Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan visited Moon-Extinguishing Main Island, learned why the Mieyue Clan feared being abandoned during a Demon Realm attack, and met Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade’s family. With Dragon Blade’s help, he cultivated the Limitless Golden Body Technique to Lv3 ahead of schedule, then prepared for the imminent great battle.

• Wang Zhifan teleported to Moon-Extinguishing Main Island, where Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade showed him the clan’s territory and explained its history of enmity with the Demon Realm and fear of delayed aid.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade described how the Mieyue Clan and other True Spirit clans planned to support one another because they might be the last territories defended by outside forces.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade showed Wang Zhifan her family home and clan landmarks, then introduced him to her parents when they returned from fishing.
• Wang Zhifan returned to the Martial Venerable Hall and began intensive Limitless Golden Body Technique cultivation, with Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade assisting him with medicinal baths and massages.
• After twelve days, Wang Zhifan reached Limitless Golden Body Technique Lv3, gained major physical attributes, and discovered that his Indestructible Body talent had risen to Lv5.
• Wang Zhifan learned that the great battle would begin within a day or two and decided to rest before preparing to fight the Demon Realm.

Wang Zhifan and the Transcendent Xiantian cultivators repelled the first demon assault on Heavenly Origin City, while demon forces appeared across the Calamity Realm. The Mieyue Clan also came under attack, and Wang Zhifan expected the Demon Realm’s main invasion—and the hostile players—to arrive soon.

• Wang Zhifan told He Kuang that Qin Province was safe for the moment, and He Kuang reaffirmed that he would stay to protect the Martial Venerable Hall.
• Thousands of cracks opened outside Heavenly Origin City, and Wang Zhifan, Huayangzi, Qingyangzi, Zhenxuzi, and arriving reinforcements fought the demon army.
• The cultivators exterminated two Demon Venerables and their forces, after which Huayangzi, Qingyangzi, and Zhenxuzi left to pursue merit points while Wang Zhifan returned to guard the city.
• Wang Zhifan checked the Demon-Sealing Ranking, exchanged messages with Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, and learned that the Mieyue Clan was handling three Demon Venerables on its own.
• Wang Zhifan told the players and He Kuang that the Demon Realm’s main attack and the hostile players would likely appear by that night or the following morning.

Wang Zhifan joined the cultivators gathering at Shuyue City as the Demon Realm’s main army descended, led by a newly revealed Demon Empress. Master confronted the Demon Empress and sent the other cultivators to fight the invading forces, while Wang Zhifan hesitated before the overwhelming enemy host.

• At midnight, the Demon-Sealing Ranking showed a vast Demon Realm army advancing toward Shuyue City, and Master summoned all ranked cultivators to join the battle.
• Wang Zhifan teleported to Shuyue City, where he reunited with Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade and saw the Demon Realm army gather beneath a barrier around the city.
• Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade told Wang Zhifan that the Demon Realm had a sixth Demon Lord, and Master fought off the enemy’s enormous attacks above Shuyue City.
• The Demon Empress revealed herself, rejected Master’s offer to negotiate, and vowed to keep her army advancing.
• Master charged into the sky to confront the Demon Empress and urged the cultivators to fight the other demons, while Wang Zhifan hesitated over the enemy’s overwhelming numbers.

Wang Zhifan linked several allies with Fated Life Link as the Demon Realm army attacked Shuyue City, but the city’s formation collapsed under the assault. Surrounded by Demon Venerables and unfamiliar enemy players, he decided to help Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade escape and abandon the city for guerrilla warfare.

• Wang Zhifan explained Fated Life Link to the Mieyue Clan and the three Qingyangzi, then linked them together with Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade.
• Wang Zhifan and the other human cultivators fought from within Shuyue City's formation, but more than a thousand Demon Venerables overwhelmed it and destroyed the defenses.
• Wang Zhifan and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade retreated toward the outskirts while battling several Demon Venerables, and Wang Zhifan killed a three-headed, six-armed Demon Venerable with his Annihilation Saber Intent.
• Wang Zhifan escaped a swarm of red insects and reflected laser attacks from pale-blue humanoids, whom he suspected were Otherworld Players.
• Wang Zhifan sensed through Fated Life Link that Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade had been injured and decided to help her retreat and abandon Shuyue City.

