Chapter Summaries

The Bloodlight Demon Saint told Lin Fan that the Dark Dragon Clan wanted to win over the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan with ancient dragon essence blood, in exchange for its allegiance and help attacking Dust Spirit Province. Lin Fan recognized the hidden costs, and the Bloodlight Demon Saint argued that the offer was inadequate because the clan possessed true dragon blood.

• After the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor departed, the Bloodlight Demon Saint went to True Bone Peak, where Ao Mingyue welcomed him and led him to Lin Fan.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint told Lin Fan that the Dark Dragon Clan had sent the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor to recruit them, despite his old blood feud with the clan.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint presented a vial of ancient dragon essence blood and explained that the Dark Dragon Clan would give it to them even if they refused its proposal.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint described the clan's conditions: the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan had to declare itself part of the Dark Dragon Clan and join an attack on Dust Spirit Province.
• Lin Fan judged that the conditions could cost the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan territory, resources, and strength, leaving the Dark Dragon Clan to profit.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint said the Dark Dragon Clan was not sincere and claimed it possessed true dragon blood, which could transform even a Demon Saint.

A beautiful woman lured young flood dragons from Jiaolong Ridge, killed them, and used the Little Red Flood Dragon’s body to attack the clan. She demanded to see Ao Jianshen, who arrived and ordered his clansmen to withdraw.

• The woman appeared by a lake, entranced several young flood dragons, and persuaded them to guide her to Jiaolong Ridge.
• The woman seized a flood dragon, then sent the Little Red Flood Dragon back to the ridge, where blood-colored chains killed several clansmen.
• The woman, speaking through the Little Red Flood Dragon, mocked the clan and demanded that Ao Jianshen come out.
• A clansman attacked the possessed Little Red Flood Dragon and was killed instantly by blood-colored Order Divine Chains.
• Ao Jianshen arrived with several elders, asked the woman’s identity, and ordered the gathered clansmen to withdraw.

A woman from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan demanded that Bloodlight Demon Saint submit the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and pay tribute, threatening to destroy them if they refused. Bloodlight fought back and gained the upper hand, but she trapped him in a terrifying illusion.

• The woman in white demanded the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan submit to the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan and offer one hundred dragon children and one million demon crystals each month.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint rejected her demand, and she gave him three days to agree or face the clan's destruction.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint attacked the woman in white, and their first exchange revealed that his cultivation surpassed hers.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint unleashed the Jiaolong Fist and constrained the woman in white with ripples of golden power.
• The woman in white split into several incarnations and used demonic sounds to pull Bloodlight Demon Saint into an illusion.

Bai Yan escaped the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and told her Third Brother that a powerful hidden expert had forced her to flee. They discussed the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan’s plan to unite the Demon Kingdom, while Third Brother warned her about the ancestors’ changed behavior and gave her three powerful puppets for protection.

• Bai Yan escaped the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan after her Heavenly Fox Demon Sound failed against the Jiaolong Ancestor.
• Bai Yan told her Third Brother that an even more terrifying expert was hiding within the clan.
• Third Brother concluded that the Dark Dragon Clan had won over the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and acknowledged the threat of the hidden Human cultivator.
• Bai Yan explained that her clan meant to seize the Dark Dragon Clan’s weakened position and unite the Demon Kingdom before the coming calamity.
• Third Brother warned Bai Yan that the ancestors had changed since the Eerie Divine Statues appeared and that clan members had mysteriously disappeared.
• Third Brother gave Bai Yan three Purple-Gold Jade Puppets to protect her.

Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord told the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor that the old Dragon Emperor was nearing death, explaining the growing threat to the Dark Dragon Clan. At True Ancient Peak, Lin Fan received the clan’s promised treasures, shared most of them with Ao Mingyue and Bloodlight Demon Saint, and prepared to advance his Phoenix Feather Immortal Art.

• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord revealed that the old Dragon Emperor’s injuries and failed tribulation had left him close to death.
• The Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor chose to remain allied with the Dark Dragon Clan despite the coming upheaval.
• Ao Mingyue brought Lin Fan the Ancient Dragon Blood Essence and dragon crystals provided by the Dark Dragon Clan.
• Lin Fan gave Ao Mingyue two bottles of Ancient Dragon Blood Essence and sent two more bottles and some dragon crystals to Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• Lin Fan connected with the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit and received an offer to spend nine hundred years of lifespan to perfect the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art.

