Recaps

After Huo Yun learned that the Six Paths Demon Crystal required a mindless beast to complete its Animal Realm, he decided to search the Eastern Wasteland for a Flame Phantom Bird. Meanwhile, Lin Fei and Su Tianshuang entered the North Sea Ice Palace and found Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei recovering in the Cold Jade Spring Pool.

• After Huo Feng's ghost vanished, Huo Yun saw its image appear on the Hungry Ghost Realm face of the Six Paths Demon Crystal and celebrated that only the Animal Realm remained.
• When an elder questioned what counted as an animal, a scholarly elder explained that the crystal required an unusual, unintelligent creature that could not take human form.
• The scholarly elder cited Flame Phantom Birds and stone giants as examples, and Huo Yun promoted him to grand elder.
• Huo Yun decided that the Fire Cloud Tribe would travel to the Eastern Wasteland to find a Flame Phantom Bird.
• Lin Fei and Su Tianshuang arrived at the North Sea Ice Palace, passed its guards, and entered after presenting their credentials, while Hong Tu and the others waited outside.
• Lin Fei and Su Tianshuang reached the Cold Jade Spring Pool, where Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei were recovering from their injuries.

Lin Fei gave Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei two Nascent Souls from Void Insight Realm demonic beasts, claiming he had obtained the Sword Emperor Jiang Liuyun’s inheritance and protection. Lin Fei and Su Tianshuang were granted the chance to attempt the North Sea Soul Martial trials, though Han Zhenbei warned that they could die.

• Lin Fei presented two demonic beast Nascent Souls to Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei.
• Lin Fei claimed he had inherited Jiang Liuyun’s legacy and used the Sword Emperor’s primordial spirit avatar to survive the Eastern Wasteland chaos.
• Han Zhenbei offered Lin Fei a favor, and Lin Kunpeng asked him to let Lin Fei take the North Sea Soul Martial.
• Lin Fei agreed to face the dangerous Ice Palace trials, while Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei refused Su Tianshuang’s request to join.
• Lin Fei mentioned his sixth senior brother’s Supreme Yin Physique, and Lin Kunpeng persuaded Han Zhenbei to let both juniors attempt the trials.

Lin Fei entered the North Sea Ice Palace’s trial grounds, where a formation suppressed him to late Nascent Soul and fire-wielding puppets attacked. He destroyed dozens of them in one strike and continued deeper into the ancient city.

• Lin Fei entered the small world of the trial grounds and saw an ancient ice city guarded by lava warriors and masked figures.
• The trial’s formation suppressed Lin Fei’s cultivation to late Nascent Soul, and the puppets attacked him under orders to kill intruders.
• Lin Fei used Bright Moon Rises over the Sea to slow the guards and pushed through their flames.
• Lin Fei struck one puppet with Ice-White Divine Palm, freezing it, then unleashed Jade Waves Split the Heavens.
• Lin Fei’s waves shattered dozens of same-realm puppets, after which he let his manifestation fade and advanced.

Lin Fei faced a defensive trial in the North Sea Ice Palace, enduring the relentless attacks of four Flame Phantom Birds for seven and a half minutes. He survived with much of his ice still intact and found the challenge underwhelming.

• Lin Fei entered the great hall and learned he had to survive seven and a half minutes of attacks from four Flame Phantom Birds that could not be killed.
• Lin Fei dodged the birds’ concentrated fire with Seven Steps of the Heavenly Demon and Phantom Shadow Elusive Traces, avoiding every attack.
• When the birds blanketed the hall with flames, Lin Fei used Heaven and Earth Primordial Unity to form a barrier, then summoned Bright Moon Rises over the Sea as the barrier weakened.
• Lin Fei used Falling Snow Forms a Stele to encase himself in ice while the moonlight slowed the attacks.
• After the trial ended, Lin Fei emerged with the ice only half melted and remarked that the challenge had been too easy.

