Chapter Summaries

Chen Daoxuan advanced to World Realm Layer Two and deciphered the Azure Wood Cauldron’s forging method while the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s ceremony continued. Zhang Xuanling demanded punishment for the Ye Family and Ye Wudao, and Fei Chenxue ordered the family expelled from Cangzhou Immortal City and Ye Wudao detained; Chen Daoxuan finished preparing for his coming battle with Jiang Chengye.

• Chen Daoxuan fused the Five Elements laws into Yin and Yang, advancing the Xuanhuang Realm to World Realm Layer Two.
• Chen Daoxuan began deriving the Azure Wood Cauldron’s forging method while the Merit Celebration Ceremony continued outside.
• Zhang Xuanling publicly challenged the punishments, accusing the Ye Family of cowardice and Ye Wudao of abducting female cultivators.
• Fei Chenxue ordered the Ye Family expelled from Cangzhou Immortal City and Ye Wudao detained pending investigation.
• Ye Yin challenged Fei Chenxue to settle matters through a battle in the Endless Void, and she accepted.
• Chen Daoxuan completed his analysis of the Azure Wood Cauldron’s forging method and felt ready for his battle with Jiang Chengye.

After reaching World Realm Layer Two, Chen Daoxuan entered the Endless Void with Jiang Chengye and learned how worlds could carry cultivators through it. Their wagered battle began, and Chen Daoxuan used the Starry Sword Dao Chart and the Void Nine Palaces Formation to counter Jiang Chengye’s World Projection and immense body.

• Chen Daoxuan revealed that he had reached World Realm Layer Two, startling Fei Chenxue before the Merit Celebration Ceremony continued for another half month.
• After the ceremony ended, Chen Daoxuan and Jiang Chengye entered the Endless Void, followed by Fei Chenxue, Qin Zhan, and other powerful cultivators.
• Jiang Chengye and Fei Chenxue explained that cultivators could use their worlds to travel through the Endless Void and described the Two Realms Abyss and its route back to Xianyun Continent.
• Jiang Chengye began his battle with Chen Daoxuan by suppressing him with his World Projection, but Chen Daoxuan used the Starry Sword Dao Chart and the Xuanhuang Realm’s World Projection to force it back.
• Jiang Chengye drew World Force into his body and grew to more than a thousand zhang tall, while Chen Daoxuan deployed the Void Nine Palaces Formation to trap him.
• Jiang Chengye announced that he would break Chen Daoxuan’s Formation.

Chen Daoxuan fought Jiang Chengye inside the Void Nine Palaces Formation, but could only withstand his overwhelming attacks until both men ended the battle and exchanged the Azure Wood Cauldron and the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance secrets. Jiang Chengye refused to help Ye Yin and departed, while Ye Yin's hidden ally fled, leaving him surrounded by Fei Chenxue and the others.

• Chen Daoxuan trapped Jiang Chengye in the Void Nine Palaces Formation, but Jiang Chengye's immense strength overwhelmed the formation's spatial blades and nearly broke its defenses.
• Chen Daoxuan used the formation's River of Time and Space to swallow and redirect Jiang Chengye's attacks, but his World Force was exhausted and he realized Jiang Chengye would eventually win.
• Jiang Chengye ended the fight, lent Chen Daoxuan the Azure Wood Cauldron, and gave him a Jade Slip containing the secrets of the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance; Chen returned the cauldron, and Jiang gave him a Storage Ring filled with Creation Force.
• Jiang Chengye rejected Ye Yin's demand for help, revealed that he had only wanted the Azure Wood Cauldron, and left after telling Fei Chenxue and the others they could deal with Ye Yin.
• Ye Yin's hidden World Realm ally fled from his Cave Heaven artifact, leaving Ye Yin alone before Fei Chenxue and the others.

After Ye Yin died, Fei Chenxue showed Chen Daoxuan the prosperous mortal city she hoped to make a model for the Myriad Star Sea. Chen Daoxuan challenged her belief that resources could simply be redistributed, leaving Fei Chenxue to ask whether he had a solution for mortals and rogue cultivators.

