Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Li Guxian used the Devouring Power to break Nine Abyss City's defensive formation, allowing the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to seize the city. After Lin Bai reclaimed the power, Li Guxian proposed a swift raid on the Pure Yang Sect's mountain gate, and Lin Bai agreed.

• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Power inside Li Guxian's crystal ball, and it ate through Nine Abyss City's formation.
• Li Guxian ordered the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace experts to attack, and Duanmu Qing led them through the opening as the city's defenders resisted.
• Lin Bai told Li Guxian to call in the Ma Family, Devil Palace, and Phoenix Valley forces, whose arrival turned the battle in the Demon Palace's favor.
• The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace army occupied Nine Abyss City, and its Formation Daoists destroyed the city's core Formation Eye.
• Lin Bai pretended to cast a spell as he reclaimed the Devouring Power into a crystal ball, while Li Guxian secured the city and prepared a long-distance raid.
• Li Guxian proposed attacking the Pure Yang Sect's mountain gate with high-level martial artists, and Lin Bai agreed.

After the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace captured Nine Abyss City, Goddess Li Guxian sent Lin Bai and an elite force toward Guan Tian Mountain to attack a core Formation Eye in the Pure Yang Sect’s second defensive line. The Demon Palace surrounded Guan Tian Sect, whose leaders struggled to decide whether to resist, and the chapter ended as Lin Bai and Li Guxian’s cloud boat arrived.

• Lin Bai assessed the many high-level martial artists assembled by the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and concluded that the Devil Palace had spent years preparing for its return.
• Goddess Li Guxian organized the forces in Nine Abyss City, sending an elite army toward the Pure Yang Sect’s second defensive line while the main army advanced behind them.
• Lin Bai, Li Guxian, and the Formation Daoists identified Guan Tian Sect on Guan Tian Mountain as one of the second defensive line’s core Formation Eyes.
• After the Pure Yang Sect warned Guan Tian Sect that the first defensive line had fallen, the Sect Master ordered the sect to reinforce its defenses while the Grand Elder feared the approaching battle.
• Several hundred Nine Underworlds Demon Palace experts surrounded Guan Tian Sect and demanded that its disciples open the formation, while the Sect Master urged them to hold out for Pure Yang Sect reinforcements.
• After about half an hour, Lin Bai and Li Guxian’s cloud boat appeared before Guan Tian Sect.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian led the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to Guan Tian Sect, where Li Guxian broke Pure Yang Sect’s defensive formation and the Demon Palace forces attacked. Lin Bai stopped the slaughter after most of Guan Tian Sect had been killed, and the army destroyed the formation’s core before moving toward the third line of defense.

• Lin Bai and Li Guxian arrived at Guan Tian Sect, whose leaders chose to rely on Pure Yang Sect’s formation rather than surrender.
• Li Guxian used the crystal ball’s Devouring Power to tear open the defensive formation, and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace forces entered Guan Tian Sect.
• Guan Tian Sect’s ancestors surrendered after the formation fell, but a Supreme Dao Fruit Realm martial artist rejected their pleas and attacked them.
• Li Guxian urged Lin Bai to let the Demon Palace massacre Guan Tian Sect to intimidate other forces, and Lin Bai initially allowed the slaughter to continue.
• Lin Bai stopped the attack after nearly all Dao God Realm and stronger defenders and two-thirds of the disciples had been killed.
• The Demon Palace Formation Daoists destroyed Pure Yang Sect’s core Formation Eye, and Lin Bai and Li Guxian set out for the third line of defense.

The Four Great Clans debated whether Cloudmist City should resist the approaching Nine Underworlds Demon Palace or surrender after Guan Tian Sect fell. The Li and Zhang families secretly agreed to sabotage the city’s defensive formation and let the invaders in, while the Zhao and Wang families chose to wait and seek Pure Yang Sect reinforcements.

• The Zhao Family Head told the Four Great Clans that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had destroyed Guan Tian Sect and would reach Cloudmist City in a day.
• The Li Family Head argued that surrender was safer, while the Wang Family Head urged resistance and suggested the enemy might not be able to breach Cloudmist City’s formation.
• The Li Family Head left the meeting to surrender, and the Zhang Clan Head followed after saying his clan would leave the decision to the others.
• The Zhao and Wang families decided to wait and see whether the formation could hold while requesting reinforcements from the Pure Yang Sect.
• The Zhang Clan Head caught up with the Li Family Head and agreed that the Zhang family would join the Li family in opening Cloudmist City’s formation before the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace arrived.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian traveled toward Cloudmist City, where Elder Li Gui offered the Li family’s submission and promised to destroy the city’s core Formation Eye. When they arrived, they found Cloudmist City already consumed by a fierce battle between two rival groups of its great families.

