Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua flew his lightning-powered thunderboat through Xu while learning that its cultivators followed a different path from his own, leaving him to conclude that he would have to return to Cangxian Continent to advance. When a huge Devil Race force emerged ahead, he prepared to confront it but realized its numbers were far greater than he had expected.

• Xiao Hua powered his thunderboat with a Thunder Pool and asked Huan Wuxin about Xu's cultivation realms and techniques.
• Xiao Hua learned that Xu cultivators used Primordial Spirits instead of Nascent Souls and decided he could not remain there to cultivate.
• Xiao Hua tested the thunderboat against spatial fissures, gathered wandering souls, and strengthened the vessel as it approached blood clouds.
• Huan Wuxin warned Xiao Hua that a Devil Race formation lay ahead, but Xiao Hua pressed onward and challenged the enemy.
• The blood clouds split to reveal more than a hundred thousand Devil Race members, and Xiao Hua realized he had underestimated the scale of the encirclement.

Xiao Hua drove the thunder boat through a Devil Race array, crushing Demon Soldiers and breaking through a blood waterfall before a giant demonic statue attacked. He fought the statue in his ten-thousand-zhang golden body as an armored cultivator arrived, but the battle continued.

• Xiao Hua used his giant Nascent Soul hand and Three Corpse Yin Thunder to destroy thousands of Demon Soldiers and weaken the demonic body they formed together.
• Xiao Hua drove the thunder boat through the blood-colored waterfall and into the demonic array, where its lightning destroyed demonic heads and blood filth.
• A nearly ten-thousand-zhang demonic statue struck the thunder boat and cracked its defenses, sending it tumbling through the array.
• Xiao Hua emerged with the As-You-Wish Staff and grew into a ten-thousand-zhang golden body under a beam of moonlight.
• Xiao Hua traded powerful blows with the demonic statue, resisting its claws and battering its wing, while an armored cultivator entered the array and was intercepted by Demon Generals.

Xiao Hua killed a Devil Lord inside the Blood River Demon Formation and rescued a cultivator as the formation transformed into a deadly Blood Sea. He joined the human fleet, blasted open the formation, and took control of the Dust-Clearing Pagoda to help the cultivators counterattack.

• Xiao Hua severed a Devil Lord with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, destroyed him with a five-colored pillar of light, and collected his body with a jade bottle.
• As the demon formation transformed into the Blood Sea, Xiao Hua used Leiting to destroy the falling bloody pus and carried a fleeing cultivator and the thunder boat out of the formation.
• Xiao Hua emerged among more than a hundred flying boats and went to help the cultivators defending their weakening light barrier.
• Xiao Hua blasted a gap thousands of li wide in the blood formation with a giant palm, then learned how to control the Dust-Clearing Pagoda from a jade slip.
• Xiao Hua activated the Dust-Clearing Pagoda and its light pillar swept through the formation, killing thousands of Demon Generals, while the cultivator ordered the others to prepare a counterattack.

Xiao Hua helped Ou Chu and the Divine Blade Sect defeat a Devil Race force, then learned of a possible surprise attack on the Ten Sects of the Southwest. Despite Ou Chu’s warning about the danger and the sects’ poor military coordination, Xiao Hua remained intent on going to the Southwest frontier.

• Xiao Hua used the Dust-Clearing Pagoda and his divine abilities to kill high-ranking Devil Race fighters and help the Divine Blade Sect survive the siege.
• Ou Chu introduced himself as a leader of the Divine Blade Sect, thanked Xiao Hua for saving his disciples, and invited him to visit the sect.
• Xiao Hua told Ou Chu that Huan Wuxin had reported a Devil Emperor might lead five hundred thousand Demon Soldiers against the Ten Sects of the Southwest.
• Ou Chu explained why he doubted the report but arranged for it to be sent to the central army, while the Council Hall invited Xiao Hua to visit.
• Xiao Hua asked for a communication artifact and said he wanted to inspect the Southwest frontier, but Ou Chu warned that the mission could pit him against a Devil Emperor and a vast, poorly organized battlefield.

