Chapter Summaries

You trained by hunting demons and feeding their souls to the Myriad Souls Banner, reaching the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering and earning the nickname Red Hair. When five rogue Martial Artists tried to rob you on the road, you summoned the banner’s Demon Souls to overwhelm them.

• You traveled across Dagan hunting demons, and the growing number of Demon Souls in the Myriad Souls Banner helped your cultivation advance.
• You sold demon materials for crystal stones and used them to buy pills, while deciding against working with the Monster Slaying Division because the banner might be exposed.
• You reached the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering and became known in Dagan’s southern region as Red-Haired Demon Slayer.
• You rode toward Shenbing Commandery to find a better body for the Myriad Souls Banner, but five rogue Martial Artists blocked the road and demanded your crystal stones and Storage Spirit Artifact.
• You summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and ordered its Demon Souls to attack the five robbers, who were terrified and helpless against them.

At forty, Red Hair reached Divine Soldier City hoping to have a low-grade version of the Myriad Souls Banner forged, but postponed the plan because he had too few crystal stones. The banner then proposed a Myriad Souls Infusion Formation to help him break through to the Soul Tempering Realm, leaving him determined to earn the resources he needed by killing demons.

• Red Hair stored crystal stones inside the Myriad Souls Banner, which argued that it had not stolen any when the amounts came up short.
• Red Hair arrived in Divine Soldier City and asked Feng Mo of Cangbing Pavilion to forge a Demon Subduing Banner from the banner's blueprint.
• Feng Mo warned that Artifact Refining could fail, so Red Hair left to save more crystal stones before paying for the work.
• Red Hair remained stuck at the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering despite studying the Green Flame Heart Technique.
• The Myriad Souls Banner described the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation, which required many Soul Bodies, a Formation Master, substantial crystal stones, and a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact body.
• Red Hair realized he would need to hire, not kidnap, a Formation Master and resolved to kill demons and sell their materials for crystal stones.

The Red-Haired Demon Slayer encountered two spirit monkeys outside Divine Soldier City, then found a tiger demon slaughtering a village. The tiger demon broke through to the Golden Body Realm during their fight, leaving him facing an opponent two realms above him.

• The Red-Haired Demon Slayer followed the scent of a supreme treasure to a waterfall and found a golden staff that a golden monkey claimed as his weapon.
• He met the golden-furred Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey and the timid red-furred Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, who had wiped out the demons in Shenbing Commandery.
• After leaving the commandery, he discovered a tiger demon massacring villagers and attacked it with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The tiger demon’s roar scattered many Demon Souls, so the Red-Haired Demon Slayer put the banner away and fought with his Flame Iron Heavy Sword and pure-yang techniques.
• The tiger demon broke through to the Golden Body Realm and threatened to swallow the Red-Haired Demon Slayer.

Chen Yi continued hunting demons and preparing a breakthrough, eventually having Mo Ye build a formation to help him enter Soul Tempering. The Myriad Souls Banner released more than three hundred Demon Souls into the formation, and Chen Yi braced for the painful process as it began.

• The Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey killed the Tiger Demon, then guided Chen Yi through the Heart Method until he mastered its circulation.
• Over the next five years, Chen Yi kept hunting demons and improving his Cultivation Methods while remaining at the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering.
• Chen Yi declined the Sudden Inspiration trait and had Cangbing Pavilion forge a high-tier Spiritual Artifact body for the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi asked Mo Ye to set up the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation, and Mo Ye eventually got it running after several failures.
• Chen Yi activated the formation as the Myriad Souls Banner released more than three hundred Demon Souls, and he prepared to endure the breakthrough.

Chen Yi endured a painful breakthrough into the Soul Tempering Realm and continued his cultivation journey. He headed toward the Eastern Wilderness in search of demon souls, then stopped in White Cloud County to visit Third Sister and see Dachun.

• Chen Yi’s simulated self survived the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation’s torment and reached the first tempering of the Soul Tempering Realm.
• Chen Yi learned how Soul Tempering worked and reflected that his new realm made him stronger than most rogue Martial Artists.
• At age 46, Chen Yi drew the Golden entry “Mortal Bone” and wondered what Divine Abilities were.
• Chen Yi equipped “Sudden Inspiration” and “Dragon Plays with Phoenix,” then resumed traveling and slaying demons to gather their souls.
• At age 47, Chen Yi headed for the Eastern Wilderness, dealt with demon calamities along the way, and gained renown as the Red-Haired Demon Slayer.
• Chen Yi passed through White Cloud County, Qingzhou, and decided to visit Third Sister and check on Dachun.

