Chapter Summaries

Xuan Wu tried to charge a powerful blade technique against the monster after its mental shrieks devastated the prodigies around him. The chapter ended as the monster’s tentacles closed in while Xuan Wu still needed time to finish charging.

• The monster’s mental attack stunned the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, allowing its tentacles to kill dozens and heavily wound Xuan Wu and two companions.
• Xuan Wu forced the tentacles from his chest, while the wounded woman withdrew and the other man burned his vital essence to stall the monster.
• Xuan Wu activated his Heavenly Demon True Body and began gathering power for Demonless True Intent.
• The man could no longer hold off the monster, and more prodigies died or fled as its tentacles surged toward Xuan Wu.
• Xuan Wu roared at the incoming tentacles because he had not finished charging and could not yet unleash the blade without exhausting himself.

Ye Lin saved Xuan Wu from the monster’s tentacles, then Xuan Wu struck the monster with his strongest blade. After the monster was left gravely wounded, Ye Lin destroyed its remaining life force, and the two stood over its fallen body.

• Ye Lin drove back the monster’s tentacles with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and saved Xuan Wu.
• Xuan Wu ordered Ye Lin aside and unleashed his strongest blade strike against the monster.
• The strike cracked the monster’s head and left its tentacles motionless, but the monster survived.
• Ye Lin pierced the monster with Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament, and annihilated its remaining life force.

Xuan Wu revealed that he had recognized Ye Lin as an impostor because he knew his younger brother’s eyes. He explained how he had unintentionally taken the resources that left his twin brother with a congenital deficiency, and why he had let Ye Lin live to restore his brother’s reputation.

• Ye Lin asked Xuan Wu when he had discovered his identity, and Xuan Wu said he had known from their first meeting.
• Xuan Wu explained that he recognized his younger brother’s eyes and knew that his brother was dead despite Ye Lin’s convincing disguise.
• Xuan Wu recounted how he had absorbed the resources in their mother’s womb, leaving his twin brother unable to awaken the Heavenly Demon Sacred Body.
• Xuan Wu said his brother had trained alone in Magic Beast Mountain, returned gravely wounded, and received all the love Xuan Wu could give him.
• Xuan Wu admitted that he had wanted to kill Ye Lin but chose to use him to prove to the world that his younger brother had been a true Heaven’s Pride.

Xuan Wu asked Ye Lin to preserve his brother Xuan Ao’s identity by staging his death in the secret realm, and Ye Lin agreed. After three companions arrived, one tried to exploit Xuan Wu’s weakened state, but Ye Lin seized him and began draining his essence.

• Xuan Wu asked Ye Lin to pose as Xuan Ao and make it appear that Xuan Ao died in the secret realm, offering his Spatial Ring as payment.
• Ye Lin accepted the ring and promised to let witnesses see Xuan Ao die and spread the news.
• Three black-clad companions arrived, and Xuan Wu told them he was exhausted and urged them to inspect the sinkhole.
• One companion offered Xuan Wu a medicinal herb to restore his strength, while Xuan Wu recognized the man’s greed.
• Ye Lin agreed that the companions should stay, then grabbed the young man and began draining his essence.

Ye Lin killed three Heavenly Demon Great World cultivators and asked Xuan Wu to spy for him. Xuan Wu refused, so Ye Lin killed him but erased his memories to let him reincarnate.

• Ye Lin drained a Mahayana cultivator of his vital essence, leaving a dried corpse.
• Ye Lin seized the injured man and woman who realized he was not Xuan Ao, and drained their vital essence until their souls shattered.
• Xuan Wu condemned Ye Lin's methods but remained unafraid as Ye Lin turned toward him.
• Ye Lin offered to spare Xuan Wu if he provided intelligence from the Heavenly Demon Great World, but Xuan Wu refused because his family and clan would be endangered.
• Ye Lin struck Xuan Wu dead and erased his soul's memories so he could reincarnate.

Ye Lin descended into the sinkhole and found a hidden cavern containing insect eggs, a mysterious pearl, and an indestructible coffin. He recognized that the pearl could suppress the growing influence of the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and wondered who lay inside the coffin.

• Ye Lin left Xuan Wu's corpse behind and flew to the sinkhole at the center of the area.
• Ye Lin descended into the sinkhole, sensed three auras, and decided none of the treasure seekers would escape.
• Ye Lin identified the tunnels as passages made by the monster's tentacles and broke through the floor to search below.
• Ye Lin found a cavern packed with enormous insect eggs, with a coffin and glowing white pearl on a raised platform.
• Ye Lin discovered that the pearl could calm the mind and steady the qi, temporarily suppressing the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art's effects.

Ye Lin opened a coffin and discovered that the beautiful woman inside had awakened with a strange black aura, raising the dead to attack him. He fled the cave and found that the deceased prodigies had also risen and were wandering through the forest.

