Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li’s Sword Art led him to Ash Earth Volcano, where he killed Crimsonwood Supreme and over forty Ten Thousand Demons Sect disciples to seize three portions of Fire Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi. His cultivation manuals then urged him to infiltrate the sect in disguise, and the Thousand Faces Myriad Transformations Art began evolving its disguise method.

• Jiang Li reached Ash Earth Volcano and learned from Blood Fiend Supreme that Crimsonwood Supreme, a peak nascent soul cultivator, guarded the resource site.
• The Sword Art killed Crimsonwood Supreme with Sword Fiend and took three portions of Fire Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi from his Storage Bag.
• Jiang Li captured Crimsonwood Supreme’s Nascent Soul and used his Nascent Soul Sword Embryo to kill more than forty fleeing Golden Core demonic cultivators.
• Several of Jiang Li’s cultivation manuals urged him to enter the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, and the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art recommended that he cultivate a disguise ability.
• Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan for the Thousand Faces Myriad Transformations Art, which rejected disguising itself with the corpses’ flesh and began evolving around Myriad Transformations.

Jiang Li’s Formless Myriad Transformations Art evolved into a divine ability that let him imitate another person down to their spiritual fluctuations. Taking the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s identity, Jiang Li entered the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, where its formation and disciples accepted him as their returning Sect Master.

• The Thousand Faces Myriad Transformations Art evolved into the Formless Myriad Transformations Art, which could alter how others perceived and recognized its user.
• Jiang Li transformed into the Myriad Desire Demon Lord, alarming the Demon Lord’s Divine Sense Body trapped in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Li entered the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s headquarters in the Netherworld Mountain Range, reflecting on his dangerous time undercover there.
• The sect-protecting formation recognized Jiang Li as its Sect Master and formed a Bone Throne as two ghost servants greeted him.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s disciples and elders bowed to Jiang Li and welcomed him back as the Myriad Desire Demon Lord.
• Jiang Li sat on the Bone Throne and was carried into the Myriad Demons Hall while the Demon Lord’s trapped Divine Sense Body cursed him.

Jiang Li took the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s place at a Ten Thousand Demons Sect meeting, intimidated its ambitious Cave Masters, and entered seclusion to cultivate Great Sun Sword Qi. After completing the Sword Fiend, he was attacked by a Nascent Soul Late Stage assassin inside the Demon Lord’s retreat.

• Jiang Li sat on the Myriad Soul Demon Throne as the Cave Masters and Great Cave Masters gathered, while the divine art concealed his true condition from their Spiritual Sense.
• When a Cave Master probed the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s health, Jiang Li struck him with Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning and warned the assembly not to test him again.
• The Cave Masters discussed the threat posed by the Heaven Sword Peak Chief, and True Lord Gu Xin later gave Jiang Li a list of undercover agents that included Jiang Li himself.
• Jiang Li entered the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s cultivation retreat and, with the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword taking over, fused Heavenly Killing Qi and condensed the Great Sun Sword Qi.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage assassin lunged at Jiang Li with a finger bone, and Jiang Li fired a golden-red beam of Great Sun Sword Qi at him.

Jiang Li killed an assassin from the Fiftieth Cave and discovered that the Qi Refining Method had activated Patrol Mode, turning him into a walking source of heavenly punishment. He left the Myriad Demons Hall as the method descended toward the Fiftieth Cave Demon Lair to punish its sinners.

• Jiang Li used Great Sun Sword Qi to melt the Nascent Soul Late Stage assassin and learned the attacker was the ancestor of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect's Fiftieth Cave.
• Jiang Li identified the assassin's gray finger bone as a Fourth-Order Spirit Treasure with a demon-suppressing effect.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture activated Patrol Mode, prompting Jiang Li to decide he had to leave the Ten Thousand Demons Sect quickly.
• Jiang Li walked out of the Myriad Demons Hall and struck the two Spirit Transformation Stage vicious ghosts guarding it with tribulation lightning.
• Jiang Li blamed the ghosts for allowing an assassin into his seclusion grounds, then ordered them to receive punishment without letting them die.
• The Qi Refining Method, having lost its target, flew toward the Fiftieth Cave Demon Lair to begin its reckoning.