The Red-Haired Hero returned to White Cloud County, learned that Shen Qingshan had been taken into the sky, and found his Third Sister living in poverty in Fire Prosperity Village. The County Magistrate arrested the landlord’s enforcers, and Chen Yun reunited with her younger brother.

• The Red-Haired Hero visited Yuelai Inn, gave the proprietress money, and warned her to flee north if war broke out.
• The Red-Haired Hero learned that Third Sister no longer lived in her old courtyard and asked the County Magistrate to find her.
• The County Magistrate revealed that Shen Qingshan had been carried into the sky by two flying Martial Artists ten years earlier.
• The County Magistrate escorted the Red-Haired Hero to Fire Prosperity Village, where Landlord Zhang’s enforcers were beating Chen Yun and her daughter over unpaid rent.
• The County Magistrate ordered his constables to arrest the enforcers, then brought Chen Yun to the Red-Haired Hero, whom she recognized as her Fourth brother.

Shen Yi rescued Chen Yun and Shen Jia from Landlord Zhang’s abuse and learned that Shen Qingshan had been taken to the Primordial Shen Family in the Star Domain. The revelation that Shen Yi could also cultivate the family’s Zhengyang Art left him planning to investigate the opportunity in a future simulation.

• Shen Yi broke the limbs of Landlord Zhang’s thugs, and County Magistrate Chen agreed to send them to the Beggar Gang.
• Chen Yun explained how Landlord Zhang had driven her and Shen Jia into poverty and forced them into a leaking hut.
• County Magistrate Chen revealed that Landlord Zhang had powerful connections through his sister, a concubine in Prince De’s household.
• Chen Yun told Shen Yi that two Elders had taken Shen Qingshan to the Primordial Shen Family after recognizing his ability to cultivate the Zhengyang Art.
• Shen Yi realized that he could cultivate the Zhengyang Art too and considered intercepting Shen Qingshan in a future simulation.
• Shen Yi gave Chen Yun money to buy a new home in the county town, and she protested that she could not accept it.

Chen Yi journeyed into the Eastern Wilderness, where he hunted demons and advanced his cultivation with the Myriad Souls Banner. After a demon king lured him into an ambush, Chen Yi faced a vast host of demons and prepared to fight.

• A masked killer slaughtered everyone at Zhang Mansion and left a bloody message opposing land annexation and landlords.
• Chen Yun and her daughter bought a new home, and Chen Yi gave Shen Jia a Martial Dao cultivation method before heading east.
• Chen Yi crossed Cangqiong Ridge into the Eastern Wilderness and reached Soul Tempering, Third Tempering.
• Chen Yi hunted demons across the Eastern Wilderness, gathered many Demon Souls, and advanced to Soul Tempering, Fourth Tempering.
• The Golden-Haired Rat King and his forces ambushed Chen Yi in a valley, surrounding him with demons from every direction.
• Chen Yi unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner's Hundred Ghosts Night Parade and faced the enemy host with his fighting spirit raised.

Chen Yi fought a relentless Demon Race assault until a young man from the Wuji Sword Sect rescued him. The young man gave Chen Yi a jade token to summon help, leaving him with a powerful new source of support while hunting demons.

• Chen Yi battled waves of Demon Race members with the Myriad Souls Banner and Crimson Heart Fist, but the Golden-Haired Rat King’s forces wore him down and trapped him in the valley.
• A young man watched from the cliff as the Golden-Haired Rat King ordered a final assault against Chen Yi.
• The young man flew Chen Yi out of the valley on a treasured sword and brought him to a mountain peak.
• Chen Yi thanked the young man, who explained that he had spared the Demon Race to avoid breaking the Pact Between the Two Races.
• The young man gave Chen Yi a jade token that could summon nearby Wuji Sword Sect disciples for help.

At sixty, Chen Yi prepared to leave the Eastern Wilderness and search for an Earth Vein so the Myriad Souls Banner could help him break through to the Golden Body Realm. After sensing a supreme treasure, he saw powerful figures from across the world converging on it and decided to follow them.

• Simulated Chen Yi filled the Myriad Souls Banner with Demon Souls and reached the peak of the tenth Soul Tempering, but needed an Earth Vein to break through to the Golden Body Realm.
• At age sixty, Chen Yi drew the Green term “Three Swordmasters of the Bush” and considered returning to the Central Plains to sell his Demon Race materials and seek information.
• While grooming himself beside the water, Chen Yi caught the scent of a supreme treasure and followed it after making himself presentable.
• Chen Yi watched nine Dragon-horned beasts pull a golden carriage, a colossal bronze vessel fly overhead, and Martial Artists travel through the sky.
• Chen Yi realized experts from the Central Plains, Northern Territory, and Southern Border were rushing toward the treasure, and he decided to join the search.

