Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan cultivated after the Enlightenment Tree blossomed, strengthened his Flood Dragon bloodline, and permanently transformed the Golden Toad Demon Artifact, greatly increasing his spirit qi and forming a second internal Medium Spirit Vein. An emergency assault by the Spirit Transformation Devil Race drew him and other Nascent Soul Cultivators toward Nether Abyss Valley.

• Li Yuan found that the Enlightenment Tree had flowered, its stronger resonance waves accelerated his cultivation, and a seed had begun forming in its pistil.
• Li Yuan raised his Dragon Clan Bloodline above fifty percent, advancing the Dragon Blood Soul-Condensing Art to Major Accomplishment and strengthening his Flood Dragon form.
• The Golden Toad Demon Artifact permanently transformed into Golden Toad Essence Suppression, greatly increasing Li Yuan's total spirit qi and reducing backlash during major realm breakthroughs.
• Li Yuan nurtured five Small Spirit Veins into his second internal Medium Spirit Vein, improving his spirit qi circulation and cultivation speed.
• Li Yuan received Tianyue Sect's emergency order after the Spirit Transformation Devil Race attacked the Nether Abyss Valley seals and shattered an outer lockdown layer.
• Li Yuan joined Zhou Heng, Xuanpu, and two Mingyuan Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators as they flew toward southern Ling Province.

Li Yuan stabilized the seal at Nether Abyss Valley and learned that the Spirit Transformation Devils planned to open a full passage with the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array within a month to forty days. While cutting off the demonic qi supply beneath the valley, he advanced his Fourth-Order Array Dao to Perfection.

• Li Yuan used Spatial Restriction Technique to resist the Spirit Transformation-level impacts, reached Major Accomplishment, and rebuilt the Spatial Lockdown Array around the fissure.
• The Spirit Transformation Devil revealed that the Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array was only a simple plan and that the real passage required no Sacrificial Nodes.
• The Intelligence Hall head identified the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array as the true threat and estimated that it could open in about a month to forty days; Zhou Heng requested reinforcements from the Upper Realm.
• Li Yuan traced the underground Dark Vein trunk to Nether Abyss Valley and planned to cut off its demonic qi supply with a Segmented Nested Purification Array.
• While constructing the array around a ten-zhang stretch of the Dark Vein, Li Yuan formed a self-sustaining spiritual-power circuit without nodes or Spirit Patterns and reached Fourth-Order Array Dao Perfection.

Li Yuan reported that the Nether Abyss Valley rift could admit Nascent Soul Cultivators within two months, then received a Mystic Origin Spirit Jade that enhanced his cultivation. He reached Nascent Soul Perfection, but an emergency notice summoned him back to the valley as the Spirit Transformation Devils accelerated their attack.

• Li Yuan confirmed that the rift was thinning independently of demonic qi and estimated it would expand enough for Nascent Soul Cultivators to pass through within two months.
• At Tianyue Sect's emergency meeting, the sect decided to continue purifying the Dark Vein, rotate more Nascent Soul Cultivators through the valley, and seek support from the Upper Realm.
• Zhou Heng gave Li Yuan a Mystic Origin Spirit Jade, which activated the Mystic Origin Dao Condensation trait and increased his cultivation comprehension efficiency by thirty percent.
• Li Yuan advanced his Artifact Refining Technique to Major Accomplishment and cultivated until his spirit power reached Nascent Soul Perfection.
• Tianyue Sect notified Li Yuan that the Spirit Transformation Devils had intensified their fluctuations and were preparing the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array faster than expected, so he left for Nether Abyss Valley.

Li Yuan inspected the worsening seal and explored the Dark Vein Abyss Zone, where he found two Green Trait items and began refining his bone marrow with their aid. He continued maintaining the purification arrays and cultivating as a Spirit Transformation cultivator was expected to arrive within seven days.

• Li Yuan discovered that the seal was deteriorating faster, then inspected the purification array and found a Demonic Breath Crystal with a trait that could become permanent after seven days of continuous array operation.
• Li Yuan found an Abyss Magic Stone in a ruined Ancient Demon Dao Sealing Chamber and equipped it to filter impurities from demonic qi during cultivation.
• Li Yuan cultivated the second stage of the Ancient Demon Dao Body-Tempering Secret Art, increasing the density of his spinal and rib marrow.
• Li Yuan told Zhou Heng and the Tianyue Sect cultivators about the Dark Vein branches and their condition, and Zhou Heng said a Spirit Transformation cultivator would arrive within seven days.
• Li Yuan spent the following days maintaining the seal and purification arrays while cultivating in the abyss zone, steadily advancing his marrow refinement and the Light-Demonic Interwoven Layer.

