Recaps

Xiao Lianyue was ordered to marry Yan Xiu of the Yan Family, an aberrant clan, as part of the Xiao Family’s alliance with the Saint Clan. Disguised as Xiao Feng Hai, Lin Fan learned she did not want the marriage and offered to help her leave the family.

• The Xiao Family head told Xiao Lianyue that she had to marry Yan Xiu in three days to secure the family’s alliance with the Yan Family.
• Yan Xiu promised the Xiao Family a chance to rule Great Gan if it served the Saint Clan, and the family head eagerly pledged them as its vanguard.
• After leaving the hall, Xiao Lianyue wept over being forced to marry an aberration and feared losing her humanity.
• Disguised as Xiao Feng Hai, Lin Fan comforted Xiao Lianyue as she said she would rather die than go to Shangyang Commandery.
• Lin Fan offered to help Xiao Lianyue leave the Xiao Family, knowing she was the key to entering the Nether Abyss Ruins.

Lin Fan took Xiao Lianyue away from the Xiao Family to prevent her marriage, while the Blood Mist Saintess expanded her plans to seize Great Gan and demanded that Yan Xiu bring Xiao Lianyue to her. As Lin Fan pursued a girl who had escaped using a Phantom Body Talisman, he caught up to her in the mountains.

• Lin Fan comforted Xiao Lianyue and agreed to take her away from the Xiao Family.
• Yan Xiu reported that most of Hechi Commandery was under their control, and the Saintess ordered him to capture Xiao Lianyue for her extraordinary constitution.
• Xiao Lianyue vanished on her wedding day, and Lin Fan took her west aboard a flying vessel toward Shangyang Commandery.
• Xiao Lianyue grew suspicious when Lin Fan could not recall a childhood incident, then used a Phantom Body Talisman to escape from him.
• Lin Fan saw through the decoy and caught up to Xiao Lianyue among the mountain rocks.

Lin Fan used the young woman’s Netherworld Cold Body to locate and enter the Nether Abyss Ruins, where he found a desolate land that resisted his senses. Meanwhile, Yan Xiu massacred the Xiao Family and Xiaoyun City after Xiao Lianyue vanished, while two hidden observers planned to find the ruins for their powerful Senior.

• Lin Fan revealed his face to Xiao Lianyue, explained that her Netherworld Cold Body was needed to find the Nether Abyss Ruins, and took her with him.
• After several days of searching, Xiao Lianyue sensed Nether Abyss Qi, allowing Lin Fan to open a spatial crack and bring them into the ruins.
• Lin Fan found the ruins filled with skeletons and yellow sand, but an invisible barrier limited his senses to less than twenty li.
• Xiao Xiong failed to find Xiao Lianyue, and Yan Xiu arrived demanding his missing bride.
• Yan Xiu used Blood Mist to slaughter the Xiao Family and the people of Xiaoyun City, then said he would force his way into the ruins without a key.
• Two figures emerged from beneath the ruined city and agreed to locate the ruins, trusting their Senior to handle the Weird Cultivators.

Lin Fan and Xiao Lianyue encountered a Golden Giant Scorpion in the Nether Abyss Ruins, and Lin Fan killed it and learned that Magic Beasts had been raised to hunt intruders. Two cultivators discovered the aftermath and decided to hunt Lin Fan themselves.

• Lin Fan sent out more than a hundred paper figures to scout the corpse-strewn yellow-sand region, but a Golden Giant Scorpion destroyed nearly all of them.
• The Golden Giant Scorpion warned Lin Fan to retreat, then attacked him and Xiao Lianyue with lightning.
• Lin Fan overwhelmed the Golden Giant Scorpion with sword intent, killed it, and searched its remnant soul.
• Lin Fan learned that the creature was a Crab Demon Beast raised to hunt cultivators and that other Magic Beasts roamed the vast yellow-sand domain.
• After Lin Fan and Xiao Lianyue left, Senior Brother Qianyuan and a woman inspected the scene and chose to hunt the intruder rather than report to their sect.

