Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan killed the Shadow Dharma King with a rapid combination of attacks and sealed his remains in Heishan’s gourd. Dharma King Wuji split off a powerful second avatar to hold back the Five Elements Ancestor, leaving Li Qingshan to face Wuji’s true body alone.

• Li Qingshan used the Golden Wind Cicada, the God-Slaying Heart Sword, and Heishan’s gourd to weaken the Shadow Dharma King before crushing his chest with a punch.
• The gourd sealed the Shadow Dharma King’s body and primordial spirit, and Li Qingshan declared that Wuji was next.
• Dharma King Wuji broke through the Five Elements Ancestor’s attack and charged Li Qingshan, who met him with a punch and endured the clash with only a minor injury.
• The Five Elements Ancestor moved to help Li Qingshan, but Dharma King Wuji revealed his true body and a Wuji Clone.
• Wuji’s true body attacked Li Qingshan while the clone engaged the Five Elements Ancestor, leaving Li Qingshan under mounting pressure.

Li Qingshan fought Dharma King Wuji’s true body while the Five Elements Ancestor struggled against his Second Avatar. After learning the Eternal Night Devil Palace’s palace master was away from the Primordial Devil Continent, the Five Elements Ancestor resolved to kill the avatar and promised to help Li Qingshan; Dharma King Wuji then attacked Li Qingshan with a colossal hand formed from his Primordial Domain.

• Dharma King Wuji attacked Li Qingshan with Wuji Sword Qi, but Li Qingshan’s Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Blade Domain disrupted and destroyed most of the strikes.
• Dharma King Wuji suppressed Li Qingshan with his stronger Primordial Domain, and Li Qingshan resisted its pressure before sending his Five-Colored Sword Wheel at him.
• Dharma King Wuji blocked the sword wheel with the Wuji Bell, while the Five Elements Ancestor tried to break free of the Second Avatar and aid Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan told the Five Elements Ancestor that Hundred Flowers Fairy had said the Eternal Night Devil Palace’s palace master had left the continent; the ancestor stopped fighting and rejoiced at the news.
• The Five Elements Ancestor told Li Qingshan to hold Dharma King Wuji off while he dealt with the avatar, and Li Qingshan continued attacking the true body.
• Dharma King Wuji protected himself with the Wuji Dharma Robe and formed a colossal Primordial Domain hand to seize Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan disrupted Dharma King Wuji’s attack, wounded his Primordial Spirit, and destroyed his chaotic hand, but Wuji then manifested his Wuji Grotto-Heaven and threatened to crush him. The Five Elements Ancestor revealed that he had concealed his mid-stage Void Refinement Realm cultivation, and prepared to face Wuji with his full strength.

• Li Qingshan combined the Golden Wind Cicada, Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd, and Human Emperor Banner to disrupt Dharma King Wuji, then wounded Wuji’s Primordial Spirit with the God-Slaying Heart Sword.
• Li Qingshan struck the weakened chaotic hand with his full strength and broke it, though the backlash injured him.
• Dharma King Wuji manifested his Wuji Grotto-Heaven, overwhelming Li Qingshan with its pressure and preparing to crush him.
• The Five Elements Ancestor summoned five half-step Void Refinement avatars from across the secret realm and merged them into himself.
• The Five Elements Ancestor revealed his mid-stage Void Refinement Realm cultivation and declared that he would kill Dharma King Wuji.

The Five Elements Ancestor overwhelmed Dharma King Wuji, destroyed his clone, and trapped him, but Wuji summoned the Eternal Night Demon God’s manifestation to turn the battle against his pursuers. The manifestation’s palm overpowered the Five Elements Ancestor’s strongest strike, leaving him gravely wounded.

