Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai and Qing Mao set out for Blood River Demon Valley to find a way to cure Mi Yan, while Ye Wan stayed behind to anchor the cultivators at Qianlai Mountain. As they traveled through the demon-infested Western Plains, a Spirit Demon attacked them.

• Mu Bai asked Qian Jingnian to look after Mi Yan, but the newly freed demonized Mi Yan attacked him and sent him fleeing.
• Qing Mao insisted on joining Mu Bai to save his wife, while Ye Wan stayed behind and gave them Voice Transmission Jade Slips.
• Mu Bai and Qing Mao entered the Western Plains’ Demonic Qi and stealthily evaded the Evil Demon Race’s army camps on their way to Blood River Demon Valley.
• Mu Bai killed a Flesh Demon with the Star Sword after it ambushed them, alerting the nearby Demon Army.
• Qing Mao objected when Mu Bai tried to hide him in the Mustard Seed Bag, and a Spirit Demon attacked them with a descending black broadsword.

Mu Bai rescued Qing Mao from La Gong, whose recognition of Mu Bai as the Heavenly Demon Supreme’s successor let them pass through Evil Demon Race territory. As Mu Bai fled Qian Yuhuang’s pursuit with Qing Mao, Qian Yuhuang resolved to kill him before he could threaten his position.

• La Gong nearly killed Qing Mao, but Mu Bai bound La Gong briefly and pulled Qing Mao to safety.
• Qing Mao refused to enter Mu Bai’s Mustard Seed Bag because he wanted to travel openly while seeking a cure for Mi Yan.
• Mu Bai revealed his Heavenly Demon Body, and La Gong recognized him as the Heavenly Demon Supreme’s successor and allowed him to pass.
• Mu Bai ignored Qing Mao’s resistance and took him away through the void, then rebuffed Qing Mao’s questions about his inheritance.
• Qian Yuhuang pursued Mu Bai through each point where he emerged, and Mu Bai suspected La Gong had revealed his whereabouts.
• Qian Yuhuang resolved to strangle Mu Bai in the cradle rather than let him threaten his position as Sect Master.

Mu Bai fought Qian Yuhuang after failing to escape his pursuit, using his transformations, swords, and a clone to wound him. Qian Yuhuang answered with earth-based attacks, while Mu Bai drew inspiration from Emperor Ye Hua and continued the battle with a golden skeleton blocking Qian Yuhuang’s strike.

• Qian Yuhuang pursued Mu Bai and Qing Mao through repeated spatial shifts, forcing Mu Bai to decide to face him.
• Mu Bai ambushed Qian Yuhuang with the Crow Cauldron, but the Artifact Spirit Ancestor warned him to dodge Qian Yuhuang’s counterattack.
• Mu Bai revealed his Gods and Devils Transformation and attacked with the Heavenly Demon Sword and Star Sword, resisting Qian Yuhuang’s Puppet Technique and striking him with a concealed clone.
• Qian Yuhuang summoned two Mudstone Giants, and Mu Bai recalled Emperor Ye Hua’s battles against the Sacred Lands and resolved to challenge their inheritors.
• Mu Bai shattered a Mudstone Giant’s arm with a punch, and a golden skeleton emerged from his Mustard Seed Bag to block Qian Yuhuang’s Yinglong Longsword.

Mu Bai forged his Inner World’s World Soul, then used the Reincarnation Sword to defeat Qian Yuhuang, who escaped with a Locator Jade Talisman. Exhausted, Mu Bai fled with Qing Mao while the Evil Demon Clan Army spread across the Eastern Ridge Territory.

• Mu Bai drew Qian Jingnian into the fight against the Mudstone Giant and merged Gu Chen’s Remnant Soul and the Void Beast Soul into him to create a World Soul.
• Mu Bai formed his envisioned Inner World by joining its spirits, beasts, and treasures, bringing it close to maturity.
• Mu Bai merged the Jade Spring Sword and Star Sword into the Reincarnation Sword, and Qian Jingnian used it to destroy the Mudstone Giant.
• Mu Bai’s avatar appeared outside his realm and split Qian Yuhuang in two with the Reincarnation Sword, but Qian Yuhuang crushed a Locator Jade Talisman and escaped.
• Mu Bai, nearly spent, grabbed Qing Mao and fled through the void before the Evil Demon Clan Army arrived at the battlefield.

