Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo entered an unfamiliar small world, discovered that its spiritual energy and cultivation differed from other realms, and learned about the Demon Saint whose grave he had landed near. After absorbing the Demon Saint’s memories, Chen Luo changed his aura to blend into the world and left as several powerful cultivators searched the area.

• Chen Luo sensed that the small world had compressed his divine sense and made it harder to control Heaven and Earth Vital Qi.
• Chen Luo searched the Gray Bear Spirit’s soul and learned that it guarded the grave of a Demon Saint who had promised to return.
• Chen Luo examined the Demon Saint’s corpse, found a powerful Sword Qi wound, and absorbed the dead Great Peng Bird’s brain.
• Several powerful cultivators arrived and repeatedly searched the injured Gray Bear Spirit, but Chen Luo had already escaped.
• Chen Luo used the Great Peng Bird’s memories to disguise his aura as demonic qi and learned that the Human Race held the world’s advantage over the Demon Race.

Chen Luo used the Old Demon Head’s identity to enter Thoughtless Temple and confront Five Viscera, the former first disciple who ruled it. After proving himself, Chen Luo demanded the Flesh and Blood Rebirth Method and went into seclusion, while the demons misunderstood his intentions and planned to capture the city’s people.

• Chen Luo entered Thoughtless Temple with the Hedgehog Spirit and discovered that its hall was the inside of Five Viscera’s stomach.
• Five Viscera attacked Chen Luo to test whether he was the Old Demon Head, but Chen Luo defeated him with the Old Demon Head’s innate screech.
• Five Viscera recognized Chen Luo as his master and revealed that the worshippers were being treated as food, prompting them to panic as the temple gates shut.
• Five Viscera recalled how the Old Demon Head had created him through repeated experiments, leaving him with hatred and fear of his master.
• Chen Luo asked Five Viscera for the Flesh and Blood Rebirth Method and went to a side chamber to cultivate.
• The Hedgehog Spirit told Five Viscera that Chen Luo wanted an entire city of people prepared as food before he emerged from seclusion.

Chen Luo learned that his demon disciples had summoned the Myriad Demon Grand Ceremony, then decided to attend and conceal his true identity. He left the gathering having asserted his authority by killing a snake demon in front of the assembled Demon Kings.

• The Hedgehog Spirit ordered Five Viscera to deal with the gathered pilgrims and guarded Chen Luo while summoning demons and disciples for a grand ceremony.
• Five Viscera brought Chen Luo a cartload of cultivation techniques, which Chen Luo studied through his External Brains and used to examine the world’s demon methods.
• The Hedgehog Spirit told Chen Luo that the Myriad Demon Grand Ceremony was underway, and Chen Luo approved the gathering before deciding to attend and collect the offerings.
• Chen Luo disguised his aura as that of the Peng Bird Spirit and entered the hall, where nearly two hundred demons had gathered and the city was sealed beneath demonic energy.
• Chen Luo seized a snake demon, tore out its phantom, and crushed it to frighten the other demons into submission.

Chen Luo received an invitation from Madam Spider to meet at Thousand Silk Cave and decided to go despite the danger of facing Sixth-tier Demons. He reached the cave by relying on the Peng Bird Demon Saint’s aura and Heart Demon Art, then discovered that a mirror-type Spirit Artifact was testing his identity.

• The Hedgehog Spirit gave Chen Luo Madam Spider’s poison fang, which carried an invitation to Thousand Silk Cave in three days from her, White Elephant, and Azure Ox.
• Chen Luo learned that Madam Spider was a Sixth-tier Demon and decided not to flee because Sixth-tier Demons could sense the void.
• Chen Luo spent three days studying the Peng Bird Demon Saint’s habits, then flew toward Thousand Silk Cave while impersonating him.
• A Fifth-tier fish monster guarded the approach, but Chen Luo used the Peng Bird Demon Saint’s aura and his Heart Demon Art to frighten it into letting him pass.
• Chen Luo flew through the spider-filled caves without stopping and reached the sealed gate of Thousand Silk Cave.
• A Copper Mirror above the gate probed Chen Luo, then dimmed after sensing the Demon Power of the Great Saint Peng Bird.

