Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen used Immortal Trapping and Immortal Slaying to form a sword realm against the Underworld Army’s attack on the Luan Clan Secret Realm, while the Luan King helped him unleash the Immortal Slaying Sword Array. The array struck down Xuan Cang’s thunder and split it apart.

• The Heavenly Demon Herald used the Sky Devouring Pot to drain the Luan Clan Secret Realm and ordered the Underworld Army to attack.
• Ning Chen summoned Immortal Trapping and Immortal Slaying, then opened the Great Sword Realm as the Luan King faced the Heavenly Demon Herald and Southern Command Envoy.
• Ning Chen’s sword lights drove back the two envoys, allowing the Luan King and the Luan clansmen to escape Three Peril Mountain.
• The Luan King lent Ning Chen her strength, enabling him to unleash the Immortal Slaying Sword Array with the two immortal swords.
• Xuan Cang sent thunder to erase the formation, but Immortal Slaying split the thunder and sent its sword light toward the Nine Heavens.

Ning Chen and the Luan King used the Immortal Slaying and Trapping Immortal swords to destroy the Underworld Army and defeat the Heavenly Demon forces, but retreated when the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor arrived. After helping the Luan Clan escape, Ning Chen parted from Dong Yu and Xia Zhi and prepared to face the dangers ahead.

• Ning Chen and the Luan King unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, killing the three thousand Underworld Army soldiers and trapping the Heavenly Demon Herald and Southern Command Envoy.
• The Southern Command Envoy damaged the Sickness King Stone, but Ning Chen revealed the Immortal Slaying Sword's true form and killed him with a sword strike.
• The Heavenly Demon Command Envoy blocked the sword with the Heavenly Demon's First Emperor Artifact, while Ning Chen continued attacking until the Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor's arrival forced him to retreat with the Luan Clan.
• The Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor arrived after Ning Chen's escape and ordered the Heavenly Demon Herald to receive punishment in Soul Prison Abyss.
• Ning Chen returned with the Luan Clan, suppressed his injuries, and urged the Luan King to lead her people into hiding.
• Ning Chen said goodbye to Dong Yu and Xia Zhi as they left with the Luan King, then turned his attention to the dangers awaiting him.

The Heavenly Demon Royal Clan investigated the destruction of the Luan Clan and suspected an unknown sword expert wielding the Immortal Slaying Sword. As the Witch Clan’s Gou Huang urged four imperial clans to form an alliance against the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan, Xiaoxiao returned to Qingqiu with Jiuyou’s agreement.

• Demonic Emperor Kunyi told the Kings that the Immortal Slaying Sword Array had destroyed the Netherworld Army and that an unknown expert from the Outer Heavens was likely responsible.
• The Fourth King suggested Jiuyou’s disciple might be the mysterious swordsman, and Demonic Emperor Kunyi agreed to test the young man.
• The heirs of the Golden Lion, Scaly, Stone, and Divine Capital Mountain clans gathered at the Witch Clan’s holy land at Tian Xin’s invitation.
• Gou Huang summoned the four imperial clan leaders, warned that war would threaten their clans, and urged them to ally against the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.
• Gou Huang revealed that his vision showed the Primeval Demonic Realm suffering a crushing defeat in a future war with the Outer Heavens.
• Xiaoxiao returned to Qingqiu and told the Fox King that Jiuyou had agreed.

Ning Chen explained to Xuan Jiuyou that he had intervened at Three Peril Mountain and Dragon Emperor Mountain to keep the Dragon Emperor Sword from the Three Demonic Emperors and prevent war between the Outer Heavens and the Primeval Demonic Realm. Seeking the strength to survive the dangers ahead, he practiced the Scroll of God’s Yin and Yang Divide, whose eruption drew the attention of powerful factions across Three Imperial Cities.

