Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren emerged from the Kunlun Secret Realm and killed Xue Jiuwu with one sword strike after rescuing Tushan Feiyu. He returned to Qinglan Academy and began preparing to test the Wood-Refining Puppet Technique.

• Chu Kuangren came out of the Kunlun Secret Realm and found Tushan Feiyu besieged by Xue Jiuwu.
• Chu Kuangren broke through Xue Jiuwu's rune barrier and offered to spare him if he could withstand one strike.
• Chu Kuangren's sword strike killed Xue Jiuwu, and he collected the spatial rune left behind.
• Chu Kuangren agreed to visit Tushan with Little Fox, then returned with his companions to the Academy.
• Several days later, Chu Kuangren cut branches and leaves from the Fusang tree to try the Wood-Refining Puppet Technique.

Chu Kuangren used the Wood Refining Puppet Technique and his Undying Body to create a powerful puppet, then sent it to scout the Demonic Dao’s Rahula Ancestral Land. He took Little Fox to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains to find Tushan, where he encountered two battling demon tribes.

• Chu Kuangren refined a humanoid puppet from Fusang wood and his heart’s blood, giving it thirty percent of his strength.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the puppet to scout the Rahula Ancestral Land while he prepared to take Little Fox to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
• Chu Kuangren and Little Fox arrived in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, and Chu Kuangren decided to ask for directions to Tushan rather than search with his immortal consciousness.
• Chu Kuangren appeared before two demon tribes fighting below, and the demon beasts reacted with fear at his overwhelming aura.

Chu Kuangren accepted a map to Tushan from the Ox-Heads and saved them from the Dog-Head People with a single sword stroke. At Tushan, Tushan Feiyu weighed the threat posed by Golden Crow Sky Mountain and told Xiao Yu about the powerful Chu Kuangren, who was on his way there.

• An Ox-Head gave Chu Kuangren a treasured map of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains in exchange for his help reaching Tushan.
• Chu Kuangren promised to protect the Ox-Heads, then slaughtered the attacking Dog-Heads with one sword stroke and left with Little Fox.
• The Ox-Head leader rejoiced that their gamble had paid off as the survivors stared in shock at Chu Kuangren's strength.
• At Tushan, Tushan Feiyu explained to Xiao Yu that Golden Crow Sky Mountain threatened to conquer Tushan if she refused to marry its crown prince.
• Tushan Feiyu said Tushan and Qingqiu could not unite because their old rift had deepened after their leaders suffered calamities.
• When Xiao Yu asked about powerful figures she had met, Tushan Feiyu named Chu Kuangren and admitted she was far weaker than him.

Chu Kuangren brought Little Fox to Tushan, where the elders discovered that she carried the bloodline of the Tushan Queen. The revelation raised questions about her origins, while Tushan Feiyu’s feelings for Chu Kuangren and Tushan’s threatened marriage alliance with Golden Crow Sky Mountain came to light.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at Tushan with Little Fox and was welcomed by the elders, who sensed her unusual Heavenly Fox bloodline.
• Tushan Feiyu told Xiao Yu about Chu Kuangren’s feats, and Xiao Yu said Feiyu had admitted she would like to marry him.
• Xiao Yu openly repeated Feiyu’s words to Chu Kuangren, making Feiyu blush while the elders fell silent at the mention of her feelings.
• An elder lamented that Golden Crow Sky Mountain prevented the elders from supporting Feiyu marrying Chu Kuangren, and Chu Kuangren took note of the clan.
• The elders tested Little Fox with a bloodline crystal and confirmed that she carried the Tushan Queen’s bloodline, possibly inherited through the Qingqiu Fox King.

Little Fox learned that the sleeping Tushan Queen was her mother, and Chu Kuangren began treating the Queen with the Seven Needles of Defying Fate. As the Queen started to respond, the Crown Prince of Golden Crow Sky Mountain arrived at Tushan to demand the Grand Elder’s decision.

• A Tushan elder revealed that Little Fox’s mother was the gravely injured Queen of Tushan, while her father, the Fox King of Qingqiu, had been sealed away after falling into madness.
• Little Fox asked Chu Kuangren to save her mother, and he offered to treat the Queen with the Deathless Medicine as a safeguard.
• Chu Kuangren spent ten days preparing seven vitality needles and used the Seven Needles of Defying Fate to treat the Tushan Queen.
• On the third day of treatment, the Queen’s immortal consciousness responded, and she reacted emotionally when she learned Little Fox was her daughter.
• Chu Kuangren left the cave while Little Fox stayed with the Queen, and Tushan’s elders welcomed him as an honored guest.
• The Crown Prince of Golden Crow Sky Mountain arrived with Heavenly Immortal guards to ask the Tushan Grand Elder for his decision, and Chu Kuangren entered the hall.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Golden Crow Crown Prince over Tushan Feiyu’s proposed marriage and killed the Qinglan Demon Lord when he threatened him. The Tushan Queen awakened and rejected Golden Crow Sky Mountain’s coercive marriage plans, leaving the two powers facing possible conflict.

