Chapter Summaries

Li Hao and Feng Boping ventured deep into demon territory, where Li Hao slaughtered powerful demons as Tianji Hall spread warnings about his approach. The chapter ended with Li Hao continuing his sweep across three thousand li while demons fled or challenged him and died.

• Li Hao captured a black bird from Tianji Hall, followed it to Fire Melt Cave, and killed Three-Headed Prime and the demons inside.
• Li Hao and Feng Boping traveled to Peakless Mountain, where Li Hao killed a four-armed giant ape and a golden-striped tiger.
• Dark Blue Bird discovered the devastation at Peakless Mountain and spread an alarm through Tianji Hall’s bird network.
• A crow-like Tianji Hall bird found Hall Master Ming’s final message revealing that Li Hao had entered demon territory, then destroyed the intelligence and flew off.
• Azure Bird warned Black Cloud Lord that Li Hao was approaching after killing five lords of the Three Immortalities Realm, and Black Cloud Lord fled.
• Tianji Hall spread news of Li Hao’s advance, prompting some demons to flee while others stayed to challenge him and were killed.

Tianji Hall spread word of Li Hao’s movements and gathered Demon Kings and other enemies of the Li Family to attack him. Li Hao continued hunting demons beyond the pass, then confronted the arriving force and began fighting its Three Immortalities Realm demons.

• The Red Skirt Girl learned that Li Hao had killed Hall Master Ming and Old Ancestor Pingshan, and she ordered Tianji Hall’s birds to scatter while arranging for Demon Kings to gather against him.
• Li Hongzhuang learned that Li Hao had gone alone beyond Heaven’s Gate Pass, while the Constellation Officials waited for his return to test their magic array.
• Li Hao killed a Dragon Bird and other demons, detected and killed a spying bird demon, and destroyed the abandoned palace in the poisonous valley.
• Lord Fengshan and White God Lord arrived with other enemies of the Li Family, and they headed toward Li Hao after Purple Feather guided them.
• Li Hao faced the assembled demons, wounded a giant tortoise demon with the Dragon Sky Sword, and used the power of heaven and earth to deflect a frost arrow toward the Dragon Mouse and scatter its demonic mist.

Li Hao fought Lord Fengshan and several Demon Kings with overwhelming strength, forcing Lord Fengshan to use his fate-reversal opportunity. When the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother joined the attack, Li Hao killed the Ghost Mother and faced the two remaining Demon Kings.

• Li Hao killed the Dragon Mouse and Fire Lion, then fought Lord Fengshan with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and Dragon Sky Sword.
• Lord Fengshan unleashed his phoenix true fire, but Li Hao endured it and wounded him until Lord Fengshan used his Defy Heaven and Change Fate opportunity to escape death.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother arrived, and Li Hao agreed with Feng Boping to face the Demon Kings.
• Li Hao activated his Extreme Realm power, destroyed the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor's reflected devil body, and swept away the Ghost Mother's ghostly forces.
• Li Hao struck the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother with enough Sword Qi to trigger a lethal effect, then cleaved her in two and killed her.
• Li Hao turned to face the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Lord Fengshan.

Li Hao defeated three Demon Kings who had tried to surround and kill him, killing Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother and forcing the others to flee. Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor, White God Lord, and Lord Fengshan escaped by different means, while the Red Skirt Girl warned others to give Li Hao a wide berth.

• Li Hao attacked Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and Lord Fengshan, shrugging off their attacks with his powerful physique and striking back with sword and fist.
• Li Hao’s Heaven and Earth Dharma Form battered Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor, while Li Hao struck Lord Fengshan and sent him flying.
• Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor swallowed Li Hao, but Li Hao wounded him from within and forced him to use Fate Reversal to escape.
• Lord Fengshan fled under Li Hao’s pursuit, and Li Hao’s sword wounded him but could not stop him from getting away.
• Li Hao joined Feng Boping against White God Lord, who used Fate Reversal to escape after the two cornered him.
• The Red Skirt Girl fled the battlefield and sent a warning that everyone should give way wherever Li Hao went.

