Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan secured materials from the Demon Race and half-demons in exchange for True Man Lei Yan’s help against True Man Ten Thousand Corpses. The two arrived at the Yellow Springs Secret Realm, where Lei Yan confronted Ten Thousand Corpses’s avatar and offered him a chance to survive if he cooperated.

• True Man Lei Yan refused True Man Yun Jian’s offer to join the expedition, leaving Yun Jian to guard the Taiyi Sword Sect as Lei Yan and Wang Daoyuan went to Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan proposed extorting the Demon Race and half-demons before dealing with True Man Ten Thousand Corpses, and Lei Yan agreed to let him negotiate.
• At Returning Geese Tower, Golden Horn offered two thousand jin of high-grade Fourth-order artifact-refining materials, while the Cold Flood Dragon offered five thousand jin.
• The Demon Race and half-demons delivered the materials, and Wang Daoyuan brought them to Jade Spring Peak before setting out with Lei Yan.
• At the Yellow Springs Secret Realm, Wang Daoyuan summoned True Man Ten Thousand Corpses, who sent out an avatar to meet them.
• True Man Lei Yan warned the avatar that Ten Thousand Corpses could not remain there and offered him a path to survival if he obeyed.

True Man Lei Yan and Wang Daoyuan persuaded True Man Ten Thousand Corpses to leave the Yellow Springs Secret Realm for the Southern Wilderness, offering him a way to survive heavenly tribulations. After True Man Ten Thousand Corpses refined a Sky Deceiving Coffin, he agreed to obey True Man Lei Yan and prepare to relocate with his Fourth-order Corpse Refinements.

• Wang Daoyuan rejected True Man Ten Thousand Corpses’ request to remain in the Yellow Springs Secret Realm and explained why he should go to the Southern Wilderness.
• True Man Ten Thousand Corpses agreed to relocate if he could obtain a chance to survive heavenly tribulations and advance to Nascent Soul.
• True Man Lei Yan gave True Man Ten Thousand Corpses the Sky Deceiving Coffin’s refining method and explained that Yellow Springs Willow could be used to make it.
• Wang Daoyuan and True Man Lei Yan waited at Treasure Realm Lake, where they shared a fish banquet while True Man Ten Thousand Corpses refined the coffin.
• True Man Ten Thousand Corpses arrived with a completed Sky Deceiving Coffin, and True Man Lei Yan revealed that he could destroy it through a hidden safeguard.
• True Man Lei Yan arranged transport to the Southern Wilderness, and Wang Daoyuan entered the Yellow Springs Secret Realm to inspect it for hidden dangers.

Wang Daoyuan entered the Yellow Springs Secret Realm, recovered a promising Yellow Springs Willow stump, and questioned True Man Ten Thousand Corpses about his past and techniques. Back at Jade Spring Peak, Wang Daoyuan recognized that the Sky Peeker Secret Technique resembled a rudimentary spell he had learned years before.

• Wang Daoyuan cleared the secret realm’s Yin Energy with the Crimson Feather Crow, found no hidden chambers, and dug up the intact roots of the Yellow Springs Willow stump.
• Wang Daoyuan planted the stump beside the Gui Water Nether Flame, then left the secret realm and boarded the flying warship carrying True Man Ten Thousand Corpses and the corpse puppets.
• True Man Ten Thousand Corpses recounted how he fled the Seven Stars Sea, survived Mirage Dragon Sea, and reached the Northern Abyss, then gave Wang Daoyuan his route map and Sky Peeker Secret Technique.
• Wang Daoyuan declined to travel to the Southern Wilderness with True Man Lei Yan and returned to Jade Spring Peak to consolidate his gains and prepare to improve his sword intent.
• Wang Daoyuan realized that True Man Ten Thousand Corpses’ Sky Peeker Secret Technique resembled the Sky Peeping Technique he had obtained from Zheng Kang at Cloud Hidden Isle.

Wang Daoyuan strengthened his spells and sword techniques before the four top powers issued a Demon Quelling Conscription Order in response to the Devil Race’s seizure of Demon Quelling Mountain. After bidding farewell to Zhou Luan, he joined Zhao Kingdom’s cultivators and headed south aboard Divine Weapon Pavilion’s flying warship.

