Chapter Summaries

Wen Qingxuan entered the cauldron and inherited Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s legacy, including the Azure Moon Divine Flame and Spirit Butterfly Immortal Cauldron. She emerged stronger and reunited with Mu Chen, while Wen Ziyu watched in distress.

• Mu Chen urged Wen Qingxuan to take the inheritance, and she leaped into the cauldron despite the Wen Family experts’ protests.
• Wen Ziyu tried to grab Wen Qingxuan, but Mu Chen stopped him and warned that he would be killed by the flame.
• Wen Qingxuan emerged with her cultivation advanced to half a step into Grand Perfection and the full inheritance of Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal.
• Wen Qingxuan absorbed the Azure Moon Divine Flame and Spirit Butterfly Immortal Cauldron into her body.
• Wen Qingxuan teased Mu Chen by asking whether he had forgotten her, while Wen Ziyu curled up and wept.

Wen Qingxuan distributed the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s pills and revealed the sealed Xuanlong Battle Army to Mu Chen. Mu Chen awakened its three hundred thousand Undying Dragon Warriors with his Ancient Dragon Phoenix form, and they knelt under its bloodline pressure.

• Wen Qingxuan distributed the collected pills, while Wen Ziyu took a Saint Spirit Pill and Long Xiang took a Sublimation Pill.
• Wen Qingxuan revealed that the Xuanlong Battle Emperor had sealed his three hundred thousand soldiers as Undying Dragon Warriors in Xuanlong Space.
• Mu Chen activated the teleportation array and led his companions into Xuanlong Space, where they found the sleeping army gathered around the General Summoning Platform.
• Mu Chen summoned his Ancient Dragon Phoenix form, melting the warriors’ stone shells and awakening the Undying Dragon Warriors.
• The awakened warriors knelt before Mu Chen’s Ancient Dragon Phoenix under the overwhelming pressure of its bloodline.

Mu Chen won the Xuanlong Battle Army’s recognition by summoning its Battle Spirit and received the Dragon Talisman, becoming its king. The army then exposed Shi Tianyou, a prince of the Corpse Demon Clan, who had secretly followed them, and Mu Chen confronted him.

• Jiang Long announced that Mu Chen had to prove his strength to earn the Xuanlong Battle Army’s recognition.
• Mu Chen summoned the Xuanlong Battle Spirit and formed nine million Battle Patterns, earning the army’s allegiance.
• The Xuanlong soldiers presented Mu Chen with the Dragon Talisman, binding him to their thirty thousand troops.
• The Battle Spirit attacked an apparently empty area near Wen Qingxuan and the others, revealing the hidden Shi Tianyou.
• Shi Tianyou identified himself as a prince of the Corpse Demon Clan and asked Mu Chen how he had discovered him.
• Mu Chen said he had noticed Shi Tianyou following them near the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s cave abode, and Shi Tianyou abruptly changed color.

Mu Chen and his allies cornered Shi Tianyou, but his escape attempt led him to summon a sealed Nether Demon Emperor corpse. Mu Chen’s Saint Futu Pagoda captured the corpse, while Shi Tianyou resisted the pagoda’s suction and escaped being sealed himself.

• Shi Tianyou denied that Mu Chen had exposed his identity, then decided to retreat when Mu Chen, Long Xiang, and Commander Jiang Long prepared to surround him.
• Shi Tianyou used Life-Bound Corpse Escape to flee toward the passage, but Saint Futu blocked the entrance and forced him back.
• Shi Tianyou activated the buried Nether Demon Emperor corpse, prompting Commander Jiang Long and Long Xiang to rush in and stop him.
• Mu Chen summoned Saint Futu above Shi Tianyou and sealed the Nether Demon Emperor corpse inside the pagoda, severing Shi Tianyou’s control.
• Shi Tianyou fought off Saint Futu’s suction with Endless Corpse Demon Qi and avoided being pulled into the pagoda.

Mu Chen swallowed a Battle Will Pill and pushed the Xuanlong Army’s Battle Will beyond ten million patterns, gaining enough power to attack Shi Tianyou. As Mu Chen’s enormous dragon descended, Shi Tianyou summoned the Corpse God Technique’s Underworld Death God and prepared to drag Mu Chen down with him.

