Chapter Summaries

After escaping the collapsing cavern, Lu Guyan recovered with Su Wange and Lu Guzhao, then sought answers about his bloodline in the Lu Family Library Pavilion. The chapter leaves him examining an ancient account of the Lu ancestors fighting the Devil Gods.

• Lu Guyan killed the second traitorous clan elder, and he, Su Wange, and Lu Guzhao escaped the collapsing cavern by activating ley-line markings that opened a stone door.
• In a mountain valley, Lu Guyan recuperated as Su Wange searched her father's fragmentary scroll for a way to balance his demonic power and spiritual energy, while Lu Guzhao kept watch.
• After returning to Cui Mountain, Lu Guyan learned that Patriarch Lu Wanyuan had entered seclusion and went with Su Wange and Lu Guzhao to seek records in the Library Pavilion.
• Lu Guzhen allowed Lu Guyan and his companions half an hour inside the Library Pavilion, despite the family's order barring Lu Guyan from entering.
• Su Wange found an ancient text describing how the Lu Family's ancestors joined other Cultivation Families to fight the Devil Gods, and called Lu Guyan over to read it.

Lu Guyan uncovered clues that the stone stele was one of nine fragments of a divine artifact tied to his awakened bloodline and the ancient Demon God. With Elder Lu Guzhen’s support, he set out with Su Wange and Lu Guzhao for the Northernmost Ice Lake to find another fragment.

• Lu Guyan and Su Wange read that the divine artifact had been split into nine fragments, and that contact with one could awaken a bloodline.
• Lu Wanyan led Lu Family disciples into the Library Pavilion to arrest Lu Guyan, and a fight began.
• Elder Lu Guzhen stopped the clash and persuaded Lu Wanyan to let Lu Guyan explain his discoveries.
• Lu Guyan told the elders that the stone stele might be one artifact fragment and that another could lie beneath the Northernmost Ice Lake.
• Lu Guzhen joined Lu Guyan, Su Wange, and Lu Guzhao as they left the Lu Family Mansion and traveled north.

Lu Guyan and his companions reached the Northernmost Ice Lake and broke the ancient seal to descend beneath it, where they discovered a White Bone Palace guarded by Lu Family corpse puppets. As they fought toward the palace, a powerful corpse puppet emerged, and Elder Lu Guzhen joined Lu Guyan to face it.

• Lu Guyan, Lu Guzhao, and Elder Lu Guzhen fought off a flock of Mo Vultures before continuing their journey.
• The group reached the Northernmost Ice Lake and found ancient runes sealing the ice above the suspected location of the second stone tablet.
• Lu Guyan used an array pattern to activate the runes, shattering the ice, and the group swam down to the lakebed.
• The companions encountered a White Bone Palace and were attacked by Lu Family corpse puppets; Su Wange identified their necks as their weakness.
• Lu Guyan spotted a recess in the palace doors resembling the stone tablet's top and fought toward it.
• A gigantic corpse puppet emerged from the palace, and Elder Lu Guzhen formed a barrier and attacked it with spiritual runes.

Lu Guyan and his companions defeated the corpse puppet and entered the palace beneath the frozen lake, where they uncovered the Lu Family’s forbidden pact with the Devil God. After a demon serpent guarding the seal attacked, Lu Guyan struck its weak point and brought it down.

• Su Wange spotted a weakness in the corpse puppet’s right elbow, allowing Lu Guyan to damage its joint.
• When Lu Guzhao was wounded by flying bones, Lu Guyan unleashed his Devil Race power and destroyed the corpse puppet.
• Lu Guyan used the stone stele to open the palace gates, where the group discovered records of the Lu Family Ancestors’ pact with a dark force and their attempt to seal the Devil God’s power.
• A demon serpent attacked the group inside the palace, knocking Lu Guzhao aside and shaking Lu Guyan’s Spiritual Power Shield.
• Lu Guyan found the serpent’s weak point and pierced it with his spirit sword, killing the guardian.

