Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi chose the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, where Taihua Tianji guided them in using their Immortal Spiritual Roots to cultivate. Su Yuan’s Senluo Spiritual Root devoured two Immortal Spiritual Roots and reached immortal grade, while both students began absorbing spiritual qi to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi told Taihua Tianji they had chosen the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, along with five other Preparatory Class students, including Qi Hanyua.
• Taihua Tianji began Foundation Establishment guidance and learned that Chen Nuoyi had obtained a Heavenly Sword Spiritual Root with credits lent by Yin Qiyue.
• Su Yuan explained that he planned to use the Demon Purging Primordial Scripture and feed Immortal Spiritual Roots to his Senluo Spiritual Root; Taihua Tianji said at least four Immortal Spiritual Roots would be needed to reach the Divine Spiritual Root level.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi swallowed their Immortal Spiritual Root seeds, and Su Yuan’s Senluo Spiritual Root devoured both seeds before transforming into an immortal-grade tentacle tree.
• Su Yuan sensed and absorbed only high-quality spiritual qi as his spiritual power’s Potential Index rose, and Taihua Tianji activated the office’s second-level Spirit Gathering Array for him and Chen Nuoyi.

Su Yuan cultivated the Demon Purging Primordial Scripture, absorbed demonic energy from his followers, and spent his academic credits feeding Immortal Spiritual Roots to the Senluo Spiritual Root. After it transformed into a Divine Spiritual Root, he was ready to take the final step toward Foundation Establishment.

• Su Yuan absorbed demonic energy from Taihua Tianji and Chen Nuoyi, leaving them temporarily cleansed of demonic energy.
• Su Yuan held daily meetings for his employees and absorbed the demonic energy their resentment produced.
• After saving sixteen thousand academic credits, Su Yuan exchanged them for two Non-Attribute Immortal Spiritual Roots, but the Senluo Spiritual Root did not react.
• Taihua Tianji revealed details about Su Yuan's Senluo Spiritual Root to the other instructors, who allowed him to keep exchanging academic credits for Immortal Spiritual Roots.
• After Su Yuan fed the Senluo Spiritual Root three more Immortal Spiritual Roots, it transformed into a Divine Spiritual Root, leaving him ready to pursue Foundation Establishment.

Su Yuan established his foundation with the Senluo Spiritual Root and grew a thousand spiritual leaves while a Golden Apple ripened above the Jade Tree. Taihua Tianji explained the fruit could grant a divine ability, but advised Su Yuan to break it apart and strengthen his future abilities instead of eating it.

• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan his potential had reached 10.0 and guided him as he formed a demonic Dao Foundation beneath the blood-red Jade Tree.
• Su Yuan absorbed spiritual qi from the cultivation room and the Great Desire Immortal Puppet, growing his spiritual leaves from one hundred to a thousand as a Golden Apple ripened.
• Su Yuan completed Foundation Establishment after thirty days of seclusion, and Taihua Tianji explained why modern cultivators broke through more quickly than ancient ones.
• Taihua Tianji explained that Su Yuan could gain a divine ability from the Golden Apple or break it apart to strengthen the next one.
• Su Yuan accepted Taihua Tianji's advice to preserve the Golden Apple rather than consume it.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Su Yuan accepted quests to become the top devil of his realm and nurture an Evil Fruit through Yuan Sect talents. He learned Chen Nuoyi was missing and discovered she had become a Human-Demon Equality Propaganda Ambassador alongside the celebrated Heavenly Hunt Saintess Zhu Tianqing.

• Su Yuan completed his secluded cultivation, and the system gave him quests to defeat Foundation Establishment devilish talents and recruit nine King's Aide Devils.
• Su Yuan recruited Taihua Yu Xi as a guest elder, advancing the King's Aide Devil quest, while Taihua Tianji refused to join the Yuan Sect.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that his friends had waited outside and promised to share secrets of the Evil Slaying Sword Sect after Su Yuan formally joined it.
• Su Yuan found his friends waiting, but Chen Nuoyi was absent; Qi Hanyua said she had gone behind enemy lines to endure humiliation for the Yuan Sect.
• Qi Hanyua took Su Yuan to a banquet, where he saw city posters celebrating Zhu Tianqing as the Heavenly Hunt Saintess and Chen Nuoyi as the Human-Demon Equality Propaganda Ambassador.

