Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan fought a man in black and his Silver Armored Corpse, discovering that the man was a half-corpse who hoped to turn him into another Silver Armored Corpse. Wang Daoyuan used Gui Water Nether Flame to expose the corpse’s weakness, leaving him poised to strike its navel.

• Wang Daoyuan traded blows with the Silver Armored Corpse and the man in black, withstanding the corpse’s powerful punch and burning away the Corpse Qi that entered his body.
• Wang Daoyuan recognized the man in black as a half-corpse, and the man explained that he had transformed himself to survive while trapped and seek revenge in Blood Demon City.
• Wang Daoyuan used Gui Water Nether Flame against the half-corpse and the Silver Armored Corpse, forcing the corpse to shield its master.
• Wang Daoyuan noticed that the Silver Armored Corpse could not replenish Corpse Qi at its navel and identified it as the corpse’s weakness.

Wang Daoyuan defeated the Silver Armored Corpse and captured its half-corpse master, Zheng Ping, as an avatar. He recovered in Zheng Ping’s hidden cave abode, where he found valuable Heavenly Fiend Gold and learned of another mining site.

• Wang Daoyuan seized the half-corpse’s flying sword, then pierced the Silver Armored Corpse’s navel and destroyed it with fire spiritual power and the Gui Water Nether Flame.
• Wang Daoyuan defeated Zheng Ping with the Bi Fang phantom, broke his Violet Palace and soul, and made him an avatar by merging in a Split Soul.
• Wang Daoyuan searched Zheng Ping’s memories and learned about the mine’s five other peak Violet Palace cultivators, Zheng Ping’s hidden cave abode, and his stores of Heavenly Fiend Gold.
• Zheng Ping led Wang Daoyuan to his concealed cave abode, where Wang Daoyuan found several hundred jin of upper-grade third-order Heavenly Fiend Gold and more than thirty jin of Low-grade Fourth-order Heavenly Fiend Gold.
• Wang Daoyuan rested and recovered in the cave abode, then learned from Zheng Ping of another place to mine Heavenly Fiend Gold.

Wang Daoyuan investigated why his Crimson Feather Crow was growing slowly and discovered that it needed to eat its eggshell to awaken its bloodline. After feeding it the preserved shell, the crow grew crimson-gold feathers, while Zheng Ping and Tu Youming completed a Spirit Seeking Plate designed for the mine.

• Wang Daoyuan monitored the Spirit Pearl Space and worried that the Crimson Feather Crow had barely grown despite its ideal surroundings.
• Wang Daoyuan learned from the Myriad Spirits Compendium that extraordinary demon birds could grow slowly if they did not eat their eggshells.
• Wang Daoyuan had Cui Ming retrieve the preserved eggshell, and the Crimson Feather Crow eagerly ate it before sleeping beside the Crimson Sun True Fire.
• After two years, the crow awoke with crimson-gold feathers, and Wang Daoyuan named it Crimson Feather.
• Zheng Ping and Tu Youming refined a Spirit Seeking Plate from Heavenly Fiend Gold to detect Metal Attribute spiritual power and Killing Intent.

Wang Daoyuan followed the improved Spirit Seeking Plate through the Heavenly Fiend Gold vein, collecting a massive piece of fourth-order ore and reaching the metal spiritual vein’s Spirit Eye. Inside a piece of Grand Unity Essence Gold, he discovered a tiny silver flame, revealing that the vein had nurtured Metal Attribute Spirit Fire.

• Wang Daoyuan used the Spirit Seeking Plate to locate the vein’s concentrations of Killing Intent and Metal Attribute spiritual energy, then dug north through the rock.
• Wang Daoyuan unearthed a massive piece of Low-grade Fourth-order Heavenly Fiend Gold and continued downward toward the vein’s source.
• Wang Daoyuan followed the silver beam past the Killing Intent and found a Spirit Eye filled with nearly top-grade fourth-order Metal Attribute spiritual energy.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the Spirit Eye and found a large piece of Grand Unity Essence Gold with a crack running into its interior.
• Wang Daoyuan sent his divine sense through the crack and saw a tiny silver flame inside the Grand Unity Essence Gold.

