Chapter Summaries

Li Yun and Zhenwu reached the Demon Clan’s gorge and discussed how the Pangu Banner still concealed events there, while deciding not to investigate the Jade Talisman’s origins. To relieve overcrowding in Stone City and Zhenwu’s realm, they opened a passage to Li Yun’s Twenty-Four Heavens and began transferring the Human Race there.

• Li Yun and Zhenwu found the gorge filled with Demon Qi, where the Demon Clan had not noticed the fighting around Stone City.
• Zhenwu questioned whether Nuwa could have empowered the Jade Talisman, and Li Yun warned him not to investigate the matter.
• Zhenwu explained that his Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud realm was nearly full of Human Race members and Stone City was becoming difficult to manage.
• Li Yun offered to shelter the people in his Twenty-Four Heavens and told Zhenwu to transfer everyone there.
• Li Yun and Zhenwu opened both realm entrances and shouted commands to begin the transfer.

Li Yun finished transferring humans into a Small Thousand World, then attacked the Gorge and found the Jade Talisman. He confronted the Demon God who had been using it, leaving their conflict poised to begin.

• Li Yun told Zhenwu to return to Stone City, keep transferring humans, and help destroy the Jade Talismans before the Demon Clan army arrived.
• Zhenwu departed, and Li Yun put away the Twenty-Four Heavens before riding the True Dragon Soul to the Gorge.
• Li Yun unleashed his Sword Domain and Chaos Divine Light, slaughtering demons and forcing the survivors to flee.
• Li Yun found a black-robed figure using the Jade Talisman to empower Demon Clan cultivators, and the Demon God put the talisman away and confronted him.
• The Demon God threatened Li Yun over the slaughter, and Li Yun laughed at him.

Li Yun killed the Demon God despite learning that Kunpeng was his uncle, then destroyed the Gorge and gained the Eternal Trait by killing the parasitic insect in the Jade Talisman. After equipping it, he sensed its power flowing toward his Human Race bloodline and asked the system whether it could fuse with Extreme Yang Undying.

• Li Yun fought the Demon God, shattered his saber and Jade Talisman, and split his body in two.
• The Demon God's primordial spirit warned Li Yun that Kunpeng was his uncle, but Li Yun killed him anyway, citing his masters Shangqing and Yuqing.
• Li Yun razed the Gorge with axe qi, killing the Demon Clan members and Demonic Beasts within.
• Li Yun used his Human Dao Emperor Eyes to kill the Heavenly Dao Avatar inside the Jade Talisman and received the Eternal Trait.
• Li Yun equipped the Eternal Trait, sensed its power entering his Human Race bloodline, and asked the system if it could fuse with Extreme Yang Undying.

Li Yun left the ruins after learning his traits could only be fused once both reached the Divine level. In the Demon Emperor's Palace, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi learned that the Witch Slaughtering Swords were one-use weapons, but Taiyi discovered he could strengthen one by absorbing the souls from another.

• Li Yun accepted that his traits could not yet be fused and hurried toward the city where Kong Xuan and the others were.
• Bai Ze told Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi that the five Witch Slaughtering Swords could kill Top Great Witches but were depleted after one use.
• Di Jun and Taiyi concluded that mass-producing the swords was pointless unless they could be improved enough to threaten Ancestor Witches.
• Taiyi crushed one Witch Slaughtering Sword and absorbed its escaping Three Souls and Seven Spirits into another, doubling the remaining sword's power.
• Taiyi urged Di Jun to continue collecting swords and return those strong enough to threaten Top Great Witches for further enhancement.

Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to return Witch Slaughtering Swords as soon as they could pierce a Great Witch’s defenses, then learned from Pangolin that Li Yun had slain a Demon God and was attacking the Demon Clan’s forces. Eastern Emperor Taiyi offered to deal with Li Yun personally, but Bai Ze and the other Demon Commanders warned that his departure might alert the Saints.

• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to have the Demon Clan return every Witch Slaughtering Sword capable of breaking through a Great Witch’s defenses and cooperate in forging more.
• A Demon God brought Pangolin before Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the Demon Commanders after Pangolin returned from the East Sea.
• Di Jun confronted Pangolin for disobeying the order to stay at the East Sea Coast, and Pangolin explained that his territory’s forces and Demon God had been killed.
• Pangolin said Li Yun, Taiqing’s disciple, had slain the Demon God and was continuing to attack the Demon Clan’s forces.
• Di Jun grew furious at the threat Li Yun posed to the Demon Clan’s plans, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi volunteered to go after him.
• Bai Ze and the other Demon Commanders urged Eastern Emperor Taiyi not to go, warning that his actions might attract the Saints’ attention.

