Arc 14The Demon Realm Lantern

Sect Master Tongtian pursued the Demon God Lantern with Demon Ancestor Luohu, confronted Zhu Jiuyin, and entered a thousand-year dream as Tian Zheng Yi. The dream left him traveling with his mother and younger brother after killing his father’s murderer, while a statue of Tianhai stirred a troubling recognition.

  • Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Venerable captured a moment from history, hid it beneath a northern glacier, and activated the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun.
  • Thirty years later, Tongtian helped Nanhuang Jiu accept Guan Xinshui’s broken engagement and agreed to repair the Nanhuang Family’s ancestral formations.
  • Tongtian healed Demon Ancestor Luohu at Buzhou Mountain, then accompanied him to the Demon Realm to pursue the Demon God Lantern and help protect Long Yuan and Bai Suzhen’s child.
  • In the Demon Capital, Tongtian investigated the Nine-Headed Demon Snake and recognized it as Zhu Jiuyin when it emerged from Yunmeng Marsh.
  • Tongtian created another Zhu Jiuyin, which swallowed the original, and read the creature’s memories before returning to the Demon Capital with Luohu.
  • Tongtian and Luohu bought thousands of unusual eggs, then entered separate Yellow Millet Pavilion rooms to experience dreams set a thousand years in the past and future.
  • Tongtian awoke in Tian Zheng Yi’s body, killed the city guard who had murdered Tian Zheng Yi’s father, and led his mother and younger brother away from their village.
  • At a dilapidated temple, Tian Zheng'er uncovered a statue of Tianhai, and Tongtian recognized it as he felt a sudden chill at his own negative emotions.
Chapters 326–350 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 326The Sparrow Lurks Behind, Light and Darkness Intertwined

Sect Master Tongtian and King Zhou Mu discovered that the unconscious true body of Tongtian contained memories from a counterpart in the Dark World, a parallel realm whose inhabitants could replace their Bright World counterparts. After they dealt with the immediate danger, Sect Master Tongtian received the Grand Ceremony of Light and Darkness and suspected his future would involve the Dark World.

  • Sect Master Tongtian subdued the masked man and, when King Zhou Mu confronted him, explained that he was King Zhou Mu’s future self.
  • King Zhou Mu verified Sect Master Tongtian’s account, and the two examined the unconscious true body’s memories, discovering the Dark World and its threat to Bright World inhabitants.
  • Sect Master Tongtian and King Zhou Mu agreed to focus on the current calamity, secretly tampered with the true body, and erased King Zhou Mu’s memories before releasing him.
  • Sect Master Tongtian wandered through the Gobi and sensed something extraordinary in a river.
  • The system announced that Sect Master Tongtian had completed his mission and rewarded him with the Grand Ceremony of Light and Darkness.

Ch. 327Grand Ceremony of Light and Darkness, Weak Water Three Thousand

Sect Master Tongtian studied the Grand Ceremony of Light and Darkness and discovered that the strange river was made of indestructible Weak Water, then secretly filled his system space with nearly all of it. He entered a nameless city that appeared to replicate a moment from Chaoge’s history and found the identical Hibiscus Pavilion, Big Teapot, and Heartless Dao Lord, leaving him wondering who had separated the city from history.

  • Sect Master Tongtian consulted the Grand Ceremony of Light and Darkness and learned that the river consisted of strange, indestructible Dark World creatures called Weak Water.
  • Sect Master Tongtian decided not to take any Weak Water, but secretly transferred nearly the entire river into his system space.
  • Sect Master Tongtian entered a prosperous nameless city and found a Hibiscus Pavilion and Big Teapot identical to those in Chaoge City.
  • Sect Master Tongtian rented a room and saw Heartless Dao Lord still unconscious across from him, ruling him out as the person who had extracted the city from history.

Ch. 328Darkness Descends, the Mystery of the Past

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Heartless Dao Lord was a severed moment in history and overheard false versions of Nuwa and Houtu discussing their failed extraction and plans for an opportunity three months later. He disguised himself as a maid and entered their room, where his poison-laced fragrance left their intentions unclear.

