Chapter Summaries

Aaron and Fang Xiaolong arrived at Luo Fu Mountain, where Immortal Lady Nine Truths accepted Aaron as her personal disciple and made Fang Xiaolong a registered disciple. As Aaron was asked which of Luo Fu’s many Daoist arts he wanted to learn, word came that Yang Xumi had been seized outside the mountain gate.

• Aaron decided that infiltrating Emei Sect for its teachings was too risky and considered seeking an inheritance through an unorthodox path.
• Yang Xumi brought Aaron and Fang Xiaolong through Luo Fu Mountain’s outer gate to meet Immortal Lady Nine Truths.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths examined Aaron and accepted him as her disciple, while assigning Fang Xiaolong the status of registered disciple.
• Yang Xumi left the mountain, but a disciple reported that Azure Smoke Wanderer of Profound Heaven Dao had seized him outside the gate.

Aaron received two cultivation arts from Immortal Lady Nine Truths and adapted the Primal Unity Mystic Light Qi to accelerate his path toward Magnetism Mystic Light. After entertaining Fang Xiaolong at a banquet, he learned that Emei Sect and the Mysterious Heaven Dao would duel swords at Flower Goddess Estate and refused to attend.

• Immortal Lady Nine Truths introduced Mo Xitan as Aaron’s senior brother and taught Aaron the Primal Unity Mystic Light Qi and the Mayfly Nine Transformations Sword Art, then refused to give him a flying sword.
• Aaron studied the arts at Turtle Immortal Hall and adapted the Primal Unity Mystic Light Qi so he could reach Magnetism Mystic Light far faster than ordinary disciples.
• Fang Xiaolong visited Aaron and invited him to meet outer-sect friends, but Aaron initially refused.
• Aaron agreed to attend a banquet after Fang Xiaolong mentioned that families would introduce eligible women, then left without making any promises to them.
• Fang Xiaolong told Aaron that Emei Sect and the Mysterious Heaven Dao would duel swords at Flower Goddess Estate, but Aaron declined to go.

Aaron realized the Nine-Refined Heaven Derivation Gu required a trace of Great Dao essence and considered obtaining it from a Primordial Spirit’s remains. On his way to meet his master, he was summoned by his Second Senior Sister Wu Mei, a former emperor.

• Aaron concluded that refining a ninth-refinement Gu required the essence of Heaven and Earth, which lifespan alone could not replace.
• Aaron learned about the Tribulation of Heavenly Revelation and reasoned that Primordial Spirit loose immortals could die, leaving remains that might help him refine the Gu.
• Aaron set himself the goal of outliving the Luo Fu Patriarch and becoming headmaster of Luo Fu Mountain.
• Wu Mei appeared before Aaron and summoned him to meet their master.
• Wu Mei told Aaron that she had once ruled the Phoenix Zhou Kingdom before becoming the master’s disciple, and that she had passed the throne to her nephew, Wu Liutong.

Aaron regained his Condensing Killing Intent cultivation and received permission from Immortal Lady Nine Truths to travel with Wu Mei to seek stellar and baleful qi and visit his relatives. During the flight, Wu Mei trained him in swordplay and prepared to make her name at the sword duel, while Aaron privately judged her skills far below those of White Plum and Yang Xumi.

• Aaron told Immortal Lady Nine Truths that he had traded for Killing Intent and asked permission to seek more qi and visit his relatives.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths approved Aaron’s trip and arranged for Wu Mei to take him along on her Ten-Mile Red Embroidered Tower.
• Wu Mei practiced the Mayfly Nine Transformations Sword Art with Aaron, who concealed his superior swordsmanship as she instructed him.
• Wu Mei disarmed Aaron and boasted of her sword skills and plans to win renown at the Flower Goddess Estate sword duel.
• Aaron silently compared Wu Mei with White Plum and Yang Xumi, concluding that her swordsmanship and flying sword were inferior.

Aaron returned to the Mystic Light Realm, fled after meeting the unusually gifted Li Yingyun, and began considering demonic techniques to prepare for a coming great calamity. Meanwhile, White Plum Daoist became a Golden Core Grandmaster and was sent to welcome Li Yingyun at Emei Sect, while Aaron sensed that powerful forces were divining his whereabouts.

