Chapter Summaries

Ling Qingzhu warned Su Rou not to let her feelings for Wu Yun distract her from cultivation, while Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu discussed the dangers awaiting Dao Sect at the Sect Competition. Dao Sect’s three hundred disciples then set out for Demonic City under Wu Yun’s command, cheered on by their fellow disciples.

• At the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace, Su Rou defended her admiration for Wu Yun, and Ling Qingzhu urged her to cultivate rather than pursue romance.
• Ling Qingzhu told Wu Yun that Yuan Sect’s Three Little Kings and the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace’s Ling Qingzhu were formidable opponents at the upcoming Sect Competition.
• Wu Yun reassured Ling Qingzhu that Dao Sect’s strengthened disciples could match Yuan Sect’s forces, with Lin Dong, Wang Yan, Xiaoxiao, Pang Tong, and Fang Yun among their strengths.
• Ying Xuanzi named Wu Yun commander of Dao Sect’s three hundred competitors, with Xiaoxiao, Lin Dong, and Wang Yan assisting him.
• Qi Lei led the Hall Masters and competitors toward Demonic City as Dao Sect’s disciples called on them to bring glory to the sect.

Dao Sect arrived in Demonic City for the Sect Competition, where Wu Yun drew the attention of Myriad Puppet Gate’s Gui Li. While exploring the Treasure Hunting Area with Ling Qingzhu, Wu Yun beat three Yuan Sect disciples who had harassed her, and one of them summoned Yuan Sect reinforcements.

• Ying Xuanzi watched Dao Sect depart and hoped Wu Yun would bring the disciples back safely.
• Qi Lei led Dao Sect into Demonic City, where the arriving group drew attention and Gui Li sensed Wu Yun’s strength.
• Wu Yun arranged for Lin Dong and Ying Xiaoxiao to walk together while he explored the Treasure Hunting Area with Ling Qingzhu.
• Three Yuan Sect disciples took a jade-green hairpin Ling Qingzhu had been buying, so Wu Yun suppressed and beat them before returning the hairpin to her.
• One beaten disciple sent up a signal identifying Yuan Sect, drawing a crowd as onlookers recognized him as Jiang Tao, one of Yuan Sect’s Eight Spirit Generals.

Wu Yun faced off against Lei Qian after the two sects gathered in Demonic City over Jiang Tao’s beating. Wu Yun stunned Lei Qian with a brief immobilizing talisman and a slap, and as Lei Qian unleashed the Thunder Emperor Scripture, Wu Yun revealed his own Thunder Blade.

• Jiang Tao and Ling Qingzhu summoned their sectmates, drawing more than a hundred Dao Sect and Yuan Sect disciples into a tense standoff.
• Lei Qian arrived, challenged Wu Yun, and attacked with the Thunder Sound Lion Fist.
• Wu Yun used the Stillness Talisman Script to freeze Lei Qian for an instant, then slapped him and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Lei Qian unleashed the Thunder Emperor Scripture, summoning a vast storm and forming a gigantic lightning spear.
• Wu Yun calmly produced a Thunder Blade and told Lei Qian that he used lightning too.

Wu Yun defeated Lei Qian by absorbing his lightning and beating him until the Yuan Sect elders stopped the fight. After the Yuan Sect withdrew, Ling Qingzhu openly approached Wu Yun and accepted his outstretched hand, leaving their relationship poised to move forward.

• Wu Yun absorbed Lei Qian’s Thunder Emperor Scripture, dragged him down, and repeatedly struck him with the Thunder Spirit Heavenly Blade.
• Qi Lei and the Dao Sect Hall Masters stopped a Yuan Sect elder from intervening, and the Yuan Sect elders ordered their disciples to withdraw until the Sect Competition.
• Wu Yun promised to protect the Dao Sect disciples in the Demonic Region, while Wang Yan welcomed the chance to settle his grudge with Lei Qian.
• Wu Yun spotted Ling Qingzhu at a pavilion, and she descended to greet him in front of the gathered crowd.
• Wu Yun introduced himself and offered Ling Qingzhu his hand, and she accepted it as both recalled their past and acknowledged their growing connection.

