Chapter Summaries

Ao Wushuang told the Demon Lords about the Great Ruin Star Realm, and they decided to seize it as a new home for the Demon Race. After learning that yellow smoke had appeared there, the Netherworld Old Ancestor revealed his fear of its power, was suppressed by a giant claw, and ordered Xue Mingcheng to lure the realm’s people to Ding Star Realm.

• Ao Wushuang claimed the yellow smoke came from the Great Ruin Star Realm and offered to lead the Demon Lords there.
• Xue Mingcheng used a Star River projection to locate the Great Ruin Star Realm, and the Demon Lords recognized it as a realm nearing constant status.
• Xue Mingcheng reported the discovery and Blood Ding’s encounter with the yellow smoke to the Netherworld Old Ancestor beneath the Netherworld Blood River.
• The Netherworld Old Ancestor reacted with astonishment to the yellow smoke, then tried to emerge before a giant claw suppressed him.
• The Netherworld Old Ancestor gave Xue Mingcheng a stone scale and ordered him to lure people from the Great Ruin Star Realm to Ding Star Realm.

Xue Mingcheng sent Xue Mei to the Great Ruin Realm with a dangerous stone scale, while the Blood Demon Ghost Race prepared to rebuild the Demon Land. A golden dragon claw seized the scale and refined its gray mist, leaving a tiny scale in the pond at Small Mountain Village.

• Xue Mingcheng revealed that the Old Ancestor had given the Demon Lords a stone scale and ordered them to send it to the Great Ruin Realm while summoning the demon clans.
• Xue Mei departed with the scale, and the Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord sent the Hungry Ghost to follow him.
• Xue Mei hurled the stone scale toward the Great Ruin Realm, where its gray mist unleashed a world-ending aura.
• A golden dragon claw reached out from the Great Ruin Realm, refined the gray mist, and destroyed Xue Mei as the Hungry Ghost watched.
• Long Zixuan saw a true dragon's furious phantom, then found a tiny stone scale in the pond surrounded by golden carp.

Long Zixuan found a stone scale tied to the true dragon’s old friend, the First of the Ten Spirits, and set out with Wu Dade and the big black dog to search for it. In the Ding Star Realm, Lu Cailing tried to obtain the Dragon Demon Race’s Ancestor Demon Stone Token, but Ao Zhenhai delayed her by offering to back her bid to lead the Demon Realm.

• The true dragon spoke to Long Zixuan through the stone scale, urging him to find its old friend, the First of the Ten Spirits, and Long Zixuan recognized it as a trace of a rare animal.
• Li Fan sent Long Zixuan and Wu Dade to search, and the big black dog took them to the Great Ruin Realm, where the Starving Ghost led them toward the Ding Star Realm.
• The Blood Demon Ghost Race announced a Demon Race Assembly to discuss rebuilding the Demon Land, and the Demon Roc Race prepared to attend.
• Lu Cailing asked Ao Zhenhai for the Ancestor Demon Stone Token and threatened him with a golden monkey hair, but a Blood Demon envoy interrupted their discussion.
• After hearing the Blood Demon Race’s proposal for a Demon Race Assembly, Ao Zhenhai offered to support Lu Cailing as leader of the Demon Realm and promised the Stone Token; Lu Cailing agreed to wait.

At the Demon Race Assembly in Dingxing City, Lu Cailing fought alone to claim the title and Ancestor Demon Stone Token, but faced a powerful challenge from Peng Shanming. Wu Dade appeared and effortlessly defeated him, introducing himself, Long Zixuan, and Dahei as members of the Great-Devourer Demon Race.

• Xue Mingcheng ordered the Netherworld City forces to prepare for the Great Ruin Realm’s people, while demon races gathered in Dingxing City to choose a leader for their conquest.
• Ao Zhenhai urged Lu Cailing to win the assembly and claim the Ancestor Demon Stone Token, while privately testing his suspicions about her.
• Lu Cailing defeated thirteen challengers in a row before Peng Shanming, a fifth-layer Heavenly Demon, stepped onto the platform to fight her.
• Wu Dade, Long Zixuan, and Dahei arrived, and Ao Wushuang recognized them and began looking for an escape route.
• Peng Shanming attacked Wu Dade, who shattered his magic power and slammed him into the platform.
• Wu Dade introduced himself, Long Zixuan, and Dahei as the Great-Devourer Demon Race.

