Chapter Summaries

Dabai revealed that he was using the God Descent Ritual to summon evil demons, and Luo Yunji and his allies raced to stop him. They found the Forbidden Spirit Land devastated and confronted Dabai as Strange Objects attacked its survivors.

• Beneath the Ghost King Sect, Dabai confronted Wan Renwang and warned him to complete his plans or be erased from the Nine Realms.
• After awakening, Daoyan told Luo Yunji that Dabai was using the blood essence of the living to summon evil demons through the God Descent Ritual.
• Luo Yunji sent Bi Yao to warn Spirit Mountain, then took Liao Xing toward the Imperial City as they learned Dabai had slaughtered much of the Forbidden Spirit Land.
• Luo Yunji and Liao Xing fought Strange Objects surrounding civilians, while Dabai watched them from a distance.
• Daoyan and the other Yin Spirits joined Luo Yunji, and Daoyan’s Buddhist light halted the Strange Objects emerging from the dead.

Dabai slaughtered his way across the Central Plains while Luo Yunji pursued him, and he revealed that he wanted humanity destroyed beyond reincarnation because of his hatred of human cruelty. After months of pursuit, Dabai confronted Luo Yunji and condemned the sheltered life that kept him from seeing humanity’s evils.

• Dabai vanished toward the Azure Cloud Mountain Range after killing everyone on the land, and Luo Yunji pursued him with Liao Xing and the Four Spirits.
• Daoyan explained that Dabai had absorbed the Netherworld power and spread an Evil Force that would kill living creatures throughout the Forbidden Spirit Land unless Dabai was destroyed.
• Luo Yunji visited Dabai’s junior brother in the Mystic Realm, but the old man could not explain Dabai’s change or believe that he had committed such evil.
• Luo Yunji chased Dabai across the Central Plains for several months as Dabai continued killing, then confronted him near the Azure Cloud Mountain Range.
• Dabai revealed that he hated humanity and intended to prevent its victims from reincarnating, then told Luo Yunji that his sheltered upbringing had blinded him to human cruelty.

Dabai drove Luo Yunji away from him, then revealed that he had deliberately used the Yin Spirits’ obsessions and the Death Spirit Abyss to conceal secrets tied to the Underworld and the Deities. He left Luo Yunji and the four Spirits stunned, accusing them all of being pieces on the Deities’ board.

• Luo Yunji chased Dabai and attacked him with sword arts, but Dabai effortlessly countered him and repeatedly overwhelmed him.
• Dabai sent smoke toward a city, and Luo Yunji warned its people to activate their protective formation as the smoke killed people in the surrounding villages.
• Dabai rejected the name Luo Yunji had given him, and Zheng Qi confronted him before Blackheart Elder asked why he and Lady Jinling had been chosen.
• Dabai explained that Blackheart Elder, Lady Jinling, Daoyan, and Zheng Qi had recovered their memories as Yin Spirits through intense self-directed resentment.
• Dabai revealed that the Death Spirit Abyss and the Five Seas had not formed naturally, and that the Abyss’s Yin Spirits had concealed the passage to the Underworld in Mount Huqi.
• Dabai declared that the Yin Spirits’ suffering and sacrifices had all served the Deities’ plans, leaving Luo Yunji and the four Spirits shocked.

Dabai completed the blood gathering for the God Descent Ritual, then invaded Azure Cloud Sect and unleashed the Strange Objects across its Seven Peaks. As Tian Buyi and others fought to protect people, the sect descended into chaos and its refugees were killed and transformed.

• Tian Buyi used the Fire Gathering Basin to destroy Strange Objects in a village while Wan Jianyi rescued civilians, and Daoyan used his Sariras to repel Gray Smoke and protect them.
• Dabai’s Strange Objects slaughtered everyone in the city beneath Wind Return Peak, and Luo Yunji realized the blood needed for the ritual had been gathered.
• Blood flowed into the Ghost King Sect’s secret chamber as a shadow beneath the sea of blood repeatedly struck at its barrier.
• Dabai told Luo Yunji he would destroy a certain place himself, then entered Azure Cloud Sect and released a tide of Strange Objects across the Seven Peaks.
• Tian Buyi and Bi Yao cleared Big Bamboo Peak, while Azure Cloud Sect disciples organized a retreat and panicked refugees were killed and turned into Strange Objects.

Bi Yao used the Heavenly Book to protect the survivors on Heaven-Reaching Peak, where Dabai revealed that he had returned to collect an ancient debt from the Azure Cloud Sect. After exposing the murderous force beneath the peak, Dabai attacked the righteous cultivators and demonstrated the true power of the Dragon Slayer Art to Luo Yunji.