  • Sect Master Tongtian chose to investigate the Nameless City and received the Shield of Light and Darkness and Boundless Spear.
  • Sect Master Tongtian found that Heartless Dao Lord was an extracted moment in history, and Heartless Dao Lord collapsed when he tried to merge with his true self.
  • Sect Master Tongtian overheard Nuwa and Houtu say that another extraction had caused their plan to fail and that they would try again in three months.
  • Sect Master Tongtian realized the women were not the real Nuwa and Houtu, then disguised himself as a maid and entered their room with a poison-laced fragrance.
  • Houtu lifted Tongtian's chin and Nuwa joked that the maid must be called Sweetheart.

Ch. 329Niangniang Nuwa and Niangniang Houtu Were Both Fakes

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that the Niangniang Nuwa and Houtu before him were powerful beings from the Dark World. After they revealed that the Dark World’s version of him was their plaything, his confrontation with them took a dangerous turn.

  • Sect Master Tongtian disguised himself as a maid named Su Daji, but the fake Niangniang Nuwa recognized the name and challenged his identity.
  • Niangniang Nuwa’s pressure shattered Sect Master Tongtian’s disguise, revealing his true form and shocking both women.
  • Sect Master Tongtian demanded to know who the women were, while their auras formed a tense standoff.
  • Niangniang Nuwa struck through Sect Master Tongtian’s defenses, pierced his Saintly body, and taunted him as Houtu watched.
  • Niangniang Nuwa and Houtu said they came from the Dark World and told Sect Master Tongtian that their world’s version of him was their plaything.

Ch. 330Drunken Immortal Grass Does Not Intoxicate the Immortals

Sect Master Tongtian was trapped by Niangniang Houtu and Niangniang Nuwa, then taken by Chang'e, as the three women used him to strengthen their cultivation. With the opportunity for Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun approaching, Tongtian began recovering his power and awaited a chance to escape.

  • Niangniang Houtu and Niangniang Nuwa revealed that they used Drunken Immortal Grass as incense and kept Sect Master Tongtian trapped after sealing his cultivation.
  • Chang'e appeared, subdued Niangniang Houtu and Niangniang Nuwa, and took Tongtian to the Moon Palace as her own.
  • Chang'e used Tongtian to break through her cultivation bottleneck twice, while he remained nearly drained and unable to control his fate.
  • Niangniang Houtu and Niangniang Nuwa arrived at the Moon Palace, and Chang'e urged them to strengthen themselves for the coming opportunity to control the Bright World through Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun.
  • After nine more days, Tongtian had regained some vitality with the help of Spiritual Elixirs, and seven days remained until the optimal opportunity.

Ch. 331Three Women's Marks, the Great Sun Arrives

Sect Master Tongtian broke free from Chang'e, Nuwa, and Houtu and advanced to the Saint Venerable Realm, then prepared with Heartless Dao Lord for the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun scheme. As the Lantern Festival opportunity approached, powerful figures appeared around them.

  • Sect Master Tongtian shattered his restraints, revealed his Solar Disc, and rose from the Dao Lord Realm to the Saint Venerable Realm.
  • Sect Master Tongtian overpowered Chang'e, Nuwa, and Houtu, erased their memories of what happened, and left them to continue the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun scheme.
  • Sect Master Tongtian told Heartless Dao Lord that at least three thousand factions were competing to intercept and extract a moment from history, but they agreed to continue their plan.
  • Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord spent three days preparing for the Lantern Festival opportunity and then waited near Chaoge for midnight.
  • As the pair waited atop a mountain, they sensed many powerful figures appearing nearby.

Ch. 332Luring Disaster Elsewhere, Crossing the Sea Under Camouflage

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Venerable captured and concealed a historical moment in Chaoge City, then returned to the Infinite Primordial World. Three days later, their allies gathered at the northern glacier to activate the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun.

