Chapter Summaries

The Martial Virtue Brick returned the eighty-seven Ancient Demon Clan members to Demon Mountain and struck down their clan chief and a golden-armored female demon. It then vanished, leaving the Ancient Demon Clan searching anxiously for the ambusher.

• The Martial Virtue Brick tossed the eighty-seven Ancient Demon Clan members back into Demon Mountain, where their relatives found them mutilated and enraged at the humiliation.
• The Ancient Demon Clan chief threatened to destroy the Demon Domain and Primordial Divine Territory once his clan was unsealed, so the Martial Virtue Brick struck him down.
• A golden-armored female Ancient Demon Clan member shouted at the Martial Virtue Brick, which returned and knocked her unconscious.
• The Ancient Demon Clan members prepared to attack, but the Martial Virtue Brick disappeared before they could find it.
• The Martial Virtue Brick laughed from above the Ancient Demon Clan crowd, while their members searched for it and found no trace.

The Martial Virtue Brick drove the Ancient Demon Clan away from Demon Mountain, while Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao discussed her plan to risk the Emperor Tribulation and waited for his scheme to take effect. After a month of secretly controlling Ancient Demon Clan members, Hua Yunfei uncovered their ten-thousand-year Demon Nurturing Plan, though the being they were raising remained beyond his reach.

• The Martial Virtue Brick evaded the Demon Pivot Needle and forced the Ancient Demon Clan to retreat from Demon Mountain.
• The Martial Virtue Brick reunited with Jiang Ruoyao, who teased it and Hua Yunfei about its shape and their relationship.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that she and other Primordial Legacies' divine sons and Holy Maidens would attempt to attain the Dao if no Great Emperor appeared within a thousand years.
• Hua Yunfei stayed near Demon Mountain for a month, using the I'm Sunburned Secret Art to bring more than half of the Ancient Demon Clan under his control.
• Hua Yunfei learned that the Ancient Demon Clan had spent ten thousand years nurturing a chosen demon by having him devour his kin and treasures in hopes of reaching the Great Emperor Realm.
• Hua Yunfei discovered that the being being nurtured lived in a special environment that kept him beyond the reach of the I'm Sunburned Secret Art.

Hua Yunfei told Great Emperor Hengyang that the Ancient Demon Clan was nurturing a demon close to becoming an Emperor, and Hengyang entered Demon Mountain with the Martial Virtue Brick to deal with it. The demon was revealed to be a young man in black in the Demon Emperor Secret Realm, where he remained confident that he would become an Emperor before Hengyang appeared before him.

• Hua Yunfei informed Great Emperor Hengyang about the Demon Nurturing Plan, and Hengyang agreed to intervene.
• Hua Yunfei released the Martial Virtue Brick, which joined Hengyang in entering Demon Mountain.
• Hua Yunfei reassured Jiang Ruoyao that the matter would be handled, while keeping the details from her.
• An Ancient Demon Clan member reported that Hengyang’s Emperor’s Heart had awakened and that eighty-seven clan members had been abducted.
• The young man in black ordered the clan member to send him more talented clan members to help him become an Emperor within a thousand years.
• Great Emperor Hengyang appeared in the Demon Emperor Secret Realm, and the young man in black said Hengyang had arrived too late.

Great Emperor Hengyang possessed the black-clothed youth’s body to attempt to prove the Dao again, while Hua Yunfei completed his control over the Ancient Demon Clan. Hua Yunfei sent ten perfected Quasi-Emperor Clan members with Jiang Ruoyao to help her, leaving his own reasons for the plan unstated.

• The Martial Virtue Brick struck the black-clothed youth unconscious before he could teleport away from Great Emperor Hengyang.
• Great Emperor Hengyang possessed the youth’s body, intending to use the Emperor’s Heart to prove the Dao again.
• The Martial Virtue Brick and Great Emperor Hengyang helped Hua Yunfei gather the Ancient Demon Clan for his plan.
• One month later, Hua Yunfei demonstrated that ten Ancient Demon Clan members could pass through Demon Mountain’s sealing barrier.
• Hua Yunfei assigned the ten perfected Quasi-Emperor members to accompany Jiang Ruoyao and ease her burden.

