Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan used his discussions with Chen Zhan to devise the Eight-Nine Profound Art, a technique that fused cultivation principles from both worlds and sought to forge an indestructible will through nine cycles of destruction and rebirth. After surviving a near-fatal Dao dissolution while forming its first Demonic Embryo, he continued cautiously refining the art, while Chen Zhan and the others witnessed his dangerous progress.

• Chen Zhan explained how an Inner World could unite with the outside world and described the battle intent and principles behind his profound art, inspiring Li Qingshan to devise a technique of his own.
• Li Qingshan tried to awaken his bloodline power and form a Demonic Embryo, but the five elements ran amok and his body, soul, and Dao began dissolving.
• Li Qingshan used his will to guide the chaos into a Demonic Embryo, halting the dissolution and surviving the crisis as Chen Zhan praised his resolve.
• Li Qingshan named his method the Eight-Nine Profound Art and outlined its cycles of Demonic Embryo, Divine Embryo, and reincarnation, aiming to temper a will capable of returning after complete destruction.
• Chen Zhan warned Li Qingshan that the bloodline's demonic instincts could consume his identity, but Li Qingshan affirmed his determination and described his ambition to return through will alone.
• Li Qingshan continued practicing and refining the art, while the Sacred Battle Angel and the ape-clan woman advanced their own cultivation under Chen Zhan's guidance.

Chen Zhan and Lady Li left the cave dwelling to settle old karma, leaving Li Qingshan, Gu Xin, and Yuan Qingqing to face the dangers outside. After Gu Xin’s attempt to contact the Heart of Sacred Battle stirred the ancient totems, Li Qingshan stabilized his Demonic Embryo in seclusion, but the group sensed that something was searching for them.

• Chen Zhan and Lady Li departed through a spatial rift, and Gu Xin warned that the cave dwelling had lost their protection.
• Gu Xin tried to contact the Heart of Sacred Battle, awakening the cave’s angel totems before the restrictions contained the disturbance.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing discussed the risks of the Heart’s resonance and began checking the cave’s defenses and planning an escape route.
• Li Qingshan cultivated until Demon Summoning · Embryo Planting was stable and his strength settled at the fifth step of the First Heaven of the Immortal Platform.
• Yuan Qingqing sensed movement outside, and Li Qingshan and Gu Xin detected an unfamiliar force searching the area.

As Calamity Qi spread through the world, Lucifer, the king of the fallen angels, appeared in Li Qingshan’s cave abode and attacked him and his companions. Li Qingshan unleashed the Demonic Embryo and resisted Lucifer’s Space Restriction, summoning three formidable battle souls as the confrontation escalated.

• Li Qingshan, Gu Xin, and Yuan Qingqing noticed that Calamity Qi was stirring their anger and agitation, and Li Qingshan urged them to leave soon.
• Lucifer arrived through a tear in space, identified the Heart of Sacred Battle, and trapped the three with his Space Restriction.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing attacked Lucifer’s restraint, but their powers vanished against his overwhelming strength.
• Li Qingshan unleashed the Demonic Embryo, shattered part of Lucifer’s Space Restriction with a punch, and destroyed the cave abode.
• Li Qingshan summoned the battle souls of Great Emperor Wushi, Holy Emperor of the Sun, and Western Emperor, startling Lucifer with their power.

Li Qingshan entered the Divine Forbidden Domain as his Demonic Embryo manifested three demonic figures, letting him fight Lucifer with power approaching the peak God Emperor realm. The battle escalated into a clash of laws and summoned demons, while Li Qingshan’s growing Demonic Embryo threatened to overwhelm his true nature.

• Li Qingshan’s Demonic Embryo summoned demonic projections of Great Emperor Wushi, the Holy Emperor of the Sun, and the Western Emperor, and his combat power surged into the late God Emperor realm.
• Li Qingshan charged Lucifer’s Dark Tide, while the three demonic figures suppressed, disrupted, and withered its power.
• Lucifer summoned a flood of demons from a projection of Hell, and Li Qingshan transformed into a gigantic chaotic demonic god to devour them.
• The three demonic figures held back and consumed Lucifer’s demons as the battle devastated the mountain range and Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing watched from afar.
• Li Qingshan’s Demonic Embryo fed on the battle and the demons he devoured, strengthening him as his attacks grew more savage and his true nature flickered precariously.

Li Qingshan defeated Lucifer with the ultimate power of his Demonic Embryo, but the victory triggered a dangerous backlash that overwhelmed his control. He fled east into an ancient, chaotic region while Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing escaped west, hoping he would someday return.

