Chapter Summaries

Qi WuHuo fought his way through a sudden outbreak of demons after a 3,600-year-old formation was broken, while the North Pole Exorcism Institute ordered him to hold Central Province. As he approached Ling Miao Gong to establish a formation, Old Mr. Ao appeared and reunited with him amid the rain.

• The Little Medicine Spirit hosted its animal friends on the mountain, but a demonic bird attacked and Qi WuHuo arrived in time to protect it and slaughter the fiendish birds with the Refining Yang Sword.
• Qi WuHuo contacted the North Pole Exorcism Institute through the Northern Emperor Mirror and learned that the formation's destruction had unleashed a coordinated assault; the battle generals told him to hold his ground and prepare to face a powerful enemy.
• Qi WuHuo entrusted the Little Medicine Spirit to the Earth God and set out to purge evil, cutting down a tree demon and other monsters on his way toward Ling Miao Gong.
• Qi WuHuo unlocked the Five Thunder Judge Seal's Violet Tenuity Jade Pivot Thunder, but a dragon's rain subdued the demons before he could strike.
• The dragon transformed into Old Mr. Ao and greeted Qi WuHuo, who returned his greeting.

Qi WuHuo and Ao Liu reached Ling Miao Mountain, where Ling Miao Gong was fighting a colossal demon, and joined the battle. As Qi WuHuo summoned the Big Dipper’s power to protect himself and empower his sword, the celestial star array activated on its own and drew down a mysterious eighth star.

• Ao Liu carried Qi WuHuo through Zhongzhou at tremendous speed, suppressing demons with his dragon’s roar and rain.
• Qi WuHuo and Ao Liu arrived at Ling Miao Mountain and found Ling Miao Gong battling a three-headed demon god.
• Qi WuHuo invoked the Northern Emperor’s Dharma, and the Refining Yang Sword pierced the demon’s palm when he let it act as it pleased.
• The Big Dipper’s starlight descended to shield Qi WuHuo and empower his sword, while Tian Shu and Tian Xuan Ju Men protected him.
• The celestial officials discovered the star-power array was operating by itself, and a mysterious star shining with firelight descended into the mortal world.

Qi WuHuo drew on the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s stellar power and fire to defeat a demon alongside Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu, only to discover that the battle had concealed a demonic attack on Central Province Prefecture City. As the City Lord was revealed to have become a demon, an old Daoist from Refining Yang Temple descended the mountain to confront the spreading miasma.

• A Jade Tablet in the celestial sphere briefly flared with power, prompting star officials to realize that an anomaly had occurred.
• Qi WuHuo drew down the North Star’s power, gained the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s blessing, and pierced the Three Heads Six Arms demon’s hands with fire.
• Qi WuHuo fought beside Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu, then used the Refining Yang Sword to break the demon’s weapons and survive its tribulation fire.
• Qi WuHuo stopped the tribulation fire and burned the demon to ash, while Ao Liu extinguished the flames in the sky.
• Qi WuHuo spotted black demonic energy streaming toward Central Province Prefecture City and realized the battle had been a diversion.
• The City Lord was revealed to be dead and transformed into a demon; after the demon killed a Martial General, the old Daoist from Refining Yang Temple descended the mountain to face the spreading miasma.

Demonic Beasts descended on Central Province Prefecture City during New Year festivities, overwhelming its people and defenses. As Jue Ming Temple’s monks completed a protective array at terrible cost, the abandoned Divine Martial Black Armored Army returned to defend the city.

• Demonic Beasts attacked more than two hundred Market Wards, and Daoists from Refining Yang Temple tried to protect civilians with swords and talismans.
• Zhen Jing opened Jue Ming Temple to refugees, sacrificed its Buddha statues to build a protective array, and led the monks in holding off the demons.
• Zhen Jing killed a demon-possessed child, cut off his own bitten wrist, and stayed outside the temple gate so the monks could seal the array; the demons killed him as the surviving monks finished it.
• A sesame-cake peddler rescued his family, then joined other men in arming themselves from the city armory with old armor and weapons.
• The city’s defenders faced a giant monster after a breach in the gate, but former cavalry captain of the Third Army of the Divine Martial Black Armored Army arrived with his soldiers and took the battlefield.