Hua Yunfei returned toward the Backer Sect after helping Jiang Ruoyao and Great Emperor Hengyang depart, but learned that the Inviting Moon Palace had been attacked and its Palace Master was believed dead. The Heavenly Demon Hall had besieged the palace, leaving its disciples facing destruction as the Palace Master concealed that she was still alive to keep Chu Qing'er and the Backer Sect from being dragged into danger.

• Jiang Ruoyao and Great Emperor Hengyang prepared to leave, while Hua Yunfei planned to return to the Backer Sect.
• Three Quasi-Emperors from the Heaven-Stealing Organization trapped Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, Great Emperor Hengyang, and ten Ancient Demon Clan Quasi-Emperors with the Immortal Slaughtering Sky Array; Hua Yunfei killed them and took the emperor-level formation.
• Ye Bufan told Hua Yunfei that Inviting Moon Palace had been attacked and that its Palace Master had died, prompting Hua Yunfei to question who was responsible.
• The wounded Inviting Moon Palace Master withheld her survival from Chu Qing'er because she feared Qing'er would seek help and endanger herself and the Backer Sect.
• An elder explained that the Heavenly Demon Hall, once destroyed by four Ultimate Sacred Grounds for enslaving women, had returned and was attacking Inviting Moon Palace as its defensive formations began to fail.

The Heavenly Demon Hall attacked Inviting Moon Palace, overwhelming its defenses with the Free and Unfettered Sword. Just as its forces moved in to slaughter the survivors, Yaoguang and Sun Moon Divine Church intervened, leaving the Heavenly Demon Hall Master and his allies fighting back against the Sun Moon Star Seal.

• The Heavenly Demon Hall Master led his forces to attack Inviting Moon Palace, intending to claim its wounded Palace Master and destroy the sect.
• Inviting Moon Palace's ancestors, elders, and disciples formed ranks and channeled their strength into three Supreme Weapons, but the Heavenly Demon Hall Master sliced through their protective array and shattered their attack with the Free and Unfettered Sword.
• Huang Mang charged toward Inviting Moon Palace and was killed by a golden sword wielded by a gray-robed Yaoguang elder.
• Sun Moon Divine Church attacked with the Sun Moon Star Seal, which locked down the battlefield and collided with the Heavenly Demon Hall Master's Free and Unfettered Sword.
• The Heavenly Demon Hall Master and the remaining experts joined forces to activate the Free and Unfettered Sword against Sun Moon Divine Church.

The Yaoguang Holy Land, Sun Moon Divine Church, and War Clan arrived to protect Inviting Moon Palace because it was friends with the Backer Sect. As the Heavenly Demon Hall tried to escape, the Cao Family joined the fight and sealed the Free and Unfettered Sword, trapping them.

• The Sun Moon Divine Church and Yaoguang Holy Land stopped the Heavenly Demon Hall’s attack, and a War Clan powerhouse arrived with Supreme Weapons to defend Inviting Moon Palace.
• The Inviting Moon Palace Master realized that the factions had come to help because of her Palace’s friendship with the Backer Sect, and the allies reassured the Palace’s people.
• The Heavenly Demon Hall Master threatened the three Eastern Region factions and fled with his people on the Free and Unfettered Sword.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land elder, the Sun Moon Divine Church woman, and the War Clan powerhouse tried to seal the sword, but it broke through their restraints.
• The Central Region Cao Family used its Eternal Starry Sky technique to immobilize the Free and Unfettered Sword, combining its seal with the three factions’ weapons to trap the Heavenly Demon Hall.

The Eastern Region powers and the Cao Family joined forces to avenge Inviting Moon Palace and wipe out Heavenly Demon Hall. After the Heavenly Demon Hall Master awakened a remnant soul within himself, he briefly seized the Free and Unfettered Sword but was overwhelmed by three quasi-Emperors wielding Emperor Armaments.

• The Cao Family representative taunted the surrounded Heavenly Demon Hall Master while the allied powers prepared to attack.
• The middle-aged beautiful woman and the gray-robed elder charged into battle, while the Cao Family representative sealed the Free and Unfettered Sword with the Myriad Ages Starry Sky Chart.
• The gray-robed elder and the middle-aged beautiful woman slaughtered Heavenly Demon Hall's forces, and the elder severed the Heavenly Demon Hall Master's arms and legs.
• The Heavenly Demon Hall Master awakened a powerful remnant soul, broke the suppression, and recalled the Free and Unfettered Sword.
• The gray-robed elder, the middle-aged beautiful woman, and the Cao Family representative attacked together with three Emperor Armaments and knocked the Heavenly Demon Hall Master down, leaving him badly bloodied.

