Chapter Summaries

After emerging from six months of seclusion, Ye Wudao arranged to rebuild the Heaven Gate Sect and discussed Zhao Yiyuan’s suggestion that he marry Yun Ting first. Ma Lian'an then told him that they had found the Beast Taming Sect.

• Ye Wudao emerged from seclusion after comprehending over two thousand Great Dao Powers and advancing his cultivation.
• Ye Wudao told Zhao Yiyuan he planned to rebuild the Heaven Gate Sect on the site of the old Arena Tournament.
• Zhao Yiyuan urged Ye Wudao to discuss marrying Yun Ting before rebuilding the sect, and Ye Wudao agreed to speak with her.
• Ye Wudao asked Ma Lian'an to contact the Yuqing Sect and arrange the Heaven Gate Sect's construction.
• Ma Lian'an announced that they had found the Beast Taming Sect, and Ye Wudao excitedly asked where it was.

Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan rushed to the Beast Taming Sect after learning that Spirit Realm sects had gathered there over its connection to Blue Star. Ye Wudao confronted the gathered sects by trapping the most outspoken challengers in a formation.

• Ma Lian'an explained that the Beast Taming Sect was now called the Myriad Beast Sect and possessed Trial Grounds connected to Blue Star.
• Ma Lian'an reported that major sects had surrounded the Beast Taming Sect, prompting Ye Wudao to tell him to summon the ancestor and then set off himself.
• Ye Anyuan emerged from seclusion, took Ye Wudao through the Azure Sect's Teleportation Array, and traveled with him to the West Domain.
• Wang Jian faced the gathered sects above the Beast Taming Sect's gates and argued that letting so many Integration Realm cultivators reach Blue Star would endanger it.
• Several smaller-sect representatives challenged the Azure Sect's authority, and Ye Wudao appeared and used a formation to immobilize them.

Ye Wudao killed a dozen minor-sect leaders who challenged his authority over the route to the Mortal Realm. Wine Sword Immortal then explained why he wanted to travel there and search for his bloodline and other fragments of the Spirit Realm, while Ye Wudao questioned whether the journey could achieve that.

• Ye Wudao warned the gathered cultivators not to enter the Beast Taming Sect’s Trial Grounds without getting past him.
• Several minor-sect leaders protested, and Ye Wudao lifted them with his array and killed them with beams of white light.
• The major sects’ cultivators kept silent, fearing Ye Wudao would kill anyone else who opposed him.
• Wine Sword Immortal respectfully told Ye Wudao he wanted to visit the Mortal Realm to find his bloodline and possibly other fragments of the Spirit Realm.
• Ye Wudao challenged Wine Sword Immortal’s reasoning, and Wine Sword Immortal explained that the Trial Grounds’ spatial Rift could make travel to the Mortal Realm possible without the old restrictions.

Ye Anyuan allowed the gathered cultivators to travel to the Mortal Realm only if they swore an oath to follow the Azure Sect’s conditions, while he and Ye Wudao discussed the dangers and benefits of searching for other Spirit Realm fragments. Wine Sword Immortal and Ghost Fearer agreed to the oath’s terms, and Ghost Fearer proposed that everyone share the work of exploring and developing any fragments they found.

• Ye Anyuan told Ye Wudao that searching the Mortal Realm for Spirit Realm fragments could benefit their fragment and Blue Star, while Ye Wudao worried the other cultivators might cause trouble or find a stronger realm.
• Ye Anyuan required anyone seeking passage to swear a Great Dao Oath: they could not enter the Reincarnation Realm, could not casually fight in the Azure Sect’s ancestral land, and had to share and jointly develop any Spirit Realm fragment they found.
• Ye Anyuan warned that travelers could become stranded in other fragments and explained that super teleportation arrays could connect fragments across the Spirit Realm’s empty space.
• Ye Anyuan revealed that his oath was meant to break up alliances between sects that planned to search for fragments together and rely on powerful sects to build teleportation arrays.
• Wine Sword Immortal agreed to swear the oath, saying he wanted to search for his missing bloodline on nearby fragments.
• Ghost Fearer agreed to share resources but insisted that everyone contribute to exploration and use the same teleportation array; Ye Anyuan accepted and invited the others to object.

Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan secured oaths from the assembled sects and confronted the Beast Taming Sect over its past actions. The Venerable Myriad Beasts then led them into the sect’s hidden trial grounds.

• The Wine Sword Immortal and the other participants swore Great Dao Oaths to join the search for other Spirit Realm fragments, while those unwilling to comply left.
• Ye Wudao left his Immortal Array behind under Ye Anyuan’s supervision and went to the Beast Taming Sect, where he questioned Fang Haoming and the Venerable Myriad Beasts.
• The Venerable Myriad Beasts explained that his sect had signed a two-hundred-year Peace Treaty with Earth Domain because it feared Earth Domain’s nuclear weapons.
• Ye Anyuan ordered the Venerable Myriad Beasts to take them to the ghost trial ground.
• The Venerable Myriad Beasts activated a hidden Dimensional Space Teleportation Array beneath a statue, and Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao entered the trial grounds.

Ye Wudao returned to Blue Star and discovered that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had risen again under Du Yuan and Daoist Baisun, leaving the Dragon Kingdom in civil war. After learning the Capital City had fallen and his allies were scattered or missing, he teleported toward the capital to confront Daoist Baisun.

• Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao crossed from the Trial Grounds into a foreign country and traveled north to Sea City, where they found the Dragon Kingdom in ruins.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan joined the battle and met Su Yun, who explained that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect was fighting the Demon Slayer Guard.
• Su Yun told Ye Wudao that Du Yuan had freed Daoist Baisun, rebuilt the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, and persuaded people to join him by promising them entry to the Spirit Realm.
• Su Yun revealed that three founders of the Demon Slayer Guard had died, the others were badly injured, and the Capital City had fallen to Daoist Baisun.
• Ye Wudao learned that the Haicheng First Prison was gone, the Ye and Wu families had fled, and Azure Dragon Mountain was occupied by the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
• Ye Wudao vowed to kill Daoist Baisun and teleported toward the Capital City.

Ye Wudao confronted Daoist Baisun in the Forbidden Palace and discovered that Baisun could summon power from an ancient Heavenly Demon. As that power descended, Zhang Sanfeng and Ye Anyuan warned that Baisun might be impossible to kill and could threaten everyone.

• Ye Wudao attacked Daoist Baisun with a golden palm, overpowering his Heavenly Demon Palm and revealing that he had reached the Martial Courage Realm.
• Daoist Baisun summoned the Heavenly Demon’s power, and Ye Anyuan warned Ye Wudao to retreat from the dangerous black cloud.
• Ye Wudao explained that his strength had grown through more than two thousand strands of Great Dao Power, but he still felt threatened by the cloud.
• Ye Anyuan described the ancient Heavenly Demon inheritance, and Zhang Sanfeng explained that its wielders could possess others and were difficult to kill.
• Ye Wudao worried that Li Han might still threaten the Wu and Ye Families, but Zhang Sanfeng said Li Han could not possess another body for a hundred years.
• Zhang Sanfeng warned that they needed to suppress Daoist Baisun before the Heavenly Demon descended, as it might be beyond their power to defeat.

Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao discovered that the Black Cloud Cluster’s lightning attacked hostile intruders, while its Black Mist tried to corrupt them. Zhang Sanfeng confronted Daoist Baisun with his Way of Taiji, and Daoist Baisun sought to complete the Heavenly Demon Disintegration so he could gain the power to defeat him.

• Ye Anyuan attacked the Black Cloud Cluster, but its lightning shattered his protective energy and forced him back.
• Ye Anyuan found that the Black Mist tried to enter his body when he approached without hostility, while Zhang Sanfeng’s Way of Taiji remained unaffected.
• Daoist Baisun recognized Zhang Sanfeng and learned that he had returned from the Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Sanfeng pressed the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram toward Daoist Baisun, whose Black Mist attacks failed to harm it.
• Daoist Baisun decided he needed the Heavenly Demon Disintegration to finish and planned to use the Heavenly Demon Power against Zhang Sanfeng.

Bai Xun sacrificed himself to summon a Heavenly Demon, which shattered Zhang Sanfeng’s Yin-Yang Fish Diagram. As the Spirit Realm experts gathered, they learned the black cloud was an immensely powerful Outer Realm Celestial Demon that could only be suppressed by an Immortal Emperor using the Origin Dao.

