Chapter Summaries

Old Yellow Ox warned Qi WuHuo about the looming conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Demon Race, then learned that Qi WuHuo was being hunted while carrying the Great Emperor Dongyue’s seal for Empress Houtu. Qi Yuntun drew the demons away so Qi WuHuo could hide, while Old Yellow Ox vowed to gather help.

• Old Yellow Ox discussed the Demon Emperor and Qing Jingwei’s impending rise with the Heavenly Court’s immortals and worried that a war was near.
• Old Yellow Ox warned Qi WuHuo to hide in the Demon Realm and avoid seeking revenge while Qing Jingwei prepared to break through to Great Sage.
• Qi WuHuo told Old Yellow Ox that the Great Emperor Dongyue had given him his seal and asked him to deliver a letter to Empress Houtu if Qi WuHuo did not survive.
• Qi WuHuo ended the spell connection and concealed himself as demons searched nearby with a spirit hound.
• Qi Yuntun drew the demons away by attacking them and flying toward the Green Lion Clan’s sacred grounds, giving Qi WuHuo a chance to escape.
• Old Yellow Ox realized the Demon Race was hunting Qi WuHuo and vowed to rally the troops.

Old Yellow Ox sought help for Qi WuHuo, but the Heavenly Court’s orders and the Great Dao Lord’s refusal left him with no support. After breaking through the South Heavenly Gate to reach the Demon Realm, he was captured and revealed that Qi WuHuo was the second-generation Great Emperor Dongyue, prompting the North Emperor to lead the court toward action.

• Old Yellow Ox asked the Thunder, Fire, Battle, and Water Departments for help, but their generals refused because the Heavenly Court had forbidden them from entering the Demon Realm.
• Old Yellow Ox pleaded with the Great Dao Lord to rescue Qi WuHuo, but the Great Dao Lord refused because Qi WuHuo had chosen to face the calamity himself.
• Supreme Xuan Du also refused to intervene, telling Old Yellow Ox that he would retrieve and bury Qi WuHuo’s remains if he died.
• Old Yellow Ox charged through the South Heavenly Gate, striking down the Thunder Generals and Ju Ling Shen True Lord before setting off for the Demon Realm, but chains from the Immortal Slaying Platform captured him.
• The North Emperor questioned Old Yellow Ox, who declared that he had gone to save a friend and identified Qi WuHuo as the second-generation Great Emperor Dongyue.
• The North Emperor rose and ordered the assembled immortals and gods to go with him.

Qi Yuntun rescued Qing Jingwei and the corrupted monk before setting out for the Bodhi Tree, while Qi WuHuo was tracked down and fought a growing force of Demon Race immortals. After killing Great General Tengshe and being surrounded by more enemies, Qi WuHuo faced the arrival of Ju Ling Shen and the Northern Emperor.

• Qi Yuntun returned to help Qing Jingwei defeat the demons attacking the Green Lion Clan, then declined Qing Jingwei's offer to adopt him.
• Qi Yuntun rescued the monk, who asked to be taken beneath the Bodhi Tree, and the peacock decided to bring its rare Bodhi seed back for Qi WuHuo to try.
• The sacred embryo's aura let the demons track Qi WuHuo, so he broke their ritual link and fought Great General Tengshe.
• A qilin and Kui Niu joined Tengshe against Qi WuHuo, but Qi WuHuo fused his Shangqing and Yuqing arts, killed Tengshe, and broke the three Earth Immortals' formation.
• More demons and Earth Immortals surrounded Qi WuHuo, but Ju Ling Shen arrived with Heavenly troops as the Northern Emperor appeared above the battlefield.

Qi WuHuo refused the Northern Emperor’s offer to take the Dongyue Seal, choosing instead to honor his promise to return it to Empress Houtu. As Qi WuHuo departed for the Demon Realm, the Northern Emperor declared that if he survived his tribulation and kept his true heart, he might earn the title True Martial.

