Chapter Summaries

Yan Zehong led three Qingqiu Clan demons into Youzhou City to destroy the Demon Seeking Mirror, but Yan Zeyu confronted them before they reached the Demon Suppression Division. The brothers faced each other after Yan Zeyu killed one of the demons.

• Yan Zeyu retrieved an ancient Bronze Sword from the bronze mirror inside the Demon Suppression Division.
• Yan Zehong arrived in Youzhou City with three Qingqiu Clan demons and led them toward the Demon Suppression Division to destroy the Demon Seeking Mirror.
• After a fox demon damaged the city wall and threatened a surviving soldier, Yan Zehong killed him with one punch and warned the others to follow the plan.
• Yan Zehong and the two surviving demons approached the Demon Suppression Division, but Yan Zehong sensed danger and ordered them to retreat.
• Yan Zeyu cut one fox demon in half with a streak of Blood-colored Sword Qi, then greeted Yan Zehong, who called him his elder brother.

Yan Zeyu confronted his elder brother Yan Zehong, who had lured the Demon Suppression Division away and destroyed the Demon Seeking Mirror. Yan Zehong revealed that the apparent attack was also a trap intended to kill Great Wei’s Star Realm warriors, including Yun Li.

• Yan Zeyu appeared before Yan Zehong and Qingqiu Xuanshui, startling Qingqiu Xuanshui with the reputation of the Widow-Slaying Sword.
• Yan Zeyu accused Yan Zehong of using the Demon Slaying Marquis selection and forces within the Myriad Demon Kingdom to draw away the Demon Suppression Division and destroy the Demon Seeking Mirror.
• Yan Zeyu revealed that he had realized Yan Zehong was no longer human after Shen Lin uncovered his spies.
• Yan Zehong praised Yan Zeyu for seeing through part of his plan, then explained that the selection was only a believable cover for a trap against Great Wei’s Star Realm warriors.
• Yan Zehong disclosed that Yun Li’s arrival had given him a chance to target the gifted warrior and hurt Great Wei’s upper ranks.

Yan Zeyu realized Yan Zehong had kept him in Youzhou City and taken the Bronze Sword to prevent Yun Li from receiving it, then fought his brother as Yun Li faced King Tushan in the mountains. King Tushan offered Yun Li a place in the Qingqiu Clan, but Yun Li hinted that Zhong Baiyu had anticipated the Demon Race’s moves and replaced Yan Zehong’s opponent.

• Yan Zeyu suspected Yan Zehong had arranged for him to stay in Youzhou City and taken the Bronze Sword so Yun Li could not use it, then attacked him and began a battle between Aperture Opening Realm experts.
• King Tushan appeared in the forest and saved Elder She from Yun Li’s fatal sword strike.
• Elder She greeted King Tushan, a Primal Chaos Realm powerhouse and one of the Four Kings of Qingqiu.
• King Tushan told Yun Li the Demon Emperor had ordered his death, then offered him a chance to join the Qingqiu Clan.
• Yun Li dismissed the offer and said someone had turned the situation around by predicting the Demon Race’s reactions.
• In a secret chamber, Zhong Baiyu placed a chess piece and murmured that Yan Zehong’s opponent had been replaced.

Yun Li revealed that he had reached the Primal Chaos Realm and that the Great Wei Dynasty had lured King Tushan into a trap. As Yun Li attacked him, Human forces struck the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s clans to pin down their leaders, leaving the Tuolong Clan under assault.

• Yun Li revealed the A-Rank Demon Slaying Marquis mark and showed King Tushan that he had entered the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Yun Li explained that Zhong Baiyu had seen through the Demon Race’s scheme and used Yun Li as bait to lure King Tushan into an ambush.
• King Tushan realized the Great Wei Dynasty had prepared for the other Demon experts and tried to flee, but a sword beam struck toward his back.
• Human warriors attacked the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s great clans, tying down their powerful fighters.
• The Tuolong Clan’s Great Elder and three Star Realm warriors struggled against the attackers while an enemy warrior slaughtered clan members, prompting the Great Elder to roar in fury.

