Chapter Summaries

Qiong Shang struggled to survive the battle and used a black jade signal to meet a devil girl who was supposed to take him away. Their journey was interrupted by Lu Sheng and Xiao Zizhu’s clash, which ended when Lu Sheng trapped them both in a spreading gray mass.

• Qiong Shang and An Jiu reached a hill where twelve survivors were ordered to hold back the devils for another half an hour.
• Qiong Shang sent a blood-activated signal with black jade and met a horned devil girl, who insulted him and carried him away in black mist.
• A mighty heartbeat and oppressive force swept across the battlefield as Lu Sheng arrived and called for Xiao Zizhu.
• Xiao Zizhu mounted a giant armored scorpion and attacked Lu Sheng with a massive blade, while Lu Sheng transformed into a flaming giant and caught it.
• Lu Sheng revealed shattered mirror fragments in his palms and chanted an incantation, causing a gray mass to engulf him and Xiao Zizhu.

Lu Sheng and Xiao Zizhu were trapped in the World of Pain after Lu Sheng opened the Gate of Pain, and they discovered that pain revealed things hidden in the gray world. They entered a deserted town and approached a strange residence, where the chapter left Lu Sheng investigating after Xiao Zizhu went inside.

• Lu Sheng and Xiao Zizhu arrived in the World of Pain, where their extraordinary energies were consumed and their fight became dangerous.
• Xiao Zizhu told Lu Sheng that pain could reveal the truth and a way forward, then inflicted pain on himself and disappeared.
• Lu Sheng used the Eight Heads Golden Flame Feather to hurt himself, revealing enormous gray rays in the sky and a deserted town below.
• Lu Sheng followed Xiao Zizhu to the town and watched him enter a residence before cautiously following him inside.
• Lu Sheng examined the ruined garden and four-story stone building while holding a shard of the Glass Mirror.

Lu Sheng was forced to join the Black Alliance after meeting Cross Star in the World of Pain, then returned to the battlefield and discovered Xiao Zizhu had been replaced. He searched the Dao Palace library for a way to escape the Black Alliance’s mark and learned of its horrific history as a target of a widespread purge.

• Lu Sheng met Cross Star, who explained that his resistance to the gray mist showed aptitude, and he agreed to join the Black Alliance before the mirror fragment vanished.
• Lu Sheng returned to Red River Valley and realized Xiao Zizhu had been replaced by another soul; an Evil Mark appeared on Lu Sheng’s palm and let the Black Alliance communicate with him.
• Lu Sheng ordered the three sects’ forces to retreat, then left for Autumn Moon County to investigate the Black Alliance and seek a way to break free.
• After the battle news spread, Lu Sheng declined an invitation to meet the Holy Lord near the Lord of War and searched the Dao Palace library instead.
• Lu Sheng read that the Black Alliance had preached through the Black Sound Sect, whose members performed the Flesh Boat ritual, prompting Great Yin and the three sects to begin a major purge.

Lu Sheng reviewed reports of Great Yin’s worsening Devil Disaster and met Saint Lord Tong Sheng, who had come to investigate Xiao Zizhu’s unexplained withdrawal. Tong Sheng explained how Saint Lords grasped Laws and warned Lu Sheng that his Law Fusion was reshaping him and would exclude other Laws.

• Lu Sheng read intelligence reports describing turmoil in the Imperial Capital, military defeats, and the Devil Disaster’s occupation of a quarter of Great Yin’s territory.
• Lu Sheng learned that the devil army had dispersed around Autumn Moon County because of Xiao Zizhu, then heard that a powerful main-branch supporter had arrived.
• Lu Sheng met Tong Sheng, recognized him as a Saint Lord, and agreed to take him to investigate Xiao Zizhu’s withdrawal.
• Lu Sheng told Tong Sheng that he had fought and wounded Xiao Zizhu, who had then inexplicably left.
• Tong Sheng explained Saint Lord ranks and Law mastery, and warned Lu Sheng that Law Fusion transformed the body and soul while closing off other Laws.

