Chapter Summaries

At the Heavenly Devil’s Nascent Soul celebration, Lei Dong refused to kneel, but the Heavenly Devil protected him and invited him onto the platform. As the celebration continued, Lei Dong’s hostility toward her and her unresolved feelings for him left their tangled relationship more dangerous than ever.

• Lei Dong stood while the guests knelt, and Withered Bone tried to use his defiance as an excuse to attack him.
• Myriad Ghost Ancestor defended Lei Dong, and the Heavenly Devil stopped him from kneeling and praised his backbone.
• Myriad Ghost Ancestor suggested inviting young disciples onto the platform, so Ding Wanyan, Huangfu Ce, Dongfang Fu, and disciples from other branches joined them.
• Lei Dong resented Huangfu Ce for pursuing Ding Wanyan and suspected the Heavenly Devil was behind the marriage proposal.
• The Heavenly Devil sensed Lei Dong’s hostile glance and recalled their night together, realizing she could not bring herself to kill him.

At the Heavenly Devil’s celebration for reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, powerful forces presented lavish gifts while Lei Dong envied their wealth and drew the Heavenly Devil’s ire for speaking privately with Ding Wanyan. The ceremony continued with the arrival of Fen Wanli from the Demon Prison Sect, whose gifts were still being announced.

• The Yin Xia Mountain Six Ghosts presented Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Yin Bamboo and Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and the Heavenly Devil gave their leader a dangerous pill that could help him break through.
• More than a hundred moderate forces and twenty upper-tier forces offered gifts, while Myriad Ghost Ancestor explained their standing to Lei Dong and Ding Wanyan.
• Lei Dong and Ding Wanyan exchanged teasing voice transmissions, making Huangfu Ce jealous and prompting the Heavenly Devil to threaten Lei Dong.
• Representatives of the upper demonic sects arrived, and Fen Wanli of the Demon Prison Sect bowed to the Heavenly Devil on behalf of his sect and his master.
• Fen Wanli began listing the Demon Prison Sect’s precious gifts, including Profound Ice Heart, Heavenly Wood Heart, and Three-Colored Phoenix Tail Feathers.

The Heavenly Devil rewarded Fen Wanli with an Inferno Devil Heart, then offered Lei Dong some of the celebration’s treasures, which he refused. As Yue Xinglou of Langya Mountain arrived to congratulate her, the Heavenly Devil ordered the Yin Sha Sect to let him in.

• Fen Wanli presented the Demon Prison Sect’s lavish gifts, and the Heavenly Devil gave him an Inferno Devil Heart that could heal his master, Emperor of Fire.
• Fen Wanli kowtowed to the Heavenly Devil, pledged his loyalty, and departed in a blaze of dark-red flames.
• The Heavenly Devil explained the Inferno Devil Heart to Lei Dong and offered him some treasures, but he refused her offer.
• Yue Xinglou of Langya Mountain arrived to congratulate the Heavenly Devil, and she ordered the Yin Sha Sect to let him in.

Flame Demon fought Yue Xinglou with her Charm Soul Great Law, which also ensnared Lei Dong and stirred memories of the Black Robe Woman. As Lei Dong struggled against the illusion and Yue Xinglou called for revenge, the Heavenly Devil Lord ordered him to kneel.

• Flame Demon intercepted Yue Xinglou and used her Charm Soul Great Law to slow his Heaven-Breaking Sword.
• Myriad Ghosts shielded Ding Wanyan but left Lei Dong exposed, while Lei Dong watched Flame Demon's technique and fell under its influence.
• Ding Wanyan urged Lei Dong to wake up, but he remained captivated, drawing disdain from Huangfu Ce and concern from Dongfang Fu.
• Yue Xinglou spat blood and renewed his attack, while Flame Demon intensified her art and drove Lei Dong deeper into its spell.
• Lei Dong saw the Black Robe Woman in place of Flame Demon and struggled against the painful memory; the Heavenly Devil Lord stopped Ding Wanyan from helping him.
• Yue Xinglou shouted for the Heavenly Devil Lord to avenge his master, and she swept her sleeve and ordered him to kneel.

