Chapter Summaries

Ye Qin endured the heavenly tribulation until his third flower bloomed, then confronted the thunderclouds with newfound power. As Daxia and Western officials monitored the storm, Star-Lock satellites revealed a creature standing inside the lightning, though its identity remained unknown.

• Ye Qin abandoned his defenses and poured his Spiritual Energy into the unopened flower bud until his Primordial Spirit bloomed and the Three Flowers gathered at the top.
• Ye Qin recovered his strength, gathered the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth, and dispersed the tribulation lightning as he charged into the clouds.
• Demon City residents and Daxia officials observed the storm, while Gao Zhanpeng's report linked it to Longyuan Mountain and the earlier Capital Outskirts Incident.
• Snag directed the Star-Lock Satellites to penetrate the clouds above Demon City, while Daxia's aerospace officials tried to block their surveillance and protested to the Western administration.
• Snag and the Western staff spotted a shadow inside the thunderclouds, then replayed the footage and confirmed a creature stood beneath the lightning.

Ye Qin completed his heavenly tribulation and destroyed the two Star-Lock Satellites that had been spying on him. Magic City’s storm subsided, and the city began rebuilding after the disaster with no casualties.

• Snag ordered the Star-Lock Satellites to zoom in on the life-form shadow in the thunderclouds as Ye Qin neared the end of his tribulation.
• Ye Qin traced the distant probing gaze and sent a giant sword through space, destroying both Star-Lock Satellites before the United States command center understood what had happened.
• The thunderstorm over Magic City vanished, green radiance spread across the city, and the floodwaters began to recede.
• Gao Zhanpeng ordered rescue operations and learned that the disaster had caused no deaths, then began reconstruction and distributed relief payments.
• Videos of the storm, the shadow atop the Oriental Pearl Tower, and Magic City’s recovery spread online, prompting widespread debate and surprise over the lack of casualties.

After recovering from his three-day unconsciousness, the young man learned that Ye Qin had cured his mother and disappeared, leaving him a cultivation manual and a farewell note. Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain after surviving her tribulation, where the demons told her that Great Xia Official wanted talks, and she agreed it was time.

• The young man awoke in a Magic City hospital and found his mother healthy, learning that Ye Qin had arranged her treatment and that her illness had vanished after the storm.
• The young man went to Ye Qin's empty room, found her farewell note and a book, and bowed before leaving with the book.
• The young man resumed selling roasted sweet potatoes beneath the bridge and studied Ye Qin's manual while people searched unsuccessfully for her.
• Great Xia's leaders discussed the strange events in Magic City and decided they needed to establish contact with Longyuan Mountain.
• Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain, greeted the worried demons, and said she would enter seclusion to stabilize her cultivation.
• The Northeast Tiger told Ye Qin that Great Xia Official had repeatedly requested talks, and Ye Qin agreed that it was time to meet them.

After months of waiting, the Dragon Origin Mountain demons agreed to meet Great Xia, prompting the authorities to prepare an unprecedented reception in Mountain City. As the beast host arrived at the garrison, it halted and parted to reveal a figure that left the soldiers stunned.

• A white bird delivered the negotiation team a letter announcing that the demons’ master would meet with them and that the demons would leave the mountain in three days.
• Great Xia’s senior officials chose Mountain City for the meeting and mobilized aircraft, troops, experts, and chefs to prepare a secure, state-banquet-level reception.
• The authorities sealed Mountain City Airport and nearby routes, while soldiers detained people who tried to sneak photographs of the preparations.
• As the meeting day arrived, a vast tide of birds and beasts advanced from the Dragon Origin Mountain Range toward the garrison.
• The beast tide stopped in disciplined ranks and opened a path, and the soldiers stared in disbelief at the figure who emerged.

Great Xia officials and experts gathered at Nansheng Mountain City to receive a delegation from the Dragon Origin Mountain Range, whose arrival revealed powerful, eccentric demons. As the first meeting turned tense, a mysterious voice from the helicopter ordered Black Wolf and Tiger King to stop fooling around.