Jiang Li’s Qi Refining Method borrowed Golden Core Tribulation power to destroy the Fiftieth and Forty-ninth Caves, while the destruction also unlocked Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s Void Creation Demon ability. The chapter left Jiang Li confronting the Forty-ninth Cave’s surviving master and a Spirit Transformation cave master who had defended him.

• Jiang Li arrived at the Fiftieth Cave as the Qi Refining Method borrowed Nine-Colored Golden Core Tribulation lightning and unleashed it across the demon lair.
• The Fiftieth Cave’s disciples and elders were killed, its ancestor self-destructed, and Jiang Li declared the cave destroyed.
• Jiang Li moved on to the Forty-ninth Cave, and the slaughter’s imitation of Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s temperament unlocked the Void Creation Demon ability.
• The Forty-ninth Cave’s members accused one another of treachery as the lightning destroyed them, leaving only their cave master alive behind his defensive Spirit Treasure.
• A Spirit Transformation cave master pleaded for the survivor, so Jiang Li created a hundred-zhang ferocious ghost with Void Creation Demon and challenged the defender to defeat it.

Jiang Li used his stolen identity as the Myriad Desire Demon Lord to crush an assassination attempt, kill a Spirit Transformation Cave Master, and absorb his remnant thoughts. After strengthening his spiritual sense, Jiang Li entered the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s scripture repository, where his Carefree Wind-Riding Art requested evolution and identified a movement technique to devour.

• Jiang Li created a vicious ghost with Void Creation Demon and ordered it to kill the Spirit Transformation Cave Master who had challenged him.
• The Cave Masters stayed silent as the Spirit Transformation Cave Master fought the ghost, which eventually killed him and brought his corpse to Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li absorbed the dead Cave Master’s remnant thoughts, warned the assembled cultivators against another assassination attempt, and returned to Myriad Demons Hall.
• In his Sea of Consciousness, Jiang Li tore apart Youying True Lord’s spiritual sense with a Nascent Soul Sword Embryo and began refining it, while the Myriad Desire Demon Lord remained imprisoned.
• Jiang Li went to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s scripture repository and received a request from Carefree Wind-Riding Art to evolve by devouring Wind-Thunder Shuttle Across the Universe.

Jiang Li used the Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art to open two new layers of the Ninefold Prison Suppression and temper his Spiritual Sense by roasting and lightning-striking captive remnants. The technique then sought premium Spiritual Sense meteorite iron, leading Jiang Li to the Valley of Fallen Demons, where he planned to find Ten Thousand Demons Sect disciples who had cultivated Spiritual Refining Methods.

• Jiang Li found the Carefree Wind-Riding Art's evolution material, Wind-Thunder Shuttle Across the Universe, and two Visualization Diagrams for Spiritual Refining.
• Jiang Li activated Cultivation Technique Hosting Mode, and the Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art opened the Golden Crow and lightning-sea layers of the Ninefold Prison Suppression.
• The technique roasted Profound Yin True Lord's remnant thought and sent Nascent Soul cultivators into the black tower to be struck by lightning, strengthening Jiang Li's Spiritual Sense.
• The technique sought premium Spiritual Sense meteorite iron for a higher-quality Nascent Soul Sword Embryo, then returned control of Jiang Li's body to him.
• Blood Fiend Supreme identified the marked location as the Valley of Fallen Demons, a Ten Thousand Demons Sect forbidden zone that tempered Spiritual Sense and contained disciples with Spiritual Refining Methods.

Jiang Li entered the Valley of Fallen Demons to temper his Spiritual Sense by hunting Ten Thousand Demons Sect cultivators, using the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s identity. After discovering that several survivors were the Demon Lord’s Backup Possession Bodies, he was challenged by Chu Tiankuang, who suspected Jiang Li was an impostor.

• Jiang Li entered the Valley of Fallen Demons and used his powerful Spiritual Sense and subordinates to withstand its Yin Fiend mist and Nine Heavens Gale.
• Jiang Li killed a Foundation Establishment disciple who recognized him, then hunted other disciples in the valley’s outer region.
• Jiang Li trapped more than sixty Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators in the inner valley and attacked them with his Nascent Soul Sword Embryo and Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning.
• Jiang Li killed most of the gathered cultivators, while six Golden Core True Disciples remained, including Chu Tiankuang.
• Five survivors revealed that they were Backup Possession Bodies of the Myriad Desire Demon Lord, and Jiang Li realized their Divine Sense Bodies could be the Spiritual Sense materials he sought.
• Chu Tiankuang suspected Jiang Li was not the real Myriad Desire Demon Lord as the system declared that the moment had come to reveal his identity.

