Chapter Summaries

Lin Taixu arrived above North Spirit City while fleeing a horde of demon beasts and four Spirit Devouring Beasts, then spotted Wei Suo and the others protecting the ancient Teleportation Array. As cultivators continued escaping through the array, Wei Suo sensed Lin Taixu’s attack and prepared to leave, but Lin Taixu plunged toward them and fired two torrents of light.

• Lin Taixu flew toward North Spirit City with a black cloud of demon beasts and four Spirit Devouring Beasts pursuing him.
• Lin Taixu saw thousands of cultivators fighting to defend North Spirit City and concealed himself in white vapor as he approached.
• Wei Suo, Shui Ling'er, Ji Ya, Han Weiwei, and their allies escorted cultivators through the ancient Teleportation Array while fighting off the Beast Tide.
• Wei Suo selected each departing group and urged them to carry demon beast corpses, while Shui Ling'er repeatedly activated Guardian Ancient Talismans to protect them.
• Lin Taixu recognized the blazing defenses above the array and smiled coldly, while Wei Suo sensed his arrival and ordered Ji Ya and the others to leave.
• Lin Taixu plunged toward the ancient Teleportation Array and fired two torrents of light at it.

Lin Taixu arrived at North Spirit City and attacked the ancient Teleportation Array while Wei Suo and the others tried to escape. Ji Ya and the others were teleported to Cloud Spirit Continent, but Lin Taixu blasted Wei Suo out of the array before it was destroyed, leaving him behind as a giant demon beast crushed the Black Nether Bone Lords.

• Lin Taixu swept through the demon beasts toward the ancient Teleportation Array, and Wei Suo hurriedly brought Han Tianmo and Chen Anyuan onto it as Ji Ya ordered the array activated.
• Lin Taixu’s attack shattered the Refined Gold Giant Crocodile and overwhelmed the defenders’ attacks, while the two Black Nether Bone Lords’ strike failed to slow him.
• Lin Taixu pointed at the array and struck Wei Suo with a mysterious azure ripple just as the array teleported Ji Ya and the others away.
• Lin Taixu left the array as a giant demon beast descended, destroying the array and crushing both Black Nether Bone Lords while Wei Suo remained behind.

Wei Suo escaped North Spirit City hidden inside a Purple Flame Giant Beetle, but his injuries left him unconscious and near death. He awoke in the beetle’s corpse amid the ruins of another city, unable to move and separated from his Heart Devouring Worms.

• Wei Suo had the Heart Devouring Worms guide the Purple Flame Giant Beetle through a gap in the demon beast blockade and out of North Spirit City.
• The True Demon Sealing Body Technique collapsed, and Wei Suo used True Essence to take a pill and medicinal liquid despite risking detection.
• Wei Suo lost consciousness as the Purple Flame Giant Beetle carried him away, while nearby demon beasts sensed his True Essence and then retreated.
• Wei Suo woke inside the dead Purple Flame Giant Beetle and found that his injuries had left him unable to move, though he could slowly refine the medicine within him.
• Wei Suo sensed that the Heart Devouring Worms were alive but too far away to control, then discovered he was in the ruins of a city.

Severely injured, Wei Suo was rescued from two scavenger otters by Shopkeeper Kong and Liu Cheng, whom he met in a hidden chamber near Guanshan City. He learned that Gukuang City, North Spirit City, and Qingluo City had all been destroyed by the Beast Tide, and wondered what had become of the demonic beasts.

• After killing three scavenger otters, Wei Suo's injuries worsened until he could barely move, and two more scavenger otters approached him.
• Shopkeeper Kong and Liu Cheng arrived, killed the scavenger otters, and carried Wei Suo into a concealed underground chamber.
• Wei Suo introduced himself as Ji Li and learned that the rescuers had fled Gukuang City after the Beast Tide destroyed it.
• Shopkeeper Kong explained that he, Liu Cheng, and Shopkeeper Qian had survived underground using a formation that disguised their hiding place as a refined-metal vein.
• After escaping toward Qingluo City, Shopkeeper Kong and Liu Cheng found it destroyed and empty, prompting Wei Suo to question where the Beast Tide had gone.

