Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan confronted Hao Jiuyou, who revealed that resentment toward Big Marten had driven him to betray his clan and side with the Other Demons. As the Ancestral Stone battled him, Hao Jiuyou used the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower to threaten the entire clan and began summoning his king.

• Lin Chen condemned Hao Jiuyou as a traitor, while Zhu Li and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader reflected on how his jealousy had corrupted him.
• Hao Jiuyou admitted that he had envied Big Marten since childhood and had passed information to the Other Demons.
• Hao Jiuyou unleashed the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower's fragrance, warning that his death would spread it across the clan and trap everyone in illusions.
• Zhu Li used a rune stone to purify the fragrance, allowing the Ancestral Stone to attack Hao Jiuyou.
• The Ancestral Stone drove Hao Jiuyou back, but Hao Jiuyou began summoning his king and vowed that the clan would be destroyed.

Hao Jiuyou summoned three Demonic Kings and ten Demonic Generals to attack Lin Chen and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan. The three kings emerged from the vortex, leaving Lin Chen and his allies facing a formidable invasion.

• Hao Jiuyou used the blood and bodies of Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Elders to create a black vortex that swallowed Lin Chen's Life and Death Roulette.
• Hao Jiuyou explained that the Illusion King had infiltrated the Heavenly Cave and helped the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader escape the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower.
• Three Demonic Kings and ten Demonic Generals emerged from the vortex as the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan gathered to defend itself.
• The Heavenly Talisman Ancestor rebuked Hao Jiuyou, while the three kings identified Lin Chen as a threat because he possessed the Ancestral Talisman and Ancestral Stone.

The Heavenly Illusion King revealed that Hao Siyou had spent a hundred years preparing an array to trap the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan, while the Heavenly Ancestral Stone’s group moved to attack. The Clan Leader exposed a flaw in their plan and ordered the clan to activate its protection array, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• The Heavenly Illusion King ordered the Earth Illusion King to hold Lin Chen back while the Other Demons dealt with the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan.
• Hao Siyou’s betrayal was exposed, and the Heavenly Ancestral Stone killed him, spreading the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower’s white mist across the battlefield.
• The Heavenly Illusion King revealed that Hao Siyou had secretly planted Illusory Demon Flower seeds throughout the clan’s mountain over the past hundred years.
• The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan activated its Clan Protection Array, forming enormous colorful bat wings over the clan and ordering weaker members to stay within Lin Chen’s range.
• The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader revealed that he had already removed the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower from the Clan Protection Array, thwarting the Illusion King’s plan.
• The Heavenly Ancestral Stone and the others pressed their palms together and prepared to attack as the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader confronted them.

The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan fought the invading Other Demons as the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader sealed the battlefield and Zhu Li organized the clan’s defenses. Su Qun drew on the world’s energy to confront the Illusion King, whose power surged as he unleashed the Great Desolation Scripture.

• The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader activated the clan’s spatial formation, isolating the Ancestral Shrine and directing its shredding force at the Heavenly Illusion King and the other Other Demons.
• Zhu Li sent ten Samsara Stage Elders to help him fight the three Demonic Kings and ordered A Diao and the remaining clan experts to stop the commander-class Other Demons.
• Lin Chen and ten Samsara Stage experts charged Su Qun’s group, while Little Marten and Wu Chong moved to intercept them.
• The Illusion King broke through the spatial force and drew vast energy from the world, causing the surrounding land to wither.
• Su Qun gathered the world’s energy through the Great Desolation Scripture and unleashed an enormous energy pillar, while the Earth Illusion King recognized the threat of his rising power.

Lin Chen and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan fought the Other Demons as Little Sable's Father sealed the core region of the Heavenly Demon Domain. Lin Chen survived Tian Shi Mei's strongest attack but lost an arm, while the Illusion King faced the clan's attack under the sealed sky.

• Little Sable's Father activated the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Protection Array, sealing the core region and ordering his clansmen to attack the Other Demons.
• Tian Shi Mei used Illusion Demon Finger against Lin Chen, severing his demonic arm despite his counterattack.
• Little Sable's Father engaged Tian Shi Mei with the Little Four Star Palm while Zhu Li, Little Marten, and the other clan experts attacked the Illusion King and the ten Demonic Generals.
• The Illusion King wielded Supreme power and unleashed Supreme Sword... Demon Slaying against Lin Chen's black flower.
• The collision erupted into a blazing sun, and an injured figure staggered backward from the blast.

