Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya tested his earth-element clone and then spent decades forming water- and wood-element clones, while Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and Tianyuan each made progress of their own. After another forty years of cultivation, a tremendous aura shook Illusory Spirit Island and startled Li Xiaoya.

• Li Xiaoya sparred with his earth-element clone, confirmed its Mighty One Stage strength, and returned to seclusion to recover his nascent soul's vital essence.
• Over thirty-odd years, Li Xiaoya formed a water-element clone, and the clone's cultivation increased his own cultivation and recovery speed.
• After nearly forty more years, Li Xiaoya formed a wood-element clone, but postponed attempts with his metal and fire inner cores until they recovered from earlier failures.
• Zhang Hong continued preparing for her breakthrough to the Mighty One Stage, Liu Xian'er gained control of the opening in the broken formation, and Tianyuan neared the Immortal Tribulation Stage.
• Forty years later, a mighty aura shook Illusory Spirit Island while Li Xiaoya meditated with his three clones, and he opened his eyes in shock.

Li Xiaoya watched Tianyuan begin advancing to the Immortal Tribulation stage as the breakthrough’s overwhelming power shattered Illusory Spirit Island’s protective formation. The Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor mobilized their forces to stop the Sword Emperor, while Li Xiaoya and his companions prepared to defend Tianyuan.

• Li Xiaoya arrived at Illusory Spirit Island, where Tianyuan’s advancement released powerful Heavenly Laws that pinned the Four-Armed Salamander Beast in place.
• Tianyuan’s breakthrough overwhelmed Liu Xian’er’s immortal formation, breaking its concealment and then shattering its blue protective barrier.
• Li Xiaoya realized demon beast forces would soon attack and resolved to use his three clones and One-Origin Nascent Soul Transformation Art to fight them.
• Demon beast cultivators across the region sensed the breakthrough, and the Demon-Magic Emperor ordered his forces to stop the Sword Emperor from advancing.
• The Sea Cow Emperor also led his forces toward Illusory Spirit Island, while another huge demon beast rushed there beneath the sea.
• Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast gathered above the island, and Li Xiaoya warned that their enemies might disrupt Tianyuan’s cultivation.

Li Xiaoya brought Liu Xian'er back to Illusory Spirit Island and planned to buy her three days to establish a defensive formation as the Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor approached. The two emperors met at sea and agreed to join forces against the island.

• Li Xiaoya told Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to defend Illusory Spirit Island while he and Liu Xian'er carried out a plan to delay the attackers.
• Liu Xian'er returned and explained that she needed at least three days to establish a formation strong enough to protect the island from Tianyuan's advancement.
• Li Xiaoya explained his plan, told Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to report anything unusual through the Soul Command Bell, and flew away with Liu Xian'er.
• Five-colored spiritual light gathered above Illusory Spirit Island into a mysterious rune as the Demon-Magic Emperor's forces rushed toward the island, slaughtering creatures in their path.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor met above the sea and agreed to join forces against Illusory Spirit Island.

The Demon-Magic Emperor and the Sea Cow Emperor joined forces to attack Illusory Spirit Island, hoping to seize the treasure behind its cultivators’ rapid advancement and stop Tianyuan’s breakthrough. They negotiated over the spoils and the formation master, but their plans were interrupted when they sensed something and ordered everyone to stop.

• The Demon-Magic Emperor and the Sea Cow Emperor gathered their forces and agreed to attack the Golden Immortal Script formation around Illusory Spirit Island.
• The Sea Cow Emperor confronted the Demon-Magic Emperor about his true motives, and the Demon-Magic Emperor admitted he wanted the humans’ cultivation treasure as well as revenge.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor asked the Sea Cow Emperor to capture the formation master alive, offering him sixty percent of the treasures in exchange.
• The Sea Cow Emperor agreed to take forty percent and give the Demon-Magic Emperor the formation master, while demanding first pick of two items other than cultivation treasures.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor and the Sea Cow Emperor abruptly sensed something, darkened their expressions, and ordered everyone to stop.

