Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan climbed Fallen Phoenix Mountain to seek the Phoenix ancestors’ origin power and learned how their gifts could purify his bloodline, though absorbing too much carried risks. After demonstrating his Divine Soul and swordsmanship, he received several gifts, then a powerful essence triggered simultaneous breakthroughs in his Divine Soul, magical power, and physique, leaving him to choose which to advance first.

• Ji Yuan entered Fallen Phoenix Mountain, saw the countless Phoenix remains, and met the skeletal elder at the summit.
• The elder explained that Phoenix descendants gained origin power by earning the approval of their predecessors through demonstrations of their cultivation and skills.
• Ji Yuan released his Divine Soul power and used Heaven-Severing Abyss, receiving one gift for his Divine Soul and two more for his swordsmanship.
• Ji Yuan told the elder he had encountered Bai Ze’s remnant soul, and the elder explained that lightning tribulation could purify bloodlines but that excessive origin power could leave a cultivator vulnerable to heart demons.
• A powerful essence descended from the sky and triggered a breakthrough in Ji Yuan’s magical power, physique, and Divine Soul.
• Ji Yuan chose to advance his physique first, compressing his vital energy into his spleen as the other breakthroughs continued to build.

Ji Yuan opened his fifth organ, entered the Void Refinement stage with his divine soul, and continued advancing his cultivation before leaving Fallen Phoenix Mountain. As the Kunxu Secret Realm’s opening drew near, Feng Zhuer invited him to seek a Kunpeng Remnant Map together.

• Ji Yuan’s spleen-earth ox absorbed the blood-energy cocoon, completing his five-organ breakthrough and greatly strengthening his body.
• Ji Yuan’s primordial spirit emerged from the Nine-Tower Soul-Calming Bell, marking his divine soul’s breakthrough into the Void Refinement stage.
• The Phoenix Clan elders debated the Demon God Continent’s plans, a possible alliance with the Qilin Clan, and preparations for the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Feng Baixiu appeared above Fallen Phoenix Mountain and displayed his Life-and-Death Great Dao, while Ji Yuan learned he had killed a peak Nirvana Realm martial artist.
• Ji Yuan finished nine years and seven months of seclusion and learned that less than two years remained before the Kunxu Secret Realm opened.
• Feng Zhuer met Ji Yuan and offered to search with him for a Kunpeng Remnant Map.

Ji Yuan collected a Phoenix Clan Kunpeng Remnant Map and learned that Feng Mengtang helped him at Bing Xue’s request. He sought a way to obtain merit points for the resources needed to upgrade his Spirit Field, but discovered the clan strictly forbade members from transferring redeemed resources.

• Feng Zhuer took Ji Yuan to the Phoenix Residence, where Feng Mengtang issued them Kunpeng Remnant Maps; after Zhuer left, Mengtang promised Ji Yuan another map.
• Feng Yu confronted Ji Yuan about Zhuer, while Feng Kunshan revealed that he had reached the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage despite concealing his cultivation.
• Ji Yuan counted the maps he had gathered and considered how to secure the resources needed to upgrade his Spirit Field before entering the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Feng Mengtang gave Ji Yuan another map and explained that Bing Xue had asked her to look after him; Ji Yuan then asked her to exchange merit points for cultivation resources.
• Feng Mengtang told Ji Yuan that the Phoenix Clan tracked redeemed resources and punished members who transferred them, so Ji Yuan asked how he could earn merit points quickly.

Ji Yuan and Feng Mengtang secured the Demon Cores and Merit Points he needed by accepting a Phoenix Clan assignment to guard Fragrant Mi Mountain. After arriving at Northwind Pass, Feng Mengtang told Ji Yuan that she sensed her mother’s aura on him.

• Feng Mengtang guided Ji Yuan to the Phoenix Residence, where he claimed two Wood-Attribute Demon Cores and learned how to earn Merit Points.
• Ji Yuan chose a one-year assignment guarding a Spirit Stone vein at Fragrant Mi Mountain, and Feng Mengtang joined him.
• Ji Yuan met Feng Mengtang, Feng Yu, Feng Zhuer, and two other teammates at the teleportation square, and the group traveled to Fragrant Mi Mountain.
• Feng Ruyu briefed the newcomers on clashes with the Dragon Race and assigned Ji Yuan and Feng Mengtang to defend Northwind Pass.
• At Northwind Pass, Feng Mengtang told Ji Yuan that she sensed her mother’s aura on him.

