Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue traded the Heaven-Shaking Talisman to King Han for promised treasures and received the Azure Frost Sword as an advance gift. That night, Blood Dragon Platform experts ambushed Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, but the pair defeated the attackers while their leader escaped.

• Fang Yue offered King Han the Heaven-Shaking Talisman in exchange for Divine Techniques, pills, medicines, and weapons, and King Han agreed to prepare them while keeping the talisman as a pledge.
• King Han gave Fang Yue the Azure Frost Sword, and Fang Yue promised to support King Han's ambitions.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang returned to her courtyard and spoke about their future together.
• Blood Dragon Platform experts attacked Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang in the courtyard, and the pair fought back with their swords.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang overcame the attackers, and the leading black-clothed man fled into the night.

After Blood Dragon Platform’s assassins attacked Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, the city remained quiet while preparations for King Han’s Fengshan Ceremony continued. Blood Dragon Platform’s Holy Lord conspired to kill King Han, then met King Chenliu, who offered an alliance to seize the throne; King Han learned of the suspected plot as the chapter ended.

• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang searched the fallen assassins but found no useful clues, and Fang Yue said he still planned to leave Divine Capital City.
• Over the next ten days, Fang Yue studied martial arts manuals in the imperial library pavilion while Zhu Linlang warned him that Blood Dragon Platform might strike during the Fengshan Ceremony.
• The Holy Lord told Blood Dragon Platform’s subordinates that they had planted explosives across the city and planned to kill King Han, with Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang also marked for elimination if they interfered.
• King Chenliu revealed himself at Blood Dragon Platform’s stronghold and proposed that the Holy Lord create chaos during the ceremony so he could seize the throne.
• King Han’s guards reported the planned attack and warned that King Chenliu might be colluding with Blood Dragon Platform, prompting King Han to recognize the threat.

King Han and Zhu Linlang prepared for the Grand Fengshan Ceremony while investigating King Chenliu’s suspected ties to Blood Dragon Platform. As the ceremony approached, the Demon Race and Blood Dragon Platform prepared to assassinate King Han, and Zhu Linlang rushed to ready the city’s defenses and summon Fang Yue.

• King Han ordered tighter security for the Grand Fengshan Ceremony and had Zhu Linlang investigate King Chenliu’s suspected connection to Blood Dragon Platform.
• Fang Yue declined Zhu Linlang’s request to join the ceremony’s security but promised to help if danger arose.
• King Chenliu visited Fang Yue and secured his promise to intervene if the ceremony threatened the people or the nation.
• Zhu Linlang strengthened patrols and secretly investigated King Chenliu as she prepared for the ceremony.
• The Demon Race and Blood Dragon Platform made a secret alliance and planned to assassinate King Han during the ceremony.
• After a guard reported that a mysterious force had infiltrated Divine Capital City, Zhu Linlang mobilized the palace defenses and sent for Fang Yue.

King Han faced a coordinated assault by King Chenliu, the Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform, and the Great Demon King of the Demon Race during the Fengshan Ceremony in Divine Capital City. As the Altar’s Golden Celestial Dragon weakened under a black pearl’s evil power, King Han unleashed the first style of the Eight Dragon Styles against King Chenliu.

• Zhu Linlang warned King Han that forces from the Demon Race and Blood Dragon Platform had infiltrated Divine Capital City, and they prepared for an attack on the Fengshan Ceremony.
• A black-clothed attacker struck during the ceremony, and Zhu Linlang fought him while assassins attacked King Han beneath the Altar.
• King Chenliu and Demon Warriors joined the assault on the palace, and King Han began the ceremony as the fighting continued.
• King Chenliu, the Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform, and the Great Demon King of the Demon Race surrounded King Han, but he activated the Altar’s formation and summoned a Golden Celestial Dragon.
• The Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform hurled a black pearl that corrupted the city and weakened the Golden Celestial Dragon, while Zhu Linlang fought to reach her father.
• King Han evaded the three enemies and charged at King Chenliu with Dragon-Subduing Eight Styles, First Style: Dragon Lurking in the Abyss.

King Han fought King Chenliu, the Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform, and the Great Demon King of the Demon Race before King Wucheng returned and defeated him. Fang Yue protected Zhu Linlang from the three attackers, but King Wucheng then overpowered Fang Yue and sent him crashing to the ground.

