Chapter Summaries

Chu He settled in a small town to live quietly and run a carving shop, but he spotted black-clad figures entering the infamous Ghost Pond. Curious, he followed them underwater and opened a hidden stone door, where he sensed something strange.

• Chu He settled in the town, opened a carving shop, and spent his days living as an ordinary person while carving one foreign race each evening.
• Da Niu tried to arrange a marriage between Chu He and his sister-in-law, but Chu He clearly rejected the match by saying their birth charts were incompatible.
• On his way back from the teahouse, Chu He saw skilled black-clad figures slip into the Ghost Pond.
• Chu He covered his face and descended into the pond, finding a carefully stacked stone structure with a closed door at its bottom.
• Chu He opened the stone door and reacted to a strange smell coming from inside.

Chu He followed the Men in Black through an underwater passage and discovered they were preparing a blood sacrifice for a trapped Demon Emperor. He silently observed their preparations and then began following them.

• Chu He slipped past a cavern full of venomous snakes and found a dead Man in Black whose face had been consumed by demonic power.
• Chu He reached a lava-filled precipice, where the Men in Black watched a burly figure seated on a sword above a deep well.
• The Demon Emperor spoke to the Men in Black and told them to prepare the blood sacrifice that would help him escape his predicament.
• The leader of the Men in Black opened his eyes and ordered the others to begin arranging their materials around the cavern.
• Chu He emerged from his hiding place and silently followed the Men in Black as they prepared the ritual.

Chu He watched the Men in Black prepare an array and made minor adjustments before hiding as Gu Daowu and four allies entered the Demon Sealing Ground. The leader of the Men in Black urged Gu Daowu to help release the Demon Emperor, but Gu Daowu rejected his account of history and called on them to leave.

• Chu He judged the Men in Black's array too weak and made minor adjustments to its layout.
• Gu Daowu and four allies entered the passage, fighting off the Ghost Shadows as they advanced.
• The leader of the Men in Black recognized Gu Daowu and argued that opening the Demon Sealing Ground would restore martial artists' path to advancement.
• The leader claimed the Demon Emperor had been wrongly sealed by orthodox sects allied with foreign races and invited Gu Daowu to help open the ground.
• Gu Daowu rejected the leader's version of events, pointed to the bones on the platform as proof of a past calamity, and urged the Men in Black to leave.

Chu He discovered a hidden passage beneath the magma and learned how Demon Emperor Li Chouyun had sealed the invading devils at the cost of countless lives. He suspected the figure atop the Heavy Sword was Li Chouyun and ended by wondering where the black membrane led.

• Chu He slipped through a hidden opening in the arena floor and entered a red-jade passage beneath the magma.
• Chu He passed several restriction formations and found three chained corpses surrounding a Stone Tablet and a black membrane of light.
• Chu He read the writings explaining that Li Chouyun had gathered the Nine Veins to create the Demon Sealing Ground and stop the invasion from another domain.
• Chu He concluded that the deaths caused by the sealing had fueled later generations’ hatred of the Demon Cult and distorted the history of the crisis.
• Chu He suspected the person atop the Heavy Sword was Li Chouyun, then examined the black membrane and wondered whether it connected to the Demon Realm or an Abyss Gate.

Chu He investigated the black light membrane, then emerged to find the other people gone and the sealed devil calling to him. Deciding the devil could threaten his quiet life, Chu He released it with a glance, leaving Mang Ha horrified as Chu He reached to seize it.

• Chu He touched the black light membrane, drawing strands of black qi into his sea of consciousness, where a golden phantom trapped them and the stone tablet reacted.
• Chu He left the Demon Sealing Ground and found the Man in Black's restriction open and everyone gone.
• A sealed devil sensed Chu He's devil qi and commanded him to sacrifice his strength to help it escape.
• Chu He decided to eliminate the potential threat, then used golden light from his eyes to destroy the bronze statue imprisoning the devil.
• Mang Ha escaped the magma in its blood-red, winged form, but realized Chu He was not a Devil Race descendant and reached out to grab it.

Chu He broke the Demon Sealing Ground, triggering upheavals at nine sites across the world as the Heaven and Earth Veins shattered and a buried presence began to revive. As the town faced destruction, a majestic golden aura rose from beneath the earth and filled the night sky.

