Chapter Summaries

Grand Elder Lianshan tried to rebuild the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects in the Spirit-Taming World, teaching new disciples while seeking allies and resources. The Two Sects expanded amid a surge of transcendent phenomena, but the righteous path’s pressure continued to close in.

• Grand Elder Lianshan personally taught fourteen new disciples, telling them the changes in the Heavenly Dao offered them a rare chance to master the laws and attain Dao fruit.
• Lianshan learned that wardmasters and powerful clans refused to cooperate after receiving the righteous path’s mandate, while his subordinate reported that their grassroots recruitment and holdings kept them afloat.
• Lianshan and Guizang traveled across three regions, recruiting followers and cultivating talent as the Two Sects’ orders began to revive.
• The Two Sects’ forces wiped out and plundered hundreds of aristocratic clans and minor sects while the Heavenly Dao Alliance struggled to respond to the surge in transcendent phenomena.
• The righteous path relaxed restrictions on inner disciples and sent more of them on missions, while Lianshan and Guizang felt its pressure tightening around the Two Sects.

Grand Elder Lianshan tasked Lin Yu with expanding his trade hall and secretly buying rare materials and spirit creatures, despite the danger of Heavenly Dao Alliance scrutiny. Sun Zhuo confirmed Lin Yu’s Demon Sect identity but ordered Hall Master Yuan to keep watching him so the Alliance could uncover the sect’s hidden leaders and stronghold.

• Grand Elder Lianshan praised Lin Yu’s loyalty and assigned him to expand his Universal Trade Association hall through years of purchases made for newly established Central Province clans.
• Lin Yu accepted the dangerous assignment, while Lianshan promised the sect would try to protect him and told him to return if his identity was exposed.
• Lianshan arranged for nearly a dozen aristocratic clans to make repeated purchases through Lin Yu, and the Heavenly Dao Alliance received intelligence about their activity within half a year.
• Hall Master Yuan reported his suspicions about Lin Yu to Sun Zhuo, who revealed that the Alliance had already confirmed Lin Yu’s identity and gathered evidence against him.
• Sun Zhuo ordered Hall Master Yuan to keep Lin Yu under secret surveillance, intending to trace him to Lianshan and the hidden ancient cultivators supported by the purchases.

Lin Yu’s secret trade network for the Two Sects was exposed by a Heavenly Dao Alliance agent who isolated him in his office. The agent revealed that Lin Yu’s removal and the seizure of his wealth were imminent.

• Lin Yu arrived at the Universal Trade Association’s Lishan Branch Headquarters after three years of secretly directing resources and profits to the Two Sects of the Great Heavenly Realms.
• Lin Yu learned that the Treasure Tower had opened and went to review the branch’s transaction records.
• A mysterious man appeared inside Lin Yu’s sealed office, unnoticed by the Warrior Guards, and began inspecting the records.
• The man accused Lin Yu of falsifying trade and Aristocratic Clan dealings, diverting profits to the Two Sects, and bribing Merchant Association officials.
• Lin Yu offered the man a bribe, but the man revealed he served the Heavenly Dao Alliance and said the Alliance Leader would arrange for Lin Yu’s holdings to be confiscated.
• Lin Yu recognized the man as a Heavenly Dao Alliance agent and realized the Alliance had completed its investigation.

A Heavenly Dao Alliance Demon-Subduing Envoy killed Lin Yu and suppressed the upheaval at Chestnut Mountain Branch Headquarters after uncovering his collaboration with the Demon Sect. Far away, a large force led by three Demon-Subduing Envoys assembled outside a valley, ready to launch a major operation.

