Chapter Summaries

After failing the college entrance examinations for a third time, Ye Bai considered giving up cultivation until a televised interview revealed that the Crimson Star of the East Sea had been a demon from another world. Myriad Dao Academy announced a sweeping wartime mobilization, leaving Ye Bai facing a world preparing for invasion.

• Ye Bai deleted his parents’ concerned messages and resigned himself to an ordinary life after failing the college entrance examinations for the third time.
• Ye Bai watched an interview with True Lord Lan Feng, also known as Chu Nan, a prominent leader of the Heavenly Craftsman Institute.
• Chu Nan confirmed that a demon star had shattered the boundary above the East Sea a century earlier and that its scar connected to a world inhabited by Demonic Beasts.
• Chu Nan revealed that Myriad Dao Academy had maintained a first-level state of war readiness for a hundred years and was now publicly mobilizing the world for war.
• Chu Nan announced increased missions, changes to resources and ceremonies, restrictions on ascension, expanded mecha production, conscription of cultivators, and the sealing of the East Sea.

Xu Yang reviewed research on Demonic Energy and inspected the sealed battlefield at the East Sea Coast, where he revealed that he had fabricated the Demonic Scar to spur Myriad Dao Academy into preparing for war. He planned to cross the breach and investigate the demons on the other side.

• Cultivators at Myriad Dao Academy completed an analysis of Demonic Energy, finding it sinister, vulnerable to thunder and lightning, and likely to come from a Deity Transformation demon or a stronger being.
• Xu Yang reviewed the experimental data and went to the East Sea Coast, where his Four Celestial Masters reported that the defenses remained undisturbed.
• Xu Yang revealed that the Red Star Falling Sun and Demonic Scar Heavenly Wound had been staged, though a real spatial breach and dangerous Demonic Energy had existed there a century earlier.
• Xu Yang explained that he had fabricated the threat to redirect social conflicts and motivate a complacent population to prepare for war.
• Xu Yang declared that he intended to probe the other side of the breach and investigate the demons there.

Xu Yang prepared a low-cultivation Yang God clone to scout the Demon Realm, since his true body could not risk alerting its powerful beings. After sending the clone through the sealed spatial breach, he sensed it arrive in a world whose qi it judged defiled.

• Xu Yang led the Four Great Celestial Masters to the sealed breach and explained why he had to send a clone rather than risk his true body.
• Xu Yang used his newly created Yang God Possession Clone Method to make a clone from the body of a criminal cultivator.
• Xu Yang removed the nine lightning seals and opened the breach between the Daoist Magic World and the Demon Realm.
• Xu Yang wrapped the clone’s spirit pearl in lightning and cast it through the breach to scout the neighboring realm.
• The crossing shattered the Thunder Spirit Pearl, and the clone sensed the Demon Realm’s qi and declared that the world had been defiled.

Xu Yang awoke in a fisherfolk’s cabin on Wuze Lake and killed Scarface when the man threatened the siblings and tried to approach him. After questioning A Qing, he learned he was in the Daxing Dynasty and suspected the world had been corrupted; he left the siblings supplies and departed into the fog.

• Xu Yang woke aboard the siblings’ boat as A Qing and Scarface argued over him and Scarface demanded that she hand him over.
• When Scarface entered the cabin, Xu Yang killed him with a single strike and used the man’s heart’s blood to cast a Spirit Communication Talisman.
• Xu Yang questioned A Qing and learned that they were on Wuze Lake in Jiangning Prefecture, within the Daxing Dynasty.
• Xu Yang concluded that the world had been defiled by an unknown force, then ordered the siblings to keep the night’s events secret.
• Xu Yang left Scarface’s money and supplies with A Qing and her brother before sailing away into the night mist.

Xu Yang confirmed that his Yang God clone retained the connection to his true self and inherited an Attribute Panel in this new world. He chose to build strength quietly at Wuze Lake and began cultivating the Five Spirits Five Elements True Art with the clone’s Five Elements spiritual root.