• Aaron returned to Fang Family Village, reclaimed the Five Viscera Gu, and advanced into the Mystic Light Realm with colorful mystic light and refined swordsmanship.
• Aaron encountered Li Yingyun pursuing a demon leopard, learned she had gained Innate cultivation from a thousand-year primal ginseng, and fled when she asked him to take her as his disciple.
• Aaron divined that Li Yingyun was tied to a future great calamity and decided to seek greater strength, beginning to study the Bloodthirsty Tome demonic art.
• White Plum Daoist refined the Vermilion Toad's inner core and reached the Golden Core realm, then Qi Miaoyi ordered him to welcome Li Yingyun to Emei Sect.
• Aaron sensed someone powerful was calculating his identity and concealed himself with the Heaven Derivation Gu, fearing Emei Sect's attention and the approaching calamity.

While contemplating the Bloodthirsty Tome, Aaron triggered the Tribulation of Revelation and received knowledge that transformed the inferior bat art into the formidable Blood Sea Demon Scripture. He suspected demonic cultivation connected him to the Nine-Yao Mystic Secret Emperor Lord and wondered whether he was destined to become a Devil Master.

• Aaron examined the Bloodthirsty Tome and deduced that its bat-transformation method could be expanded using more bats and ancient bloodlines.
• As Aaron comprehended the art, a vision of the Underworld Blood Sea appeared, and his body began turning into bloody water.
• Aaron recognized that he was undergoing the Tribulation of Revelation and learned the honorific name of the Nine-Yao Mystic Secret Emperor Lord before the revelation overwhelmed him.
• A ring of white light cleansed Aaron, restoring him to Fang Yu’s appearance, and he realized demonic arts might have drawn the Emperor Lord’s attention.
• Aaron comprehended the Blood Sea Demon Scripture, a powerful cultivation system capable of threatening even Primordial Spirit loose immortals, and wondered if he was born to be this world’s Devil Master.

Aaron chose Ding Xiadong as a potential demonic disciple after calculating the karma connecting him to Li Yingyun and Emei Sect. As Aaron carried Ding away, White Plum Daoist arrived in Lingyan Town and proposed finding Ding an immortal master to resolve the engagement’s karmic ties.

• Aaron decided to find a disciple whose karma could help him deal with Emei Sect and calculated Li Yingyun’s connections.
• After Li Yingyun returned from traveling with Emei Sect powers and ended her engagement, Ding Xiadong left home and vowed revenge.
• Aaron appeared before Ding Xiadong, demonstrated his cultivation, and bound him, claiming he would take him as a disciple and teach him demonic arts.
• Aaron carried Ding Xiadong away while considering how to use him to sever their karmic ties.
• White Plum Daoist arrived at the Li Family residence, criticized how Li Yingyun handled the broken engagement, and offered to recommend Ding Xiadong to an old friend as a disciple.

Aaron returned toward Luo Fu Mountain after cultivating the Blood God Gu and a life-draining Gu, then killed General Yu and his seagull Dao soldiers when they pursued him. He reached the mountain safely, where Immortal Lady Nine Truths told him that Yang Xumi had defeated twelve Profound Heaven Dao disciples at the Flower Goddess Estate sword contest.

• Aaron used the Blood God Gu to spy on Ding Xiadong and prepared additional Blood God Gu insects to cultivate rival successors who could devour one another.
• Aaron created the fifth-refinement Supreme Big Dipper Life-Commanding Gu, which could drain others’ lifespans at a steep cost to his own.
• Aaron fled when he saw Su Zixuan surrounded by sea demons, but General Yu sent three hundred seagull Dao soldiers after him to silence him.
• Aaron used the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Commanding Gu to age the seagull Dao soldiers to death and weaken General Yu, then killed the demon general with the Golden Snake Hook.
• Aaron returned to Luo Fu Mountain and told Immortal Lady Nine Truths that he had advanced to Mystic Light after finding a cultivator’s cave abode near Mount Emei.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths told Aaron that Yang Xumi had escaped captivity with Bitter Ascetic’s help and defeated twelve Profound Heaven Dao disciples at the Flower Goddess Estate sword contest; Aaron said he wanted to stay inside the mountain gates.

Aaron remained at Luo Fu Mountain as the world entered another dynastic collapse, while the demonic path began targeting unorthodox sects and Rogue Cultivators. Fang Xiaolong brought Aaron materials and news of rising Emei disciples, then lamented that his childhood companions had outpaced him.

