Chapter Summaries

You helped Chen Jing obtain the Northern Territory’s Longevity Herb and learned that the Northern Territory would send forces to aid the defense at Cangqiong Ridge. After fighting began, you and Li Lingyue headed to Western Liang to find Dust-Forgetting Water, while planning to help the Myriad Souls Banner seize the throne and search for it.

• Chen Jing took you to the Northern Territory’s Great Elder, Gemeng Han, and won the Longevity Herb by pretending you were his elderly younger brother.
• You told Chen Jing about the Five Domains’ defenses and delivered Li Chengqian’s message, and Chen Jing agreed to divide the Northern Territory’s forces between the defense and the emperor’s orders.
• Li Lingyue received word that the Demon Monkey General’s vanguard had failed to catch the Eastern Wilderness sects, but fighting at Cangqiong Ridge had already caused casualties.
• Li Lingyue gave you a Golden Body statue and other Southern Border treasures before you set off together for Western Liang.
• You released the Myriad Souls Banner in Western Liang, where he bickered with the Demon Refining Pot and proclaimed himself emperor.
• You headed for the Western Liang imperial palace to help the Myriad Souls Banner seize power and use the kingdom to search for Dust-Forgetting Water.

Chen Yi and Myriad Souls Banner headed to Daqi City to claim the Spirit Artifact Nation’s throne, while Chen Yi wondered what had happened to Shen Qingshan after the Star Domain selection. They arrived over the capital, where Myriad Souls Banner began addressing the spirit artifacts.

• Chen Yi learned how the intelligent spirit artifacts rebelled, founded the Spirit Artifact Nation in Western Liang, and left its human residents largely free of taxes and forced labor.
• Chen Yi agreed to pursue a peaceful change of rule, and Myriad Souls Banner promised to govern with care after Chen Yi threatened to back the Demon Refining Pot instead.
• On the way to the capital, Chen Yi recognized Shen Huan, an eliminated Star Domain candidate, and learned the Shen Family had sent him back with resources.
• Chen Yi reflected on the Shen Family’s treatment of eliminated candidates and wondered whether Shen Qingshan had won the selection, been seized, or died during it.
• Chen Yi and Myriad Souls Banner arrived over Daqi City, and Myriad Souls Banner’s demonic qi covered the capital as it called out to the spirit artifacts.

The narrator helped the Myriad Souls Banner reclaim the throne of the Spiritual Artifact Kingdom from the Immortal-Binding Rope. After ascending, the Myriad Souls Banner abandoned his plans to invade the Central Plains and ordered the kingdom to search for Dust-Forgetting Water.

• Spiritual artifacts gathered beneath the Demon Cloud as the Myriad Souls Banner confronted the Immortal-Binding Rope, who addressed him as the kingdom’s Grand Emeritus Emperor.
• The Myriad Souls Banner praised his past efforts to protect and advance spiritual artifacts, winning the crowd’s support.
• The narrator and the Demon Refining Pot led the artifacts in shouting for the Myriad Souls Banner to become king.
• The narrator claimed to be the Myriad Souls Banner’s loyal servant, and the Immortal-Binding Rope agreed to abdicate.
• After taking the throne, the Myriad Souls Banner proposed invading the Central Plains, but the Immortal-Binding Rope reminded him of their treaty with the Human Race.
• The Myriad Souls Banner backed down and issued his first decree: search Western Liang for Dust-Forgetting Water.

While searching for Dust-Forgetting Water, the protagonist learned that the Demon Race had massed at Cangqiong Ridge, then rushed to meet Zhenpin, who had found the water. The chapter ended with the discovery that the Dust-Forgetting Water appeared only when Zhenpin was nearby.

• The protagonist continued searching Western Liang for Dust-Forgetting Water while the Myriad Souls Banner ruled the Spirit Artifact Kingdom with him acting as its power behind the throne.
• The protagonist learned that the Demon Race had gathered its forces at Cangqiong Ridge and that the Five Domains were sending reinforcements to defend against the invasion.
• A messenger reported that a monk had found Dust-Forgetting Water, and the protagonist recognized the monk at the palace as Zhenpin.
• Zhenpin led the protagonist to a mudflat along the Yuexia River, where they found droplets matching the description of Dust-Forgetting Water.
• The protagonist sent Zhenpin away and saw the water vanish, then called him back and watched it reappear when he came within a hundred meters.

