Chapter Summaries

After earning one million battle merits for the Heavenly Demon Core, Chen Fan learned that the Eclosion Sect’s opportunity involved a cultivation grotto-heaven in the Southeastern Region. Though Great Qian had won the battle, the Seven Sages Demon Emperor remained a threat, and the Demon Suppression Bureau urgently ordered Chen Fan to guard the Heavenly Prison.

• Shi Chen awarded Yu Tianlei eight hundred thousand battle merits for the corpses he presented, including a third-level Dao Domain expert.
• Chen Fan presented the Heavenly Demon Core, and Shi Chen credited him with one million battle merits.
• The Crown Prince welcomed Chen Fan at Heaven on Earth and told him the Eclosion Sect’s opportunity was linked to a grotto-heaven in the Southeastern Region.
• The Demon Suppression Bureau remained active because the Seven Sages Demon Emperor had not been eliminated.
• Chen Fan received an urgent order to guard the Heavenly Prison before he could return to Clear River Commandery.

Chen Fan arrived at Heavenly Prison City to guard the prison and learned Great Qian was keeping captured experts alive as bait for the Seven Sages Demon Emperor. While on patrol, he sensed a mysterious Star Sect prisoner deep beneath the prison and later discovered Wu Guangqi was also stationed there, but he waited for a safer chance to kill him.

• Chen Fan, Yuan Daokong, and Hong Haonan arrived at Heavenly Prison City to oversee patrols and guard duty.
• Hong Haonan explained that Great Qian had deliberately kept captured demons and sect experts alive to lure out the Seven Sages Demon Emperor, who would not abandon his disciple Gongjian Xiu.
• Chen Fan was assigned to guard Area A-27 on the prison's first level and used the Star God Seal to sense a powerful prisoner bound in a chamber deep underground.
• The prison remained peaceful, and Chen Fan continued cultivating rather than investigating the lower levels without permission.
• Chen Fan discovered that Wu Guangqi was guarding an area with Qiu Hong and considered waiting for an attack by the Seven Sages Demon Emperor to create an opportunity to kill Wu Guangqi.

Chen Fan caught a disguised intruder in Heavenly Prison and recognized him as Zhao Kong, a young man he had met at an auction. Zhao Kong explained that he had entered the prison to reach his injured master, leaving Chen Fan to decide whether to help him or turn him in.

• After Hong Haonan warned Chen Fan about prison breakers nearby, Chen Fan used his divine sense to investigate the surrounding sectors.
• Chen Fan discovered and destroyed a mechanical rat, then confronted Zhao Kong, who was using concealment to evade the prison guards.
• Chen Fan let the guards pass without revealing Zhao Kong, who emerged and thanked him for keeping his presence secret.
• Chen Fan recognized Zhao Kong from the Azure Cloud City auction by showing him a dragonfly mechanism, and demanded to know why he had entered Heavenly Prison.
• Zhao Kong revealed that his master had rescued him from a life of poor cultivation, cleared his meridians, and taught him martial arts, and that he had come to the prison for his severely injured master.

Chen Fan learned why Zhao Kong wanted him to rescue his imprisoned master, a defector from the Primordial Demon Sect, and agreed to help in exchange for information about Zhao Kong’s opportunity in the Ancient Wilderness Ruins. After swearing a Heavenly Dao oath, Chen Fan divined that Zhao Kong had told the truth and that the deal offered both benefit and risk.

• Chen Fan questioned Zhao Kong about his master’s imprisonment and learned that the master had defected from the Primordial Demon Sect before fleeing to Great Qian.
• Zhao Kong begged Chen Fan to help rescue his master and offered to pay a satisfactory price.
• Zhao Kong explained that a chance encounter in the Ancient Wilderness Ruins had helped him rise from the second to the seventh level of martial arts in nine years.
• Zhao Kong offered to reveal the location and details of his opportunity if Chen Fan helped save his master, and the two made a Heavenly Dao oath.
• Chen Fan returned to his guarded area, sealed the surroundings with the Painting Scroll, and used the Sun-Covering Mirror to divine whether Zhao Kong had told the truth.
• Chen Fan’s divination confirmed Zhao Kong’s account and hinted that the deal would bring him a substantial benefit along with some risk.

