Chapter Summaries

After the Demon Race planned to target Qin Zheng, the Human Race’s elites urged him to hide beside the Immortal Vanquishing Sword, but he chose to cultivate instead. By consuming all four strands of Innate Merit to enhance the Great Dao Tree, Qin Zheng broke through to Heavenly Immortal.

• In the imperial palace, a black-robed ruler sent a dark-robed young man to the Dragon-Phoenix marriage alliance banquet, where he could seize a chance to kill Liu Fengxian and possibly Qin Zheng.
• At Zhenxiao City’s City Lord’s Manor, the elites mourned Immortal Lord Xiaoyao’s death and warned that the Demon Race would soon target Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng refused to hide in the Ten Thousand Li Green Mountains, told the elites he would soon reach Heavenly Immortal, and gave Immortal Lord Chonghe the marriage alliance invitation.
• Qin Zheng returned to Zhenning City and used his four strands of Innate Merit to enhance the Great Dao Tree, which filled his Inner World with stars and eventually allowed him to advance to Heavenly Immortal.

Qin Zheng completed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Immortal realm and followed a mysterious Lightning Being into the sea of lightning. There, he learned that a Celestial Venerable's severed finger was being restrained, but the Lightning Being sent it into his body, leaving him unconscious.

• Humanity's leaders decided Qin Zheng should not attend the Dragon Palace and Phoenix Nest marriage banquet, then sensed his lightning tribulation beginning over Zhenning City.
• Qin Zheng advanced to the Heavenly Immortal realm, drew the Immortal Ascension Tribulation away from the city, and crushed the lightning bolts with ease.
• The Lightning Being recognized Qin Zheng as a successor of the Yuxu lineage and led him through the sea of lightning to a pool containing a Celestial Venerable's severed finger.
• Qin Zheng learned that unknown beings could not discover him and that the Lightning Being wanted him to protect the finger.
• The Lightning Being sent the severed finger into Qin Zheng's body, destroying his newly advanced body and causing him to lose consciousness.

After awakening from a month-long coma, Qin Zheng discovered that the Severed Finger was suppressed by his Jade Ruyi and Immortal Slaying Sword Intent, then faced pressure to attend the Dragon and Phoenix clans' marriage alliance banquet. He agreed to go after Ao Lie threatened Immortal Lord Mingyue, but first subdued Ao Lie and ordered him to stay buried until Qin Zheng returned.

• Qin Zheng awoke in Zhenxiao City after sleeping for more than a month and learned that Immortal Lord Mingyue had gone to the banquet with Zhao Qingqian.
• Qin Zheng found the Severed Finger suppressed in his sea of mind and considered reentering the Spiritual Secret Realm to investigate the Immortal Ruins.
• Ao Lie arrived in Qin Zheng's room and demanded that he attend the Dragon and Phoenix clans' banquet, warning that Liu Fengxian might kill Immortal Lord Mingyue if Qin Zheng refused.
• Qin Zheng agreed to go, then effortlessly suppressed Ao Lie when he threatened the human race's top experts.
• Qin Zheng slammed Ao Lie into the ground, pinned him with a wooden sword, and ordered him not to emerge before Qin Zheng returned.

Qin Zheng arrived at the Dragon and Phoenix races’ marriage banquet after advancing to Heaven Immortal, while Immortal Lord Mingyue endured public insults and worried that the gathering was a trap against the Human Race. He reached her quarters after killing the demons who had humiliated her, leaving their corpses behind.

• Qin Zheng set out for the banquet, confident in his strength, and encountered an Ape Demon riding a black whale toward Boundless Star Continent.
• At the banquet, three Golden Toad Demon Lords mocked Immortal Lord Mingyue and proposed marrying her; she rejected them and suggested they marry the Phoenix Third Princess instead.
• Immortal Lord Mingyue left the hall and feared the Dragon and Phoenix races were conspiring with the demons, especially since Liu Fengxian had attended.
• A Dragon Race Heaven Immortal returned Zhao Qingqian, badly injured after a demon attacked him; Mingyue treated him, and Zhao offered her his wooden sword for protection.
• Qin Zheng entered Mingyue’s quarters in the form of an Ape Demon, revealed himself, and said he had killed several demons; more than a dozen Heavenly Immortal corpses lay behind him.

