Chapter Summaries

The Four Symbols Palace alliance gathered on the Demon Beast Ancient Plain to face Mangshan, whose Five Kings included members of the Blood Vulture Clan and the Nine Phoenix Clan. After a long wait, Mangshan’s crimson-armored forces arrived beneath a banner bearing a nine-tailed bird.

• Crowds from nearby regions gathered to watch the confrontation between the Beast War Region and Mangshan.
• The Four Symbols Palace forces arrived with the three great Demon Commanders, Little Yan, Lin Dong, Luo Heng, and Kun Spirit at the front.
• The Ghost Condor Demon Commander explained that Mangshan’s Five Kings included four Blood Vulture Clan brothers and Luo Tong, a member of the Nine Phoenix Clan.
• Kun Spirit dismissed the Nine Phoenix Clan as no threat to the Kunpeng Clan, while Luo Heng told her not to frighten the others.
• After waiting two hours, Luo Heng sensed Mangshan’s approach as the sky darkened and its crimson-armored army appeared.

Mangshan arrived to challenge the Four Symbols Palace for territory, and Luo Heng boldly refused to surrender the Mysterious Heaven Hall. The first match began with Golden Ape Demon Commander and Ghost Condor Demon Commander facing Teng Feng and Teng Lin.

• Mangshan's Five Kings arrived, and Luo Tong recognized Kun Spirit as a member of the Kunpeng Clan.
• Teng Feng and Teng Lin revealed that Mangshan knew Lin Dong possessed the Mysterious Heaven Hall, and Lin Dong refused to hand it over.
• Luo Heng taunted Mangshan's Five Kings and declared that no one would take the Mysterious Heaven Hall from his brother.
• Luo Tong set the contest at five rounds, with three victories deciding who would gain half of the other's territory.
• Luo Tong sent Teng Feng and Teng Lin to fight, and Golden Ape Demon Commander and Ghost Condor Demon Commander stepped forward to face them.
• The four Samsara Stage experts clashed on the arena as the battle began.

The Golden Ape Demon Commander and Ghost Condor Demon Commander used divine artifacts borrowed from Lin Dong to counter Teng Feng and Teng Lin’s Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillars. After nearly an hour, both sides agreed to a draw, and Western King Teng Huo stepped forward to fight the third match.

• Teng Feng and Teng Lin revealed the Azure Dragon Pillar and White Tiger Pillar, ranked parts of the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar.
• The Golden Ape Demon Commander wielded his own defensive divine artifact and Lin Dong’s Ten-Thousand-Jun Mountain-Stabilizing Hammer, while the Ghost Condor Demon Commander used Lin Dong’s Wind-Chant Ancient Sword.
• The four fighters exchanged attacks for nearly an hour without either side gaining a decisive advantage.
• Teng Feng and Teng Lin called the match a draw, which the Golden Ape Demon Commander and Ghost Condor Demon Commander accepted.
• Luo Tong asked who would fight the third match, and Western King Teng Huo volunteered, declaring he would not drag it out.

Teng Huo and the Sky Dragon Demon Commander drew in their duel, then Little Yan defeated Teng Shan by combining the Tiger Devouring Army’s power, the Great Teleportation Technique, and the Nine Cauldron Divine Hammer. Four Symbols Palace took the lead in the Heavenly Arena, and Luo Tong stepped forward for Mangshan’s final round, asking who would face him.

• Teng Huo attacked the Sky Dragon Demon Commander with the Vermilion Bird Pillar, but the Sea-Calming Bell blocked his flames and the two fighters withdrew in a draw.
• Little Yan absorbed power from the Tiger Devouring Army and faced Teng Shan, who wielded the Black Tortoise Pillar.
• Little Yan used the Great Teleportation Technique and the Nine Cauldron Divine Hammer to find and shatter the Black Tortoise Wall, defeating Teng Shan.
• Luo Tong declared the round for Four Symbols Palace, leaving the faction one round ahead after three draws and Little Yan’s victory.
• Luo Tong entered the platform and asked which member of Four Symbols Palace would fight him in the final round.

