Chapter Summaries

Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen fought Mingyuan and Gongyang Lanshan, who revealed that the Jade Spring Sect was under attack by the Holy Origin Alliance. Chen Fuguang began a breakthrough to Golden Core while Chen Yazhen moved to protect him.

• Chen Fuguang wounded Mingyuan with a dark blue Divergent Flame, but Gongyang Lanshan arrived and stopped his follow-up attack.
• Mingyuan and Gongyang Lanshan joined forces against Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen, and Gongyang revealed his identity as a middle Golden Core cultivator of the Parting Hate Gate.
• Gongyang told the siblings that the Holy Origin Alliance, the Lotus Temple, and several Nascent Soul demon lords had surrounded the Jade Spring Sect.
• Chen Fuguang swallowed a pill and began breaking through to Golden Core while Chen Yazhen prepared to hold off the two cultivators.
• Gongyang sent a black dragon of Devil Qi at Chen Fuguang, and Chen Yazhen raised an ice wall that shattered under its impact.

Chen Yazhen fought to protect Chen Fuguang from Gongyang Lanshan and Mingyuan, using her Divine Ability and treasures despite her severe injuries. Just as Gongyang Lanshan’s blade was about to kill her, Chen Fuguang completed his breakthrough and unleashed golden flames as a Golden Core True Person.

• Chen Yazhen blocked Gongyang Lanshan’s poisonous fire with Mystic Yin Annihilation Qi, though the attack left her bleeding and weakened.
• Mingyuan joined Gongyang Lanshan and attacked Chen Yazhen with two vajra pestles, while Gongyang Lanshan struck through her defenses and sent the Mystic Pure Cinnabar Moon Mirror crashing away.
• Chen Yazhen used the Autumn Water Void-Containing Treasure Bottle to drench Gongyang Lanshan in spirit water, dissolving his demonic Qi and injuring him.
• Gongyang Lanshan retaliated with a blade-light that overwhelmed Chen Yazhen’s spirit water, but she stood her ground and prepared to block it with her treasure bottle.
• Chen Fuguang emerged in golden-white armor and destroyed the blade-light with golden flames, revealing that he had become a Golden Core True Person.
• Gongyang Lanshan recoiled in disbelief, and Mingyuan wondered aloud how Chen Fuguang’s breakthrough had happened so quickly.

After Chen Fuguang broke through to Golden Core, he used his Divine Abilities to defeat the Lotus Temple and Parting Hate Gate cultivators. He killed Gongyang Lanshan and Mingyuan, leaving the mountains covered in golden dust.

• Chen Fuguang healed Chen Yazhen and told her he would handle the fight.
• Gongyang Lanshan attacked Chen Fuguang with his bronze staff, but Chen Fuguang burned him and his Law Treasure with Breath-Burning Golden Flame.
• Gongyang Lanshan's devil light fled, but Chen Fuguang hurled a dark-gold halberd after it and destroyed it.
• Mingyuan tried to flee, but Chen Fuguang held him with profound light and pierced his chest with a flame-wreathed fist.
• Chen Fuguang used Three Luminaries Destruction Qi to destroy Mingyuan's body and soul.

After Chen Fuguang formed a supreme-grade Golden Core, he and Chen Yazhen hurried back toward the sect as the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s forces obstructed the Vast Waves Alliance’s allies. The chapter left the Flower Washing Sword Sect and Turbid Wave Pavilion’s defenders stalled by powerful barriers while the Jade Spring Sect faced an imminent attack.

• Chen Fuguang drove the devilish light from Chen Yazhen and prepared to return with her to the sect.
• True Lord Tingqiao used the Netherworld Ghost Ferry Boat to blockade the Flower Washing Sword Sect and prevent reinforcements from reaching the Jade Spring Sect.
• Old Man Fish Pillow and True Lord Yuliu resisted Tingqiao but hesitated to risk the Flower Washing Sword Sect’s headquarters.
• True Lord Yousha used a talisman to strengthen her bone tower and hold True Lord Suwen back above Heavenly Waves Lake.
• True Lord Suwen worried about Qingchen as the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s forces obstructed the alliance’s aid.

