Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan left the Chen brothers rare-grade equipment before returning to his mansion, where he received Liu Er Ya’s report that her relief work and preaching were progressing quickly. He traveled to Tigerhead Town to investigate and watched as a pockmarked thug attacked Liu Er Ya and was suddenly struck down by an unseen force.

• Wang Zhifan politely declined Chen Can’s guild invitation and later gave Chen Can and Chen Ming rare-grade armor and a belt before teleporting away.
• Chen Can and Chen Ming exchanged the Jade Silkworm Silk Soft Armor and Hunger Belt, while Wang Zhifan decided not to give them exceptional-grade equipment.
• Wang Zhifan heard Liu Er Ya report that she had begun relieving the poor and gathering believers eager to enter the Holy Tower.
• Wang Zhifan traveled to Tigerhead Town and found Liu Er Ya distributing steamed buns and preaching to the poor.
• Wang Big Pockmark threatened Liu Er Ya and swung at her, but he was suddenly wounded and thrown to the ground as Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing watched.

Wang Zhifan arranged for the Pitch-Black Tower to descend over Tigerhead Town so Liu Er’s new believers could undergo trials and receive blessings. Wind-Snow Tower disciples Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing joined the crowd in disguise, and Wang Zhifan sent them into the tower along with Liu Er and more than twenty others.

• Liu Er preached to the townspeople after the Demon Shadow Dart badly wounded Wang Pockmark, while Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing investigated her and suspected a Demon Gate plot.
• Wang Zhifan decided to advance the believers’ benefits and told Liu Er that the Holy Tower would descend that night.
• Liu Er gathered more than two hundred people, including disguised Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing, and led them west through Tigerhead Town.
• Wang Zhifan used the Demon Scroll to project the Pitch-Black Tower across worlds, and it appeared above the town.
• Wang Zhifan remotely activated the tower and transported more than twenty people, including Liu Er, Wu Xun, and Yang Qingqing, inside.

Wu Xun climbed the Holy Tower’s ten floors, defeating increasingly powerful enemies and collecting magical equipment that strengthened him. After surviving a dangerous final battle and using a Healing Potion to recover, he left the tower wondering whether the Celestial Venerable was truly a god.

• Wu Xun appeared inside the Holy Tower, defeated a giant wolf, and obtained Agility Handguards that increased his agility.
• He defeated three ordinary villagers on the second floor and kept the Healing Potion they dropped.
• Wu Xun overcame three bandits on the third floor and equipped Troll Bracers that increased his strength and could trigger critical hits.
• He used the bracers’ power to defeat a formidable swordsman, then continued through the remaining floors and collected various rewards.
• On the tenth floor, Wu Xun struggled through a half-hour battle against a veiled Demon Gate demoness before defeating her and receiving the Bloodline Power necklace.
• Wu Xun drank the Healing Potion, recovered from his injuries, and left the tower through a door of light; elsewhere, Wang Zhifan praised the two Limitless Sect disciples for clearing their trials.

The Holy Tower returned its entrants to the streets with rewards, and Liu Er promoted the Celestial Venerable to the gathered crowd. Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing secretly resolved to worship the Celestial Venerable, while Wang Zhifan planned further efforts to attract powerful natives and spread his influence.

• The first returnees appeared with valuable rewards, and the crowd learned that the Holy Tower’s ten floors offered prizes for completing trials.
• Liu Er told the gathered people that the Celestial Venerable could grant medicine, weapons, and blessings, and suggested that relatives could undertake trials for those unable to fight.
• Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing returned after clearing all ten floors and agreed to conceal their treasures and experiences from their sect.
• Yang Qingqing argued that the Celestial Venerable had helped her defeat the Demon Gate enchantress, persuading Wu Xun to secretly worship him as well.
• Wang Zhifan retrieved the Pitch-Black Tower, reviewed the descent’s costs and results, and planned to turn Tigerhead Town into a center for promoting the Celestial Venerable.

