Chapter Summaries

Shi Kang joined the battle between the Devouring Demon Clan and the Blood Demon Clan, waiting for a chance to claim the Devouring Demon Flame. When the flame revealed itself as a powerful creature that attacked both demon emperors, Shi Kang joined the other Heaven Supreme powerhouses in resisting it.

• The Devouring Demon Emperor promised Shi Kang a share of the benefits if he helped secure the Devouring Demon Flame, while the Blood Demon Clan sought it for the Blood Flame Demon Emperor.
• At the Black Demon Mountains, negotiations between the Devouring Demon Emperor and the Blood Demon Emperor failed, and their clans began fighting.
• Shi Kang pretended to fight alongside the Devouring Demon Clan while holding back and watching for an opportunity to take the flame.
• The Devouring Demon Flame erupted, allowed the Devouring Demon Emperor to seize it, then revealed its hidden power and struck both demon emperors.
• The injured demon emperors and the remaining Heaven Supreme powerhouses attacked the Devouring Demon Flame, and Shi Kang joined their assault.

After the Demon Clan of Devouring Flames defeated the Blood Demon Clan, Shi Kang secretly killed the injured Swallowing Demon Emperor and took the Swallowing Demon Flame. He began refining the flame inside the sealed secret chamber.

• The Swallowing Demon Emperor captured the Swallowing Demon Flame, and the defeated Emperor of Fierce Demons withdrew with the surviving Blood Demon Clan members.
• The Swallowing Demon Emperor rewarded Shi Kang by appointing him a Dark Demon Emperor, then ordered everyone out of the secret chamber while he recovered.
• Shi Kang used Primordial True Qi to soothe the Swallowing Demon Emperor's injuries and persuaded the other Dark Demon Emperors to seal the chamber.
• Shi Kang struck the unguarded Swallowing Demon Emperor, killed him, and destroyed his remaining soul.
• Shi Kang deceived the guards by claiming the Swallowing Demon Flame had worsened the Demon Emperor's injuries, then retrieved the flame from the corpse.
• Shi Kang began refining the Swallowing Demon Flame inside the secret chamber.

After breaking through to Immortal-grade Heavenly Sovereign, Shi Kang escaped the Devouring Demon Clan and infiltrated two more territories disguised as an Evil Spirit Clan envoy. The Earth Demon Emperor exposed his identity at the final checkpoint, and Shi Kang attacked a Profound Demon to fight his way through.

• Shi Kang consumed nearly ten bottles of Earth Sovereign Spirit Liquid and broke through to Immortal-grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Shi Kang concealed his breakthrough, tricked the two Nether Demons guarding the secret chamber, and escaped the Devouring Demon Clan.
• Shi Kang crossed two Demon Clan territories using his disguise and the token borrowed from the Devouring Demon Clan.
• The Earth Demon Emperor spotted flaws in Shi Kang's identity and ordered two Profound Demons to seize him.
• Shi Kang feigned panic until the Profound Demons approached, then unleashed Ape Demon Shatters the Mountain at the nearer one.
• The Profound Demon reacted with Soul-Sealing Claw as Shi Kang's attack began.

Shi Kang fought the Demon Emperor and foreign-race forces while trying to escape to the Great Thousand World. After the Bodhi Ancient Tree destroyed the Black Demon Venerable and over a thousand cultivators with a spirit devouring sphere, Shi Kang remained locked in a desperate battle with the Demon Emperor, badly wounded and outmatched.

• Shi Kang killed a defensive-talisman cultivator with his ultimate move, but the Demon Emperor struck him and drove him to flee toward the Great Thousand World.
• The Demon Emperor sent foreign-race cultivators, led by the Black Demon Venerable, to block Shi Kang, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree's spirit devouring sphere blasted open a path.
• Shi Kang wounded the Black Demon Venerable and tried to escape, but the Demon Emperor caught up and forced him into a losing fight.
• As foreign-race forces tightened their encirclement, Shi Kang endured the Demon Emperor's strike and told the Bodhi Ancient Tree to open a path while he held the Demon Emperor off.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's next spirit devouring sphere destroyed the Black Demon Venerable and over a thousand foreign-race cultivators, and the furious Demon Emperor continued attacking the bloodied Shi Kang.