Qian Yuquan lured Hong Luo and Cangxiao’s Beast Army across the Lingze Dike Wall and confronted it with his human and Evil Demon forces. As the battle erupted, the Brown-Robed Qian Slave led five million cultivators in a surprise attack from behind the Beast Army.

• Qian Yuquan rejected calls for caution and accepted Xie Qingyun’s plan to lure the Southern Marsh Beast Army across the undefended Lingze Dike Wall.
• Hong Luo and Cangxiao led their armies over Lingze, accompanied by Zhou Qilong and a million Northern Territory Sect cultivators.
• Qian Yuquan deployed his ten-million-strong human army and ten million Evil Demons to meet the Beast Army, and fighting broke out.
• Hong Luo joined the battle, while the Black and White Qian Slaves attacked her and the beast forces fought the Kunling Sect’s allied cultivators.
• The Brown-Robed Qian Slave led five million cultivators from the Lingze Defense Line in a surprise attack behind the Beast Army.

Rao Lin and the returning Jialan Sect led the Human and Beast Races to defeat Qian Yuquan’s forces and kill him, changing the fate of Eastern Ridge. The Kunling Sect faced a counterattack from allied armies and the sects it had oppressed.

• Hong Luo held off the two Qian Slaves as nearly a hundred Soul Boats arrived, led by the returning Jialan Sect.
• Rao Lin attacked Qian Yuquan with the Human Emperor Statue while Hong Luo trapped the Qian Slaves in her Blood Phoenix domain.
• Rao Lin’s proclamation united the Human Race cultivators, who turned against the Evil Demon Clan Army as the Eastern Ridge and Beast Race forces overwhelmed their enemies.
• Qian Yuquan crushed his Locator Jade Talisman but could not escape; Rao Lin pierced his chest and smashed his head, while Qian Yuquan’s clone survived in the Kunling Sect.
• Rao Lin paid respects to Bai Jun, then the allied armies pressed toward the Kunling Sect after destroying most of its forces and the Demon Army.
• Qian Fengshan learned that Qian Yuquan’s Soul-Life Jade Slip had shattered, while the Kunling Sect was threatened by advancing armies and revolts from the sects it had absorbed.

The forces of the Human Race and its allies attacked the Kunling Sect, whose leaders scrambled to gather reinforcements and rally their troops. Rao Lin struck the sect’s formation, but Xie Qingyun returned with five million elite cultivators and turned the battle against Cangxiao’s Beast Armies.

• Qian Yuquan ordered Xie Qingyun’s army recalled from the Jialan Embankment Wall as Kunling Sect struggled to muster its remaining forces.
• Hong Luo and Rao Lin watched the sect’s conscripted reinforcements gather, while Ya Ru and Jing Chen arrived with the cultivators of Orchid Fragrance Valley.
• Rao Lin rejected Hong Luo’s plea to spare the largely innocent conscripts and drove the Human Emperor Statue’s Battle Halberd into Kunling Sect’s Sect-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Rao Jinchuan ordered the Soul Crystal Cannons to bombard the formation, and Bai Ying rallied Kunling Sect’s disciples by promising aid from Xie Qingyun and the Sacred Land.
• Xie Qingyun returned with five million cultivators, but Cangxiao’s Beast Armies intercepted them and fought a bloody battle before the sect.
• Cangxiao engaged Xie Qingyun and was driven into a sorry state, while Xie Qingyun’s elite army held the advantage against the larger Beast Army.

Qian Fengming led Qianyuan’s army into Eastern Ridge but halted the assault after Hong Luo accused the Sacred Land of serving the Immortal Race. Bai Jun and Qian Fengming agreed to withdraw and investigate, leaving the Kunling Sect under Qian Fengming’s command as he questioned Yuquan about its defeat.

• Qian Fengshan sent his newly Perfection-level brother Qian Fengming to Eastern Ridge with a hundred thousand cultivators to destroy the territory.
• After Qianyuan’s forces broke the Kunling Sect’s formation, Hong Luo flew to confront Qian Fengming, who immobilized her with wine and forced her to drink.
• Hong Luo accused Qianyuan of colluding with the Evil Demon Race and obeying the Immortal Race, prompting Qian Fengming to halt the battle and investigate.
• Bai Jun and Qian Fengming exchanged wine jars and agreed to withdraw, so the allied Human and Beast armies retreated north while the Kunling Sect’s forces gathered under Qian Fengming.
• Qian Fengming asked Yuquan why the Kunling Sect had lost, and Yuquan explained that the Human and Beast Races had feigned enmity to hide their strength from the Sacred Lands and deceive the Immortal Race.

