Chapter Summaries

Yuan Daokong took Chen Fan and Hong Haonan to Purple Jade Mountain to support Great Qian against a wounded Heavenly Demon. They joined the gathered fighters, where Teng Jin’s disappearance remained unexplained, and sensed powerful reinforcements approaching.

• Yuan Daokong told Chen Fan and Hong Haonan that a Heavenly Demon was recovering at Purple Jade Mountain and could grow stronger by devouring living beings.
• Chen Fan and Hong Haonan agreed to accompany Yuan Daokong, who carried them by flying sword to a town near Purple Jade Mountain.
• Zhao Tianhua welcomed the three and learned that Teng Jin had vanished alongside a tenth-level Primordial Demon Sect expert.
• Zhao Tianhua introduced the assembled fighters, including Bi Hou, while Bi Hou reported that a third-level Dao Domain expert was expected to arrive.
• Chen Fan sensed two approaching tenth-level experts, one of whom possessed an immense, sunlike divine sense.

A Spirit God Dao Sect party arrived to aid Great Qian, and Chen Fan recognized one of its members from his past. Peak Master Fu Chi exposed Zhao Tianhua's attempt to shield Chen Fan, but claimed he had never heard of him and introduced his companions to the Demon Suppression Bureau.

• A spirit crane carrying three people arrived, and Chen Fan recognized the young man, Yuan Zha, as a genius he had met at the Spirit God Dao Sect years earlier.
• Zhao Tianhua tried to stand between Chen Fan and the newcomers, but Fu Chi blasted him aside and demanded to know who Chen Fan was.
• Chen Fan identified himself, and Fu Chi said he had never heard of him, while Feng Yiye and Yuan Zha clearly recognized him.
• Fu Chi warned Zhao Tianhua not to conceal things from him again and introduced himself, Yuan Zha, and Feng Yiye to the Demon Suppression Bureau.

Fu Chi put Feng Yiye in command of the Demon Suppression Bureau’s forces and assigned Zhao Tianhua’s squad to lead the advance against the Heavenly Demon. At Purple Jade Mountain, the squad drew the enemy’s attention as the Black Demon Army appeared and the battle began.

• Fu Chi announced that he would fight the Heavenly Demon and appointed Feng Yiye to direct the mission and assign the forces.
• Feng Yiye made Zhao Tianhua’s squad the vanguard, and Fu Chi backed her order despite Zhao Tianhua’s displeasure.
• Zhao Tianhua warned Chen Fan that Feng Yiye seemed hostile, while Chen Fan urged Zhao Tianhua to be cautious as the vanguard.
• The group reached Purple Jade Mountain, where Zhao Tianhua’s four-person squad flew ahead after Feng Yiye ordered them forward.
• Black flames and a terrifying aura appeared, and Hong Haonan identified the approaching soldiers as part of the Black Demon Army.
• Fu Chi sent Great Qian’s martial artists to counterattack as the Black Demon Army arrived.

Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong defeated a Black Demon Army squad before Feng Yiye took Chen Fan deeper into the battlefield, claiming she would protect him. Near the Heavenly Demon, she left him facing a stronger squad while secretly watching, and Chen Fan’s eighth-level Thunder Blade proved inadequate against it.

• Chen Fan’s Thunder Blade wounded the twelve-man Black Demon Army squad, but its battle formation withstood his attack until Yuan Daokong’s flying sword shattered it and Chen Fan killed the soldiers.
• Feng Yiye ordered Yuan Daokong to face a tenth-level commander, then carried Chen Fan deeper into the battlefield under the pretense of protecting him.
• Feng Yiye left Chen Fan near the Heavenly Demon, saying she would aid Peak Master Fu Chi, while Chen Fan suspected her of harboring ill intent.
• A Black Demon Army squad led by a ninth-level martial artist charged Chen Fan, and he sensed Feng Yiye secretly watching from nearby.
• Chen Fan struck the squad with his eighth-level Thunder Blade, but the attack seemed weak against their combined strength.