• Bai Xun bypassed Zhang Sanfeng’s Yin-Yang Fish Diagram and charged into the Black Cloud Cluster, where he unleashed a heart-rending howl.
• A voice from the clouds praised Bai Xun, and a bolt of Black Lightning shattered Zhang Sanfeng’s diagram and injured him.
• Ye Anyuan and Zhang Sanfeng suspected Bai Xun had sacrificed himself to summon a true Heavenly Demon.
• The Wine Sword Immortal explained that Heavenly Demons spread Heavenly Demon Qi, empower infected beings, and can grow stronger by absorbing them.
• Ghost Fearer added that a Heavenly Demon that condenses black clouds is at least True Immortal level, and Ye Anyuan learned they had no way to stop it without an Immortal Emperor’s Origin Dao.

Ye Wudao revealed that he had comprehended the Origin Way of Refining and used its Golden Flame to begin refining the Heavenly Demon’s black cloud. As the group struggled to defend him, Ye Anyuan was wounded by Black Lightning, and the Heavenly Demon launched four more bolts at him.

• Ye Wudao revealed his Origin Way of Refining, but Wine Sword Immortal and Ye Anyuan warned that his low cultivation made facing the Heavenly Demon dangerous.
• Ye Wudao sent his Golden Flame to envelop the Black Cloud Cluster and began refining it, prompting the Heavenly Demon to attack with Black Lightning.
• Ghost Fearer blocked a bolt with the Black Iron Immortal Shield, but the strike damaged the shield and injured him.
• Wang Jian intercepted another bolt with his Immortal Sword, but the Black Lightning damaged the sword and wounded him.
• Ye Wudao said refining the cloud would take at least half a shichen, so Ye Anyuan transformed into a dragon and tried to withstand the attacks with his body.
• The Black Lightning wounded Ye Anyuan, and the Heavenly Demon recognized his Divine Dragon Bloodline before sending four bolts toward him.

Ye Wudao searched for a way to keep refining the Heavenly Demon while the black lightning battered his allies. He decided to lend Ye Anyuan his nearly complete Divine Dragon Bloodline, hoping it would let his ancestor withstand the attacks.

• Ye Anyuan took four black lightning strikes while shielding Ye Wudao, suffering a severe wound that rapidly consumed his Divine Dragon Bloodline as it healed.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan considered fleeing to the Spirit Realm, but Ye Wudao suggested using the Primordial Temple steles to summon the Primordial Immortal Emperor.
• Ye Anyuan retrieved both steles, but the Unity Art stele had shattered, and Ye Wudao found no Stele Space within the Primordial Art stele.
• The Wine Sword Immortal blocked another black lightning strike with a wall of spirit swords, buying Ye Wudao time to study the stele.
• Ye Anyuan warned that the Heavenly Demon was absorbing the remaining black lightning and might descend before Ye Wudao finished refining its main body.
• Ye Wudao asked Ye Anyuan to borrow his 99% Divine Dragon Bloodline, and Ye Anyuan cut both their wrists to begin the transfer.

Ye Wudao completed his Divine Dragon Bloodline, gaining the Divine Dragon Takes Human Form state while the others fought the Heavenly Demon. He awoke to find them nearly exhausted and charged toward the trapped Black Cloud Cluster to take over the fight.

• Ye Anyuan accidentally transferred his remaining Divine Dragon Bloodline into Ye Wudao, completing Ye Wudao's bloodline and turning his body golden.
• Ye Wudao's Divine Dragon Bloodline formed a Golden Dragonling around his Martial Courage, and the system granted him Complete Dragon Transformation and Divine Dragon Takes Human Form.
• Ye Anyuan, Hua Tuo, Situ Xuankong, Bodhidharma, and the East Heavenly Domain sect masters joined the battle against the Heavenly Demon while Ye Wudao evolved.
• Ye Wudao opened his eyes to find the fighters badly injured and the Black Cloud Cluster reduced by a third, still confined by the Way of Refining.
• Ye Wudao told the seniors to retreat, then charged out to face the Black Cloud Cluster.

Ye Wudao endured the Heavenly Demon’s Black Lightning and watched it flee when it could not break through the Way of Refining. After the others departed, Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan set out to find the hunted Ye Family, while Wang Jian promised to deal with the Ten Thousand Demons Sect and search for Du Yuan.

