Chapter Summaries

At the Kaoshan Sect wedding, Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao punished a Cao Family elder for insulting the sect and provoking them. As they beat him near death, the Great Sage Ziyang appeared from his Spiritual Sense to confront them.

• The refined middle-aged man insulted the Kaoshan Sect and claimed the Cao Family could not be challenged.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei confronted him, and Hua Yunfei sealed his cultivation and struck him down.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao took turns beating the refined middle-aged man, leaving him near death while keeping his blood sealed inside.
• A phantom of the Great Sage Ziyang emerged from the man's Spiritual Sense and demanded to know who had harmed his beloved grandson.

Hua Yunfei crushed Great Sage Ziyang’s divine-soul avatar after Ziyang threatened him, then had Holy Lord Yaoguang remove the unconscious middle-aged man. At the gathering, Jiang Ruoyao learned that the Demon Realm could no longer contain the Demon Box and had lost contact with the Chaos Divine Realm.

• Great Sage Ziyang confronted Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao over his grandson, but softened his demand for an explanation after learning Jiang came from the Primordial Divine Realm.
• Jiang Ruoyao showed Great Sage Ziyang a light-screen recording of the earlier events, and he reluctantly accepted her account before challenging Hua Yunfei.
• Hua Yunfei shattered Great Sage Ziyang’s attack with a glance, then crushed his divine-soul avatar as Ziyang tried to leave with the unconscious middle-aged man.
• Hua Yunfei asked someone to take the middle-aged man away, and Holy Lord Yaoguang carried him out before Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao returned to their seats.
• Jiang Ruoyao asked the black-robed middle-aged man why the Demon Realm had emerged, and he explained that the Demon Box’s seal was failing and the Chaos Divine Realm could not be contacted.
• Jiang Ruoyao recalled that the Chaos Divine Son and the Chaos Divine Realm had been searching for something he had lost years earlier.

Jiang Ruoyao agreed to help reinforce the Demon Box’s seal, while Hua Yunfei wondered whether the system had stolen the missing Chaos Bell. The Cao Lineage identified Hua Yunfei as the killer of Zixuan and prepared to retaliate, and Jiang Ruoyao revealed that the Chaos Bell had indeed been left with the Chaos Divine Realm before it went missing.

• Jiang Ruoyao told the middle-aged man in Black Robe that she would help reinforce the Demon Box’s seal with her Primordial Emperor Sword.
• Hua Yunfei questioned the system about the missing Chaos Bell, and the system denied stealing it.
• Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing held their wedding, officiated by True Lord Tianji.
• Great Sage Ziyang learned that Hua Yunfei of the Kaoshan Sect had killed his grandson Zixuan and ordered the Cao Lineage to summon a Quasi-Emperor ancestor.
• Hua Yunfei asked Jiang Ruoyao about the Chaos Great Emperor, and she confirmed that he had left the Chaos Bell with the Chaos Divine Realm before the Chaos Divine Son lost it five years earlier.
• The system began an automatic upgrade and announced that it would block outside conversations.

Hua Yunfei blamed the system for possibly giving him stolen treasures, then attended the wedding banquet as the Seven Divine Halls apologized to Kaoshan Sect. As the banquet ended, Great Sage Ziyang and a seemingly Quasi-Emperor from the Cao family arrived and demanded Hua Yunfei’s death.

• Hua Yunfei cursed the system over the possibility that its rewards, including the Chaos Bell, had been stolen from others.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Long Zaitian noticed Hua Yunfei’s anger, but he brushed off their questions and drank with Jiang Ruoyao.
• The Hall Master of the Seven Divine Halls apologized to True Lord Xiaxuan for past offenses and accepted Luo Hanyue’s demand that Duan Wuming stay away from her.
• Duan Wuming and the Hall Master left after Kaoshan Sect accepted the apology, and Duan Wuming remained focused on cultivation and the Emperor Throne.
• Great Sage Ziyang and a calm, powerful middle-aged man appeared above Kaoshan Sect, and the newcomer demanded that Hua Yunfei come out and die.

