Chapter Summaries

After seven years of devastating war, the surviving experts used the Nine Nether Demon-Suppressing Stone Stele replica and the Nine Nether Demon-Locking Great Formation to seal the Primordial Great Demon inside the Seventeenth Layer of Hell. The seal only bought time, while a more ancient fury followed the causal trace of Shen Ji’s fall toward the Human World.

• The western dragon expert, the first pope, and the Demon Lord of Kunlun joined the battle, but the Primordial Great Demon overwhelmed the allied forces and caused catastrophic losses.
• After the Primordial Great Demon resisted every attempt to destroy it, the surviving experts seized its moment of hesitation and activated the replica of the Nine Nether Demon-Suppressing Stone Stele.
• The Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Ancestor Destruction, the Demon Lord of Kunlun, and other survivors sacrificed their power and resources to form the Nine Nether Demon-Locking Great Formation.
• The formation and the experts drove the Primordial Great Demon into the Seventeenth Layer of Hell and sealed its entrance, though it immediately began battering the seals from within.
• A more ancient fury followed the causal connection released by Shen Ji’s fall and surged toward the Human World and the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.

Mad Demon traced Shen Ji’s death to the Primordial Great Demon and stormed into the Seventeenth Layer of Hell, overpowering the allied forces’ attempts to stop him. He met the demon head-on and drove his fists into its chest, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Mad Demon arrived at Hell’s entrance, identified the Primordial Great Demon as tied to Shen Ji’s death, and demanded the truth.
• Mad Demon slashed through the allied forces’ seals, then broke the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and the Demon Lord of Kunlun’s combined attack with one punch.
• Mad Demon forced his way through the seal and entered the Seventeenth Layer of Hell, where the Primordial Great Demon sensed him and unleashed the Darkness of Void.
• Mad Demon clashed with the Darkness of Void and closed in on the Primordial Great Demon, striking its chest twice and opening a deep fissure.
• The Primordial Great Demon struck Mad Demon’s shoulder, but Mad Demon used the impact to drive a third fist into the fissure and blast through the demon’s chest.

The Mad Demon unleashed “Destruction Returns to Nothingness” and shattered the Primordial Great Demon's body across Hell's Seventeenth Layer. The demon's source and undying battle soul survived, and the Mad Demon turned his attention to the scattered remains.

• The Primordial Great Demon threw the Dao Bell and Saint's alchemy furnace at the Mad Demon, who destroyed both treasures with swift strikes.
• The Mad Demon gathered his power and struck the Primordial Great Demon's exposed chest with “Destruction Returns to Nothingness.”
• The destruction ripple broke down the demon's body and scattered its head, limbs, and torso across the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.
• The demon's concentrated source and battle soul remained intact, surprising the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Tantai Xuan, and the others watching from Hell's entrance.
• The Mad Demon recognized the demon's undying nature, dismissed its continued struggle, and turned toward the scattered remains.

The chaotic battle soul began reassembling Li Qingshan’s shattered demonic body, while a faint spark of his true self briefly flickered inside it. The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master proposed separating and sealing the body’s parts, then used his sword to sever their bonds to the battle soul, halting the regeneration.

• The battle soul drew in the scattered remains of Li Qingshan’s demonic body and began regenerating it.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master sensed that Li Qingshan’s true self still faintly endured within the demonic nature, but remained trapped and unable to break free.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master warned that they had to stop the body’s reassembly and proposed severing and sealing its parts separately.
• Mad Demon and the other surviving supreme beings agreed to follow the plan.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master transformed his body and soul into a divine sword and cut the bonds between the demonic body’s remnants and the battle soul, freezing their movement.

Fairy Wuyou and the surviving experts sealed the Primordial Great Demon's separated body parts in different locations and realms, while Mad Demon imprisoned its chaos battle soul in the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins. With the demon's calamity finally ended, Mad Demon vanished, grieving Shen Ji's fall.

• Fairy Wuyou called on the surviving experts to help seal the Primordial Great Demon's six separated body parts.
• Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, the Demon Lord of Kunlun, and the surviving God Emperors contributed their powers to the sealing.
• The experts sealed the demon's head in the Avici Demon Abyss, its arms beneath the Western Heaven Realm, its legs beneath the Ancient Ravine of Fallen Gods, and its torso in a spatial rift.
• Mad Demon extracted the chaos battle soul, bound it in a dark crystal, and cast it into the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins.
• Mad Demon vanished after reflecting on his revenge and Shen Ji's fall, and the Primordial Great Demon's calamity came to an end.