Liu Xian'er and Li Xiaoya laid formations to delay the Sea Cow Emperor and Demon-Magic Emperor as Tianyuan advanced toward the immortal tribulation stage. After the emperors joined forces and quickly broke their first formation, Liu Xian'er warned that the remaining formations might not hold, so the pair decided to disrupt the enemy themselves.

• The Sea Cow Emperor and Demon-Magic Emperor recognized Liu Xian'er's formation and ordered their formation masters to advance and break it.
• Liu Xian'er cast another formation while Li Xiaoya supported her with elixirs, then continued laying formations to buy Tianyuan time.
• Liu Xian'er sensed that the two emperors' forces had joined together and were approaching.
• Liu Xian'er discovered that the enemy had broken the first formation in less than half a quarter of an hour.
• Liu Xian'er explained that the united forces could break their formations by attacking together, so Li Xiaoya proposed disrupting them ahead of schedule.
• Liu Xian'er led Li Xiaoya through the five-colored light curtain toward the enemy.

The Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor used a joint formation to smash through Liu Xian'er's second barrier, forcing Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to prepare for the pursuing demon beasts' next advance. They entered an illusion formation, where Liu Xian'er began strengthening the trap and Li Xiaoya summoned five clones to attack the demons when they arrived.

• The Demon-Magic Emperor ordered the demon beast cultivators to combine their strength in the Round Shock formation, which shattered Liu Xian'er's second formation.
• The Sea Cow Emperor celebrated the breakthrough, and the Demon-Magic Emperor urged the group to keep moving and break the remaining formations quickly.
• Liu Xian'er told Li Xiaoya that three illusion formations remained, and he planned to strike the demons inside the next one.
• Liu Xian'er agreed to control and strengthen the upcoming illusion formation, while Li Xiaoya prepared to use his strongest spell against the demons' joint formation.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er entered the formation, briefly saw the Divine Path Mountain Range of the Human Realm, and then Liu Xian'er restored their view of the sea and sky.
• Li Xiaoya released two inner cores and three spiritual lights that became five clones, and he asked Liu Xian'er to alert him when the demons broke through the formation ahead.

The Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor broke through Liu Xian'er’s third formation and decided to change direction after the next one, while Li Xiaoya prepared to ambush their circular formation. The formation burst apart under Li Xiaoya and his clones’ attack, and he met the resulting wave of chaotic power head-on.

• The Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor worried that Liu Xian'er was leading them through an endless series of formations, so they agreed to change direction after breaking the next one.
• Demon Beast cultivators became trapped in Liu Xian'er’s outer formations as Zhang Hong assured the Four-Armed Salamander Beast that Li Xiaoya and the others could hold off the Four Emperors.
• Liu Xian'er warned Li Xiaoya that the advancing army was using a circular formation with strong area defense but weak point defense, and he prepared to strike with his five clones.
• Li Xiaoya and his clones unleashed their Dragon-Devouring Waves, cracking and destroying the five-colored light curtain as the Demon Beast army’s gray energy surged toward him.
• Li Xiaoya refused to dodge and released gray light from the Dragon-Devouring Wave in his left hand to face the incoming torrent of chaotic power.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er coordinated an attack on the demon beast armies’ Circular Formation, using a frontal strike to draw its defenses forward before teleporting Li Xiaoya and his five clones behind it. The chapter ended as Li Xiaoya and his three Mighty One Stage clones unleashed a combined Dragon-Devouring Wave against the formation’s rear.

• Li Xiaoya replaced his planned Five-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave with a Dual-Element attack and a separate Three-Element attack because his clones had different cultivation strengths.
• Li Xiaoya’s Dual-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave struck the Circular Formation but could not break through its defenses.
• Li Xiaoya called for Liu Xian’er to activate the formation, and she identified the Circular Formation’s weakest point.
• Liu Xian’er’s formation transported Li Xiaoya and his five clones behind the enemy formation.
• Li Xiaoya and his water-, earth-, and wood-element clones attacked the formation’s rear with a combined Dragon-Devouring Wave.

