Chapter Summaries

Gan Ying and Meng Yun traveled to the Baxia Demon King's birthday banquet, where Gan Ying hoped to trade for a Wind Spirit Grass while concealing his fear of the Treasure Mirror that had placed him and other Nascent Soul cultivators under the Demon King's control. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi completed a batch of Dragon Origin Pills to speed his progress in the Great Strength Demonic God Art's fourth revolution.

• Gan Ying explained to Meng Yun that the Baxia Demon King controlled the Chaotic Star Sea and had captured the divine-soul origins of many powerful cultivators with his Treasure Mirror.
• Gan Ying told Meng Yun that they were traveling to the Demon God Palace to trade for a Wind Spirit Grass and described the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's free trade between humans and demons.
• Zhou Yi spent a century cultivating the Six Revolutions Great Strength Demonic God Art, refining the Reflecting Void Tai Yin Divine Mirror, and gathering resources through the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Zhou Yi brewed Dragon Origin Pills in the Kunlun Cauldron using a recipe supplied by the Golden Flood Dragon King.
• Zhou Yi stored the completed pills and judged that they would save him a hundred years on the fourth revolution of his body-tempering art.

Zhou Yi’s birthday gathering brought human and demon cultivators together under the peace enforced by the Demon God Palace. After showing He Qiu around the guests, Zhou Yi teased the Golden Flood Dragon King about his absent spouse, who had left for the outer domain.

• Gan Ying and Meng Yun arrived at Demon God Island, where the Golden Flood Dragon King’s dragon might threatened them before he moved on to the palace.
• Gan Ying met Jin Yang, who explained that he had joined the Chiming Sect because Zhou Yi treated humans and demons fairly.
• Gan Ying entered the Inner Hall while Meng Yun stayed in the Outer Hall, where human and demon guests gathered without distinctions of rank or faction.
• Zhou Yi arrived with He Qiu and introduced him to the guests, including the Golden Flood Dragon King.
• The Golden Flood Dragon King said the Wind Peng King had gone beyond the domain seeking Golden Winged Great Peng bloodline after he bedded more than a dozen demon beasts.

At Zhou Yi’s birthday banquet, the Azure Flood Dragon King attacked the Demon God Palace to avenge its slain brother, and Zhou Yi forced the Golden Flood Dragon King to oppose it. The Azure Flood Dragon King summoned two powerful allies, and one of them immediately attacked Zhou Yi.

• Bai Yu and Gan Ying discussed a profitable deal for Mountain-Bearing Talismans at Zhou Yi’s banquet.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King arrived at the Demon God Palace and accused it of killing his third brother, then fought He Qiu and his Saint Demon avatars.
• Zhou Yi questioned the Golden Flood Dragon King about the Azure Flood Dragon King’s ties to the flood dragon clan, and Jin Teng denied any connection.
• Zhou Yi ordered Jin Teng to cleanse his own house, and the Golden Flood Dragon King joined He Qiu in attacking the Azure Flood Dragon King.
• The wounded Azure Flood Dragon King called on Hu of the Heavenly Demon Palace and Feng of Outer Sky Island, who appeared and unleashed a crushing pressure over Demon God Island.
• Hu rejected Zhou Yi’s friendly greeting and attacked him with the Void-Breaking Divine Claw.

Zhou Yi battled Old Monster Feng and Old Demon Hu, who used powerful spirit treasures to suppress him. Han Li arrived to aid Zhou Yi, and the chapter ended with Zhou Yi’s Profound Yin Demon Gods joining the fight against Old Monster Feng’s Myriad Blades Disk.

• Zhou Yi resisted Old Monster Feng’s Myriad Blades Disk with his powerful body while fighting the two Deity Transformation cultivators.
• Old Demon Hu used the Eighteen Green Mountain Diagram to trap Zhou Yi beneath its peaks as Old Monster Feng prepared another attack.
• Han Li appeared to aid Zhou Yi, but Old Monster Hu and Old Monster Feng decided to target him first.
• Zhou Yi revealed his true Baxia form and struggled against the mountain peaks while Old Monster Feng sent Flying Daggers after Han Li.
• Zhou Yi summoned his forty-nine Profound Yin Demon Gods to protect Han Li and attack Old Monster Feng.

