Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan deciphered a surviving scripture that taught him to extract matter close to reality from all things, and he broke through into the Seven-stage Realm while cultivating beside the Fire Ember. After discovering that hostile cultivators had died trying to approach the fire, he left the plaza and encountered several powerful figures, including Qi Liandao, whose presence made the God Slaying Banner tremble.

• Wang Xuan interpreted the scripture’s strange teachings for his own cultivation and discovered that he could draw matter close to reality from the Fire Ember and other sources.
• Wang Xuan reached the Seven-stage Realm after cultivating in seclusion, then learned from the Little White Tiger that half a month had passed and that people who approached the fire had hanged themselves.
• Wang Xuan prepared to leave with the Little White Tiger and demanded his recording crystal, prompting her to panic and promise to retrieve it after they got out.
• Wang Xuan left the plaza and encountered Mo Si, Qi Chengdao, Ming Xi, and Qi Liandao, who thanked him for bringing the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan felt the God Slaying Banner tremble in response to Qi Liandao, leaving him alarmed by what had caught its attention.

Wang Xuan confronted Qi Liandao over the God Slaying Banner, while Bai Yu Xian and Mo Si intervened and fought the Demon Ancestor’s Progeny. After Wang Xuan left the city with Bai Yu Xian and claimed the recording crystal, Qi Chengdao and Ming Xi challenged him over the banner as part of their Dao Contention.

• Wang Xuan called Qi Liandao his nephew, angering him after declaring that he and the Demon Ancestor were equals.
• Bai Yu Xian appeared and challenged Qi Liandao, while Mo Si stepped in to fight him and secretly mistook Wang Xuan for a hidden senior of the devil cultivator lineage.
• Wang Xuan collected the recording crystal from Bai Yu Xian and left the ancient city with her.
• Qi Chengdao confronted Wang Xuan over the God Slaying Banner, and Bai Yu Xian charged out to fight him.
• Ming Xi approached Wang Xuan and said that she would contend for the banner because Qi Chengdao needed it.

Wang Xuan joined the battle against Qi Liandao and wounded him badly before the Demon Ancestor's Progeny escaped. The fighting continued across the hills, where Zhou Qinghuang trapped Gu Mingxi and offered her to Wang Xuan.

• Zhou Qinghuang arrived and attacked Gu Mingxi with an energy cannon, then joined forces with Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner and his blade to help Mo Si attack Qi Liandao, repeatedly wounding him.
• Qi Liandao escaped using heavenly demon blood, while Mo Si pursued him and Wang Xuan stopped chasing.
• Wang Xuan joined the Little White Tiger against Qi Chengdao, who fled with Gu Mingxi before the fight could continue.
• Zhou Qinghuang used Phoenix Feather Locks the Void to trap Gu Mingxi, then told Wang Xuan she was giving her to him.

Wang Xuan fought through Zhou Qinghuang’s opponents and accepted her offer of Gu Mingxi, but his chain pierced the fairy and she escaped as a Primordial Spirit. He caught the exhausted Zhou Qinghuang and joked that she was a second gift.

• Wang Xuan killed a Ninth Stage practitioner who tried to stop him from reaching Zhou Qinghuang and Gu Mingxi.
• Wang Xuan fought and killed an early Carefree Journey expert with the Dao Slaying Sword, then cut down several more opponents.
• Zhou Qinghuang urged Wang Xuan to hurry as Gu Mingxi struggled to escape her void-locking art.
• Wang Xuan pierced Gu Mingxi with Zheng Wu’s Primordial Spirit Chain, but she shattered an exotic treasure to free her Primordial Spirit and flee.
• Wang Xuan caught Zhou Qinghuang when she collapsed from exhaustion and joked that she counted as a second gift.

Wang Xuan wounded Gu Mingxi, kept her body captive, and followed Chen Yongjie's directions to the Blood God Ape’s Thunder Marsh to cultivate. Zhou Qinghuang went to find Gu Mingxi’s Primordial Spirit, while Qi Liandao vowed revenge as Wang Xuan entered the lightning-filled marsh with Gu Mingxi to test its power.

