Chapter Summaries

Shen Lin entered the Black Scale and discovered it contained a vast independent space with a primitive group of hunters inside. After the hunters brought down a Dharma Aspect Realm Sika Deer, their Fire Lizard Clan leader noticed Shen Lin and flew up to shout at him.

• The Two Forms Holy Land disciples learned that Shen Lin was their new Holy Son, reputed to be under a hundred years old and exceptionally powerful.
• Shen Lin entered the opening in the Black Scale after sensing no danger beyond it.
• Shen Lin found himself on a mountain overlooking an enormous space, then noticed a group of savage hunters pursuing a Sika Deer.
• The hunters' Fire Lizard Clan leader spotted Shen Lin, blocked the deer's escape with a fireball, and flew toward him while shouting.

Shen Lin met a Fire Lizard Clan member in Black Scale and learned that its natives had little knowledge of Dao-law power. Meanwhile, the Sacred Feather Clan discussed the primitive inhabitants and searched for the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable’s treasures, with Hao Ming identifying their deity as a possible key.

• Shen Lin greeted a Fire Lizard Clan member using Dao-law fluctuations, and the member learned to communicate with him.
• The Fire Lizard Clan member invited Shen Lin to his tribe, and Shen Lin accepted so he could question the locals.
• Hao Yuan, Hao Shan, and Hao Ming sensed that Shen Lin had entered Black Scale and discussed its native races.
• Hao Yuan suggested the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable had used the natives to recreate the development of cultivation in the Chaos Sea.
• Hao Ming said the natives’ written records were drawings and that their deity seemed to be important.

Hao Yuan and his companions learned that the Yaksa Clan’s worship of a deity centered on the power of the Dao, though the deity’s origin remained unclear. After Hao Yuan demonstrated how to use flame power to cook tough beast meat, Hao Ming began guiding the tribe’s chieftain, Great Strength King, as visions appeared in the air.

• Hao Ming explained that the Yaksa Clan’s Divine Power was a way of using the power of the Dao, and that only devout clansmen could sense it.
• Hao Yuan refused Hao Shan’s suggestion to interrogate the tribesmen, saying they should learn about the deity through trust instead.
• Great Strength King entered the tent, saw the beast meat roasting over the fire, and asked how Hao Yuan had cooked it.
• Hao Yuan offered to teach Great Strength King how to use Divine Power, and the chieftain gratefully knelt before him.
• Hao Ming told Great Strength King to focus on the deity, touched his forehead, and sent golden light into him as scenes appeared in the air.

Hao Yuan and his companions used the Sacred Feather Clan’s technique to draw information about the gods from Great Strength King’s memories. They discovered that the natives’ souls and bodies were reborn into unrelated clans, and the chapter left them staring at a divine temple shaped like a gigantic black dragon’s head.

• Hao Ming projected Great Strength King’s memories and helped him explain the priest’s words through Dao laws.
• Great Strength King said the gods created the world and reincarnated souls, granting especially faithful people powerful bodies and long lifespans.
• Hao Shan questioned how natives could be born into clans unrelated to their parents, and Hao Yuan realized none of the natives they had seen belonged to the same clan.
• Hao Yuan wondered whether the gods could control reproduction across an area nearly ten thousand li wide.
• Hao Shan pointed out a black, ghostly temple shaped like a gigantic dragon’s head, and Great Strength King identified it as a divine temple left by the gods.

Ling'er was mistaken for the reincarnated goddess of the Long Tail Tribe and agreed to take part in a sacrifice, while Shen Lin learned about the Fire Spirit Tribe at a feast. The chapter ended with Shen Lin finding a naked Spirit Tail Clan girl waiting in his tent.

• After Ling'er revealed her Spirit Tail Clan form, the Long Tail Tribe's Golden Body Clan priest and his people knelt and hailed her as their goddess.
• The priests asked Ling'er to perform a sacrificial ceremony, and she hesitated before agreeing after the Golden Body Clan priest explained that she would only need to follow his instructions.
• Shen Lin accepted the Fire Lizard Clan priest's invitation and attended a grand feast in the Fire Spirit Tribe.
• The drunken Fire Lizard Clan priest revealed information Shen Lin wanted to know during the feast.
• After the banquet, Shen Lin entered the largest tent and found a naked Spirit Tail Clan girl lying on blankets.

The Fire Lizard Priest tried to use the Spirit Tail Clan girl to provoke a clash between Shen Lin and the Long Tail Tribe, but Shen Lin rejected her because of her overpowering smell. The Priest planned to stage a temple rite to make the Long Tail Tribe think Shen Lin had taken their founder’s reincarnation as a slave, while Shen Lin spent the night waiting in vain for another guest.

