Chapter Summaries

General Zhao led the Dragon Gate Pass defenders in a desperate charge against the Demonic Army, but their attack failed to break the Devil Lord’s battle intent. Xu Taiping then took command from afar, reviving the defenders’ Qi and Blood and forming their battle intent into a destructive storm.

• General Zhao had the Dragon Gate Pass defenders drink Flame Wine and charge the three hundred thousand demonic soldiers, swearing to die protecting the people behind the pass.
• The defenders shattered the phantom Demonic Squid, but the battle intent quickly reformed and drove them back, leaving the spectators despairing.
• Xu Taiping called on General Zhao and the surviving defenders to entrust their lives to him, and Zhao pledged the seventy thousand defenders to Xu Taiping’s command.
• Xu Taiping used an ancient battle method to control the formation from afar, restoring the defenders’ Qi and Blood and drawing out their battle intent.
• The defenders pledged to fight for Xu Taiping as their battle intent solidified into a vast storm poised to tear through the Demonic Army’s formation.

Xu Taiping commanded a twenty-thousand-strong Rebel Army formation that struck the Demonic Army, then joined forces with the Dragon Gate Pass defenders to withstand the Qing He Demon Emperor and disrupt the enemy’s battle intent. The two Thunder Sound Banners resonated, summoning heavenly lightning against the Demonic Army.

• Jiang Cuicui judged that Xu Taiping showed the makings of a commander after a twenty-thousand-strong formation shattered part of the Demonic Army’s battle intent and began suppressing its three hundred thousand troops.
• The spectators recognized Xu Taiping as the formation’s commander and realized that he had been delayed while meeting up with the Rebel Army reinforcements.
• The Demonic Army restored and strengthened its battle intent, then shifted toward an offensive formation that staggered the eighty thousand reinforcements.
• Xu Taiping sent the Thunder Sound Banner to Qiyun Mountain and ordered the Dragon Gate Pass defenders to charge alongside his troops.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor attacked the defenders, but their battle intent withstood his blow and tore through demonic tentacles.
• The two Thunder Sound Banners resonated and summoned heavenly lightning that blasted the Demonic Army’s battle intent into disarray.

Xu Taiping merged the battle formations’ storm and great river battle intents to fight back against the Qing He Demon Emperor and the demonic army. He took control of the eighty thousand reinforcements and transformed the merged battle intent into a giant sword that pierced the Demonic Squid phantom.

• Xu Taiping merged the Rebel Army and garrison battle intents into a great river storm slash that drove the Qing He Demon Emperor backward before he halted it with the demonic soldiers’ battle intent.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor ordered an assault, and the Demonic Squid’s tentacles pushed back two formations and scattered the eighty thousand reinforcements led by Qin Yun and Sun Cheng.
• Master Xuanzhi shielded the reinforcements with the Thunder Sound Banner and asked Qin Yun and Sun Cheng to give Xu Taiping control of their formation.
• Qin Yun and Sun Cheng handed control to Xu Taiping, who ordered the reinforcements to form the Three-Talent Battle Formation.
• Xu Taiping knocked the Qing He Demon Emperor away, reshaped the merged battle intent into a giant sword, and pierced the Demonic Squid phantom.

Xu Taiping called on the eighty thousand reinforcements to join the battle, and their battle intent formed the phantom of Ancient God Xingtian. As the Qing He Demon Emperor drove the demon army to overwhelm the three formations, Xu Taiping asked the Dragon Gate Pass defenders to entrust their lives to him.

• The Qing He Demon Emperor ordered his three hundred thousand demon soldiers to attack and fought Xu Taiping with their growing battle intent, wounding him and suppressing his sword battle intent.
• Jiang Cuicui warned that Xu Taiping's losses could weaken the Yan Army's morale and battle intent.
• Xu Taiping summoned the eighty thousand reinforcements to charge with him, and their battle intent gathered into the figure of Xingtian.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor ordered the Rakshasa Drums smashed, driving the demon soldiers into a frenzy that overwhelmed the three military formations.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor's tiger shark battle intent attacked Xu Taiping's sword, and Xu Taiping asked the Dragon Gate Pass defenders led by Old General Zhao if they would entrust their lives to him; they agreed.

