Chapter Summaries

After the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect was destroyed, Mo Tu moved to claim its territory and establish the Magic Dust Sect as a base for the New Demonic Path. Meanwhile, Li Xiuchang strengthened his Rainbow Soul Banner, advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and began examining his Soul Slicing Saber.

• Mo Tu proposed taking over the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's territory, and the others supported his plan after discussing the risks and manpower.
• Mo Tu chose the name Magic Dust Sect and began moving New Demonic Path cultivators from the Immortal Shade Realm to the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Li Xiuchang put more than two thousand Yin Soul employees to work at his factory, expanded the merchant association's plans, and then began secluded cultivation.
• Over the course of a month, Li Xiuchang fused more than one hundred thousand Fierce Ghosts into his Rainbow Soul Banner, greatly increasing its power.
• Li Xiuchang unexpectedly broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and realized that his idle cultivation was accelerating.
• Li Xiuchang took out his Soul Slicing Saber to investigate its unusual properties.

Li Xiuchang discovered that Misty Qi from his second Dantian could empower Magic Treasures, then learned that Senior Brother Mo had established the Magic Dust Sect and was fighting to control the Dark Heaven Realm. The chapter left Li Xiuchang planning to visit the Dark Heaven and Pure Land Realms, while Gui Wuyan revealed that some of his seemingly beneficial arrangements had purposes he could not explain.

• Li Xiuchang tested the Soul Slicing Saber and discovered that it had absorbed Misty Qi and could borrow power from heaven and earth.
• Li Xiuchang expanded his second Dantian, fed Misty Qi to the Soul Slicing Saber and Rainbow Soul Banner, and raised the saber to Low-grade Spirit Treasure strength.
• Senior Brother Lu Yang told Li Xiuchang that Senior Brother Mo had founded the Magic Dust Sect after seizing the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's territory, and that the other Four Great Demonic Sects had begun a war against it.
• Senior Brother Lu Yang explained that Mo Tu was paying local Demonic Sects lavish rewards to fight, while negotiating with the rival sects.
• Xia Siyun told Li Xiuchang that a route to the Pure Land Realm would soon be completed, and Li Xiuchang considered visiting to seek Precious Medicine.
• Li Xiuchang asked Gui Wuyan why he had once asked him to safeguard the Longevity Pill, and Gui Wuyan said he did not know the reasons behind some arrangements that later benefited him.

Li Xiuchang learned about Spirit Transformation breakthroughs, then prepared to show Zhang Wanzhi rare materials and the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s artifact-refining inheritance. Zhang Wanzhi brought Li Xiuchang into a miniature palace, where they were about to discuss the materials.

• Li Xiuchang learned that Immortal Concealment Talismans could exploit Heavenly Dao loopholes, but repeated use risked the Heavenly Dao patching them.
• Lu Yang gave Li Xiuchang a small sample of Immortal Burning Grass, which could strengthen fiery immortal wine, spiritual dishes, and pill-refining flames.
• Wenwen asked Li Xiuchang to take his clone out of the Eastern Geng District because his true body was busy suppressing a demonic cultivator uprising in the Divine Turtle Realm; Li Xiuchang sent him with Golden Horn and Little Zhu.
• Li Xiuchang studied the steps from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation and concluded that his strong Spiritual Sense left him with little preparation to do.
• Li Xiuchang used points to produce large quantities of fifth-tier Hundred Refinements Iron and expanded several Soul Materials, then decided to ask Zhang Wanzhi about the Dark Heaven Realm artifact-refining inheritance.
• Zhang Wanzhi showed Li Xiuchang a palm-sized palace and brought him inside to examine the materials.

Li Xiuchang studied artifact refining with Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi, who forged his Hundred Refinements Iron into eighth-tier material while helping him make Soul Artifacts. After three months, Li Xiuchang’s refining skills and Length Value had risen sharply, and he expanded his second Dantian space.

• Li Xiuchang showed Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi the Hundred Refinements Iron, and Zhang discovered that repeated forging reduced its size while improving its quality.
• Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi began forging the iron and renamed its higher grades Thousand Hammer Steel and Ten Thousand Forge Gold.
• Li Xiuchang gave Zhang a demonic artifact-refining inheritance and Soul Material, then studied the techniques while forging Soul Artifacts under his guidance.
• Over three months, Li Xiuchang forged enough High-grade Magic Treasure Soul Artifacts to arm Paw Patrol and Su Qingchun’s Soul Hands, while Zhang refined the Hundred Refinements Iron into eighth-tier material.
• Li Xiuchang’s artifact-refining skill reached the peak of the fourth tier, his Length Value rose by 320 inches, and he added 200 inches to his second Dantian space.