• Bi Yao drove back the Strange Objects with the Seven Buddhas Universal Precept Verse and shielded the survivors on Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Dabai confronted the righteous cultivators, declared that he had returned to collect the debt owed by Qingyunzi, and revealed that they had destroyed the Heavenly Mystery Lock.
• A malevolent force erupted from Heaven-Reaching Peak, and Dabai denounced the Three Heads of the Righteous Path for concealing its evil source.
• Dabai summoned twelve black Spirit Dragons and overwhelmed the cultivators who tried to resist him.
• Luo Yunji arrived and summoned his own Spirit Dragons, but Dabai explained how the art drew on the world's power and swiftly destroyed Luo's dragons.
• Dabai transformed his Spirit Dragons with sword energy, leaving the gathered cultivators awed by his power.

Luo Yunji faced Dabai in a desperate battle as Dabai revealed his overwhelming power and the truth behind his sword arts. After Heaven-Reaching Peak was restored, Dabai disclosed that his true identity was Li Jingzhi, a wronged former disciple of Qingyunzi whose return had set old calamities in motion.

• Luo Yunji challenged Dabai to prove he could master the two sword arts, but Dabai’s Spirit Dragons and Moonlight Ray badly wounded him and destroyed half of Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Luo Yunji ordered the righteous cultivators to flee, while Tian Linger, Lin Jingyu, and Bi Yao watched the devastation from a distance.
• Puhong told Pukong, Pude, and Yun Yilan that Li Jingzhi had been hunted after Qingyunzi expelled him, and that villagers had drowned him, his wife, and their newborn son in a cesspit.
• Dabai used Dragon Slayer—No Regrets, but the Four Spirits Array, Taiji Liangyi Array, and Bibo Pool’s Small World restored Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Dabai revealed that his real name was Li Jingzhi, startling Luo Yunji, Blackheart Elder, Lady Jinling, Daoyan, and Wuluo.
• Wuluo admitted that he had ignored Li Jingzhi’s warning and performed the God Descent Ritual, while Li Jingzhi rebuked Wuluo and Daoyan for causing greater suffering through their stubborn choices.

Li Jingzhi began the God Descent Ritual at Mount Huqi, opening a Boundary Rift as the world-ending calamity drew near. While Luo Yunji recovered and searched for a way to grow stronger, the chapter ended with him confronting the Mystic Realm’s old man about Dabai using the true Heavenly Book.

• Li Jingzhi unleashed his twelve Spirit Dragons against Luo Yunji, then left when black smoke rose from Mount Huqi and the God Descent Ritual began.
• A Sacrificial Tower burst from Mount Huqi, and Li Jingzhi watched a Boundary Rift open as Dabai addressed the figure beyond it.
• The White-Clothed Deity met the Black-Clad Deity on Spirit Mountain, and they discussed their youngest brother and the calamity facing them all.
• Luo Yunji recovered at the Black Bamboo Building, visited his sleeping senior brothers at Bibo Pool, and resolved to become stronger before the Demon God descended.
• Luo Yunji studied the Crystal Booklet, recognized it as the true Heavenly Book, and went to the Mystic Realm to demand that the old man tell him about Dabai.

Luo Yunji learned that the old man’s betrayal of Dabai had been part of a plan to counter the destructive consequences of the God Descent Rituals and preserve the world. At Spirit Mountain, the White-Clothed Deity revealed that Luo Yunji’s resurrection and life had also been arranged, leaving him questioning the Heavenly Book and the deities’ hidden role.

• Luo Yunji confronted the old man, who admitted that jealousy had led him to ruin Dabai’s reputation and that Dabai’s death had been part of the plan to summon the Demon God.
• The old man explained that divine power from the three God Descent Rituals threatened to destroy the world, and that Dabai had willingly sacrificed himself to offset it.
• The old man revealed that the Five Seas, the Liao Clan, the Four Talismans, and the Heaven-Reaching Tower had all been arranged to bring about the Demon God’s summoning, while Luo Yunji was a uniquely necessary chess piece.
• The White-Clothed Deity urged Luo Yunji to return to Spirit Mountain, where it and two other deities awaited him.
• The White-Clothed Deity told Luo Yunji that another version of him would have been born if he had not been saved, and that Zhou Yixian had arranged for his corpse to drift in the river until the deity found him.
• Luo Yunji asked why the Heavenly Book recorded nothing about the three deities.

