Chapter Summaries

Demonic Cultivators gathered in overwhelming numbers to attack the Blood Pool, whose guardians activated the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation. The attackers surrounded the barrier and gave the defenders half an hour to surrender.

• Demonic Cultivators surged toward the Blood Pool, and Ye Lin joined the cultivators following them.
• The Blood Pool's guardians activated the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and prepared to defend their post for the next three years.
• More than ten thousand True Immortal prodigies arrived atop demonic clouds and surrounded the Blood Pool.
• A middle-aged man holding a small tower offered to let the guardians leave safely if they opened the formation within half an hour.

The four top Demonic Sects attacked the Blood Pool’s Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation while its defenders struggled to keep it powered. As the middle-aged man realized their supplies would last only fifteen days, more demonic cultivators arrived to join the assault.

• The young man defending the Blood Pool challenged the Demonic Cultivators, and their forces began attacking the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation.
• Watching prodigies marveled that the Great Peace Holy Sect, Heaven Sect, Supreme Demon Cult, Blood Lotus Sect, and Star River Cosmos divisions had joined the assault.
• A young man warned the middle-aged man that the formation consumed hundreds of thousands of mid-grade immortal stones every breath and could last only fifteen days.
• The middle-aged man despaired that they needed to hold out for three years until the envoy returned.
• More demonic cultivators emerged from the ground, heavens, and void and offered to help attack the Blood Pool.

Demonic cultivators joined the four great sects in attacking the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation around the Blood Pool. The Heaven Sect prodigy used an Array-Breaking Awl to tear a huge crack in the formation, which the cultivators inside struggled to repair.

• Rogue demonic cultivators joined the attack after the Great Peace Holy Sect promised them a share of the Blood Pool.
• The middle-aged man inside the Blood Pool lamented that no righteous cultivators had come to help.
• The Heaven Sect prodigy brought out an Array-Breaking Awl and gathered demonic qi from the cultivators to empower it.
• The Heaven Sect prodigy struck the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation, opening a massive crack and injuring the cultivators maintaining it.
• The middle-aged man urged the defenders to hold the formation as cultivators poured immortal power into it to repair the crack.

The four great demonic sects used the Array-Breaking Awl’s final strike to tear open the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation protecting the Blood Pool. The defenders struggled to hold the breach as one peak True Immortal was destroyed, leaving their survival uncertain.

• The Great Peace Holy Sect leader and the other sects’ cultivators struck the formation twice with the Array-Breaking Awl, injuring many defenders inside the Blood Pool.
• A cultivator explained that the supreme-grade Array-Breaking Awl could strike only three times, and the young man prepared its final blow.
• The middle-aged man urged the Blood Pool cultivators to join forces, while Ye Lin realized the attack could kill even him.
• The Array-Breaking Awl’s final strike tore a widening gash in the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and caused devastation across the Tenth Domain.
• A peak True Immortal cultivator cracked apart and exploded into dust, with even his Primordial Spirit ground away.

The Great Peace Holy Sect broke through the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and overwhelmed the Blood Pool’s defenders. As the battle turned desperate, a giant hand descended from a tear in the Ninth Heavens but was destroyed by lightning, and a warning forbade anyone from acting during the confinement period.

• The Array-Breaking Awl shattered the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation, killing its defenders and breaking the earth veins beneath it.
• The Great Peace Holy Sect’s lead disciple ordered half the attackers to control the Array-Breaking Awl while the rest charged into the formation.
• The Blood Pool’s defenders fought back, but the middle-aged man realized their defenses had collapsed in only one hour.
• The Ninth Heavens split open, and a giant hand filled with laws emerged from the void above the battlefield.
• A bolt of lightning ground the giant hand to powder, and a voice declared that no one could act during the confinement period.

After the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation vanished, demonic-path cultivators and tens of thousands of opportunists rushed toward the Blood Pool to claim its power. A fat man began breaking open the pool, releasing powerful Blood Baleful aura and resentful ghostly phantoms.

• A demonic-path cultivator dismissed the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal who had intervened and continued attacking as the void rift healed.
• The Array-Breaking Awl shattered, and everyone saw that the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation had been destroyed, exposing the Blood Pool.
• Tens of thousands of hidden cultivators emerged and raced toward the Blood Pool, angering the demonic-path cultivators who had fought to seize it.
• A fat man struck the Blood Pool repeatedly, opening cracks and releasing Blood Baleful aura and resentful ghostly phantoms.

Ye Lin watched the four great demon sects act strangely before joining the battle for the Blood Pool. As the sects withdrew, their leaders revealed a plan to unleash the pool’s ancient resentment and sacrifice the Tenth Domain.

• Cultivators from across the area attacked the Blood Pool amid widespread slaughter.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to join the fight, but Ye Lin watched the four great demon sects instead.
• Ye Lin put on a blood-red mask and flew toward the Blood Pool, ready to fight with his three great weapons if needed.
• The leaders of the four great demon sects said the Blood Pool’s lingering True Immortal resentment would cause a catastrophe if released.
• The demon sects’ main force withdrew unnoticed while their leaders prepared to activate a grand formation and sacrifice the Tenth Domain.