Jiang Li revealed his identity to Chu Tiankuang and the Ten Thousand Demons Sect disciples, then used the evolved Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art to capture Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine sense bodies. He killed the witnesses and imprisoned the captured minds in his Sea of Consciousness, where one divine sense offered to reveal the locations of the remaining Backup Possession Bodies.

• Jiang Li dropped his disguise, identified himself as Jiang Li of Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, and killed a Golden Core True Disciple with the Nascent Soul Sword Embryo.
• Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine sense appeared and recognized Jiang Li as Backup Possession Body Number 170, while the Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art pulled the divine sense into Jiang Li’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Five more divine sense bodies attacked and tried to flee, but the art evolved the God Capturing Curse into the Eye of the Void and dragged them back into Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li killed the fleeing demonic disciples with the sword embryo and burned Chu Tiankuang to ash with Great Sun Sword Qi, despite Chu Tiankuang offering his soul blood.
• Jiang Li imprisoned the captured demonic cultivators and six divine sense bodies in the Ninefold Prison Suppression, and one Myriad Desire Demon Lord divine sense offered to reveal the other Backup Possession Bodies in exchange for being spared from forging a Sword Embryo.

Jiang Li accepted one of Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine senses as an informant, learned about the Demon Lord’s remaining Backup Possession Bodies, and forged three powerful Nascent Soul Sword Embryos from spiritual sense. After returning to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, he saw its leaders argue over the massacre at the Valley of Fallen Demons and recognized a chance to eliminate the remaining possession bodies at once.

• Jiang Li agreed to spare one Myriad Desire Demon Lord Divine Sense Body in exchange for information about the other Backup Possession Bodies, and learned that about thirty-two remained in the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
• The informant named Xue Qiankun as Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s favored possession target and suspected that the Demon Lord’s main body had vanished while pursuing Dao Integration.
• Jiang Li gained resistance to the four foundational elements, advanced to peak Early Golden Core, and developed the Great Desolation Annihilation Finger through his impersonation of Myriad Desire Demon Lord.
• Jiang Li used Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine senses and other cultivators’ spiritual senses to forge and improve three Nascent Soul Sword Embryos.
• Jiang Li returned to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, where the Cave Masters argued over the deaths of Chu Tiankuang and the other Valley of Fallen Demons disciples, and he saw a chance to hunt down the remaining Backup Possession Bodies.

Jiang Li used three days of Rumor Reporting to eliminate the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s Backup Possession Bodies and strengthen his Spiritual Sense. After ending the purge, he returned to his cultivation chamber, where the Carefree Wind-Riding Art requested evolution.

• Jiang Li activated Rumor Reporting for three days and ordered the Cave Masters to cooperate in investigating Chu Tiankuang’s death.
• The sect’s disciples reported one another, and Jiang Li had more than thirty Backup Possession Bodies—including the other Holy Son Candidates and Xue Qiankun—brought to Myriad Demons Hall.
• Jiang Li extracted the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine sense from the captured bodies and suppressed it in the Ninefold Prison Suppression space, rapidly strengthening his Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Li ended Rumor Reporting after more than a hundred disciples had been taken away, and the caves began reorganizing their ranks and resources.
• Jiang Li returned to his cultivation chamber, where the Carefree Wind-Riding Art requested evolution, and he approved it.

Jiang Li’s newly fused movement technique seized control and turned his escape from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect into a public provocation. After leading his pursuers into the Valley of Fallen Demons, it carried him into the spatial rift and vanished.

• Jiang Li fused his movement arts into the Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Void-Escape Secret Canon, which began a Void Roaming journey instead of condensing Wind-Lightning Wings.
• The movement technique exposed Jiang Li’s disguise and drew the attention of Ten Thousand Demons Sect disciples, who recognized him and pursued him from the Netherworld Mountain Range.
• Jiang Li’s movement technique entered the Valley of Fallen Demons, where Spirit Transformation Cave Masters and other sect members followed and tried to trap him.
• The movement technique ignored Jiang Li’s protests, drifted into the spatial rift at the source of the Nine Heavens Gale, and disappeared while his pursuers were left behind.