Team A attacked the Black Dragon King in the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s capital but withdrew when they could not defeat him quickly. Yuwen Fengxian covered their retreat, confronted three Dharma Aspect Realm demons, and left after the Black Dragon King agreed to let the incident pass.

• A short young man and a bald monk wiped out the Xuan Shui Snake Clan, then learned that Team A had been sent to the demon capital.
• Team A broke the capital’s protective formation and attacked the Black Dragon King, but failed to defeat him within their deadline.
• A Dharma Aspect Realm demon reached for Team A as they withdrew, but Yuwen Fengxian shattered the black hand and confronted the Black Dragon King.
• Yuwen Fengxian argued that the Black Dragon King had broken the nations’ agreement first, while the Tiger Clan and Qingqiu Clan Dharma Aspect Realm experts arrived.
• The Black Dragon King agreed to let the incident pass, and the three demons later questioned why they had allowed Yuwen Fengxian to leave.

The Human Race drove the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s forces back and surrounded King Tushan as he fled, while Zhong Baiyu’s plan continued to unfold across Youzhou. As Yan Zeyu and Yan Zehong’s battle raged in Youzhou City, Qingqiu Xuanshui tried to escape by seizing a hostage.

• Yuwen Fengxian left the Myriad Demon Kingdom, and Human Race warriors withdrew after inflicting heavy losses on the Tuolong Clan and wiping out the Xuan Shui Snake Clan.
• Yun Li defeated King Tushan in the western mountains, then King Tushan fled into the Myriad Demon Kingdom and ran into returning Human Race forces, including several Primal Chaos Realm experts.
• The Human Race group overwhelmed King Tushan, then celebrated their victory with a bonfire feast.
• Liu Jing reported that she had killed the Qingqiu Clan geniuses at Dragon Locking Pool, while Zhong Baiyu continued watching the battle in Youzhou City.
• Chiyangzi and three other Aperture Opening Realm experts confronted Qingqiu Xuanshui as Yan Zeyu pressed Yan Zehong, and Qingqiu Xuanshui tried to take a young Demon Suppression Division member hostage.

Yan Zehong resisted Yan Zeyu’s attack and revealed that he had abandoned his human identity, then charged the Demon Suppression Division to destroy the Demon Seeking Mirror. Zhong Baiyu sacrificed many of his black pieces on the chessboard as the tower was destroyed, declaring that Yan Zehong was now free to escape.

• Qingqiu Xuanshui vaporized on contact with Su Tu, who fainted from fright.
• Yan Zeyu struck Yan Zehong with a blood-red sword aura, but Yan Zehong caught and crushed it without reacting to its Blood Battle Killing Intent.
• Yan Zehong told Yan Zeyu that he was done being human and gathered his power as if preparing to self-detonate.
• Yan Zehong charged the Demon Suppression Division, revealing that his target was the Demon Seeking Mirror.
• The Demon Suppression Division’s tower was destroyed as Zhong Baiyu sacrificed a large group of black pieces on his chessboard.

Zhong Baiyu reflected on Yan Zehong’s escape and the Demon Suppression Division’s hunt for him, while Shen Lin guessed that the demons were targeting Youzhou City. After learning from Liu Jing that the real battle was at the selection grounds, Shen Lin discovered Yan Zehong emerging from the Qingqiu demons’ remains at Dragon Locking Pool.

• Zhong Baiyu concluded that Yan Zehong had destroyed the Demon Seeking Mirror with a clone to evade the Demon Suppression Division’s kill order, then considered the chapter’s plan complete.
• Shen Lin decided that the demon attack on the Demon Slaying Marquis selection was a diversion and flew toward Youzhou City to find the main force.
• Shen Lin met Liu Jing at Dragon Locking Mountain Range and learned that Zhong Baiyu had planned a real battle at the selection grounds to draw Youzhou’s guards away from the city.
• Shen Lin sensed dense Demon Qi coming from black liquid seeping out of the Qingqiu Fox Tribe corpses beside Dragon Locking Pool.
• The black liquid formed Yan Zehong, who saw Shen Lin and was shocked that Shen Lin had apparently discovered his true target.

