Chapter Summaries

Shen Lin surveyed Fire Ant City's defensive formation while Liao Wu followed him, first discovering that his favorite roasted meat was spoiled and then learning the cost of fresh meat. Shen Lin entered a pleasure pavilion, where Liao Wu watched him embrace demon women as his next move remained unclear.

• Shen Lin refused the vendor's roasted meat, and Liao Wu learned that it was stale and disease-tainted when a maggot crawled out of fresh meat he had bought.
• Liao Wu destroyed the vendor's stall, then followed Shen Lin as he explored the city and surveyed the defensive formation's nodes.
• Shen Lin confirmed that the formation core lay inside the City Lord's Manor and considered how to lose Liao Wu, who continued tailing him.
• Liao Wu discovered that fresh human-and-beast meat cost ten thousand Spirit Crystals for the selection he wanted and sent his subordinate to buy it on credit.
• Shen Lin entered a pleasure pavilion, and Liao Wu watched him embrace demon women of several races.

Shen Lin infiltrated Fire Ant City’s lord’s residence to tamper with its protective formation, but he discovered a teleportation array bringing Yan Zehong and a group of ten into the underground chambers. The chapter left Shen Lin observing Yan Zehong meet with Liao Banshan.

• Liao Wu spied on Shen Lin, then abandoned his suspicions when his subordinate delivered a captive Human Race girl and a box containing her tongue.
• Shen Lin used an illusion array to distract Liao Wu and the demonesses before sneaking into the lord’s residence.
• Shen Lin concealed himself from the guards and located the formation core beneath a stone sculpture, but avoided entering the chamber where Primal Chaos Realm demons were gathered.
• Shen Lin transformed into a Dark Star Insect and flew through a crack beneath the sculpture into an underground cultivation complex.
• Shen Lin investigated a teleportation array and watched Yan Zehong arrive with ten people and greet Liao Banshan.

Yan Zehong arranged for the Myriad Demon Kingdom to strike at Great Wei's imperial capital while Demon Emperor Mo Yuan held the central army in place, and Shen Lin altered Fire Ant City's formation to destroy its demons at dawn. After Shen Lin killed Liao Wu for torturing a human girl, powerful demons sensed the death and gathered at the City Lord's Manor, leaving Shen Lin ready to fight.

• Yan Zehong convinced Demon Emperor Mo Yuan to launch a counteroffensive through Great Wei's undefended north and demanded resources from Liao Banshan to gather more forces in Fire Ant City.
• Liao Banshan reluctantly agreed to provide resources for ten additional Primal Chaos Realm demons as Shen Lin watched and planned to strengthen the city's formation.
• Shen Lin modified the iron tree's formation patterns so the rising sun would power an attack that burned everything within Fire Ant City at dawn.
• Shen Lin found Liao Wu roasting a human girl's leg and initially left to preserve his plan to kill the demons and save more people later.
• Shen Lin returned and crushed Liao Wu's skull just as Liao Wu reached for the girl's eyes.
• Demons at the City Lord's Manor sensed Liao Wu's death, and Shen Lin prepared to fight them.

Shen Lin confronted Liao Banshan after Liao Wu’s death triggered the Fire Ant Tribe’s alarm, while Yan Zehong and his newly arrived Primal Chaos Realm forces came to investigate. When Yan Zehong recognized Shen Lin as a Human Race attacker, he ordered the city’s defenses mobilized.

• Ten more Primal Chaos Realm Demons arrived in Fire Ant City, and Yan Zehong noticed a troubling change when they appeared.
• Liao Banshan discovered that Liao Wu’s Life Candle had gone out and took up Liao Qianhen’s blade, which let him wield Dharma Aspect Realm power.
• Shen Lin gave a Human Race girl medicine, promised to rescue the imprisoned Humans, and went to face the Fire Ant Tribe.
• Liao Banshan attacked Shen Lin, but Shen Lin effortlessly repelled him and revealed that he was a Dharma Aspect Realm opponent.
• Liao Banshan sent an elder to activate the city’s defensive formation, and Yan Zehong recognized Shen Lin and warned that the Human Race had attacked.

