Chapter Summaries

Meng Zhao prepared Liang Muqiu and Ao Bing to protect the Meng Family while he left on a dangerous journey, entrusting them with contacts, a roster, and instructions for handling the Moon Guards. He also authorized Liang Muqiu to raise an army in his name if the Beitang Imperial Clan or unrest in the north forced her hand.

• Meng Zhao told Liang Muqiu to seek help from the Southern An Meng Family and gave her a roster of his contacts to use if the Lingwu Meng Family faced danger.
• Meng Zhao gave Ao Bing a vial of Dragon Blood Pills and ordered her to administer them to the Moon Guard Commanders in Ji Prefecture and Yanzhou, setting a trap for the Beitang Imperial Clan.
• Ao Bing accepted the task but felt lonely at the prospect of Meng Zhao leaving without her.
• Meng Zhao instructed Liang Muqiu that she could raise an army in his name if Beitang Sheng pressed too hard or disturbances broke out in the three northern provinces.
• Meng Zhao acknowledged that he had long possessed the strength to rebel and no longer needed to endure passively.

The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord sought out the Holy Infant Child at a Gu'an County orphanage and invited him to join an expedition into the Ancient Battlefield. The Holy Infant Child initially showed little interest, but the promise of discovering the Holy Infant lineage stirred him.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord persuaded Monk Huikong to join the Ancient Battlefield expedition after telling him that Meng Zhao had agreed.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord entered the Gu'an County orphanage and searched among the children for the Holy Infant Child.
• The Holy Infant Child detected the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and carried him away from the orphanage to a secluded mountain stream.
• The Holy Infant Child recognized the visitor as the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, who greeted him and explained the purpose of his visit.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord described the Ancient Battlefield's possible Holy Infant Fruit and predecessors of the Holy Infant Sect, stirring the Holy Infant Child's interest.

The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord persuaded Holy Infant Child to join an expedition into an Ancient Battlefield alien space by offering a Dao Mark Stone and describing the chance to find Holy Infant Sect treasures and meet other Heavenly Being experts. Holy Infant Child accepted, then learned that the battlefield held dangers including a powerful corpse demon and lethal Time Quicksand.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord appealed to Holy Infant Child's desire for the Holy Infant Fruit, lost sect methods, and discussion with peerless experts.
• Holy Infant Child asked about the battlefield's dangers, signaling that he would accept the invitation.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord gave Holy Infant Child a Dao Mark Stone, which shattered after Holy Infant Child absorbed its insights.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord described his other gains and recounted surviving a Gods and Devils corpse demon with help from a treasure.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord warned Holy Infant Child about Time Quicksand, which could age or kill anyone who had not attained the supreme God or Devil Dao.

The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord gathered Meng Zhao, Monk Huikong, the Holy Infant Child, and the Demon Master's Successor at Great Wind Cave on Blood Ridge Mountain to prepare for an expedition into the Ancient Alien Space Battlefield. When they met, Meng Zhao explained that his earlier encounter with Mountain Lord and Fang Duohai had led him to learn about the two mysterious experts.

• The Holy Infant Child agreed to join the expedition and returned to the Orphanage to arrange affairs before leaving.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord waited at Great Wind Cave on Blood Ridge Mountain, which he had discovered was connected to the Ancient Alien Space Battlefield.
• Meng Zhao and Monk Huikong arrived first, followed by the Holy Infant Child and the Demon Master's Successor.
• Meng Zhao studied the Holy Infant Child and the Demon Master's Successor, and the Palace Lord of the Underground Palace asked why he was watching them so closely.
• Meng Zhao recounted his involvement with Mountain Lord and Fang Duohai, revealing that he had learned of the two experts through that matter.
• The Demon Master's Successor realized that Meng Zhao had killed Fang Duohai and broken his methods.

Meng Zhao confronted the Demon Master's Successor over the Earth Demon Alliance and the possibility that he planned to restore the Great Ming Dynasty. He warned that the three northern provinces were already under his control, leaving the Demon Master's Successor with no clear opening to expand northward.