Li Yuan sealed two branches of the Earth Vein Nexus and gained the Central Vein Stabilization Affix, while advancing his body-tempering cultivation. After receiving news of a looming Spirit Transformation arrival and demonic activity near Liang Province Dark Marsh, he returned to the Dark Vein to cultivate.

• Li Yuan set up the first Lockdown Array at the northeastern Ling Province branch and equipped its Array Eye Spirit Stone to gain the Central Vein Stabilization Blue Trait.
• Li Yuan completed a second Lockdown Array at the Liang Province Dark Marsh branch, cutting off demonic qi flowing into the Earth Vein Nexus and advancing the Trait’s permanentization progress to 1/3.
• Li Yuan completed a full cycle of marrow tempering and raised the Ancient Demon Dao Body-Tempering Secret Art to Mastery, enabling simultaneous tempering throughout his body.
• Li Yuan received Tianyue Sect’s notice that an early-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator would arrive within seven days and that demonic activity had been detected near Liang Province Dark Marsh.
• Li Yuan sent Tianyue Sect a Jade Slip containing the sealing plan and Dark Vein survey, then returned to the abyss zone to cultivate.

Xuanying arrived at Nether Abyss Valley with her strength weakened by the passage to the Lower Realm and found that the expanding rift threatened to release two powerful Devil Race opponents. Li Yuan learned from the spatial tremor, killed two Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Race intruders targeting the Segmented Purification Array, and continued cultivating as Xuanying sought reinforcements.

• Xuanying arrived at the Tianyue Sect Reception Platform and told Zhou Heng and Xuanpu that transmission injuries left her able to wield only around sixty percent of her strength.
• Li Yuan studied the spatial tremor from Xuanying's passage, and the Void Condensation Meridian Guiding Formula reached Proficiency as his auxiliary meridians began absorbing spatial spiritual power.
• Li Yuan detected two Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Race members heading for the Segmented Purification Array, ambushed and killed them, and advanced the True Demon Essence Core and Demon Shadow Space-Eroding Art.
• Xuanying inspected the rift and warned Zhou Heng and Xuanpu that its two Spirit Transformation-level opponents would be difficult to face and that the seal could hold for only a few more days.
• Xuanying requested another Spirit Transformation cultivator from Mingyuan Sect while Zhou Heng and Xuanpu mobilized people to inspect the dark vein branches.
• Li Yuan remained at Nether Abyss Valley and cultivated as the arrays continued purifying the Spirit-Transforming Demon Orb.

Li Yuan advanced his Yaoguang Soul Refining Art and helped Xuanpu eliminate two Nether Demon Realm cultivators repairing a Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array node. Their discoveries revealed that the array could be activated through the Earth Vein Nexus even if its seven nodes were not opened simultaneously, so Li Yuan hurried to finish a third lockdown array.

• Li Yuan learned from Zhou Heng that at least three spatial rifts besides Nether Abyss Valley’s main rift could let devils enter the Lower Realm, then mastered the Yaoguang Soul Refining Art in a nearby dark vein interlayer.
• Li Yuan received Xuanpu’s report of two suspected Nether Demon Realm cultivators repairing a Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array node in an abandoned stronghold in northeast Ling Province.
• Li Yuan and Xuanpu attacked the cultivators, and Li Yuan pursued and killed both after they fled through the rock layers; his Spatial Severing Technique reached major accomplishment during the fight.
• Li Yuan found jade slips and a blueprint showing that sufficient demonic qi at the Earth Vein Nexus could activate the array through the dark vein network without opening all seven nodes together.
• Li Yuan sent the intelligence to the Tianyue Sect through Xuanpu and returned to the dark veins to complete the third lockdown array at the Earth Vein Nexus.

Li Yuan completed the permanentization of Spirit-Demon Reversal and Central Vein Stabilization, strengthened the spirit veins in his small realm, and prepared Nether Abyss Valley for the approaching demonic invasion. After building attack and defense arrays at the fissure and mastering the Void Escape Method, he returned to the Dark Vein Abyss Zone to cultivate.

