Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue escaped the collapsing cave, defeated the Black Robed Figures, and broke the Spirit Severing Array before studying how to adapt it against the Demonic Tide. After developing a larger, more stable version, he activated it in a remote valley, where it cut off the vital essence of heaven and earth.

• Fang Yue led the expedition toward the exit, knocked a boulder away from a team member, and used a fallen stone pillar to bridge a fissure.
• Fang Yue held off the Black Robed Figures while the expedition crossed the makeshift bridge, then defeated the attackers with Sword Shadow Splitting Light and a final strike.
• Fang Yue examined the Spirit Severing Array, found its core hub, and destroyed it, allowing the vital essence of heaven and earth to return to the cave.
• A month later, Fang Yue researched the array in Great Wei's imperial capital and developed a new version designed to isolate vital essence across a wider area.
• Fang Yue led gifted experts to a remote mountain valley and activated the new array, cutting off the valley's vital essence of heaven and earth.

Fang Yue considered whether a vast array could sever the flow of heaven and earth essence, while the Shadow Lord planned to break the seal between the Human and Demon Realms. Fang Yue reached Shattered Star Abyss too late to stop the array, and a third breach opened, unleashing the Demonic Tide’s power.

• Fang Yue studied the Spirit Severing Array’s runes and decided that creating a much larger array to cut off heaven and earth essence was worth attempting.
• The Shadow Lord revealed the Shadow Demon Society’s plan to break the seal at Shattered Star Abyss during the Seven Stars Alignment and ordered attacks to keep Fang Yue occupied.
• The Shadow Lord and his followers activated the Spirit-Eroding Realm-Breaking Array as the Seven Stars Alignment weakened the seal, while Fang Yue rushed to aid Great Wei’s defenses.
• Fang Yue recognized the attacks as a diversion, led his team to Shattered Star Abyss, and fought the Shadow Demon Society as the seal cracked further.
• Fang Yue clashed with the Shadow Lord, but a third breach formed in the seal and the Demonic Tide’s power poured through.

Fang Yue used a Spirit Severing Array to weaken Shadow Lord, but Shadow Lord escaped after revealing that the seal between the Human and Demon Realms had been irreparably broken. As the nations prepared for the coming Demonic Tide, Fang Yue improved the array and installed it along Great Wei’s anti-demon front.

• Fang Yue temporarily severed the Shattered Star Abyss’s connection to the Demonic Tide, weakening Shadow Lord and forcing him to retreat.
• Shadow Lord escaped behind a black barrier, warning Fang Yue that the broken seal would eventually let the Demonic Tide ravage the Human Realm.
• Fang Yue told the expedition members to warn the nations and prepare for a fight to the death, prompting emergency mobilization across the continent.
• Empress Zhu Linlang’s ministers urged Great Wei to recruit and train defenders, forge specialized weapons, enlist cultivators, and establish layered defenses, while Great Chu and other nations also prepared.
• Fang Yue studied the Spirit Severing Array, discovered how to strengthen it with spiritual materials, and created an improved version with much greater coverage.
• Fang Yue returned to Great Wei’s front lines and worked with its generals to activate arrays that formed an isolation zone separating the front from the Demonic Tide.

Fang Yue completed a final Spirit Severing Array that weakened the Demonic Tide, but the arrays also cut off vital energy, giving Shadow Demon an opening to spread rumors and stir up conflict. Wang Bantian tried to rally martial artists to destroy the arrays, and the chapter ended with him threatening anyone who opposed him.

• Fang Yue set a final, powerful Spirit Severing Array at a valley entrance, and the array weakened the Demonic Tide as it approached.
• Shadow Demon learned that the arrays were blocking the tide and sent lesser Demonic Beasts to spread rumors that the arrays were draining human life force.
• Wang Bantian exploited martial artists’ fears about dwindling vital energy and organized a gathering to plan the arrays’ destruction.
• At the gathering, Elder Zhao and other martial artists argued that destroying the arrays would leave the Human Realm exposed to the Demonic Tide.
• Wang Bantian dismissed their objections and declared that anyone who refused to destroy the arrays was his enemy.

