Recaps

Jiang Yantian defeated the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor with one attack, then used his Black Barrier Soul Annihilation to wipe out the Venerable Alliance and Divine Sword Sect disciples. Ye Xuan and the survivors were left terrified as Jiang Yantian mocked them.

• Jiang Yantian’s demonic light pierced the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor’s starlight attack and defeated him in one move.
• Jiang Yantian mocked the fallen Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor while the onlookers reacted with shock and accused him of being a fraud.
• Jiang Yantian unleashed Heaven-Swallowing Art-Black Barrier Soul Annihilation, making tens of thousands of disciples disappear and leaving only ten people beside the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor.
• Jiang Yantian snapped his fingers and caused the corpses of the Venerable Alliance and Divine Sword Sect disciples to rain down.
• Ye Xuan and the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor stared in terror as Jiang Yantian mocked their failed attempt to vanquish him.

Jiang Yantian forced Ye Xuan and the others to beat and humiliate the defeated Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor. Meanwhile, Chen Yao set out to find his father, Quan Buyue, and arrived at the ruined Divine Sword Sect, where he spotted Ye Xuan among the people stomping on someone.

• Jiang Yantian threatened the survivors and ordered them to beat and spit on Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor, killing three elders when they hesitated.
• Ye Xuan and the others obeyed, kicking and spitting on Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor while Jiang Yantian watched.
• Chen Yao decided to find his biological father, Quan Buyue, and learned from a speaking spirit beast that the Venerable Alliance had gone to the Divine Sword Sect.
• Chen Yao reached the Divine Sword Sect and found its grounds in ruins, with lifeless bodies scattered outside.
• Chen Yao approached a crowd stomping on a man and recognized Ye Xuan among them.

Chen Yao arrived at the Divine Sword Sect, joined the beating of the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor, and recognized Quan Buyue as his father. After revealing that the Venerable Alliance had become ruins and that the Imperishable Devil Emperor was nearby, Chen Yao tried to flee, but Jiang Yantian ordered him to continue talking.

• Chen Yao kicked the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor and introduced himself to Ye Xuan and Quan Buyue as Chen Yao of the Blood Gu Sect.
• Chen Yao told Quan Buyue that he was his son, born after Quan Buyue’s encounter with Tang Shan, and explained that he had searched for his father at the ruins of the Venerable Alliance.
• Chen Yao warned Ye Xuan and Quan Buyue that the Imperishable Devil Emperor had returned and was at the Blood Gu Sect, then suggested the Alliance could suppress him before he regained his strength.
• Quan Buyue pointed out Jiang Yantian, and Chen Yao recognized him as the Imperishable Devil Emperor and tried to leave.
• Jiang Yantian stopped Chen Yao and told everyone to continue talking, threatening to kill them if he disliked the gossip.

Jiang Yantian forced Chen Yao and Quan Buyue to recount their scandalous story while he waited for Ye Xuan’s female confidantes to arrive. When Di Qiao'er, Cheng Qing, Shui Biyu, Miao Jinxiu, and Lin Dongyu came to help Ye Xuan, Jiang Yantian subdued them and forced them into a bathhouse artifact, leaving Ye Xuan howling in despair.

• Jiang Yantian made Chen Yao and Quan Buyue describe Chen Yao’s parents’ affair in detail.
• Di Qiao'er, Cheng Qing, Shui Biyu, Miao Jinxiu, and Lin Dongyu arrived to help Ye Xuan, who urged them to flee.
• The five women attacked Jiang Yantian, but he immobilized them and tore open the upper halves of their dresses.
• Jiang Yantian threatened to kill Ye Xuan unless the women served him in the bath, then destroyed one of Ye Xuan’s arms and struck Chen Yao.
• The five women agreed to Jiang Yantian’s demand, and he forced them into a bathhouse artifact.
• Ye Xuan tried to reach them and screamed that Jiang Yantian should humiliate him instead.

Jiang Yantian forced Ye Xuan’s five confidantes to dance in front of him, pushing Ye Xuan into madness. After Ye Xuan killed all five women and Jiang Yantian restored his clarity, Ye Xuan broke down over what he had done, while Chen Yao tried to flatter Jiang Yantian.