Li Qingshan’s true-self spiritual light escaped the sealed Seventeenth Layer of Hell and found its way to Chen Zhan, who took it away. At Hell’s entrance, Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing recognized Chen Zhan’s lingering Dao resonance and concluded that Li Qingshan had survived.

• After the Primordial Great Demon's body was dismembered and its Chaos Battle Soul was sealed, Li Qingshan’s spiritual light broke free from the weakened demonic nature.
• Li Qingshan’s spiritual light slipped out of the Seventeenth Layer of Hell and vanished into the Human World.
• Chen Zhan sensed the escaping spiritual light, caught it in his palm, and quietly departed with it.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing found Chen Zhan’s Dao resonance at Hell’s entrance and reasoned that he had taken Li Qingshan to safety.

Chen Zhan brought Li Qingshan’s damaged innate spiritual light to a primordial star sea and placed it inside the Small Bronze Coffin. The coffin plunged into the black ocean and raced toward its deepest, most ancient region as Chen Zhan vanished.

• Chen Zhan crossed the starry sky and reached a vast black sea filled with drifting star remnants.
• Chen Zhan determined that the sea’s primordial chaos could help Li Qingshan’s damaged spiritual light recover.
• Chen Zhan placed Li Qingshan’s spiritual light inside the Small Bronze Coffin, where it became stable and peaceful.
• Chen Zhan cast the Small Bronze Coffin into the star sea, and an undercurrent carried it toward the depths.
• The Small Bronze Coffin repeatedly tore open void passages and sped toward the star sea’s deepest region.
• Chen Zhan vanished from the sea’s shore.

The Small Bronze Coffin carried Li Qingshan’s dormant spiritual light to a Divine Spring and golden lotus, where its vitality revived his memories and strength. There, he faced the destructive power that had ended his previous Nirvana and successfully formed a new indestructible divine embryo.

• The Small Bronze Coffin drifted through the starry sea until a vast Divine Spring appeared and drew it toward a golden lotus.
• The coffin settled on the lotus platform, its lid opened, and the spring’s sacred essence awakened Li Qingshan’s spiritual light and restored his memories.
• Li Qingshan’s past arts and Daos resurfaced as the golden lotus and Divine Spring nourished his true spirit.
• Li Qingshan faced the destructive power left by his failed Nirvana and planted a new demonic embryo within his spiritual light.
• Li Qingshan reversed yin and yang, detonated the demonic embryo, and achieved Nirvana as an indestructible divine embryo.

Li Qingshan’s innate spiritual light awakened within the golden lotus, and the lotus platform refined Divine Spring essence into the Qi of heaven and earth to fuel his second nirvana. He rebuilt his indestructible divine embryo, restored his cultivation, and the Western Emperor Scripture began resonating as the changes continued.

• The golden lotus transformed into a chaos furnace and refined Divine Spring essence into Qi of heaven and earth for Li Qingshan’s spiritual light.
• Li Qingshan’s suppressed foundation and second demonic embryo burned in a controlled nirvana, purifying the sealed first-revolution essence and advancement potential.
• The refined essence and heaven-and-earth Qi reconstructed Li Qingshan’s body into a second-revolution indestructible divine embryo.
• Li Qingshan’s cultivation surged as his Bitter Sea returned, his Divine Bridge connected to the Wheel of Life, and his five Dao Palace temples opened.
• The Western Emperor Scripture resonated from Li Qingshan’s Immortal Platform and began acting on his life and path through space and time.

Li Qingshan completed the formation of his Divine Embryo and advanced to Immortal Platform Second Level Ninth Heaven. After awakening in his newly sublimated body, he recalled fragments of a catastrophe involving Shen Ji but could not recover what had happened during the years his memories were severed.

• Li Qingshan manifested his Present Self, Departed Self, and Dao Self as his Divine Embryo’s secret realms opened and transformed.
• His Immortal Platform advanced to the ninth lesser step of the Second Heaven, reaching the peak of the God Emperor realm.
• Li Qingshan’s Divine Embryo finished refining, and he awakened in a body sublimated beyond the Innate Immortal Fetus.
• Li Qingshan examined his transformed cultivation and realized his memories after Shen Ji interrupted his earlier breakthrough remained fragmented.
• He recalled glimpses of a great upheaval, his dismemberment and suppression, and the Primordial Great Demon’s rampage, but could not determine what had occurred.

Li Qingshan explored the golden lotus and Divine Spring where he had been reborn, then discovered an immense mass of Xuanhuang Mother Qi at the lotus’s roots. Recognizing it as a supreme treasure in the Divine Tomb World, he began gathering it.

