Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng found hundreds of Essences of Flora and reported that many more remained near the Great Demon's sealed head. The group launched their plan to fight through the Demonic Beasts and demonic dragons, and the chapter ended as the battle began.

• Lu Feng showed Ye Yun and the others an Essence of Flora and said he had found three hundred, with at least a thousand more nearby.
• Heavenly Blade proposed gathering the remaining Essences of Flora after they seized the Great Demon's head, even if they failed to claim it.
• Heavenly Blade assigned Lu Feng to restrain the Demonic Beasts, while he, Ye Yun, and Nangong Xin would hold back the demonic dragons as Shangguan Yuncai opened the seal.
• Heavenly Blade led the group into the perilous area, drawing the attention of the Demonic Beasts and the two dragons.
• Ye Yun and Nangong Xin attacked one demonic dragon together, leaving Heavenly Blade to face the other two alone as the fighting began.

Ye Yun, Nangong Xin, and Lu Feng struggled to hold back the Demonic Dragon and Demonic Beasts while Shangguan Caiyun pulled a mysterious head from a deep well. After the head knocked Shangguan Caiyun unconscious, Lu Feng suppressed its power and fled toward the forest carrying both her and the head.

• Ye Yun and Nangong Xin attacked the Demonic Dragon from opposite sides while Lu Feng fought off the Demonic Beasts, and Shangguan Caiyun began pulling the chains from the well.
• Heavenly Blade called for help, so Nangong Xin left Ye Yun and went to assist him.
• Shangguan Caiyun pulled a horned, blackish-purple head from the well, but its power knocked her unconscious.
• Lu Feng carried Shangguan Caiyun and the head away toward the forest after golden runes on his hand suppressed the head's power.

Lu Feng and the others escaped the secret realm with the Great Demon’s head while the Demon Dragon sent a horde of beasts after them. Outside, an elder confirmed Shangguan Caiyun was unharmed, and Lone Eagle prepared to take the head to the Divine Sword Sect for suppression.

• Lu Feng led the group toward the secret realm’s exit as the Demon Dragon ordered its generals and countless Demonic Beasts to pursue them.
• Lu Feng gave up on collecting the essence of vegetation and escaped the secret realm with the others.
• Lu Feng set down the Great Demon’s head and unconscious Shangguan Caiyun outside the secret realm.
• An elder checked Shangguan Caiyun and confirmed that she was only unconscious from an external force.
• Lone Eagle examined the Great Demon’s head and said he would take it to the Divine Sword Sect for the Sect Master to suppress.

The Great Demon began reassembling its body as Lone Eagle failed to stop its revival. Ye Yun and the others fled aboard cloud boats, while Lone Eagle followed to report to the Divine Sword Sect, and the Great Demon announced its return.

• The Great Demon's head rose into the sky amid black qi, dark clouds, and purple lightning, and a lightning bolt shattered Lone Eagle's attack.
• Lone Eagle realized the Great Demon's other body parts were flying in to reassemble it and tried to stop an arm, but it blasted him away.
• The elders called for everyone to flee, and five cloud boats carried the disciples and elders away.
• Nangong Xin grabbed Ye Yun's hand and led him to a cloud boat, while Lone Eagle followed the fleeing group to report to the Divine Sword Sect.
• The Great Demon laughed and declared that it had finally returned.

After awakening from ten thousand years of suppression, the Heavenly Demon recalled how three elders had sealed him and vowed to hunt down their descendants. He seized five fleeing cloud boats and Lone Eagle, intending to devour the passengers and save Lone Eagle for last.

• The Heavenly Demon remembered being transported from Central Continent to Southern Continent, where three elders defeated him and sealed away pieces of his body.
• He recalled leaving the Demonic Beasts as contingencies and realized they had helped awaken him.
• The Heavenly Demon sensed five groups of people and Lone Eagle fleeing, and decided to devour them to regain strength.
• The Heavenly Demon used a massive hand to drag all five cloud boats and Lone Eagle back to him from ten thousand li away.
• Lone Eagle accepted that he could not escape, and the Heavenly Demon praised his composure before choosing to eat him last.

