Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei established Water Blue Star-style administration in North-Subduing City, adapting it to local needs and putting its politicians in charge of development. As the city’s new rules and businesses took shape, he showed Ji Yaoguang the realm he had conquered for her.

• Water Blue Star politicians and representatives of other races debated how to organize North-Subduing City and set its taxes.
• Lin Fei quieted the council hall, chose an adapted Water Blue Star administrative system, and assigned its politicians to lead the city’s development.
• Lin Fei tasked Youyue and Ye Wudi with overseeing appointments, transfers, salaries, and benefits.
• North-Subduing City established new departments and rules as shops opened and officials began enforcing regulations.
• Ji Yaoguang watched the flourishing city from a rooftop as Lin Fei embraced her and said he had conquered the realm for her.

Lin Fei reassured Ji Yaoguang that North-Subduing City would remain peaceful as he worked to reclaim the Primordial Wilderness. At a long-sealed spirit vein near the Spacetime Fragments, Tian Xiao Xue prepared to extract its resources just as Yin Chenglin and his companions arrived to do the same.

• Ji Yaoguang wondered whether North-Subduing City could stay peaceful, and Lin Fei vowed to reclaim and expand their lands.
• Tian Xiao Xue used a Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Compass to uncover a spirit vein sealed by the Heavenly Court and judged that it could be extracted despite lingering spacetime distortions.
• Tian Xiao Xue sensed humans approaching and suspected they were heading for the spirit vein, then considered capturing them for her father.
• Yin Chenglin led cultivators of various races toward the spirit vein on Ye Wudi's orders, carrying his method for breaking its restrictions.

Yin Chenglin and his team broke the spirit vein’s Heavenly Court restrictions and mined spirit stones despite deadly Spacetime Fragment energies. After Yin executed a deserter and offered the miners a share, Tian Xiao Xue revealed herself and declared she would take everything.

• Tian Xiao Xue secretly watched as Ye Wudi guided Yin Chenglin and the others in breaking the spirit vein’s restrictions.
• Yin Chenglin warned the team about dangerous energies linked to Spacetime Fragments, and two cultivators died while the group mined.
• When a fire lizard tried to quit, Yin Chenglin executed him for desertion, frightening the other races present.
• The team mined about three thousand jin of spirit stones by sunset, at the cost of three members’ lives.
• Yin Chenglin offered the miners one tenth of the spirit stones, but Tian Xiao Xue declared that none of them would take anything away.

Tian Xiao Xue immobilized Yin Chenglin and the other cultivators, then tortured Yin Chenglin while demanding to know how they had broken the Heavenly Court’s restrictions. A flame rat revealed that Ye Wudi had taught them and was in North-Subduing City, leaving Tian Xiao Xue startled and demanding confirmation.

• Tian Xiao Xue appeared before Yin Chenglin and the others after they mined three thousand jin of spirit stones, then immobilized them all with the Heavenly Court Immobilization Spell.
• Yin Chenglin accused Tian Xiao Xue of fearing that the Heavenly Court had left restrictions in his mind, and she tore off one of his arms.
• Tian Xiao Xue had tiny snakes crawl into Yin Chenglin’s clothes and gnaw at him, torturing him until the others watched in terror.
• Tian Xiao Xue threatened the remaining cultivators, and a flame rat said that Ye Wudi had taught them to break the restrictions and was in North-Subduing City.
• Tian Xiao Xue fixed her gaze on the flame rat and demanded to know whether it was telling the truth.

Tian Xiao Xue learned that Lin Fei and Ye Wudi were in North-Subduing City, then hurried there and attacked its residents. As the city’s leaders discussed compulsory cultivation education, Lin Fei went out to confront her.

• Tian Xiao Xue searched the Blazing Flame Rat’s sea of consciousness and learned that Lin Fei and Ye Wudi were in North-Subduing City.
• Tian Xiao Xue transformed into her serpent form, swallowed the nonhumans around her, and captured the remaining people in a jade gourd.
• At a council meeting, a politician from Water Blue Star proposed compulsory cultivation education, and Ji Yaoguang and Youyue discussed its merits.
• Tian Xiao Xue arrived at North-Subduing City, demanded that Lin Fei and Ye Wudi meet their deaths, and killed hundreds of nonhumans.
• Lin Fei sensed the attack, rushed outside on a golden avenue, and faced Tian Xiao Xue in midair.

Lin Fei used the Heavenly Demon Body to kill Tian Xiao Xue after she attacked North-Subduing City. He learned she had sent no information about the city, then turned his attention to the Old Peng King.

