Chapter Summaries

Third Senior Sister rescued Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, killed the Demon Realm cultivators who had attacked them, and opened the Suanni's secret realm as a meeting gift. She revealed that she herself had defeated the Suanni who left behind the White Jade Plate.

• Third Senior Sister killed the Spirit Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators who had attacked Lu Yang, while the weaker demons fled.
• Third Senior Sister praised Lu Yang's cultivation and ancient-history knowledge, then teased Meng Jingzhou about his unusual cultivation.
• Third Senior Sister offered to take Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou into the secret realm as a meeting gift and explained the Suanni's history and the White Jade Plate.
• Third Senior Sister used the White Jade Plate to open the secret realm, then revealed that she had killed the Suanni herself.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou followed Third Senior Sister into a Suanni secret realm and took its inheritance before fleeing an ambush by Body Integration Realm cultivators. Third Senior Sister escaped the encirclement using a mirage illusion and the lesson Daoist Speechless had taught her.

• Third Senior Sister recounted how she killed a Suanni prodigy in the Demon Domain and later had Eldest Senior Sister drive the Suanni Clan back.
• Third Senior Sister led Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou through the sandstorm with Wind-Fixing Pearls and explained that she had trained her senses after encountering the mist.
• The trio reached a stone chamber, where Third Senior Sister smashed two Suanni statues, assembled their key, and opened the chamber.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou found the Suanni's treasures, including Wood-White Gold Jade, a purchase receipt, and an IOU, then collected the inheritance with their identity jade tokens.
• Several Body Integration Realm cultivators attacked the trio outside the secret realm, but Third Senior Sister revealed the beast hide was a mirage illusion and escaped the encirclement.

Third Senior Sister escaped the Demon Race pursuers with Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, then sheltered them in an old hideout. While sorting the secret-realm treasures, Lu Yang uncovered an immortal’s secret technique and identified its true creator and purpose.

• Third Senior Sister outmaneuvered the Body Integration Realm pursuers and carried the unconscious Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to her hideout.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou woke, recovered by the fire, and began dividing the treasures they had gathered in the secret realm.
• Lu Yang burned the harmful dual cultivation manuals and revealed a golden cultivation manual hidden inside them.
• Lu Yang read the ancient writing and identified the secret technique as a virility technique made for the Qilin Immortal by his two wives.
• Lu Yang explained that the Qilin Immortal was the Demon Immortal, a qilin who had a Dragon Race wife and a Phoenix Race wife, surprising Third Senior Sister.

Third Senior Sister revealed that the famous battle of the Demon Immortal and the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors was actually the Qilin Immortal fighting two opponents while the sun and moon fled. Lu Yang gave Meng Jingzhou a weakened Suanni spirit essence, which awakened his lion’s roar and left him wary of gaining a dragon’s lustful nature.

• Third Senior Sister told Lu Yang that the Qilin Immortal had defeated the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors after the Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit fled with the sun and moon.
• Lu Yang insisted that his account was official history, then decided to keep an immortal-grade virility art for later exchange at the Scripture Depository.
• Third Senior Sister identified a weakened Suanni spirit essence and explained that Meng Jingzhou could absorb it to awaken bloodline traits.
• Lu Yang gave the spirit essence to Meng Jingzhou, who absorbed it and unleashed a golden-eyed lion’s roar.
• Third Senior Sister said Meng Jingzhou might gain dragon traits, including a dragon’s lustful nature, and Meng Jingzhou feared the consequences.

Third Senior Sister explained that the world consisted of six continents forming an immense, sealed cube, and Lu Yang descended through the ground to verify the claim. After five days, he reached the continent’s bottom, where Shrinking the Earth to an Inch could go no farther.

• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou searched the slain Suanni’s belongings and found Infant Transformation Pills and Divine Concentration Pills.
• Third Senior Sister explained how the Suanni gathered followers and told Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou about the world’s hidden structure.
• Third Senior Sister revealed that six continents, including the spiritless lid-like Spiritless Continent, formed a cube built by the Ancient Nameless One to lock everyone inside.
• Lu Yang used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch to descend underground, resting and replenishing his spiritual energy with Great Restoration Pills along the way.
• After five days and twenty rests, Lu Yang reached the bottom of the continent and could descend no farther.

At the continent’s bottom, Lu Yang and the Indestructible Fairy discovered a barrier created by the Four Immortals of Ancient Times and worked out how it could be broken. The Fairy concluded that the Nameless One from Ancient Times was the four immortals acting together to trap the world after her death, and they prepared to break the barrier.

