Chapter Summaries

Xu Long uncovered that Zhang San's endless recoveries came from Flower Lord hiding in the void and controlling a projection. Flower Lord tried to break free of the Great Wilderness's restrictions, but Xu Long revealed that the void was also part of the Great Wilderness Main World.

• Xu Long repeatedly destroyed Zhang San, but Zhang San kept returning and demanded that Xu Long submit to him.
• Xu Long guessed Zhang San was a projection and recalled the Power of Oblivion he had sensed being drawn into the void.
• Xu Long exposed Flower Lord in the void, where she had hidden behind formations and used the Zhang San projection to wear him down.
• Flower Lord shattered her formations and began raising her power beyond the Mahayana Stage, but the Great Wilderness suppressed her back to Earth Immortal.
• Xu Long told Flower Lord that the void was part of the Great Wilderness Main World.

Flower Lord recognized the nothingness as Guixu and realized the Great Wilderness Main World's Heavenly Dao had intervened, then fought Xu Long despite its suppression of her cultivation. Xu Long's Power of Oblivion clashed with Flower Lord's laws, and she trapped the power in a cage and sealed it inside a flower-shaped treasure.

• Flower Lord identified the nothingness as Guixu and wondered why the Heavenly Dao's laws had reached into it.
• Flower Lord refused to surrender to Xu Long and prepared to fight him to the death.
• Xu Long attacked Flower Lord with the World-Breaking Blade, relying on the Power of Oblivion to counter her techniques.
• Flower Lord blocked the blade with laws and used a cage to imprison the Power of Oblivion.
• Flower Lord placed the cage inside a magical treasure shaped like a flower bud.

Xu Long attacked Flower Lord with the Azure Firmament Celestial Star Formation Diagram and Black Mountain Seal, forcing her to shatter the seal at great cost. After recalling her tragic past, Flower Lord was enraged when Xu Long shoved a twenty-year-old unwashed sock into her mouth, and she began burning her soul as he fled.

• Flower Lord severed her connection to the Power of Oblivion by sealing it inside one of her treasures, but Xu Long charged her before she could trap more of it.
• Xu Long used the Azure Firmament Celestial Star Formation Diagram to draw spiritual qi and sent the Black Mountain Seal crashing toward Flower Lord.
• Flower Lord destroyed the Black Mountain Seal with a crimson beam, exhausting herself, and her past revealed how a human had once taken and drained her as a pet.
• Xu Long beat Flower Lord, stuffed a twenty-year-old unwashed sock into her mouth, and continued attacking as she became overwhelmed by its stench.
• Flower Lord flew into a rage and began burning her soul, so Xu Long turned and ran.

Xu Long escaped Flower Lord by reaching the Great Wilderness Main World, where he used spatial travel to keep her chasing him. When Flower Lord gave up pursuing him and headed for the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom to attack his loved ones, Xu Long returned there at once.

• Xu Long burned his magic power and fled toward the Great Wilderness Main World as Flower Lord pursued him in a soul-burning frenzy.
• Flower Lord struck Xu Long through his Iron Curtain Shield, but the blow sent him into the Great Wilderness Main World, where he escaped by warping space.
• Xu Long traveled through Africa toward the South Pole, using Instant Transmission to lead Flower Lord back and forth while she destroyed everything in her path.
• After about fifty breaths, Flower Lord abandoned her chase and turned toward the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom to kill Xu Long's family and friends.
• Xu Long sensed Flower Lord's change of direction and instantly returned to the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom.

Xu Long used his domain to keep the Flower Lord away from his family until she burned through her soul and died, then safely discarded the dangerous space left behind. He eliminated several hidden foreign races and, as the remaining time passed, entered the Reincarnation Temple.

• The Flower Lord rushed toward the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom and searched for Xu Long’s loved ones, but Xu Long’s domain diverted her away from Weak Water, Ling’er, Xu Jiao, Haitang, the Red Queen, Bao’er, Rice Bucket, and Little Yellow.
• The Flower Lord burned her soul to break free of Xu Long’s restraints, but he kept moving his family and stalling until she burned out and vanished.
• Xu Long waited for the collapsing space left by the Flower Lord’s death to settle, then separated it from his domain and cast it outside.
• After the foreign races on Earth were wiped out, Xu Long searched the Great Wilderness for hidden worlds and killed the foreign races he found.
• After time passed and he said a few words to everyone, Xu Long entered the Reincarnation Temple.

Xu Long learned about the Earth Realm’s conflict with the Human Realm before entering the world of Secrets of the Heavenly Book on a quest to kill Holy Auntie, Hu Meier, and Hu Chuer. After arriving in a remote county town, he discovered that its bustling inn was actually a ghost den and destroyed it.

