Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin concealed his group’s auras and used his Golden Immortal strength to frighten the demon-monsters in a city of mostly feeble residents. As he prepared to leave, someone inside a shabby wooden house pulled him toward the door and invited him in, so his companions followed.

• Ye Lin covered himself and his group with the power of laws, hiding their auras from the demon-monsters.
• When a demon-monster asked Ye Lin for flesh and blood, Ye Lin released a trace of Golden Immortal aura, making the surrounding demon-monsters kneel and tremble.
• Ye Lin noticed that nearly all the demon-monsters in the city were old, weak, sick, or disabled, and suspected that the stronger ones had been sent to fight the Earth God Realm and the Immortal God Realm.
• As Ye Lin was about to leave, a pale hand reached out from a shabby wooden house and tried to pull him inside, but he stayed firmly in place.
• A crisp voice invited Ye Lin to come inside and talk, and he entered as Gu Qingzhi, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou followed.

Ye Lin and his companions encountered a human woman hiding in Demon-Monster City, who claimed she had been captured by the city lord and warned them about the True Immortal guarding the City Lord Mansion. Ye Lin saw through her disguise as a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal and pressed her to reveal why she was hiding there, leaving the possibility of cooperation open.

• The woman questioned Ye Lin and his companions about moving openly through Demon-Monster City, and said she had been captured to become the city lord’s wife.
• The woman explained that demon-monsters did not attack her because of her position, then asked why they had been able to pass through the city unharmed.
• The woman warned Ye Lin that the City Lord Mansion lay ahead and its True Immortal city lord would kill them if he discovered them.
• Ye Lin revealed that he knew the woman was a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal concealing her cultivation, and asked about her purpose while offering to cooperate.
• The woman grew wary and asked who Ye Lin was and how he had entered the Demon-Monster Realm, while Gu Qingzhi wondered how he had seen through her.

Liu Ruoxin revealed that she had come to Demon-Monster City to claim a sealed Taiyi Golden Immortal demon-monster's arm, then told Ye Lin about two other treasures in the realm. Ye Lin learned of a low-grade Dao-tier cauldron guarded by a powerful Golden Immortal and remained interested in pursuing it.

• Ye Lin asked Liu Ruoxin what she wanted, and she introduced herself before admitting she had come for something.
• Liu Ruoxin revealed that a Taiyi Golden Immortal demon-monster's arm was sealed beneath Demon-Monster City and warned Ye Lin he could not use it.
• Ye Lin asked Liu Ruoxin about unusual places in the realm, and she described a wasteland a million li east inhabited by plant True Spirits.
• Liu Ruoxin told Ye Lin about the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron, a low-grade Dao-tier treasure three hundred million stellar li east, and warned that a seventh-level Golden Immortal guarded its city.
• Ye Lin considered the cauldron's value, noting that he possessed only two Dao artifacts.

Ye Lin learned from Liu Ruoxin about a Dao artifact and a powerful monster stationed in the Demon-Monster Realm, then decided to investigate alone. He left his companions to explore the True Spirit Land while he went to verify the information.

• Ye Lin questioned whether Liu Ruoxin’s information about the seventh-layer Golden Immortal was accurate, and she assured him she had paid dearly to uncover it.
• Ye Lin left Liu Ruoxin and said he would not interfere with her plans.
• Outside the city, Ye Lin told his companions he intended to investigate the Dao artifact alone because they were too weak to face the danger.
• Wang Tian said he would explore the True Spirit Land for plant and wood true spirits, and Li Xiaoyao agreed to go with him.

Ye Lin reached the demon city Liu Ruoxin had described and secretly surveyed it, drawing the attention of a powerful resident. Before he could respond to the old monster, three robed strangers arrived at the gate and asked whether the city was Death's End City.

• Ye Lin parted ways with the others and warned them to contact him if they encountered a powerful enemy.
• Ye Lin used the Laws of Space and Near Yet Far to reach the city in two hours, confirming that Liu Ruoxin had not deceived him.
• Ye Lin entered the city under concealment and spread his divine sense across it.
• A powerful old monster exposed Ye Lin's presence and confronted him with killing intent.
• Three barefoot figures in coarse gray robes appeared at the city gate and asked whether the place was Death's End City.

Ye Lin watched three monks from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect challenge Death's End City’s ruler for the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron. As their Buddhist Dharma ravaged the city, Ye Lin slipped away to search its center for treasure.

• Three monks from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect demanded that Death's End City hand over the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron on their Buddha Patriarch’s orders.
• The city’s ruler rejected their claim and mocked the sect while Ye Lin hid among the crowd.
• The monks unleashed Mahayana Buddhist Dharma, causing the city’s demons and monsters to writhe in pain as their demonic qi dissipated.
• The ruler vowed to protect the cauldron, but the monks insisted they were purging his demonic influence.
• Ye Lin quietly headed toward the city center to search for valuable items, realizing that the Demon-Monster Realm held other factions and was falling into chaos.

