Chapter Summaries

Shen Mo watched the battle erupt at Golden Light Ridge as fourth-order forces fought across the ridge and fifth-order powerhouses clashed beyond the Ninth Heavens. When demons gathered in Seven-Star Valley to attack the righteous beings, Shen Mo struck first and killed three Smoke Monster demons.

• More than a hundred fourth-order demons emerged from the mist atop Golden Light Ridge, and the allied forces launched a vast battle against them.
• Shen Mo sensed fifth-order beings fighting beyond the Ninth Heavens and concluded they could not interfere with the battle below.
• In Seven-Star Valley, the Human-Faced Willow Demon asked Shen Mo to help refine more Flesh and Blood Spirit Pills, and Shen Mo cut it in half with the Demon Slayer Sword.
• Shen Mo trapped a third-order peak Smoke Monster in [Universe Within the Sword] and killed it.
• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost and the Demon Soul Generals grievously wounded two other Smoke Monsters, then tore them apart and swallowed the black smoke left by all three demons.

Shen Mo destroyed the Smoke Monster demons’ stronghold at Seven Emotions Valley, rescued its prisoners, and unleashed his Demon Soul Generals across Golden Light Ridge. As the battle grew more chaotic, his forces slaughtered and devoured evil demons, shifting the battlefield in favor of the orthodox forces.

• Shen Mo killed the Smoke Monster demons in Seven Emotions Valley, marked the fleeing demons with Ghost Flower powder, and sent over a hundred Demon Soul Generals after them.
• Shen Mo and Flower Fairy Ami freed more than a hundred thousand prisoners, treated those suffering spiritual damage, and sheltered them in the World Within Flowers.
• Shen Mo burned Seven Emotions Valley and charged at the evil demons drawn by the commotion, using his techniques to kill them across Golden Light Ridge.
• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost and other Demon Soul Generals hunted down the marked fugitives, then attacked and devoured more evil cultivators and Outer Realm Demons.
• Shen Mo’s Demon Soul Generals continued fighting despite being scattered and reforming in the Soul Refining Banner, and their attacks turned the battle further in favor of the orthodox forces.

Shen Mo continued slaughtering fiends across the sprawling battlefield, helping the righteous forces gain ground below the fourth tier. The initial fourth-tier Myriad-Eye Demon Tu Rike targeted him, and Shen Mo escaped its attack before learning that its Dharma Eyes were its weakness.

• Shen Mo saved a badly wounded Goldenfolk expert, who thanked him and regrew his missing limbs by shrinking his golden body.
• Shen Mo returned to the battlefield and continued hunting fiends as the battle spread across a thousand li and engulfed Hantian Capital.
• More than a hundred Demon Soul Generals joined the fighting, and Shen Mo’s slaughter helped shift the battle below the fourth tier toward the righteous forces.
• The fourth-tier Myriad-Eye Demon Tu Rike attacked Shen Mo with a deadly sandstorm, but Shen Mo used a Feathering Talisman to escape sixty li away.
• Shen Mo used Insight into All Living Beings to learn that Tu Rike’s Dharma Eyes held its spells and that destroying them would weaken it.

Shen Mo fought Myriad-Eye Tu Rike, a fourth-tier great demon that coveted his Pure Yang Fire Pupils. After countering Tu Rike’s spells and escaping their range with Sword Evasion, Shen Mo trapped the demon in a Sword Qi world that began crushing it.

• Tu Rike identified Shen Mo as the one who had burned Golden Light Ridge and threatened to gouge out his divine eyes.
• Shen Mo burned more than a dozen of Tu Rike’s eyes with Pure Yang True Fire, but Tu Rike extinguished the flames with black water.
• Tu Rike turned the ground into a growing tornado of stone blades, and Shen Mo defended himself with the Demon Slayer Sword and Great Hand Seals.
• Shen Mo used Sword Evasion to escape the stone-blade spell and reappear beside the Demon Slayer Sword more than a hundred miles away.
• Shen Mo enclosed Tu Rike within the circle traced by his sword tip, transporting it into a Sword Qi world that crushed down upon it.

