Chapter Summaries

After destroying the Myriad Poison Sect, Luo Yunji and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples looted its spoils and discovered a possible Demon Sect divine artifact among them. As they continued pursuing the Beast Demon, their victory spread across the cultivation world and left Daoxuan worried about the political fallout, while Tian Buyi feared the dangers ahead.

• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan collected treasures and weapons from the battlefield, and He Dazhi recognized a bag that might be the Myriad Poisons Convergence Bag.
• Tian Buyi examined the bag and realized Big Bamboo Peak now held three of the Demon Sect's Four Great Divine Artifacts, then scolded his disciples over the danger of the news spreading.
• After resting overnight in Venom Snake Valley, Tian Buyi and his disciples set out to pursue the Beast Demon as word spread that the Myriad Poison Sect had been destroyed.
• Daoxuan learned of the sect's destruction and worried that it would provoke the other major factions, so he decided Azure Cloud Sect needed to appear divided.
• Tian Buyi sent a letter to Azure Cloud Mountain explaining the incident while his group followed the monster army, and Du Bishu voiced doubts about defeating the Beast Demon.

Luo Yunji confronted the Beast God and used the Heavenly Book to reveal the truth of his origins, then tried to persuade him to abandon his plan to destroy the world. The Beast God granted Luo Yunji one year before acting, while the Deity warned that his fate could not be changed.

• He Dazhi explained that the Myriad Poison Sect had fallen because the monsters from the Hundred Thousand Mountains were nearly immune to poison.
• Luo Yunji raced ahead of Zhang Xiaofan and faced the Beast God and his army of Beast Demons alone, keeping Zhang Xiaofan back with a Water Ribbon.
• Luo Yunji told the Beast God that his existence had a reason and used the Heavenly Book to reveal how he had been born from baleful energy and gained a body through Linglong.
• Luo Yunji urged the Beast God to return to the Southern Border and leave the rest of the world in peace, but the Beast God said he would destroy the world after one year.
• The Beast God explained that he resented the world for forgetting Linglong, and the Deity told Luo Yunji that the Beast God's fate was already set.

Luo Yunji secured a one-year truce with the Beast God, though the Thirteen Bone Guards and monster army would continue their slaughter. He then ordered his senior brothers to enter dangerous illusion-based training to master the ultimate Footwork, which he said was key to reaching the Dao.

• The Beast God agreed not to act for one year, and Luo Yunji promised not to act against him or his Bone Guards during that time.
• After the Beast God vanished with his army, Luo Yunji told Tian Buyi and the others about the agreement and said they would return to Two Mountains for seclusion.
• Luo Yunji revealed that Chronicles of the Illusory World was a mental cultivation method that could trap practitioners in a lifetime-long illusion.
• He ordered Wu Dayi to use the book to guide the others through the illusory world so they could master the ultimate Footwork.
• Luo Yunji warned that failure to master the Footwork could mean death, and Zhang Xiaofan accepted the training without hesitation.

Luo Yunji brought Tian Buyi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples back to Two Mountains with Ultimate Footwork and urged them to train for the Beast God’s coming attack. He warned that the Zhu Xian Sword was tied to the Underworld and the power of Asura, then suggested that divine blessings carried a price.

• Tian Buyi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples rallied themselves to face the Beast Demon, and Luo Yunji reminded Tian Buyi that releasing his Hidden Spirit in Orifices technique could raise his cultivation beyond the Grand Purity Realm.
• Luo Yunji used Ultimate Footwork to carry Tian Buyi and the others to Two Mountains in a few breaths, where Su Ru, Wen Min, and Li Qinghe rejoiced at their safe return.
• Luo Yunji gave the disciples three days before they began seclusion and explained that he could neither defeat the Beast God nor interfere with the Beast God’s Bone Guards and monster army under their agreement.
• Luo Yunji warned that the Zhu Xian Sword was connected to the Underworld and carried Asura’s power, which could corrupt its wielder’s nature; Su Ru recalled Tian Chengzi’s strange behavior.
• Luo Yunji told the group that the Beast God’s apparent inaction might relate to the cost of divine power, and He Dazhi questioned whether the God Descent ritual itself was that price.

