Chapter Summaries

After consolidating his position as the new Great Sage, Xiang Yuan discovered a secret art and prepared for the Blood Moon Demon Palace’s opening with Bull Devil King. When the palace appeared in the valley beneath the blood moon, Xiang Yuan suspected the true palace was on the moon.

• Xiang Yuan moved into a new palace, reunited with Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, and pretended his injuries were severe to deepen their concern and gratitude.
• Xiang Yuan used a blood-red token to locate the Sun-Moon-Star Three Talents Formation manual, but failed to form the formation alone with his divided Primordial Spirit.
• Xiang Yuan found his new territory being taken by neighboring Great Sages and demons, then hosted Bull Devil King and later Hundred Illusions Demon King.
• Xiang Yuan traveled with Bull Devil King and Fuyunzi to Skyfall Cliff, where the other Great Sages gathered for the Blood Moon Demon Palace’s opening.
• The blood moon appeared and the fog cleared to reveal the palace; Bull Devil King ordered Fuyunzi to guard the entrance and leaped down, while Xiang Yuan suspected the palace was a mirage and the real one was on the moon.

Xiang Yuan entered the Blood Moon Demon Palace with the Six Great Sages, explored Jade Wave Pool with Bull Devil King, and found no treasures. They then reached Lion Camel Ridge, where Xiang Yuan stirred up a fierce battle by claiming a powerful bottle was buried underground.

• The Six Great Sages entered the Blood Moon Demon Palace in separate groups, and Xiang Yuan followed Bull Devil King through the gate.
• Xiang Yuan and Bull Devil King arrived at Jade Wave Pool, where Bull Devil King split the waters to enter the Crystal Palace.
• Xiang Yuan and Bull Devil King searched the empty Crystal Palace, then decided to seek opportunities elsewhere and flew toward Lion Camel Ridge.
• Lion Camel King searched Lion Camel Cave while Bull Devil King attacked him, and the two Great Sages fought fiercely.
• Xiang Yuan emerged from underground and shouted that a powerful yin-and-yang bottle was buried there, provoking Bull Devil King and Lion Camel King to intensify their clash.

Xiang Yuan supported Bull Devil King in his battle against Lion Camel King, then tricked the two Great Sages into believing their precious yin-yang treasure had been destroyed. Bull Devil King slew Lion Camel King, and the two wounded allies prepared to press on through the Blood Moon Demon Palace while each secretly considered betraying the other.

• Xiang Yuan wounded Lion Camel King and used feints and threats to help Bull Devil King gain the upper hand in their fight.
• Xiang Yuan staged the destruction of a porcelain bottle, convincing Bull Devil King and Lion Camel King that their destined yin-yang treasure was gone and driving them into a furious clash.
• Bull Devil King and Lion Camel King revealed their true demonic forms and fought until Bull Devil King killed Lion Camel King and took his demon core.
• Bull Devil King thanked Xiang Yuan for his help, but privately decided to eliminate him before leaving the Blood Moon Demon Palace.
• Xiang Yuan praised Bull Devil King and urged him onward, while Bull Devil King blamed Lion Camel King for the apparent loss of the treasure and concealed his anger toward Xiang Yuan.

Xiang Yuan and Bull Devil King reached the true Blood Moon Demon Palace, where rival Great Sages gathered to seize its opportunities. Mist Wyrm King attacked Xiang Yuan after Bull Devil King and White Emperor King interrupted his and Golden Crow King’s return-to-origins ritual.

• Bull Devil King and Xiang Yuan found Lesser Thunderclap Temple empty, and Bull Devil King destroyed its lotus pedestals before they left to seek the other Great Sages.
• Mist Wyrm King killed Roc Demon King with Golden Crow King’s help, and the pair entered the true Blood Moon Demon Palace using a blood-red token.
• White Emperor King disguised himself as a grievously wounded survivor and joined Bull Devil King and Xiang Yuan as they entered the palace.
• Xiang Yuan noticed the token groove at the entrance and studied a mural of a golden figure whose imagery reminded him of the Heavenly God Realm.
• White Emperor King claimed Mist Wyrm King and Golden Crow King had killed Roc Demon King, and Bull Devil King agreed to work with him against them.
• Bull Devil King and White Emperor King interrupted Mist Wyrm King and Golden Crow King’s ritual, so Mist Wyrm King attacked Xiang Yuan.

