Chapter Summaries

Li Yang failed to stop Chu Mu from taking the nine-colored Dao rhythm, and Chu Mu revealed his plan to become the Heavenly Dao Master. As Chu Mu remained protected by the Black Floating Raft, Li Yang joined Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He to face the enemies surrounding them in the Heavenly Origin Realm.

• The Demon Consort turned into Ten Thousand Transformations Demon Seals, and Li Yang struck at the nine-colored Dao rhythm, but Chu Mu used the Heavenly Origin Chessboard to take it.
• Li Yang attacked Chu Mu, but Chu Mu used the Black Floating Raft to become intangible and began forming a demon seed from his demonic source.
• Chu Mu revealed that he had deceived the Demon Consort to seize the chance to become the Heavenly Dao Master, while she threatened him with her husband's vengeance.
• Li Yang noticed Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He were besieged, entered the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation with them, and charged at Li Xiao and the surrounding cultivators.
• The cultivators rallied to attack Li Yang, while Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He vowed to fight beside him; Li Yang raised the Xuanyuan Sword and declared they would slaughter their enemies.

Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He cut through a force of more than a thousand cultivators as Li Yang used Void Traversal to make his Vertical Sword attacks unpredictable. The enemy forces regrouped into defensive formations and a War Fortress, while an Evil Immortal proposed binding them together with the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Immortal Vine to seal Li Yang inside a coordinated trap.

• Li Yang used his Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to keep Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He fighting safely beside him while they killed dozens of enemies.
• Li Yang refined his Vertical Sword by combining it with Void Traversal, striking isolated enemies and vanishing into the void before their allies could retaliate.
• The enemy cultivators realized that powerful Crown Champions were waiting for Li Yang to tire and began forming defensive groups.
• An Evil Immortal transformed himself into a formation that more than three hundred cultivators used to create a giant Demonic Path giant.
• A disciple of the Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate brought another three hundred cultivators into a mobile War Fortress armed with Spirit-Storage Cannons.
• An Evil Immortal proposed using the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Immortal Vine to link the remaining cultivators, seal the void, and trap Li Yang alongside the Demonic Path giant and War Fortress.

Li Yang entered the demonic giant and unleashed his Slaughter Sword Domain, killing more than half of the cultivators inside as the other enemies struggled to contain him. The Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple fired the war fortress’s cannons at the trapped demonic giant, leaving Li Yang and the remaining enemies in the path of a devastating blast.

• Li Yang took Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He into the Vast Heaven World, then used Stunning Sword Strike to enter the demonic giant through its severed neck.
• Li Yang expanded his Slaughter Sword Domain and killed over a hundred and fifty cultivators inside the demonic giant, while shrugging off a poisoned dagger wound.
• The Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple prepared to fire the war fortress’s Spirit-Storage Cannons at the demonic giant, despite his junior brother being inside.
• The Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying used the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Vine to bind the demonic giant and seal the surrounding space.
• The war fortress fired over a hundred Spirit-Storage Cannons at the bound demonic giant, unleashing a beam ten thousand feet across.

Li Yang survived the War Fortress’s Destruction Beam and fought his way through its defenders, while the Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying’s vines lured nearly five hundred cultivators into a parasitic trap. The chapter ended with the Demon Venerable absorbing the controlled cultivators and confronting Li Yang with a newly heightened threat.

• The War Fortress fired a Destruction Beam that destroyed the Demonic Path giant, but Li Yang and Xuanyou survived by taking turns bearing the attack alongside the Immortal Formation’s survivors.
• Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He killed the weakened cultivators, broke through the Symbiotic Heavenly Net, and charged back toward the War Castle.
• Li Yang fought through the fleeing defenders, killed the Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple after he detonated the War Fortress, and drove the remaining cultivators toward the Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying’s vines.
• Nearly five hundred cultivators discovered that the vines were spreading into their life origins and nascent souls, while a few suspicious cultivators escaped by severing their bonds.
• The Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying pulled the parasitized cultivators into his body and challenged Li Yang to kill them all.

