small heaven and earth aboard the Fifth Rank Treasure Ship to face the Demon Prince, who had rushed in to kill him while Canghou was occupied. The Demon Prince dismantled Li Qi’s traps and shattered his carefully constructed battlefield with a bamboo staff, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• The Demon Prince left the Fourth Rank battle and charged toward Li Qi, while Moloyan risked his life to keep Canghou occupied.
• Li Qi regulated his Qi, set traps, and used treasures and Inner Gods to build a small heaven and earth that would suppress intruders.
• The Demon Prince arrived at the Treasure Ship, stopped outside Li Qi’s formation, and dismantled his traps with a tap of his bamboo staff.
• Li Qi and the Demon Prince exchanged taunts before the Demon Prince threw his staff into Li Qi’s small world.
• The staff unleashed disasters that tore open Li Qi’s small heaven and earth.

Li Qi fought Demon Prince, whose bamboo cane shattered Li Qi’s small world and revealed the limits of his defenses. Li Qi turned the tableware and ornaments he had brought into an illusion array, then used the confusion and martial arts to kick Demon Prince into the small world, where their close combat continued.

• Demon Prince entered Li Qi’s small world, shattered Li Qi’s Inner Gods, and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Li Qi realized Demon Prince used his bamboo cane to break the small world as he advanced, then brought out more than a hundred thousand artifacts.
• Li Qi linked the artifacts into an illusion array depicting a lavish banquet, but Demon Prince saw through it and broke much of the formation.
• Li Qi used the illusion to hide his movements, kicked Demon Prince’s impaired right leg, and sent him into the small world.
• Li Qi attacked with martial arts and assembled an exoskeleton from the artifact fragments Demon Prince had shattered.

Li Qi used tricks and newly learned techniques to trap the Demon Prince in his small world and exploit the weakness in his lame leg. As Moloyan and Canghou watched, Li Qi disrupted the Demon Prince’s inner heaven and earth, leaving him frozen and vulnerable to another attack.

• Moloyan told Canghou that the Demon Prince had risen from nothing in the Desire Realm and intended to challenge the world’s younger generation, beginning with Li Qi.
• Li Qi used nested illusion formations, a magical-treasure exoskeleton, and Wave-Pushing Strength to kick the Demon Prince into his small world and attack his lame right leg.
• The Demon Prince escaped Li Qi’s close-range assault and summoned countless demons to shield himself, then questioned how Li Qi had learned the Reason Way’s refining techniques.
• Li Qi revealed that he had learned the technique only a quarter of an hour earlier and used miscellaneous qi on the Demon Prince’s lame leg to create Martial Dao Inner Qi.
• Li Qi transformed the qi into blazing Yang energy, disrupting the Demon Prince’s inner seasons and freezing him in place.
• Li Qi seized the opening and attacked the Demon Prince’s weakness again.

Li Qi exploited the Demon Prince’s missing leg to throw his inner world into disorder, but the Demon Prince revealed he lacked a right eye as well and turned the imbalance into overwhelming pure yang. After Li Qi’s countermeasures failed, he faced an opponent he could not see how to defeat, until he sensed hidden yin Dao Charm within the Demon Prince as the next attack began.

• Li Qi used the Demon Prince’s missing leg to disrupt his inner world and rushed in with the exoskeleton to attack his vital points.
• Li Qi cracked the Demon Prince’s mask and discovered he lacked a right eye and had no moon or yin qi in his inner world.
• The Demon Prince transformed the imbalance into extreme yang, burned Li Qi’s exoskeleton, and overwhelmed him with demonic fire and thoughts.
• Li Qi escaped the attack through the Shaman’s Life-Substitution Method and the collapse of the lesser worlds, while the Demon Prince waited for him to strike.
• Li Qi concluded that the Demon Prince outmatched him in combat and could find no path to victory before the Demon Prince saw through his illusion and attacked.
• Li Qi sensed yin Dao Charm inside the Demon Prince as the Demon Prince reached for him.

Li Qi used Golden Crow Spirit Qi to survive the Demon Prince’s attack and discovered that the bamboo staff was the source of the Prince’s yin Dao Charm. After the Demon Prince provoked him by mentioning Shen Shuibi, Li Qi prepared a new magic treasure body shell and resumed the fight, where he attempted to counter the Prince’s power by simulating a true dragon body.

