Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan confronted Baize and Qiongqi at the crater to stop them from using two relics, while Baize and Qiongqi misunderstood one another’s intentions. After Xiang Yuan attacked Qiongqi and Qingluan blocked Baize, two more SSS-class demons arrived, leaving Xiang Yuan outnumbered.

• Baize and Qiongqi prepared to cast their relics into the crater, but Baize noticed Qingluan arriving with Xiang Yuan and threw one relic into the dark pool.
• Xiang Yuan claimed he could foresee the future and offered to take the relics, while Qiongqi suspected Baize had secretly formed an alliance and fled with his relic.
• Xiang Yuan caught Qiongqi and attacked him with his blade, while Qingluan stopped Baize from joining the fight.
• Baize defeated Qingluan and restrained her, then said he had summoned the other top demons.
• Xiang Yuan severed both of Qiongqi’s wings, but Crying Snake and Nine Infants arrived, and Qiongqi called to them for help.

Xiang Yuan fought off the fiendish demons and fell into the dark pool while trying to seize the relic, where he refined its pure energy and strengthened his body. The demons saw the demonic qi over Demon Continent thin, but Baize sensed that something bad was about to happen.

• Xiang Yuan battled Qiongqi, Crying Snake, and Nine Infants as more powerful demons arrived at the battlefield.
• Xiang Yuan unleashed his black-and-white killing move, drawing the demons toward the dark pool as Baize tried to save Qiongqi and the relic.
• Qiongqi spat out the relic, and Xiang Yuan severed his tail to reach for it before plunging into the dark pool with it.
• Xiang Yuan used the Formless Seal Method to refine the pool's pure energy, and two black-and-white fish entered his brow as his body and Primordial Spirit grew stronger.
• The demons sensed the demonic qi over Demon Continent thinning and celebrated, while Baize remained uneasy about an impending misfortune.

After two months in the secluded pool, Xiang Yuan emerged stronger, subdued the seven SSS-rank demons and monsters, and took their demon cores. He returned to the Dry Abyss Realm with new weapons and abilities, then entered the Dragon-Subduing Realm worried about what had happened while he was away.

• Xiang Yuan emerged from the secluded pool, and the seven SSS-rank demons and monsters tried to flee until Baize persuaded them to stay.
• Xiang Yuan beat the demons and monsters, then made them acknowledge him as their master and hand over their demon cores.
• Xiang Yuan swallowed the demon cores, gaining the ability to consume them for medicinal power and imitate the demons’ forms and auras.
• Xiang Yuan returned to the Dry Abyss Realm, discovered two yin-yang blades at his brow, and named them Glimmer and Flowing Shadow.
• Xiang Yuan tried to exploit Jambu Gate’s mission submission, lost a return-to-city scroll, and then entered the Dragon-Subduing Realm, hoping Ji Muqing and the others were still there.

Xiang Yuan helped Ji Muqing overcome a dangerous medicinal surge, but she confessed that her attachment to him kept her from ascending. After giving her the reassurance she wanted, he persuaded her to ascend with him in three days and said he would prepare the Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy.

• Xiang Yuan returned to Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy and found Ji Muqing bathing, then questioned her cultivation progress.
• Xiang Yuan gave Ji Muqing upgraded blood medicine, and his qi helped her survive its power and rebuild her qi apertures.
• Ji Muqing said she could ascend in three days, then revealed she might delay for years because she could not let go of Xiang Yuan.
• Ji Muqing admitted she feared Xiang Yuan would stop caring for her after ascending to find Bai Yue, and Xiang Yuan reassured her with a kiss.
• Xiang Yuan convinced Ji Muqing to ascend with him in three days and said he would handle the academy's affairs and help its members ascend.

Xiang Yuan and Ji Muqing ascended to the upper realm, where they found Lay Buddhist Bai Yue living at Mount Luojia and appearing as Guanyin Bodhisattva. Bai Yue tried to renounce her feelings for Xiang Yuan and give him to Ji Muqing, but he challenged her resolve and left their relationship unresolved.

