Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng killed White Crane Adept and everyone at White Crane Mountain, then claimed the mountain for the Hehuan Sect after discovering its hidden Spiritual Vein. Black Sand True Person alerted Hundred-Eyed True Lord, who decided to visit White Crane Mountain and test Chen Sheng.

• Chen Sheng broke White Crane Adept's Immortal-Trapping Formation, killed him, and slaughtered the cultivators at White Crane Mountain.
• Chen Sheng discovered a quasi Fourth-grade Hidden Meridian and ordered Hehuan Daoist to relocate the Hehuan Sect to White Crane Mountain.
• Chen Sheng reinforced the mountain's formation foundation and dismissed the threat of Black Wind Valley and Hundred-Eyed True Lord.
• Black Sand True Person received Chen Sheng's Spirit Stone apology gift and sensed its Void sword momentum, then reported White Crane Mountain's fall to Hundred-Eyed True Lord.
• Hundred-Eyed True Lord heard that the Hehuan Venerable Lord might be the Sword Demon and set out for White Crane Mountain to test him.

Chen Sheng used his Void domain to make Hundred Eyes True Lord believe he was a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Sword Lord, securing White Crane Mountain as his cultivation ground for one hundred years. Black Wind Valley agreed to withdraw and send cultivation resources, while the Hehuan Sect submitted to Chen Sheng’s rule.

• Hundred Eyes True Lord arrived at White Crane Mountain with five demonic dragons and chose to negotiate rather than enter Chen Sheng’s Formation.
• Chen Sheng and Hundred Eyes True Lord met in the void, and Chen Sheng displayed a sword-filled Void domain that convinced Hundred Eyes he was a Great Sword Lord at the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Chen Sheng claimed White Crane Mountain’s Spiritual Vein and Formation for one hundred years, and Hundred Eyes accepted the arrangement before returning to Black Wind Valley.
• Hundred Eyes told Black Sand True Person that Chen Sheng was a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Sword Lord and ordered him to deliver fifty thousand high-grade Spirit Stones without investigating Chen Sheng.
• Hehuan Daoist and the Hehuan Sect’s Disciples knelt before Chen Sheng, who declared White Crane Mountain his cultivation ground and warned them to behave properly.

Chen Sheng accepted Hundred-Eyed True Lord’s tribute and trained his sword techniques on White Deer Peak while the Hehuan Sect remained wary of his power. In the Great Wilderness Demon Court, Golden Feather Demon Venerable gave Chen Sheng the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy and prepared him to break through to the Fourth-grade Demon Emperor realm.

• Black Sand True Person delivered fifty thousand high-grade Spirit Stones from Hundred-Eyed True Lord, and Chen Sheng accepted the tribute.
• Hehuan Daoist praised Chen Sheng, but Chen Sheng ordered him to control his subordinates and punish anyone who committed evil under his banner.
• Chen Sheng practiced sword techniques on White Deer Peak and refined his Sword Dao.
• Chen Sheng demonstrated the harmonious fusion of Five Elements Power and Yin-Yang energy before Golden Feather Demon Venerable, who judged him ready to pursue a breakthrough.
• Golden Feather Demon Venerable bestowed the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy and explained that it could protect Chen Sheng during the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Golden Feather Demon Venerable instructed Chen Sheng to refine the artifact, then enter the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land and form Five-Colored Divine Light and Heaven Swallowing Earth Devouring as Life-Bound divine abilities during his breakthrough.

Chen Sheng refined the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy and broke through to the Demon Emperor realm in the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land, overcoming the inner demon and heavenly lightning trials. Golden Feather Demon Lord and the gathered Demon Emperors witnessed his success and celebrated him with gifts.

• Chen Sheng completed the initial refinement of the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy, opening its three core restrictions before entering the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land.
• Chen Sheng shattered his Third-grade Demon King golden core and formed a nascent soul, then used the scroll’s Soul Suppression Restriction to defeat his inner demons.
• Chen Sheng endured the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation by transforming into his Golden-winged Great Peng true form and swallowing all nine bolts, completing his breakthrough to Demon Emperor.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord presented Chen Sheng to the gathered Demon Emperors as a new Demon Emperor of the Golden Winged Great Roc Clan.
• The Eldest Princess praised Chen Sheng, while Demon Emperor Peng and his wife received congratulations and gifts from the gathered Demon Emperors.

Chen Sheng received the Great Roc Emperor title after breaking through to the Demon Emperor realm, and three years later the Great Wilderness Demon Court held a celebration attended by human cultivators. At the gathering, he met Xihua Heavenly Venerate, who revealed their family ties and gave him a Chen Clan jade talisman as the celebration began.