After the Heavenly Demon Hall Master was slain, Martial Virtue Brick exposed the Free and Unfettered Sword’s hidden connection to the Free and Unfettered Demon Emperor and brought it into a black space. The Chaos Bell beat the sword to vent his frustration until Hua Yunfei arrived and questioned why he was bullying Little Bell.

• The gray-robed elder and the others surrounded the Free and Unfettered Sword and said they were taking it to meet someone.
• Martial Virtue Brick struck the Free and Unfettered Sword and accused it of being both the Free and Unfettered Sword and the Free and Unfettered Demon Emperor.
• Martial Virtue Brick dragged the Free and Unfettered Sword into a black space where the Chaos Bell and other Emperor Armaments waited.
• The Chaos Bell attacked the Free and Unfettered Sword, while the other Emperor Armaments watched from a distance.
• Hua Yunfei appeared and asked why the Chaos Bell had such a bad temper, and the other Emperor Armaments looked toward Martial Virtue Brick.
• Hua Yunfei criticized Martial Virtue Brick for bullying Little Bell, and Martial Virtue Brick recalled striking the Eastern Sacred Sword after it called him a little nobody.

Hua Yunfei learned how the Martial Virtue Brick had subdued the Emperor Armaments, then urged them to make peace and join the same side. Outside, the Inviting Moon Palace survived the Heavenly Demon Hall’s attack with help from the Backer Sect’s allies, while the Palace Master reflected on the sect’s formidable connections.

• Hua Yunfei learned that the Eastern Sacred Sword had provoked the Martial Virtue Brick into defeating the Emperor Armaments, and he told them not to go too far with the Free and Unfettered Sword.
• The Martial Virtue Brick stopped the Free and Unfettered Sword’s complaints, and the Eastern Sacred Sword introduced the Emperor Armaments to one another as allies.
• The Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor asked the Martial Virtue Brick to intervene, and the Free and Unfettered Sword called him Cauldron Brother.
• The gray-robed elder thanked the Backer Sect for bringing the Eastern Region factions together, then left with the others to hunt down the Heavenly Demon Hall’s remnants.
• The Inviting Moon Palace disciples praised their Palace Master for sending Chu Qing'er to the Backer Sect, while she privately admitted she had not expected its connections to be so powerful.

After the Backer Sect rescued the Inviting Moon Palace, the Palace Master thanked Chu Qing'er and planned to bring disciples to visit the sect. Hua Yunfei returned to Backer Sect and learned that Tianji Zhenren had supposedly died, then paid his respects at the funeral.

• The Inviting Moon Palace Master told her ancestors that the palace should grow stronger rather than rely on the Backer Sect, and Chu Qing'er explained that she had asked the sect to rescue her home.
• The Inviting Moon Palace Master proposed that palace disciples use Backer Sect disciples as their standard for Dao Companions and planned a visit in three days to thank them.
• Hua Yunfei returned to Backer Sect and heard from Elder Shi that Tianji Zhenren had died suddenly from staying up late cultivating.
• Hua Yunfei saw the sect's disciples grieving and joined Ye Bufan, Chu Qing'er, and the gathered elders at Tianji Zhenren's funeral.
• Hua Yunfei lit incense and bowed three times before Tianji Zhenren's memorial tablet.

After the funeral, Hua Yunfei taught Chu Qing'er that the Dao of Caution meant striking decisively and safely, then sent her into seclusion. He reassured Ye Bufan that Ya Ya would be fine after another slumber and prepared his disciples for Emperor's Road in nine years.

