Chapter Summaries

Black Fiend True Person fought off a Devil Race general, but fled into a Confinement Array where three Ninth Layer Integration Realm experts attacked him. As he began to tire, he used a secret technique and struck the array with a massive sword slash, leaving it shaking violently.

• Black Fiend True Person defeated the black shadow in their initial clash, and the Devil Race general revealed himself and pursued him as he fled.
• The general alerted other Devil Race experts, and Black Fiend True Person became trapped in a Confinement Array on a plain.
• The general entered the array and fought Black Fiend True Person while waiting for reinforcements.
• Two more Ninth Layer Integration Realm Devil Race experts arrived and joined the attack, pressuring Black Fiend True Person.
• Black Fiend True Person used a secret technique and sent a massive sword slash into the Confinement Array, making it tremble violently.

Black Fiend True Person was overwhelmed by Devil Race powerhouses in the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm, while Yang Lingtian secretly ordered them to let him escape. After using a forbidden art and losing his chance to advance, Black Fiend True Person emerged badly injured at the secret realm entrance, where Ancestor Mo Long recognized him.

• More Devil Race powerhouses reinforced the Confinement Array and joined the attack, gradually wearing Black Fiend True Person down.
• Black Fiend True Person struck the blade-wielding powerhouse but was hit by the others and badly injured.
• Yang Lingtian ordered the Devil Race powerhouses to keep Black Fiend True Person alive and secretly let him escape.
• Black Fiend True Person used a forbidden art to break out of the encirclement and flee the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm.
• The forbidden art's effects faded, leaving Black Fiend True Person weak and injured at the entrance, where Ancestor Mo Long recognized him.

After Black Fiend True Person escaped the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm, he warned the factions that multiple Devil Race experts, including four at the Integrated Body Peak Stage, were inside. Old Ancestor Qing Ming sent Azure Heaven Pavilion’s forces, backed by a hidden Mahayana Realm Supreme Elder, toward the realm, where they arrived before the gathered onlookers.

• Black Fiend True Person told Ancestor Mo Long and the others that multiple Integrated Body Peak Stage Devil Race experts had nearly killed him inside the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm.
• Black Fiend True Person and the other factions spread word of the danger, and reports said most of the tens of thousands who entered had perished or escaped after encountering the Devil Race.
• Old Ancestor Qing Ming ordered ten Integrated Body Peak Stage Great Elders to exterminate the Devil Race and promised a hidden Mahayana Realm Supreme Elder would accompany them.
• Azure Heaven Pavilion assembled more than a thousand cultivators and set out for the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm.
• Azure Heaven Pavilion’s force arrived as tens of thousands of cultivators gathered outside the realm and watched.

Azure Heaven Pavilion led cultivators into the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm to exterminate the Devil Race while Qinglong Taishang investigated from outside. Yang Lingtian planned to release the Devil Race hidden inside the Giant Demon Tower to endanger the cultivators and draw Qinglong Taishang into the realm.

• Azure Heaven Pavilion’s Great Elders arrived at the secret realm entrance and called on cultivators to unite against the Devil Race under Old Ancestor Qing Ming’s command.
• The Great Elders organized the willing cultivators into groups led by Integration Realm experts, and thousands entered the secret realm.
• Qinglong Taishang secretly probed the secret realm with his divine sense but could not inspect Sacred Demon Mountain or detect a Mahayana Realm Devil Venerable.
• Yang Lingtian sensed Qinglong Taishang’s investigation and decided to release the Devil Race hidden in the Giant Demon Tower once the newcomers were in danger.
• Yang Lingtian revealed that the Giant Demon Tower housed a Devil Race population that included several hundred Integration Realm members and over a hundred thousand weaker members.

Yang Lingtian released the devils from the Giant Demon Tower to draw outside cultivators into the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm, triggering a massive battle. When Qinglong Taishang entered and began slaughtering the strongest devils, Yang Lingtian flew out disguised as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.

• Yang Lingtian ordered the strongest devils in the Giant Demon Tower to gather and enter the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm as bait.
• The devils poured into the secret realm, thickening its Demonic Qi and alerting the outside cultivators and Qinglong Taishang to their presence.
• Outside cultivators and devils began fighting across the secret realm, while the Great Elder of Azure Heaven Pavilion battled an Integrated Body Peak Stage devil powerhouse.
• Qinglong Taishang entered the secret realm and attacked the devil powerhouses, killing more than a dozen of them in half a day and shifting the battle in the cultivators' favor.
• Yang Lingtian, disguised as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, sensed the danger to his plan and flew out, spreading vast Demonic Qi.

Yang Lingtian disguised himself as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable and battled Qinglong Taishang, concealing his true power to attract more Mahayana Realm cultivators. Qinglong Taishang unleashed a powerful Blood Sacrifice Rune, but Yang Lingtian remained standing as the fight continued.

