Chapter Summaries

The six Heavenly Immortal elders opened the seal to the Demon-Sealing Land, and Ye Lin entered with the other disciples to temper himself in its dense demonic qi. He reached the inverted world within and surveyed its blood-red forest and instinct-driven manifestations of evil.

• The six Heavenly Immortal elders joined forces to open a vortex in the seal and warned the disciples to adapt to the demonic qi and leave within ten days.
• The Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land disciples entered first, followed by Ye Lin and the disciples of the other Sacred Lands.
• The demonic qi surged toward Ye Lin, but Unrivaled's Blood God Body suppressed it before he entered the vortex.
• Ye Lin found that the Demon-Sealing Land had spatial inversion, with the land above him and the void beneath his feet.
• Ye Lin surveyed the blood-red landscape and spotted illusory figures formed from demonic qi moving on instinct.

Ye Lin headed toward the Demon-Sealing Land’s entrance to find the Other Shore Flower while demonic entities watched him. The other disciples remained united in their mission, and the blood-red mist followed close behind him.

• The disciples gathered in the Demon-Sealing Land avoided attacking one another because the Sacred Lands imposed catastrophic punishment for killing their own.
• Ye Lin learned that the entrance lay a million li to the left and set off to find the Other Shore Flower.
• Demonic entities in the void discussed devouring Ye Lin, hoping to increase their cultivation and avoid becoming food for a Demonic Sovereign.
• Ye Lin ignored the entities, trusting that the nearby disciples would prevent an ambush.
• Ye Lin pressed on toward his destination as a great mass of blood-red mist followed him.

Ye Lin used the awakened Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to devour a cloud of Demonic Beasts in the Demon-Sealing Land. With the jar now strong enough to protect him even from a Heavenly Immortal, he hurried on to retrieve something before returning to hunt more beasts.

• Ye Lin drew a vast cloud of Demonic Beasts after him and used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to suck them all inside.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised the Demon-Sealing Land as a treasure trove and said its awakening had restored enough strength to contend with a Heavenly Immortal.
• Ye Lin explained that the land was used to seal demon lords and continued forward with confidence in his newly awakened treasure.
• Ye Lin ignored nearby Demonic Beasts and sped toward something he wanted to retrieve before going on a slaughtering spree.

Ye Lin searched for the legendary red spider lilies as he entered a blood-mist-covered realm. He dispelled the supernatural fog and found a blood-red bridge over a river filled with vicious ghosts, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned that the dense Blood Baleful aura would not let him stay long.

• Ye Lin told the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that he was searching for red spider lilies, and the jar doubted any could exist there.
• Ye Lin and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar continued through thickening blood-colored mist as shadowy figures appeared and miserable cries sounded around them.
• Ye Lin used hand seals to disperse the mist and reveal a blood-red bridge above a river of blood filled with screaming ghosts.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that the dense Blood Baleful aura meant he could not remain there for long.

Ye Lin learned that his Unparalleled Blood God Body was absorbing the dense blood baleful aura and growing stronger, but that the aura could eventually corrupt him. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar offered to teach him demonic arts, and Ye Lin left the choice open.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that the blood baleful aura was strengthening his Unparalleled Blood God Body while eroding him.
• Ye Lin sensed that his body was greedily absorbing the aura beyond his control.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar offered to pass down supreme demonic arts if Ye Lin chose the demonic path.
• Ye Lin said he would think about it and reflected that the distinction between demons and immortals often depended on how others viewed them.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said nothing more and recalled that demonic cultivation demanded madness and an unwavering Dao heart.

Ye Lin crossed the Bridge of No Return and searched the blood-red forest for the Other Shore Flower. He found the flower patch and identified a ghostly glowing blade of grass as the Other Shore Flower, then carefully approached it.

• Ye Lin crossed the Bridge of No Return and entered a blood-red forest filled with demonic qi and Blood Baleful qi.
• Ye Lin left the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar behind to absorb the surrounding mist while he searched for the Other Shore Flower.
• Ye Lin followed the thinning Blood Baleful qi into a dark, freezing dead zone and discovered a wall with unusual cracks.
• Ye Lin shattered the wall and revealed a flower patch with a ghostly glowing blade of grass at its center.
• Ye Lin recognized the blade of grass as the Other Shore Flower and carefully walked toward it.

Ye Lin encountered a mysterious creature while collecting the Red Spider Lily in the Demon-Sealing Land and tried to persuade it to follow him. As he prepared to leave, the creature finally revealed itself as a petite beast with glowing purple eyes.

• Ye Lin sensed a fast-moving shadow in the cavern and suspected it was guarding the Red Spider Lily.
• Ye Lin placed the Red Spider Lily in Acquired Resting Soil to preserve its effects.
• The mysterious creature struck Ye Lin and left three bloody gashes on his arm.
• Ye Lin offered to take the creature out of the Demon-Sealing Land if it submitted to him, but heard no response.
• As Ye Lin reached the entrance, he turned and saw a petite strange beast clinging to the wall with glowing purple eyes.

