Chapter Summaries

Mu Qingqing led the group east after finding a secret signal, determined to rescue survivors and recover their intelligence. They found the survivors under attack by powerful Extraterrestrial Evil Race forces, and Mu Qingqing began activating a World-Purifying Great Array while Mu Fusheng was tasked with holding the enemy off.

• Mu Qingqing chose to search for survivors instead of retreating, earning the group’s respect.
• A deputy general found a sword carved into a tree, and Mu Qingqing recognized it as a signal pointing east.
• Following clues east, Mu Qingqing’s group found a survivor being killed by a powerful Extraterrestrial Evil Race member while three Spirit Division Realm experts fought nearby.
• The silver-armored commander threw Mu Qingqing a spear carrying a scroll of intelligence, as enemy forces surrounded the group.
• Mu Qingqing began activating a World-Purifying Great Array with help from two Spirit Division Realm experts and told Mu Fusheng to hold the enemy off for one incense stick.

Mu Fusheng agreed to help Mu Qingqing and devised a defensive strategy against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s stronger force. He drew the commanding evil general away from the others, using lifesaving jade pendants to survive its attacks, and left the enemy chasing him into his trap.

• The ten evil generals charged at Mu Qingqing, and Mu Fusheng ordered his allies to defend while guarding against other attacks.
• Mu Fusheng asked Ye Qiubai and the others to hold off one evil general, then volunteered to face the commander himself.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng unleashed their powers and attacked another evil general.
• The commander fired dark rays at Mu Fusheng, who blocked them with barriers and single-use jade pendants.
• Mu Fusheng fled, and the commander pursued him as Mu Fusheng smiled, saying the enemy had taken the bait.

Mu Fusheng used Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans to lure a Spirit Division Realm evil general through Boundary Mountain while avoiding his attacks. When the evil general finally cornered him, Mu Fusheng revealed layers of barriers and talisman protections, leaving his pursuer dumbfounded.

• Mu Fusheng baited the evil general into pursuing him by pretending he had run out of defensive jade pendants.
• Mu Fusheng used a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman to flee five hundred li and keep the evil general chasing him through Boundary Mountain.
• The evil general unleashed a black astral gale, but Mu Fusheng escaped a hundred li using lightning rather than spatial power, evading the attack and the evil general's detection.
• Frustrated by his repeated failures to hit Mu Fusheng, the evil general charged after him and lashed out with his massive tail.
• Mu Fusheng stopped and revealed layers of barriers and talisman protections, leaving the evil general dumbfounded.

Mu Fusheng used layered talisman seals to withstand an evil general’s attack, then escaped with a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman as the general broke through his defenses. The evil general was left furious, with Mu Fusheng safely mocking him from a distance.

• Mu Fusheng explained that he preferred staying alive and covered himself in thick layers of defensive talisman seals.
• The evil general struck Mu Fusheng’s shield, shattering four layers before the remaining three dispersed the force and stopped his attack.
• Mu Fusheng’s layered defenses and tactics made the evil general grow enraged after failing to defeat him.
• The evil general smashed at the final three layers with a stronger attack while Mu Fusheng prepared another talisman.
• Mu Fusheng crushed a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman and reappeared a hundred meters away as the evil general broke through the empty shield.

Lu Changsheng praised his new disciple’s caution and skill at concealing his strength while visiting Hong Ying in the Heavenly Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, Mu Fusheng revealed his hidden early-stage Spirit Division Realm cultivation to keep an evil general occupied, then sprang a lightning talisman on him.

• Lu Changsheng criticized Hong Ying’s fish soup, and she promised to practice cooking every day.
• Lu Changsheng told Hong Ying that his new disciple understood cultivation, concealed his strength, and had not revealed his true realm even to him.
• Hong Ying said she wanted to meet her new junior brother after settling matters in the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
• At Boundary Mountain, Mu Fusheng admitted he had been stalling the evil general and revealed his early-stage Spirit Division Realm cultivation.
• Mu Fusheng turned his punch into a palm strike and revealed a lightning talisman as the evil general attacked.

Mu Fusheng used an offensive talisman seal to enhance his lightning with purifying power and held the evil general in a head-on clash. When a world-cleansing light rose in the distance, Mu Fusheng realized the other battle was finally decided and continued stalling the evil general so he could not interfere.