• Li Qingshan combined his attacks with the three demonic apparitions and struck Lucifer with Demon Devours All Under Heaven, breaking Lucifer’s Eternal Night Barrier and severely wounding him.
• Lucifer admitted defeat, threatened to repay Li Qingshan, and escaped through a rift into the endless abyss.
• As the Demonic Embryo’s backlash intensified, Li Qingshan warned Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing to leave and said he had to face the tribulation alone.
• Li Qingshan lost control to the Demonic Embryo and flew east toward an ancient, unknown, chaotic region.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing decided to seek the ruins at the edge of the Divine Domain of Life and traveled west, hoping to reunite with Li Qingshan when they were stronger.

Li Qingshan rampaged east across the Western Heaven Realm, slaughtering Divine Races and absorbing their power as his Demonic Embryo grew stronger. Three ancient powerhouses confronted him, but his devouring demonic art overwhelmed their attacks, leaving them struggling against the advancing demonic hole.

• Li Qingshan destroyed the Gale Harpy tribe, and news of the demon’s rampage spread across the Western Heaven Realm.
• Li Qingshan crushed the Boulder Temple’s God King and rock giant legion, then slaughtered the Flame Prison Fire, Shadow Dagger, and dragon rider families.
• Li Qingshan’s demonic body grew more powerful through the slaughter, and his reputation drew the attention of ancient beings.
• Victor Startrace, Hector Wildhammer, and Forest Song Verdandi confronted Li Qingshan on an ancient battlefield and attacked him together.
• Li Qingshan became a thousand-zhang demon god, shattered Hector’s sword Qi, repelled Victor’s magic, and corrupted Verdandi’s purification.
• Li Qingshan opened a vast demonic hole that began devouring the trio’s attacks and the space around them, forcing Victor to call for retreat as Hector and Verdandi struggled to resist.

Li Qingshan fought off five God Emperor-level opponents and continued east after his demonic instincts were temporarily satisfied, earning the name Great Demon across the Western Heaven Realm. Meanwhile, Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing crossed the Sighing Corridor and reached the Emerald Forest, preparing to seek the lost ruins of the Sacred Battle Angels.

• Uriel and a shadow assassin joined Archmage Victor, Patriarch Hector, and Verdandi in attacking Li Qingshan, but his three demonic apparitions turned the battle against them.
• After nine days of fighting, Verdandi and the shadow assassin died, Uriel was split apart, and Victor and Hector were gravely weakened before Li Qingshan left the battlefield and headed east.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing traveled through the Sighing Corridor, avoided its dangers, and reached a more orderly border region where they gathered news of the Western Heaven Realm.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing heard reports of Li Qingshan's devastating rampage, then cautiously traveled west toward the goddess of life's domain.
• At the edge of the Emerald Forest, Gu Xin sensed the lost ruins near the border with the Land of Nightmares, and he and Yuan Qingqing entered the forest to seek them.

Li Qingshan reached the final stage of transforming his Demonic Embryo into an Indestructible Divine Embryo, battling its destructive consciousness with his true-self will. After his will ignited Nirvana and the Demonic Embryo collapsed inward, a pure Innate Spiritual Light appeared and began gathering life essence and insights into laws.

• Li Qingshan endured the Demonic Embryo’s assaults in his sea of consciousness and held fast to his true-self will.
• Li Qingshan’s will reached its peak and charged into the chaos Demonic Embryo to begin Nirvana.
• Demonic Qi erupted from Li Qingshan’s body, and the surrounding corpses vaporized into essence that nourished his transformation.
• The Demonic Embryo collapsed inward and broke down into primordial chaos currents and fragments of laws.
• An Innate Spiritual Light emerged from the ruins and began gathering essence and forming a stable point of light.

Li Qingshan neared the completion of his first Eight-Nine Profound Art nirvana, as the Indestructible Divine Embryo began to form and left him dangerously vulnerable. Shen Ji arrived while pursuing Chen Zhan, mistook Li Qingshan's defiant cultivation art for a reason to kill him, and struck at the newborn embryo.

• The Indestructible Divine Embryo began to take shape as Li Qingshan's body, blood, and divine soul underwent a profound transformation.
• Shen Ji tore open space and arrived at Thunder Great Demon Mountain Range while tracking Chen Zhan.
• Shen Ji sensed Li Qingshan's cultivation art and judged its defiance of heaven to resemble Chen Zhan's, despite recognizing that their origins differed.
• Shen Ji decided Li Qingshan's potential made him a threat and chose to kill him while he was vulnerable.
• Shen Ji struck toward Li Qingshan's head, targeting the fragile Indestructible Divine Embryo.

Shen Ji’s palm strike interrupted Li Qingshan’s Nirvana and drove the Eight-Nine Profound Art into reverse chaos, destroying his nascent Divine Embryo and engulfing his true self in a new Demonic Embryo. Li Qingshan emerged from the crater transformed, surrounded by a living Darkness of Void that swallowed laws and existence.

