Chapter Summaries

Hai Chen, the Emperor's Son of the Metal Immortal Realm, arrived at Infinite Peak and had his Golden Immortal servants slaughter the Li Dragon Tribe and Primordial Soul Sacred Land experts. Huihai Holy Mother used the Separation Mirror to force him to withdraw before Qian Fengshan celebrated Qianyuan Sacred Land's ambition to unite the Origin Realm.

• Hai Chen appeared at Infinite Peak and declared that he would show Mu Bai the Rebirth Dao, while an old servant destroyed Li Dao Hong's hand.
• Hai Chen ordered his two servants to kill the gathering forces, and they killed Li Dao Hong and drained the vitality of more than a dozen Dao Ling Realm experts, including Lu Changsheng.
• Hai Chen demanded that Huihai Holy Mother hand over Li Muxue, but she threatened him with the Separation Mirror, forcing him and his servants to leave.
• Qian Fengshan and Xie Tianqiong warned Huihai Holy Mother before departing, and Huihai returned with Li Muxue to the Mysterious Female Gate.
• Qian Fengshan returned to Qianyuan Sacred Land and declared that the Emperor's Son's arrival would help Qianyuan unite heaven and earth and claim the Origin Realm.

Mu Bai was named Qianyuan Sacred Land’s Holy Son and ordered to cultivate until he could rule the Western Plains, while Qian Fengshan prepared him to make war on the Origin Realm. As Mu Bai secluded himself, conflict spread across the Mixed Origin Continent, and Rao Lin chose to defend the Jialan Sect against the Kunling Sect’s invasion.

• Qian Fengshan told Mu Bai he would receive a Demon Army and become lord of the Western Plains once he reached the Dao Ling Realm, then ordered him to remain on Third Holy Son Peak and cultivate.
• Two months later, Qian Fengshan sent Mu Bai two hundred thousand Mutated Evil Demon Cores and a mountain of body-refining medicines and sacred fruits.
• After Mu Bai entered seclusion, the Kunling Sect attacked the Primordial Soul Sect and Jialan Sect, while the Qianyuan Sacred Land went to war with the Primordial Soul Sacred Land.
• With Jialan Sect’s protective formation failing, Rao Jinchuan urged Rao Lin to flee, but Rao Lin insisted on staying to fight for the sect.
• Rao Jinchuan and Rao Jinyuan agreed to fight, ordered Rao Lin to activate the Ancestral Statue and defend the sect, and led their forces toward battle.

Rao Jinchuan and Rao Jinyuan ambushed and killed the Gray-Robed Qian Slave while the Jialan Sect fought off Kunling Sect forces. Qian Yuquan ordered the siege to intensify, while the Kunling Sect’s ancestors attacked the Primordial Soul Sect and wounded Lu Tuo.

• Qian Yuquan split three hundred thousand Kunling Sect disciples into forces to attack the Jialan Sect from three directions.
• As Rao Lin fired the Soul Crystal Cannons, Rao Jinchuan and Rao Jinyuan joined the rear mountain’s disciples in a surprise assault and killed the Gray-Robed Qian Slave.
• Rao Jinchuan and Rao Jinyuan withdrew with the Jialan Sect disciples, and Qian Yuquan sent Black-Robed and White-Robed Qian Slaves to reinforce the attack on the sect’s formation.
• White-Robed Qian Slave struck the Jialan Sect’s protective formation with a mountain, but ten thousand Soul Crystal Cannons forced him to retreat.
• The three Kunling Sect ancestors led five hundred thousand disciples against the Primordial Soul Sect, where Bai Yan struck Lu Tuo and forced the other ancestor to carry him back into the sect.
• Bai Yan ordered the Kunling Sect forces to attack the Primordial Soul Sect with full force.

The Kunling Sect breached the Primordial Soul Sect’s protective formation while Lu Ming merged with the Origin Soul Stele and grasped the Rebirth Dao. As Bai Yan and Bai Ying attacked the sect’s secret realm, its wounded ancestor sacrificed himself to kill Bai Ying, and Lu Ming’s stele appeared to strike at Bai Yan.