Chen Fan guarded the Heavenly Prison while refining the Sun-Covering Mirror and monitoring the imprisoned Star Sect experts. The Seven Sages Demon Emperor Zhu Xiang arrived with the Hellish Demon Vortex to demand Gongjian Xiu’s release, and the Heavenly Prison became a battlefield.

• Chen Fan passed a cell holding Zhao Kong’s female master but decided not to attempt a rescue while powerful figures watched the Heavenly Prison.
• Chen Fan continued guarding the prison, monitoring Qiu Hong and the Star Sect experts, and ignoring the Green-Robed Alliance’s orders.
• Yu Tianlei threatened a shackled man after the man failed to contact the Prison King, and the man promised to try through an intermediary.
• Chen Fan refined the Sun-Covering Mirror’s third layer of restrictions, allowing it to trap experts at the third level of the Dao Domain.
• The Hellish Demon Vortex appeared outside the Heavenly Prison, and Hong Haonan told Chen Fan that the Chang Sheng-level demon creature could disrupt the power of heaven and earth.
• The Seven Sages Demon Emperor Zhu Xiang demanded that Chen Wudao release Gongjian Xiu, and Chen Wudao raised a crystalline barrier as both sides began fighting and demonic troops advanced on the Heavenly Prison.

Chen Fan fought through the Heavenly Prison and found the Jia-Twenty Sector overrun by Primordial Demon Sect forces, where he confronted a powerful red-headscarfed man. Chen Fan trapped his opponent in a barrier and struck him with Berserk power, leaving the man unable to escape as he rushed toward the barrier’s edge.

• Chen Fan used the Son of Heaven Sword to destroy demon squads, collected their corpses, and fought his way toward other Heavenly Prison sectors.
• Chen Fan found the Jia-Twenty Sector littered with dead jailers and sensed a tenth-realm expert nearby.
• A thin Primordial Demon Sect man sent his masked senior brother to break cell barriers while he went after Chen Fan.
• The red-headscarfed man attacked Chen Fan with his Dao Domain, but Chen Fan’s Son of Heaven Sword sent him flying and wounded him.
• Chen Fan summoned a barrier with the Painting Scroll, activated Berserk, and broke through the man’s Dao Domain before his defensive wings stopped the sword strike.
• Chen Fan prevented the man from activating his Spatial Escape Talisman, and the man charged toward the barrier’s edge.

Chen Fan killed two powerful rescuers in the Heavenly Prison and freed Zhao Kong’s imprisoned master, then fled with her toward the meeting point. As they crossed the battlefield, a sudden attack from above blocked their path.

• Chen Fan killed the red-headscarfed tenth-level expert who had attacked the prison barrier and hurried after another intruder.
• Chen Fan found Zhao Kong’s master’s cell destroyed and tracked the fleeing rescuer, who was carrying the shackled woman.
• Chen Fan trapped the short, fat martial artist in the Painting Scroll and killed him after overpowering him with Berserk.
• Chen Fan freed the black-clad woman from her shackles and told her that Zhao Kong had sent him to rescue her.
• Chen Fan concealed himself and led the woman through the battlefield toward his meeting point with Zhao Kong, but a chilling attack descended from above and blocked their way.

Chen Fan confronted Elder Ming and the Primordial Demon Sect members who had come to recapture Jimo Zi. He killed a second-level Dao Domain expert in one strike, leaving Qing'er and the others badly wounded.

• Elder Ming arrived with four Primordial Demon Sect members and declared that Chen Fan would die, while Qing'er identified him as the killer of Cheng Yuan.
• Qing'er demanded that Jimo Zi return with them, and Jimo Zi offered to surrender if they spared Chen Fan, threatening to kill herself if they refused.
• Elder Ming dismissed Jimo Zi's threat and attacked Chen Fan by spreading his Dao Domain around them.
• Chen Fan used the Painting Scroll and unleashed his God-Defying bloodline, then used Void-Escaping Wings to get behind a second-level Dao Domain expert.
• Chen Fan tore apart the expert's Dao Domain and killed him with one sword strike, while the sword's aftershock sent Qing'er and the other two survivors flying and left them spitting blood.

