Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan and the major factions tracked the demons and devils to Su City, where the Qian Family bombarded their stronghold and the pursuers attacked the survivors. Wang Xuan joined the hunt and slaughtered the powerful Demon Immortals, leaving the demon faction devastated.

• Wang Xuan urged the Qian Family and other factions to search for demonic traces, and investigators tracked the demons and devils from Cold Mist Mountain to Su City.
• The Zheng Family reported that six of its immortals, including Zheng Yunming, had died to traps and a flying sword near Wang Xuan’s Health Preservation Hall.
• Wang Xuan told the Qian Family to attack the Health Preservation Hall carefully, and a warship beam destroyed the building and weakened the demons and devils inside.
• Wang Hai, Cao Qingyu, Zhou Shiqian, and others pursued the fleeing demons while Wang Xuan ordered further bombardments and joined the hunt in person.
• Wang Xuan used his Primordial Spirit Chain, flames, and lightning to kill the demons and devils he targeted, and the demon faction suffered devastating losses.

Wang Xuan killed Zhou Chong and took the Soul Locking Bell, but the worsening supernatural world left him uncertain about the future. Chen Yongjie then found signs of a heavenly medicine at Wang Xuan’s former father-in-law’s home, prompting Spiritual Mountain and Qi Yi’s faction to seek it.

• Wang Xuan pursued Zhou Chong and defeated the Soul Locking Bell with the God Slaying Banner, destroying Zhou Chong and claiming the bell.
• Wang Xuan told the Zheng Family immortals that he had been injured and needed to recover, while concealing his strength and reflecting on the decline of the supernatural world.
• Chen Yongjie called Wang Xuan after finding Buddhist light and the fragrance of medicine at Wang Xuan’s former father-in-law’s home.
• Shakyamuni’s chief disciple announced that a lotus seedpod was about to emerge in the human world and asked Spiritual Mountain to send someone to claim it.
• Qi Yi’s second son ordered someone to retrieve the heavenly medicine that had once escaped the monk.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie found the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus seeds hidden inside a stone scripture at the Ling Family home. Wang Xuan retrieved the scripture just before Buddhist and demonic forces arrived in Luocheng, and the two concealed their success.

• Qi Yi's second son prepared to send powerful disciples through the Great Curtain with protection from the Demon Pool, while Buddhist forces also crossed into New Star.
• Wang Xuan went with Chen Yongjie to the Ling Family home, where Buddhist light covered the estate, and urged Ling Qiming to take Ling Wei and the family into deep space.
• Wang Xuan gave the Soul Locking Bell to Chen Yongjie and used his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to locate the lotus seeds within a stone scripture held by a hidden stone Buddha.
• Buddhist experts and members of Qi Yi's lineage hurried toward Luocheng as Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie investigated the stone Buddha in the miniature mountain.
• When Chen Yongjie could not reach the stone Buddha, Wang Xuan used a crystalline thread and the Zhong Family fishing hook to pull out the scripture and hide it.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie obtained the Heavenly Medicine, then faced a powerful Buddhist group and hostile demons who arrived at the Stone Mountain. They withdrew after the factions entered the mountain, but resolved to find a way to kill the demons before leaving for the Zheng Family’s promised treasures.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie realized they had found the Heavenly Medicine and stayed put when supernatural arrivals approached, avoiding the suspicion that they were fleeing.
• Xiushan and other Buddhist experts arrived, and Chen Yongjie presented himself as a fellow cultivator of the Shakya True Scripture.
• Hei Lie attacked Wang Xuan, who fought back with his short sword, black flames, and Golden Tree, while Chen Yongjie used a bell to repel a Silver Bat and Green Wolf.
• Xiushan confirmed the Heavenly Medicine was not on Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie, and Buddhist and demonic experts rushed into the Stone Mountain to search for it.
• Hei Lie, the Silver Bat, and the Green Wolf blocked Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie from entering, forcing them to retreat and postpone their fight.
• Chen Yongjie proposed returning to Old Earth, but Wang Xuan chose to wait for the Zheng Family’s treasures, and they agreed to find a way to destroy the demons.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie prepared to leave New Star as demons and powerful families threatened them, but first ambushed the Zheng family and seized its resources. After helping the Ling family depart for outer space, Wang Xuan parted from Ling Wei and began arranging his own journey back to Old Earth.

