Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi and Sun Chi headed to the Elephant Demon Race after receiving a report of a possible genius, while Chen Luo faced a dangerous manifestation of mortal desires after breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm. The chapter ended with the Flower-Backed Turtle demonstrating his modified Fate-Changing Immortal Art on two Little Crocodiles.

• Xu Zhi received a paper crane reporting a possible genius among the Elephant Demon Race, and he and Sun Chi set off to investigate.
• Chen Luo's thoughts about the mortal world triggered a vivid desire that took the form of a Yarn Ball Person resembling him, and he smashed it with a chessboard.
• Chen Luo was drawn into memories of his wife, Junior Sister Apprentice Huang Ying, and Third Uncle, but switched to the Immortal Corpse's brain when his consciousness began to fade.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle showed Chen Luo how he had mastered the Fate-Changing Immortal Art and used it on two Little Crocodiles, which stopped moving.

Chen Luo tested several paths for controlling the emotions that had manifested from his power, then sent a Demon Seeking Dog he painted to search for Su Linlin. Meanwhile, Bai Lingling and Xu Zhi's group infiltrated the Elephant Demon Race's hidden treasure ground to find the genius elephant demon corpse.

• Chen Luo traced the emotions within himself to his breakthrough into Void Refinement Realm and planned to test more than thirty possible paths.
• Chen Luo tested the Path of Indulgence on Xu Zhi and the others, then rejected it after it provoked uncontrolled rage and sorrow.
• Chen Luo learned from Butterfly Woman that Su Linlin had vanished after Hu You took control of the Fox Clan and Venerable Black Ox died.
• Chen Luo painted a Demon Seeking Dog and ordered it to find Su Linlin.
• Bai Lingling and Xu Zhi's group slipped into the Elephant Demon Race's hidden treasure ground, where the genius elephant demon corpse was being kept for sale.

Chen Luo met Ancestor Gui Beneath the Sacred Mountain, who warned him that the Demon Race's Dao was not his to take and gave Flower-Backed Turtle a Mang Bird rib bone for him. After learning that Sun Chi had been killed by the Stone Spirit Race, Chen Luo focused on the newly appointed Seventh Demon Saint.

• Chen Luo recognized the dangerous visitor as Ancestor Gui Beneath the Sacred Mountain, and accepted two Dao Stones as payment for fishing.
• Ancestor Gui thanked Chen Luo for bringing Hua Buwan out of the Demon World, warned him that the Demon Race's Dao could not be given to him, and left him a Mang Bird rib bone.
• Hua Buwan told Chen Luo that the rib bone had fallen from the Immortal Realm, and Chen Luo considered examining it for Bone Runes.
• A message reported that Sun Chi had died at the hands of the Stone Spirit Race, and Chen Luo asked whether the newly appointed Seventh Demon Saint was from that race.

Chen Luo left the Ancestral Tomb and searched the Elephant Demon Race for Bai Lingling and Xu Zhi, but they were missing. After Stone Spirit Race members investigated the massacre and blamed Great King Huang Hu, Chen Luo tracked them down and attacked them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Chen Luo learned about Stone Mother Empress and decided to leave the Demon Race after one more job, postponing his Void Return Heavenly Tribulation until afterward.
• Chen Luo slaughtered the Elephant Demons at their temple while searching for Bai Lingling and Xu Zhi, then absorbed the temple’s Evil Thought with his Evil Affection sapling.
• Stone Spirit Race investigators found evidence of a Void Refinement attacker, but the Elephant Venerable dismissed them from the Legendary Realm while Grandma Yan, Yu Nian, and the Willow Tree Spirit watched.
• The Stone Spirit investigators suspected Great King Huang Hu had attacked the Elephant Demon Race and fled to the Leopard Tribe’s territory.
• Chen Luo found the Stone Spirit Race members, killed one after it insulted him, destroyed its Nascent Soul, and captured its remnant soul in a Soul Banner.

Chen Luo fought the Stone Spirit Race elder Shi Kai and the Leopard Tribe forces in their royal city, killing them and gathering their souls with his Soul Banner. After replacing the brain that had gone mad from the accumulated resentment, he pursued the fleeing Stone Spirit Race cultivator Shi Ji.