Lin Chen overwhelmed Earth Illusion King, while Di Shiyi transformed into the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower and threatened to self-destruct to protect the Other Demons. The chapter ended with Lin Chen’s Chaos Light crushing Di Shiyi’s vines as the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan watched the battle.

• Earth Illusion King admitted he had miscalculated after Lin Chen severed his arm, then warned that fighting to the death could destroy the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan.
• Great Sable Father considered the risks as Lin Chen and Earth Illusion King continued their clash, while the clan’s weaker members fled the shockwaves.
• Di Shiyi transformed into the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower and threatened to self-destruct, warning Lin Chen that the blast could kill many clan members despite the Ancestral Stone.
• Lin Chen attacked Di Shiyi with the Supreme Sword’s Chaos Light, crushing his vines as Di Shiyi screamed and continued to resist.

The Illusion King purified the demonic qi left by the Earth Illusion King and ten Demonic Generals’ self-destruction while the Heavenly Illusion King and Human Illusion King escaped. The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan survived its crisis, but the Demon Prison’s infiltration and the escaping enemies remained a threat.

• The Earth Illusion King and ten Demonic Generals self-destructed, shattering the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan’s Clan Protection Array as the Heavenly Illusion King and Human Illusion King fled.
• The Illusion King used Demon Purification to cleanse the spreading evil qi and demonic qi while Big Marten protected the clan’s weaker members.
• The Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan’s peak experts awakened from the Heavenly Cave and learned about the betrayal and crisis.
• The Illusion King explained that the self-destruction had nearly crippled the clan, and Big Marten recognized how serious the Demon Prison’s infiltration was.
• News of the Demon Prison’s failed attack spread through the Demon Region, and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan tightened its defenses.

Lin Chen prepared to use eighty-seven Eternal Illusion Fragrance Flowers and the Ancestral Stone to recreate Purgatory and strengthen his Spiritual Power. He entered the resulting illusion, hoping to approach the Divine Palace Realm before the Ten Great King Halls attacked.

• Lin Chen reflected that he needed greater strength and control of the Plane Spirit to face the threats ahead.
• Yan explained that the sealed Eternal Illusion Fragrance Flowers could trap even a peak Reincarnation Stage expert, and Lin Chen told him to begin.
• Yan used the Ancestral Stone to purify the flowers' demonic nature and release their thick black fragrance around Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen's Light Barrier filtered the demonic aura, but the fragrance engulfed him and plunged his consciousness into darkness.
• Lin Chen waited in the darkness until sunlight appeared, entering the reconstructed Purgatory illusion.

Lin Chen was trapped in the Eternal Illusory Demon Flower’s Purgatory, where he lost access to his Origin Energy and Spiritual Power and endured deadly sandstorms. After discovering that surviving the torment gradually strengthened his body, he faced another storm of wind blades.

• Lin Chen woke in a scorching desert and discovered that he could no longer use Origin Energy or Spiritual Power.
• A sandstorm struck Lin Chen with enormous sand whips, leaving him bloodied and barely able to crawl free.
• Lin Chen realized the illusion’s pain was dangerously real and that his consciousness could die if he succumbed.
• As his pain faded, Lin Chen noticed his weakened body had grown slightly stronger from enduring the torment.
• Lin Chen tried to flee another approaching storm, but a mass of wind blades descended and swallowed him.

Lin Chen endured increasingly brutal storms in the Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers’ Purgatory, where the trials slowly strengthened his Spiritual Power toward the Divine Palace Realm. After surviving another devastating blizzard, he remained determined to endure whatever came next.

• Lin Chen persevered through the Purgatory’s scorching winds, icy blades, and snowstorms despite having only his spiritual body to withstand them.
• After two months of trials, Illusion Demon sensed his body growing stronger and prepared for the next round.
• A fiercer blizzard battered Illusion Demon with freezing cold and blade-like snowflakes, leaving him gravely wounded and nearly unable to move.
• Illusion Demon endured the accumulated pain and resisted losing himself as the storm gradually passed.
• Illusion Demon recovered over several days, then looked across the frozen land and vowed to overcome the Purgatory.