• Lu Yang followed the Indestructible Fairy to the continent’s bottom, where she examined the barrier while keeping him from seeing it directly.
• The Indestructible Fairy identified the Years, Survival of the Fittest, Yin-Yang, and Tribulation-Answering Dao Fruits woven into two layers of the barrier.
• Lu Yang and the Indestructible Fairy concluded that the Four Immortals of Ancient Times were the Nameless One who had refined the stars into a continent.
• The Indestructible Fairy explained that breaking the barrier required uninterrupted, varied immortal-level attacks, and that all five ancient immortals had to work together.
• Lu Yang inferred that the four immortals had made the cage after the Indestructible Fairy’s death to force her killer to resurrect her or leave everyone trapped.

After uncovering the ancient immortals’ prison, Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal returned to the surface, where the Third Senior Sister prepared to lead Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to her hideout near the Taotie clan. The group left her concealed underground refuge and headed toward a Taotie branch settlement.

• The Everlasting Immortal suggested that Lu Yang master the Dao Fruit of Time to replace the missing Immortal of Time, and Lu Yang struggled for thirteen days to swim back to the surface through the continent’s gravity.
• Lu Yang reunited with Meng Jingzhou and the Third Senior Sister, who confirmed that the threatening outsiders had left.
• The Third Senior Sister led Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou out of her hidden underground refuge through a puddle entrance, explaining that Daoist Buyan had taught her to hide.
• The Third Senior Sister said they were heading to her second hideout near the Taotie clan and gave Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou invisibility talismans for passing a branch settlement.
• Meng Jingzhou wondered whether the yao beast they had killed before was a hybrid Taotie, and Lu Yang confirmed that it had carried Taotie blood.

Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and the third senior sister infiltrated the heavily guarded Qiuqi Clan and reached its ancient tombs, where they discovered an enormous statue that seemed to be watching them. The Everlasting Immortal explained that the sensation came from a formation, not a living ancient Qiuqi.

• Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal discussed a young mixed-blood Qiuqi’s chances of purifying his bloodline and becoming a pureblood.
• The third senior sister led Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou through the Qiuqi Clan’s defenses during a brief gap in its protective formation.
• The group heard that a powerful visitor had arrived and continued into the wilderness toward the Qiuqi Clan’s tombs.
• The third senior sister brought Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou past a Body Integration Realm guardian and showed them a colossal Qiuqi statue above the tomb.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou felt watched by the statue, and the third senior sister shared the legend that it might be an ancient Qiuqi that had turned to stone.
• The Everlasting Immortal explained that a formation devised by the Heaven-Appointing Immortal created the sensation of being watched.

Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister entered the Qiongqi Tomb, where Third Senior Sister explained the legends surrounding the ancient Qiongqi and led them to a hidden trap chamber to rest. After waking, they set out for the main tomb to examine the ancient Qiongqi’s coffin.

• Third Senior Sister explained that the Qiongqi Race believed its ancient ancestor slept beneath the tomb, while Lu Yang privately blamed the Celestial for creating the legend with a grand formation.
• The three entered the tomb, where Third Senior Sister described its murals and the ancient Qiongqi’s words about death and the lives of its descendants.
• Third Senior Sister led Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou through the maze to a hidden chamber used to control the tomb’s traps.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou rested for three hours while Third Senior Sister wrote about their experiences for the ninth volume of Travels in the Demon Realm.
• After Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou woke, Third Senior Sister led them toward the main tomb, where the ancient Qiongqi’s coffin was said to be.

Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister explored the ancient Qiongqi’s tomb, where the Undying Fairy explained the origins of its treasures and confirmed that the Qiongqi had died of old age. Third Senior Sister observed the tomb’s proper courtesies and lifted a decorated pottery jar whose designs puzzled her.

• Third Senior Sister and the Undying Fairy gave conflicting explanations of the tomb’s Kunlun Grass, Qiongqi Feather, and Mount Buzhou essence.
• The Undying Fairy inspected the Netherwood coffin and confirmed that the ancient Qiongqi had died naturally of old age.
• Lu Yang found Meng Potian’s inscription on the wall, and Meng Jingzhou admitted that the writer was his father.
• Third Senior Sister explained that the Qiongqi Race had once borrowed money from the Meng Household and repaid the debt fifty years earlier.
• Third Senior Sister bowed to the deceased Qiongqi, then lifted a decorated pottery jar and asked Lu Yang to examine it.

On her eighth day in Zombie City, the narrator reflected on its rational zombies and the powerful Corpse King she had come to investigate. She sensed something moving in the villa basement and decided to check it out.

• The narrator noted that she controlled the zombies in Zombie City and was surprised that rational zombies made up one percent of the population.
• She recalled reports that the city's Corpse King could carry an elephant and toss it into the air, while no one knew the limits of its strength.
• The narrator wondered whether her ability would work on the Corpse King and feared the zombie planet's will might be luring her into a trap.
• The narrator heard or sensed movement in the villa basement and decided to investigate, taking a day off.