• Wang Xuan tested Zhou Qinghuang’s concern for Gu Mingxi, then struck Gu Mingxi through the chest and helped Zhou Qinghuang preserve her body with medicinal fluid.
• Wang Xuan bound Gu Mingxi with the Primordial Spirit Chain and carried her away, while Zhou Qinghuang left to find Gu Mingxi’s Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Yongjie secretly told Wang Xuan about a blood pool in the Thunder Marsh and warned him that the Blood God Ape occupied the area.
• Qi Liandao, badly wounded after escaping Mo Si, swore to kill Wang Xuan and take the God Slaying Banner.
• Zhou Qinghuang found Gu Mingxi’s Primordial Spirit and tried to explain that her body was still alive.
• Wang Xuan reached the Thunder Marsh, used Gu Mingxi’s body to test its lightning, and then strode into the marsh.

Wang Xuan entered Thunder Marsh’s blood pool to cleanse his body and discovered rare Red Mist near the bottom. After Qi Chengdao arrived to demand Gu Mingxi’s release, Wang Xuan used her as leverage and continued exploring, ending with the discovery that the pool’s True Energy-like substance had come from a meteorite.

• Wang Xuan reached the blood pool, identified its rare Red Mist, and tested its harsh cleansing effects on Gu Mingxi before entering it himself.
• Wang Xuan endured a painful blood replacement that improved his physique and spiritual power, though he advanced only to the middle stage of the Eighth Stage.
• Demon Cultivators sent word to attract the Blood God Ape or Qi Chengdao, and Qi Chengdao arrived to demand that Wang Xuan release Gu Mingxi.
• Wang Xuan threatened Gu Mingxi with his saber and told Qi Chengdao to stand guard while he explored the pool and planned to break through.
• Wang Xuan threw Gu Mingxi’s body into the pool and found evidence at the bottom that a meteorite had carried matter close to True Energy.

Wang Xuan refined purple meteorite substance in Thunder Marsh while Blood God Ape and Qi Chengdao clashed over access to the pool. After Chen Yongjie arrived undercover, Wang Xuan decided to return to the Misty Land and attempt another shake-up, while others prepared to break through as well.

• Wang Xuan absorbed the meteorite substance beneath the blood pool, refining its purple essence and enduring the lightning it unleashed.
• Blood God Ape arrived intending to kill Wang Xuan, but Qi Chengdao intercepted him, and they secretly agreed to wait for another chance.
• Blood God Ape sent Chen Yongjie into the pool with a talisman, but Chen Yongjie revealed himself to Wang Xuan and decided to stay hidden underground.
• Wang Xuan judged that the meteorite substance was limited and chose to return to the Misty Land to try shaking everyone down again.
• Blood God Ape, Qi Chengdao, Qi Liandao, and the Round-faced girl each sought ways to break through, while Zhou Qinghuang offered to cultivate with Gu Mingxi.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the Misty Land, reached the seventh stage, and endured the red radiance to strengthen himself. His training caused powerful tremors that disrupted cultivators across the otherworldly dimension, leaving many of them at risk of losing their realms.

• Wang Xuan returned to the Life Pool, found that his fate soil and transplanted heavenly herbs had grown rapidly, and bathed in the silver immortal liquid.
• Wang Xuan spent half a month advancing to the seventh stage, which he named External Sensation, then began absorbing red radiance while enduring its devastating effects.
• The Round-faced girl felt her cultivation destabilize just as she was about to advance, while Zhang Daoling sensed the shaking at An City's spacecraft base and shielded himself with his bronze mirror.
• Chen Yongjie noticed Wang Xuan's red radiance reaching the blood pool and tested a thread of it, burning his own hand.
• Wang Xuan continued enduring the red radiance and neared another breakthrough, while the Blood God Ape, Qi Chengdao, Zhou Qinghuang, and Qi Liandao suffered collective reverse-leveling disasters.

Wang Xuan reached the Eighth Stage and developed a devastating new Spiritual Heavenly Eye ability by tempering himself with Red Substance. After weathering another Heavenly Tremor that weakened powerful practitioners, he reached the meteorite crater and began excavating a meteorite, discovering high-ranked energy and something vigorous hidden inside.

