Chapter Summaries

Ji An traveled west into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, purified demonic qi, and recovered his injured Magic Treasures after examining the spoils from a demonic cultivator. He then began hunting Golden Core demonic beasts and captured his first prey, a Black Wind Wolf at Golden Core Layer 3.

• Ji An purified demonic qi in a deep valley with Chaos Five Elements Thunder and reached the ruined Crying Phoenix Peak to rest.
• Ji An opened a demonic cultivator's Void Stone, identified its Nine Nether Soul Wood and Demon Iron, and found a Jade Slip describing the spoils.
• Ji An used the Nine Nether Soul Wood's Wood Heart to strengthen his soul, then restored his damaged Magic Treasures with the Melting Gold Divine Fire Art.
• Ji An resumed his journey on a Golden Feathered Eagle to avoid alerting demonic beasts as he searched for Golden Core prey.
• Ji An knocked out a Black Wind Wolf at Golden Core Layer 3 with a Spiritual Roar and sealed it inside a Spirit Beast Bag.

Ji An captured two Golden Core Golden Feathered Eagles, including the one that had cursed him during the Demon Catastrophe, and brought them to his small world. After his captives refused to reveal nearby beasts nearing a breakthrough, the old enemy offered its Golden Core in exchange for its life, and Ji An agreed to wait until its seal wore off.

• Ji An recognized the aura of the Golden Feathered Eagle that had afflicted him with the Blood Corrupting Soul Chasing Curse and pursued it with its mate.
• Ji An used Spiritual Roar to knock both Golden Core Golden Feathered Eagles unconscious and sealed them in Spirit Beast Bags.
• Ji An brought the captives into his small world, where Ayun guarded one while he cultivated.
• After the Golden Feathered Eagle woke, Ji An questioned it about nearby beasts nearing the Golden Core Stage, but it refused to cooperate.
• Ji An questioned and beat his other captured demonic beasts, but none revealed useful information.
• Ji An offered to spare the Golden Feathered Eagle Demon King if it surrendered its Golden Core, and it agreed once the Spirit Sealing Talisman's effects wore off.

Ji An harvested Golden Cores by feeding demonic beasts into the Stone Turtle’s tribulations, then hid to refine Five Splendor Pills as Hu Yu Niang investigated the missing Demon Kings. While traveling through Green Hill territory, Ji An was confronted by Hu Yu Niang, and their Nascent Soul Manifestations collided.

• Ji An stopped the Golden Feathered Eagle Demon King from detonating its Golden Core, took the core, and left the Demon King alive for the time being.
• Ji An used the Golden Feathered Eagle to send three Demon Kings into the Stone Turtle’s tribulation, where eight bolts of Nascent Soul-level Chaos Divine Thunder killed them and strengthened the Stone Turtle.
• Ji An hid in a cave, spent his Dao Rhyme to ripen herbs, and refined thirty-eight Five Splendor Pills, including thirty premium-grade pills.
• Hu Yu Niang learned that eight Demon Kings had vanished near Chenxiang Valley and led the local Demon Kings to investigate the human True Lord responsible.
• Ji An traveled through the night and was caught within Hu Yu Niang’s Nascent Soul Manifestation; he unleashed his own, and the two manifestations overlapped before Hu Yu Niang appeared and demanded to know who he was.

Ji An left the Azure Hill territory after Hu Yu Niang confronted him, then traveled to Southern Continent seeking Golden Core cultivators who could capture live Golden Core true demons for him. He hired True Monarch Chongxuan and his friend, promising generous rewards and payment for their efforts even if they found nothing.

• Hu Yu Niang's manifestation shattered against Ji An's, and she used her charm art but failed to keep him under its influence.
• Hu Yu Niang let Ji An depart and gathered the demon kings, then reported that she had found a suspicious cultivator and would inform the clan's Great Elder.
• Ji An decided to stop searching near the Azure Hill Clan and flew south, passing the demonic-qi-infested Qianren Mountain Range before arriving at Golden Lion Ridge Immortal City.
• Ji An asked a restaurant proprietor to arrange a meeting with late Golden Core cultivators and offered valuable spirit fruits, talismans, and crafting services as payment for a commission.
• True Monarch Chongxuan met Ji An, who offered rewards for capturing living Golden Core true demons and additional Spirit Stones for unsuccessful three-month searches.
• True Monarch Chongxuan agreed to take the task with a friend and promised to begin searching the demonic-qi-covered regions.

