Chapter Summaries

Qi Zhiyuan and the Seven Mysteries Sect Grandmasters attacked Secluded Silence Valley, where the Heavenly Demon Sect used its arrays and terrain to resist them. Chen Mu joined the battle and demonstrated power comparable to the sect’s strongest Grandmasters, leaving the Demon Aspect he struck near collapse.

• Qi Zhiyuan unleashed the Taiyin Mirror’s Grand Yin Mirror Light against Secluded Silence Valley, and a Demon Qi Azure Dragon rose from the valley to oppose it.
• Qi Zhiyuan suppressed the Azure Dragon while Feng Hongsheng and Shi Zhenyong attacked it and the Yellow Earth Demon Lord’s giant hand.
• Fang Yuan, Liu Tong, Murong Yan, and the other Seven Mysteries Sect Grandmasters joined the assault as the two sides began a large-scale battle across the ravine.
• Chen Mu stepped away from Murong Yan and launched his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal into the valley, impressing the watching Grandmasters with its power.
• Chen Mu’s Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal pierced the head of a Strange Beast Jiao Demon Aspect and nearly destroyed it.

Chen Mu and the Seven Mysteries Sect Grandmasters attacked the Heavenly Demon Sect’s main altar at Secluded Silence Valley, forcing its defenders to rely on their formations as they awaited help. Meanwhile, Yuwen Hao learned the Earth Abyss in Ice Province would open in two months, then sensed that something had gone wrong at Secluded Silence Valley.

• Chen Mu used the Cold Soul Spiritual Blade and Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal to batter the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Demon Aspects alongside the other Grandmasters.
• Tier Six demon human protectors panicked as the Seven Mysteries Sect’s assault threatened Secluded Silence Valley, but Black Jade Demon Lord Kun Wu ordered them to hold their positions and reinforce the formations.
• Black Jade Demon Lord Kun Wu chose to resist within the main altar’s defenses and wait for aid, knowing that fleeing would leave the Demon Venerables exposed to the Grandmasters.
• Yuwen Hao received and crushed a Heavenly Corpse Command Talisman, confirming that the Earth Abyss in Ice Province would open in two months and that the allied forces planned to exploit the upheaval to attack the Ice Severing Palace.
• Yuwen Hao noticed a sudden crack and blood on his hand and realized that something had happened at Secluded Silence Valley.

Yin Heng intercepted Yuwen Hao as the Seven Mysteries Sect attacked Secluded Silence Valley. As the valley's defenses weakened, Chen Mu and Qi Zhiyuan suspected that its formations were restraining a Ninth Rank Black Tortoise, making a full breach dangerous.

• Yuwen Hao hurried back toward Secluded Silence Valley but Yin Heng blocked his path and challenged him to a fourth battle.
• Yin Heng and Yuwen Hao clashed in the clouds as the Seven Mysteries Sect's forces continued their assault on the valley.
• Chen Mu studied the weakening formations and suspected they drew their Demon Qi from an imprisoned Ninth Rank Black Tortoise.
• Chen Mu held back from damaging the formation nodes further because breaking the restraints could release the Black Tortoise.
• Qi Zhiyuan slowed the Taiyin Mirror's assault and considered how the Seven Mysteries Sect should respond if a Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon emerged.

The Seven Mysteries Sect pressed its assault on the Heavenly Demon Sect’s main altar despite the threat of the suppressed Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise. Qi Zhiyuan destroyed a key formation node, and the resulting upheaval caused Secluded Silence Valley to collapse as the Heavenly Demon Sect prepared to unleash its imprisoned demons.