Luo Yunji learned that the path to immortality had been severed as the calamity erupted from Mount Huqi and the human world fell under the Underworld’s corruption. The deities merged the Human Scroll into a crystal booklet for him, then showed him Li Jingzhi’s past, ending with Li Jingzhi defending his forbidden cultivation to an elder of the newly founded Azure Cloud Sect.

• The Black-Clad Figure told Luo Yunji that the deities were not recorded in the Human Scroll, confirmed he had absorbed Heaven-Reaching Peak’s baleful aura, and said Luo Yunji’s senior brothers would soon awaken.
• At Mount Huqi, Li Jingzhi confronted a gigantic Demon God through the heavenly gates, and Strange Objects poured through the barrier as the Great Calamity began consuming the human world.
• The deities stirred the pool and books in Luo Yunji’s Sea of Consciousness until they merged into a crystal lotus, whose petal became a Crystal Booklet that the White-Clothed Deity identified as the Human Scroll.
• The White-Clothed Heavenly Dao showed Luo Yunji the deities’ past and Li Jingzhi’s efforts to protect the Human Realm, then brought him to the newly established Azure Cloud Sect a thousand years earlier.
• An elder angrily accused Li Jingzhi of secretly studying and practicing Demon Sect techniques, and Li Jingzhi argued that the sect needed a supreme cultivation technique to survive the war.

Luo Yunji witnessed how Li Jingzhi was expelled from Azure Cloud Sect, betrayed and hunted until the deaths of his wife and newborn son drove him to despair. The three Deities explained that they had allowed Li Jingzhi’s suffering because only his hatred and talent could summon the Demon God, while the Heavenly Dao revealed that it had guided him for centuries before the Great Dao’s flaw left it unable to intervene.

• Qingyunzi expelled Li Jingzhi from Azure Cloud Sect after Li Jingzhi defended the Heavenly Book’s cultivation methods, and a junior disciple persuaded Qingyunzi to order his death.
• Li Jingzhi’s former fellow disciples and cultivators from both righteous and demonic factions betrayed and hunted him, while his cultivation was mysteriously suppressed.
• After Li Jingzhi shared the Heavenly Book’s methods, the resulting scramble reshaped the cultivation world, and a later ambush left him gravely wounded.
• Li Jingzhi married a kind woman and settled in a village, but Qingyunzi found him; hunters and villagers killed his wife and newborn son, breaking the last of his goodness.
• Luo Yunji confronted the three Deities, who said Li Jingzhi’s hatred was necessary to summon the Demon God, and the Heavenly Dao explained that it had merged with a damaged Great Dao and once guided Li Jingzhi through a strand of consciousness.
• The Heavenly Dao began explaining that it had watched Li Jingzhi strive for centuries, but the chapter ended as Luo Yunji challenged the claim that the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao were emotionless and impartial.

Luo Yunji learned that stopping the apocalypse meant accepting a responsibility that could cost him Dabai, but he chose to fight for the people he cared about. As the Strange Objects overwhelmed the defenders, Luo Yunji, Liao Xing, Bi Yao, Tian Buyi, and the spirits from his Ghost Umbrella joined the battle.

• The three deities told Luo Yunji the apocalypse had arrived and that helping Dabai would doom his loved ones, so he accepted that he had to shoulder the fight.
• Luo Yunji found resolve on Big Bamboo Peak, then flew toward the approaching Strange Objects as the Azure Cloud Sect raised its defenses.
• Liao Xing and Bi Yao caught up with Luo Yunji and insisted on fighting beside him, and the three charged into the gray tide.
• The Strange Objects engulfed the trio, but Tian Buyi arrived and burned them back with the Profound Fire Array while chanting with Luo Yunji and the others.
• Luo Yunji opened the Ghost Umbrella and summoned nearly ten thousand Spirit Entities, ordering them to attack the Strange Objects.

Luo Yunji and his allies fought the Strange Objects pouring through the Underworld tide, discovering that Linglong’s Witchcraft and several borrowed magical treasures could turn the battle in their favor. The Spirit Entities joined the defense, and the chapter ended with the tide still being fought back.

• Luo Yunji explained that the Ghost Path had made the Spirit Entities Fierce Spirits, while the Beast God suggested using demons to fight demons.
• Linglong recited Witchcraft that made the Strange Objects crack apart and spread the effect through the tide.
• Blackheart Elder and Madam Jinling borrowed the Five Peaks Divine Halberd and the Acacia Bell, then used them to attack and control the Strange Objects.
• Daoyan drove back a wave with Buddhist scripture as Puzhi followed him, while Zheng Qi and the other fighters joined the battle.
• The Spirit Entities of Two Mountains formed disciplined ranks, and the Fierce Spirits of Sanfu Town fought over their kills.

