Chapter Summaries

Li Fan gave Xin Ning a calligraphy piece before Yunxi led her group toward the Devil Realm, while the Southern Immortal Realm’s defenders faced betrayal and an overwhelming invasion. Devil Suppressing City learned that eighteen Quasi-Emperors had arrived as reinforcements.

• Li Fan wrote calligraphy about opening the road between life and death, and Xin Ning accepted it before joining Yunxi’s group on their journey to the Devil Realm.
• Ming Tianbei gathered Blood Halberd, Dan Ming, and the other Marshals after Xin Ning said she would take them with her to the Devil Realm.
• Huo Ling'er left to command the Ji Clan and Desolate Heaven Alliance forces toward the Southern Immortal Realm, while Yunxi opened a passage for the others.
• At Devil Suppressing City, Yin Wuji learned that the Devil Realm’s vanguard had killed Saint King Yin Tian and that the city’s allied clan Saint Kings planned to surrender and leave.
• The allied Saint Kings departed with many foreign races, and a messenger told Yin Wuji that eighteen Quasi-Emperors had arrived as reinforcements.

Yin Wuji welcomed Jiang Xue, Yunxi, and the other powerful reinforcements sent by the Lord of the Desolate Heavens to Devil Suppressing City. As they prepared to face the Devil Race vanguard, Ao Wushuang’s identity as a notorious harbinger of disaster stunned the Saint Kings who had defected to the devils.

• Yin Wuji welcomed nine Quasi-Emperor disciples of the Lord of the Desolate Heavens, along with Jiang Xue, Xin Ning, and their companions, into Devil Suppressing City.
• Yin Wuji explained that Taiyin Saint Emperor’s statue protected the city and that the other races’ powerful experts had defected to the Devil Race.
• Xin Ning chose Blood Halberd to challenge the Devil Race’s Quasi-Emperor, while Jiang Xue and the others went to view the enemy fleet from the Great Wall.
• Wuming Quasi-Emperor told the defecting Saint Kings that he already knew the Imperial Clans had been destroyed, then had his subordinate bring Ao Wushuang before them.
• The Saint Kings recognized Ao Wushuang as the infamous survivor of the Imperial Clans’ defeat and were dumbfounded when he said he had come to seek refuge in the Devil Realm.

Blood Halberd killed Wuming Quasi-Emperor with a dung fork from Small Mountain Village and destroyed much of the Devil Race’s vanguard at the Forbidden Sea. As the survivors fled, three Devil Emperors’ forces learned of the defeat and heard that Wucan and a human had survived.

• The Sky Swallowing Python Saint King and other defectors warned Wuming Quasi-Emperor that Ao Wushuang was a Calamity Star, but Wuming kept him to guide their invasion of the Northern Immortal Realm.
• Blood Halberd appeared above the Forbidden Sea, fought Wuming Quasi-Emperor to a draw, then killed him with a dung fork that shattered the World-Ending Saint Slaying Saber.
• The Devil Race’s forces panicked and fled, while Ao Wushuang urged Wucan to escape with him toward the Devil Realm.
• Blood Halberd destroyed hundreds of demonic warships with the dung fork, then returned to the Great Wall and reported Wuming’s death to Xin Ning, who scolded him for using the village’s trash.
• The Devil Race’s main army received word that Wuming and the vanguard had been defeated, and learned that only Wucan and a human had returned.

The Devil Race invasion reached the Immortal Realm, where Lin Jiuzheng and the others fought back against three Devil Emperors. After Xin Ning devoured them, she told Yunxi that she knew the secret behind the Devil Realm’s destruction: it had a furnace.

• Extinguishing Yin Devil Emperor questioned Wucan and Ao Wushuang about the vanguard’s defeat, and Ao Wushuang warned that the terrifying weapon had been a manure fork before urging the Devil Race to retreat.
• Extinguishing Yin Devil Emperor, Devil Emperor Tunyang, and Devil Emperor Anyi launched a combined attack on the Immortal Realm Great Wall, and Jiang Xue, Nan Feng, Ziling, and the others moved to defend it.
• Dugu Yuqing used the Fire God Brush to help Lin Jiuzheng refine the Forbidden Sea’s power, and Lin Jiuzheng reached the Great Saint realm and swept the three Devil Emperors away with a sea-born Azure Dragon.
• A little girl appeared behind Extinguishing Yin Devil Emperor and killed him, then Xin Ning trapped and devoured him, Devil Emperor Anyi, and Devil Emperor Tunyang.
• Xin Ning thanked Lin Jiuzheng and Jiang Li, then told Yunxi that the Devil Realm had a furnace connected to the world’s destruction.

