Chapter Summaries

The Undead Calamity ravaged the Azure Cloud Sect’s territory as Old Demon Taiyin negotiated with Blood Shadow to attack the sect. On Azure Cloud Mountain, True Ancestor Changqing organized the defense and learned that Lin Chen and True Person Zhen Tian would raise the Mountain of Heavenly Fall on the eve of battle.

• The Undead Calamity transformed the Azure Cloud Sect’s lands and consumed cultivator factions that had surrendered to the Demonic Cultivators.
• Old Demon Taiyin met Blood Shadow and agreed that the Mysterious Yin Gate would weaken the Azure Cloud Sect before Blood Shadow’s forces led the assault, in exchange for the sect’s third-order spirit vein.
• Zhuang Yuanzhang reported that the Undead Calamity and Demonic Cultivator army would reach Azure Cloud Mountain within three days.
• True Ancestor Changqing rallied the sect’s leaders with the promise of opportunity if they held until Qingyang emerged, then ordered the formation guarded and supplies distributed under wartime regulations.
• Lin Chen told True Ancestor Changqing that the Mountain of Heavenly Fall would rise into the sky on schedule before the battle.

As Azure Cloud Sect prepared for its battle against the Demonic Cultivators, Lin Chen and the sect’s Formation Masters activated a grand formation that lifted Mountain of Heavenly Fall into the sky. True Ancestor Changqing and Zhang Zhiming discussed the sect’s lack of refuge and the possibility that Lin Chen and Zhang Hao could preserve its legacy as two streaks of spiritual light arrived.

• On the eve of battle, Liu Qiqiang sought Lin Chen’s help securing a safer position, but Lin Chen refused, so Liu Qiqiang turned to other powerful figures.
• Zhang Hao and the cultivators of Azure Cloud Sect watched as Mountain of Heavenly Fall rose into the sky.
• Lin Chen, True Person Zhen Tian, and the Formation Masters used the Soul Computer and grand formation to separate and levitate the mountain.
• Tree Elder reassured Zhang Hao that he could escape if necessary and reflected on Zhang Hao’s extraordinary luck and uncertain destiny.
• True Ancestor Changqing asked Zhang Zhiming why he chose to stay, and Zhang Zhiming said the sect had nowhere to retreat and that Lin Chen and Zhang Hao might be able to carry on its legacy.
• Zhang Zhiming admitted feeling jealous of Lin Chen and Zhang Hao before accepting that he should focus on doing well as himself, as Lin Chen and Zhentian arrived on Azure Cloud Mountain.

On the eve of the decisive battle against the Undead Calamity, True Ancestor Changqing entrusted Lin Chen with Azure Cloud Sect’s inheritance and a seed of its Spirit Tree. Lin Chen prepared to redirect Mountain of Heavenly Fall at dawn, then spent the night talking with Xu Mengyun; as morning arrived, they watched the Star of Hope and Death Omen rise.

• True Ancestor Changqing gave Lin Chen Azure Cloud Sect’s foundational records and the Spirit Tree’s seed, explaining why Zhang Mengyao and Zhang Zhiming would not take them.
• Lin Chen accepted the inheritance and prepared to redirect Mountain of Heavenly Fall at dawn to create Planetary Devastation against the Undead Calamity.
• Lin Chen met Xu Mengyun on a hillside, where she reflected on mortality and the struggles shared by cultivators and mortals.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyun that the world’s struggles, wonders, and uncertain future made it interesting, and they talked through the night.
• At dawn, Lin Chen and Xu Mengyun watched a faint point of light rise, called the Star of Hope and the Star of Death Omen.

Lin Chen and Azure Cloud Sect prepared to use the Great Meteorite Technique against the Undead Calamity while True Ancestor Changqing organized defenses across the sect’s spirit mountains. The Mountain of Heavenly Fall struck the rear of the Corpse Tide, but the impact’s power exceeded everyone’s expectations.

• True Ancestor Changqing assigned Foundation Establishment Cultivators to defend the spirit mountains and support Azure Cloud Sect’s formations.
• Lin Chen and the formation masters anchored the Mountain of Heavenly Fall’s descent using a massive altar formation.
• Old Demon Taiyin ordered the demonic cultivators to let the Undead Calamity break Azure Cloud Sect’s formation before the Blood Cultivators attacked.
• A blazing comet appeared and struck the rear of the million-strong Corpse Tide.
• The resulting fireball and shockwave surpassed Lin Chen, Old Demon Taiyin, and Lin Tianhang’s expectations.