Chu Mu attempted to plant his Dao seed in the Heavenly Dao, but Tu Nine Provinces and Li Xiao interrupted him, forcing him to flee. Li Yang then faced the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis and his colossal fireball, answering with the Primordial Dawnfire.

• Chu Mu used the Dao Heart Demon Planting art to try to make himself master of the Heavenly Dao while its three wills battled.
• Tu Nine Provinces ambushed Chu Mu as the Black Floating Raft shifted, but Chu Mu blocked the attack with a shield.
• Li Xiao struck Chu Mu from behind with an Immortal-Grade Blood Saber, disrupting the demon seed and forcing Chu Mu to retreat.
• Tu Nine Provinces and Li Xiao pursued Chu Mu, while Li Yang noticed that stopping him had seemed too easy.
• The Demon Venerable of Symbiosis attacked Li Yang with a Fireball Technique amplified by the power and flames of five hundred cultivators; Li Yang sent Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He into the Vast Heaven World.
• Li Yang let his life origin flare and enveloped himself in Primordial Dawnfire as the enormous fireball bore down on him.

Li Yang endured the Symbiotic Demon Venerable’s combined fireball with primordial dawnfire, then cut him down with the Xuanyuan Sword. When the immortal revived, Li Yang revealed how much he relished fighting him and vowed to keep pursuing him through every revival.

• Li Yang stood unharmed inside the five-hundred-cultivator fireball as primordial dawnfire devoured its flames, and the Symbiotic Demon Venerable recognized the primordial flame.
• Li Yang poured primordial dawnfire into the Xuanyuan Sword and cleaved the Symbiotic Demon Venerable in two, burning his remains to ash.
• The Symbiotic Demon Venerable revived and claimed he had five hundred and two lives, but Li Yang welcomed the chance to kill him repeatedly.
• Li Yang released Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He and sent them to hunt down Chu Mu, keeping the Symbiotic Demon Venerable for himself.
• Li Yang declared his intense affection for the demon and promised to find him even if he fled to the ends of the earth.

Li Yang fought the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis, repeatedly killing him and weakening him by eliminating the cultivators sustaining his power. After killing all five hundred and earning Immortal-Slayer: +12, Li Yang turned toward Chu Mu and the Nine-Colored Light Orb, determined to finish his mission.

• Li Yang used his speed and Stunning Sword Strike to pierce the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis's shield and kill him, costing one of the cultivators inside him a life.
• Li Yang realized each revival consumed another cultivator and that the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis's killing intent and strength were declining, so he kept attacking while avoiding his spells.
• Over several hours, Li Yang killed the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis two hundred times, while his own body cracked and bled from the strain.
• The Demon Venerable of Symbiosis begged for mercy and offered information about Chu Mu, but Li Yang refused to trust him and continued killing him.
• Li Yang killed the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis for good after all five hundred cultivators inside him were gone, then declared that Chu Mu and the Nine-Colored Light Orb were his next targets.

Li Yang recovered through Nirvana and resumed his pursuit of Chu Mu, while Chu Mu’s many escape methods kept him out of reach. As the battle continued, a purple-robed figure warned Shen Yaoyin that Chu Mu planned to devour the Heavenly Dao and rule all Three Great Domains.

• Li Yang used the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art to heal and replenish himself, then joined the pursuit of Chu Mu.
• Lin He and Yan Zhaoxi reported that Chu Mu’s many trump cards made him difficult to catch and that the Demon Consort was gaining the upper hand in the struggle of wills.
• Li Yang observed that the spectators outside the Heavenly Origin Realm did not intervene, while they discussed his strength and the Sound Palace Market Ruins remained protected by his reputation.
• Shen Yaoyin received a purple-robed visitor who claimed to come from the Upper Realm and revealed that Chu Mu had cultivated the Great Annihilation Heaven-Swallowing Forbidden Canon.
• The purple-robed figure told Shen Yaoyin that Chu Mu intended to devour the Nine Provinces and Demon Savage Continent Heavenly Daos and become ruler of all Three Great Domains.