Ji An bought True Demons from True Monarch Chongxuan and used Golden Core breakthroughs to expose them to tribulation lightning, gathering Dao Rhyme and arranging pill refinements in exchange. After nine months, he returned to his sect just as demonic qi approached, and began using his Dao Rhyme to cultivate.

• Ji An asked True Monarch Chongxuan to find a live True Demon and learned that cultivators regularly broke through to the Golden Core Stage in the Immortal City.
• True Monarch Chongxuan and a short, stout cultivator delivered a bound Golden Core Layer 2 True Demon, and Ji An rewarded them with Nethernight Fruit and High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ji An arranged to buy more True Demons and offered to refine Golden Core Pills in exchange for observing breakthroughs and sending True Demons beneath the tribulation clouds.
• Over the next nine months, True Monarch Chongxuan delivered ten True Demons, which Ji An exposed to tribulation lightning to gather Dao Rhyme.
• Ji An left the Immortal City and returned to his sect, finding that demonic qi was less than half a month from reaching its northern edge.
• Ji An swallowed a Five Splendor Pill beneath the Gathering Origin Tree, absorbed Morning Sun Purple Dew, and flew toward the stone house where the Teleportation Array was being built.

Ji An returned to the sect and agreed to tend the Spirit Fields near Crimson Flame Peak for a share of their profits while the demonic qi spread. In his small world, he found that the Moonlit Purple Spirit Fir had reached Third Order Low-Grade and blossomed, then ordered the Stone Turtle to raise it to fourth order.

• Ji An returned to Sunrise Peak, reassured Lin Jiuxiao, and said he would stay until the True Demon Tribulation ended.
• Ji An agreed to tend a hundred thousand mu of Spirit Fields for twenty percent of their profits after Lin Jiuxiao explained the sect's employment rules.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, studied his Cultivation Method inheritance, and cast Farming Spells across the mountain's Spirit Fields.
• Ji An found that the Soul Nurturing Wood had advanced to Third Order Top-Grade and nourished the spiritual plants in its cavern.
• Ji An entered the small world and discovered that the Moonlit Purple Spirit Fir had reached Third Order Low-Grade and blossomed.
• Ji An instructed the Stone Turtle to raise the Moonlit Purple Spirit Fir to fourth order, then tended the small world's Spirit Fields and cast the Vermillion Bird Profound Bright Art for the Fire Phoenix.

Ji An showed Han Yan, Lin Lan, and Han Shan his flourishing Gourd World, including its two Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots, and asked Han Yan to research new pill formulas. The group proposed testing the small world's soil outside, and Ji An was left to decide whether to proceed.

• Ji An advanced the Moonlit Purple Spirit Fir to fourth order low-grade and later invited Han Yan, Lin Lan, and Han Shan into his Gourd World.
• Ji An showed the visitors the Gathering Origin Tree, its Spirit Plants, and the Fusang Tree, explaining how several had grown from seeds or materials his disciples had obtained.
• Ji An promised Lin Lan a Nascent Soul Pill if she continued advancing her cultivation and explained that the Fusang seed had come from a stone she found.
• Ji An asked Han Yan to research pills using the small world's Spirit Fruits and Moonlit Purple Spirit Fir, offering ten thousand great merits in annual funding.
• Lin Lan, Han Shan, and Han Yan proposed testing whether soil from the Gourd World could help grow Spirit Plants with special environmental needs outside it.

Ji An sent his disciples to test whether spirit soil and spirit trees from the Gourd World could thrive outside, then spent several days casting farming spells over the sect’s Spirit Fields and began purifying demon cores. A month later, the soil experiments and transplants had failed, and Ji An took the dead trees’ roots outside to examine them.

• Ji An approved taking samples of colored spirit soil and several spirit trees out of the Gourd World, and told Lin Lan and Han Shan to record the results.
• Ji An cast the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation and Dragon Soars, All Things Born over the sect’s Spirit Fields, completing spells across twenty thousand mu before returning to his cave abode.
• Ji An began using Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire to purify the Golden Feathered Eagle demon king’s core.
• A month later, Lin Lan reported that seedlings planted in the spirit soil had withered, while Han Shan reported that every transplanted spirit tree had died.
• Han Shan gave Ji An Storage Bags containing the dead trees’ roots, and Ji An took the roots outside as his disciples followed.

Ji An tested whether Yimu Wood Divine Thunder could create lightning-struck wood, then began a long-term plan to cultivate spirit wood for repeated attempts. He also strengthened his beast companions, tested transplanting high-grade spirit plants into the Gourd World, and received seeds for pills that would support the sect’s Golden Core cultivators.