Lin Dong faced Luo Tong in the fifth round and used the Mysterious Heaven Hall to seize the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar. Luo Tong unleashed his full power and prepared a deadly attack, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Luo Tong challenged the Four Symbols Palace camp, and Lin Dong accepted the fifth round with the Bronze Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Luo Heng assured Lin Dong he could use the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and would cover for him if necessary.
• Lin Dong cut through Luo Tong's opening attack and struck his Nine Phoenix Heavenly Feather Shield, which held.
• Luo Tong summoned the complete Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar and trapped Lin Dong beneath its power.
• Lin Dong brought out the Mysterious Heaven Hall, which absorbed the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar and severed Luo Tong's control over it.
• Luo Tong erupted with killing intent and invoked Nine Phoenix Life-Generating Light against Lin Dong.

Lin Dong countered Luo Tong’s Nine Phoenix Life-Generating Light with the Bronze Heaven Measuring Slash, then used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to restrain Luo Tong’s nine-colored giant bird. He spotted an opening and teleported to strike the bird’s vulnerable abdomen, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Luo Tong fired his Nine Phoenix Life-Generating Light at Lin Dong, who used Xiao Tong’s instruction to unleash the Bronze Heaven Measuring Slash and break through the beam.
• Luo Tong summoned a colossal nine-colored bird with Nine Phoenix Worship, whose radiance began melting Lin Dong’s flesh and left him nowhere to evade.
• Lin Dong released the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and formed a vortex that swallowed the bird’s nine-colored radiance and drained its power.
• Lin Dong noticed the bird’s wing slacken, teleported to its side, and swung the Bronze Heaven Measuring Ruler at a dim area on its abdomen.

Lin Dong defeated Luo Tong in the arena but refused to return the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar. When Teng Feng threatened the Four Symbols Palace with the Nine Phoenix Clan's power, Luo Heng revealed his ties to the Dragon Race and Kunpeng Clan, and Kun Spirit identified herself as the Kunpeng Clan's Young Master.

• Lin Dong broke Luo Tong's Nine Phoenix Worship and defeated him, while the Devouring Vortex absorbed the shattered motes.
• Luo Tong admitted defeat and demanded the Four Symbols Immortal-Suppressing Pillar back, but Lin Dong refused.
• Teng Feng warned the Four Symbols Palace that the Nine Phoenix Clan would retaliate, prompting Luo Heng to reveal his Dragon Race Punishment Elder seal and Kunpeng Clan honorary elder token.
• Luo Heng challenged Mangshan to oppose the Dragon Race, Kunpeng Clan, and Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan together, leaving Luo Tong and Teng Feng stunned.
• Kun Spirit declared that she was Lin Dong's sister-in-law and the Kunpeng Clan's Young Master, shocking the crowd.

Luo Tong conceded defeat to the Four Symbols Palace, which then consolidated the Beast War Region while Luo Heng and Kun Spirit stayed at Thunder Abyss Mountain. Their peaceful visit ended when Wu Zhong arrived with news that Xiao Diao had been summoned back to the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan amid a succession struggle.

• Luo Tong admitted Mangshan's defeat and ordered its troops to withdraw, accepting that the region would give half its territory to the Four Symbols Palace.
• The four Demon Commanders and most Beast War Region factions submitted to the Four Symbols Palace, while Little Yan, the Sky Dragon Demon Commander, and others oversaw the consolidation.
• Luo Heng became a guest elder, and he and Kun Spirit spent several days at the Four Symbols Palace before Lin Dong and Little Yan warned him that something had happened to Xiao Diao.
• Wu Zhong told Lin Dong and Luo Heng that Xiao Diao had been a leading candidate to become clan chief before a mysterious attacker gravely injured him and forced him into hiding for nearly a century.
• Wu Zhong explained that a rival candidate had gained power during Xiao Diao's absence, while Xiao Diao's father remained in closed-door cultivation and the elders controlled clan affairs.

