Chapter Summaries

The Purple-Robed Scholar persuaded the major sects to prepare a defensive strategy after confirming that the Demon Realm Passage had closed. While recovering from his injuries, Li Xiaoya negotiated with Ling Yuyu, who offered the Ling Family’s support in exchange for the refining methods for two powerful weapons.

• The Purple-Robed Scholar urged the cultivators to defend first, wear down the Demon Soldiers, and attack only later, and the leaders reaffirmed their alliance before returning to their sects.
• Seven days later, Zhang Bingmei reported that the Demon Realm Passage had vanished, prompting the major sects to stockpile spirit stones and other strategic resources.
• Li Xiaoya continued recovering in seclusion until Qin Xian informed him that Ling Yuyu had arrived to see him.
• Ling Yuyu offered ten trillion spirit stones from the Ling Family’s reserves to support the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ling Yuyu requested the refining methods for the Linked Super Spirit Cannons and Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers, and Li Xiaoya agreed but warned that their materials and techniques were difficult to handle.

Li Xiaoya negotiated with the Ling Family over difficult-to-make spirit weapons, while the Demon Realm prepared its forces in the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range. The Great Qian Devil Lord decided to attack Tianyuan Hall, and a warning of an assault reached the mist-shrouded Enchanted Sea.

• Li Xiaoya gave Ling Yuyu partial material requirements, and the Ling Family later agreed to provide five trillion spirit stones and materials in exchange for the Super Spirit Cannon formula and a batch of weapons made by Li Xiaoya’s sect.
• Ling Yuyu visited Zhao Xiaoqing before leaving, while the Heavenly Dao Sect monitored the Demon Realm’s fortresses, demon beasts, and strange beams in the Mystic Heaven Mountain Range.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord learned that rebuilding the destroyed Super Teleportation Formation would take at least three months and heard from Black Skeleton that Tianyuan Hall held many cultivators.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord chose to personally attack Tianyuan Hall, rejecting the Demon Dragon General’s offer to go instead.
• Two streaks of escaping light entered the mist over the Enchanted Sea, where someone cried out that demon soldiers were attacking.

Demon Realm forces destroyed Tianyuan Island after Black Skeleton’s betrayal and the island’s Ancient Restriction Array failed. Zhang Bingmei escaped the Great Qian Devil Lord by detonating her Nascent Soul, while the Heavenly Dao Sect prepared for an invasion that never came; two months later, Du Ling and Du Ying sensed a terrifying pressure.

• Eight cultivators assured Tianyuan Island’s people that Patriarch Tianyuan’s Ancient Restriction Array could withstand the Demon Realm’s attacks.
• Black-robed cultivators burned their Nascent Souls and self-detonated against the mountain, destroying the array’s core and letting the Demon Realm’s black beams rain down on Tianyuan Island.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord praised Black Skeleton for his role in the assault, while a hidden woman realized Black Skeleton had betrayed them and tried to flee.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord pursued Zhang Bingmei, who detonated her physical body to escape and reached Divine Path Mountain three days later; Li Xiaoya went to see her.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect learned Tianyuan Island had been wiped out and prepared for war, but the Demon Realm army did not advance over the next two months.
• Du Ling and Du Ying felt a terrifying pressure descend while Du Ling was teaching cultivation hand seals.

Li Xiaoya broke through to the middle Great Void stage, improving his chances against the Great Qian Devil Lord but still worrying about the devil lord’s powerful armor. The Demon Realm’s forces emerged over the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, and the Heavenly Dao Sect sounded its battle bell as the invasion began.

• Li Xiaoya broke through to the middle Great Void stage and resolved to face the Great Qian Devil Lord, though he remained concerned about the devil lord’s armor and the lack of time to prepare.
• A huge demonic portal opened above the Little Spirit Gate’s headquarters in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, and Flying Dragon Demon Soldiers poured through and chased fleeing cultivators.
• Half a day later, the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Emergency Battle Bell rang, and Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong hurried to the summit of Divine Path Mountain.
• High Person Qianshan told Li Xiaoya that the Great Qian Devil Lord had launched an attack after a Bell Sword Mountain cultivator discovered the Demon Realm army teleporting into the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• Buddha Xuanmen reported that the Soul Lamps of the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples stationed in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea had gone out, and a streak of red light flew into the gathering as more high-ranked cultivators arrived.