Liu Xian'er and Li Xiaoya exploited the circular formation’s weak rear, and Li Xiaoya shattered it with a four-colored Dragon-Devouring Wave. As the Demon-Magic Emperor and the Sea Cow Emperor fled with their forces, Li Xiaoya prepared to hunt the scattered demon beast cultivators.

• Liu Xian'er sensed the circular formation and identified its weakest point at the rear while Li Xiaoya used his first Dragon-Devouring Wave as a feint.
• Liu Xian'er teleported Li Xiaoya to the formation’s rear, where he struck it with a Three-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave from his three clones and original body.
• The Dragon-Devouring Wave battered through the gray curtain, scattering the rear defenders and shattering the circular formation.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor and the Sea Cow Emperor ordered their forces to scatter and fled as the four-colored dragons threatened to detonate.
• Li Xiaoya summoned the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash and announced that he was ready to hunt the fleeing demon beast cultivators.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er used the Four-Colored Dragon-Devouring Wave to break the demon beasts' formation, killing most of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators but allowing most Mighty One Stage opponents to escape. Liu Xian'er trapped the survivors in illusion formations, and Li Xiaoya began hunting them down one by one, ending as he confronted a blood-red tentacled demon beast.

• The Four-Colored Dragon-Devouring Wave exploded, destroying everything within a thousand miles and killing many demon beast cultivators.
• Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast sensed the distant blast while waiting for Li Xiaoya to advance, and demon beasts throughout the formation speculated about its cause.
• Li Xiaoya appeared with his clones and learned from Liu Xian'er that over eighty percent of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm demon beasts had died, while most Mighty One Stage cultivators had escaped.
• Li Xiaoya split his clones into two groups and entered Liu Xian'er's illusion formations to attack the trapped demon beasts individually.
• Following Liu Xian'er's directions, Li Xiaoya encountered a huge tentacled demon beast, which pretended to mistake him for an ally before striking back with its tentacles.

Li Xiaoya killed a Mighty One Stage demon beast after it tried to flee, then prepared to ambush a demon race cultivator. The chapter ended as the wary cultivator sensed Li Xiaoya nearby and called for him to come out.

• The demon beast trapped Li Xiaoya with blood-red tentacles and threads, but Liu Xian'er guided him as it tried to escape.
• Li Xiaoya used his Heaven-and-Earth Realm clones to distract the beast, then split its body with a sword strike and destroyed its fleeing Demon Core.
• Li Xiaoya learned that his other three Mighty One Stage clones had killed several demon beasts, including a two-headed sea-horn beast.
• After taking recovery elixirs, Li Xiaoya disguised himself as a demon race cultivator and used the Invisibility Cloak to approach another target.
• The white-haired demon race cultivator sensed Li Xiaoya and called for him to come out.

Li Xiaoya killed a Mighty One Stage Demon Race cultivator while Liu Xian’er kept the Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor trapped and searched for weaker targets for him. Elsewhere, his three clones used the Hell Crown to kill a demon beast, but the Demon-Magic Emperor then headed toward Li Xiaoya’s location.

• Li Xiaoya caught the Demon Race cultivator in his metal-attribute domain, destroyed his treasures, and killed him along with his Nascent Soul and soul.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor could sense each other and were moving toward one another despite Liu Xian’er’s reverse bewildering formation.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian’er agreed to keep the two emperors trapped while they gave Tianyuan time to advance to the Immortal Tribulation Stage.
• Li Xiaoya’s three Mighty One Stage clones used the Hell Crown to kill a plump birdlike demon beast.
• Li Xiaoya killed a Three-Tailed Human-Faced Beast, then Liu Xian’er warned him that the Demon-Magic Emperor was heading toward him.

