Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei and Backer Sect cornered a Cao Lineage elder, but he revealed three hidden perfected Quasi-Emperor ancestors. Backer Sect’s own ancestors answered with a sword strike that instantly destroyed all three, leaving its power on full display.

• The plain-clothed old man and the two gate guardians blocked the Cao Lineage elder’s escape, while Jiang Ruoyao refused to help him and Hua Yunfei rejected his offer to let bygones be bygones.
• The Cao Lineage elder summoned three hidden perfected Quasi-Emperor ancestors and mocked Backer Sect, believing the advantage was now his.
• Hua Yunfei revealed that he had sensed the three ancestors and called for Backer Sect’s ancestors.
• A tremendous sword intent surged from the depths of Backer Sect and reduced all three Cao Lineage ancestors to dust before they could react.

After the Backer Sect’s expert killed the attackers, Jiang Ruoyao announced that the Emperor’s Road would open in nine years and revealed plans to reinforce the Demon Box’s seal in the Devil Domain. Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao recognized the strange power corroding the seal as the aura of the Heaven-Stealing Immortal Records.

• A plain-clothed old man killed the middle-aged man and burned his remains after Hua Yunfei taunted him for failing to summon more allies.
• The Sun Moon Sect Leader and Yaoguang Holy Master said the Backer Sect could become a holy land if it wished, but Yun Tian Zhenren declined, citing the injured ancestor’s short life expectancy.
• Jiang Ruoyao announced that the Emperor’s Road would open in nine years, explained that the minimum entry cultivation was the Celestial Realm, and said a Spiritual Energy Tide would arrive in four years.
• After the banquet, Jiang Ruoyao and the black-robed man told Hua Yunfei that the Demon Box’s seal was loosening early and could break within a hundred years.
• The black-robed man showed them a trace of the power corroding the seal, and Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei recognized it as the aura of the Heaven-Stealing Immortal Records.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao traveled to the Demon Domain to investigate the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s plans, while a Backer Sect ancestor confronted the Cao Family Patriarch after destroying the Cao Family’s sleeping founders. Hua Yunfei detected a hidden formation at the Demon Domain entrance, and Jiang Ruoyao prepared to destroy its cores.

• The Cao Family Patriarch learned that the Backer Sect had killed the Cao Family’s three peak Quasi-Emperor founders and considered recruiting other factions to attack the Backer Sect.
• A young Backer Sect ancestor appeared in the Cao Family, and a brick showed the Patriarch that the Cao Family’s ancestral land had been subdued.
• The Cao Family Patriarch recognized his defeat and asked the Backer Sect ancestor to sit down and talk.
• Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and the black-robed middle-aged man reached the Demon Domain entrance, where Hua Yunfei detected a formation concealed in space.
• Hua Yunfei revealed the formation’s one hundred and eight cores, and Jiang Ruoyao drew the Crimson Slaughter Sword to destroy them.

Hua Yunfei rewrote the Immortal Slaughtering Sky Array and entered the Devil Domain with Jiang Ruoyao and a black-robed Devil Race member to reinforce the Demon Box’s seal. The Heaven-Stealing Organization secretly empowered the array behind them, while the group traveled toward the black-robed man’s clan and learned of its revered ancestor, Wu Yue, the Demon Revered.

• Hua Yunfei used the Cosmos Array Dao Brush to take control of the Immortal Slaughtering Sky Array, and Jiang Ruoyao urged the group to enter the Devil Domain.
• The black-robed man opened the Devil Domain entrance, and Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and the man went inside.
• Three Heaven-Stealing Organization members arrived afterward and used black rune stones to raise the Immortal Slaughtering Sky Array to Emperor tier.
• The black-robed man led Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao across a primitive forest and plain toward his clan’s home beneath a vast black mountain.
• The black-robed man said he belonged to Wu Yue, the Demon Revered’s lineage, and Hua Yunfei recalled how Wu Yue had abandoned her Emperor Tribulation to save her clansmen from the Ancient Demon Clan.

Luo Ning brought Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao to the Wu Moon Clan Grounds after learning that the Tianqing Clan Lands had been destroyed. A Heaven-Stealing Organization Quasi-Emperor attacked, but Jiang Ruoyao swiftly defeated and captured him, leaving him furious that his accomplices had not warned him.

• Luo Ning told Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao that the Tianqing Clan Lands had been destroyed and brought them to meet Wu Moon Clan leader Luo Lan.
• Luo Lan welcomed the guests from the Primordial Divine Territory into the Wu Moon Clan Grounds.
• A black-robed Quasi-Emperor arrived on a ferocious bird and threatened to destroy the Wu Moon Clan Grounds as he had the Tianqing Clan Lands.
• Jiang Ruoyao tore off the Quasi-Emperor's arm, destroyed his bird, dragged him back, and struck him down.
• Jiang Ruoyao demanded to know where the Quasi-Emperor's accomplices were, while he refused to talk and angrily wondered why they had not warned him.