Master Hui Chen joined the fight against Wang Bantian, but Shadow Demon’s Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the group and appeared to leave them dead. Wang Bantian continued his scheme against the Spirit Severing Array, while Lin Feng spotted a suspicious presence near David’s border.

• Master Hui Chen arrived and warned Wang Bantian that destroying the Spirit Severing Array would unleash the Demonic Tide, but Wang Bantian ordered his men to attack.
• Zhao Laoda, Silver Moon General, the young martial artist, and Master Hui Chen fought Wang Bantian’s men and the Demonic Beasts that emerged from the shadows.
• The Demonic Beasts revived from their wounds, overwhelmed the defenders, and appeared to kill Zhao Laoda, Silver Moon General, and the others.
• A Black Robed Figure revealed that Shadow Demon had staged the fight to test the group and ordered Wang Bantian to keep stirring opposition to the Spirit Severing Array.
• Lin Feng spotted suspicious figures and a Demonic Energy-like aura near David’s border, then ordered the camps to strengthen their guard.

Lin Feng repelled an early attack by Demonic Beasts at the border, but Wang Bantian struck the Spirit Severing Array while colluding with the Shadow Demon. When a Great Wei Imperial Family elder confronted him, Wang Bantian absorbed Demonic Energy and transformed into a demon.

• Lin Feng organized the border defenses and led soldiers in driving back the Demonic Beasts, though the battle left more than three hundred casualties and heavily damaged the city gate.
• Wang Bantian planned to destroy the Spirit Severing Array's array eye with help from the Shadow Demon and led his subordinates to infiltrate it at night.
• A patrol discovered Wang Bantian's group as they dismantled the array eye's protective devices, and Wang Bantian struck the core while fighting the soldiers.
• A Great Wei Imperial Family Clan Elder arrived and attacked Wang Bantian, overcoming his subordinates in the ensuing battle.
• Facing defeat, Wang Bantian absorbed Demonic Energy and transformed into a demon, then threatened the elder.

Wang Bantian defeated the old man and destroyed one of the Spirit Severing Arrays, allowing Demonic Energy to spread until the remaining arrays held it back. Fang Yue sensed the breach, traveled to the devastated border, and confronted a masked accomplice who warned that his enemies might target his family.

• Wang Bantian and the old man fought fiercely; Wang Bantian severed the old man's arm and mortally wounded him, though the old man injured Wang Bantian in return.
• Wang Bantian struck the Spirit Severing Array's core and destroyed it, releasing Demonic Energy that the remaining three hundred and fifty-nine arrays temporarily contained.
• Fang Yue sensed the destroyed array while overseeing work on Heavenly Spirit Mountain, ordered the disciples to finish their array, and flew to the border.
• Fang Yue found the border in ruins and discovered that a masked cultivator had been taunting him from within the Demonic Energy.
• The masked cultivator claimed that resentful humans might overthrow Fang Yue and threaten his family, then declared that the Demon Shadow faction would eventually take the Human Realm; Fang Yue prepared to confront him.

Fang Yue and the gathered soldiers and cultivators defeated the Black Robed Figures, repaired the border’s Spirit Severing Arrays, and began planning 365 grand arrays to cut off the Demonic Tide at its source. A search team found a qilin that agreed to reveal a dragon vein beneath its mountain range, while warning them not to damage it.

• Fang Yue fought the Black Robed Figures alongside the soldiers until bell tolls heralded reinforcements from across the Human Realm.
• Fang Yue and the allied cultivators destroyed the Black Robed Figures and drove away the Demonic Energy.
• Fang Yue led everyone in repairing the Spirit Severing Arrays, then proposed building 365 Spirit Severing Grand Arrays to sever the dragon veins and isolate the Human Realm’s primordial energy.
• Fang Yue sent teams across the Human Realm to trace dragon veins and gather rare materials for the grand arrays.
• A search team encountered a qilin in an ancient mountain range and explained Fang Yue’s plan to stop the Demonic Tide.
• The qilin agreed to guide the team to a dragon vein beneath the mountains and traced its path in the ground, warning them not to damage it.

The dragon vein squad reached the formation site after overcoming traps and guardian Demon Beasts, while Fang Yue gathered the people’s energy in Great Wei to prepare for the Demonic Tide. Shadow Demon Venerable ordered an attack on the formation site and launched a plan to sow chaos, prompting Fang Yue to call an urgent meeting.

