Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan intervened when a Bloodwing Centipede ambushed Shi Siyao during her battle with the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird, then pursued both Great Demons as they fled. He killed the Bloodwing Centipede and forced the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird to offer its Lifebound Essence Blood and Lifebound Demon Soul in exchange for becoming his mount.

• Shi Siyao battled the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird until the Bloodwing Centipede arrived and attacked her with a poisonous needle.
• Ji Haoyuan appeared, destroyed the needle, and drove both Great Demons to flee toward the Qiu Long Mountain Range.
• Ji Haoyuan sent his Silver Sword Pellet after the Bloodwing Centipede and pierced its head, killing it.
• Ji Haoyuan's Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear caught up with the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird, which begged for its life and offered to become his mount.
• The Crimson Fire Demonic Bird expelled its Lifebound Essence Blood and Lifebound Demon Soul toward Ji Haoyuan.

Ji Haoyuan subdued the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird and helped turn back the Demon Beasts attacking Heaven Piercing Valley. He then learned that the Alliance High Council had ordered his transfer at the request of True Monarch Bihai of True Word Sect, leaving him to wonder why he had been targeted.

• Ji Haoyuan collected the Crimson Fire Demonic Bird’s life-bound essence blood and demon soul, then accepted it as his mount and stored it in a Beast Taming Token.
• Shi Siyao, True Person Qianyue, Zhou Kun, and Meng Changtian congratulated Ji Haoyuan, and the five watched as the routed Demon Beasts fled Heaven Piercing Valley.
• Ji Haoyuan and the others allowed the cultivators to pursue the fleeing Demon Beasts, and no further attack came from the Qiu Long Mountain Range.
• Zhou Kun and Shi Siyao informed Ji Haoyuan that the Alliance High Council had ordered him to transfer elsewhere to guard against the Beast Tide.
• Shi Siyao and Zhou Kun explained that the order had not come from Yanfa Sect, and Zhou Kun revealed that True Monarch Bihai of True Word Sect had issued it.

Ji Haoyuan learned that the Alliance had ordered him to serve at Dongshan Pass for three years, and he made preparations before leaving Heaven Piercing Valley. At Dongshan Pass, Bi Chenzi told the other stationed cultivators that he wanted Nanhua True Person kept there forever.

• Ji Haoyuan accepted the transfer order after Zhou Kun explained that he had one month to reach Dongshan Pass and must serve there for three years.
• Shi Siyao gave Ji Haoyuan a Jade Slip containing information about Dongshan Pass and warned him about its powerful Great Demons.
• Ji Haoyuan decided not to hunt the Black Wind Demonic Tiger, informed Ice Fire True Person of his departure, and secretly gave Shi Siyao a high-grade Tier 3 Talisman.
• Ji Haoyuan set out for Dongshan Pass on the Blazing Fire Goose.
• Bi Chenzi told four other cultivators that he wanted Nanhua True Person to remain at Dongshan Pass forever.

Bi Chenzi and the other Golden Core cultivators arranged to send Ji Haoyuan to the Northern Defense Line when a Beast Tide struck. After Ji Haoyuan arrived at Dongshan Pass, Xiao Baiming welcomed him, while Bi Chenzi proposed assigning him the only high-grade Tier 3 Cave Mansion.

• Bi Chenzi suggested that Ji Haoyuan guard the Northern Defense Line against a Beast Tide expected in half a year, and the other cultivators agreed.
• More than half a month later, Ji Haoyuan arrived at Dongshan Pass atop a Tier 3 Great Demon avian beast, alarming the stationed cultivators until they recognized him as a Human Race Golden Core True Person.
• Xiao Baiming introduced Ji Haoyuan to the other arriving cultivators and verified his transfer order.
• Ji Haoyuan declined a welcoming banquet and asked how many Golden Core cultivators were stationed at Dongshan Pass; Xiao Baiming said there were thirteen, including Ji Haoyuan.
• Xiao Baiming offered Ji Haoyuan a vacant Third-Grade Cave Mansion, but Bi Chenzi urged him to assign Ji Haoyuan the only high-grade Tier 3 Cave Mansion.

