Chapter Summaries

Qingfeng and Fuzhou City's defenders killed Nian after Kuang Cang restored his clarity, while Qin Shuo declared New Year's Eve a human festival and Shen Tian issued an edict exiling Nian from the Demon Race. Nian’s death shifted fortune by fifteen percent rather than the destined thirty, and Cheng Yu watched the altered outcome unfold.

• Kuang Cang assumed his Crying Snake form and struck Nian with white light, restoring Nian's clarity before he charged Qingfeng.
• Nian unleashed his roar at Qingfeng and Fuzhou City, damaging the city despite Qingfeng's bowl shielding it, then lost control again.
• Qingfeng vanished after Nian flattened the village, and Fuzhou City's cultivators and soldiers killed Nian.
• Qin Shuo proclaimed New Year's Eve a festival honoring the dead and Humankind's victory, while Shen Tian issued an edict expelling Nian from the Demon Race.
• Nian regained his clarity long enough to obey the Monster Emperor's Edict before dying, causing fifteen percent of Demon Race fortune to shift to Humankind.
• Cheng Yu and Cheng Ming observed the fortune change, while the Sages discussed how the edict had altered the destined outcome.

Ten years after New Year's Eve, Cheng Yu assessed his efforts to strengthen the Demon Race while Qin Shuo judged Humankind's rising fortunes and the Demon Race's decline inevitable. Cheng Yu continued to wait for the Demon Laws and his hidden plan to take effect as both sides used the calm to build their strength.

• Cheng Yu reflected that the Qilin might still possess many powerful experts and that the Heavenly Dao's bias had hindered the Demon Race and Shen Tian.
• Cheng Yu reviewed how he had purged traitors, reduced regional fragmentation, reclaimed the Southern Continent, and minimized the Demon Race's losses at New Year's Eve and the Seven Demon-Sealing Passes.
• Cheng Yu planned to use the Demon Laws and Shen Tian's submission to Heaven to address the Demon Race's declining potential and scattered power, while keeping Shen Qian as a hidden move.
• Qin Shuo read an annual report showing a surge in promising human talents and concluded that Humankind's foundations were growing stronger.
• Qin Shuo judged that the Demon Race's regional clans remained beyond the court's control and that its decline could not be prevented, even by Prince Shen.

Ten years after the New Year's Eve tragedy, Qin Shuo tried to preserve peace while the Heavenly Dynasty strengthened its defenses and addressed unrest in the Southern Continent. Cheng Yu continued consolidating Demon Race control there and looked ahead to Shen Tian and the Moon King's future roles.

• Qin Shuo judged that Humankind had to outlast Prince Shen, keep the Second Great Wall, and prevent conflict from undermining its growing advantage.
• Can Yue stoked Baiyue Prefecture's resentment toward the Heavenly Dynasty, hoping to provoke humans into declaring war on the Demon Race.
• Qin Shuo directed the Heavenly Dynasty to suppress unrest in Baiyue Prefecture and counter Demon Race infiltration.
• Kuang Cang brought the Southern Continent under his control and punished several great clans under Cheng Yu's orders.
• Cheng Yu silenced the Great Clans Party by threatening an investigation into its members' conduct.
• Cheng Yu left the Western Continent's problems to Shen Tian and anticipated the Moon King's future influence in the Demon Dynasty.

As the Eternal Heavenly Dao’s deadline for Cheng Yu drew near, he prepared Shen Tian to assume authority and arranged for the Demon Race’s laws and succession ceremony. With the Sacrificial Altar complete, Shen Tian agreed to bow to Heaven, and Cheng Yu left him to face the next stage of the path himself.

• Cheng Yu continued provoking the Eternal Heavenly Dao, causing the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to advance as Shen Tian took over more of the Demon Race’s affairs.
• Cheng Yu sent Azure Owl to inspect the Demon Race’s territories and refine the Demon Laws, while he suppressed complaints against Azure Owl.
• The Ministry of Works reported that the Sacrificial Altar was complete after thirteen years of construction.
• Shen Tian accepted that he would bow to Heaven for the Demon Race’s future and asked Cheng Yu to choose an auspicious day for the ceremony.
• Shen Tian thanked Cheng Yu and bowed to him, and Cheng Yu told him he would have to walk the rest of the road himself.
• Shen Yue waited outside the Palace and told Cheng Yu he had something to say.

