Chapter Summaries

Lin Nan and her companions questioned Shen Ming and the captured Spider Demon about the world and its demons, then discovered the creature could regenerate from seemingly fatal injuries. They began testing its limits, leaving the Spider Demon trapped in an endless cycle of torture and recovery.

• Lin Nan used the Soul-Hooking Art to question Shen Ming, who explained the Great Yin Dynasty, demon ranks, and martial artist realms.
• The Spider Demon mocked the strength of Martial Saints, so Luo Shan used the Soul-Suppressing Nails to silence it.
• Lin Nan's Soul-Hooking Art failed to affect the Spider Demon, and Luo Shan tortured it until it revealed everything it knew.
• Chu Mo ordered the Spider Demon killed, but its head wound regenerated and its health bar began to refill.
• Chu Mo and the others tore off the Spider Demon's legs and cut its body in half, watching it regenerate each time.
• The group proposed further tests, including leaving the Spider Demon with only its head or burning it to ash.

After defeating the Spider Demon, Chu Mo and his companions escorted Shen Ming’s group toward Linhe County and learned how demons could be permanently killed. Night miasma then spread across the wilderness, so Luo Shan secretly sped up and protected the convoy as it hurried toward a nearby village.

• Chu Mo stored the Spider Demon’s remains and agreed with Ji Qing and the others to escort Shen Ming’s group toward Linhe County.
• Shen Ming explained that powerful warriors could destroy a demon’s core or consciousness, while ordinary warriors had little chance against one.
• As night fell, a regional event triggered and gray night miasma began spreading through the wilderness.
• Shen Ming’s group took Miasma-Cleansing Pills, and Shen Ming explained that the poisonous mist could drive people mad and that a nearby village’s collective vitality could resist it.
• Luo Shan secretly used Flying Body Art and Barrier-Evasion Art to hurry and protect the convoy, which reached the village’s outskirts in just over a quarter of an hour.

Chu Mo and his companions entered Great Yang Village, where the night miasma vanished as soon as they crossed the fence. After finding no sign of the supposed warmth of human habitation, they concluded that the village’s protection might be a world-spanning law created by a Nascent Soul True Lord’s life-bound divine ability.

• Shen Ming identified himself and his companions to Great Yang Village’s headman, who let them inside.
• Chu Mo saw the night miasma disperse at the village entrance and noticed the villagers’ numbness, the fake talismans, and the frightened children.
• Gou Wazi led the five cultivators to two empty houses at the village’s eastern end.
• Chu Mo told his companions that his investigations had found no warmth of human habitation protecting the village.
• Ji Qing proposed that the miasma’s exclusion was a fundamental rule of the world, likely established by a Nascent Soul True Lord.

Ji Qing explained that Dharma and Spirit were world-born foundations needed for advancement to the golden core and nascent soul realms, and directed the group to seek a lead on a Dharma in this world. The group sensed demonic qi near the village, while Shen Ming urged the village head to ask Chu Mo and the others for help against the demon demanding sacrifices.

• Ji Qing explained that golden core cultivators refined a Dharma into a life-bound divine ability and nascent soul cultivators used a complete Spirit to form a dharma form.
• Ji Qing set the group's objective as discovering what Dharma or Spirit was called in this world and finding a definite lead on a Dharma.
• Ji Qing told Chu Mo that Dharma could take many forms and that the Savage Realm's Dharma manifested as a totem.
• Chu Mo, Ji Qing, Luo Shan, and the others sensed demonic qi coming from the village center.
• Shen Ming urged the village head to tell Chu Mo and the others that a demon had settled in Great Yang Village and was forcing the villagers to make sacrifices.

Shen Ming tried to stop Great Yang Village from sacrificing two children to the Green Snake Lady, but a newcomer suddenly seized and brutalized the demon. The Village Head explained that the villagers made the sacrifice to keep worse demons away, leaving Shen Ming to confront how far humanity had already fallen.

