Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya revealed that Demonfire, the Fire Demon Lord, was a Devil Race infiltrator and killed him with a strike after luring him into an ambush. When Prince Modong attacked Li Xiaoya in retaliation, their weapons collided with devastating force, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya retrieved his Heaven-and-Earth Bag after killing Demonfire, and Xi Lanruyu and the other cultivators reacted in shock.
• Li Xiaoya froze Demonfire's corpse and declared that he had been a Devil Race infiltrator.
• Jin Gangzhan and Titan tried to seize the corpse, but Li Xiaoya severed their reaching hands with sword rays and stowed the body.
• Prince Modong charged Li Xiaoya with his giant axe, and Li Xiaoya met the attack with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• The weapons' collision unleashed spatial rifts and storms that blasted the surrounding cultivators away, while a figure and Prince Modong's battle-axe were hurled upward.

Li Xiaoya fought Prince Modong while Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators attacked the Omniscient Devil Lord and the surviving Twin Phantom Devil. Li Xiaoya unleashed a powerful red dragon attack against Prince Modong, and after the clash left a vast hole in the sky, cracks spread across Prince Modong’s armor.

• Ning Mozi led the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators in attacking the Omniscient Devil Lord and the surviving Twin Phantom Devil, claiming the Fire Demon had been a Devil Race infiltrator.
• Li Xiaoya kept Prince Modong at bay while protecting Xi Lanruyu from the battlefield’s blasts.
• Li Xiaoya recognized that Prince Modong’s body-refining technique resembled the Overlord Art taught by the Devastation Devil Lord and attacked in a fury.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed a colossal red dragon from the Fire Dragon Sword, and Prince Modong summoned a giant black phantom through his battle-axe and spear to meet it.
• Their collision sent a devastating shock wave across the region and blasted a huge hole in the sky.
• Prince Modong emerged from the explosion with red light around him, and cracks began spreading across his black-and-blue-striped armor.

Li Xiaoya pursued the badly wounded Prince Modong while the Heavenly Demon Race fought the devils supporting him. Prince Modong escaped through a spatial rift, and Li Xiaoya could no longer sense his presence.

• Prince Modong’s armor and weapons shattered, and he fled as Li Xiaoya pursued him.
• The Omniscient Devil Lord broke through the Heavenly Demon Race’s encirclement but was killed, while Titan shot down the sole surviving Twin Phantom Devil with the Heavenfire Divine Bow.
• Li Xiaoya gained on Prince Modong and attacked him with golden sword rays, but a black light barrier let the attacks pass through.
• Prince Modong used the barrier to open a pitch-black spatial hole and vanished into it as Li Xiaoya’s red sword rays struck.
• Li Xiaoya flew to the rift and found that Prince Modong’s aura had disappeared.

After Prince Modong escaped using a spatial teleportation treasure, Li Xiaoya faced accusations and demands from the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators, who wanted him to surrender his spoils. He drove them back with his recovered power and warned them not to interfere with the great ancestor’s plans.

• Li Xiaoya realized Prince Modong had teleported away, then told Ning Mozi and the others that Modong had escaped.
• Xi Lanruyu thanked Li Xiaoya for protecting her, while Jin Gangzhan questioned him about Modong’s escape and Li Xiaoya refused to explain further.
• Ning Mozi demanded that Li Xiaoya hand over all the expedition’s spoils, but Li Xiaoya refused and released an aura that blasted most of the cultivators away.
• Li Xiaoya challenged all nine cultivators to attack him together, then claimed he had a task from the great ancestor and warned them against ruining the plans.

Li Xiaoya faced accusations from the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators over killing Demonfire and refused to share the treasures he had obtained. After revealing the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’ token, he used the Heavenly Demon Scissors to frighten the group and leave the dispute unresolved.

• Ning Mozi and Jin Gangzhan accused Li Xiaoya of killing Demonfire without proof and demanded that he surrender the treasures for everyone to share.
• Li Xiaoya stood his ground, reasoning that Demonfire’s corpse could prove his Devil Race identity and that the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones would protect him.
• Li Xiaoya showed the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’ Identity Token, shocking the cultivators and silencing their questions about his mission.
• Ning Mozi and Jin Gangzhan demanded that Li Xiaoya divide any treasures unrelated to his mission, while Xi Lanruyu held back from joining them.
• Li Xiaoya challenged the cultivators with the Heavenly Demon Scissors, and their fear of the Heaven-Opening Treasure halted their pressure on him.

Li Xiaoya received the Holy Son Ring and entered the Cave Abode, where he unexpectedly reunited with Liu Xian'er. The chapter ended with him holding her and asking how she had come to be there.