Xu Taiping battled the Qing He Demon Emperor as the Demon Emperor unleashed his Demon God Body and the battle intent of three hundred thousand soldiers. With the rebels’ Qi and Blood Power bolstering him, Xu Taiping blocked the Demon Emperor’s devastating axe strike, but the battle remained perilous.

• Xu Taiping used the Xingtian battle intent to seize a sword and split the tiger shark battle intent, weakening the demonic army’s formation.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor released the restraints on his Demon God Body, grew to over a thousand zhang, and withstood a bolt of tribulation lightning.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor attacked Xu Taiping with his enormous axe, combining the Demon God Body’s power with the battle intent of three hundred thousand soldiers.
• Xu Taiping called on the twenty thousand rebels, who pledged to fight for him and sent their Qi and Blood Power to strengthen his true dragon divine being body.
• Xu Taiping’s punch blocked the Qing He Demon Emperor’s axe strike, though it shattered and sent Xu Taiping flying backward.

Xu Taiping sensed that Xingtian’s Divine Intent was guiding his Battle Intent and Qi and Blood Power during his fight with the Qing He Demon Emperor. He chose to risk drawing on Xingtian’s combat instinct, and the chapter ended as a tremendous ancient might surged from him when he assumed his next Fist Stance.

• The Qing He Demon Emperor struck again, and Xu Taiping felt Xingtian’s Battle Intent refine his fighting technique and strengthen his power.
• Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye whether Xingtian’s Divine Intent could take over his body, and the Lotus Eye explained that the sensation was likely an instinct embedded in the Divine Intent.
• As the Qing He Demon Emperor repeatedly shattered Xu Taiping’s Bull Demon Phantom, the Lotus Eye urged him to try inheriting Xingtian’s instinctive Battle Intent.
• Xu Taiping reached for the strange Battle Intent while defending himself and felt his control of Battle Intent and Qi and Blood Power grow more refined.
• Xu Taiping assumed the Heavenly Wrath Style, and an overwhelming might rose from him like a Fierce Beast from Primordial Antiquity.

Xu Taiping merged his battle instinct with his divine sense and approached the Ultimate Realm Heavenly Wrath Style while fighting the Qing He Demon Emperor. After drawing on the reinforcements’ qi and blood and unsheathing his remaining five swords, he unleashed Heavenly Wrath, leaving the Qing He Demon Emperor facing a barrage of towering divine manifestations.

• Xu Taiping’s instinctive Heavenly Wrath Style stopped the Qing He Demon Emperor’s axe shadow, and he memorized a change in qi and blood circulation that doubled his combat power.
• As the Qing He Demon Emperor’s strength pressed him back, Xu Taiping merged the battle instinct with his divine sense and reached the threshold of the Ultimate Realm Heavenly Wrath Style.
• Xu Taiping called on the eighty thousand Yan Kingdom reinforcements to entrust their lives to him, and their qi and blood power enveloped him.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor released the full restrictions on his hān bà body and split open Xu Taiping’s fist force, while Xu Taiping unsheathed his final five Mad Demon Swords.
• Xu Taiping united his divine sense and battle instinct, roared “Heavenly Wrath,” and summoned furious divine manifestations that swung their fists at the Qing He Demon Emperor.

Xu Taiping defeated Qing He Demon Emperor at Dragon Gate Pass, and Dipankara Buddha intervened to stop the Demon Mother’s attack. The victory left Xu Taiping with a Buddhist Vermilion Seal and a claim on a half-immortal’s repayment, before Nine Abyss Team One requested to watch the battle.