• Ju Ling Shen led the Heavenly Court’s forces in a thunderous attack, and Taibai killed the four Demon Immortals who had blocked Qi WuHuo.
• The Northern Emperor asked Qi WuHuo for the Dongyue Seal and offered to shield him from its karmic ties, but admitted he would not return it to Empress Houtu.
• Qi WuHuo refused to surrender the seal, explaining that Great Emperor Dongyue had entrusted it to him and that he had promised to return it to Empress Houtu.
• Qi WuHuo returned his Demon Queller token, thanked the Northern Emperor for saving his life, and left for the Demon Realm with the seal.
• The Northern Emperor told Taibai that Qi WuHuo could earn the title True Martial if he survived his tribulation, kept his promises, and faced the six realms’ calamity.

After killing Great General Tengshe, Qi WuHuo hid beneath the earth, united the insights of Yuqing and Shangqing, and advanced his cultivation. When Yun Qin found him, she recognized his loneliness and promised she would never leave him.

• Qi WuHuo's surging qi forced him to hide beneath the earth, where exhaustion drove him into a deep sleep.
• In his dream, Qi WuHuo realized that the Dao of Yuqing and the Calamity Sword's Dao were one, and his Teacher tested his understanding.
• Qi WuHuo awakened with his Primordial Spirit beginning to merge with his qi, attaining the Fourth True Gate of Breath Settled.
• Qi WuHuo deduced that the Jade Emperor was unwell, then erased the words after instinct warned him against leaving them written.
• Yun Qin found Qi WuHuo after a month apart and confronted him about his grief over losing the people he loved.
• Yun Qin told Qi WuHuo that she belonged to him and promised she would never leave him.

Qi WuHuo was forced to abandon earth evasion and disguise himself while crossing the Demon Realm, where the Demon Emperor challenged the Northern Emperor to battle. Meanwhile, Yun Qin secretly prepared to descend to help Qi WuHuo and invited the Great Dao Lord to join her.

• Qi WuHuo refused to let Yun Qin come looking for him, then learned that a Demon Race Great Sage had forbidden earth evasion throughout the Demon Realm.
• Qi WuHuo killed the demons who recognized him, disguised himself as a country demon, and entered a Demon Race city while trying to blend in.
• The Demon Emperor revealed himself and challenged the Northern Emperor, who answered, "Get lost," before the two began fighting.
• Yun Qin decided to help Qi WuHuo despite promising to stay away, gathered pills, treasures, talismans, and a sword, and left Heaven with a note for her parents and Uncle Niu.
• Yun Qin visited the Great Dao Lord at the Shangqing Library and invited him to sneak down to the mortal world with her.

The Great Dao Lord gave Yun Qin a gift to pass to Qi WuHuo, while Qi WuHuo witnessed the Northern Emperor and Demon Emperor clash and gained insight into the holy embryo’s power. After slipping into a checkpoint on his way toward the human realm, Qi WuHuo was ordered to submit to a bloodline inspection.

• The Great Dao Lord stabilized Yun Qin’s Primordial Spirit, taught her the East Mountain Edict, and sent her to deliver it to Qi WuHuo.
• Yun Qin entered the mortal world, hoping to find Qi WuHuo and give him pills.
• Qi WuHuo watched the Northern Emperor destroy the Demon Emperor’s world-forming attack and realized the holy embryo could absorb and release immense demonic power.
• Qi WuHuo used the holy embryo to absorb the battle’s lingering demonic power, then passed through the Demon Race’s city gate formation.
• Qi WuHuo discovered the checkpoint was screening travelers for him, and he approached the guards while preparing to act.

Qi WuHuo escaped a fortified city after killing the Green Luan and hundreds of demons, then fled from the pursuing Earth Immortal, the Ancestor of the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant. He entered the Demon Race’s forbidden mountains and glimpsed an immense dragon skeleton in the miasma.

• Qi WuHuo broke through the city guards, destroyed the formation, killed the Green Luan and hundreds of demons, and fled as an Earth Immortal pursued him.
• The Ming Zhen Dao Alliance learned of Qi WuHuo’s feat, and Lü Chunyang discovered that the sixteen-year-old had cultivated for only two years and admitted he was not his equal.
• Qi WuHuo used Soaring Golden Light and clouds to evade the Ancestor of the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant as the demon king pursued him across mountains and rivers.
• The Ancestor hurled a vast lightning spear at Qi WuHuo near the forbidden mountains, and Qi WuHuo absorbed its force with the holy embryo before falling into the miasma.
• Qi WuHuo saw an immense dragon’s bones in the forbidden land as he disappeared into its depths, leaving the Ancestor unable to find him.