Ye Lin challenged a mysterious violet exotic beast that wanted to fight him, then used his domain to overpower it. The beast submitted, and Ye Lin named it Little Purple, which settled on his shoulder.

• Ye Lin examined the violet, catlike exotic beast and learned it wanted to fight him; if he won, it would follow him.
• Ye Lin accepted the challenge and opened his domain to track the beast's speed and suppress its movements.
• Ye Lin declared victory, and the exotic beast lowered its head and submitted.
• Ye Lin named the beast Little Purple, and it leapt onto his shoulder to rest.

Ye Lin obtained the treasure that the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar identified as a rare item touched by the Flower of the Other Shore’s divinity, then received a surge of power and prepared to leave. On the way across the Naihe Bridge, he helped pursuing disciples slow an Evil Demon.

• Ye Lin showed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar the item he had found, and it said the item was not a genuine Flower of the Other Shore but a peerless treasure touched by its aura.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar gave Ye Lin a trace of power that brought him closer to peak Earth Immortal before falling asleep on his shoulder.
• Ye Lin crossed the Naihe Bridge to leave the area, finding no demonic spirits along the way.
• An Evil Demon ran toward Ye Lin as disciples pursued it, and Ye Lin struck it with Sword Qi, briefly slowing it so the disciples could catch up.

Ye Lin joined the disciples of the three great holy lands at the Sealed Land’s exit, where a demon spirit tide was blocking their escape. He was pulled into a grand formation as its formation eye, and Zhao Yun told him to charge into battle with the others’ support.

• A young cultivator warned Ye Lin that a demon spirit tide led by a True Immortal-level Great Demon had blocked the Sealed Land’s exit.
• Ye Lin agreed to go with the young cultivator and found hundreds of peak Earth Immortal disciples fighting the crimson tide beneath Xuan Jing’s Taiji diagram.
• The young cultivator charged into the battle, and Ye Lin followed with his sword.
• A disciple told Ye Lin to serve as the missing formation eye and lead the charge because Senior Brother Zhao Yun had not arrived.
• Zhao Yun revealed himself and told Ye Lin to perform freely while the disciples supported him.

Ye Lin led the three Sacred Lands’ disciples into the Sealed Land’s shifting formation and gained power close to a Celestial Immortal’s. He faced a demon spirit whose strength approached, but did not reach, the Celestial Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin used the formation’s power to cleave through blood mist and destroy countless demon spirits.
• Xuan Jing announced that a powerful demon spirit had appeared and told Ye Lin to lead the charge while the others supplied him with Immortal Qi.
• Ye Lin questioned why Xuan Jing would not fight, but Xuan Jing explained that breaking and rebuilding the formation would waste too much time.
• Xuan Jing and the other disciples entered the Heaven-Binding Formation, channeling their power into Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin saw a towering demon spirit riding a mass of blood mist and judged it to be half-step Celestial Immortal.

Ye Lin led the formation in a fight against the half-step Heavenly Immortal demonic spirit blocking the exit of the Sealed Land. He clashed with it head-on, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Ye Lin charged toward the demonic spirit and the exit, while the formation followed him as its center.
• The demonic spirit crushed Ye Lin’s sword light and declared that the disciples of the three great holy lands would not leave.
• Ye Lin struck with Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament, but the demonic spirit shattered his sword light with a punch and forced him back.
• Ye Lin joined a blood-colored Long Sword to the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and fought the demonic spirit at close range, meeting its punches head-on.

Ye Lin used Little Purple’s attack on the demonic spirit to rush toward the exit of the Sealed Land. Just as he and Little Purple were about to escape, a blood-red eye appeared in the void and stopped him with a powerful impact.

• Little Purple appeared on the demonic spirit’s shoulder and tore through its neck and skull with its claws.
• Ye Lin realized Little Purple could ignore the Blood Baleful energy and exploit the demonic spirit’s lack of a domain.
• Ye Lin rushed toward the exit while Little Purple kept the demonic spirit occupied.
• Little Purple returned unharmed to Ye Lin’s shoulder as he neared the exit.
• A blood-red eye appeared in the distant void, and its force halted Ye Lin and made him spit blood.

Ye Lin and the injured disciples escaped the Sealed Land after a demonic spirit attacked them, leaving the elders to suspect the True Immortal Great Demons had caused a disturbance. Demon Subduer stabilized the formation and warned the trapped demons not to make trouble while he dealt with the urgent situation.

• Ye Lin and the disciples maintaining the formation fled through the Void Gate as the blood-red eye dissolved the demonic spirit and the blood mist.
• The elders found all the disciples alive but gravely injured and suspected the True Immortal Great Demons had acted.
• The Third Elder of the Firmament Sacred Land sent for True Immortal experts and arranged for Chu Feng to be taken back to the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land.
• Demon Subduer arrived and found that five True Immortal-level Great Demons were trapped in the formation void, which could no longer suppress them.
• Demon Subduer stilled the formation and threatened to enter the Sealed Land and suppress the demons if they caused trouble.