• Tian Xiao Xue confronted Lin Fei and attacked him with the Heavenly Court Immobilization Spell while the Old Peng King fled with Zhao Yu.
• Lin Fei sent his primordial spirit into the Heavenly Demon Body, which broke free of the restraint and blasted Tian Xiao Xue's head apart.
• The Old Peng King turned back and claimed he had never been afraid, while Lin Fei took Tian Xiao Xue's spatial ring and released Yin Chenglin and the others.
• Lin Fei asked Yin Chenglin whether Tian Xiao Xue had reported North-Subduing City's location, and Yin Chenglin said she had not.
• Lin Fei praised Yin Chenglin's caution, then looked toward the Old Peng King, who became nervous.

Lin Fei punished Yin Peng for abandoning others while making clear that fleeing a hopeless battle was acceptable, but leaving his people behind was not. Yin Peng secretly plotted to join the Peng Race, while Zhao Yu and Yin Chenglin suspected Lin Fei was using his treachery to set a trap for them.

• Yin Peng begged Lin Fei for forgiveness, but Zhao Yu exposed that she had accompanied him because she held his Primal Life Disk.
• Lin Fei severed one of Yin Peng’s arms and warned that he would kill powerful people who saved themselves while abandoning everyone else.
• Yin Peng hid his hatred, planned to join the Peng Race, and resolved to endure until he could grow stronger.
• Zhao Yu urged Yin Chenglin to help persuade Lin Fei to eliminate Yin Peng, but Yin Chenglin argued that Lin Fei already understood his nature.
• Zhao Yu and Yin Chenglin conjectured that Lin Fei intended to use Yin Peng’s desire to contact the Peng Race against them, possibly by controlling the Heavenly Demon Body with early Golden Immortal cultivation.

Lin Fei easily completed his heavenly tribulation while Ye Wudi entered a similarly dangerous tribulation and fought for his life. Lin Fei returned to the city wall as Ye Wudi’s struggle continued.

• Lin Fei faced the lightning soldiers and beasts with his body, absorbing lightning essence until he completed his tribulation.
• Ye Wudi flew into the tribulation, and Youyue said she trusted him despite being unable to stop him.
• Ye Wudi summoned his Golden Crow manifestation and battled the lightning host with his Heavenly Demon techniques.
• A lightning spear pierced Ye Wudi’s shoulder, but he cut it apart and destroyed a lightning knight with Heavenly Demon Sovereign Emperor's Stomp.
• Lin Fei returned to the city wall, where Old Peng King offered him spirit tea and praised his power.

Lin Fei healed Ye Wudi after his first tribulation, allowing him to face his own heavenly tribulation and rapidly advance through the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. The people of North-Subduing City watched in shock as the city revealed two extraordinary monsters.

• After Ye Wudi survived the lightning tribulation, dark clouds gathered as he neared the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, but he was too exhausted to see or extend his Divine Sense.
• Lin Fei poured emerald vital essence into Ye Wudi, healing his wounds and restoring his strength.
• Ye Wudi faced the Solar Physique’s heavenly tribulation and successfully reached early Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lin Fei reflected that the stable rules of the Primordial Wilderness prevented him from exploiting Ye Wudi’s tribulation to gain more resources.
• Ye Wudi immediately charged through mid and late Tribulation Transcendence after absorbing spiritual energy from ten high-grade Primordial Wilderness Spirit Stones, astonishing the onlookers.

Ye Wudi used the Heavenly Demon Transformation to break through to early Mahayana in North-Subduing City, while Ji Yaoguang began an immortal ascension tribulation nearby. The city’s people recognized its extraordinary potential, though Yin Chenglin worried that ordinary humans had too little time to grow stronger.

• Ye Wudi unfurled demonic wings with the Heavenly Demon Transformation, astonishing the crowd by gaining combat strength that crossed a major realm.
• Ye Wudi absorbed ten High-Grade Spirit Stones, broke free of the chains formed from his Dao principles, and reached early Mahayana.
• The fox-race maid and an elderly human reacted to Ye Wudi’s breakthrough, and Lin Fei pointed Yin Chenglin toward Ji Yaoguang beyond the city.
• Thunder announced Ji Yaoguang’s immortal ascension tribulation, leaving North-Subduing City’s gathered people stunned.
• The crowd considered the city’s potential under Lin Fei, Ye Wudi, and Ji Yaoguang, while Yin Chenglin lamented that humans had little time to cultivate.

Lin Fei learned that Ye Wudi had hidden the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Primordial Wilderness East China Sea rather than the Four Forbidden Lands. They planned to secure North-Subduing City before traveling east to retrieve it, though Ye Wudi hinted Lin Fei would have to endure another indignity.