Li Hao drove the demons from the region outside Heaven’s Gate Pass, killing countless demons and destroying their lairs after defeating three Demon Kings. The Demon Kings returned to find their territories ruined and joined the three major demon factions on Liang Prefecture’s border, while those factions discussed targeting Li Tiangang instead.

• Li Hao slaughtered the fleeing Three Immortalities Realm demons, strung their corpses together, and advanced through the demon territory as Tianji Hall spread warnings about him.
• The Yuan Lake Demon King evacuated with his household after learning Li Hao had defeated Lord Fengshan and the Devouring Heaven Demon Ancestor and killed the Ten Thousand Caves Ghost Mother.
• Li Hao destroyed the Yuan Lake Demon King’s lake lair and continued sweeping outward from Heaven’s Gate Pass, killing demons and leveling their territories.
• The three major demon factions discussed attacking Liang Prefecture and agreed that if they could not defeat Li Hao, they would target his father, Li Tiangang.
• After resting overnight, Li Hao returned with demon corpses, and the displaced Demon Kings found their lairs devastated and joined the three factions on Liang Prefecture’s border.

Li Hao returned to Azure Cliff City after slaying numerous Great Demons and reunited with Li Hongzhuang, Ren Qianqian, and Feng Boping. He then began recruiting the martial artists who wanted to serve under him.

• Li Hongzhuang spotted Li Hao approaching Heaven's Gate Pass, dragging the corpses of many Great Demons behind him.
• Li Hao set the demon corpses down in the city, told Li Hongzhuang the three Demon Kings had fled, and went to rest after admitting he was tired.
• Li Hao noticed Ren Qianqian had reached the spirit wandering realm, then cleaned up and shared tea with Feng Boping outside the city.
• Li Hao reassured Ren Qianqian that she did not need to catch up to him because he would come down the mountain to see her.
• Martial artists arrived to enlist under Li Hao, who put Ren Qianqian in charge of registration and assigned the recruits roles suited to their abilities.

Li Hao tested Azure Cliff City's defensive array, which failed to withstand even a casual punch, and received approval for his seven hundred recruits. A Bird Demon then arrived at Heaven's Gate Pass to meet him, leaving Li Hao to identify the visitor as someone from Tianji Hall.

• Li Xuanli questioned Li Wushuang about the demons' withdrawal, then sent warnings to Qing Prefecture, Li Tiangang, and Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Lord Fengshan and a black-robed figure watched Li Tiangang's eastern defenses and agreed to wait before attacking.
• Li Hao tested Azure Cliff City's Five Profound Star Formation, and his punch overwhelmed its five battle souls.
• Li Hao recruited seven hundred people, received approval from Li Xuanli, and was warned to beware of Demon King retaliation.
• A Bird Demon came to Heaven's Gate Pass to see Li Hao, who asked whether he was from Tianji Hall.

Li Hao rejected the Demon Kings’ demand for compensation, forced Tianji Hall’s envoy to plant his military banner five thousand li beyond Heaven's Gate Pass, and warned his Fifth Uncle that the demons might attack Liang Prefecture. As Azure Cliff City prospered and spring arrived, Li Hao continued cultivating the arts while keeping the border secure.

• Li Hao intimidated the bird demon boy, refused the Demon Kings’ demands, and ordered him to plant his military banner on the farthest mountain Li Hao had reached.
• Li Hao suspected the envoy had been testing whether he would guard Heaven's Gate Pass for three years and sent a warning letter to Li Xuanli through Ren Qianqian.
• The Red Skirt Girl learned that Li Hao intended to remain at the pass and ordered nearby demons to avoid his banner and stay clear of his patrols.
• Li Xuanli received Li Hao’s warning about a possible demon attack on Liang Prefecture and ordered scouts to investigate and watch the border closely.
• Li Hao patrolled the region, helped make Azure Cliff City prosperous, and advanced his artistic cultivation while hosting visiting masters of painting, chess, and music.
• After the snow melted, Li Hao obtained a treasured painting and two chess manuals, and spring arrived.

Li Hao used marked military banners to drive demons from the lands beyond Heaven's Gate Pass, while one banner's hidden sword qi killed a Three Immortalities Realm demon. A year later, a demon ignored warnings and charged onto Dragon Gate Road, where lingering sword qi split it apart.

