Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu defeated the Demon Venerables at Cracked Stone City, then withdrew to recover while sensing a possible threat from the Demon Race Imperial Palace. News of his victory and advancement to Dao Venerable spread through the Human Race, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable celebrated his disciple’s return as the allied army turned its attention to the mysteries of the Desolate Silent Sand Sea.

• Jiang Shu ordered the Human Race army to kill, then vanished to a nearby hillside to recover and refine his gains from battle.
• Lu Chong led the allied army in its assault, and the Human Race captured Cracked Stone City within two hours.
• Jiang Shu sensed a distant, hostile intent and suspected that an ancient Demon Race power had noticed his attack; he resolved to investigate the three dangerous forward battlefields after recovering.
• Hong Yue inspected the traces left by the Golden Horned Demon Antelope and sent for Tai Xuan Dao Venerable, while urgent reports announced Jiang Shu’s victory and Primal Chaos Realm breakthrough.
• The Pill Talisman Sect Master and the Human Race forces spread news of Jiang Shu’s achievement, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable rejoiced when the report reached the True Martial garrison.

Jiang Shu returned as a Dao Venerable and killed the Golden Horned Demon Antelope, lifting the True Martial Sect’s morale. The Demon Race’s leaders resolved to ambush him at the Desolate Silent Sand Sea’s Array Eye before he could threaten their plans.

• Jiang Shu’s rise to the Primal Chaos Realm and victory over the Golden Horned Demon Antelope spread through Abyssal City, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable ordered a celebratory feast.
• Sea Light True Lord heard of Jiang Shu’s breakthrough and flew to As You Wish True Lord’s cave residence to call him out of seclusion.
• Old Ancestor Fentian raged at Jiang Shu’s survival and strength, while the Dragon Venerable and Phoenix Venerable judged that Jiang Shu possessed extraordinary mastery of the Space Law.
• Shadow Lizard Demon Lord reported that Jiang Shu left no trace to track but was likely to visit the Desolate Silent Sand Sea.
• Old Ancestor Fentian asked to lead the Four Fiends in an ambush, and the Dragon Venerable ordered them to activate the Ten Thousand Spirits Array Eye and kill Jiang Shu by any means necessary.

Jiang Shu entered the Desolate Silent Sand Sea alone and confirmed that its core concealed an array eye of the Myriad Spirits Casting Venerable Great Array. When his probing triggered a trap that shattered the surrounding space, four Demon Venerables emerged and attacked him.

• Jiang Shu rejected Hong Yue Dao Venerable and Liu Mingyu's offer of an escort and left for the Desolate Silent Sand Sea alone.
• Jiang Shu discovered that a warped spatial barrier concealed dark-red formation lines beneath the sand.
• Jiang Shu identified the formation as an array eye of the Myriad Spirits Casting Venerable Great Array, but his probe triggered a hidden warning restriction.
• A spatial blast shattered the core region and made spatial movement dangerous.
• Four Demon Venerables appeared through portals and joined their Demon Power into a net around Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu discovered that the Four Fiends were stalling for Old Ancestor Fentian to arrive, and he resolved to escape before the stronger Demon Venerable appeared. He summoned the Desolate Heaven Halberd and Shattering Heaven Gloves and launched a direct attack against the demons’ blockade.

• The Four Fiends trapped Jiang Shu with a coordinated assault of freezing breath, golden feathers, crushing gravity, and toxic fire, wounding him as he fought back.
• Jiang Shu detected a transmission anchor beneath the sand sea and realized the demons were buying time for Old Ancestor Fentian to descend.
• Jiang Shu decided he had to escape immediately, but the Four Fiends intensified their attacks to block his routes.
• Jiang Shu summoned the Desolate Heaven Halberd and Shattering Heaven Gloves, then swung the halberd at the combined barrier formed by Ice Chi, Tu Lou, and Fire Jiao.

Jiang Shu broke through the four Ferocious Beasts’ encirclement, killing Demon Venerable Tu Lou with the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe. But the Array Eye began to flare, and Old Ancestor Fentian was about to descend.