• King Han restored the Golden Celestial Dragon formation and fought the three attackers until King Wucheng appeared and challenged him.
• King Wucheng joined King Chenliu, the Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform, and the Great Demon King of the Demon Race in attacking King Han, eventually wounding him and knocking him to the ground.
• King Chenliu and the others moved to kill Zhu Linlang, but Fang Yue arrived and defended her.
• Fang Yue drove King Chenliu back, forcing the Holy Lord of Blood Dragon Platform and the Great Demon King of the Demon Race to retreat.
• King Wucheng challenged Fang Yue, outmaneuvered him in battle, and struck him with a palm that sent him crashing to the ground.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang defeated King Wucheng, and Zhu Linlang became the new Emperor of Great Wei. After leaving the palace, Fang Yue helped the Fox King search for a key said to open the Demon Realm's treasure, found it in an ancient temple, and was confronted by a mysterious Shadow Figure demanding it.

• Fang Yue held off King Wucheng while Zhu Linlang completed the Heaven-Shaking Talisman's ritual and used its power to defeat him.
• King Wucheng suddenly aged and died, and the ministers and Imperial Guards acclaimed Zhu Linlang as Emperor.
• Several days later, Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang he would leave the Imperial Palace to pursue martial cultivation, and she accepted his decision.
• The Fox King told Fang Yue that a key to the Demon Realm's treasure might be hidden in the human world, and Fang Yue agreed to help find it.
• After searching Divine Capital without success, Fang Yue followed a new lead to an ancient temple and found the key on a Stone Platform.
• As Fang Yue prepared to leave with the key, a Shadow Figure appeared and demanded that he hand it over.

Fang Yue defeated Chen Huang and learned that he was an executor in the secret organization called the Twelve Terrors. After Song Huang revealed the organization’s demon-suppression mission and tried to seize the key, Fang Yue escaped his formation and stood beyond its bounds.

• Fang Yue defeated Chen Huang in the temple ruins and spared him after learning he was an executor who received orders without knowing the mastermind.
• Fang Yue secretly followed Chen Huang to a run-down residence, where Song Huang introduced himself as the fifth Terror and revealed the Twelve Terrors’ mission to suppress demons.
• Song Huang offered Fang Yue a place in the organization, then demanded the key and trapped him in a formation when Fang Yue refused.
• Song Huang strengthened the formation and brought out dozens of archers to ambush Fang Yue.
• Fang Yue evaded the arrows, broke free of the formation, and confronted Song Huang from outside it.

Fang Yue defeated Song Huang and discovered that the Command Token he took from him held ancient knowledge and cultivation secrets. After training in the Fox King's territory, Fang Yue set out with the Fox King for the ancient relic, and they reached its Stone Gate.

• Fang Yue overcame Song Huang's Heaven-Shaking Calamity and killed him in the ruins.
• Fang Yue found a bronze Command Token on Song Huang and sensed its ancient history, cultivation methods, and secrets of the Twelve Terrors.
• Fang Yue delivered the temple key to the Fox King, who told him to study the Command Token while preparations were made for the relic.
• Fang Yue trained and studied in the Fox King's territory for more than ten days, improving his martial arts and Internal Energy.
• The Fox King explained that the relic was an ancient cultivator's Cave Mansion filled with treasures, mechanisms, and restrictions, then set out with Fang Yue.
• Fang Yue and the Fox King endured the journey through the mountains and arrived at the ancient Stone Gate leading into the relic.

Fang Yue and the Fox King entered the ruins atop a sleeping Spirit Turtle with several other experts, then fought their way past animated Stone Statues. After destroying the Stone Tablet controlling the statues, they reached the enormous hall at the ruins’ core, where greater treasures and secrets awaited.

• The Fox King told Fang Yue that the Stone Gate Maze rested on the shell of a Spirit Turtle that had fallen from the heavens sixteen hundred years earlier.
• Fang Yue, the Fox King, and several arriving experts cooperated to unlock the Stone Gate Maze and entered the vast ruins.
• The group found ancient Stone Tablets inscribed with unreadable Extraterrestrial Script, then faced attacks from animated Stone Statues.
• Fang Yue noticed the statues attacked more fiercely near a particular Stone Tablet and proposed distracting them so it could be destroyed.
• Fang Yue and the Fox King struck the controlling Stone Tablet, and the group shattered it, causing the Stone Statues to become motionless.
• The group explored deeper into the ruins and reached an enormous hall guarded by two stone lions, which the Fox King identified as the core region.

Fang Yue entered the ruins' secret realm after reaching into the treasure chest and found the True Spirit Sect's outer sect trial grounds. He defeated the trial's battle statue and earned preliminary recognition from the sect.