• Shen Ming tried to confront the Green Snake Lady, but the villagers blocked him and brought forward Goudan and Yaya as offerings.
• The Green Snake Lady arrived and tasted one child's cheek as the villagers prostrated themselves.
• A newcomer appeared, struck the Green Snake Lady, and dragged her away by the neck.
• The villagers panicked that the Green Snake Lady's removal would bring destruction, while Goudan and Yaya's parents clung to their children.
• The Village Head told Shen Ming that the sacrifices protected Great Yang Village from other demons, and described how demons had overrun Long Province, Luo Province, and Wo Province.

Chu Mo tested a new way to kill the Green Snake Demon while preserving its demon essence, and learned that the Demon Suppression Bureau controlled techniques for using it. The group decided to visit Linhe County and investigate the bureau for its secrets and resources.

• Yan Fei brought in the unconscious Green Snake Demon and revealed that the supposedly female demon was male.
• Chu Mo used a Sunflame Evil-Breaking Talisman to kill the demon while preserving its intact cyan demon essence, and its demon soul dissipated.
• Luo Shan examined the demon essence and recognized its unusually rich, active energy.
• Shen Ming explained that demon essence could be refined into a valuable Demon Essence Core using secret techniques held by the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Lin Nan quietly erased Shen Ming’s suspicions, and Chu Mo and Ji Qing agreed the group should visit Linhe County and the Demon Suppression Bureau.

Chu Mo’s party reached Linhe County after Shen Ming explained his hatred of demons and Ji Qing described how the Tribulation Deliverance Sect governed otherworlds. At the county office, Shen Ming found a Demon Suppression Bureau Inspector investigating six weasel corpses and introduced himself to her.

• Shen Ming said demons had killed his parents and that he would gladly die if it meant wiping them out, while Ji Qing explained the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s approach to ruling otherworlds.
• Luo Shan rejoined the party after briefly leaving on personal business, and the party continued toward Linhe County.
• The Village Head noticed the yellow papers in Great Yang Village had changed, with newer paper and more orderly symbols.
• Chu Mo’s party entered Linhe County under stricter inspections and went with a constable to Shen Ming’s home as Shen Ming headed to the county office.
• Shen Ming saw Demon Suppression Bureau warriors, six weasel corpses, and a woman seated beside the bowed magistrate Zhao Cheng, then knelt and greeted her as the Inspector.

Chu Mo and his companions investigated faint demonic traces in Linhe County and discussed how to learn more about the local Demon Suppression Bureau. Mo Yuan, a Demon-Slaying Envoy, offered to recruit them, leaving them to decide whether to join.

• Chu Mo and Luo Shan sensed faint demonic qi in Shen Ming's courtyard and discussed the danger and potential resources of the realm.
• Chu Mo urged the group to learn about Linhe County and its Demon Suppression Bureau, while cautioning them not to rely solely on Shen Ming.
• Mo Yuan arrived, identified herself as a Demon-Slaying Envoy, and asked about the demons Chu Mo's group had slain.
• Luo Shan claimed the group came from an obscure mountain school, but Mo Yuan remained doubtful and invited them to join the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Mo Yuan explained that demon attacks had overwhelmed the bureau's forces in Yi Province, then asked the group what they thought of her offer.

After joining the Demon Suppression Bureau, Chu Mo and his companions completed Mo Yuan’s patrol and arrived in Dingyuan City, where Mo Yuan reported the worsening demon threat to Yue Cangming. While the bureau’s master worried over signs of a possible Calamity, Chu Mo and the others entered the Secret Pavilion to choose cultivation methods and consult its records.