Di Jun and the Demon Commanders learned that Li Yun had become powerful enough to kill a late-stage Quasi-Saint in a single exchange and was slaughtering demons along the East Sea Coast. They sent Eastern Emperor Taiyi to drive Li Yun from the region and ordered Bai Ze and Shang Yang to guard the Witch Slaughtering Swords while avoiding the Three Pure Ones.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and the Demon Commanders hesitated to confront Li Yun because they feared the Three Pure Ones would discover their plans.
• Pangolin recounted how Li Yun had used chaotic divine light to kill a late-stage Quasi-Saint almost instantly, shocking the Demon Commanders.
• A Demon God reported that demons were dying in large numbers along the East Sea Coast and that even souls protected by the Demon Summoning Banner were being extinguished.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi urged Di Jun to eliminate Li Yun, but Di Jun ordered him to drive Li Yun out of the East Sea rather than kill a Taiqing Disciple.
• Di Jun sent Bai Ze and Shang Yang to the East Sea Coast to guard the Witch Slaughtering Swords and withdraw if the Three Pure Ones became involved.

As Li Yun neared Jie Teachings Guardian City, he upgraded his accumulated Traits and equipped Void, Distortion, and Life, gaining new powers and a substantial increase in vitality. He then spent many Red Traits to raise all three to Gold, obtaining thirty percent of the Void Law, the Law of Space, and the Law of Life.

• Li Yun ordered the System to upgrade all his Purple, blue, and green Traits to Red as he approached the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords barrier.
• Li Yun found the Red Traits Void, Distortion, and Life in his Trait Library and equipped them.
• Li Yun gained the ability to enter the Void for five seconds, use Distortion through his right eye, and strengthen his body with increased vitality.
• Li Yun upgraded Void to Gold after ten attempts, Distortion to Gold on the first attempt, and Life to Gold after several attempts.
• The upgraded Traits granted Li Yun thirty percent of the Void Law, the Law of Space, and the Law of Life.

Li Yun entered the Jie Teachings’ battlefield and found that the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords had given the defenders the upper hand against the Demon Clan. After spotting six Witch Slaughtering Swords, he joined the slaughter and killed one of the Demon Gods wielding one.

• Li Yun discovered that the Laws of Void, Space, and Life had each reached peak Entry Level, then entered the battlefield.
• Li Yun saw Gui Ling, Jin Ling, Wudang, and Kong Xuan wielding the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords against the invading Demon Clan forces.
• Li Yun spotted six Demon Gods carrying Witch Slaughtering Swords and unleashed his Sword Domain and True Dragon Soul upon the battlefield.
• Li Yun attacked a Demon God with the Gan Qi Axe, splitting him in two and annihilating his divine soul with the Slaughter Law and Law of Space.
• The other Demon Gods cried out in shock and anger after their companion was killed.

Li Yun killed two Demon Gods and forced the Demon Clan army to retreat, but he regretted that the retreat would make it harder to seize the remaining Witch Slaughtering Swords and Jade Talismans. He admitted that his power was formidable but unsustainable because he had not yet reached the Quasi-Saint stage.

• Li Yun killed a Quasi-Saint-level Demon God in one strike, rallying the Jie Teachings Disciples and turning the battle’s momentum.
• Li Yun fought four Demon Gods, killed one with his Chaos Divine Light, and drove the remaining three to retreat.
• The Human Race celebrated the victory, while Li Yun worried that the Demon Clan still held the other Witch Slaughtering Swords and the Jade Talismans.
• Kong Xuan, Gui Ling, Wudang, and the others joined Li Yun, who explained that his Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation prevented him from sustaining his full strength for long.

Li Yun explained that he intended to find the Demon God carrying the Jade Talisman and eliminate the threat to the Human Race and Safe Zones. After arriving in the city, he learned that Old Ancestor Suiren Shi had been injured and entered his home with Kong Xuan to see him.

• Kong Xuan asked Li Yun about Chaos Divine Light, and Li Yun described its strengths and limits.
• Li Yun told Kong Xuan and the others that the dangers at the Human Ancestral Land and Stone City had been resolved, but the Demon God holding the Jade Talisman remained unknown.
• Li Yun decided to stay and find the Jade Talisman holder, and Kong Xuan offered to help him.
• Li Yun and his companions entered the city, where the Human Race welcomed him and reported that Old Ancestor Suiren Shi was injured.
• Li Yun left the city's affairs to Gui Ling and the other two, then went with Kong Xuan to visit Suiren Shi.

Li Yun arranged to move Human Race members into his Twenty-Four Heavens and told Kong Xuan how to further develop his powers. After Kong Xuan transferred the tribespeople, he asked Li Yun about his attainment in the Sword Dao.

