Chapter Summaries

After witnessing the Human Emperor’s sacrifice and discovering his remains in the Stone Tower, Fang Yue and the Fox Woman escaped the hidden realm while pursued by the Ancient Demon General. They emerged in the Demon Race, fought soldiers and a Black Mist-controlled beast, and fled into a Stone Forest where the mist could not follow.

• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman found a coffin in the Stone Tower, where a figure resembling the Human Emperor transformed into specks of light through Dao Transformation.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman escaped the hidden realm through a Light Barrier after Fang Yue drove back the Ancient Demon General’s phantom.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman emerged on a mountain in the Demon Race and killed the Demon Race soldiers who charged them.
• Black Mist gathered around Fang Yue and the Fox Woman, eroding their power, before a black Demon Beast emerged and attacked them.
• Fang Yue wounded the black Demon Beast, then fled with the Fox Woman toward a Stone Forest, where the pursuing Black Mist could not enter.

Fang Yue and the Fox Woman escaped the Stone Forest, hid in a grassland hollow, and Fang Yue successfully refined his spear before they sought a way out of the Demon Realm. A misty valley transported them to an ancient desert, where they discovered clues to a teleportation ritual and were attacked by a giant sandworm.

• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman crossed the Stone Forest’s sealing formation and found shelter in a hollow on the grassland.
• Fang Yue refined the spear by matching his vital energy to the sequence of its runes, while the Fox Woman guarded him.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman entered a mist-filled valley, were drawn into a vortex, and emerged in an unfamiliar desert beyond the Demon Realm.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman activated the star-patterned pillars at a ruin’s Stone Platform and saw an image of an ancient teleportation ritual.
• A gigantic sandworm erupted from the desert and charged at Fang Yue and the Fox Woman, while Fang Yue’s spear strikes barely marked its armor.

Fang Yue and the Fox Woman defeated a sandworm in the ruins, but the Fox Woman’s treasured ribbons were badly damaged. Searching the Golden Kingdom ruins for a way to the Human Realm, they uncovered an underground chamber and stopped black tentacles from breaking through a sealed Stone Gate, leaving the gate’s secrets unresolved.

• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman exploited the sandworm’s vulnerable abdomen and killed it, but the battle left the Fox Woman’s ancestral ribbons torn and drained of color.
• The pair continued through the ruins and identified its heart as the legendary Golden Kingdom, then found a patterned stone slab that opened a staircase underground.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman explored an underground chamber, where its ancient objects crumbled to dust, and reached a Stone Gate with a circular recess.
• The Stone Gate cracked open and black tentacles attacked, so Fang Yue and the Fox Woman struck its runes until the tentacles stopped emerging and the cracks ceased growing.

Fang Yue and the Fox Woman opened the Stone Gate, overcame a light-net trap, and reached the Golden Kingdom’s central hall, where they began activating a doorway. Meanwhile, Li Su defeated an Ancient Demonic Creature at a sealing node, but a flood of demons emerged as Fang Yue and the Fox Woman were attacked just before they could escape.

• The Fox Woman found a hidden Circular Crystal, and Fang Yue used it to open the Stone Gate.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman escaped a light-net trap by guiding its beams along the floor formations and reached the hall containing the Golden Disc.
• Li Su led his soldiers against an Ancient Demonic Creature, wounded it in the eyes, and finally killed it with a strike to its heart.
• Endless demons surged from the sealing node after the Ancient Demonic Creature fell.
• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman adjusted the statues around the Golden Disc until a doorway appeared, then ran toward it.
• Small demons formed from black smoke inside the hall, and Fang Yue used his spear to knock them back as he and the Fox Woman neared the doorway.

Fang Yue and the Fox Woman returned to the human realm, learned that the Demon Race had breached the seals and was gathering at the northern border, and separated to respond. Fang Yue reached his hometown and warned his mother Chen Shi that she and his father needed to evacuate soon.

