Chapter Summaries

One-Tail survived the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation and advanced into the True Body Realm, transforming the mountain around him. The Great Python emerged to destroy the Nine-Tailed Fox God, and One-Tail manifested the fox’s overwhelming True Form.

• One-Tail endured the heavenly lightning and reached the True Body Realm as the final bolt reshaped his body.
• The tribulation’s remnants transformed the scorched mountain into a landscape of spiritual plants, springs, and strange celestial phenomena.
• A catastrophic storm and a series of uncanny disasters swept across the sea.
• The Great Python emerged, warping the surrounding world with its immense presence and preparing to destroy the Nine-Tailed Fox God.
• One-Tail manifested the Nine-Tailed Fox’s True Form, wielding power beyond the First Heaven Layer.

The Nine-Tailed Fox and the Ink-Scaled Great Python fought a catastrophic battle that ended in a world-shattering blast, while the Chaos Ancestor and Demon Emperor awakened and clashed over the chance to break through to the Second Heaven. Their simultaneous fall was interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the Nine-Tailed Fox God from Tai Lake.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox and the Ink-Scaled Great Python exchanged devastating attacks, damaging one another with their tails, claws, and supernatural powers.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and the Great Python unleashed their ultimate powers, creating a white hole and leaving lasting scars across the world.
• The Chaos Ancestor emerged from the Primeval Forest after the Great Python's death lifted the First Heaven Layer's suppression.
• The Demon Emperor awakened in Demon City as the third apex power stirred.
• The Chaos City Lord and the Demon Emperor fought for the chance to break through to the Second Heaven, then fell simultaneously in a violent clash.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox God descended from Tai Lake onto the battlefield where the two apex powers had fallen.

After absorbing the origins of the fallen Demon Emperor and Chaos Ancestor, One-Tail transformed into the Nine-Tailed Fox God and gained the power to break through the First Heaven Layer. Jiang Qiu and others also transformed, while a celestial phenomenon revealed the Second Heaven’s outline but offered the demon clans no chance to ascend.

• One-Tail absorbed battlefield energy and the origins of the Demon Emperor and Chaos Ancestor, then transformed into a woman after reaching the True Body Realm as the Nine-Tailed Fox God.
• Jiang Qiu transformed to the peak beyond the Form Transformation Realm, while A'Xiong’s aura changed without her breaking through.
• The original Nine-Tailed Fox awakened and transformed alongside One-Tail.
• A celestial light filled the sky, and the demon clans and Demon Race saw the outline and afterimage of the Second Heaven.
• The phenomenon faded, and the chance to ascend to the Second Heaven did not belong to the demon clans.

Jiang Qiu and his companions entered the Second Heaven and were overwhelmed by memories and phantoms of ancient beings who had once reached it. They found the realm empty of living beings and wondered how they could reach the Third Heaven.

• Jiang Qiu brought A'Xiong, the Nine-Tailed Fox, One-Tail, and the others up the Heavenly Stairway into the Second Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu witnessed memories of the Dragon Emperor defeating a wicked dragon with his sword and dragon aura.
• One-Tail called Jiang Qiu back to himself, while A'Xiong and the Nine-Tailed Fox experienced phantoms of ancient Chaos Great Demons.
• A'Xiong saw the Giant Bear Ancestor, while other phantoms included ancient Demon Race emperors who had attained the Dao.
• Jiang Qiu and his companions realized that the Second Heaven had no living beings and questioned how they could reach the Third Heaven.

Jiang Qiu searched the Second Heaven’s memories and phantoms for the reason Dao Attainment Realm beings had died there, suspecting the path between heavens had been severed. An overwhelming entity revealed the abnormality to One-Tail as well, and visions of a mysterious being’s failed ritual left the Second Heaven’s catastrophe unresolved.

• Jiang Qiu observed the phantoms of numerous Demon Ancestors while considering whether the way to the Third Heaven had been cut off.
• The phantoms overwhelmed Jiang Qiu, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and A'Xiong, while One-Tail initially remained unaffected.
• An incomprehensibly powerful entity appeared, and its presence altered the laws of the surrounding world and exposed forbidden knowledge to those who perceived it.
• One-Tail began seeing the Second Heaven’s memories and visions, including a mysterious being performing a ritual as a city and its formation collapsed.
• One-Tail witnessed another vision of a man kneeling between bronze cauldrons as floods and crimson storms overwhelmed an altar, and he understood the disaster as the Severance of Heaven and Earth.