Wang Daoyuan obtained a Metal Attribute Spirit Fire from Grand Unity Essence Gold beneath Blood Demon City and escaped without being discovered. Back in his cave abode, he found that the five spirit veins and fires in the Spirit Pearl Space had grown and begun expanding the space.

• Wang Daoyuan stored the Grand Unity Essence Gold and merged the Metal Attribute Spirit Fire into the Metal Attribute spirit vein, then healed the wounds caused by the ore’s aura of slaughter.
• He found Dark Iron Crystal and small fragments of Grand Unity Essence Gold in a nearby vein but stopped digging to avoid alerting anyone.
• Wang Daoyuan removed his traces and sealed the tunnels, while two Golden Core Cultivators in Blood Demon City noticed only a minor fluctuation in the spirit vein.
• After returning to his cave abode, Wang Daoyuan saw that the five spirit veins had grown to one zhang and reached high-grade Second-order, while the Spirit Pearl Space had expanded slightly.
• He observed changes in the spirit fires, including a new spirit spring at the Gui Water Nether Flame, and named the Metal Attribute Spirit Fire the Grand Unity Golden Flame.

Wang Daoyuan decided to wait in Zheng Ping's cave abode and planned how to balance and refine the five Five Elements Spirit Fires. He began making a Pseudo Spirit Fire from the Life Spirit Fire, but exhausted his spiritual power before it could take shape.

• Wang Daoyuan tested the Spirit Pearl Space and chose to remain in Zheng Ping's cave abode until he knew whether anyone had noticed the spirit vein's changes.
• Wang Daoyuan decided to nurture Pseudo Spirit Fires in the Spirit Pearl Space and reserve the original flames for refining into his body once their ranks were balanced.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the Spirit Pearl Space and drew out a wisp of the Life Spirit Fire to begin condensing a Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan separated a sesame-seed-sized spark of the Life Spirit Fire's origin and injected it into a fist-sized mass of green flame.
• Wang Daoyuan poured his Wood Attribute Spiritual Power into the embryonic Pseudo Spirit Fire, but his spiritual power ran out before it formed, leaving the flame unable to burn on its own.

Wang Daoyuan gave up on forming the Wood Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire himself, but the Peach Sapling stabilized it and continued nurturing it. Wary that Blood Demon City might suspect him of taking the Metal Attribute Spirit Fire, he tunneled northwest to escape and emerged outside, where an angry voice confronted him.

• Wang Daoyuan sent the failing Wood Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire embryo to the Peach Sapling, which grew a branch and stabilized it with Wood Attribute Spiritual Power.
• After staying in the cave abode for over half a year, Wang Daoyuan decided to escape rather than submit the Heavenly Fiend Gold and risk drawing suspicion.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Grand Unity Golden Flame and Dust Returning Flame to dig a tunnel northwest, harvesting more Heavenly Fiend Gold along the way.
• After digging for more than a year, Wang Daoyuan reached a cliff outside Blood Demon City's territory and broke through to the open air.
• Wang Daoyuan heard an angry voice demand to know where he had come from and what he was doing there.

Wang Daoyuan pretended to be a wandering cultivator to conceal his escape from a deep tunnel, but Blood Demon Army members recognized clues that he had fled the Heavenly Fiend Gold mine and alerted their Great Commander. As he raced toward Blood Demon Ridge’s edge, soldiers intercepted him from multiple directions while a flying warship closed in behind.

• Wang Daoyuan convinced two Blood Demon Army cultivators that he had come from Ten Thousand Blades Mountain seeking a cave abode, then left after refusing to join their ranks.
• The two cultivators found earth-vein Killing Intent in his long tunnel, suspected he had escaped from the Heavenly Fiend Gold mine, and reported him to the Great Commander.
• Wang Daoyuan fled north on the Wind Fire Flying Kite, but three Violet Mansion Late Stage cultivators blocked his way; he dodged their attacks and escaped at speed.
• A massive flying warship pursued Wang Daoyuan, and after he flew more than three hundred li, Blood Demon Army cultivators appeared ahead and on both flanks to surround him.