Shen Lin stormed Fire Ant City, killed Liao Banshan twice, and fought the white-haired man while Yan Zehong watched. After his giant form crushed human remains among the city’s ruins, Shen Lin reverted to his Heavenly Demon Body, while a humanoid sculpture in a strange temple began to lose some of its blackness.

• Yan Zehong recognized Shen Lin as his longtime nemesis, and the white-haired man realized the Human Race might have attacked as Fire Ant City’s protective formation activated.
• Shen Lin casually shattered Liao Banshan’s attack and stomped him into the ground, but Liao Qianhen’s consciousness took over the ant’s body.
• Shen Lin transformed into a One-Eyed Giant and stomped Liao Qianhen to pieces, then his gaze began turning Yan Zehong’s body to stone before Yan Zehong regenerated his hands.
• The white-haired man carried Yan Zehong away from Shen Lin’s next stomp, and Shen Lin razed part of Fire Ant City while pursuing them.
• Shen Lin noticed human remains in the ruins, ended his transformation, and stared blankly at his hands as a humanoid sculpture in a strange temple shed some of its blackness.

Heavenly Demon tried to break the Human Emperor’s resolve by revealing that ten million years had passed and humanity had fallen, but the Human Emperor rejected his claims and refused to submit. After Heavenly Demon left, the Human Emperor worried that Shen Lin might be corrupted by the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art.

• Heavenly Demon told the imprisoned Human Emperor that ten million years had passed outside the ruined Dream Creek temple, where the Time Dao Principles remained incomplete.
• Heavenly Demon restored the Human Emperor’s ability to sense the Dao Principles, and the Human Emperor confirmed that the Time Dao Principles existed only as a tiny fragment.
• Heavenly Demon claimed that humanity had become Demon Race livestock and that the Chaos Sea belonged to the demons, causing the Human Emperor to briefly question whether his resistance had harmed humanity.
• The Human Emperor recalled humanity’s history of surviving oppression and argued that neither the demons nor Heavenly Demon could have subdued the entire race, prompting Heavenly Demon to leave in anger.
• The Human Emperor studied the sculpture of a human who had cultivated the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art and worried that Shen Lin’s mind and soul might be transformed into those of the Demon Race.

Shen Lin recognized that his reliance on the Heavenly Demon Body was changing his mindset, but he fought Demon Emperor Mo Qiu when the demon revealed himself in Fire Ant City. Shen Lin gained the upper hand, and Yan Zehong ended the chapter by throwing Mo Qiu a mysterious black sword.

• Shen Lin realized that his dependence on the Heavenly Demon Body was beginning to distort his priorities, even as humans remained imprisoned in Fire Ant City.
• Yan Zehong's scouts reported that Shen Lin had attacked alone, and Mo Qiu revealed himself as Demon Emperor Mo Yuan's younger blood brother, now a late-stage Dharma Aspect Realm expert.
• Shen Lin charged the Primal Chaos Realm demons, but Mo Qiu—who had been disguised among them—intercepted his punch and revealed his true body.
• Shen Lin used his Dharma Aspect to counter Mo Qiu's black dragon attacks, endured a tail strike, and hurled the dragon into Fire Ant City's wall before battering Mo Qiu with relentless punches.
• Yan Zehong pulled out a pitch-black sword and threw it toward Mo Qiu, shouting for him to catch it.

Demon Emperor Mo Qiu used the World Ending Sword to break Shen Lin’s suppression and tried to make him submit to the Myriad Demon Kingdom. As Mo Qiu swung the sword, Shen Lin recited an obscure phrase, and the sword vanished from Mo Qiu’s hand to obediently circle Shen Lin.

• Yan Zehong threw the World Ending Sword to Mo Qiu, who damaged his Dharma Aspect to escape Shen Lin’s suppression and catch it.
• Mo Qiu revealed the sword’s terrifying killing intent, while Yan Zehong recalled that each World Ending Sword could unleash one devastating strike before breaking.
• Shen Lin recognized a possible connection between the sword and a weapon-refining method he knew, then rejected Mo Qiu’s offer to join the Myriad Demon Kingdom.
• Mo Qiu swung the World Ending Sword at Shen Lin, but Shen Lin recited an obscure phrase and the sword disappeared from Mo Qiu’s hand.
• The World Ending Sword reappeared beside Shen Lin and flew around him ingratiatingly, leaving Mo Qiu stunned.