Shen Lin confronted Yan Zehong at Dragon Locking Pool, where Yan Zehong used their conversation to sabotage the seal on the Black Flood Dragon King. The seal broke, and Gao Shenghan learned that his mother could not teleport to Youzhou without a location anchor.

• Shen Lin recognized Yan Zehong and decided to kill him for contribution points, while Liu Jing realized Yan Zehong was his true body and feared they could not defeat him.
• Yan Zehong saw that Shen Lin had reached the Aperture Opening Realm and praised his talent, then accused him of arrogance for delaying his attack.
• Yan Zehong sent black slime into the ground to destroy the formation nodes, breaking the seal and releasing the Black Flood Dragon King from Dragon Locking Pool.
• At the Gao Household, Gao Shenghan's mother sensed the seal breaking and told him she could not teleport to Youzhou without an anchor.

Shen Lin fought Yan Zehong and the Black Flood Dragon King at Dragon Locking Mountain, quickly overwhelming Yan Zehong before turning his full strength against the Star Realm demon. As the battle continued, Shen Lin’s saber grew stronger and wounded the Black Flood Dragon King, while Yan Zehong watched and hoped they would weaken each other so he could claim a page of the Demon Race Secret Canon.

• Yan Zehong bowed to the Black Flood Dragon King, whose strength had fallen to the Star Realm after centuries of suppression.
• Shen Lin shattered Yan Zehong’s sword attack with one saber stroke and rushed past him toward the Black Flood Dragon King.
• Shen Lin and the Black Flood Dragon King clashed, while Yan Zehong revealed he wanted the page of the Demon Race Secret Canon carried on the dragon’s body.
• Yan Zehong hoped the fighters would badly wound each other, but Shen Lin’s successive saber strikes grew stronger.
• Shen Lin knocked aside the Black Flood Dragon King’s claw, carved a deep wound across its chest, and launched the eighth slash of Divine Thunder Eight Slashes.

Shen Lin killed the Black Flood Dragon King and confronted Yan Zehong over a scale that revealed a mysterious image, but Yan Zehong’s body dissolved after Shen Lin beheaded him. The chapter ended with Qingqiu Wan'er hearing her father’s voice from the black Taisui, asking her to prepare blood essence and snow ginseng for him.

• Shen Lin defeated the Black Flood Dragon King with the eighth slash of the Divine Thunder Eight Slashes and absorbed its remaining lifespan.
• Yan Zehong pried a scale bearing a strange image from the Black Flood Dragon King and said it recorded the truth of the world.
• Yan Zehong gave Shen Lin an incomplete translated technique, then dissolved into black liquid and withered powder after Shen Lin cut off his head.
• Shen Lin told Liu Jing that Yan Zehong had prepared another method and that killing this body had not killed him.
• In Qingqiu Clan territory, Qingqiu Wan'er heard her father’s voice from the black Taisui asking her for Human Race martial artist blood essence and thousand-year-old snow ginseng.

Shen Lin found no treasure in Yan Zehong’s Summoning Ring, but Liu Jing told him he could earn a major reward for completing the missing method of Divine Thunder True Gang of the Nine Heavens. When the supposedly dead Black Flood Dragon King attacked again, Shen Lin was knocked into the Dragon Locking Pool, and he did not resurface.

• Shen Lin found Yan Zehong’s Summoning Ring, but it contained only miscellaneous books and no valuables.
• Liu Jing asked whether Shen Lin had completed the missing cultivation method, then explained that the Demon Suppression Division rewarded people who completed fragmentary arts.
• Liu Jing examined the Black Flood Dragon King’s corpse, which suddenly attacked her, and Shen Lin rushed in to protect her.
• Shen Lin noticed the Black Flood Dragon King fought like a puppet and suspected someone nearby was controlling it.
• The Black Flood Dragon King abruptly grew stronger, struck Shen Lin into the Dragon Locking Pool, then collapsed; Shen Lin did not surface.