Wu Yun reunited with Ling Qingzhu, then uncovered a hidden token inside an ordinary Copper Furnace that bore the name of the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury. Three days later, the major sects gathered at the Demonic Region entrance as the Sect Competition was about to begin.

• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu clasped hands and spoke about his progress and the coming Sect Competition before she departed.
• Ling Qingzhu resolved to become even more outstanding than Ling Qingzhu, while Wu Yun explained to Wang Yan how he and Ling Qingzhu had met over a treasure five years earlier.
• Following Huangwu's guidance, Wu Yun bought several items, including a battered Copper Furnace, and discovered that burning it revealed a Dark Red Light Token marked with the words "Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury."
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu speculated that the token might open the treasury and agreed to investigate it together.
• Three days later, disciples from the Super Sects gathered at the Demonic Region entrance as the Sect Competition was about to begin.

Wu Yun and the Dao Sect disciples entered the Demonic Region, where Demonic Ants ambushed them. After Ling Qingzhu subdued the swarm with her zither, Wu Yun uncovered Life Profound Bone Pearls beneath the earth, leaving the disciples eager to collect them.

• Ling Qingzhu introduced Wu Yun to the leaders of the other Super Sects, and Su Rou greeted him from the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace.
• Yuan Sect arrived, and Lei Qian threatened the Dao Sect before Yuan Cang restrained him and vowed to deal with Wu Yun inside the Demonic Region.
• Wu Yun and Ying Xiaoxiao led the Dao Sect disciples through the spatial vortex into the Demonic Region.
• Wu Yun uncovered Demonic Ants beneath the ground, and the swarm attacked the Dao Sect disciples.
• Wu Yun carried Ling Qingzhu on his shoulders as she played her zither, causing the Demonic Ants to collapse.
• Wu Yun scattered the ants and revealed Life Profound Bone Pearls among the remains of powerful experts, and Ying Xiaoxiao told the disciples to collect them.

Dao Sect and Sword Sect competed for four Life Profound Bone Pearls, only to awaken the Demonic Corpses guarding them. Wu Yun and Lin Dong subdued the corpses and rescued Sword Sect, leaving Xue Ling’s disciples ashamed of their weakness.

• Xue Ling offered to divide the four Life Profound Bone Pearls with Wu Yun, who let Sword Sect make the first move.
• Xue Ling’s attack awakened four Demonic Corpses, which split into pairs and struck both sects.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu defeated one Demonic Corpse, and Wu Yun removed its pearl and stored its body in the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet.
• Lin Dong and Ying Xiaoxiao’s group defeated another Demonic Corpse after Wu Yun explained that removing its pearl would stop it.
• Xue Ling asked Wu Yun for help when Sword Sect could not overcome its two Demonic Corpses.
• Wu Yun and Lin Dong restrained the remaining corpses, took their pearls, and left Sword Sect’s disciples embarrassed and indebted.

Wu Yun led the Dao Sect and Sword Sect in defeating a band of outlaws, then traveled with the Dao Sect to the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury. There, he rejected Yuan Sect’s demand that he leave and challenged Yuan Cang’s faction to face him.

• Wu Yun and Lin Dong tricked Liu Tao’s outlaws into fighting the Dao Sect before the Sword Sect ambushed them, and the two sects defeated the raiders without casualties.
• Wu Yun shared the spoils with the Sword Sect, distributed Life Profound Bone Pearls, and refined four Demonic Corpses into Spirit Puppets for the Dao Sect.
• Wu Yun showed Ying Xiaoxiao and Wang Yan the map to the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury, then led the Dao Sect on a ten-day journey to the central region.
• At the treasury, Wu Yun reunited with Su Rou, Ling Qingzhu, and Xue Ling, who warned him that Yuan Sect was preparing to target him.
• Meng Duan and Yang Huo told Wu Yun that Yuan Cang wanted him to leave, but Wu Yun refused and sent a defiant message back to Yuan Cang.

Wu Yun confronted Yuan Sect’s allies and killed Yang Huo and Meng Duan before Yuan Cang intervened. As the clash escalated, Ghost Face Chen Kui arrived with Qing Tan, who reunited with Wu Yun and Lin Dong after two years away.