• The Qinglan Demon Lord recognized Chu Kuangren and asked the Golden Crow Crown Prince for permission to kill him, but the Crown Prince warned him against it.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Qinglan Demon Lord with a single strike, then rebuffed the Crown Prince’s demand for an explanation and challenged Golden Crow Sky Mountain’s power.
• The Golden Crow Crown Prince set aside the confrontation and demanded an answer from Tushan about whether Tushan Feiyu would marry him.
• The Tushan Queen appeared with Little Fox and announced that Tushan would not accept a marriage alliance forced through schemes.
• The Tushan Queen said marriage was acceptable only if affection was mutual and warned that Tushan would not fear war.

After the Tushan Queen refused Golden Crow Sky Mountain’s demands, she decided to travel to Qingqiu with Chu Kuangren and Little Fox to seek an alliance. Golden Crow Sky Mountain arranged an ambush and sent demon World Children to hold Chu Kuangren back as the demons closed in.

• The Tushan Queen thanked Chu Kuangren for saving her and declared that Tushan would not sacrifice Tushan Feiyu to appease Golden Crow Sky Mountain.
• The Tushan Queen decided to visit Qingqiu to heal the rift between the fox clans, and Little Fox and Chu Kuangren joined her.
• Golden Crow Sky Mountain’s officials ordered demons along the route to attack the Tushan Queen and tasked their World Children with stopping Chu Kuangren.
• On the way to Qingqiu, demons confronted the group, and the Tushan Queen’s aura forced several attackers to their knees despite her weakened strength.
• Chu Kuangren stepped forward to face the demons, but enemy World Children appeared around him and challenged him.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Demon Race World Children despite being restricted to thirty percent of his strength, then fought a True Immortal while the Tushan Queen’s guards battled the other Demon Race immortals. As karmic power eroded the True Immortal’s strength, he realized he could no longer afford to hold back.

• The Demon Race World Children trapped Chu Kuangren with the Forbidden Immortal Mirror, restricting his strength to thirty percent, but he remained overwhelmingly powerful.
• Chu Kuangren slaughtered the World Children with Heaven's Will Like a Sword and the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, leaving the Forbidden Immortal Mirror powerless.
• A Demon Race Golden Immortal ordered a True Immortal to stop Chu Kuangren, threatening him and his race if he refused.
• Chu Kuangren fought the True Immortal evenly, while the Tushan Queen’s guards emerged and clashed with the other Demon Race True Immortals and Golden Immortals.
• As karmic power steadily weakened him, the True Immortal decided he had to unleash his full strength.

Chu Kuangren used the power of his small universe and the Nine Provinces Cauldrons to kill a True Immortal and drive off the Golden Crow Sky Mountain forces. The Tushan Queen continued toward Qingqiu with Chu Kuangren after the attackers retreated.

• The unlucky True Immortal struck Chu Kuangren with his full power and sent him crashing into a mountain, but Chu Kuangren emerged and unleashed the power of his small universe.
• A white-haired elder in purple Daoist robes sensed the transcendent power from beyond the universe and tried to divine its source, connecting it to the World Child Contest and Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren summoned five Nine Provinces Cauldrons and combined them with his small universe power to overwhelm and kill the unlucky True Immortal.
• The Golden Immortals and True Immortals recoiled from Chu Kuangren's strength, and their leader ordered a retreat rather than risk becoming entangled in karma.
• The Tushan Queen stopped her guards from pursuing the retreating forces and told Chu Kuangren they needed to reach Qingqiu, then remarked on the Nine Provinces Cauldrons.

The Tushan Queen and Little Fox reunited with the imprisoned Qingqiu Fox King after the Tushan and Qingqiu branches agreed to form an alliance. When the Fox King’s curse drove him into a violent frenzy, Chu Kuangren stepped forward, believing he could counter the strange black qi.

• The Tushan Queen persuaded Qingqiu’s leaders to pursue an alliance and revealed that Little Fox was her daughter with the Qingqiu Fox King.
• The Qingqiu Grand Elder brought the Tushan Queen and Little Fox to the sealed area where the Fox King was imprisoned, and the family reunited.
• The Tushan Queen and Qingqiu Fox King explained how a strange substance from ancient ruins had left him prone to madness.
• Chu Kuangren and Xiao Ai determined that the black qi was an unknown cosmic substance that eroded cultivators, but Chu’s Small Universe could resist it.
• The Qingqiu Fox King fell into a violent frenzy, and Chu Kuangren stepped toward the stone platform, saying the Fox King could still be helped.