Jiang Ruoyao tortured the captured Black Robed Quasi-Emperor until he revealed how to summon a Heaven-Stealing Organization member. She failed to bind him with a Slave Seal, leaving his continued survival dependent on how well he cooperated.

• Jiang Ruoyao severed the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor’s remaining arm and legs, sealed his cultivation, and pulled out a rib while Luo Lan caught his blood and requested his limbs and skull for the Wu Moon Clan Grounds.
• The Black Robed Quasi-Emperor gave in and offered to summon his hidden companions, so Jiang Ruoyao let him send a voice transmission while warning him not to deceive her.
• The Black Robed Quasi-Emperor lured a cautious Heaven-Stealing Organization member toward the Wu Moon Clan Grounds by claiming he had captured a beautiful woman from the Primordial Legacy.
• Jiang Ruoyao refused to release the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor and tried to place a Slave Seal on him, but the power of the Heaven-Stealing Immortal Records rejected it.
• The Black Robed Quasi-Emperor assured Jiang Ruoyao that he feared death and would not dare act recklessly.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao set a trap at the Wu Moon Clan Grounds, using the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor to lure other Quasi-Emperors into their hands. They beat Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor into submission and had him and Yue Yang summon more targets.

• Hua Yunfei arrived and made the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor call more people, while Jiang Ruoyao warned him that Hua Yunfei was more ruthless than she was.
• Jiang Ruoyao released the Black Robed Quasi-Emperor's sealed blood, and she and Hua Yunfei planned their next move.
• Yue Yang staged a scene at the Wu Moon Clan Grounds to lure Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor, who arrived and demanded Jiang Ruoyao for himself.
• Hua Yunfei ambushed Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor with a palm strike, and Jiang Ruoyao joined him in beating Po Jun until he begged for mercy.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao forced Yue Yang and Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor to summon more people; Yue Yang lured Ji Kun, Quasi-Emperor by promising beautiful girls.

Yue Yang, Quasi-Emperor, and Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor, lured Ji Kun, Quasi-Emperor, to the Wu Moon Clan Grounds, where Hua Yunfei ambushed and defeated him. As the group regrouped, Chi Mei, Quasi-Emperor, arrived and recognized the trap.

• Yue Yang, Quasi-Emperor, persuaded Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor, to contact Chi Mei, Quasi-Emperor, while Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao remained hidden.
• Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor, summoned Chi Mei, Quasi-Emperor, to the Wu Moon Clan Grounds and then hid with Hua Yunfei.
• Ji Kun, Quasi-Emperor, arrived and became infatuated with the unconscious Jiang Ruoyao, saying he wanted to marry her.
• Yue Yang, Quasi-Emperor, pointed Ji Kun, Quasi-Emperor, toward the sky, and Hua Yunfei struck him down with one palm.
• Po Jun, Quasi-Emperor, watched Hua Yunfei emerge and overpower Ji Kun, Quasi-Emperor, then Chi Mei, Quasi-Emperor, arrived and remarked that he had expected a trap.

Hua Yunfei captured Chi Mei and forced Yue Yang and Po Jun to cooperate with his plan at the Demon Box seal site. After sending them ahead, he spoke with Jiang Ruoyao about the heavy burden she carried and urged her to rest.

• Chi Mei arrived after suspecting Po Jun’s sudden claim that he missed him, but Hua Yunfei revealed his own figure was an avatar and defeated Chi Mei’s avatar.
• Hua Yunfei returned with the real Chi Mei barely conscious, and Po Jun admitted he had lured Chi Mei by saying he missed him.
• Jiang Ruoyao revealed she had been pretending to be unconscious, and Hua Yunfei learned the remaining Heaven-Stealing Organization members were at the Demon Box seal site.
• Hua Yunfei killed Ji Kun and Chi Mei, then spared Yue Yang and Po Jun on the condition that they help destroy the Heaven-Stealing Organization at the seal site.
• Hua Yunfei gave Yue Yang and Po Jun talismans containing his plan and sent them ahead, then told Jiang Ruoyao that she seemed exhausted and should rest.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao prepared to investigate the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s presence near the Demon Box sealing grounds. There, Yue Yang and Po Jun joined the other Heaven-Stealing Organization Quasi-Emperors, who had gathered for their operation.

• Jiang Ruoyao said the Ancient Demon Clan had to remain sealed and joked about using a secret art to control them against the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• Hua Yunfei denied possessing such a secret art, while Jiang Ruoyao suspected he was hiding unusual methods and treasures.
• Luo Lan thanked Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei for saving the Wu Moon Clan Grounds and the Demon Realm from Yue Yang and the other attackers.
• Hua Yunfei told Luo Lan to gather the clan leaders at the Demon Box sealing grounds without revealing the reason, since some might be traitors, and then set off with Jiang Ruoyao.
• At the Demon Box sealing grounds, Yue Yang and Po Jun arrived in disguise and joined the other Heaven-Stealing Organization members, including Netherling and several Quasi-Emperors.

