Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan faced the Great Protector and Lei Wanhong’s combined attacks and gained the upper hand with Buddha Kingdom in Palm. After the Fourth Protector ambushed him, Zhang Qingyuan revealed a prepared sword array and killed him.

• The Great Protector and Lei Wanhong coordinated their attacks, sealing off Zhang Qingyuan’s escape routes.
• Zhang Qingyuan met both attacks with Buddha Kingdom in Palm, forcing Lei Wanhong and the Great Protector back while remaining unharmed.
• Zhang Qingyuan retreated with Mayfly Between Heaven and Earth, drawing the hidden Fourth Protector into an ambush.
• The Fourth Protector attacked Zhang Qingyuan with a spear, but Zhang Qingyuan trapped him in the Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the power of the Five Elements Round Wheel to destroy the Fourth Protector’s defenses and smash his head.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the Fourth Protector with his prepared sword array and Five Elements power, while Lei Wanhong fled. He faced the badly wounded Great Protector cautiously, who recognized his ancient Five Elements Dao and hinted at a hidden history between the Five Elements Holy Sect and the Blood Demon Sect.

• Zhang Qingyuan trapped the Fourth Protector in the Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array and killed him with a Five Elements-infused strike.
• The Great Protector and Lei Wanhong were shocked by Zhang Qingyuan's counterattack, and Lei Wanhong transformed into lightning and escaped.
• Zhang Qingyuan focused on the severely wounded Great Protector, sensing that he still possessed a dangerous trump card.
• Zhang Qingyuan probed the Great Protector while keeping his guard up, and the Great Protector identified his power as the orthodox Five Elements of ancient times.
• The Great Protector declared that Zhang Qingyuan was not from the Five Elements Sect and called its members thieves, prompting Zhang Qingyuan to suspect a deeper secret.

The Great Protector ambushed Zhang Qingyuan with Left Heavenly Venerate’s sealed strike, and the two unleashed attacks tore open the Cave Heaven Secret Realm. Left Heavenly Venerate sensed the Great Protector’s imminent death and ordered his forces to begin their plan ahead of schedule.

• The Great Protector secretly activated a Jade Talisman and struck Zhang Qingyuan with a blood-colored attack.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed his Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara to meet the strike.
• The attacks collided, destroying part of the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and sending a pillar of energy over Immortal City.
• Left Heavenly Venerate sensed the Jade Talisman’s use and realized the Great Protector was near death after clashing with a Five Elements Aura.
• Left Heavenly Venerate ordered his forces to open the altars, breach Immortal City, and open the Demon City ruins.

Zhang Qingyuan survived the Great Protector’s devastating Jade Talisman attack, though the clash left him injured and the Murong Clan’s Cave Heaven Secret Realm in ruins. He recognized that his carelessness had nearly cost him his life, then found the Great Protector barely alive and unable to resist.

• The clash between Zhang Qingyuan’s Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara and the Great Protector’s blood-sun-like strike devastated the Secret Realm and wounded Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that his confidence had made him careless and resolved to be more cautious against the hidden dangers of the Nine Continents Continent.
• Zhang Qingyuan circulated his Five Elements Power to suppress his injuries, then crossed the void to inspect the Great Protector.
• Zhang Qingyuan confirmed that the Great Protector’s Jade Talisman had drained his strength, leaving him near death after the destructive collision.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the Blood Demon Sect's Great Protector after surviving his devastating attack, but the enemy's sealed memories destroyed themselves before he could learn much. Old Ancestor Murong thanked Zhang Qingyuan for saving him and warned that the Blood Demon Sect would pursue the Murong Clan because of a secret connected to the legendary immortals.

• Zhang Qingyuan attempted to search the dying Great Protector's mind, but the man's head exploded after seals destroyed his memories.
• Zhang Qingyuan took the Great Protector's Jade Pendant, found plentiful resources including seven hundred High-grade Spirit Stones, and burned the corpse to erase the evidence.
• Old Ancestor Murong arrived badly injured and thanked Zhang Qingyuan for saving his life and the Murong Clan.
• Zhang Qingyuan refused repayment, recalling Old Ancestor Murong's help when he first entered the Cave True Realm.
• Old Ancestor Murong said the Blood Demon Sect would not let the Murong Clan roam freely because they knew a secret connected to the legendary immortals.

