Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan mastered the True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms, broke through the Third Limit, and formed his inner landscape as his body transformed into a Pure Yang physique. After surveying the new realm within himself, he realized the star tracks connecting it to the Martial Firmament were manifestations of his meridians.

• Meng Chuan’s Demon-Subduing Momentum surged through his cultivation chamber as the True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms reached Mastery, and onlookers gathered outside.
• Meng Chuan’s blood and qi erupted as he lit all 361 Star Acupoints and broke through the Third Limit, while Chen Qiushui rebuked a Martial Arts Master for disparaging his cultivation method.
• Meng Chuan condensed his towering new body and discovered that his primordial yang had become Pure Yang, with his spiritual roots also growing alongside his physique.
• Meng Chuan opened his inner landscape, where his organs became mountains, rivers, and other features, and his blood formed a river of life.
• Meng Chuan examined the star tracks linking the inner landscape to the Martial Firmament and realized they were manifestations of his meridians.

Meng Chuan completed his third bodily transformation, purging impurities and gaining a major increase in spiritual power and strength. He emerged from seclusion to find Xu Qingfeng and Chu Yanlong praising him, then startled them by revealing he had heard their boasting.

• Meng Chuan examined his 199 Star Veins and the challenge of filling them, then endured the painful expansion of his Sea of Consciousness as his spiritual power grew nearly fivefold.
• Meng Chuan discovered that Dragon Demon No. 2 had awakened a skill that provoked enemies, while his Internal Breath surged and formed vivid Thunder Dragons and an elephant.
• Meng Chuan prepared for the third bodily transformation and began purging impurities from his body with mysterious light and Internal Breath.
• Chen Qiushui and Chongming Yue witnessed the powerful spiritual phenomenon outside Meng Chuan's chamber, and Chongming Yue considered his extraordinary potential.
• Meng Chuan expelled the remaining impurities, felt his strength rise, and emerged from seclusion as Xu Qingfeng and Chu Yanlong bragged about him.

Meng Chuan broke through to the Third Limit, celebrated with his Li Mountain Campus friends, and tested his long-awaited ability to ride clouds and mist. His first flight revealed a vast demonic shadow covering the universe, renewing his resolve to grow strong enough to overturn the threat above the human world.

• Meng Chuan emerged from seclusion as a Martial Arts Master, greeted his instructors and classmates, and agreed to treat them to dinner; Chen Qiushui warned him not to disturb Dong Yue, who was nearing a breakthrough.
• United University announced Meng Chuan's breakthrough, placing him near the top of the Tiangang Ranking; Wu Hong struggled with the news while Shang Ruyi urged him to keep training.
• Meng Chuan tried riding clouds and mist and used his Dao Heart, Martial Momentum, and Cloud Trace Trait to run through the sky, while Xu Qingfeng watched in astonishment.
• Near the edge of the atmosphere, Meng Chuan glimpsed a vast shadow spanning galaxies and realized that the Demon God’s influence over Blue Star was only a tiny part of a cosmic invasion.
• Meng Chuan returned to Li Mountain, resolved to train toward overturning the threat, and broke through to the ninth level of [Dao Heart Demon Seeding]; Xu Qingfeng wondered how Meng Chuan had learned to fly.

Meng Chuan broke through to the Third Limit, discovered that Dao Heart still drained much of his cultivated Qi and Blood, and prepared to travel to Central Jin City for national missions and to hunt Fang Jianxing. Before leaving, he received a valuable Foundation Establishment method from Xu Qingfeng and assured Grandmaster Chen that he would only watch the Taihang battlefield from a safe distance.