Shen Lin seized control of the World Ending Sword and forced Demon Emperor Mo Qiu to kneel and beg for forgiveness, though he refused to spare him. He then trapped Mo Qiu in Fire Ant City’s contracting, flame-filled defensive formation and absorbed his remaining lifespan after killing him.

• Shen Lin used knowledge of the World Ending Sword’s forging to take control of it from Demon Emperor Mo Qiu, realizing it had only one strike left.
• Mo Qiu offered supplies and Fire Ant City in exchange for the demons’ lives, but Shen Lin demanded that he kneel, call him Dad, and apologize.
• Mo Qiu obeyed and shouted his apology across Fire Ant City, but Shen Lin said he had only been teasing and would still kill him.
• Shen Lin put away the World Ending Sword, revealed his true form after sunrise, and struck the city-protecting formation with fire-infused spiritual power.
• The formation contracted into a fiery prison around Mo Qiu and his black dragon Dharma Aspect, swallowed him in flames, and Shen Lin absorbed his remaining lifespan.

Shen Lin used Fire Ant City’s protective formation to kill Demon Emperor Mo Qiu, then hunted the fleeing demons while Yan Zehong escaped by using a clone. At the central battlefield, Demon Emperor Mo Yuan learned Fire Ant City had fallen and ordered his army to attack Great Wei’s central force in three days.

• Shen Lin used the city-protecting formation to kill Mo Qiu, then pursued the fleeing Demon Race members after they scattered from Fire Ant City.
• Shen Lin crushed Yan Zehong and the demons fleeing with him, but realized Yan Zehong had survived through a clone.
• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan learned from a shattered life tablet that Yan Zehong had apparently died.
• A surviving Black Dragon Guard reported that Fire Ant City had fallen, Mo Qiu and Yan Zehong were dead, and a Human Race Dharma Aspect Realm expert was pursuing them before the communication cut off.
• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan ordered the demon army to rest for three days and then attack Great Wei’s central army.

After destroying Fire Ant City, Shen Lin worried over the humans harmed in the battle and sent the survivors to wait for rescue. A Demon Suppression Division team arrived too late and learned that Shen Lin had already annihilated the city.

• Shen Lin found that the survivors had yielded him more than fifty million years of Demon Lifespan, but he decided to address the effects of his Heavenly Demon Body before using it to advance his cultivation.
• The rescued girl thanked Shen Lin, and he struggled with guilt over the humans who had died during his rampage.
• The girl told Shen Lin that the long-tortured captives had wanted to be freed from their suffering, and Shen Lin vowed that the Demons' cruelty had to end.
• Shen Lin told the surviving humans to await the Great Wei Demon Suppression Division and then flew away from Fire Ant City.
• Qin Kai led Team A toward Fire Ant City, worried that Shen Lin might rush in and attack the Demons.
• Qin Kai captured two Demons and learned that Shen Lin had already fought into Fire Ant City and annihilated it.

Qin Kai and the Demon Slaying Marquises investigated reports that Shen Lin was a Demon Race spy and found Fire Ant City reduced to ruins. They met the humans Shen Lin had rescued, but his whereabouts and true identity remained uncertain.

• Yun Li rejected the captured Demon Race member’s claim that Shen Lin was a spy, while the prisoner described Shen Lin destroying Fire Ant City and killing Demon Emperor Mo Qiu.
• Qin Kai led the team toward Fire Ant City, where they saw its ruins and vast palmprints that confirmed the prisoner’s account.
• Yang Li suggested the slaughter pointed to Shen Lin being a Demon Race spy, but Qin Kai rebuked her and said the devastation was part of war.
• The team found about three hundred rescued humans, and Qin Kai apologized for arriving late.
• A girl said Shen Lin had predicted the Demon Suppression Division would come, and an unseen speaker asked whether the lord she meant was human or a powerful, pitch-black monster.

Qin Kai investigated reports of Shen Lin’s attacks and weighed conflicting claims about whether Shen Lin was Human or Demon. At Qingyun Marsh, the survivors’ accounts matched a powerful Human martial artist, but Yang Li continued to doubt them.

