Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang and Mika entered Black Widow territory in the Dark Forest and found that its seductive inhabitants did not behave as Mika expected. After an injured spider woman attacked them, Ye Liang suspected she was mentally ill.

• Ye Liang and Mika found heaps of bones and reached a settlement of bamboo houses linked by spiderwebs.
• A seductive Black Widow opened a house door, but Mika warned Ye Liang to run; she shut the door after Mika appealed to her as a fellow Insectoid.
• Ye Liang knocked on more houses, where the women also seemed gentle and seductive, while Mika kept him from entering.
• A wounded, eight-eyed spider woman emerged from the forest, and Mika approached her hoping to hear that the tribe was cruel.
• The woman lunged at Mika and then Ye Liang, and Mika threw a stone at her; Ye Liang caught it and suspected the woman had a mental disorder.

Ye Liang and Mika rescued a violent Spider Race woman and calmed her with sedatives and repeated slaps. She revealed that she was Tiramisu, the former Spider Race Queen, and asked them to find her clean clothes so she could bathe.

• Ye Liang and Mika carried the woman from Spider Village back to the giant bird's nest in the towering forest.
• Ye Liang gave the woman sedatives and slapped her until she stopped attacking them.
• The woman warned Mika that the Spider Race women in the village were Black Widow variants who would eat intruders.
• The woman identified herself as Tiramisu, the former Spider Race Queen, and said a vicious ascended insect had seized her throne and slaughtered the kind members of her people.
• Mika promised to help liberate the Spider Race, and Ye Liang asked Tiramisu how they could assist her.
• Tiramisu asked them to find her clean clothes so she could take a bath.

Ye Liang and Mika followed Tiramisu to a hidden prison, where she revealed herself as a powerful Poison Widow and released a vast swarm of spiders. Ye Liang escaped with Mika and returned to the village as Tiramisu and tens of thousands of Poison Widows remained a major threat.

• Tiramisu led Ye Liang and Mika around the Spider village, claiming the new Queen had gone to help the Insect Queen give birth and promising to take them to the Insect Race headquarters if they rescued her guards.
• Ye Liang doubted Tiramisu's story as they reached the hidden prison, but Mika knocked out its two jailers.
• Tiramisu opened the prison, releasing giant Poison Widows, and Ye Liang realized she had never been cured of hysteria and had deceived them.
• Tiramisu merged with a Poison Widow, revealed her Saint Seventh Tier strength, and announced that she had been revived.
• Ye Liang kicked a Poison Widow away, carried the grieving Mika back to the village, and escaped the swarm of tens of thousands.

Ye Liang left the spider village with Mika, then returned to rescue its defenders from a Black Widow swarm. After fighting alongside Mystica, he learned that the village’s Queen, Lady Arachne, was a Saint—and fled at the thought of meeting her.

• Mystica confronted Ye Liang over the explosion, then led the spider women to defend the village while warning him to leave.
• Mika revealed that his Child-Protecting Insect Race instincts might drive him to rescue the Black Widow, so Ye Liang restrained him with Amaterasu and put him in the Portable Space.
• Ye Liang returned to the village and used a green bottle stolen from Naga Palace to cure the poisoned spider women.
• Ye Liang joined Mystica in fighting the Black Widow swarm, and the defenders rallied as he carved through the spiders.
• Mystica told Ye Liang that Lady Arachne, a Saint, had sealed the spiders and was returning; Ye Liang fled to avoid crossing paths with her.

Ye Liang encountered Arachne, his former wife, after she used the Law of Fire to stop Tiramisu and save the village. At the village meal, Arachne revealed their past marriage, leaving everyone stunned as Ye Liang tried to explain their separation.

• Ye Liang tried to leave the village but Arachne raised a wall of fire and blocked his way.
• Arachne defeated the poisonous spiders, and Tiramisu remained behind to be sealed again under Mystica's watch.
• Arachne recognized Ye Liang and invited him into the village for a meal.
• Mika joined the gathering, and Arachne and Mystica explained that the Child-Protecting Insect Race had gone extinct.
• Mystica asked why Arachne and Ye Liang were quiet, and Arachne revealed that they had been married before Ye Liang left her.
• Ye Liang said they might have stayed together if their child had not been aborted, and explained that they had both been struggling to survive.

Ye Liang revealed that Arachne had once aborted his child, shocking the village, then asked her how he could reach Sagehood. Arachne explained that he needed to find matching Sage True Intent, though it could only be obtained through exceptional luck.

