Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya wounded the Sting Demon General with a powerful punch, while Zhang Cai revealed the Dragonhead Ingot as a Spirit Treasure and attacked with its four golden dragons. Li Xiaoya recovered from the demon general’s counterattack, but Zhang Cai struggled to maintain control as the enemy began overpowering the dragons.

• Li Xiaoya struck the Sting Demon General hard enough to damage his armor, though the demon general’s tails blasted Li Xiaoya into a cliffside.
• The Sting Demon General emerged from the rubble furious about his damaged armor and charged at Li Xiaoya.
• Zhang Cai revealed the Dragonhead Ingot’s Spirit Treasure power and sent its four golden dragons to surround and attack the Sting Demon General.
• Li Xiaoya climbed out of the rubble after his body rapidly repaired itself, while Jiang Lingzi and Suoluo watched in astonishment.
• The Sting Demon General fought back against the golden dragons, making them dim as Zhang Cai struggled to sustain the attack.

Li Xiaoya, Zhang Cai, and Jiang Lingzi battled Sting Demon General while Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er kept Devastation Devil Lord under pressure. Zhang Cai activated a hidden formation after luring Sting Demon General toward the Dragonhead Ingot, but Dong Santong warned that Devastation Devil Lord was trying to escape.

• Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er exploited Devastation Devil Lord’s injuries and weak divine sense, while Sting Demon General noticed that Li Xiaoya had recovered from his attack.
• Sting Demon General transformed into a spiked shell and spun through Zhang Cai’s golden dragons, eventually shattering them and badly injuring Zhang Cai.
• Li Xiaoya and Jiang Lingzi attacked Sting Demon General, and Jiang Lingzi’s concealed poisoned arrow pierced him after Li Xiaoya blocked his spikes.
• Zhang Cai tricked Sting Demon General into reaching for the Dragonhead Ingot, then recalled it and activated a formation with hidden Formation Flags.
• White mist spread across the battlefield, and Dong Santong shouted that Devastation Devil Lord was trying to escape.

Zhang Cai trapped the Sting Demon General in his Five Elements Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Formation while Li Xiaoya and the others pursued the fleeing Devastation Devil Lord. The Devastation Devil Lord reached the ceiling restrictions and began activating them, but Dong Santong used a burst of white light to carry Li Xiaoya and Blue Ice through the barrier.

• Zhang Cai sealed the Sting Demon General inside his formation, and Li Xiaoya joined Dong Santong and Blue Ice in chasing the Devastation Devil Lord.
• Li Xiaoya caught up by launching himself off the mountain wall and hurled rocks that slowed the Devastation Devil Lord long enough for the others to attack.
• The Devastation Devil Lord swallowed something from a Small Bottle, regained strength, and raced to the ceiling, where red-lit restrictions repelled the pursuers’ attacks.
• Jiang Lingzi recognized the restrictions as those that had caused the mountain collapse and flew down to find Senior Brother Zhang Cai.
• Dong Santong grabbed Li Xiaoya’s hand, and Blue Ice joined them before Dong Santong carried both through the restrictions in a flash of white light.

Dong Santong, Li Xiaoya, and Blue Ice escaped the restrictions and pursued the wounded Devastation Devil Lord through the passages while Zhang Cai kept the Sting Demon General trapped in his formation. The chapter ended with Zhang Cai reassuring Jiang Lingzi that the three had escaped, then warning him about his conduct.

• Dong Santong, Li Xiaoya, and Blue Ice appeared in the passage and chased the Devastation Devil Lord, who fled through the twisting tunnels and blasted down walls to slow them.
• The Sting Demon General remained trapped in Zhang Cai's formation, where waves, hail, lightning, tornadoes, and golden beams battered him.
• Jiang Lingzi told Zhang Cai that the Devastation Devil Lord had escaped through the restrictions and that Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice had disappeared.
• Zhang Cai hurried toward the restrictions, leaving the trapped Sting Demon General behind, while Suoluo reconsidered his plan to unite the four sects.
• Zhang Cai recognized that Dong Santong's ability had likely let the three escape, reassured Jiang Lingzi, and began warning him.

Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice pursued the Devastation Devil Lord into a cave despite suspecting he was luring them into a trap. As Li Xiaoya sought Mechanism Beasts to scout ahead, the cave shook and the Devastation Devil Lord taunted them from within.

• Zhang Cai told Jiang Lingzi to abandon his bow-and-arrow Magic Treasure and stop using his constitution as an excuse to hold back.
• Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice followed the Devastation Devil Lord out of the passage and across the cliffs, while the Devil Lord secretly planned to trap them.
• Blue Ice warned that the Devil Lord was deliberately leading them somewhere, but Li Xiaoya insisted they pursue him before he could escape or threaten the cultivation world.
• The Devastation Devil Lord flew into a cave, and Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice chose to enter together despite the danger.
• Li Xiaoya asked Second Better for Mechanism Beasts to scout the cave, but the Devastation Devil Lord laughed and triggered a violent rumbling inside.