Ji Yuan and Feng Mengtang learned that the Dragon Race was targeting Northwind Pass, but Ao Guang and Ao Mengxi instead joined the battle at Gale Pass. As Feng Yu and Feng Zhuer fought the dragons, Ao Guang entered the fight, and Feng Ruyu ordered Ji Yuan and Feng Mengtang to reinforce Gale Pass.

• Feng Mengtang told Ji Yuan that he had received her mother's essence on Fallen Phoenix Mountain and shared her mother's final words with her.
• Feng Mengtang and Ji Yuan discussed the Dragon Race's likely plans, while Ao Guang and Ao Mengxi received orders to attack Northwind Pass and Gale Pass.
• Ao Mengxi secretly went to Gale Pass, and Ao Guang followed after the old dragon ordered the Dragon Race to focus its full force there.
• Feng Yu and Feng Zhuer fought four True Dragons, and Ao Guang joined the battle to challenge Feng Yu.
• Feng Ruyu ordered Feng Mengtang and Ji Yuan to reinforce Gale Pass, and Ji Yuan agreed to go take a look.

Ji Yuan entered the battle for Fragrant Mi Mountain and watched Feng Yu fall to Ao Guang and Ao Mengxi. He then captured both dragon cultivators with his hidden techniques, leaving Feng Ruyu to shield him from the furious elder dragon.

• Ji Yuan watched Feng Yu and Ao Guang fight while Feng Mengtang joined Feng Zhuer and the other Phoenix Clan members against the dragons.
• Ao Mengxi used the Dream Law to trap Feng Yu, allowing Ao Guang to seal Feng Yu's spiritual power as Feng Zhuer rescued him.
• Ji Yuan volunteered to challenge Ao Mengxi, and Feng Fa offered to double his reward if he captured her; Feng Ruyu agreed to award him forty Merit Points.
• Ao Mengxi's Dream Law failed to overcome Ji Yuan's Luminous State of Mind, and he pretended to fall under its spell before pinning and binding her with his treasures.
• Ji Yuan used his divine soul and techniques to overpower and bind Ao Guang as well, capturing both dragon cousins within moments.
• An elder dragon attacked Ji Yuan from the clouds, but Feng Ruyu raised a Phoenix Dharma form to shield him and told the Dragon River elder to let the juniors settle their own affairs.

After capturing Ao Guang and Ao Mengxi, Ji Yuan helped the Phoenix Clan win control of Fragrant Mi Mountain and earned fifty merit points. Back at the clan, he exchanged points for the materials needed to upgrade his Spirit Field and began considering which building to improve next.

• Ji Yuan returned with Ao Guang and Ao Mengxi, and Feng Ruyu negotiated their release in exchange for the Phoenix Clan's victory at Gale Pass.
• Ao Mengxi and Ao Guang withdrew with Long Jiang after Ao Guang identified Ji Yuan's Void Refinement Stage divine soul as the reason he had been subdued.
• The Phoenix Clan took control of Fragrant Mi Mountain, and Ji Yuan and his companions returned to the Ancestral Land after completing their garrison duty.
• Ji Yuan received fifty merit points and exchanged sixteen of them for a void source stone and a Five-Element Dao Fruit.
• Ji Yuan confirmed that his Spirit Field had all the materials needed for an upgrade, then considered whether to upgrade the Pigsty, Phoenix Nest, or Dragon Pool next.

Ji Yuan exchanged merit points for upgrade materials and a lifesaving treasure, then learned that the Phoenix Clan had granted him a place in the Celestial Palace within the Kun Ruins. He left to travel to Heavenly Phoenix City and upgrade his Spirit Field.

• Ji Yuan ruled out upgrading the Phoenix Nest and Dragon Pool, then spent merit points on fire melt crystal, earthcore soil, and an Immovable Body.
• Ji Yuan met Feng Shu, who gave him a token granting him the Phoenix Clan's sixth place in the Celestial Palace.
• Feng Mengtang explained that the Celestial Palace lay within the Kun Ruins and named the other Phoenix Clan entrants, including Feng Yu, Feng Zhuer, Feng Qingyin, and Feng Cuo.
• Ji Yuan declined Feng Mengtang's invitation to enter her cave abode and returned to his own cave to prepare for traveling to Heavenly Phoenix City.

Ji Yuan upgraded the Spirit Field, harvested two Cloud-Patterned Dao Fruits, and discovered that the Bodhi Tree Branch had rooted. He returned to Heavenly Phoenix City, found Long Fei, Jin Peng, and Mei Zhuang injured, and learned that Long Yun had been detained by the Heavenly Thunder Violet Luo Eagles.