• Li Qi detonated Golden Crow Spirit Qi, forcing the Demon Prince to defend himself with the yin power of his bamboo staff.
• Li Qi realized the bamboo staff was the Demon Prince’s Dao Charm and planned to probe its root with True Knowledge Dao Charm.
• The Demon Prince told Li Qi that someone had suggested using Shen Shuibi to provoke him, making Li Qi suspect a hidden person was manipulating events.
• While the Golden Crow flames bought them a minute, Li Qi built a temporary Magic Treasure Body Shell from the remains of his tableware.
• Li Qi and the Demon Prince resumed their battle outside the underworld, and Li Qi used countless spells to keep pace with the Prince’s raw power.
• The Demon Prince recognized that Li Qi was simulating a true dragon body with his magic treasure shell and wondered whether Li Qi could use human intelligence to deduce heavenly evolution.

Li Qi used the Dragon Soul attached to him to adapt his artifact body to the Demon Prince’s attacks, then seized the Demon Prince’s bamboo staff and studied its Dao Charm. He unleashed heavenly thunder against the staff as the Demon Prince met it head-on, while a second figure resembling Li Qi appeared at the battlefield’s edge.

• Li Qi analyzed the Demon Prince’s attacks and used the Dragon Soul to make his artifact body resist them.
• After enduring more than a thousand attacks, Li Qi charged through the Demon Prince’s demonic fire and grabbed his bamboo staff.
• Li Qi focused True Knowledge Dao Charm on the staff for five seconds while the Dragon Soul’s instincts defended him from the Demon Prince.
• Li Qi inferred that the staff contained Houtu’s Earth Mother Dao Charm and unleashed pure heavenly thunder against it.
• The Demon Prince met Li Qi’s heavenly thunder head-on, and another figure identical to Li Qi appeared at the edge of the battlefield.

Li Qi fought the Demon Prince while using a third-rank Legalist Dao Charm to break through to sixth rank. He survived the conflict between his Dao Lineages by embracing the demonic path, but Demonic Energy Li Qi seized his body as he reached his weakest point.

• Li Qi charged the Demon Prince and used the Legalist principles in a third-rank being’s head to raise his cultivation during their battle.
• Li Qi’s cultivation climbed through eighteen collisions, while the Demon Prince secretly planted demonic thoughts in his Dao Charm.
• On the nineteenth collision, Li Qi broke through to sixth rank, but the Human Path’s principles and the Demon Prince’s demonic thoughts threatened to destroy his advancement.
• Li Qi accepted and fused the demonic Daos he had encountered, then used the Demon Prince’s Four Demons thoughts to enter the demonic path and encompass his other Dao Lineages.
• Demonic Energy Li Qi merged with Li Qi and began seizing control of his body, revealing that he had engineered the events to make himself the real Li Qi.

Demonic Energy Li Qi revealed that he had engineered events to push Li Qi onto the demonic path, then tried to seize his body. The two Li Qis remained locked in a stalemate while waiting for Yu'er, until a red-eyed rabbit burst into the underworld.

• Demonic Energy Li Qi explained that he had manipulated events to force Li Qi to advance through the demonic path and had already fallen to sixth rank.
• Li Qi sealed his consciousness and cultivation, trapping both of them inside his miniature heaven and earth while the Demon Prince rested nearby.
• Li Qi and Demonic Energy Li Qi realized neither could defeat the other, agreed to wait for Yu'er, and shared their experiences.
• After roughly six chen, the Demon Prince woke to find the two Li Qis still stalemated.
• A violent force tore open the underworld, and a red-eyed rabbit charged through a gate from the human world.

Shen Shuibi reached the underworld and found Li Qi caught between his original self and his Demonic Energy Clone. Li Qi’s Buddhist backup erased the clone and remade his sixth-rank Dao foundation, leaving him able to advance with the Shaman Path at his core.

• Shen Shuibi entered the underworld with Tianhong Jun trapped in her palm and asked the Demon Prince where Li Qi was.
• The Demon Prince revealed Li Qi and explained that he had guarded him after their spar.
• Shen Shuibi sensed a possible possession and tried to distinguish between Li Qi and his Demonic Energy Clone before sealing Li Qi with Taiyin Qi.
• Li Qi regained control of his body, whistled to awaken Old Ma, and triggered the Buddhist Qi hidden in Old Ma’s Visualization Diagram and Monk Jingmo.
• Amitabha Buddha’s Buddhist Qi melted the Demonic Energy Clone, whose True Knowledge Dao Charm merged with Li Qi’s.
• The Buddhist lands entered Li Qi’s body and purified his sixth-rank Dao foundation, allowing him to strengthen the Shaman Path and Human Path without falling into the demonic path.

Li Qi survived the Demon Prince’s defeat and advanced to sixth rank after resisting the demonic path, while realizing Amitabha Buddha’s intervention had depended on his refusal to become a demon. He and Shen Shuibi prepared to return to Wushen Mountain to hand over Mount Luofu’s Great Dao Opportunity, and the chapter ended with Li Qi thanking Monk Jingmo for his help.