  • Sect Master Tongtian told Heartless Dao Venerable to wait until the other powerhouses were nearly finished capturing moments in Chaoge before acting.
  • Heartless Dao Venerable captured a moment amid the fireworks and separated it before the other powerhouses, drawing their attention as Sect Master Tongtian lured them into a melee.
  • Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Venerable escaped through a spacetime passage and hid their captured moment beneath a glacier in the northern pole of the Infinite Primordial World.
  • Sect Master Tongtian activated arrays to conceal the hidden space and told Heartless Dao Venerable they had to activate the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun within three days.
  • Three days later, Sect Master Tongtian and his allies brought out the captured moment at the northern glacier, and the allies praised its quality.

Ch. 333The Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun Array Has Succeeded

Sect Master Tongtian activated the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun and helped establish the Stealing Heaven Alliance’s rules. Thirty years later, he went to Nanhuang to fulfill a promise and learned that Nanhuang Jiu’s fiancée had broken off their engagement, so he took Nanhuang Jiu to Guannan Mountain to investigate.

  • Sect Master Tongtian activated the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun, then led the Stealing Heaven Alliance in drawing up its regulations.
  • Sect Master Tongtian spent time with his family, and he and the women in his life became parents again.
  • Thirty years later, Sect Master Tongtian met Heartless Dao Venerable in Nanhuang and heard Nanhuang Jiu explain that his fiancée had recently broken off their engagement.
  • Sect Master Tongtian took Nanhuang Jiu to Guannan Mountain to find Guan Xinshui during the mountain’s Lantern Festival.

Ch. 334Childhood Sweethearts Going Their Separate Ways

Sect Master Tongtian accompanied Nanhuang Jiu to the Guannan Sect Master's Mansion, where Nanhuang Jiu encountered his fiancée, Guan Xinshui, amid a confrontation with her companions. Tongtian killed Guan Xinshui’s allies and destroyed a middle-aged man’s treasure tower, then slapped him as the fight escalated.

  • Sect Master Tongtian and Nanhuang Jiu arrived at the Guannan Sect Master's Mansion and spotted Guan Xinshui aboard a ship.
  • Nanhuang Jiu gave gifts to Tongtian’s disciples, but a white-robed maiden insulted them, and Tongtian killed her and erased her primordial spirit.
  • A White-Clad Man attacked Tongtian with a white dragon, but Tongtian destroyed the dragon and killed the man with the Blade of Infinity.
  • Tongtian asked Guan Xinshui why she wanted to break her engagement with Nanhuang Jiu, and a middle-aged man insulted Nanhuang Jiu and challenged Tongtian.
  • Tongtian destroyed the middle-aged man’s treasure tower and slapped him twice, sending him flying.

Ch. 335A Single Finger Shatters Heaven and Earth, the Guan Family's Deepening Crisis

Sect Master Tongtian defeated the armored man who attacked him, then helped Nanhuang Jiu learn why Guan Xinshui had ended their engagement. He discovered that Guan Xinshui’s family faced a worsening resource crisis and agreed to assess their situation.

  • Nanhuang Jiu attacked the giant hand, but Sect Master Tongtian stopped it and destroyed the armored man, keeping his primordial spirit.
  • Guan Xinshui offered Sect Master Tongtian a ring in exchange for her brother’s release, but he asked her to explain the broken engagement to Nanhuang Jiu instead.
  • Guan Xinshui claimed she was pregnant, and Sect Master Tongtian revealed that she was not; she admitted that she and Nanhuang Jiu were unsuited for each other, and Nanhuang Jiu accepted the breakup.
  • Nanhuang Jiu asked Sect Master Tongtian to help Guan Xinshui before leaving, and Guan Xinshui explained that her family’s resources were running out and they could not relocate.
  • Guan Xinshui took Sect Master Tongtian to inspect the family’s workshops, where nearly depleted Spiritual Qi Pools threatened production, and asked whether he could find a solution.

Ch. 336Vines Climbing the Ancient Pine, Strange Sights upon Leaving the Body

Sect Master Tongtian helped Guan Xinshui, then explored other Primordial Worlds while meditating and discovered that their civilizations appeared to have been arranged by the Great Dao Domains. After Heartless Dao Venerable emerged from seclusion as a Saint Venerable, Tongtian agreed to investigate the Nanhuang Family’s damaged formations and began preparing for the Journey to the West.