• Ning Chen offered Shi Qing and Shi Yu their freedom, but Shi Qing said they were safer under his protection and did not wish to leave.
• Xuan Jiuyou confronted Ning Chen about the battles at Three Peril Mountain and Dragon Emperor Mountain, and Ning Chen admitted his actions and revealed his connection to the Outer Heavens.
• Ning Chen explained that the Three Demonic Emperors sought the Dragon Emperor Sword to break Queen Mother of the West’s seal and provoke war between the realms.
• Xuan Jiuyou agreed to conceal what he knew but warned Ning Chen that the Three Demonic Emperors might suspect him and that he could not always protect him.
• Ning Chen resolved to improve his strength and used the Scroll of God to practice Yin and Yang Divide, causing a violent collision above Three Imperial Cities.
• The Seven Luminaries and Eight Desolations Demonic Emperors and other factions looked toward the sky as Demonic Emperor Kunyi remarked on Ning Chen’s extraordinary talent.

After Ning Chen displayed power that alarmed the princes, the Demonic Emperors ordered him to marry the Fox Race Princess and forbade him from leaving the imperial city. The Fox Race received the marriage decree, while Wan'er prepared to accept the alliance despite believing it was unfair to Ning Chen.

• Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu worried that Xuan Zhen and Fifth Prince would try to eliminate Ning Chen, while Xuan Zhen said the wedding would provide an opportunity.
• Demonic Emperor Kunyi summoned Ning Chen and ordered him to marry the Fox Race Princess, telling him to remain in the imperial city until the wedding date was decided.
• Ning Chen accepted the order without protest, and Kunyi and Seven Luminaries Demonic Emperor discussed whether he might leave the city anyway.
• Three days later, the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan delivered the marriage decree to the Fox King in the Qingqiu Secret Realm.
• Wan'er told Xiaoxiao that she felt guilty about forcing Ning Chen into the marriage, then resolved not to force him to do anything again.

As his wedding to the Fox Race Princess approached, Ning Chen failed to merge yin and yang power and continued to conceal his identity from the wounded Cang Ming. Xuan Que warned him about rumors tying him to the destruction of two royal clans, and the chapter ended with Ning Chen leaving in the wedding procession.

• Ning Chen repeatedly failed to merge yin and yang power, then used Eternal Exile to send the unstable forces into spatial currents.
• Ning Chen visited the recovering Cang Ming, who recognized him as the commander responsible for destroying the Howling Moon Royal Clan and vowed revenge.
• Xuan Que visited Ning Chen to discuss the approaching wedding and warn him about rumors linking him to the destruction of the Howling Moon Royal Clan and the Luan race.
• On the wedding day, Ning Chen entered the red carriage, and the desolate beasts carried the procession eastward.

As Wan'er prepared to marry Ning Chen, the War King led an attack on Green Hill, intending to kill the Thirteenth Prince and everyone who could witness his arrival. The Fox King and her elders fought to hold the invaders back while the Seventh Elder sent Xiaoxiao and Wan'er away through a spatial formation.

• Ning Chen set out from the Three Imperial Cities in a grand wedding procession bound for Green Hill.
• Xiaoxiao helped Wan'er prepare for the wedding, and the Fox King visited the sisters to offer her farewell wishes.
• Xuan Zhan and the War King’s forces surrounded Green Hill with the Four Directions Dragon Lock Array, broke the royal domain’s formation, and attacked.
• The War King revealed that he had been hired to kill the Thirteenth Prince, while the Fox King and her elders fought to keep the attackers from advancing.
• The Fox King ordered the elders to evacuate Xiaoxiao and Wan'er, but they chose to stay and fight as the Seventh Elder escorted the sisters away.
• The Seventh Elder sent Xiaoxiao and Wan'er through a spatial formation in the forbidden ground and urged them never to return.

The War King’s forces destroyed the Green Hill Royal Domain, and the Fox King and elders died protecting it while Miss Xiaoxiao and Wan'er escaped. When Ning Chen arrived with the bridal procession, he found the massacre and fought the War King as the remaining demons attacked the procession; the battle continued with Ning Chen wounded but still counterattacking.

