Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao emerged from the formation in the Demon Realm disguised with the Golden-Winged Peng King's aura and attacked the assembled avian demon leaders. The Little Peng King realized that Lin Hao had refined his father into a Dharma treasure, and Lin Hao began fighting the Divine Transformation demons.

• The Little Peng King and the other demon leaders waited anxiously for news from the Demon Realm formation, then sensed it reconnect with the Cultivation Realm.
• The Little Peng King sensed his father's bloodline aura through the formation and assured the other demons that the Golden-Winged Peng King was safe.
• Lin Hao emerged from the formation, and the demons mistook him for the Golden-Winged Peng King and bowed to him.
• Lin Hao trapped the assembled demons in his starry Cave-Heaven World and revealed that he was a human expert, causing the Little Peng King to recognize his father's aura in Lin Hao's Dharma treasures.
• The Peacock King and the other Divine Transformation demons attacked Lin Hao, but Lin Hao's Demon-Suppressing Tower smashed through the Peacock King's five-colored divine light and struck him.

Lin Hao captured four Divine Transformation demon kings and slaughtered the avian demons guarding a formation, then disguised himself as the Little Peng King to control the area and draw in supplies. When he saw humans being delivered as food for demons, he decided to adjust his plans to help them.

• Lin Hao used his Cave-Heaven, the Demon-Suppressing Tower, and his enhanced abilities to capture the Little Peng King, the Peacock King, the King of the Andean Condors, and the White Eagle King alive while his weapons and blood sea killed the avian demons.
• Lin Hao assessed his losses, disguised himself as the Little Peng King, and set up monitoring formations before recovering in a nearby cave dwelling.
• Ying Jingkong arrived with supplies and human captives, and Lin Hao impersonated the Little Peng King to order more supplies and avian guards sent to the formation.
• Lin Hao ordered Ying Jingkong to send the captives into the formation without processing them and killed demons who whipped them, then reconsidered his plans after seeing their condition.
• Nu Qi and One-Two-Seven recognized that they had been brought to the formation to be eaten, reflecting on the captive humans' lifelong preparation for slaughter.

Lin Hao kept the captive humans working on formations while studying the Golden-Winged Great Peng and Peacock bloodlines, discovering the potential of the xiantian five elements. He lured the Peacock clan into his formation and consumed its members to refine their bloodline, ending with early progress toward transforming his cultivation.

• Lin Hao concealed his identity from the captive humans, gave them formation knowledge, and promised they could live if they proved useful.
• Lin Hao analyzed the Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline and found it could improve his spatial movement and attacks.
• Lin Hao studied the Peacock clan’s Five-Colored Divine Light and began using its trace of xiantian five elements to refine his cultivation.
• Impersonating the Peacock King, Lin Hao summoned the clan’s humans, resources, and members to Sky Eagle Territory, then brought the Peacocks into his sealed formation in batches.
• Lin Hao revealed his blood-sea trap to Kong Yu and consumed the Peacock clan members, including Kong Yu, to extract their essence blood.
• Lin Hao’s five flames began reshaping his magic power and body, giving him preliminary results from refining the two clans’ bloodlines.

Lin Hao’s impersonation of the Young Peng King came under suspicion after Bai Ze sensed that something was wrong and could not divine whether the real Young Peng King was alive. As Lin Hao summoned the remaining avian clans, Ying Jingkong received a warning that the Young Peng King was dead and the one issuing orders was an impostor.

• Lin Hao declined to attend the Demon God Hall’s assembly and offered four slots to demons willing to join his formation.
• Bai Ze warned the assembled Divine Transformation Great Demons that a dangerous presence had entered the Demon Realm and that the Young Peng King’s fate was obscured.
• After the Howling Moon Wolf King failed to reach Lin Hao, Bai Ze said he could not determine whether the Young Peng King was alive or dead.
• Lin Hao realized Bai Ze’s divination had disrupted his plans, then ordered the remaining avian demon clans to gather with their supplies.
• Ying Jingkong prepared to obey Lin Hao’s orders until his Snow Leopard friend warned him that the Young Peng King was dead and the one giving orders was not him.