• Great Xia's leaders, soldiers, and summoned experts waited at the airport as J-20 fighters escorted a military transport helicopter to the ground.
• Black Wolf emerged with a kitchen cleaver and bloodstained apron, terrifying the gathered crowd with its aura and demanding to know why no one answered it.
• Tiger King appeared in floral shorts, suppressed Black Wolf's pressure, and jokingly asked Great Xia's leaders to provide human pets.
• Hua Tiancheng refused Tiger King's demand and introduced himself and the other regional leaders; Tiger King laughed, accepted their introductions, and shook their hands.
• Tiger King objected when Hua Tiancheng said the delegation had arrived, while Black Wolf accused the officials of disrespecting him.
• A cool voice from the helicopter told Black Wolf and Tiger King to stop fooling around, and both demons immediately quieted down.

Long Ling's clone led Black Wolf and the Siberian Tiger to negotiate with Daxia, then warned its leaders that a worldwide upheaval was approaching. She revealed that an alien cultivation civilization planned to build a Signal Tower near Earth and might relocate the planet, but the leaders doubted her claims.

• Long Ling's clone appeared at the airport and identified herself as a demon master standing in for the true Demon Immortal.
• Daxia's leaders escorted Long Ling's clone, Black Wolf, and the Siberian Tiger to the Shancheng Defense Base for negotiations.
• Hua Tiancheng proposed peaceful coexistence, and Long Ling's clone said Daxia would soon face a great upheaval unrelated to demon expansion.
• Long Ling's clone warned that the entire world would undergo a transformation of heaven and earth.
• Long Ling's clone revealed that an alien cultivation civilization planned to build a Signal Tower near Earth and might relocate the planet, but Hua Tiancheng and the other leaders questioned her account.

Long Ling's clone warned Daxia's higher-ups that an alien cultivation civilization's Signal Tower would trigger a catastrophic transformation on Earth, and Ye Qin intended to unite humanity and the Demon Race to survive it. He gave Daxia a Basic Cultivation Method before the demons departed, leaving the authorities to convene an emergency meeting.

• The Siberian Tiger and Black Wolf explained that parts of the Signal Tower had caused recent disasters, including the incidents at Changbai Mountain and Mount Fuji, and that the Demon Race had prevented worse damage.
• Long Ling's clone told Hua Tiancheng and the other Daxia higher-ups that he had learned of the cultivation civilization while traveling through the universe with his Primordial Spirit.
• Long Ling's clone described how the Signal Tower could alter Earth's gravity, magnetic field, and climate, prompting Ye Qin to seek cooperation with Daxia and prepare the planet to resist the coming calamity.
• Long Ling's clone gave Daxia the Basic Cultivation Method, explaining that people aged ten to twenty had the best chance of cultivating it.
• The great demons of Longyuan Mountain departed under J-20 Fighter escort, while Daxia's experts discussed the revelations and the higher-ups called an emergency meeting.

Great Xia’s leaders debated whether to trust Longyuan Mountain’s warning of a coming Heaven and Earth Calamity and decided to test the monsters’ cultivation method by adding bonus questions to the college entrance exam. With only a week remaining, regional Education Departments rushed to revise and reprint papers as young soldiers also began cultivating.

• Great Xia’s leaders discussed Longyuan Mountain’s power and goodwill, then weighed whether its warning of a Heaven and Earth Calamity was true.
• Hua Tiancheng proposed using the college entrance exam’s large pool of age-appropriate candidates to test the cultivation method.
• The old chief approved a pilot program of cultivation-method bonus questions in the Northeastern, Southwestern, and Southeastern Regions.
• The Education Departments were ordered to revise and reprint the exam papers within a week, while the military gave the method to young soldiers under secrecy agreements.
• Education Department staff and directors confirmed the unprecedented exam changes and were left bewildered by the strange questions.

Daxia’s officials rushed to reprint the gaokao papers with an unprecedented cultivation-related question while investigating signs that the monsters’ warning about an approaching calamity might be true. The exam began, and Wu ZhengHao discovered that his paper included a bewildering twenty-point question on the Heavenly Dao and Spiritual Energy.

