Chapter Summaries

Bai Fei and Xiao Hua split from Yuankong’s group and used Metal Devouring Worms to scout the maze’s forks. As they pressed deeper, a cold voice suddenly rang out ahead.

• Bai Fei proposed splitting the group, and he and Xiao Hua took the right tunnel while Yuankong, Zhuang, and Fairy Yu took the left.
• At four new forks, Xiao Hua jokingly chose the first left path by chanting a children’s rhyme, while Bai Fei sent Metal Devouring Worms down all four paths.
• Bai Fei’s Metal Devouring Worms found viable routes, and he relied on them to guide the pair through later forks.
• Bai Fei entered an opening and secretly placed more than a dozen Metal Devouring Worms there while Xiao Hua waited outside.
• Xiao Hua secretly searched the vast maze with his divine sense, then noticed another set of forks as a cold voice rang out ahead.

Ji Yu pursued Bai Fei and Xiao Hua through the maze, while Xiao Hua realized Bai Fei had lured Ji Yu toward a prepared ambush. Ji Yu entered the chamber, but Bai Fei held back from triggering his sword formation as he drew Ji Yu closer by arguing over Ye Yun.

• Ji Yu intercepted Bai Fei and Xiao Hua in the maze and chased them as Bai Fei’s speed repeatedly faltered.
• Bai Fei led Xiao Hua into a passage containing hidden Metal Devouring Worms and a prepared sword formation, and Xiao Hua inferred that Bai Fei had planned to ambush Ji Yu.
• Ji Yu followed them into the chamber, protected by a seal-shaped magic treasure, while Bai Fei assigned Xiao Hua a position and told him to wait for instructions.
• Ji Yu stopped short of the formation, but Bai Fei provoked him by questioning his right to interfere with Ye Yun’s relationship with Bai Fei.
• Ji Yu moved closer in anger and claimed he had loved Ye Yun since meeting her when she was seventeen or eighteen and had spent years supporting and protecting her.

Ji Yu confronted Bai Fei over Ye Yun, but he gave up the fight and entrusted Bai Fei with medicine and a cultivation method for her. After Ji Yu left, Bai Fei turned his attention to Xiao Hua and warned him not to act rashly.

• Ji Yu accused Bai Fei of turning Ye Yun away from him and attacked him with a seal when Bai Fei asked him to let Xiao Hua go.
• Bai Fei revealed his late Nascent Soul strength and blocked Ji Yu’s attacks as Ji Yu stepped toward the sword array.
• Ji Yu withdrew his attack, admitted he wanted Ye Yun to be happy, and warned Bai Fei to treat her well.
• Ji Yu gave Bai Fei a storage ring containing medicine for Ye Yun and a Nascent Soul cultivation method, then left through the passageway.
• Bai Fei questioned whether Ji Yu’s departure was a trap, then warned Xiao Hua to remain calm and not act rashly.

Xiao Hua and Bai Fei continued through the maze after Bai Fei threatened him with a sword formation, then split up to search two promising passages for Wind Phantom Wheels. When a violent planar storm revealed Dragon Qi and an overwhelming aura, Xiao Hua sent disciples to search the maze and hurried away through a spatial rift.

• Bai Fei trapped Xiao Hua in a sword formation and pressed him to cooperate, but Xiao Hua calmly refused to pledge loyalty and Bai Fei let him go.
• Bai Fei collected Ji Yu's storage ring and the Metal Devouring Worms, then continued with Xiao Hua as though their confrontation had not happened.
• At a four-way junction, Bai Fei and Xiao Hua split up to search the two passages that led onward, and Bai Fei secretly sent a Metal Devouring Worm after Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua lost the trailing worm in the maze and used a divine ability, triggering powerful winds, spatial cracks, Dragon Qi, and an aura close to exceeding ninth-grade Yuan Force.
• Xiao Hua summoned several Spirit Division disciples, gave them information and techniques to search for a Wind Phantom Wheel, and left through a spatial rift.

True Person Xiyue met Yang Xia in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, where Yang Xia urged him to leave the Dao Alliance and cultivate the Eight-Nine Golden Body before it was too late. Old Man Peacock Kong Qiang arrived, and Yang Xia identified Xiyue as a disciple his Meixuan Spirit had planted in Chongxi Sect.

