Chapter Summaries

Zhunti sent Chenxiang to steal peaches from the Heavenly Court and provoke a conflict, but Chenxiang was caught by the Peach Garden’s defenses and wounded by Yaochi’s Golden Hairpin. He crashed onto the East Sea Coast.

• Amitabha and Zhunti discussed Haotian’s limited authority and Zhunti’s preparations for Chenxiang to display his power in Heaven.
• Bodhi Daoist told Chenxiang to steal peaches from the Peach Garden to obtain rare treasures and frame Yang Jian if caught.
• Chenxiang slipped into the Heavenly Court using Standing Upright Without a Shadow and stole a peach, but a formation trapped him in the garden.
• Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers arrived, and Chenxiang fled on his Somersault Cloud when the formation dispersed.
• Yaochi threw her Golden Hairpin after Chenxiang, piercing his shoulder blade and striking his primordial spirit, and he crashed onto the East Sea Coast.

Yang Jian freed Yang Chan from an illusion and took the Precious Lotus Lantern to interrogate Liu Yanchang, while Xuanxiao stayed trapped on Yingzhou Island. After seeing Chenxiang fall to the East Sea Coast, Xuanxiao sent Yang Jiao to retrieve him.

• Yang Jian left Howling Celestial Dog to bite and question Liu Yanchang, who cursed the dog without affecting him.
• Yang Jian explained the Heavenly Rules to Yang Chan, then entered her Sea of Consciousness and broke the illusion controlling her.
• Yang Chan realized Liu Yanchang might not be mortal and gave Yang Jian the Precious Lotus Lantern to use during his interrogation.
• Yang Chan told Yang Jian she had sensed Chenxiang suffering a grave injury, and he agreed to look after him.
• Xuanxiao asked Mingxuan and Wangshu for help, but they refused to intervene while Chenxiang faced hardship.
• Xuanxiao saw Chenxiang fall near the East Sea Coast and told Yang Jiao to go retrieve his nephew.

Yang Jiao rescued Chenxiang from Tun Tian Kun at the East Sea Coast, then endured a beating from Ao Bing before taking his nephew to a deserted island. Chenxiang healed himself with Buddhist techniques and offered Yang Jiao a flawed Three-Revolutions Golden Elixir, leaving Yang Jiao to conceal how unimpressive it was.

• Yang Jiao reached the East Sea Coast and asked Tun Tian Kun to spare Chenxiang, but Tun Tian Kun demanded a sparring match to test Yang Jiao’s claim that he was Golden Peng’s disciple.
• Ao Bing struck Yang Jiao for insulting him, confirmed Yang Jiao’s identity to Tun Tian Kun, and had his wife restrain Yang Jiao while he beat him with his hammers.
• Ao Bing allowed Yang Jiao to take Chenxiang away, then brought Tun Tian Kun to the Dragon Palace for drinks.
• Yang Jiao brought Chenxiang to a small island and pretended not to know him as Chenxiang recovered using Seven-Colored Glazed Precious Light.
• Chenxiang claimed to be an immortal and gave Yang Jiao a pill as a reward, while Yang Jiao recognized it as a botched Three-Revolutions Golden Elixir.

Chenxiang failed to find an opportunity on Yingzhou Island and later enlisted White Crane Boy to challenge Yang Jian. White Crane Boy slapped Yang Jian while secretly warning him not to fight back, and Yang Jian ordered Howling Celestial Dog to hide Liu Yanchang from Chenxiang.

• Yang Jiao directed Chenxiang to Yingzhou Island, and Chenxiang taught him a cultivation method before leaving.
• Chenxiang entered Yingzhou Island's Illusion Array, but Qingping's sword strike drove him away when Buddhist light appeared around him.
• Chenxiang met White Crane Boy, who agreed to slap Yang Jian in front of him to prove his strength.
• White Crane Boy carried Chenxiang to Guangjiang Pass and slapped Yang Jian, warning him secretly not to retaliate.
• Yang Jian covered his face and told Howling Celestial Dog to take Liu Yanchang to the secret chamber so Chenxiang would not see them tormenting his father.