• Ji An struck spirit-wood roots with Yimu Wood Divine Thunder, but he and Lin Lan found no newly created lightning-struck wood.
• After Lin Lan proposed using many spirit plants to improve the odds, Ji An decided to grow large quantities of second-tier Top-Grade spirit wood and test it every half year.
• Ji An fed the Golden Feathered Eagle a shard of its Demon King’s Golden Core and purified the Black Bear Demon King’s inner core for his other beast companions.
• Ji An planted spirit seeds in the Gourd World for future lightning-strike experiments and transplanted one hundred second-tier Top-Grade spirit plants to test whether they could survive there.
• Han Yan and Lin Lan brought Ji An spirit seeds and a list of pill ingredients, and Ji An said he would plant materials for about twenty batches of Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills and sixty batches of Purple Cloud Jade Ganoderma Pills.

As demonic qi surrounded the Golden Spirit Sect and Nascent Soul-level demons appeared, Lin Jiuxiao’s council halted missions and debated conserving supplies and seeking Ji An’s help. Ji An could not be reached because he was breaking through, and he reached Nascent Soul Layer 2.

• Lin Lan warned Ji An that demonic qi had reached the sect’s grand array and that Origin Seeking-level demons were being driven from behind, while Ji An told the Department of Agriculture to keep planting.
• After a disciple mission suffered a Nascent Soul cultivator’s sneak attack, Lin Jiuxiao suspended all missions outside the sect and Qin Yan reported the sect’s Thunder Pearl and Yin Thunder Bead reserves.
• Lin Lan warned that dwindling sunlight would harm spiritual plant production, so Han Shan and True Lord Yuxiao urged the sect to seek Ji An’s counsel; Lin Jiuxiao agreed to send Lin Lan and Han Shan to Crimson Flame Peak.
• Lin Lan and Han Shan found Ji An’s cave sealed and received no reply to their Golden Message Sword, so True Lord Yuxiao concluded that Ji An was likely breaking through.
• In the Gourd World, Ji An absorbed the Spiritual Energy Vortex and his spiritual pressure rose to Nascent Soul Layer 2.

Ji An broke through to Nascent Soul Layer 2, collected a ripening Lightning Strike Spirit Peach, and went to Sunrise Peak after receiving a Golden Message Sword. There, he learned that the sect was preparing for possible war and asked for an update on the situation.

• Ji An stabilized his cultivation while the Five-Colored Deer urged the other spirit beasts to train harder and asked for a future Mutated Dragon Blood Fruit.
• Ji An harvested a ripening Lightning Strike Spirit Peach and promised the Five-Colored Deer a Mutated Dragon Blood Fruit when it reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Golden Feathered Eagle brought Ji An a Golden Message Sword, and its message prompted him to leave for Sunrise Peak.
• At Limitless Hall, Ji An learned that Lin Jiuxiao and the others had drafted an initial battle plan in case full-scale war broke out.
• Ji An confirmed that he had advanced to Nascent Soul Layer 2, congratulated the assembled cultivators on their progress, and asked about recent events.

Ji An prepared Mount Puyun for an approaching True Demon war, arranged to upgrade several Magic Treasures, and discovered that thunder-infused Spiritual Peaches could help advance his body-refining cultivation. The chapter ended with Chen Xingzhou returning to Mount Puyun and confronting Yun Nianrong.

• Lin Jiuxiao reported the Nascent Soul level True Demon attack, and Ji An ordered the sect to distribute Thunder Pearls and follow its battle plan.
• Ji An asked Qin Yan to upgrade his Magic Treasures, and Qin Yan agreed to raise the Li Di Flame Light Banner to the Spiritual Treasure level.
• Ji An reviewed his cultivation progress and realized a thunder-infused Spiritual Peach could help break his body-refining stagnation.
• Chen Xingzhou returned to Mount Puyun, where he found the Chen Clan's former home burning and reflected on his past.
• Yun Nianrong arrived at Mount Puyun, and Chen Xingzhou took his true Fire Ape form and asked why she had come.

Yun Nianrong and Chen Xingzhou prepared to attack the Golden Spirit Sect, while Ji An broke through to the Vajra Realm in the Gourd World. The chapter left Ji An facing Chen Xingzhou’s challenge from beyond the sect’s mountain-protecting formation, wary that it was a trap.

