Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo stayed secluded on Holy Mountain to avoid the powerful demon watching him, while Flower-Backed Turtle mistook his silence for preparation for a major score. After Su Linlin visited, a Toad Spirit used the Illusion Spirit Gu to manipulate her into asking Chen Luo to obtain Candlerock Grass, and Chen Luo recognized the Gu’s illusion while pretending to comply.

• Flower-Backed Turtle asked Chen Luo to join Demon Sacrifice Day and pressed him about robbing a grave, but Chen Luo refused and drove him away with a hint that made him flee.
• Chen Luo recalled that only Old Brother Changqing had detected the great demon divine sense and remained inside to avoid drawing the watcher’s attention.
• Su Linlin visited Chen Luo, exchanged a warm conversation with him, and left without admitting that she was troubled.
• A Toad Spirit appeared at Chen Luo’s doorway, insulted him, and used the Illusion Spirit Gu to make himself look like Chen Luo’s deceased Third Uncle.
• The Toad Spirit ordered Chen Luo to tell Su Linlin that he needed Candlerock Grass, and Chen Luo agreed while recognizing the Gu’s illusion.

Chen Luo tracked Su Linlin’s aura to a ravine, where he confronted the Toad Spirit and resisted the Illusion Spirit Gu’s distortions. The Toad Spirit’s attack failed against Chen Luo’s sixth-tier Body Aspect, and Chen Luo struck back with a Spirit Artifact.

• The Toad Spirit met with Hu You and two demons in a cave, where they planned to exploit Su Linlin’s trip to find Candlerock Grass for Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo slipped out during the rain, used a third-tier Tracking Talisman to follow Su Linlin’s aura, and reached a poisonous mountain ravine.
• The Toad Spirit emerged from the cave carrying a Copper Pillar, and Chen Luo’s Divine Sense found no one else inside.
• The Toad Spirit attacked Chen Luo with the Illusion Spirit Gu and his Copper Pillar, but Chen Luo’s Body Aspect blocked the strike.
• Chen Luo slapped the Copper Pillar aside and launched a black square Spirit Artifact at the Toad Spirit.

Chen Luo killed the Toad Spirit and seized the Mature Stage Illusion Spirit Gu, then encountered a Sophora Tree Spirit clone before returning to his courtyard. The Black Bear Demon and Hu You learned that the Toad Spirit and the Gu were gone, leaving their plans in disarray.

• The Toad Spirit tried to flee after Chen Luo wounded him, but Chen Luo caught him with So Close, Yet So Far and killed him, then looted his remains.
• Chen Luo endured the Illusion Spirit Gu's attacks by switching among his External Brain's brains, sealed the Gu, and stored it in the Grotto-heaven Gourd.
• A black feather struck Chen Luo, and the Sophora Tree Spirit warned him that he had crossed into Demon Race territory before revealing itself to be a dead-tree clone.
• Chen Luo abandoned his pursuit of Su Linlin when the rain lessened and the watching aura returned, then went back to his courtyard.
• The Black Bear Demon and Hu You discussed the Toad Spirit's death and the loss of the Illusion Spirit Gu, while the White Wolf objected to being called a dog.

Chen Luo refined an Illusion Spirit Gu while Su Linlin arranged a Black Ox Demon to guard him amid rising Demon Race turmoil. When rain hid his movements from the consciousness watching him, Chen Luo left his courtyard and spotted a fleeing figure being pursued toward the mountain boundary.

• Hu You proposed recruiting more demons as the clans maneuvered over the rumored vacancy left by the aging Yellow Rat Demon Saint.
• Chen Luo refined Sixth-tier Demon Spirit Pills for Su Linlin, who told him her aunt had died and asked whether he had faced danger.
• Su Linlin introduced a Sixth-tier Black Ox Demon as Chen Luo's supposed student and protector, and the ox pretended to accept a spirit-material booklet.
• After the Black Bear clan's young clan leader was killed and a Demon Saint descended, Chen Luo refined the Illusion Spirit Gu in his secluded chamber.
• When heavy rain made the watching consciousness disappear, Chen Luo left the courtyard and saw one figure fleeing toward the boundary as three others pursued.