• Ji Yuan went east of Heavenly Phoenix City and used spirit stones, demon cores, immortal resources, and phoenix corpses to upgrade the Spirit Field to level eight.
• The upgrade produced two Cloud-Patterned Dao Fruits and helped the Bodhi Tree Branch take root.
• Ji Yuan reviewed the level-eight Spirit Field’s effects and requirements, then returned to Heavenly Phoenix City to search for his companions.
• Ji Yuan found Long Fei, Jin Peng, and Mei Zhuang alive but injured, while Long Yun was missing.
• Long Fei explained that the Heavenly Thunder Violet Luo Eagles had detained Long Yun after he stayed behind to cover their retreat from a Void Refinement cultivator.

Ji Yuan traveled to Purple Luo City to confront Zi Zhongqing for detaining and injuring Long Yun, and refused to accept his inadequate compensation. After Feng Yong disavowed Zi Zhongqing, news arrived that the Kun Ruins had appeared in Heavenly Demon City.

• Ji Yuan learned that the Violet Luo Eagles had captured Long Yun over a Kunpeng Remnant Map and traveled to Purple Luo City to demand his release.
• Zi Zhongqing returned Long Yun and offered two Storage Bags as compensation, but Ji Yuan rejected them and confronted him over Long Yun’s injuries.
• Zi Zhongqing invoked his friendship with Feng Yong, but Feng Yong’s message disavowed him and promised to come deal with him.
• Zi Tong blocked Zi Zhongqing from fleeing after Ji Yuan threatened consequences for his tribe and relatives.
• Zi Tong received word that the Kun Ruins had appeared in Heavenly Demon City, and Ji Yuan asked where they were.

Ji Yuan helped resolve the conflict with Zi Zhongqing, then returned to the Phoenix Clan as preparations began for the Kun Ruins. Feng Shu revealed that the Three Sacred Clans’ shares of the demon deity legacy would depend on which of their Spirit Transformation Cultivators advanced to Void Refinement and how strong their comprehended laws were.

• Zi Zhongqing fled Purple Luo City, but Zi Tong caught up and fought him until Zi Zhongqing tried to escape by detonating his great Dao.
• Feng Yong arrived, captured Zi Zhongqing’s body and primordial spirit, offered Ji Yuan his Void-Shadow Wings as an apology, and then crushed Zi Zhongqing’s primordial spirit.
• Feng Yong explained to Zi Tong that Ji Yuan’s strength and potential made him a major figure in the Phoenix Clan, while Ji Yuan returned to the clan’s ancestral land.
• Feng Mengtang summoned Ji Yuan to Phoenix Divine Mountain, where he met Feng Yu, Feng Zhuer, and Feng Qingyin and learned that the Celestial Palace would oversee the division of the demon deity legacy.
• Feng Shu announced that each Sacred Clan would send Spirit Transformation Cultivators into the Kun Ruins for one hundred years, with the clan’s share determined by their advances to Void Refinement and the strength of their comprehended laws.

Ji Yuan prepared for the Kun Ruins, obtained a true phoenix feather to raise his cultivation, and bought the corpses needed to upgrade the Mass Burial Ground. Feng Mengtang then urgently summoned him to depart for Heavenly Demon City as the Dragon Race and Qilin Clan had already left, while a roc young man arrived on the Demon God Continent hoping to meet his younger brother in the secret realm.

• Feng Shu gave Ji Yuan a refined true phoenix feather to help him reach the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage and urged him to cultivate diligently in the Celestial Palace.
• Ji Yuan gave Long Yun, Long Fei, Jin Peng, and Mei Zhuang Kunpeng Remnant Map fragments and supplies, then sent them to prepare for the Kun Ruins without him.
• Ji Yuan removed a section of the inscribed stone wall from his cave abode and stored it in Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain so he could study it in the Celestial Palace.
• Ji Yuan bought ninety Spirit Transformation Stage corpses, ten Spirit Transformation Peak Stage corpses, and one Void Refinement Stage corpse from the Heavenly Phoenix Trading Company, fulfilling the Mass Burial Ground's upgrade requirements.
• Feng Mengtang urgently told Ji Yuan to return because the Phoenix Clan was leaving for Heavenly Demon City and the Dragon Race and Qilin Clan had already departed.
• A roc arrived on the northern coast of the Demon God Continent, transformed into a young man, and wondered whether he would meet his younger brother in the secret realm.