• Chen Yongjie and Wang Xuan warned their contacts to prepare for the growing demon threat, and Wang Xuan learned the Zhou family had chosen to cooperate with Transcendent Immortal descendants.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie scouted the Zheng family’s altar and discovered that Zheng Yuantian’s golden blood might be used against Wang Xuan.
• Zhou Yun warned Wang Xuan that demons and their allies could sabotage his warship, so Wang Xuan abandoned plans to attack them with it.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie ambushed Zheng Wu’s Fourth Uncle and five other members of the Zheng family, killed them, and took their immortal resources before Wang Xuan discarded the dangerous golden blood.
• Wang Xuan gave the Ling family a Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus seed and filled Ling Wei’s Inner Scenery Treasure with Mysterious Factors before she departed for outer space.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie returned to New Star and arranged to leave with Qin Cheng and Guan Lin, while Professor Lin chose to stay.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie discovered that demons were seizing control of major organizations and found the Zhao Family under attack. When Wang Xuan rescued the weakened Zhao Zejun, Silver Bat revealed that the demons had expected him to come.

• Old Chen reassured Wang Xuan that his parents were safe on Old Earth, where the Relevant Department protected them and the mysterious Old Zhang had kept demons in check.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie prepared to leave New Star, raiding research institutes and conglomerates for extraordinary artifacts and scriptures before demons could claim them.
• Wang Xuan discovered that demons had infiltrated the Zhao Family, blocked its departure, and taken control of its members.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie learned that a peerless expert had obtained the Ascension Banner, stirring conflict among the powerful beings behind the Great Curtain.
• Wang Xuan saw Silver Bat, Green Wolf, and Hei Lie tormenting Zhao Zejun and plotting to use him as bait for Zhao Qinghan and Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan pulled Zhao Zejun away with a crystalline thread, but Silver Bat revealed that the demons had been waiting for him.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fought Hei Lie, Silver Bat, and Green Wolf, breaking the demon-binding array and forcing the demons to retreat with help from Zhao Zejun and his family. Afterward, Chen Yongjie opened his Inner Scenery Realm and both men cultivated there, where Chen Yongjie broke through to the fifth realm and Wang Xuan prepared to enter his next realm as three Heavenly Medicines showed signs of growth.

• Wang Xuan rescued Zhao Zejun, but Hei Lie, Silver Bat, and Green Wolf trapped him in the Heavenly Demon Binding Immortal Array.
• Wang Xuan damaged the Demon Race Altar with talismans, while Chen Yongjie attacked it with his weapons and helped break the array.
• The demons severely wounded Chen Yongjie, but Wang Xuan shattered the immortal bones with the God Slaying Banner, freeing himself as Zhao Zejun summoned the Zhao Family to bombard the demons.
• The exhausted demons fled after Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fought them back, and Chen Yongjie discovered that the battle had opened his Inner Scenery Realm.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie planted Heavenly Medicines and cultivated within Chen Yongjie's Inner Scenery Realm, where Chen Yongjie healed and advanced to the fifth realm.
• Wang Xuan prepared to break through as the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus sprouted and the dried-root stand beneath his Supreme Treasure Nurturing Life Furnace began to revive.

Wang Xuan cultivated three Heavenly Medicines in his Life Soil, bringing his body and spirit to the verge of a breakthrough. He rejected established cultivation paths and planned to explore the Misty Land for a real place corresponding to Life Soil.

