Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen confronted Dharma Master Chanxin at Cold Mountain Temple’s Xuanchi Branch Temple after exposing its ties to the Impermanence Sect remnants. Chanxin offered to repent but refused to take concrete action, and Qing Chen ordered him to surrender the branch and leave Xuanchi Island with his monks.

• Qing Chen surrounded Xuanchi City with the Demon Lotus Guards and flew north toward Cold Mountain Temple’s Xuanchi Branch Temple.
• Dharma Master Chanxin recalled how the Condensed Jade Sect’s battle formation had unleashed golden-core-level power and how Jianlong Daoist’s group had helped destroy it.
• Qing Chen arrived before the temple and demanded that Chanxin answer for Cold Mountain Temple’s sheltering of Jianlong Daoist and its ties to Black-White Temple.
• Chanxin admitted that he had misjudged Black-White Temple and offered to enter seclusion for a hundred years to atone for his failures.
• Qing Chen rejected Chanxin’s apology and ordered him to surrender the branch and leave Xuanchi Island with his disciples and grand-disciples.

Qing Chen attacked the Cold Mountain Temple monks after Xingchi insulted him, overpowering their defenses with his Avīci Heartless Seal. Dharma Master Chanxin repeatedly intervened to protect Xingchi and the eight hundred śrāmaṇeras, and the chapter ended with Chanxin blocking Qing Chen’s latest strike.

• Xingchi lost his temper at Qing Chen, and Chanxin apologized on his behalf and begged Qing Chen to spare him.
• Qing Chen formed an Avīci Heartless Seal and charged at Xingchi, forcing Chanxin to activate his red bamboo beads for protection.
• Chanxin’s Buddhist-bead barrier shattered under Qing Chen’s attack, but the eight hundred monks formed the Vajra Formation and briefly held him back.
• Qing Chen smashed the vajra warrior’s phantom and advanced on Xingchi, prompting Chanxin to rush between them.
• Chanxin reactivated his red bamboo beads and used the My Buddha Chan Heart Sutra to block Qing Chen’s strike.

Qing Chen forced Dharma Master Chanxin and Cold Mountain Temple’s monks to abandon Xuanchi Island after demonstrating his superior strength. Chanxin secured the temple’s withdrawal and paid Qing Chen twenty high-grade spirit stones, but Qing Chen also demanded Xingchi and left the monks with no time to pack.

• Chanxin recognized the strength of Qing Chen’s demonic cultivation and used his Red Bamboo Prayer Beads to defend against another attack.
• Chanxin offered to lead Cold Mountain Temple’s monks and lay disciples off Xuanchi Island, but Qing Chen said that was not enough.
• Qing Chen demanded that the temple leave immediately without packing and hand Xingchi over to him.
• Chanxin agreed to the withdrawal but tried to protect Xingchi by warning Qing Chen about the monk’s powerful master and offering twenty high-grade spirit stones.
• Qing Chen accepted the payment and escorted more than a thousand monks beyond the formation barrier, killing several rogue cultivators who tried to flee.

After Qing Chen’s breach of Xuanchi City, the Demon Lotus Sect’s forces slaughtered the city’s scattered defenders. Yuwen Bujing led his guards to kill the cultivators at Xuanwu Gate and collect their remains, while the Demon Guards learned that the Purple Tenuity Devil Lord was Qing Chen, the Hidden Spirit True Person.

• Qing Chen’s attack left Xuanchi City without its leaders or organized defenders, and the Demon Lotus Sect’s forces swept through the city.
• Lin Changsheng ordered Yuwen Bujing to clear the battlefield and head to the Cold Mountain Temple Branch Altar.
• At Xuanwu Gate, Yuwen Bujing and two hundred Demon Guards trapped fleeing cultivators with Suspended Skull Fifth Transformation · Blood-Colored Cage.
• The blood net killed and dismembered the trapped cultivators, and Yuwen Bujing ordered his squads to collect every piece of flesh and bone.
• The Demon Guards recognized that their Purple Tenuity Devil Lord was Qing Chen, the Condensed Jade Sect’s Golden Core Elder and Hidden Spirit True Person.

Yuwen Bujing led Demon Lotus Sect members to search Xuanchi City, killing two siblings and collecting corpses and other materials for Lin Changsheng. The sect brought the haul and roughly ten thousand mortals to Cold Mountain Temple, where the Purple Tenuity Devil Lord ordered the corpses and captives placed at the temple entrance.

