Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu defeated Gold Horn in their clash, but the Human Race’s attempt to kill the wounded dragon was interrupted by Demon Venerable Wudu. Wudu confronted the Human Dao Venerables and ordered the other Demon Venerables to withdraw with Gold Horn, leaving the battlefield in a tense standoff.

• Feng Yuan Demon Venerable and other Demon Venerables confronted Xuan Ming Dao Venerable, Dao Venerable Tian Ji, and Dao Venerable Xing Shu around Jiang Shu and Gold Horn.
• Jiang Shu wounded Gold Horn in a decisive clash, leaving him severely weakened and unable to recover properly.
• Xuan Ming Dao Venerable, Dao Venerable Tian Ji, and Dao Venerable Xing Shu launched coordinated killing attacks against Gold Horn, while Feng Yuan and the other Demon Venerables intervened.
• The Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable failed to shift Gold Horn away because Jiang Shu’s lingering powers aggravated Gold Horn’s injuries.
• Demon Venerable Wudu appeared and blocked Dao Venerable Tian Ji’s attack with a giant skeletal finger, then ordered Feng Yuan and the True Howl Race Demon Venerable to take Gold Horn and leave.
• Demon Venerable Wudu unleashed his Great Daos and faced the three Human Dao Venerables, bringing the battlefield to a deadlock.

Feng Yuan and Demon Venerable Wudu helped Gold Horn escape Jiang Shu and the Human Dao Venerables, then brought him to the Demon Domain for treatment. Ao Qing ordered Feng Yuan to use the Phoenix Race’s Nirvana Dao-Bathing Pool to restore Gold Horn, while Jiang Shu’s consciousness secretly followed him.

• Feng Yuan rescued the unconscious Gold Horn as Demon Venerable Wudu blocked the Human Dao Venerables with Great Dao Poisonous Miasma, allowing the Demon Venerables to retreat.
• Xuan Ming Dao Venerable and the others let the demons leave rather than risk fighting Demon Venerable Wudu, and Jiang Shu thanked them while part of his consciousness pursued Gold Horn.
• Feng Yuan brought Gold Horn to the Imperial Palace, where Demon Race priests used the Myriad Sources Gathering Blood Tracing Life Array and Phoenix True Flame to stabilize his injuries.
• Ao Qing arrived, learned that Gold Horn’s Dao Injury threatened his cultivation, and ordered Feng Yuan to reconnect his dragon veins and reshape his dragon bones.
• Ao Qing demanded that the Phoenix Race open its Nirvana Dao-Bathing Pool for Gold Horn, and Feng Yuan reluctantly agreed.

Jiang Shu returned to the Human Race’s Eight Great Sects stronghold and explained how Gold Horn had matched him in battle, warning that the Demon Race’s new Venerable posed a grave future threat. The Sect Masters debated whether Gold Horn had to be eliminated, leaving the decision to Dao Venerable Tai Wu.

• Ao Qing poured Nirvana True Flame into Gold Horn, whose wounds began to heal as he remained inside the Jade Marrow.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Chaotic Demon Sea and entered True Martial Hall, where the Eight Great Sects had gathered their leaders.
• Jiang Shu showed the Sect Masters a reconstruction of his fight with Gold Horn and explained the Demon Venerable’s formidable strength and defenses.
• The Sect Masters concluded that Gold Horn could become a threat comparable to a Demon Lord and might endanger Jiang Shu’s cultivation of the Great Dao of Strength.
• The Star Fighting Sect Master and Heavenly Puppet Sect Master urged Dao Venerable Tai Wu to decide whether to seek the Dao Masters’ ruling on killing Gold Horn.

Dao Venerable Tai Wu persuaded the Eight Great Sects to expand opportunities for their younger disciples while Jiang Shu prepared to keep Gold Horn’s identity hidden. After Gold Horn awakened in the Demon Race Imperial Palace, Feng Yuan Demon Venerable told him about his reputation and led him to meet Old Ancestor Ao Qing.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu proposed that the sects open more training opportunities and resources to their True Transmissions, and the Sect Masters agreed.
• Jiang Shu told Dao Venerable Tai Wu that he would refine Gold Horn anew and conceal his consciousness deep within Gold Horn’s soul.
• Gold Horn awakened after the Phoenix Race used the Myriad Sources Gathering Blood Tracing Life Array to save him, and he thanked Feng Yuan Demon Venerable.
• Gold Horn asked about Jiang Tai Xuan, then grew confident that he would eventually kill him after Feng Yuan described his growing reputation among the Demon Race.
• Feng Yuan Demon Venerable told Gold Horn that Old Ancestor Ao Qing was waiting for him, and Gold Horn eagerly agreed to meet him.