• Xu Yang discovered that the clone’s Attribute Panel listed a low-quality Yellow-grade Five Elements spiritual root and concluded that each world could have one clone with its own panel.
• Xu Yang decided to postpone building forces and spend time improving his strength at Wuze Lake before investigating the demon world.
• Xu Yang planned to use his true self, the Daoist Magic World academy, and Yang God clones to pursue cultivation methods across multiple worlds before the coming Void Spirit upheaval.
• Xu Yang chose to cultivate both immortality and Martial Dao, since the clone’s spiritual root could benefit both paths.
• Xu Yang acquired the Five Spirits Five Elements Battle Body and combined five widely circulated cultivation methods into the Five Spirits Five Elements True Art.

Xu Yang discovered that demonic qi contaminated the world’s Origin Spirit, so he used his Blood Furnace trait to refine it and quickly reached the third level of Qi Refinement. After preparing a yin altar and heading out to fish, he killed a huge black fish but fled when boats approached.

• Xu Yang found demonic qi mixed into the Origin Spirit and used the Blood Furnace trait to refine it while cultivating.
• Xu Yang advanced to the third level of Qi Refinement in one night, then considered the costs of refining demonic qi and the resources his Five Elements Spirit Body required.
• Xu Yang condensed Scarface’s soul into an evil ghost, sealed it with the corpse in a yin altar, and planned to make yin soldiers.
• Xu Yang disguised himself as Scarface and rowed out to fish, intending to avoid the people and factions of the lake.
• A huge black fish struck Xu Yang’s boat, and Xu Yang killed it with his fish spear.
• Xu Yang saw marked ships and approaching small boats, kicked the black fish into the cabin, and rowed away.

Xu Yang escaped into Wuze Lake, studied how demonic qi affected its fish and cultivators, and advanced to the fourth level of Qi Refinement by eating a demonic fish. He chose a deserted island with a water vein as a base and sent his evil ghost to guide him to Fish Market Wharf for supplies.

• Xu Yang rowed away from the pursuers and reasoned that demonic qi corrupted living beings and constrained cultivation.
• Xu Yang butchered and cooked a demonic fish, then used the Heavenly Craftsmanship Method to refine salt from its blood.
• Xu Yang ate the fish and cultivated the Five Spirits Five Elements True Art, reaching the fourth level of Qi Refinement by nightfall.
• Xu Yang considered ways to strengthen his body and gather five-element spiritual materials, then decided to find an island where he could settle.
• Xu Yang chose a deserted island with a subterranean water vein and abundant spiritual qi as his base.
• Xu Yang summoned the evil ghost from the Yin altar and ordered it to guide him to Fish Market Wharf.

A month after settling on the deserted island, Xu Yang reached late-stage Qi Refinement and prepared to search for spiritual items needed for Foundation Establishment. He visited the Fish Market to learn about the local world and spotted two figures outside the tavern.

• Xu Yang advanced to Qi Refinement Level Nine and decided to explore for five-element spiritual items before attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Yang used lightning techniques to temper his body and refine demonic qi, then questioned how high-level cultivators dealt with demonic influence.
• Xu Yang captured and cooked an electric eel after demonic qi made the eels too violent to tame or raise as spirit beasts.
• Xu Yang traveled by Black-awning Boat to the Fish Market and listened to patrons discuss Old Li, the Flying Tiger Gang, and Jiangning Prefecture.
• Xu Yang noticed two figures outside the tavern.

A Qing witnessed Li Suhong intervene in a dispute over a valuable fish, while Xu Yang learned that the fish was a Spirit Fish and investigated the rumors. The Flying Tiger Gang announced strict controls and taxes to collect Spirit Fish from Wuze Lake, and Li Suhong prepared her forces to secure the lake.