• Nascent Soul disciples split up and departed in different directions.
• True Person Xiyue told Yang Xia that he had visited all four Dao Alliance forbidden areas and regretted being unable to refuse True Person Ji Yan’s guidance.
• Yang Xia criticized True Person Ji Yan for sending Xiyue to multiple forbidden areas and warned that Dao Alliance cultivators were suffering more from draining lifespans.
• Xiyue acknowledged that he still felt attached to Chongxi Sect, but said he had learned to let go from Senior Mingguang.
• Old Man Peacock Kong Qiang arrived, and Yang Xia introduced Xiyue as the disciple his Meixuan Spirit had placed in Chongxi Sect.

Dragon God Son and other Heavenly Alliance leaders gathered to discuss Zhang Xiaohua’s whereabouts and the revised Nascent Soul cultivation method. Holy Mother Di Ling’s prophecy suggested Zhang was within the alliance, but the gathering ended with everyone wondering why True Person Jin Sheng had not arrived.

• Old Man Peacock and Yang Xia argued over Zhang Xiaohua’s techniques and their factions’ cultivation methods.
• Dragon God Son arrived, praised True Person Xiyue’s return to the Heavenly Alliance, and asked Kong Qiang about revising the final three Nascent Soul realms.
• Holy Mother Di Ling reported that she could not locate Zhang Xiaohua but had received a prophetic verse suggesting he was hidden among the Heavenly Alliance.
• Dragon God Son said he had ordered disciples to guard the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss, then agreed to ease the blockade after Yang Xia warned that Zhang’s instructions and the Dao Alliance’s spies complicated matters.
• Holy Mother Di Ling asked why True Person Jin Sheng had not arrived, and Yang Xia was surprised that he had been included in the gathering.

Yang Xia learned that Kong Qiang had discovered an aura in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area that replenished lifespan, and that the Heavenly Alliance planned to seal the area to find its source. As the group discussed the secret, a huge hooded figure arrived.

• Yang Xia pressed Kong Qiang to explain what he had found in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area.
• Kong Qiang revealed that a mysterious aura had replenished his lifespan after he refined it with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Dragon God Son and Holy Mother Di Ling explained that their investigation traced the aura to somewhere within Yilin Continent, and True Person Jin Sheng was making a spirit artifact to suppress the forbidden area.
• Holy Mother Di Ling questioned why Yang Xia had brought True Person Xiyue, and Yang Xia said he wanted Xiyue to meet the Heavenly Alliance's senior members.
• A dark golden tide swept through the spatial fragments, and a towering hooded figure appeared and greeted the group.

True Person Jin Sheng joined the Heavenly Alliance experts at the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area with a completed spiritual artifact intended to suppress the interface power and draw out a mysterious object. Holy Mother Di Ling sensed that the Myriad Monster Realm lay beneath the forbidden area, and Dragon God Son revealed that the Mysterious Alliance had once used a spatial treasure to cross into that realm, leaving the group stunned.

• True Person Jin Sheng arrived with his spiritual artifact, which he had refined for centuries and further exposed to Netherworld power.
• True Person Jin Sheng and Yang Xia asked whether the mysterious object could restore the lifespan spent on the artifact, and Kong Qiang said he could not be certain but would condense its emitted aura into spiritual objects if they subdued it.
• Holy Mother Di Ling explained that her investigations indicated another interface beneath the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, likely the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Dragon God Son and Yang Xia revealed that the Mysterious Alliance had once been driven to the forbidden area by the Heavenly Alliance and Daoist Alliance before its leader opened a passage to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Dragon God Son explained that the Mysterious Alliance's leader used a spatial spiritual treasure to send its cultivators into the demon-spirit realm, and Kong Qiang reacted in shock.

Holy Mother Di Ling and the others discussed the fate of the Mystic Alliance, whose cultivators had mostly been killed after migrating to the Myriad Monster Realm. True Person Jin Sheng prepared unusual spiritual artifacts to suppress the realm’s power in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, and the group began arranging them into a formation.