Li Xiaoya avoided a clash with the Demon-Magic Emperor and learned that Liu Xian'er could only maintain the formations for five or six more days. They began releasing demon beasts in scattered batches while targeting formation masters, as Li Xiaoya prepared to attack one of the two emperors.

• Liu Xian'er warned Li Xiaoya that the Demon-Magic Emperor was nearby, and Li Xiaoya fled through the formation while the emperor searched for the Sea Cow Emperor.
• Liu Xian'er explained that the two emperors could sense each other's locations and admitted she could sustain the formations for only five or six more days.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er decided to release demon beast cultivators in scattered groups, kill formation masters first, and eventually attack one of the emperors.
• Liu Xian'er returned Li Xiaoya's three mighty one stage clones, and Li Xiaoya recovered his magic power as she released the first batch of demon beasts.
• After recovering, Li Xiaoya and his clones killed more than a dozen demon beast cultivators, many of them formation masters, and he began a five-hour recovery while Liu Xian'er prepared another release.

Tianyuan’s weakened aura revealed that his restoration was in trouble, so Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast attacked the motionless spiritual heart until it beat again. After Li Xiaoya learned the Demon-Magic Emperor was nearing a breakthrough, he prepared to confront him as the emperor escaped the formation.

• Tianyuan told Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to attack the five-colored spiritual heart and make it beat.
• Zhang Hong and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast struck the heart repeatedly, and their final attack set it beating and drawing in spiritual light.
• Liu Xian'er told Li Xiaoya that the Demon-Magic Emperor and Sea Cow Emperor were studying her formations, while the Demon-Magic Emperor was close to breaking through.
• After recovering most of his magic power, Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er to release the Demon-Magic Emperor and let him out to fight.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor broke through the formation and vanished in a burst of black light as Li Xiaoya prepared to meet him.

Li Xiaoya ambushed the Demon-Magic Emperor as he escaped Liu Xian'er’s Golden Immortal Script Formation, but the emperor survived and forced him into the open. Li Xiaoya unleashed five clones and charged against the emperor’s ghost-head attack inside a giant Golden Lotus.

• The Demon-Magic Emperor dodged Li Xiaoya’s Immortal-Devouring Daggers and clashed with his Golden Light Fist as their domains collided.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor tracked Li Xiaoya and exposed him when their weapons met in a violent clash.
• Li Xiaoya revealed he had hidden outside the formation to prevent the Demon-Magic Emperor from joining the Sea Cow Emperor against him.
• Li Xiaoya created five clones as the Demon-Magic Emperor attacked with countless ghost heads from the Black Long Spear.
• Li Xiaoya formed a vast Golden Lotus around himself and charged toward the descending ghost heads.

Li Xiaoya battled the Demon-Magic Emperor as the emperor unleashed the Hundred-Thousand-Zhang Demon Mountain. Li Xiaoya managed to batter the mountain upward with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, but the emperor summoned Bloodthirst Demons and renewed the mountain’s crushing pressure, leaving Li Xiaoya surrounded.

• Li Xiaoya and his clones clashed with the Demon-Magic Emperor’s black flame ghost heads using golden sword rays, and their attacks appeared evenly matched.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor summoned the Hundred-Thousand-Zhang Demon Mountain and drove it down on Li Xiaoya, crushing his sword-ray lotus.
• Li Xiaoya enlarged his body and Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, then struck the mountain repeatedly and forced it upward.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor released a hundred thousand Bloodthirst Demons from the mountain and strengthened its suppressive force with essence blood.
• Li Xiaoya could only slow the mountain’s descent as the Bloodthirst Demons rushed at him from every direction.

Li Xiaoya fought the Demon-Magic Emperor beneath the immense demonic mountain while Liu Xian'er discovered that the Sea Cow Emperor was deliberately waiting for them to weaken each other. Li Xiaoya used clones to distract his enemy, and the Demon-Magic Emperor suddenly tore off his own tail after sensing an unseen threat.

