Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi, Ling Li, and Ye Chen reached the 829 Border Line, where Commander Zhao Shuo tried to stop them from acting alone. They revealed their ability to fly and headed for the border to demonstrate their strength against the Demon Persons.

• Ling Yi, Ye Chen, and Ling Li discussed the fading of technology and played Fight the Landlord for True Yuan and Demonic Yuan on the train south.
• The three arrived at Camp 0211 and reported to Commander Zhao Shuo, who refused to let them go to the border without following his orders.
• Ling Yi thanked Zhao Shuo but led the group away, then flew off with black wings as Ye Chen rode a flying sword and Ling Li took flight too.
• Zhao Shuo watched them go and wondered how demonic cultivators could fly and whether soldiers might gain the same ability.
• At the 829 Border Line, Ye Chen worried they were drawing too much attention, but Ling Yi said they would demonstrate their strength, and Ling Li agreed they should scare their challengers.

Ling Yi crossed into Elephant Country and used the Demon Spirit Art to turn Demon People into increasingly powerful Demon Spirits, then ordered them to clear Blue Star of Demon People. He told his skeptical uncle that Elephant Country’s territory could be taken over in three days, leaving Bureau 503 officials arguing over whether to believe him.

• Ling Yi, Ye Chen, and Ling Li entered Elephant Country, split up, and began hunting Demon People using their different abilities.
• Ling Yi drained Demon People of their Demonic Yuan, transformed them into Demon Spirits, and realized they could serve as more efficient chargers and fighters.
• Ling Yi fused Demon Spirits into stronger ranks and sent groups of Demon Aperture Realm Demon Spirits to clear Blue Star of Demon People, forbidding them from harming humans, especially people from the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi called his second uncle and said people could take over Elephant Country’s territory in three days.
• At Bureau 503, officials doubted Ling Yi’s claim, but Ling Feng defended him and offered to accept responsibility if it proved false.

Ling Feng sought control of Bureau 503, using Ling Yi’s claim that he could defeat Elephant Country’s Demon People to justify his bid. In Elephant Country, Ling Yi investigated the underground source of Demonic Qi and flew toward the moon to test whether it existed beyond Blue Star.

• Ling Feng told Bureau 503’s leaders that Ling Yi could deal with Elephant Country’s billion Demon People within three days, then arranged to seek the headquarters director position.
• Ling Feng called an official and won support for his bid by repeating Ling Yi’s claim that he could save the world alone.
• Ling Yi, Ye Chen, and Ling Li observed Demonic Qi emerging from underground as Demon Spirits replenished their strength, and they discussed whether the phenomenon was tied to Demon People.
• Ye Chen proposed using his converter at Demonic Qi’s source to make Spiritual Qi revive alongside it, while Ling Yi decided to verify whether the moon also had Demonic Qi.
• Ling Yi flew into space and saw that areas beyond Ancient Country appeared gray before opening his data panel.

Ling Yi discovered that Demonic Qi filled space and investigated the damaged Amai Chou space station, where he found three demonized family members. After checking that Ancient Country’s station and its crew were safe, he flew to the moon, while photos of him in space reached Ling Feng and revealed that Ling Yi had acted to support him.

• Ling Yi absorbed a vast cloud of Demonic Qi in space and realized that countless such clouds were falling toward Blue Star.
• Ling Yi found Amai Chou’s damaged space station and encountered three Demon Infant Realm Demon People fighting inside it.
• Ling Yi subdued the three Demon People, ordered them to return to Amai Chou and eliminate his Demon People, then left them to recover.
• Ling Yi checked Ancient Country’s intact space station, confirmed its six occupants were safe, and flew toward the moon.
• Ling Yi landed near an Ancient Country lunar rover, whose camera captured him, and Ling Feng received photos and video of Ling Yi flying through space.
• Ling Feng told his worried wife that Ling Yi had deliberately revealed his strength to support him, just as his former superior called.

Ling Feng accepted the post of director of Bureau 503 Headquarters and prepared to return to the Dragon Capital to settle an old score, while Ling Yi supplied him with Demon Spirits for protection. As school began, Ling Yi and Ling Li returned to class and learned their school had been selected to pilot mandatory Magic Cultivation lessons.

