Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan killed four Demon Kings in succession, overwhelming the demons and forcing the survivors to retreat. He then turned his power on the Tier 3 Great Demons fighting the human cultivators, and Ice Fire True Person, Mo Cangyun, and True Lord Yuanhe joined the assault.

• Ji Haoyuan killed Dark Bat Demon King and captured its Demon Nascent Soul.
• Sky Swallowing Demon King and Black Tortoise Demon King attacked Ji Haoyuan, but he countered their abilities with the Sky Burning God Splitting Spear and killed a Fourth-Order Tree Demon King.
• Ji Haoyuan killed a Deer Demon King with his Silver Sword Pellet, bringing his tally to four Demon Kings.
• Black Tortoise Demon King and Sky Swallowing Demon King fled with the surviving Demon Kings and resolved to report Ji Haoyuan to Red Flood Dragon King.
• Ji Haoyuan killed more than ten Tier 3 Great Demons with a mana hand, prompting Ice Fire True Person, Mo Cangyun, and True Lord Yuanhe to attack the remaining demons.

Ji Haoyuan ignored the Red Flood Dragon King's warning and helped slaughter the Demon Race's forces at Four Symbols Pass. Days later, he confronted Su Tianhua and Ye, who warned him against associating with Sword Sovereign Feichen, before an unseen speaker rebuked them.

• After the Demon Kings withdrew, Ji Haoyuan and other Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators joined the battle and killed most of the remaining Tier 3 Great Demons.
• The Red Flood Dragon King's distant Dragon Might suppressed the Human Race cultivators, but Ji Haoyuan ignored its warning and continued attacking while sending a message to Sword Sovereign Feichen.
• The Red Flood Dragon King never appeared, and the Demon Race's offensive weakened over the following days.
• At the western defensive line, Ji Haoyuan met Su Tianhua, Wuji Hall's Grand Elder, and a Nascent Soul Late Stage woman named Ye.
• Su Tianhua and Ye warned Ji Haoyuan against associating with Sword Sovereign Feichen and insulted his sect, prompting Ji Haoyuan to angrily rebuke them.
• An unseen speaker told Su Tianhua and Ye that they had gone too far.

Ji Haoyuan clashed with Su Tianhua and Junior Sister Ye after they insulted him, then accepted Sword Sovereign Feichen’s apology and a Heavenly Profound Jade Bamboo Shoot. He agreed not to pursue the pair for now, but warned that he would show no mercy if they came after him again.

• Sword Sovereign Feichen arrived with Li Changhe and Liang Ruyu as Su Tianhua and Junior Sister Ye argued with Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked Junior Sister Ye, and Su Tianhua used a curtain of nothingness to stop his fist seal before leaving with her.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Sword Sovereign Feichen whether he would object to keeping Su Tianhua and Junior Sister Ye there, but agreed to let them go at Feichen’s request.
• Sword Sovereign Feichen offered Ji Haoyuan a Heavenly Profound Jade Bamboo Shoot from Liu Daoxuan’s Storage Ring as an apology.
• Ji Haoyuan accepted the bamboo shoot and joined Sword Sovereign Feichen at one of their residences.

Ji Haoyuan and Sword Sovereign Feichen used the Dragon Blood Platform to fabricate a dragon-race opportunity and lure the Red Flood Dragon King away from refining its treasure. Their ambush began as the Red Flood Dragon King arrived, but it broke free of Ji Haoyuan’s binding chains and unleashed a devastating counterattack.

• Sword Sovereign Feichen revealed the damaged Dragon Blood Platform and asked Ji Haoyuan to use it to lure out the Red Flood Dragon King.
• Ji Haoyuan agreed to create a convincing opportunity in exchange for everything from the Red Flood Dragon King’s body except its dragon horns, and they set the ambush for a month later.
• Ji Haoyuan and Sword Sovereign Feichen gathered allies to guard against other Demon Kings as a fabricated dragon-race opportunity appeared three thousand li from Four Symbols Pass.
• The Red Flood Dragon King left its Cave Mansion and flew toward the apparent treasure, convinced it could help it advance and transform its bloodline.
• Ji Haoyuan bound the Red Flood Dragon King with spiritual chains, and he and Sword Sovereign Feichen attacked; the dragon king broke the chains and countered with fiery rain and rings of blazing light.

