Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji prepared the Lu Clan for the coming war between Chu Kingdom and the Demon Race, then traveled to Tieling Pass to learn how the frontline defenses were arranged. The battle had not yet fully erupted, but tensions were rising and it could begin at any moment.

• Azure Lotus True Lord told Lu Xuanji about the Spirit Transformation experts on both sides and ordered him to prepare for their departure.
• Lu Xuanji rang the clan bell nine times, gathered the Lu Clan cultivators, and assigned them wartime duties and preparations.
• Lu Xuanji left the Lu Clan with Azure Lotus True Lord, Ning Xue, and the others, leaving the Grand Elder to guard their home.
• Lu Xuanji arrived at Tieling Pass and met Jin Xi, who reported that three Nascent Soul True Lords had died and the frontline was nearing a loss of control.
• Jin Xi explained that Chu Kingdom had established eighteen key defensive cities and that Tieling Pass had to balance its strength to avoid inviting either a demonic assault or concentrated enemy attacks.

Jin Xi led a surprise assault on Green Lion Ridge, hoping to destroy the demon clan before its allies could arrive. Lu Xuanji charged a saber with enough power to rival a Spirit Transformation strike and split the ridge’s defensive formation, leaving himself completely drained.

• Jin Xi proposed attacking Green Lion Ridge with a large force, and Lu Xuanji agreed despite the risk of weakening Tieling Pass.
• Jin Xi organized the troops and used Azure Lotus True Lord as a decoy while the main force secretly traveled toward Green Lion Ridge aboard a disguised flying ship.
• Jin Xi divided the forces, sending Ice Soul True Lord, Ning Xue True Lord, and Empress Earth True Lord to intercept reinforcements while the rest encircled the ridge.
• Green Lion Ridge activated its formations and called for aid from the Kun Peng Clan, whose experts could arrive within three hours.
• Lu Xuanji spent ten minutes gathering power into a Nine Colored Divine Saber, then slashed through the formation and split Green Lion Ridge in two.
• Lu Xuanji exhausted his magical power and fell into spiritual depletion after the strike.

The Human Race attacked Green Lion Ridge with a devastating beam that shattered its defenses, while Lu Xuanji exhausted himself unleashing the strike. Jin Xi led the Human Race cultivators into the ruined stronghold, and the Green Lion Lineage’s survivors fled.

• The Green Lion Lineage activated its layered defensive arrays and discussed waiting for aid from the Kun Peng lineage.
• The middle-aged Green Lion leader warned his son that the Human Race might use a powerful weapon and told him to flee to the Phoenix Clan if the worst happened.
• A beam of light struck Green Lion Ridge, cut through its arrays, and destroyed everything in its path.
• The handsome youth escaped with elite Demon Race disciples, realizing the Green Lion Lineage was finished.
• Lu Xuanji collapsed after unleashing the slash and realized that using Divine Intent exhausted his mental strength.
• Jin Xi commanded the Human Race cultivators to charge into Green Lion Ridge and destroy it to intimidate the Kun Peng Clan.

The Human Race army attacked Green Lion Ridge and discovered it had five Nascent Soul Great Demons, more than their intelligence had reported. After an hour of fighting, Lu Xuanji joined Jin Xi against the Green Lion Ancestor and trapped him inside the Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting, though he continued trying to break free.

• The Human Race army launched its assault on Green Lion Ridge, where it found five Nascent Soul Great Demons and more than twenty Golden Core cultivators.
• Jin Xi fought the Green Lion Ancestor, using her superior cultivation and divine abilities to suppress him while he tried and failed to escape.
• Human and Green Lion Clan cultivators clashed across the battlefields as the Green Lion Clan lost Golden Core cultivators and the Purple Mansion fighting became a bloody stalemate.
• After recovering for an hour, Lu Xuanji attacked the Green Lion Ancestor and joined Jin Xi in surrounding him.
• Lu Xuanji swept the Green Lion Ancestor into the Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting, where the trapped demon struggled to break free.

