Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya worried that Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong had run into trouble and flew to find them, while the Great Qian Devil Lord learned that Devouring and the Venomous Demoness had been killed. The Devastation Devil Lord concealed his role in sending them out, but news that the Second Unit was attacking the Heavenly Dao Sect forced him to order a retreat.

• Li Xiaoya checked the Soul Life-Bell, saw that Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong were alive but in danger, and flew to meet them as the others withdrew to their hiding place.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord confronted the Devastation Devil Lord about Devouring and the Venomous Demoness's deaths, and Devastation blamed their deaths on their own decision to fight Great Illusion's cultivators.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord ordered his forces to retrieve the Demon Towers, keep the Devil Lords' deaths secret, and wait until his cross-realm repulsion had subsided before attacking.
• After the Great Qian Devil Lord left, the Devastation Devil Lord learned that Force Demon had begun attacking the Heavenly Dao Sect and that Li Xiaoya had killed the Human Realm's Spirit Communion Stage Demon Beasts.
• The Devastation Devil Lord ordered the Second Unit and Fifth Division to withdraw to Tianyuan and commanded all units to retrieve their Demon Towers.

Li Xiaoya rescued Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong from a horde of Demon Soldier Chiefs and reunited with Du Ling, an old acquaintance, and Du Ying. After learning how the women had encountered them, Li Xiaoya asked how the two low-ranking cultivators had survived the demonic tribulation.

• Li Xiaoya followed the Soul Life-Bell to Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong and found them fighting more than a dozen Demon Soldier Chiefs while protecting Du Ling and Du Ying.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong used a giant blue-flame bird to break through the encirclement as more Demon Soldiers closed in.
• Li Xiaoya arrived, blocked the Demon Soldier Chiefs' attacks with the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon, killed the chiefs, and destroyed more than half of the pursuing Demon Soldiers.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Du Ling, who told him that she and Du Ying were the Du Household's only surviving cultivators and had been rescued by Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong.
• Li Xiaoya asked Du Ling and Du Ying how they had escaped the Demon Soldiers despite their low cultivation.

Du Ying lent Li Xiaoya a pearl that concealed its users from Demon Realm cultivators, while the Demon Realm launched coordinated attacks across the Great Illusion Continent. The Heavenly Dao Sect prepared to defend Divine Path Mountain, and General Force Demon ordered the Fifth Division to lead the assault.

• Du Ying explained how his black pearl had helped him and Du Ling evade Demon Soldiers, and Li Xiaoya borrowed it to study its concealment power.
• The Violet Flame Trickster Demon destroyed Demon Ghost Cliff’s Teleportation Formation, fought the assembled Spirit Communion Stage cultivators, then escaped as Evil Dragon Beasts disrupted their pursuit.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect rang its alarm bells and prepared Divine Path Mountain for battle, though High Person Qianshan and Li Xiaoya were absent and other sects refused to send reinforcements.
• Buddha Xuanmen and Elder Wang learned that the Demon Realm army had entered the Divine Path Mountain Range and went to oversee the defense.
• General Force Demon ordered the Fifth Division to launch the first attack, and its Demon Soldier Chief led the elite troops toward the Heavenly Dao Sect.

The Heavenly Dao Sect's Spirit Cannons struggled to stop an elite demon advance, while Dong Santong ambushed the Force Demon General and revealed his Great Void Stage strength. Dong Santong pressed his attack, concealing his identity by calling himself the Demon-Slaying Envoy.

• The Fifth Division's elite Demon Soldiers used Black Cones to deflect most of the Heavenly Dao Sect's Spirit Cannon fire and charged toward the gates.
• Buddha Xuanmen ordered the disciples to hold their fire until the Demon Soldiers came closer, then use the Full-Power Linked Attack.
• The Force Demon General argued with Devastation Devil Lord over orders to retreat and tried to contact Senior Great Qian.
• Dong Santong ambushed the Force Demon General, blasted him into a mountain, and struck at him with the Moonlight Crescent Saber.
• The Force Demon General countered Dong Santong's white blade with a black hammer, and both fighters were driven back by the collision.
• Dong Santong noticed the Force Demon General's injury, claimed to be the Demon-Slaying Envoy, and attacked with White-Light Feathers.