Ao Qing met with Gold Horn, explained the gap between him and Jiang Shu, and began teaching him the Ancestor Dragon Bloodline Cultivation Method. As Gold Horn struggled to comprehend it, Jiang Shu secretly absorbed the method’s patterns from within Gold Horn’s soul while remaining dormant under Ao Qing’s watch.

• Feng Yuan escorted Gold Horn to meet Ao Qing, who assessed his injuries and praised his newly awakened Ancestor Dragon Bloodline.
• Ao Qing reassured Gold Horn that the Dragon Race and Imperial Palace had held Burning Heaven accountable.
• Ao Qing showed Gold Horn his battle with Jiang Shu and explained that Jiang Shu’s Great Dao mastery made him far stronger despite their equal realms.
• Ao Qing began imparting the Ancestor Dragon Bloodline Cultivation Method, whose patterns Gold Horn had to comprehend to strengthen his foundations.
• Gold Horn struggled to understand the method while Ao Qing stood guard, unaware that Jiang Shu secretly absorbed its patterns from within Gold Horn’s soul.

Dao Venerable Tai Wu gave Jiang Shu a sealed half dragon horn belonging to the Eastern Radiance Demon Lord, hoping it would help him strengthen his Gold Horn incarnation and advance his cultivation. Jiang Shu accepted the opportunity and began preparing to study the horn’s power while avoiding its dangerous Great Dao of Time.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu told Jiang Shu that True Martial Sect had gained ten new Myriad Manifestations Dao Lords during the war.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu explained that True Martial Sect had kept a powerful demonic treasure for Jiang Shu because of his Gold Horn incarnation and deep foundation.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu opened the jade box’s seals and revealed half of the Eastern Radiance Demon Lord’s dragon horn, which contained essence blood and Great Dao comprehensions.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu warned Jiang Shu not to directly attempt to comprehend the Great Dao of Time, lest the Eastern Radiance Demon Lord sense him.
• Jiang Shu accepted the jade box, recognizing that the dragon horn could help him advance toward the Late Primal Chaos Realm and better resist Old Ancestor Fentian.

Jiang Shu absorbed the aura from Eastern Radiance Demon Lord’s half dragon horn during secluded cultivation, strengthening his cultivation and understanding of the Great Daos of Strength and Space. After returning to True Martial Sect, he learned from Dao Venerable Tai Wu that Ao Qing had emerged from seclusion and attacked Human Race territory while placing a bounty on Jiang Shu.

• Jiang Shu stored Eastern Radiance Demon Lord’s half dragon horn in his Chaos Cave Space and let his World Tree absorb its aura.
• Jiang Shu stabilized his Mid Primal Chaos Realm cultivation, advanced his understanding of the Great Daos of Strength and Space, and chose not to directly comprehend the Great Dao of Time.
• Jiang Shu emerged from seclusion and gave a disciple a Heaven Rank medicinal herb while asking about recent events.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu summoned Jiang Shu and recognized that his comprehension of the Great Dao of Space had improved greatly.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu told Jiang Shu that Ao Qing had emerged from seclusion, attacked Human Race territory with Dragon Race followers, and placed a bounty on Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu arrived on the battlefield to confront the Demon Race and drew out a hidden Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable. He wounded the demon in their first exchange, then pressed his attack as the battlefield's fighters fled.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu sent Jiang Shu to the battlefield to face Ao Qing and opened a Spatial Channel for him.
• Jiang Shu arrived amid a fierce battle and revealed his aura, rallying the Human Race cultivators.
• Jiang Shu found a concealed Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable and struck it with Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe, sending it flying and wounding it.
• Jiang Shu attacked the Demon Venerable with Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms, while Human Race cultivators and Demon Race demons fled the clash.