• Xiang Yuan escaped the disciples surrounding him and ascended through the passage alongside Ji Muqing.
• Lay Buddhist Bai Yue greeted them in the guise of Guanyin Bodhisattva and brought them to her home at Mount Luojia.
• Bai Yue told Xiang Yuan to let go of their past because she believed he and Ji Muqing had exchanged pledges.
• Xiang Yuan denied exchanging pledges with Ji Muqing and argued that Bai Yue was using her sacred guise to suppress her feelings for him.
• Xiang Yuan urged Bai Yue to accept both her Buddhist path and her love for him, but she remained troubled by the conflict between them.

Laywoman Bai Yue explained the Heavenly God Realm and urged Xiang Yuan to seek Headmaster Jingyun for a divine office. Xiang Yuan arrived at Kunlun Mountain and dramatically greeted his master, Lady Ziyuan, leaving their reunion about to begin.

• Xiang Yuan and Laywoman Bai Yue spent time together, and she resisted his attempts to go further while accepting his affection.
• Laywoman Bai Yue revealed that she held the divine office of Southern Antarctic Guanyin and described the Heavenly Court and her backing from Headmaster Jingyun.
• Laywoman Bai Yue advised Xiang Yuan to ask Headmaster Jingyun for a divine office and identified her as Lady Ziyuan, also called Old Mother of Mount Li.
• Laywoman Bai Yue sent Xiang Yuan toward Kunlun Mountain on auspicious clouds and worried about explaining their relationship to Ji Muqing.
• Xiang Yuan reached Kunlun Mountain, found Lady Ziyuan reading above the clouds, and fell to his knees to greet her.

Jingyun explained the Heavenly God Realm and secured Xiang Yuan a divine office, choosing the True Martial Demon-Subduing Emperor rather than the more powerful Azure Emperor of the Eastern Pole. She gave Xiang Yuan a token and a jade belt that could help her find him across realms, leaving him wondering how she traveled between worlds without Jambu Gate.

• Jingyun accepted Xiang Yuan as her registered disciple and explained that the Heavenly God Realm was ruled by the Heavenly Emperor and its divine laws.
• Jingyun went to the Heavenly Court and asked the Heavenly Emperor to grant Xiang Yuan a divine office; she selected the True Martial Demon-Subduing Emperor instead of the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Pole.
• Jingyun returned to Kunlun Mountain and gave Xiang Yuan the token that made him the True Martial Demon-Subduing Emperor.
• Jingyun told Xiang Yuan to remind Bai Yue to keep cultivating and not become ensnared by her identity as Avalokiteshvara.
• Jingyun asked for a genuine spirit-beast mount, and Xiang Yuan considered finding one in the Blue Star Realm.
• Jingyun gave Xiang Yuan her jade belt and taught him a method that would let her find him in any realm, prompting him to wonder how she traveled between worlds.

Xiang Yuan traveled to the Blue Star Realm to open an ascension passage, which would let him recruit divine generals for his new post as the True Warrior Great Emperor. After two days of waiting, he transformed on the Demon Continent and revealed his divine identity as the laws of heaven and earth responded.

• Jingyun appointed Xiang Yuan the True Warrior Great Emperor and offered to connect the Blue Star Realm to the Heavenly God Realm if he opened its ascension passage.
• Jingyun and Xiang Yuan traveled toward the South Sea, where Xiang Yuan tested his divine transformation and learned that his powers and treasures depended on the realms' connection.
• Xiang Yuan examined the thirty-six divine offices and considered recruiting human generals, while deciding to reserve the most powerful positions.
• Xiang Yuan arrived on the Demon Continent and began opening the ascension passage, but Jingyun and Guanyin Bodhisattva did not arrive after an hour.
• The seven demons fled as their weakened followers rebelled, while humans monitored the fighting with drones and satellites.
• After two days, Xiang Yuan sensed a change in the world's laws, transformed into the True Warrior Great Emperor, and revealed himself to the satellites watching the Demon Continent.

Divine light brought Blue Star Realm under the Heavenly God Realm’s laws, and Jingyun and Laywoman Bai Yue chose mounts while Xiang Yuan gathered Baize and Nine Infants as his subordinates. After Jingyun opened the ascension passage and departed, Xiang Yuan transformed the two demons into human forms and set off across the sea.