Yue Xinglou failed to avenge his master and was carried off after the Heavenly Demon crushed his resistance. Lei Dong accepted Huangfu Ce’s challenge to a duel ten years later, declaring he would defeat him and marry Ding Wanyan.

• The Heavenly Demon forced Yue Xinglou to kneel, and Yang Mu carried him away after he revealed he had come to avenge Tianxingzi.
• Lei Dong broke free of the illusion and criticized Myriad Ghost Ancestor for failing to protect him, while Ding Wanyan realized he had endured it through sheer willpower.
• Huangfu Ce challenged Lei Dong to a fight to the death, and Lei Dong agreed on the condition that they fight ten years later.
• Lei Dong told Myriad Ghost Ancestor he would not let Ding Wanyan marry Huangfu Ce and insisted he would pursue Golden Core despite his limited aptitude.
• Lei Dong called Huangfu Ce a sharpening stone and promised Ding Wanyan he would kill him and marry her in ten years; she agreed to wait.

Lei Dong left the Yin Sha Sect to pursue cultivation beyond its safe confines and traveled to Xiu Lake Manor in Hou Chen Country to seize an item that stirred the Soul Devouring Pagoda. Disguised as a black-robed cultivator named Ding, he confronted the Chen family's second-in-command and revealed his power.

• Lei Dong rejected Huangfu Ce's demand to sign a life-and-death duel contract and departed the Yin Sha Sect, promising to kill him in ten years.
• Lei Dong reflected that he needed to leave the sect and face danger to overcome the bottlenecks of Foundation Establishment and pursue the Golden Core Stage.
• Lei Dong traveled to Xiu Lake Manor, intending to obtain the item carried by its Clan Leader that made the Soul Devouring Pagoda ripple.
• Disguised as Ding, Lei Dong asked the Chen family's second-in-command to show him Upper Grade or Top Grade Spirit Items and an advanced Cultivation Method.
• After the Chen elder accused him of causing trouble, Lei Dong displayed Middle Grade Spirit Stones and unleashed the Netherworld Great Law, terrifying the elder.

Lei Dong defeated the old man surnamed Chen, used the Soul Searching Technique to obtain the information he sought, and then unleashed his forces to wipe out the estate. He left the estate’s inhabitants under attack by his ghosts, Ghost Guards, and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger.

• Lei Dong trapped the two young men with Netherworld Ghost Qi and sent his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger after them while he battled the old man surnamed Chen.
• Lei Dong broke through the old man’s defenses with the Ghost Guard and Myriad Ghost Banner, and the ghosts devoured the old man’s body.
• Lei Dong seized the old man’s Living Soul and used the Soul Searching Technique to find the information he wanted before sealing the soul in the Myriad Ghost Banner.
• The Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger killed the two young men and swallowed their Living Souls.
• Lei Dong summoned his other two Ghost Guards and commanded his ghosts to slaughter everyone throughout the estate.

Lei Dong ambushed the Chen Lineage’s Clan Leader outside Xiu Lake Manor, using the story of a murdered Rogue Cultivator couple to unsettle him while seeking an inherited object. After killing the old man and recovering the object from his Storage Bracelet, Lei Dong recognized a familiar connection to it.

• The Chen Lineage’s Clan Leader returned from the Yin Sha Sect with two young members and a Foundation Establishment Pill he had won at auction.
• Lei Dong confronted the old man and claimed he had come to avenge the Rogue Cultivator couple the Chens had murdered thirty years earlier.
• Three Ghost Guards joined Lei Dong in battle, and they stopped the old man from escaping with his fire-based technique.
• Lei Dong overwhelmed and killed the Clan Leader, took his Storage Bracelet, and had the Ghost Guards consume the body and clean up the battlefield.
• Lei Dong fled to a secluded cave and broke the spiritual sense imprint on the Storage Bracelet after several days of effort.
• Lei Dong retrieved an ancient hexagonal object from the bracelet and felt it was connected to his bloodline, much like the Soul Devouring Pagoda.