• Jiang Yantian forced Di Qiao'er, Cheng Qing, Shui Biyu, and the other two women to entertain him while Ye Xuan wailed outside the magical house.
• Ye Xuan’s Dao heart collapsed, earning Jiang Yantian 5,000,000 Humiliation Points, and Jiang Yantian opened the door to show him the scene inside.
• Ye Xuan charged into the pool, killed Di Qiao'er and the other four women, and Jiang Yantian used black Qi to restore his clarity.
• Ye Xuan saw the bodies and broke down in grief and guilt, while Chen Yao watched from outside and considered himself fortunate.
• Jiang Yantian called out Chen Yao, who hurried over and showered the Demon Emperor with exaggerated praise.

Jiang Yantian offered Chen Yao a place among the Demon Domain’s forces, and Chen Yao eagerly joined to survive. After Jiang planted demonic breath in Chen Yao and the surviving elders, Chen Yao became their captain, with Quan Buyue serving under him.

• Jiang Yantian offered Chen Yao a position as a demon soldier, and Chen Yao negotiated for a higher rank before pledging his loyalty.
• Jiang Yantian planted demonic breath inside Chen Yao, binding him to the Demon Emperor and making him stronger.
• Chen Yao declared himself a demon, was slapped by Jiang Yantian, and then ordered the elders and Quan Buyue to line up.
• The surviving elders and Quan Buyue consented to having demonic breath planted inside them, while Jiang Yantian accepted them into his forces.
• Chen Yao appointed himself captain and assigned Quan Buyue, the leader of the Venerable Alliance, to serve under him.

Jiang Yantian captured the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor and killed Ye Xuan after Ye Xuan briefly regained his senses. He left the Divine Sword Sect to be plundered and returned to find Su Ruoqing, while Chen Yao and Quan Buyue went to the Blood Gu Sect as new members of the Devil Race.

• Jiang Yantian sealed the Star-Breaking Dao Ancestor inside Sun and Moon in the Gourd, and Chen Yao asked permission to fight Ye Xuan.
• Chen Yao attacked Ye Xuan but was knocked aside, so Quan Buyue stepped in to give Ye Xuan a swift end.
• Jiang Yantian restrained Ye Xuan with black Qi, and the Ten Thousand Demons Banner absorbed Ye Xuan's Primordial Spirit as he died.
• Jiang Yantian burned the magical house, left the Divine Sword Sect's resources for the devil sects to plunder, and departed with a packet of popping candy to find Su Ruoqing.
• Chen Yao told Quan Buyue to take responsibility for his relationship with Chen Yao's mother, then revealed that his teacher had also been involved with her.
• Chen Yao and Quan Buyue headed toward the Blood Gu Sect, accepting that they had joined the Devil Race and could not turn back.

Jiang Yantian returned to the Blood Gu Sect, reunited with Su Ruoqing, and left Luo Biling to explore. Luo Biling overheard strange sounds in Tang Shan’s room and sent Chen Yao and Quan Buyue rushing inside, where they found Tang Shan with Chen Yao’s teacher.

• Jiang Yantian arrived at Su Ruoqing’s residence and overheard Luo Biling teasing her about his affairs with other women.
• Jiang Yantian reunited with Su Ruoqing, while Luo Biling sniffed out that he had been in contact with several women and questioned him about it.
• Jiang Yantian sent Luo Biling outside and carried Su Ruoqing into the room to be alone with her.
• Luo Biling wandered around the Blood Gu Sect, heard sounds from Tang Shan’s room, and told Chen Yao that someone was beating his mother.
• Chen Yao and Quan Buyue charged into Tang Shan’s room, where they found her with Chen Yao’s teacher.

Jiang Yantian left with Luo Biling to continue toward the Ancient Demon Domain, stopping at a walled city in the restricted zone. There, he recognized a woman who looked like Yingchun and blocked her path.

• Chen Yao withdrew to a cave in Blood Valley and began a long period of cultivation after seeing Quan Buyue reunite with Tang Shan.
• Jiang Yantian departed with Luo Biling while Su Ruoqing stayed in the Chaos Realm with his other companions.
• Jiang Yantian and Luo Biling reached a town in the restricted zone and entered its walled city after paying the guard spirit stones.
• Jiang Yantian spotted a woman who looked like his former maid Yingchun and stopped her.

Jiang Yantian learned that the Unfettered Holy Land lay beyond a dangerous restricted zone and traveled there with Luo Biling. At its Magic-Forbidden Land, he comprehended and copied the law that sealed divine abilities and magical arts.