True Lord Jihai confronted True Lord Kugu, who had been sent to blockade Calming Waves City and keep Jihai from aiding the Jade Spring Sect. Jihai unleashed the Three Wu Sea-Overcoming True Void Profound Light, cracking Kugu’s white-bone Dharma manifestation and leaving its fate uncertain.

• True Lord Jihai’s dark water dragon ground apart True Lord Kugu’s bone claw, alarming Kugu with the strength of Jihai’s attacks.
• True Lord Kugu summoned his six-armed, three-headed white-bone Dharma manifestation and attacked Jihai with deathly light and devil fire.
• True Lord Jihai declared that Kugu could not stop him from aiding the Jade Spring Sect as his profound sea spread across the sky above Calming Waves City.
• True Lord Jihai formed three rings of water and struck Kugu’s manifestation with the Three Wu Sea-Overcoming True Void Profound Light.
• Jihai’s attack covered Kugu’s white-bone manifestation in spreading cracks, while Kugu’s attempts to repair or defend it failed.

True Lord Jihai trapped True Lord Kugu in his water Dharma realm and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage while the old devil desperately tried to stop him. Jihai emerged beside Lord Xuanfan with his injuries healed and his power greatly increased.

• True Lord Jihai used the Nine-Ring Universe-Shaking Turbid Water Great Dharma Realm to crush True Lord Kugu's bone manifestation and wound him.
• True Lord Kugu damaged his white-bone treasure pearl to escape the water rings, then resolved to hold Jihai off while his senior brother attacked the Jade Spring Sect.
• True Lord Jihai summoned the Nine-Color Mysterious Water Banners and swallowed a jade-green pill as he began breaking through.
• True Lord Kugu attacked Jihai with his sword formation, Dharma manifestation, treasure pearl, and a poison-fire bone talisman that corroded the banners.
• Lord Xuanfan tried to sacrifice the remaining banners, but True Lord Jihai stopped him and revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

True Lord Jihai defeated True Lord Kugu and rushed back to the Jade Spring Sect, where True Lord Qingchen was struggling to hold off the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord. The chapter left Qingchen’s defenses faltering as the devil serpent’s attacks threatened the sect.

• True Lord Jihai trapped True Lord Kugu in the Heaven-Shedding Xuanhai World-Overwhelming Realm and dissolved his cultivation, flesh, and soul.
• True Lord Jihai transferred the golden light from Kugu’s remains to Lord Xuanfan, restoring his illusory figure, then set off for the Jade Spring Sect.
• True Lord Qingchen defended Sunken Jade Valley with the Scarlet Yang Pure Truth Mountain-Suppressing Ruyi while the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s shadow-devil power darkened the region.
• The Heaven-Hating Devil Lord revealed that Qingchen’s potential obstructed his plans and ordered his six-headed devil serpent to attack with yin fire and poisonous water.
• Qingchen’s shield and healing seal barely kept him standing as the serpent’s attacks devastated the land outside the sect gates.

The Heaven-Hating Devil Lord overwhelmed True Lord Qingchen and True Lord Jihai with the Shadow Devil Dao’s abilities while spreading his devil sea across Sunken Jade Valley. As Qingchen was drawn toward the six shadow bodies, three Nascent Soul demon lords watched from outside, unable to join the fight.

• The Heaven-Hating Devil Lord used the [Heart Devil Terror Great Incantation] to weaken True Lord Qingchen and wound him with purplish-black devil light.
• True Lord Jihai arrived to protect Qingchen, but Hentian used the [Shadow Body Soul-Fixing Technique] to turn him into a gray-white stone statue.
• Qingchen tried to resist Hentian’s attacks and save Jihai, but the heart-devil whispers and illusions left him struggling to hold on to his reason.
• Hentian spread his devil sea across Sunken Jade Valley, destroyed the Jade Spring Sect’s mountain-guarding formation, and drew its defenders and Qingchen toward his shadow bodies.
• Three Nascent Soul demon lords watched the battle from outside the devil sea after Hentian had barred them from joining the fight.

True Lord Qingchen, trapped in Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s demonic Divine Ability, confronted Green Chi Yajie and bargained for the Jade Spring Sect’s survival. Yajie agreed to take Qingchen’s body in exchange for rescuing the sect and aiding it three times in the future.