• Yi Tianqi escaped through the world he had created, while Fei Chenxue stopped Qin Zhan from pursuing him.
• Ye Yin accused Fei Chenxue of betraying the sect by favoring rogue cultivators, then took his own life after Hu Yan Chi condemned his alliance with Yi Tianqi.
• Fei Chenxue suppressed the turmoil in the Qianyuan Sword Sect and met Chen Daoxuan, who said he needed to return to his clan.
• Fei Chenxue took Chen Daoxuan to a mortal city and explained that she wanted the Myriad Star Sea's mortals to live with the same confidence and hope.
• Chen Daoxuan argued that the Myriad Star Sea lacked enough resources to lift mortals and rogue cultivators through redistribution, and Fei Chenxue asked what solution he had.

Chen Daoxuan discussed expansion beyond the Myriad Star Sea with Fei Chenxue, then returned to Twin Lakes Island with Ye Wudao. Chen Daochu revealed that the Artifact Research Institute had created the Artifact Machine Tool Chen Daoxuan had been waiting for.

• Chen Daoxuan proposed obtaining resources from the True Demon Realm without relying on war and invited Fei Chenxue to visit Guanhai Immortal City.
• Fei Chenxue and Chen Daoxuan parted, and he took Ye Wudao with him.
• Luo Li guessed that Fei Chenxue had sought a marriage alliance, and Chen Daoxuan told her he had refused.
• After more than a month, Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island and released Ye Wudao for Chen Xianhe.
• Chen Xianhe seized Ye Wudao and flew toward the Red Copper Mountain Range to confront him.
• Chen Daochu told Chen Daoxuan that the Artifact Research Institute had created the Artifact Machine Tool.

Chen Daochu showed Chen Daoxuan the Artifact Research Institute’s first working Artifact Machine Tool, which automatically refined and assembled a Rainbow Sound Flying Sword without an Artifact Forger using Magical Power or Divine Sense. The breakthrough opened a path toward mechanized magic artifact production, though the machine could only make one type of First-tier artifact for now.

• Chen Daochu explained that scarce high-tier Artifact Forgers kept the Chen Family from producing enough magic artifacts to compete in the high-tier market.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Daochu discussed how the Artifact Machine Tool built on earlier research and could be improved now that the Institute had achieved its first working model.
• Chen Daochu started the Spirit-Melding Furnace, fed Spirit Ore into it, and operated the Artifact Machine Tool to refine a sword blank and fuse its formations.
• Chen Daoxuan examined the finished Rainbow Sound Flying Sword and realized that ordinary people could operate the machine without using Magical Power or Divine Sense.
• Chen Daochu said the test model could only produce one kind of Flying Sword, while a Universal Artifact Machine Tool remained difficult to develop.
• Chen Daoxuan praised Chen Daochu and credited the Artifact Research Institute’s work with ushering in a new era of production.

Chen Daoxuan discussed the newly developed Artifact Machine Tool with Chen Daochu and Chen Daolian, considering its limits, its effects on Guanhai Immortal City's production, and the need to retain and cultivate talented Artifact Forgers. He then showed Chen Daolian the Azure Wood Cauldron refinement method, leaving her stunned by the value of the treasure he had entrusted to her.

• Chen Daoxuan suggested that Chen Daochu separate the Artifact Machine Tool's shaping and formation-fusion functions to make future improvements easier.
• Chen Daoxuan told Luo Li that Chen Daochu's team had made progress toward mass-producing high-tier Magic Artifacts, then summoned Chen Daolian to discuss the development.
• Chen Daoxuan explained that the machine tool was only First-Grade for now and warned that mechanization would disrupt the work of low-tier Artifact Forgers.
• Chen Daolian proposed shifting talented Artifact Forgers into research and making talent cultivation a central Chen Family priority, which Chen Daoxuan endorsed.
• Chen Daoxuan gave Chen Daolian a Jade Slip containing the Azure Wood Cauldron refinement method, and she recognized its immense strategic value.

Chen Daoxuan assigned Chen Daolian to prepare Guanhai Immortal City for Artifact Machine Tools and gather materials to mass-produce Azure Wood Cauldrons, which could generate Creation Force. After studying Jiang Chengye’s inheritance secrets, Chen Daoxuan learned about the Sky-Reaching Pagoda’s Elite Inheritance and resolved to attempt its first layer.