The Sword Master delivered the Sword Heart Immortal Peach and Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil, completing the Five Domains Sacred Pill’s ingredients and urging the protagonist to break through and help at Cangqiong Ridge. The protagonist refined an enhanced, intelligent pill, which asked to be eaten and revealed it had gained a little extra medicinal effect.

• The Sword Master arrived at the royal palace with the Sword Heart Immortal Peach and Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil, and told the protagonist to reach Spirit Condensation and join the battle at Cangqiong Ridge.
• The protagonist declined the Sword Master’s offer to have the Valley Master refine the pill and asked why the Demon Race had attacked, but the Sword Master postponed his explanation until they met at Cangqiong Ridge.
• The protagonist flew to a desolate place in Western Liang with the Myriad Souls Banner and Demon Refining Pot, set up defenses, and began refining the Five Domains Sacred Pill in the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• The Nine Provinces Cauldron produced a sacred, intelligent Five Domains Sacred Pill, and the protagonist’s Enhance trait raised its level by one.
• The pill called the protagonist Master and accepted being eaten, explaining that it had gained intelligence and a little additional medicinal effect.

After swallowing the Five Domains Sacred Pill, Chen Yi broke through from Spirit Sea Peak to Spirit Condensation Fifth Layer and gained a transformed constitution, greater comprehension, poison immunity, and forty additional years of lifespan. The simulation ended with Chen Yi recognizing the pill’s immense benefits and considering how he could obtain it again in future simulations.

• The Five Domains Sacred Pill promised to transform Chen Yi’s constitution, prevent poison from harming him, and stop pill toxins from accumulating.
• Chen Yi swallowed the pill and spent a month refining its medicinal power to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• After the breakthrough, Chen Yi found his body, senses, will, spirit, comprehension, and appearance had improved, and his lifespan had increased by forty years.
• Chen Yi continued refining the doubled medicinal power and advanced from Spirit Condensation First Layer to Fifth Layer before it ran out.
• Dachun watched Chen Yi celebrate his cultivation while the Myriad Souls Banner and Demon Refining Pot guarded the cauldron.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Yi realized he could seek the Five Domains Sacred Pill in future simulations, while his real body remained untransformed.

After reaching the Spirit Condensation Fifth Layer, Chen Yi equipped traits to prepare for the war against the Great Wilderness Demon Race and investigate the Dragon Person Race. He mobilized the Spirit Artifact Kingdom to defend the Five Domains and, while flying over White Cloud County, spotted an unfamiliar fourth kind of aura.

• Chen Yi broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, refined a powerful pill, and ordered the Myriad Souls Banner to rally the Spiritual Artifacts to protect the Five Domains.
• At age eighty, Chen Yi gained Aura of Ten Thousand Races and replaced traits to increase his combat power.
• Chen Yi detected faint traces of Dragon Person aura but focused on ending the war between the Five Domains and the Great Wilderness Demon Race.
• The Myriad Souls Banner issued a decree, and ten thousand Spiritual Artifacts assembled before Chen Yi stored them in Storage Spirit Artifacts and headed for Cangqiong Ridge.
• Chen Yi flew over the Central Plains, where life continued largely undisturbed, and saw an unfamiliar fourth kind of aura in White Cloud County.

After finding Black Wind still waiting for him in White Cloud County Town, the protagonist brought him into the cauldron’s Small World and flew to the Cangqiong Ridge front line. There, the Five Domains’ commanders learned that enemy-repelling arrays had failed and Demon Race forces were about to enter Central Plains territory.