After learning that the Demon Realm army had entered the Great Illusion Continent, the Heavenly Dao Sect organized its forces to reinforce allied sects, defend its headquarters, and target the Great Qian Devil Lord. At the Heavenly Spirit Church, Zhou Xiaoya and Heavenly Spirit Granny prepared their defenses, but the army rapidly breached the Thousand Dragon Gate and advanced toward them.

• High Person Qianshan received word that the Demon Realm army had crossed the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, then convened the Heavenly Dao Sect elders to plan their response.
• Li Xiaoya supported aiding the Heavenly Spirit Church and the Spring Returning Church while warning against a diversionary attack on the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• High Person Qianshan divided the Heavenly Dao Sect's forces into reinforcements, headquarters defenders, and a two-person group of Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong tasked with killing the Great Qian Devil Lord.
• Heavenly Spirit Granny and Zhou Xiaoya inspected the Heavenly Spirit Domain's cannons, barriers, and Heavenly Spirit Giant Soldiers, then Zhou Xiaoya urged them to request reinforcements.
• A messenger reported that the Demon Realm army had breached the Thousand Dragon Gate with over two million soldiers, so Heavenly Spirit Granny sent urgent requests for aid as explosions sounded in the distance.

The Demon Realm army attacked the Heavenly Spirit Church, and both sides exchanged powerful cannon fire that neither could overcome. Great Qian Devil Lord then personally struck the Heavenly Spirit Domain’s barrier with his Heaven-Demon Shaking-Heaven Hammer, leaving it cracked and the defenders terrified.

• Heavenly Spirit Granny rallied the Heavenly Spirit Church disciples as the Demon Realm army approached the domain.
• Great Qian Devil Lord ordered the War Wolf Puppets to fire their Demonlight Cannons, while Heavenly Spirit Granny answered with the Linked Super Spirit Cannons.
• The cannon beams collided in the air, while the domain barrier repelled most black beams and Lightning Demon Soldiers blocked the red beams.
• Great Qian Devil Lord recognized that Li Xiaoya had invented the Linked Super Spirit Cannons, then flew toward the domain and grew into a colossal giant.
• Great Qian Devil Lord punched aside the cannons’ red beams and struck the gray barrier with his Heaven-Demon Shaking-Heaven Hammer, opening a white fissure.

The Great Qian Devil Lord battered the Heavenly Spirit Domain’s defenses while Zhou Xiaoya and Heavenly Spirit Granny prepared to evacuate. Liu Xian’er and the Heavenly Dao Sect reinforcements arrived and moved to hold him off as the demon army advanced.

• Heavenly Spirit Granny reinforced the restriction barrier with gray spheres, but the Great Qian Devil Lord’s blows battered it and swept aside the Heavenly Spirit Giant Soldiers.
• Zhou Xiaoya decided the Heavenly Spirit Church must retreat, and Heavenly Spirit Granny revealed that reinforcements had arrived from the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Liu Xian’er, Zhang Hong, Murong Qi, and Li Muzhi arrived with Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, and Zhang Hong agreed to help cover the retreat.
• Zhou Xiaoya sent talisman scripts to summon aid, while Liu Xian’er and Zhang Hong led the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators against the Great Qian Devil Lord.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord summoned the demon army, and the Demon Dragon General ordered millions of demon soldiers to attack.
• Liu Xian’er and Zhang Hong launched the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearls at the Great Qian Devil Lord, whose shield stopped the blast as its flames spread across the shield.

The Great Qian Devil Lord and his Demon Army battered the Heavenly Spirit Church’s barrier as its cultivators fled through the hall’s teleportation formations. Zhou Xiaoya awakened the Holy Demon Queen statue to defend the church, and its enormous hand began to move toward the enemy.

• The Great Qian Devil Lord resisted Murong Qi, Li Muzhi, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong while attacking the barrier, as Zhou Xiaoya ordered the Heavenly Spirit Church cultivators to retreat.
• Demon Soldiers and magic beasts joined the assault, weakening the barrier and forcing Heavenly Spirit Granny to reinforce it with gray spheres of light.
• The cultivators fled through two doorways with separate teleportation routes; rogue cultivators without Heavenly Spirit Tokens learned that the right passage was deadly and took the left route.
• The great hall shook as the assault continued, but a Heavenly Spirit Church cultivator reassured the refugees that the grand formation still held and that Zhou Xiaoya had activated the Holy Demon Queen.
• Zhou Xiaoya stood on the Holy Demon Queen’s crown and commanded it to attack, and the statue opened its eyes and began moving its enormous arm.

