Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu learned that Tantai Yanyue and her people were the last guardians of a seal in the Cavern Heaven World, abandoned because the outside world had forgotten them. She revealed that the imprisoned Demon Emperor was reviving, leaving Bai Yu to face a threat far beyond his cultivation.

• Tantai Yanyue recognized Bai Yu as an inheritor of the Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture and explained how the five guardian families had lost their territory and dwindled to only a few thousand descendants.
• Tantai Yanyue revealed that the hall and Heavenly Demon Pillar maintained the seal, and warned that destroying them would unleash the Evil Calamity ancestor upon the outside world.
• Bai Yu told Tantai Yanyue that the outside forces had been annihilated and the Eternal Continent had forgotten the Cavern Heaven World, then promised to help as the Heavenly Demon Sect's Holy Son.
• Tantai Yanyue explained that the sealed being was the Demon Emperor Yu Ye, a Nine-Tailed Fox ancestor corrupted by the Evil Calamity Clan and now restored to peak Void Refinement.
• Tantai Yanyue showed Bai Yu a map revealing that the Evil Calamity Clan controlled the Cavern Heaven World and used twelve cities to send sacrifices to the reviving Demon Emperor.

Bai Yu discovered that the Evil Calamity Clan’s formation was intended to free Demon Emperor Yu Ye and devised a plan to turn its sacrifices into a killing array. Tantai Yanyue agreed to help, though she misunderstood his proposal as a request to become his cultivation furnace.

• Bai Yu used the Taiji Geomancy Gu to uncover the Twelve Celestial Stars Spirit-Replenishing Formation linking twelve cities to the Demon Emperor’s seal.
• Tantai Yanyue warned that attacking the seal could upset the balance and cause the continent to collapse.
• Bai Yu decided to reverse the formation’s properties and use the Evil Calamity Clan members in the twelve cities to kill the Demon Emperor.
• Tantai Yanyue offered to become Bai Yu’s cultivation furnace so they could advance her cultivation and fight the demon together.
• Bai Yu clarified that he wanted Tantai Yanyue to help slaughter the twelve cities, then asked her to cultivate the Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture with him and accept a slave mark.

Bai Yu secured Tantai Yanyue’s allegiance by promising to shelter the three thousand survivors, then planned with her to eliminate the Evil Calamity Clan across the island’s cities. He prepared pills and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to restore her strength while she arranged a diversion.

• Bai Yu explained that he had not accepted Tantai Yanyue’s offer because he had yet to condense his benevolent corpse.
• Tantai Yanyue agreed to Bai Yu’s conditions after he promised to find a peaceful home for the three thousand survivors.
• Tantai Yanyue planted a slave mark, attached a Slave Gu, swore a Heavenly Dao oath, and absorbed a wisp of Bai Yu’s origin soul.
• Tantai Yanyue told Bai Yu that eleven Evil Calamity Clan city lords and ten other Tribulation Transcendence cultivators remained on Ethereal Island.
• Bai Yu proposed luring the enemy forces into a diversion, clearing the island’s remnants, and using Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearls to attack the cities quickly.
• Bai Yu summoned the Eight-Chi Cauldron and offered Tantai Yanyue pills and Red Lotus Karmic Fire to restore her strength.

As the Council of Elders and five City Lords prepared to challenge Tantai Yanyue over her protection of Bai Yu, Bai Yu completed the Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture and began putting his plan into motion. He broke Lady Jinghua’s resolve with threats of torture and refining, then offered her a chance to live if she proved her worth with poison.

• Bai Yu cultivated in the main hall and recorded the complete Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture while Tantai Yanyue remained inside the Eight-Chi Cauldron.
• After seven days, Bai Yu learned that the five City Lords had arrived and had Jiang Yan refine the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearl.
• Bai Yu brought Lady Jinghua out and identified her Myriad Silence Poison Body and mature divine body.
• Bai Yu threatened to torture Lady Jinghua and use her body to refine artifacts and medicines, terrifying her into begging for mercy.
• Lady Jinghua agreed to submit and live, and Bai Yu summoned her to prove herself with poison.

