Chapter Summaries

Little Crane and Myna bird returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, where the surviving Remnant Souls began recovering in the Green Grass Great Array. After delivering the leaders’ messages to their people, Little Crane fully recovered and left with Myna bird for the Elf Continent.

• Little Crane escaped the Heavenly Demon Valley with Myna bird and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine, then carried everyone back across the continents to Tianzhu City.
• Myna bird asked the Three Burials Buddha Emperor to use the Teleportation Array and returned with Little Crane to the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Little Crane released the Natal Spirit Treasures into the Green Grass Great Array, where its blades of grass nourished the Remnant Souls and halted their deterioration.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin, the Elf Queen, the Nether Emperor, the Goddess Empress, and the dragon leaders agreed to inform their people and send forces to eliminate the Devil Race survivors.
• Myna bird delivered the leaders’ Soul Jade Slips to Tianyuan Academy and the Dragon Races, and a month later Little Crane and Myna bird departed for the Elf Continent.

The myna bird delivered messages from the Elf Queen, Goddess Empress, and Nether Emperor to their successors, then returned to the Barbaric Continent. Months later, it led a new allied army onto the Devil Race Continent, where the army found the Heavenly Demon Banner and swept through the weakened Devil Race.

• The Elf Saintess read the Elf Queen’s Soul Jade Slip, and Little Crane carried the myna bird to deliver the Goddess Empress’s message to the God Race Saintess.
• Little Crane took the myna bird to the Nether Race, where Ming Li learned from the Nether Emperor’s message that he was recovering and that Fang Chen had probably killed the Qingtian Demon Emperor.
• The myna bird and Little Crane rested with the Nether Race for three days before returning to the Barbaric Continent.
• Half a year later, the major races mustered armies, and the Heavenly Human Emperor learned they planned to attack the Devil Race again.
• Three months afterward, the myna bird led the allied army onto the Devil Race Continent and began clearing out the remaining devils.
• The allied army reached Heavenly Demon Valley, saw the Heavenly Demon Banner overhead, and found little resistance because the Devil Race’s Quasi-Emperors were dead and its formation remained damaged.

The Demon-Slaying Allied Army exploited the Devil Race’s poisoned, sleeping forces to destroy them and spent nearly a century sweeping the Demon Race Continent. With the Devil Race eliminated and Fang Chen still unconscious after more than a hundred years, Myna bird left the continent’s future to the emperors.

• Island Master Biluo used her Seven-Colored Conch Shell to wake the poisoned Devil Race members, who immediately attacked and killed one another.
• Myna bird told Chi You to remain with Little Star so the Chaos Demonic Star Vine could devour the corpses, then led the alliance to other parts of the array.
• The Heavenly Human Emperor regretted withdrawing his people after the Devil Race was defeated, knowing the other races would blame and isolate them.
• Myna bird led the Demon-Slaying Allied Army in a nearly hundred-year campaign that wiped out the Devil Race across the Demon Race Continent.
• Myna bird told the alliance leaders to wait for their emperors’ replies before deciding what to do with the continent, while Fang Chen remained unconscious.

After the Devil Race was wiped out, the allied races founded the Barren Alliance and agreed to develop the former Demon Race Continent together. Myna bird offered allied cultivators access to the Green Grass Great Array for Tribulation Transcendence, while the Heavenly Human Race remained isolated.

• Myna bird told the leaders what had happened on the Demon Race Continent, and Palace Mistress Lingxin proposed developing it jointly to preserve their alliance ahead of the Great Calamity.
• The races agreed to form the Barren Alliance, with Palace Mistress Lingxin as its temporary leader and its leadership to rotate among five races.
• Myna bird offered allied races Tribulation Transcendence in the Green Grass Great Array, promising a tenfold refund if anyone failed and giving them a discounted price list.
• The major races announced the Devil Race's destruction and the Barren Alliance's founding, while the Heavenly Human Emperor regretted his race's betrayal and isolation.
• Cultivators from other races began arriving at the Glazed Sword Sect for tribulations, accelerating the Green Grass Great Array's growth across the Southern Wastes.