• Mu Fusheng revealed an offensive talisman seal that strengthened his Nine-Nine Primordial Heavenly Lightning with purifying power.
• The evil general unleashed his Evil Power, and his black gales collided with Mu Fusheng’s lightning dragons.
• Mu Fusheng matched the stronger evil general in their direct clash, aided by his purifying lightning’s advantage against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• The evil general grew increasingly anxious that the battle elsewhere might affect his plans, but Mu Fusheng kept him from breaking away.
• A world-cleansing light dispersed the distant black mist, and Mu Fusheng used a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman to close in and keep stalling the evil general.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng unleashed their trump cards against an evil general while Mu Qingqing completed the World-Purifying Great Array. With the array weakening the enemy, their combined attacks threatened to split Boundary Mountain.

• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng held off the evil general, astonishing the surrounding experts with their power beyond their realms.
• Mu Qingqing activated the World-Purifying Great Array, dispersing the black mist and dissolving evil soldiers while weakening the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• Ye Qiubai took restorative pills and prepared to draw the Azure Cloud Sword as Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng gathered their strongest powers.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed the power of Sword Dao Rules, Xiao Hei summoned the Demon God with the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd, and Shi Sheng gathered the power of the Star Core.
• The three attacked the weakened evil general together, shaking Boundary Mountain and drawing the attention of nearby cities and supreme experts.

The Starfall Sword Sect and the Boundless Dynasty prepared for war as news of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s attack spread. After Ye Qiubai and the others helped repel the enemy at Boundary Mountain, the silver-armored commander revealed that the Evil Race planned to seal off Boundary Mountain and head to the Demon Abyss.

• Jian Wufeng sensed Sword Dao power from Boundary Mountain and ordered the Starfall Sword Sect to prepare for war.
• Mu Zhengting recognized the power of Rules in the eastern sky and ordered the Boundless Dynasty to prepare for war.
• After the World-Purifying Great Array weakened the Evil Race and their forces suffered heavy losses, the evil general ordered a retreat.
• Mu Qingqing declined to pursue the retreating enemies, organized the survivors, and led them back to Dragonrise City.
• Mu Fusheng urged Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei to keep backup trump cards and conceal the details of their attacks.
• At the council hall, the silver-armored commander reported that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race intended to seal off Boundary Mountain and head to the Demon Abyss.

The Boundless Dynasty and the major forces prepared an expedition to the Demon Abyss to stop the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, while Xiao Hei planned to search there for clues to his past. The assembled force stood ready to cross Boundary Mountain and head for the Demon Abyss.

• Mu Qingqing and the commanders concluded that the forces had to stop the Extraterrestrial Evil Race's operation in the Demon Abyss, and Mu Qingqing reported the matter to Mu Zhengting.
• Mu Zhengting convened the major forces, which agreed to send powerful cultivators and their prodigies to the Demon Abyss.
• Xiao Hei decided to go to the Demon Abyss to seek a second memory fragment and other clues, and Mu Fusheng agreed to help him.
• The Boundless Dynasty, sects, clans, and rogue cultivators sent prodigies to Dragonrise City, where the expedition gathered.
• Mu Qingqing divided the force into teams, while Mu Fusheng gave Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei storage rings filled with talismans.
• The force prepared to cross Boundary Mountain and head for the Demon Abyss.

Ye Qiubai and the others crossed Boundary Mountain and found the blackened plain surrounding the disabled World-Purifying Array. When he approached the Starfall Sword Emperor’s sword sculpture, its Sword Intent helped him break through to Sword Saint, and he accepted the Emperor’s trust to carry on his legacy.

• Ye Qiubai and the others passed through a breach in the chasm sealing Boundary Mountain and reached a plain corrupted by Evil Power.
• Ye Qiubai recognized the Starfall Sword Emperor’s sword sculpture, bowed to it, and awakened it with the nine-foot Starfall Sword.
• The gold-armored commander tried to stop Ye Qiubai from approaching, but Jian Wufeng intervened and promised to watch over him.
• Ye Qiubai touched the sculpture and absorbed the Starfall Sword Emperor’s Sword Intent, breaking through to the Sword Saint realm.
• Ye Qiubai bowed again and heard the Starfall Sword Emperor entrust the matter to him; he vowed not to betray that trust.

Xiao Hei and the others entered the Demon Abyss, where his Eternal Devil Body responded to the Devil Qi and seemed to guide him onward. At the gate to the second level, a half-step Spirit Division Devil Beast suddenly surged to the Dao Integration Realm as the teams attacked.