Wei Suo learned that the Beast Tide had devastated the region and that Guanshan City had already been searched, leaving his group with few supplies and little protection. He agreed to travel with Shopkeeper Kong, Shopkeeper Qian, and Zhang Nian toward True Nether City, where his Heart Devouring Worm seemed to be located.

• Shopkeeper Kong told Wei Suo that demon beasts still came from the Sky Vault Rift and explained how Shopkeeper Qian’s Gold Spirit Bees warned of approaching threats.
• Wei Suo recounted escaping North Spirit City inside a Purple Flame Giant Beetle after a terrifying demon beast destroyed the ancient Teleportation Array.
• Wei Suo and Shopkeeper Kong discovered that neither of their groups had collected the demon cores and materials in Guanshan City, and Shopkeeper Kong said they had seen almost no survivors during their journey.
• Shopkeeper Qian and Zhang Nian returned after killing two Wolf-headed Bats and reported that Guanshan City had been thoroughly looted and a high-level demon beast lingered to the east.
• Shopkeeper Kong explained that their formation had materials for only one more setup, so Shopkeeper Qian proposed they travel to True Nether City before his Gold Spirit Bees died.
• Wei Suo agreed to go toward True Nether City, sensing his Heart Devouring Worm in that direction, and said the others would need to carry him because his injuries prevented him from casting spells.

Wei Suo and the others reached the ruined True Nether City, where he shared magic treasures and pills with the group. As they searched the silent ruins, Wei Suo sensed approaching cultivators and left the group facing an unknown encounter.

• Liu Cheng carried Wei Suo as the group traveled from their shelter toward True Nether City, guided by Shopkeeper Qian’s Golden Spirit Bees.
• The group saw that True Nether City had been devastated by the Beast Tide, with fires still smoldering and no visible survivors.
• Wei Suo gave Shopkeeper Qian four magic treasures and a pouch of True Qi Replenishing Pills after his injuries had improved enough for him to move freely.
• Shopkeeper Qian’s bees detected no high-level demonic beasts, so the group entered the ruined city and found scattered remains but no demonic beast corpses.
• Wei Suo stopped the group to wait for his Heart Devouring Worm, then sensed that multiple cultivators were nearby.

Wei Suo and the Gukuang City survivors found cultivators in True Nether City and reunited with Shopkeeper Zhang, who confirmed that Lingxi City and many other cities had fallen to the beast tide. The group reached a shelter inside a slain giant turtle shell, where Wei Suo spotted an injured cultivator and a strikingly pretty woman in yellow robes.

• Wei Suo led Shopkeeper Qian, Shopkeeper Kong, Zhang Nian, and Liu Cheng toward distant cultivators, using his Heart Devouring Worm to draw their attention.
• Shopkeeper Qian and Shopkeeper Kong recognized the other party as Shopkeeper Zhang, and the survivors greeted one another with relief.
• Wei Suo's group met Shopkeeper Zhang, Zhou Yu of Ancient Sword Sect, and five young shop clerks, then learned that Lingxi City and other cities had been destroyed by the beast tide.
• Shopkeeper Zhang's group explained how they had survived and led Wei Suo's party to their hidden shelter in the hollowed-out shell of a slain Crimson Rock Giant Turtle.
• Inside the shell, Wei Suo saw the four other survivors, including a pretty female cultivator in yellow robes and a cultivator lying gravely injured.

Wei Suo recovered his sealed cultivation while resting in the enormous turtle shell after learning that a Spirit Devouring Beast had consumed cultivators and spirit stones in True Nether City. His Golden Core re-formed, restoring him to the Golden Core Fourth Layer.

• Du Wei and the other survivors gave Wei Suo damaged Treasure Pouches and explained that True Nether City had yielded few spirit stones or medicinal pills.
• Wei Suo identified a Spirit Devouring Beast as the likely cause and explained how it consumed cultivators, spirit stones, and Golden Cores.
• The survivors gifted Wei Suo more than twenty water-elemental Demonic Cores, while Shopkeeper Zhang and the others left to collect supplies in the valley behind the city.
• Wei Suo remained in the turtle shell to heal as the apertures sealed by the Hidden Dragon Spits Pearl Art began reopening.
• Wei Suo's apertures opened, and his body drew True Essence into the vital energy needed to form his Golden Core again.
• Wei Suo's Golden Core re-formed, restoring his cultivation to the Golden Core Fourth Layer.