The Heavenly Dao Sect repelled the Fifth Division’s Elite Demon Soldiers while Dong Santong fought the Force Demon General. After locating another Demon Soldier force at Peak One Hundred Eleven, Dong Santong directed Murong Qi to aim the Repeating Spirit Cannons at it.

• At Demon Ghost Cliff, Sun Haotian suspected the Demon Soldiers were attacking other sects, but High Person Qianshan said he welcomed an attack on the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Dong Santong’s feather attacks triggered a spatial explosion, but the Force Demon General failed to locate him.
• Murong Qi ordered the Repeating Spirit Cannons and Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers to fire on the Fifth Division’s Elite Demon Soldiers, breaking their formation and blasting back their chief.
• The Elite Demon Soldiers formed shielded metal spheres and hurled themselves at the Heavenly Dao Sect’s restrictions, but they could not break through.
• Dong Santong told Murong Qi that Demon Soldiers were stationed at Peak One Hundred Eleven, and Murong Qi ordered the cannons to target it at maximum power.

Great Illusion won a major victory against the invading demons, while Li Xiaoya’s group in Origin discovered that the Demon Realm had withdrawn its towers and planned an assault on the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range. The chapter ended with the Devastation Devil Lord learning from the injured Force Demon General that the Heavenly Dao Sect had another Great Void Stage Cultivator.

• Dong Santong and the Linked Super Spirit Cannons devastated the Force Demon General’s army, while Great Illusion’s cultivators wiped out the forces attacking Demon Ghost Cliff.
• Li Xiaoya brought Du Ling and Du Ying to the gathering place, learned that the Du Household had been destroyed, and asked Second Better to study Du Ying’s Little Pearl.
• Li Xiaoya’s group decided to keep destroying Demon Towers, but found that the towers and Demon Soldiers had disappeared from Origin.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar proposed that the Demon Realm had gathered its towers and troops in the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range to recover, and Li Xiaoya’s group agreed to attack its stronghold.
• The Force Demon General told the Devastation Devil Lord that his army had lost half its soldiers and that Dong Santong was another Great Void Stage Cultivator in the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Li Xiaoya and his allies reached the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range and found it transformed into a heavily fortified demon base. While Li Xiaoya prepared to attack from one side, Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong struck a demon patrol, drawing a vast force of demon soldiers toward them as the Devastation Devil Lord ordered his army to kill Li Xiaoya.

• The Force Demon General concealed the loss of most of his troops from Great Qian, while the Violet Flame Trickster Demon left the cave resentful over the losses.
• Li Xiaoya and Ouyang Qianru led a small group toward the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range, evading demon patrols with Li Xiaoya's divine sense.
• The group found millions of demon soldiers, fortresses, towers, and Evil Dragon Beasts covering the mountain range, and Li Xiaoya persuaded his allies to fight for the Human Realm.
• An explosion signaled that Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong had begun their attack; their group wiped out several thousand patrolling demon soldiers and charged onward.
• A huge force of demon soldiers confronted Liu Xian'er's group, while the Devastation Devil Lord learned of the attack and ordered the entire army to kill Li Xiaoya.

The Devastation Devil Lord sent the entire Demon Realm army after Li Xiaoya’s group, forcing Liu Xian’er and the others to flee and draw the soldiers away. Li Xiaoya led the remaining cultivators into the emptied Mystic Heaven Mountain Range to attack its Demon Towers.

• The Devastation Devil Lord ordered millions of Demon Soldiers to attack, catching Li Xiaoya and his companions off guard.
• Ouyang Qianru pointed out that the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range was left undefended, and Li Xiaoya decided to attack it while trusting Liu Xian’er and the others to escape.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar urged Liu Xian’er, Zhang Hong, and their group to flee and draw the Demon Soldiers away from the mountain range.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar realized the pursuing army’s absence would give Li Xiaoya’s group a chance to destroy the Demon Towers, so he had the fleeing cultivators slow down and lead their pursuers onward.
• Li Xiaoya’s group flew into the mountain range, defeated the few Demon Soldiers left behind, and sent Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers to bombard the Demon Towers.

Li Xiaoya led the assault on the Demon Towers while fighting the Devastation Devil Lord, whose black saber he shattered with a single powerful strike. After the Devil Lord escaped a tower’s explosion and fled wounded, Li Xiaoya pursued him with a barrage of sword rays, and an enormous black hand seized the Devil Lord.