Chen Luo stopped four demons fighting over Mù Jǐn and discovered that she was a Sword Soul spirit. After examining her Sword Intent, he used his Illusion Spirit Gu on the demons, who left with altered memories and identities.

• Chen Luo sensed a Sword Soul and halted the fight between Mù Jǐn and three members of the Hundred Demons Alliance.
• Chen Luo subdued the fourth-tier demons and questioned Mù Jǐn, who said she was carrying an elder’s remnant soul back to her clan.
• Chen Luo recognized that Mù Jǐn was a Sword Soul spirit and examined the power within her without harming her.
• Chen Luo released the demons and asked them to test a divine ability, then used his Illusion Spirit Gu to change their memories.
• The four demons left Holy Mountain believing they were sworn siblings who had tried to rob a spirit field.

After three years studying Mù Jǐn’s Sword Soul and the Demon Race’s power struggles, Chen Luo learned that the Yellow Rat Demon Saint had died. He prepared to leave with Flower-Backed Turtle to loot graves on the Holy Mountain and seize the Demon Saint’s corpse, leaving a disguised puppet in his place.

• Chen Luo suppressed the competing thoughts in his External Brain and returned home after deciding to pursue a breakthrough through the Sword Soul method.
• Over the next three years, Chen Luo studied the Sword Soul while Su Linlin dealt with growing unrest among the demon clans.
• Su Linlin visited Chen Luo, received a voice-transmission, and left to handle urgent matters.
• Chen Luo learned more about the Demon Race’s factions and its hidden watchers, including the great turtle and the Great Sophora Tree.
• Flower-Backed Turtle told Chen Luo that the Yellow Rat Demon Saint had died and proposed looting graves on the Holy Mountain and taking the corpse.
• Chen Luo agreed, created a Gray Rabbit-souled puppet disguised as himself, and departed with Flower-Backed Turtle.

Chen Luo and Flower-Backed Turtle breached a hidden entrance to the Demon Race Ancestral Tomb and fought through its defenses. Inside, Chen Luo found and memorized the Poison Scripture, then began breaking into the Poison Scorpion Clan’s ancestral burial place.

• Chen Luo told Flower-Backed Turtle that the entrance he had heard about was fake and continued digging at the tomb’s hidden entrance.
• The pair exposed the burial chamber, tested it with spirit talismans, and jumped inside before the formation could seal it.
• Chen Luo countered a curse attack and destroyed an earth monkey while the pair entered the tomb.
• Flower-Backed Turtle fought swarms of poisonous scorpions while Chen Luo passed through them and memorized the Sacred Canon of Poison Dao.
• Chen Luo struck the stone wall he believed held the Poison Scorpion Clan’s ancestor, and another explosion sounded nearby.

Chen Luo and Flower-Backed Turtle uncovered Scorpion Horn, a powerful Poison Scorpion ancestor, in the Demon Race’s Ancestral Tomb as the Six Great Demon Saints intervened in a battle outside. After the saints ordered the demons to catch the tomb robbers, Chen Luo disguised his aura as Scorpion Horn’s and continued deeper into the tomb to search for more corpses.

• Flower-Backed Turtle burned the attacking scorpions while Chen Luo broke through a stone wall and found the corpse of Scorpion Horn, the Poison Scorpion Clan’s first chief.
• Chen Luo read Scorpion Horn’s memories, learned his identity as a Void Return Realm poison cultivator, and collected his corpse in the Grotto-heaven Gourd.
• The Six Great Demon Saints arrived, suppressed the fighting, and ordered the demons to catch the man and turtle robbing the Ancestral Tomb.
• Chen Luo saw the saints leave without entering the tomb, disguised his aura as Scorpion Horn, and led Flower-Backed Turtle deeper inside.
• Chen Luo followed the Death Qi toward another tomb region and crushed a giant swamp creature that attacked them.