Qin Zheng arrived at Sun Moon Island disguised as Zhao Qingqian for the Dragon and Phoenix clans’ grand banquet, where he killed three top-grade Celestial Immortal toad demons who threatened Immortal Lord Mingyue. After confronting the Dragon Clan crown prince and Phoenix Clan princess, he tossed them the demon cores as a congratulatory gift.

• Qin Zheng reassured Immortal Lord Mingyue that he was prepared to face the danger and planned to attend the banquet disguised as Zhao Qingqian.
• Twelve days later, Qin Zheng and Immortal Lord Mingyue traveled to Sun Moon Island as the banquet began.
• Three toad demons confronted Immortal Lord Mingyue and attacked Qin Zheng, who revealed himself and killed all three.
• The Dragon Clan crown prince and Phoenix Clan princess attacked Qin Zheng, but his punch forced them back.
• Qin Zheng tossed the three toad demons’ cores to the pair and announced that Qin Zheng of the human race presented two top-grade Celestial Immortal demon cores as a gift.

Qin Zheng confronted the Dragon King and Phoenix Lord after they demanded to expose his memories, then attacked them and the Demon Sovereign. The Dragon King and Phoenix Lord were left near death, and Qin Zheng faced the Demon Sovereign in the sky.

• Qin Zheng and Immortal Lord Mingyue entered the palace and reached the fourth level, where they saw the Dragon King, Phoenix Lord, and Demon Sovereign arrive above them.
• The Phoenix Lord demanded that Qin Zheng use a stone to reveal his soul’s memories and explain why the Dragon and Phoenix prodigies had died.
• Qin Zheng refused to submit, challenged the Dragon King and Phoenix Lord, and struck them with his blazing saber.
• Qin Zheng split Sun Moon Island with another strike, subdued the Dragon King and Phoenix Lord, and took their demon cores.
• The Demon Sovereign grabbed the black-robed man, but Qin Zheng attacked her with a fist, and their powers collided.

Qin Zheng killed Liu Fengxian and confronted the Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor, revealing a sword strike powerful enough to make even beings beyond Heavenly Immortals retreat. As they prepared to attack again, Qin Zheng unleashed his full strength against them, while Wu Qingping was surrounded by the Seven Great Demon Gods far away.

• Qin Zheng defeated Liu Fengxian and snapped her neck, then faced the newly arrived Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor.
• The Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor challenged Qin Zheng over the Dragon and Phoenix clans’ dead, and Qin Zheng refused to back down.
• Wu Qingping rose with his wooden sword as the Seven Great Demon Gods surrounded the green mountains, but a devastating sword intent appeared over the distant ocean.
• The Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor were shocked by the sword light, which Qin Zheng had unleashed from afar.
• Qin Zheng stepped forward and drew power from his Inner World, the Great Dao Tree, and his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent to fight the two Ancestors at full strength.

Liu Fengxian realized Qin Zheng might have fought the Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor, while Qin Zheng battled the two beyond-Celestial-Immortal beings above the ocean. After his sword shattered the battlefield and left both opponents injured, Qin Zheng asked whether they would continue.

• Liu Fengxian awoke injured, recalled Qin Zheng's overwhelming strength, and sensed a sword cry that made her suspect he had fought the Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor.
• The Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor battled Qin Zheng above the ocean, while the devastation forced the Demon Race to flee and Immortal Lord Mingyue to withdraw.
• A dark-robed peak Celestial Immortal from the Kirin Clan urged Immortal Lord Mingyue to leave and remarked on the human race's fortune before disappearing into the void.
• The Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor unleashed greater power, but Qin Zheng sent Immortal Slaying Sword Qi across the battlefield and struck at them with a powerful longsword.
• After a blinding clash left the ocean basin parched and the heavens shattered, Immortal Lord Mingyue found Qin Zheng alive, and he asked the injured Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor whether they would continue.

Qin Zheng defeated Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor, then went to the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom to kill its demons and gather merit. As demon gods planned to ambush him while he was injured, the Immortal Vanquishing Sword stepped in to keep them from leaving the mountains spanning ten thousand miles.