Wu Dade defeated Peng Shanming and roasted him on the arena, while Long Zixuan fought and killed the four Demon Lords Peng Tianxia sent after them. The crowd was left stunned by the Great-Devourer Demon Race’s power, and Long Zixuan suggested adding more cumin to the next roast.

• Wu Dade challenged the Demon Roc Race and defeated Peng Shanming, then transformed him into a roc and roasted him on the arena.
• Wu Dade, the big black dog, Long Zixuan, and Lu Cailing ate the roasted roc while the demon races watched in shock.
• Peng Tianxia ordered four Demon Lords to attack, and Long Zixuan fought them all at once.
• Long Zixuan killed or incapacitated all four Demon Lords, leaving the arena stunned.
• Long Zixuan told Wu Dade to put more cumin on the next roast.

Long Zixuan and Wu Dade intimidated the Demon Races at the gathering, but Xue Mingcheng exposed them as visitors from the Great Ruin Realm and unleashed a trap. The big black dog, Long Zixuan, and Wu Dade pretended to be overwhelmed and were captured by the Nether chains.

• Long Zixuan defeated four Demon Roc warriors, while Wu Dade began roasting them and challenged the other Demon Races to fight.
• Wu Dade demanded that the Demon Races acknowledge the Taotie Clan as their common ruler and help attack the Great Ruin Realm.
• Xue Mingcheng identified Long Zixuan and his companions as outsiders from the Great Ruin Realm and attacked them with Nether chains.
• The big black dog shattered the first chains with his barking, but Xue Mingcheng summoned nine blood-red chains from beneath Dingxing City.
• The big black dog, Long Zixuan, and Wu Dade pretended to struggle and were bound by the Nether chains.

The Blood Demon Race captured Wu Dade, Long Zixuan, and the big black dog, and learned through a soul search that yellow paper had given them their power. Netherworld Old Ancestor ordered an invasion of Great Ruin Realm while the Demon Race’s five-million-strong army marched out, and the big black dog recognized the finger bone awaiting them on the altar.

• The Demon Race accepted the Blood Demon Race as their leader, and Xue Mingcheng announced that their allied forces would march on Great Ruin Eternal Realm to rebuild the Demon Land.
• Xue Ding searched the big black dog’s soul, discovered that yellow paper had empowered the dog, Wu Dade, and Long Zixuan, and beat Wu Dade after learning that his ancestor-burning had caused Xue Ding’s corruption.
• Xue Mingcheng took the captives beneath the Netherworld Blood River, where Netherworld Old Ancestor ordered him to conquer Great Ruin Realm and retrieve the yellow paper.
• Netherworld Old Ancestor welcomed the captives as nourishment and boasted that his old enemies were dead and could no longer suppress him.
• Xue Mingcheng led five million Demon Race elites toward Great Ruin Realm, while Lu Cailing decided to stay close to Ao Wushuang and Ao Wushuang led the army.
• The big black dog widened his eyes in shock when Xue Mingcheng brought the captives before the upright finger bone on the altar.

Mu Wanqing warned Li Fan that hostile creatures were approaching the Great Ruin Realm, but he mistook them for hunting game and sent his disciples out. The disciples’ small warship then confronted the Demon Race’s ten-million-strong fleet, whose commanders underestimated the realm.

• Sentries detected a huge Demon Race army beyond the Great Ruin Realm, and Mu Wanqing went to report the threat to Li Fan.
• Worried that the courtyard was running short on meat, Li Fan told his disciples to hunt the approaching birds and beasts and sent them out with various tools and animals.
• Demon Lord Peng Tianxia asked Xue Mingcheng about the Great Ruin Realm, and Xue Mingcheng claimed its strongest cultivators were no more than True Gods.
• The Demon Race fleet spotted a lone warship leaving the Great Ruin Realm with Li Fan’s young disciples and their animals aboard.