Qi WuHuo escaped the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant by transforming the Cloud Rain Chess Game Chapter into a nimble azure dragon, then fled deeper into the Demon Race's Forbidden Land as the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant battled a colossal Báshé. After hiding from both, he was dragged by a soul-chain to Fengdu, where the Ghost Emperors demanded proof that he was the Northern Emperor's envoy.

• Qi WuHuo glimpsed the Dragon Emperor's enduring will in the skeleton and transformed the Cloud Rain Chess Game Chapter, using an azure dragon to steer his fall and escape the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant.
• The Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant pursued Qi WuHuo, but Qi concealed himself in the Forbidden Land's miasma after striking back with his cloud dragon.
• Qi WuHuo suspected the Dragon Emperor had died in the Forbidden Land and that his corpse might be keeping dangerous beings there in check.
• A gigantic Báshé attacked the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant, while Qi WuHuo fought through demon beasts and hid in a cave until both creatures withdrew.
• The Northern Ghost King used a soul-chain to pull Qi WuHuo's Primordial Spirit to Fengdu, where the Central Ghost Emperor and the Seventy-Two Departments demanded the Northern Emperor's token.

Qi WuHuo faced the Five Ghost Emperors in Fengdu without a token proving he was the Northern Emperor’s envoy, so he used gifts and quick wits to win the Seventy-Two Departments’ support and secure ten days. Alone in the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s former residence, he began preparing to imitate the Northern Emperor’s secret technique before the proof deadline.

• The Central Ghost Emperor demanded that Qi WuHuo produce the Northern Emperor’s token, intending to kill him if he could not.
• Qi WuHuo claimed he had proof greater than a token and persuaded the spirits to host him at a banquet rather than attack.
• Qi WuHuo gave treasures to the department heads, winning their favor, and revealed that he had emptied the Ten Hall Yama Kings’ treasury.
• When the Central Ghost Emperor pressed him for proof, Qi WuHuo secured ten days to prepare, with Diao Yongzhong supporting the delay.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor escorted Qi WuHuo to the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s former residence, where Qi WuHuo began studying how to imitate the Northern Emperor’s secret technique and survive.

Qi WuHuo used the Northern Ghost Emperor’s wine to endure the damage from repeatedly studying the Northern Emperor’s attack, hoping to imitate it and survive the Five Ghost Emperors. As Zhou Qi moved to cripple him before their planned uprising, the Northern Ghost Emperor chose to warn Qi WuHuo to leave.

• Qi WuHuo repeatedly visualized the Northern Emperor’s attack, using the Yellow Springs wine to heal his injured Primordial Spirit as he worked to imitate its killing intent.
• Qi WuHuo concluded that Zhou Qi intended to kill the Northern Emperor’s Envoy and lead the seventy-two Underworld Departments against the Ten Hall Yama Kings.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor confronted Zhou Qi, insisting that the Envoy might be genuine and that mistreating him could anger the Northern Emperor.
• Zhou Qi told the Southern Ghost Emperor that he planned to kill the Envoy and seize the Underworld, hoping to shatter the Six Realms’ balance and escape Fengdu City.
• Zhou Qi agreed that they could cripple Qi WuHuo before the planned confrontation in ten days.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor approached Qi WuHuo and told him to leave.

Qi WuHuo stayed in Fengdu City and gained the Northern Ghost Emperor’s protection while preparing to reveal himself as the Northern Emperor’s Envoy. As he risked his Primordial Spirit to master the Northern Emperor’s Control the Stars technique, the Northern Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court and discovered his daughter had gone missing.

• Qi WuHuo refused the Northern Ghost Emperor’s offer to escape, and the Northern Ghost Emperor agreed to guard him for ten days.
• The Southern Ghost Emperor tried to entice Qi WuHuo, but the Northern Ghost Emperor drove her away and then shared Yellow Springs wine and food with Qi WuHuo.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor taught Qi WuHuo to neutralize the wine’s power and use Size as Desired, then promised him the Heart of the Yellow Springs if he survived the coming test.
• Qi WuHuo used the wine to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and risked taking the Northern Emperor’s place in his perception, reaching the true power of Control the Stars.
• The Northern Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court, found a note saying his daughter had gone to study, and began searching for her.