Lu Sheng learned about the stages of Law cultivation, examined the risks in his mixed Yin Fire Core Law, and decided to rely on Deep Blue to refine it further. Meanwhile, after refusing Second Prince Qiong Zhen’s recruitment, he traveled with Saint Lord Tong Sheng to meet other Saint Lords, then a black-robed figure killed Flying Cloud Spear Saint Duan Ze in Heavy Cloud County.

• Saint Lord Tong Sheng explained the five Jade Star stages—Law Acquisition, Law Fusion, Law Conformity, Law Control, and Dao Evolution—and described how Saint Lords studied narrow powers to reach Jade Star.
• Lu Sheng concluded that his Yin Fire Core Law had become unstable after absorbing Eight-Headed Golden Flame intent, and that Deep Blue’s deductions offered his best path forward.
• Eunuch Liu Shangyong offered Lu Sheng gifts on behalf of Second Prince Qiong Zhen, but Lu Sheng refused the court’s recruitment and sent the envoys away.
• Lu Sheng visited nearby reclusive Saint Lords with Tong Sheng, gained new perspectives on their Core Laws, and then went to the library to seek a way to refine his Yin Fire.
• In Heavy Cloud County, Flying Cloud Spear Saint Duan Ze secretly preyed on residents and sacrificed women to his Divine Weapon before a black-robed figure appeared and killed him.

Lu Sheng continued hunting divine weapons, while human and demon authorities discussed the mysterious Night Devil’s attacks. After killing a Jade Star Weapon Master who had mistaken him for a demon envoy, Lu Sheng claimed the man’s whisk and prepared to continue his hunt.

• Anda Luo entered Flying Green Valley disguised with a jade-pendant-shaped veil and found Fei Ge Ni dead beside a black-cloaked killer, who seized and killed him.
• An envoy and Zheng Qiu Yue discussed the disappearances of Weapon Masters and Devil Kings and decided to leave the Night Devil alone for now.
• Lu Sheng reflected on his two-month hunt for divine weapons, which had earned him more than thirty thousand God-Entrusting Power.
• A daoist mistook Lu Sheng for someone meeting the demon army and demanded an item from him.
• Lu Sheng killed the daoist with a sword strike and collected his Jade Star Divine Weapon whisk.

Lu Sheng continued hunting Divine Weapons and Devil Blades, but learned that his actions had drawn notice from Saint Lord Tong Sheng. As Huo Chengde discovered that his family had been wiped out, Lu Sheng prepared to use God-Entrusting Power to resolve a danger within himself and strengthen his Yin Fire.

• Lu Sheng captured a Taoist's whisk and left after killing the Taoist with the Eight-Headed Golden Flame.
• Li Shunxi, Qiong Shang, and Huo Chengde heard that a monster had destroyed the Huo Estate, and Huo Chengde found the manor in ruins and collapsed at its gates.
• Lu Sheng questioned the Wei River Sword about the difference between Golden Leaf and Jade Star Divine Weapons, then received Bai Ying's warning that Tong Sheng wanted him to investigate covert killings.
• Lu Sheng decided to pause his hunts and digest the Divine Weapons and Devil Blades he had gathered before attending the next sacrifice, where Cross Star warned him not to reveal his name or birthday.
• Lu Sheng summoned five basic cultivation manuals and transformed Yang Essence into five kinds of true essence, then called on Deep Blue to resolve a hidden danger and strengthen his Yin Fire.

Lu Sheng deduced Yin Fire into a stronger form called Netherflame and transformed his body to remove the Eight-Headed Golden Flame contaminating his Yang Essence. He ended with five golden feathers of the extracted flame, while the earlier plot’s Water of Faith ritual remained underway.

• A worm-covered woman urged a man to drink the Water of Faith and discussed their plan involving the Black Alliance and Three Saints Gate.
• Lu Sheng separated a strand of Eight-Headed Golden Flame from his Yin Fire and began deducing the Eight-Headed God-Entrusting Method with Deep Blue.
• Deep Blue consumed over twenty thousand units of God-Entrusting Power to transform Yin Fire into black-purple Netherflame.
• Lu Sheng let Netherflame transform his body, using his Yin-Yang Fusion state to endure the process and expel the remaining golden threads.
• Lu Sheng discovered cyst-like organs on his throat and collected five golden feathers of Eight-Headed Golden Flame.