• Wang Daoyuan mastered the Sky Peeker Secret Technique and began cultivating Void Breaking Sword Evasion, but could not yet fuse his sword intents.
• Over three years, Wang Daoyuan improved several spells and helped Zhou Luan cultivate, while Er Gouzi remained missing.
• The four top powers issued a Demon Quelling Conscription Order requiring forces with late Golden Core cultivators to send fighters to the Southern Wilderness.
• True Man Lei Yan informed Wang Daoyuan that Devil Race remnants and Yin Demon cultivators had seized Demon Quelling Mountain and attacked the repairing sect cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan bid farewell to Zhou Luan, then joined Zhao Kingdom’s other late Golden Core cultivators at Sanhe Market.
• Yu Boqing welcomed Wang Daoyuan aboard Divine Weapon Pavilion’s flying warship, which carried the group south to the pavilion’s mountain gate in seven days.

Wang Daoyuan and two other cultivators investigated Ascension Valley after the leaders gathered at Treasure Cauldron Mountain to plan a foothold near Demon Quelling Mountain. They reached the valley in secret and discovered its unusual deathly energy and scarcity of spiritual energy.

• At Treasure Cauldron Mountain, the faction leaders debated where to establish a base and discussed concerns that True Man Ten Thousand Corpses might be unreliable at Ascension Valley.
• Heavenly Secret Sect sent Kui Tian and Taiyi Sword Sect sent Wu Jian to investigate Ascension Valley, while Wang Daoyuan volunteered to join them.
• Wang Daoyuan and the others traveled to Demon Suppressing City, where the stationed cultivators welcomed the reinforcements; True Man Mo Yang did not appear.
• The three secretly left Demon Suppressing City and approached Ascension Valley without alerting True Man Ten Thousand Corpses.
• Wang Daoyuan found that Ascension Valley contained abundant deathly and Yin-derived energies, scant spiritual energy, and few living creatures nearby.

Wang Daoyuan investigated Ascension Valley and found evidence that it had connections to the world of his previous life, though the apparent dates suggested different flows of time. He located True Man Ten Thousand Corpses’ secret realm and learned that its corpse refiners had found no signs of the Devil Race.

• True Person Kui Tian confirmed that the Demonic Qi around Wang Daoyuan came from his robe, and he and True Person Wujian returned to Demon Suppressing City while Wang Daoyuan continued investigating.
• Wang Daoyuan examined Ascension Valley’s damaged altar and found inscriptions on nearby stones that included Song, Han, and Tang era names from the world of his previous life.
• Wang Daoyuan found a secret realm entrance filled with Corpse Qi and deathly Qi, recognized it as True Man Ten Thousand Corpses’ hideout, and watched it for two days.
• Two corpse refiners returned to the entrance, and the canine corpse refiner detected Wang Daoyuan despite his Hidden Demon Art.
• Wang Daoyuan questioned the humanoid corpse refiner about controlling clones across secret realms and asked whether it had seen the Devil Race.
• The corpse refiner said it had killed more than thirty Fierce Beasts but had seen no devil cultivators or members of the Devil Race.

Wang Daoyuan captured a devil cultivator near Demon Suppressing City and learned that the Devil Race had gathered in Heavenly Demon Valley, where it was collecting Fierce Beasts and Blood Demon cultivators. He returned to the city and reported the discovery to True Man Lei Yan and the other cultivators.

• Wang Daoyuan left Ascension Valley and went east to search for intelligence on the Devil Race.
• After waiting near Demon Suppressing City, Wang Daoyuan trapped a Mid Golden Core devil cultivator with Black Tortoise Purgatory and the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal.
• Wang Daoyuan subdued the devil cultivator, implanted a Split Soul, and learned from his memories that his name was Chen Zhaoyi.
• Chen Zhaoyi’s memories revealed that the Devil Race was gathered in Heavenly Demon Valley and had ordered its followers to send slain Fierce Beasts and Blood Demon cultivators there.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Demon Suppressing City and reported the information to True Man Lei Yan and the other cultivators.

Wang Daoyuan and the Nascent Soul Cultivators learned that the Devil Race was trying to break the formation sealing Heavenly Demon Valley, risking the Northern Abyss Cultivation World's destruction. Wang Daoyuan proposed cutting off the Devil Race's supply of blood essence and intercepting its hunters instead of attacking the valley directly.