• Chen Luo killed a Stone Spirit Race expert and emerged unharmed after Shi Kai trapped him in stone.
• The Leopard Tribe chief ordered three elders to attack Chen Luo, but Chen Luo killed them and collected their souls.
• Shi Kai used a Legendary Realm saber strike against Chen Luo, who evaded it and killed the Leopard Tribe chief.
• Chen Luo sent his Baleful Souls after the fleeing Leopard Tribe experts, killing them all, then twisted off Shi Kai's head.
• The Soul Banner gathered thousands of lingering souls, driving Chen Luo's brain mad until he replaced it with another brain.
• Shi Ji fled after sensing Shi Kai's death, and Chen Luo vanished to pursue him.

Shi Ji blamed Great King Huang Hu for bringing a Human Race Soul Cultivator into Demon territory, but Chen Luo killed Shi Ji by wielding Stone Mother Empress’s power and destroyed the Leopard Tribe’s city. The Earth Leopard and a few surviving young demons fled the ruins, realizing their tribe could no longer rely on the Demon Saints.

• Shi Ji accused Great King Huang Hu of colluding with a Human Race Soul Cultivator, and Huang Hu decided to bring one in and flee while using the Black Bear Demon as a shield.
• Chen Luo controlled a gigantic Stone Spirit, crushed Shi Ji, and took his corpse before learning from Shi Kai’s brain that Shi Ji had been captured.
• The Earth Leopard emerged from the ruins with several surviving young demons after Chen Luo left, and saw that the Leopard Tribe’s city had been destroyed.
• The Earth Leopard told the young demons that they could rely only on themselves because the ruined Leopard Tribe was no longer useful to the Demon Saints.

Chen Luo stole Xiang Chong’s remains from the Elephant Demon ancestral land and used his memories to complete the Elephant God Seal. As he headed for the Sacred Mountain, he learned that Su Linlin was held by the Golden Scale Demon Saint, while the newly advanced Stone Spirit Demon Saint reported that two Tomb Guard members had escaped.

• The Stone Spirit Race chief captured Xu Zhi and two companions and killed Sun Chi after gaining strength from comprehending the Demon Race’s Dao.
• Chen Luo took Xiang Chong’s skull from the Elephant Demon ancestral land and combined the genius’s brain and Xianglong Technique insights to complete the Elephant God Seal.
• Chen Luo learned that Su Linlin was at the Golden Scale Demon Saint’s Dao arena and summoned Butterfly Woman, Purple Jade, and their forces to the Sacred Mountain.
• Golden Scale Demon Saint discovered Su Linlin had escaped, killed a gatekeeping demon who could not explain her disappearance, and went to seek Hu You’s help.
• The Stone Spirit Demon Saint said that two Tomb Guard Demon Race members had escaped as his strength continued to grow.

Chen Luo entered the Stone Spirit Race’s maze to rescue Xu Zhi and Bai Lingling, then smashed its formation core apart with brute force. The Stone Spirit Ancestor confronted him, and Chen Luo prepared to fight the Void Return Completion expert.

• The Stone Spirit Ancestor told the Stone Spirit Demon Saint to focus on breaking through to the Void Return Completion Realm before withdrawing into the ground.
• Xu Zhi and Bai Lingling became trapped in the Stone Spirit Race’s formation, ran in circles, and discovered that the rock beneath them was the Stone Spirit Ancestor’s body.
• Chen Luo forced his way through the maze’s walls and began smashing the black stone he suspected was its formation core.
• Xu Zhi and Bai Lingling found Chen Luo, who gave them pills and told them to wait outside and help him rob graves later.
• Chen Luo shattered the formation core, ending the restrictions, and the Stone Spirit Ancestor emerged from the wall to confront him.
• Chen Luo rejected the Stone Spirit Ancestor’s claim that the matter was settled and readied himself to fight.

Chen Luo fought Stone Spirit Ancestor, revealing the strength of his stacked minds and spirit soul techniques. Neither could defeat the other, and Stone Spirit Ancestor proposed that they each step back.