Lu Sheng entered the World of Pain and was assigned a mission to destroy the tree demons of Aiertina and retrieve materials sent to the Lower Realm. After arriving at an underground altar, he faced an attack by the King of Green, who wielded a divine weapon.

• Lu Sheng tested his Evil Mark and entered the World of Pain, where a figure rose from a black pool as he left the palace.
• Cross Star brought Lu Sheng to a ritual in the Small Building, where an Evil Sorcerer assigned him and two other newcomers a mission in Aiertina.
• Lu Sheng learned that the mission was to destroy 560,000 tree demons and retrieve successful materials previously sent to the Lower Realm.
• Lu Sheng passed through a corpse-and-sludge ritual and appeared on an altar in an underground cavern, where tree demon cultists hailed him as a messenger.
• The King of Green burst into the cavern with a divine Three-Pronged Fork, but a Pain Follower threatened him with the next Tree Demon Princess.

Lu Sheng recovered the Forest King Fork during a mission in the World of Pain, then spent several months completing Black Alliance assignments and earning Cross Star’s trust. Cross Star summoned him to her hall and gave him a new mission to review.

• Lu Sheng killed the Pain Follower who interrupted him, persuaded the Centaur Old Man to hand over the Forest King Fork, and killed the remaining Pain Followers before leaving the cavern.
• Lu Sheng watched the tiger-masked man and the aloof woman battle the centaurs, then saw the woman kill the Centaur Old Man and was transported away with the others.
• Several months later, Lu Sheng completed Black Alliance missions and recovered four Jade Star-level Divine Weapon Devil Blades, gradually gaining Cross Star’s trust.
• Cross Star explained the differences between the Human Realm, the Devil World, and the World of Pain, then began involving Lu Sheng in plans to expand her district.
• Cross Star summoned Lu Sheng to her hall, handed him a letter containing a new mission, and told him to read it.

Lu Sheng explored the dangerous plains beyond the town and discovered strange figures before Su Lun ambushed him, hoping to steal his position and body. Lu Sheng broke Su Lun’s constricting neck, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Cross Star assigned Lu Sheng a long mission with two Evil Sorcerers and warned him to avoid exposing himself.
• Fan and Suo told Lu Sheng that a woman from Se Ye Palace was returning after finding a suitable body, prompting him to suspect that people in the World of Pain survived by changing bodies.
• Lu Sheng left town to investigate the gray plains, encountered a vacant noblewoman on a white horse, and saw a man being endlessly whipped beneath a strange tree.
• Su Lun attacked Lu Sheng from behind with a dagger and tried to merge their bodies using his Source of Pain.
• Lu Sheng resisted Su Lun’s assault and snapped off the section of Su Lun’s neck wrapped around him.

Lu Sheng tested his strength in the World of Pain, then returned to Autumn Moon County, where the Green Snail Office revealed the suspected divine-weapon hunter, Jing Hong. The chapter left Lu Sheng and Saint Lord Tong Sheng with a lead on the culprit behind the killings and thefts.

• Lu Sheng defeated Su Lun, judged his Saint Lord-level soul powerful but his body weak, and continued exploring the World of Pain.
• Lu Sheng destroyed several anomalous trees, collected blue gemstones, and returned after deciding he was not strong enough to explore farther.
• Half a month later, Lu Sheng and Saint Lord Tong Sheng received a report from the Green Snail Office about a suspect linked to massacres and stolen divine weapons.
• Lu Sheng and Tong Sheng went to the Green Snail Office, where they met its director Cheng Xiao and Tong Sheng's disciple Liu Qingyuan.
• Cheng Xiao showed them footage of Jing Hong killing an old woman and taking her Jade Ring, then explained that Jing Hong hunted divine weapons to strengthen the demonic blade Heaven Burning Ruler.

Lu Sheng learned that Jing Hong belonged to the mysterious Bee organization and suspected Li Shunxi had appeared in the vision connected to him. As Tong Sheng and Lu Sheng walked through Colorful Clothes Valley, Yuanguang Cheng ordered the family to gather its scattered Children of Burning to find a new heir for the Twilight Holy Sword.