• Xu Taiping combined martial force with the military formation’s Battle Intent and qi and blood to crush Qing He Demon Emperor and behead the demonic army’s battle projection.
• Qing He Demon Emperor called on the Demon Mother and launched a void-shattering attack, but Dipankara Buddha struck him down before he could hit Xu Taiping.
• The Yan Army’s Three-Talent Battle Formation broke apart the demonic formation and won the battle at Dragon Gate Pass.
• Dipankara Buddha thanked Xu Taiping for inviting the Buddha to the Shangqing Realm, bestowed a Buddhist Vermilion Seal on him, and said someone would repay the palm strike.
• Zhu Huai and Xiahou Qingyuan explained that the debt likely belonged to a half-immortal who guarded the Lower Realm, and the group celebrated Xu Taiping’s new opportunity.
• The Ranking Spirit announced that Nine Abyss Team One had requested to watch the battle.

The Nine Abysses sent a six-hundred-thousand-strong demonic army into the Dragon Domain to slay the Demon Dragon. Pang Zhong used battle intent to break through the blizzard, revealing the silent, snow-white domain and the sleeping dragon.

• A Battle-Watching Projection revealed the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, Pang Zhong, and six Demon Gods leading the Nine Abysses' army toward the Demon Dragon.
• Pang Zhong rallied the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom troops, whose battle intent formed a black ship that forced a path through the blizzard.
• The six hundred thousand demonic troops broke through the outer blizzard and entered the Dragon Domain.
• The projection showed a pure white, silent landscape where an enormous silver dragon lay coiled and unmoving, prompting Chu Xiaoxiao to ask if it was the legendary Demon Dragon.

The Nine Abysses army attacked the silver Dragon Emperor with battle formations and the Wind-Thundering Drum, but the Dragon Emperor annihilated all six hundred thousand soldiers when they crossed within a hundred zhang. Pang Zhong and six demonic beasts remained, leaving the spectators in Spring Rain Pavilion stunned.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor and Pang Zhong led the Demonic Army in an attack, but the silver dragon’s power broke their initial charge.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor used the Wind-Thundering Drum to strengthen the battle intent of two formations led by Pang Zhong and Li Yezhu.
• The silver dragon shattered the formations’ battle-intent swords, killed thousands of soldiers, and ordered the Nine Abysses forces to leave its dragon domain.
• The Nine Abysses army charged again as the Heartless Demon Emperor beat the drum, building their battle intent until they reached within a hundred zhang of the Dragon Emperor.
• The Dragon Emperor declared that the army would be annihilated and turned the six hundred thousand soldiers into blood-colored ash, leaving Pang Zhong and six demonic beasts alive.

The silver dragon effortlessly defeated the Nine Abysses forces, revealing that its Dragon Domain could destroy their bodies and seal Li Yezhu’s Life-Substitution Technique. After the battle projection went dark, the cultivators worried about the Dragon Emperor’s strength and wondered whether they could warn Xu Taiping before he entered the Dragon Domain.

• The silver dragon recognized the Nine Abysses’ battle simulation as outdated and ordered the Heartless Demon Emperor and Li Yezhu to leave its Dragon Domain.
• Li Yezhu and five demonic beasts attacked the silver dragon, but the Dragon Domain burst their bodies apart and sealed Li Yezhu’s Life-Substitution Technique.
• The silver dragon destroyed Li Yezhu again and tore away half the Heartless Demon Emperor’s body as he escaped with Pang Zhong.
• The Dragon-Suppressing Platform’s projection went dark, and Zhang Moyan, Zhu Huai, and the other cultivators discussed the silver dragon’s power and the Dragon Clan’s fortune.
• Jiang Cuicui and Xiahou You argued that Xu Taiping might still defeat the dragon, while Chu Xiaoxiao regretted that they could not warn him about the battle.

Xiahou Qingyuan sent Xu Taiping a message through a Spiritual Resonance Sparrow, while news arrived that the Nine Abysses had advanced toward the Dragon Domain with a vast Demonic Army. Dongfang Yuejian hurried to warn Xu Taiping, who revealed that he had also just received an urgent message.