• Jiang Yantian mistook a woman who resembled Yingchun for her, then learned that the Unfettered Holy Land's missing Holy Maiden looked like the woman.
• The woman warned Jiang Yantian about evil spirits and Devil Creatures, but he declined her invitation and tore open the void to travel to the holy land.
• Jiang Yantian and Luo Biling arrived at the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where a Magic-Forbidden Land sealed the cultivation of those who entered.
• Jiang Yantian gave Luo Biling snacks and began comprehending the Magic-Forbidden Law while she sat and ate.
• Jiang Yantian copied the Law of Magic Forbiddance and learned it.

Jiang Yantian and Luo Biling reached the Unfettered Holy Land, where Jiang Yantian learned that its holy maiden was Yingchun, who had returned three years earlier after years away. He waited in the main hall for her to emerge from seclusion.

• Jiang Yantian and Luo Biling traveled through the forest to the Unfettered Holy Land and were surrounded by its experts.
• Jiang Yantian revealed his overwhelming presence, and the black-robed elder and the others recognized him as the Imperishable Devil Emperor.
• Jiang Yantian told the elder he had come to see an old acquaintance and asked after the holy maiden.
• The elder identified the holy land’s people as descendants of Goumang and said their holy maiden had returned three years earlier after disappearing for years.
• Jiang Yantian asked whether she had mentioned Yingchun, and the elder confirmed she had asked them to stop calling her Holy Maiden Mengyu.

Jiang Yantian visited the Unfettered Holy Land to see Holy Maiden Mengyu, but entered the wrong passage after receiving confusing directions. He ended the chapter heading toward the leader Meng You’s place of seclusion.

• Jiang Yantian learned that Holy Maiden Mengyu usually emerged from seclusion briefly at the hour of Hai and that her master, Meng You, followed the Dao of Non-Action.
• Luo Biling asked Jiang Yantian for snacks, kissed his cheek, and ran outside.
• Jiang Yantian waited near the spirit spring meditation chamber, then hurried inside when he thought he could not wait any longer.
• A Witch Race general told Jiang Yantian the Holy Maiden was to his left, using the general’s own left while facing him.
• Daoist Huai realized Jiang Yantian had taken the passage to the leader’s chamber, but did not dare interrupt the seclusion.
• Jiang Yantian continued down the left passage toward Meng You’s spirit spring meditation chamber, while Yingchun was on the right.

Jiang Yantian entered the wrong chamber and kissed Sect Leader Meng You, mistaking her for his wife, Yingchun. After revealing his identity as the Imperishable Devil Emperor and explaining the mistake, he kissed Meng You again before leaving her stunned.

• Jiang Yantian entered Meng You’s secluded chamber, mistook her for Yingchun, and embraced and kissed her.
• Meng You tried to strike Jiang Yantian, but he caught her hand and stopped her attack.
• Jiang Yantian identified himself as the Imperishable Devil Emperor and showed Meng You the Chaos Pearl.
• Jiang Yantian explained that he was Yingchun’s husband, and Meng You realized he had come to the wrong place.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Meng You once more and left her standing in a daze.

Jiang Yantian repeatedly took wrong turns while trying to reach Yingchun and kept intruding on Meng You, kissing and touching her despite claiming each visit was accidental. After a third intrusion led them both into the spirit spring, Meng You discovered what he was doing beneath the water and hauled him up.

• Jiang Yantian followed Daoist Huai's directions but entered Meng You's chamber instead of Yingchun's, where he kissed and touched her before leaving.
• Jiang Yantian encountered Daoist Huai again, returned to the passages, and then changed course to visit Meng You once more.
• Meng You undressed to bathe in the spirit spring, but Jiang Yantian opened the door and claimed he had taken the wrong way again.
• Meng You turned away in alarm, and she and Jiang Yantian fell into the spirit spring.
• Meng You noticed Jiang Yantian had sunk beneath the water, struck downward, and hauled him up while he clung to her.

Jiang Yantian reunited with Yingchun in her seclusion chamber in Nether Baleful Intent Heaven, where she learned of his immense power and embraced him as her long-awaited beloved. After spending the day together, they emerged before the holy land’s people, and Yingchun shyly asked him to take her to her residence.

