Chapter Summaries

You and the Myriad Souls Banner fought the Red Dragon Person, but his overwhelming strength left you on the brink of defeat. Hu Tiangong revealed himself as the Son of the Demon Emperor and gathered the Demon Souls’ power while the Demon World’s last Dao Protector restrained the enemy, preparing to strike back for the Demon World.

• You and the Myriad Souls Banner left the Nine Provinces Cauldron and attacked the Red Dragon Person, but his blow wounded you and sent you crashing into the Ancient City Ruins.
• You hurled the Shen Family’s Star Explosives at the Red Dragon Person, but he swallowed the blast and prepared to kill you with his axe.
• Hu Tiangong revealed that he had willingly allowed himself to be captured and called on the Demon Souls to lend him their strength.
• The Red Dragon Person identified Hu Tiangong as the Son of the Demon Emperor and rushed to stop him, but the Demon World’s last Dao Protector bound him with a rainbow beam.
• Hu Tiangong gathered the Demon Souls’ power and vowed to avenge the Demon World’s losses from thirty thousand years earlier.

Hu Tiangong sacrificed himself to destroy Huo Feihuo’s body, then warned Chen Yi that the Dragon Person Race threatened the Human Race. Huo Feihuo returned as a soul and attacked Chen Yi, whose Star River Divine Skill left him unharmed.

• Hu Tiangong gathered the power of tens of thousands of Demon Souls and shattered Huo Feihuo’s body with his final punch.
• Hu Tiangong confessed his guilt over the Demon Race’s defeat, warned Chen Yi about Dragon Person Race activity, and dispersed as the Demon Souls mourned him.
• Chen Yi reflected on Hu Tiangong’s sacrifice and the Dragon Person Race’s strength before turning to the Qilin Soul for help leaving the Demon World.
• Huo Feihuo reappeared as a soul, threatened Chen Yi, and blasted him with flames.
• Chen Yi stood firm and took Huo Feihuo’s attack without harm, leaving Huo Feihuo stunned.

You fought Huo Feihuo while the Shen Family Ancestor freed the Qilin Soul from its chains. The Qilin Soul broke free and attacked Huo Feihuo, while you moved aside to let them settle their grudge.

• You used gravity, Burning Cloud Hand, and Star Fall to attack Huo Feihuo, who could not harm your physical body.
• You pinned Huo Feihuo beneath the Nine Provinces Cauldron while the Shen Family Ancestor pulled the chains from the Qilin Soul.
• The Qilin Soul broke free, roared for the Demon World, and pounced on Huo Feihuo.
• You moved the Nine Provinces Cauldron aside and let the Qilin Soul fight Huo Feihuo.

You and the Qilin Soul traveled toward a breach leading back to the Human World while discussing the Demon Race’s history and the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts. The Qiankun Mirror was revealed to have been destroyed, and the Qilin Soul explained that Dachun and the Myriad Souls Banner had developed true self-will.

• The Qilin Soul drove Huo Feihuo underground and bound his soul with the Dark Chains, but Huo Feihuo refused to reveal the Dragon Person Race’s plans.
• You asked the Qilin Soul to take you to a breach between the Demon World and the Human World, and he agreed.
• You traveled inside the Nine Provinces Cauldron with the Qilin Soul, who discussed the Demon Emperor’s war and the risks of crossing world barriers.
• You discovered that the Qiankun Mirror had been destroyed after its uncontrolled teleportation from the Star Domain.
• The Qilin Soul explained that Dachun and the Myriad Souls Banner had developed true self-will, and you asked whether this explained the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s incomplete artifact spirit.

Chen Yi deduced that Luoding Village’s residents were descendants of the Nine Provinces Cauldron Artifact Spirit and suspected the massacre was meant to prevent its recovery, though the culprit remained uncertain. The Qilin Soul opened a one-use fissure to the Human World, sacrificed his remaining soul power, and revealed why he had to vanish before Chen Yi entered the fissure.

• Chen Yi connected Dachun’s origins to Luoding Village and concluded its residents may all have descended from reincarnated parts of the Nine Provinces Cauldron Artifact Spirit.
• Chen Yi suspected the Black Hand had ordered the massacre to prevent the artifact spirit from recovering, but questioned whether the Dragon Person Race was responsible.
• The Qilin Soul led Chen Yi to a sealed, bowl-sized fissure beneath the sea that connected to the Human World.
• The Qilin Soul opened the fissure at the cost of his remaining soul power and explained that he needed to disappear so the Demon Race’s surviving members would not be deprived of a future Dao Protector.
• The Qilin Soul revealed that the Dragon Person Race feared the Demon Race’s return and noted that the Human Race had once stood on equal footing with it before he dissipated.
• Chen Yi rode the Nine Provinces Cauldron into the fissure.