• Dragon God Son explained that most Mystic Alliance cultivators had crossed into the Myriad Monster Realm, where the Demon Race later slaughtered nearly all of them.
• Holy Mother Di Ling argued that the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance might need to consider crossing realms because the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration had cut off their cultivation path.
• True Person Jin Sheng gave Dragon God Son, Kong Qiang, Yang Xia, and Holy Mother Di Ling spiritual artifacts fashioned from the shell of Great Witch Tian Wu, which could control nearby hurricanes.
• Dragon God Son insisted that True Person Xiyue remain with the group, and Xiyue moved a short distance away to wait safely.
• After surveying the forbidden area, True Person Jin Sheng summoned a larger spiritual artifact, and Dragon God Son, Yang Xia, Kong Qiang, and Holy Mother Di Ling took positions in the four directions to begin forming the array.

True Person Jin Sheng and the Heaven Alliance used five Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasures to suppress the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area and expose a planar rift, but the Dao Alliance launched a prepared ambush as True Person Ji Yan entered the rift. The chapter ended with True Person Jin Sheng revealing a second Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasure to Yu Hongzi after warning that Yu Hongzi had fallen into a trap.

• True Person Jin Sheng and the other four Heaven Alliance cultivators combined the power of their Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasures to calm the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area and reveal the planar rift.
• Kong Qiang rushed toward the rift, but six Dao Alliance cultivators emerged from the void and attacked the five Heaven Alliance cultivators; True Person Ji Yan reached the rift first and entered it.
• Fubo the Rogue attacked Yang Xia, Ancestor Ye Family blocked Kong Qiang, Fairy Mo Yun attacked Holy Mother Di Ling, Old Man Gu Qiong confronted Dragon God Son, and Yu Hongzi struck at True Person Jin Sheng.
• A black qi face warned Yu Hongzi that he had fallen into a trap, and True Person Jin Sheng turned to reveal another Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasure in his hidden hand.

Dragon God Son revealed the Heavenly Alliance’s trap in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, using a realm storm to injure the Dao Alliance cultivators before restoring the seal over the realm fissure. As the two sides prepared to fight, he explained that the Heavenly Alliance had not known what True Person Xiyue would do, leaving Xiyue’s loyalty in question.

• Yu Hongzi recognized the Heavenly Alliance’s ambush, but True Person Jin Sheng destroyed the wind sword and used the Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasure to turn the suppressing halo into a wave of light spikes and realm storm.
• The realm storm overwhelmed the cultivators; True Person Ji Yan tried to protect True Person Xiyue, while Old Man Gu Qiong and the others used treasures to survive.
• Dragon God Son sacrificed the Heavenly Wu Spirit Treasures’ outer forms, revealed their dragon-shaped cores, and merged five cores into a golden ring that sealed the realm fissure again.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and the injured Dao Alliance cultivators launched attacks on Dragon God Son and the other Heavenly Alliance members.
• Dragon God Son told Old Man Gu Qiong that the Heavenly Alliance had only contacted Xiyue once every ten years and had not known whether he would remain loyal to the alliance.

True Person Jin Sheng revealed the Devil Race’s plot and unleashed a devil artifact, turning the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area into a deadly battlefield where Daoist and Heavenly Alliance cultivators fought amid a raging plane storm. Xiao Hua arrived, saved True Person Xiyue’s soul, and sent his avatars to suppress the storm and stop the fighting.

• True Person Jin Sheng detonated his body, exposed the devil artifact hidden in his spirit treasure, and used the plane’s power to attack the Daoist Alliance cultivators.
• True Person Ji Yan accused Hao Yue Jushi and the Heavenly Alliance of conspiring with the Devil Race, while the supreme cultivators attacked one another amid the renewed plane storm.
• Devilish patterns corrupted Dragon God Son’s golden dragon, and the resulting chaos tore open space as the battle spread across the forbidden area.
• Xiao Hua stepped through the spatial crack, found the dying True Person Xiyue, and drew his soul into the Yin aspect of his space.
• Xiao Hua summoned the Kunlun Mirror and his avatars, ordering Tianren to suppress the plane storm while the others helped end the battle.

Celestial Man used the Kunlun Mirror to divert the realm storm, while Xiao Hua and his incarnations overwhelmed the cultivators and hidden Devil Race forces across the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area. The storm weakened, but Wu Daoist arrived to confront Fairy Mo Yun and Holy Mother Di Ling.