• Fang Yue and the Fox Woman emerged in an unfamiliar forest, learned they were in Qingping County, and headed toward Jincheng for information.
• At a town restaurant and escort agency, Fang Yue and the Fox Woman heard reports of strange activity, Demon Race sightings, and reinforced Imperial Court defenses at the northern border.
• A Demon General ordered his troops to break the remaining seals as demons prepared to advance, while human soldiers remained captive and scouts watched the camp.
• Fang Yue hurried south to protect his parents, and the Fox Woman continued searching for a way to resist the Demon Race, planning to meet him in Jincheng.
• Fang Yue reunited with his mother Chen Shi and warned her that the Demon Race had invaded and their home would soon be unsafe.

Fang Yue took Chen Shi and Father Fang from their home toward safer Shanyang Prefecture, fought off bandits on the road, and eventually returned with them to Big Willow Tree Village. Meanwhile, Great Wei and Great Chu mobilized against the Demon Race, whose invasion had thrown the region into turmoil.

• Chen Shi reluctantly agreed to leave home with Fang Yue and Father Fang, and the family packed supplies and heirlooms for their journey.
• Fang Yue led his parents across a shallow river ford and defeated a group of bandits who tried to rob them.
• Empress Zhu Linlang ordered Great Wei to mobilize troops, recruit warriors, and send spies to investigate the Demon Race's breach of the seal.
• The Chu Emperor strengthened Great Chu's border defenses and sent an envoy to Great Wei as both dynasties prepared for the Demon Race.
• Fang Yue brought Chen Shi and Father Fang to Big Willow Tree Village, where they saw damage from the ongoing conflicts and villagers welcomed their return.

Fang Yue returned to his village, then set out for the Imperial City to join Zhu Linlang and fight the Demon Race. As Great Wei and Great Chu faced worsening border battles, Zhu Linlang and her commanders prepared risky operations against the Demon Race.

• Fang Yue returned home with Father Fang and Mother Chen, and he promised to search for Eldest Brother's family.
• Father Fang urged Fang Yue to go to the Imperial City because Zhu Linlang needed him, and Fang Yue left a month later.
• Fang Yue traveled through suffering towns and villages, helped their people, and accepted a protective talisman from an old man.
• Zhu Linlang and General Chen learned that a mysterious force was gathering behind the Demon Race lines and planned flank feints and a rear attack.
• Fang Yue reached the Imperial City, learned Zhu Linlang had gone to the northern border, and hurried there with other reinforcements.
• Great Chu's generals ordered probing attacks that revealed gaps in the Demon Race defenses, while Great Wei's selected teams prepared for their dangerous missions.

The Great Chu Empress split her forces and personally led fifty thousand soldiers to aid Great Wei as its border defenses buckled under a Demon Race assault. Fang Yue attacked the Demon Kings to weaken the demons, and with Zhu Linlang and the allied armies fighting back, he clashed with the Wolf-headed Demon King in a struggle that remained unresolved.

• After receiving Great Wei’s urgent request for aid, the Great Chu Empress ordered General Chen to command the forces at home and set out with fifty thousand elite soldiers.
• As the Demon Race threatened to break Great Wei’s border defenses, Fang Yue infiltrated their rear and interrupted the Snake-tailed Female Demon’s spell with a spear strike.
• The Wolf-headed Demon King and Giant Bat Demon King attacked Fang Yue, who fought them and resisted the Snake-tailed Female Demon’s vines and other magic.
• Zhu Linlang struck at the Snake-tailed Female Demon with her Ice Soul Slash, while Great Wei and Great Chu’s soldiers rallied and pushed the lesser demons back.
• Fang Yue attacked the Wolf-headed Demon King with a golden-rune spear, and the two powers collided as the Demon King defended himself with a black shield.

Fang Yue defeated the Demon Kings and helped Great Wei and Great Chu rout the Demon Race at Great Wei's border. The allied army pursued the fleeing demons and celebrated a decisive victory.

• Fang Yue broke the Human-bodied Wolf-headed Demon King's Black Shield with his Golden Dragon attack and gravely wounded him.
• Zhu Linlang protected the Great Wei soldiers from the Shadow Demons with a Light Barrier while Fang Yue fought the Giant Bat Demon King.
• The Giant Bat Demon King and Snake-tailed Female Demon combined a lightning strike and tornado against Fang Yue, but he survived and killed the Bat Demon King.
• Fang Yue caught and killed the Snake-tailed Female Demon, throwing the Demon Race into chaos.
• Great Wei and Great Chu's soldiers routed the demon army, and Zhu Linlang joined the fighting as the allied forces pursued the survivors to victory.