• Ye Lin bowed to the woman in the coffin, checked inside, then closed the lid and took a white pearl with him.
• The coffin burst open, and the woman rose, shrouded in black aura and chanting as the ground cracked.
• Figures crawled from the earth, and the woman ordered them to kill Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin avoided fighting the unknown woman and fled as the awakened figures pursued him through the caves.
• Ye Lin reached the outside and saw the dead prodigies revived, wandering aimlessly through the forest.

Ye Lin and the other geniuses discovered that the black mist could revive the dead and make them impossible to kill. Trapped inside the sealed secret realm, they faced the woman from the coffin, who claimed the realm as her kingdom.

• Ye Lin struck the hole with a giant sword, but the black mist reassembled the severed bodies into living figures.
• The geniuses realized the black mist could devour spiritual energy and feared that contact with it would transform them.
• The geniuses decided to leave the secret realm, only to learn that its gate had closed and they were trapped.
• The woman from the coffin appeared on a throne and told the geniuses they would become her people and rule the world with her.

The woman tried to force Ye Lin and the other prodigies to become her subjects by sending the ground figures after them. Ye Lin fought her with his Saint-Falling Fist, but when she easily broke his attack, he fled through a hole in space with her black qi in pursuit.

• The woman shook her staff, sending the figures beneath the ground flying toward Ye Lin and the other prodigies.
• The prodigies scattered to escape, while Ye Lin confronted the woman and unleashed his Saint-Falling Fist.
• The woman pointed her staff at Ye Lin and sent three streams of black qi that shattered his golden fist imprint.
• Ye Lin fled from the black qi, punched through space, and plunged into the resulting black hole.

Ye Lin watched from a spatial layer as the woman transformed the secret realm into a ruined landscape and raised the buried imperial capital. After she noticed him and shattered his viewing screen, Ye Lin fled toward the capital while she surveyed her restored territory.

• Ye Lin concluded that the woman’s strength exceeded the Mahayana stage after she effortlessly blocked his strongest punch.
• From a spatial layer, Ye Lin watched the woman destroy the forest with black mist and raise palaces from beneath the earth.
• The woman declared that the ruins were the former imperial capital of the Great Qing Empire and ordered her followers to search it for intruders.
• The woman spotted Ye Lin through his screen of light and shattered it, sending black mist into the void where he watched.
• Ye Lin fled toward the imperial capital, while the woman continued inspecting the secret realm.

Trapped in the secret realm with no clear escape, Ye Lin encountered two humans digging beneath a palace floor and asked to join them. The chapter left him waiting for their response.

• Ye Lin hid from the Demonic Corpses and reasoned that he might escape when the secret realm's gate opened during a war with the outside world.
• As Ye Lin rested to recover his spiritual energy, he heard digging beneath the palace floor.
• Sanzang and Li Jingling emerged through the broken tiles, and Ye Lin pulled them up before they could leave.
• Sanzang introduced himself, Li Jingling gave her name, and Ye Lin told them his.
• Ye Lin stopped the pair as they tried to depart and asked them to take him along.

Ye Lin joined Sanzang and Li Jingling as they fled demon corpses through an underground passage. Sanzang offered Ye Lin a place in the Male and Female Bandits, but Ye Lin questioned who they were and how they entered the secret realm before deciding whether to sign their contract.

• Three demon corpses burst into the palace, and Sanzang led Ye Lin and Li Jingling into an underground passage.
• Sanzang sealed the entrance with a talisman that could hold the corpses for only three minutes, then led the group farther through the passage.
• At a crossroads, Sanzang sealed the passage behind them, while Li Jingling complained that he had again failed to find the main chamber.
• Sanzang introduced himself and Li Jingling as the Male and Female Bandits and offered Ye Lin a contract that bound them together on pain of death.
• Ye Lin asked how Sanzang and Li Jingling had entered the secret realm and who they were, but Sanzang refused to answer and asked whether Ye Lin would sign.

Ye Lin signed Sanzang and Li Jingling’s contract and learned they had come from Star River, where they belonged to powerful organizations. Sanzang explained that the corrupted imperial capital was created by an object from beyond the heavens, which he and Li Jingling intended to find.

• Ye Lin signed the contract, added a drop of blood, and became the third member of Sanzang and Li Jingling’s group.
• Sanzang and Li Jingling welcomed Ye Lin as their little brother and said they would choose a new name for their organization.
• Sanzang revealed that he was a disciple of the Third Dao Academy of the Star River Dao Sect, while Li Jingling was the daughter of the Star River Beggar Gang’s leader.
• Sanzang explained that the place had once been an imperial capital that fell in a war, after which an object from beyond the heavens corrupted the little princess and the city’s inhabitants into monsters.
• Sanzang identified the little princess Ye Lin had fought and said that he and Li Jingling were seeking the object from beyond the heavens.

Ye Lin learned that the Holy Light Stone had kept the Demon Star Stone and the corrupted princess dormant, and that taking it had awakened her. He, Sanzang, and Li Jingling flew up to confront the princess, who greeted them as three little insects.

