Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuankong unleashed an attack so swift that nearly every observer failed to see it, while Demon Son Gang Gu’s immense defenses began to vanish and collapse. The chapter ended with Gang Gu exposed, leaving the attack’s effect on its body still unknown.

• Demon Son Gang Gu activated numerous demonic arts and nearly a thousand artifacts to defend itself against Lin Xuankong.
• Lin Xuankong vanished from his original position and appeared west of Gang Gu’s defenses without anyone seeing how he moved.
• Sect Master Qiu said the observers would soon see what happened, while the others struggled to tell whether Lin Xuankong had attacked.
• The demonic body phantoms, banners, and Supreme Demonic Shield around Gang Gu rapidly dissipated under Lin Xuankong’s Buddhist light.
• The thousand demonic artifacts lost their power and fell away, leaving Demon Son Gang Gu’s enormous body exposed.

Lin Xuankong annihilated Demon Son Gang Gu and seized a strange black talisman, ending the Demon Son’s control over the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s enhanced forces. As the allied experts pursued the fleeing demons, Lin Xuankong sensed something about the talisman and looked into the sky.

• Lin Xuankong shattered Demon Son Gang Gu’s defenses and killed him, then collected a black talisman that formed from the fading demonic qi.
• The Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s veteran Devil Masters fled after Gang Gu’s death removed the Heavenly Demon Power strengthening them.
• Yan Mingyu, Kunyuan, and the gathered human, Demon Race, and Buddhist experts praised Lin Xuankong for defeating Gang Gu.
• Lin Xuankong warned that the remaining demons still posed a threat, and Sect Master Qiu and Elder Qiu offered to track them down.
• The allied peak experts pursued the fleeing demons with Lin Xuankong’s immortal artifacts while Lin Xuankong touched the talisman and frowned at the deep sky.

After defeating Demon Son Gang Gu, Lin Xuankong considered the danger posed by the powerful heavenly demon who had sent Gang Gu Heavenly Demon Power, but Yan Mingyu and Guang Yu'er reassured him that allies and ascension paths could protect him. The story then shifted to the Supreme Primordial Realm, where heavenly demons gathered at the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon Mountain, revealing the terrifying power of the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch.

• Guang Yu'er and Yan Mingyu realized Lin Xuankong was worried that the heavenly demon behind Gang Gu might seek revenge for Gang Gu's death.
• Lin Xuankong dismissed the danger as uncertain and resolved to grow stronger before ascending to the Supreme Primordial Realm.
• Yan Mingyu and Guang Yu'er told Lin Xuankong that ascenders entered different passages and that their sects' senior patriarchs could protect him.
• Yan Mingyu advised Lin Xuankong to rely on his own strength during the final heavenly tribulation so he could gain a stronger foundation as a Heavenly Immortal.
• Lin Xuankong resolved to cultivate further before ascending and believed his Golden Body Demon Suppressing Art could help him withstand the tribulation.
• At Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon Mountain, heavenly demons gathered inside a palace made from a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon's corpse, demonstrating the might of the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch.

Nearly ten thousand Heavenly Demons gathered in the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon’s corpse to hear the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch announce their victory at Li Guo Abyss and order an investigation into eight Lesser Worlds where ascensions through the Chishui Passage had stopped. Eight Heavenly Demons received Sacred Monarch Tokens and set out to investigate, while the others envied their chance to earn rewards.

• Nearly ten thousand powerful Heavenly Demons entered the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon’s corpse and knelt before the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s light sphere.
• The Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch announced that the Sacred Clan had won the battle of Li Guo Abyss and gained control of its 7.2 billion connected Lesser Worlds.
• The Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch ordered an investigation into eight Lesser Worlds, including the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm, where no Early Stage Heavenly Monarch had ascended through the Chishui Passage.
• Sanyang, Jiuling, Qingmu, and five other Heavenly Demons volunteered, received Sacred Monarch Tokens, and were given a thousand years to uncover the cause.
• Soul Shatterer Heavenly Monarch reminded the eight volunteers of their debt to him, and they promised to share their rewards with him.
• Jiuling, Qingmu, Sanyang, and the other five token holders left the Cave Dwelling and headed southwest at immense speed.

Eight Lesser Accomplishment Heavenly Demons set out to investigate disturbances in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm, while Qingmu revealed it had captured Jade Bright and seized her Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact. They divided up to guard the Chishui Passage exits and ordered every ascendant captured for interrogation.