Xiaoyao reunited with Ye Yun and subdued the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon that had threatened the cloud vessels. He trapped the demon under heavenly lightning, while Ye Yun asked where he had gone five years earlier.

• The Heavenly Demon prepared to swallow a cloud vessel before Xiaoyao appeared beside him.
• Ye Yun recognized Xiaoyao, flew to him, and welcomed her master after five years apart.
• Xiaoyao seized the Heavenly Demon and tore him into pieces, but the demon claimed he could not be killed.
• Xiaoyao sealed the Heavenly Demon in the ground and struck him with heavenly lightning.
• Ye Yun asked Xiaoyao where he had gone five years earlier and told him she had waited for him.

Xiaoyao reunited with Ye Yun and revealed that he had found the materials for her long-awaited Golden Core breakthrough. After the cultivators thanked him for defeating the Great Demon, he prepared to leave with Ye Yun, while Nangong Xin worked up the courage to approach him.

• Ye Yun embraced Xiaoyao, who apologized for being delayed while gathering materials for her breakthrough.
• The cultivators aboard the cloud vessel thanked Xiaoyao for erasing the Great Demon, and Lone Eagle recognized him from the Divine Sword Sect.
• Xiaoyao told Lone Eagle to leave the Great Demon to him and said he would help Ye Yun enter the Golden Core realm.
• Xuan Hu caught up with Xiaoyao, while Miaoyuan urged Nangong Xin to approach him before he lost his chance.
• Nangong Xin followed Miaoyuan's advice and walked toward Xiaoyao uneasily.

Xiaoyao offered Nangong Xin materials for his Golden Core breakthrough and took him, Ye Yun, and Miaoyuan away. After arriving at a mountain peak, Xiaoyao coughed up blood while preparing to forge Ye Yun an unparalleled Dao foundation, leaving her demanding to know who had injured him.

• Xiaoyao examined Nangong Xin's past and offered him materials to help him break through to the Golden Core stage.
• Miaoyuan prompted the stunned Nangong Xin to thank Xiaoyao, and Xiaoyao departed with Ye Yun and Miaoyuan on Red Tiger and Xuan Hu.
• The Immortal Treading Gate's sect master ordered elders of the five great sects to guard the Heavenly Demon until it died beneath the heavenly lightning.
• Xiaoyao brought Nangong Xin and Ye Yun to a mountain peak, then spat out blood.
• Xiaoyao told Ye Yun to sit aside while he forged her an unparalleled Dao foundation, but she refused and demanded to know who had injured him.

Xiaoyao helped Ye Yun and Nangong Xin prepare to condense their Golden Cores, despite his severe injuries from fleeing the deep-sea race. He sensed that the race had begun landing on the Southern Continent.

• Xiaoyao ordered Ye Yun to sit down, then guided Ye Yun and Nangong Xin as they began preparing to break through.
• Xiaoyao refined two pills in the void from precious treasures and placed one before each cultivator.
• Xiaoyao warned Ye Yun and Nangong Xin to condense their spiritual liquid and open their dantians while he concealed how much the pill refinement had weakened him.
• Xuan Hu tried to use his vital essence to help Xiaoyao, but Xiaoyao stopped him and Xuan Hu lay down beside him.
• Xiaoyao complained about the deep-sea race pursuing him and sensed that its members had begun landing on the Southern Continent.

Xiaoyao recovered from his severe injuries while Ye Yun and Nangong Xin cultivated, and both disciples advanced to the Golden Core realm. With his wish to establish their foundations fulfilled, Xiaoyao prepared to tell Ye Yun something important, leaving Nangong Xin eager to listen.

