Chapter Summaries

Feng Yu treated Ning Ke and offered to teach him how to slay a god, while Ning Ke remained determined to fight the Sun God. Meanwhile, Nan Lou took Ning Ke’s appearance and set out to ruin his reputation across the Qianyuan Continent.

• Feng Yu warned Ning Ke that the Sun God’s toxin threatened him and urged him to avoid further injuries and stop fighting the Sun God.
• Ning Ke explained that his old wounds were a form of atonement, and Feng Yu agreed to teach him how to slay a god.
• Wugou and Gao Ze returned to the bamboo house, pledged their loyalty to Ning Ke, and listened as he began explaining what had happened with the god and Jun Mo.
• Nan Lou learned that the Sun God planned to sleep while he performed the Great Demon Release and gathered power.
• Nan Lou used Ning Ke’s blood to disguise himself as Ning Ke and headed toward a town to frame him for slaughter.

Ning Ke, Gao Ze, and Wugou prepared to grow stronger against the Sun God, while Feng Yu began training Gao Ze and Wugou and explained the cost of his god-slaying method to Ning Ke. After half a month, Lou Yunxiao broke through to the Mahayana Stage only to learn that Ning Ke had left Peach Blossom Haven, and he demanded to know where Ning Ke had gone.

• Gao Ze and Wugou agreed to enter Voidyear Mountain, and Feng Yu promised to teach them divine cultivation methods and help them awaken their domains.
• Feng Yu threw Gao Ze and Wugou into heated medicinal vats to force them to awaken their domains under the threat of being boiled alive.
• Ning Ke asked Feng Yu for details about the god-slaying method, and Feng Yu said defeating a deity required a price and asked whether Ning Ke was willing to pay it.
• Lou Yunxiao endured his Mahayana Stage thunder tribulation and broke through, with gray energy weakening the final bolt.
• Qing Ru told Lou Yunxiao that Ning Ke had left half a month earlier and gave him the Red Cloud Sword and Clear Mind Heart Sutra.
• Lou Yunxiao struggled with anger and despair over Ning Ke's departure, then asked Qing Ru where Ning Ke had gone.

Lou Yunxiao used chaotic power to search the Demon World for Ning Ke and Jun Mo, but found no trace of them and decided to return to the Qianyuan Continent. Meanwhile, Wugou and Gao Ze entered Voidyear Mountain with Ning Ke, each facing separate trials as Feng Yu waited outside.

• Lou Yunxiao revealed his chaotic power to Qing Ru and helped him open a path to the Demon World, where they searched for Ning Ke and Jun Mo for ten days without success.
• Lou Yunxiao agreed with Niao Niao that Ning Ke might have gone to the Qianyuan Continent and told Qing Ru they should return there.
• In Infinite Space, Wugou and Gao Ze comprehended their domains under Feng Yu's training, and Wugou vowed to hone his fate domain to change Ning Ke's fate.
• Gao Ze told Ning Ke he had searched for the other sect masters but could not find them in Infinite Space, so he had focused on cultivating his domain.
• Feng Yu led Ning Ke, Wugou, and Gao Ze to Voidyear Mountain and said he would wait no longer than two years outside before heading to the Qianyuan Continent to fight the Sun God.
• Wugou, Gao Ze, and Ning Ke entered Voidyear Mountain one after another to face separate trials, while Feng Yu warned Ning Ke not to overstrain his body.

Ning Xiaoxiao and her team investigated a massacre in Jiuhe Village and suspected a Great Demon was impersonating Demon Venerable Ning Ke. When a Great Demon attacked Nantong City, Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng rushed there and joined the fight to save Zhuang Yusheng’s father.

• Ning Xiaoxiao’s team found over a hundred villagers dead in Jiuhe Village, and a survivor blamed Demon Venerable Ning Ke for the killings.
• Zeng Xi used a Demon-Detecting Stone to confirm demonic aura on the bodies, and Ning Xiaoxiao considered whether Ning Ke had been possessed or a Great Demon had taken his appearance.
• Ning Xiaoxiao and her teammates received a distress call from Nantong City, so she took Zhuang Yusheng ahead to help.
• Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng arrived to find Nan Shier holding Zhuang Haiming, and they attacked to rescue him.
• Cui Xuecheng seized an opening to sever Nan Shier’s arm and free Zhuang Haiming, while his wounded team gathered to face the Great Demon.

Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng joined Cui Xuecheng’s squad against Nan Shier, but the Great Demon nearly killed them before Lou Yunxiao arrived to stop him. Nan Shier recognized Lou Yunxiao’s resemblance to the man who defeated him ten thousand years ago and demanded to know how he was still alive.

• Cui Xuecheng’s squad trapped Nan Shier behind earthen walls while Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng helped move the wounded to safety.
• Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng stayed to fight, using Demon-Sealing Talismans that enraged Nan Shier and failed to restrain him.
• Nan Shier attacked the two, and Zhuang Yusheng shielded Ning Xiaoxiao with his body and magical artifacts.
• Lou Yunxiao arrived and blocked Nan Shier with his enlarged Divine Sword, then gave Zhuang Yusheng a pill.
• Nan Shier recognized Lou Yunxiao’s face and asked whether he was the same man from ten thousand years ago or his reincarnation.

Lou Yunxiao fought Nan Shier, who recognized him as someone connected to events ten thousand years ago, and forced the demon to reveal fragments of a past betrayal before Nan Lou rescued him. After the battle, Ning Xiaoxiao asked Lou Yunxiao about the two people who had entered the Secret Realm with him.

• Lou Yunxiao attacked Nan Shier with Pale Silver and Red Cloud, and Nan Shier panicked at his swords and ability to absorb demonic aura.
• Cui Xuecheng led the demon-slaying squad to safety while Lou Yunxiao used his domain to immobilize Nan Shier and cut off his limbs.
• Lou Yunxiao questioned Nan Shier about ten thousand years ago, but Nan Shier cursed Nan Lou for using him as a pawn.
• Nan Lou reached through a spatial rift and took Nan Shier's head away, and Lou Yunxiao managed to sever two of Nan Lou's fingers.
• Lou Yunxiao told Zhuang Yusheng that he had reached the Mahayana Stage, then confirmed to Ning Xiaoxiao that he had learned the truth about the Flowing Cloud Sect massacre.
• Ning Xiaoxiao asked Lou Yunxiao where Mingxin and Wugou were.

Lou Yunxiao revealed that Mingxin was A Ke, and Ning Xiaoxiao rejoiced to learn her brother was alive, while Lou Yunxiao grieved that A Ke had left him. In the Demon World, Nan Lou devoured Nan Shier, recovered his strength, and traveled to the Qianyuan Continent disguised as Ning Ke.

• Lou Yunxiao told Ning Xiaoxiao that Mingxin was A Ke, and she rejoiced that her brother was alive.
• Lou Yunxiao said A Ke had left him alone in the Secret Realm, and he admitted to Zhuang Yusheng that he had confessed his love and been rejected.
• Zhuang Yusheng advised Lou Yunxiao to let A Ke go, but Lou Yunxiao refused.
• Nan Lou punished Nan Shier for betraying him, then devoured him and recovered to the Tribulation Stage.
• Nan Lou decided to avoid Lou Yunxiao until his lord awakened and opened a spatial passage to the Qianyuan Continent in Ning Ke's likeness.

Ning Ke trained against a simulated Sun God on Voidyear Mountain while Yin Feng and Yueya went to the Sword Sect seeking clues to his whereabouts. There, the sect leaders debated the accusations against Ning Ke, and Yin Feng asked Lou Yunxiao to recount his recent experiences to help find their missing lord.

• Ning Ke used Voidyear Mountain to test a method for fighting the Sun God, whose simulated domain could freeze time.
• Yin Feng and Yueya traveled to the Sword Sect because Ning Ke had been missing for half a year and the Great Demons' sealed sites were becoming unsettled.
• Lou Yunxiao told Hong Yao, Wei Qinghai, and Abbot Wujue that a powerful Deity backed the demons and sought to destroy life on the Qianyuan Continent.
• Lou Yunxiao proposed that a Great Demon had impersonated Ning Ke at Jiuhe Village, while Abbot Wujue accused Ning Ke of secretly allying with the Great Demons.
• Yueya and Yin Feng defended Ning Ke against Abbot Wujue, and Yin Feng asked Lou Yunxiao about his recent experiences to find clues to Ning Ke's whereabouts.

