Chapter Summaries

A'Ying wandered through the peaceful Holy Land of the Third Heaven while searching the Library Pavilion for a path to the Fourth Heaven. Historical fragments and strange scenes stirred memories of a familiar antlered young man, but she still could not explain her feelings or find the way onward.

• A'Ying explored the Holy Land’s unusual markets, spiritual landscapes, customs, and time-bending places while continuing to look for a route to the Fourth Heaven.
• A'Ying entered the Library Pavilion’s maze of Demon History and saw four weary travelers arriving from the south, which felt familiar to her.
• A'Ying saw an antlered young demon in a replayed scene and felt that she had once known him and shared many years with him.
• A'Ying remained unable to find a way to the Fourth Heaven and decided that the peaceful Third Heaven had become boring.

A'Ying wandered through the sacred land's strange places, but its memory magic and hidden knowledge gave her no answers about her own past. She decided to search beyond the sacred land for the people in her memories, though she doubted anyone from the past could still be waiting for her.

• A'Ying explored the sacred land's many uncanny sites, including its time-bending marsh, tear-clam ranch, and memory mirror, but none revealed her past.
• A'Ying recalled a young man from her memories leading others through hardship as he gradually grew old.
• A'Ying concluded that only the people in her memories might answer her questions and began wandering beyond the sacred land, waiting for them to arrive.

A'Ying met a travel-worn group of four whose members stirred memories of a connection across time and space. After learning that they sought the path to the Fourth Heaven, she led them to the demon clan holy land and its Library Pavilion, where the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion recorded history.

• A'Ying waited in Northern Lands Valley and saw a group of four approaching, including an old man, two women with fox features, and a familiar young woman.
• A'Ying felt an inexplicable connection to the travelers and learned they were searching for the path to the Fourth Heaven.
• A'Ying agreed to guide the group to the demon clan holy land.
• The group entered the holy land and reached the Library Pavilion, where the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion worked among its books.
• The chapter described the Elder of the Scripture Pavilion observing water-town streets, countryside, an ancient capital, and gardens as a recorder of history.

A'Ying opened an ancient book in the Library Pavilion and witnessed a vision of Jiang Qiu's life in the sacred land. By calling his name, she shattered the illusion and helped him recover his memories, leaving him to wonder why he had been trapped in the peaceful Third Heaven and what the vision of A'Xue meant.

• A'Ying opened a forgotten ancient book and was drawn into a vision of a young Jiang Qiu in the sacred land.
• Jiang Qiu chased A'Xue through Mirror Lake as the Jianmu Divine Tree and the surrounding land underwent strange changes in spiritual energy.
• A'Ying recognized the youth as Jiang Qiu and called his name, causing the sacred-land illusion to collapse.
• Jiang Qiu remembered that the voice belonged to A'Xiong, whom he had traveled with through the first three Heaven Layers.
• Jiang Qiu recovered his memories of searching for the Fourth Heaven and questioned why he had spent years in the Third Heaven with A'Xue.
• Jiang Qiu recalled that A'Xue was the Snow who had stayed beside him since the Two Poles Great World, though he still did not know her true identity.

Jiang Qiu realized that the Third Heaven was an illusion and began rescuing his companions from its cycles. He freed the Nine-Tailed Fox and One-Tail, then found A'Xiong as her illusion began to fade.

• Jiang Qiu understood that those seeking the Fourth Heaven had to break free from the Third Heaven's illusion.
• Jiang Qiu followed their bloodline traces and pulled the Nine-Tailed Fox out of her illusion, reuniting with her.
• Jiang Qiu drew One-Tail out of her illusion in the study, and she called him Master.
• Jiang Qiu recalled how he had once believed the Nine-Tailed Fox's followers and world had vanished, before becoming trapped in the illusion of the demon race's sacred land.
• Jiang Qiu searched for A'Xiong, his last remaining companion, and found her in a green sacred land as her illusion faded.

Jiang Qiu lost A'Xiong to reincarnation after escaping the Third Heaven illusion, then reached the Fourth Heaven with the Nine-Tailed Fox and One-Tail. There, he discovered that the spacetime vortices led to real worlds that might contain paths to the Fifth Heaven, and began searching them.

• Jiang Qiu searched for A'Xiong's aura but could no longer find her, and realized he could not return after leaping into reincarnation.
• The Path to Heaven appeared after Jiang Qiu and the others broke free of the Third Heaven illusion cycle, opening the way toward the Fourth Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and One-Tail left A'Xiong behind and continued until they reached the desolate Fourth Heaven.
• Jiang Qiu observed spacetime vortices forming in the Fourth Heaven and sensed that they connected to other worlds.
• Jiang Qiu entered a vortex with his soul and saw a violent Small Secret Realm, where The Traveler searched for a way out beneath a chained tower.
• Jiang Qiu realized the vortex worlds were real and could contain routes to the Fifth Heaven, so he began exploring them.