• Qin Zheng wounded Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor, drove them into retreat, and collected pieces of their flesh after his sword struck them in the void.
• Qin Zheng told Immortal Lord Mingyue to return to human territory, then traveled toward the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom to take advantage of his remaining freedom and gather merit.
• Qin Zheng spent one strand of Innate Merit to enhance the Great Dao Tree, restoring its leaves and beginning to repair his Inner World.
• Qin Zheng attacked Heart-Eating Dao, killed the Demon Race experts who confronted him, and headed toward the Demon Kingdom's capital to find greater numbers of targets.
• The seven demon gods resolved to ambush the injured Qin Zheng, but the man from the small courtyard raised his wooden sword and warned them to remain in the mountains spanning ten thousand miles.

Wu Qingping confronted the Seven Great Demon Gods while Qin Zheng invaded the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom and attacked its capital. As Wu Qingping kept the demon gods from withdrawing, Qin Zheng began slaughtering the kingdom’s gathered defenders.

• Wu Qingping barred the Seven Great Demon Gods from pursuing Qin Zheng, and they attacked him with their combined might.
• Chu Ying learned that Qin Zheng had entered the Demon Kingdom and chose to preserve his strength rather than intervene.
• Qin Zheng struck the capital of the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom with the Nine Heavens Sun-Burning Saber, drawing out its many powerful defenders.
• Qin Zheng attacked the gathered Demon Race powerhouses, seeking to gain merit while Wu Qingping occupied the demon gods.
• The Seven Great Demon Gods tried to leave the fight after sensing Qin Zheng’s invasion, but Wu Qingping blocked them and ordered them to stay.

Qin Zheng slaughtered demons in the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom capital while the Immortal Vanquishing Sword held off the Seven Great Demon Gods. After Qin Zheng wounded two demon gods and warned the Demon Race not to invade again, he killed Liu Fengxian with a distant sword strike, leaving the demon gods stunned.

• Qin Zheng destroyed the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom's imperial city and continued killing demons as the Seven Great Demon Gods fought the Immortal Vanquishing Sword.
• Two demon gods escaped toward the capital, but the Immortal Vanquishing Sword blocked the remaining five from following.
• Qin Zheng met the two demon gods' attack with a saber strike and Immortal Slaying Sword Qi, severing one demon god's right arm and cutting the other in half.
• Qin Zheng warned the demon gods that he would repeat the massacre if the Demon Race invaded the Human Race again.
• Qin Zheng sent his longsword to the Demon Emperor Hall, where it killed Liu Fengxian and blasted a hole through the hall.
• The demon gods stopped fighting in shock, and Qin Zheng said he had promised to kill Liu Fengxian.

Qin Zheng and Wu Qingping faced the Demon Race’s Seven Great Demon Gods and the ancestors of Dragon Palace and Phoenix Nest in a devastating battle that ended with the Demon Race agreeing not to invade the human race. Afterward, Qin Zheng asked why Wu Qingping had never intervened before, and Wu Qingping revealed that he had been suppressing something other than the seven Demon Gods.

• Qin Zheng confronted the Seven Great Demon Gods as Wu Qingping and the Dragon Palace and Phoenix Nest ancestors arrived, bringing nearly every beyond-Heavenly-Immortal expert in the Lingxu Realm together.
• Qin Zheng accused the Demon Race and the two ancestors of persecuting the human race, then attacked, while Wu Qingping held off the Seven Great Demon Gods.
• Immortal Lord Mingyue returned to Zhenxiao City, killed Ao Lie, and told the human experts what had happened as battle shockwaves reached their territory.
• As the fighting devastated the Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom, the Dragon Palace and Phoenix Nest ancestors withdrew and promised not to invade the human race.
• Qin Zheng demanded that the Demon Race stop invading the human race, and the Seven Great Demon Gods accepted the terms before the battle ended.
• Qin Zheng asked Wu Qingping why he had never fought the Demon Race, and Wu Qingping said he could not go all out because he had been suppressing something other than the Seven Great Demon Gods.

Wu Qingping told Qin Zheng about the Void Spirit Realms, lifeless ruins that contained sealed Taiji-level great demons, and revealed that one seal was weakening. After Wu Qingping left to suppress it, Qin Zheng suspected that the truth behind the Immortal Ruins’ destruction was connected to the Void Spirit Realms and headed to explore the Mind Demon’s Spiritual Secret Realm.