Lin Hao captured Ying Jingkong, then struck the Black-Backed Bear King's territory while the Demon Realm's Great Demons debated how to stop him. After the demon kings fled and Lin Hao raised corpses into an undead force, he sped off to hunt more prey.

• Lin Hao sensed trouble in the Sky Eagle Territory, seized Ying Jingkong, and announced that he would be detained for colluding with outsiders and leaking secrets.
• Bao Shisan reported Ying Jingkong's disappearance to the Clouded Leopard Demon King, who warned the Demon God Hall about the invading demon and prompted the Great Demons to debate their response.
• The Great Demons proposed deploying the Demon God Hall to restrict Lin Hao, but the Black-Backed Bear King's projection vanished, alarming the demon kings and driving nearby rulers to flee or seek shelter.
• Lin Hao roasted the Black-Backed Bear King's paw and used corpse-control methods to raise dead bear demons and corpse eagles as an infectious undead force.
• Lin Hao launched himself toward another territory at extreme speed, intending to hunt Nascent Soul and Core Formation demons who could not escape.

Lin Hao roamed the Demon Realm, spreading the curse of flesh and blood and slaughtering weaker demons while avoiding large formations of Divine Transformation Great Demons. When Earth Will revealed an evacuation point, he reversed course and trapped seven pursuing demon kings in his Cave-Heaven World, where he began overwhelming them with the Demon-Suppressing Tower and his other powers.

• Lin Hao spread the curse of flesh and blood across the Demon Realm and avoided a formation guarded by seven or eight Divine Transformation Great Demons.
• Over two months, Lin Hao raided the Demon Realm while the Demon Clan organized seven teams to capture him, with Immortal Seed Long Wu leading the central team.
• After sensing Earth Will and an evacuation point, Lin Hao reversed his direction and drew seven pursuing demon kings into an ambush.
• Lin Hao trapped the seven demon kings inside his Cave-Heaven World and attacked them with the Demon-Suppressing Tower, blood sea, and other weapons.
• Lin Hao severed the Pale White Tiger King's paw with Sky-Sweeping Claw, while the surrounded demon kings struggled and tried to negotiate.

Lin Hao defeated two pursuit teams of Demon Kings, captured Hu Jiaojiao, and used her to manipulate the remaining search parties. As Long Wu rushed toward the hunt, Bai Ze warned him to leave the Demon Realm before cutting off contact.

• Lin Hao killed the seven Demon Kings of the Pale White Tiger King's team, contained their Divine Souls, and escaped their incoming reinforcements by returning through a Teleportation Point.
• Lin Hao drew the eight Demon Kings led by the Clouded Leopard Demon King and Six-Tailed Demon Fox into his Cave-Heaven and defeated them, then subdued Hu Jiaojiao.
• Hu Jiaojiao told Lin Hao about Long Wu, Bai Ze, Feng Xi, and Zhu Zhu, and agreed to send false intelligence so the pursuit teams would arrive one at a time.
• Long Wu flew toward the hunt with the Demon God Hall and questioned Bai Ze about his misgivings.
• Bai Ze warned Long Wu to leave and ascend when the two realms converged, then destroyed his communication Dharma Conch.

Lin Hao recovered from his campaign against the Demon Realm’s Divine Transformation Great Demons while Long Wu withdrew toward the Demon God Hall. As the Cultivation Realm neared convergence with the Demon Realm and a Spirit World passage approached, Lin Hao secured advanced Swarm permissions that accelerated [Swarm Adaptation].

• Long Wu suspected Hu Jiaojiao had been subdued and, after another team reported an attack, abandoned the group under assault and headed for the formation with the last team.
• Lin Hao sealed the remains of several Divine Transformation Great Demons in his cave-heaven after defeating more than forty of them, and decided to pursue Long Wu after digesting his gains.
• Four months later, Lin Hao watched the Cultivation Realm draw close to the Demon Realm and explained that the convergence might open a passage to the Spirit World.
• Lin Hao negotiated with the Primordial Swarm Will for greater permissions and control over the Spirit World’s development in exchange for sending back information.
• The Primordial Swarm Will approved advance permissions, deepening Lin Hao’s [Swarm Will] and starting [Swarm Adaptation]’s transition toward gold.