Wu Zhong brought Lin Dong, Luo Heng, Kun Spirit, and Little Yan to the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan to help Xiao Diao before the clan chose a candidate chief. They reached the clan quickly through Luo Heng's teleportation array and encountered Hao Jiuyou, who ordered his men to investigate Luo Heng and Kun Spirit.

• Wu Zhong explained that Hao Jiuyou threatened Xiao Diao's chances of becoming clan chief and said the clan would discuss its candidate in five days.
• Luo Heng used a teleportation array to take the group from the Beast War Region to the outskirts of the Heavenly Demon Region in less than half an incense stick's time.
• Wu Zhong led the group through the dangerous mountains to the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan, where guards questioned them despite his elder status.
• Hao Jiuyou greeted Wu Zhong and recognized Lin Dong, while Luo Heng and Kun Spirit's identities remained unclear to him.
• After Wu Zhong led the group away, Hao Jiuyou dismissed Lin Dong as a threat and ordered his men to find out who Luo Heng and Kun Spirit were.

Luo Heng revealed that Hao Jiuyou carried a hidden trace of Yimo aura, suggesting he was a pawn of the Demon Prison and had helped ambush Xiao Diao. Xiao Diao also suspected his father was trapped in the Heavenly Cave, so Luo Heng and Lin Dong prepared to investigate before the clan chief candidate decision in five days.

• Xiao Diao told Luo Heng, Lin Dong, and Wu Zhong that Hao Jiuyou had once known his travel route and might have been involved in the ambush that left him missing.
• Luo Heng sensed Yimo aura on Hao Jiuyou and warned that he might be a Yimo pawn infiltrating the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan.
• Xiao Diao revealed that his father had been secluded for a hundred years, that Hao Jiuyou's faction had blocked access to the Heavenly Cave, and that his father's life-blood feather had weakened and revealed the words “Demon Prison.”
• Luo Heng explained that the Demon Prison sought to weaken the continent's strongest forces and prepare for an invasion by the Yimo.
• With the candidate clan chief decision five days away, Luo Heng said Xiao Diao should distract the others while he and Lin Dong entered the Heavenly Cave.

Luo Heng and Lin Dong entered the Heavenly Cave while Xiao Diao distracted its guardians. They discovered an Eternal Illusory Demon Flower beside a secluded elder, revealing that the Yimo Race had trapped the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan's peak experts in illusions.

• Xiao Diao tried to enter the Heavenly Cave to find his father, but the guardians restrained him.
• Luo Heng and Lin Dong slipped through a crack in the barrier while the guardians fought Xiao Diao.
• Luo Heng used the blood feather to guide Lin Dong through the dark cave and found a hidden chamber.
• Luo Heng and Lin Dong saw an Eternal Illusory Demon Flower growing beside an old man in secluded cultivation.
• Desolate Ancient Tablet explained that the flower trapped its victims in lasting illusions and that the Clan Chief and other peak experts had likely fallen prey to it.

Luo Heng and Lin Dong found Xiao Diao’s father trapped in an illusion by three Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers. Luo Heng removed the flowers and absorbed the illusory fragrance without harming him, and Xiao Diao’s father began to wake.

• Luo Heng and Lin Dong followed the blood feather to Xiao Diao’s father’s cave and discovered three Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers trapping him.
• Yan explained that the flowers’ fragrance would keep Xiao Diao’s father unconscious for months, while Luo Heng’s Great Devouring Art could safely remove it.
• Luo Heng sent Lin Dong to clear flowers from the other caves and seized the three flowers with Spiritual Power, suppressing them in the Heaven and Earth Unification Tower.
• Luo Heng used the Great Devouring Art to draw the fragrance out of Xiao Diao’s father and refine it into Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Diao’s father stirred, opened his eyes, and asked Luo Heng who he was.

Lin Dong cleared Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers from several Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan elders’ caves and awakened Xiao Diao’s father, revealing Hao Jiuyou’s collusion with the Yimo. Xiao Diao’s father prepared to rally the clan and confront the conspirators, while Luo Heng warned that Yimo King-level figures would likely arrive.