At Lin Yang’s wedding banquet, Hua Yunfei watched the Cao family challenge Kaoshan Sect and let Yaoguang Holy Land’s gray-robed elder reveal his overwhelming strength. The elder killed Great Sage Ziyang and cornered the Cao family’s Quasi-Emperor ancestor, who was left seeking mercy from Hua Yunfei after Jiang Ruoyao refused to help him.

• Hua Yunfei declined Jiang Ruoyao’s offer to kill the Cao family’s Quasi-Emperor and glanced toward Yaoguang Holy Land’s gray-robed elder.
• The gray-robed elder froze Great Sage Ziyang with an incantation and killed him instantly.
• The elder told the Cao family’s Quasi-Emperor ancestor that attacking Kaoshan Sect meant provoking Yaoguang Holy Land, and the ancestor tried to flee.
• The elder blocked the ancestor while Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme appeared behind him, trapping him.
• Jia Duobao told the ancestor to beg Hua Yunfei for mercy, and Jiang Ruoyao cut him off when he tried to ask her for help, saying they were not close.

Hua Yunfei exposed the Cao Lineage’s attempt to destroy Kaoshan Sect, and a hidden Ancestor killed three Quasi-Emperor Realm experts with one sword. After the wedding banquet, Jiang Ruoyao announced that the Emperor Road would open in nine years.

• The Cao Lineage middle-aged man summoned three hidden Quasi-Emperor Realm cultivators at Perfection Level and revealed his plan to wipe out Kaoshan Sect.
• Hua Yunfei welcomed Kaoshan Sect’s Ancestor, whose sword intent killed all three Cao Lineage Ancestors in a single strike.
• The plain-clothed elder tore the middle-aged man apart and burned him to ash at Hua Yunfei’s command.
• The Sun Moon Cult Master and the Holy Lord of Yaoguang said Kaoshan Sect could become a Holy Land if it wished, but True Lord Yuntian said its injured Ancestor would not live much longer.
• Jiang Ruoyao announced that the Emperor Road would open in nine years and warned the factions to prepare for an especially brutal contest.

Jiang Ruoyao explained that the Emperor Road would open in nine years, and the group discovered that the Heaven Stealing Organization's power was accelerating the Demon Box seal's decay. Hua Yunfei joined Jiang Ruoyao and the Black Robe Man on a journey to the Demon Realm to investigate and reinforce the seal.

• Jiang Ruoyao told the factions that Heavenly Human Realm cultivators could enter the Emperor Road in nine years, and that a Spiritual Power Tide would help cultivators advance.
• After the banquet, Holy Lord Yaoguang, the Yaoguang Holy Son, and the plainly dressed elder confirmed Hua Yunfei was safe before departing.
• The Black Robe Man warned Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei that a strange power was corroding the Demon Box seal and could break it within a century.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei recognized the strange power as the aura of the Heaven Stealing Immortal Record.
• Hua Yunfei sent instructions to Ye Bufan and the others, contacted True Lord Yuntian, and then departed with Jiang Ruoyao and the Black Robe Man for the Demon Realm.

The Cao family Clan Leader learned that Kaoshan Sect had killed his ancestors and plotted to retaliate, but Hua Yunfei’s ally had already subdued the Cao family’s sleeping ancestors. Meanwhile, Hua Yunfei discovered a hidden Heaven Stealing Organization array at the Demon Realm entrance and prepared to turn it against its creators.

• The Cao family Clan Leader learned that Kaoshan Sect’s ancestor had killed three Cao family Quasi-Emperor ancestors with one sword strike and resolved to recruit other powers against Kaoshan Sect.
• A young man in white confronted the Cao family Clan Leader, and a brick showed him that the Cao family’s ancestral land had been raided and its sleeping ancestors subdued.
• The Cao family Clan Leader abandoned his threats and asked the young man in white to discuss the matter.
• At the Demon Realm entrance, Hua Yunfei detected a hidden array spanning 108 points, which Jiang Ruoyao had failed to notice.
• Hua Yunfei stopped Jiang Ruoyao from destroying the array and brought out the Qiankun Array Dao Brush to rewrite it.