• Jiang Yantian left Meng You after teasing her, kissing her once more, and offering to take her elsewhere to break through.
• Jiang Yantian entered Yingchun’s seclusion chamber and kissed her, and she recognized him and clung to him in joy.
• Yingchun asked how Jiang Yantian had reached the forbidden zone, and he revealed that he was the Imperishable Devil Emperor and had power comparable to a Dao Ancestor.
• Yingchun asked about Shengxia, Banqiu, and Nuandong, and Jiang Yantian said they were in another realm and would meet her later.
• Jiang Yantian and Yingchun spent the day together instead of going stargazing, then left the chamber with him carrying her.
• The holy land’s people greeted Jiang Yantian as the Devil Emperor and Yingchun as the Holy Maiden, and Yingchun asked him to take her to her residence.

Jiang Yantian visited Yingchun’s home, a replica of their Lower Realm home, while Meng You emerged from seclusion and met Luo Biling. Luo Biling insisted that Meng You would become Jiang Yantian’s wife, leaving Meng You unsure how to respond and asking the girl to keep it quiet.

• Jiang Yantian teleported with Yingchun to her mountaintop home and recognized it as a replica of Elder Peak in the Lower Realm.
• Jiang Yantian held Yingchun and kissed her on the courtyard recliner.
• Meng You left seclusion and encountered Luo Biling after the Unfettered Holy Land’s experts paid their respects.
• Luo Biling called Meng You her sister-in-law and claimed she had foreseen Meng You and Jiang Yantian becoming lovers.
• Meng You asked Luo Biling not to tell anyone or call her sister-in-law, but Luo Biling continued using the title.

Meng You accidentally witnessed Jiang Yantian and Mengyu together and struggled to quiet her thoughts afterward. Back in her meditation chamber, she reframed her desire as part of nature and prepared to explore a new path in the Dao of Non-Action.

• Meng You went to Yingchun's residence to speak with Mengyu but hid when she saw Jiang Yantian and Mengyu together.
• Meng You spent hours hiding by a tree, failing to calm her thoughts as she overheard and watched the pair.
• Jiang Yantian carried Yingchun inside, and Meng You finally left and returned to her meditation chamber.
• Meng You found that she could not meditate and considered whether her desire could fit within the natural principles of non-action.
• Meng You sat on the meditation cushion, raised her middle and ring fingers, and prepared to explore a new realm of the Dao of Non-Action.

Meng You touched the Dao Ancestor barrier while comprehending the Dao of Non-Action, but could not break through and became conflicted about whether Jiang Yantian could help her. While Jiang Yantian watched her from Yingchun's side, Luo Biling wandered into the holy land's training grounds and noticed a cultivator whose presence reminded her of Chen Yao.

• Meng You entered a vision of the Dao, gathered her runes, and struck at the Dao Ancestor barrier but failed to move it.
• Meng You returned to her secluded chamber and wondered whether intimacy with Jiang Yantian could help her break through.
• Jiang Yantian watched Meng You with his Delusion-Breaking Golden Pupils, then turned his attention back to Yingchun.
• Luo Biling wandered through the holy land and watched cultivators sparring at the training grounds.
• Luo Biling spotted a cultivator with auspicious Qi and fortune whose presence resembled Chen Yao's, but was much stronger.

Tang Wu entered an arena match against Bi Yangde, overcame his attacks, and seemed close to winning before an invisible force struck him and let Bi Yangde claim victory. Luo Biling watched from above, pleased by Tang Wu’s defeat, while Tang Wu left convinced that his opponent had cheated.

• Luo Biling spotted Tang Wu entering an arena match and watched as the crowd mocked him for being from a different race.
• Tang Wu faced Bi Yangde, who summoned a fire python and then a barrage of fireballs, but Tang Wu broke the first attack and dodged the second.
• Tang Wu closed in on Bi Yangde and gained the upper hand in their close combat.
• Luo Biling waved her hand, sending a colorless force toward Tang Wu just as he was about to win.
• The force sent Tang Wu crashing into a crater, and Bi Yangde claimed victory as Tang Wu accused him of cheating.
• Tang Wu left the arena while the crowd laughed at him, and Luo Biling was satisfied with his defeat.

After Tang Wu lost in the arena, Luo Biling mocked him and tricked the crowd into thinking he was threatening her. As Tang Wu confronted her and threatened to make her explain herself, a mysterious figure appeared amid a sky-darkening phenomenon.

• Tang Wu suspected someone had secretly interfered in his fight and questioned Luo Biling, who denied that anyone else had been near her and insulted him.
• Luo Biling shouted for help and accused Tang Wu of bullying her, drawing a crowd that surrounded him and threatened to beat him.
• Tang Wu insisted he had only asked Luo Biling a question, but she continued to accuse him and call for her big brother.
• Tang Wu threatened Luo Biling, and the sky suddenly turned pitch-black as lightning flashed and a mysterious figure walked through the air toward them.