Old Ancestor Murong revealed that Immortal City had been built over the sealed ruins of Demon City, which held an inheritance connected to ancient immortals. As the Blood Demon Sect moved to open the ruins and threatened the Murong Family, Zhang Qingyuan learned that the ancient bloodline tied to the inheritance was the Blazing Sky Qilin Snake clan.

• Zhang Qingyuan recalled Old Ancestor Murong’s earlier unease about the Primordial Immortal Scripture and suspected the Murong Family was concealing secrets about immortals.
• Old Ancestor Murong explained that three Human Race experts had defeated the Demon Race in Demon City ten thousand years ago, suppressed its volatile Earth Vein, and sealed the ruins beneath the new Immortal City.
• Old Ancestor Murong said the three founding families had held tokens needed to enter Demon City, but the Xie Family’s token had vanished when the family was destroyed a thousand years earlier and later surfaced with the Blood Demon Sect.
• Old Ancestor Murong warned that the Blood Demon Sect’s Cave True Realm forces and the defected Lei Family Old Ancestor had trapped the Murong Family in a dangerous conflict over Demon City.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked which Demon Beast bloodline had followed an ancient immortal, and Old Ancestor Murong identified the extinct Blazing Sky Qilin Snake clan, causing Zhang Qingyuan’s pupils to contract.

Old Ancestor Murong revealed that the Crimson Flame Sky-Scale Serpent clan had been exterminated because its ancestor followed an immortal, but a sudden attack interrupted Zhang Qingyuan’s questions. The Blood Demon Sect’s formation tore Immortal City apart to reveal the Demon City beneath it, leaving millions dead and Zhang Qingyuan shaken by the slaughter.

• Old Ancestor Murong told Zhang Qingyuan and Little Fire that the Crimson Flame Sky-Scale Serpent’s ancestor had followed an immortal, which led to the clan’s destruction.
• Before Zhang Qingyuan could ask more, the Cave Heaven Secret Realm shook as a terrifying force surged through the opening to the outside world.
• Four blood-red pillars and a vast formation tore Immortal City apart, revealing the Demon City buried beneath it.
• Old Ancestor Murong recognized the Blood Demon Sect’s hand in the disaster and flew out to survey the destruction.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw that millions of Immortal City’s residents had died and clenched his fists in anger and grief.

Zhang Qingyuan watched cultivators rush into the newly opened Demon City and considered entering himself, especially because Little Fire sensed a stronger bloodline call there. As cultivators battled over its treasures, Left Heavenly Venerate unleashed his fury on Lei Wanhong for failing to kill their targets.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on the Blood Demon Sect's destruction of Immortal City and the helplessness of ordinary people caught beneath powerful cultivators.
• Cultivators flooded into Demon City after its sealed ruins emerged, drawn by its abundant spiritual energy and treasures, while Cave True Realm powers also entered.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked Little Fire about its bloodline call, and Little Fire said it could hear voices growing stronger.
• Old Ancestor Murong overcame his reluctance and asked Zhang Qingyuan for help.
• Left Heavenly Venerate berated Lei Wanhong for failing to kill the Law Domain Realm cultivators, and Lei Wanhong pleaded for his life.

Lei Wanhong told the Left Heavenly Venerate that Zhang Yuan had survived the Great Protector’s Jade Talisman attack, prompting the Venerate to question Zhang Yuan’s origins and order Lei Wanhong to locate him. After leaving, Lei Wanhong revealed that he planned to use Zhang Yuan to lure the Left Heavenly Venerate into a fight and seize the object his ancestor had sought.

• Lei Wanhong claimed Zhang Yuan had blocked the Great Protector’s powerful Jade Talisman attack and begged the Left Heavenly Venerate to forgive his failure.
• The Left Heavenly Venerate doubted Zhang Yuan’s apparent cultivation level, suspected he had concealed his strength, and wondered whether he threatened the Venerate’s plans.
• Lei Wanhong urged the Left Heavenly Venerate to prepare, and the Venerate ordered him to find Zhang Yuan and report his whereabouts.
• After leaving the blood-red space, Lei Wanhong vented his anger by destroying a nearby hill.
• Lei Wanhong told a Lei Family Cave True cultivator that they would find Zhang Yuan, draw the Left Heavenly Venerate into a clash, and search for the object their ancestor had sought.