• Chen Daoxuan told Chen Daolian to restructure production in Guanhai Immortal City and gather materials for Azure Wood Cauldrons.
• Chen Daoxuan reflected on how Creation Force could strengthen the Xuanhuang Realm, whose small size weakened its World Force.
• Chen Daoxuan counted the 6,400 drops of Creation Force he had won from Jiang Chengye and examined Jiang Family records of Myriad Star Sea inheritances.
• Chen Daoxuan learned that cultivators who reached the Sky-Reaching Pagoda received Growth-Type Immortal Artifacts and could choose a Secret Art for each layer they passed.
• Chen Daoxuan concluded that his World Realm Layer Two strength gave him confidence to pass the first layer of the Sky-Reaching Pagoda.

Chen Daoxuan returned with Luo Li to Demon Ape Mountain, where he learned that the expanding True Demon Realm Passage had become dangerous for the Merfolk Tribe. After arranging for the Chen Family to take over its defense, he entered the inheritance trial again to challenge the Sky-Reaching Pagoda.

• Chen Daoxuan realized that passing the Sky-Reaching Pagoda could earn him another Secret Art, which might help address his weaknesses in cultivation and close combat.
• Chen Daoxuan took Luo Li to visit her father, Luo Xiuyuan, at Demon Ape Mountain.
• Luo Xiuyuan told Chen Daoxuan that the True Demon Realm Passage had expanded enough for Purple Mansion Great Demons to pass through.
• Chen Daoxuan offered to relocate the Merfolk Tribe or have the Chen Family assume responsibility for guarding the passage, and Luo Xiuyuan accepted the help.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to the inheritance trial, spoke with the white-robed Daoist about the Immortal Realm, and entered the Sky-Reaching Pagoda to begin his challenge.

Chen Daoxuan passed the Sky-Reaching Pagoda’s First Layer, learned that its world was the Earthly Immortal Realm, and was killed by the Second Layer’s opponent. He then received his first-layer reward and chose to examine the Secret Arts, hoping to find a way to strengthen his weak physical body.

• Chen Daoxuan defeated Little Drifting Wind at Shituo Ridge and realized the Pagoda’s world was a real world resembling the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan reached the Second Layer, where an azure-robed Daoist struck him down with a Golden Giant Sword.
• The Daoist in white explained that passing a layer granted a choice of treasure, correcting the Jiang Family’s Jade Slip, which had described the reward as a Secret Art.
• Chen Daoxuan considered the treasures, recognized that the Sacred Origin Fruit Tree was a Dead Root, and concluded that his cultivation and physical body were his greatest weaknesses.
• Chen Daoxuan chose Secret Arts and, with the Daoist in white’s permission, began examining the thirteen Jade Slips.

Chen Daoxuan chose the incomplete All Heavens Demon God True Body as his new Body Refining method and studied its twelve Ancestral Witch physiques. He settled on Zhurong’s body, whose refining power promised the cultivation speed he needed.

• Chen Daoxuan selected the All Heavens Demon God True Body from the Jade Slips, and the white-robed Daoist explained that the technique was incomplete and its later portions were beyond his reach for now.
• Back in his cave mansion, Chen Daoxuan recognized that his Body Refining cultivation lagged behind his other abilities and made strengthening his physical body a priority.
• After comprehending the technique, Chen Daoxuan learned that it could help him condense an Indestructible True Body and required him to commit to one of twelve Ancestral Witch physiques.
• Chen Daoxuan chose Zhurong’s body because its Demon God’s Fire could refine resources and accelerate his Body Refining cultivation.

Chen Daoxuan struggled to begin cultivating the body of Zhurong, then used Blood Crystals to force his vital blood to ignite the Demon God’s Fire. He broke through to the Blood Drop Realm in a single day and turned his attention to the resources needed to continue cultivating.

• Chen Daoxuan gathered his body-refining treasures and chose Blood Crystals to cultivate the body of Zhurong.
• After a year of failing to ignite the Demon God’s Fire, Chen Daoxuan cut open his flesh and infused it with Blood Crystals.
• Chen Daoxuan endured the extreme heat as his body began to melt, then ignited a gray flame at his Tanzhong Acupoint.
• The Demon God’s Fire rapidly refined the Blood Crystals and restored Chen Daoxuan’s body while greatly increasing his physical strength.
• By the next day, Chen Daoxuan had refined the remaining Blood Crystals, broken through to the Blood Drop Realm, and stabilized his cultivation.