Wang Zhifan studied the Quantum Dream Domain, collected resources and inspected his new Sirius mech, then quickly advanced his Pure Yang True Art on Gaia Planet. He entered a new instance as a Person of the Dao Realm and arrived at a peaceful village, with the Demon Realm invasion still distant.

• Wang Zhifan promised Ying a body and a spacecraft in exchange for her help studying the Quantum Dream Domain, then left to handle other matters.
• Wang Zhifan collected magical flora and fauna with his Succubus maids, delivered them to Catherine, and inspected and stored the Sirius mech she had received.
• Wang Zhifan cultivated the Pure Yang True Art through repeated sunrises on Gaia Planet, raising it from Lv0 to Lv1 and improving his attributes and internal energy.
• Wang Zhifan entered an instance to help the Calamity Realm resist the Demon Realm invasion and chose the Person of the Dao Realm identity.
• Wang Zhifan used his Wind-Hiding Hat and lightness skill to reach a prosperous village, where he saw no immediate sign that the invasion had begun.

Wang Zhifan traveled from Three Peaks Village to Book Hill City and questioned the Confucian cultivator Zhang Siqian about the Demon Realm, learning that its forces could pose a massive threat despite being sealed away. He then headed toward Heavenly Origin City, but stopped after spotting a crowd gathered to watch a duel between Venerable Dragon Mountain and the self-proclaimed Ultimate Sage of Spear Dao.

• Wang Zhifan left Three Peaks Village after its residents failed to tell him anything about the Demon Realm, then rode to Book Hill City.
• Wang Zhifan befriended Zhang Siqian, who recognized his supposed Dao Realm origins and explained that the Sage formation had kept the Demon Realm at bay.
• Zhang Siqian told Wang Zhifan that the Demon Realm had billions of demonfolk, numerous powerful generals and venerables, and five demon lords comparable to the Sages.
• Wang Zhifan departed for Heavenly Origin City, planning to travel at a relaxed pace while the invasion had yet to begin.
• Wang Zhifan landed on a barren plain after noticing a crowd and saw Venerable Dragon Mountain prepare to face the Ultimate Sage of Spear Dao in a duel.

Wang Zhifan watched Venerable Dragon Mountain defeat He Kuang, then revived the badly injured spear master with Healing Technique. He Kuang told Wang Zhifan that demons had appeared in scattered places across the Calamity Realm, giving him clues about a possible invasion.

• Venerable Dragon Mountain defeated He Kuang after blocking his attacks with a Buddhist Vajra phantom, and left him crushed and bleeding.
• Wang Zhifan approached He Kuang and repeatedly cast Healing Technique until he revived.
• He Kuang thanked Wang Zhifan, and Wang Zhifan led him away to ask questions.
• He Kuang revealed that he had helped investigate demon sightings and had killed several dozen demon soldiers near the Canglan Ancient Sea.
• He Kuang described the scattered sightings and identified the Eight-Armed Demon, Crimson-Eyed Demon, and Bald-Bone Demon.

Wang Zhifan reached Heavenly Origin City to investigate the Demon Realm’s infiltration and met Qingyangzi, who invited him to speak. After spotting a dragon-horned woman among the city’s powerful cultivators, Wang Zhifan met a group of players who said they had found no signs of war and could not advance the instance.

• Wang Zhifan chose to travel to Heavenly Origin City rather than investigate the Canglan Ancient Sea, then arrived at the vast, open city on the Crimson Deer Horse.
• A young sword-riding Daoist brought Wang Zhifan to Qingyang Palace, where Qingyangzi greeted him as a fellow cultivator from the Dao Realm.
• Wang Zhifan introduced himself as Fan Yun Sanren and told Qingyangzi he had come to help the Calamity Realm resist the Demon Realm’s infiltrating forces.
• After Qingyangzi received a gathering of powerful cultivators, Wang Zhifan noticed a sharp-eyed woman with silver-white dragon horns and left to explore the city.
• A player called Wang Zhifan into a tavern room, where five other players explained that they had found no signs of war and did not know how to advance the instance.