• Lin Xuankong considered how his Bully the Old and Weak talent might greatly amplify his abilities against the ancient Heavenly Demons after he ascended.
• The Nine Spirits Heavenly Demon and Qingmu Heavenly Demon discussed capturing ascendants, and Qingmu showed the Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact it had taken from Jade Bright.
• Qingmu speculated that Jade Bright and her artifact were connected to changes in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm and the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s investigation.
• The eight Lesser Accomplishment Heavenly Demons reached a vast city near the Chishui Passage and split up to guard its exits, ordering that every ascendant be captured.
• Qingmu’s subordinates welcomed it, and Qingmu ordered Hongyu Heavenly Demon to reinforce the third passage and bring Jade Bright to its Cave Dwelling for further torture.

Qingmu Heavenly Demon connected the Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact to changes in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm and vowed to find those involved. Meanwhile, Lin Xuankong’s allies celebrated the Immortal-Demon War’s collapse as he struggled to understand a curse talisman tied to the Supreme Primordial Realm, leaving him concerned that Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon had noticed his actions.

• Qingmu Heavenly Demon examined the Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact engraved with “Xuankong” and resolved to capture everyone connected to it for the rewards of its mission.
• At the Wine Immortal Sect, Immortal Lord Kunyuan and other leaders celebrated the defeat of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect while Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva warned that Devil Masters remained at large.
• Lin Xuankong continued testing Demon Son Gang Gu’s black curse talisman, but neither his Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact nor Miss Xiao’s expertise revealed how to break or understand it.
• Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu concluded that the talisman came from Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon’s power and could not be deciphered in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Lin Xuankong wondered whether he would need to ascend to the upper realm to learn the talisman’s secrets and feared Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon had sensed the disruption he caused.

Lin Xuankong sought information about the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon and learned that the curse talisman came from a supreme Heavenly Monarch who ruled an immense force. He was left weighing the danger of ascending to the Supreme Primordial Realm, where even the Jade Bright Heavenly Buddha was only an entry-level Heavenly Buddha.

• Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu advised Lin Xuankong to study the Luoshui Divine Map and use it to strengthen the Luoshui Great Array enough to challenge the black curse talisman.
• Lin Xuankong realized his Great Samsara Technique could restore Demon Son Gang Gu’s Spirit Soul, so he summoned Gang Gu in the form of a black dog and demanded information in exchange for its life.
• Dog Gang Gu agreed to answer Lin Xuankong’s questions about the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon.
• Gang Gu explained that ascended Heavenly Demons, Heavenly Buddhas, and Heavenly Immortals began as entry-level beings and could rise in power by absorbing the Supreme Primordial Realm’s source power or the origins of Lesser Worlds.
• Gang Gu revealed that the curse talisman contained the power of the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Monarch, who commanded thirty thousand Lesser Accomplishment Heavenly Demons and controlled 2.8 billion Lesser Worlds.
• Lin Xuankong considered Gang Gu’s warning that the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Monarch would target him after he ascended, and realized that even the Jade Bright Heavenly Buddha was merely an entry-level Heavenly Buddha.

After hearing Gang Gu’s warning about the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch, Lin Xuankong resolved to grow stronger and studied the Luoshui Divine Map with Yan Mingyu for fifteen hundred years. They nearly completed the Fourth Tier Luoshui Great Array before visitors arrived to witness Immortal Lord Feiyun’s final heavenly tribulation.

• Guang Yu'er and Yan Mingyu reassured Lin Xuankong after Gang Gu warned them about the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch, and Lin Xuankong declared he would eventually contend with that enemy.
• Lin Xuankong decided to study the Luoshui Divine Map with Yan Mingyu to strengthen the arrays that might reveal the black curse talisman’s secrets.
• Fifteen hundred years later, Lin Xuankong and Yan Mingyu failed to complete the Fourth Tier Luoshui Great Array when three artifact membranes collapsed.
• Yan Mingyu praised Lin Xuankong’s rapid progress, and they discussed how stronger tiers of the array might withstand attacks from a Heavenly Buddha.
• The Green-foreheaded Qilin reported that Sect Master Qiu, Yuzhen Bodhisattva, the Kirin Clan Chief, Immortal Lord Feiyun, and other seniors had gathered at Demon Suppressing Hall to witness Feiyun’s final heavenly tribulation.

Immortal Lord Feiyun prepared to undergo the final heavenly tribulation despite Lin Xuankong’s warning that the Supreme Heavenly Devil Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch might threaten ascenders. Lin Xuankong gave her an Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact, and as her tribulation began, the clouds transformed into immense human and demonic shapes.

