Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng left the bamboo grove after cultivating the Grievance Fire Devil Body, while a fire broke out at Red Pavilion and Li Shunxi, Sun Meng, and Lian Ji escaped with Yin Zi. The group was confronted by a Shangyang Family painter, and Yin Zi trapped him with her whip as she and Sun Meng attacked.

• Lu Sheng ignored Shangyang Kunyun, opened the package of medicines, and asked Shangyang Peipei where the gathering was.
• Shangyang Peipei and Lu Sheng saw Red Pavilion burning, while Li Shunxi, Sun Meng, and Lian Ji escaped the cave and headed through the guests toward safety.
• Yin Zi crashed in front of Li Shunxi, Sun Meng, and Lian Ji, badly wounded after fighting the Shangyang Family.
• A Shangyang Family painter appeared and attacked the group, injuring Sun Meng as Li Shunxi tried to flee with Yin Zi and Lian Ji.
• Yin Zi ensnared the painter's legs with her Ice Seal Serpent whip, then charged him alongside Sun Meng.

Lu Sheng intervened when Painters tried to seize Li Shunxi and the others, then accepted Cui Lianjun’s challenge to protect them. He defeated Cui Lianjun with a single punch, leaving the gathered guests stunned.

• Painters captured the wounded Sun Meng, Yin Zi, Li Shunxi, and Lian Ji, but Shangyang Peipei and Lu Sheng arrived and demanded their release.
• Shangyang Jiuli ordered Shangyang Rong and his men to leave, but Cui Lianjun stepped forward and insisted the captives were tied to the arson case.
• Lu Sheng stopped Shangyang Jiuli from intervening and offered to take one of Cui Lianjun’s attacks head-on, wagering the goods he had taken from Red Pavilion.
• Lu Sheng suppressed his strength to the Six-Mark level as Cui Lianjun prepared to attack with his Ghost Head Saber.
• Lu Sheng smashed Cui Lianjun’s saber and badly injured him with one punch, stunning the crowd.

Lu Sheng defeated the Painters’ captain during a confrontation at a Shangyang Family banquet, then learned from Shangyang Jiuli about a warning of a possible Devil Disaster. As the music competition began, Jiuli arranged for Shangyang Linghui to meet him, but Lu Sheng remained uninterested in matchmaking.

• Lu Sheng defeated Cui Lianjun, and Shangyang Kuili dispersed the crowd before the Painters withdrew with a threat of revenge.
• Shangyang Jiuli praised Lu Sheng, then warned him that the Mystic Jade had predicted trouble at the God Slaying Defense Line and that the Lin and Huang Families were acting unusually.
• Shangyang Fei welcomed guests to the music competition, while Lu Sheng considered cultivating the Barren Devil Body.
• Shangyang Peipei introduced Shangyang Linghui, and Jiuli left the two together in another attempt to arrange a match for Lu Sheng.
• Linghui hinted that she wanted to join Lu Sheng’s school, but Lu Sheng responded politely and showed no romantic interest.

Lu Sheng confirmed Li Shunxi’s warning that a Devil Disaster might come, advanced his Barren Devil Body, and tested himself against the Saint Weapon Pool. Meanwhile, the West Extremity Institute prepared a gathering that its master planned to use to destroy the region’s resistance and complete the Flesh and Blood Gate.

• Lu Sheng agreed to let Shangyang Linghui join the Yuan Devil Sect, then spoke with the injured Li Shunxi, who urged him to prepare for the coming Devil Disaster.
• Li Shunxi, Ice Seal Serpent, Sun Meng, and Lian Ji prepared to leave Red Pavilion before they were recognized.
• Lu Sheng spent a month gathering poisonous materials and cultivating the Barren Devil Body, then endured three breaths of the Saint Weapon Pool’s power before losing and regrowing a finger.
• Lu Sheng heard a mysterious voice calling him toward the sealed room in the Secret Arts Hall, but chose not to enter.
• Zhao Zhi and Zhou Zhicheng arranged the West Extremity Institute’s Rare Flower Wine Party, while Zhao Zhi planned to have a devil spirit kill the gathered school masters and noble guests.

