Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo refined his body with the spirituality of a spirit sword and a Bone Bead, allowing him to enter the Legendary Realm in the flesh. There he met Grandma Yan, who offered to help him find the person he was seeking.

• Chen Luo learned more legends from the Willow Tree Spirit, then returned to the Seventh House with four rare insects.
• Chen Luo used Spirit Snatching Reverse Refining to transfer the spirituality of a spirit sword and Bone Bead into his body, letting him pass through solid objects and enter the Legendary Realm physically.
• Chen Luo saw three passages instead of one, divined with a turtle shell, and chose the left passage.
• Chen Luo reached a circular room and encountered Grandma Yan, whose appearance and surroundings changed when he viewed them through Xue Ning's perspective.
• Chen Luo asked Grandma Yan where the passage led and told her he was looking for someone, and she invited him to sit and talk.

Chen Luo traded a Yang Soul Pill to Grandma Yan for a Great Peng Bone Rune, which became his fourth bone rune and strengthened his wind-controlling abilities. After leaving her secret chamber, he crossed into another Legendary Realm, where he witnessed Tian Wenzi being summoned to ascend.

• Grandma Yan told Chen Luo that the Flower-Backed Turtle had fled toward the back mountain with two youngsters, then offered him a Great Peng Bone Rune.
• Chen Luo traded Grandma Yan a Yang Soul Pill for the bone, absorbed the fourth bone rune, and gained a stronger wind-controlling ability.
• Grandma Yan said she wanted the pill as a way to preserve her life, and Chen Luo left her secret chamber through the passageway.
• The passageway broke, and Chen Luo fell into a vast Legendary Realm where his Divine Sense and power expanded dramatically.
• Chen Luo saw the White-haired Elder Tian Wenzi receive an order from a Person in Green Robe to ascend the Ascension Platform.

Chen Luo witnessed Tian Wenzi undergo a staged tribulation and receive an Immortal Registry, then realized the Heavenly Court’s immortals were far weaker than he was. He entered the Heavenly Palace and confronted the Black-robed Emperor, who mistook him for a Celestial Venerable.

• Tian Wenzi survived three lightning strikes from the Copper Gong Artifact, received immortal robes, and advanced from Foundation Establishment Perfection to the Core Formation Realm.
• Chen Luo challenged the Qingyi immortal official’s claim that Tian Wenzi had become an immortal, then forced the official to lead him to the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Luo vanished from the group after they crossed into the Heavenly Realm, leaving the Qingyi immortal official, the strongman, and Tian Wenzi to hurry toward the Heavenly Palace and report him.
• Chen Luo used Void Transformation to appear inside the Immortal Palace and found the Black-robed Emperor on the throne.
• The Black-robed Emperor mistook Chen Luo for a Celestial Venerable and dismissed the other immortals from the hall.

Chen Luo questioned the Black-robed Emperor about his man-made tribulations and learned that his impending Soul Transformation Tribulation threatened the people he called immortals. After leaving the Heavenly Palace, Chen Luo met Yu Nian, who revealed how she had created her Immortal Realm and said she wanted to make a transaction with him.

• Chen Luo challenged the Black-robed Emperor’s understanding of Heavenly Tribulations and warned him that his own tribulation was approaching.
• The Black-robed Emperor offered Chen Luo a Dao Stone in exchange for guidance, but Chen Luo refused it and departed through the Great Sun.
• Chen Luo entered an oil lamp and met the Black-haired Woman, who explained that the Great Sun and Heavenly Realm were creations of her formation.
• Yu Nian told Chen Luo that she had once been an Immortal Cultivator, then became a Wandering Soul after her body decayed and merged with a legendary being.
• Yu Nian explained that she had spent eight thousand years creating an Immortal Realm to fulfill her wish to become an immortal, and asked Chen Luo to make a transaction with her.