Lei Dong joined the Soul Devouring Pagoda to its base and endured the dangerous fusion with an Emperor Devil Seed. After learning that it had greatly amplified his spiritual sense and passed down an ancient Devil Sect’s legacy, he considered how the power might strengthen his Ghost Guards.

• Lei Dong fitted the Soul Devouring Pagoda into the hexagonal object, causing Black Mist to surge before settling back into the pagoda.
• Lei Dong’s spiritual sense touched a dark, diamond-shaped crystal inside the pagoda, and the crystal struck his forehead, overwhelming him with pain and information until he fainted.
• Lei Dong awoke with far stronger spiritual sense and, after examining the information in his mind, learned that the crystal was an Emperor Devil Seed fused with him.
• Lei Dong learned that the Emperor Devil Seed passed down cultivation methods and amplified spiritual sense, but could not improve his poor Spiritual Root.
• Lei Dong realized the stronger spiritual sense could let him control three Ghost Guards more easily and increase his combat strength and ability to detect danger.

Lei Dong studied Heavenly Devil Transformation in seclusion and mastered its first transformation, Unrivaled Under Heaven. After testing its explosive power and suffering its severe exhaustion, he realized the technique could greatly accelerate his cultivation.

• Lei Dong spent a month studying Heavenly Devil Transformation and learned to enter the proud state of mind required for Unrivaled Under Heaven.
• Lei Dong activated the first transformation, gaining a Green Light aura, immense strength, and speed as he smashed through the cavern and attacked the surrounding landscape.
• Lei Dong exhausted his strength, tore apart a striped tiger, and collapsed after the transformation’s effects faded.
• Lei Dong swallowed a Lesser Five Elements Pill and meditated with a Middle Grade Spirit Stone, recovering several hours later with unusually significant cultivation progress.
• Lei Dong considered using Heavenly Devil Transformation to speed up his cultivation and found no serious injuries, while recognizing that the technique burned through his body’s reserves as well as his true qi.

Lei Dong left seclusion after exhausting his Lesser Five Elements Pills and traveled cautiously to a cultivation market to restock. There, an old Rogue Cultivator asked him to kill someone in exchange for an Upper Grade Spirit Item.

• Lei Dong refined his Heavenly Devil Transformation training into a ten-day cycle that improved his cultivation but consumed ten Lesser Five Elements Pills and one Middle Grade Spirit Stone each time.
• After using up his pills, Lei Dong traveled by night to a distant cultivation market and entered after paying the entrance fee.
• Lei Dong kept a threatening appearance and low profile in the market, which he learned was backed by a cultivation Lineage likely to have a Golden Core Ancestor.
• An elderly Rogue Cultivator led Lei Dong to a secluded stone chamber and asked him to kill someone.
• Lei Dong began to leave, but turned back when the old man offered an Upper Grade Spirit Item as payment.

Lei Dong agreed to consider killing Wu Wenlong for the old man surnamed Zhou in exchange for an Upper Grade Spirit Item. After learning that the Golden Core Ancestor protecting Wu Wenlong was away and that Wu Wenlong secretly met a married woman, Lei Dong demanded the item before taking action.

• The old man surnamed Zhou explained that his family had declined from the legacy of a Golden Core Ancestor and offered an Upper Grade Spirit Item to hire Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong threatened Zhou, then set conditions: he would assess the target first, receive the spirit item before acting, and have no further ties with Zhou afterward.
• Zhou described how he had spent three years searching for a powerful and trustworthy Foundation Establishment cultivator to avenge his family.
• Zhou named Wu Wenlong, a peak third-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator backed by the Wu family, as his target.
• Zhou revealed that Wu Wenlong's Golden Core Ancestor was overseas and that Wu Wenlong secretly met the wife of the Liu family; Lei Dong said he would act as the situation required.
• Zhou knelt and offered to take Lei Dong to retrieve the spirit item, pleading with him to avenge Zhou's dead sons and grandsons.