• Ling Feng agreed to take over Bureau 503 Headquarters in three days and told Guan Xiaoshuang he intended to confront the people who had framed him.
• Xiao Li returned to Dafeng City at the Demon Infant Realm, Ye Chen at the Nascent Soul Realm, and Ye Chen gave Xiao Li his ancestor’s small flying sword.
• Ling Yi returned with ten Demonic Void Realm Demon Spirits and assigned six to protect Ling Feng, two to protect Guan Xiaoshuang, and two to protect Xiao Li.
• Ling Yi told Ling Feng that the moon had become a demonic sphere and urged him to use his new authority forcefully in the Dragon Capital.
• Ling Yi and Ling Li went back to school, where Ye Chen told Ling Yi that Dafeng City No. 1 Middle School was among twenty-two schools selected to pilot Magic Cultivation classes.

Hu Ge introduced four transfer students and announced compulsory magic cultivation classes that would count for sixty percent of the college entrance exam, while explaining that a powerful instructor would replace him as homeroom teacher. After class, Yan Ya told Ling Yi that she and the other three had come for him.

• Ling Yi reflected on the students who had died during the Demonic Qi resurgence and on how the Nine Strengthenings Technique and Demon Devouring Art had helped the Ancient Country survive.
• Hu Ge brought Lin Yu, Zhao Yunhou, Li Guang, and Yan Ya into class, and they took seats near Ling Yi and Ye Chen.
• Hu Ge announced that magic cultivation classes would be compulsory and worth sixty percent of the college entrance exam, and that a magic cultivation instructor would become the class's new homeroom teacher.
• Hu Ge explained that the change would help students grow stronger and defend the Ancient Country against Demon Persons abroad, then taught the basics of magic cultivation.
• After Hu Ge left, Yan Ya introduced herself to Ling Yi, who ignored her offered hand, and she revealed that all four transfer students had come for him.

Ling Yi learned that Lin Yu’s arrogant challenge was a calculated act, while the Dragon Capital scions around him were being used as pawns in a political probe. After agreeing to fight Lin Yu, Ling Yi sent Android 15 to stir up trouble at the Northern Frontier and questioned the Ancient Country’s decision to make Magic Cultivation classes compulsory as demonic threats continued to grow.

• Yan Ya explained that the powerful Lin Clan had sent Lin Yu as cannon fodder, while Zhao Yunhou and Li Guang had been sent to curry favor with Ling Yi.
• Zhao Yunhou revealed Yan Ya’s nickname, Poison Lady, and joked that Dragon Capital’s clans envied Ye Chen for being Ling Yi’s lackey; Ling Yi said Ye Chen did not qualify.
• Lin Yu challenged Ling Yi to a match during the new homeroom teacher’s assessment, and Ling Yi accepted after realizing Lin Yu expected to lose and was acting arrogant as part of a larger scheme.
• Ling Yi recognized that the scions’ presence was a political probe aimed at him and his second uncle, Ling Feng, and kept his distance as Ye Chen befriended Zhao Yunhou and Li Guang.
• After dinner, Ling Yi ordered Android 15 to drive several million Demon Persons from Northern Bear toward the Northern Frontier to keep powerful people occupied.
• Ling Yi watched videos about compulsory Magic Cultivation classes and worried that intelligent Devils could direct Demon Persons toward the Ancient Country, which had many vulnerable borders.

Ling Yi’s class met its new homeroom teacher, Zheng Tianyang, who announced harsh wartime rules and led the students to a cultivation ground. Zheng appointed Ling Yi to help teach and ordered him to pair the students for fights so he could rank their strength.

• Ye Chen, Zhao Yunhou, and Ling Yi discussed Ancient Martial Arts, Demonic Yuan, and the possible history of immortal cultivation.
• Zheng Tianyang introduced himself and warned the class that disobedience could lead to expulsion and that students might die during training.
• Jia San refused to take Magic Cultivation classes and left the classroom, while the other students followed Zheng Tianyang to the school’s cultivation ground.
• Zheng Tianyang recognized Ling Yi as the world’s strongest person and privately resented him for withholding his complete Magic Cultivation methods and spells.
• Zheng Tianyang appointed Ling Yi to assist with teaching and ordered him to pair the students for fights and rank their strength.