Jin Xi’s forces destroyed Green Lion Ridge, returned safely to Tieling Pass, and distributed rewards for the battle. The chapter leaves the thirteen Nascent Soul Cultivators deciding how to divide the Nascent Soul Pills refined from Green Lion Ridge’s five slain Nascent Souls.

• The Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting suppressed Green Lion Ancestor while the Human Race cultivators defeated Green Lion Ridge’s forces and killed all five of its Nascent Souls.
• Jin Xi led the victors in collecting treasures and spirit resources before they withdrew into Kun Peng; the Kun Peng Clan reinforcements arrived later and cautiously pursued them.
• Kun Peng returned to Tieling Pass three days later, and Jin Xi distributed compensation and battle rewards to fallen cultivators’ families and surviving participants.
• Jin Xi and twelve other Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered to divide the spoils, but they focused on how to refine and distribute the five Nascent Soul Pills.

Lu Xuanji spent decades refining Nascent Soul Pills from the captured Green Lion Clan Nascent Souls while repairing his shattered treasures. He produced thirty-two pills, claimed nine for himself, and began purifying them in the Heaven Mending Cauldron.

• Lu Xuanji accepted the Nascent Soul Pill recipe and materials from the assembled True Lords, who agreed to protect him while he worked.
• Lu Xuanji repaired all twenty-four Supreme Treasures over about a year, and their power grew after they absorbed a trace of Spirit Transformation aura.
• Lu Xuanji refined the Green Lion Clan Nascent Souls into successive batches of Nascent Soul Pills, with Jin Xi and others helping subdue Green Lion Ancestor.
• Lu Xuanji completed five batches totaling thirty-two pills, and Jin Xi calculated that his share was nine.
• Lu Xuanji began purifying the Pill Poison from his Nascent Soul Pills with the Heaven Mending Cauldron.

Lu Xuanji refined a Nascent Soul Pill as the war between the Human Race and Demon Race intensified, with both sides suffering heavy losses at Tieling Pass and across their territories. After hearing that the Lu Clan could still be destroyed if the Demon Race chose to pay the price, he watched a brutal Foundation Establishment battle and learned how the front now conducted its set-number engagements.

• Lu Xuanji refined the Nascent Soul Pill, rapidly strengthening his Nascent Soul, while other Nascent Soul Cultivators entered seclusion to use theirs.
• The Human Race and Demon Race fought a bloody battle at Tieling Pass, and Azure Lotus True Lord told Lu Xuanji that Jin Xi was cultivating after taking a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Azure Lotus True Lord described the Kun Peng Clan’s alliance and the escalating attacks that had destroyed numerous Human Race families, and explained that she had arranged for some Lu Clan members to evacuate.
• Five hundred Foundation Establishment soldiers from each side fought until only ten Human Race cultivators survived.
• Azure Lotus True Lord explained that the battlefront now used agreed-upon troop numbers and designated battlefields, where group battles continued until one side was wiped out.

After Meilin Pass fell to a massive Demon Race assault, Jin Xi rallied Tieling Pass’s cultivators to prepare its defenses. Lu Xuanji took charge of the formations as more than a hundred Nascent Soul demons wielded the Demon God Axe against the city.

• Lu Xuanji observed the fighting at Tieling Pass, then returned to his cave dwelling to refine the Nascent Soul Pill.
• Ten years later, a bell rang nine times, summoning Tieling Pass’s Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators as a third of its defensive formations activated.
• Jin Xi announced that Meilin Pass had fallen after the Demon Race used five Rank 5 Array Breaking Beads against its defenses.
• The Demon Race began bombarding Tieling Pass, and Jin Xi ordered the cultivators to take their assigned positions and operate the formations.
• Lu Xuanji saw more than a hundred and twenty Nascent Soul Great Demons raise the Rank 6 Demon God Axe and bring it down on the city wall.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi endured ten years of Demon Race bombardment at Tieling Pass as its defenses and defenders were steadily depleted. The Demon Race then prepared a blood sacrifice to empower the Demon God Axe for an attack meant to breach the pass.