Han Li and Zhou Yi battled Old Monster Feng and Old Demon Hu until Old Demon Che intervened with the Myriad Demon Banner and drove the two Deity Transformation cultivators away. Old Demon Che then met with Zhou Yi and Han Li on Demon God Island, where he revealed he had two matters to entrust to Zhou Yi.

• Han Li used the Profound Yin Demon Gods and his Puppet Clone to attack Old Monster Feng, but Feng’s Netherworld Divine Eye disrupted their control.
• Zhou Yi countered the foreign souls possessing the demon gods with Primordial Magnetic Divine Light while Han Li defended himself and attacked Feng’s protective robe.
• Old Demon Che’s Myriad Demon Banner struck Old Monster Feng and Old Demon Hu, freeing Zhou Yi from the Eighteen Green Mountain Diagram.
• Old Monster Hu and Old Monster Feng escaped through spatial rifts, while Zhou Yi’s attempt to pursue them left him wounded by void blades.
• Old Demon Che’s tiger-headed incarnation appeared, and Zhou Yi invited him and Han Li to his pill-refining retreat on Demon God Island.
• Old Demon Che recognized a Primordial Creation Golden Pill and said he had come to entrust two matters to Zhou Yi, who insisted Han Li stay for the discussion.

Zhou Yi accepted Old Demon Che’s request to oversee the demon race after Che ascended, then set out to unify the Chaotic Star Sea under the Demon God Palace. He left the Myriad Law Sect’s Wan Sangu under a hundred-year ultimatum and received the Suanni Clan’s offer to submit.

• Old Demon Che entrusted Zhou Yi with protecting the demon race and asked him to spare Corpse Bear; Zhou Yi agreed and sold Che nearly all his pills before Che departed for the spatial rift.
• Han Li took his share of the profits and returned to the Heavenly South cultivation world to prepare for a breakthrough to Deity Transformation.
• Zhou Yi summoned He Qiu, Long Ming, and the palace’s Great Demons, ordering them to gather the Chaotic Star Sea’s inheritances and bring the region under the Demon God Palace.
• Zhou Yi told He Qiu to warn Wan Sangu to reach Deity Transformation and ascend within a hundred years or disband the Myriad Law Sect and place her soul origin in the Tai Yin Divine Mirror.
• Long Ming reported that the Suanni Clan had offered to submit and yield the Ten Thousand Zhang Sea, and Zhou Yi told him to say that wherever Zhou Yi was would be the Demon God’s dwelling.

Ten years after unifying the Chaotic Star Sea, Zhou Yi returned to Blue Star to advance his cultivation while Kunlun Sect contended with the Awakener Alliance’s growing influence. He learned that Jiang Li had defected from the Alliance and was being hunted near the Myanmar border, then prepared to seek him out.

• Demon God Zhou Yi completed his control of the Chaotic Star Sea, and he returned to Blue Star to cultivate toward Qi Refining to Deity Transformation.
• Zhou Yi surveyed Kunlun Sect’s growth and the unrest abroad, where the Awakener Alliance had expanded its power and clashed with Kunlun disciples.
• Zhou Yi confirmed that his newly refined Spiritual Roots and techniques had strengthened him, though he still needed to refine the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree before facing the heavenly tribulation.
• Zhou Fangfei told Zhou Yi that Jiang Li had betrayed the Awakener Alliance and was being hunted, while Junior Sister Jiang protected him.
• Zhou Yi took on Daoist Chixiao’s appearance and learned that Jiang Li was near the southern Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, close to the Myanmar border.

Jiang Li fled through the Hundred Thousand Cross Mountains with an Innate Realm spirit medicine while Fire God pursued him, unaware that Jiang Xiaozhai and Guardian Zhao were nearby. Jiang Xiaozhai struck down Fire God, and his Fire Spirit Pearl emerged from the wreckage.

• Jiang Li refused to hand his spirit medicine to Fire God, while Jiang Xiaozhai secretly followed and urged him to join Kunlun.
• Fire God attacked Jiang Li with a fire whip, but Jiang Li used his blood qi to withstand most of the blow.
• Guardian Zhao arrived on a Golden Eagle, prompting Jiang Xiaozhai to reveal herself and pursue Fire God.
• Jiang Xiaozhai trapped Fire God with a lightning net and struck him with Golden Lightning Descends.
• Fire God cursed Jiang Xiaozhai as a purplish-red jeweled pearl flew from the ruins, and Jiang Xiaozhai recognized the Fire Spirit Pearl.