Wei Suo recovered enough to emerge from hiding with Du Wei and the others when a group of East Desolation Sect cultivators arrived on Phoenix Scale Green Eagles. The group appeared powerful and demanded the survivors’ Treasure Pouches, leaving the encounter poised to turn hostile.

• Wei Suo’s Golden Core nourished his body, and he estimated that he would recover enough to use True Essence extensively in about a day and a half.
• Strange cries drew near, and Wei Suo and the others heard cultivators discussing a Crimson Rock Giant Turtle shell above their hiding place.
• Du Wei led the group outside while Xiao Lin stayed behind to care for Yang Feng, and they saw twelve Phoenix Scale Green Eagles carrying cultivators.
• Du Wei recognized the birds and asked whether the newcomers belonged to the East Desolation Sect and whether the beast tide was under control.
• The leading cultivator asked whether the survivors had collected belongings from the city, and Du Wei admitted they had taken some cultivators’ belongings but moved the demonic beast corpses.
• An arrogant young East Desolation Sect cultivator ordered Wei Suo and the others to hand over all their Treasure Pouches.

Wei Suo and the surviving cultivators faced an East Desolation Sect group intent on taking their Treasure Pouches, while Wei Suo waited for a chance to use his Heart Devouring Worms. After the green-robed youth easily defeated Zhou Yuge and threatened to kill him, someone interrupted by saying they had no Treasure Pouch to hand over.

• The East Desolation Sect cultivators demanded the survivors’ Treasure Pouches, and their leader warned that demonic beasts over a vast region would kill anyone who resisted.
• Du Wei and Xia Yubing challenged the sect’s demands, while Wei Suo considered using his Heart Devouring Worms once the Phoenix Scale Green Eagles came within reach.
• Zhou Yuge challenged the green-robed youth, who destroyed Zhou Yuge’s flying sword and knocked him down with his magic treasures.
• Xia Yubing offered to hand over the Treasure Pouches to stop the youth from killing Zhou Yuge.
• An unseen speaker interrupted the confrontation, asking how they were supposed to hand over a Treasure Pouch when they had none.

Wei Suo confronted Fang Huayu and the East Desolation Sect cultivators after they demanded his Treasure Pouch and ordered him to pick deadly fruit. He offered Fang Huayu a chance to apologize, but when Fang Huayu chose to attack, Wei Suo's hidden Heart Devouring Worm killed him.

• Xiao Lin left the turtle shell to stand with Wei Suo and the others as the East Desolation Sect cultivators confronted them.
• Wei Suo handed Fang Huayu his Ancient Storage Ring, but Fang Huayu then ordered him to pick fruit from the deadly tree or die.
• Wei Suo warned Fang Huayu that he could kill the group and offered to spare him if he apologized.
• Fang Huayu rejected the offer and urged the moon-white-robed young man to kill Wei Suo and take his treasures.
• Wei Suo's Heart Devouring Worm struck Fang Huayu, killing him before his magic treasures could attack.

Wei Suo effortlessly slaughtered the East Desolation Sect cultivators who had attacked him, using overwhelming spiritual sense, controlled Phoenix Scale Green Eagles, and his physical strength. He spared the wounded leader and ordered Du Wei and the others to search the survivors for valuables before questioning him.

• Wei Suo killed Fang Huayu and another East Desolation Sect cultivator with invisible spiritual attacks, while the Phoenix Scale Green Eagles turned on their riders and blasted the young man in moon-white robes.
• The East Desolation Sect cultivators panicked and attacked Wei Suo, but he evaded their spells and killed more of them with his hidden abilities.
• A cultivator in black-red robes struck Wei Suo with silver claws, which shattered against his body, and Wei Suo killed him with a flick of his finger.
• The last East Desolation Sect cultivator surrendered, and Wei Suo ordered him to bring over the wounded young man in moon-white robes.
• Wei Suo dismissed the wounded leader’s demand to learn his identity, told him to answer questions if he wanted a chance to live, and asked Du Wei and the others to collect the sect members’ belongings.

