Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu tested the secret realm’s restrictions and used a refined Heaven Deceiving Pill to prepare a new identity before rejoining the True Demon’s group. At the underground Magma Fire Sea, he discovered that the Demon Sealing Grand Array’s balance had failed and True Demonic Qi was spreading rapidly.

• Chu Mu found that foreign beings and objects could not exceed Qi Refining Realm power, but his Blade Intent still let him nearly kill a Second Order Wind Splitting Beast.
• Chu Mu refined the Wind Splitting Beast into a Heaven Deceiving Pill, hoping to pass as a native of the secret realm and gain access to the Immortal Path Sect’s inheritance.
• Chu Mu rejoined the True Demon and its group, then traveled with them for nearly ten days toward the underground Magma Fire Sea.
• Chu Mu found the mountain engulfed in erupting magma and suspected that the Demon Sealing Grand Array had been damaged by demonic qi.
• Chu Mu entered the magma and discovered that True Demonic Qi had overwhelmed the fire sea’s balance and was rapidly eroding the array.

Chu Mu surveyed the space beyond the Demon Sealing Grand Array, found signs of an ancient battlefield, and prepared to break the formation at the true demon’s command. He placed array-breaking restrictions and handed over their command token, while secretly collecting spatially tainted materials and hoping the secret realm’s master would intervene.

• Chu Mu sent Falcon Type-3 puppets through the space rift and received recordings of a barren world containing buried broken weapons.
• Chu Mu told the true demon that the array’s balance had failed and accepted a jade talisman that could open a way back to the Vast Ocean Cultivation Realm.
• Chu Mu realized the true demon still intended to use him after the array was broken and feared the demonic qi would consume the secret realm.
• Chu Mu analyzed the Demon Sealing Grand Array and placed Array Discs at its vulnerable nodes, preparing to destroy it for his own survival.
• Chu Mu returned to the space rift and sealed spatially tainted spirit materials in Jade Boxes before emerging from the magma.
• Chu Mu handed the array’s command token to the true demon, who praised him and promised him an overwhelming opportunity.

After breaking the Demon Sealing Grand Array, Chu Mu was forced to follow the true demon into the demonized part of the secret realm. The true demon offered him the Earth Heart Spirit Fire and proposed using it to make a new pact, leaving Chu Mu facing another demand he did not want to accept.

• The Demon Sealing Grand Array shattered, unleashing True Demonic Qi, while the Earth Vein Fire Qi remained intact.
• The true demon compelled Chu Mu to enter the Demonic Domain with him, Li Xiu, Xu Ning, and the foolish youth.
• The true demon drew out the Earth Heart Spirit Fire and offered it to Chu Mu, who accepted and felt it nourish his Great Sun True Fire.
• The true demon explained that the Demonic Domain was a demonized section of the secret realm and said he needed Chu Mu's help there.
• Chu Mu refused further involvement, citing their completed agreement, but the true demon offered to make a new pact using the Earth Heart Spirit Fire.

Chu Mu refused the True Demon’s demand to enter the demonic domain and used the Secret Realm’s lightning to escape, but the True Demon captured him. As a mysterious Dragon Robe Man appeared and reviewed the events, the Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone reappeared in the Immortal Path Sect Inheritance Hall and formed the man anew.

• Chu Mu rejected the True Demon’s offer of safety, and the True Demon attacked him.
• Chu Mu used Second Order Puppets to summon heavenly lightning and break free, then disrupted the Divine Shadow Pill to expose the True Demon’s Nascent Soul cultivation and trigger a lightning tribulation.
• The True Demon resisted the tribulation with an umbrella-shaped magic treasure, wounded Chu Mu, bound him with a Demonic Qi Chain, and returned with him to the sea of fire.
• A Dragon Robe Man appeared in the heavens, watched the figures enter the spatial rift, and reviewed the events inside the Secret Realm.
• The Dragon Robe Man vanished, and the Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone appeared in the Immortal Path Sect Inheritance Hall and formed his figure again.