• Golden Feather Demon Lord bestowed the title of Great Roc Emperor on Chen Sheng and named him the future heir of the Golden Winged Great Roc Clan.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord ordered a celebration three years later and invited powerful human cultivators to attend.
• At the celebration, Chen Sheng welcomed a delegation of more than thirty Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivators, followed by Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord introduced Xihua Heavenly Venerate as a relative through marriage between their families, and Xihua gave Chen Sheng a jade talisman that would secure the Chen Clan's assistance.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord opened the celebration by raising a toast to friendship between the Human and Monster races.

At Peng Huan’s celebration, Golden Feather Demon Lord, Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate, and Chen Xihua demonstrated their Dao Laws to the gathered cultivators. Chen Sheng gained new insights into the Four Symbols, Primordial Unity, and Great Void Destruction Sword Dao, and reflected on the Human Realm’s value for comprehending Dao.

• Golden Feather Demon Lord demonstrated how Yin and Yang generated and restrained one another, shaping the origin of heaven and earth.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate demonstrated how wind, fire, thunder, and lightning formed a cycle of Rules that cultivated and purified energy.
• Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate showed how the earth’s Rules anchored the Five Elements in a self-contained domain that could reject or assimilate attacks.
• Chen Xihua demonstrated how his Great Void Destruction Sword Dao found weak points in spatial Rules and left permanent absences in space.
• Chen Sheng absorbed insights from all four demonstrations, while his Yang Soul incarnation contemplated Chen Xihua’s Sword Dao.
• The gathered cultivators bowed to the four Venerates, and Chen Sheng reflected that minor thousand worlds offered valuable grounds for comprehending Dao.

After the celebration, Golden Feather Demon Lord discussed a secret crossing to the Spirit Realm with Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate, and Chen Xihua. They agreed to spend five hundred years preparing before meeting at the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land Space Node.

• The human Nascent Soul Cultivators and Chen Sheng left Golden Roc Hall, leaving the four Spirit Transformation cultivators alone.
• Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate presented a map showing the three remaining Space Nodes, and explained that reaching the Spirit Realm meant crossing deadly Spatial Turbulence.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord recalled declining an earlier crossing attempt with Azure Cloud Heavenly Venerate and Limitless Heavenly Venerate, who later died.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord agreed to consider the crossing because Peng Huan could eventually succeed him and Chen Xihua's Void Destruction Sword Dao could help create a safe passage.
• Chen Xihua proposed waiting five hundred years to strengthen their preparations and improve the crossing's odds; Xiaoyao and Zuo Xuan agreed.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord set the meeting for the third day of the third month, five hundred years later, at the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land Space Node.

Chen Sheng entered the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven to take up leadership of its clansmen and study its unique Void evolution. Three years later, he fused Yin Yang Dao charm with Void Power, impressing the five Clan Elders and winning their full confidence.

• Golden Feather Demon Lord gave Chen Sheng the Yin-Yang Jade Gate and charged him with comprehending Void Power and managing the grotto-heaven’s clansmen.
• Chen Sheng entered the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven, where five Clan Elders welcomed him and showed him the settlements and Yin-Yang Void Platform.
• Chen Sheng settled into the grotto-heaven, overseeing clan affairs while cultivating and studying the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy.
• During the third-year new moon and full moon period, Chen Sheng used Yin-Yang energy to stabilize the Void rift and draw void energy into himself.
• Peng Shan, Peng Hai, Peng Feng, Peng Lei, and Peng Huo praised Chen Sheng’s mastery, and Chen Sheng welcomed their continued guidance.

After seventy years of cultivation, Chen Sheng formed his own sword Dao and left White Crane Mountain to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. His breakthrough began above Clear Creek Market Town, drawing the attention of Jiang Kingdom’s powerful sects.

• Chen Sheng’s Yang Soul awakened on White Crane Mountain, and his Sword Intent cleaved a long fissure through the Sea of Clouds.
• Chen Sheng refined his sword Dao, formed the Miesheng sword technique, and saw that his Golden Core had reached perfection.
• Chen Sheng left White Crane Mountain to find a place to break through to the Nascent Soul realm and surprise Master Emotion Severing.
• Half a year later, a sword cultivator’s Nascent Soul formation phenomenon appeared over Clear Creek Market Town, and the news spread across Jiang Kingdom.
• Emotion Severing Daoist and the Nascent Soul True Lords of the Black Baleful Sect and the Blood Soul Cult rushed toward the Market Town to stop the breakthrough from upsetting Jiang Kingdom’s balance.

As Chen Sheng prepared to face the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation, Devil Lord Mo Wuchang, Xue Li, and Emotion Severing Daoist plotted to attack him and seize his Nascent Soul and opportunities. Chen Sheng revealed that he had anticipated them and launched his sword at all three just as the tribulation lightning was about to fall.

