Chapter Summaries

Donghuang Ziyou sought Lin Xuan’s advice on a political appointment, and his insight impressed her. After playing tangram with their daughters, the family set out to visit the newly opened Divine Martial Academy.

• Donghuang Ziyou asked Lin Xuan whether Zhao Jun’s recommendation of Wang Xiao to lead Luo Xing Country’s army was trustworthy, and Lin Xuan said Zhao Jun had shown he recommended capable people even when they were relatives or enemies.
• Donghuang Ziyou told Lin Xuan that Wang Xiao had welcomed the recommendation and wanted to fight the Demon Race, while the servants admired the couple’s closeness.
• Xuanzhu and her sisters showed Donghuang Ziyou the tangram Lin Xuan had taught them, and the family praised one another as they assembled a phoenix and a palace.
• Donghuang Ziyou explained that the Divine Martial Academy trained martial talents to become future generals, and the children eagerly agreed to visit.
• Donghuang Ziyou summoned the Mystic Ice Jade Carriage, and the family departed for the academy.

Yi Chen left the Mysterious Cloud Sect after Yao Tianrong humiliated him, declaring that he would seek admission to the Divine Martial Academy and return to marry Yao Rui. At the academy’s opening ceremony, Donghuang Ziyou inscribed its motto on the monument: “Repay the Nation Through Martial Prowess!”

• Yi Chen tried to visit Yao Rui, but the Mysterious Cloud Sect’s disciples blocked him and Yao Tianrong ordered him to leave.
• Yi Chen announced that he would seek admission to the Divine Martial Academy and return to marry Yao Rui, then departed.
• Yao Rui learned that Yi Chen had left and worried that her father’s insults might provoke him, though she trusted his resolve.
• Donghuang Ziyou arrived at the Divine Martial Academy’s opening ceremony with Lin Xuan and the four little treasures.
• Donghuang Ziyou opened the academy with a speech and inscribed “Repay the Nation Through Martial Prowess!” on its stone monument.

Donghuang Ziyou observed the opening of Divine Martial Academy’s admissions, while Yao Rui persuaded her father to take her to see Yi Chen. At the academy’s first trial, Yi Chen climbed the Empress’s pressure-imbued stairs and reached the platform, astonishing his former fellow disciples.

• Donghuang Ziyou confirmed that Divine Martial Academy’s admissions assessment had begun and waited in the main hall with Lin Xuan and the little treasures.
• Yao Rui begged Yao Tianrong to take her to see Yi Chen, and he agreed, believing the visit would make her give up on him.
• Yi Chen arrived at the academy’s admissions trial determined to succeed for Yao Rui, where he encountered former fellow disciples Zhang Heng and Luo Junjie.
• Chen Fengtao, Dou Yuanlong, and Gong Chunhai explained that applicants had to climb fifty thousand steps under the Empress’s formation to qualify for admission.
• As the formation eliminated most of the million applicants, Yi Chen used his Sword Qi to endure the pressure and reached the platform with about five thousand others.
• Zhang Heng and Luo Junjie were stunned that Yi Chen had reached the platform despite his apparent lack of Profound Connection Realm cultivation.

Zhang Heng and Luo Junjie accused Yi Chen of cheating in the Divine Martial Academy’s assessment, and the elders prepared to punish him when he refused to explain how he had passed. As soldiers moved to seize him, Yi Chen awakened the Nine Tribulations Demonic Sword and declared that he was not the Devil Lord.

• Zhang Heng and Luo Junjie accused Yi Chen of cheating and attacked him, but Yi Chen threw Zhang Heng aside and shattered Luo Junjie's wrist with Sword Qi.
• The elders questioned Yi Chen about his weak cultivation and ordered him to confess; when he refused, Chen Fengtao ordered soldiers to seize him and sentenced him to at least three hundred strokes of the staff.
• Yao Tianrong saw Yi Chen surrounded and tried to drag Yao Rui home, declaring Yi Chen a fraud, while Yao Rui protested that it could not be true.
• As the soldiers closed in, a demonic sword erupted from Yi Chen, filling the mountainside with immense Sword Qi and stunning Yao Tianrong and the elders.
• Chen Fengtao recognized the sword as possibly the Nine Tribulations Demonic Sword, and Yi Chen said it was his fortuitous opportunity but denied being the Devil Lord or practicing demonic cultivation.

