Chapter Summaries

Chen Daoxuan became Alliance Leader of the Northern Immortal Alliance and pushed to make Spirit Stone Coins its sole currency, while planning a trip to the Two Realms Abyss and a True Immortal ruin. At the Chen Family Artifact Research Institute, he questioned Chen Daochu about the stalled Sixth Grade puppet production line and began to rethink how its development was organized.

• Chen Daoxuan accepted the Alliance Leader position, and the assembled cultivators bowed to him.
• Chen Daoxuan proposed making Spirit Stone Coins the Northern Immortal Alliance’s unified currency, and Qianyuan Sword Sect, Tian Yan Sect, and Spirit Insect Valley agreed to support it.
• The Sect Master of Tian Yan Sect and Valley Master Mei reflected that they had allied with Chen Daoxuan to avoid the fate of Thousand Mechanisms Hall under the Situ Family.
• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue that he would travel with her to the Two Realms Abyss but intended to visit a True Immortal ruin, and she agreed to go.
• Chen Daoxuan asked Chen Daochu about the delayed Sixth Grade puppet production line, then learned the Artifact Research Institute had assigned independent teams to compete to develop it.

Chen Daoxuan trained Chen Daochu to lead the development of a Sixth-Grade Insect Puppet Production Line, while testing how Spiritual Essence transformed an Insect Puppet into a tiny Dao Soldier. Chen Daochu completed the production line, which manufactured a Sixth-Grade Insect Puppet in ten days and left Chen Daoxuan intent on mass-producing troops.

• Chen Daoxuan urged Chen Daochu to lead the Insect Puppet research, promising him abundant resources and personal instruction.
• Chen Daochu advanced to fifth-tier Artifact Forger within three months and assembled a research team at the Artifact Research Institute.
• Chen Daoxuan infused Spiritual Essence into an Insect Puppet, which transformed into a rice-grain-sized Insect Soldier.
• Chen Daochu informed Chen Daoxuan that the Sixth-Grade Insect Puppet Production Line was complete.
• Chen Daochu operated the Artifact Machine Tool and produced a Sixth-Grade Insect Puppet in ten days, demonstrating that Fourth-tier Artifact Refiners could build one together.

Chen Fusheng led a force of Demon Devouring Insects to attack Manhou Demon Kingdom and test their strength. After the insects annihilated the kingdom’s elite World Demon Squad, its king revealed its True Demon Body and threatened Chen Fusheng with the Demon Court, but Chen Fusheng sent the insects after it.

• Chen Fusheng learned from Scarlet Scale Demon Lord that Manhou Demon Kingdom had once ruled Qingqiu Demon Kingdom and exploited its people.
• Chen Fusheng bypassed Manhou Demon Kingdom’s cities and went straight to its capital with a thousand Demon Devouring Insects.
• A golden-armored World Demon Squad attacked Chen Fusheng, but the Demon Devouring Insects devoured them in moments.
• The Manhou Kingdom King appeared in its True Demon Body, recognized the insects’ strength, and warned Chen Fusheng that the Demon Court would retaliate if he killed it.
• Chen Fusheng angrily enlarged the Demon Devouring Insects and sent them toward the Manhou Kingdom King.

Chen Daoxuan completed the Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire’s transformation and reflected on building Spirit Veins, cultivation schools, and industrial power to strengthen the Northern Immortal Alliance against future threats. After Chen Fusheng returned from the True Demon Realm with proof that Insect Soldiers could devour a Dao Lord-grade World Demon, Chen Daoxuan saw their potential to reshape the balance of power.

• Chen Daoxuan fed the last of eleven Golden Crow Shards to the Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire, completing its transformation.
• Chen Daoxuan planned to use Spirit Stone reserves to nurture Spirit Veins and establish cultivation schools across the Northern Immortal Alliance, both to train talent and reduce sects’ and families’ influence.
• Chen Daoxuan worried that the Phoenix Fall Realm could not withstand the True Demon Realm through individual strength alone, and resolved to face that threat rather than flee by ascending.
• Chen Fusheng returned with a Memory Recording Stone showing one thousand One-Star Insect Soldiers devouring the Savage Roar Kingdom’s Dao Lord-grade Lizard World Demon and its Source World.
• Chen Fusheng gave Chen Daoxuan Black Crystals from the Four Great Demon Countries, and Chen Daoxuan reassured him that mass-produced Insect Soldiers could make personal strength less decisive.