• Zhu Huai and Lu Rushuang discussed how to warn Xu Taiping that the Nine Abysses had been defeated before the Demon Dragon.
• Xiahou Qingyuan used a Spiritual Resonance Sparrow to send Xu Taiping a Divine Soul Mark containing messages from the group.
• After the battle at Dragon Gate Pass, Xuanzhi told Dongfang Yuejian that the Nine Abysses and Pang Zhong had taken nearly six hundred thousand Demonic Army troops toward the Dragon Domain.
• Dongfang Yuejian rushed to the city tower to alert Xu Taiping about the threat to the dragon-slaying effort.
• Xu Taiping appeared before Dongfang Yuejian and said he had also received an urgent message.

After learning that a Demon Dragon had effortlessly destroyed the Nine Abysses’ six-hundred-thousand-strong army, Xu Taiping resolved to challenge it in the Dragon Domain as a step toward the Dao Integration Realm. Dongfang Yuejian and the others joined him, and fifteen days later they set out from Dragon Gate Pass.

• Dongfang Yuejian learned from Xu Taiping’s Divine Soul Mark that the Demon Dragon had wiped out the Nine Abysses and its army.
• Xu Taiping argued that the army’s suppressed Battle Intent meant its defeat did not prove the Demon Dragon invincible, and declared he would challenge it for his own path to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Dongfang Yuejian insisted on accompanying Xu Taiping, saying retreating after their trials could become a Heart Demon.
• Xu Taiping agreed and sent Dongfang Yuejian to fetch Gu Yu and Master Xuanzhi so they could plan their dragon-slaying strategy together.
• Fifteen days later, Xu Taiping and his companions departed for the Dragon Domain, while Qin Yun and the Lu Household’s Clan Elder reflected on the need to contend for one’s Great Dao.

Xu Taiping and his companions entered the demon dragon’s storm-covered domain to begin their hunt, while cultivators at the Profound Elixir Palace watched their advance. The chapter left the spectators anxious but admiring Xu Taiping’s decision to face the dragon.

• Old General Zhao escorted Xu Taiping and his companions to the edge of the forbidden grounds, where Dongfang Yuejian gave him three protective talismans before he returned to Dragon Gate Pass.
• Xu Taiping reviewed their plan to exhaust the demon dragon’s spiritual power and break its dragon domain, with Dongfang Yuejian coordinating from the rear until she could use her full strength.
• Dongfang Yuejian received a request from the Dragon-Slaying Ranking to observe the battle for ten thousand merit, and Xu Taiping agreed.
• At the Profound Elixir Palace, spectators learned that Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi had accepted the observation request.
• The illusory image showed Xu Taiping and his three companions charging into the wind and snow, prompting the spectators to worry for them and praise their resolve.

Xu Taiping and his companions entered the Dragon Domain to confront the Silver Dragon, using their knowledge of its weaknesses and the Blade of Guicang to conceal Dongfang Yuejian. The Silver Dragon recognized Xu Taiping, and the group launched their attack as it opened its eyes.

• Dongfang Yuejian and Gu Yu cut paths through the storm so Xu Taiping, Xuanzhi, and the others could reach the Dragon Domain.
• Dongfang Yuejian reminded the group that the Silver Dragon was vulnerable for a few breaths after opening or closing its eyes.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to stay silent and hold the Blade of Guicang, which concealed her from the Silver Dragon.
• The Silver Dragon recognized Xu Taiping and released a powerful pressure that drove the group into the snow, but left Dongfang Yuejian unharmed.
• Xu Taiping, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu revealed their powerful forms and charged toward the Silver Dragon, which opened its eyes.

Xu Taiping, Gu Yu, and Master Xuanzhi endured the Silver Dragon’s Heaven-Splitting power and attacked its eye, briefly disrupting its defense and wounding it. Xu Taiping continued pounding the eye, waiting for the Silver Dragon to close it.

• Xu Taiping, Gu Yu, and Master Xuanzhi charged through the Silver Dragon’s Heaven-Splitting power despite being badly wounded.
• Xu Taiping burst from the blood mist and struck the Silver Dragon’s eye, interrupting its power long enough for Gu Yu to cut it.
• Gu Yu and Master Xuanzhi attacked the eye again, briefly disrupting the Silver Dragon’s Heaven-Splitting power as they were grievously injured.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Heavenly Wrath and hammered the Silver Dragon’s eye with hundreds of punches, waiting for it to close its eye.