• Mu Chen sent the Xuanlong Army into battle and fought Shi Tianyou with the Xuanlong Battle Spirit while Long Xiang and Jiang Long stood ready nearby.
• Shi Tianyou used the Life-Devouring Skull to destroy Mu Chen’s dragon breath and boasted that Mu Chen could not defeat him.
• Mu Chen swallowed a Ninth Grade Golden Pill Battle Will Pill, and two thousand more soldiers joined the Xuanlong Army, bringing its ranks to five thousand.
• Mu Chen’s Battle Will surged past ten million patterns, but the strain made him bleed as he unleashed the Xuanlong Battle Art, Dark Dragon Swallows the Sun.
• Cornered by the descending dragon, Shi Tianyou sacrificed his flesh and blood essence and summoned the Corpse God Technique, Three Kowtows of the Corpse God.

Mu Chen killed Shi Tianyou with the Xuanlong Battle Will, then survived the backlash and recovered with Wen Qingxuan's help. After the battle, he distributed rewards and resources, strengthening his allies and preparing the Xuanlong Army for the road ahead.

• Mu Chen's dark dragon swallowed Shi Tianyou and the Underworld Death God, while the Heavenly Emperor Sword cut away the Life-Bound Corpse Qi sent to mark Mu Chen.
• After the million-pattern Battle Spirit vanished, Mu Chen's injuries and the Battle Will Pill's backlash overwhelmed him, and Long Xiang and Wen Qingxuan helped him down.
• Wen Qingxuan fed Mu Chen spirit pills and let him rest in her arms; she openly hinted at her feelings, but Mu Chen left her without a direct answer.
• The victors divided their spoils: Wen Qingxuan refined the Azure Moon Flame, Wen Ziyu received a Saint Spirit Pill, and Long Xiang took a Sublimation Pill.
• Mu Chen supplied five hundred million drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid to restore the thirty thousand Xuanlong soldiers and prepared to carry them in Xuanlong Space as a Dark Dragon Ring.
• Mu Chen gave Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood to Jiang Long for the Xuanlong Army and its commander to refine, and Jiang Long accepted the gift with gratitude.

Mu Chen began breaking through to Great Perfection while Hong Ling and Tang Qian'er, now Upper Earth Sovereigns, clashed with Bai Xin'er over a Vermilion Bird Earring fragment in the Ancient Saint Abyss. Bai Xin'er pressured them to surrender it, and Tang Qian'er refused as the dispute remained unresolved.

• Mu Chen swallowed the Saint Spirit Pill in the Xuanlong Space to begin his breakthrough to Great Perfection.
• Hong Ling and Tang Qian'er advanced to Upper Earth Sovereign after finding an ancient ruin in the Ancient Saint Abyss.
• Hong Ling and Tang Qian'er disputed the sale of a Vermilion Bird Earring fragment with Bai Xin'er, who used Xuan Luo's presence to intimidate them.
• Bai Xin'er demanded that Hong Ling and Tang Qian'er give up the artifact fragment, but Tang Qian'er refused.
• Bai Xin'er continued pressuring the two women as Tang Qian'er silently wished Mu Chen would appear to help them.

Mu Chen arrived at the gathering point and confronted Bai Xin'er for claiming the title of Saintess while targeting his childhood friends. Xuan Luo and the other Futu Ancient Clan branches recognized Mu Chen as their Young Clan Leader, leaving Bai Xin'er to realize she had challenged someone far above her station.

• Mu Chen rebuked Bai Xin'er for calling herself a Saintess before her clan had formally approved her and questioned how the Tailing Ancient Clan punished usurping a title.
• Mu Chen greeted Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling, who ran to embrace him as Wen Qingxuan watched jealously.
• Bai Xin'er sought Xuan Luo's help, but Xuan Luo addressed Mu Chen as the Futu Ancient Clan's Young Clan Leader and denied being allied with Bai Xin'er.
• The Mo Branch and Qing Branch arrived to pay their respects to Mu Chen, and Mo Xin and Qing Shuang stood among their leaders.
• Those gathered recognized Mu Chen's position and whispered about how he had become the Futu Ancient Clan's Young Clan Leader despite being mixed-blood.