• Li Yuan completed the Spirit-Transforming Demon Orb's purification circuit, permanently gained Spirit-Demon Reversal, and learned that a second Spirit Transformation cultivator would arrive within three days.
• Li Yuan sealed the third Dark Vein branch and completed the master control array, permanently gaining Central Vein Stabilization.
• Li Yuan merged three small spirit veins in his Portable Small Realm into its first medium spirit vein.
• At an emergency meeting, the sect elders told Li Yuan that the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array would activate in half a month and asked him to build attack and defense arrays near the fissure.
• Li Yuan deployed the Exorcism Rifting Array and Array-Guarding Mystic Wall in Nether Abyss Valley, then mastered the Void Escape Method amid the fissure's spatial fluctuations.
• Li Yuan returned to the Dark Vein Abyss Zone to continue cultivating.

The Yuan Sect Master arrived and explained Yuan Sect’s ties to the Nether Demon Realm before entering seclusion at Nether Abyss Valley. When the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array activated early and devils poured through the rift, Li Yuan helped hold the line with the valley’s arrays, then left to seal a second rift near the Old Demonic Abyss Site.

• The Yuan Sect Master told Zhou Heng and the others that Nether Demon Realm cultivators might have engineered the rift’s expansion, then went to Nether Abyss Valley to adapt to the Lower Realm.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators from several factions arrived, while Li Yuan continued cultivating in the Dark Vein Abyss Zone.
• On the third night, the Six-Point Resonant Sealing Array neared its limit as the rift widened and the Netherdemon Blood Sacrifice Array activated ahead of schedule.
• Xuanying and the Yuan Sect Master engaged two Spirit Transformation Devils while the valley’s arrays intercepted the Nascent Soul Devils.
• Zhou Heng ordered Li Yuan to seal a newly expanding Spatial Rift northeast of Ling Province, and Li Yuan flew toward it.

Li Yuan killed two Nascent Soul middle-stage devils guarding a spatial rift, advanced his demonic body-tempering art, and sealed the rift. As he hurried toward the next node, Xuanpu warned that Xuanying was losing ground against the crimson devil and Zhou Heng needed Li Yuan to reinforce the frontline after sealing the next rift.

• Li Yuan killed the two devils guarding the rift and absorbed the essence from their remains, advancing his same-tier path progress to 6/10.
• Li Yuan cultivated beside the rift until the Ancient Demon Dao Body-Tempering Secret Art reached major accomplishment, permanently activating the Dark Marrow Bone Tempering trait.
• Li Yuan set up a sealing array that suppressed the rift and reduced it to less than half a chi wide.
• Li Yuan discovered scattered low-tier devils spreading through northeast Ling Province and continued toward the next rift without stopping to clear them.
• Xuanpu told Li Yuan that Xuanying could no longer hold off the crimson devil and that Zhou Heng wanted Li Yuan to reinforce the frontline after sealing the current rift.

Li Yuan intercepted and killed a wounded Spirit Transformation Devil fleeing Nether Abyss Valley, then permanently transformed his True Demon Essence Core Affix. He ended the chapter among the devil’s ashes, with his demonic qi perception and spells greatly enhanced.

• Li Yuan sensed a Spirit Transformation Devil approaching from Nether Abyss Valley and recognized that Xuanying had failed to stop it.
• Li Yuan blocked the Crimson Devil’s path, endured its palm strike, and wounded its exposed shoulder with the Spatial Severing Technique.
• Li Yuan bound the Crimson Devil, briefly suppressed it with the Dragon Might Art, and pierced its chest after weakening its demonic qi shield with a talisman.
• The Crimson Devil fell and dissolved into ashes, and Li Yuan’s True Demon Core absorbed its scattered demonic qi essence.
• Li Yuan fulfilled the condition to permanently transform the Purple True Demon Essence Core Affix, doubling his demonic qi perception range and increasing the power of his demonic qi spells by fifty percent.

Li Yuan helped the sect forces repel the Devils pouring from the Nether Abyss Valley while the Yuan Sect Master and Xuanying forced the Dark-Gray Thick-Armored Devil back through the rift. The rift remained open but stabilized, and Li Yuan replenished the arrays before sitting down to recover as the pillar of light weakened.

