Chapter Summaries

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.

At Blood Wave Mountain, Lin Fan and the Holy Demon City forces faced powerful reinforcements tied to Elder Black Cloud after An Yunzi cut off their chance to call for help. Lin Fan turned the battle around with his strength and Paper Figure Talismans, but he sensed that An Yunzi’s scheme had another purpose when a stern old man appeared nearby.

• An Yunzi watched the battle through a pearl and revealed that he had expected hidden Myriad Demon Sect reinforcements to appear.
• Su Yunzhao charged toward the palace to hold off one enemy, while Wu Quan tried to flee and Lin Fan crushed him with a massive hand.
• Four disciples of Elder Black Cloud offered Lin Fan rewards to switch sides, but Lin Fan killed one of their allies and summoned four Paper Figure Talismans to fight them.
• The two Holy Demon City Guest Officials defeated the blood-robed elder as Guan Quan led the guards in crushing the remaining Blood Infant Sect remnants.
• Lin Fan sensed a stern old man standing unnoticed near the battlefield and suspected that An Yunzi had plotted more than the fight against Elder Black Cloud’s disciples.

Elder Black Cloud arrived and killed the Myriad Demon Sect disciples who had betrayed him, along with the City Lord's Mansion Guest Officials who tried to flee. He confronted Lin Fan, and their battle began; Lin Fan broke into Black Cloud's illusory domain with the Eye of Lost, leaving the elder astonished.

• Elder Black Cloud killed the five Myriad Demon Sect experts and swallowed their Primordial Spirits.
• Elder Black Cloud stopped and killed the two fleeing Guest Officials, while Su Yunzhao identified him as one of the Myriad Demon Sect's Four Directions Elders.
• Elder Black Cloud recognized Lin Fan as the outsider who had broken through the Ten Thousand Miles Yellow Sand Formation and declared he would kill him.
• Lin Fan revealed his Primordial Spirit by teleporting to Elder Black Cloud, and the two began fighting with their Law Avatars.
• Elder Black Cloud dragged Lin Fan into his illusory domain, but Lin Fan activated the Eye of Lost and spread golden light throughout it.

Lin Fan defeated Elder Black Cloud in a battle of Primordial Spirit power and absorbed Dao Principles energy, while An Yunzi sacrificed Holy Demon City to increase his strength. Ghost Mother Wuji rescued Zhi Nu, and Su Yunzhao and his companions headed back toward the ruined city.

• An Yunzi began refining Holy Demon City, draining the cultivation and life force of its inhabitants while the guards killed those who tried to flee.
• Ghost Mother Wuji rescued Zhi Nu from her cave dwelling and escaped the city with her.
• Lin Fan overwhelmed Elder Black Cloud in the illusory Void Realm, annihilated his Primordial Spirit, and absorbed Dao Principles energy from his body.
• An Yunzi absorbed Holy Demon City and vanished, while Ghost Mother Wuji took Zhi Nu away to find her master.
• Su Yunzhao and the others approached the ravine where Blood Wave Mountain had stood, found Lin Fan and Elder Black Cloud gone, and decided to return to Holy Demon City.

Lin Fan left Lin Yao to begin a new life and set out for the Myriad Demon Sect to seize its demon mine. At the sect, Blood River emerged from the Blood Pool and devoured disciples, while a wave of corpse-like attackers breached the mountain-gate formation.

• Lin Fan altered the girl's memories, gave her the name Lin Yao, and left her in a city with cultivation techniques implanted in her body.
• Lin Fan saw that he had reached the fourth grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm and decided to go to the Myriad Demon Sect for its demon mine.
• Blood River emerged from the Blood Pool, asked after Elder Black Cloud, and devoured one of the disciples guarding him to restore his strength.
• A puppet-like man exploded against the Myriad Demon Sect's mountain-gate formation, and more corpse-like attackers rushed the barrier until it broke.
• The attackers poured into the Myriad Demon Sect, and the disciples raised the alarm.

An Yunzi led an assault on the Myriad Demon Sect with an army of Demon Corpses, forcing the sect’s defenders back until Elder Blood River confronted him. As their battle began, Lin Fan arrived unseen and waited for an opening.

• A Myriad Demon Sect elder explained that Demon Corpses were resilient, self-healing weapons, but his divine-soul attack failed to stop them and a colossal Demon Corpse swallowed him.
• The Demon Corpses overran the sect’s mountain gate and several landmarks until Elder Blood River’s blood pool dissolved hundreds of them.
• An Yunzi appeared and challenged Elder Blood River, who revealed that the sect master was still alive.
• An Yunzi claimed he could refine the Nether Ancient Demon Ore using the Heavenly Demon Method and promised to lead the sect beyond the Nether Abyss World.
• Elder Blood River attacked An Yunzi with Blood Mist chains, and the two unleashed clashing powers that shook the sect.
• Lin Fan arrived in secret, judged both fighters stronger than Black Cloud, and concealed his aura while waiting.