• Yun Nianrong told Chen Xingzhou that Falling Maple Valley had fallen and gave him ten days to destroy nearby cultivator forces before the army reached the Golden Spirit Sect.
• Chen Xingzhou asked to lead the attack toward Crimson Flame Peak, and Yun Nianrong explained that the Golden Spirit Sect’s Third Order Top-Grade Spirit Vein could sustain a formation capable of resisting Nascent Soul attacks for years.
• Ji An’s body instinctively transformed his Qi and Blood Power and Five Elements power into a golden crystal, advancing his Immoveable Wisdom King Art into the Vajra Realm.
• Ji An celebrated his breakthrough by preparing and eating a Golden Core Stage Crimson Gold Carp with spirit food and Bodhi Wine.
• Chen Xingzhou attacked the Golden Spirit Sect’s mountain-protecting formation and publicly threatened its cultivators, claiming vengeance for the Chen Clan.
• Ji An recognized Chen Xingzhou’s challenge but stayed inside the formation, suspecting the enemy was trying to lure him out.

Chen Xingzhou taunted the Golden Spirit Sect from above Crimson Flame Peak, but Ji An stayed inside the mountain while his disciples speculated about his strength and reasons for not responding. Ji An instead improved his Moonlit Purple Spirit Firs and waited for his magic treasures to be raised in grade, while sect leaders reassured the disciples that he would act when ready.

• Chen Xingzhou cursed the Golden Spirit Sect and struck its mountain-protecting formation, while Liu Yu told Liu Changle to remain calm and wait.
• Ji An ignored Chen Xingzhou, inspected his Spirit Fields, and ordered the Stone Turtle to raise thirty Moonlit Purple Spirit Firs to Third Order Top-Grade.
• Chen Xingzhou decided to return every day to curse the sect, then left Crimson Flame Peak without drawing out its cultivators.
• Lin Jiuxiao soothed the angry disciples by saying Ji An’s magic treasure was being raised in grade and he would make Chen Xingzhou regret his attack.
• Qin Yan explained that Ji An was acting cautiously because True Demons might be lying in wait, and said the improved Li Di Flame Light Banner would greatly increase Ji An’s combat power.

Ji An received Qin Yan’s message that the Li Di Flame Light Banner was ready for its grade upgrade, while survivors from Falling Maple Valley fled through a hidden teleportation array to Golden Spirit Sect territory. The chapter ended with Ji An meeting True Lord Moon Shadow and escorting her and Lin Jiuxiao toward Red Copper Mountain as she sought help for her displaced sect.

• Ji An received Qin Yan’s invitation to Red Copper Mountain and arranged to arrive at dawn, while Chen Xingzhou continued shouting insults outside his cave dwelling.
• True Lord Chongxuan brought Falling Maple Valley’s survivors through a secret teleportation array to Azure Dragon Mountain and explained their plan to seek refuge with Golden Spirit Sect.
• True Lord Chongxuan sent True Lord Moon Shadow and True Person Guanglin toward Golden Spirit Sect with defensive talismans, communication jades, and Thunder Pearls.
• Ji An encountered True Lord Moon Shadow and Lin Jiuxiao arriving at his teleportation array, and Moon Shadow was startled to learn that Golden Spirit Sect had a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Ji An took True Lord Moon Shadow and Lin Jiuxiao to Red Copper Mountain, where he planned to meet Qin Yan about the Li Di Flame Light Banner.

Ji An refined the Fire Source Stone and, with Qin Yan’s help, upgraded the Li Di Flame Light Banner into a spirit treasure. While the work proceeded, True Lord Moon Shadow revealed that Falling Maple Valley had fallen about forty-six or forty-seven days earlier, leaving the Golden Spirit Sect bracing for an assault by at least six Nascent Soul-level enemies.

• True Lord Moon Shadow and True Person Guanglin split up on the way to the Golden Spirit Sect, and Moon Shadow changed course after hearing five Thunder Pearl explosions.
• Ji An began refining the Fire Source Stone while Lin Jiuxiao and True Lord Yuxiao discussed the magic treasure upgrade with True Lord Moon Shadow.
• True Lord Moon Shadow said Falling Maple Valley had fallen about forty-six or forty-seven days earlier after attacks by at least four Nascent Soul-level True Demons.
• Lin Jiuxiao and True Lord Yuxiao concluded that the Golden Spirit Sect could face at least six Nascent Soul-level enemies and agreed to prepare for the worst.
• Ji An melted the Fire Source Stone with his Primordial Life Fire, and Qin Yan added treasure restrictions to the Li Di Flame Light Banner.
• The Li Di Flame Light Banner radiated crimson and gold light, and Qin Yan congratulated Ji An on obtaining a spirit treasure.