• Mu Qingqing ordered the teams to enter the Demon Abyss, where the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had already gone ahead.
• Xiao Hei reached the first level ahead of the others and offered to lead, revealing that his Eternal Devil Body matched the surrounding Devil Qi.
• Xiao Hei led Mu Fusheng, Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, and the others through a valley, where the gold-armored commander killed ten late-stage Emperor Realm Devil Beasts.
• The teams reached a sealed black gate, which opened to reveal a black-fanged Devil Beast blocking the way to the second level.
• The gold-armored commander and the Spirit Division Realm experts attacked the beast, but it rose from half-step Spirit Division to the Dao Integration Realm.

Xiao Hei discovered that the Demon Abyss's gatekeeper Devil Beasts recognized his unusually pure Devil Race bloodline and let his group pass without fighting. The group reached the gates to the third level, where Xiao Hei spotted a familiar great hall engraved on them.

• After the tusked Devil Beast's strength surged when the group joined forces, Mu Qingqing warned everyone to retreat and face it one at a time.
• Xiao Hei stepped forward and activated his Eternal Devil Body and Demon God Descent, causing the gatekeeper Devil Beast to tremble and kneel before him.
• The Devil Beast told Xiao Hei that his Devil Race presence and bloodline were purer than its master's, who had created the Demon Abyss and seemed to be waiting for someone.
• Xiao Hei asked the Devil Beast to let them pass, and it cleared the way through the black gates; the group entered the second level.
• At the gates to the third level, another Devil Beast let the group through after Xiao Hei spoke to it.
• Xiao Hei noticed a great hall engraved on the third-level gates and thought it looked familiar.

The third-floor gate opened to reveal a black-haired man who recognized Xiao Hei and several others, then knelt before Xiao Hei. The man’s words suggested Xiao Hei’s memories had been sealed, leaving his identity and connection to the guardian unresolved.

• The golden-armored commander felt overwhelmed by the demonic dragon carvings on the gate, while Xiao Hei recognized the hall but suffered intense pain when he tried to remember it.
• The third-floor gate opened, and a black-haired man emerged whose presence made the golden-armored commander feel powerless.
• The man identified himself as guardian of the lower three floors, recognized Xiao Hei, and asked Ye Qiubai about the Azure Cloud Sword, which he called a supreme-grade sacred weapon.
• The man recognized Shi Sheng’s Chaos Stars Record and its connection to a lord, but dismissed Mu Fusheng without praise, leaving him hurt.
• The man said Xiao Hei’s memories seemed sealed and knelt on one knee before him.

Xiao Hei learned that he was the Devil Master, but the black-haired subordinate refused to reveal his sealed memories and urged him to regain his strength. Xiao Hei entered the Demon Abyss trials alone, while the black-haired man prepared to test his companions.

• The black-haired man knelt before Xiao Hei, addressed him as the Devil Master, and sealed the area around them.
• The black-haired man refused to explain Xiao Hei’s sealed memories, warning that learning them too soon could alert the rebels and endanger the young lady’s efforts.
• The black-haired man said the trials beneath the Demon Abyss would awaken Xiao Hei’s strength and insisted he face them alone.
• Xiao Hei named Ye Qiubai and his other senior and junior brothers as his family, and the black-haired man agreed to arrange trials for them.
• The black-haired man sent Xiao Hei through a black vortex to the trial stage, dispelled the barrier, and offered to test the others himself.

Mu Fusheng secretly summoned Lu Changsheng for help while Ye Qiubai and the others faced the black-haired man's trial to enter the middle three floors. The group passed, and Xiao Hei entered a dark hall as the black-haired man anticipated the Devil Master’s return to power.

• Mu Fusheng sent Lu Changsheng a discreet warning that Xiao Hei had been taken by a powerful stranger, and Lu Changsheng tore open space to head to the Boundless Realm.
• Ye Qiubai used his Sword Dao and a wooden sword to attack the black-haired man, who approved his skill and let him pass.
• The black-haired man rejected several challengers, and the remaining group, including Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Mu Fusheng, passed the trial while more than half the entrants failed.
• After the others left, the black-haired man said the Devil Master had returned and vowed that his enemies would die once his strength recovered.
• Xiao Hei entered a pitch-black hall filled with Devil Qi.