• Divine light descended over Demon Continent, merging the laws of Blue Star Realm with those of the Heavenly God Realm and drawing attention from human satellites.
• Jingyun healed Qingluan, freed her from her former master’s oath, and made her a mount, while Laywoman Bai Yue subdued Hou.
• Jingyun and Laywoman Bai Yue declined most demons seeking discipleship, and divine lights selected several former mobile calamities as mounts or mountain guardians.
• Jingyun rejected Baize and Nine Infants as her own mounts but declared them fated with Xiang Yuan, who accepted them as a helper and gate guardian.
• Jingyun opened the ascension passage and departed with Qingluan, while Laywoman Bai Yue left separately after Xiang Yuan asked to visit her.
• Xiang Yuan healed and marked Baize and Nine Infants, transformed them into a suited bodyguard and a mature female secretary, and set off toward the other side of the sea.

Liu Yutan, Yan Xun, and Qin Chang met Xiang Yuan after he returned to Hekang City with Baize and Nine Infants, and he claimed the title of the True Warrior Great Emperor while announcing that the demon threat had ended. Xiang Yuan assigned Baize to recruit human cultivators for his sect and planned to return to the upper realm before continuing his cultivation in the Dry Abyss Realm.

• Liu Yutan and Yan Xun debated how to respond after images showed Xiang Yuan with Guanyin Bodhisattva and several SSS-class demons, then learned Xiang Yuan had taken Baize and Nine Infants into a city villa.
• At the villa, Xiang Yuan played an online game and ordered Baize to send a compressed file to an opponent who had threatened to visit.
• Xiang Yuan introduced himself to Qin Chang, Liu Yutan, and Yan Xun as the Nine Heavens Demon-Subduing Patriarch and the True Warrior Great Emperor, then explained that he had defeated the demons and opened the passage between realms.
• Xiang Yuan offered human cultivators who reached the Innate Realm a chance to ascend and join his sect, and he put Baize in charge of recruiting suitable candidates.
• Xiang Yuan decided to return to the upper realm to bid farewell to Lay Cultivator Bai Yue before going back to the Dry Abyss Realm to cultivate.

Xiang Yuan visited Lay Buddhist Bai Yue at Mount Luojia, where they cultivated and discussed the dangers of becoming too absorbed in a divine identity, while Ji Muqing’s affection for him remained unresolved. After confronting Fairy Qingluan at Kunlun, Xiang Yuan received King Frieza’s permission to leave his divine duties to Baize and prepared to return to the Dry Abyss Realm, stopping first at his northern dojo.

• Xiang Yuan met Lay Buddhist Bai Yue and Ji Muqing in the Purple Bamboo Grove, then privately cultivated with Bai Yue and warned her not to lose herself in Guanyin Bodhisattva’s identity.
• Bai Yue told Ji Muqing that she had let go and approved of her and Xiang Yuan, while Xiang Yuan promised Ji Muqing he would grant her a request if she made progress in cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan left Ji Muqing with blood medicine and went to Kunlun, where he startled Fairy Qingluan, threatened her, and ate spirit herbs from the fields she tended.
• King Frieza told Xiang Yuan to leave the True Warrior Great Emperor’s mundane duties to Baize and assured him no one would accuse him of abandoning his post.
• Xiang Yuan said farewell to King Frieza and set out for the Dry Abyss Realm, planning to visit the True Warrior Great Emperor’s northern dojo first.

After establishing Xuanwu Tongchu Manor and investigating how time differed between worlds, Xiang Yuan reunited with Chan'er in Song Family Village. They exchanged cultivation methods and practiced together for five days before Chan'er asked him to accompany her somewhere, and Xiang Yuan suggested bringing Senior Sister White Dragon.

• Xiang Yuan turned the heavenly soldiers in his Wudang Mountain dojo into black-suited attendants, appointed Baize as its female steward, and assigned Nine Infants to guard the grounds.
• Xiang Yuan returned to the Dry Abyss Realm and discovered that the Heavenly God Realm and several other worlds did not share its flow of time.
• Xiang Yuan found Chan'er at his courtyard after she emerged from secluded cultivation, and she drew blood medicine from him to improve her cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan showed Chan'er the face of Yellow Springs Daoist, and she identified him as Yellow Springs Sect Right Envoy Zuo Lengxie, an old sworn brother of Xiang Yuan.
• Xiang Yuan and Chan'er exchanged cultivation methods and trained together for five days, with Chan'er repeatedly using his blood medicine.
• Chan'er asked Xiang Yuan to accompany her on an outing, and he suggested bringing Senior Sister White Dragon along.