After completing artifact-refining training, Li Xiuchang visited the Dark Heaven Realm and learned how the New Demonic Path had expanded under Mo Tu’s influence. He met monks from the Pure Land Realm, who demonstrated their lethal breath techniques and gave him tobacco-based supplies for organ refinement.

• Li Xiuchang asked Chen Changsheng about the Pure Land Realm teleportation array and learned the monks had agreed not to attack New Demonic Path cultivators or enter the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang traveled to the Dark Heaven Realm and heard that the New Demonic Path Movement and the New Demonic Cult had spread across the realm, with the Magic Dust Sect becoming a refuge for its followers.
• Chen Changsheng introduced Li Xiuchang to Master Fahua and Master Fakong, who had arrived from the Pure Land Realm.
• Fahua and Fakong killed two Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators with breath attacks from their Great Tobacco Pipes.
• Fahua and Fakong gave Li Xiuchang Heartburning Grass and a Low-grade Magic Treasure tobacco pipe, and Chen Changsheng explained that Pure Land Realm cultivators used medicinal tobacco to refine their organs and develop varied breath attacks.

Li Xiuchang tested Heartburning Grass tobacco and learned that concentrated Smoke Paste could strengthen his body even more. After helping plan a campaign against the Joyful Demonic Sect, he traveled with the two masters to the Pure Land Realm to seek Smoke Paste and investigate his next Buddhist Cultivator examination.

• Li Xiuchang smoked Heartburning Grass, felt it strengthen his lungs and heart, and learned from Fakong and Fahua that Heart Burning Grass Smoke Paste had stronger effects.
• Li Xiuchang, Chen Changsheng, Fakong, and Fahua traveled to the Magic Dust Sect, where Mo Tu welcomed the two monks.
• Mo Tu explained that the Joyful Demonic Sect was the hardest of the four major demonic sects to eradicate because its teachings and influence had spread widely.
• The group agreed to target the Joyful Demonic Sect first, with Pure Land Realm Buddhist Cultivators leading the initial campaign while the Magic Dust Sect restrained any intervening forces.
• Li Xiuchang planned to buy Smoke Paste, look for the next stage of his Buddhist Cultivator examination, and later cultivate at Bloodfire Mountain.
• Li Xiuchang accompanied Chen Changsheng, Fakong, and Fahua through a Teleportation Array to the Pure Land Realm.

Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng visited the Pure Land Realm, where tobacco cultivation and smoking shaped both daily life and Buddhist practice. Li Xiuchang traded Buddhist goods for rare high-tier tobacco and learned that the Pure Land Temple might hold the Dream Entering Pill recipe, leaving him waiting for Hui Ren to find it.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Pure Land Realm farmers grew tobacco and traded it to temples for grain, while Buddhist Cultivators widely smoked spirit-plant tobacco.
• Fakong and Fahua brought Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng to Pure Land Temple and asked Hui Ren to host them while they prepared to mobilize monks against demons in the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Li Xiuchang learned that the Immortal Dust Sect honored all three Dao Ancestors, then sold Buddhist resources to Hui Ren in exchange for rare smoke pastes, tobacco, spirit plants, and seeds.
• Li Xiuchang showed Hui Ren his Lying Grass, and Hui Ren recalled an ancient Dream Entering Pill recipe and went to search the Sutra Depository.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng wandered outside and watched young monks compete to blow tobacco smoke the farthest.

Li Xiuchang obtained the Dream Entering Pill recipe and learned he could gain another Inner Demon Tribulation by ascending through lower realms, so he set out with Chen Changsheng. They arrived in the Demon Slave Realm, where despair and oppression greeted them.

• Li Xiuchang traded rooted Lying Grass and a seed to Monk Hui Ren for the Dream Entering Pill recipe, then asked Xia Siyun to refine the pill.
• After seeing monks gather to undergo tribulations, Li Xiuchang learned from Chen Changsheng that Inner Demon Tribulations could strengthen the soul and Spiritual Sense and could be experienced again by ascending through lower worlds.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng returned to the Dark Heaven Realm, where Li Xiuchang arranged for Xia Siyun to make Dream Entering Pills and reunited with Wenwen and Golden Horn after their trip to the sea.
• Li Xiuchang chose to travel through lower realms with Chen Changsheng, and the two passed through the passage on the Magic Dust Sect's territory into the Demon Slave Realm.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng arrived in the Demon Slave Realm and encountered an atmosphere of despair.

Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng raided the Joyful Demonic Sect’s strongholds as they descended through the Demon Slave Realm and Lin Tian Realm. In the Eternal Spring Realm, they learned why its people lived peacefully under the Yongzhi Dynasty and found the passage to the next lower realm.

• Li Xiuchang disguised himself as a Pure Land monk and joined Chen Changsheng in attacking the Joyful Demonic Sect’s headquarters, killing its cultivators and collecting their souls before they fled through the passage.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng reached the frozen Lin Tian Realm, where Golden Horn killed a group of demonic cultivators that had attacked it.
• Li Xiuchang destroyed the demonic cultivators guarding the lower-realm passage, then used an Immortal Concealment Talisman to interrupt his ascension and wait for Chen Changsheng.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng descended into the Yongzhi Dynasty, found its people living peacefully, and learned from the Imperial Preceptor that the world was the Eternal Spring Realm.
• The Imperial Preceptor explained that a Joyful Demonic Sect elder had established the Yongzhi Dynasty for his cultivation-less son, and he guided Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng to the passage below.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng thanked the Imperial Preceptor and entered the passage to the next lower realm.

Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng explored a world with almost no spiritual energy, where Li Xiuchang intervened in a dispute over tribute and learned of a tyrannical emperor in Great Kun. He gave four martial artists talismans to help them kill the emperor and his successors, then introduced himself as the monk Yuanfu.

• Li Xiuchang learned from Chen Changsheng that this world's ascension requirement was around the Peak of the Third Layer of Qi Condensation and chose to explore before undergoing a tribulation.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng saw the Couple Baili attempt to rob the White Tiger Escort Agency's convoy and discovered that the old coachman was the renowned Thunder Hand Qiao Shan.
• Li Xiuchang stopped the fight by withstanding attacks from the Couple Baili, Qiao Shan, and an escort guard, then asked them about their world and its unusual places.
• Qiao Shan and the others told Li Xiuchang about Yellow Jade Spring, which was said to make people disappear during a spiritual energy revival, and begged him to help save Great Kun from its tyrannical emperor.
• Li Xiuchang questioned whether killing the emperor would improve the people's lives, then gave the four men incomplete talismans that could be assembled to kill up to three emperors.
• Li Xiuchang told the four that his Dharma name was Yuanfu.

Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng discovered that Yellow Jade Spring opened into an underground world, but Chen Changsheng’s clone did not return. Li Xiuchang ascended alone and, after easily passing the lightning tribulation, tried to capture the Inner Demon Tribulation; when that failed, he decided to add length to it instead.

• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng restored spiritual energy around Yellow Jade Spring, revealing a passage beneath its water.
• Chen Changsheng entered the passage first, but Li Xiuchang waited a week without seeing him return.
• Li Xiuchang put Golden Horn in his second Dantian space and ascended alone, passing the three lightning tribulations with ease.
• Li Xiuchang used his Second Nascent Soul to observe his Inner Demon Tribulation and found a black substance in his sea of consciousness.
• Li Xiuchang trapped some of the substance, but it dissipated when removed from his sea of consciousness and vanished when the tribulation ended.
• Li Xiuchang decided to add length to the Inner Demon Tribulation after failing to preserve it.

Li Xiuchang endured an unusually powerful Inner Demon Tribulation, breaking an illusion that forced him to choose between his senior brothers and the Immortal Dust Sect. After ascending through the Lin Tian Realm, he returned to the Demon Slave Realm and realized he had arrived in Imperial Soul Sect territory.

• Li Xiuchang strengthened the black substance in his sea of consciousness during the Inner Demon Tribulation until it conjured an illusion of the Immortal Dust Sect destroyed and his fellow disciples dead.
• Li Xiuchang rejected the illusion’s demand that he choose between his neighboring senior brothers and the sect, and the Second Nascent Soul helped him recognize the deception.
• Li Xiuchang broke the inner demon by resolving to grow stronger and mediate any future conflict, then gained a major boost to his soul and Spiritual Sense.
• Li Xiuchang ascended to the Lin Tian Realm and immediately ascended again to the Demon Slave Realm without another heavenly tribulation.
• Li Xiuchang recognized that the surrounding Soul Demonic Cultivators were in the territory of the Imperial Soul Sect, not the Magic Dust Sect.

Li Xiuchang escaped the Demon Slave Realm and reunited with Chen Changsheng and Mo Tu, who explained that Chen Changsheng’s avatar had discovered an underground world without spiritual energy or an Ascension Rule. After Mo Tu appointed Li Xiuchang Vice Sect Master of the Magic Dust Sect, Li Xiuchang entered seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.

