Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen compelled the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain’s human and demon forces to join his campaign against the Demon Calamity, then led their assembled fleet toward the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern. Along the way, the Crimson Flame Sect’s sect master offered him spirit fruits and discovered that Zhang Xuanchen’s spirit tea loosened his cultivation bottleneck.

• Zhang Xuanchen demanded that the Yao Sect leaders and Qingming True Lord commit their forces to fighting the devils, and they agreed to follow the Zhang Clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered the region’s fighters to assemble at Jade Wave Lake in two months and explained that the Demon Calamity would keep returning as secret realms merged with the Xuanqiong Realm.
• Two months later, Zhang Xuanchen led hundreds of flying boats carrying human and demon forces toward the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern.
• The Crimson Flame Sect’s sect master presented Zhang Xuanchen with three Blazing Sun Spirit Fruits, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted them and served him spirit tea.
• The Crimson Flame Sect’s sect master realized the fourth-grade spirit tea had loosened his late Golden Core bottleneck and returned to his boat, telling an elder that Zhang Xuanchen’s acceptance was already an honor.

Zhang Xuanchen led the Alliance army toward the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern, while Li Juechuan and Su Hongling joined forces to prepare a defense. The armies met at a distance, where Li Juechuan mocked Zhang Xuanchen’s claimed cultivation, but Su Hongling remained wary of him.

• Zhang Xuanchen accepted gifts from allied factions and taught Zhang Deyun that kindness did not mean letting others take him for granted.
• Over the following months, factions joined Zhang Xuanchen’s northbound Alliance army, while he ignored two new pieces of immortal fate information to focus on eradicating the devils.
• Li Juechuan learned the Alliance was approaching and sent Li Xie to request reinforcements from Su Hongling of the Blood Night Demon Cult.
• Su Hongling agreed to reinforce the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern, and both leaders prepared their forces, formations, and demon artifacts for battle.
• Zhang Xuanchen halted the Alliance army ten thousand li from the cavern, where the opposing forces’ spiritual qi and demon qi collided.
• Li Juechuan mocked Zhang Xuanchen as a mere Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator, while Su Hongling suspected he might be concealing his true cultivation.

Zhang Xuanchen used the Starry Tower to suppress the Demon Cult leaders and launched an attack against Li Juechuan and Su Hongling. He wounded both of them, while Xuanjing foiled Su Hongling’s soul attack, and Zhang Xuanchen pressed forward.

• Zhang Xuanchen activated the Starry Tower, enclosing the battlefield and weakening the Demon Cult’s Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Zhang Xuanchen charged Li Juechuan and Su Hongling, using his dragon physique and sword techniques to destroy hundreds of souls from Li Juechuan’s banner and tear through Su Hongling’s Blood Cloud Demon Veil.
• Li Juechuan summoned a six-armed demon and struck Zhang Xuanchen, but Zhang Xuanchen’s Azure Dragon Splits the Sky wounded Li Juechuan and shattered his armor.
• Su Hongling attacked Zhang Xuanchen from behind with a soul-striking bone sword, but Xuanjing and the Three Lives Samsara Mirror destroyed her possessing demon infant.
• Zhang Xuanchen struck Su Hongling with the Blood Dragon Sea-Suppressing Palm, seriously wounding her, then advanced on both Demon Cult leaders.

The Alliance army held the advantage against the Devil Race forces as Zhang Xuanchen battled Li Juechuan and Su Hongling. Desperate to turn the tide, the two demonic leaders activated Origin Burning and unleashed their full power.

• Little Flame fought Hei Chuanwu and two other demonic cultivators, killing one with his Dragon Clan Battle Arts.
• Zhang Chongxian, Qingming True Lord, Azure Lion of the Yao Sect, and Golden Roc of the Yao Sect fought demonic opponents while the Nascent Soul battlefield favored the Alliance.
• Zhang Guangyao, Zhang Guangli, and Zhang Debiao led the Zhang Family cultivators in the brutal ground battle against the Demon Servants.
• Li Juechuan and Su Hongling realized that Zhang Xuanchen might defeat them and decided to kill him before their Demon Servant army was wiped out.
• Li Juechuan and Su Hongling activated Origin Burning, sacrificing their essence and igniting their demonic powers to make their auras surge severalfold.