Su Yuan met Zhu Tianqing, the Heavenly Hunt Saintess, and learned that her Human-Demon Equality campaign threatened the Yuan Sect’s businesses. After the system identified her as a powerful demonic cultivator, Su Yuan pretended to repent and joined her cause, leaving Qi Hanyua and Chen Nuoyi worried he would manipulate her.

• Qi Hanyua told Su Yuan that Zhu Tianqing was the Myriad Beast Demonic Sect leader’s daughter and was promoting Human-Demon Equality while expanding the Spirit Beast market.
• Su Yuan learned that Zhu Tianqing’s campaign had already pressured the Yuan Sect and its business partners, then arrived with Qi Hanyua at a banquet where Zhu appeared with Chen Nuoyi.
• The system identified Zhu Tianqing as the Heavenly Hunt Demoness, a powerful demonic cultivator whose campaign it claimed could help the Demon Race regain influence.
• Zhu Tianqing accused Su Yuan of abusing Spirit Beasts and mistreating Chen Nuoyi, then urged him to shut down the Yuan Sect’s businesses involving Spirit Beast materials.
• Su Yuan feigned repentance, promised to suspend those businesses, and asked to become Taihua City’s second Human-Demon Equality Propaganda Ambassador.
• Zhu Tianqing accepted Su Yuan as her ally, while Qi Hanyua and Chen Nuoyi realized he was preparing to take advantage of her.

Su Yuan exploited Zhu Tianqing’s campaign against Spirit Beast exploitation to absorb the demonic energy her actions created while secretly diverting the Yuan Sect’s Spirit Beasts. He then told her about an even harsher farm, and she demanded to go there immediately.

• Su Yuan shut down the Yuan Sect’s factories and, with Zhu Tianqing, dismissed nearly a thousand meat-processing workers after she urged them to reflect on their treatment of Spirit Beasts.
• Su Yuan saw demonic energy gather around Zhu Tianqing and secretly absorbed it, strengthening his Dao Foundation and Senluo Spiritual Root.
• When Zhu Tianqing proposed releasing the Spirit Beasts, Su Yuan ordered Chen Nuoyi to arrange it, secretly giving her Song Shan’s number so the Black Labor Cult could intercept them.
• Su Yuan told Zhu Tianqing that another Spirit Beast farm confined three beasts to fifteen square meters, and she insisted on going there at once.

Su Yuan exploited Zhu Tianqing’s campaign for Human-Demon Equality to disrupt Taihua City’s meat supply, then rallied unemployed workers against her plan to promote Spirit Pets. He left the crowd ready to protest, while privately worrying that public anger might not make Zhu Tianqing abandon her mission and considering a crueler alternative.

• Su Yuan persuaded Boss Cai to improve the Iron Mountain Pigs’ living conditions, while Zhu Tianqing proposed sparing them from slaughter until old age.
• Su Yuan took Zhu Tianqing to the city’s breeding farms, and their reforms disrupted meat supplies, driving prices up and creating a black market that Yuan Sect profited from.
• Su Yuan used staged positive comments to reassure Zhu Tianqing, then encouraged her to promote Spirit Pets, which she planned to begin the next day.
• Su Yuan went to a Beer Hall and turned unemployed meat workers against Zhu Tianqing, blaming her campaign for soaring food prices and warning that Spirit Pets would make citizens dependent on Myriad Beast Demonic Sect.
• Su Yuan’s planted supporters rallied the workers to support Yuan Sect and resist Zhu Tianqing’s plan, while Su Yuan worried that their anger might fail to drive her away and considered a cruel alternative.

Zhu Tianqing’s spirit-beast campaign faltered, and Su Yuan gained Demon Refining True Lord Zhu Haoyang’s approval to force her to confront the consequences of her ideals. Su Yuan lured Zhu Tianqing into a trap with Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue, then ordered Chen Nuoyi to use the Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword on her.