Chen Luo entered a hidden space in the Demon Race Ancestral Tomb and defeated its Crocodile Demon guardian with an Eight-Armed Demonic Statue. After healing the Crocodile Demon, Chen Luo tried to recruit Butterfly Woman, then challenged the guardians’ faith in the Black Crow Dao Venerable.

• Butterfly Woman and the Crocodile Demon discussed intruders approaching the tomb and whether they should protect the remains of the Black Crow Dao Venerable.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle entered the hidden space, and the Crocodile Demon attacked them with his Twin-Blossom Broad Axes.
• Chen Luo blocked the Crocodile Demon’s blows and battered him with the Eight-Armed Demonic Statue, defeating him without using a divine ability.
• Chen Luo healed the Crocodile Demon and invited Butterfly Woman to join his sect, hoping to recruit the tomb guardians.
• The Crocodile Demon defended the Black Crow Dao Venerable’s cultivation technique, and Chen Luo replied that their Venerable had died.

Chen Luo subdued Butterfly Woman and the Crocodile Demon, then discovered that the Black Crow Demon Saint had left his empty tomb long ago. He headed for Venerable Black Dog’s tomb while Flower-Backed Turtle and the Crocodile Demon were left to stall the demon forces entering the Ancestral Tomb.

• Chen Luo revealed his cultivation and used his techniques to alter the Crocodile Demon’s beliefs, while Butterfly Woman agreed with him and submitted.
• Butterfly Woman led Chen Luo to the Black Crow Demon Saint’s tomb and revealed that the Black Crow Demon Saint had left Holy Mountain seventeen hundred years earlier.
• Chen Luo found the tomb empty and recognized a Black Feather as belonging to Venerable Black Bird, then learned that Purple Jade guarded Venerable Black Dog’s tomb.
• Chen Luo went with Butterfly Woman toward Venerable Black Dog’s tomb and ordered Flower-Backed Turtle and the Crocodile Demon to delay the demons outside.
• The Six Great Demon Saints opened the Ancestral Tomb, allowing demon forces to rush inside and search for the tomb robber.

Flower-Backed Turtle and the Crocodile Demon tried to delay the search for tomb robbers by sending two disguised crocodiles to take the blame. Meanwhile, Chen Luo reached Purple Jade’s tomb chamber, where she attacked him, and he immobilized her with Karmic Law.

• Flower-Backed Turtle showed the Crocodile Demon the Demon Saint’s portraits of the wanted human cultivator and turtle, and the Crocodile Demon sent two little crocodiles out disguised as them.
• Leopard Head Lin encountered the disguised crocodiles and agreed to escort them to the entrance after they threatened him.
• Butterfly Woman led Chen Luo toward Black Dog Demon Saint’s tomb chamber, where Purple Jade confronted them.
• Purple Jade trapped Chen Luo and Butterfly Woman with tornadoes, but Chen Luo dispersed them and appeared beside her.
• Chen Luo pinned Purple Jade in place with Karmic Law and revealed that his earlier form had been a phantom.

Chen Luo used transformation, disguise, and implanted memories to send impostors toward the ancestral tomb passage, then persuaded his new Tomb Guardian Demon subordinates that his self-created Longevity Immortal Method could lead to True Immortality. After days of teaching them, he sent the grateful demons out to dig up more tombs, while the Flower-Backed Turtle remained confused.

• Chen Luo returned to Butterfly Woman Valley with Butterfly Woman, Purple Jade, and three newly subdued Tomb Guardian Old Monsters, choosing to avoid the outsiders for now.
• Chen Luo transformed two Little Crocodiles into a fake Ning Chenye and a Turtle Demon, gave them disguise skins and fabricated memories, and sent them toward the ancestral tomb passage.
• Chen Luo claimed his Longevity Immortal Method led directly to True Immortal and taught it to Butterfly Woman and the other demons for several days.
• After the demons thanked Chen Luo and felt their cultivation bottlenecks loosen, he asked them to bring the slumbering seniors out of their tombs.
• Sun Chi and the others volunteered to dig up several Ancient Tombs, leaving the bewildered Flower-Backed Turtle behind.