Zhang Xuanchen fought Li Juechuan and Su Hongling with his life on the line, then used the Three Lives Samsara Mirror to unleash the Samsara Tribulation Light and kill them. As they vanished, they warned that the Devil Race would still invade the Xuanqiong Realm.

• Li Juechuan burned his blood essence to empower the Demon Soul Banner while Su Hongling attacked Zhang Xuanchen with her Blood Moon technique, and Zhang countered with Dragon Emperor Annihilation.
• Li Juechuan's arm was broken by Zhang Xuanchen, and Su Hongling cut Zhang's chest before he stabbed her through the chest with the Falling Star Longsword.
• Su Hongling urged Zhang Xuanchen to join the Devil Race, but he refused and summoned the Three Lives Samsara Mirror as his enemies neared their limits.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed the Law of Samsara and stopped Li Juechuan and Su Hongling from escaping with the Holy Demon Escape Technique.
• Zhang Xuanchen's Samsara Tribulation Light destroyed the Demon Soul Banner and Blood Cloud Demon Veil, aged Li Juechuan and Su Hongling to death, and made them vanish after they warned of the Devil Race's coming invasion.

After Zhang Xuanchen killed Li Juechuan and Su Hongling with the law of samsara, Hei Chuanwu devoured his fellow demons and forced a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation. He led the survivors in shattering the Star Boundary and escaped, while Zhang Xuanchen collapsed from exhaustion and Zhang Chongxian came to his aid.

• Zhang Xuanchen watched Li Juechuan and Su Hongling perish, and Qingming True Lord and the Yao Sect masters realized he had wielded the law of samsara.
• Hei Chuanwu impaled three wounded Nascent Soul demonized cultivators and used the Demon-Devouring Secret Art to force himself into the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Hei Chuanwu ordered the remaining Devil Race cultivators to focus their attacks on one point of the Star Boundary, and Zhang Chongxian and the others tried to stop them.
• The Star Boundary shattered after Zhang Xuanchen exhausted his spiritual power, and Hei Chuanwu fled as Little Flame, Qingming True Lord, and the Yao Sect masters pursued him.
• Zhang Chongxian stayed behind to catch the weakened Zhang Xuanchen, who ate an Azurewood Rejuvenation Fruit and offered another to him.

Zhang Xuanchen led the Alliance Army to destroy the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and defeat the Blood Night Demon Cult, though the victory cost roughly one hundred thousand lives. He honored the fallen, urged the factions to protect the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain, and announced his Daoist title, Venerable Blazing Firmament, before sending the army home.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian recovered from their wounds after Zhang Xuanchen shared a spirit fruit, and Zhang Xuanchen said he had brought back thousands of seed varieties for the Lineage.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Alliance Army to pursue the fleeing Devil Race forces, and Wuxin and the Zhang Family cultivators led the slaughter of the retreating enemy.
• The Alliance Army routed more than three hundred thousand demonized creatures and demon servants, while roughly one hundred thousand fighters fell in the three-day battle.
• Zhang Xuanchen credited the victory to the Alliance Army, honored those killed, and told the factions to record the dead and compensate their families.
• Zhang Xuanchen announced that his Spirit Transformation Daoist title was Venerable Blazing Firmament and that he would hold no Spirit Transformation Ceremony.
• Zhang Xuanchen told the army to return, saying the large-scale demon calamity had been resolved for the time being.

After the Alliance Army defeated the devils, Zhang Xuanchen sent the other factions home and rejected Hu Nuannuan’s attempt to persuade him to attack the Ancient Forest and the Cloudmist Continent. He mourned the Zhang Family’s losses, then prepared to inspect the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and head for the Blood Night Demon Cult.