• True Man Lei Yan explained that Heavenly Demon Valley held the Devil Race's dead and that a weakened formation still contained hidden Devil Race members who could emerge through a blood sacrifice.
• True Man Yunhe used the Hundred Beasts Mirror to check everyone for Devil Race influence, and no one in the hall showed signs of being controlled.
• True Man Yun Jian warned that the Devil Race might be using Heavenly Demon Valley as bait, and Wang Daoyuan advised against attacking its prepared defenses head-on.
• True Man Yunhe estimated that the Devil Race would need ten to thirty years to break the formation, giving the cultivators time to act.
• Wang Daoyuan proposed ordering Blood Demon cultivators to stay in their territories and intercepting Devil Race hunters to cut off their supply of Fierce Beast blood essence.
• True Man Han Shuang and the other cultivators supported fighting the Devil Race in the open rather than storming Heavenly Demon Valley.

Wang Daoyuan infiltrated a devil cultivator outpost and captured its members one by one, eventually turning its leader, Liao Yang, into a clone. From Liao Yang’s memories, he learned the Devil Race’s strength and reported it to True Man Lei Yan.

• Wang Daoyuan sent Chen Zhaoyi back to the outpost while he waited outside for an opportunity to capture its cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan captured Ruan Chang, then Fang Hu and Yao Long, and turned them into clones.
• Wang Daoyuan used Fang Hu and Yao Long to distract Liao Yang before subduing him with the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the Devil Race had fifteen Half-step Nascent Soul combatants and more than thirty Late Golden Core members guarding Heavenly Demon Valley.
• Wang Daoyuan sent True Man Lei Yan a message about the Devil Race’s strength.

Wang Daoyuan used Liao Yang to feed Bloodflame carefully chosen intelligence and lure the late Golden Core devil to the outpost. Bloodflame arrived alone to reward Liao Yang, where Wang Daoyuan and his allies ambushed and subdued him, leaving him unable to resist.

• Wang Daoyuan sent Bloodflame useful intelligence through Liao Yang, gradually raising the devil's status and trust in his subordinate.
• Wang Daoyuan relayed Flying Warship routes to Bloodflame, helping devil cultivators evade interception and earn Bloodflame further recognition.
• Bloodflame told Liao Yang that he would personally visit to reward him, and Wang Daoyuan prepared the White Tiger Demon Subduing Array at the outpost.
• Bloodflame arrived alone and gave Liao Yang cultivation resources and defensive artifacts.
• Wang Daoyuan struck Bloodflame with the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal while Fang Hu and Yao Long activated the White Tiger Demon Subduing Array.
• Wang Daoyuan trapped Bloodflame in Black Tortoise Purgatory, which suppressed his body and burned away his divine sense.

Wang Daoyuan safely broke Blood Flame's soul restriction, captured him, and learned the Devil Race's strength and plans from his memories. He hid near Demon Suppressing City as the Devil Race prepared to break Heavenly Demon Valley's seal and confront True Man Lei Yan before his artifact recovered.

• Wang Daoyuan consulted True Man Xuan Tian and learned that he could treat Blood Flame's soul restriction as a formation and search for its Formation Eyes.
• Wang Daoyuan identified the restriction's self-destruction Formation Eyes, drained their energy with Gui Water Nether Flame, and captured Blood Flame's soul.
• A Devil Race member in Heavenly Demon Valley sensed that Blood Flame had been taken down, while Wang Daoyuan hid outside Demon Suppressing City and waited for his clone to control Blood Flame's body.
• Wang Daoyuan removed the Split Soul from Tu Youming and learned from Blood Flame's memories that the Devil Race had gathered around two hundred Golden Core-and-above cultivators in Heavenly Demon Valley.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the Devil Race had collected about one-third of the Fierce Beast essence blood needed to break the weakened seal and planned to release its Nascent Soul members before True Man Lei Yan's Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda recovered.

Wang Daoyuan reported that the Devil Race needed about ten years to gather enough essence blood, and the human cultivators prepared a strike against its hunting grounds in the Skyrend Mountain Range. At Hundred Herbs Valley, Wang Daoyuan set his sights on the Demon Soul Grass growing there.

• Wang Daoyuan told the leaders of Demon Suppressing City that the Devil Race was hunting Fierce Beasts in the Skyrend Mountain Range and would need about ten years to collect enough essence blood.
• True Man Lei Yan said the Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda was close to recovering to the fifth order, though it might take five or six years or more than ten.
• True Man Lei Yan appointed Wang Daoyuan to command a force of cultivators heading east to attack the Devil Race's hunting grounds.
• The cultivators pursued and killed more than ten demonic cultivators they encountered before reaching the Skyrend Mountain Range.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the demonic cultivators used formations to lure Fierce Beasts to Hundred Herbs Valley, where Demon Soul Grass grew, and decided he wanted the spirit herb.

