Chapter Summaries

Old Daoist Huang revealed that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian had sent him to help Xu Taiping resolve a Heavenly Dao killing calamity, and explained how his breakthrough brought him into the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven. As he began to disclose the rest of his divination, the Primordial Lord stirred, forcing the group to prepare the First Seal Grand Formation.

• Old Daoist Huang recognized Xu Taiping as Zhang Wuyou and said Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian had asked him to divine a way to resolve Xu Taiping's Heavenly Dao killing calamity.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord threatened Old Daoist Huang, and Xu Taiping used the Immortal-Inviting Talisman's chains before loosening them when Huang promised to help.
• Old Daoist Huang explained that his divination required him, Haitang, and her husband to enter the game, and that he had broken through to the Heaven Shocking Realm before Xu Taiping's talisman brought him there.
• Old Daoist Huang slashed toward the Primordial Lord to shield their conversation and said his divination had revealed a specific breakthrough was needed for them to enter the game.
• The Primordial Lord's roar shook the area, and Cloud Crane True Lord urged Xu Taiping to reactivate the First Seal Grand Formation.

Xu Taiping activated the ruined Grand Formation with Old Daoist Huang’s help, unleashing a vast assault that wounded the Primordial Lord and erased its aura. Cloud Crane True Lord explained that later Demon Slayers called it the Myriad Gods Formation to honor the more than ten thousand cultivators who died perfecting it.

• Old Daoist Huang questioned whether Haitang and her husband had misled him about the Primordial Lord, then Xu Taiping used the restrictions to drag him onto a formation node.
• Old Daoist Huang saw Xu Taiping surrounded by borrowed fortune from powerful factions and countless mortals, and realized the significance of the mortal fortune.
• The Grand Formation lit up, linking more than a thousand surrounding formations into a huge cage around the Primordial Lord.
• Ancient God Dharma Aspects, flying swords, Buddha Hands, and Confucian True Words attacked the Primordial Lord, blasting away much of its gray mist and severing its tentacles.
• Cloud Crane True Lord said later Demon Slayers named the formation the Myriad Gods Formation to commemorate the more than ten thousand cultivators who died perfecting it.

Xu Taiping learned from Fairy Lingyue that the Earth Fruit could devour the Primordial Lord if they restored its power and protected it from corruption. Fairy Lingyue revealed that the first step required a powerful Sage Relic—and that she herself was the strongest one.

• Xu Taiping saw the fallen heroes whose spirits formed the Myriad Gods Formation and sent Old Daoist Huang information about the Primordial Lord.
• Xu Taiping woke Fairy Lingyue and asked how she planned to counter the Primordial Lord.
• Fairy Lingyue showed Xu Taiping that the Earth Fruit could consume the Primordial Lord, but had weakened and risked corruption.
• Fairy Lingyue said they needed to protect the Earth Fruit with a powerful Sage Relic and revealed that she herself was the strongest Sage Relic.

Xu Taiping resisted Fairy Lingyue’s proposal to use the Earth Fruit against the Primordial Lord, but agreed to keep it as a last resort after hearing her plan. When Old Daoist Huang refused to face the danger, Xu Taiping offered to tell him the Earth Treasury Fruit’s whereabouts, and Huang reacted with excitement.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that the Primordial Lord’s strength could exceed their estimates and that absorbing its power could restore the Earth Fruit and give her a chance to return to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Xu Taiping rejected using the Earth Fruit to stop the Primordial Lord, but agreed to hear Fairy Lingyue’s plan and reserve it as a last resort.
• Fairy Lingyue proposed planting the Earth Fruit in the Central Area and holding out until its first Golden Lotus emerged from the water.
• Old Daoist Huang watched the Divine Soul Mark’s scenes, called the Primordial Lord battle a Heavenly Dao Death Calamity, and refused to take part.
• At Fairy Lingyue’s suggestion, Xu Taiping asked Old Daoist Huang whether he wanted to know the Earth Treasury Fruit’s whereabouts, and Huang eagerly asked if Xu Taiping knew where it was.