Baihe brought Chenxiang to Yang Jian and urged him to help Yang Chan, but left after learning Yang Jian was using their feud to spur Chenxiang’s cultivation. Yang Jian defeated Chenxiang and sent him away to grow stronger, then discussed his suspicions about Liu Yanchang with Ao Cunxin, who proposed a plan to unsettle him.

• Baihe brought Chenxiang to True Lord's Manor, criticized Yang Jian for imprisoning Yang Chan, and offered to appeal to Haotian and Yuanshi on her behalf.
• Yang Jian privately told Baihe that he had hidden Yang Chan at Mount Hua and was making Chenxiang cultivate until he could defeat him.
• Baihe teased Chenxiang about his earlier claims, then departed when Chenxiang refused to call him Grandpa.
• Yang Jian fought Chenxiang, knocked him through a window, and told him to cultivate until he could resist the Heavenly Rules and see his mother.
• Ao Cunxin arrived and questioned Yang Jian about his treatment of Chenxiang, while Yang Jian said he suspected Liu Yanchang had schemed against their family.
• Ao Cunxin suggested a way to humiliate Liu Yanchang, and Yang Jian agreed it might scare him.

Yang Jian questioned Liu Yanchang about his schemes against Yang Chan and Chenxiang, but Liu escaped after claiming to be Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s disciple. Yang Jian sought Liu’s identity through the Primordial Exchange, where Qingping demanded an extra thousand Merit Gold Coins for the answer.

• Yang Jian threatened Liu Yanchang with the Place of Five Grains Reincarnation, and Liu admitted under a Heavenly Dao oath that he was a disciple of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Yang Jian pressed Liu about using a primordial spirit technique on Yang Chan and about Chenxiang’s Buddhist methods, but Liu broke free, struck Yang Jian with a club, and fled.
• Yang Jian feared Liu would find Chenxiang and lead him to the Buddhist Sect, so he went to the Primordial Exchange to investigate Liu’s identity.
• Qingping asked Tongtian to investigate Liu, and Mingxuan discovered that Liu was a clone of Zhunti and set the information’s price at four thousand Merit Gold Coins.
• Qingping told Yang Jian the investigation required another thousand Merit Gold Coins, and Yang Jian asked whether the Primordial Exchange accepted force as payment.

Yang Jian learned that Liu Yanchang was Zhunti’s clone and that Chenxiang had been taken to the Buddhist Sect, so he headed for the Heaven Demon Sect to prepare for the coming war. Meanwhile, Xuanxiao played cards with Luohu and Taiyi after alarming Dijiang with talk of “Fighting the Ghost King.”

• Yang Jian paid Qingping for information, and Qingping revealed that Liu Yanchang was Zhunti’s clone.
• Qingping told Yang Jian that Liu Yanchang had taken Chenxiang to the Buddhist Sect and advised him to join the Heaven Demon Sect to protect Chenxiang during the Buddhist-Demon War.
• Yang Jian immediately flew toward the Heaven Demon Sect.
• Xuanxiao asked Luohu and Taiyi to release her restraints, then introduced them to a card game called Fighting the Ghost King.
• Dijiang sensed that something was wrong, and Houtu explained that Xuanxiao was discussing the card game with Luohu and Taiyi.
• Xuanxiao clarified the game’s rules, and Dijiang realized that no ghost king was in danger.

After learning Zhunti had instigated the Ghost King game, Yang Jian joined Xuan Mo’s Heavenly Demon Hall as its Anti-Buddha Vanguard. The demons planned to spread their faith, but Yang Jian objected to their scheme to disgrace one of Haotian’s daughters, while Zhunti prepared Chenxiang to challenge him.

• Yang Jian confronted the Heavenly Demon Hall and offered to lead its campaign against Buddhism.
• Xuan Mo and his followers welcomed Yang Jian, threatened him against holding back, and headed out to spread demonic faith.
• Xuan Mo, You Wen, and Bo Huang discussed using a story about an abandoned mortal attacking the Ninth Heaven to promote the demon sect.
• Yang Jian condemned the plan to ruin a woman’s reputation by arranging for one of Haotian’s daughters to descend to the Lower Realm.
• Zhunti blamed Yang Jian for his sneeze, decided Chenxiang should defeat him, and sent Chenxiang a Bodhi Seed to increase his power.

