Chapter Summaries

Li Xiuchang gathered the new Wolf Souls, equipped the wolf pack to expand across Green Cui Mountain and Green Cloud Mountain, and returned to his studies and work at the Immortal Dust Sect. Meanwhile, Pang Yuanfu became a River God, and a plump young woman who failed to recognize him confronted him outside the sect.

• Li Xiuchang collected the Wolf Souls and urged the Wolf King to enlarge its clan and claim both mountains, supplying it with artifacts, talismans, pills, and a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Li Xiuchang visited his aging boxing master in White Cloud City, gave him mild life-prolonging pills, and returned to the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang intensified his artifact-refinement lessons, forged Tier 4 Hundred Refinements Iron with help from Wangcai and the Yin Soul Wolf King, and planted Buddhist spiritual plants in preparation for trade with the Pure Land Realm.
• Pang Yuanfu returned to the Immortal Dust Sect after bringing rain to a village, where worshipers had built a temple to honor him as their River God.
• A plump young woman summoned Pang Yuanfu outside the sect, insisted that he was not Pang Yuanfu, then realized she had failed to recognize him because he had grown fatter.

Li Xiuchang reunited the Pig Demon with Su Qingchun after she tracked him down, and learned how she had advanced to the Late Second Tier. Her story revealed that the enormous Pig King who had disappeared was the same Pig Demon Li Xiuchang had encountered after it thrashed the Golden Falcon.

• The Pig Demon mistook Pang Yuanfu for Li Xiuchang and explained that she had come to thank the man who treated her family elder in White Cloud City.
• Li Xiuchang recognized the visitor as the Pig Demon and brought her to an inn, where he released Su Qingchun.
• Su Qingchun and the Pig Demon reunited, and she thanked Li Xiuchang for removing the Malevolent Energy from her master's body.
• The Pig Demon told Li Xiuchang that a great demon had taken her as a disciple, raised her cultivation, and later tried to make her its concubine.
• The Pig Demon said she had escaped after the great demon vanished, and Li Xiuchang realized it was the enormous Pig King that had thrashed the Golden Falcon.

Li Xiuchang took in the Pig Demon, renamed her Little Zhu, and assigned her to manage his malevolent spirit employees and business coordination. As his forces grew stronger and Senior Brother Chen Changsheng neared completion of a Teleportation Array to the Dark Heaven Realm, Li Xiuchang prepared to explore it.

• The Pig Demon revealed she was Late Second Tier, learned Su Qingchun had reached Fourth Tier, and begged Li Xiuchang to take her in after the Pig King disappeared.
• Li Xiuchang accepted the Pig Demon, established a blood contract with her, and began calling her Little Zhu.
• Li Xiuchang brought Little Zhu into the Immortal Dust Sect and assigned her to take over Su Qingchun's steward duties.
• Li Xiuchang had Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King refine Hundred Refinements Iron while they cultivated and grew stronger.
• The Paw Patrol members all broke through to Fourth Tier, and Golden Falcon also advanced to Fourth Tier.
• Senior Brother Chen Changsheng neared completion of the Teleportation Array to the Dark Heaven Realm, so Li Xiuchang prepared to explore it with his senior brothers.

Li Xiuchang prepared to explore the Dark Heaven Realm by upgrading his equipment, reforging the Rainbow Soul Banner into a High-grade Magic Treasure and arranging for his other weapons to become Spirit Treasures. After Xia Siyun completed Gui Wuyan’s Longevity Pill, Gui Wuyan entrusted it to Li Xiuchang, leaving the reason for his decision unclear.