• Qingming True Lord thanked Zhang Xuanchen and announced that the Nine Splendor Sword Sect would relinquish its position as overlord of the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain.
• Hu Nuannuan urged Zhang Xuanchen to confront the Ancient Forest and the Cloudmist Continent for withholding aid, but he rebuked her and told the factions to leave.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Little Flame that he would delay confronting the two powers until his injuries healed and Hei Chuanwu’s next move became clear.
• Zhang Xuanbing reported that over six hundred Zhang Family members had died, and Zhang Xuanchen ordered their names recorded and their bodies brought home.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Little Flame and Zhang Chongxian to inspect the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern before going to the Blood Night Demon Cult.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions searched the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern, killed its demonic creatures, and destroyed the cavern before continuing toward the Blood Night Demon Cult. As they traveled, Zhang Xuanchen remembered a fortuitous opportunity in the Ten Thousand Bones Sand Ruins, and Xuanjing identified it as the Mirage Crystal.

• Zhang Xuanchen, Zhang Chongxian, and Little Flame entered the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and collected demonic herbs, pills, and cultivation techniques.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Zhang Chongxian, and Little Flame killed the hidden demonized creatures they encountered in the cavern.
• Zhang Xuanchen collapsed the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and burned away the remaining demon qi.
• Zhang Xuanbing reported that the search recovered all the bodies they could find, though over a hundred remained missing, and Zhang Xuanchen silently reviewed the casualty list.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Mystic Firmament Warship to head for the Blood Night Demon Cult, then asked Xuanjing about a fortuitous opportunity they had sensed decades earlier.
• Xuanjing recognized the opportunity as the Mirage Crystal.

Zhang Xuanchen retrieved the Mirage Crystal from the Ten Thousand Bones Sand Ruins, then found the Blood Night Demon Cult abandoned and returned toward Xuanxiao Mountain. In Lingxiao Immortal City, Zhang Dexiao proposed to Ni Xin'er, accepted her revelation that she was a special heaven-earth spirit connected to the Demon Race, and said he believed his father would approve their marriage.

• Xuanjing guided Zhang Xuanchen to the Mirage Crystal's location, and Zhang Xuanchen retrieved it from beneath a sand dune.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions found the Blood Night Demon Cult deserted, and Little Flame burned its remaining halls before they headed back to the clan.
• Zhang Dexiao asked Ni Xin'er to marry him while they strolled through Lingxiao Immortal City.
• Ni Xin'er told Zhang Dexiao she was a demon, and he carried her to a secluded grove to reassure her that he would marry her anyway.
• Ni Xin'er explained that she had fused with the blood essence of the deceased Three-Eyed Luni Huang and had been raised by the Beast King of the Azure Nether Mountain Range.
• Zhang Dexiao said his father would accept Ni Xin'er as long as she harbored no ill will toward the Zhang Family.

Zhang Dexiao brought Ni Xin'er to the Zhang Family Mountain Gate and introduced her as his future wife. There, Jun Xiaoyao fooled Zhang Dexiao with a fake claim that he was a hidden Tribulation Crossing Emperor Venerable, then congratulated the couple without revealing that he knew Ni Xin'er's true origins.

• Ni Xin'er reassured Zhang Dexiao that she bore no ill will toward the Zhang Family, and he invited her to meet his mother.
• Zhang Dexiao and Ni Xin'er arrived at the Zhang Family Mountain Gate, where Zhang Dexiao tried to sneak up on Li Xiao as a prank.
• Jun Xiaoyao noticed Zhang Dexiao and pretended to be a hidden expert offering to take him as a disciple in exchange for food and drink.
• Zhang Dexiao rejected Jun Xiaoyao's story and introduced Ni Xin'er as his future wife.
• Jun Xiaoyao recognized Ni Xin'er's origins but kept them secret and congratulated the couple.

Zhang Dexiao brought Ni Xin'er to meet Luo Lingshuang and told her he wanted to marry her, but Luo Lingshuang waited for Zhang Xuanchen to return before approving. Four months later, Zhang Xuanchen and the battle-weary survivors returned to Xuanxiao Mountain, where he welcomed the Great Sage and Little Peach and arranged support for those who had fought.

