Chapter Summaries

An Yunzi defeated Elder Blood River and pursued his Primordial Spirit into the Myriad Demon Sect’s hidden chamber, searching for the Nether Ancient Demon Heart. There, the sect’s mysterious former master appeared and confronted him.

• An Yunzi overwhelmed Elder Blood River’s blood pools with a demonic blade, split his body in two, and pursued his escaping Primordial Spirit.
• An Yunzi crushed Elder Blood River’s Primordial Spirit and examined the Bronze Gate guarding the Myriad Demon Sect’s secret.
• An Yunzi opened the Bronze Gate and found Black Demon Crystals and Black Demon Marrow inside.
• An Yunzi approached a seated figure holding a brilliant object and recognized it as the Nether Ancient Demon Heart.
• A ghostlike figure appeared before An Yunzi and said, “You still came.”

The Lord of Great Gan used the Lifespan Ancient Mirror to drive a strange being out of An Yunzi and trap the surrounding territory. He demanded that Lin Fan help kill it, but Lin Fan questioned the offer as the strange being summoned an altar phantom.

• An Yunzi recognized the Lord of the Myriad Demon Sect, but the Lifespan Ancient Mirror attacked and gravely weakened him.
• The Lord of Great Gan revealed himself and forced a sinister strange being out of An Yunzi.
• The strange being fixed the surrounding territory in place, preventing Lin Fan from teleporting away.
• The Lord of Great Gan identified Lin Fan as a variable and offered him a demonic heart in exchange for help killing the strange being.
• Lin Fan asked what would happen if he refused, and the strange being declared that it would erase them before summoning an altar phantom.

Lin Fan and Lord of Great Gan joined forces to battle an eerie powerhouse whose Altar Phantom threatened to open a passage for more eerie beings. While the fight engulfed the Myriad Demon Sect, the Flood Dragon Ancestor tried to steal the refined demon heart, but Bloodlight Demon Saint ambushed him.

• The Altar Phantom descended on the Myriad Demon Sect, killing weaker disciples as Lord of Great Gan warned Lin Fan that the threat could overwhelm them.
• Lin Fan agreed to cooperate with Lord of Great Gan, and they used the Lifespan Ancient Mirror and Eight Yama Dharma Bodies to hold back the eerie powerhouse.
• The eerie powerhouse transformed into a colossal demonic shadow, tried to open a spatial passage, and fed on Myriad Demon Sect disciples as Lin Fan and Lord of Great Gan fought it.
• Lord of Great Gan summoned Divine Spirit Phantoms, while Lin Fan brought out the Wuji Sail and Ghost Mother Wuji to join the battle.
• A disguised Myriad Demon Sect odd-job disciple revealed himself as the Flood Dragon Ancestor and tried to take the demon heart from the pill furnace.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint ambushed the Flood Dragon Ancestor and exposed his identity and bloodline.

Lin Fan escaped the destruction of the Myriad Demon Sect with Bloodlight Demon Saint and most of the demon heart, then gave Bloodlight Demon Saint Jiaolong Ancestor’s body to seize. With the Nether Abyss World increasingly threatened, they planned to travel to the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom, though Lin Fan first intended to gather more demon hearts and other treasures.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint seized pieces of the demon heart as it shattered, while Jiaolong Ancestor and Lin Fan each intercepted another fragment.
• Lin Fan wounded Jiaolong Ancestor with his flying sword and teleported away with him and Bloodlight Demon Saint before the eerie powerhouse arrived and destroyed the Myriad Demon Sect.
• Lin Fan let Bloodlight Demon Saint seize Jiaolong Ancestor’s body, and Bloodlight Demon Saint regained part of his former strength.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint suggested they hide in the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom using Jiaolong Ancestor’s identity and clan connections.
• Lin Fan agreed to the plan but said they would first gather more demon hearts, Black Demon Marrow, and possibly Black Demon Crystals.

The Chaos Palace debated whether to seize the territory left by the Myriad Demon Sect or prepare for the Eerie threat, until its Great Elder forbade anyone from leaving before the Palace Master emerged from seclusion. Meanwhile, Lin Fan crafted a powerful Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix paper figure talisman and was stunned when it spoke to him.

• Chaos Palace members argued over expanding into the Myriad Demon Sect's former territory, while some warned that the Eerie could threaten their sect.
• The Great Elder silenced the hall and ordered everyone to remain inside the sect until the Palace Master emerged from seclusion in three days.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman and gained insight into making a Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix.
• Lin Fan endured the talisman's immense energy demands and successfully created the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix paper figure.
• Lin Fan activated the talisman and discovered that the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix could speak.