• The Five Elements Ancestor’s more complete Grotto-Heaven shattered Dharma King Wuji’s Grotto-Heaven phantom and wounded him.
• Dharma King Wuji tried to merge with his Wuji Clone, but the Five Elements Ancestor destroyed it with Geng Metal Sword Qi and Burn Heavens flames.
• The Five Elements Ancestor sealed Dharma King Wuji inside a net of Five Elements laws, preventing his escape.
• Dharma King Wuji summoned the Eternal Night Demon God’s manifestation using a blood rune and a black statue, threatening both the Five Elements Ancestor and Li Qingshan.
• The Five Elements Ancestor unleashed his Myriad Laws Sword Qi-Gale against the manifestation’s descending palm, but the clash gravely wounded him.

Li Qingshan devoured the Primordial Spirits of Dark Dharma King, Nine Nether Dharma King, and Shadow Dharma King, breaking through to early Void Refinement and forming a Chaos Grotto-Heaven embryo. He overwhelmed Dharma King Wuji with a punch and Great Sun Golden Flame, then began devouring the origin of Wuji's shattered Grotto-Heaven.

• Dharma King Wuji attacked Li Qingshan while the Five Elements Ancestor was occupied by the Demon God's manifestation.
• Li Qingshan devoured the three imprisoned Dharma Kings' Primordial Spirits and advanced in his Primordial Spirit, body, and cultivation to early Void Refinement.
• Li Qingshan met Dharma King Wuji's palm with a Chaos-powered punch and shattered it, sending Wuji flying.
• Li Qingshan struck Dharma King Wuji with Great Sun Golden Flame, which engulfed him and began burning through his defenses.
• Li Qingshan's Chaos Grotto-Heaven embryo clashed with Wuji's shattered Grotto-Heaven, and Li Qingshan used the Great Devouring Immortal Art to draw out Wuji's Grotto-Heaven origin.

Li Qingshan devoured Dharma King Wuji and reached the peak of the early stage of Void Refinement Realm, but Wuji’s death awakened the Eternal Night Palace Master's will within the Demon God's manifestation. Just as it prepared a deadly attack, a sword from beyond the firmament destroyed it, and the Five Elements Ancestor recognized the arriving figure’s weapon as the legendary Human Emperor Sword.