Lei Dong accepted the Black Dragon Banner from the old man surnamed Zhou and agreed to help him kill Wu Liao after ten days. Disguised as a young nobleman, Lei Dong went to Wan Bao Xuan to buy pills and stunned the attendant by ordering a thousand Lesser Five Elements Pills.

• Lei Dong hid while the old man surnamed Zhou retrieved the Black Dragon Banner, then examined its ability to summon a powerful black Flood Dragon.
• Lei Dong agreed to meet Zhou in ten days to discuss killing Wu Liao and asked him to buy clothes and accessories.
• Zhou disguised Lei Dong with makeup, and Lei Dong returned to the marketplace dressed as a refined young nobleman.
• Lei Dong visited Wan Bao Xuan and asked Xiao Man for pills suited to early Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lei Dong casually ordered a thousand Lesser Five Elements Pills, leaving Xiao Man astonished and charmed.

Lei Dong prepared for an assassination by refining his spirit items and tracking the Liu Household’s third young madam to her secret meeting with Wu Wenlong. He launched a surprise attack on the couple, and the chapter ended as his ghosts and Black Dragon Banner descended on Wu Wenlong.

• Lei Dong sold the Chen Household’s spoils, exchanged his wealth for pills and Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and planned to cultivate at great expense.
• Lei Dong refined the Black Dragon Banner and strengthened the Myriad Ghost Banner with souls and ghosts.
• A spy told Lei Dong that the Liu Household’s third young madam had gone out to meet a friend, so he followed her to a secluded wooden house.
• Lei Dong concealed himself near the house, summoned three Ghost Guards, and waited for Wu Wenlong to arrive.
• Lei Dong unleashed the fierce ghosts and Ghost Guards as Wu Wenlong and the woman were together, freezing the house and catching Wu Wenlong off guard.
• Wu Wenlong tried to flee, but the Ghost Guards struck him repeatedly as Lei Dong summoned a huge Black Qi Flood Dragon.

After fleeing into the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Lei Dong cultivated in seclusion for more than two years, advancing to the peak of the second Foundation Establishment layer before hitting a bottleneck. He left for Heavenly Dao City to seek a way forward, where he encountered a young monk from Vajra Temple.

• Lei Dong killed Wu Wenlong and the Liu family's daughter-in-law, collected their souls and belongings, and fled the scene with his subordinates.
• After flying more than a hundred thousand miles, Lei Dong entered the neutral territory of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and hid in a secluded cave to cultivate.
• Lei Dong advanced to the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm but became stuck at its peak after exhausting his Lesser Heaven Spirit Pills.
• Lei Dong gave up on cultivating in seclusion and set out for Heavenly Dao City, the alliance's largest city and headquarters.
• Lei Dong arrived near Heavenly Dao City, descended toward its gate, and saw a young monk from Vajra Temple land before him.

Lei Dong fought a powerful Vajra Temple war monk at the city gate, but a Heavenly Sword Sect elder intervened before either could win. After the monk departed, Li Yijian asked Lei Dong how the fight had started.

• Lei Dong and the Vajra Temple monk exchanged insults and battled, with the monk's strength overwhelming Lei Dong's two Ghost Guards at close range.
• Lei Dong summoned the Myriad Ghost Banner, and its Ghost Tide trapped the monk and let the Ghost Guards turn the fight around.
• The monk unleashed a blazing Maitreya Kasaya, and Lei Dong prepared to use the Nirvana Disc before Li Yijian's commanding voice stopped them.
• Lei Dong withdrew his ghosts, introduced himself to Li Yijian, and mentioned that his master, Myriad Ghost Ancestor, had reached the Golden Core Mid Stage.
• The monk left while Lei Dong and Li Yijian spoke, and Li Yijian identified him as a Vajra Temple Battle Hall war monk and asked how the fight began.