Jiang Qiu, One-Tail, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and A'Xiong traveled the Path to Heaven and entered the Third Heaven, where Jiang Qiu sensed that a distant castle might hold the secret to advancing further. The four adapted to the peaceful new realm, but they still did not know how to reach the Fourth Heaven.

• Jiang Qiu, One-Tail, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and A'Xiong crossed the Path to Heaven, exhausted by the journey before reaching an ancient stone gate and pagoda.
• The group passed through the gate and entered the Third Heaven, a serene land filled with thriving creatures and abundant nature.
• Jiang Qiu felt his realm suppressed by the Third Heaven and spotted a powerful castle on a distant mountain that might lead to the Fourth Heaven.
• A thunderous bell rang from the castle, and Jiang Qiu saw a Dragon Race figure depicted on its banner.
• Jiang Qiu, the Nine-Tailed Fox, One-Tail, and A'Xiong appeared transformed in the Third Heaven, while the group remained uncertain how to reach the Fourth Heaven.

Jiang Qiu and his companions searched the Third Heaven for a way to reach the Fourth Heaven, where cultivation and spiritual techniques had vanished. After entering Mirror Moon Valley, they met Zisu and asked her for directions, but the chapter ended before she answered.

• Jiang Qiu questioned a native demon about the Fourth Heaven and learned that no one could ascend from the Third Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu took One-Tail, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and A'Xiong to question other demons, relying on physical strength to travel.
• Zisu gathered dew and went about her daily life in the peaceful Mirror Moon Valley.
• Jiang Qiu and his companions entered Mirror Moon Valley after failing for months to find the distant castle they had seen upon arriving in the Third Heaven.
• Zisu asked Jiang Qiu why they had come, and he explained that they were seeking a route to the Fourth Heaven.

Jiang Qiu learned that Cloud Dream Great Marsh might bring him closer to the path to the Fourth Heaven, then led his companions on a journey of more than ten years to reach it. They arrived at an inn near the marsh, worn down by travel but ready to seek what lay beyond.

• Zisu told Jiang Qiu that Cloud Dream Great Marsh was said to lie nearer to the Heavenly Path to the Fourth Heaven and gave him its general direction.
• Jiang Qiu traded resources for treasures that sustained vitality and set out from Mirror Moon Valley with his companions.
• The chapter described the Qingqiu Secret Realm and the daily life of its demons, including the gray fox youth A'Shuo, who had been born in Cloud Dream Great Marsh.
• After more than ten years of difficult travel, Jiang Qiu and his companions reached an old inn near Cloud Dream Great Marsh.
• Jiang Qiu reflected on their arrival and how the long journey had aged and changed the group.

Jiang Qiu learned from A'Shuo that Secluded Bamboo Valley might hold a route to the Fourth Heaven, and he stayed in the Cloud Dream Great Marsh to gather information and supplies. In Secluded Bamboo Valley, Mishō gathered ritual materials and discovered that a Crystal Orchid would open a passage to the Sea of Star Marrow at noon.

• Jiang Qiu asked A'Shuo how to reach the Fourth Heaven, and A'Shuo directed him to Secluded Bamboo Valley while warning that travel there was nearly a legend.
• Jiang Qiu remained in the Cloud Dream Great Marsh for several days to seek information and prepare resources for the journey.
• Mishō collected liquid light, star glue, and other materials in Secluded Bamboo Valley while observing its strange natural phenomena.
• Mishō gathered morning dew at Mirror Lake, where it produced miniature spheres showing different seasons.
• Mishō plucked a Crystal Orchid whose black hole began pointing toward the Spring of Spiritual Essence.
• Mishō learned that the Crystal Orchid would open a passage to the Sea of Star Marrow at noon, where she would offer collected time fragments for antimatter seeds.

After more than thirty years of travel, Jiang Qiu and his companions reached Secluded Bamboo Valley and asked how to reach the Fourth Heaven. An Ancient Demon pointed them toward the Northern Lands, the last place where someone had entered the Fourth Heaven, giving the aging travelers a possible lead.

• Mishō encountered Jiang Qiu and his companions, who had traveled for over thirty years since leaving Cloud Dream Great Marsh.
• Mishō reported their arrival to Secluded Bamboo Valley's administrators and helped them explain that they sought a route to the Fourth Heaven.
• Mishō led Jiang Qiu and the others to meet a reclusive Ancient Demon in the forest.
• The Ancient Demon advised them to investigate the Northern Lands, where someone had last entered the Fourth Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu and his companions took the lead as a reason to hurry onward before more time passed.