Myna bird learned that Elder Yun and the others had disappeared along with the Bamboo Grove on Dog Head Ridge, and went there with Little Crane to investigate. Ancient Yu Quasi-Emperor and Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor revealed that the grove had become a world of its own, but no one knew where it or its inhabitants had gone.

• Ye Kong told Myna bird that he and the others had lost their Source Power of Emperors and would need to rebuild their strength, while Ye Qingci remained in seclusion and Fang Chen was still trapped in the Heavenly Demon Banner.
• Yun Qianxue sent Myna bird an urgent message that Elder Yun and the others were missing at Dog Head Ridge.
• Myna bird and Little Crane brought Chi You and the others to Dog Head Ridge, where they met Yun Qianxue, Ancient Yu Quasi-Emperor, and Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor.
• Ancient Yu Quasi-Emperor explained that the Bamboo Grove had vanished along with everyone living inside it, leaving bare rock behind.
• Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor recalled that the grove had become a separate world, where ordinary-looking bamboo grew to enormous heights and a golden bamboo towered over three thousand zhang.

The myna bird investigated Dog Head Ridge after Li Yanshan and others vanished with the Bamboo Grove, but found no clues and concluded the place was no ordinary place. Yun Qianxue declared the ridge a forbidden ground, and the myna bird and Chi You left to attempt the next checkpoint in the Ninth Secret Realm.

• Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor told the myna bird that Fang Chen knew the Bamboo Grove had changed and had visited Dog Head Ridge before leaving for the Demon Race Continent.
• The myna bird searched the former site of the Bamboo Grove and the rest of Dog Head Ridge but found no clues, though he remained convinced the place was uncanny.
• Yun Qianxue worried about explaining the disappearance of Fang Chen's friends, and the myna bird and the others reassured her that she was not to blame.
• Yun Qianxue ordered the disciples to keep the disappearance secret and declared Dog Head Ridge a Forbidden Ground of the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The myna bird told Chi You that they had finished their business and set out to attempt the next checkpoint in the Ninth Secret Realm.

Little Crane returned to the Paper Crane Space to seek a way to grow stronger, while Fang Chen recovered inside the Blood Demon Cauldron after the Qingtian Demon Emperor’s self-destruction. After awakening, Fang Chen began absorbing the cauldron’s Source Power of Emperors to restore his strength and pursue a breakthrough.

• Little Crane declined to enter the Ninth Secret Realm and went to the Paper Crane Space to find a way to grow stronger.
• The Myna bird and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine headed for the Ninth Secret Realm, and the Myna bird informed Yun Qianxue of their destination.
• Inside the Blood Demon Cauldron, Fang Chen’s Life Wheel and Dao Platform survived as his body slowly re-formed over the following weeks.
• Fang Chen awoke, realized his body was still weak, and discovered that he had lost more than a hundred years of Lifespan.
• Fang Chen channeled power from the Floating Immortal Sword and unleashed the Darkness Devouring God Domain to absorb the Source Power of Emperors around him.

After absorbing the Blood Demon Cauldron’s Source Power, Fang Chen failed to break through to Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor and began claiming the treasures inside the Heavenly Demon Banner. He left the banner’s inner space with the Supreme Emperor Weapons stored in the Swallowing Heaven Tower and tested whether the Floating Immortal Sword could cut the banner’s fabric.

• Fang Chen retrieved his Natal Spirit Treasures and found the Heavenly Demon Banner Space deserted, with Little Crane and the Myna bird not responding.
• Fang Chen failed to overcome the resistance around the Heavenly Demon Banner’s Core Origin and gave up on making the Quasi-Immortal Artifact acknowledge him as its master.
• Fang Chen used the Swallowing Heaven Tower and Floating Immortal Sword to force the Blood Demon Cauldron into the tower after ten days of attacks.
• Fang Chen spent six months subduing the Heavenly Demon Pearl, then collected the other Supreme Emperor Weapons in the Heavenly Demon Banner.
• Fang Chen left the banner’s inner space and struck its fabric with the Floating Immortal Sword, but the shallow mark vanished immediately.