As treasures burst from a mysterious central area, the protagonist raced to claim them but repeatedly lost them to a bald monk who claimed they were fated with Buddha. The monk explained that powerful artifacts gathered around a powerful member of the artifact race, then asked what the protagonist believed lay above Immortal Artifacts.

• An explosion hurled the protagonist into a Crocodile Demon, which he crushed before skinning it for a belt.
• The protagonist reached a fallen Bronze Ancient Sword, but a bald monk took it and disappeared.
• The protagonist rushed to claim a Jade Slip, but the monk took it, calling its contents a demonic Cultivation Method he had to destroy.
• The protagonist followed the monk as he collected overlooked treasures and learned that Spiritual Artifacts gathered around the strong.
• The monk asked whether the protagonist knew of Immortal Artifacts and what lay above them.

Chen Yi learned that the sealed Nine Provinces Cauldron was a Great Dao Immortal Artifact and that the factions planned to award it through a tournament for young Martial Artists. He stayed near the site, gathered intelligence and resources, and heard rumors that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts held the secret to immortality.

• Chen Yi learned from the monk that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was a sealed Great Dao Immortal Artifact, and he planned to seek it in a future simulation.
• After the seal was opened, the factions agreed to hold the Cauldron Summit Tournament and let disciples under twenty compete for the cauldron.
• At sixty-one, Chen Yi remained near the cauldron to gather information while factions built the tournament grounds and Martial Artists arrived from across the Five Domains.
• Chen Yi sold Demon Race materials, bought a Storage Ring, and learned more about Martial Dao from the gathered Martial Artists.
• Chen Yi heard the rumor that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts contained the secret to immortality, a goal that had become an obsession among Martial Dao giants.

At the Cauldron Summit Tournament, the narrator recovered his sword and cultivation method from Zhenpin and decided to travel with him to Western Liang in search of a way to break through. After the Sword Master revealed that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was inert, the narrator touched it and briefly saw Dachun.

• The narrator learned that the Sword Master had saved him ten years earlier, and Zhenpin returned his Bronze War Sword and Jade Slip after confirming they were safe to use.
• The Cauldron Summit Tournament concluded with Wan Jianyi of the Wuji Sword Sect taking first place, and the narrator asked Zhenpin to guide him to Western Liang.
• The Sword Master shattered the array around the Nine Provinces Cauldron and revealed that it was only a lifeless object because its Artifact Spirit was missing.
• The narrator touched the cauldron, briefly saw Dachun, and then found that the vision did not return when he touched it again.

Chen Yi realized Dachun might be the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s lost Artifact Spirit, but could not bring him to the cauldron during the journey. As Chen Yi and Zhenpin crossed the Central Plains, they saw the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey worshipped as a local protector and witnessed the region’s wars intensify.

• Chen Yi suspected that Dachun was the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit and wondered whether the killers who massacred Luoding Village had been hunting him.
• After the Nine Provinces Cauldron proved inert without its Artifact Spirit, Sword Master carried it back to the Wuji Sword Sect while Chen Yi and Zhenpin traveled west.
• Chen Yi detoured to White Cloud County, saw that Dachun and Third Sister were well, and decided not to take the elderly Dachun on the dangerous journey.
• In Shenbing Commandery, Chen Yi saw a temple honoring the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey, who had helped locals resolve troubles and earned their devotion.
• After searching for the Earth Vein throughout three years of travel, Chen Yi found nothing and saw the Southern Border Empress, Northern Territory Great Khan, and Dagan court locked in war over the Central Plains.

Chen and Zhenpin entered Western Liang and tracked a suspected Sacred Fire Cult member to find out whether the cult could help Chen break through his cultivation bottleneck. They followed the man toward the cult, which Zhenpin said had declined from a first-rate force to a weak third-rate one.

• Chen and Zhenpin crossed the Tiansha River into Western Liang and headed for the Sacred Fire Cult after Zhenpin identified it as the region’s most wicked cult.
• At a medicinal field market outside Wulanba, Zhenpin used his monk’s disguise and claims of impending calamity to persuade people to remove their veils, but Chen’s attempt got him called a lecherous old bastard.
• Zhenpin spotted a scarred, veiled man buying Huayan Grass, and Chen disguised himself as a monk to question him about the Sacred Fire Cult.
• The man admitted he had recently joined the cult and said its Ten Thousand Fires Devouring the Heart technique could help followers break through Martial Dao bottlenecks.
• After the man bought ingredients for Qingbuliang, Chen and Zhenpin secretly followed him, and Zhenpin explained that the cult had fallen to third-rate status after its elites and leaders died.