Shen Mo trapped the fourth-tier Myriad-Eye demon Tu Rike inside [Universe Within the Sword], badly injuring it but failing to kill it. He then caught it in the Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Array, leaving its fate in the formation’s hands.

• Shen Mo unleashed [Universe Within the Sword], and Tu Rike cast the Bloody Tear Swamp to defend itself against the pocket world’s sword moves.
• The sword-domain’s combined assault destroyed or damaged over a hundred of Tu Rike’s eyes, but the demon survived and emerged from the pocket world.
• Shen Mo activated the Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Array as Tu Rike reappeared, trapping the injured demon before it could react.
• Shen Mo reflected that his divine ability could not easily kill a fourth-tier opponent and that repeated use would burden his Divine Soul and give Tu Rike a chance to evade.
• Shen Mo relied on the sword array to wear Tu Rike down, provided the demon could not break free and he had enough true essence.

Shen Mo trapped the fourth-stage Myriad-Eye Great Demon Tu Rike in the Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Array and steadily wore down its defenses while protecting his Divine Soul from possible curses. Tu Rike stopped attacking the formation so fiercely, leaving Shen Mo to wonder what it was planning.

• Tu Rike cast spell after spell to resist the sword formation and tried to escape as its attacks shook the seven Big Dipper Dao Swords.
• Shen Mo shifted the swords and poured in his true essence, recalling most Demon Soul Generals to focus on maintaining the formation.
• Shen Mo noticed that the Demon Soul Generals had grown stronger by devouring the flesh and blood of Golden Light Ridge's fiends.
• Tu Rike cursed Shen Mo and demanded an open fight, but Shen Mo pointed out that the Great Demon had relied on its superior cultivation to attack him.
• Shen Mo guarded his Divine Soul with the Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture, the Divine Soul Visualization Scripture, the Azure Cloud Peak Pure Land, and the Blazing Sun Soul Aspect.
• Tu Rike ceased its powerful attacks and kept only enough spells active to withstand the sword light, prompting Shen Mo to realize it was plotting something.

At Golden Light Ridge, Shen Mo recalled his Demon Soul Generals after they devoured many enemies, hoping their growth would help turn the battle. Their sudden advancement made the Soul Refining Banner try to consume him, forcing him to divert his attention from the sword array and suppress the artifact.

• The fighting at Golden Light Ridge continued on three levels, with the Outer Realm Demons holding the advantage against Origin Core Realm and fourth-rank cultivators.
• Shen Mo reasoned that the four-eyed Greater Demon was waiting for the wider battle to turn against him, then shook the Soul Refining Banner to recall his Demon Soul Generals.
• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost killed and devoured a fifth-level Spirit Sea Realm evil cultivator, while she and other Demon Soul Generals showed signs of indigestion from consuming too many foes.
• The ten Demon Soul Generals returned to the banner, and Shen Mo sensed that several were nearing advancement to the fourth rank.
• The Soul Refining Banner suddenly tried to devour Shen Mo, so he redirected his focus from the Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Array and cut his palm to smear his essence-filled blood across the banner.

Shen Mo struggled to keep the Soul Refining Banner from consuming him while the Big Dipper Sword Formation faltered against Tu Rike. Rather than destroy the banner, he began rebuilding the Demon Soul Generals’ hierarchy, strengthening his connection to ten powerful generals and placing weaker ones under their command.

• Tu Rike counterattacked the Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Array as Shen Mo’s support weakened, pushing the formation toward collapse.
• Shen Mo’s blood failed to quell the Soul Refining Banner’s rebellion, and he considered destroying it to end the threat.
• Unwilling to lose the banner and its Soul Generals, Shen Mo recalled Master Xuanzhi’s idea of rebuilding the hierarchy within it.
• Shen Mo strengthened the imprints of the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and nine other powerful Demon Soul Generals while weakening his direct connections to the others.
• The banner’s backlash intensified as Shen Mo began arranging the Demon Soul Generals into a hierarchy where each stronger group would suppress those beneath it.

Shen Mo endured the Soul Refining Banner’s violent backlash as he reforged its Demon Soul General sequence and gave the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and ten other powerful generals part of his authority. While Tu Rike broke through Shen Mo’s sword formation and trapped him in a vast sandstorm, Shen Mo’s strength was nearly spent.