Lu Yang and Third Senior Sister examined Qiongqi burial paintings that revealed the Ancient Four Immortals battling a mysterious immortal while protecting planets. The Everlasting Fairy explained the real story behind another painting, leaving Lu Yang wondering what happened to Qiongqi’s daughter.

• Third Senior Sister identified four figures in a burial painting as the Ancient Four Immortals, and Lu Yang privately recognized their opponent as the immortal who had assassinated the Everlasting Fairy.
• Lu Yang pointed out protective barriers around planets in the painting, prompting Third Senior Sister to reconsider whether the Ancient Four Immortals had cared about other living beings.
• Lu Yang wondered how the Ancient Four Immortals’ apparent protection of the stars fit historical accounts of the stars being refined into continents, and recalled the unexplained Torchfire Dynasty.
• Meng Jingzhou called Lu Yang over to a painting of a Qiongqi and a true dragon, and Third Senior Sister explained its Buddhist legend about a Buddha subduing dragons and tigers.
• The Everlasting Fairy revealed that the painting was based on a fight between Qiongqi’s daughter and a dragon-clan prodigy over Qilin Immortal, and that the immortals later reshaped the incident into a Buddhist tale.
• The Everlasting Fairy wondered why Qiongqi’s daughter was not buried with her, while Lu Yang worried that revealing Qilin Immortal’s infidelity could put him in danger.

Lu Yang and his companions hid in the Qiongqi tomb as Chief Jin met a Dijiang envoy who demanded the Qiongqi clan submit to the Dijiang’s ancient ancestor. Chief Jin activated a feather from the ancient Qiongqi, bringing its immense projection face-to-face with the ancient Dijiang.

• The Undying Fairy warned Lu Yang that someone had entered the tomb, so he and his companions hid in the mechanism room.
• Chief Jin brought a Dijiang envoy to the tomb and explained that the Dijiang clan sought to unify the Demon Domain and establish a demon nation.
• The envoy revealed a bone token displaying the Dijiang’s submitted Demon Emperors and used its pressure to demand Chief Jin accept a servant seal.
• The Undying Fairy identified the ancient Dijiang’s embryonic Dao Fruit, which let him control those weaker than himself.
• Chief Jin activated a feather from the ancient Qiongqi, whose enormous projection appeared in the tomb and addressed the ancient Dijiang.

Ancient Di Jiang’s attempt to bring the Qiongqi clan into the Demon Territory’s unification ended when Ancient Qiongqi’s remnant defeated him and forced him to withdraw. Clan Leader Jin then discovered Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister hiding in the tomb and invited them out as guests.

• Ancient Qiongqi’s remnant attacked Ancient Di Jiang through the token, destroying the demon emperors’ traces and ending Di Jiang’s control over the Qiongqi clan.
• Ancient Di Jiang called the clash a friendly visit and withdrew, while the Undying Fairy explained that he could no longer control the Qiongqi clan.
• Clan Leader Jin expelled the Di Jiang clan envoy, and Third Senior Sister reported the Demon Territory upheaval to Eldest Senior Sister.
• Lu Yang told Eldest Senior Sister that Ancient Di Jiang could not withstand a Half-Immortal blowing themselves up ten times, and she decided there was no need to act.
• Clan Leader Jin found Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister in the mechanism room and invited them outside, hoping to stay on good terms with the Meng family.

Chief Jin recognized Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou and warmly hosted them because of Meng Jingzhou’s family ties to the Qiongqi. After securing promises of a delayed repayment and a possible new loan, he sent the three travelers off, hoping they would report Emperor Jiang’s history to Great Xia.

• Chief Jin revealed that he knew Lu Yang was Daoist Buyu’s disciple and had identified Meng Jingzhou through his family portrait.
• Chief Jin welcomed Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister into his cabin and asked Meng Jingzhou to call him Uncle Jin.
• Chief Jin gave Meng Jingzhou an IOU and persuaded him to ask his family to delay repayment for two years without interest.
• Chief Jin asked Meng Jingzhou to seek another loan for the Qiongqi, and Meng Jingzhou agreed to raise the request with his family.
• Chief Jin hosted the three for two days, then let them leave so they could tell Great Xia about Emperor Jiang’s unification of the Demon Domain.
• The Undying Fairy woke in a tree and joked that the Qiongqi should have renamed themselves Wangcai or Fugui.

The Qiongqi Race’s Little Ancestor prepared for the coming Great Era while Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Third Senior Sister checked whether their identities had been exposed. News then spread that the ancient Di Jiang had united hundreds of tribes and was preparing to become Demon Emperor, drawing invitations to the ceremony for the world’s major powers.