After the demons seized Shuyue City and much of Xuanzhou, Wang Zhifan returned to Heavenly Origin City and treated the wounded Daoists. He and Qingyangzi and Huayangzi agreed to use the Demon-Sealing Ranking and teleportation to hunt scattered demon forces, while Huayangzi began regrowing his missing arm in Wang Zhifan’s biological modification pod.

• Wang Zhifan returned to True Void Hall and found Huayangzi missing an arm and Zhenxuzi near death from a Demon Venerable’s poison.
• Wang Zhifan used healing and detoxification skills to stabilize Zhenxuzi, then offered Huayangzi a genuine replacement arm through his Biological Modification Pod.
• Huayangzi accepted a weaker replacement arm and remained conscious as the pod began creating it.
• Wang Zhifan, Qingyangzi, and Huayangzi agreed that cultivators should use the Demon-Sealing Ranking and teleportation to hunt the scattered demon forces.
• Wang Zhifan left to fight nearby demons, and a physician later arrived and confirmed his treatment had kept Zhenxuzi alive until her arrival.

After a day of fighting, Wang Zhifan checked the Demon-Sealing Ranking and continued hunting Demon Venerables while Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade returned to rest. In the Hezhou Mountains, an ambush by three cultivators failed to kill their targets, and Wang Zhifan pursued nearby demons to investigate their escape and try to score a kill before reinforcements arrived.

• Wang Zhifan found that his merit total had passed one thousand and that he had risen to twenty-eighth place, while Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade counted sixty-one gray names on the ranking.
• Wang Zhifan refused Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade's offer to keep fighting, sent her to rest, and teleported to the Hezhou Mountains to hunt two isolated Demon Venerables.
• Three Transcendent Xiantian cultivators attacked the Demon Venerables together, but the demons vanished before the strike could be confirmed as a kill.
• The three cultivators discovered that more Demon Venerables were converging and fled, while Wang Zhifan stayed behind because he still had a teleportation available.
• Wang Zhifan headed toward another pair of Demon Venerables, determined to test their escape ability and try to kill them before he was surrounded.

Wang Zhifan killed one Demon Venerable with a dark-enhanced ambush, then withdrew when he faced a group of five. As Demon Tathagata fought the five, Wang Zhifan moved to help, but a strange Black Buddha emerged from the monk and broke free of their restraints.

• Wang Zhifan ambushed two Demon Venerables in a cave, beheading one before the other escaped with spatial movement.
• Six Demon Venerables converged on Wang Zhifan, and a bat-shaped Demon Venerable lured him toward an encirclement before Wang Zhifan escaped using Entering Dreams and Dreambreaking.
• Wang Zhifan returned to find five Demon Venerables gathered together, then withdrew rather than risk fighting them all at once.
• Demon Tathagata arrived and attacked the five Demon Venerables, who scattered and used poison, a corrosive eye technique, strange threads, and a spear to restrain and assault him.
• Wang Zhifan rushed to support Demon Tathagata with the Blade of Time, but the monk's body exploded and a blood-eyed Black Buddha emerged, shattered the restraints, and charged a Demon Venerable.

Wang Zhifan and Demon Tathagata defeated the five Demon Venerables, and Demon Tathagata explained that hidden demonfolk arrays enabled spatial movement and communication. Wang Zhifan found and destroyed an array node in the collapsed cave before leaving.

• Demon Tathagata transformed into Black Buddha, broke free of the Demon Venerables’ restraints, and crushed one while fighting the others.
• Wang Zhifan wounded the giant snake Demon Venerable, escaped the fine threads’ spatial seal with Spatial Movement, and killed two fleeing Demon Venerables using Time Stop and the Blade of Time.
• Black Buddha killed the remaining Demon Venerables, then reverted to an exhausted Demon Tathagata, who treated his cracked skin and confronted Wang Zhifan about watching him change clothes.
• Demon Tathagata told Wang Zhifan that hidden arrays let demonfolk move through space and communicate, and that he had suppressed the enemies’ teleportation during the fight.
• Wang Zhifan returned to the collapsed cave, found a concealed demonfolk array node, and destroyed its arrangements.

