Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and his four avatars searched Star Moon Palace for the Demon Emperor, discovering that the palace disabled their powers and formed a numbered maze. After finding Xiao Hua’s missing jade slip and a strange statue, they spotted a fleeting shadow in a mirror.

• Xiao Hua led Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, Demon Spirit Xiao Hua, Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, and Bone Tempering Xiao Hua through Star Moon Palace’s gates despite their inability to use divine abilities.
• The group identified the palace halls by their ceiling markings and searched deeper, finding no treasures or trace of the Demon Emperor.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua found a jade slip in hall Jia Forty-Three, and Xiao Hua recognized it as the cultivation-method jade slip Bai Ming had given him.
• The group discovered a hall marked Jia Qi Yi containing wall mirrors, empty tables, spirit fruits, and a strange translucent statue.
• Phoenix Body Xiao Hua ate a spirit fruit, while Xiao Hua noticed a shadow flicker across a mirror and turned toward the nearby gate.

Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua searched the palace halls for Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, while Xiao Hua realized his incarnations were becoming independent cultivators. They found bloodstains and a message directing them to Jia San Yi Yi, leaving Xiao Hua alarmed that Bone Tempering Xiao Hua had somehow gained flesh and blood.

• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua entered an empty hall alone after seeing seven-colored light at its doors, while Xiao Hua discovered that spirit fruits eased his unusual exhaustion.
• Worried about Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua set out to find him, leaving Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua behind.
• Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua disagreed over their route, and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua insisted that he was an independent cultivator who did not have to obey Xiao Hua.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua led Xiao Hua into an unfamiliar hall, where they found a blazing artifact-refining cauldron and a sword embryo unaffected by its fire.
• Xiao Hua spotted bloodstains beside a message reading “Go to Jia San Yi Yi” and feared the blood belonged to Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, who had never had flesh and blood before.

Xiao Hua returned to Jia Qi Yi and found the incarnations in Star Moon Palace, where Bone Tempering Xiao Hua attacked him and died. In Jia San Yi Yi, a cloaked figure killed Phoenix Body Xiao Hua with a black crossbow bolt and fired at Xiao Hua as he tried to escape.

• Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua disagreed over whether to return to Jia Qi Yi or search Jia San Yi Yi, and Xiao Hua went back alone.
• Xiao Hua found neither Phoenix Body Xiao Hua nor Demon Spirit Xiao Hua in Jia Qi Yi, injured his hand on the stone wall, and noticed blackened marks beneath a bloodstain.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua staggered into the hall, attacked Xiao Hua without answering his questions, and died after crashing into the statue.
• Xiao Hua reached Jia San Yi Yi and found Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, Demon Spirit Xiao Hua, and wounded Dragon Vein Xiao Hua on a raised platform, where Demon Spirit Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua accused him of causing their deaths.
• A cloaked figure on the gallery shot Phoenix Body Xiao Hua with a black crossbow bolt, and Xiao Hua recognized it as the Demon Emperor's attack.
• The figure fired again, and Xiao Hua desperately threw himself aside to evade the shot.

Xiao Hua fled the Demon Emperor through Star Moon Palace and found a battered little sword that helped him turn the pursuit around. He drove the cloaked Demon Emperor into the deadly reverse currents, but the stranger’s identity and warnings remained unresolved.

• Xiao Hua escaped the high platform after the Demon Emperor shot Demon Spirit Xiao Hua and pursued him through the halls.
• Xiao Hua found a battered little sword, hid beside a doorway, and avoided the Demon Emperor as it rushed past.
• Xiao Hua entered the corridor leading to the palace’s second level and dodged another crossbow bolt from the pursuing Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Hua ambushed the cloaked Demon Emperor, disarmed it, and wounded it with the little sword.
• The cloaked Demon Emperor urged Xiao Hua to kill everyone to escape, but Xiao Hua kicked it into the reverse currents, where it vanished.