• The senior brothers and sisters chose Mo Tu and Li Xiuchang to explore the Dark Heaven Realm while Chen Changsheng’s clone waited there, and Li Xiuchang asked Zhang Wanzhi to finish his Bone Slicing Saber and Undying Armor as Spirit Treasures.
• Li Xiuchang used the Four Immortals Merchant Association to acquire costly materials, then modified Zhang Wanzhi’s plans and reforged the Rainbow Soul Banner into a High-grade Magic Treasure with specialized spaces.
• Steadfast told Li Xiuchang that its main body had become the Lord of the Demonic Path in another world and felt obliged to stay; Li Xiuchang asked it to collect the spirits of slain demonic cultivators and to train Gold Horn’s speed.
• Xia Siyun, Lu Yang, and Gui Wuyan went to witness the completion of Xia Siyun’s Longevity Pill, whose celestial phenomena drew the Immortal Dust Sect elders to the mountain.
• Gui Wuyan refused to take the pill and handed it to Li Xiuchang for safekeeping, while Lu Yang suggested that Gui Wuyan’s choice might have deeper significance.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu entered the Dark Heaven Realm to investigate the strength of its leading demonic cultivators and prepare to infiltrate a smaller sect. They left the teleportation site disguised as Qi Condensation cultivators, but Mo Tu immediately killed a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator, revealing how instinctive killing demonic cultivators had become for him.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Longevity Pill could not be cut apart below the Dao Integration Stage, then watched Golden Horn demonstrate the escape skills it had learned from Wenwen.
• Chen Changsheng completed and tested the teleportation array, while Zhang Wanzhi finished the Bone Slicing Saber and Undying Armor as Low-grade Spirit Treasures.
• Li Xiuchang studied the Dark Heaven Realm's harsh rule under five major Devil Dao Sects and decided that its demonic cultivators could be killed without mistaking them for kind-hearted cultivators.
• Li Xiuchang, Mo Tu, and Golden Horn teleported to a barren Free Zone in the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's territory, where Chen Changsheng explained their mission to investigate the realm's strongest combatants.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu disguised themselves as Qi Condensation cultivators and left the maze formation to infiltrate a smaller sect and learn about the major sects.
• Mo Tu killed a Foundation Establishment woman who claimed the nearby mortal father and son, admitting that killing demonic cultivators had become muscle memory.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu traveled through the Dark Heaven Realm, where Li Xiuchang suspected Mo Tu was the legendary Last Demonic Lord. After helping mortals escape danger and reaching Earth Demon City, Mo Tu killed a demonic cultivator who had bullied a waiter, leaving Li Xiuchang worried that the Earth Demon Sect would soon respond.

• Li Xiuchang concluded that Mo Tu might be the Last Demonic Lord, then collected a Yin Soul from a demonic cultivator Mo Tu had killed.
• Li Xiuchang questioned a father and son about life in the Free Zones, gave them food, and left them protected by a maze formation.
• Mo Tu killed demonic cultivators they encountered as they crossed the Free Zone’s blood river and Li Xiuchang broke through the boundary formation.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu reached Earth Demon City and decided to join the Earth Demon Sect.
• Mo Tu killed a demonic cultivator who had splashed wine on a waiter, and Li Xiuchang urged him to leave before the Earth Demon Sect arrived.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu were conscripted into the Earth Demon Sect after killing a cultivator, then sent as cannon fodder to the frontier battlefield. They arrived eager to fight and kill demonic cultivators, while the sect expected them to die or earn it military merit.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu let Earth Demon Sect cultivators arrest them after killing someone, then gave false names and claimed to come from Wusha City under the Blood Fiend Sect.
• The Earth Demon Sect elder offered to spare them if they joined the sect and fought at the frontier, and Mo Tu accepted on their behalf.
• The pair completed their admission procedures and were escorted to the battlefield between the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect and the Imperial Soul Sect.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu recognized that the Earth Demon Sect had sent them as expendable cannon fodder, while Mo Tu explained the frontier’s role in the Devil Sects’ rule and cultivation system.
• A military officer ordered them onto the battlefield without uniforms, and both prepared eagerly to fight; Mo Tu said they would kill as many enemies as they could.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu infiltrated the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s border army and helped it crush an Imperial Soul Sect force, disguising their Foundation Establishment breakthroughs as occurring in battle. After collecting hundreds of Yin Souls and gaining new status, they were summoned by General Wu, and they considered whether to control him and search his soul.