Wang Zhifan shared intelligence about the Demon Realm with six players, then explored Heavenly Origin Library Pavilion and discovered that he could not understand its advanced cultivation texts without game assistance. Qingyangzi gathered Wang Zhifan, Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, and Kongjian to entrust them with hunting Innate Realm demon generals while the Calamity Realm's Saints fought the Demon Lords.

• Wang Zhifan told six players that Demon Realm forces had begun entering the instance, but politely declined their invitation to join their team.
• The six players discussed Wang Zhifan's unknown identity and decided he might be important to the instance and worth recruiting.
• Wang Zhifan visited Heavenly Origin Library Pavilion, examined its cultivation manuals, and learned that a key was required to access the fifth floor and above.
• A young Daoist summoned Wang Zhifan to Qingyang Palace, where he met Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade and Kongjian.
• Qingyangzi showed them the Tianyuan Disk and explained that the Demon Realm's incursions were worsening while the three Saints were occupied fighting five Demon Lords.
• Wang Zhifan agreed to help, and Qingyangzi assigned the three cultivators to eliminate the dangerous Innate Realm demon generals.

Wang Zhifan and Dragon Girl traveled to Shenliang Mountain to fight demons, then split up to deal with a demonic invasion. Wang Zhifan killed four supposed demon generals with ease and ended the chapter disappointed by how weak they were.

• Qingyangzi sent Wang Zhifan and Dragon Girl to Shenliang Mountain through the Earth-Shrinking Formation while Dead Tree Monk went to another demonic scourge.
• Wang Zhifan and Dragon Girl found demons in the valley, and Dragon Girl attacked them while Wang Zhifan searched for the demon generals.
• Wang Zhifan discovered a mountain town under attack and found four figures that appeared to be demon generals, more than the mission intelligence had reported.
• Wang Zhifan secretly killed a black demon stalking a Daoist and a many-armed ape demon fighting local cultivators.
• Wang Zhifan confirmed that two demon generals had died to his Ice Source Power and two more to attacks projected through the Demon Scroll, and he complained that they had been too weak.

Wang Zhifan helped the resistance forces wipe out the demons in the mountain town, having already killed all four Demon Generals with his Ice Source Power. After Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade joined the cleanup, the survivors regrouped and received a warning that a Demon Venerable had appeared in Radiance Province.

• Wang Zhifan sent four clones to help the resistance forces kill demons and used Ice Source Power to save a young Daoist from several attackers.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade arrived and asked Wang Zhifan's clone where the four Demon Generals were; he said they had all been dealt with.
• Wang Zhifan and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade joined the resistance forces in clearing the remaining demons, and none escaped.
• Xuanzhenzi of Qingyang Palace thanked the two experts and discussed the next steps, while Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade volunteered to continue fighting.
• A flying sword arrived carrying Qingyangzi's warning that a Demon Venerable was suspected to have appeared in Radiance Province and that everyone should avoid it.

Wang Zhifan and the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade reached Radiance Province and found Buddhist monks battling a powerful Demon Venerable. As Confucian scholar Qingfeng arrived and challenged the monks, Wang Zhifan watched from the sidelines and learned about the rivalry between the Buddhist and Confucian Sects.

• Wang Zhifan followed the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade toward Radiance Province after hearing that a Demon Venerable had appeared there.
• Wang Zhifan and the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade found three Buddhist eminent monks fighting a huge three-headed, six-armed Demon Venerable while other monks battled demons nearby.
• The Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade warned Wang Zhifan not to interfere because the Buddhist Sect disliked outsiders intruding on its affairs.
• Scholar Qingfeng and sixteen Confucian Sect experts arrived, and Qingfeng bound three Buddhist monks who tried to stop them.
• Scholar Qingfeng mocked the Buddhist monks for failing to defeat the Demon Venerable, while the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade explained the rivalry between the Buddhist and Confucian Sects to Wang Zhifan.