• A Qing hurried back from the pharmacy and saw Donglai Pavilion and Nanfeng Tower fighting over a fish at a neighboring stall.
• Li Suhong arrived with the Flying Tiger Gang, drove off the two wine-house representatives, and bought the fish.
• Xu Yang heard that the fish was a Spirit Fish, realized the Heavenly Mechanism Art could not work in this world, and questioned an old man for information.
• The Flying Tiger Gang announced that Spirit Fish were tribute goods, imposed a household Spirit Fish tax, and closed Wuze Lake to unregistered fishing.
• Li Suhong learned that the Flying Tiger Gang had assembled boats and three thousand disciples, then said someone else would handle the martial-world contenders.

A Qing caught a Spirit Fish and learned from Doctor Mo that only the Spirit Fish King could cure her younger brother’s illness. While searching Wuze Lake at night, she encountered Fishing Elder, whose remarkable catch drew a gathering of martial artists who demanded to discuss the Spirit Fish.

• A Qing caught a Spirit Fish, received ten taels of silver and three years of tax exemption, then went with her younger brother to Doctor Mo for medicine.
• Doctor Mo told A Qing that his prescription could only extend her younger brother’s life and offered to cure him if she found the Spirit Fish King.
• A Qing took her younger brother onto Wuze Lake at night to search for glowing Spirit Fish and spotted an old fisherman who caught a Black Yaksha with a fishing rod.
• The old fisherman, calling himself Fishing Elder, caught Spirit Fish after Spirit Fish while A Qing watched, revealing a basket full of them.
• Martial artists led by Li Feihong and Li Bantian surrounded Fishing Elder, invited him to a banquet, and pressed him to discuss the Spirit Fish.
• Fishing Elder refused their invitation and challenged the martial artists to act quickly if they meant to fight.

Xu Yang drove off Li Feihong and wounded Li Suhong when they challenged him on Wuze Lake, then continued fishing for spirit fish. As the Flying Tiger Gang’s exploitation pushed local fishermen toward desperation, Zhu Yang arrived and insisted that the mortals were expendable while they pursued the Spirit Fish King.

• Li Feihong attacked Xu Yang with the Flying Rainbow Sword, but Xu Yang broke it with his fishing rod and forced him to retreat.
• Li Suhong challenged Xu Yang with her sword, and Xu Yang wounded her before she withdrew and used a pill to heal herself.
• Xu Yang reasoned that spirit fish could reduce the effects of Demonic Qi and used purified Black Fork Fish meat as bait to catch them for raising.
• A Qing struggled to fish in the freezing weather as rising prices, deaths, and the Flying Tiger Gang’s pressure deepened the fishermen’s despair.
• Zhu Yang told Li Suhong that he would deal with Xu Yang when the Spirit Fish King emerged, then dismissed her concern for the fishermen as misplaced compassion.

As winter settled over Wuze Lake, Xu Yang completed the twelfth level of Qi Refinement and decided to catch the Spirit Fish King before robbing the lake’s gathered forces for Five Elements spiritual treasures. At a spirit fish banquet, Zhu Yang allied with Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu to seize the Fish King, just as a small Black-awning Boat appeared through the snow.

• A Qing saw snow over Wuze Lake for the first time, worried about surviving the cold, and returned to her boat to cook fish porridge.
• Xu Yang reached great completion in Qi Refinement after three months of cultivation and prepared to pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Yang resolved to capture and raise the Spirit Fish King, protect the fishermen, and seek Five Elements spiritual treasures by robbing the forces gathered on the lake.
• Zhu Yang joined Li Suhong and other guests for a spirit fish banquet while Martial Artists hauled monster fish aboard nearby ships.
• Zhu Yang met Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu, accepted their offer of thirty percent of the other spirit fish, and agreed to help them seize the Five Marsh Fish King.
• A small Black-awning Boat approached the ships through the falling snow, drawing the attention of Zhu Yang, Yuwen Jie, and Shen Hongyu.