• Lin Yu admitted that he had disguised his activities while building the Chestnut Mountain Branch Headquarters into a resource channel for the Two Sects.
• A Heavenly Dao Alliance agent attacked Lin Yu, but Lin Yu activated a Thunderclap Divine Talisman as he was beheaded, blasting apart the office.
• The agent identified himself as a Heavenly Dao Alliance operative, fought guards who attacked him, and waited as allied forces suppressed the chaos.
• The city lord of Chestnut Mountain questioned the agent, who said he had acted under the Alliance Leader's orders without revealing further details.
• More than a dozen late earth rank experts and a large force of other warriors gathered outside a distant valley under three Demon-Subduing Envoys.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance army advanced toward the Han Household’s city, where secret sect leaders had gathered for an alliance assembly. After they learned they could not contact Branch Leader Lin Yu, Han ordered the city’s defenses prepared and allies summoned.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance’s forces, including armored Qilin Elephants, Flying Birds, and mixed beast and demihuman troops, converged on the city.
• A messenger warned Han that the army had appeared a hundred miles away and was marching toward the city.
• The gathered household heads and clan elders considered whether their assembly had been exposed and agreed to contact the Grand Elder and Branch Leader Lin.
• Han’s subordinate reported that the Grand Elder had ordered them to hold their ground, while Branch Leader Lin Yu could not be reached.
• Han ordered the city to prepare for battle, and allied Two Sects followers began arriving through the Teleportation Grand Formation.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance launched its assault on Anshan City, where the Han household and its allies had gathered to defend Hermit Mountain. As the city’s defenses crumbled under the first charge, the head of the Han household realized his forces could not withstand the Alliance’s elites.

• Scouts reported to Lei Liangyu that the Han household and the other eleven households had taken positions in Anshan City and that Space Dao fluctuations suggested outside reinforcements were arriving.
• Lei Liangyu and his officers welcomed the defenders’ decision to make a stand, believing it would draw out the Demon Sect’s forces as Alliance Leader Sun Zhuo had planned.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance’s vanguard charged Anshan City with six Qilin Elephants, breaching a section of the wall and crushing defenders caught in the collapse.
• Elite Warriors and spirit creatures poured from the Qilin Elephants and joined the attack against the Han household’s guards.
• The head of the Han household watched his inexperienced troops scatter and recognized that they were no match for the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s elite forces.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance breached the city wall, and Ling Jiu gravely wounded the head of the Han Household as the fighting spread. Lei Liangyu explained that the alliance intended to draw in the Demon Sect’s reinforcements, while Grand Elder Lianshan arrived with newly empowered cultivators.

• The head of the Han Household used Jiaoming venomous insects to poison the Qilin Elephants, but a Soul-Burning Flame Spirit attacked him through the insects and forced him to retreat.
• Ling Jiu rushed through the battlefield and wounded the head of the Han Household with a rusty iron spear.
• Scouts reported the breach and the head of the Han Household’s poison to Lei Liangyu, who said the alliance aimed to hold the Demon Sect’s upper ranks and kill its surviving Ancient Cultivators.
• Grand Elder Lianshan arrived through the Teleportation Grand Formation with cultivators who had newly attained Dharma-Lineage Immortal Bodies.

As the Heavenly Dao Alliance launched coordinated purges against the Demon Sect, Fang Qianyuan’s four Grand Commanders unlocked a hidden grotto heaven beneath the Warrior Administration. They discovered the enormous divine tree at the heart of Fang Qianyuan’s secret force, leaving them astonished by the sight of the cicadas.

• Sun Zhuo ordered the Heavenly Dao Alliance to begin simultaneous demon-purging operations across cities and market districts.
• Wang Zhu, Shang Jingyun, Wang Ran, and Ding Yuanlong gathered in secret to discuss whether the Warrior Administration could carry out Fang Qianyuan’s plans without relying on the Heavenly Dao Alliance or Heavenly Realms Alliance.
• The four Grand Commanders joined their tiger-shaped command tokens and opened a hidden grotto heaven beneath the Warrior Administration.
• The commanders saw a towering divine tree hung with countless humanoid cocoons and recognized it as the true form of the cicadas.