Jiang Qiu witnessed an illusion in which a lone Traveler stormed a Demon Race Tribe to stop its human sacrifices, defeated its leader, and killed its Shaman. After freeing the captives and setting out again, the Traveler left Jiang Qiu wondering why the man looked so much like him.

• The Demon Race Tribe's Shaman prepared to sacrifice captives to the Evil God when a travel-worn Traveler interrupted the ritual.
• The Traveler fought the Demon Leader and the tribe's demons, killing many and gravely wounding the leader.
• The Demon Leader shouted at the Shaman to stop the ritual, but the Shaman continued chanting.
• The Traveler defeated the Demon Leader and pierced the Shaman's chest with a punch.
• The Traveler freed the captives, took provisions, and departed, saying he had dealt with another Evil God-worshipping tribe.
• Jiang Qiu reflected on the illusion and realized that the Traveler looked a great deal like him.

A Qiu crossed the Southern Wilderness, explored an abandoned castle, and continued his search for a Divine Kin who could change the wilderness’s fate. Near a distant city, he saw a vision of a little girl, but it vanished, leaving him to press on through the wilderness.

• A Qiu entered an abandoned castle during a sandstorm and found a book describing the Southern Wilderness and its history of Evil God worship and war.
• A Qiu learned that the castle’s skeleton had returned there to die after a great war, then spent the night sheltered from the storm.
• A Qiu left the castle and traveled through mountains and forests, camping overnight before continuing toward a distant city.
• A Qiu saw a vision of a lively little girl in a peaceful town, but the scene dissolved back into the wilderness.
• A Qiu recognized the vision as another hallucination and continued onward, still hoping to find the Divine Kin.

Jiang Qiu recognized A'Xiong in an illusion and watched A Qiu enter Netherworld City, where the Demon King contained a supernatural crisis tied to the Ghost Eye Stone and Guixu. After the city was shaken by the ritual, A Qiu evaded the guards and escaped, while Jiang Qiu sensed the Demon King possessed something he wanted.

• Jiang Qiu recognized A'Xiong in the illusion and decided he needed to find her and reach the Fifth Heaven.
• A Qiu entered Netherworld City as the Demon King and Great Shaman Cang Wu confronted a prophecy and an upheaval threatening the city's three districts.
• The Demon King used the Great Annihilation Art to stabilize the cities, then ordered martial law after a human traveler appeared in the mural.
• A guard reported that the living corpses had attacked a restriction and presented a token marked Guixu, while the seventh Ghost Eye Stone began to run wild.
• The Demon King and Cang Wu traced the curse to a remnant soul and a star map pointing to a living corpse pool in Dragon Bone City.
• A Qiu slipped past the city guards and fled Netherworld City, while Jiang Qiu sensed that the Demon King had something he wanted.

A Qiu traveled east toward the Ruins of Return, while Jiang Qiu watched and recalled the Nine-Tailed Fox. Within an illusion in the ruins, the Nine-Tailed Fox passed the Nine-Tailed Body inheritance to A Qing, who gained a new realm and a way to sense unstable space as she searched for a way out.

• A Qiu learned that the Ruins of Return lay east and set out, killing Evil God believers along the way to grow stronger.
• Jiang Qiu watched A Qiu and reflected on the Nine-Tailed Fox and One-Tail, wondering whether they could save A'Xiong's soul or reach the Fifth Heaven.
• In the ruins' shattered time and space, A Qing found a bronze fragment that bound her with runes and drew her consciousness into a starry realm.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox taught A Qing the Nine-Tailed Body, and A Qing endured the inheritance before the collapsing realm pulled her back.
• A Qing's cultivation broke through, and she gained fox ears, a tail, a Nine-Tailed Fox mark, and heightened perception of spatial fluctuations.
• A Qing hid as spatial fissures killed three nearby demons, then began searching for an exit while the Nine-Tailed Fox watched from beyond her perception.

A Qiu reached a hidden Demon Race Tribe and discovered that its peaceful life depended on sacrificing slaves to the Evil God. When the tribe prepared to sacrifice him and the other prisoners, he attacked and slaughtered the tribe, leaving a slave girl looking up at him with renewed hope.

• A Qiu crossed the desolate Southern Wilderness and found a hidden Demon Race Tribe, where the leader allowed him to stay for the night.
• A Qiu saw the tribe’s imprisoned slaves and recalled his family being sacrificed to the Evil God.
• The tribe held a ritual that conjured an illusion of an ancient water-town garden before preparing to sacrifice the slaves at dawn.
• A Qiu charged from the shadows as the sacrifice began and fought the tribe’s warriors.
• A Qiu killed the priest and leader and slaughtered the tribe, while a petite slave girl watched him with hope in her eyes.