Lu Guyan and his companions learned that the stone steles sealed part of the Demon God's power, then fought off a Devil Race attack on the frozen lake. After Lu Guzhao was wounded, Lu Guyan's bloodline power erupted, and the defeated general revealed that a red crystal on a guarded altar controlled the puppets.

• Lu Guyan retrieved the demon wyrm's inner core and activated a mural rune that revealed Lu Qingtian's warning about the Demon God, the stone steles, and the Devil Race.
• Dozens of Devil Race vessels arrived over the frozen lake, and the Devil Race General demanded that Lu Guyan hand over the steles.
• Lu Guyan, Elder Lu Guzhen, Lu Guzhao, and Su Wange fought the attacking soldiers and their general.
• Lu Guzhao took a blow meant for Lu Guyan and was wounded, causing Lu Guyan's Demon God power to erupt and destroy many Devil Race soldiers.
• Lu Guyan defeated the general, who revealed that a red crystal on a guarded black altar controlled the puppets.
• Lu Guyan told his companions they had to destroy the altar and save their controlled clansmen.

Lu Guyan and his companions fought the Mo Race General and the Devil Race soldiers as the general awakened his Mo Soul Power. Lu Guyan wounded him with a mysterious surge of strength, but the battle continued with both fighters nearing exhaustion.

• Lu Guzhao fought to protect the group while Su Wange poisoned a cluster of Devil Race soldiers, giving Lu Guzhen time to strike with the Flame Burst Technique.
• The Mo Race General empowered the soldiers, and Lu Guyan used the mysterious power linked to the stone stele to blast the general into an ice mountain.
• The Mo Race General emerged with awakened Mo Soul Power and attacked Lu Guyan and the others with a powerful spear arc.
• Lu Guzhao charged the general but was knocked away, and Lu Guyan's anger caused the mysterious power within him to erupt.
• Lu Guyan cut the general's spear in two and wounded his shoulder, then grappled with him as Lu Guzhen disrupted the general with spells and Su Wange stood ready to help Lu Guzhao.

Lu Guyan gained power from the dark pearl and wounded the Mo Race General, but the general regenerated and unleashed demonic apparitions. Guided by his spirit sword, Lu Guyan found a rune-covered crystal tied to the Mo Race and the Demon God, and prepared to face the general in a final showdown.

• Lu Guyan fused the dark pearl’s power with his spiritual power and demonic bloodline, shattered the Mo Race General’s clones, and severed his arm.
• Elder Lu Guzhen struck the Mo Race General with lightning, while Su Wange treated the wounded Lu Guzhao and Elder Lu Guzhen trapped the Mo Race soldiers in an Earth Cage.
• The Mo Race General regenerated, grew a new arm, and summoned demonic apparitions that battered Elder Lu Guzhen’s Spirit Shield Guard.
• Su Wange searched her father’s fragmentary scroll for a way to counter the Mo Race’s secret techniques as Lu Guyan sensed the general’s transformation was linked to the stele and the Demon God.
• Lu Guyan followed his spirit sword’s guidance to a rune-covered crystal in the iceberg, touched it, and saw visions of Mo Race rites and the Demon God’s descent.
• Lu Guyan took hold of the crystal and turned to face the Mo Race General as the final battle began.

Lu Guyan and his allies defeated the Mo Race General, then discovered that the crystal and a black fragment were connected to the Devil Race’s ritual for breaking the Demon God’s seal. A hidden immortal cultivator warned them to find the remaining stone tablets, then stayed behind as Devil Race pursuers approached and the others escaped through the cave’s back exit.

• Lu Guyan used the crystal’s power and Elder Lu Guzhen’s Heavenly Punishment Light to defeat the Mo Race General, then collected a symbol-marked black fragment.
• Su Wange read in her father’s scroll that the Devil Race needed objects containing the Demon God’s power to open a passage to the Demon God’s domain.
• Lu Guyan shone the crystal on the fragment, causing their symbols to glow and resonate with each other.
• A cloaked elderly man revealed himself as a hidden immortal cultivator and warned that the crystal and fragment could help the Devil Race break the Demon God’s seal.
• When a crowd approached the cave, the hidden immortal cultivator sent Lu Guyan and the others through the back exit and prepared to hold off their pursuers.