• Chu Mo and his companions passed Mo Yuan’s assessment by slaying demons during a half-month patrol, and Mo Yuan offered them cultivation methods and Demon Essence Cores.
• Chu Mo asked to consult the Demon Suppression Bureau’s demon records, and Mo Yuan led the troop into Dingyuan City before sending them to complete their identification papers.
• Mo Yuan reported to Yue Cangming that demon incidents and Fierce Upper Tier demons had increased, and she warned that the demons seemed agitated as if a Calamity might be approaching.
• Yue Cangming read an ancient text about True Immortals who once protected humanity from demons, while Mo Yuan reflected on whether such selfless immortals could exist.
• Chu Mo, Luo Shan, and the others entered the Secret Pavilion’s second floor, where they were allowed two hours to copy one cultivation method and forbidden from going upstairs.

Chu Mo and his companions failed to infiltrate the secret pavilion, but the Demon Essence Cores they received helped Chu Mo break through to ninth-level Qi Refining. He continued serving the Demon Suppression Bureau while secretly investigating the pavilion, and finally got an opening when its Intent Realm guard left to fight demons at the Li River.

• Luo Shan used an illusion and stealth technique to approach the pavilion’s third floor, but discovered an Intent Realm martial artist guarding the fourth floor and withdrew.
• The group received seven Demon Essence Cores, and Yan Fei tested one before they confirmed it was safe for cultivators to refine.
• Chu Mo swallowed a pill and broke through to ninth-level Qi Refining, then resolved to earn more pills by slaying demons.
• Chu Mo took missions for the Demon Suppression Bureau, secretly investigated the pavilion, traded with Luo Shan for the Invisibility Technique, and avoided practicing the martial manuals.
• Seven days later, three upper-rank Baleful-class demons appeared near Dingyuan City, drawing the pavilion’s guard to the Li River.

Chu Mo infiltrated the Secret Pavilion during the chaos in Dingyuan City, stole a sealed ancient-era jade slip, and collected books and martial records. He escaped as guards clashed with a purple-robed Tribulation Deliverance Sect cultivator, then hid nearby to watch the disturbance.

• Chu Mo used Invisibility Technique to enter the Secret Pavilion while its guards were distracted by the disturbance in Dingyuan City.
• Chu Mo explored the pavilion’s five floors, memorized the Demon Essence Core formula, and secretly swapped the sealed jade slip on the top floor for a blank one.
• Chu Mo swept books and records from the fourth and third floors into his Inventory, triggering alarms among the guards.
• A Level 8 Conscript of the Tribulation Deliverance Sect entered the third floor, and Chu Mo struck him with a Crimson-Gold Flame Bolt before setting off another blast to draw the guards toward him.
• The guards attacked the purple-robed cultivator, while Chu Mo slipped out of the pavilion and hid nearby to watch.

Chu Mo ambushed and killed a Tribulation Deliverance Sect cultivator, acquiring his soul banner and the Soul-Rending Yin-Shifting Life-Extinguishing Formation. After rejoining Luo Shan and Ji Qing with the Secret Pavilion’s collection, Chu Mo planned to use another sect team to distract the Demon Suppression Bureau while they secured Demon Essence Cores.

• A purple-robed cultivator used a soul banner and the Soul-Rending Yin-Shifting Life-Extinguishing Formation to trap the warrior guards, then escaped the Secret Pavilion.
• Chu Mo ambushed the purple-robed cultivator, killed him, took his soul banner, and learned the formation from his soul.
• Chu Mo returned to Luo Shan and Ji Qing and confirmed they had taken the Secret Pavilion’s collection.
• Chu Mo told Luo Shan and Ji Qing that another Tribulation Deliverance Sect team was targeting the Demon Suppression Bureau’s secret collection.
• Chu Mo proposed exploiting the Secret Pavilion theft to draw the Bureau’s attention toward the other team while they obtained Demon Essence Cores.

As the Demon Suppression Bureau hunted the suspected Secret Pavilion thief, Chu Mo and his companions studied Divine Weapons, tracked a lead on the world's Law, and plundered the bureau's storehouse. Yue Cangming revealed that the abnormal flooding of the Li River signaled a Calamity's emergence, while Chu Mo prepared to refine Demon Essence Cores.