• Yuwen Bujing ordered Demon Lotus Sect members to search a concealed cellar and killed Li Yu and the young woman he was protecting, taking her hidden treasure map.
• Demon Lotus Sect members packed the dead cultivators, Demon Beast remains, and Blood Path materials into Storage Bags on Lin Changsheng's orders.
• Yuwen Bujing led the sect members toward Cold Mountain Temple with the collected corpses and roughly ten thousand mortals, while the other Demon Envoys continued hunting cultivators in Xuanchi City.
• Lin Changsheng's forces continued besieging Xuanchi City and planned to search Xuanchi Island for the remaining cultivators using the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation, search parties, and planted moles.
• The Purple Tenuity Devil Lord praised Yuwen Bujing and ordered him to dump the corpses before the temple's main hall and place the unconscious mortals at the mountain gate.

Yuwen Bujing and the Demon Guards laid waste to Cold Mountain Temple and gathered corpses, captives, and Spiritual Materials for Qing Chen. Qing Chen rewarded them and promised greater spoils for loyal service, leaving the Demon Guards kneeling in allegiance.

• Yuwen Bujing led the Demon Guards to Cold Mountain Temple and ordered them to dump out their Storage Bags, spilling corpses, Demon Beast remains, and Blood Path Spiritual Materials before the temple.
• The Demon Guards subdued more than ten thousand mortals and dragged them before the mountain gate as blood stained the temple grounds.
• Qing Chen arrived above the temple on a blood lotus and praised Yuwen Bujing for his work.
• Qing Chen gave Yuwen Bujing ten mid-grade second-tier Blood Baleful Intent Pills and ordered the Spiritual Materials distributed among the disciples and Demon forces, with the rest sent to King Yanluo.
• The Demon Guards collected the rewards, and Qing Chen promised them further riches for loyal service.
• The Demon Guards knelt together and pledged their allegiance to Qing Chen.

Qing Chen ordered Yuwen Bujing to clear Cold Mountain Temple and hurry King Yanluo’s work, then used the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda to take more than ten thousand mortals into its inner space. He watched the frightened crowd descend into chaos and considered how the pagoda could provide a source of future body-cultivation talent.

• Qing Chen sent Yuwen Bujing and the Demon Guards to purge the remaining cultivators and report their corpses and household stores.
• Qing Chen summoned the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda and gathered more than ten thousand mortals from the temple grounds into it.
• The mortals awoke in the pagoda’s town and villages, where frightened residents clashed and ruffians began looting and assaulting people.
• Qing Chen observed the unrest through his Divine Sense and noted that the pagoda could admit mortals and early Body Cultivators without Magic Power.
• Qing Chen considered using the pagoda’s growing inner space to cultivate a future supply of powerful body cultivators and geniuses.

Qing Chen surveyed the pagoda's expanded medicinal fields and the treasures taken from the Cold Mountain Temple branch, then began refining the Pojun Demon Banner with blood from the battlefield. Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong Old Devil were still over seven hours from Xuanchi Island as the Impermanence Sect's survivors faced imminent danger.

• Qing Chen reviewed the pagoda's five forbidden grounds and its expanded medicinal fields, noting that he could use the Cold Mountain Temple branch's herbs and purple spirit mud to produce valuable Chiling Pills.
• Qing Chen planned to send the first-tier herbs to Lin Changsheng and leave the third-tier Chiling Grass and second-tier herbs for Xue Qingxia to refine.
• Qing Chen summoned the Pojun Demon Banner and began feeding it blood from the corpses, severed limbs, demon beasts, and blood-path materials to raise it from a supreme-grade spirit artifact to a magic treasure.
• Mysterious Altar True Person hurried toward Xuanchi Island after receiving Jianlong Daoist's warning that the island's grand formation had been breached and two thousand Condensed Jade cultivators had surrounded it.
• Wutong Old Devil told Mysterious Altar True Person that they would arrive in just over seven hours.

Mysterious Altar True Person and Old Devil Wutong negotiated an alliance to kill Qing Chen, with Wutong demanding more than a share of the spoils. After securing a treasure talisman and binding the deal with an oath, they prepared to pursue Qing Chen, though Mysterious Altar True Person privately believed the talisman would not be easy for Wutong to use.