• Education officials ordered staff across the regions to reprint and deliver the gaokao papers before the exam began.
• Hua Tiancheng, Qi Hai, Zhao En, and other leaders examined reports of unstable magnetic fields, abnormal orbital data, and unusual weather across Daxia.
• The gaokao began nationwide after the replacement papers were delivered, and examinees entered their examination halls.
• Wu ZhengHao completed the familiar questions and essay, then noticed an extra twenty-point question that raised the subject’s total to 170 points.
• Wu ZhengHao read the question’s obscure cultivation material and struggled to understand its questions about the Heavenly Dao and Spiritual Energy.

During the Chinese college entrance examination, Wu ZhengHao encountered a baffling final question and entered a trance in which he began cultivating and wrote answers he could not remember. The question caused nationwide confusion, and the Education Department announced that it had been deliberately added and approved by the authorities.

• Students and invigilators were startled by the unfamiliar final question, but invigilators told candidates to continue after recalling an earlier Education Department message.
• Wu ZhengHao read the question and saw an ancient bronze gate marked with the character “Dao”; after opening it, he experienced visions of yin-yang fish and the primordial chaos.
• Wu ZhengHao unconsciously wrote answers to the final question while a faint aura emerged from him, drawing the attention of Ye Qin and Long Ling's clone in the Dragon Origin Mountain Range.
• Wu ZhengHao returned to his senses near the end of the examination and discovered that his answer sheet was filled, though he could not remember writing it or tell whether the answers were correct.
• Candidates, parents, and online commentators reacted with confusion and outrage over the question and the examination’s changed total score.
• The Education Department announced that the final question had been added after review, jointly proposed by regional chief officials, and approved by its headquarters.

The college entrance exams continued with strange questions designed to prepare the public for cultivation and future disasters. Fewer than a hundred examinees awakened to the Demon Ancestor’s legacy, while Wu ZhengHao was overwhelmed by a flood of information and stood on the verge of losing control in his exam hall.

• Examinees encountered bizarre liberal arts and science questions about ancient myths, primordial beasts, disasters, and survival, but found that the questions still tested familiar knowledge.
• Hua Tiancheng, Qi Hai, Zhao En, and other regional directors discussed the public’s reaction and the approaching changes, while Hua Tiancheng reported that none of his people had managed to cultivate.
• Fewer than a hundred examinees connected the cultivation questions to the incantation from the Chinese exam, awakened to a vision of an ancient bronze gate, and heard the figure declare, “I am the Demon Ancestor!”
• Wu ZhengHao was unable to answer his comprehensive science paper as painful, complicated information flooded his mind, despite the Spiritual Energy entering and transforming him.
• Wu ZhengHao stood up in distress and told the invigilator to move aside; the invigilator called security, and Wu ZhengHao’s expression and gaze suddenly changed.

During the college entrance examination, examinees who comprehended cultivation techniques from Dragon Origin Mountain began displaying supernatural abilities and bizarre behavior, prompting Great Xia’s leaders to investigate. When officials graded the unconscious examinees’ papers, they discovered that some had accurately answered questions based on the cultivation method, confirming that the techniques could truly be comprehended.

• Wu ZhengHao lost control of his newfound strength in the examination room, wrecked desks and a wall, and fought off security forces until tranquilizer darts subdued him.
• Other examinees across Great Xia showed strange reactions to comprehending the techniques, and the incidents spread online as the examination ended.
• Great Xia’s leaders ordered officials to investigate the affected examinees, reassure their families, and grade their papers ahead of the others.
• More examinees began acting abnormally after the examination, alarming regional leaders and prompting requests for hospital reports and faster grading.
• Qi Hai and the Education Department found that some unconscious examinees had filled their papers with meaningful answers to questions based on the cultivation method.
• Great Xia’s senior leaders compared the answers with their copies of the technique and confirmed that the examinees had genuinely answered the questions.

Great Xia's leaders confirmed that the cultivation method and Longyuan Mountain's warnings were genuine after scientists found Earth's orbit was shifting toward a catastrophic region. The old chief approved preparations for the Earth Calamity Project, and a nationwide emergency meeting issued sweeping orders to prepare, leaving regional leaders bewildered about the threat.