• Chen Luo and Stone Spirit Ancestor clashed, and Stone Spirit Ancestor attacked Chen Luo with Divine Sense needles and a spirit soul illusion.
• Chen Luo used Hu Si’s expertise to escape the illusion, then broke free of a Spirit Demon Creature’s restraint with the Spirit Soul Seal and killed it with lightning.
• Chen Luo and Stone Spirit Ancestor exchanged attacks, with Chen Luo’s combined techniques matching Stone Spirit Ancestor’s physical and spirit soul power.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor suspected Chen Luo was a Reincarnator, while Chen Luo wondered how many opponents of Stone Spirit Ancestor’s level were On the Mountain.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor ended the exchange by proposing that they each take a step back.

Chen Luo rejected Stone Spirit Ancestor’s plot to seize the Demon Race’s Dao but accepted marks from him, then abandoned his plans on the mountain and prepared to leave for Human Race territory. He returned to Rat Tribe territory, distributed his Enlightenment Spirit Pills, and began tempering a Half-Immortal Artifact hammer.

• Stone Spirit Ancestor proposed that Chen Luo help him seize the Demon Race’s Dao and offered to replace Chen Luo’s dead subordinate, but Chen Luo asked instead about the petrification secret art.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor removed Venerable Black Bird’s mark from Chen Luo and warned that it could lead to Body Seizure, but Chen Luo welcomed the mark and asked Stone Spirit Ancestor to mark him too.
• Chen Luo searched Golden Scale Demon Saint’s empty dojo for Su Linlin, then left the mountain with Butterfly Woman and the others.
• Back in Rat Tribe territory, Chen Luo gathered his puppets and prepared to leave the Demon Race after resolving Su Linlin’s matter.
• Chen Luo gave most of his refined Enlightenment Spirit Pills to Xu Zhi and the others, sent them away, and began tempering his Half-Immortal Artifact hammer.

Chen Luo uncovered the half-Immortal Artifact hammer’s hidden power and then agreed to help Stone Spirit Ancestor in exchange for secret arts. After learning the first volume of Demon Realm, Chen Luo began studying how it used the Legendary Realm to preserve life and aid cultivation.

• Chen Luo broke the hidden mark on the half-Immortal Artifact hammer and stored it, then received three alchemy geniuses’ brains.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor confronted Chen Luo as he prepared to leave, revealing that Ancestor Gui had also marked him and drawing him into the Legendary Realm.
• Chen Luo detected Stone Spirit Ancestor’s use of the Legendary Realm and agreed to cooperate in exchange for the first volumes of Demon Realm and Bronze Head Iron Arms.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor left after warning Chen Luo that he had marked him too, and Chen Luo began studying Demon Realm.
• Chen Luo learned that four old monsters had combined their arts to create Demon Realm, which let them shelter their bodies in the Legendary Realm and extend their lives, though it was not true immortality.

Chen Luo guarded Stone Spirit Ancestor’s formation while the old demon and Great Sophora Tree fought six Demon Saints to seize the Demon Race’s 'Dao'. Ancestor Gui attacked Chen Luo, but after seemingly killing him, he discovered Chen Luo had used a clone, and black rain formed from Ancestor Gui’s demon power began to fall.

• Stone Spirit Ancestor gave Chen Luo the secret art "Demon Realm" and asked him to hold Ancestor Gui back for an incense stick’s time.
• Stone Spirit Ancestor activated his formation and battled the Demon Saints with help from the Stone Spirit patriarch and Great Sophora Tree.
• Ancestor Gui arrived with Flower-Backed Turtle and tried to force his way past Chen Luo, warning that tampering with the Demon Race’s 'Dao' could wipe out the clan.
• Chen Luo awakened the Immortal Corpse’s power to block Ancestor Gui, who recognized the aura as Corpse Dissolution Immortal and asked about Zhao Qi.
• Ancestor Gui blasted Chen Luo into dust, but a chessboard struck him and destroyed his body; he reformed and realized Chen Luo had used a clone.
• Ancestor Gui unleashed surging demon power, and black rain began falling from the sky.

Chen Luo’s attacks failed to stop Ancestor Gui, while the Stone Spirit Ancestor and Great Sophora Tree fought him over the Demon Race’s Dao and shattered the Holy Mountain. Amid the chaos, Chen Luo killed the Black Bone Demon Saint and collected his soul.