• Wang Xuan gathered medicinal aura from the silver Heavenly Medicine and the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus, then revived a third medicine beside the Nurturing Life Furnace.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie discussed their cultivation paths as Wang Xuan's Essence, Qi, and Spirit reached the threshold of a higher realm.
• Chen Yongjie proposed refining a Golden Elixir with Buddhist light and forming nine Nascent Souls, while Wang Xuan dismissed the established paths as unlikely to overcome the world's correction.
• Wang Xuan told Chen Yongjie that Life Soil might disappear as myth decayed and proposed searching for a real counterpart to the mist-born Life Soil.
• Wang Xuan prepared to break through and use his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to explore the Misty Land toward the source where Life Soil was born.

Wang Xuan spent fifteen months crossing the immense land of fate before emerging into a perilous darkness, where he found a Silver Pool that began transforming his spirit and physical body. As his Primordial Spirit was reborn in the pool, Chen Yongjie noticed Wang Xuan's body changing in the Real World.

• Wang Xuan broke through the Herb Gathering Realm and set out toward the source beneath the land of fate, carrying the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan traveled through the land of fate for fifteen months before finally breaking out into a dark, silent expanse.
• Wang Xuan entered the darkness and survived repeated encounters with dangerous Red Mist by shielding himself with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan crossed the darkness for three months and found a floating pool filled with silver liquid.
• Wang Xuan entered the Silver Pool, where his spirit shed a spiritual fetal membrane and grew stronger, while Chen Yongjie saw Wang Xuan's physical body begin to transform.

Wang Xuan crossed the Land of Nothingness and reached a dangerous passage leading toward the real place, where he saw a sacred Ever-Blooming Flower of Eternal Life. Unable to survive the passage, he turned back, resolved to return better prepared.

• Wang Xuan rested at a silver Life Pool that strengthened his spirit, then continued exploring the Land of Nothingness.
• Wang Xuan endured increasingly dangerous crimson clouds and rosy mist as he traveled farther from the pool.
• Wang Xuan reached a meteor-crater-like passage filled with real crimson particles that scorched him and the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan saw a sacred Ever-Blooming Flower of Eternal Life blooming deep inside the passage and felt its fragrance heal him.
• Wang Xuan decided not to risk crossing the passage, and the God Slaying Banner recovered as he retreated.
• Wang Xuan planned to return with heavenly herbs and the Nurturing Life Furnace.

Wang Xuan returned from his perilous journey through the Land of Nothingness after only half a day had passed in the Real World, bringing evidence that he had found the direction of a new cultivation path. After recovering and naming it Path Setting, he and his allies prepared to strike the demons before leaving New Star.

• Wang Xuan escaped the erupting red clouds, returned to the Life Pool, and then crossed the Soil of Fate to come home.
• Wang Xuan awoke at the Zhao Family after half a day, and Chen Yongjie told him his body had nearly died while silver light sustained and advanced it.
• Wang Xuan explained that he had found a dangerous route toward a real land, and he and Chen Yongjie discussed naming his new cultivation path Path Setting.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie replenished themselves in the Inner Scenery Realm, where Zhao Zejun also cultivated before the realm collapsed several years later.
• Zhao Zejun united the Wu Family, Li Family, and other organizations to attack the demons before their fleets left New Star, while Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie vowed to hunt them down.

The families launched a coordinated warship assault on demon strongholds while Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie hunted down survivors. Wang Xuan killed Green Wolf with newly awakened silver secret energy, while an ancient spaceship approached New Star.

• Zhao Zejun ordered a warship strike on a club occupied by demons, and Chen Yongjie captured fleeing spiritual bodies with the Soul Locking Bell.
• Wu Chenglin destroyed a demon-occupied biological research base and a small warship base, while Wang Xuan killed surviving demons and collected cracked demon bones.
• The Li Family attacked Goblin Bar, and Wang Xuan ambushed the surviving demons as they escaped through sewage tunnels.
• Wang Xuan killed a demon bird and a black bear with silver energy, then annihilated Green Wolf after learning that Green Wolf's realm had fallen.
• On the new moon, "Old Zhang" saw an ancient spaceship approaching New Star in a bronze mirror.

An ancient spaceship entered New Star’s territory as organizations across the world launched a coordinated campaign against demons. At Luocheng, Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie joined the Buddhist assault on the demons, and Wang Xuan killed Hei Lie and Silver Bat while testing the silver substance’s power.