Bai Xiu and Huang Fu investigated a captured suspect in White Bell City’s household murders and discovered his chest was hollow. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng completed preparations for the Barren Devil Body and began forming its Barren Seed with the Deep Blue Modifier.

• Bai Xiu and Huang Fu visited the household where Huang Bianhe had been captured and learned he was suspected of murdering a family of three.
• Huang Bianhe suddenly attacked Bai Xiu with unnatural strength, but Bai Xiu knocked him unconscious.
• Huang Fu examined Huang Bianhe and tore open his chest, revealing an empty cavity where his heart and blood vessels should have been.
• Lu Sheng ate poisonous creatures until he had consumed 150 kinds of poison and felt his poison wheel was full.
• Lu Sheng assumed his monstrous Yang Extremity State and used Deep Blue to begin the Barren Devil Body’s combinations, successfully completing the first one.

Lu Sheng completed the thirty-ninth Barren Secret Art combination and discovered that its poison resistance let him endure the Saint Weapon Pool’s radiation far longer. He uncovered signs linking his three Devil Bodies, while a hidden figure near Thousand Sails City discussed using Saike and An Jietu as vanguards before departing aboard a giant ape-like monster.

• Lu Sheng enhanced the Barren Secret Art to level thirty-nine, strengthening his body and poisonous fire, then went to test himself at the Saint Weapon Pool.
• Lu Sheng endured the Pool’s radiation for half an hour and found three delicate markings on a fragment of his corroded scales.
• Lu Sheng entered the radiation zone in his Destroyer state, was forced back, and discovered three dark-golden dots on his chest that represented his three Devil Bodies.
• Lu Sheng speculated that combining the Devil Bodies might let him contend with Source Level power.
• A gaunt figure said Saike and An Jietu would serve as vanguards for breaking the Great Song Dynasty and as sacrifices to help release his sealed old friend.
• The gaunt figure and his companion left the lighthouse, which rose and walked away as a giant ape-like monster.

Li Shunxi, Yin Zi, and Sun Meng tried to leave White Bell City as the Devil Disaster spread, while Bai Xiu and Huang Fu investigated strange cases linked to the Flying Feather Sect. At the Yuan Devil Sect, Lu Sheng declined the Small Assembly to enter seclusion, and Shangyang Linghui waited for him after a lecture.

• Li Shunxi and his companions saw soldiers seize people bearing traces of strange aura and realized the Devil Disaster had reached White Bell City.
• A peasant woman and child revealed the Reflection Devil had targeted Li Shunxi, Yin Zi, and Sun Meng, who fled from them.
• Bai Xiu told Huang Fu that serial murders and missing-person cases pointed to the Cicada Gang, which was controlled by the Flying Feather Sect.
• Qiao Xiu reported that the Flying Feather Sect had stopped answering letters, prompting Huang Fu to seek help from the institute master and Bai Xiu to contact its disciples.
• Lu Sheng told Liu Shanzi he would skip the Small Assembly and enter seclusion after a cultivation breakthrough, and Liu Shanzi assumed he was advancing the Ghost Face Art.
• After the Yuan Devil Sect lecture, Lu Sheng found Shangyang Linghui waiting for him outside the hall.

Li Shunxi saw a vision of White Bell City destroyed two hundred years in the future after Luo Ximu awakened the Mystic Jade’s power, and learned that the approaching upheaval would begin the region’s ruin. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng helped Zhan Hongsheng control her mutation and reflected on the Yuan Devil Sect’s future recruits and the dangers surrounding Divine Weapon Devil Blades.

• Luo Ximu told Li Shunxi about devilkind’s lonely nature and their desire to conquer, then tapped his brow and triggered a vision through the Mystic Jade.
• Li Shunxi saw White Bell City as a blood-soaked ruin two hundred years later, with a pyramid of human heads overhead, and learned that the Third Devil Spirit would hatch and the region would be devastated.
• Luo Ximu restored Li Shunxi to the present and guessed that the devils ultimately won, while Li Shunxi remained silent about the vision and the coming destruction.
• Lu Sheng sent Zhan Hongsheng away after teaching her to retract her tail and giving her the contacts of others with similar conditions.
• Zhan Hongsheng found Umbrella Woman, Ying Ying, and the others among the Yuan Devil Sect disciples practicing in the plaza.
• Lu Sheng watched the disciples and orphan children training, and considered how Divine Weapon Devil Blades could bring power or destruction to those who possessed them.