Ji Haoyuan ignored Bi Chenzi’s attempt to direct him to a dangerous Cave Mansion and accepted Xiao Baiming’s safer accommodation on the Eastern Defense Line. After months in seclusion, he received a summons to the Council Hall, where Bi Chenzi announced that a Large-Scale Beast Tide was approaching the Northern Defense Line.

• Bi Chenzi offered Ji Haoyuan a high-grade Tier 3 Cave Mansion, but Ji Haoyuan ignored him and asked Xiao Baiming to arrange his lodging.
• Xiao Baiming took Ji Haoyuan to a safer mid-grade Tier 3 Cave Mansion on the Eastern Defense Line and explained that Bi Chenzi’s offered location was frequently attacked by Demon Beasts.
• Bi Chenzi told Gao Quan that he would find a way to burden Ji Haoyuan with the heaviest tasks on whichever defense line he served.
• Ji Haoyuan inspected his Cave Mansion, stayed inside for several months, and then received a Message Talisman summoning him to the Council Hall.
• After the thirteen Golden Cores gathered, Bi Chenzi announced that a Large-Scale Beast Tide would soon strike the Northern Defense Line, alarming the assembled cultivators.

At a Council Hall meeting, Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan proposed sending Ji Haoyuan to lead the Northern Defense Line against a possible Large-Scale Beast Tide. Ji Haoyuan refused to take responsibility beyond his current post, and Bi Chenzi called for a vote on sending him north.

• Bi Chenzi confirmed that a Large-Scale Beast Tide was likely and called for a plan to defend the Northern Defense Line.
• Xiahou Qingshan proposed sending at least six Golden Core cultivators, led by a Great Golden Core Cultivator, to defend the line.
• Xiahou Qingshan urged Ji Haoyuan to take charge of the Northern Defense Line, citing his strength against the Black Wind Demonic Tiger.
• Ji Haoyuan challenged Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan, saying he would defend only the area where he was stationed.
• Xiahou Qingshan threatened to settle the assignment by vote, and Bi Chenzi called for a vote and raised his hand in favor of sending Ji Haoyuan north.

At a pre-war meeting, Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan secured enough votes to send Ji Haoyuan to the Northern Defense Line, but Ji Haoyuan rejected the resolution and declared that only votes he approved counted. When Xiahou Qingshan attacked with his Golden Core Domain, Ji Haoyuan pierced it and wounded him, prompting Bi Chenzi to unleash his own Domain.

• Bi Chenzi, Xiahou Qingshan, Gao Quan, and others raised their hands, bringing support for sending Ji Haoyuan to the Northern Defense Line to eight votes.
• Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan treated the resolution as settled, but Ji Haoyuan declared it void because he had not approved it.
• Xiahou Qingshan accused Ji Haoyuan of defying wartime orders, and Ji Haoyuan insisted that none of their votes counted without his approval.
• Xiahou Qingshan manifested his Golden Core Domain and attacked Ji Haoyuan, who pierced the Domain and shattered its spear, leaving Xiahou Qingshan injured.
• Bi Chenzi raised his gray-mist Golden Core Domain against Ji Haoyuan as the others watched.

Ji Haoyuan overpowered Bi Chenzi and demanded that Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan guard the Northern Defense Line against the coming Large-Scale Beast Tide. After Ji Haoyuan killed Gao Quan for opposing him, the others stayed silent as he again demanded to know who agreed and who opposed.

• Ji Haoyuan broke Bi Chenzi's Golden Core Domain and asked whether anyone still opposed his proposal.
• Ji Haoyuan nominated Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan to guard the Northern Defense Line, and Xiao Baiming agreed.
• Gao Quan accused Ji Haoyuan of disregarding the greater situation and risking Alliance punishment.
• Ji Haoyuan declared Gao Quan guilty of defying wartime orders and killed him with a massive Starlight palm.
• Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan remained silent under Ji Haoyuan's killing intent, and he asked the assembly to state its positions again.

Ji Haoyuan forced the Council Hall to send Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan to the Northern Defense Line, then spent months preparing for the Beast Tide he expected. A massive Beast Tide struck all four defense lines, with more than a million Demon Beasts approaching the Eastern Defense Line, leaving Ji Haoyuan and Xiao Baiming suspecting an unknown cause.