After returning from the Demon World, the protagonist emerged in the Northern Territory and was captured by a Golden Khan’s forces as a suspected Central Plains spy. He learned that the Northern army was advancing toward Dagan while an Empress had seized three provinces.

• The protagonist emerged from the rift after a year of travel, put away the exhausted Nine Provinces Cauldron, and planned to warn the Sword Master in the Eastern Wilderness about the coming demon invasion.
• The protagonist recognized the Northern Territory’s grasslands and flew southeast, but cavalry shot arrows at him and he defended himself with Burning Cloud Hand and Star River Divine Skill.
• A golden-armored middle-aged man accused the protagonist of spying and ordered an eagle to carry him to the army’s camp.
• The middle-aged man identified himself as the Great Khan, and his generals reported that Wumuha was advancing on Beitong Pass while an Empress had occupied three provinces of Dagan.

Chen Yi was held in the Northern Territory’s military camp while the Great Khan investigated his claim to be the Sword Master’s disciple. When the Great Khan captured Shen Qingshan, Chen Yi tried to spy on their conversation and was caught, but he claimed to be Husi Khan’s blood brother, Chen Yi.

• The Great Khan questioned Chen Yi as a suspected Central Plains spy, but Chen Yi presented Sword Dao notes and claimed to be a disciple of the Sword Master.
• The Great Khan kept Chen Yi in camp while checking his identity, and two months later cavalry brought in the captured Shen Qingshan.
• Chen Yi recognized Shen Qingshan as his third brother-in-law and secretly sent a ghost soul into the Great Khan’s tent to listen to their conversation.
• The Great Khan sensed the spying ghost, destroyed it, and seized Chen Yi by the throat in the stables.
• Chen Yi claimed to be the Great Khan’s blood brother and identified himself as Chen Yi, the fourth son of Chen Youfu.

Chen Yi convinced Chen Jing that he was his long-lost fourth brother, and a witch’s blood test confirmed their kinship. The reunion left Chen Yi celebrating his future family support, then worrying that Chen Jing and Second Sister were still in danger fifty years earlier.

• Chen Jing doubted Chen Yi’s claim despite his knowledge of a private childhood story, then embraced him to keep him from revealing more embarrassing secrets.
• Chen Yi reunited with Shen Qingshan, who told him that his Third Sister was well and that Shen Jia had joined the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect.
• Chen Jing demanded a definitive identity check and summoned a witch to test whether their blood was related.
• The witch’s ritual turned the water clear, confirming Chen Yi and Chen Jing were brothers, and the two embraced and wept.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Yi realized that Chen Jing was still in danger in the present and wondered whether Second Sister was alive.

The narrator reunited with Chen Jing, now the Great Khan of the Northern Territory, and learned how Chen Jing had survived and risen to power after being carried away by a giant eagle. Chen Jing learned about the forces behind their village’s massacre and wanted revenge, while he denied intending to rebel against the Central Plains despite his earlier words.

• Chen Jing explained that he had found the narrator after discovering Shen Qingshan’s connection to Chen Yun, and he asked the narrator to call him Big Brother.
• Chen Jing recounted how a giant eagle carried him and their second sister away, how he fell into a lake and was rescued by Northern Territory envoys, and how he endured decades of competition before becoming Great Khan.
• The narrator told Chen Jing about the Chixin Sect, Sacred Fire Cult, and Blood Moon Organization, but withheld the truth about Dachun and the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Enraged by the deaths of their parents, Chen Jing ordered his forces to attack the Central Plains and then Western Liang, but the narrator reminded him that the named groups had already been destroyed.
• The narrator suggested that Chen Jing could seize the throne during the war, but Chen Jing insisted that he would not betray the Central Plains and claimed the narrator had misheard him.

Chen Jing explained why the Northern Territory invaded the Central Plains, revealing that Emperor Longzhi had secretly ordered it to rescue him from Qin Rong. The emperor turned out to be Li Chengqian, the prince the narrator knew, and Chen Jing began explaining how he had inherited the throne.

• Chen Jing said the Northern Territory had invaded to purge Qin Rong and his corrupt ministers, who controlled the court while Emperor Longzhi served as a puppet.
• Chen Jing explained that Qin Rong was a Martial Saint and had built influence throughout the court, while the imperial clan had little reason to intervene as long as its interests were untouched.
• Chen Jing revealed that Emperor Longzhi had secretly given the Former Khan a blood-written Yidai Edict ordering the Northern Territory to rescue the sovereign and purge Qin Rong.
• Chen Jing said Emperor Longzhi had pretended to neglect affairs of state while secretly cultivating with the imperial clan's resources until he reached the Martial King Realm.
• The narrator reacted with shock when Chen Jing named the emperor Li Chengqian, and Chen Jing began recounting how Qin Rong had arranged for him to inherit the throne.