Qian Fengming held back from pursuing the allied forces until the Qianyuan Sacred Land sent Qian Mu, while the Silver Frost Forest’s beasts prepared to join the Southern Marsh army. The Sacred Land then mobilized human and Evil Demon forces to encircle their enemies in the Eastern Ridge.

• Qian Yuquan asked to remain and help Qian Fengming unite the Eastern Ridge and Southern Marsh, but Qian Fengming chose to wait for another Grand Elder rather than risk his followers against the Demon Spirit Hall.
• Tao Hang united the local tribes into the Taoyuan Tribe, which absorbed the White Wolf Tribe, while Wu Ping, Wu Tai, and Wu Yuan took senior positions.
• Red Dance ordered Golden Roc to organize the Silver Frost Forest’s beasts and march to meet the Southern Marsh army; Hu Meier rallied them to fight their enemies.
• Qian Mu arrived from the Qianyuan Sacred Land as a six-layer Perfection Supreme, raising the Kunling Sect’s morale as its army advanced north.
• The Qianyuan Sacred Land secretly sent an Evil Demon army under an Evil Demon Venerable through the Northern Plains to help encircle the allied Human and Beast forces.

The Kunling Sect army reached Silver Frost Forest and battled the Beast Race army while its Venerables clashed with Qianyuan Sacred Land and Beast Race experts. Granny Blood Phoenix was badly wounded by Qian Mu, and Long Qichen joined the fight to protect her as their battle continued.

• The Kunling Sect's army attacked Silver Frost Forest with Soul Crystal Cannons, and the Beast army countered with fireballs.
• Qian Fengming and Bai Jun fought in their strongest forms while Hong Luo and Cangxiao battled Bai Ying and Xie Qingyun.
• Granny Blood Phoenix arrived and attacked Qian Mu, but he struck her down and dimmed her Primordial Spirit.
• Granny Blood Phoenix recognized Bai Jun and recalled her long-lost connection to him and Bai Zhi.
• Long Qichen rescued Granny Blood Phoenix, transformed into an Azure Dragon, and challenged Qian Mu.
• Qian Mu attacked Long Qichen and Granny Blood Phoenix with enormous palms, and they answered with a phoenix spear and a dragon-headed fist.

Mu Bai and Qing Mao searched Blood River Demon Valley for its formation eye but encountered Blood Demons in the corrosive river. Mu Bai drove the demons back with White Spirit Cold Flame and swords, leaving Qing Mao safe in the Void Beast Realm.

• Mu Bai spotted the Corpse Plague in the blood river and realized he would need Gusu Wan'er’s help to save Mi Yan.
• A dozen desiccated corpses attacked Mu Bai and Qing Mao, then transformed into Blood Demons that could re-form after being cut apart.
• Qing Mao revealed demonic armor and fought a Blood Demon, while Mu Bai realized that Qing Mao’s cultivation had led to Mi Yan being invaded by Evil Demonic Qi.
• Mu Bai used White Spirit Cold Flame to destroy two Blood Demons, then forced Qing Mao into the Void Beast Realm when he refused to retreat.
• Mu Bai attacked the remaining Blood Demons with White Spirit Cold Flame and both swords, destroying several and driving the others back.

Mu Bai entered the Blood River Demon Valley to ask Blood River Blood Mother to restore his friend’s human body, but she demanded the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art and attacked after taking it. Mu Bai fought back with the Dao of reincarnation, then escaped when he could not overcome her, leaving Blood River Blood Mother to consider whether to pursue him.

• Mu Bai used the White Spirit Cold Flame to halt the blood demons and drew their Corpse Plague toward a tender-green orb.
• Blood River Blood Mother appeared with eight blood-robed women after Mu Bai’s cold flames shattered her red silk Soul Treasure.
• Blood River Blood Mother demanded the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art, and Mu Bai handed over two Jade Slips in exchange for her promise to save his friend.
• Blood River Blood Mother refused to help and attacked, but Mu Bai detonated the Jade Slips and used his reincarnation sword to repel her claws.
• Blood River Blood Mother wounded Mu Bai’s sword with a blood-colored blade ray, and Mu Bai escaped using the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation.
• A blood-robed woman asked Blood River Blood Mother whether they should pursue and kill Mu Bai.