• The protagonist found Black Wind on the ruins of a building, learned that he had waited there for years, and took him into the cauldron’s Small World for a feast.
• The protagonist learned that Mei Sanniang had died and her inn had gone bankrupt, then flew east toward Cangqiong Ridge.
• At Bachuan Peak, the Sword Master, Chen Jing, Li Lingyue, and Li Chengqian discussed the war, the costly array supply lines, and whether to attack the Demon Race’s leaders.
• A messenger reported that arrays at Guiyan Peak, Jushen Peak, and Xia’an Peak had been broken and the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey was leading Demon Race troops toward Central Plains territory.
• The messenger said low-grade crystal stones had replaced high-grade ones while the Four Great Demon Ancestors drew away reinforcements, prompting Chen Jing to condemn the embezzlement and Li Chengqian to warn of infiltration.
• Li Lingyue left the command tent, determined to stop the Demon Race from entering the Five Domains.

The Sword Master and the others raced to Wangshan Town as a Demon Race horde broke through the eastern defense line. The protagonist arrived first, stopped the horde with falling stars, and charged into battle with the Myriad Souls Banner and Demon Refining Pot.

• Li Lingyue sensed that the Demon Race led by the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey was about to reach Wangshan Town, while the Sword Master carried her, Chen Jing, and Li Chengqian toward the breach.
• The defeated defenders and townspeople watched as tens of thousands of Demon Race members surged toward Wangshan Town.
• The protagonist landed before the horde and used Star Fall to crush demons and raise three mountains as a barrier.
• The protagonist ordered the Spiritual Artifacts to attack, and the Myriad Souls Banner sent them raining down on the Demon Race.
• The protagonist rode a flying sword into the horde, smashing demons with his enhanced strength and sucking weaker enemies into the Demon Refining Pot.

You used five Immortal Artifacts to defeat and seal Four-Eyed, then charged into the battlefield to fight the remaining Demon Kings. You severed the Golden-Eyed Bull-Horn King’s horns and stored them away.

• Four-Eyed charged you, but you combined five Immortal Artifacts to disarm, bind, and subdue him.
• Four-Eyed refused to order a retreat and revealed that his body could not be harmed by your blade, so you sealed him inside the Demon Refining Pot.
• The Myriad Souls Banner helped the Purple Gold Iron Staff recognize you as its master and urged you to protect its spiritual artifact army from the remaining Demon Kings.
• You rushed at the Golden-Eyed Bull-Horn King and cut off both his horns with Falling Blossom Slash.
• You swept the Bull-Horn King’s golden horns into your Storage Ring.

Chen Yi defeated the three Demon Kings and then unleashed Seven Steps to the Abyss against the demons attacking Wangshan Town. The chapter ended with the Demon Refining Pot drawing every demon in the surrounding area inside.

• Chen Yi struck down the Silver-Scaled Pangolin King and beat the poisoned Morning Poison Flood Dragon King after binding him with the Immortal Binding Lock.
• Chen Yi captured the three Demon Kings in the Demon Refining Pot instead of refining them, intending to stop the demons that had broken through the defensive line.
• Chen Yi used Seven Steps to the Abyss, killing nearby demons and knocking down others across the battlefield.
• Chen Yi powered the Demon Refining Pot with his Three Energies and sucked in every demon around Wangshan Town.

Chen Yi defeated the demons attacking Wangshan Town with the Demon Refining Pot, while the Sword Master and others explained his apparent power as a special physique. After receiving Merit from the Empress, Chen Yi discussed the next step in resolving the conflict with the Demon Race.

• Chen Yi used the Demon Refining Pot to refine the demons below Demon King rank, exhausting himself and leaving the outskirts of Wangshan Town strewn with blood and corpses.
• The Myriad Souls Banner claimed credit for the victory, while the Sword Master and his companions said they had held back because Chen Yi was fighting too actively to risk injuring him.
• Chen Jing, Li Chengqian, and the Sword Master discussed Chen Yi’s strength and identified him as having a possible unknown Special physique called the Demon Race Nemesis.
• The Empress supported Chen Yi and transferred Merit to him from the people he had saved, granting him a small increase in cultivation through the Incense Dao.
• Li Chengqian asked Chen Yi what he planned to do about the Demon Kings, and Chen Yi said he had a plan despite the difficulty of making peace with the Demon Race.

At eighty-two, Chen Yi gained the Human Body Detector and used his strategy to lure and capture sixty-two Demon Kings, weakening the Demon Race and forcing its remaining forces to gather at Cuiwei Peak. As negotiations began, the Four Great Demon Ancestors confronted the Five Domains, and Chen Yi learned that their unusually pure divine-beast bloodlines set them apart from other demons.