Yan Ya defeated Zhao Yunhou in a Demonic Yuan-powered match, and Ling Yi faced Lin Yu in the final bout. Ling Yi left Lin Yu badly wounded but alive, then walked out of the gym as Zheng Tianyang reacted to the apparent brutality.

• Zheng Tianyang ordered Ye Chen and Li Guang to run fifty laps after their feigned match.
• Yan Ya and Zhao Yunhou powered up and clashed with their Demonic Yuan techniques, and Yan Ya won.
• Ling Yi and Lin Yu agreed that Ling Yi would injure Lin Yu badly enough to give him a reason to leave school.
• Lin Yu revealed exceptional light-body Ancient Martial Arts, surprising Yan Ya and Li Guang.
• Lin Yu attacked with Mountain Splitting Palm, but Ling Yi's small black sword pierced him while avoiding his vital points.
• Zheng Tianyang rebuked Ling Yi, then examined Lin Yu's injuries as Ling Yi walked out of the gym.

Ling Yi dismissed the campaign against his Demon Devouring Art and told Ling Feng that the world’s rules had changed. After Lin Yu revealed the Lin Clan’s plots and its underground stockpile of thirty thousand Demon People, Ling Yi decided to investigate a demonized monkey before acting against the clan.

• Ling Yi told his second uncle, Ling Feng, to adapt to the changing rules and promised to set an example.
• An elderly man criticized Ling Feng for clinging to rules and advised him to wait and see what Ling Yi did.
• Ling Yi visited Lin Yu, who urged him to destroy the Lin Clan and accused it of attacking Ling Feng, seeking power, and raising Demon People.
• Lin Yu revealed that the Lin Clan had abducted ordinary people and turned about thirty thousand of them into Demon People at its main residence.
• Ling Yi chose to visit the demonized monkey and turn it into a Demon Spirit, then received sixty returning Demon Spirits and gained 2.4 million Energy Points.

Ling Yi upgraded the Infinite Passive Charging System to version 11.0, unlocked remote charging and the Clan Collar, and used a collar to control a partially demonized rat. He also obtained Message Transmission Jade Plaques and the Sound Transmission Technique, then tested remote charging and contacted Demon Spirit No. 72.

• Ling Yi spent Energy Points upgrading the system through version 11.0, unlocking remote charging and the Clan Collar.
• Ling Yi discovered that Clan Collar costs depended on a species’ potential, then spent three million Energy Points to collar a partially demonized rat and ordered it to protect humans while attacking Magical Beasts.
• Ling Yi used a category-specific special-grade draw to obtain 100 Message Transmission Jade Plaques, then drew the Sound Transmission Technique as a skill.
• Ling Yi sent Demon Spirit No. 72 a message ordering him to bring the demonized monkey on Kunshan to Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi activated remote charging and received 25 million Energy Points.

Ling Yi recruited a demonized monkey as his first Magical Beast and discovered that the sun was being demonized, which could threaten humanity within a year. When he returned to Ruyi Residential Complex, Bureau 503 officers were trying to take him away, and he used an invisible force to throw them out through the window.

• Ling Yi spent 10 million Energy Points to collar the demonized monkey, taught it the Sound Transmission Technique and seven demonic arts, and ordered it to gather monkeys without harming anyone from the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi flew into space and saw that Demonic Qi clouds were gathering around the sun and forming black patches on its surface.
• Ling Yi realized the sun might be completely demonized within six months to a year and feared that something terrifying would happen.
• After returning to Ruyi Residential Complex, Ling Yi found Lin Hai and other Bureau 503 officers pressuring Guan Xiaoshuang to let them take him in for questioning.
• When Lin Hai ordered the officers to seize Guan Xiaoshuang, Ling Yi used an invisible force to drag them out through the window.

Ling Yi annihilated the Lin Clan, warned humanity that the sun and all life were undergoing demonization, and helped usher in universal Magic Cultivation. As Blue Star darkened and preparations accelerated, rising food prices showed that the crisis was already affecting everyday life.