Chen Fan used the Primordial Sword to kill Old Ming, then attacked the three survivors trapped inside the damaged barrier. He killed two Dao Domain Level One experts but spared Qing'er after defeating her.

• Chen Fan fought Old Ming while his Level Two Berserk power suppressed the Dao Domain Level Three expert.
• Chen Fan activated the Primordial Sword and killed Old Ming, whose body was left in fragments after the strike.
• Chen Fan charged the three survivors as they failed to break through the barrier.
• Chen Fan killed the two Dao Domain Level One experts and defeated Qing'er without killing her.

Chen Fan captured Sikong Qing after stopping her from using a mysterious life-preserving ability, then entrusted her to Zhao Kong while returning to the Heavenly Prison. He tracked Qiu Hong to the second level and prepared to attack him, Wu Guangqi, and their powerful ally.

• Chen Fan stopped Sikong Qing from harming herself with black and crimson threads, restrained her with the Yuan-Locking Ring, and escaped with her and Jimo Zi.
• Jimo Zi revealed that Sikong Qing was the daughter of Sikong Wei, a Chang Sheng Realm expert, and explained that she had hidden an ominous object pursued by their enemies.
• Chen Fan reunited Jimo Zi with Zhao Kong, accepted his promised jade tablet, and left Sikong Qing in Zhao Kong's care.
• Chen Fan tracked Qiu Hong with the Star God Seal and saw him alongside Wu Guangqi and a third, powerful ally.
• After weighing the danger of fighting all three, Chen Fan resolved to attack and descended to the second level of the Heavenly Prison.

Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Prison’s second level and reached Qiu Hong and Wu Guangqi during their battle with the Primordial Demon Sect. He ambushed Wu Guangqi but failed to kill him, leaving Chen Fan trapped between two tenth-level experts as the barrier around the fight threatened to break.

• A Dao Fruit-level expert attacked Chen Fan with divine consciousness, but the Star God Seal absorbed the assault, and the expert soon abandoned the pursuit.
• Chen Fan reached Qiu Hong, Wu Guangqi, and their companion, who were fighting two Primordial Demon Sect squads under the protection of a second-layer Dao Domain expert.
• When Wu Guangqi’s Dao Domain broke during a desperate counterattack, Chen Fan activated the Painting Scroll and Berserk, then struck Wu Guangqi with his sword.
• Wu Guangqi survived the blazing attack, and the whisk-wielding Daoist blocked Chen Fan from reaching him as Qiu Hong came to his aid.
• The remaining Primordial Demon Sect fighters gathered beside Chen Fan, while he weighed the danger of the cracked barrier and raised his sword again.

Chen Fan killed the fighters in the barrier after Qiu Hong revealed himself as a Star Sect disciple and helped him defeat a Yichan Palace cultivator. Qiu Hong recognized Chen Fan as Star Sect’s Sect Master, and identified the senior imprisoned in Heavenly Prison as Zhongli Chenghe, Star Sect’s First Protector.

• Qiu Hong used the Evil-Exterminating Divine Slip against the whisk-wielding Yichan Palace cultivator, allowing Chen Fan to kill him.
• Chen Fan killed the Primordial Demon Sect fighters and beheaded the severely wounded Wu Guangqi.
• Qiu Hong paid respects to Chen Fan as Star Sect’s Sect Master after recognizing the Star God Seal.
• Chen Fan explained how he received Star Sect’s inheritance, and Qiu Hong said he had been planted as a spy in Yichan Palace.
• Chen Fan asked about the Star Sect senior imprisoned in Heavenly Prison, and Qiu Hong identified him as Zhongli Chenghe, Star Sect’s First Protector.

Chen Fan learned that Zhongli Chenghe was the Demon Master's nephew and confirmed that he was imprisoned on Heavenly Prison's third level. As Heavenly Prison collapsed during the Seven Sages Demon Emperor's assault, Chen Fan communicated with Zhongli Chenghe through the Star God Seal and learned that Zhongli Chenghe doubted Chen Wudao could stop the Demon Emperor.