• Shen Ji’s palm strike battered Li Qingshan and damaged the Divine Embryo forming within him.
• The interrupted Nirvana spiraled into reverse chaos, and the remnants of the Demonic Embryo power devoured the Divine Embryo and Li Qingshan’s true self.
• Shen Ji’s strike erased the ruins beneath Li Qingshan and created a vast crater.
• A monstrous roar rose from the crater as Darkness of Void spread, consuming space, laws, light, and sound.
• A transformed Li Qingshan rose from the crater with chaotic vortexes for eyes and Darkness of Void surrounding him.

Li Qingshan’s dormant consciousness was buried within the Second Demonic Embryo, now ruled by a chaotic Primordial Great Demon that fought Shen Ji. The demon resisted her strongest techniques and unleashed a Demonized Four Symbols Seal that crushed toward her.

• Li Qingshan’s consciousness fell dormant as the Second Demonic Embryo became a chaos monster governed by destructive instincts.
• Shen Ji attacked the Primordial Great Demon, but its punch matched her blow and left its body unscathed.
• The Primordial Great Demon struck with the Demonized Heaven-Overturning Seal, forcing Shen Ji to evade with Illusory Demon Body.
• Shen Ji used Yin-Yang Reversal to disrupt the demon’s laws, but its Darkness of Void absorbed the interference.
• The Primordial Great Demon summoned chaotic earth, water, wind, and fire into a Demonized Four Symbols Seal and sent it crushing toward Shen Ji.

Shen Ji used the Seven Absolutes Law against the Primordial Great Demon, but his chaos powers resisted her techniques and drove them into a perilous close-quarters fight. She wounded him for the first time, and he charged at her with Darkness of Void tentacles.

• Shen Ji used Space Severing to tear apart the Four Symbols Chaos Jade Box, but its chaotic power eroded her spatial rifts and forced a stalemate.
• Shen Ji tried Causality Disruption and Severance, but the Primordial Great Demon's instinctive attack barely slowed.
• The Primordial Great Demon unleashed a devouring force that tugged at Shen Ji's life and soul, giving her an opening to strike at his eyes and sea of consciousness.
• Shen Ji broke through the Darkness of Void barrier with the Chaotic Battle Seal and Seven Absolutes Destruction Divine Light, wounding the Primordial Great Demon's arm.
• The enraged Primordial Great Demon charged Shen Ji at close range and sent Darkness of Void tentacles to wrap around and devour her.

After Shen Ji wounded the Primordial Great Demon, he counterattacked with overwhelming force and drove her to burn her divine soul to survive. The Demonized Heaven-Overturning Four Symbols Seal then took its true form, leaving Shen Ji facing the destruction of the world around her.

• The Primordial Great Demon charged Shen Ji, shattered her protective divine light, and wounded her with the Darkness of Void.
• The demon pursued Shen Ji with regenerating dark tentacles and a Heaven-Overturning Seal phantom, forcing her to unleash Space Severing.
• Shen Ji burned her essence and divine power to strike the demon’s palm, breaking apart the seal phantom but exhausting herself.
• The Primordial Great Demon gathered the Darkness of Void and formed the true Demonized Heaven-Overturning Four Symbols Seal.
• The seal devoured light and destabilized space and time across the region, while Shen Ji faced it in despair and cried out that she could not fall there.

The Primordial Great Demon annihilated Shen Ji’s divine body and ground down her undying divine soul until she was completely destroyed. After surveying the devastation, he sensed more food to the east and left the ravaged demonic land behind.

• Shen Ji raised a seven-colored shield, but the Primordial Great Demon’s Heaven-Overturning Seal crushed it and consumed her divine body.
• Shen Ji’s undying divine soul resisted the seal, but the Primordial Great Demon intensified its power and dragged her soul into the vortex of return to the void.
• The Four Symbols Seal ground down Shen Ji’s divine soul until her final defiant thought vanished and her existence was erased.
• The Primordial Great Demon withdrew his seal and inspected his healing wounds as the destruction around him subsided.
• The Primordial Great Demon sensed more food to the east and strode away, leaving the shattered demonic land behind.

A month after the battle that turned the battlefield into the Great Demon Mountain Range, God Kings investigated the deadly ruins and fled when they found no spoils worth the risk. Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing sensed a faint trace of Li Qingshan’s Qi in the central battlefield, but its familiar signature was now entwined with a cold, devouring demonic nature.

• The battle’s lingering Chaos Demonic Qi, shattered laws, and battle intent made the battlefield a forbidden zone that killed most scouts who entered its core.
• After a month, God Kings gathered at the Great Demon Mountain Range, but the deadly conditions drove them to retreat without searching further.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing arrived after sensing the battle’s familiar fluctuations and assessed the destruction left behind.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing stayed to search for Li Qingshan and sensed his faint Qi near a distorted space-time rift.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing recognized Li Qingshan’s signature beneath an unfamiliar, cold demonic nature and reacted with shock and worry.