Luo Yunji sent Song Daren and the other six into Wu Dayi’s illusion to learn Ultimate Footwork, while the others left Two Mountains and awaited the outcome. A year later, the seven remained trapped, and Luo Yunji faced the mounting devastation of the Beast God’s armies.

• Luo Yunji warned that relying on divine power to stop the Beast God could cause an even greater disaster, and the seven disciples spent their last three days visiting familiar places before leaving letters.
• Luo Yunji used Wu Dayi’s illusion ability to send Song Daren and the other six into an illusory life where they had to discover nature and learn Ultimate Footwork to escape.
• Tian Buyi and Su Ru returned to Azure Cloud Mountain with Tian Linger and Lin Jingyu, leaving Luo Yunji under the care of Wan Jianyi and Daoist Cangsong.
• A year passed without the seven escaping the illusion, and Li Qinghe visited the Water Pool to confide her worries as though He Dazhi could hear her.
• Two hundred soldiers escorted the unconscious emperor to Sanfu Town, while nearly five thousand soldiers of Two Mountains died protecting civilians and killing two Beast Demon Bone Guards.
• Luo Yunji stood among the corpses as Beast Demon armies continued slaughtering people across the land.

After learning of the terrible losses at Two Mountains, Luo Yunji prepared to face the Beast Demon’s gathered forces at Azure Cloud Mountain. He left his allies instructions to protect Two Mountains and departed as countless warriors flew after him.

• Luo Yunji learned how Du Chengping, Chen Qinglong, Wang Yishi, Li Li, and Liao Ming had died fighting, while he saved the gravely wounded He Xiaowen and gathered the soldiers’ souls.
• Luo Yunji learned that the Beast Demon was gathering Bone Guards and monsters to march toward Azure Cloud Mountain, and told Li Qinghe and Zhao Yueyin how to protect the senior brothers and Two Mountains if he did not return.
• Luo Yunji left Long Zi, Yellow Bird, and the other Monster Beasts behind to guard Two Mountains, then departed for Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Bi Yao stayed behind with Li Qinghe and Zhao Yueyin as they watched Luo Yunji leave.
• Countless streaks of Streamer shot out from Sanfu Town toward Azure Cloud Mountain, showing that many righteous men had chosen to follow him.

Luo Yunji arrived at Azure Cloud Mountain and confronted the Beast God, whose monster army had forced the righteous cultivators back to Heaven-Reaching Peak. Their deadly duel began with testing attacks, revealing that both had power far beyond the leaders of the major sects.

• The monster army overwhelmed the righteous cultivators’ defenses, forcing them to retreat to Heaven-Reaching Peak as Azure Cloud Mountain was drenched in blood.
• Luo Yunji arrived and agreed with the Beast God that their conflict would end only when one of them died.
• Luo Yunji used the Ghost Umbrella to make vast numbers of monsters collapse, and the Beast God explained that his thirteen Bone Guards could not be killed unless he died first.
• The Beast God sent a descending pillar of black cloud at Luo Yunji, who split it apart with a flash of white light.
• Luo Yunji attacked with streaks of white light, and the Beast God dissolved them with black mist.
• The Beast God praised Luo Yunji’s hidden strength, and Luo Yunji said revealing it would leave him with nowhere to go except the mysterious Five Seas.

Luo Yunji and the Beast God continued their battle above Jade Purity Hall, trading spectacular attacks while the onlookers realized how far their power surpassed ordinary cultivators. After their initial exchange, they smiled and paused, having tested each other with moves Daoxuan recognized as restrained.

• Luo Yunji recalled hiding his strength to avoid provoking jealousy and danger, while he used white light to keep the Beast God's mutating clouds away.
• The Beast God sent a rain of black-mist weapons at Luo Yunji, who blocked them with the Soul-Hooking Umbrella and its Mysterious Gauze.
• Luo Yunji formed a storm of spiral ice spikes that pierced the Beast God's cloud wall and carried away a strand of his hair before the Beast God reinforced his defense.
• The Beast God and Luo Yunji each shattered the other's cloud blade, then smiled after their three-move exchange.
• Daoxuan True Person told the stunned cultivators that the earth-shaking moves had only tested their strength and shown restraint.

Luo Yunji and the Beast God began their all-out, life-or-death battle after three exchanges failed to change the Beast God’s resolve. Their clash devastated the surrounding landscape and left the watching cultivators stunned, while Lin Jingyu gained a new goal after witnessing Luo Yunji’s Dragon Slayer Art.