Li Ji’s forces clashed with Blood River Demon Valley’s Blood River Eight Maidens, and Mu Bai was drawn from hiding into the standoff. He greeted Ling Jinyu, who recognized him but pretended not to, troubled by their past and her duties as a Holy Maiden.

• Li Ji sent the six Chiefs of Fangs against the Blood River Eight Maidens, whose blood-rain domain overwhelmed them.
• The Wind and Rain Chiefs of Fangs detonated themselves to break the domain, allowing the other four Chiefs to attack and destroy the Eight Maidens’ combined form.
• Blood River Blood Mother and Li Ji stopped the battle before both sides suffered further losses, and Li Ji challenged Blood River Demon Valley to a one-on-one fight.
• Blood River Blood Mother revealed she had expected Mu Bai to fight the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens in exchange for saving the captives, but he refused to appear at her command.
• Mu Bai severed Blood River Blood Mother’s oppressive gaze and entered the battleground, then greeted Ling Jinyu, who recognized him and turned away.

Mu Bai’s identity as Qian Jingnian was exposed, drawing the Holy Sons’ hostility and prompting Lu Yunxuan to challenge him. After Mu Bai defeated Lu Yunxuan without killing him, the Sacred Lands attacked Blood River Demon Valley to seize Qingtian’s Demon Body, while Mu Bai declined Xie Beichen’s offer and waited apart for an opportunity.

• Xie Beichen revealed that Mu Bai had impersonated Qian Jingnian, obtained the Reincarnation Dao-Proving Fruit, and gravely wounded Qian Yuhuang, alarming Ling Jinyu and stirring the other Holy Sons’ murderous intent.
• Lu Yunxuan attacked Mu Bai with the Longevity Spear, but Mu Bai endured its vitality-draining power with the World Tree’s aid and wounded Lu Yunxuan with his sword.
• Mu Bai told Lu Yunxuan he was beneath Qian Yuhuang and let him go, while Li Ji urged Lu Yunxuan to focus on the battle and Qingtian’s Demon Body.
• The armies of the Primordial Soul Sacred Land and the Li Dragon Tribe attacked Blood River Demon Valley, whose Blood Demons and desiccated corpses fought back.
• Xie Beichen offered to help Mu Bai seize Qingtian’s Demon Body and the Heavenly Demon Supreme’s inheritance, but Mu Bai returned to the hilltop to wait for possible spoils.

Li Muxue and Xie Beichen fought as the two Sacred Lands attacked Blood River Demon Valley, while Mu Bai was drawn into a vision by their clashing Dao arts. He awakened after Li Muxue broke the Heaven-Worshipping Grievance Dao’s hold, then withdrew to meditate, blaming himself for being drawn in.

• Xie Beichen attacked Ling Jinyu, but Li Muxue stepped in and began fighting him.
• Li Muxue used her Pear Blossom Formation and Emotion-Cutting Dao against Xie Beichen’s sword arts and Heaven-Worshipping Grievance Dao.
• As their Dao arts clashed, Mu Bai was pulled into a vision of a past life with Li Muxue and saw her face wounded by a sword.
• Mu Bai awakened after Li Muxue broke the grievance Dao’s hold, spat blood, and wondered why she had drawn him in and saved him.
• Mu Bai sat cross-legged to absorb and concluded that he had been the one to lure himself in.

The Primordial Soul Sacred Land and the Li Dragon Tribe joined forces to destroy Blood River Demon Valley’s formation and attack its peak. Blood River Blood Mother transformed into an Evil Demon Venerable, leaving Lu Changlin to hold her off while the allied armies advanced.

• Li Muxue and Ling Jinyu led the Mysterious Female Gate into battle against the Heaven-Worshipping Sect, keeping it from aiding Blood River Demon Valley.
• Li Ji and the Li Dragon Tribe used their Li Dragon Pearls to disrupt the blood river, while Lu Yunxuan and four elders formed a Six-Pointed Star Formation to drain the valley’s vitality.
• Li Ji, the four Chiefs of Fangs, and the Primordial Soul Sacred Land broke Blood River Demon Valley’s great formation and exposed its peak.
• Lu Changlin stopped Li Ji and Lu Yunxuan from attacking Blood River Blood Mother, warning that she had become an Evil Demon Venerable.
• Lu Changlin clashed with Blood River Blood Mother as Lu Yunxuan, Li Ji, and the allied armies drove the blood demons and desiccated corpses toward the peak.