Lin Hao fused the Demon Clan bloodlines into a powerful new [demon god] bloodline, gained formidable spatial abilities, and enlisted the Demon Realm's will to locate Bai Ze. As Lin Hao prepared for the coming realm convergence, Bai Ze fled and Long Wu tried to gather allies, but Feng Xi refused to join him.

• Lin Hao fused the Demon Clan bloodlines into his own, named the result the [demon god] bloodline, and inherited ancient memories of a Kunpeng battling the swarm.
• Lin Hao tore open a long spatial rift in the Demon Realm, startling Hu Jiaojiao and drawing a non-hostile response from the Demon Realm's will.
• Lin Hao used his bloodline and the Demon Realm's will to seek Bai Ze, who sensed the danger, created a substitute from his seven-colored heart, and fled toward an ancient teleportation formation.
• Lin Hao contacted Liu Qingqing and arranged for her to bring the Divine Transformation cultivators to attack when the two realms converged.
• Long Wu urged Feng Xi to join the Great Demons hiding in Demon God Hall, but Feng Xi refused and left with Zhu Zhu.

The Cultivation Realm launched a surprise invasion of the Demon Realm, where its fleet clashed with the remaining Great Demons as Long Wu fled toward the Spirit World. Lin Hao pursued Long Wu and Bai Ze through an ancient Ascension Passage and seized the Demon God Hall, leaving Long Wu facing Lin Hao’s overwhelming attack.

• Divine Lord Ziyun, Divine Lord Tai Xuan, and the Cultivation Realm’s assembled fleet crossed into the Demon Realm and bombarded the Confluence Plain, destroying formations and demon cultivators.
• Long Wu abandoned the Great Demons, took the Demon God Hall, and fled through an ancient ascension passage as the remaining demons rallied to fight the invading fleet.
• Lin Hao entered a separate Ascension Passage, used his fused [Demon God] bloodline to race through its spatial hazards, and caught up with Bai Ze and Long Wu.
• Bai Ze revealed that he was a substitute made from his own heart and warned Long Wu that Lin Hao was pursuing them, then left Long Wu to face the danger.
• Long Wu expanded the Demon God Hall with his True Dragon power, but Lin Hao’s five-colored Kunpeng severed Long Wu’s control and let Lin Hao seize the hall.

Lin Hao defeated Long Wu and Bai Ze, then returned to the battlefield and swept away the Demon Realm’s remaining Divine Transformation Great Demons. He ordered the Cultivation Realm forces to withdraw while he prepared for a possible Spirit World Reception Envoy to descend through the Ascension Passage.

• Lin Hao discovered Bai Ze was an avatar and took the Essence Blood-filled heart, then dragged Long Wu into his Cave-Heaven Blood Sea despite Long Wu’s pleas for help.
• A distant voice from the Ascension Passage tried to seize Lin Hao, but he cut through its invisible hands and escaped into the Demon Realm.
• Lin Hao returned to the battle between the Cultivation Realm expedition and the Demon Realm’s Great Demons, where the humans welcomed him as National Preceptor Haotian.
• Lin Hao swept the battlefield with his iridescent Kunpeng Dharma form and captured or subdued the remaining Divine Transformation Great Demons.
• Lin Hao ordered the Cultivation Realm forces to withdraw and told Liu Qingqing that a Spirit World Reception Envoy might be coming through the passage.

Lin Hao brought Feng Xi, Zhu Zhu, and Hu Jiaojiao back to the Cultivation Realm and began sealing the passage after learning that the reception envoy was descending. The envoy, Jiao Yun, arrived in the Demon Realm and found the realm torn open by a terrifying being from beyond the sky.

• Feng Xi agreed to cultivate in seclusion in the Cultivation Realm and provide Lin Hao with phoenix and Vermilion Bird essence blood in exchange for his protection.
• Lin Hao returned to the Cultivation Realm with the three demons, warned its cultivators that Jiao Yun and a greater threat were approaching, and began directing the passage's seal.
• Jiao Yun entered the Demon Realm, while Bai Ze declined to get involved and departed for the Spirit World.
• Jiao Yun questioned surviving demon cultivators and learned that an extraterritorial heavenly demon had killed the Demon Realm's divine transformation great demons and taken the Demon God Hall.
• A being beyond the sky tore open the Demon Realm's world barrier with tentacles and fixed its compound eyes on Jiao Yun, leaving him stunned by memories from his bloodline.

