Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian, acting as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, overwhelmed Demon Marshal Jidu and the Four Heavenly Kings, then devoured their demonic qi and true spirits. As Jidu began Heavenly Demon Disintegration, Lin Tian used the fate origin law to consume the explosion, and the Four Heavenly Kings appeared beside Heaven-Crusher Daoist in his sea of consciousness.

• Lin Tian used the God-Slaying Spear to strike Jidu and pinned the Four Heavenly Kings to the hall wall with another spear.
• The Four Heavenly Kings turned into streams of demonic qi that Lin Tian devoured.
• Jidu gathered his demonic qi and began Heavenly Demon Disintegration, intending to take Luo Hou down with him.
• Lin Tian used the fate, time, and space origin laws to loop a Fate Little Snake around Jidu and devour his self-detonation.
• Heaven-Crusher Daoist and the Four Heavenly Kings appeared together in Lin Tian's sea of consciousness.

Lin Tian, as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, devoured Jidu, Heaven-Crusher Daoist, and the Four Heavenly Kings, severing their control over the Devil Race disciples. He provoked the tens of billions of disciples into attacking him and began consuming them, aiming to claim Mount Sumeru and the Four Zhuxian Swords.

• Lin Tian devoured Jidu's self-detonation and refined the Demon Marshal, Demon General Heaven-Crusher Daoist, and Four Heavenly Kings into his power.
• The tens of billions of Devil Race disciples lost their Alaya Consciousness connection and charged at Lin Tian, becoming his chosen targets for revenge.
• Lin Tian unleashed the Four Zhuxian Swords' formation beneath Mount Sumeru, intending to refine the mountain and claim the swords as protective treasures.
• Lin Tian expanded to a hundred zhang and swept the God-Slaying Spear through the Devil Army, grinding their bodies, true spirits, laws, and treasures into torrents of Demonic Qi that flowed into his Purple Mansion.

Lin Tian slaughtered and devoured the Devil Race, strengthening Luo Hou’s demonic power as the Primordial World’s mighty beings sensed the upheaval. Daoist Hongjun explained to the Three Pure Ones that Heaven would not punish Luo Hou, since his actions still conformed to the laws of heaven and earth.

• Lin Tian swept through the Devil Race, absorbing its demonic qi, thoughts, and origin laws while integrating the Three Thousand Demonic Daos.
• Phantom images of Luo Hou devoured the blood clouds and baleful qi before they could escape the Far Western Land.
• Daoist Hongjun’s aura and Luo Hou’s rising power alarmed Hongjun at Mount Jade Capital, while Haotian and Yaochi grew increasingly phantom-like.
• Laozi and Tongtian sensed an inexplicable fate connection with Luo Hou, while Yuanshi accepted the Devil Ancestor’s actions as characteristic of the Devil Race.
• Laozi asked Hongjun why Heaven had not sent tribulation to punish Luo Hou for devouring his own disciples.
• Hongjun told the Three Pure Ones that the Heavenly Dao had no feelings and would not punish Luo Hou for violating Daoist morals, because his actions conformed to the laws of heaven and earth; Laozi began to object.

Daoist Hongjun explained to the Three Pure Ones why Devil Ancestor Luo Hou could devour the Devil Race without violating its rules, while the Daoist School followed different principles. His explanation stirred new insights in Laozi and Tongtian, and Hongjun began teaching Tongtian a simplified version of the Devil Race’s slaughter Dao.

• Grand Pure One Laozi asked why Luo Hou received no heavenly punishment for devouring the Devil Race disciples.
• Daoist Hongjun said the Devil Race followed its own rules and that Luo Hou was reclaiming demonic qi rather than violating heavenly principles.
• Grand Pure One Laozi recognized a connection to Luo Hou’s way of being both one and myriad, and a Human Teaching lineage began to take shape in his heart.
• Daoist Tongtian connected his sword Dao to Luo Hou’s life-killing Dao and anticipated a future contest with him.
• Daoist Hongjun taught Tongtian a simplified version of the Devil Race’s slaughter Dao principles.