Wei Suo forced an East Desolation Sect cultivator to retrieve two dangerous red fruits, then questioned another about the sect and its knowledge of the crisis. After revealing his identity to the returning survivors, he said he planned to visit the East Desolation Sect and meet Lin Taixu again.

• Wei Suo healed the wounded East Desolation Sect cultivator, restrained him with a Heart Devouring Worm, and forced him to collect two red fruits while cutting away the flesh affected by the tree’s poison.
• Wei Suo sealed the remaining East Desolation Sect cultivator’s True Essence and learned that the sect’s mountain gate was at Chicken Cage Mountain and that its Sect Master might know the fruits’ use.
• Shopkeeper Zhang, Shopkeeper Qian, and the others returned and learned that Wei Suo had defeated the East Desolation Sect cultivators.
• Wei Suo revealed his real name and told the group that the northern region of the Tianxuan Continent might already be demon beast territory.
• Wei Suo said he would go to the East Desolation Sect to investigate and admitted that he wanted to see Lin Taixu again.

After recovering from his injuries, Wei Suo searched the ruins of True Nether City and discovered a valley filled with over a hundred thousand demonic beast corpses, which he collected for future use. He refined the remaining Netherworld Heavenly Dragon skeleton and water-elemental Demonic Cores, then examined the Heaven Suppressing Manifestation as he prepared to face Lin Taixu’s formidable power.

• Wei Suo left his hiding place after a day and a half of healing and traveled to the ruins behind True Nether City.
• Wei Suo and the Green Robe Old Man surveyed the devastated remains of the True Nether Sect and found no useful treasures.
• Wei Suo discovered a valley packed with over a hundred thousand demonic beast corpses and stored them in his Treasure Pouches.
• Wei Suo refined the remaining Netherworld Heavenly Dragon skeleton and more than ten water-elemental Demonic Cores, strengthening his cultivation.
• Wei Suo took out the Heaven Suppressing Manifestation, a powerful ancient item, while considering the threat posed by Lin Taixu and his Annihilation Divine Spear.

Wei Suo refined hundreds of water-elemental Demonic Cores and fully activated the Heaven Suppressing Manifestation, discovering its immense power and the severe True Essence cost. With the Water Candle Demon Demonic Core able to replenish him during battle, he set out for the East Desolation Sect to find Ji Ya and the others and confront Lin Taixu.

• Wei Suo refined more than five hundred water-elemental Demonic Cores and finally activated the Heaven Suppressing Manifestation, which grew to dozens of zhang tall and doubled his divine sense's reach.
• Shopkeeper Zhang and the others emerged from the turtle shell after sensing the manifestation's terrifying aura, though they could not see it clearly.
• Wei Suo ended the manifestation after it consumed more than half his True Essence, and the Green Robe Old Man realized the Water Candle Demon Demonic Core could sustain it during battle.
• Wei Suo decided to go to the East Desolation Sect to seek Ji Ya and the others and meet Lin Taixu again.

Wei Suo tested the strange vitality of the Tíhú Sacred Fruit, discovered that Golden Core power could neutralize it, and prepared for battle by refining four Golden Cores into Annihilation Golden Cores. He left Shopkeeper Zhang and the others with a way to escape the sky dome and flew toward Chicken Cage Mountain, where the East Desolation Sect had established its temporary mountain gate.

• Wei Suo cautiously tested the red fruit’s vitality and found that it invaded his flesh but could be erased with Golden Core power.
• Wei Suo refined the Golden Cores of True Person Bai Yu, True Person Xuanwu, Bai Jiankong, and Golden Kite True Person into Annihilation Golden Cores.
• Wei Suo advised Shopkeeper Zhang, Du Wei, and the others to use the Phoenix Kylin Green Eagles to escape the sky dome, and he gave Liu Cheng a Dao Tier Upper Grade magic treasure.
• Wei Suo flew away from True Nether City toward Chicken Cage Mountain while continuing to inscribe formations onto the unfinished magic treasure made from the Ancient White Marsh’s spine.
• Wei Suo reached the vicinity of Chicken Cage Mountain after traveling through the desolate region.