Zhou Xiaoya and the Heavenly Spirit Church used the Holy Demon Queen’s power to strike the Great Qian Devil Lord and his forces while the others escaped. Zhou Xiaoya collapsed after unleashing a final blast, and the barrier fell as the Heavenly Spirit Domain began to break apart.

• Zhou Xiaoya commanded the Holy Demon Queen to blast the Great Qian Devil Lord, forcing him back and causing his armor to petrify.
• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Murong Qi, Li Muzhi, and Heavenly Spirit Granny attacked the Great Qian Devil Lord, but he broke free of the petrification and prepared to strike back.
• Heavenly Spirit Granny used the Holy Light Crystal Balls to reinforce the Gray-Light Grand Formation, then urged the others to retreat toward the Teleportation Formation.
• Zhou Xiaoya stayed behind as the Great Qian Devil Lord's hammer drove the reinforced barrier inward and cracked it.
• Zhou Xiaoya unleashed the Holy Demon Light at the Demon Soldiers, blasting a huge hole through their ranks before collapsing.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord shattered the gray barrier, and the Castle of the Heavenly Spirit Domain began to split apart.

The Great Qian Devil Lord breached the Heavenly Spirit Church, but Liu Xian'er and the others helped its cultivators escape with few casualties. As the Heavenly Dao Sect prepared to shelter the refugees, the Great Qian Devil Lord chose the Spring Returning Church as his next target, and the Demon Realm army moved toward Spring Renewal Valley.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong learned that the Heavenly Spirit Church was about to fall and rushed to its Teleportation Formation to aid Liu Xian'er and the others.
• Yu Linglong reported that the Great Qian Devil Lord had attacked with more than two million Demon Soldiers and magic beasts, while the formation had to recharge before it could be used again.
• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, and the others returned with an unconscious Zhou Xiaoya, and Heavenly Spirit Granny explained that the Holy Demon Light had helped save the Church’s cultivators as they escaped.
• High Person Qianshan agreed to shelter the Heavenly Spirit Church’s refugees and send news of its fall to the other allied sects.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord learned that the Church’s high-level cultivators had escaped, rejected Black Skeleton’s suggestion to attack the Heavenly Dao Sect, and ordered an assault on the Spring Returning Church.
• The Hehuan Cult and Folo Temple reacted to the Church’s fall, while Alchemy Spirit Child warned Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning that the Demon Realm army was heading for Spring Renewal Valley.

As the Demon Realm advanced, the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning ordered his sect to flee to the Heavenly Dao Sect, while cultivators from across the land sought refuge there. The chapter ends with news that the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning had fallen after the demon army entered the Ling Kingdom.

• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning ordered the cultivators of Spring Renewal Valley to evacuate to the Heavenly Dao Sect, then vowed to fight the Demon Realm.
• Dong Santong guarded the Heavenly Dao Sect’s entrance and exposed and killed several demon soldiers disguised as human cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya diagnosed Zhou Xiaoya as unconscious from overusing the Holy Demon Light secret technique and gave Heavenly Spirit Granny spiritual liquid to strengthen her primordial spirit.
• Scouts reported that the Demon Realm had slaughtered tens of millions of mortals in the Heavenly Spirit Kingdom, prompting Li Xiaoya and the other cultivators to rage.
• A communication talisman reported that the Demon Realm army had entered the Ling Kingdom, and High Person Qianshan said the Spring Returning Church had already evacuated.
• Half a day later, the Heavenly Dao Sect received word that the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning had fallen.

After the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning died destroying Spring Renewal Valley and devastating the Demon Realm army, the Great Qian Devil Lord redirected his forces toward the Heavenly Dao Sect. Both sides gathered for a decisive battle, and the chapter ended with the demons stopping just beyond the range of the sect’s Linked Super Spirit Cannons.