Xu Taiping and Gu Yu fought the silver dragon while Master Xuanzhi used his Buddha Domain to take on the crushing forces aimed at them. Gu Yu wounded the dragon’s eyelid, but the dragon intensified its power and crushed Xuanzhi’s body.

• The silver dragon closed its other eye, unleashing mountain spirit power that overwhelmed Xu Taiping, Gu Yu, and Master Xuanzhi.
• Master Xuanzhi activated his Buddha Domain and transferred the others’ pain and injuries to himself, urging Xu Taiping and Gu Yu to attack.
• Gu Yu struck the silver dragon’s eyelid while Xu Taiping shattered the Heaven-Splitting power protecting its other eye.
• Gu Yu drew on his divine-human variant bone power, grew over a hundred zhang tall, and cut a deep wound into the silver dragon’s eyelid.
• The silver dragon raised its mountain spirit power to its limit, and the combined forces tore apart and crushed Master Xuanzhi’s body.

Xu Taiping endured the silver dragon’s overwhelming power until he removed every soul seal on his body and unleashed a renewed Heavenly Wrath. He shattered both of the dragon’s eyes, leaving the battle at a dramatic turning point.

• After Xuanzhi entered nirvana and the Buddha Domain fell, the silver dragon suppressed Gu Yu and Xu Taiping with the power of its eyes.
• The silver dragon weakened Xu Taiping’s fist force and closed its left eye, while Xu Taiping’s final wrathful god projection was nearly destroyed.
• As the silver dragon closed its eye, Xu Taiping’s eight Demon-Sealing Swords appeared, revealing that he had removed all eight soul seals from his body.
• Xu Taiping grew to more than three hundred zhang tall and summoned dozens of wrathful god projections to strike with him.
• Xu Taiping shattered the silver dragon’s left eye, then smashed its right pupil before it could open the eye.

Xu Taiping, Gu Yu, and Dongfang Yuejian coordinated attacks to break one of the silver dragon’s talons before its injuries healed. The silver dragon recovered and trapped Gu Yu with its Void Insight Power, but Xu Taiping switched places with him and began combining several kinds of flame against its claw.

• The silver dragon attacked Xu Taiping and Gu Yu with frost dragon breath, so Xu Taiping told them to split up and target the talon on its left foreclaw.
• Dongfang Yuejian directed their movements, and Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with Gu Yu as Gu Yu’s blade domain swallowed the dragon breath and struck the silver dragon’s talon.
• Xu Taiping used Burning Blade to sever the damaged talon, but the silver dragon’s injuries healed and it unleashed its Void Insight Power, striking Gu Yu and trapping him in a crushing claw.
• At Dongfang Yuejian’s signal, Xu Taiping switched places with Gu Yu and seized the claw, spreading thunderflame over it before adding 𩙥 Flame and Golden Flame to begin fusing them.

Xu Taiping broke through the silver Dragon Emperor’s dragon domain further with Earthly Fire, prompting the Dragon Emperor to offer a fist challenge if he broke one more form of true dragon power. The Dragon Emperor then unleashed the True Dragon Frost-Heaven Finger, whose spreading cold threatened to freeze the entire battlefield.

• Xu Taiping’s Earthly Fire engulfed the silver dragon’s claw, forcing the Dragon Emperor to sever it and weakening the dragon domain.
• The injured Dragon Emperor retreated into the clouds to heal, while the spectators discussed how the dragon domain prevented them from attacking it there.
• The Dragon Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to break one more form of true dragon power before it dispelled the domain and fought him with fists.
• The Dragon Emperor summoned the True Dragon Frost-Heaven Finger, and Xiahou You warned that its cold could freeze the battlefield and everyone on it.
• One icy finger touched the ground, rapidly turning an area more than ten zhang wide into expanding pillars of ice.