Wang Ran revealed that the Warrior Administration's Cicada division consisted of expendable warriors grown from the Exalted One's immortal blood, and explained their record against Heaven Tier foes. Ding Yuanlong used the tiger tallies to awaken more than a hundred Cicada warriors and ordered them to war.

• Wang Zhu, Shang Jingyun, Wang Ran, and Ding Yuanlong discovered the Cicada warriors emerging from cocoons on a Divine Tree.
• Wang Ran explained that Fang Qianyuan had combined the Ten-Thousand-Year Cicada with other techniques to create warriors sustained and controlled through the Exalted One's blood.
• Wang Ran said Cicada had killed twenty-nine of thirty Heaven Tier enemies and had captured the Ancient Cultivator Past King in the Zhilin World.
• Ding Yuanlong used the tiger tallies to awaken more than a hundred Cicada warriors and connected with eighty-seven of their minds.
• Ding Yuanlong ordered the Cicada division to move out.

At Two Worlds Mountain, Guizang feared the Sacred Sect’s enemies might be letting the Ancient Cultivators grow stronger before striking them all at once. Mystic Heaven then warned him of an overwhelming danger, and White Crane activated the manor’s defenses as the surrounding void began to warp.

• Rogue Person White Crane told Guizang that their gathered experts could withstand the forces of the present age, but Guizang remained anxious about the battle at Hermit Mountain.
• Guizang explained that their opponents might be allowing the Sacred Sect to awaken more Ancient Cultivators so they could capture them all in one net.
• As Guizang turned toward the inner courtyard, he sensed a warning from Mystic Heaven and felt an immense danger approaching.
• Rogue Person Mei Feng and White Crane noticed Guizang’s distress, and Guizang told them that terrible danger was coming.
• White Crane struck the sky to alert the manor and activate its formation, while a strange power twisted the surrounding Heaven and Earth.

Cicada Division Warriors attacked ancient powerhouses across the Spirit-Taming World while the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s forces advanced on Anshan City. The ancient cultivators found themselves under coordinated assault, with the warriors also appearing in the Demon Kingdom’s capital.

• A void seal trapped the Sacred Sect Rogue Persons and ancient powerhouses, and more than ten Emperor-Rank Cicada Division Warriors arrived outside their compound.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance’s forces broke through the outer defenses in Anshan City, where Grand Elder Lianshan rallied reinforcements but held them back while he assessed the situation.
• Lei Liangyu crushed a jade talisman, summoning a destructive tornado over Hermit Mountain as six Cicada Division Warriors confronted Grand Elder Lianshan.
• Cicada Division Warriors appeared at secluded sites across the Spirit-Taming World, targeting the more than eighty ancient powerhouses gathering there.
• More than thirty Cicada Division Warriors emerged from a vortex in the Demon Kingdom’s capital and sped toward a great stone hall.

Celestial Pivot and the Sacred Sect faced an assault by Fang Qianyuan’s emperor-rank Cicada Division warriors, who overwhelmed the ancient cultivators and battered Celestial Pivot. Yellow Venerable activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation, bringing Mystic Heaven’s Heavenly Dao into the Demon Realm and turning the battle against the attackers.

• Celestial Pivot learned that the Sacred Sect’s branches had lost contact and led the others outside to confront the approaching enemy.
• Celestial Pivot and the ancient cultivators saw the emperor-rank Cicada Division warriors descend and engage them in battle.
• Four Cicada Division warriors attacked Celestial Pivot, overpowering him despite his rapidly regenerating body.
• Celestial Pivot warned Yellow Venerable that the Sacred Sect faced destruction, and Yellow Venerable activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation.
• Mystic Heaven’s Heavenly Dao descended over the White Stone Forest, and heavenly lightning struck and killed several Cicada Division warriors.
• Yellow Venerable unleashed the full power of his immortal lineage against the remaining Cicada Division warriors.

Yellow Venerable and the Rogue Persons fought the Cicada Division Warriors, whose regenerative and parasitic powers let them recover and grow stronger despite his devastating attack. The battle left nearly all the defenders dead, with Celestial Pivot, Black Venerable, Yu Ling, and Yuan Shu surviving as almost twenty Warriors closed in.

