Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong overwhelmed the wounded Demon Dragon General and bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope while the Great Qian Devil Lord fought off the other cultivators. The Heavenly Dao Sect’s protective restrictions collapsed just as Li Xiaoya drew the Demon Dragon General to him.

• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, the Beast Spirit Valley cultivator, and the Hehuan Twin Demons delayed the Great Qian Devil Lord with successive attacks.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong struck the badly wounded Demon Dragon General, and Dong Santong’s Moonlight Crescent Saber knocked him into Li Xiaoya’s path.
• Li Xiaoya slashed the Demon Dragon General’s armor, but the devil fled toward the Great Qian Devil Lord as Dong Santong pursued him with white blades.
• Li Xiaoya trapped the Demon Dragon General with the Immortal-Binding Rope and pulled him away from the Great Qian Devil Lord’s grasp.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s protective restrictions broke apart as Li Xiaoya held the bound Demon Dragon General.

Sun Haotian betrayed the Heavenly Dao Sect and destroyed its outer formation, but Li Xiaoya absorbed the Demon Dragon General with the Fire Dragon Sword, transforming it into a Heaven-Opening Treasure. Li Xiaoya’s clash with the Great Qian Devil Lord continued as the Devil Lord discovered that the sect’s inner Bewildering Formation had trapped the invading forces.

• Sun Haotian killed the cultivators operating the Linked Super Spirit Cannons and used Pitch-Black Metal Balls to breach the Heavenly Dao Sect’s grand formation before letting the cultivators kill him.
• Li Xiaoya stopped the Demon Dragon General from self-destructing and thrust the Fire Dragon Sword into him, causing the sword to absorb his body and primordial spirit.
• The Fire Dragon Sword transformed into a Heaven-Opening Treasure, and Li Xiaoya struck the Great Qian Devil Lord, cleaving his hammer and cutting his armored hands before being knocked back.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord revealed that his armor was also a Heaven-Opening Treasure and offered to spare Li Xiaoya if he surrendered the sword and joined the Demon Star Realm.
• Li Xiaoya revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect’s inner Bewildering Formation had turned the invading demon soldiers and beasts against one another, then charged the Great Qian Devil Lord again.

Li Xiaoya and the Great Qian Devil Lord fought fiercely while the Heavenly Dao Sect’s layered defenses protected the human cultivators from the demon army. A hidden attacker struck the Great Qian Devil Lord from behind, allowing Li Xiaoya to send him crashing into a mountain, though the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• The Great Qian Devil Lord shrank to a few dozen yards tall and clashed with Li Xiaoya, while the injured Spirit Communion Stage cultivators retreated inside the Heavenly Dao Sect’s restrictions.
• Demon soldier chiefs kept their forces outside the Bewildering Formation and ordered them to attack the humans, so Li Mother activated the sect’s powerful white Protective Barrier.
• A venomous-eyed figure watched from a distant mountain, then used gray light to approach the battle.
• Li Xiaoya and the Great Qian Devil Lord exchanged attacks, each struggling against the other’s power and defenses; the Great Qian Devil Lord’s armor rebounded much of Li Xiaoya’s force.
• A streak of white light struck the Great Qian Devil Lord from behind, and Li Xiaoya followed with a barrage that drove him into a mountain.

The Great Qian Devil Lord unleashed a desperate power boost and attacked Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong at once. Though Dong Santong survived a crushing blow and counterattacked, Li Xiaoya evaded the devil lord’s hammer and drove the Fire Dragon Sword toward his armpit.

• Dong Santong ambushed the Great Qian Devil Lord with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, injuring him despite his Vast-Heaven Treasure Armor.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord performed a demonic chant to greatly increase his power, while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong activated their desperate divine abilities.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord attacked Dong Santong through a tear in space and struck him down, while a sound wave and saber blow sent Li Xiaoya flying.
• Li Xiaoya killed demon soldiers who charged him, and the Great Qian Devil Lord pursued him with a giant black iron hammer.
• Dong Santong transformed into a huge ball of white light, bounced off the ground, and struck the Great Qian Devil Lord with a giant hand.
• Li Xiaoya dodged the hammer, appeared beneath the Great Qian Devil Lord’s armpit, and thrust the Fire Dragon Sword at him.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong battered the Great Qian Devil Lord with their treasures, forcing him to consume a pill that greatly increased his power. They coordinated another attack, and Dong Santong’s Moonlight Crescent Saber pierced the Devil Lord’s eye, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dong Santong’s Moonlight Crescent Saber and Li Xiaoya’s Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff struck the Great Qian Devil Lord, shattering his shield and breaking the bones in his hand before he crashed into a crater.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong prepared another coordinated attack as the Great Qian Devil Lord emerged from the crater and swallowed a purple-black pill to boost his strength.
• Li Xiaoya sent the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff crashing toward the Great Qian Devil Lord, while Dong Santong detonated white-light figures to interrupt his teleportation and expose him.
• The Great Qian Devil Lord raised his hands to block Li Xiaoya’s staff and summoned a shield to protect his face, but Dong Santong’s Moonlight Crescent Saber vanished past the shield and pierced his eye.