Zhao Li killed the Fire God and searched his memories, while Jiang Li learned that Guardian Lu could help remove his Innate Bad Luck in Jincheng. Back at Kunlun, Zhou Yi refined the Fire Spirit Pearl into the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, which advanced into a Spirit Artifact and drew a heavenly tribulation.

• Zhao Li marked the Fire Spirit Pearl, then killed the Fire God and searched his memories, learning that he had been hiding in Emei.
• Jiang Xiaozhai told Jiang Li that Guardian Lu was in Jincheng and could help remove his Innate Bad Luck, and Jiang Li set off to find him.
• Zhao Li returned the Fire Spirit Pearl to Zhou Yi before heading back to guard the sect’s Spirit Ore mines.
• Zhou Yi refined the Fire Spirit Pearl’s Origin into the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, which advanced into a Spirit Artifact.
• The Five Spirits Wonderful Tree broke through the sect-protecting formation as a heavenly tribulation began, and Zhou Yi watched it withstand the lightning.

Zhou Yi’s Five Spirits Wonderful Tree survived its spirit-artifact tribulation, and he took it to confront Gu Miaoyin, a reincarnated True Immortal. The chapter ended as his Five-Colored Divine Light overwhelmed her defenses and struck her jade skull.

• Zhou Yi’s Five Spirits Wonderful Tree weathered the Ninefold Thunder Tribulation and showed signs of developing an artifact spirit.
• Zhou Yi flew to Emei and attacked Gu Miaoyin, who was cultivating amid the turbid qi.
• Gu Miaoyin defended herself with bone shields, six White Bone Demon Gods, and her Jade Bone Dharma Body, but Zhou Yi’s tribulation lightning injured her.
• Zhou Yi questioned Gu Miaoyin about the Spirit Realm and learned she served White Bone Madam of White Tiger Ridge.
• Zhou Yi used the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree’s Five-Colored Divine Light to destroy Gu Miaoyin’s White Bone Treasure Pearl and strike her skull.

Zhou Yi defeated Gu Miaoyin after overcoming her desperate Three Corpses Slaying Immortal Curse, then waited for her resurrection and destroyed her again. The chapter ended with him tracking down and killing her remaining Primordial Star Bone Demons.

• Zhou Yi overwhelmed Gu Miaoyin with the Five Elements Divine Light, while his Void Shift Technique let him catch her each time she tried to escape.
• Gu Miaoyin absorbed Innate turbid qi to strengthen her bones, then sacrificed her body to unleash the Three Corpses Slaying Immortal Curse.
• Zhou Yi resisted the curse’s illusions with his powerful Divine Sense and blocked its blade with divine lightning, capturing the Good Thought wisp as Gu Miaoyin vanished.
• Zhou Yi buried Gu Miaoyin’s remains, but days later she resurrected from the grave as a weaker bone dragon and was destroyed by Five Elements Tribulation Lightning.
• Zhou Yi tracked the Primordial Star Bone Demons as Rat Demon and Ox Demon fled, then swept Ox Demon away with the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree.

Jin Jiufeng learned that Gu Miaoyin had fallen and ordered its demons to avoid provoking humans. In Emei Mountain, Zhou Yi discovered that Gu Miaoyin's death had formed a rare sixth-grade Gangsha land suited to his cultivation.

• Jin Jiufeng sensed Gu Miaoyin's death, suspected a native Child of Destiny had killed her, and ordered its forces to remain cautious within the South Sea.
• Ning Zhiheng visited Yuhong Studio to ask how the Investigation Bureau could help Houtian cultivators break through to the Innate Realm.
• Yuhong Daoist vanished, leaving Ning Zhiheng a message that read, "Destiny lies in Kunlun!"
• Zhou Yi exhausted Gu Miaoyin's reincarnation secret art and killed her three times, leaving the Primordial Star Bone Demons lifeless.
• Gu Miaoyin's True Immortal Origin merged with the foul Earth Vein energy and formed a Gangsha land containing sixth-grade Mystic Yellow White Bone Fiend.
• Zhou Yi recognized the fiend as ideal for cultivating the first transformation of God-Demon Body Refining.