Lei Wanhong revealed that the Lei Family planned to exploit a conflict between the Five Elements Sect and the Blood Demon Sect to seize a secret treasure in Demon City. Meanwhile, Zhang Qingyuan studied an ancient parchment in the dangerous Secret Realm when several attackers suddenly struck him.

• Lei Wanhong learned that the Five Elements Sect had sent Lie Feng to investigate and ordered his family to find Zhang Yuan and use him to delay Left Heavenly Venerate.
• Lei Wanhong explained that Zhang Yuan was a decoy and that the Lei Family intended to use a clash between the two sects to seize a secret known only to its Cave True ancestors.
• The chapter described Demon City's transformed Cave Heaven Secret Realm, where deadly beasts and dangerous regions killed many cultivators even as tales of valuable treasures drew more people inside.
• Zhang Qingyuan studied an ancient, damaged parchment on a mountain peak when several streaks of light erupted from the forest and attacked him with True Essence blades.

After Zhang Qingyuan effortlessly killed a group of ambushers, he learned of the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, which could help Little Fire reach the Cave True Realm. He entered the newly opened abyss with Little Fire to seek the treasure and pursue the source of its bloodline summons.

• Little Fire complained about the ambushers, whom Zhang Qingyuan had killed with ease.
• Zhang Qingyuan said the ancestral map could not guide them through the ruined Shattered Demon City and urged Little Fire to sense its bloodline summons.
• Zhang Qingyuan teased Little Fire about its laziness, then revealed that the ambushers had led him to information about the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool.
• Zhang Qingyuan explained that the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool could give Little Fire a chance to break through to the Cave True Realm and might help him find the Crimson Flame Sky-Scale Serpent ancestral land.
• Zhang Qingyuan opened a pitch-black entrance in the void and took Little Fire inside.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the blood-shrouded White Bone Sea, where he intended to find the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool that could help Little Fire advance to Cave True. After witnessing a Half-step Cave True beast wither into bones, he entered the forbidden land, and the awakened bone sea erased their way back.

• Zhang Qingyuan confirmed the White Bone Sea was the place described in the memories of the cultivators he had Soul Searched.
• A gigantic exotic beast charged into the bone sea and was rapidly drained and reduced to a skeleton by the blood-colored mist.
• Little Fire urged Zhang Qingyuan to abandon the dangerous place, but he grabbed it by the tail and went to the bone sea's edge.
• Zhang Qingyuan stepped into the forest of bones, awakening it as waves of bones surged toward them.
• Little Fire discovered that their retreat had vanished, leaving them surrounded by an endless sea of bones.

Zhang Qingyuan and Little Fire crossed the illusory White Bone Forest Sea and reached the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, a living forbidden land. As the ground shook at their arrival, Zhang Qingyuan braced for the real threat to appear.

• Little Fire panicked when the way back vanished and a vast army of skeletons rose from the bone sea, but Zhang Qingyuan shook him free of the illusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan shattered the illusion with a stomp and a Spiritual Sense Impact, revealing the blood mist surrounding them.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool had become a living being after devouring life for ten thousand years, and told Little Fire the gathered power might benefit him.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Little Fire reached the blood-red pool set within a towering mountain of bones, where the earth suddenly began to shake.

Zhang Qingyuan battled the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool’s enormous skeletal guardian after it emerged from beneath the Bone Mountain. He evaded the giant’s devastating strike and identified the guardian’s fatal weakness, though the chapter left that weakness unexplained.

• A gigantic skeletal hand burst from the ground and clashed with Zhang Qingyuan’s Five Elements palm, forcing him back as the hand retreated into the fissure.
• A thousand-zhang armored skeletal giant emerged from the fissure, and Zhang Qingyuan recognized it as the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool’s strongest weapon, a Cave True Realm opponent.
• The skeletal giant attacked Zhang Qingyuan with a massive bone club, apparently shattering him and splitting the skeletal ground with a strike that opened a chasm more than ten li long.
• The skeletal giant found no flesh-and-blood energy where Zhang Qingyuan had been, while Zhang Qingyuan’s voice declared that the creature’s obvious flaw was its fatal weakness.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the skeletal giant guarding the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and led Little Fire toward it so Little Fire could advance to Cave True. As Zhang Qingyuan wondered whether the pool could also strengthen his cultivation, Lie Feng appeared, claiming the opportunity for himself.