• Li Guxian told Lin Bai that Pure Yang Sect had left its inner defensive lines lightly guarded, and the two discussed their merits and prospects within Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
• A Nine Underworlds Demon Palace scout reported that Li Gui of the Li family wanted to meet them and offer the family’s sincerity.
• Li Gui told Li Guxian and Lin Bai that the Li family would submit and was destroying Cloudmist City’s core Formation Eye to prove its loyalty.
• After roughly half a day, Lin Bai and Li Guxian reached Cloudmist City and saw the Li and Zhang families fighting the Wang and Zhao families.

Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian watched the Li and Zhang Lineages break Cloudmist City’s formation, then helped them destroy the Wang and Zhao Lineages and prepared to advance toward the fourth defensive line. At Pure Yang Sect, Shen Yuan reported the breakthrough to an ancient Great Mystic Art User, who guessed the Devil Palace had used the Holy Lord’s relic and ordered the sect to reinforce its later defenses.

• Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian agreed to wait two hours while the Li and Zhang Lineages attacked Cloudmist City’s core Formation Eye.
• The Li Lineage destroyed the Formation Eye, and Goddess Li Guxian sent Nine Underworlds Demon Palace experts into the city to annihilate the Wang and Zhao Lineages.
• After confirming the formation was gone, Lin Bai ordered the army to occupy Cloudmist City and prepare to advance toward the fourth defensive line.
• Shen Yuan returned to Pure Yang Sect and reported that Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian had broken through the defenses at Nine Abyss City.
• The Great Mystic Art User concluded that the Devil Palace had used the Holy Lord’s relic, ordered reinforcements for the fifth defensive line, and focused preparations on the sixth.
• The Great Mystic Art User asked whether the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect had responded to the secret envoys.

The Pure Yang Sect's Great Mystic Art User ancestor decided to seek help from the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect, while Duanmu Peng confronted him in the void and urged him to surrender. As the ancestor threatened to fight, another figure emerged from the void to join Duanmu Peng.

• The Pure Yang Sect Master told the ancestor that the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect had ignored their envoys, so the ancestor decided to visit them himself and ordered the sect to hold the sixth line of defense.
• The ancestor left the conference hall and encountered Duanmu Peng playing chess in the void.
• Duanmu Peng challenged the ancestor's plans, recounted the Devil Palace's past support for the Pure Yang Sect, and urged it to surrender.
• The ancestor admitted he was gambling the Pure Yang Sect's future on a chance to extend his life, and threatened to take Nine Underworlds Demon Palace martial artists with him if forced into a corner.
• Duanmu Peng won their chess game and revealed that he had not come alone, as another figure stepped out of the void and greeted Senior Shen.

Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin tried to persuade Senior Shen to surrender the Pure Yang Sect, explaining the wider crisis and warning that Great Mystic Art Users might intervene. Senior Shen instead wagered that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace must take the Pure Yang Sect’s mountain gate within a month, leaving the decisive battle ahead.

• Lei Qin arrived and revealed that the Devil Palace had known of the Pure Yang Sect’s rebellious plans for decades but had allowed them to continue.
• Duanmu Peng urged Senior Shen to surrender, citing the Pure Yang Sect’s poor odds and the Devil Realm’s need to avoid a war among Great Mystic Art Users.
• Duanmu Peng explained that forces from beyond the realm had entered the Devil Realm for the divine medicine, prompting ancient powers to contain regional conflicts.
• Senior Shen realized that Duanmu Peng’s explanation also served as a threat: powerful forces had tacitly approved Great Mystic Art Users intervening if necessary.
• Senior Shen proposed that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace break through the Pure Yang Sect’s mountain gate within a month or withdraw its troops, and Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin accepted.
• After Senior Shen left, Lei Qin doubted they could persuade him, and Duanmu Peng hinted that Great Mystic Art Users avoided wars for reasons beyond simple restraint.

The Pure Yang Sect ancestor falsely told his sect that the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect had agreed to send troops, while warning that they needed a month to prepare. As Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian advanced toward the Pure Yang Sect’s fifth line of defense, a group of Pure Yang Sect martial artists ambushed their cloud boat and sealed off the area.