• Patriarch Snowfield explained that Li Xiaoya was a Holy Son, gave him the Holy Son Ring and his Hell Tower rewards, and said the ring allowed him to pass through the mountain's restrictions.
• Li Xiaoya entered the mountain and hurried to the Cave Abode, intent on treating Zhang Hong's injuries.
• Li Xiaoya passed through the Cave Abode's restriction and found Liu Xian'er waiting inside.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er embraced and wept as they reunited.
• Li Xiaoya realized Liu Xian'er was the surprise Patriarch Snowfield had mentioned and asked how she had come to the Cave Abode.

Li Xiaoya left the Primordial Ruins with Xi Lanruyu after driving off Ning Mozi and the other Heavenly Demon Race disciples, who then decided to search the ruins for other treasures. Meanwhile, the surviving Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators returned aboard their Flying Boat and summoned the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast.

• Li Xiaoya used the Heavenly Demon Scissors to deter Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators, who retreated rather than challenge him.
• Ning Mozi and the others considered secretly attacking Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu appeared before them, and Li Xiaoya said he was leaving the Primordial Ruins.
• Xi Lanruyu followed Li Xiaoya, prompting the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators to suspect she knew about his assignment and had gained a share of his rewards.
• Ning Mozi led the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators to search the third layer and, if necessary, the Second Layer for treasures so they would not return empty-handed.
• The surviving Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators returned aboard a Flying Boat, and their White-Bearded cultivator released the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast from a blue-shimmering pearl.

The Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators discovered the Heart of the Earth and a trove of spirit herbs inside the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s corpse. Elsewhere, a black hole opened over a dark world of magic beasts, and a cultivator fell from the sky.

• The white-bearded Mystic Lake cultivator froze the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s corpse while the others prepared to capture its presumed demon nascent infant.
• The corpse’s orange radiance shattered the ice, and the Heart of the Earth emerged from its lion head.
• Countless spirit herbs poured from the beast’s mouths, and the Mystic Lake cultivators rushed to seize the Heart of the Earth.
• A black hole formed over a dark, beast-filled world, and a cultivator fell from the sky.

Prince Modong’s Star Realm Teleportation Disk sent him to a dangerous, unfamiliar land after Li Xiaoya’s attacks disrupted its destination, while Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu escaped the restricted layers through a Super Teleportation Formation. After reaching the Crimson Sea, Li Xiaoya sensed cultivators from the Mystic Lake Star Realm nearby.

• Prince Modong emerged from a damaged teleportation barrier in a forest full of powerful demon beasts, then fled into a cave as the creatures fought and devastated the area.
• Prince Modong realized his Star Realm Teleportation Disk had misdirected him because Li Xiaoya’s exploding flying swords interfered with the teleportation.
• Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu reached the Second Layer’s Super Teleportation Formation and used it to leave the restricted area.
• Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu appeared above the Crimson Sea, where Xi Lanruyu reminded Li Xiaoya to keep his promise.
• Li Xiaoya flew ahead after Xi Lanruyu teased him, then sensed cultivators from the Mystic Lake Star Realm.

Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu discussed the Heavenly Demon Race’s invasion of the Mystic Lake Star Realm and the threat of a Devil Race takeover. After hearing how the Devil Race might slaughter the realm’s cultivators, Li Xiaoya agreed to approach the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators.

• Li Xiaoya detected cultivators from the Mystic Lake Star Realm, and Xi Lanruyu recognized them as the group that had entered the Primordial Ruins.
• Li Xiaoya refused Xi Lanruyu’s request to kill the cultivators and help the Heavenly Demon Race conquer their star realm.
• Xi Lanruyu explained that the Devil Race might send a larger army to seize the Mystic Lake Star Realm before the Heavenly Demon Race could conquer it.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the Devil Race had likely discovered the realm through spies and could claim it by force before the Heavenly Demon Race established control.
• Xi Lanruyu argued that the Heavenly Demon Race would treat the realm’s cultivators more peacefully than the Devil Race, and Li Xiaoya interrupted her and flew toward them.

Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu tracked the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators to their flying vessel, where Elder Sheng argued that two earth cultivators should share the Heart of the Earth to defend their realm against foreign invaders. As the dispute turned into a quarrel, Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu burst into the chamber and claimed the Heart of the Earth.

• Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu concealed their auras and followed the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators aboard a flying vessel.
• Elder Sheng identified the captured treasure as the Heart of the Earth and proposed giving it to Fellow Daoist Hua and Fellow Daoist Ba to strengthen their realm.
• The cultivators resisted the proposal, while Hua and Ba argued over who should receive the Heart of the Earth whole.
• Li Xiaoya announced that the Heart of the Earth would belong to him, then he and Xi Lanruyu broke through the sealed chamber door.
• The Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators readied their treasures as Elder Sheng demanded to know how the two foreign cultivators had entered.

Li Xiaoya confronted the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators and demanded the Heart of the Earth, then fought off their attacks while binding the Sacred Elder with the Immortal-Binding Rope. He seized the Sacred Elder as the flying boat broke apart, leaving the other cultivators in disarray.

• Li Xiaoya revealed himself beside Xi Lanruyu and demanded that the Sacred Elder hand over the Heart of the Earth.
• The Sacred Elder ordered the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators to attack Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu, while one cultivator secured the Heart of the Earth and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast's corpse.
• Li Xiaoya used the Immortal-Binding Rope to bind the Sacred Elder and his Golden Light Giant Sword to repel the cultivators' spells and treasures.
• The Sacred Elder escaped the rope by detonating his blue armor, but Li Xiaoya bound him again after he reappeared.
• Li Xiaoya teleported behind the bound Sacred Elder and seized him by the collar as he knocked away another wave of attacks.
• The flying boat split in two and exploded under the continuing barrage.

Li Xiaoya defeated the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators, captured their Sacred Elder, and stopped a treasure-laden cultivator from escaping. He told the Sacred Elder he wanted to save the Mystic Lake Star Realm, leaving his proposal unexplained.

• Li Xiaoya destroyed the Flying Boat and ordered the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators not to flee.
• Li Xiaoya stopped the cultivator carrying the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast's corpse and Storage Pearls, revealing that the Sacred Elder had let himself be captured to help that man escape.
• Li Xiaoya released the Sacred Elder and said he had come to discuss a proposal, not to kill the cultivators.
• The Sacred Elder refused to let the Mystic Lake Star Realm submit, and Li Xiaoya threatened to kill him and make the realm subordinate to the Thirty-Three Star Realm.
• Li Xiaoya insisted that his purpose was to save the Mystic Lake Star Realm, leaving the Sacred Elder puzzled.

Li Xiaoya persuaded the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators that the Devil Race threatened them and revealed that their supposed benefactor, Sage Haocang, might be Great Immortal Haocang. When the Sacred Elder tried to contact Sage Haocang, a strange power surged through Li Xiaoya, and the others suddenly treated him as their lord.

• Li Xiaoya used his powerful divine sense to intimidate the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators and explained why the Heavenly Demon Race had come and why the Devil Race endangered their world.
• Xi Lanruyu said the Heavenly Demon Race wanted the Primordial Ruins rather than slaves, while the Devil Race would kill the inhabitants and fill the star realm with demonic qi.
• The Sacred Elder revealed that Sage Haocang had told them the Heavenly Demon Race served the Devil Race and that the Mystic Lake Star Realm belonged to the Upper Realm.
• Li Xiaoya said the Primordial Ruins' master had called himself Great Immortal Haocang and challenged the Sacred Elder to contact Sage Haocang, promising the Heavenly Demon Race would withdraw if he succeeded.
• The Sacred Elder began using a golden bell to contact Sage Haocang, but golden light flashed over Li Xiaoya and the cultivators, including Xi Lanruyu, fell to their knees before him.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the golden bell resonated with his soul and divine sense, summoned it into his hand, and asked Xi Lanruyu what had happened.

Li Xiaoya exposed Great Immortal Haocang’s deception, secured the Mystic Lake Star Realm’s surrender, and entrusted its submission to Xi Lanruyu before returning with the Heart of the Earth. Elsewhere, Ning Mozi and the other Heavenly Demon Race Legacy Disciples were forced to flee underground while a vast swarm of giant ants pursued them.

• Xi Lanruyu and the Mystic Lake Star Realm’s cultivators reacted with shock to the brief pressure of laws emanating from Li Xiaoya.
• The Sage Elder said the Sage’s Bell had received no response from Sage Haocang, and the Mystic Lake Star Realm’s cultivators agreed to surrender to Li Xiaoya.
• The Sage Elder gave Li Xiaoya the Heart of the Earth, and Li Xiaoya assigned Xi Lanruyu to handle the surrender and explain how to establish an Ascension Passage.
• Li Xiaoya left without claiming the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s corpse or the gathered treasures, and Xi Lanruyu led the Mystic Lake Star Realm’s cultivators toward the Heavenly Demon Race’s base.
• Ning Mozi and the other Heavenly Demon Race Legacy Disciples, besieged by giant ants after exploring the third layer, burrowed underground to escape, but the ants followed them.