Jiang Shu defeated a Mid Stage Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable, who sacrificed his other Great Daos to escape, then trapped the remaining demons so the Human Race cultivators could earn battle merits. A peak Nirvana Realm True Lord charged a Demon Monarch who had killed his master, hoping to avenge him.

• Jiang Shu overwhelmed the Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable and trapped him with a cage formed from the Great Dao of Space and traces of time.
• Jiang Shu struck the Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable with a Pan Wu Heaven-Opening Giant Axe, leaving him badly wounded and restrained.
• The Kun Peng Race Demon Venerable sacrificed dozens of Great Daos to strengthen his Devouring Great Dao, broke free, and escaped through space; Jiang Shu let him go.
• Jiang Shu trapped the demons across tens of millions of miles, allowing the Human Race cultivators to attack them and claim battle merits.
• A peak Nirvana Realm True Lord burned his Treasure Artifacts and Great Dao Prototypes to empower his life-bound Puppet, then charged the Demon Monarch who had killed his master.

Jiang Shu turned the battle at Town Barbarian City into a decisive victory, healed the wounded cultivators, and learned that the Demon Race had been protecting a secret land rich in Earthcore Marrow. Days later, the battered Kunpeng Xuan Huang reported that Jiang Shu had nearly killed him, shocking Ao Qing and Fentian Demon Lord as they considered confronting Jiang Shu.

• Jiang Shu allowed a wounded Heavenly Puppet Sect disciple to fight the injured Demon Monarch, while the Eight Great Sects slaughtered the Demon Race under his protection.
• Jiang Shu learned that the battlefield was Town Barbarian City, formerly Barbaric Ridge, and that the Savage Ape Race's Secret Land produced Earthcore Marrow.
• Jiang Shu used the Creation Great Dao to heal Zhang Gui and the other human cultivators, then disappeared from the battlefield.
• Several days later, the wounded Kunpeng Xuan Huang arrived at the Imperial Palace and revealed that Jiang Shu had defeated him in Barbaric Ridge.
• Ao Qing and Fentian Demon Lord examined Xuan Huang's injuries and were astonished that Jiang Shu had wounded a Demon Venerable so severely.

Old Ancestor Fentian and Ao Qing learned that Jiang Shu had grown stronger, and Fentian vowed to pursue and kill him after Jiang Shu’s hidden attack caused Xuan Huang to explode. Near Town Barbarian City, Jiang Shu investigated Barbaric Ridge and uncovered signs of concealed mining and activity below the cliffs.

• Xuan Huang told Old Ancestor Fentian and Ao Qing that Jiang Shu had mastered aspects of the Great Daos of Space and Time and had defeated him.
• Ao Qing rejected Fentian’s claim that Gold Horn was Jiang Shu, while Fentian healed Xuan Huang and discovered a hidden time-based attack within him.
• Xuan Huang exploded when the concealed attack erupted, and Fentian froze the blast with time and space before swearing to kill Jiang Shu.
• Fentian persuaded Ao Qing to let him pursue Jiang Shu first, then departed through a flaming void gate.
• Jiang Shu stopped near Town Barbarian City, considered the attack he had planted in Xuan Huang, and began searching Barbaric Ridge for the purpose of the Sect Master’s Spatial Channel.
• Jiang Shu found signs of Demon Race activity and Human Race mining on the cliffs, then used Great Dao Power to crack open the surrounding space.

Jiang Shu infiltrated an ancient Demon Race ruin beneath Barbaric Ridge and triggered its Grand Array while attacking the Dragon Ape Demon Venerable. The Dragon Ape Demon Venerable recognized Jiang Shu, who unleashed the Pangu Splitting Heaven Axe and revealed that his cultivation and Dao comprehension had surpassed his opponent’s.

• Jiang Shu entered the hidden ruin through a spatial fissure and discovered demons excavating among the corpses of an ancient battlefield.
• Jiang Shu realized the Grand Array absorbed the resentment of dead demons and strengthened its killing intent, then found the Dragon Ape Demon Venerable at the ruin’s center.
• Jiang Shu used the Great Dao of Strength to sever the golden-green python Demon Monarch’s tail, causing the Grand Array to unleash a violent wave of killing intent.
• The Dragon Ape Demon Venerable tried to suppress the Grand Array, but Jiang Shu struck him from a peculiar space opened between the Demon Venerable and the formation.
• Jiang Shu formed the Pangu Splitting Heaven Axe, and the Dragon Ape Demon Venerable realized Jiang Shu’s realm and comprehension of the Great Dao of Space and Strength exceeded his own.