• Li Hao created a Dark Side Clone from Two-Faced Person and used Universe Chart to turn military banners into markers containing his strength and sword qi.
• An Indestructible Realm demon destroyed one banner, triggering sword qi that killed it and terrified the Tianji Hall birds witnessing the attack.
• Li Hao sent his Dark Side Clone to investigate, and it killed a Tianji Hall messenger; afterward, Li Hao warned Tianji Hall, and demons gradually abandoned the lands beyond the pass.
• After spring passed and summer arrived, a bloated demon approached Dragon Gate Road and ignored an old tree demon's warning about the military banner.
• The bloated demon charged onto Dragon Gate Road and was cut apart by sword qi lingering there from Li Hao's strike a year earlier.

Over half a year, Li Hao strengthened Azure Cliff City’s defenses and improved his skills while Ren Qianqian rose through the Universe Rankings. After leaving for the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to study cultivation methods, Li Hao’s departure gave the demons an opening to launch their planned attack on Liang Prefecture.

• Ren Qianqian reached the seventh level of the Spirit Wandering Realm, opened her Profound Meridian, and rose to fifth on the Earth Phoenix Rankings and twenty-ninth on the Heaven Dragon Rankings.
• Li Hao advanced his Dao of Music and Body Movement Dao, received the reforged Dragon Sky Sword from Lu Cheng, and tested its power beyond the pass.
• Li Hao placed 180 military banners around the mountains beyond the pass and Azure Cliff City, strengthening their defenses enough to leave Heaven's Gate Pass in his Dark Side Clone’s care.
• Li Hao concealed his aura and left Heaven's Gate Pass with the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's guide to claim his reward and study cultivation methods.
• Tianji Hall learned that Li Hao had left the pass, and the Red Skirt Girl and the girl in purple concluded that the demons should attack Liang Prefecture while he was away.

Hong Yun informed the Dragon Gate that Li Hao had left Heaven’s Gate Pass, but its elders postponed an attack until their Grand Elder emerged from seclusion. In Yong Province, Li Hao visited the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, where Lu Chunsheng confirmed his Three Immortalities Realm and let him study its cultivation manuals.

• Hong Yun told the Dragon Lord and another Dragon Gate elder that Li Hao had likely left Liang Prefecture, and the Dragon Lord urged them to seize the chance to attack.
• The elder rejected the Dragon Lord’s plan to ambush Li Hao and said the Grand Elder would deal with him after leaving seclusion; he ordered the Dragon Gate’s branches to assemble.
• Heaven’s Mystery Mountain Man escorted Li Hao to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in prosperous Yong Province, where Lu Chunsheng welcomed him with tea.
• Lu Chunsheng recognized that Li Hao had reached the Three Immortalities Realm, and Li Hao confirmed it before declining to play the Ancient Zither.
• Li Hao asked to study cultivation manuals, and Lu Chunsheng gave him permission to choose freely and read as long as he wished.

Li Hao explored the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, recording cultivation manuals until he found methods that opened all 108 great meridians and greatly expanded his martial skills. Lu Chunsheng then invited him to see the Heavenly Shadow Steles, where a disciple had just passed a challenge, and suggested that Li Hao try leaving his image on one.

• Li Hao recorded Meridian Opening Methods until he found a low-grade method that opened his final great meridian, completing all 108.
• Li Hao recorded Body Refining methods, sword and fist arts, Qi Circulation Methods, and movement arts, while Lu Chunsheng played the zither.
• Li Hao selected the peerless sword art Embroidered Spring Breeze, and Lu Chunsheng invited him to see the Heavenly Shadow Steles after hearing that Tang had passed a challenge.
• Lu Chunsheng introduced Li Hao to the gathered disciples as Young General Haotian, and the crowd reacted with surprise.
• Lu Chunsheng explained the Heavenly Shadow Steles and invited Li Hao to try leaving his image on one.

Li Hao explored the Heavenly Shadow Steles and used his panel to record their cultivation methods, leaving true-state images after a single viewing. He reached the top-ranked stele, where Sword Wudao’s image remained, and learned it contained an ancient, incomplete sword art.