Shen Yue asked Cheng Yu whether his aunt should be punished for her actions, but Cheng Yu insisted she must remain on the demon register without explaining why. Later, Cheng Yu announced a ceremony and the end of his regency, while Qin Shuo and factions across the Demon Race anticipated a coming change; Cheng Yu then gave Zhen a decree to protect him.

• Shen Yue told Cheng Yu that the Demon Race should strike his aunt from the demon register and issue a warrant for her arrest, but Cheng Yu said she must never be removed from it.
• At a court assembly, Cheng Yu announced a Sacrificial Ceremony for the beginning of Tianwu Year Fifteen and said he would relinquish the regency afterward so the Monster Emperor could rule personally.
• Qin Shuo suspected Prince Shen was stepping down because his life was nearing its end and wondered whether he planned to attack, then received a message that eased his concern.
• Factions across the Demon Race's lands began stirring as they awaited the days after the start of Tianwu Year Fifteen.
• Cheng Yu questioned Zhen about how he would serve the Monster Emperor and gave him a Prince's Decree that could save his life if the court turned against him.

Shen Tian submitted the Demon Race to Heaven, established the Demon Laws, and became the Son of Heaven, while Cheng Yu relinquished his regency and disappeared from the Jade King's Residence. Shen Tian received Mirror Lake and hoped his imperial uncle would return.

• Shen Tian climbed Heaven-Reaching Peak, declared Heaven his father, and established the Demon Laws as the Demon Race's Heavenly Statutes.
• Cheng Yu revealed his true form, and the Heavenly Statutes entered every demon's mind as Shen Tian's cultivation rose beyond the Heaven Peering Realm.
• Cheng Yu called Shen Yu his respects to the Son of Heaven, and the Demon Race and other peoples learned that the Monster Emperor had submitted to Heaven.
• Qin Shuo and the human sages discussed the Demon Race's changed position, while Yuan Chen considered a possible match between Shen Tian's paternal aunt and his disciple.
• Cheng Yu relinquished his regency, gave Mirror Lake to Shen Tian through Steward Yu, and vanished after arranging to endure until the next major plot event.
• Shen Tian asked Steward Yu to serve beside him, but Steward Yu chose to remain at the Jade King's Residence and wait for Cheng Yu's return.

After returning to the Jade Bamboo Grove under a deal with the Eternal Heavenly Dao, Cheng Yu studied Shen Yu’s memories and learned how Shen Yu reached Legendary through extraordinary talent, deception, and audacious gambles. Just as Cheng Yu finished reflecting on Shen Yu’s life and bantered with the System, a Myriad Heavens Chat Group invitation appeared.

• Cheng Yu asked Netherworld to reincarnate gifted Demon Race members who had died young into the Demon Race, and Netherworld agreed.
• Cheng Yu returned to the Jade Bamboo Grove, where the Eternal Heavenly Dao confined him and declared the grove forbidden to others.
• Cheng Yu spent roughly three hundred years studying Shen Yu’s memories and learned how Shen Yu left the Eternal True World to reach Legendary, then used a Half-Body and Essence Blood to conceal his progress.
• Cheng Yu learned that Shen Yu created another self after witnessing a Holy Spirit’s birth, declined a Heavenly Dao Sage Seat, and later revealed himself as a True Holy Spirit during the human-demon war.
• Cheng Yu and the System argued over Shen Yu’s greatness and Cheng Yu’s reliance on his backer before a message announced the Myriad Heavens Chat Group.

Cheng Yu joined a mysterious chat group whose power could read his Holy Spirit identity, and he used the group for entertainment while confined in the Jade Bamboo Grove. When Limitless Immortal reported that Heavenly Demons had broken through a seal, Cheng Yu revealed that he had fought them before and described the Demon Race’s catastrophic losses.