• Xu Long questioned the Main God about the Earth Realm and learned that the Lingxiao Heavenly Court opposed the Savage Wilderness Divine Hall’s efforts to restore the Human Realm.
• Xu Long entered the world of Secrets of the Heavenly Book and received a quest to kill Holy Auntie, Hu Meier, and Hu Chuer.
• Xu Long considered how to find the foxes and the Heavenly Book, then followed an official road toward a town.
• Xu Long reached Qianlie County and learned from an inn waiter that Mount Yunmeng was unknown there.
• Xu Long used Heavenly Eye to reveal that the inn served human flesh and was a demon’s lair, then destroyed the shop.

Xu Long investigated a town-sized Yin Nest, resisted its blood trap, and escaped after the entity controlling it withdrew. An old man explained that Yin Nests could destroy towns, while the awakened heads of great clans devoured far more people.

• Xu Long saw the town’s vendors and residents turn into grotesque ghosts, then entered the inn where a waiter tried to force him to eat its horrifying food.
• As blood filled the inn and dissolved the diners, Xu Long used the Azure Firmament Celestial Star Formation Diagram to bombard it and discovered that the blood carried space-time laws and blocked Instant Transmission.
• Xu Long used the Power of Oblivion to expand his protected space, prompting the entity behind the blood to retreat and restore the inn to normal.
• Xu Long left the town, watched it vanish into red specks, and prepared to use a Divination Talisman before an old man appeared and identified the phenomenon as a Yin Nest.
• The old man told Xu Long that even powerful martial artists could be drained by Yin Nests, then said awakened heads of great clans devoured a hundred thousand humans at a time.

Xu Long questioned Lan Shou about the Yin Nest and the aristocratic families, then traveled to Pingshan County to gather more information. He learned that the Great Tang was divided among the Good People Bureau, demon clans, and hostile royal nobles, leaving humanity and demons struggling to cooperate against a shared threat.

• Lan Shou told Xu Long that the Yin Nest was regarded as heaven's punishment and explained the pact that required the Good People Bureau to provide humans for awakened family heads to eat.
• Lan Shou left, and Xu Long traveled by aircraft to Pingshan County while considering the powers and dangers he had learned about.
• Xu Long visited a brothel and questioned Ruyue, discovering that she belonged to a branch of the Tushan Clan and had demon blood.
• Ruyue explained that the Good People Bureau, the demon clans, and the royal nobles were the world's three major powers, with the royal nobles posing a common threat to humans and demons.
• Xu Long learned that martial artists and wandering heroes formed the Good People Bureau's main fighting force, while its ranks had been greatly diminished in battles against the clans and royal nobles.

Xu Long gathered information about the demon clans, then encountered a fortune-telling swindler while searching for demons. In Pingshan County, a mysterious red carriage lured Mei Renai away, and Xu Long learned that several people had recently gone missing.

• Xu Long learned that humanity was badly outnumbered by powerful demon clans and let Ruyue go after questioning her, while Lian'er escaped by leaving a doll in her room.
• Xu Long met a Daoist fortune-teller who predicted a bloody calamity and demanded fifty taels, but Xu Long recognized him as a swindler and walked away.
• Mei Renai found a red carriage by the moat and, tempted by its owner, entered it; the carriage vanished, leaving his fishing net behind.
• Xu Long heard that Mei Renai had been missing for two days and learned from a waiter that he was the fourth person to disappear that month and that the authorities ignored such cases.

Xu Long studied Pingshan County’s records and defeated a malicious ghost whose memories linked it to the Marquis of Youzhou. An old fortune-teller then sent successive magical figures to attack him, and Xu Long’s anger rose when the final assault endangered everyone at the inn.

• Xu Long read Pingshan County’s records and inferred how martial artists and ancient scholars could resist evil entities.
• A malicious ghost attacked Xu Long, but he discovered its true body in the oil lamp and devoured it, learning that it served the Marquis of Youzhou.
• Xu Long decided to seek out the Marquis of Youzhou after leaving Pingshan County and continued reading through the night.
• A paper figure and then a clay figure attacked Xu Long, and he destroyed both while recognizing the old fortune-teller’s magic.
• A towering minotaur attacked the inn, and Xu Long killed it with a flick of force, furious that the old fortune-teller had put the other guests in danger.

Xu Long discovered that the old swindler was the last survivor of the Azure Origin Cult, then tracked down and attacked the Marquis of Youzhou. After the marquis fled from Xu Long’s Power of Oblivion, Xu Long caught up and struck him with the World-Breaking Blade.