• Meng Chuan broke through the eighth level of Dao Heart Demon-Seeding and entered the Third Limit, then spent the night cultivating and calculated how much Qi and Blood Dao Heart consumed.
• Meng Chuan practiced his boxing, advanced Dragon King Stirs the Sea, and assessed how his Third Limit breakthrough had improved his cultivation speed.
• Meng Chuan ate with Xu Qingfeng and Chu Yanlong, promised to take them on a Demon Nest mission when he returned, and learned that True Person Qi had left him a Qi Refining Method.
• Meng Chuan recognized the Foundation Establishment Great Method as a Daoist technique that could improve his chances of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, and left Xu Qingfeng notes on the Qi-Gazing Technique.
• Meng Chuan told Grandmaster Chen he was traveling to Central Jin City for national missions; she warned him to stay away from Taihang Mountain, and he agreed to watch from the foot of the mountain.

Meng Chuan agreed to apply for senior teaching titles so he could establish a subsidized Five Elements Research Lab, then traveled to Central Jin City to prepare for his mission against Fang Jianxing. As he waited for Luo Guanyun, Meng Chuan began cultivating his newly formed star veins, while Fang Jianxing approached from the Qinling Mountains.

• Chen Qiushui told Meng Chuan that Grandmaster Class students could now apply for teaching-title assessments without graduating, and he decided to apply for senior titles in fist techniques and Horizontal Training.
• Chen Qiushui warned Meng Chuan not to underestimate his opponents at the upcoming Morning Dawn Martial Exercise, and Meng Chuan promised to focus on the competition and use his remaining Image-Recording Stone if needed.
• Meng Chuan left United University for Central Jin City, called his master, and searched the city with his Chan sense while waiting for Luo Guanyun.
• Fang Jianxing traveled through the Qinling Mountains, reconsidering Luo Guanyun's movements and suspecting Meng Chuan possessed a great secret.
• Meng Chuan checked into a hotel near Bestowing Longevity Temple and began cultivating his 199 star veins to strengthen his Martial Arts Master realm.

Meng Chuan went to Bestowing Longevity Temple to retrieve the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant, but learned that Shaolin and the temple were moving ritual implements for their own plan. After Abbot Guyue avoided meeting him, Meng Chuan confronted Overseer Chenxin and demanded that Kai Zhang join him at the banquet.

• Meng Chuan decided to visit Bestowing Longevity Temple and ask Abbot Guyue for the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant, resorting to force if necessary.
• Meng Chuan entered the temple and learned from the gatekeeper that Shaolin and Bestowing Longevity Temple were moving Dharma artifacts to address Demonic Infection.
• Chenxin and Abbot Guyue identified Meng Chuan and planned to send him away by claiming the ritual artifact was unavailable; Guyue then withdrew while Chenxin received him.
• Chenxin sensed Meng Chuan's formidable hidden aura and tried to buy time so Kai Zhang could leave the side room unnoticed.
• Meng Chuan saw through Chenxin's delay and insisted that Kai Zhang come out and join him for the vegetarian banquet.

Meng Chuan confronted Abbot Guyue and Supervisor Chenxin over the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant, overpowering them and exposing their secret dealings with Shaolin. He forced Chenxin to fetch the pendant while the Dragon Demon stood guard, and offered to overlook their covert plans if they stopped deceiving him.

• Meng Chuan demanded the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant, but Chenxin claimed it had been loaned out and Guyue challenged Meng Chuan’s right to it.
• Guyue suppressed the table with his aura, but Meng Chuan remained unaffected, ripped the table from the floor, and overpowered Guyue with Qianyuan Thunder Movement.
• Meng Chuan restrained Chenxin with Spleen Earth qi and insisted that the Dragon-Subduing Venerable had given him the pendant, while Guyue denied that it was in the temple.
• Meng Chuan revealed that Shaolin monks beneath the Sutra Repository had left their bodies to enter the Dharma Realm, then threatened to carry out his national mission unless the monks brought him the pendant.
• Chenxin agreed to fetch the pendant, and Meng Chuan summoned the Dragon Demon to accompany him and ensure the monks did not play tricks.
• Meng Chuan offered to overlook the monks’ secret dealings with Shaolin if they stopped deceiving him, and Chenxin asked whether he meant it.