• Liu Xian'er realized the Sea Cow Emperor was staying in her formation so the Demon-Magic Emperor could fight the island's cultivators first.
• Li Xiaoya sent Steel-armored Beetles against the Bloodthirst Demons and held back the demonic mountain with his Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor transformed into a colossal demon and used his weight to drive the mountain down on Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya secretly escaped with his five clones using the Formless Water Escape Technique, then sent three clones to attack the Demon-Magic Emperor with the Hell Crown.
• Li Xiaoya detected something underwater as his true body continued resisting the mountain, while the Demon-Magic Emperor's three Magic Beasts battled the clones.
• The Demon-Magic Emperor sensed danger, abandoned the mountain, and tore off his thousands-of-zhang tail.

Li Xiaoya transformed into a giant demon beast, overturned the Demon-Magic Emperor’s attack, and used an Immortal-Devouring Dagger to badly wound him. As Li Xiaoya pursued the fleeing emperor, a colossal demon beast emerged from the sea and seized him; Li Xiaoya recognized it as the Turtle-Snake Emperor.

• Li Xiaoya transformed into a fifty- or sixty-thousand-zhang monster fish and hurled the Demon-Magic Emperor’s Demon Mountain back at him.
• Li Xiaoya’s hidden Immortal-Devouring Dagger struck the Demon-Magic Emperor’s tail, forcing him to sever it, while a second dagger was caught by the emperor.
• Li Xiaoya triggered the captured dagger to self-destruct, sending fragments into the Demon-Magic Emperor and draining his soul and vitality.
• The wounded Demon-Magic Emperor fled, and Li Xiaoya pursued him with his Storm Gold-Light Wings.
• A huge dark green form rose from the sea, knocked the Demon-Magic Emperor into the air, and caught him in its claws.
• The colossal creature deflected the emperor’s black spear, and Li Xiaoya identified it as the Turtle-Snake Emperor.

Li Xiaoya watched the Turtle-Snake Emperor swallow the weakened Demon-Magic Emperor, then tried to reclaim the treasures but had to flee when the Sea Cow Emperor broke through the formation. The Sea Cow Emperor arrived too late to catch him and led the other Demon Beasts onward to keep breaking through the formation.

• The Turtle-Snake Emperor revealed that the Demon-Magic Emperor had killed his child and swallowed him whole after the Immortal-Devouring Dagger weakened him.
• The Turtle-Snake Emperor started to confront Li Xiaoya but fled toward the sea when distant explosions sounded, leaving Li Xiaoya furious over the stolen spoils.
• Liu Xian'er warned Li Xiaoya that the Sea Cow Emperor was coming, and Li Xiaoya called for her to teleport him away.
• The Sea Cow Emperor's Golden Light Fist struck the space where Li Xiaoya had been, but Golden Immortal Script teleported Li Xiaoya to safety.
• The Sea Cow Emperor arrived, decided not to pursue the Turtle-Snake Emperor, and led the Demon Beast cultivators onward to continue breaking through the formation.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er returned to Illusory Spirit Island after stopping the Demon-Magic Emperor, then recovered while Liu Xian'er reinforced the island's defenses. When the Sea Cow Emperor's forces broke through the outer formations, Tianyuan spoke from within his protective formation as he advanced to the Immortal Tribulation Stage.

• The Sea Cow Emperor noticed Li Xiaoya was badly injured and led his forces toward the island to break its formations.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er regrouped, discussed the enemy forces attacking the island, and returned to find Zhang Hong and Tianyuan safe.
• The Four-Armed Salamander Beast explained that the Turtle-Snake Emperor's son had been killed by the Demon-Magic Emperor.
• After seven or eight days, Liu Xian'er established a powerful defensive formation, but the Sea Cow Emperor's forces broke through the last outer formation.
• The Sea Cow Emperor's forces attacked the new Golden Immortal Script Formation, and Tianyuan mocked him from inside while continuing his breakthrough.
• Tianyuan asked Liu Xian'er to activate a Soundproofing Formation, enraging the Sea Cow Emperor into ordering another assault.