• Alchemy Spirit Child told Li Xiaoya and the others that the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning had stayed behind and died when Spring Renewal Valley’s self-destruct formation detonated.
• The Demon Realm army headed directly for the Heavenly Dao Sect, so the sect assigned its defenders and summoned reinforcements from the other factions.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord explained that he wanted to strike the Heavenly Dao Sect before further human sacrifices depleted his army, while Black Skeleton revealed his blood feud with Li Xiaoya.
• The sects’ Spirit Communion Stage cultivators gathered at the Heavenly Dao Sect, where defenders fortified the barrier and positioned cannons, Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers, and Flying Boats.
• When the Demon Realm army reached eight hundred li from the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Great Qian Devil Lord ordered it to halt and descend.

The Great Qian Devil Lord used long-range Demonlight Cannons to bombard the Heavenly Dao Sect’s defensive barrier while the sect’s cultivators searched for a counterattack. Dong Santong set out under concealment with a pearl intended to guide the Twin Peaks’ attack, and the Demon Dragon General flew toward the sect to scout.

• The Great Qian Devil Lord halted his army eight hundred li from the Heavenly Dao Sect and ordered the War Wolf Puppets to fire their Demonlight Cannons at its barrier.
• High Person Qianshan’s Linked Super Spirit Cannons could not reach the demon army, so the Purple-Robed Scholar advised the cultivators to cease fire and replenish their spirit stones.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord increased the Demonlight Cannons’ power to fivefold, forcing the sect’s cultivators to feed magic power into the barrier to keep it intact.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to send Dong Santong, whose Invisibility Art could evade detection, to locate the demon army and drop a rune-covered pearl for the Twin Peaks’ attack.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord ordered a sevenfold bombardment, then allowed the Demon Dragon General to approach the Heavenly Dao Sect cautiously.

Dong Santong left the Heavenly Dao Sect to place High Person Qianshan’s targeting marker near the demon army, while the sect activated the Star Plucking Platform’s Fire Rain Meteor Formation. He succeeded in planting the marker beneath the Black Flying Boat and began retreating as the Demon Dragon General neared the sect to scout its defenses.

• Dong Santong flew beyond the Heavenly Dao Sect’s barrier with the targeting marker, while High Person Qianshan ordered Elder Wang to activate the Star Plucking Platform.
• Elder Wang activated the platform, revealing its Fire Rain Meteor Formation, as Li Mother switched the Linked Super Spirit Cannons to defense mode against the strengthening bombardment.
• Dong Santong spotted the invisible Demon Dragon General scouting toward the sect, but chose to continue toward the demon army instead of attacking him.
• Dong Santong found the Black Flying Boat and the vast demon army, then descended to approach the boat from beneath.
• Dong Santong used the Shadow Body Art to place the targeting marker beneath the Black Flying Boat and started retracing his route, but a demon soldier suddenly noticed something.

Dong Santong planted the Cross Orb among the demon soldiers, allowing the Heavenly Dao Sect to fire its enormous Red-Orange Orb at the invading army. The weapon struck the demon ranks in a devastating explosion, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Duo Luo stepped on and picked up Dong Santong’s Cross Orb, and Dong Santong returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect after confirming the marker was in place.
• High Person Qianshan received Dong Santong’s signal and ordered Elder Wang to attack the marked location with the Fire Rain Meteor Formation.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord sensed danger and ordered the demon army to retreat, but Duo Luo carried the Cross Orb with him.
• The Fire Rain Meteor Formation launched its massive Red-Orange Orb toward the demon army.
• The orb struck the black flying boat’s edge and exploded among the demon soldiers, burning countless soldiers to ashes.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Fire Rain Meteors devastated the demon army, but the Great Qian Devil Lord rallied the survivors and ordered them to attack. Dong Santong ambushed the Demon Dragon General and battled him in the sky while the cultivators awaited word from him, and the Purple-Robed Scholar warned that the situation looked bad.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Fire Rain Meteors blasted a huge crater through the demon forces, destroyed countless soldiers, and shattered the Great Qian Devil Lord’s Black Light Barrier.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord assembled the surviving demon soldiers, then ordered them to spread out and encircle the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Dong Santong attacked the Demon Dragon General with copies of himself and white Crescent Light Blades, but the late Great Void Stage general gained the advantage in their exchange.
• Dong Santong split into multiple figures and used dazzling white light to keep the Demon Dragon General in a stalemate.
• The demon army advanced toward the Heavenly Dao Sect as the cultivators waited anxiously for Dong Santong’s message, and the Purple-Robed Scholar suddenly warned that the situation looked bad.