Wang Zhifan watched the Confucian and Buddhist sects maneuver against each other while they fought the Demon Venerable, until Qingfeng Jushi shattered its fused form and it split into three stronger demons. The Buddhist monks blamed Qingfeng Jushi as the three demons emerged, leaving the Confucian Sect facing a far more dangerous battle.

• The three Buddhist eminent monks subtly steered the Demon Venerable toward Qingfeng Jushi and his fellow Confucian scholars while the sects traded taunts.
• Dragon Girl Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade noticed that the Demon Venerable’s aura fluctuated, and Wang Zhifan watched for the change she anticipated.
• The Buddhist eminent monks were blasted away when the Demon Venerable’s aura surged, so Qingfeng Jushi and sixteen Confucian experts attacked it with the Confucian Sage's Demon-Slaying Chapter and a collective recitation.
• Qingfeng Jushi nearly destroyed the Demon Venerable, then mocked the Buddhist Sect, but the creature’s aura recovered and it split into three demons.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade explained that the Demon Venerable had been three demons fused through a secret art, and the Buddhist eminent monks blamed Qingfeng Jushi for breaking their fused form.

The three Demon Venerables attacked a Buddhist town, while Qingfeng Jushi and the monks tried to delay them until reinforcements arrived. Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade and Wang Zhifan joined the fight, and Wang Zhifan froze two Demon Venerables as the battle escalated.

• The three Demon Venerables rushed toward nearby towns to devour humans, while Qingfeng Jushi sent the Confucian cultivators for reinforcements and stayed behind.
• The Buddhist monks and Qingfeng Jushi defended a town as its protective formation weakened under the Demon Venerables’ attacks.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade asked Wang Zhifan to cover her while she challenged the old-hag Demon Venerable, and they flew toward the town.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade attacked the old-hag Demon Venerable and revealed the Azure Dragon Dharma Body to escape the three demons’ counterattack.
• Wang Zhifan used Ice Source Power to restrain the black-flame and massive Demon Venerables, leaving Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade to fight her chosen opponent.

Wang Zhifan used his Great Dream Saber Scripture and Ice Source Power to hold off two Demon Venerables while Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade fought a third. When the Demon Venerables targeted her, the Buddhist monks and Qingfeng joined the fight, and Wang Zhifan returned with a transformed dream technique.

• The three Buddhist Sect monks and Qingfeng watched as Wang Zhifan and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade confronted the Demon Venerables.
• Wang Zhifan used the Ocean Envoy, Dream Self clones, and Great Dream Saber Scripture to injure and distract the Blackflame Demon Venerable and Strength Demon Venerable.
• The two Demon Venerables coordinated an attack that destroyed Wang Zhifan's nearby clones, but he escaped with Entering Dreams and Dreambreaking.
• The Demon Venerables turned toward Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, prompting the Buddhist monks and Qingfeng to rush to her aid.
• Wang Zhifan raced back and unleashed Dream Transformation of Myriad Realms to engulf the two Demon Venerables in his dream realm.

Wang Zhifan trapped two Demon Venerables in his dream domain and unleashed his full strength, killing them both, though one resisted complete erasure. Back on the Radiance Prefecture Plains, the other fighters watched as Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade became trapped in the Demon Venerable’s Boundless Purgatory.

• Wang Zhifan used Dream Transformation of Myriad Realms to draw two Demon Venerables into his dream domain, where his abilities gained a powerful home-field enhancement.
• Wang Zhifan killed the shorter Demon Venerable with close-range strikes from the Blade of Time, then used Life Is a Dream to erase most of the larger Demon Venerable, leaving part of its skull behind.
• The native experts preparing to support Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade watched the two Demon Venerables vanish, then realized Wang Zhifan had disappeared as well.
• The experts gathered near Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade’s battle but held back while she continued fighting the remaining Demon Venerable.
• The Demon Venerable surrounded Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade with layers of illusions from Boundless Purgatory, and an eminent monk warned that she might be unable to escape.