Lin Fan awakened the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix inside a Paper Figure Talisman and learned it wanted him to gather its scattered divine essence so it could revive. He agreed to consider the request, then reflected on the vastness of the world and checked his progress.

• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix awoke in Lin Fan's Paper Figure Talisman and identified itself as an ancient divine beast that had perished in a final battle.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix asked Lin Fan to gather more of its divine essence and promised access to the Black Phoenix Clan's inheritance, treasures, and Heavenly Pool if he helped it revive.
• Lin Fan questioned whether the Black Phoenix Clan and its treasures still existed, then said he would think about the request.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix withdrew into the talisman, and Lin Fan considered how little he knew about the world and the Eerie.
• Lin Fan checked his panel and saw that he had spent six hundred years of lifespan to advance the Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman to proficiency, while his cultivation remained unchanged.

Lin Fan refined the demon heart to strengthen his Inner Landscape, but the Primal Divine Statue consumed most of its energy, leaving him at the fifth grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm and close to a perfected Inner Landscape. After the Demonic forces withdrew into hiding, Lin Fan decided to leave the Nether Abyss World.

• Lin Fan used the demon heart to cultivate his Inner Landscape, but the Primal Divine Statue seized most of its Dao Principles energy and left only a small portion for him.
• Lin Fan exhausted the remaining demon heart, expanding his Inner Landscape by more than double and advancing from the fourth to the fifth grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm.
• The Chaos Palace Master emerged from seclusion and ordered the Chaos Palace to withdraw from the world.
• Other top Demonic forces also vanished into hiding, taking their disciples and members away from the outside world.
• Lin Fan told Bloodlight Demon Saint that the Demonic forces were avoiding the fate of the Myriad Demon Sect and protecting their demon mines, then decided to leave the Nether Abyss World.

Lord of Great Gan escaped through the Lifespan Ancient Mirror as the strange entities spread across Great Gan. Orchid Valley fled the nation, and Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint returned to find the land devastated and drew the attention of a mysterious figure.

• Lord of Great Gan left through a spacetime passage, while a savage figure arrived too late and vowed to find him.
• As the strange entities reached Taian Commandery, Zhou Wutong and Orchid Valley debated whether to fight or flee.
• Elder Mei revealed that Orchid Valley could use its founding patriarch’s token to contact the Upper Sect, and a projection appeared when Zhou Wutong activated it.
• Three days later, Orchid Valley moved west and eventually left Great Gan as the strange entities invaded Taian Commandery with a sacrificial altar.
• Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint returned to Great Gan, where Bloodlight Demon Saint burned away the strange entities surrounding them.
• A graceful figure sensed a familiar scent and ordered several shadows to bring Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint back to her.

Qing Feng led the Demon Slaying Bureau in a desperate defense of Anfeng County City as the uncanny overwhelmed its ranks. Meanwhile, Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint realized uncanny powerhouses had tracked them down and prepared to confront them.

• A woman in a red dress followed a lingering scent and said she had finally found her senior brother.
• Qing Feng learned that the evacuation of Anfeng County City’s remaining residents would take five days and that no reinforcements were coming.
• Qing Feng let unwilling cultivators retreat, then led the others into battle against the uncanny.
• Qing Feng killed the corrupted Demon Slaying Envoy Han Dang, but more uncanny creatures appeared and killed her comrades.
• Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint sensed several uncanny powerhouses pursuing them, and Lin Fan chose to meet them.

Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint confronted three Calamity Crossing Realm eerie beings in Taian Commandery, and Bloodlight Demon Saint fought them using Jiaolong Ancestor’s body. He killed one of them and charged at another as the remaining two drew on eerie power to strengthen themselves.

• Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint encountered three eerie experts who claimed Taian Commandery as the Saint Clan’s territory.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint invoked his identity as the ancestor of the Dark Blood Jiaolong of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom, but the eerie beings attacked anyway.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint transformed into a giant demonic shadow and fought all three, while Lin Fan watched and assessed his strength.
• When the gray-eyed eerie expert used vortices to drain his demonic aura, Bloodlight Demon Saint countered with blood shadows that sealed the enemies and siphoned their power.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint destroyed the short tentacled eerie being and swallowed its Primordial Spirit, completely annihilating it.
• The two surviving eerie experts grew stronger by drawing in eerie power, and Bloodlight Demon Saint charged at the gray-eyed one.