Jiang Li asked Daoist Chixiao to remove his Innate Bad Luck, despite knowing it could become a powerful source of tribulation fortune. Chixiao began extracting it, revealing that he was Zhou Yi’s true body and that he wanted the bad luck to help weaken his coming heavenly tribulation.

• Jiang Li visited Guardian Deity Lu Sheng and Daoist Chixiao at the Kunlun Sect’s Jincheng residence and declared that he had left the Awakener Alliance to join the sect.
• Jiang Li offered an Innate Yin Spirit Ganoderma so an elder could remove his Innate Bad Luck.
• Chixiao warned Jiang Li that his bad luck could become a valuable tribulation-fortune ability, but Jiang Li insisted it had become a heart demon.
• Chixiao praised Jiang Li’s resilient mind and used Five Elements Divine Light to extract the Innate Bad Luck.
• The chapter revealed that Chixiao was Zhou Yi’s true body, who wanted Jiang Li’s bad luck to weaken the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation.
• Zhou Yi considered how Lu Sheng’s self-awareness and other changes might reflect deeper effects of Spiritual Energy Revival.

Zhou Yi removed Jiang Li’s Innate Bad Luck, gave him an internal cultivation technique, and learned more about the dangers of his coming heavenly tribulation. Zhou Mingrui then arrived with officials seeking an exchange for a Kunlun technique, while Zhou Yi recognized the Tai Yin Divine Stone as a valuable resource.

• Zhou Yi extracted Jiang Li’s Innate Bad Luck, refined it into his own Tribulation Qi, and gave Jiang Li the Ape Python Body Refining Technique and a token to cultivate in the Enlightenment Tea Garden.
• Zhou Yi and Lu Sheng discussed Zhou Yi’s uncertain chances against the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation and why he could not switch to the Chaotic Star Sea cultivation method.
• Zhou Mingrui arrived with Ji Xingwen and Su Lang, and Zhou Yi sensed moonlight power in their souls that he identified as coming from the Tai Yin Divine Stone.
• Ji Xingwen explained that the Martial Arts Department had developed public fitness and body-tempering methods, then asked Kunlun for an Internal Refining technique in exchange.
• Lu Sheng refused to share Kunlun’s inherited techniques, while Zhou Mingrui proposed exchanging for techniques Zhou Yi possessed outside the sect.

Zhou Yi exchanged the Primordial Chaos Technique and Soul Shocking Bell for the Tai Yin Divine Stone, which the Great Dynasty agreed to deliver. After the Investigation Bureau members left, Zhou Yi returned to Kunlun Sect, where Zhou Fangfei and Duan Houdao welcomed him with spirit wine.

• Zhou Yi offered six cultivation methods and the Soul Shocking Bell in exchange for the Tai Yin Divine Stone, and Zhou Mingrui contacted the Great Dynasty for guidance.
• Zhou Yi activated the Soul Shocking Bell, tempering Ji Xingwen and Su Lang with illusions before Lu Sheng restrained Su Lang when he attacked.
• After hearing Zhou Yi explain the methods, the Great Dynasty's experts chose the Primordial Chaos Technique, and Zhou Mingrui accepted the Jade Slip and Soul Shocking Bell in exchange for the Tai Yin Divine Stone.
• The Investigation Bureau members departed by helicopter, and Zhou Yi vanished to return to Kunlun Sect.
• Zhou Fangfei welcomed Zhou Yi with Hundred Flower Spirit Wine, and Duan Houdao arrived carrying a large wine jar.

Zhou Yi gathered resources and spent a year cultivating his body, spirit, and True Essence in preparation for the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation. The chapter ended as a vast storm gathered over a snow-covered peak and terrified people across the southwest.

• Duan Houdao achieved Qi Induction into Body, and Zhou Yi praised him and entrusted him and Zhou Fangfei with managing the Kunlun Sect.
• Zhou Yi ordered Zhou Fangfei to issue missions for Spiritual Objects needed by the Tai Yin Divine Mirror and warned her to take charge if he failed his coming tribulation.
• Zhou Yi used the Burning Spirit True Flame to purify his and his disciples’ True Essence, then traveled to Emei Mountain to cultivate the second turn of God-Demon Body Refining.
• Zhou Yi periodically visited the Chaotic Star Sea to exchange Spirit Medicine with Han Li and gather resources from the Demon God Palace, then returned to continue cultivating on Blue Star.
• After a year of cultivation, a storm of gathered spiritual energy and black clouds formed above a snow-covered peak, and people throughout the southwest sensed the terrifying pressure and cried that the Buddha was angry.