• Li Yuan reached the Nether Abyss Valley and used spatial techniques to kill Devils attacking the defense line.
• Li Yuan discovered the Heavy Armor Deep Defense trait on a Devil and collected its scale after Xuanpu exposed its weakness.
• The Yuan Sect Master and Xuanying damaged the Dark-Gray Thick-Armored Devil, which retreated through the rift as the Six-Point Resonant Sealing Array stabilized it.
• Li Yuan and the sect forces hunted down the remaining Nascent Infant devils, then Li Yuan replenished the Exorcism Rifting Array and the Array-Guarding Mystic Wall.
• Li Yuan sat by the valley wall and circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method as the dark-purple pillar of light dimmed.

Li Yuan reinforced the seal at Nether Abyss Valley, gained permanent effects from two Array Eye Stones, and shared Dark Vein intelligence with the sect leaders. After sealing a small rift in Liang Province Dark Marsh, he found an ancient altar whose Array Eye had recently been removed by a human Demonic Cultivator, then headed toward an Outer Sea trench.

• Li Yuan stabilized the Nether Abyss Valley rift, refined his Spatial Severing Technique, and gained permanent effects from the Exorcism and Mystic Wall Array Eye Stones.
• At the council meeting, Li Yuan gave Zhou Heng and the others maps and records of the Dark Veins and their arrays, and agreed to help seal key nodes.
• Li Yuan placed the Demonic Breath Crystal in his Equipment Slot, then traveled southwest to seal a small rift in Liang Province Dark Marsh.
• Li Yuan investigated a nearby ancient altar and found that a human Demonic Cultivator had removed its Array Eye within the past half month.
• Li Yuan recorded the altar and the lingering spirit power traces, then left Liang Province for the Outer Sea trench.

Li Yuan sealed several Spatial Rifts while permanentizing new traits and advancing his spatial cultivation. After closing the third rift, he gained the ability to actively close Spatial Rifts and returned toward Nether Abyss Valley.

• Li Yuan killed five Devil Race members guarding an Outer Sea rift and sealed it with an array.
• While cultivating in the trench, Li Yuan permanentized Demonic Breath Continuous Rotation and Demon-Peering Micro-Perception after advancing Demon Shadow Space-Eroding Art to Major Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan returned to Nether Abyss Valley, permanentized Abyssal Demonic Cultivation, and advanced Void Condensation Meridian Guiding Formula to Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan found and sealed an unguarded Spatial Rift beneath the Wasteland in northern Ling Province, completing the Rift-Sealing Abyss Suppression condition.
• Li Yuan permanentized Rift-Sealing Abyss Suppression, gaining the ability to actively close Spatial Rifts, then flew toward Nether Abyss Valley.

Li Yuan captured a human demonic cultivator who had entered through a sealed rift and learned that the Devil Race was searching for something in the Lower Realm. At Rift-Splitting Gorge, he perfected his spatial cultivation method, fused four blue traits into a purple one, and prepared to report that the gorge needed defenses.

• Li Yuan tracked demonic qi to an underground chamber, captured a Late Golden Core demonic cultivator, and learned he had come from the Nether Demon Realm through the Liang Province Dark Marsh rift on a mission to retrieve an unknown object.
• Li Yuan delivered the prisoner and two jade slips to Zhou Heng, who reported that the Dark-Gray Spirit Transformation Devil was traveling through spatial passages and assigned Li Yuan to assess Rift-Splitting Gorge.
• Li Yuan found dense spatial mineral veins and a thin barrier at Rift-Splitting Gorge, then advanced the Void Condensation Meridian Guiding Formula to Perfection.
• Li Yuan permanently activated Spatial Domain Sealing and fused four blue spatial traits into the purple Spatial Domain Battlelord trait.
• Li Yuan tested the new trait’s spatial severing and absolute imprisonment effects, recorded the gorge’s conditions, and left to discuss defenses with the Tianyue Sect.

Li Yuan perfected Fourth-Order Talisman Crafting Art, permanently gained the Mystic Talisman Insight Purple Trait, and made more than a hundred talismans for Tianyue Sect. After strengthening his sea of consciousness and forming a second Medium Spirit Vein in his Portable Small Realm, he set out to deliver the talismans before ascending to the Upper Realm for supplies.

