Chapter Summaries

Chu Yinan’s memories showed how Xu Taiping became the guiding light for his battle intent, which now matched Demonic General Chongming’s. As Chongming’s strike was weakened by successive attacks, Gu Yu called on the army to lend him its strength.

• Chu Yinan recalled how Zhu Huai trained him in battle intent and how Xu Taiping’s feats helped him understand what his own battle intent lacked.
• Chu Yinan’s Demon-Slaying Army met the battle intent of Chongming’s Nine Abysses Demonic Army, and the two forces initially matched each other.
• Chongming attacked Chu Yinan with the combined battle intent of eight hundred thousand demonic soldiers, but Feng Tianxing and Jiang Fu intervened and were sent flying.
• Under Chu Yinan’s direction, Yang Hong and Duan Xiaoyu attacked Chongming in succession, weakening his blade force.
• Gu Yu appeared behind the flying Duan Xiaoyu, called for everyone to lend him their strength, and merged with the red blade battle intent of the army.

Chu Yinan unleashed the Ghost-Faced Butcher’s battle intent, breaking Demonic General Chongming’s formation and rescuing the encircled Demon-Slaying Army. He revealed that he had staked all his Great Dao fortune to win peace and prosperity for the people of Great Chu.

• Gu Yu wielded the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle intent and struck Chongming, while Chu Yinan led his troops in a charge that broke through the demonic formation.
• Chongming gathered his re-forming army around the Demon-Slaying Army and trapped several of its contingents, putting them at risk of annihilation.
• At Old Martial God Zhu Huai’s urging, Chu Yinan put on a ghost-face mask, revealing himself as Youyun Heaven’s Ghost-Faced Butcher and surging toward the enemy.
• Chu Yinan’s battle intent shattered Chongming’s blade force and split open the demonic formation, allowing the Demon-Slaying Army to rescue its trapped soldiers.
• Chongming recognized that Chu Yinan had traded his fortune for battle intent, and Chu Yinan declared that he had staked all his Great Dao fortune to secure peace and prosperity for Great Chu.

The commanders-in-chief watched Chu Yinan repel Chongming’s army but realized Yanyuntai’s weakening barriers left the city vulnerable. Demonic General Yan Jin then led a devastating assault, breaching eleven layers of barriers and undoing Chu Yinan’s hard-won defense.

• Huo Xuan and the other commanders-in-chief watched Chu Yinan’s army repel Chongming’s forces after ten days of fighting, while noting that Yanyuntai’s barriers had weakened.
• Bai Lu warned that Chongming’s withdrawal likely meant he was waiting for an opening, and Lei Huo reported that a hundred-thousand-strong demonic army was advancing toward Yanyuntai.
• Huo Xuan and the others identified the approaching commander as Demonic General Yan Jin, a powerful siege general allied with Chongming.
• Yan Jin ordered his demonic beasts into the Falling Heaven Battle Formation and charged Yanyuntai’s barriers, while Chongming promised to follow.
• Yan Jin’s army shattered the outermost barrier, breached ten more layers, and broke through the eleventh after a brief struggle.

Chu Yinan’s Demon-Slaying Army was driven back by Chongming’s forces and Yan Jin’s attack, but a concealed counterattack restored the breached barriers and trapped the demonic army. The commanders realized Chu Yinan had planned the retreats and weakened barriers to lure Chongming into an ambush.

• Yan Jin’s army joined Chongming’s attack, and the Demon-Slaying Army lost barrier after barrier despite Feng Tianxing’s efforts.
• Chu Yinan refused Huo Xuan’s advice to retreat and led the Demon-Slaying Army in a charge that briefly broke through Chongming’s ranks.
• Chongming avoided the charging soldiers until their battle intent weakened, then launched a renewed assault alongside Yan Jin’s army.
• Zhao Qian’s Sword Cultivator Army and Yang Hong’s Blade Cultivator Army attacked Chongming’s forces from behind as the breached barriers were restored.
• Chu Yinan rallied the Demon-Slaying Army, and Huo Xuan, Wei Ming, and Zhao Cangwu realized the earlier retreats and weakened barriers had been bait for Chongming.