Yin Feng learned that Mingxin was one of Ning Ke’s identities and grew jealous after hearing how much Ning Ke had sacrificed for Lou Yunxiao. The Human Clan feared Ning Ke might ally with the Great Demon, while Lou Yunxiao remained uncertain about Ning Ke’s motives and confessed that he loved him.

• Lou Yunxiao recounted his experiences to Yin Feng, who suspected that Mingxin was Ning Ke because of his power and his connection to Lou Yunxiao.
• Yin Feng declared that the Demon Clan would follow only Ning Ke and would help the Human Clan against the Great Demon only if Ning Ke ordered it.
• Abbot Wujue argued that Ning Ke might ally with the Great Demon to obtain a divine godhead, leaving Lou Yunxiao troubled by doubts about Ning Ke’s intentions.
• Yin Feng waited for Lou Yunxiao at his residence and asked about Mingxin, so Lou Yunxiao revealed that Mingxin, A Ke, and his benefactor were the same person.
• Yin Feng realized how much Ning Ke had sacrificed for Lou Yunxiao and felt jealous before asking whether Lou Yunxiao had feelings for Mingxin.
• Lou Yunxiao admitted that he was in love with Ning Ke but believed Ning Ke did not return his feelings.

Yin Feng questioned Lou Yunxiao’s trust in Ning Ke and left to find him before the Human Clan did. Meanwhile, Abbot Wujue was tempted by Nan Lou’s promise of a divine godhead and agreed to meet Deity.

• Lou Yunxiao asked Yin Feng what had happened when the Flowing Cloud Sect was destroyed, and Yin Feng said his group had arrived after the sect was already burning.
• Yin Feng asked whether Lou Yunxiao trusted Ning Ke or Abbot Wujue, then left with Yueya to find Ning Ke before the Human Clan did.
• The Four Great Sects’ leaders arranged for civilians to relocate near the sects and organized mixed teams of disciples to fight demons.
• Abbot Wujue decided that joining Deity might let him obtain a divine godhead, and Nan Lou appeared after killing the Buddhist Order elder accompanying him.
• Nan Lou offered to ask Deity for a divine godhead in exchange for Abbot Wujue joining them, and Abbot Wujue agreed to meet Deity for a personal promise.

Ning Ke refined his Time Domain in Voidyear Mountain and realized it might one day restore the dead, while Lou Yunxiao grew more powerful but remained troubled by A Ke's disappearance and the secrets surrounding his past. As Nan Lou secretly gathered demons and framed Ning Ke for attacks across the continent, the Human Realm descended into fear and chaos.

• Lou Yunxiao finished memorizing the Clear Mind Heart Sutra, completing the third-stage mission and bringing plot completion to 70%.
• Ning Ke asked what transition event would end Time Reversal, then continued training against the Sun God as Xiao Yuan said the event was near.
• Ning Ke used his Time Domain to wither and restore a blade of grass, realizing that further cultivation might let him bring the dead back to life.
• Nan Lou hid with the Great Demons in the Buddhist Order, using demon attacks to distract the demon-slaying teams while waiting for the Sun God to awaken.
• Nan Lou secretly slaughtered commoners and Demon Clan cities while impersonating Ning Ke, and Abbot Wujue helped spread the accusations, turning the Human Realm against the Demon Venerable.
• Lou Yunxiao became an elder of the Sword Sect but could find neither A Ke nor the elusive Demon Venerable, and he used the Clear Mind Heart Sutra to steady himself amid his unanswered questions.

After completing the trials inside Voidyear Mountain, Ning Ke left to learn what had happened on the Qianyuan Continent and how Lou Yunxiao was faring. On New Year’s Eve, Ning Xiaoxiao persuaded Lou Yunxiao to share dumplings with her, but a deafening crash at the foot of the mountain interrupted them.

• Ning Ke completed the trials in Voidyear Mountain and learned from a sparrow that Feng Yu had gone away on other business.
• Ning Ke told the sparrow to tell Feng Yu to find him at the Demon Palace, then tried to tear through space and leave.
• On New Year’s Eve, Ning Xiaoxiao brought dumplings to Lou Yunxiao and recalled the New Year they had spent together in Ning Family Village.
• Ning Xiaoxiao told Lou Yunxiao they should keep looking ahead and said she wanted to spend the holiday with him until her brother returned.
• Lou Yunxiao put away his sutra and reached for a dumpling, but a deafening crash erupted at the foot of the mountain.

