Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Realms Alliance planned a careful expedition into the Zhilin World, while Ning Lin observed their preparations and returned to report to Night King. Ye Tianming revealed that the black moon was connected to the incomprehensible Heavenly Dao, leaving Night King wary of it.

• Fang Qianyuan explained that he was establishing a passage into the Zhilin World and described how many people he could transport.
• Tian Heng and Fang Qianyuan agreed that the Alliance would explore and protect the Zhilin World before developing it.
• Ning Lin watched the Alliance's preparations, then returned to his lodgings with Elder Xu's warning not to wander.
• Night King used a spirit bird to ask Ning Lin about the black moon, and Ye Tianming emerged from Ning Lin's shadow to answer.
• Ye Tianming said the black moon resembled descriptions in ancient texts and that the Heavenly Dao was impossible to comprehend.
• Night King recognized the black moon as something to fear, and Ye Tianming urged him to be exceedingly wary of it.

Fang Qianyuan used the Black Moon to make the Zhilin World gradually accept the laws of his Ice Dao while avoiding damage to its foundations. As he studied this assimilation, he recognized how plundering other worlds threatened to absorb his own will, and he began a new method of invading them before taking their origins.

• The Black Moon disrupted the Zhilin World's climate, prompting its earth veins, volcanoes, and mushrooms to release heat and protect native creatures from the cold.
• The Black Moon's laws spread through the world, engraving winter and the black tide into its environment and creatures as the world grew accustomed to it.
• Ji Yan and the Heavenly Realms Alliance observed Fang Qianyuan's influence but did not intervene because he was preserving the world's foundations.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that the origins and laws he had plundered were assimilating him, while the Heavencrystal Snowfield gained new terrains and blessed lands from those worlds.
• Fang Qianyuan began assimilating into the Zhilin World before plundering it, exploiting weak points in its spirit essence coverage and freezing them into forbidden lands.
• Fang Qianyuan created another karmic bond with the Zhilin World by merging a sliver of his divine soul into it.

Fang Qianyuan contemplated how to sever his mortal self and anchor his true spirit in the Heavenly Dao, while the second expeditionary army descended on the Zhilin World. The appearance of an underground civilization of Demon Lizards and dwarf-like demi-humans left the Heavenly Realms Alliance astonished.

• Fang Qianyuan connected the Heavenly Gang Golden Mystic Pill's apertures with the Black Moon Celestial Phenomenon and the idea of severing the self.
• Fang Qianyuan reasoned that he could preserve and strengthen his true self spirituality, then embed his existence and causal ties in the Great Dao to reach the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Fang Qianyuan hesitated to take the irreversible step, deciding he first had to put his worldly affairs in order.
• A month passed, and the second expeditionary army assembled and began descending on a massive scale.
• Demon Lizards and a dwarf-like demi-human race emerged from a valley, revealing that the Zhilin World's spirit essence was concentrated underground.
• The Heavenly Realms Alliance learned that the newcomers were a civilized demi-human race rather than merely demons and spirit monsters.

The Heavenly Realms Alliance learned of a newly discovered civilization of Dwarf demihumans, provisionally named the Earth Demons, and assessed their military and cultivation capabilities. The elders debated whether to strike quickly or gather more information, while their disagreements revealed a struggle for influence over the Alliance’s campaigns.

• Warrior scouts observed the Earth Demons emerging from a valley and withdrew to report the discovery to the Alliance.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Dao Marker to witness the scouts’ encounter and ordered illustrations of the Earth Demons to be prepared.
• A Spirit Taming Sect steward briefed the Alliance elders on the Earth Demons’ civilization, troops, shamans, and possible threat.
• Grand Elder Tian Heng and others considered whether the Earth Demons could be surviving races from Middle Antiquity.
• King Mu urged Ji to capture the Earth Demon force, while Li Dan and Xue Shaohua cautioned against a rash attack.
• The elders divided over how to proceed, with their debate reflecting a broader contest for influence within the Alliance.

Fang Qianyuan approved King Mu’s proposal to attack the Earth Demons directly, and Ji Yan led the assault on their camp. Ji Yan quickly defeated the Earth Demons’ great shaman, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Fang Qianyuan ended the Alliance’s debate by accepting King Mu’s proposal for a direct attack, and Tian Heng agreed.
• Ji Yan accepted the mission after Fang Qianyuan promised to cover the costs of any injuries he suffered.
• Ji Yan transformed into the Eight-Wilderness Fire Dragon, carried his elite Warriors to the underground-world entrance, and attacked the Earth Demon camp.
• Ji Yan used a pillar of fire to overwhelm the camp and then charged the great shaman.
• Ji Yan knocked the great shaman down and left his guards sprawled nearby.