Mu Chen gathered the Buddha Ancient Clan and its allies, then used the half-month before the expedition to raise Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling's cultivation. When Qin Bubai led the assembled forces toward the Four Ancestors' ruins, Mu Chen's group set out with them.

• Mu Chen rebuffed Bai Xin'er at the trading market and led Xuan Luo, Mo Xin, and the others away.
• Xuan Luo told Mu Chen about the Three Saints Sect's gathering, but Mu Chen refused to pay for information and planned to follow their forces instead.
• Qin Bubai privately shared the Four Ancestors' news with the Buddha Ancient Clan: the Four Saints Pagoda had summoned experts to fight the Evil Clan from Beyond.
• During the half-month wait, Mu Chen cultivated with Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling, raising both women's cultivation to the peak of the Upper Earth Sovereign level.
• Qin Bubai led the gathered forces toward the Great Wilderness, while unaffiliated experts followed behind.

The powerhouses reached the Fallen God Abyss and learned that they had to defend the Four Saints Pagoda’s tiers from the Evil Clan from Beyond. The major forces chose their battle zones and gathered followers before flying toward the pagoda.

• An Ancient Ancestor explained that the Four Saints Pagoda sealed four Heavenly Demon Emperors and that the defenders could earn a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign’s legacy.
• Qin Bubai claimed the tier guarded by the Qingtian Ancestor and gathered eight elite forces to join him.
• Mu Chen chose the tier guarded by the Futu Ancient Ancestor and invited other forces to fight alongside the Futu Ancient Clan.
• Bai Xin'er and Tang Qian'er with Hong Ling each gathered followers to defend the tier guarded by the Tailing Ancient Ancestor.
• Bai Zhu chose the Spear Ancestor’s tier and drew support from many Demon Slayers.
• Qin Bubai, the Futu Ancient Clan, the Tailing Ancient Clan, and the Demon Slayer Corps led their forces toward the Four Saints Pagoda.

Mu Chen led the Buddha Ancient Clan and its allies through the Four Saints Pagoda’s fourth layer to their ancient ancestor’s sealed resting place, where they met the Evil Clan from Beyond’s invading forces. As the two sides began a brutal battle, Mu Chen, Xuan Luo, Mo Xin, and Qing Shuang engaged powerful enemy commanders.

• Mu Chen ordered the Buddha Ancient Clan’s forces to fight through the Evil Clan from Beyond and follow the bloodline call toward their ancient ancestor.
• After more than half a month of fighting, the Buddha Ancient Clan reached a vast altar where four divine-flame pillars bound a mysterious gray coffin.
• The Great Thousand’s forces and the Evil Clan from Beyond’s main army converged at the altar and clashed, with neither side yet committing its Grand Perfection fighters.
• Mu Chen challenged the Blade Demon Clan prodigy, while Xuan Luo summoned the Great Futu Dharma Body to face the Spirit Demon Clan prodigy and Mo Xin called forth the Great Nether Dharma Body to confront the Heart Demon Clan.
• Qing Shuang drew away the Flame Demon Clan’s commander and fought him with her azure sword, but he formed a black-flame demonic fist and struck toward her.

Mu Chen fought Dao Wufeng, the Blade Demon Clan’s half-step Heavenly Sovereign prince, and effortlessly countered his attacks with his formidable body and Great Wind-Calling Art. Dao Wufeng’s strongest techniques failed to touch him, leaving the battle ongoing with Mu Chen still in control.

• Dao Wufeng introduced himself as the Blade Heavenly Demon Emperor’s second prince and learned that Mu Chen had killed Shi Tianyou.
• Dao Wufeng revealed his half-step advance into the Demon Emperor domain and attacked Mu Chen with his Life-Bound Demon Blade.
• Mu Chen caught Dao Wufeng’s blades with his bare hands, then dodged his Blade Demon Thirteen Forms and Heavenly Demon Blade.
• Dao Wufeng unleashed Endless Storm, but Mu Chen emerged unharmed by using the Great Wind-Calling Art.