• Ji Haoyuan's oppressive aura forced the Council Hall to approve his proposal and Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan to accept their assignment to the Northern Defense Line.
• After the meeting, Xiao Baiming warned Ji Haoyuan that Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan would likely seek revenge, and Ji Haoyuan resolved to act against them if they schemed again.
• Dongshan Pass remained calm for half a year, and cultivators grew increasingly wary that a Beast Tide was imminent.
• Six urgent bells announced enormous Beast Tides attacking all four defense lines, and Ji Haoyuan saw over a million Demon Beasts approaching the Eastern Defense Line.
• Xiao Baiming questioned why the Beast Tide had struck the Eastern Defense Line rather than the Northern Defense Line and suspected an unknown force was involved.

Ji Haoyuan responded to the Large-Scale Beast Tide at Dongshan Pass by ordering reinforcements from the Wu Kingdom Cultivation World and the Xiahou Family, while Bi Chenzi and Xiahou Qingshan plotted to exploit any transfer of forces. After seven days of fierce fighting on the Eastern Defense Line, Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue arrived as uninvited guests in the Xiahou Family’s territory.

• Ji Haoyuan learned that Beast Tides had struck all four defense lines, but the Eastern Defense Line faced the greatest danger and the Northern Defense Line’s threat appeared exaggerated.
• Ji Haoyuan sent Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue to demand reinforcements from the Wu Kingdom Cultivation World and the Xiahou Family, instructing them to secretly record any refusals.
• Bi Chenzi told Xiahou Qingshan to obey if Ji Haoyuan ordered them to reinforce the Eastern Defense Line, then let the Northern Defense Line face an overwhelming Beast Tide.
• The Eastern Defense Line endured seven days of near-constant attacks while cultivators reinforced its walls and slew countless Demon Beasts.
• Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue arrived uninvited in the Xiahou Family’s territory.

Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue delivered Dongshan Pass’s summons to the Xiahou Family, which refused to comply, while Ji Haoyuan gathered evidence of their refusal. After receiving a message from his family, Xiahou Qingshan realized Ji Haoyuan had trapped him between Bi Chenzi, his family, and himself.

• Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue summoned the Xiahou Family to Dongshan Pass, but Xiahou Qingfeng and the other elders rejected the summons.
• Xiahou Qingfeng stopped the elders from attacking the visitors and decided to contact Xiahou Qingshan for an explanation.
• Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue waited to see whether the Xiahou Family would pursue them, then returned to Dongshan Pass when no one came.
• Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue gave Ji Haoyuan a Recording Stone, and he rewarded them with True Law Pills.
• Xiahou Qingshan received a message from his family, crushed the Message Talisman, and condemned Nanhua True Person’s scheme.

Ji Haoyuan forced Xiahou Qingshan to cooperate by showing him evidence that Xiahou’s family had colluded with the Demon Race, while revealing that Bi Chenzi was his real target. Two months later, as the Demon Beasts intensified their assault, Xiahou hinted to Bi Chenzi that Ji Haoyuan would soon come to them.

• Ji Haoyuan entered Xiahou Qingshan’s cave abode and warned that Xiahou and his family would be destroyed if he kept delaying.
• Ji Haoyuan showed Xiahou a Recording Stone exposing his family’s collusion with the Demon Race, then demanded his cooperation.
• Xiahou agreed to cooperate after Ji Haoyuan promised to report his service to the Yanfa Sect.
• Ji Haoyuan privately revealed that Bi Chenzi was his true target and that Xiahou was a useful way to justify moving against him.
• Two months later, the Demon Beasts’ attacks breached the Eastern Defense Line and caused thousands of cultivator deaths.
• At the Northern Defense Line, Bi Chenzi wondered how Ji Haoyuan was faring, and Xiahou replied that they would not need to go see him.

Ji Haoyuan exposed Bi Chenzi’s secret dealings with the Demon Race, turning Xiahou Qingshan against him and preventing Bi Chenzi from killing Xiahou. The chapter left Ji Haoyuan attacking Bi Chenzi with a lightning-charged palm.