Seven members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization waited near Demon Mountain, arguing while they planned to break its weakening seal. Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao arrived to stop them, and Hua Yunfei arranged a distraction that left the group hearing Netherling’s cries for help.

• Cang Huang silenced the bickering Quasi-Emperors and warned that Demon Mountain, formed from Great Emperor Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart, could attack anyone who forced their way in.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao hid ten thousand miles away, identified the disguised members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, and decided to lure them away from Demon Mountain.
• Hua Yunfei contacted Yue Yang and Po Jun, prompting them to leave with Netherling after Cang Huang ordered them to help Chi Mei.
• Netherling cried for help, saying Chi Mei had gone wild, and Lan Qiu asked Cang Huang who would go to their aid.

Hua Yunfei used Martial Virtue Brick to kill Cang Huang and looted his treasures, including the final talisman stone tied to the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s plan to break the Demon Box seal. He and Jiang Ruoyao discovered that Yue Yang and Po Jun could activate the stones individually, but the seven showed no special power when used together.

• Cang Huang sent Lan Qiu, Yue Yang, Po Jun, and others to deal with Chi Mei, then rushed to help when they cried out for him.
• Martial Virtue Brick ambushed Cang Huang and killed him with two blows to the head.
• Hua Yunfei arrived with Jiang Ruoyao, Yue Yang, and Po Jun, while Yue Yang and Po Jun realized they had narrowly escaped the brick’s attack.
• Hua Yunfei looted Cang Huang’s Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven and found the final sun-engraved talisman stone, completing the set of seven.
• Hua Yunfei asked Yue Yang and Po Jun to activate the seven stones together, but they barely responded; the two then activated individual stones and released mysterious power.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao met with the Demon Realm clan chiefs to discuss reinforcing the Demon Box seal and the possibility of a traitor among them. Hua Yunfei identified the Bloodlust Clan Chief as a lackey of the Heaven-Stealing Organization and confronted him.

• Hua Yunfei assigned the Martial Virtue Brick and six Emperor Armaments to guard the seven talisman stones in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.
• Luo Lan gathered the Demon Realm clan chiefs and told them that Primordial Divine Territory would reinforce the Demon Box seal, but a mysterious Quasi-Emperor had attacked the Wu Moon Clan Grounds with help from a possible traitor.
• The Goldwood Clan Chief angrily rejected the suspicion that a clan chief had betrayed the Demon Realm, while the Bloodlust Demon Clan Chief urged him to calm down.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao arrived at the meeting, and Jiang Ruoyao assured the clan chiefs that the two of them could handle the mission.
• Hua Yunfei revealed that he had identified the Bloodlust Clan Chief as a lackey of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, prompting the chief to turn cold and demand an explanation.

Yue Yang exposed the Bloodlust Clan Chief as a traitor who had helped the Heaven-Stealing Organization and weakened the Demon Box’s seal. After the chiefs bound him and announced his crimes, Luo Lan warned that other traitors were hidden in the crowd, leaving the Bloodlust Clan Chief’s confidants under suspicion as Hua Yunfei inspected everyone’s information.

• Yue Yang entered the tent and revealed that he was connected to both the Heaven-Stealing Organization and the Primordial Legacy, prompting the clan chiefs to identify the Bloodlust Clan Chief as a traitor.
• Luo Lan declared that traitors were executed in public, and the nine clan chiefs crippled the Bloodlust Clan Chief’s cultivation and tied him to a pillar outside Demon Mountain.
• Luo Lan told the gathered Devil Race members that the Bloodlust Clan Chief had betrayed the Devil Domain and helped cause the Demon Box’s seal to loosen.
• Luo Lan announced that other traitors were hidden among the crowd, causing the Devil Race members to scrutinize one another and suspect the Bloodlust Clan Chief’s confidants.
• Hua Yunfei examined the crowd’s information panels, beginning with Luo Ergou of the Skywing Demon Clan.

Luo Lan and the eight clan chiefs exposed and captured traitors across the Devil Domain, including Luo Yong, who fled and was pursued by his father, the Jinmu Clan Chief. As an Ancient Demon Clan expert taunted the devils from behind the Demon Mountain’s seal, Jiang Ruoyao traded insults with him while Hua Yunfei watched the raging silhouette closely.