A star fell in the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation, and Lin Tianhang and an unseen ally diverted much of its impact away from the Lingnan Great Land. The catastrophe nearly wiped out the Corpse Tide and shattered the Mysterious Yin Gate’s Nine Nether Burial Coffin, but Old Demon Taiyin ordered an all-out assault on the weakened Azure Cloud Sect.

• The Spirit Eye Bright Colt saw the star fall and reported the catastrophe to the Demon Court.
• Lin Tianhang confronted his unseen ally over the destruction, then learned the ally would handle the consequences while their war continued.
• The collision devastated the Lingnan Great Land and nearly annihilated the million-strong Corpse Tide.
• Old Demon Taiyin and the other Demonic Cultivators survived, but the Nine Nether Burial Coffin cracked under the impact.
• Old Demon Taiyin rejected retreat and ordered the Mysterious Yin Gate and Blood Demon forces to commit their entire armies against the Azure Cloud Sect.

After Lin Chen’s defense against Planetary Devastation left Azure Cloud Sect badly damaged, Old Demon Taiyin and the Demonic Cultivators attacked the mountain. True Person Zhen Tian revealed Azure Cloud Sect’s thousand-year formation foundations as Formation Manifestation and crushed True Person Yunshi, leaving the enemy facing his enormous Dharma manifestation.

• Lin Chen recovered from injuries caused by redirecting Planetary Devastation, but Old Demon Taiyin and the Demonic Cultivators attacked Azure Cloud Mountain before the sect could recover.
• True Ancestor Changqing, True Person Jian Xuan, and True Person Zhen Tian blocked the attackers’ blows as Old Demon Taiyin taunted the sect and demanded that True Person Qingyang emerge.
• True Ancestor Changqing recognized Old Demon Taiyin’s unusual agitation, and True Person Zhen Tian stepped forward to reveal Azure Cloud Sect’s hidden formation restrictions across its territory.
• True Person Zhen Tian activated Formation Manifestation, joining the sect’s formations and spiritual veins to gather heaven-and-earth powers into a huge Dharma manifestation.
• True Person Zhen Tian crushed True Person Yunshi, destroying his Golden Core and soul, then turned toward Old Demon Taiyin and the other Demonic Cultivators.

True Person Zhen Tian used the Azure Cloud Sect’s formations to manifest a colossal body and overwhelm Old Demon Taiyin, but the Blood Demon faction revealed its own formidable power. The chapter ended as a vast Blood Lotus appeared, leaving Zhen Tian unsure whether its might came from a Nascent Soul Cultivator or Spirit Transformation power.

• True Person Zhen Tian drew on the Azure Cloud Sect’s formations to manifest a giant with power capable of challenging opponents across realms.
• True Person Zhen Tian attacked Old Demon Taiyin, shattering much of the Nine Nether Burial Coffin and forcing Old Demon Taiyin to destroy the treasure to escape.
• The shattered coffin released Spirit Transformation power that corrupted Zhen Tian’s manifestation, while Old Demon Taiyin called on the Blood Demon faction to intervene.
• The Blood Shadow declared that he would take Lin Chen’s body and soul, then summoned a vast Blood Lotus from the rising sea of blood.
• True Person Zhen Tian sensed that the Blood Lotus’s power rivaled his own and wondered whether it came from a Nascent Soul Cultivator or Spirit Transformation power.

The Azure Cloud Sect unleashed its lightning and sword-based defenses against the Blood Demon faction’s illusory Blood Sea. After the Blood Transformation Demonic Blade stopped True Person Zhen Tian’s sword, the Asura’s Shadow emerged from the sea.

• True Person Zhen Tian summoned a sea of lightning to strike the Blood Demon faction’s illusory Blood Sea.
• True Person Jian Xuan summoned the swords of Sword Come Peak and sent his Natal Spirit Sword to True Person Zhen Tian.
• True Person Zhen Tian wielded the sword against the Blood Sea, but the towering Blood Shadow forged the Blood Transformation Demonic Blade and blocked it.
• The clash of sword and saber shook the surrounding region, killing many weaker cultivators in the battle’s aftermath.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s sword was stopped, and the thirty-zhang Asura’s Shadow rose from the Blood Sea.