Lin Fan reunited with Han Yan, whose body had been taken over by a strange consciousness while her true soul remained imprisoned. He freed her soul and began transforming her into a Ghostly Creature, but her body erupted with devastating energy as he and Bloodlight Demon Saint fled.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint killed the two strange powerhouses with his blood-colored furnace, but a powerful woman in red arrived and revealed herself as Lin Fan's old acquaintance, Han Yan.
• The woman in red tried to recruit Lin Fan into the Saint Clan and summoned strange powerhouses, then fought him and Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• Lin Fan used Five Elements Mountain to enter the woman's sea of consciousness and found Han Yan's true Primordial Spirit bound by blood-colored chains.
• Han Yan explained that strange power had nearly eroded her soul, so Lin Fan proposed using yin energy to transform her into a Ghostly Creature; she agreed.
• Lin Fan used his ghostly banner to nourish Han Yan's soul, broke her chains, and brought her back to her body as it erupted with destructive energy.
• Lin Fan told Bloodlight Demon Saint to flee, and the eruption engulfed the area in a series of explosions.

Qing Feng and the remaining Patrol Division cultivators resisted the eerie forces until the creatures retreated after the Saintess disappeared. The Saintess prepared a new assault on Great Gan, while Lin Fan restored Han Yan’s soul and she awoke as a yin spirit.

• Qing Feng refused to retreat as her Patrol Division comrades sacrificed themselves fighting the eerie monsters, until the creatures suddenly withdrew.
• The Patrol Division Chief told Qing Feng that the Saintess controlling the eerie forces had gone missing and ordered her to return to the Imperial City.
• The eerie Saintess emerged from a blood pool, created a horned creature, and sent it to destroy Great Gan while she strengthened the Altar Phantom and thirteen divine statues.
• Lin Fan escaped Taian Commandery with the Bloodlight Demon Saint and used the Wuji Sail to restore Han Yan’s weakened soul.
• Han Yan’s soul stabilized as a yin spirit, and she opened her eyes and greeted Senior Brother Lin.

Lin Fan learned from Han Yan how the Eerie Altar had transformed the Wei-Jin Borderlands into a dead zone, then took her in to cultivate and received her collection of books. Suspecting the Lord of Great Gan knew the Altar’s origins, Lin Fan set out with the Bloodlight Demon Saint for the Great Gan Imperial City.

• Han Yan explained that Blood River Venerable had saved her after the Eerie Altar arrived in the secret realm and later controlled her as the Eerie Clan’s Saintess.
• Han Yan said the Wei-Jin Borderlands had become a dead zone where all living beings were turned into eerie creatures, and recounted that the Altar had appeared in the distant past before being sealed by a supreme existence.
• Han Yan gave Lin Fan a storage artifact containing tens of thousands of books, and Lin Fan arranged for her to cultivate inside the Wuji Sail under the Ghost Mother Wuji’s care.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint admitted he knew little about the Eerie Altar’s origins, so Lin Fan decided to question the Lord of Great Gan.
• Lin Fan took the Bloodlight Demon Saint and teleported toward the Great Gan Imperial City.

Lin Fan watched several powerful sects launch a rebellion against the Great Gan imperial clan in the Imperial City. He believed the Lord of Great Gan was alive and had grown stronger, and planned to ask him about the mysterious sacrificial altar.

• The leader of the Xuantu Ancient Sect explained that he had joined a conspiracy with other sects to challenge Great Gan and seek answers about his ancestor’s death in the Forbidden Battlefield.
• The Qingming Sect Leader attacked the imperial palace with the Green Ghost Dharma Form, and the Great Gan imperial clan’s old man intervened with a golden Dharma Form.
• Leaders and experts from several powerful sects appeared, accused Great Gan of suppressing them, and demanded that the Lord of Great Gan show himself.
• The Xuantu Ancient Sect leader joined the rebels, while more than a dozen Dao Integration experts emerged from the golden palaces to defend the imperial clan.
• The Hunyuan Sect leader charged into battle, and the sect experts clashed with Great Gan’s forces as the fighting engulfed much of the city.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint watched the battle with Lin Fan, who chose not to interfere because he knew the Lord of Great Gan was alive and wanted to ask him about the mysterious sacrificial altar.

Yan Zhanxian led the sects in an assault on Great Gan, but Lord of Great Gan emerged and destroyed the rebellion with the Lifespan Ancient Mirror. Afterward, he noticed Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint watching from the city and invited them to meet.

• Yan Zhanxian returned from the Forbidden Battlefield and overwhelmed Great Gan’s imperial cultivators, while the Inspectorate Chief and Ni Miao failed to stop him.
• Lord of Great Gan appeared and used the Lifespan Ancient Mirror to kill Yan Zhanxian and annihilate the rebellious sect leaders.
• The Great Gan imperial cultivators bowed to Lord of Great Gan, who then called out to two figures in the city.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint offered to knock Lord of Great Gan down, but Lin Fan chose to go meet him.