• Li Xiuchang captured the Imperial Soul Sect’s attacking malevolent spirits with his Gourd Artifact, then used poisonous smoke to disrupt both armies.
• Mo Tu charged the enemy formation, drawing the Foundation Establishment commanders into combat, while Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu targeted unconscious and unmotivated enemy soldiers.
• As the Imperial Soul Sect retreated, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu pretended to break through to Foundation Establishment, slaughtered the fleeing troops, and helped kill the three enemy Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• General Duan received a request from Elder Xi concerning his grandson and arranged for the next battle to provide more Soul Material.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu returned to camp with hundreds of collected Yin Souls, and Li Xiuchang escaped a Demonic Concubine’s massage when General Wu summoned them.
• On their way to meet General Wu, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu discussed whether to control him and search his soul.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu were assigned to lead troops in a major battle, where Li exposed a hidden Golden Core cultivator and triggered the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's retreat. As the Foundation Establishment commanders turned to attack Xi Hansong, they killed him, leaving his two Golden Core guards and General Duan horrified.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu rejected General Wu's attempt to recruit them, and Li Xiuchang spent a month training before advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Mo Tu told Li Xiuchang that the long pause between battles suggested an unusually large clash was coming, and Li Xiuchang realized the Imperial Soul Sect had arranged the battle to help Xi Hansong form a High-grade Golden Core.
• General Wu ordered Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu to lead troops in the next battle, and they accepted without pledging allegiance to him.
• During the battle, Li Xiuchang spotted Xi Hansong's hidden Golden Core guards and exposed one, prompting Mo Tu to lead the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's forces in retreat.
• After General Wu was intercepted by General Duan, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu convinced the fleeing Foundation Establishment commanders to attack Xi Hansong together.
• Li Xiuchang's Little Diamond Bee pierced Xi Hansong's defensive barrier, and the commanders' combined attacks killed him before his Golden Core guards could protect him.

After Xi Hansong’s death, General Wu and General Duan fought, and the fallout led to General Wu punishing the Earth Demon Sect while Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu continued earning battlefield merit. When the Earth Demon Sect tried to recall them, the pair agreed to leave only after securing a chance to study at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

• General Duan attacked General Wu in anger after Xi Hansong died, while the two Golden Core guards fled into Blazing Blood Demonic Sect territory.
• General Duan was recalled to the Imperial Soul Sect, and General Wu received punishment for the failed collaboration and Xi Hansong’s death.
• General Wu retaliated against the Earth Demon Sect, but Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu survived repeated battlefield assignments and accumulated battle merit.
• The Earth Demon Sect sent a Foundation Establishment elder to persuade Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu to return, but they refused unless they could enter the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.
• The elder explained the Hundred Demon Hegemony Trial and promised to arrange study opportunities at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect within a year, then swore a Dao Oath to secure their agreement.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu exchanged their battlefield military achievements for rare Dark Heaven Realm resources, including Soul Material and a Blood Nurturing Stone. After their applications were approved, they entered the Witch Moon Sect as elite disciples and wondered when they could study at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu exchanged military achievements for a Fierce Fiend Soul Stone and Fifth-Tier Soul Material while resolving to obtain the secret method for making Soul Artifacts.
• Mo Tu exchanged for a Blood Nurturing Stone because he hoped it would help him develop a Blood Demonic cultivation method that did not require killing or drinking blood.
• Li Xiuchang praised the Last Demonic Lord, and Mo Tu explained that he wanted to spread the New Demonic Path cultivation method and give cultivators another choice.
• Several days later, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu received approval to leave the battlefield and traveled to the Witch Moon Sect.
• A Witch Moon Sect steward completed their entry procedures, and the two became elite disciples before asking when they could study at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo secured two study spots at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect by trading battlefield spoils, then prepared for a covert mission there with Chen Changsheng’s help. After strengthening their malevolent spirits and receiving Immortal Concealment Talismans, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu parted from Chen Changsheng, planning to reunite outside the sect in half a year.

• Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo exchanged two thousand spirit stones’ worth of demonic resources for two spots at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, avoiding the elite disciple ranking tournament.
• Li Xiuchang, Mo Tu, and Chen Changsheng’s clone planned a future infiltration, assigning reconnaissance to Mo Tu, concealment and support to Li Xiuchang, and technical assistance to Chen Changsheng.
• Li Xiuchang studied Fierce Fiend Soul Stones and Netherfrost Fruit Spirit Liquid, then used them to help Su Qingchun, the Soul Wolf King, and Wangcai advance to the mid-stage of the Fourth Tier.
• Chen Changsheng met Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu, gave them Immortal Concealment Talismans, and agreed to meet them outside the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect in half a year.
• Senior Brother Mo gave Chen Changsheng the New Demonic Path cultivation technique to spread throughout the Dark Heaven Realm.

