Chapter Summaries

Venerable Scarlet awakened from a thirty-thousand-year sleep and discussed the limits of his undying realm with the Shadow King, who brought him to a Sacred Sect stronghold. Meanwhile, Heavenly Dao Alliance investigators reached the Black Coffin at Yejin Mountain and ordered it taken away.

• Venerable Scarlet emerged from the Black Coffin and reflected that life and death were like sleep.
• The Shadow King greeted Venerable Scarlet and asked him to learn about the present world and the Sacred Sect’s troubles.
• Venerable Scarlet explained that his undying realm did not grant true immortality, especially in the Dharma-Ending Age.
• A Xiafeng Plain Branch Headquarters report about missing scouts and red radiance near Yejin Mountain prompted two ninth-transformation Earth Rank Spirit Tamers to lead an investigation.
• The envoys and their party found the Black Coffin in the valley and ordered their men to secure it and take it away.

Fang Qianyuan investigated a newly recovered black coffin and questioned Wen Wei about a possible awakening of a Supreme Heaven Sect titan. He released Wen Wei and the other ancient cultivators, leaving their future relationship with the Azure Cloud Sect uncertain.

• Yao Zhengxia reported finding a black coffin at Yejin Mountain, and Fang Qianyuan went to the sect headquarters to inspect it.
• Artifact Hall experts confirmed that the new coffin matched the others and had durable construction with internal seals and restrictions.
• Fang Qianyuan visited the imprisoned Wen Wei and told him that a titan of the Supreme Heaven Sect might have awakened.
• Wen Wei could not identify the possible titan and realized he could no longer judge Fang Qianyuan's strength.
• Fang Qianyuan freed Wen Wei and the other ancient cultivators, and Wen Wei wondered whether they were expected to gather information or might become enemies of the Azure Cloud Sect.

Wen Wei and the other ancient cultivators were released and sent to Central Province with Heavenly Wolf Subspecies war beasts to help them adapt to the modern age. At Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, Venerable Scarlet explained how the Dharma-Ending Age limited Spirit Tamers’ path to immortality, leaving the Shadow King to regret awakening him early.

• Wen Wei told the other ancient cultivators that Fang Qianyuan would release them and warned them to rely on the Azure Cloud Sect while rebuilding their strength.
• The Warrior Administration released Wen Wei and the other ancient cultivators, gave them Heavenly Wolf Subspecies war beasts and a basic Vision-Enhancing Art, and escorted them to Central Province.
• At Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, Venerable Scarlet found its spiritual vitality disappointing, and the Shadow King explained that it was one of the Sacred Sect’s remaining hidden bases.
• Venerable Scarlet told the Shadow King that the Dharma-Ending Age prevented Spirit Tamers from attaining immortality and compared the Heaven Tier peak to roughly the sixth layer of the Dao Realm.
• The Shadow King recalled Venerable Scarlet’s cultivation and regretted awakening him before the Prophesied Age of Reawakening.

Venerable Scarlet tested how ancient cultivation methods worked under the present age’s changed laws, then began cultivating anew with spirit essence. Meanwhile, Wen Wei and the other ancient cultivators raided the Thunder Household and were confronted by a powerful middle earth rank Spirit Tamer.

• Venerable Scarlet found that his Dharma power was gone and his mastery of the Space Dao and Flame Dao had weakened under the new laws.
• Venerable Scarlet studied human rank Spirit Tamer cultivation, raised a Flame Spirit to earth rank, and struggled to adapt his Flame Dao to spirit essence.
• Wen Wei and the others robbed local cultivators and raided the Thunder Household to obtain resources for rebuilding their strength.
• The Thunder Household’s elder pursued them and discovered that, despite their weak cultivation in the present system, they had deep combat experience and earth rank Heavenly Wolf Subspecies.
• The elder invoked sinister power through himself and his Thunder Katydid and threatened to kill the ancient cultivators.

Wen Wei and the other survivors of the Eight Qiyun Families fled after the Thunder Household elder killed most of their group, then decided to seek refuge with the Demon Alliance and master the Spirit Command Dao. Hidden warriors monitored their escape and discussed the Thunder elder’s demonization research.

• The Thunder Household elder’s lightning attack killed seven of the eleven experts from the Eight Qiyun Families, and Wen Wei led the survivors in retreat.
• Wen Wei and the remaining three survivors fled north for days before stopping in a distant valley to assess their losses and weaknesses.
• Wen Wei proposed keeping a low profile, learning the Spirit Command Dao, and joining the Demon Alliance to gain resources and opportunities.
• After Wen Wei and the others departed, black-clad warriors emerged from hiding, having monitored them with a Rainbow Flower spirit creature.
• The hidden commander and an attendant discussed how the Thunder Household elder had secretly researched demonization and achieved results.