Injured Xiao Hua wandered through Star Moon Palace and struggled to determine whether the other Xiao Huas were real or illusions created by the Cloaked Demon Emperor. The chapter ended when Bone Tempering Xiao Hua mistook him for the Demon Emperor and attacked.

• Xiao Hua realized that the other versions of himself outside Star Moon Palace might be phantoms and fled before they could find him.
• He searched the palace, encountered the other Xiao Huas in familiar halls, and narrowly escaped being discovered.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Demon Emperor's claim that killing the others was the way out was a trap, but remained unable to find an exit.
• He left the halls and met Bone Tempering Xiao Hua in a corridor near the stairs to the second floor.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua accused the bloodied Xiao Hua of being the Demon Emperor in disguise and punched toward his chest.

Xiao Hua tried to convince his incarnations that the Demon Emperor had been impersonating him, but his attempts to alter events in Star Moon Palace only caused more confusion and death. He armed himself with a crossbow and fled with Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua after the Demon Emperor attacked them.

• Xiao Hua fought Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, accidentally impaled him on the corridor's protective spikes, and watched him stagger away despite his explanations.
• Xiao Hua found a crossbow and arrows in Jia Er Ba Ba, then returned to Jia Qi Yi to try to change what had happened there.
• Xiao Hua persuaded the second Xiao Hua to leave Jia Qi Yi, but Bone Tempering Xiao Hua collapsed and died from his wounds.
• Xiao Hua rushed to Hall Three Eleven of Sector A and tried to warn Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua that the Demon Emperor had attacked them.
• Xiao Hua shot at a shadow on the second-floor pavilion, then fled with Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua when another crossbow bolt nearly hit them.

Xiao Hua tried to reunite with his incarnations, but the Cloaked Demon Emperor impersonated him and lured Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua into a trap. After the Cloaked Demon Emperor killed Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and gravely wounded Demon Spirit Xiao Hua, Xiao Hua followed the blood trail to the second floor of Star Moon Palace and approached the survivor.

• Xiao Hua failed to convince Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua to trust him, so he went to fetch Bone Tempering Xiao Hua.
• The Cloaked Demon Emperor returned disguised as Xiao Hua, claimed Bone Tempering Xiao Hua was dead, and led Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua to Jia Er Ba Ba.
• Xiao Hua found Bone Tempering Xiao Hua’s body missing and realized the Cloaked Demon Emperor had deceived the others, but he arrived too late to stop the attack.
• The Cloaked Demon Emperor stabbed Demon Spirit Xiao Hua and killed Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, while the wounded Demon Spirit Xiao Hua escaped.
• Xiao Hua followed Demon Spirit Xiao Hua’s blood trail up to the second floor of Star Moon Palace and heard him pleading not to be killed.

Xiao Hua discovered that Star Moon Palace was trapped in a repeating illusion populated by countless versions of himself, and concluded that killing the later arrivals might be the only way out. As the second Xiao Hua fought his way through the repeating events, the wounded Xiao Hua moved to intercept him and encountered Bone Tempering Xiao Hua.

• Xiao Hua entered a hall filled with the corpses of countless Demon Spirit Xiao Huas and watched the last survivor die.
• Xiao Hua saw the second Xiao Hua kill Cloaked Xiao Hua, whose corpse was revealed to be another version of himself.
• Xiao Hua realized that the later arrivals and their encounters were repeating illusions, and decided he must kill the newcomers to escape.
• The second Xiao Hua mistook Bone Tempering Xiao Hua for the Demon Emperor and attacked him, after which Bone Tempering Xiao Hua fled.
• Xiao Hua descended to the first level and passed a wary Bone Tempering Xiao Hua as he hurried through the palace.

Xiao Hua killed several of his clones in Star Moon Palace, but the third Xiao Hua defeated him and cast him into the chaotic current. He emerged somewhere near Qiang He Sea, where he found Xue Xue and Helpless confronting True Person Du'e.