Donghuang Ziyou transformed the devil Sword Qi of Yi Chen’s Nine Tribulations Devil Sword, allowing him to remain human and reach Spirit Soul Peak Realm. Yi Chen reunited with Yao Rui, while he resolved to repay the Empress by serving Northern Profound Heaven.

• Chen Fengtao and the other Divine Martial Academy elders rejected Yi Chen after his Nine Tribulations Devil Sword revealed his devil qi, and threatened to kill him if he stayed.
• Donghuang Ziyou arrived with Lin Xuan and their four daughters, questioned Yi Chen, and offered to transform the sword’s devil qi despite the painful process.
• Yi Chen accepted, endured Donghuang Ziyou’s purple devil art, and emerged with righteous Sword Qi and Spirit Soul Peak Realm cultivation.
• Chen Fengtao and the others praised Donghuang Ziyou’s achievement, and Yi Chen kowtowed to her and vowed to repay her kindness.
• Yao Rui rushed to Yi Chen, celebrated his success, and embraced him as Yao Tianrong watched over her.

Lin Xuan helped Yao Tianrong overcome his pride and reconcile with Yi Chen, allowing him and Yao Rui to reunite with their father. Yi Chen completed Divine Martial Academy’s assessment and became a student, while Donghuang Ziyou identified flaws in the academy’s rules before leaving with Lin Xuan and the girls.

• Yao Tianrong prepared to leave, ashamed of his past treatment of Yi Chen, while Yao Rui worried that their conflict would remain unresolved.
• Donghuang Ziyou explained that Yao Tianrong was struggling to face his past, and Lin Xuan offered to help change his mind.
• Lin Xuan asked Yao Tianrong whether his pride mattered more than his love for Yao Rui, prompting Yao Tianrong to reconsider his actions.
• Yao Tianrong set aside his prejudice, approached Yi Chen, and promised to protect Yao Rui together with him; Yi Chen and Yao Rui thanked Lin Xuan.
• Yi Chen completed the assessment under the academy’s rules and became a legitimate student of Divine Martial Academy.
• Donghuang Ziyou discovered shortcomings in Divine Martial Academy’s systems, had its rules and regulations improved, and then left with Lin Xuan, Xuanzhu, and her sisters.

Lin Xuan and Donghuang Ziyou stopped in a forest so he could make barbecue for their daughters, then discovered a hot spring and took the girls for a soak. Donghuang Ziyou watched Lin Xuan enter the spring and nearly lost her composure over his physique.

• Xuanxi persuaded Lin Xuan and Donghuang Ziyou to celebrate the Divine Martial Academy's opening with an outdoor barbecue, and Donghuang Ziyou caught snow rabbits for the meal.
• Lin Xuan roasted the rabbits, and the family enjoyed the barbecue together in the forest.
• A loud crash led the family to a nearby hill, where they discovered a warm hot spring behind it.
• Lin Xuan lowered the four girls into the shallow spring, then crossed to the opposite bank to change and enter the water.
• Donghuang Ziyou saw Lin Xuan's muscular upper body through the mist and felt flustered as the girls urged her to join them.

Donghuang Ziyou joined Lin Xuan and their four daughters in the hot spring, unaware that Lin Xuan could see through her concealment. Back at the Crystal Palace, Lin Xuan began teaching the girls an essay about lotuses.

• Donghuang Ziyou set up protective and illusion formations, then entered the hot spring with Lin Xuan and the girls.
• Lin Xuan secretly saw through Donghuang Ziyou's concealment but pretended not to notice as the family enjoyed the spring until sunset.
• After everyone dressed, the family boarded the Mystic Ice Jade Carriage and returned to Northern Profound Heaven.
• The next morning, Xuanzhu and her sisters went to class after playing in the garden.
• Lin Xuan wrote “On the Love of Lotuses” on the blackboard and began the lesson.