• Black Jade Demon Lord Kun Wu warned that a Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon guarded the sect, but Qi Zhiyuan dismissed his threat as a bluff.
• Chen Mu assessed the danger and urged a prompt decision, while Qi Zhiyuan secretly instructed the Seven Mysteries Sect Grandmasters to spread out and stop the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Venerables and Protectors from escaping.
• Kun Wu realized Secluded Silence Valley could not be defended and ordered Qu Lin to prepare to abandon the altar and drive its imprisoned demons berserk.
• Chen Mu destroyed the Demon Aspect he was fighting and withdrew as the Seven Mysteries Sect Grandmasters spread out in preparation for the formation’s collapse.
• Qi Zhiyuan’s Taiyin Mirror Light shattered the exposed Earth Fiend Suppression Stone, unleashing the earth veins and causing the Heavenly Demon Sect’s main altar to fall.

The Seven Mysteries Sect’s assault shattered Secluded Silence Valley’s formation, freeing the Black Tortoise and the demons imprisoned there. As the valley descended into chaos, the fighting forces scattered, while Yellow Earth Demon Lord escaped underground with a bundle.

• Demon Venerable Qu Lin poured black Earth Fiend Condensed Liquid into the Black Tortoise through its binding chain, driving it mad before fleeing.
• The Black Tortoise broke its chains and destroyed Secluded Silence Valley’s formation core, freeing the other imprisoned demons.
• Qi Zhiyuan ordered the Seven Mysteries Sect’s Grandmasters to retreat while attacking fleeing Heavenly Demon Sect forces amid the rampaging demons.
• Qi Zhiyuan searched for Black Jade Demon Lord Kun Wu but diverted to help Feng Hongsheng against an Eighth Rank Great Demon King.
• Yellow Earth Demon Lord fled underground with a gray cloth bundle, lamenting the loss of the Black Tortoise and Secluded Silence Valley.

Chen Mu pursued the Yellow Earth Demon Lord through the earth beneath Secluded Silence Valley, overcoming his earth-vein techniques and traps. He caught the Demon Lord and pierced through his chest with a Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal.

• The Yellow Earth Demon Lord sensed Chen Mu approaching underground and stirred the earth veins to disrupt his earth-escape art.
• Chen Mu steadied himself with Kun Earth power and continued pursuing the Demon Lord, who sent a drop of Demon Blood away before summoning a tide of giant earth rats.
• Chen Mu crushed the rat swarm and pressed the surrounding earth inward, but the Yellow Earth Demon Lord tunneled away and kept fleeing.
• Chen Mu pursued the Demon Lord to within thirty zhang, then solidified the earth around him into mountain rock and caught up.
• The Yellow Earth Demon Lord tried to block Chen Mu's Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, but the attack pierced his demon power and chest.

Chen Mu studied Yellow Earth Demon Lord’s regenerative demon body, then faced the arriving Black Jade Demon Lord Kun Wu. Revealing the overwhelming strength of his Qian Kun Martial Body, Chen Mu killed Yellow Earth Demon Lord and crushed Kun Wu’s attempt to flee, leaving the Eighth Rank Demon Lord battered deep underground.

• Chen Mu observed Yellow Earth Demon Lord’s flesh regeneration as the wounded demon begged for mercy, but Kun Wu’s black-jade scale interrupted Chen Mu’s finishing blow.
• Yellow Earth Demon Lord used his remaining demon power to escape Chen Mu, and Kun Wu arrived to protect him.
• Kun Wu attacked Chen Mu at close range, but Chen Mu stopped the Eighth Rank Demon Lord’s full-force strike with his fist and revealed the might of his Qian Kun Martial Body.
• Chen Mu overwhelmed Kun Wu with a Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, then killed Yellow Earth Demon Lord with a distant fist seal.
• Kun Wu fled through the earth veins, but Chen Mu caught him and struck him deep underground, leaving him badly wounded.

Chen Mu defeated and killed the Black Jade Demon Lord, who tried to persuade him to join the Heavenly Demon Sect. Searching the corpse, Chen Mu found Black Tortoise Demon Blood and a rare bottle of Black Tortoise Heart Blood that could help temper his Martial Body.