• Ling Yi sealed Lin Hai and the others’ Demonic Yuan, punished Lin Hai, and threatened to annihilate the Lin Clan if his relatives were harmed.
• Ling Yi destroyed the Lin Clan compound with a vast demonic palm and publicly warned that Demon People, other life, and the sun were undergoing demonization.
• Ling Yi told his second aunt that the sun’s demonization was real and that the source of the Demonic Qi revival was not on Blue Star.
• Ling Yi’s second uncle used a Demonic Void Realm Demon Spirit to silence dissent as officials debated how to respond to the crisis.
• The Ancient Country made the complete Demon Devouring Art public, built city defenses, and sent people to fight Demon People while Ling Yi used Clan Collars on creature populations.
• Ling Yi observed that gaps in the Demonic Qi clouds had slowed the sun’s demonization, while Blue Star’s moon and stars vanished from view and the space station was evacuated; his second aunt later complained that rice prices had soared.

Ling Yi learned that demonized farm animals were attacking people and prepared to investigate the threat, while a new system draw gave him an Anywhere Door capable of long-distance spatial travel. He caught Ling Li trying to sneak out to Baihai City and gave her Voice Transmission Jade Talismans for her trip with Ye Chen.

• Ling Li showed Ling Yi a video of demonized ducks attacking people in Baihai City, and he realized that farm-raised animals across the world might also be demonizing.
• Ling Li asked to go to Baihai City, but his second aunt refused, so Ling Yi silently let her plan to sneak out proceed.
• Ling Yi gained twenty-five million Energy Points through remote charging, then spent ten million on a special-category draw and obtained an Anywhere Door.
• Ling Yi tested the door’s reach and found he could travel to the Moon and Mars, but lacked enough Energy Points to reach the source of the Demonic Qi revival.
• Ling Yi stopped Ling Li as she was climbing out her window and gave her Voice Transmission Jade Talismans, expecting her to take Ye Chen to Baihai City.

Ling Li and Ye Chen arrived in Baihai City to find it devastated, then discovered a blood-red egg and were badly injured when it burst. A figure calling himself the Demon Venerable seized Ye Chen, and Ling Li summoned Ling Yi for help.

• Ye Chen and Ling Li flew to Baihai City, discussing Ye Chen’s Immortal-Ending Art and warning each other about the imperial capital’s three clans.
• They found Baihai City dark and filled with human and demonized-duck corpses, and concluded a powerful being had wiped out the city.
• Ling Li sensed Demonic Yuan near a park, where they found a blood-red egg that frightened and suppressed her.
• Ye Chen attacked the egg, but the Bloodthirst Sword was shattered, and the egg exploded, blasting both cultivators hundreds of meters away.
• A beautiful man emerged, called himself the Demon Venerable, and seized Ye Chen, sealing his True Yuan.
• Ling Li activated the voice transmission jade token and cried out to Ling Yi to save them.

Ling Yi rescued Ling Li and Ye Chen, then confronted the Bloody Demon Venerable, who revealed the Demon Realm’s history and attacked him. Ling Yi drained the demon’s Demon Spirit Power until he fell from the sky, leaving the Bloody Demon Venerable demanding to know how Ling Yi had done it.

• Ling Yi severed the Bloody Demon Venerable’s hand, sent Ling Li and Ye Chen through the Anywhere Door, and watched the demon regenerate.
• The Bloody Demon Venerable introduced himself and described the twelve Demon Venerables and the Immortal Realm’s invasion of the Demon Realm.
• The Bloody Demon Venerable attacked Ling Yi with a devastating blast, but Ling Yi avoided it and began absorbing his Demon Spirit Power.
• The Bloody Demon Venerable enclosed them in a barrier and unleashed an area attack, while Ling Yi’s system drained his energy and replenished Ling Yi’s energy points.
• The Bloody Demon Venerable collapsed from the sky, then stood up and asked Ling Yi how he had defeated him.

Ling Yi turned Bloody Demon Venerable into his Demon Spirit and brought him to explain the ancient war between the Immortal and Demon Realms. The revelation that Ye Chen might be the last bearer of immortal cultivation left him in danger as Bloody Demon Venerable eyed him as a meal.