Xu Taiping learned Old Daoist Huang’s warnings and gathered the group’s preparations before they entered the gray mist to confront the Primordial Lord. As they advanced, Xu Taiping’s opened golden lotus revealed a vast army of demonic beasts from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, while his sword and the formation’s cultivator phantoms rallied behind him.

• Old Daoist Huang agreed to stay and fight for a lead on the Earth Treasury Fruit, then warned Xu Taiping to guard against heart demons and prepare a sharper sword.
• Old Daoist Huang gave Xu Taiping the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and a Famous Sword Painting depicting Langya, Taoguang, and Kunwu.
• Xu Taiping shared the divination with Cloud Crane True Lord and the others, who assigned the painting to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the lamp to Xu Taiping and Great Elder Lou.
• Cloud Crane True Lord led the group toward the gray mist as Xu Taiping opened the final golden lotus in his Lotus Eye’s Divine Soul Mark.
• Xu Taiping saw a vast army of demonic beasts from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, then sensed the Jade Bone Grass soldiers and the grand formation’s cultivator phantoms rallying to fight.

Xu Taiping saw the Lotus Eye’s new prediction of the group’s doom and its message that it would take black and move first, then prepared to act on its behalf. After the group entered the Primordial Lord’s Gray Mist, they found themselves in an unexpectedly peaceful spring landscape with no one in sight.

• The Lotus Eye showed Great Elder Lou’s Bodhi Mirror Lamp failing as the resurrected Hound Demon God and other Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the group, then left a message announcing its first move.
• Xu Taiping wondered who the Lotus Eye had chosen as its piece and asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to use Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap him with Great Elder Lou when signaled.
• The Pearl Relic House Master cast the Separate the False and Preserve the True spell, giving everyone blue-green robes and gilded names above their heads.
• Xu Taiping entered the Gray Mist with the others and told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord he would reveal his true name if he survived to see the Primordial Lord’s True Body.
• The Gray Mist transformed the scene into a lush spring landscape, and Xu Taiping could not find anyone nearby.

Xu Taiping and his companions faced Heart Demons conjured by the Primordial Lord in the Gray Mist, including Old Daoist Huang’s tangled past with a vine demon. After warning that the trials could kill them, Xu Taiping prepared for his own Heart Demon and urged Great Elder Lou to light the lamp.

• Old Daoist Huang appeared as a sparrow and warned the group about a dangerous vine demon, but they continued north into the woods.
• The vine demon pleaded with Old Daoist Huang to protect her and threatened to expose their affair, so he tried to lead the group away.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord killed the vine demon, and Xu Taiping restrained Old Daoist Huang when grief and anger overwhelmed him.
• Cloud Crane True Lord reminded Old Daoist Huang that the scene was an illusion meant to divide them, while Xu Taiping privately warned the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that they could all die in the Gray Mist.
• After the group defeated another Heart Demon, Cloud Crane True Lord asked whether Xu Taiping’s trial would come next, and Xu Taiping told Great Elder Lou to light the lamp.

Xu Taiping warned Cloud Crane True Lord and the others that the Primordial Lord could use Creation Power to summon powerful figures they had seen, not just their Heart Demons. The group faced formidable summoned cultivators and charging Demonic Beast formations, leaving Old Daoist Huang urging Lou Shiyi to light the lamp.

• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Old Daoist Huang teased Xu Taiping about his Heart Demon as the group entered the Gray Mist.
• Xu Taiping explained that the Primordial Lord could summon powerful figures remembered by those inside the Gray Mist.
• Xuanmu Daoist, Purple Luo Sword Immortal, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared, and Old Daoist Huang and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord suppressed their overwhelming auras.
• The summoned Demonic Beast formations charged together, battering the group with their Battle Intent.
• Old Daoist Huang called for Lou Shiyi to light the lamp.