Chu Mu recovered in Demon Domain Heaven and Earth and refined the Earth Heart Spirit Fire, transforming his Great Sun True Fire and revealing the cultivation method’s reliance on devouring spirit fires. The True Demon then led him and the others to Million Corpses Lie, where they faced the remains of an ancient war and the dangers hidden among them.

• The True Demon brought Chu Mu into Demon Domain Heaven and Earth, ordered Li Xiu and Xu Ning to scout, and told Chu Mu to heal and refine the Earth Heart Spirit Fire.
• Over more than half a month, Chu Mu recovered and refined the spirit fire, strengthening and transforming his Great Sun True Fire and gaining insight into the Great Sun True Scripture.
• After Li Xiu and Xu Ning returned with a recorded projection, the True Demon confirmed Chu Mu had refined the spirit fire and led the group onward under confinement.
• The group reached Million Corpses Lie, where the True Demon explained the site’s history and warned them against recklessly using spiritual power or Divine Sense.
• Chu Mu surveyed the vast battlefield of blood and corpses, recognized the potential of its preserved True Demon bodies, and feared what the True Demon might do with them.

Chu Mu traveled with a Nascent Soul True Demon through the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood and reached a battered Giant City left from the ancient invasion. The True Demon revealed that Chu Mu must help its grandson Li Er fuse with a Red Hawk True Demon Bloodline and assist with a Soul Nourishing Grand Array, then insisted its grandson’s cleansed soul was not meant to make him a slave.

• Chu Mu observed the dangerous beings born from the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood as the True Demon protected the group on their journey.
• After several days, Chu Mu and the others reached a damaged Giant City whose surviving Array Restriction Inscriptions led Chu Mu to suspect its ancient defenses remained dangerous.
• The True Demon ordered Li Xiu and Xu Ning to leave its protection and enter the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood, then told Chu Mu he needed his help with two matters.
• The True Demon asked Chu Mu to refine a Red Hawk True Demon Bloodline for Li Er without damaging it, so its demonic nature would not erode the youth’s consciousness.
• The True Demon explained that it had cleansed Li Er’s soul and planned to use a Soul Nourishing Grand Array to restore him, then angrily denied Chu Mu’s suspicion that it intended to make its grandson a slave.

The True Demon used Chu Mu’s Great Sun True Fire to refine the bloodline and divine soul power needed to restore Li Er, then led the group toward the Giant City. As Chu Mu studied the city wall’s Array Restriction Inscriptions, he suspected its damaged defenses could detect them and readied the measures in his Storage Ring.

• Li Xiu and Xu Ning returned with a Storage Ring and a Succubus Bloodline, then withdrew to refine it and transform into demons.
• The True Demon drew demonic souls from the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood, arranged them around a True Demon corpse, and forced Chu Mu to refine the array’s power with his true fire.
• Chu Mu examined the array and found its restrictions crudely constructed while secretly considering how to survive the True Demon.
• After nearly a day and night of refinement, Li Er emerged from a cocoon with his sanity restored and his cultivation at Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Li Xiu and Xu Ning rejoined the True Demon, Li Er, and Chu Mu, and the group headed toward the Giant City.
• Chu Mu analyzed the city wall’s damaged Array Restriction Inscriptions, suspected they could detect the group within roughly a hundred li, and prepared his defenses.

The True Devil led Chu Mu and the others into Sky Demon City, where damaged Array Restrictions and devil puppets made every step dangerous. After nearly a month, they reached a ruined great hall that appeared to be the True Devil’s destination, and Chu Mu realized a vast crack ran from the city wall through the hall and far beyond.

• The True Devil’s attempt to enter the city triggered its Array Restrictions, forcing him and the group to retreat until he spent several days breaking the defenses.
• The group entered Sky Demon City through a breach and was attacked by devil puppets, which the True Devil destroyed before a bright moon’s pillar of light struck and injured him.
• Chu Mu tried to escape during the attack, but the True Devil restrained him and concealed the group beneath a banner as the moon and puppets fell silent.
• The True Devil explained that the devil puppets were former Devil Race cultivators bound to guard the city, then ordered Chu Mu to watch for Array Restrictions as they proceeded.
• After nearly a month of navigating the city’s dangers, the group reached a ruined great hall, where Chu Mu recognized that a massive crack extended from the city wall through the hall and deep beyond.