• Li Qi examined his new sixth-rank power and concluded that Amitabha Buddha’s Buddha qi had targeted demonic energy rather than protecting him personally.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi decided to leave for Wushen Mountain, where they would awaken Lady Luofu and the Sun Moon True Lead Cauldron to complete the Great Dao Opportunity handover.
• Shen Shuibi insisted that she would accompany Li Qi on future dangerous journeys, despite his warning that she could be at risk.
• Li Qi and the Demon Prince agreed to leave their battle unresolved and recognized each other as friends; the Demon Prince announced that he would return in a few years to challenge Penglai’s Little Heavenly Master.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi visited Monk Jingmo, and Li Qi thanked him for bringing Amitabha Buddha’s Buddha qi, which had helped resolve Demonic Energy Li Qi.

Li Qi, Shen Shuibi, and Old Ma left Avici Hell in a Ghost Chariot, and Old Ma gained the ability to speak and pledged himself to Li Qi as a brother. After Li Qi recounted his journey to Shen Shuibi, they emerged through another Ghost Gate near Wushen Mountain, which Shen Shuibi revealed was Mount Luofu.

• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi left the treasure ship with Old Ma after Monk Jingmo watched them depart.
• Li Qi summoned a Ghost Chariot, and Shen Shuibi refined and operated it to carry them out of Avici Hell.
• Old Ma spoke for the first time, thanked Li Qi for guiding him on the Dao Path, and agreed to call him Big Brother.
• Shen Shuibi warned that Old Ma needed a carefully chosen name and that Li Qi's rapid cultivation had left his foundation unstable and added a future tribulation.
• Li Qi told Shen Shuibi about his journey and the battle in the underworld while Old Ma helped recount the events.
• Shen Shuibi guided the Ghost Chariot through another Ghost Gate, then told Li Qi that it was Mount Luofu.

Li Qi, Shen Shuibi, and Old Ma entered Mount Luofu, where Shen Shuibi explained its landmarks and began collecting herbs and other abandoned treasures to help rebuild the mountain. As they split up to scour the area, an old Daoist watching from a nearby temple worried that outsiders were looting Mount Luofu.

• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi arrived at Mount Luofu with Old Ma, and Shen Shuibi explained how its mountains and ghost gate were connected.
• Shen Shuibi guided Li Qi through Mount Luofu’s peaks and grotto-heavens, then gathered Crimson Grass and Soul Returning Grass.
• Shen Shuibi said she planned to search the mountain gate for treasures to bring back for Mount Luofu’s rebuilding, and Li Qi agreed to help.
• Li Qi, Shen Shuibi, and Old Ma divided the surrounding area and began taking spirit herbs, ores, ruins, and other valuables.
• An old Daoist at a desolate temple saw the group scavenging and lamented that people were still digging up Mount Luofu’s grave.

An old Daoist received a call to help drive out people plundering Mount Luofu and decided to answer it, leaving his young disciple behind. Meanwhile, Li Qi continued harvesting the mountain’s resources and sensed that Old Ma might have entered a fight.

• The old Daoist told his young disciple how Mount Luofu had collapsed and its immortals vanished, leaving Yin Ghosts behind.
• A paper-bird letter urged the old Daoist and other cultivators to confront the people digging up Mount Luofu’s ruins and graves.
• After weighing the danger and his debt to Mount Luofu, the old Daoist agreed to go and sent his disciple away from cultivation for a few days.
• Li Qi harvested and marked a Wood Qi spirit vein containing a seventh-rank Luofu Bamboo while his group searched Mount Luofu.
• Li Qi looked toward Old Ma after sensing that a fight might have begun.

Old Ma fought Daoists who ambushed him at Mount Luofu and was trapped by their formation and summoned warriors. As the Daoists prepared to kill him, the old Daoist intervened with a flick of his finger.

• Old Ma battled several eighth-rank Daoists, holding back and testing his strength while Layman Wang watched from the sidelines.
• Layman Wang refused to join the fight, suspecting the Daoists planned to seize Mount Luofu’s resources and recognizing that Old Ma showed no malice.
• The Daoists bound Old Ma with a Dragon Suppressing Formation, pinned him with heavenly soldiers and Golden Armored Warriors, and accused him of trespassing and stealing resources.
• Old Ma said he had come by Moonlit True Person’s order, threatened that his elder brother would arrive, and cursed the Daoists when True Man Ouyang proposed making him guard a temple.
• An eighth-rank Daoist prepared to behead Old Ma, but the old Daoist flicked a finger.

Old Ma escaped a Dragon Suppressing Formation after an unknown Daoist secretly helped him, then returned to Li Qi and urged him to attack the Daoists. Li Qi suspected they were protecting Mount Luofu and set out with Old Ma to investigate them in secret.