Bai Yu confronted the five great city lords and their armies when they attacked Ethereal Island, then summoned powerful allies from the Cavern Heaven to meet them. As the city lords tried to retreat, Bai Yu ordered his forces to kill everyone and leave none alive.

• The five great city lords and their armies surrounded Ethereal Island and demanded Tantai Yanyue’s death.
• Bai Yu revealed that he knew the Cavern Heaven’s secret and connected with the Cavern Heaven as the city lords attacked.
• Bai Yu summoned Black Feather King and Li Shuyu, who fought the five city lords and overwhelmed them.
• The five city lords tried to flee as Bai Yu summoned more allies and ordered his forces to leave no enemies alive.

Bai Yu and his allies slaughtered the Evil Calamity Clan at Ethereal Island, then split up to attack its remaining cities. As Bai Yu headed for Primordial Demon City, its fox-tailed ruler learned the five city lords had fallen and ordered an army to attack Ethereal Island and break the seal.

• Bai Yu unleashed the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearls and three Gu, helping his allies kill the five city lords and slaughter the Evil Calamity Clan over three days.
• After Tantai Yanyue finished her cultivation, Bai Yu assigned his allies to attack the remaining cities and gave Tantai the Blood Mosquito Gu and Heaven-Burning Frost Soul Ants.
• Bai Yu, the Black Feather King, and Li Shuyu approached Primordial Demon City, where Mirror Flower Madame offered to poison its inhabitants while they targeted the city lord.
• The woman ruling Primordial Demon City saw the blood spheres representing the five city lords shatter, including the one tied to Evil Spirit City, and learned Tantai Yanyue was involved.
• The fox-tailed woman ordered Primordial Demon City's army to assemble and march on Ethereal Island to slaughter its people and break the seal.

Bai Yu and his allies attacked Primordial Demon City, where Li Shuyu killed its City Lord, only for Hu Xue, a second-layer Void Refinement cultivator created by the Demon Emperor, to reveal herself. Hu Xue attacked Bai Yu, and he countered with the Blood Tiger Golden Sword, leaving their battle underway.

• The Black Feather King sensed a powerful hidden presence in the palace, and Bai Yu decided to attack before Primordial Demon City's forces could prepare.
• Bai Yu unleashed a massive Sword Intent strike that destroyed the palace and killed many Evil Calamity Clan experts.
• The City Lord emerged and tried to recruit Bai Yu, but Li Shuyu cut her body apart with the Primordial Beginning and Plain Questions swords.
• A woman named Hu Xue appeared, absorbed the City Lord's soul, and unleashed soul-corroding poison across Primordial Demon City.
• Bai Yu recognized Hu Xue as a second-layer Void Refinement cultivator, and she attacked him with a river of blood.
• Bai Yu used the Blood Tiger Golden Sword to cleave Hu Xue's river of blood in two.

Li Shuyu and Black Feather King fought Hu Xue while Bai Yu prepared to support them, but Mirror Flower Madame struck Hu Xue with her poison-powered divine bone. Hu Xue seemed ready to end the battle, then suddenly groaned in pain as her attack gathered.

• Li Shuyu countered Hu Xue’s Blood River while Bai Yu summoned the Divine Baleful Gu and empowered Li Shuyu and Black Feather King.
• Hu Xue summoned a nine-headed Blood Beast, which traded attacks with Li Shuyu and Black Feather King.
• Bai Yu prepared to raise Blood Corpse cannon fodder, but Mirror Flower Madame attacked Hu Xue and was badly injured in the clash.
• Mirror Flower Madame revealed that she had used her Myriad Silence Poison Body and divine bone to poison Hu Xue through direct contact.
• Hu Xue gathered the Blood Beast’s power for a finishing attack, then suddenly groaned in pain.

Bai Yu and his allies exterminated the Evil Calamity Clan across the Cavern Heaven cities and prepared to confront the sealed Demon Emperor. The chapter left them heading for Ethereal Island while Zhang Baidao searched strange ruins in the Eternal Battlefield.