Ji Haoyuan and Sword Sovereign Feichen attacked the Red Flood Dragon King, but it seized Ji Haoyuan before he revealed his terrifying physical strength and turned the battle around. As Ji Haoyuan slammed the dragon into the ground, Sword Sovereign Feichen launched his Illusory True God-Slaying Sword at it.

• Sword Sovereign Feichen summoned a net of stellar sword qi while Ji Haoyuan empowered the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear to attack the Red Flood Dragon King.
• The Red Flood Dragon King raised a flame shield, but Feichen's sword rain damaged its scales and drew its blood.
• The Red Flood Dragon King grabbed Ji Haoyuan in its claw, but Ji Haoyuan expanded to thirty-three zhang and tore the claw apart.
• Ji Haoyuan struck the Red Flood Dragon King's head, seized its tail, and smashed it into the ground.
• Sword Sovereign Feichen seized the opening and slashed at the Red Flood Dragon King with his Illusory True God-Slaying Sword.

The Red Flood Dragon King used its Dragon Head Tower and an ancient curse to counter Sword Sovereign Feichen and attack Ji Haoyuan. Ji Haoyuan shrugged off the curse, tore out the dragon’s sinew, and Feichen struck its head, leaving the dragon gravely weakened.

• The Red Flood Dragon King’s Dragon Head Tower swallowed Sword Sovereign Feichen’s Illusory True God-Slaying Sword, but Ji Haoyuan’s lightning and a golden hand shook the tower and let Feichen attack again.
• The Red Flood Dragon King broke Feichen’s sword with an ancient Dragon Race curse, and the curse rapidly drained Ji Haoyuan’s vitality.
• Ji Haoyuan revealed that his immortal Nascent Soul and Unbreakable Golden Body made him immune to the curse, then used the Heaven Ascending Dharma Seal to overpower the Red Flood Dragon King.
• Ji Haoyuan struck the dragon’s head, neck, and vital spot before reaching into its wounds and ripping out a long blood-red dragon sinew.
• Sword Sovereign Feichen seized the opening and slashed a flying sword into the Red Flood Dragon King’s mouth, devastating its head and draining its aura.

After Ji Haoyuan and Sword Sovereign Feichen killed the Red Flood Dragon King and the other Demon Kings, Ji Haoyuan used six months of peace to advance to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. He tested his new strength and began considering how to turn the Dragon Bone Umbrella into a Fifth-Order magic treasure.

• Ji Haoyuan captured the Red Flood Dragon King's Dragon Infant after killing it, then joined Sword Sovereign Feichen and the others in killing every Demon King at the battlefield.
• For the next six months, the Demon Race avoided launching a large-scale offensive against Four Symbols Pass.
• Ji Haoyuan consumed the Heavenly Profound Jade Bamboo Shoot and broke through from the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Ji Haoyuan tested his Dharma Manifestation's strength, found it close to the Fifth-Order domain, and considered creating a Fifth-Order magic treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan took out the Dragon Bone Umbrella that the Red Flood Dragon King had prepared for its advancement into Spirit Transformation.

Ji Haoyuan used Dragon Cloud Crimson Gold to refine the Dragon Bone Umbrella into the Dragon Pattern Cloud Umbrella, then learned that the war was worsening at other fortress passes while Flying Star Palace and the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect stayed in the rear. He began considering preparations against the two sects, which he viewed as a threat to the Human Race.

• Ji Haoyuan used Dragon Cloud Crimson Gold and Pure Yang Fire to refine the Dragon Bone Umbrella for half a year.
• The transformed treasure emerged, and Ji Haoyuan named it the Dragon Pattern Cloud Umbrella.
• Ji Haoyuan met True Monarch Baihua and learned that the Demon Race had not launched a large-scale attack at Four Symbols Pass, but casualties at other fortress passes had mounted.
• Ji Haoyuan asked whether Flying Star Palace and the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect had defected, and True Monarch Baihua said there was no definitive news, though both sects remained in the rear.
• Ji Haoyuan judged the two sects' inaction a danger to the Human Race and decided it was time to make preparations against them.