Qing Luo learned that Star Sand maintained the World Tree’s energy veins and helped repair damage to the Northern Lands’ barrier. Jiang Qiu arrived in the prosperous region, but his journey had consumed most of his remaining years, and he still had not found the answer he sought.

• Qing Luo used her Star Trajectory Instrument to discover that Star Sand followed geometric paths and that its star charts aligned with the altar’s Profound Crystal Pillars.
• Qing Luo learned to calibrate energy nodes and repaired delayed earth-vein pulses with Morning Dew Crystals.
• Bai Ze warned Qing Luo as an abnormal Star Sand eruption revealed an ancient tree with seven cracks, and the Star Sand flowed into them to repair the World Tree.
• Qing Luo followed residual energy to a withering Dragon's Blood Vine, restored it with sulfur powder, and detected a tiny crack in the barrier.
• Qing Luo sent abnormal energy data toward the Forest Rangers in Dandelion Seeds.
• Jiang Qiu reached the Northern Lands and reflected that finding his answer had to happen before his remaining years ran out.

A Heng experienced the daily life of Green Haze Marsh, where the Tree Spirit’s approaching awakening stirred the demons and their ancient covenant. While visiting Elder Turtle, she witnessed the ancestors’ pact and discovered a forbidden Time Reversal Technique sealed among the demon clan’s lost arts.

• A Heng traded dew and seeds at the morning market before joining the young demons’ training at Ancient Banyan Plaza.
• A Heng and the demon residents prepared for the Moonlight Festival, and the full moon’s arrival awakened the Tree Spirit and renewed the ancient covenant at Mirror Lake.
• A Heng observed the marsh’s market and training grounds as the Tree Spirit drew spiritual energy from the earth veins.
• Elder Turtle used Memory Tea to show A Heng how the first Tree Spirit and the mountain god forged their covenant.
• A Heng glimpsed the forbidden Time Reversal Technique in a blood-red tortoise shell, and Secret-keeping Leeches sealed the dangerous memory away.

Jiang Qiu learned that the powerful demon clans of Northern Lands Valley might know how to reach the Fourth Heaven, while A'Ying watched over the hidden valley and awaited its opening. The chapter left A'Ying in Northern Lands, surrounded by its magical cycles and awaiting the legendary Fourth Heaven.

• A Heng told Jiang Qiu that the formidable demon clans deeper in Northern Lands Valley might know how to reach the Fourth Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu thanked A Heng and continued onward with the Nine-Tailed Fox and One-Tail supporting him.
• A'Ying woke in Northern Lands Valley and watched its demon clans and spirits begin their daily routines.
• A'Ying explored the valley's markets and Mirror Lake as its inhabitants prepared for nightfall.
• A'Ying slept beneath the valley's protection and later stood beneath a cherry blossom tree, awaiting the opening of the Fourth Heaven.

A'Ying led Jiang Qiu, One-Tail, the Nine-Tailed Fox, A'Xiong, and the others into the Sanctuary, where the demon race cultivated its most outstanding talents and preserved ancient secrets. As he walked through its grounds, Jiang Qiu reflected on his past and resolved to seek the answer that could lead him to the Fourth Heaven before his remaining time ran out.

• A'Ying encountered Jiang Qiu, One-Tail, the Nine-Tailed Fox, A'Xiong, and the others in Northern Lands Valley and eagerly guided them toward the Sanctuary.
• A'Ying led the group through the Sanctuary's entrance and into its courtyards and pavilions.
• Jiang Qiu walked through the Sanctuary, recalling its former prosperity and the hopes he had once placed in the land.
• Jiang Qiu recognized that little time remained in his life and set out to find the answer that would lead him to the Fourth Heaven.

A'Ying led Jiang Qiu and the others through the ancient demon-clan sacred land, where they witnessed its peaceful scenery and the daily life of its residents. She brought them toward a long-sealed pavilion guarded by an elder who might know how to reach the Fourth Heaven.

• The aged Nine-Tailed Fox returned to her fox form beside Jiang Qiu, and A'Xiong transformed into his bear demon form.
• A'Ying guided Jiang Qiu and the others through Emerald Valley, showing them its spiritual spring, ancient trees, demon residents, and peaceful daily life.
• A'Ying recalled the sacred land's seasonal customs, Spirit Butterfly Festival, and the glowing lichen that guided her to the Crystal Ancient Tree.
• A'Ying led the group toward a long-sealed pavilion at the sacred land's heart, where an elder guarded legendary texts and might know the way to the Fourth Heaven.