• Zhu Tianqing’s campaign to promote spirit beasts failed, and residents reacted to her with resentment and disgust.
• Demon Refining True Lord Zhu Haoyang told Zhu Tianqing to return home, but she refused to abandon her ideals.
• Zhu Haoyang contacted Su Yuan, praised his schemes, and told him to correct Zhu Tianqing’s excessive compassion.
• Su Yuan persuaded Zhu Tianqing that opponents of spirit beasts were behind the public backlash and led her to the Beer Hall without her spirit pets or visible guards.
• Unemployed workers surrounded Zhu Tianqing at the Beer Hall, and hidden bodyguards helped her and Su Yuan escape.
• Su Yuan brought Zhu Tianqing to a secluded grove, where Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue joined him to surround her, and he ordered Chen Nuoyi to use the Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword.

Chen Nuoyi and Su Yuan broke Zhu Tianqing’s Silver Spirit Shield and captured her, revealing that her father had helped them. Su Yuan began altering Zhu Tianqing’s face, and Yin Qiyue prepared to use her Silence ability to conceal her new identity.

• Chen Nuoyi attacked Zhu Tianqing with five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword strikes, but the Silver Spirit Shield blocked them.
• Su Yuan copied Chen Nuoyi’s sword technique and struck the shield’s weakened rear, shattering it.
• Su Yuan told Zhu Tianqing that her father had revealed the shield’s weakness, leaving her devastated.
• Su Yuan used Abyssal Spiritual Power to immobilize Zhu Tianqing and pressed a flesh-tentacled mask onto her face.
• Su Yuan called Yin Qiyue over, and she prepared to use Silence so Zhu Tianqing could not reveal forbidden keywords.

Su Yuan remade Zhu Tianqing into Zhu Xiaoyu and sent her to live as a poor villager while Yin Qiyue impersonated the Saintess. In Taihua City, Zhu Xiaoyu struggled to find work and began confronting the hardship caused by her policies, ending the day at a construction-site dinner where she saw meat in the communal pot.

• Su Yuan used Silence and hypnosis on Zhu Tianqing, gave her the identity of Zhu Xiaoyu, and had Yin Qiyue wear a mask to impersonate her as the Saintess.
• Zhu Xiaoyu woke in Auntie Zhang’s cramped home, discovered her cultivation was sealed and her wings disguised as lumps of flesh, and saw Yin Qiyue’s convincing Saintess broadcast on a city screen.
• Auntie Zhang told Zhu Xiaoyu that the Saintess’s meat restrictions had cost her a job, and Zhu Xiaoyu offered to help earn money and repay her.
• Zhu Xiaoyu and Auntie Zhang failed to find other work, then carried cement at a construction site; Auntie Zhang pushed herself to earn money for her daughter’s tuition.
• Song Shan invited them to the construction-site dinner, where Zhu Xiaoyu saw a pot filled with vegetables and stewed meat.

Zhu Tianqing saw how her campaign for spirit-beast welfare had worsened conditions for workers and abandoned pets, then discovered that human workers were living in former pig sheds while the pigs occupied the employee dormitories. Boss Cai’s question left her confronting the consequences of her own demands.

• Zhu Tianqing reluctantly ate meat at the construction site, then learned from Aunt Zhang that many people had abandoned their spirit pets because they could no longer afford to feed them.
• Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang encountered a dangerous stray husky, which the beast-capturing squad subdued after it threatened a child.
• Zhu Tianqing reconsidered whether Human-Demon Equality should be promoted among people struggling to survive.
• Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang accepted work renovating Boss Cai’s Iron Mountain Pig farm, where Zhu Tianqing mistakenly believed bunk beds were for the pigs.
• Zhu Tianqing discovered that the farm workers would live in the former pig sheds because the Iron Mountain Pigs had been moved into the employee dormitories at her demand.
• Boss Cai asked Zhu Tianqing why the workers could not live better, prompting her to ask why the pigs had received the dormitories instead.

After half a month working among ordinary laborers, Zhu Tianqing returned to her true form and told her father she still believed in Human-Demon Equality. Her new plan was to make Spirit Pets and spirit beasts work alongside humans, leaving Demon Refining True Lord and Su Yuan stunned.