• The Fox King and the others triggered the hall's defenses, and Fang Yue used an ancient jade to disable the mechanism.
• The group opened the treasure chest and fought over the spirit stone after the Fox King claimed it for himself.
• Fang Yue reached into the open chest, was transported into a strange space, and emerged holding the spirit stone.
• Fang Yue used the spirit stone to open a tower, found its books and scrolls blank, and then discovered the True Spirit Sect's trial plaza.
• Fang Yue accepted the outer sect trial and defeated the battle statue by exploiting the stiffness in its attacks.

After passing the True Spirit Sect trial but losing its pill reward, Fang Yue discovered the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique in a Stone Tablet and cultivated it. While demons searched the ruins, he hid near an ox-headed demon that broke open a Stone Statue and claimed a glowing fragment, but was detected and attacked Fang Yue.

• The Stone Statue awarded Fang Yue three True Form Pills, but they crumbled into powder before he could take them.
• Fang Yue followed the ruins' runes to a Stone Tablet and received the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique, then cultivated until its runes went dark.
• The Fox King and the other powerful demons entered the ruins, split up to search, and agreed to signal one another if they found Fang Yue.
• Fang Yue heard a battle and saw the ox-headed demon smash open a Stone Statue, revealing a powerful light and a glowing fragment that the demon seized.
• The ox-headed demon sensed Fang Yue hiding nearby and charged him, so Fang Yue emerged and struck with a vital-energy palm imprint.

Fang Yue killed the bull demon, absorbed its essence, and gained the Mighty Ox Demon ability, drawing the attention of the other Demon Kings. Cornered by four kings at the ruins’ central platform, he resonated with its crystal to unleash an ancient force and counterattack.

• Fang Yue defeated and killed the bull demon, then extracted its demon essence and completed the first revolution of the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique.
• Fang Yue gained the Mighty Ox Demon ability as the Fox King, Heavenly Dog King, and other Demon Kings sensed the bull demon’s death and converged on the area.
• Fang Yue fled through the ruins, gathered ancient maps and documents, and reached a central Stone Platform bearing a glowing crystal.
• The Fox King, Heavenly Dog King, Green Python King, and Eagle Vulture King cornered Fang Yue and attacked him together.
• Fang Yue resonated with the crystal, unleashing an ancient force that neutralized the Demon Kings’ attacks, then struck all four from behind.

Fang Yue defeated the four demon kings in the ruins, though the Fox King betrayed the others and escaped. After killing the remaining three and absorbing their power, Fang Yue brought the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique to major completion and prepared to seek its Six Revolutions continuation.

• Fang Yue used the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique to overwhelm the four demon kings and injure them with a series of palm strikes.
• The Fox King suddenly attacked the other three demon kings, severely wounded them, and fled from the ruins.
• Fang Yue rejected the three injured demon kings’ final resistance and killed them with a full-powered palm strike.
• Fang Yue absorbed the three demon kings’ remaining Demonic Energy and power, bringing the Three Revolutions True Spirit Technique to major completion.
• Fang Yue set out to undergo the next trial and seek the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique.

Fang Yue passed the inner sect disciple trial and obtained the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique, but the ruins began collapsing before he could memorize the entire manual. He escaped, while the Fox King fled to seek the Demon Emperor’s help in finding another path to greater strength.

• A giant turtle emerged beneath the ancient ruins, then sank back down and quieted the tremors.
• Fang Yue fought the halberd-wielding trial figure with vital energy and demonic power, eventually defeating it.
• The Stone Statues declared that Fang Yue had passed the inner sect trial and awarded him the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique.
• As the ruins collapsed, Fang Yue hurriedly memorized what he could before escaping through the trial ground’s exit.
• The Fox King escaped the ruins and rushed to find the Demon Emperor, hoping for help recovering its lost opportunity.

Fang Yue began cultivating the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique while the Demon Emperor ordered the Seven Great Demon Generals to capture him alive. After escaping their initial attack, Fang Yue was cornered at a passage out of the Demon Realm and prepared to fight again.

• The Fox King reported Fang Yue and the vanished ruins to the Demon Emperor, who said the ruins remained hidden and ordered the Fox King to keep searching.
• The Demon Emperor sent the Seven Great Demon Generals to bring Fang Yue back alive and mobilized Demon Beasts to search the Demon Realm for him.
• The Seven Great Demon Generals found Fang Yue cultivating in a cave and attacked him; Fang Yue fought back, then fled when their combined assault began to overwhelm him.
• After three days of pursuit, Fang Yue reached a passage that could lead him back to the Great Wei Dynasty, but the Seven Great Demon Generals surrounded him.
• Fang Yue charged at the Seven Great Demon Generals again, determined to fight his way through.