• Chen Yi replaced his identity-checking trait with Human Body Detector and discovered that fortune and physical talent varied widely, while his own fortune index was 100 despite having no special physique or bone structure.
• Chen Yi helped the Five Domains Allied Forces lure Demon Kings away from their defenses, track demons who breached the lines, and seal captured commanders inside the Demon Refining Pot.
• By age eighty-three, Chen Yi had sealed sixty-two Demon Kings, prompting the remaining demons to mass at Cuiwei Peak and fight the Five Domains for half a month.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors threatened to destroy the allied forces unless Chen Yi released the captured Demon Kings, as negotiations began.
• The Sword Master explained that the Four Great Demon Ancestors could take divine-beast forms because their bloodlines were exceptionally pure, and Chen Yi's detector showed their bloodline purity at 20%.

Chen Yi learned that the Demon Race’s war against the Five Domains had been sparked by humans stealing demon eggs to make lifespan-extending pills and replacing them with Exotic Beast eggs. The Sword Master had said that nearly half of the Five Domains’ factions were connected to the scheme, and the chapter ended with someone accusing the demons of eating humans.

• At Cuiwei Peak, Azure Dragon demanded the return of the Demon King and an end to the Five Domains’ invasion, while blaming humans for the Egg-Swapping Incident.
• Chen Yi learned that humans had used demon eggs to refine Demon Origin Pills, which could repeatedly extend lifespan, and later replaced stolen eggs with Exotic Beast eggs to conceal the thefts.
• The Demon Race discovered the scheme little over ten years earlier, and the Four Great Demon Ancestors declared war on the Five Domains.
• Chen Yi reasoned that the Shen Family and Three Great Sacred Lands had stayed neutral because the Five Domains were guilty, and suspected the Dragon Person Race had introduced the pill formula.
• The Sword Master told Chen Yi that nearly half the Five Domains’ factions had connections to refining Demon Origin Pills, though the Wuji Sword Sect had not participated.
• Someone in the crowd challenged Azure Dragon by pointing out that demons had also eaten many humans.

As Azure Dragon accused the Five Domains of aiding the Dragon Person Race, the Four Great Demon Ancestors prepared to attack. You revealed the Nine Provinces Cauldron and urged the Five Domains’ forces to combine their attacks against it, hoping to turn the demons from war; the Empress and Chen Jing began.

• Azure Dragon rejected your peace proposal and declared that the Demon Race was defending its second homeland from Human Race traitors aiding the Dragon Person Race.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors summoned their bloodline power, and the Empress, Li Chengqian, Chen Jing, and the Sword Master moved to protect you from their attack.
• You stepped forward and revealed the Nine Provinces Cauldron, telling the Five Domains’ forces to attack it with all their strength.
• The Empress led the Southern Border warriors in a Wanxiang Divine Palm strike, which the Nine Provinces Cauldron absorbed without damage.
• Chen Jing entered a temporary Martial Saint state and led the Northern Territory warriors in a Ten Thousand Horses Galloping attack on the cauldron.

Chen Yi and the allied forces struggled to withstand the Four Great Demon Ancestors’ combined assault, while Dachun pushed the Nine Provinces Cauldron past its limits to aid him. As the formation neared collapse, Chen Yi absorbed a hundredfold surge of Blood Qi and asked the Sword Master and Li Lingyue to throw him at Azure Dragon.

• Li Chengqian and the Sword Master led attacks against the Nine Provinces Cauldron, while fighters across the Five Domains added their ranged strikes.
• Dachun endured the assaults and powered up the Nine Provinces Cauldron, determined to help Chen Yi end the Human World’s civil war.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors combined their powers through Azure Dragon and unleashed Extinction of All Living Beings against the Liangyi Star Dou Formation.
• The formation cracked under Azure Dragon’s attack, causing Martial Artists to fall, until Chen Yi ordered Dachun to turn the Cauldron’s power into Blood Qi.
• The Nine Provinces Cauldron sent the Blood Qi into Chen Yi, whose talent raised it a hundredfold against the Demon Race.
• Chen Yi asked the Sword Master and Li Lingyue to throw him at Azure Dragon, but they objected and offered to face the attack themselves.

