Chapter Summaries

Zhao Hao discovered that the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art from the Blood Spirit Hall was genuine and confronted Old Tai after the tiger failed to recite it backward. He accepted the three lineages’ hoard of demonic beast blood essence and ordered them to gather more so he could upgrade his minor divine ability.

• Old Tai explained that he was a Demon Spirit Lineage cultivator who had transformed himself into a white tiger, and insisted the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art was genuine.
• Zhao Hao rushed back to the Blood Spirit Hall to retrieve the discarded jade slip, then tested Old Tai by demanding that he recite the art backward.
• Old Tai produced a second matching jade slip, and Zhao Hao realized he had failed to hear the tiger offer another copy before flying away.
• At the Demon Spirit Lineage’s main hall, Old Tai, Old Ghost Duan, and Old Devil Qiu presented Zhao Hao with the three lineages’ high-tier demonic beast blood essence.
• Zhao Hao ordered the three cultivators to keep collecting the flesh and blood of demons with awakened innate divine abilities, including first-tier beasts.

Zhao Hao discovered that his stored severed demonic limbs were fusing into soulless, powerful monsters, so he used one to upgrade his Fire Spirit Body. The upgrade caused a vast fire-spirit phenomenon across the Demon Spirit Lineage, and Zhao Hao finished eager to grow stronger still.

• Zhao Hao found that severed demonic limbs in his Storage Bag had assembled into more than twenty powerful monsters, and he confirmed that the creatures had no souls.
• Zhao Hao activated the formations around his spirit peak and used a stitched monster to enhance his low-grade Fire Spirit Body to mid-grade.
• Zhao Hao's upgrade drew fire-aspected spiritual energy into a crimson tornado, alarming Old Tai and astonishing disciples across the Demon Spirit Lineage.
• Zhao Hao demonstrated greater control over fire, swallowed a vast sea of flames, and raised his Golden Core cultivation progress from 73 to 74.
• Zhao Hao looked toward the remaining stitched monsters and decided that his current cultivation and spirit body were not enough.

Zhao Hao advanced his Fire Spirit Body to supreme grade, causing a cataclysmic storm that drove him to ascend into the sky, where he broke through to the Golden Core Late Stage. Meanwhile, the Li Fire Sect activated the Star Migration Grand Formation with the Myriad Spirit Cauldron, binding the Azure Cloud World and awakening ancient beings across it.

• Zhao Hao used the stitching monsters as materials to enhance his Fire Spirit Body from high grade to supreme grade, while keeping the Eight-Armed Stitching Monster as a seed.
• Zhao Hao's transformation unleashed a destructive storm, prompting Old Devil Qiu and the other leaders to evacuate the disciples from the three branches.
• Zhao Hao flew above the clouds and absorbed the fire-aspect spiritual energy, advancing from the Golden Core Middle Stage to the Golden Core Late Stage.
• Elder Shen told the Li Fire Sect's sect master that the Star Migration Grand Formation was ready, and the sect master anchored it with the Myriad Spirit Cauldron.
• The formation sent a bronze chain through the void to bind the Azure Cloud World, causing ancient beings across the continents and the Endless Sea to open their eyes.

Zhao Hao used his newly advanced ninth-grade Fire Spirit Affinity to reach Golden Core Completion, forge supreme-grade spirit stones, and master the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art while filling all 365 major acupoints with demonic beast bloodlines. When he tried to break through to Nascent Soul in the Blood Spirit Realm, the world's laws crushed down on him because the realm no longer existed there.

• Zhao Hao discovered that his Fire Spirit Affinity had advanced to ninth grade and used it to plunder fire spiritual energy from across the Blood Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Hao reached Golden Core Completion in an hour and condensed the excess fire spiritual energy into supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Zhao Hao spent the spirit stones to advance his Heavenly Demon Sacred Art, strengthening his body and filling all 365 major acupoints with demonic beast bloodlines.
• Zhao Hao tried to sense a path to the Nascent Soul Realm, but the Blood Spirit Realm's laws pressed on his soul because Nascent Soul no longer existed within that world.

Zhao Hao's cultivation session coincided with a force that dragged the Azure Cloud World from its orbit, causing the Blood Spirit Realm to race away from its exit. He escaped through the spatial node and glimpsed a vast planet wrapped in bronze chains.

• The Azure Cloud World stopped in its orbit, freezing the sun and stars and forcing attached secret realms to collide with its barrier.
• A secret realm emerged in the Endless Sea, unleashing a massive tsunami and spatial rifts that killed countless sea beasts.
• Zhao Hao halted his breakthrough and ended his Divine Ability when the Blood Spirit Realm began shaking, then discovered its exit coordinates were moving away.
• Zhao Hao upgraded [Golden Roc Spreads Wings] with the System and pursued the exit into the void, realizing the Blood Spirit Realm itself was moving away.
• Zhao Hao activated his entry token at the spatial node, passed through it, and glimpsed an enormous planet wrapped in bronze chains.