Great Elder Lou began charging the Bodhi Mirror Lamp while Xu Taiping and the others fought off powerful attackers. Xu Taiping defeated a fire lion, then was badly injured by the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, but drank Hidden Immortal Wine to strengthen himself and prepared to challenge the Sage again.

• Great Elder Lou raised the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and warned that it would take a cup of tea to activate, so Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others fought to hold off the enemy formations.
• Sword Immortal Ziluo attacked Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's Sword City, while Daoist Xuanpin's fire dragons and fire lion battered Cloud Crane True Lord's Cloud Tower and threatened the city.
• Xu Taiping used All Beings Are Equal and the Dragon-Slaying Form to behead the fire lion, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck him and broke his arm.
• Xu Taiping learned that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had been unmatched at every cultivation realm, then drank Hidden Immortal Wine to raise his physique and aura.
• Xu Taiping drank a second gourd, tempered his body to the Golden Essence Realm, and announced that he would challenge the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's fist again.

Xu Taiping fought the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage on equal terms, prompting the Sage to recognize his Martial Dao talent and claim him as a disciple. The Sage and other summoned figures vanished after their true bodies sensed the Primordial Lord’s creation power, leaving Xu Taiping to wonder whether the Sage would remember him.

• Xu Taiping raised his blood qi tempering power and matched the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s fist with his own under the suppression of All Beings Are Equal.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked whether Xu Taiping came from the Shangqing Realm, then declared that he would find him and make him his successor.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage resisted the fiend’s attempt to use his power, told Xu Taiping to hold on, and burst apart; Sword Immortal Ziluo and Daoist Xuanpin also vanished.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord explained that the figures’ true bodies in Outer Heaven had sensed the Primordial Lord’s summons and called them back.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord surmised that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had wanted to take Xu Taiping as a disciple, and Xu Taiping wondered whether the Sage would remember after waking.

Xu Taiping led five companions into the Demonic Beast military formations after Great Elder Lou broke through under the Bodhi Mirror Lamp's light. Their combined battle intent shattered several formations, but Xu Taiping could sustain it for only the time it took an incense stick to burn.

• Xu Taiping told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that he would rather test his fists against the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage again than become his disciple.
• The Demonic Beast military formations destroyed Cloud Crane True Lord's Cloud Tower, but Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master combined their techniques to halt the charge.
• Xu Taiping stopped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord from opening Sword City's gates as Great Elder Lou used the Bodhi Mirror Lamp to break into a formation and pierce its Devil Lord battle general.
• Xu Taiping rallied Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, and Old Daoist Huang to join him and Great Elder Lou in a six-person battle formation.
• Xu Taiping and his companions merged their auras, amplified their killing power, and shattered successive demonic formations.
• Xu Taiping told Cloud Crane True Lord that he could sustain his battle intent for only the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Xu Taiping led the six-person formation toward the Primordial Lord while watching for a change in the battlefield, then exposed the Hound Demon God hidden in the enemy's Battle Intent. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping blinding the Hound Demon God and urging Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to finish it off.

• Cloud Crane True Lord called on the group to break through the Demonic Beast formations within an incense stick's time, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's sword helped them advance rapidly.
• Xu Taiping asked Old Daoist Huang to watch the qi above the Primordial Lord and told Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to prepare Form- and Shadow-Transposition for him and Great Elder Lou.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord secretly activated the Spell as Great Elder Lou defended the group from spears formed of Battle Intent.
• The Primordial Lord's Battle Intent manifested as the Hound Demon God, which attacked Great Elder Lou with Barking at the Sun Power.
• Xu Taiping switched places with Great Elder Lou, used All Beings Are Equal and the Raging Waves form to burst the Hound Demon God's eyes, then called on Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to kill it.