• Li Qingshan used the Great Devouring Immortal Art to destroy Dharma King Wuji and absorb his body, cultivation, and insights, reaching the peak of the early stage of Void Refinement Realm.
• Dharma King Wuji’s death awakened a sliver of the Eternal Night Palace Master's will within the Demon God's manifestation, which targeted Li Qingshan and the Five Elements Ancestor with a deadly Dark Singularity.
• Li Qingshan prepared to call on the Universe Golden Flame Cauldron while the injured Five Elements Ancestor readied his grotto-heaven to resist the manifestation.
• A brilliant sword light descended from beyond the firmament and cleaved the Eternal Night Demon God's manifestation in two, destroying its will and shattering the black statue.
• A mysterious figure descended with a sword bearing the words Human Emperor, and the Five Elements Ancestor identified it as the legendary Human Emperor Sword from the Human Emperor Continent.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang, the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom’s Eldest Princess, arrived at the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm and revealed her overwhelming strength. After greeting her former teacher Zhang Ruoyu and the human cultivators, she used the Human Emperor Sword to annihilate the Devil Race army.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang slew the Demon God's projection and Dharma King Wuji with a single sword strike.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang greeted Zhang Ruoyu, who revealed that she was the Eldest Princess of the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom and the Human Emperor’s eldest daughter.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang praised the human cultivators for defending humanity and vowed to avenge their fallen comrades.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang unleashed the Human Emperor Sword’s countless golden sword lights upon the Devil Race army.
• The Devil Race forces fled, but Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s sword lights swept over them and annihilated their cultivators and Magic Beasts.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang annihilated the demon army in the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm, and Su Changge executed the traitor Zhou Tianxuan. In the Demon-Extinguishing Main Hall, Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained that the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom had been unable to send aid sooner because the Eternal Night Devil Palace was attacking the Human Emperor Continent.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang destroyed the demons on the battlefield with a single sword strike, stunning Li Qingshan and the surviving cultivators.
• Zhou Tianxuan begged Xuan Yuan Nihuang and the Five Elements Ancestor for mercy, but Su Changge killed him and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang praised Li Qingshan after the Five Elements Ancestor described his achievements in battle.
• The Five Elements Ancestor sent Nangong Yan and Su Changge to clear the battlefield, tend to the wounded, and repair the formation.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told the Five Elements Ancestor that the Eternal Night Devil Palace had tied down the Immortal Kingdom's forces by attacking the Human Emperor Continent.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained Tianyuan Planet’s dire condition and revealed that the Eternal Night Devil Palace’s true body had left the star region. She proposed an assault on the weakened Devil Palace, and Li Qingshan and Five Elements Ancestor agreed to join her.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan and Five Elements Ancestor that the Devil Race had conquered seven of Tianyuan Planet’s nine continents, leaving Human Emperor Continent and embattled Primordial Devil Continent as humanity’s last strongholds.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang revealed that the Eternal Night Devil Palace’s Palace Master was likely a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Monarch with countless clones, and that one of his clones had wounded her father, the Old Human Emperor.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang said the Palace Master’s true body had left Tianyuan Planet’s star region and that the Devil Palace’s forces on Primordial Devil Continent were unusually weak.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang proposed using the Human Emperor Sword to destroy Eternal Night Devil Palace’s lair, and Five Elements Ancestor pledged to help.
• Li Qingshan agreed to join the assault, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang announced they would set out in half a day.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang, Five Elements Ancestor, and Li Qingshan reached the Eternal Night Devil Palace and challenged its defenses. Xuan Yuan Nihuang unleashed the Human Emperor Sword’s Mountain and River Split against the palace’s grand formation.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang, Five Elements Ancestor, and Li Qingshan agreed to attack the Eternal Night Devil Palace swiftly and discreetly, then used the Human Emperor Sword’s Void-Escaping ability to travel there.
• The three found the Eternal Night Heavenly Devil Grand Formation surrounding the palace, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang drew the Human Emperor Sword, alerting the palace’s defenders.
• The Left and Right Venerables emerged and recognized the Human Emperor Sword and Five Elements Ancestor, while Five Elements Ancestor told them the Four Great Dharma Kings had been executed.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang declared the Eternal Night Devil Palace doomed and brought down the Human Emperor Sword with Mountain and River Split as the Venerables strengthened the formation.

Li Qingshan and his allies destroyed the Eternal Night Devil Palace’s defenses, defeated its last Void Refinement Realm fighters, and found the hidden treasury. After entering the vast vault, they began searching for resources before Li Qingshan asked Ruyi to identify treasures that could restore it.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang split the Eternal Night Heavenly Devil Grand Formation with the Human Emperor Sword, and the Left and Right Venerables fled as the formation collapsed.
• Li Qingshan and the Five Elements Ancestor intercepted and defeated the two Venerables, while Heishan and the Human Emperor Banner helped capture one of their Primordial Spirits.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang hunted down the Devil Palace’s remaining powerful cultivators as Li Qingshan devoured the Venerables’ Primordial Spirits and learned how to open the Eternal Night Secret Treasury.
• Li Qingshan used the Venerables’ essence blood and a devilish seal to open the altar, and he entered the treasury with Xuan Yuan Nihuang and the Five Elements Ancestor.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and the Five Elements Ancestor went to search the treasury’s restricted areas and materials, while Li Qingshan asked Ruyi which treasures could help restore it.

Li Qingshan gathered ancient treasures from the Eternal Night Secret Treasury to help the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd recover, then followed Lady Three-Flower to a hidden Dark Lake. At the lakebed, he found a mass of pure dark origin and a God-Devil Relic Bone, but a sudden change struck as he reached for the bone.