Xiang Yuan waited for the demon kings to weaken one another, then summoned Xiao Lingyue, Chan'er, and Senior Jiang to help him fight Mist Wyrm King. Their combined attacks badly wounded Mist Wyrm King, who transformed into a giant wyrm and swallowed Senior Jiang as Xiang Yuan cut off part of his tail.

• Xiang Yuan lured Mist Wyrm King away from the plaza while Bull Devil King and White Emperor King fought Golden Crow King, and Mist Wyrm King later tried to kill him with a claw strike.
• Xiang Yuan survived the attack by shifting his heart out of his chest, wounded Mist Wyrm King with his blade, and opened a gate to summon Xiao Lingyue, Chan'er, and Senior Jiang.
• Senior Jiang struck Mist Wyrm King with overwhelming force, while Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er joined their powers in Sun and Moon Together in the Sky to break through his defenses and burn him severely.
• Xiang Yuan attacked Mist Wyrm King's Primordial Spirit through a blood sea and slashed his body as the wounded demon revealed his true form as a four-clawed wyrm.
• Chan'er freed Senior Jiang from the demonic energy, and Xiang Yuan flew toward the wyrm with Senior Jiang before cutting off part of its tail; the wyrm swallowed Senior Jiang.

Xiang Yuan’s group killed Mist Wyrm King, then joined Golden Crow King’s battle against the other Great Sages and fought him for the Demon Palace’s final opportunity. After Golden Crow King detonated his demon core, Xiang Yuan, Xiao Lingyue, and Chan’er endured the resulting sea of golden flames by using Xiang Yuan’s medicinal blood to temper their bodies.

• Xiang Yuan controlled Senior Jiang from inside Mist Wyrm King, then helped Xiao Lingyue and Chan’er finish killing the wyrm and take its demon cores.
• Golden Crow King killed Bull Devil King and was confronted by Xiang Yuan’s group, whose matching blood-red token prevented him from expelling them from the Demon Palace.
• Senior Jiang charged Golden Crow King but was blown apart when the king used White Emperor King’s demon core; Xiang Yuan and the two women then attacked together.
• Golden Crow King detonated Bull Devil King’s demon core to interrupt Xiang Yuan’s yin-yang attack, then detonated his own core as Xiang Yuan struck back.
• The explosion filled the plaza with golden fire, and Xiang Yuan pulled Xiao Lingyue and Chan’er close so they could bite his medicinal blood and temper their bodies.

After defeating the Golden Crow King, Xiang Yuan found the relic and discovered a stele covered in names from Journey to the West, deepening his suspicions about the Heavenly Demon Realm’s purpose. He returned to the Dry Abyss Realm with Chan'er and Xiao Lingyue, then set off to investigate the Dragon-Subduing Realm before visiting the Heavenly God Realm.

• Xiang Yuan rescued the unconscious Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, concealed the Demon Palace, and ended the treasure hunt after finding the relic.
• Xiang Yuan had Xiao Lingyue translate the demon-script stele and recognized its names as figures from Journey to the West, then failed to activate the five-colored pillar while transformed as Nine Infants.
• Xiang Yuan brought the recovering women to the Unborn Realm, where they spent half a month healing and studying demon script before he returned with them to Song Family Village.
• Chan'er questioned why Xiao Lingyue had recovered quickly, confirmed that Xiao Lingyue had bitten Xiang Yuan, and spent five days with him before leaving with Senior Jiang.
• Xiang Yuan opened Jambu Gate and traveled to the Dragon-Subduing Realm to check on the disciples of Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy and collect fallen leaves.

Xiang Yuan reviewed Baize’s candidates for divine generals and welcomed the newly ascended Purple Void True Person, whom he appointed as Spiritual Officer Ma. After warning Purple Void that he had offended Guanyin Bodhisattva by laughing at rumors about her and Xiang Yuan, he left him with a deliberately contradictory warning not to spread those rumors.

• Xiang Yuan puzzled over the differing flows of time among the realms while Baize presented her list of candidates for the thirty-six divine generals.
• Xiang Yuan approved several candidates, including Qin Chang and Purple Void, and asked Baize to recruit only a quarter of the list and bring Purple Void to him.
• Purple Void arrived and recognized Xiang Yuan as the True Warrior Great Emperor, then panicked over his past presumption and tried to kill himself.
• Xiang Yuan forgave Purple Void, appointed him Spiritual Officer Ma, and told him he had offended Guanyin Bodhisattva by joining in rumors about her and Xiang Yuan.
• Xiang Yuan warned Purple Void not to spread the rumors, while implying that he should spread them anyway.