Meng Chuan took the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant from Bestowing Longevity Temple, sent Abbot Guyue and Chenxin into the Dharma Realm, and received a Bodhi Lotus Heart before leaving. At Taihang Mountain, Yin Tianshou and the assembled martial arts leaders prepared for their final pre-battle conference, where they learned Sage Sui would preside.

• Meng Chuan realized Shaolin had come to use Bestowing Longevity Temple’s core object of faith for its own plan, then inspected and claimed the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant.
• Meng Chuan used the pendant to send Abbot Guyue and Chenxin into the Dharma Realm, where they met the Dragon-Subduing Venerable before returning.
• Abbot Guyue asked Meng Chuan how to stop the Martial Shrine reforms, but Meng Chuan urged him to cooperate and accepted a century-old Bodhi Lotus Heart.
• Abbot Guyue ordered Bestowing Longevity Temple to keep supplying Cloud Water Pills to the Shaolin group until they emerged from the Dharma Realm.
• At Taihang Mountain, Yin Tianshou joined the martial arts leaders heading to the final pre-battle conference, and Hong Cheng revealed that Sage Sui would host it.
• Yin Tianshou learned that Meng Chuan had reportedly reached the third level, prompting the others to wonder how such a young martial artist had advanced so far.

At a meeting for the Grand Luotian Rite, Yin Tianshou questioned Sui Chunqiu about the Great Sun Dao and learned that Zhao Linyuan would attend. Meanwhile, Meng Chuan prepared Fallen Phoenix Mountain as a trap for Fang Jianxing, who sensed the danger, fled underground, and struggled to contain his demonic thoughts.

• Sui Chunqiu arrived at the command center and presided over the Grand Luotian Rite meeting, suppressing Yin Tianshou's Torch Dragon Karma Fire with his Great Sun Dao.
• Yin Tianshou asked Sui Chunqiu how later fire cultivators could achieve Transcendence, and Sui Chunqiu said the Great Dao had no master and that he would yield if someone surpassed him.
• Cheng Miaochang asked whether Zhao Linyuan had broken through Eight, and Sui Chunqiu replied that he did not know but that Zhao would come.
• Sui Chunqiu noticed Meng Chuan on his way to a South Sea gathering and considered teaching him Great Sun Burning Heaven after the Grand Rite.
• Meng Chuan spread aura markers across Fallen Phoenix Mountain and transformed their Five Elements Spiritual Essence into a thunderweb when he sensed an intruder.
• Fang Jianxing mistook Meng Chuan's thunderweb for Luo Guanyun's ambush, burrowed underground to escape, and fought off an Inner Demon stirred by his jealousy and resentment.

Fang Jianxing fled toward Central Jin City while Meng Chuan pursued him, and the city's garrison activated its defenses as the two approached. Meng Chuan revealed his identity and fought Fang Jianxing, but after Fang Jianxing used the Crimson Refinement Banner, Meng Chuan vanished with him into the Dragon-Subduing Venerable's Dharma Realm.

• Fang Jianxing tried to escape Fallen Phoenix Mountain by digging toward Central Jin City, but Meng Chuan struck him from above and chased him through the storm.
• Fang Jianxing used a burst of speed to race toward the city, while Meng Chuan pursued in Golden-White Thunder Armor and closed the distance.
• The acting commander ordered Level One combat readiness, raising the Sky Canopy as the garrison fired railguns and missiles at Fang Jianxing.
• Fang Jianxing recognized Meng Chuan, and the two clashed near the city as Meng Chuan revealed Grandmaster-level power and tried to seize Fang Jianxing's soul.
• Fang Jianxing tricked Meng Chuan by invoking Principal Yin, then hurled the Crimson Refinement Banner as Meng Chuan continued activating the Dragon-Subduing Dharma Realm.
• Fang Jianxing's soul vanished and his body remained inside a red barrier, while Meng Chuan disappeared; Commander Dai and the monks waited for help and wondered where he had gone.