Chu Mu was dragged by the True Demon to the Demon Domain Heart, where he learned that the True Demon wanted to refine it and needed his help. The True Demon said Chu Mu would have to reach the Golden Core Realm first, leaving Chu Mu facing a dangerous breakthrough tied to the Demon Domain’s fate.

• The True Demon restrained Chu Mu and dragged him into the ruined hall, then led him up the stairs toward a floating black sphere.
• Chu Mu became entranced by the sphere until the True Demon struck him awake and warned him that it was the Heart of the Secret Realm.
• The True Demon explained that the Demon Domain Heart controlled the Demon Domain and revealed its plan to refine it.
• The True Demon said its demonic nature made it difficult to refine the Heart, while Chu Mu’s yang cultivation and Earth Heart Spirit Fire made him suitable to assist.
• The True Demon told Chu Mu he would need to form a Golden Core before helping and noted that his cultivation and resources gave him a good chance of doing so.

Chu Mu was forced by the True Demon to begin Core Formation in the Demonic Domain, where he had no way to resist. After preparing with spirit stones, pills, and Spirit Radiance Blessing, he began transforming his Essence, Qi, and Spirit toward Core Formation.

• The True Demon gave Chu Mu an Immortal Fetus Pill and made clear that it expected him to form his core and help refine the Demon Domain Heart.
• Chu Mu considered the danger posed by the True Demon and the bottleneck in his Blade Intent, then chose not to reveal his other formations or trump cards.
• Chu Mu spent three days adjusting his Essence, Qi, and Spirit before examining the Immortal Fetus Pill and his other Core Formation supplies.
• Chu Mu shattered nearly a million Spirit Stones to create spiritual qi inside his isolation formation and burned Deep Sea Musk to settle his thoughts.
• Chu Mu invoked Spirit Radiance Blessing, consumed his Core Formation pills and spiritual items, and began transforming his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

After years of cultivation, Chu Mu underwent a Golden Core tribulation in the Demon Domain’s central hall and realized the heavenly thunder was refining his core like a pill. He survived three rounds of increasingly powerful lightning and fire, forming a crimson Golden Core with three Pill Patterns.

• In the third year of Chu Mu’s seclusion, thunderclouds gathered over the devil city, the Spirit Stones in his formation shattered, and the devil puppets converged on the central hall.
• The True Devil recognized Chu Mu’s heavenly lightning tribulation and warned the others that the hall’s devil puppets would follow their rules.
• Chu Mu formed a Golden Core and realized the tribulation was refining it into a core with Pill Patterns, so he used his body as a furnace and actively endured the lightning.
• Chu Mu survived two rounds of nine lightning strikes, healing himself while guiding the heavenly thunder to refine his Golden Core.
• When crimson fire accompanied the final nine strikes, Chu Mu drew it into his abdomen and used his Great Sun True Fire to refine the core.
• After the final lightning pillar nearly destroyed him, Chu Mu recovered and found a crimson Golden Core bearing three naturally formed Pill Patterns.

After forming his Golden Core, Chu Mu began refining the Demon Domain Heart and discovered that its demonic veins were infecting his soul with the former Demon Domain Master's remnant qi. The True Devil offered a Bodhi Leaf and demanded he continue, leaving Chu Mu to face the danger of being used as a sacrificial pawn.

• In the Immortal Path Sect's Inheritance Hall, the figure within the Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone awakened and vanished.
• After Chu Mu broke through to the Golden Core realm, the True Devil freed him from the pit and ordered him to refine the Demon Domain Heart.
• Chu Mu entered the Demon Domain Heart's network of veins, sensed the whole realm, and fought a tide of Demonic Beasts with his true fire and blade intent.
• Strange clouds and a sea of fire appeared across the Demon Domain before the vision ended and Chu Mu returned to the hall.
• Chu Mu realized that demonic qi from the former Demon Domain Master's remnant soul had entered his soul and could not be cut away by his blade intent.
• The True Devil offered Chu Mu a Bodhi Leaf to resist the backlash and threatened him if he refused to continue refining the Demon Domain.