• Chen Mu questioned the mortally wounded Black Jade Demon Lord about other Heavenly Demons and the Heavenly Demon Sect's founder, but Kun Wu did not answer directly.
• Black Jade Demon Lord urged Chen Mu to cultivate the Heavenly Demon arts and pursue immortality, but Chen Mu rejected the offer and killed him with a flick of his finger.
• Chen Mu examined the Heavenly Demon Sect's cultivation method and judged that its practitioners lost their wills, leaving them unable to reach the heights of Peerless Grandmasters.
• Chen Mu searched the Black Jade Demon Lord's body and found a large bottle of Black Tortoise Demon Blood and a small bottle made of Millennial Mystic Jade.
• Chen Mu identified the small bottle's contents as Black Tortoise Heart Blood and considered using it to greatly advance his Martial Body tempering.

Chen Mu collected Black Jade Demon Lord and Yellow Earth Demon Lord’s treasures, then pursued the weakened Black Tortoise after learning it had fled Secluded Silence Valley. The chapter leaves Murong Yan flying ahead of the Black Tortoise, unable to shake it and uncertain where she can lead it safely.

• Chen Mu took Black Jade Demon Lord’s Body Tempering Spiritual Materials and other treasures, then crushed his corpse.
• Chen Mu searched Yellow Earth Demon Lord’s corpse, gained a fifth Body Tempering Spiritual Material, and crushed the remains.
• Chen Mu returned to the surface, sensed that the Black Tortoise had left Secluded Silence Valley, and followed its residual Demon Qi through the air.
• The Black Tortoise pursued Murong Yan through the clouds after a Heavenly Demon Sect Demon Venerable’s scheme made it target her.
• Murong Yan considered luring the Black Tortoise to the Seven Mysteries Sect, an alien stronghold, or another refuge, but feared the risks and could not decide where to go.

Chen Mu caught up with Murong Yan as she fled a frenzied Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise, then blocked its cloud-sea attack with ease. He turned to face the Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon, determined to test the gap between his strength and the Blood Exchange Realm.

• Chen Mu followed the Black Tortoise's Demon Qi and discovered that it was pursuing Murong Yan through the clouds.
• The Black Tortoise used its power over the cloud sea to attack Murong Yan, slowing her and closing the distance.
• Chen Mu caught up to Murong Yan, who explained that an unknown substance in her internal breath had drawn the Black Tortoise after her.
• Chen Mu blocked the Black Tortoise's next tidal attack with a sweep of his hand, astonishing Murong Yan with his strength.
• Chen Mu stopped fleeing and faced the Black Tortoise head-on to test himself against a Blood Exchange Realm opponent.

Chen Mu challenged the weakened Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise with his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal and survived its tail sweep with only a hand injury. As he and Murong Yan fled its pursuit, he revealed his Qian Kun Martial Body and asked her to keep it secret.

• Chen Mu told Murong Yan to retreat, then met the charging Black Tortoise with his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal.
• The Black Tortoise countered with a tail sweep, and their collision tore through the surrounding sea of clouds.
• Chen Mu emerged from the clash and urged Murong Yan to keep fleeing as the enraged Black Tortoise pursued them.
• Murong Yan saw the deep wound on Chen Mu's fist healing and realized he had endured the Black Tortoise's attack head-on.
• Chen Mu confirmed that he had a Qian Kun Martial Body and asked Murong Yan to keep it secret.

Chen Mu and Murong Yan decided to lure the maddened Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise toward the Wumeng Tribe and Wu Li Tribe strongholds. As the foreign race Grandmasters debated whether to aid the Heavenly Demon Sect, a Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon approached their camps from the south.

• Chen Mu judged that he could hold off the Black Tortoise but could not suppress it, and asked Murong Yan how long she needed to cleanse her aura.
• Chen Mu proposed sending the Black Tortoise toward the foreign race strongholds, and Murong Yan agreed to go with him.
• Chen Mu led Murong Yan toward the Wumeng Tribe and Wu Li Tribe camps in northern Cold County and described their forces.
• Marquis Wugu and the foreign race Grandmasters argued over whether to intervene in the Seven Mysteries Sect's attack on Secluded Silence Valley.
• A scout's urgent report sent the Grandmasters outside, where Marquis Wugu sensed a Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon rushing toward the strongholds from the south.