• Wu Qingping gave Qin Zheng a healing spirit fruit from a Void Spirit Realm and explained that countless such realms existed across the Lingxu Realm.
• Wu Qingping revealed that three great demons were sealed in the Immortal Ruins and that he had found seven similar Void Spirit Realms, one with a weakening seal.
• Qin Zheng asked to see the Void Spirit Realms, but Wu Qingping told him to cultivate until he advanced beyond the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Wu Qingping said he was one step away from Taiji and warned Qin Zheng that the danger might involve more than the sealed demons.
• Wu Qingping gave Qin Zheng the Immortal Vanquishing Wood Sword and left to suppress the weakening seal, entrusting the human race to him while he was gone.
• Qin Zheng suspected Wu Qingping knew the truth behind the Immortal Ruins’ destruction and set out to explore the Mind Demon’s Spiritual Secret Realm.

After the Human Race’s victory, Qin Zheng urged its elites to stay vigilant, then used his accumulated merit to enhance the Great Dao Tree. Meanwhile, Chu Ying asked the Seven Demon Gods to help him ascend beyond the Heavenly Immortal realm, but they seized him and ordered him to investigate the Void Spirit Realm.

• Qin Zheng told the Human Race elites that they had won, instructed them to publicize the victory without claiming the Demon Race was permanently defeated, and warned them that greater threats remained.
• Qin Zheng returned to Zhenning City, checked his Merit Scroll, and spent one strand of Innate Merit to enhance the Great Dao Tree.
• Chu Ying returned to the ruined Demon Race capital and revealed to the Seven Demon Gods that his strength was nearly above the Heavenly Immortal realm, asking them to help him ascend.
• The Seven Demon Gods discussed a being in the Void Spirit Realm that claimed to be their ancestor and decided Chu Ying should investigate it.
• Chu Ying tried to leave, but a giant hand reached for him and ordered him to stay.

Qin Zheng completed his breakthrough beyond the Heavenly Immortal realm, but failed to gather enough Innate Merit to condense his Dao Palace. After strengthening his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent, he received an invitation from Immortal Mountain and learned that a sealed Void Spirit Realm threatened to unleash demons.

• Qin Zheng used Innate Merit to complete his Inner World and break through beyond the Heavenly Immortal realm, but the Dao Fruit did not transform into a Dao Palace.
• Qin Zheng spent more Innate Merit repairing the Immortal Slaying Sword Intent as news of his breakthrough spread through the Nine Regions.
• Kirin Clan envoys invited Qin Zheng to Immortal Mountain on behalf of their ancestor, who said befriending him was worth angering the Demon Race, Dragon Palace, and Phoenix Nest.
• The Immortal Mountain ancestor revealed that a newly discovered Void Spirit Realm held demons nearing escape from their seal and asked Qin Zheng to discuss sealing or killing them.
• Qin Zheng agreed to visit Immortal Mountain later and gave the envoys his crimson sword to deliver to their ancestor, testing whether the invitation concealed a plot.

Qin Zheng killed the Taiyi demon Yaksa Monu, then learned from Mo Xun that humanity’s fortune was waning as the Demon Race’s grew. When another demon emerged near Zhenxiao City, Qin Zheng destroyed its divided soul and learned its main body was a Taiyi Mind Demon named Shimeng.

• Qin Zheng killed Yaksa Monu, took his spirit crystal, and left the ruined Void Spirit Realm with Mo Xun.
• Mo Xun warned Qin Zheng that humanity’s fortune had fallen while the Demon Race’s fortune surged, and Qin Zheng asked him to locate other Void Spirit Realms.
• A new Taiyi aura appeared, and Qin Zheng hurried toward it as Mo Xun used his divine ability to seek fortune and avoid calamity.
• Outside Zhenxiao City, Chu Ying summoned an ancestor’s possession to confront Immortal Lord Chonghe, but Qin Zheng arrived and struck the possessed figure down.
• Qin Zheng captured and crushed the divided soul, and the Merit Scroll identified it as Mind Demon Chu Ying, a remnant soul of the Taiyi-level Spirit Demon Shimeng.