Trapped in the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation, Lin Fan deliberately exhausted his Spiritual Energy to draw out the people controlling the Giant Scorpion Demonic Beasts. Xiao Lianyue fled when he appeared helpless, and the chapter ended with a Man in Black and a woman confronting Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan and Xiao Lianyue realized they were trapped in a formation that suppressed their senses and kept them surrounded by Giant Scorpion Demonic Beasts.
• Xiao Lianyue suspected someone was directing the beasts, and Lin Fan sent out successive waves of paper figures and Avatar Talismans to lure that person out.
• The Man in Black and a woman discussed wearing Lin Fan down, then sent more Giant Scorpion Demonic Beasts to attack him.
• After losing most of his prepared paper figures and Avatar Talismans and fighting off the beasts, Lin Fan pretended to be too weak to defend himself.
• Xiao Lianyue scattered into multiple figures and fled, leaving Lin Fan to face more beasts and become too weak to pursue her.
• The Man in Black and the woman appeared before Lin Fan and taunted him for having exhausted his Spiritual Energy.

Lin Fan revealed that he had used Paper Figure Art to fake his exhaustion and lure out two Myriad Demon Sect disciples. After overcoming their formation and attacks, he captured the woman and pinned the Man in Black to the ground.

• The Man in Black identified himself and the woman as Myriad Demon Sect disciples who had used the Yellow Sand Great Formation to trap invaders, then attacked Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan revealed that his apparent weakness had been a disguise created with Paper Figure Art, and offered to spare the pair if they told him about the sect.
• The two disciples activated the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation, which suppressed Lin Fan while strengthening them.
• Lin Fan's sword intent shattered their attacks, and the Golden-Haired Hound from the Paper Figure Talisman emerged to fight them.
• Lin Fan struck the Man in Black with Primordial Spirit light, destroyed the woman's Ancient Zither, seized her, and pierced the Man in Black's chest with a flying sword.

Lin Fan subdued two Myriad Demon Sect cultivators, learned about the powerful Nether Abyss World, and eliminated Xiao Lianyue after catching her fleeing. Outside the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand region, he examined Black Demon Crystals and sensed that their energy resembled the Dao Principles energy from the Primal Divine Statue.

• Lin Fan killed the woman, seized her soul, and read Qianyuan's memories after Qianyuan agreed to cooperate.
• Lin Fan took their storage artifacts and absorbed both souls into the Tianji Buddhist Beads, then learned about the Nether Abyss World and the Myriad Demon Sect.
• After the cultivators' deaths weakened the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation, Lin Fan caught up with Xiao Lianyue and destroyed her flying vessel, killing her.
• Lin Fan left the sand region and found Black Demon Crystals in Qianyuan's storage artifact, whose energy reminded him of the Primal Divine Statue's Dao Principles energy.

Lin Fan refined Black Demon Crystals, strengthened his Primordial Spirit by mastering the Great Evolution Five Elements Art, and discovered that his Eye of Submersion had evolved into the Eye of Lost. In Holy Demon City, a Myriad Demon Sect elder noticed the intruder who had broken the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation and set out to recruit him as a subordinate.

• Lin Fan refined Black Demon Crystals and sensed that their law energy was helping him comprehend another Dao Principle.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to master the Great Evolution Five Elements Art, endured the Heaven and Earth Primordial Tribulation, and formed a Primordial Spirit Five Elements Mountain.
• Lin Fan discovered that his Eye of Submersion had become the Eye of Lost, which let him see energy and its movements and could create powerful illusions.
• A Myriad Demon Sect elder in Holy Demon City saw Magic Beasts surge toward the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation's perimeter and learned that an intruder had broken it.
• The elder decided Lin Fan would make a useful subordinate and teleported away to find him.

Lin Fan learned that joining the Myriad Demon Sect could give him access to Black Demon Crystals, then accepted An Yunzi’s offer to become a Guest Official of Holy Demon City in exchange for a monthly supply of crystals. An Yunzi brought him into the city and arranged a first-rate cave dwelling for him.