• Arachne thanked Ye Liang after his revelation resolved a long-standing knot in her heart and reached the Sage Second Realm.
• The next day, village women chased Ye Liang for gossip about his past with Arachne, and he escaped to her house.
• Ye Liang asked Arachne for guidance on reaching Sagehood, and she explained that her own breakthrough had depended on her insectoid race’s collective faith.
• Arachne told Ye Liang that finding matching Sage True Intent would let him comprehend Disorderly Force and break through to Sagehood.
• Arachne warned Ye Liang that Sage True Intent could only be hoped for, not sought, and was found by people with exceptional luck.

After fulfilling Arachne’s request, Ye Liang left the Spider Homeland with Mika and arrived at the Insectoid Race’s ruined headquarters. There they found the settlement deserted, but Mika discovered a group of Guardian Clan children, suggesting his people had survived.

• Arachne asked Ye Liang to help her have a healthy human child before he left, and he agreed.
• Ye Liang and Arachne stayed secluded together for a week, while Mika nearly got beaten by the guards trying to climb over the wall.
• Ye Liang and Mika teleported to the Insectoid Race’s headquarters, a decayed city on an island enclosed by a towering steel wall.
• A giant centipede attacked Ye Liang, but Mika revealed himself and calmed the creature he had raised as a guardian.
• Mika and Ye Liang found a group of children hiding in an old residence, and Mika recognized them as members of the Guardian Clan.

Mika and Ye Liang learned that the Guardian Clan's surviving children had been abandoned by the Insect Clan, then went to meet the Insect Queen. Their ascent through the royal palace ended when a spear-wielding guardian attacked Ye Liang, and Mika intervened to identify him as a friend.

• Mika discovered that the surviving Guardian Clan children had been left to fend for themselves and gave them all his universal planetary currency before leaving with Ye Liang.
• A Wasp-person welcomed Mika and told him the Insect Queen had repelled a Naga assault after receiving advance warning from the Spider Queen.
• Mika insisted that Ye Liang accompany him into the Insect Clan Royal Palace to meet the weakened Queen.
• As Mika and Ye Liang climbed the palace stairs, a Spear Bee-person attacked Ye Liang from the void and pierced his head.
• Ye Liang emerged unharmed and seized the spear, while Mika asked the attacker to spare his human friend.

Mika reported that the Naga Queen’s sacrificial rituals revealed demonic influence and asked the Wasp Queen to fulfill the Black Ant Queen’s promise by granting the Guardian Clan land in the imperial city. The Wasp Queen’s guards blocked his request and offered border territory instead, leaving Mika resentful as he departed.

• Mika told the Wasp Queen that the Naga Queen sacrificed travelers, other races, and criminals, which suggested the Demon Race was involved.
• The Wasp Queen praised Mika and asked what reward he wanted, and Mika requested a safe plot of land in the imperial city for the Guardian Clan.
• The Wasp Queen said imperial-city land was scarce and offered other rewards, but Mika insisted she honor the Black Ant Queen’s promise.
• Ye Liang questioned why Mika could not receive a courtyard, and Spear Bee insulted the Guardian Clan and objected to giving them city land.
• Shield Bee proposed giving the Guardian Clan a large plot at the border, and the Wasp Queen urged Mika to accept.
• Mika reluctantly thanked the Wasp Queen for the reward and left.

After learning that Mika had died in the Naga Race’s attack, Ye Liang prepared to leave but was brought to the battlefield, where the Naga Queen revealed she knew he had stowed away from the Immortal World. Ye Liang confronted her with his Half-step Sage strength and overwhelmed her in battle.

• Ye Liang received a spacecraft from the Wasp Queen and spent half a month repairing its outdated instruments.
• The Naga Race attacked the territory granted to Mika, and Ye Liang later heard that Mika had died.
• As Ye Liang prepared to depart, a bee-person guard summoned him to the battlefield on the Wasp Queen’s orders.
• The guard brought Ye Liang before the Naga Queen, who identified him as a cultivator who had stowed away from the Immortal World.
• Ye Liang revealed his strength and used the Multiplication Technique to overpower the Naga Queen, leaving her terrified.

Ye Liang defeated the Naga army and sealed the demon Mannoroth behind the Gate of Void before leaving the planet. After a year of travel through the Outer World, he and Lucy arrived at Diagon Alley to seek information about Lucy’s missing brother.

• Ye Liang wiped out the Naga army, and the dying Naga Queen called on her master to descend.
• Mannoroth attacked through the Gate of Void, but Ye Liang realized the demon could not enter their world and sealed the gate with a Four Symbols Seal.
• Ye Liang left the planet as Arachne watched him depart and said goodbye.
• During a year of interstellar travel, Ye Liang learned that the Outer World was the universe’s ascended world, also known as the Fourth Civilization.
• Ye Liang and Lucy arrived at Diagon Alley, where they hoped the underworld’s informants could help them find Lucy’s brother.