The Blood Pool shattered and released overwhelming Blood Baleful aura and resentment, drawing cultivators to absorb its power. Ye Lin stayed outside the pool while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor entered it, and he began absorbing the aura with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.

• The Blood Pool cracked apart, unleashing dense resentment that drove nearby cultivators back and turned the sky red.
• Several cultivators overcame their fear and flew above the Blood Pool to absorb its Blood Baleful aura, prompting others to follow.
• Ye Lin reached the pool’s edge and decided not to enter its dangerous True Immortal blood.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar plunged into the pool, and Ye Lin sent the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor in after it.
• The two demonic weapons absorbed blood and Blood Baleful aura, growing stronger as their surfaces and auras changed.
• Ye Lin sat cross-legged in the air and used the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to draw Blood Baleful aura into his body.

Cultivators gathered at the Blood Pool to absorb its Blood Baleful aura, while the demonic sects secretly activated a formation around the Tenth Domain. As the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor drained the Pool, the cultivators noticed the aura fading and the four great demonic sects were missing.

• Cultivators spread across the area above the Blood Pool and absorbed its abundant Blood Baleful aura, while Ye Lin refined it with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.
• Demonic cultivators ordered the Void-Refining Grand Formation activated, and a blood-colored barrier enclosed the Tenth Domain without anyone noticing.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor frenziedly absorbed the Pool, causing its blood and aura to shrink.
• Cultivators noticed the Blood Baleful aura thinning and began to suspect something was wrong.
• A cultivator searched the area and realized that people from the four great demonic sects had vanished.

Cultivators gathered at the Blood Pool discovered that the four great demon sects had lured them into a trap: Blood Baleful qi drove many into a killing frenzy while a barrier sealed the Tenth Domain. The surviving cultivators were left unable to escape as their attacks failed to damage the formation.

• Cultivators wondered why the four great demon sects had disappeared after the Blood Pool was captured and suspected a scheme.
• A cultivator at the Blood Pool turned crimson-eyed and attacked, and others soon began killing everyone around them.
• Sane cultivators fled, realizing Blood Baleful qi had driven their fellow cultivators berserk and made them attack indiscriminately.
• Cultivators discovered that a blood-colored barrier had sealed the entire Tenth Domain and concluded the four great demon sects had used the Blood Pool as bait.
• Several cultivators attacked the barrier with their strongest techniques, but they could not make it ripple.

The four great Demonic Sects activated the Void-Refining Grand Formation, turning the Blood Pool’s Blood Baleful qi against the cultivators of the Tenth Domain and draining their essence. Ye Lin recognized the scheme and remained unharmed, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor stayed by his side.

• The Demonic Sect disciples revealed that they had corrupted the Blood Pool and activated the Void-Refining Grand Formation across the Tenth Domain.
• The formation drew Blood Baleful qi and the essence of dying True Immortal cultivators into the sky, while many cultivators succumbed to madness.
• A cultivator urged the survivors to fight the maddened cultivators and bombard the heavens together to escape the formation.
• Ye Lin killed an attacker, recognized the four great Demonic Sects’ scheme, and remained unaffected by the Blood Pool’s contamination through his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar complained that the Blood Pool was insufficient to restore it, though it had benefited, and the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor attached itself to Ye Lin’s back.

Ye Lin discovered that the four great demonic sects had trapped everyone in a complete Void-Refining Grand Formation, which neither he nor the Xuanyuan Sword could break. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar withheld its power to avoid spending its accumulated blood essence and attracting attention, leaving Ye Lin to seek another way out.

• Ye Lin noticed the formation above contracting and learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that the Void-Refining Grand Formation absorbed and refined living beings’ vital essence.
• Ye Lin asked the Xuanyuan Sword to break the formation, but learned he could not wield even one ten-thousandth of its power.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said it could shatter the formation only by using power comparable to a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal’s, but doing so would consume much of its stored blood essence and risk drawing attention.
• Ye Lin was left speechless as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged him to find another way.

Ye Lin found that the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had left him to solve the crisis himself, and he tried to escape the Blood Pool as the formation contracted. After fighting off five cultivators who had succumbed to cultivation deviation, he vanished to search for a way out.

• Ye Lin left the chaotic area around the Blood Pool and found that the blood-red barrier cut his hand when he touched it.
• Ye Lin saw the formation contracting as deviated cultivators began targeting him and the others in the sky.
• Five blood-eyed cultivators surrounded Ye Lin and attacked him with Earth-Shattering Fists.
• Ye Lin used the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor to send all five attackers flying.
• Ye Lin vanished to search for an escape, and the attackers called for others to chase him.

Ye Lin was trapped inside the Void-Refining Grand Formation and fought off waves of peak True Immortals. As Demonic Cultivators outside the formation activated it to kill him, Ye Lin sensed a new danger in the heavens.