Jiang Li escaped the Ten Thousand Demons Sect through a spatial rift and was swept into the Void Turbulence, where his Movement Technique began condensing Wind-Lightning Wings. After using the Nine Heavens Gale to tear open another rift, he emerged at the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land beside Qin Wudao’s Nascent Soul tribulation, finding the lightning needed to complete his wings.

• The Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s Spirit Transformation Cave Masters chose to guard the rift, expecting Jiang Li to perish in the Void Land.
• Jiang Li’s Movement Technique carried him into the Void Turbulence and toward the source of the Nine Heavens Gale.
• Immune to the gale’s force, Jiang Li absorbed Gale Fiend Essence and formed a jade-green Wind Wing.
• The Movement Technique used the Wind Wing and the Nine Heavens Gale to open a path through space and return Jiang Li to the human world.
• Jiang Li emerged above the Tribulation Transcendence Platform at the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and saw Qin Wudao undergoing a Nascent Soul tribulation.

Jiang Li returned to Heavenly Mystery Holy Land during Qin Wudao’s Nascent Soul tribulation and used the Void Thunder Pool to complete his Wind-Lightning Wings. His spectacular breakthrough overshadowed Qin Wudao and left Jiang Li with overwhelming support as the future Holy Son.

• Qin Wudao began his Nascent Soul tribulation as the first Holy Son Candidate to reach that realm.
• Jiang Li emerged from Void Turbulence with a Gale Wing, shocking the disciples and elders gathered to watch Qin Wudao.
• Jiang Li charged into the tribulation clouds to draw innate lightning essence from the Void Thunder Pool and form his Thunder Wing.
• Qin Wudao endured six bolts of Nine-Colored Tribulation Lightning, condensed a mid-grade Dao Infant, and completed his tribulation while Jiang Li continued drawing everyone’s attention.
• After three days, Jiang Li completed his Wind-Lightning Wings, escaped the tribulation clouds, and declared his success before the gathered crowd.
• The elders and disciples praised Jiang Li, and many came to regard him as the clear choice for Holy Son and a future Holy Lord.

After returning from his tribulation, Jiang Li reunited with his companions and learned that Qin Wudao planned to start the Holy Son trial in three months. He told Zhang Song that he had killed the Seven Demonic Fiends without relying on the Limitless Sword, leaving his teacher stunned by how strong he had become.

• Jiang Li displayed his newly forged Wind-Lightning Wings as the tribulation clouds dispersed, while Qin Wudao announced that he would begin the Holy Son trial in three months.
• Lei Shan and Huo Wushuang left troubled by Qin Wudao's announcement, while Xuan Tianji departed after briefly acknowledging Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li returned to Heaven Sword Peak, where he told the elders he had obtained his flight technique from another faction and reunited with Li Xi, Zhao Qingxuan, and Murong Qing at the Human Emperor Palace.
• Jiang Li agreed to take Li Xi, Zhao Qingxuan, and Murong Qing with him on his next journey down the mountain.
• Jiang Li asked Zhang Song about the Holy Son trial, and Zhang Song explained that strength was not its only criterion and that most candidates had less than a fifty-percent chance of passing.
• Jiang Li told Zhang Song that he had killed the Seven Demonic Fiends with his own strength and was now stronger than before, causing Zhang Song to drop his teacup in shock.

Jiang Li revealed a composite sword light powerful enough to defeat nearly any cultivator below Nascent Soul Late Stage and decided to challenge all four Holy Son Candidates. Meanwhile, news of his escape from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect stunned the Cultivation World, and Heavenly Mystery Holy Land learned that he had gone there seeking the Heavenly Fiend Qi needed to forge a Sword Fiend.

• Jiang Li fused Purple Radiance Sword Light and Divine Firmament Sword Light into Lightning Calamity Flame Sword Light, astonishing Zhang Song and the Heaven Sword Peak Master.
• Jiang Li decided to challenge all four Holy Son Candidates and become the predetermined Holy Son, then planned to enter seclusion until he could break through to Mid Golden Core.
• A false report claimed Jiang Li had died in Void Turbulence, but the Cultivation World learned he had escaped the Ten Thousand Demons Sect and returned safely to Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master questioned Jiang Li about his visit, and Jiang Li explained that he had sought Fire Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi to forge a Sword Fiend.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master promised that Heavenly Mystery Holy Land would secure any resources Jiang Li needed, while the peak masters realized he had already comprehended the Fifth Realm of Sword Dao.