Dugu Yuqing and Hongyi confronted the Demon Race army threatening the Great Ruin Realm, and Dugu Yuqing killed a Demon Lord with the Vermilion Bird's help. The forces were left stunned as the pair returned with a roasted giant snake, and Dugu Yuqing asked Qing Chen for seasoning.

• The allied Demon Race forces mocked the Great Ruin Realm's defenders, while Lu Rang and the other disciples eagerly prepared to fight.
• Dugu Yuqing challenged the demons and killed more than ten Heavenly Demons with a single sword strike.
• The Demon Serpent Race's Demon Lord attacked Dugu Yuqing, and Hongyi burned through his domain as Dugu Yuqing's sword broke the Demon Roc Race Demon Lords' law domain.
• Hongyi killed the Demon Serpent Race's Demon Lord and carried the roasted snake back to Dugu Yuqing.
• Dugu Yuqing asked Qing Chen for seasoning so they could eat the snake.

Dugu Yuqing, Lu Rang, Qing Chen, and Lin Jiuzheng fought off nearly fifty Demon Lord-level enemies, astonishing the Demon Race with their strength and laws. Xue Mingcheng then ordered the full Demon Race army to attack the lone Great Ruin Realm warship, and Nan Feng calmly told her allies to face them.

• Xue Mingcheng ordered Demon Lord-level forces to probe the Great Ruin Realm fighters while he watched for signs of divine-beast bloodlines.
• Dugu Yuqing, Lu Rang, Qing Chen, and Lin Jiuzheng left the warship and charged into the Demon Lord formation as the others watched them finish eating roasted snake.
• The four fought nearly fifty Demon Lords, using their laws and companions to overwhelm their opponents and shock the Demon Race army.
• Xue Mingcheng questioned Xue Ding about the realm's many powerful fighters, then ordered the Demon Race army to end the battle and seize the Great Ruin Realm.
• As the full Demon Race army charged the lone warship, Nan Feng calmly ordered her side to face the enemy.

Nan Feng, Yunxi, Xin Ning, and the others unleashed powerful abilities against the invading Demon Race army, but the overwhelming numbers pushed the defenders toward defeat. Jiang Li used a rules-based Go board to contain half the army, while Blood City devised a plan to block the world’s energy currents and prevent the defenders from breaking through to the Divine Lord realm.

• Nan Feng’s zither music made Demon Race cultivators comprehend the Dao before tens of thousands merged with it, while her Heavenly Wolf shattered a Demon Lord’s domain.
• Yunxi’s paintings erased Demon Race cultivators and turned Painting Slaves against their own army, while Gongya used the Vessel of Rules to strip away their rules.
• Xin Ning recited ancient poems that killed over a hundred thousand Demon Race cultivators and then destroyed a charging Demon Lord with verses from “The Gallant Swordsman.”
• Dugu Yuqing and the other defenders were wounded and exhausted as the millions-strong Demon Race army threatened to break through into the Great Ruin Realm.
• Jiang Li spread a rules-based Go board across nearly a million miles, containing half the Demon Race army while promising only to defend the Great Ruin Realm.
• Blood City proposed that the Demon Lords block the world’s energy currents so the defenders would be unable to break through to the Divine Lord realm.

Dugu Yuqing and the others neared breakthroughs to the God Ruler realm while fighting the Demon Race, but four Demon Lords sealed off Heaven and Earth to prevent them from sensing the Dao. Nan Feng broke through anyway, and Qing Chen began to manifest another divine domain.

• Dugu Yuqing, Lu Rang, Nan Feng, Xin Ning, Qing Chen, Lin Jiuzheng, and Jiang Li fought to exhaustion as the Demon Race’s allied army suffered heavy losses.
• Xue Lushhan, Xue Mankong, Peng Tianxia, and Ao Zhenhai appeared and joined their auras to seal the battlefield, cutting off the connection to Heaven and Earth.
• The four Demon Lords mocked the group, claiming the severed path made their breakthroughs impossible, while the Demon Race celebrated.
• Nan Feng played her qin beneath the suppression and condensed her own divine domain, entering the God Ruler realm without drawing on Heaven and Earth’s aura.
• Qing Chen’s aura erupted into an endless Buddhist domain filled with golden light and manifestations of himself, signaling another God Ruler breakthrough.

