Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun reunited Xia Yao with his descendants and learned that the Asura King intended to refine the Heart of the Dark Demon in the Huntian World to control the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth. Since Tantai Lingyue believed her grandfather might know the Huntian World’s location, she agreed to take Nie Yun to him.

• Nie Yun revealed that he had entered the Spirit Realm in his original body, and Xia Yao explained how he had reached the realm and survived there after his companions died.
• Nie Yun took Xia Yao to Lian Yue Pavilion, where Xia Yao joyfully reunited with the flood dragon and Xia Xing.
• Xia Yao described a place in the Space-Time Turbulence containing a gigantic heart that released demonic energy, and Tantai Lingyue identified it as the Huntian World.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that the Huntian World contained the Hearts of the Six Paths, and Nie Yun told the group that the Asura King planned to refine one.
• Tantai Lingyue said her grandfather in the Chaos World might know the Huntian World’s location and agreed to take Nie Yun there, asking him not to act rashly.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon traveled to the Zhou Tian Realm to find Tantai Lingyue’s grandfather, but discovered its stars were in disarray. After Shakya Buddha Ancestor ambushed them at the entrance, the Netherworld Phoenix King appeared, leaving them facing two ancient powerhouses.

• Nie Yun left Chi You to guard Lian Yue Pavilion and took Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon toward the Zhou Tian Realm.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that her grandfather had sent her to the Mortal Realm for a trial of love, and she feared something had happened to him.
• Little Dragon carried Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue through the chaos to the Zhou Tian Realm, where they found its stars scrambled.
• Nie Yun intercepted arrows fired from inside the realm, then charged through its gate with Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor appeared and blocked their way, while Little Dragon challenged him.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor called out to the Netherworld Phoenix King, who emerged from among the stars.

Little Dragon fled when the Netherworld Phoenix King appeared, leaving Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue to face Shakya Buddha Ancestor and Soul Master Yan Zhi. As Tantai Lingyue prepared to fight Yan Zhi, Nie Yun confronted Shakya Buddha Ancestor, whose overwhelming first strike forced him to unleash three Creation Immortal Artifacts.

• The Netherworld Phoenix King pursued Little Dragon after he abandoned Nie Yun and fled the Zhou Tian Realm.
• Yan Zhi appeared and challenged Tantai Lingyue, while Shakya Buddha Ancestor demanded that Nie Yun return the Great Ming Heart Calming Pearl, the Shakya Lotus Seat, and his other stolen items.
• Yan Zhi told Tantai Lingyue that her grandfather, Tantai Xuyu, was under their protection.
• Tantai Lingyue agreed to fight Yan Zhi, and Nie Yun refused Shakya Buddha Ancestor's demand and prepared to battle.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor's palm shattered Nie Yun's Martial God Fist and overwhelmed him, so Nie Yun attacked with the Ice Sword, Big Dipper Sword, and Tower Master Seal.

Nie Yun fought Shakya Buddha Ancestor, whose physical body and Creation Immortal Artifact cassock overwhelmed his attacks. After using a calculated lightning strike to force Shakya to raise his strength, Nie Yun faced Nian Hua Zhan Lu and gambled on devouring it with two dantians, leaving his body close to bursting.

• Shakya Buddha Ancestor deflected Nie Yun’s three Creation Immortal Artifacts and blocked his twin-sword attacks with his body and cassock.
• Nie Yun used demonic arts to bait Shakya into unleashing Buddhist arts, then struck him with Thunderous Kyushu and forced him to step back.
• Shakya revealed he had used only ten percent of his strength and launched Nian Hua Zhan Lu after Nie Yun activated the Vajra Glazed Body at three hundred times combat strength.
• Nie Yun opened his Origin Energy Dantian and Storage Dantian to devour Nian Hua Zhan Lu, but the attack’s immense pressure made his bones and muscles crack.

Nie Yun endured Shakya Buddha Ancestor’s Nian Hua Zhan Lu and used its Buddhist power to refine the Shakya Lotus Seat, breaking through to the ninth layer of the Vajra Glazed Body. After the battle ended, he learned that Tantai Lingyue’s grandfather, Tantai Xuyu, was also known as the Ephemeral Old Man.