• The Qiongqi Race’s Little Ancestor told Patriarch Jin and the living fossil to focus on raising their cultivation before the Great Era.
• Meng Jingzhou spread misleading rumors in the Black Market, while Lu Yang reported that the Bai Ze Race had only guesses about their identities and whereabouts.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had advanced from Golden Core Eighth Heaven to Golden Core Ninth Heaven and were half a step from Nascent Soul.
• The ancient Di Jiang united hundreds of large tribes, established a demon kingdom, and accepted their request to become Demon Emperor.
• The ancient Di Jiang invited the major powers, including the Qiongqi Race, Great Xia, the Five Great Immortal Sects, and the Buddhist Kingdom, to his enthronement ceremony.
• The Immortal Fairy estimated that controlling so many powerful tribes could make the ancient Di Jiang one of the strongest half-immortals.

The ancient Di Jiang prepared to establish a demon kingdom and invited major powers to witness it, while the Heavenly Court Sect’s Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou traveled through the Demon Realm with Third Senior Sister. They headed for the Ancient Realm of Fortune, where their pure blood allowed them to enter.

• The ancient Di Jiang learned that invitations had gone out to the major powers and dismissed the Heavenly Court Sect and Dou Tianzun as fabricated, then ordered the Di Jiang Clan Chief to bring him someone at the Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Emperor Xia and the Five Great Immortal Sects decided to attend the founding but let the ancient Di Jiang unify the Demon Realm without interference.
• The Golden Buddha Kingdom planned to choose an envoy by lot, while the Old Dragon Emperor decided to send young dragons to visit their kin and ask about their ancient ancestor.
• Mu Baiyi learned of the founding and had Shi Huagu ask Lu Yang what the Heavenly Court Sect thought; Lu Yang replied that he was already in the Demon Realm.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou explained the Heavenly Court Sect to Third Senior Sister, then set out for the Ancient Realm of Fortune, which admitted pure-blooded entrants.

Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and the Undying Fairy arrived at the Ancient Realm of Fortune and observed the Demon Domain's gathered prodigies. As the clans awaited the realm's opening, the Undying Fairy told Lu Yang how an ancient Nine-Tailed Fox's supposed beauty inspired a famous legend.

• Lu Yang asked the Undying Fairy about the Ancient Realm of Fortune, and she said its description resembled secret realms she remembered under other names.
• Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and the Undying Fairy reached the entrance and saw prodigies from the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, including Ao Yue and Jiang Shishi, along with Jiang Shan.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou recognized prodigies from several other clans, including Su Lian'er of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, while the Undying Fairy commented on her ancient ancestor.
• The Undying Fairy explained that the legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox making fish sink, geese fall, the moon hide, and flowers blush came from a battle with the Sky Dog.
• When Lu Yang asked whether she had studied dignity with Immortal Responding Heaven, the Undying Fairy defended herself as the foremost of the Five Immortals of Antiquity while appearing in animal skins and a grass skirt.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou formed an alliance with the Phoenix Clan before entering the Ancient Fortune Realm. Outside the realm, Third Senior Sister staged a wounded return and accused the Qiongqi Clan of betraying her and ordering her assassination.

• Lu Yang suggested finding allies, and Third Senior Sister proposed working with the Phoenix Clan because they had kept her identity secret.
• Third Senior Sister introduced Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to Jiang Shishi, Jiang Shan, and the Phoenix Clan elder, who agreed to an alliance.
• Qin Feng confronted Jiang Shishi and warned Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou before leaving with his Dao Protector.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou entered the Ancient Fortune Realm with Jiang Shishi while Third Senior Sister remained outside.
• Third Senior Sister returned gravely wounded and accused the Qiongqi Clan of sending assassins after she had uncovered the secrets of various clans' ancient tombs.

Third Senior Sister escaped after framing the Jiuying Clan to clear the Qiongqi Clan’s name and stir conflict among the clans. Inside the Ancient Fortune Realm, Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Jiang Shishi began the first trial and discovered that its Nascent Soul Realm beasts posed little challenge to them.

• Third Senior Sister accused the Qiongqi Clan and then the Jiuying Clan of hiring her to investigate the clans, before escaping with a beast hide as the elders pursued her.
• Third Senior Sister admitted to the Phoenix Clan elder that she had falsely implicated the Jiuying Clan alongside the Qiongqi Clan elder, hoping to provoke discord among the clans.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou learned that entrants had ten days to collect spirit essences from Nascent Soul Realm beasts, while reaching the second level required enough essences and the first-level trials to end.
• Jiang Shishi invited Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to team up, and they entered the forest to test the beasts’ strength.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou quickly killed a White-Armed Giant Ape, then decided they could put their plan into action.