Mu Chen killed Dao Wufeng and sent his incarnations to support the battles, but the Evil Clan from Beyond broke through Spear Ancestor’s level and released a Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant. As the remnant slaughtered Demon Slayers, Mu Chen called upon his teacher, whose overwhelming sword light destroyed it.

• Mu Chen used the Life-Extinguishing Divine Light to kill Dao Wufeng, breaking the Evil Clan from Beyond army’s morale as the main-plane forces gained ground.
• Three princes of the Evil Clan from Beyond ambushed and killed Bai Zhu, then toppled Spear Ancestor’s stele and freed a Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant.
• The released remnant hunted Demon Slayers on the second level, while news of the defeat shook the main-plane forces across the Four Saints Pagoda.
• Mu Chen sent Black Mu Chen and White Mu Chen to support Xuan Luo and Mo Xin, then called on his teacher to protect the Great Thousand World.
• A vast sword light emerged from the Buddha Ancient Clan’s Young Clan Master, struck the second level, and erased the Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant.

Mu Chen’s sword talisman erased the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul on the second level and devastated the Evil Clan from Beyond, earning Wen Qingxuan the rank of Demon Slayer King. On the fourth level, Mu Chen prepared to call on Qing Yanjing against the sealed Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor, but the ancient stele suddenly reacted.

• Mu Chen activated the sword talisman, which destroyed the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and slew countless Evil Clan from Beyond forces on the second level.
• Wen Qingxuan’s Demon Slayer Token turned golden, granting her the title of Demon Slayer King, and she resolved to settle things with Mu Chen after the battle.
• Mu Chen ordered the Buddha Ancient Clan experts to clear the fourth level’s enemies while he examined the sealed remnant soul of the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Mu Chen began summoning Qing Yanjing, but a Saint Grade World Array appeared around him as the Buddha Ancient Clan experts fled in alarm.
• The ancient stele before the coffin trembled and released a wisp of murky gray light just as the World Array took shape.

Mu Chen met the Buddha Ancestor, who taught him the history and power of the Eight-Part Buddha and offered him its eight Futu Beads. Mu Chen declined the inheritance, leaving the Buddha Ancestor's legacy unclaimed.

• Mu Chen greeted the Buddha Ancestor, who recognized his exceptional bloodline and cultivation and asked him to put away his Saint Grade Grandmaster Spirit Array.
• The Buddha Ancestor persuaded Mu Chen not to attack the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor and promised to teach him the Eight-Part Buddha instead.
• The Buddha Ancestor took Mu Chen into his ancient Futu Pagoda and explained how he had devised the Eight-Part Buddha by refining captured Demon Emperors into Futu Beads.
• The Buddha Ancestor showed Mu Chen the eight demonic beads and demonstrated their power as the core of the Eight-Part Buddha.
• The Buddha Ancestor offered Mu Chen the eight Futu Beads, but Mu Chen declined.

Mu Chen secured the Buddha Ancestor’s help in preparing the Eight-Part Buddha and then let him possess his body to fight the sealed Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor. The coffin holding the demon exploded, and the great demon emerged.

• Mu Chen told the Buddha Ancestor that the Heavenly Emperor had a seventy- or eighty-percent chance of resurrecting him and Tai Ling Old Ghost, so the Buddha Ancestor agreed to take the gamble and awaken the other ancestors.
• The Buddha Ancestor planted eight phantom Futu Demon Beads in Mu Chen’s Crystal Saint Futu and used the Mystic Demon Emperor’s corpse to stabilize them, passing the Eight-Part Buddha cultivation methods to Mu Chen.
• The Buddha Ancestor possessed Mu Chen and entered the battle as the fighting on the fourth level began to wind down after the Blade Demon Clan Prince and a Heavenly Demon Emperor’s offspring were slain.
• The possessed Mu Chen reached the altar, where the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor violently attacked its rune-bound coffin and corroded its seals.
• The mysterious stone coffin exploded, and the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor emerged in a burst of demonic light.