After Xin Ning and the others arrived in the Devil Realm, they targeted the factions feeding the Devil Spirit while Yunxi and Xin Ning lured Yang Duoxiao into an ambush. The gray-robed men left the Devil Furnace to confront the Great Yin Spirit, while the Devil Spirit prepared to defend herself with the Yin Yang Order Chain.

• Three Devil Emperors and their armies were wiped out in an attack on the Immortal Realm, and factions across the Devil Realm prepared to offer sacrifices to the Devil Spirit.
• Jiang Xue reasoned that the Yang Realm forces were hunting them, too, and proposed turning their plans against them.
• A mysterious powerhouse destroyed the Tianmo Sect and other factions for feeding the Devil Spirit, then killed Devil Emperor Duan Tian.
• Yang Duoxiao found Xin Ning and attacked her, but Yunxi struck him from behind while Li Fan's disciples joined the fight.
• The gray-robed men received Yang Duoxiao's distress message and left their servants to guard the Devil Furnace as they went after the Great Yin Spirit.
• The Devil Spirit welcomed the approaching confrontation and unleashed the deadly Yin Yang Order Chain.

Xin Ning confronted her Black Skirt Girl counterpart at Devil Furnace Valley, pretending to be overwhelmed before revealing her Saint Dao power and turning the tables. As the Black Skirt Girl was refined and the Yang Realm men were diverted, Ziling took Wu Dade and Yang Duoxiao toward the valley to join Yunxi and the others.

• Xin Ning met the Black Skirt Girl, who ordered her former Devil Generals to attack and sent eight Yang Realm cultivators against them.
• Gongya used a teacup to suppress the Yang Realm cultivators’ power while Blood Halberd, Tieshan, Dan Ming, and the Devil Commanders fought them.
• The Black Skirt Girl’s Yin Yang Order Chains defeated Xin Ning’s apparent resistance and bound her, but Xin Ning unleashed her Saint Dao source power and destroyed the chains.
• Xin Ning revealed that her dual cultivation made the chains ineffective, then seized and began refining the Black Skirt Girl.
• Four gray-robed men realized the Devil Spirit was in danger and rushed toward Devil Furnace Valley, while Ziling used illusions to draw them away with Wu Dade and Yang Duoxiao.
• Ziling took Wu Dade toward Devil Furnace Valley, where Yunxi and the others were waiting.

Yunxi and the others trapped Yang Duanfeng’s group, but Yang Duanfeng summoned the Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor, who overwhelmed them and destroyed the Yin Yang Devil Furnace. The Yin Realm began collapsing as the Old Ancestor waited for the Great Yin Spirit, while the story left off in the Northern Immortal Realm.

• The Black Skirt Girl attacked the four gray-robed men, killing one and badly injuring another before Yunxi and the others arrived.
• Yang Duanfeng realized Yang Duoxiao had been used as bait, then summoned the Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor with a portrait.
• The Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor recognized Yunxi but chose to attack anyway, overpowering her, Xin Ning, Ziling, and Li Fan’s disciples.
• The Old Ancestor seized the Yin Yang Devil Furnace and hurled it into the depths of the Yin Realm, where it exploded and shattered the world’s foundations.
• As the Yin Realm crumbled and destruction spread across the Devil and Immortal Realms, the Old Ancestor taunted the hidden Great Yin Spirit.
• The scene shifted to the Northern Immortal Realm.

While Li Fan worried about his absent disciples in the Small Mountain Village, his wish for a sword to open the road of life and death awakened the Scroll in Xin Ning’s hands. Its sword intent destroyed the Heaven Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor’s clone and true body, cut through the gray mist, and connected the Yin and Yang Realms.