• Hu Xue tried to purge Mirror Flower Madame’s Myriad Extinction Poison, but Li Shuyu destroyed her body and Bai Yu’s Heavenly Demon Soul-Devouring Gu devoured her soul.
• Bai Yu placed a Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearl in Primordial Demon City and hurried to the remaining cities.
• The Black Feather King killed the fleeing Blood Transformation City Lord as Bai Yu’s group slaughtered the city’s inhabitants.
• After the final Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearl was placed, the Black Feather King reported that the Evil Calamity Clan had been purged, leaving only the sealed Demon Emperor.
• Bai Yu ordered everyone to gather at Ethereal Island to confront the Demon Emperor.
• In the Eternal Battlefield’s Spiritless Zone, Zhang Baidao and a young man searched strange ruins for vanished sand frogs and a fading aura.

Bai Yu activated the Spirit-Extinguishing Soul-Devouring Feng Shui Formation to extract the Demon Emperor’s bloodline and transfer it to Yu Linglong, while the Heavenly Demon Pillar suppressed the Demon Emperor. As Yu Linglong absorbed the power in the Eight-Chi Cauldron, Bai Yu unleashed his fortune and the Divine Baleful Gu revealed new powers.

• Bai Yu returned to Ethereal Island and found the sealed Demon Emperor resisting the Heavenly Demon Pillar’s erosion with a protective membrane.
• Bai Yu began the formation using Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pearls, sending a pillar of blood into the abyss and causing the Demon Emperor’s membrane to crack under the pillar’s suppression.
• Bai Yu placed Yu Linglong in the Eight-Chi Cauldron and prepared to transfer the Demon Emperor’s bloodline to her with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• The Blood Skull Gu absorbed refined black-gold liquid and transformed into twelve crimson fox heads as Yu Linglong began cultivating the Demon Emperor’s power.
• Xiao Rongrong strengthened the fire with talismans while Bai Yu unleashed his fortune, causing the Divine Baleful Gu to shine and display new abilities.

The Evil Eye Emperor emerged from the black-gold waters, revealing that he had possessed Demon Emperor Yu Ye and survived within him. Bai Yu faced the awakened enemy while Yu Linglong continued absorbing the Demon Emperor bloodline, and he ended by suggesting that the separation of the Evil Eye Emperor and Yu Ye had gone according to plan.

• The Divine Baleful Gu’s prophecy flowed into Yu Linglong as the Cavern Heaven Continent began to tremble and a dark figure formed in the water pillar.
• The Evil Eye Emperor crushed Tantai Yanyue, the Black Feather King, and Li Shuyu’s combined pressure, then blasted the three women away with an azure light pillar.
• Bai Yu used the Taiji Geomancy Gu and the formation to bind the figure with crimson chains as the Heavenly Demon Pillar melted into them.
• The figure emerged as the twelve-eyed Evil Eye Emperor, whose pressure split the blood clouds and terrified the soldiers on Ethereal Island.
• The Evil Eye Emperor explained that Bai Yu had ruined his plan to refine Demon Emperor Yu Ye’s body, while the sacrifice of his clansmen had awakened him early.
• Bai Yu revealed that he had gambled the Evil Eye Emperor was dead and noted that the Emperor had now separated completely from the Demon Emperor.

Bai Yu and the three women attacked the Evil Eye Emperor, but he easily defeated them and prepared to strike Bai Yu. Yan Lingxi appeared and erased his attack, leaving the Evil Eye Emperor stunned.

• Bai Yu drew the black-gold pillar of blood into his grotto-heaven while using the Ghost-Controlling Scripture's soul-repairing art.
• The Black Feather King, Tantai Yanyue, and Li Shuyu attacked the Evil Eye Emperor together, but he absorbed their assault without injury.
• The Evil Eye Emperor struck back with a giant hand, injuring Tantai Yanyue and forcing the three women to retreat to Bai Yu.
• The Evil Eye Emperor threatened to turn the women into puppets and raised another attack against Bai Yu.
• Yan Lingxi appeared in a golden ocean and destroyed the Evil Eye Emperor's attack with a twelve-grade golden lotus.