Li Xiaoya killed the Great Qian Devil Lord, and the cultivators defeated the demonic army after a thousand years of struggle. As the survivors celebrated, Black Skeleton appeared and stabbed Zhang Hong from behind, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Dong Santong wounded the Great Qian Devil Lord with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, giving Li Xiaoya the opening to batter him to death with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Dong Santong announced victory, and High Person Qianshan led the cultivators out to fight as Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong hunted down the fleeing demons.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong helped slaughter the remaining demon soldiers, and the cultivators celebrated after the last one was killed.
• Zhang Hong reunited with Li Xiaoya amid the celebrations, but Li Xiaoya sensed Black Skeleton approaching.
• Black Skeleton charged at Li Xiaoya and stabbed Zhang Hong through the chest from behind before Li Xiaoya's attack blasted him away.

Zhang Hong was struck by the Immortal-Devouring Dagger, and Li Xiaoya’s grief unleashed a dangerous wave of killing intent and demonic qi. After learning that Zhang Hong’s body could survive because of diamond grass, Li Xiaoya resolved to ascend to the Upper Realm to save her.

• Zhang Hong collapsed after the Immortal-Devouring Dagger pierced her chest, and Liu Xian'er and Li Xiaoya tried to keep her alive.
• The dagger absorbed Li Xiaoya’s magic power and Zhang Hong’s blood before Li Xiaoya tore it from her chest, but her life faded and he erupted with killing intent.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma identified the weapon as the Immortal-Devouring Dagger and said it could do nothing for someone wounded by it.
• Zhang Hong’s wound healed, but Li Xiaoya sensed no life in her body and his demonic qi surged again.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma discovered that diamond grass kept Zhang Hong’s physical body from dying and said treasures in the Upper Realm could save her.
• Li Xiaoya regained his composure and told the cultivators he was going to ascend to the Upper Realm.

After defeating the demonic tribulation, Li Xiaoya learned that Zhang Hong could be saved only by finding life-restoring treasures in the Upper Realm, so he resolved to ascend despite the pain of leaving his loved ones behind. Three days later, he ascended, while Dong Santong remained to help the others prepare for their own ascension.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that Black Skeleton had died from his punch, and the war against the demonic tribulation ended in victory.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the Immortal-Devouring Dagger had drained Zhang Hong's life force and that she needed an Upper Realm elixir to recover.
• Li Xiaoya decided to ascend with Zhang Hong, and Dong Santong promised to help Liu Xian'er and the others ascend later.
• High Person Qianshan announced that Dong Santong would remain in the Human Realm to help the sects ascend, and Li Xiaoya bid farewell to Heavenly Venerable Daoling and his fellow disciples.
• Liu Xian'er promised to find Li Xiaoya in the Upper Realm within a thousand years, and three days later news spread that he had ascended.

The Devil Emperor confirmed that the humans had won the Lesser Star Realm and ordered the defeated devil lord to undergo the Devil Star Trial. As a five-colored vortex opened over a battlefield in another realm, two cultivators descended amid the fighting.

• The Devil Emperor told the kneeling devil lord that the Lesser Star Realm now belonged to the humans and sentenced him to thirty thousand years of the Devil Star Trial.
• The Immortal Emperor informed Daode that the Devil Emperor had conceded the Lesser Star Realm to the humans, while warning that the Thirty-Three Stars had made a dangerous enemy.
• Daode rejoiced over the victory and formed hand seals, saying humanity's fortune would decide what came next.
• A five-colored vortex opened above a battle between beast cavalry and demonic insects, drawing the attention of their leaders.
• A beam of five-colored light struck the battlefield and scattered both armies, as two cultivators descended through the lightning.

Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong survived their perilous ascension and arrived on the Ancient Demon Continent in the middle of a war between the Demon Race and the Insect Race. After learning about the race pact that bars Immortal Cultivators from joining mortal racial wars, Li Xiaoya tried to leave, but a Demon Race soldier pursued him.

• Li Xiaoya brought Zhang Hong through the ascension passage by triggering her own Ascension Tribulation, but a force of law nearly tore her away before they escaped through a Spatial Storm.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong appeared in a crater amid a battle between Demon Race soldiers and Insect Race forces, and the combatants accused him of interfering in their racial war.
• Li Xiaoya seized a bull-headed Demon Race soldier and searched his memories, learning the local language and that the continent was governed by a pact forbidding Immortal Cultivators from taking part in racial wars.
• Li Xiaoya said he had landed by accident and prepared to fly away with Zhang Hong, but a four-eyed, bull-eared Demon Race soldier shouted for him to stop and gave chase.