• Ji Qing told Chu Mo that Divine Weapons resembled cultivators' Life-bound Magical Treasures and identified Calamity as the world's likely Law.
• Luo Shan reported that the Demon Suppression Bureau had tracked down six cultivators, who fought the bureau's forces in the southern old lanes.
• Chu Mo and his companions emptied the Demon Suppression Bureau's storehouse while the city was in turmoil.
• Yue Cangming told Mo Yuan that six upper-tier Baleful Intent-level demons had appeared at the Li River and that its expanding waters signaled a Calamity.
• Chu Mo inventoried the stolen herbs and demon cores with Luo Shan and Ji Qing, and Ji Qing declined Luo Shan's offer to teach alchemy.

Chu Mo reached Qi Refining Perfection, then witnessed the Flood Dragon Lord’s emergence as the Li River’s Calamity and reported traces of a spell to Mo Yuan. The Flood Dragon Lord later overwhelmed Dingyuan City’s defenses, leaving Mo Yuan fighting amid catastrophic losses.

• Chu Mo left Dingyuan City with his companions, reached Qi Refining Perfection, and began practicing [Three Corpses Severing Form Profound Capital Sword].
• The Flood Dragon Lord rose from the Li River, and Yue Cangming used the [Dingyuan Seal] to suppress it while floodwaters swept away defenders.
• A hundred miles away, Chu Mo received the regional event notification [The Flood Dragon Lord's Might] and used the Silver Seal to return to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect.
• Chu Mo, Ji Qing, and Luo Shan told Mo Yuan that they had found traces of a spell, and Mo Yuan demanded their full account.
• The Flood Dragon Lord emerged again, Yue Cangming exhausted his strength, and the river flooded the land as demons slaughtered the defenders and Mo Yuan fought on.

Mo Yuan arrived in Yi Province aboard an immortal ship, subdued the Flood Dragon Lord, and took the demons and martial artists into the Tribulation Deliverance Immortal Sect. After learning that the Heavenly Register might emerge from Snow Reflection High Person’s Dharma Mansion in three months, Chu Mo prepared for it and went to the Turbid Abyss Sea, where the instance remained closed.

• Mo Yuan used the Sea-Calming Pearls to suppress the Flood Dragon Lord and the demons, then accepted the martial artists into the Tribulation Deliverance Immortal Sect.
• A steward True Person awarded Chu Mo high merit and gave him a jade slip containing news of the Heavenly Register.
• Chu Mo learned that the Heavenly Register had likely been left in the Turbid Abyss Sea by High Person Xueying and might emerge in three months.
• Chu Mo spent weeks preparing pills, talismans, formations, and other methods to help him seize the Heavenly Register.
• Chu Mo traveled to the seabed site of Snow Reflection High Person’s Dharma Mansion, but found that the instance was still closed.

Chu Mo entered the Snow Reflection High Person's Dharma Mansion, secured its entrance, and encountered three Level 10 Mutated Ink-Scaled Flood Dragons in the lake. Outside, cultivators gathered and learned that the realm suppressed stronger entrants to qi refining, leaving them vulnerable to its inhabitants.

• Chu Mo waited for the dungeon to open, then entered the Dharma Mansion when a dark vortex appeared and the Jade Slip warmed.
• A robed Great Evolution Dao Sect cultivator arrived with other disciples and declared that he had come to retrieve the Heavenly Register hidden by Xueying.
• Chu Mo summoned Banner Spirits, sealed the entrance with the Soul-Rending Yin-Shifting Life-Extinguishing Formation, placed Spirit Talismans, and ordered Mu Yun to defend it.
• Three Mutated Ink-Scaled Flood Dragons attacked Chu Mo in the lake, and he countered by firing nine arrows from the Blazing Fire Bow.
• Foundation establishment cultivators outside discovered that entering the Dharma Mansion would suppress them to qi refining, making them vulnerable even to qi refining cultivators.