• The Fire Lizard Priest learned that Shen Lin had sent the Spirit Tail Clan girl away because her smell was too overpowering.
• The Fire Lizard Priest decided to take Shen Lin and the girl to the temple for a rite where Long Tail Tribe guards would see her serving him.
• The Fire Lizard Priest told his subordinate not to send anyone else to Shen Lin’s tent that night.
• Shen Lin waited through the night for another visitor, then gave up and went to sleep.

Shen Lin agreed to accompany the Fire Spirit Tribe on a sacrificial journey to its temple, hoping to learn more about the Heavenly Demon. At the temple on the mountain, he recognized that it was made from the same material as the black rocks formed from the Venerable Realm Black Dragon's body.

• Shen Lin learned that the Fire Spirit Tribe was preparing supplies and slaves as offerings to the gods, and the Fire Lizard Priest asked him to join the ceremony.
• Shen Lin agreed to go, and the Fire Lizard Priest assigned the young Spirit Tail Clan girl to attend to him.
• Shen Lin questioned the Fire Lizard Priest during the two-hour journey and heard that the temple could bring devout believers into contact with the gods.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe carried its supplies up the mountain, and Shen Lin reached the temple with the Fire Lizard Priest.
• Shen Lin recognized that the black temple was made from the same material as the rocks formed from the Venerable Realm Black Dragon's body, which could isolate Dao Principle fluctuations.

Shen Lin and the Sacred Feather Clan prepared to enter the divine temple, which seemed connected to the Heavenly Demon, while both sides concealed their plans from each other. Their meeting was interrupted by the Long Tail Tribe, whose Golden Skin arrived escorting a woman with a tail identical to the Spirit Tail Clan girl beside Shen Lin.

• Shen Lin sensed Baleful Intent in the divine temple and approached Hao Yuan and Hao Shan of the Sacred Feather Clan.
• Hao Yuan and Shen Lin exchanged questions about the strange world while each secretly planned to obtain the other's treasure and eliminate the other later.
• Shen Lin, the Sacred Feather Clan, and the Fire Lizard Priest agreed to enter the divine temple together.
• A giant black bird carrying Long Tail Tribe priests arrived, and the Fire Lizard Priest recognized it as the Golden Skin's personal guard.
• Golden Skin stepped down from the bird and respectfully escorted a woman whose large furry tail exactly matched the Spirit Tail Clan girl's.

The temple’s main gate opened by itself, revealing a powerful aura that Shen Lin recognized. He entered to investigate, followed by the Sacred Feather Clan and the tribespeople, while the Fire Lizard Priest wondered whether the gods had descended in person.

• Golden Skin suspected that Ling'er and the people with her might be Outer Realm Sky Demons after seeing her embrace Senior Brother Hao Ming.
• The temple’s massive main gate opened, and the local tribespeople knelt, believing the gods had noticed their worship.
• Hao Yuan and the others sensed a cultivator’s aura inside the temple, and Shen Lin entered after recognizing it as familiar.
• Ling'er followed Shen Lin inside, prompting Golden Skin and the other Long Tail Tribe priests to pursue them.
• The Fire Lizard Priest also followed, wanting to learn what was happening in the temple.

Shen Lin recognized the temple’s black dragon statue and ceiling relief as the Demon Cloud World-Destroying Diagram from the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art, suggesting the temple held a deeper secret. Meanwhile, Golden Skin attacked Ling’er, but Hao Shan intercepted his punch with his bare strength, leaving Golden Skin stunned.

• Hao Yuan concluded that the apparently empty temple was likely the place they had come to find, while Shen Lin searched for the source of the strange aura.
• Shen Lin illuminated the ceiling and recognized its black-cloud relief and the dragon statue as the Demon Cloud World-Destroying Diagram.
• Golden Skin charged at Ling’er, intending to remove her before she could provoke the divine being.
• Hao Shan blocked Golden Skin’s punch using only his physical strength.
• Golden Skin asked Hao Shan which tribe he belonged to and what Divine Power he had received.

Shen Lin stopped Hao Shan from killing the Golden Skin Priest and used him to reveal a hidden painting on the wall. The painting showed a demonized Golden Body Clan member kneeling toward the black dragon idol, where Hao Yuan spotted a tiny point of light.

• Hao Shan crippled the Golden Skin Priest, but Shen Lin intervened before he could kill him.
• Hao Shan and Hao Yuan confronted Shen Lin, who said the Golden Skin Priest was useful and seized him.
• Shen Lin subdued the Long Tail Tribe priests and carried them with the Golden Skin Priest to a blank wall.
• Shen Lin threw the Golden Skin Priest at the wall, where he melted into it and appeared as a blackened figure in a painting.
• Hao Yuan noticed that the painted figure faced the black dragon idol and spotted a tiny white light on its neck.