• The Pure Yang Sect ancestor claimed the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect would join the war after a month, then ordered the sect to intercept the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace at the fifth line of defense and fight at the sixth.
• Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian left Heartless Valley after its formation was broken and its defenders were massacred, then continued toward the fifth line of defense with Dao Child Yu You, Old Wen, and the others.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the Pure Yang Sect could surrender, fight to the death, or flee, but Goddess Li Guxian warned that the fifth line of defense would be harder to breach.
• Old Wen sensed danger as black-robed martial artists emerged from the void and surrounded the cloud boat, leading Lin Bai to realize they were targeting him and Goddess Li Guxian.
• A white-haired elder used a compass and formation flags to seal the surrounding space, while Shen Yuan greeted Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian and revealed that the ambush party included one Supreme Dao Fruit expert and several other powerful martial artists.

Lin Bai and his companions were ambushed by Pure Yang Sect experts inside a sealed barrier, but they fought back while trying to break through and summon help. Lin Bai sent the Devouring Power toward the barrier, while Old Wen, Dao Child Yu You, and Li Guxian held off their attackers.

• Lin Bai learned that the Pure Yang Sect had sent a Supreme Dao Fruit expert and two Chaos Dao Fruit experts to tie down Old Wen, while other experts targeted him, Li Guxian, and Dao Child Yu You.
• Lin Bai assigned Old Wen to face the strongest attackers, told Dao Child Yu You to handle the Great Purity Dao Fruit experts, and instructed Li Guxian to release the Devouring Power from the crystal ball.
• Li Guxian threw out the crystal ball, and Lin Bai directed its Devouring Power toward the barrier walls as the Pure Yang Sect forces launched their attack.
• Old Wen struck the Supreme Dao Fruit and Chaos Dao Fruit experts with his divine sense, while Dao Child Yu You fought the approaching cultivators with the Nine Heavenly Might Seals.
• Li Guxian summoned the Ancient God Mirror, a Supreme Divine Weapon, and used its beams to turn two Great Purity Dao Fruit experts to ashes.
• Primal Chaos Dao Fruit experts surrounded Lin Bai as he continued guiding the Devouring Power toward the barrier, hoping to break it and alert the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.

Lin Bai unleashed the Nine Deaths Demon Sword to survive the Pure Yang Sect’s attack and break through the barrier, while Li Guxian and Old Wen summoned reinforcements. The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s Supreme Dao Fruit Realm experts arrived, turning the fight in their favor as Li Guxian ordered them to capture the Pure Yang Sect’s leaders.

• Lin Bai opened the treasure box and removed two seals from the Nine Deaths Demon Sword as the Pure Yang Sect martial artists attacked.
• The Nine Deaths Demon Sword killed several attackers, drained Lin Bai’s spiritual power, and eventually broke free of his control to rampage across the battlefield.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Power to breach the barrier and sent a message to Li Guxian and Old Wen, who summoned three Supreme Dao Fruit Realm martial artists from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
• The three reinforcements entered the barrier, and the Pure Yang Sect martial artists began retreating as the battle turned against them.
• Lin Bai sensed the Demon Palace Palace Lord monitoring the territory, while Li Guxian ordered the reinforcements to capture the Pure Yang Sect’s Supreme Dao Fruit Realm and Chaos Dao Fruit Realm martial artists.

The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace captured nearly all the Pure Yang Sect warriors sent after Lin Bai and Li Guxian, while Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin stopped Shen Yuanqing from escaping. Lin Bai resealed the Nine Deaths Demon Sword, and Li Guxian ordered the captives held for future negotiations with the Pure Yang Sect.

• The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace captured the Pure Yang Sect warriors, and Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin intercepted Shen Yuanqing in the void.
• Lei Qin urged Shen Yuanqing to persuade the Pure Yang Sect to submit, but Shen Yuanqing said he could not decide the sect’s affairs alone.
• Duanmu Peng reprimanded the three Supreme Dao Fruit Realm warriors for failing to protect Lin Bai and Li Guxian, then sent them back to the Demon Realm.
• The Nine Deaths Demon Sword escaped into the void, but a golden hand seized it and threw it back, allowing Lin Bai to seal it in a treasure box.
• Li Guxian told Lin Bai that the captured Pure Yang Sect warriors, including Shen Yuan, would be kept alive as leverage, and ordered their cultivation sealed before they were imprisoned aboard the cloud boat.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian chose to meet Pure Yang Sect’s forces in a decisive battle at Yong'an City rather than risk an encirclement by taking another route. The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace army arrived before the city, where Pure Yang Sect’s huge force prepared to fight and millions of its warriors fled in fear.

