Chapter Summaries

Liu Guan used the Square Inch Demon Kingdom and his obsession-based Divine Path power to break free of Yu Qing Xuan’s Star Imprisonment Cage by unleashing chaos in Wu Tuo City. As he reached for the demon kingdom, a snowfall disrupted its connection to the city, but Liu Guan intensified his power and Wu Tuo City collapsed.

• Liu Guan’s voice drove Wu Tuo City’s inhabitants into rage and despair, feeding the Square Inch Demon Kingdom through their Six Desires Turbid Stream.
• Yu Qing Xuan recognized that Liu Guan was drawing on an obsession-based Divine Path method, and the growing power of the demon kingdom weakened the Star Imprisonment Cage.
• Yu Qing Xuan dispersed her avatar as the Star Imprisonment Cage shattered and Liu Guan escaped.
• Liu Guan appeared above Wu Tuo City and reached for the Square Inch Demon Kingdom, but sudden snow and ice slowed its connection to the cultivators.
• Liu Guan expanded the Square Inch Demon Kingdom, causing cultivators in the city to explode and Wu Tuo City to collapse.

As Wu Tuo City descended into chaos, the demonic spirit fled the Heaven-Stealing Tower and crossed paths with Master Miao Xiang and Bai Lian. Bai Lian pursued a clue connected to a vanished opportunity and the city’s heavenly tribulation as the strange changes intensified.

• Devilish qi, supernatural phenomena, and the sudden deaths of thousands sent Wu Tuo City’s residents into panic and disorder.
• The demonic spirit escaped the Heaven-Stealing Tower, evaded an attack from the demon kingdom, and encountered Master Miao Xiang and Bai Lian.
• Bai Lian told Master Miao Xiang that she was searching for an opportunity that had followed Lu Suhua’s trail and might have been sealed away by the Grand Profound Seal or Liu Guan.
• Master Miao Xiang considered a possible connection between Bai Lian’s opportunity and Yu Ci, while Bai Lian disclosed that the opportunity was a treasure for her Primordial Spirit.
• Bai Lian insisted on examining the source of the heavenly tribulation and moved forward as the changes in the city grew stronger.

Bao Yun woke amid falling snow as the Channelling Yin Demon drained her vitality, and she discovered that the snow eased her pain and sharpened her perceptions. When sand bandits attacked her, rival forces reached into her divine soul, and a red light erupted from her body.

• Bao Yun woke in the snow-covered ruins and realized the Channelling Yin Demon was extracting her vitality while another force caused her severe headaches.
• Bao Yun walked barefoot through the snow and sensed a struggle between the Channelling Yin Demon and an outside force within her divine soul.
• Five sand bandits found Bao Yun in the alley and charged at her, intent on assaulting her.
• A voice urged Bao Yun to take revenge, while she sensed a demonic seed in her divine soul and another force trying to draw power from it.
• Bao Yun smiled at the approaching bandits, and red light burst from her body, withering the finger of the man who touched her.

Bao Yun tried to use the power reaching out from the sky to pursue revenge, but the entity used her heavenly tribulation spell-power to force the Channelling Yin Demon into its final transformation, leaving her near death. As Liu Guan continued his assault on Yu Qing Xuan, Bao Yun was forgotten, while someone far away urgently searched for another person who had died.

• Bao Yun weighed the three paths before her and reached toward the transparent threads, sensing too late that the offer was deceptive.
• The thread pierced Bao Yun’s head, stirred her hatred of Lu Suhua, and exchanged information with the Channelling Yin Demon as it fought the invading force.
• The Channelling Yin Demon began its final transformation with the mighty entity’s help, while Bao Yun’s heart stopped and she collapsed into the snow.
• Bai Lian sensed Bao Yun nearing death but withdrew with Miao Xiang when Liu Guan watched her from the sky.
• Liu Guan used the Square Inch Demon Kingdom’s power and the city’s slaughter to suppress Yu Qing Xuan, then collapsed the earth beneath Branch City into a deep abyss.
• Ten thousand miles away, someone anxiously announced another death and ordered a search.