Fang Chen used Twilight Power to cut through the Heavenly Demon Banner and emerged onto the Demon Race Continent, where he met a patrol from the Barren Alliance. He contacted Yun Qianxue and learned that Huahua was safe in the Ninth Secret Realm, while Little Crane was likely asleep somewhere.

• Fang Chen replenished his Twilight Power, empowered the Floating Immortal Sword, and slashed through the self-repairing Heavenly Demon Banner.
• A five-race Barren Alliance Patrol Team found Fang Chen, and he introduced himself as a member of the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The patrol members recognized Fang Chen as the man who had killed the Qingtian Demon Emperor and learned that he had escaped from the Heavenly Demon Banner.
• Fang Chen failed to reach Huahua and Little Crane, then contacted Yun Qianxue with a Communication Talisman.
• Yun Qianxue told Fang Chen that Huahua was cultivating in the Ninth Secret Realm and that Little Crane was probably asleep somewhere, then asked how Fang Chen's body had recovered.

Fang Chen returned from the Devil Race Continent to the Glazed Sword Sect, eager to learn whether Ye Qingci had left the Ninth Secret Realm. There, Yun Qianxue told him that Dog Head Ridge’s Bamboo Grove and everyone who lived in it had vanished.

• Fang Chen learned from Yun Qianxue that Ye Qingci had not yet emerged from the Ninth Secret Realm and hurried to find a route home.
• Fang Chen traveled through Tianxin City and Tianyuan Academy to return to the Glazed Sword Sect, where Yun Qianxue and the others welcomed him.
• Fang Chen recounted how he had driven the Qingtian Demon Emperor to self-detonate inside the Blood Demon Cauldron.
• Yun Qianxue told Fang Chen that the Bamboo Grove on Dog Head Ridge and its inhabitants, including Elder Yun, had vanished a few years earlier.

Fang Chen returned to the Ninth Secret Realm to check on Ye Qingci and learned she was still alive in the Eighth Checkpoint. The Realm Master told him he was now too powerful to enter the Checkpoints, though Fang Chen insisted he had not yet reached the level of a Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor.

• Fang Chen told Yun Qianxue that the changed Bamboo Grove was likely connected to Elder Yun and the others’ disappearance, and that he might be able to bring them back by uncovering its secret.
• Fang Chen told Yun Qianxue he would first learn about the sect and the Savage World, then asked to visit Ye Qingci in the Ninth Secret Realm.
• The Realm Master appeared before Fang Chen and praised his strength as greater than that of two geniuses who had cleared the Ninth Checkpoint.
• The Realm Master confirmed Ye Qingci was still alive in the Eighth Checkpoint and described her as an extraordinary genius with the potential to become a Great Emperor.
• The Realm Master refused Fang Chen’s request to attempt the Fourth Checkpoint, explaining that his strength exceeded the Secret Realms’ limits.
• Fang Chen said he was not yet a Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor, stunning the Realm Master.

Fang Chen left the Ninth Secret Realm after discussing his powerful physique and collecting no one, then returned to the Green Grass Great Array to find Quasi-Emperor Huo Li recovering. He told Huo Li that he had survived Qingtian Demon Emperor’s self-destruction and was stronger than before.

• Fang Chen worried that his powerful physique would require him to consume too much Source Power of Emperors before he could become a Great Emperor.
• The Realm Master showed Fang Chen the Chaos Demonic Star Vine eating the Secret Realm’s vegetation, and Fang Chen asked him to tell Ye Qingci that he had returned if she cleared the trial.
• Fang Chen left the Ninth Secret Realm and traveled to the Green Grass Great Array, where he found Quasi-Emperor Huo Li’s body nearly restored.
• Huo Li told Fang Chen that he would need to cultivate his power again from the beginning.
• Fang Chen said he had survived Qingtian Demon Emperor’s self-destruction inside the Blood Demon Cauldron, and Huo Li laughed with delight.