Liu Jing searched Dragon Locking Pool after Shen Lin vanished, while Shen Lin was pulled through a golden vortex into a hidden chamber and met a gigantic, chain-bound angel. The angel hinted that Shen Lin could help him escape, then sent a miniature version of himself charging at Shen Lin.

• Liu Jing dove into Dragon Locking Pool to search for Shen Lin, found no trace of him, and headed to Youzhou City to seek help from the Thousand-Household Officer and Zhong Baiyu.
• A strange force dragged Shen Lin to the pool's bottom, where a golden vortex swallowed him and carried him into a dark space.
• Candelabras lit up around Shen Lin, revealing a gigantic, chained angel with bloodied wings.
• The angel explained that he had pulled Shen Lin in and could read his thoughts, though Shen Lin's system blocked his investigation.
• Shen Lin asked why the angel had summoned him, and the angel said there was already a way for him to escape.
• The angel formed a miniature version of himself from golden powder and charged at Shen Lin, who swung Cloud-Rolling Saber at it.

Shen Lin fought a chained angel whose wings absorbed his thunder attacks, and his strongest saber technique failed to overcome the angel’s Radiant Sun. After being injured, Shen Lin unleashed Cloud Roll, setting a hurricane against the angel’s golden power.

• Shen Lin attacked the angel with Gale Finger, but the angel’s wings absorbed the thunder and turned it back against him.
• Shen Lin used Divine Thunder Eight Slashes, staggering the angel with his saber before the angel stopped the final strike with Radiant Sun and blasted Shen Lin away.
• Shen Lin recovered from his internal injuries and faced the angel again, eager for a more challenging fight.
• Shen Lin swung the Cloud-Rolling Saber to conjure a hurricane that battered the angel’s wings and shredded his feathers.
• The angel countered with Radiant Sun as Shen Lin’s Cloud Roll contracted into a thunderstorm, and the two forces collided.

Shen Lin defeated the angel’s split soul with Yun Shu, but learned the angel had several lives and had deliberately drawn him into the prison. The angel then used the Karma Dao Rule, Fortune Swap, to escape his chains and bind Shen Lin in his place.

• Shen Lin vanished into mist and used Yun Shu to wound the angel’s split soul until it exploded into golden powder.
• The enormous angel lost another pair of wings and explained that each pair granted him an additional life, while killing his split soul counted as killing him.
• The angel revealed that he had turned an earlier captive into a puppet and had waited for someone strong enough to kill his split soul.
• The angel invoked the Karma Dao Rule, Fortune Swap, and escaped the chains binding him.
• Shen Lin found himself trapped in the angel’s former position, bound by the chains.

Shen Lin learned that he could escape his prison by cultivating the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art to its first revolution, though doing so would turn him into a member of the Demon Race. Hao Xi explained why he had refused that path and offered to answer Shen Lin’s questions, leaving Shen Lin asking about the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

• Hao Xi revealed that he and Shen Lin had exchanged identities, freeing Hao Xi from the formation that had imprisoned him.
• Shen Lin learned the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art from the writing on his chains, and his system confirmed he could deduce it using lifespan.
• Hao Xi explained that reaching the first revolution would transform Shen Lin into a Demon and let him escape, but estimated that it would take about ten thousand years in the prison.
• Shen Lin laughed at the estimate, confident that his system could make the cultivation take little time.
• Hao Xi explained that he had avoided the transformation because the Demon Race faced widespread hatred and joining it would make him a traitor to the Sacred Feather Clan.
• Shen Lin asked Hao Xi what the Nine Heavens Ten Earths was.

Hao Xi explained how he used the Karma Dao Rule and an incomplete Fortune Swap technique to exchange identities with Shen Lin, leaving Shen Lin imprisoned with Hao Xi’s secret arts and Hao Xi with Shen Lin’s lesser abilities. After Hao Xi escaped Dragon Locking Pool, two powerful figures confronted him over a Dao Xuan Sect treasure and his connection to Wuxiang Temple.