• Jiang Shu shattered the Ice Chi’s frost, tore through Tu Lou’s gravity mire, and destroyed the Fire Jiao’s poison-fire attack with the Desolate Heaven Halberd.
• As the four Ferocious Beasts renewed their assault, Jiang Shu used the Shattering Heaven Gloves to hold back their attacks and resist Tu Lou’s gravity field.
• Jiang Shu formed the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe and cleaved through Tu Lou’s Xuanhuang shield, killing it and breaking the joint-strike formation.
• Jiang Shu sensed the Array Eye lighting up beneath the sand, while Old Ancestor Fentian’s familiar aura surged toward him.

Jiang Shu escaped Old Ancestor Fentian by using folded space and a decoy ripple to evade his pursuit. After Phoenix Venerable ordered Fentian to stop chasing him, Jiang Shu hid near the edge of the Desolate Silent Sand Sea and watched the aftermath.

• Jiang Shu used the Cosmos Shatterer Gloves and the World Tree Sapling’s spatial power to flee just before Old Ancestor Fentian arrived at Tu Lou’s corpse.
• Old Ancestor Fentian chased Jiang Shu and struck a spatial decoy, while Jiang Shu concealed his presence beyond Fentian’s reach.
• Phoenix Venerable ordered Fentian to stop pursuing Jiang Shu and stabilize the Desolate Silent Sand Sea’s arrangements.
• Old Ancestor Fentian threatened Ice Chi and the Three Fiends before leaving, and the remaining fiends fled toward Thousand Streams Ravine.
• Jiang Shu emerged at the sand sea’s outer edge, concealed himself among weathered stone pillars, and monitored the battlefield for a day and night.

Jiang Shu exploited Old Ancestor Fentian’s decision to guard the Desolate Silent Sand Sea and secretly reached Thousand Streams Ravine, where the three injured fiends were recovering. He launched a surprise attack on them and struck the Fire Jiao’s neck with the Great Dao of Primordial Beginning, leaving its life force rapidly draining.

• Old Ancestor Fentian remained at the Desolate Silent Sand Sea while the other three fiends withdrew toward Thousand Streams Ravine.
• Jiang Shu used the region’s damaged spatial nodes to travel to Thousand Streams Ravine and locate the Ice Chi, Golden Peng, and Fire Jiao recovering there.
• Jiang Shu detonated several weak spatial points, disrupting the ground beneath all three fiends and provoking their defenses.
• The Fire Jiao unleashed poison fire at a warped spatial mirror, exposing its neck as Jiang Shu opened a fissure beside it.
• Jiang Shu struck the Fire Jiao’s neck with his Primordial aura, dissolving its scales and causing its life force to pour away.

Jiang Shu killed the Fire Jiao while escaping the Golden Peng and Ice Chi, then revealed that his real target was the Array Eye in Thousand Streams Ravine. He reached the strange, powerful formation core and prepared to attack it as the two Demon Venerables pursued him and Old Ancestor Fentian approached.

• Jiang Shu ambushed the Fire Jiao with the Great Dao of Primordial Beginning, then used the Great Dao of Desolation to kill it before the Ice Chi and Golden Peng could strike him.
• The Ice Chi and Golden Peng realized Jiang Shu had targeted the Array Eye and rushed toward the core region, fearing the consequences if he destroyed it.
• Jiang Shu concealed his presence with the World Tree Sapling's primordial Chaos aura and the Shattering Heaven Gloves, then reached the Array Eye ahead of his pursuers.
• Jiang Shu examined the pitch-black vortex surrounded by ancient bones and sensed its connection to the Great Dao of Desolation and other places.
• Jiang Shu raised both hands to attack the Array Eye as he recognized that Old Ancestor Fentian was likely on his way.

Jiang Shu fought to destroy the Array Eye while Golden Peng and Ice Chi attacked him and Old Ancestor Fentian closed in. He destabilized the Array Eye, wounded both fiends, and escaped through the spatial turmoil, but Golden Peng pursued him in a furious bid to kill him.