• Celestial Man revealed his Celestial Dharma Body and used the Kunlun Mirror to channel the realm storm through countless other spaces, steadily weakening it.
• Demon Venerable Slayer split into nine Demon Gods, subdued the demonic treasures and four hidden Demon Emperor incarnations, and identified Demon Emperor Jing Yu.
• Demon Venerable Slayer flew toward a demonic dragon as the heavenly wind gradually died away.
• Holy Mother Di Ling and Fairy Mo Yun fought while the demonic treasure attacked Fairy Mo Yun, but Demon Venerable Slayer’s demonic pillar swallowed the treasure.
• Wu Daoist descended through the realm storm, and Fairy Mo Yun and Holy Mother Di Ling joined forces to resist his overwhelming aura.

Wu Daoist and Feng Wu intervened in the battles between the human cultivators, using overwhelming power to force the combatants apart. Feng Wu revealed he was Zhang Xiaohua’s friend, prompting Yang Xia and Fubo the Rogue to stop resisting and look toward the other battles.

• Wu Daoist summoned a storm of Three Corpse Yin Thunder that shattered Fairy Mo Yun and Holy Mother Di Ling’s attacks and separated them behind a lightning barrier.
• Feng Wu transformed and charged into the fight between Fubo the Rogue and Yang Xia, while Yang Xia injured Fubo’s merman and Fubo unleashed her innate heavy water against him.
• Feng Wu knocked back Yang Xia and Fubo’s attacks with pillars of starlight and moonlight and ordered them to stop fighting.
• Yang Xia and Fubo ignored Feng Wu’s warning and prepared to fight him, but Feng Wu restrained them with phantom phoenix claws and nearly struck them down.
• Feng Wu said he was Zhang Xiaohua’s friend, and Yang Xia and Fubo withdrew their final techniques and turned their attention toward the other battles.

Huang Tong confronted Ye Zhen and Kong Qiang, who called forth an Immortal Puppet and a Five-Colored Peacock Dharma Body to resist him. Huang Tong identified the puppet as an immortal corpse and recognized the character “Jiang” on its neck as their clash began.

• Huang Tong charged at Ye Zhen and Kong Qiang after Feng Wu moved to intercept Fubo the Rogue and Yang Xia.
• Kong Qiang summoned his Five-Colored Peacock Dharma Body while Ye Zhen used essence blood and a jade ruyi to release an Immortal Puppet.
• Huang Tong attacked both clan heads with spatial force, and Kong Qiang’s five-colored divine light failed to stop it.
• Huang Tong told Kong Qiang he was Zhang Xiaohua’s friend, prompting Kong Qiang to stop attacking and remain on guard.
• Ye Zhen’s Immortal Puppet punched at Huang Tong, who countered with his claw and recognized the character “Jiang” on the puppet’s neck.

Ye Zhen saw Huang Tong overpower the Ye family's Immortal Puppet and learned that Xiao Hua was nearby, while Yu Hongzi sought safety beside them. Elsewhere, True Person Ji Yan and Hao Yue Jushi fought under the Devil Race’s deception, and Hao Yue Jushi sacrificed his lifespan to withstand Ji Yan’s Universe Seal as a devil artifact’s head approached.

• Huang Tong overwhelmed Ye Zhen’s Immortal Puppet, and Ye Zhen sealed it back into the jade ruyi.
• Huang Tong told Ye Zhen that True Person Xiao was nearby, while Yu Hongzi cautiously approached after fleeing Demon Venerable Slayer and the battlefield’s chaos.
• True Person Ji Yan attacked Hao Yue Jushi with the Universe Seal, believing their earlier conflict had been part of a betrayal.
• Hao Yue Jushi countered with Moon String, then spent essence blood and lifespan to unleash stronger blade strikes against the descending seal.
• A devil artifact’s head crept toward True Person Ji Yan while Hao Yue Jushi struggled to explain the Devil Race’s scheme.

Thunderclap True Person intervened as True Person Ji Yan and Hao Yue Jushi launched their spirit treasures at each other, then overwhelmed both attacks with lightning. He left Hao Yue Jushi’s Moon String caught in a Hand of Thunder.