• Li Fan watered his courtyard, fed Little White, and worried that his traveling disciples lacked money and were not safe.
• As Xin Ning held Li Fan’s Scroll above the Devil Realm, it opened by itself, alarming the Heaven Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor, who tried to destroy her and the Scroll.
• The Scroll revealed the words “One,” “Sword,” and “Cleave,” unleashing sword intent that shattered the Old Ancestor’s clone and swept across the Forbidden Sea.
• As more words appeared on the Scroll, its sword broke through the Yin-Yang Gray Mist and connected the Yin and Yang Realms.
• The Heaven Heavenly Profound Old Ancestor’s true body sensed the gray mist being cut and was annihilated by the sword intent.

Xin Ning’s Scroll opened the road from the Yin Realm to the Yang Realm, sending its living beings through the Yang Tribulation, where only those with surviving karma could be reborn. As the Yin Realm faced destruction, several characters crossed into the Yang Realm, and the chapter ended with the Immortal Dao Era volume complete.

• Xin Ning’s Scroll revealed the words “All living beings cross the Ghost Gate Pass together” and transported beings from the Devil Realm, Immortal Realm, Void Sea, and lower realms toward the Yang Realm.
• The Yang Tribulation struck the travelers, killing those whose karmic traces in the Yang Realm had vanished and sending survivors to places tied to their past karma.
• The Black and White Saint Emperor accepted the tribulation and departed for the Yang Realm, believing he would return if his past karma remained.
• Ao Wushuang survived the tribulation and vanished into another world, while Huo Ling’er and Mu Qianning crossed together.
• Ji Taixuan led Ji Qingke away after the Ji Clan’s other members were erased, and Jiang Xue entered the Yang Tribulation and disappeared.

As the Yin Realm collapsed, Li Fan’s power brought Nan Feng, Ziling, and the others safely back to his village, which crossed into the Yang Realm. The group arrived in the Great Ruin Realm’s Burial God Great Wilderness, while Li Fan set out to look for them.

• Jiang Xue, Nan Feng, and the others marveled at Li Fan’s calligraphy, which sent the Yin Realm’s living beings onto the Great Dao of the Yang Realm.
• As the Yin Realm crumbled, Ziling could no longer alter space, and Yunxi admitted she could not stop the destruction.
• Li Fan saw the sky behaving strangely, worried about Xin Ning and the others, and took Bai Xiaoqing and an umbrella to search for them.
• A mysterious power transported Nan Feng, Ziling, and the others from the collapsing Devil Realm back to Li Fan’s village.
• The village crossed the black hole left by the Yin Realm, passed into the Yang Realm, and descended into a vast wilderness.
• Yunxi identified their new location as the Burial God Great Wilderness in the eastern Great Ruin Realm and explained the Yang Realm’s worlds and God Realm.

Li Fan reunited with his disciples after they arrived in the Great Ruin Realm, while the people of Wood Spirit Village set out to find a treasure to save their dying Vine God. Mu Wanqing sensed a strong flow of spiritual energy near the Gray Mist Mountain Range, and Sophora Spirit Village followed the search party to stop them.

• Yunxi explained the Divine Dao and the Burial God Great Wilderness to the others while the group discussed their arrival in the Yang Realm.
• Li Fan welcomed his disciples back, learned they were in the Great Ruin Realm, and comforted Nan Feng about Jiang Xue before inviting everyone to dinner.
• Mu Rantian sent Wood Spirit Village's able-bodied adults into the wilderness to find a treasure that could prolong the Vine God's life.
• Mu Wanqing persuaded Mu Rantian to let her join Mu Jing and the others, then sensed unusually rich spiritual energy flowing toward the Gray Mist Mountain Range.
• Mu Jing led the group toward the Gray Mist Mountain Range, while a man from Sophora Spirit Village pursued them to prevent them from saving the Vine God.

Yunxi left the Small Mountain Village to contact her family, while Li Fan took his disciples into the mountains, where his bow frightened powerful beasts into fleeing. As Wu Dade pursued the Howling Desolation Tiger, it fled into a confrontation between Wood Spirit Village and Sophora Spirit Village, leaving Wu Dade face-to-face with Huai An and the others.

• Yunxi asked Li Fan for permission to leave briefly and set out to retrieve her communication crystal and contact her grandfather.
• Li Fan took his disciples into the mountains with his bow, and a mighty white-fronted tiger fled when he gripped it; other beasts also ran from the group.
• Mu Wanqing led Wood Spirit Village's youths toward the Gray Mist Mountain Range, but Huai An and Sophora Spirit Village's men ambushed them and seized her.
• The Howling Desolation Tiger appeared and fled in terror as Wu Dade's black dog chased it, leaving the villagers unharmed.
• Wu Dade emerged from the forest and found Huai An's group kneeling; Huai An looked at him with killing intent.