Luo Yunji and the Tianyin monks trapped and destroyed the Strange Objects with a Buddhist formation, but Li Jingzhi created another horde and confronted Azure Cloud Mountain. After Li Jingzhi overwhelmed Luo Yunji, a powerful Asura appeared and became the new threat.

• Tian Buyi tried to join the fight, but Luo Yunji stopped him and sent him back up the mountain.
• Puzhi and Daoyan arranged for Tianyin Temple’s monks to trap the Strange Objects in a formation, which Luo Yunji powered with spirit stones.
• The formation destroyed the Strange Objects, and the defenders celebrated after the final wave was wiped out.
• Li Jingzhi revealed that he had created the Strange Objects and summoned another horde, declaring that Azure Cloud must be destroyed.
• Luo Yunji charged Li Jingzhi but was thrown back, while a hideous figure appeared and sent Faxiang flying.
• Luo Yunji recognized the figure as an Asura.

Luo Yunji discovered that Li Jingzhi had disguised himself as Asura and used the Heart-Slaying Lock to control the real Demon God, but the Demon God proved far stronger than Luo Yunji. As the Strange Objects threatened Azure Cloud Mountain and Luo Yunji was defeated, Wuluo arrived after fusing with the Zombie Body and offered to face the Demon God himself.

• Luo Yunji exposed the false Asura as Li Jingzhi and trapped him in an ice coffin.
• Li Jingzhi revealed that he had planted the Heart-Slaying Lock on the Demon God and took control of him.
• The Demon God shattered Luo Yunji's Cloud Sword, and the Strange Objects overwhelmed the monks' formation, forcing Xiao Yicai, Qi Hao, and Chu Yuhong to activate the mountain-protecting formation.
• Luo Yunji fought the Demon God but was battered to the ground, while his Spirit Entities were pulled away from the Strange Objects.
• Wuluo, having fused with the Zombie Body, blocked the Demon God's punch and told Luo Yunji to leave the giant to him.

Luo Yunji fought Li Jingzhi while Daoyan and Blackheart Elder worked to exploit the Demon God's blood and demonic qi. Luo Yunji revealed that he had never meant to kill the Demon God, but to free it from the Heart-Slaying Lock, and the chapter ended with the battle still raging.

• Luo Yunji charged Li Jingzhi atop the Demon God's head, resolved to stop him despite understanding his past.
• Luo Yunji and Li Jingzhi fought fiercely while Daoyan and the others attacked the Demon God beneath them.
• Puzhi and Jinling repeatedly rescued Luo Yunji from Li Jingzhi's attacks.
• Luo Yunji revealed his plan to use the Human Scroll to free the Demon God from the Heart-Slaying Lock.
• Blackheart Elder and Daoyan emerged after refining the Demon God's blood and demonic qi, while Li Jingzhi dismissed them as no threat.
• The people on Azure Cloud Mountain recognized that good and evil depended on the heart, not on magical treasures or cultivation arts.

Luo Yunji and his allies were overwhelmed by Li Jingzhi until his senior brothers emerged from seclusion and joined the battle. As the Big Bamboo Peak disciples revealed eighty-four Spirit Dragons, Duan Ming awakened to the Heavenly Star on Big Bamboo Peak.

• Li Jingzhi used his Heart-Slaying Lock and Spirit Dragons to defeat Luo Yunji's allies, leaving them badly wounded.
• Luo Yunji's senior brothers emerged from Bibo Pool and brought him the Taiji Jewels, while the Spirit Venerable roared toward the sky.
• Wu Dayi helped Duan Ming awaken the Heavenly Star, then learned from Su Ru that Luo Yunji had fought the Beast God and saved the people of several cities.
• Wu Dayi left Tian Buyi and Su Ru to watch over Duan Ming and hurried to join his fellow disciples.
• Zhang Xiaofan confronted Li Jingzhi for bullying Luo Yunji, and the eight Big Bamboo Peak disciples summoned eighty-four Spirit Dragons to face Li Jingzhi's twelve.

Song Daren and the other Big Bamboo Peak disciples fought Li Jingzhi while Wuluo and the others battled the Demon God and Strange Objects overrun the cities below. The disciples struggled against Li Jingzhi’s superior power as Du Bishu and Lu Daxin evacuated civilians to Azure Cloud Mountain.