Xiang Yuan persuaded Chan'er to summon Xiao Lingyue, then used voice transmissions to tease her and explain that he was engaged to both her and her elder sister, Xiao Lingyan. After Xiao Lingyue reluctantly agreed to pass a message to her mother, Chan'er opened the Jambu Gate and left with her, leaving Xiang Yuan behind.

• Xiang Yuan failed to reach Xiao Lingyue, so Chan'er contacted her and she arrived through the Jambu Gate.
• Chan'er and Xiao Lingyue acted like affectionate sisters while Xiang Yuan watched and exchanged provocative voice transmissions with Xiao Lingyue.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that he was engaged to her elder sister, Xiao Lingyan, and persuaded her to help reassure her mother about their marriage.
• Chan'er learned that Xiang Yuan and Xiao Lingyue had been discussing their engagement and announced that she could now open the Jambu Gate.
• Chan'er took Xiao Lingyue through the Jambu Gate, telling her to ignore Senior Brother White Tiger.

Xiang Yuan, Xiao Lingyue, and Chan'er entered the Heavenly Demon Realm and disguised themselves as demons so they could investigate the dangerous basin and its hidden relic. After gathering information in Big Cliff Town, Xiang Yuan planned to replace the local Demon King and infiltrate the Demon Race, but his proposed cover story left the two women glaring at him.

• Xiang Yuan discovered that the Heavenly Demon Realm rejected his attempts to comprehend its laws and learned from Xiao Lingyue that demons had replaced humanity there.
• Xiang Yuan used Nine Infants' demon aura to disguise himself and gave Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er demon traits so they could pass as demons.
• The trio captured and questioned demon soldiers in Big Cliff Town, learning that King Taisui ruled the town and was currently at the City Lord's Manor.
• Xiang Yuan decided to replace King Taisui and infiltrate the greater demons to learn more about the relic.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er to pose as his beloved beauties and jealous rivals, prompting both women to glare at him.

Xiang Yuan captured and interrogated King Taisui, learning about the Seven Great Sages and the Heavenly Demon Realm before impersonating the demon king to pursue the relic. He arrived at Peach Mountain County with Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, where he prepared to challenge the local city lord and attract the attention of King Taisui’s powerful brother.

• Xiang Yuan caught the drunken King Taisui and learned that the Demon Race’s seven peak Spirit Transformation demon kings were called the Seven Great Sages.
• King Taisui confessed his crimes, killed himself, and gave Xiang Yuan his demon core, which Xiang Yuan swallowed before hiding the corpse in the Jade Wall Space.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er about the Seven Great Sages and planned to impersonate King Taisui to draw out his brother, the Bull Devil King, Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven.
• Xiang Yuan transformed Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er with rabbit ears and a cat tail, then tried to rehearse their undercover roles with them.
• Five days later, Xiang Yuan, Xiao Lingyue, and Chan'er reached Peach Mountain County, where Xiang Yuan ordered his demons to tell the city lord that he wanted to trade homes.

Xiang Yuan defeated the Spirit Transformation demon Jiuqu with his overwhelming strength and Everlasting Killing Intent, then left Flamefire County with Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er. Bull Devil King arrived and congratulated him on returning to his roots.

• Xiang Yuan traveled through the demon kings’ cities, winning each battle and building his reputation.
• Bull Devil King and Fuyunzi discussed Xiang Yuan’s sudden strength, and Bull Devil King sent Fuyunzi to rescue him if needed.
• Xiang Yuan challenged Jiuqu outside Flamefire County and initially overpowered him with the Storm Mist Blade.
• Jiuqu invoked the laws of heaven and earth to unleash a firestorm, so Xiang Yuan used Everlasting Killing Intent and drove him through the city walls.
• Xiang Yuan took Jiuqu’s demon core, left him alive, and departed with Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er.
• Bull Devil King arrived and congratulated Xiang Yuan on returning to his roots.