True Person Zhen Tian fought Blood Shadow in the skies above the Azure Cloud Sect while Blood Shadow unleashed Blood Droplets across the sect’s mountains. As Lin Chen battled the monsters, Ye Ming confronted him over the death of his younger brother, but Lin Chen could not remember which victim he meant.

• True Person Zhen Tian and Blood Shadow clashed, and Blood Shadow ordered Old Demon Taiyin to attack the formation nodes supported by treefolk.
• Blood Shadow summoned countless Blood Droplets from the Illusory Sea of Blood, and they descended across the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Chen identified and fought a Blood Droplet, discovering that its foul aura could defile artifacts, before burning it to ashes with stronger flames.
• Lin Chen prepared to use his clones to clear the monsters from Azure Cloud Mountain, then turned as Ye Ming accused him of killing his younger brother.
• Ye Ming threatened to kill Lin Chen, who interrupted him and said he had killed too many people to know which younger brother Ye Ming meant.

Lin Chen faced Ye Ming and a female Mysterious Yin Gate disciple, but decided to conceal his strength rather than risk provoking the Blood Demon faction’s unknown trump cards. As Ye Ming launched a coordinated attack, Lin Chen prepared to hold back and fight cautiously.

• Lin Chen dismissed Ye Ming as insignificant and threatened to destroy his clan, enraging him.
• Ye Ming revealed his Primordial Star White Bone Demonic Dao, while the female cultivator transformed and unleashed Soul Devouring Demonic Insects that disrupted Lin Chen’s soul sensing.
• Lin Chen judged that using his full power could draw the attention of the Blood Demon faction and decided to conserve his strength while the battle remained uncertain.
• Lin Chen halted his Spiritual Energy Embryo from drawing on the world’s power and chose to fight Ye Ming without revealing his full capabilities.
• Ye Ming sent death-qi skulls and Soul Devouring Demonic Insects at Lin Chen, then charged with his white bone scythe under their cover.

As Blood Demon monsters overwhelmed the Azure Cloud Sect’s defenders, Zhang Zhiming activated the sect’s Treant Army despite the danger to his life. The treants stabilized the battlefield, but Mysterious Yin Gate Demonic Cultivators arrived as the blood light continued to fall.

• Blood Demon monsters descended across the Azure Cloud Sect, overpowering many cultivators and killing defenders on several spirit mountains.
• Zhang Zhiming used a spirit plant to wipe out hundreds of Blood Demon monsters, then learned that other areas were in dire straits and Lin Chen was being pursued by Ye Ming and another Demonic Cultivator True Disciple.
• Zhang Zhiming decided to activate the Treant Army with his Wood-Attribute Heavenly Spirit Root, despite the risk of being drained to death.
• The Spirit Trees across the sect awakened as treants and formed a front line that slowed the Blood Demon monsters and helped stabilize the battle.
• Mysterious Yin Gate Demonic Cultivators descended onto the battlefield amid the continuing blood light.

Zhang Mengyao defended a second-tier spirit mountain from Blood Demon monsters, then confronted two Mysterious Yin Gate True Disciples and revealed that she had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage. Meanwhile, Zhang Hao cleared his own mountain but was stopped by a new opponent.

• Zhang Mengyao cut down the attacking Blood Demon monsters and told Elder Xu to take half the cultivators to support another node.
• Two Mysterious Yin Gate True Disciples blocked Elder Xu and Zhang Mengyao, and the sides prepared to fight.
• One demonic disciple revealed a corpse that had taken over his consciousness, while the other transformed into a skeleton wielding a scythe.
• Zhang Mengyao drew her sword and charged after revealing her Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation.
• A faint Blood Light appeared and vanished unnoticed as Zhang Hao prepared to leave his cleared spirit mountain.
• An unseen opponent spoke behind Zhang Hao and challenged him to fight.

Zhang Hao confronted a black-and-white ghoul that could pass through attacks and drain the life from his spirit sword, while Tree Elder explained its origins but could not offer a reliable way to defeat it. Elsewhere, Xu Mengyun killed a female demonic cultivator and healed herself as blood light continued to fall.