Wu Dade defeated Sophora Spirit Village’s fighters, and the black dog killed Huai An after destroying his village’s evil artifact. Wu Dade agreed to let Mu Wanqing and the others from Wood Spirit Village accompany them as they searched for a way to save their Sacrificial Spirit.

• Huai An ordered Sophora Spirit Village’s fighters to kill Wu Dade, but Wu Dade swiftly defeated the entire group.
• Huai An used a baby skull to summon a sinister locust-tree apparition, but the black dog’s bark destroyed it and shattered the skull.
• The black dog arrived carrying a dead Howling Desolation Tiger, then killed Huai An when he called it a Mixed-Blood Heavenly Dog.
• Mu Wanqing explained that Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit was fading and asked to travel with Wu Dade, who agreed.

Li Fan recited a poem on the mountain peak, and his disciples gained insights and broke through their realms. After the group learned that their time in the Small Mountain Village had transformed them from yin spirits into living humans, Li Fan agreed to help Mu Wanqing save the grapevine in Wood Spirit Village, while Wu Dade wondered how he could catch up with his seniors.

• Li Fan recited a poem about climbing Mount Tai and urged his disciples to keep reaching for higher heights.
• Jiang Li and Ziling broke through to Saint Emperor realms, Dugu Yuqing reached the Peeking Path Realm, and the other disciples also advanced.
• Nan Feng and Ziling realized that sacred substances from the Small Mountain Village had reshaped the disciples from yin spirits into living humans.
• Wu Dade arrived with Big Black Dog, Mu Wanqing, and a fierce tiger, and Li Fan offered to stew the tiger for a feast.
• Mu Wanqing asked Li Fan to save the failing grapevine in Wood Spirit Village, and he agreed to go with her.
• Wu Dade asked to learn the poem, but Jiang Li suggested Big Black Dog's bites would help his cultivation more than reading.

Mu Wanqing obtained spiritual soil from Li Fan’s village, believing it could prolong Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit’s life. When she returned, she learned Sophora Spirit Village had ambushed and killed their villagers, and she announced that she had found a treasure that could save their Sacrificial Spirit.

• Li Fan welcomed Mu Wanqing into Small Mountain Village and let her take three grains of soil from beneath the plum tree.
• Mu Wanqing returned to Mu Jing and said she had found something that could save Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit.
• Huai Rendong offered three infants to Sophora Spirit Village’s locust-tree Sacrificial Spirit and received a broken branch to use against Wood Spirit Village.
• Mu Jing and Mu Wanqing returned to find more than a dozen villagers dead after Sophora Spirit Village ambushed them.
• Mu Rantian forbade retaliation because Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit was unstable, and Mu Wanqing announced she had found a treasure to prolong its life.

Mu Wanqing’s spirit soil revived Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit, which then defeated Sophora Spirit Village’s attack and helped Wood Spirit Village drive off its enemies. The next morning, Mu Rantian, Mu Nanran, and Mu Qingwan set out to thank the senior who had given Mu Wanqing the soil.

• Mu Wanqing gave Mu Rantian three grains of spirit soil from Small Mountain Village, and the Sacrificial Spirit revived after absorbing one grain, gaining more than a thousand years of life.
• Mu Rantian entrusted the remaining spirit soil to Mu Wanqing, who resolved to return it to Senior Li and the others.
• Huai Rendong led Sophora Spirit Village’s fighters to attack Wood Spirit Village and demanded that the culprit behind his son’s death be handed over.
• The revived Sacrificial Spirit destroyed the Huai Tree’s manifestation, maimed Huai Rendong, and turned the battle against Sophora Spirit Village into a rout.
• Mu Rantian halted plans to attack Sophora Spirit Village while the Sacrificial Spirit prepared to break through, then asked Mu Wanqing to prepare gifts for Senior Li.
• The next morning, Mu Rantian, Mu Nanran, and Mu Qingwan left Wood Spirit Village carrying gifts to pay their respects.