After years of surviving Purgatory’s trials, Lin Chen sensed the presence of the two Ancestral Talismans and realized their power had grown enough to face the hidden gatekeeper. The gatekeeper appeared as a face formed from yellow sand, and Lin Chen recognized it as the spiritual body left behind by the Symbol Ancestor.

• Lin Chen endured Purgatory’s trials for years as the Ancestral Talismans grew stronger.
• The Ancestral Talisman sensed the hidden presence and declared that the trials had ended.
• The Symbol Ancestor’s spiritual body formed a huge face from the yellow sand and appeared before the Ancestral Talisman.
• The Ancestral Talisman destroyed the tornado storms and prepared to confront the gatekeeper.
• Lin Chen sensed the Ancestral Talismans stirring within him and recognized the gatekeeper as the Symbol Ancestor’s spiritual body.

Lin Chen encountered the Symbol Ancestor’s imprint, the final gatekeeper of Purgatory, and Dragon Claw began fighting the trial’s Magma Crystal Dragons. After breaking through the first attacks, Dragon Claw faced a transformed sea of magma and fourteen dragons.

• Lin Chen recognized the giant face of yellow sand as an imprint left by the Symbol Ancestor, who declared that defeating him was the way to leave Purgatory.
• The imprint transformed the desert into a sea of magma and summoned Magma Crystal Dragons to test Dragon Claw’s cultivation.
• Dragon Claw used his Spiritual Power to shatter one Magma Crystal Dragon and absorb a rainbow of light that increased his power.
• The other dragons attacked Dragon Claw, breaking his silver-white Spiritual Power bell and forcing him to continue the fight against the stronger trial.

Lin Chen fought through Purgatory’s final trials, absorbing the Spiritual Power of the Magma Crystal Dragons and awakening a mysterious eye between his brows. Yan watched anxiously as Lin Chen’s Spiritual Power surged, but his fate in the most dangerous layer of Purgatory remained uncertain.

• Lin Chen battled the seventeen Magma Crystal Dragons for half a day, killing them and absorbing their strange rainbow light until only the final guardian remained.
• Yan worried that Lin Chen had spent years inside Purgatory despite only seven months passing in the outside world, and he could no longer sense Lin Chen’s condition.
• Two ancient runes flashed above Lin Chen and entered his brow as his Spiritual Power began to surge and then dim from exhaustion.
• Lin Chen’s Spiritual Power erupted, blasting away the cave’s demonic qi and opening a crack between his brows to reveal the Ancestral Symbol Eye.
• Yan realized Lin Chen had reached Purgatory’s most dangerous final layer and watched as silver-white Spiritual Power gathered around him, uncertain whether he could break through.

The Ancestral Talisman awakened immense Spiritual Power and used his Ancestral Symbol Eye to locate the Devouring Temple within the Heavenly Cave. As he sensed an ancient presence there, the Space Master noticed his observation and cut it off.

• Lin Chen manifested an Ancestral Symbol Eye combining the powers of the Devouring and Space Ancestral Symbols before a silver-white pillar erupted from his body.
• The Ancestral Talisman spread his Spiritual Power across the world, astonishing the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan and its elders with its strength.
• The Ancestral Talisman sensed a powerful presence in the dark Heavenly Cave and used his Ancestral Symbol Eye to see into a distant cave.
• The Ancestral Talisman recognized the wasteland and palace as the Devouring Temple and declared that he had found it.
• The Space Master detected the Ancestral Talisman's observation and fractured space to sever his view.

After spending more than a decade in Purgatory during four months outside, Lin Chen emerged with Spiritual Power close to the Divine Palace Realm. He left the Heavenly Cave and began preparing for the next step in his cultivation.

• Lin Chen awoke from Purgatory and took time to adjust to the peaceful cave after years of torment.
• Yan told Lin Chen that more than four months had passed outside and noted that his Spiritual Power was nearing the Divine Palace Realm.
• Lin Chen explained that reaching the Divine Palace Realm would require careful preparation, despite having the qualifications to challenge it.
• Lin Chen destroyed the exhausted Eternal Illusory Demon Flowers and left the cave with Yan.
• Big Marten appeared and told Lin Chen that he had come to discuss the things Lin Chen needed.