Lin Fan advanced his Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman and created a Primordial Ancient Dragon paper figure. After feeding it several dozen drops of Ancient Dragon Blood Essence, he awakened its consciousness, and it recognized him as the one who had awakened it.

• Lin Fan considered how to obtain enough Dao Principle energy and decided to keep targeting the Sky Swallowing Sparrow clan by helping the Primal Divine Statue devour Eerie Divine Statues.
• Lin Fan spent eight hundred years of lifespan to pre-emptively advance Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman to mastery.
• Lin Fan learned the fourth divine beast rune was a Primordial Ancient Dragon and drew its paper figure talisman.
• Lin Fan found the Primordial Ancient Dragon paper figure lacked consciousness and infused it with Ancient Dragon Blood Essence.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon awakened, released its dragon might, and told Lin Fan that he had awakened it.

After the Primordial Ancient Dragon admitted it had no ancient memories or treasures to offer, Lin Fan turned to the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix for help advancing his cultivation. He learned that killing over a thousand Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan members might restore its memories of the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix Clan’s hidden opportunities.

• Lin Fan demanded the Primordial Ancient Dragon reveal Dragon Clan ruins and techniques, but it said it had no memories and could only fight for him.
• Lin Fan returned the Primordial Ancient Dragon to its talisman and summoned the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix asked whether the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan had invaded and was surprised to learn Lin Fan had reached the ninth rank of the Demon Saint Realm.
• Lin Fan asked the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix to help him obtain the Dao Principles energy needed to break through.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix said its clan had left behind foundations, but it needed the essence blood of hundreds or a thousand Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan members to recover important memories.
• Lin Fan asked whether helping it obtain over a thousand members’ essence blood would reveal the clan’s opportunities, and the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix said it was strongly possible.

Lin Fan questioned the Primal Divine Statue about its origins and saw a vision linking divine statues to the Eerie Altar, then turned to confirming the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s divine statue power. Meanwhile, Ao Jianshen broke through to the Demon Saint Realm and was congratulated by the Jiaolong Clan elders.

• Lin Fan asked the Primal Divine Statue what it was, and it answered that believers would live while those who offended it would die.
• The Primal Divine Statue sent Lin Fan a vision of the Eerie Altar amid a blood-soaked world and eerie divine statues.
• Lin Fan suspected the vision connected divine statues to the Eerie Altar, but the Primal Divine Statue did not respond to his question.
• Lin Fan set aside the mystery and planned to use the Primal Divine Statue to confirm the divine statue power controlled by the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Ao Jianshen broke through to the Demon Saint Realm, and the Jiaolong Clan elders congratulated their clan chief.

Lin Fan reassured Ao Mingyue that they could defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s enemies, while a Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan woman pressured the clan to choose sides. In the Ashen Mountains, members of the One-Horned White Sheep Clan remained trapped as prisoners of the Two-Headed Peacock Clan.

• Ao Mingyue worried that the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan was too powerful, but Lin Fan said they could win and continued copying books while waiting to see the enemy clans’ strength.
• A white-robed woman from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan confronted the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan, demanded to know whether they would fight or submit, and threatened to destroy them if they wavered.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan Leader blamed the Dark Dragon Clan’s support for the attack and asked the woman to restrain them.
• In the Ashen Mountains, a horned boy told his grandfather he was scared as they sat among captives held by the Two-Headed Peacock Clan.
• The old man comforted the boy and grieved that fewer than a hundred of their captured One-Horned White Sheep Clan members remained alive.

Ao Jianlie and the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect recognized that the Two-Headed Peacock Clan was about to make its move, and Ao Jianlie launched a breakout before the prisoners could be taken as offerings. He destroyed the cage and called on the captives to fight their way out.

• A Spirit Sword Immortal Sect disciple noticed Ao Jianlie and his companion’s unusual calm and concealed cultivation, raising his hopes of rescuing the One-Horned White Sheep clansmen.
• The Two-Headed Peacock Clan began selecting young prisoners as offerings for a banquet, prompting the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect disciples to prepare to act.
• Ao Jianlie ordered the weak-looking Demon Cultivators around him to attack, and they killed a Two-Headed Peacock clansman.
• Ao Jianlie crushed another clansman, transformed into a half-man, half-jiaolong form, and urged the prisoners to fight back.
• Ao Jianlie unleashed his power and shattered the cage.