• Meng Zhao denied killing Fang Duohai and asked the Demon Master's Successor why he had founded the Earth Demon Alliance.
• The Demon Master's Successor released his killing intent and challenged Meng Zhao for questioning him, while the other experts watched.
• Meng Zhao asked whether the Demon Master's Successor intended to exploit Great Yong's disorder to restore the Great Ming Dynasty.
• The Demon Master's Successor gave an ambiguous answer, and Meng Zhao warned him that the three northern provinces were already in his grasp.
• Meng Zhao listed his political ties, armies, and influence across Ji, Liang, and Yanzhou, stunning the gathered experts and leaving the Demon Master's Successor visibly troubled.

Meng Zhao revealed his ambitions and urged the Demon Master's Successor to leave the Northern Lands rather than challenge him. The successor accepted Meng Zhao's goodwill and said he would make other plans, leaving Meng Zhao wondering whether Zhu Shisan was his true name.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord realized that Meng Zhao's strength and influence made the Demon Master's Successor's plans to contest the north futile.
• Meng Zhao told the Demon Master's Successor that he sought to cultivate beyond the Divine Land and advised him to pursue another path outside the Northern Lands.
• The Demon Master's Successor sensed that Meng Zhao might be able to kill him and decided that fighting him would be too risky.
• Zhu Shisan accepted Meng Zhao's goodwill and said he would make his own plans.
• Meng Zhao wondered whether Zhu Shisan was the successor's real name and how it related to the names Zhu San and Zhu Wu.

The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord explained that the Ancient Alien Space Battlefield likely consisted of several fused spaces, including an Ancient battlefield and a Medieval one, and warned the group that it might have changed. He described how he had entered through the Great Wind Cave, while the group still needed to learn how they could safely leave.

• Meng Zhao set aside his doubts about Zhu Shisan and joined the others in asking the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord about the battlefield.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord said the battlefield appeared to combine spaces from different eras, citing ancient divine and Magic Beast corpses and organized armies in Medieval clothing.
• The Demon Master and Monk Huikong discussed how bloodshed and powerful Killing Intent might have drawn separate battlefields together, potentially causing dangerous changes.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord explained that he had entered through the Great Wind Cave when the full moon, an illusory barrier, and his completed Primordial Spirit aligned.
• Meng Zhao and the others considered how they could escape the battlefield before agreeing to enter.

With entry to the Ancient Alien Space Battlefield delayed until the full moon, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord arranged for the gathered powerhouses to meditate and exchange martial knowledge. Meng Zhao, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, and Zhu Shisan shared powerful teachings, leaving the group with new insights and a heightened respect for the Demon Extremity Sect.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord explained that they could not enter the Ancient Battlefield for several days and proposed that everyone use the wait to meditate and discuss the Dao.
• Meng Zhao recited and interpreted a Five Elements of Fire Sutra, sharing some of its profound insights while keeping his key secrets concealed.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord expounded on inner demons, describing them as both a danger and a means of advancing through deliberate creation, control, and destruction.
• Zhu Shisan explained the Demon Extremity Sect's physical cultivation methods and revealed a technique for refining three hidden acupoints.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and the others calculated the acupoints' locations, gained improvements to their bodies, and grew wary of the Demon Extremity Sect's methods.

The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and the others considered the power and difficulty of the Demon Master's hidden-acupoint art as they tried to measure its acupoints. Meng Zhao used the Heaven-Illuminating Divine Mirror and his Eye of Heavenly Punishment to open two more acupoints than anyone else, leaving Zhu Shisan alarmed and the others reassessing Meng Zhao.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord judged that the Demon Master's physical strength might stem partly from refining hidden acupoints and hoped to use the art to improve his own cultivation.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, Holy Infant Child, and Monk Huikong failed to discover any hidden acupoints beyond the three Zhu Shisan had revealed.
• Meng Zhao used the Heaven-Illuminating Divine Mirror to derive ways to calculate the three acupoints, then combined those deductions with his Eye of Heavenly Punishment to locate two more.
• Zhu Shisan, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, Monk Huikong, and Holy Infant Child were astonished when five purple vortex-like lights appeared within Meng Zhao's body.
• Holy Infant Child resolved to avoid antagonizing Meng Zhao, while the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord considered trading with him for the measuring method and Zhu Shisan neared an outburst.

