Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang killed Shen Hongyu after she used a Spirit-Gathering Talisman to transform into a Golden Core Demonic Beast, then found the last Five Elements spiritual item he needed in her storage pouch. As he prepared to leave, a bloodied, faceless monk appeared from the dark mist, chanting about Shenxiu, Huineng, and the Mara Sutra.

• Shen Hongyu fled from Xu Yang, but he pursued her and shattered three of her protective magic artifacts with Lightning Strike Fist.
• Shen Hongyu activated a third-rank Spirit-Gathering Talisman and absorbed demonic qi, transforming into a Golden Core Demonic Beast.
• Xu Yang pierced Shen Hongyu with a sword strike combining his sword, thunder, and Five Elements arts, killing her at the cost of minor injuries.
• Xu Yang inspected Shen Hongyu's storage pouch and found the final Five Elements spiritual item he needed.
• A bloodied, faceless monk emerged from the dark mist, reciting the Bodhi verses and denouncing Huineng as he chanted the Mara Sutra.

Xu Yang escaped the faceless monk’s attack using Heavenly Demon Disintegration and Blood Escape, but suffered grave injuries and was infected by a demonic seed. Trapped in the Demon Domain, he began using the Spirit Eel King’s lightning to aid his healing and resist demonic corruption.

• Xu Yang broke the demonic scripture forming in his mind with a thunderous roar, but traces of demonic qi remained in his sea of consciousness.
• A faceless monk struck Xu Yang, and Xu Yang used Kanglong Thunder Strike before escaping with Heavenly Demon Disintegration and Blood Escape.
• Xu Yang crashed onto a small island with severe injuries, then released A Qing and two others from the Cosmos Bamboo Basket.
• Xu Yang discovered that the monk had planted a demonic seed in him, threatening to turn him into a demonic beast.
• Xu Yang freed the Spirit Eel King and said he needed its power to temper his body and purge the demonic corruption.
• Xu Yang activated the Life Scroll as the Spirit Eel King tried to flee, and its instincts pulled it back toward him.

Xu Yang recovered from his wounds, established his foundation, and gained an epiphany that let him create a powerful Five Elements thunder divine ability. He left the chapter ready to confront the True Demon with renewed strength.

• The Spirit Eel sensed the clash between Xu Yang’s thunder and Demonic qi, then coiled around him and purified the corruption.
• Xu Yang used the Universe Basket’s stored spiritual items to replenish his body with Five Elements energy while the Spirit Eel burned away their Demonic qi.
• When the Spirit Eel reached its limit, Xu Yang helped it establish its foundation, then finished healing himself with the remaining spiritual items.
• Xu Yang used five second-rank spiritual items to establish his foundation and refine his Five Elements spiritual root.
• During his foundation breakthrough, Xu Yang gained an epiphany, combined Yin Yang, Five Elements, and thunder arts, and created the Acquired Five Elements Demonic Corrupting Divine Lightning.

Xu Yang identified the demonic monk as a True Demon born from Pāramita’s envy-and-hatred demonic lineage and prepared to face it despite lacking confidence. He restored his Daoist Magic Main Body through a Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian, empowered his Yang God clone with Daoist Celestial Master, and set off to break free of the demons before dawn.

• Xu Yang recognized the demonic monk as a disciple and demonic-seed clone of Pāramita, linking its Mara Sutra to the inheritance behind Pudu Cihang.
• Xu Yang used the Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian to restore his Daoist Magic Main Body and transmit the Daoist Celestial Master trait to his Yang God clone.
• Xu Yang resolved to confront the True Demon with his enhanced Five Elements Transforming Demonic Divine Lightning.
• Xu Yang collected the exhausted spirit eel in the Universe Basket and gathered A Qing and the other two.
• Xu Yang rode wind and thunder toward the island’s edge, intent on escaping the demons before dawn.

Xu Yang fought the true demon at Wuze Lake, destroying its body with Daoist curses and a lightning-fire whip, but the demon began to revive through a terrifying chant. Inside the Universe Basket, Li Suhong saw the Great Black Buddha Mother as the curse reached her.