Ji Yan’s capture of an Otherkin great shaman allowed the Warrior Administration to uncover a vast underground civilization, but an unknown power destroyed the threat that emerged during interrogation. The Night King recognized Fang Qianyuan’s control over the operation and planned to send reinforcements, with Ye Tianming entering as a guest elder.

• Ji Yan handed the wounded Otherkin great shaman over to Azure Cloud Sect interrogators from the Warrior Administration.
• The interrogators used Brain-Eating Worms to extract memories revealing underground grotto heavens, numerous Otherkin kingdoms, and many powerful great shamans.
• As the interrogators viewed the object of worship in the Otherkin’s ceremonies, a skeletal arm emerged and pressed against the captive’s forehead, but it shattered before causing further harm.
• Ye Tianming and the Night King discussed how Fang Qianyuan controlled the vanguard and the operation’s intelligence gathering.
• The Night King decided to demand reinforcements at the next assembly and told Ye Tianming he would arrange for him to enter as a guest elder.

Fang Qianyuan revealed evidence that the Otherkin were Earth Demons whose cultivation civilization likely arose from an ancient legacy, then proposed sending reinforcements to their world. After the assembly, the Azure Cloud Sect’s leaders gathered to prepare for the expedition.

• Fang Qianyuan showed the assembly scenes from the Otherkin Great Shaman’s memories, prompting speculation that the civilization shared an ancient Immortal Alliance lineage.
• Fang Qianyuan confirmed that the Otherkin prisoners were Earth Demons, a species that had become civilized and powerful during the Xuanhuang Calendar era.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed dispatching a second Expeditionary Corps, and the Night King and other factions accepted the plan.
• Fang Qianyuan concealed the Great Shaman’s ritual and the skeletal hand from the memories shown to the assembly.
• Bai Luo, Yu Shixian, Sun Zhuo, Meng Du, Zhou Ruoshan, and other leaders gathered at the Azure Cloud Sect to prepare for the reinforcements.

Sun Zhuo showed the Sect’s leaders evidence of the Earth Demons’ worship of an ancient demon whose three aspects represented the stages of life and whose power touched the origin. The meeting ended with them recognizing that its connection to life and lifespan could offer an extraordinary opportunity.

• Wolf Saint Bai Luo opened the secret meeting, and Sun Zhuo warned everyone to put the Sect’s interests first and deny the meeting afterward.
• Sun Zhuo played footage of the events at Cloud Summit Peak, including Fang Qianyuan stopping and destroying a skeletal arm from the Otherworld.
• Sun Zhuo showed a vast cavern containing a blood-red statue with three heads and six arms, which Pang Yuan identified as a demon god worshipped by the Earth Demons.
• Sun Zhuo explained that the statue depicted a three-aspect ancient demon tied to the life law, with youthful, aged, and skeletal aspects representing vitality, decline, and decay.
• The gathered leaders understood that the ancient demon’s connection to life and lifespan could make it a rare source of power and opportunity.

Sun Zhuo explained that Fang Qianyuan had identified a Three-Aspect Ancient Demon in the Zhilin World as a possible source of immortality and imperishability. The Azure Cloud Sect secretly planned to reinforce the Otherworld, secure control of the campaign, and prepare to claim the demon’s Worship Site.

• Sun Zhuo said Fang Qianyuan had learned about the ancient demon from rare texts recovered from the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and recognized its presence in the Zhilin World.
• Sun Zhuo described the demon as a powerful false god with a fabricated divine core, and warned that it and other deities could pose a greater danger than the Jianmu tree.
• Meng Du asked whether Fang Qianyuan meant to claim the demon alone, and Sun Zhuo said the sect would work through the Heavenly Realms Alliance while securing the initiative and the largest share.
• The Grand Elders agreed that Wolf Saint Bai Luo would lead reinforcements, including experts from the Heavenly Wolf Tribe, the Warrior Administration, and newly promoted Grand Elders Meng Du and Zhou Ruoshan.
• Sun Zhuo said Fang Qianyuan would direct the other powers’ operations and arrange for them to discover the Worship Site, where they could then act decisively to seize it.

Wolf Saint Bai Luo and a powerful Azure Cloud Sect force arrived in the Zhilin World, where Bai Luo prepared to investigate a hidden secret underground. As representatives of other forces arrived at the Forward Camp, Ning Lin unknowingly carried Ye Tianming in a concealed state, leaving Ye Tong fearful that Fang Qianyuan would discover him.

• Bai Luo arrived in the Zhilin World with Azure Cloud Sect disciples and elite warriors, while the four wolf kings concealed their identities among the forces.
• Bai Luo told the wolf kings he would investigate underground and warned them that success could bring opportunities beyond competing for the Wolf Saint's Seat.
• Fang Qianyuan transported more experts to the Forward Camp, including Ning Lin, and the wolf kings withdrew without revealing themselves.
• Ye Tong feared that Ye Tianming had secretly hidden inside Ning Lin during the journey, while Ning Lin sensed someone watching them.
• Ye Tong urged Ning Lin to leave the Forward Camp, where representatives of the Spirit-Taming World’s forces gathered as potential rivals.