• Zhu Tianqing spent half a month renovating breeding farms and living with Aunt Zhang, where she reconsidered ordinary people's hardships and the growing number of stray Spirit Pets.
• Su Yuan summoned Zhu Tianqing to the rooftop, removed her disguise and spiritual seal, and brought her back after she left her savings with Aunt Zhang.
• At the apartment, Yin Qiyue revealed herself, and Zhu Tianqing used her jade pendant to contact Demon Refining True Lord.
• Zhu Tianqing proposed improving ordinary people's lives by making Spirit Pets and spirit beasts work, including putting her own pets to work.
• Zhu Tianqing insisted she still supported Human-Demon Equality because she was only asking spirit beasts to do the same work as ordinary people.

Zhu Tianqing decided to join Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect and use her Beast Taming skills to help Spirit Pets enter the workforce. Su Yuan made her the Heavenly Hunting King, then claimed a task reward to upgrade his Finger Body technique.

• Zhu Tianqing told Demon Refining True Lord that she wanted to reverse the harm caused by her earlier views and help unemployed workers return to work.
• Zhu Tianqing announced that she planned to join Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect, train spirit beasts for vocational work, and keep an eye on Su Yuan.
• Demon Refining True Lord approved Zhu Tianqing’s decision and warned Su Yuan that he would thank him in person at University Town.
• Su Yuan created the position of Four Heavenly Kings and appointed Zhu Tianqing as the Heavenly Hunting King in charge of the Spirit Beast Breeding Base.
• Su Yuan claimed one Demonic Cultivation Upgrade Card and upgraded his Finger Body technique.

Su Yuan welcomed the new Preheating effect of Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Body, which let him store negative sensations for up to seven days and release them at once. As Zhu Tianqing promoted Human-Demon Equality and Su Yuan’s reputation suffered online, Su Yuan and the other Taihua City Preparatory Class students took the college entrance exams and earned perfect scores, with Su Yuan ranked first.

• Su Yuan learned that Preheating could store his negative sensations for seven days before transferring them instantly to a suitable target, and he considered using it in battle and when Wu Ziying visited him at university.
• Su Yuan left with Yin Qiyue, and Zhu Tianqing began promoting Human-Demon Equality as meat businesses resumed production and some Spirit Pets took jobs in Taihua City.
• Pet lovers online blamed Yuan Sect for supposedly coercing Zhu Tianqing, but Su Yuan accepted the backlash as publicity and considered selling magical goods under misleading Saintess-themed labels.
• On June 7, Era of Recovery 380, Su Yuan and the other eight Taihua City Preparatory Class students took the college entrance exams after suppressing their Foundation Establishment cultivation and each scored 750.
• Taihua Tianji ranked the nine Foundation Establishment students separately, placing Su Yuan first, Chen Nuoyi second, and Li Zhengxing third; Taihua High School refunded Su Yuan’s tuition and gave him his promised Tenfold Rebate.

Su Yuan chose to travel to Ten Immortal City and establish the Yuan Sect’s general altar there after a mission directed him to infiltrate the Ten Great Immortal Sects by becoming an affiliated sect. He arranged for Song Shan and Chen Nuoyi’s father to oversee the Taihua City branch, then departed with Taihua Tianji and the other prospective students.

• Taihua Tianji offered the newly accepted students the choice to visit Ten Immortal City early, and Su Yuan weighed the opportunity against expanding the Yuan Sect in Taihua City.
• A mission instructed Su Yuan to establish the Yuan Sect’s general altar in Ten Immortal City and affiliate it with one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
• Su Yuan decided to go to Ten Immortal City, and the other Preparatory Class students and examinees, including Wu Xingqi and Zhang Jun, chose to join him.
• Su Yuan selected Song Shan to manage the Yuan Sect’s Taihua City branch, with Chen Nuoyi’s father available to defend it, and held a farewell gathering with his classmates.
• Su Yuan drained Zhu Tianqing’s demonic qi, causing a second Golden Apple to begin forming on his Senluo Spiritual Root tree.
• Su Yuan and the other prospective students met Taihua Tianji and set out for Ten Immortal City.

Su Yuan and his classmates rode Taihua Tianji’s Sword Boat toward Ten Immortal City, where Taihua Tianji planned to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm. Taihua Tianji revealed that he also intended to compete for a vacant Deputy Director position, while Su Yuan realized his teacher might become a powerful backer at university.