Li Xiaoya explored the Upper Realm after ascending through a Spatial Rift and learned from Guagua that it contained thirty-three Greater Star Realms and countless Lesser Star Realms. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoya asking what race Guagua belonged to.

• Li Xiaoya knocked the Four-Eyed Ox-Eared Demon commander unconscious, and the Insect Race commander ordered her warriors to attack the demons.
• Li Xiaoya examined the Upper Realm’s eight suns, suppressed divine sense, and unusually dense spiritual qi while carrying the unconscious Zhang Hong.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma emerged from Li Xiaoya’s bag and explained the Greater and Lesser Star Realms, the Demon Star Realm’s expansion, and humanity’s weak position among the races.
• Guagua explained that Li Xiaoya had entered a Spatial Rift during ascension and arrived in an unknown Greater Star Realm instead of appearing on an Ascension Platform.
• Li Xiaoya asked Guagua what race it was.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma remembered the name of the elixir that could save Zhang Hong, but not the sect that held it. He disguised himself and Zhang Hong as members of the Demon Race and entered a huge city on the Ancient Demon Continent to begin investigating.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya that the elixir was called the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill and warned him to find out which star realm he was in and whether humans had sects there.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma hid in Li Xiaoya's Heaven-and-Earth Bag, and Li Xiaoya contacted Second Better while flying toward the horizon.
• A mysterious figure in an enormous hall sensed that Li Xiaoya had appeared on the Ancient Demon Continent, tried to locate him, and found that he had disappeared.
• Li Xiaoya disguised himself as a Demon Race soldier and used the Vast-Heaven Battle Armor to make Zhang Hong look like a puppet before entering a vast Demon Race city.

Li Xiaoya entered a vast Demon Race city while disguised as a Free Warrior and learned more about the Greater Star Realm’s customs, currency, and unusual conditions. He headed toward the Warrior Guild to gather information, leaving his thoughts on the Human Realm and the people he had left behind unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya learned that the Demon Race called martial practitioners without immortal roots Free Warriors and that the Race Pact punished those who killed too many of them, especially powerful ones.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the Greater Star Realm’s eight suns enriched its spiritual qi, while its heavy terrain and solid space suppressed Li Xiaoya’s power and divine sense.
• Li Xiaoya passed through the city gate and saw its enormous streets, many Demon Race inhabitants, and Flying Boats, but no Immortal Cultivators.
• Using a captured Free Warrior’s memories and Spirit Stone Coins, Li Xiaoya hired a Flying Boat to travel to the Warrior Guild and ask about the Star Realm.
• Li Xiaoya remembered the unresolved dangers and personal matters in the Human Realm as the Flying Boat’s green-skinned pilot asked whether he was a Free Warrior.

Li Xiaoya visited the Warriors' Guild to learn about the Ancient Demon Continent and find a map, then encountered a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator running a map shop. After buying a map of the Yellow Territory, he began questioning the civet demon about the local cultivators.

• Li Xiaoya searched the Warriors' Guild for information about the continent, immortal cultivators, and maps.
• Li Xiaoya found a map shop run by a civet demon cultivator and discovered that maps of the continent's regions were extremely expensive.
• Li Xiaoya selected and bought a map of the Yellow Territory, despite its high price.
• The civet demon sensed Li Xiaoya's magic power, recognized him as a powerful cultivator, and respectfully asked which school he belonged to.
• Li Xiaoya asked the civet demon about his sect, and the civet demon said he belonged to the Yellow Household in the Yellow Territory.

Li Xiaoya learned that he had arrived in the Thirty-Three Star Realm and obtained a map to help him find a cultivators’ market district and the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill for Zhang Hong. After hearing that demons were hunting a human immortal who had killed Commander Four-Eyed Fort, he disguised himself and flew toward a city where immortal cultivators gathered.

• Li Xiaoya pretended to be from the Monster Star Realm and learned from a civet demon that they were on the Ancient Demon Continent in the Thirty-Three Star Realm.
• The civet demon described the five continents and traded Li Xiaoya an immortal cultivator’s map for an ordinary spirit treasure, but knew nothing about the pill Zhang Hong needed or how to reach other continents.
• Li Xiaoya heard tiger-headed demons say that a human immortal had killed Commander Four-Eyed Fort and was being hunted near Kuai City.
• Li Xiaoya left the city, changed his appearance, and flew toward a cultivators’ market district.
• As he traveled, Li Xiaoya encountered increasing numbers of demon immortal cultivators and saw some fighting, but continued onward without stopping.