Xuan Mo decided to fund the Heavenly Demon Sect by robbing ancient tombs and went to Golden Ao Island to enlist Tongtian’s help. Tongtian gave him calligraphy claiming the sect was authorized by Daoism, and Xuan Mo set off on his tomb-robbing journey.

• Xuan Mo and the others agreed to frame Li Jing for beating a demoness, while You Wen stopped Xian Rui from choosing a fox.
• Yang Jian proposed a marriage between his third sister and a Golden Crow Crown Prince, but Bo Huang rejected the match.
• Xuan Mo spotted a gifted, double-pupiled youth and considered recruiting him for Demon Cultivation, then realized his Heavenly Demon Sect needed money.
• Xuan Mo bypassed Duobao’s attempt to make him announce himself and entered Biyou Palace to meet Tongtian.
• Xuan Mo asked Tongtian for calligraphy claiming the Heavenly Demon Sect was a Daoist-authorized branch of the Three Pure Ones, and Tongtian wrote it for him.
• Xuan Mo returned with the calligraphy and began his tomb-robbing journey.

Xuan Mo raided Ancestral Dragon’s tomb and confronted Ao Yue, who came to defend it despite being told not to fight him to the death. After they agreed to exchange blows, their first clash ended in a draw, and Xuan Mo charged at Ao Yue again.

• Xuan Mo broke through the barrier around Ancestral Dragon’s tomb and took its treasures while Ao Yue prepared to stop him.
• Azure Dragon Saint Venerable told Ao Yue that Ancestral Dragon had allowed Xuan Mo to take whatever he wanted, but Ao Yue rushed to the tomb anyway.
• Xuan Mo showed Ao Yue Tongtian’s authorization and explained his family’s ties to Ancestral Dragon, leaving Ao Yue unable to justify attacking him.
• Xuan Mo proposed a staged fight and said Ao Yue would have to join the Heavenly Demon Sect if he lost; Ao Yue agreed.
• Xuan Mo and Ao Yue exchanged blows with the God-Slaying Spear and Ancestral Dragon Halberd, first retreating half a step before Xuan Mo charged again.

After defeating Ao Yue, Xuan Mo accepted his oath to join the Heavenly Demon Hall and agreed to follow Ao Yue’s plan to rob the dojos of powerful figures for spiritual items. They set their sights on Xuandu of the Human Sect, leaving to begin their raids.

• Xuan Mo defeated Ao Yue and forced him to swear allegiance to the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Ao Yue suggested robbing the dojos of the great powers instead of raiding tombs, and Xuan Mo agreed to give him ten percent of the spoils.
• Xuan Mo ruled out robbing Zhen Yuanzi because Qingfeng and Mingyue served the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Ao Yue proposed robbing Xuandu, and Xuan Mo agreed after Ao Yue claimed the two of them could defeat him.

Xuan Mo and Ao Yue plotted to steal Zhao Gongming’s Sea-Calming Pearls so they could use the Vast Sea Star Array to advance their power. After Xuan Mo stole the twenty-four pearls from God of Wealth’s Hall, Ao Yue planned to face the Chaos Thunder Tribulation in Chaos.

• Ao Yue explained that Xuandu had established a dojo and that they intended to confront him over Lü Dongbin’s claims about vanquishing demons.
• Ao Yue proposed combining the Dragon Clan’s Vast Sea Star Art with Zhao Gongming’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls to form the Vast Sea Star Array.
• Xuan Mo agreed to Ao Yue’s plan to distract Zhao Gongming while he stole the pearls, and they went to God of Wealth’s Hall.
• Ao Yue asked Zhao Gongming for money and kept him occupied while Xuan Mo bypassed the Hall’s defenses and stole the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Ao Yue left with three hundred Merit Gold Coins, and Xuan Mo revealed that he had the pearls; Ao Yue chose Chaos as the place to undergo his tribulation.

Ao Yue broke through to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm beside the Purple Cloud Palace, while Yang Mei trapped Hongjun inside with spatial seals. Xuan Mo then joined Ao Yue in confronting Xuandu to rob him of spiritual treasures.