Shen Lin realized that the temple murals held the Demon Race locals and that restoring them might unlock the Heavenly Demon’s treasure vault. With Hao Yuan and Hao Shan capturing more locals for him to place in the walls, the black dragon statue’s reverse scale filled with light and began to turn.

• Shen Lin reasoned that the murals preserved clans connected to the Heavenly Demon Transformation Divine Ability and that restoring them could open the treasure vault.
• Shen Lin placed the Long Tail Tribe priests into their matching sections of the wall, turning them back into images as the reverse scale gathered light.
• A Fire Lizard Priest tried to flee, but Hao Yuan knocked him unconscious and handed him to Shen Lin.
• Hao Yuan and Hao Shan captured the guards and locals outside the temple and brought them to Shen Lin.
• Shen Lin placed the last local into the mural, filling the reverse scale with white light and causing it to turn and shoot out a beam.

Shen Lin and the Sacred Feather Clan brothers entered the portal inside the inverse scale and found a vast store of Spirit Nurturing Pearls and intact Dao crystals. Shen Lin realized the true secret of the Heavenly Demon's treasure when he saw a Heavenly Demon seated on a black throne.

• Shen Lin drew the Hatred-Slaying Saber as Hao Yuan and Hao Shan prepared to activate their Blood Wings, turning their alliance into a standoff.
• A voice from the portal urged them to come in, and Shen Lin sensed that the being inside posed a greater threat than the brothers.
• Shen Lin and the brothers agreed to enter the portal together, while Hao Yuan told Hao Ming to wait outside and contact the Bright Moon Cauldron if trouble arose.
• The three entered a bright hall filled with hundreds of billions of Spirit Nurturing Pearls and a hill of intact Dao crystals.
• Shen Lin saw a demonic figure seated on a black throne and realized that the Heavenly Demon's treasure might be the Heavenly Demon himself.

Shen Lin and the Hao brothers discovered the Heavenly Demon inside the Black Scale and learned that the figure was his remnant soul, while the being mistaken for him outside was the Heavenly Demon’s black dragon mount. The Heavenly Demon revealed that the true Heavenly Demon had guaranteed the mount would face no punishment for abandoning him, leaving the reason for that order unexplained.

• The Heavenly Demon awoke on the throne, and Hao Yuan recognized him as the legendary figure.
• The Heavenly Demon confirmed he was neither an afterimage nor a divided soul, and recognized Shen Lin from the past battle.
• Shen Lin guessed that the being outside was the Heavenly Demon’s black dragon mount, and the Heavenly Demon confirmed the guess.
• Hao Yuan realized the figure was a weakened remnant soul and asked how the black dragon had escaped the great battle.
• The Heavenly Demon said the mount had been promised immunity for abandoning him, then clarified that the promise came from the true Heavenly Demon, not himself.

The Heavenly Demon explained that the Sacred Feather Clan created Fortune Swap to steal his identity and cultivation, but the plan failed when he mastered their abilities and defeated the ambushers. He revealed that the Chaos Sea’s myriad races then united to wage war on the Demon Race, led by a clan he had not yet named.

• Hao Shan demanded a clearer explanation, and the Heavenly Demon restarted his account of the Demon Race’s rise and the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art.
• The Heavenly Demon explained that a Sacred Feather Clan Venerable Realm member invented Fortune Swap to take the Heavenly Demon’s body, cultivation, and power.
• Shen Lin recognized Fortune Swap and recalled how he had inherited Hao Xi’s cultivation inheritance, bloodline memories, and identity.
• The Sacred Feather Clan ambushed the Heavenly Demon, and its Venerable Realm member successfully exchanged identities with him.
• The Heavenly Demon mastered the Sacred Feather Clan’s divine abilities, used an unaffected cultivation art, and killed three Venerable Realm attackers.
• The Heavenly Demon said the myriad races of the Chaos Sea declared war on the Demon Race, then hinted that the Sacred Feather Clan led the charge.

The supposed Heavenly Demon revealed that he was Feather Emperor Venerable, who had exchanged identities with the Heavenly Demon after attempting to steal his inheritance. After Feather Emperor Venerable exposed Shen Lin’s connection to Hao Xi, Hao Yuan accepted his identity but realized Shen Lin had killed his grandson.