Xiang Yuan returned from the Heavenly Demon Realm, visited Jingyun and reunited with Layman Bai Yue and Ji Muqing at Mount Luojia. After the Heavenly Emperor summoned him, he arrived at the Heavenly Court and encountered Erlang the Sage True Lord and a black-armored elder arguing over a dog.

• Xiang Yuan reported the Heavenly Demon Realm to Jingyun, who told him to await the Heavenly Emperor's decision and gave him her jade belt before leaving for the Heavenly Court.
• Xiang Yuan reunited with Layman Bai Yue at Mount Luojia, gave her a fallen leaf from her homeland, and urged her to speak plainly with Ji Muqing about their feelings.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ji Muqing, gave her fallen leaves, and spent half a month in Purple Bamboo Grove guiding her and Layman Bai Yue's cultivation.
• The Heavenly Emperor summoned Xiang Yuan, who rode to the Southern Heavenly Gate and was escorted to Miro Palace.
• Xiang Yuan stopped a black hound from marking the entrance to Hall of Imperial Zenith, where he met Erlang the Sage True Lord and a three-eyed elder who suggested stewing the dog.

Xiang Yuan joined the Heavenly Court’s campaign to quell a rebellion in the Heavenly Demon Realm, where he allied with Erlang Shen and helped lead the invasion. After learning the gods had no family ties and considering how the Heavenly Court might develop, he left the battlefield wondering whether Erlang Shen might someday gain a younger sister.

• Xiang Yuan watched Erlang Shen argue with the Universal Lord of Thunder in the Nine Heavens, then met Nezha before the Heavenly Emperor ordered a campaign against the Heavenly Demon Realm.
• Xiang Yuan gathered the few divine generals available at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, appointed Purple Void True Person to accompany him, and warned him not to spread rumors about Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• Xiang Yuan opened a passage to the Heavenly Demon Realm, and the Heavenly Court’s army descended under his command alongside Erlang Shen’s forces.
• Xiang Yuan and Erlang Shen formed a friendly alliance and sent their troops to defeat the vastly outmatched demons while they talked at Erlang Shen’s camp.
• Xiang Yuan learned that divine offices carried no family ties and that Erlang Shen was not the Heavenly Emperor’s nephew, then wondered whether the Heavenly Court’s gods would develop into the figures he knew from other worlds.

After the Heavenly Gods conquered the Heavenly Demon Realm, Xiang Yuan visited Layman Bai Yue and learned about Spirit Mountain before returning to Dezhou. He told Xiao He that he was engaged to Xiao Lingyue and had arranged another marriage with the Xiao family, leaving Xiao He convinced Xiang Yuan was making it all up.

• The Heavenly Gods defeated the Heavenly Demon Realm in seven days, and Xiang Yuan punished Purple Void True Person for spreading rumors about him and Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• Layman Bai Yue explained that she had heard the gossip through Avalokiteshvara and told Xiang Yuan that Spirit Mountain was on the Western Ox-Gift Continent.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ji Muqing at Lotus Pond, gave her blood medicine, and promised to grant her wish if she surpassed him in cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan returned to Dezhou and joined Xiao He and Xu Jixian, who had reached the Innate Realm, for drinks and grilled food.
• Xiang Yuan gave Xiao He clothes from Cheng Yuling and revealed that he had become a godson of Xiao Yan and Cheng Yuling after saving Cheng Yuling from assassins.
• Xiang Yuan claimed that he and Xiao Lingyue were engaged and that he had arranged another marriage with Xiao Lingyan, while Xiao He dismissed his claims as lies.

Xiang Yuan defeated Xu Jixian in a spar, then Xiao He persuaded him to join them at Jade Sheng House. The next day, Xiao He outlined a plan to infiltrate the troubled Five Poisons Cult in the Southern Border and named the cult leader’s wife, Ana Heiyan, as his route in.

• Xiang Yuan told Xiao He the truth about the Storm Mist Blade, but Xiao He mistook it for a lie.
• Xiang Yuan sparred with Xu Jixian and shattered his protective Gang Qi before knocking him unconscious with one palm.
• Xiao He threatened to badmouth Xiang Yuan to Lingyue, so Xiang Yuan agreed to go with Xiao He and Xu Jixian to Jade Sheng House.
• Xiao He explained that the Five Poisons Cult had suffered misfortunes, lost resources, and angered a group of demons.
• Xiao He proposed infiltrating the Five Poisons Cult to become an Innate Realm elder, using the cult leader’s wife, Ana Heiyan, as his connection.