• Lu Chunsheng introduced the Heavenly Shadow Steles, and Li Hao left a true-state image on Kong’s stele after viewing its sword art once.
• Li Hao continued through the steles, recording and surpassing numerous sword and fist arts in a single viewing, while the disciples and Tang Zhixi watched in shock.
• Lu Chunsheng urged Li Hao to spare some steles so their inheritances would remain usable, and Li Hao agreed to try the first-ranked stele while still activating the others to record their methods.
• Li Hao activated the mountaintop stele and saw Sword Wudao’s image; Lu Chunsheng explained that Sword Wudao had reached supreme perfection in its ancient, incomplete sword art after seven viewings and three years.
• Li Hao offered to erase Sword Wudao’s image, and Lu Chunsheng told him the stele’s sword art was among the finest ever recorded.

Li Hao mastered and surpassed Sword Wudao’s Sixteen Laws after viewing the Heavenly Shadow Stele once, then left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to return to Heaven’s Gate Pass. Meanwhile, a dragon Grand Elder gathered demon armies to launch a brutal assault on Liang Prefecture.

• Li Hao recorded Sword Wudao’s Sixteen Laws and extrapolated its three displayed strikes into nine, demonstrating the swordsmanship at true state and replacing Sword Wudao’s image on the Heavenly Shadow Stele.
• Lu Chunsheng watched Li Hao’s achievement in shock, while Tang Zhixi and the other disciples were overwhelmed by the gap between their abilities and his.
• Li Hao declined Lu Chunsheng’s invitation to stay and departed for Heaven’s Gate Pass because he feared his absence would leave Azure Cliff City and its people exposed.
• At a deep lake west of Liang Prefecture, a dragon Grand Elder emerged and learned that no one of the unique skill realm was stationed there.
• The Grand Elder ordered the Great Void Realm armies and Dragon Gate demons to attack Liang Prefecture, destroy its cities, and kill every remaining human.

Li Tiangang recognized that the demons were preparing attacks along multiple fronts and faced Lord Fengshan, who challenged him beyond Liang Prefecture’s defenses. As the Demon Tide approached elsewhere, Li Tiangang left the Magic Array to fight Lord Fengshan, whose next strike threatened to kill him.

• Li Tiangang reviewed intelligence, concluded the demons’ feints concealed an attack on Liang Prefecture or You Province, and decided to order Li Hongzhuang to disperse the civilians from Azure Cliff City.
• Lord Fengshan appeared beyond the border and challenged Li Tiangang, then attacked the defensive line with his scarlet-flamed spear.
• Li Tiangang activated the Magic Array, and the Yuan Character Camp’s ten thousand soldiers joined their strength to hold off Lord Fengshan.
• Li Tiangang ordered Yu Xuan to alert the other camps, and the approaching Demon Tide appeared at both ends of the defensive line.
• Li Tiangang summoned a demon soul and charged out of the Magic Array to fight Lord Fengshan, who drove him back and then launched a spear attack at his head.

Li Tiangang revealed his Four Establishments Realm cultivation and killed Lord Fengshan, but two Great Void Realm Demon Kings attacked him and summoned reinforcements. He returned to the magic array to find Liang Prefecture facing a massive demon assault, and prepared its defenses for a desperate battle.

• Li Tiangang revealed his Dao Heart Realm cultivation, used his Heaven Defying Nine Steps and Xing Tian Saber to defeat Lord Fengshan, and crushed his fleeing divine soul.
• Two Demon Kings from the Great Void Realm attacked Li Tiangang, but he escaped their disorienting gray mist and entered the magic array.
• Yu Xuan told Li Tiangang that Demon Kings from the Dragon Gate, the Saint Palace, and the Great Void Realm were leading attacks along the defensive line.
• Li Tiangang ordered the soldiers to form military arrays, activate the array's demon souls, and defend the magic array as the demon tide surged against it.
• The Yuan Character Camp deployed its secretly assembled force of two hundred thousand soldiers along the defensive line.

Li Tiangang commanded the defense of the Eastern Border against a massive Demon Tide and fought the Demon Kings attacking his Magic Array. After killing two Demon Kings, he faced Madam Yin and the full force of the Great Void Realm as they shattered the array.