• Wang Xuan broke through to the Eighth Stage, refined Red Substance, and gained the power to lock down a small space and slaughter everything within it.
• Wang Xuan resumed tempering himself, triggering a second Heavenly Tremor that caused Qi Liandao, the Blood God Ape, and other powerful practitioners to lose cultivation levels again.
• Wang Xuan consolidated his Spiritual Heavenly Eye until he reached the middle-to-late phase of the Eighth Stage, then headed into the Dark Void with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan reached the meteorite crater, observed its dense Red Substance and crystalline particles, and chose not to enter the passage to the Unknown Place.
• Wang Xuan began excavating the meteorite and uncovered high-ranked extraordinary substance, sensing something vigorous dormant in its core.

Wang Xuan spent more than a year mining a meteorite in the Land of Nothingness, absorbing dense purple qi and advancing his cultivation as he dug. After breaking into a glowing natural cavern, he saw visions of a Purple Mansion and a beautiful woman, then followed them deeper into the mine.

• Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner to dig through the meteorite, finding increasingly potent purple qi that replenished his Primordial Spirit.
• As he mined, Wang Xuan practiced divine techniques and mastered the Dao Slaying Sword, turning its Sword Qi into a force that nourished his body.
• Wang Xuan dug more than a year and over four hundred meters, surviving a surge of Red Substance by hiding his mine and later returning to resume work.
• Wang Xuan broke into a vast cavern filled with waterfall-like purple mist and considered bringing Zheng Yuantian's heavenly herb and life soil there.
• Wang Xuan heard mysterious laughter and glimpsed a Purple Mansion and a beautiful woman, then hurried after the fleeting vision.

Wang Xuan entered a meteorite mine and was ensnared by illusions created by the remains of a strange flower, enduring 1,327 painful deaths before escaping. As he returned through the Misty Land, the Silver Beast Skin Book changed and revealed a landscape map.

• Wang Xuan found what seemed to be the Flower of Eternal Life’s rootstock and followed it through visions of an immortal paradise, only to realize that the mine had trapped him in illusions.
• Wang Xuan used his Spiritual Heavenly Eye and a new ability to break through the illusions, discovering that the tunnel had been bored by the flower’s decayed roots.
• Wang Xuan destroyed a decayed root, then endured 1,327 vivid deaths inflicted by illusions before confirming the danger had passed and escaping the mine.
• Wang Xuan reached the perfected eighth stage, struck the meteorite in frustration, and returned to the Land of Nothingness with the God Slaying Banner.
• Old Zhang was taken to a psychiatric ward after the supreme treasures shook again, while Wang Xuan noticed that the Silver Beast Skin Book had gained a landscape map near the Real World.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the blood pool while Chen Yongjie benefited from the overflowing energy and kept watch. As several powerful enemies entered the pool to kill Wang Xuan, he opened his eyes, calm and ready.

• Chen Yongjie cultivated with the Daoist and Buddhist arts, drawing in the purple qi that overflowed from Wang Xuan and nearing a breakthrough.
• Huang Ming celebrated that the extraordinary aftershocks no longer caused his realm to fall, while his companions warned him to keep quiet.
• Wang Xuan followed the Silver Animal Hide's map-like markings and sped toward the Real World with the God Slaying Banner.
• The Blood God Ape, Qi Chengdao, Zhou Qinghuang, and Qi Liandao argued over Wang Xuan and the God Slaying Banner before deciding to enter the blood pool and attack.
• Chen Yongjie called to Wang Xuan for help, but the powerful figures entered the pool as Wang Xuan opened his eyes, still seated and surrounded by purple qi.

Wang Xuan emerged from the blood pool after Chen Yongjie ambushed and wounded the Blood God Ape, then confronted Qi Chengdao, Qi Liandao, and the Blood God Ape. He fought Qi Liandao and the Blood God Ape at once while challenging Qi Chengdao to join them.

• Wang Xuan returned to the blood pool and found Chen Yongjie and Gu Mingxi apparently dead or unconscious as the Blood God Ape descended to seize him.
• Chen Yongjie feigned death, struck the Blood God Ape with the scarlet talisman, and pierced his hand with a black sword before Wang Xuan joined the attack.
• Chen Yongjie took the damaged Demon Core and urged Wang Xuan to flee, but Wang Xuan emerged from the pool carrying Gu Mingxi and faced the group on shore.
• Wang Xuan demanded tribute from Qi Chengdao, Qi Liandao, and the Blood God Ape, refusing to hand over the God Slaying Banner.
• Qi Liandao attacked Wang Xuan, who blocked his blow and fought him head-on despite their difference in realms.
• The Blood God Ape joined the battle, but Wang Xuan fought both him and Qi Liandao and then challenged Qi Chengdao to attack as well.