Ye Lin searched the luxurious estate of a powerful demon-monster and used Soul Search on its cub to learn where the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron was hidden. As he went to find it, the cub’s grandfather flew into a rage in the sky, but three Buddhist cultivators continued suppressing him.

• Ye Lin entered the demon-monster estate while the battle overhead remained deadlocked and searched its rooms for valuables.
• Ye Lin found a demon-monster cub, seized it, and performed Soul Search to learn the location of the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron.
• Ye Lin tossed the cub aside, and it scattered into nothingness as he headed toward the cauldron’s location.
• The mighty demon-monster at the seventh level of Golden Immortal sensed his grandson’s death and roared in rage.
• The three Buddhist cultivators renewed their suppression of the mighty demon-monster with golden light and a bell, while two other demon-monsters began to turn translucent.

Ye Lin found the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron in a hidden chamber and added it to his Spatial Ring. He also discovered a powerful zombie in a purple-gold coffin and brought it along as chaos spread outside.

• Ye Lin opened the hidden passage by smashing a vase and took the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron.
• Ye Lin sensed dense yin energy behind a wall, broke through it, and found a purple-gold coffin.
• Ye Lin opened the coffin and saw a zombie whose strength seemed comparable to a Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin awakened the zombie with a drop of blood, subdued it with a palm strike, and led it toward the outside world.

Ye Lin released a zombie in Death's End City, then confronted three injured Buddhist cultivators who demanded the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron. He revealed his seventh-layer Golden Immortal strength and destroyed the city with a single sword strike as the cultivators fled.

• Ye Lin slapped the zombie, which howled and hopped away to attack elsewhere in the city.
• Three Buddhist cultivators from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect appeared and demanded that Ye Lin return the Eight Wastelands Qi-Devouring Cauldron.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and unleashed lightning, revealing himself as a seventh-layer Golden Immortal.
• The three Buddhist cultivators fled, but Ye Lin struck with a million-zhang lightning Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin's sword strike smashed Death's End City into ruins and reduced countless demons to ash.

Ye Lin killed three Buddhist cultivators who attacked him, while Li Xiaoyao and his companions fled from a horde of black-fluid monsters. A colossal beast that spawned the monsters pursued them across the plain.

• Ye Lin killed the three Buddhist cultivators with Sword Qi and watched the little zombie escape from the ruins.
• Li Xiaoyao and his companions fought off black monsters while Wang Tian wanted to study their corrosive fluid.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed powerful auras approaching and led Wang Tian and the others away from the clearing.
• A colossal black beast appeared, spawned more monsters from its pustules, and pursued Li Xiaoyao and his companions.
• Li Xiaoyao remarked that the beast chasing them was fast.

Li Xiaoyao and his companions fled multiplying monsters into a strange village where the creatures would not follow. A suspicious villager confronted them, and Gu Qingzhi claimed they had come seeking plant True Spirits to save a dying elder.

• Li Xiaoyao avoided fighting the monsters because every divided creature could multiply into more.
• Bao Xiaotou spotted a village, and Li Xiaoyao and the others entered it as the monsters turned away.
• Gu Qingzhi discovered that she could not extend her divine sense inside the village.
• A group of armed villagers surrounded the newcomers, and their axe-wielding leader demanded to know why they had come.
• Gu Qingzhi explained that they sought plant True Spirits to save an elder, but the leader questioned why they had brought Luo Yao.

Gu Qingzhi invented a story to explain why she and her companions were traveling with Luo Yao, and Li Chen accepted it and offered to take them into his village. He explained that they were in the Silent Plains, where a being called Heavenly Chan protected the village from devouring beasts.

• Gu Qingzhi told Li Chen that Luo Yao was the endangered granddaughter of a dying clan chief.
• Luo Yao cried and said she missed her grandfather, convincing Li Chen that the story was true.
• Li Chen introduced himself and offered to take Gu Qingzhi and her companions to his village.
• Gu Qingzhi learned that the region was called the Silent Plains and that devouring beasts had begun appearing during the day.
• Li Chen explained that Heavenly Chan protected the village and had allowed them to enter because they were not dangerous.

Li Chen brought Li Xiaoyao and the others to his village and introduced them to Heavenly Chan, a plant True Spirit nearing human form. Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi decided to search outside despite the danger, while Li Chen urged them to stay until the Food Beast left.

• Li Chen led the group to the village square, where villagers trained children beneath a towering tree.
• Li Chen introduced Heavenly Chan as the tree that had long protected the village from Food Beasts.
• Wang Tian and Gu Qingzhi recognized Heavenly Chan as a plant True Spirit nearing human form.
• Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi chose to leave the others in the village and look for a plant True Spirit elsewhere.
• Li Chen warned Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi that the Food Beast was likely still nearby and urged them to wait.

Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi left the village to search for a true spirit of flora, but devouring beasts attacked them as soon as they emerged. Their battle revealed that the beasts multiplied whenever they were injured, leaving both fighters facing an escalating threat.