Ji Haoyuan asked Sword Sovereign Feichen about Wuji Hall’s stance toward Flying Star Palace and the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect, and learned that Wuji Hall was crippled by internal strife. Feichen decided to return to the sect to claim the Wuji Seal and restore its unity, leaving with gifts from Ji Haoyuan and prepared to risk everything.

• Ji Haoyuan asked Sword Sovereign Feichen how Wuji Hall viewed Flying Star Palace and the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect, and Feichen said neither sect had openly joined the Demon Race while Wuji Hall itself was divided.
• Feichen told Ji Haoyuan he intended to return to Wuji Hall, obtain the Wuji Seal, and take control of the sect so its cultivators could help confront the Demon Race and other human threats.
• Feichen estimated his chance of success at over forty percent, and Ji Haoyuan gave him a Tier 4 High-grade puppet and an Inner Demon Talisman Seal.
• Feichen said the gifts raised his chance of success to roughly fifty or fifty-five percent and promised to repay Ji Haoyuan if he prevailed.
• Ji Haoyuan urged Feichen to put his safety first, but Feichen prepared to stake everything on his return to Wuji Hall.

After True Monarch Yanfa summoned Ji Haoyuan back from Four Symbols Pass, he warned that the Human Race was likely to lose the war and revealed that a passage to the Central Heaven Domain would soon open. Ji Haoyuan learned he could lead people through it, while Yanfa promised to help stabilize Wuji Hall.

• True Monarch Yanfa sent a Message Talisman summoning Ji Haoyuan, who arranged Four Symbols Pass's defenses and quietly returned to the Yanfa Sect Branch Courtyard.
• True Monarch Yanfa told Ji Haoyuan that the Human Race would likely lose the war despite his contingency in Wuji Hall.
• True Monarch Yanfa revealed that Flying Star Palace and the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect had defected to the Demon Race and were attacking Human Race sects and clans.
• True Monarch Yanfa said the Human Race must contract its defensive lines and promised to visit Wuji Hall to prevent problems during its internal transition.
• True Monarch Yanfa revealed that a passage to the Central Heaven Domain would soon appear and that Ji Haoyuan could lead people through it.

Ji Haoyuan learned that a rare passage to the Central Heaven Domain would open in six months, giving him a chance to enter the Myriad Laws Heavenly Sect. He accepted the journey despite the Southern Wasteland Domain’s danger and began planning whom to bring.

• True Monarch Yanfa urged Ji Haoyuan to seize the passage, arguing that establishing himself in the Central Heaven Domain could eventually help the Yanfa Sect follow.
• Ji Haoyuan asked whether the whole Yanfa Sect could travel, but True Monarch Yanfa explained that the passage could carry only one Nascent Soul cultivator, five Golden Core cultivators, and one hundred lower-level cultivators.
• Ji Haoyuan decided to go as the sole Nascent Soul cultivator, reasoning that he might later help the Yanfa Sect and the Human Race in the Southern Wasteland Domain.
• True Monarch Yanfa gave Ji Haoyuan the Tianyuan Token, which could prove his lineage to the Myriad Laws Heavenly Sect, and said the passage would appear in roughly six months.
• Ji Haoyuan went to his Cave Mansion on Nanhua Peak and began considering whom to take on the journey.

Ji Haoyuan chose the cultivators who would accompany him to the Central Heaven Domain and kept the plans secret until the passage was nearly open. After reaching peak Nascent Soul through dual cultivation with Ice Fire True Person, he traveled with the group to the passage, where Ancestor Tianyuan’s flying boat was prepared for their long journey.