Venerable Scarlet completed his cultivation and advanced to Heaven Tier, restoring his mastery of the laws. He agreed to avoid Fang Qianyuan for now, then learned that a group of ancient cultivators had arrived to join the Demon Alliance.

• Venerable Scarlet cultivated for more than a hundred days, mastered a golden crow spirit creature, and reached Heaven Tier.
• The Shadow King and Supreme Heaven Sect members congratulated Venerable Scarlet as his power harmonized with the Heaven and Earth of the Age of Dharma Decline.
• Venerable Scarlet asked the Shadow King about Fang Qianyuan and said he wanted to make contact with him.
• The Shadow King advised Venerable Scarlet to avoid Fang Qianyuan and focus on gathering the Demon Alliance and unaffiliated cultivators, and Venerable Scarlet agreed.
• A disciplinary officer reported that unusual people had arrived in Mefang City, and the Shadow King explained that they appeared to be ancient Dharma Cultivators seeking to join the Demon Alliance.
• Venerable Scarlet dismissed the newcomers as lesser cultivators who had imitated the Supreme Heaven Sect's secret art without mastering it.

The Shadow King and Venerable Scarlet met Wen Wei and his companions in Mofang City, where they revealed the Supreme Heaven Sect’s role in the Demon Alliance and considered recruiting the ancient-era Dharma Cultivators. The meeting turned violent when Wen Wei’s body was seized by a mysterious presence, and Venerable Scarlet attacked it.

• The Shadow King brought Venerable Scarlet to Mofang City to meet Wen Wei and his three companions, ancient-era Dharma Cultivators who had joined the Demon Alliance.
• Wen Wei and his companions recognized Venerable Scarlet’s traces of Dharma power, and the Shadow King confirmed their origins.
• The Shadow King revealed that the Supreme Heaven Sect and the Heavenly Realms Sect had helped establish the Demon Alliance and other grassroots organizations.
• Wen Wei asked for a chance to regain the Dao Realm, while privately doubting the Shadow King’s claim that his sect controlled events.
• A strange presence took over Wen Wei, filling his body with frost and accusing the group of hiding someone behind the scenes.
• Venerable Scarlet recognized that Wen Wei was not himself and sent a searing white ray at him.

Fang Qianyuan descended through Wen Wei, revealing a powerful Cosmic Serpent technique that showed signs of origin and wounded Venerable Scarlet. After the Shadow King and the three-legged golden crow interrupted Fang Qianyuan’s assault, Fang Qianyuan vanished, promising that they might meet again.

• Wen Wei charged Venerable Scarlet, and his aura surged as he unleashed a wolf-claw attack that demolished the building.
• Venerable Scarlet manifested a blazing three-legged golden crow, whose light blinded people across Mofang City.
• A Cosmic Serpent appeared around Wen Wei, and the Shadow King recognized the descending figure as Fang Qianyuan.
• Venerable Scarlet recognized signs of origin in Fang Qianyuan’s time-based power as the Cosmic Serpent sent waves of space-time at him.
• Fang Qianyuan struck Venerable Scarlet with countless Gang-Splitting Slashes, but the Shadow King and the three-legged golden crow stopped his follow-up attack.
• Fang Qianyuan said he would remember Venerable Scarlet and vanished like a mirage.

After Fang Qianyuan’s projection vanished, the Shadow King and Venerable Scarlet explained how Fang had used time, space, soul, and cause-and-effect methods to alter the group’s past. The group fled the burning manor when pursuers arrived, taking the injured Wen Wei with them.

• The Demon Alliance elder tried to attack Wen Wei, but the Shadow King’s Shadow Beast blocked him and the Eight Qiyun Families explained their origins.
• The Shadow King and Venerable Scarlet concluded that Fang Qianyuan had planted soul marks and used cause and effect to project himself into the encounter.
• Wen Wei remembered Fang Qianyuan’s mysterious smile in prison and realized that he may have been marked then.
• Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King suspected Fang Qianyuan’s cultivation in the Age of Dharma Decline pointed to an unexpected opportunity.
• When approaching auras revealed that their location had been exposed, the Shadow King led the group away and invited the injured Wen Wei to come with them.
• A force of Heavenly Dao Alliance Wind-Catching Envoys and Warriors arrived at the deserted manor, then split up to pursue the fugitives.

Fang Qianyuan mobilized the Heavenly Dao Alliance and recruited the Spirit Taming Sect and Sacred Dragon Sect to hunt the Supreme Heaven Sect and the Demon Alliance. As righteous forces swept through Central Province, a larger conflict involving earth rank and heaven tier experts began to loom.