• Jiang Shu unleashed the Great Dao of Primordial and the Great Dao of Desolation against the Array Eye, but Golden Peng and Ice Chi launched desperate attacks while Old Ancestor Fentian approached.
• Jiang Shu let Golden Peng's strike graze his back, then used the opening in Ice Chi's defenses to strike the Array Eye with Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe.
• The collision between Jiang Shu's attack and the Array Eye's power unleashed a shockwave that shattered the altar's bones and wounded Ice Chi and Golden Peng.
• Jiang Shu rode the shockwave through the spatial turbulence, struck at Golden Peng with desolation, and escaped toward a spatial rift.
• Golden Peng, enraged and humiliated by the deaths of its companions and Jiang Shu's escape, pursued him and vowed to leave him dead.

Jiang Shu was wounded by Golden Peng's desperate strike just as Old Ancestor Fentian arrived, forcing him to flee through Thousand Streams Ravine. He used the Mystic Ice Baleful Talisman to disrupt Fentian's pursuit and escaped with repeated spatial jumps, but Fentian continued chasing him.

• Golden Peng burned his Great Dao and life essence to pierce Jiang Shu's defenses, wound his back, and interrupt his escape into the spatial rift.
• Old Ancestor Fentian arrived and attacked Jiang Shu, who used the force of Fentian's claw to launch himself toward the rugged outer region.
• Fentian's attack reduced Golden Peng and the Ice Chi to ash as he pursued Jiang Shu through the Stone Forest.
• Jiang Shu activated Venerable Luo's Mystic Ice Baleful Talisman, briefly disrupting space and slowing Fentian.
• Jiang Shu used repeated spatial jumps through varied terrain to evade Fentian, who recovered and continued chasing him across the ruined landscape.

Jiang Shu struggled to escape Old Ancestor Fentian’s pursuit while gravely wounded, but Fentian cornered him on an open wasteland and launched a killing blow. Tai Wu intervened with the True Martial Earth Suppressing Seal, yet Fentian redirected his unfinished attack at Jiang Shu, who was blasted into a crater.

• Jiang Shu hid beneath the foul riverbed, but Old Ancestor Fentian found him and attacked, forcing him to flee upstream.
• Old Ancestor Fentian pursued Jiang Shu through the canyon as his wounds worsened and his spatial shifts weakened.
• On a barren crimson wasteland, Old Ancestor Fentian prepared a lethal strike while Jiang Shu raised his remaining defenses.
• Tai Wu’s dark-gold palm and True Martial Earth Suppressing Seal descended, interrupting Fentian’s attack.
• Old Ancestor Fentian thrust his incomplete destructive beam at Jiang Shu, breaking through his defenses and hurling him into the crater.

Old Ancestor Fentian nearly killed Jiang Shu with a desperate attack, but Dao Venerable Tai Wu’s clone intervened and shielded him. As Jiang Shu recovered in the pit, Tai Wu battled Fentian and unleashed a devastating barrage of earth-origin stones against him.

• Old Ancestor Fentian wounded himself to launch a killing attack at Jiang Shu, but the True Martial Earth Suppressing Seal struck his arms and saved Jiang Shu from having his Dao foundation destroyed.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu appeared between Jiang Shu and Old Ancestor Fentian, and Fentian recognized him as a clone possessing only thirty percent of his strength.
• Tai Wu summoned nine earth dragons that clashed with Fentian’s World-Burning Domain while Jiang Shu sat down to heal his wounds and refine the Burning Blood Venom and Geng Metal power in his body.
• Tai Wu intensified his attack, causing the nine earth dragons to explode into a torrent of heavy Dao-infused stones aimed at Fentian and his domain.

After Dao Venerable Tai Wu drove Old Ancestor Fentian away, he rescued the badly injured Jiang Shu and brought him back to the True Martial Sect. The Sect Master ordered a ten-day Dao-Seeking Grand Banquet to celebrate Jiang Shu’s advancement and the Human Race’s victories.