• Bai Yan ordered the Kunling Sect’s cultivators to bombard the Primordial Soul Sect’s protective formation while his allies shielded their army from the sect’s counterattack.
• Lu Tuo allowed Lu Ming to merge with the Origin Soul Stele, and Lu Ming devoured its mother soul and comprehended the Rebirth Dao.
• The Kunling Sect shattered one corner of the formation and invaded with an army of cultivators and fiends.
• Bai Yan and Bai Ying bypassed Lu Tuo and headed for the secret realm, where the wounded Primordial Soul Sect ancestor detonated himself and killed Bai Ying.
• Bai Yan hurled a mountain at the sect’s main peak, but an enormous stone stele struck him and siphoned away some of his vitality.

Lu Ming helped drive the Kunling Sect away from the Primordial Soul Sect, while the Jialan Sect faced a devastating assault by Qian Yuquan and the Qianyuan Sacred Land. Rao Lin wounded Qian Yuquan with the genuine Human Emperor Battle Halberd, but Rao Jinyuan died buying time for Rao Lin to escape with the Human Emperor’s inheritance.

• Lu Ming used the stone stele to drain Bai Yan’s life force, forcing Bai Yan to retreat and allowing the Primordial Soul Sect to drive Xie Qingyun’s army back to the Kunling Sect.
• Qian Yuquan recalled his forces and attacked the Jialan Sect, battering its Protective Formation with cannon fire and using the Golden Chariot to threaten its mountain gate.
• The Human Emperor Statue emerged to attack the besieging army, but two elders’ phantom avatars shattered its fist and pursued Rao Lin inside its Divine Palace.
• Rao Jinchuan and Rao Jinyuan intervened to protect Rao Lin, and Rao Lin surprised Qian Yuquan by stabbing him with the genuine Human Emperor Battle Halberd.
• Rao Jinchuan detonated his imitation halberd to escape with Rao Lin, while Rao Jinyuan was killed by four opponents after urging the Jialan Sect to preserve the Human Emperor’s inheritance.

The Kunling Sect breached the Jialan Sect’s defenses, and Rao Lin and Rao Jinchuan fought Qian Yuquan and his allies to protect their people. With the battle turning against them, Rao Lin ordered a retreat aboard soul boats while a hundred thousand disciples stayed behind to cover the escape.

• Qian Yuquan unleashed demon souls from beneath the Jialan Sect, and the Kunling Sect’s forces broke through the protective formation.
• Rao Lin used the Human Emperor Statue to battle Qian Yuquan, but Qian Yuquan called in the black-robed Qian Slave and two elder phantoms.
• Rao Jinchuan joined Rao Lin, and the two fought Qian Yuquan and his allies until the Human Emperor Statue was badly damaged and Rao Jinchuan was wounded.
• Rao Lin accepted Rao Jinchuan’s advice to retreat and used the Human Emperor Statue to summon more than ten soul boats.
• Jialan Sect elders ordered a hundred thousand disciples to cover the retreat as the others gathered to board the soul boats.

The Kunling Sect destroyed the Jialan Sect’s stronghold and rapidly expanded its power across the Eastern Ridge as demonic corruption spread through the Origin Realm. Zhou Dekai chose to keep the Spirit Taming Sect neutral, while Mu Lan moved her allies and other refugees toward the Northern Plains.

• The Jialan Sect’s surviving disciples escaped aboard Soul Boats, but Qian Yuquan and the Three Great Qian Slaves destroyed the remaining Stone Puppets, leaving the sect’s base devastated.
• Qian Yuquan led the Kunling Sect and its Demon Souls across the Eastern Ridge, where more than half the region’s powers submitted within two years.
• The Qianyuan Sacred Land and the Heaven-Worshipping Sect attacked the Primordial Soul Sacred Land, while the Li Dragon Tribe intervened to halt their advance.
• Ling Jinyu joined the Mysterious Female Gate as a Mysterious Maiden and became Li Muxue’s Fifth Junior Sister.
• Zhou Dekai confided in Zhou Qichang, who urged him to follow his conscience and avoid bearing the world’s blame; Zhou Dekai decided the Spirit Taming Sect would remain neutral for now.
• Mu Lan withdrew Xi Bazì, Sweet Potato Boy, and the Mu Lan Pavilion’s elites to the Northern Plains as refugees began migrating there.

Mu Bai nearly succumbed to Demonization in the secret chamber of the Qianyuan Sacred Land, overwhelmed by hatred and tempted to embrace his identity as an Evil Demon. The Wooden Puppet awakened memories of Clan Patriarch Hai Ya and Ye Wan, bringing him back to his senses, though Demonic Qi still clung to his Mind-Spirit Miniature.