• Xuan Mo advised Ao Yue to undergo his tribulation near the Purple Cloud Palace, and Hongjun welcomed him there.
• Ao Yue fused the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Pearls into his body and survived the tribulation by breaking through twenty spatial barriers.
• Yang Mei added thirty seals around the Purple Cloud Palace, trapping Hongjun inside and leaving him unable to find a way out.
• Xuan Mo and Ao Yue went to Xuandu's Dojo and declared that they had come to take spiritual treasures.
• Xuan Mo revealed the World-Destroying Millstone and demanded that Xuandu hand over thirty percent of his treasures.

Xuan Mo and Ao Yue robbed Xuandu after using Lü Dongbin’s arrival as an excuse, then decided to seek a site for the Heaven Demon Retreat. They set their sights on western Penglai Island and planned to make Immortal Elder Naji give it up by force.

• Xuan Mo and Ao Yue trapped Xuandu’s Daoist Palace with the Vast Sea of Stars Formation and demanded his pills and spiritual treasures.
• Lü Dongbin arrived to purge demons, and Xuan Mo and Ao Yue used him as a pretext to accuse Xuandu of opposing the Heaven Demon Sect.
• Xuan Mo threatened Xuandu until Xuandu surrendered his pills from the previous Kalpa and thirty percent of his accumulated treasures.
• Ao Yue suggested recruiting Minghe, but Xuan Mo instead proposed establishing the Heaven Demon Retreat on an Immortal Island.
• Ao Yue suggested Penglai Island, and Xuan Mo decided to fight Immortal Elder Naji for control of its western island.

Xuan Mo fought Immortal Elder Naji for control of West Penglai, then claimed his parents’ backing and made Naji retreat. On Yingzhou Island, Xuandu and Naji complained to Xuanxiao and Luohu, who began discussing Xuan Mo’s seizures.

• Xuan Mo arrived at Penglai Island and challenged Immortal Elder Naji, declaring that he would seize the island and eat the Immortal Deer.
• Immortal Elder Naji attacked Xuan Mo with Jade Purity Divine Thunder, his Dragon Head Crutch, and an Eight Trigrams formation, but Xuan Mo blocked his attacks and pierced his shoulder.
• Immortal Elder Naji merged the Good and Evil Two Corpses with his true body, while Xuan Mo revealed the World-Destroying Millstone and said he was Xuanxiao and Luohu’s son.
• Xuan Mo explained that his grandfather Tongtian had approved his actions and that Xuanxiao could reimburse any Daoism disciple who lost something to him; Naji retreated after Xuan Mo ate part of the Immortal Deer and restored it.
• Xuandu and Immortal Elder Naji complained to Xuanxiao on Yingzhou Island, and Xuanxiao asked Luohu to speak with them.
• Luohu asked Xuandu and Naji whether Xuan Mo had taken their possessions and territory, and Xuandu demanded an explanation for the things Xuan Mo had taken from him.

Luohu beat Xuandu and Nanji after they came to demand compensation for Xuan Mo’s robbery, then explained to Xuanxiao that he had equipped their son with powerful treasures but expected him to gather other supplies himself. Xuanxiao worried about future conflict with the Heavenly Demon Sect and offered to oversee Heavenly Demon Hall as a Supreme Demon Lord.

• Luohu took Xuandu through a spatial passage to Chaos, where he beat him for demanding an explanation over Xuan Mo’s robbery.
• Nanji divined that Xuandu faced a great disaster, then followed Luohu to Chaos after Xuandu claimed Luohu had given Xuan Mo benefits to buy his silence.
• Luohu beat Nanji half to death and brought both men back to the Primordial Wilderness.
• At Xuanxiao’s Daoist Palace, Luohu said he had lent Xuan Mo the World-Destroying Millstone and God-Slaying Spear but expected him to obtain other treasures and spiritual medicine himself.
• Xuanxiao worried that Xuandu and Nanji might oppose the Heavenly Demon Sect, then offered to oversee Heavenly Demon Hall as a Supreme Demon Lord.

Luohu kept Xu Xuanxiao on Yingzhou Island while the Heavenly Demon Hall planned to recruit disciples and prepare for war with the Buddhist Sect. Ao Yue tried to recruit Minghe to the demon side, while Zhao Gongming sought information about his missing Sea-Calming Pearls.