Li Xiaoya and his companions broke through the Devastation Devil Lord’s defenses and pursued him into his cavern, where he tried to escape through a restriction. Li Xiaoya cut the Devil Lord in two, but a black vortex pulled Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong inside as well.

• Li Xiaoya led Dong Santong and Blue Ice deeper into the collapsing Mountain Cave and smashed through the Stone Stele Gates blocking their way.
• The Devastation Devil Lord raised a blood giant to distract the group while he entered a circle of black pillars and activated a restriction.
• Blue Ice froze the blood attack, and Dong Santong used his ability to pass through the restriction and appear beside the Devastation Devil Lord.
• Li Xiaoya struck the Devastation Devil Lord and broke his arm, but a black vortex formed inside the restriction and began pulling everyone toward it.
• Li Xiaoya cut the Devastation Devil Lord in two with the Fire Dragon Sword, then Dong Santong grabbed Li Xiaoya as the vortex sucked them both inside.

Blue Ice was sucked into the black vortex while searching for Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong, and arrived alone in a desert. Zhang Cai and the others learned what had happened and found the exhausted pillars, while Suoluo and Jiang Lingzi began to suspect the demons’ identities and power rankings concealed a deeper mystery.

• Blue Ice sent Zhang Cai a message about Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong being pulled into the vortex, then risked entering it herself and appeared in a desert far from her companions.
• On Rainbow Rosy Peak, a female cultivator noticed Blue Ice’s Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp indicated that she had ended up in an unexpected place.
• Zhang Cai, Suoluo, and Jiang Lingzi finished off the Sting Demon General, broke through the restriction, and heard Blue Ice’s delayed message.
• Zhang Cai, Suoluo, and Jiang Lingzi investigated the powerless black pillars where the vortex had been, but could not determine what had happened to Blue Ice or the others.
• Zhang Cai left to retrieve his Formation Flags, while Suoluo and Jiang Lingzi discussed Li Xiaoya’s mention of Chen Zi and someone surnamed Ma, and questioned why the Devastation Devil Lord seemed weaker than the Sting Demon General despite holding higher rank.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong emerged in a mountain forest after the Devastation Devil Lord was cut apart, then recovered the Pearl containing him. Li Xiaoya questioned the trapped devil about Ma Weiqi and his plan to control him, while Dong Santong asked where they had been sent.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong landed in a forest amid the Devastation Devil Lord’s severed remains, and Li Xiaoya burned the fallen entrails.
• Dong Santong cut down the corpse’s upper half, and Li Xiaoya found the white Pearl embedded in its tongue.
• The Devastation Devil Lord spoke from the Pearl, and Li Xiaoya retrieved it before asking him questions.
• Dong Santong tried to provoke the trapped devil, while Li Xiaoya asked whether his true body was inside the crystal at Spiritlight Lake.
• The Devastation Devil Lord confirmed that Ma Weiqi’s body had been under his control and admitted that he had modified the Overlord Art to seize control of Li Xiaoya.
• Dong Santong asked where they were and what spell had brought them there.

News of the Demon Commander’s death spread throughout the Liang Kingdom, while Zhang Cai was ordered to find Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong and advance to the Nascent Soul Realm. Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong remained stranded somewhere in the Human Realm after the Devastation Devil Lord’s teleportation went awry.