• Director Cheng Xiao explained that Jing Hong belonged to Bee and that Bee experts had also been involved in the Yuanguang Family's internal conflict; Lu Sheng suspected Li Shunxi had appeared in the earlier vision.
• Cheng Xiao revealed that Yuanguang Cheng had won the family struggle and inherited the Twilight Holy Sword, leaving Lu Sheng silent as he recalled that she was his birth mother's daughter.
• Tong Sheng set the group to finding and driving away Jing Hong while Lu Sheng's thoughts drifted elsewhere.
• Yuanguang Cheng told Yuanguang Yu and Yuanguang Che Xing to settle the family's affairs and recall the scattered Children of Burning so a stronger soul could inherit the Twilight Holy Sword.
• In Colorful Clothes Valley, Tong Sheng told Lu Sheng that he reminded him of his deceased grandson and said he understood Lu Sheng's youthful abruptness.

Lu Sheng and Tong Sheng tracked down Jing Hong, the Divine Weapon Hunter, and found him sharing food with beggars rather than acting like the brutal criminal described in reports. As Liu Qingyuan confronted Jing Hong, Lu Sheng realized his mission to recover the Heavenly Ear Saber was tied to Jing Hong’s brother Xu Qi, and a tense standoff began.

• A surveillance agent reported Jing Hong’s location, and Lu Sheng and Tong Sheng flew to Colorful Clothes Town to find him.
• At Phoenix Soaring Tavern, Lu Sheng saw Jing Hong quietly tossing food to two beggars, while Tong Sheng judged that he still had kindness in his heart.
• Tong Sheng spoke with Jing Hong, who said he hunted people whose evil outweighed their good and then declared that he no longer wished to kill.
• Liu Qingyuan confronted Jing Hong and demanded that he account for the recent tragedies, while the White Clothed Men mocked the exchange before preparing to leave.
• Tong Sheng enclosed Jing Hong and Liu Qingyuan in a sealed force field as their Divine Weapons began to clash, and Lu Sheng connected his mission to Jing Hong’s brother Xu Qi, who wielded the Heavenly Ear Saber.

Lu Sheng arranged with two Evil Sorcerers to capture Xu Qi, the Heavenly Ear Saber, by ambushing Jing Hong in a maple forest. When a group of White Clothed Men identified Lu Sheng as a Child of Burning, he suppressed the phoenix bloodline they summoned and left them stunned.

• Jing Hong defeated Liu Qingyuan in the tavern, and Tong Sheng stopped Liu Qingyuan from pursuing him while Lu Sheng waited for his allies' arrangements.
• Lu Sheng left the tavern and met Jing Hong in a maple forest, intending to seek justice for the Weapon Masters Jing Hong had killed.
• The White Clothed Men arrived, and Jing Hong blocked Lu Sheng's attack to protect them from harm.
• The White Clothed Men detected Lu Sheng's bloodline and identified him as a Child of Burning.
• A woman used a phoenix-shaped crystal to summon a phoenix flame on Lu Sheng's shoulder, but Lu Sheng crushed and suppressed it with his Yang Essence.

Lu Sheng fought Jing Hong and overwhelmed him despite the Heaven Burning Ruler’s power and Jing Hong’s bloodline force field. Yuanguang Yuan’s group recognized the danger and, following Yuanguang Sun’s advice, decided to stay and seek ties with Lu Sheng rather than risk fleeing.

• Lu Sheng suppressed his Blood of Burning and challenged Jing Hong, then struck him with Spirit Slaughter after Jing Hong refused to back down.
• Jing Hong summoned the Heaven Burning Ruler, whose two-headed toad form attacked Lu Sheng with black fire, but Lu Sheng smashed it aside and sent both Jing Hong and the Divine Weapon flying.
• Jing Hong and the Heaven Burning Ruler fused into a flaming wheel, while its force field nearly crippled a White Clothed Man caught nearby.
• Yuanguang Yuan recognized the Heaven Burning Ruler and led her companions to retreat, but Yuanguang Sun warned that Lu Sheng might not let them leave and urged them to build ties with him.
• Lu Sheng struck Jing Hong again, sending him crashing into a mountain wall and coughing blood.