• The Fox King used White Fox Worships the Moon to kill one King Realm Heavenly Demon, but the War King killed him and ordered Green Hill’s inhabitants slaughtered.
• The War King’s forces wiped out the Green Hill Royal Domain, then prepared for Ning Chen’s arrival.
• Ning Chen noticed Green Hill’s unnatural silence, ordered his bridal procession to withdraw, and was trapped when the War King opened the Dragon-Locking Grand Array.
• Ning Chen saw the bodies across Green Hill and found no trace of Miss Xiaoxiao or Wan'er, then attacked the War King in fury.
• The War King fought Ning Chen while two King Realm Heavenly Demons massacred the bridal procession; Ning Chen endured a powerful blow and counterattacked.

Ning Chen fought Xuan Zhan in a devastating battle before the Green Hill Royal Domain, pushing the War King to reveal a second Minor World. As Xuan Zhan prepared to finish him, Ning Chen unleashed the tenfold power of Taiyi for one final strike.

• Ning Chen and Xuan Zhan clashed with their weapons and Minor Worlds, while Ning Chen used his twin demonic swords and Xuanjie to keep fighting despite his injuries.
• Ning Chen unleashed the Scroll of God and Sword Art, Nirvana, and the collision destroyed both Minor Worlds, severely wounding two other King Realm Heavenly Demons and injuring Xuan Zhan.
• Xuan Zhan broke Ning Chen's sword realm and declared that his next move would kill him, then revealed his Myriad Phenomena Realm.
• Ning Chen invoked Sword Art, Taiyi, drained the blood qi from half his body, and unleashed the Flying Swan's tenfold power in a blazing sword strike.

Ning Chen defeated Xuan Zhan by unleashing the Phoenix Lord’s Imperial Dao Law, then killed the fleeing King Realm Heavenly Demons and the four black-robed figures. After the battle devastated Green Hill and drew the attention of Imperial Dao experts across the realm, Ning Chen collapsed from his injuries.

• Ning Chen and Xuan Zhan clashed in their final moves, and Ning Chen’s sword struck Xuan Zhan while leaving both men grievously wounded.
• Xuan Zhan impaled Ning Chen with a demonic spear, but Ning Chen seized it and activated the Imperial Dao Law left within him by the Phoenix Lord.
• The Imperial Dao Law summoned a phoenix and golden lightning that erased Xuan Zhan, while Imperial Dao experts across the Primeval Demonic Realm sensed the power and headed toward Green Hill.
• Ning Chen used divine flames to kill the two fleeing King Realm Heavenly Demons and destroyed the Dragon-Locking Grand Array, then killed the four black-robed figures.
• With everyone at Green Hill dead, Ning Chen finally collapsed from his wounds.

After rescuing Ning Chen from the ruined Green Hill Royal Domain, Xuan Jiuyou discovered that an immortal power was healing his disciple. The Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor and two other Demonic Emperors demanded Ning Chen for questioning about the Phoenix Lord, but Xuan Jiuyou refused to surrender him.

• Xuan Jiuyou found the gravely wounded Ning Chen in the Green Hill Royal Domain and carried him away despite the Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor’s request to question him.
• Xuan Zhen sensed an unfamiliar Imperial Dao aura in Green Hill and worried that the War King had failed to eliminate Thirteenth Brother.
• At the Nine Nether King's Estate, Ning Chen’s body rejected Xuan Jiuyou’s demonic blood, and the Immortal Divine Tree awakened to repair his injuries.
• The Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor tried to seize Ning Chen, but Xuan Jiuyou blocked him and refused to hand over his disciple.
• Demonic Emperors Kunyi and Seven Luminaries joined the Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor, and Xuan Jiuyou declared that none of them would take Ning Chen.

Xuan Jiuyou fought the Three Demonic Emperors to keep them from taking Ning Chen, and the battle escalated until all four were wounded. Meanwhile, the Immortal Peach Tree healed Ning Chen, whose strength surged as an ancient stone gate appeared in his consciousness.