After devouring the Devil Race over three thousand years, Lin Tian used its accumulated demonic qi to refine Mount Sumeru and obtain the Four Zhuxian Swords, hoping to return to his own plane. As Mount Sumeru shrank beneath his seal, he realized that the Devil Race’s cultivation doctrine had become a vast, true Dao within him.

• Lin Tian spent three thousand years devouring and refining the Devil Race, growing until his body rivaled Mount Sumeru.
• Lin Tian tossed the God-Slaying Spear into the celebratory cloud and sealed Mount Sumeru’s peak with the Devil Race’s Swastika Symbols.
• Lin Tian began refining Mount Sumeru, intending to claim the Four Zhuxian Swords and their sword diagram so he could return to his own plane.
• Lin Tian used the symbols to prevent Mount Sumeru from escaping while he devoured the energy and spatial laws released by its refinement.
• Lin Tian recognized that devouring the Devil Race had transformed its crooked cultivation doctrine into countless paths of the Great Dao.

Lin Tian refined Mount Sumeru as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, absorbing the mountain and the Devil Race while demonic qi vanished from the Western Continent. The continent revived, and Lin Tian continued working to claim Mount Sumeru and the Four Zhuxian Swords as his own treasures.

• Lin Tian used Luo Hou’s devouring and refining to absorb tens of billions of Devil Race disciples, gaining insight into the devil path and forming their true spirits into a species form in his Sea of Consciousness.
• As Lin Tian refined Mount Sumeru, the mountain and his Devil Ancestor body shrank while their demonic qi was absorbed, clearing the skies over the Western Continent.
• With the Devil Race gone and the demonic qi waning, plants, insects, and beasts awakened and spread across the once-barren land.
• Mount Sumeru’s mountain spirit attempted Heavenly Demon Disintegration, but Lin Tian refined its true spirit into Luo Hou’s Purple Mansion before it could self-detonate.
• Lin Tian focused on refining Mount Sumeru into his own Chaos Supreme Treasure, hoping to claim the Four Zhuxian Swords and their sword formation as his protections.

Lin Tian, as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, spent ten thousand years refining Mount Sumeru and devouring its Demonic Qi, while the Primordial World's righteous Dao Arts flowed into the Western Continent. After choosing a different path for Luo Hou in response to Devil Moon’s sacrifice, he reduced Mount Sumeru to about a hundred zhang, where its refinement stalled.

• Lin Tian pressed down on Mount Sumeru and absorbed its Demonic Qi as the God-Slaying Spear resisted the mountain’s power.
• As Mount Sumeru shrank, the Four Zhuxian Swords’ Executioner Immortal Sword Formation erupted with terrifying sword intent.
• Lin Tian recalled learning that countless Primordial Worlds shared a vast history, and resolved to forge a different Great Dao for Luo Hou after Devil Moon’s Heavenly Devil Disintegration.
• Over ten thousand years, Lin Tian and Mount Sumeru shrank from ten thousand li to a hundred zhang, but the mountain could not be refined further.

Lin Tian’s attempt to refine Mount Sumeru stalled when his demonic energy ran out, though devouring tens of billions of Devil Race disciples had made him vastly more powerful. Daoist Hongjun feared Lin Tian might attack Mount Kunlun as the Primordial Three Clans’ war continued to unfold unpredictably.

• Lin Tian sealed Mount Sumeru and the Zhuxian World within eighty-one Swastika Symbols but failed to fully refine the mountain or retrieve the Four Zhuxian Swords and Executioner Immortal Sword Diagram.
• Lin Tian’s cultivation reached the pinnacle of the great Luo realm, and the Three Thousand Demonic Daos manifested through his every movement.
• Daoist Hongjun strengthened the Daoist School, accepting powerful beings as disciples under the Three Pure Ones and having Grand Pure One Laozi establish seven Innate Ten-Direction Formations.
• The Primordial Three Clans continued fighting through their disciples while Ancestral Dragon, Shi Feng, and First Qilin remained in seclusion, disrupting Hongjun’s expectations for the great calamity.
• Daoist Hongjun grew fearful that Lin Tian, who had devoured the Devil Race and made Mount Sumeru vanish, might suddenly attack Mount Kunlun.