Wang Daoyuan fought off the cultivators blocking his escape, but a flying warship and its pursuers nearly trapped him in the mountains. A mysterious Taiyi Sword Sect Golden Core cultivator destroyed the warship with one sword, and a surviving devil cultivator challenged him over the sects’ agreement.

• Wang Daoyuan killed one of two Late Violet Mansion cultivators blocking his path, then fled north after the other retreated.
• A flying warship caught up and forced Wang Daoyuan to dodge attacks, so he descended into the mountains and used the God-Forbidden Silk cloak for cover.
• More than ten Violet Mansion devil cultivators moved to surround Wang Daoyuan as the flying warship watched from above.
• A thousand-zhang sword appeared from the west and cleaved the flying warship apart, killing those aboard.
• Kui Jian arrived with an unfamiliar young man, who revealed that True Person Xuanlei had praised Wang Daoyuan and criticized his prospects as a sword cultivator.
• A surviving devil cultivator confronted the Taiyi Sword Sect Golden Core cultivator over the agreement forbidding Golden Core cultivators from attacking devil cultivators.

Wang Daoyuan escaped the Blood Demon Army with help from True Person Wujian and Kui Jian, then learned that the famed sword cultivator had come to his rescue. After Wang Daoyuan revealed that he had spent more than ten years infiltrating Blood Demon City, Kui Jian admitted he still had much to learn about hiding his identity.

• Kui Jian explained that Wang Daoyuan was True Man Lei Yan’s disciple, and the Blood Demon City cultivators apologized and offered him Grand Unity Essence Gold to settle the dispute.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted the gift, and the demonic cultivators left after the Golden Core sword cultivator let them go.
• The sword cultivator introduced himself as Wujian and explained how he became a sword cultivator despite abandoning his Natal Flying Sword.
• Wang Daoyuan and Wujian discussed the Dao, and Wujian praised Wang Daoyuan’s understanding and potential as a sword cultivator.
• Kui Jian explained that he had spotted Wang Daoyuan’s flying artifact and summoned Wujian for help.
• Wang Daoyuan revealed that he had infiltrated Blood Demon City for more than ten years, astonishing Wujian and making Kui Jian compare their abilities to conceal their identities.

After leaving Blood Demon Ridge, Wang Daoyuan returned to Narsha Plain and began cultivating an Earth Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire beneath Huanglin Mountain. He stabilized the new fire and left it to grow in the cavern.

• Kui Jian told Wang Daoyuan that his debt for saving him was canceled, but that he still owed True Person Wujian a favor.
• True Person Wujian took Kui Jian back to the Taiyi Sword Sect, while Wang Daoyuan traveled north to Narsha Plain.
• Wang Daoyuan reported to True Man Lei Yan that he was safe, then went to his cave beneath Huanglin Mountain to condense an Earth Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Dust Returning Flame to burn out a vast cavern and formed a stable Pseudo Spirit Fire from a portion of its source.
• Wang Daoyuan returned the remaining flame essence to the Pseudo Spirit Fire and left it on the cavern wall to grow on its own.

Wang Daoyuan refined his Metal Attribute Spiritual Power Seed and spent fifteen years cultivating, reaching the Violet Mansion Late Stage while the region’s political tensions continued to simmer. After focusing on his Natal Artifacts for several years, he received a message from the Flying Sand Hermit to discuss the True Demon Blood Lotus.

• Wang Daoyuan transformed his original Metal Attribute Spiritual Power Seed into spiritual power for the White Tiger Blade, then condensed a new seed carrying the Grand Unity Golden Flame’s killing aura.
• Wang Daoyuan secluded himself beneath Huanglin Mountain, refined Violet Rhyme Pills, and cultivated while keeping informed about the Lineage and the region’s conflicts.
• Zhou Luan stirred up clashes between Half-demon tribes and the Bloodthirsty Azure Wolves, increasing tensions north of the mountains as the Netherworld Sect eyed the region.
• Fifteen years later, Wang Daoyuan broke through to the Violet Mansion Late Stage, while his Pseudo Spirit Fires, Spirit Pearl Space, and Crimson Feather Crow all made progress.
• Wang Daoyuan stayed underground to nurture the Black Tortoise Shield and White Tiger Blade, advancing his sword intent and planning to improve the blade with rare metals.
• Three and a half years later, the Flying Sand Hermit messaged Wang Daoyuan and asked him to meet in a small valley on Huanglin Mountain to discuss the True Demon Blood Lotus.