Xiao Hua decided to head for the Southwest frontier and considered bringing Creation Sect disciples out of his space to help the Ten Sects and temper them in battle. After testing their ability to survive outside, he found that only advanced cultivators could safely release their Nascent Souls, then debated who should command the disciples.

• Xiao Hua declined Ou Chu’s offer of two thousand escorts, asked him to take the Ten Sects’ disciples aboard his flying boat, and accepted a map and communication talisman before Ou Chu’s forces departed.
• Xiao Hua studied the map, traveled to a mountain peak, and decided that Creation Sect disciples should leave his space to gain experience and support the Ten Sects.
• Xiao Hua and green-robed Xiao Hua tested Wang Feng, a Spirit Severing disciple, and a Void Refinement disciple; their Nascent Souls began to collapse outside the space, so Xiao Hua returned them to safety.
• Xiao Hua found that two scattered Nascent Souls could survive outside and concluded that Body Integration disciples and above could release their Nascent Souls, while the others must keep them inside their bodies.
• Wenqu volunteered to command the hundred thousand disciples, but Xiao Hua and green-robed Xiao Hua doubted his ability, and Wenqu asked whether Xiao Hua would command them himself.

Xiao Hua recruited True Lord Qingyuan, Sun Jian, to command the hundred thousand Creation Sect disciples in the Void against the Devil Race. Sun Jian revealed how Penglai Fairyland and the Haotian Mirror were connected, while Xiao Hua assembled his army and prepared for Sun Jian to deploy it.

• Xiao Hua and his incarnations agreed to have Sun Jian command the Creation Sect army, with several incarnations supervising and disguising themselves.
• Xiao Hua brought Sun Jian out of the space and explained that they had escaped the Heavenly Prison but remained trapped in the Void, where defeating the Devil Race was necessary to reopen the passage.
• Xiao Hua summoned the Creation Sect disciples from the Kunlun Immortal Realm and asked Sun Jian to arrange their deployment against the Devil Race.
• Sun Jian revealed that the Immortal Emperor had removed the Haotian Mirror's core to form Penglai Fairyland, using it to imprison and nourish Daoist cultivators while powering the mirror.
• Xiao Hua gathered his incarnations and one hundred thousand Creation Sect disciples, leaving Sun Jian astonished by the army's strength.

Xiao Hua gathered his disciples and descendants to prepare them for battle in this unfamiliar continent. After placing Sun Jian in charge of training the Creation Sect disciples, he released several thousand members of the You and Liu families to join the expedition.

• Xiao Hua put the Creation Sect disciples under Sun Jian's command and gave him a thunder boat controlled by Thunderclap True Person.
• Xiao Hua left Sun Jian to train the troops and traveled away to study the Karma Incantation.
• Xiao Hua summoned his disciples and three demon companions, then explained that they were far from Cangxian Continent and might need to fight outsiders.
• Xiao Hua sent Black Bear Spirit, White Lion, and Golden Eagle to gain experience with the Creation Sect disciples.
• You Zhongquan and Liu Yi asked to send their descendants to gain battle experience, and Xiao Hua released several thousand members of their families from the Kunlun Mirror.

Xiao Hua failed to complete the Cause and Effect technique, but glimpsed that the danger ahead would end without disaster. He then watched Sun Jian train the Creation Sect disciples and prepared them to face the Devil Race in the Ruins.

• Xiao Hua attempted the Cause and Effect technique, but silver lightning destroyed the ripples before they could form the Hand of Cause and Effect.
• A phantom in a dark realm noticed Xiao Hua had reached a fragment of the Primordial Realm and declared that he need not return.
• Xiao Hua concluded that the coming danger would end in alarm without peril, then teleported to Sun Jian's training ground.
• Sun Jian demonstrated how the blue army's formations overwhelmed the yellow army and urged the disciples to fight together against the Devil Race.
• Xiao Hua returned Sun Jian's reforged Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Blade, and Sun Jian recognized it as his own weapon.
• Xiao Hua warned the disciples that they faced a life-or-death trial, and Sun Jian asked whether more thunderboats were available so the troops could train in two formations.