• Fang Qianyuan ordered the Central Province Branch Headquarters of the Heavenly Dao Alliance to mobilize and summoned Grand Elder Yu Zhen and Grand Elder Li to join the campaign.
• Grand Elder Yu Zhen issued a Demon-Suppression Order and prepared to march with willing Earth Rank Elders.
• Ao Qingxiao and Li Dan agreed to commit the Sacred Dragon Sect’s elite forces to the operation.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance attacked Demon Alliance members, Demon-Refining Workshops, and the grassroots strongholds of several unorthodox sects across Central Province.
• The campaign’s public raids continued as a concealed war involving earth rank and heaven tier experts approached.

The Shadow King explained the Sacred Sect’s divisions and sought Venerable Scarlet’s approval to kill Guye Bai, the Holy Maiden of the Gushe Celestial Palace, and seize her authority token. With Scarlet’s support, he traveled with him to the Southern Wilds to secretly reach the palace.

• The Shadow King told Venerable Scarlet that the Heavenly Dao Alliance had grown stronger and that he planned to bring the Eight Qiyun Families into their alliance.
• The Shadow King said he wanted to strike first by killing the Holy Maiden, who held the Sacred Sect’s token of authority and obstructed its reunification.
• The Shadow King identified the Holy Maiden as Guye Bai of the Gushe Celestial Palace.
• The chapter explained that the Jade Register Dao Artifact recorded sect members and their orthodox legacies, and that its holder could locate them and influence the sect’s succession.
• After making arrangements for sect affairs, the Shadow King took Venerable Scarlet into the Southern Wilds and secretly arrived at the Gushe Celestial Palace.

Guye Bai sensed danger in the Gushe Celestial Palace and confronted Shadow King over the Two Sects’ claim to her household’s inheritance. Venerable Scarlet attacked her with the Black Crow Dharma Aspect, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Guye Bai reflected on the Gushe Household’s conflict with the Two Sects and sensed an impending calamity.
• Shadow King appeared in Guye Bai’s secluded valley and accused her household of betraying the Sacred Sect and keeping its inheritance.
• Guye Bai refused to surrender the ancestral inheritance, and Shadow King revealed that he had come with Venerable Scarlet to seize it.
• Venerable Scarlet attacked Guye Bai as a golden crow, while Guye Bai summoned a fire phoenix to resist him.
• Venerable Scarlet transformed his attack into the Black Crow Dharma Aspect and drove it through the fire phoenix toward Guye Bai.

Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King cornered Guye Bai in the Gushe grotto heaven, and Venerable Scarlet’s black crow dharma aspect grievously wounded her and her Heavenly Phoenix. Just as his final attack was about to kill her, a vast power of time froze the scene, and an enormous icy hand reached down from above.

• Venerable Scarlet’s black crow melted through Guye Bai’s Heavenly Phoenix and pierced her body, while she used space-time and origin energy defenses to blunt the attack.
• The Shadow King summoned a shadow beast to entangle Guye Bai as Venerable Scarlet continued attacking her with black flames.
• The patrol guards arrived, realized they could not join the battle, and sounded a ritual conch to send word.
• Guye Bai merged with her wounded Heavenly Phoenix and tried to flee, but Venerable Scarlet fired a powerful beam of black and gold flame at her.
• A power of time descended from above, freezing Venerable Scarlet’s attack and the surrounding figures as the grotto heaven shook.
• A ten-thousand-zhang icy hand reached down from the grotto heaven’s vault to seize them.

Fang Qianyuan used the Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art to attack Venerable Scarlet from afar, first with an immense serpent-wreathed arm and then with a pack of snow wolves. The wolves survived the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s flames and pressed their attack.

• A colossal arm wrapped in the Cosmic Serpent’s power reached for Venerable Scarlet and the Three-Legged Golden Crow, freezing the surrounding land as they evaded it.
• Venerable Scarlet recognized Fang Qianyuan behind the attack, and the Shadow King realized that Fang Qianyuan had manifested the arm through the Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned more than a hundred snow wolves from the snowfield, each strengthened by heaven and earth essence.
• Venerable Scarlet ordered the Three-Legged Golden Crow to burn the wolves, but their ice-and-snow laws protected them, and they quickly rose to charge again.

Fang Qianyuan used the Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art to reshape the Guye Grotto-Heaven and attack Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King. They escaped his assault, while Guye Bai pursued them through the void.

• Fang Qianyuan manifested his will across the grotto heaven and summoned snow wolves to attack Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King.
• Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King destroyed the wolves, but Fang Qianyuan's remaining will fragments continually reshaped the land and created new threats.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed an Ice Dragon, freezing storms, and other manifestations to pursue his enemies.
• Venerable Scarlet opened a path through the void and fled with the Shadow King as Fang Qianyuan's will pursued them.
• Guye Bai summoned the Heavenly Phoenix and leapt through the void after Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King.

Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King fled west across the Southern Wilds while Fang Qianyuan pursued them as a giant formed from frost and mist. After three days and nights, they reached Mount Wang Sea, where Fang Qianyuan suddenly unleashed golden and silver threads around the Golden Crow.

• Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King escaped from Guye Grotto-Heaven as Fang Qianyuan pursued them, scorching forests and cities in their wake.
• Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King discussed Fang Qianyuan’s thousand-mile domain and planned to turn the pursuit to their advantage.
• Fang Qianyuan maintained his pursuit for three days and nights as the Azure Cloud Sect mobilized the Southern Wilds’ great sects and aristocratic clans to intercept the fugitives.
• Venerable Scarlet guided the Golden Crow to Mount Wang Sea at the western edge of the Southern Wilds.
• Fang Qianyuan roared and sent countless golden and silver threads around the Golden Crow.

Venerable Scarlet realized Fang Qianyuan had been holding back to avoid harming the Southern Wilds, then merged with the Three-Legged Golden Crow to unleash its immense power. Fang Qianyuan’s Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art answered with endless manifestations, leaving Venerable Scarlet facing a battle against the Great Dao itself.

• Venerable Scarlet deduced that Fang Qianyuan could pursue him instantly but had avoided damaging the Southern Wilds.
• Venerable Scarlet merged with the Three-Legged Golden Crow and drew the Shadow King into its body.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow expanded to nearly a thousand zhang, releasing enough heat and pressure to boil the sea and crack the surrounding space.
• Fang Qianyuan’s starlight brought freezing snow and manifested spirit creatures that attacked the Golden Crow.
• The Golden Crow destroyed wave after wave of manifestations, but Fang Qianyuan’s Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art continued producing more without end.

Xue Shaohua, Guye Bai, and Li Cong joined Fang Qianyuan’s battle against Venerable Scarlet and the Shadow King at Mount Wang. Their assault weakened the golden crow until Fang Qianyuan trapped it in an iceberg and sealed it with chains, declaring that he had finally caught his foe.

• Xue Shaohua arrived with Southern Wilds Heaven-Tier experts and joined Guye Bai in organizing forces to block the enemies’ escape.
• Xue Shaohua, Guye Bai, and Li Cong entered the battlefield and attacked Venerable Scarlet’s golden crow alongside Fang Qianyuan.
• Fang Qianyuan’s snow wolf tore away much of the golden crow’s body, weakening Venerable Scarlet’s will.
• Mysterious starlight froze the golden crow inside a huge iceberg, and more than a hundred dao-patterned chains descended to seal it.

Guye Bai and Xue Shaohua discovered that Fang Qianyuan had used chains of law to bind Venerable Scarlet, and learned that Fang had begun the perilous ancient method of unifying with the heavenly dao. The chapter left them confronting the scale of his ambition and the danger of the path he had chosen.

• Guye Bai and Xue Shaohua used their Heaven-Tier perception to see the laws of Heaven and Earth woven into chains that stretched toward a vast, desolate hall.
• They saw Fang Qianyuan’s immense divine-soul projection bound by the laws of Heaven and Earth, with chains extending from him to seal Venerable Scarlet.
• Venerable Scarlet recognized Fang Qianyuan’s state and accused him of having severed two corpses and begun combining with the heavenly dao to command it across the myriad worlds.
• Xue Shaohua asked Guye Bai to explain Two-Corpse Severing and dao unification, and she described their ancient origins and connection to the belief that all things possess spirits.
• Xue Shaohua concluded that unifying with the heavenly dao meant treating Heaven and Earth as a spirit to be commanded, a process requiring immense patience and risking destruction from its backlash.

Xue Shaohua realized Fang Qianyuan was attempting to unify with the Heavencrystal Snowfield’s heavenly dao, risking destruction to break past the limits of the Dharma-Ending Age. As Fang Qianyuan’s law chains bound the world, Venerable Scarlet refined Golden Crow into an Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and seized the chains.

• Xue Shaohua understood that Fang Qianyuan sought to command heavenly will by becoming the Heavencrystal Snowfield’s heavenly dao.
• Venerable Scarlet explained that the Dharma-Ending Age both forced Fang Qianyuan to take this risk and gave him an opening to succeed.
• Xue Shaohua saw that Fang Qianyuan’s law chains came from the Heavencrystal Snowfield and bound both Fang Qianyuan and the heavenly dao.
• After the projection vanished, Venerable Scarlet warned Shadow King that they would suffer first if they could not escape.
• Venerable Scarlet swallowed Golden Crow, refined its laws into an Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, and grabbed the law chains.