Zhao Hao returned from the Blood Spirit Realm to find the Azure Cloud World undergoing a strange change in the heavens, with the sun frozen in place. Seeing the chaos as a chance to avoid attention, he traveled to a remote valley in the Profound Truth Sect’s territory and prepared to begin his Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Zhao Hao emerged beneath the earth after the Blood Spirit Realm’s entrance vanished and used Earth Escape Art to reach the surface.
• He decided to seek a remote Golden Core faction’s territory for his Nascent Soul tribulation, then reviewed the three hurdles and the treasures he needed.
• Zhao Hao noticed that the sun had stopped moving and learned at a cultivation market that the heavens had changed across the world.
• He seized the resulting distraction and flew at full speed toward the Profound Truth Sect’s territory.
• Zhao Hao chose a secluded valley, searched the surrounding area, and set up several formations to conceal and protect his breakthrough.
• Zhao Hao sat cross-legged and focused on the Soul-Devouring Jade, preparing one final safeguard before undergoing the tribulation.

Zhao Hao successfully enhanced the Soul-Devouring Jade and formed a Nascent Soul, then fought off the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon that appeared in his sea of consciousness. He traded an arm from his Eight-Armed Stitching Monster for Heart Nightmare Dao Source and information about the heavenly upheaval, just as thunder shook the valley.

• Zhao Hao enhanced the Soul-Devouring Jade to a Fourth-Grade Lower treasure and successfully formed a Nascent Soul resembling his former self.
• The Outer Realm Heavenly Demon appeared in Zhao Hao's sea of consciousness, recognized his soul-defense treasure, and tried to flee.
• Zhao Hao burned one of the demon's arms with Red Lotus Karmic Fire and learned that damaged world barriers could let Devil Lords breach the Azure Cloud World.
• Zhao Hao and the demon traded an arm from the Eight-Armed Stitching Monster for a bottle of Heart Nightmare Dao Source and a communication talisman containing information about the heavenly upheaval.
• The demon departed, and thunder suddenly rumbled above the valley.

Zhao Hao passed the Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation and used its golden light to complete the transformations of three ninth-rank Divine Abilities. After reaching the Nascent Soul Early Stage, he contacted the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to learn about the coming “heavenly change.”

• Zhao Hao fused his soul with his Nascent Soul as the tribulation clouds gathered over the valley.
• Zhao Hao endured twenty-seven lightning bolts, absorbing their power until the Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation ended.
• Zhao Hao used his System to sacrifice hundreds of Divine Abilities and enhance [Red Lotus Karmic Fire], [Golden Roc Spreads Wings], and [Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield] to the ninth rank.
• Zhao Hao channeled the Tribulation Golden Light into the three runes, transforming all three lesser Divine Abilities into true Divine Abilities just before the light ran out.
• Zhao Hao reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage and activated the communication talisman left by the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to ask about the “heavenly change.”

After learning that a higher-world power was dragging the Azure Cloud World toward capture, Zhao Hao rushed to Linyuan City to investigate the upheaval. He arrived as the city faced destruction and prepared to strike the Azure-Winged White Tiger attacking it.

• An Outer Realm Heavenly Demon showed Zhao Hao the Star Migration Grand Formation binding the Azure Cloud World and warned that the world could be captured within ten to fifty years.
• Zhao Hao concluded that the Nascent Soul sects and Spirit Transformation Sacred Lands might know who was behind the upheaval, and he flew toward Linyuan City.
• Zhao Hao saw that rising seas and repeated attacks had pushed Linyuan City's protective array to its limits.
• An Azure-Winged White Tiger at the Nascent Soul early stage attacked the city's barrier while the injured Elder Ji struggled to defend it.
• Zhao Hao revealed himself, formed a karmic-fire flying sword, and sent it toward the Azure-Winged White Tiger.

Zhao Hao fought the Azure-Winged White Tiger attacking Linyuan Immortal City, overcoming its abilities with his speed and close-combat strength before capturing its Nascent Soul. He asked the stunned Elder Ji if he could enter the city for a chat.

• Zhao Hao's Red Lotus Karmic Fire sword was broken apart by the Azure-Winged White Tiger's Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath and sent back toward him.
• Zhao Hao evaded the returning attack and used the Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield, enraging the White Tiger because it recognized its clan's bloodline Divine Ability.
• The White Tiger abandoned its assault on Linyuan Immortal City and charged Zhao Hao, while Elder Ji urged him to retreat behind the city's formation.
• Zhao Hao used Golden Roc Spreads Wings to strike the White Tiger with a barrage of punches, shrugging off its Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave.
• Zhao Hao coated his fist in Red Lotus Karmic Fire, broke through the White Tiger's shield, and pulled out and sealed its burning Nascent Soul.
• Zhao Hao turned to the stunned Elder Ji and asked to enter Linyuan City for a chat.