Yan Lingxi confronted the Evil Eye Emperor and overwhelmed his attack with a purifying Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus. As the lotus began closing around him, the Evil Eye Emperor gathered twelve ghostly eyes and began bleeding black blood, preparing to fight back.

• Yan Lingxi appeared before the Evil Eye Emperor, and Tantai Yanyue realized Bai Yu had a powerful ally.
• Yan Lingxi condemned the Evil Calamity Clan and declared that the Evil Eye Emperor would die there.
• The Evil Eye Emperor formed a giant hand covered in blood-red eyes and attacked Yan Lingxi.
• Yan Lingxi summoned a Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus that purified the attack and trapped the Evil Eye Emperor.
• Yan Lingxi contracted the lotus around the Evil Eye Emperor, who gathered twelve ghostly green eyes and began bleeding black blood.

Yan Lingxi killed the Evil Eye Emperor with her purification technique and sealed his twelve eyes. She helped Bai Yu awaken the Fortune-Devouring Snake Vine Gu, then urged him to grow stronger and gather materials for her recovery in the Midstream.

• The Evil Eye Emperor unleashed corrosive rays, but Yan Lingxi’s Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus purified them and erased his attack.
• Yan Lingxi used Flowers Bloom at a Thought to immobilize and destroy the Evil Eye Emperor, leaving behind twelve crystal-like eyes.
• Yan Lingxi sealed the twelve eyes and found Yu Linglong safely contained in energy blocks, where she could refine the Demon Emperor’s bloodline power.
• Yan Lingxi tapped Bai Yu’s forehead, causing the Fortune-Devouring Snake Vine Gu to emerge and consume his baleful aura as flowers and black fruits grew on its vines.
• Yan Lingxi told Bai Yu to gather recovery materials when he reached the Midstream, gave him the Evil Eyes and twelve Heavenly Demon Pillars, and left the Demon Emperor Yu Ye’s corpse for him to make use of.

Bai Yu absorbed the inheritance of the twelve Heavenly Demon Pillars and gained control of the Great Pagoda Heavenly Demon Pillar. Before leaving the collapsing cavern heaven, he preserved Demon Emperor Yu Ye’s remnant corpse for corpse refinement.

• Bai Yu took the twelve Evil Eyes from Yan Lingxi and returned to the cavern heaven with Yu Linglong and the others.
• Bai Yu used the Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture to absorb the twelve Heavenly Demon Pillars and received the Great Pagoda Heavenly Demon Pillar’s methods and insights.
• Bai Yu comprehended the pillars’ control restrictions and shrank them into his hand.
• Bai Yu summoned Demon Emperor Yu Ye’s remnant corpse from the blood sea, freed it from its chains, and stored it in Dayless Mountain for corpse refinement.
• Bai Yu lamented that he could not control the collapsing cavern heaven and prepared to leave.

In the Eternal Battlefield’s Spiritless Zone, Meng Bingyan and Zhang Baidao fled four Tribulation Transcendence pursuers into ruins, where Bai Shuangjiang confronted Meng Bingyan over an old blood feud. Just as Bai Shuangjiang moved to seize her, Bai Yu appeared through a spatial passage.

• Meng Bingyan dragged Zhang Baidao toward the ruins while four Tribulation Transcendence cultivators pursued them, and Zhang Baidao warned that the ruins held a dangerous way out.
• Meng Bingyan and Zhang Baidao entered the ruins and were surrounded by Bai Shuangjiang and three elders from the Golden Rain Sect.
• Bai Shuangjiang revealed that she had reached the seventh level of Tribulation Transcendence after using Great Medicine and her deceased senior brother’s corpse, and vowed to avenge him by killing Meng Bingyan.
• Bai Shuangjiang ordered her elders to seize Meng Bingyan and threatened to cripple and sell her into a brothel.
• A sinister aura opened a spatial passage above the ruins, and Bai Yu appeared, prompting Zhang Baidao to curse his bad luck.

Bai Yu trapped Bai Shuangjiang and her companions in the Twelve Heavenly Demon Pillars formation while Li Shuyu struck them down with her Reincarnation Sword Intent. After the elders seized Bai Shuangjiang inside the formation, Bai Yu rescued the injured Meng Bingyan and dismissed Zhang Baidao’s request to take the captives.