Chen Luo traded a Yang Soul Pill to Yu Nian for Pure Spirit Immortal Liquid and learned that the Demon Race’s legends were vanishing. He entered the Demon Race’s Ancient Tomb through a hidden stele and drove back its Blood Bats, revealing a sealed stone chamber.

• Yu Nian told Chen Luo that the Demon Race’s legends had been disappearing for two hundred years, and that Blood Butcher’s disappearance had exposed the danger.
• Chen Luo traded Yu Nian a Yang Soul Pill for a drop of Pure Spirit Immortal Liquid, then continued through the passages toward the final chamber.
• Chen Luo found the Flower-Backed Turtle’s shell and an ancient stele marked with its imprint, then entered the tomb through the stele.
• Chen Luo discovered that the tomb suppressed his Divine Sense, found an unreadable skull, and sent out scouts to explore the cave.
• Chen Luo used his Stone Dragon aura and Dragon Pearl to drive away the Demonic Blood Bats, exposing a sealed stone chamber.

Chen Luo looted an ancient tomb, absorbing the brain of a Nine-Headed Lion and finding a Jade Slip that revealed fragments of the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon’s past. The Jade Slip’s final vision showed a White Fox addressing someone outside the image as “My Lord,” leaving Chen Luo facing an unexplained encounter.

• Chen Luo opened the stone coffin and read the Nine-Headed Lion’s half-intact brain, gaining its abilities and Fundamental Diagram before its corpse turned to bone ash.
• Chen Luo discovered a hidden side tomb chamber containing three long-dead Human Race Immortal Cultivators and a Jade Slip engraved with a Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The Jade Slip showed the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon recalling a disastrous battle in which Jiu Ri, Yuan, and many other demons died.
• The Jade Slip revealed the White Fox learning from an Immortal Elder, leaving his cottage, and later walking through the snow.
• The White Fox smiled toward Chen Luo and said, “My Lord, you've come.”

Chen Luo used the Immortal Corpse’s Yin Path to escape the sealed tomb and emerged in a valley, where a heavily armored snake demon attacked him. The chapter ended with Chen Luo matching the demon blow for blow in a brutal hammer fight.

• Chen Luo found the tomb’s stone gate sealed by powerful restrictions and used the Life Borrowing Gu to sense nearby sources of lifespan.
• Chen Luo took on the Immortal Corpse’s aura, followed a Yin Path through the tomb, and emerged in a valley.
• A Blue Monster ambushed Chen Luo, but his Chessboard struck it down before his body had fully recovered.
• A snake demon attacked Chen Luo with a Copper Hammer, and its reinforced scales withstood his counterblow.
• Chen Luo invoked his Body Aspect and exchanged hammer strikes with the snake demon.

Chen Luo defeated a snake demon, then found a Life Bamboo and uncovered an Evergreen Scroll that revealed the bamboo’s rebirth. The Life Bamboo brought him into her Legendary Realm and agreed to explain how to leave if he beat her at chess, while demanding a favor if he lost.

• Chen Luo killed the snake demon, collected its Mysterious Demon Stone hammer, and salvaged valuable parts from its corpse, but found that its brain had rotted away.
• Following the Life Borrowing Gu, Chen Luo found an apparently ordinary bamboo stalk and dug it up into his Grotto-heaven Gourd.
• A bloody pool revealed an Evergreen Scroll claiming that the Immortal Emperor was still alive and would return; after Chen Luo tossed it back, it transformed into a new Life Bamboo.
• The Life Bamboo explained that it had been reborn and grown another section, then drew Chen Luo into its Legendary Realm.
• The Life Bamboo offered to tell Chen Luo how to leave if he won a chess match, and asked him to accept one condition if he lost.

Chen Luo defeated Life Bamboo in a chess match by smashing her with the board, then learned how to leave the Legendary Realm. As he approached the Crooked Neck Tree, an invisible vengeful soul ambushed him.