Lin Xuan taught Xuanzhu and her sisters to make descriptive sentences, earning the Ultimate Sacred Book system reward and gaining knowledge of the universe. After the lesson, Mu Youqing brought him a Devil Race pill and asked whether humans could safely take it.

• Lin Xuan helped Xuanzhu, Xuanyou, Xuanxi, and Xuanhan recite “On the Love of Lotuses” and taught them basic sentence-making.
• Xuanyou, Xuanzhu, Xuanxi, and Xuanhan each made a sentence, and Lin Xuan praised them and embraced them.
• The system rewarded Lin Xuan with the Ultimate Sacred Book, which he claimed and absorbed into his mind.
• Mu Youqing asked Lin Xuan about a lower-grade Saint-tier pill given to her by royal descendants of the Ten Thousand Devil Kingdom and the Lifeless Kingdom.
• Lin Xuan identified it as a Heavenly Soul Golden Aperture Pill and explained that it could corrode human cultivators’ souls because it strengthened Devil Race souls.

Lin Xuan improved Mu Youqing’s pill, helping her rapidly advance her cultivation, and then set out with her and the girls for the Devil Path Prodigy Tournament. Their journey paused at Moye Kingdom, where Devil Lord Moye welcomed them and introduced his daughter, who would compete in the tournament.

• Lin Xuan refined Mu Youqing’s Heavenly Soul Golden Aperture Pill into a top-grade Saint-tier pill, and she swallowed it, opening a hundred apertures and breaking through to the Emperor Realm and quasi-Saint realm.
• Mu Youqing told Lin Xuan about the Devil Path Prodigy Tournament at the Myriad Devils Arena, and he agreed to take the girls to watch.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward the Heavenly Devil Realm in the Green-Winged Flying Bird Jade Carriage, but Devil Lord Moye stopped them and invited them to visit Moye Kingdom.
• Lin Xuan accepted Devil Lord Moye’s invitation and learned that the Devil Lord planned to attend the tournament to support his daughter’s bid for a place on the Azure Flood Dragon List.
• Lin Xuan and Mu Youqing brought the girls to the main hall, where Devil Lord Moye’s purple-haired, purple-eyed daughter approached them.

Lin Xuan identified Ning Mi’s hidden Profound Lightning Devil Body and explained how she could unlock her potential before the Prodigy Convention. At Moye Devil Palace, Devil Lord Moye then presented a new Heavenly Turtle Devil Crystal and summoned four master artisans to carve a replacement statue of Devil God Feng Lian.

• Devil Lord Moye asked Lin Xuan to assess Ning Mi, and Lin Xuan recognized that her Purple Charm Heart Sutra had reached the seventh level.
• Lin Xuan revealed that Ning Mi possessed an innate Profound Lightning Devil Body and needed to cultivate lightning arts to awaken its power.
• Devil Lord Moye gave Ning Mi a top-grade Heaven-tier lightning cultivation art, and she hurried off to begin cultivating.
• A Devil General brought in a new Heavenly Turtle Devil Crystal, which Lin Xuan explained could be used to protect Moye Kingdom’s fortune.
• The Four Great Devil Artisans arrived, including Master Lu Zhi, and Devil Lord Moye invited Lin Xuan to watch them carve a new statue of Devil God Feng Lian.

Lu Zhi and three devil craftsmen began carving a new statue of the Wind Integrity Devil God from Heavenly Turtle Devil Crystal, but the crystal resisted their attempt to carve its face. Heng Jingtian arrived and declared that they could not carve the statue, leaving the reason for the resistance unresolved.

• Devil Lord Moye provided a portrait and the damaged original statue as references while Lu Zhi and three craftsmen shaped the Heavenly Turtle Devil Crystal into a rough blank.
• Lin Xuan explained the carving process and how the spirit stone's spirituality could merge with the Moye Kingdom's fortune.
• Lu Zhi tried to carve the Wind Integrity Devil God's eye socket, but the crystal struck back and sent him flying.
• Lu Zhi suspected he had carved the facial features in the wrong order and prepared to try again.
• Heng Jingtian entered, told the craftsmen to step back, and greeted Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven.