• Lin Xuankong and the others arrived at Demon Suppressing Hall, where dozens of Supreme Immortal Lord-level experts had gathered to witness Immortal Lord Feiyun’s tribulation.
• Lin Xuankong privately warned Immortal Lord Feiyun about Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch, but she remained resolved to ascend.
• Sect Master Qiu, Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva, and the Old Clan Leader of the Azure Dragon Clan encouraged the ceremony and voiced their own hopes of ascending.
• After a banquet, Lin Xuankong gave Immortal Lord Feiyun an Eighth Grade Immortal Artifact, and she flew five hundred li from Demon Suppressing Spirit Peak to begin her tribulation.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun summoned her immortal essence, and the sky darkened as the tribulation clouds formed huge human-shaped and demonic beings.

Lin Xuankong and the gathered cultivators learned that Immortal Lord Feiyun faced the notorious Azure Sky Killing Tribulation, a trial that had slain hundreds of supreme Immortal Lords. As Feiyun prepared to fight its seemingly endless succession of powerful copies, Lin sent her seventeen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts to aid her.

• Lin Xuankong asked Yan Mingyu about the living-looking tribulation clouds, and Guang Yu'er identified them as the Azure Sky Killing Tribulation, one of the Immortal Realm's three great heavenly tribulations.
• Sect Master Qiu, the Old Clan Leader of the Kirin Clan, and Immortal Lord Qianyuan discussed the tribulation's terrible record and feared for Immortal Lord Feiyun.
• Lin Xuankong considered what kind of final tribulation his own unusual talents might bring, while Feiyun realized hundreds of thousands of equally strong cloud creatures could attack her in succession.
• Remembering that Patriarch Biyan had died after defeating only sixty-two cloud creatures, Feiyun resolved to attack first despite her slim chances.
• Lin Xuankong sent seventeen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts to Feiyun, astonishing the gathered cultivators, while the narration revealed that Xiao Xiuyi had forged nearly a thousand Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts.

Immortal Lord Feiyun began the Azure Sky Heavenly Tribulation with eighteen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts gifted by Lin Xuankong and quickly destroyed his first tribulation-cloud opponent. After three hours, he had slain 107 beings, but the clouds showed no sign of dispersing and the battle continued.

• Immortal Lord Feiyun activated all eighteen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts and destroyed an Azure Dragon-like tribulation-cloud being.
• The watching cultivators praised Lin Xuankong's gift and believed the artifacts gave Immortal Lord Feiyun a strong chance of surviving the tribulation.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun continued fighting, knowing that defeating one being offered only a slight hope and that the tribulation's full requirements were unknown.
• Over three hours, Immortal Lord Feiyun destroyed 107 tribulation-cloud beings as they learned to evade and resist his artifacts.
• The observers noted that Feiyun had surpassed the previous record of just over sixty, but the Azure Sky Heavenly Tribulation clouds remained unchanged.

Immortal Lord Feiyun survived the Azure Sky Heavenly Tribulation and ascended toward the Supreme Primordial Realm, while Lin Xuankong secretly observed her passage. At the upper-realm entrance, thirty-six Devil Race statues attacked her, and a Heavenly Devil appeared as she struggled to defend herself.

• Immortal Lord Feiyun destroyed the 108th tribulation cloud creature, ending the Azure Sky Heavenly Tribulation and triggering the Supreme Primordial Realm’s transformation of her body and Spirit Soul.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun thanked Lin Xuankong for lending her eighteen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts, then entered the multicolored passageway as the gathered cultivators congratulated her.
• Lin Xuankong used his Nine Gates Heavenly Eye to follow Immortal Lord Feiyun and saw her arrive in a vast hall filled with enormous Devil Race statues.
• The thirty-six statues fired crimson beams at Immortal Lord Feiyun, who raised her transformed immortal artifacts to defend herself as the attacks drained their Supreme Primordial power.
• A bird-faced initial-stage Heavenly Devil emerged from behind a statue while Immortal Lord Feiyun searched for an escape from the sealed hall.

Immortal Lord Feiyun arrived in the Supreme Primordial Realm and was trapped by a Heavenly Demon formation, but she broke through the hall’s wall and escaped into the city. Lin Xuankong lost his view of her and realized that the passage was under Devil Race control, leaving him worried about what awaited him and other cultivators after ascension.