  • Guan Xinshui agreed to follow Sect Master Tongtian’s instructions, and he left after giving her further guidance.
  • Sect Master Tongtian met Nanhuang Jiu, then meditated on a lake island while waiting for her master to emerge from seclusion.
  • Sect Master Tongtian’s primordial spirit visited his original blue planet, then found a miniature Primordial World where Hongjun, the Six Saints, and other major figures hatched from eggs.
  • Sect Master Tongtian explored other civilizations and concluded that the Great Dao Domains had arranged their development within an operational framework.
  • Heartless Dao Venerable emerged from seclusion as a Saint Venerable and asked Sect Master Tongtian to help repair formations in the Nanhuang Family’s ancestral land.
  • Sect Master Tongtian agreed to go with Heartless Dao Venerable and reflected on the true purpose of the coming Journey to the West.

Ch. 337The Southern Wasteland Ancestral Land Displays Strange Phenomena

Sect Master Tongtian, Heartless Dao Venerable, and Nanhuang Jiu visited the Nanhuang Family’s ancestral land to investigate its damaged formations. Tongtian found the underground formations in disarray and agreed to upgrade them after the family prepared the required materials.

  • The chapter explained how Sun Wukong’s Havoc in Heaven was secretly planned by Tongtian, Jiang Ziya, and Old Ancestor Bodhi to disrupt the Heavenly Realm’s balance and prepare for the Journey to the West.
  • Sect Master Tongtian, Heartless Dao Venerable, and Nanhuang Jiu arrived at the Nanhuang Family’s ancestral land in the Southern Wasteland.
  • Tongtian saw a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and other strange creatures in a lake, and Nanhuang Jiu said they had always lived there, possibly because the lake was a sealed formation.
  • Nanhuang Jiu led Tongtian and Heartless Dao Venerable underground, where Tongtian found several formations in disarray.
  • Tongtian listed the materials needed to restore the formations and asked whether the Nanhuang Family wanted him to upgrade them as well.
  • Nanhuang Jiu and Heartless Dao Venerable agreed that Tongtian should upgrade the formations.

Ch. 338Sect Master Tongtian Sends a Hundred Wines, the Demon Ancestor Recounts the Past

Sect Master Tongtian visited Buzhou Mountain to honor his agreement with Demon Ancestor Luohu and discovered that Luohu was suffering from a hidden ailment. Luohu recounted how a woman he loved deceived him and how her lover left him gravely wounded, though a life-saving treasure had kept him alive.

  • Nanhuang Jiu estimated that preparing Sect Master Tongtian's requested materials would take three months, so Tongtian decided to visit Buzhou Mountain.
  • Wutian welcomed Sect Master Tongtian, received a ring from him, and gave him a gourd containing 108 varieties of aged wine.
  • Sect Master Tongtian met Demon Ancestor Luohu and noticed that Luohu could not rise to greet him because his body was afflicted.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu showed Sect Master Tongtian visions revealing that he had killed a woman's deceitful fiancé, leaving himself with a hidden ailment.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu discovered the woman had deceived him and was involved with another man, and the pair nearly killed him before his life-saving treasure rescued him.

Ch. 339Green Lantern Heaven and Earth Net, Hundred Thousand Futuo

Sect Master Tongtian healed Demon Ancestor Luohu, who had been hunted after killing the young master of the Hundred Thousand Futuo. The healing made Tongtian a target of the Demon Realm’s major forces, and he received a new system mission about the Demon Realm’s Lantern Festival.

  • Demon Ancestor Luohu explained that he had killed Futuo, the young master of the Hundred Thousand Futuo, and that the resulting pursuit had left him gravely injured.
  • Sect Master Tongtian agreed to heal Luohu without asking for anything, then arranged the materials and preparations for the treatment.
  • During Tongtian’s stay at Buzhou Mountain, Wutian reached the Dao Venerable realm after Tongtian gave him guidance.
  • On the forty-ninth day, Sect Master Tongtian began treating Luohu and completed the process eighty-one days later, restoring him and helping him reach the Non-Action Saint Venerable realm.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu told Tongtian that the Hundred Thousand Futuo had put him on its Execution Order and that Green Lantern Mountain and the Heaven and Earth Net had placed bounties on him.
  • Sect Master Tongtian received a system mission offering different rewards depending on whether he participated in the Demon Realm’s Lantern Festival.