• Lin Fan decided to infiltrate the Myriad Demon Sect to obtain more Black Demon Crystals.
• An Yunzi revealed that he was one of the Myriad Demon Sect’s Four Directions Elders and offered Lin Fan a Guest Official position in Holy Demon City.
• Lin Fan negotiated for three times the offered monthly allotment of Black Demon Crystals, and An Yunzi agreed.
• An Yunzi led Lin Fan into Holy Demon City and showed him the Floating Demon Great Formation.
• Miao Que welcomed Lin Fan and escorted him to the first-rate cave dwelling An Yunzi had arranged for him.

Lin Fan settled into a first-class cave abode in Holy Demon City and learned about the city, its Guest Officials, and the Black Flame Marketplace. Meanwhile, An Yunzi discussed recruiting powerful cultivators and an unnamed matter nearing completion.

• Miao Que showed Lin Fan his cave abode and left him with Zhi Nu as a gift.
• Zhi Nu tried to undress to serve Lin Fan, but he stopped her and used the Eye of Lost to make her obedient.
• Lin Fan questioned Zhi Nu and learned about Holy Demon City’s marketplace, its six other Guest Officials, and the Black Flame Marketplace east of the city.
• An Yunzi told his disciple that Lin Fan’s strength made him valuable to Holy Demon City and that recruiting powerful people would help him advance.
• The woman reported that another matter was progressing smoothly and could succeed within a month, after which An Yunzi drew her close.

Lin Fan taught Zhi Nu the Basic Paper Figure Art and confronted Xu Changming, a neighboring Guest Official who spied on his cave dwelling. He later learned that Zhi Nu had been poisoned by the City Lord’s Mansion and needed to serve him to survive, so he accepted her.

• Lin Fan taught Zhi Nu the Basic Paper Figure Art, and she refined her first paper figure after several days of practice.
• Xu Changming spied on Lin Fan’s cave dwelling, but Lin Fan struck back with his Primordial Spirit power and forced him to withdraw.
• Wu Jiaojiao warned Lin Fan that Xu Changming was ruthless and explained that Holy Demon City’s City Lord ignored conflicts among Guest Officials.
• Wu Jiaojiao decided Lin Fan was worth winning over, though she wanted him to prove his value first.
• Zhi Nu told Lin Fan that the Spirit Yin Pill given to her by the City Lord would kill her if she did not serve him, and Lin Fan accepted her.

Lin Fan perfected the Eight Divisions Yama Scripture and went to Black Flame Marketplace in disguise to find valuable books that could restore his lifespan. He found the struggling sect master of the Ancient Demon Sect and agreed to buy his books in bulk.

• Lin Fan used six hundred years of lifespan to perfect the Eight Divisions Yama Scripture, greatly purifying his Primordial Spirit power and gaining the ability to summon eight underworld deities.
• Lin Fan checked his status and realized he needed more lifespan, which he could gain by transcribing valuable books other than cultivation manuals and secret texts.
• An Yunzi sent Lin Fan ninety Black Demon Crystals, and Lin Fan disguised himself as a Demonic cultivator before entering Black Flame Marketplace.
• Lin Fan found the Ancient Demon Sect's nominal sect master trying to sell the sect's collection of ancient books.
• Lin Fan offered one Black Demon Crystal for a hundred books, and the sect master accepted.

Lin Fan bought books and supplies in Black Flame Marketplace, then discovered Xu Changming had followed him outside and confronted him. Xu Changming revealed his ties to a faction within the Myriad Demon Sect and attacked Lin Fan, who vanished into the insect fog.

• Lin Fan bought more than a thousand books from Sang Wu and received a communication pearl to contact him for more.
• Lin Fan exchanged his spoils of war for sixty Black Demon Crystals, bringing his total to one hundred and forty, and purchased materials for paper men and talismans.
• After Lin Fan left Black Flame Marketplace, Xu Changming tracked him with a blue insect, which Lin Fan destroyed with a flying sword before Xu Changming's black insect fog swallowed it.
• Xu Changming confronted Lin Fan and explained that he targeted Guest Officials recruited by An Yunzi, whom he believed were growing too numerous and powerful.
• Xu Changming's insect fog spread around them, and he attacked Lin Fan with pale hands rising from the ground.
• Lin Fan vanished as Xu Changming drew the black fog into a barrier around the figure who appeared in his place.