• Li Tiangang reinforced the Six Phases Star Array with soldiers, deployed its Demon Souls, and activated the Nine Abyss Separating Fire Array against the Demon Tide.
• Li Tiangang left the array to fight four Demon Kings, then tricked the young Dragon Gate Demon King into crossing its boundary and killed him with a saber strike.
• The young Demon King's dying attack killed at least a thousand soldiers, while Li Tiangang learned that the Dragon Gate Grand Elder might be heading for his son at Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Seven Great Void Realm Demon Kings arrived, and Madam Yin revealed that the slain young Demon King, Yin Kui, was her son before attacking the array.
• Madam Yin and the other Great Void Realm elders overwhelmed the soldiers and shattered the Magic Array despite Li Tiangang's calls for reinforcements.

An Eight Directions Command Flag warned the Divine General Residence and Boundless Mountain that Liang Prefecture faced an overwhelming demonic invasion, while Li Tiangang’s defenses at the Eastern Border collapsed. The chapter left Li Tiangang wounded and his officers sacrificing themselves as ten Demon Kings advanced.

• He Jianlan told the gathered ladies that Li Tiangang had warned of the Great Void Realm, Dragon Gate, and Saint Palace attacking Liang Prefecture, and that Li Muxiu must remain in Qing Prefecture.
• Li Muxiu planned to seek help from his sisters and Fifth Grandmother, while Jiang Xian'er decided to write to her imperial father.
• Lin Wujing delivered Liang Prefecture’s command flag to the Boundless Buddha, who sent Miaoshan to quell the demons and instructed her to save the world, not its suffering.
• Madam Yin and the Demon Kings shattered the Eastern Border’s Magic Array, incapacitating or killing many Yuan Character Camp soldiers.
• Madam Yin struck Li Tiangang and hurled him into a crater, while Yu Xuan burned his life to charge the Demon Kings and the Vine Demon Elder killed him.
• Li Fu and the other deputy generals moved to protect Li Tiangang as the ten Demon Kings advanced.

Li Tiangang’s Eastern Border forces suffered devastating losses as he retreated, while the Desert Sword Saint intervened to hold off Madam Yin and the Demon Kings. Demon Kings also attacked Li Xuanli’s Western Border defenses, and Li Hao returned to Heaven’s Gate Pass.

• The Vine Demon Elder destroyed the Tiger Might Jiaolong Formation, and Li Fu sacrificed himself after urging Li Tiangang to make peace with his son.
• Li Tiangang ordered the Fa Character Battalion to hold back the Demon Tide while he led the Yuan Character Camp in retreat, but Madam Yin caught and badly wounded him.
• The Desert Sword Saint rescued Li Tiangang, then stayed behind to fight Madam Yin and the pursuing Demon Kings so Li Tiangang could escape.
• At the Western Border, three concealed Demon Kings attacked Li Xuanli’s defensive Magic Array, prompting him and five generals to fly out and confront them.
• Li Hao returned to Heaven’s Gate Pass and stopped at a tea stall, where he ordered hot tea and two baskets of steamed buns.

Li Hao returned to Azure Cliff City and learned that demon forces had attacked Liang Prefecture’s western border, breaking its defenses under three Demon Kings. When demons also threatened Heaven’s Gate Pass, he sent Li Hongzhuang and Li He to aid his Fifth Uncle with one of his battle flags while he stayed behind to guard the pass.

• Li Hao recognized the Tea Stall Elder from Qizhou, then startled visiting youths by using Sky Traversal to leave the stall.
• Li Hongzhuang told Li Hao that his Fifth Brother had reported demons massing at Liang Prefecture’s western border, and Li Hao later invited Xu Zhouyuan to play chess.
• A military report described three Demon Kings breaking the western border’s Magic Array and forcing Li Xuanli and his troops to retreat to the Second Defense Line.
• Li Hao learned that Li Xuanli was safe for now and that the report warned Azure Cliff City to stay vigilant rather than requesting reinforcements.
• A Haotian Army soldier reported that scouts outside Heaven’s Gate Pass had come under attack, so Li Hao sent Li Hongzhuang and Li He with his battle flag to aid the western border.