• Yang Lingtian posed as the supposedly fallen Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable and challenged Qinglong Taishang, who doubted his identity but accepted the confrontation.
• Qinglong Taishang attacked with a Top-grade Sacred Artifact, and Yang Lingtian countered with a black dragon formed from Demonic Qi; their clash injured Qinglong Taishang more severely.
• Yang Lingtian deliberately prolonged the battle and hid his true strength so other Mahayana Realm cultivators would believe he was only modestly stronger than Qinglong Taishang.
• After hours of fighting, Qinglong Taishang used his Blood Sacrifice Rune, whose blast reached the power of the Third-level Mahayana Realm.
• Yang Lingtian stood firm after the explosion and told Qinglong Taishang that the attack was not enough to kill him.

Yang Lingtian killed Qinglong Taishang and let the surviving cultivators escape so news of the Devil Race would draw more Mahayana Realm experts to the secret realm. After the Azure Heaven Pavilion learned of its losses, Old Ancestor Qing Ming convened its leaders to discuss the Devil Race’s return.

• Yang Lingtian killed Qinglong Taishang as he tried to flee, then stored his body in the Space Sacred Artifact.
• The Devil Race routed the outside cultivators, with ninety percent of tens of thousands dying and several thousand escaping the secret realm.
• Ancestor Mo Long, Old Ancestor Lan, and the other ancestors of the Four Great Powers discussed the defeat as news of a Mahayana Realm Demon Venerable spread.
• Yang Lingtian waited in the secret realm, hoping to lure more Mahayana Realm experts into a trap.
• Old Ancestor Qing Ming summoned the Azure Heaven Pavilion’s senior members after learning that Qinglong Taishang and many other experts had fallen.
• Old Ancestor Qing Ming acknowledged his misjudgment, while the pavilion’s leaders discussed avenging their losses and noted the Demon Venerable’s former Fourth-level Mahayana Realm strength.

Yang Lingtian disguised himself as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable and lured Azure Heaven Pavilion experts into a killing array. After hours of fighting, Old Ancestor Qing Ming found the Array Core, and the trapped experts prepared to attack it.

• Azure Heaven Pavilion decided to send four Mahayana Realm experts to kill the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, with Old Ancestor Qing Ming leading the expedition.
• Old Ancestor Qing Ming left one Supreme Elder to guard the secret realm entrance and entered with the Vice Pavilion Master and another Supreme Elder.
• Yang Lingtian sensed their approach, disguised himself as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, and waited above Sacred Demon Mountain.
• Yang Lingtian activated his killing array and trapped the three experts, whose attacks failed to break it.
• After several hours, Old Ancestor Qing Ming found the Array Core and called on the others to attack it together.

Yang Lingtian used the killing array to overpower Old Ancestor Qing Ming and the two Mahayana Realm experts, then killed them after hours of fighting. He deliberately let the Supreme Elder outside the secret realm escape without revealing his full strength.

• The two Mahayana Realm experts attacked the killing array’s Array Core, but it remained unharmed, and Yang Lingtian entered the array to fight them.
• Yang Lingtian’s Sword Qi repeatedly broke the three experts’ defenses and wounded them, while Old Ancestor Qing Ming used a secret technique to try to hold him back.
• The Supreme Elder outside the secret realm sensed the battle and believed the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable would eventually be killed.
• After hours of combat, Yang Lingtian slew Old Ancestor Qing Ming and the other two experts as their Spiritual Power ran out and their injuries worsened.
• The Supreme Elder sensed their auras disappear, was injured by Yang Lingtian’s sword beam, and fled; Yang Lingtian let him escape.

After Yang Lingtian killed five Mahayana Realm experts, the Azure Heaven Pavilion blamed the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable and spread rumors that the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm held great treasures. The rumors drew a vast force of cultivators and Mahayana Realm experts to the entrance, where Old Ancestor Qing Lie prepared to rally them.

• Yang Lingtian let a Third-level Mahayana Realm expert escape so word of the secret realm would attract more targets.
• Supreme Elder Qing Feng reported that Old Ancestor Qing Ming and two others had died inside the secret realm, and the Azure Heaven Pavilion's leaders gathered in alarm.
• Old Ancestor Qing Lie wanted to enter the secret realm for revenge, but the Pavilion master and elders debated the dangers and the need for allies.
• A Fourth-level Mahayana Realm ancestor proposed spreading news of the secret realm's treasures to draw forces into confronting the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.
• Thousands of cultivators and twenty Mahayana Realm experts gathered outside the secret realm, and Old Ancestor Qing Lie rose into the sky to address them.