Lin Fei passed the inner demon trial by enduring memories spanning millions of years, while demons gathered to test whether Zhu Qingfeng was too injured to defend the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons. The chapter ended as hundreds of demons charged the hall and Zhu Qingfeng warned them off while secretly panicking.

• Lin Kunpeng and Han Zhenbei guessed that Wuming was still struggling in the first trial, unaware that Lin Fei had already passed the second and entered the third.
• Lin Fei faced memories of loss, extinction, loneliness, and betrayal, but his heart remained unshaken and he passed the inner demon trial.
• Demons gathered outside the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, suspecting Zhu Qingfeng was gravely weakened and coveting the hall’s treasures.
• A demon threw a giant white insect toward the hall, and the Flame Phantom Bird rushed inside as the scaled guard fought it to a standstill.
• Believing Zhu Qingfeng would not intervene, hundreds of demons charged the hall, and Zhu Qingfeng threatened them while trembling in fear.

Zhu Qingfeng used the Demon Emperor aura hidden in his old calligraphy to bluff the demons gathered outside the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons. He sent them to search for rare treasures and a human Sage, leaving his precarious deception in place.

• The demons preparing to storm the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons were overwhelmed by the Demon Emperor aura and begged Zhu Qingfeng for forgiveness.
• Zhu Qingfeng realized the aura came from his calligraphy and feared the demons would discover that his cultivation was weak.
• Zhu Qingfeng claimed Lin Fei had left the Power of Chaos Annihilation in his body and warned the demons they could try to kill him if they dared.
• Zhu Qingfeng walked past the trembling Flame Phantom Bird and ordered the demons to find the South Radiance Ice Soul, the Eastern Wasteland Divine Fire, the North Sea Soul Martial, and a Sage bearing the Human Race's providence.
• The demons swore to fulfill Zhu Qingfeng's orders, and he dismissed them.

Zhu Qingfeng protected the Flame Phantom Bird by inventing a connection between their ancestors, while the demons turned on the monkey demon who had misled them. Lin Fei reached the North Sea Ice Palace’s final trial and was drawn into an illusion at the Southern Heavenly Gate.

• Zhu Qingfeng ordered the demons to protect the Flame Phantom Bird, claiming its ancestors had shared a connection with him.
• The demons surrounded the confused Flame Phantom Bird to befriend it, then tore the monkey demon apart for misinforming them about Zhu Qingfeng’s strength.
• The demons resumed plotting to seize the supreme treasure and capture the Sage, while assigning cultivators to protect and feed the Flame Phantom Bird.
• Lin Fei reached the final trial’s ninety-nine snowy steps and recognized that the test likely targeted the soul.
• When Lin Fei stepped onto the thirty-third step, the All Things Illusory Heart Mirror drew his soul into an illusion before the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Lin Fei faced a manifested image of the young Haotian in the final soul trial, recognizing the future Human Emperor who had once fought to save the Primordial Continent’s Human Race. Their clash escalated as Haotian unleashed his imperial dragon qi and Human Emperor Seal against Lin Fei’s demonic techniques.

• Lin Fei recognized Haotian as the youth who had shouldered the Human Race’s fate and advanced to meet him in the empty Heavenly Court.
• Haotian readied his dragonbone spear, while Lin Fei drew the Heavenly Demon Space-Rending Sword and cloaked himself in demonic qi to provoke him.
• Haotian attacked with a spear thrust that took the form of a five-clawed golden dragon, and Lin Fei met it with a slash of black sword qi.
• Lin Fei transformed through the Reverse Origin Demon Body and summoned a blood-soaked realm of corpses, ghosts, and vengeful spirits.
• Haotian burned through the attacking spirits with imperial dragon qi, then threw his spear at Lin Fei’s sword strike and summoned an emperor’s manifestation with the Human Emperor Seal.

Lin Fei defeated Haotian in an illusion trial, killing him despite his Human Emperor powers. After leaving the illusion, Lin Fei realized the next two opponents would be even more formidable, since Haotian ranked last among them.