Lu Sheng completed all eight great devil bodies but discovered that their Yuan power could not withstand a Saint Weapon’s Source power. He deduced that he needed to cultivate with purer power, advanced the Three Yin Method, and found that its Yin Fire produced Yuan Devil Qi that his body eagerly absorbed.

• Lu Sheng advanced the Yuan Sea Devil Body to its eighth layer and gained the Destruction Breath ability.
• Lu Sheng completed the Breath Severing Devil Body, then mastered the Fierce Crocodile Devil Body, Yin Ceremony Devil Body, and Moon Gazing Dance Devil Body.
• Lu Sheng used the combined power of his eight devil bodies to approach the Saint Weapon Pool, but touching a fragment badly cracked his fingers.
• Lu Sheng concluded that ordinary Yuan power could not match Source power and suspected that the Yuan Devil Sect’s cultivation method needed a purer foundation.
• Lu Sheng used God-Entrusting Power to advance the Three Yin Method, igniting Yin Fire that converted Yuan Devil Qi into a purer form his cells rapidly absorbed.

Huang Fu investigated a contagious madness spreading through the prisons and decided to look into Ten Thousand Caves, while Lu Sheng used the Yin demons to fuel his cultivation and raised the Three Yin Method to its fifth level. The chapter left Lu Sheng refining stronger Yuan Devil Qi as the Poison Mist River swirled around him.

• Cracks spread through the sealed chamber beneath the Yuan Devil Sect’s stone pillar, and gray qi began replacing the fading red light around the black cauldron.
• Huang Fu learned that over two hundred special prisoners had become vacant and violent, while Bai Xiu reported that their hearts dissolved until they were left heartless.
• Huang Fu rejected Bai Xiu’s proposal to mobilize the Four Fate Army and decided to investigate Ten Thousand Caves before the Small Assembly.
• Lu Sheng returned to Yin-Poison Mist Lake and had his nine great Yin demons absorb the Poison Mist River’s water to produce devil qi for his Yin Fire.
• Lu Sheng spent twenty units of God-Entrusting Power to raise the Three Yin Method to the fifth level, strengthening and refining his Yuan Devil Qi.

Lu Sheng enhanced the Three Yin Method until its Yin Fire became violet flames infused with the Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill, causing his body to mutate and grow beyond Yin Extremity State’s control. Seeking more devil qi and God-Entrusting Power, he dug toward the Poison Mist River’s source and reached a vast, scorching passage glowing crimson.

• Lu Sheng used God-Entrusting Power to refine the Three Yin Method, transforming its Yin Fire and drawing in the characteristics of the Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill.
• As the Yin Fire burned away impurities and strengthened him, Lu Sheng’s body swelled into an armored monstrosity that Yin Extremity State could no longer fully suppress.
• Lu Sheng advanced the method to its sixth layer, producing crystalline violet flames that merged with the Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill’s qi-liquid.
• Finding the Poison Mist lake nearly drained and needing more devil qi and God-Entrusting Power, Lu Sheng located its source and tore open the stone hollow.
• Lu Sheng sent his nine Yin Devils to dig through the rock, struck Wrathful Lion when it refused to continue, and pressed onward past a severed arm embedded in the stone.
• After digging tens of thousands of meters, Lu Sheng reached a more open tunnel where the water dwindled and the surrounding stone walls glowed crimson.

Lu Sheng followed the Poison Mist River into a vast Golden Plaza and found a root-covered door leading to a dark hall with a giant bottle of gray liquid. As he peered inside, a bloodshot eye appeared in the gap and stared back at him.