• Zhang Qingyuan struck the skeletal giant from concealment with a palm that pierced its body.
• The skeletal giant rampaged through the area but failed to find Zhang Qingyuan, who then destroyed it with a sword strike.
• Zhang Qingyuan explained that spatial concealment and his Spiritual Sense had let him exploit the puppet’s lack of intelligence.
• Zhang Qingyuan took Little Fire toward the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and wondered whether it could improve his cultivation too.
• Lie Feng emerged behind Zhang Qingyuan and declared that the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool was his destined opportunity.

Daoist Lie Feng arrived at the White Bone Forestland and claimed the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, ordering Zhang Qingyuan to surrender it. When Lie Feng attacked him with a whip, Zhang Qingyuan seized it and struck back with a powerful sword slash.

• Daoist Lie Feng appeared above the White Bone Forestland and praised the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool as a great opportunity.
• Daoist Lie Feng declared the place his, while nearby cultivators recognized him and withdrew or kept their distance.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to drive the gathered cultivators away by defeating Lie Feng as a warning to the others.
• Daoist Lie Feng angrily swung a black whip at Zhang Qingyuan, who caught it with his bare hand.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed a fierce Sword Light toward Daoist Lie Feng.

Zhang Qingyuan killed Daoist Lie Feng with a single sword strike despite Lie Feng’s desperate defense. He held up Lie Feng’s head and warned everyone against crossing him, leaving the surviving cultivators stunned and afraid.

• Daoist Lie Feng panicked as Zhang Qingyuan’s Sword Momentum tore through the sky and rushed toward him.
• Daoist Lie Feng unleashed the power of his Fire, Gold, and Wood laws in an attempt to block the attack.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s sword shattered Lie Feng’s defenses, split his body, and carved a vast fissure through the sky.
• The sword’s storm flung the gathered cultivators away, and the survivors struggled to their feet after it subsided.
• Zhang Qingyuan caught Daoist Lie Feng’s head and warned that anyone who crossed him would die, leaving the onlookers in deathly silence.

Zhang Qingyuan killed Daoist Lie Feng and warned the gathered cultivators not to approach the Bone Mountain, then continued toward the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool. When a greedy cultivator crossed his sword mark, its lingering Sword Intent killed him, and Zhang Qingyuan reached the pool with Little Fire.

• Zhang Qingyuan killed Daoist Lie Feng, carved a warning line into the ground, and headed for the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool.
• The gathered cultivators speculated that Zhang Qingyuan was weakened and considered crossing his sword mark to reach the Bone Mountain.
• A True Essence Realm cultivator crossed the line and was split in two by the Sword Intent Zhang Qingyuan had left behind.
• Little Fire worried that Daoist Lie Feng's powerful background would bring trouble, but Zhang Qingyuan said he had no regrets and planned to cultivate in seclusion afterward.
• Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and looked over its radiant waters and immense Spiritual Mechanism.

Zhang Qingyuan brought Little Fire to the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and forced him to endure its power so he could advance. Sensing a greater prize beneath the pool, Zhang Qingyuan dove deeper to find it.

• Zhang Qingyuan explained that the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool had accumulated immense energy over ten thousand years and sent Little Fire into it.
• Little Fire tried to escape the painful pool, but Zhang Qingyuan suppressed him and made him continue absorbing its power.
• Little Fire’s body was corroded as the pool’s energy strengthened him, potentially allowing him to reach the Cave True Realm and locate the Crimson Flame Sky-Scale Serpent Ancestral Land.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the pool and refined its energy with his Five Elements God Wheel, increasing his Body Strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed something more valuable in the pool’s depths and swiftly plunged toward it.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the bottom of the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and discovered its enormous living heart, the source of the pool’s power. He broke through its tentacle defense and entered the heart to absorb its essence, gaining a rare opportunity to strengthen his body and Five Elements Dao Law.

• Zhang Qingyuan hurried deeper into the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, refining its energy as he descended toward the source of the sensation stirring his bloodline.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a colossal placenta-like mass at the pool’s bottom, with a giant heart beating at its center and generating the pool’s power.
• The Heavenly Demon Blood Pool’s consciousness sensed danger and sent a vast swarm of tentacles to attack Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his Five Elements Divine Wheel to destroy the tentacles and charge into the enormous heart.
• Zhang Qingyuan began absorbing the heart’s essence, strengthening his physique and stirring the Five Elements Dao Law power he had mastered.