Xiao Hua and Sun Jian led the Devil-Slaying Army and Devil-Extermination Army into a Devil Race ambush, where the Creation Sect disciples fought a fierce battle. As Xiao Hua gathered the fallen disciples’ souls, he discovered that Devil Race warriors were siphoning souls toward eight hidden locations to refine devilish weapons.

• Xiao Hua gave Sun Jian a jade slip containing formations he had comprehended, then joined the Devil-Slaying Army aboard a Thunder Boat.
• Sun Jian led both Thunder Boats southwest, and Xiao Hua gathered wandering souls while studying temporal fluctuations.
• A Devil Race ambush engulfed the Thunder Boats in Devil Qi and blood-lit fragments, and Sun Jian and Xiao Hua steadied the disciples before ordering them to fight.
• The Creation Sect disciples formed battle squads and attacked, but the Devil Race broke through the Thunder Boats’ defenses and inflicted casualties.
• Xiao Hua collected fallen disciples’ souls, corpses, and belongings, then used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to spot souls flowing toward eight locations where Devil Race warriors were gathering them.

Xiao Hua and his allies fought the Devil Lords who had appeared with sacrificial Demonic Banners, and Xiao Hua swiftly killed his opponent while collecting the banners and demonic remains. In his Yin aspect of space, he freed the banners’ countless imprisoned souls and sent them into the Nether Fruit Tree, while the familiar Demon General escaped during the battle.

• Eight Devil Lords emerged with Demonic Banners and sent streams of demonic qi against the Creation Sect disciples and thunder boats.
• Sun Jian charged a Devil Lord, while Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to destroy another Devil Lord’s demonic qi and pierce his banner.
• Xiao Hua killed the Devil Lord with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors and Kunlun Mirror, but the familiar-looking Demon General disappeared as the battle continued.
• Xiao Hua’s clones killed the other Devil Lords, and Sun Jian killed one as Xiao Hua gathered their bodies and Demonic Banners.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua tore the banners apart and sent their millions of freed souls into the Nether Fruit Tree, which had grown to the size of a continent.

Jade Slip Xiao Hua used Great God Houtu’s inheritance to begin transforming Zhang Xiaohua’s stone statue into a Netherworld guardian while the Creation Sect fought the Devil Race. As the battle worsened, Xiao Hua and Sun Jian prepared to intervene, and a blood pearl and the Ya Brush emerged from the demonic formation.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua infused Zhang Xiaohua’s statue with Netherworld power and Great God Houtu’s inheritance, then left the space to wait for Xue Xue and Master to grow.
• Jiang Hong, Liu Yi, You Zhongquan, and the other disciples killed the two Devil Lords, but the Devil Race continued multiplying inside an unbroken demonic formation.
• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian recognized that the formation trapped the disciples and that the Devil Race seemed able to return after being killed, so they agreed to wait briefly before breaking the formation.
• A blood pearl emerged from the formation, and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua split it with the Heaven-Shaking Sword as thunder struck the spatial fissures and Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua’s Ya Brush appeared.

After the Creation Sect defeated a Devil Race force, Xiao Hua wondered whether Xu was connected to his lost memories, while Sun Jian learned that the war was going badly and committed to helping Xu’s cultivators. The Thunder Boats continued toward White Cloud Temple, where the Ten Sects of the Southwest might soon face the Devil Emperor alongside the Creation Sect.

• Xiao Hua sealed the spatial rifts with a brush, driving back the devils, and Sun Jian rallied the grieving Creation Sect disciples before they resumed their journey.
• Xiao Hua suspected Xu might be where he came from because the Misty Sect, Yue Mingxin, and a familiar Demon General seemed connected to his forgotten past.
• Xu’s local cultivators supplied Sun Jian with information and military provisions, revealing that the Devil Race had occupied nearly half of Xu and destroyed forty percent of the star.
• Sun Jian worried that Xu’s cultivators would be slaughtered, and Xiao Hua promised to provide more disciples and treasures to help them.
• Sun Jian reported that the Creation Sect had suffered losses on the way to White Cloud Temple and that the Council Hall had not acted on warnings that the Devil Emperor intended to destroy the Ten Sects of the Southwest.