Chen Luo impersonated the reincarnated Peng Bird Demon Saint at a meeting with the Three Great Demon Lords and learned that they planned to destroy the Sword Riding Sect and sacrifice its demons. He left the meeting after securing his cover, while the other demon lords questioned whether he was truly their eldest brother.

• Chen Luo entered Madam Spider’s cavern and took the seat of the supposed reincarnated Peng Bird Demon Saint among the Three Great Demon Lords.
• Chen Luo claimed he was still recovering, let the Green Ox Demon claim half the spoils, and refused to eat Madam Spider’s Baleful Soul Fruit.
• Chen Luo hinted that he knew where to find immortal fruits and asked the demons to leave the Sword Sect elder’s corpse for him.
• The Green Ox Demon outlined the plan to destroy the Sword Riding Sect, slaughter humans, and sacrifice the demons inside the Demon Locking Pagoda; the Green Ox Demon would lead the attack while the others supported him.
• Chen Luo left the cavern, and Madam Spider, the Green Ox Demon, and the White Elephant Demon discussed doubts about his identity before accepting that the plan would proceed.
• Spider Spirits outside bowed to Chen Luo as the Demon Saint, and he sensed that one of them was a Fifth Tier great demon.

Chen Luo returned to Thoughtless Temple and discovered that human cultivators had captured his disciples and laid formations to ambush him. After breaking the outer formation, he was drawn into an unfamiliar Fourth-tier Formation that transported him to a Charity Mortuary, where a freshly painted black coffin awaited.

• Chen Luo returned to Thoughtless Temple and noticed that its monsters and captives had disappeared.
• He discovered a formation inside the temple and overheard the hidden human cultivators discussing their ambush, so he left rather than enter their trap.
• Chen Luo used his External Brains to find and break the weak point in the formation outside, then collected four devil swords and detected Five Viscera's blood on one of them.
• Chen Luo sensed Five Viscera and the other disciples hiding in a nearby house, but kept walking toward the city gates until a Sword Riding Sect cultivator activated another formation.
• The formation transported Chen Luo to a Charity Mortuary, where he entered a room lined with coffins and saw a freshly painted black coffin in the center.

Chen Luo fought through a corpse formation and used his formation knowledge to break its walls, forcing the hidden formation master to strengthen it with a mysterious sheet of paper. The new formation trapped Chen Luo in a shifting corridor, where he used burning talisman figures to estimate its limits.

• Chen Luo found demon-tainted corpses in coffins, then crushed corpse puppets that attacked from beneath the earth.
• Chen Luo revealed the formation pattern on a wall and used his formation master brains to calculate where to break through.
• Chen Luo released the Golden Armored Divine General to hold off the reconstructed corpse puppets while he smashed through a second wall.
• The hidden formation master burned a yellowish-brown sheet of paper to stabilize and strengthen the formation.
• Chen Luo entered an unfamiliar palace-like corridor and sent three talisman figures down its passages; each burned up after traveling about three thousand meters.

Chen Luo escaped the Sword Riding Sect’s formation and fled to the mountains near Thousand Silk Cave, where he reconsidered how to cultivate in a world whose methods differed from his own. The Death-Seeking Brain gave him a plan to develop a demon-powered Refined Corpse, and he summoned the Golden Armored Divine General to begin.

• Chen Luo used Old Brother Changqing’s guidance to break out of the formation, killed the formation master’s body, and fled when the Sword Riding Sect’s reinforcements threatened to arrive.
• Five Viscera and the Hedgehog Spirit called to Chen Luo, but he left them behind; the formation master revived and ordered the two demons captured for the Demon Locking Pagoda.
• Chen Luo reached a barren mountain near Thousand Silk Cave and realized his Inner Demon Art could not be safely cultivated because its aura would draw powerful figures’ attention.
• Chen Luo found that demon cultivation could rapidly increase his power through the Peng Bird Demon Saint’s brain, but he rejected pursuing the demon path because it had no safe road beyond the sixth tier.
• The Death-Seeking Brain proposed using the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique to give the Peng Bird’s brain to a Corpse Puppet, creating a Refined Corpse with demon Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Luo summoned the Golden Armored Divine General from the Grotto-heaven Gourd to carry out the plan.