Ch. 340Reentering the Demon Realm, the Struggle for the Lantern Festival

Sect Master Tongtian agreed to accompany Demon Ancestor Luohu to the Demon Realm's Lantern Festival, where Luohu planned to compete for the Demon God Lantern. As they arrived, Luohu warned Tongtian that his role in helping White Emperor Bai Suzhen conceive could draw the Demon Realm's Great Dao against him.

  • Demon Ancestor Luohu told Sect Master Tongtian that he knew secrets about the Lantern Festival and believed he could obtain the Demon God Lantern.
  • Sect Master Tongtian agreed to travel with Demon Ancestor Luohu, and they left Buzhou Mountain in Wutian's charge.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu and Sect Master Tongtian entered the Demon Realm through a spatial passage.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu warned Sect Master Tongtian that the Demon Realm's Great Dao opposed the child of Demon Emperor Long Yuan and White Emperor Bai Suzhen, and that Tongtian might face its schemes.
  • Sect Master Tongtian remained resolved to honor his promise to help bring the child safely into the world.

Ch. 341First Entering the Demon Capital, First Meeting the Beauty

Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu entered the Demon Capital and settled into the Eight Directions Guest Inn. A young woman in animal hide offered him Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron for his room, but he accepted her animal hide instead, leaving their encounter poised to continue.

  • Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu reached the Demon Capital, entered under the name Tian Zheng Yi, and took suites at the Eight Directions Guest Inn.
  • A young woman in animal hide asked Sect Master Tongtian to give up his room and offered him Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron as payment.
  • Sect Master Tongtian offered the young woman and her companions three empty rooms, warning them to keep quiet.
  • The young woman's tall male companion threatened Sect Master Tongtian, but she rebuked the man and sent him away.
  • Sect Master Tongtian said he preferred the young woman's animal hide to the rare metal, so she removed the hide skirt and handed it to him.

Ch. 342Gifting Human Heart Fruit, Returning the Favor with Minor Golden Pills

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun had developed an irreversible flaw, lowering the chances of obtaining the Demon God Lantern and of Sun Wukong’s progress succeeding. After accepting Human Heart Fruit from a local woman and giving her a Minor Golden Pill in return, he cultivated the fruit’s seeds, then sensed that something was wrong despite seeing nothing unusual outside.

  • Sect Master Tongtian deduced that obtaining the Demon God Lantern had less than a thirty percent chance of success and Sun Wukong’s progress had only a fifty-fifty chance.
  • Sect Master Tongtian traced the unfavorable odds to an irreversible flaw in the Great Array of Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun, caused by interference with a moment extracted from the past.
  • A hide-clad young woman brought Sect Master Tongtian two Human Heart Fruits, and he gave her a Minor Golden Pill in return.
  • Sect Master Tongtian shared one Human Heart Fruit with Demon Ancestor Luohu, ate the other, and planted its seeds after they rapidly sprouted.
  • Sect Master Tongtian sensed impending trouble, but saw nothing amiss in the marketplace outside.

Ch. 343A Discord Stirred in His Heart, a Crack Pierced the Demon Capital

Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu investigated a sudden crack in the Demon Capital’s street and learned it might have been caused by the legendary Nine-Headed Demon Snake. Although workers quickly replaced the damaged stones and the Lantern Festival preparations continued, Sect Master Tongtian’s unease deepened.

  • Sect Master Tongtian sensed something was wrong as the street outside grew noisy and a long crack appeared in its fortified stone pavement.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu said a similar disturbance had occurred ten thousand years earlier, when many powerful cultivators died dealing with the aftermath.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu suspected the legendary Nine-Headed Demon Snake had caused the crack, and Sect Master Tongtian feared the beast might be beneath the Demon Capital.
  • Sect Master Tongtian wondered whether he was a jinx because bad things seemed to happen wherever he went.
  • The Demon Capital Guard restored order, and craftsmen quickly replaced the cracked stones while the street returned to normal.
  • Sect Master Tongtian remained increasingly uneasy despite the swift repairs.