Xiang Yuan learned about the power struggle inside the Five Poisons Cult and visited Chan'er to ask how he could resist Ana Heiyan's charm techniques. Chan'er passed spiritual energy from the Yellow Springs Mother Tree into him while secretly imprinting her image on his Primordial Spirit, and Xiang Yuan left able to treat the imprint as another item in his collection.

• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that the Five Poisons Cult leader was auditing his wife, Ana Heiyan, and that an elder who had defected to Western Chu was feeding intelligence to the Imperial City Directorate.
• Xiang Yuan agreed to travel to the Southern Border with Xiao He and visited Chan'er in the Upper Zhou ruins to ask about resisting charm techniques.
• Chan'er taught Xiang Yuan a method involving the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, and after several disrupted attempts, he received its spiritual energy through their intimate cultivation transmission.
• Chan'er secretly used a harvesting art to imprint her image on Xiang Yuan's Primordial Spirit, intending to keep him from being seduced by other women.
• Xiang Yuan left the ruins and found that Chan'er's imprint had formed an album in his Primordial Spirit, which he added to his collection.

Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er to test whether she was the reincarnated Yellow Springs Holy Maiden, then joined Xiao He on the journey toward Cloud Battle City. After learning Xiao He's divination method, Xiang Yuan led them to a grove where Xiao He found a branch, only for a white-robed monk to arrive carrying an even more impressive one.

• Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er, who replenished herself with his blood medicine and kissed him before he left, and he wondered whether she could really be the Yellow Springs Holy Maiden.
• Xiao He gave Xiang Yuan eight frail skeleton soldiers for his cover as a Corpse-Driving Sect descendant, then set off with him toward Cloud Battle City while Xu Jixian traveled separately.
• Xiao He taught Xiang Yuan Seven Hearts Divination, and Xiang Yuan used Baize's demonic aura to divine an opportunity in a grove thirty li ahead.
• Xiao He found a straight branch in the grove and declared it his treasure, but a passing white-robed monk drew his attention with a remarkable branch staff.
• Xiao He became jealous of the monk's staff and demanded they follow and rob him, while Xiang Yuan agreed to help him wait for a chance to attack.

Xiang Yuan joined a merchant caravan traveling toward Cloud Battle City and witnessed a white-robed monk defeat Bliss Dao disciples while searching for his senior brother. When barbarians attacked four Five Poisons Cult disciples at the camp, Xiang Yuan realized they were the people his divination had led him to find.

• Xiang Yuan used Seven Hearts Divination to find a guide to Cloud Battle City and followed its directions to join Eight Directions Escort Agency's caravan.
• On the third night, Xiang Yuan watched a white-robed monk pursue and kill several Bliss Dao disciples while demanding to know where his senior brother was.
• The monk left after learning the leading woman did not know his senior brother, and Xiang Yuan recognized the monk's earlier display as an act.
• Barbarians ambushed four black-clad travelers at the camp, and one of the brothers revealed they were disciples of the Five Poisons Cult.
• Xiang Yuan recognized the Five Poisons Cult disciples as the people his divination had pointed him toward, but four men from the caravan rushed to help them first.

Xiang Yuan escorted Hao Ren and the two accountants to Cloud Battle City, where he discovered the city was a heavily armed stronghold secretly controlled by Ana Heiyan. After arriving, he reunited with Xiao He and learned that Brother Xu was already living in the City Lord's Manor, possibly near the Cult Leader's wife.

• Xiang Yuan helped defeat the Yi tribesmen, raised several corpses as zombies, and agreed to escort Hao Ren and the two accountants to Cloud Battle City in exchange for a reward.
• Hao Ren explained that he and his deceased elder brother, Hao Shi, served the Cult Leader's wife, and that they needed to deliver ledgers amid the Five Poisons Cult's internal strife.
• Xiang Yuan and the others traveled through the Southern Border's mosquito-filled back roads and reached Cloud Battle City, a bustling city secretly controlled by Ana Heiyan and guarded by many innate-level experts.
• After entering the city, Xiang Yuan noticed a mark left by Xiao He, then spent the night in the guest courtyard while Hao Ren delayed paying his promised reward.
• Xiao He secretly visited Xiang Yuan, revealed that he had become a personal disciple of one of the Five Poisons Cult's five great elders, and gave him a human-skin mask to enter the inner courtyard.
• Xiang Yuan asked about Brother Xu, and Xiao He said he already lived in the City Lord's Manor, perhaps near the Cult Leader's wife.