• Xiahou Qingshan attacked Bi Chenzi and accused him of colluding with the Demon Race to direct their assault at Dongshan Pass’s Eastern Defense Line.
• Bi Chenzi used his True Word Technique to divert Xiahou Qingshan’s spear and drain his mana, then sent a rune-covered Silver Sword to strike him down.
• Ji Haoyuan intervened with a Silver Sword Pellet, stopping Bi Chenzi’s sword from killing Xiahou Qingshan.
• Ji Haoyuan showed the Golden Core cultivators a Recording Stone of Bi Chenzi meeting a Tier 3 Great Demon, exposing his dealings to everyone present.
• Ji Haoyuan condemned Bi Chenzi as a traitor and attacked him with an enormous palm flashing with lightning.

Ji Haoyuan revealed his late Tier 3 body refinement and killed Bi Chenzi, then gathered the cultivators to reinforce Dongshan Pass’s Eastern Defense Line. He arrived there as the exhausted defenders faced mounting casualties and the Beast Tide continued to surge.

• Ji Haoyuan used his hidden late Tier 3 body refinement to overpower Bi Chenzi and destroy his True Word Techniques.
• Ji Haoyuan delayed Bi Chenzi’s escape talisman with the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear, pierced his chest, and finished him with a falling Great Star.
• Xiahou Qingshan and the other cultivators thanked Ji Haoyuan, and Ji Haoyuan ordered Xiahou to watch the Northern Defense Line while the rest joined him at the Eastern Defense Line.
• Ji Haoyuan collected Bi Chenzi’s talisman and Storage Ring before leading the group toward Dongshan Pass’s Eastern Defense Line.
• The Eastern Defense Line’s exhausted cultivators suffered mounting casualties as the Demon Beasts kept attacking, and Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue went to meet Ji Haoyuan when he arrived.

As nine Tier 3 Great Demons attacked Dongshan Pass, Ji Haoyuan refused to weaken the other defense lines and prepared to meet the assault with the forces at hand. He locked onto a mid-stage Tier 3 Patterned Demon Serpent as his first target, then vanished to attack it.

• Ji Haoyuan ordered rotations at Dongshan Pass and demanded that the Wu Kingdom send more cultivators within three days, threatening clans and sects that held back.
• Nine Tier 3 Great Demons, including three late-stage ones, appeared and charged toward the Eastern Defense Line.
• Xiao Baiming proposed summoning Xiahou Qingshan, but Nangong Xue and True Person Ziyun warned that moving him could leave the Northern Defense Line exposed; Ji Haoyuan kept the other lines' Golden Core cultivators in place.
• Nangong Xue explained that the Hundred Beasts Sect could not send its Beast-Taming True Person because its territory was also under attack.
• Ji Haoyuan ordered Xia Guanglin, Nangong Xue, and True Person Ziyun to use the formation against the Great Demons while he and Xiao Baiming prepared to fight directly.
• Ji Haoyuan chose a mid-stage Tier 3 Patterned Demon Serpent as his target and suddenly vanished.

Ji Haoyuan charged out of Dongshan Pass and fought the Great Demons alone, killing several while their forces overwhelmed him. As Xiao Baiming and the others rushed to help, Ji Haoyuan was struck by the Wind Thunder Demonic Bear, the Golden Eagle, and the demon ape, leaving his left shoulder and feet shattered.

• Ji Haoyuan killed the Patterned Demon Serpent with his Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear, drawing the attacks of a wolf, a leopard, and a Wind Thunder Demonic Bear.
• Ji Haoyuan used his Starry Body to clash with the bear and killed the leopard with a spear strike.
• The Wolf Demon retreated as a late Tier 3 Golden Eagle and a Golden Flame-wreathed demon ape joined the attack, while Xiao Baiming, True Person Ziyun, Nangong Xue, and the others flew to rescue Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan unleashed a vast domain of orange-red flames that burned the Wolf Demon alive.
• Ji Haoyuan seized the Golden Eagle's talon and took its beak strike and the other demons' attacks rather than dodge, causing his left shoulder and both feet to burst apart.

Ji Haoyuan regenerated from his grievous wounds, tore apart the Golden Eagle, and charged through the Demon Beast hordes until the Wind Thunder Demonic Bear and the demon ape withdrew. He returned to his Cave Mansion, while Xiao Baiming and the others remained at Dongshan Pass; the chapter left the true reason for Ji Haoyuan’s haste unrevealed.