• Calamity Clouds formed over Clear Creek Market Town as Chen Sheng’s Heavenly Lightning Tribulation took shape.
• Mo Wuchang arrived in secret, coveted Chen Sheng’s Nascent Soul, and discovered Xue Li and Emotion Severing Daoist nearby.
• Emotion Severing Daoist recognized Chen Sheng as his escaped former disciple, and the three agreed to attack him during the tribulation and divide his opportunities.
• Chen Sheng sensed the three Nascent Soul True Lords, said he had been waiting for them, and sent three sword lights toward them as the Heavenly Lightning was about to descend.

Chen Sheng used his Miesheng's One Sword to kill Mo Wuchang, Xue Li, and Emotion Severing Daoist, then refined the tribulation lightning with his sword formation. He flew toward the Three Sects to deal with the remaining cultivators.

• Chen Sheng launched Miesheng's One Sword, piercing through Mo Wuchang, Xue Li, and Emotion Severing Daoist's defenses and killing their bodies and Nascent Souls.
• Chen Sheng used Yin-Yang energy to collect the three cultivators' bodies, Nascent Soul remnants, and spirit treasures.
• Chen Sheng formed the Circulating Stars Sword Tempering Formation with the Azure Nether Sword and refined the thunderclouds into spiritual energy.
• Chen Sheng absorbed the refined power into the Azure Nether Sword and flew toward the Three Sects.

After defeating the three great Nascent Soul Sects, Chen Sheng collected their treasures and concealed his identity before traveling east toward the Great Wilderness. He planned to raise his cultivation and focus on comprehending penetrating Dao principles as a path toward Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Sheng took the three sect leaders’ spirit treasures and gathered their Spirit Stones and Spirit Grasses into his Storage Ring.
• Chen Sheng used a secret art to disguise his appearance, cultivation, Primordial Spirit fluctuations, and Azure Nether Sword.
• Chen Sheng traveled east among ordinary cultivators without drawing attention or revealing that he had slain three Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Chen Sheng planned to use the sects’ resources to advance toward Nascent Soul Great Perfection while concentrating on penetrating Dao principles.
• Chen Sheng believed his human body might reach Spirit Transformation before his Demon Race body, which was cultivating in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven.

News spread that a mysterious cultivator had killed three Nascent Soul Demon Lords with one sword and plundered their sects, sending the Ten Nations of the Demonic Path into turmoil. Chen Xihua investigated the battle above Clear Creek Market Town, admired the sword strike, and failed to locate its wielder.

• Cultivators across the Ten Nations of the Demonic Path heard that one sword strike had killed three Nascent Soul Demon Lords of the Jiang Kingdom and seized their treasures.
• Rogue Cultivators in Black Wind City and other Market Towns discussed the killings and the destruction and plundering of the three great sects.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators from the major sects sealed their mountain gates, then left the Ten Nations of the Demonic Path for the Great Wilderness to avoid the mysterious killer.
• Chen Xihua appeared above Clear Creek Market Town and examined traces of the battle, recognizing that the sword strike carried the embryonic form of penetrating Dao principles.
• Chen Xihua tried to track the mysterious cultivator with a compass spirit treasure, but it could only point in a vague direction, so he left without pursuing him.

Chen Sheng arrived at Cloudsplit Cliff, where True Lord Chiyang and Ding Xuzi were fighting over a soon-to-form Void Thunder Baleful. After they recognized him as the Demon Slayer Sword Lord, Chen Sheng killed them both, while the treasure continued forming.

• True Lord Chiyang and Ding Xuzi argued over who had the right to claim the Void Thunder Baleful and agreed to wait until it formed before competing.
• Chen Sheng appeared at Cloudsplit Cliff and declared that the Void Thunder Baleful was fated to belong to him.
• Chiyang and Ding Xuzi challenged Chen Sheng, but he sent two sword lights at them.
• Ding Xuzi recognized Chen Sheng as the Demon Slayer Sword Lord and tried to escape through the void while Chiyang raised a fire wall and fled.
• Chen Sheng's sword lights pierced both men's defenses and killed Chiyang and Ding Xuzi, while the Void Thunder Baleful continued to form.

Chen Sheng killed Red Sun True Lord after trapping his escaping Nascent Soul in a Yin-Yang Confluence Void Domain, then claimed the two enemies’ treasures and resources. He obtained the matured Void Thunder Baleful crystal to upgrade the Azure Nether Sword before vanishing into the Great Wilderness.

• Red Sun True Lord’s Nascent Soul escaped his corpse using the Three Powers Vajra Formation, but Chen Sheng trapped it in his Void domain and destroyed it with sword intent.
• Chen Sheng collected Red Sun True Lord and Ding Xuzi’s corpses, spirit treasures, Formation Flags, and Storage Rings.
• Chen Sheng searched Red Sun True Lord’s soul and learned that demonic Nascent Soul True Lords had carried off their sects’ movable resources to avoid being plundered.
• The Void Thunder Baleful matured into a crystal, which Chen Sheng took to refine into the Azure Nether Sword and raise it to fourth-grade upper.
• Chen Sheng stored the crystal and disappeared into the Great Wilderness.