Ji Yuan traveled with the Phoenix Clan to Heavenly Demon City, where he received a Star Beast horn from Bing Xue to aid his study of the Space Dao. After reuniting with Dong Qian, he learned she had comprehended the Yin-Yang Great Dao, and ten days later he prepared to upgrade [Mass Burial Ground].

• Bing Xue gave Feng Mengtang a sachet to help her understand dreams and gave Ji Yuan a royal Star Beast horn to study the Space Dao.
• Feng Shu led Ji Yuan and the others to Heavenly Demon City, where Feng Yi explained that the Celestial Palace was a River of Time Secret Realm with a hundred years inside for every ten years outside.
• Feng Cuo challenged Feng Yu and mocked him, but Feng Yi stopped them and said they could fight inside the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Ji Yuan told Feng Mengtang he was going to find his Dao companion, then reunited with Dong Qian in Heavenly Demon City.
• Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord had guided her cultivation and that she had comprehended the Yin-Yang Great Dao.
• Ten days later, Ji Yuan reached the lowest level of Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, ready to upgrade [Mass Burial Ground].

Ji Yuan upgraded the Mass Burial Ground to level six, gaining the Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire, then joined the Phoenix Clan’s expedition to the Kun Ruins. At the Celestial Palace entrance, rivalries flared among the Phoenix, Qilin, and Dragon clans as the Integrated Body cultivators tried to open the gate.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Mass Burial Ground, and his Annihilation Netherfire evolved into the colorless Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire.
• Ji Yuan learned that the next upgrade required Void Refinement and Body Integration corpses, then discovered Tu Yue’s breakthrough was causing yin energy to leak from Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Feng Yi summoned Ji Yuan to set out, and Ji Yuan left with the Phoenix Clan after exchanging farewells with Dong Qian.
• Ji Yuan and the Phoenix Clan reached the Kun Ruins entrance, where Feng Shu and the leaders of the Dragon and Qilin clans worked to open the golden gate.
• Lu Tianming challenged Ji Yuan, and Ji Yuan provoked him into challenging Feng Cuo; he also taunted Long You and Ao Mengxi by relaying insults from Feng Cuo and Feng Zhuer.

Ji Yuan entered the Kunxu Secret Realm but was rejected from the Celestial Palace because he had not reached the Spirit Transformation peak stage, so he was sent into the Kun Ruins. There, he fought the Void Refinement cultivator Blood Spider and appeared to defeat him with the Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire.

• Feng Shu opened the gateway to the Kun Ruins and warned the younger cultivators that fighting was allowed inside the Celestial Palace and that they should support one another and survive.
• Ji Yuan entered with his Kunpeng Remnant Map, but the Celestial Palace elders deemed his Spirit Transformation late-stage cultivation too low and sent him to temper himself in the Kun Ruins first.
• A Blood-Jade Silk-Weaving Spider ambushed Ji Yuan, and Ji Yuan fought back with his swords, treasured artifacts, and the Reversal of the Five Elements Fan.
• When Blood Spider trapped him beneath a collapsing mountain, Ji Yuan transformed into Demon Venerable Black Baleful and broke Blood Spider’s legs with a punch.
• Blood Spider’s body burned from within, and when his primordial spirit tried to escape, Ji Yuan appeared in primordial-spirit form and ignited it with the Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire.

Ji Yuan defeated a Void Refinement Blood-Jade Silk-Weaving Spider, upgraded the Meditation Room, and began refining Feng Shu’s True Phoenix Feather to reach Spirit Transformation Peak Stage. In the Celestial Palace, the Phoenix Clan discussed the coming clan competition, while Bai Ze sent Dong Qian to the Demon Deity Palace after learning she had comprehended yin-yang true intent.

• Ji Yuan burned away the Blood-Jade Silk-Weaving Spider, collected its belongings, and discovered that killing a Void Refinement Cultivator had fulfilled the Meditation Room’s upgrade requirement.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the Meditation Room to level six, strengthened his divine soul, and gained insight into the passion required to comprehend the Great Dao, though he could not yet grasp the Space Dao.
• Ji Yuan reviewed Sword Nine and began refining Feng Shu’s True Phoenix Feather to hasten his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation Peak Stage.
• Feng Yu and the other Phoenix Clan cultivators discussed the Demon Master, the Demon Deity, the Demon Sovereign, and the competition among the Three Sacred Clans; Feng Cuo left to duel Lu Tianming.
• Bai Ze questioned Dong Qian about encountering his remnant soul, confirmed her yin-yang true intent, and sent her to the Demon Deity Palace, where someone immediately asked her where Long Chuan had gone.

