Chapter Summaries

Leng Qingsong awoke in his consciousness sea, where Hu Yun explained why he had arranged Chang Xiaoyue’s death and revealed that Leng Qingsong was meant to reopen the Immortal Gate. After Hu Yun disappeared, Chang Xiaoyue appeared and told Leng Qingsong she had to go.

• Leng Qingsong woke in his consciousness sea and confronted Hu Yun over the betrayal and his humiliating death.
• Hu Yun explained that Chang Xiaoyue’s Devil Race Seal meant she would eventually die, while Leng Qingsong had to die once to break his ties to the mortal world.
• Hu Yun told Leng Qingsong that the mortal world was an Immortal contingency and that Leng Qingsong was meant to reopen the Immortal Gate.
• Hu Yun challenged Leng Qingsong to learn from Changsheng and stop blaming his defeat on being unable to use the Green Lotus Laws.
• Hu Yun vanished, and Chang Xiaoyue appeared and told Leng Qingsong, “It’s time for me to go, Little Husband!”

Leng Qingsong returned from death and confronted Ling Feng, who had fused with the Mortal World’s Heavenly Dao. After Leng Qingsong destroyed Ling Feng and struck at the Heavenly Dao’s golden eye, a mysterious seal appeared and sent two golden lights into Zhao Qiansun’s forehead.

• Chang Xiaoyue told Leng Qingsong she wanted to try a relationship with him in another life and urged him not to lose the Star before he sank into darkness.
• Ouyang revived Leng Qingsong and restored his ability to use the laws while restraining the Mortal World’s golden vertical pupil.
• Leng Qingsong entered the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s inner space and beheaded Ling Feng, then destroyed his fleeing divine soul with the green lotuses in his eyes.
• Ling Feng escaped as a streak of red light and claimed he was one with the Mortal World, but Leng Qingsong unleashed a torrent of sword qi against the golden vertical pupil.
• A golden swastika seal swept away Leng Qingsong’s sword qi, shattered, and sent two golden lights into Zhao Qiansun’s forehead.

A golden vertical pupil released demonic qi, revealing that the Devil Race’s great calamity had arrived a hundred years early. Ouyang confronted the face formed from the demonic qi, but Dongxu Zi intervened before Ouyang could attack.

• Two beams of golden light sent Zhao Qiansun into dao enlightenment inside a golden flower bud.
• The shattered seal revealed a golden vertical pupil emitting demonic qi, and Chen Changsheng recognized it as a sign that the Devil Race had arrived early.
• Chen Changsheng panicked and blamed himself for the early calamity, but Ouyang calmed him with his true essence and two slaps.
• Ouyang left Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong to guard Zhao Qiansun, then rode Liang Zai toward the golden vertical pupil.
• The demonic qi formed a human face that asked where Dongxu Zi was and dismissed Ouyang as an imitation.
• Dongxu Zi’s whisk swept away the demonic qi face before Ouyang could strike, and Dongxu Zi told Ouyang to wait.

Ouyang battled the golden Vertical Pupil while Dongxu Zi used a Paper Substitute to bring the fight into a space that suppressed both sides’ power. Dongxu Zi entered the space and found Ouyang and Liang Zai still attacking the pupil, then sat down to wait for them to tire.

• Ouyang ignored Dongxu Zi’s warning and traded blows with the golden Vertical Pupil, whose demonic qi blocked his punches.
• Dongxu Zi left the watchers outside the Mortal World, causing the workings of fate within it to become chaotic as powerful figures returned to prepare for the Great Calamity.
• Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil’s escalating clash quieted Ling Feng and Chen Changsheng, while Dongxu Zi searched for a way to intervene without breaking the rule against Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Cultivators entering the Mortal World.
• Dongxu Zi sent a Paper Substitute into the Mortal World, where it used his whisk to create a pure-white space that drew in Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil.
• After the Paper Substitute expired, Dongxu Zi entered the space and saw Ouyang striking the golden Vertical Pupil with Liang Zai and biting it while Liang Zai barked and snapped at it.
• Dongxu Zi sat down cross-legged and waited for Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil to tire themselves out.

Ouyang fought the Demon Venerable before Dongxu Zi revealed that Ling Feng had replaced Leng Qingsong as the one destined to attain Dao Integration and that the Dao and Devil sides were negotiating a war ten years away. The chapter ended with both sides disputing Ling Feng’s fate as Ouyang declared that Ling Feng had to die that day.