• Cultivators at Jiangning Prefecture identified Wuze Lake as the source of a Demon Domain and ordered an evacuation to limit its growth.
• Xu Yang attacked the mindless demonic monk at Wuze Lake, then reinforced himself with the Six Ding Six Jia Body Protection Divine Curse and summoned a Lightning Fire Steel Whip.
• Xu Yang battered the monk with lightning, fire, sword qi, and martial arts until its body was pulverized, leaving only its hollow head to fall into the lake.
• A black whirlpool formed in Wuze Lake as scarlet talismans emerged and chants of the Great Black Buddha Mother spread through the Demon Domain.
• The chants penetrated the Universe Basket and affected A Qing, Li Suhong, and the spirit eel; Li Suhong saw the Great Black Buddha Mother’s face revealed beneath a burning talisman.

Xu Yang fought the Great Black Buddha Mother as its demonic seed attacked with Buddhist mantras and curse-killing arts. After his Five Elements Divine Lightning broke through its defenses, he destroyed the demon and tore open the darkness above the Five Marshes.

• Li Suhong saw the Great Black Buddha Mother's true form inside the Universe Basket, then collapsed when a thunderous roar dispelled the darkness.
• Xu Yang struck the manifested Great Black Buddha Mother, but its demonic barrier repelled his whip and its Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra wounded him.
• The Buddha Mother used its Vajra Pestle and Rakshasa Hooked Scythe to curse and suppress Xu Yang, but he resisted with the Five Elements Divine Lightning.
• Xu Yang shattered the Buddha Mother's wheel and battered its golden body until it cracked and released demonic qi.
• The Buddha Mother swallowed Xu Yang's lightning, but the Five Elements Divine Lightning burst from within, piercing its body and shattering its head.
• Xu Yang's sword tore through the curtain of darkness, and dawn revealed the blood-filled lake in the Five Marshes.

Xu Yang fled the shattered Demon Domain and considered why he had been able to kill a true demon when ancient immortals could only seal them. He began planning a hidden sect to gather demon-transforming spiritual objects and carefully train disciples, then accepted A Qing, her younger brother, and Li Suhong as his first disciples.

• Xu Yang escaped the Five Marshes and pondered whether the Mara Realm had lost its ability to sustain true demonic seeds.
• Xu Yang decided to develop his strength and establish a hidden sect, recruiting only a few disciples and using spiritual objects to protect them from demonic qi.
• Xu Yang released A Qing, her younger brother, Li Suhong, and the Spirit Eel King from the Universe Basket.
• A Qing and Li Suhong thanked Xu Yang for rescuing them, and Li Suhong recognized him as the Fishing Elder.
• Xu Yang invited A Qing and Li Suhong to join his sect, and both accepted his offer.
• Xu Yang warned Li Suhong never to consume Five Viscera Human Pills again, then began choosing a name for his newly founded sect.

One year later, Qinglong appeared on Dongyun Mountain as Daxing Mountain and Ice Extreme Palace fought over the King Lingzhi Grass and hunted the pillaging cultivator Li Hongyu. After Qinglong killed Li Hongyu with Yimu Divine Lightning, he challenged Yuwen Feng and the Blue-clothed Woman to fight.

• Daxing Mountain's Immortal Seeking Envoys killed Old Monster Yun and took the Spirit Beast Bag containing the King Lingzhi Grass.
• Li Hongyu ambushed and killed the three envoys, but Yuwen Feng's sword strike from the bag wounded him.
• Yuwen Feng and the Blue-clothed Woman of Ice Extreme Palace trapped Li Hongyu in a Silver Crystal Net, nearly freezing him to death.
• Qinglong arrived, claimed the Lingzhi Grass and other spiritual items for White Jade Capital, and destroyed the net and Li Hongyu with Yimu Divine Lightning.
• Yuwen Feng challenged Qinglong's concealed identity, and Qinglong answered by offering to fight him and the Blue-clothed Woman.

Ten years after White Jade Capital first appeared, a woman in white visited a wine house in a snow city to obtain intelligence about the faction. She learned of its five powerful palace lords and its ongoing clashes with Daxing Mountain, while the woman's own purpose remained unrevealed.

• A woman in white entered the wine house and presented a jade pendant to the maid on the third floor.
• Hong Ling, the steward, met the woman after she asked for information about White Jade Capital.
• Hong Ling returned with a jade slip containing the wine house's intelligence on White Jade Capital.
• The woman read an account of the faction's origins, organization, conflict with Daxing Mountain, and the deeds of its five palace lords.