Meng Zhao’s hidden Ziwei Star Destiny emerged after his bloodline surged, revealing that he possessed both the Dragon Body and Ziwei Treasure Body. The revelation set him on an apparent collision course with Beitang Sheng and the Beitang Imperial Clan, while Meng Zhao prepared to refine newly discovered hidden acupoints and strengthen himself for the coming struggle.

• Meng Zhao’s dragon blood erupted with purple radiance, creating a Ziwei Star Destiny phenomenon that spread across the Blood Ridge Mountain range.
• Monk Huikong, the Holy Infant Child, and the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord recognized Meng Zhao’s dual physiques as a potentially world-shaping mutated bloodline, while Zhu Shisan reacted with shock and jealousy.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord realized Meng Zhao’s Ziwei destiny made him a rival to Beitang Sheng on the path of Ziwei and resolved to spread the revelation after they left the Ancient Alien Space Battlefield.
• Meng Zhao concluded that his Ziwei destiny could no longer remain secret and anticipated a break with the Beitang Imperial Clan once he emerged from the battlefield.
• Meng Zhao planned to refine nine hidden acupoints tied to his dragon blood and three tied to his Ziwei treasure blood, which could strengthen his power and let him suppress his destiny through the Ziwei King’s Seal.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord praised Meng Zhao’s concealed strength and anticipated that the revelation would draw supporters to him and undermine Beitang Sheng’s rule.

Meng Zhao, Monk Huikong, and the Holy Infant Child each demonstrated their martial paths, revealing the power of Incense Wish Power and the extraordinary purity and adaptability of Infant Qi. The discussion ended with Meng Zhao and the others inspired by the Holy Infant Child’s technique, while Zhu Shisan proved able to condense a lesser form of Infant Qi.

• Meng Zhao downplayed his Special Physique and bloodline, while Zhu Shisan envied his aptitude for the Emperor’s path.
• Monk Huikong explained how Incense Wish Power could form golden bodies and incarnations, then demonstrated powerful Buddhist-light and movement Divine Abilities.
• The Holy Infant Child described the origins of his inheritance and demonstrated Infant Qi, whose purity, gentleness, and malleability surpassed the others’ true qi.
• Meng Zhao tried to cultivate Infant Qi but encountered repeated obstacles, while Zhu Shisan successfully condensed a weaker form of it.
• Meng Zhao, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, Zhu Shisan, and Monk Huikong considered how the Demon Master’s inheritance might have drawn on Holy Infant Sect martial arts, and each gained insight from the discussion.

Meng Zhao entered the Ancient Battlefield through Great Wind Cave but was separated from the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and the others. Alone in the white mist, he discovered it was poisonous blood mist and fought off its attacks as it repeatedly reformed.

• At the full moon, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord led Meng Zhao, Zhu Shisan, Monk Huikong, and the Holy Infant Child through the Ethereal Divine Wind into the Ancient Battlefield.
• The spatial passage scattered the group, leaving Meng Zhao alone on dark red earth surrounded by white mist.
• Meng Zhao donned the Emperor Yu Battle Armor and explored while the mist grew denser and his sense of approaching danger intensified.
• The white mist turned blood-red, and Meng Zhao realized it was poisonous mist that had disguised itself as white vapor.
• The blood mist poisoned and consumed Meng Zhao's Fire Dragon, then formed a giant claw that he shattered with a punch before it gathered again.

Meng Zhao left the Blood Mist and entered the Bone Forest, where an ancient weapon revealed a supreme Palm Technique and a powerful staff technique. After fighting off the forest’s threats and gaining strength from their inner cores, he resolved to explore the area for more benefits.