• True Person Ji Yan drove the nine-layered Universe Seal at Hao Yue Jushi, who transformed his Nascent Soul Dharma Body into Moon String to meet the attack.
• Demon Venerable Slayer’s Demonic Pillar descended nearby, and Thunderclap True Person arrived between the two spirit treasures.
• Thunderclap True Person formed two enormous thunderballs and used one to shatter the Universe Seal’s phantoms and overwhelm True Person Ji Yan.
• Hao Yue Jushi’s Moon String attacked the other thunderball, but lightning flowers repeatedly bloomed and vanished to resist its blade light.
• Thunderclap True Person summoned a Hand of Thunder, seized Moon String, and declared that Hao Yue Jushi’s strength was only slightly greater than True Person Ji Yan’s.

Xiao Hua and True Person Da reached Dragon God Son, whose nine-colored Dragon Horns and corrupted Dragon Blood Dharma Body suggested a demonic dragon bloodline and a Devil Race plot targeting him. As True Person Da drew Dragon God Son away, Xiao Hua used the Dream Mirage Butterfly to contact Old Man Gu Qiong within Meng Ping Tian Xia.

• Thunderclap True Person freed Hao Yue Jushi from the Moon String and told True Person Ji Yan to await True Person Xiao for an explanation.
• Xiao Hua and True Person Da reached Dragon God Son and discussed how his nine-colored Dragon Horns could indicate an upper-realm or demon dragon bloodline.
• Dragon God Son attacked Meng Ping Tian Xia, but Old Man Gu Qiong struck him with a powerful soul spike.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Devil Race had targeted Dragon God Son, and True Person Da agreed the theory was plausible.
• True Person Da lured Dragon God Son away while Xiao Hua used the Dream Mirage Butterfly to break the illusions around Meng Ping Tian Xia and greet Old Man Gu Qiong.

Xiao Hua subdued Old Man Gu Qiong after turning his lethal soul-sword attack back on him, then sent him to recover while he went to awaken the demon-corrupted Dragon God Son. Demon Venerable Slayer revealed that the Devil Race infiltrator was Demon Emperor Jing Yu, but most of his memories about Jing Yu’s scheme had been erased.

• Old Man Gu Qiong attacked Xiao Hua with his soul sword, but Xiao Hua used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to overpower him and fuse Meng Ping Tian Xia’s fragments into the sword.
• Old Man Gu Qiong recognized Xiao Hua as Zhang Xiaohua, apologized for attacking him, and accepted Xiao Hua’s help and a Rejuvenation Pill after losing lifespan.
• Xiao Hua told Old Man Gu Qiong to rest while he went to Dragon God Son, who was still fighting True Person Da as Demon Venerable Slayer watched.
• Demon Venerable Slayer told Xiao Hua that the Devil Race member he had devoured was Demon Emperor Jing Yu of the Dong Ting Demon Domain.
• Demon Venerable Slayer explained that erased memories left him unsure why Jing Yu had infiltrated Yilin Continent and schemed in the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, so he wanted to learn what interested Jing Yu about Dragon God Son.

Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer discussed how Demon Emperor Jing Yu possessed True Person Jin Sheng by exploiting his desires, then Xiao Hua subdued Dragon God Son and offered him a choice about the Devil Race imprint in his bloodline. Dragon God Son asked whether accepting the imprint would make him a servant of the Devil Race, and Xiao Hua explained that it would be a return to his original source.

• Xiao Hua reasoned that the Heavenly Alliance's plan to find a lifespan-restoring treasure had been turned against them when Demon Emperor Jing Yu possessed True Person Jin Sheng.
• Demon Venerable Slayer explained that Jing Yu had used True Person Jin Sheng's desires to possess him, prompting Xiao Hua to question what Dao Heart, Dao Foundation, and Dao Realm truly meant.
• True Person Da attacked Dragon God Son, then restrained him with the Dragon Language Heavenly Art before Xiao Hua stopped him from causing further harm.
• Xiao Hua summoned a hundred-li Hand of Thunder that suppressed Dragon God Son and restrained the demonic patterns in his body.
• Xiao Hua offered Dragon God Son the choice to accept the Devil Race imprint and gain strength or have it erased and remain a Human Race cultivator with weaker powers.
• Dragon God Son recognized Xiao Hua, asked whether the final three realms of the Nascent Soul cultivation technique were complete, and asked whether accepting the imprint would make him obey the Devil Race; Xiao Hua said it would be a return to his source.