• Ji Haoyuan regenerated his wounds and limbs with golden flames, then seized the Golden Eagle’s talons and stunned it with lightning.
• Ji Haoyuan ripped the Golden Eagle in two and, empowered by the Indestructible Star Thunder Body, charged through Demon Beasts, killing a Tier 3 White-skinned Rhinoceros and many others.
• The Wind Thunder Demonic Bear and the demon ape retreated, and Ji Haoyuan’s group returned to the Eastern Defense Line at Dongshan Pass.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Xiao Baiming, True Person Ziyun, and Nangong Xue to watch the defense while he returned to his Cave Mansion to recuperate.
• Ji Haoyuan’s companions assumed the battle had cost him greatly, but he knew his wounds were not the reason he had hurried back.

Ji Haoyuan comprehended the Unbreakable Golden Body and Blood Refinement Method, then searched Bi Chenzi’s Storage Ring and discovered a token to the Fuya Secret Realm. He decided to enter the realm after the Beast Tide ended, hoping to obtain its cultivation resources and Nascent Soul formation opportunities.

• Ji Haoyuan realized the Unbreakable Golden Body was a short-term combat Secret Art that greatly increased his strength, speed, and defense, though it might not withstand repeated Fourth-Order attacks.
• Ji Haoyuan concluded that the Blood Refinement Method could strengthen his body using demon blood containing ancient bloodlines and considered refining the Wind Thunder Demonic Bear’s Essence Blood.
• Ji Haoyuan removed the restriction on Bi Chenzi’s Storage Ring and found spirit stones, treasures, materials, Jade Slips, and an ancient method for condensing a Lifebound Sword Core.
• Ji Haoyuan claimed a bronze Fuya Token and learned that it granted entry to the Fuya Secret Realm, which opened once every three hundred years and contained cultivation resources and Nascent Soul formation opportunities.
• Ji Haoyuan decided to visit the Fuya Secret Realm after the Beast Tide ended.

Ji Haoyuan refined his Silver Sword Pellet, completed his three-year garrison duty at Dongshan Pass, and received cultivation resources from True Person Leixia. Before he returned to Heaven Piercing Valley with Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue, Leixia pulled him aside to warn him about a special matter.

• Ji Haoyuan used Tier 3 magical treasures and Gold attribute ores to raise the Silver Sword Pellet to peak mid-grade Tier 3, then renamed it the Yuan Chen Sword Pellet.
• Two years passed with only manageable Beast Tide attacks at Dongshan Pass, and Ji Haoyuan's three-year garrison assignment ended.
• Xia Guanglin and Nangong Xue agreed to accompany Ji Haoyuan to Heaven Piercing Valley and become guest elders of the Ji Family.
• True Person Leixia arrived with the replacement garrison cultivators and gave Ji Haoyuan the items he had requested in exchange for battle merits, including Thousand Year Jade Dew and Lei Chen Star Sand.
• True Person Leixia took Ji Haoyuan aside and began a grave warning before his return.

True Person Leixia warned Ji Haoyuan that Yanfa Sect and True Word Sect were nearing full-scale war, and that True Word Sect had marked him for death. Ji Haoyuan agreed to skip Heaven Piercing Valley and head directly to Yanfa Sect, but True Person Leixia stopped him before he could leave.

• True Person Leixia told Ji Haoyuan that Yanfa Sect and True Word Sect had a long history of clashes and were likely to enter full-scale war after the human-demon war ended.
• True Person Leixia revealed that Yanfa Sect had secretly killed several True Word Sect Golden Core cultivators in retaliation for True Word Sect's attacks.
• True Person Leixia warned Ji Haoyuan that his battlefield reputation and killing of Bi Chenzi had put him on True Word Sect's must-kill list, and advised him to go straight to Yanfa Sect instead of returning to Heaven Piercing Valley.
• True Person Leixia explained that the ongoing human-demon war prevented attacks on its regions and that striking families could invite retaliation, though Ji Haoyuan still felt urgency to grow stronger.
• Ji Haoyuan accepted True Person Leixia's advice and prepared to leave for Yanfa Sect, but she stopped him.