• Ye Wudi said he could reach late Mahayana in three days, and Lin Fei teased him about being conservative.
• Ye Wudi asked how his progress compared with Lin Yuan, but Lin Fei told him he was better off not knowing.
• Lin Fei visited Ye Wudi privately and asked where he had hidden the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Ye Wudi revealed that he had sunk the Thirty-Three Heavens into the Primordial Wilderness East China Sea, near the legendary Other Shore Heavenly Capital.
• Lin Fei said the journey from the far north would be too much for a Human Immortal, and Ye Wudi replied that a Heavenly Demon Body could withstand it.
• Ye Wudi proposed securing North-Subduing City, then using a spatial formation to travel to the East China Sea, teasing that Lin Fei would have to endure some indignity.

Lin Fei and Ye Wudi planned how to escape North-Subduing City, including having Lin Fei pose as a Heavenly Demon expert to use a teleportation array. Lin Fei also forced Ye Wudi to honor his teasing by wearing women’s clothes, so Ye Wudi went to Youyue to ask to borrow hers.

• Ye Wudi teased Lin Fei about disguising himself as a Devil Race woman, and Lin Fei warned him to stop before ordering him to try it himself.
• Ye Wudi explained that they needed Lin Fei to pose as a Heavenly Demon expert to use a teleportation array and that Tian Yunheng had to die to secure North-Subduing City.
• Lin Fei reviewed Ye Wudi’s detailed escape plans, and Ye Wudi said he hoped to join him once the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array was repaired.
• Lin Fei insisted that Ye Wudi put on women’s clothes, and Ye Wudi fled to Youyue’s residence.
• Youyue mistook Ye Wudi’s hesitation for a marriage discussion, but he asked to borrow her clothes for a day.

Youyue dressed Ye Wudi in women’s clothing after he lost a bet with Lin Fei, then helped him do his hair and makeup. Ye Wudi returned to oversee repairs to the Human Emperor Sun and Moon Formation, where the crew recognized him only after he revealed his demonic flames; Ji Yaoguang later laughed when she saw him.

• Ye Wudi told Youyue how he had lost a bet with Lin Fei, and she led him to her boudoir to choose women’s clothes.
• Youyue persuaded Ye Wudi to let her style his hair and apply makeup, leaving him mortified by his appearance.
• Ye Wudi returned to the formation maintenance area in a dress, where workers mistook him for a young woman and teased him.
• Ye Wudi revealed his Heavenly Demon Raging Flame Dance and explained that the outfit was his punishment for losing a bet with the Heavenly Venerable.
• Ji Yaoguang laughed when she saw Ye Wudi and wondered whether cross-dressing was a traditional specialty of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.

Tian Yunshu revealed that her research into Everyone Like a Dragon could turn human subjects into disposable weapons capable of killing immortals, and she negotiated with Tian Yunheng for Wilderness People. Their discussion left open the danger that other powerful races might obtain the rest of the cultivation art and use it to arm their slave legions.

• Tian Yunshu told Tian Yunheng that Everyone Like a Dragon was especially suited to humans and could make a mortal deliver a fatal strike at the cost of their life.
• Tian Yunheng and Tian Yunshu bargained over exchanging Wilderness People for humans and settled on five hundred humans for each Wilderness Person.
• Tian Yunshu asked Tian Yunheng to bring her a hundred Wilderness People from the Mist Forest.
• Tian Yunheng asked whether someone with the other part of the incomplete scroll could deduce the full art, and Tian Yunshu admitted that other top races might manage it.
• Tian Yunheng left to fetch the Wilderness People while he and Tian Yunshu considered the threat posed by armed slave legions.

Tian Yunheng returned to Cloud Crossing Mansion and found his small world ransacked and destroyed, with a taunting message directing him to North-Subduing City. Enraged and fearing for his children, he collapsed the small world and unleashed his fury toward the city, where Lin Fei possessed the Heavenly Demon Body.

• Tian Yunheng traveled toward his small world, reflecting on his speed and planning to see his son and prepare pills for his daughter.
• Tian Yunheng found the entrance breached, the small world devastated, and his treasures and spirit soil taken.
• Tian Yunheng read a message challenging him to come to North-Subduing City, then destroyed the boulder and collapsed the small world in rage.
• Lin Fei sensed Tian Yunheng's approach and sent his primordial spirit to possess the Heavenly Demon Body.
• Tian Yunheng appeared as a vast heavenly serpent and roared toward North-Subduing City, unleashing storms and destructive sound waves across the landscape.

Lin Fei stopped Tian Yunheng’s attack on North-Subduing City and gravely wounded him with the force he had swallowed and released. Just as Lin Fei moved to finish him, a silver-haired, silver-eyed young man appeared from Tian Yunheng’s consciousness, accompanied by an immortal dao paean.