• The Beast Territory’s people and Mu Bai’s old companions continued their lives as rumors of calamity spread across the Mixed Origin Continent.
• Mu Bai, transformed into an Evil Demon, raged against the Human Race and the betrayal he believed had doomed the Devil Race.
• A warm aura from the Wooden Puppet helped Mu Bai resist the abyss of Demonic Qi, while visions of Ling’er urged him to give in.
• Clan Patriarch Hai Ya and Ye Wan appeared to Mu Bai and reminded him of his home, loved ones, and former wish to return to his wife.
• Mu Bai rejected the demonic temptation, and the secret chamber reappeared as his Demonic Qi faded and his eyes returned to normal.
• Mu Bai suspected that Mental Power left by Clan Patriarch Hai Ya had saved him, but he saw that Demonic Qi still surrounded his Mind-Spirit Miniature.

Mu Bai resisted devouring more Demon Cores and spent years refining his Inner Core while the continent’s wars reshaped the balance of power. He emerged with a strengthened Pill Body and Inner World, then learned from Qian Slave that the Qianyuan Sacred Land was faring well in its battles.

• Ye Wan and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor warned Mu Bai that consuming more Demon Cores was dangerous, and Mu Bai decided to refine his Inner Core instead.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor altered time in the secluded chamber while Ye Wan kept the Ancestral Dragon Core occupied, and Mu Bai refined his Five Elements Inner Core with lightning.
• The Primordial Soul Sect was nearly destroyed, the Jialan Sect found refuge through Madam Seven Emotions, and Zhou Qichang died defending the Spirit Taming Sect before its survivors retreated north.
• Chen Shichong became a Yuan Zun, and the Sword Sect gained security and influence with support from Mu Lan Pavilion and the Demon Spirit Hall.
• Mu Bai completed his Inner Core refinement, subdued the Ancestral Dragon Inner Core, and stabilized his Yuan Zun Inner World before emerging from seclusion.
• Qian Slave told Mu Bai that the Qianyuan Sacred Land was doing well in its war with the Primordial Soul Sect, and Mu Bai wondered whether the Mysterious Female Gate could remain neutral as Qian Fengming approached.

Qian Fengming took Mu Bai to the battle between Qianyuan Sacred Land and Primordial Soul Sacred Land, where he broke the enemy formation and wounded Lu Changlin. He then left the armies to fight and took Mu Bai toward Mysterious Female Gate aboard Qian Pan, where Yu Huang greeted him as Uncle.

• Qian Fengming carried Mu Bai out of Qianyuan Sacred Land and showed him the armies facing Primordial Soul Sacred Land.
• Qian Fengming pierced Primordial Soul Sacred Land’s Defensive Formation with a giant sword, killing countless cultivators, and Mu Bai helped ignite the wine rain that fell on the formation.
• Lu Changlin attacked Qian Fengming, but Qian Fengming tore off his arm and threw it into the enemy formation.
• Qianyuan Sacred Land’s army advanced to attack while Qian Fengming carried Mu Bai away toward Mysterious Female Gate.
• Qian Fengming stepped onto Qian Pan, where more than a thousand people paid their respects and Yu Huang greeted him as Uncle.

Mu Bai traveled with Qian Fengming and the Qianyuan Sacred Land party to the Mysterious Female Gate, where Elder Huiyan welcomed them and gave Mu Bai Mystic Yellow Mother Qi. Inside, the Qianyuan disciples encountered a party from the Primordial Soul Sacred Land, while Mu Bai searched for Li Muxue.

• Qian Fengming led the Qianyuan Sacred Land party toward the Mysterious Female Gate, and Qian Yuhuang ignored Mu Bai’s greeting.
• At the gate, Qian Fengming urged the disciples to impress the Mysterious Female Gate, and Elder Huiyan arrived to welcome the group.
• Elder Huiyan greeted Qian Yuhuang and Mu Bai, gave Mu Bai Mystic Yellow Mother Qi, and guided the party inside.
• Mu Bai surveyed the Mysterious Female Gate’s scenery and searched for Li Muxue, whose image lingered in his mind.
• Lu Changlin arrived with the Primordial Soul Sacred Land party, prompting the Qianyuan disciples to compare themselves with their rivals.
• Qian Yuhuang silenced the disciples’ boasting, and Qian Fengming rallied them to keep their pride.