• Old Ancestor Fentian fled after clashing with Dao Venerable Tai Wu, leaving Jiang Shu alive in the ruined wasteland.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu found Jiang Shu recovering, supported him, and took him back to the Cracked Stone City command post.
• Hong Yue Dao Venerable thanked Dao Venerable Tai Wu and accepted responsibility for the remaining defenses as Jiang Shu departed with him.
• At the True Martial Sect camp, Zi Ji Dao Venerable scolded Jiang Shu for risking his life, then accepted his promise to act more cautiously.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu praised Jiang Shu for destroying the Array Eye and killing Demon Venerables, and noted that the victories had greatly eased pressure on the frontlines.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu decreed that the True Martial Sect would open the Mystic Yellow Cloud Sea and hold a ten-day Dao-Seeking Grand Banquet for Jiang Shu and the Human Race’s heroes.

Jiang Shu attended a grand Dao-Seeking Banquet celebrating his advance to the Dao Venerable Realm and rallied the Human Race to keep fighting the Demon Race. As the gathering roared its support, Dragon Venerable watched from the Demon Imperial Palace and angrily shattered his throne’s armrest.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu opened the Mystic Yellow Cloud Sea banquet, where Human Race leaders, cultivators, and soldiers gathered to honor Jiang Shu and their war heroes.
• Jiang Shu appeared beside Dao Venerable Tai Wu, drawing acclaim for his rapid rise and victories against Demon Venerables.
• Jiang Shu credited the Human Race’s collective sacrifices, vowed to overcome the Demon Race and occupy the Demon Domain, and led the crowd in a battle cry.
• As You Wish True Lord, Thunder Zhen Dao Lord, and Dao Lord Hai Guang discussed how far Jiang Shu had surpassed them, while Lu Chong toasted him from afar.
• Dragon Venerable watched the banquet and reports of damaged Demon Race array eyes in the Imperial Palace, then smashed the throne’s armrest in anger.

Dragon Venerable and the other Demon Venerables debated how to stop Jiang Shu, then pressured Old Ancestor Fentian into becoming the Myriad Spirits Forging Venerable Array’s sacrifice. Fentian agreed to refine himself with the array’s fortune core, where his body and soul began to be consumed by chaos.

• Dragon Venerable berated Old Ancestor Fentian for failing to stop Jiang Shu and damaging the Demon Race’s array.
• Phoenix Venerable warned that Jiang Shu’s rapid growth made him a grave threat and proposed activating the unfinished array’s core early.
• Kunpeng Demon Venerable proposed using Fentian as kindling for the array, and Phoenix Venerable taunted him into accepting the risk.
• Dragon Venerable dismissed the others and told Fentian that the array offered his best chance to grow strong enough to kill Jiang Shu.
• Fentian entered the Imperial Palace’s fortune core and ignited his World-Burning Demon Flame, but the chaotic light began consuming his Dao Principles, body, and soul.

Old Ancestor Fentian was forcibly transformed by the unfinished Myriad Spirits Casting Venerable Great Array, while the Human Race alliance decided to strike the Demon forces in the Desolate Silent Sand Sea. Jiang Shu led an elite squad to attack Blood Baleful Rock and reached its crystal nest, where two Demon Venerables awaited him.

• The Grand Array infused Old Ancestor Fentian with chaotic power, mutating his body as Phoenix Venerable and Dragon Venerable questioned whether he could control the unstable transformation.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu proposed destroying the Demon stronghold in the Desolate Silent Sand Sea, and Jiang Shu agreed to lead an elite squad with Zong Yue and four other experts.
• After several days of preparation, Jiang Shu and more than a hundred allied experts set out from near Cracked Stone City toward the sand sea.
• Jiang Shu’s squad found the Demon defenses heavily reinforced and attacked Blood Baleful Rock, with Iron Mountain, Thunderflame, Green Duckweed, Xiao Suo, Wind Floss, and the reserve forces engaging its guards.
• Jiang Shu slipped into the crystal nest atop Blood Baleful Rock, where two Demon Venerables revealed themselves.

Jiang Shu killed two Demon Venerables at Blood Baleful Rock, allowing the Human Race army to break through and advance on the Myriad Spirits Forging Venerable Array’s core. There, Kun Peng expert Xuanming overwhelmed Blazing Sun Dao Venerable, while three more enemies attacked Jiang Shu.