• Ye Lin learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that the formation had no weakness he could exploit from within, so he charged the pursuing creatures and began slaughtering them.
• Demonic Cultivators watching through a light screen recognized Ye Lin as a likely Genius Ranking expert and decided to end the fight quickly.
• Ye Lin continued killing his attackers while the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor absorbed the essence of their flesh and blood.
• The Demonic Cultivators activated the Void-Refining Grand Formation, and Ye Lin looked toward the heavens after sensing something alarming.

Ye Lin was trapped in the Void-Refining Grand Formation as the Demonic Cultivators gathered three Blood Crystals to unleash a deadly attack. Just as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar prepared to save him, a voice rose across the Tenth Domain and powerful auras appeared.

• Ye Lin struck aside the crimson-eyed cultivators and tried to flee the attack gathering above him.
• The young man in the chief seat explained that three Blood Crystals could power a precise strike anywhere inside the formation and demanded Ye Lin's corpse.
• Ye Lin realized the attack could kill him and considered summoning his three other clones to help block it.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar prepared to intervene, admitting it could guarantee Ye Lin's survival.
• A voice threatened to kill anyone who harmed Brother Ye Lin, and another asked Great River to wash away the nauseating aura as rushing rivers and terrifying auras filled the Tenth Domain.

A mysterious Great River descended into the Tenth Domain, purifying the Blood Baleful aura and destroying the Blood Pool and those who had succumbed to deviation. Outside the Void-Refining Grand Formation, the Demonic Cultivators learned their Blood Crystal harvest was meager, and their furious leader ordered the remaining people sacrificed.

• A vast Great River poured from shattered space and erased the crimson beam, purifying the Tenth Domain and crushing the Blood Pool and the deviated cultivators.
• The surviving cultivators emerged unharmed as the river vanished and the Tenth Domain returned to tranquility.
• The Demonic Cultivators watched their plans collapse and wondered what the Great River was.
• The young man demanded a tally and learned the four sects had refined only one hundred Blood Crystals.
• The young man ordered the Void-Refining Grand Formation activated at full power to sacrifice everyone who remained.

Luo Yao returned to Ye Lin after helping her aunt, and she saved him from danger with help from Great River. As Luo Yao reunited with Ye Lin and showed him the bracelet her aunt had made, she sensed a threatening presence returning in the distant sky.

• A demonic young man ordered his cultivators to gather one thousand Blood Crystals, lamenting that the dried-up Blood Pool had yielded only a few dozen.
• Ye Lin was astonished when Luo Yao appeared and explained that Great River had brought her to find him and saved him when she learned he was in danger.
• Luo Yao told Ye Lin that she had finished helping her aunt and could now stay with him, and she showed him the bracelet her aunt had spent hundreds of millions of years refining.
• Luo Yao sensed that the hateful thing had returned, and terrifying auras began to emerge as the distant clouds churned.

Ye Lin used the Great River to destroy the Void-Refining Grand Formation, freeing the Tenth Domain and forcing the Demonic Sects to flee. Luo Yao celebrated the attack, but Jian Nantian appeared to enforce the laws and was astonished to find her in the Central Continent.

• Luo Yao urged Ye Lin to teach their enemies a lesson, and Ye Lin summoned the Great River to shatter the Void-Refining Grand Formation.
• The trapped prodigies realized the formation was broken and fled the Tenth Domain.
• After learning the formation had fallen, the young man in Demon Valley ordered the Demonic Sect disciples to retreat to the Star River Cosmos.
• Luo Yao praised the Great River as a middle-aged man wrapped in laws appeared and warned that Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals were forbidden from leaving seclusion before Dragon Island opened.
• Jian Nantian identified Luo Yao as a mortal and wondered how she could have reached the Central Continent.

Jian Nantian questioned Ye Lin about the shattered Void-Refining Grand Formation, then left after learning the demonic sects had attacked the Blood Pool. Ye Lin headed for the Fourth Domain with Luo Yao, intending to take advantage of Liu Feng’s plan to find a Genius Ranking target.

• Jian Nantian questioned Ye Lin about the Void-Refining Grand Formation, and Ye Lin recounted the four demonic sects’ attack on the Blood Pool.
• Jian Nantian condemned the demonic sects and departed, after briefly examining Luo Yao.
• Luo Yao admitted that Jian Nantian’s gaze had frightened her, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar cryptically warned Ye Lin that a great terror lay behind her.
• Ye Lin told Luo Yao they were going to the Fourth Domain so he could exploit Liu Feng’s plan and pursue a Genius Ranking target.

Ye Lin took Luo Yao toward the Fourth Domain, where the discovery of Dragon Blood Crystals at Falling Moon Mountain Cliff drew Demon Race geniuses to Falling Moon City. The chapter left the city abuzz with powerful visitors, including the Third Prince of the Blood Dragon Clan.

• Ye Lin used his knowledge of the Central Continent to lead Luo Yao through the void toward the Fourth Domain.
• Demon Race cultivators flocked to Falling Moon City after Dragon Blood Crystals appeared at Falling Moon Mountain Cliff.
• The Third Prince of the Blood Dragon Clan arrived in the city with three young men, prompting speculation that he wanted to restore his bloodline to its ancestral form.
• Cultivators recognized the Third Prince as a genius ranked 563rd on the Genius Ranking.