Old Ancestor Qing Lie rallied more than twenty Mahayana Realm experts to enter the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm and eliminate the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable. Hermit Luo Tian entered first, and Qing Lie led the others in after him, determined to avenge Azure Heaven Pavilion’s fallen experts.

• Old Ancestor Qing Lie explained that the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable had killed several Azure Heaven Pavilion experts and argued that the secret realm likely held valuable treasures and opportunities.
• The Mahayana Realm experts agreed to join forces against the Demon Venerable, though they questioned the dangers of his old lair and the circumstances of his earlier victories.
• Hermit Luo Tian dismissed the group’s caution and declared that he could deal with the Demon Venerable alone.
• After Qing Lie calmed suspicions over who would claim the secret realm’s opportunities, Hermit Luo Tian flew inside to test the waters.
• Old Ancestor Qing Lie led the remaining twenty-odd Mahayana Realm experts into the secret realm to surround the Devil Race and avenge the Azure Heaven Pavilion’s dead.

Yang Lingtian, disguised as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, waited inside Sacred Demon Mountain as Hermit Luo Tian and twenty-five Mahayana Realm cultivators gathered outside. The cultivators launched a combined assault on the barrier, while Yang Lingtian reinforced it to wear them down before fighting back.

• Hermit Luo Tian detected the concealed arrays around Sacred Demon Mountain and challenged the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, who appeared but stayed behind the barrier.
• Hermit Luo Tian struck the barrier repeatedly, and Yang Lingtian reinforced it when a powerful martial skill nearly brought it to collapse.
• Old Ancestor Qing Lie and the other Mahayana Realm cultivators arrived, and Hermit Luo Tian warned them about the arrays.
• Yang Lingtian taunted the assembled cultivators and waited for them to gather before planning to defeat them all at once.
• Hermit Luo Tian called on the twenty-five Mahayana Realm cultivators to attack together, and Yang Lingtian poured Spiritual Power into the barrier to withstand their assault.

Yang Lingtian held off twenty-five Mahayana Realm experts at Sacred Demon Mountain, deliberately weakening his barrier to exhaust them before it shattered. He revealed a disguised aura that appeared to place the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable at the Fourth-level Mahayana Realm, then feigned trouble against their combined assault as he prepared to keep them from escaping.

• Yang Lingtian strengthened the barrier as Old Ancestor Qing Lie and the other experts battered it with their strongest attacks.
• Yang Lingtian weakened the barrier when the attackers considered stopping to recover, and Hermit Luo Tian urged them to press on.
• The experts attacked for another hundred breaths until the barrier shattered, believing they had exposed the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.
• Yang Lingtian emerged with a Chaos Qi-disguised aura that Old Ancestor Qing Lie judged to be at the Fourth-level Mahayana Realm.
• Hermit Luo Tian attacked Yang Lingtian, then Old Ancestor Qing Lie called on everyone to join the fight.
• Yang Lingtian resisted the group while pretending to struggle, intending to lower their guard and drain their Spiritual Power.

Yang Lingtian revealed that he had been pretending to struggle against the Mahayana Realm experts surrounding him, then killed several of them and badly injured Old Ancestor Qing Lie. The battle continued inside the secret realm, where a dozen or so injured experts still besieged him while onlookers outside predicted his defeat.

• Yang Lingtian endured the attacks while secretly waiting for the besieging experts to exhaust their Spiritual Power.
• Yang Lingtian used the Space-time Profound Meaning to appear behind a second-level Mahayana Realm expert and kill him with his sacred sword.
• Yang Lingtian darted among the experts and killed several more first- and second-level Mahayana Realm fighters.
• Yang Lingtian struck Old Ancestor Qing Lie, blasting him away and severely injuring him; Qing Lie swallowed a Ninth-grade Spirit Elixir and used a secret technique to restore his cultivation temporarily.
• Hermit Luo Tian engaged Yang Lingtian while the other experts renewed their siege, and observers outside the secret realm debated the battle without daring to enter.
• Seven or eight early-stage Mahayana Realm experts had died, leaving a dozen or so injured experts to continue fighting Yang Lingtian.

Yang Lingtian overwhelmed the Mahayana experts besieging him, killing their weaker members and pursuing Hermit Luo Tian as the survivors fled. He survived Luo Tian’s powerful attack talisman, while Luo Tian continued racing toward the secret realm’s entrance.

• Yang Lingtian wounded a Third-level Mahayana expert and forced the early Mahayana experts to flee as their Spiritual Power ran low.
• Yang Lingtian unleashed the Azure Vault Sword Art and killed ten early Mahayana experts, leaving Hermit Luo Tian and four Fourth-level Mahayana experts.
• Hermit Luo Tian fled toward the secret realm’s entrance, and Yang Lingtian pursued him using the Space-time Profound Meaning.
• Hermit Luo Tian burned his essence blood and activated an attack talisman, but Yang Lingtian blocked the strike unharmed.
• Hermit Luo Tian took advantage of the clash to accelerate toward the secret realm’s entrance.