Hua Yunfei took control of the Slaughter Immortal Heaven Array, then entered the Demon Realm with Jiang Ruoyao and a Black Robe Man to reinforce the Demon Box's seal. After they left, three Black Robed Persons empowered the array and planned to trap them, while Hua Yunfei learned that their guide belonged to Martial Moon Demon Venerable's lineage.

• Jiang Ruoyao guessed Hua Yunfei was preparing a gift as he altered the Slaughter Immortal Heaven Array's formation core with the Qiankun Array Dao Brush.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao asked the Black Robe Man to open the Demon Realm entrance so they could reinforce the Demon Box's seal before the Heaven Stealing Organization released the Primordial Demon Race.
• The three entered the Demon Realm, and the entrance vanished behind them.
• Three Black Robed Persons arrived an hour later, sent black rune stones into the Slaughter Immortal Heaven Array, and raised its power to the Emperor tier to trap the people inside.
• The Black Robe Man led Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao toward his clan's home and revealed that he belonged to Martial Moon Demon Venerable's lineage.
• Hua Yunfei recalled how Martial Moon Demon Venerable had abandoned her Emperor Tribulation to save the Demon Realm from the Primordial Demon Race.

Luoning brought Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao to the Wu Yue Clan Land, where they learned the Tianqing Clan Land had been destroyed. A mysterious Quasi-Emperor attacked, but Jiang Ruoyao swiftly overpowered him and dragged him back.

• Luoning learned that the Tianqing Clan Land had been wiped out, and he, Hua Yunfei, and Jiang Ruoyao suspected the Heaven Stealing Organization was responsible.
• Luoning led Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao into the Wu Yue Clan Land, where Clan Leader Luolan welcomed them.
• A Black Robed Person riding a vicious bird threatened to destroy the Wu Yue Clan Land with his Quasi-Emperor pressure.
• Jiang Ruoyao appeared behind the attacker, tore off his arm, and destroyed his vicious bird as he tried to flee.
• Jiang Ruoyao pulled the Black Robed Person back with a giant hand and slapped off his hood.

Jiang Ruoyao tortured a captured Black Robed Quasi-Emperor until he agreed to summon his accomplices from the Heaven Stealing Organization. She kept him captive as the Wu Yue Clan Land collected his blood and bones, leaving his contact on the way to their location.

• Jiang Ruoyao restrained the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor and severed his remaining arm and legs before sealing his cultivation.
• Luolan collected the Quasi-Emperor's blood in a basin, and Jiang Ruoyao gave the Wu Yue Clan Land one of his ribs as material for refining weapons.
• Jiang Ruoyao threatened to take the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor's skull until he agreed to contact his accomplices.
• The Black Robed Quasi-Emperor used a voice transmission to lure a member of the Heaven Stealing Organization to the Wu Yue Clan Land by claiming he had captured a beautiful woman from the Primordial Inheritance.
• Jiang Ruoyao refused to release the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor after he said his contact would arrive soon.

Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei captured Po Jun Quasi-Emperor by luring him to the Wu Yue Clan Land and ambushing him. After beating him into submission, they forced him and the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor to summon more reinforcements, setting another trap.

• Jiang Ruoyao failed to place a Slave Seal on the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor, who agreed to cooperate and call others over.
• Hua Yunfei arrived, and the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor mocked him for appearing to be a Heavenly Human Realm cultivator until Jiang Ruoyao warned that Hua Yunfei was even more ruthless than she was.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei planned a trap at the Wu Yue Clan Land, where the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor pretended to hold Jiang Ruoyao captive and invited Po Jun Quasi-Emperor to join him.
• Po Jun Quasi-Emperor approached Jiang Ruoyao, but Hua Yunfei struck him from above and Jiang Ruoyao attacked him as he recovered; they beat him until he begged for mercy.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei forced Yue Yang, the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor, and Po Jun Quasi-Emperor to summon reinforcements by tempting them with the promise of a beautiful girl.