• The Chat Group malfunctioned while trying to read Cheng Yu’s information, then welcomed him with a long list of titles after an unknown power stabilized it.
• Cheng Yu introduced himself as Prince Shen, and the group members praised him and discovered they could change their names.
• While Cheng Yu lurked in the group for entertainment, Limitless Immortal reported that the Heavenly Demons had broken through a seal after thirty years.
• Cheng Yu said the invasion was probably only a small band of Heavenly Demons and recounted the Three Sacred Gods’ deaths and the Demon Race’s defeat at the Seven Demon-Sealing Passes.
• Cheng Yu revealed that he had fought a Sage Realm Heavenly Demon 315 years earlier, when the Demon Race lost the First Great Wall and more than a trillion elite warriors.

Cheng Yu crossed into the Spirit World to help Limitless confront its invasion by heavenly demons. He erased the demons in an instant, though the ominous rift they had poured from remained.

• Limitless paid points for Cheng Yu to travel to the Spirit World, but the Chat Group’s transfer passage failed when Cheng Yu’s power destroyed it.
• Cheng Yu opened a spatial rift and arrived in the Spirit World, where he sensed that his strength was no longer constrained by the Eternal True World.
• Limitless confirmed Cheng Yu’s arrival to the group, then started a livestream at the members’ urging, but his appearance could not be seen clearly.
• Cheng Yu and Limitless were suddenly transported to the front lines, where a rift spewed out countless heavenly demons and a nearby hilltop burned them with golden light.
• Cheng Yu glanced at the advancing heavenly demons, and they all crumbled away and vanished.

Cheng Yu investigated the Abyss by luring Halan, a Layer Lord, through the rift and seizing his head, which bore the eye of the Abyss. After closing the rift and leaving Wuji’s world, Cheng Yu began analyzing the eye to study the Abyss.

• Cheng Yu killed the demons threatening Wuji’s world with a glance, then brought Wuji to the rift to investigate it.
• Halan emerged from the rift, recognized that Cheng Yu posed a threat, and tried to retreat to his Palace.
• Cheng Yu reached through the rift with a translucent palm and pulled Halan’s head into Wuji’s world, leaving Halan’s body to collapse in his Palace.
• Cheng Yu closed the rift, declined Wuji’s offer of a reward, and left with Halan’s head as the Chat Group fell silent.
• Cheng Yu began studying the eye of the Abyss, which carried a trace of the abyssal will’s divine power.

Cheng Yu studied an eye of the Abyss and learned that it embodied the evil thoughts of all living beings in the Chaos Sea, though its nature remained beyond his understanding. He then discovered that Help Gold had joined the Chat Group as an Abyssal Archlord heir, and wondered whether Help had kept his knightly heart.

• Cheng Yu destroyed Halan's head and studied the eye of the Abyss for more than ten days, discovering that it consisted of the Chaos Sea's accumulated evil thoughts.
• Cheng Yu asked System to explain the difference between Holy Spirits and Mythic beings, then destroyed the eye and kept his research notes.
• Cheng Yu checked the Chat Group and recognized the newcomer’s titles as belonging to Help Gold, the former Crown Prince of the Karen Empire.
• Emperor Zimmerman asked Help to open a passage so they could spar, but Help warned that doing so could endanger their worlds.
• Cheng Yu questioned whether Help had truly retained his original kindness after becoming a Demon Sovereign.

The Chat Group members suspected that Money Communes with Gods had sold world coordinates to Emperor Zimmerman after learning he had asked several of them about their worlds. When the Federation was devastated by a new enemy, Riley’s description of the invaders’ strange talk made Cheng Yu suspect a High-Dimensional Invasion.

• Zimmerman dismissed Wuji’s warning about the demons and privately asked Money Communes with Gods to sell him Otherworld coordinates.
• Little Fly, the Great Qian Celestial Master, and Wuji revealed that Money Communes with Gods had asked them about their worlds, while Riley said a world whose coordinates he had shared was invaded.
• Heartthrob panicked that her world might be targeted, while the Legendary-ranked Martial Venerable and Little Green declared they would resist an invasion.
• Three days later, Riley reported that the Federation’s elite forces had been wiped out by its strongest enemy yet, and Heartthrob accused Money Communes with Gods of selling Riley’s world coordinates to Zimmerman.
• Zimmerman denied owing the group any restraint, and Riley said the invaders spoke about clearing content, missions, and points, leaving Cheng Yu to suspect a High-Dimensional Invasion.