After Great Wei’s victory, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang strengthened the army and defenses while learning that a hidden force was trying to break the Demon Emperors’ seals. Great Chu’s reinforcements arrived, and Fang Yue infiltrated a Demon City to gather intelligence, while the demons massed near the border.

• Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang that five Demon Emperors ruled the Demon Realm and that a mysterious force near a forbidden area was trying to break their seals, so they planned a secret investigation led by General Li.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang expanded the army’s cultivation training, improved border warnings, and arranged for soldiers to earn access to stronger techniques through military merit.
• Su Yao arrived with Great Chu’s troops, and Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and Su Yao agreed to combine Great Chu’s Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation with Great Wei’s sensing devices and send scouts to monitor the demons.
• Fang Yue disguised himself as a demon and entered a Demon City, where he overheard demons discussing a plan to break the ancient seals and learned that humans had noticed it.
• Fang Yue narrowly avoided suspicion from a powerful demon in a tavern and approached an ancient palace as Zhu Linlang and Su Yao received reports that demons were gathering near the border.

Fang Yue infiltrated the Demon Race palace, freed prisoners marked for use in the Seal Destruction Array, and attacked the array’s stone platform while battling the elders. Elsewhere, Su Yao’s squad followed black smoke deeper into a valley, and General Li’s team searched the forbidden-ground cave for Spiritual Power nodes; Fang Yue’s fight with the Turtle Demon Elder remained unresolved.

• Fang Yue disguised himself as a Demon Soldier, followed the prisoners into the palace, and learned the elders planned to use their demonic power to activate the Seal Destruction Array.
• Fang Yue freed the bound demons and led them in an attack on the soldiers while he fought the elders and struck the stone platform.
• Fang Yue evaded the elders, damaged the platform, and began battling the Turtle Demon Elder as the rescued demons broke through the soldiers’ defenses.
• Su Yao’s reconnaissance squad followed traces of black smoke deeper into the border valley, believing they would lead to the Ghostly Monsters’ true bodies.
• General Li and his team followed the wall-pattern map through the forbidden-ground cave in search of Spiritual Power nodes that might stabilize the mysterious gem.
• The Turtle Demon Elder hurled his Water Dividing Fork at Fang Yue, who dodged it and fired a blazing beam of light at him.

Fang Yue killed the Turtle Demon Elder and the elder maintaining the forbidden Demonic Arts, then destroyed the Stone Platform as the battle in the Demon Realm palace reached its climax. Meanwhile, Su Yao's scouting party wounded the Giant Monster, while General Li fought the demon spirit in the forbidden grounds and struggled to free his soldiers.

• Fang Yue killed the Turtle Demon Elder, then led the rescued Demon Race members against the elders and Demon Soldiers who sought to break the seal.
• General Li and his soldiers found an ancient seal inside the Spiritual Power vortex, but a demon spirit's mist began controlling them as General Li tried to resist it.
• Su Yao spotted a flickering scale on the Giant Monster's abdomen, directed the scouting party to attack it, and pierced its cracked armor with her spear.
• Fang Yue killed the elder casting the forbidden Demonic Arts; its backlash struck several elders, and Fang Yue and the rescued members pressed their attack.
• General Li burned his life force to disperse the demon spirit's mist and wounded the demon spirit with his final attack.
• Fang Yue reached the Stone Platform and destroyed it with repeated strikes, sending a powerful energy fluctuation through the hall.

After escaping the destroyed Stone Platform, Fang Yue hid from the Demon Race’s bounty, recovered, and recruited the Demon Race members he had rescued as allies. Su Yao’s squad and General Li’s unit shared clues about threats connected to the seal, while Fang Yue and his companions headed north as a major upheaval gathered.