Marquis Wugu prepared the Wumeng and Wu Li forces to face a Black Tortoise Heavenly Demon, then recognized Chen Mu and Murong Yan leading it toward their stronghold. After they escaped underground, the Black Tortoise attacked the armies, while Marquis Wugu pursued the pair beneath the frozen ground.

• Marquis Wugu assembled the two tribes’ troops after sensing a Heavenly Demon approaching, and identified it as a Black Tortoise following Chen Mu and Murong Yan.
• Marquis Wugu recognized Chen Mu and Murong Yan and hurled his spear at them as they dove toward the ground.
• Chen Mu slowed the spear with the Power of Heaven and Earth, then took Murong Yan underground before the Black Tortoise landed where they had vanished.
• The Black Tortoise turned on the Wumeng and Wu Li formations, and Marquis Wugu ordered Qiu Gu Dang Hu to hold the line.
• Marquis Wugu plunged underground to pursue Chen Mu and Murong Yan.

Chen Mu and Murong Yan fled underground while Marquis Wugu pursued them, but Chen Mu revealed that he had become a Qiankun Grandmaster. Marquis Wugu attacked with the Houtu Spear Technique and was overpowered, leaving the two Grandmasters poised to continue their fight.

• Qiu Gu Dang Hu rallied the foreign army formation to withstand the Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise while Chen Mu led Murong Yan underground.
• Marquis Wugu pursued Chen Mu and Murong Yan through the earth veins and used his Houtu Domain to trap them in compressed stone.
• Chen Mu shattered Marquis Wugu’s attack and revealed his Grandmaster strength, prompting Marquis Wugu to realize he was a Qiankun Grandmaster.
• Marquis Wugu attacked Chen Mu with the Houtu Spear Technique, but Chen Mu met the spear with a fist and sent Marquis Wugu crashing into a rock wall.

Chen Mu killed Marquis Wugu in the underground earth veins and took his Spirit Weapon spear. He returned with Murong Yan to watch the foreign race’s army formation hold off the Black Tortoise, while Qiu Gu Dang Hu waited for Marquis Wugu to return.

• Marquis Wugu tried to flee through the earth veins, but Chen Mu pursued him with the Evil Breaker Thunder Spear and caught up.
• Marquis Wugu briefly touched the threshold of Blood Exchange, but Chen Mu overcame his spear with the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal and killed him.
• Chen Mu examined Marquis Wugu’s remains, took his Earth Spirit Spear, and found Murong Yan waiting in the buried cavern.
• Chen Mu and Murong Yan surfaced near the battlefield and saw the foreign race’s Tortoiseshell Formation withstand the Black Tortoise’s attacks.
• Qiu Gu Dang Hu kept the formation defensive and wondered why Marquis Wugu had not returned.

Chen Mu pursued the weakened Black Tortoise across the wilderness, trying to kill it before it reached the Cold River. Just as the Black Tortoise neared the water, an overwhelmingly powerful Qian Heaven force stopped it in midair and hurled it away.

• The Black Tortoise regained some reason, fled the foreign army, and was wounded by Qiu Gu Dang Hu's army-formation spear.
• Chen Mu sent Murong Yan away and pursued the injured Black Tortoise, striking its back wound with the Earth Spirit Spear.
• The Black Tortoise endured Chen Mu's attacks and raced toward the Cold River, while Chen Mu's pursuit further worsened its injuries.
• As the Black Tortoise leapt toward the river, a vast Qian Heaven force froze it and the water, then flipped it through the air and slammed it into the frozen ground.

Qin Mengjun descended after recovering from her soul injury and entering the Blood Exchange Realm, then joined Chen Mu in confronting the Black Tortoise. After Qin Mengjun suppressed it and offered to take it back to the Seven Mysteries Sect alive, the enraged Black Tortoise destroyed its demon heart and charged at Chen Mu in a final attack.