• Ye Wudao withstood the Heavenly Demon’s Black Lightning, taunted it, and refused to release it from the Way of Refining.
• The Heavenly Demon fled, leaving Bai Xun’s corpse behind, and the Wine Sword Immortal explained that Bai Xun had been devoured when he sacrificed himself.
• Ye Wudao burned Bai Xun’s corpse, while the Wine Sword Immortal and Ghost Fearer left Blue Star to pursue their own searches.
• Wang Jian stayed on Blue Star and agreed to destroy the Ten Thousand Demons Sect and investigate Du Yuan’s whereabouts.
• Ye Wudao told Ye Anyuan that he needed to find the hunted Ye Family and locate Li Han and Du Yuan; Ye Anyuan led the way to search for the Ye Family.

Ye Anyuan used the Pulse Seeking Technique to track the Ye Family to Daan Mountain, where Ye Wudao discovered his family and the Four Great Families inside a Golden Barrier at the Forbidden Land’s summit. After reuniting with his mother and grandfather, Ye Wudao learned there was a strange, glowing egg at the center of their camp.

• Ye Anyuan used the Pulse Seeking Technique to trace his bloodline descendants to Daan Mountain and teleported there with Ye Wudao.
• Ye Anyuan recognized the old wooden houses as the Four Great Families’ Ancestral Land, but the bloodline trail led toward the Forbidden Land.
• Ye Anyuan found the Forbidden Land’s pressure too strong to endure, while Ye Wudao felt almost no effect and teleported to the summit.
• Ye Wudao saw his mother, Wu Juan, his grandfather, Ye Kailin, and members of the Four Great Families inside a Golden Barrier, and they opened it for him.
• Ye Wudao reunited with Wu Juan and asked Ye Kailin why they had entered the Forbidden Land.
• Ye Kailin led Ye Wudao to a giant white egg glowing faintly gold among a pile of stones.

Ye Wudao found his family trapped inside a Golden Barrier around a living Dragon Egg and learned that leaving the barrier would kill them. When the egg trembled at noon, a voice transmitted through his Divine Dragon Bloodline and begged him to smash its shell, but the connection abruptly broke.

• Ye Kailin told Ye Wudao how Du Yuan released Bai Xun and how golden light transported the Four Great Families and the Wu Family to the Forbidden Land’s mountaintop.
• Ye Kailin and Wu Juan explained that they could not leave the Golden Barrier without dying, and Ye Wudao promised to help them and investigate the Dragon Egg.
• Ye Wudao teleported to Ye Anyuan, who suspected that a Divine Dragon had laid the egg and urged him to observe what happened at noon.
• Ye Wudao returned to the mountaintop as the Dragon Egg trembled and a powerful pressure struck him outside the barrier.
• Ye Wudao sensed a plea for help through his Divine Dragon Bloodline, and the voice told him to smash the eggshell before the transmission suddenly stopped.

Ye Wudao freed the Golden Dragonling from its egg, and it entered his Sea of Consciousness after declaring that he must take it to the Immortal Realm to find its mother. Once he learned how the Divine Dragon Clan had shaped events on Blue Star, Ye Wudao resolved to find a way to remove the Divine Dragon Bloodline from himself.

• Ye Wudao lifted a stone despite Ye Kailin's warning and struck the Dragon Egg twice, breaking it open.
• The Golden Dragonling emerged, devoured its shell, grew into a Golden Dragon, and asked Ye Wudao to take it to the Immortal Realm to find its mother.
• The Golden Dragonling shrank, landed on Ye Wudao's shoulder, and burrowed into his Sea of Consciousness, where it fell asleep beside his Divine Dragon Nascent Soul.
• Ye Wudao learned that the Golden Dragonling's mother had created the array that drew Blue Star's spiritual energy to the mountain and that the Golden Dragonling had trapped the Four Great Families while waiting for him.
• Ye Wudao realized the Divine Dragon Bloodline had made him subject to the Divine Dragon Clan, and he decided to find a way to get rid of it.

After the Golden Dragonling hatched and absorbed the Divine Dragon power in the stones, Ye Wudao learned from Ye Anyuan that foreign bloodlines could let other races control humans. He used the system to expel his Divine Dragon Bloodline completely, leaving his body weakened but free of it.