Zhao Hao learned that the Spirit Transformation patriarchs planned to leave the Azure Cloud World within ten years, leaving him to seek his own way to survive. He recalled the severed arm of an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and wondered whether its blood could grant him demonic divine abilities.

• Zhao Hao defeated a Nascent Soul Azure-Winged White Tiger and entered Linyuan City after Elder Ji opened the defensive formation.
• Elder Ji recognized Zhao Hao’s Golden Roc Spreads Wings divine ability and invited him to discuss the upheaval in private.
• Elder Ji told Zhao Hao that the Spirit Transformation patriarchs planned to tear open the world barrier and leave within ten years.
• Zhao Hao agreed to stay in Linyuan City, then feared he could neither ascend nor survive alone in the outer void.
• Zhao Hao summoned the severed arm of an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and considered extracting its divine abilities.

Zhao Hao refined a Heavenly Demon’s severed arm and swallowed its blood essence, gaining five divine abilities before forcibly expelling the uncontrollable demonic bloodline. A Heavenly Demon then arrived in his cave abode, mistaking Zhao Hao for someone with a Nascent Soul body and declaring that he smelled amazing.

• Zhao Hao refined the Heavenly Demon’s severed arm into blood essence and swallowed it, triggering a dangerous demonic transformation.
• Zhao Hao’s Vitality Energy failed to suppress the Heavenly Demon bloodline, which grew stronger by consuming his power and the Mountain-Shaking Ape bloodline.
• Zhao Hao’s system recorded five new Heavenly Demon divine abilities, and he expelled the bloodline into a sealed jade bottle.
• A black mist flew into Zhao Hao’s cave abode despite Linyuan City’s defenses and transformed into a thirty-foot-tall Golden Core demon.
• The demon mistook Zhao Hao for someone with a Nascent Soul body, sniffed him, and said he smelled amazing.

Zhao Hao captured and soul-searched the Golden Core Heavenly Demon Moro, learning about the demons’ invasion and their divine abilities. He refused to use the Heavenly Demon Dance, then considered planting a demon seed in Moro’s empty body.

• Moro mistook Zhao Hao for a Heavenly Demon, but Zhao Hao restrained him with the Soul-Devouring Jade and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Zhao Hao used the Soul-Searching Art on Moro, leaving the demon an empty shell.
• Zhao Hao learned that Heavenly Demons had begun invading the Azure Cloud World through cracks in its barrier and that Heavenly Demons and Heavenly Demon Beasts hunted one another.
• Zhao Hao studied five Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities and discovered that the Heavenly Demon Dance strengthened the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm.
• Zhao Hao vowed never to dress as a woman and perform the Heavenly Demon Dance, then eyed Moro’s empty body as a vessel for a demon seed.

Zhao Hao considered the risks of using the [Other-Transformation Calamity Thought] Divine Ability to escape the Azure Cloud World before the Spirit Transformation cultivators departed in ten years. He created two independent avatars to test his plan and prepared to see whether they could help him smuggle himself through ascension.

• Zhao Hao studied the dangers of entering another cultivator’s inner landscape world and concluded he needed a test subject before risking his true body.
• Zhao Hao planted a demon seed in the unconscious heavenly demon Moro, beginning to refine its body into an avatar.
• Zhao Hao soul-searched the Azure-Winged White Tiger’s Nascent Soul, erased its consciousness, and planted a second demon seed in it.
• Three days later, Zhao Hao controlled the completed heavenly demon and Azure-Winged White Tiger avatars, switching between their perspectives and letting them act independently.
• Zhao Hao declared the first step of his smuggling-through-ascension plan successful and set out to test whether the method would work.

Zhao Hao used Moro’s avatar to invade Lin Fan’s consciousness during his Golden Core tribulation and trapped him in an elaborate modern-life illusion. Zhao Hao shattered the illusion out of jealousy, and Lin Fan recovered his cultivation memories just as the lightning tribulation began.

• Zhao Hao sent Moro’s avatar into the Inner Landscape World and pursued a living being whose consciousness briefly connected to it.
• Lin Fan completed the first Golden Core trial when his Golden Core solidified on the Tribulation Platform.
• Moro invaded Lin Fan’s consciousness and created an illusion in which Lin Fan lived a successful modern life from school through immense wealth.
• Zhao Hao grew jealous of Lin Fan’s luxurious life and shattered the illusion with an angry outburst.
• Lin Fan regained his cultivation memories, wondered why he had transmigrated without a cheat, and faced the arrival of the lightning tribulation.