Hong Ling briefed a woman in white on White Jade Capital’s strength, theories about its Five Palace Lord and methods for resisting demonic affliction. She warned that Daxing Mountain’s ancestor would attempt Corpse Decomposition next month, setting up a ceremony where White Jade Capital and multiple powerful sects might clash.

• The woman in white questioned Hong Ling about White Jade Capital, and Hong Ling shared what her tower knew about its Twelve Towers, Five Cities, and Five Palaces.
• Hong Ling explained that White Jade Capital’s leaders repeatedly sought Demon-Transforming spiritual materials, suggesting they either needed them for cultivation or possessed a Beast Tower.
• Hong Ling described the theory that one person served as all Five Palace Lords and might wield the combined powers of the five elements, making even a Golden Core cultivator a threat to Nascent Soul experts.
• Hong Ling reasoned that White Jade Capital’s frequent battles indicated it had either abundant Five Viscera Pills or a method to suppress demonic affliction, and said her tower favored the latter explanation.
• Hong Ling revealed that Daxing Mountain had invited several Corpse Decomposition Immortal sects to its ancestor’s ceremony on the seventh day of next month, where the ancestor would attempt to condense a Nascent Soul.
• Hong Ling warned that White Jade Capital and Daxing Mountain were irreconcilable enemies and that the ceremony could draw in Corpse Decomposition Immortals, advising the woman to leave if she had no urgent business.

Ten years after the Demon Domain calamity, Li Suhong had made the Li Family dominant across the three prefectures and Five Marshes, while outsiders suspected its rise was connected to White Jade Capital. Xu Yang, nearing a breakthrough to Golden Elixir, prepared to challenge the major sects for Demon-Transforming spirit treasures and confront the demonic calamity.

• Two spies from Listening to the Wind, Asking the Rain Tower discussed Li Suhong's rise and suspected the Li Family might be connected to White Jade Capital.
• Li Suhong dismissed a report about the spies and watched the heavily guarded arrays surrounding Xu Yang on the lake island.
• Xu Yang's status revealed that he had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection across four systems after ten years of building White Jade Capital and developing his skills.
• Xu Yang resolved to destroy sects that obstructed his pursuit of Demon-Transforming spirit treasures, despite Daxing Mountain's repeated attempts at reconciliation.
• With the Five Elements spirit treasures ready, Xu Yang planned to form his Golden Elixir, attend Daxing Mountain's demon-slaying gathering, and bring White Jade Capital into the open.

Xu Yang summoned his five disciples to form the Five Elements True Spirit Diagram and consumed forty-five Five Elements Golden Core Pills to break through. He formed a flawless Nine Revolutions Five Elements Golden Core, bringing all four cultivation systems into the sixth realm.

• Xu Yang summoned Dong Ling, Wang Hu, Huo Li, Chen Xuan, and Huang Shang to assist his core formation.
• The five disciples transformed into the Five Elements True Spirit Diagram, revealing the heavenly secrets of their demon-transforming bodies.
• Xu Yang consumed forty-five Five Elements Golden Core Pills and refined away their demonic qi with his alchemy and body-refinement methods.
• The Five Elements spiritual power entered Xu Yang’s five viscera as primordial spirits surged into his body through the island’s formation.
• Xu Yang formed a flawless Nine Revolutions Five Elements Golden Core and advanced all four cultivation systems into the sixth realm.

Xu Yang helped the Five Divine Beasts break through to the Golden Core realm and appointed them Lords of White Jade Capital’s Five Palaces. Worried about facing several Corpse Decomposition Immortals at Daxing Mountain, he forged the Five Elements Pearl and used it to create a Spirit Treasure Mecha, whose incarnation declared itself Kong Xuan.

• Xu Yang gave the Five Divine Beasts Golden Core Pills, and Dong Ling, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Kirin all reached the Golden Core realm.
• Xu Yang appointed the five beasts Lords of White Jade Capital’s Five Palaces and sent them away to consolidate their cultivation before the coming war.
• Xu Yang worried that his forces would be insufficient against the Corpse Decomposition Immortals expected at Daxing Mountain’s convention.
• Xu Yang combined his five Five Elements magic treasures into the low-grade Spirit Treasure called the Five Elements Pearl.
• Xu Yang summoned a Spirit Treasure Mecha with the Five Elements Pearl, entered it with his Daoist Yang God, and named its incarnation Kong Xuan, Left Emissary of White Jade Capital.