A Great Evolution Dao Sect cultivator and the other entrants were caught in a deadly formation inside the Dharma Mansion, while Chu Mo reached Xueying Palace and fought his way past its Puppet Guards. He struck the powerful palace guard leader with his black sword as he tried to enter the hall.

• A young cultivator from the Great Evolution Dao Sect entered the Dharma Mansion, and the Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators let him pass.
• The estate entrance erupted with talisman explosions, killing many cultivators, and a hidden Soul-Rending Yin-Shifting Life-Extinguishing Formation began draining the survivors.
• Chu Mo defeated the last three Ink Flood Dragons, collected their Flood Dragon Pearls, and flew toward the palace.
• Chu Mo discovered that the Puppet Guards attacked anyone who entered the palace, so he used his Profound Banner and Banner Spirits to occupy them.
• A level ten Xueying Palace Guard (Leader) blocked Chu Mo, who dodged its halberd and sent his black sword plunging into it.

Chu Mo defeated the Xueying Palace Guard and found the Heavenly Register, which was devouring cultivators’ souls. Shen Linfeng arrived and fought Chu Mo for the treasure, but a ghastly white light froze everything in the hall before either could prevail.

• Chu Mo exploited the puppet guard’s depleted energy to destroy it and picked up its Damaged Puppet Core.
• Chu Mo opened a hidden jade wall and discovered the Heavenly Register absorbing gray shadows he recognized as cultivators’ souls.
• Shen Linfeng emerged using a Spirit Talisman and charged for the Heavenly Register, but Chu Mo blocked him with Profound Grotto Sky Glow.
• Shen Linfeng attacked Chu Mo with a Golden Chain empowered by the Shen Household Secret Art, while Chu Mo countered with his Dharmic Artifacts and Greed-Binding Sword Qi.
• A ghastly white light swept into the hall and froze Chu Mo, Shen Linfeng, their attacks, and everything else it touched.

Xueying revealed himself as Luo Shan and used the Heavenly Register to devour Chu Mo and Shen Linfeng, but Chu Mo returned from the register and began establishing his Dao mansion. Though his life-bound qi ran short and his health fell, Chu Mo awakened dharma power and turned to confront Xueying.

• Xueying revealed his identity as Luo Shan and attacked Chu Mo and Shen Linfeng with the Cold Light Mirror’s divine light.
• The Heavenly Register devoured Chu Mo and Shen Linfeng’s souls, and Xueying prepared to retrieve it.
• Chu Mo emerged from the Heavenly Register, learned its name, and refined it to begin establishing his Dao mansion.
• Chu Mo ran out of life-bound qi before completing the Dao mansion, causing his health to plunge as the structure began collapsing.
• Chu Mo awakened dharma power, blocked Xueying’s divine light, and faced him with the Greedy Attachment Sword as Xueying realized he was doomed.

Chu Mo revived after killing Xueying, gained his treasures and secret technique, and used the Cold Light Mirror to seal the Dharma Mansion. With outside forces searching for him, he chose to attempt Foundation Establishment inside using the newly revealed Profound Nether Commanding Myriad Spirits True Scripture.

• Xueying died after warning Chu Mo not to squander the Heavenly Register, and Chu Mo also died from the backlash of his failed Opening the Estate before reviving with his Yin-Yang Jade.
• High Person Zhou Huan learned that Jiang Yunya had died and ordered an investigation, then made Chu Mo a suspect because of his ties to High Person Yuanbai.
• Chu Mo revived in Xueying's Dharma Mansion and obtained 959 Dharma Coins, Xueying's Alchemy Notes, Xueying's Artifact-Refining Notes, and the secret technique Liberation from the Samsara Deadlock.
• Chu Mo discovered that the Cold Light Mirror could control the Dharma Mansion and sealed its entrance, leaving the cultivators outside unable to enter.
• Chu Mo decided to cultivate in seclusion and began studying the Profound Nether Commanding Myriad Spirits True Scripture as a compatible method for Foundation Establishment.