A Qiu freed the slaves held for sacrifice and agreed to take A'Xue with him after learning that her family had been sacrificed. When A'Xue appeared after bathing the next morning, her face recalled the girl from A Qiu’s lifelong illusion, hinting that their meeting was bound to his destiny.

• A Qiu cut the slaves’ ropes and chains and prepared to leave the altar.
• A'Xue followed A Qiu and asked to travel with him, explaining that her parents had been sacrificed and she wanted to survive.
• A Qiu remembered his own family’s sacrifice and agreed to take A'Xue with him.
• A'Xue introduced herself and began calling him Lord Qiu.
• The next morning, A'Xue bathed, found a new dress, and told A Qiu she was ready.
• A Qiu saw A'Xue and recognized a resemblance to the girl who had haunted his memories.

A Qiu and A'Xue headed toward the Ruins of Return, where A Qiu defeated another Demon Race Tribe and cultivated to break through. During his breakthrough, he awakened the Dragon Emperor's Bloodline and spoke with Jiang Qiu, who urged him to visit the Ruins of Return and then return to Netherworld City for something held by the Demon King; the chapter ended with the woman from A Qiu's illusion appearing again.

• A Qiu and A'Xue left the forest for the Ruins of Return but were attacked by a Demon Race Tribe seeking to sacrifice them.
• A Qiu defeated the Demon Leader, freed the tribe's slaves, killed the remaining demons who had lost their innate humanity, and gathered the tribe's resources to cultivate.
• As A Qiu attempted a breakthrough, strange golden incantations in the moonlight eroded his Demon Marks, but he forced the golden threads into a bead and awakened the Dragon Emperor's Bloodline.
• Jiang Qiu appeared through the blood moon, revealed his conjectures about their connection, and told A Qiu to go to the Ruins of Return before returning to Netherworld City to obtain something crucial from the Demon King.
• A Qiu agreed to Jiang Qiu's request, then saw the woman from his illusion appear before him again.

A Qiu and A'Xue traveled toward the Ruins of Return, where A Qiu killed a demon that attacked them in the forest. Xiao Yao entered the Green Vine Tribe, survived its Illusion Barrier, and reached the Main Hall as a blood sacrifice unfolded at the altar.

• A Qiu completed his transformation and continued toward the Ruins of Return with A'Xue.
• A ghostly demon attacked A Qiu and A'Xue in the forest, and A Qiu killed it with a flash of sword radiance.
• Xiao Yao used a bone whistle to repel the Green Vine Tribe's Miasma Wall and entered the tribe, where a Water Demon warned him that a blood sacrifice was about to begin.
• Xiao Yao endured the tribe's Illusion Barrier, followed the Wolf Fang Talisman's guidance, and reached the Main Hall.
• The shaman told Xiao Yao that escaping his inner demons would qualify him to witness the demon race's truth and gain the divine lord's power.
• A sacrifice was thrown into the altar's cauldron, and an uninvited guest arrived.

A Qiu attacked the Demon Race Tribe during its blood sacrifice, defeated its defenses, and slaughtered the tribe while uncovering the altar’s connection to an ancient shaman-priest and a destabilizing time-space ritual. He freed the slaves and settled nearby with A'Xue, while Jiang Qiu watched from afar in despair.

• A Qiu arrived beneath the tribe’s shadows as the blood moon opened and the blood sacrifice began.
• A Qiu overcame the tribes’ attacks, killed their elders and warriors, and the jade pendant revealed the altar’s ancient array and shaman-priest puppets.
• The sacrifice warped time and space as the shaman-priest and Astrologer Crone tried to activate opposing Fate Wheel Totems.
• A Qiu suppressed the battlefield, defeated the Demon Leader, slaughtered the tribe, and freed several hundred slaves.
• A Qiu and A'Xue settled in an intact house for the night, while Jiang Qiu watched the aftermath and felt despair at the world’s endless slaughter.

In the illusion, A Qiu reached the Ruins of Return and met A Qing, who had inherited the Nine-Tailed Fox God’s power and waited for him. After their cultivation and exploration, Jiang Qiu returned to the Fourth Heaven, while A Qiu continued through the Blood-Red Wasteland toward the final answer.