Lin Fan continued copying books to gain lifespan while Ao Mingyue asked to join the campaign against Dust Spirit Province, and he sent her off with a flying sword. That night, Lin Fan sensed Han Yan undergoing another transformation in the Inner Landscape Space, possibly on the verge of reaching the Ghost Saint realm.

• Lin Fan copied several books, gaining decades of lifespan as Ao Mingyue quietly organized his manuscripts.
• Ao Mingyue asked Lin Fan to let her join the forces fighting in Dust Spirit Province, and he agreed despite warning her about the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Lin Fan gave Ao Mingyue a powerful flying sword to strengthen her for battle, and she departed for the front lines.
• After Ao Mingyue left, Lin Fan copied books until night, when he sensed a surge of energy in the Inner Landscape Space.
• Lin Fan and Ghost Mother Wuji saw Han Yan enclosed in a huge black cocoon of ghostly energy as she underwent another transformation.

Lin Fan entered Han Yan’s inner demon tribulation and helped her break free from the Blood River Venerable’s influence. Han Yan emerged from her black cocoon as a Ghost Saint and challenged Lin Fan to test her new strength.

• Ghost Mother Wuji warned Lin Fan that Han Yan was losing control of her inner demon, and Lin Fan entered the black cocoon despite her protest.
• Lin Fan shattered the inner demon’s attack and reminded Han Yan that she was free from the blood-colored statue’s control.
• Han Yan rejected the Blood River Venerable and split its statue apart with her ghost-path aura.
• Lin Fan used the Indestructible Dao Fruit to offset the backlash from helping Han Yan, spending a thousand years of lifespan.
• Han Yan emerged from the cocoon as a Ghost Saint, and she and Lin Fan agreed to exchange blows.

Lin Fan learned from Han Yan that the Eerie Altar had overcome a powerful Mutated Divine Statue and gained the submission of about a hundred statues. Meanwhile, in Dust Spirit Province, Ao Jianlie challenged the Two-Headed Peacock Clan to surrender or be destroyed, and its leader ordered the clan’s elites to attack.

• Han Yan told Lin Fan that her recovered memories revealed the Eerie Altar had ground down the Mutated Divine Statue and begun a sacrificial ritual in the secret realm.
• Han Yan explained that roughly a hundred divine statues had submitted to the Eerie Altar, while only fifteen could obtain the power of faith and the others needed the altar to recover.
• Lin Fan warned Han Yan not to discuss the Eerie Altar with anyone else, and she stayed by his side instead of returning to his Inner Landscape Space.
• Ao Jianlie revealed to the Two-Headed Peacock Clan that he and his companions belonged to the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and demanded that the clan surrender or be destroyed.
• The Two-Headed Peacock Clan’s golden-robed leader dismissed Ao Jianlie’s threat and sent the clan’s elite fighters to attack.

Lin Fan perfected the Eye of Lost and discovered a strange karmic force woven into the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s fortune. Following it brought him face to face with the Black Buddha, whose attack was stopped by the Primal Divine Statue; afterward, the statue identified the Black Buddha as a complete Eerie Divine Statue.

• Ao Jianlie and the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan elders destroyed the Two-Headed Peacock Clan, prompting Ao Jianshen to send Ao Mingyue and reinforcements to Dust Spirit Province.
• Lin Fan spent 1,500 years of lifespan to raise the Eye of Lost to perfection and gained the ability to perceive the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s fortune.
• Lin Fan traced a thread of black karmic force within the clan’s fortune to the Black Buddha in the chaotic mist.
• The Black Buddha attacked Lin Fan, but the Primal Divine Statue intervened, clashed with its hand, and drove it away.
• The Primal Divine Statue told Lin Fan that the Black Buddha was a complete Eerie Divine Statue and an existence terrifying to him.

Lin Fan perfected Starlight Shifting and considered how to gather the Dao Principle crystals needed to advance beyond the Calamity Crossing Realm without provoking the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom’s most powerful clans. He decided to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan so the Primal Divine Statue could devour their divine statues.

• Lin Fan wondered whether the Primal Divine Statue’s growing activity was connected to the successive appearances of divine statues in the demon kingdom.
• Lin Fan spent 1,500 years of lifespan to raise Starlight Shifting to perfection, increasing its reflected attacks to tenfold amplification.
• Lin Fan reviewed his cultivation and concluded that killing many Demon Saints for Dao Principle crystals would risk drawing the attention of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom’s dormant old monsters.
• Lin Fan chose to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan and let the Primal Divine Statue devour the enemy clan’s divine statues.