Li Xiuchang studied Soul Control, Spirit Plant Cultivation, and Soul Artifact forging while gathering Yin Souls and watching Chen Changsheng’s New Demonic Path technique spread through the Dark Heaven Realm. After half a year, he completed a Soul Armor for Wangcai and departed with Senior Brother Mo and the other Witch Moon Sect disciples for the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

• Li Xiuchang attended Senior Brother Mo’s classes, traded for Yin Souls in nearby market towns, and added them to the Rainbow Soul Banner.
• Li Xiuchang trained the obedient conscious Yin Souls with Su Qingchun and studied Soul Artifact forging using a looted fifth-tier Soul Artifact as a reference.
• Chen Changsheng’s New Demonic Path technique spread across all five great demonic sects, drawing interest from people seeking a way to cultivate without refining souls.
• Li Xiuchang finished his first Soul Artifact, a Mid-grade Magic Treasure-level armor, and fitted it to Wangcai.
• Li Xiuchang’s Length Value rose above thirteen hundred as his various arts advanced, and he left with Senior Brother Mo and ten other elite disciples for the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu entered Blazing Blood Demonic Sect under the guise of Witch Moon Sect disciples, aiming to learn the sect’s layout and find its confidential records. Their tour of Bloodfire Mountain ended abruptly when the Old Ancestor emerged from the volcano and addressed Mo Tu.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu passed Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s strict identity checks, and Lu Zhaohai arranged their outer sect lodging and offered them access to the Soul Imprisonment Pool and Devil Codex Pavilion.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu contacted Chen Changsheng, then searched the Devil Codex Pavilion and decided to study the inner sect’s layout during their tour.
• Lu Zhaohai led the Witch Moon Sect disciples up Bloodfire Mountain, where Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu identified the Library Pavilion and noted the buildings and arrays.
• At the summit, the volcano’s red mist intensified, and Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s elders emerged to welcome their Old Ancestor.
• A bald dwarf with blood-colored whiskers rose from the lava, looked at Mo Tu, and asked which fellow Daoist had come without announcing his visit.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu infiltrated the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, where Mo Tu revealed his power and Li Xiuchang made Blood Cloud Ancestor vanish. After Mo Tu killed several awakened ancestors and triggered the Ascension Rule, he used an Immortal Concealment Talisman to interrupt his ascension, leaving Li Xiuchang stunned.

• Blood Cloud Ancestor recognized Mo Tu as a powerful intruder, and Mo Tu revealed his aura and probed the depths of Bloodfire Mountain.
• Mo Tu told Li Xiuchang that several Upper Realm cultivators hid in the volcano and instructed him to send Blood Cloud Ancestor away before escaping.
• As more ancestors awakened, Li Xiuchang pointed at Blood Cloud Ancestor and made him vanish while Mo Tu shielded him.
• Four Blazing Blood Demonic Sect ancestors attacked Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu, but Mo Tu killed them with his soul banner and soul phantom.
• The Ascension Rule began pulling Mo Tu skyward, but he used an Immortal Concealment Talisman to disappear and halt the ascension process.

Li Xiuchang helped Mo Tu wipe out the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s leaders, then began killing fleeing disciples and looting the sect’s treasures. As the slaughter spread to the foot of the mountain, Golden Horn was thrown into battle and its shell rebounded the demonic cultivators’ attacks.

• Mo Tu revealed himself after using the Immortal Concealment Talisman, summoned the Demon Emperor Banner’s ghosts, and ordered them to stop every escape.
• The ghosts hunted the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s elders and ancestors, killing the elders and forcing some ancestors and ghosts to ascend together.
• Li Xiuchang captured Lu Zhaohai and Witch Moon Sect disciples, took their valuables, killed them, and collected the ghosts their deaths produced.
• Li Xiuchang broke into the Library Pavilion and took its books and Jade Slips, then postponed breaking into the Demon Weapon Vault until the sect was subdued.
• Li Xiuchang sent the Paw Patrol to attack the demonic cultivators gathered at the mountain’s foot and forced Golden Horn to reveal its giant form.
• Golden Horn curled into its shell, endured the cultivators’ attacks, and rebounded many of them with Return Their Body.