• The Beast God told Luo Yunji that fighting him made him happy and insisted that they stake their lives against each other.
• Luo Yunji formed a sword of light as the Beast God summoned the Cloud Staff, and they exchanged attacks that shook the land and shattered mountains.
• Daoxuan True Person realized Azure Cloud’s Zhu Xian Sword Array might not defeat the Beast God and felt relieved that Luo Yunji had spared him from using it again.
• Luo Yunji used Dragon Slayer—One Slash to cut the Cloud Staff and shear the peak from a distant mountain.
• Tian Linger told Lin Jingyu that her group’s Dragon Slayer Art was far weaker than Luo Yunji’s, and Lin Jingyu watched the battle with renewed determination to cultivate.

Luo Yunji and the Beast God fought a relentless battle with basic techniques, spiritual power, and malice until Luo Yunji bound them together and rose into the sky to use heavenly lightning against the Beast God. The Beast God struggled to escape as Luo Yunji tightened the Water Ribbons around them beneath the storm clouds.

• Luo Yunji and the Beast God infused their staff and sword techniques with malice and spiritual power, wounding each other as their battle continued for an hour.
• Luo Yunji struck the Beast God with Dragon Slayer—Triple Force and pursued him, but the Beast God split the Cloud Staff into two connected short staves and counterattacked.
• The Beast God trapped Luo Yunji with the nunchaku as darkness engulfed the battlefield, but Luo Yunji bound them together with his arm and a Water Ribbon.
• Luo Yunji explained that heavenly lightning could harm the Beast God, then carried him into the sky as blue Water Ribbons tightened around them.

Luo Yunji restrained the Beast God and unleashed the Divine Sword Thunder Command, but agreed to take him home to the Southern Border instead of destroying him. As the two vanished with Wuluo, the monster army attacked Azure Cloud Mountain again, until cultivators arrived to reinforce its defenders.

• Luo Yunji bound the Beast God with Water Ribbons and summoned heavenly thunder, then asked what the Beast God wished for.
• The Beast God said he wanted to go home, and Luo Yunji agreed to take him to the Southern Border as the thunder engulfed them.
• Wuluo appeared and carried the unconscious Luo Yunji and the Beast God away, while Tian Buyi set off to find Luo Yunji.
• The monster army attacked Azure Cloud Mountain again, and the defenders' line collapsed as the Thirteen Bone Guards overwhelmed them.
• Daoxuan True Person prepared to use the Zhu Xian Sword Array, but cultivators from Sanfu Town and elsewhere arrived to support the defenders.

Bi Yao learned that Luo Yunji was missing while she and the others fought monsters, as Wuluo pursued the Taotie carrying the unconscious Luo Yunji and Beast God. After both men awoke in the Ancient Demon-Suppression Cave, Luo Yunji asked the dying Beast God why he had chosen him, and the Beast God said Luo Yunji was the only one who treated him as a friend.

• Bi Yao asked Tian Linger where Luo Yunji was, and Tian Linger tried to protect her from attacking monsters while holding back the truth.
• Sanfu Town's cultivators fought monsters in coordinated groups, impressing Daoxuan True Person, Yun Yilan, and Puhong with their combined cultivation method.
• The Taotie carried Luo Yunji and the Beast God away, and Wuluo chased them to the Ancient Demon-Suppression Cave.
• Wuluo brought the two unconscious men into the cave, removed a green gemstone from the doorway, and assessed their injuries.
• Three days after arriving at the cave, Luo Yunji and the Beast God awoke, and the Beast God told Luo Yunji that he had chosen him because he was the only one who treated him as a friend.

Luo Yunji watched the Beast God die after learning that he had wanted someone to stop him, then captured the evil gods and reunited the Beast God's soul with Linglong inside the Ghost Umbrella. Tian Buyi arrived and prepared to take the badly injured Luo Yunji to the Inner Swamp, but Luo Yunji asked him to bring the brazier too.