Wang Zhifan returned after killing two Demon Venerables and found Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade trapped in a layered illusion he could not safely enter. The Confucian Sect's Master arrived and gave Wang Zhifan the title Martial Venerable, while Moon-Extinguishing remained trapped.

• The Buddhist monks and Qingfeng Jushi debated whether to enter the illusion surrounding Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade or wait for help.
• Wang Zhifan descended with the remains of two Demon Venerables he had killed, astonishing the monks and Qingfeng Jushi.
• Wang Zhifan identified himself as Fan Yun Sanren and examined the illusion, but judged it too complex to enter and rescue Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade.
• The Confucian Sect's Master arrived, praised Wang Zhifan's cultivation, and bestowed the title Martial Venerable upon him.

After Master named Wang Zhifan the Martial Venerable, everyone waited for Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade to escape the Anomaly illusion and achieve the Azure Dragon True Body. Wang Zhifan stayed behind to watch, and the illusion suddenly erupted with the aura of her transformation.

• Master bestowed the title Martial Venerable on Wang Zhifan and predicted Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade would break free within half an hour with the Azure Dragon True Body.
• Master departed after telling Qingfeng Jushi to copy the Self-Cultivation Essay ten times, while the Buddhist Sect monks and Qingfeng Jushi waited beside the illusion.
• The three Buddhist Sect monks left the remaining demonkind to their disciples as combat training, and Wang Zhifan chose to wait for Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade.
• Qingfeng Jushi painted the battlefield while Wang Zhifan admired his work and asked for paper to make a painting of his own.
• Wang Zhifan secretly used the Mage's Power Box to prepare an image-imprinting spell, but the Anomaly illusion began collapsing and radiating a powerful aura.
• The Buddhist Sect monks recognized the aura as the Azure Dragon True Body and cried out that Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade had achieved it.

Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade emerged from the collapsing illusion realm as a Transcendent Xiantian and thanked Wang Zhifan for helping her defeat the Demon Venerable. Wang Zhifan’s lifelike image of her Azure Dragon True Spirit astonished the group, and he gave it to her so her clan could use it in cultivation.

• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade transformed from her Azure Dragon True Body and landed after breaking through to the Transcendent Xiantian realm.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade thanked Wang Zhifan for restraining the other Demon Venerables, while the monks told her he had earned the title Martial Venerable by killing two of them.
• Qingfeng Jushi showed Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade his ink painting of the Azure Dragon True Spirit, and she praised it while noting that a complete image could help her clan cultivate.
• Wang Zhifan revealed his lifelike image-imprinting photograph of the Azure Dragon, stunning Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, Qingfeng Jushi, and the monks.
• Wang Zhifan explained that he had used a special secret art, refused Qingfeng Jushi’s request to teach it, and gave the photograph to Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade for her clan.

Wang Zhifan returned to Heavenly Origin City and helped its Daoist Sect forces defeat a Demon Realm invasion, rescuing cultivators across the battlefield. Qingyangzi, Zhenxuzi, and Huayangzi then explained that Wang Zhifan’s title of Martial Venerable made him the foremost representative of Martial Dao and a symbol of its rise.

• Wang Zhifan found Heavenly Origin City under attack by more than thirty thousand demonmen, though its defenders had already slain three Demon Venerables.
• Wang Zhifan killed Demon Generals and rescued Daoist cultivators, including the young Qingyang Palace gatekeeper, by freezing enemies with Ice Source Power.
• Qingyangzi summoned Wang Zhifan to Qingyang Palace, where Zhenxuzi and Huayangzi greeted him as Martial Venerable.
• Huayangzi explained that the title recognized Wang Zhifan as Martial Dao’s foremost figure and honored his contribution to the path.
• Wang Zhifan realized the Daoist Sect had long hoped to advance Martial Dao, which explained the many martial manuals in Heavenly Origin Library Pavilion.