• Qilin warned the captain about the dangers along the dragon vein and showed the squad the route to the formation site.
• The squad crossed a complex formation trap and defeated a flame-spewing guardian Demon Beast through coordinated attacks.
• After several days of travel, the squad reached the formation site, where the captain’s touch triggered a powerful restriction and a five-clawed Golden Dragon appeared.
• Fang Yue directed the construction of the Spirit Severing Array and gathered the people’s faith into a glowing sphere above an altar in Great Wei.
• Shadow Demon Venerable ordered stronger forces to destroy the dragon vein formation site and sent Shadow Demon Society elites to spread rumors and discord in the Human Realm.
• Fang Yue sensed the Shadow Demon Society’s activity and summoned Great Wei’s experts to discuss a response.

Fang Yue broke through to the Supreme Expert realm as the Shadow Demon Society attacked Great Wei’s defenses and Spirit Severing Arrays. He intercepted Wang Bantian at a border array and defeated him before the society could destroy it.

• Fang Yue and the council planned to suppress the Shadow Demon Society’s unrest and reinforce the Dragon Vein formation sites.
• Wang Bantian led covert squads that used soul-bewildering incense and a formation-breaking dagger to destroy several Spirit Severing Arrays.
• Fang Yue used the spiritual energy gathered by the grand sacrifice to break through the Great Grandmaster bottleneck and reach the Supreme Expert realm.
• Fang Yue strengthened Great Wei’s defenses and helped suppress the Shadow Demon Society, while Wang Bantian planned further attacks and sought allies.
• Wang Bantian led elites to attack a Spirit Severing Array near a border city, but Fang Yue arrived and defeated an attacker before blocking their sabotage attempt.
• Fang Yue stopped Wang Bantian with a forceful pull and palm strike, then confronted the surrounded Shadow Demon Society elites.

Fang Yue killed Wang Bantian and the Demon Venerable, then led Great Wei in a campaign against the Shadow Demon Society’s remnants. As the Demonic Tide surged toward the border, Fang Yue ordered the soldiers to join the Spirit Severing Arrays in attacking its fringes.

• Fang Yue killed Wang Bantian and reported the encounter to Great Wei’s leaders, who strengthened defenses and sent spies into the Shadow Demon Society.
• Fang Yue led an elite force to the Society’s stronghold, defeated the Demon Venerable, and killed him, though the Shadow Demon Society’s remnants and the Demonic Tide remained threats.
• Fang Yue led a purge of the Society’s remnants, uncovering plans to ally with resentful factions and exploit the Demonic Tide against Great Wei.
• Fang Yue exposed and captured a hidden spy organization in a border town, then halted the purge when the Demonic Tide advanced toward Great Wei.
• Fang Yue ordered the Spirit Severing Arrays activated against the Demonic Tide, then directed soldiers to coordinate with the arrays and attack the tide’s flanks.

Fang Yue drove back the Demonic Tide with a Spirit Energy Resonance and organized Great Wei to build the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array before the barrier between realms failed. As he oversaw the preparations, Zhao Rui, Li Feng, and Wei Jinzhong plotted to kill him; Fang Yue survived their ambush and recognized their staged explosion as part of a wider conspiracy.

• Fang Yue gathered the soldiers' vital energy into a Spirit Energy Resonance and blasted the Demonic Tide back, though he warned that the victory was temporary.
• Fang Yue proposed arranging Three Hundred Sixty-Five Spirit Severing Arrays to form the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array, and Great Wei's strategists and powerhouses agreed to help.
• Zhao Rui, Li Feng, and Wei Jinzhong conspired to eliminate Fang Yue before he completed the array, hiring assassins and planting explosives in a warehouse.
• Dozens of Grandmaster-level assassins attacked Fang Yue in an alley, but he fought them off and hurried toward the imperial city when the warehouse exploded.
• Fang Yue examined the blast site, realized the explosion had been deliberately caused, and suspected Zhao Rui and the others were involved in a larger plot.

Fang Yue uncovered a conspiracy linking Zhao Rui, the Blood Shadow Hall, and the Shadow Demon Society, and prepared to stop their plans against Great Wei and the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array. He thwarted an attempt on Empress Zhu Linlang’s life and captured the Shadow Assassin, demanding to know who was behind him.