• Li Yuan spent five days crafting Fourth-Order talismans, improving his technique until he reached Perfection and made more than a hundred talismans for Tianyue Sect.
• The Mystic-Pattern Spirit Brush shattered after Li Yuan met the condition to make Mystic Talisman Insight permanent, granting him a full cultivation-speed bonus and permanently faster talisman skill gains.
• The Enlightenment Tree's resonance helped Li Yuan advance the Yaoguang Soul Refining Art to Minor Accomplishment and expand and toughen his sea of consciousness.
• Li Yuan fused three Small Spirit Veins in his Portable Small Realm to form a second Medium Spirit Vein, strengthening the realm's spiritual energy supply and the Enlightenment Tree's resonance.
• Li Yuan found that his Spatial-Attribute Mineral Powder and Fourth-Order Talisman Paper were running low, decided to sell resources for supplies in the Upper Realm, and flew to Tianyue Sect to deliver the talismans.

Li Yuan gathered supplies and studied the requirements for a Spirit Transformation breakthrough, then prepared a secluded, spirit-rich space in the Tianheng Domain. He activated two breakthrough-enhancing jades and began circulating his cultivation, leaving his breakthrough poised to start.

• Li Yuan sold lower-realm materials in Mingyuan Immortal City, bought supplies, and perfected his Spatial Severing Technique on the journey back to Mingyuan Sect.
• Li Yuan studied Spirit Transformation texts and learned that the breakthrough required abundant spiritual qi and could not be interrupted.
• Li Yuan bought the Huayuan Spirit-Condensing Jade and the Concentration Tribulation-Crossing Jade after discovering their breakthrough benefits.
• Li Yuan chose a remote peak in the Tianheng Domain, carved out an independent space, and used a spirit-gathering array to increase its spiritual qi concentration.
• Li Yuan equipped both jades and completed a final cycle of cultivation with the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art.

Li Yuan broke through to Spirit Transformation, permanently gained three equipment traits, and tested his new abilities. He then flew toward the Mingyuan Sect.

• Li Yuan used the Spirit Gathering Array and his equipment to break through to Spirit Transformation and form a Spirit Transformation Core.
• The Realm-Breaking Pill, Concentration Tribulation-Crossing Jade, and Huayuan Spirit-Condensing Jade permanently granted him blue and purple traits.
• Li Yuan’s spirit-demon fusion reached ninety percent, his Dragon Scale Golden Body changed, and his portable small realm expanded.
• Li Yuan tested the Spirit Transformation Core outside his body, spatial freezing, and the Spatial Severing Technique.
• Li Yuan left the solitary peak and flew toward the Mingyuan Sect.

After breaking through to Spirit Transformation, Li Yuan moved into a new cave residence and tested his new abilities. He equipped two items, received news that the Lower Realm remained stable, and began studying a Fifth Rank cultivation method and arrays.

• Li Yuan moved into a Nascent Soul-level cave residence and tested his perception, detached core, Absolute Imprisonment, and Spatial Severing Technique.
• Li Yuan equipped the Green Flow Pot and Magic Armor Scale, then began cultivating with spiritual, demonic, and spatial spiritual power circulating together.
• Li Yuan received a report that the Lower Realm remained stable and that Tianyue Sect and Mingyuan Sect were still searching for the crimson Spirit Transformation Devil.
• Li Yuan bought a map of the Upper Realm, purchased the Origin Condensation Void Transformation Formula, and obtained introductory materials on Fifth Rank Arrays.
• Li Yuan began cultivating the Origin Condensation Void Transformation Formula, recorded its Entry Level baseline, and continued reading the array materials.

Li Yuan entered Demon Dragon Domain disguised as a Flood Dragon and secured work setting up a spatial array in a Heavenly Dragon Hall mine. After preparing new cultivation pills and surveying the mine, he discovered a rich deep vein and three natural Independent Spaces.

• Li Yuan crossed into Demon Dragon Domain in Flood Dragon form, entered a stone city, and learned that Heavenly Dragon Hall governed the region.
• Li Yuan accepted a task to design a spatial stabilization array and bought formulas and ingredients for two pills at the market.
• Li Yuan refined the pills, converted their affixes, and cultivated overnight in his rented stone chamber.
• Li Yuan accompanied a Chi Dragon demon into a deep mine and cut through the crystal-covered rock with the Spatial Severing Technique.
• Li Yuan surveyed a vast spatial crystal cavern and found three natural Independent Spaces before taking out the array diagram.