Wang Daoyuan led the cultivators into Hundred Herbs Valley, where they killed over forty Yin Demon devil cultivators and found five plants of Demon Soul Grass. He then took the corpses to Heavenly Demon Valley to provoke the Devil Race, whose members argued over whether to attack as True Man Lei Yan waited nearby.

• Wang Daoyuan sent Soul Chasing Bees through Hundred Herbs Valley, found concealed devil cultivators, and led the Flying Warships in killing them.
• Wang Daoyuan and the others searched five devil cultivator gathering places, killing over forty middle- and late-stage Golden Core cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan recovered five Demon Soul Grass plants from a cliff and stored them in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan messaged his master, gathered fourteen Flying Warships, and headed toward Heavenly Demon Valley with more than thirty devil cultivator corpses displayed on their prows.
• Wang Daoyuan taunted the Devil Race outside its defensive formation, while one Devil Race member demanded permission to attack and another warned that True Man Lei Yan was waiting outside.

As Wang Daoyuan’s blockade trapped the Devil Race in Heavenly Demon Valley and turned its human allies against it, the Devil Race’s leaders considered a desperate way to break the sealing formation. They agreed to summon the Primordial Heavenly Demon’s power, knowing the ritual would likely cost their lives.

• True Man Yunhe urged the devil cultivators inside Heavenly Demon Valley to abandon the Devil Race, while many began considering escape.
• Wang Daoyuan and his allies used fourteen Flying Warships to cut off the valley’s supplies and kill devil cultivators attempting to bring in Fierce Beast carcasses.
• Devil Race leaders argued over their lack of essence blood until Mo Ming and Gu Ren revealed that the Nine Great True Demons could summon the Primordial Heavenly Demon’s power to break the formation.
• Mo Ming warned that the ritual would likely kill the Half-step Nascent Soul cultivators who performed it, but Xue Jie and the Blood Demon lineage agreed to sacrifice themselves.
• After Xue Jie challenged their courage, a member of the Yin Demon lineage also agreed to join the sacrifice.

Mo Ming prepared the Devil Race to summon the Primordial Heavenly Demon and sent Wang Ming’s devil cultivators to attack the humans. Wang Daoyuan confronted them outside Heavenly Demon Valley, where Wang Ming’s assault failed and Wang Daoyuan captured him.

• Mo Ming assigned the Holy Race’s branches to prepare the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Demon Array and entrusted the race’s affairs to Mo Hui if he died.
• Mo Ming rejected Xue Jie’s suggestion to eliminate the devil cultivators and ordered them sent against the human race instead.
• Mo Ming promised Wang Ming Holy Race blood and status if he led the devil cultivators to disrupt the humans, and Wang Ming marched them out of Heavenly Demon Valley.
• Wang Daoyuan ordered the Flying Warships to attack the approaching devils, then challenged Wang Ming with the True Dragon Heaven-Shattering Claw.
• Wang Ming attacked Wang Daoyuan with seven Flying Swords, but Wang Daoyuan shattered them, pursued Wang Ming in roc form, and seized him with the Dragon Seizing Claw.

Wang Daoyuan captured the human traitor Wang Ming and learned that the Devil Race had little useful intelligence to give him. During a solar eclipse, the Devil Race activated the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Demon Array to summon the Primordial Heavenly Demon, leaving Wang Daoyuan and the Human Race struggling to suppress the enormous Demon Shadow.

• Wang Daoyuan tore Wang Ming apart, captured his soul, and learned from it that the Devil Race had used him as a disposable lackey.
• Wang Daoyuan shared what he learned with the Human Race cultivators, who remained concerned that the Devil Race was preparing a major move.
• True Man Yunhe sent the surrendered Devil Cultivators to Ascension Valley, while the Human Race spent over two months breaking the formations around Heavenly Demon Valley.
• Mo Ming gathered the Devil Race leaders and ordered them to prepare for a solar eclipse, their final chance to summon the true form of the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
• As the eclipse darkened the sky, the Devil Race activated the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Demon Array, and Wang Daoyuan fed Golden Crow variant flame into the Linglong Pagoda to help suppress it.
• The nine True Demon phantoms merged into a vast Demon Shadow that grew until it veiled stars in the southern sky.