• Li Guxian learned that Pure Yang Sect had concentrated its forces at Yong'an City, and she and Lin Bai agreed to advance there for a frontal battle.
• Li Guxian reorganized the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace troops, sending the vanguard toward Yong'an City while Lin Bai and she followed with the main army.
• The Pure Yang Sect Grand Elder learned that Shen Yuanqing’s assassination attempt had failed and that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was approaching.
• The Grand Elder dismissed concerns that Li Guxian would avoid the battle and insisted that she would attack Yong'an City.
• The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace vanguard and main army appeared before Yong'an City, frightening Pure Yang Sect’s defenders and causing two or three million warriors to flee.

Lin Bai and Goddess Li Guxian led the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's army to Yong'an City, where Li Guxian exposed the Pure Yang Sect's long history of receiving the Demon Palace's support. After Lin Bai broke open the city's formation, the Demon Palace's forces stormed inside and began a bloody battle that left Lin Bai shaken by its scale.

• Goddess Li Guxian accused the Pure Yang Sect of betraying the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace despite receiving its support for thousands of years, while the Grand Elder of the Pure Yang Sect denounced the Demon Palace and challenged it to break Yong'an City's formation.
• The Grand Elder of the Pure Yang Sect planned to withdraw his elite forces during the fighting and save the decisive battle for the sixth line of defense.
• Lin Bai let Goddess Li Guxian command the siege, and she arranged the Demon Palace's forces before ordering Lin Bai to break the formation wide enough for tens of thousands to charge through.
• Lin Bai spread the crystal ball's Devouring Power across the formation, opening a breach, and Goddess Li Guxian ordered the Skyguard Legion to attack.
• Hundreds of thousands of Skyguard Legion soldiers and more than a million martial artists poured into Yong'an City, where the Demon Palace's forces slaughtered the defenders in a chaotic battle.
• Lin Bai watched the fighting turn Yong'an City into a blood-soaked battlefield and was shaken by the clash of millions of martial artists.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian captured Yong'an City, but the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace suffered heavy casualties and realized the Pure Yang Sect had used the battle to weaken its army before a decisive stand at the sixth defensive line. Lin Bai proposed a simultaneous two-pronged attack, with Li Guxian advancing from the front while a force operated inside the Pure Yang Sect.

• Li Guxian’s army broke the Pure Yang Sect’s formation at Yong’an City, routed its forces, and captured the city after a half-day battle.
• The Pure Yang Sect’s Grand Elder withdrew with the sect’s elders, explaining that the gathered warriors had been intended to inflict losses before the real fight at the sixth defensive line.
• Li Guxian reviewed the casualty reports with Lin Bai and found that the Demon Palace had suffered more than two hundred thousand casualties in each of its two forces.
• Li Guxian suspected the Pure Yang Sect had deliberately sacrificed its gathered army to weaken the Demon Palace before deploying its elite disciples at the sixth defensive line.
• Lin Bai and Li Guxian weighed waiting for reinforcements against fighting immediately, then Lin Bai suggested a decapitation operation against the Pure Yang Sect’s leadership.
• Lin Bai proposed that Li Guxian attack from the front while another force operated inside the Pure Yang Sect.

Lin Bai proposed sending high-level Nine Underworlds Demon Palace martial artists into Pure Yang Sect’s defenses to disrupt its leadership, but Li Guxian rejected the costly plan and secretly arranged an alternative. The armies reached Sacred Water City, where Li Guxian and Pure Yang Sect’s Sect Master spoke before the decisive battle.

• Lin Bai urged Li Guxian to trade the lives of high-level martial artists for an advantage against Pure Yang Sect, but she warned that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had to preserve its strength against Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect.
• Li Guxian devised another plan, sent an envoy with a letter, and led the rested Devil Palace army toward Sacred Water City, the sixth line of defense.
• Lin Bai and Li Guxian surveyed Pure Yang Sect’s elite defenders and discussed how victory at Sacred Water City could force the sect to surrender.
• Li Guxian met Pure Yang Sect’s Sect Master outside the formation, complained about his disciples and an earlier attack, and asked him to open the way for the Devil Palace army.
• Pure Yang Sect’s Sect Master refused to abandon the fight, saying that even people who knew they had no hope could still press on.