Ji An tested the newly enhanced Li Di Flame Light Banner and prepared to confront the True Demon forces gathering near the Golden Spirit Sect. At Jiu Pan Mountain, Morag revealed that the daily provocations were meant to lure out and kill the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivator, while the main assault would begin after more forces arrived.

• Ji An and Qin Yan left the Earth Fire Room, where Ji An calmed the others affected by the Li Di Flame Light Banner’s power and learned of the threat near Falling Maple Valley.
• Ji An ordered True Lord Moon Shadow not to contact True Lord Chongxuan until he had investigated, then led the group to Crimson Flame Peak to await Chen Xingzhou.
• Ji An summoned his five Magic Treasures and discovered that they greatly increased his Fire Element spell’s power and strengthened his defenses.
• Morag told Zhu Changhe that the True Demons would wait to gather more forces before launching a relentless assault on the Golden Spirit Sect.
• Zhu Changhe explained to Chen Xingzhou that the provocations were intended to draw out the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivator, whom the True Demons hoped to kill.
• A True Demon asked Morag why he had supported Chen Xingzhou’s breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Morag secretly invested in Chen Xingzhou because he intended to harvest his mutated body and soul for powerful demonic treasures and a puppet. At Crimson Flame Peak, Ji An ambushed Chen Xingzhou and killed him with a single strike, though the attack damaged the valuable remains.

• Morag explained that Chen Xingzhou's mutated bones made him ideal material for a blood-refined Demonic Treasure, while privately planning to use his soul for a Substitute Demonic Puppet.
• Morag ordered the True Demons to return to their posts and increase patrols after learning that human cultivators had been spotted near Duan Hun Ridge.
• Chen Xingzhou brought three Nascent Soul cultivators and a True Demon to Crimson Flame Peak, where he taunted the Golden Spirit Sect's defenders.
• Ji An emerged from the formation, and Zhu Changhe recognized him and fled, prompting Ji An to attack Chen Xingzhou with Soaring Golden Light and the Great White Spirit Extinguishing Sword.
• Ji An's sword pierced Chen Xingzhou's defensive treasure and destroyed his chest, killing him; Ji An regretted that the attack had damaged the value of Chen Xingzhou's remains.

Ji An killed Yun Nianrong and the true demon, then pursued Zhu Changhe to Jiu Pan Mountain and destroyed him before he could reach safety. The chapter ended with Ji An arriving at the enemy stronghold, where a large army of true demons and demon heads awaited.

• Ji An killed Yun Nianrong with lightning, pursued her fleeing Nascent Soul, and sealed it inside a jade box.
• The true demon turned invisible and tried to escape, but Ji An spread purple flames across the sky and forced him to fight.
• Ji An used Wrath of the Earth to turn the true demon to stone, cut him apart, sealed the pieces, and stored them.
• Ji An tracked Zhu Changhe as he fled toward Jiu Pan Mountain, hoping to reach Lord Morag's cave abode.
• Ji An caught up with Zhu Changhe near the demon army and destroyed him and his Nascent Soul with the Great White Spirit Extinguishing Sword.

Ji An attacked the True Demon army at Jiu Pan Mountain, then faced Morag and Mo Tielin after wiping out tens of thousands of their troops. He killed Mo Tielin with two Great White Spirit Extinguishing Sword strikes, though the chapter noted that Mo Tielin might revive through a Demon Seed.

• Ji An gathered the slain Nascent Soul enemy’s corpse and identified the battlefield as Jiu Pan Mountain, east of the sect.
• Ji An unleashed Departing Fire Burns the Heavens, killing tens of thousands of True Demons and demonheads gathered near their cave dwelling.
• Morag and Mo Tielin transformed into their strongest battle states and moved to attack Ji An, while Mo Tielin ordered the troops to disperse.
• Ji An used Five-Colored Radiance to evade Morag and intercept Mo Tielin, who trapped him in a gravity-controlling Demonic Manifestation.
• Ji An released his Nascent Soul Manifestation to break Mo Tielin’s domain and struck him twice with the Great White Spirit Extinguishing Sword, killing him.
• The narration explained that Mo Tielin could potentially revive through a Demon Seed planted in a descendant.