While Cheng Yu watched the chat, the members welcomed a new Holy Spirit who unexpectedly became the group owner. Group Owner Xiaotian learned to use the chat and faced Emperor Zimmerman’s request for a fight, which she feared would leave him badly injured.

• Cheng Yu resumed watching the chat after a year and saw members thank Transparent Little Fly and Great Scientist Riley for their help.
• Emperor Zimmerman announced he would personally capture a group of enemies and bring their world under his rule, while powerful members pledged support.
• The Holy Spirit World Destroyer, Flawless Chaos, Entropy of the Holy Spirits of the Chaotic Myriad Heavens, the First Act of the Events Behind the Myriad Heavens, the Innocent and Unwitting Thrill-Seeker joined the chat and became its owner.
• The new owner accidentally changed the group name while trying to change her nickname, then renamed herself Group Owner Xiaotian and restored the group name to Myriad Heavens Chat Group.
• Emperor Zimmerman asked Group Owner Xiaotian to demonstrate the difference between Epic and Holy Spirit by fighting him, and she warned that she might accidentally cripple or kill him.

Luo Xiaotian traveled to Zimmerman’s world and defeated him with a single finger, shocking the Chat Group. Cheng Yu recognized the blurred name Belial and wondered whether Luo Xiaotian was the mighty being he had encountered before, while a group member explained why powerful demons’ names were hidden.

• Zimmerman challenged group owner Luo Xiaotian to demonstrate his strength, and Luo Xiaotian agreed to visit his world.
• Luo Xiaotian struck Zimmerman with one finger, leaving him writhing in pain; Zimmerman refused to continue, then collapsed after Luo Xiaotian left.
• Luo Xiaotian said he had only slapped Belial a few times, and Cheng Yu connected him to Belial’s earlier mishap and wondered if he was the same being.
• Hope remains explained that powerful demons’ names were blurred because learning such a name could alert its bearer to weaker creatures across worlds.

Wuji learned that demons would keep invading his world, but Prince Shen confirmed that the destroyed passage could reopen only if a Sage Realm Heavenly Demon intervened. The group then realized Prince Shen and the demon Hope Remains belonged to opposing sides, while Zimmerman became overwhelmed by what he learned about the beings beyond his world.

• Wuji asked Hope Remains whether demons would invade his world again, and Hope Remains said they would keep coming until it fell.
• Wuji asked whether Prince Shen's destroyed passage could reopen, and Prince Shen said it would take a Sage Realm Heavenly Demon.
• Luo Xiaotian welcomed Prince Shen and asked about his past clash with a Demon Emperor; Prince Shen confirmed that he had caused the upheaval in the Chaos Sea over three hundred years earlier.
• Heartthrob wondered whether Hope Remains had joined the demon invasion of Prince Shen's world, and Hope Remains said he was not qualified to participate.
• Zimmerman realized that powerful beings like Prince Shen and Hope Remains existed beyond his understanding, and he felt ashamed of his past ambitions.

After a thousand years of secluded cultivation, Cheng Yu learned about the Descenders and realized he had become too immersed in Shen Yu’s identity. He left the Bamboo House to clear his mind, then returned through the moonlit Jade Bamboo Grove.

• Cheng Yu read Emperor Zimmerman’s account of the Descenders, who used the Descending God Temple to project into other worlds and earn points.
• Cheng Yu realized a thousand years had passed in the Jade Bamboo Grove and wondered what had happened to his family and the Demon Race.
• Cheng Yu recognized that merging with Shen Yu risked changing his identity and decided to interrupt his intensive cultivation.
• Cheng Yu left the Bamboo House, wandered through the Jade Bamboo Grove, and rested on the grass at the former site of Mirror Lake.
• Cheng Yu woke beneath the stars and walked back through the moonlit grove while trading quips with the system.