Jiang Li completed his seclusion, advanced to Mid Golden Core, and emerged to face a crowd gathered for his challenge to the four Holy Son Candidates. His silence after Zhang Song asked whether he had truly mastered Sword Fiend Qi confirmed the rumor in his master's eyes.

• The Fire God Peak Master gave Jiang Li two strands of Fire Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi, while many peak masters showed support for him.
• Jiang Li entered the Thunder Pool Chamber and used hosted cultivation to temper all 206 bones as the Holy Land debated his upcoming challenge.
• Lei Shan formed a low-grade Dao Infant, while Huo Wushuang and Xuan Tianji showed no intention of undergoing tribulation.
• Heaven Sword Peak announced that Jiang Li would challenge the four Holy Son Candidates after emerging from seclusion, stirring speculation that he had forged Sword Fiend Qi.
• Jiang Li completed his thunder skeleton, advanced to Mid Golden Core, and gained the Bone-Slaying Evil Thunder divine ability.
• Jiang Li returned to Heaven Sword Peak to find a huge crowd awaiting him, and Zhang Song suspected he had truly mastered Sword Fiend Qi when he stayed silent.

Jiang Li challenged Lei Shan first and ignored Heaven Strength Peak’s demand that he climb its gravity-bound peak, descending directly onto the summit. He announced he would defeat Lei Shan in three punches and landed the first punch, leaving Lei Shan unconscious in a crater.

• Jiang Li chose to challenge Lei Shan first because of their feud and flew to Heaven Strength Peak with the Holy Land’s disciples and elders following him.
• Lei Shan demanded that Jiang Li climb to the summit through the gravitational field before he could challenge him, promising to suppress thirty percent of his strength and not use his Nascent Soul Avatar.
• Jiang Li used Qilin Step to descend directly onto the summit, enduring the immense gravity and imperial pressure without showing strain.
• Jiang Li announced that he would shatter Lei Shan’s cultivation dream with three punches, and Lei Shan prepared to defend himself.
• Jiang Li charged through Lei Shan’s lightning attacks and struck him in the face with his first punch, crushing him into a crater and leaving him unconscious.

Jiang Li defeated Lei Shan in three punches, using the Nine Dragons Guarding the Purple Enclosure phenomenon to suppress his Nascent Soul Avatar. After leaving for his next challenge, he returned to announce that Huo Wushuang had surrendered and withdrawn from the Holy Son Competition.

• Jiang Li knocked Lei Shan down with one punch, but Lei Shan rose again after hearing Heaven Strength Peak’s encouragement and summoned his thunderous Nascent Soul Avatar.
• Jiang Li manifested the Nine Dragons Guarding the Purple Enclosure phenomenon and used “Forbidden Law” to seal Lei Shan’s lightning and disable his avatar.
• Jiang Li overwhelmed Lei Shan with an Imperial Dragon Fist and a third punch, leaving him unconscious and unable to fight.
• Jiang Li warned Heaven Strength Peak to monitor Lei Shan’s Dao Heart, then flew toward the second challenge site as the crowd praised him.
• Jiang Li returned and announced that Huo Wushuang had surrendered, withdrawn from the Holy Son Competition, and gone to Dao Law Peak.

Jiang Li defeated Qin Wudao at Dao Law Peak by fusing lightning- and fire-attributed Sword Light, revealing a new swordsmanship realm that astonished the Holy Land. After Qin Wudao conceded, he warned Jiang Li that Xuan Tianji could analyze his techniques, but Jiang Li believed his speed would be enough to overcome him.

• Jiang Li challenged Qin Wudao, who entered the Nascent Soul Realm and opened with a sequence of Five Elements arts while keeping his distance from Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li cut through Qin Wudao's attacks and a spirit body with Purple Radiance Sword Light, then faced Qin Wudao's Nascent Soul Avatar and more than twenty spirit bodies.
• Jiang Li fused lightning- and fire-attributed Sword Light, shocking the elders and peak masters, who recognized it as a new realm of swordsmanship.
• Jiang Li's fused Sword Light destroyed Qin Wudao's spirit bodies and Nascent Soul Avatar, severely injured him, and forced him to concede.
• Qin Wudao warned Jiang Li that Xuan Tianji's Great Evolution Star Art could analyze his techniques, while Jiang Li concluded that his speed would counter Xuan Tianji.