Jiang Shu killed Dragon Ape Demon Venerable and searched his soul, learning that an ancient battlefield held a powerful Grand Array and perhaps the remains of a Demon Lord. When danger approached, Jiang Shu entered a sealed ruin, while Old Ancestor Fentian found his trail and followed him inside to kill him.

• Jiang Shu cleaved Dragon Ape Demon Venerable apart, sealed his escaping essence blood, and searched his soul despite the demon’s pleas and curses.
• Jiang Shu learned from Dragon Ape Demon Venerable’s memories that a Demon Lord had once fought and perished at the ancient battlefield, leaving behind the Grand Array.
• Jiang Shu began studying the Grand Array, but a sudden sense of danger prompted him to follow Dragon Ape Demon Venerable’s memories to a breach in a sealed space.
• Jiang Shu opened the breach and found half-collapsed palaces surrounded by rising Killing Intent.
• Old Ancestor Fentian detected Jiang Shu’s Dao-rhyme imprint, discovered the hidden space, and stepped through the Space Crack to confront him.

Old Ancestor Fentian pursued Jiang Shu into an abandoned palace and attacked him with the power of time, but Jiang Shu escaped and fought back with the Desolate Star Halberd. After Fentian unleashed a temporal strike, he discovered he had hit only a phantom while the real Jiang Shu hid in a pocket of space.

• Old Ancestor Fentian entered the battlefield ruins, found Jiang Shu’s aura in an abandoned palace, and attacked him with a flame-wreathed palm.
• Jiang Shu evaded Fentian’s strike and fled deeper into the battlefield, hoping to use the Grand Array against his pursuer.
• Fentian pursued Jiang Shu and sent a Phoenix Phantom at him, but Jiang Shu met it with the Desolate Star Halberd and destroyed it.
• Jiang Shu taunted Fentian and fought through his sea of fire as Fentian prepared a strike using the Great Dao of Time.
• Fentian released a temporal attack that wounded Jiang Shu’s apparent figure, then realized he had struck a phantom while the real Jiang Shu hid in a pocket of space.

Jiang Shu was nearly overwhelmed by Old Ancestor Fentian until Dao Venerable Tai Wu arrived and fought him in the battlefield ruins. Their clash awakened a mysterious Immortal light, and Tai Wu sent Jiang Shu to collect the treasures while he held Burning Heaven back.

• Old Ancestor Fentian attacked Jiang Shu, who endured his blows while relying on his Great Daos and hoping the Sect Master would arrive.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu appeared in the ruins and revealed that he had come prepared to eliminate Old Ancestor Fentian.
• Tai Wu and Old Ancestor Fentian fought fiercely, while Jiang Shu watched and studied their Great Daos.
• Their battle stirred a mysterious Immortal light from the deepest part of the ruins, and the World Tree within Jiang Shu’s Chaos Cave Space responded with longing.
• Old Ancestor Fentian rushed toward the Immortal light, and Tai Wu moved to stop him while ordering Jiang Shu to collect the treasures.

Jiang Shu and Dao Venerable Tai Wu discovered that an ancient battlefield ruin contained the Great Dao Heavenly Sound, which trapped Old Ancestor Fentian and might either kill him or help him become a true Demon Lord. After Tai Wu gathered powerful Dao Venerables and sect leaders, they prepared to kill Fentian if he emerged and claim his body and the ruin’s opportunities.

• Jiang Shu sensed something unusual, so he hesitated to approach the immortal light while Old Ancestor Fentian fought Dao Venerable Tai Wu.
• Old Ancestor Fentian rushed into the light and became entranced by the Great Dao Heavenly Sound, forcing Dao Venerable Tai Wu to pull Jiang Shu away and explain the danger.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu said the sound came from the Heavenly Dao and could either kill Fentian or help him advance to the Demon Lord realm, then withdrew with Jiang Shu.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu told the arriving sect leaders and Dao One Sect Dao Venerables about the ancient battlefield, the Great Dao Heavenly Sound, and the many ruins the Demon Race had been searching for.
• The Sword Concealment Sect Master agreed to kill Fentian if he emerged, while the Heavenly Puppet Sect Master claimed Fentian’s body for his puppets.