• Liu Shanzi told Lotus Fragrance Zi to have Lu Sheng report to the Small Assembly when he returned, while cracks spread beneath a stone pillar at the Yuan Devil Sect.
• Blood Infant Huang Fu inspected the Silver Soul Lantern and its seal in Ten Thousand Caves, then an unseen black thread slipped into his neck from a crack in the ground.
• Lu Sheng emerged into the Golden Plaza, saw a golden giant endlessly circling a triangular building, and traced the Poison Mist River to a hidden passage beneath the golden slabs.
• Lu Sheng followed the passage through a tunnel carved with anguished faces to a root-covered door, where he found a tall glass bottle filled with gray liquid and pale insect-like things.
• Lu Sheng sent Wrathful Lion to push open the door, but it barely moved; when he peered through the gap, a bloodshot eye appeared and looked back at him.

Lu Sheng explored the source of the Poison Mist River, where he encountered a painful presence behind a door and a melting-faced girl whose black fluid strengthened his Yuan Devil Qi. After absorbing the door’s ancient God-Entrusting Power, he left, while a lizard and a masked stag discussed the Sacred Gates and the next one they would release.

• Lu Sheng spoke to the voice behind the heavy door, then pursued a little girl through the tunnels after she fled past him.
• Lu Sheng summoned a Pain Cow, which vanished into a wall, and the crying girl attacked him after revealing her endlessly melting face.
• Lu Sheng killed the girl, found that her black fluid refined into strange Yuan Devil Qi, and absorbed more than four hundred units of God-Entrusting Power from the door.
• Lu Sheng noticed the door continued generating God-Entrusting Power, returned toward the passage, and felt something peel away from him as he left.
• A green lizard and a masked stag discussed someone touching the Source of Pain, the Sacred Gates, and the need to choose a location for the last gate.

Luo Ximu began the devil army’s full-scale assault by summoning the Three-Headed Sun Horse and opening gates for countless devil creatures. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng entered seclusion to stabilize his transformed body and strengthen his Three Yin Fire, which evolved into an even more powerful flame.

• Luo Ximu summoned the Three-Headed Sun Horse at the wilderness bonfires and declared the beginning of the devil army’s invasion.
• Luo Ximu raised bone gates from the earth, and countless devil creatures poured through them.
• Lu Sheng’s Three Yin Fire evolved on the way back to the Yuan Devil Sect, destabilizing his foundation and nearly making his body explode.
• Lu Sheng sent Shadow of Madness to deliver a message to Senior Apprentice Sister Lotus Fragrance Zi, then began seclusion beneath the Hidden Book Pavilion.
• Lu Sheng used God-Entrusting Power to raise his Three Yin Fire to the seventh level, where it became violet-black and melted the Southern Ridge Ice Accumulation Pearl.
• Lu Sheng transformed his devil body to accommodate the stronger flame, then spent more God-Entrusting Power strengthening it again.

Lu Sheng tested his Eight-Headed God-Entrusting Pearl and uncovered a sealed Devil beneath the cave, while Huang Fu and Bai Xiu discovered a Red Devil in the city prison. White Bell City then faced an approaching Devil Disaster as the Shangyang Family deployed its Sky Moon Landscape Grand Formation.

• Lu Sheng threw the Eight-Headed God-Entrusting Pearl into the cave, and its violet flames broke through the stone and exposed a cavern containing a sealed, deer-antlered Minotaur.
• The Minotaur awakened and called Lu Sheng a sacrifice, and Lu Sheng transformed with Yin-Yang Fusion and attacked it.
• Huang Fu learned from Bai Xiu that the Arrest Division had taken forty-three civilians who had gone mad, and they rode to inspect the underground prison.
• Huang Fu noticed blood on the prison door and entered with Bai Xiu and the jailer, where they found slaughtered guards and encountered a Red Devil.
• Wind bells sounded across White Bell City as the Shangyang Family activated the Sky Moon Landscape Grand Formation against a vast swarm of Devils approaching the city.

Lu Sheng defeated an antlered Minotaur and discovered it was only a pollution-born monster guarding an altar that sealed the King of Shadows. After the altar cracked and the King lured him with pure devil qi, Lu Sheng began absorbing it, then abruptly shoved his head into the gap.