• Xiao Hua found Phoenix Body Xiao Hua's corpse and evidence accusing the main body, then erased the accusation, hid the body, and discarded it with Bone Tempering Xiao Hua's corpse.
• Xiao Hua shot Dragon Vein Xiao Hua with a crossbow, then killed Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua as they confronted the third Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua chased the third Xiao Hua through Star Moon Palace, but the third Xiao Hua disarmed him and defeated him with a little sword.
• The third Xiao Hua kicked Xiao Hua into the chaotic current, where Xiao Hua drifted until he emerged in an unfamiliar place.
• Xue Xue urged Xiao Hua to fly deeper into Qiang He Sea, while True Person Du'e appeared and Helpless arrived to face him.

Xiao Hua realized that his repeated visions of Xue Xue and Wu Nai were an illusion created by a Heavenly Demon King to consume his vital essence. Though he had accumulated power across countless cycles, he used the brief moment of clarity to reach for Xue Xue and confess his love.

• Xue Xue and Wu Nai self-destructed in the illusion, and Xiao Hua rushed toward the Star Moon Palace with his four avatars.
• A black shadow revealed that it was a Heavenly Demon King trapping Xiao Hua in repeated karmic illusions to harvest his vital essence and attain demonic fruition.
• The Heavenly Demon King restarted the cycle, and Xiao Hua again witnessed Xue Xue preparing to sacrifice herself.
• Xiao Hua used his accumulated soul cultivation to clear his mind briefly and told Xue Xue he knew she was an illusion.
• Xiao Hua reached for Xue Xue's hand and confessed that he loved her.

Xiao Hua reunited with Yue Mingxin inside the Heavenly Demon’s illusion and revealed that he had secretly accumulated power to strike back. As his avatars arrived and trapped the wounded Heavenly Demon, it vanished after losing another portion of its body.

• Xiao Hua’s hand and Xue Xue’s phantom joined through their glowing marks, and Yue Mingxin appeared as moonlight broke into the devil kingdom.
• Xiao Hua split the illusion and wounded Wu Qing, explaining that he had recognized the Heavenly Demon hiding inside his master’s phantom and had gathered strength across repeated awakenings.
• Xiao Hua told the Heavenly Demon he was waiting for his avatars, then drew power from Yue Mingxin and used his Demon Blade to collapse the devil kingdom.
• Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua emerged as Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua, Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua, and Buddha Bodhi surrounded the Heavenly Demon.
• The Heavenly Demon tried to flee but was repelled by the nine cauldrons and struck by a Lotus Platform phantom before it vanished.

Xiao Hua and his avatars trapped and refined the Heavenly Demon, recovering their essence before sealing the remaining black mist in his space. They searched the surrounding area and headed for the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, unaware that the Heavenly Demon's ninth avatar had escaped.

• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua, Buddha Bodhi, and Xiao Hua formed arrays that trapped the Heavenly Demon and refined it for eighty-one days, restoring Xiao Hua and his avatars.
• Xiao Hua sealed the weakened Heavenly Demon inside his space and warned his avatars not to become enemies while the danger of their divided Primordial Spirits remained unresolved.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua gave Xiao Hua the legacies of eight sects rescued during the fight against the Devil Race and explained that the Creation Sect had settled in the Ruins.
• Xiao Hua and his avatars searched the surrounding area, and Demon Spirit Xiao Hua devoured eight hidden Heavenly Demon avatars before they found no more nearby.
• Xiao Hua and the others flew toward the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, while the Heavenly Demon's ninth avatar escaped through a dewdrop into the void.

After returning to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, Xiao Hua learned how Sun Jian and the Creation Sect had spent more than ten years rescuing eight sects from the Devil Race. He reinforced Sun Jian’s army and prepared to enter seclusion, ending the chapter as he examined the unusual bamboo in his grove.