• The Golden Dragonling hatched, absorbed the stones’ Divine Dragon power, and ended the Forbidden Land’s bloodline restriction as Ye Anyuan arrived.
• Ye Wudao told Ye Anyuan that the Golden Dragonling was in his Sea of Consciousness and shared his suspicion that the Divine Dragon Bloodline could let the Divine Dragon race control its bearers.
• Ye Anyuan explained the dangers of foreign bloodlines and taught Ye Wudao the Dispelling Pulse Technique.
• The system offered to expel Ye Wudao’s Divine Dragon Bloodline, and he chose to remove it so the Golden Dragonling could no longer rely on it to occupy his Sea of Consciousness.
• The system forced the Divine Dragon Bloodline out of Ye Wudao’s body, drastically weakening his physical strength, and Ye Anyuan said he would remove his own bloodline too.

Ye Wudao confronted the Golden Dragonling after discovering it was drawing energy from his Martial Courage, and offered it the choice of leaving or becoming his spirit pet. The Golden Dragonling accepted a hundred-year contract in exchange for Ye Wudao promising to take it to the Immortal Realm, then merged into his arm as a golden tattoo.

• Ye Wudao pulled the Golden Dragonling from his Sea of Consciousness and revealed that he had purged the Divine Dragon Bloodline from his body.
• The Golden Dragonling threatened Ye Wudao and the others, but backed down when Ye Wudao challenged it to act.
• Ye Wudao offered the Golden Dragonling the choice to leave or become his spirit pet, and Ye Anyuan teased it about its options.
• The Golden Dragonling agreed to a hundred-year spirit pet contract on the condition that Ye Wudao take it to the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Wudao formed the contract with the Golden Dragonling's heartblood and his own blood, and the Little Golden Dragon merged into his arm as a golden tattoo.

After returning to the Capital City, Ye Wudao learned that the Demon Slayer Guard was counterattacking the Ten Thousand Demons Sect with help from Wang Jian, an ancestor from Blue Star. Cang Liexiong revealed that Du Yuan remained missing, but Ye Anyuan believed he could locate him through his captured grandson, so Ye Wudao teleported them to Demon Slayer Headquarters.

• Ye Wudao returned to the Forbidden Palace with Ye Anyuan and asked Ye Kailin about his Great Master, Li Han, and the Demon Slayer Guard.
• Ye Wudao prepared to visit Demon Slayer Headquarters, but Cang Liexiong arrived and reported that Blue Star's situation had stabilized under Wang Jian's help.
• Cang Liexiong said Wang Jian was wiping out the Ten Thousand Demons Sect's forces and confirmed that Du Yuan had disappeared after Ye Wudao killed Bai Xun.
• Cang Liexiong told Ye Anyuan that the Demon Slayer Guard had captured Du Yuan's grandson, though the grandson did not know Du Yuan's whereabouts.
• Ye Anyuan said he could track Du Yuan through his direct bloodline, and Ye Wudao teleported him and Cang Liexiong to Demon Slayer Headquarters.

Ye Anyuan used Du Lingyun’s blood to track Du Yuan to a hidden place beneath the Forbidden Palace, then led Ye Wudao into the Dragon Vein and began searching farther underground. As they descended, Ye Anyuan explained how Martial Path and Immortal Path cultivation converged at the Great Vehicle Realm, leaving Ye Wudao questioning how that fit with the Primordial Immortal Emperor’s teachings.

• At Demon Slayer Headquarters, Cang Liexiong told Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao that Du Lingyun had been captured and tortured but had not revealed Du Yuan’s whereabouts.
• Ye Anyuan used Du Lingyun’s blood in the Pulse Seeking Technique, discovered that Du Yuan’s hiding place was cut off from the outside world, and drained much of Du Lingyun’s blood to track him.
• The blood led Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao beneath the Forbidden Palace, where Ye Wudao identified the Dragon Vein as a likely hiding place.
• Ye Anyuan broke open the sealed Dragon Vein entrance, but the pair found it empty; the Pulse Seeking Technique indicated that Du Yuan was still farther below.
• Ye Anyuan used the Earth Travel Technique to open a tunnel and explained how Martial Path and Immortal Path cultivation differed and converged at the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Ye Wudao asked whether the two paths became one after the Great Vehicle Realm, comparing Ye Anyuan’s explanation with the Primordial Immortal Emperor’s Primordial Art.