• Lu Sheng used his Eight-Headed God-Entrusting Pearls to burn the antlered Minotaur to death, revealing a wooden door behind it.
• Lu Sheng entered a second cavern, identified the Minotaur as a pollution-born devil monster, and found an altar piled with sacrifices.
• Lu Sheng read a stele identifying the altar as the Ninth Altar, which sealed the King of Shadows, and noted that lower-numbered altars held more dangerous devils.
• A crack opened in the altar, and the King of Shadows secretly lured Lu Sheng with pure devil qi.
• Lu Sheng absorbed the devil qi for a while, then stopped and shoved his head into the altar's gap.

Lu Sheng absorbed the Devil Essence sealed inside King of Shadows’s altar, repeatedly enlarging his mutated body until he drained the supply and shook the altar to check for more. He used the Devil Essence and God-Entrusting Power to advance the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path to the fourth realm, Reverse Origin Return Flow.

• Lu Sheng transformed into progressively larger devil bodies and absorbed King of Shadows’s Devil Essence through the altar.
• After Lu Sheng drained the altar, he dug it up and shook it, but found no Devil Essence remaining.
• Lu Sheng reorganized the Modifier’s martial arts into Outer Path, Inner Arts, Secret Arts, and Basic Martial Path.
• Lu Sheng combined his eight devil bodies under the name Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path and used God-Entrusting Power to advance it to the fourth realm, Reverse Origin Return Flow.
• Lu Sheng’s body developed a structure highly compatible with Devil Essence, greatly improving its adaptability and resistance.

Lu Sheng absorbed the King of Shadows' Devil Essence, advanced the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path, and discovered a lower cavern beneath the altar. He began searching its bones and fighting its monsters, then found that a White-Haired Giant Wolf yielded an unexpectedly large amount of special devil qi.

• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to advance the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path and absorbed all the King of Shadows' remaining Devil Essence without dying.
• Lu Sheng opened the cracked stone door beneath the altar and found a lower cavern with a shattered altar, bones, and signs of a violent struggle.
• Lu Sheng killed two Quicksand Men with the Blood Web, then found God-Entrusting Power in a metal gourd and a metal brush among the bones.
• Lu Sheng followed a roar and decided to search the cavern for God-Entrusting Power and clear out its devil monsters.
• A White-Haired Giant Wolf petrified Lu Sheng's skin with green light, but Lu Sheng killed it with a blow to its forehead and absorbed a surprisingly large amount of special devil qi.

Lu Sheng killed a corrupted guardian in the Devil Abyss, found a divine idol packed with God-Entrusting Power, and began cultivating amid the abundant devil qi. At West Extremity Institute, Zhao Zhi received an encrypted message and kept the institute’s grand formation active while concealing his reasons from visiting sect leaders.

• Lu Sheng encountered a rotten giant wolf that warned him an ancient devil had broken free, then killed it when it tried to ambush him.
• Lu Sheng found keys and a hidden room where he discovered a divine idol containing more than six hundred units of God-Entrusting Power, absorbed its power, and shattered it.
• Lu Sheng assessed his transformed body, released Yin Devil guards, and began cultivating the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path in the cave.
• At West Extremity Institute, Zhao Zhi received an encrypted letter, read it, and destroyed it before dismissing the messenger.
• Zhao Zhi told visiting sect leaders that the institute’s grand formation had been activated for security, while keeping his concern concealed.

Huang Fu led academy experts through Thousand Sails City as demons overwhelmed its defenders and the sect heads remained unreachable. Underground, Lu Sheng used the King of Shadows’ Devil Essence to transform his body and, having drained the sealed chamber, turned toward the altar for more.

• Huang Fu and his team hurried to reinforce the northern district while the city’s defenders fought the invading demons and received no response from the sect heads trapped inside the West Extremity Institute’s formation.
• Outside Thousand Sails City, the academies’ legions and Shangyang Family war behemoths fought the demon army as battles raged across the ground and sky.
• Lu Sheng spent over seven hundred units of God-Entrusting Power to advance the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path and absorb Devil Essence, enduring severe bodily damage as his body regenerated.
• The King of Shadows watched Lu Sheng liquefy Devil Essence and believed the transformation would kill him, unaware that Lu Sheng was breaking through to Weapon Master Rank.
• After Lu Sheng drained the chamber’s Devil Essence, he sensed a vast supply flowing from beneath the altar and rose to seek it.