Chen Yi charged into the Four Great Demon Ancestors while Extinction of All Living Beings struck, defeating each with his fists and the Demon Pot Flames. After he broke through Black Tortoise’s shell, the battlefield fell silent and Chen Yi’s name resounded throughout the Five Domains.

• The Empress and the Sword Master hurled Chen Yi toward Azure Dragon, and Chen Yi punched through him, interrupting Extinction of All Living Beings.
• Chen Yi pierced Vermilion Bird’s wing with a punch, forcing him to change into humanoid form.
• Chen Yi used the Demon Refining Pot’s flames to slow the Demon Race, then struck White Tiger and sent him crashing through a mountain.
• Black Tortoise refused to transform and defend himself with his shell, but Chen Yi broke through it and stored the shattered shell in his Storage Ring.
• Chen Yi exhausted his strength atop a mountain as both armies stared in shock, and the Five Domains recognized his power.

Chen Yi stopped the fighting by defeating the Four Great Demon Ancestors and urged them to make peace, revealing that the Dragon Person Race had destroyed the Demon World and suppressed the Demon Race’s Dao Protector. The Demon Ancestors learned that Chen Yi had freed their Dao Protector, leaving him hailed as the Demon Race’s great benefactor.

• Chen Yi approached the wounded Azure Dragon with healing pills and offered to return the captured Demon Kings in exchange for a truce.
• Chen Yi showed Azure Dragon the Qiankun Mirror and explained that he had visited the lifeless Demon World, but he rejected Azure Dragon’s attempt to set conditions for withdrawing.
• Chen Yi told the Four Great Demon Ancestors that the Dragon Person Race had used a Soul-Attaching Rope to suppress their Dao Protector after the Demon World was erased.
• Chen Yi explained that he freed the Dao Protector, who sacrificed himself to send Chen Yi back and allow a new protector to emerge among the Demon Race.
• The Sword Master pointed out that Chen Yi had become the Demon Race’s great benefactor, and the Five Domains’ leaders marveled at his connections.

The Human Race and the Demon Race agreed to a ceasefire after sharing what they knew about the Dragon Person Race’s infiltration of the Human World. With the demons withdrawing, the Five Domains celebrated, while you dealt with captured monkeys and the Immortal-Binding Rope.

• Azure Dragon and the Sword Master exchanged intelligence about the Dragon Person Race, and you suggested it had exposed expendable strongholds to provoke a war between the Human Race and Demon Race.
• Azure Dragon explained the Dragon Person Race’s cautious preparations to cross the World Barrier and revealed that pure-blooded demons inherited memories from their ancestors.
• The Five Domains and the Great Wilderness Demon Race agreed to stop fighting, and Azure Dragon led the demons back to the Great Wilderness as the Human Race celebrated.
• You kicked the bound Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and Zhuge Zhujin said it had to be suppressed because it had taken the demonic path.
• Wan Sanqian pleaded with the Immortal-Binding Rope to return to the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect, but the rope refused and claimed it had duties in Western Liang.
• You apologized to Wan Sanqian for what had happened before and bowed to him.

After the war, Chen and Li Lingyue settled in the Northern Territory, where they discovered that Shen Qingshan had a Dual Soul Saint Body suited to the Shen Family Ancestor. Outside the simulation, Chen Yi realized Shen Qingshan’s potential and drew up a list of plans for the next simulation.

• Wan Sanqian stopped Chen from bowing, and the Five Domains leaders pledged to oppose the Shen Family if it came after him.
• After three days of feasting, the allied forces returned home, and Chen’s cultivation later reached the sixth level of Spirit Condensation.
• Chen and Li Lingyue settled in the Northern Territory, where Shen Jia invited them to dinner after Shen Qingshan retired from Dagan.
• Chen discovered that Shen Qingshan had a Dual Soul Saint Body that could hold two independent souls, and realized the Shen Family Ancestor’s plan in the third simulation had succeeded.
• Chen Yi concluded that Shen Qingshan could let the Shen Family Ancestor avoid Body Seizure and gain a Saint Body, then listed his must-grab plans for the next simulation.