Chen Sheng cultivated in a secluded valley, forged a fourth-tier Alchemy Furnace, and refined pills to strengthen his Nascent Soul cultivation. He then began feeding the origins of captured Spirit Treasures to the Azure Nether Sword.

• Chen Sheng returned to the valley where he had hidden the Four Seas Bead and planned to cultivate until it emerged in a little over a hundred years.
• He used fourth-tier materials to forge the Red Void Furnace, whose artifact spirit awakened and whose Spirit Treasure Tribulation he weathered with the Azure Nether Sword.
• Chen Sheng collected thunder essence from the tribulation and planned to gather more from void rifts to refine Thunder Origin Pills.
• He refined three mid-grade fourth-tier Ascension Origin Pills from high-grade Spirit Grass.
• Chen Sheng extracted the Azure Sun Demon Lamp's origin and fed it to the Azure Nether Sword.

After more than a century of cultivation in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven, Chen Sheng advanced his Yin-Yang and Void comprehension and neared the late Nascent Soul stage. Golden Feather Demon Lord praised his progress, taught him about yin-yang conversion, and assigned him two tasks, including mediating a conflict between the Turtle and Serpent Clans and choosing a consort.

• Chen Sheng cultivated in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven, where he struggled to grasp the rudiments of Yin Yang Dao principles despite more than a century of study.
• Chen Sheng used Heaven Swallowing Earth Devouring in his Golden-winged Great Peng form to absorb spiritual energy and approach the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, impressing the clan Elders.
• Chen Sheng handled clan affairs and later answered Golden Feather Demon Lord's summons to Golden Feather Hall.
• Chen Sheng demonstrated his Yin Yang Dao charm, and Golden Feather Demon Lord instructed him in how yin and yang transform into one another.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord assigned Chen Sheng to mediate the Turtle and Serpent Clans' conflict and to choose a consort.

Chen Sheng returned to Pengmo Cliff to visit his parents and discuss selecting imperial consorts, which his mother agreed to handle as a set of marriage alliances with Demon Court clans. He then began sharing his insights into the Void domain with his parents.

• Chen Sheng arrived at Pengmo Cliff and reunited with the Peacock Emperor and Demon Emperor Peng.
• Chen Sheng shared spirit fruits and caught up with his parents about life in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Sheng told his parents that Great-grandfather had advised him to select imperial consorts.
• Demon Emperor Peng recommended several young women from powerful Demon Court clans, and Chen Sheng gave his mother a Jade slip listing suitable clans.
• The Peacock Emperor agreed to arrange the selections as marriage alliances to build Chen Sheng's influence in the Demon Court.
• Chen Sheng began discussing his Cultivation Insights into the Void domain with his parents.

Chen Sheng investigated the dispute between the turtle and snake clans over a valuable spirit crystal ore vein in the Lan Sea and traveled there to intervene. He arrived as the clans’ four Demon Emperors began fighting over how to divide it.

• Chen Sheng asked Elder Peng Shan for details about the turtle and snake clans’ escalating conflict over a newly discovered fourth-grade upper Deepsea Spirit Crystal Ore Vein.
• After reviewing the dispute, Chen Sheng ordered Elder Peng Shan to monitor developments and flew to the Lan Sea himself.
• The Dark Armor Emperor and Red Serpent Emperor argued over ownership of the ore vein, while the Mountain-Bearing Emperor and Black Python Emperor traded accusations.
• The Dark Armor Emperor demanded that the turtle clan receive the larger share, and the four Demon Emperors launched into battle.

Chen Sheng intervened in the turtle and serpent clans’ battle over the spirit crystal ore vein, suppressing both clans’ leaders and Demon Kings for breaking the Demon Court’s rules. He left the Lan Sea restored and planned to settle the ore vein boundaries after three months.

• Dark Armor Emperor struck Red Serpent Emperor with the Black Tortoise Treasure Seal, severely injuring her.
• Black Python Emperor attacked Dark Armor Emperor, but Mountain-Bearing Emperor countered with the Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Spear.
• Chen Sheng appeared and used Five-Colored Divine Light and the Yin Yang Golden Bridge to seize the spear and seal the four Demon Emperors inside the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy.
• Chen Sheng ordered the four Demon Emperors to reflect for three months and said the ore vein would be discussed afterward.
• Chen Sheng captured dozens of Demon Kings for aiding the battle, then purified the Lan Sea and planned to redraw the ore vein boundaries after three months.