Demon Subduer left the Sealed Land after warning its furious inhabitants, while the Firmament Sacred Land tended to its wounded disciples. Liu Bai survived a Heavenly Immortal lightning tribulation and, newly empowered, left to pursue matters he had long been unable to handle.

• Demon Subduer departed the Sealed Land, whose imprisoned inhabitants raged and vowed to wait for a chance to kill him.
• Heavenly Immortal elders emerged from seclusion and used their treasured reserves to treat the three hundred wounded disciples.
• Zhuge Yun seized Ye Lin and left while the elders continued caring for the disciples.
• Liu Bai entered the Heavenly Immortal lightning tribulation and endured it for three days until it dispersed.
• Liu Bai sensed his greatly increased power and left to act on matters he could finally pursue.
• Zhuge Yun glanced at the tightly wrapped Ye Lin and looked at the boiling tea.

Ten years after Ye Lin was gravely injured, Ye Buqu traveled with Toutian, who discovered that their fortune-changing mission was tied to a mysterious convoy ahead. Toutian urged Ye Buqu to avoid the convoy, leaving them to decide whether to risk encountering it.

• Zhuge Yun said Ye Lin’s mysterious life force had kept him alive, though he would not awaken soon.
• Ten years later, Ye Buqu asked Toutian to assess the danger of their trip, and Toutian’s Compass showed a dire omen.
• Toutian complained that Ye Lin had abandoned him in the Xuanhuang Great World, while Ye Buqu explained he had been too weak to follow his master into the starry sky.
• Toutian’s Compass began spinning as a convoy emerged through the fog ahead.
• Toutian concluded the convoy had changed their divination and urged Ye Buqu to avoid it so their journey could bring good fortune.

Ye Buqu and Toutian met a convoy traveling to the Ten Thousand Swords Holy Mountain, and Ye Buqu agreed to guide its passengers. He introduced himself to the sisters Li Xian'er and Li Yun while Toutian stayed outside the carriage.

• Li Xian'er asked Ye Buqu how far the Ten Thousand Swords Holy Mountain was, and Toutian urged him to avoid the convoy.
• Ye Buqu said he was heading the same way and accepted Li Xian'er's invitation to board her carriage.
• Li Yun warned her sister that the strangers might be dangerous, but Li Xian'er still welcomed Ye Buqu and Toutian.
• Ye Buqu boarded first and called Toutian over; Toutian cursed him before climbing aboard and sitting outside.
• Li Xian'er introduced herself and Li Yun, and Ye Buqu told her not to worry about Toutian staying outside.

Ye Buqu asked Li Xian'er and Li Yun why they were traveling to Ten Thousand Swords Holy Mountain, then studied their map as their carriage set off. Unsure where they were, he passed the map to Toutian for help.

• Ye Buqu asked Li Xian'er and Li Yun why they had wandered into the mountains, and Li Xian'er explained that their uncle, the Third Elder of Ten Thousand Swords Holy Mountain, had invited them to its mountain-opening assembly.
• Li Xian'er gave Ye Buqu a map and asked him to show them the way out of the mountains.
• Li Yun questioned whether Ye Buqu could understand the map, and Li Xian'er apologized for her younger sister's rudeness.
• Ye Buqu woke Toutian and handed him the map, asking where they were.

Ye Buqu traded a Longevity Fruit for Toutian's help reading a map, and Toutian discovered that the mountains were enclosed by a Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation. Toutian began explaining the purpose and significance of formations to the curious Li Xian'er.

• Ye Buqu offered Toutian a Longevity Fruit in exchange for help, and Toutian took the fruit before examining the map.
• Toutian struggled to read the map until Ye Buqu pointed out that he was holding it upside down.
• Li Yun whispered to Li Xian'er that the two men were probably lost, but Li Xian'er believed they were trustworthy and planned to bring them along for safety.
• Toutian identified a Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation surrounding the mountain range, leaving Ye Buqu puzzled about why it had been built there.
• Li Xian'er asked Toutian to explain, and he began describing formations as one of the foremost paths among the world's three thousand Great Daos.

Toutian deduced how to escape the natural formation trapping the group, and Li Xian'er’s party set out toward its formation eye. Ye Buqu described himself and Toutian as friends who transcended the age gap, while Toutian privately scoffed at the claim.

• Toutian explained that a vast natural formation had trapped the group in a loop among the mountains.
• Toutian used his Compass to deduce a route to the formation eye, where they could break out by force.
• Li Xian'er thanked Toutian and ordered the silver-armored divine general to follow his directions.
• The carriage sped along the route without jostling its passengers.
• Li Xian'er asked about Ye Buqu and Toutian’s relationship, and Ye Buqu called them friends who transcended the age gap.