Xu Yang fished at the heart of Wuze Lake while the factions watched, eventually drawing out the Spirit Fish King. The factions held back, intending to seize it after he caught it.

• The Fishing Elder arrived at the lake’s heart, and Shen Hongyu persuaded Yuwen Jie to let him fish in hopes he might find the Spirit Fish King.
• Xu Yang used refined Black Fork Fish meat as bait and caught monster fish while the crowd noticed his seemingly limitless fish basket.
• After three days, Xu Yang had caught hundreds of monster fish and more than six hundred Spirit Fish, drawing the factions’ attention to his harvest and storage artifact.
• Electricity coursed through the deep water as the Spirit Fish King emerged, and the factions decided to wait for Xu Yang to catch it before making their move.
• Xu Yang lifted his rod, sending a dazzling golden, dragonlike shape bursting out of the lake.

Xu Yang captured the Spirit Fish King, fought off the factions gathered at Wuze Lake, and escaped with the fish. After releasing the Spirit Fish on his island, he summoned his ghost army to purge the lake, but a surge of demonic qi appeared before he could send them out.

• The golden eel Fish King unleashed a terrifying aura, but Xu Yang reeled it in and trapped it in his beast-taming basket.
• Yuwen Jie and the other factions attacked Xu Yang, but he killed the dead soldiers, wounded Yuwen Jie, and drove off Old Ghost Mo and the rest of the attackers.
• Xu Yang broke through the encirclement and escaped, while Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu returned to their ship and set course for the provincial capital.
• Xu Yang released more than a thousand Spirit Fish into a pool on his island and resolved to return to Wuze Lake to destroy the factions’ forces.
• Xu Yang summoned his Five Chariot Soldiers and Horses, but a sudden surge of demonic qi filled the area before he could command them.

A Demon Domain spread across Wuze Lake, turning fishermen into monsters and driving the factions into a desperate flight. A Qing carried her sick younger brother to the ruined Fish Market for help, where she found Doctor Mo transformed into a terrifying creature, and a mounted phantom appeared as he attacked them.

• Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu discovered a Demon Domain surrounding their ship and ordered it to retreat toward the lake’s center.
• Fishermen across Wuze Lake developed scales and red spots as the dark mist advanced, and Zhu Yang and the other factions fled in panic.
• A Qing brought her unconscious younger brother to the abandoned Fish Market and searched the looted medicine shop for Doctor Mo.
• A Qing found Doctor Mo grotesquely transformed and wounded by Sword Qi, but he crawled toward her demanding medicine.
• Doctor Mo knocked A Qing down and advanced on her and her unconscious brother, and a mounted phantom appeared to strike him as A Qing raised her short blade.

Xu Yang rescued A Qing and her younger brother after destroying the Ghost Fetus demonic beast, then attacked Li Family Fort during the Demon Calamity. He killed Daoist Zhu Yang, stopped his demonic transformation, and captured Li Suhong as she succumbed to corruption.

• The Ghost Fetus demonic beast killed the ghost general and reached for A Qing, but Xu Yang struck it down with lightning as the apothecary and nearby buildings collapsed.
• Xu Yang reunited A Qing with her unconscious younger brother and brought them to Fish Market Wharf before leaving them in the fog.
• Daoist Zhu Yang ordered Li Suhong to use adolescents because the Li family had seized children and young people to help them survive the Demon Calamity.
• Xu Yang attacked Zhu Yang with lightning, then killed him with Lightning Sword Qi and destroyed the demonic fetus forming in his corpse.
• Li Suhong attacked Xu Yang while corrupted by demonic flesh, but Xu Yang broke her assault with a talisman and captured her in a bamboo basket.

Xu Yang used thunder to halt the demonization of A Qing’s younger brother and restore Li Suhong’s body, but he could not remove the demonic qi without risking their lives. Trapped inside the Demon Domain, he searched Daoist Zhu Yang’s soul and learned the history of the demonic calamity, though the chapter ends as he uncovers the Corpse Decomposition Immortal Method.