Chen infiltrated the Sacred Fire Cult hoping its secret technique would help him break through, but the cult tried to sacrifice him and drain his Origin Qi. He annihilated its disciples with the Myriad Souls Banner and left the Sect Leader alive to question about a method for reaching the Golden Body Realm.

• Chen and Zhenpin found the Sacred Fire Cult's cave, and Chen joined the cult as its Holy Son while Zhenpin left without intervening.
• Chen endured the cult's bizarre customs and asked its Sect Leader for help breaking through from Quenching Soul Peak.
• The Sect Leader and disciples trapped Chen in the Ten Thousand Fires Devouring the Heart Formation and began draining his Origin Qi.
• The Myriad Souls Banner exposed the trap, and Chen unleashed Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, killing the cult's disciples.
• Chen spared the Sect Leader and asked whether the cult truly knew how to break through from Soul Tempering Realm to Golden Body Realm.

Chen Yi learned that the Sacred Fire Cult and its Central Plains branch, the Chixin Sect, carried out the Luoding Village massacre on someone’s orders, but the mastermind later silenced the cult’s leaders. The culprit remained unidentified, and Chen Yi left the cave after killing the Sacred Fire Cult master and reuniting with Zhenpin.

• You interrogated the Sacred Fire Cult master about the Luoding Village massacre and used the Myriad Souls Banner to force him to speak.
• The Sacred Fire Cult master revealed that his cult and the Chixin Sect had carried out the massacre as hired agents for an unknown mastermind.
• The Sacred Fire Cult master said the cult’s higher-ups and elites had likely been silenced, while the Chixin Sect participants had also been killed.
• Chen Yi reasoned that the hidden culprit might still be a threat to him, a survivor of the massacre, and that he needed to understand the culprit’s motives.
• You killed the Sacred Fire Cult master and found Zhenpin waiting outside the cave; Zhenpin explained that he had returned because he suspected something was wrong.

At age seventy, Chen Yi gained the Prismatic Myth Entry "Proficiency," which let him master cultivation techniques through repeated practice rather than comprehension. He learned the Earth Grade Shattering Star Wave Finger on the hundredth attempt and showed Zhenpin how to use it.

• Chen Yi pursued breakthroughs through poison, Gu, and Hehuan cultivation, but each attempt failed and left him suffering or weakened.
• Zhenpin questioned why Chen Yi kept cultivating, and Chen Yi listed the worldly and personal goals he hoped to pursue.
• Chen Yi drew the "Proficiency" Entry and replaced "The Older the More Fortunate" with it.
• Chen Yi practiced Shattering Star Wave Finger one hundred times and reached Entry Level, unleashing a blast that pulverized a distant boulder.
• Chen Yi asked Zhenpin to pull the cart while he tried the technique, and Zhenpin eventually learned it years later under Chen Yi's guidance.

At age 80, you traveled with Zhenpin while searching for Earth Veins and learned that the Demon Race had broken its truce with the Human Race, launching a full-scale war. As demons rampaged through the Central Plains, you and Zhenpin fought back, and you welcomed the chance to collect Demon Souls.

• You discovered that Cultivation Methods could advance beyond Perfection to Sublime and kept raising your Proficiency through repeated practice.
• At age 80, you gained the Senior Tomato User trait and replaced Sudden Inspiration with it.
• You and Zhenpin traveled together across the Five Domains and learned that the Demon Race had broken its agreement with the Human Race five years earlier.
• The Demon Monkey Great Vanguard led a massive invasion of the Eastern Wilderness, while Human Race factions and leaders united to fight the demons at Cangqiong Ridge.
• The Demon Monkey Great Vanguard sent elite demons into the Central Plains, where they scattered, gathered other demons, and massacred humans as the Monster Slaying Division struggled to respond.
• You told Zhenpin that the two races had never truly lived in peace, then welcomed the demons’ rampage as a source of Demon Souls.

While seeking an Earth Grade Demon Subduing Banner in Divine Soldier City, the protagonist witnessed the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey drive off his demonized former junior, the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey. The Sword Master arrived, paid for the protagonist’s artifact, and asked him to lead an army against the demon scourge, leaving him alarmed by the request.

• The Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey accused his senior and the Human Race of rejecting him, then declared that the world belonged to demons.
• Zhenpin suggested that prejudice had helped fuel the war, but locals argued that the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey had been favored and had brought much of his misfortune on himself.
• The Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey feigned defeat and lured the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey away from Divine Soldier City, while the protagonist stayed in the city with Zhenpin.
• The protagonist failed to negotiate lower artifact-refining fees until the Sword Master paid the sect with a Storage Ring full of crystals.
• The Sword Master said he had come to find the protagonist and asked him to use his Special physique to command an army against the demons.
• The protagonist protested that he lacked the power for such a task.