• Zhao Zejun warned Wang Xuan about an unidentified ancient spaceship that had entered New Star and vanished from the fleet’s scans.
• Major organizations across New Star and beyond attacked demon strongholds, prompting the descendants of the Transcendent Immortals to fear the bombardments.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie reached the strange stone mountain at Luocheng and urged Xiushan and the Buddhist experts to join them against the demons.
• After a beam destroyed a nearby demon stronghold, Hei Lie and Silver Bat arrived with news of the attacks, and Xiushan led the Buddhists into battle against Blood Peng’s camp.
• Wang Xuan used silver-powered techniques to kill Hei Lie and several demons, then tore off Silver Bat’s wing and blasted him apart.

Wang Xuan helped drive the demons into retreat, then returned to Yuan City and discovered that Lele was still alive but had lost both parents. He finally approached her and offered to take the family photo she needed, carrying her on his back toward the residential gate.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie slaughtered demons as Buddhist reinforcements joined the battle, and Xiushan forced Blood Peng to flee.
• Wang Xuan and Old Chen gathered demon bones while the hunt for survivors continued into the next day.
• Wang Xuan reached Yuan City and noticed several strange metallic life-forms following him from Cloud Mist Plateau.
• Wang Xuan found Lele grieving for her dead parents and asking passersby to take a photo with her for school.
• Wang Xuan approached Lele, offered to take a photo, and carried her toward the gate on his back.

Wang Xuan left Lele in the care of ancient mechs who promised to treat her illness, then settled his remaining debts on New Star before departing for Old Earth with Chen Yongjie. As their fleet began its journey home, Wang Xuan resolved to find a way to bring the Sword Immortal out from behind the Great Curtain and grow stronger himself.

• Wang Xuan learned that Lele had lost her parents and was gravely ill, and the mechs offered to adopt and treat her with a method that could cure her before adulthood.
• Lele agreed to stay with the mechs, and Wang Xuan left Yuan City after saying goodbye to her.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie parted from Zhao Zejun, Wu Chenglin, and other acquaintances as they departed New Star, then returned to settle their remaining business.
• Wang Xuan killed Grant after discovering his collusion with demons, then he and Chen Yongjie attacked the Sun family, killed its remaining high-ranking members, and took the treasures and scriptures from its secret treasury.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie boarded three battleships and set course for Old Earth, where Wang Xuan planned to find the Sword Immortal and pursue greater strength.

Wang Xuan returned to Old Earth with Chen Yongjie, Guan Lin, and Qin Cheng, reunited with his parents, and found that supernatural beings had become increasingly common. He visited the Sword Immortal’s burial site and discovered that the immortal bone he had buried had grown into a little girl resembling her.

• Wang Xuan and his companions arrived on Old Earth aboard three warships, and Qing Mu welcomed them in An City.
• Qing Mu learned how powerful Qin Cheng had become and was astonished by Old Chen and Guan Lin’s youthful appearances.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie discussed the growing number of supernatural beings on Old Earth and the danger posed by powerful immortals and demons.
• Wang Xuan visited his parents in Ping City, shared supernatural food and medicine with them, and promised to bring home his future wife.
• Wang Xuan and Qing Mu traveled to the Sword Immortal’s burial site, where Wang Xuan discovered a little girl had grown from the immortal bone he buried.

Wang Xuan met the Female Sword Immortal, who had rebuilt her body underground, and learned that a peerless powerhouse had obtained the Ascension Banner. The chapter ended with that powerhouse appearing above New Star with an army of immortals and demons.