Li Xiaoya reached Yellow Ridge Market District seeking information to save Zhang Hong, but found himself drawn into an unexpected encounter with the Yellow Ridge Gate’s deputy sect master. The deputy sect master asked whether Li Xiaoya had come for an Immortal Assembly, and continued pursuing him after Li Xiaoya tried to leave.

• Li Xiaoya left a smaller market district without learning about the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill or how to reach East Xia Continent.
• Li Xiaoya traveled toward Yellow Ridge Market District, growing cautious after encountering many powerful cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya arrived at the vast mountain market and landed on a platform reserved for high-ranked cultivators.
• The Yellow Ridge Gate deputy sect master examined Li Xiaoya and asked through voice transmission whether he had come to attend the Immortal Assembly.
• Li Xiaoya said he was only passing through from District 423 and tried to leave, but the deputy sect master called after him to wait.

Li Xiaoya searched the Yellow Ridge Market District for the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill but learned that Huang Hao had never heard of it. After hearing that the Yellow Secret Realm might contain treasures to restore Zhang Hong’s lifespan and vitality, Li Xiaoya accepted Huang Hao’s invitation to visit the Yellow Ridge Gate and investigate.

• Li Xiaoya asked Huang Hao whether the Yellow Ridge Market District sold the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill, but Huang Hao said he had never heard of it.
• Huang Hao explained that the Yellow Ridge Gate had invited Great Void Stage cultivators to attend the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly in the Yellow Secret Realm.
• Li Xiaoya told Huang Hao that Zhang Hong needed the pill to survive, and Huang Hao suggested the secret realm might hold treasures that could restore her lifespan and vitality.
• After the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma warned that secret realms were dangerous, Li Xiaoya agreed to visit the Yellow Ridge Gate and followed Huang Xing to a guest room.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that secret realms could contain dangerous beasts and treasures, and warned Li Xiaoya that the Yellow Ridge Gate might be planning to monopolize the Yellow Secret Realm.

Li Xiaoya listened to cultivators in the hall and learned why treasures that restore vitality were so valuable, while considering how to save Zhang Hong. When he told a lecherous old cultivator that he came from District Four Hundred and Twenty-Three, the entire hall turned to look at them.

• Li Xiaoya observed that the hall held only early and middle Great Void Stage cultivators and overheard their talk, but none mentioned the Yellow Secret Realm.
• A lecherous old cultivator failed to trade his elixirs for Fellow Daoist Yu's ten-thousand-year jade liquid, then noticed Li Xiaoya.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained how vitality affected cultivation and why treasures that restored it were precious, including Diamond Grass Extract's role in protecting Zhang Hong.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Zhang Hong might need seven or eight Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills, each worth a fine True Immortal Spirit Treasure.
• The old cultivator sat beside Li Xiaoya and asked where he came from; when Li Xiaoya named District Four Hundred and Twenty-Three, everyone in the hall fell silent and stared at them.

Li Xiaoya met Mouse Venerable among the cultivators gathered to enter the Yellow Secret Realm and pretended to share their interest in a mysterious treasure. As Mouse Venerable described the realm’s origins, Li Xiaoya asked about Yellow Ridge Immortal’s connection to the Yellow Ridge Gate.

• The cultivators discussed Li Xiaoya’s arrival from District 423, and Mouse Venerable apologized for his surprise and introduced himself.
• Li Xiaoya told Mouse Venerable he had come to enter the Yellow Secret Realm, then concealed his ignorance about the group’s real objective.
• Mouse Venerable asked Li Xiaoya to join an expedition, and Li Xiaoya agreed to consider it while requesting information about the realm.
• Mouse Venerable explained that Yellow Ridge Immortal had created the vast realm and filled it with ancient demon beasts, treasures, and medicinal herbs.
• Li Xiaoya interrupted Mouse Venerable’s account to ask what relationship Yellow Ridge Immortal had with the Yellow Ridge Gate.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Yellow Ridge Gate was recruiting rogue cultivators to enter the Yellow Secret Realm, where mature life flowers were guarded by a powerful ancient demon beast. The Mouse Venerable explained that placing in the top twenty of the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly could earn a place as a sect elder, and Li Xiaoya considered the Mouse Venerable’s offer to form a team.

• The Mouse Venerable told Li Xiaoya that the Yellow Ridge Gate controlled the Yellow Secret Realm and that its last expedition suffered heavy casualties.
• The Mouse Venerable revealed that mature life flowers had appeared in the realm and that a late Heaven-and-Earth Realm ancient demon beast guarded them.
• The Mouse Venerable explained that the Yellow Ridge Gate was inviting rogue cultivators because it had lost strength and hoped to recruit new elders.
• The Mouse Venerable told Li Xiaoya that teams of three competed in the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly, with the top twenty becoming eligible to join the sect as elders.
• Li Xiaoya asked how many people the Mouse Venerable already had on his team after the Mouse Venerable proposed that they cooperate.