Ning Mozi and the cultivators encountered a swarm of giant ant-like insects beneath the ground, while Xi Lanruyu explained the Ascension Passage to Dark Lake’s leaders. Back at his cave, Li Xiaoya failed to uncover the Sage’s Bell’s secrets and inventoried his spoils, including Demonfire’s corpse, which he feared could cause trouble.

• Ning Mozi and the cultivators discovered dazzling ore underground, then fought off the approaching giant ant-like insects.
• Xi Lanruyu told True Person Ka Xing and the Dark Lake cultivators that an Ascension Passage would make ascension safer and direct them to the Thirty-Three Star Realm.
• Li Xiaoya studied the Sage’s Bell and its Activation Mantra, but the golden sensation faded before he could understand it.
• Li Xiaoya decided to focus on cultivation and sort through his spoils, including demon beast corpses, earth treasures, medicinal herbs, and the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor.
• Li Xiaoya worried that Demonfire’s corpse and Storage Pouch could give Demonfire’s ancestor a pretext to cause trouble.

Li Xiaoya weighed the risks of keeping the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass before confirming to the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones that he had found it. The ancestor opened a cross-realm passage and summoned him away, while Ning Mozi prepared to report a discovery in the Primordial Ruins to his lineage.

• Li Xiaoya examined the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass and decided he could not hide it from the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones because Xi Lanruyu had seen him obtain it.
• Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators returned to the fortress and learned that the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators had become their subjects through Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu's efforts.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones appeared as a giant skull in the sky and summoned Li Xiaoya after learning he had found the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass.
• Li Xiaoya entered the cross-realm passage after the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones, who told Ning Mozi to report his discovery to the ancestor responsible for their affairs.
• Ning Mozi watched the passage disappear and decided to inform his lineage about what he had discovered in the Primordial Ruins.

The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones took Li Xiaoya to his Cave Abode to inspect the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass, but the Heavenly Demon Ancestor arrived to demand a share. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Demon Ancestor revealing that Li Xiaoya had killed people he had sent and directing his anger at him.

• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones collected Li Xiaoya from the cross-realm passage and carried him away at great speed as a gray-black figure pursued them.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones activated the Cave Abode's restrictions, brought Li Xiaoya into the Main Hall, and took the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass from him.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones confirmed the grass was genuine and stored it after a furious voice demanded that he come outside.
• The Heavenly Demon Ancestor entered the Main Hall, and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones offered to split the grass with him.
• The Heavenly Demon Ancestor accused Li Xiaoya of killing the people he had sent and released killing intent toward him.

Li Xiaoya defended himself before the Heavenly Demon Ancestor, who accused him of killing Demonfire for the nine-heavens immortalizing grass. After Demonfire’s corpse revealed he was a Devil Race spy, the Heavenly Demon Ancestor dropped the accusation, claimed half the grass, and left, while the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones revealed his resentment and mentioned the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art.

• The Heavenly Demon Ancestor pressured Li Xiaoya to admit killing Demonfire, and Li Xiaoya confessed but insisted he had not killed him for the grass.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones shielded Li Xiaoya as the Heavenly Demon Ancestor attacked, and Li Xiaoya brought out Demonfire’s corpse.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones identified Demonfire as a Devil Race cultivator, and Li Xiaoya explained that Demonfire had been a spy.
• The Heavenly Demon Ancestor accepted Li Xiaoya’s account, demanded half the nine-heavens immortalizing grass, and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones divided it with the Heavenly Demon Scissors.
• After the Heavenly Demon Ancestor departed, the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones cursed him and invoked the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art, startling Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art could explain the Heavenly Demon Ancestor’s power, then negotiated with the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones for freedom to keep his Primordial Ruins treasures and travel to East Xia for medicine to help Zhang Hong. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoya arriving at a frontier city’s teleportation formation in East Xia.

• Li Xiaoya realized that cultivating the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art too early might have exposed him to the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones and put his life at risk.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones offered Li Xiaoya a reward, but explained that obtaining more Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills could take at least a hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya refused to let the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones treat Zhang Hong because the treatment might destroy her memories and cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya asked to keep the treasures he had found in the Primordial Ruins, and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones honored his earlier promise.
• Li Xiaoya requested permission to travel to the East Xia Continent to seek medicine for Zhang Hong, and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones agreed subject to conditions.
• Li Xiaoya appeared at a teleportation formation in a city in East Xia and asked whether it led to the continent.