Cheng Yu spent thousands of years alternating between indulging himself and cultivating as Shen Yu, while watching the Chat Group grow and change. When the agreed time with the Eternal Heavenly Dao approached, he refused to leave the Jade Bamboo Grove until it opened his cage, expecting that he would soon be released after serving his sentence.

• Cheng Yu relaxed, followed the Chat Group’s gossip, and watched its members argue and share information about strange worlds.
• Little Green, a Legendary world consciousness, traded insults with a Legendary who fed on worlds and drove him into silence.
• Cheng Yu repeatedly merged with Shen Yu to cultivate, then separated to rest, continuing this cycle for ten thousand years.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered over the Jade Bamboo Grove as the time agreed upon with the Eternal Heavenly Dao approached.
• Cheng Yu found the barrier nearly as fragile as paper but refused to break out, reminding the Eternal Heavenly Dao that he had promised not to leave unless it opened the cage.
• Cheng Yu returned to the Bamboo House and prepared himself, believing he would soon be released after serving his sentence.

After Cheng Yu’s release, he learned how the Demon Dynasty consolidated its power before the Heavenly Demon invasion forced Humankind and the Demon Race to unite. The chapter ended with the Eternal True World in crisis as the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Great Walls fell and the allied races struggled to cooperate.

• Cheng Yu learned that Shen Tian and Shen Yue had suppressed regional rebellions and purged their rivals while consolidating the Demon Dynasty’s authority.
• After Cheng Yu’s nominal younger sister was exposed as allied with Humankind, Shen Tian kept her on the Demon Register but declared her a disgrace and ordered her captured alive.
• Two thousand years later, the regional clans submitted to Shen Tian, and the Demon Dynasty gained complete control over the Demon Race.
• The Second Great Wall fell, and Shen Yue took command at the Seven Demon-Sealing Passes as the Heavenly Demons advanced.
• A Sage Realm Heavenly Demon defeated the Demon Sage at the Third Great Wall, but Shen Yue evacuated most Demon Race Elites before its fall.
• Humankind and the Demon Race agreed to fight the Heavenly Demons together, but disputes among their leaders continued as the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Great Walls fell over the next nine thousand years.

With human and demon forces divided by their old grievances, the Seventh Great Wall struggled to withstand the Heavenly Demons. Cheng Yu arrived at the front and offered to take command, leaving the Six Heavenly Dao Sages stunned.

• Shen Yue confronted Wen Chenghe over the missing soldiers of the Thirty-Second Ding Section, and human and demon messengers reported clashes between their forces in the Northern Sea.
• Di Yi Yun urged the Sages to resolve the lack of cooperation, and Netherworld questioned whether the others could repel the three Sage Realm Heavenly Demons without him coordinating the army.
• Cheng Yu told the Eternal Heavenly Dao that he had plans for the Seventh Great Wall and then left the Jade Bamboo Grove.
• Bai Man recognized Cheng Yu outside the Seventh Great Wall Tower, and he entered to face the Six Heavenly Dao Sages.
• Cheng Yu asked the Six Heavenly Dao Sages, “May I take this position?”

Cheng Yu swore allegiance to the Heavenly Dao and took charge of coordinating the Myriad Races’ preparations for a second War Against the Heavenly Demons. He left the others with a plan to defend the Northern Continent and hinted to Shen Yuan that a final moment still awaited them.

• Cheng Yu swore an oath before the Six Heavenly Dao Sages, winning the other leaders’ trust and uniting the seven Holy Spirits.
• Cheng Yu warned that the Seventh Great Wall would eventually fall and asked the Myriad Races to prepare for a second war against the Heavenly Demons.
• Cheng Yu appointed Bai Man supreme commander of the Allied Army, with Chu Chang as deputy, and ordered Northern Continent refugees evacuated and fortresses built.
• Cheng Yu asked Di Yi Yun and Yuan Chen to create a grand formation across the Northern Continent to resist corruption and contain the battlefield there.
• Di Yi Yun told Yuan Chen to give the formation everything they had despite suspecting Cheng Yu had a hidden design, because saving the world came first.
• At the Seventh Great Wall, Cheng Yu told Shen Yuan that trusting Di Yi Yun and Yuan Chen was acceptable and hinted at a coming final moment.