• Li Xiuchang fought through the demonic cultivators who surrounded him in the Demon Slave Realm, then escaped into Magic Dust Sect territory on Golden Horn.
• Li Xiuchang reunited with Chen Changsheng and ascended with him to the Dark Heaven Realm, where Mo Tu recognized that Chen Changsheng was using a different avatar.
• Chen Changsheng described the underground world beneath Yellow Jade Spring, where he found no spiritual energy or Ascension Rule and encountered creatures the group named Demonic Fiends.
• Chen Changsheng reported that Pure Land Realm monks had attacked the Joyful Demonic Sect and were preparing further assaults with help from his Teleportation Arrays.
• Mo Tu appointed Li Xiuchang Vice Sect Master of the Magic Dust Sect, and Li Xiuchang entered seclusion in a volcanic cultivation chamber to advance toward the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Li Xiuchang used his two Nascent Souls to cultivate with fire-attributed spiritual energy and prepared to spend points upgrading his Vajra Dharma Image.

Li Xiuchang invested Length Value to reach Fifth Tier Peak Body Cultivator cultivation and Void Refinement-level Spiritual Sense, then began developing an edible talisman. After testing his first pill-talisman, Chen Changsheng confirmed it worked but warned that its power could kill low-level cultivators.

• Li Xiuchang added a thousand inches to his Vajra Dharma Image, reaching Organ Refining Great Accomplishment and raising his Spiritual Sense to the Void Refinement level.
• Li Xiuchang left cultivation to his twin Nascent Souls and experimented with high-concentration Heart Burning Grass Smoke Paste while practicing talisman-making.
• Li Xiuchang developed a pill-talisman that let its user control gales, and Chen Changsheng swallowed the experimental First Tier talisman despite Li Xiuchang's warning.
• Chen Changsheng demonstrated the pill-talisman's power, then explained that its leaking force could kill low-level cultivators and offered to help improve it.
• Chen Changsheng gave Li Xiuchang the Rainbow Soul Banner and more than a dozen Dream Entering Pills before leaving to capture demonic cultivators for further tests.

Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng perfected edible pill talismans through experiments, and Li Xiuchang chose to publish their method on the Preaching Ranking rather than sell the products. He then advanced his Talisman Dao to Tier 3, and his two Nascent Souls reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Xiuchang used a Dream Entering Pill to comprehend the Equalizer Dao for five days, then resumed pill-talisman research with Chen Changsheng.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng tested and refined Gale Talisman pill talismans on demonic cultivators, eventually producing a stable version and improving its taste and appearance.
• Li Xiuchang decided to share the pill-talisman production method on the Preaching Ranking, and Chen Changsheng left with the surviving test subjects.
• Li Xiuchang strengthened the Yin souls in his Rainbow Soul Banner and continued studying the Talisman Dao.
• More than a month later, Li Xiuchang advanced his Talisman Dao to Tier 3 and raised his Length Value past five hundred.
• Several days afterward, Li Xiuchang's two Nascent Souls reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Li Xiuchang broke through to the Spirit Transformation Stage by transforming his Nascent Soul into an exceptionally solid, diamond-like Primordial Spirit and joining it with his soul. After testing his new strength, he turned to the Second Nascent Soul and planned to make it an external incarnation using his ability to split his soul.

• Li Xiuchang nourished his soul with Nascent Soul magic power and Spiritual Sense until it formed a Primordial Spirit, then continued feeding it until it became a dazzling, nearly indestructible diamond-like form.
• Li Xiuchang connected his Primordial Spirit to his soul, unified them, and gained a substantial improvement to his soul and Spiritual Sense.
• Li Xiuchang completed the breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Stage and sent his Primordial Spirit out of his body to explore and test its defenses.
• Li Xiuchang returned his Primordial Spirit to his body and decided to split off a fragment of his soul to join with the Second Nascent Soul, creating an external incarnation.

Li Xiuchang created a powerful clone by turning his Second Nascent Soul into a body for his Second Primordial Spirit, then discovered it could become a cube Vajra Great Seal when borrowing his original body's Dharma Image. After learning that the Four Demonic Sects were invading the Joyful Demonic Sect under the pretense of offering aid, he headed there eager to test his new strength.