A mysterious visitor suspected to be Qinglong of White Jade Capital questioned Listening to the Wind, Asking the Rain about Snow God Mountain and the Holy Blood Sect, alarming the leaders of the coming alliance. Three days later, the Demon Slaying and Corpse Decomposition Convention began at Daxing Mountain as powerful guests arrived, while the fate of its ancestor’s demon-slaying remained uncertain.

• A Golden Core cultivator inquired about Snow God Mountain, and Hong Ling described its history, its three successor sects, and plans for an alliance to pursue ascension.
• The visitor asked about the Holy Blood Sect, and Hong Ling provided another jade slip before he departed.
• Li Qiankun learned that the visitor was suspected to be Qinglong of White Jade Capital and discussed with Wu Que whether White Jade Capital might disrupt the alliance.
• Three days later, the Demon Slaying and Corpse Decomposition Convention opened at Daxing Mountain, and the Vast Qi Sect Master Li Qiankun and the Snow God Peak Master arrived.
• Wu Que, Ice Extreme Palace, the Vajra Great Bright King, and the Great Brahma Amitabha Monk also arrived as attendees worried about White Jade Capital and the risks of Daxing Mountain's ancestor failing to slay his demon.

At Daxing Mountain’s Demon Slaying and Corpse Decomposition Convention, Luo Lie successfully underwent Corpse Decomposition, but Blood Demon Zheng Yin emerged from the demonic fetus and turned the gathering into a Blood Moon Demon Domain. Xu Yang watched from outside as the seven sects mobilized their forces against the Sacred Blood Demonic Sect.

• Six Corpse Decomposition Immortals gathered at Daxing Mountain and watched as Luo Lie’s Nascent Soul escaped the Scarlet Blood Demonic Fetus using the Ice Soul Fire Seed.
• Zheng Yin entered the abandoned demonic fetus, revealed himself as the Blood Demon, and confronted the newly transformed Luo Lie and the six immortals.
• Zheng Yin unleashed a blood moon and formed a Demon Domain around Daxing Mountain, trapping the gathered cultivators inside.
• The seven sects’ Golden Core cultivators revealed that the convention had been arranged to lure out the Blood Demon, then directed the guests to defend the mountain gate.
• Blood-red attacks battered Daxing Mountain’s formation until Li Qiankun sent the Vast Qi Cloud Dragon to cover the blood moon, while cultivators fought the demonic beasts.
• Xu Yang watched from outside the Demon Domain and considered the Sacred Blood Demonic Sect’s history and the seven sects’ plan to kill Zheng Yin.

The Seven Sects sealed the Blood Demon after Li Qiankun’s Vast Qi Cloud Dragon severed his connection to the Blood Moon Demonic Domain. As the survivors celebrated and Luo Lie discussed restoring Snow God Mountain’s lineage, Li Qiankun attacked him, and Meng Fuyao revealed that Luo Lie was actually Zheng Yin, the Corpse Blood Divine Lord.

• Li Qiankun obscured the Blood Moon with the Vast Qi Cloud Dragon while six Corpse Decomposers trapped Zheng Yin in two Grand Arrays.
• Zheng Yin unleashed his Blood God Sons and Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but Long Hua’s Three Monks held him off as Luo Lie struck him with the Water-Fire Profound Ice Sword.
• Sikong Ya and Yu Wuxin froze Zheng Yin’s remaining flesh, and the monks and Corpse Decomposers layered seals over the two ice crystals.
• The Blood Moon vanished and the Demonic Domain collapsed, ending the battle as survivors looked to the Seven Sects for the promised chance to ascend to the Upper Realm.
• Li Qiankun stabbed Luo Lie as Wu Que and the other monks attacked Sikong Ya and Yu Wuxin, and the ice palace erupted into a new blood sea.
• Meng Fuyao appeared and confronted the wounded Luo Lie, who transformed into Zheng Yin and asked when Meng Fuyao had discovered his deception.

Meng Fuyao, Li Qiankun, and the three Buddhist monks defeated Zheng Yin and sealed the True Blood Demon Seed, but the Blood Demon’s Heart Sutra overcame them as the seal began to crack. As the five Corpse Decomposition cultivators fell under its influence, a newcomer arrived reciting a verse.