The Situ Family’s Old Ancestor dismissed the failed attempt to conquer the Northwest, while Chen Daoxuan oversaw the Northern Immortal Alliance’s growing infrastructure and traveled to its new headquarters. He arrived at the former Thousand Mechanisms Hall and was stunned by the spiritual energy from its Eighth-tier Spirit Vein.

• Old Ancestor Situ reprimanded the two returning Dao Lords for joining Xiao Yuhua’s failed campaign, then ordered them to stop coveting the Northwest sects’ Immortal Artifacts.
• Qin Zhan delivered resources for Chen Daoxuan’s Nascent Soul breakthrough and reported that construction of the Immortal Alliance headquarters and its teleportation links was nearly complete.
• Chen Daoxuan reflected on the Chen Family’s lack of foundations and the Alliance’s plans for linking its territories, educating cultivators, and reforming the defeated Xuan Yang Sect and Qingwei Dao Sect.
• Chen Daoxuan learned that Fei Chenxue had connected Guanhai Immortal City’s teleportation formation to the headquarters and traveled there.
• Chen Daoxuan arrived at the former Thousand Mechanisms Hall and felt the powerful spiritual energy of its Eighth-tier Spirit Vein.

Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue prepared to enter the Nascent Soul stage together after the Immortal Alliance Headquarters was completed. Chen Daoxuan began condensing his Zhurong True Body with Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire, and his body grew stronger and larger as the process continued.

• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue discussed how to handle the surrendered Xuan Yang Sect and Qingwei Dao Sect True Lords, then postponed the decision to focus on their breakthroughs.
• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue that his Demon God's Fire had transformed into Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire and that he could condense the Zhurong True Body.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue entered seclusion together at the Northern Immortal Alliance Headquarters.
• Chen Daoxuan poured Black Crystals onto the Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire, which refined them and sent a strange aura into his body.
• Chen Daoxuan's physical body surpassed the peak Blood Drop Realm and continued growing taller as he condensed the Zhurong True Body.

Chen Daoxuan condensed the Zhurong True Body and broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, merging his Magical Power with the Xuanhuang Realm's World Force. After discovering that his Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire could severely drain the world, he returned to the Northern Immortal Alliance Headquarters to guard Fei Chenxue, whose breakthrough was still underway.

• Chen Daoxuan condensed the Zhurong True Body after consuming nearly a million pieces of Black Crystal, then used the Comprehension Stars to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Chen Daoxuan broke through to the Nascent Soul stage as his Nascent Soul grew, his Dantian Purple Mansion connected to the Xuanhuang Realm, and his Magical Power merged with its World Force.
• Chen Daoxuan killed the imprisoned Golden Peng world demon with Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire and discovered that the attack consumed nearly half the Xuanhuang Realm's World Force.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to his original form, left the Secret Chamber, and began guarding Fei Chenxue's chamber when he saw that she had not yet completed her breakthrough.
• Chen Daoxuan summoned a patrolling Immortal Alliance disciple and learned that the cultivator was from the Qianyuan Sword Sect.

Chen Daoxuan forced the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance’s Nascent Soul True Lords to submit and ordered them to expand the Xuanhuang Realm for him. The chapter ended with Fei Chenxue breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, giving the Northern Immortal Alliance two Primordial Spirit cultivators.

• Chen Daoxuan gave a Qianyuan Sword Sect disciple a Void Talisman and ordered him to escort the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance’s Nascent Soul True Lords to the Alliance Headquarters.
• The disciple brought nearly a hundred True Lords in on a Spirit Boat, where talismans kept them kneeling and prevented them from resisting or killing themselves.
• Palace Mistress Youyue recognized that Chen Daoxuan had reached the Nascent Soul stage, and Chen Daoxuan asked the prisoners whether they wanted to live or die.
• Palace Mistress Youyue offered to hear his instructions, and Chen Daoxuan ordered the True Lords to expand the Xuanhuang Realm he had created.
• Fei Chenxue broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, making the Northern Immortal Alliance a first-rate power in the Phoenix Fall Realm.