• Li Qingshan examined the golden lotus and collected Divine Spring water, storing it in his Bitter Sea and feeling it improve his divine power.
• He noticed Xuanhuang Mother Qi intertwined with the lotus’s roots and realized it was an extraordinarily valuable source material.
• Li Qingshan wondered whether he had returned to the Shrouding the Heavens universe, but sensed that he was still in the Divine Tomb World.
• He recalled Ye Fan’s Mother Qi of All Things Source and judged the mass before him sufficient to refine an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Li Qingshan used his divine power to collect the heavy Mother Qi, while the golden lotus’s power eased his effort.

After absorbing the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea, Li Qingshan discovered that he could not escape the Divine Spring and golden lotus. He climbed into the Small Bronze Coffin, hoping it would carry him somewhere beyond the sealed space.

• Li Qingshan drew the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea and stabilized it as a weighty foundation.
• Li Qingshan tried to fly, break through the surrounding space, and search the Divine Spring, but found no way out.
• Li Qingshan suspected the Small Bronze Coffin that had brought him there might also let him escape.
• Li Qingshan climbed into the Small Bronze Coffin, and its lid closed, cutting him off from the outside world.

Li Qingshan discovered a sacred drop of blood inside the Small Bronze Coffin, whose presence resonated with his body and soul as though it were part of his own origin. Trusting that kinship, he let the blood merge with him, where it dissolved into a gentle torrent.

• A speck of light awakened among the coffin’s ancient totems and formed into a radiant drop of scarlet blood.
• Li Qingshan sensed the blood’s supreme vitality and struggled to identify its familiar presence.
• The drop’s appearance made Li Qingshan’s Divine Body, Five Great Secret Realms, and divine sense resonate with it.
• Li Qingshan suspected the blood was an essential part of his being, lost and sealed away in the coffin.
• The blood sensed their shared origin and flew into Li Qingshan’s ancestral aperture as he lowered his defenses.
• The blood merged with Li Qingshan and dissolved into a warm, gentle torrent.

Li Qingshan reflected on his escape from the Demonic Embryo and the treasures and friends he had lost, while the mysterious blood that entered him brought no obvious change. The Small Bronze Coffin opened a passage, and he set off into the unknown.

• Li Qingshan found that the crimson drop of blood had caused no visible transformation, though he felt slightly more relaxed.
• He recalled his descent into demonic nature, his interrupted Nirvana, and waking in the golden lotus and Divine Spring, wondering whether Chen Zhan had saved him.
• He considered the fortune he had gained, including an Indestructible Divine Embryo and Xuanhuang Mother Qi, and worried about his missing Dao Bell and other treasures.
• Li Qingshan wondered how much time had passed, what had happened across the three realms, and where the Small Bronze Coffin was taking him.
• The Small Bronze Coffin opened a mysterious passage, and Li Qingshan entered it before the passage closed behind them.

Li Qingshan arrived in a desolate star region after the Small Bronze Coffin lost power and crashed onto a turtle-shaped peak. The coffin devoured the region’s energy before departing, leaving Li Qingshan alone amid the ruined landscape.

• Li Qingshan traveled through the spacetime passage inside the Small Bronze Coffin as it carried him across the sea of stars.
• The Small Bronze Coffin lost power, fell from the passage, and landed upright on a turtle-shaped mountain peak.
• The coffin’s totems glowed black and unleashed a vast devouring vortex that drained the land, a fleeing group of Immortal Gods, and the demonic essence within the mountain.
• After consuming the region’s available energy, the coffin opened and delivered Li Qingshan onto the ashen ground.
• The Small Bronze Coffin turned into an azure streak and vanished, while Li Qingshan surveyed the desolate ruins and remarked on its tyrannical devouring force.

Li Qingshan returned to the Eastern Heaven Realm and discovered that it was nearing destruction, with divine punishments and a monstrous claw wiping out gods and entire clans. As madness and slaughter spread across the realm, he realized the Heavenly Dao’s destruction had reached its brutal climax and stood untouched amid his collapsing homeland.

• Li Qingshan sensed the laws of heaven and earth and confirmed that he had returned to the Eastern Heaven Realm, though it had become a dying world beneath a blood-red, rift-torn sky.
• Li Qingshan watched a curtain of destructive divine rain erase hundreds of immortal gods and leave a lifeless wasteland.
• Li Qingshan saw an enormous dark golden claw destroy a God King-level clan, its divine mountain, and hundreds of thousands of clansmen in a single strike.
• Li Qingshan sensed that a chaotic will was driving gods and demons across the realms to slaughter one another.
• Li Qingshan concluded that the Heavenly Dao’s destruction had reached its climax and that even the strongest beings were powerless before the calamity.