• Cultivators across the Liang Kingdom spread news that the Heavenly Dao Sect had slain a Demon Commander, with Zhang Cai and Li Xiaoya among the key fighters and three Golden Core Stage cultivators dead.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling scolded Zhang Cai for losing Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong, then ordered him to find them and reach the Nascent Soul Realm before returning.
• Zhang Cai recalled how the group had searched the cavern, received the Lin Family Head’s one hundred million Spirit Stones, and divided the reward among the participants and the fallen cultivators’ descendants.
• Zhang Cai realized Heavenly Venerable Daoling had sent him down the mountain to seek a breakthrough, and he vowed to reach the Nascent Soul Realm as he departed.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong flew through the Human Realm after the Devastation Devil Lord admitted his failed teleportation had left them in an unknown location.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong found a city where cultivators and mortals lived together, despite its unfamiliar language and customs. A gatekeeper who understood their speech arranged for a boat pilot to escort them toward the city center, where someone was expected to receive them.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong spotted a city after days of traveling and sensed many cultivators living among its mortal residents.
• They approached the city and found towering walls, spiritually armored guards, and mortals who deferred to passing cultivators.
• The gatekeeper greeted them, reacted with shock when Li Xiaoya spoke, and sent a soldier into the city.
• The gatekeeper led Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong through the city gate and arranged for a cultivator to carry them aboard a flying boat.
• The pilot took Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong toward the city center while the gatekeeper returned to his post in high spirits.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong were brought to Heavenly Lake City’s restricted inner island, where they met the Du brothers and learned they might have crossed from the Dahuan Continent to the legendary Tianyuan Continent. The chapter ended with Du Chengfeng asking which sect they belonged to, and Li Xiaoya naming the Qi-Controlling Sect.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong rode a cultivator’s boat to a forbidden lake, where flying cultivators confronted the pilot.
• Du Yiran arrived, sent the cultivators away, and recognized that Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong spoke the ancient language.
• Du Yiran brought the two visitors through the island’s restrictions and into Heavenly Lake City’s Main Hall.
• Du Yiran introduced his elder brother, City Lord Du Chengfeng, who spoke with Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong.
• Du Chengfeng guessed that the pair came from the continent across the Boundless Sea, and Li Xiaoya realized they might be on the Tianyuan Continent.
• Du Chengfeng asked which sect they belonged to, and Li Xiaoya said they were from the Qi-Controlling Sect of the Liang Kingdom.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong learned that they had arrived on the Origin Continent, once joined to the Great Illusion Continent, and that returning might require a powerful teleportation formation. Du Chengfeng offered them information and lodging while privately weighing whether they could help Heavenly Lake City and whether they could be trusted.

• Du Chengfeng explained that super teleportation formations might return Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to the Great Illusion Continent, but surviving the journey usually required nascent soul cultivation.
• Du Chengfeng named the Mystic Heaven Way and Heavenly Earth Demon Sect as likely owners of such formations and revealed that the two continents had once been one.
• Du Yiran returned with supplies, and Du Chengfeng gave Li Xiaoya four jade slips containing information about the Origin Continent and language-learning manuals.
• Du Chengfeng asked Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to stay in Heavenly Lake City and help with an undisclosed matter, then privately discussed their strength and uncertain identities with Du Yiran.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong settled into their rooms, and Li Xiaoya gave Dong Santong two jade slips as he wondered what the city brothers wanted from them.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong learned the Tianyuan Continent’s language and history while Blue Ice wandered through a desert after being teleported elsewhere. The chapter ended with City Lord Du inviting the two men to demonstrate their abilities and exchange pointers with cultivators from his lineage.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong speculated that City Lord Du wanted their help, then discussed whether Blue Ice might be Liu Xian'er.
• Blue Ice fought off a fourth-tier Twin-Tailed Scorpion Beast with water spells and continued flying across the desert.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong mastered the Tianyuan Continent’s language and learned that the continent had split from the Great Illusion Continent during the Second Immortal-Demon War.
• A female disciple summoned Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to City Lord Du’s hall, where they met an old mid golden core stage cultivator and several others.
• City Lord Du asked Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to display their Great Illusion Continent abilities and exchange pointers, and Li Xiaoya agreed.

Dong Santong defeated Du Kang in a duel on the Du family’s Dueling Platform without using a treasure. Li Xiaoya then challenged City Lord Du to fight him directly, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Du Chengfeng arranged one-on-one matches between Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong and the Du family cultivators.
• Du Kang attacked Dong Santong with a flying sword, but Dong Santong blocked his strikes with the Six-Light Shield.
• Dong Santong evaded Du Kang’s giant sword, created four clones, and appeared beside him with a Light Blade at his neck.
• Du Kang admitted defeat, and Du Chengfeng ended the matches after Dong Santong asked who else wanted to fight.
• Li Xiaoya told Du Chengfeng that none of the gathered cultivators seemed to match them and challenged him to exchange pointers.

Li Xiaoya challenged the cultivators in Heavenly Lake City and defeated Shangguan Nan with a single barehanded strike, then began sparring with City Lord Du Chengfeng. Du Chengfeng trapped Li Xiaoya in magically expanding vines, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya accepted Shangguan Nan's challenge and stopped his spear barehanded with his body-tempering technique.
• Li Xiaoya shook Shangguan Nan away with one move, and Du Chengfeng healed the shaken cultivator.
• Li Xiaoya challenged Du Chengfeng, who agreed to spar with him.
• Li Xiaoya smashed Du Chengfeng's wooden attacks and punched what appeared to be his chest, but the figure burst into green light as Du Chengfeng escaped.
• Du Chengfeng bound Li Xiaoya with thick vines that expanded when he tried to break free.