Wang Xuan fought Blood God Ape and Qi Liandao while Chen Yongjie and others faced attacks elsewhere on the battlefield. After Blood God Ape awakened his Demon Emperor bloodline and summoned the Demon Emperor Dharma Body, Wang Xuan beheaded him and turned to confront Qi Chengdao.

• Blood God Ape attacked Wang Xuan with a net of demon chains, while Wang Xuan countered with the Dao Slaying Sword and absorbed Qi Liandao’s energy meteors into a mirror-like reservoir.
• Wang Xuan buried Blood God Ape beneath an energy Dharma mountain and wounded his head, then battered him with lightning and fire infused with red mist.
• Blood God Ape ordered Demon Cultivators to attack Chen Yongjie, but Wang Xuan deterred them; Blood God Ape then transformed into a Golden Divine Ape by awakening his Demon Emperor bloodline.
• Qi Liandao joined Blood God Ape against Wang Xuan as Chen Yongjie fought off Demon Cultivators and Qi Chengdao moved toward him to reclaim Gu Mingxi’s body.
• Wang Xuan briefly imprisoned Blood God Ape with mysterious patterns, wounded Qi Liandao, and beheaded Blood God Ape despite the Demon Emperor Dharma Body’s interference.
• Wang Xuan pursued Qi Chengdao and attacked him with a storm of Dao Slaying Sword Qi.

Wang Xuan faced Qi Liandao, Qi Chengdao, and the Blood God Ape together, then transformed into a sword wheel and overwhelmed their strongest attacks. He defeated all three, seized their treasures, and left the battlefield strewn with the Demon Race’s dead.

• Chen Yongjie beheaded one of the Blood God Ape’s heads and fought off the demons around him.
• Wang Xuan shattered the Blood God Ape’s golden eye beams and Qi Chengdao’s divine diagram, then met Qi Liandao’s Demon Ancestor scripture with his fists.
• Qi Liandao summoned his full scripture, but Wang Xuan became a sword wheel, destroyed it, and pierced Qi Liandao through before taking an ancient hide scroll containing three apparent heavenly medicine petals.
• Wang Xuan shattered Qi Chengdao’s Celestial Immortal Ancestral Seal, wounded him, and accepted the Heavenly Marrow when Qi Chengdao conceded.
• The Blood God Ape and its followers attacked Wang Xuan, but his sword wheel cut them down and dismembered the Blood God Ape.

Wang Xuan defeated the three demon experts, spared Qi Liandao, and gathered spoils before learning of a decayed Medicine Garden that might still hold heavenly medicine. Elsewhere, Zhang Daoling returned to the Dread Spirits’ old lair, where the Three Dreadful Piles appeared before him.

• Wang Xuan defeated the Blood God Ape and Qi Liandao, spared Qi Liandao to sow discord among the Demon Race, and accepted Qi Chengdao’s surrender.
• Wang Xuan obtained Gu Mingxi’s body and a Spiritual Great Medicine from Zhou Qinghuang, then left with Chen Yongjie as Mo Si offered his friendship.
• Chen Yongjie told Wang Xuan about a decayed Medicine Garden in the Mental World that might contain heavenly medicine, and they set out to search for it.
• Old Zhang escaped a mental illness diagnosis, traveled to the nine mysterious gates, and joined forces with Fang Yuzhu to investigate the Dread Spirits’ lair.
• Wang Xuan watched the brief recording Little White Tiger had given him, then followed Chen Yongjie toward the ancient Medicine Garden.
• Zhang Daoling entered the Dread Spirits’ old lair and encountered the Three Dreadful Piles with scripture passages floating above them.

Wang Xuan fused a mysterious animal-hide fragment with the God Slaying Banner, then tested its power against deadly Sawtooth Birds as he and Chen Yongjie searched for an ancient medicine garden. Near the Mental World, a masked attacker ambushed Wang Xuan and overwhelmed his defenses, leaving him to counter with the banner.