Wang Daoyuan completed his preparations and joined Flying Sand Hermit to travel to Demon Burial Mountain for the True Demon Blood Lotus. After they entered the mountains, three devil cultivators blocked their way and demanded compensation for a black tiger that had escaped.

• Wang Daoyuan improved his artifacts and combat strength, then met Flying Sand Hermit and agreed to set out.
• Flying Sand Hermit revealed that the True Demon Blood Lotus grew in central Demon Burial Mountain and used a pill to disguise his qi and blood as a devil cultivator.
• Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit disguised themselves and took a detour around Blood Demon Ridge before reaching Demon Burial Mountain.
• The two traveled toward the mountain's center while avoiding devil cultivators hunting Fierce Beasts.
• Three devil cultivators drove a black tiger toward Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit; when the pair dodged aside, the tiger escaped and the cultivators demanded compensation.

Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit confronted three demonic cultivators, and Wang Daoyuan killed two while capturing the third. Flying Sand Hermit identified one of the dead men as a Phantom Sound Demon and revealed that such demons had once pursued him near the True Demon Blood Lotus.

• Wang Daoyuan captured the young demonic cultivator with Mountain Splitting Hand after Flying Sand Hermit asked him to keep the man alive.
• The neck-ring cultivator attacked Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit with soundwaves and divine-sense swords, while his companion defended them with a shield.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Soul Annihilation Bell, black mist, and sword shadows to break through the shield and kill both demonic cultivators with one strike.
• A purple-black divine soul burst from one corpse and attacked Flying Sand Hermit, who destroyed it with the Thick Earth Demon Subduing Seal.
• Flying Sand Hermit identified the dead cultivator as a likely Phantom Sound Demon and said Phantom Sound Demonic Cultivators had pursued him when he discovered the True Demon Blood Lotus.

Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit reached the underground chamber where the True Demon Blood Lotus was growing and found it would bloom in about a month. As they began planning an ambush, Wang Daoyuan demanded payment from Flying Sand Hermit before taking the risk.

• Wang Daoyuan examined the defeated devil cultivators’ belongings and found the Phantom Sound Soul Seizing Art and a method for refining the Demon Sound Soul Suppressing Bell.
• Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit traveled to Alligator Dragon Lake and entered the underground passage leading to the True Demon Blood Lotus.
• Flying Sand Hermit led Wang Daoyuan to a heart-shaped stone chamber with a blood-red pool and a nearly blooming True Demon Blood Lotus.
• Wang Daoyuan estimated the lotus would bloom in about a month and proposed using an Illusion Formation to ambush the arriving devil cultivators and Fierce Beasts.
• Wang Daoyuan warned Flying Sand Hermit that the plan was dangerous and demanded payment before agreeing to proceed.

Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit prepared to seize the True Demon Blood Lotus, drawing a crowd of devil cultivators and Fierce Beasts as it bloomed. The chapter ended with Wang Daoyuan activating his formation as the lotus revealed nine seeds.

• Wang Daoyuan agreed to help Flying Sand Hermit after accepting the restricted Animal Hide Book and Jade Slip, and refused the offer to marry Flying Sand Hermit's daughters.
• Wang Daoyuan arranged the Heavenly Fiend Chaotic Spirit Formation around the pool and set up other formations along the escape route.
• As the True Demon Blood Lotus neared blooming, devil cultivators and High-grade Third-order Fierce Beasts gathered around the pool, including Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit in disguise.
• When the lotus was nearly open, Wang Daoyuan activated the Heavenly Fiend Chaotic Spirit Formation, stirring rage among the humans and Fierce Beasts.
• The True Demon Blood Lotus bloomed fully, revealing nine Mutton Fat Jade-like lotus seeds.

Wang Daoyuan stirred the demonic cultivators and Fierce Beasts into fighting so Flying Sand Hermit could steal the True Demon Blood Lotus, then pursued and killed a Phantom Sound Demonic Cultivator. When the others suspected Wang Daoyuan and recognized his identity, he used the black mist to escape.