The Demon-Slaying Armies nearly broke Demonic General Chongming’s Nine Abysses Demonic Army, but Chongming opened his Thousand Shadows Origin Domain and turned the tide. Zhao Qian’s Immortal Carp wounded Chongming, yet Zhao Qian was forced to retreat before rallying his blade and sword cultivators for another assault.

• Chu Yinan ordered the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation, while Zhao Qian drew Immortal Carp and slashed Chongming, cutting his saber and wounding his chest.
• Yan Jin unleashed black flames across the battlefield, giving Chongming time to activate his Thousand Shadows Origin Domain and merge with his eight hundred thousand troops.
• Chongming’s empowered Nine Abysses Demonic Army formed multiple battle formations, encircled the Demon-Slaying Army, and slaughtered several of its units.
• Chongming struck Zhao Qian with repeated punches, forcing him to retreat into his formation.
• Zhao Qian charged Chongming again alongside the blade cultivators and sword cultivators.

Zhao Qian and Yang Hong’s blade and sword cultivators struggled against Demonic General Chongming’s overwhelming power while the Demon-Slaying Army fought to hold its ground. Xu Taiping killed Tianluo Primordial Lord ahead of schedule and announced that he was returning as the Land of Myriad Tribulations began to collapse.

• Chu Yinan summoned the Demon-Slaying Army’s heroic spirits through its battle banner, restoring the army’s battle intent and helping it suppress Chongming.
• Chongming redirected his attacks at Zhao Qian’s blade and sword cultivators, shattering their combined sword strike and driving their formation back.
• Chongming’s blows killed thousands of cultivators and battered the formation, while Yang Hong tried to charge him alone and Zhao Qian stopped him.
• Xu Taiping punched through Tianluo Primordial Lord’s chest, smashed his head, and announced that he was returning.
• The Land of Myriad Tribulations began to collapse, and Huo Xuan realized that Xu Taiping had killed Tianluo Primordial Lord ahead of time.

Xu Taiping continued destroying Primordial Lord Tianluo and the Land of Myriad Tribulations while the Demon-Slaying Army fought Demonic General Chongming at Yanyuntai. As Chu Yinan held the line, Yan Jin and one hundred thousand demonic beasts broke through thirty of the fortress’s first thirty-six barriers.

• Xu Taiping repeatedly reduced Primordial Lord Tianluo to ashes, and his Star Soul Power outpaced Tianluo’s Abyss Immortality Power while devouring the surrounding land.
• Demonic General Chongming struck Zhao Qian and Yang Hong’s formation, but Zhao Qian’s Immortal Carp Sword blocked his attack and revealed an aura that threatened the Mother Emperor.
• Chu Yinan intervened against Chongming, then led the Demon-Slaying Army in a defensive formation against the charge of eight hundred thousand demonic troops.
• Zhao Qian and Yang Hong severed three of Chongming’s tentacles, while Chu Yinan’s counterattack pierced Chongming’s chest before its heavenly-light sword was shattered.
• Yan Jin transformed into a Mystic Phoenix and led one hundred thousand demonic beasts through thirty of Yanyuntai’s first thirty-six barriers.

Xu Taiping returned to Yanyuntai and rallied the Demon-Slaying Army as Demonic General Chongming drew power from his forces. The army’s battle intent surged, and Xu Taiping ordered them to slaughter every demonic beast before them.

• Demonic General Chongming led the Nine Abysses Demonic Army in a charge, but Chu Yinan’s troops held their formation as Yanyuntai’s barriers fell.
• Xu Taiping arrived behind the enemy formation, raised the Demon-Slaying Army’s banner, and strengthened the army’s battle intent.
• Xu Taiping joined the blade and sword cultivators’ formation to break through the demonic ranks and strike Demonic General Chongming.
• Xu Taiping reunited with Chu Yinan and took command of the more than six hundred thousand Demon-Slaying Army troops.
• Demonic General Chongming absorbed Demon Seed Power from his troops, while Yan Jin transformed into a long saber and joined one of Chongming’s tentacles.
• Xu Taiping reminded the army that they could not fall before the Demon Mother was slain, then ordered them to slaughter every demonic beast before them.