Fang Yue defeated the Seven Great Demon Generals, reached the Spirit-Energy Unity realm, absorbed three demonic essences, and returned to the Great Wei Dynasty. He arrived home to find his parents gone searching for his elder brother, while Demon Emperor Chi Lin ordered preparations to invade the human world.

• Fang Yue used Spirit-Energy Unity to turn the battle around, defeat the Seven Great Demon Generals, and absorb three compatible demonic essences.
• Fang Yue traveled through a spatial node back to the Great Wei Dynasty and set out for its southern border.
• Demon Emperor Chi Lin learned the Seven Great Demon Generals had died and ordered the Demon Master to break the barrier seal within one year.
• Fang Yue returned to his hometown and found his family's courtyard empty.
• A neighbor told Fang Yue that his parents had left several days earlier to look for his elder brother, and Fang Yue anxiously asked where they had gone.

Fang Yue traveled to Black Mountain City to find his family and uncovered signs of a sinister force operating there. After fighting his way through the abandoned temple’s underground passages, he reached a cavern where an evil ritual was underway, while Yu Hongye prepared a formation to exploit Fang Yue’s special bloodline.

• A deceptive neighbor sent a black bird to report that Fang Yue was heading to Black Mountain City.
• An old Daoist warned Fang Yue about disappearances and strange events, pointing him toward the abandoned temple and the mysterious City Lord's Mansion.
• Yu Hongye ordered his subordinate to prepare the Three Spirit Corpse Refining Formation because Fang Yue’s bloodline was crucial to the Black Mountain Sect’s plans.
• At the abandoned temple, Fang Yue destroyed more than ten Corpse Persons that emerged from beneath the floor.
• Fang Yue entered the underground passages, destroyed a Shadow Figure, and discovered an altar where an evil figure writhed within flames.

Fang Yue escaped the Three Spirits Corpse Refining Formation, discovered a Black Mountain Sect ritual planned three hundred li outside Black Mountain City, and suspected his missing family might be among the hostages. While Yu Hongye ordered the sect to hunt him, Fang Yue left the city and headed for the mountains.

• Fang Yue used demonic power to break the formation's runes, free himself, and severely wound the demonic silhouette, which warned him that the Black Mountain Sect would retaliate.
• Fang Yue searched the underground chamber and found a secret letter describing a hostage escort and ritual three hundred li outside the city on the fifteenth of the month.
• Fang Yue returned to Black Mountain City, investigated the sect's influence, and worried that his missing family might have been captured.
• Yu Hongye learned that Fang Yue had destroyed the formation and ordered spies to track him, city defenses strengthened, and disciples outside the city to kill him if he left.
• Fang Yue quietly left Black Mountain City and hurried toward the mountains to search for his family and confront the Black Mountain Sect's plans.

Fang Yue infiltrated the Black Mountain Sect’s ritual site by disguising himself as a disciple escorting offerings, and he found his father among the imprisoned captives. As the Sect Master Yu Hongye prepared the ritual and revealed that Fang Yue’s infiltration had been allowed as part of his plan, a commotion gave Fang Yue a chance to slip toward the cages.

• Fang Yue studied the ritual materials, prepared for an infiltration, and approached the Secluded Valley on the night before the fifteenth.
• Fang Yue subdued a disciple, took his clothes and mask, and joined an escort team carrying offerings into the valley.
• Fang Yue entered the cave and found his father imprisoned among the offerings, then used a Command Token to replace a cave guard.
• Yu Hongye prepared the ritual and watched Fang Yue through a bronze mirror, revealing that he had deliberately allowed Fang Yue to infiltrate.
• When a commotion drew disciples away from the cages, Fang Yue slipped out of the cave entrance and rushed toward his imprisoned family.

Fang Yue freed his family from the Black Mountain Sect’s cages, then agreed to surrender so they could leave safely. Yu Hongye had him drugged and taken back to the dungeon for corpse refinement in three days, unaware that the pill had not truly subdued him.

• Fang Yue rescued his father and led him to the deeper detention area, where he freed his mother, other family members, and imprisoned villagers.
• Yu Hongye and three protectors surrounded Fang Yue and the rescued group, and Fang Yue negotiated for his family to be allowed to leave unharmed.
• Fang Yue sent his family away with his eldest brother and stayed behind, demanding that Yu Hongye honor his promise to protect them.
• Fang Yue swallowed a crimson pill while secretly leaving behind a thread of Primal Spirit Power; his sacred artifact weakened the pill’s control over him.
• Yu Hongye ordered Fang Yue taken back to the Black Mountain Sect and locked in the dungeon until he could be refined into a spirit corpse war general in three days.