• Li Qingshan collected damaged ancient artifact fragments and law-bearing stone steles for the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to devour.
• He gathered ancient spirit pills and ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs from the treasury.
• Lady Three-Flower sensed a treasure in the deepest part of the treasury and led Li Qingshan to the Dark Lake.
• Li Qingshan protected Lady Three-Flower from a dark-origin claw, then dove into the lake and found a mass of pure dark origin and a God-Devil Relic Bone.
• Lady Three-Flower claimed the dark origin for her recovery and left the God-Devil Relic Bone to Li Qingshan, who reached for it just as a sudden change struck.

Li Qingshan touched the God-Devil Relic Bone and was overwhelmed by ancient memories of a God-Devil battling a Light Celestial. The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd saved his collapsing Primordial Spirit by assimilating the relic’s will, leaving his cultivation at the late Void Refinement Realm.

• Li Qingshan touched the God-Devil Relic Bone and was pulled into an illusion of a colossal God-Devil whose passage destroyed stars and a life-bearing planet.
• Li Qingshan witnessed the God-Devil and the Light Celestial clash in a battle that shattered star systems and grievously wounded both beings.
• The God-Devil disintegrated, leaving behind stars, secret realms, and a trace of Primordial Spirit nourishment that threatened to overwhelm Li Qingshan.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd released chaotic radiance that assimilated the God-Devil's will and repaired Li Qingshan's Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qingshan's Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit advanced to the late Void Refinement Realm, and he regained consciousness in shock.

Li Qingshan discovered a God-Devil Dao Fetus inside the relic bone and learned that it could become the foundation for a powerful Second Avatar. Lady Three-Flower explained the risks and requirements, leaving Li Qingshan with the chance to claim a fortune beyond ordinary cultivation.

• Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to withstand the relic bone's will, raising his primordial spirit to the late Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Qingshan entered the space inside the relic bone and found a Metal-colored egg, while Lady Three-Flower appeared there as well.
• Lady Three-Flower identified the bone as a God-Devil Supreme Bone and the egg as the final life origin of a Chaos God-Devil undergoing nirvana.
• Lady Three-Flower urged Li Qingshan to refine the Dao Fetus into a Second Avatar before its nascent consciousness awakened.
• Lady Three-Flower explained that the refinement required a powerful, special primordial spirit, a suitable secret art, and high-quality blood essence and origin.

Li Qingshan used the Calico Kitten’s ancient technique to imprint his Primordial Spirit and blood essence onto the God-Devil Dao Fetus, beginning the process of creating a God-Devil Avatar. After storing the supreme bone in his Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to nurture it for a year, he left the dark lakebed to meet His Highness and the Patriarch.

• The Calico Kitten taught Li Qingshan the Chaos Seed Spirit Avatar Technique for refining the Dao Fetus into an avatar.
• Li Qingshan spent nearly six hours imprinting his blood essence and Primordial Spirit origin onto the Dao Fetus, overcoming its resistance.
• The Calico Kitten told Li Qingshan to nurture the Dao Fetus with his Primordial Spirit and blood essence for about a year before it would become his God-Devil Avatar.
• Li Qingshan placed the God-Devil Supreme Bone beside the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd in his dantian, where chaos energy began nourishing it.
• Li Qingshan left the dark lakebed and flew toward the entrance of the Eternal Night Secret Treasury to meet His Highness and the Patriarch.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang, the Five Elements Ancestor, and Li Qingshan returned after destroying the Eternal Night Devil Palace, but wondered why its master’s avatar had not appeared. The Demon-Extinguishing Alliance then launched a four-pronged campaign to eradicate the Devil Race across the Primordial Devil Continent, with Li Qingshan leading the most dangerous northern expedition.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and the Five Elements Ancestor compared their gains with Li Qingshan, then left the ruined Eternal Night Devil Palace with him.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang questioned why the Eternal Night Palace Master had left no avatar to defend the palace, and Li Qingshan kept his suspicions about the God-Devil Dao Fetus secret.
• The Five Elements Ancestor reported the palace’s destruction to the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance, prompting Nangong Yan, Su Changge, Han Feng, and the others to celebrate.
• The Five Elements Ancestor divided the alliance into four forces to attack devil sects in the eastern, western, southern, and northern regions.
• Li Qingshan accepted command of the northern expedition, joined by Hua Wu and Hua Yu, while the Five Elements Ancestor assigned two avatars to support them and Xuan Yuan Nihuang to oversee the campaign.