• A bird-faced Heavenly Demon trapped Immortal Lord Feiyun in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Eagle Array and revealed that Jade Bright Heavenly Buddha had been imprisoned in the Heaven-Suppressing Prison.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun used her Feiyun Immortal Art to strengthen her eighteen Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts, enabling them to block the formation’s attacks.
• The Heavenly Demon demanded information about the artifacts and the Profound Yin Sacred Sect, but Immortal Lord Feiyun refused and disabled eight Heavenly Demon statues with her swords.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun smashed through the hall wall and flew toward Chishui Sacred City as the bird-faced Heavenly Demon summoned its subordinates.
• Lin Xuankong’s connection to the passage was severed when Immortal Lord Feiyun entered the wider realm, and he concealed what he had witnessed from Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu.

Lin Xuankong questioned Xiao Xiuyi about how tribulations transformed Immortal Artifacts, and she proposed that years of research could let her create Tenth-Grade Immortal Artifacts. Concerned that ascenders would fall into the Heavenly Demons’ hands, Lin Xuankong considered ways to evade them and went to study the captured Devil Masters’ techniques.

• Cultivators gathered outside the Demon Suppressing Hall and looked to Lin Xuankong as their hope for surviving future tribulations, while he returned to his Cave Dwelling.
• Several days later, Lin Xuankong asked Xiao Xiuyi what she had learned from the transformed Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts that survived Immortal Lord Feiyun’s tribulation.
• Xiao Xiuyi said she had a direction for refining Tenth-Grade Immortal Artifacts, though the work would take thousands of years and consume vast materials.
• Lin Xuankong told Xiao Xiuyi to focus on artifact refinement and said no supreme Immortal Lord-level powerhouses would undergo tribulations for several thousand years.
• Lin Xuankong considered using the Luoshui Great Array and Xuan Yin Demonic Sect techniques to escape the Heavenly Demons after ascending to the Supreme Primordial Realm.
• Lin Xuankong returned to the Crane Immortal Sect’s Demon Suppressing Hall to investigate the Devil Master-level prisoners held beneath it.

Lin Xuankong visited the Demon Annihilation Array and its Demonic Artifact Hall, where Supreme Immortal Lord Ling Wuji respectfully escorted him to the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s collection of demonic arts. Lin Xuankong began browsing the manuals alone, leaving Ling Wuji to guard the entrance.

• Lin Xuankong entered the Demon Annihilation Array and saw cultivators from many sects training against Demonic Beings formed from the power of imprisoned Devil Masters.
• Tens of thousands of Mortal Rank cultivators knelt and greeted Lin Xuankong as he crossed the array to inspect the suppressed Devil Masters.
• Lin Xuankong found the Demon Annihilation Array functioning properly and reflected that his formation skills remained inferior to his master Yan Mingyu’s.
• Lin Xuankong met Supreme Immortal Lord Ling Wuji at the Demonic Artifact Hall and said he wanted to browse the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s cultivation manuals and jade slips.
• Ling Wuji led Lin Xuankong to the library hall, explained the risks and requirements of demonic arts, then withdrew to guard the entrance while Lin Xuankong read.

Lin Xuankong scanned the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s Scripture Repository and selected twelve arts to study, while Qingmu Heavenly Demon learned that a newly ascended Celestial Immortal might know why Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s plans in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm had failed. Qingmu pressed for the full account, especially the origin of the many high-grade Immortal Artifacts.

• Lin Xuankong used the Nine Gates Heavenly Eye and his supreme Spirit Soul to read several hundred thousand demonic arts, then chose twelve books, including the Supreme Sacred Body, for further study.
• Lin Xuankong concluded that he could not fully activate the Supreme Sacred Body without fusing the bodies of powerful demons, which were no longer available in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Qingniao presented Qingmu Heavenly Demon with eighteen evolved Eighth Grade Immortal Artifacts engraved with Xuankong and claimed he had searched the Spirit Soul of an Initial Stage Celestial Immortal named Feiyun.
• Qingmu recognized the artifacts as similar to one held by Yuming Lesser Heavenly Buddha and rejoiced that he might be the first to complete Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s task.
• Qingmu demanded that Qingniao reveal everything he learned from Feiyun, particularly why so many high-grade Immortal Artifacts had appeared in the Golden Dragon Lesser Immortal Realm.

Qingmu Heavenly Demon investigated Feiyun’s memories to verify the report that Lin Xuankong had forged thousands of immortal artifacts in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm. Feiyun resisted torture and soul searching, but Qingmu confirmed the report and was left astonished by Lin Xuankong’s abilities.