• Fang Yue escaped the hall as the rescued Demon Race members covered his retreat, and he later hid in a secluded valley to recover from battle.
• The remaining Demon Race higher-ups issued a bounty for Fang Yue, prompting a widespread search across their territory.
• After a month in hiding, Fang Yue found the Demon Race members he had rescued, asked them to join his effort against those trying to destroy the seal, and they agreed.
• Su Yao’s scouting squad and General Li’s unit met, exchanged information about a giant beast and unstable formations, and established a cave as a temporary base to investigate their connection to the seal.
• Fang Yue and his new allies traveled north, where they saw Demon Race members gathering and sensed a major event approaching.

The Three-Headed Snake Monster led the northern Demon Kings to unite against the spreading Demonic Energy and debate whether to enter the Human Realm, while they investigated the Mysterious Venerable Lord. Fang Yue reached a border city, learned that the Venerable Lord had reappeared, and entered an intelligence agency to seek more information.

• The Three-Headed Snake Monster escaped Myriad Demon Cave with surviving demons and warned another Demon King that the Demonic Energy was spreading and could destroy their clan.
• The Three-Headed Snake Monster gathered the northern Demon Kings, who agreed to reinforce barriers, investigate the Mysterious Venerable Lord, and consider contacting the humans before taking action.
• Fang Yue arrived in the north and learned from demons at a tavern that the Mysterious Venerable Lord led the Southern Demon Alliance and was seeking an object connected to the Demonic Energy eruption.
• Fang Yue doubted the Venerable Lord's identity because he believed he had killed him before, then went to the Demon Realm's intelligence agency to investigate.
• A sharp-eyed demon admitted Fang Yue to the intelligence agency and warned him that information would cost him.

Fang Yue learned that the Mysterious Venerable Lord might be a Demon Emperor’s incarnation and confronted him at the northern Demon Realm’s barrier. Ling’er saved Fang Yue from a fatal blow but was badly injured, leaving Fang Yue consumed by rage as he faced the Mysterious Venerable Lord again.

• A Demon Race intelligence officer gave Fang Yue records describing the Mysterious Venerable Lord’s suspected Demon Emperor incarnation, formidable powers, and mental control.
• The Mysterious Venerable Lord reached the northern Demon Realm’s defensive barrier and used black runes to erode it.
• Fang Yue attacked the Mysterious Venerable Lord, spotted a brief gap in his defenses, and struck him through the barrier of Demonic Energy.
• The Mysterious Venerable Lord counterattacked, and Ling’er arrived to shield Fang Yue from the fatal blow.
• The shockwave blasted Ling’er away and left her badly injured, while Fang Yue rose in fury and threatened the Mysterious Venerable Lord.

Fang Yue and Ling'er pursued the Mysterious Venerable Lord after he escaped their first battle, then confronted him on an ancient battlefield. They destroyed his black vortex, but he retaliated with a Black Demonic Orb aimed at them.

• Fang Yue broke through the Mysterious Venerable Lord's black flames with a powerful sword strike, but the Mysterious Venerable Lord escaped using a forbidden spell.
• Ling'er gave the exhausted Fang Yue a Fox Clan healing pill and led him to a hidden valley, where she helped him recover for several days.
• Fang Yue and Ling'er left the valley to pursue the Mysterious Venerable Lord and found the lands along his path corrupted by Demonic Energy.
• On an abandoned ancient battlefield, Fang Yue and Ling'er fought the Mysterious Venerable Lord, destroying his skeletons and shattering the black vortex with their combined attacks.
• The Mysterious Venerable Lord formed a Black Demonic Orb and launched it toward Fang Yue and Ling'er.

Fang Yue destroyed the Mysterious Venerable Lord’s Black Demonic Orb with the battlefield’s Sha Energy of Soldiers, then fled with the injured Ling'er when the enemy began to self-destruct. They escaped into a hidden valley, where the Golden Carp Demon allowed Ling'er to stay and ordered Fang Yue to leave.