Li Guxian delayed the Pure Yang Sect Master with negotiations as he explained Pure Yang Sect’s internal factions and the pressures that drove it toward war. When he realized she was buying time, Phoenix Valley’s Sect Master and elders emerged from the void, revealing that they would fight Pure Yang Sect.

• Li Guxian offered the Pure Yang Sect Master favorable surrender terms, but he refused and said Pure Yang Sect would fight at the Sixth Line of Defense.
• The Pure Yang Sect Master explained that his original plan was to secure independence, but divisions and calls for a chance to become a flourishing power pushed Pure Yang Sect toward war.
• The Pure Yang Sect Master described how unequal resource distribution left lower- and middle-level martial artists without hope, while Li Guxian questioned what Pure Yang Sect would do if it won.
• The Pure Yang Sect Master realized Li Guxian had been delaying for time and argued that the Demon Palace could not wait for reinforcements.
• Li Guxian said the ones fighting Pure Yang Sect were neither her nor the Demon Palace’s martial artists, and Phoenix Valley’s Sect Master and elders emerged from the void.

The Phoenix Valley Sect Master revealed that Phoenix Valley had joined the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, and its army joined Li Guxian’s forces in attacking the Pure Yang Sect. As the battle began, Lin Bai and Li Guxian noticed the Pure Yang Sect Master was speaking incoherently and seemed to be conveying a hidden message, though they could not decipher his intentions.

• The Phoenix Valley Sect Master explained that Phoenix Valley had negotiated generous terms to return under the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace while keeping its status as a top sect.
• The Phoenix Valley army arrived through secret teleportation arrays, and the Phoenix Valley Sect Master agreed to lead the first charge once Lin Bai opened the Pure Yang Sect’s formation.
• Li Guxian arranged the armies, and Lin Bai used Devouring Power to break open the sixth line of defense.
• The Phoenix Valley and Pure Yang Sect armies clashed as their leaders entered the battlefield to fight.
• Lin Bai and Li Guxian discussed the Pure Yang Sect Master’s contradictory speech and wondered whether it was meant to convey a secret message.

Lin Bai watched the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and Phoenix Valley rout the Pure Yang Sect at Sacred Water City, while struggling to understand the Pure Yang Sect Master's strange conduct. After the Pure Yang Sect Master revealed that he had allowed his faction's enemies to die in battle, he defied the Great Mystic Art User ancestor and ordered the sect to surrender.

• Lin Bai wondered why the Pure Yang Sect Master had played along with Li Guxian's stalling, then gave up trying to understand his motives.
• Li Guxian ordered Phoenix Valley to drive the Pure Yang Sect martial artists toward the right flank while the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace attacked them from the other side.
• Li Guxian called on the Pure Yang Sect martial artists to surrender, and many laid down their weapons as the allied armies overwhelmed them.
• The Pure Yang Sect Master told the ancestor that the sect had lost and revealed that the Grand Elder and other elders had died on the battlefield.
• The Pure Yang Sect Master accused the ancestor of starting the war to prolong his life and disclosed that he had used the battle to eliminate the ancestor's faction.
• The Great Mystic Art User ordered the sect to fight to the death, but the Pure Yang Sect Master asserted his authority and ordered the Pure Yang Sect to surrender.

The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace defeated the Pure Yang Sect, and its Great Mystic Art User ancestor Shen Qi tried to resist surrender. Other Great Mystic Art Users intervened, took Shen Qi away, and left the Pure Yang Sect to submit to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.

• Shen Qi rejected the Pure Yang Sect Sect Master's plea to surrender and attacked him, but Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin stopped the blow.
• Duanmu Peng reminded Shen Qi that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had breached the sixth line of defense, fulfilling the terms of their agreement, but Shen Qi blamed the Sect Master and attacked Lei Qin.
• As Shen Qi prepared to unleash his technique, eight more Great Mystic Art Users appeared and confronted him.
• An Innate Dao Sect Great Mystic Art User dragged Shen Qi into the void, while the Chu Kingdom's Great Mystic Art User told Duanmu Peng and Lei Qin to handle the Pure Yang Sect.
• The Pure Yang Sect Sect Master agreed to surrender, and Duanmu Peng explained to Lei Qin how long-lived Great Mystic Art Users could lose their humanity after outliving their loved ones.