Long Liuli learned that Long Chuan had gone alone to the Southern Demonlands and vanished, while six Body Integration cultivators uncovered a burning painting hidden beneath the Thunder Pool. Bai Zhan swallowed the sun to help reveal it, and a year later Ji Yuan broke through to Spirit Transformation peak stage after refining the true phoenix feather.

• Dong Qian told Long Liuli that Long Chuan had left for the Southern Demonlands alone after they escaped the spatial rift, and she had heard nothing from him since.
• Six Body Integration cultivators combined their powers to suppress the Thunder Pool and reveal a damaged painting that released pure demonic qi.
• Bai Zhan used Divine Ability—Swallow the Sun, plunging most of Kunxi into darkness as the painting burned away and something sliced through the void.
• Ji Yuan endured the true phoenix feather’s energy and spent a year refining it inside a spirit vein while his cultivation gradually rose.
• Ji Yuan refined the feather’s final trace and broke through from Spirit Transformation late stage perfection to Spirit Transformation peak stage.

Ji Yuan unlocked a Dao-Contemplation Platform, stabilized his cultivation, and entered the Celestial Palace after reaching Spirit Transformation Peak Stage. Feng Mengtang explained the stages of Great Dao comprehension and the palace’s opportunities, leaving Ji Yuan ready to attend Bai Ze’s Dao lecture.

• Ji Yuan spent his spirit stones and voidspace stones to build a Dao-Contemplation Platform, which he could only use after reaching Void Refinement.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Ji Yuan entered the Kunxu Secret Realm’s Celestial Palace at Bai Ze’s invitation and reunited with Feng Mengtang, Feng Yu, Feng Zhuer, and Feng Cuo.
• Feng Mengtang told Ji Yuan that Feng Qingyin had entered the Demon Deity Palace and explained the three stages of comprehending a Great Dao: true intent, myriad things, and law.
• Feng Mengtang described the Great Daos cultivated by the Phoenix Clan members and named the other cultivators who had entered the Demon Deity Palace.
• Feng Mengtang explained the Celestial Palace’s Dao lectures, merit missions, Dao-Contemplation Platform, and dangerous Dao-Observing Mountain; Ji Yuan settled into a nearby cave abode.
• Three days passed, and the day of Bai Ze’s Dao lecture arrived.

Ji Yuan attended Bai Ze’s discourse on the Dao and went to the Dao-Contemplation Platform, where he struggled to comprehend the true intent of space before focusing on the force law. With his three-day session nearly over, he practiced spear techniques and broke through to the true intent of the spear, leaving the platform amid surging spear intent.

• Bai Ze lectured the gathered cultivators on the Great Dao, and Ji Yuan entered a state of deep contemplation.
• After Ji Yuan emerged from his enlightenment, Bai Ze told him the others were waiting to watch him try the Dao-Contemplation Platform.
• Ji Yuan ascended the platform and questioned the Demon Sovereign’s motives while contemplating the true intent of space, but he could not grasp it.
• Ji Yuan turned to the force law, drew on his past experiences of overwhelming strength, and came close to comprehending its true intent.
• With only half a day left, Ji Yuan took up the Fire God Spear and practiced until he broke through the barrier to the true intent of the spear.

Ji Yuan faced criticism from the Phoenix Clan and the other clans after comprehending spear intent, but he used it to deepen his understanding of force. During the Demon Sovereign’s lecture, he comprehended Force True Intent and crossed the threshold of Force Law.

• Ji Yuan comprehended spear intent on the Dao-Contemplation Platform, then told Bai Ze he did not intend to follow the spear dao.
• Dragon Demon and Ao Mengxi mocked Ji Yuan, but he challenged Dragon Demon to a deathmatch before Long Qie talked Dragon Demon into leaving.
• Feng Yu, Feng Zhuer, and Feng Cuo criticized Ji Yuan for choosing a second-grade great dao, while Feng Mengtang defended him; Ji Yuan left to cultivate.
• For six months, Ji Yuan practiced spear techniques and fists to understand force, while gossip spread that he meant to cultivate the spear dao.
• At the Demon Sovereign’s lecture, Bai Ze wagered that Ji Yuan would comprehend a sacred-grade law within twenty years, and Ji Yuan accepted the challenge.
• Ji Yuan grasped that force was the foundation of the myriad arts, comprehended Force True Intent, and crossed the threshold of Force Law.