Xiang Yuan met Bull Devil King and pretended to be Taisui, playing the part of a disgruntled younger brother eager to leave. After revealing a Nine Infants bloodline, he learned the Blood Moon Demon Palace would open in a hundred days and that Bull Devil King planned to maneuver him into becoming a Great Sage.

• Xiang Yuan greeted Bull Devil King and Fuyunzi, then claimed he had gained skill and intended to leave Great Cliff County.
• Bull Devil King invited Xiang Yuan to a feast, where Xiang Yuan brought Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er and watched six fox-spirit dancers perform.
• Bull Devil King told Xiang Yuan that the dancers had belonged to Jiuqu and now belonged to him as city lord.
• Xiang Yuan described his visit to Skyfall Cliff and revealed a nine-headed Nine Infants demon form, impressing Bull Devil King with his bloodline.
• Bull Devil King told Xiang Yuan that the Blood Moon Demon Palace would open in a hundred days and that seven Great Sages alone could claim its opportunities.
• Bull Devil King urged Xiang Yuan to challenge the dying Yaksha King for his Great Sage position, while privately intending to push him into the role.

Xiang Yuan learned that Bull Devil King had arranged for him to replace the weakened Yaksha King and secure a Great Sage position, helping Bull Devil King in the Blood Moon Demon Palace. After Fuyunzi explained the plan and brought him to Shattered Star City, Xiang Yuan headed into the besieged city to claim the throne.

• Xiang Yuan blamed Xiao He for his knowledge of brothels while Xiao Lingyue warned him that Bull Devil King planned to use him.
• Seven days later, Bull Devil King expelled Xiang Yuan from Flamefire County, and Fuyunzi appeared to explain that Bull Devil King had arranged for him to challenge Yaksha King.
• Fuyunzi told Xiang Yuan that taking Yaksha King's Great Sage position would help Bull Devil King gain a slot in the Blood Moon Demon Palace, where he sought a chance to return to his origin.
• Fuyunzi revealed that Yaksha King's territory was in chaos and that masked humans had attacked Yaksha King, though Xiang Yuan realized the news might be connected to a larger secret.
• Fuyunzi transported Xiang Yuan, Xiao Lingyue, and Chan'er to Shattered Star City, then sent Xiang Yuan to enter the city alone.
• Xiang Yuan left Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er outside Shattered Star City and strode toward the fighting to claim Yaksha King's position.

Xiang Yuan joined the challenge to the wounded Yaksha King in Shattered Star City and discovered the king was using a Three Talents formation powered by three zombie demon kings. Seeing that the formation could trap only a limited number of opponents, Xiang Yuan prepared to exploit its weakness.

• Xiang Yuan entered Shattered Star City, joined the line of demon kings challenging the Yaksha King, and claimed to serve the Bull Devil King as King Taisui.
• The Green-Eyed Demon King and several other challengers were thrown from the main hall after losing to the Yaksha King.
• Xiang Yuan, the Thunder Eagle Demon King, and the Hundred Illusions Demon King entered the hall together after agreeing to join forces.
• Xiang Yuan recognized that the hall contained an illusionary Three Talents formation, with three zombie demon kings attacking the Thunder Eagle Demon King while the Yaksha King controlled the array.
• Xiang Yuan realized the formation could not trap everyone at once and saw an opportunity to break it by adding another attacker.

Xiang Yuan defeated the Yaksha King's zombies and received a blood-red token and the Yaksha King's head as the legacy's trial began. He fought the five rival Demon Kings, emerged as the new Nether-Piercing Great Sage—Nine Spirits King, and left the hall's ruins as the remaining demons fled.

• Xiang Yuan entered the Three Talents Grand Formation and crippled the saber-wielding zombie, then used his forces of heaven and earth to suppress its attacks.
• Thunder Eagle Demon King tore open the formation, revealing the wounded Yaksha King and the five Demon Kings competing for his throne.
• Yaksha King ensnared the five Demon Kings in illusions, making them fight each other while Xiang Yuan defeated the remaining zombies.
• Yaksha King gave Xiang Yuan a blood-red token and his own head, then left the weakened Demon Kings as a trial for his successor.
• Xiang Yuan revealed his Nine Infants form and defeated the Demon Kings; two died, while the others fled the ruins.
• Xiang Yuan became the Nether-Piercing Great Sage, also known as the Nine Spirits King.