• Li Yun reassured Suiren Shi that the threats at the Ancestral Land and Stone City had been eliminated and their Jade Talismans destroyed.
• Li Yun asked Kong Xuan to transfer the Human Race members in his Seven-Colored Divine Light Space into the Twenty-Four Heavens, and asked Suiren Shi to gather more tribespeople before he left.
• Kong Xuan admired the Twenty-Four Heavens, and Li Yun suggested that Kong Xuan seek spatial Lingbao and transform his Seven-Colored Divine Light Space into a domain.
• Kong Xuan transferred the people in his space into Li Yun's Small Thousand World, a process that took an hour.
• Li Yun advised Kong Xuan to develop his domain and perfect his Yin-Yang Five Elements Law, and Kong Xuan asked about Li Yun's attainment in the Sword Dao.

Li Yun told Kong Xuan that his Sword Domain came from the Human Race bloodline ability Supreme Sword Bone, prompting Kong Xuan to reconsider the Human Race’s potential. After the Human Race’s transfer was complete, Li Yun planned to infiltrate the Demon Clan alone using the Seventy-Two Transformations to find the Jade Talisman, while Kong Xuan agreed to protect the Human Race and help if needed.

• Li Yun explained that awakening Supreme Sword Bone had granted him Sword Intent, Sword Momentum, and Sword Domain despite his lack of Sword Dao training.
• Kong Xuan realized the Human Race could possess powerful hidden bloodlines and considered what that might mean for its future.
• Kong Xuan withdrew the Seven-Colored Divine Light after the Human Race completed its transfer, then asked Li Yun what he planned to do next.
• Li Yun said he would use the Seventy-Two Transformations to infiltrate the Demon Clan and find the person holding the Jade Talisman, but Kong Xuan could not join him because he had not learned the technique.
• Kong Xuan promised to assist Li Yun if needed and to pay close attention to protecting the Human Race, then became interested when Li Yun mentioned future benefits for him and the disciples of the Two Sects.

Li Yun infiltrated the Demon Clan’s regional base in search of the Jade Talisman’s holder and gathered information while keeping his identity concealed. He learned that the Eastern Emperor was coming in response to Li Yun’s attacks, leaving him near the Demon Clan’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals and the guarded valley where the Quasi-Saint Demon Gods resided.

• Li Yun left Kong Xuan, transformed into a Crow Spirit, and tracked the fleeing Demon Clan cultivators to their regional base.
• Li Yun passed himself off as a wounded, low-ranking Crow Spirit and was sent to recuperate in the camp for weaker Demon Clan members.
• Li Yun used his divine sense to locate a gathering of Grand Unity Golden Immortal Demonic Beasts and a guarded valley where the Quasi-Saint Demon Gods likely lived.
• At night, Li Yun left a hair clone behind, transformed into a mosquito, and infiltrated the area where the Grand Unity Golden Immortals had gathered.
• Li Yun overheard Demon Clan cultivators say that the Eastern Emperor was coming because Li Yun had killed a Demon God and enraged him.

Li Yun entered a guarded valley to find and destroy the remaining Jade Talismans before Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived, but discovered it was a trap. Heavenly Eye Yao God and two late-stage quasi-saint Demon Gods confronted him and demanded he surrender so they could send him out of the East Sea.

• After learning Eastern Emperor Taiyi was coming, Li Yun hurried to the valley to locate the remaining Jade Talismans.
• Li Yun used his Human Dao Emperor Eyes and Seventy-Two Transformations to slip through the valley’s defenses as a mosquito.
• Li Yun found the valley empty and suspected the Demon Gods had lured him there, but a barrier activated and locked onto him as he tried to leave.
• Li Yun blocked the incoming attack with his Chaos Divine Light and challenged his unseen attackers to reveal themselves.
• Heavenly Eye Yao God and two other late-stage quasi-saint Demon Gods emerged, and Li Yun realized the Celestial Eye had exposed his disguise while the other Demon God’s Law of Space could make escape difficult.
• Heavenly Eye Yao God demanded that Li Yun surrender, promising not to harm him and to send him out of the East Sea.

Li Yun refused to abandon the humans on the East Sea Coast, so Heavenly Eye Yao God and two Demon Gods coordinated an attack to send him through a Space Tunnel beyond Human Race territory. Li Yun broke free and escaped the collapsing tunnel through a breach, but his destination was left unknown.

• Li Yun rejected Heavenly Eye Yao God's demand that he leave the East Sea and accused the Demon Clan of breaking its agreement with the saints.
• Heavenly Eye Yao God ordered the two Demon Gods to attack, and their laws of fixation and space bound Li Yun and opened a Space Tunnel behind him.
• Heavenly Eye Yao God struck while the other Demon Gods restrained Li Yun, and their combined force swept him into the tunnel before its entrance sealed.
• Li Yun used the law of strength to break free of the bindings, but the tunnel had collapsed ahead of him and was carrying him toward its exit.
• Li Yun used the Gan Qi Axe to tear open the tunnel and was swept through the breach into an unknown location.