• Yellow Venerable bound the Cicada Division Warriors with lightning and void power, then cleaved their spatial cage apart with his Heaven Cleaving attack.
• A Warrior absorbed a dead companion to raise his strength, then crushed and swallowed a Rogue Person.
• A seemingly destroyed Warrior regenerated from its core heart, grew a blade, and used parasitic flesh buds to create duplicates from a Rogue Person.
• Yellow Venerable recognized the Warriors’ Flesh Regeneration abilities and fought them while the Rogue Persons were killed one after another.
• After Yellow Venerable annihilated four more Warriors, he saw that the Sage Envoys and nearly all the Rogue Persons had fallen, while almost twenty Warriors still surrounded the few survivors.

Yellow Venerable and Black Venerable faced the Cicada Division warriors, whose regenerative powers and ability to grow stronger made them nearly impossible to defeat. The warriors launched their final attacks, killing Yu Ling, Yuan Shu, and Celestial Pivot as their own strength burned out.

• Yellow Venerable watched the Cicada Division warriors regenerate and grow stronger by absorbing enemies and companions, while Black Venerable concluded they only needed to endure the warriors' last attacks.
• A girl-like warrior ordered Chan Sisi to attack, and Chan Sisi sent thorn branches through Yellow Venerable's wall to drain Yu Ling until he died, exhausting Chan Sisi in the process.
• The girl-like warrior sent Chan Yisanqi forward, and he transformed into a towering tree with a flower bud at its crown.
• Chan Yisanqi unleashed "Blooming Flower Reveals Me!" and annihilated Yuan Shu with a strike before burrowing into Celestial Pivot and causing him to explode into charred fragments.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance and Warrior Administration launched a coordinated assault that destroyed the Sacred Sect’s strongholds across the Spirit-Taming World. By the time Cloud Summit Peak learned of the offensive, the Demon Sect had already been utterly destroyed.

• At Two Worlds Mountain, Guizang realized the Cicada Division warriors had overwhelmed the branch headquarters and calmly faced them as his sect’s defeat became clear.
• In Anshan City, Lianshan told the survivors that there was nowhere left to flee and suspected the other branch headquarters and the Demon Realm headquarters had also fallen.
• Across the Spirit-Taming World, Wang Zhu and the Warrior Administration deployed Cicada Division warriors to attack the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects’ strongholds.
• Sun Zhuo delayed Cloud Summit Peak’s investigators and redirected their inquiries toward the Azure Cloud Sect until the coordinated attacks were over.
• After confirming the Demon Sect’s destruction, people across the world were shocked.

At Cloud Summit Peak, the gathered factions learned that the Azure Cloud Sect had known nothing about the Warrior Administration’s secret operation and decided to seek answers from Fang Qianyuan. In the Northern Wilds, Ye Tianming sensed a clash among Heavenly Dao powers before the sun was corrupted and a holy moon appeared beside it.

• Shi Xiaoming told the assembled leaders that the Azure Cloud Sect had not known about the Warrior Administration’s secret operation and suggested Fang Qianyuan had ordered it.
• Tian Heng asked Shi Xiaoming to notify the Azure Cloud Sect and announced that he would visit Fang Qianyuan at the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
• Aboard a silver-fish-shaped flying vessel, Ye Tianming sensed that Heavenly Dao powerhouses were clashing and worried that Fang Qianyuan might gain complete control of the world.
• Ye Tianming watched as Great Sage Xiangliu’s demonic influence corrupted the sun, darkening the Spirit-Taming World.
• A pure, holy moon appeared beside the blood-red sun, and the celestial event was recorded as the sun and moon shining together.

Fang Qianyuan seized control of the Spirit-Taming World’s Lunar Yin and Taiyang powers, drove back Mystic Heaven and Nether Heaven, and established his Dao within the world. Tian Heng realized that the three-way balance could only be temporary, as Fang Qianyuan would eventually have to settle the conflict with both rival Heavens.