Lin Fan confronted the Lord of Great Gan in the imperial palace and demanded information about the mysterious altar. After learning it was linked to the Ancient Gods and hearing about the Lord’s plans to seek refuge with an Ancient Clan, Lin Fan left Great Gan without joining him.

• Lin Fan confronted the Lord of Great Gan and demanded to know the altar’s origin, threatening to replace him if he refused.
• The Lord of Great Gan described the altar’s ancient appearances and its connection to the Ancient Gods, eerie beings, and mutated stone statues.
• The Lord of Great Gan invited Lin Fan to join him in seeking opportunities within an Ancient Clan, but Lin Fan refused.
• Lin Fan and Bloodlight Demon Saint left the imperial city, and Lin Fan explained that fighting the Lord of Great Gan would be costly and controlling Great Gan offered little benefit.

At a banquet hosted by the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, Young Master Bai of the Cloud-Swallowing Python Clan tested the clan’s strength while insulting its bloodline and Ao Jianlie. Ao Jianlie challenged him to a fight, and the two left the hall to face off.

• Young Master Bai asked to see the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s daughter, but the clan elder said she was cultivating in seclusion.
• The elder asked why Young Master Bai had come, and he said the Cloud-Swallowing Python Clan had sent him to offer help because the Jiaolong Ancestor had gone missing.
• Ao Jianlie objected when Young Master Bai claimed the two clans shared the same roots, and Young Master Bai mocked Ao Jianlie’s talent and called him trash.
• The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan Leader and elders confronted Young Master Bai, while Ao Jianlie challenged him to fight.
• Young Master Bai accepted, and he and Ao Jianlie left the palace hall as the others followed.

Ao Jianlie challenged Young Master Bai of the Cloud-Swallowing Python Clan in the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s arena, but his strongest attacks failed to break Bai’s defenses. The chapter ended as Bai prepared to demonstrate his true power.

• Ao Jianlie and Young Master Bai entered the arena, and Ao Jianlie accepted the challenge despite warnings about Bai’s favored status and strength.
• Ao Jianlie unleashed his Jiaolong Dharma Body and struck Young Master Bai with thunder and flames, but Bai remained unharmed.
• Ao Jianlie transformed into a hundred-meter jiaolong and formed the Dark Blood Dragon Sword with his Innate Divine Ability.
• Young Master Bai blocked the Dark Blood Dragon Sword with scarlet-gold runes, forcing it back only an inch despite Ao Jianlie’s full strength.
• Young Master Bai called Ao Jianlie’s strength disappointing and promised to show him true power.

The young lord of the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan defeated Ao Jianlie and proposed a marriage alliance with the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan. The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan Leader refused, and the visitor warned that his ancestor would make the matter unavoidable.

• The man with vertical pupils shattered Ao Jianlie’s weapons and Protective Demonic Energy, then struck him unconscious and sent him crashing into a ravine.
• The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan Leader confronted the man with vertical pupils, but the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan members threatened retaliation by their ancestor.
• After learning that Ao Jianlie’s injuries were severe but not life-threatening, the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan Leader chose to avoid a clash and told the visitors to leave.
• The man with vertical pupils revealed that he had come to offer birthday congratulations and arrange a marriage alliance, proposing to marry the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s precious pearl.
• The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan Leader rejected the proposal, and the man with vertical pupils warned that his ancestor would be furious and leave the matter beyond discussion.

After the Cloud Swallowing Python young master injured Ao Jianlie and left, Ao Jianshen worried about his clan’s vulnerability while its Ancestor remained missing. He consulted Ao Mingyue about the powerful young master and revealed that the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan had proposed marriage to her, leaving her to ask whether her father had already decided.

• Ao Jianshen treated Ao Jianlie’s injuries, and Elder Zhuri took him away to recover.
• The clan elders warned Ao Jianshen that the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan might attack while the Dark Blood Jiaolong Ancestor was absent and unreachable.
• Ao Mingyue told Ao Jianshen that the Ancestor had not responded to her attempts to contact him through the Dragon Bone.
• Ao Mingyue admitted that Young Master Bai was a genuine Ancestral Return Realm expert and that she was not yet confident she could defeat him.
• Ao Jianshen told Ao Mingyue that the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan had proposed marriage on the authority of its Ancestor, and she asked whether he wanted her opinion or had already made up his mind.