• Lin Dong removed Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers from five secluded caves and purified the trapped elders, but could not enter a sealed cave belonging to a Supreme Elder.
• Lin Dong reached the end of the passage and sensed an even stronger elder beyond a barrier, whose cave had not been infested.
• Xiao Diao’s father awakened and, after hearing that Xiao Diao had returned, asked Lin Dong what had happened in the clan.
• Lin Dong explained Hao Jiuyou’s rise and the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower infestation, and Xiao Diao’s father recognized that Hao Jiuyou had colluded with the Yimo.
• Xiao Diao’s father agreed to awaken the sealed elders and confront Hao Jiuyou, while Luo Heng predicted the Yimo would send powerful figures and urged the clan to gather its strength.

Luo Heng and Lin Dong helped Xiao Diao's father awaken the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan elders who had been trapped by Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers. The clan leaders agreed to conceal their strength during the clan leader candidate decision and ambush the Yimo when they appeared.

• Xiao Diao's father led Luo Heng and Lin Dong to Elder Xuan's sealed cave, where Luo Heng removed the Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers and carefully extracted their hallucinatory fragrance.
• Luo Heng awakened Elder Xuan after a day and night, and then repeated the process to awaken Elder Ming while Lin Dong's earlier efforts freed seven other samsara-stage elders.
• By the night before the competition, Xiao Diao's father, two second-layer reincarnation Supreme Elders, and seven samsara-stage elders had gathered to oppose Hao Jiuyou and the Yimo.
• Luo Heng urged the elders not to confront Hao Jiuyou prematurely and proposed waiting until the clan leader candidate decision to trap the Yimo.
• Xiao Diao's father and the elders accepted Luo Heng's plan and vowed to surround and kill the Yimo when they revealed themselves.

Xiao Diao defeated Hao Jiuyou in the contest to choose the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan’s next chief, but Luo Heng interrupted to expose a Yimo conspiracy. The clan patriarch emerged from the Heavenly Cave and revealed that the Great Elder had failed to detect an Eternal Illusory Demon Flower that trapped him and the secluded experts in an illusion.

• Zhu Li announced that Xiao Diao and Hao Jiuyou would settle the clan leadership dispute through a fight, and Hao Jiuyou attacked Xiao Diao.
• Xiao Diao used the Great Teleportation Technique to evade Hao Jiuyou’s attacks, then struck him down and declared him defeated.
• Luo Heng arrived and accused three people of colluding with the Yimo, stopping two elders who tried to attack him.
• The Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan Patriarch appeared with Lin Dong, and the clan members knelt to welcome him.
• The Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan Patriarch blamed Zhu Li for allowing an Eternal Illusory Demon Flower to trap him and the experts in the Heavenly Cave, and credited Luo Heng and Lin Dong with rescuing them.

Lin Dong exposed Hao Jiuyou as the Yimo-backed traitor who had poisoned the Heavenly Cave and attempted to seize control of the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan. After Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone to dispel Hao Jiuyou’s protective illusion, Zhu Li attacked him, but Hao Jiuyou sacrificed two elders and summoned his king through a black vortex.

• Lin Dong and Luo Heng revealed that the Heavenly Cave had been seeded with Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers and exposed two elders as Demonic Seed bearers.
• Lin Dong accused Hao Jiuyou of planting the flowers and betraying the clan; Hao Jiuyou admitted that he had informed the Yimo of Xiao Diao’s whereabouts a hundred years earlier.
• Hao Jiuyou threatened to release the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower’s fragrance across the clan if anyone killed him, but Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone to dispel it.
• Zhu Li attacked Hao Jiuyou and drove him back, but Hao Jiuyou detonated the two corrupted elders to create a black vortex that swallowed Zhu Li’s attack.
• Hao Jiuyou severed his arm and sent it into the vortex, declaring that he welcomed his king to blood-wash the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan.

Luo Heng and Lin Dong helped the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan expose Hao Jiuyou’s plot, and two Yimo Kings emerged from a black vortex to attack the clan. Elder Xuan and Elder Ming arrived with reinforcements and trapped the invaders, while Luo Heng claimed Earthly Illusion King as his opponent.