Li Yijian brought Lei Dong to the Heavenly Dao Alliance's main hall to qualify him for the Inner Devil Hall, where Lei Dong met the Alliance Leader and several young sect representatives. The chapter left him facing a flirtatious disciple of the Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect as the other representatives sized him up.

• Li Yijian explained that Lei Dong could enter the Inner Devil Hall if his identity, age, and cultivation met the requirements, then escorted him into Heavenly Dao City.
• Li Yijian introduced Lei Dong to Alliance Leader Canglanzi, who recognized Lei Dong as the Yin Sha Sect's representative and invited him to sit.
• Lei Dong noticed four young representatives from the Carefree Dao, Langya Mountain, the Demon Prison Sect, and the Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect.
• The Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect's young woman secretly tried a Charm Technique on Lei Dong, but he remained unaffected and she invited him to sit beside her.

Lei Dong took a seat beside Qi Feifei and learned about the backgrounds and rivalries of the other young disciples gathered for the Inner Devil Hall. After trading barbs with Jie Chen, he watched as Tantai Bingyun and Wu Peng arrived.

• Lei Dong accepted Qi Feifei’s invitation to sit beside her and made small talk to seek a potential ally.
• Wang Hui asked about the Yin Sha Sect’s Twin Yin Sha Heroes, and Xi Donglai mocked their reputation before Wang Hui reminded him of Tantai Bingyun.
• Qi Feifei introduced Lei Dong to Wang Hui, Xi Donglai, and Li Huntian and explained their backgrounds.
• Li Yijian and the Alliance Leader noticed Lei Dong’s keen divine sense and reconsidered letting him join them.
• Jie Chen arrived, exchanged insults with Lei Dong, and drew a warning from Qi Feifei about his combative nature.
• Tantai Bingyun of Tianyin Palace and Wu Peng of Asura Heaven arrived, drawing everyone’s attention.

Wu Peng and Tantai Bingyun arrived at the Heavenly Dao Alliance gathering, where Tantai Bingyun asked why Ding Wanyan had not come and revealed that they had fought before. Lei Dong learned that he had been given an Alliance spot in the Inner Devil Hall and agreed to help its representative obtain a Heart Cleansing Fruit, while considering securing another for Ding Wanyan.

• Wu Peng and Tantai Bingyun entered and paid their respects to Canglanzi, while the gathered sect disciples reacted to Tantai Bingyun’s formidable presence.
• Tantai Bingyun recognized Lei Dong as a disciple of the Yin Sha Sect and asked why Ding Wanyan had not come, explaining that she had fought her several times.
• Canglanzi clarified that Lei Dong was using one of the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s two spots in the Inner Devil Hall, and Li Yijian explained the entry limits and Lei Dong’s task.
• Li Yijian told Lei Dong that the Inner Devil Hall’s changing towers held ten Heart Cleansing Fruits, and that Lei Dong needed to help the Alliance’s weaker representative obtain one first.
• After learning the fruit could strengthen the soul and help break through a bottleneck, Lei Dong considered obtaining one for Ding Wanyan as well.

Lei Dong recruited Dongfang Fu to help his group secure Heart Cleansing Fruits during the Inner Devil Hall expedition. As their plan took shape, Tantai Bingyun asked Lei Dong whether he was also from the Myriad Ghost Cave.

• Canglanzi welcomed Dongfang Fu, who had arrived as the Yin Sha Sect's representative and impressed the gathering with her fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Dongfang Fu recognized Lei Dong, praised his progress, and sat beside him after he invited her over.
• Lei Dong asked Dongfang Fu to help him obtain a Heart Cleansing Fruit, and she readily agreed to secure one for him.
• Lei Dong persuaded Dongfang Fu to team up with him, Qi Feifei, and a Heavenly Dao Alliance disciple to claim five fruits by targeting Jie Chen, Wu Peng, and Xi Donglai.
• Tantai Bingyun asked Lei Dong if he was from the Myriad Ghost Cave too.