• The Demon Race repeatedly struck Tieling Pass with the Demon God Axe, killing and injuring cultivators while the defenders repaired their formations.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that the promised reinforcements were mostly attacking elsewhere and that Tieling Pass had been left as bait; he urged them to hold on.
• Over five years, the pass lost half its formations, more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators, and thousands of Purple Mansion cultivators, while its defenders exhausted their resources.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi continued fighting as the battered pass approached collapse, and both sides reached ten years of bloody battle.
• A man in black ordered the Demon Race to blood-sacrifice its forces to the Demon God Axe, and the axe glowed crimson as more than two hundred Golden Core cultivators gave up part of their blood.
• One hundred and twenty Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators launched the empowered Demon God Axe toward Tieling Pass.

Blood Bat Demon Venerable destroyed Tieling Pass and pursued Jin Xi after she escaped in the Chaos Ancient Hall, while Lu Xuanji fled with the Lu Clan cultivators. He returned to find the Lu Clan’s home in ruins, leaving its survival uncertain.

• Blood Bat Demon Venerable used the Demon God Axe to destroy Tieling Pass’s formations and breach its city gate.
• Jin Xi and Azure Lotus True Lord merged, then Jin Xi held the rear as the cultivators retreated.
• Jin Xi escaped Blood Bat Demon Venerable’s attack inside the Chaos Ancient Hall, and he pursued her away from the battlefield.
• Lu Xuanji gathered the Lu Clan cultivators, sheltered them in the Grotto-heaven Pearl, and fled toward the Lu Clan.
• After seeing the Demon Race slaughtering humans along the way, Lu Xuanji returned to find the Lu Clan’s formations destroyed and its grounds reduced to ruins.

Lu Xuanji returned to find the Lu Clan destroyed and confronted Boundless, the fifth son of the Kun Peng Demon Venerable, who admitted to slaughtering the clan and devouring its people. After Boundless killed what he thought was Lu Xuanji, Lu Xuanji reappeared with three clones and attacked him with four different divine sabers.

• Lu Xuanji arrived at the Lu Clan and found its formations breached and its cultivators dead.
• Boundless revealed that he had destroyed the Lu Clan and eaten its cultivators, then devoured the captured First Elder before Lu Xuanji.
• Lu Xuanji attacked Boundless with a Five Colors Divine Saber, but Boundless shattered it and struck him down with the Kun Peng Sword.
• Lu Xuanji reappeared a thousand meters away, revealing that Boundless had destroyed a clone rather than his true body.
• Lu Xuanji summoned three clones and launched a combined attack using the Five Colors, Black-and-White, and Space-Time Divine Sabers.

Lu Xuanji fought the white-robed Nascent Soul ninth-layer cultivator and, after his clones were defeated, turned the tide with the Pure Yang Broken Sword and a surprise attack from his allies. The enemy’s body was destroyed, and his fleeing Nascent Soul was trapped and suppressed.

• Lu Xuanji and his three clones attacked the white-robed cultivator with blade techniques, but the cultivator killed the clones and overwhelmed Lu Xuanji.
• Lu Xuanji drew the Pure Yang Broken Sword, which broke the cultivator’s Kun Peng Sword and pierced his defenses.
• Lu Xuanji pursued the cultivator with the broken sword, forcing him to evade as Lu Xuanji’s magical power rapidly dwindled.
• Long Xuan, Ning Xue, Ye Wanyi, and the other cultivators struck the white-robed cultivator from behind with the Grotto-heaven Pearl.
• Lu Xuanji pierced the cultivator’s golden armor and destroyed his body with the Pure Yang Broken Sword.
• The cultivator’s Nascent Soul tried to flee but hit the restraining formation, and the Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting suppressed it.