After emerging from four months of seclusion, Lin Chen reunited with Little Marten and the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan, revealing that his Spiritual Power had advanced to the peak of the Great Rune Sect. With vast cultivation resources gathered and the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array ready to fuel his next breakthrough, Lin Chen prepared to deal with the Other Demons and help his allies.

• Little Marten provided Lin Chen with around eight billion Profound Origin Pills and noticed how much more weathered and profound he seemed after seclusion.
• Lin Chen reassured the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan Leader that he could handle the Other Demons and said they would soon be unable to remain in the world.
• Lin Chen asked Little Marten to follow demon commander Xu Zhong in secret to learn what was happening in Demon Prison.
• Little Marten pointed out a tiger-clan opportunity in the Beast War Domain that Lin Chen needed to obtain for Little Flame.
• Lin Chen reflected that his gathered resources could activate the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array and greatly strengthen him.
• Ying Xuanzi and Ying Xiaoxiao worried that the spirituality inside Huanhuan was becoming increasingly difficult to suppress.

Ying Huanhuan’s past-life identity as the Ice Master began awakening, alarming Ying Xiaoxiao and Ying Xuanzi as her hair and eyes turned ice-blue and a Reincarnation Seal appeared. Meanwhile, Lin Chen searched the Sea of Chaotic Demons for Mu Lingshan and reached the Heavenly Merchant Sea Domain, where he found the Blood Demon Shark Clan.

• Ying Xuanzi explained that Ying Huanhuan’s Ice Master spirituality would likely take control when she fully awakened, and Ying Xiaoxiao feared losing the sister she knew.
• Ying Huanhuan’s hair turned ice-blue, a Reincarnation Seal appeared on her brow, and freezing energy spread through Heaven Hall.
• Lin Chen left the Demon Region after collecting eight billion Profound Origin Pills from the Heavenly Demonic Sable Clan and traveled across the sea in search of Mu Lingshan.
• Lin Chen sensed figures to the southwest in the Heavenly Merchant Sea Domain and found more than a hundred members of the Blood Demon Shark Clan riding blood-red sharks.

Lin Chen found Mu Lingshan, the young girl connected to the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, and won her trust by offering her grilled fish. After killing the Blood Demon Shark Clan members who had been tracking her, he removed their mark from her and set out to help her further.

• Lin Chen ignored the Blood Demon Shark Clan's demand that he leave and killed its members with his Spiritual Power.
• Lin Chen found Mu Lingshan hiding nearby and drew her out by offering her grilled fish.
• Mu Lingshan ate the fish and thanked Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen removed the Blood Demon Shark Clan's tracking mark from Mu Lingshan and promised to remove the other methods they had left on her.

Lin Chen sheltered the injured Mu Lingshan, who carried the power of the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, and Yan explained her mysterious origin. The chapter left Lin Chen wondering whether Mu Lingshan was connected to the Lord of Life and Death or the Ancestral Symbol itself.

• Mu Lingshan told Lin Chen that the Blood Demon Shark Clan had sealed and injured her, then rested beside his campfire.
• Mu Lingshan revealed that she had followed Lin Chen because she sensed him and trusted that he would not hurt her, while Yan recognized the power of the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol within her.
• Mu Lingshan's blue Light Barrier appeared as she slept and rapidly healed her wounds.
• Yan explained that the Lord of Life and Death had been the ancestor of the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan and that the clan later found a black-and-white egg where the Lord's remains and Ancestral Symbol had vanished.
• Lin Chen explained that the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan secretly cared for the egg until Mu Lingshan hatched from it, leaving him and Yan questioning her true nature.

Lin Chen explained that Mu Lingshan was both the reincarnation of the Lord of Life and Death and the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, born from their fusion. After awakening her and removing a seal, he brought her to Heavenly Merchant City to meet Tang Dongling and collect the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion’s preparations.

• Lin Chen explained that the Lord of Life and Death entered reincarnation through the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol, whose fusion with her produced Mu Lingshan.
• Lin Chen said the Life and Death Ancestral Symbol resonated with the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and had once been nourished by it.
• Lin Chen removed the seal placed on Mu Lingshan by a Blood Demon Shark Clan Elder and waited for her to wake.
• Mu Lingshan woke at dawn, and Lin Chen took her to Heavenly Merchant City to meet Tang Dongling.
• Tang Dongling welcomed Lin Chen and Mu Lingshan and said her father had prepared what Lin Chen needed for their transaction.