Ao Mingyue arrived in the Ashen Mountains to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan prepare for the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s counterattack. After Ao Jianlie returned from failing to recruit the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect, Ao Mingyue reaffirmed that their clan would destroy its mortal enemy regardless.

• Ao Mingyue arrived in the Ashen Mountains and told Elder Shen she had come to support the clan on her own initiative.
• Elder Shen explained that Ao Jianlie had gone to the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect to seek its help against the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Ao Mingyue took personal command of the defenses, reassuring the clansmen that Senior Lin and the Ancestor would confront any top experts who appeared.
• Ao Jianlie returned and told Ao Mingyue that the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect had refused to get involved in disputes between demon clans.
• Ao Mingyue said the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan would annihilate the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan whether or not the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect joined them.

The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix, Golden-Haired Hound, and Black Jade Qilin attacked the Sky Swallowing Sparrow clan to aid Ao Mingyue and Ao Jianlie. After the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix killed several Demon Saint experts and defeated the black-robed elder, he fled, leaving the remaining clansmen in danger.

• Ao Jianlie moved to protect Ao Mingyue, but she told him the beasts had come to help.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix killed one Sky Swallowing Sparrow Demon Saint, while the Golden-Haired Hound and Black Jade Qilin killed two others.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix ordered the Golden-Haired Hound and Black Jade Qilin not to interfere because it wanted to devour the Sky Swallowing Sparrows.
• The black-robed elder transformed into a demonic sparrow and attacked the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix, but its bloodline pressure weakened him.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix tore the elder's transformed body apart, and the wounded elder recognized it as an ancient divine beast and fled.

The Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan’s woman persuaded the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan to commit to their alliance, and Tun Yunkong emerged to act on that choice. He appeared in the Ashen Mountains and threatened to destroy the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan unless the power behind its three divine beast talismans revealed itself.

• The woman in white urged the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s elders to stop yielding and support their shared goal, warning that the Dark Dragon Clan would treat them as enemies regardless.
• Tun Yunkong emerged from the darkness, identified himself as the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s Fourth Elder, and declared he would sweep away all obstacles.
• Tun Yunkong appeared in the Ashen Mountains, where Ao Mingyue’s True Dragon Bloodline warned her of the danger.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix, the Golden-Haired Hound, and the Black Jade Qilin surrounded Tun Yunkong and recognized his pure Sky Swallowing Sparrow bloodline.
• Tun Yunkong demanded that the power behind the three talismans reveal himself and threatened to kill those present and destroy the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s ancestral land in Northern Luzhou.

Bloodlight Demon Saint confronted Tun Rikong, but the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s four ancestors arrived to join him, leaving Bloodlight Demon Saint facing five eighth-grade Demon Saints. As the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan suffered heavy losses, Lin Fan waited for others to arrive before acting.

• Tun Rikong questioned whether Bloodlight Demon Saint was truly the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s ancestor, but Bloodlight Demon Saint warned him to surrender and advanced.
• Tun Rikong revealed that four Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan ancestors had been waiting nearby, and they combined their auras to suppress Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• The ancestors’ pressure shattered many weaker Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan members, so Ao Mingyue ordered the survivors to withdraw from the Ashen Mountains.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s ancestors declared that the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan would pay for the deaths of their experts.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix wanted to devour the ancestors, but the Black Jade Qilin warned it would be killed and said Lin Fan was waiting for the others to arrive.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint realized that he could not defeat all five eighth-grade Demon Saints in his current condition.

Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, Bloodlight Demon Saint, and Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor faced overwhelming forces from the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan and the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan until Lin Fan arrived. The woman in white then sent three Purple-Gold Jade Puppets to attack Lin Fan and the others.

• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord realized that his side was outmatched by the five Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan ancestors, the woman in white, and her three Purple-Gold Jade Puppets.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint questioned whether the Dark Dragon Clan had sent reinforcements, and Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor urged them to call on Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan arrived, and Bloodlight Demon Saint welcomed him as his master.
• The woman in white invited Lin Fan to join the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan as a Guest Official, and Lin Fan teasingly suggested she become his dao companion.
• Ao Jianlie warned Ao Mingyue that the woman in white was trying to steal Lin Fan, and Ao Mingyue vowed to kill her once she grew stronger.
• The woman in white declared that Lin Fan would die there and sent the three Purple-Gold Jade Puppets charging at him and the others.