• The Beast God told Luo Yunji that Linglong had sacrificed herself to seal him and that he had hoped someone would stop him, then fell silent and appeared to die.
• The Eight Desolations Profound Fire Array awakened, and Luo Yunji used the Ghost Umbrella to absorb the eight evil gods' remnant consciousnesses and close the crack.
• Linglong appeared, and the Beast God's soul rose from his body to embrace her before Luo Yunji drew both souls into the Ghost Umbrella.
• Tian Buyi found Luo Yunji badly injured, learned from Wuluo that spiritual plants in the Inner Swamp could treat him, and picked him up to leave.
• Luo Yunji stopped Tian Buyi and asked him to take the brazier with them.

After the Beast Demon calamity ended, Luo Yunji’s apparent death sent allies across the land searching for him. He was actually alive in the Inner Swamp, recovering while Azure Cloud disciples attended to him.

• Luo Yunji persuaded Tian Buyi to take the Fire Gathering Basin, then asked him to help Taotie restore Linglong’s fallen stone statue.
• Taotie carried the injured Luo Yunji toward the Inner Swamp with Tian Buyi and Wuluo following, while the Beast God suddenly sat up alive inside the cave.
• Tian Buyi brought Luo Yunji to the Spirit Garden after the party found Great King Village abandoned.
• The righteous cultivators and Bi Yao’s Sanfu Town forces defeated the white-bone guards and monster army beneath Azure Cloud Mountain, ending the Beast Demon calamity.
• Believing Luo Yunji had died, Wen Min, Li Qinghe, Zhao Yueyin, Bi Yao, Madam Sanmiao, and the emperor sent people across the land to search for him.
• In the Inner Swamp, Luo Yunji relaxed in a wooden tub and confused an Azure Cloud disciple by saying the fifth level of the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao could be followed directly by the sixth.

While recovering in the Inner Swamp, Luo Yunji discovered that two Azure Cloud disciples were practicing an outdated cultivation method, and Tian Buyi warned them not to learn from him. Tian Buyi confirmed Luo Yunji was improving, but Luo Yunji’s teasing finally provoked him into beating his cheeky disciple.

• Luo Yunji realized the Azure Cloud disciples were using an older version of the cultivation method and explained that Big Bamboo Peak had a newer one.
• Tian Buyi arrived, warned the disciples against following Luo Yunji’s instructions, and offered to answer their cultivation questions himself.
• Tian Buyi checked Luo Yunji’s pulse and found his injuries had eased, while Luo Yunji complained about the food and asked when they could leave.
• Luo Yunji mocked Tian Buyi’s choice of disciples and suggested finding a new one who could cook, prompting Tian Buyi to beat him.
• The Azure Cloud disciples returned with medicine and took Tian Buyi’s beating as proof that Luo Yunji’s injuries were no longer serious.

After months without news, Tian Buyi and Luo Yunji were revealed to be safe in the Inner Swamp, prompting their worried family and friends to visit. Bi Yao also found Luo Yunji, who greeted her by calling her his future wife.

• Tian Buyi sent letters to Big Bamboo Peak and Two Mountains explaining that he had found Luo Yunji and that Luo Yunji was out of danger.
• Su Ru and Li Qinghe set out for the Inner Swamp, and Li Qinghe arrived first with an escort from Big Yellow.
• Luo Yunji happily greeted Li Qinghe, asked her for food, and was scolded by Tian Buyi for acting like his old, unreliable self.
• Su Ru arrived half a month later and tearfully confronted Tian Buyi for leaving everyone without news; he comforted her as she cried.
• Wen Min told Bi Yao and Sanfu Town's leaders that Luo Yunji had been found, but they kept the search going publicly at the emperor's request.
• Bi Yao secretly traveled to the Inner Swamp and wept when she saw Luo Yunji, who called her his future wife.

Bi Yao returned to Two Mountains, reunited with Luo Yunji, and brought him food before resting. After Luo Yunji’s safe return eased everyone’s fears, the Ghost King’s letter prompted the Emperor and others to consider the consequences of letting Bi Yao and Luo Yunji marry, including revealing that Luo Yunji was alive.