• Hao Xi told Shen Lin that he had used a divided soul, their karmic connection, and his cultivation to swap their identities and much of what belonged to them.
• Shen Lin discovered that Hao Xi’s martial arts and cultivation techniques had appeared on his system panel as question marks because he could not yet understand them.
• Hao Xi told Shen Lin that killing him would restore Shen Lin’s identity and let him keep the exchanged knowledge, then left through a golden vortex.
• Hao Xi emerged from Dragon Locking Pool and used a golden web over his eyes after the full moon briefly revealed a vertical pupil.
• A Dao Xuan Sect figure attacked Hao Xi over a stolen treasure, but a Wuxiang Temple figure intervened and claimed Hao Xi was fated to be connected with the temple.

True Man Jianxuan and Venerable Zhengwu confronted Hao Xi, who was disguised as Shen Lin, over the Grand Xuan Token and Wuxiang Temple’s martial arts. After Hao Xi demonstrated an astonishing command of the temple’s techniques, the group left Dragon Locking Pool, while a hidden old man sensed the aura of the Karma Dao Rule on him.

• True Man Jianxuan and Venerable Zhengwu arrived at Dragon Locking Pool, where Yan Zeyu challenged them for crossing into Youzhou without reporting to the Demon Suppression Division.
• Zhong Baiyu exposed True Man Jianxuan’s lie by contacting Lord Li, and Jianxuan left after Lord Li ordered him to return and explain himself.
• Venerable Zhengwu admitted he had come to investigate why Shen Lin could use Wuxiang Temple’s Golden Bell Shield, and Hao Xi demonstrated that technique along with the temple’s other supreme arts and lost secret arts.
• Hao Xi claimed he could create martial arts of that level himself, while Zhong Baiyu noticed something strange and disdainful in his gaze.
• Liu Jing told Yan Zeyu and Zhong Baiyu about the suspected mastermind and the hidden passage, and Hao Xi said the passage had collapsed after he searched it.
• After the group departed, Liu Hong and an old man emerged from a tree, and the old man murmured that he sensed the stinking bird’s Karma Dao Rule aura.

Shen Lin discovered that the Heavenly Silkworms had remained in his body after Hao Xi took his possessions, so he made them his life-bound Gu insects and used them to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art. His deductions revealed that the art opened all thirteen meridians and led him to speculate that the Great Wei people’s meridians had been blocked by generations of living in a place lacking spiritual energy.

• Shen Lin found that Hao Xi had taken his clothes, saber, Summoning Ring, cultivation arts, and martial techniques, but left the Heavenly Silkworms in his Thirteenth Meridian.
• The system taught Shen Lin Heavenly Silkworm Transformation, and he deduced it until the Heavenly Silkworms acknowledged him as their master and became his life-bound Gu insects.
• Shen Lin waited three days to ensure Hao Xi had left, then began deducing the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art through the Heavenly Silkworm’s body using three thousand years of Demon Lifespan.
• Shen Lin’s deduction showed the Heavenly Silkworm reaching the Innate Realm after opening all thirteen meridians and then cultivating by condensing Blood Qi Power.
• Shen Lin speculated that people in the Nine Heavens Ten Earths had naturally clear meridians, while generations of the Human Race in Great Wei living amid scarce spiritual energy had caused their meridians, including the Thirteenth Meridian, to become blocked.

Shen Lin used the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art to cultivate his Silkworm Body to the peak of the Aperture Opening Realm, but the technique repeatedly dispersed his Blood Qi Power to temper his body instead of letting him advance. After spending ten thousand years of Demon Lifespan, he remained unable to break through, though his physical strength had grown immensely.

• The system deduced that Shen Lin reached the Aperture Opening Realm after opening all 180 apertures with the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art.
• Shen Lin began filling his apertures with Blood Qi Power and reached the peak of the Aperture Opening Realm in about two thousand years.
• The technique dispersed his Blood Qi Power to temper his body, forcing Shen Lin to refill his apertures and undergo a second tempering.
• Shen Lin spent another four thousand years of Demon Lifespan as the technique repeatedly reset his cultivation and strengthened his body nine more times.
• After ten thousand years, Shen Lin still had not broken through the Aperture Opening Realm, but his physical strength had become immense.