Lin Fan killed Xu Changming, a Myriad Demon Sect spy in Holy Demon City, and discovered that the sect was divided over An Yunzi’s growing power. As the sect’s elders prepared to confront An Yunzi, they learned that an outsider had entered the Nether Abyss World and that the Demon Kingdom and another faction were pursuing their own plans there.

• Lin Fan used the Soul Searching Technique on Xu Changming, learned he was a Myriad Demon Sect spy sent to weaken An Yunzi, then killed him and took his Black Demon Crystals.
• An old Myriad Demon Sect elder noticed Xu Changming’s chess piece had gone dark and left his disciples to investigate.
• The old elder told a figure in a blood pool that Xu Changming and two informants near the spatial entrance had died and that the Myriad-Li Yellow Sand Great Formation had been broken.
• The figure in the blood pool refused to disturb the sect master, agreed with the old elder that they should stop yielding to An Yunzi, and sent him to prepare for upheaval.
• The figure spoke with a Beast-shaped stone statue, which revealed that the Demon Kingdom had entered the Nether Abyss World and warned that a strange faction was also seeking control of it.

Lin Fan arranged for Bloodlight Demon Saint to gather books so he could keep earning lifespan, then heard Wu Jiaojiao’s proposal to join her in taking a Nether Ancient Ore. The chapter ended with the offer unresolved.

• Lin Fan copied ten books and gained a hundred years of lifespan, then asked Bloodlight Demon Saint to gather more books.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint explained how the three royal clans of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom had shattered his Primordial Spirit and how he later became trapped in the Earth Vein Spirit Flower.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint left to collect books for Lin Fan.
• Wu Jiaojiao visited Lin Fan and told him Xu Changming had died, probing whether Lin Fan was responsible.
• Wu Jiaojiao explained the Nether Ancient Ores and invited Lin Fan to join her in taking one.

Wu Jiaojiao failed to recruit Lin Fan into a plot against An Yunzi, while Lin Fan helped Zhi Nu and discovered poison in her body. The chapter ended as demonic cultivators attacked Holy Demon City's treasury and Miao Que reported the assault to An Yunzi.

• Wu Jiaojiao tried to recruit Lin Fan to seize the Nether Ancient Demon Ore and warned him that An Yunzi could control the city's cultivators through its protective formation, but Lin Fan refused to join her.
• Wu Jiaojiao told a young man that Lin Fan was not loyal to An Yunzi, and the young man revealed their plan to seize An Yunzi and obtain the key to locating the demon ore.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint gathered more than ten thousand books for Lin Fan, and Zhi Nu mastered the Basic Paper Figure Art under his guidance in less than two months.
• Lin Fan promised to take Zhi Nu outside Holy Demon City someday, then discovered and destroyed poisonous energy growing in her meridians.
• Explosions and flames erupted across Holy Demon City, and Lin Fan left Zhi Nu in their cave dwelling while he went to investigate.
• Miao Que reported to An Yunzi that powerful demonic cultivators had attacked the treasury, killed more than a dozen disciples, and were being hunted by several elders.

The Blood Infant Sect and its allies launched a coordinated assault on Holy Demon City, while Lin Fan watched the chaos unfold. An Yunzi confronted the attackers and exposed Elder He's betrayal, but the clash left Elder He's divine soul fleeing after his body was consumed by strange blood lights.

• An Yunzi sent Miao Que and his Shadow Guards to aid the treasury defenders as he suspected the night's upheaval had a larger purpose.
• Two Blood Infant Sect attackers overwhelmed the treasury guards, and Elder He betrayed and killed the middle-aged defender before joining their assault.
• Lin Fan watched battles spread across Holy Demon City and considered that Wu Jiaojiao had orchestrated the turmoil, hoping An Yunzi might be injured.
• Miao Que found the treasury site fallen and realized the attack had lured her forces away from the City Lord's Mansion.
• The Blazing Fire Protector and Elder He confronted An Yunzi in the cultivation hall, where An Yunzi revealed his power and strange blood lights consumed Elder He's body.