• Bai Yu activated the Twelve Heavenly Demon Pillars, trapping Bai Shuangjiang and the others in pink mist that stirred their emotions.
• Bai Shuangjiang attacked Bai Yu with three elders, but Li Shuyu emerged from the pocket world and shattered their frost with her Reincarnation Sword Intent.
• Li Shuyu’s Sword Qi overwhelmed the four attackers, sealed Bai Shuangjiang’s sea of consciousness, and sent her crashing into the formation.
• The three elders, driven wild by the pink mist, stopped Bai Shuangjiang from escaping and seized her as Bai Yu pushed the formation to its limit.
• Bai Yu caught the unsteady Meng Bingyan, learned that her meridians were damaged, and carried her in his arms.
• Zhang Baidao asked Bai Yu to give him the four captives, but Bai Yu refused.

Bai Yu escaped the ruins with Zhang Baidao and learned more about the Evil Calamity Clan and ancient seals as they set out for Divine Mountain. After the Three Talents gathered, Bai Yu’s fortune surged to yellow and continued rising.

• Bai Yu killed the four controlled elders, collected their souls, and took the Cold Current Winter-Calling Shield before leaving with Zhang Baidao and Li Shuyu.
• Zhang Baidao explained that the Evil Calamity Clan had caused the ancient calamity and guarded the Heavenly Dao, and that ancient ruins could contain forgotten seals.
• Bai Yu persuaded Zhang Baidao to drive the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage toward Divine Mountain in exchange for a share of their gains, pills for his disciple, and an Earth-rank Divine Maiden cauldron.
• Bai Yu summoned the Divine Baleful Gu, and the Three Talents fate entered him, purifying his fortune and raising it to yellow.
• Bai Yu considered Yan Lingxi, Tantai Yanyue, and Meng Bingyan’s roles in the Three Talents, and suspected Meng Bingyan might be the source of their exceptional good fortune.

Bai Yu completed the Heavenly Demon Scripture after enduring weeks of bodily destruction and rebirth, greatly strengthening his body and mana. He stopped before disrupting his balance and discovered that the gathered fate of the Three Forces accelerated the others’ recovery, while Li Shuyu sensed a new, alluring quality about him.

• Bai Yu cultivated the Heavenly Demon Scripture for more than half a month, repeatedly shattering and rebuilding his body with demonic qi until his physical strength reached the peak of Spirit Transformation.
• Bai Yu stopped cultivating before pushing his body past a safe threshold and found that his mana had grown ninefold in quality, though he still needed materials to condense his good corpse perfectly.
• Bai Yu spent another ten days finding balance in his cultivation, then used the Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to inspect Meng Bingyan, Tantai Yanyue, and Yan Lingxi.
• Bai Yu realized that the fate of the Three Forces gathered had accelerated the others’ recovery, especially Yan Lingxi’s.
• Li Shuyu approached the awakened Bai Yu and told him that he smelled unusually good.

Bai Yu realized that cultivating the Desire God Body caused an uncontrollable influence over others, then traveled with his companions to an ancient city controlled by the Azure Ghost Clan. Mo Dafu explained that the Yellow Springs Divine Mountain lay in a small world guarded by the clan, and Bai Yu suspected the world was connected to the Evil Calamity Clan.

• Bai Yu recognized that the Desire God Body emitted an uncontrollable influence that stirred submission or possession in others, and Li Shuyu sought to cultivate with him.
• After seven days, Xia Chuxue and Meng Bingyan joined Bai Yu as the group reached an ancient city near the Spiritless Zone.
• Bai Yu encountered Mo Dafu again, and Mo Dafu invited him and Zhang Baidao to enter the city together.
• Mo Dafu said the Azure Ghost Clan controlled the city and guarded the small world where the Yellow Springs Divine Mountain had emerged.
• Bai Yu doubted Mo Dafu's account and suspected that the Azure Ghost Clan's small world was connected to the Evil Calamity Clan.