Chu Mu fought the Demon Domain’s demonic beast tide through the Demon Domain Heart, using the battle to temper his blade intent while the true demon refined the domain’s control. As his influence over the Demon Domain Heart grew clearer, he realized the true demon would eventually have to kill him to secure its hold.

• Chu Mu pretended to cooperate with the true demon, who bound him in an immobilizing confinement before he entered the Demon Domain Heart.
• Chu Mu fought the demonic beast tide and endured the Demon Soul backlash curse as he tried to seize control of the World Veins for the true demon to refine.
• Chu Mu turned the relentless battle into blade-intent training, developing fearless resolve and advancing his blade intent into the Skill Approaching the Dao realm.
• A man in a gilt dragon robe appeared unseen atop Demon City’s north wall, concluded that the Demon Lord Remnant Soul could not be reborn through Chu Mu, and vanished after considering demonification.
• Chu Mu recognized that the true demon would not spare him because his lingering influence over the Demon Domain Heart could threaten its control.
• As the true demon’s control spread, Chu Mu sensed his own connection to the Demon Domain Heart growing clearer, with crimson and inky black dividing its World Veins almost evenly.

Chu Mu watched the Dragon Robe Man confront the True Demon while remaining trapped on the high platform. The battle left the True Demon wounded and the Avatar fading, and the True Demon turned its attention toward Chu Mu.

• Chu Mu sensed the Secret Realm Master’s dragon-robed figure in the Demon Domain Heaven and Earth, then waited as the scarlet forces overwhelmed the demonic tide.
• The Dragon Robe Man entered the grand hall and confronted the True Demon, accusing it of treason and invoking Great Heng law.
• The True Demon transformed into its towering bull-headed form and fought the Dragon Robe Man, whose violet thunder sword struck against its claw.
• Their battle destroyed the hall and annihilated demon puppets and Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Heaven and Earth Power kept Chu Mu trapped on the high platform.
• The True Demon noticed the Dragon Robe Man’s Avatar beginning to fade, then spotted Chu Mu and shouted, “Little thief, you're courting death!”

Chu Mu broke free of the true demon’s confinement and used the Demon Domain’s damaged formations against him, but the true demon commanded a vast demon puppet legion and sent it after Chu Mu. Badly wounded after exhausting his weapons and escape techniques to break the legion’s Ancient Spear, Chu Mu faced its next strike as a Crimson Blade Light appeared before him.

• Chu Mu shattered the true demon’s confinement and disrupted his Demonic Shadow, while the true demon revealed he could command the city’s demon puppets as the Sky Demon Legion.
• Chu Mu activated the damaged formations throughout the demon city, but the true demon’s demon puppets formed ranks and shielded him from the attacks.
• The true demon transformed into a monstrous form and attacked the Dragon Robe Man, while Chu Mu fled and the demon puppet legion pursued him.
• Chu Mu burned his essence blood and activated formations to block the legion’s Ancient Spear, then hurled puppets and artifacts into its path until the spear shattered and he fell, gravely wounded.
• As the demon puppets prepared another Ancient Spear attack, Chu Mu accepted his apparent death and faced it with a streak of Crimson Blade Light.

Chu Mu escaped the Demon Domain after the Dragon Robe Man saved him, but he awoke gravely injured and afflicted with a spreading demonization curse. As he realized he had less than a year to find a remedy, he considered using an improved Heaven Deceiving Pill.

• The Dragon Robe Man blocked True Demon's Hundred Zhang Ancient Halberd and sent Chu Mu into the spatial rift, allowing him to escape the Demon Domain.
• Chu Mu used a Bamboo Dragonfly Puppet to carry him to a safe cave, where he slept for days and slowly regained a little strength.
• Chu Mu discovered that his body, soul, and mana were being demonized by the Demon Lord Remnant Soul's curse, which threatened to consume him within a year.
• Chu Mu concluded that True Demon might take control of the Demon Domain and then spread its influence into the Secret Realm.
• Chu Mu inspected his Light Screen Panel, noticed his Blade Intent had changed in a way the panel did not show, and took out an improved Heaven Deceiving Pill.