Li Qingshan searched the ruined Eastern Heaven Realm for clues about his Second Demonic Embryo and discovered a secluded valley where a white-clad girl fought off stronger cultivators using a strange emotion-severing technique. He recognized its Dao resonance as possibly belonging to the taboo Supreme Forgetfulness Record.

• Li Qingshan searched ancient ruins and traces of the demon-slaying war for information about his Second Demonic Embryo.
• Li Qingshan sensed a cold, emotion-severing Dao resonance in a sheltered valley and descended to investigate.
• Li Qingshan found a group of Fifth Rank independent cultivators attacking a wounded Fourth Rank girl for the valley’s treasures and inheritance.
• The girl used an unusual technique to slow and disrupt her stronger opponents, keeping them at bay despite her injuries.
• Li Qingshan observed the fight and suspected the girl’s technique was the taboo Supreme Forgetfulness Record.

Li Qingshan rescued Yu Xin from a group of rogue cultivators and discovered her faint connection to his old acquaintance Chen Zhan. After Yu Xin revealed that she knew Chen Zhan, Li Qingshan identified her dangerous cultivation art as the Supreme Forgetfulness Record and resolved not to let her continue down its path unchecked.

• As Yu Xin was cornered and wounded by seven or eight fifth-realm rogue cultivators, Li Qingshan killed them all effortlessly with his overwhelming power.
• Li Qingshan approached Yu Xin and learned her name, then told her he was an old acquaintance of Chen Zhan.
• Hearing Chen Zhan's name stirred Yu Xin's memories of Uncle Chen, but her cultivation art quickly suppressed her emotions.
• Li Qingshan warned Yu Xin that her art was severing her emotions and changing her nature.
• Li Qingshan identified Yu Xin's cultivation art as the Supreme Forgetfulness Record, and her reaction confirmed his suspicion.
• Li Qingshan resolved to intervene before Yu Xin's cultivation art destroyed her.

Li Qingshan warned Yu Xin that the Supreme Forgetfulness Record would erase her sense of self, and she entrusted him with the original book and asked him to save her. Studying it gave Li Qingshan an idea for stabilizing his own cultivation, and he offered to shelter Yu Xin and slow the technique’s erosion while he searched for a way to preserve her true nature.

• Li Qingshan explained that the Supreme Forgetfulness Record gradually stripped away its practitioners’ emotions and identities, while Yu Xin admitted she had chosen it because she needed power.
• Li Qingshan reminded Yu Xin of her family and her bond with Chen Zhan, and she chose to trust him as Chen Zhan’s old friend.
• Yu Xin handed Li Qingshan the original Supreme Forgetfulness Record and begged him to find a way to preserve her Present Self.
• Li Qingshan studied the book and conceived of adapting its precise control of consciousness to protect practitioners of his Eight-Nine Profound Art from losing themselves.
• Li Qingshan told Yu Xin that continued cultivation could turn her into a puppet of Tai Shang, but offered to help channel the Dao resonance and slow its erosion.
• Yu Xin thanked Li Qingshan and offered to become his disciple, while he told her to stay with him so he could treat her injuries and consider how to help her.

Li Qingshan spent nearly three years in seclusion integrating the Supreme Forgetfulness Record with his own arts to perfect a new Eight-Nine Profound Art. He passed its Foundation Establishment Chapter and first transformation to Yu Xin, giving her a safer path to resume cultivation, and considered creating his own Secret Realm Method scripture after returning to the Big Dipper.

• Li Qingshan healed Yu Xin's injuries, restored the valley, and began deducing a cultivation art while she kept watch.
• After his first seclusion, Li Qingshan taught Yu Xin that emotions were not obstacles if she could understand and master them.
• Li Qingshan continued meditating and guiding Yu Xin, whose suppressed nature gradually gave way to a more lively and cheerful personality.
• After nearly three years, Li Qingshan completed a new Eight-Nine Profound Art that combined the Western Emperor Scripture, the Demon Summoning Scripture, the Supreme Forgetfulness Record, and his existing art.
• Li Qingshan transmitted the Foundation Establishment Chapter and first transformation to Yu Xin, who received the new path with tears of gratitude.
• Li Qingshan reflected that the completed art had advanced his own Dao and might lead him to create a Secret Realm Method scripture after returning to the Big Dipper.