A group of otherworldly players ambushed three foreign players in Heavenly Origin City, killing the white man and apparently the American Black player while the Asian player escaped their first assault. The Black player then emerged from the burning inn alive, surprising the hidden Asian player and the attackers.

• Three foreign players discussed the safe conditions in Heavenly Origin City and debated which Earthstar player they should approach.
• More than a dozen otherworldly players disguised as natives surrounded the inn and launched a coordinated attack on the three players.
• Laser beams killed the tall white man and struck the American Black player, while the short Asian player survived behind his special clothing and fled using concealment skills.
• The Asian player hid in the void as rockets destroyed the inn, then spotted the attackers searching the ruins.
• The Asian player changed into a tiny flying insect to evade detection, but the American Black player suddenly rushed out of the flames alive.

A group of Otherworld Players ambushed two powerful players in Heavenly Origin City, but the city’s Daoists arrived and forced the attackers to retreat. The Black player was then mistaken for a demon and hunted by the natives, while Qingyangzi struck down the transformed Asian player; the three players from the Martial Venerable Hall watched from nearby.

• The short Asian player escaped the encirclement in insect form, but a metal ring exposed him and forced him to transform using a withered yellow puppet.
• The Asian player gained an incomprehensible power and counterattacked, while the Otherworld Players shifted their fire onto the Black player and their leader ordered a retreat when Daoists arrived.
• The Otherworld Players vanished through a collective teleportation spell, and the Black player celebrated before mocking the Asian player, who was still surrounded by Daoists.
• The Daoists mistook the fleeing Black player for a demon and attacked him, while he pleaded that he was a law-abiding citizen.
• Qingyangzi arrived and struck the Asian player into the ground with his Heavenly Earth Eight Trigrams Palm, as the three players from the Martial Venerable Hall observed nearby.

After Heavenly Origin City’s unrest was suppressed, two players tried to save their former allies but arrived too late, while Qingyangzi spared the strange white woman because Wang Zhifan had ordered her protection. The woman later returned a player’s digested skeleton to the two survivors, leaving them with the spoils to inspect.

• The sunglasses-wearing Xia Kingdom youth and the Japanese woman watched Qingyangzi kill the short Asian player, then rushed to stop the Daoists attacking the black player, but found him dead.
• The two players collected items from the black player’s remains and paid the Daoists silver to settle their dispute over the spoils.
• Searchers brought Qingyangzi the recently strangled white player’s corpse, but Qingyangzi sent it away to be handed to Wang Zhifan.
• Qingyangzi discovered the strange white woman had eaten the short Asian player’s corpse, but stopped himself from attacking her because Wang Zhifan had ordered her protection.
• The sunglasses-wearing Xia Kingdom youth offered the white woman a Fine Tier ring, and she spat out the player’s digested skeleton for the two survivors.

After returning to Heavenly Origin City, Wang Zhifan investigated the deaths of several Otherworld Players, claimed their remains and equipment for burial, and ordered his companions to help guard the city. He continued fighting the Demon Realm forces in the prolonged war, rising to fifth place on the Demon-Sealing Ranking.

• Wang Zhifan returned to Heavenly Origin City, discovered He Kuang had stayed awake guarding the Martial Venerable Hall, and told him to rest.
• Wang Zhifan checked the Demon-Sealing Ranking, found himself in twelfth place, and postponed hunting because his teleportations were exhausted.
• Qingyangzi showed Wang Zhifan the remains and weapons left by the Otherworld Players and explained that two players had been killed by locals.
• Wang Zhifan took the two corpses and the remaining weapons, buried the bodies outside the city, and destroyed the damaged technological weapons.
• Wang Zhifan questioned his three player companions about the attack and told them to watch for Otherworld Players and help defend the Martial Venerable Hall.
• Wang Zhifan kept battling Demon Venerables as the war continued, climbing into the ranking's top ten and then reaching fifth place.

Wang Zhifan chose to help Moon-Extinguishing Island while sending Qingyangzi and Huayangzi to aid Ultimate Origin Overlord at Ultimate Origin Mountain. He joined the four True-Spirit Clans as they prepared to face a much larger Demon Venerable army, and realized their enemy planned to suppress their True-Spirit bodies with Demon Lord treasures.