Meng Chuan escaped the magma pool inside Fang Jianxing’s banner and entered a Purgatory-like realm, where he learned that a young Chosen One named Burning Steel controlled the territory. After a three-headed dragon emerged from the ground, Meng Chuan saw a dragon-headed giant riding atop it and realized he faced the realm’s likely master.

• Meng Chuan used Demon Seeding True Qi to tear a rift through the magma and entered the strange realm after losing contact with the Dragon Demon.
• Meng Chuan reestablished his mental connection to the Dragon Demon and sent it to scout the sulfurous wasteland for an exit.
• The Dragon Demon encountered a hui, which claimed that the realm belonged to Burning Steel and described him as a young Chosen One favored by the Purgatory Divine Lord.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that Fang Jianxing had brought him into Burning Steel’s territory and decided to follow the hui while concealing his strength.
• A three-headed vermilion dragon burst from a fissure, and the Dragon Demon swallowed the hui as a dragon-headed giant appeared on the dragon’s back.

Meng Chuan ambushed Burning Steel inside the Crimson Refinement Banner with Dragon Demon’s poison and a Star-Destroying spear strike, badly injuring the Purgatory God-chosen. Burning Steel survived by shedding its damaged body and revealed a more fearsome form as Meng Chuan pressed the attack.

• Burning Steel mistook the disguised Dragon Demon for a rare dragon and offered it a place among its generals, while Meng Chuan approached unseen to launch an ambush.
• Fang Jianxing realized he was trapped in an Immortal Buddha Dharma Realm, then faced a monk who burst from an Arhat statue and attacked with Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand.
• Sakura waited in the Island Country as Luo Guanyun confronted her for the incomplete Dao Heart Demon Seeding chapter, and their powers clashed.
• Grandmaster Lian arrived outside Central Jin City and learned that Meng Chuan had vanished into the Crimson Refinement Banner.
• Meng Chuan used Dragon Demon’s Deconstructing Divine Poison and his Star-Destroying spear strike to blast Burning Steel, then dodged the magma and three-headed dragon assault.
• Meng Chuan saw that Burning Steel had lost an arm and much of its strength, but Burning Steel shed its ruined skin and transformed into a larger, more savage bone dragon form.

Meng Chuan fought Burning Steel to a standstill, while Dragon-Subduing Arhat battled Fang Jianxing in the Dragon-Subduing Dharma Realm. The Arhat wounded Fang Jianxing and bought time, but Fang Jianxing’s demonic formation fatally pierced him, and the Arhat vanished with the White Jade Pillar.

• Meng Chuan discovered that Burning Steel’s Explosive Flame could cancel his Demon Seeding True Qi and burn his soul, then fought him at close quarters while healing with treasure pills.
• Meng Chuan knocked Burning Steel’s bone sword away and destroyed his three-headed Fire Dragon, but Burning Steel turned into molten flame and escaped through a fissure.
• Dragon-Subduing Arhat attacked Fang Jianxing with the Sky-Piercing White Jade Pillar, taunted him, and battered him until he knocked out several of Fang Jianxing’s teeth.
• Fang Jianxing activated the Dharma Devouring Wraiths formation, and a hidden illusory figure pierced Dragon-Subduing Arhat’s chest as he prepared to strike.
• Dragon-Subduing Arhat spent his last magic power in a final prayer and vanished with the White Jade Pillar, while Fang Jianxing spat at the place where he had disappeared.

Fang Jianxing remained trapped beneath the Scarlet Fire Wheel Barrier while the others discussed Meng Chuan’s fate. In Island Country, Luo Guanyun fought Sakura’s white serpent, accidentally witnessed the Eight-Branched Demon Serpent’s arrival, and fled into a fissure as the colossal demon pursued him toward an abyss that offered his only chance of survival.