• Zhang Dexiao introduced Ni Xin'er to Luo Lingshuang and said he wanted to marry her, while Luo Lingshuang welcomed Ni Xin'er but deferred her approval until Zhang Xuanchen returned.
• Four months later, Zhang Xuanchen arrived at Xuanxiao Mountain aboard the Mystic Firmament Warship with Zhang Chongxian, Little Flame, Zhang Xuanbing, Wuxin, and the returning survivors.
• The Great Sage and Little Peach confronted Zhang Xuanchen for leaving them behind, and Zhang Xuanchen promised to take them to the Ancient Forest and the Cloudmist Continent after he recovered.
• The Great Sage challenged Little Flame to a spar, and the two left together to fight.
• Zhang Xuanchen granted double mission points to battle participants, doubled compensation for the dead, assigned their points to their children, and promised to cover the wounded's medicine costs.

Zhang Xuanchen welcomed Ni Xin'er as Zhang Dexiao's intended wife while warning them that she would have to obey the Zhang Family's rules. He postponed their marriage until Ni Xin'er could seek her father the Beast King's approval, and offered to negotiate peacefully.

• Zhang Xuanchen reunited with Luo Lingshuang, who told him Zhang Dexiao had brought home a daughter-in-law.
• Xuanjing revealed that Ni Xin'er was an extraordinary being with no current ill will toward the Zhang Family.
• Zhang Dexiao vouched for Ni Xin'er, and Zhang Xuanchen warned them that any breach of the clan rules would be punished.
• Zhang Xuanchen accepted their relationship but said they must wait until Ni Xin'er's father emerged from seclusion before marrying.
• Ni Xin'er agreed to persuade the Beast King, and Zhang Xuanchen offered to arrange peaceful negotiations if needed.

Zhang Xuanchen gave cultivation treasures to his parents and discussed his plans with Luo Lingshuang. He intended to wait two months before confronting the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent, then travel with Luo Lingshuang to the Central Land Immortal Continent without Zhang Dexiao or Zhang Deling.

• Luo Lingshuang welcomed Ni Xin'er as part of the family, and Zhang Dexiao and Ni Xin'er left Xuanxiao Mountain together.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Hongzhan and Lin Wanqing third-grade top-tier cultivation treasures suited to their needs.
• Zhang Xuanchen encouraged Zhang Deling to wait three to five years before attempting the Golden Core stage and promised her a gift before her breakthrough.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang he would wait two months for the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent to act before visiting them with Little Flame and the Great Sage.
• Zhang Xuanchen planned to visit Luo Lingshuang's father in the Central Land Immortal Continent after those matters were settled, and decided to leave Zhang Dexiao and Zhang Deling behind for safety.

A month after Zhang Xuanchen’s campaign made the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan the South Sea’s dominant power, Chu Tianxiong’s Feather Immortal Sect debated how to survive its old feud with the Zhang Family. When Purple Owl offered Chu a demonic path to Spirit Transformation in exchange for an alliance against Zhang Xuanchen, Chu rejected him and rallied the sect to attack.

• Li Wanwu urged Chu Tianxiong to send lavish gifts and apologize to the Zhang Family, warning that the Feather Immortal Sect could not withstand Zhang Xuanchen.
• Chu rejected the idea of begging for mercy and declared that he would seek Spirit Transformation so the sect could face the Zhang Family.
• Purple Owl appeared in the Main Hall and offered Chu a demonic cultivation art and help reaching Spirit Transformation if they allied against Zhang Xuanchen.
• Chu denounced Purple Owl and refused to join the devil race, declaring that cultivators had a duty to eradicate the demon calamity.
• Li Wanwu called on the sect to activate the Flying Immortal Sacred Sword Formation, and sword light gathered above the Main Hall to attack Purple Owl’s avatar.

Chu Tianxiong destroyed Purple Owl’s avatar and warned the Feather Immortal Sect against siding with the demonic path before preparing to leave in search of a breakthrough. A month later, Zhang Xuanchen decided to confront the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent for ignoring the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain’s sacrifices.

• Chu Tianxiong used the sect’s grand formation to destroy Purple Owl’s avatar, and Purple Owl warned that the Devil Race would descend and the Xuanqiong Realm would fall.
• Chu Tianxiong ordered the Feather Immortal Sect members to cultivate and oppose the demonic path, then told Luo Mingyu he would leave to seek a breakthrough and prepare disciples to escape if the sect fell.
• Chu Tianxiong warned Luo Mingyu not to provoke the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan while he was away, and Luo Mingyu promised to protect the sect.
• Two months after the battle, Zhang Xuanchen complained that the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent had offered no response or support, while Luo Lingshuang said Azure Lion and Hu Nuannuan were waiting for his command.
• Zhang Xuanchen decided to take people south to visit the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent.