Li Qingshan arrived at the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect and destroyed its strongest defenses with ease. After killing the sect master and three elders, he left the surviving disciples fleeing in chaos.

• Li Qingshan and Hua Wu and Hua Yu reached the Corpse Remains Mountain Range, where he sensed the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect’s corpse formations.
• Heishan and Lady Three-Flower urged Li Qingshan to pursue the sisters, but he rebuked them and insisted on protecting his disciples.
• The Corpse Demon Elder and three elders confronted Li Qingshan, then summoned the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation and the Vajra Corpse King.
• Li Qingshan crushed the Vajra Corpse King with a gesture and killed the Corpse Demon Elder and the three elders with four punches.
• The Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect’s surviving disciples fled in panic after its leaders were annihilated.

Li Qingshan pursued the gathered Devil Sect remnants to Yellow Springs Domain, where they had fortified themselves inside the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Formation. Xuan Yuan Nihuang cut open the formation with the Human Emperor Sword, and Li Qingshan led Hua Wu and Hua Yu inside to attack.

• Li Qingshan ordered Hua Wu and Hua Yu to clear the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect and seized its treasury.
• Li Qingshan found Blood Devil Hall and Shadow Devil Sect abandoned, then learned from the Five Elements Ancestor that the surviving Devil Sects had gathered at Yellow Springs Domain.
• Li Qingshan confronted the sect leaders behind the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Formation and rejected their threats and hopes for the Palace Master's aid.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang sliced a thousand-zhang gap through the formation with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Li Qingshan entered the formation to attack, followed by Hua Wu and Hua Yu.

Li Qingshan annihilated the eight great devil sects, while Xuan Yuan Nihuang stopped their summoned Demon God manifestation. After looting the Yellow Spring Devil Sect’s treasure vault, Li Qingshan left the ruined domain with Hua Wu and Hua Yu as the human race’s hopes rose.

• Li Qingshan swiftly killed Yellow Springs Master, the Mystic Ice Demoness, Devil Master Ghost Shadow, and the old poison-and-gu master, while Heishan and Hua Wu and Hua Yu dealt with the remaining devil cultivators.
• The surviving devil cultivators sacrificed themselves to summon a peak Void Refinement Realm Demon God manifestation, but Xuan Yuan Nihuang severed its connection to the altar with the Human Emperor Sword Dao—Realm-Cleaving Slash.
• Li Qingshan searched the Yellow Spring Devil Sect’s treasure vault and collected rare resources, damaged divine statues, and other law-bearing treasures for the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.
• Li Qingshan departed the Yellow Springs Domain with Hua Wu and Hua Yu, leaving the eight great devil sects destroyed and the human race with renewed hope.

After the campaign against the devil sects succeeded, Li Qingshan donated his captured resources to help restore the Primordial Devil Continent and returned to the Ninth Peak to cultivate. He entered seclusion with the God-Devil Dao Fetus and his other gains, while Hua Wu and Hua Yu prepared to advance their cultivation.

• The Five Elements Ancestor reported that the alliance had destroyed twenty-six devil sects and killed fifty-seven Spirit Transformation devil cultivators, leaving most Devil Race forces on the Primordial Devil Continent eliminated.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang thanked Li Qingshan for his role in the campaign, and he donated the resources he had taken from the northern devil sects to the alliance.
• Li Qingshan left the Demon-Extinguishing Main Hall and returned to the Ninth Peak, where he told Hua Wu and Hua Yu that he would enter seclusion and ordered Nalan Yue to cultivate.
• Li Qingshan gave Hua Wu and Hua Yu Nine Apertures Mystical Comprehension Pills to support their cultivation before dismissing them.
• Li Qingshan secured his cave abode with restrictions and the Universe Golden Flame Cauldron, then examined the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and the god-devil supreme bone within it.