Yu Ci’s Heavenly Demon Hall neared collapse after its nodes in Wu Tuo City vanished, and You Rui’s attempt to preserve Bao Yun’s connection unleashed a catastrophic surge of the Six Desires Turbid Stream. With Kou Chu and You Rui in danger, Shadow Ghost intervened and summoned Little Five to hold them back.

• Yu Ci’s split consciousness struggled to keep the Heavenly Demon Hall intact after six nodes near Wu Tuo City lost contact, while Yu Ci meditated to recover and break his restriction.
• Kou Chu and You Rui learned that Wu Tuo City was in chaos and found few nearby targets who could help stabilize the structure.
• You Rui recognized Bao Yun among the failing nodes and redirected the Heavenly Demon Hall’s focus to maintain her connection.
• Bao Yun’s connection exposed the structure to a terrifying force, and the Six Desires Turbid Stream overwhelmed the Heavenly Demon Hall and threatened Kou Chu and You Rui.
• Shadow Ghost opened his eyes, summoned Little Five, and ordered him to hold them back.

Shadow Ghost and Little Five reinforced the struggle against Liu Guan’s Heavenly Demon Hall but were trapped as the Six Desires Turbid Stream seized more nodes. In Wu Tuo City, Miao Xiang questioned Bai Lian’s inaction while Liu Guan continued attacking the teleportation talisman array despite Yu Qing Xuan’s interference.

• Shadow Ghost and Little Five used their divine abilities to weaken the Six Desires Turbid Stream, but the stream surged back and captured two more nodes.
• Shadow Ghost realized that Liu Guan had created a Heavenly Demon Hall and that his side was trapped in the clash between the two halls.
• Miao Xiang noticed Bai Lian had not acted against Liu Guan, and Bai Lian explained that doing so would indirectly aid Ruizhu Palace’s enemies.
• Liu Guan sensed another Heavenly Demon Hall but focused on Yu Qing Xuan’s interference, which slowed the Square Inch Demon Kingdom’s power and disrupted his plans.
• Liu Guan crossed the ruined True Cultivator Circle of Root City, where his pressure caused nearby talisman arrays to activate and collapse.

Liu Guan destroyed the True Cultivator Circle’s defenses and moved to seize the teleportation array, but Yu Qing Xuan and an unseen ally trapped him with a coordinated attack. The array collapsed as the void swallowed Liu Guan, leaving him injured over the sea and his connection to the Square Inch Demon Kingdom tangled.

• Liu Guan used the Shadow Demon Blade and his divine intent to break through Yu Qing Xuan’s defenses around the teleportation rune array.
• Liu Guan stomped the ground, shattered the area’s stability, and cut off the array’s vitality supply while the Square Inch Demon Kingdom expanded across a hundred-li radius.
• Liu Guan approached the teleportation array, but Yu Qing Xuan unleashed a vast field of talismanic light that forced him to retreat.
• A pale purple light struck Liu Guan and suppressed him as a voice spoke on behalf of Master Sister.
• The teleportation array shattered, the void swallowed Liu Guan, and the backlash tangled his connection to the Square Inch Demon Kingdom as he bled over the sea.

Yu Qing Xuan and Zhan Shuicheng drove Liu Guan away but worried that the masterless Heavenly Demon Hall would attract dangerous demons. In the Outer Domain, Lu Suhua fought through a delusion realm and revealed that she had prolonged the conflict as part of a larger plan, before Lu Qing addressed her from within it.

• Yu Qing Xuan teleported Liu Guan to the Eastern Sea, then took a pill from Zhan Shuicheng while recovering from her injuries.
• Yu Qing Xuan worried that the Heavenly Demon Hall left behind in the Northern Wasteland would draw in Outer Domain heavenly demons and recalled how such a hall had helped bring down the Shangqing Sect.
• Lu Suhua crossed a delusion realm, destroying demonic imitations with the Sun Concealing Ring and Rainbow Shadow Sword.
• Lu Suhua identified the delusion realm's imitations of Ironclad Child, Yun Xing, and Guangwei, then opened a hole through the illusory landscape.
• Lu Suhua recognized that Yu Qing Xuan had left a trace and explained that her own prolonged fight had helped draw attention toward the Northern Wasteland.
• Lu Qing spoke from the depths of the delusion realm and told Lu Suhua, "You've worked hard."