Ye Liang visited Diagon Alley’s central organization, where Lord Longshan revealed that Lucy’s brother Gray had been seen in Northern Darkness Land five hundred years earlier. Ye Liang set out with Lucy to search for him there despite the danger and Lucy’s fear for Ye Liang.

• Ye Liang entered Diagon Alley’s core and subdued Manjome with the gravity of his Saint Great Perfection strength.
• Lord Longshan told Ye Liang that an expedition had seen Gray in Northern Darkness Land five hundred years earlier, appearing disoriented and speaking incoherently.
• Lord Longshan warned Ye Liang that the expedition members had gone mad and that Gray might still be in the dangerous region.
• Ye Liang left Diagon Alley with Lucy and told her they would head to Northern Darkness Land to find her brother.
• Lucy begged Ye Liang not to go, but he comforted her and said he had old scores to settle there.

Ye Liang traveled to Northern Darkness Star and entered the Northern Darkness Land, where he survived an ambush and discovered that the place held a Demon Race Saint. He headed deeper to search for Gray despite the danger.

• Ye Liang reached Northern Darkness Star, presented the key to Ox-head, and entered the passage alone, leaving Lucy behind.
• A Slit-Mouthed Woman ambushed Ye Liang and severed his head, but his headless body struck back and killed her before he restored his head.
• Ye Liang passed through the Void Gate and recognized the Northern Darkness Land as the place where demons had once captured him.
• Ye Liang sensed a Demon Race Saint in the depths, became wary, and continued onward to find Gray.

Ye Liang returned to the Northern Darkness Land, learned that Demon Slayer had captured Uncle Xintian, and discovered that the Seven-Colored Demon Lord was a Sage. Demon Slayer confronted Ye Liang after interrupting his interrogation, but Ye Liang evaded his attack.

• Xintian-jun endured Demon Slayer's torture as Demon Slayer sensed Ye Liang's return and hurried away to find him.
• Ye Liang reached the campsite where Tuotuo had died, destroyed the demons there, and released Tuotuo's lingering soul.
• Ye Liang interrogated a female Charm Demon, learned that the Seven-Colored Demon Lord was a Sage, and demanded to know where Uncle Xintian was being held.
• The female demon revealed that Demon Slayer had taken Uncle Xintian after the Demon Lord sealed his strength.
• Demon Slayer struck Ye Liang and the female demon down, but Ye Liang vanished by transforming into half a tree branch.

Ye Liang found Xintian-jun imprisoned in Demon Slayer’s cave and learned that he was an ancient ghost inhabiting the body of Gray Hart Sophia. Xintian-jun offered to sacrifice himself to restore Gray’s consciousness, asking Ye Liang to find the thing he had once sought before he was reborn.

• Demon Slayer attacked Ye Liang, and Ye Liang used Amaterasu to force him to reveal that Xintian-jun was imprisoned in his cave.
• Ye Liang followed Demon Slayer into the cave and found Xintian-jun, who explained that Gray’s body had died before he possessed it.
• Xintian-jun told Ye Liang that Gray’s soul had merged with his and that he could restore Gray by giving up his own memories and existence.
• Xintian-jun asked Ye Liang to find the forgotten object he had originally sought before his sacrifice and dormancy.
• Ye Liang placed Xintian-jun in his Portable Space and left the cave with Demon Slayer.

Ye Liang and Demon Slayer climbed Ancestral Dragon Mountain, where Demon Slayer explained the Dragon Ancestor’s Sage True Intent and the Seven-Colored Demon Lineage’s history. Ye Liang agreed to take Demon Slayer out of the sealed Northern Darkness Land, leaving their escape as the next step.

• Demon Slayer told Ye Liang that cultivators came to Ancestral Dragon Mountain to seek the Underworld Soul Dragon Ancestor’s Sage True Intent, which required recognition, compatibility, and surviving the trials of Sagehood.
• Ye Liang and Demon Slayer reached the summit and saw the dragon ancestor’s enormous floating skeleton; Demon Slayer explained that Underworld Soul Giant Dragons ruled souls and could revive the dead or take the living’s souls.
• Demon Slayer revealed that the Seven-Colored Demon Lineage had been forced to guard the tomb in exchange for the Dragon Ancestor True Intent, which ordinary demons could not absorb.
• Demon Slayer asked Ye Liang to take him out of the Northern Darkness Land, explaining that mortals had sealed it and that a Half-step Sage had died after absorbing the Dragon Ancestor True Intent.
• Ye Liang agreed to take Demon Slayer with him and warned him not to cause trouble.