Jiang Qiu explored the Demon Race Scripture Pavilion and, guided by the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion, studied ancient books depicting the Third Heaven’s history and evolution. As Jiang Qiu remained absorbed in the visions, the Nine-Tailed Fox and the others waited downstairs, unsure when he would find a way to reach the Fourth Heaven.

• Jiang Qiu entered the Cultivation Pavilion with the Nine-Tailed Fox, One-Tail, A'Xiong, and A'Ying, and met the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion.
• After learning that Jiang Qiu and the others wanted to reach the Fourth Heaven, the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion guided Jiang Qiu alone to the deepest bookshelves.
• Jiang Qiu opened an ancient book and saw an illusion of the Third Heaven’s peaceful daily life among its many Demon Races.
• The Elder of the Scripture Pavilion showed Jiang Qiu another tome describing how the Demon Races evolved from unusual beasts into powerful, intelligent beings.
• While Jiang Qiu continued studying, the Nine-Tailed Fox and the others waited downstairs and wondered why he had not yet found a way to the Fourth Heaven.

As the Nine-Tailed Fox, One-Tail, and A'Xiong read ancient volumes in the Scripture Pavilion, the Nine-Tailed Fox witnessed the rich daily life and spiritual cycles of the demon sacred land, while One-Tail saw how her legend endured in the First Heaven. The chapter ends with One-Tail reading about a lone altar and Nine-Tailed Fox statue waiting in a desolate land for someone destined to arrive.

• The Elder of the Scripture Pavilion let Jiang Qiu and the others read the ancient volumes, hoping a Chosen One would discover the method to reach the Fourth Heaven.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox read a volume depicting the sacred land’s customs, daily rhythms, and spiritual ceremonies, and reflected on how little she had understood during her earlier travels.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox considered her aging and uncertain purpose, while recognizing that Jiang Qiu’s companionship had helped her endure her long journey.
• One-Tail read of how people in the First Heaven continued to honor her as the Nine-Tailed Fox God and send her power through their faith.
• One-Tail saw a vision of a desolate land where a weathered altar and a lifelike Nine-Tailed Fox statue waited for a destined visitor.

One-Tail relived visions of the ruined First Heaven and the thriving Emerald Valley, while the Nine-Tailed Fox's statue and One-Tail herself aged as her faith faded. A'Xiong recalled the first time she saw Jiang Qiu: as a Dragon Egg in the Primeval Forest, before its birth.

• One-Tail saw the desolate First Heaven Layer, where the battered Nine-Tailed Fox statue was the only thing left standing after a great cleansing.
• One-Tail felt her power of faith ebb away as her appearance rapidly aged.
• One-Tail watched scenes of everyday life in Emerald Valley and began to accept the thought of leaving behind her identity as the Nine-Tailed Fox God.
• One-Tail's vision showed the Nine-Tailed Fox as an aged but majestic figure among ancient trees, though neither she nor Jiang Qiu knew of the change.
• A'Xiong remembered coming to the Third Heaven for Jiang Qiu and seeing a glowing Dragon Egg in the Primeval Forest, which she watched from a distance in awe.

A'Xiong remembered his impoverished former territory and how following Jiang Qiu brought him to the Fourth Heaven. The girl recalled the peaceful sanctuary of Green Hill and its many demon clans, but ended by noticing that some stars were growing dim.

• A'Xiong remembered struggling to survive in his barren territory until he encountered the Dragon Egg and submitted to Jiang Qiu, whose guidance eventually brought him to the Fourth Heaven.
• The girl observed the sanctuary waking beneath the Ancient Parasol Tree, where Flower Spirits, foxes, Profound Turtles, merfolk, and other demon clans went about their daily lives.
• The girl watched the sanctuary's inhabitants gather Moonlight Marrow, forge Stellar Iron, and celebrate the Firefly Banquet, while memories were preserved in the tree's spiritual veins.
• The girl believed the sanctuary's peace and memories would endure, then looked at the stars and saw that some were growing dim.

The girl recalled the sanctuary’s wonders and its ancient customs while wondering about the unreachable Fourth Heaven and fragments of a forgotten past. She ended by questioning who she was as memories of the Nine-Tailed Fox ancestor slipped away.

• The girl wondered whether anyone could travel to the Fourth Heaven and what it was like.
• The girl remembered holding a powerful, aloof Nine-Tailed Fox long ago and asked whether Fox Demons could grow nine tails.
• The girl recalled the Nine-Tailed Fox ancestor and felt a figure surface in her mind before fading away.
• The girl murmured, "Who am I?"