• Shakya Buddha Ancestor overwhelmed Nie Yun with Nian Hua Zhan Lu while Tantai Lingyue fought He Yan to reach him.
• Tantai Lingyue broke He Yan’s barrier, but an unseen person stopped her and told her Nie Yun would resolve the crisis himself.
• Nie Yun absorbed Nian Hua Zhan Lu and refined the Shakya Lotus Seat to fuel his breakthrough to the ninth layer of the Vajra Glazed Body.
• Nie Yun shattered the remaining Nian Hua Zhan Lu and faced Shakya Buddha Ancestor with newly elevated strength.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor congratulated Nie Yun and pointed him toward Tantai Xuyu, who revealed himself as Tantai Lingyue’s grandfather and the Ephemeral Old Man.

Nie Yun learned that Ephemeral Old Man was Tantai Lingyue’s grandfather and the creator of two of his cultivation arts, and he followed him to hear the truth behind his role as the First Talent Awakener. Tantai Xuyu explained that the ten thousand Great Daos had originated as three thousand, disrupted by the Asura King, and began describing how the Asura King brought each Era Realm to an end.

• Nie Yun recognized Ephemeral Old Man as the benefactor who had left behind the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art and Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique, and Ephemeral Old Man praised him as the First Talent Awakener.
• Nie Yun realized Shakya Buddha Ancestor and Yan Zhi had helped guide his growth and refine the Shakya Lotus Seat, and Shakya Buddha Ancestor acknowledged that Nie Yun had a duty to save the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth.
• Tantai Xuyu led Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, Shakya Buddha Ancestor, and Yan Zhi to his thatched cottage at the center of the Zhou Tian Realm, which he revealed was a Creation Immortal Artifact modeled on the Spirit Realm.
• Nie Yun asked why he was the First Talent Awakener, and Tantai Xuyu explained that the ten thousand Great Daos and talents had originated as three thousand distinct ones before the Asura King disrupted them.
• Tantai Xuyu explained that Era Realms had risen and fallen throughout history, and that the Asura King appeared at the end of each era to carry out a plan to destroy the world.

Ephemeral Old Man explained that the Monsterfolk and Demon Person races descended from the ancient war faction that sacrificed itself to defeat the Asuras, while modern humans descended from those who had sought surrender. He revealed that Nie Yun’s Endless Dantian came from awakening the First Talent in his Main Dantian, making Nie Yun humanity’s hope against the returning Asura King.

• Ephemeral Old Man explained that the Asura King had destroyed the previous Dao Race era despite the Five-Clawed Dragon Emperor eventually defeating him.
• Ephemeral Old Man told Nie Yun that ancient humanity split between those who fought the Asuras and those who accepted the Asura King’s offer to surrender.
• Ephemeral Old Man revealed that the Monsterfolk and Demon Person races descended from the war faction, whose victory came at the cost of devastating changes from Asura Killing Qi.
• Nie Yun realized that the ancestors of modern humans had belonged to the surrender faction and reconsidered his hatred of the Monsterfolk and Demon Persons.
• Ephemeral Old Man said the coming calamity depended on Nie Yun because he possessed the Number-One Special Talent, which gathered the Three Thousand Great Daos through the Endless Dantian.
• Ephemeral Old Man explained that Nie Yun had awakened the First Talent in the Main Dantian that everyone possessed, leaving Nie Yun stunned by the revelation.

Ephemeral Old Man explained that Nie Yun’s Main Dantian was the Endless Dantian, which had awakened during his previous life and caused his rebirth three hundred years into the past. He also revealed that Nie Yun’s Storage Dantian was the Creation Dantian, then raised the possibility of obtaining the unique Top Ten talents if their current bearers died.

• Ephemeral Old Man told Nie Yun that the Main Dantian was the highest-ranked Endless Dantian, and that he had noticed Nie Yun because he could not deduce his fate.
• Ephemeral Old Man explained that Nie Yun awakened the Endless Dantian when he was betrayed and killed in the ancient ruins, triggering his transformation and return to three hundred years earlier.
• Nie Yun realized that the Endless Dantian had enabled him to generate dantians and that the Nameless Art depended on its power.
• Ephemeral Old Man revealed that Nie Yun’s Storage Dantian was the Creation Dantian, capable of creating a new world after its forms were opened.
• Ephemeral Old Man said Nie Yun possessed four of the Top Ten Special Talents and could potentially gather more through the Endless Dantian.
• When Nie Yun questioned how unique talents could be obtained, Ephemeral Old Man asked what would happen if their current possessors all died.