• Xu Long captured the old swindler and learned that he was the Azure Origin Cult’s sole surviving member after the weasel demons had slaughtered the cult.
• Xu Long traveled to a barren mountain in Youzhou and blasted open the Marquis of Youzhou’s underground lair with the Azure Firmament Celestial Star Formation Diagram and Spiritual Qi Bombardment.
• Xu Long battered the Marquis of Youzhou with Spiritual Qi Bombardment, then wounded him with the World-Breaking Blade’s Power of Oblivion, which erased part of his body.
• The Marquis of Youzhou absorbed violent sinister yin qi, pretended to prepare for a fight, and fled when he realized Xu Long could kill him.
• Xu Long chased down the Marquis of Youzhou and struck him with successive flashes of sword light.

Xu Long killed the Marquis of Youzhou and learned that hundreds of marquises threatened humanity, then set out to visit the Tushan Clan’s leader. At the Tushan mansion, Lian’er recognized Xu Long as the frightening human she had encountered.

• Xu Long defeated the Marquis of Youzhou, searched his soul, and killed him despite a loyal subordinate’s attempt to intervene.
• Xu Long learned that the Marquis of Youzhou had encountered a mysterious Yin Nest and that the Great Tang had 358 marquises.
• Xu Long opened the Marquis of Youzhou’s treasure chest, destroyed the newborn consciousness in the Nether Crystal, and kept the crystal and Spirit Rhyme.
• Xu Long decided to draw out other marquises and planned to visit the head of the Tushan Clan.
• At the Tushan mansion, Lian’er told a young girl about a terrifying human before spotting Xu Long approaching.

Xu Long visited the Tushan Clan and offered to lure marquises and princes so he could kill them in exchange for their Nether Crystals. After spending fifteen days with the clan’s ancestor, he left as she advanced into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, raising the prospect that she would soon act.

• Xu Long confronted Lian'er and the Tushan Clan, then gave their leader the Nether Crystal taken from the Marquis of Youzhou.
• Xu Long proposed that the Tushan Clan lure marquises and princes to him so he could kill them and give their Nether Crystals to the clan.
• The Tushan Clan's ancestor dismissed the others, transformed into a beautiful fox with eight tails, and spent fifteen days with Xu Long behind the reception hall's barriers.
• Xu Long left the Tushan Clan, and the ancestor later appeared with nine tails, having advanced to the realm of a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
• Lian'er and the other demons worried that the ancestor's next move would disrupt the balance between the great clans and the princes and nobles.

Xu Long gave Pei Min and the Good People Bureau knowledge that could help humanity resist the demons, asking them to find three missing foxes. Unable to locate them or Mount Yunmeng, Xu Long attacked the weasel clan and unleashed a curse that crippled its members as its leader emerged to confront him.

• Xu Long met Pei Min in Chang'an and gave him a jade talisman containing instructions for making puppets and technologies to strengthen humanity.
• Xu Long asked Pei Min to search for Holy Auntie, Hu Meier, and Hu Chuer, and left him human-skin parchment for contacting him.
• After neither Pei Min nor the Tushan Clan's old fox could help him find the three foxes or Mount Yunmeng, Xu Long set out to destroy the weasel clan.
• Xu Long reached the weasels' mountain and found humans kept as livestock, prompting him to create a powerful Curse Talisman from his skin and the Power of Oblivion.
• Xu Long cursed the weasels with thorns, flesh-boring worms, soul-freezing frost, and extinguished consciousness, while a gigantic weasel emerged and challenged him.

Xu Long destroyed the Huang Clan and claimed its treasures, then used the Spirit Rhyme before considering how to use the Blood Yang Crystal. In Biantao County, Xiang Yang woke after an accident with no memory, and his father, Xiang Tianliang, tried to explain who they were.

• Xu Long killed the Huang Clan Head with curses and Soul Crystal Walls, then obtained Spirit Rhyme, spirit stones, and a Blood Yang Crystal from the treasure chest.
• Xu Long used all the Spirit Rhyme himself and formed a bold idea for the Blood Yang Crystal.
• Xiang Tianliang learned that his son, Xiang Yang, had awakened after striking his head while fleeing a willow demon.
• Xiang Yang looked at Xiang Tianliang like a stranger, and Xiang Tianliang concluded that he had lost his memory.
• Xiang Tianliang told Xiang Yang that he was his father, and Xiang Yang repeated the claim in confusion.

After transmigrating into Xiang Yang, he accepted Xu Long’s help and spent over a year cultivating to protect Biantao County from the Fierce Tiger Clan. When the Fierce Tiger King arrived to claim the county, Xiang Yang faced him, while the king suspected the Tushan Clan was conspiring with humans against the demons.