• Luohu refused to let Xu Xuanxiao intervene in their son's training and promised to protect Mo'er, while Xu Xuanxiao worried that Mo'er would soon resort to robbery.
• Xuan Mo and You Wen discussed recruiting for the Heavenly Demon Hall, and Bo Huang confirmed that Lu Jun was serving as the sun.
• Bo Huang said he had chosen a beautiful merfolk for Chu Bantian, and Ming Ye reported that Chu Bantian had excellent talent for Demon Cultivation.
• Ao Yue asked Minghe to join the Heavenly Demon Hall in attacking the Buddhist Sect, but Minghe decided to observe the situation because the demons lacked strength.
• Ao Yue admitted that he had refined Zhao Gongming's twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls into the Thirty-Six Heavens and chose to hide from him rather than kill him.
• Zhao Gongming discovered that his Sea-Calming Pearls were missing and went to the Primordial Exchange to buy information about them.

Zhao Gongming went to the Primordial Exchange to find his stolen Sea-Calming Pearls, but learned that Xuan Mo had taken them and discovered that cursing Xuan Mo’s family had brought him trouble. Xuanxiao revealed that Ao Yue had refined twelve pearls to advance his cultivation, and advised Zhao Gongming to seek compensation from the Dragon Clan.

• Zhao Gongming asked Qingping to locate his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, and Qingping warned that recovering them could bring disaster.
• Zhao Gongming cursed the thief and his family, so sword qi from Golden Ao Island struck him down.
• Qingping revealed that Xuan Mo, the son of Xuanxiao and Luohu, had stolen the pearls, and Luohu carried Zhao Gongming to Yingzhou Island.
• Xuanxiao apologized for Xuan Mo, while Luohu challenged Zhao Gongming and Taiyi confronted him with True Sun Fire after Zhao praised Luohu.
• Xuanxiao told Zhao Gongming that Ao Yue had refined twelve pearls to reach the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and advised him to ask the Dragon Clan for other treasures instead.

Zhao Gongming was punished by Luohu for insulting Xuanxiao’s family and was sent to Golden Ao Island, where Tongtian and Mingxuan gave him a replacement treasure and told him not to pursue Ao Yue. He learned that Xuan Mo and Ao Yue had also robbed Xuandu, while Ao Yue was about to become an old friend’s disciple.

• Xuanxiao trapped Zhao Gongming after he tried to flee, and Luohu began tempering his body with demonic flames for three hundred years.
• Xuanxiao told Zhao Gongming to visit Golden Ao Island, and Zhao Gongming flew there despite protesting that he was the victim of the theft.
• Tongtian declined to teach Zhao Gongming divine abilities while he was undergoing body tempering, and Mingxuan gave him the Snow Moon Pearl to replace the stolen Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Mingxuan told Zhao Gongming not to blockade the Azure Dragon Secret Realm because Ao Yue would soon become an old friend’s disciple.
• Tongtian revealed that Xuan Mo and Ao Yue had robbed Xuandu together, and Zhao Gongming remarked that they should have taken his pearls openly.

Xuandu complained to Laozi after Luohu beat him, then went to Tongtian to demand compensation for what Xuan Mo had taken. Mingxuan exposed his inflated bill and kicked him back to Shouyang Mountain, where Laozi settled the debt and Xuandu considered joining Heavenly Demon Hall.

• Tongtian promised Zhao Gongming that Xuan Mo could take anything he liked from the God of Wealth's Hall.
• Xuandu complained to Laozi that Luohu had beaten him and asked him to discipline Xuan Mo, but Laozi sent him to Tongtian to claim compensation.
• Xuandu presented Tongtian and Mingxuan with an inflated bill for the items Xuan Mo had taken.
• Mingxuan kicked Xuandu back to Shouyang Mountain and sent a talisman declaring the karmic debt settled.
• Laozi merged the talisman into Xuandu and forbade him from holding a grudge against Xuan Mo.
• Xuandu said the Innate Yin Yang Divine Light technique was worth more than his losses and asked Laozi about joining Heavenly Demon Hall; Laozi instead suggested he help Daoism oppose the Buddhist Sect.