Shen Yaoyin warned the forces outside the Heavenly Origin Realm that Chu Mu planned to consume the Heavenly Dao of all Three Great Domains, prompting them to join the assault. Li Yang killed Chu Mu, but Chu Mu used his final moments to send the Nine-Colored Light Orb away, leaving Li Yang determined to cut down the Heavenly Dao and thwart any remaining scheme.

• Shen Yaoyin conveyed Chu Mu’s plan to become sovereign of the Three Great Domains, and Xuanyao and the other women protected her as the warning spread.
• Hao Tianyang, the righteous cultivators, and the returning Three Thousand Sword Cultivators joined the assault on the Heavenly Origin Realm, cracking its barrier.
• Li Yang recognized that Chu Mu was channeling demon essence into the Nine-Colored Light Orb and suspected Shen Yaoyin’s warning was true.
• Chu Mu threatened Shen Yaoyin and insulted Mu Yao, but Li Yang struck him down and destroyed his body and divine soul with sword qi and primordial dawnfire.
• Chu Mu used a talisman to carry away the Nine-Colored Light Orb as he died, and Li Yang resolved to cut down the Heavenly Dao to prevent Chu Mu’s remaining plans.

Li Yang raced to destroy the Nine-Colored Light Orb before Chu Mu’s next host or another cultivator could claim it, while the Taiyin Demon Rabbit warned that Chu Mu might use the weakened Heavenly Daos to seize power over multiple worlds. The group sped toward the converging Dao rhythm, but Li Xiao’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Li Yang abandoned his search for Chu Mu’s next host and pursued the Nine-Colored Light Orb, while hundreds of thousands of cultivators rushed to claim the chance to become Heavenly Dao Master.
• Li Yang formed a pursuit party with Ye Xiao, Yan Zhaoxi, Senior Brother Lin, and the Taiyin Demon Rabbit, sending the other sword cultivators into the Vast Heaven World.
• Ye Xiao carried the group on the Void-Piercing Sword toward the converging Dao rhythm as swift cultivators raced ahead of them.
• Tu Nine Provinces told Li Yang that Li Xiao had vanished using a concealment art and might have a way to resist Chu Mu’s possession.
• The Taiyin Demon Rabbit explained that Chu Mu might devour the weakened Heavenly Dao and use its authority to attack the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.

Li Yang learned that Chu Mu planned to devour the Heavenly Dao and turn the merging Nine Provinces and Demon Savage Continent into a minor world, then pursued Li Xiao, who carried the Nine-Colored Light Orb. As Li Yang prepared to kill Li Xiao, he sensed Chu Mu’s presence within him and spotted a powerful Evil Immortal approaching.

• The Taiyin Demon Rabbit explained that Chu Mu could turn the merged Domain into a minor world, and Li Yang grew excited at the thought of claiming the prize of Chu Mu’s head.
• Li Yang and his companions searched for the Nine-Colored Light Orb, while Li Yang suspected someone was fleeing with it after Chu Mu had sent it away.
• Ye Xiao took a Forbidden Pill and drank Life Nectar from Li Yang to sustain his life while using the Void-Piercing Sword to pursue the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yang learned from Hao Tianyang that Li Xiao had the orb and that others suspected Chu Mu and Li Xiao had staged their conflict together.
• Li Yang spotted Li Xiao fleeing with the orb, sensed Chu Mu’s aura on him, and saw a group of powerful cultivators in pursuit.
• A Purple-Robed Man approached Li Yang’s group using Shrinking Land to an Inch, and Li Yang recognized him as an Evil Immortal.

Li Yang learned that Li Xiao was trying to possess and devour the Heavenly Dao to form an Innate Dao Embryo, then charged through the gathered champions to attack him. The purple-robed man revealed that he had come to clean up his Dao Companion's mess, while Li Yang reached Li Xiao and challenged him to fight.