Li Xiuchang joined the assault on the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, slaughtering its cultivators and defeating a powerful young disciple with his talismans and upgraded saber. He captured the young man's resentful soul for interrogation and found valuable items on his body.

• Li Xiuchang sealed the Sect Protecting Great Array's exit with Little Gold and attacked the trapped demonic cultivators alongside Paw Patrol and his resentful souls.
• Li Xiuchang's attacks drew out a late Spirit Transformation cultivator in blood robes, whose arrows failed to penetrate the Undying Armor.
• Li Xiuchang combined the Soul Slicing Saber with the Bone Slicing Saber and broke through the young man's blood-colored barrier.
• Li Xiuchang activated an enhanced Golden Body Talisman Brick and withstood the young man's blood-colored giant hand without injury.
• The young man fled using the Blood Escape Technique, but Li Xiuchang caught and killed him, then collected his resentful soul for interrogation.
• Li Xiuchang searched the young man's body and discovered that he carried valuable items.

Li Xiuchang and Paw Patrol wiped out most of the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s disciples, then looted its weapon vault, pill room, and medicine room with Chen Changsheng. Mo Tu returned after killing the sect’s elders and driving most of its Grand Elders into the Upper Realm, while the group learned that returning from some Upper Realms depended on finding temporary passages.

• Li Xiuchang used Li Baikun’s Identity Token to enter the sect’s formations, and he and Paw Patrol killed nearly twenty thousand demonic cultivators and gathered their spoils.
• Li Xiuchang entered the demonic weapon vault, collected its treasures, and tortured Li Baikun into revealing that the sect kept treasures above Seventh Tier in its Grand Elders’ Storage Bags.
• Chen Changsheng arrived at the sect’s entrance, saw the battlefield, and asked Li Xiuchang how an information-gathering mission had become the destruction of the sect.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng looted the pill room and medicine room before Mo Tu returned and reported that he had killed the elders and that most Grand Elders had ascended to the Upper Realm.
• Chen Changsheng explained that some Upper Realms had no fixed passages back to lower worlds, leaving Li Xiuchang to reconsider how his senior brothers and sisters had returned from the Upper Realm.

Li Xiuchang and his senior brothers looted the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, collected its Yin souls, and discovered an Immortal Burning Grass inside the volcano. After leaving, Chen Changsheng decided to build a Teleportation Array from the Dark Heaven Realm to the Pure Land Realm, and Li Xiuchang enthusiastically approved.

• Li Xiuchang, Mo Tu, and Chen Changsheng stripped the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect of its treasures, while Mo Tu and Chen Changsheng let Li Xiuchang take most of the spirit stones.
• Li Xiuchang collected more than a hundred thousand Yin souls from the Soul Imprisonment Pool, raising the Rainbow Soul Banner to the level of a top-grade magic treasure.
• The three searched beneath the volcano, where Li Xiuchang picked rare spirit plants and Chen Changsheng identified and safely packed an Immortal Burning Grass.
• Mo Tu gathered the blood of nearly twenty thousand dead Blazing Blood Demonic Sect members into a jade bottle before the group left the sect.
• Chen Changsheng stayed behind to gather intelligence and proposed building a Teleportation Array between the Dark Heaven Realm and the Pure Land Realm, and Li Xiuchang praised the plan.

After returning from the Dark Heaven Realm, Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo shared intelligence about the demonic sects and interrogated a captured ancestor. Chen Changsheng later reported that Li Xiuchang’s technique had sent Blood Cloud Ancestor to the Joyful Demonic Sect, where a battle forced him and two elders to ascend to the Upper Realm.

• Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo returned to the Immortal Shade Realm and were welcomed and scolded by their fellow disciples.
• Li Xiuchang and the others reviewed the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s library materials and learned about the strengths and hidden trump cards of the other four great demonic sects.
• Li Xiuchang tortured and questioned a captured ancestor, learning about the Chaotic Star Realm and that Blood Cloud Ancestor feared the Joyful Demonic Sect.
• Chen Changsheng reported that Blood Cloud Ancestor had appeared at the Joyful Demonic Sect’s headquarters, triggering a battle.
• Blood Cloud Ancestor ascended to the Upper Realm while gravely wounded, and two Joyful Demonic Sect elders were also forced to ascend.