Ch. 344A Divine Lantern Fruiting on the Tree, with Different Toys for Everyone

Sect Master Tongtian learned where the Demon God Lanterns appeared and prepared to confront the Nine-Headed Demon Snake, whose attack on a military camp confirmed his foreboding. After buying strange, lifelike plastic toys across Demon Capital, he and Demon Ancestor Luohu went to investigate the marsh where the soldiers had vanished.

  • Demon Ancestor Luohu explained that Demon God Lanterns grew on a tree at the end of the Demon River around midnight on Lantern Festival.
  • Heishan Taoyao introduced herself and her companions, Heishan Taohua and Heishan Taoli, and asked Tongtian about the street cracks and how to kill the Nine-Headed Demon Snake.
  • Tongtian sent his hundred thousand incarnations to prepare his own method for dealing with the Nine-Headed Demon Snake.
  • Demon Ancestor Luohu told Tongtian that the Nine-Headed Demon Snake had swallowed more than ten thousand soldiers and their armor at a military camp east of Demon Capital.
  • Tongtian bought every batch of oddly lifelike plastic toys he found, purchasing 108 batches with no identical contents, while he and Luohu suspected the sellers used a technique to hide their identities.
  • Tongtian and Luohu reached the marsh where the soldiers had been swallowed and found it sealed off by the Demon Capital Guard.

Ch. 345The Demon Snake Was Actually Zhu Jiuyin

Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu watched Yunmeng Marsh as a legendary Nine-Headed Demon Snake emerged, only to recognize it as Zhu Jiuyin. Zhu Jiuyin fixed its gaze on the people by the shore, freezing them in place, while Heishan Taoyao’s group waited for the right moment to act.

  • Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu sensed a powerful aura brewing in Yunmeng Marsh, and Luohu ordered the Demon Capital Guard to evacuate the onlookers a hundred miles away.
  • Tongtian spotted Heishan Taoyao and her group waiting tensely, with the hostile man standing behind her.
  • At ten in the morning, Tongtian used his Insightful Eyes to see a nine-headed beast rise beneath the marsh’s surface.
  • Tongtian recognized the creature as Zhu Jiuyin, and Luohu was shocked that it had come from the Primordial World.
  • Zhu Jiuyin emerged from Yunmeng Marsh and immobilized everyone it stared at, while the man behind Heishan Taoyao said it was not yet time to act.

Ch. 346Peach Yao Escapes a Calamity, Candle Dragon Loses Its Nine Heads

Heishan Taoyao survived Zhu Jiuyin’s attack with Mister Tian’s help, then fought back as the demon snake’s heads repeatedly erupted in flames and regenerated. The chapter ended with her blasting apart all nine heads, only for new ones to begin growing from Zhu Jiuyin’s neck.

  • Zhu Jiuyin attacked Heishan Taoyao after a young man provoked him, but Mister Tian rescued her and the blue beam annihilated the young man.
  • Heishan Taoyao fired nine flaming arrows into Zhu Jiuyin’s heads, setting the demon snake ablaze as it unleashed destructive beams at the onlookers.
  • Greedy onlookers charged toward Zhu Jiuyin to claim its heads and cores, but its spreading flames killed most of them while Sect Master Tongtian, Demon Ancestor Luohu, and Heishan Taoyao’s group took shelter.
  • Heishan Taoyao accused Zhu Jiuyin of stealing its heads from Black Mountain Old Demon, then froze and shattered its central dragon head with two arrows of light.
  • Heishan Taoyao blasted apart Zhu Jiuyin’s remaining eight heads, but new heads began growing from its neck.

Ch. 347The Creation Gave Birth to Zhu Jiuyin, Yet Zhu Jiuyin Could Not Understand His True Form

Sect Master Tongtian revived Demon Ancestor Luohu and created a second Zhu Jiuyin, which swallowed the original. By reading Zhu Jiuyin’s memories, Sect Master Tongtian discovered that the ancient creature had awakened in the Demon Realm with no memories of how it got there.