• Ouyang and Liang Zai battered the Demon Venerable, then sat with Dongxu Zi as the two powerful figures confronted each other.
• Ouyang used a Recording Stone to expose Dongxu Zi’s remarks and asked whether killing the Demon Venerable would end the Great Calamity; Dongxu Zi said the war was separate from it.
• Dongxu Zi told the Demon Venerable that the War Between Dao and Demons would take place in ten years because the one who attained Dao Integration was not Li Taibai’s reincarnation.
• The Demon Venerable asked about Zu Yuan, and Dongxu Zi said the Azure Cloud Sect’s Holy Son had killed him.
• Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable negotiated the war’s location and disputed whether Ling Feng would remain in the Mortal World or return through reincarnation.
• Ouyang interrupted their negotiations by declaring that Ling Feng had to die that day.

Ouyang learned that the Dao-Demon War had been deliberately started by Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable to delay a Great Calamity caused by the world’s inability to sustain so many cultivators. He realized the Immortals had shifted their own Great Calamity onto all living beings, and the world was still trapped in that same calamity.

• Ouyang’s true essence filled the white space and suppressed Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable as he confronted them over their callous bargaining.
• Dongxu Zi explained that Great Calamities had repeatedly destroyed and remade the world, and that those who underwent them had always perished.
• Ouyang realized that Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable had engineered the Dao-Demon War to consume cultivators and postpone the coming Great Calamity.
• Dongxu Zi explained that the Immortals had used their fall to bind their fate to all living beings, shifting the Immortal Great Calamity onto the world.
• Ouyang understood that the world had remained within the same Great Calamity since the Immortals’ era.

Ouyang learned that the Immortal Great Calamity had never truly ended and negotiated with Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable over its course. He demanded protection for his family and Ling Feng’s death, then offered himself as the bargaining chip when they refused.

• Dongxu Zi explained that the ongoing calamity could be resolved by having those destined for it undergo their tribulations and slay the Immortals.
• Ouyang asked what would happen to Leng Qingsong, and Dongxu Zi said his fate had been rewritten and he would not become an Immortal.
• Ouyang secured Dongxu Zi’s agreement that Leng Qingsong would be free after the calamity and demanded that the Demon Venerable protect his Third Brother in the Demon Realm.
• Ouyang insisted Ling Feng had to die, but Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable refused because Ling Feng was needed to open the Devil Race Seal.
• Ouyang offered to find a more suitable replacement for Ling Feng and declared himself the bargaining chip.

Ouyang used his connection to the Grand Ancestor to gain leverage over Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable, securing permission to bring someone who could replace Ling Feng. He left determined to avenge his injured junior brother, while Dongxu Zi revealed that the Demon Venerable was his long-lost eldest senior brother.

• Ouyang revealed that he possessed the same power as the Grand Ancestor, unsettling Dongxu Zi and prompting the Demon Venerable to demand what Ouyang knew.
• Ouyang hinted that he had met and spoken with the Grand Ancestor in the Nine Hells, then offered a cryptic saying to keep the two men guessing.
• Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable agreed to let Ouyang bring someone to test whether they could replace Ling Feng, but Dongxu Zi gave no clear answer about killing Ling Feng.
• Ouyang left with Gouzi, determined to avenge his injured junior brother and convinced he already knew whom to bring.
• After Ouyang departed, Dongxu Zi addressed the melancholy Demon Venerable as his eldest senior brother.

Dongxu Zi reunited with Chongming, his former eldest senior brother who had become the Demon Venerable, and they recalled the Azure Cloud Sect’s lost disciples and their master. Dongxu Zi revealed Ling Feng’s connection to the Mortal World and split his divine soul, while Chongming insisted that Ling Feng be returned to him.

• Chongming confronted Dongxu Zi over Hu Yun’s death and blamed him and the other disciples for their master’s fate.
• Dongxu Zi recalled how Chongming changed after entering the Nine Hells and mourned that only he and Su Xiaoqi remained of the Seven Azure Cloud Disciples.
• Chongming asked why Ling Feng possessed their master’s power, and Dongxu Zi said Ling Feng seemed like a redemption who could prevent the world’s end.
• Chongming revealed Ling Feng’s divine soul inside his golden pupil, and Dongxu Zi split it, sending half into a miniature map of the realm.
• Chongming demanded that Dongxu Zi return Ling Feng, reminding him that Changming had promised him.

Ouyang stopped Chen Changsheng from coming to the Mortal World in his true form and urged him to return, while Chen Changsheng remained convinced the Devil Race would bring the Great Calamity. The chapter ended with Chen Changsheng reaching a secret chamber on Little Mountain Peak, where Zu Yuan’s corpse sat.

• Ouyang slapped Chen Changsheng’s puppet awake and ordered him to return, but Chen Changsheng questioned his defense of the Devil Race.
• Chen Changsheng argued that the Dao-Demon War’s suffering could not be dismissed, while Ouyang withheld the truth that Dongxu Zi had orchestrated it.
• Ouyang threatened to sever their senior-junior relationship unless Chen Changsheng turned back, and Chen Changsheng’s true form reluctantly returned toward Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang told Leng Qingsong to watch Chen Changsheng, then rode Liang Zai away; Chen Changsheng asked whether Leng Qingsong would protect Ouyang if he were in danger.
• Chen Changsheng’s true form entered a secret chamber on Little Mountain Peak and found Zu Yuan’s corpse sitting cross-legged.