• Haotian and Lin Fei clashed with opposing manifestations, and Lin Fei pierced Haotian’s defenses with the Heavenly Demon Space-Rending Sword.
• Haotian used the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Lin Fei countered with the Heavenly Demon Great Hand Seal and sent him flying.
• Lin Fei caught up to Haotian and pierced his brow, killing him as the Great Dao mourned his fall.
• The illusion collapsed, and Lin Fei returned from the trial, grave because he had guessed who his next two opponents would be.
• Lin Fei realized Haotian was the weakest of the three opponents awaiting him.

Lin Fei encountered the illusory Demonic Venerable of the Six Paths in the second trial illusion, and the two fought over their past defeat and rivalry. After their first clash ended in a draw, Six Paths proposed two more exchanges, beginning with a contest of physical strength.

• Lin Fei found Six Paths in a desolate demonic realm, and Six Paths recognized that someone had used the All Things Illusory Heart Mirror to extrapolate him.
• Six Paths agreed to fight Lin Fei in three moves, despite knowing Lin Fei was hurrying to face someone else.
• Lin Fei and Six Paths each unleashed a wisp of Chaos Mother Qi and Primordial Darkness Mother Qi, and their clash devastated the surrounding realm.
• After both were injured and reopened their bloodshot eyes, Six Paths questioned why he had lost to Lin Fei, who attributed the outcome to conviction and his attachments.
• Six Paths declared that two moves remained and rose to pit their bodies against Lin Fei's.

Lin Fei and the Demonic Venerable of the Six Paths tested their strength in three clashes and proved evenly matched. Six Paths warned Lin Fei that the person ahead would be a formidable opponent, but Lin Fei refused to abandon the trial as Six Paths accepted his dissolution.

• Six Paths revealed his immense physical power and agreed to compare strength with Lin Fei in three moves.
• Lin Fei and Six Paths traded devastating punches, badly injuring their arms before healing through their blood and qi power.
• They clashed with enormous orbs of true essence, leaving a bottomless abyss beneath them while both remained standing.
• Six Paths said he had only a fifty-percent chance against the person ahead and suggested Lin Fei end the trial, but Lin Fei refused.
• Six Paths formed the Dissolution Seal and vanished as the demonic sword descended, saying, "May the martial path flourish."

Lin Fei met an illusion of his deceased disciple Lin Yuan, who realized he was dead and asked why he had died despite Lin Fei protecting him. Lin Fei warned him of the future evil he would become, and the chapter ended with Lin Yuan asking whether he could one day match his master at the same cultivation level.

• Lin Fei reached the final step and found Lin Yuan cooking flood dragon meat in an illusory wilderness.
• Lin Yuan deduced that he was dead and that the illusion urged him to fight Lin Fei, but he resisted the command.
• Lin Fei asked whether Lin Yuan might one day destroy countless lives, and Lin Yuan said his own death would be no loss if that happened.
• Lin Yuan suppressed the urge to attack Lin Fei, who displayed his powerful physiques and asked whether he wanted to fight.
• Lin Yuan said he did not want to be Lin Fei's enemy and asked whether he could someday contend with him at the same cultivation level; Lin Fei said yes.

Lin Yuan asked Lin Fei to fight him at the same cultivation realm, then sacrificed himself in an attack that forced Lin Fei to reveal his origin manifestation, Chaos Plants a Golden Lotus. The illusion collapsed, leaving Lin Fei back in the North Sea Ice Palace trial grounds, bleeding from his eyes.

• Lin Yuan asked Lin Fei for permission to make one move, and Lin Fei agreed.
• Lin Yuan unleashed his power, and Lin Fei criticized him for wasting energy and explained how to use force more efficiently.
• Lin Yuan compressed and detonated his body, soul, and cultivation, sending a storm of death and manifestations toward Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei revealed Chaos Plants a Golden Lotus, which erased Lin Yuan's manifestations and repelled the storm.
• The illusion collapsed, and Lin Fei reappeared in the North Sea Ice Palace trial grounds with his eyes shut and blood dripping onto the steps.