• Meng Zhao escaped the Blood Mist after sensing danger and entered the Bone Forest, where he found a shattered ancient divine weapon.
• By probing the weapon, Meng Zhao learned a top-tier staff technique and witnessed its former owner fall to an incomprehensible Palm Technique.
• Meng Zhao used the staff technique to sweep away attacking bone whips and kill four poisonous, bone-armored fiends.
• Meng Zhao refined the fiends’ inner cores, strengthening his bones, and considered how the Ancient Battlefield’s resources could benefit his army.
• Meng Zhao’s desire to claim the Ancient Battlefield grew, and he decided to clear out the Bone Forest.

Meng Zhao uncovered and bound the Nine Dragon Chariot in the Ancient Battlefield, learning its origins and powerful mechanisms. A group of eight outsiders arrived, and their greed for his treasure threatened to turn the encounter hostile.

• Meng Zhao fought through the Bone Forest, absorbed Ferocious Beast Inner Cores, and discovered a damaged bronze chariot and broken War Sword.
• Meng Zhao freed the chariot from bone vines, recognized its nine-dragon design, and speculated that it came from an ancient war involving Xuanyuan and Chiyou.
• Meng Zhao bound the chariot with his essence blood and learned that the Nine Dragon Chariot could fly, defend itself, and wield three deadly mechanisms.
• Meng Zhao sensed eight approaching fighters and concluded that they had entered the Ancient Battlefield from another passage rather than being natives.
• One of the women questioned Meng Zhao, and he asked the group who they were and how they had entered the battlefield.
• The eight newcomers exchanged glances and considered luring Meng Zhao into an ambush so they could seize the Nine Dragon Chariot.

Meng Zhao exposed the eight explorers’ attempt to deceive him, defeated their Buddhist monk, and claimed the Buddha Heart Bead. He discovered that it was a spatial treasure capable of storing objects, leaving the others astonished at its power.

• The eight explorers argued over whether to recruit Meng Zhao, but he saw through their act and demanded information about the Ancient Battlefield in exchange for sparing them.
• One of the explorers attacked Meng Zhao with a Taiyin Star River, but the Nine Dragon Chariot’s protective barrier blocked the strike.
• The old monk unleashed the Buddha Heart Bead, but Meng Zhao shattered its Buddhist aura and wounded him with a single palm strike.
• Meng Zhao seized the Buddha Heart Bead and learned that it contained an eight-hundred-zhang Buddhist kingdom, along with other abilities.
• Meng Zhao stored his weapons and the Nine Dragon Chariot inside the Buddha Heart Bead, revealing its spatial power to the explorers.

After Meng Zhao took the Buddha Heart Bead, Yi Heng’s greed and inner demon drove him into demonic deviation, transforming him into a far stronger and more savage being. Yi Heng killed the Female Grandmaster Wan Yun, leaving the other elders to face him as a dangerous enemy.

• Yi Heng demanded the Buddha Heart Bead back, but Meng Zhao warned that greed and anger were feeding his inner demon.
• Yi Heng attacked Meng Zhao with the Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra, and Meng Zhao sent his Primordial Spirit Power into Yi Heng’s brow.
• Yi Heng’s mantra vanished as his aura shifted between Buddhist and demonic, and the old Daoist identified his condition as Qi Deviation.
• Yi Heng transformed into a tall, powerful demon with a Demonic Rune, while Meng Zhao observed that his cultivation had risen by thirty percent.
• Yi Heng lunged at the Female Grandmaster Wan Yun, tore out her heart, and consumed it before his demonic power destroyed her body.
• The surviving elders gathered together against Yi Heng, and the remaining woman condemned him for murdering Wan Yun despite their past relationship.

Yi Heng revealed that Wan Yun’s betrayal had driven him into the Buddhist fold, then killed her after turning to demonhood. As Xuan Wei and the others debated whether to confront Meng Zhao or retreat, Yi Heng drained another Grandmaster’s life force, making his former companions fear he intended to kill them too.

