Chapter Summaries

News of Chen Sheng’s capture of four Tortoise and Serpent emperors spread throughout the Demon Court, strengthening the belief that he was the Demon Venerable’s heir. As clans began considering alliances with him, the Spirit Fox Emperor decided to discuss Little Nine with him in mind.

• Five Demon Emperors watched battle footage and praised Chen Sheng for effortlessly overpowering and suppressing four veteran emperors.
• Demon Race residents embellished the battle into extravagant tales of Chen Sheng flicking away a mountain-sized seal and swallowing one hundred thousand soldiers.
• The Spirit Fox Emperor read the reports and reconsidered her hesitation about finding Little Nine a match among the Great Roc Emperor’s consorts.
• The Spirit Fox Emperor summoned Little Nine to discuss an important matter, while other great clans also began considering how to align themselves with Chen Sheng.

After three months of imprisonment, Chen Sheng released the four clan emperors and arbitrated their dispute over an ore vein, binding them to a Demon Court contract. He reported to the Golden Feather Demon Lord, who praised his judgment and advised him on choosing an Imperial Consort and building clan support.

• Chen Sheng released the Dark Armor Emperor, the Mountain-Bearing Emperor, the Red Serpent Emperor, and the Black Python Emperor from the Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy and warned them against breaking Demon Court laws again.
• Chen Sheng threatened to summon the Demon-Sealing Platform unless the turtle and snake clans settled their ore-vein dispute peacefully.
• The turtle and snake clans agreed to a three-hundred-year contract granting the turtle clan seventy percent of the vein, the snake clan twenty percent, and a contested ten percent to be decided by Demon King battles every fifty years.
• Chen Sheng had the four emperors bind themselves to the agreement with Essence Blood, then sent them out of the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven.
• The Golden Feather Demon Lord praised Chen Sheng's handling of the dispute and advised him to consider bloodline, talent, and clan influence when choosing an Imperial Consort.
• Chen Sheng thanked the Golden Feather Demon Lord and left to cultivate toward the Great Demon Emperor realm.

Chen Sheng’s five consorts settled into life at the Demon Court while he continued cultivating in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven. After three months of drawing in its Spiritual Energy, he broke through to the Great Demon Emperor realm, and his true form and natal spiritual treasure displayed astonishing power.

• Chen Sheng welcomed Luan Ning, Hu Qing, Kong Ling, Ao Rou, and Lang Yue as his five consorts and helped them cultivate.
• Over the next twenty years, Chen Sheng balanced Demon Court affairs and time with his consorts with intensive cultivation in the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Sheng used his Nascent Soul to form a Black Hole that drew in Spiritual Energy for three months as his Void domain shielded and focused the energy.
• Chen Sheng completed his breakthrough, and his Golden-winged Great Peng true form expanded to nearly ten thousand zhang.
• Elders Peng Hai and Peng Shan marveled at Chen Sheng’s bloodline and immense true form as his Diagram of Yin-Yang Energy revealed power approaching that of a fifth-stage Dao artifact.

After breaking through to the Great Demon Emperor realm, Chen Sheng learned that Golden Feather Demon Lord planned to leave for a higher realm in a little over three hundred years and was preparing him to lead the Demon Court. Chen Sheng reunited with his five consorts, three of whom were pregnant, and learned that his inherited constitution made conceiving offspring unusually easy for the Golden Winged Great Roc Clan.

• Chen Sheng thanked the elders for their congratulations after his breakthrough and returned to Golden Feather Hall.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord told Chen Sheng that he had agreed with Human Race Heavenly Venerates to cross the Spatial Turbulence in a little over three hundred years.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord said he would use that time to prepare Chen Sheng to take control of the Demon Court and urged him to care for his consorts and children.
• Chen Sheng returned to the Great Roc Palace, where Luan Ning, Hu Qing, Kong Ling, Ao Rou, and Lang Yue welcomed him and celebrated his breakthrough.
• Chen Sheng promised to spend more time with his consorts, and Luan Ning and Lang Yue offered to help protect the three pregnant consorts.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord examined Chen Sheng and his pregnant consorts with a jade mirror, then revealed that Chen Sheng had inherited a constitution that greatly improved fertility.