Li Xiaoya and the other cultivators prepared for the demon army’s expected assault while planning to join forces against the Great Qian Devil Lord. Elsewhere, Dong Santong wounded the Demon Dragon General with a defense-ignoring attack, then escaped toward the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The Purple-Robed Scholar predicted that the demon soldiers would spread out and attack, and Li Xiaoya agreed they would likely strike from both flanks.
• High Person Qianshan repositioned the spirit cannons and troops while Li Xiaoya asked the Spirit Communion Stage cultivators to help him fight the Great Qian Devil Lord.
• Dong Santong evaded the Demon Dragon General’s attacks and used the Moonlight Crescent Saber to pierce his defenses and seriously wound him.
• The Demon Dragon General unleashed a powerful ability and blasted apart Dong Santong’s illusory figures, but failed to find him.
• Dong Santong fled dozens of miles toward the Heavenly Dao Sect while the enraged Demon Dragon General searched for him.

Dong Santong returned after striking the demon army and wounding the Demon Dragon General, warning Li Xiaoya that the Great Qian Devil Lord was leading an assault. Li Xiaoya rallied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s defenders, who prepared to face the demon forces as they advanced in a wide formation.

• The Great Qian Devil Lord rebuked the wounded Demon Dragon General, then led the approaching demon forces into an attack without learning useful details about the Heavenly Dao Sect’s defenses.
• Black Skeleton brooded over his hatred of Li Xiaoya and considered abandoning the Demon Realm if the opportunity arose.
• Dong Santong returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect and told Li Xiaoya that his Fire Rain Meteors had struck the demons and that he had wounded the Demon Dragon General.
• Li Xiaoya ordered the cultivators to prepare for battle and rallied hundreds of thousands of defenders by declaring that victory was within reach.
• Li Xiaoya detected the demon army approaching from both sides, and High Person Qianshan ordered the Linked Super Spirit Cannons prepared.
• The demon army advanced in a wide formation, with an enormous Black Flying Boat directly ahead, making the Linked Super Spirit Cannons less effective.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s defenders opened fire on the approaching demon army as the Great Qian Devil Lord battered the sect’s barrier. Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong left the defense of the barrier to their allies and flew to attack the Demon Dragon General.

• Li Xiaoya ordered the Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers to fire at the Great Qian Devil Lord and Demon Dragon General, who evaded or deflected the beams.
• High Person Qianshan directed the Linked Super Spirit Cannons at the advancing Demon Soldiers and Mighty Demon Soldiers, whose formations and defenses withstood much of the barrage.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord smashed the Five-Colored Light Barrier with his Heaven-Demon Shaking-Heaven Hammer after Li Xiaoya’s sword ray shattered and Dong Santong’s white sphere dazzled him.
• The barrier recovered, but the Great Qian Devil Lord’s laughter harmed weaker disciples, so High Person Qianshan ordered them to retreat into the defensive caves.
• Li Xiaoya told the cultivators to occupy the Great Qian Devil Lord while he and Dong Santong attacked the Demon Dragon General, then the two flew toward him.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong attacked the Demon Dragon General while the Major Sects' Spirit Communion stage cultivators kept the Great Qian Devil Lord occupied. Black Skeleton prepared a hidden-weapon ambush against Li Xiaoya, and the chapter ended with the Great Qian Devil Lord rushing to aid the Demon Dragon General.

• The Demon Dragon General damaged the five-colored spiritual light barrier, but Li Xiaoya arrived and knocked away his attack with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Dong Santong ambushed the Demon Dragon General, and Li Xiaoya struck him with the Fire Dragon Sword before Dong Santong surrounded him with six white figures and detonated a burst of light.
• The Major Sects' Spirit Communion stage cultivators charged the Great Qian Devil Lord and repeatedly retreated into the formation, while Black Skeleton took out his mysterious dagger and vanished toward the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord's shield struck High Person Qianshan, Sun Haotian, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling, then he spotted Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong pressing the Demon Dragon General and charged toward them.