Ye Tianming explained to Ye Tong that he wanted to pursue immortality and fulfill Venerable Wu’s wishes, then reflected on how his master had treated his disciples as pawns. He restrained Ye Tong when he realized she had been sent to watch him, refusing to let his master use her against him.

• Ning Lin and Ye Tong left the factions’ defensive positions to travel with Ye Tianming to the underground world of the Earth Demons.
• Ye Tianming told Ye Tong that he sought the Dao of eternal life and wanted to do something meaningful for the world’s cultivators.
• Ye Tianming recounted his rise from a favored Cang Mountain Academy disciple to his hardships among the grassroots and his later disillusionment with his master.
• Ye Tianming accused Ye Tong of being sent to watch him and bound her with shadows.
• Ye Tianming admitted he could not bring himself to harm Ye Tong but would not allow his master to use her against him.

Ye Tong was found by Kong Cheng after Ye Tianming ambushed her, while Ning Lin blocked the Mian Mountain Sacred Palace disciples from pursuing him. Elsewhere, Wolf Saint Bai Luo and Warrior Administration elites entered the underground kingdom and discovered that its vital energy surpassed their own sacred grounds.

• Kong Cheng and the Mian Mountain Sacred Palace disciples found Ye Tong, who said Ye Tianming had ambushed her.
• Kong Cheng attacked Ning Lin, who explained that Ye Zun had ordered him to stop them from passing.
• Kong Cheng and the other disciples fought Ning Lin while Ye Tong slipped through the passage to pursue Ye Tianming.
• Wolf Saint Bai Luo led Warrior Administration elites through the underground passages toward the underground kingdom.
• Bai Luo and his companions discovered a vast underground realm whose spirit qi surpassed that of Wolf Sage Paradise.

Feng Yun, Ximen Man, and Wolf Saint Bai Luo led an elite force through the underground world, following the Otherkin Great Shaman’s memories toward the Earth Demons’ city and searching for traces of an ancient civilization. Bai Luo sensed the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon nearby, and the group found a vast temple where a blood-red statue turned its gaze toward them.

• Feng Yun explained that the underground world’s resources and knowledge suggested it might be an ancient grotto heaven or immortal blessed land.
• Bai Luo agreed that the Earth Demons were not native to an ordinary spirit-essence world, and the group followed the interrogators’ guidance through the Glowcap Mushroom caverns.
• The party crossed more than half the underground region, using the Otherkin Great Shaman’s memories to reach their destination while evading or killing Earth Demons they encountered.
• Bai Luo sensed the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon nearby, so Ximen Man and Feng Yun ordered the weaker specialists to wait while the elites prepared for battle.
• The group crossed a hill and saw a vast stone temple, a complex array of altars, and a blood-red statue whose eyes shone as it looked at them.

Wolf Saint Bai Luo summoned his wolf-demon army and challenged the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon, while Ximen Man and Feng Yun fought off the Earth Demons’ reinforcements. The chapter ended as Bai Luo’s elite wolves launched a barrage at the ancient demon.

• Wolf Saint Bai Luo transformed into his Red-Eyed White Wolf King Dharma body and summoned an army of wolf demons.
• Bai Luo’s wolf army surrounded and killed Earth Demons near the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon statue as he charged the statue.
• A divine spirit resembling the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon emerged from the statue and clashed with Bai Luo.
• Ximen Man, Feng Yun, and their allies intercepted Earth Demon reinforcements, and a fierce battle broke out around the altar.
• Bai Luo praised the ancient demon’s strength, and his elite wolves fired enormous balls of light at it.

Wolf Saint Bai Luo discovered that the three-aspect ancient demon was a spirit aspect sustained by an Earth Demon deity statue, then led the wolves in a prolonged assault to shatter the statue. The breach revealed a diamond-shaped crystal inside, while Bai Luo destroyed the demon aspect after its source of power was cut off.

• Wolf Saint Bai Luo and the demon wolves battered the three-aspect ancient demon, and Bai Luo tore a deep wound into its body.
• Bai Luo attacked the deity statue directly and was overwhelmed by the worshippers’ accumulated wills, briefly losing control before recovering and understanding the statue’s origin.
• Bai Luo ordered the wolves to attack from afar, avoiding the statue’s spiritual assault while neutralizing the ancient demon’s counterattacks.
• After more than half a day, the wolves shattered the statue’s forehead and exposed a hollow interior containing a fist-sized diamond-shaped crystal.
• Bai Luo threw the weakened ancient demon to the ground and bit through its throat, causing its dharma aspect to dissolve into demonic qi.