• Yang Li threatened the survivors and clashed with Yun Li until Qin Kai suppressed them and forced Yang Li to back down.
• The survivors insisted Shen Lin was Human, while a captured Demon claimed he was a terrifying Demon; Qin Kai suspected someone had loosened the Demon’s seal.
• After hearing a survivor describe how Demon children had tortured him, Qin Kai sent the survivors away and led his squad toward Qingyun Marsh to find Shen Lin.
• Qin Kai and his squad found Qingyun Marsh burned dry and its market reduced to ruins, where Humans described Shen Lin rescuing them and defeating the Demons with flame and thunder.
• Qin Kai concluded the captured Demon had lied to divide them and ordered him killed, while Yang Li still suggested Shen Lin might have hidden his Demonic techniques.

Qin Kai learned that Shen Lin had captured Fire Ant City alone and followed his trail, while Prime Minister Zhang ordered the Demon Slaying Marquises to attack smaller demon settlements and rescue captives. Realizing Shen Lin was heading toward the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s capital, Prime Minister Zhang contacted the Imperial Uncle, whose northern army had reached the central battlefield and launched an attack on Demon Emperor Mo Yuan’s forces.

• Qin Kai told Prime Minister Zhang that Shen Lin had captured Fire Ant City alone and that the remaining group had been pursuing him.
• Yang Li warned Prime Minister Zhang that Shen Lin’s murderous intent made him seem like a demon spy, but Prime Minister Zhang dismissed the concern and ordered Qin Kai to attack small demon settlements and rescue Human Race captives.
• Prime Minister Zhang studied Shen Lin’s route, realized he was advancing toward the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s capital, and worried that he might trigger the kingdom’s hidden means of victory.
• The Imperial Uncle told Prime Minister Zhang that Shen Lin’s formation had helped his northern army cross the mountains quickly, and Prime Minister Zhang urged him to focus on the battle.
• The Imperial Uncle ordered his army to attack Demon Emperor Mo Yuan, while the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s central army faced a pincer attack from Great Wei’s central and northern armies.

Great Wei’s army defeated the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s forces, but Demon Emperor Mo Yuan escaped after leaving behind the Demon Emperor Armor. As Yuwen Fengxian and the others considered pursuing him to the capital, Shen Lin finished destroying the Mountain Lion Clan near the capital and prepared to spend his vast Demon Lifespan on something.

• Yuwen Fengxian broke through the demon ranks and exposed the empty armor Mo Yuan had left in the central command tent.
• The demon generals learned that Mo Yuan had fled, scattered, and were killed as Great Wei routed the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s army.
• Yuwen Fengxian, Imperial Uncle, and Ji Nan discussed advancing on the capital, while Prime Minister Zhang warned them about the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s mysterious weapon and the importance of preserving Yuwen Fengxian for the plan to face Candle Dragon.
• Shen Lin sat among the Mountain Lion Clan’s corpses near the capital, having found no surviving humans there and only a ravine full of human bones.
• Shen Lin turned toward the capital, checked his status, and concluded that his one hundred million years of Demon Lifespan should be enough to accomplish one thing.

Shen Lin used Demon Lifespan to develop his All-Self Aspect and uncover how the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art influenced him. After mastering its first two revolutions, he began another deduction with his remaining Demon Lifespan.

• Shen Lin decided to spend the Demon Lifespan he had saved for Second-Step cultivation on removing the Heavenly Demon Body’s influence.
• Shen Lin deduced the Heaven Burning Sea Boiling Art and shaped a Dharma Aspect based on himself, which he named the All-Self Aspect.
• Shen Lin began studying the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art so he could make it part of his All-Self Aspect rather than remain influenced by it.
• Shen Lin discovered connections from the Heavenly Silkworm and his Dharma Aspect to outside forces, and suspected the latter link led to the Heavenly Demon.
• Shen Lin mastered the first two revolutions of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art after ten million years of deduction, then spent his remaining nine thousand years to begin again.