Fang Chen thanked Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and explained that he wanted to reach the Great Emperor Realm before the Great Calamity, though absorbing the Qingtian Demon Emperor's Source Power of Emperors had not brought him close to his cultivation limit. He also told Huo Li how the Bamboo Grove at Dog Head Ridge had vanished, then left to recreate his Manifestations while Huo Li continued contemplating the Tenth Wave.

• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li warned Fang Chen against taking such dangerous risks, and Fang Chen explained why he had trapped the Qingtian Demon Emperor in the Blood Demon Cauldron.
• Fang Chen said he planned to seek a breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm before the Great Calamity, but absorbing the Qingtian Demon Emperor's Source Power of Emperors had not brought him close to the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Fang Chen told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that his friends and the Bamboo Grove at Dog Head Ridge had disappeared, then described how his Manifestations and actions in the grove had led to its strange changes.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li suggested the Bamboo Grove might return and told Fang Chen to manifest his images again; Fang Chen left to try.
• After Fang Chen left, Quasi-Emperor Huo Li meditated on the Tenth Wave and felt close to success.

Fang Chen refined a new batch of Spirit Sword Talismans while visiting the Bamboo Grove and strengthening himself. Heavenly Fire from the refining tribulation burned the Green Grass Great Array and its occupants, but Fang Chen reassured them that the array would restore their bodies, while Quasi-Emperor Huo Li gained a breakthrough in understanding sword techniques.

• Fang Chen released the Demon Slaying Alliance members’ Supreme Emperor Weapons into the Green Grass Great Array, then began refining Spirit Sword Talismans in the Heaven Refining Furnace.
• Fang Chen entered the Bamboo Grove through a Space Vortex, saw Elder Yun and the others alive, gathered Bamboo Shoots, and ate with his Manifestations.
• Fang Chen grew stronger over ten days, though his Cultivation did not increase because he lacked Source Power of Emperors.
• Heavenly Fire from the tribulation set the Heaven Refining Furnace and Green Grass Great Array ablaze, causing the grass huts and their occupants to burn.
• Fang Chen told the panicked experts the array would restore their bodies, and they calmed down after learning he had returned.
• As his body burned, Quasi-Emperor Huo Li’s thoughts sharpened and his sword technique problems unraveled before he fell asleep.

The experts were restored by the Green Grass Great Array, and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li entered an Enlightenment that transformed the grass around him. Fang Chen confirmed that the Qingtian Demon Emperor was dead, then faced the experts’ questions about how he had killed him.

• The rainbow rain revived the Green Grass Great Array, restoring the experts and making them stronger than before.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li entered an Enlightenment, and his Sword Intent gradually changed the grass around him until it could withstand and absorb his power.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and the other experts gathered around Fang Chen and asked whether the Qingtian Demon Emperor had truly died.
• Fang Chen confirmed that the Qingtian Demon Emperor was dead, and the experts asked him how he had killed him.

Fang Chen described how he killed the Qingtian Demon Emperor and learned that the Barren Alliance was preparing for the Great Calamity. His allies were shocked that, despite absorbing the Qingtian Demon Emperor’s Source Power of Emperors, Fang Chen had yet to reach the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor stage.

• Fang Chen explained that he trapped the Qingtian Demon Emperor in the Blood Demon Cauldron, attacked him until he self-destructed, and survived.
• Fang Chen thanked the Nether Emperor, the Goddess Empress, the Elf Queen, the Dragon Turtle, and the East Sea Dragon King for standing with him against the Devil Race.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin said the Barren Alliance was training its warriors for the Great Calamity, which was expected to be connected to the Sacred Land.
• The Nether Emperor and the others asked when Fang Chen would undergo Tribulation Transcendence, and Fang Chen revealed that he had not reached the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor stage.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and the others concluded that Fang Chen’s potential surpassed the Qingtian Demon Emperor’s, while Fang Chen worried about how much more Source Power of Emperors he needed to advance.