Lu Guyan and his companions escaped the cave, fought a pack of Scarlet Scale Mo Leopards, and were rescued by a Phoenix Race Woman. As Devil Race pursuers arrived, the woman confronted their Mo Race General while Lu Guyan and Elder Lu Guzhen prepared to support her.

• Lu Guyan and his companions left the cave and headed along a winding path, carrying the black fragments and crystal as they sought the remaining stone tablets.
• Lu Guyan and Elder Lu Guzhen killed one Scarlet Scale Mo Leopard, but a pack surrounded them and forced the group into a difficult fight.
• A Phoenix Race Woman arrived, drove off the leopards with golden flames, and transformed into a woman who asked about Lu Guyan's unusual aura.
• Devil Race soldiers led by a Mo Race General arrived, and the Phoenix Race Woman attacked them with flaming arrows.
• The Phoenix Race Woman clashed with the Mo Race General as Lu Guyan and Elder Lu Guzhen prepared to join the battle and the Devil Race soldiers pressed their attack.

Lu Guyan and his companions escaped the Devil Race with help from Qin Yi, who revealed that the Mo Race General’s saber might be one of nine artifacts tied to the Demon God’s seal. When Lu Guzhao’s wound worsened, Qin Yi proposed seeking Soul Returning Grass in a dangerous valley, and the group set out to find it.

• Lu Guzhao took a blow meant for Lu Guyan, and Lu Guyan killed the Devil Race soldier who wounded him.
• Elder Lu Guzhen’s lightning and the Phoenix Race Woman’s attacks weakened the Devil Race forces, but the group was still overwhelmed by reinforcements.
• A white-clad flutist named Qin Yi disrupted the Devil Race soldiers and led Lu Guyan, Su Wange, Lu Guzhen, and the wounded Lu Guzhao into the woods.
• Qin Yi said he had a connection to the Demon God and explained that the Mo Race General’s rune-marked saber might be one of nine artifacts linked to the Demon God’s seal.
• When Lu Guzhao’s condition worsened, Qin Yi said Soul Returning Grass in a perilous valley might save him, and Lu Guyan and the others agreed to go there.

Qin Yi led Lu Guyan, Su Wange, Elder Lu Guzhen, and the critically injured Lu Guzhao toward a dangerous valley in search of the Soul Returning Grass. They defeated the valley’s guardian, a Scarlet Scale Mo Bear, and continued toward the valley as Lu Guzhao’s condition worsened.

• Qin Yi warned the group that powerful Forbidden Seals and guardian beasts protected the valley, but they pressed on through a storm to reach it.
• A Scarlet Scale Mo Bear emerged from the mist and attacked, so Qin Yi directed the group to restrain it while Lu Guyan targeted its eyes.
• Elder Lu Guzhen froze the bear’s feet, allowing Lu Guyan to strike and destroy its left eye with Sword Qi.
• The enraged bear broke free and attacked, but Lu Guyan combined his mysterious power, Devil Race bloodline, and spiritual power to pierce its chest and kill it.
• Lu Guyan carried the increasingly frail Lu Guzhao onward with the group, while Qin Yi urged them to hurry before the bear’s noise attracted more dangers.

Qin Yi led Lu Guyan and the others through a dangerous valley in search of the Soul Returning Grass to save Lu Guzhao. They opened a strange stone gate with Qin Yi’s flute, but inside the cavern, glowing plants attacked them, leaving the group fighting to escape.

• Qin Yi used his jade flute to counter the bewitching zither music as the group crossed the valley and searched for the Soul Returning Grass.
• Lu Guyan carried the weakening Lu Guzhao to a massive stone gate, which Qin Yi opened by playing his flute while Elder Lu Guzhen supplied spiritual energy.
• Qin Yi warned the group to be careful among the glowing plants in the cavern, but the plants sent vines rushing at them.
• Lu Guyan and Elder Lu Guzhen fought the vines while Su Wange protected Lu Guzhao, and Qin Yi used his flute to slow the plants’ attacks.