• A Qiu encountered a powerful woman in the Ruins of Return and learned that she was A Qing, who had received the Nine-Tailed Fox God’s inheritance and waited for him.
• A Qing explained that the Nine-Tailed Fox God had guided her to wait for A Qiu, and the two began cultivating and exploring together using the Nine-Tailed Body Secret Art.
• Jiang Qiu’s consciousness returned to the Fourth Heaven after the illusion concluded, and he received A Qing’s inherited power, reaching the highest realm within the Ruins of Return.
• A Qiu crossed the Blood-Red Wasteland, evaded dangerous creatures and storms, and followed a star chart toward Obsidian Rift Valley.
• A Qiu reached Weeping Canyon, crossed its river by ferry, and continued east as an ancient Rock-Armored Earth Dragon stirred beneath the dunes.

A Qiu defeated the Demon King, purged Netherworld City, and ascended by merging with the Great Dao after releasing a remnant soul from the Myriad Demons Tome. Jiang Qiu escaped the illusion with a strand of A'Xiong's remnant soul and entered another illusion to search for the remaining fragments and a path to the Fifth Heaven.

• A Qiu reached the Mirror Lake and Obsidian Rift Valley in the illusion, endured their dangers, and claimed a divine spark fragment as ancient evils awoke around him.
• After defeating inner demons and reaching the highest realm, A Qiu returned to Netherworld City with A'Xue and killed the Demon King.
• A Qiu slaughtered the demons involved in blood sacrifices or Evil God worship, took the Myriad Demons Tome and a saber from the Great Shaman, and discovered a call to ascend.
• A Qiu released the remnant soul from the Myriad Demons Tome, merged with the Great Dao, and vowed to end Evil God sacrifices while appointing A'Xue as his priestess.
• Jiang Qiu escaped the illusion with a strand of A'Xiong's remnant soul and realized that many fragments remained scattered across other illusions.
• Jiang Qiu used the remnant soul to locate a crucial illusion among the entrances to the Fourth Heaven and entered it to pursue A'Xiong's remaining fragments and the path to the Fifth Heaven.

Jiang Qiu explored Qingqiu Village in the illusory world, then helped defend it when masked strangers attacked its barrier in search of a treasure. After the village guardian drove them off, Jiang Qiu decided to stay, grow stronger, and investigate the world, sensing a connection with One-Tail.

• Jiang Qiu entered Qingqiu Village with the village chief’s jade pendant and explored its market, central plaza, medicine fields, and surrounding paths.
• Jiang Qiu sensed an unfamiliar presence, then hurried to the entrance after an alarm sounded and found masked strangers demanding a treasure from the village chief.
• A little Fox Demon appeared, and the leader in black attacked the barrier; Jiang Qiu and the villagers poured spiritual aura into it to hold it together.
• The village’s Nine-Tailed Fox guardian spirit repelled the attackers, who retreated after their strikes were scattered.
• The village chief praised Jiang Qiu and warned that the attackers would return; Jiang Qiu resolved to remain in Qingqiu Village and improve his strength.
• Jiang Qiu considered the laws of the illusory world and sensed a vague connection with One-Tail.

A-Li awakened the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline and drove back black-clad attackers threatening Green Hill. Later, Jiang Qiu witnessed a crack open in the sky above Qingqiu Village, revealing a Barrier Rift as the village’s defenses began to fail.

• Village Chief Grandpa revealed that A-Li carried the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline and led her to awaken it with the Moonlight Pearl.
• A-Li emerged with nine tails and became Green Hill’s guardian, then repelled the black-clad figures attacking the village barrier.
• Jiang Qiu arrived in Qingqiu Village and explored its demon clans, homes, plaza, and celebration.
• Jiang Qiu noticed the ancient locust tree’s warning chimes had fallen silent and sensed the barrier was failing.
• A-Li and Jiang Qiu saw black mist seep from a cracked leaf and hurried to alert the elders.
• A Barrier Rift opened in the sky, spilling black mist over Qingqiu Village.

Jiang Qiu and A-Li uncovered the blood sacrifices sustaining Qingqiu Village’s collapsing barrier and were drawn into a time-space loop tied to the first village chief. After returning to the present, they faced memories turning monstrous throughout the village and sought answers in the Forbidden Scripture Pavilion.

• The Grand Elder announced that Qingqiu Village’s barrier was collapsing as cracks spread through the sky and black forces attacked the village.
• Jiang Qiu and A-Li discovered in the Earth Vein Cave that generations of elders had been sacrificed to sustain the barrier, and a shadow entered Jiang Qiu’s dantian.
• Jiang Qiu and A-Li entered time-space rifts, witnessed the first village chief’s sacrifice, and restarted the temporal anchor using Jiang Qiu’s blood.
• The time-space loop formed, and blood-red marks appeared on the villagers’ wrists as the Ancestral Hall genealogy changed their names into its records.
• Memory corruption spread through Qingqiu Village, and Jiang Qiu and A-Li fled to the Forbidden Scripture Pavilion, where Jiang Qiu touched a jade slip and received the first village chief’s history.