Chen Luo experimented with grafting demonic power into the Golden Armored Divine General, then used Reverse Body Seizure and a cultivation technique to turn the ruined corpse into a powerful Corpse Demon. He stored it away and planned to seek a Human Race brain at the Sword Riding Sect, but a patrol’s announcement interrupted his thoughts.

• Chen Luo infused the Golden Armored Divine General with demonic power from the Old Devil’s stone, but the conflicting energies tore the corpse apart.
• Chen Luo killed a Yellow Weasel demon and used Reverse Body Seizure to send its aura into the Golden Armored Divine General.
• Chen Luo gave the corpse the Demonized Void Meridians technique, allowing its Corpse Qi and demonic qi to circulate together and repair its body.
• The Golden Armored Divine General absorbed demonic qi from nearby demons, transformed into a Corpse Demon, and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Chen Luo stored the Corpse Demon in the Grotto-heaven Gourd and planned to rob graves at the Sword Riding Sect for a Human Race brain.
• A little demon announced that patrols were searching the mountain by the Empress’s decree.

Chen Luo entered Niugu City disguised as a scholar and sought someone who could help him reach the Dao Extreme Sect’s ancestral burial site. He empowered the gambler Zhang Mazi with demonic power and sent him into the guarded inner city, while Chen Luo disappeared into the shadows.

• Chen Luo avoided Madam Spider’s underlings and flew to a city under the Sword Riding Sect’s jurisdiction, where he planned to target a fallen Dao Extreme Sect ancestor’s brain.
• Chen Luo entered Niugu City with a merchant caravan and learned that Demon Suppressing Mirrors guarded both the city and its inner city.
• Chen Luo decided to find a person to steal the ancestor’s remains for him rather than risk entering the Dao Extreme Sect himself.
• After Zhang Mazi was thrown out of a gambling house, Chen Luo offered him a gold ingot in exchange for finding the Dao Extreme Sect’s ancestral burial site.
• Chen Luo’s demonic power compelled Zhang Mazi to accept the task, and Zhang Mazi passed through the inner city’s Demon Suppressing Mirror without being detected.

The Upper Realm’s five great powers sealed the Inner Demon Domain, while Tu Cheng and Black Robe entered the Floating World Immortal Palace by different paths. Under the Money Gu’s influence, Pockmarked Face infiltrated the Dao Extreme Sect and continued searching for graves, evading its defenses.

• The five great powers sealed the Inner Demon Domain, and the young man ordered Black Robe captured and Jun Tianya to deal with the fugitive who had escaped to the Southern Sky Region.
• Tu Cheng crossed the Floating Bridge and reached the Immortal Mountain, hoping to repeat the Inner Demon Patriarch’s opportunity and surpass him.
• Black Robe entered the Floating World Immortal Palace, devoured an illusory Giant Ape, and stopped calculating after a Qionghua Sect sword mark appeared on his finger.
• Pockmarked Face climbed into the Dao Extreme Sect under the Money Gu’s influence, and a Heart Sword Disciple cut him in two without stopping his advance.
• The Gold Ingot restored Pockmarked Face’s body and became a Small Golden Mouse, which led him through the thorn bushes while the sect’s mirror failed to detect him.

Chen Luo tested demonic aura and the Stacked Inner Demon Art by sending Pockmarked Face to steal a skull from the Dao Extreme Sect’s graveyard, then concealed himself among humans in Niugu City. After the demons invaded the Sword Riding Sect’s territory, Madam Spider’s messenger found Chen Luo and revealed how demons could evade the Divine Mirror.