Dao Venerable Tai Wu and the other Venerables prepared an ambush for Old Ancestor Fentian, but he arrived in a frenzied state and attacked them without recognizing anyone. As the Venerables fought him, Fentian’s strength kept rising and he began burning away their Dao rhythms, leaving them unsure whether he was nearing the Demon Lord Realm.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu used the Earth Suppressing Seal to help the Venerables set a trapping formation and wait for Old Ancestor Fentian.
• Old Ancestor Fentian erupted from underground as a fire phoenix, and the Sword Concealment Sect's Sect Master opened the battle with his peak strike.
• Jiang Shu and the other Venerables joined the attack, but Fentian broke through their encirclement and struck Jiang Shu before turning on the others.
• Jiang Shu warned that Fentian’s strength was increasing, and Dao Venerable Tai Wu and Jiang Shu hit him with the Earth Suppressing Seal and the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist.
• Old Ancestor Fentian’s injuries quickly healed as scarlet-gold divine fire burned away the Great Dao rhythms imprinted on him, alarming the Venerables with signs of a possible advance toward the Demon Lord Realm.

Old Ancestor Fentian erupted with overwhelming power but remained crazed, turning on the Demon Venerables who came to support him. After he chased them away, Jiang Shu showed the gathered sect leaders the battlefield ruins, and Dao Venerable Tai Wu agreed to investigate their origins before the three great sects explored them together.

• Old Ancestor Fentian's Great Dao of Fire surged as several Demon Venerables arrived, and Jiang Shu and the Human Venerables withdrew instead of stopping them.
• Old Ancestor Fentian attacked the Demon Venerables who tried to reinforce him, killing two and driving the others to flee.
• Jiang Shu and Dao Venerable Tai Wu concluded that Fentian's madness was connected to the Great Dao Heavenly Sound and the battlefield ruins where a Demon Lord had fallen.
• Jiang Shu revealed an image of the ruins, and Dao Venerable Tai Wu agreed to research their history before exploring them with the Sword Concealment Sect and Heavenly Puppet Sect.
• Jiang Shu left with Dao Venerable Tai Wu and used his improved mastery of the Great Dao of Space to keep pace with him.

After two months of seclusion, Jiang Shu joined the Human Race leaders to discuss the Ancient Battlefields, their resources, and the dangers hidden within them. Meanwhile, Old Ancestor Fentian had gone mad, and the Demon Race gathered to suppress or kill him.

• The Human Race leaders reported six Ancient Battlefields in their territories and two more along the border, all rich in resources and fiercely contested.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu and the sect masters speculated that the battlefields came from another domain and warned that the ruins concealed dangers as well as opportunities.
• Jiang Shu said he had sensed something immensely valuable deep within the ruins but did not reveal the World Tree.
• Ao Qing and the Demon Race experts gathered around the rampaging Old Ancestor Fentian, who had killed several demons, including Phoenix Race Dao Lords.
• Ao Qing ordered the Demon Race to attack Old Ancestor Fentian and struck him with a bolt of lightning.

The Demon Race's Imperial Palace suppressed Old Ancestor Fentian instead of allowing the Demon Venerables to kill him, preserving him for a coming battlefield. Ao Qing then told Gold Horn that the battlefield held an opportunity to surpass Jiang Tai Xuan, who was likely to appear there as Gold Horn's rival.

• Demon Venerable Feng Yuan, Ao Qing, and the Demon Venerables joined forces to suppress the wounded Old Ancestor Fentian, but the Imperial Palace ordered them to stop.
• Old Ancestor Fentian broke free and charged the Imperial Palace, which suppressed him within a sphere of light.
• A five-colored Demon Venerable announced that the Demon Lord wanted Old Ancestor Fentian kept for the battlefield's emergence, and Ao Qing agreed to rotate Demon Venerables to maintain the suppression.
• Ao Qing told Gold Horn that the battlefield was the burial ground of a great enemy and that he would enter it with him.
• Ao Qing said the battlefield's opportunity could help Gold Horn surpass Jiang Tai Xuan, who would likely appear as his rival on the Great Dao of Strength.