• Chen Luo beat Life Bamboo by striking her with the chessboard, and she revealed the route to the Crooked Neck Tree and the Demon Race Holy Land.
• Life Bamboo explained that the Legendary Realm was formed from outside legends and that the Crooked Neck Tree’s death energy connected to The Outside World.
• After Chen Luo left, Life Bamboo’s hidden Resentment Bamboo faces discussed his dangerous aura and hoped the ghostly presence near the Crooked Neck Tree would attack him.
• Chen Luo reached the graveyard, sent scouting gu insects and puppets toward the Crooked Neck Tree, and detected resentment and killing intent beneath him.
• An invisible Nine-Headed Lion Vengeful Soul attacked Chen Luo, erupting the ground and filling the sky with burning stones as he searched for his unseen enemy.

Chen Luo fought Life Bamboo and the Nine-Headed Lion Vengeful Soul in the Graveyard, surviving their attacks before being blasted into the forest. Old Man Yang found the crash site and hurried toward a glimmer of spiritual light, hoping it was valuable jade.

• Chen Luo used a puppet to evade Life Bamboo's touch, then struck her with the Three-Headed Eight-Armed Demonic Image and smashed her into the Graveyard.
• The Nine-Headed Lion Vengeful Soul attacked Chen Luo, and its poisonous fire briefly fueled his recovery before it self-destructed against him.
• Chen Luo survived the blast and flew toward a crooked-neck tree as the Wild Boar Spirit arrived to claim his apparent corpse.
• Old Man Yang steadied his horse and charcoal cart after something crashed into the forest near his road to Green Wood Mountain Market.
• Old Man Yang spotted spiritual light among the trees and hurried toward it, imagining he might find a fortune.

Zhao Han and many cultivators were forced to kneel before the demon statue in Demon God Valley, and the incident spread its frightening reputation across the region. As Chen Luo recovered from his injuries nearby, a legless young man crawled toward the statue seeking revenge but died before reaching it.

• Old Yang led Zhao Han to the three-headed demon statue, where Zhao Han tried to gain an inheritance and then knelt in terror when its heads turned toward him.
• Other cultivators and True Person Withered Leaves arrived, but they too fell to their knees before the statue.
• After the statue withdrew its aura on the fifth day, the cultivators fled, and news of Demon God Valley spread throughout the Green Wood Mountain region.
• Chen Luo reflected on the Demon Race's Holy Mountain, his injuries, the Nine-Headed Lion Vengeful Soul, the Life Bamboo, and the broken hammer as he continued recovering.
• Half a month later, a legless young man crawled through the rain toward the demon statue to seek revenge, but he died before reaching it.

Chen Luo revived Zhao Han, rewrote his damaged memories, and sent him back to Sword Cleansing Hall while secretly guiding him from within. There, Chen Luo recognized the sect disciples’ swordsmanship as Sacrificial Demon Sword.

• Chen Luo collected Zhao Han’s Baleful Soul in the Soul Banner, then used a Life Bamboo leaf to restore his corpse.
• Chen Luo used the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique and Life Borrowing Gu to revive Zhao Han, whose memories were initially missing.
• Chen Luo filled in Zhao Han’s missing memories with Inner Demon Art, giving him a fabricated history in which Chen Luo was his trusted uncle and his junior sister apprentice had betrayed him.
• Chen Luo imparted a demonic qi cultivation method to Zhao Han and merged into his body as Zhao Han left Demon God Valley.
• Zhao Han found his way back to Sword Cleansing Hall, and Chen Luo suppressed his anger before he entered the sect.
• Chen Luo recognized the disciples’ sword practice as Sacrificial Demon Sword when he saw them training in the courtyard.

Zhao Han returned to Sword Cleansing Hall seeking revenge, but his rewritten memories conflicted with the people he met. Chen Luo altered the memories of those around him to keep Zhao Han from going mad, while Zhao Han attacked his master and demanded to know where his junior sister apprentice was.