Chen Daoxuan learned that Fei Chenxue had received a conscription order from Heavenly Venerate City and had to leave for the Two Realms Abyss in less than three months. He took her to Guanhai Immortal City, though his next move was not revealed.

• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue discussed the slow expansion of the Xuanhuang Realm, and Chen Daoxuan ordered Yao Caiyi to make the captives expand it to ten thousand li within a year or face the Thunder Prison.
• Fei Chenxue warned Chen Daoxuan to use the Soul Imprint Secret Art sparingly, and he assured her that he had used it only because the Xuanhuang Realm was important.
• Fei Chenxue told Chen Daoxuan that Xiao Yuhua had leaked news of her Nascent Soul breakthrough, prompting Heavenly Venerate City to conscript her for service at the next interrealm transfer in less than three months.
• Chen Daoxuan took Fei Chenxue from the Xuanhuang Realm to the Northern Immortal Alliance Headquarters and ordered a transmission to Guanhai Immortal City.

Chen Daoxuan brought Fei Chenxue to the Insect Puppet factory, where he gathered Insect Soldiers and Creation Force for their journey to the Two Realms Abyss. After arranging to keep their departure secret, he revealed two of their three trump cards, leaving the third unexplained.

• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue visited the heavily guarded Insect Puppet factory, where Chen Family cultivators and Insect Soldiers welcomed their Clan Leader.
• Chen Daochu reported that the factory had produced twelve thousand Insect Soldiers, with nine thousand in storage, and gave Chen Daoxuan the stored soldiers and 960 million drops of Creation Force.
• Chen Daoxuan said he and Fei Chenxue would go to the Outer Battlefield, ordered Chen Daochu to keep their departure secret, and explained that the Northern Immortal Alliance should focus on cultivating Spirit Veins and building academies.
• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue that their first two trump cards were ten thousand Insect Soldiers and the Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire, then said the third trump card was not with him.

Chen Daoxuan challenged the Sky-Reaching Pagoda before Heavenly Venerate City's conscription order, clearing its second and third layers with Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire before being defeated on the fourth. He chose the continuation of the All Heavens Demon God True Body and then selected the techniques and secret arts related to the Starry Sword Dao Chart.

• Chen Daoxuan entered the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance Space and challenged the Sky-Reaching Pagoda while Fei Chenxue stood guard.
• Chen Daoxuan defeated the second-layer guardian with Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire and advanced to the third layer.
• Chen Daoxuan's Purple Lightning Heavenly Fire failed to stop the third-layer Body Cultivator, who endured its flames for ten breaths before Chen Daoxuan entered the fourth layer and was immediately sent out.
• The white-robed Daoist confirmed Chen Daoxuan had cleared two layers and offered him two rewards.
• Chen Daoxuan chose the continuation of the All Heavens Demon God True Body, then took the white-robed Daoist's advice and selected the techniques and secret arts related to the Starry Sword Dao Chart.

Chen Daoxuan received the continuation of the All Heavens Demon God True Body and the profound Star Charting Art from the Sky-Reaching Pagoda, then traveled with Fei Chenxue toward the Two Realms Abyss. They entered the teleportation array amid an unprecedented mass conscription, leaving for an Outer Battlefield whose dangers had just sharply increased.

• Chen Daoxuan absorbed two inheritances, and the Golden Scripture rescued him when the Star Charting Art nearly overwhelmed his Divine Sense; the white-robed Daoist noted that he had suffered no harm.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Fei Chenxue, explained what he had gained, and resolved to eliminate Xiao Yuhua before he could threaten her deployment.
• Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue traveled to the Capital of Xu Kingdom, where Chen Daoxuan suspected a crisis in the Two Realms Abyss had prompted Heavenly Venerate City to recruit Primordial Spirit Dao Lords on a massive scale.
• Chen Daoxuan warned Fei Chenxue not to reveal the Yu Huang Bell in the Outer Battlefield, and they joined hundreds of thousands of cultivators at the Two Realms Abyss teleportation array.
• Ge Leiyun recognized Chen Daoxuan but nervously avoided him, and the teleportation array activated, carrying Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue away.