• The Molten Crystal Dragon Lizard and Poison Scorpion Demon Venerable ambushed Jiang Shu, but he trapped their attacks with Spatial Imprisonment, killed the Poison Scorpion Demon Venerable, and crushed the Molten Crystal Dragon Lizard with Spatial Folding.
• With the defenders at Blood Baleful Rock broken, Thunderflame and Hong Yue led the Human Race army through the breach and into the Desolate Silent Sand Sea.
• Jiang Shu sensed Kun Peng experts near the Array Eye and agreed with Blazing Sun Dao Venerable to approach it, with Blazing Sun holding off three Demon Venerables while Jiang Shu faced their leader.
• Xuanming appeared from the fissure, suppressed Blazing Sun Dao Venerable with two strikes, and hurled him into a crater.
• As Xuanming drove Blazing Sun Dao Venerable back, three enemies emerged from the fissure and lunged at Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu killed a dragon lizard Demon Venerable but was trapped by Xuanming, who also restrained Dao Venerable Blazing Sun. Reinforcements from the True Martial Sect and Pill Talisman Sect arrived and attacked Xuanming as he guarded the Array Eye.

• Jiang Shu used the World Tree Sapling, the Shattering Heaven Gloves, and his Dao powers to evade three Demon Venerables’ attacks and kill the dragon lizard Demon Venerable with one punch.
• Xuanming imprisoned Jiang Shu in a powerful spatial domain, while Dao Venerable Blazing Sun tried to rush the fissure and disrupt the Array Eye.
• Xuanming stopped Blazing Sun with a spatial Black Hole, leaving both Human Dao Venerables restrained as the remaining Demon Venerables guarded the fissure.
• Reinforcements led by Black Tortoise Dao Venerable and Heavenly Talisman Dao Venerable arrived from the True Martial Sect and the Pill Talisman Sect.
• Black Tortoise Dao Venerable struck at Xuanming with the Black Tortoise Mountain Suppression Seal, while Heavenly Talisman Dao Venerable formed a talisman array to reinforce and bind the surrounding space.

Jiang Shu survived Xuanming’s attempt to kill him, helped drive the Kunpeng Demon Venerable into retreat, and discovered that the Demon Race had secretly moved the Myriad Spirits Casting Venerable Great Array’s true Array Eye core. Xuanming escaped toward the Demon Domain’s heartland, while the Array Eye in the Desolate Silent Sand Sea proved to be an empty shell.

• The Black Tortoise Dao Venerable and Sky Talisman Dao Venerable arrived to reinforce Blazing Sun Dao Venerable, who broke free of Xuanming’s spatial vortex.
• Xuanming redirected a spatial annihilation strike at Jiang Shu, who endured it with layered defenses and counterattacked with Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist.
• Jiang Shu struck Xuanming with the Void Soul Rending Gaze, disrupting his spatial escape and injuring his soul.
• Xuanming seized the Venomous Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable and hurled him at Jiang Shu before escaping through a Space Crack toward the Demon Domain’s heartland.
• Jiang Shu searched the Array Eye fissure and found that the true core had been secretly transferred, leaving behind a false shell.

Jiang Shu secured the Desolate Silent Sand Sea for the Human Race, then took charge of Panhai City and investigated signs of sabotage and collaboration with the Demon Race. He left the city’s conspirators under watch and rewarded Hu Yi with valuable cultivation resources and a robe that concealed his Half-Demon bloodline.

• Flame Dao Venerable explained that Xuanming had guarded a false Array Eye, and Jiang Shu ordered the Human Race forces to follow their plan and secure the Desolate Silent Sand Sea.
• The Human Race army captured the region’s strongholds and stabilized its territory, while Zi Ji Dao Venerable chose to consolidate their gains rather than launch another major offensive.
• Jiang Shu reviewed attacks on supply routes, sabotage of defensive nodes, and the deaths of Nirvana Realm cultivators in Panhai City, then prepared a trap by planting a trace of demon aura in a fox-head stone talisman.
• Hu Yi reported that some Half-Demons were secretly aiding the Demon Race and identified seven key nodes, while warning Jiang Shu about hidden demon networks and a faction called Demon Dawn.
• Jiang Shu instructed Hu Yi to keep watching the suspects without letting major intelligence escape, then gave him an Enlightenment Dao Pill and a robe that concealed his bloodline.