• Sun Jian reported that Creation Sect and allied disciples had rescued eight sects, though more than half of the original Creation Sect force had fallen, and the Demon Emperor had not reappeared.
• Xiao Hua thanked Sun Jian, declined the Council Hall’s summons, and entrusted him with another one hundred thousand disciples to help rescue Snow Slash Sect and Yongan Mountain.
• Xiao Hua told Sun Jian to command the army during his seclusion and summoned Liu Yi, Fu Zhiwen, Wu Tian, his other disciples, and the three spirit beasts.
• Xiao Hua heard how his disciples had endured years of battle, gave them medicinal pills and personal cultivation guidance, then bestowed concealed sorcerous puppets upon them.
• After the disciples left, Xiao Hua entered the bamboo grove and studied its unusually long, thick nodes and small leaves.

After surviving the Heavenly Demon’s illusion, Xiao Hua recovered in a bamboo grove and reflected on the ordeal that had tempered him across five kalpas. He reunited with Yue Mingxin, who confessed her feelings for him, but he doubted that her affection was genuine.

• Xiao Hua realized that his avatars’ experiences had compounded the ordeal of the karmic cycles, and that his hidden techniques had helped him trap the Heavenly Demon.
• Xiao Hua listened to the bamboo grove, restrained his newly awakened killing aura, and used Ya Bi to restore the moonlit bamboo.
• Xiao Hua summoned Yue Mingxin with the Kunlun Mirror and recognized the Moon God’s favor on her, linked to the Moon Beast marks that had saved them.
• Xiao Hua offered Yue Mingxin treasures and essence as repayment, but she stopped him and asked him to hear her thoughts instead.
• Yue Mingxin confessed that she had thought of Xiao Hua since their first meeting and believed their mutual longing had activated the Moon Beast mark.
• Xiao Hua replied that he did not believe her feelings were what people called affection.

Xiao Hua rejected Yue Mingxin’s confession and explained his devotion to Xue Xue, but Yue Mingxin refused to reclaim the vital essence she had given him and chose to leave with her feelings intact. At dawn, she identified their location as Coiled Dragon Mountain and took her leave, while Xiao Hua remained behind.

• Yue Mingxin confessed that she wanted to remain by Xiao Hua’s side, but Xiao Hua told her that her feelings were infatuation rather than true love and recounted his story with Xue Xue.
• Xiao Hua explained that he and Yue Mingxin had no fate together, and Yue Mingxin insisted she would rather stay near him than forget him.
• Xiao Hua offered Yue Mingxin her vital essence back, but she refused, hoping he would remember her and their bond.
• Yue Mingxin covered her head with a veil and said she would remove it only after the knot in her heart was gone.
• Yue Mingxin identified their location as Coiled Dragon Mountain and said she could return to the Incense-Passing Cult through a nearby Teleportation Array.
• At dawn, Yue Mingxin took her leave of Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua arranged a hidden Teleportation Array and discussed with Green-robed Xiao Hua how cultivation in the Void differed from that in the lower realms. They concluded that the Void’s cultivation methods and abundant essence might let Xiao Hua’s incarnations gain the foundation to become living, independent people.

• Xiao Hua asked Green-robed Xiao Hua to escort Yue Mingxin, who refused his offer to see her off and flew away on her own.
• Xiao Hua traveled to an isolated wilderness, selected a site underground, and set up the Duotian Star Array so he could construct a Teleportation Array unseen.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua returned after seeing Yue Mingxin join disciples from the Incense-Passing Cult and the Divine Blade Sect, including Huan Wuxin, who were traveling to Qinghe.
• Xiao Hua showed Green-robed Xiao Hua the lineages of the eight southwestern sects, and they discussed how Void cultivators cultivated the Primordial Spirit using Primordial Qi.
• Xiao Hua explained that essence might be the basis that allowed his incarnations to develop emotions, desires, and independent personhood.