• Luo Lan read out the traitors’ names, and the eight clan chiefs seized them across the Devil Domain.
• Luo Yong fled when his name was called, confirming his betrayal, and the Jinmu Clan Chief chased after him.
• An Ancient Demon Clan expert taunted the devils from inside the sealed Demon Mountain, and Jiang Ruoyao explained that its inhabitants could only see and speak outside when the seal weakened.
• Jiang Ruoyao challenged the Ancient Demon Clan expert, and the two traded insults across the seal as the devils watched.
• Hua Yunfei narrowed his eyes while studying the roaring silhouette inside the Demon Mountain.

Hua Yunfei arranged for Martial Virtue Brick to pass through the Demon Mountain seal and ambush the Ancient Demon Clan member trapped inside. After Martial Virtue Brick badly wounded him and prepared to carry him out, the Great Emperor Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart appeared and blocked the way.

• Hua Yunfei asked Martial Virtue Brick if he could pass through the Demon Box seal without damaging it, and Martial Virtue Brick said he was completely certain.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Luo Lan led a group of women in cursing the Ancient Demon Clan member to distract him.
• Martial Virtue Brick appeared behind the Ancient Demon Clan member and smashed his skull, severely damaging his divine soul.
• The Ancient Demon Clan member tried to flee but collapsed and lost consciousness as Martial Virtue Brick explained how he had entered through the seal.
• Martial Virtue Brick carried the unconscious Ancient Demon Clan member toward the exit, but the Great Emperor Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart appeared and refused to let him leave.

The Martial Virtue Brick escaped the Demon Box seal with three Ancient Demon Clan members and brought them back to Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao. The demons began testing the captives, and Luo Lan discovered that drinking their blood could revive her bloodline talent.

• The Great Emperor Hengyang gave the Martial Virtue Brick two Sage Realm Ancient Demon Clan members, who he subdued and took along with their unconscious ancestor.
• The Martial Virtue Brick passed through the seal and returned to Hua Yunfei with all three captives, while Jiang Ruoyao praised him and he secretly suggested kidnapping her.
• Hua Yunfei asked Jiang Ruoyao to keep the three Ancient Demon Clan members alive, and she offered them to the demons to vent their grievances.
• Luo Lan drew blood from a Sage Realm captive and drank a drop, then felt her bloodline talent begin to revive.

The Devils discovered that Ancient Demon Clan blood could restore their former talents, and they swarmed to drink it while Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao watched. Their teasing conversation was interrupted when a powerful Ancient Demon Clan member inside Demon Mountain attacked the seal and demanded his son back.

• Luo Lan revealed that Ancient Demon Clan blood could restore the Devils’ former talents, and the clan chiefs confirmed it by tasting the blood.
• Luo Ning and other Devils crowded around the Ancient Demon Clan members to drink their blood, while younger Devils shoved elders aside and caused chaos.
• Hua Yunfei told Jiang Ruoyao that he needed the three Ancient Demon Clan members alive, and she offered to help him if he needed it.
• Demonic might erupted from Demon Mountain as an ancestor-level Ancient Demon Clan member attacked the Demon Box seal and roared for his son to be returned.

The Martial Virtue Brick worked with Great Emperor Hengyang to seize eighty-four Ancient Demon Clan members from Demon Mountain and bring them into the Demon Realm. He left them in the hands of Luo Lan and the other demons, who prepared to draw their blood for Hua Yunfei’s plan.

• Jiang Ruoyao suggested dragging three newly arrived Ancient Demon Clan members out of Demon Mountain, but the Martial Virtue Brick knocked them unconscious and carried them outside.
• Great Emperor Hengyang recognized that the Martial Virtue Brick was gathering Ancient Demon Clan members for Brother Fei’s plan and agreed to help.
• Great Emperor Hengyang pulled eighty-one Ancient Demon Clan members of different cultivation realms through a black vortex.
• The Ancient Demon Clan members recognized Great Emperor Hengyang, realized he was likely transformed from his Emperor’s Heart, and tried to flee, but the Martial Virtue Brick knocked them unconscious.
• The Martial Virtue Brick brought all eighty-four captives into the Demon Realm, where Luo Lan and the other demons eagerly prepared to draw their blood.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao joked with the Martial Virtue Brick while the devils collected blood from the eighty-seven Ancient Demon Clan members. Just as Hua Yunfei prepared to send them back, Demon Mountain revealed a vast army of Ancient Demon Clan members gathering within it.

• The Martial Virtue Brick called the Great Emperor Hengyang “Little Yang” and Jiang Ruoyao “Wifey,” prompting Hua Yunfei to scold it and put it away.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao joked about the Martial Virtue Brick’s previous master and its lack of virtue.
• Luo Lan stopped a devil from trying to exploit an Ancient Demon Clan member, while other devils drew blood and one accidentally stabbed a fellow devil instead.
• After the devils finished, Hua Yunfei touched all eighty-seven Ancient Demon Clan members and prepared to send them back with the Martial Virtue Brick.
• Demonic might surged from Demon Mountain, revealing a massive gathering of Ancient Demon Clan members within it.