Chapter Summaries

Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven forced the Demon Realm’s children of the world to help him establish the Underworld and open the Reincarnation World. He revived the Ancient Cultivators buried in the Hall of Life and Death as beings without life, and they began to understand their new existence.

• Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven defeated the Demon Realm’s children of the world and demanded they contribute their inherited origins to establish the Underworld.
• The devils combined their power with Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven’s to manifest the Wheel of Reincarnation.
• Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven opened the Reincarnation World and revealed the Underworld to the devils.
• Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven severed the karmic threads attached to the coffins in the Hall of Life and Death and opened them, releasing the dead Ancient Cultivators.
• The Ancient Cultivators emerged without vitality or life essence, then received messages explaining the Underworld, reincarnation, and the struggle over the Heavenly Dao.

Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven used Mystic Heaven’s legacy to subdue the resurrected Ancient Cultivators and spread death-law authority across Azure Heaven’s territory. At the White Bone Plain, Zhao Ling watched yakshas collect the wandering souls and killing intent he had cultivated, leaving him bereft of his resources.

• Ancient Cultivators tried to resist Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven, but his inherited authority over life and death immobilized them and forced them under his control.
• As the Ancient Cultivators awakened, laws of death spread through Azure Heaven’s territory and merged with its Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Ling gathered lingering souls and killing intent at the White Bone Plain, despite Heavenly Court restrictions on the Corpse Soul Sect’s cultivation.
• Yakshas riding skeletal horses arrived, gathered the wandering souls, and claimed all the drifting killing intent.
• Zhao Ling realized his resources had been taken and cried out in dismay.

A strange change in Heaven and Earth intertwined the Dao of Plague with the Spirit-Taming World’s vital energies, restoring ordinary medicine’s ability to treat a plague. As further phenomena revealed the spread of new laws, Tian Heng and the others decided to confront the man they believed was responsible.

• Qin Zheng and the Medicine King Sect disciples struggled to treat thousands of plague victims, while discussing how outbreaks had become uncontrollable over the past decade.
• A strange fluctuation blended the Dao of Plague with the Spirit-Taming World’s laws of vitality, death, and purification.
• A Medicine King Sect disciple discovered that an ordinary medicinal herb had stabilized a patient, and Qin Zheng’s group adjusted their treatments to control the plague.
• An old man who had lived for more than a century died, and cultivators exploring a newly opened rift fled after discovering it led to a world of the dead.
• Tian Heng and the others concluded that the new phenomena were connected to a man who had gathered the origins of Mystic Heaven and Nether Heaven, so they agreed to confront him.

Fang Qianyuan summoned the mighty figures who had resisted ascending and revealed that he intended to pursue Dao-Unification Refinement and the Great Dao Realm. Their confrontation was interrupted by Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven and newly ascended Demon Gods of the Nine Hells, whose strength matched their own.

• The mighty figures traveled to the Heavencrystal Snowfield, where Fang Qianyuan brought them into his guardian palace and summoned the Heavenly Emperor’s Manifestation.
• Tian Heng challenged Fang Qianyuan over severing his Manifestation, and Fang Qianyuan explained that no one could entrust their future and Fate to another.
• Fang Qianyuan revealed that he planned to undertake Dao-Unification Refinement and reach the Great Dao Realm, unsettling the assembled cultivators.
• Tian Heng redirected the discussion by asking Fang Qianyuan to explain what truth he had summoned them to hear.
• Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven arrived with Zhijia Baqiluo and the other newly ascended Demon Gods of the Nine Hells, whose Heavenly Dao auras matched those of the gathered figures.

Fang Qianyuan revealed that he had founded the Underworld and reached the threshold of the Great Dao, then judged the immortals who had defied him. After sending them into reincarnation and withdrawing the Heavencrystal Snowfield into the void, he vanished from sight, leaving the two venerables to believe he had achieved transcendence.

• Fang Qianyuan explained that his demon cultivators had inherited Nether Heaven's legacy and belonged to the Underworld, which he had established using part of Mystic Heaven's origin.
• Tian Heng confronted Fang Qianyuan over his rule, and Fang Qianyuan showed how their earlier actions had caused hidden dangers to appear in the Immortal Realm.
• Fang Qianyuan declared that the immortals had endangered the Heavenly Court and his dao, and sentenced them to extinction.
• Fang Qianyuan dispersed the resisting experts into radiance, gathered their true spirit essences, and sent them into reincarnation to wash away their sins.
• The Heavenly Emperor and Devil Master Yellow Springs Heaven watched Fang Qianyuan and the Heavencrystal Snowfield withdraw into the void, and believed he had achieved transcendence.