• The purple-robed man explained that Li Xiao was using the Devouring Demon Seal and attempting Dao Heart Demon Planting to possess and then devour the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yang decided to attack Li Xiao regardless of whose soul controlled his body and unleashed repeated Stunning Sword Strikes.
• The purple-robed man told the Taiyin Demon Rabbit that he was with Demon Consort and had come to clean up his Dao Companion's mess.
• Li Yang roared at the champions blocking his path, and they moved aside rather than face his sword strikes.
• Li Yang reached Li Xiao and challenged him to face the pain he had threatened to inflict on Li Yang.

Li Yang relentlessly pursued Li Xiao after Chu Mu took control of his body, while the Demon Consort and other wills fought over the Heavenly Dao. Chu Mu bargained with the Demon Consort for protection and demanded that she swear by her love for Devil Ancestor Rahu, leaving her furious.

• Li Xiao let Chu Mu control his body, and Chu Mu used an immortal-rank talisman to escape Li Yang on a summoned crane.
• Li Yang continued the pursuit as Devil Ancestor Rahu's avatar and three other cultivators followed the streams of Dao rhythm toward the struggle over the Heavenly Dao.
• The Demon Consort's will devoured the Great World's primordial will while Chu Mu, wounded and nearly out of trump cards, demanded her protection.
• The Demon Consort offered to protect Chu Mu if he joined Devil Ancestor Mountain, gave her a drop of soul blood, and abandoned his plans to devour her and other Heavenly Daos.
• Chu Mu rejected verbal assurances and Great Dao Oaths, then said he would trust the Demon Consort if she swore on her love for Devil Ancestor Rahu, provoking her anger.

Chu Mu forced the Demon Consort to swear upon her love for Rahu that she would not harm him, then fled with her protection into Devil Ancestor Mountain's Inheritance Grounds. Li Yang and his companions pursued him into a demonic killing formation, while the others remained outside as it activated.

• Chu Mu made the Demon Consort swear upon her love for Rahu, and she demanded his soul blood in return for protecting him.
• When Li Yang attacked, the Demon Consort used the power of heaven and earth to shield Chu Mu, slowing her attempt to devour the black-robed man from the Primordial Immortal Palace.
• Chu Mu entered Devil Ancestor Mountain's Inheritance Grounds and warned Li Yang that the demonic mist held a deadly trap.
• Li Yang charged into the mist, followed by Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He, while Ye Xiao and the three mysterious cultivators stayed outside.
• Devil Ancestor Rahu's avatar also entered the mist, and the Demonic Path killing formation began churning across heaven and earth.

Li Yang confronted Chu Mu inside a powerful demonic killing formation, but summoned his sword cultivators and forced Chu Mu to choose between fighting him or losing the formation. Chu Mu returned with more than a dozen evil immortals to gang up on Li Yang, while Li Yang sent the others into the Vast Heaven World and prepared to face them alone.

• Li Yang struck the ten-thousand-zhang formation barrier, but it quickly repaired itself as Chu Mu began merging into it to trap him.
• Li Yang released more than three thousand sword cultivators and used the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to disrupt Chu Mu's attempt to condense the Great Annihilation Heaven-Devouring Demon Seal.
• Tu Nine Provinces, Hao Tianyang, and three other figures threatened Chu Mu outside the barrier, while Li Yang demanded that Chu Mu either fight him with the evil immortals or watch the formation be destroyed.
• Chu Mu chose to return inside the formation with more than a dozen evil immortals, relying on the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Yang Formation and their home-ground advantage.
• Li Yang sent the sword cultivators, Lin He, and Yan Zhaoxi into the Vast Heaven World before preparing to face Chu Mu and the evil immortals alone.

Li Yang attacked the evil immortals inside the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Yang Formation, while Chu Mu warned the seniors about his relentless opening strikes. Iron Prison Demon Venerable faced Li Yang’s second Stunning Sword Strike as Dark Nether Demon Venerable tried to trap Li Yang in a black sea, and the chapter ended with Iron Prison preparing his full-strength counterattack.