• Fang Jianxing escaped the Arhat’s Dharma realm but remained trapped inside the Scarlet Fire Wheel Barrier, and he convinced himself that Burning Steel was still defeating Meng Chuan.
• Luo Guanyun battered Sakura’s white serpent with thunder until it appeared dead, but an enormous Eight-Branched Demon Serpent emerged from beneath Rich Persimmon Mountain.
• The Eight-Branched Demon Serpent devoured Sakura’s discarded shell and demolished Rich Persimmon Mountain while Luo Guanyun fled and narrowly survived its attacks.
• Luo Guanyun spotted a strange fluctuation in the fissure where the demon had emerged and leapt inside to escape its bombardment.
• The serpent pursued Luo Guanyun through the underground passage, crushing his spine and driving him toward an abyss he recognized as his last chance to live.

Luo Guanyun escaped the Eight-Branched Demon Serpent by leaping through a Temple altar’s spatial rift into the Cosmic Realm, leaving the serpent loose in the human world. Inside the Crimson Refinement Banner, Meng Chuan fought Burning Steel and awakened a rudimentary Yin-Yang Imagery Realm that began draining his opponent’s vitality.

• Luo Guanyun fled the Eight-Branched Demon Serpent, found the hidden Temple altar, and entered its spatial rift to seek survival in the Cosmic Realm.
• The Eight-Branched Demon Serpent failed to catch Luo Guanyun, destroyed the altar, and began feasting on a distant town.
• Meng Chuan pursued Burning Steel through the Crimson Refinement Banner and interrupted its attempt to summon the Purgatory Divine Lord.
• Meng Chuan attacked Burning Steel, but its Soul Devouring Divine Power used nearby souls to heal its wounds while both fighters neared their limits.
• Meng Chuan formed a rudimentary Yin-Yang Imagery Realm and used Star-Destroying to trap Burning Steel in a black-line net that steadily drained its vitality.

Meng Chuan killed Burning Steel and Fang Jianxing, avenged the people of Tong Family Alley, and advanced his mental power to the Amber Foundation. After discovering a startling secret in Fang Jianxing’s memories, he planned to investigate Yin Tianshou; the chapter ended with Central Jin’s officials assembling for a briefing.

• Meng Chuan devoured Burning Steel’s soul, formed the Amber Foundation, and escaped the collapsing dimension with Burning Steel’s bone sword.
• Meng Chuan ambushed Fang Jianxing as he emerged, captured him, and learned Fang Jianxing suspected Yin Tianshou had coveted the Thunder Method.
• Meng Chuan executed Fang Jianxing for the slaughter in Tong Family Alley, took his head for Sister Ru’s tomb, and absorbed his soul.
• Meng Chuan recovered Fang Jianxing’s memories, including two incomplete sections of Dao Heart Demon Seeding and an astonishing secret about Yin Tianshou.
• The next morning, Central Jin’s garrison, Police Station, and Martial Association representatives gathered in the strategic planning room.

After learning that Luo Guanyun had disappeared in Hell following a battle with the Eight-Branched Demon Serpent, Meng Chuan worried for his master and speculated about the link between Dao Heart Demon Seeding and the gods of Hell. He reported Fang Jianxing’s death to Central Jin City, then planned to return to Yong’an and investigate Principal Yin’s office while preparing to tell Ren Ping the truth about Luo Guanyun.

• Central Jin City officials identified Fang Jianxing as the criminal behind three aliases and prepared to honor Meng Chuan for killing him.
• Kamiizumi Shinji told Meng Chuan that Luo Guanyun had vanished after the Eight-Branched Demon Serpent attacked Jinggang, though he believed Luo might have escaped into Purgatory.
• Meng Chuan connected the nine chapters of Dao Heart Demon Seeding with the nine Subgods beneath Hell’s vanished Demon God of Destruction and wondered whether the completed art could grant the authority of Destruction.
• At the Garrison’s post-battle meeting, Meng Chuan agreed that Central Jin City could receive credit for helping keep Fang Jianxing outside the city.
• Meng Chuan decided to return to Yong’an, tell Ren Ping about Luo Guanyun’s disappearance, and investigate Yin Tianshou’s Fire Dragon Cave because Fang Jianxing had suspected that Yin was a Candle Dragon from the Dragon Kingdom.
• Meng Chuan planned to study Fang Jianxing’s remaining possessions and later infiltrate Yong’an Martial Arts University during the Taihang Grand Ritual.