Nie Yun learned that holders of the Top Ten Special Talents could surrender their bodies and survive, avoiding the need to kill them so he could obtain their talents. The ancient powers revealed their plans to seal the Asura King in the Buddhist Realm and explained that Tantai Chuangyu and Tantai Moyun had escaped an earlier ambush, though the Asura King’s movements remained impossible to predict.

• Nie Yun refused to kill the other holders of the Top Ten Special Talents, while Shakya Buddha Ancestor and Yan Zhi offered to sacrifice themselves to stop the Asura King.
• Tantai Lingyue reminded Nie Yun that Xia Yao had survived losing the body associated with his Martial Dao Master Talent, and the others agreed that the same method could let talent holders survive.
• The Ephemeral Old Man explained that the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art were created by many great powers, and that most earlier cultivators had died attempting them.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor revealed that the Buddhist Sect had planned to turn the Buddhist Realm into a prison to seal the Asura King, even if its monks died in the process.
• Tantai Xuyu explained that Tantai Chuangyu and Tantai Moyun had deliberately helped temper Nie Yun, then the Ephemeral Old Man clarified that they had left early for other reasons, not because he foresaw the Asura King’s ambush.

Nie Yun learned how the Asura King thwarted the Buddhist Realm’s sacrifice plan and why the powerful figures could not simply hunt him down. Ephemeral Old Man explained the Huntian World and the Heaven-Repelling Realm, then revealed that Nie Yun’s First Talent gave him the potential to surpass the Asura King.

• Shakya Buddha Ancestor explained that the Buddhist Realm planned to sacrifice its monks and use the Bodhi Tree to seal the realm, but the Asura King stole the tree and ruined the plan.
• Tantai Lingyue asked about the Huntian World, and Ephemeral Old Man said it was the core where ancient powers had forged the Spirit Realm and where the Asura King could find two Hearts of the Dark Demon.
• Ephemeral Old Man said the Asura King was difficult to attack because his fate could not be tracked and he could summon vast armies of Asuras.
• Ephemeral Old Man described the Heaven-Repelling Realm, saying that only the Asura King and the Five-Clawed Dragon Emperor had reached it, while he and Shakya Buddha Ancestor stood half a step below.
• Ephemeral Old Man told Nie Yun that his First Talent had boundless potential and could let him reach the Heaven-Repelling Realm and surpass the Asura King.

Nie Yun learned that advancing his Devil Race Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique required him to find and devour the Heart of the Dark Demon before the Asura King could claim it. He set out with Ephemeral Old Man, Yan Zhi, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon, heading toward Huntian World through the Third World.

• Nie Yun asked how to awaken the First Talent, but Ephemeral Old Man admitted he did not know and Yan Zhi said Nie Yun might sense it after reaching Immortal Lord.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor advised Nie Yun to advance his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique, and Ephemeral Old Man revealed that Nie Yun had to devour the Heart of the Dark Demon before the Asura King did.
• Nie Yun and Ephemeral Old Man decided to leave immediately, while Shakya Buddha Ancestor returned to the Buddhist Realm to prepare.
• Little Dragon joined the group, then fled when the Netherworld Phoenix King caught up with him; Yan Zhi dismissed their history as the behavior of a heartless man.
• Tantai Lingyue told Nie Yun that Yan Zhi had once been rumored to be involved with the Big Dipper Star Lord, and Ephemeral Old Man led the group toward Huntian World through the Third World.

Nie Yun and his companions pursued the Asura King through the Third World, where they faced swarms of Asuras and the Four Great Fiendish Beasts. While the others fought three beasts, Nie Yun confronted Taotie and tried to recruit it as his Demon Pet.