Immeasurable True Lord led demons to rescue his sealed Peng clone while Lu Xuanji and his companions tried to refine it. Lu Xuanji used Mortal World Divine Intent to destroy the clone, but Immeasurable True Lord's main body was still approaching.

• Immeasurable True Lord emerged from seclusion and set out with ten Nascent Soul Great Demons to rescue his Peng clone.
• Long Xuan explained that the sealed Nascent Soul belonged to Immeasurable True Lord's clone, and Lu Xuanji and his companions began refining it with Pure Yang True Fire.
• Immeasurable True Lord's clone revealed that his secret art let it draw energy from his main body, making it nearly impossible to kill through ordinary refinement.
• Lu Xuanji realized Pure Yang True Fire and the Pure Yang Broken Sword could not destroy the clone quickly enough, while Immeasurable True Lord's main body would arrive within two days.
• Lu Xuanji infused his Creation magic power with Mortal World Divine Intent, which eroded the clone's Nascent Soul despite its attempts to recover.
• After about three hours, Lu Xuanji completely destroyed Immeasurable True Lord's Peng clone.

The Immeasurable True Lord mourned the loss of Peng's clone by rampaging through Chu Kingdom and devouring humans, while the Demon Race's invasion spread across the land. Lu Xuanji finished refining the clone and vowed to destroy the Kunpeng lineage and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains when he grew strong enough.

• The Immeasurable True Lord sensed Peng's clone being annihilated and suffered a severe loss of vitality.
• The Immeasurable True Lord transformed into his Kunpeng true body and devoured people across villages and cities, hoping to restore his clone and break into Spirit Transformation.
• The Immeasurable True Lord failed to breach a city's formation and flew away to seek easier prey.
• Demon Race forces swept through Chu Kingdom as human cultivators fought back, plunging the territory into a bloody war between races.
• Lu Xuanji refined Kunpeng True Lord's Nascent Soul into ashes and vowed to destroy the Kunpeng lineage and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

After the Lu Clan was wiped out by Immeasurable True Lord, Lu Xuanji’s companions urged him to flee Chu Kingdom, but he chose to stay and fight the Demon Race. He rescued ten million civilians in the Grotto-heaven Pearl, then began hunting Nascent Soul Great Demons.

• Lu Xuanji grieved over the Lu Clan’s destruction and used Baidu Maps to see the widespread devastation across Chu Kingdom.
• Ye Wanyi comforted Lu Xuanji by telling him that many clan members and elites had survived, while Long Xuan, Ning Xue, and the others urged him to leave Chu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji refused to flee, citing his survival against a Nascent Soul ninth-layer demon and the hope offered by East Pole Celestial Venerable and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji used the Grotto-heaven Pearl to rescue nearby villagers and townspeople, but stopped after reaching its limit of ten million people.
• Lu Xuanji concealed himself in the void and killed a Nascent Soul Great Demon, sealing its Nascent Soul, then slew more than ten Golden Core Demon Beasts.

Lu Xuanji hunted Nascent Soul Demon Beasts through the war in Chu Kingdom, reaching the Nascent Soul fifth layer before an ambush nearly killed him. After recovering, he saw that Chu Kingdom's surviving people and cultivators were facing the Demon Race's final assault while most powerful humans had fled.

• Lu Xuanji used Baidu Maps to locate and hunt Nascent Soul Demon Beasts, killing thirty in ten years as the Demon Race began gathering in groups.
• Eight Nascent Soul Great Demons ambushed Lu Xuanji, but he escaped using the Ground Shrinking Golden Light and healed his severe injuries.
• Lu Xuanji reached the Nascent Soul fifth layer after refining Nascent Soul Great Demons into Nascent Soul Pills, and realized Baidu Maps could not detect enemies using concealment arts.
• Lu Xuanji checked Baidu Maps and saw the Demon Race's forces surrounding the last human strongholds in Chu Kingdom, where fewer than fifty human Nascent Soul Cultivators remained.