• Xu Yang rescued A Qing from the dark mist at Fish Market Wharf and brought her and her younger brother back to his base.
• Xu Yang used thunder to stop the boy’s demonization, but warned A Qing that the treatment had not cured its root cause.
• Xu Yang used Thunder Demon Refinement on Li Suhong, reversing her physical demonization while discovering that the demonic qi inside her remained dangerous to remove.
• Xu Yang sent A Qing to watch over Li Suhong, then used five ghosts to search the dead Daoist Zhu Yang’s soul for information.
• Xu Yang learned that Heavenly Demons had left three Great Forbidden Zones and nine Great Demonic Domains that corrupted the world, and that its ancient immortals had vanished after ascending.
• Xu Yang discovered that the Corpse Decomposition Immortal Method had appeared after the last ancient immortal died.

The chapter explained how demonic corruption destroyed the ancient immortals’ protections, triggered the Dark Turmoil, and led survivors to develop the Corpse Decomposition Immortal Method and form the Nine Sects Alliance. It clarified why cultivation remained restricted and ended by identifying the Five Viscera Pill as the most important resource sects sought from controlling mortal dynasties.

• The ancient immortals either died or ascended, leaving the Three Great Forbidden Zones and Nine Great Demonic Domains to unleash calamities that began the Dark Turmoil.
• Surviving cultivators developed the Corpse Decomposition Immortal Method, severing the Demon Fetus and cultivating through spiritual treasures to contain the calamities.
• Corpse Decomposition Immortals joined forces to ascend with their sects, establishing the Nine Sects Alliance as a path of escape from the defiled world.
• Daxing Mountain sought to help its old ancestor undergo Corpse Decomposition and qualify for the Nine Sects Alliance.
• The explanation showed that demonic corruption, scarce resources, and unreliable oversight made widespread cultivation too dangerous, so sects and mortal dynasties remained separate.
• The chapter revealed that sects controlled dynasties chiefly to obtain Five Viscera Pill.

Xu Yang learned how the Five Viscera Pill Arts had caused the Bloody Turmoil and concluded that he would not use or spread them. Trapped in a Demon Domain, he decided to suppress its true demon and began preparing for Five-Spirit Foundation Establishment, but lacked two of the five required spirit objects.

• Xu Yang reviewed the history of the Five Viscera Pill Arts and rejected cultivating or spreading them.
• Xu Yang assessed the Demon Domain and decided to attack and seal its true demon before it grew stronger.
• Xu Yang resolved to reach Five-Spirit Foundation Establishment to improve his chances against the true demon.
• Xu Yang searched Daoist Zhu Yang's storage pouch and found three second-rank Five Elements spirit objects.
• Xu Yang left to seek the two spirit objects he still needed.

Xu Yang captured A Qing, her brother, and Li Suhong in his experimental Universe Basket, then attacked the fortified dock where Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu were discussing the threat in Wuze Lake. He killed Yuwen Jie with Five Elements Sword Qi and destroyed the corpse before it could become a Demonic Beast, while Shen Hongyu confronted him with fiery ribbons.

• Xu Yang put A Qing, her brother, and Li Suhong into the Universe Basket and flew away from the Bamboo Hut.
• Yuwen Jie and Shen Hongyu discussed Zhu Yang's death, Li Suhong's disappearance, and the need for Five Viscera Pills to survive the Demon Domain.
• Xu Yang used the Illusion Demon Movement Technique to ambush Yuwen Jie inside the fortified dock.
• Xu Yang battered Yuwen Jie at close range and unleashed Five Elements Sword Qi that pierced his five viscera.
• Shen Hongyu sent two fiery silk ribbons at Xu Yang as the wounded Yuwen Jie rose from the ruins.
• Xu Yang detonated a five-colored sword-light through Yuwen Jie's corpse, destroying it before its demon embryo could form.