Xiao Hua and Sun Jian rushed to reinforce White Cloud Temple after discovering that the Devil Race was attacking it. Their forces broke into the enemy formation, but four powerful Devil Lords appeared, and Xiao Hua suspected one might be the Devil Emperor’s incarnation.

• Xiao Hua explained why Xu's Council Hall had ignored the threat to the Ten Sects, and Sun Jian insisted they would do what they ought to do.
• After more than ten days of travel, Xiao Hua detected the Devil Race surrounding and attacking White Cloud Temple and ordered the army to reinforce it.
• Sun Jian arranged the Creation Sect disciples into two Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Arrays aboard the thunder boats.
• The two thunder boats and their arrays charged into the Devil Race formation, breaking through its blood curtain and killing thousands of enemy warriors.
• Four immense Devil Lords emerged from the blood formation, and Xiao Hua warned Sun Jian that one might be the Devil Emperor’s incarnation.
• Xiao Hua assigned Sun Jian one Devil Lord and said he and the others would handle the remaining three.

Xiao Hua and his companions fought four Devil Lords, but one transformed into a nearly complete Demon Emperor and trapped green-robed Xiao Hua in a frozen domain. Demon Spirit Xiao Hua Shi summoned the Demon Blade Shi to destroy it, and Xiao Hua concluded that this Demon Realm differed from the one they knew.

• Sun Jian used his Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Blade and Five-colored True Qi to wound and kill a Devil Lord, while Xiao Hua gathered its escaping blood phantoms.
• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua used the Ya Brush to fill a second Devil Lord with life-giving shoots that drove away its devilish qi and killed it.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua attacked a third Devil Lord with lightning and the Sea-Overturning Seal, but its frozen domain stopped his attacks and trapped him.
• The Devil Lord began transforming into a Demon Emperor and sent a bone arm toward green-robed Xiao Hua, prompting Xiao Hua to summon Demon Spirit Xiao Hua Shi.
• Demon Spirit Xiao Hua Shi unleashed Demon Blade Shi, which split the forming Demon Emperor in two and devoured its devil body.
• Xiao Hua identified the Demon Emperor as nearly a Demon Venerable and warned that this Demon Realm might differ from the one they knew.

Xiao Hua’s Creation Sect forces broke through the Devil Race’s siege and joined White Cloud Temple’s defenders, whose protective formation was close to collapsing. After meeting White Cloud Temple’s leaders, Xiao Hua left the military decision to Sun Jian as they considered how to face the far larger enemy army.

• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian watched the Creation Sect army withstand the Devil Race’s assault, form an army soul, and break through the first blood array.
• The Creation Sect disciples entered another blood array and told White Cloud Temple’s defenders that ninety thousand soldiers and ten Mahayana experts had come to aid them.
• White Cloud Temple activated its protective formation, shattered the blood array, and sent its cultivators into battle alongside the Creation Sect.
• Bai Shan, Bai Shui, and Bai Ming welcomed Sun Jian and Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua introduced his four avatars as friends.
• Bai Shan warned that the allied forces might not defeat the several hundred thousand Devil Race warriors and asked whether the thunder boats could break the blood array so White Cloud Temple could escape.
• Xiao Hua said Sun Jian would decide military matters, and Bai Shan asked Sun Jian for his opinion.

Xiao Hua agreed to help Sun Jian and White Cloud Temple break through the devil array, and gifted Bai Ming the Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array in exchange for a chance to study White Cloud Temple’s Daoist methods. As the sects launched their escape, Xiao Hua’s incarnations attacked the array and began tearing open a path for White Cloud Temple’s disciples.

• Sun Jian and Xiao Hua decided to join forces with White Cloud Temple to break out of the devil array and rescue Light Sound Palace.
• Xiao Hua gifted Bai Ming a jade slip containing the Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array, while Bai Ming offered his own cultivation method in return.
• Bai Ming received word that his senior sect brother had led White Cloud Temple’s disciples out in force, and Sun Jian ordered the Thunder Boat and ninety thousand disciples to charge into the array.
• Xiao Hua and his incarnations joined the attack, with Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Bone Tempering Xiao Hua blasting the array and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua opening a huge gap with the power of stars and moon.