• Ji Haoyuan chose Zhang Tianyang, True Person Leixia, Miao Zixi, Ji Qingfei, and True Person Beichen as his Golden Core companions, while leaving Lu Mengchan behind.
• Ji Haoyuan and True Monarch Yanfa kept the travel plans from nearly everyone else as the passage’s opening drew near.
• Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person emerged as Dao companions; Ji Haoyuan advanced to peak Nascent Soul, while Ice Fire True Person reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• True Monarch Yanfa led Ji Haoyuan, Ice Fire True Person, and the others from the Minor Grotto-Heaven to the Shaohua Mountain Range.
• Ji Haoyuan used a crystalline token to reveal the passage and summoned Ancestor Tianyuan’s flying boat for the journey to the Central Heaven Domain.

After twenty-three years in the Void Passage, Ji Haoyuan gained two spatial divine abilities and led the group to the Central Heaven Domain. They arrived above an azure sea, where the far purer Spiritual Energy began to refine their dharma power, just as a flying shuttle approached.

• Ji Haoyuan studied the Void Passage for twenty years and comprehended Nirvana Dark Light and the Teleportation Shadow Clone Technique.
• After another three years, the group heard waves and Ji Haoyuan told them they were nearing the Central Heaven Domain.
• The dharma vessel emerged from the mist above an azure sea, and the group felt the Central Heaven Domain’s pure Spiritual Energy refine their dharma power.
• A flying shuttle raced toward the dharma vessel from the distant sky.

Ji Haoyuan and his companions arrived in the Central Divine Continent, where Dao Palace inspector Zuo Linjun identified them as newcomers from another domain and required them to pass beneath a Demon Revealing Mirror. After the mirror confirmed none were Demonic Evil Cultivators, Zuo Linjun offered to escort them to Lingya Island and explain the Dao Palace and its inspections.

• Zuo Linjun approached Ji Haoyuan’s group and explained that the Dao Palace used a Spirit Communion Pearl to identify cultivators arriving from other domains.
• Zuo Linjun summoned the Demon Revealing Mirror and asked Ji Haoyuan and his companions to pass beneath it for inspection.
• Ji Haoyuan passed beneath the mirror without incident, and True Person Leixia, Zhang Tianyang, True Person Beichen, Miao Zixi, Ji Qingfei, and the others also passed its test.
• Zuo Linjun confirmed the group was welcome in the Central Divine Continent and apologized for the inspection.
• Ji Haoyuan asked about the Dao Palace and its monitoring of Demonic Evil Cultivators, and Zuo Linjun offered to escort the group to Lingya Island while explaining matters along the way.

Ji Haoyuan and his companions arrived at Lingya Island, where they parted ways with Zuo Linjun and learned more about the Dao Palace’s role in the Central Divine Continent. Ji Haoyuan decided they would settle on the island and investigate the region before approaching the Myriad Laws Heavenly Sect.

• Zuo Linjun escorted Ji Haoyuan and his companions to Lingya Island and gave Ji Haoyuan a communication token before departing with his group.
• A young cultivator questioned Zuo Linjun’s courtesy toward Ji Haoyuan, and Zuo Linjun warned the Dao Palace inspectors not to underestimate powerful outsiders or make enemies needlessly.
• True Person Leixia asked Ji Haoyuan what they would do next, and he proposed settling on Lingya Island to gather information.
• Ji Haoyuan resolved to learn more about the Myriad Laws Heavenly Sect and its relationship with the Dao Palace before revealing his group’s origins or claiming its inheritance.

After two months gathering information on Lingya Island, Ji Haoyuan and his companions learned that their higher sect had become an eighth-rank Sacred Land. The news raised their hopes of joining it, but Ji Haoyuan wondered whether it would recognize their lineage from the Southern Wasteland Domain.

• Ji Haoyuan reviewed the information Miao Zixi, Ji Qingfei, and Zhang Tianyang had gathered about the Dao Palace’s influence in the Central Divine Continent.
• True Person Leixia and True Person Beichen brought Fan Changhong to report news about their higher sect.
• Fan Changhong told Ji Haoyuan and the others that the Myriad Laws Heavenly Sect had become an eighth-rank Sacred Land and was now called the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.
• Ji Haoyuan realized that the Sacred Land might not recognize the Dao lineage Tianyuan Divine Monarch had left in the Southern Wasteland Domain or accept them into its fold.

