Chapter Summaries

After more than seventy years in seclusion, Li Xiaoya reached the peak of the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Late Stage while continuing to investigate Elder Ma’s secret ties to Devil Dao Sects. As Li Xiaoya prepared to venture into the Enchanted Mountain Range with Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong to break through his bottleneck, a world-shaking event occurred.

• Li Xiaoya advanced his divine sense to the Spirit Communion Stage level, then continued cultivating while Qin Xian investigated Elder Ma.
• Qin Xian discovered that Elder Ma had obtained demonic cultivation methods from the Hehuan Cult and secretly met Devil Dao Sects at Ma Family Fort, but found no decisive evidence of betrayal.
• For more than seventy years, the Demon Realm and the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor made no apparent moves, while the Fire Dragon Palace rebuilt its strength in the Ling Kingdom.
• Li Xiaoya reached the peak of the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Late Stage, joining Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong at that cultivation level.
• Li Xiaoya arranged to descend the mountain with Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong to seek adventure in the Enchanted Mountain Range, but a world-shaking event interrupted their plans.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Lingyu, Yu Linglong, and Ouyang Qianru, who had fled from the Origin Continent. Lingyu revealed that the demonic path might have destroyed the Mystic Heaven Way, then began explaining how the Red Sand Sect had survived and grown in power.

• Li Xiaoya learned that three visitors from the Origin Continent had come to see him, including his disciple Lingyu.
• Lingyu and Yu Linglong greeted Li Xiaoya, while Ouyang Qianru reunited with him and met Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and the others.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Lingyu, Yu Linglong, and Ouyang Qianru had fled the Origin Continent and that the Mystic Heaven Way might have been wiped out by the demonic path.
• Lingyu explained that Elder Sha had gathered surviving demonic cultivators and founded the Red Sand Sect, which remained a threat despite the Mystic Heaven Way's control of the continent.

Lingyu and Ouyang Qianru told Li Xiaoya’s group how the Black Demon Young Master and Old Monster Sha led the Red Sand Sect to devastate Mystic Heaven Way and drive its survivors to flee. Ouyang Qianru’s account of masked Nascent Soul cultivators helping the Red Sand Sect made Li Xiaoya realize that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor had been behind the attack.

• Lingyu recounted how the Black Demon Young Master joined Old Monster Sha, giving the Red Sand Sect two Spirit Communion Stage Great Cultivators and enough strength to invade Mystic Heaven Way’s territory.
• The Red Sand Sect’s surprise offensive routed Mystic Heaven Way’s elite army, badly wounded Ouyang Haotian, and forced him to send Ouyang Qianru through a teleportation formation to the Great Illusion Continent.
• Ouyang Qianru met Lingyu and Yu Linglong on the Great Illusion Continent, and the three traveled to the Heavenly Dao Sect to find Li Xiaoya.
• Lingyu explained that Li Xiaoya had left her teleportation armor and directions, and that Senior Black helped her and Yu Linglong reach the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ouyang Qianru said the Red Sand Sect had used unfamiliar powerful weapons and dozens of black-robed masked Nascent Soul cultivators, prompting Li Xiaoya to identify the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor as the force behind the attack.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Red Sand Sect had destroyed the Mystic Heaven Way with demonic weapons and a large force of Nascent Soul cultivators, and concluded that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor had secretly engineered the conflict on the Origin Continent. He invited Lingyu, Ouyang Qianru, and Yu Linglong to stay at the Heavenly Dao Sect, then left to report his suspicions to High Person Qianshan while Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er remained behind.

• Ouyang Qianru described how the Red Sand Sect used a black demonic spirit cannon, a defensive light curtain, and numerous Nascent Soul cultivators to defeat the Mystic Heaven Way.
• Ouyang Qianru insisted that demonic cultivators had framed the Mystic Heaven Way for the destruction of small sects, and Li Xiaoya agreed that a demonic scheme was plausible.
• Li Xiaoya deduced that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor had used the Black Demon Young Master and the Red Sand Sect to seize control of the Origin Continent and might be preparing an invasion of Great Illusion.
• Li Xiaoya invited Lingyu, Ouyang Qianru, and Yu Linglong to stay at the Heavenly Dao Sect and ordered Qin Xian to arrange their accommodations.
• Zhang Hong questioned Li Xiaoya about Ouyang Qianru, and he reassured her before leaving to speak with High Person Qianshan.
• Zhang Hong worried that Li Xiaoya had grown distant, and she whispered a proposal to Liu Xian'er that left Liu Xian'er blushing.

Li Xiaoya reported the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor’s conquest of the Origin Continent, prompting the Heavenly Dao Sect to warn Great Illusion of an approaching Demon Realm invasion and prepare for war. Nearly a century later, attacks by unidentified cultivators spread across Great Illusion, just as a momentous event began to change the situation.