Zhang Xuanchen left Zhang Detian and Zhang Chongxian to oversee the Zhang Clan, then set out to investigate the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent with his companions. He recruited Azure Lion and Hu Nuannuan along the way, while deciding not to take the Suanni Monster Core opportunity in Taihu Lake.

• Zhang Xuanchen entrusted the Zhang Clan's affairs to Zhang Detian and gave Zhang Chongxian a Mirage Crystal to establish a soul-tempering illusion formation.
• Zhang Xuanchen departed Xuanxiao Mountain with Little Flame, Great Sage, and Little Peach aboard the Mystic Firmament Warship, heading first to recruit Azure Lion and Hu Nuannuan.
• At Taihu Lake, Zhang Xuanchen learned that Tide-Scale Suanni possessed a seventh-tier upper grade Suanni Monster Core but chose not to seize it to preserve cooperation between humans and the Demon Race.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Azure Lion to investigate the Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent, and Azure Lion agreed to join him.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Hu Nuannuan to join the journey, and she boarded the warship before eagerly fawning over Little Flame.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions crossed the dangerous Endless Sea and reached the Ancient Forest, a mysterious land filled with ancient bloodlines and unfamiliar races. After passing through an invisible barrier, they entered the forest and discovered creatures known from the Starry Emperor Sovereign's books as demon beasts of the Spirit Realm.

• Little Flame told Hu Nuannuan she could become his concubine only after her bloodline evolved, and she offered to stay by his side as a maid.
• Six months later, the Mystic Firmament Warship reached the Endless Sea, where Azure Lion explained the dangers of crossing it and why land-dwelling demons rarely ventured to the Central Lands.
• After another two months, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions arrived at the Ancient Forest, and Hu Nuannuan recounted how a Yao Sect member had been warned away from its depths.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that a powerful being would sense anyone entering the forest, so Zhang Xuanchen passed through its invisible barrier without provoking a fight.
• Inside the forest, Zhang Xuanchen saw Crystal Butterfly Demons, Three-Headed Mountain-Moving Apes, and Water-Scaled Unicorns, which he recognized as demon beasts of the Spirit Realm.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions pushed deeper into the Ancient Forest, where they encountered and killed Devil Creatures before learning that Hei Chuanwu was fighting the Feather Clan. Zhang Xuanchen raced toward the battle, where Hei Chuanwu was taunting the Feather Clan leader Yu Lan’er.

• A massive tree tried to bar Zhang Xuanchen and his companions from entering, but Zhang Xuanchen threatened it and it withdrew.
• Zhang Xuanchen led the group to a demon-infested black mountain, where they destroyed its restrictions and killed ten Devil Creatures.
• The group traveled deeper into the Ancient Forest for half a month, noticing that its creatures watched them but did not attack.
• Xuanjing sensed the aftermath of a battle ahead and identified Hei Chuanwu, prompting Zhang Xuanchen to race toward him.
• Hei Chuanwu fought seven Feather Clan cultivators led by Yu Lan’er and taunted her as she pursued him.

Yu Lan'er and the Feather Clan fought Hei Chuanwu and Black Sea, but the demons nearly broke through their formation. Zhang Xuanchen arrived and unleashed a blazing sword strike at both enemies.

• Yu Lan'er and six Feather Clan experts attacked Hei Chuanwu and Black Sea while Black Sea held them off.
• Hei Chuanwu summoned ghost faces to assault the Feather Clan, so Yu Lan'er led the seven experts in forming the Seven Stars Returning to Origin Formation.
• The formation's divine bird wounded Black Sea and disrupted Hei Chuanwu's escape, but Hei Chuanwu and Black Sea powered up and attacked together.
• Zhang Xuanchen arrived, and Hei Chuanwu and Black Sea tried to break through the Feather Clan's defenses as Yu Lan'er blocked their path.
• Zhang Xuanchen activated his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body and struck at Hei Chuanwu and Black Sea with Blazing Flame Evil Vanquisher.