• Xuan Jiuyou refused to surrender Ning Chen, and Demonic Emperor Kunyi challenged him, beginning a battle against the three emperors.
• Eight Desolations Demonic Emperor moved the fighters into a Primordial Minor World, where Xuan Jiuyou withstood their attacks and struck back with his demonic arts.
• The three emperors unleashed their full power, and Xuan Jiuyou summoned Xuanjie to meet their combined assault, wounding all four combatants.
• Ning Chen's wounds healed as the Immortal Peach Tree restored his blood and qi, bringing him close to the legendary Fourth Realm.
• An ancient, gigantic stone gate appeared before the white-haired figure in Ning Chen's consciousness.

Ning Chen rejected the chance to become immortal, choosing to keep his memories and return to an ordinary life. After waking with his cultivation gone, he agreed to accompany the Three Demonic Emperors, who questioned him about the Phoenix Lord.

• Ning Chen refused the Immortal Gate and watched the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm’s remnant imprint vanish as the gate collapsed.
• Ning Chen woke in the Nine Nether King's Palace with his injuries healed but his cultivation gone, and asked Xuan Jiuyou to call off the fighting.
• The Three Demonic Emperors arrived, and Ning Chen agreed to go with them despite Xuan Jiuyou’s warning that they must return him safely.
• In the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land, Demonic Emperor Kunyi asked Ning Chen about the Phoenix Lord, and Ning Chen asked why they had not first asked about the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s extermination.

Ning Chen faced the Three Demonic Emperors, concealed what he knew about the Phoenix Lord, and learned that refusing immortality had suppressed his cultivation. He left the Three Imperial Cities to search for Xiaoxiao and Wan'er, determined to find the surviving Fox Race princesses.

• Ning Chen challenged the Three Demonic Emperors over the Qingqiu Fox Race’s extermination, but they dismissed the accusation and pressed him to explain the Phoenix Lord’s appearance.
• Ning Chen claimed he knew nothing of the Phoenix Lord and said he survived because the Nine Transformations of Xuanjie protected its master; Demonic Emperor Kunyi confirmed his cultivation was gone and let him leave.
• Ning Chen told Xuan Jiuyou that he had refused the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm’s chance to become immortal, and Xuan Jiuyou explained that the Immortal Gate would suppress his cultivation until he entered the Mortal Immortal Realm.
• Ning Chen asked to leave the Three Imperial Cities to search for Xiaoxiao and Wan'er, and Xuan Jiuyou allowed him to go.
• Ning Chen departed the city on foot to search for the missing Fox Race princesses.

Ning Chen traveled through the Western Continent while searching for Wan'er and Miss Xiaoxiao, and helped a wounded woman and her daughter without stopping them from fleeing their pursuers. The story then shifted to Yin'er on Heavenly Language Star, where Di Mingtian and four powerful figures appeared before her.

• Ning Chen broke the swords of two men who were about to kill a woman and a little girl, then let the woman decide to flee when their pursuers refused to spare them.
• Ning Chen continued searching for Wan'er and Miss Xiaoxiao and rested in a ruined temple, where the wounded woman and little girl later arrived.
• Ning Chen carried the unconscious woman and girl inside, then offered the girl food and spoke to her about enduring hardship.
• Yin'er meditated beneath the Apricot Blossom Tree on Heavenly Language Star as Di Mingtian arrived with four powerful figures.

Di Mingtian attacked Heavenly Language Peak to seize the Queen Mother's Hairpin, and Yin'er fought him with the powers of the Heaven Speaker. He defeated her and took the hairpin, leaving her gravely wounded beneath the Apricot Blossom Tree and giving her ten days to say farewell to her master.

• Yin'er sensed Di Mingtian and four scaled clan experts approaching, then repelled the four attackers with a barrier and the World-Purifying Heavenly Light.
• Di Mingtian summoned Sun-Moon Zhaozhao and split Heavenly Language Peak with a sword strike, forcing Yin'er to meet him in battle.
• Yin'er used lightning and Heaven's Punishment, Starfall, but Di Mingtian shattered the meteor and struck her with a palm that disrupted her true qi.
• Yin'er unleashed Heaven's Judgment, but Di Mingtian's cultivation and divine weapon overcame her forbidden art, leaving her badly injured.
• Di Mingtian struck Yin'er again, took the Queen Mother's Hairpin, and spared her for ten days before leaving with the four scaled clan experts.
• Yin'er coughed blood beneath the ruined peak as apricot blossoms fell over her.