• Ling'er collapsed from exhaustion, so Fang Yue faced the Black Demonic Orb alone and absorbed the Sha Energy of Soldiers to shatter it.
• Fang Yue broke through the Mysterious Venerable Lord’s shield and stabbed him through the chest, but the wounded enemy began burning his demonic power to self-destruct.
• Fang Yue carried Ling'er toward a hidden valley and escaped the destructive blast when its mysterious power shielded them.
• Fang Yue and Ling'er explored the valley and reached a lake, where a Golden Carp Demon confronted them.
• The Golden Carp Demon permitted Ling'er to remain and recover but ordered Fang Yue to leave, and Ling'er struggled to rise when she heard he was going.

After leaving Ling'er, Fang Yue overheard demons discussing a returning Demon Emperor and the southern Demon Realm’s invasion, then rescued a Lion Demon and Fox Demon from mysterious attackers. At the Lion Demon’s stronghold, Fang Yue identified spreading Ancient Demon corruption and proposed combining Spirit Vein energy with sunlight to counter it.

• Fang Yue left Ling'er to recover his strength and overheard a Lion Demon and Fox Demon discussing the rumored return of a Demon Emperor and the southern Demon Realm’s invasion.
• Several Shadow Figures attacked the two demons, and Fang Yue drove them back with his sword before helping the injured Lion Demon.
• The Lion Demon led Fang Yue and the Fox Demon to his hidden stronghold, where they recovered and discussed the Shadow Figures’ connection to Ancient Demon corruption.
• A scout reported that Demonic Energy had spread around the stronghold and affected its defenders, and Fang Yue confirmed that the corruption threatened to overtake the area.
• Fang Yue proposed combining Spiritual Power from the stronghold’s Spirit Veins with Supreme Yang Power from sunlight, and said he knew a suitable method.

Fang Yue and the demons created a formation that restrained the Demonic Energy around their stronghold, then he traveled to Spirit Void Valley to seek Senior Cang Yu’s advice on human Great Grandmaster breakthroughs. Cang Yu explained that both humans and demons needed a Great Sacrifice to advance beyond the peak of Great Grandmaster, and Fang Yue asked whether it demanded many lives.

• Fang Yue, the Lion Demon, and the Fox Demon gathered the materials and formed the Nine-Yang Primordial Unity Formation, using a Sunwarm Crystal to create a barrier that restrained Demonic Energy and restored clarity to the affected Demon Race members.
• Fang Yue learned that attaining the position of Demon Emperor required a Great Sacrifice, then heard about Senior Cang Yu and Spirit Void Valley as a possible source of knowledge about human breakthroughs.
• Fang Yue traveled west, fought off a pack of giant wolf Demon Beasts, and reached Spirit Void Valley after several days.
• Fang Yue found Senior Cang Yu in the valley and asked how human Great Grandmasters achieved breakthroughs.
• Cang Yu explained that human Great Grandmasters relied on comprehending the laws of heaven and earth and overcoming the limits of their state of mind, but that advancing past the peak of Great Grandmaster also required a Great Sacrifice.
• Fang Yue asked whether the Great Sacrifice for human advancement required sacrificing a vast number of living beings.

Fang Yue learned from Senior Cang Yu that the Ancient Demons were spreading Demonic Energy to provoke war and that the Primordial Ancient Mine might hold both the source of the corruption and a path beyond the Demon Emperor realm. After resolving to investigate, Fang Yue reached the mine’s entrance, where its ancient restrictions reacted as he stepped inside their reach.

• Fang Yue questioned Senior Cang Yu about grand sacrifices, and Senior Cang Yu explained that breaking past the world’s limits required Heaven’s Law Power.
• Senior Cang Yu explained that the Ancient Demons spread Demonic Energy to corrupt living beings, destabilize the Human and Demon Realms, and feed on war’s negative emotions.
• Senior Cang Yu described ways to oppose the Ancient Demons and said the Primordial Ancient Mine might contain the Source of Darkness as well as a mysterious path beyond Demon Emperor.
• Fang Yue thanked Senior Cang Yu, left the valley, and traveled through lands devastated by Demonic Energy, fighting corrupted Demon Beasts along the way.
• Fang Yue reached the ancient mine’s entrance and stepped onto its black-patterned ground, causing the surrounding Demonic Energy to churn violently.