Heng Jingtian failed to finish carving the Wind Lian Demon God statue because its power overwhelmed him, so Lin Xuan stepped in and completed it in less than three breaths. The chapter ended with the craftsmen and Devil Lord Moye stunned by Lin Xuan’s speed and skill.

• Heng Jingtian explained that Lu Zhi and the other craftsmen could only carve the statue’s rough blank, then began carving the Heavenly Turtle Demon Crystal with his Nine Dragons Demon Carving Knife.
• Lin Xuan explained to Mu Youqing that the statue drew in Moye Kingdom’s fortune and became harder to carve as it took shape, delighting the children with her understanding.
• Heng Jingtian carved about one-third of the statue before its power blasted him away, leaving him injured and unable to continue.
• Lin Xuan said the carver needed exceptional speed as well as skill to withstand the statue’s gathering fortune, and Heng Jingtian and Devil Lord Moye asked him to take over.
• Lin Xuan carved the complete, lifelike statue with a qi sword in less than three breaths, shocking Heng Jingtian, Lu Zhi, and the others.

Lin Xuan astonished the Moye Kingdom’s craftsmen by swiftly carving the Wind Integrity Devil God’s statue, and Ning Mi returned after reaching the Emperor Realm. As they departed for the Heavenly Prodigy Convention, Situ Moxie prepared to ambush Lin Xuan at the Myriad Devils Arena with newly strengthened Nine Heaven-Burial Swords, while a young monk named Duoxin approached his master in the Western Region.

• Lin Xuan carved most of the Wind Integrity Devil God’s statue in three breaths, earning Heng Jingtian and the other craftsmen’s admiration.
• Devil Lord Moye offered to erect a golden statue of Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan declined, and Heng Jingtian’s group finished polishing and coloring the divine statue.
• Ning Mi returned having reached the Emperor Realm and credited Lin Xuan for helping her advance.
• Lin Xuan, Ning Mi, and Devil Lord Moye set out for the Heavenly Prodigy Convention at the Myriad Devils Arena.
• Situ Moxie learned Lin Xuan was headed to the arena and resolved to kill him there with his reforged Nine Heaven-Burial Swords, then target Donghuang Ziyou.
• In the Western Region, Duoxin entered the Spirit-Devouring Hall and told his master that the Heavenly Prodigy Convention was near.

Moon Devil Monk armed Duoxin for the Heavenly Prodigy Convention while secretly planning to sacrifice him for power. At the Myriad Devils Arena, Devil Lord Shaluo wagered his son’s victory against Ningmi on a marriage alliance and territory, and Ningmi urged her father to accept.

• Moon Devil Monk gave Duoxin a Buddhist staff and defensive prayer beads, then told him to find and take the heart of the most fortunate Child of Fortune at the convention.
• After Duoxin left, Moon Devil Monk revealed that he planned to use both Duoxin’s heart and the Child of Fortune’s heart to advance his cultivation.
• Lin Xuan and Mu Youqing arrived at the Myriad Devils Arena with the little treasures, and Devil Lord Moye escorted them to the best viewing pavilion.
• Devil Lord Shaluo introduced his son Gongxi Haolei and proposed that he marry Ningmi if he defeated her, while Moye would also cede Qinghe City.
• Ningmi urged Moye to accept the wager so she could reclaim her mother’s hometown, and Moye countered that Shaluo must yield Lanshi and Shanglin and promise never to invade the Moye Kingdom.

Ningmi advanced through the prodigy gathering and revealed the power of her Mystic Thunder Devil Body, defeating Li Yulei before Gongxi Haolei crushed Huangpu Qi. She faced Gongxi Haolei for the top spot, but his opening attack blasted her backward, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Gongxi Haolei, Li Yulei, Huangpu Qi, and Ningmi advanced through the one-on-one matches to contend for the top three spots.
• Ningmi overwhelmed Li Yulei with her Mystic Thunder Devil Body and knocked him off the arena.
• Gongxi Haolei defeated Huangpu Qi in fewer than thirty moves, convincing the crowd he would win the ranking.
• Gongxi Haolei told Ningmi to surrender, but she attacked him with her Purple Enchanting Sword and True Martial Devil Sword Art.
• Gongxi Haolei's Hundred Blazing Slashes crushed Ningmi's Sword Qi and blasted her more than thirty meters backward.