Qi WuHuo coordinated efforts to restore Human Dao Destiny across Central Province and fought to contain the demonic calamity while the city defenders held their lines. The chain formation was disrupted, but the demons still had to be destroyed, and a grey-robed monk continued holding back the monstrous force in the City Lord's Mansion.

• Qi WuHuo chose to protect Central Province's other cities instead of rushing to the prefectural city, and asked Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu to spread warnings and organize local defenses.
• Qi WuHuo fought through demons with the Refining Yang Sword and thunder, then learned that the city's former lord had sacrificed himself to restore its Human Dao Destiny.
• The Human Dao Destiny formations in several cities were restored, stopping the demonic miasma from spreading farther, while Qi WuHuo continued toward the remaining demons despite his injuries.
• The Black Armored Army and Bai Hui Army reinforced the front line, and the defending general died fighting a wolf demon as soldiers took his place.
• An exhausted old Daoist fought his dead, demon-infected friend, Daoist Friend Li of Chun Sheng Temple.
• A grey-robed monk held back the demonic growth consuming the City Lord's Mansion with his Buddha light and refused to abandon the people.

As demons overwhelmed Central Province, Qi WuHuo used the Spirit Treasures he had once freed to devise a way to strike every demon at once. With the Earth Gods, cultivators, and people joining a vast altar, he unleashed a sword that swept through the province and destroyed the demons, leaving him with white temples and three centuries of lost lifespan.

• Qi WuHuo saved Zhou Lingyi and Old Mr. Zhou from a demon by drawing on the lingering power of a Spirit Treasure, then realized the spirits he had freed could never truly escape their refinement.
• Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong told Qi WuHuo that the demons were endless, and a corrupted Earth God exploded after revealing the enemy's plan to break the Heavenly Court's formation through mass casualties.
• Qi WuHuo proposed using the Spirit Treasures scattered across Central Province to sense and kill every demon at once, while Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong agreed to support his plan.
• Earth Gods, Water Officials, cultivators, and other allies formed a vast altar centered on Qi WuHuo, who used its power to turn Central Province's mountains and rivers into a map and summon a colossal Heavenly Manifestation.
• Qi WuHuo's Heavenly Manifestation unleashed Shangqing's third tribulation sword along the province's ley lines, killing the demons without harming the living and costing him three centuries of lifespan.

Qi WuHuo’s altar-powered sword strike destroyed every demon across a thousand li, but cost him three sixty-year cycles of lifespan. As the surviving defenders fought the last threats, a grey-robed monk took the demon’s remaining evil aura into himself to free its victims and walked away bleeding.

• Qi WuHuo’s sword strike annihilated the demons and ended the Heavenly Manifestation, leaving him with only about a hundred years to live.
• The surviving demon tried to attack the exhausted Qi WuHuo, but Ling Miao Gong, Ao Liu, and a true dragon fought him together.
• A warrior celebrated surviving the battle, then found his comrade Li Laosan dead and broke down in tears.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, the grey-robed monk absorbed the demon’s remaining evil aura and freed the trapped victims through Buddha light.
• The monk killed the demon’s final evil thought with a lion-roar punch, then left bearing the aura and reciting the Diamond Sutra.

Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong badly wounded Yue Lianqing, but his attempt to unleash the remaining demonic miasma failed because the Refining Yang Sword had swallowed it. As Yue Lianqing fled and was driven toward Qi WuHuo, the ancient mirror at Qi WuHuo’s waist awakened, and the chapter ended with Qi WuHuo recognizing his attacker as Yue Lianqing.

• Ao Liu restrained Yue Lianqing while Ling Miao Gong cleaved off his right arm with a blow empowered by the weight of the Central Continent’s mountains.
• Yue Lianqing tried to detonate the remaining demonic miasma, but his plan failed because the Refining Yang Sword had consumed it.
• Qi WuHuo saw the Refining Yang Sword settle after gorging on the demons, and the ancient mirror at his waist awakened after absorbing the rejected miasma and his blood.
• Yue Lianqing fled, then tried to seize the young Dragon King by pretending to be his friend, but the newly enthroned Jing River Dragon King blocked him and struck back.
• Ao Liu, Ling Miao Gong, and Ao WuLie attacked Yue Lianqing together and sent him crashing toward Qi WuHuo, who recognized him as Yue Lianqing.