Lu Sheng fought Xu Qi after nearly killing Jing Hong, using the battle to test his strength against a peak Jade Star Realm Holy Lord. Xu Qi escaped with Jing Hong after a concealed chain disrupted his retreat, leaving Lu Sheng furious and the brothers’ fate unresolved.

• Lu Sheng defeated Jing Hong and prepared to kill him, but Xu Qi arrived and blocked the golden saber with his divine spear.
• Lu Sheng and Xu Qi exchanged powerful attacks, and Lu Sheng found that Xu Qi’s spear could reflect his force and withstand his assaults.
• Xu Qi struck the ground with Earth Splitting Essence Thrust, but Lu Sheng countered the attack; Xu Qi then grabbed Jing Hong and unleashed Great Cleavage Divine Spear to cover their escape.
• Lu Sheng fired Infinite Divine Might at the fleeing brothers, while a grayish-white chain suddenly bound Xu Qi’s jade-green curved saber.
• Xu Qi and Jing Hong vanished as phantoms before Lu Sheng’s palm struck, and Lu Sheng unleashed his anger by blasting apart the nearby trees and earth.

Lu Sheng attacked the Evil Sorcerers after their botched attempt to capture Xu Qi, then stopped a group of Yuanguang, Mu, and Jing family descendants who had witnessed his pursuit of Jing Hong. He let them go and asked Yuanguang Yuan about her family connections as he considered visiting Yin Capital.

• Lu Sheng demanded to know why the Evil Sorcerers had failed to bring a Thousand Machine Lock, then attacked one of them with Netherflame and beat him into the ground.
• The second Evil Sorcerer tried to interfere, but Lu Sheng repelled him and left without killing either man to avoid provoking Cross Star.
• Lu Sheng intercepted Yuanguang Yuan and five companions, and Yuanguang Yuan explained the Yuanguang Family's recruitment offers and search for an heir to the Twilight Holy Sword.
• After learning that the group included members of the Yuanguang, Mu, and Jing families, Lu Sheng decided not to harm them and told them they could leave.
• Yuanguang Yuan asked Lu Sheng to return to the Yuanguang Family; he refused but asked who her direct elder was and whether that elder was a Weapon Master.

Lu Sheng recruited Yuanguang Yuan as a potential ally for the Yuan Devil Sect, then extinguished the wildfire caused by his clash. The Wei River Sword awakened Nie Xing’s mark, and Lu Sheng left to continue pursuing the Heavenly Ear Saber.

• Yuanguang Yuan told Lu Sheng that no one among her direct relatives was a Weapon Master, and Lu Sheng offered to support her in exchange for directing Yuanguang Family resources toward the Yuan Devil Sect.
• Yuanguang Yuan accepted Lu Sheng’s offer and agreed on a way to communicate with him.
• Xu JinSong and the Yin Yang Office arrived to investigate the wildfire, and Lu Sheng told them to clean up the traces of a Devil World expert after he extinguished the flames.
• Lu Sheng used the Wei River Sword to douse the wildfire, awakening Nie Xing’s mark and transforming the sword’s hilt.
• Lu Sheng told Xu JinSong to handle the aftermath, then flew away to pursue the Heavenly Ear Saber and complete his mission.

Lu Sheng was ambushed by Xu Qi and two allies whose Core Laws strengthened Xu Qi and weakened Lu Sheng. After Xu Qi seemed to kill him, Lu Sheng revealed he had survived and seized Xu Qi, then transformed to continue the fight.

• Lu Sheng left Nanli City with Duanmu Wan, and Xu Qi confronted him before Mu Jueqing recognized Xu Qi as her grandfather.
• Lu Sheng and Xu Qi moved the fight outside the city, where Xu Qi joined forces with two cloaked allies who used their Core Laws against Lu Sheng.
• Xu Qi’s Reflect ability and his allies’ enhancements let him wound Lu Sheng and strike him in the chest with his Divine Spear.
• Xu Qi thought Lu Sheng had died and turned to leave, but Lu Sheng grabbed him with a giant claw and revealed he was still alive.
• Xu Qi unleashed lightning from Lu Sheng’s grasp, and Lu Sheng entered Yin-Yang Fusion form and swung at him.