Jiang Yantian confronted Tang Wu after Luo Biling pretended that Tang Wu had bullied her, and he beat him despite Tang Wu's attempts to explain. Tang Wu plunged through the sacred land under Jiang Yantian's attack, unsure whether he would survive.

• Jiang Yantian's oppressive presence forced everyone except Luo Biling and Tang Wu to prostrate themselves, while Tang Wu endured it and believed Jiang Yantian admired his defiance.
• Jiang Yantian recognized Tang Wu as a Child of Fortune and mistook his steady gaze for a provocation.
• Luo Biling began sobbing, and Jiang Yantian struck Tang Wu before he could explain what had happened.
• Jiang Yantian repeatedly slammed Tang Wu into the ground, continuing the beating even after Tang Wu admitted he had been in the wrong.
• Jiang Yantian's powerful blow drove Tang Wu deep through the sacred land as he struggled to stop himself from falling farther.

Jiang Yantian punished Tang Wu for bullying Luo Biling, then killed Tang Wu’s Dao companion, Xiao Sang, when she challenged him. He tossed Xiao Sang’s head into the pit where Tang Wu lay, and Tang Wu unknowingly blasted it with Qi.

• Jiang Yantian told Daoist Huai that he had attacked Tang Wu because Tang Wu bullied Luo Biling.
• Xiao Sang arrived, accused Jiang Yantian of bullying the weak, and refused to kneel.
• Jiang Yantian brutally beat Xiao Sang, killed her, and threw her head into the pit.
• Jiang Yantian left with Luo Biling while Daoist Huai ordered everyone else to disperse.
• At the bottom of the pit, Tang Wu sensed something approaching and blasted it with Qi, splattering a familiar-smelling substance across his face.

Tang Wu climbed out of a pit after being badly injured and searched for Xiao Sang, unaware that she had already been sacrificed. Jiang Yantian went to tell Meng You he was taking Yingchun away, but found Meng You touching herself while calling his name.

• Tang Wu mistook the head that had fallen onto him for a sign that his senior was testing him, then climbed back to the surface while interpreting his injuries as a way to cleanse his body.
• Tang Wu searched the pill-refining tower and Xiao Sang's residence, but could not find her and waited at her home without knowing she had been sacrificed.
• Jiang Yantian brought Yingchun into the Chaos Realm and went to Meng You's secluded quarters to tell her he was taking Yingchun away.
• Jiang Yantian heard Meng You calling his name through the meditation chamber door and entered, startling her as she hurriedly pulled down her skirt.

Jiang Yantian persuaded Meng You that intimacy with him was the final step in her breakthrough to Dao Ancestor, while she struggled with her feelings because he was her disciple Mengyu’s husband. He proposed staging an encounter so their relationship could supposedly unfold naturally.

• Jiang Yantian confronted Meng You after sensing her call and teased her about following the Dao of Self-Action.
• Jiang Yantian held Meng You’s hand and kissed her fingers, then pressed her to explain why she had been thinking of him.
• Meng You revealed that her private practice had brought her close to breaking through to Dao Ancestor but had not completed it.
• Jiang Yantian claimed she had overcome the mental barrier but still needed to break through the barrier of the flesh with him.
• Meng You refused at first, then mentioned that Mengyu hoped she would become her sister and admitted she could not resist Jiang Yantian if he forced her.
• Jiang Yantian gave Meng You strange clothes and suggested staging an accidental encounter while she pretended to resist.

Jiang Yantian and Meng You spent the night together, and Meng You unexpectedly comprehended a breakthrough. The chapter ended as an otherworldly tribulation gathered over the Unfettered Holy Land, with Jiang Yantian preparing to guard her.

• Jiang Yantian entered to find Meng You wearing the wedding outfit he had left for her, and she called him husband at his request.
• Jiang Yantian and Meng You embraced and kissed, then spent the night together behind the closed stone door.
• The next day, Meng You told Jiang Yantian that she had comprehended something and was about to break through.
• Jiang Yantian dressed them both with a wave of his hand and took Meng You above the Unfettered Holy Land to guard her.
• An otherworldly tribulation gathered over the holy land as dark clouds swallowed the sky and purple lightning flashed within them.