Chen Sheng’s five children, all born as Third-grade Demon Kings with high-grade Heaven-tier bloodlines, drew the Demon Court’s clans into a rush to form marriage alliances. After agreeing with Golden Feather Demon Lord to accept consorts from powerful clans first, Chen Sheng disciplined his unruly children and prepared to welcome Shi Yao and Ao Lin into the palace.

• Chen Sheng’s five children were recognized as peerless prodigies, prompting clans across the Demon Court to seek marriage alliances with him.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord told Chen Sheng that marriage alliances could unite the clans, and Chen Sheng proposed accepting women from powerful clans before weaker ones.
• Chen Sheng found his children had wrecked the palace, caught Peng Xiao stealing Hu Qing’s hairpin, and sent all five children to the Yin Yang Grotto-Heaven for discipline by Elder Peng Hai.
• Chen Sheng’s five wives agreed that he should accept two more imperial consorts and offered to help their clans welcome the new alliances.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord appointed Shi Yao and Ao Lin as Chen Sheng’s imperial consorts, while Chen Sheng’s five wives returned to their clans to win support.

Chen Sheng learned that the Great Wilderness Demon Court’s foundation rested on the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle and was chosen to inherit the Demon Venerable position. After emerging from a century of cultivation, he reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and deflected the Four Seas Bead’s forced summons, leaving him free to seek more resources.

• Chen Sheng married Shi Yao and Ao Lin, whose sons Peng Lin and Peng Long were born with top-grade Heaven-class bloodlines.
• Golden Feather Demon Venerable took Chen Sheng to meet Elder Ping and revealed that the artifact spirit guarded the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle, the Demon Court’s powerful foundation.
• Chen Sheng emerged from more than a century of secluded cultivation at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, with his Azure Nether Sword refined to fourth-grade upper.
• The Four Seas Bead appeared and sent a guiding Spiritual Light to pull Chen Sheng into the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Sheng used the Azure Nether Sword to break the guiding Spiritual Light, causing the Four Seas Bead to become a Stone Bead that he collected.

Chen Sheng learned how the Seven Killers Sacred Sect conquered Zhao State after the Scarlet Blood Sect and Void Sacred Sect concealed the deaths of their Nascent Soul Demon Lords. The account ended with Chen Sheng realizing that the spoils from the sects he had slain had been taken by the Seven Killers.

• Chen Sheng read the jade slip’s account of the Scarlet Blood and Void Sacred Sects hiding their Demon Lords’ deaths and secretly training successors.
• The Seven Kill Demon Lord called a Myriad Demons Assembly, noticed the two sects’ Demon Lords were absent, and confirmed they had perished after repeated visits found no trace of them.
• The Seven Kill Demon Lord persuaded other sects to accept his expansion into Zhao State and led his forces to invade.
• The Seven Kill Demon Lord’s forces broke the Scarlet Blood Sect’s formation and destroyed the sect, then breached the Void Sacred Sect’s defenses and destroyed it as well.
• Chen Sheng realized that the Seven Killers Sacred Sect had taken the spoils from the two Demon Lords he had killed.

Chen Sheng attacked the Vast Heaven Sect and defeated Vast Heaven Devil Lord, discovering that Seven Kill Demon Lord’s countermeasure against his sword skill was based on a mistaken understanding of his power. Over the following months, Chen Sheng swept through the Demon Path Nations, leaving the Devil Lords in panic.

• Chen Sheng reached the Vast Heaven Sect and found its protective formation full of flaws, choosing to strike the sect before confronting the stronger Seven Kill Demon Lord.
• Vast Heaven Devil Lord sensed the formation collapse, confronted Chen Sheng, and abandoned his dharma body to protect his Nascent Soul from the Demon Slayer Sword Lord’s sword skill.
• Chen Sheng trapped Vast Heaven Devil Lord’s Nascent Soul with his Void domain and searched his memories, learning how Seven Kill Demon Lord had reasoned out a way to weaken his sword skill.
• Chen Sheng realized his mastery of the Dao Rhyme of Penetration had advanced far beyond Seven Kill Demon Lord’s estimate and demonstrated its power through the void.
• News spread that Chen Sheng had returned, advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, breached five Nascent Soul Sects, and slain five Demon Lords, alarming the Demon Path Nations.