• Chu Mu warned the seniors that Li Yang would open with three brutal strikes and urged them to fight with everything they had.
• Li Yang pierced Iron Prison Demon Venerable’s ancient shield with a Stunning Sword Strike, shocking Iron Prison with the attack’s power.
• Dark Nether Demon Venerable summoned the formation’s yin-attribute demonic qi into a black sea and ordered Iron Prison to hold Li Yang off.
• Li Yang ignored the encroaching black sea and launched a second Stunning Sword Strike at Iron Prison.
• Iron Prison Demon Venerable unleashed his Demon Prison Sword Canon, declaring he would not fear Li Yang as their attacks approached.

Li Yang killed Iron Prison Demon Venerable but was trapped in Dark Nether Demon Venerable’s black sea while Chu Mu and Demon Consort tried to complete their plan. Li Yang unleashed overwhelming pure yang sword light from within the seal, leaving the evil immortals struggling to suppress him.

• Iron Prison Demon Venerable attacked Li Yang with his War Demon Phantom, but Li Yang severed his sword and arm before killing him with Stunning Sword Strike.
• Li Yang tried to escape, but Dark Nether Demon Venerable and the other evil immortals used the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Yang Formation to trap him in the black sea.
• Chu Mu revealed that he had prepared a seal to prevent Li Yang from opening his minor world and freeing the sword cultivators inside.
• Demon Consort urged Chu Mu and Li Xiao to accelerate her devouring of the black-robed figure’s will so she could become the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yang erupted with pure yang sword light inside the black sea, alarming the evil immortals as they struggled to contain it.

Li Yang awakened a powerful pure yang dao rhythm that countered the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Yang Formation and let him break free of the black sea. He pressed his attack on Chu Mu and the remaining Evil Immortals, while observers outside the formation recognized that Li Yang was making the rules of the fight.

• Li Yang let the formation’s yin-attribute seawater invade his body, awakening a blazing great sun that carried the aura of his Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang infused his sword strikes with primordial dawnfire, evaporated the black sea, and killed Dark Nether with three strikes.
• Li Yang charged Chu Mu, killed two more Evil Immortals, and forced the rest to activate a Flight-Restricting Seal.
• Li Yang compressed his slaughter sword domain around himself and slashed apart the seals, declaring that his opponents had to follow his rules.
• Tu Nine Provinces, Hao Tianyang, and the three mysterious cultivators watched Li Yang’s dominance, and one of them called him “the rules.”

Li Yang fought the five remaining evil immortals while Chu Mu persuaded the Demon Consort to strengthen the formation. As Li Yang was trapped and attacked, Chu Mu revealed a black-robed ally with a jar of scarlet lightning, ready to strike.

• Li Yang killed another evil immortal but struggled with his injuries, the formation's chains, and Chu Mu's interference.
• Chu Mu warned the Demon Consort that Li Yang would break their agreement and urged her to pour more power into the Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Yang Formation.
• The Demon Consort chose to trust Chu Mu and reinforced the formation, blasting cultivators outside and surrounding Li Yang with more chains.
• The five evil immortals unleashed their strongest killing moves against Li Yang as the dark-robed figure's will began counterattacking inside Chu Mu's Nine-Colored Light Orb.
• Chu Mu revealed a concealed black-robed cultivator holding a jar of scarlet lightning and declared that the moment to attack Li Yang had arrived.

Li Yang fought on despite his grievous injuries, but Gongsun Ni revealed himself as the Heavenly Retribution Dao Sect’s designated successor and struck him with the sect’s Heavenly Retribution Curse. With Li Yang’s life origin fading and the five Evil Immortals launching another assault, he was left unable to fight back.

• Li Yang burst through the chains after enduring attacks from five Evil Immortals, badly wounded but still eager to fight.
• Gongsun Ni revealed his identity as the Heavenly Retribution Dao Sect’s candidate for sect master and displayed the sect’s ultimate weapon.
• Gongsun Ni unleashed the Heavenly Retribution Curse, which pursued Li Yang through the void and struck him.
• The curse ravaged Li Yang’s body and life origin as Gongsun Ni mocked him from a safe distance.
• The five Evil Immortals launched their killing moves again while Li Yang lay helpless on the ground.