Ning Mi defeated Gongxi Haolei with a devastating thunder sword and reclaimed Orchidstone City for the Moye Kingdom. After Duoxin recognized her immense fortune and challenged her, his Eight Extremes Demon Fist overwhelmed her strongest attack, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• Ning Mi unleashed a sky-piercing thunder sword that destroyed Gongxi Haolei’s Demon Martial Soul and defeated him.
• Devil Lord Moye celebrated Ning Mi’s victory, credited Lin Xuan’s guidance, and conceded to Devil Lord Shaluo.
• Duoxin arrived at the arena, used the Demonic Lotus Sacred Heart Art to see Ning Mi’s immense fortune, and challenged her.
• Ning Mi attacked Duoxin with her strongest sword technique, but his Eight Extremes Demon Fist shattered her Sword Qi and sent her reeling to the edge of the platform.
• Duoxin invited Ning Mi to continue fighting.

Duoxin tried to seize Ningmi’s fortune by killing her, but Lin Xuan stopped him and learned that Monk Devil Moon had ordered the attack. As Lin Xuan set out to confront Monk Devil Moon, a powerful voice blocked his way.

• Ningmi unleashed her strongest attack, but Duoxin shattered her thunder sword and forced her to her knees.
• Duoxin used his Nether Demon Buddhist Beads to block Devil Lord Moye and reached for Ningmi’s heart, but Lin Xuan’s sword radiance broke through the beads and struck him down.
• Lin Xuan questioned Duoxin, who confessed that Monk Devil Moon had sent him to seize Ningmi’s fortune.
• Mu Youqing urged everyone to keep Duoxin alive so he could lead them to Monk Devil Moon, and Lin Xuan agreed to go after him.
• As Lin Xuan and the others prepared to leave the Ten Thousand Demons Arena, a deep voice declared that Lin Xuan was going nowhere.

Situ Moxie challenged Lin Xuan to avenge Cang Hao, wielding the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords against him. Lin Xuan revealed his Ancient God Realm cultivation, then used the united swords to forge four genuine immortal swords from his daughters’ Quasi-Immortal Swords.

• Situ Moxie arrived at the Myriad Devils Arena and declared that he could kill Lin Xuan.
• Situ Moxie attacked Lin Xuan with the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords, but Lin Xuan crushed the first sword’s Sword Qi with his bare hand.
• Situ Moxie sent four swords against Lin Xuan, who shattered their Sword Qi with his Ancient God Realm power.
• At Lin Xuan’s urging, Situ Moxie united all nine swords into a giant sword and slashed at him.
• Lin Xuan resisted the giant sword, burned the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords with eight Primordial Fire Spirit Dragons, and directed their remains into his daughters’ four Quasi-Immortal Swords.
• The four swords transformed into genuine immortal swords, astonishing Situ Moxie and the Devil Race members watching.

Lin Xuan forged four Immortal Swords, killed Situ Moxie, and set out to confront Monk Devil Moon. At Devil Mountain, Monk Devil Moon prepared to use Yu Yeying and the Blood Demon Swallows the Moon phenomenon to seize the black moon’s power.

• Lin Xuan collected the four Immortal Swords he had forged from the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords, while the Devil Race crowd praised his skill and cunning.
• Situ Moxie tried to flee, but Lin Xuan caught up with him and killed him with an Immortal Sword.
• Lin Xuan took Xuanzhu and the other little girls with him to Devil Moon Mountain, accompanied by Mu Youqing, Duoxin, and several Devil Race experts.
• Monk Devil Moon brought the captured Yu Yeying to the Spirit-Devouring Hall and activated a seal that made the black moon glow with bloody light.
• Monk Devil Moon revealed that he planned to use Yu Yeying’s Cold Moon Devil Body to form a soul contract with the Blood Demon and control the black moon’s power.