• Fang Yue secretly investigated the explosion, discovering ties between Zhao Rui, a Black Robed Figure, the Blood Shadow Hall, stolen explosives, and a plan to attack during the grand array’s activation.
• Fang Yue ordered his generals to gather more evidence and prepare for the ceremony, while learning of planned unrest at the southern border, suspicious court officials, and a Shadow Demon Society weapons workshop.
• Fang Yue sent forces to monitor the border, replaced suspicious intelligence officials, and destroyed the workshop producing explosives and concealed weapons.
• Zhao Rui and the Shadow Demon Society arranged for the Shadow Assassin to infiltrate the imperial city and kill Empress Zhu Linlang.
• Fang Yue followed the Shadow Assassin into the imperial study, defeated him, and demanded that he reveal his mastermind.

Fang Yue uncovered the Shadow Demon Society’s plan to disrupt the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array ceremony, but a captured assassin self-detonated before he could reveal more. When the ceremony began, coordinated attacks struck the grounds and key locations across the imperial city, leaving Fang Yue directing a desperate defense.

• Fang Yue interrogated the captured Shadow Assassin, who triggered a self-detonation that destroyed the command tent and wounded several soldiers.
• Fang Yue reported the plot to Empress Zhu Linlang, then organized searches and surveillance across the imperial city.
• Fang Yue learned that the Shadow Demon Society planned to attack the ceremony and several vital locations at once, and he assigned soldiers to guard them.
• At the ceremony, assassins charged Fang Yue’s platform as attacks broke out at the grain depot, armory, and city gates.
• Fang Yue fought off the ceremony attackers, sent mobile units to reinforce the threatened locations, and ordered soldiers to evacuate civilians.
• Reinforcements reached the grain depot and joined its defenders in counterattacking the Shadow Demon Society’s assassins.

Fang Yue led Great Wei’s defenders against the Shadow Demon Society’s coordinated assault, defeating a powerful masked swordsman and rescuing the granary and armory. After racing to the city gate, he found it badly damaged and still under attack.

• Great Wei’s soldiers defended the granary, armory, city gate, and ceremony grounds as the Shadow Demon Society launched a signal-coordinated full assault.
• Fang Yue sent elite soldiers around to attack the assassins from behind, then confronted a black-robed swordsman who appeared at the ceremony grounds.
• Fang Yue used a Mysterious Swordplay to defeat the black-robed man, and the ceremony-ground defenders subdued the remaining assassins.
• Fang Yue drove the assassins from the granary despite their poisonous mist, and most of Great Wei’s provisions remained intact.
• Fang Yue helped repel the attackers at the armory, reinforced its breached gate, and then hurried toward the city gate.
• Fang Yue arrived to find the city gate riddled with holes as the Shadow Demon Society assassins continued attacking.

Fang Yue repelled the Shadow Demon Society’s attack on the Imperial City, uncovered a conspiracy led by Prince Zhao Rui, and helped Great Wei begin rebuilding. After the Empress approved his recovery plans, Fang Yue entered seclusion to strengthen his cultivation and deepen his understanding of the Clear Wind Breaking Clouds Swordplay.

• Fang Yue led fifty elite soldiers against the Shadow Demon Society assassins while archers and a force attacking from behind helped break their assault and save the city gate.
• Fang Yue reported the victory to Empress Zhu Linlang, then interrogated captured assassins and arrested court officials who had supplied the enemy with military intelligence.
• Fang Yue found evidence of a mysterious organization working with the Shadow Demon Society and traced its members to a guarded mansion in the capital.
• Fang Yue raided the mansion, discovered that Prince Zhao Rui had plotted to overthrow the Empress, and arrested Zhao Rui and the conspiracy’s other leaders.
• Empress Zhu Linlang ordered Zhao Rui imprisoned and his accomplices punished, then approved Fang Yue’s plans to aid the people, repair defenses, and reorganize the army.
• A month later, after Great Wei’s recovery progressed, Fang Yue entered seclusion to consolidate his vital energy and study the deeper essence of the Clear Wind Breaking Clouds Swordplay.