• Gu Qingzhi and Li Xiaoyao left the village after asking Li Chen to look after their friends.
• Devouring beasts targeted them outside the village, and Gu Qingzhi began attacking with her zither while Li Xiaoyao charged with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Li Xiaoyao split a giant beast with the Opening Stance, but it divided into two beasts that caught his hammers.
• Gu Qingzhi saw the beasts around her multiply from three to more than thirty and realized they would eventually exhaust her if the fight continued.

Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi fled the Food Beasts and returned to the village to ask Heavenly Chan how it kept the beasts away. When the silent giant tree did not respond, Gu Qingzhi offered to strengthen its foundations and reserves so it could withstand the thunderbolts when it took form.

• Li Xiaoyao called for a retreat after he and Gu Qingzhi fought the multiplying Food Beasts for half an hour.
• Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi fought their way back to the small village, killing any Food Beasts that blocked them.
• The villagers let the pair pass and watched as Gu Qingzhi approached Heavenly Chan.
• Gu Qingzhi asked Heavenly Chan how it frightened the Food Beasts, but the giant tree remained silent.
• Gu Qingzhi offered to play a tune to improve Heavenly Chan's foundations and have an alchemist prepare medicinal liquid to strengthen its reserves.

Gu Qingzhi deciphered the giant tree’s message and concluded that Food Beasts feared life force. She sent Li Xiaoyao to test the claim and offered to protect the tree through its transformation and lightning tribulation, while suspecting it had let them in because it wanted something from them.

• Gu Qingzhi persuaded the giant tree to reveal a clue, and it wrote “Life—Death” and “Yin—Yang.”
• Gu Qingzhi deduced that Food Beasts feared life force because they embodied death, and the giant tree confirmed her guess.
• Li Xiaoyao left to test whether the Food Beasts were afraid of life force.
• Gu Qingzhi promised to play for the tree and guard it for ten years if the test succeeded, then help it survive its lightning tribulation.
• Gu Qingzhi reasoned that the tree had let them in willingly because it wanted something from them or hoped to avoid being taken by force.

Gu Qingzhi learned that the ancient giant tree wanted protection from those plundering plant and tree True Spirits, and she agreed to help it. After Li Xiaoyao confirmed the tree's claim about the Food Beasts, Gu Qingzhi began playing the zither to improve the tree's innate foundation.

• Gu Qingzhi understood from the giant tree's written words that it was nearing human transformation and wanted protection from those stealing plant and tree True Spirits.
• Gu Qingzhi agreed to protect the tree and planned to use it as bait to lure greedy intruders and take their True Spirits instead.
• The villagers were astonished that Gu Qingzhi had communicated with their guardian spirit when their own attempts had failed.
• Li Xiaoyao returned and confirmed that the Food Beasts fled from the potent vitality he had gained from the giant tree.
• Gu Qingzhi began playing the zither to improve the giant tree's innate foundation.

Gu Qingzhi completed her month of zither music and medicinal treatment to strengthen the Grass-Wood True Spirit. Three cultivators from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect arrived to seize it, and they attacked the green barrier after Gu Qingzhi exposed their deception.

• Gu Qingzhi played her zither for a month while Wang Tian refined medicinal liquids that the towering tree absorbed.
• Gu Qingzhi finished her task and sensed three newcomers approaching the village.
• Three Buddhist cultivators from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect claimed they had come to subdue a great demon and demanded access to the Grass-Wood True Spirit.
• Gu Qingzhi accused the Buddhist cultivators of using Buddhist arts to bewitch people and lying about their intentions.
• The three Buddhist cultivators bombarded the green barrier with golden techniques.

Gu Qingzhi opened the village barrier, allowing three Buddhist fifth-layer Golden Immortals to enter, and Li Xiaoyao challenged them. He killed all three within ten breaths and returned to the village with their Spatial Rings.

• Gu Qingzhi ordered the barrier opened, and the three Buddhist cultivators entered the village.
• Li Xiaoyao stopped Gu Qingzhi and charged at the three cultivators to test his strength against them.
• Li Xiaoyao killed one cultivator with a punch and another with the Thunder Hammer.
• Li Xiaoyao caught and killed the fleeing third cultivator, then collected the three Spatial Rings.
• Li Xiaoyao restrained his aura and walked back toward the village, showing Gu Qingzhi the rings.

Gu Qingzhi found fifty-three bottles containing weak plant True Spirits and prepared to use a formation against the companions of the people she had defeated. Meanwhile, Ye Lin remained trapped among swarming black monsters controlled by a disdainful Big Black Dog.

• Gu Qingzhi examined the fifty-three bottles of plant True Spirits and recognized that they were exactly what she wanted.
• Li Xiaoyao warned Gu Qingzhi that the defeated people’s companions might include a seventh-layer Golden Immortal, so Gu Qingzhi called for Bao Xiaotou to prepare a formation.
• Ye Lin complained about the black monsters that had trapped him for a month while he searched for Li Xiaoyao and the others.
• The Big Black Dog mocked Ye Lin and revealed that the monsters were its little brothers.
• Ye Lin vowed to make the Big Black Dog into dog meat hotpot and fought to escape the monsters.