Lin Fei endured the agony of using his Incomplete Chaos Body and entered the Soul Martial Hall to claim a North Sea Soul Martial. It merged with his Heavenly Demon Space-Rending Sword, leaving him with a living, crystalline weapon.

• Lin Fei used his Divine Sense to navigate the Soul Martial Hall despite his bleeding, agonized eyes.
• Lin Fei examined the North Sea Soul Martials and reflected on Han Yuxuan’s punishing trials and the few people who had passed them.
• Lin Fei claimed an Early Spirit Transformation North Sea Soul Martial with his blood, awakening its extraordinary power.
• Lin Fei merged the Soul Martial with his Heavenly Demon Space-Rending Sword, transforming the weapon into a crystalline, purple-black blade that seemed alive.
• Lin Fei recalled that his Chaos blood at its peak had once destroyed Soul Martials, nearly making Han Yuxuan burst into tears.

Lin Fei returned from the trial grounds with the North Sea Soul Martial and learned that Han Zhenbei and Lin Kunpeng were fighting four invading greater demons. He explained how an Acquired Sage could emerge when humanity faced extinction, while Su Tianshuang mistakenly imagined himself as the chosen savior.

• Lin Fei emerged from the trial grounds disguised as Wuming, carrying the North Sea Soul Martial, and astonished the two guards who had assumed he was dead.
• Lin Fei found Su Tianshuang waiting at the Cold Jade Spring Pool while Han Zhenbei and Lin Kunpeng fought four Void Penetration greater demons at the city gates.
• Lin Fei suspected that greater demons had also attacked the Western Desert and Southern Ming as part of Zhu Qingfeng's plans.
• Lin Fei explained the difference between Innate Sages and Acquired Sages, who could arise when humanity faced extinction and shoulder the Human Race's fortune.
• Su Tianshuang imagined himself becoming an Acquired Sage, but Lin Fei told him that the heaven's chosen would have greater aptitude and would not be him.

Lin Fei returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, reunited with Ji Yaoguang, and ordered everyone to retreat before the Eastern Wilderness greater demons arrived. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape and Blood-Scaled Sparrow found the villa abandoned, destroyed it, and turned their attention to Rongcheng’s millions of residents.

• Lin Fei returned to the Heavenly Demon Palace with Su Tianshuang, then secretly went back to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa with the Heavenly Demon Space-Rending Sword.
• Ji Yaoguang embraced Lin Fei, and he reunited with her while the maids teased them.
• Lin Fei warned that the Eastern Wilderness greater demons might find the villa and told everyone to leave contingencies behind and retreat.
• Less than an hour later, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape and Blood-Scaled Sparrow arrived at the deserted Flying Cloud Mountain Villa.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape smashed the villa and threatened its vanished residents.
• The Blood-Scaled Sparrow and Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape turned toward Rongcheng, casting the city into chaos as they prepared to prey on its population.

Lin Fei awakened the immortal relic of Painting Immortal Song Lingyun, who rescued Rongcheng’s people and confronted the Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape. Song Lingyun vowed to buy time for the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, and the two began fighting.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape sucked people into the air while panicked civilians trampled and attacked one another as they fled.
• Song Lingyun emerged from an old brush and used his ink magic to rescue the people and challenge the demon ape.
• Song Lingyun named other immortal disciples whose primordial spirit avatars might remain in Huaxia, alarming the demon ape.
• Song Lingyun said the avatars only needed to buy time for the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages to return to power.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape attacked with its hairs, and Song Lingyun blocked them with an ink-made Great Wall before the hairs transformed into small demon apes.