Chu Kuangren absorbed the black qi tormenting the Qingqiu Fox King, allowing the king to return and Qingqiu to ally with Tushan. Meanwhile, Chu Kuangren’s puppet clone reached the Rahula Ancestral Land to investigate the Demonic Dao’s secrets.

• Chu Kuangren used his Small Universe to draw the black qi out of the Qingqiu Fox King and contained it beside his Portable World, where it remained afraid to move.
• The Qingqiu Fox King recovered, thanked Chu Kuangren, and resumed his royal authority, while Qingqiu and Tushan reconciled and formed an alliance.
• The news shook the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, and Golden Crow Sky Mountain’s leaders suspected Chu Kuangren had caused the change.
• The Qingqiu Fox King and Little Fox toasted Chu Kuangren at a banquet and welcomed him as a friend of both Qingqiu and Tushan.
• Chu Kuangren’s puppet clone followed the Soul Controlling Successor’s memories to the Rahula Ancestral Land and entered its mountain range to investigate.

Chu Kuangren entered the Rahula Ancestral Land, disguised his powers as techniques of the Soul Controlling Lineage, and used them to seize a Demonic Crystal Mine from the Chi You Lineage. He deliberately let a Chi You cultivator escape so the Ten Demonic Dao Sects would suspect the Soul Controlling Lineage and turn against one another.

• Chu Kuangren used Soul Manipulation Hand to control Demonic Cultivators and make them lead him to a Demonic Crystal Mine.
• At the mine, Chu Kuangren's controlled cultivators attacked the Chi You Lineage guards, and he made them fight among themselves.
• A black-robed Chi You Heavenly Pride confronted Chu Kuangren, who defeated him with Soul Summoning Palm.
• Chu Kuangren let the black-robed young man escape so he would spread word that the Soul Controlling Lineage had seized the mine.

Chu Kuangren provoked the Soul Controlling Lineage and Chi You Lineage into renewed conflict, then secretly spread the fighting among the Demonic Dao factions. Within a month, all Ten Demonic Dao Sects were caught in a chaotic war, while their leaders searched for the unseen instigator.

• Chu Kuangren gathered Demonic Crystals and learned several True Immortal arts from the Chi You Lineage.
• After news of a Soul Controlling Lineage attack on a Chi You Lineage mine spread, Sima Han and Chi Zhong agreed to curb infighting.
• Chu Kuangren attacked a Soul Controlling Lineage encampment using Chi You techniques and let survivors escape to reignite tensions.
• Chi Zhong and Sima Han grew suspicious when reports arrived of attacks on both lineages’ encampments.
• Further attacks drew the Netherworld, Corpse Refining, Sword Devil, Heavenly Demon, and other lineages into the fighting.
• The Demonic Dao factions fought across the Rahula Ancestral Land, and their Heavenly Prides and World Children failed to stop the chaos.

Chu Kuangren secretly sparked a war among the Demonic Dao lineages in the Rahula Ancestral Land and took their resources while they fought. He followed Zhuo Donglai in pursuit of the Yin Fusang Spirit, while Shi Tianxuan confronted You Ying over the losses.

• Chu Kuangren’s secret attacks and provocations drove the Chi You and Netherworld Lineages into slaughtering one another, letting him collect their resources.
• Chu Kuangren spotted Zhuo Donglai and followed him as he tracked the Yin Fusang Spirit, which could help him advance his Primordial Yang Immortal Physique into the Two-Aspects Immortal Physique.
• Shi Tianxuan told the gathered Demonic Dao successors that eighty-one outposts had been destroyed and their resources had vanished.
• You Ying blamed Shi Tianxuan for the Demonic Dao’s losses, and Shi Tianxuan threatened to kill him in one move.

Chu Kuangren intervened when Zhuo Donglai tried to capture Fu Yin, the Yin Fusang Spirit, and fought him using techniques from several Demonic Dao lineages. He rescued Fu Yin and fled, claiming his companions would deal with Zhuo Donglai.

• Shi Tianxuan and the other demonic cultivators learned that someone outside the Demonic Dao had appeared in the Rahula Ancestral Land and went to investigate.
• Zhuo Donglai broke through Fu Yin’s cave restrictions and trapped her in a net, then overpowered her with his ninth-grade Heavenly Immortal strength.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a connection to Fu Yin through his Yang Fusang clone and struck Zhuo Donglai, tearing open the net and saving her from his attack.
• Chu Kuangren fought Zhuo Donglai with techniques from the Chi You, Netherworld, and Sword Devil lineages, leaving Zhuo Donglai startled by his abilities.
• Chu Kuangren stopped preparing another attack, took Fu Yin away, and told Zhuo Donglai that his companions would kill him.

Zhuo Donglai fought the Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides before Shi Tianxuan halted the battle and proposed they work together to find Chu Kuangren, whom they blamed for the Demonic Dao's internal strife. Meanwhile, Chu Kuangren revealed his identity to Fu Yin and prepared to face Zhuo Donglai's pursuit, confident that he should bring more people.