Qin Zheng tracked Mind Demon Chu Ying, then confronted Shi Meng to learn why the Demon Race had invaded the Qionglai Great Realm. After swearing to help Shi Meng break his seal in exchange for answers, Qin Zheng removed the formation flags, freeing the Great Unity-level demon, which immediately attacked him.

• Qin Zheng identified Mind Demon Chu Ying through a karmic thread and sent Immortal Slaying Sword Intent after it as Wu Qingping warned that a Great Demon’s seal was weakening.
• Qin Zheng entered Shi Meng’s Void Spirit Realm and asked why the Demon Race had invaded the Qionglai Great Realm and whether Great Luo-level demons had been sealed.
• Shi Meng told Qin Zheng that the Demon Emperor had ordered the invasion as part of a war against the human race, but he did not know the strongest combatants’ realms or how many demons had been sealed.
• Qin Zheng swore to help Shi Meng break the seal, climbed the mountain, and pulled out its eighteen formation flags.
• Shi Meng broke free as a Great Unity-level demon and moved to eat Qin Zheng, who answered with a terrifying sword light.

Qin Zheng defeated Stone Meng and refined the Dragon Elephant Demon Core, gaining a vision of an ancient world and the colossal Ancient Dragon Elephant. He confirmed that his Great Dao Fruit contained a Dao Palace, but it still needed more Innate Merit to ripen and advance him to Grand Unity.

• Qin Zheng killed Stone Meng, took the Stone Spirit Demon Core, and left the Void Spirit Realm for Zhenning City.
• The Demon Gods in the Demon Emperor Hall feared that Qin Zheng could decide the Demon Race’s fate, while an unknown voice interrupted their discussion.
• Qin Zheng spent twenty strands of Innate Merit upgrading the Great Dao Tree and glimpsed a Dao Palace within its Great Dao Fruit, but the fruit did not ripen.
• Qin Zheng refined the Dragon Elephant Demon Core and found himself in a primordial world where he saw an Ancient Dragon Elephant larger than the Lingxu Realm.
• The Ancient Dragon Elephant flung a mountain-sized drop of blood at Qin Zheng, and he collided with it as terrifying power surged through him.

After refining the Dragon Elephant Bloodline, Qin Zheng gained immense strength and glimpsed the Divine Treasury of Strength, then learned of a Void Spirit Realm containing sealed Grand Unity demons. He overheard the Demon Race’s plan to find the Demon Ruins, killed the Demon Emperor Hall’s demon gods, and pinned Senior Shi down to demand an explanation.

• Qin Zheng refined the Dragon Elephant Bloodline, multiplied his strength, and briefly glimpsed the gate to the Divine Treasury of Strength before it vanished.
• Qin Zheng killed a deer demon at the Demon Emperor Hall and forced the remaining demon gods to reveal the aura of another Void Spirit Realm.
• After Qin Zheng left, Senior Shi revealed that three sealed Grand Unity demons awaited him in that realm and declared that finding the Demon Ruins was the Demon Race’s priority.
• Qin Zheng returned, crushed Senior Shi into an abyss, and killed the five remaining demon gods with a flash of blade light.
• Qin Zheng overwhelmed Senior Shi, pinned him to the ground with a blade, and demanded to know what the Demon Ruins were.

Qin Zheng killed Shi Feng and three Grand Unity demons, then rescued the humans they had been feeding on. As Mo Xun warned that humanity's fortune was nearing collapse, Wu Qingping began advancing to Grand Unity while facing a sealed demon and a mysterious woman.

• Qin Zheng learned from the Merit Scroll that Shi Feng was a human slave of the Demon Race, questioned him, then killed him and took his storage pouch.
• Qin Zheng asked Mo Xun's Kirin Clan to locate every Void Spirit Realm sealing great demons, and Mo Xun warned that the Demon Race's fortune was overwhelming humanity's.
• Qin Zheng entered the Void Spirit Realm Shi Feng had revealed and killed its ox, dog, and toad demons.
• Qin Zheng collected the demon cores, reviewed their possible refinements and his Merit Scroll, then used the Human Seed Bag to rescue the humans among the bones.
• Wu Qingping faced a sealed six-winged great demon and a mysterious woman; after declaring it was time, he unleashed a terrifying aura as he began advancing to Grand Unity.