The Devil Race summoned a Demon Shadow to break the seal beneath Heavenly Demon Valley, but the shadow vanished before killing Wang Daoyuan. True Man Lei Yan’s attack was stopped by five emerging Nascent Soul Devil Race members, who pursued the retreating humans as two elders south of Absolute Heaven Abyss realized the seal had been broken.

• Nine Half-step Nascent Soul Devil Race members and their helpers formed the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Demon Array, summoning a Demon Shadow as the humans attacked Heavenly Demon Valley.
• The Demon Shadow shattered the valley’s defenses and Golden Bagua Diagram, then fixed its gaze on Wang Daoyuan before dissipating from exhaustion.
• True Man Lei Yan sent the Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda down toward the weakened valley, but five powerful rays of demonic light emerged and held it back.
• True Man Lei Yan recalled the pagoda and ordered the fourteen Flying Warships to retreat, while five Nascent Soul Devil Race members flew out and pursued them.
• Two elders beneath a plum tree sensed the Heavenly Demon’s aura and discovered that the seal in Heavenly Demon Valley had been broken.

Wang Daoyuan and the human cultivators were forced into a desperate battle against pursuing Nascent Soul demons. After protecting True Man Lei Yan from a hidden attack, Wang Daoyuan transformed into a dragon and killed a Black Wing Demon.

• True Man Lei Yan and the other sect leaders turned to fight the demons so the Flying Warships could escape, while Wang Daoyuan urged the cultivators to attack demons below the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Wang Daoyuan detected a hidden divine sense attack aimed at True Man Lei Yan and blocked it with Gui Water Nether Flame.
• True Man Lei Yan revealed the Black Wing Demon's location, and Wang Daoyuan trapped it in Black Tortoise Purgatory before it escaped.
• Wang Daoyuan transformed into a white dragon and used the True Dragon Sky Soaring Art to catch the Black Wing Demon.
• Wang Daoyuan stunned the demon with a dragon roar, tore off its wings, and destroyed its body with black flames.

Wang Daoyuan helped True Man Xuan Tian and the others gravely wound the Nascent Soul Soul Devouring Demon, but the devils turned the retreat into a chance to strike. As the battlefield emptied, the Blood Demon pierced Wang Daoyuan through the chest, leaving him unconscious and falling from the sky.

• Wang Daoyuan transformed into a white dragon and attacked the Soul Devouring Demon while True Man Xuan Tian and two Heavenly Secret Sect cultivators kept the demon under pressure.
• True Man Lei Yan struck the Thunder Demon with his whip, while the Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda set the Soul Devouring Demon ablaze and Wang Daoyuan struck him with his dragon tail.
• Mo Ming attacked Wang Daoyuan as the dragon transformation's backlash weakened him, but True Person Wujian drove Mo Ming away, and Wang Daoyuan recovered his qi and blood with a Blood Lotus Seed.
• The Soul Devouring Demon fled toward Heavenly Demon Valley, and the Thunder Demon and Ice Demon helped the other devils escape the battlefield.
• The Blood Demon launched a streak of blood-red light at Wang Daoyuan, shattered the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal, pierced his chest, and knocked him unconscious.

After being struck by a Nascent Soul Blood Demon’s Bloodthirsty Heart-Shattering Blade, Wang Daoyuan used the Zhou family’s Nirvana Secret Technique with his Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire to try to survive. His heart shattered as the blade emerged, and the chapter ended with the flames extinguishing and his body reforming.

• Wang Daoyuan returned to Demon Suppressing City with the human cultivators, and True Man Lei Yan diagnosed him with a Bloodthirsty Heart-Shattering Blade that threatened his life.
• True Man Lei Yan and True Man Feng Yi determined that the Nirvana Secret Technique was Wang Daoyuan’s best chance to survive, and Wang Daoyuan woke after three days.
• Wang Daoyuan revealed that he already knew the Nirvana Secret Technique and refined his Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire before beginning the technique.
• Wang Daoyuan’s spirit fire drove the dark red energy into his heart, where it formed a dagger that shattered his heart and flew from his chest.
• Wang Daoyuan’s body burned down to a heap of fire, then the flames took the shape of a Crimson Luan Divine Bird before fading as his form condensed again.