• Wu Yun severed Yang Huo and Meng Duan’s arms, then ordered Ying Xiaoxiao and Ling Qingzhu to release the Four Demonic Corpses, which killed both men and drove Lei Qian back.
• Yuan Cang arrived with Ling Zhen and the Yuan Sect disciples, then attacked Dao Sect with a powerful sword strike.
• Chen Kui blocked Yuan Cang’s strike, and he arrived with Qing Tan, whom Wu Yun and Lin Dong recognized.
• Qing Tan greeted Wu Yun and Lin Dong, embraced Wu Yun first, and then tried to make up with Lin Dong, who teased her about favoring Wu Yun.

Qing Tan reunited with Wu Yun and Lin Dong, then fought Ling Zhen to prove her strength. After revealing the Darkness Ancestral Talisman, she left everyone stunned as Ling Zhen prepared his strongest attack.

• Chen Kui and Qing Tan arrived and joined Wu Yun and the Dao Sect group against Yuan Sect.
• Wu Yun challenged Yuan Cang, but Ling Zhen stepped forward to fight in his place, and Qing Tan insisted on taking him on.
• Wu Yun examined Qing Tan's strength and found she had reached the Nine Yuan Nirvana Stage, become a Seven-Seal Heavenly Talismancer, and developed an Imperial Heaven Devouring Physique.
• Qing Tan attacked Ling Zhen with her Black Scythe, breaking through his defenses and forcing him to use the Spirit Emperor Canon.
• As Ling Zhen unleashed the Sky-Breaking Spirit Spear, Qing Tan summoned an ancient talisman script that witnesses mistook for the Darkness Ancestral Talisman.

Qing Tan defeated Ling Zhen and held him at blade point until Wu Yun returned him to Yuan Cang in exchange for Yuan Sect opening the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury. After entering the treasury alone, Wu Yun signed in and obtained the Seven Demonic Blades Against Heaven.

• Qing Tan used the Darkness Talisman Script, her Heaven Devouring Physique, and the Scythe of Darkness to defeat Ling Zhen and cut off part of his arm.
• Yuan Cang threatened Dao Sect, but Wu Yun handed Ling Zhen back and demanded that Yuan Sect open the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury.
• Yuan Cang used a fiery red light to tear open the treasury entrance, and some people who rushed inside were burned to ashes.
• Wu Yun stopped Dao Sect disciples from rushing in, then led those at the Eight Yuan Nirvana Stage or above into the treasury.
• Wu Yun found himself alone on crimson ground, signed in, and received the Seven Demonic Blades Against Heaven.

Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu reached the core of the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury, where Yuan Cang disrupted the seal and revealed the Burning Heaven Cauldron suppressing a Demonic General. The entrants were expelled from the cauldron, and Ling Qingzhu recognized the crimson-robed figure meditating atop a volcano.

• Wu Yun saw through the array's illusions, reunited with Ling Qingzhu, and followed her to the stone altar at the space's core.
• Yuan Cang activated the altar in an attempt to control the Burning Heaven Array, weakening its light and releasing demonic aura from cracks in the earth.
• The Burning Heaven Cauldron appeared and restrained a Demonic General, while Huangwu identified it as a top-tier Pure Yuan Treasure and an old friend of Old Ghost Fentian.
• The cauldron expelled Wu Yun, Ling Qingzhu, the Three Little Kings, Lin Dong, Ying Xiaoxiao, Qing Tan, and the other entrants into the Crimson Mountains.
• Ling Qingzhu saw a gaunt figure in crimson robes meditating in lava atop a volcano and recognized him from her previous incarnation's memories as the Ice Master.

The Demonic General erupted from the Crimson Cauldron, forcing the Burning Heaven Elder to fight it while Wu Yun protected the survivors. After Yuan Cang and the other two severed the cauldron’s connection to help themselves steal it, Wu Yun supplied the missing Crimson Light Token, allowing the Elder to seal the Demonic General again; the Three Little Kings remained trapped inside Wu Yun’s barrier.