Lu Suhua overwhelmed Lu Qing’s false-realm defenses, while their auras drew in demons around the unowned Square Inch Demon Kingdom. An Outer Domain Calamity Demon seized the kingdom, setting off a dangerous shift in the Northern Wastelands.

• Lu Suhua pursued Lu Qing through the false realm, dismissed her borrowed powers, and revealed her Yang God alongside the recovering Formless Heavenly Demon.
• Lu Suhua’s pressure drew out Lu Qing’s concealed aura, and their clashing auras summoned tens of thousands of mind and baleful demons.
• The Square Inch Demon Kingdom continued operating after Liu Guan’s disappearance, and its immense Shadow Demonic Domain attracted Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• An Outer Domain Calamity Demon rushed into the Square Inch Demon Kingdom, while four others arrived too late to enter.
• The demons’ mental communication disrupted cultivators in Wu Tuo City and made the Six Desires Turbid Stream more chaotic.

Bai Lian sensed that Bao Yun’s lingering divine consciousness was tied to an opportunity as the wind calamity battered the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. Inside the Square Inch Demon Kingdom, Shadow Ghost’s Heavenly Demon Hall struggled against an enemy gaining control of the Six Desires Turbid Stream through the Channelling Yin Demon.

• Bai Lian watched the wind calamity strike the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons around the Square Inch Demon Kingdom.
• Miaoxiang burned Bao Yun’s body, while Bai Lian sensed that Bao Yun’s divine consciousness and her opportunity were growing more closely connected.
• Shadow Ghost realized that the Square Inch Demon Kingdom’s heavenly demon was using the Six Desires Turbid Stream to strengthen its control.
• The heavenly demon brought order to the Six Desires Turbid Stream, making its assault more controlled and threatening the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Shadow Ghost identified the Channelling Yin Demon, formerly Bao Yun, as the node linking the two Heavenly Demon Halls and enabling the stream to pour one way.

Shadow Ghost and Xiao Wu struggled to protect Yu Ci as the Channelling Yin Demon awakened under the Heaven and Earth Law Will and attacked the foundations of his cultivation. The Six Desires Turbid Stream reached Chengqitian, and Xiao Wu answered by stamping the ground with spiritual light.

• Shadow Ghost sent Kou Chu and You Rui away from the collapsing Heavenly Demon Hall, but its backlash awakened the heavenly tribulation power within the Channelling Yin Demon and injured Yu Ci's split spirit.
• Bai Lian recognized that the Channelling Yin Demon was heading east and left ahead of Miaoxiang, who followed toward Wu Tuo City.
• Shadow Ghost and Xiao Wu confronted the Channelling Yin Demon in Chengqitian, where she used Yu Ci's split Heavenly Demon Hall to share the damage from Xiao Wu's talismanic fire.
• The Channelling Yin Demon tried to reach Starry Sky Heaven and the Human World Realm, but Xiao Wu sealed Chengqitian with the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light while Shadow Ghost struck her with sword Qi.
• The Channelling Yin Demon linked her Heavenly Demon Hall to the Square Inch Demon Kingdom and drew in the Six Desires Turbid Stream, whose filthy tide struck the ground as Xiao Wu stamped it and released spiritual light.

Little Five used the Grand Profound Nether Turbid Spirit Divine Seal to contain the Six Desires Turbid Stream, while the Channelling Yin Demon continued draining Yu Ci and threatened Starry Sky Heaven. The Outer Realm Calamity Demon severed its connection to Chengqitian, but a shadow-covered branch burst from the Heavenly Demon Hall pearl as the demon died.

• Little Five unleashed the Grand Profound Nether Turbid Spirit Divine Seal, and its ferocious spirit aberrations devoured the Six Desires Turbid Stream and gained preliminary control of it.
• Yu Ci's vital essence rapidly drained inside the ice, and Shadow Ghost realized the Channelling Yin Demon could bypass their protections through its connection to Yu Ci.
• The Outer Realm Calamity Demon severed its connection to Chengqitian after Little Five halted the Six Desires Turbid Stream.
• A dark gray branch covered in writhing shadows burst from the Heavenly Demon Hall pearl, and Little Five cracked it with a magnetic thunderbolt.
• An agonized death wail sounded from the distant Square Inch Demon Kingdom, revealing that the Outer Realm Calamity Demon had died.