• Li Xiaoya and the cultivators attacked the Demon Towers, and the Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers destroyed one of them.
• The Devastation Devil Lord charged at Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword broke his Black Long Saber and blasted him into a Demon Tower.
• The Devastation Devil Lord teleported away as Li Xiaoya split the tower, then emerged from its explosion expecting Li Xiaoya to be badly hurt.
• Li Xiaoya emerged unharmed and struck the fleeing Devastation Devil Lord in the arm, forcing him to retreat while bleeding black-purple blood.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the Devastation Devil Lord with hundreds of sword rays, but an enormous black hand reached from a black hole and seized him.

Li Xiaoya killed the weakened Devastation Devil Lord, but the Great Qian Devil Lord struck him down with one blow. As the Demon Dragon General and thousands of Flying Dragon Demon Soldiers moved to attack the other human cultivators, Great Qian learned that Violet Flame and Force Demon had gone to Great Illusion and not returned.

• Li Xiaoya used the Heavenly Dao Five Elements Hand to knock the metallic hand away, smash the Devastation Devil Lord’s body, and burn his demonic infant to ashes.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord confronted Li Xiaoya, who challenged him and vowed to kill his demon soldiers as well.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord struck Li Xiaoya with a powerful blow, sending him crashing into the mountains and leaving his fate unknown.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord ordered the Elite Division to exterminate the human cultivators, and the Demon Dragon General appeared with thousands of Flying Dragon Demon Soldiers.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord asked where Force Demon and Violet Flame were, and the Demon Dragon General reported that they had gone to Great Illusion and had not returned.

Li Xiaoya emerged from the mountain and fought the Great Qian Devil Lord and the Demon Dragon General while helping Great Illusion’s cultivators escape. He knocked both enemies away with his Fire Dragon Sword Overlapping Attack, but they recovered and surrounded him as the fleeing cultivators gained only a little distance.

• Li Xiaoya burst out of the mountain as Great Illusion’s Demon-Slaying Team fled, and he attacked the Great Qian Devil Lord with his Fire Dragon Sword.
• The Demon Dragon General and the Flying Dragon Demon Soldiers pursued the fleeing cultivators, but Li Xiaoya’s Demon-Slaying Divine Soldier puppets killed hundreds and forced the soldiers back.
• Li Xiaoya used the Fire Dragon Sword Overlapping Attack to blast the Great Qian Devil Lord into a Demon Tower, then struck the Demon Dragon General and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Li Xiaoya held off the Flying Dragon Demon Soldiers with his puppets and Steel-armored Beetles while the other cultivators escaped several dozen li.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord and the Demon Dragon General recovered and joined forces to surround Li Xiaoya, choosing to kill him before pursuing the others.

Li Xiaoya held off the Great Qian Devil Lord and the Demon Dragon General while the fleeing cultivators tried to escape the demon army. As the group faced pursuers on several fronts, they sprang traps, redirected their route, and began a desperate counterattack.

• Li Xiaoya fought the Great Qian Devil Lord and the Demon Dragon General to buy time for the others, but they repeatedly blasted him backward.
• Liu Xian'er and the cultivators lured the demon soldier chiefs into Li Mother’s Bagua Reverse Illusion Inversion Formation, trapping more than two hundred while the three-eyed chief led the rest around it.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar recognized that the three-eyed chief had seen through the formation and proposed that the group attack and kill him.
• Hehuan Fairy and Hehuan Young Master dropped behind the fleeing cultivators, released pink light balls to hinder pursuit, and led the group away from the demon soldiers blocking their path.
• Dongling Daojian flew to the front and sent countless five-colored swords crashing into the demon soldiers trying to cut off the group.

Li Xiaoya returned to the repaired Super Teleportation Formation and learned how the human cultivators escaped the demon army, though Qi Lingzi and Great Confucian Tiangang had died. He then heard that Tianyuan’s unexpectedly large force had rescued Hehuan Fairy’s group, raising questions about how Tianyuan had gained so many Spirit Communion Stage cultivators.

• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, and the others repaired the Super Teleportation Formation while waiting for Li Xiaoya to return.
• Li Xiaoya arrived with Du Ling, Du Ying, Li Mother, and Zhang Hong, and learned that Qi Lingzi and Great Confucian Tiangang had perished fighting the demon soldiers.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar explained how Li Mother's formations helped Liu Xian'er and the others escape after Qi Lingzi detonated himself to kill several demon soldier chiefs.
• Hehuan Fairy recounted how Great Confucian Tiangang detonated a nascent soul to destroy several Flying Dragon Demon Soldier chiefs and over a thousand demon soldiers.
• Great Gong Diamond said that more than ten thousand Tianyuan cultivators, including seven or eight Spirit Communion Stage cultivators, had arrived and helped defeat the demon army.

After the battle, Li Xiaoya reunited with the human cultivators and explained how he escaped Great Qian Devil Lord and Demon Dragon General. The group prepared to return to Great Illusion as Great Qian Devil Lord learned the scale of his army’s losses and erupted in rage.

• Ouyang Qianru explained that Tianyuan Hall was an alliance of Origin’s Spirit Communion Stage cultivators formed to protect the continent from Great Illusion.
• Li Xiaoya arranged for the cultivators to return through the Super Teleportation Formation, sending Fairy Qingxia, Li Muzhi, Great Gong Diamond, Dongling Daojian, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning first.
• Li Xiaoya recounted how he escaped the pursuing Great Qian Devil Lord and Demon Dragon General by replenishing his magic power, feigning exhaustion, and wounding Demon Dragon General with a surprise attack.
• Li Xiaoya said he had less than a ten percent chance of defeating Great Qian Devil Lord, who had claimed that even Li Xiaoya’s self-detonation could not kill him.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar began recounting the human forces’ battle results while a Demon Soldier Chief reported their enormous losses to Great Qian Devil Lord.
• Great Qian Devil Lord cut off the report, blasted the Demon Soldier Chief from the hall, and raged over the humiliation of his defeat.

Li Xiaoya and his allies celebrated the heavy losses they had inflicted on the Demon Realm army, though the Great Qian Devil Lord remained a threat. After closing the Demon Realm Passage and trapping his forces in the Star Realm, Great Qian committed them to an all-out war, while Li Xiaoya learned that the demons had also attacked Great Illusion.

• The Purple-Robed Scholar estimated that Li Xiaoya’s forces had destroyed much of the Demon Realm army, and Li Xiaoya added that his self-destruction of the Demon-Slaying Divine Soldier had taken out more Demon Towers.
• Li Xiaoya reassured his allies that he had a way to deal with the Great Qian Devil Lord, while reflecting that he had killed the Devastation Devil Lord and that Dong Santong’s help might have improved their results.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord learned that the Devastation Devil Lord had fallen and that his army had lost troops, elites, and more than half its Demon Towers, then ordered the Demon Realm Passage closed.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord declared that his forces would have to slaughter every human in the Star Realm to return alive, alarming the Force Demon General, who had lost ninety percent of his Mighty Demon Soldiers.
• At a gathering of Demon Emperors, Moro faced taunts over Great Qian’s losses and the passage closure, then left angrily.
• High Person Qianshan reported the battles in Great Illusion to the Heavenly Dao Sect Elders, and Li Xiaoya asked where the Demon Soldiers had withdrawn.

Li Xiaoya and the sect elders confronted the Heavenly Dao Sect’s dwindling Spirit Stone reserves and agreed to prepare for a prolonged war, while Li Xiaoya suspected Zhao Xiaoqing knew something about Ling Yuyu. In the Enchanted Mountain Range, the wounded Force Demon General and Violet Flame Trickster Demon learned they were stranded and faced exposure for concealing their losses, and the Force Demon General claimed he had a plan.

• Dong Santong reported that the Force Demon General and Violet Flame Trickster Demon had escaped into the Enchanted Mountain Range, where sects had placed ambushes to watch the exits.
• Buddha Xuanmen asked Li Xiaoya whether the Linked Super Spirit Cannons and Demon-Slaying Divine Soldier could use fewer Spirit Stones, but Li Xiaoya said their consumption could not be reduced without sacrificing power.
• High Person Qianshan warned that the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Spirit Stones were running low, and Li Xiaoya said they would have to end the war quickly before agreeing that the Demon Realm Passage made a long war likely.
• Liu Xian'er raised the Ling Family as a possible source of Spirit Stones, and Li Xiaoya noticed Zhao Xiaoqing’s unusual expression before asking Liu Xian'er to question her about Ling Yuyu.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord ordered the Force Demon General and Violet Flame Trickster Demon to remain in Great Illusion and await orders while he refined the Yin-Yang Demon Thunder Pill.
• The Force Demon General explained that he and the Violet Flame Trickster Demon had concealed their Demon Soldier losses and could not return to the Demon Realm, then said he had a plan.