• Fang Qianyuan exploited Mystic Heaven’s attempt to protect the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects, imprinting the Black Moon Celestial Phenomenon onto the Spirit-Taming World.
• Great Sage Xiangliu obscured Mystic Heaven’s Taiyang Power, allowing Fang Qianyuan to seize control of the world’s Lunar Yin origin and take its taiyin power from Mystic Heaven.
• Fang Qianyuan pressed his advantage as the sun and moon returned to the sky, and the laws and powers of the world began to shift under his control.
• Nether Heaven’s Demon Clouds retreated beyond the Fengshan-consecrated lands, while Fang Qianyuan declared that the paths of heaven, earth, and humanity would be separate.
• Tian Heng sensed Fang Qianyuan’s new world order taking shape and understood that the three-way division would eventually lead to a final struggle.

Tian Heng questioned Fang Qianyuan about destroying the Two Sects and confirmed that Fang planned to preserve the world’s order while driving out Mystic Heaven and Nether Heaven. Tian Heng committed the Spirit Taming Sect to Fang’s Heavenly Dao system, as the world’s divisions grew sharper and surviving sect orders began a desperate final struggle.

• Tian Heng visited Fang Qianyuan at Central Preservation Palace and asked him to explain the extermination of the Two Sects.
• Fang Qianyuan said he had acted from distrust of the powerful clans and to defeat the Azure Heaven Spirit, then confirmed that he intended to take control of Mystic Heaven and drive out Nether Heaven without radically changing the world’s order.
• Fang Qianyuan outlined the coming demon calamities and asked Tian Heng and the other powers to help defend the world while he strengthened his Spell Net and pursued perfection.
• After their private negotiations, Tian Heng ordered the Spirit Taming Sect to revere Azure Heaven and adopt the Spirit-Taming True Immortal cultivation method.
• Other major sects followed the Spirit Taming Sect, widening Fang Qianyuan’s network as the Mortal Realm grew more chaotic and distinct from the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Surviving leaders of the sect orders wreaked havoc and conducted sacrifices, hoping to awaken their will and reverse their defeat.

Six Mystic Sun Sect disciples were overwhelmed by a horde of lava demons while clearing a valley, until Lei Zhengyang arrived and slaughtered the monsters. He claimed the Red Jade the demons had been guarding and warned the survivors that they had nearly died.

• Six Mystic Sun Sect disciples fought lava demons in a valley, but the monsters’ reinforcements broke their formation and killed two disciples.
• Lei Zhengyang arrived on a Thunder Roc and wiped out the lava demons with his lightning sword.
• Lei Zhengyang followed the demons into a fissure and found a Red Jade floating above an earthen altar.
• Lei Zhengyang sealed the Red Jade, put it in his bag, and told the disciples it sustained the lava demons and that they would have died without his help.

Lei Zhengming discovered that the crystal found in the lava demons’ cavern was a Chaos Divine Crystal left by Mystic Heaven and sought advice about what to do with it. Elder Xiong told him to surrender it to Azure Heaven in exchange for origin power, and Lei Zhengming left for Cloud Summit Peak as Elder Xiong prepared to report the matter.

• Lei Zhengming warned the surviving disciples not to take reckless risks and had them clean up the cavern while he returned to the sect.
• Lei Zhengming told Elder Xiong that the crystal contained origin power left by Mystic Heaven and asked whether to hand it over or keep it in the sect’s Treasure Vault.
• Elder Xiong advised Lei Zhengming to surrender the crystal to Azure Heaven, since keeping it could invite disaster and the rules allowed an exchange for origin power.
• Lei Zhengming accepted the advice, took the crystal, and set out for Cloud Summit Peak.
• Elder Xiong reflected on the conflict between Azure Heaven and Mystic Heaven, then decided to report the matter through the usual channels.