Quasi-Emperor Yueyang and Po Jun lured several Quasi-Emperors to the Wu Yue Clan Land as bait for Hua Yunfei. Hua Yunfei ambushed Ji Kun, and Chi Mei arrived just as the trap was revealed.

• Quasi-Emperor Yueyang tricked Ji Kun into rushing to the Wu Yue Clan Land, while Po Jun reluctantly contacted Chi Mei.
• Po Jun warned Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao that Chi Mei was powerful, but Hua Yunfei said no one below the Great Emperor Realm posed a threat.
• Ji Kun arrived and, seeing the unconscious Jiang Ruoyao, declared that he wanted to marry her.
• When Ji Kun looked up at Yueyang's cue, Hua Yunfei struck him from above and knocked him unconscious with one blow.
• Hua Yunfei emerged from hiding, and Po Jun marveled at his strength as Chi Mei's voice announced that he had spotted the trap.

Hua Yunfei defeated Chi Mei Quasi-Emperor and forced Quasi-Emperor Yueyang and Po Jun Quasi-Emperor to cooperate against the Heaven Stealing Organization at the Demon Box sealing ground. He and Jiang Ruoyao then turned their attention to stopping the Primordial Demon Race from escaping the Demon Box.

• Chi Mei Quasi-Emperor revealed that he had come in an avatar, but Hua Yunfei destroyed it and defeated his true body in a brief battle.
• Hua Yunfei learned that Po Jun Quasi-Emperor had lured Chi Mei over by telling him he missed him, while Jiang Ruoyao revealed she had been pretending to be unconscious.
• Hua Yunfei reduced Ji Kun Quasi-Emperor and Chi Mei Quasi-Emperor to ashes, then ordered Yueyang and Po Jun to infiltrate the Demon Box sealing ground and attack the Heaven Stealing Organization from within.
• Hua Yunfei sent Yueyang and Po Jun light talismans containing his plan and allowing him to monitor them as they departed for the sealing ground.
• Jiang Ruoyao said she would return to the Primordial Divine Realm after the Demon Realm mission, and she and Hua Yunfei discussed preventing the Primordial Demon Race from escaping the Demon Box.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao prepared to expose possible traitors among the Demon Realm’s clan leaders and secretly headed for the Demon Box sealing site. There, Heaven Stealing Organization Quasi-Emperors gathered in disguise, but Cang Huang grew impatient when Chimei and Ji Kun failed to arrive.

• Jiang Ruoyao joked about a secret technique that could control the Primordial Demon Race, and Hua Yunfei denied possessing one.
• Luolan thanked Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao for saving Wu Yue Clan Land, and Hua Yunfei warned her that traitors might be hiding among the clan leaders.
• Hua Yunfei asked Luolan to gather the major clan leaders at the Demon Box sealing site without revealing the reason, then secretly left with Jiang Ruoyao.
• Yue Yang and Pojun joined the other Heaven Stealing Organization members disguised as Devil Race disciples, and the Quasi-Emperors traded insults while waiting.
• Cang Huang ordered the group to be quiet, then asked why Chimei and Ji Kun had not arrived; Yue Yang joked that they might be in bed together.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao watched the weakening seal around Demon Mountain and arranged to draw away the Heaven Stealing Organization members guarding it. Their trap lured Cang Huang into an ambush, where Martial Virtue Brick struck him from behind, but he remained conscious and prepared to counterattack.

• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao arrived near Demon Mountain and discussed the danger of the Primordial Demon Race returning when its seal broke.
• Hua Yunfei identified Cang Huang, Lan Qiu, and Wrangling among the Devil Race crowd, then contacted Yue Yang and Pojun and told them to lure the targets away.
• Pojun and Wrangling left Demon Mountain after Cang Huang ordered them to help Chi Mei, and fake cries for help later drew Lan Qiu and Yue Yang away as well.
• Cang Huang eventually hurried to investigate the cries for help, but found no one and realized he might be walking into an ambush.
• Martial Virtue Brick struck Cang Huang from behind, shattering most of his divine soul, but Cang Huang stayed conscious and turned to counterattack.