Chu Mu concealed his aura with a Heaven Deceiving Pill and left his cave despite his severe injuries, knowing he could not safely return to Hanhai while the Demonic Markings threatened him. He reached the Mountain Valley and used his Blade Intent to cripple the Two-Headed Giant Snake, then kept it alive as he headed toward the pool.

• Chu Mu used the Heaven Deceiving Pill to conceal his demonic and cultivator auras, then confirmed that the True Demon's jade talisman could reveal spatial weak points.
• Chu Mu decided he could not leave the Secret Realm while the Demonic Markings remained a threat and set out from his cave, badly wounded.
• Chu Mu reached the Mountain Valley and sent a Bamboo Dragonfly Puppet into the pool, provoking the Two-Headed Giant Snake to emerge.
• Chu Mu struck the charging Two-Headed Giant Snake with his Blade Intent, leaving it on the verge of death while suffering further bleeding.
• Chu Mu fed healing medicines to the Two-Headed Giant Snake to preserve its life, then staggered toward the pool.

Chu Mu used Bell Stone Spiritual Milk to recover enough to circulate his mana, then refined the dying Two-Headed Giant Snake into a Heaven Deceiving Pill. While recuperating in the Mountain Valley, he found that his three-pattern Golden Core was slowly repairing its cracks, but he still needed a way to suppress the spreading demonization before it turned him into a Demonic Cultivator.

• Chu Mu collected Bell Stone Spiritual Milk from the underground cave and used it to restore about thirty percent of his ruined body, slowing the demonization erosion.
• Chu Mu spent several days healing with Alchemical Pills, then refined the dying Two-Headed Giant Snake into another Heaven Deceiving Pill.
• Chu Mu settled into secluded recovery in the Mountain Valley and examined the cracks in his Golden Core, finding that its three pill patterns were slowly repairing them.
• Over several months, Chu Mu captured Foundation Establishment Monster Beasts and refined them into Heaven Deceiving Pills while focusing on recovery.
• Chu Mu realized that healing alone would not suppress the demonization enough and concluded that he needed a more effective method.

Chu Mu considered sacrificing the Blazing Sun Fire Essence and Fusang Wood to counter the demonic corruption, then realized refining them into a Lifebound Magic Treasure might provide an endless source of great sun fire qi. He ultimately postponed the choice, explored the secret realm, and found signs that it was guarding against the Demon Domain Heaven and Earth and that the true demon might have become its master.

• Chu Mu tested great sun fire qi from the Blazing Sun Fire Essence and Fusang Wood and found it could resist the demonic corruption, but using the materials would damage them and might not cure him.
• Chu Mu considered refining the two materials into a Lifebound Magic Treasure, whose growing supply of great sun fire qi could continuously suppress the corruption.
• Chu Mu weighed making demon restraint the core of his treasure against his plan to unite the Great Sun True Scripture and Void Abyss Blade Scripture, then decided to delay the choice.
• Chu Mu traveled through the secret realm for several months under the Heaven Deceiving Pill's disguise and found that earlier visitors had thoroughly plundered it.
• Chu Mu inspected the silent Magma Fire Sea and concluded that the secret realm was guarding against the Demon Domain Heaven and Earth, suggesting the true demon might have become the Demon Domain Master.

Chu Mu was pulled into the Immortal Path Sect’s Inheritance Hall and received the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Array, which gave him a new idea for a defensive Lifebound Magic Treasure. He planned to use the hall’s illusory world to develop the design before setting up the array at the junction of the two realms within a year.

• Chu Mu returned to Sword Washing Lake, entered the hidden Inheritance Hall, and was drawn inside by its fluorescent doorway.
• A mysterious voice granted Chu Mu one year in the hall and tasked him with setting up an array at the junction of the two realms.
• Chu Mu received and studied the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Array, whose fire dragons temporarily stilled the demonic corrosion in his body.
• Chu Mu realized the array could suppress the spatial rift’s corruption and began considering combining an array with his Lifebound Magic Treasure.
• Chu Mu looked to the Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone and decided its illusory worlds could help him develop the idea within the year.