• Great Xia's officials found that examinees had independently written identical answers about the cultivation method and displayed unusual behavior, lending credence to Longyuan Mountain's warnings.
• An old academician reported that Earth's orbit was deviating, and Great Xia's experts calculated that the planet would face worsening cold, darkness, and catastrophic natural disasters.
• The old chief summoned senior leaders, where Hua Tiancheng urged immediate action and Qi Hai proposed underground shelters and an alliance with the monsters of the Dragon Origin Mountain Range.
• Great Xia convened an unprecedented secret meeting in Kyoto and announced the Earth Calamity Project, ordering departments to build required facilities and universities to begin a three-month teaching experiment.
• The old man at the council meeting ordered Great Xia to suspend construction and real-estate activity, increase exports of special resources, stockpile food and supplies, and develop crops suited to harsh conditions.

The Supreme Council established the Supernatural Cultivation Bureau to prepare Great Xia for the coming Heaven and Earth Calamity, while keeping the catastrophe secret from the public. Hua Tiancheng’s bureau summoned overseas citizens home and traded Great Xia’s rare resources for essential supplies, leaving foreign nations unaware of the danger behind the deals.

• The old man announced the creation of the Supernatural Cultivation Bureau, appointing Hua Tiancheng as chief and assigning Qi Hai and Zhao En as deputies.
• Hua Tiancheng revealed the truth about Longyuan Mountain, the Heaven and Earth Calamity, and the college entrance examination experiment, then urged officials to keep the information secret.
• Great Xia’s leaders proposed expanding cultivation education, enrolling the selected examinees in the Cultivation Academy, and recalling overseas students and researchers.
• Hua Tiancheng’s bureau issued a public call for overseas Great Xia citizens to return home, prompting a wave of questions and international attention.
• Hua Tiancheng ordered Great Xia to exchange rare resources for grain, steel, fuel, and other supplies, and nations around the world rushed to trade and place advance orders.
• Great Xia’s diplomats kept the calamity secret while accepting the deals, as the nation prioritized stockpiling supplies for its own people.

Da Xia built cultivation training halls and gathered resources while temples and people across Fog City left their former lives to join the Longyuan Celestial Sect and seek cultivation. The chapter ended with Sun Zhenbang resigning from the police despite his director’s attempts to dissuade him.

• Da Xia began constructing training halls in city centers and requisitioned land and building materials, while Hua Tiancheng planned missions to Fog City and the Dragon Origin Mountain Range.
• Daoist Qingwei returned to Shangqing Temple, announced it would close permanently, and left to seek immortality.
• The abbot announced that Qiguang Temple would close because its monks were joining the Longyuan Celestial Sect to cultivate.
• Sun Zhenbang and Xie Yixuan submitted their resignations, and Sun Zhenbang told his director he was leaving to cultivate immortality.

Hu Xiaocao led the Longyuan Celestial Sect in deciding to approach Daxia’s authorities and cooperate on cultivation and sect construction. After Sun Zhenbang informed Wang Xuehao, the news reached the Supernatural Cultivation Bureau, where Wang hurried to report it to Director Hua Tiancheng.

• Hu Xiaocao told the assembled sect members that Longyuan Mountain had negotiated with the nation and urged the sect to follow the mountain god’s lead by entering public view.
• The sect members agreed to seek cooperation with Daxia, offering cultivation methods in exchange for help building their cultivation ground and recruiting disciples.
• Daoist Qingwei suggested adopting Daoist names, and Hu Xiaocao announced that hers would be Tianshu while the others chose names of their own.
• Sun Zhenbang called Wang Xuehao and explained the sect’s origins, its ties to Longyuan Mountain, and Hu Xiaocao’s wish to meet with the higher-ups.
• Wang Xuehao took the news seriously and rushed to the Supernatural Cultivation Bureau to report it to Director Hua Tiancheng.