Seven Kill Demon Lord returned to the Seven Killers Sacred Sect and told the gathered Devil Lords that he could not stop the powerful, elusive Sword Cultivator. With no way to find or confront him, the Devil Lords prepared to flee to the Great Wilderness for refuge.

• The Devil Lords gathered in the Main Hall and complained that the Sword Cultivator threatened their sects while Seven Kill Demon Lord was away.
• Absolute Baleful Demon Lord assured them that Seven Kill Demon Lord had gone to investigate the Sword Cultivator's activities.
• Seven Kill Demon Lord appeared, listened to their grievances, and bowed three times to apologize for the five deaths, his misjudgment, and his inability to stop the threat.
• Seven Kill Demon Lord explained that the Sword Cultivator could kill Nascent Soul Cultivators across the void and avoided powerful nations, making him difficult to locate or confront.
• The Devil Lords gave up on finding a way to fight the Sword Cultivator and prepared to seek refuge in the Great Wilderness.

Seven Kill Demon Lord fled to the Yue Kingdom and left Absolute Baleful Demon Lord to defend the Seven Killers Sacred Sect as Chen Sheng ambushed the Devil Lords gathered outside. Chen Sheng slaughtered many of them before the survivors escaped, then departed without attacking the sect.

• Seven Kill Demon Lord turned into a substitute puppet, warned Absolute Baleful Demon Lord that Chen Sheng was dangerous, and told him to stay inside the sect while he went to seek Xihua Heavenly Venerate in the Yue Kingdom.
• Chen Sheng ambushed the Devil Lords fleeing toward the Great Wilderness, killing several and trapping the survivors in his Void domain.
• Absolute Baleful Demon Lord revealed that Seven Kill Demon Lord had left, prompting the Devil Lords to accuse him of using them as bait.
• Chen Sheng killed thirteen Devil Lords with his sword-force formation, while the survivors broke through his domain by detonating spirit treasures and Dharma bodies.
• Chen Sheng killed three more fleeing Devil Lords, then left without attacking the sect; Absolute Baleful Demon Lord watched him go and breathed a sigh of relief.

After gathering the spoils from the Nascent Soul Demon Lords, Chen Sheng returned toward the Great Wilderness to seek a breakthrough in his Piercing Dao Intent. In Southern Heaven City, cultivators learned that the Demon Slayer Sword Lord had killed nineteen Nascent Soul True Lords at the Seven Killers Sacred Sect, and the news left them awed by his power.

• Chen Sheng collected the Demon Lords’ resources, decided to return to the Great Wilderness, and set out to find the pressure needed to perfect his Piercing Dao Intent.
• At Drunken Immortal Tower, Cultivator King described witnessing the Demon Slayer Sword Lord kill a Nascent Soul True Lord near Blackwood Forest.
• A messenger from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion announced that the Demon Slayer Sword Lord had slain nineteen Nascent Soul True Lords outside the Seven Killers Sacred Sect.
• Elder Li described Yin Wind True Lord’s deadly poison and explained the Demon Slayer Sword Lord’s speed, sword power, and Void domain.
• Rogue Cultivators praised the Demon Slayer Sword Lord for killing powerful Nascent Soul Demon Lords who had preyed on them.

Chen Xihua examined the sword traces left by Chen Sheng and recognized his extraordinary talent, then invited him to a Great Wilderness Sword Assembly. Chen Sheng did not attend, so Chen Xihua instructed his disciples and descendants to seek friendship with him without disturbing him.

• Chen Xihua studied the sword traces near the Seven Killers Sacred Sect and praised Chen Sheng's progress while noting his mixed Dao charms.
• Chen Xihua gave the Seven Kill Demon Lord a sword talisman for Chen Sheng and invited Chen Sheng to discuss Sword Dao at the Three Origins Dao Sect.
• Chen Xihua warned the Seven Kill Demon Lord to act cautiously and preserve stability in the Demon Path.
• Chen Xihua convened a Great Wilderness Sword Assembly, but Chen Sheng did not attend.
• Chen Xihua told his disciples and descendants to build a good connection with Chen Sheng if they encountered him and not to make him an enemy.