• Wu Dayi shared Luo Yunji’s experiences with the brothers, who joined forces against Li Jingzhi while Lu Daxin and Du Bishu helped Wuluo fight the Demon God.
• Wuluo broke the Demon God’s waist, but could not kill it completely, so he stayed behind to guard it.
• Song Daren and the other disciples revealed they had comprehended the Way of Nature and attacked Li Jingzhi, who easily repelled their techniques and warned them that they lacked the cultivation and experience to defeat him.
• Gray-white Strange Objects overwhelmed several cities, and He Dazhi sent Du Bishu and Lu Daxin to rescue the people.
• Du Bishu and Lu Daxin used their magical items and the Vine Forest to clear a route and escort civilians from the cities to Azure Cloud Mountain.

As Song Daren and the others fought Li Jingzhi, Yun Yilan and Shangguan Ce plotted to seize the treasures in Big Bamboo Peak’s Black Bamboo Building. The chapter ended as Shangguan Ce attacked Wen Min and Tian Linger, while powerful reinforcements were on their way.

• Zheng Dali and He Dazhi combined fire and wind to scorch Li Jingzhi, briefly breaking through his defenses.
• Shangguan Ce persuaded righteous-path sect leaders to join Incense Valley in targeting the treasures of Azure Cloud Sect’s Big Bamboo Peak lineage.
• Tian Linger, Wen Min, Li Qinghe, and Zhao Yueyin discovered Incense Valley’s plan and split up to gather help and defend Big Bamboo Peak.
• Li Qinghe reached Spirit Mountain and summoned Daoxuan, Tian Buyi, Su Ru, Cangsong, Wan Jianyi, Xiaobai, and Mao Qiushi to respond.
• Yun Yilan’s group arrived at Big Bamboo Peak’s Back Mountain and demanded the Black Bamboo Building’s treasures, but Tian Linger cursed him and refused.
• Shangguan Ce stepped forward and launched the Nine Cold Ice Piercer at Wen Min and Tian Linger.

Tian Linger and her allies fought Yun Yilan, Shangguan Ce, and the sect leaders who sought Big Bamboo Peak’s treasures. Tian Buyi and Daoxuan True Person arrived with reinforcements, turning the battle’s tide and revealing that they were alive.

• Tian Linger fought Shangguan Ce with Amber Vermilion Silk, while Wen Min helped hold off the attackers until Zhao Yueyin and Li Qinghe brought reinforcements.
• Sanmiao Fairy, Yuyangzi, Wen Min, and Zhao Yueyin joined Tian Linger in battle as the sect leaders attacked, while Zhao Yueyin cursed Shangguan Ce after he ambushed her.
• Yun Yilan struck Sanmiao Fairy and Yuyangzi, then attacked Tian Linger, but Mr. Ghost emerged from her shadow to block the blow.
• Tian Buyi arrived with Daoxuan True Person, Wan Jianyi, Cangsong, the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, the Cat Demon, Su Ru, and Li Qinghe, shocking Yun Yilan and the sect leaders.
• Su Ru healed Sanmiao Fairy and Yuyangzi, checked Tian Linger, and reunited with her daughter, who discovered that Su Ru was pregnant.

Tian Buyi confronted Yun Yilan and the sect leaders who had betrayed Azure Cloud, while Luo Yunji’s brothers struggled against Li Jingzhi. After learning that Yun Yilan had tried to steal from the Black Bamboo Building and kill the witnesses, Luo Yunji walked toward him despite Tian Buyi trying to intervene.

• Su Ru confirmed that her unborn child was a boy, and Tian Linger lamented that she would have another little brother to contend with.
• Tian Buyi attacked Yun Yilan and the other sect leaders, declaring that he would erase Incense Valley after they betrayed Azure Cloud and nearly killed Tian Linger.
• Luo Yunji’s brothers combined their techniques to fight Li Jingzhi, but they failed to gain the upper hand, so Luo Yunji left to fetch a treasure.
• Tian Linger argued with Tian Buyi about sparing Yun Yilan, but Su Ru and the others tried to conceal what had happened from Luo Yunji.
• Luo Yunji forced Mr. Ghost out of Tian Linger’s shadow, and Mr. Ghost revealed that Yun Yilan had led the sect leaders to steal from the Black Bamboo Building and kill the witnesses.
• Luo Yunji approached Yun Yilan despite Tian Buyi stepping in to stop him.