Qian Fengming and Lu Changlin clashed at the Mysterious Female Gate, whose Huihai Holy Mother gathered both Sacred Lands to discuss the escalating war. Lu Changlin accused Qianyuan of backing the Devil Race because it had appointed Mu Bai a Holy Son, and Qian Fengming mocked him in reply.

• Qian Fengming tore Lu Changlin’s robe with hidden flying blades, then provoked him until Lu Changlin summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Soul Beast and Qian Fengming countered with the Qian Pan.
• Huihai Holy Mother stopped the fight and rebuked Qian Fengming and Lu Changlin for causing trouble at the Mysterious Female Gate.
• Mu Bai saw Li Muxue and Ling Jinyu arrive with Huihai, then learned that the Mysterious Female Gate’s position could influence the war among the Venerable Domain’s legacy forces.
• Huihai invited Qian Fengming, Qian Yuhuang, Qian Jingnian, Lu Changlin, and Lu Yunxuan into the Mysterious Female Temple without declaring support for either Sacred Land.
• Lu Changlin accused Qianyuan of appointing Mu Bai Holy Son because he had obtained the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance, and Qian Fengming dismissed his accusation.

Lu Changlin and Qian Fengming argued over their rivalry and Lu Yunxuan’s interest in a Holy Maiden, until Huihai revealed that she had attained Perfection. As Qian Fengming and Lu Changlin sought the Mysterious Female Gate’s support, Huihai disclosed the Immortal Realm’s long-running control of the Origin Realm, shocking Mu Bai.

• Lu Changlin and Qian Fengming clashed over their sacred lands and their old rivalry over Huiyue.
• Lu Changlin urged Lu Yunxuan to choose between the Holy Maidens, and Lu Yunxuan glanced at Li Muxue.
• Huihai revealed that she had attained Perfection and manifested her Dao, stunning Qian Fengming and Lu Changlin.
• Qian Fengming asked which side Huihai would support, while Lu Changlin accused Qian Fengshan of serving the Immortal Realm.
• Huihai confirmed that the Immortal Realm had controlled the Origin Realm for more than twenty thousand years, leaving Mu Bai stunned.

Mu Bai resolved to uncover the Immortal Realm’s schemes and joined the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens sent to investigate the Devil Race’s awakening in the Western Plains. After five days of travel, the three legacy powers reached the edge of the war-torn region, where their representatives would proceed on their own.

• Mu Bai resolved to reach the Immortal Realm and stop being manipulated by others.
• Huihai Holy Mother persuaded the legacy powers to send their Holy Sons and Holy Maidens to investigate the Devil Race in the Demon Domain, and Mu Bai received a positioning Jade Talisman.
• The three powers departed together, and Qian Fengming instructed Qian Yuhuang and Mu Bai to cooperate and distinguish the Devil Race from Evil Demons.
• Mu Bai reflected on the Origin Realm’s weakness against the Immortal Realm as the group crossed the Venerable Domain.
• After five days, the three powers reached the Western Plains, where Humans and the Devil Race were at war and the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens would act independently.

The Holy Sons and Holy Maidens began their battle across the Western Plains, where Mu Bai hid from his pursuers and encountered Li Muxue. After Li Muxue vanished, the Artifact Spirit Ancestor and Ye Wan joined Mu Bai as he continued into the region.

• The five Holy Sons and Holy Maidens scattered across the Western Plains to fight for their factions and the region's peace.
• Mu Bai hid among the trees as Qian Yuhuang and Lu Yunxuan searched for him, then left without finding him.
• Li Muxue and Ling Jinyu arrived together, and Li Muxue spoke to Mu Bai about his true form before Ling Jinyu departed.
• Li Muxue admitted she could neither kill Mu Bai nor refrain from killing him, then vanished.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor appeared and teased Mu Bai about his feelings for Li Muxue, while Ye Wan warned him not to lead her husband astray.
• Mu Bai, Ye Wan, and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor ventured deeper into the Western Plains.

Mu Bai sought to comprehend the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation so he could travel across vast distances and reach Qingtian's Demon Body. After years of experiments in his Inner World, he still had not grasped the formation's true spatial principle.