The Northern Emperor reconstructed Yun Qin’s past and discovered that she had descended to the mortal world for Qi WuHuo, prompting him to go bring her back. Shangqing Great Dao Lord confronted him, and the two fought until they sensed Qi WuHuo below and cried out in surprise.

• The Northern Emperor watched Yun Qin raid her family’s treasure vault, take gifts for Qi WuHuo, and leave an IOU.
• The Northern Emperor initially allowed Yun Qin to stay in the mortal world, but changed his mind after seeing her comfort Qi WuHuo and ordered that she be brought back.
• The Northern Emperor decided to retrieve Yun Qin himself, but Shangqing Great Dao Lord intercepted him and defended her right to undergo a tribulation.
• The Northern Emperor and Shangqing Great Dao Lord argued over Yun Qin’s bond with Qi WuHuo and clashed above the heavens.
• The Northern Emperor and Shangqing Great Dao Lord abruptly sensed Qi WuHuo below and exclaimed at his presence.

Qi WuHuo wielded the Fire Star’s power to recreate the Northern Emperor’s might and defeat the Central Ghost Emperor, ending the battle in Fengdu City. He stood before the Northern Yin Great Emperor’s statue and ordered the gathered ghosts and gods to kneel.

• Qi WuHuo condensed the power of the stars in his Spirit Charm, but the Southern Ghost Emperor ambushed him while he was drinking Yellow Springs wine.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor protected Qi WuHuo and fought the Southern Ghost Emperor, while the Seventy-Two Departments and imprisoned spirits joined the escalating battle.
• Qi WuHuo told the Northern Ghost Emperor that he was the Northern Emperor’s Envoy, then drew on the Dongyue Seal to suppress the Demon Emperor’s power.
• Qi WuHuo seized the Fire Star’s power and used it to strike the Central Ghost Emperor through the chest with a swordlight.
• The fighting stopped as Qi WuHuo stood before the statue of the Northern Yin Great Emperor and commanded Fengdu City’s ghosts and gods to kneel.

Qi WuHuo subdued Fengdu City by invoking the Northern Emperor’s power and used its accumulated yin essence to forge the Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor’s final Ghost string. As he remained in Fengdu, Zhou Qi concluded he was a peerless hero, while the Northern Emperor recognized a resemblance between Qi WuHuo and himself and asked Great Dao Lord whose disciple he was.

• Qi WuHuo’s display of stellar power made the Ghost Emperors and the Seventy-Two Departments kneel and salute him as the Northern Emperor’s Envoy.
• Qi WuHuo used the Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor to draw blood and yin essence from Zhou Qi, the Seventy-Two Departments, and Fengdu City’s imprisoned spirits, forging the zither’s Ghost string with the Shangqing Spirit Treasure Tempering Method.
• The Northern Ghost Emperor willingly gave his heart’s blood, while the Southern Ghost Emperor reluctantly contributed; the completed zither absorbed the gathered essence and rang with renewed power.
• Qi WuHuo told Zhou Qi that his provocation had helped him obtain the zither, then asked the Ghost Emperors to find him a quiet, comfortable place to stay.
• Zhou Qi decided Qi WuHuo was a peerless hero and speculated that he might be the Northern Emperor’s son.
• Watching from the Nine Heavens, the Northern Emperor said Qi WuHuo was just like him, and Great Emperor Ziwei asked Great Dao Lord whose disciple Qi WuHuo was.

Shangqing Great Dao Lord argued that Qi WuHuo should follow his own path rather than one imposed by elders, while the Northern Emperor let Yun Qin remain in the mortal world. Qi WuHuo survived his encounter with Fengdu’s Ghost Emperors, and Yun Qin found people discussing him.

• Shangqing Great Dao Lord declared that Qi WuHuo would become his disciple and challenged his Teacher to a debate on the Dao, with the Northern Emperor offering to judge.
• Shangqing asked whether reaching the peak of cultivation truly brought freedom, and the Northern Emperor left without answering.
• The Northern Emperor chose not to summon Yun Qin from the mortal world and told Shangqing to let them be.
• Qi WuHuo met with the Northern Ghost Emperor and the officials of Fengdu, then used his borrowed authority to keep Zhou Qi and the other Ghost Emperors subdued.
• Qi WuHuo recognized that his position in Fengdu was precarious and resolved to leave only after making Zhou Qi ask him to go.
• Yun Qin bought sesame cakes near the Demon Kingdoms, heard people mention Qi WuHuo, and asked Cui Yuanzhen where he was.