Mu Chengxue learned from the Moonlit Tower Master that Ning Chen had gone to the Hundred Clans’ realm, then rushed to Heavenly Language Peak after he warned that something had happened to Yin’er. She arrived to find Yin’er lying bloodied beneath the Apricot Blossom Tree, while Ning Chen felt a terrible premonition far away in the Primeval Demonic Realm.

• Mu Chengxue visited the Moonlit Tower Master to ask where Ning Chen had gone, and he deduced that Ning Chen had entered the realm of the Hundred Clans.
• Mu Chengxue admitted that her memories were disappearing because she had cultivated Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion, and said she planned to visit Yin’er at Heavenly Language Peak.
• The Moonlit Tower Master sensed that something had happened to Yin’er and urged Mu Chengxue to return to Heavenly Language Peak at once.
• Ning Chen felt a suffocating premonition in the Primeval Demonic Realm as dark clouds and torrential rain swept across the sky.
• Mu Chengxue reached Heavenly Language Peak and found Yin’er fallen in a pool of blood beneath the Apricot Blossom Tree.

Mu Chengxue brought the dying Yin'er to the Moon Worshipper Sacred Land, where the Phoenix Body sacrificed himself to purge the Demonic Essence and preserve her life. Mu Chengxue then confronted Di Mingtian in the Purple Star Starfield, declaring that Yin'er was her master's daughter.

• Mu Chengxue found Yin'er dying beneath the apricot blossom tree, and the Moonlit Tower Master identified Di Mingtian as the attacker.
• Mu Chengxue carried Yin'er to the Moon Worshipper Sacred Land, where the Phoenix Body asked the Moon God to save her.
• The Moon God protected Yin'er's heart meridian while the Phoenix Body burned away his Saint Essence to purge the Demonic Essence, then vanished after promising to return.
• Yin'er's life force began to stabilize, and Mu Chengxue left the sacred land to pursue revenge.
• Mu Chengxue intercepted Di Mingtian near the Scale Clan stronghold and revealed that Yin'er called her her master's wife.

Mu Chengxue fought Di Mingtian across the starry sky, overcoming his Scaly Race Divine Armor after Chengying shattered and the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword returned to her. She killed Di Mingtian before the Scaly King could reach him, leaving the King rushing toward the battlefield.

• Mu Chengxue attacked Di Mingtian, but his Scaly Race Divine Armor blocked Chengying while he fought back with Sun-Moon Zhaozhao.
• Mu Chengxue used her speed and Grand Elder's Seven Absolutes to injure Di Mingtian and crack his armor, but Di Mingtian shattered Chengying and wounded her.
• Mu Chengxue invoked Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion, summoned the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword, and pierced Di Mingtian, destroying his meridians.
• Di Mingtian fled toward the Scaly Race stronghold and called for his father, the Scaly King, while Mu Chengxue pursued him.
• Mu Chengxue caught Di Mingtian and destroyed his body with a palm strike, killing him as the Scaly King hurried toward them.

Ning Chen spared Keke and her Second Mother by destroying the woman's cultivation, then defended the ruined temple from Devil Race assassins while his own cultivation remained sealed. As he waited for the girl to seek a physician, he discussed the Phoenix Body's crisis and planned to exploit the Heavenly Demon Clan's enemies, following Fan Lingyue's example.

• Five men entered the temple to kill Keke and her Second Mother, but Ning Chen destroyed the woman's cultivation and persuaded them to leave.
• Ning Chen warned Keke that her Second Mother would die without a physician, and Keke ran into the rain to find one.
• Ning Chen killed hundreds of Devil Race assassins with water swords and his Great Sword Realm.
• Ning Chen told his demonic body that he had to keep its aura concealed from the Immortal Gate and that the Phoenix Body's crisis made haste necessary.
• Ning Chen proposed turning the Primeval Demonic Realm's enemies against the Heavenly Demon Clan, inspired by Fan Lingyue's past actions.