Xie Xinzhi, gravely injured and stripped of Haoran Righteous Qi, returned to the devastated Great Zhou Capital and was captured by saber guards. Wang Xiaoming confronted him in the Imperial City, but froze when he found Ouyang seated on the Dragon Throne.

• Xie Xinzhi walked toward the Capital, regretting his role in the disaster and longing to look toward Maple Leaf City from its highest point.
• A squad of saber guards captured Xie Xinzhi after discovering he was too injured to resist.
• The guards carried Xie Xinzhi through the locked-down Imperial City and presented him to Wang Xiaoming, now Wang Mang.
• Wang Xiaoming accused Xie Xinzhi of making him a scapegoat and mocked him before carrying him into the Main Hall.
• Wang Xiaoming entered the Main Hall and found Ouyang sitting on the Dragon Throne, stroking a dog's head.

Ouyang reunited with Wang Xiaoming, then questioned the captured Xie Xinzhi about the Capital and Ling Feng’s integration with the mortal world. Ouyang invited Xie Xinzhi to help oppose Ling Feng, leaving the choice to him.

• Ouyang recognized Wang Xiaoming as his childhood companion, and Wang Xiaoming knelt and blamed Xie Xinzhi for making him emperor.
• Wang Xiaoming told Ouyang that Xuan'er had set herself on fire during the assault on the Capital.
• Ouyang confirmed that Ling Feng’s rebellion had been suppressed, then revealed that Ling Feng had achieved Dao Integration with the Mortal World.
• Xie Xinzhi accused Cultivators of disregarding ordinary people, and Ouyang reminded him that he had sold the mortal world to Ling Feng.
• Ouyang invited Xie Xinzhi to help stop Ling Feng from achieving Dao Integration and said the choice was his.

Ouyang brought Xie Xinzhi to the Pure White Space as a possible replacement for Ling Feng, but Xie Xinzhi’s connection to Ling Feng and Zu Yuan revealed a far stranger role in the plans surrounding the Mortal World. Dongxu Zi sent Xie Xinzhi into the golden pupil, which expelled Ling Feng, as Chongming vowed to kill Dongxu Zi in ten years.

• Ouyang brought Xie Xinzhi back, and Xie Xinzhi agreed to go with him despite fearing the Mortal World’s destruction.
• Dongxu Zi and Chongming recognized Ling Feng’s and Zu Yuan’s divine soul auras in Xie Xinzhi and questioned whether he was willing to integrate with the Dao of the Mortal World.
• Xie Xinzhi said the affairs of the Mortal World should be managed by its people, prompting Dongxu Zi to suspect that his arrival was part of a scheme to reopen the Heavenly Gate.
• Dongxu Zi turned Xie Xinzhi into a streak of white light and sent him into the golden pupil, which spat out Ling Feng in red.
• Dongxu Zi used the Map to absorb the demonic qi from the golden pupil, and Chongming vowed to kill him in ten years.

After the battle, Ouyang watched Chang Xiaoyue’s death restore the land and revive the flood victims, then learned the golden Vertical Pupil had vanished. He left the future of the Mortal World to those remaining and looked ahead to the Dao-Demon War ten years later.

• Dongxu Zi placed a Silence Mantra on Ouyang, then the Pure White Space disappeared and Ouyang fell to the ground with Gouzi.
• Ouyang had Liang Zai swallow the unconscious Ling Feng, and Leng Qingsong entered the dog's belly to pursue his own path to vengeance.
• Chang Xiaoyue’s body became starlight that restored the destroyed land and revived the flood victims, while golden merit light transformed her head into a little white snake.
• Ouyang realized the Mortal World had changed Chang Xiaoyue’s fate and considered how Ling Feng and Xie Xinzhi had been drawn into the Immortal’s scheme.
• Ouyang heard the system announce mission progress of three out of five Peerless Great Villains and waved goodbye to the golden Vertical Pupil as it vanished.

Ling Feng lamented his failure and the world's unfairness before Leng Qingsong killed him. Ouyang gave Leng Qingsong a tiny white snake, and Leng Qingsong named her Mu Wu.

• Ling Feng despaired over losing his plans to Heavenly Fate and realized he was also a piece in an Immortal's hands.
• Leng Qingsong entered the space and cut Ling Feng into countless fragments, then swept the area with his sword intent to ensure he was gone.
• Leng Qingsong returned to Ouyang, who offered him the little white snake he had been holding.
• The little white snake chose Leng Qingsong, who accepted her and thought of Xiaoyue's death and rebirth.
• Ouyang suggested names including White Strip and Spicy Strip, but Leng Qingsong named the snake Mu Wu.