Qi WuHuo used the Refining Yang Sword to wound Yue Lianqing, who revealed that he was Jidu Star Lord and confessed that Jinzhou and Central Province had been destroyed for the Star Lords’ amusement. As Luohu and other Star Officials closed in, the North Pole Exorcism Institute arrived to protect Qi WuHuo and confront them.

• Qi WuHuo’s rage awakened the Refining Yang Sword, letting him pursue Yue Lianqing through his escape art and pin him to a stone wall.
• Qi WuHuo questioned Yue Lianqing about Jinzhou, and Yue Lianqing admitted responsibility before explaining that Central Province had been chosen to punish Ao Liu and amuse the Star Lords.
• Yue Lianqing revealed himself as Jidu Star Lord, and Luohu and Taiyi Yuebo appeared as another Star Official’s attack descended on Qi WuHuo.
• A bloodstained North Pole Exorcism Institute warrior seized the Northern Emperor Mirror and shattered the incoming starlight with a punch.
• North Pole Exorcism Institute members arrived to shield Qi WuHuo, naming their former offices and current seats as they prepared to face the Star Lords.
• Tianyou arrived with the head of Tianyi Ziqi Star Lord and declared that the North Pole Exorcism Institute stood with Qi WuHuo.

Great Marshal Tianyou and the North Pole Exorcism Institute defeated the Four Hidden Stars, and Qi Wuhuo killed Jidu Star Lord to avenge Jinzhou. After learning that a greater enemy stood behind the rebellion, Qi Wuhuo joined the Institute and received the title Demon-Slayer.

• Tianyou warned Qi Wuhuo that the Four Hidden Stars feared the North Pole Exorcism Institute, then crushed their desperate attack with a single punch.
• Tianyou killed Luohu Star Lord and Taiyi Yuebo Star Lord, while the North Pole Exorcism Institute slaughtered the rebels’ forces.
• Tianyou gave Jidu Star Lord to Qi Wuhuo, who killed him while declaring himself a native of Jinzhou seeking revenge.
• Qi Wuhuo learned that an even more powerful figure stood behind the Four Hidden Stars and accepted a genuine North Pole Exorcism Institute token.
• Tianyou bestowed the title Demon-Slayer on Qi Wuhuo and fastened the Institute’s order to his waist.

Qi WuHuo learned about the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s ranks and Saints, then discovered that his damaged foundation could be repaired through a method purchased with his merit. Star Lord Taibai presented three cultivation texts, and Qi WuHuo considered the mysterious Primordial Ancestral Qi.

• Qi WuHuo examined his Demon Queller token as Star Lord Taibai explained the Institute’s ranks and the achievements required to become a Northern Pole Saint.
• Star Lord Taibai warned Qi WuHuo that his shortened lifespan reflected deep damage to his foundation, which could prevent him from reaching the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Star Lord Taibai explained that Qi WuHuo’s merit came from upholding order and could be exchanged for a cultivation method to heal his injuries.
• Star Lord Taibai showed Qi WuHuo the Central Heaven Northern Pole Complete Celestial Star Qi Refining Canon and the Ziwei Emperor Qi True Scripture as possible choices.
• Star Lord Taibai discouraged Qi WuHuo from choosing the rarely mastered Primordial Ancestral Qi, but Qi WuHuo examined its ancient Jade Book.

After Zhongzhou’s calamity was quelled, Qi WuHuo judged Ao Liu and Ao WuLie for their roles in it, condemning both to death. Ao Liu then sacrificed himself on the Dragon Slaying Platform to save his son, leaving his game of Go with Qi WuHuo unfinished.

• Star Lord Taibai showed Qi WuHuo the Primordial Ancestral Qi cultivation method and explained that rewards would come after the guilty were punished.
• Great Marshal Tianyou honored those who had fought in Zhongzhou and called the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s fallen generals to mind before turning to the crimes.
• Qi WuHuo explained that Ketu had targeted Ao Liu for saving Jinzhou, while local deities offered to surrender their merit to lessen Ao Liu’s punishment.
• Ao WuLie claimed responsibility, but Great Marshal Tianyou passed the Judge’s Command to Qi WuHuo, who ruled that both Ao Liu and Ao WuLie should be executed.
• Ao Liu knocked Ao WuLie away from the Dragon Slaying Platform and sacrificed himself upon it, dying with his soul extinguished.