Song Lingyun fought the Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape by painting an army of Yellow Emperor soldiers and a giant ink ape modeled on his foe. After the ink ape struck down the demon ape’s body, their matching blasts of Innate Grand Void Gang Qi collided and devastated the surrounding city.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape sent countless clones at Song Lingyun, who painted an army of Yellow Emperor soldiers that attacked and overwhelmed them.
• Song Lingyun examined the demon ape and painted an identical giant ink ape, which fought him amid collapsing buildings.
• Song Lingyun painted a Golden-Hooped Rod for the ink ape, which used it to smash the demon ape’s cudgel and explode his head.
• The demon ape’s primordial spirit escaped and fired Innate Grand Void Gang Qi, which the ink ape matched, and their collision sent a destructive shock wave through the city.

Song Lingyun used Innate Grand Void Gang Qi to kill the Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape, while Zhao Changsong drove off the Blood-Scaled Sparrow and eased Rongcheng’s crisis. Lin Fei then brought his group to the former Buddhist Sect grounds to hide and began seclusion amid immense resources, revealing the extraordinary state of his cultivation.

• Song Lingyun’s Innate Grand Void Gang Qi destroyed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Ape and its primordial spirit, and Song Lingyun then vanished after reflecting on his debt to Lin Fei.
• Zhao Changsong used Heaven and Earth Brush and Ink Intent to overpower the Blood-Scaled Sparrow, which burned its origin essence to escape.
• Lin Fei took his group to the desolate former Buddhist Sect grounds in the Western Desert and carved out a cave abode for seclusion.
• Lin Fei had arranged for immortal possessions to protect Huaxia’s Human Race and brought the icebound Jiang Huanhuan with him.
• Lin Fei filled his cave with resources plundered from the Takamagahara Divine Kingdom and examined his Qi Refining Twelfth Layer cultivation, including twelve rivers of qi and a radiant Dao platform.

Lin Fei consumed vast quantities of Spirit Stones to advance to mid Spirit Transformation and temper his Chaos Body’s divine bones, then began pushing toward late Spirit Transformation. As six Void Penetration demons attacked, three legendary primordial spirit avatars appeared to defend Nüba and the others.

• Lin Fei absorbed the spiritual energy of the surrounding Spirit Stones, transformed two-thirds of his bones into divine bones, and broke through to mid Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Fei tempered his divine bones with True Essence until nightfall, consolidated his cultivation, and began advancing toward late Spirit Transformation.
• True Lord Black Serpent and five other Void Penetration demons tracked down Nüba and the others and attacked them.
• Sword Saint Duan Sangtian manifested from Ji Yaoguang’s broken sword hilt and destroyed the demons’ incoming attacks.
• Sword Emperor Jiang Liuyun and Bow Venerable Wuxin appeared beside Duan Sangtian, and the six demons sensed the power of the three legendary figures.

Lin Fei’s primordial spirit incarnations fought the six Eastern Wilderness demon venerables to protect him while he broke through to the Void Insight Realm. Bow Venerable Wuxin killed the Soul-Burning Blood Wolf with one shot, then vanished after unleashing his final three arrows at the Giant Swamp Frog.

• Bow Venerable Wuxin, Sword Emperor Jiang Liuyun, and Sword Saint Duan Sangtian joined the battle against the six demon venerables and shielded Ji Yaoguang and the others from the fight.
• Wuxin used his Star-Controlling Arrow Art to strike the Giant Swamp Frog and Soul-Burning Blood Wolf with falling stars.
• The two demons counterattacked with Innate Grand Void Gang Qi, and Wuxin killed the Soul-Burning Blood Wolf with his ultimate move, Wuxin's Shot.
• The Giant Swamp Frog's poisonous attack shattered Wuxin's Azure Sky Stars Diagram and began destroying his defenses.
• Wuxin unleashed the Three Arrows of Immortal Decree, vanished as his incarnation expired, and left the arrows rushing toward the terrified Giant Swamp Frog.

Jiang Liuyun and Duan Sangtian sacrificed their primordial spirit avatars to slay the remaining mighty demons, leaving the group briefly safe. A Mid-stage Void Penetration Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly then shattered their protective barrier, but Lin Fei spoke from the cave and threatened her race.

