Chapter Summaries

The Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan elders reached the Divine Kingdom’s entrance and discovered signs that a Dharma Aspect Realm expert had destroyed its Ice Giant guards. As they entered to investigate, the Great Elder revealed that their grandfather sought more than release from prison, and a distant voice asked what the price would be.

• The Great Elder, Second Elder, and Fourth Elder found the Divine Kingdom’s Bronze Gate open and realized its Ice Giant guards had been reduced to crushed ice.
• The Great Elder sent the clan members to wait outside while the three elders entered the Divine Kingdom.
• The Great Elder confirmed that the clan had secretly sent its most talented members across the Myriad Demon Kingdom and prepared cultivation resources.
• The Great Elder told the Second Elder and Fourth Elder that five Primal Chaos Realm sacrifices would release their grandfather, who also intended to advance beyond the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• The Great Elder said the Divine Kingdom’s ruler could help their grandfather reach the Spirit Nurturing Realm while evading Candle Dragon’s surveillance.
• A distant voice asked what the price would be, freezing the Great Elder in place.

The Great Elder revealed that the Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan might need to sacrifice its members to help their grandfather reach the Spirit Nurturing Realm. When bells rang through the underground city, the Divine Kingdom Priest and the wolf elders fled indoors, and Ji Zhanxie’s group followed as the tunnel sealed shut.

• The Second Elder questioned the cost of the Divine Kingdom’s help, and the Great Elder implied that he might also have to become a sacrifice.
• A rumble led the wolf elders through a tunnel to an underground city, where Ji Zhanxie and the Demon Slaying Marquis fought the Divine Kingdom Priest and his black-robed followers.
• Ji Zhanxie explained that his group had come searching for the Mad Shark Demon Emperor, while the Priest claimed that no Human Race lived in the Divine Kingdom.
• Deep bells rang from the city, prompting the Priest and the Howling Moon Sky Wolf elders to rush into buildings and the tunnel.
• The tunnel sealed shut, so Ji Zhanxie led his companions into the city and took shelter in a room.

The Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan’s three elders agreed to sacrifice their grandfather and the clan to gain Dharma Aspect Realm power for themselves. When they emerged, they found their clan members and the Mystic Fiend Tiger Emperor frozen as corpses, and a black-clad young man confronted them.

• The Fourth Elder questioned whether the brothers should risk opposing Ji Zhanxie and sacrifice the clan, but the Great Elder insisted the divine kingdom could enable a breakthrough to the Spirit Nurturing Realm.
• The Great Elder revealed he planned to sacrifice their grandfather and the entire Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan so all four brothers could become Dharma Aspect Realm experts.
• The Fourth Elder embraced the plan, and the Second Elder urged them to pacify the clan before anyone died and reduced the number of sacrifices.
• The three elders reached the Bronze Gate and discovered more than four thousand clan members and the Mystic Fiend Tiger Emperor frozen across the ground.
• A black-clad young man jumped down from the Mystic Fiend Tiger Emperor’s ice sculpture, and the Great Elder erupted with fury as the Fourth Elder charged him.

Shen Lin confronted the Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan elders after slaughtering their clansmen and the Mystic Fiend Tiger Emperor. He revealed that he was in the Primal Chaos Realm and countered the elders’ combined moonlight attack with his flame saber, leaving the Great Elder astonished.

• Shen Lin arrived after killing more than four thousand Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan members and slaying the Mystic Fiend Tiger Emperor.
• The Great Elder stopped the Fourth Elder from rushing at Shen Lin, while Zhao Yudong and Zhao Yuliang watched in shock.
• Shen Lin struck at the three wolf elders with a thunder saber, and the Great Elder realized he was in the Primal Chaos Realm.
• The three elders surrounded Shen Lin and unleashed their Three Stars Swallow the Moon technique, forming a wolf-shaped attack with a trace of Dharma Aspect might.
• Shen Lin swung his flame saber and met the attack without being weakened by its pressure, astonishing the Great Elder.

Shen Lin overwhelmed the three Howling Moon Sky Wolf elders, but the Great Elder killed his two brothers to survive and swallowed their hearts. After absorbing the brothers’ Demon Lifespan, Shen Lin battled the Great Elder, who used Moon Devour to consume his attacks before fleeing through the Bronze Gate.

• Shen Lin resisted the wolves’ soul technique and fought off the three elders’ coordinated attacks.
• Shen Lin unleashed two Heaven-grade martial arts, prompting the wolves to gather and brace for his strike.
• The Great Elder stabbed the Second Elder and Fourth Elder through their chests, but Shen Lin cut off their heads and absorbed their remaining Demon Lifespan.
• The Great Elder swallowed his brothers’ hearts and survived Shen Lin’s flames and lightning by unleashing Moon Devour.
• The Great Elder fled through the Bronze Gate after swallowing Shen Lin’s attacks.