• Chu He captured Mang Ha and broke the Demon Sealing Ground, shattering the nine Heaven and Earth Veins and causing upheavals across the world.
• Gu Daowu led his people out of the underground tunnels with the unconscious Men in Black, then accused their leader of causing the catastrophe and seized him by the throat.
• The Man in Black protector denied knowing what had happened and urged Gu Daowu to release him, claiming the Demon Emperor's return would bring a great age for martial artists.
• Gu Daowu saw the town collapsing and its people in danger, cursed the protector, and prepared to crush his throat.
• A vast aura rose from beneath the earth and filled the dark sky with golden light, easing the panic of those who looked up.

Chu He stopped the disasters triggered by the shattered Demon Sealing Ground, saving a town and striking at nine other calamity sites. As the beasts charged a mountain guarded by tigers, a sudden rupture filled them with terror.

• Chu He pressed down and swept his palm, quelling the town’s upheaval, rescuing people from fissures, and restoring collapsing houses.
• Gu Daowu and the townspeople stared in shock as the world returned to normal, while Da Niu’s child asked whether Chu He was a god.
• Chu He sent nine golden palm imprints toward other disaster sites linked to the shattered Demon Sealing Ground.
• Men in Black watched the Kun Meridian collapse ahead of their plans and speculated that someone else had acted first.
• A Brown-haired Giant Bear led a horde of beasts against the tigers guarding a mountain, but a sudden rupture filled every beast with terror.

Chu He suppressed the upheaval across the Nine Veins, but a Vitality Tide still flooded the continent, leaving its inhabitants uncertain about what would come next. Above the heavens, Chu He decided that his immense strength made ordinary life impossible and considered staying in the Barbarian Domain instead.

• The Nine Veins began to erupt, frightening the beasts and experts across the Cloud Wave Continent.
• Chu He sent nine golden palms from the Demon Sealing Ground to suppress the Nine Veins and halt the tremors.
• Vitality Tide poured from the Nine Veins as thunder and rain swept across the continent, prompting the giant tiger to wonder whether the crisis had been resolved.
• The giant bear welcomed the Vitality Tide and sensed that it could break through, while other beings realized their paths forward had reopened.
• Chu He remained above the heavens, reflected on how his strength kept disrupting ordinary life, and sat in the void holding Mang Ha.

Chu He created the Demon-Suppressing Grounds as a future resting place for his temporary body, then returned to town and let its peaceful life continue amid growing chaos across the continent. The town flourished, and Chu He remained content with his ordinary life as a sculptor.

• Chu He forged a three-level tower, a Stone Tablet with a jade-pendant-shaped keyhole, and a crystal coffin to complete a new forbidden land called the Demon-Suppressing Grounds.
• Chu He bound Mang Ha in the tower's third level, erased the black strands' consciousness, and set up a mechanism to feed Mang Ha pellets every ten years.
• Chu He returned to town and drew a golden turtle on the town's Stone Tablet to divert attention from the peaceful settlement.
• The continent descended into greater chaos, while the town remained tranquil and attracted kind visitors who settled there and opened shops and other establishments.
• Chu He walked through the thriving town and remained content living as an ordinary sculptor.

After sixty years of living an ordinary life on Cloud Wave Continent, Chu He returned his consciousness to his true body and found his cultivation had advanced. Back at the Book Repository, he reunited with Zhao Yuling and Lin Xueling, and Zhao Yuling asked what he knew about the Heavenly Court.

• Chu He spent sixty years in a quiet town, learned that the Human Clan’s territory was ruled by the Chouyun Empire and the Chaoge Empire, then left the town and gave Da Niu’s granddaughter a Little Red Flower and Three Year Simulation.
• Chu He returned to his forbidden ground, left supplies for Mang Ha, and entered a jade coffin to send his consciousness back to his true body.
• Chu He sensed that his consciousness’s growth had pushed his Dharma Aspect Golden Body toward the eighth level, then reviewed the gains made in the Myriad Worlds Tower.
• Chu He emerged from the Myriad Worlds Tower and reunited with Zhao Yuling, Lin Xueling, and Little Turtle, giving Little Turtle a bag of Royal Dog Food.
• Zhao Yuling told Chu He about her fortuitous encounter and asked whether he knew of the Heavenly Court; Chu He’s reaction suggested he remembered its origins.