• Qiu Hong told Chen Fan that Zhongli Chenghe was the Demon Master's biological nephew and a third-level Chang Sheng master, but they could not reach the prison's lowest level to rescue him.
• The Seven Sages Demon Emperor attacked Heavenly Prison to free Gongjian Xiu, causing the first two levels to collapse and releasing many prisoners.
• The Star God Seal's connection to Zhongli Chenghe strengthened, and the imprisoned man opened his eyes and spoke to Chen Fan through it.
• Chen Fan told Zhongli Chenghe that Great Qian had used Gongjian Xiu as bait and that Liu Gang had died several years earlier.
• Zhongli Chenghe laughed at the claim that Liu Gang had died of illness and questioned whether Chen Wudao could stop the Seven Sages Demon Emperor.

Chen Fan learned that the Hellish Demon Vortex had disrupted the Heavenly Prison and gave Zhongli Chenghe a chance to break free using the Star God Seal. After Zhongli Chenghe escaped, he gave Chen Fan a protective spiritual light and urged him to leave, but Chen Fan questioned why he was not coming along.

• Zhongli Chenghe explained that Chen Wudao was weaker than the Demon Lord and suggested the Eclosion Sect’s involvement could spell disaster for the Seven Sages Demon Emperor.
• The Hellish Demon Vortex invaded the Heavenly Prison, disrupting its primal energy and divine senses, and Zhongli Chenghe urged Chen Fan to help him escape.
• As the Seven Sages Demon Emperor battled Great Qian’s forces, Chen Fan activated his Concealment Talisman and descended to the lowest level of the Heavenly Prison.
• Chen Fan reached Zhongli Chenghe’s sealing formation and let the Star God Seal leave his sea of consciousness to break the chains and bronze pillars.
• Zhongli Chenghe escaped, gave Chen Fan spiritual light to conceal him from Chang Sheng experts, and told him to leave; Chen Fan asked why Zhongli Chenghe was not leaving with him.

Chen Fan and Qiu Hong escaped the Heavenly Prison as Zhongli Chenghe headed toward the battle with the Seven Sages Demon Emperor. Guanqiu Jing revealed the Merit Golden List and, with Chen Wudao's help, killed Zhu Xiang, though Guanqiu Jing was badly injured.

• Zhongli Chenghe left Chen Fan to pursue old debts with Great Qian, and Chen Fan returned to the second level of the Heavenly Prison before escaping with Qiu Hong.
• Zhu Xiang broke Gongjian Xiu's seal and unleashed the Hellish Demon Vortex against the Heavenly Prison.
• At Chen Wudao's signal, Guanqiu Jing summoned the Merit Golden List, which destroyed Zhu Xiang's natal spirit beast and wounded him.
• Gongjian Xiu transformed and used the Primordial Demon Mirror to block the Golden List, but Chen Wudao froze the space and brought Gongjian Xiu under control.
• Zhu Xiang opened the vertical eye on his forehead and attacked the Golden List, but Guanqiu Jing swallowed a golden pill and renewed its power.
• The Merit Golden List dissolved Zhu Xiang, killing the Seven Sages Demon Emperor.

After the Seven Sages Demon Emperor fell, Zhongli Chenghe ambushed Chen Wudao and seized the battlefield’s spoils while Great Qian routed the remaining demons. Chen Fan hunted escaped prisoners, learned the truth about the Green-Robed Alliance’s orders, and discovered the dangerous power hidden behind Sikong Qing’s eyepatch.

• The golden light destroyed Gongjian Xiu, but Zhongli Chenghe then struck the injured Chen Wudao, took the Primordial Demon Mirror and the Demon Emperor’s remains, and escaped.
• A majestic Daoist-robed figure sensed the Demon Emperors’ defeat and vanished, while Primordial Demon Sect experts and demon armies fled and Great Qian’s forces pursued them.
• Chen Fan joined the pursuit, killed escaped prisoners, and wondered whether the Seven Sages Demon Emperor could revive like Sikong Qing.
• A Green-Robed Alliance messenger told Chen Fan that the Blood Cloud King had been imprisoned and that he should take orders only from the messenger going forward.
• Chen Fan met Zhao Kong and exchanged Sikong Qing for him, then removed her eyepatch and cut apart the dangerous red-and-black threads erupting from her eyes.