An Yunzi slaughtered the attackers at the City Lord’s Mansion, but Wu Jiaojiao revealed herself as an infiltrator and struck him with the Nirvana Blood Gu. As Wu Jiaojiao and a strange tentacled youth fought An Yunzi, Lin Fan watched from hiding.

• An Yunzi used crimson power to kill the attackers in the City Lord’s Mansion, and Miao Que returned to him.
• Wu Jiaojiao stabbed An Yunzi, revealed that she had killed Miao Que, and accused him of using the city’s grand array to drain demonic cultivators.
• An Yunzi summoned the Black Blood Cauldron, but Wu Jiaojiao used a bone flute to trigger the Nirvana Blood Gu within him.
• A tentacled youth joined Wu Jiaojiao against An Yunzi, and their battle devastated the City Lord’s Mansion and its surroundings.
• Lin Fan watched the fight from a rooftop and noted the youth’s resemblance to the mutated beings in the Forbidden Battlefield.

An Yunzi defeated a Blood Infant Sect plot to seize Holy Demon City by using the city’s formation, while Lin Fan watched and returned to his cave abode. The next day, An Yunzi summoned Lin Fan to discuss something with him.

• An Yunzi overcame Wu Jiaojiao and the young man, revealed that he had fused his Primordial Spirit with Holy Demon City's formation, and crushed Wu Jiaojiao.
• An Yunzi used the formation to suppress the fighting, killing more than a hundred Demonic cultivators as Lin Fan returned safely to his cave abode.
• At the Myriad Demon Sect, a fat disciple reported that the plot against An Yunzi had failed, prompting the old man to decide that he and another elder would deal with An Yunzi personally.
• Lin Fan resumed copying books for lifespan until a messenger summoned him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• An Yunzi greeted Lin Fan and said he wanted to discuss something with him.

Lin Fan accepted An Yunzi’s request to destroy a Blood Infant Sect stronghold, then used Black Demon Crystals to advance his cultivation and Primordial Spirit. His new perception revealed that An Yunzi was siphoning power from Holy Demon City’s cultivators through the city formation, while the Primal Divine Statue protected Lin Fan from the same drain.

• An Yunzi asked Lin Fan to lead Guest Officials against a Blood Infant Sect stronghold and gave him more than a hundred Black Demon Crystals in advance.
• After Lin Fan left, An Yunzi revealed that he intended to use Lin Fan’s identity to draw out an old enemy.
• Lin Fan inspected his crystals, cultivated with more than four hundred of them, and advanced to the Third Grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Great Evolution Five Elements Art, raising his Primordial Spirit from Beginner to Initial Accomplishment.
• Lin Fan detected the Floating Demon Great Formation draining power from Holy Demon City’s cultivators and sending it to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Lin Fan discovered a draining thread approaching him but saw that the Primal Divine Statue’s light blocked it, confirming that An Yunzi had invited him as another source of nourishment.

Lin Fan discovered that An Yunzi’s hidden threads were draining the strength of Holy Demon City’s Demonic cultivators and severed the thread attached to Zhi Nu. He arranged for Bloodlight Demon Saint to investigate Nether Ancient Demon Ore and prepared to leave the city, ending as he boarded a flying ship and met Su Yunzhao.

• Lin Fan saw that a thread was draining Zhi Nu’s strength, learned she could not remember her past, and promised she could leave Holy Demon City with him before severing the thread above her head.
• Lin Fan sent Bloodlight Demon Saint to investigate the information and location of Nether Ancient Demon Ore, giving him a Golden-Haired Hound body and one month to return.
• Lin Fan told Ghost Mother Wuji to guard his cave dwelling and protect Zhi Nu if danger arose while he was away.
• The next day, Lin Fan boarded a flying ship and met Su Yunzhao, a nominal disciple under the City Lord.