• Nie Yun sensed danger in the Third World as the Asura King appeared and unleashed a swarm of Saint Immortal Realm Asuras.
• Ephemeral Old Man blasted a path through the Asuras, but the Asura King vanished, leaving a phantom behind.
• The Four Great Fiendish Beasts—Taotie, Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taowu—blocked the group, and Taotie swallowed Ephemeral Old Man's powerful attack.
• Nie Yun stepped forward to face Taotie while Ephemeral Old Man, Yan Zhi, and Tantai Lingyue fought the other three beasts.
• Nie Yun offered to let Taotie eat its fill if it became his Demon Pet.

Nie Yun subdued Taotie by feeding it enough immortal power to satisfy its appetite, then won over Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taowu by defeating Taowu in battle. With the Four Fierce Beasts under his command, he led Yan Zhi and the others toward the space-time barrier to pursue the Asura King.

• Nie Yun bet Taotie that he could fill its belly and used his inexhaustible Origin Energy to make it concede and become his demon pet.
• Nie Yun sent Taotie to persuade Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taowu, and Taowu agreed to submit if Nie Yun could defeat it.
• Nie Yun fought Taowu with his ninth-level Vajra Glazed Body and forced it to concede, after which he contracted all three remaining fierce beasts.
• Nie Yun stored the Four Fierce Beasts in his Storage Dantian and hurried on with Ephemeral Old Man and the others to the site of the Five-Clawed Dragon Emperor and the Asura King's battle.
• Nie Yun punched through the weakened space-time barrier, opening a black hole, and the group flew through it.

Nie Yun and the others reached the Black Wind Vortex, the deadly barrier on the way to Huntian World, but Asura King had disrupted divination and hidden the passage. As Yan Zhi prepared to risk her life testing one of three possible locations, Nie Yun suddenly called out that he had found a way.

• Ephemeral Old Man led Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Yan Zhi through Space-Time Turbulence toward Huntian World.
• The group reached the Black Wind Vortex, where spiritual power and Nie Yun’s Heavenly Eye Talent could not reveal the passage.
• Ephemeral Old Man used Spirit-Flag Divination but could not locate the passage because Asura King had reversed the mysteries of heaven.
• Ephemeral Old Man identified three possible passage locations and planned to test them one by one, while Yan Zhi volunteered to investigate the first.
• As Yan Zhi flew toward the first location, Nie Yun realized he had a solution and shouted for her to wait.

Nie Yun used a bloodline art to find the passage through the Black Wind Vortex and led the others into its seemingly dangerous center. There they confronted Venerable Ke Sheng, who had sided with the Asura King and was stalling until the unstable passage collapsed; Nie Yun attacked him as time ran short.

• Nie Yun used a bloodline seal to trace Nie Tong's path to the center of the Black Wind Vortex, then entered with Tantai Lingyue, Ephemeral Old Man, and Yan Zhi.
• The group found a calm passage inside the vortex and encountered Venerable Ke Sheng blocking their way.
• Venerable Ke Sheng admitted he served the Asura King and urged the group to turn back, despite the Asura King's having killed his family and master.
• Nie Yun warned Yan Zhi that fighting could collapse the unstable passage, while Venerable Ke Sheng revealed it would collapse within five minutes and said the Asura King could revive him.
• Nie Yun attacked Venerable Ke Sheng, and their first clash sent both men staggering backward.

Nie Yun and his allies fought Venerable Ke Sheng in the collapsing passage and sent him into the Black Wind Vortex, where he was destroyed. Nie Yun secretly saved the Confucian Sacred Canon and gave it to Tantai Lingyue, whose successful refinement caused her cultivation to surge.

• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue attacked Venerable Ke Sheng, who blocked them with the Confucian Sacred Canon, Spring Autumn.
• As their battle shook the unstable passage, Nie Yun called on Ephemeral Old Man and Yan Zhi to suppress Venerable Ke Sheng briefly.
• Nie Yun broke the passage and threw Venerable Ke Sheng into the Black Wind Vortex, then escaped with Tantai Lingyue, Ephemeral Old Man, and Yan Zhi.
• Ephemeral Old Man lamented the destruction of Spring Autumn, but Nie Yun revealed that he had stolen it with his Heaven Stealing Master Talent.
• Tantai Lingyue touched the ownerless canon, and Yan Zhi suppressed its Confucian doctrines while Tantai Lingyue refined it.
• Tantai Lingyue merged Spring Autumn into her body, and her cultivation surged as the Huntian World shook.