• Xiang Yang realized he had transmigrated and secretly asked Xu Long for help staying alive.
• Xu Long gave Xiang Yang demon-derived qi and blood power, then later strengthened his physique into a Blood Fiend Physique and provided a Blood Yang Crystal.
• Xiang Yang studied the county annals, learned that Biantao County had been assigned to a demon clan as a fief, and trained for over a year.
• As the Fierce Tiger King approached to feed on the county’s people, Xiang Yang prepared to fight him with a great ring saber forged from a demon clan head’s spine.
• The Fierce Tiger King mistook Xiang Yang for a great general, then sensed the auras of the old weasel and the Marquis of Youzhou in him and suspected the Tushan Clan was working with humanity.
• Xiang Yang rejected the Fierce Tiger King’s assumption that he was a great general and prepared to kill him as Xu Long’s plan required.

Xiang Yang fought the Fierce Tiger King with a saber forged by Xu Long, testing the power of the new cultivation method and weapons. After Xiang Yang wounded the demon and absorbed some of his blood, the Fierce Tiger King changed tactics and forced him back in a clash of divine weapons.

• The Fierce Tiger King transformed into his hundred-meter beast form and threatened Xiang Yang while the people of Biantao County watched.
• Xiang Yang confronted the Fierce Tiger King, and the chapter explained Xu Long's plans to develop human cultivation and strengthen wandering heroes.
• Xiang Yang used his ring-pommel saber to sever the Fierce Tiger King's tail, then dodged the demon's attacks and cut into his paw.
• Xiang Yang absorbed the Fierce Tiger King's blood and stored a severed claw for Xiang Tianliang before continuing to attack.
• The Fierce Tiger King shrank into human form and revealed fist blades forged from other demons' remains.
• The Fierce Tiger King clashed weapons with Xiang Yang and drove him back dozens of steps, claiming Xiang Yang was helpless without his saber's advantage.

Xiang Yang defeated the Fierce Tiger King’s threat of self-detonation only when Xu Long killed him, and the surviving clans and the Good People Bureau gathered in Youzhou for the final battle. Xu Long revealed his plan to draw the wolf and vulture clans into a confrontation, then attacked the assembled demons as the battle began.

• Xiang Yang used the Blood-Burning Soul-Incinerating Great Technique against the Fierce Tiger King, who tried to self-detonate before Xu Long’s sword erased his power and killed him.
• Xu Long gave Xiang Yang the Blood Yang Crystal and ordered him to absorb it before joining the final battle in Youzhou.
• The Good People Bureau and Tushan Clan prepared for war as Xu Long wounded the wolf and vulture patriarchs to provoke them into pursuing him.
• The demon clans, evil-entity kings and marquises, and Good People Bureau gathered in Youzhou, where the Vulture King, Wolf King, Fierce Tiger Clan’s tigress, and old willow tree discussed the approaching conflict.
• Xu Long appeared before the demons as the Wolf King prepared to attack people, declared that he would exterminate their clans, and struck them with the World-Breaking Blade.

Xu Long slaughtered the Vulture King, the tigress, the Wolf King, and most of their forces, then spared the old willow tree and headed toward the battle against the marquises. As more than 350 marquis-rank experts and the Good People Bureau gathered for the decisive battle, Pei Min realized Xu Long had likely already eliminated the other demon clans.

• Xu Long killed the tigress and the Vulture King, then slew the Wolf King and massacred more than ninety percent of the demons.
• Xu Long spared the old willow tree, opened the Vulture King and Wolf treasure chests, and obtained a combat puppet he could use as a mount.
• Xu Long set out to eliminate the evil marquises, while marquis-rank experts gathered near Youzhou to seize the Marquis of Youzhou's Nether Crystal.
• Lian'er worried that the old fox Ancestor was endangering the Tushan Clan and decided to leave the clan.
• The marquises and the Good People Bureau assembled for a decisive battle, and Pei Min inferred that Xu Long had killed the absent demon clans.

Xu Long used the battle between the Good People Bureau, the Tushan Clan, and the marquises and kings to power a formation that killed the marquises and kings and shattered the sky. He suspected the world was a world within a world and prepared to break through into the true Secrets of the Heavenly Book.

• The Good People Bureau, the Tushan Clan, and the marquises and kings fought a brutal battle as the puppets attacked indiscriminately and the Marquis of Tongzhou died.
• The old fox regained her memory, crushed the Tushan Clan heirloom necklace, and vanished; Xu Long let her escape, confident he knew where she had gone.
• Xu Long activated an upgraded Eight Gates Yang-Locking Formation, raised an artificial sun, and used it to weaken the marquises and kings while the puppets attacked.
• The marquises and kings fled toward Youzhou's edge, but the formation trapped them; Xu Long unleashed fireballs that killed them and fed their energy into the formation.
• Xu Long drove the formation beyond its limits, sending a blazing beam through the sky and creating spreading cracks as he prepared to break the false world.