Li Xiaoya and the Heavenly Dao Sect learned that the Demon Realm had launched a second attack on Demon Ghost Cliff, and they set out to respond. The Force Demon General’s army advanced toward the cliff using a new strategy, while an unremarkable Demon Soldier appeared to be advising him.

• Li Xiaoya recovered from his injuries and hurried to the main hall after the Emergency Battle Bell rang.
• High Person Qianshan told the gathered cultivators that Zhang Bingmei had confirmed the Force Demon General and Violet Flame Trickster Demon were leading a few tens of thousands of troops toward Demon Ghost Cliff.
• Li Xiaoya decided that cultivators from Rainbow Rosy Peak and Twin Peaks would stay behind to guard the sect while the others went to reinforce Demon Ghost Cliff.
• The Force Demon General explained that the demons had to win a battle to redeem their previous failure, and he chose to attack Demon Ghost Cliff again because its defenses and teleportation formation had been damaged.
• The Force Demon General ordered his Mighty Demon Soldiers to advance along the ground as a shield while the Violet Flame Trickster Demon's Elite Demon Soldiers followed and prepared to attack the restrictions.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong ambushed the Demon army at Demon Ghost Cliff while the cultivators launched a counterattack. Li Xiaoya pursued the Violet Flame Trickster Demon, resisted his Illusory Eye, and captured him alive, whereupon the demon offered information about Lord Great Qian's plans.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong revealed themselves after killing a Demon Soldier, forcing the Force Demon General and Violet Flame Trickster Demon to flee in opposite directions.
• Dong Santong pursued the Force Demon General as the Demon Soldiers clashed with the defenders of Demon Ghost Cliff and came under fire from Spirit Cannons and cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya chased the Violet Flame Trickster Demon for hundreds of miles, countering his evasive flight and attacks.
• The Violet Flame Trickster Demon used his Illusory Eye to daze Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya quickly recovered and cut apart the demon's spear.
• Li Xiaoya bound the Violet Flame Trickster Demon with the Immortal-Binding Rope, and the captured demon offered to reveal Lord Great Qian's battle plans.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong each killed a Great Void Stage demon, but both demons detonated themselves and left Great Qian Devil Lord alarmed. The two returned to Demon Ghost Cliff, where Li Xiaoya warned the gathered cultivators that a new situation had emerged.

• The Violet Flame Trickster Demon told Li Xiaoya that Great Qian Devil Lord had ordered the Demon Realm Passage closed, then detonated himself and badly injured Li Xiaoya.
• Great Qian Devil Lord sensed the Violet Flame Trickster Demon's death and tried to contact the Force Demon General through a portal.
• Dong Santong killed the Force Demon General, who cried out for revenge before exploding and destroying the portal.
• Li Xiaoya realized that the Violet Flame Trickster Demon had deliberately triggered a death restriction by revealing information, confirmed the demon was dead, and flew to Demon Ghost Cliff.
• Li Xiaoya met Dong Santong and the gathered cultivators at Demon Ghost Cliff, confirmed both demons had been slain, and announced that a new situation had arisen.

At a meeting at Demon Ghost Cliff, Li Xiaoya revealed that the Demon Realm Passage had been closed by the Great Qian Devil Lord, who was preparing for a final battle. The Purple-Robed Scholar warned against a costly offensive and proposed that the cultivators defend instead.

• High Person Qianshan recounted the Demon-Slaying Team’s victories and Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong’s defeat of two Great Void Stage demons.
• Li Xiaoya told the assembled cultivators that the Demon Realm Passage had been closed by the Great Qian Devil Lord, who intended to fight to the death.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar outlined why the Great Qian Devil Lord had closed the passage and warned that the Human Realm faced danger.
• Li Xiaoya proposed gathering the high-ranked cultivators for a decisive assault, but the Purple-Robed Scholar argued that an offensive would waste resources and cause devastating casualties.
• The Purple-Robed Scholar proposed one strategy: defend.