Meng Chuan confirmed Dragon-Subduing Arhat had dissipated, then returned home and told Ren Ping that Luo Guanyun was missing in the Heavenly Demon's world, promising to bring him back. He examined his gains from Fang Jianxing and discovered the contents of a box marked with Emei Special Grade Martial University's emblem.

• Meng Chuan found Dragon-Subduing Arhat's Bright Venerable Dragon Claw Hand manual and committed it to memory, then claimed the Dharma Realm.
• In Purgatory, wounded Luo Guanyun took out the incomplete Dao Heart Demon Seeding text and prepared to make a choice against his ancestors.
• Meng Chuan returned to Yong'an, told Ren Ping that Luo Guanyun had gone missing in the Heavenly Demon's world, and vowed to rescue him.
• Meng Chuan checked Elephant God's condition, found that Fang Jianxing's soul had strengthened his Amber Foundation, and saw that the Dragon Demon was recovering.
• Meng Chuan examined Fang Jianxing's Magic Mirror, broke its storage-space lock, and sorted its contents, keeping and purifying three healing pills with Azure Flame.
• Meng Chuan opened a small peony-decorated box bearing the emblem of Emei Special Grade Martial University.

Meng Chuan discovered the Magic Mirror’s scouting and storage abilities, then entered the Crimson Refinement Banner and found that its demonic qi greatly accelerated his Dao Heart Demon Seeding cultivation. He left the banner with a major increase in vitality and blood, while the Purgatory Divine Lord remained dormant in the Demon Nest of Bashu.

• Meng Chuan kept the Dragon-Pattern Three Treasures Precious Pill he had found among Fang Jianxing’s belongings, planning to use it when Blood Hard Qigong approached its limit.
• Meng Chuan connected the Magic Mirror to his mental power, used it to scout Li Mountain, and confirmed it could not see places protected by the aura of stronger experts.
• Meng Chuan transferred his belongings into the Magic Mirror and examined the Crimson Refinement Banner, learning it had belonged to Burning Steel and could accelerate cultivation.
• Meng Chuan entered the Crimson Refinement Banner and cultivated Dao Heart Demon Seeding with its demonic qi, gaining at least sixty or seventy points of vitality and blood in six hours.
• The Purgatory Divine Lord remained dormant in the Demon Nest of Bashu, unable to reach the human world while humanity remained too weak.

Fury discovered that Fang Jianxing and Burning Steel had fallen and sent two Demonic Beasts to search for the Crimson Refinement Banner, while his true body announced a new Purgatory God's Chosen and reopened the passage to the Dragon Kingdom. Meng Chuan comprehended yin-yang martial arts and advanced his fist technique, Luo Meng reached Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and learned Luo Guanyun was missing, and Meng Chuan declined an invitation to the battle at Taihang.

• Fury failed to find Fang Jianxing or the Crimson Refinement Banner, sensed that Burning Steel's soul imprint remained, and sent two fourth-tier Demonic Beasts to search for the banner.
• Fury announced that he would reopen the passage to the Dragon Kingdom and select a new Purgatory God's Chosen, prompting Luo Guanyun to consider waiting for a passage back to Blue Star.
• Meng Chuan saw yin energy in the cemetery, formed a deathly Martial Momentum, strengthened his yin-yang Inner Scenery Land, and advanced the True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms to Middle Realm · Soul Tempering.
• Luo Meng achieved Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, learned from Ren Ping that Luo Guanyun was missing, and resolved to seek greater resources and authority at the Infinite Martial Arts Hall.
• Meng Chuan stayed home to cultivate and declined Liaochen and Liaohai's invitation to join the battle at Taihang.