After Sophora Spirit Village’s defeat, its old Huai Tree set out to seize the treasure it believed had revived Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit. Meanwhile, Mu Wanqing brought Mu Rantian and Mu Nanshan to Small Mountain Village, where they were overwhelmed by its countless powerful beings and finally found Senior Li’s Unique Leisurely Courtyard.

• Huai Rendong reported his defeat to the old Huai Tree, which learned that Wood Spirit Village’s Sacrificial Spirit had revived and suspected a treasure was responsible.
• The old Huai Tree uprooted itself and ran into the Great Wilderness, leaving Huai Rendong convinced it would avenge him.
• Mu Wanqing returned the excess spirit soil to Small Mountain Village’s plum tree, while Mu Rantian and Mu Nanshan marveled at its power.
• As they crossed the village, the visitors mistook its grass, flowers, animals, and even loaches for formidable Sacrificial Spirits and saw spirit soil everywhere.
• Ming Tianbei told the visitors he was only a trash picker and directed them toward Senior Li’s courtyard; they then watched Demon Commanders fight over his seemingly ordinary discarded items.
• Mu Rantian urged his companions to offer their gifts as a sincere expression of gratitude, and the group reached Unique Leisurely Courtyard.

Li Fan welcomed Mu Wanqing, Mu Rantian, and Mu Nanshan after their village’s grapes recovered, then gave them a bag of his extraordinary millet as a return gift. As the three left Small Mountain Village, a corpse-covered locust tree appeared and advanced toward it.

• Li Fan taught his disciples a new exercise routine after breakfast.
• Mu Wanqing, Mu Rantian, and Mu Nanshan visited Li Fan to thank him for restoring Wood Spirit Village’s grapes and presented him with their village’s prized crops and wine.
• Li Fan accepted their gifts and gave Mu Wanqing a bag of millet, which the visitors recognized as an immensely powerful treasure.
• Li Fan told Gongya to take the visitors’ crops to Uncle Zhang for Big Black Ox, and Wu Dade escorted the visitors out.
• After Mu Wanqing, Mu Rantian, and Mu Nanshan left Small Mountain Village, a massive locust tree covered in infant corpses appeared and moved toward the village.

The old Huai Tree attacked Mu Rantian and the others at Small Mountain Village, but an unseen force destroyed it and its clone escaped. Back in Wood Spirit Village, Mu Rantian’s grain of rice healed him and helped him break through to the Dao Integration Realm, while he began investigating the village’s past and training Mu Wanqing.

• The old Huai Tree attacked Small Mountain Village, but an inexplicable force severed its branches and destroyed its body; its hidden clone fled.
• Wu Dade questioned Mu Rantian about powerful beings deeper in the great wilderness, and the group returned to their villages.
• Mu Rantian ate a grain of rice from Senior Li, recovered from his injuries, and broke through to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Mu Rantian and the Sacrificial Spirit speculated that Senior Li’s aid might be repaying an ancient karmic debt tied to Wood Spirit Village’s ancestors.
• Mu Rantian decided to search the clan records and told Mu Wanqing to eat one grain of rice each day as he began teaching her cultivation.
• The escaped old Huai Tree clone reached the territory of a powerful overlord and pleaded with Lynx Big Brother for help.

The Three-colored Lynx learned that the old Huai Tree had failed to destroy Wood Spirit Village and headed for the Crow Food Tribe. Meanwhile, Wu Dade went to Cold Stone Town’s market with Big Black, where Big Black spotted a rusted piece of iron and Wu Dade’s attempt to pay with water caused a commotion.

• The old Huai Tree told the Three-colored Lynx that Wood Spirit Village’s grapevine had been reborn and might have reached the Soul-Congealing Realm, so the lynx decided to report to the Crow Food Tribe.
• Li Fan sent Wu Dade to scout the market, and Wu Dade brought Big Black along after Li Fan agreed.
• Wu Dade and Big Black reached Cold Stone Town and found the market’s goods unimpressive until Big Black sensed something at a weapons stall.
• Big Black urged Wu Dade to buy a rusted piece of iron, so Wu Dade bought it as a free extra with a meteor hammer despite having no Crow Food Coins.
• When the vendor threatened Wu Dade for offering water or mud as payment, Mu Wanqing and Mu Jing arrived, and Mu Wanqing urgently warned Wu Dade not to do that.