Chen Fan lured Feng Yiye into a barrier after pretending to be exhausted, then revealed his strength and attacked her. Feng Yiye was left wounded and trapped as Chen Fan’s sword shattered her Dao Domain.

• Chen Fan used the Son of Heaven Sword to annihilate a Black Demon Army squad and several pursuing Primordial Demon Sect experts while Feng Yiye secretly watched.
• Chen Fan pretended to rest, then activated the Painting Scroll to conceal and enclose the area, revealing that he knew Feng Yiye had followed him.
• Feng Yiye tried to escape with a Spatial Escape Talisman and then attacked the barrier, but neither effort worked.
• Chen Fan demanded a reason to spare Feng Yiye, and she claimed she had followed him to protect him.
• Chen Fan unleashed Berserk and his Sword Domain, tore apart Feng Yiye’s Dao Domain, and struck her until she spat blood.

Chen Fan defeated Feng Yiye, bound her with the Divine Control Contract, and made her a retainer and informant. When Fu Chi was badly wounded by the Heavenly Demon and fled, Chen Fan discovered that an airspace-sealing formation prevented him from teleporting.

• Chen Fan defeated Feng Yiye with a sword strike, resisted her soul attack, and restrained her with the Yuan-Locking Ring.
• Feng Yiye offered to become Chen Fan's servant, and he used the Divine Control Contract to bind her as his retainer.
• Chen Fan ordered Feng Yiye to conceal his identity, then returned with her to the battlefield and fought at its edge.
• Dark demonic flames and an ominous pressure rose from the direction where Fu Chi was fighting the Heavenly Demon.
• Feng Yiye received Fu Chi's message that the Heavenly Demon had severely wounded him and forced him to retreat.
• Chen Fan tried to use the Void-Escaping Wings, but discovered that an airspace-sealing formation had been set over Purple Jade Mountain.

Chen Fan fled Purple Jade Mountain with the wounded Feng Yiye after Fu Chi was defeated by a heavenly demon, then turned back to help Yuan Daokong when the demon’s incarnations overwhelmed him. Chen Fan and Feng Yiye charged into the black smoke, and Chen Fan summoned the Son of Heaven Sword to strike the incarnation.

• Feng Yiye told Chen Fan that Fu Chi had planned to use the Demon Suppression Bureau members as bait, so Chen Fan sent an urgent warning to Zhao Tianhua and the others before carrying Feng Yiye away.
• Chen Fan and Feng Yiye joined Bi Hou as they fled, but a heavenly demon’s black smoke spread across the battlefield and began devouring living beings to restore its injuries.
• Yuan Daokong attacked the black smoke with his blood-red flying sword, but the heavenly demon focused its incarnations on him and trapped him.
• Bi Hou continued retreating while Chen Fan chose to help Yuan Daokong, carrying Feng Yiye into the black smoke behind her Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan activated the Dragon Soul Jade, summoned the Son of Heaven Sword, and slashed at the heavenly demon incarnation.

Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong escaped the Heavenly Demon’s attack on Purple Jade Mountain while Bi Hou was trapped and killed by the Heavenly Demon’s true body. They made it beyond the Space-Locking Formation and reunited with Zhao Tianhua’s team, whose four members had all survived.

• Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong defeated the Heavenly Demon incarnation attacking Yuan Daokong, then fled while carrying Feng Yiye.
• Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong saw Bi Hou fighting a Primordial Demon Sect man and chose to detour rather than help him.
• The Heavenly Demon’s true body arrived and overwhelmed Bi Hou, destroying his Dao Domain and killing him.
• Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong escaped Purple Jade Mountain, regained access to their escape abilities, and saw the black clouds still covering the area.
• Zhao Tianhua arrived on a golden beetle with his three teammates, embraced Chen Fan, and revealed that all four had survived.