• Li Xiaoya told High Person Qianshan and Buddha Xuanmen that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor had helped the Red Sand Sect destroy the Mystic Heaven Way and unify the Origin Continent.
• Li Xiaoya asked Second Better to design powerful spirit cannons and wide-area defensive treasures while High Person Qianshan and Buddha Xuanmen discussed how to respond.
• High Person Qianshan revealed the impending Demon Realm invasion and the events on the Origin Continent at an Elder Council meeting, and the Heavenly Dao Sect sent warnings to the Twelve Great Sects.
• Great Illusion’s sects expanded recruitment and prepared for war as news of the invasion spread across the continent.
• Nearly a century later, unidentified cultivators attacked small and medium-sized sects across Great Illusion, and a momentous event changed the course of the situation.

A vast eruption of five-colored spiritual energy caused the seabed to collapse and an immense landmass to rise, terrifying the demon beasts gathered offshore. The tremors reached Li Xiaoya at Heavenly Capital Peak, where he emerged from seclusion as Qin Xian worried that the Demon Realm invasion had begun.

• Five-colored spiritual energy surged across the sea, and a golden demon beast led countless demon beasts in attacking the barrier around its source.
• A massive whirlpool opened, the seabed fractured, and an enormous pillar of light sent tsunamis across the sea as a vast expanse of land rose from below.
• Li Xiaoya felt the distant tremors in seclusion and feared the Demon Realm Passage had opened, so he flew out of his sealed chamber.
• Li Xiaoya emerged to find Heavenly Capital Peak's cultivators in the sky, where Lingyu and Qin Xian greeted him.
• Qin Xian asked Li Xiaoya whether a passage had opened and the Demon Realm had begun its invasion.

After a continent-wide tremor raised fears that the Demon Realm Passage had opened, High Person Qianshan organized the Heavenly Dao Sect’s war preparations. Days later, an unexplained wave of multicolored spiritual qi appeared over the sea and advanced toward the continent, leaving the sect unsure what was coming.

• Li Xiaoya sent Qin Xian and Lingyu to restore order on Heavenly Capital Peak, then joined High Person Qianshan and the other leaders to discuss the tremor and prepare for a possible invasion.
• High Person Qianshan divided the forces into four armies, assigning himself, Buddha Xuanmen, the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning, and Li Xiaoya to lead them, while Liu Xian'er and Elder Wang handled logistics and defenses.
• Intelligence reports revealed that the tremor had affected the entire Great Illusion Continent, prompting the Twelve Sects to prepare for war, but no sign of the Demon Realm's army appeared over the following five days.
• An emergency report showed a powerful wave of five-colored spiritual qi moving across the sea without any demonic qi; the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning wondered whether it came from the Upper Realm, while Dong Santong identified its direction as the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• A later emergency talisman reported that the multicolored spiritual qi had appeared along the Eastern Sea coast of the Liang Kingdom and was advancing inland.

The Heavenly Dao Sect investigated a rapidly advancing five-colored spiritual phenomenon and sent Dong Santong toward the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea to gather intelligence. As the light neared Divine Path Mountain, Old Dragon Head contacted someone through a dark mirror and reported the earthquake.

• High Person Qianshan concluded that the phenomenon probably was not the Demon Realm Passage opening and learned it had originated in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• Dong Santong volunteered to investigate, and High Person Qianshan sent him with emergency message talismans after Buddha Xuanmen cautioned him to avoid acting rashly.
• Old Dragon Head opened a dark portal with a black mirror and told the voice beyond it that an earthquake had shaken Great Illusion.
• After receiving reports that the five-colored light was nearing Divine Path Mountain, High Person Qianshan led the others out to observe it.

Li Xiaoya and the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators investigated the vast surge of five-colored spiritual qi but chose to return to Divine Path Mountain and guard the sect. Dong Santong entered the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea alone and approached a strange, mountainlike phenomenon near the Heavenly Starstone’s location.

• Li Xiaoya sensed an unusual reaction from an object he held when the five-colored spiritual qi reached the group and urged High Person Qianshan to investigate its source.
• High Person Qianshan refused to leave the sect unguarded because the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor might attack, while Buddha Xuanmen assured Liu Xian'er that Dong Santong could evade detection.
• Dong Santong sent High Person Qianshan a message saying other sects’ cultivators had gathered at the sea’s edge, then entered the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea alone.
• High Person Qianshan led the others back to Divine Path Mountain, and Li Xiaoya secretly examined the object in his hand as he followed.
• Dong Santong flew thousands of li through the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea without seeing any demon beasts above the fifth tier, then spotted a vast, glowing mountainlike shape near the Heavenly Starstone’s location.

Dong Santong discovered a vast range of floating mountains radiating five-colored spiritual light and sent High Person Qianshan a warning before approaching. When a powerful Demon Beast ambushed him at sea, Dong Santong survived its attacks and struck back, but King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs exposed his invisibility and launched another attack.