Shen Lin followed the Great Elder into a sealed city, where he found an ancient tavern and began serving its strange visitors wine. The chapter ended when a furious fat man arrived and claimed the wine as his own.

• The Great Elder lured Shen Lin into the city before fleeing deeper inside, and a pale barrier sealed the tunnel behind them.
• Shen Lin explored the silent gray city and entered a tavern, where he found a jar of extraordinary wine.
• A tall man entered the tavern and asked Shen Lin for a bowl of wine, then sat drinking in silence.
• A tiger-headed Demon Race member and more than a dozen other Human Race and Demon Race visitors arrived and quietly drank the wine.
• A fat mustached man entered, saw Shen Lin serving the wine, and shouted that it was his.

Shen Lin discovered that the tavern’s patrons belonged to the Ghost Soul Race and learned that the city was ruled by a Pureblood Ghost Soul Race member. He revealed he could speak their language, then used Pure Yang Spiritual Flame to kill Old Jin and absorb his remaining lifespan.

• Old Jin mocked Shen Lin and urged the tavern patrons to surround him as food for their drinks.
• Shen Lin spoke the Ghost Soul Race’s language and recognized the patrons as transformed members of that race.
• The hunter-dressed man transformed, and the others followed, confident that Shen Lin’s Primal Chaos Realm attacks could not harm their incorporeal forms.
• Shen Lin used a symbol drawn with wine to seize Old Jin’s ghost-soul form and burn him with Pure Yang Spiritual Flame.
• Old Jin died, and Shen Lin absorbed his remaining 1,300 years of lifespan.

Shen Lin trapped and subdued the Wraiths in the gray city while demanding to know where the Pureblood Ghost Soul Race member was. Elsewhere, the High Priest ordered preparations to capture the intruders, and Yun Li's group restrained a Wraith they had found inside a house.

• Shen Lin killed Old Jin, sealed the exits with talismans, and demanded that the Wraiths reveal the Pureblood Ghost Soul Race member's location.
• The Great Elder of the Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan hid in a mortuary and wrongly believed Shen Lin had died, while waiting for the dead souls to return to their secret place.
• The High Priest received a Jade Slip from the Divine Abyss and ordered everyone to prepare to capture the intruders alive.
• Yun Li's group encountered a Wraith inside a house, and Ji Zhanxie helped restrain it after their attacks proved ineffective.
• The restrained Wraith grew a face from its gray body and accused Yun Li of being an intruder.

Ji Zhanxie’s squad interrogated a captured Wraith and learned about the Wraith Clan and its city, but an emergency summons brought the Enforcement Team to their door. The Wraith secretly called for the Four Divine Envoys to rescue him, so Ji Zhanxie ordered him to move the squad somewhere safe.

• Lin Xiaoyu admitted that even the Heavenly Machine Tower had no information about the Wraith Clan, while Ji Zhanxie used Soul Power to subdue the captive.
• Ji Zhanxie questioned the Wraith, who revealed details about the city and said no other Wraiths lived nearby.
• A shrill whistle summoned the Wraith Clan, and the captive warned that the Enforcement Team would investigate his absence.
• When the Enforcement Team called from outside, the Wraith told them he was recovering from cultivation injuries, then secretly asked them to bring the Four Divine Envoys through the underground passages.
• Ji Zhanxie ordered the Wraith to take his squad to another safe place.

Ji Zhanxie and his team discovered that the Wraith guiding them was Song Zhijun, a former commander of the Demon Suppression Division who had joined the Wraith Clan to escape death. As Song Zhijun trapped them and ordered an attack, Shen Lin broke through the Wraiths and confronted him.

• Ji Zhanxie and the others suspected the outsider causing chaos in the city was the Mad Shark Demon Emperor, and Yun Li and Shen Xinlan urged Ji Zhanxie to investigate without them.
• The Wraith revealed that he had once been a human member of the Demon Suppression Division named Song Zhijun, prompting Ji Zhanxie to attack him.
• Two powerful Wraiths appeared, freed Song Zhijun from Ji Zhanxie's restraints, and called him Commander.
• Song Zhijun ordered the Wraiths to kill Ji Zhanxie and his team, while Ji Zhanxie tried to escape through the exploding stone house.
• Song Zhijun explained that he had joined the Wraith Clan to gain a lifespan of over ten thousand years, but Shen Lin appeared and destroyed the Wraiths blocking the team's escape.

Shen Lin rescued Ji Zhanxie and his team from the Wraith Clan in Ghost City, then refused Song Zhijun’s offer to join them. The confrontation remained unresolved as Song Zhijun reacted to Shen Lin’s insult.