Xiao Hua explained how sufficient vital essence could turn his divided spirits into true incarnations, and promised to replenish them with the Heavenly Demon's essence. After gathering wandering souls in the Void, he received Sun Jian’s report that Snow Slash Sect and Yongan Mountain had vanished from contact, and considered sending powerful incarnations to investigate.

• Xiao Hua told green-robed Xiao Hua that the External Incarnation technique required abundant vital essence and that he would use the Heavenly Demon’s essence to perfect his incarnations.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua agreed to set up the Teleportation Array in the Void, while Xiao Hua explained why it needed to be built there and said he would protect the souls of fallen Creation Sect disciples.
• Xiao Hua flew out of the Duotian Star Array and gathered wandering souls, as the Nether Fruit Tree and a strange continent populated by Nether beasts grew within his space.
• Sun Jian reported that Snow Slash Sect and Yongan Mountain had not responded, and that neither the Creation Sect nor the Council Hall had received any word from them or their missing scouts.
• Xiao Hua recognized why Sun Jian could not risk sending more scouts and considered dispatching powerful incarnations to investigate the two sects.

Xiao Hua crossed the dangerous Southwest frontier and reached Yongan Mountain, where he recognized Xu as a planet and gained new insight into spatial laws. After triggering the sect’s warning restriction, he identified himself as Xiao Hua of Creation Sect and was asked to wait while the entrance was opened.

• Xiao Hua followed Sun Jian’s communication talisman toward the two sects and collected wandering souls, finding that Human Race souls were plentiful while Devil Race souls had vanished.
• A deadly storm of cold and chaotic ripples struck Xiao Hua, who escaped with wind escape and eventually realized he had blundered into the right direction.
• Xiao Hua reached Yongan Mountain and discovered that a natural vortex barrier prevented him from descending except near the projecting cliff.
• Xiao Hua recognized the surrounding void as the torn gap in Xu and realized Xu was a planet, prompting insights into spatial laws that caused Shenhua Continent to expand.
• Xiao Hua crossed the cliff, triggered Yongan Mountain’s warning restriction, and told the person who challenged him that he was Xiao Hua of Creation Sect.

Xiao Hua entered Yongan Mountain and learned that the star tide had destroyed its communications and damaged its defenses after the Devil Race withdrew. As Ding Hong led him toward the sect master, a trap revealed that Ding Hong had acted against him, but Xiao Hua stopped him and resisted the attack.

• Ding Hong told Xiao Hua that Yongan Mountain had survived the Devil Race's siege, while the star tide had destroyed its teleportation array and left the mountain unable to report its situation.
• Xiao Hua gave Ding Hong a jade slip for the sect master, who invited him to visit and explain his lingering injuries in person.
• Ding Hong took Xiao Hua aboard a Bixi-wood flying boat and guided him through Yongan Mountain's damaged formations and powerful primordial magnetic forces.
• Ding Hong triggered a trap that strengthened the flying boat's defenses and sent six primordial magnetic forces at Xiao Hua, then tried to vanish while laughing.
• Xiao Hua blocked the attack with lightning and restrained Ding Hong, who demanded to know how Xiao Hua had discovered the trap.

Xiao Hua exposed the Devil Lord’s deception at Yongan Mountain and fought her forces of zombie disciples with his powerful abilities. The Devil Lord summoned the Blood Drop Cave Heaven to oppose him.

• Xiao Hua split open Ding Hong’s armor, exposed the zombie beneath, and burned the corpse to dust with Samadhi True Fire.
• The enchanting woman appeared and revealed that she had taken Zhong Lingxiu’s body while using the dead disciples of Yongan Mountain as zombies.
• The Devil Lord’s zombies unleashed Extreme Magnetic Yuan Light, but Xiao Hua countered it with lightning and Five-colored True Qi.
• Xiao Hua sent the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors and a giant sword rainbow against the Devil Lord and her zombie disciples.
• The Devil Lord spat out filthy blood that formed a gigantic devil body and unleashed the Blood Drop Cave Heaven.