• Shen Mo began dividing his authority over the Soul Refining Banner among the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and ten top-tier Demon Soul Generals, accepting that they might develop wishes and resist his orders.
• The first backlash grew several times stronger, but Shen Mo endured it and the newly empowered Demon Soul Generals turned to subdue the weaker, rioting spirits.
• The Big Dipper Sword Formation collapsed, and the damaged Dao Swords flew back into Shen Mo’s sleeve.
• Tu Rike broke free and attacked Shen Mo, who repeatedly used [Universe Within the Sword] and Feathering Talismans to disrupt him while continuing to suppress the banner.
• Nearly exhausted, Shen Mo faced Tu Rike’s enormous sandstorm, which covered the surrounding area and blocked his escape routes.

Shen Mo struggled to survive Wan Yan Tu Rike’s wind-and-sand spell while the Soul Refining Banner’s backlash weakened him. Flower Fairy Ami activated the Mother Tree Green Leaf to protect him, leaving Shen Mo free to focus on suppressing the banner’s backlash.

• Shen Mo used a Feathering Talisman to escape the spell’s center but could not find his way out through the wind and sand.
• He relied on the Azure Cloud Umbrella, Great Hand Seals, and defensive talismans, but the spell destroyed his protections and repeatedly tore at his flesh.
• A green sapling emerged from Shen Mo’s sleeve and grew into a great tree that absorbed and dispelled the wind, sand, and Tu Rike’s attacks.
• Shen Mo realized Flower Fairy Ami had activated the Mother Tree Green Leaf to shield him and thanked her.
• Ami said she had protected Shen Mo so he could trade for spirit plants, and he entrusted his defense to her while rebuilding the Demon Soul Generals’ sequence and suppressing the Soul Refining Banner’s backlash.

Shen Mo’s Soul Refining Banner transformed, raising ten top-tier Demon Soul Generals to the fourth order and allowing him to command all 535 Soul Generals with less strain. He left the chapter having captured Wan Yan Tu Rike and ordered his forces to slaughter the remaining evil cultivators and Outer Realm Demons.

• Wan Yan Tu Rike failed to penetrate the great tree’s defenses and fled as the Soul Refining Banner completed its transformation.
• Shen Mo’s Wedding Dress Female Ghost and nine other top-tier Demon Soul Generals reached the fourth order, while all 535 Soul Generals emerged under their control.
• Shen Mo used the Soul Splitting Curse Technique to extend his control and ordered the Demon Soul Generals to capture and kill Tu Rike.
• The Soul Generals overwhelmed Tu Rike, and Shen Mo extracted its Divine Soul into a Soul Nourishing Bottle and secured its corpse for research.
• After restoring himself with pills, Shen Mo ordered every Demon Soul General to slaughter the evil cultivators and Outer Realm Demons.

Shen Mo’s Demon Soul Generals turned the battle around, driving the fiends around Golden Light Ridge into a rout as the righteous forces pressed their attack. Eight Great Demons descended to kill Shen Mo, but the Flower Fairy Mother Tree Green Leaf shielded him, leaving him free to send his Soul Generals back into battle.

• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost and ten other fourth-tier Demon Soul Generals led Shen Mo’s Soul Generals in a devastating assault that killed and scattered tens of thousands of fiends.
• Shen Mo realized the Smoke Monster Great Demon had used a secret method to intensify the evil cultivators’ bloodlust, but the Demon Soul Generals’ slaughter began to break their frenzy.
• The righteous forces and the Wenliang Sect’s extraterrestrial beings welcomed the fiends’ retreat and increased the force of their attacks.
• Wan Yan and seven other Outer Realm Demons descended near the great tree and attacked it, but the Flower Fairy Mother Tree Green Leaf absorbed their spells and strengthened its defenses.
• Shen Mo shook the Soul Refining Banner and ordered the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and the other Soul Generals back into battle.

Shen Mo left Golden Light Ridge after weakening the fiends’ forces and continued controlling his Soul Generals from afar. He reached a city on Central Province’s northern border and asked to settle the people he had rescued there.