• Li Xiuchang recovered from splitting his soul, condensed a Second Primordial Spirit, and fused it with a separated soul to create a clone sharing his consciousness.
• Li Xiuchang disguised the clone with the Skin-swapping Mask and strengthened its heavy, durable Nascent Soul body with Thousand Jun Stone.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that the clone could borrow his original body's Vajra Dharma Image and manifest as a cube Vajra with enhanced attributes, making it suitable as a Great Seal Magic Treasure.
• A female demon cultivator told Li Xiuchang that Senior Brother Mo Tu had led the Magic Dust Sect to the Joyful Demonic Sect's territory to plunder resources while the monks of the Pure Land Realm harassed the sect.
• The other three major demonic sects followed Mo Tu, turning their supposed relief effort into an invasion of the Joyful Demonic Sect.
• Li Xiuchang flew toward the Joyful Demonic Sect's territory, eager to fight demon cultivators and test the Cube Vajra Great Seal.

Li Xiuchang infiltrated the Joyful Demonic Sect’s territory and wiped out a Corpse Demon Sect group, then defeated Corpse Oil Daoist after the elder arrived to investigate. He claimed Corpse Oil Daoist’s yin soul and discovered a Jade Slip containing the Corpse Demon Sect’s Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.

• Li Xiuchang used the Immortal Concealment Talisman Brick to scout the Yin Yang Harmony Sect and found Corpse Demon Sect cultivators collecting suitable corpses.
• Li Xiuchang and his diamond clone killed the Corpse Demon Sect’s two early Spirit Transformation leaders and crushed their demonic corpses with the Cube Vajra Great Seal.
• Li Xiuchang staged his departure, then waited when his Spiritual Sense detected Corpse Oil Daoist and several Spirit Transformation demonic corpses approaching.
• Corpse Oil Daoist sent his demonic corpses to attack while Li Xiuchang used his Mind Monkey Dharma Form and diamond clone to fight back.
• Li Xiuchang pursued Corpse Oil Daoist, killed him, and subdued the yin soul that formed from his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Xiuchang looted Corpse Oil Daoist’s Storage Bag and found a Jade Slip recording the Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.

Li Xiuchang used corpse-refining techniques to command demonic corpses and helped stir the Dark Heaven Realm’s sects into war before studying the Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses and advancing his cultivation. After the Buddhist Cultivators withdrew and the four great demonic sects attacked the weakened Joyful Demonic Sect, Li Xiuchang returned to the front line and spotted a familiar face.

• Li Xiuchang seized dozens of demonic corpses, mastered the corpse-control method, and brought them under his command.
• Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo fueled conflicts among the demonic sects, while Mo Tu explained that the Buddhist Cultivators would need to suffer a defeat to break the stalemate.
• Li Xiuchang gave Senior Brother Chen Changsheng a new Blood Demonic Path cultivation method, then interrogated Corpse Oil Daoist's Yin Soul and learned the complete Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.
• Li Xiuchang studied the corpse-refining inheritance, cultivated at the Spirit Transformation Stage, and practiced drawing third-grade talismans for a month.
• The Buddhist Cultivators of the Pure Land Realm feigned defeat and fled through the passage to the Wind Forest Realm, leaving the demonic sects to resume fighting among themselves.
• The four great demonic sects attacked the weakened Joyful Demonic Sect, and Li Xiuchang rushed to the front line, where he sensed a familiar face in a city occupied by the Magic Dust Sect.

Li Xiuchang suspected that the Desire Demon Sect witch who had targeted him before was connected to the Joyful Demonic Sect, while Mo Tu agreed to lead the effort to destroy the sect. The battle began with Mo Tu’s Ghost King breaking the protective formation, and Li Xiuchang stayed in the rear to capture fleeing Yin Souls as the decisive clash between peak experts still loomed.

• Li Xiuchang told Mo Tu about sensing a familiar woman, and Mo Tu warned that the witch who had used Dao Heart Seed Love on him might be nearby and advised him to avoid the main battlefield.
• Ancestor Shenxiu reassured the Joyful Demonic Sect’s Grand Elders that Ancestor Tianxiang was hiding nearby and would act at the critical moment.
• Mo Tu persuaded the Imperial Soul Sect, Corpse Demon Sect, and Ice Soul Sect to continue the assault, offering to use Yin Souls against the Joyful Demonic Sect’s elders in exchange for the sect’s mortals.
• The Four Great Demonic Sects struggled to break through the Joyful Demonic Sect’s protective formation until Mo Tu sent a Ghost King to shatter it, causing the Ghost King to ascend.
• Li Xiuchang disguised himself and stayed with the rear forces, capturing Yin Souls while the Joyful Demonic Sect’s Charm Techniques disrupted the attackers and demonic corpses helped breach the defenses.