• Hua Yunfei learned that Tianji Zhenren had entered the Ancestral Land, while Tianji Zhenren sensed karma from the funeral rites and vowed to investigate who had paid respects to him.
• Chu Qing'er knelt to apologize for the sect’s actions against Heavenly Demon Hall, and Hua Yunfei explained that caution was not cowardice before ordering her to enter seclusion for three months.
• Hua Yunfei praised Chu Qing'er's progress with her Yin-Yang Chaos Physique and promised to guide her cultivation after her seclusion.
• Ye Bufan told Hua Yunfei that Ya Ya had fallen asleep again after connecting with the origin of his Sacred Physique and passing on inheritances.
• Hua Yunfei reassured Ye Bufan that Ya Ya would be safe, then told Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao to cultivate for Emperor's Road, which would open in nine years.

Hua Yunfei checked on Ya Ya and confirmed that her long sleep was harmless, then tried to confront the silent system. Three days later, Inviting Moon Palace visited Backer Sect to thank it for its help, and Yun Tian Zhenren welcomed them with a banquet.

• Hua Yunfei examined Ya Ya and reassured Jin Jin that she was only sleeping while her Sacred Physique inheritance settled.
• Hua Yunfei returned to his Cave Abode and called on the system, which had been silent for more than two months.
• Yun Tian Zhenren welcomed the Inviting Moon Palace Master and her disciples at Backer Sect's gates.
• The Inviting Moon Palace Master offered Yun Tian Zhenren a ring in gratitude, but he refused it before accepting it after repeated exchanges.
• Yun Tian Zhenren hosted the visitors at a banquet, where several Inviting Moon Palace disciples and Backer Sect disciples blushed from drinking.

Backer Sect’s disciples escorted the Inviting Moon Palace women around the sect, and Hua Yunfei received the Primordial Sacred Sword as his sign-in reward. Jiang Ruoyao discovered the sword had vanished and, unable to trace it, warned her family to guard their own artifacts.

• Yun Tian Zhenren and the Inviting Moon Palace Master sent their disciples to get acquainted, and Yang Gandang led the visitors on a tour of Backer Sect.
• Yang Yue asked to see Daoyuan Peak, where the group marveled at the dense spiritual qi and encountered disciples digging holes.
• More Backer Sect disciples gathered around the Inviting Moon Palace women, crowding the foot of Daoyuan Peak and trying to attract their attention.
• Hua Yunfei signed in and received the Ultimate Emperor Armament, the Primordial Sacred Sword, then wondered why he had been given Jiang Ruoyao’s weapon.
• Jiang Ruoyao sensed the Primordial Sacred Sword had disappeared and failed to contact or locate it.
• Jiang Ruoyao recalled the Chaos Bell’s disappearance and sent a transmission talisman summoning someone to meet her.

Hua Yunfei learned that the system had stolen the Primordial Sacred Sword from Jiang Ruoyao, leaving her and the Chaos Godchild worried about their missing Emperor Armaments. He confronted the system over weakening their allies, then the Primordial Sacred Sword met the Eastern Sacred Sword in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven and learned the Chaos Bell was there too.

• Jiang Ruoyao told the Chaos Godchild that the Primordial Sacred Sword had vanished from within her, just as the Chaos Bell had disappeared.
• The Chaos Godchild said the thief had repeatedly hidden the Chaos Bell's aura, and Jiang Ruoyao urged him to warn Eastern Arrival Godchild and the others.
• Hua Yunfei berated the system for stealing the Primordial Sacred Sword and potentially undermining Jiang Ruoyao and the Chaos Godchild against the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• The system apologized and claimed that Jiang Ruoyao and the Chaos Godchild had other top-tier magical artifacts, so they would not be greatly affected.
• The Eastern Sacred Sword welcomed the Primordial Sacred Sword in Hua Yunfei's Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven and told it the Chaos Bell was there.

Hua Yunfei secretly strengthened Jia Duobao’s Sage tribulation before confronting a short intruder who had entered the Primordial Universe through a crack in a dead star. The intruder revealed his intention to wait for the era of becoming an Emperor, and Hua Yunfei discovered the special exit he had tried to conceal.

• The Primordial Sacred Sword reunited with the Chaos Bell and met the Martial Virtue Brick, then mocked its name and called himself Brother Primordial and Grandpa Primordial.
• Jia Duobao told Hua Yunfei he had reached the Sage Realm, and Hua Yunfei took him into the starry void to undergo tribulation.
• Hua Yunfei secretly sent power into Jia Duobao’s thunderclouds, making the tribulation much stronger, and Jia Duobao was blasted away by its first lightning strike.
• A short man emerged from a crack in a dead star and said he would lie low until the Primordial Universe entered an era when he could become an Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei appeared before the short man, who tried to hide the crack, but Hua Yunfei said he had already seen it.