• Shen Mo sent his Soul Generals to hold off eight great demons, then flew north with Flower Fairy Ami before the Mother Tree Green Leaf’s protective spell failed.
• Shen Mo judged that the fiends’ plan to seize Golden Light Ridge had been ruined and that remaining near the battlefield would bring unnecessary danger.
• Two and a half hours later, Shen Mo arrived outside a northern Central Province city, where the guards mistook him for an evil cultivator and strengthened the city formation.
• Shen Mo identified himself as the River-Facing Sect’s Peak Master and met Yan Zhuang and Zhou Ping'er, who confirmed his identity while a Bone-Observing Mirror checked him for demonization.
• Shen Mo said he would not enter the city and asked the White-Haired Old Man to shelter the people he had rescued; Flower Fairy Ami opened the Golden Flower World and brought them out.

Shen Mo watched the rescued outsiders settle into the city while Ami intervened when local cultivators attacked them, then took stock of his spoils from the Demon Feast as the battle at Golden Light Ridge continued. He burned the evil resources, set aside valuable materials for future plans, and stored the rest.

• Ami defied Shen Mo’s advice and persuaded the city cultivators to treat the injured outsiders, then stayed at the gate to oversee their entry.
• Shen Mo killed a fleeing evil cultivator and sent a Demon Soul General to collect its corpse and belongings while the battle at Golden Light Ridge continued.
• Shen Mo sorted his spoils into categories, destroyed the evil artifacts and other harmful resources with his Pure Yang Fire Pupils, and set aside valuable items.
• Shen Mo considered using the Myriad-Eye demon’s remains to forge an extraordinary treasure or create a fourth-tier Demon Soul General.
• Shen Mo reserved the Primordial Fruit for his core-forming plan and the Immortal Clam Shell Fragments and spirit-metal ores for reforging the Azure Cloud Umbrella, then packed away his spoils and reviewed the collected cultivation methods.

Shen Mo reviewed his gains from the past two years and spent Destiny Points to improve [Eyes Like Torches]. He successfully obtained [Dharma Eye Candle Micro] and discovered that it let him perceive hidden details more clearly.

• Shen Mo postponed refining pills, making talismans, and repairing artifacts until he could focus on the work.
• Shen Mo reviewed his Destiny Panel and recalled that [Insight into All Living Beings] had revealed the Soaring Serpent Strange Dragon was at the peak of the sixth rank.
• Shen Mo considered forming an Origin Core and decided he would need to enter the Dragon-Falling Abyss and reach the Jade Pool Secret Realm to perfect it.
• Shen Mo spent Destiny Points attempting to advance [Eyes Like Torches], succeeding after ninety points and gaining [Dharma Eye Candle Micro].
• Shen Mo equipped [Dharma Eye Candle Micro] and found that it showed finer details when he looked through disguises and toward the source of things.

Shen Mo tested his improved [Dharma Eye Candle Micro] and drew several new Destinies, discovering that higher-quality versions replaced lower-quality ones and that drawing an orange or gold Destiny raised the cost of future draws. He equipped [Vajra Body (Orange)] and began testing its durability against the Demon Slayer Sword Spirit.

• Shen Mo used [Dharma Eye Candle Micro] to distinguish the turbid qi and killing intent within Spirit Stones, then switched back to [Cicada Sense] for safety in the Red Flame Domain.
• Shen Mo drew [Light as a Swallow (Green)], [Cold Resistance (White)], and [Acute Smell (Green)], and found that [Light as a Swallow] improved his footwork but not his movement arts.
• Shen Mo drew [Vajra Body (Orange)] and discovered that it had replaced his old [Tough Skin (White)].
• Shen Mo confirmed that drawing an orange or gold Destiny increased the cost of each later draw from ten to one hundred Destiny Points, and devised different approaches to upgrading Destinies he used and those he did not.
• Shen Mo equipped [Vajra Body (Orange)] and had the Demon Slayer Sword Spirit strike him with Supreme Clarity Sword Qi, which only damaged his clothes and left a shallow dent on his body.
• Shen Mo ordered the Demon Slayer Sword Spirit to switch to All-Encompassing Sword Qi for a stronger test.