• Zhao Han intimidated the pockmarked disciple at the entrance, who fled to his home fearing retaliation.
• Chen Luo rewrote the pockmarked disciple's memories, making him Lu Dachui, Zhao Han's junior brother apprentice, so future contradictions would affect him instead of Zhao Han.
• Zhao Han entered the backyard and attacked Ji Chang after demanding to know whether his junior sister apprentice had returned.
• Chen Luo rewrote Ji Chang's memories to match Zhao Han's belief that their master-disciple relationship was only a business transaction.
• Ji Chang, now convinced that he charged fees for teaching disciples, told Zhao Han that finding his junior sister apprentice would cost three hundred taels.

Chen Luo altered Zhao Han and the Sword Cleansing Hall disciples’ memories, helping Zhao Han learn Ji Chang’s cultivation techniques and setting him on a collision course with Ling Shan and Lin Jian. Ji Chang’s conflicting memories drove him to stab himself, and Chen Luo tried to repair him as Zhao Han confronted the returning pair.

• Ji Chang told Zhao Han that Ling Shan and Lin Jian were cultivating at the Treasure Pavilion, and Chen Luo altered Ji Chang’s and the disciples’ memories to make Zhao Han their next Young Sect Master.
• Zhao Han went to the Myriad Treasure Pavilion but could not enter, then paid Ji Chang ten thousand taels to learn his techniques and was shown the secret chamber of cultivation manuals.
• After Zhao Han learned the techniques, a disciple reported that Ling Shan and Lin Jian had left the Treasure Pavilion, and Zhao Han gathered the disciples and headed for the main gate.
• Ji Chang’s memories and instincts clashed over whether Lin Jian was his son, so he stabbed himself; Chen Luo healed him and revised his method of altering memories.
• Ling Shan and Lin Jian returned to the Sword Cleansing Hall, where Zhao Han confronted them with his sword and accused Ling Shan of poisoning him.

Zhao Han took control of Sword Cleansing Hall with Chen Luo’s help, while Chen Luo set out to find Flower-Backed Turtle and the others. He followed a divined route into demon territory and reached a dangerous river, where a boatman offered to ferry him across.

• Zhao Han killed Ling Shan and Lin Jian, captured their souls in the Soul Refining Stone, and was publicly named Sword Cleansing Hall’s Young Sect Master.
• Zhao Han mistook the returning Teng Yue for an impostor and ordered Lu Dachui to take him away for interrogation.
• Chen Luo told Zhao Han he was leaving, gave him a strand of Inner Demon Qi for protection, and used a Heavenly Secret cultivation brain to calculate a southeast route.
• Chen Luo left the city and traveled through increasingly barren lands as the demon qi grew denser.
• Chen Luo stopped at a river after sensing danger and losing access to the power of 'Void Return Solidification'.
• A boatman appeared through the mist and offered to take Chen Luo across the river.

Chen Luo crossed the demon-infested White Silk River and found Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian leading a settlement of Human Dao Cultivators. He learned that they had become river pirates and was given a Human Dao cultivation manual by Sima Ze.

• Chen Luo sensed that the White Silk River’s demon aura suppressed his powers and severed his connection to the Legendary Realm.
• Black Wind Twin Fiends Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian attacked the boat, killed its passengers and boatman, and brought Chen Luo to a small island.
• Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian led Chen Luo to a mountain refuge marked by a Human Dao banner, where more than a hundred Human Dao Cultivators welcomed him.
• Chen Luo found no trace of the Flower-Backed Turtle and watched Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian distribute blood beads made from the victims’ blood essence.
• Sima Ze introduced himself as seventh in the Human Dao, warned Chen Luo against demon-fed Sacrificial Dharma Methods, and gave him a Human Dao cultivation manual.

Chen Luo joined the Human Dao stronghold and investigated its cultivation techniques, while discovering that Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian had damaged memories. As the Demon Dao prepared another sacrifice, Chen Luo continued studying memory manipulation and searching for a way to break through to the Void Return Realm.