• Shen Lin used his saber to kill the Wraith Clan members surrounding Ji Zhanxie and his team, allowing them to regroup with him.
• Yun Li and Lin Xiaoyu questioned Shen Lin about how he could harm the wraiths, and Shen Lin claimed he had learned the method from an ancient book.
• Ji Zhanxie asked whether the method could be shared, but Shen Lin said it required a special talisman and Buddhist golden light, concealing that he could have helped them use it.
• Song Zhijun realized Shen Lin’s method could not easily be shared and offered to recommend him for transformation into a Wraith Clan member.
• Shen Lin insulted Song Zhijun as a mixed-blood Wraith Clan member, leaving Song Zhijun’s expression stiff.

Shen Lin slaughtered the Wraiths with his rune-enhanced Taowu Saber until Song Zhijun found a way to erase the rune with water mist. As ten Primal Chaos Realm Wraiths closed in, Shen Lin revealed the Exorcism Divine Thunder and brought down a storm of lightning.

• Song Zhijun ordered the Wraiths to attack Shen Lin while he held back and watched.
• Shen Lin used the rune-enhanced Taowu Saber to burn through wave after wave of Wraiths, frightening them into retreat.
• Song Zhijun crushed ten black beads, summoned ten Primal Chaos Realm demonic beast Wraiths, and sent them toward Shen Lin.
• A hippopotamus-shaped Wraith spread water mist that bypassed spiritual defenses and blurred the rune on Shen Lin's saber.
• Ji Zhanxie tried to flee with Shen Lin, but Shen Lin summoned the Exorcism Divine Thunder, making the Wraiths tremble as lightning crashed down.

Shen Lin destroyed the Wraith Clan’s strongest demon-beast fighters with Exorcism Divine Thunder, then revealed he had prepared a second thunder technique despite his dwindling spiritual power. His thunder tornado slaughtered the charging Ghost Clan, while Song Zhijun and two Hunyuan Realm members fled into the city.

• Shen Lin killed ten demon-beast Wraith Clan members with Exorcism Divine Thunder, and Ji Zhanxie noticed how much spiritual power the attack had consumed.
• Song Zhijun urged the remaining Wraith Clan members to attack Shen Lin before he could recover.
• Shen Lin inscribed a talisman on the Taowu Saber and used a saber strike to unleash a Heaven-grade thunder technique.
• A thunder tornado descended and tore apart the charging Ghost Clan members as they tried to flee its suction.
• Song Zhijun slipped away, and two Hunyuan Realm Ghost Clan members broke free and ran deeper into the city.

After Shen Lin wiped out most of the Wraith Clan in the city, he discovered he had gained an enormous reserve of demon lifespan. Ji Zhanxie restored Shen Lin’s spiritual power with an Immortal Dew Pill, and Shen Lin insisted they continue investigating, confident he could face even a Dharma Aspect Realm Wraith.

• Shen Lin lamented that some powerful Wraith Clan members had escaped, then saw his demon lifespan had risen to 273,800 years.
• Ji Zhanxie gave Shen Lin a Heaven-grade Immortal Dew Pill and forced him to take it so he could recover his spiritual power.
• Shen Lin absorbed the pill’s medicinal power in less than ten breaths, restoring only half his spiritual power and astonishing Ji Zhanxie.
• Ji Zhanxie suggested they leave the city in case the Wraith Clan had a Dharma Aspect Realm member among them.
• Shen Lin rejected the idea of retreating and told Ji Zhanxie he would handle any Dharma Aspect Realm Wraith.

Shen Lin and Ji Zhanxie pursued Song Zhijun and the Wraith Clan leaders to a ritual site in the city. At the same time, the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor met the Ice Spider Demon Emperor, who exposed his disguise and summoned a huge golden rat to confront Shen Lin.

• Shen Lin decided to pursue the fleeing Wraith Clan instead of immediately deducing the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art, and Ji Zhanxie agreed.
• Shen Xinlan used her tracking ability to lead Shen Lin and the others to a plaza where Song Zhijun and a crowd of powerful Wraith Clan members gathered around an altar and a deep hole.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor saw through the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor’s disguise, and he transformed back into his true form.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor revealed that she had become a member of the Wraith Clan, then received Song Zhijun’s warning that invaders had entered the Divine Kingdom.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor showed the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor Shen Lin and the others in an ice mirror, then summoned a huge golden rat from the hole to block Shen Lin’s path.

The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor recognized Sha Guowang, his former companion in the search for the Heaven Burning Venerable, and learned that Sha Guowang had become a Spirit Nurturing Realm wraith. Sha Guowang captured Shen Lin and the others, leaving Shen Lin trapped in an icy enclosure with Ji Zhanxie explaining that two hours had passed.

• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor recognized Sha Guowang as a Treasure Seeking Rat and recalled that they had once searched together for the Heaven Burning Venerable's treasure.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor explained that Sha Guowang had sought the Netherfrost Pearl three thousand years after the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor's death and had later been transformed by a Wraith Clan expert.
• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor realized Sha Guowang had reached the Spirit Nurturing Realm, and the Ice Spider Demon Emperor instructed him to spare the humans.
• Ji Zhanxie pulled Shen Lin away from Sha Guowang, but Sha Guowang used a black vortex to drag them and the others back and swallow them.
• Shen Lin found himself trapped inside an icy enclosure where his spiritual power had frozen, and Ji Zhanxie told him that two hours had passed since they were captured.

Shen Lin and Ji Zhanxie found themselves imprisoned in walls of ancient ice that suppressed spiritual energy, while a Demon Race prisoner explained that escape seemed impossible. Ji Zhanxie’s plan to call Gao Yichen for help failed when they learned Gao had also been captured, and the prison walls were made from the Lightless Profound Ice Marrow he had sought.

• A Demon Race prisoner explained that the ice prison froze prisoners’ thoughts and that its ancient walls suppressed spiritual energy and could not be broken.
• Shen Lin used his Heavenly Demon Body to try to tear through the ice wall, but his strength failed to crack it.
• Ji Zhanxie took out a Conjoined Mussel artifact and tried to contact Gao Yichen so he could relay a request for help to Great Wei.
• Gao Yichen weakly called out from outside the prison, revealing that he had also been captured.
• The Demon Race prisoner said Gao Yichen had found the Lightless Profound Ice Marrow, and Ji Zhanxie realized the prison walls were made from it.

Trapped in an ice prison made from Lightless Profound Ice Marrow, Shen Lin invested all his Demon Lifespans into deducing the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art. He comprehended the Heavenly Fiend Transformation Divine Ability and another hidden Dao Principle Secret Technique, then began sketching the being concealed in the visualization’s dark clouds.

• Ji Zhanxie realized the ice prison was made from Lightless Profound Ice Marrow and accepted that seeking help from outside was impossible.
• Shen Lin used all his Demon Lifespans to deduce the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art.
• Shen Lin comprehended the Heavenly Fiend Transformation Divine Ability, which let him become a depicted Demon Race member and use its innate divine ability.
• Shen Lin completed the visualization’s dark clouds and mastered an unknown Dao Principle Secret Technique whose mysteries he could not yet understand.
• Shen Lin began sketching the being hidden in the clouds, and his vision connected to a special existence as a magnificent scene unfolded.

Shen Lin viewed the Demon Venerable’s memory of facing a host of Third-Step Venerables and watched him overwhelm their attacks with terrifying physical strength. The vision ended before the battle’s final clash, while the system revealed Shen Lin had reached the Dharma Aspect Realm and stalled in deducing the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art’s fourth revolution.

• Shen Lin witnessed the Demon Venerable confront marine armies and dozens of Third-Step cultivators, including Azure Lotus Sword Venerable and a golden Buddha.
• The Demon Venerable rejected the sacred-land clans’ accusations and proposed uniting all races under the Demon Race’s cultivation methods.
• Azure Lotus Sword Venerable attacked, but the Demon Venerable shattered his sword shadows with a single punch.
• The Demon Venerable rode a black dragon into battle and tore apart a phoenix, battered a qilin, and smashed a giant crab.
• The golden Buddha and Azure Lotus Sword Venerable began forming an array, but the vision blurred before Shen Lin could see the clash of Great Daos.
• The system reported that Shen Lin had reached the Dharma Aspect Realm, while his attempts to deduce the fourth revolution stalled for lack of Windblood Flame.

The lizardfolk ancestor awakened and summoned six Demon Venerables to discuss a new cultivator who had reached the third revolution of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art. He set out to retrieve the junior within a year, while the lizardfolk continent rose on the back of a giant turtle and began moving.

• The lizardfolk ancestor emerged from his statue, ignoring the terrified priests who begged him to keep sleeping.
• The ancestor lit seven candles in a hidden chamber and met with six illusory Demon Venerables.
• The ancestor revealed that someone had cultivated the third revolution of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art and decided to shelter the newcomer.
• The ancestor ordered the six Demon Venerables to divert their enemies’ attention while he traveled to retrieve the junior, estimating that the journey would take a year.
• The ancestor’s strange sounds split the land and buried the lizardfolk kingdoms as the continent rose onto the shell of a giant turtle.
• The ancestor told the giant turtle to go, and it began traveling in a certain direction.