Liu Guan’s use of evil arts and the power of a million cultivators gave birth to a demonic tree that destroyed Wu Tuo City and invaded Chengqitian. Shadow Ghost concealed his presence to avoid the tree, but it began attacking the Grand Profound Seal and the Channelling Yin Demon.

• The Square Inch Demon Kingdom shattered, and the demonic tree drained the three Outer Realm Calamity Demons that had been fighting outside it.
• The tree’s roots and branches tore through Wu Tuo City’s defenses, wrecking the city and killing or capturing thousands of cultivators.
• The demonic tree entered Chengqitian through the connection between the Heavenly Demon Halls and spread its roots beneath the strata.
• Shadow Ghost discovered that the tree ignored people submerged in the Six Desires Turbid Stream but targeted those powerful enough to emerge from it.
• Shadow Ghost called to Xiao Wu, concealed his aura, and avoided attracting the tree’s attention as it battered the Grand Profound Seal.
• The demonic tree became excited by the seal’s power and locked onto the advancing Channelling Yin Demon.

The Netherflame Heavenly Tribulation engulfed the demonic tree and spread its influence from Wu Tuo City into the Azure Sky Domain, disrupting Lu Suhua’s demonic tribulation. At the ferry crossing, the Grand Profound Seal began breaking around Yu Ci as Bai Lian’s Dharma Envoy arrived, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The demonic tree bound the Channelling Yin Demon, absorbed its tribulation power, and ignited in Heavenly Realm netherflame as the fire calamity descended.
• Miaoxiang fled Wu Tuo City and saw the burning demonic tree send flaming branches through the black storm, spreading red rays across the heavenly domain.
• Lu Suhua faced a demonic tribulation while fighting Lu Qing, but the red light and netherflame from the demonic tree interfered and sent flaming branches after her.
• Zhu Wenying watched the Grand Profound Seal break apart around Yu Ci and feared it would kill him.
• Bai Lian’s Dharma Envoy appeared at the ferry crossing, said he had come for an opportunity and for Jiu Yan, and flames emerged from inside the ice around Yu Ci.

Bai Lian reached Zhu Wenying and Jiu Yan, while Yu Ci struggled to understand the crisis engulfing Chengqitian and the wider world. By extending his perception, he discovered that Heaven and Earth Law Will had trapped powerful beings in a vast net meant to burn them away, leaving him to seek a way to survive.

• Bai Lian hurried to the ferry crossing and found Jiu Yan sleeping beneath cracked ice, still connected to Wu Tuo City by powerful Heavenly Realm pure fire.
• Bai Lian told Zhu Wenying that she sought an opportunity and meant no harm, while Zhu Wenying worried over Yu Ci's worsening condition.
• Yu Ci awakened within his nightmare and received information through Chengqitian, Shadow Ghost, Little Five, and those carrying the Divine Intent Starlight, but he could not yet act quickly enough.
• The demonic tree, Channelling Yin Demon, and Netherflame Heavenly Tribulation shook Chengqitian's foundations as the Grand Profound Seal faltered and the dead demons pressed against their restraints.
• Yu Ci's Jade God Cave Spirit Seal and the artifacts on the Seven Stars Altar of Footwork activated together to suppress the dead demons for a little longer.
• Yu Ci used the Equality Bead and Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to expand his perception, saw a vast net encompassing Chengqitian, Wu Tuo City, and the skies, and realized Heaven and Earth Law Will meant to burn away those caught within it.

The channelling yin demon triggered Yu Ci’s marrow burning curse, exposing how deeply it had spread through his body, soul, and inner void while weakening his defenses and empowering the demon tree. Yu Ci seized an opening and used Buddha light to activate a chain of divine abilities, ending with a command to split something apart.

• The channelling yin demon targeted Yu Ci and used the death demon as an intermediary to reach into a deeper region.
• The channelling yin demon drew out the effects of Yu Ci’s marrow burning curse, revealing blood scars throughout Chengqitian, his body, and his divine soul.
• Yu Ci recognized the curse as the heavenly tribulation’s fuse and saw that it both temporarily restored his strength and steadily consumed his vital energy and lifespan.
• The blood river struck the demon tree as well, intensifying its berserk power and threatening to overturn Chengqitian.
• Yu Ci spotted an opportunity as a pratyekabuddha dharma realm shard entered the buddha bone furnace and produced Cultivating Supreme Vow Boundless Buddha Light.
• Yu Ci linked his Grand Unity Star Pivot Clone, Profound Truth Through Netherworld Mirror Method, and Nine Stars Concealing Scenery Recording Form Talisman, then called for something to split.