Xu Taiping led the Demon-Slaying Army to defeat Demonic General Chongming and rout the Nine Abysses Demonic Army. After withdrawing to the city, the Vermilion Bird Army’s commanders agreed to commit the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s resources to the army and set their next target as Yeyuan City.

• Demonic General Chongming broke through the Demon-Slaying Army’s formation and attacked Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping’s thousand-armed Dharma aspect shattered his saber strike and forced him to retreat.
• Xu Taiping ordered the Demon-Slaying Army to charge, and Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect’s Seven Peak Lords killed Chongming with their combined sword intent.
• The Demon-Slaying Army pursued the demonic troops for three hundred li, reducing their remaining numbers to fewer than three hundred thousand before Xu Taiping ordered a withdrawal.
• Huo Xuan, Zhao Cangwu, Wei Ming, and Bai Lu agreed to devote the Demon-Suppressing Stele’s resources to strengthening the Demon-Slaying Army.
• Huo Xuan named Yeyuan City as the army’s next target.

Xu Taiping learned that the armies were preparing to attack Yeyuan City, where the Demon Mother and the Nine Primordial Lords remained protected by powerful defenses. As the Demon-Slaying Army began preparing for the coming assault, Song Yan received word that Gu Huai and Yu Lang were near death, and Gu Huai wanted to see Xu Taiping.

• Song Yan and Jiang Fu explained Yeyuan City's origins, the forces gathering for its assault, and why the Demon Mother could not leave the city.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu and Song Yan warned that entering Yeyuan City would expose the armies to the Demon Mother and the Nine Primordial Lords, while sixteen powerful generals defended the city.
• Xu Taiping agreed to join the assault and ordered the Demon-Slaying Army to grow toward a million troops during the three months before the armies reached Yeyuan City.
• Song Yan received a message that Gu Huai and Yu Lang were unlikely to survive, and told Xu Taiping that Gu Huai wanted to see him before he died.

Xu Taiping visited the mortally wounded veteran generals Gu Huai and Yu Lang, promising that the Demon-Slaying Army would defeat the Demon Mother and end the Nine Abysses calamity. After both generals died, he inscribed their names and remnant souls on his hand and led the army in bidding them farewell; Yang Hong approached him with a request.

• Xu Taiping learned that Gu Huai and Yu Lang were beyond saving because Demon Seed Power had corroded their divine souls.
• Gu Huai and Yu Lang asked whether the Demon-Slaying Army could defeat the Demon Mother, and Xu Taiping vowed that they would.
• Yu Lang died after declaring that he could close his eyes in peace, and Xu Taiping inscribed Yu Lang's name on his hand.
• Gu Huai died after asking Xu Taiping to tell him when the calamity was ended, and Xu Taiping inscribed his name as well.
• Xu Taiping and the generals solemnly bid farewell to Gu Huai and Yu Lang, renewing their resolve to fight.
• Yang Hong caught up with Xu Taiping outside the barracks and said that he had a presumptuous request.

Xu Taiping promised Yang Hong he would carve his name onto himself if Yang Hong died in battle, then entered the Dragon-Trapping Tower to inspect its newly opened rooms. Lady Jade Mother warned that something Chu Lingyue had left for him might disappear, and Xu Taiping hurried to find out what it was.

• Yang Hong asked Xu Taiping to carve his name onto his body if he died, and Xu Taiping reluctantly promised before leaving to see Lady Jade Mother.
• Xu Taiping met Lady Jade Mother, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, and Lin Buyu inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower and learned that Lin Buyu had completed seventy percent of her fusion with the Immortal Official Remnant.
• Lin Buyu nearly revealed the identity of the remnant's owner, but Xu Taiping stopped her so she could continue receiving Lady Jade Mother's guidance.
• Lin Buyu said Xu Taiping's master's Sword Intent had grown more than tenfold while he remained in seclusion.
• Lady Jade Mother warned that something Chu Lingyue had left for Xu Taiping might disappear, and Xu Taiping hurriedly asked what it was.

Xu Taiping entered the Kun Character Room with Lin Buyu to search for something Chu Lingyue had left for him. They discovered the room held ruins beyond the domain, where they could not use the Shangqing Edict, and wondered why the Ancestral Dragon had been there.