After Chu Kingdom fell, Jin Xi returned injured and told Lu Xuanji that Azure Lotus True Lord had broken away from her as an independent being and taken Chaos Ancient Hall. A massive disturbance then revealed that someone was attempting to break through to Spirit Transformation, drawing the attention of both the Human Race and Demon Race.

• Lu Xuanji considered how the Human Race might reverse the Demon Race’s victory after Chu Kingdom’s fall.
• Jin Xi arrived with severe injuries and told Lu Xuanji that Azure Lotus True Lord had separated from her and left with Chaos Ancient Hall.
• Jin Xi recounted how Azure Lotus True Lord had taken control of her body, driven back Blood Bat Demon Venerable, and raised both their cultivation to the Nascent Soul ninth layer.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi sensed destructive lightning and violent spiritual energy, realizing someone was attempting to break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Experts from the Human Race and Demon Race headed toward the vast spiritual storm to discover who was making the breakthrough.

Azure Lotus True Lord began drawing in the Heaven Soul and Earth Soul to break through to Spirit Transformation while Lu Xuanji and dozens of Human and Demon cultivators watched. As her souls converged, Blood Bat Demon Venerable launched a deadly attack.

• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi recognized Azure Lotus True Lord and worried that she was attempting Spirit Transformation without a Protective Expert.
• More than fifty Nascent Soul cultivators gathered to observe her tribulation, temporarily setting aside their hostility.
• Blood Bat Demon Venerable decided to kill Azure Lotus True Lord when she became vulnerable during the breakthrough.
• Azure Lotus True Lord summoned the golden Heaven Soul and the dark Earth Soul, and both began moving toward her.
• Blood Bat Demon Venerable attacked Azure Lotus True Lord with destructive blood light.

Azure Lotus True Lord drew the Heaven Soul and Earth Soul into her Nascent Soul and survived the Spirit Transformation Tribulation, becoming a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lord. As the Human Race celebrated, the Blood Bat Demon Venerable attacked her again with a blood-colored great seal.

• The Blood Bat Heavenly Venerable struck Azure Lotus True Lord, but the Chaos Ancient Hall blocked the blow while she called the Heaven Soul and Earth Soul back into her body.
• Azure Lotus True Lord fused her three souls and drew down a tribulation spanning three thousand miles, forcing the Blood Bat Demon Venerable and other cultivators to retreat.
• The Blood Bat Demon Venerable and Jin Xi wondered how Azure Lotus True Lord had drawn in both souls so quickly, while Lu Xuanji explained that her Two Forms Yin Yang Body used Yin Yang Two Qi to attract them.
• Azure Lotus True Lord fought through nine waves of Spirit Transformation tribulation, using Yin Yang techniques to disperse the final golden lightning.
• After the tribulation ended, the Human Race celebrated Azure Lotus True Lord’s breakthrough, but the Blood Bat Demon Venerable attacked again with a blood-colored great seal.

Azure Lotus Celestial Venerable defeated the Blood Bat Demon Venerable, who fled, and the Human and Demon Races resumed their battle. Lu Xuanji was left fighting three Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators at once.

• The Blood Bat Demon Venerable attacked Azure Lotus Celestial Venerable with a blood sea and Blood Fiend Sky Breaking Sword, while she countered with the Chaos Ancient Hall and an Azure Lotus.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi retreated from the clash, and Lu Xuanji realized a Spirit Transformation cultivator could kill him with one move.
• After a hundred exchanges, Azure Lotus Celestial Venerable wounded the Blood Bat Demon Venerable and pursued him as he fled in bat form.
• With the Spirit Transformation cultivators gone, Human Race and Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators resumed fighting.
• Lu Xuanji fought a Demon Race Nascent Soul with his Five Colors Divine Saber, then faced attacks from two more Demon Race Nascent Souls.