• Yi Heng told Xuan Wei that Wan Yun had betrayed him when they were betrothed, prompting him to enter the Buddhist fold after losing his martial arts.
• Yi Heng explained that Buddhist Dharma had suppressed his hatred until entering demonhood released it, and Meng Zhao questioned why he had not sought revenge earlier.
• Xuan Wei asked whether Yi Heng would continue killing, while Yi Heng urged him to join forces against Meng Zhao.
• The group split over whether to fight Meng Zhao or seek a peaceful retreat, and Xuan Wei struggled to decide.
• Yi Heng killed a Grandmaster who argued for retreat and devoured his vital essence and blood, alarming Xuan Wei and the others.

Meng Zhao killed the demonic Yi Heng with a palm technique and refined him into a blood pill, then considered finding a gifted, strong-willed person to use it. After reflecting on how the Buddha Heart Bead had helped him improve his spatial palm technique, he killed the old Daoist Xuan Wei as the remaining survivors offered their obedience.

• Yi Heng urged Xuan Wei and the others to cooperate against Meng Zhao, while Meng Zhao warned them that he would spare them if they did not resist and declared that Yi Heng could not be left alive.
• Meng Zhao seized Yi Heng with a powerful palm, crushed him, and refined his body and soul into a blood pill containing demonic thoughts.
• Meng Zhao decided the blood pill would be better suited to a gifted person with exceptional willpower than to one of his close associates, and he considered how the Buddha Heart Bead had advanced his Dao of Space.
• The surviving members of Xuan Wei's group realized Meng Zhao was a peerless Heavenly Being and feared for their lives.
• An old Daoist offered the group's obedience, but Meng Zhao killed him with Lightning Punishment Power from his Eye of Heavenly Punishment, leaving the four survivors terrified.

Meng Zhao seized the Immeasurable Banner and questioned the surviving southern martial artists, learning that the Rebel Army had grown powerful amid corruption and interference in the Imperial Court’s campaign. He realized that the Beitang Imperial Clan’s weak foundation and the ambitions of rival clans and Sacred Lands had made Great Yong’s decline nearly inevitable.

• Meng Zhao burned Xuan Wei’s corpse, awakened the Immeasurable Banner, and claimed the lesser Heavenly Divine Weapon.
• Meng Zhao made the surviving martial artists explain the battlefield, and they told him it connected to a Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm and that a Human Celestial successor of the Qi Devouring Sect had been separated from them.
• A southern clan martial artist told Meng Zhao that Gao Yingzhong and Luan Xiaojie had built powerful armies, reached the Great Grandmaster realm, and could challenge Human Celestial experts with their battle formations.
• The martial artist explained that the army suppressing the Rebel Army suffered internal power struggles and that outside forces had interfered on both sides.
• Meng Zhao reconsidered the Beitang Imperial Clan’s history and concluded that its fragile authority, Beitang Sheng’s ambitions, and rival powers’ desire for greater influence had made Great Yong’s collapse almost inevitable.

Meng Zhao questioned the southern Grandmasters about the Ancient Battlefield’s dangers and opportunities, then chose to visit the Weak Water to strengthen the Immeasurable Banner. The survivors followed his order, knowing he still viewed them as expendable bait.

• Meng Zhao questioned a southern Grandmaster about the blood mist, learning that a divine-demonic bloodstained War Sword had once protected a Buddhist venerable and that a ferocious creature lurked within the mist.
• The Grandmaster explained that the Bone Forest contained Bone Beasts with White Bone Pills and might be the remains of a God-and-Devil powerhouse who cultivated the Bone Dao.
• The southern Grandmasters described the surrounding regions: poisonous Weak Water to the east, the deadly Corpse Demon Plain to the north, and a perilous mountain range with a passage to the south.
• Meng Zhao decided the Corpse Demon Plain was too dangerous and chose to visit the Weak Water, hoping to infuse its origin into the Immeasurable Banner.
• When the southern Grandmasters questioned his choice, Meng Zhao intimidated them into obeying, while privately regarding them as bait for future dangers.