Su Wange’s jade pendant helped the group break through the attacking vines, and Qin Yi identified them as part of a forbidden seal protecting the Soul Returning Grass. A Crystal Rock Mo Beast emerged deeper in the cave, and Lu Guyan wounded it with a powerful new sword technique, though it retaliated with a storm of rocks.

• Su Wange noticed Lu Guzhao’s jade pendant glowing and held it up, causing the attacking vines to freeze and recoil.
• Qin Yi changed his flute melody as the pendant’s light intensified, and Lu Guyan’s golden Sword Qi severed a cluster of vines, allowing the group to move deeper into the cave.
• Qin Yi examined the wall runes and concluded that the valley was an ancient battlefield where the Soul Returning Grass was protected by a forbidden seal that might control the vines.
• A growl and violent shaking announced the arrival of the Crystal Rock Mo Beast, and the group formed up to face it while Lu Guyan placed Lu Guzhao in a safer corner.
• Lu Guyan, Elder Lu Guzhen, and Qin Yi attacked the beast, but its rocky hide resisted their efforts and it hurled boulders at the group.
• Lu Guyan awakened a mysterious power and struck the Crystal Rock Mo Beast’s chest with a golden Sword Qi, cracking its body; the wounded beast retaliated by unleashing a storm of rocks.

Lu Guyan and his companions defeated the Crystal Rock Mo Beast and found the Soul Returning Grass, which they used to revive Lu Guzhao. Removing it triggered the cave’s collapse and a violent disturbance in the valley, which Qin Yi linked to the Devil God’s seal.

• Lu Guyan spotted the widening cracks in the Crystal Rock Mo Beast’s chest as its weakness, and Elder Lu Guzhen drew its attention with a Flame Burst Technique.
• Lu Guyan struck the beast’s chest with a powerful Sword Qi, and the group’s combined assault killed it.
• The group found the Soul Returning Grass behind the beast, but Qin Yi warned that a Forbidden Seal protected it.
• Lu Guzhao coughed blood onto the soil, dimming the runes and allowing Lu Guyan to pick the Soul Returning Grass.
• The cave began collapsing, and the group escaped as the valley shook; Qin Yi suspected their actions had disturbed a Forbidden Seal connected to the Devil God.
• Lu Guyan fed the Soul Returning Grass to Lu Guzhao, whose color returned and breathing steadied.

After the Soul Returning Grass awakened a chain reaction in the valley, Lu Guyan and his companions were pursued by the Devil Race and forced into battle. Lu Guzhao joined the fight after recovering enough to awaken a golden power, but the Devil Race commander strengthened his soldiers.

• Lu Guyan and the others escaped the collapsing valley, and Qin Yi warned that its upheaval was connected to the Demon God's Seal and would attract the Devil Race.
• The Devil Race arrived in flying vessels and searched the valley with a glowing crystal ball while Lu Guyan's group hid in a thicket.
• Su Wange knocked out a Devil Race soldier with medicinal powder, but the others discovered the group and surrounded them.
• Lu Guyan, Lu Guzhen, Qin Yi, and Su Wange fought the Devil Race soldiers, but they were gradually overwhelmed by their greater numbers.
• Lu Guzhao rose despite his injuries and struck a Devil Race soldier with golden power, easing the pressure on his companions.
• The Devil Race commander used a Secret Technique to strengthen his soldiers with demonic energy.

Lu Guzhao awakened a powerful golden force linked to the Soul Returning Grass and wiped out the Devil Race assault, while Lu Guyan defeated the commander but was injured by the commander’s exploding crystal ball. The survivors regrouped and suspected the herb had awakened Lu Guzhao’s bloodline power and might be a key to breaking the Demon God seal.