After Zhao Yuling and Lin Xueling left to seek opportunities in the Myriad Worlds Tower, Chu He observed the changed world outside the Barbarian Domain and discovered that three relatives had been trying to locate it. He decided to find and fetch them without lifting the domain’s seal.

• Chu He encouraged Zhao Yuling and Lin Xueling to work hard for the opportunity in the Heavenly Court, and they entered the Myriad Worlds Tower to earn points.
• Chu He released and fed exhausted members of other races in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, then told stories to several on the fourth floor.
• Chu He observed the frozen, turbulent world outside the Barbarian Domain and chose not to involve himself in its conflicts.
• Chu He noticed repeated attempts to calculate the Barbarian Domain’s location and realized someone was searching for relatives.
• Chu He traced the attempts to three brothers related to the demon-affiliated prisoners and decided to go pick them up.

Mo Xie and Mingti failed to divine the whereabouts of the person they sought, while Yu Mo Bai struggled against the Demon Seed consuming his humanity. When the figure in Yu Mo Bai’s mind met the seed’s gaze and destroyed it, flames raced up Mingti’s tail, forcing it to sever the tail to save itself.

• Mingti lashed the exhausted Sky Star Clan Celestial Master, but Mo Xie stopped it and put the captive in a cage.
• Mo Xie wondered why the Celestial Master could not divine their target and continued questioning the captive Yu Mo Bai, who was being corrupted by a Demon Seed.
• Yu Mo Bai saw the figure in his memories smile and meet the eyes inside the Demon Seed, setting those eyes ablaze and withering the seed’s branches in his consciousness.
• As Mo Xie struck Yu Mo Bai with Mingti’s tail, flames ignited at the tail and raced toward Mingti.
• Mingti snapped off its tail to escape the flames and screamed in agony.

Chu He confronted the Devil Master in the collapsing Netherworld Palace, rescuing the captives and overpowering the devil despite its offer to let the humans leave. He continued dragging the Devil Master out of the void, intent on taking it for its abundant devil flames.

• Mingti severed its tail to escape the golden flames, but Mo Xie was swallowed by them.
• Chu He’s arrival filled the palace with golden flames and awe, while Yu Mo Bai’s chest burst open and a flame-wrapped seed emerged.
• A beast claw reached for the seed, but Chu He seized it and began dragging the Devil Master out of the void.
• Mo Xie realized Chu He had protected it and its brothers during the clash, leaving it confused and terrified.
• The Devil Master offered to release the human captives and let Chu He’s clan leave, but Chu He ignored it and pulled harder.
• The Devil Master roared that the Abyss would go to war with the Human Clan, while Chu He continued his attack.

Chu He nearly dragged the Devil Master into the world, but it escaped by using a black cube to overlap a dark realm with reality. After destroying that realm, Chu He returned toward the Barbarian Domain and received an Abyssal Killing Order.

• The Devil Master emerged under Chu He's force and, when nine suns exposed its vulnerability, spat out a black cube to summon a dark world.
• Chu He released the Devil Master, rescued Yu Mo Bai and the crow, and withdrew before the cube's world overlapped with reality.
• Chu He shattered the dark world with a single blow, but the Devil Master escaped through the cube's power to cross worlds.
• Chu He calculated that his bond with the Devil Master remained unfinished, then departed for the Barbarian Domain as Yu Mo Bai wondered who had saved him.
• Chu He returned to the sunken lands of the Barbarian Domain and received an Abyssal Killing Order, whose well-shaped mark imprinted toward him.

Chu He accepted the Abyssal Killing Order through a Substitute Doll and hid it for possible use as bait. Twenty years later, as the Barbarian Domain’s people disrupted other worlds and powerful factions began stirring, he ordered them to conceal their identities while he watched events unfold through the Myriad Worlds Tower.

• Chu He let the Abyssal Killing Order imprint on a Substitute Doll, sealed it, and buried it for future use.
• Chu He brought Mo Xie to join Crow, the crane, and the leopard in the third level of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, leaving the demons despairing over their fate.
• Over the next twenty years, Chu He cultivated, visited other worlds, distributed tokens, and saw the Barbarian Domain’s people disrupt other races’ plans.
• Chu He warned the Barbarian Domain’s people to act cautiously and hide their identities, tying their points to whether they avoided exposure.
• Chu He gave them concealment and disguise techniques, altered the Three-Eyed General’s appearance, and created non-humanoid helpers to patrol the realms.
• Chu He monitored the myriad worlds through crystal screens in a room inside the Myriad Worlds Tower.