Fang Yue refined his Clear Wind Breaking Clouds Swordplay, then led preparations to complete the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array before the Demonic Tide. The array cut off vital energy and protected the Human Realm, but its effects risked angering martial artists, so Fang Yue planned both firm enforcement and compensation.

• Fang Yue studied the stream, breeze, and stars, deepening his swordsmanship and condensing his vital energy into a new force.
• Fang Yue summoned the Imperial Court's array masters and royal experts, then ordered Elder Lin and General Wang to alter the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array while he prepared to guide it with his vital energy.
• Fang Yue led the city's defenders in driving back demons who attacked the imperial city to sabotage the work.
• Fang Yue found a way to merge his vital energy with the array and activated it, forming a barrier around Great Wei and several neighboring dynasties that cut off the flow of vital energy.
• Three months later, Fang Yue discussed the declining vital energy with Protector Chen and warned that anyone sabotaging resistance to the Demonic Tide would be punished.
• Fang Yue told Protector Chen to enforce order while also compensating martial artists through rewards for their contributions against the demons.

Fang Yue rallied the martial artists and wealthy donors to prepare for the Demonic Tide, then punished Bloodblade Hall for plotting rebellion by sending them to the front line. After the first wave was repelled, he assessed the battle’s shortcomings and began planning stronger defenses.

• Fang Yue secured Empress Zhu Linlang’s support for a donation and reward system, and contributions from across Great Wei helped boost martial artists’ morale.
• Protector Chen reported Bloodblade Hall’s attempt to incite rebellion, and Fang Yue led a squad to defeat its followers and detain them.
• Fang Yue publicly exposed Bloodblade Hall’s crimes and sent its members to defend a vulnerable town at the edge of the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array.
• When the Demonic Tide attacked, Fang Yue, Protector Chen, the garrison, and Bloodblade Hall fought together to repel its first wave, and Bloodblade Hall’s master admitted he had been wrong.
• Fang Yue gathered Protector Chen and the local commanders to discuss weaknesses in the defenses, soldiers’ battle readiness, and the distribution of supplies.

Fang Yue and the defenders repelled an early, powerful Demonic Tide after the Spirit Severing Array weakened the demon beasts, and Fang Yue killed their leader. In the Demon Realm, the Shadow Demon Society's Venerable One began a plan to awaken ancient demonic energy by sacrificing pure Demonic Souls.

• Fang Yue revised the city's defenses and ordered the troops into position when the second Demonic Tide arrived early.
• Fang Yue, Protector Chen, and the Bloodblade Hall Master led the defenders as demon beasts attacked multiple sectors and probed for weak points.
• The Spirit Severing Array weakened the demon beasts, but their leader broke through the defenses and attacked Fang Yue.
• A bell signaled that reinforcements were coming, and Fang Yue killed the demon beast leader, causing the horde to scatter.
• The Shadow Demon Society's Venerable One told its gathered leaders that the weakening boundary required them to awaken ancient demonic energy using pure Demonic Souls as sacrifices.
• Several elders agreed to contribute, and the Venerable One began chanting before the statue.

The Venerable One awakened ancient demonic power and revealed that Demon Seeds could help the Shadow Demon Society fight beneath the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Array. As the demon army advanced, Fang Yue rode north to seek a way to counter the seeds, leaving Old Man Qingfeng and Protector Chen to defend the Human Realm.

• The Venerable One and the Shadow Demon Society's higher-ups absorbed power from the statue, despite suffering its backlash, and the Venerable One explained how Demon Seeds could sustain the demon army.
• Fang Yue ordered the defenses reinforced and sent concealed martial artists to investigate the Shadow Demon Society; Shadow discovered Demon Seed materials and learned that mistimed demonic medicine could cause a backlash.
• Fang Yue asked Old Man Qingfeng to take charge of the defense while he searched a far-northern ruin for a book that might counter the Demon Seeds.
• Fang Yue instructed Protector Chen to disrupt the demonic medicine routes and prepare the Clear Wind Demon Purifying Curse, then rode north.
• The Venerable One led the Shadow Demon Society's army toward the Human Realm, where Old Man Qingfeng and Protector Chen prepared to face the vanguard and watch for a full assault.