• A black-and-white figure appeared behind Zhang Hao and declared that it was his opponent.
• Zhang Hao attacked the figure with his Five Elements Annihilating Spirit Sword Formation, but the sword light passed through it while it grabbed one of his swords.
• Tree Elder identified the figure as an evil creature modeled on an ancient ghoul and suggested that yin and yang or life and death might affect it.
• The ghoul turned Zhang Hao's Geng Metal Spirit Sword black and white until it crumbled, and Zhang Hao summoned eight crimson spirit flags to form the Eight Yuan Gathering Yang Thunder Fire Great Formation.
• Xu Mengyun told the female demonic cultivator that she had already lost, and the opponent split in two and fell dead.
• Xu Mengyun took the Non-toxic Qi Pill Lin Chen had given her to heal her injuries and saw blood light still descending from the sky.

Xu Mengyun killed a Mysterious Yin Gate Demonic Cultivator but was badly wounded, while Azure Cloud Sect cultivators struggled to hold the battlefield. As spirit-mountain formation nodes fell and the fighting wore everyone down, the situation tilted toward a looming rout.

• Xu Mengyun used the Blood Burning Secret Technique and a hidden Trump Card to kill the Female Demonic Cultivator, then destroyed her corpse without taking any spoils.
• Yulan arrived with Azure Cloud Sect Disciples, helping Xu Mengyun defeat the Blood Demon monsters surrounding her.
• Liu Qiqiang tried to bargain with his opponent, but the Demonic Cultivator attacked more fiercely until Xu Mengyun struck and helped him kill the enemy.
• Xu Mengyun and her allies joined forces to kill the Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivators in their area and temporarily stabilize the fighting.
• Mysterious Yin Gate Demonic Cultivators breached a crucial spirit-mountain formation node, and other nodes began to dim as Azure Cloud Sect cultivators grew exhausted.

Lin Chen and Ye Ming fought to a stalemate as the Azure Cloud Sect’s defenders gradually lost ground in the prolonged invasion. With the sect nearing collapse and True Person Qingyang still in seclusion, Lin Chen prepared to flee if the battle remained unresolved by morning.

• Lin Chen killed a Foundation Establishment Soul Devouring Demonic Insect and burned away much of Ye Ming’s insect swarm, while Ye Ming argued that the Demonic Cultivators would outlast the exhausted defenders.
• Lin Chen realized that the Azure Cloud Sect would likely be defeated by morning unless someone broke the stalemate, and he considered killing Ye Ming and escaping with an Instant Thousand Mile Talisman if no turnaround came.
• Across the spirit mountains, the Treant Army helped stabilize the fighting, but the Illusory Sea of Blood kept producing threats as the cultivators grew exhausted.
• Zhang Hao struggled against a bizarre monster, Zhang Mengyao fought two true disciple Demonic Cultivators after killing Blood Shadow, and Xu Mengyun and Liu Qiqiang faced fresh Blood Demons.
• Deep within Azure Cloud Mountain, True Person Qingyang remained motionless in seclusion, while the Fire Spiritual Energy had vanished from his Secret Room.

Old Demon Taiyin and True Ancestor Changqing remained locked in battle until a Blood-Origin Curse crippled True Person Jian Xuan and left Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang free to attack Azure Cloud Sect’s grand formation. As the formation overloaded and its defenses dimmed, Azure Cloud Sect’s collapse seemed imminent.

• Old Demon Taiyin recognized that True Ancestor Changqing’s life-and-death powers made him a dangerous rival and tried to unsettle him by warning that Azure Cloud Sect was losing the war.
• Old Demon Taiyin revealed that Blood Demons had cursed the sword light wielded by True Person Zhen Tian’s Dharma form, but True Ancestor Changqing realized the curse’s true target was True Person Jian Xuan’s Natal Spirit Sword.
• The Blood-Origin Curse spread through True Person Jian Xuan, while Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang’s Dead Person’s Heads swarmed and devoured his sword light; Old Demon Taiyin then pinned True Ancestor Changqing with his Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang fused his Dead Person’s Heads into a Head-Human Evil and attacked the Spirit Tree atop Azure Cloud Mountain, overloading the grand formation and dimming its defenses.
• More Blood Demon monsters flooded through the weakened formation as its spiritual radiance faded and True Person Zhen Tian’s Dharma form grew illusory, bringing Azure Cloud Sect closer to collapse.