• The Demonic General broke free of the Crimson Cauldron and attacked the gathered cultivators, but the crimson-robed Burning Heaven Elder appeared and fought to suppress it.
• The Burning Heaven Elder formed a magma-gate formation, while Wu Yun sent the Dao Sect disciples away and noticed Yuan Cang, Lei Qian, and Ling Zhen heading for the cauldron.
• Wu Yun recognized the Three Little Kings’ attempt to steal the cauldron as aiding the Demonic General and asked Huangwu to seal the space around those who stayed behind.
• Yuan Cang and the other two used three horn-like treasures to sever the Burning Heaven Elder’s connection to the cauldron, weakening his formation as the Demonic General attacked its gap.
• Wu Yun supplied the missing Crimson Light Token, completing the formation so the Burning Heaven Elder could imprison the Demonic General beneath magma and mountains.
• Yuan Cang and his companions fled with the Crimson Cauldron but found the space sealed by Wu Yun’s withered yellow barrier.

Wu Yun helped the Burning Heaven Elder defeat the trapped Three Little Kings of Yuan Sect and then killed Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian. After Wu Yun forcibly embraced and kissed Ling Qingzhu, he destroyed the three disciples’ primordial spirits, leaving Yuan Sect’s response looming.

• Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian failed to break the Great Desolation Tablet’s barrier, and the Burning Heaven Elder reclaimed the Burning Heaven Cauldron from them.
• Wu Yun challenged the three men, defeated Yuan Cang’s Spirit Seal-enhanced attacks, and killed all three with the Seven Demonic Blades Against Heaven.
• Wu Yun captured the Three Little Kings’ primordial spirits and took their Cosmic Bags and Spiritual Treasures before burning their bodies.
• Ling Qingzhu warned Wu Yun about the consequences of killing Yuan Sect’s disciples, but Wu Yun teased her and pulled her into an embrace.
• Wu Yun forcibly kissed Ling Qingzhu, causing Yuan Cang’s primordial spirit to crack apart, then extinguished all three primordial spirits.

Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu grew closer while he revealed that the World Tree could absorb the Demonic General’s energy and revive Old Ghost Fentian. After leaving the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury, they traveled together into the Demonic Region’s depths to seek the Taiqing Immortal Pool and heal Ling Qingzhu’s injuries.

• The Desolation Elder introduced Wu Yun to Old Ghost Fentian, and Wu Yun promised to revive him and eliminate the Demonic General.
• Wu Yun used the World Tree to transfer the sealed Demonic General and the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury into the Great Desolation Tablet.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu left the treasury and decided to travel together while the Dao Sect disciples continued onward.
• Wu Yun told Ling Qingzhu he had missed her during their five years apart, and she chose to interlock her fingers with his.
• Ling Qingzhu explained that she sought the Taiqing Immortal Pool to heal injuries caused by cultivating the Nine Heavens Immortal Art, and the pair continued into the dangerous depths of the Demonic Region.

Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu reached the Taiqing Immortal Pool, where Wu Yun captured its Three-Headed Serpent guardian with the Great Desolation Tablet. After Wu Yun revealed the thirteen villains hiding nearby, they confronted the pair, and Wu Yun declared he would kill them.

• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu traveled through the Demonic Region toward the Taiqing Immortal Pool while a group of notorious villains secretly followed them.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu found the seven-colored pool and its Three-Headed Serpent guardian, which Wu Yun absorbed into the Great Desolation Tablet.
• Ling Qingzhu prepared to enter the pool, but Wu Yun warned her that people were watching from the shadows.
• Wu Yun revealed thirteen powerful villains, including the Yang Brothers, Wave Flower, and the Four Ghosts of Nether Spring, who had followed them with ill intentions.
• Wu Yun reassured the frightened Ling Qingzhu, then condemned the villains and vowed to kill them.

Wu Yun protected Ling Qingzhu as she entered the Taiqing Immortal Pool, then trapped and killed the thirteen treasure hunters who tried to seize it. After claiming their treasures, he found a jade slip containing the Martial Emperor Scripture in the Yang Brothers’ Cosmic Bags.