• Qin Mengjun arrived and Chen Mu congratulated his master on entering the Blood Exchange Realm, while she was astonished that he had formed his Martial Body.
• Qin Mengjun suppressed the Black Tortoise with one palm and offered to bring it back to the Seven Mysteries Sect as a guardian spirit beast.
• The Black Tortoise refused Qin Mengjun's offer, destroyed its demon heart, and unleashed its remaining power.
• The Black Tortoise charged toward Chen Mu, intent on dragging him down with it.

Chen Mu and Qin Mengjun joined forces to withstand the Black Tortoise’s life-ending charge, and the Heavenly Demon died after crashing into a cliff. During the struggle, Qin Mengjun discovered that Chen Mu’s Marrow Cleansing body had a foundation nearly comparable to her Blood Exchange body; afterward, she gave him the Black Tortoise Heart Blood to heal his injuries.

• Chen Mu dodged the Black Tortoise’s tail strike, and Qin Mengjun intercepted its charge with the Heaven Flipping Seal, piercing through its body but failing to stop its momentum.
• Chen Mu formed the Taiji Wheel Seal to protect Qin Mengjun and soften the Black Tortoise’s charge, then the two worked together to weaken its force as it drove them toward a cliff.
• While they resisted the charge, Qin Mengjun sensed Chen Mu’s extraordinary vitality and concluded that his bodily foundation was nearly on par with her Blood Exchange body.
• Chen Mu and Qin Mengjun endured the Black Tortoise’s impact against the cliff, and Qin Mengjun struck its head as its life force collapsed.
• Qin Mengjun checked Chen Mu’s condition, then gave him the refined Black Tortoise Heart Blood to help him recover.

Chen Mu and Qin Mengjun brought the Black Tortoise Heavenly Demon's corpse to Secluded Silence Valley, where Qin Mengjun revealed that she had entered the Blood Exchange Realm. The elders welcomed her as the Seven Mysteries Sect's new Grand Elder, while Chen Mu let them assume she had slain Marquis Wugu.

• Chen Mu and Qin Mengjun prepared the Black Tortoise's corpse and flew it back to Secluded Silence Valley.
• Zhao Zhenchuan and Meng Danyun feared for Murong Yan when they saw the Black Tortoise approaching, but the elders realized it was dead when it landed.
• Qin Mengjun descended from the corpse, and Qi Zhiyuan recognized that she had entered the Blood Exchange Realm.
• The Seven Mysteries Sect's elders congratulated Qin Mengjun and welcomed her as a new Grand Elder.
• Shi Zhenyong recognized Marquis Wugu's Earth Spirit Spear in Chen Mu's hand, and Chen Mu confirmed that Marquis Wugu was dead.
• Chen Mu and Qin Mengjun exchanged a knowing glance and let the elders believe Qin Mengjun had killed Marquis Wugu.

Qin Mengjun’s entry into the Blood Exchange Realm shook Great Xuan and strengthened the Seven Mysteries Sect’s position amid North Suppressing Manor’s ambitions. Prince Jin considered how the new balance of power might let him bring the Seven Mysteries Sect under his command.

• Qin Mengjun returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect after entering the Blood Exchange Realm and killing the Black Tortoise, drawing attention across Great Xuan.
• A black-robed figure in Xuan Province recognized that Qin Mengjun’s breakthrough had restored the Seven Mysteries Sect’s prospects and made North Suppressing Manor more cautious.
• Jiang Changsheng received news of Qin Mengjun’s breakthrough and looked forward to facing her again after he entered Blood Exchange.
• The North Suppressing King, Yuan Hong, and other major factions reacted gravely to Qin Mengjun becoming another pillar of the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Prince Jin learned of Qin Mengjun’s breakthrough and considered using the Seven Mysteries Sect’s predicament to bring it under his command.