Nan Feng, Qing Chen, and the others broke through into the God Lord realm, and their domains turned the tide against the Demon Race. After Peng Tianxia shattered Jiang Li’s Ten Thousandfold Chess Domain, ten million demons vanished from the battlefield, leaving the four Demon Lords stunned.

• Nan Feng and Qing Chen attained the God Lord realm, followed by Dugu Yuqing, Lu Rang, Lin Jiuzheng, Gongya, and Xin Ning, whose domains took shape around their respective Daos.
• Su Baiqian entered the God Lord realm and healed the wounded with her domain, prompting Yun Yinchen and Mu Wanqing to gain breakthroughs as well.
• The Demon Race panicked at the successive breakthroughs and tried to kill the newly advanced God Lords.
• Jiang Li unleashed his Ten Thousandfold Killing Calamity across the battlefield, threatening to annihilate the Demon Race army.
• Peng Tianxia broke Jiang Li’s domain with a finger, but then ten million demons vanished, leaving the four Demon Lords bewildered.

Ziling revealed that she had turned the battlefield into her canvas and controlled the Demon Race army, prompting the Demon Lords to identify her and the others as legendary Other Path Cultivators. The Demon Lords summoned the Yang Realm’s Heavenly Dao against them, while Wu Dade and the big black dog discovered another Other Path Cultivator in the Ding Star Realm.

• Ziling restored the vanished Demon Race army and explained that the battlefield itself was her Scroll, where she controlled everything she painted.
• Peng Tianxia and the other Demon Lords prepared to kill the young cultivators, but Xue Mingcheng identified them as Other Path Cultivators from ancient legends.
• Xue Mingcheng persuaded the Demon Lords to withdraw their concealment and expose the Other Path Cultivators to the Heavenly Dao, but no tribulation came.
• Xue Mingcheng and the other Demon Lords joined forces to awaken the Heavenly Dao, whose power began gathering above the battlefield.
• In the Ding Star Realm, Wu Dade asked about a finger bone on a Dao platform, and the big black dog identified it as an Other Path Cultivator.

The big black dog revealed that he had lured Xue Mingcheng into bringing him to the Netherworld Old Ancestor, then battled the Otherworldly Daoist while hiding Long Zixuan’s trump card. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dao appeared on the battlefield but recognized Xin Ning and warmly greeted her group instead of attacking them.

• The big black dog freed himself, Wu Dade, and Long Zixuan from their blood chains and confronted the Netherworld Old Ancestor, who recognized him as one of the Ten Beasts.
• The Netherworld Old Ancestor attacked the big black dog, and the dog secretly told Long Zixuan to hold back because the enemy’s true body might be hidden in the blood mist.
• The Otherworldly Daoist knocked the big black dog and Wu Dade away, but the dog summoned thousands of copies of himself whose barking matched the enemy’s power.
• Outside the Great Ruin Realm, Xue Mingcheng and the other Demon Lords awakened the Heavenly Dao and asked it to destroy Nan Feng and the others.
• The Heavenly Dao Spirit appeared as a little girl, recognized Xin Ning as her big sister, and greeted the group, leaving the Demon Lords and onlookers stunned.

Tian Ling'er revealed that she feared Xin Ning and threatened the Demon Lords with the Heavenly Dao’s power. Xue Mingcheng summoned the Blood Demon Race’s Old Ancestor for help, but the blood mirror showed a big black dog eating a finger bone, leaving him devastated.

• Tian Ling'er woke and apologized to Xin Ning, while the Demon Race realized the Heavenly Dao Spirit feared her.
• Tian Ling'er tried to strip the Demon Lords of their cultivation, but Xue Mingcheng blocked her with a blood crystal from the Netherworld Old Ancestor.
• Xue Mingcheng summoned the Blood Demon Race’s Old Ancestor through a blood-red mirror as Tian Ling'er recognized the aura that had hurt her great-grandpa.
• The mirror showed a big black dog chewing up a struggling finger bone on a cracked altar.
• Lu Rang told Xue Mingcheng that his Old Ancestor had been fed to a dog, and Xue Mingcheng collapsed in despair.