Buddha Ancestor used Mu Chen’s body and the Crystal Futu Pagoda to destroy Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor with the Eight-Part Buddha. After the battle ended, Buddha Ancestor realized the technique’s statues could absorb powerful remnant souls and decided to hunt the remaining Heavenly Demon Emperors.

• Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor failed to escape the Four Saints Pagoda and confronted Buddha Ancestor, who sealed him inside the Crystal Futu Pagoda.
• Buddha Ancestor unleashed the Eight-Part Buddha’s Futu Demon-Extinguishing Light as Mu Chen watched from within his mind.
• Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor used three Demon Emperor divine abilities in a desperate counterattack, draining the body he had possessed.
• The Eight-Part Buddha’s beams destroyed Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor, and the Great Thousand World’s forces routed the remaining Evil Clan from Beyond.
• The eight statues absorbed Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant essence, prompting Buddha Ancestor to target the two remaining Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant souls.

Bai Xin'er, Tang Qian'er, and Hong Ling tried to awaken the Tailing Ancient Ancestor, but only Buddha Ancestor’s golden Spirit Soul succeeded. After awakening, the Ancestor recognized the heirs and prepared to pass down the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light, while Tang Qian’er privately began to tell him a secret from Mu Chen.

• Bai Xin'er and Tang Qian'er with Hong Ling separately circulated the Tailing Ancient Scripture to awaken their ancestor’s will.
• The ancient stele remained unresponsive until Buddha Ancestor’s golden Spirit Soul struck it and awakened the Tailing Ancient Ancestor.
• The Tailing Ancient Ancestor learned that the Heavenly Emperor had awakened and that the Northern Emperor and Southern Ancestor were summoning ancient heroes.
• Bai Xin'er claimed she had come to bring the Ancestor’s vestments and inheritance back to the Tailing Realm, while Hong Li held back her objection at Tang Qian’er’s urging.
• The Tailing Ancient Ancestor said he would handle the sealed Heaven Demon Emperor remnant and pass down the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light.
• Tang Qian'er privately asked the Tailing Ancient Ancestor to hear something important, and he raised an eyebrow.

Ancestor Tai Ling learned that Luo God might still be alive and chose to return to life, then gave Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light and raised their cultivation. He demonstrated the technique by erasing the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul, while his renewed resolve pointed him toward the Western Heaven Continent.

• Tang Qian'er told Ancestor Tai Ling to visit the Western Heaven Continent and see whether Luo God had revived.
• Ancestor Tai Ling, inspired by the possibility that Luo God lived, entrusted Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling with the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light.
• Bai Xin'er objected to the decision, but Ancestor Tai Ling's Saint-grade pressure forced her and her followers to bow and apologize.
• Ancestor Tai Ling passed the inheritance and spiritual energy to Tang Qian'er and Hong Ling, raising them from Upper Earth Sovereign to ordinary Grand Perfection.
• Ancestor Tai Ling demonstrated the Great Spirit Heaven-Reaching Light and washed away the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul.

After the Four Saints and Mu Chen defeated the Evil Clan’s forces in the Four Saints Pagoda, Qin Bubai received Qingtian Ancestor’s inheritance while the pagoda collapsed. The victorious Mu Chen returned to Saint Abyss City, where the Great Thousand Palace struggled with whether to recognize Wen Qingxuan as a Demon Slayer King too.

• Qingtian Ancestor destroyed the final Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant soul, and Buddha Ancestor collected its Origin Qi for Mu Chen.
• Buddha Ancestor went to check on Spear Ancestor while Qingtian Ancestor passed Qin Bubai an ancient art, leaving Qin Bubai ecstatic.
• The Four Saints Pagoda collapsed, and Mu Chen led the surviving forces back toward Saint Abyss City.
• The returning heroes were celebrated in Saint Abyss City, while Tower Master Lu Feng worried over whether the Great Thousand Palace should recognize Wen Qingxuan as a Demon Slayer King.