• An old Daoist covertly helped Old Ma break the Dragon Suppressing Formation, allowing him to flee from True Man Ouyang and the other Daoists.
• True Man Ouyang and Layman Wang calmed the group, then led several thousand Daoists onward toward Mount Luofu in a protective ritual procession.
• The Daoists’ procession stirred a resonance from Mount Luofu’s central region.
• Old Ma reached Li Qi and claimed that the Daoists had attacked him and tried to make him their mountain-guarding beast.
• Li Qi sensed that the Daoists had ties to Mount Luofu and refused to attack before learning their intentions.
• Li Qi concealed himself with Old Ma and moved toward the procession to investigate.

The old Daoist persuaded Liu Dewang, Ouyang Dongsheng, and Zhang Xin to protect Mount Luofu and harvest its treasures sustainably, while securing cultivation resources for himself and his disciple. As Li Qi and Old Ma secretly listened nearby, Li Qi grew suspicious of Zhang Xin’s connection to Mount Luofu.

• The ritual procession gathered spirit herbs and treasures as it traveled through Mount Luofu, while the old Daoist took nothing.
• The old Daoist approached Liu Dewang, Ouyang Dongsheng, and Zhang Xin and proposed treating Mount Luofu as a nursery garden instead of plundering it.
• Zhang Xin backed the old Daoist’s proposal, and the four Yang Spirit True Persons agreed to protect the mountain and restrain their disciples from gathering recklessly.
• Liu Dewang gave the old Daoist a talisman for his disciple, and the old Daoist asked the others to reserve Pure Yang treasures for his cultivation.
• Li Qi and Old Ma listened unnoticed beside the four, and Li Qi suspected Zhang Xin’s cultivation method might come from Mount Luofu.

Li Qi uncovered Zhang Xin's hidden connection to Mount Luofu and joined Shen Shuibi to watch the cultivators’ ritual carriage head toward the mountain’s center. Shen Shuibi sensed that Zhang Xin’s cultivation technique was answering Zhu Ming Cave, where other arrangements awaited.

• Li Qi noticed Zhang Xin subtly redirect the ritual carriage toward Mount Luofu’s heart and withdrew with Old Ma to seek Shen Shuibi.
• Shen Shuibi finished harvesting a sixth-rank calamus, and Li Qi told her about the cultivators and Zhang Xin’s actions.
• Shen Shuibi decided to investigate the ritual carriage with Li Qi, and the two concealed themselves nearby with Old Ma.
• Li Qi reflected on Heaven’s Will and considered slowing down after his dangerous advancement to the sixth rank.
• Shen Shuibi sensed that Zhang Xin’s cultivation technique was answering Zhu Ming Cave and that arrangements lay within.

Shen Shuibi and Li Qi watched a Daoist ritual procession enter Mount Luofu and used their arts to direct a Ghost Tide against it. The Daoists fought back, but an Eighth Rank demon threatened to break the old Daoist’s flawed White Jade Capital vision as the other cultivators joined the battle.

• Shen Shuibi and Li Qi watched the several-thousand-strong ritual procession approach Mount Luofu, while Old Ma eyed the Daoists who had beaten him earlier.
• As night fell, Shen Shuibi used her qi to drive away powerful Yin Ghosts and summoned weaker ghosts and demons to attack the procession, while Li Qi shielded them and ordered them not to kill anyone.
• A Ghost Tide surrounded the Daoist procession, and the old Daoist conjured a White Jade Capital vision to suppress the attackers.
• An Eighth Rank demon roared and shook the vision close to collapse, while the other Eighth Rank cultivators and thousands of Daoists began to act.

As Shen Shuibi’s Ghost Tide drove the Daoists through Mount Luofu, Li Qi helped send defeated Yin ghosts to the Ghost Gate while the Daoists revealed their abilities and origins. The survivors reached Mount Luofu’s center, where Ouyang Dongsheng argued they should venture deeper rather than face their unseen pursuers outside.

• Ouyang Dongsheng summoned golden-bean soldiers, Zhang Xin burned Yin ghosts with Vermilion Elixir Fire, and Liu Dewang’s Lamp Formation delivered others toward the Ghost Gate.
• Li Qi sent defeated ghosts through the Ghost Gate as Shen Shuibi used the battle to identify Daoists connected to Mount Luofu and guide the Dharma carriage toward its center.
• Under the Ghost Tide’s relentless attacks, the Daoists retreated toward Mount Luofu’s center, where the ghosts would not follow.
• The exhausted Daoists realized the ghosts had driven them inward without killing anyone, and Zhang Xin stared toward Zhu Ming Cave while discussing their next move.
• Zhang Xin suggested going deeper into Mount Luofu, while the old Daoist wanted to wait for dawn; Ouyang Dongsheng warned that leaving would expose them to their pursuers while they were weakened.