• Dong Santong saw an immense mountain range floating above the sea, with five-colored spiritual light and dense spiritual qi surrounding it.
• Dong Santong sent High Person Qianshan an Emergency Message Talisman depicting the mountains, then flew toward them.
• Dong Santong spotted countless Demon Beasts attacking a Five-Colored Light Curtain and was ambushed by a powerful blue hand rising from the sea.
• Dong Santong evaded the water attacks with his wings and armor, then used a double to fool King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and damaged the Demon Beast's Golden Throne with an invisible strike.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs released golden light that revealed Dong Santong and fired a golden attack at him.

Dong Santong fought King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and escaped through a horde of demon beasts by teleporting into the Five-Colored Light Curtain. King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs launched his Demon Core at the barrier as Dong Santong appeared inside it.

• Dong Santong blocked King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs's fingernail attack with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, which was damaged by the blow.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and Dong Santong exchanged attacks and teleported, but Dong Santong fled toward the colossal mountain when his wings ran out of teleportations.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs summoned a horde of demon beasts to intercept Dong Santong, who activated a costly divine ability and forced his way through their attacks.
• A peak ninth-tier squid-like demon beast struck Dong Santong and sent him toward the Five-Colored Light Curtain, but he teleported through it and appeared inside.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs fired his enlarged Demon Core at the Five-Colored Light Curtain.

Dong Santong bypassed the Five-Colored Light Barrier and entered the mountain’s protected area, while King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs tried and failed to bargain with him. Dong Santong headed toward the mountain alone, and the Heavenly Dao Sect elders resolved to investigate after seeing his message.

• Dong Santong used his Restriction-Bypassing Ability to pass through the Five-Colored Light Barrier, frustrating King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs offered Dong Santong treasures, including the Imperial Throne and a True Immortal Spirit Treasure, but Dong Santong refused and demanded his Demon Core.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs summoned the Demon Beasts to attack the barrier as Dong Santong flew toward the colossal mountain.
• Dong Santong considered notifying Martial Uncle and the others, then chose to explore the mountain alone.
• High Person Qianshan, Elder Wang, and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning examined Dong Santong’s message and image, and Elder Wang urged them to go investigate.

High Person Qianshan and the Heavenly Dao Sect prepared to claim the mysterious mountain in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea after learning that more than a hundred black-robed cultivators were heading there. The sect mobilized its forces and sent the Treasure Ship Market flying toward the sea.

• Li Xiaoya urged High Person Qianshan to send cultivators to the mountain, while Elder Wang and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning volunteered to lead the expedition.
• An Emergency Message Talisman reported that Chen Da had been killed and that over a hundred black-robed masked cultivators were bound for the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• High Person Qianshan ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect's elders and half its Golden Core Stage cultivators to mobilize, leaving two elders to guard each peak.
• High Person Qianshan's group teleported to the Treasure Ship Market, which ordered non-sect cultivators to leave before entering War Mode.
• The Treasure Ship Market activated its formations, rose into the air, and sped toward the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.

High Person Qianshan prepared the Treasure Ship Market as a mobile fortress for the Heavenly Dao Sect’s journey toward the Giant Mountain in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea. As sects across the Great Illusion Continent headed for the sea, Li Xiaoya secretly checked the Immortal Dao Chain imprisoning the Devastation Devil Lord before someone approached.

• Cultivators from other sects saw the Treasure Ship Market take flight and pursued it, though most fell behind when it accelerated after dark.
• High Person Qianshan ordered Li Xiaoya to deploy Linked Super Spirit Cannons and Nine-Palace Heavenly Spirit Walls across the ship, then commanded it to fly at full speed once everyone had arrived.
• High Person Qianshan rejected Ma Jie’s suggestion to send vanguard cultivators into King Ten-Thousand-Zhang’s territory and waited aboard the ship while Li Xiaoya inspected its defenses.
• Li Xiaoya brought out the Immortal Dao Chain imprisoning the Devastation Devil Lord, then hid it again when he sensed someone approaching.
• Cultivators from the Twelve Great Sects and other groups across the Great Illusion Continent set out toward the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea after learning the source of the five-colored spiritual light.

Li Xiaoya revealed his suspicion that the Giant Mountain was the Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord’s Cave Abode and entrusted Liu Xian’er with the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pills because he feared what lay ahead. As the treasure ship neared the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, he held the glowing Immortal Dao Chain and prepared to face a danger he had no plan for.

• Li Xiaoya told Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er that the Giant Mountain might be the Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord’s Cave Abode.
• Li Xiaoya gave Liu Xian’er the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pills to keep safe, warning her that he had a bad feeling.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er privately discussed their worries that Li Xiaoya would rush into danger, while he departed without telling them about the Immortal Dao Chain.
• Li Xiaoya reflected that the Demon Realm’s troubles had fallen to him and that the chain’s secret might soon be revealed.
• High Person Qianshan learned that the treasure ship was just over a hundred li from the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.