Chen Daoxuan discovered that the Demon God's Fire consumed vast resources as it rapidly advanced his Body Refining cultivation, then learned from Fei Chenxue that a True Immortal grade World Demon was backing the Demon Court. Heavenly Venerate City ordered the Phoenix Fall Realm's powers to end internal conflicts, while Chen Daoxuan learned that the expanding boundary between the realms could eventually threaten the Phoenix Fall Realm's existence.

• Chen Daoxuan advanced his Body Refining cultivation from the Skull Crushing Realm to the Blood Drop Realm, spending most of his Blood Crystals and greatly expanding his Divine Sense.
• Chen Daoxuan received a message and met Fei Chenxue and Ziling in Guanhai Immortal City, where Ziling resented him for leaving her without protection.
• Fei Chenxue told Chen Daoxuan that a True Immortal grade World Demon had begun supporting the Demon Court in the True Demon Realm.
• Fei Chenxue explained that Heavenly Venerate City had ordered the Phoenix Fall Realm's cultivation powers to stop their internal wars and prepare for the threat.
• Fei Chenxue warned Chen Daoxuan that passages between the Phoenix Fall Realm and the True Demon Realm could multiply and eventually cause the Phoenix Fall Realm to cease to exist.

Chen Daoxuan showed Fei Chenxue how Guanhai Immortal City brought mortals and cultivators together through its industrial system. After seeing the Chen Family’s factories, Fei Chenxue recognized their power and asked what Chen Daoxuan wanted from Qianyuan Sword Sect.

• Chen Daoxuan took Fei Chenxue on a tour of Guanhai Immortal City, where she was astonished that mortals and cultivators lived together without city walls.
• Chen Daoxuan explained that the city’s harmony depended on cultivators recognizing the value of mortals, then brought Fei Chenxue to the Industrial Zone.
• Fei Chenxue watched mortals and cultivators work side by side in the Crimson Shadow Flying Sword Factory, where a mortal master scolded a Qi Refining apprentice for ruining materials.
• Chen Daoxuan showed Fei Chenxue the Chen Family’s Magic Artifact, Talisman, and Pill factories, leaving her convinced their technology could make the family rise even without him.
• As they strolled through a commercial street, Fei Chenxue acknowledged Chen Daoxuan’s sincerity and asked what he wanted her to do for the alliance.

Chen Daoxuan proposed selling the Chen Family’s industrially produced goods to factions opposing the Demon Court, hoping to weaken it and gain resources from the True Demon Realm. Fei Chenxue agreed to consider an alliance with the Qianyuan Sword Sect if Chen Daoxuan promised not to betray it, then asked him to marry her and have children; he said he needed time to consider.

• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue that Guanhai Immortal City’s factories far exceeded the Phoenix Fall Realm’s demand and proposed opening a market in the True Demon Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan argued that selling goods to Demon Court opponents could delay the True Demon Realm’s unification and let cultivators acquire its resources.
• Chen Daoxuan proposed joining an alliance against the Demon Court and eventually absorbing it, then asked for the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s help.
• Fei Chenxue said she needed assurance that Chen Daoxuan would not betray the Qianyuan Sword Sect, and he offered to swear an oath of the Great Dao.
• Fei Chenxue requested a marriage alliance and said she wanted to bear Chen Daoxuan’s children; she accepted Luo Li as a secondary wife.
• Chen Daoxuan said he needed to consider the marriage, and Fei Chenxue left, blushing after she was alone.

Chen Daoxuan learned that the Chen Family could not find Azure Wood Steel in Phoenix Fall Realm because the Jiang Family had monopolized its supply, and he asked Fei Chenxue about obtaining more. Fei Chenxue confirmed that only the True Demon Realm might offer a source, while Ziling became her registered disciple.

• Chen Fusheng reported that the Chen Family had searched Myriad Star Sea and Cloud Country for Azure Wood Steel for more than a year without success.
• Chen Daoxuan praised Chen Fusheng's cultivation progress and advised him to continue improving his body refinement.
• Fei Chenxue accepted Ziling, who possessed the Nine Yin Profound Yin Physique, as her registered disciple.
• Chen Daoxuan thanked Fei Chenxue for taking in Ziling and asked her about Azure Wood Steel.
• Fei Chenxue explained that the Jiang Family controlled all Azure Wood Steel in Phoenix Fall Realm and said the True Demon Realm was the only place to seek more.