• Sanzang explained that the Demon Star Stone had corrupted the creatures and the princess, while the Holy Light Stone was its nemesis.
• Ye Lin showed Sanzang and Li Jingling the Holy Light Stone he had found beside the princess's coffin, and Sanzang realized its removal had awakened her.
• Ye Lin suggested that the Demon Star Stone was likely set in the princess's black staff, and Sanzang agreed.
• Li Jingling warned that the princess had reached Half-Step Earth Immortal while she and Sanzang had sealed their cultivation at the Mahayana stage.
• Sanzang decided they would destroy the princess, and he and Li Jingling called Ye Lin to follow them into the sky.
• The princess saw the three arrive and called them little insects.

Sanzang, Li Jingling, and Ye Lin fought the princess, whose power was nearing a new realm. Li Jingling was badly injured in the clash, leaving Ye Lin worried about her condition.

• Sanzang restrained the princess with formations while Li Jingling attacked and Ye Lin prepared to launch sneak attacks.
• The princess broke free of the formations and unleashed a terrifying aura, sending Li Jingling flying and forcing Sanzang to retreat.
• Sanzang warned Ye Lin that the princess was close to entering a new realm, but Li Jingling charged back into the fight.
• The princess struck Li Jingling into the ground, devastating the surrounding area and leaving her covered in blood with a nearly broken leg.
• Ye Lin asked whether Li Jingling would be all right as Sanzang remained unconcerned.

Li Jingling fought the princess, whose body had merged with the Demon Star Stone, and discovered that the stone could regenerate and copy her attacks. After the princess struck Li Jingling into the earth, Sanzang warned Ye Lin that the intelligent Demon Star Stone threatened the entire great world.

• Sanzang told Ye Lin that Li Jingling had once killed three half-step Earth Immortal experts while she was still in the Mahayana realm.
• Li Jingling shattered the princess's three demonic dragons and charged at her.
• Li Jingling's mighty slash broke the princess's staff and split her body in two, but the princess regenerated.
• Li Jingling recognized that the Demon Star Stone had merged with the princess and made her effectively indestructible.
• The princess returned Li Jingling's slash as a black-mist blade, sending Li Jingling crashing into the earth.
• Sanzang warned Ye Lin that the intelligent Demon Star Stone had to be stopped before it turned the great world into its playground.

Sanzang used Buddhist talismans to hold the princess and her demonic shadow in a stalemate. Li Jingling returned unharmed and said she could have defeated the princess if she had been able to use all her methods.

• Sanzang summoned a giant Buddha and began attacking the princess with powerful talismans.
• The princess resisted Sanzang's first talismans with her staff and demonic qi, but struggled as he continued chanting.
• The princess summoned a demonic shadow that tore apart one talisman, and Sanzang suppressed the shadow with another.
• Sanzang and the princess remained locked in a stalemate, and he made no further moves.
• Li Jingling appeared behind Ye Lin, said the princess had not hurt her, and claimed she could have cut her down if she had been able to use her other methods.

Sanzang and Li Jingling used their fight with the princess to test Ye Lin, then sent him to face her. Ye Lin recognized their performance but entered the battle anyway, while the enraged princess prepared to attack him.

• Li Jingling mocked Sanzang for having learned only three of the Buddhist Sect’s Six-Character True Words before he was discovered.
• Sanzang attacked the princess with a giant Buddha palm, but she countered with a palm of dark qi and forced him to retreat.
• Sanzang threw Ye Lin into the field and joined Li Jingling, while they discussed how Ye Lin had seen through their act.
• The princess glared at Ye Lin and declared that she would use him to test her current strength.

Ye Lin fought the princess with swords from the Chaos Sword Casket, pushing back her black qi with several powerful attacks. The princess summoned nine black dragons and remained defiant as Ye Lin brought out Godslayer to suppress her.

• Ye Lin opened the Chaos Sword Casket and sent Azure Frost to pierce the princess's black qi.
• Ye Lin unleashed Fire Dance, whose flames clashed with black dragons inside the qi.
• Ye Lin sent Like the Wind to attack the princess, and she summoned nine black dragons to fight it.
• Ye Lin used Jade Ruyi to absorb vitality, but the princess claimed she was already dead and struck at the sword.
• Jade Ruyi pierced the princess's black palm, and Ye Lin summoned Godslayer to suppress her as she mocked his swords.

Ye Lin fought the Filth-Transmuting Venerable, who transformed into a colossal beast and swallowed him after stunning his divine soul. Inside the beast, Ye Lin recovered and prepared to exploit its vulnerable interior.

• The princess mocked Ye Lin as he strained to maintain his five swords and Phoenix phantom.
• The princess transformed into the Filth-Transmuting Venerable, a colossal scaled beast with an aura twice as powerful as before.
• Ye Lin recalled his five swords and pierced the beast’s forehoof with a black sword from the Chaos Sword Casket.
• The Filth-Transmuting Venerable stunned Ye Lin’s divine soul with its roar and swallowed him, while Sanzang and Li Jingling criticized the beast for exposing its insides.
• Ye Lin found himself in the beast’s foul-smelling body and resolved to attack its vulnerable interior.