Shen Lin mastered the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art, completed his All-Self Aspect, and broke free of the Heavenly Demon's influence. As he prepared to confront the Myriad Demon Kingdom and pursue Candle Dragon, the Heavenly Demon discovered Shen Lin's escape and ordered the Demon Venerables to capture him alive.

• Shen Lin spent nearly a hundred million years in deduction mastering the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art, refining the Heavenly Silkworm, and completing his All-Self Aspect.
• Shen Lin integrated Lightning Power and part of the Sea Burning Flame into his Dharma Aspect, then tempered his divine soul until he reached the limit before advancing further.
• Shen Lin returned to consciousness, found that the black line and the Heavenly Demon's influence had vanished, and prepared to eliminate the remaining demons of the Myriad Demon Kingdom before pursuing Candle Dragon.
• The Heavenly Demon noticed that one of his sculptures in Mengxi Daoist Temple had turned white and disappeared, while the imprisoned Human Emperor recognized that a Human Race descendant had broken the Heavenly Demon's scheme.
• The Heavenly Demon realized Shen Lin had escaped control despite forming a Demon Cloud Aspect, then ordered all Demon Venerables to find him and bring him back alive.

Yan Zehong infiltrated the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s royal treasure vault disguised as Demon Emperor Mo Qiu, searching for records about how demons had once left the continent. He found the ancient Demon Emperor’s Daily Records and learned from Demon Emperor Mo Yuan that the Earth Dragon Clan had seized the throne in a rebellion; Mo Yuan then said Yan Zehong was qualified to help him accomplish something.

• Yan Zehong used his Taisui clones to revive after his apparent death in Fire Ant City and entered the royal treasure vault disguised as Demon Emperor Mo Qiu.
• Yan Zehong searched the vault for the method by which demons had left the continent without being stopped by Candle Dragon.
• Yan Zehong found an ancient book titled Demon Emperor's Daily Records and read that the Earth Dragon Clan had not always ruled the Demon Race.
• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan appeared behind Yan Zehong and explained that the Earth Dragon Clan's ancestors had rebelled against the original Demon Emperor, triggering a devastating upheaval.
• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan praised Yan Zehong for deciphering the ancient script and declared him qualified to help accomplish something.

Demon Emperor Mo Yuan ordered Yan Zehong to translate a dragon-clan tablet describing how the Demon Race’s true imperial clan could leave the continent. After Yan Zehong finished, Mo Yuan let him take Qingqiu Wan'er away, and they fled the capital just as Shen Lin’s attack was announced.

• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan revealed that the wooden tablet contained the secret method used by the Demon Race’s true imperial clan to leave the continent, and Yan Zehong agreed to translate it.
• Mo Yuan explained that the imperial clan had acted as a referee for the Human Race and Demon Race on behalf of a powerful being that harvested their Dao fortune.
• Mo Yuan told Yan Zehong that Qingqiu Wan'er had been assigned to the city guard and that Shen Lin was approaching, urging him to translate quickly.
• Yan Zehong translated the tablet, and Mo Yuan gave him an identity Jade Token so he could take Qingqiu Wan'er away.
• Yan Zehong found Qingqiu Wan'er on the city wall and hurried with her toward the western gate, fearing Shen Lin could destroy the capital with the World Ending Sword.
• A cry rang above the city announcing that the Human Race was attacking.

Yuwen Fengxian and four Great Wei Dharma Aspect Realm experts arrived at the Myriad Demon Kingdom’s capital, where the city-defense commander prepared the defenses. Yuwen Fengxian struck the capital’s formation and nearly shattered it, but Demon Emperor Mo Yuan appeared and repaired the barrier.

• The city-defense commander activated the capital’s defensive formation and ordered the treasury’s Spirit Crystals distributed among its nodes after receiving a scout report.
• The commander identified Yuwen Fengxian and four Dharma Aspect Realm experts from Great Wei among the five figures approaching the capital.
• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions explained that Gao Yichen had helped him drive the Qingqiu Fox Empress into retreat, and the group continued on to the capital.
• Yuwen Fengxian rejected the idea of waiting for the army and struck the defensive formation with his Myriad Battle Halberd, covering it with cracks.
• Demon Emperor Mo Yuan flew out of the city and used Demon Qi to repair the formation.