• Su Ru and Li Qinghe took the travel-worn Bi Yao to wash and rest, and Bi Yao gave Luo Yunji the food she had brought him.
• Tian Buyi and the others stayed a few days for Bi Yao to recover, then returned with Luo Yunji to Two Mountains, where Wan Jianyi confirmed he was safe.
• Cangsong secretly visited Two Mountains to check on Luo Yunji, while Wan Jianyi watched him leave without revealing himself.
• The Ghost King sent Tian Buyi a letter about Bi Yao and Luo Yunji, and Su Ru advised Tian Buyi to consult the Prince and the Emperor because they were Luo Yunji’s biological parents.
• After hearing the letter’s contents, the Emperor canceled his return to the Imperial City and sent the First Prince there alone, while his other sons stayed behind.
• The Emperor questioned whether the marriage would expose Luo Yunji’s survival, and Tian Buyi considered using Daoxuan True Person’s plan to resolve the resulting problems.

Luo Yunji agreed to become engaged to Bi Yao but chose to wait until Song Daren and the other senior brothers emerged from seclusion before holding the wedding. The news spread across the nation, and as Two Mountains recovered, Tian Buyi and Su Ru returned to Azure Cloud Mountain to carry out their next plans.

• The Empress warned that Luo Yunji marrying the Ghost King Sect's Saintess could make Two Mountains seem too powerful, so Tian Buyi proposed false news that seven Big Bamboo Peak disciples had died in the Beast Demon calamity.
• The Prince revealed that Song Daren and the others had planned a year of secluded cultivation, and the Emperor urged everyone to ask Luo Yunji what he wanted.
• Luo Yunji chose to get engaged to Bi Yao and wait for his senior brothers before marrying, then confused the elders by suggesting they might have a child before the wedding.
• Su Ru, the Princess Consort, and the Empress planned the engagement while Tian Buyi and the Prince refined Daoxuan True Person's plan; the next day, three announcements spread from Two Mountains across the nation.
• Luo Yunji appeared in Sanfu Town with Bi Yao, while Ghost King accepted the engagement and Tian Buyi and Su Ru left for Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Wen Min and Zhao Yueyin stayed to manage Two Mountains, while Li Qinghe was assigned to keep Luo Yunji out of trouble as he and Bi Yao explored the Huqi Mountains.

Tian Buyi and Daoxuan True Person secretly staged a falling-out between Heaven-Reaching Peak and Big Bamboo Peak to protect Big Bamboo Peak’s disciples, who remained trapped in death seclusion. As the rumors threatened to destabilize Azure Cloud Sect, Shuiyue and Zeng Shuchang urged Tian Buyi and Su Ru to leave the sect for a hundred years, complicating the plan.

• Tian Buyi told Daoxuan that Big Bamboo Peak’s seven disciples were still in death seclusion inside an illusion created with the ancient beast Lizi’s abilities, where failure could mean death.
• Tian Buyi and Daoxuan agreed on a plan, then spread rumors of a feud between their peaks, including claims that Heaven-Reaching Peak wanted Big Bamboo Peak’s cultivation methods and treasures.
• Daoxuan took chests of supplies from Big Bamboo Peak, including Tian Buyi’s hidden Spirit Wine, and Tian Buyi chased after him but returned empty-handed.
• Rumors of Azure Cloud Sect’s internal strife spread through the cultivation world, drawing the Demon Sect’s interest and prompting other peak heads to intervene.
• Shuiyue and Zeng Shuchang proposed that Tian Buyi and Su Ru leave the mountain for a hundred years and that Luo Yunji take charge of Big Bamboo Peak, while Tian Buyi and Su Ru struggled to respond without revealing the plan.

After the Beast Demon’s defeat, the Empire began rebuilding while Yuyangzi discovered golden pages warning that the Great Calamity was not over. Luo Yunji saw signs of a new threat on Two Mountains, and Xiaohuan brought him a Heaven and Earth Disk that was behaving ominously.

• The Emperor returned to the Imperial City and honored Liao Ming and the fallen, while the First Prince resumed his duties and Liao Xing was prevented from leaving for Two Mountains.
• Yuyangzi found his young disciple studying golden pages in the Divine Temple’s Book Tower and recognized images that suggested the Great Calamity had not ended, so he hurried toward Two Mountains.
• The people of Sanfu Town saw the soldiers who had died defending them alive again, unaware that the Ghost Umbrella had formed bodies for their lingering souls.
• A mysterious figure emerged from the Blood Pool beneath Mount Huqi as a dark vortex formed within it.
• Luo Yunji noticed that plants on Two Mountains were withering, then Xiaohuan showed him a Heaven and Earth Disk whose squares and halo were flickering wildly.