Zhang Hao prepared to flee as the battle turned against the defenders, while Zhang Mengyao fell to the enemy and Lin Chen faced a swarm of Blood Demons. Lin Chen killed Ye Ming and the female demon cultivator, then began activating his Instant Thousand Mile Talisman before a strange golden sun rose behind Azure Cloud Mountain.

• After True Person Jian Xuan was struck down, Zhang Hao called on Tree Elder and used the Yi Wood Immortal Escape to prepare to flee.
• Zhang Mengyao lost focus and was pierced by two Demonic Cultivator True Disciples, whose deathly qi began draining her life force.
• Ye Ming attacked Lin Chen with deathly qi skulls, Soul Devouring Demonic Insects, and a talisman empowered by a Ghost Shadow.
• Lin Chen summoned a thunder dragon that blasted Ye Ming, then destroyed him and the female demon cultivator with lightning and flame.
• Lin Chen began activating the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman to escape the Lingnan Great Land, but a golden sun rose behind Azure Cloud Mountain.

True Person Qingyang emerged as a Nascent Soul Cultivator and turned the Azure Cloud Sect’s thousand-mile territory into a sea of fire that burned Demonic Cultivators while healing the sect’s defenders. He confronted Old Demon Taiyin, and Lin Chen recognized that Qingyang’s return had ended the sect’s crisis.

• Zhang Hao tried to escape using Yi Wood Immortal Escape, but a golden sun appeared and filled the Azure Cloud Sect’s territory with fire.
• The flames incinerated the Demonic Cultivators while restoring the sect’s wounded, allowing the cultivators to counterattack; Zhang Mengyao killed the white-bone Demonic Cultivator and prepared to finish the corpse-refining Demonic Cultivator.
• Old Demon Taiyin rescued the surviving corpse-refining Demonic Cultivator and about a hundred charred Demonic Cultivators, then faced the spreading flames in his Netherglow Graveyard.
• True Person Qingyang spoke to Old Demon Taiyin, declared their three-thousand-year conflict over, and appeared above the Unquenchable Wood in his Nascent Soul form.
• Lin Chen put away the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman and watched True Person Qingyang, confident that the Azure Cloud Sect was safe.

True Person Qingyang emerged from seclusion as a Nascent Soul Cultivator and used the Great Sun True Flame to burn the demonic forces and their sea of blood. Just as he seemed to have won, Blood River True Water gave rise to a Blood Lotus and the terrifying Asura.

• True Person Qingyang dispelled the Blood Demon's curse from True Person Jian Xuan and reunited with True Person Zhen Tian.
• True Ancestor Changqing told True Person Qingyang about the calamity, and Qingyang saw the destruction of Azure Cloud Mountain and the Lingnan Great Land.
• True Person Qingyang burned the demonic monsters and engulfed the illusory sea of blood with the Great Sun True Flame.
• A spring of Blood River True Water appeared within the nearly destroyed sea of blood, and its voice caused Azure Cloud Sect disciples to lose their vital blood.
• A Blood Lotus bloomed from the spring, revealing Asura as True Person Qingyang faced the new threat.

True Person Qingyang used the Azure Cloud Sect’s grand formation and ancient Spirit Tree to amplify his Dao Domain, confronting the powerful enemy inside the Blood Lotus. He unleashed a Great Sun True Flame capable of killing a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, and sent it toward the enemy.

• The Blood Lotus spread a sea of blood across the sky and extinguished True Person Qingyang’s Great Sun True Flame, revealing the enemy’s formidable power.
• True Person Qingyang judged that the Blood Lotus’s owner was a dangerous demon, but resolved to fight because he was defending the Azure Cloud Sect.
• True Person Zhen Tian transferred control of the sect’s grand formation to True Person Qingyang, who merged his Dao Domain with it.
• True Ancestor Changqing merged into the ancient Spirit Tree, allowing True Person Qingyang to take its place as the core of the sect’s thousand-mile territory.
• True Person Qingyang drew power from the spirit veins and the heavens, elevating his aura and condensing a faintly chaotic Great Sun True Flame.
• True Person Qingyang flicked the flame toward the figure inside the Blood Lotus.