Chen Fan questioned Sikong Qing about her clone technique and tried to use her blood to uncover how she revived, but an approaching expert interrupted him. Zhongli Chenghe arrived and rewarded Chen Fan with a Dao Artifact, which Sikong Qing recognized as the Primordial Demon Mirror.

• Chen Fan deduced that Sikong Qing controlled only one of her two bodies at a time, but she mocked his inability to kill her without risking her revival.
• Chen Fan cut Sikong Qing and used her blood to begin a fate-deduction ritual with the Sun-Covering Mirror, hoping to locate her revival arrangements.
• Chen Fan sensed someone approaching, ended the ritual, and withdrew the Painting Scroll barrier as it began to crack under the pressure.
• Zhongli Chenghe arrived, returned the Star God Seal, and gave Chen Fan a mirror as thanks for saving his life.
• Sikong Qing recognized the mirror as the Primordial Demon Mirror.

Chen Fan told Zhongli Chenghe that Sikong Qing had returned after being killed twice, and Zhongli Chenghe tracked her consciousness to her true body. Sikong Qing revealed how her death-substitution avatar worked and explained that the Seven Sages Demon Emperor had only used a transplanted Demon-Killing Eye, but she could not say whether he was truly dead.

• Chen Fan told Zhongli Chenghe that Sikong Qing had revived after he killed her twice, and Zhongli Chenghe decided to find the source of her consciousness transfer.
• Zhongli Chenghe struck Sikong Qing with a sword of stars, causing her avatar to collapse, then followed the transfer to a hidden cave where her true body lay.
• After Sikong Qing awoke, Zhongli Chenghe threatened her, and she agreed to answer their questions in exchange for her life.
• Sikong Qing explained that the Demon-Killing Eye could create an avatar without independent consciousness and allowed her to transfer between bodies when they touched or one died.
• Sikong Qing said the Seven Sages Demon Emperor had transplanted someone else's Demon-Killing Eye and could use only part of its power, but she did not know whether he was still alive.

Chen Fan and Zhongli Chenghe acquired two inheritance crystals for the Demon-Killing Eye and let Sikong Qing go. Zhongli Chenghe prepared to hide from Great Qian, and Chen Fan asked him about Feng Cao, whose name drew a flash of killing intent.

• Sikong Qing explained that the Seven Sages Demon Emperor might still be alive, though he would need a long time to recover.
• Chen Fan initially refined the Primordial Demon Mirror, but found no record of the Demon-Killing Eye in it.
• Sikong Qing offered to obtain two Demon-Killing Eye inheritance crystals from her father, Sikong Wei, in exchange for her release.
• Sikong Wei sent a puppet with two blood-red crystals, which Zhongli Chenghe confirmed were genuine before giving one to Chen Fan.
• Zhongli Chenghe honored his pact and let Sikong Qing leave, then said he would lie low after ambushing Chen Wudao.
• Chen Fan asked Zhongli Chenghe about Feng Cao, and Zhongli Chenghe called him his traitorous disciple.

Chen Fan learned that Feng Cao was Zhongli Chenghe’s powerful traitorous disciple and agreed to watch for him. Elsewhere, Sikong Wei considered exploiting the Demon Emperor’s reported death, while the Seventh Prince offered Wu Tianjiao a chance to enter the Spirit God Mystical Realm to improve his chances in the Origin Hunt Rite.

• Chen Fan told Zhongli Chenghe that Feng Cao was hiding in the Great Qian Imperial Palace, and Zhongli Chenghe asked him to report if Feng Cao left.
• Sikong Qing escaped the valley and reunited with Sikong Wei, who dismissed the lost inheritance stones and discussed the Demon Emperor’s reported death.
• Sikong Wei considered gathering the Seven Sages Demon Emperor’s remaining forces to pursue the position of the thirteenth Demon Emperor, provided the Demon Emperor was truly dead.
• The Seventh Prince consoled Wu Tianjiao over Wu Guangqi’s death and warned that Chen Fan could gain a Longevity expert’s inheritance through the upcoming Origin Hunt Rite.
• The Seventh Prince told Wu Tianjiao he had secured him an opportunity to enter the Spirit God Mystical Realm.