• Lu Guyan, Elder Lu Guzhen, Qin Yi, and Su Wange struggled against the strengthened Devil Race soldiers until Lu Guzhao unleashed his golden power and devastated their ranks.
• Lu Guyan noticed a connection between Lu Guzhao’s golden power, the Soul Returning Grass, and the runes in the cave, then urged Lu Guzhao to focus on its source.
• Lu Guzhao gathered the power into a golden sphere that destroyed the surrounding Devil Race soldiers, and Lu Guyan wounded the commander with his spirit sword.
• The Devil Race commander detonated his crystal ball, sending Lu Guyan crashing to the ground, but Lu Guzhao killed the commander with a golden punch and the remaining soldiers fled.
• After Su Wange treated Lu Guyan, Qin Yi proposed that the Soul Returning Grass had awakened dormant power in Lu Guzhao’s bloodline and might be tied to breaking the Demon God seal.

After the group reached a forgotten ancient city to seek clues about the Soul Returning Grass and the Demon God's seal, they triggered a Forbidden Seal and awakened its guardian beast. The guardian beast attacked them for the herb, and Lu Guzhao poured his golden power into it as Lu Guyan lay injured.

• Qin Yi led Lu Guyan, Lu Guzhao, Elder Lu Guzhen, and Su Wange to the ancient city in search of records connected to the Soul Returning Grass and the Demon God's seal.
• Su Wange found a crack glowing with black light, and black tentacles burst from the ground after Qin Yi's flute stirred the demonic energy.
• Lu Guzhao raised the Soul Returning Grass, and its light made the tentacles recoil until a growl from the city drove them to attack again.
• An ancient guardian beast emerged from the fog and targeted the Soul Returning Grass, while Qin Yi identified it as the city's sealed protector.
• Lu Guyan attacked the beast but was struck down, and Lu Guzhao channeled his golden power into the herb as the guardian beast launched another fierce attack.

Lu Guzhao and the others destroyed the Guardian Beast with the Soul Returning Grass and continued searching the ancient city for clues about the Demon God's seal. They opened a rune-covered stone door, found a plaza and stele, and were attacked by a pack of Magic Beasts.

• Lu Guzhao empowered the Soul Returning Grass while Elder Lu Guzhen, Qin Yi, and the others restrained the Guardian Beast, allowing Lu Guzhao to destroy it.
• Lu Guyan recovered with Su Wange's help, and Lu Guzhao sensed that the Soul Returning Grass held secrets connected to the Demon God's seal.
• The group continued into the ancient city and found a massive stone door covered in complex runes.
• Su Wange noticed a recess shaped like the Soul Returning Grass, and Lu Guzhao placed the grass inside to open the door.
• The group entered a plaza and approached a rune-covered stele, but purple-scaled Magic Beasts burst from fissures and attacked.

Lu Guyan and the others fought off a Magic Beast horde and discovered that the ancient stele pointed toward the Spirit Abyss. After recovering in the ruins, they prepared to follow the map and continue their search for the Demon God's seal.

• Lu Guyan, Elder Lu Guzhen, Qin Yi, and Lu Guzhao battled the Magic Beasts while Lu Guzhao protected Su Wange with a golden shield.
• Lu Guyan studied the glowing stele and recognized a rune pattern resembling a marking on the Soul Returning Grass.
• The group learned that the stele pointed to the Spirit Abyss, and Lu Guzhao confirmed that the Soul Returning Grass had stabilized his power.
• The group rested in a stone house, set up defenses, sorted supplies, and studied a map for the Spirit Abyss.
• The next morning, Lu Guyan and the others packed their supplies and set out toward the Spirit Abyss.

Lu Guyan and his companions battled a powerful Purple Scaled Three-Tailed Leopard in a poisonous valley on their way to the Spirit Abyss. After defeating the beast, the exhausted group rested briefly and continued onward.

• Lu Guyan warned the group to stay alert as they traveled through the mountains toward the Spirit Abyss.
• The group found poisonous purple mist and huge beast tracks in a valley, and Lu Guzhao raised a golden shield to protect them.
• A Purple Scaled Three-Tailed Leopard attacked, and Lu Guyan, Lu Guzhao, Qin Yi, and Elder Lu Guzhen fought it while Su Wange scattered Hallucinogenic Powder.
• The group combined their attacks to kill the wounded, disoriented leopard.
• After checking that Lu Guzhao was unharmed, the group rested briefly and continued toward the Spirit Abyss.