Chen Fan and the others escaped the Heavenly Demon aboard Zhao Tianhua’s Golden-Winged Beetle, but the creature pursued them through the mountains. Just as Chen Fan prepared to face it after the others fled, Zhao Tianhua received word that a Zhao clan expert was coming to reinforce them.

• Zhao Tianhua thanked Chen Fan for warning them about the Primordial Demon Sect and revealed that his Golden-Winged Beetle was a flying mechanism from the Ancient Wilderness Ruins.
• The Heavenly Demon sensed the group and pursued them, so Zhao Tianhua brought Chen Fan, Feng Yiye, Yuan Daokong, and the others aboard the beetle.
• The Golden-Winged Beetle accelerated, but Zhao Tianhua warned that its burst of speed would not last and told everyone to prepare their Spatial Escape Talismans.
• Chen Fan recovered while they fled and decided he would confront the Heavenly Demon after the others escaped.
• As the Heavenly Demon began closing in, Zhao Tianhua received a jade plaque and announced that a Zhao clan expert would arrive within a quarter of an hour.

Zhao Wuguang arrived to hold off the pursuing Heavenly Demon after the battered golden-winged beetle was nearly destroyed. He sent Chen Fan and the others to safety, leaving Chen Fan to recognize him as the Zhao clan’s Young Master Wuguang.

• Yuan Daokong used his fourth-layer Heavenly Gang Blood Sword to sever one of the Heavenly Demon’s tentacles, but warned that the move exhausted him.
• As the Heavenly Demon’s attacks battered the golden-winged beetle, Zhao Tianhua told Feng Yiye to get off, and she prepared to leap away.
• Zhao Wuguang arrived, revealed a vast silver Dao Domain, and confronted the Heavenly Demon with his spear.
• Zhao Wuguang sent the golden-winged beetle and its passengers away while he fought the Heavenly Demon with a silver dragon attack.
• Chen Fan judged that both Zhao Wuguang and the Heavenly Demon were stronger than opponents he had faced before, then asked Zhao Tianhua if the newcomer was Young Master Wuguang.

Zhao Wuguang defeated a powerful Heavenly Demon, though its core-bearing incarnation escaped, and Chen Fan learned that Yichan Palace’s master had offered Spirit God Dao Sect experts a Void Saint-grade pill to capture him. Chen Fan had Feng Yiye reveal his location to the hunters, intending to draw them in and kill them.

• Zhao Wuguang shattered the Heavenly Demon’s true body, but its Heavenly Demon Disintegration technique let several incarnations escape, including the one carrying its core.
• Zhao Tianhua and the others explained the remaining incarnations were weakened, then scattered to hunt them while Yuan Daokong returned to recover from his injuries.
• Chen Fan asked Feng Yiye why she had been hostile, and she revealed that Yichan Palace’s master had recruited five Spirit God Dao Sect experts to capture him in exchange for a Void Saint-grade pill.
• Feng Yiye told Chen Fan that the other hunters would likely abandon their missions to pursue the reward, and Chen Fan ordered her to send them his location.
• Feng Yiye sent out Chen Fan’s location as he prepared to face the hunters.

Chen Fan searched Newfall Commandery for a Heavenly Demon avatar, then uncovered three Beast Taming Sect martial artists using demonic spiders to ambush travelers. After killing their leader, he demanded to know why they thought they could fool him.

• A middle-aged man learned Chen Fan was in Newfall Commandery and planned to capture him, while resolving to force him to reveal his hidden trump cards.
• Chen Fan searched a small county town for the Heavenly Demon avatar, helped Great Qian defeat the demonic forces there, and left without finding it.
• Yuan Daokong told Chen Fan that Teng Jin’s life lamp had gone out, and Chen Fan concealed that he had killed Teng Jin.
• Chen Fan detected demonic spiders and three hidden martial artists ahead, then destroyed one spider and exposed the ambushers.
• A burly man claimed the group belonged to the Beast Taming Sect, but Chen Fan killed him and accused the other two of trying to fool him.