Chen Daoxuan arrived at the Two Realms Abyss and was assigned to Battle Zone C3, where Wei Zhongwu introduced him and the other recruits to life in Yaoguang City. Wei Zhongwu began selecting a deputy commander for his brigade by testing the recruits’ strength, and the contest ended with him asking the last contender’s name.

• Ge Leiyun watched Chen Daoxuan and the others depart, then considered advancing his own cultivation.
• Fei Chenxue received her assignment to Battle Zone Wu Jiu and left on a Formation Light Boat, while Chen Daoxuan boarded another boat with the remaining recruits.
• Wei Zhongwu brought Chen Daoxuan and the recruits to Yaoguang City in Battle Zone C3 and said he would choose a deputy commander based on strength.
• Sixteen World Realm Layer Three Dao Lords volunteered for the deputy commander post, but Wei Zhongwu eliminated them one by one with punches.
• The last contender briefly blocked Wei Zhongwu with a Sword Shield Technique, prompting Wei Zhongwu to ask the Sword Cultivator’s name.

Chen Daoxuan received command of a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators in Yaoguang City and learned about the city’s defenses and the worsening threat posed by the Demon Court. He arrived at his new residence, a vast Cave Heaven world, and considered how its World Origin Beads could help him advance his comprehension.

• Wei Zhongwu appointed He Chong deputy captain of the Seventh Brigade and distributed Command Tokens to the Primordial Spirit Dao Lords.
• Chen Daoxuan followed his Command Token to a courtyard that opened into a vast Cave Heaven world, then met the hundred Nascent Soul cultivators assigned to him.
• Mo Heng inspected Chen Daoxuan’s Command Token, introduced himself, and led Chen Daoxuan through the Cave Heaven world toward his quarters.
• Mo Heng explained that Yaoguang City was guarded by Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate and had avoided Demon Tide Sieges during his more than two hundred years there.
• Mo Heng told Chen Daoxuan that a powerful formation protected humanity’s cities, but the Demon Court’s effort to unify the True Demon Realm threatened the defenders.
• Chen Daoxuan reached his residence on a mountain with spiritual energy comparable to an Eighth-tier Spirit Vein.

Chen Daoxuan settled into his new residence in Yaoguang City and tried to strengthen his Sea of Consciousness, but he could condense only 1,324 thoughts before reaching his limit. After emerging from more than half a month of seclusion, he learned that his brigade had been ordered to eliminate four small demon tides.

• Chen Daoxuan entered seclusion with the five thousand Insect Soldiers he had brought as a trump card and began cultivating the Sea Dividing Chapter.
• Chen Daoxuan condensed 1,324 thoughts before resistance in his Sea of Consciousness stopped him from splitting any further.
• Chen Daoxuan emerged from seclusion after more than half a month and learned that Mo Heng had handled his routine duties.
• Mo Heng told Chen Daoxuan that four brigades had been ordered to eliminate four small demon tides near Yaoguang City and warned him against reckless pursuit of military merits.
• Chen Daoxuan assured Mo Heng that he would not act rashly during his first demon-tide mission.

Chen Daoxuan joined the Seventh Brigade on its first mission to destroy a small Realm Demon tide on a collapsed Heavenly Venerate Realm. He unleashed his Insect Soldiers, which slaughtered and devoured Realm Demons, and realized the Outer Battlefield was an ideal place to raise them.

• Wei Zhongwu led the Seventh Brigade out of Yaoguang City and toward a collapsed Heavenly Venerate Realm to eradicate a small demon tide.
• Chen Daoxuan saw the hundreds of thousands of Realm Demons and assessed the threat to the Human cultivators.
• Chen Daoxuan prepared for battle in his Grade Seven High-Rank Powered Spirit Armor and released one hundred One-Star Insect Soldiers.
• Chen Daoxuan ordered Mo Heng and the squad to attack, then charged into the demon tide with his Insect Soldiers.
• Chen Daoxuan's Insect Soldiers devoured more than a hundred Realm Demons, including a Dao Lord-grade demon, and grew stronger.