Bai Luo defeated the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon, took its Chaos Divine Crystal, and withdrew with his companions after sensing danger. Ye Tianming later reached an ancient Taoist ruin, where a mysterious figure greeted him and praised his ability to foresee their meeting.

• Bai Luo wounded the lavishly robed old man and took the Chaos Divine Crystal from the hollow statue.
• Bai Luo sent twelve Earth Rank Great Demons to help Ximen Man, Feng Yun, and the others fight the Earth Demon Great Shamans.
• Bai Luo sensed another Heaven Tier presence and ordered the Wolf Saint and his companions to leave.
• Ye Tianming passed a devastated altar and found a ruined Taoist temple in a secluded valley.
• A glowing figure appeared above an ancient stele and greeted Ye Tianming, who remarked that it had predicted their meeting.

Ye Tianming met Rogue Person Tianji and learned the truth behind Wu Lianyi’s rise and the diviner’s hidden influence on later generations. Having followed the clues in Wu Lianyi’s notes, Ye Tianming finally found the man who had secretly guided him as well.

• Rogue Person Tianji appeared before Ye Tianming, who praised his power of foresight and addressed him by name.
• Ye Tianming recounted how Rogue Person Tianji had predicted the Dharma-Ending Age and helped create the Two Sects’ plans, before being imprisoned and escaping.
• Rogue Person Tianji secretly guided people in later generations, including Wu Lianyi, and helped him obtain the Warrior Path legacy and advance its development.
• Wu Lianyi used the Two Sects’ support while pursuing benefits for warriors and rogue cultivators, and Ye Tianming later embraced his dao lineage and led the surviving warriors.
• Ye Tianming discovered Rogue Person Tianji’s role in Wu Lianyi’s notes and realized the diviner had also guided him, prompting him to search until they met.

Ye Tianming learned from Rogue Person Tianji about a void-crossing vessel and a warning that Mystic Heaven would die as Azure Heaven rose. Meanwhile, Wolf Saint Bai Luo’s party escaped the Underground World and sent the Chaos Divine Crystal to Fang Qianyuan.

• Rogue Person Tianji told Ye Tianming that a Calamity-Crossing Flying Vessel lay beneath the temple and that Wu Lianyi’s Immortal Command Token could activate it.
• Rogue Person Tianji warned, “Mystic Heaven shall die; the Azure Heaven shall rise!” and explained that his predictions could not encompass the future before his remnant vanished.
• Wolf Saint Bai Luo and his party escaped the Underground World after suffering heavy casualties and dealing devastating losses to the Earth Demons.
• Wolf Saint Bai Luo gave the Chaos Divine Crystal to Ximen Man to offer to Venerable Fang in exchange for future opportunities.
• Ximen Man’s group performed a sacrificial rite, and Fang Qianyuan used the Star Map to draw the offering to himself at the Heavencrystal Snowfield.

Fang Qianyuan examined the Chaos Divine Crystal and destroyed the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon's lingering will inside it. He absorbed the purified origin power, manifesting countless versions of himself across time before returning to his youthful appearance.

• Fang Qianyuan considered how the Earth Demons had been exploited by the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon and concluded that the Heavenly Realms Alliance would soon threaten their civilization.
• Fang Qianyuan probed the Chaos Divine Crystal, and the Three-Aspect Ancient Demon tried to attack his sea of consciousness.
• Fang Qianyuan's Heavenly Dao power erased the demon's will and purified the crystal into a natural source of origin power.
• Fang Qianyuan absorbed the crystal, causing his appearance to shift through different ages and forms as countless versions of himself appeared across time.
• Fang Qianyuan's appearance returned to the youthful face he had possessed over twenty years earlier, and he sensed the changes in his origin power.

Bai Aoxue reported that the factions accepted the Alliance’s arrangements while Fang Qianyuan continued refining his origins and nearing Great Accomplishment in the Heavenly Dao. As the factions competed to explore the Underground World, Kong Cheng received an apparent Dream-Transmission Art message from Ye Tong.

• Bai Aoxue told Fang Qianyuan that the factions were satisfied with the Alliance’s arrangements, and he said his foundations were filling out as Great Accomplishment in the Heavenly Dao drew nearer.
• The factions sent exploration teams into the Underground World, where they suffered casualties while searching for Earth Demon kingdoms and their hidden legacies.
• The Azure Cloud Sect announced it had found an Earth Demon kingdom and captured it within three days, prompting other factions to suspect it had concealed its earlier discoveries.
• Hai Sheng and the Demon Alliance experts agreed to form alliances and compete with the Azure Cloud Sect for the other underground kingdoms.
• Kong Cheng questioned Mian Mountain Sacred Palace disciples who had failed to find Ning Lin and Ye Tianming, then sensed Ye Tong sending him a message from an Immortal Spirit Medicine Garden.