Qing Mao abandoned restraint and became an evil demon to hold off Lu Yunxuan, hoping the Blood River Blood Mother would save Mi Yan. As the Blood River Blood Mother and Lu Changlin both turned their attention to Mu Bai and his cultivation art, Mu Bai waited for someone whose arrival he sensed.

• Qing Mao rejected Mu Bai’s warning and said he would risk his life to save Mi Yan, whom the Blood River Blood Mother had promised to treat.
• Qing Mao fully unleashed his evil demon power, summoned his armor and sword, and charged toward Blood River Demon Valley Peak.
• Qing Mao attacked Lu Yunxuan, and Li Ji shielded Lu Yunxuan with the Li Dragon Pearl before he transformed and fought Qing Mao alone.
• Qing Mao’s devoted love and Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art let him hold Lu Yunxuan back and stall the Primordial Soul Sacred Land’s advance.
• The Blood River Blood Mother recognized Qing Mao’s cultivation art and began seeking Mu Bai, while Lu Changlin also coveted the art as they fought.
• Mu Bai realized Qing Mao had drawn trouble toward him again and continued waiting for the presence he sensed.

Mu Bai escaped underground while the two Sovereigns fought, as the Sacred Lands stormed Blood River Demon Valley and uncovered Qingtian’s head beneath the peak. After Qing Mao died defending the valley, Mu Bai emerged and challenged Lu Yunxuan to fight again.

• Mu Bai fled underground while Blood River Blood Mother and Lu Changlin continued battling, and Li Ji led the Li Dragon Tribe up Blood River Demon Valley Peak.
• Lu Yunxuan and the Primordial Soul Sacred Land’s Elders killed Qing Mao, who self-detonated his Divine Palace and killed and wounded cultivators and Blood Demons.
• Ye Wan and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor learned Qing Mao had died and led a hundred thousand troops toward Blood River Demon Valley to help Mu Bai.
• Lu Yunxuan and Li Ji identified the peak as Qingtian’s Demon Body and ordered the armies to blast it open, revealing Qingtian’s head.
• A fine thread slipped into Qingtian’s head as Mu Bai emerged and provoked Lu Yunxuan into another fight, despite Li Ji’s warning.

Mu Bai fought Lu Yunxuan and Li Ji, turning Lu Yunxuan’s attempt to trap him into a chance to seize control of the battle. After Mu Bai was wounded and lost an arm to Li Ji’s Azure Dragon Primordial Spirits, Li Ji revealed her relationship with Lu Yunxuan and continued attacking him.

• Mu Bai and Lu Yunxuan fought, with Lu Yunxuan’s life-and-death Dao arts steadily strengthening his Longevity Spear.
• Lu Yunxuan trapped Mu Bai in the Primordial Soul Stele Realm, but Mu Bai had already placed that realm inside his Void Beast Realm.
• Mu Bai grievously injured Lu Yunxuan and slapped him out of the Void Beast Realm.
• Li Ji attacked Mu Bai with two Azure Dragon Primordial Spirits and severed one arm of his Heavenly Demon Body.
• Li Ji told Lu Yunxuan that she belonged to him, then sent her dragon Primordial Spirits to attack Mu Bai again.

Mu Bai used the Ancestral Dragon Primordial Spirit to defeat Li Ji’s Azure Dragon attack, then risked his life to help Qingtian escape Blood River Demon Valley. After Lu Yunxuan nearly killed him, Li Muxue intervened, leaving Mu Bai’s fate in Xie Beichen’s hands.

• Mu Bai summoned the Ancestral Dragon Primordial Spirit, which swallowed one of Li Ji’s Azure Dragon Primordial Spirits and forced her to recall the other.
• The God-Devouring Insect emerged from Qingtian’s head as a blue-skinned youth calling himself Qingtian, and Mu Bai attacked Lu Changlin to help him escape.
• The Blood River Blood Mother intercepted Lu Changlin’s attack on Mu Bai, while Lu Yunxuan and Li Ji joined forces against him.
• Lu Yunxuan drove Mu Bai’s Reincarnation Sword into his chest and pinned him down, but Li Muxue stopped Lu Yunxuan from killing him.
• Lu Yunxuan withdrew and kicked Mu Bai toward Xie Beichen, asking whether he would let Mu Bai go.