Hua Yunfei killed Cang Huang with Martial Virtue Brick and recovered all seven Heaven Stealing talisman stones, which he placed under heavy guard. Meanwhile, Luolan gathered the Demon Realm's Clan Leaders and revealed that a traitor had enabled a mysterious Quasi-Emperor to enter the realm.

• Martial Virtue Brick smashed Cang Huang to death, and Hua Yunfei looted his treasures while Jiang Ruoyao, Yue Yang, and Pojun watched.
• Hua Yunfei learned that the seven talisman stones could be activated by cultivators of the Heaven Stealing Immortal Record, but Yue Yang and Pojun could only activate them one at a time.
• Hua Yunfei ordered Martial Virtue Brick to guard the stones in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, where it assigned six Imperial weapons to watch them and used the seventh as a pillow.
• Luolan gathered the Clan Leaders of the Demon Realm's ten Demon Venerable lineages and told them that Great Elder Luoning had returned with experts from the Primordial Divine Realm to reinforce the seal.
• Luolan revealed that a mysterious Quasi-Emperor had attacked the Wu Yue Clan Land and that the Primordial Divine Realm's experts suspected a Demon Realm traitor, possibly a Clan Leader, had let the intruder in.

Hua Yunfei exposed Patriarch Bloodthirsty as a traitor working with the Heaven Stealing Organization, and the clan leaders sentenced him to public execution. Luolan announced his betrayal to the gathered devils, who struggled to believe that their trusted elder had endangered the Demon Realm for a longer life.

• Luolan suggested that someone among the clan leaders might have betrayed the Demon Realm, prompting Patriarch Jinmu to react angrily and draw suspicion.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao arrived at the clan leaders’ tent, where Hua Yunfei accused Patriarch Bloodthirsty of wanting the Demon Box seal to open.
• Yue Yang entered and revealed that he belonged to both the Heaven Stealing Organization and the Primordial Inheritance, confirming Patriarch Bloodthirsty’s treachery.
• The clan leaders identified Patriarch Bloodthirsty as the traitor behind the Demon Realm’s recent crises, and Luolan declared that he would be executed in public.
• The clan leaders crippled Patriarch Bloodthirsty’s cultivation and bound him to a pillar before the gathered devils, while Luolan explained that he had betrayed the Demon Realm for a longer life.

Luolan exposed the traitors hidden among the devils, while Jiang Ruoyao provoked a sealed Primordial Demon Race expert into a furious exchange of insults. The expert remained trapped behind Hengyang's seal as the devils watched.

• Luolan warned the devils that traitors were hiding among them, and Hua Yunfei identified their names for her.
• Luolan named the traitors, and the other eight Clan Leaders seized them; one Bloodthirsty Demon Clan confidant protested his innocence.
• Luo Yong fled when Luolan called his name, confirming he was a traitor, and Patriarch Jinmu pursued him.
• A Primordial Demon Race expert mocked the devils from within Demon Mountain, and Jiang Ruoyao explained that the seal only let the race see and hear outside when its power weakened.
• Jiang Ruoyao challenged the sealed expert, and they traded insults while the devils watched.

Hua Yunfei arranged for Martial Virtue Brick to pass through Demon Mountain’s seal and attack the Primordial Demon Race member. Martial Virtue Brick carried the unconscious enemy out after defeating him, and the Great Emperor Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart ultimately let them pass.

• Hua Yunfei asked Martial Virtue Brick whether he could cross Demon Mountain’s seal without damaging it, and Martial Virtue Brick assured him he could.
• Jiang Ruoyao gathered Luolan and several Devil Race women to curse the Primordial Demon Race member, drawing his attention away.
• Martial Virtue Brick ambushed the Primordial Demon Race member, cracked his skull, and badly damaged his divine soul.
• The Primordial Demon Race member tried to flee, but Martial Virtue Brick beat him unconscious and carried him toward the seal.
• The Great Emperor Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart appeared to stop Martial Virtue Brick, then allowed him to leave and told him to beat the captive to death.