Chen Sheng ventured into the Twin Star Phenomenon, using his penetrating Dao resonance to push far deeper than he could in his previous life before retreating to recover. As he refined resources from the Devil Lords, he sensed a new sword move taking shape that could perfect his penetrating Dao principles and bring him closer to Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Sheng admired the Twin Star Phenomenon and flew toward its core, protected by sword light from the Azure Nether Sword.
• Chen Sheng reached two hundred thousand li into the phenomenon and used his embryonic penetrating Dao principles to withstand the Black Hole’s storms and the twin stars’ power.
• Chen Sheng pressed on to ninety thousand li, where his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation could no longer sustain the unstable shield, and he retreated to a stable void platform.
• Chen Sheng refined resources contributed by the Devil Lords and realized that the battles had deepened his sword skills and were inspiring a new sword move.
• Chen Sheng began recovering his Mana and deducing the sword move, sensing that its completion would perfect his penetrating Dao principles.

After a century of sword practice in the Twin Star Phenomenon, Chen Sheng perfected his sword move, Star Delight, and achieved a limited Heaven and Earth Resonance. This revealed that his memories from several reincarnations had blurred his heart and formed a shackle blocking his breakthrough, so he resolved to walk The Way of Cultivation anew.

• Chen Fengxing reached the outer region of the Twin Star Phenomenon, where a massive Void Thunderstorm gathered near its core.
• Chen Sheng's sword light destroyed the thunderstorm, and Chen Fengxing recognized the Heaven and Earth Resonance of a newly emerging Sword Dao Heavenly Venerate.
• Chen Sheng recalled how a century of cultivation had brought him to the Twin Stars' core and perfected his new sword move, which he named Star Delight.
• Chen Sheng's penetrating Dao principles reached perfection, allowing him to trigger a limited Heaven and Earth Resonance without condensing a Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Sheng examined his heart-image and realized that memories from several lifetimes had obscured his path and formed a shackle against his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Chen Sheng concluded that he needed to break free of the shackle by walking The Way of Cultivation anew.

After a hundred years of sword practice in the Twin Star Phenomenon, Chen Sheng completed his comprehension of Dao principles and prepared to pursue Spirit Transformation. He met Chen Fengxing, accepted a Jade slip from Xihua Heavenly Venerate, and set his sights on visiting the Three Origins Dao Sect.

• Chen Sheng finished a hundred years of comprehending the Dao and left the center of the Twin Star Phenomenon.
• Chen Fengxing encountered Chen Sheng, mistook his Dao principle power for that of a Heavenly Venerate, and then recognized him as the source of the recent Heaven and Earth Resonance.
• Chen Sheng introduced himself as Miesheng Daoist, and Chen Fengxing explained that Xihua Heavenly Venerate had invited Sword Cultivators to the Great Wilderness Sword Assembly.
• Chen Fengxing told Chen Sheng that his feats against the Demon Path Nations were known throughout the Four Domains and offered him a Jade slip containing Xihua Heavenly Venerate's insights.
• Chen Sheng accepted the Jade slip and said he would visit Xihua Heavenly Venerate, then looked toward the Great Wilderness Mountains as he prepared to pursue Spirit Transformation.

After two thousand years away, Chen Sheng returned to Yan Land and found that the people revered him as the Benevolent King Divine Lord. He granted the Commandery Princess of Prince of Yan's Mansion a martial breakthrough, then revealed his power at a rain-prayer ceremony and brought rain to the drought-stricken land.

• Chen Sheng revisited Yan Capital City and reflected on how Prince of Yan's Mansion and Yan Land had changed over two thousand years.
• The steward of Prince of Yan's Mansion invited Chen Sheng to meet the disguised Commandery Princess, and Chen Sheng gave her a golden light before vanishing.
• The Commandery Princess broke through to become an Innate Martial Artist despite never practicing martial arts.
• Chen Sheng joined the people praying for rain at the Benevolent King Divine Lord Temple and heard them recount legends about him.
• Chen Sheng manifested his sacred visage in the sky and summoned rain over the drought-stricken land, prompting the people to worship him.