• Wang Daoyuan attacked a crocodile and provoked the demonic cultivators and Fierce Beasts into fighting while he used the Demon Sound Soul Suppressing Bell to intensify their frenzy.
• Flying Sand Hermit stole the True Demon Blood Lotus, and a thin Phantom Sound Demonic Cultivator rang his bell to wake the combatants and accuse him.
• Wang Daoyuan blamed the thin cultivator for the theft and formation, then attacked him as the Blood Demon cultivators joined in.
• The thin cultivator fled into the caves, but Wang Daoyuan followed and killed him; Flying Sand Hermit escaped through the black mist.
• The cultivators searched the thin cultivator's storage bag, found no lotus, and accused Wang Daoyuan of helping Flying Sand Hermit escape.
• After a cultivator identified Wang Daoyuan as a disciple of True Man Lei Yan, Wang Daoyuan used Cloud Smoke Evasion to flee through the mist.

Wang Daoyuan escaped the pursuing demonic cultivators with formations, then joined Flying Sand Hermit to kill two Violet Mansion attackers. As they fled east, a black eagle led a Golden Core demonic cultivator to them, and Wang Daoyuan struck him with the Violet Thunder Evil Slaying Token, only to find he had survived.

• Wang Daoyuan used his sword shadows and Black Tortoise Shield to fend off the pursuing demonic cultivators while fleeing through the cave.
• Wang Daoyuan trapped the pursuers in an Illusion Formation and activated his remaining formations before escaping through the rock.
• Wang Daoyuan emerged to help Flying Sand Hermit, and together they killed the two peak-stage Violet Mansion cultivators besieging him.
• Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit fled east aboard the Wind Fire Flying Kite while a black eagle tracked them.
• Wang Daoyuan struck the pursuing Golden Core demonic cultivator with the Violet Thunder Evil Slaying Token, but discovered the man had survived the attack.

Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit traded Blood Lotus Seeds with the Golden Core Cultivator Yu Shun, who escorted them safely to the edge of the Southern Wilderness. Afterward, Wang Daoyuan gave Flying Sand Hermit a hidden cave for Core Formation and set off for Ten Thousand Blades Mountain to condense Metal Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire.

• Yu Shun explained that he wanted two Blood Lotus Seeds to cure his declining vital blood, and Wang Daoyuan agreed to trade him a Natal Feather while Flying Sand Hermit gave him two seeds for the Core Formation experience on a Jade Slip.
• Yu Shun escorted Wang Daoyuan and Flying Sand Hermit to the southern part of Narsha Plain, then introduced himself and flew back south.
• At Huanglin Mountain, Flying Sand Hermit removed the restrictions on the Animal Hide Book and Jade Slip and offered Wang Daoyuan four Blood Lotus Seeds in exchange for a safe Core Formation location.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Flying Sand Hermit access to his underground cave abode, then reported his safety to his master and headed west toward Ten Thousand Blades Mountain.

After leaving Huanglin Mountain, Wang Daoyuan examined his gains, learned that the Wutu Essence lay in the dangerous Demon Quelling Mountain, and traveled to Ten Thousand Blades Mountain to condense Metal Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire. He left with the new fire stabilized and began mining mystic iron crystals to nurture the Grand Unity Golden Flame.

• Wang Daoyuan stored his spoils, placed Yu Shun’s silver Metal Attribute Natal Feather atop the Grand Unity Golden Flame, and planted a Blood Lotus Seed in Fierce Blood Pig blood essence.
• Wang Daoyuan studied the Nether Sound Soul Burying Bell’s refining method, the Thick Earth Profound Gang spell, and Flying Sand Hermit’s improved Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal method, treating the latter as a reference rather than cultivating it directly.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that Wutu Essence was likely found at Demon Quelling Mountain near Absolute Heaven Abyss, but decided to wait until after forming his Golden Core before attempting to go there.
• Wang Daoyuan reached Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, found a high-grade Third-order mystic iron crystal ore vein, and used its Metal Attribute spiritual power to condense a new Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned Cui Ming to help excavate the ore vein so he could gather mystic iron crystals to nurture the Grand Unity Golden Flame.