• Aaron buried a jar of Hundred Fruits Brew and weighed his plans for surviving the approaching calamity, including pursuing demonic cultivation and seeking Luo Fu Mountain’s inheritance.
• Fang Xiaolong told Aaron about Yang Xumi’s sword duel at Flower Goddess Estate and his clash with Azure Smoke Wanderer.
• Ten years later, rebellion and natural disasters spread across the Crimson County Divine Continent, and demonic disciples gathered cruel materials while fighting righteous and unorthodox factions and Rogue Cultivators.
• Aaron recognized that the demonic path was deliberately purging Rogue Cultivators and that the losses among unorthodox sects were unusually severe.
• Fang Xiaolong delivered collected materials and reported that Li Yingyun, Zhuge Yun, and Shentu Yuan had risen to fame, while Brother Jing had only reached Outer Astral.
• Fang Xiaolong reflected that his childhood companions had reached Mystic Light or Outer Astral while he remained at Condensing Baleful Intent.

Aaron gave Fang Xiaolong another chance to choose a cultivation art, then used Ding Xiadong’s Blood God Gu to witness Li Yingyun confronting her former fiancé, who had become a Blood Demon. Li Yingyun destroyed Ding Xiadong’s demonic forms with the Purple-Green Sword and Doushuai Fire, leaving his fate unclear.

• Aaron gave Fang Xiaolong his token to choose another cultivation art and warned him not to make the wrong choice again.
• Aaron used his connection to Ding Xiadong’s Blood God Gu to watch Li Yingyun confront Ding Xiadong beside a blood pool.
• Ding Xiadong admitted he had become a demon and attacked Li Yingyun with blood swords and the Blood Shadow Divine Art.
• Li Yingyun’s Purple-Green Sword destroyed Ding Xiadong’s blood swords, but his many blood-shadow forms multiplied as she attacked.
• Li Yingyun used Doushuai Fire to burn the blood shadows to ash and said she had to kill Ding Xiadong because he had fallen into demonhood.

Aaron observed Ding Xiadong survive death through the Blood God Scripture as the conflict between Emei Sect and Luo Fu Mountain escalated. After Purple Jade Recluse was killed by Bitter Ascetic, the Luo Fu Patriarch challenged Emei to a sword duel and gave Aaron the Supreme Unity Magnetism Divine Light formula.

• Ding Xiadong emerged from a hidden blood pool after dying and vowed to deepen his revenge against Emei Sect.
• Fang Xiaolong told Aaron that Su Zixuan's death had been blamed on Emei Sect, and Aaron asked him to monitor the matter.
• Fang Xiaolong reported that Bitter Ascetic had killed Purple Jade Recluse in a single strike during a confrontation at Emei Sect.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths led her disciples to summon the Luo Fu Patriarch, who ordered Senluozi to challenge Emei's Qi Miaoyi to a sword duel three years later.
• The Luo Fu Patriarch granted Aaron the Supreme Unity Magnetism Divine Light formula, advancing his prospects of becoming a Luo Fu true disciple.

Aaron was sent into seclusion beneath Luo Fu Mountain to avoid the coming conflict with Emei, while the Luo Fu Patriarch planned to use a fake opportunity to expose spies. At Emei, Fang Jing reached the Mystic Light Realm but remained overshadowed by younger disciples.

• Immortal Lady Nine Truths told Aaron that the Luo Fu Patriarch intended to use the Twelve All-Heavens Divine Baleful Sword Formation against Emei, and Aaron asked to be sealed away in seclusion.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths used Luo Fu Mountain’s restrictions to send Aaron into a cave abode, where he decided to stay until after the sword duel three years later.
• The Luo Fu Patriarch revealed he had been present and approved Aaron’s seclusion, then discussed purging possible Emei spies with Immortal Lady Nine Truths.
• The Luo Fu Patriarch planned to claim that the sword formation required a diagram and leave it in his cave abode as bait, though he had mastered the formation without one.
• Fang Jing arrived at Emei’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Golden Summit after reaching the Mystic Light Realm, troubled by how far younger disciples such as Yang Xumi and Li Yingyun had surpassed him.

Li Yingyun formed the highest-grade Supreme Purity Golden Core, then joined Qi Miaoyi at the sword duel between Emei and Luo Fu Mountain. As Emei's headmaster faced Patriarch Luo Fu, Bitter Ascetic emerged with a Primordial Spirit and set out to help.