  • Demon Ancestor Luohu severed Zhu Jiuyin’s newly grown head, but Zhu Jiuyin detached its eight remaining necks and used them to destroy Luohu’s body.
  • Sect Master Tongtian reshaped Demon Ancestor Luohu’s body and restored him to his original strength.
  • Sect Master Tongtian caught Zhu Jiuyin’s eight attacking necks and used the Supreme Art of Creation to make another Zhu Jiuyin.
  • The created Zhu Jiuyin swallowed the injured original, causing most of the onlookers around Yunmeng Marsh to flee.
  • Sect Master Tongtian used the Great Art of Soul Shifting to read Zhu Jiuyin’s memories and learned that it had awakened in the Demon Realm without memories of its earlier origins.

Ch. 348Candle Dragon Awaits His Opportunity, Miracles Hidden in the Restaurant

Sect Master Tongtian bought hundreds of thousands of mysterious eggs after sensing a bloody history within them, then entered the Heaven and Earth Restaurant with Demon Ancestor Luohu. The waiter offered them a thousand-year dream experience, and Sect Master Tongtian paid for it.

  • Zhu Jiuyin returned to cultivating beneath Yunmeng Marsh while Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu left for Demon Capital City.
  • Sect Master Tongtian impressed Demon Ancestor Luohu and the market merchants with his knowledge as he bought unusual items.
  • Sect Master Tongtian spotted a figure resembling Demon Emperor Long Yuan, then bought about three thousand patterned eggs after seeing violent visions when he touched one.
  • Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu went to Mount Baitou and bought more than three hundred thousand eggs from the seller at the docks.
  • Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu entered the Heaven and Earth Restaurant, where the waiter offered them a thousand-year dream in the Yellow Millet Pavilion.
  • Sect Master Tongtian handed the waiter one thousand Dao Coins, but the waiter did not accept them.

Ch. 349Yellow Millet Pavilion's Slumber, A Thousand Year Dream

Sect Master Tongtian entered the Yellow Millet Pavilion to dream of the future, but found himself living as a poor sixteen-year-old boy in the past. After his father was killed by a corrupt city guard, Tongtian killed the guard and two beggars, then returned home and prepared to take his family to Youzhou.

  • Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu entered separate Yellow Millet Pavilion rooms to experience dreams set a thousand years in the future and past.
  • Sect Master Tongtian accepted the White-clothed Woman’s help, drank Thousand Year Drunk, and fell asleep with a familiar scent reminding him of White Emperor Bai Suzhen.
  • Tongtian awoke in the body of Tian Zheng Yi, a sixteen-year-old boy riding into the city with his father to sell straw for tuition.
  • A portly city guard killed Tian Zheng Yi’s father for refusing to pay a road toll and took the ox cart into a courtyard.
  • Tongtian killed the guard, took his banknotes and dagger, then killed two beggars who tried to rob him in an alley.
  • Tongtian returned to his rural home and told his younger brother and frail mother to prepare to seek refuge with their uncle in Youzhou.

Ch. 350Lady Tian, Deeply Unfathomable

Sect Master Tongtian lived as Tian Zheng Yi while he and his mother, Lady Tian, fled their village with Tian Zheng'er after his father’s death. At a roadside temple, he discovered a statue of his son Tianhai and began to suspect that the emotions in this unfamiliar life were affecting him.

  • Lady Tian took Tian Zheng Yi and Tian Zheng'er away from their village after Tian Zheng Yi explained that their father had been killed and he had killed the culprit.
  • Two village ruffians tried to stop the family, but Tian Zheng Yi killed them, took their silver, and sank their bodies in the river with Tian Zheng'er’s help.
  • Lady Tian and her sons crossed the river by boat and traveled toward the official road, stopping at a dilapidated temple to rest.
  • Tian Zheng'er cleared dust from a memorial tablet, and a gust revealed a statue of Tianhai that Sect Master Tongtian recognized by the mole on its forehead.
  • Lady Tian asked whether Tian Zheng'er knew the background of the Supreme Sovereign, while Sect Master Tongtian thought about his wife and felt a sudden chill at the negativity of his emotions.
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