• Pockmarked Face dug up a grave in the Dao Extreme Sect, and the gravekeeper mistook his strange resilience for a demonic plot before rushing to warn the sect.
• Chen Luo retrieved the skull, read Pockmarked Face’s brain after he died from pain, and used the skull and low-level cultivation techniques to disguise himself as a human Qi Refining cultivator.
• The Three Great Demon Lords rallied the demons of Thousand Silk Cave, and White Elephant Demon broke the boundary seal into the Sword Riding Sect’s territory.
• Chen Luo settled into Niugu City and prospered through the merchant Eldest Brother’s network after nurturing a First-rank Dharma Sword.
• An Imperial Court official sent by Madam Spider revealed that he was a demon who evaded the Divine Mirror by regularly changing his skin, a method learned from an Empress’s subordinate who had ascended from the Lower Realm.

Chen Luo reached Red Leaf Valley and met Madam Spider, who discussed the battlefield and the Sword Riding Sect’s Chen Jian with him. While sharing Red Leaf Tree sap, Chen Luo asked about the Ascended One under her command.

• Chen Luo learned that the Spider Spirit who visited him served Madam Spider, then left for Red Leaf Valley after receiving its location.
• Chen Luo traveled to the border, cultivated until he recovered to the Core Formation Realm, and used the Peng Bird Demon Saint’s aura to pass the fish monster guarding the battlefield.
• Madam Spider recognized Chen Luo as the reincarnated Peng Bird Demon Saint and invited him to help deal with Chen Jian, but the Peng Bird dismissed the Sword Riding Sect elder as unworthy.
• Madam Spider gathered her spider demons to prepare Red Leaf Tree sap for Chen Luo, who asked whether she had an Ascended One under her command.

Chen Luo learned that Madam Spider had sent an Ascended One to explore That Place, then obtained Demonic Blood Stones from her supplies. In the Grotto-heaven Gourd, he refined Earth Dragon Essence Blood to strengthen the Corpse Demon, whose aura reached Peak Nascent Soul.

• Madam Spider told Chen Luo that the Ascended One he sought had been sent to explore That Place and might not have survived.
• Madam Spider said she planned to act in two days, warned that a regional conflict was coming, and had Bai Xi escort Chen Luo to a cave containing Demonic Blood Stones.
• Chen Luo took thirteen Demonic Blood Stones from the cave and entered the Grotto-heaven Gourd to work on the Corpse Demon.
• The Peng Bird Demon Saint's Brain identified Earth Dragon Essence Blood inside a stone, reminding Chen Luo of the Earth Dragon Pool and his plan to find the Earth Dragon Essence in the Lower Realm.
• Chen Luo refined one stone's essence blood and fed it to the Corpse Demon, raising its aura to Peak Nascent Soul before he prepared to use the remaining twelve stones.

Chen Luo left the battlefield to raid Thousand Silk Cave while Madam Spider and the Sword Riding Sect were occupied. When the Nine-Headed Snake attacked him, Chen Luo revealed the Corpse Demon's power and used the Stone Dragon brain to counter it.

• The Corpse Demon reached the Fifth Tier after absorbing twelve Demonic Blood Stones, and Chen Luo noted the Earth Dragon mark on its chest.
• Madam Spider fought Chen Jian as demons, including five Fifth-tier powerhouses, invaded the Sword Riding Sect's territory.
• Chen Luo killed a fourth-tier Sword Riding Sect expert who attacked him, then slipped away from the battlefield to seek resources.
• Chen Luo returned to Thousand Silk Cave and demanded entry to Madam Spider's residence, provoking its guardian, the Nine-Headed Snake.
• The Nine-Headed Snake transformed and attacked Chen Luo, who drained the Corpse Demon and used its power with the Stone Dragon brain to block the strike.

Chen Luo defeated the Nine-Headed Snake, plundered the Three Great Demon Lords’ cave dwellings, and followed the Flower-Backed Turtle to the Arctic Ice Palace in search of an ascension passage. Unable to break through the palace’s ice barrier himself, he used Silver Winged Centipedes to cut a path inside and dragged the turtle after him.