Great King Huang Hu used the supposed Tomb Robbers to rush to the Divine Mountain ahead of the other Demon Race leaders, setting off a struggle among the Six Great Demon Saints. Meanwhile, Chen Luo expanded his External Brain, planned to infiltrate the world outside the tomb, and completed five Enlightenment Spirit Pills to strengthen his followers’ foundations.

• Great King Huang Hu accepted Fake Ning Chenye and the Fake Turtle Demon as the Tomb Robbers and carried them to the Divine Mountain to seek the Yellow Rat Demon Saint's inheritance before his rivals.
• The other Demon Race leaders also left with scapegoats, and five days later the Six Great Demon Saints' factions began openly fighting over the position while Butterfly Woman and four demons brought more Old Ancestors to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo's External Brain grew to thirty-three Void Return Realm brains, including those of Hu Si and Stone Mother Empress, while Butterfly Woman reported over a hundred Tomb Guard Demon Race corpses and other discoveries.
• Chen Luo ordered Butterfly Woman and Purple Jade to recruit promising demons and infiltrate the outside world, as Xu Zhi and the others continued excavating Ancient Tombs.
• Chen Luo completed five sixth tier Enlightenment Spirit Pills, which he had developed to help his followers compensate for their weak foundations.

Chen Luo gave Xu Zhi, Bai Lingling, and Sun Chi Enlightenment Spirit Pills to help them advance, and they transformed into powerful demons. Meanwhile, Su Linlin faced growing danger amid the Demon Saints’ struggle on the Holy Mountain.

• Chen Luo assessed Xu Zhi, Bai Lingling, and Sun Chi’s progress, then gave them Enlightenment Spirit Pills to help them grasp the Dao and repair flaws in their cultivation.
• Xu Zhi swallowed a pill first, and Bai Lingling and Sun Chi followed, each transforming as their power surged.
• A giant Demon Monkey emerged from the Ancestral Tomb, killed the Large Black Bear and Rat Spirit guarding its entrance, and led a host of demons outside to follow Chen Luo’s orders.
• The Six Great Demon Saints clashed again over the Yellow Rat Demon Saint’s vacant position, while the Yellow Rat Tribe chief died in Cultivation Deviation.
• Su Linlin watched the moon as the Black Ox Demon guarded her; after surviving several assassination attempts, she remained caught in the dangerous struggle atop the Holy Mountain.

Su Linlin worried about Chen Luo as the Demon Saint’s wanted order put him in danger, while Xu Zhi expanded Chen Luo’s influence by taking control of the Rat Tribe’s succession struggle. Back in the Ancestral Tomb, Chen Luo’s growing collection of External Brains strengthened his sword intent and brought him close to breaking through to the Void Return Realm.

• Su Linlin recalled that Chen Luo had deliberately visited the Fox Clan’s Ancestral Tomb and relied on the Ox Clan to protect her from further attacks.
• Xu Zhi subdued Shu Chen and promised to help him defeat his rivals so he could control the Rat Tribe on Chen Luo’s behalf.
• Shu Chen accepted Xu Zhi’s support, while Sun Chi and Bai Lingling each seized control of a branch among the Twelve Demon Races.
• Chen Luo gathered more than a hundred Tomb Guard Demon brains, bringing his External Brains total above thirteen hundred.
• Chen Luo’s growing sword intent repeatedly released dangerous Sword Qi as he cultivated beside Flower-Backed Turtle, nearing a Void Return breakthrough.

Chen Luo struggled to integrate the Sword Intent in his External Brain and concluded that he needed a powerful Sword Cultivator Brain, so he sought out Pig Dragon Sword Saint. After reaching the barren land where Pig Dragon Sword Saint lived, Chen Luo entered an inn and sensed the Sword Saint approaching.

• Chen Luo gave Flower-Backed Turtle pills to deliver to Xu Zhi and the others and told him the Enlightenment Spirit Pill was not ready for use.
• Chen Luo realized his Sword Intents needed a higher-level Sword Cultivator as their main body and ordered Butterfly Woman to find Pig Dragon Sword Saint.
• Butterfly Woman found Pig Dragon Sword Saint at a barren mountain beneath Holy Mountain, where he had reportedly sat for six hundred years.
• Chen Luo left the Ancestral Tomb, traveled to Dead Silence Ridge, and entered an inn near Pig Dragon Sword Saint's cultivation site.
• Chen Luo sensed Pig Dragon Sword Saint approaching as the innkeeper asked whether he had come looking for treasure.