Hua Tiancheng learned that villagers near Longyuan Mountain had founded the Longyuan Celestial Sect and arranged a meeting with them. Sect Master Tian Shu and Grand Elder Taixu Zhenren arrived at the Bureau, where they proposed exchanging help to build their sect for guidance in cultivation.

• Wang Xuehao told Hua Tiancheng that Longyuan Village had established a cultivation sect and wanted to cooperate with the Supernatural Cultivation Bureau.
• Hua Tiancheng reviewed Longyuan Village’s files, connected its past strange incidents to the monsters, and ordered Wang Xuehao to arrange a meeting.
• Wang Xuehao contacted Sun Zhenbang, and the Longyuan Celestial Sect agreed to visit that afternoon, prompting the Bureau to prepare for the meeting.
• Tian Shu and Taixu Zhenren arrived at the Bureau ahead of schedule, and Hua Tiancheng learned that the young woman was the sect master while the village chief was its Grand Elder.
• Taixu Zhenren asked the Bureau to help build the immortal sect, offering cultivation guidance in return.

Hua Tiancheng and the Longyuan Celestial Sect agreed to cooperate, with Great Xia offering to help build the sect in exchange for cultivation guidance. After Hu Xiaocao demonstrated her power and she and the village chief departed in a celestial display, Hua ordered rapid support for the sect and confidentially transferred the files of Sun Zhenbang and Xie Yixuan, whose resignations had stirred rumors at the Fog City police station.

• Hua Tiancheng offered Great Xia's cooperation, and Hu Xiaocao demonstrated her power by growing a tea tree from leaves in a teacup and restoring everyone's energy.
• The Cultivation Bureau and the village chief agreed that Great Xia would help build the Longyuan Celestial Sect while seeking guidance and opportunities for people to study there.
• Hu Xiaocao and the village chief departed by ascending into the sunset, leaving the Cultivation Bureau convinced of the sect's extraordinary abilities.
• Hua Tiancheng ordered Fog City and surrounding regions to assist with construction, considered suspending cultivation training centers, and directed that Sun Zhenbang and Xie Yixuan's files be transferred and encrypted.
• At the Fog City police station, colleagues speculated about Sun Zhenbang and Xie Yixuan's resignations to cultivate immortality, then were stunned when headquarters ordered their files transferred.

Hua Tiancheng coordinated a massive, state-funded construction project near the Dragon Origin Mountain Range to establish the Longyuan Celestial Sect, while keeping its purpose secret from most officials and designers. The sect’s plans were approved and construction began, leaving other projects nationwide short of workers and materials.

• Hua Tiancheng arrived in Fog City, expanded the construction zone to cover the region around the Dragon Origin Mountain Range, and ordered the city to mobilize.
• Survey teams worked without incident because Ye Qin and the great demons had been informed and did not object to building the sect nearby.
• Hua Tiancheng rejected the designers’ modern blueprints and told Li Jianhui to create an antique-style complex with an ethereal, immortal atmosphere.
• Li Jianhui’s team completed new blueprints, and Master Chongxu approved them; engineers divided the project into fifteen zones.
• Hua Tiancheng ordered top-grade materials and workers from across the country to Fog City, disrupting other construction projects and frustrating developers nationwide.

Wang Xuehao and a team of Great Xia’s veteran diplomats ventured into Longyuan Mountain to seek the great demons’ aid against the approaching Heaven and Earth Calamity. As rustling in the forest announced something moving toward them, the team’s crucial meeting had yet to begin.

• Wang Xuehao led the diplomats through the altered wilderness toward Longyuan Mountain, explaining that they would have to wait for the great demons to find them.
• The diplomats discussed how Great Xia’s survival depended on winning the demons’ cooperation and securing cultivation knowledge and teachers for the Cultivation Academy.
• The team recalled the old leader’s orders to express goodwill, request cultivation resources and expertise, and invite the demons to teach in Fog City Mountain City.
• The diplomats eased their anxiety by discussing Great Xia’s preparations and Shinzhao Nation’s resource purchases.
• Wang Xuehao heard movement ahead and signaled the team to stop as the leaves thrashed and something seemed ready to emerge.