• Li Qiankun and the leaders of the four sects ordered the arrest of the Three Sects of Snow God after exposing their patriarchs as Blood Demon incarnations, while Blood Demon Wombs erupted among cultivators across the battlefield.
• Meng Fuyao fought Zheng Yin with Vast Qi Unfurling as Li Qiankun and the three Buddhist monks blocked the Blood Moon and suppressed the sea of blood.
• Meng Fuyao split Zheng Yin’s body, and the monks sealed the True Blood Demon Seed inside a Vajra Bodhi Seed.
• The Vajra Bodhi Seed began to crack as the Blood Demon recited the Papiyas Scripture, disrupting the minds and spiritual power of Meng Fuyao and the other four Corpse Decomposition cultivators.
• A figure arrived, reciting, “White Jade Capital in the Heavens, Twelve Towers and Five Cities.”

White Jade Capital entered the battlefield and used Five Elements supernatural abilities to fight Zheng Yin, whose attempt to break the Buddhist seal had driven him toward becoming a Blood Sea Asura. Zheng Yin’s blood sea and demonic blade re-formed under the blood moon, and he charged White Jade Capital again as five-colored divine light appeared.

• Zheng Yin broke the Vajra Bodhi seal with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but his use of the Heart Sutra of Pāramita began transforming him into the Nether River’s blood sea.
• White Jade Capital blocked Zheng Yin’s escape and attacked him with fire-, metal-, earth-, wood-, and water-element qi.
• Zheng Yin used the Blood Sea demonic weapon to resist the Five Elements attacks, but White Jade Capital fused five Sword Qis into Primordial Chaos energy and shattered the blade and his body.
• The blood moon restored the sea of blood and the demonic blade, and Zheng Yin reappeared, uncertainly transformed between himself and the Blood God Son.
• Zheng Yin charged White Jade Capital again, who summoned five-colored divine light containing a tree, sword, pearl, cauldron, and seal.

Xu Yang used his Five Elements treasures and a vast sealing array to trap and refine the Blood Demon, while Meng Fuyao freed himself and his allies from the Mara Sutra’s influence. Xu Yang struck the Blood Sea Spring Eye with Five Elements Divine Lightning, and the resulting blast threatened everyone nearby.

• Xu Yang brought forth five Five Elements treasures and defeated the Blood Demon's attacks with Five-Colored Divine Light, forcing him to shatter into blood streams and flee.
• Xu Yang deployed the Five Elements True Spirit Demon Sealing Grand Array, reinforced it with a hundred thousand artifacts, and trapped the Blood Demon inside.
• Meng Fuyao used the Vast Qi Sword to sever the Mara Sutra's influence from himself, Li Qiankun, and the three Buddhist monks.
• Meng Fuyao and Li Qiankun watched as the array refined the Blood Sea into the Blood Demon’s remaining blood seed, while they prepared to intervene if it escaped.
• Xu Yang combined the Five Thunders into Five Elements Divine Lightning and struck the Blood Sea Spring Eye, unleashing a destructive blast that Meng Fuyao and the others moved to withstand.

Xu Yang defeated the Blood Demon, claimed the sealed Blood Seed and the Three Sects of Snow God’s territories for White Jade Capital, then met Meng Fuyao to learn how Yuwen Shang became the Blood Demon. Meng Fuyao revealed that Yuwen Shang founded Snow God Mountain, fell into the demonic path, destroyed his own sect, and later hid behind several identities.

• Xu Yang’s battle with the Blood Demon ended with the Spirit Treasure Mecha heavily damaged and its demonic contamination reaching 75%.
• Meng Fuyao and the other Corpse Decomposition cultivators handed Xu Yang the sealed Blood Seed rather than risk fighting him for it.
• Xu Yang introduced himself as Kong Xuan, Left Emissary of White Jade Capital, and claimed White Dragon Ridge and the lands of the Three Sects of Snow God.
• Xu Yang and Meng Fuyao met privately, where Xu Yang asked about the Blood Demon’s origins.
• Meng Fuyao explained that Yuwen Shang created the Corpse-Decomposition Demon Path in a bid to overcome the limits of Corpse Decomposition and ascend.
• Meng Fuyao revealed that Yuwen Shang became the Blood Demon Zheng Yin, destroyed Snow God Mountain, and later used identities including Luo Lie, Sikong Ya, and Yu Wuxin to evade pursuit.