Ning Ke returned to the Qianyuan Continent and found a city massacred by Nan Lou, who framed him before escaping. Surrounded by grieving survivors and the Sword Sect, Ning Ke asked Lou Yunxiao whether he would believe that he had not committed the massacre.

• A wounded disciple warned Lou Yunxiao that Demon Venerable Ning Ke was attacking the city, and Lou Yunxiao rushed away.
• Ning Ke arrived in the bloodstained city and confronted Nan Lou, who claimed he had created a world where everyone hated Ning Ke.
• Ning Ke froze time and caught up to Nan Lou, but Nan Lou's pendant broke the time domain; Ning Ke severed his arm before Nan Lou escaped through a rift.
• Lou Yunxiao and the Sword Sect disciples confronted Ning Ke amid the victims and demanded to know whether he had killed them.
• The bereaved survivors accused Ning Ke of murdering their families, and he asked Lou Yunxiao, "If I said I didn't do it. Would you believe me?"

After understanding that his true conflict came from his grief over Lou Yunxiao and the people he had killed, Ning Ke resolved to defeat the Great Demon and Sun God and give Lou Yunxiao peace. When Abbot Wujue demanded that Ning Ke take a Demon-Detecting Stone test, Lou Yunxiao asked him to cooperate, leaving Ning Ke facing a test that could expose the demon poison in his blood.

• Ning Ke concluded that the Sun God had caused the calamities and recognized that his guilt came from Lou Yunxiao’s suffering and the blood on his own hands.
• Ning Ke vowed to lead the Demon Clan against the Great Demon and Sun God, even at the cost of his life, so he could restore peace and return home without regret.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao that the Great Demon had used his appearance to commit the atrocities and pointed to the demonic aura in Nan Lou’s severed arm as proof.
• Lou Yunxiao used the Demon-Detecting Stone on the bloody pus, which turned black, while a Sword Sect elder and Abbot Wujue accused Ning Ke of colluding with the Demon.
• Abbot Wujue urged Lou Yunxiao to test Ning Ke’s blood, and Lou Yunxiao asked Ning Ke to cooperate so he could clear his name.

Lou Yunxiao confronted Ning Ke over the massacre and chose to fight him one-on-one while questioning him about demons. Ning Ke confirmed several of Lou Yunxiao’s suspicions, and Lou Yunxiao pressed him to reveal whether he had helped seal the Great Demons ten thousand years ago.

• Lou Yunxiao dismissed Abbot Wujue’s accusations and said he would not let Ning Ke leave until the Demon Venerable cleared himself of suspicion.
• Hong Yao and Wei Qinghai arrived with experts, but Lou Yunxiao refused their help and insisted on fighting Ning Ke alone.
• Ning Ke led Lou Yunxiao away from the city, where they began their duel; Lou Yunxiao noticed Ning Ke had kept fights away from civilians.
• Lou Yunxiao asked whether Ning Ke had killed the Flowing Cloud Sect members because they had become demonic, and Ning Ke answered yes.
• Lou Yunxiao asked whether Ning Ke knew the Great Demon that devoured his father, and Ning Ke admitted he did.
• Lou Yunxiao asked whether Ning Ke had helped seal the Great Demons ten thousand years earlier, leaving Ning Ke to answer.

Ning Ke admitted that he had helped seal the Great Demon alongside a past Lou Yunxiao, but told the current Lou Yunxiao to live as himself. The two fought at full strength, and Lou Yunxiao became determined to defeat Ning Ke and uncover the rest of his suspicions.

• Ning Ke admitted that he had helped seal the Great Demon and had considered the Lou Yunxiao from ten thousand years ago a friend.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao that the man from the past was dead and that Lou Yunxiao should live as himself.
• Ning Ke attacked Lou Yunxiao with time-wielding threads, shattered his ice armor, and struck him into the ground.
• Lou Yunxiao countered with chaotic power and sword intent while Ning Ke revealed his nine-tailed demon form and fought back with foxfire and claw force.
• Lou Yunxiao decided he had to defeat Ning Ke to confirm his suspicions, and Ning Ke taunted him as their battle continued.

Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao fought fiercely while Hong Yao and Wei Qinghai refused to help Abbot Wujue ambush the Demon Venerable. Lou Yunxiao deliberately took Ning Ke’s attack and caught him, recognizing him as A Ke.

• Hong Yao refused to attack Ning Ke, while Wei Qinghai claimed he was unsuited to fighting and offered to treat Abbot Wujue if he was injured.
• Abbot Wujue pretended to leave in anger, then concealed himself in the woods and watched the battle, determined to eliminate Ning Ke for the deity’s promise of godhood.
• Lou Yunxiao used fire, mist, and ice doubles to pressure Ning Ke, who suspected Lou Yunxiao had realized he was A Ke.
• Ning Ke dispersed the mist and ice doubles with an array, then pierced Lou Yunxiao with his demon claw, expecting to seize him by the throat.
• Lou Yunxiao held Ning Ke in place despite his wound and declared that he had finally caught A Ke.

Ning Ke was gravely wounded when Abbot Wujue ambushed him, and Lou Yunxiao defended him from the cultivators who gathered to attack. As Lou Yunxiao carried the unconscious Ning Ke toward the Sword Sect, the System announced that Time Reversal had begun and gave Ning Ke a new task.

• Ning Ke refused to let Lou Yunxiao go, but Abbot Wujue appeared behind him and stabbed him with the Pale Silver Sword.
• Lou Yunxiao blocked Wujue’s follow-up attack and rejected his claim that Ning Ke was a demon’s accomplice.
• Wujue used Ning Ke’s blood to turn the Demon-Detecting Stone black and urged the gathered cultivators to kill him.
• Lou Yunxiao sheltered the badly wounded Ning Ke, threatened the surrounding cultivators, and carried him toward the Sword Sect.
• The System began Time Reversal, reported Ning Ke’s updated life points, and tasked him with helping Lou Yunxiao save the Qianyuan Continent.

Lou Yunxiao brought the unconscious Ning Ke to the Sword Sect dungeon and kept others from harming him while he investigated the claim that Ning Ke had been framed. There, Lou Yunxiao was overwhelmed by memories of another version of himself who had tortured Ning Ke, leaving him horrified by what he might have done.

• Thousands gathered outside the Sword Sect, but Lou Yunxiao's frozen domain forced them to retreat while Wujue, Hong Yao, and Wei Qinghai followed him inside.
• Lou Yunxiao agreed to imprison Ning Ke and stay with him, then accused Wujue of serving the deity and questioned whether the Sun God would really give him a divine godhead.
• Lou Yunxiao told the elders that Ning Ke had been framed and ordered them to help civilians, keep watch on the Buddhist Order, and avoid alerting its members.
• Hong Yao and Wei Qinghai grew suspicious of Wujue, who left with the Buddhist Order's disciples and began worrying that the Sun God might deny him a divine godhead.
• Lou Yunxiao carried Ning Ke into a dungeon cell, silenced a disciple who called Ning Ke a monster, and dismissed everyone.
• Lou Yunxiao experienced memories of another life in which he tortured Ning Ke, who had saved him, and feared he might have done the same without discovering the truth.

Ning Ke dreamed of Ning Xiao mourning beside his unconscious body in the real world, then was dragged back into despair by memories of the bloodshed on Qianyuan Continent. In the Dungeon, Lou Yunxiao tried to treat Ning Ke, but Ning Ke awoke and seized his wrist with bloodstained Demon Claws.

• Ning Ke visited his hospital room in a dream and heard Ning Xiao say he had been unconscious for a month since the explosion.
• Ning Xiao told Ning Ke that her novel, Ask the Heavenly Dao, had changed and continued updating on its own, and she hoped the Demon Venerable would find a good ending.
• Ning Ke's hospital monitor alarmed, and doctors rushed him into the Emergency Room as Ning Xiao waited outside in terror.
• Charred hands dragged Ning Ke back toward Qianyuan Continent, where memories of Lou Yunxiao, Aunt Bai, and the disciples' deaths overwhelmed him.
• A pitch-black figure appeared in Ning Ke's despair and offered to take over his body and handle everything.
• In the Dungeon, Lou Yunxiao removed the sword intent from Ning Ke's wound, but black Demon Marks spread across Ning Ke's skin; Ning Ke awoke and clamped his Demon Claws around Lou Yunxiao's wrist.