• White Plum Daoist avoided telling Fang Jing why Emei had to fight Luo Fu Mountain, while Fang Jing witnessed the phenomena of Li Yingyun forming a Supreme Purity Golden Core.
• Yang Xumi praised Li Yingyun's achievement and said he and his master would enter seclusion to pursue breakthroughs.
• Three years later, Qi Miaoyi accepted Li Yingyun's Purple-Green Sword and led Emei's fighters to the sword duel, leaving White Plum Daoist and Fang Jing to guard the mountain.
• White Plum Daoist learned by flying-sword letter that Li Yingyun had slain three Luo Fu Mountain Golden Core Grandmasters before Patriarch Luo Fu challenged Qi Miaoyi.
• Bitter Ascetic revealed that he had cultivated the Supreme Purity Formless Primordial Spirit and sent it out to aid Qi Miaoyi.

Aaron mastered the Supreme Unity Magnetism Mystic Light just as the Luo Fu Patriarch returned mortally wounded from the sword duel with Emei Sect. After the Patriarch died and Luo Fu Mountain’s disciples scattered, Immortal Lady Nine Truths became the new sect leader and Aaron urged her to keep the sect on its ancestral mountain.

• Aaron completed his cultivation of the Supreme Unity Magnetism Mystic Light and divined that trouble was coming to Luo Fu Mountain.
• The injured Luo Fu Patriarch returned after Emei Sect defeated him, while Zen Master Tianhai abandoned the sect and took its treasures.
• The Luo Fu Patriarch passed his techniques and leadership to Immortal Lady Nine Truths, then died as his damaged Primordial Spirit became a monstrous aberration.
• Three months later, most of Luo Fu Mountain’s disciples had departed, but Fang Xiaolong stayed and Aaron presented the remaining disciple count to Immortal Lady Nine Truths.
• Aaron argued that Luo Fu Mountain should remain at its ancestral site, where its formations and treasures could protect it, and Immortal Lady Nine Truths agreed.

Aaron refined the nine-refined Heaven Derivation Gu, which hid his karma and origins from the Heavenly Dao and ended his sense of danger. At Mount Emei, Qi Miaoyi learned that Luo Fu Mountain’s last trace of hope had vanished and received word that Li Yingyun was trapped by the Crimson Fire Old Monster.

• Aaron used the Luo Fu Patriarch’s demonic remnant to enter a heavenly-enlightenment tribulation and draw in the broken All-Heavens Swords’ remaining power.
• Aaron spent millions of years of lifespan to refine the eight-refined Heaven Derivation Gu into its ninth refinement.
• Aaron discovered the Gu made him impossible to calculate and could conceal his existence from the Heavenly Dao, then chose to lie low and watch the coming war.
• Qi Miaoyi saw that Luo Fu Mountain’s remaining trace of life had disappeared, while Bitter Ascetic and Abbess Jue Mie discussed the sect’s collapse and the righteous path’s growing power.
• Qi Miaoyi received news that Li Yingyun had slain twelve Golden Core Old Devils before the Crimson Fire Old Monster trapped her in the Profound Yin Heavenly Demon Thirteen-Gate Evil Formation.
• Abbess Jue Mie urged an attack on the Heavenly Demon Sect, but Qi Miaoyi said Li Yingyun would survive and needed to take another master to overcome the calamity.

Over twenty years, Luo Fu Mountain endured its enemies’ siege while Aaron grew stronger and watched the sect decline. After Fang Xiaolong died, Aaron learned that Li Yingyun had been rescued and taken as a disciple by the South Sea Sect leader, and he predicted that her accumulated karma would ultimately ruin her prospects.

• Immortal Lady Nine Truths left Luo Fu Mountain’s formation to fight a Golden Core grandmaster, killed him, then retreated after two others ambushed and wounded her.
• Aaron and Immortal Lady Nine Truths argued over whether Luo Fu Mountain should remain behind its defenses while its disciples faced the siege.
• Twenty years passed, many of the surrounding sects withdrew, and Aaron became capable of controlling Luo Fu Mountain’s grand formation.
• Aaron visited the dying Fang Xiaolong, who regretted that he would not see Brother Jing again before he passed away.
• Aaron received news that the South Sea Sect leader had defeated Crimson Fire Old Monster, rescued Li Yingyun, and taken her as his disciple.
• Aaron concluded that Li Yingyun’s ties to both sects and the karma from her many killings would eventually consume her great fortune.

Aaron reached the Golden Core stage and became Luo Fu Mountain’s sect master after Immortal Lady Nine Truths left to pursue revenge. As he sealed the mountain amid escalating conflicts, he discovered that his Blood Sea Demon Scripture had helped Ding Xiadong become a powerful blood demon and decided to empower him further.