Chen Daoxuan chose to marry Fei Chenxue and shared his plans for expanding the Chen Family and Qianyuan Sword Sect’s influence in the True Demon Realm. The pair entered the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom to begin their campaign, while Fei Chenxue encouraged Chen Daoxuan to keep cultivating the resource-hungry Demon God's Fire.

• Chen Daoxuan invited Fei Chenxue to accompany him, and they agreed to build a relationship before their political marriage alliance.
• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue about his agents in the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom, and she revealed that the Qianyuan Sword Sect had agents in the Great Yuan and Shituo Demon Kingdoms.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue secretly entered the True Demon Realm through the Taizhou Passage and traveled into the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom to subdue the Four Great Demon Countries and gather Azure Wood Steel.
• Chen Daoxuan explained that his Demon God's Fire consumed vast amounts of Blood Marrow as it rapidly raised his Body Refining cultivation to the peak Blood Drop Realm.
• Fei Chenxue told Chen Daoxuan that his Demon God's Fire could grow powerful enough to threaten stronger cultivators, and she reassured him that the True Demon Realm had abundant resources.

Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue witnessed Qingqiu Demon Kingdom’s brutal breeding of human blood food as the kingdom prepared to entertain a Demon Court envoy. After rescuing the women from their fox demon escorts, Chen Daoxuan confronted Crimson Pupil and asked it to explain the envoy.

• A procession of young human women being delivered as blood food passed through Myriad Demon City, where demons whispered that Qingqiu Demon Kingdom planned to submit to the Demon Court.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue watched the procession and discussed how Qianyuan Sword Sect had arranged for Great Yuan and Shituo Demon Kingdoms to harvest human Body Refining powerhouses instead of breeding humans.
• Chen Daoxuan appeared before Crimson Pupil and the fox demon escorts, and Crimson Pupil recognized him as its master.
• A Purple Mansion Fox Demon tried to flee but struck Chen Daoxuan’s Space Prison, and Chen Daoxuan burned the fox demons away with his Demon God’s Fire.
• Chen Daoxuan told Crimson Pupil he knew it could not have saved the women, then ordered it to describe the Demon Court envoy.

Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue attacked Qingqiu Demon Kingdom after learning that a powerful Demon Court Envoy was visiting. They captured the envoy and the kingdom’s Demon Lords, then Chen Daoxuan confronted Chi Ling amid the hall’s slaughter.

• Chen Daoxuan concluded that the Demon Court Envoy was likely a World Realm Demon Lord, and he and Fei Chenxue decided to attack before it could escape.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue entered the hall, killed a Demon King, and revealed themselves to the Qingqiu Country Lord and the assembled demons.
• The Golden Peng Demon Lord tried to flee, but Chen Daoxuan trapped it with the Nine Palaces Void Formation and a Space Prison while Fei Chenxue supported him with the Yu Huang Bell.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue captured the Qingqiu Country Lord and the other Demon Lords, and Fei Chenxue deprived the captives of their five senses.
• Chen Daoxuan burned the remaining Realm Demons in the hall, then faced Chi Ling, who knelt and called him Master.

Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue interrogated captured Realm Demons and seized control of the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom, then learned it held rich body-refining mineral reserves. The chapter leaves Chen Daoxuan looking toward the Jiye Demon Kingdom, which may possess a mine of the Azure Wood Steel he seeks.

• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue tried to force the Golden Peng world demon to reveal information about the Demon Court, but its resistance led them to prepare to send it to the Demon Slaying Platform.
• Chen Daoxuan offered the Qingqiu Country Lord and three other Demon Lords a chance to accept Soul Imprints, then killed the three who refused and bound Chi Lin, the last survivor, to his service.
• Chi Lin explained that she was the progenitor of one of the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom’s great bloodlines and that her descendant Chi Ling was Chen Daoxuan’s spirit pet.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue discussed having Qin Zhan handle the remaining Demon Kingdoms after the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom was taken.
• Chi Lin revealed that the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom possessed six large Blood Crystal Mines, a medium Blood Marrow Mine, and a tiny Black Crystal Mine.
• Chi Lin said the Jiye Demon Kingdom might have a mine of Mysterious Green Stone, which matched the Azure Wood Steel described on Chen Daoxuan’s Jade Slip.