Hua Yunfei defeated and captured Zhu Shenyue, a Quasi-Emperor allied with the Heaven-Stealing Organization, then forced him to reveal the Heavenly Alliance’s makeup. The Primordial Sacred Sword condemned the alliance for seeking to seize the Primordial Universe because their own Heavenly Dao prevented them from producing an Emperor.

• Zhu Shenyue boasted that his master and dozens of Supremes had once wounded Yaoguang Great Emperor, and Hua Yunfei mocked their failure to kill him.
• Hua Yunfei tricked Zhu Shenyue into turning around, then used the Martial Virtue Brick and Primordial Sacred Sword to destroy his body and suppress his divine soul.
• Zhu Shenyue revealed that the Heaven-Stealing Organization was allied with his universe, and Hua Yunfei slapped him repeatedly while questioning him.
• Hua Yunfei learned from Zhu Shenyue that the Heavenly Alliance consisted of Heaven-Stealing, Vast, Supreme Origin, and Dao Clarity, collectively opposing the Primordial Universe.
• The Primordial Sacred Sword accused the other universes of trying to occupy the Primordial Universe because their own Heavenly Dao forbade anyone from becoming an Emperor.

Hua Yunfei stopped Zhu Shenyue’s cursed divine soul from self-destructing, learned that the Heaven-Stealing Organization had deceived the three universes, and destroyed a passage into the Primordial Universe. Jiang Ruoyao received a recording of the incident and was urged to warn her father about the danger of enemy forces reaching their rear.

• Zhu Shenyue revealed that he had joined the Heaven-Stealing Organization to seek a better cultivation environment, then discovered the organization had secretly cursed his divine soul and meant to make him self-destruct.
• Zhu Shenyue tried to dissolve into the Dao to break the curse, but the Martial Virtue Brick destroyed his divine soul and prevented the explosion.
• Hua Yunfei destroyed the passage linking the Vast Universe and the Primordial Universe, then gave the Primordial Sacred Sword a recording to deliver to Jiang Ruoyao.
• Jiang Ruoyao deduced that Hua Yunfei had sent the recording, but pretended she was joking and did not press the Primordial Sacred Sword for confirmation.
• The Primordial Sacred Sword warned Jiang Ruoyao that the Heaven-Stealing Organization could reach the Primordial Universe’s rear, and urged her to discuss the threat with her father.

Hua Yunfei prepared an elaborate formation trap in case the Heaven-Stealing Organization tried to silence him, then returned to Jia Duobao’s tribulation. The Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s law manifestation killed Jia Duobao, but Jia Duobao suddenly reappeared and struck back.

• Jiang Ruoyao agreed to inform her father about the danger posed by the three universes.
• Hua Yunfei set up the Slaughtering Immortal Array and 999 additional formations to ambush anyone sent by the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• Hua Yunfei returned to Jia Duobao’s tribulation and found the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s law manifestation confronting his disciple.
• Hua Yunfei told Jia Duobao that he might be able to fight the supposedly weak Great Emperor manifestation, angering the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor.
• The Sun Moon Sacred Emperor killed Jia Duobao with two attacks, but two figures appeared behind him and slashed his back before Jia Duobao kicked him away.

During Jia Duobao’s Great Sage tribulation, he fought the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s law-body, which repeatedly self-destructed to injure him. As Jia Duobao armed himself and his two incarnations to fight back, two more figures appeared beneath the thunderclouds and attacked him.

• Jia Duobao used One Qi, Three Purities and Dao patterns to fight the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor, who self-destructed and regenerated, badly wounding him.
• Jia Duobao tried to flee, but the thunderclouds struck him with a torrent of lightning, so he put on more than ten sets of Sage-grade armor.
• Jia Duobao used an enormous ancient Sage whisk to pressure the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor, who blew himself up again and injured him despite his armor.
• Jia Duobao created two powerful incarnations and outfitted them with Sage armaments, then advanced on the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor with them.
• Two young men appeared beneath the thunderclouds and charged at Jia Duobao; one was identified as the Yaoguang Great Emperor.