• Tian Yunheng’s roar threatened to kill everyone in North-Subduing City, but Lin Fei drew in the destructive sound waves and swallowed them.
• Lin Fei spat the force back at Tian Yunheng, piercing his protective gang qi and leaving a bloody hole in his body.
• Lin Fei struck Tian Yunheng with a palm, breaking apart his transformed Heavenly Dragon body and destroying half of it.
• Tian Yunheng regretted his arrogance as Lin Fei prepared to strike again.
• A silver-haired, silver-eyed young man’s primordial spirit imprint emerged from Tian Yunheng, and an immortal dao paean sounded across the battlefield.

Tian Yichen’s primordial spirit appeared, killed Tian Yunheng, and explained to Lin Fei and Ye Wudi why he had opposed the Heavenly Serpent Ancestor. The chapter left Tian Yichen’s past revealed, while Lin Fei still demanded an explanation for the Heavenly Serpent Race’s crimes against humans.

• Tian Yichen appeared from the restored Mist Forest and recognized Lin Fei, while Tian Yunheng urged him to kill Lin Fei and possess his body.
• Tian Yichen apologized to Tian Yunheng for what he was about to do, then struck him dead to prevent him from revealing the Heavenly Venerable’s whereabouts.
• Lin Fei demanded an explanation for the Heavenly Serpent Race’s slaughter of humans and Tian Yunheng’s experiments on them.
• Tian Yichen privately told Lin Fei and Ye Wudi that he had opposed the Heavenly Serpent Ancestor over the treatment of humans after the Heavenly Court fell.
• Tian Yichen recounted how the Ancestor tortured Ye Bailing for information, prompting Tian Yichen to fight his elder brother and be sealed beneath Heavenly Serpent Mountain for three thousand years.

Lin Fei accepted Tian Yichen’s sealed primordial spirit and learned from Tian Yunheng’s remains that Tian Yunshu was at the White Cloud Mountain Range. He arrived there with Tian Yichen and the Heavenly Demon Body, where Tian Yichen identified him as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

• Lin Fei vowed to storm Heavenly Serpent Mountain, and Tian Yichen sealed a strand of his primordial spirit in a talisman for Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei condemned the Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents and the myriad races for their crimes against humans, then sent everyone away.
• Lin Fei examined Tian Yunheng’s corpse, confirmed its consciousness restriction was gone, and used Soul Search to learn of Tian Yunshu and the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• At midnight, Tian Yunshu wondered why Tian Yunheng had not returned, then saw Tian Yichen arrive beside a silver-lit woman as Heavenly Serpent cultivators knelt.
• Lin Fei looked toward Yunshu Peak, and Tian Yichen announced that he was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, shocking the Heavenly Serpent Race.

Lin Fei and Tian Yichen dealt with the Heavenly Serpent Race cultivators at White Cloud Mountain Range, then discussed how the race should answer for its persecution of humans. Lin Fei left Tian Yichen with a firm demand to kill the guilty and spare the innocent.

• Tian Yichen sealed the Heavenly Serpent Race cultivators’ escape routes and annihilated their primordial spirits to prevent them from informing the Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents.
• Lin Fei warned Tian Yichen that using his fading primordial spirit would permanently consume its power, and Tian Yichen said he had acted to save the mountain range.
• Lin Fei and Tian Yichen gathered the Heavenly Serpent corpses while discussing the race’s cruelty toward humans and Tian Yichen’s doubts about how to correct it.
• Tian Yichen asked what fate Lin Fei intended for the Heavenly Serpent Race, and Lin Fei said the guilty should be killed while the innocent were spared.

Lin Fei accepted Tian Yichen’s answer about the Heavenly Serpent Race and helped North-Subduing City develop its resources before refining the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill. The pill took dragon form and tried to flee, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Lin Fei told Tian Yichen that members of the Heavenly Serpent Race who had harmed humans should face retribution, while innocent members could be spared, and Tian Yichen accepted his answer.
• Lin Fei and Tian Yichen plundered White Cloud Mountain Range, and North-Subduing City put the Heavenly Snake’s remains to use while Lin Fei raised the miners’ share of extracted spirit stones to one-fifth.
• Lin Fei used resources to remove Youyue’s Seven Orifices Soul-Bewitching Pill influence and gathered the ingredients for the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill.
• Lin Fei pulled up the flowering Dragon Blood Vine before it could bear fruit and began refining the pill in the City Lord’s Residence.
• A dragon-shaped phantom and medicinal fragrance caused a stir in North-Subduing City as Lin Fei’s blood-red pill formed into a dragon and shot toward the sky.