• Hao Jiuyou knelt before the black vortex as two Yimo Kings emerged and identified themselves as Heavenly Illusion King and Earthly Illusion King.
• The Yimo Kings recognized Luo Heng from their wanted list and declared they would kill him, but Luo Heng dismissed their threat.
• Elder Xuan and Elder Ming arrived with Samsara Stage elders, and the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan members cheered their arrival.
• Heavenly Illusion King kicked Hao Jiuyou aside after learning the clan’s elders had escaped the illusion.
• Elder Ming sealed the surrounding space while Elder Xuan confronted Heavenly Illusion King.
• Luo Heng told Elder Xuan and Elder Ming to leave Earthly Illusion King to him.

Luo Heng fought the Earthly Illusion King, using his divine artifacts and abilities to withstand the Yimo King’s attacks and counter his illusions. As the Earthly Illusion King unleashed a devastating rock attack that threatened the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan below, Luo Heng summoned the Eightfold Sacred Dragon, Demon-Suppressing Platform.

• Luo Heng volunteered to fight the Earthly Illusion King and said defeating him could help him break through to the Reincarnation Stage.
• Luo Heng clashed with the Earthly Illusion King and revealed the Bronze Heaven Measuring Ruler, the Desolate Ancient Tablet, and his Primordial Dragon Bone.
• Luo Heng used the Darkness Demon Suppression Bead to injure the Earthly Illusion King, then resisted his locking chains and illusion toxin.
• Luo Heng and the Earthly Illusion King traded attacks as the Yimo King’s armor and strength kept him from being defeated.
• The Earthly Illusion King launched his Myriad Rock Illusory Kill toward Luo Heng, threatening the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan below, and Luo Heng summoned the Eightfold Sacred Dragon, Demon-Suppressing Platform.

Luo Heng killed the Earthly Illusion King and absorbed his power, reaching the brink of the Reincarnation Stage while Elder Ming drove off Tenth King Hall and Elder Xuan killed the Heavenly Illusion King. With the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan’s crisis over, Luo Heng entered a secluded secret realm to begin his breakthrough.

• Luo Heng used the Eightfold Sacred Dragon Demon-Suppressing Platform to shatter the Earthly Illusion King's defenses and injure him.
• Tenth King Hall emerged through a fissure, but Elder Ming fought him off while Luo Heng killed the Earthly Illusion King and absorbed his power.
• Elder Ming forced Tenth King Hall to retreat, and Elder Xuan killed the Heavenly Illusion King, ending the clan's crisis.
• Lin Dong collected the Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers as the formation broke apart, and Luo Heng asked Elder Xuan and Elder Ming for a quiet place to cultivate.
• Luo Heng told Kun Spirit to stay behind and advised Lin Dong to prepare for the Master of Devouring's Devouring Divine Hall to appear.
• Luo Heng entered a secluded secret realm with Elder Xuan and Elder Ming and began cultivating for his Reincarnation Stage breakthrough.

Luo Heng broke through to the Reincarnation Stage after absorbing the immense Primal Energy of the storm clouds, becoming the youngest known expert of that stage on the Tianxuan Continent. As the Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan celebrated, a mysterious voice asked about his connection to its junior sister.

• While Luo Heng cultivated, Lin Dong advanced toward the Symbol Sect, Kun Spirit studied Xuanyuan Zichen Palace, and Little Yan went with Xiao Diao to the Heavenly Demon Tiger Clan.
• After two months, the Light of Reincarnation appeared above Luo Heng's secret realm, and he emerged to absorb the descending Primal Energy waterfalls.
• Luo Heng transformed into an immense Yinglong and devoured the clouds, then returned to human form as the Samsara Disc appeared and confirmed his breakthrough.
• The Heavenly Demon Mantis Clan hailed Luo Heng as Heaven Emperor Heng, and the system announced that Xuanyuan Zichen Palace would awaken fully when he reached the Second Samsara Tribulation.
• Kun Spirit embraced Luo Heng, and after he thanked the elders, an unknown voice asked what he was to its junior sister.