Lin Hao absorbed new Swarm-derived bloodline abilities and strengthened his powers, while the Cultivation Realm remained unsettled by the Demon Realm’s mysterious destruction. He told Feng Xi and Zhu Zhu that the Spirit World had cut off the Ascension Passages, then offered to help them reach it if they assisted his cultivation.

• The Cultivation Realm’s cultivators saw the Demon Realm’s projection shaken and consumed by an unseen force, leaving them fearful even after it vanished.
• Lin Hao incorporated True Dragon, phoenix, and Vermilion Bird abilities, fused his bloodlines, and tested his greatly enhanced combat powers.
• Lin Hao flew to the Hehuan Sect, where Feng Xi and Zhu Zhu were cultivating and Hu Jiaojiao and Miaoyu teased them about dual cultivation.
• Feng Xi and Zhu Zhu felt an unusually strong response to Lin Hao’s bloodline aura when he arrived.
• Lin Hao explained that the Spirit World had severed both realms’ Ascension Passages and offered to help Feng Xi and Zhu Zhu reach the Spirit World if they assisted his cultivation.

Lin Hao reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage, disclosed his identity as an extraterritorial heavenly demon to the Cultivation Realm’s Divine Transformation cultivators, and learned why the Spirit World coveted his [Object Bestowal] authority. As Penglai City continued to grow across the ocean, Lin Hao saw its reincarnation system helping residents recover their souls and await resurrection.

• Lin Hao advanced to the Late Nascent Soul Stage after Feng Xi and Zhu Zhu helped accelerate his cultivation, causing the Hehuan Sect’s spirit qi to surge into a vortex.
• Lin Hao convened the Cultivation Realm’s Divine Transformation cultivators and revealed his origin, and they pledged loyalty after learning the Spirit World passage had been severed.
• Feng Xi explained that the Spirit World sought [Object Bestowal], an authority possessed by its rare Spirit Race, and Lin Hao offered to consider granting it to those who performed well.
• Penglai City expanded to more than a hundred square kilometers and over a million residents as swarm creatures carried it across the ocean.
• Li Yanbing told Lin Hao that the city’s reincarnation system was recovering residents’ souls and letting them work while they waited for Earth Will to reconstruct their bodies.

Yang Fan and the other survivors of a struggling sea settlement were rescued from sea monsters by Penglai City’s Imperial Guard, who offered them a chance to join the city. Penglai City arrived at the settlement, while Lin Hao wondered whether it held something useful for his plans in the Void.

• Yang Fan and his girlfriend faced dwindling food, madness, and a giant crocodile as dangerous sea creatures gathered around their settlement.
• When monsters began killing sharks, Yang Fan jumped into the water to reach the Teleportation Point, but a Sicklebug caught him and lifted him to safety.
• An Imperial Guard revealed he was an Earthling and invited the survivors to join Penglai City, prompting them to eagerly accept and plead for food.
• The Imperial Guard announced that Penglai City was nearby, and the immense city emerged through the waves beside the settlement.
• Lin Hao considered why his divination had led him to the settlement and wondered whether Earth Will had guided him there.

Lin Hao led a small team through the settlement’s teleportation point to investigate a new world that might help him navigate the Void. After assessing its intricate magical network, he sensed that the world held both valuable possibilities and dangers, so he chose to proceed cautiously.

• The survivors settled into the city, where a guide explained its free food, housing, cultivation resources, and Reincarnation System to Yang Fan and the others.
• Lin Hao arrived and questioned Yang Fan about the teleportation point, then ordered Imperial Guards, Miaoyu, Chu Yu, and An Fan to explore the unknown world and gather intelligence.
• Lin Hao and his companions traveled through a stable passage maintained by the Earth Will, and he assessed the new world’s detailed rules and strong spiritual energy.
• Lin Hao warned Miaoyu to avoid attracting the Heavenly Dao’s attention, while Chu Yu and An Fan went to question people near a windmill.
• Lin Hao used local rules to produce a flame and divined that two paths through the world’s network could help him orient himself in the Void, though both carried a faint threat.