• Xiaoyao considered fleeing before danger arrived and tended to his injuries while Ye Yun and Nangong Xin cultivated.
• Ye Yun and Nangong Xin broke through to the Golden Core realm, with Xiaoyao praising their colored Golden Cores.
• Nangong Xin thanked Xiaoyao for helping him surpass his sect's record and form a Seven-Colored Golden Core.
• Ye Yun asked Xiaoyao to reveal the truth, but he told her she needed to become stronger first.
• Xiaoyao solemnly told Ye Yun to remember what he was about to say, while Nangong Xin leaned closer to listen.

After Ye Yun reached the Golden Core stage, Xiaoyao ended their master-disciple bond and gave her his treasures, insisting that she conceal all knowledge of him. He sent Ye Yun and Nangong Xin away to protect them from those searching for him, leaving Xuan Hu with him.

• Xiaoyao told Ye Yun that their master-disciple relationship was over and warned her never to mention his Daoist name or anything about him.
• Xiaoyao gave Ye Yun a Spatial Ring containing most of his treasured possessions and told her to cultivate until she surpassed him if she wanted to see him again.
• Ye Yun begged Xiaoyao not to leave, but he threatened to erase her memories if she revealed his existence.
• Xiaoyao sent Ye Yun and Nangong Xin away, then explained to Xuan Hu that he had severed their bond to protect Ye Yun from those searching for him.

Xiaoyao left Ye Yun behind and erased every trace of his existence, leaving her devastated as Nangong Xin took her toward the Immortal Treading Gate. Elsewhere, Ye Buqu continued his relentless training despite having reached only Qi Refining Level Two in ten years.

• Xiaoyao departed with Xuan Hu, leaving Ye Yun to find the mountain empty and weep over being abandoned.
• Xiaoyao erased all traces of himself across a vast area, while Xuan Hu followed him away for Ye Yun's safety.
• Nangong Xin comforted Ye Yun and supported her as they headed for the Immortal Treading Gate.
• In the Eastern Continent, Ye Buqu trained against bloodied wooden stakes and lamented that ten years of effort had brought him only to Qi Refining Level Two.

Ye Buqu doubted his cultivation talent after ten years of effort left him at the second layer of Qi Refining and unable to master a basic Fire-Starting Technique. Taiyuan urged him to leave with him for Unrivaled City, arguing that a change of scenery might help him break through.

• Ye Buqu questioned whether he had any talent after failing to produce more than a tiny flame with the Fire-Starting Technique.
• Taiyuan found Ye Buqu and invited him to visit Unrivaled City, which was about to open.
• Ye Buqu refused because he had not finished his cultivation task and felt ashamed beside his brilliant senior brother.
• Taiyuan told Ye Buqu that traveling and seeing the world had helped him overcome a bottleneck, and urged him to trust Ye Lin's advice.

Taiyuan took Ye Buqu to see Unrivaled City open, giving his hardworking junior brother a break from cultivation. They arrived among the gathered factions and spectators, while Little Red stayed behind to prepare for his lightning tribulation.

• Taiyuan told Ye Buqu that Ye Lin had said they should visit Unrivaled City, and Ye Buqu agreed to go.
• Taiyuan invited Little Red, but Little Red declined because his lightning tribulation was approaching and he was preparing to advance to the Mahayana stage.
• Taiyuan took Ye Buqu through a spatial rift to Unrivaled City, where countless people and powerful experts had gathered.
• Ye Buqu looked around curiously as Taiyuan remarked on how lively the opening of Unrivaled City was.

Ye Buqu watched as Unrivaled City opened and learned about its books, claimable buildings, guarded main hall, and powerful weapons. The great factions were set to enter first, while ordinary cultivators waited outside to avoid becoming cannon fodder.

• Taiyuan patted Ye Buqu on the shoulder and pointed out that Unrivaled City had opened.
• The crowd watched the city's barrier vanish as its mechanisms rumbled into motion.
• The narration explained that cultivators could claim buildings and read their books, but had to defend their claims from challengers.
• The narration explained that the main hall would open after the other buildings were claimed, revealing ten powerful weapons guarded by puppets.
• A cultivator told his companion that ordinary visitors had to wait for the great powers to enter and claim places first.