• Zhuo Donglai attacked the Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides who surrounded him, but Shi Tianxuan arrived and stopped the fight.
• Shi Tianxuan identified Zhuo Donglai as a World Child of the Eastern King Religion, and Zhuo Donglai explained that a mysterious Demonic Cultivator had taken Fu Yin from him.
• Shi Tianxuan said the same man was the suspected cause of the Demonic Dao's internal strife and agreed with Zhuo Donglai to search for him together.
• Chu Kuangren brought Fu Yin to a mountain peak, released her, and revealed his identity after she thanked him for saving her.
• Chu Kuangren told Fu Yin he had saved her because Zhuo Donglai wanted to capture her, then gathered earth qi as he awaited Zhuo Donglai's return.

Chu Kuangren faced Zhuo Donglai and a gathering of Demonic Dao World Children, overpowering their attacks with the very techniques they had mastered. When he joined battle with Zhuo Donglai and Shi Tianxuan, the impact dispelled the light concealing his face and revealed his true appearance.

• Fu Yin asked Chu Kuangren about Zhuo Donglai, and Chu Kuangren claimed he could kill Zhuo Donglai’s true body with one move.
• Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, and other Demonic Dao cultivators surrounded Chu Kuangren and Fu Yin on the mountain peak.
• Chi Zhong attacked with Black Dragon Slash, but Chu Kuangren used the same technique with greater power and sent him flying.
• Sima Han struck with Soul Summoning Palm, and Chu Kuangren’s version overwhelmed him and left him badly injured.
• Shi Tianxuan and Chu Kuangren exchanged the Heavenly Demon Flame Finger and Netherworld Finger, then Zhuo Donglai and Shi Tianxuan attacked Chu Kuangren together.
• Chu Kuangren countered with the Sword Devil Lineage’s Demonic Sword, Wind and Fire Art, and the clash dispelled the spiritual light concealing his face.

Chu Kuangren revealed himself and fought the gathered Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides, holding his own against their combined attacks. Zhuo Donglai recognized that the powerful opponent was only Chu Kuangren’s clone.

• Chu Kuangren revealed his identity, and the Demonic Dao Heavenly Prides attacked him with their full strength.
• Sima Han used the Soul Devouring Art to absorb departed souls and raise his cultivation to ninth-grade Heavenly Immortal great perfection.
• Chu Kuangren repelled the Sword Devil Lineage cultivator and clashed with Chi Zhong, Sima Han, You Ying, and the others using his sword techniques and Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram.
• Shi Tianxuan struck Chu Kuangren with a demonic finger technique, and Zhuo Donglai followed with Primordial Yang Divine Light; Chu Kuangren countered with Reincarnation Tribulation Light.
• Zhuo Donglai concluded that the Chu Kuangren before them was only a clone because the original was far more powerful.

Chu Kuangren’s immortal wood clone battled Zhuo Donglai and the demonic Heavenly Prides, who realized he was only a clone. After trapping them inside an Earth Qi Great Formation, he declared that their fate was sealed.

• Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, and a demonic Illusory Demon Lineage cultivator identified Chu Kuangren as an immortal wood clone, shocking the demonic Heavenly Prides.
• Chu Kuangren activated the Academy’s three great phenomena as Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, Chi Zhong, You Ying, and the others unleashed their trump cards.
• Chu Kuangren’s Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram and Reincarnation Tribulation Light clashed with the demonic Heavenly Prides’ ultimate moves, blasting both sides back.
• Zhuo Donglai and Shi Tianxuan threatened Chu Kuangren and Fu Yin, but Chu Kuangren revealed that he had let them find him.
• Chu Kuangren formed an Earth Qi Great Formation that sealed a radius of ten thousand li around them and announced that the demonic Heavenly Prides and the Dongwang Sect’s World Child would die there.

Great Golden Immortals from the Devil Palace and Eastern King Religion intervened to save their World Children from Chu Kuangren, but a page from an Academy scholar's book blocked their combined attack. The scholar warned the two powers that the Academy had protectors of its own.

• The White Bone Devil King and an Eastern King Religion powerhouse launched attacks toward the Rahula Ancestral Land, suffering severe karmic backlash for intervening.
• Chu Kuangren sensed the incoming Great Encompassment forces as his Earth Qi Great Formation began to falter, and he resolved to remember their interference.
• A skeletal claw and golden streak arrived above the Rahula Ancestral Land, giving Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, and the others hope of survival.
• A single page intercepted the two attacks, destroying the claw and dispersing the golden light before crumbling into scraps.
• A blue-robed middle-aged man riding a donkey realized his book was missing a page and declared that the Eastern King Religion and Devil Palace had underestimated the Academy.