• Wu Yun sealed the Taiqing Immortal Pool with an Array Plate and let Ling Qingzhu enter while he guarded the entrance.
• The Yang Brothers and the other treasure hunters attacked Wu Yun, but he used the Burning Heaven Cauldron to trap all thirteen inside its Burning Heaven Array.
• Wu Yun reinforced the flames with the Fallen Heart Flame and burned the thirteen attackers, preserving their belongings and collecting six Nascent Souls.
• Wu Yun stored the Nascent Souls in his Chaos Symbol Embryo and gathered the attackers’ Spiritual Treasures and Cosmic Bags.
• Wu Yun searched the Yang Brothers’ Cosmic Bags, found a jade slip carrying the Martial Emperor’s aura, and sent his Mental Power into it.

Wu Yun entered the Taiqing Immortal Pool to find Ling Qingzhu and discovered a dead cultivator’s skeleton draining her vitality. After destroying it and releasing its Spirit Seal, he carried Ling Qingzhu from the pool, where she woke in his arms and caught him flustered.

• Wu Yun inspected the Martial Emperor Scripture and decided to preserve it for the Great Desolation Sect, then stored the other items he had collected.
• Worried when Ling Qingzhu did not emerge from the sealed Taiqing Immortal Pool, Wu Yun entered the water and searched its winding passages.
• Wu Yun found Ling Qingzhu unconscious as jade-green rays from a skeleton drained her vitality, so he broke the connection and crushed the skeleton.
• A jade-green Spirit Seal emerged from the skeleton and entered Ling Qingzhu, while Wu Yun used Fallen Heart Flame to destroy the lingering eerie presence.
• Wu Yun covered Ling Qingzhu with a robe and carried her out of the pool, and she woke in his arms as he awkwardly apologized for getting excited.

Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu grew closer as they explored the Demonic Region and gathered its treasures. They reached the forbidden ruins of the Blazing Sun Immortal Sect, where Wu Yun began drawing demonic creatures into the Great Desolation Tablet.

• Wu Yun kissed Ling Qingzhu despite her resistance, and she eventually accepted him; afterward, he restored her body with World Tree origin energy and gave her a body-tempering martial art.
• Desolation Elder told Wu Yun that he and Old Ghost Fentian planned to suppress the Demons in the region and recover the ancient inheritances, and Wu Yun set out with Ling Qingzhu to help.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu cleared ancient treasuries, collected treasures, and absorbed Demons to strengthen the World Tree.
• Old Ghost Fentian explained that the Blazing Sun Immortal Sect had once possessed a Sun Fragment that could help hatch Wu Yun's Golden Crow Egg, so Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu traveled to its ruins.
• At the demon-filled ruins, Wu Yun deployed the Great Desolation Tablet and Heaven Sealing Array Diagram, then lured Demonic Corpses into the World Tree's opening for capture.

Wu Yun and his allies gathered the Demonic Corpses and Demons trapped in the Blazing Sun Immortal Sect Ruins, then uncovered the Sun Fragment that had sealed a vast army underground. After transferring the underground seal and its Demons into the Great Desolation Tablet, they gave the Sun Fragment to the Golden Crow Egg to absorb.

• Wu Yun collected the Blazing Sun Immortal Sect’s Demonic Corpses into the Great Desolation Tablet, while Old Ghost Fentian and the Desolation Elder found Demons trapped behind the sect’s protective formation.
• Huang Yun, Feng Yun, and the Desolation Elder sealed the formation’s perimeter, and Old Ghost Fentian broke through it with the Burning Heaven Cauldron.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu helped Old Ghost Fentian suppress and seal the Demons, and Wu Yun discovered that his Overlord Blood burned them.
• Wu Yun and his allies found intense heat beneath the ruins, so the Great Desolation Tablet spread its World Tree roots and Heaven Sealing Array through the underground formation.
• Three days later, the Great Desolation Tablet had transferred the underground seal containing seven Demonic Generals and tens of thousands of Demons, allowing Huangwu to extract the Sun Fragment.
• Wu Yun placed the Sun Fragment beneath the Golden Crow Egg, which began absorbing its power as the patterns on its shell glowed.