Xiao Hua and his avatars broke the demonic formation and helped the White Cloud Temple disciples escape, but the Demon Emperor arrived and attacked them. Xiao Hua confronted the Demon Emperor inside its domain, determined to kill it despite its superior strength.

• Green-robed Xiao Hua and Xiao Hua combined their attacks to tear a wide breach through the demonic formation, and Sun Jian led the thunder boat and White Cloud Boats through it.
• Bai Shan thanked Xiao Hua as the fleeing boats escaped, but Xiao Hua sensed the Demon Emperor approaching and warned them to leave.
• Xiao Hua used thunder to break the Demon Emperor’s freezing domain and then enlarged himself and summoned his four great avatars to face the Demon Emperor.
• The Demon Emperor sent five streams of black flame against Xiao Hua and his avatars, then engulfed them in its domain.
• Xiao Hua recognized the danger of the Demon Emperor’s domain but decided to fight, and he challenged the Demon Emperor by insisting it was not a Demon Venerable.

Xiao Hua and his avatars fought the Demon Emperor inside the Demonic Blood Cave Heaven, but the Demon Emperor’s overwhelming power and nearly invulnerable body left Xiao Hua struggling to survive. The Demon Emperor prepared to press the attack with demonic weapons as Xiao Hua searched for a way to escape.

• The Demon Emperor questioned how Xiao Hua had recognized the Demonic Blood Cave Heaven, then attacked him with black radiance and demonic force.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to counter, but recalled it when the Demon Emperor’s cave heaven began draining its power, and charged in with his avatars.
• Xiao Hua and Bone Tempering Xiao Hua fought the Demon Emperor with the Big Dipper Divine Fist while Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua joined the assault.
• The Demon Emperor injured green-robed Xiao Hua and struck Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, who counterattacked and forced him back.
• Xiao Hua struck the Demon Emperor with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, but the wound immediately healed, making Xiao Hua consider escape instead of victory.
• The Demon Emperor mocked Xiao Hua and drew several demonic weapons to continue the fight.

Xiao Hua struggled against the Devil Emperor in the Devil Blood Cave Heaven, then turned the battle by using Demon Blade Shi and unleashing his other avatars. The Devil Emperor was left under the combined assault of Xiao Hua’s Confucian and Buddhist powers.

• Xiao Hua’s Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors and As-You-Wish Staff failed to overcome the Devil Emperor, who recognized the God Slaying Staff Techniques and Great Heavenly Cycle Star Fist.
• Xiao Hua summoned Demon Spirit Xiao Hua, who struck the Devil Emperor with Demon Blade Shi and sent him flying, while Xiao Hua prepared to escape with his other avatars.
• The Devil Emperor used hidden suction holes to devour Demon Spirit Xiao Hua’s power and seized Shi, but Xiao Hua secretly controlled the blade to slash the Devil Emperor’s chest and make him flee as blood light.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua appeared and used the Nine Provinces Ding and a heart-shaped petal of Vast Righteous Qi to expose and trap the Devil Emperor.
• Buddha Bodhi arrived and attacked the Devil Emperor with Buddhist power, then invoked the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha Tablet, whose finger strike made the Devil Emperor’s body crack and roll through the air.

Xiao Hua and his incarnations wounded the Demon Emperor and chased him into a strange void, where they found Star Moon Palace. Inside the palace’s dangerous approach, Xiao Hua lost access to his storage and some of his incarnations, leaving him uncertain how to face the Demon Emperor.

• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua’s Three Corpse Yin Thunder struck the injured Demon Emperor, who fled as the Demon Blood Grotto-Heaven collapsed.
• Xiao Hua and his incarnations pursued the Demon Emperor, who entered a mountain foothill before Xiao Hua followed him through the void.
• Xiao Hua found himself before Star Moon Palace in the Ruins and met Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua and the four incarnations crossed spatial turbulence to reach the palace steps, where they spotted a figure inside and suspected it was the Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Hua discovered he could not access his storage or summon Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua, Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua, green-robed Xiao Hua, or Buddha Bodhi.