Chen Yi discovered that his connections reached across nearly all the Five Domains, then left the Northern Territory to cultivate in the Eastern Wilderness and prepare for the coming Demon Race invasion. A Golden Entry let him replace his restrictive Low-Grade Bone Structure with High-Grade Bone Structure, dramatically increasing his cultivation speed.

• Chen Yi learned that spirit artifacts had founded a kingdom in Western Liang, and the Myriad Souls Banner demanded to reclaim its throne.
• Chen Jing offered Chen Yi a quiet retirement in the Northern Territory, but Chen Yi chose to keep cultivating and urged Chen Jing to prepare for the Demon Race invasion.
• Chen Yi traveled to the Eastern Wilderness, where he hunted demons and used pills and the Myriad Souls Banner to boost his cultivation, but his progress remained slow.
• At age seventy, Chen Yi drew the Golden Entry Private Customization and used it to select High-Grade Bone Structure.
• After acquiring High-Grade Bone Structure, Chen Yi found that pills and Demon Souls increased his cultivation much faster.

Chen Yi returned to the Wuji Sword Sect and warned the Sword Master that the Demon Race planned to invade the Eastern Wilderness, urging the Five Domains to prepare together. To strengthen himself for the coming war, he agreed to seek the Five Domains Supreme Treasures and ingredients for the Five Domains Sacred Pill, then asked the Sword Master to help retrieve the Demon Refining Pot.

• Chen Yi cultivated in the Eastern Wilderness, refining Demon Souls and making pills until he reached the ninth level of the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Chen Yi returned to the Wuji Sword Sect, corrected the Sword Master's mistaken name for him, and revealed the Demon Race's plan to attack with a million elite demons.
• Chen Yi and the Sword Master discussed organizing the sects and rulers of the Five Domains to prepare defenses against the invasion.
• The Sword Master offered the Five Domains Sacred Pill as a way to help Chen Yi break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, and Chen Yi agreed to seek its ingredients and formula.
• Chen Yi told the Sword Master that recovering the Demon Refining Pot would also be vital to resisting the Demon Race.

The protagonist and the Sword Master traveled into the Great Wilderness to find the Demon Refining Pot and investigate why the Demon Race had broken its thirty-thousand-year agreement with humanity. They discovered Azure Dragon giving the pot to the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, revealing that the demon forces had obtained it before the war began.

• The Sword Master agreed to help locate the Demon Refining Pot, and he and the protagonist flew toward the Great Wilderness.
• The protagonist told the Sword Master about the Dragon Person Race, while the Sword Master planned to investigate whether human sects had provoked the Demon Race.
• The Sword Master sensed Azure Dragon and three Demon King Realm demons near a lake, and the protagonist used Heaven Grade Turtle Breathing Talismans to approach unnoticed.
• The protagonist and the Sword Master saw Azure Dragon holding the Demon Refining Pot while the Heng Ha Demon Generals stood nearby.
• Azure Dragon gave the Demon Refining Pot to a four-eyed, six-eared monkey demon, whom the protagonist recognized as the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey from a previous simulation.

You and Sword Master learned that the Demon Race planned to destroy the Five Domains, then recovered the Demon Refining Pot from the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey. After the two parted to warn the Five Domains, you subdued the artifact by revealing your power.

• Sword Master read Azure Dragon and the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey’s lips and learned that the Demon Race intended to wipe out the Five Domains while keeping the Shen Family and Holy Lands from intervening.
• You and Sword Master followed the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, trapped him in the Imprisoning Devil Sword Formation, and attacked while he mistook you for demons.
• Sword Master seized the Demon Refining Pot, but the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey escaped inside his living Bone Armor.
• Sword Master gave you the Demon Refining Pot and returned to the Eastern Wilderness to warn the Martial Dao sects, while you headed for the Southern Border.
• You intimidated the Demon Refining Pot with the Myriad Souls Banner, the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and your Materialist Warrior gaze until it begged to form a master bond.

At seventy-four, Chen returned to Southern Border in an eighteen-year-old appearance and found Li Lingyue at the Hundred Nations Coalition’s military camp. He urged her to pause the war and prepare for the Demon Race’s attack, but Li Lingyue asked whether he had come only to discuss military matters.

• Chen equipped the Ageless Male God trait, regained his youthful appearance, and set out to borrow a pill recipe, find a treasure, and persuade Li Lingyue to halt the war.
• Chen flew to Southern Border and reasoned that Li Lingyue’s Incense Saint Body and Empress Temples were tied to her bid for imperial power.
• Chen reached the Hundred Nations Coalition’s camp and asked the sentries to announce him as an old friend named Chen.
• Li Lingyue arrived just before the sentries’ arrows struck Chen, punished them with military strikes, and brought him into the camp.
• Chen apologized for leaving without saying goodbye, then urged Li Lingyue to pause the war and send troops and resources to Cangqiong Ridge.
• Li Lingyue asked whether Chen had returned after all these years just to tell her about the war, then slightly curved her lips.