After Tantai Lingyue advanced by refining the Spring Autumn Sacred Canon, Nie Yun and his companions searched the Huntian World for the Heart of the Dark Demon. Qiu Sheng, Lord of the Confucian Realm, blocked their way to defend his agreement with the Asura King, but the Heart of the Dark Demon emerged before either side could fight.

• Tantai Lingyue refined the Spring Autumn Sacred Canon and broke through to the middle stage of Immortal Lord.
• Ephemeral Old Man urged the group to find the Heart of the Dark Demon, and Nie Yun used his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique to lead them toward it.
• Nie Yun realized that the Huntian World caused the Space-Time Turbulence beyond it as the group crossed its space-time distortions.
• Qiu Sheng appeared and argued that surrendering to the Asura King would protect humanity and allow humans and Asuras to coexist.
• Ephemeral Old Man, Yan Zhi, and Nie Yun refused Qiu Sheng's proposal, and Qiu Sheng challenged them to defeat him before proceeding.
• The Huntian World shook violently, and Ephemeral Old Man announced that the Heart of the Dark Demon had emerged.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue reached the Heart of the Dark Demon while Ephemeral Old Man and Yan Zhi held off Qiu Sheng. Nie Yun tricked the Asura King and severed his connection to the Heart, but Tantai Lingyue was wounded buying him time, and Nie Yun said refining it would take at least ten minutes.

• Ephemeral Old Man fought Qiu Sheng while Yan Zhi helped Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue fly toward the Heart of the Dark Demon.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue found the Asura King already beginning to refine the massive Heart, and Nie Yun recognized him as Nie Tong.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue attacked the Asura King, but he caught One Sword Envelops the Universe with his fingers.
• Nie Yun used One Sword Executes Heaven as a feint, then severed the black aura linking the Asura King to the Heart of the Dark Demon with the Ice Sword.
• Tantai Lingyue intercepted the Asura King, but his punch wounded her; Nie Yun said he needed at least ten minutes to refine the Heart.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue tried to stop the Asura King from refining the Heart of the Dark Demon, but he outmaneuvered them and used Void Drawing to evade their strongest attacks. The chapter ended with Nie Yun considering the Origin Energy Bullet, though he feared he had no time to prepare it.

• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue abandoned their attempt to refine the Heart of the Dark Demon and attacked the Asura King, whose first clash with Nie Yun shattered both their arms before they regenerated.
• Nie Yun summoned Taotie, Chaos, Taowu, and Qiongqi to help encircle the Asura King, who struck at Tantai Lingyue and forced Nie Yun to shield her with the Tower Pillar Seal.
• The Asura King used the distraction to reach the Heart of the Dark Demon, and Tantai Lingyue sent the Great Ming Heart Calming Pearl toward it.
• The Asura King used Void Drawing to hide in another space-time, evading Tantai Lingyue's pearl and Nie Yun's fused Big Dipper Sword and Ice Sword techniques.
• Nie Yun realized that even his strongest sword attack could not reach the Asura King and wondered whether he would have to use the Origin Energy Bullet without time to compress it.

Nie Yun and his allies failed to stop the Asura King from using their combined attack to refine the Heart of the Dark Demon and break through to the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm. Ephemeral Old Man proposed infusing their power into Nie Yun, and the chapter ended as the dangerous transfer began.

• Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and the four Demon Pets attacked the Asura King together, but he blocked their strike and used its power to refine the Heart of the Dark Demon.
• Nie Yun stopped the group’s attacks after realizing they were strengthening the Asura King, and Tantai Lingyue explained why the Asura Dao countered united assaults.
• The Asura King broke through to the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm, while Ephemeral Old Man and Yan Zhi arrived after battling Qiu Sheng of the Confucian Realm.
• Ephemeral Old Man proposed that everyone infuse their strength into Nie Yun so he could temporarily gain Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm power, and Nie Yun agreed.
• Tantai Lingyue, Yan Zhi, Ephemeral Old Man, and the four Demon Pets poured their power into Nie Yun as he struggled to control the painful, conflicting energies.