Yu Ci formed a Marrow Burning clone and sent it into the demon tree to transfer the curse, while enduring the dangerous connection between clone and true body. As the demon tree’s aura abruptly plummeted, Yu Ci realized the battle had taken an unexpected turn.

• Yu Ci used talismanic divine abilities to gather the Marrow Burning Curse’s elements and form a clone inside Chengqitian.
• The Channelling Yin Demon drove the Marrow Burning Blood River, now carrying nearly every element of the curse, into the demon tree.
• Yu Ci’s true body lost its blood-red hue and weakened, though Bai Lian sensed his breathing and aura becoming steadier.
• Yu Ci received a torrent of information through the clone, blocked most of it, and used his Analysis Divine Ability to seek relevant details.
• Yu Ci perceived Miaoxiang outside Wu Tuo City and Lu Suhua suppressing the demon tree, then wondered where Lu Qing was.
• The demon tree’s aura suddenly plummeted after the Marrow Burning Blood River entered it.

Yu Ci’s assault on the monstrous tree faltered as its power gathered inward and the Marrow Burning Curse returned to him, unleashing the dead demons across Chengqitian. As Yu Ci fought to hold them back, Xiao Wu’s Spirit Sculpting Heavenly Tribulation descended, and he ordered Shadow Ghost to take her away.

• Yu Ci sensed that the monstrous tree’s power was contracting into a dense, rule-bound core even as the Netherflame Heavenly Tribulation, Marrow Burning Blood River, and Channelling Yin Demon stripped away its energy.
• The Marrow Burning Curse began returning through the blood patterns, linking Yu Ci to his clone as the momentum shifted against him.
• The dead demons broke through the seals and flooded Chengqitian, forcing Yu Ci to summon the Yujing Three-Light Demon-Breaking Talisman and Heart Refining Dharma Fire to defend the altar.
• Xiao Wu’s Spirit Sculpting Heavenly Tribulation arrived, drawing the Channelling Yin Demon and the monstrous tree’s remaining branches toward her.
• Yu Ci shouted for Shadow Ghost to take Xiao Wu and leave.

Shadow Ghost fled Chengqitian with Fifth to escape Heaven’s Will’s sweeping tribulation, while Yu Ci remained behind. The monstrous tree exploded, destroying Wu Tuo Branch City, and revealed the Demon God Seed at its core as the chapter ended.

• Shadow Ghost escaped Chengqitian with Fifth, whose true form emerged as sunlight interfered with his transformation.
• The demon spirit concluded that Heaven’s Will had used the monstrous tree’s Netherflame Heavenly Tribulation to draw nearby tribulation victims into a single catastrophe.
• The monstrous tree split apart and exploded, razing Wu Tuo Branch City and killing nearly everyone within a hundred miles.
• A shuttle-shaped object emerged from the tree’s remains as the heavenly netherflame burned away its outer shell.
• The demon spirit recognized the exposed cyan-black seed, surrounded by the phantom of the monstrous tree, as the Demon God Seed.

The demon-tree seed endured Heaven’s thunder tribulations and sought a suitable host while the demon spirit tried to escape the growing danger. The seed locked onto the Heart-Snatching Daoist, and just as the demon spirit discarded its jade box, something pierced into its head.

• Azure Heaven struck the demon-tree seed with Sword Fire Thunder, but the seed absorbed the lightning and fled underground.
• Heaven sent Grave-Slaying Thunder after the seed, which repeatedly entered cultivators only for them to be destroyed by the tribulation.
• The demon spirit considered using the Heart-Snatching Daoist as a host, then tried to flee when it sensed danger.
• The demon-tree seed locked onto the Heart-Snatching Daoist, drawing the Heaven and Earth Law Will’s great net over them.
• The demon spirit threw its jade box into the black storms, but something foreign pierced its head.