• Mysterious Altar True Person offered Old Devil Wutong seventy percent of the spoils from Xuanchi Island if he helped kill Qing Chen.
• Old Devil Wutong agreed that Qing Chen would be difficult to defeat and demanded the method for crafting the Impermanence Sect’s Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman.
• Mysterious Altar True Person refused to share the crafting method but offered Wutong a finished treasure talisman embryo without any dragon souls.
• Old Devil Wutong demanded the talisman immediately, and Mysterious Altar True Person required him to swear a heart demon oath and sign an Impermanence Blood Oath.
• Old Devil Wutong signed the oath, and Mysterious Altar True Person handed him the Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman Embryo while privately reflecting that the sect’s talismans were not easy to take.

Xuanji True Lord successfully gave his dharma body an initial human form after years of refining it from rare spiritual materials. He remained in seclusion to merge his nascent soul with the body and sent for Yuji True Person.

• Mysterious Altar True Person gave Old Devil Wutong a Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman blank and a technique for refining snake, python, and flood-dragon souls.
• Old Devil Wutong accepted the treasures and showed no concern for the surviving cultivators on Blackwood Island.
• Xuanji True Lord used spirit stones, spiritual energy, and his vital essence blood to give life to the dharma body made from millennium sumeru water divine wood.
• Xuanji True Lord completed the Eye-Opening Technique, and the dharma body's eyes opened as its human form took shape.
• Xuanji True Lord decided to continue slowly merging his nascent soul with the dharma body and sent a jade slip to summon Yuji True Person.

Yuji learned that Xuanji True Lord’s dharma body had taken shape, and the four True Persons opened the secret chamber so Yuji could see it. They discussed the deadlocked battle at Earth Pass Island, where Yuji accused Elder Qing Chen of abandoning his post and delaying reinforcements, while Xuanji True Lord defended his mission to eradicate enemy remnants.

• Yuji received a jade slip announcing that Xuanji True Lord’s dharma body had taken shape and hurried to the summit.
• Yuji, Wan Hun, Budong, and Heavenfire opened the formation passage to the secret chamber, where Yuji found Xuanji True Lord’s dharma Nascent Soul inside the completed body.
• Xuanji True Lord explained that the dharma body could let him fight an ordinary Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator after he fully fused with it.
• Yuji asked Xuanji True Lord about the deadlocked fighting at Earth Pass Island, and Xuanji praised Elder Qing Chen for forming the Ceasefire Alliance.
• Yuji criticized Elder Qing Chen for leaving Earth Pass Island for Xuanchi Island and cited accusations that he had delayed sending reinforcements.
• Xuanji True Lord said Elder Qing Chen had gone to eradicate the remnants of the Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island, but Yuji remained suspicious.

Xuanji True Lord defended Qing Chen’s ambitions and argued that he could strengthen the Condensed Jade Sect as its future leader, despite Yuji True Person’s distrust. Meanwhile, the Snake Spirit Thieves were trapped and badly defeated at Earth Pass Island, where Fu She ordered a breakout as their enemies continued to batter them.

• Yuji True Person accused Qing Chen of endangering Earth Pass Island and objected to his private force and possible succession, but Xuanji True Lord defended his service and potential to lead the sect.
• Xuanji True Lord explained that Qing Chen could help the Condensed Jade Sect grow into a powerful Nascent Soul sect, while Yuji True Person remained personally hostile to him.
• Xuanji True Lord reassured Yuji True Person that a worthy successor from the Xuanji Lineage would retain the sect master position, leaving Qing Chen to serve as a vajra protector.
• Songshan True Person arrived at Earth Pass Island to find the Snake Spirit Thieves surrounded and suffering heavy losses.
• Fu She ordered Yin Jiu to lead the disciples in a northwest breakout, while Yin Jiu fought off Spirit Crane True Person’s sword strikes with his life-bound snake soul.
• Dragon-Seal Vajra and Corpse-Blood True Person continued to overwhelm the Snake Spirit Thieves without killing Fu She or Yin Jiu, while Corpse-Blood attacked those trying to escape.

Songshan True Person and the other Golden Core cultivators crushed the Snake Spirit Thieves’ assault on Earth Pass Island, forcing Fu She and Yin Jiu to flee aboard their treasure ship. Fu She escaped with a small elite force and vowed revenge against Three Corpse Demon Sect and Cold Mountain Temple.