Chen Sheng revisited the places tied to his past lives and learned how the Zhang Clan had risen and fallen. Before leaving, he gave a Zhang Clan youth the Seven Scrolls of Spirit Wine, leaving the clan a chance to cultivate again.

• Chen Sheng visited Qianji Market and saw that the Tang Clan had taken control of it and produced a False Core True Person.
• At Qinghua Sect, Chen Sheng discovered a Crimson Flood Dragon Emperor scale and learned that Chen Yuquan had secretly protected the sect and restrained demons near Chu Kingdom.
• Chen Sheng returned to Peach Wood Peak and found the Zhang Clan’s ancestral site abandoned, then went to Tingyu Market Town to ask about the clan.
• A broker told Chen Sheng that Zhang Yuanli had helped the Zhang Clan prosper for nine generations before its decline began after a Foundation Establishment cultivator died two hundred years earlier.
• Chen Sheng found Zhang Clan descendants selling Peach Blossom Brew and gave a dark-faced Zhang Clan youth the Seven Scrolls of Spirit Wine.

Chen Sheng used a hidden Lesser Realm’s Teleportation Formation to reach Yunlan Mountain and meet Chen Xihua. Chen Xihua gave him his sword Dao inheritance in exchange for an oath to protect the Chen Clan after he ascended, and offered to discuss the inheritance with him over the next three months.

• Chen Sheng entered his old Lesser Realm, recovered its preserved cultivation resources, and repaired its Teleportation Formation.
• Chen Sheng activated the formation and used it to travel to Yunlan Mountain of the Three Origins Dao Sect.
• Chen Xihua welcomed Chen Sheng and praised the compatibility of their sword paths.
• Chen Xihua offered Chen Sheng his complete sword Dao inheritance in exchange for protecting the Chen Clan after his departure.
• Chen Sheng swore an inner demon Dao oath to protect the Chen Clan from extermination and outside enemies.
• Chen Xihua gave Chen Sheng the inheritance and invited him to visit for guidance over the next three months.

After training with Chen Xihua and defeating four Nascent Soul Cultivators in a sword duel, Chen Sheng accompanied Chen Liexiao to the Chen Clan’s branch assessment. The Origin-Tracing Bloodline Formation confirmed that Chen Sheng carried Chen Clan blood, leaving Chen Liexiao and the other True Lords astonished and hopeful about the clan’s future.

• Chen Sheng used the Void Annihilation Sword to shatter a Space Node, and Chen Xihua praised his rapid progress before offering to teach him the sword’s core secret.
• Chen Sheng defeated Chen Liexiao, Chen Qingyao, Chen Shiji, and Chen Fenghua in a four-on-one duel, then accepted Chen Liexiao’s invitation to watch the branch assessment.
• Chen Liexiao explained the Chen Clan’s lineages and introduced the Origin-Tracing Bloodline Formation as it tested the young cultivators arriving from regional branches.
• Chen Sheng entered the formation and let his bloodline aura emerge, causing the formation to reveal that he truly had Chen Clan blood.
• Chen Liexiao and the other Nascent Soul True Lords reacted with shock, and Chen Liexiao excitedly imagined Chen Sheng becoming another Soul Transformation Heavenly Venerate for the clan.

Chen Sheng left Yunlan Mountain after several years of sword Dao study with Chen Xihua, reflecting on the bonds and losses across his many lives. His heart’s obstacle shattered, leaving him ready to cultivate toward Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Xihua recognized that his deep familiarity with Miesheng Daoist came from their shared bloodline and gave Chen Sheng extensive instruction and access to the Madam Chen clan’s Dao records.
• Chen Sheng and Chen Xihua spent several years studying and discussing sword Dao, strengthening their bond as their practice benefited Yunlan Mountain’s Disciples.
• Chen Sheng departed Yunlan Mountain, and Chen Xihua resolved to temper himself so they might meet again in the Spirit Realm.
• On a barren hill, Chen Sheng recalled his lost acquaintances and Chen Xixing’s final words, reflecting on the loneliness and cost of longevity.
• Chen Sheng’s reflections awakened Spiritual Light in his heart, shattered the Nascent Soul’s invisible shackles, and opened his path toward Spirit Transformation.