• Wang Zhifan received simultaneous pleas for help from Ultimate Origin Overlord and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, but had only one teleportation available.
• Wang Zhifan persuaded Qingyangzi and Huayangzi to aid Ultimate Origin Mountain, while Zhenxuzi stayed behind to guard Heavenly Origin City.
• Wang Zhifan teleported to Moon-Extinguishing Main Island and met Mieyue Aotian and the gathered experts of the four True-Spirit Clans.
• Wang Zhifan and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade joined the clan leaders in planning their defense as the Demon-Sealing Ranking showed nearly a hundred Demon Venerables gathering nearby.
• Mieyue Aotian warned that the Demon Realm would use Demon Lord treasures to weaken the True-Spirit Clans, and Wang Zhifan realized the clan leader had a reason for telling him.

Wang Zhifan and Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade joined the Four True-Spirit Clans’ battle against the Demon Realm army, but the demons revealed a powerful treasure that suppressed the true spirits. Wang Zhifan sheltered Dragon Blade in the Pitch-Black Tower and charged toward the treasure to destroy it.

• Wang Zhifan reminded Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade that they were hiding in reserve to seize the Demon Lord’s treasure when it appeared.
• Mieyue Aotian led the Four True-Spirit Clans’ experts against the Demon Venerables while the two armies’ lower-ranked forces clashed separately.
• The Four True-Spirit Clans transformed into their true spirit bodies and began overpowering the more numerous Demon Venerables.
• Wang Zhifan and Dragon Blade entered the melee, but a black sphere appeared overhead and strengthened the demons while destabilizing the true spirits.
• Wang Zhifan swept Dragon Blade into the Pitch-Black Tower and flew toward the black sphere to destroy it.

Wang Zhifan broke through the Demon Lord treasure’s Space Law defenses and destroyed the black sphere, reversing the battle over the Canglan Ancient Sea. He and the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade helped the true spirits defeat the demons, who eventually teleported away.

• Wang Zhifan used a Combat Pill to perceive the Space Law looping him away from the black sphere, then crossed the interference with the Blank Entanglement Belt.
• Wang Zhifan and the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade sheltered inside the Heavenly Yin-Yang Pitch-Black Treasure Tower and used its attacks to destroy the sphere.
• Wang Zhifan blasted the pursuing Demon Venerables with the Black Tower, killing more than half of them as the sky returned to normal.
• Wang Zhifan and the Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade aided the embattled Moon-Extinguishing Clan cultivators, while the restored true spirits pushed back the Demon Venerables.
• Wang Zhifan and the true-spirit experts pursued the retreating demons, killing or wounding dozens before the survivors teleported away; Wang Zhifan’s Demon-Sealing Ranking rose again.

After Wang Zhifan helped the Four True-Spirit Clans defeat the demon army, he discovered that several top-ranked cultivators, including Ultimate Origin Overlord, had died at Ultimate Origin Mountain. He returned to Heavenly Origin City burdened by the deaths of Qingyangzi and Huayangzi, while a major crisis threatened the Calamity Realm.

• Mieyue Aotian and the surviving True-Spirit cultivators thanked Wang Zhifan for destroying the Demon Lord artifact that had suppressed their clans.
• Wang Zhifan accepted a mining island from Mieyue Aotian and transferred its ownership to Mieyue Dragon Blade before preparing to leave Moon-Extinguishing Island.
• Mieyue Dragon Blade discovered that Demon Tathagata, Sighing Confucian Sword, and Ultimate Origin Overlord had turned gray on the Demon-Sealing Ranking, along with Qingyangzi and Huayangzi.
• Wang Zhifan and Mieyue Dragon Blade concluded that a devastating battle had taken place at Ultimate Origin Mountain and that the deaths signaled a grave threat to the Calamity Realm.
• Mieyue Dragon Blade agreed to stay behind after Wang Zhifan promised to prepare carefully and inform her before investigating Ultimate Origin Mountain.
• Wang Zhifan rode the Crimson Deer Horse back to Heavenly Origin City, grieving that Qingyangzi and Huayangzi had died after he sent them to support Ultimate Origin Overlord.

After learning that Qingyangzi and Huayangzi had died at Ultimate Origin Mountain, Wang Zhifan struggled with guilt but resolved to avenge them carefully. He agreed to meet other experts at Northern Sea Fire-Spirit Island and returned to Martial Venerable Hall, where he prepared his disciples to train in the Black Towers.