Chen Changsheng struggled with the early appearance of demonic qi and feared that the Great Calamity would repeat the devastation of his previous life. Ouyang urged him to face that fear by trusting the people around him.

• Ouyang teased Leng Qingsong about a name before turning his attention to Chen Changsheng, who was still stunned.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ouyang what to do when calamity always seemed to be ahead of him, but Ouyang first tried to steer him toward eating.
• Chen Changsheng recalled the Devil Race’s brutality, the future invasion, and the deaths and suffering he had witnessed in his previous life.
• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng that calamity was not ahead or behind him; Chen Changsheng had simply never dared to face it.
• Chen Changsheng admitted his fear that the Great Calamity would return, and Ouyang asked him to trust those beside him.

Chen Changsheng calmed down after Ouyang reassured him, while Zhao Qiansun emerged from his breakthrough with Buddhist legacies, a powerful secret art, and a troublesome hair-loss side effect. Ouyang knocked Zhao Qiansun down for boasting, and Zhao Qiansun apologized after realizing how easily Ouyang had overcome his Buddhist Golden Light.

• Ouyang reassured Chen Changsheng, who thanked him and then endured his eldest senior brother's playful head-drilling punches.
• Zhao Qiansun emerged from a golden lotus after gaining Buddhist legacies, advancing his cultivation, and learning the Treasure-Falling mantra.
• Zhao Qiansun tested the mantra on a copper coin and discovered it could knock down other people's magic treasures, though it also made his hair fall out.
• Zhao Qiansun celebrated his good fortune, but Ouyang struck him down and demanded to know what he had done.
• Zhao Qiansun realized Ouyang had pierced his Buddhist Golden Light with a slap, then apologized and promised he had only gotten carried away.

Ouyang and the others prepared to leave the Mortal World after Leng Qingsong read Chang Xiaoyue’s message, while Chen Changsheng claimed victory in his bet with Ouyang. Ouyang bound Zhao Qiansun to guard the Azure Cloud Sect for ten years before taking the group away, as a Golden Eye watched them depart.

• The little white snake gave Leng Qingsong a Paper Star, and he read Chang Xiaoyue’s message: “I love you!”
• Chen Changsheng argued that Leng Qingsong’s words meant he had won his bet with Ouyang, who reluctantly agreed to grant him a future request.
• Ouyang told Zhao Qiansun to return to the Azure Cloud Sect and guard it for ten years, and Zhao Qiansun accepted.
• Ouyang gathered the group into a whale of true essence and flew them out of the Mortal World.
• A Golden Eye watched Ouyang and the others depart, then vanished.

Ouyang, Leng Qingsong, and Chen Changsheng found Bai Feiyu cornered by rogue cultivators after he had fallen into a wretched state. Ouyang intervened, and Leng Qingsong trapped the attackers with his sword intent, leaving Bai Feiyu reunited with his companions.

• Ouyang sensed Bai Feiyu's faint aura, and Leng Qingsong leaped off Great Whale to investigate.
• Several rogue cultivators surrounded Bai Feiyu and demanded the Lotus Pod he had taken from them.
• Bai Feiyu refused to surrender the Lotus Pod, and the Golden Core cultivator blocked his counterattack while the others wounded and overwhelmed him.
• As the burly rogue cultivator raised his axe to kill Bai Feiyu, Ouyang arrived and stopped the blow.
• Leng Qingsong unleashed sword intent that cut the rogue cultivators off from their true essence.
• Ouyang recognized the battered Bai Feiyu and asked how he had become so pathetic in just a few days.

Bai Feiyu woke back at Little Mountain Peak after losing his cultivation and severing his Dao foundation, then asked Ouyang to revive Jiang Shang through the Lotus Pod. Ouyang revealed he understood Bai Feiyu’s grand plan and promised to think of a way to help him, leaving Bai Feiyu with a little reassurance.

• Bai Feiyu regained consciousness in his room and urgently asked Ouyang about the Lotus Pod.
• Ouyang examined Bai Feiyu and found his meridians severed, his dantian reversed, and his body devoid of true qi.
• Bai Feiyu explained that he had destroyed his Storage Space and asked Ouyang to awaken the Lotus Pod so Jiang Shang could live on in a lotus-root body.
• Ouyang revealed that he knew Bai Feiyu had planned to create the God-Sealing Investiture and impose rules on Heaven and Earth.
• Bai Feiyu admitted that his disaster was his own fault, and Ouyang flicked his forehead and promised to think of something to help him.