• Jiang Liuyun used Broken Sword Without Sound to kill two mighty demons before his avatar vanished, declaring his loyalty to Lin Fei.
• Duan Sangtian opened his Sage Double Pupils and unleashed Destruction Immortal Light, annihilating two Void Penetration demons at the cost of burning away his avatar.
• Ji Yaoguang and the others celebrated their survival and hoped the six demons’ deaths would keep them safe for a while.
• The Mid-stage Void Penetration Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly arrived, shattered the group’s protective screen, and crushed the mountain peak with a giant finger.
• Lin Fei spoke from within the cave, declaring that the Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly race no longer needed to exist.

Lin Fei emerged from seclusion and fought Zhu Yudie, using the Profound Immortal Transformation and his Double Pupils to counter her attacks. He unleashed Sword Twenty-Three, which targeted her primordial spirit and sealed the battlefield in place as it closed in on her.

• Lin Fei burst from his destroyed cultivation cave and faced Zhu Yudie, who challenged his Half-Step Void Penetration realm.
• Zhu Yudie attacked with a storm of sword rays, but Lin Fei entered the Profound Immortal Transformation state and wiped out her assault.
• Lin Fei trapped Zhu Yudie in a tiny world with Double Pupils Heaven Opening and struck with Sword in the Pupil, but she shattered the world and endured the attack with her wings.
• Zhu Yudie unleashed Innate Grand Void Gang Qi, but Lin Fei used Swift Flash to appear behind it and thrust toward her brow.
• Lin Fei used Sword Twenty-Three, sending his primordial spirit at Zhu Yudie and freezing the battlefield as she struggled to unleash Demon Butterfly Frenzied Dance.

Lin Fei killed Zhu Yudie in two moves and began refining pills from her remains and other demons’ Nascent Souls. In the Eastern Wasteland, Zhu Qingfeng reached Early Void Penetration and ordered his servants to bring him the captured Huo Yun, who was believed to possess the Eastern Wasteland Divine Fire.

• Lin Fei destroyed Zhu Yudie’s primordial spirit with the North Sea Soul Martial, killing her in two moves without suffering backlash.
• Lin Fei explained that he could have killed Zhu Yudie in one move but chose to conserve his strength, then began refining pills from her Nascent Soul and those of flower and plant demons.
• Zhu Qingfeng used the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons’ resources and the Eastern Wasteland Immortal Metal to break through to Early Void Penetration.
• The Silver Dragon King told Zhu Qingfeng that demons had captured a human believed to be the chief of the Fire Cloud Tribe and to possess the Eastern Wasteland Divine Fire.
• The Silver Dragon King dragged the battered, bound Huo Yun into the hall, while Huo Yun lamented his failed attempt to capture the Flame Phantom Bird and obtain the power of reincarnation.

Zhu Qingfeng forced Huo Yun to reveal the Six Paths Demon Crystal’s location, then killed him and took the Soul-Burning Divine Fire. He sent the Silver Dragon King to retrieve the crystal and bring the Flame Phantom Bird to him, while preparing to refine the fire before Lin Fei arrived.

• The Silver Dragon King made Huo Yun kneel before Zhu Qingfeng, who recognized the Soul-Burning Divine Fire inside him and ordered his death.
• Huo Yun revealed that he had come to gather the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and offered to lead Zhu Qingfeng to the buried Six Paths Demon Crystal.
• Zhu Qingfeng ripped out Huo Yun’s primordial spirit, removed the Soul-Burning Divine Fire and its restrictions, and searched his memories.
• Zhu Qingfeng transformed into a Kun and swallowed Huo Yun’s body and primordial spirit, then gave the Silver Dragon King the crystal’s location.
• Zhu Qingfeng ordered the Silver Dragon King to retrieve the crystal and bring the Flame Phantom Bird to him for cultivation guidance, intending to kill him and claim the Animal Realm’s reincarnation power.
• Zhu Qingfeng swallowed the Soul-Burning Divine Fire to refine it, fearing that he would be defeated if Lin Fei arrived before his cultivation improved.