• Spirit Crane True Person resolved to punish Yin Jiu for poisoning Dian Cang Sect cultivators’ artifacts during the island assault.
• Songshan True Person shattered a Snake Spirit Thieves spirit boat with the Edgeless Heavy Ruler, killing nearly half its two hundred disciples and the Thunder-Pattern Python General Fu She had trained.
• Fu She unleashed the Dark Orchid Sword’s Demon-Sealing Two Qi-Gloomy Bone-Erosion technique, but Dragon-Seal Vajra and Songshan True Person stopped its attack.
• As the Snake Spirit Thieves’ forces collapsed, Yin Jiu urged Fu She to retreat, and the two used a desperate strike to break through the Golden Core cultivators’ blockade.
• Fu She and Yin Jiu escaped aboard the Snake Spirit Treasure Ship, while the remaining Snake Guards on the battlefield were slaughtered.
• Looking back toward Earth Pass Island, Fu She swore revenge on Three Corpse Demon Sect and Cold Mountain Temple for their intervention.

Lin Changsheng led the Demon Guards in slaughtering Xuanchi Island’s inhabitants and attacked the Li Household at Earthfire Fortress. He transformed into a gold-armored corpse and broke through the Li Household’s defenses while Li Yanyi and Li Chizhi struggled to stop him.

• Yuwen Bujing gathered more than two thousand corpses and countless treasures for the Purple Tenuity Devil Lord.
• Lin Changsheng ordered the Li Household’s cultivators and mortals killed, with youths possessing spiritual roots captured if possible.
• Li Yanyi raised the Flamefire Shield and Flamefire Banner to protect Li Chizhi and the Li Household’s disciples as Demon Lotus Guards stormed the fortress.
• Lin Changsheng transformed into a gold-armored corpse, greatly increasing his aura and resisting Li Chizhi’s Earthfire Sword.
• Lin Changsheng used the Thousand-Soul Banner’s corpse-poisonous skulls to weaken Li Yanyi’s fire barrier and threatened to kill Li Chizhi.

Lin Changsheng killed Li Chizhi and Li Yanyi while fighting the Li Household’s defenders, then learned that two Golden Core True Persons were approaching Xuanchi Island. He ordered the Demon Lotus Sect forces to regroup at Xuanchi City and prepare the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation while Qing Chen remained in seclusion.

• Lin Changsheng injected corpse qi into Li Chizhi, then snapped his neck as Li Yanyi’s Earthfire-powered attack failed to stop him.
• Li Yanyi crushed the Earthfire Command Token, but Lin Changsheng broke through the Flamefire Shield and killed him by tearing out his spine.
• A Nether Star Devil Envoy reported that two Golden Core True Persons were heading toward Xuanchi Island.
• Lin Changsheng recognized the approaching enemies as Mysterious Altar True Person and Old Devil Wutong, and sent Voice Transmission Talismans to summon the Demon Lotus Sect forces.
• Lin Changsheng ordered the Demon Guards to regroup at Xuanchi City and prepare the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation until Qing Chen emerged from seclusion.

After Xuanchi City's defenders prepared for the arrival of two Golden Core cultivators, Mysterious Altar True Person and Old Devil Wutong appeared and began attacking the city. Lin Changsheng activated the city's defenses, but their overwhelming power left the Demon Guards uncertain whether they could hold out until Qing Chen emerged from seclusion.

• Lin Changsheng learned that Old Daoist Xuantan and Old Devil Wutong were approaching Xuanchi Island and ordered Spirit Stones distributed to the Demon Guards, Demon Envoys, and Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation.
• Yuwen Bujing reported that the two Golden Core cultivators would reach Xuanchi Island within an incense stick's time.
• Dark clouds gathered over Xuanchi Island as Mysterious Altar True Person approached using the Purple Cloud Escape Technique and Old Devil Wutong advanced across the sea with five Yin-Demon Wolves.
• Lin Changsheng activated the White Bone Cauldron to anchor the Suspended Skull Battle Formation while the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation blocked the incoming waves.
• Mysterious Altar True Person shouted for Qing Chen to come out, and his voice shook the formation's barrier and forced several Demon Guards backward.

Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong arrived at Xuanchi City, intent on finding Qing Chen and attacking the city. When Qing Chen sent the Xuanming Demon General to aid Lin Changsheng, the two Golden Core fiends chose to press their assault rather than retreat.

• Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong descended on Xuanchi City and threatened Lin Changsheng, with Wutong claiming the commander for refinement.
• Lin Changsheng taunted the two fiends, telling them their forces and strongholds had been wiped out.
• A skeletal serpent emerged from the western clouds, and Lin Changsheng learned through a Voice Transmission Talisman that Qing Chen had sent it to help.
• Qing Chen, busy refining the Pojun Demon Banner, directed the Xuanming Demon General to obey Lin Changsheng through his demon seed seal.
• Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong agreed to join forces to break the formation and kill the Xuanming Demon General.

Lin Changsheng led Xuanchi Island’s defenses against Mysterious Altar True Person and Old Devil Wutong, using a blood-boned boat, the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation, and the Xuanming Demon General to resist their attacks. The boat was destroyed, but the island’s grand array held, leaving both sides locked in a difficult battle.

• Mysterious Altar True Person unleashed the Demon-Breaking Finger while Old Devil Wutong attacked the battlements with the Five-Element Sky-Rending Blade.
• Lin Changsheng activated the Suspended Skull-Blood Sea Soul-Burying Boat, which bit apart some of the Demon-Breaking Finger’s rays, while the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation met Wutong’s blades with ice spears.
• Lin Changsheng commanded the Xuanming Demon General to burn the Five-Element Sky-Rending Blade with Dark Nether Phosphorus Fire, weakening it and stabilizing the fight.
• Mysterious Altar True Person recognized the demon fire as belonging to a Demon Banner once held in the Impermanence Sect’s treasury.
• Mysterious Altar True Person’s attacks pierced the blood boat and struck the Island-Protecting Grand Array, forcing Han Shi and the other defenders to expend over a hundred middle-grade spirit stones to reinforce it.
• Mysterious Altar True Person and Old Devil Wutong realized Xuanchi Island’s defenses would make the battle bitter.

As Xuantan and Wutong battered Xuanchi City's defenses, Lin Changsheng struggled to keep the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation supplied while the defenders grew exhausted. In seclusion, Qing Chen restored the Po Jun Banner into a magic treasure and summoned a massive demon idol, leaving the Slaughter Formation ready to sweep through Xuanchi.

• Lin Changsheng distributed pills and spirit stones to help Xuanchi City's defenders recover while the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation endured the Golden Core cultivators' attacks.
• Mysterious Altar True Person used the Demon-Breaking Finger and Yin-Yang Heavenly Halberd Treasure Talisman to break through the city's defenses and drain the formation.
• Wutong Old Devil channeled the Five-Element Sky-Rending Blade through Wutong's Black Jade Ring, forcing the Xuanming Demon General to defend the formation as the ice silkworm phantom was sliced apart.
• Xuantan and Wutong maintained their assault for hours, consuming thousands of Middle-Grade Spirit Stones and exhausting Xuanchi City's defenders.
• Qing Chen drew the last essence blood into the Po Jun Banner, sealed its cracks with demon runes and his essence blood, and restored it to a magic treasure.
• Qing Chen poured in his true essence and summoned a thirty-zhang Two-Headed Six-Armed Demon Idol as demonic qi surged into the sky.

Qing Chen broke free and rushed to Xuanchi City, where his arrival revived the defenders and restored the Xuanming Demon General. He confronted Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong Old Devil, striking back so forcefully that he damaged their treasure talismans.

• Qing Chen destroyed the formation holding him and used Heaven Escape Soaring to the Skies to race toward Xuanchi City.
• Lin Changsheng and the exhausted defenders cheered when Qing Chen appeared, while Qing Chen absorbed a load of corpses into the Xuanming Demon Banner and healed the Xuanming Demon General.
• Mysterious Altar True Person and Wutong Old Devil attacked Qing Chen with black finger-force, Heavenly Halberd Treasure Talismans, and an annihilation light wheel.
• Qing Chen used the Four-Armed Wisdom King Divine Ability and several body-cultivation abilities to withstand the attacks, then swung his Buddha's Wrath Wisdom King Ring-Pommel Saber at the treasure talismans.
• Qing Chen cracked the Yang Talisman and sent both talismans flying back to Mysterious Altar True Person, who was shocked by his strength.