Xiao Hei began a painful trial to temper his marrow with Demonic Intent, while Mu Fusheng tried to harness the devil lightning barring his path across a cliff. The chapter ended as Mu Fusheng’s Ninefold Lightning Shield talisman drew in the lightning, with its success still uncertain.

• An illusory figure identical to Xiao Hei summoned a pool of Demonic Intent, and Xiao Hei entered it to begin his first trial.
• The Demonic Intent wrapped Xiao Hei and pierced into his bones, causing him immense pain as it tempered his marrow.
• Mu Fusheng was teleported to a cliff where flight was forbidden, and a voice told him to cross it to reach the next three floors.
• Mu Fusheng decided to collect the powerful devil lightning by inscribing the first layer of his Ninefold Lightning Shield talisman.
• Mu Fusheng finished the talisman’s foundation and cast it beyond the cliff, where the devil lightning surged toward it.

Mu Fusheng used Ninefold Lightning Shield talisman seals to absorb World-Destroying Devil Lightning, until the trial’s overseer redirected the lightning at him. His Heavenly Lightning Dao Body absorbed the attack, and after five days he emerged able to wield World-Destroying Devil Lightning.

• Mu Fusheng inscribed a Ninefold Lightning Shield talisman seal and left it beyond the cliff to draw in devil lightning.
• The talisman seal survived and began absorbing devil lightning, so Mu Fusheng made more seals to stockpile its power.
• The World-Destroying Devil Lightning changed direction and struck Mu Fusheng after his Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman failed and his defensive barrier was shattered.
• Mu Fusheng’s Heavenly Lightning Dao Body absorbed the devil lightning and fed its power into his body.
• After five days, Mu Fusheng emerged with World-Destroying Devil Lightning integrated into his body and demonstrated its power with a palm strike.

After nine days of bone-tempering, Xiao Hei entered a blood-filled pool for his second trial. Ye Qiubai overcame exhaustion and a horde of Devil Beasts by accepting his master's advice, using the Starfall Sword and recovery pills to break through the encirclement and reach the Emperor Realm.

• Xiao Hei emerged from nine days of demonic Qi tempering with bones rebuilt and physical strength comparable to the Emperor Realm, then entered a room containing a pool of viscous blood.
• Ye Qiubai spent nine days fighting Devil Beasts with a wooden sword until exhaustion and dwindling Spiritual Qi left him struggling to escape their encirclement.
• Ye Qiubai's master told him that mastering his own powerful weapons was also training and that his fixation on using a wooden sword had become a weakness.
• Ye Qiubai took out the Nine-Foot Starfall Sword and a recovery pill, then resumed fighting while replenishing his Spiritual Qi with pills.
• After three more days, Ye Qiubai broke through the Devil Beasts' encirclement and reached the other side, advancing to the Emperor Realm.

Xiao Hei completed his final trial in the Demon Abyss by fighting a clone who matched his body and gradually taught him to master stronger Demonic Intent and fist techniques. After the clone warned him to reach the Abyss’s deepest part and grow strong enough to save a woman, Lu Changsheng was discovered by a black-haired man who demanded to know why he was watching the Devil Master.

• Xiao Hei entered the final trial and fought a clone with the same physical strength but superior Demonic Intent and fist techniques.
• As they battled for a day, Xiao Hei assimilated the clone’s Demonic Intent and improved his fist techniques until they matched each other’s strength.
• The clone told Xiao Hei he had passed and warned him to seek an item in the deepest part of the Demon Abyss, since someone in the Devil Domain would then learn of him.
• Xiao Hei entered the middle three floors, and Lu Changsheng decided to leave after concluding Xiao Hei was safe.
• A black-haired man formed from black Qi and confronted Lu Changsheng, asking who he was and why he was monitoring the Devil Master.

Lu Changsheng checked on Xiao Hei in the Demon Abyss, then left after deciding not to interfere in his disciple’s affairs. Outside, he found space trembling under the influence of evil power and sealed it before departing.

• Lu Changsheng revealed to the black-haired man that he was Xiao Hei’s master and had come to check on his safety.
• The black-haired man warned Lu Changsheng that Xiao Hei might face greater danger after leaving the Demon Abyss, but Lu Changsheng chose not to take his disciple away.
• After leaving the Demon Abyss, Lu Changsheng sensed violent spatial fluctuations and evil power in the black plains.
• Lu Changsheng concealed his presence, reached the disturbance, and used ancient characters to seal the trembling space.