Chen Luo killed the false Sword Saint and discovered the dead Pig Dragon Sword Saint, absorbing his Withered Sword Intent. He left the survivors behind, secretly passing the innkeeper the Longevity Art as he flew away.

• The innkeeper offered Chen Luo information, but the Sword Saint arrived and unleashed a sword strike that split the inn apart.
• Chen Luo subdued and killed the young man claiming to be the Sword Saint, then found the dead Pig Dragon Sword Saint on a nearby hill.
• Chen Luo absorbed the Pig Dragon Sword Saint's preserved memories and Withered Sword Intent as the Sword Saint's spirit sword crumbled to dust.
• The Jianghu Wanderers begged Chen Luo to accept them as disciples, but he refused and flew away.
• Chen Luo passed the Longevity Art into the innkeeper's mind, leaving her with an unexpected opportunity.

Chen Luo tested and refined Enlightenment Spirit Pills for his five subordinates, then used copied brains to rescue them when the pills triggered dangerous changes. After Flower-Backed Turtle asked to learn the brain-based ability, Chen Luo gave him a jade slip containing the method.

• Chen Luo restored the valley, gathered his subordinates, and asked about their progress with the Immortality Method.
• Chen Luo refined a second batch of Enlightenment Spirit Pills, and Xu Zhi, Sun Chi, Bai Lingling, Butterfly Woman, and Purple Jade swallowed them.
• The pills caused severe changes: Xu Zhi bled uncontrollably, Sun Chi's body transformed, Bai Lingling's bones changed, Butterfly Woman regressed, and Purple Jade swelled dangerously.
• Chen Luo fused copied brains into the five subordinates to stabilize their bodies and address the hidden dangers in their cultivation.
• Flower-Backed Turtle asked Chen Luo to teach him the brain-based divine ability, and Chen Luo gave him a jade slip containing it.

Chen Luo used the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique to repair five demons’ bodies, then defeated them when Xu Zhi challenged him. After ordering them to return every ten days for training, Chen Luo went back to the grass hut to break through the barrier.

• Chen Luo asked how the five demons felt after he used the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique, and Xu Zhi challenged him after sensing what he believed was a weakness in Chen Luo’s cultivation.
• Chen Luo caught Xu Zhi’s attack and smashed him into a mountain wall, then called on the others to test their pills’ effects.
• Chen Luo unleashed crimson Saber Qi, wounded Sun Chi, Purple Jade, Butterfly Woman, and Bai Lingling, and subdued all five with massive black hands.
• The five demons acknowledged Chen Luo’s strength, and he ordered them to return every ten days for guidance on their Immortal Path.
• Chen Luo returned to the grass hut and began breaking through the barrier.

Chen Luo broke through to the Void Return Realm as the Stone Spirit Race replaced the Rat Tribe and established a new order among the Demon Race. Meanwhile, Great King Huang Hu and the Black Bear Demon, both wounded and hunted, joined forces to survive after Hu You betrayed them.

• Chen Luo reached Early Void Return and gained the ability to turn things from his legend into physical objects, while resolving to seek more Daos rather than follow paths others had taken.
• The Stone Spirit Race rose to power with its awakened Old Ancestor, took the Yellow Rat Demon Saint's inheritance, and replaced the Rat Tribe on the Holy Mountain.
• Hu You seized control of the Fox Clan after Su Linlin disappeared, while the Tomb Guard Demon Race expanded in secret.
• The Black Bear Demon woke in a cave after Hu You's plot left him injured and the wolf demon dead, and he vowed to kill her.
• Great King Huang Hu revealed that the Tiger Tribe and Stone Spirit Race were hunting him, then shared wolf meat with the Black Bear Demon as they agreed to survive first.