Yun Qin found cultivators who had met Qi WuHuo and listened as they praised his deeds, then declared that he was hers. Meanwhile, the Fire Luminary’s power erupted in the Department of Dipper, and the celestial officials faced its terrifying return.

• Yun Qin stopped the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance’s group and asked where Qi WuHuo was, then heard Monk Deshen and the others recount how he had saved them and performed great deeds in the Demon Kingdom.
• The cultivators discussed Qi WuHuo’s future and whether he had a Dao companion, while Yun Qin secretly considered the women who hoped to pursue him.
• Yun Qin asked where Qi WuHuo was and, after learning he had disappeared near Half Phoenix City, introduced herself by declaring, "He is mine."
• The Primordial Lady Taiyin arrived at the Department of Dipper as the Fire Luminary’s dark red flames surged again.
• An angry celestial official demanded that Fire Virtue Star Lord be found and condemned him for using the Fire Luminary’s power without permission.
• When the official turned to confront the presumed arrival of Fire Virtue Star Lord, he saw the Fire Luminary itself instead.

The Fire Luminary erupted in the Dipper Department, forcing the Five Luminaries and Primordial Lady Taiyin to suppress it. Taiyin revealed that the Fire Luminary had risen in rank through the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s upheaval, while Qi WuHuo dreamed of approaching the dark-red star and touching it.

• The Fire Luminary attacked the Dipper Department, and the Water Virtue Star Lord used celestial waters to hold back its flames.
• The Water Virtue Star Lord and the other Luminaries struggled to contain the transformed Fire Luminary until Primordial Lady Taiyin sealed its fire dragon banner.
• Primordial Lady Taiyin rebuked the Record Keeper Immortal Official for provoking the attack and ordered the Dipper Department’s warriors to strip him of his robes and seal and take him to the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable.
• Primordial Lady Taiyin explained that the Fire Luminary had risen in rank as the Fire Virtue Star Lord advanced along the path of overthrowing the old and establishing the new.
• Qi WuHuo dreamed of a vast dark-red star, approached it, and instinctively placed his hand against it.

Qi WuHuo completed the highest-grade Fire Virtue Star Lord ritual but refused to inherit the rank, choosing to keep his own path while accepting the power of its banner and seal. As he took on the Star God Body of the Fire Virtue Star Lord, the Central Ghost Emperor’s probe revealed that Qi WuHuo had been expecting him.

• Qi WuHuo drew a battle spear from the star and saw visions of wars and conflicts that had fulfilled the ritual.
• Qi WuHuo refused the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s rank, explaining that he wanted to walk beside his Teacher as himself.
• The Fire Luminary seal and weapon offered Qi WuHuo their power without requiring him to inherit their rank.
• Zhou Qi sent a fragment of his soul into Qi WuHuo’s Primordial Spirit to test his origins and strength.
• Qi WuHuo grasped the spear and transformed into a Star God Body of the Fire Virtue Star Lord, wielding a dark-red battle banner.
• Qi WuHuo greeted the stunned Central Ghost Emperor as Zhou Qi and asked why he had come so late.

Qi WuHuo defeated Zhou Qi’s wisp of thought, gained a connection to the Fire Luminary, and forced the Central Ghost Emperor to surrender his halberd. Nan Qingzi then revealed that the man she had loved was named Xuanzhen, leaving Qi WuHuo shaken by the name of his senior brother.

• Qi WuHuo used the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s battle memories to defeat Zhou Qi’s wisp of thought and burn it to ashes.
• Qi WuHuo gained the ability to draw on the Fire Luminary’s power through his right hand and improved his command of fire techniques.
• Qi WuHuo appeared at the Ghost Emperors’ hall, where Zhou Qi surrendered his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd as a gift.
• Qi WuHuo asked Nan Qingzi to walk with him and questioned her about the Human Emperor and Demon Emperor.
• Nan Qingzi revealed that the man she had loved was a little Daoist named Xuanzhen, and Qi WuHuo recognized the name as his senior brother’s.