• Ancestor Gui destroyed Chen Luo’s puppet clones and swallowed the rain, formations, and Baleful Souls before reaching the restriction around the Demon Race’s Dao.
• The Stone Spirit Ancestor and Great Sophora Tree joined forces against the Four Great Demon Saints and targeted the Dao, but Ancestor Gui arrived sooner than expected.
• Ancestor Gui and the Stone Spirit Ancestor fought at full strength, breaking apart the Holy Mountain and rendering the Four Great Demon Saints’ Dao Artifacts powerless.
• The Four Great Demon Saints fled to save their clanspeople as the mountain split into falling chunks.
• Chen Luo emerged from a collapsed rock, killed the unconscious Black Bone Demon Saint, collected his soul, and looked toward the Demon Race’s Dao.

After the Holy Mountain collapsed and reshaped the Demon Race, Chen Luo visited Su Linlin, who was hiding in a mortal village, and prepared to leave. He revealed that he had reached Void Return, gave her pills to aid her cultivation, and promised to resolve her troubles.

• Chen Luo memorized the Demon Race’s invisible Dao and left the rubble, while three Black Bone experts found the Black Bone Demon Saint dead and vowed to target Stone Spirit’s clansmen.
• The Holy Mountain’s collapse reshaped the Demon Race’s power structure, and Chen Luo spent half a month rescuing demons and expanding his forces.
• Su Linlin hid near White Sand River with three children, evading her pursuers while recovering her cultivation after Fortune Reversal ruined her bid to become Demon Saint.
• Chen Luo visited Su Linlin and told her he was leaving the Demon Race, then gave her Enlightenment Spirit Pills that could support her cultivation to Early Void Return.
• Chen Luo demonstrated Legend Materialization to reveal his Void Return realm, promised to help resolve Su Linlin’s troubles, and left the village after giving the children gifts.

The Golden Scale Demon Saint tracked Su Linlin to a village, where he discovered that the Green Flood Dragon Demon Saint had been hiding her. After returning to confront them, he was ambushed by an unknown enemy disguised as the Green Flood Dragon, and the chapter ended with him retreating in alarm.

• The Golden Scale Demon Saint followed Su Linlin’s aura to a riverbank and attacked a group of village women, only to find that one of them was a disguised old man whose corpse exploded.
• The Golden Scale Demon Saint escaped into a colder main river, searched the strange woman’s memories, and learned that the Green Flood Dragon Demon Saint was concealing Su Linlin.
• The Golden Scale Demon Saint returned near the village in disguise and saw the Green Flood Dragon Demon Saint emerge from a house with Su Linlin.
• The Green Flood Dragon Demon Saint and Su Linlin vanished as the village fell silent, and an unknown attacker struck the Golden Scale Demon Saint from behind with a dagger.
• The Golden Scale Demon Saint unleashed his Black Water against the apparent Green Flood Dragon Demon Saint, but the attack did not harm him, and the Golden Scale Demon Saint began retreating.

Chen Luo killed Golden Scale Demon Saint with a Heart Demon illusion, then left the Demon Race after arranging a safe place for Su Linlin to cultivate. At the Demon Race boundary, Bai Lingling joined him as his disciple, while Flower-Backed Turtle remained in the hinterland pursued by the Female Demons Ancestor Gui had assigned him.

• Chen Luo used the Demon Realm and Inner Demon Art to make Golden Scale Demon Saint die inside his own Heart Demon, then told Su Linlin the danger was gone and recommended a place for her to cultivate.
• Chen Luo said farewell to Su Linlin and Silver Fang Venerable on the ice plains before traveling to the Demon Race Boundary.
• Bai Lingling asked Chen Luo to take her as his master, and he agreed to let her accompany him.
• Chen Luo and Bai Lingling headed through Jade Gate Market Town toward the Cross-domain Teleportation Formation, while Chen Luo briefly wondered what he had forgotten.
• In the Demon Race hinterland, Flower-Backed Turtle fled from more than twenty Female Demons Ancestor Gui had arranged as his spouses and cried out for his Eldest Brother to save him.