Li Yun escaped the Space Tunnel and discovered that nearly three hundred years had passed, leaving the Human Race territory overrun by the Demon Clan and its Safe Zones sealed off. After learning that the Demon Clan was completing the Witch Slaughtering Sword, he set out to find and rescue more Human Race survivors before trying to warn the Twelve Ancestor Witches.

• Li Yun emerged in a ruined Human Race village, healed his injuries, and realized his body had grown stronger.
• Li Yun captured a Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Demonic Beast and used the Soul Searching Technique to learn that nearly three hundred years had passed.
• Li Yun learned that the Demon Clan had covered the Human Race territory, sealed the three Safe Zones, and that Eastern Emperor Taiyi had descended.
• Li Yun discovered that the Demon Clan was collecting and purifying the Witch Slaughtering Swords, and feared the danger they posed to the Witch Clan and the Three Pure Ones' plans.
• Li Yun decided to search for surviving Human Race members and rescue as many as he could before leaving to relay the news to the Twelve Ancestor Witches.

After failing to find many surviving humans, Li Yun left the East Sea and fought through the Demon Clan forces guarding its borders. He defeated the Demon God who had once trapped him, but the Eastern Emperor intervened to save the Demon God’s primordial spirit.

• Li Yun spent fifty years searching beyond the Safe Zones, rescuing fewer than a hundred thousand humans and finding many tribes massacred.
• Li Yun reached the edge of Human Race territory and found a Demon Clan army blocking the way, so he swept aside their attacks and killed the cultivators in his path.
• The Demon Clan cultivators recognized Li Yun, fled, and sent signals for Demon Gods and Demon Commanders to come.
• Li Yun recognized the Demon God who had once forced him into a Space Tunnel and attacked him with the Gan Qi Axe.
• Li Yun broke through the Demon God’s Law of Fixation and trapped him with Distortion, then destroyed his body with axe qi.
• The Eastern Emperor answered the Demon God’s plea, using the Chaos Bell to destroy the axe qi and protect his primordial spirit.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived and stopped Li Yun from attacking the Demon Clan, then settled the conflict between them. Li Yun left after agreeing to explain the matter to his master, while Taiyi ordered compensation for the fallen Demon Clan members’ relatives.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to stop Li Yun’s attack and save the Demon God.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived, and the Demon Clan cultivators bowed to him.
• Li Yun asked to leave, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi agreed while calling the conflict a misunderstanding and asking Li Yun to explain it to the Saint of Supreme Purity.
• Li Yun asked Eastern Emperor Taiyi to restrain the Demon Clan from causing further conflicts with his senior brothers and the Chan and Jie Sect disciples.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi dismissed the Demon Gods’ objections, blamed the fallen clansmen for their own deaths, and ordered compensation and inheritance rewards for their relatives.

After escaping the Human Ancestral Land, Li Yun regretted underestimating his enemies and resolved to become stronger. He traveled to the Western Lands, where he found the Three Pure Ones, the Witch Clan, and many cultivators repairing the Earth Veins, and asked Xing Tian about the Merit they were earning.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the Demon Clan cultivators to withdraw and avoid further conflict with Li Yun.
• Li Yun reflected on the Humans who had died during his absence and recognized that his overconfidence and weaknesses had led to disaster.
• Li Yun divined that the Three Pure Ones were in the Western Lands repairing the Earth Veins with Jieyin, Zhunti, the Witch Clan, and other powerful cultivators.
• Li Yun arrived in the Western Lands and saw the Witch Clan and cultivators working together to restore the Earth Veins and increase spiritual energy.
• Xing Tian told Li Yun that the Ancestor Witches had ordered the work and that participants earned Merit, noting that Zhen Yuanzi had gained much and seemed close to advancing.
• Li Yun asked Xing Tian whether he had noticed any changes after gaining Merit.

Li Yun suggested that the Witch Clan could use Merit to draw out their True Spirits and form Primordial Spirits. After Xing Tian confirmed the idea had promise, he agreed to bring Li Yun to the Ancestor Witches and the Three Pure Ones.

• Li Yun explained that the Witch Clan's True Spirits might be drawn out with Merit and forged into Primordial Spirits.
• Xing Tian used his Merit to test Li Yun's theory and sensed a True Spirit that resisted the Innate Turbid Qi.
• Xing Tian thanked Li Yun, who warned him to keep the method secret and tell only the Ancestor Witches.
• Xing Tian offered to lead Li Yun to the Ancestor Witches and the Three Pure Ones, while describing the conflicts over Merit in the Western Lands.
• Li Yun accepted Xing Tian's offer, intending to share the discovery with the Witch Clan's leaders.