• Mu Bai chose to seek Qingtian's Demon Body first after the Artifact Spirit Ancestor and Ye Wan warned him not to confront the Devil Race's armies.
• Mu Bai recalled Qi Zhenzi's formation pattern and, with Ye Wan's help, considered how the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation might enable travel across limitless space.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor persuaded Ye Wan to accompany him on a stroll, and Mu Bai gave her a Voice Transmission Jade Slip before she left.
• Mu Bai discarded Hui Hai's tracking Jade Talisman, traveled to a mountain, and entered his Void Beast Inner World to study the formation.
• Mu Bai spent ten years testing whether creatures or his own body could escape or cross the boundaries of his Inner World, but he failed to discover the formation's true use of spatial power.

Mu Bai fully comprehended the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation and realized the conflict over the Origin Realm was part of a wider struggle for Hongmeng. He headed north across the demon-ravaged Western Plains to meet Ye Wan, while learning the ranks and strength of the corrupted demons.

• Mu Bai connected the Flying Immortal Scripture’s cultivation stages with the idea that each person was a world, and concluded that the Origin Realm’s will could govern Hongmeng.
• After another ten years, Mu Bai fully comprehended the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation, though he still lacked the power to use it without control over the Origin Realm’s will.
• Qi Zhenzi and Madam Seven Emotions fought across the Dao Origin Continent as Hai Chen worked to bring the Origin Realm’s forces under his control ahead of the coming upheaval.
• Mu Bai followed Ye Wan’s message and traveled north toward Yiyun River Valley through Western Plains cities overrun by evil demons.
• After several battles, Mu Bai assessed the strength of Qi Demons, Flesh Demons, True Demons, Spirit demons, Devil Masters, Demon Venerables, and humans and beasts mutated by demonic qi.

Mu Bai intervened when an Evil Demon army attacked a human city, testing his Heavenly Demon Body against its Spirit Demon commander, La Gong. After the defenders repelled the army with reinforcements led by Qing Mao, Mu Bai reunited with the elder and questioned him about the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art and the Mustard Seed Bag.

• Mu Bai reached a human city under attack and used his Space Restriction power and two avatars to help its defenders.
• Mu Bai manifested his Heavenly Demon Body and fought La Gong, proving he could match a Spirit Demon through physical strength alone.
• Human reinforcements led by Qing Mao arrived, and the defenders forced the Evil Demon army to withdraw after half a day of fighting.
• La Gong fled, and Mu Bai greeted Qing Mao, reminding him of their past encounter at Silver Frost Forest.
• Mu Bai asked Qing Mao why he had left only the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art and no Soul Crystals for the people in his household.

Mu Bai reunited with Ye Wan at Qianlai Mountain and learned that Qing Mao’s wife, Mi Yan, had been corrupted by Demonic Qi. He began using the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art to draw the corruption out of her, but Mi Yan reacted with pain and terror.

• Qing Mao told Mu Bai that a Silver-Haired Old Woman had arranged his path, and Mu Bai followed Qing Mao’s cultivators to Qianlai Mountain to meet Qian Jingnian.
• Mu Bai discovered that Ye Wan had been posing as Venerable Qian and reunited with her before the assembled Human Race cultivators.
• At a banquet, Mu Bai learned that Mi Yan had been infected by Demonic Qi and confined in a secret chamber.
• Mu Bai entered the chamber and began absorbing the Demonic Qi from Mi Yan with the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art.
• Mi Yan shrieked and recoiled in terror as Mu Bai continued drawing the Demonic Qi out of her.

Mu Bai tried detoxifying pills to restore Mi Yan’s mind, but they had no effect, so he sought another cure. Qing Mao identified Corpse Plague as a technique from Blood River Demon Valley, and Mu Bai took Mi Yan into his Inner World before setting out to find a way to save her.

• Mu Bai left Mi Yan’s secret chamber to refine Dragon-Awakening Pills, Hundred Poisons Pills, and Spirit-Guarding Pills, while Qing Mao waited anxiously outside.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor mocked Qing Mao and teased Ye Wan, who freed Qing Mao from his restraints and scolded the old man.
• Mu Bai gave Mi Yan Dragon-Awakening Pills and then Hundred Poisons Pills, but neither treatment changed her demonized condition.
• Ye Wan encouraged Mu Bai, and he showed her a vision of Corpse Plague while asking whether anyone in the Western Plains could control it.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor proposed using Corpse Plague to replace Mi Yan’s blood and purify her mind, and Qing Mao identified the method with Blood River Demon Valley.
• Mu Bai declared he would not give up, broke Mi Yan’s chains, and placed her in his Inner World.