Chen Luo crushed Great King Huang Hu and two Soul Cultivators who had been killing people in the Demon Race territory, then left through the Cross-domain Teleportation Formation with Bai Lingling and another companion. Meanwhile, Stone Spirit Ancestor and the Great Sophora Tree faced Ancestor Gui over the displaced “Dao,” as a crow argued that it should be shared among the old powers.

• Great King Huang Hu and two Human Race Soul Cultivators continued killing people and refining their souls into Soul Banners until an unseen attacker destroyed one Soul Cultivator and his Nascent Soul.
• The surviving Soul Cultivator absorbed his brother’s remnant soul and tried to flee with Great King Huang Hu, but Chen Luo crushed them both and claimed their Soul Banners.
• The Soul Banners’ Baleful Souls were absorbed into Chen Luo’s higher-grade banner, and he burned the bodies and corpses before leaving the Demon Race territory with Bai Lingling and another companion.
• At the Holy Mountain of old, Ancestor Gui demanded that Stone Spirit Ancestor return the displaced “Dao,” while Stone Spirit Ancestor said it was too late to undo what had happened.
• A black crow emerged from the Legendary Realm and argued that the “Dao” should be distributed among the old powers, but Ancestor Gui insisted that moving the foundation meant death and renewed his attack.

Chen Luo traveled back toward the Southern Sky Region while cultivating the Demon Realm secret art, which drew his spirit into the Human Race’s Legendary Realm. There he encountered two powerful Otherworldly Demons and burned away the golden wheat field surrounding them.

• Chen Luo learned that his odds of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation had risen to ninety-nine percent, then set off with Bai Lingling toward the Southern Sky Region.
• Chen Luo realized he had forgotten Flower-Backed Turtle and the others he had originally come to rescue, but decided they were likely safe and continued cultivating the Demon Realm secret art.
• Chen Luo entered the Human Race’s Legendary Realm and encountered strange beings and swarms formed from the desires of living creatures.
• Chen Luo found a giant gray rabbit and a trapped hedgehog, identified them as Evil Rabbit and Sound Hedgehog from the Records of Anomalies, and recognized the hedgehog’s attempts to make him speak.
• Chen Luo summoned flames that consumed the golden wheat field, leaving himself and the two Otherworldly Demons in a Vacuum Area.

Chen Luo killed the gray rabbit and hedgehog in a sealed wheat-field formation, then survived the Golden Wheat’s soul poison and returned to his physical body near the Ancient God Sect. The Three Ancestors of Myriad Stars ambushed him, but their attack struck empty clouds, and Chen Luo counterattacked, grievously wounding Immortal Venerable Haori.

• Chen Luo smashed the hedgehog with his hammer, then killed the gray rabbit when it attacked him.
• Chen Luo examined the sealed wheat field, identified it as a sixth-tier Void and Reality Formation, and was poisoned by a Golden Wheat root tendril.
• Old Brother Changqing’s Nameless Root Tendril devoured the poison, and Chen Luo’s soul returned to his body beside Bai Lingling.
• Sun Venerable and Star Venerable waited with Moon Venerable, believing Chen Luo had died in the Legendary Realm and planning to take the Immortal Hammer.
• Moon Venerable found the clouds empty, and blood-red blade lights struck Immortal Venerable Haori, severing his arm and worsening his injuries.

Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect, advised Mu Xiao Yu to strengthen her foundation, and introduced her to Bai Lingling before leaving for the Dragon Tomb. He entered the Star Great Tomb to cultivate the secret technique "Demon Realm" and found himself in an abandoned town where a man was forging a blade.

• Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect and learned that many disciples had ascended to the Upper Realm, while Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye remained in the Lower Realm.
• Chen Luo confined Ao Ye to the back mountain until he broke through, then gave Mu Xiao Yu pills and Sword Dao Divine Abilities and told her not to rush to the Upper Realm.
• Chen Luo introduced Bai Lingling as Mu Xiao Yu's Junior Sister Apprentice and left Bai Lingling in the sect before departing.
• Chen Luo entered the Dragon Tomb, passed the Seven Patriarchs of Qionghua as two continued undergoing Tribulation Transcendence, and reached the Star Great Tomb.
• Chen Luo began cultivating "Demon Realm" beside Immortal Emperor Changqing's corpse and entered a gray, abandoned town where a bare-chested man was forging a blade.