• Ling Yi used the Demon Spirit Art to convert Bloody Demon Venerable into his subordinate, then brought him to his second uncle’s home, where Ye Chen and Ling Li reacted with alarm.
• Bloody Demon Venerable explained that the Immortal Realm had invaded to seize a Chaos Innate Supreme Treasure, and that Pluto was the source of the Demon Realm’s Demonic Qi.
• He recounted how the twelve Demon Venerables fought the invaders and enacted the Oblivion Plan, sacrificing themselves to detonate the Land of Chaos and prevent the Demon-Sealing Grand Formation from being completed.
• Bloody Demon Venerable said the explosion merged the Immortal and Demon Realms, while the incomplete seal on Pluto allowed Demonic Qi to revive after Spiritual Qi’s source disappeared.
• He concluded that immortal cultivators would vanish with the Immortal Realm and stared at Ye Chen, intending to eat him and end the immortal cultivation inheritance.

Ling Yi learned where the other Demon Venerables might be and sent Bloody Demon Venerable to help humanity develop demonic cultivation. After searching the Solar System for the remaining Demon Venerables, Ling Yi arrived on Pluto and sensed exceptionally dense demonic Qi.

• Bloody Demon Venerable told Ling Yi that several Demon Venerables might be on Mars, Neptune, or Blue Star, and explained that demonizing the sun would begin the Solar System’s demonic Qi revival.
• Ling Yi took Bloody Demon Venerable near the sun, where Bloody Demon Venerable sensed nothing unusual despite Ling Yi detecting a powerful presence inside it.
• Ling Yi sent Bloody Demon Venerable to the imperial capital to assist his second uncle, then the authorities expanded demonic cultivation and established a Forging Department with his help.
• Ling Li and Ye Chen went to the border to hunt Demon People and strengthen themselves, while Ling Yi searched the Solar System for the other Demon Venerables without finding any.
• Ling Yi arrived on Pluto and sensed dense demonic Qi among its crimson crystal fields.

Ye Chen and Ling Li helped defend Dafeng City from a swarm of demonized mayflies, while Ling Yi’s collared demonic rats and other magical beasts fought alongside humanity. Ye Chen reflected on how Ling Yi’s actions had carried humanity through three trials of the Demonic Qi revival, with a fourth—the Devil Clan’s emergence—still ahead.

• Ling Li scolded Ye Chen for unleashing the Bloodthirst Sword without warning, and he showed how its scattered fragments could attack and reassemble.
• Ye Chen spoke with a collared demonic rat, who explained that Ling Yi’s Clan Collars had made his clan loyal allies of humanity.
• The demonic rat clan coordinated its ranged attacks and reinforced weak points in Dafeng City’s defenses, helping defeat the mayfly swarm.
• The demonic rat told Ye Chen that its clan’s purpose was to help humanity, even offering its bodies and souls for that cause.
• Ye Chen considered how Ling Yi’s techniques and collared magical beasts had helped humanity survive the Demonic Qi revival, the Demon Person invasion, and the awakening of magical beasts.
• Ye Chen identified the coming transformation of Demon People into the Devil Clan as humanity’s fourth trial and praised Ling Yi’s strength.

Ling Yi discovered that Pluto was the source of the universe’s Demonic Qi and used the system’s new modules to control how quickly it drained and replenished. He left Demon Spirits to watch Pluto’s dangerous cavern, then returned home still wondering what he had overlooked.

• Ling Yi found Pluto’s valley of solidified Demonic Yuan and used its dense Demonic Qi to upgrade the system to version 22.0, gaining Area Lock and Ignore Space.
• Ling Yi locked Pluto as his charging area and drained all its Demonic Qi, then slowed the system so Pluto could replenish it and the resurgence would last longer.
• Ling Yi reached Pluto’s north pole and found a cavern pouring out Demonic Qi; suspecting it might lead to the God Realm, he left rather than enter without more Energy Points.
• Ling Yi sent a thousand Demon Spirits to cultivate near the cavern and monitor it before returning home, where he realized he might have overlooked something important.