• Chen Luo became the Human Dao’s one hundred and eighth hero and learned that the faction opposed the Demon Dao’s control over demon-power cultivation.
• Chen Luo noticed that Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian had incomplete brains and tampered memories, but they could not recall where they had come from.
• Chen Luo mastered the Sword Cleansing Sect and Human Dao techniques, then concluded that neither technique could reveal the root source he sought.
• Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian attacked boats carrying suspected sacrifices and worried that the Demon Dao’s seventh sacrifice was approaching.
• Chen Luo used a puppet to attend the returning river pirates and continued experimenting on Shi Sao, whose memories he had repeatedly altered.
• Chen Luo entered a room filled with skulls and pursued a major breakthrough in his Brain Restoration Technique.

Chen Luo discovered that Yuwen Ling had tested him with poisoned wine before Su Linlin, his old acquaintance and now a powerful Six-tailed Demonic Fox, revealed herself. Su Linlin invited Chen Luo to the Sacred Mountain, while Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian recovered their sealed memories.

• A red-robed official crushed a message from the Black Wind Twin Fiends and continued toward the Sacred Mountain, intending to make a pilgrimage to the demon who had descended from it.
• Yuwen Ling visited Chen Luo with poisoned wine to probe him, but he saw through her trick and later found a red fox hair outside his room.
• Su Linlin defeated the heroes of Gathering of Righteousness Mountain, including Ding Jian, and confronted Yuwen Ling before entering Chen Luo's courtyard.
• Su Linlin revealed that she was Chen Luo's old acquaintance and invited him to return to the mountain, where his turtle friend was waiting.
• Chen Luo asked about Brother Hu and learned he was dead; Su Linlin then removed the Dao Seals from Yuwen Ling and Ding Jian, restoring their memories.
• Su Linlin asked Chen Luo to come back to the mountain with her and promised him a great gift.

Chen Luo reunited with Flower-Backed Turtle on the Holy Mountain and discovered the bird skull he had brought was the living main body of Venerable Black Bird. Meanwhile, Su Linlin faced Hu You’s warning and the tensions behind the Fox Clan’s leadership, then reaffirmed that her authority depended on the Black Ox Demon Tribe.

• Chen Luo met Flower-Backed Turtle on the moving Holy Mountain, where Flower-Backed Turtle gave him a bird skull he had hidden.
• Chen Luo recognized the skull as Venerable Black Bird’s living main body and returned it to Flower-Backed Turtle rather than risk keeping it.
• Su Linlin confronted Hu You at the Sacred Temple, where an ox demon’s severed head had been hung at the gate.
• Hu You warned Su Linlin not to provoke their enemies and said the Fox Clan would eventually be handed to her, then left after noticing the Jade Pendant at Su Linlin’s waist.
• Su Linlin explained that Hu You still controlled the Fox Clan and that the Black Ox Demon Tribe’s support had helped her become clan leader.

Chen Luo learned about the Demon Race’s legendary techniques and kept advancing his cultivation and other skills while staying cautious on the Holy Mountain. The chapter left him still searching for a way to achieve Intent Manifestation as the Flower-Backed Turtle arrived to visit.

• Chen Luo asked the Flower-Backed Turtle and the Clam Girl about Demon Race cultivation methods, learning the history of the Seven Demon Kings and their techniques, including the Demon God Technique and the Divine Turtle’s demonic technique.
• Chen Luo reflected on the ancient experts and secrets within the Demon Race, then stayed cautious because he sensed an unseen presence watching him on the Holy Mountain.
• Su Linlin visited Chen Luo with gifts and cultivation resources, while his spirit insects evolved and his skills in pill refining, artifact refining, formations, and talismans improved.
• Chen Luo attempted to paint a fierce tiger with his Talisman Brush but decided his progress was still insufficient, as he had yet to find a method for Intent Manifestation.
• Chen Luo’s Serpentman Puppet announced that Turtle Master had arrived.