• Lady Jade Mother told Xu Taiping that Chu Lingyue had sent a message through the Earth Fruit saying she had left something for him in a room on the Dragon-Trapping Tower’s third floor.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu entered the Kun Character Room with Lady Jade Mother and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou accompanying them through their divine senses.
• Xu Taiping found himself among floating palace ruins surrounded by darkness and strange lights filled with immense vitality.
• The Shangqing Edict powers surrounding Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping shattered, leading them to realize they could not use them in this world.
• Lady Jade Mother identified the ruins as beyond the domain, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou questioned how the Ancestral Dragon could have appeared there.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu discovered that the ruins beyond the domain were remnants of the Sumeru Realm, destroyed by the Great Void Calamity. As a strange light trapped them, Xu Taiping broke free and escaped into the Dragon-Slaying Stele with Lin Buyu, glimpsing a terrifying presence beyond the domain.

• Lady Jade Mother sent Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu to inspect a broken stone pillar, warning that sword cultivators could attract nearby evil demons.
• Lin Buyu found an inscription by Muqiu, Grand Elder of the Sumeru Taixuan Sect, describing the realm’s destruction despite the Ancestral Dragon’s Legacy.
• Lady Jade Mother and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou concluded that the ruins were debris from the Sumeru Realm, consumed by the Great Void Calamity and cast beyond the domain.
• As Xu Taiping searched for traces of Sister Lingyue, Lin Buyu sensed a breathing mass of vitality and warned him about it.
• A scarlet light immobilized Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu, but Xu Taiping manifested his ultimate dao true dragon divine being body, freed them, and escaped with her into the Dragon-Slaying Stele.
• Xu Taiping glimpsed a terrifying presence beyond the domain as he plunged into the stele.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu recovered from their encounter with a powerful being beyond the domain and continued searching the Dragon-Slaying Stele’s rooms for Chu Lingyue and the Ancestral Dragon’s legacy. Lin Buyu concluded that Taiqing Paradise, where Chu Lingyue left something for Xu Taiping, might be the same place as the Ancestral Dragon’s hidden treasure.

• Lin Buyu healed Xu Taiping’s injured arm while Lady Jade Mother explained that sword intent could frighten beings beyond the domain and that traveling there could not let cultivators escape the Great Void Calamity.
• Lady Jade Mother and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou agreed to search the remaining rooms for Chu Lingyue’s aura and the Ancestral Dragon’s legacy.
• Xu Taiping and the others reached the fifth room, the Heng-Character Room, and learned that the Ancestral Dragon had hidden all his treasures in the Sumeru Realm.
• Lin Buyu reasoned that the Ancestral Dragon could have entered Taiqing Paradise and proposed that it was the same place as the Ancestral Dragon’s treasure site.

Xu Taiping and his companions entered Taiqing Paradise, where Xu used his True Dragon Divine Being Body to break through the sea’s restriction and reach the ruins of the Ancestral Dragon’s Taiqing Dragon Court. They discovered an armory of thousands of Dragon Divine Weapons, and, finding no trace of Sister Lingyue, suspected the Shark Pearl above the ruins might hold a message from her.

• Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou recognized the sea beyond the door as Taiqing Paradise and concluded they needed to reach its seabed.
• Lady Jade Mother realized the restriction might permit dragons to pass, so Xu Taiping transformed into a true dragon and carried Lin Buyu down through the sea.
• Xu Taiping crashed into underwater ruins, where a Shark Pearl illuminated the remains of the Ancestral Dragon’s Taiqing Dragon Court.
• Lady Jade Mother identified the ruins as an armory containing thousands of Dragon Divine Weapons, and Xu Taiping reasoned that the Ancestral Dragon had prepared them against the Great Void Calamity.
• Xu Taiping noted that Sister Lingyue’s aura was absent, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou explained that the Shark Pearl could record images, prompting Xu Taiping to wonder whether Sister Lingyue had left something inside it.