Chen Fan killed three ambushers after discovering they had murdered dozens of martial artists, then followed a distress signal to a town where the Heavenly Demon incarnation was battling the Azure Python Army. As the army’s formation neared collapse, the Heavenly Demon fled from an unseen threat beneath a sky filled with lightning.

• Chen Fan learned that the ambushers had seen the Heavenly Demon incarnation and discovered dozens of corpses in the burly man’s Sumeru Ring.
• Chen Fan killed the two surviving ambushers and continued toward the Heavenly Demon’s destination, feeling his slaughter intent grow stronger.
• Chen Fan received a distress signal from a nearby town and found the Heavenly Demon fighting a squad from the Azure Python Army.
• The Azure Python Army commander prepared to stay behind and fight while ordering Yin Hang to escape if their battle formation broke.
• The Heavenly Demon abruptly fled as lightning spread across the sky.

Chen Fan captured a weakened Heavenly Demon incarnation and used the Sun-Covering Mirror to deduce the location of the true core, which was hiding near a Primordial Demon Sect stronghold in Newfall Commandery. After deciding to gather more intelligence before attacking, he met Feng Yiye, who told him that Yan Taihe of Falling Jade Peak had arrived seeking him.

• Chen Fan defeated and bound a Heavenly Demon incarnation, then recognized Yin Hang among the Azure Python Army and learned that Fan Zhong and the other Fan Family members had not returned.
• Chen Fan asked Yang Zhenhai to pass his regards to Fan Lin and left with the captured incarnation.
• Chen Fan used the Sun-Covering Mirror to locate the Heavenly Demon's true core near a Primordial Demon Sect stronghold, then chose to investigate the stronghold before acting.
• Feng Yiye told Chen Fan that Yan Taihe, a first-layer Dao Domain expert and peak master of Falling Jade Peak, was contacting her, and Chen Fan reacted to the name.

Chen Fan set out to kill Yan Taihe, but their confrontation drew out Wu Shen, a stronger disciple of Sun-Eating Peak who recognized the Painting Scroll. Chen Fan trapped the fighters inside its barrier and prepared to face Wu Shen with the Great Harmony Sword.

• Chen Fan and Feng Yiye traveled to a small city to lure Yan Taihe outside and kill him.
• Chen Fan attacked Yan Taihe with the Son of Heaven Sword, while Feng Yiye turned her Dao Domain against him.
• Wu Shen intervened with a flying disc that blocked Chen Fan’s attack and saved Yan Taihe.
• Chen Fan activated the Painting Scroll, enclosing everyone in its barrier, and Wu Shen identified it as a treasure of Sun-Eating Peak.
• Feng Yiye revealed Wu Shen was a second-layer Dao Fruit expert and a disciple of Sun-Eating Peak’s master.
• Chen Fan replaced the Son of Heaven Sword with the Great Harmony Sword and prepared to fight Wu Shen.

Chen Fan killed Wu Shen and Yan Taihe, then learned the location of a stronghold in Newfall Commandery and set out to deal with it. Sun-Eating Peak’s master mourned Wu Shen and went to the headmaster to request a trip to Great Qian.

• Chen Fan used his second-layer Berserk to destroy Wu Shen’s Dao Domain and kill him without damaging the barrier holding the Painting Scroll’s prisoner.
• Yan Taihe tried to surrender, but Chen Fan made him wear a Yuan-Locking Ring and beheaded him when he could offer no reason to be spared.
• Sun-Eating Peak’s master learned Wu Shen had died, then went to the headmaster and requested permission to travel to Great Qian.
• Feng Yiye reported that she had confirmed the stronghold’s location and that its strongest known expert was at the second layer of the Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan told Feng Yiye to wait while he went alone to deal with the stronghold.

Chen Fan infiltrated a Primordial Demon Sect stronghold, killed the Heavenly Demon's true body, and secured its True Core. When the barrier fell, a Seamless Gate masked man mistook Chen Fan for a weakling and attacked him, only to be killed instantly.