Xu Taiping and his companions killed the Hound Demon God and continued breaking through the Demonic Beast Military Formations. After they cleared more than half the battlefield, Xu Taiping spotted the Heartless Demon Emperor and the Eight Demon Emperors commanding a massive formation ahead.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, aided by the Pearl Relic House Master and Cloud Crane True Lord, defeated the Hound Demon God with a powerful sword strike.
• Xu Taiping and his companions resumed their advance, developing coordinated tactics as they broke through successive Demonic Beast Military Formations.
• Great Elder Lou declined Xu Taiping's offer to take over the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and told him to conserve his strength for what lay ahead.
• The group cleared more than half the formations, and Xu Taiping saw the Heartless Demon Emperor and the Eight Demon Emperors commanding a formation of over a hundred thousand troops.

Xu Taiping and the others struggled against the Heartless Demon Emperor and eight Demon Emperors, whose hundred-thousand-strong formation overwhelmed them with Battle Intent. As their formation faced another charge, Xu Taiping reached out to the departed cultivators around him, and their Battle Intent began to surge.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor led the Eight Demon Emperors and over a hundred thousand Demonic Beasts in a charge that nearly broke Xu Taiping's formation and injured Great Elder Lou through the Bodhi Mirror Lamp.
• Old Daoist Huang warned that the nine Demonic Beasts and their gathered Battle Intent made the enemy formation too strong to withstand.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord challenged the enemy commander, but the formation's Battle Intent knocked him back after one clash.
• Xu Taiping stopped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and asked the departed cultivators around them to lend him their strength.
• One departed soul smiled at Xu Taiping, and the souls began releasing surging streams of Battle Intent.

Xu Taiping led five elders and the spectral souls of tens of thousands of dead cultivators in a charge against the Demonic Beasts’ military formation. After breaking through most of the formation despite their fading strength, they faced Heartless Demon Emperor, three Demon Emperors, and a thousand troops.

• Xu Taiping rallied the spectral souls and the five elders, using their combined battle intent to clash with the Demonic Beasts’ formation.
• Xu Taiping and the elders broke through the airtight formation and pressed forward, killing two Demon Emperors and countless Demonic Beasts.
• Xu Taiping urged everyone to maintain their momentum, while Great Elder Lou vowed to keep the Bodhi Mirror Lamp lit as he tended it and fought.
• Xu Taiping and the others punched through most of the formation, leaving Heartless Demon Emperor, three Demon Emperors, and a thousand troops before them.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord poured all the Sword Qi in his body into the Po Jun Sword.

Xu Taiping and his companions shattered the Primordial Lord’s demonic army formation and reached the creature, believing it had held back its power. They discovered that Great Elder Lou had died while holding the Bodhi Mirror Lamp, honored him at the stone stele, and prepared to face the Primordial Lord’s true body.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord slew the Heartless Demon Emperor, allowing Xu Taiping and his companions to break through the demonic army’s formation and defeat its remaining forces.
• Xu Taiping realized the Primordial Lord’s summoned beasts had mostly been illusions and that it had not used its full power against them.
• Xu Taiping and the others found Great Elder Lou motionless with the Bodhi Mirror Lamp, which went out as he died.
• The Pearl Relic House Master placed Great Elder Lou’s body in a Qiankun Bag, and Xu Taiping carved an inscription honoring Lou Shiyi on the stone stele.
• As the Primordial Lord’s true body stirred behind them, Xu Taiping and the others bowed to the stele and braced themselves for the coming fight.

As the group prepared to confront the Primordial Lord, Old Daoist Huang sacrificed much of his Great Dao Fortune to give them Fortune Tokens, explaining that even a selfish man must remember his humanity. The group accepted his blessing and advanced, while Cloud Crane True Lord and Pearl Relic House Master volunteered to probe the Primordial Lord first.