Ji Haoyuan learned that the Myriad Laws Sacred Land would recruit disciples in three years and resolved to travel to Qingxuan Prefecture, using his resources and Ancestor Tianyuan’s legacy to improve his chances of joining. Before leaving, he arranged for True Person Beichen to attempt Nascent Soul formation and turned to assess Senior Sister True Person Leixia and Zhang Tianyang.

• Fan Changhong reported that the Myriad Laws Sacred Land was located in Qingxuan Prefecture and would recruit disciples alongside the Morality Sacred Sect and Taichong Sacred Land three years later.
• Ji Haoyuan considered the long journey from Lingya Island and decided to use a Dao Palace teleportation array, though he would have to leave many people behind.
• Ji Haoyuan told those present that the recruitment offered them a chance to join the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and that his status as a descendant of Ancestor Tianyuan's legacy could raise their odds above fifty percent.
• Ji Haoyuan asked True Person Leixia, True Person Beichen, and Zhang Tianyang about their chances of forming Nascent Souls, and True Person Beichen pledged to succeed if given sufficient resources.
• Ji Haoyuan gave True Person Beichen the Three Treasures for Nascent Soul Formation, cultivation insights, and Supreme-grade spirit stones, then turned to Senior Sister True Person Leixia and Zhang Tianyang.

Ji Haoyuan turned down Zhang Tianyang’s request for Nascent Soul resources and helped True Person Leixia ascend to Nascent Soul. After True Person Beichen also formed his Nascent Soul, Ji Haoyuan prepared to leave Lingya Island while Leixia stayed behind to protect their group.

• Ji Haoyuan advised Zhang Tianyang to temper his realm further before seeking Nascent Soul resources, and Zhang Tianyang left with True Person Beichen.
• True Person Leixia confronted Ji Haoyuan about their relationship and began her Nascent Soul tribulation that night.
• True Person Leixia passed her tribulations and became a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Seven days later, True Person Beichen passed his tribulations and became a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• True Person Leixia chose to remain on Lingya Island with True Person Beichen and Zhang Tianyang, while Ji Haoyuan departed with Ji Qingfei, Miao Zixi, and five younger disciples, including Fan Changhong.

Ji Haoyuan offered Zuo Linjun a Myriad Essence Pill in exchange for help using the Dao Palace’s exclusive teleportation array to reach Qingxuan Prefecture for the Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s disciple recruitment assembly. Zuo Linjun considered the request and said it was possible, though he had a condition or qualification to add.

• Ji Haoyuan met Zuo Linjun at Drunken Fortune Tower after traveling to Ganling Prefecture by teleportation array.
• Ji Haoyuan gave Zuo Linjun a Myriad Essence Pill, and Zuo Linjun candidly offered to help with a request if he could.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Zuo Linjun to introduce him to Dao Palace members who guarded their exclusive teleportation array.
• Ji Haoyuan explained that he wanted to travel to Qingxuan Prefecture for the Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s disciple recruitment assembly.
• Zuo Linjun weighed the potential benefits of helping Ji Haoyuan and said the matter was possible, but began to add a qualification.

Ji Haoyuan secured Zuo Linjun’s help obtaining access to the Dao Palace teleportation array and received a jade token for his group. He learned the messenger, Zuo Qingqing, likely had a close relationship with Zuo Linjun.

• Zuo Linjun refused Ji Haoyuan’s Storage Pouch and promised to arrange access to the teleportation array within two to seven days.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to his courtyard, asked Miao Zixi to call him Senior Brother, and read the information Ji Qingfei and the others had gathered.
• Ji Haoyuan ruled out using local intermediaries because their fees, limited reach, and unreliable connections could cause delays and trouble.
• Three days later, a Golden Core cultivator delivered Zuo Linjun’s jade token, which allowed up to ten people to use the Dao Palace teleportation array.
• The messenger introduced herself as Zuo Qingqing, and Ji Haoyuan suspected she was more than a confidante of Zuo Linjun.