Daoist Hongjun tried to steer Devil Ancestor Luo Hou toward the Primordial Three Clans by preparing defenses at Mount Jade Capital rather than confronting him. Luo Hou appeared before the Daoist School in a way that seemed to harmonize with heaven and earth, leaving Grand Pure One Laozi especially shaken by his connection to the Devil Ancestor.

• Daoist Hongjun recognized that Devil Ancestor Luo Hou had broken free of the plans he had made for him.
• Grand Pure One Laozi told Daoist Hongjun that the seven defensive Innate Ten-Direction Formations were ready, and Hongjun explained they were meant to divert Luo Hou toward the Primordial Three Clans.
• Daoist Hongjun told Grand Pure One Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian that the Daoist School should preserve its strength to shelter living beings and clean up after the calamity.
• A black lotus carrying the Devil Race’s principles suddenly appeared among the Daoist School, and its demonic qi struck at the laws of heaven and earth.
• Grand Pure One Laozi felt the strange connection between his consciousness and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou as the Daoist School disciples witnessed the lotus.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, Lin Tian, secretly invaded Grand Pure One Laozi’s sea of consciousness and began corrupting him while appearing openly before Mount Jade Capital. Daoist Hongjun yielded to Luo Hou, and the chapter ended with him noticing that Laozi was acting strangely.

• Grand Pure One Laozi warned Daoist Hongjun, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Tongtian, and the disciples that Luo Hou was present despite being invisible.
• Lin Tian entered Laozi’s sea of consciousness, bound him with Demonic Qi, and began contaminating and devouring his true spirit.
• Luo Hou appeared on the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus Seat ten thousand li from Mount Jade Capital and destroyed two of Laozi’s seven defensive formations with his gaze.
• Luo Hou taunted Daoist Hongjun, saying he had slaughtered and devoured the entire Devil Race.
• Daoist Hongjun offered to let Luo Hou cross Mount Kunlun, prompting outrage among the Daoist School Disciples.
• Daoist Hongjun noticed that Grand Pure One Laozi stood beside him without reacting.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou trapped Mount Jade Capital and overwhelmed Daoist Hongjun and his disciples with the God-Slaying Spear. Yu Qing Yuanshi was struck through the chest as the spear’s attack bypassed the Pangu Banner.

• Hongjun discovered that Grand Pure One Laozi was sealed behind a Devil Race restriction art and could not be reached by his divine sense.
• Hongjun decided to flee, but Luo Hou appeared and shattered the Daoist School’s seven innate defensive formations.
• Luo Hou’s demonic vines enclosed the entire Mount Jade Capital dao field, trapping Hongjun and his disciples.
• Hongjun struck the encircling vines with his Bamboo Staff while Yu Qing Yuanshi used the Pangu Banner to attack Luo Hou’s demonic qi.
• Luo Hou countered with the God-Slaying Spear, whose black-and-white attack bypassed the Pangu Banner and struck Yu Qing Yuanshi in the chest.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s attack badly wounded Yu Qing Yuanshi while Daoist Hongjun justified using him as a shield. Shangqing Tongtian struck at Luo Hou with the Green Duckweed Sword, cutting through the Devil Race Forbidden Formation as Luo Hou remained outside Mount Jade Capital.

• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s attack made Yu Qing Yuanshi spit Saint’s Blood and damaged his treasures, cultivation, and True Spirit.
• Yu Qing Yuanshi demanded to know why Daoist Hongjun had used him to take most of Luo Hou’s killing blow, and Hongjun defended his actions as serving the Daoist School’s Great Dao.
• Shangqing Tongtian drew the Green Duckweed Sword and launched a slash at Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, who sat on the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus Seat.
• Tongtian cut through Mount Jade Capital’s Mountain-Protection Formation and the Devil Race Forbidden Formation, spotting a flaw as he committed to an all-out fight.

Lin Tian’s attack left Hongjun untouched, but Tongtian’s sword strike provoked Luo Hou into launching a direct assault on Mount Jade Capital. By the end, all Three Pure Ones had been contaminated, and Hongjun prepared to use Hongmeng purple qi to resist Luo Hou.

• Lin Tian realized Hongjun had survived his attack and considered bypassing Mount Jade Capital to confront the Primordial Three Clans first.
• Tongtian cleaved through a flaw in Lin Tian’s demonic array and struck toward him with the Green Duckweed Sword.
• Lin Tian countered Tongtian’s sword intent with the God-Slaying Spear, planting demonic qi in Tongtian’s sea of consciousness and turning it into a Demon Sea.
• Lin Tian abandoned his plan to avoid Hongjun and advanced along Tongtian’s sword intent toward Mount Jade Capital.
• Hongjun recognized that his earlier deductions were wrong and prepared to imprint Hongmeng purple qi between his brows to withstand Luo Hou.

Lin Tian, as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, confronted Daoist Hongjun at Mount Jade Capital, where Hongjun used the Heavenly Dao’s power to suppress the Devil Race. Unable to defeat Hongjun outright, Lin Tian seized him and began Heavenly Demon Disintegration, leaving Mount Jade Capital engulfed in a catastrophic explosion.

• Daoist Hongjun drew Hongmeng purple qi and formed a seal that gathered tribulation lightning into his Celebratory Cloud.
• Lin Tian charged into Mount Jade Capital with the God-Slaying Spear, but the Jade Capital Array and the Heavenly Dao continued to suppress his demonic powers.
• Lin Tian realized he could not devour Hongjun and became furious that the two remained evenly matched.
• Lin Tian and Daoist Hongjun clashed at close quarters, and Lin Tian seized Hongjun as Hongjun struck his chest.
• Lin Tian invoked Heavenly Demon Disintegration, setting off a chain of explosions at Mount Jade Capital that left the Primordial World silent.

Lin Tian, as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, detonated Heavenly Demon Disintegration while holding Daoist Hongjun, killing him and absorbing his power. Ten thousand years passed as Hongjun’s Daoist School foundation and Great Daos were transformed by Lin Tian’s demonic laws, while Lin Tian remained absent from the Primordial World.

• Lin Tian used Heavenly Demon Disintegration against Daoist Hongjun after discovering he could not approach Hongjun with demonic thoughts.
• Daoist Hongjun begged Luo Hou to stop, but Lin Tian summoned the Heaven-Crushing Destruction Sword and pierced them both, making Hongjun’s escape impossible.
• Heavenly Demon Disintegration shattered Hongjun and Luo Hou, while Hongjun’s nine strands of Hongmeng purple qi and three Creation Jade Tablet fragments absorbed the explosion’s energy.
• Daoist Hongjun realized the fragments were moving toward Luo Hou and accused him of stealing the Daoist School’s fortune and foundation of sainthood.
• Lin Tian devoured and refined Hongjun’s body, true spirit, and Daoist School foundation, converting them into demonic energy and imprinting them with the Demon Gate’s laws.
• Ten thousand years passed as Lin Tian remained nowhere in the Primordial World.

Lin Tian used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to devour Daoist Hongjun and the Daoist School, merging Dao and demon in a way unseen in other Primordial Worlds. He had made the Three Pure Ones into species forms, but their protected true spirits remained the final obstacle.