After sentencing Ao Liu, Qi WuHuo preserved his remaining Life soul and witnessed the devastation in Central Province. Ao Liu used his final strength to send restorative rain across the region and help the dead souls reincarnate, before a mysterious Daoist intervened to give him a sliver of life.

• Ao Liu took Ao WuLie’s place on the Dragon Slaying Platform, and Qi WuHuo preserved the fragment of his Life soul with an edict.
• Ao WuLie begged to live, while Qi WuHuo left the judgment site and saw the devastation and immense losses in Central Province.
• Qi WuHuo reunited with Ao Liu’s brief manifestation, and Ao Liu said he had no regrets about choosing to save people.
• Ao Liu spent his remaining strength to summon healing rain and help the dead souls of Central Province reincarnate, while Qi WuHuo used an edict to aid him.
• As Ao Liu’s soul faded, a mysterious Daoist appeared, used a rain drop to give him a sliver of life, and identified himself as Taiyi Saves from Suffering.

Daoist Taiyi explained to Qi WuHuo that conflict among the Heavenly Court’s competing ideals had once shattered the Three Realms, and urged him to find his own answers as he endured the calamity. Meanwhile, the Northern Pole Exorcism Institute punished the Dragon Prince and moved against the Great Solar Emperor Lord, ending with its battle-generals demanding that he submit.

• Daoist Taiyi told Qi WuHuo that the Heavenly Court was divided by conflicting Dao Paths and explained how Haotian had once suppressed a chaos that destroyed order across the Three Realms.
• Daoist Taiyi warned Qi WuHuo that he had entered a great calamity, then departed after asking him to consider whether the Six Realms had a single, complete explanation.
• The Northern Pole Exorcism Institute stripped the Dragon Prince of his divine office and sentenced him to eight hundred years of torment followed by service as a vanguard battle general until his death.
• The Northern Pole Exorcism Institute’s deployment alarmed the Heavenly Court, and the Great Solar Emperor Lord criticized its harsh actions against the Four Hidden Stars and the Earth Gods.
• Former Star Lord Taibai and the Northern Pole Exorcism Institute’s battle-generals confronted the Great Solar Emperor Lord, accused him of 321 offenses, and ordered him to submit.

Qi WuHuo helped Central Province recover after the calamity and learned that Emperor Lord Donghua had orchestrated both the Jinzhou drought and the Central Province disaster to advance his Dao. He volunteered to execute Donghua, and True Lord Yi Sheng ordered him to carry out the sentence at noon the next day.

• Qi WuHuo treated the injured in Central Province while Yue Shiru noticed his newly white hair and the city’s slow return to normal.
• An Earth God coldly ignored Qi WuHuo, who continued back to the temple and found Mingxin stopping the injured old Daoist from drinking wine.
• Qi WuHuo used his North Pole Exorcism Institute token and learned that Taibai had been gravely wounded while helping capture Emperor Lord Donghua.
• A Thunder General revealed that Donghua had led the plots behind both Jinzhou and Central Province, seeking to use the calamities to advance toward the position of Taiyi.
• True Lord Yi Sheng asked who would execute Donghua, and Qi WuHuo volunteered, accepting the order to behead him at noon the next day.

Qi WuHuo ascended to the Celestial Court to carry out an execution and received ceremonial True Lord armor, while his sword pulled him toward the severed heavenly blood river. He let the sword battle the river and encountered Yun Qin at the riverbank.

• Qi WuHuo summoned the Northern Emperor's Token, and Yue Shiru and the old Daoist worried that he was still burdened by the calamity.
• The winter rain stopped, and Qi WuHuo fell asleep in the Scripture Pavilion before his Primordial Spirit was drawn to the Celestial Court.
• A North Pole official escorted Qi WuHuo to prepare for the execution, and Armory officials outfitted him in elaborate True Lord armor and a faceplate.
• Qi WuHuo's sword diverted him from the execution route and pulled him to the remaining half of the heavenly blood river.
• Qi WuHuo allowed the sword to enter the river for the time it took an incense stick to burn, and the sword began fighting and devouring it.
• Yun Qin saw the blood river erupt and recognized Qi WuHuo in his divine general armor.

Yun Qin met the Demon Queller while fleeing the Grand Ceremony and traveled with him to the Thirty-three Heavens, where he carried out the sentence against Emperor Lord Donghua. The Demon Queller killed Donghua with the Refining Yang Sword and revealed himself to the assembled gods as the North Pole Exorcism’s Demon Queller True Lord.