Wei Suo approached the East Desolation Sect disguised as Xu Qianhuan, hoping to ask about Lin Taixu. After the sect’s elders exposed his deception and sealed the mountain gate, he demanded to meet their Sect Master.

• Wei Suo encountered three East Desolation Sect cultivators and claimed he was Xu Qianhuan, young master of the True Martial Sect.
• The cultivators believed Wei Suo and escorted him toward their Sect Master while he asked about Li Xieyi and the Xuanfeng Sect.
• Elder Sun led Wei Suo through the miasma into the East Desolation Sect’s hidden mountain valley.
• Elder Sun recognized that Wei Suo’s aura did not match Xu Qianhuan’s ice cultivation and activated the sect’s barrier to seal the mountain gate.
• Wei Suo admitted he was passing by and asked to meet the Sect Master, while Elder Sun threatened to kill him.

Wei Suo entered East Desolation Sect’s mountain gate while impersonating Xu Qianhuan, hoping to ask about Lin Taixu. Elder Sun exposed the disguise and sealed the sect behind a barrier, leaving Wei Suo surrounded and under threat of death.

• Three East Desolation Sect cultivators confronted Wei Suo, and he claimed to be Xu Qianhuan to learn about the sect and Xuanfeng Sect.
• The cultivators believed Wei Suo and escorted him toward their Sect Master, answering his questions about Phoenix Kylin Green Eagles and recent Xuanfeng Sect visitors.
• Elder Sun met Wei Suo at the mountain gate and led him through the miasma into East Desolation Sect’s expansive valley.
• After bringing Wei Suo inside, Elder Sun activated a spiritual barrier around the mountain gate and accused him of impersonating Xu Qianhuan.
• Elder Sun explained that he recognized Wei Suo was not Xu Qianhuan because his aura did not match the young master’s ice-element cultivation, then threatened to kill him.

Wei Suo stormed the East Desolation Sect’s mountain gate to confront its leaders over the slaughter of surviving cultivators and to find Lin Taixu and the Xuanfeng Sect members. After swiftly killing several cultivators and wounding the Law Enforcement Elder, he identified himself as the Overbearing True Person, and the East Desolation Sect sounded an alarm to summon reinforcements.

• Wei Suo questioned Elder Sun and Elder Zhang about whether the East Desolation Sect’s leaders knew of its cultivators intercepting survivors and forcing them to gather strange fruits.
• Elder Sun attacked Wei Suo with Azure Origin Fire Claws, but Wei Suo burned him to ash and then cut Elder Zhang in two with his Sword Qi.
• Wei Suo killed three more cultivators and a middle-aged cultivator who attacked him, then repelled a wave of attackers and slew six or seven East Desolation Sect cultivators on the stairs.
• The white-robed Law Enforcement Elder attacked Wei Suo, who overwhelmed his pressure and severed his left shoulder; the golden-armored Golden Core expert then ordered everyone to hold their attacks.
• Wei Suo gave his name and demanded to know who had ordered the killings and where Lin Taixu and the Xuanfeng Sect members were; the injured Law Enforcement Elder called for reinforcements, and the valley trembled as the East Desolation Sect sounded an alarm.

Wei Suo advanced up the Azure Desire Steps and fought through the East Desolation Sect’s forces, revealing cultivation and a Golden Core powerful enough to terrify its strongest defenders. He left dozens of cultivators crushed as the Sect Master and a hidden old antique prepared to face him.

• Wei Suo killed a young East Desolation Sect cultivator who attacked him and dragged a concealed scout to him with the Profound Fiend Ghost Claw.
• Wei Suo repelled the golden-armored cultivator’s ancient halberd and shattered his golden hand seal, wounding him through his Golden Core.
• The cyan-robed expert summoned the East Desolation Sect Master from a black tower while an ancient hidden cultivator emerged from the mountain.
• The Sect Master and old antique recognized Wei Suo’s formidable cultivation but joined the East Desolation Sect’s forces to attack him.
• Wei Suo’s hidden formation killed the white-robed cultivator, then his enormous Golden Core pinned dozens of defenders and crushed thirty or forty into powder with a heavenly-river wave.