Han Li traveled to Demon God Island to retrieve the Eight Spirits Ruler, but discovered Zhou Yi had died after the curse destroyed his soul. Meanwhile, on Blue Star, Zhou Yi faced the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation after completing the second turn of God-Demon Body Refining.

• Han Li arrived at Chiming Island and was recognized by Chi Yin as a Deity Transformation expert.
• Han Li learned from the Heavenly Wave Sacred Beast that it could undo the Body Shattering Soul Annihilating Asura Curse and traveled to Demon God Island for the Eight Spirits Ruler.
• Han Li found Zhou Yi's Baxia body lifeless and learned that Zhou Yi's soul had been extinguished, possibly by the curse.
• Han Li retrieved the Eight Spirits Ruler and Zhou Yi's other treasures, then froze and began refining Zhou Yi's body despite the Heavenly Wave Sacred Beast's protest.
• On Blue Star, Zhou Yi's cultivation triggered the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation, and he rose into the sky to face it alone.

Zhou Yi underwent the Ninefold Thunder Tribulation, using his Innate Spiritual Items and body-refining techniques to endure and exploit its power. After surviving the seventh bolt with Myriad Law Divine Light, he prepared to face the remaining tribulation.

• Five Reincarnated True Immortals and the Great Dynasty detected Zhou Yi’s tribulation and recognized his strength after he shattered the first bolt with a punch.
• Zhou Yi absorbed the first two bolts into the Innate Purple Lightning Gourd, then used the Obsidian Axe to split the third bolt and refine the axe into a Purple Gold Stone Axe.
• Zhou Yi endured the fourth through sixth bolts while cultivating the third transformation of God-Demon Body Refining, sustaining severe injuries before healing with Wood Spirit Liquid.
• Zhou Yi judged that the seventh bolt was too dangerous to withstand with his body and raised Myriad Law Divine Light to block its thousands of lightning strikes.
• Zhou Yi’s vast True Essence held through the seventh thunder tribulation until the lightning was completely worn away.

After overcoming the ninth layer of the heavenly tribulation, Zhou Yi reached Qi Refining to Deity Transformation and demonstrated his power in space. He returned to Kunlun Sect, where Shanwen of Lesser Thunderclap Temple invited him to join the Buddhist Sect.

• The reincarnated True Immortals recognized the power of Zhou Yi's Myriad Law Divine Light, while Yuhong Zhenren wondered whether Zhou Yi was tied to a great life-and-death tribulation.
• Zhou Yi used the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree to weaken the eighth layer of the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation and relied on his Fifth-Grade Lotus Platform to withstand the ninth layer's Yin Yang Divine Lightning.
• After the tribulation, Zhou Yi's Essence, Qi, and Spirit entered Qi Refining to Deity Transformation, and he wove himself a defensive Daoist robe from ambient energy.
• Zhou Yi followed the satellite watching him into space and destroyed it with Five Elements Divine Light.
• Zhou Yi returned to Kunlun Sect, where Shanwen introduced himself as a disciple of Yellow Brow Buddha and invited Zhou Yi to join Lesser Thunderclap Temple.

Zhou Yi questioned Monk Shanwen about Blue Star’s Spiritual Energy Revival and the Spirit Realm, then showed him an Innate Fifth-Grade Thunder Lotus. Monk Shanwen claimed the treasure belonged to the Buddhist Sect and demanded it back.

• Zhou Yi rejected Monk Shanwen’s invitation to join the Buddhist Sect and asked him about Bai Miaoyin, who Monk Shanwen said had been enlightened by the Buddha after following the demonic path.
• Zhou Yi brought Monk Shanwen to a snowy mountain and asked why Blue Star’s Spiritual Energy Revival had happened so rapidly; Monk Shanwen speculated that the Immortal Realm Heavenly Court had used the stars’ power.
• Monk Shanwen explained that reaching the Spirit Realm required a special method of guidance and described the backing of Thorn Ridge, White Tiger Ridge, and the reincarnated Daoist Yuhong.
• Zhou Yi showed Monk Shanwen his Innate Fifth-Grade Thunder Lotus, and Monk Shanwen claimed it was a Buddhist treasure bestowed by the Eastern Arrival Buddha and demanded its return.