• Chen Fan entered the Demon Warlord Army stronghold under concealment and found the Heavenly Demon behind an isolation formation.
• Chen Fan trapped the formation and its guards inside the Painting Scroll, killed the Demon Warlord Army troops, and broke through the formation.
• Chen Fan pursued and killed the Heavenly Demon, then took its True Core and put away the Painting Scroll.
• Over a hundred Primordial Demon Sect and Demon Warlord Army martial artists gathered outside, including five powerful figures.
• A Seamless Gate masked man attacked Chen Fan with a whip, and Chen Fan used his Void-Escaping Wings and sword to kill him.

Chen Fan killed a Heavenly Demon and wiped out a Primordial Demon Sect outpost, then returned with the Heavenly Demon's true core and planned to trade it for battle merits. Zhao Tianhua later invited him to hunt for battle merits, unaware that Chen Fan had killed the Heavenly Demon's true body.

• Chen Fan used Void-Escaping Wings to kill a white-robed Seamless Gate martial artist, then sealed the area and killed four tenth-level experts and more than a hundred Demon Warlord Army fighters.
• Chen Fan collected Sumeru Rings and useful corpses, slaughtered the remaining Primordial Demon Sect experts at the outpost, and set the outpost ablaze.
• Chen Fan showed Feng Yiye the Heavenly Demon's true core, learned it had little use to righteous-path martial artists, and decided to exchange it for battle merits.
• Zhao Tianhua told Chen Fan that his captured Heavenly Demon incarnation had dissipated because its true body had been slain.
• Chen Fan concealed that he had killed the Heavenly Demon's true body and accepted Zhao Tianhua's invitation to farm battle merits.

Chen Fan reunited with Zhao Tianhua, learned of a planned attack on Cloud Forest Gorge, and discovered the stronghold had already been destroyed by his own hand. He continued luring Spirit God Dao Sect experts who sought to kill him, but Feng Yiye warned that the Sun-Eating Peak Master had arrived to investigate Wu Shen’s death.

• Chen Fan declined Zhao Tianhua’s offer to team up and heard about the planned assault on the Primordial Demon Sect stronghold at Cloud Forest Gorge.
• Zhao Tianhua learned the Cloud Forest Gorge stronghold had already been wiped out, and Chen Fan refused his offer of enemy corpses for battle merits.
• Chen Fan reunited with Feng Yiye and continued drawing in Spirit God Dao Sect experts; he killed another first-level Dao Domain expert who came for him.
• Feng Yiye told Chen Fan that the Sun-Eating Peak Master had arrived in Great Qian and was secretly investigating Wu Shen’s movements.
• Chen Fan said the Sun-Eating Peak Master would not trace him, but acknowledged that he could not keep killing Spirit God Dao Sect experts without attracting attention.

After Great Qian defeated the Primordial Demon Sect, Chen Fan returned to Anyuan Commandery to tally his battle merits and unexpectedly found Wu Guangqi there. The tally revealed Yuan Daokong's impressive record, then turned to Yu Tianlei, whose haul included a third-level Dao Domain expert.

• Chen Fan and Feng Yiye parted ways, and Chen Fan continued acting alone before rejoining his team when Yuan Daokong and Hong Haonan recovered.
• Chen Fan avoided the Green-Robed Alliance's requests to use the Prison King identity, suspecting the alliance had grown suspicious of him.
• Chen Wudao defeated Gongjian Xiu, and Great Qian won the war, routing the Primordial Demon Sect's forces and capturing or killing several Chang Sheng experts.
• At Anyuan Martial Academy, Chen Fan spotted Wu Guangqi during the battle-merit tally and memorized his soul aura.
• Shi Chen awarded Yuan Daokong more than one hundred thousand battle merits, including thirty thousand for killing a first-level Dao Domain expert.
• Yu Tianlei displayed numerous Tenth-Realm corpses, and Shi Chen recognized that one had been a third-level Dao Domain expert.