• Wang Xuan saw that the Female Sword Immortal had grown a living body from her immortal bone, while Qing Mu's remarks angered her and sent him flying into vines.
• The Female Sword Immortal warned Wang Xuan that guiding her true body back too soon would harm him, and she reclaimed the immortal substance he had saved for her.
• Wang Xuan told the Female Sword Immortal that he had obtained heavenly medicine and offered to guide her true body out, but she asked him to wait until she had grown further.
• The Female Sword Immortal warned Wang Xuan that a peerless powerhouse had obtained the Ascension Banner and might command the immortals and demons if he entered the present world.
• A vast Great Curtain appeared over New Star as a chaotic-aura figure carrying an ancient banner arrived with peerless powerhouses, Transcendent Immortals, and Demon Immortals.

Wang Xuan learned more about the Red-clothed Demon Immortal as Heng Jun used the Ascension Banner to bring Carefree Journey experts through the Great Curtain and send them searching across the Old Earth. After Wang Xuan retrieved the mysterious Silver Beast Skin Book, he discovered it could enter his Life Soil and compared it with the God Slaying Banner.

• The Sword Immortal told Wang Xuan about the Red-clothed Demon Immortal's powerful lineage and her theft of the Sword Canon, and Wang Xuan offered to share several sword scriptures with her.
• Heng Jun tested the Ascension Banner by sending immortals through the Great Curtain, and they found that their supernatural power rapidly faded in the present world.
• Heng Jun led his followers to the Old Earth, where one group went to negotiate with local factions and another scattered to search places including Kunlun and Qinling.
• Chen Yongjie told Wang Xuan that Heng Jun's envoys were demanding historical records, and Wang Xuan suspected their search concerned a hidden secret of the Old Earth.
• Wang Xuan asked Qing Mu to retrieve the Silver Beast Skin Book from Qingcheng Mountain and found that it could be stored in his Life Soil.
• Wang Xuan brought the God Slaying Banner beside the Silver Beast Skin Book in his Life Soil to compare their materials.

Wang Xuan sought help identifying the Silver Beast Skin Book, but the Sword Immortal could not read its ancient writing and suggested several powerful figures who might recognize it. Meanwhile, Chen Yongjie clashed with returning immortals who wanted Old Earth’s people and warships to help them, and the chapter ended with Wang Xuan preparing to grow stronger and shake them down from their realm.

• Wang Xuan tested the God Slaying Banner against the Silver Beast Skin Book, but it produced no reaction.
• The Sword Immortal said the book’s writing was older than Oracle Bone Script and suggested the Female Demon Immortal or Pre-Qin Daoist Masters might recognize it.
• Wang Xuan returned to An City and prepared to explore the Misty Land again as Chen Yongjie summoned Qing Mu to cultivate.
• Chen Yongjie rejected the returning immortals’ demands to gather cultivators and warships to dig into Earth’s Core and bomb the Kunlun Mountains.
• Wang Xuan and Guan Lin warned the immortals that warships had them targeted, and the immortals backed down and offered to cooperate over a jade house found beneath Earth’s Core.
• Chen Yongjie urged Wang Xuan to break through again and shake the immortals down from the Carefree Journey realm, and Wang Xuan agreed.

Wang Xuan carried the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus through the Land of Nothingness and planted it beside the Life Pool, where the pool renewed his Primordial Spirit. Meanwhile, powerful newcomers on Old Earth felt another world-shaking disturbance that destabilized their cultivation.

• Chen Yongjie resolved to find a path beyond the Exhausted Era and considered using solar fire to temper his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Xuan found that neither the Nurturing Life Furnace nor its lid could be carried, so he prepared the God Slaying Banner, the Silver Beast Skin Book, and a Heavenly Medicine for his journey.
• Wang Xuan buried himself in a Desolate Mountain, drained Mysterious Factor from a decayed Inner Scenery Realm, and stored some of it in the Silver Animal Hide.
• Wang Xuan traveled through the Land of Nothingness with the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus and a mass of Life Soil, shielding himself from the dangerous red mist with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan planted the lotus beside the Life Pool, confirmed it could grow there, and entered the pool, where his Primordial Spirit renewed itself again.
• Huang Ming, Kong Yun, Cao Qingyu, Zhou Shiqian, demons, and Heng Jun's Carefree Journey realm subordinates felt another disturbance, and the subordinates' cultivation became unstable.