Blood Mingcheng revealed that the finger bone was only part of a terrifying otherworldly being, and the being began emerging from the mist after Big Black devoured the bone. The chapter ended with Big Black facing the approaching creature in the ruined Ding Star Realm.

• Blood Mingcheng and the demons watched in horror as Big Black gnawed through the Netherworld Old Ancestor's finger bone.
• A monstrous presence stirred behind the blood-colored platform, terrifying the demons and prompting Blood Mingcheng to reveal that the finger bone belonged to a greater being hidden in the mist.
• Tian Ling'er called the emerging threat the otherworldly one, while Blood Mingcheng and the Demon Lords feared it would bring calamity to the Yang Realm.
• The battle's aftermath left the Ding Star Realm devastated, and Big Black finished chewing and swallowed the finger bone.
• Big Black sensed the main body of the otherworldly one approaching through the crimson mist.

Long Zixuan and Wu Dade discovered that the Kunpeng had sacrificed itself to suppress an Otherpath Being beneath the White Sand riverbed. The Otherpath Being consumed Heavenly Dao origin energy and broke free, alarming the myriad worlds and divine realm as a cosmic calamity began.

• The Big Black Dog explained that the Otherpath Being had survived the strange gray mist and revealed that the White Sand riverbed buried it beneath the petrified Kunpeng and the corpses of other Otherpath Beings.
• Long Zixuan witnessed the Kunpeng’s memories of fighting the gray mist and sacrificing itself to bury its enemies beneath the sand of countless worlds.
• The Kunpeng’s surviving scale-feather formed a giant claw to pin down the Otherpath Being, but the Otherpath Being consumed stolen Heavenly Dao origin energy and severed its own tail to escape.
• The freed Otherpath Being unleashed an aura that terrified the Heavenly Daos across the myriad worlds and caused the divine realm’s nine world-suppressing cauldrons to appear.
• A giant in the divine realm anticipated that the calamity might reveal clues to the Ten Creators and welcomed destruction as a path to new hope.

Long Zixuan borrowed the power of a true dragon scale to battle the Spirit of Strangeness, and an unknown force carried them away from the Yang Realm. As the blood mist faded, Xue Mingcheng and two others absorbed it and became strange beings, but Qing Chen destroyed Xue Mingcheng with the Firewood Staff.

• The big black dog urged Long Zixuan to fight the Spirit of Strangeness, and Long Zixuan vowed to kill it in Kunpeng's place.
• Long Zixuan fused with a true dragon scale and clashed with the Spirit of Strangeness, but an unknown force pulled them both into another space.
• The Old Mother Hen and a voice from the pond watched the battle in Small Mountain Village while Li Fan cooked porridge.
• After the battle vanished, Xin Ning reassured Tian Ling'er, and Qing Chen called for the group to continue their fight against the Demon Lords.
• As the blood mist thinned, Xue Mingcheng, Xue Lushhan, and Xue Mankong absorbed it and transformed into beings like the Spirit of Strangeness.
• Qing Chen struck Xue Mingcheng with the Firewood Staff and erased him from existence.

Jiang Li and Lu Rang captured the fleeing Demon Lords with their extraordinary weapons as the allied Demon Race collapsed. Long Zixuan returned with a Heretic’s severed head, then headed for Ding Star Realm after sensing more Heretics in the Yang Realm.

• Jiang Li killed Xue Lushhan and Xue Mankong with an arrow as the Demon Race realized the battle was lost.
• Peng Tianxia and Ao Zhenhai fled, but Lu Rang’s hemp rope bound and captured them.
• Long Zixuan emerged from another spacetime carrying a Heretic’s head after exhausting the borrowed power of the dragon scale.
• Long Zixuan sensed other Heretics hidden in the Yang Realm and strode toward Ding Star Realm.