Li Lingyue mobilized the Hundred Nations Alliance to prepare for the Demon Race’s coming attack and helped Chen Yi obtain resources and the Five Domains Sacred Pill formula. The two left Danxiang Valley with the formula, while Chen Yi’s Nine Provinces Cauldron gave him confidence he could refine the pill.

• After spending three days and nights together, Chen Yi asked Li Lingyue to discuss business, and she agreed to trust his foresight and help him.
• Li Lingyue ordered a peace delegation to approach Dagan, sent troops and Martial Dao Resources to Cangqiong Ridge, and called the Southern Border’s martial forces to resist the Demon Race.
• Li Lingyue exchanged her accumulated resources for spirit plants Chen Yi needed and took him to Danxiang Valley to request the Five Domains Sacred Pill formula.
• Li Lingyue arrived at Danxiang Valley in her Peacock Imperial Carriage, and the Valley Master welcomed her and Chen Yi with great respect.
• Chen Yi asked the Valley Master for the pill formula, and the Valley Master provided its Jade Slip while warning that its ingredients and refining methods were difficult.
• Chen Yi learned that the Nine Provinces Cauldron would guarantee the pill’s formation if he understood the formula and had the correct ingredients.

Chen memorized the Five Domains Sacred Pill formula and set out with Li Lingyue to find its rare ingredients, beginning with the Unstained Flower she had preserved. After they headed for the Central Plains to seek the Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil, Li Lingyue described how many Martial Saints existed across the Five Domains.

• Chen told the Danxiang Valley Master he had memorized the pill formula, then left with Li Lingyue to search for the Flower of the Southern Border.
• Li Lingyue gave Chen a preserved Unstained Flower that her master had saved to aid her second Saint Body Awakening.
• Chen reached the eleventh level of the Spirit Sea Realm, and he and Li Lingyue traveled toward the Central Plains to obtain the Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil.
• Li Lingyue overruled her ministers' objections and decided to accompany Chen to meet Emperor Longzhi.
• Li Lingyue explained that the Eight Pillars and several great families held Martial Saints, while the Northern Territory had two and a half and the Southern Border had two.

You and Li Lingyue went to Capital City to obtain Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil, and the court’s officials argued over whether she could approach the emperor. You entered the Beauty Pavilion to meet him and found him chasing consorts through the garden while blindfolded.

• Li Lingyue explained that Martial Gods existed beyond the Five Domains and that she believed some within the Five Domains might count as only half.
• Li Lingyue and you arrived above Capital City, where Third Master offered to end the war in exchange for peace, but she asked to borrow Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil instead.
• Third Master said only the emperor could lend the soil, and you said you had saved the emperor and would ask him directly.
• Qin Rong objected to Li Lingyue accompanying you to see the emperor, so she waited outside with Qin Rong and Third Master while Li Liushui led you into the Beauty Pavilion.
• You entered a flower-filled garden and saw the slovenly emperor blindfolded as he chased his consorts.

The narrator watched an attempted assassination expose that soldiers in the Northern Border Six Armies had not received their promised pay, despite the court claiming it had sent the funds. After the crisis, Li Chengqian revealed that he had staged the incident to force the money to reach the soldiers.

• A consort tried to kill Longzhi, but Li Liushui subdued her after Longzhi ordered him not to kill her.
• The consort explained that her brother had died after coming to the Capital City to demand two hundred taels of unpaid military wages.
• Longzhi questioned Qin Rong about the missing pay, and officials blamed one another before the Vice Minister of War admitted that only one million taels had been delivered.
• Longzhi spared the consort and gave her to Li Lingyue, then dismissed the officials and arranged a private meeting with the narrator.
• Li Chengqian removed his Longzhi mask and admitted that he had staged the assassination to get soldiers their military pay.

You learned that Li Chengqian had secretly reached the Martial King Realm and asked you to help him reclaim power from Qin Rong. After passing the emperor’s message to Chen Jing in the Northern Territory, you left him and Li Lingyue celebrating their growing family alliance.

• Li Chengqian explained that he had secretly cultivated to the Martial King Realm and asked you to tell Chen Jing to advance toward the Capital City so he could lead an expedition and take control of the troops.
• You requested Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil, and Li Chengqian promised to send it after the ancestral worship ceremony and gave you a golden token.
• Li Chengqian told you that the court had prepared defenses against the Demon Race invasion, including troops and resources sent to Cangqiong Ridge.
• At age seventy-six, you and Li Lingyue reached the Northern Territory and met Chen Jing, who welcomed Li Lingyue and approved of your marriage.
• Chen Jing celebrated that the emperor, the Empress, the Northern Territory, and the Sword Master of the Eastern Wilderness would be united once Li Chengqian reclaimed power.