Yang Lingtian killed Hermit Luo Tian and the other Mahayana Realm powerhouses, then frightened cultivators away by pretending to be the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable. News of the deaths spread across the Mòtiān Continent, and True Person Tian Que set out to investigate the secret realm.

• Yang Lingtian pursued Hermit Luo Tian, killed him, and hunted down the other four fleeing Fourth-level Mahayana Realm powerhouses.
• Yang Lingtian left the twenty-five Mahayana Realm powerhouses dead and watched as lower-level cultivators entered the secret realm.
• Yang Lingtian imitated the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable and warned the newcomers that he had killed the twenty-five powerhouses, driving them back toward the entrance.
• News of the twenty-five deaths spread across the Mòtiān Continent, prompting its three supreme powers to send experts to investigate.
• True Person Tian Que read the report, doubted that the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable had returned with such strength, and headed for the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm.

More than thirty Mahayana Realm experts gathered outside the Heavenly Dragon Secret Realm, where Yang Lingtian secretly watched and waited for them to enter. True Person Tian Que arrived and charged inside, while mid-stage experts from the three super factions stayed behind, convinced he would kill the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.

• Yang Lingtian sensed the gathered Mahayana Realm experts from Sacred Demon Mountain and waited for more of them to enter the secret realm.
• Cultivators outside debated the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable's strength and why the Mahayana Realm experts were reluctant to attack.
• True Person Tian Que arrived, mocked the gathered experts for their cowardice, and declared that he would destroy the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.
• True Person Tian Que entered the secret realm, prompting the other Mahayana Realm experts to follow him.
• Seven or eight mid-stage Mahayana Realm experts from the three super factions appeared and chose to wait outside, confident that True Person Tian Que would kill the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.

Yang Lingtian, disguised as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, confronted True Person Tian Que after cultivators entered the secret realm. Although Tian Que expected an easy victory, Yang Lingtian matched his attacks and launched a counterattack, leaving their battle unresolved.

• True Person Tian Que’s arrival emboldened cultivators to enter the secret realm, while Yang Lingtian welcomed the chance to kill them and advance his mission.
• Yang Lingtian revealed his Devil Race aura, drawing True Person Tian Que to him, and the two exchanged hostile words.
• True Person Tian Que identified himself and challenged Yang Lingtian, who learned that Tian Que had once nearly killed the real Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable.
• True Person Tian Que attacked with power drawn from twenty-six kinds of Heaven and Earth Profound Meaning, but Yang Lingtian blocked his palm strike with a demonic shield.
• Yang Lingtian and True Person Tian Que traded dozens of blows without Tian Que gaining the upper hand, and Yang Lingtian then fired a gigantic black pillar of light at him.

Yang Lingtian fought True Person Tian Que to a standstill at Sacred Demon Mountain while other experts watched, unaware of Yang Lingtian’s true identity. After realizing he could not defeat Tian Que quickly, Yang Lingtian activated the tenth level of the Chaos Dao Divine Art and prepared to unleash his full power.

• True Person Tian Que dodged Yang Lingtian’s black pillar of light but was blasted into a mountain and injured.
• True Person Tian Que summoned a Spiritual Power sword, but Yang Lingtian blocked its strike with a curtain of black light.
• The two fighters clashed with Top-grade Sacred Artifacts as onlookers debated whether True Person Tian Que was holding back.
• Mid-stage Mahayana Realm experts sensed that Yang Lingtian was matching True Person Tian Que and still seemed to have strength left.
• After several hours, Yang Lingtian activated the tenth level of the Chaos Dao Divine Art, raising his Spiritual Power to a level comparable to the Eighth Layer Mahayana Realm.

Yang Lingtian, disguised as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Venerable, defeated and killed True Person Tian Que after overpowering his secret arts. He then pretended to be gravely injured, prompting the watching Mahayana experts to consider attacking him.

• True Person Tian Que used secret arts to boost his strength and erect a defensive curtain, but Yang Lingtian continued to overwhelm him.
• True Person Tian Que tried to flee, but Yang Lingtian caught him and countered his Heaven-Slaying Sword Strike.
• Yang Lingtian combined the Chaos Profound Meaning with more than a hundred Heaven and Earth Profound Meanings and pierced True Person Tian Que's brow, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The watching cultivators learned that True Person Tian Que had died and reacted with disbelief.
• Yang Lingtian feigned severe injuries, and a Mahayana powerhouse urged the others to attack him.