Fang Chen rejected hunting Savage World Quasi-Emperors for their Source Power, so the Goddess Empress suggested seeking strength on Immortal Forget Island. He learned the island held sleeping Ancient Emperors, powerful Demonic Beasts, and an Immortal Trapping Array, but still focused on its enormous size.

• The Goddess Empress proposed that Fang Chen hunt Savage World Quasi-Emperors and devour their Source Power to advance quickly.
• Fang Chen refused to follow the Qingtian Demon Emperor's example and asked about another way to grow stronger.
• The Goddess Empress told Fang Chen that Immortal Forget Island contained sleeping Ancient Emperors and Quasi-Emperor-level Demonic Beasts whose power he might devour.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin warned that an Immortal Trapping Array and the island's dangers could threaten Fang Chen.
• The Goddess Empress revealed that Immortal Forget Island was about one-fifth the size of the Barbaric Continent, and Fang Chen compared it to the Southern Wastes.

Fang Chen warned of the dangers of Immortal Forget Island decided to show his companions a new batch of Spirit Sword Talismans. The Heaven Refining Furnace produced more than three hundred thousand powerful talismans bearing Emperor Markings, but Fang Chen still needed to test their range and effectiveness.

• The Goddess Empress explained that waking the Ancient Emperors on Immortal Forget Island would end their chance to become Immortals and could provoke them to slaughter the living, while the Nether Emperor urged Fang Chen to reconsider going there.
• Fang Chen invited the others to inspect his newly crafted Spirit Sword Talismans, and they followed him to the Heaven Refining Furnace.
• After waiting for an hour, Fang Chen watched the furnace's grass catch fire and burn away as the crafting process finished.
• Fang Chen opened the furnace and released more than three hundred thousand Seven-Colored tiny swords, which he gathered and examined.
• Yue Canglan remarked that the new Spirit Sword Talismans were stronger than the previous ones, and Fang Chen said he needed someone to test them because Little Crane was missing.

Fang Chen gave Yun Qianxue advanced Spirit Sword Talismans to test and distribute, then went to Longevity Valley to gather Illusion Demon Grass for refining Illusion Demon Pills. The Spirit Planters began harvesting the grass on Yunxiang Mountain while Fang Chen waited with the Quasi-Emperors.

• Fang Chen told Yue Canglan and the others that he would refine pills to restore their Soul Power, and Palace Mistress Lingxin and the others returned to the Green Grass Great Array to rest.
• Fang Chen gave Yun Qianxue several Seven-Colored Spirit Sword Talismans to test and a Storage Ring containing ten thousand more to distribute after testing.
• Fang Chen visited Ancient Yu Quasi-Emperor and Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor at Longevity Valley and asked for Illusion Demon Grass to refine Illusion Demon Pills.
• Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor ordered the Spirit Planters on Yunxiang Mountain to dig up as much Illusion Demon Grass as they could.

Fang Chen visited Yunxiang Mountain and reunited with Xiao Yi, whose Quasi-Emperor breakthrough had made him an exceptionally powerful Spirit Planter. After touring the thriving Medicine Gardens, Fang Chen entered the Mysterious Jade Forest and wondered what kind of treasure it was.

• Fang Chen asked the Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor whether the Foreign Race Spirit Planters were behaving, and learned that they had helped improve the Glazed Sword Sect's cultivation skills.
• The Ancient Yu Quasi-Emperor and the Qing Yuan Quasi-Emperor told Fang Chen that Xiao Yi had become much more capable after reaching the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Fang Chen traveled with the two Quasi-Emperors to Yunxiang Mountain, where Xiao Yi greeted him joyfully and showed him the thriving Medicine Gardens.
• Fang Chen saw Spirit Planters harvesting Illusion Demon Grass, who recognized and praised him for slaying the Qingtian Demon Emperor.
• Fang Chen followed Xiao Yi into the Mysterious Jade Forest, noticed its trees were flourishing, and wondered what kind of treasure it was.