• Lin Tian disintegrated into demonic qi and continued devouring Hongjun, making Hongjun a leading species form in his sea of consciousness.
• Lin Tian reflected that merging Dao and demon could advance his devouring law enough to let him consume an entire plane.
• Lin Tian’s demonic qi turned Hongjun’s disciples into species forms, but the Three Pure Ones resisted his invasion with the backlash of the laws.
• Lin Tian realized the Three Pure Ones, rather than Hongjun, were the last core of the Daoist School he had yet to overcome.
• Lin Tian remained in an unobservable quantum state, able to assume the forms of Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian.

Lin Tian remembered that devouring was the foundation of his existence after using it as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou to refine Mount Sumeru and Daoist Hongjun. Ten thousand years after Hongjun and the Daoist School vanished from Mount Kunlun, the Four Great Qilin Generals asked First Qilin what had happened.

• Lin Tian recalled that his origin law of devouring had always been essential to his growth across planes and dimensions.
• Lin Tian used the Devouring System as Devil Ancestor Luo Hou to refine the Devil Race disciples, Mount Sumeru, and Daoist Hongjun.
• The Four Great Qilin Generals asked First Qilin whether Luo Hou had defeated and devoured Hongjun.
• First Qilin remembered that Luo Hou's aura and Hongjun's presence had disappeared near Mount Kunlun ten thousand years earlier.
• The Qilin Clan learned that Mount Jade Capital was in ruins and the Daoist School's disciples had vanished.

First Qilin urged the Four Great Qilin Generals to focus on defeating the Phoenix Clan, then Devil Ancestor Luo Hou appeared near the Qilin ancestral grounds. Luo Hou unleashed a demonic attack that tore through the Central Continent and slaughtered Qilin disciples, enraging First Qilin.

• First Qilin told the Four Great Qilin Generals to ignore the turmoil around the Daoist School and concentrate on subduing the Phoenix Clan before attacking the Dragon Clan.
• The four Qilin Generals obeyed First Qilin and steadied themselves.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou began materializing near Qilin Cliff, shocking First Qilin, who wondered how Luo Hou had reached the Central Continent undetected.
• Luo Hou sent demonic qi beneath the earth, opening a vast trench toward Qilin Cliff and killing countless Qilin Disciples.
• First Qilin roared in fury at Luo Hou for attacking the Qilin Clan’s ancestral grounds.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, transformed after absorbing Daoist Hongjun and fusing the Three Thousand Great Daos, attacked the Qilin Clan and demanded that First Qilin surrender to be devoured. First Qilin refused and charged Luo Hou with Qilin Cliff, leaving the two on the brink of battle.

• Luo Hou's demonic qi shattered First Qilin's protective barrier, terrifying the Four Great Qilin Generals and the Qilin Clan.
• First Qilin swallowed the attacking demonic qi, gathered the Four Great Qilin Generals into his sea of consciousness, and asked whether the distant figure was Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou confirmed his identity and demanded that First Qilin lead the Qilin Clan to surrender or face slaughter and devouring.
• First Qilin rejected Luo Hou's demand and summoned Qilin Cliff, infused with the Qilin Clan's fortune and strength, before charging toward him.

First Qilin launched the Qilin Clan’s devastating charge at Lin Tian, but Lin Tian absorbed its force, while Daoist Hongjun revealed himself as Luo Hou’s puppet. First Qilin begged Luo Hou to spare his clan, and Lin Tian answered with a cold question about what remained after its flesh and bones were gone.

• First Qilin gathered the Qilin Clan’s descendants into Qilin Cliff as he charged toward Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian remained seated on the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus and absorbed First Qilin’s attack without being harmed.
• First Qilin discovered Daoist Hongjun standing atop Qilin Cliff, transformed into a demonic puppet controlled by Luo Hou.
• First Qilin realized his attack had failed and pleaded with Luo Hou to spare the Qilin Clan, hoping to preserve its True Spirit and Four Unlikes.
• Lin Tian coldly asked First Qilin, “When flesh and bone are gone, what can the skin cling to?”