• The Bird-faced Heavenly Demon told Qingmu Heavenly Demon that Feiyun’s memories linked Lin Xuankong’s thousands of immortal artifacts to the defeat of Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s scheme.
• Qingmu Heavenly Demon doubted the report, then ordered the Bird-faced Heavenly Demon to take it to Feiyun in the Chishui prison.
• Qingmu Heavenly Demon offered Feiyun relief from her torment in exchange for information, but Feiyun refused and denounced the Heavenly Demons.
• Qingmu Heavenly Demon used the Soul Searching Art on Feiyun, who endured the pain without giving in.
• Qingmu Heavenly Demon confirmed that Lin Xuankong had forged several thousand immortal artifacts and that they had helped overturn the Sacred Monarch’s scheme.

Qingmu Heavenly Demon learned of Lin Xuankong’s extraordinary artifact-refining talent and planned to capture him when he ascended, using the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array to ensure success. Meanwhile, Feiyun feared for Lin Xuankong’s fate, while Lin prepared in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm by studying the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s demonic arts.

• Qingmu Heavenly Demon learned through soul searching that Lin Xuankong had become a peerless artifact refiner in only a few decades, and Qingniao urged him to present Lin to Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch for a reward.
• Qingmu ordered every Heavenly Demon in Qingmu Forest to guard Entrance Three of the Chishui Passage and decided to deploy the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array against Lin when he ascended.
• Feiyun, imprisoned in the Chishui Great Prison, worried that the Heavenly Demons would capture Lin and regretted not heeding his warnings before ascending.
• Guang Yu'er questioned why Lin was studying the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s demonic arts instead of the teachings of the human, Demon, or Buddhist factions.
• Lin continued preparing for the dangers of ascension by cultivating the demonic arts as one of his trump cards.

Lin Xuankong persuaded Guang Yu'er to delay her master Immortal Lord Qianyuan’s final heavenly tribulation, offering longevity pills while he prepared a Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact. He feared that ascension would expose Qianyuan and other aging Supreme Immortal Lords to the Heavenly Demon Race, and after three thousand years of cultivation, he opened his eyes in Xuankong Cave.

• Lin Xuankong explained to Guang Yu'er why he studied the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s arts, arguing that demonic arts could offer insights for his cultivation.
• Guang Yu'er asked Lin Xuankong to help her aging master, Immortal Lord Qianyuan, prepare for his final heavenly tribulation by giving him a high-grade immortal artifact.
• Lin Xuankong recalled that Immortal Lord Feiyun might have fallen into the Heavenly Demon Race’s hands after entering the Supreme Primordial Realm and worried that Qianyuan would face the same danger.
• Lin Xuankong gave Guang Yu'er a hundred Turtle Agaric Immortal Pills to extend Qianyuan’s lifespan and promised to refine a Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact before Qianyuan attempted tribulation.
• Lin Xuankong resolved to persuade other aging Supreme Immortal Lords not to ascend until he could address the Heavenly Demon threat, and he continued studying the Luoshui Divine Map and Xuan Yin Demonic arts.
• Three thousand years later, Lin Xuankong opened his eyes after cultivating in Xuankong Cave on Demon Suppressing Spirit Peak.

After three thousand years of cultivation, Lin Xuankong had perfected numerous demonic arts and immortal arts, including the Shocking Body Demonic Scripture and the Forbidden Law Treasure Codex. He reviewed his immense strength and reserves as the chapter left him contemplating the danger of ascending into the Supreme Primordial Realm and facing the Heavenly Demons.

• Lin Xuankong checked his status and saw that he had reached the late-stage Supreme Immortal Lord Realm and perfected several demonic arts and the Forbidden Law Treasure Codex.
• Lin Xuankong credited his rapid progress to his Old and Cunning talent, which accelerated his cultivation and benefited his wives, Yan Mingyu, and his adopted sons.
• Lin Xuankong considered the Shocking Body Demonic Scripture a powerful secret weapon because it could immobilize even opponents of higher realms, though it consumed immense demonic qi.
• Lin Xuankong noted that his vast immortal essence reserves let him use the costly demonic art far more freely than other Supreme Immortal Lords could.
• Lin Xuankong recalled that Guang Yu'er had gathered powerful immortal arts for him and that the Forbidden Law Treasure Codex had been discovered by the founders of the Divine Dynasty and Luoshui Immortal Sects.