After the Seventh Brigade defeated a Realm Demon tide, Chen Daoxuan realized the corpses could strengthen his Insect Soldiers and tried to buy them from Zheng Ji. Zheng Ji initially refused, but Chen Daoxuan’s offer to purchase every corpse made him stop and reconsider.

• Mo Heng told Chen Daoxuan that brutal battles and total annihilation were common possibilities on the Outer Battlefield.
• Zheng Ji’s scavengers counted and purchased 397,800 Realm Demon corpses from Wei Zhongwu, while leaving the human dead untouched.
• Wei Zhongwu led the Seventh Brigade back to Yaoguang City and granted its cultivators three months of leave.
• Chen Daoxuan received 1,719 military merit points, then learned that exchanging 1,000 points could shorten his service by only one year.
• Chen Daoxuan met Zheng Ji in a teahouse and offered to buy every Realm Demon corpse Zheng Ji had, causing Zheng Ji to stop before leaving.

Chen Daoxuan bought four million Realm Demon corpses from Zheng Ji and then used them to feed his five thousand One-Star Insect Soldiers. As the Insect Soldiers devoured the corpses, some began advancing to Two-Star status.

• Chen Daoxuan convinced Zheng Ji to sell him all four million Realm Demon corpses for 53 million drops of Creation Force, and Zheng Ji included a Cave Heaven artifact to hold them.
• Chen Daoxuan and Zheng Ji agreed to continue doing business, with Zheng Ji collecting higher-grade corpses for their next deal.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to his cave mansion and entered secluded cultivation to promote his Insect Soldiers.
• Chen Daoxuan entered the Small Pagoda Cave Heaven and released his five thousand Insect Soldiers among the Realm Demon corpses.
• The Insect Soldiers devoured several thousand corpses in the time it took to burn a stick of incense, and some of the hundred strongest advanced to Two-Star status.

Chen Daoxuan cultivated and evolved his Insect Soldiers, gaining a hundred Five-Star Insect Soldiers before learning that Yaoguang City had lost nearly half its forces and faced a super-large demon tide. Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate promised that reinforcements from Guangyuan Realm would arrive, but the city’s survival remained uncertain.

• Chen Daoxuan evolved his Insect Soldiers, building a force of a hundred Five-Star, three hundred three-star, and four thousand six hundred Two-Star Insect Soldiers.
• Mo Heng told Chen Daoxuan that nearly half of Yaoguang City’s forces had been wiped out while responding to a Realm Demon siege.
• The Heaven Shaking Bell rang nine times, signaling a super-large demon tide near Yaoguang City.
• Chen Daoxuan ordered Mo Heng to assemble the troops as the soldiers gathered before Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate.
• Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate reassured the army that Guangyuan Realm would send reinforcements and that Yaoguang City would not fall.

Chen Daoxuan learned why Guangyuan Realm was a True Immortal Realm and heard how Immortal Venerate Guangyuan sacrificed himself to protect humanity, while a Realm Demon force prepared to attack Yaoguang City. As a demon tide locked down the surrounding space, Chen rejected Fu Mingyu’s request to shelter his family in the Xuanhuang Realm.

• Mo Heng told Chen Daoxuan that Guangyuan Realm had been opened by Immortal Venerate Guangyuan, who joined the Dao with it rather than ascend, and Chen was deeply shaken by his sacrifice.
• Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate left Yaoguang City’s defenses to Wei Zhongwu, and everyone learned that his departing figure had been only a Magical Power incarnation.
• The Imperial Preceptor told Golden Peng that Five Rivers Heavenly Venerate was nearing his eighth Thunder Tribulation and that the Realm Demons planned to seize the Phoenix Fall Realm.
• Fu Mingyu begged Chen Daoxuan to save the Mingyu Chamber of Commerce and his family by sheltering them in the Xuanhuang Realm, but Chen rejected him and left.
• Mo Heng explained that the demon tide’s stacked Origin Realm Projections had locked down space for tens of billions of li around Yaoguang City, preventing cross-realm transmission.