High Person Qianshan drove the Treasure Ship Market into the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea and learned that Dong Santong was still alive, though he had not sent word. At the Giant Mountain, King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs slaughtered the first group of human cultivators to arrive, then heard furious demon-beast roars from far away.

• High Person Qianshan forced the cultivators at the Storm Sea Region’s edge aside and piloted the Treasure Ship Market through the storm toward the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• High Person Qianshan questioned two Intelligence Pavilion disciples, who reported that four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators had entered, a white light had passed by, and no demon beasts were near the sea’s edge.
• Buddha Xuanmen checked Dong Santong’s Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp and confirmed he was alive, while High Person Qianshan worried that he had not sent word.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs ambushed the cultivators gathered before the Giant Mountain, and several lost their bodies while trying to escape as Nascent Souls.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs caught one fleeing Nascent Soul with his Golden Giant Hand and swallowed it.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs heard furious demon-beast roars coming from dozens of li away.

A hidden cultivator subdued King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and seized a group of human cultivators, but lightning revealed that he could not freely use his Divine Abilities. He recruited the Demon Beast king for his plans and identified himself as the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor.

• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs left the besieged cultivators to investigate the distant fighting, then stopped when he sensed nearly a hundred Nascent Soul Realm cultivators ahead.
• A mysterious cultivator trapped King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs in darkness, forced him to submit, and ordered him to stop his Demon Beasts from fighting the humans.
• The mysterious cultivator attacked the human cultivators as they broke through, capturing most of them with black hands, though one escaped using a secret art.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs questioned the mysterious cultivator about the mountain, but Heavenly Tribulation lightning forced the cultivator to vanish temporarily.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs realized the cultivator had deceived him and challenged his ability to fight; the cultivator threatened him, offered him a share of the benefits, and named himself the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor.

High Person Qianshan learned that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor had arrived to seize the giant Treasure Mountain, then led the Treasure Ship Market toward it while preparing for battle. As the ship neared the mountain, an underwater ambush began.

• High Person Qianshan questioned the fleeing Ling Xingmu, who reported that the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor could imprison divine sense and had not pursued him.
• High Person Qianshan concluded that the Emperor's great divine abilities were limited, then returned to the Treasure Ship Market.
• Old Dragon Head of the Fire Dragon Palace entered the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea and said that everything was going according to plan and the prize would be his.
• High Person Qianshan warned the cultivators that King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs had gathered the high-ranked demon beasts and the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor was present, then ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• High Person Qianshan detected danger underwater, and an enormous pillar of water erupted ahead of the Treasure Ship Market.

Li Xiaoya commanded the Treasure Ship Market’s Linked Super Spirit Cannons against an ambush of demon beasts, breaking their encirclement and forcing them to retreat. The ship reached the Five-Colored Light Barrier around the treasure mountain, but a cannon shot failed to damage it.

• High Person Qianshan ordered a counterattack, and Li Xiaoya led the Linked Super Spirit Cannons in a devastating volley that opened a path through the demon beasts at the cost of hundreds of millions of spirit stones.
• Li Xiaoya ordered another shot at the hesitant beasts, while King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor argued over the losses before agreeing to proceed with the next stage of their plan.
• As the Treasure Ship Market advanced, the demon beasts fled beneath the sea, and Li Xiaoya ordered the cannons to cease fire to conserve spirit stones.
• High Person Qianshan stopped the ship near the Five-Colored Light Barrier and had a Golden Core Stage disciple fire a cannon shot at it, but the barrier remained unharmed.
• Buddha Xuanmen remarked that he wished San Tong were there.

The cultivators approached the Super-Giant Mountain, whose powerful Five-Element Formation seemed difficult to break. As the Heavenly Dao Sect's treasure ship prepared to attack the restriction, an unknown enemy ambushed it with black beams, and the defenders braced for a second volley.

• High Person Qianshan identified the mountain's barrier as a Five-Element Formation strengthened by abundant spiritual qi, making it difficult to breach.
• Old Dragon Head stopped the Fire Dragon Palace's flying boat and planned to wait for the Heavenly Dao Sect and other forces to weaken the opposition before entering.
• Li Xiaoya proposed firing all the Linked Super Spirit Cannons at the mountain's barrier, and High Person Qianshan agreed before sensing an attack.
• High Person Qianshan blocked the first black beam with his shield, while the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning and Buddha Xuanmen joined him to stop the rest of the first volley.
• The black beams' demonic qi drained power from the defenders' treasures, and Li Xiaoya ordered the disciples to form the Qian Formation with their Nine-Palace Heavenly Spirit Walls as another wave arrived.