Shen Mo prepared for the dangers ahead after the battle at Golden Light Ridge, then entered the Dragon-Falling Abyss with Flower Fairy Ami and an array of defenses. Inside the abyss, a flying skull destroyed one of his Demon Soul Generals and sent a storm of bone fragments at him, which the Azure Cloud Umbrella blocked.

• Shen Mo tested [Vajra Body], confirmed its powerful protection, and gained confidence about entering the Dragon-Falling Abyss.
• After the fighting at Golden Light Ridge ended, Flower Fairy Ami told Shen Mo that the rescued people had been settled, and Shen Mo gave resources and spirit pills to the White-Haired Old Man for their care.
• Shen Mo traveled north with Flower Fairy Ami, reforged the Azure Cloud Umbrella with Demon King Mingcang's clam shell, and reached the Dragon-Falling Abyss.
• Shen Mo equipped [Vajra Body] and [Cicada Sense], summoned the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and other Demon Soul Generals, and entered the abyss with Flower Fairy Ami carrying the Mother Tree Green Leaf.
• When [Cicada Sense] warned him of danger, Shen Mo sent the Green-Skinned Ghost to intercept a flying white skull; it shattered the Ghost, and the Azure Cloud Umbrella blocked the skull's bone fragments.

Shen Mo descended into the Dragon-Falling Abyss, surviving a barrage of human bones before an imperceptible Evil Spirit attack began killing his Demon Soul Generals and threatening his life. As repeated Sword Evasion failed to shake the death omen, he called on Ami to activate the Mother Tree Green Leaf, which raised a sanctuary just as the attack descended.

• Shen Mo and his ten fourth-rank Demon Soul Generals destroyed the attacking bones while his Azure Cloud Umbrella and defenses blocked the fragments.
• Shen Mo noticed the Wedding Dress Female Ghost and Snake-Eel Heavenly Demon had vanished without warning, and their memories showed they had died without sensing an attack.
• Cicada Sense Destiny showed Shen Mo disappearing ten breaths later, leading him to suspect an Evil Spirit was targeting him.
• Shen Mo used Sword Evasion repeatedly to flee deeper into the abyss, but the death omen followed him.
• Shen Mo ordered Ami to activate the Mother Tree Green Leaf, and its towering tree formed a sanctuary as the imperceptible Evil Spirit technique descended.

Shen Mo and Ami reached the hall guarding the entrance to the Jade Pool Realm after the Mother Tree Green Leaf shielded them from attacks in Dragon-Falling Abyss. Shen Mo entered the hall and discovered that Elder Li had become a headless, limbless lump of living flesh.

• The Mother Tree Green Leaf blocked an attack from the Evil Spirits, and Shen Mo hurried toward the bottom of Dragon-Falling Abyss with Ami.
• Shen Mo and Ami reached the area protected by River-Facing Sect's formations, while the tree blocked several stray attacks along the way.
• Shen Mo used Zhou Zhiwei's Formation Compass to safely pass through the hall's restrictions and open its bronze doors.
• Shen Mo found the main hall empty and intact, then went to Elder Li's living quarters.
• Shen Mo discovered Elder Li reduced to a slowly writhing lump of crimson flesh on the jade bed.

Shen Mo learned from Ami that Elder Li had become Longevity Flesh, a consequence of taking a pill created by the Outer Realm Longevity Clan. He preserved a sample for study, burned the remains, and considered seeking out a Longevity Clan demon to learn about its alchemy.

• Shen Mo examined Elder Li's belongings but found no clues explaining his sudden transformation into a mass of living flesh.
• Ami identified the mass as Longevity Flesh and explained that the Longevity Clan's pills had transformed powerful beings across many worlds into similar masses.
• Shen Mo suspected Elder Li had found and taken a Longevity Pill, which had extended his life before ultimately turning him into Longevity Flesh.
• Shen Mo cut off a sample of the flesh for later study and burned the rest, planning to take the ashes and Elder Li's belongings back to Chong'a Mountain.
• Shen Mo decided he would seek out and question a Longevity Clan demon if he got the chance, hoping to learn its alchemy.