• Su Yuan reunited with Taihua Yu Xi aboard Taihua Tianji’s Sword Boat, and the vessel set off for Ten Immortal City at high speed.
• Su Yuan asked Taihua Tianji why he was returning to the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, and Taihua Tianji explained that he planned to attempt a breakthrough with University Town’s resources.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan he had a seventy percent chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm and would remain at the Evil Slaying Sword Sect as a mentor afterward.
• Taihua Tianji revealed that he planned to compete for the vacant Deputy Director position of the Evil Slaying Department and eventually become a World Lord.
• The students aboard the Sword Boat grew excited and envious as they realized they were traveling with a future Nascent Soul True Lord and World Lord.

Su Yuan and the students arrived in Ten Immortal City, where Taihua Yu Xi chose to stay with Su Yuan for the summer. After settling into expensive apartments, Su Yuan learned his sword could fly legally in the city and studied how to establish a sect there.

• Taihua Tianji brought the students to Ten Immortal City and arranged temporary rentals near Evil Slaying University.
• Taihua Yu Xi refused to leave with her father and insisted on spending the summer with Su Yuan, so Taihua Tianji asked Chen Nuoyi to keep an eye on her.
• The students rented ten apartments, with Taihua Yu Xi sharing with Chen Nuoyi and Su Yuan sharing with Chu Lanxi.
• The landlord explained Ten Immortal City's transportation rules and high living costs, including the need for registered flying swords.
• Su Yuan discovered that his Crimson Origin Sword had local registration plates and then began studying how to establish a sect in Ten Immortal City.

Su Yuan struggled to find an emerging industry that could help the Yuan Sect qualify as an affiliated sect of one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects. Taihua Yu Xi invited him to investigate evil demonic energy in Ten Immortal City, and he followed her to the rough-and-tumble Evil Slaying District.

• Su Yuan concluded that the Yuan Sect needed proprietary technology, a headquarters in Ten Immortal City, and a leading market share in an emerging niche to become an affiliated sect.
• Su Yuan considered selling intelligent Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppets but worried about moral condemnation and the adult-entertainment industry's lack of ties to the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
• Taihua Yu Xi visited Su Yuan and told him that evil demonic energy gathered in several places around Ten Immortal City.
• Su Yuan agreed to investigate with Yu Xi, then rode the Crimson Origin Sword to the Evil Slaying District.
• Su Yuan observed that the district was full of sword-riding cultivators showing off with reckless stunts.

Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi entered Chaotic Sword Hall, where the repair workers revealed a vendetta against Taihua Tianji and tried to detain them. Su Yuan prepared to fight back as more than twenty demonic sword-wielding workers surrounded them.

• Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi found Chaotic Sword Hall, a shabby flying sword repair shop that Taihua Yu Xi identified as a former orthodox sect turned demonic.
• A repair worker offered to take Su Yuan to the basement to service his Crimson Origin Sword, but then sealed the shop and declared they could not leave.
• The repair worker recognized Su Yuan and blamed Taihua Tianji for Chaotic Sword Hall's collapse after a modified sword caused a deadly accident at the Divine Sword Cup.
• The repair worker demanded that Su Yuan work at the shop for the summer as punishment, and more than twenty workers emerged to help detain him.
• Su Yuan gave up on settling the dispute peacefully and invoked the sword move Myriad Swords Return to Origin.

Su Yuan used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to subdue Ji Ming and the swordsmiths, then pressed Ji Ming to make Chaotic Sword Hall Yuan Sect’s flying-sword modification department. Ji Ming gave in to protect his younger sister, Ji Qin, and introduced Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi as strategic partners when she arrived.

• Su Yuan summoned the workshop’s flying swords and revealed that Ji Ming and his swordsmiths were trapped with him, not the other way around.
• Su Yuan inspected Chaotic Sword Hall’s underground workshop and decided to absorb its modification techniques and bring it under Yuan Sect.
• Ji Ming prepared to attack Su Yuan, but Su Yuan asked about the photograph of Ji Ming’s sister, prompting Ji Ming to plead that she be kept out of the feud.
• Su Yuan proposed merging Chaotic Sword Hall into Yuan Sect, and Ji Ming realized he had no good alternative to accepting.
• Ji Qin arrived at the workshop, and Ji Ming introduced Su Yuan and Taihua Yu Xi as strategic partners; Ji Qin eagerly greeted Su Yuan after learning he was True Man Tai Bai’s disciple.