The powerful cultivators entered Unrivaled City, joking and arguing as they rushed toward its archive room. Ye Buqu went in with Taiyuan, while Ye Hong waited for a safer moment until his teasing senior sister offered to lead him inside under her martial uncle’s protection.

• The great powers traded taunts and rushed into Unrivaled City, with the Sword Venerable claiming its archive room for Sword Pavilion.
• Taiyuan grabbed Ye Buqu and flew toward Unrivaled City.
• Ye Hong’s master warned him to wait because the fighting inside was at its fiercest.
• Ye Hong’s senior sister found him, teased him, and invited him to follow her into the city under her martial uncle’s protection.
• Ye Hong followed his senior sister while trying not to look at her exposed back.

Taiyuan brought Ye Buqu to Unrivaled City, where its mechanical buildings and puppets fascinated them, then left to have fun on his own. Left to explore cautiously, Ye Buqu encountered a puppet that asked whether he wanted to claim a thatched cottage as his territory.

• Taiyuan praised Unrivaled City’s intricate mechanical buildings and patrolling puppets as he showed Ye Buqu around.
• Taiyuan gave Ye Buqu a Jade Talisman for emergencies, then vanished to enjoy himself.
• Ye Buqu worried about being vulnerable among powerful cultivators and continued through the city alone.
• Ye Buqu approached an isolated thatched cottage, but a puppet stopped him and asked whether he wanted to turn it into his territory.

Ye Buqu claimed an overlooked thatched cottage and discovered the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art hidden beneath its floor. As Ye Hong hurried toward the cottage hoping to claim it, Ye Buqu began studying the powerful body-tempering technique and worried that he could not memorize it.

• Ye Buqu accepted the puppet's offer and entered the thatched cottage as its new owner.
• Ye Hong escaped his senior sister and raced toward the cottage after the old man in his ring told him it might contain a cultivation art.
• Ye Buqu sat on a wooden table, noticed it swaying, and deduced that the floor tiles might be hollow.
• Ye Buqu found a wooden box beneath a loose tile and opened it to reveal the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art.
• Ye Buqu recognized the book as a powerful body-tempering art and began reading, but fretted that his poor memory would prevent him from memorizing it.

Ye Buqu stole a hidden cultivation technique from his thatched hut and gave up the hut when Ye Hong challenged him for it. Ye Hong entered the hut, fearing that the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art had already been taken.

• Ye Buqu found a cultivation technique hidden beneath the floor tiles and decided to risk taking it rather than lose the hut without gaining anything.
• Ye Buqu concealed the technique, left the hut without alerting the puppet, and hurried away with it.
• Ye Hong arrived too late, recognized Ye Buqu as the person who had beaten him to the hut, and challenged him for ownership.
• The puppet notified Ye Buqu of the challenge, and he immediately agreed to give up the hut.
• The puppet named Ye Hong the new owner, and he entered the hut anxiously, unsure whether Ye Buqu had taken the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art.

Ye Hong discovered that the treasure beneath the hut was gone and pursued Ye Buqu, intending to kill him and take the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art. Ye Buqu reached Unrivaled City’s main hall, where he sought Taiyuan while a battle raged overhead, and Ye Hong followed close behind.

• Ye Hong found nothing beneath the hut’s floor tile, and Elder Hong agreed to help him if needed.
• Ye Hong left the hut to hunt Ye Buqu and seize the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art.
• Ye Buqu headed for Unrivaled City’s main hall to find Taiyuan, unaware that Ye Hong was following him.
• Ye Hong caught up with Ye Buqu but held back from attacking amid the crowd and powerful people in the city.
• Ye Buqu watched the battle above the main hall briefly before lowering his head because the pain in his eyes was too intense.