Lin Hao assessed the Seven Gods World and began establishing a swarm base while his team gathered intelligence and planned to enter local society through trade and mercenary work. The group secured a stronghold near the Demon Beast Forest, but Lin Hao remained wary of the seven deities and sought to learn how Fate and Wisdom were connected.

• Lin Hao learned that the world had seven gods, widespread low-tier magic, and cultivation systems tied to mana, blessings, and divine authority.
• Lin Hao ordered his people to investigate the temples of Fate and Wisdom, then created an Insect Blessing to disguise the swarm as native insects.
• Yin Saide, Wang Zhen, Cattiss, and Wang Xiaojing reached Pota City and decided to establish a chamber of commerce and a mercenary company while gathering intelligence.
• Lin Hao killed the local Earth Dragon and chose its territory as the swarm's base, where Miaoyu and the insects began building their nest.
• Lin Hao judged that mortal forces were unlikely to threaten him, but cautioned that the seven deities and their angels could be powerful on their home ground.

Lin Hao captured Henry, the twins, and the Crow Bandit Group after Miaoyu intervened in the Demon Beast Forest, then learned the girls were heirs targeted in a noble succession struggle. He healed Henry and made a deal for him to help with his plans, while the remaining bandits were fed to the Vengeful Spirits.

• Henry fled into the Demon Beast Forest with Nico and Nilu while the Crow Bandit Group pursued them, and Rotclaw Bugs surrounded both parties.
• Miaoyu appeared, bound everyone with spiritual-energy chains, and brought them to Lin Hao in his mountain lair.
• The one-eyed leader tried to pledge the Crow Bandit Group's loyalty, but Lin Hao killed him and let the Vengeful Spirits devour his soul.
• Lin Hao learned the Crow Bandit Group had been hired to kill Nico and Nilu, potential heirs to Marquis Sike's title.
• Lin Hao healed Henry and offered him a transaction: one of the girls would inherit, and Henry would help Lin Hao with future matters.
• Lin Hao fed the remaining bandits to the Vengeful Spirits and extracted their memories.

Lin Hao learned that Marquis Sike’s death and the attacks on his heirs were part of a plot to seize power, then accompanied Henry and the two young ladies to Josephburg. Young Henry betrayed his father on their return, but Lin Hao killed the conspirators with Super-Tier Magic and left Henry to handle the aftermath.

• Henry explained that Marquis Sike’s sudden death and the attacks on his family had left the succession in doubt, while Lin Hao agreed to accompany the party to the royal capital.
• Young Henry secretly allied with the Crow Bandit Group and sent Josephburg’s strongest troops away under the pretext of hunting bandits.
• When Henry and the young ladies returned to Josephburg, Young Henry stabbed his father with a poisoned dagger and the black-clad attackers surrounded them.
• Lin Hao stepped out of the carriage and stopped the assassins’ crossbow bolts with magic.
• Lin Hao unleashed instant Super-Tier Magic, and Fate Arrows killed Young Henry and the black-clad attackers.
• Lin Hao removed the dagger and healed Henry, then told him to handle what remained.

Lin Hao and the Joseph Territory candidates reached the Royal Capital, where Astor Gaia welcomed them and arranged lodging near his residence. There, Lin Hao encountered Darian Wise and learned through Cattiss that his allies had gained influence among three of the four remaining candidates for Marquis Sike’s succession.

• Lin Hao traveled with Miaoyu and Henry’s party to the Royal Capital, where their intact arrival drew attention amid rumors about attacks on the succession candidates.
• Astor Gaia greeted Henry, heard about the assassinations, and met Lin Hao, while his [Fate Holy Sword] reacted to Lin Hao for the first time.
• Astor led the group to lodging near his castle, where Nico and Nilu warmed to him and Lin Hao joked that they feared him.
• Darian Wise arrived and accused a rival candidate of faking an attack, while Lin Hao recognized Yin Saide and Wang Zhen among Darian’s mercenaries.
• Lin Hao contacted Cattiss and learned that her allies had established ties to Darian Wise and Luna Nolan, giving them influence beside three of the four remaining candidates.