• Wang Zhifan visited Zhenxuzi, who urged him to investigate the Demon Realm's methods before seeking revenge for Qingyangzi and Huayangzi.
• Wang Zhifan received messages from Heavenless Earthless Daoist, Demon-Subduing Elder, and Emperor Lord Heavenly Splendor, then agreed to attend a meeting at Northern Sea Fire-Spirit Island the next day.
• Wang Zhifan overheard Qingyangzi's disciples discussing their absent master's return and left Qingyang Palace with renewed guilt.
• Wang Zhifan released the Pitch-Black Tower for He Kuang and the other disciples to train in, and He Kuang led them to the underground palace.
• Wang Zhifan gave Qin Quan medicinal ingredients for body refinement before Qin Quan also went to cultivate in the Black Towers.

After the deaths at Ultimate Origin Mountain, Wang Zhifan stayed cautious while preparing to attend Demon-Subduing Elder’s gathering on Fire Spirit Island. He arrived through a clone, joined twenty other renowned experts, and waited as Demon-Subduing Elder began presenting intelligence from Ultimate Origin Mountain.

• Wang Zhifan monitored the Demon-Sealing Ranking, answered messages about the crisis, and spent the rest of the day tending to his disciples and greeting returning players.
• The next morning, Wang Zhifan killed two Demon Venerables attacking a Northern Sea town, then sent a Dream Self clone to Fire Spirit Island instead of going himself.
• Demon-Subduing Elder’s servants led Wang Zhifan’s clone into an underground palace, where he met Demon-Subduing Elder and Heavenless Earthless Daoist.
• Experts from the Demon-Sealing Ranking arrived at the gathering, mostly using clones, until twenty-one attendees had assembled.
• Demon-Subduing Elder began showing the attendees a memory of what his avatar had experienced at Ultimate Origin Mountain.

Wang Zhifan examined the Demon-Subduing Elder’s memories of the battle at Ultimate Origin Mountain, where an unspeakable entity annihilated the leading cultivators. He identified it as an Unspeakable Ancient God summoned by hostile Otherworld Players and concluded that killing its summoners was the way to counter the threat.

• Heavenless Earthless Daoist read the jade slip and revealed that the Demon-Subduing Elder believed Demon Tathagata and the other experts had been wiped out in one move.
• Wang Zhifan entered the memories and watched the battle at Ultimate Origin Mountain turn against the cultivators when a vast, colorful entity appeared and destroyed the Demon-Subduing Elder’s avatar.
• Wang Zhifan told the gathered experts that the entity likely came from distant worlds, citing a fragmentary scroll he claimed to have read.
• Wang Zhifan recognized the entity as an Unspeakable Ancient God and reasoned that hostile Otherworld Players had summoned it.
• Wang Zhifan decided that the best way to break the threat was to kill the Otherworld Players responsible for summoning the Ancient God.

After the Fire Spirit Island meeting, Wang Zhifan led the Calamity Realm in purging outsiders and striking the Demon Realm, restoring morale and gaining strength over a month of battles. The chapter ended as his newly created Demon-Slaying technique made the wounds he had inflicted on a giant Demon Venerable erupt and erase chunks of its body.

• Wang Zhifan proposed purging outsiders, targeting suspected outsiders before battles, and using clones to reduce the danger of another ancient god summoning, and the Fire Spirit Island meeting adopted his strategy.
• Wang Zhifan investigated Ultimate Origin Mountain, joined other experts in assassinating outsiders and destroying demon formations, and helped restore the Calamity Realm’s morale.
• Over the following month, Wang Zhifan led repeated attacks on the Demon Realm’s strongest forces, rose to ten thousand contribution points, and advanced the Great Dream Saber Scripture to Lv7.
• Wang Zhifan developed the Demon-Slaying technique, which infused ordinary slashes with precise, demon-damaging power.
• Wang Zhifan fought a giant two-headed Demon Venerable and its tiny, swift partner, evading their attacks while repeatedly cutting the giant.
• Wang Zhifan activated Demon-Slaying, causing his earlier wounds on the giant Demon Venerable to erupt and erase chunks of its body.