Lin Fan joined An Yunzi’s operation against the Blood Infant Sect’s remnants, but the information that their stronghold held a spirit treasure raised suspicions about the mission’s danger. After Su Yunzhao announced Lin Fan would command the group, Lin Fan revealed an astonishing aura that left the other Guest Officials stunned.

• Lin Fan met Wu Quan aboard the Cloud Piercer Shuttle, and Wu Quan tried to bargain for protection during the operation, but Lin Fan declined to promise him special help.
• The flying boat picked up two more Guest Officials, a pale, silent man and an alluring woman who tried unsuccessfully to pry information from Su Yunzhao.
• Su Yunzhao distributed information jades revealing that the Blood Infant Sect’s remnants were at Blood Wave Mountain and that their stronghold held a spirit treasure inheritance.
• Wu Quan celebrated the prospect of earning merit, while the woman questioned the danger and the promised reward; Su Yunzhao said they had an inside agent and that the mission should not be overly dangerous.
• Su Yunzhao announced that Lin Fan would command the operation, and Lin Fan asserted his authority by releasing an astonishing aura that stunned Wu Quan and the woman.

Lin Fan and the other Guest Officials discovered that Blood Wave Mountain held far more and stronger Blood Infant Sect remnants than expected, and suspected the sect had ties to powerful figures in the Myriad Demon Sect. After An Yunzi increased their reward and sent reinforcements, Lin Fan ordered the assault on the mountain.

• Lin Fan sensed hundreds of cultivators at Blood Wave Mountain, including many Dao Integration experts, and questioned An Yunzi's incomplete intelligence.
• The Guest Officials demanded reinforcements and better pay, so Su Yunzhao contacted An Yunzi, who promised to send more cultivators and an extra one hundred Black Demon Crystals to each Guest Official.
• Lin Fan and the others agreed to wait for reinforcements, while Lin Fan suspected the Blood Infant Sect remnants had connections to higher-ups in the Myriad Demon Sect.
• After dark, Guan Quan arrived with more than a hundred Holy Demon Guards, and Lin Fan ordered the assault on Blood Wave Mountain.
• Wu Quan charged forward with formation flags in hand.

Holy Demon City’s forces attacked Blood Wave Mountain to eradicate the Blood Infant Sect, whose leaders were still refining a Supreme Treasure. As the Holy Demon Guard advanced, the sect’s powerful figures emerged, and Lin Fan called on his allies to join the battle.

• Er Hu hid his fear of the Blood Infant Sect and told his fellow wandering cultivators that their chance to escape depended on what happened that day.
• Elder Blood Dry and another sect leader discussed the threat from An Yunzi and their reliance on an ally while they worked to refine a Supreme Treasure.
• Wu Quan broke through Blood Wave Mountain’s formation, allowing two flying vessels carrying Holy Demon City’s forces to enter.
• Guan Quan led the Holy Demon Guard through the Blood Infant Sect’s checkpoints, defeating dozens of demonic cultivators as Su Yunzhao watched with Lin Fan.
• A blood-robed leader and several powerful figures emerged from black clouds, and Lin Fan told his allies it was their turn to act.

Holy Demon City’s forces attacked the Blood Infant Sect on Blood Wave Mountain, gaining ground as Guest Officials and Er Hu struck the sect’s defenders. The Man in Black and a pale Holy Demon City Guest Official clashed, but Lin Fan sensed five more powerful figures emerging from the palace, warning that the real battle had only just begun.

• Thousand-Hand Demon Flower attacked the Blood Infant Sect’s cultivators with black petals while Wu Quan summoned a giant furnace that swallowed them and strengthened his aura.
• Su Yunzhao prompted Er Hu to betray the Blood Infant Sect, and Er Hu led his brothers in killing the checkpoint guards and breaking through the barrier.
• A Man in Black emerged from the palace, killed or injured Holy Demon City cultivators, and overpowered Guan Quan before a pale Guest Official intercepted his demonic blade barehanded.
• The pale Guest Official fought the Man in Black while Lin Fan sensed a formidable aura still inside the palace.
• The palace exploded, revealing five powerful figures, and Lin Fan warned Su Yunzhao that the real battle had only just begun.