Xiang Yuan and Xiao He attended Ana Heiyan’s banquet in Cloud Battle City and discovered that she had taken Xu Jixian as her beloved. Xu Jixian privately explained how he had saved Ana Heiyan and become the object of her affection, leaving the other two struggling to believe his account.

• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that Xu Jixian had been in the City Lord’s Manor for three days, and the two feared Ana Heiyan had ensnared him.
• Xiang Yuan adopted the identity Han Xin and accompanied Xiao He, posing as Sha Zhanhong, to Ana Heiyan’s banquet.
• Ana Heiyan arrived with Xu Jixian, treated him affectionately, and said she had settled her heart.
• Xiang Yuan and Xiao He opened a voice-transmission chat with Xu Jixian and demanded to know how he had ended up with Ana Heiyan.
• Xu Jixian explained that he had saved Ana Heiyan after she was poisoned and claimed the poison caused her to fall in love with him.
• Xu Jixian recounted attending her banquet and spending the night with her, then argued that she was a widow because the Cult Master was dead.

Xiang Yuan and Xiao He tested Ana Heiyan’s apparent change of heart, then urged Xu Jixian to secure help for their planned escape to Earth Dragon Fort. The chapter left Ana Heiyan reporting to her mysterious master that she had found the bloodline of the Ancient God Clan.

• Xiang Yuan and Xiao He questioned Ana Heiyan’s intentions and negotiated for her support in taking control of the Five Poisons Cult in exchange for Earth Dragon Fort’s mineral rights.
• Xiang Yuan tested Ana Heiyan at the banquet and concluded that her seductive nature remained, while Xiao He judged that their identities had not been exposed.
• Xiao He decided that he and Xiang Yuan should leave for Earth Dragon Fort and persuaded Xu Jixian to obtain proof of identity from Ana Heiyan.
• Xu Jixian admitted that Ana Heiyan had worn him out, but agreed to keep pursuing the task after Xiang Yuan and Xiao He teased him.
• Ana Heiyan traveled to a hidden valley, knelt before her veiled master, and reported that she had found the bloodline of the Ancient God Clan.

Ana Heiyan revealed Xu Jixian’s Ancient God Clan bloodline and secured her master’s help to awaken it so she could bear a daughter for her. As Xiang Yuan and Xiao He planned to rescue Xu Jixian, Ana Heiyan covered Cloud Battle City in bloodlight and began a sacrifice that threatened everyone inside.

• Ana Heiyan told her master that Xu Jixian carried the Ancient God Clan bloodline and proposed bearing his daughter in exchange for freedom.
• Ana Heiyan’s master gave her the blood-pool key and ordered her to awaken Xu Jixian’s bloodline and bear a daughter.
• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that he planned to use the Cult Leader’s arrival as cover to rescue Xu Jixian from Ana Heiyan.
• A violent quake shook Cloud Battle City as a dense blood-red curtain filled the sky.
• Xiang Yuan recognized the bloodlight’s demonic influence, and Xiao He warned that Ana Heiyan was sacrificing the entire city.

Xiang Yuan entered Cloud Battle City’s blood-soaked formation to reach the City Lord’s Manor, while Bai Shumo and Water Elder arrived with Ling’en. Ling’en confronted Monk Lingxiu outside the city, and Lingxiu revealed the power of the Future Three Thousand Scrolls as their fight began.

• Xiao He and Xiang Yuan split up, with Xiao He heading out of Cloud Battle City and Xiang Yuan sneaking toward the City Lord’s Manor.
• Xiang Yuan killed the Blood Sea Dao cultivator who blocked his path, copied the man’s principles of heaven and earth, and entered the manor, where mind-controlled innate experts turned toward him.
• Bai Shumo, Water Elder, and Ling’en approached Cloud Battle City, but Monk Lingxiu appeared and challenged Ling’en to settle their old feud.
• Lingxiu stopped Ling’en’s attack and accused him of slaughtering innocent people, while Ling’en condemned Lingxiu as a devil who had learned the Future Three Thousand Scrolls.
• Lingxiu manifested a pure land within his heart and used the Future Three Thousand Scrolls to shatter the boundary between illusion and reality.