• Cloud Crane True Lord warned that the Primordial Lord's dream-born spiritual sense made it a grave threat, and Old Daoist Huang admitted his Heaven-Swallowing Art would be ineffective against it.
• Old Daoist Huang spent his fortune to create five Fortune Tokens, visibly aging as his vitality declined.
• Old Daoist Huang explained that his dying master had taught him that those who gathered firewood for others must not be left to freeze, and Xu Taiping and the others accepted the tokens.
• The Fortune Tokens released strands of radiance around the group as Old Daoist Huang wished them flourishing martial fortune.
• Cloud Crane True Lord and Pearl Relic House Master offered to probe the Primordial Lord first, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord agreed while Xu Taiping considered the limits of his remaining power.

Li Daoyan had Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master test the Primordial Lord before he joined the fight. Their attacks damaged its crystal head, but its changing aura warned them that the battle was far from over.

• The Pearl Relic House Master used the True Word "Nowhere to Hide" to disperse the mist around the Primordial Lord, revealing a massive head of black crystal.
• Xu Taiping’s Divine Soul was drained by the Primordial Lord’s gaze, and Old Daoist Huang and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord pulled him back to his senses.
• The Pearl Relic House Master empowered Cloud Crane True Lord with the True Word "Indestructible," and Cloud Crane struck the Primordial Lord’s head with a bright moon, which shattered on impact.
• The Primordial Lord fired black crystal spikes at Cloud Crane True Lord, but his body burst into Gang Qi as he retreated into the Cloud Tower with the Pearl Relic House Master.
• Cloud Crane True Lord summoned a landscape painting, hundreds of bright moons, and hundreds of clones, whose combined attack smashed away nearly half of the Primordial Lord’s face.
• Old Daoist Huang sensed a change in the Primordial Lord’s aura and warned Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master to take cover in the Cloud Tower.

Xu Taiping and the others struggled to find a way to defeat the Primordial Lord, whose power lay beyond the Heavenly Dao Laws. After Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master survived another devastating counterattack, Lotus Eye’s message led Xu Taiping to realize he had to make a move that risked Fairy Lingyue and everyone present.

• The Primordial Lord formed a black gourd that unleashed thousands of crystal swords, reducing Cloud Crane True Lord’s Cloud Tower to one story.
• Old Daoist Huang concluded that the Primordial Lord’s power lay outside the five elements, and Cloud Crane True Lord asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to hold back while he and the Pearl Relic House Master tested another attack.
• Xu Taiping found that Lotus Eye’s golden lotus had not changed, then received the message that he—not Lotus Eye—had to make the move.
• Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master struck with more than two hundred bright moons, breaking half of the Primordial Lord’s crystal head before roots protected the rest.
• The Primordial Lord summoned a black-crystal giant that destroyed the Cloud Tower, but Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master survived and laughed from the ruins.
• Xu Taiping apologized to Fairy Lingyue, who urged him to risk her life and the lives of everyone there to draw the Primordial Lord to the other side of the go board.

After Fairy Lingyue helped Xu Taiping commit to risking the lives of those he cherished, he revealed a plan to use the Earth Fruit against the Primordial Lord. The group agreed to trust him, and the Pearl Relic House Master entrusted him with a Sword Embryo for Qu Ningshuang.

• Fairy Lingyue's words strengthened Xu Taiping's resolve to place his loved ones at risk and lead them to victory.
• Xu Taiping told Cloud Crane True Lord and the others there was no need to probe the Primordial Lord again, then shared his plan with them.
• Old Daoist Huang learned Xu Taiping carried a five-times-Seed-Burned Earth Fruit and offered his severed finger to be planted so it could reach the Undying Bone Realm.
• Xu Taiping offered to plant treasures for his companions, but Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, Cloud Crane True Lord, and the Pearl Relic House Master initially declined.
• The Pearl Relic House Master gave Xu Taiping a Sword Embryo and asked him to deliver it to Qu Ningshuang if anyone escaped the Grotto-Heaven.