Xu Taiping and his companions discovered that the Shark Pearl held a recording of Chu Lingyue entering Taiqing Paradise, while mysterious attackers struck the sea above the Dragon Court. The image ended with Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji fleeing two powerful Dharma Aspects as an enemy declared them trespassers.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu heard massive palm-shaped attacks strike the sea above the Dragon Court, and a sword strike cut through the Ancestral Dragon's restrictions.
• The Dragon Court's inner restrictions activated, pulling the Dragon-Slaying Stele inside and shifting the Inner Court into another world.
• Lady Jade Mother explained that the Dragon Court had two sets of restrictions, and Xu Taiping found a projection preserved in the Shark Pearl.
• The projection showed Fairy Lingyue racing across the sea with Immortal Elder Wuji, confirming that she had entered Taiqing Paradise.
• Two deity-like Dharma Aspects attacked Lingyue and Wuji, but Wuji's umbrella blocked the strike and Lingyue carried them away.
• A voice behind Lingyue and Wuji condemned them as people of the impure land who had trespassed in Taiqing Paradise.

Xu Taiping and the others watched Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji face three powerful Taiqing Dao-Seekers. Zhao Wuji sacrificed himself to protect Fairy Lingyue and expose the truth, but the Dao-Seekers killed him and challenged the beings below the sea.

• Jade Mother told Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu that the three attackers were among the lowest Dao-Seekers in Taiqing Paradise.
• As Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji were overwhelmed, Zhao Wuji transformed into a purple True Dragon using Shangqing's Wuji Edict and sent Fairy Lingyue toward the Dragon Court.
• Zhao Wuji drew on the Dragon Court's True Dragon Power and wielded the Dragon God Spear, driving back and wounding two Dao-Seekers.
• A third Dao-Seeker pierced Zhao Wuji, tore off his head, and killed his headless body despite its final strike with the Dragon God Spear.
• The Dao-Seeker looked toward the seabed and called the beings below vermin from the Impure Land, challenging them to come up and die.

Chu Lingyue revealed that she had found Taiqing Paradise and a way to overcome the Great Void Calamity, then asked Xu Taiping to breach Yeyuan City so he could reach her. After obtaining the Sun-Burying Sword, she headed toward the Heaven-Demon Battlefield and announced herself as Undying Night Soul.

• Chu Lingyue asked the Dragon Court’s ancestral presence for a Dragon Divine Weapon and received the Sun-Burying Sword, forged by the Ancestral Dragon.
• Lady Jade Mother suggested the Ancestral Dragon and the Sword Ancestor had planned together against the Great Void Calamity, leaving Dragon Emperor Cangzhou wondering why the Ancestral Dragon had not saved the Dragon Clan.
• Chu Lingyue told Xu Taiping that she had found Taiqing Paradise and discovered a way to completely overcome the Great Void Calamity, but could not explain the details through the projection.
• Chu Lingyue revealed that the Heaven-Demon Battlefield was the former ruins of the Sumeru Realm and said she would likely be sensed by the Demon Mother at Yeyuan City.
• Chu Lingyue asked Xu Taiping to breach Yeyuan City so she could sense his aura and awaken to join him.
• When the Dragon Court recalled the Dragon-Slaying Stele after a sword attack, Chu Lingyue shot toward the sea’s surface and declared, “I, Undying Night Soul, never let a grudge last the night!”

Xu Taiping discovered a spirit spring in the Shangqing Lower Realm and arranged for Lin Buyu to cultivate in his Jiazi Pot. After learning that the Human Race Army had advanced suspiciously quickly, he tried to divine the battlefield’s situation, but the Lotus Eye lacked enough power of chaos, so he went to the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden and saw a sword light rise.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu found a spirit spring rich in Xiantian Spiritual Power, and Xu Taiping gathered its water in his Jiazi Pot so Lin Buyu could cultivate there.
• Xu Taiping chose not to open the final room holding the true Ancestral Dragon's Legacy Secret until after the battle at Yeyuan City.
• Xu Taiping learned from Huo Xuan that the Vermilion Bird Army had reached Jingni City and warned him that the rapid advance might be a trap.
• Xu Taiping attempted to use the Lotus Eye to divine the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, but it could not proceed because he lacked enough power of chaos.
• Xu Taiping entered the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden and saw a sword light rise, wondering whether his Master's sword had been forged.