• Chen Luo killed the Nine-Headed Snake and gathered its remains into a Blood Ball for the Corpse Demon.
• Chen Luo looted the treasures at Thousand Silk Cave, then stripped the Green Ox Demon’s and White Elephant Demon’s cave dwellings and left a message promising to return everything.
• The Green Ox Demon and White Elephant King broke through the frontline blockade and attacked Sword Riding Sect, while Chen Luo traveled with the Flower-Backed Turtle to the Arctic Ice Palace.
• Chen Luo learned that Madam Spider and Chen Jian had infiltrated the Ice Palace, and that he needed to find the Ascended One Madam Spider had exiled to locate a way out of the world.
• Chen Luo’s sword and spiritual fire could not damage the ice covering the palace, so he ordered two Silver Winged Centipedes to cut through it and entered with the Flower-Backed Turtle.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle searched the immense, frozen Arctic Ice Palace for an Ascended One, reaching the Floating World Palace after discovering that it stood beneath a gigantic bronze cauldron. Inside, the palace separated them, and Chen Luo found a blank painting that resonated with his Inner Demon Art.

• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle crossed the frozen forest and plaza, and the Flower-Backed Turtle calculated that the Ascended One was ahead.
• Chen Luo sent his Silver Winged Centipedes up the Bronze Cauldron, where they saw sacrificial Bamboo Incense and spotted the Floating World Palace below.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle crossed the Ice Thread Worms using the Silver Winged Centipedes and entered the Floating World Palace.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle vanished after entering the palace, leaving Chen Luo alone in its Long Corridor.
• Chen Luo found a blank white painting and touched it, causing his Inner Demon Art to circulate on its own.

Chen Luo discovered a hidden painting in the Floating World Immortal Palace that revealed clues about ancient realms and Wang Chengguan. After a strange woman vanished into another painting, he realized the palace’s history might connect the Inner Demon Patriarch to his master, True Person Wuwei.

• Chen Luo found that the Arctic Ice Palace was the Floating World Immortal Palace and failed to remove a painting of a bare rock from its wall.
• Chen Luo used a Silver Winged Centipede to reveal a hidden painting of an ancient battle by Wang Chengguan and drew insights about the realms beyond Soul Transformation.
• Chen Luo recalled Brother Grudge’s death and resolved to be cautious about using the Tribulation Crossing cultivator’s brain.
• A silver-haired woman appeared in the corridor, vanished, and appeared inside a newly revealed painting after Chen Luo recognized her as a Shadow Puppet.
• Chen Luo connected the woman to Bai Su and suspected that True Person Wuwei was the Inner Demon Patriarch in disguise.

Chen Luo escaped the painted passage by breaking through its wall and found Tu Cheng negotiating with a Great Fiend in a pill furnace. He entered a garden and encountered a man trapped beneath an artificial hill, who offered him Immortal Art in exchange for rescue.

• Chen Luo discovered that the Painted Demon’s murals depicted different stages of her life and broke through a wall instead of following the paintings.
• Chen Luo found Tu Cheng in an abandoned Pill Refining Room, where Tu Cheng was speaking to the pill furnace.
• Chen Luo recognized the danger of the Great Fiend associated with the furnace and quickly left Tu Cheng behind.
• Chen Luo entered a garden and found a disheveled man pressed beneath an artificial hill.
• The trapped man offered Chen Luo supreme Immortal Art in exchange for saving him, and Chen Luo asked what else he had to offer.

Chen Luo freed Immortal Ge from the artificial mountain, only for the supposed immortal to break his promise and try to recruit him. After a monster escaped inside the palace, Chen Luo subdued Immortal Ge’s Wood Clone and fled with it, hoping to learn how to leave the Demon World.

• Chen Luo recognized the daoist trapped beneath the mountain as Immortal Ge, who offered to teach him Immortal Arts if he removed the Restriction Source Stone.
• Immortal Ge offered Chen Luo a Demonic Blood Stone and promised a High-grade Spirit Artifact, so Chen Luo pulled the stone free and destroyed the artificial mountain’s restraints.
• After escaping, Immortal Ge refused to pay and demanded that Chen Luo become his attendant, while a scaled monster broke out of the Pill Refining Room and rampaged through the Immortal Palace.
• Chen Luo used a Black Gourd to sever Immortal Ge’s Wood Clone from its consciousness, then grabbed the clone and fled as the monster pursued them.
• Chen Luo cut branches from the clone and swallowed them as spiritual materials; when Immortal Ge’s clone woke, Chen Luo struck it with the gourd again.