• Chen Yongjie led Wang Xuan through the fire maple forest, where they encountered Sawtooth Birds and discussed the Heavenly Marrow and the mysterious animal hide.
• Wang Xuan pressed the hide against the God Slaying Banner, causing the two materials to fuse into a patched banner that wounded bodies and destroyed the Primordial Spirits of attacking birds.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fled the bird-infested forest and crossed a grassland toward the ancient medicine garden, passing a Gobi Desert where ancient astronauts wandered near a wrecked spaceship.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie approached the Mental World without attracting the spirits, but a silver-masked figure burst from the Gobi and attacked Wang Xuan.
• The masked attacker broke through Wang Xuan's Sword Wheel and short sword, badly injuring his right hand, so Wang Xuan struck back with the God Slaying Banner.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fought desperately against a silver-masked powerhouse whose strength far exceeded theirs, and Wang Xuan wounded him by combining the God Slaying Banner with the furnace lid. After dreadful spirits passed without attacking, Zhang Daoling arrived in the Gobi Desert pursued by three mysterious flames and urged Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie to study the Myriad Heavens Immortal Scroll.

• The silver-masked man overwhelmed Wang Xuan and grievously injured Chen Yongjie, whose exotic treasures failed to stop the man's force domain.
• Wang Xuan used the Red Substance in the God Slaying Banner and the Silver Animal Hide to damage the silver-masked man, then wrapped the furnace lid inside the banner and struck him again after briefly hindering his movement.
• The silver-masked man recognized that something was unusual about the banner, but he suddenly vanished when the King of Dreadful Spirits approached with several dreadful spirits.
• Wang Xuan concealed himself and Chen Yongjie beneath the God Slaying Banner and Silver Animal Hide as the Old Astronaut surveyed the area and led the spirits away.
• Zhang Daoling fled into the Gobi Desert on a rusted bronze mirror with three mysterious flames pursuing him, then called Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie over to comprehend the Myriad Heavens Immortal Scroll.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie recovered from their injuries while Zhang Daoling was trapped by the Three Dreadful Piles, whose Dread King drew them into a strange scripture-chanting dance. The chapter left them studying and dancing among the spirits as Fang Yuzhu arrived at the entrance to the space.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie escaped the three fires and treated their severe injuries while Zhang Daoling remained trapped.
• Chen Yongjie consumed Heavenly Marrow to strengthen his realm, while Wang Xuan used Active Factor and a wisp of Red Substance to repair and temper his body.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie realized the Three Sacred Piles were surrounded by Dread Spirits, and a Dread King appeared to invite Wang Xuan to dance.
• Zhang Daoling promised them three talismans in exchange for joining the spirits, and Wang Xuan gave him a passage from a scripture that absorbed his attention.
• Dread Spirits forced Wang Xuan, Chen Yongjie, and Zhang Daoling to dance while chanting scriptures, and Fang Yuzhu arrived at the strange space's entrance.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie recovered from their injuries while exchanging scriptures with the Dread Spirits at Three Dreadful Piles, and the Female Dread King revealed how her mythological civilization had vanished. Three days later, they reached a vast spiritual world drawing cultivators and peerless experts, where Wang Xuan discovered that the God Slaying Banner had grown much more powerful.

• Old Zhang struck cultivators who witnessed his dance with the bronze mirror, while Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie recited scriptures and received healing and talismans.
• The Female Dread King pulled Wang Xuan into the Dreadfire dance, and he and Chen Yongjie memorized scriptures as their bodies recovered.
• Fang Yuzhu saw the group dancing and left, while Old Zhang stayed behind to discuss the vanished mythological civilization with the Female Dread King.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie left Three Dreadful Piles, searched for the Female Daoist practitioner, and learned that Old Zhang remained trapped with the Dread Spirits.
• Three days later, Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie found many cultivators gathered at the edge of a spiritual world, where reports placed Mo Si, the Devil Ancestor, Ancestor Netherblood, and Qi Teng.
• Wang Xuan tested the God Slaying Banner inside the spiritual world and found that its power had greatly increased.