• Yun Qin mistook the Demon Queller for a True Lord sent to capture her, but he rescued her from the raging blood river and warned her that the place was unsafe.
• Yun Qin learned that her mother, Constellation Star Lord Zhi Nu, would attend the Grand Ceremony and agreed to go with the Demon Queller.
• Yun Qin and the Demon Queller reached the ceremony, where the Old Yellow Ox recognized the warrior’s identity and hurried Yun Qin away.
• Great Marshal Tianyou ordered the Demon Queller to execute Emperor Lord Donghua, but the Immortal Slaying Blade broke and Donghua freed himself.
• Qi WuHuo struck Donghua’s knee with the Refining Yang Sword, forced him down, and beheaded him before the assembled gods.
• Qi WuHuo declared the judgment carried out and was proclaimed the North Pole Exorcism’s Demon Queller True Lord.

Qi WuHuo executed Donghua in the Heavenly Court, earning the Jade Emperor’s approval and a place among the North Pole Exorcism Institute. Back in the mortal world, Yun Tuan swallowed the sun’s essence and briefly darkened the sky, while Qi WuHuo returned to Refining Yang Temple unaware that its frightened residents had witnessed the omen.

• Qi WuHuo’s beheading of Donghua drew approval from the Jade Emperor and the North Pole Exorcism Institute, while other immortals reacted with unease.
• Great Marshal Tianyou and Saint Ling praised Qi WuHuo, then told him to remove his armor and return to the mortal world.
• Yun Tuan swallowed a trace of solar essence, causing a blood-red cloud to engulf the sun and alarming people across the Human World.
• A grey-robed gentleman witnessed Qi WuHuo’s execution of Donghua through divination, then abandoned his attempt to learn more and asked for three long sticks of incense.
• Ling Miao Gong told the Earth Gods that Donghua had been executed, prompting them to recall the young Daoist they had mistreated.
• The sun reappeared, and Qi WuHuo emerged from the scripture repository at Refining Yang Temple as Yue Shiru and Mingxin told him what he had missed.

After the Central Province calamity, Qi WuHuo recovered from his injuries and visited Ao WuLie, who was imprisoned beneath the earth. Qi WuHuo accepted Ao WuLie's request to deliver an exorcism treasure to Ao Qing, while the Sage Emperor approved restarting the grand ceremony under the era name “Benevolent Virtue,” and the Crown Prince prepared to submit “Ode to the Great Roc.”

• Qi WuHuo treated the sick while recovering, and Little Peacock Qi Yuntun grew golden feathers and gained a fire ability.
• Qi WuHuo traveled beneath the ley lines to visit the imprisoned Ao WuLie and told him Emperor Lord Donghua had been slain.
• Ao WuLie gave Qi WuHuo an exorcism treasure and asked him to deliver it to his younger sister Ao Qing in the Demon Kingdom.
• Qi WuHuo left as Ao WuLie's punishment resumed, then passed Ling Miao Gong and the Central Province's Earthly Deities without stopping.
• The Sage Emperor approved ending his fast and restarting the grand ceremony with the era name “Benevolent Virtue.”
• The Crown Prince prepared to submit his scroll, “Ode to the Great Roc.”

Yue Shiru left Refining Yang Temple after the Refining Yang Sword severed its bond to Lü Chunyang, carrying Qi WuHuo’s message to the patriarch. As the Divine Martial Dynasty prepared its delayed grand sacrifice, Qiong Yu freed the imprisoned Seventh Prince, Li Zhai, who agreed to become her blade and confront the Human Emperor.

• The Refining Yang Sword cast the characters on its blade onto Yue Shiru’s jade slip, and Qi WuHuo wrote “Taishang” for Lü Chunyang to deliver.
• Yue Shiru departed the temple, while Mingxin shook off his sadness and returned to meditation and Qi refinement.
• The Divine Martial Dynasty prepared to hold its grand sacrifice as the Hundun Observatory worried over the missing stars and uncertain omens.
• Qiong Yu found Li Zhai chained in the deepest chamber of the Heavenly Prison and explained that she had come to release him amid the distraction of the sacrifice.
• Li Zhai agreed to be used as Qiong Yu’s blade, declared himself the blade of the people under heaven, and asked the old jailer for Black Iron Armor.