Li Xiaoya broke free from Du Chengfeng’s vines and fought the Golden Core cultivator to a standstill before escaping his green whirlwind trap. After Li Xiaoya conceded, Du Chengfeng revealed that he had tested him because he needed a favor, and Li Xiaoya agreed to hear him out.

• Li Xiaoya burned through Du Chengfeng’s binding vines and attacked with Flame Blades, prompting Du Chengfeng to summon his wood-element staff magic treasure.
• Du Chengfeng’s green leaf blades drove Li Xiaoya back as spectators discussed his strength and the old woman resolved to recruit him for the Du Household.
• Du Chengfeng trapped Li Xiaoya inside a bowl-shaped whirlwind, but Li Xiaoya blasted a hole through it with Fire Dragon Spits Pearl and Cross Flame Blades.
• Li Xiaoya put away his Fire Dragon Sword and conceded before Du Chengfeng could attack again.
• Du Chengfeng explained that he had tested Li Xiaoya because the Du Household needed a favor, and Li Xiaoya invited him to explain.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong were asked to help the Du Household defend its rule over Heavenly Lake City, while the household’s matriarch planned to recruit them for a longer-term goal. Meanwhile, the allied rival households learned of the newcomers and decided to investigate them.

• Du Chengfeng explained that Heavenly Lake City’s ruling household was chosen through a tournament and asked Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to compete for the Du Household.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong pretended to disagree about helping, then returned to their quarters while Du Chengfeng and his grandmother discussed their strength and trustworthiness.
• The Du Household’s matriarch ordered Du Chengfeng to offer each newcomer a Spirit-Stabilizing Pill, hoping to recruit them as elders and secure help obtaining a long-sought object.
• A disguised cultivator reported Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong’s arrival to representatives of seven allied households, who decided to sound out the pair, and Madam Hai volunteered to test them.

Blue Ice found a strange, empty forest oasis in the desert and cautiously headed toward its lake. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong agreed to fight for the Du Household in exchange for Spirit-Stabilizing Pills and the right to leave once they could return to the Great Illusion Continent; their outing ended with Li Xiaoya noticing a beautiful face watching him from a restaurant upstairs.

• Blue Ice sensed water spiritual qi in the desert, found a circular forest surrounding a mist-shrouded lake, and discovered that a restriction prevented flight there.
• Blue Ice entered the apparently lifeless forest with a protective barrier and a blue ring, then cautiously made her way toward the lake.
• Du Chengfeng offered Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong Spirit-Stabilizing Pills if they fought for the Du Household, and revised the terms so they could leave once they reached the nascent soul realm or could return to the Great Illusion Continent.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong accepted Du Chengfeng's terms, signed a blood pact, and moved into lakeside cave abodes.
• Dong Santong led Li Xiaoya through the city to shop and eat, while two Du Household disciples accompanied them.
• Li Xiaoya noticed someone watching from upstairs at the restaurant and glimpsed a beautiful face.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong accepted a Golden Core cultivator’s invitation to the Immortal Tower, where Hai Mei revealed she had been waiting specifically for them. They sat down to discuss her business while the Du Household disciples watched, and Dong Santong began sampling the feast.

• Li Xiaoya noticed that the woman watching him in the restaurant was a Golden Core Stage Cultivator, while Dong Santong learned the Immortal Tower served special meals for cultivators.
• Hai Mei invited Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong upstairs, claiming she had an important matter to discuss with them.
• Li Xiaoya suspected Hai Mei was connected to an enemy of the Du Household but accepted her invitation, and the two Du Household disciples followed them upstairs.
• Hai Mei introduced herself, sealed the hall with five-colored restrictions, and welcomed the group to sit at her table.
• Hai Mei had her maids serve the Immortal Feast, and Dong Santong praised the food as he began eating.

Hai Mei warned Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong that the Du Household had drawn them into the dangerous competition for Heavenly Lake City's governing lineage, while the two concealed what they knew and left with Du Chengfeng. Afterward, Hai Mei and representatives of rival lineages discussed how to overcome the formidable pair.

• Hai Mei served Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong an elaborate meal, and Li Xiaoya recognized that its ingredients had been combined according to elixir formulas.
• Hai Mei warned the two that rival families would target the Du Household’s contestants in the governing-lineage competition, but Li Xiaoya said they had already signed a blood pact.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong left the Immortal Tower with the Du Household disciples, and Du Chengfeng arrived by flying boat and took the two away without explanation.
• Hai Mei met with rival cultivators, who discussed the pair’s abilities and suspected that the Du Household had offered them Spirit-Stabilizing Pills.
• Hai Mei judged that Nephew Qi could contend with one of the two, while Li Xiaoya would be especially difficult to defeat; the purplish-red-faced man proposed having the seven lineages attack in turn.