Chapter Summaries

Yang Xiao learned that the Scarlet Plume Kite King had seized Linyuan Commandery and attacked it while it rested in the ruined city. The wounded Kite King fled at high speed, and Yang Xiao chased after it.

• Wu Xu told Yang Xiao that the Scarlet Plume Kite King and the Old Python Demon Lord were competing to seize Liangzhou’s commanderies.
• General Shan and Xu Ruofeng told Wu Xu that the Scarlet Plume Kite King had captured Zhang and left him hanging from the Fortune House.
• Yang Xiao flew into Linyuan Commandery and found the Scarlet Plume Kite King asleep in the ruined Fortune House beside Zhang’s body.
• Yang Xiao struck the Scarlet Plume Kite King with the Army-Breaking Spear, piercing its wing and pinning it beneath the shattered restaurant.
• The Scarlet Plume Kite King tore off its injured wing and fled as Yang Xiao pursued it.

Yang Xiao pursued and killed the Scarlet Plume Kite King, then learned that the Old Python Demon Lord’s forces had seized Black-Clothed City and forced its people to build a palace. The chapter left Chen Chuan laboring under the Earth-Splitting Demon Ox’s rule while the demon demanded a palace large enough for its true form.

• Yang Xiao chased the fleeing Scarlet Plume Kite King and used Three Calamities Entangling the Body to erode most of its body before killing it with the Army-Breaking Spear.
• Yang Xiao refined the remains into essence, stored the Scarlet Plume Kite King's Demon Infant, and returned to Xu Ruofeng, who was stunned to learn the demon was dead.
• Yang Xiao told Xu Ruofeng to return to the city and asked where the old Demon King was.
• In Black-Clothed City, Chen Chuan and other captives struggled to build a palace for the Earth-Splitting Demon Ox, which had taken over the former Demon Suppression General's Residence.
• The Earth-Splitting Demon Ox demanded pillars at least ten zhang tall so its palace could accommodate its true form.

Yang Xiao arrived in Black-Clothed City and killed the Earth-Splitting Demon Ox that had been forcing laborers to build a palace. After strengthening his Jade Marrow Earth Ganoderma with the demon's essence, he prepared to use his remaining gains before confronting the old Demon King.

• The Earth-Splitting Demon Ox threatened to use the old craftsman as a prop for a crooked stone beam.
• Yang Xiao reached the construction site, rescued the old craftsman and nearby laborers, and struck the stubbled demon away from the platform.
• The Earth-Splitting Demon Ox revealed its true form and charged, but Yang Xiao stopped it with one hand and severed its head with the Shadowless Blade.
• Yang Xiao extracted the demon ox's Demon Core, refined its body into essence, and fed all the essence into the Jade Marrow Earth Ganoderma.
• Wu Xu began clearing out the remaining demon soldiers while Yang Xiao gathered a Demon Infant, a Core Illumination Realm Demon Core, and the Soul-Seizing Bell to use before facing the old Demon King.