• The supposed Heavenly Demon explained that Feather Emperor Venerable had tried to steal his inheritance, exchanged identities with him, and later helped provoke the war against the Demon Race.
• Feather Emperor Venerable used the Karma Dao Rule to make Hao Yuan and Hao Shan perceive Shen Lin as the missing Hao Xi.
• Feather Emperor Venerable lifted the effect on Hao Yuan and Hao Shan, who realized Shen Lin had killed Hao Xi after Fortune Swap.
• Hao Yuan restrained his anger toward Shen Lin and bowed to Feather Emperor Venerable, recognizing him by his mastery of the Karma Dao Rule.
• Shen Lin noticed that Feather Emperor Venerable still wielded the Karma Dao Rule despite claiming to have exchanged identities with the Heavenly Demon.

Shen Lin agreed to pledge allegiance to the Sacred Feather Clan after Feather Emperor Venerable stopped Hao Yuan and Hao Shan from killing him. Though Shen Lin remained suspicious of the Venerable’s story, Hao Yuan asked how they could rescue him, leaving the Venerable’s plan unresolved.

• Shen Lin questioned whether Hao Yuan and Hao Shan had secretly betrayed Feather Emperor Venerable, prompting Hao Shan to react angrily and Hao Yuan to accuse Shen Lin of sowing discord.
• Feather Emperor Venerable stopped the brothers and argued that Shen Lin’s Sacred Feather Clan fortune made him an ally who could be trusted against the true Heavenly Demon.
• Hao Yuan offered to wipe away the brothers’ grudge if Shen Lin pledged allegiance to the clan, and Shen Lin agreed while privately considering flaws in Feather Emperor Venerable’s account.
• Hao Yuan asked Feather Emperor Venerable how they could rescue him.

Feather Emperor Venerable explained how he survived in the Heaven Demon's reverse scale and asked Shen Lin, Hao Yuan, and Hao Shan to help him escape. After the three returned to the divine hall, Shen Lin suddenly turned his sword on himself.

• Feather Emperor Venerable revealed that the black dragon betrayed him during the great battle, leaving him to regenerate inside the reverse scale.
• Shen Lin learned that the hall was inside the reverse scale and that its treasures were only a small part of the Heaven Demon's riches.
• Feather Emperor Venerable said he needed rare spiritual medicines to recover and a thousand times more energy to open a gate strong enough for him to leave.
• Hao Yuan agreed to help complete the Demon Cloud World-Destroying Diagram, and Feather Emperor Venerable secretly placed a measure on Shen Lin to ensure his cooperation.
• Hao Yuan, Shen Lin, and Hao Shan left through the light gate, and Hao Yuan urged them to act quickly to expose the Heaven Demon's threat to the Sacred Feather Clan.
• Shen Lin drew the Hatred-Slaying Longsaber and sent it slashing toward his own body.

Shen Lin dispelled Feather Emperor Venerable’s mark and attacked Hao Yuan and Hao Shan, who used their Sacred Feather Clan wings and a forbidden technique to survive. As Hao Yuan tried to summon a treasure with a bronze coin, Shen Lin reached him with a seven-colored saber aura.

• Shen Lin used One Slash Severance to destroy the golden mark inside him, freeing himself from Feather Emperor Venerable’s means.
• Shen Lin ambushed Hao Yuan and Hao Shan with a slash, forcing them to spend two pairs of wings to survive.
• Hao Yuan and Hao Shan activated the Blood Wings Technique and retreated while Hao Yuan prepared to summon a treasure with a bronze coin.
• Shen Lin recognized what Hao Yuan was doing, passed Hao Shan, and appeared beside Hao Yuan with a seven-colored Rainbow Saber Aura.

Hao Yuan escaped Shen Lin with the Bright Moon Cauldron’s help and warned it that the Sacred Feather Clan faced a calamity because the Feather Emperor Venerable was supposedly the Heavenly Demon. The cauldron’s response revealed that Hao Yuan’s account conflicted with its knowledge of the secret.

• Shen Lin destroyed Hao Yuan’s remaining lives and killed Hao Shan, but Hao Yuan broke the bronze coin and summoned the Bright Moon Cauldron.
• The Bright Moon Cauldron pulled the Black Scale from beneath Flowing Wave Island and shattered it, scattering the hidden realm and its inhabitants across the island.
• The Sky Lizard Demon Venerable attacked to seize the Black Scale’s treasures, but the Bright Moon Cauldron knocked him away.
• Hao Yuan and the others emerged from the divine hall, and Hao Yuan told the Bright Moon Cauldron that the Feather Emperor Venerable was the Heavenly Demon.
• The Bright Moon Cauldron said the Feather Emperor had exchanged fortune with the Black Dragon and asked how Hao Yuan had learned the confidential matter.