Ye Liang searched the Saint remains for spatial rings and discovered that some contained powerful items useful against demons. When Demon Slayer touched a cursed ring, it absorbed him and revived an Ancient Powerhouse’s skeleton, leaving Ye Liang facing a Saint Great Perfection opponent.

• Ye Liang found the Sage's will inside the giant dragon skeleton but searched nearby Saint remains for spatial rings instead.
• Ye Liang used the System to identify the rings’ contents, including vast stores of demon-repelling weapons, talismans, pills, equipment, and other valuables.
• Demon Slayer touched a ring Ye Liang had avoided, and its hidden divine consciousness began absorbing his Demonic Power and dissolving his body.
• Ye Liang threw a demon-breaking talisman at the ring, blasting Demon Slayer apart and sending his upper half away from it.
• Ye Liang pulled the injured Demon Slayer into his Portable Space as the ring restored a skeleton using Demon Slayer’s flesh.
• The revived Ancient Powerhouse cursed the demons for overlooking human treasures, and Ye Liang recognized him as a Saint Great Perfection opponent.

Ye Liang fought a Ghost Cultivator who devoured Demon Slayer and rose to the Sage Realm, leaving Ye Liang gravely outmatched. The Ghost Cultivator then extracted Ye Liang’s Sage Mode Chakra and demanded to know how he had obtained Long Yin’s power.

• The Ghost Cultivator attacked Ye Liang when he tried to leave, but Ye Liang blocked his ghostly assault and the Ghost Cultivator vanished.
• The Ghost Cultivator ambushed Ye Liang, seized Demon Slayer, and swallowed it, merging its demonic energy with his Ghost Qi and advancing to the Sage Realm.
• Ye Liang tried to escape underground using his void and earth-escaping abilities, but the Ghost Cultivator broke through the ground and injured him.
• The Ghost Cultivator sensed Long Yin’s power in Ye Liang, extracted his Sage Mode Chakra, and demanded to know who he was and how he had obtained it.
• Ye Liang realized Long Yin was the cultivator whose blood had spread Sage Mode Chakra across Naruto Planet and created the Summoning Space.

Ye Liang learned that Laster had spent ages searching for Long Yin, received the Dragon Race Saint Intent, and escaped the danger in the Northern Darkness Land. He then reunited Gray with Lucy after Gray’s divine consciousness was restored, leaving the siblings together as Gray began to recover.

• Laster swore not to harm Ye Liang, then learned that Ye Liang had encountered Long Yin’s lingering power on a planet Ye Liang refused to identify.
• Laster mourned betraying Long Yin and explained that Long Yin had drifted into the River of Time, then gave Ye Liang the Dragon Race Saint Intent and advised him to seek soul cultivation techniques from the Sage Puppet Sect.
• Laster warned Ye Liang that a seven-colored demon had noticed him and was a Saint, so Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God to escape to the Northern Darkness Land.
• Ye Liang reinforced the loosened seal at the Northern Darkness Land, bid farewell to its Alchemical Creature guardian, and left by spaceship.
• Ye Liang released Gray Sophia, whose restored divine consciousness let him recognize his sister Lucy, and stopped Gray from overexerting himself as Lucy wept with relief.

Angel Yan escorted Ye Liang into space with the Bloody Crusaders after mistaking his Rinnegan for Thousand Lords blood and warning him that a failed verification could mean execution. Ye Liang suspected the Thousand Lords lineage might be connected to the Otsutsuki clan and hoped the search would lead him to Kaguya, while Angel Yan warned that anyone with replicated or acquired Thousand Lords blood might have to marry into the Angel Race to survive.

• Angel Yan told Ye Liang that the Bloody Crusaders had mistaken him for a villain and that the High Priests would punish him severely if he failed a bloodline examination.
• Ye Liang learned that the Bloody Crusaders included numerous powerful Saints, including White Wing Sage, one of the strongest publicly known Saints.
• Angel Yan explained that the Thousand Lords lineage had dwindled to fewer than three dozen members and that the Remnant Search Plan had uncovered clansmen in the lower realm and other worlds.
• Ye Liang suspected that his Rinnegan had caused the Angel Race to identify him as Thousand Lords and wondered whether the discovered clansmen included Kaguya and his other relatives.
• Angel Yan warned that if Ye Liang had acquired Thousand Lords blood through replication or another method, he might have to marry into the Angel Race or face the main house's judgment.