Yuan Qingqing and Gu Xin recognized that Li Qingshan had become a nearly uncontrollable Primordial Great Demon and decided to seek Chen Zhan’s help. Meanwhile, the demon entered the Domain of Disorder and erased a vast region before continuing east.

• Yuan Qingqing and Gu Xin sensed that Li Qingshan’s demonic nature had overwhelmed his original consciousness and realized he was the Primordial Great Demon behind the devastation.
• Yuan Qingqing proposed finding Chen Zhan, and she and Gu Xin set off east to seek his help for Li Qingshan and the Heavenly Realm.
• The Primordial Great Demon appeared above a battlefield in the Domain of Disorder and crushed tens of thousands of combatants with one step.
• The demon devoured the battlefield, nearby demon castles, and the surrounding land, then continued east toward denser sources of energy.

The Primordial Great Demon spread through the Eastern Heaven Realm, devouring battlefields, secret realms, and entire cities as reports of its destruction terrified the region. In the Fallen Star Sea, it defeated the Star Fiend Ancient Demon and absorbed its core energy.

• Survivors’ warnings about the Primordial Great Demon spread, while Eastern Heaven Realm powers initially dismissed them.
• An ancient God Emperor found the threads of fate thrown into chaos, and a God King fled after sensing the demon’s devouring presence in a distant star region.
• The Primordial Great Demon erased armies, consumed the treasures and laws of an ancient secret realm, and destroyed a populous Divine City.
• The Primordial Great Demon entered the Fallen Star Sea, awakening the Star Fiend Ancient Demon, which attacked with a fist of shattered stars.
• The Primordial Great Demon endured the Star Fiend Ancient Demon’s assault and, after three days, seized and devoured its core, leaving its body scattered as lifeless stellar fragments.

Over ten years, the Primordial Great Demon’s advance through the Eastern Heaven Realm intensified the spreading Calamity Qi and weakened the realm’s factions, while their leaders chose how to respond. As he continued toward the heartland in search of richer energy, the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master prepared to test his sword against him.

• Calamity Qi worsened as factions across the Eastern Heaven Realm fought over resources, including the Heaven-Chaos Sect and Eastern Sea independent cultivators clashing over an asteroid belt rich in Void Crystals.
• Ancestor Destruction ordered his followers to avoid confronting the Primordial Great Demon directly while secretly seeking a chance to capture and study his demonic Qi.
• The Heaven-Chaos Demon King withdrew his outer forces and sent stealthy subordinates to investigate the demon’s origins and power.
• Wuyou Palace sealed itself off, while ancient independent cultivators of the Eastern Sea concealed themselves or closed their Grotto-Heavens.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master chose to face the demon, hoping to temper his sword and comprehend the final chapter of the Heaven-Shocking Sword Canon.
• The Primordial Great Demon continued toward the Eastern Heaven Realm’s heartland, indifferent to the fear and destruction he caused as he sought denser energy.

After more than a dozen years of destruction by the Primordial Great Demon, survivors and factions across the Heavenly Realm united to form a vast campaign against him. As the Demon-Slaying Alliance gathered unprecedented forces, the demon remained unaware of the hunt and turned toward the boundary with the Human World.

• The Primordial Great Demon continued destroying regions and killing beings across the Heavenly Realm, while survivors’ grief and hatred grew.
• Victims and their allies founded the Demon-Slaying Alliance and began rallying factions across the Eastern Heaven Realm.
• The Primordial Great Demon destroyed a primordial ruin guarded by three God Emperors, killing two and gravely wounding the third.
• The Heaven-Shocking Lineage declared it would lead the effort to exterminate the demon, prompting factions across both Heaven Realms to organize a Demon-Extermination Assembly.
• Destruction Dao, the Heaven-Chaos Sect, Wuyou Palace, the Eastern Sea’s ancient dragons, and Western Heaven Realm envoys agreed to join or aid the campaign.
• The gathered forces prepared a vast hunt while the Primordial Great Demon, unaware of the danger, approached the boundary between the Eastern Heaven Realm and the Human World.

The allied forces of the Three Realms launched a massive assault on the Primordial Great Demon, but its defenses and counterattacks proved devastating. The battle broke through into the Human World and spread onward into the Western Heaven Realm, leaving destruction in its wake.

• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and other experts attacked the Primordial Great Demon together, but their strongest techniques failed to break through its defenses.
• The Primordial Great Demon killed two God Kings and devoured a Demon King while fighting through the allied forces.
• The battle damaged the boundary between the Heavenly Realm and the Human World, opening a golden rift that let their energies pour into the Human World.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and Ancestor Destruction pursued the Primordial Great Demon through the opening.
• The Primordial Great Demon rampaged between the Human World and both Heaven Realms, reducing regions to wasteland as the allied forces tried to contain it.