Zhao Hao failed to control a Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm and decided to strengthen it, but minor Divine Abilities proved inefficient as materials. He extracted Nascent Soul-level Blood Law from his Azure-Winged White Tiger avatar and invited Elder Ji to his Cave Abode to ask about pills.

• Zhao Hao emerged from the failed illusion realm and realized his first-rank [Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm] Divine Ability had given him too little control.
• Zhao Hao tested minor Divine Abilities as strengthening materials and found their success rates too low to be worthwhile.
• Zhao Hao drained Nascent Soul-level Blood Law from his Azure-Winged White Tiger avatar and planned to restore it with Essence Blood Law Pills.
• Zhao Hao stored both avatars and headed out of his Cave Abode.
• Elder Ji sensed alarming fluctuations from Zhao Hao's Cave Abode and received Zhao Hao's invitation to visit.

Zhao Hao sought a blood-essence-replenishing pill formula and learned that Ten Thousand Immortal City might help him obtain one. He returned to the city, where Old Ancestor Guo recognized him as a Nascent Soul cultivator, just as a powerful voice welcomed him.

• Zhao Hao asked Elder Ji about Nascent Soul exchange meetings and a pill formula to replenish blood essence, and Elder Ji offered him an invitation to a gathering and recommended Ten Thousand Immortal City.
• Zhao Hao recalled that Ten Thousand Immortal City held the complete Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon and decided to return to the Northern Lands.
• Zhao Hao arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and greeted Old Ancestor Guo, who recognized him and realized he had become a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Old Ancestor Guo begged Zhao Hao not to call him Old Ancestor and offered to be called Little Four Guo.
• A majestic voice welcomed Zhao Hao and apologized for failing to greet him sooner.

Zhao Hao fulfilled his contract with Old Ancestor Guo by giving the City Lord of Ten Thousand Immortal City valuable alchemy formulas, then traded information about the Azure Cloud World for the complete Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon. He also secured a fourth-tier Essence Blood Pill formula, though he still had to find its main ingredient.

• Zhao Hao gave the young City Lord a jade slip containing dozens of genuine pill formulas, fulfilling his agreement with Old Ancestor Guo.
• Zhao Hao asked the City Lord for the later sections of the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon, and the City Lord offered the Golden Core and Nascent Soul sections but demanded more for the Spirit Transformation section.
• Zhao Hao offered information about the great changes in the Azure Cloud World, and he and the City Lord exchanged jade slips containing the information and the complete cultivation technique.
• Zhao Hao told the City Lord that every Spirit Transformation cultivator would ascend within ten years, then asked for a fourth-tier Essence Blood Pill formula.
• The City Lord gave Zhao Hao the formula and said he would have to find its main ingredient himself.

Zhao Hao replenished his Azure-Winged White Tiger avatar’s blood essence and refined its blood to acquire and enhance divine abilities. After raising his Heavenly Demon abilities to high grades, he prepared to launch the second Heart Demon Tribulation invasion.

• Zhao Hao set an alarm formation around his island while his Azure-Winged White Tiger avatar grilled a demon beast to replenish its blood essence.
• Zhao Hao rejected the fourth-tier Essence Blood Pill formula as unnecessary for the avatar and used Rapid Digestion to turn demon beast flesh into energy.
• Zhao Hao sent Heavenly Demon Moro into the Endless Sea to hunt demon beasts and replenish its soul power with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Zhao Hao refined the Azure-Winged White Tiger’s blood essence and gained its Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave and Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath divine abilities.
• Zhao Hao repeatedly used those abilities to enhance Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm to grade eight and Plant Demon in the Dao Heart to grade seven, then declared that the second Heart Demon Tribulation invasion was beginning.

Zhao Hao’s Heavenly Demon avatar tried for a month to manipulate Lin Changsheng through a Grade Eight illusion, but Lin Changsheng recognized the false sect and broke free. The avatar’s invasion failed again, leaving Zhao Hao’s main body frustrated in the Azure Cloud World.

• Zhao Hao’s avatar maintained an illusion in which Lin Xiao urged Lin Changsheng to trust Elder Wang and seek a Qi Gathering Pill, while Lin Changsheng grew suspicious of Elder Wang’s strange questions.
• Lin Changsheng noticed the sect world briefly distort after he shut his Cave Abode doors, then struggled to understand why he could not sense qi despite practicing the Qi Drawing Art for a month.
• In the Lecture Hall, Lin Xiao’s warning that Lin Changsheng might have to return to Lin Family Village helped him recognize that the cultivation memories and sect around him were false.
• Lin Changsheng told Lin Xiao he did not know him, shattering the illusion of the Lecture Hall and the false sect.
• Zhao Hao’s Heavenly Demon avatar withdrew after Lin Changsheng broke free, and Zhao Hao’s main body opened his eyes in the Azure Cloud World, grimly recognizing another failure in the Mysterious Yellow Realm.