• Aaron formed a Supreme Unity Magnetism Gold Core after eighty years of cultivation and received a summons from Immortal Lady Nine Truths.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths transferred Luo Fu Mountain’s mountain-protecting formation to Aaron, made him sect master, and left to seek revenge for their patriarch.
• Aaron ordered Luo Fu Mountain to seal its gates, restrict recruitment, and keep its membership to about a hundred disciples.
• Aaron used information from the Blood God Gu to reconstruct the Blood Sea Demon Scripture and learned that orthodox and demonic factions were pursuing its power.
• Aaron saw through a Blood God Gu that Ding Xiadong had formed a first-grade Blood Sea Demon Core in the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace by sacrificing sea creatures.
• Aaron sent Ding Xiadong instructions for achieving a Primordial Spirit and resolved to make the emerging blood demon calamity larger.

After more than a century in seclusion, Aaron learned that Ding Xiadong’s Blood Demon was devastating the Eastern Sea and refused to join the sects gathering against it. Months later, Immortal Lady Nine Truths, disguised as Xu Sanniang, arrived at the South Sea Sect’s meeting and considered whether the Blood Demon could serve her purposes.

• Aaron emerged from seclusion at age eight hundred and learned that the Blood Demon had destroyed several Eastern Sea sects and corrupted cultivators across the region.
• Aaron refused to attend the South Sea Sect’s gathering, deciding Luo Fu Mountain would stay sealed while he considered reclaiming Ding Xiadong and targeting sects that had once besieged Luo Fu.
• Several months later, Immortal Lady Nine Truths traveled to the Heavenly River Water Mansion disguised as the rogue cultivator Xu Sanniang.
• At the gathering, Xu Sanniang heard other cultivators mock Luo Fu Mountain’s decline and privately reflected on the South Sea Sect’s alliance with Emei Sect and the Blood Demon’s possible uses.

Aaron secretly left Luo Fu Mountain and attacked Trident Island, killing Zhou Lian and its other cultivators before setting out to destroy more sects. He then sensed that Ding Xiadong was about to fall as the South Sea Sect trapped the Blood Demon, and Li Yingyun entered the battle to fulfill his destined trial.

• Aaron used the Flying Sword Gu to cleave Trident Island’s mountain and challenged Zhou Lian under a false claim of revenge.
• Aaron killed Zhou Lian, then slew the fleeing Mysterious Light disciples and every other cultivator on Trident Island.
• Aaron destroyed six or seven sects hostile to Luo Fu Mountain before calculating that Ding Xiadong was likely about to be defeated.
• The South Sea Sect trapped the Blood Demon in the Great Formation of the Heavenly Cycle Starry River, while Immortal Lady Nine Truths and the Rogue Cultivators fled.
• Tianhe True Person told Li Yingyun that killing the Blood Demon would let him advance to the Primordial Spirit realm, and Li Yingyun descended into the sea of blood with the Purple-Green Sword.

Li Yingyun killed Ding Xiadong with the Purple-Green Sword, but his death gave birth to the Nine Nether Blood Demon, who escaped and was secretly refined by Aaron into a second Primordial Spirit. Thirty years later, after the righteous path had nearly eradicated the Blood Demons, Qi Miaoyi confronted Li Yingyun over whether she resented being unable to Ascend with Emei Sect.

• Li Yingyun used the Circumstellar Stars Milky Way Grand Formation and the Supreme Clarity Demon-Refining Sword Art to destroy Ding Xiadong’s body, past and future selves, and incarnations across the immortal domains.
• Ding Xiadong’s death severed his karma and birthed the Nine Nether Blood Demon, which defeated Tianhe True Person’s suppression and escaped.
• Aaron swallowed the blood spring with the Mysterious Female Pearl, refined it into a second Primordial Spirit, and forced the arrogant Blood Demon to remain hidden inside the pearl.
• Aaron returned unnoticed to Luo Fu Mountain and considered how the Blood Demon’s destiny and his own entanglements might affect Emei Sect’s Ascension.
• Thirty years later, Li Yingyun and her companions exterminated the last Blood Demon lineage in the Northern Kuru Continent, though Li Yingyun remained wary of the Nine Nether Blood Demon.
• At Emei Sect’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Golden Summit, Qi Miaoyi asked Li Yingyun whether she resented being unable to Ascend when the sect Ascended as a whole.