Chu He discovered that Lin Teng and Zi Yan had reached the dangerous Blood Soul world, then transformed into the Monkey Who Conquered Heaven and entered it to provoke its inhabitants. Lin Teng recognized the figure from Chu He's childhood stories, while Zi Yan escaped before the disturbance began.

• Chu He watched Lin Teng and Zi Yan investigate Blood Soul, where the Ming Clan controlled the mines and a Heavenly Saint Peak being supervised the mining.
• Lin Teng decided that he and Zi Yan should leave Blood Soul because it was too dangerous, and Chu He agreed that the world held deeper dangers than they could handle.
• Chu He transformed into the Monkey Who Conquered Heaven, traveled to Blood Soul, and released his aura while suppressing his strength to the Heavenly Saint level.
• Lin Teng froze at the sight of Chu He's monkey form, and Zi Yan called out before completing her departure through the Myriad Worlds Tower.
• Chu He shouted a challenge to the demons and devils and struck the land with his enormous staff, while Lin Teng realized that Chu He's stories about the Monkey Who Conquered Heaven had been true.

Chu He confronted the Great Devil King, whose arrival terrified the Ming Clan elders and revived memories of their clan’s past destruction. The elders watched Chu He strike first, but the chapter ended before the Ox Demon’s response was revealed.

• Chu He unleashed his overwhelming aura, and the Ming Clan experts trembled as a burly Ox Demon descended from the sky.
• Ming Clan elders identified the Ox Demon as the Great Devil King from an inherited scroll describing how he had nearly destroyed their clan in a previous era.
• The elders hoped the red-robed being in the sky could oppose the Great Devil King and cheered for him as the two faced off.
• Chu He spun his staff and struck at the Ox Demon with enough force to shatter space and make the entire plane tremble.
• The Ox Demon’s expression changed as it sensed the power within Chu He’s staff.

Chu He crushed the Ox Demon's horns and wounded it with a single staff blow, but the Ox Demon threatened him with the backing of the Nether Demon Lord. The Ming Clan elders feared Chu He would spare the defeated demon, until Chu He continued speaking.

• The Ox Demon blocked Chu He's staff with its horns, but the blow shattered them and struck its skull, leaving it badly injured.
• The Ox Demon tried to flee through a rift, but Chu He blocked its escape with his staff.
• The Ox Demon warned Chu He that killing it would draw the Nether Demon Lord's wrath and revealed its ties to the Bull Demon Clan.
• The Ming Clan elders saw that Chu He had defeated the Great Devil King, then lost hope when they heard of his powerful senior.
• Chu He said the Devil Master-level being was terrifying and that he would not kill the Ox Demon, then added, "However!"

Chu He defeated and captured Ox Demon alive, but the Ming Clan elders realized that a stronger Devil Master still threatened them. As Chu He prepared to leave with his captive, the world suddenly darkened.

• Chu He smashed Ox Demon's defenses and battered it until it could no longer fight.
• Chu He bound Ox Demon with a yellow rope and compressed its body, capturing it alive.
• Ox Demon decided to stay quiet and wait for the Nether Demon Lord to arrive, expecting its master to avenge it.
• The Ming Clan elders despaired over the Devil Master and wondered whether their clan had merely been used by Ox Demon.
• Chu He prepared to leave with Ox Demon, sensed something was wrong, and looked up as the world darkened.

The Abyssal Demon Lord appeared and demanded that Chu He submit, but Chu He refused and the Demon Lord attacked him. Chu He revealed that the apparent target was a Substitute Doll, then confronted the Demon Lord in the starry river.

• The Abyssal Demon Lord manifested above the world and ordered Chu He to submit or die.
• Chu He refused the offer, enraging the Abyssal Demon Lord, which engulfed him in darkness.
• A golden claw shattered the darkness, and Chu He revealed that he had left a Substitute Doll in his place while hiding his true body in the void.
• The Ox Demon called for the Abyssal Demon Lord to save it, but the Demon Lord ignored it and questioned Chu He's identity as Lord of the Heavens.
• Chu He pierced through the void and appeared beyond the firmament, where he faced the Abyssal Demon Lord beside a dark planet.