• Beigong Lan watched Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s demonic sea engulf the Jade Spring Sect while Crimson Flame Demon Lord and Demon Lord Tenggong waited beside her.
• True Lord Qingchen summoned Green Chi Yajie from his lake of the mind as he was being refined into a shadow body.
• Qingchen and Yajie silently tested each other’s resolve while demonic light swallowed nearly all of Qingchen.
• Yajie demanded Qingchen’s body, and Qingchen agreed on the condition that Yajie save the Jade Spring Sect and help it three times in the future.
• Yajie accepted Qingchen’s terms.

Yajie emerged in a physical body with Nascent Soul Late Stage power and drove back the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s devil sea to protect the Jade Spring Sect. He trapped Hentian in his pale jade waters and demanded that he take his own life.

• Yajie’s clear pool spread through the devil sea, absorbing Hentian’s attack and forcing him to reveal himself.
• Beigong Lan recognized Yajie as powerful dragonkin, but he dismissed her and told her to leave.
• Yajie ordered Hentian to take his own life, saying he had promised to preserve the Jade Spring Sect.
• Hentian attacked with his shadow bodies, but Yajie’s waters erased them and swept away the devil sea.
• Yajie imprisoned Hentian in blue-green radiance and warned that he would not repeat his demand.

Yajie overwhelmed Hentian with his azure-rain Divine Ability, rescued True Lord Jihai and Sunken Jade Valley, and drove Beigong Lan away before pursuing Hentian. After the battle, True Lord Jihai told True Person Mei that their sect master had likely surrendered his body to the Green Chi to save them, and she collapsed from grief.

• Yajie dissolved Hentian’s Six Paths Mire Incantation Light and struck his body with azure water, but Hentian sacrificed three shadow bodies and fled through a void rift.
• Yajie pulled True Lord Jihai and Sunken Jade Valley out of the devil light, washed them clean, and sent Beigong Lan flying back into the Spirit Gauze Sea.
• Yajie pursued Hentian as the azure rain and devil sea vanished, restoring daylight across Sunken Jade Valley and the surrounding three thousand miles.
• True Person Mei asked True Lord Jihai whether their sect master had driven Hentian away, and Jihai explained that their senior brother had likely yielded his body to the Green Chi to spare them.
• True Person Mei spat up golden blood and collapsed, while True Lord Canxia rushed to help her.

Jade Spring Sect struggled to recover after the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord’s attack, while Jihai left to pursue Qingchen’s possessed body. Ding Chengyu took charge as acting sect master and learned that Ning Country had fallen to demons; the chapter ended with him summoning Senior Brother Wei.

• True Lord Canxia told Jihai that Yingxue’s injuries had damaged her Divine Ability foundation and shortened her lifespan, though she could recover with pills.
• Jihai entrusted the Mystic Water Banner to True Lord Canxia and left to pursue Qingchen’s body, hoping to save his senior brother from the Green Chi.
• After Old Devil Hentian and the other demonic cultivators withdrew, Ding Chengyu became acting sect master as Jade Spring Sect began rebuilding.
• Ding Chengyu told True Lord Qingyu and Old Man Fish Pillow that Jihai had left to pursue Hentian and gave Old Man Fish Pillow temporary authority over the Vast Waves Alliance.
• True Lord Qingyu revealed that Ning Country had fallen to demons and that Huoyang and Kuchan had been injured while trapped in the Valley of Ten Thousand Spirits.
• Ding Chengyu spat up blood laced with demonic energy, then ordered a disciple to fetch Senior Brother Wei.

Chen Shuangbai awakened the Spirit Treasure’s primal spirit, Haoming Boy, and learned the heavenly gate’s name and abilities. Haoming Boy used the treasure’s stored spiritual essence to help Chen Shuangbai break through to the nascent soul middle stage.

• Chen Shuangbai and his Martial Dao avatar refined the heavenly gate with Law Power until its dormant consciousness stirred.
• Haoming Boy emerged, introduced himself as the heavenly gate’s primal spirit, and revealed its name: Revere Truth Purple Brilliance Inheriting Light Mystic Heavenly Gate.
• Chen Shuangbai learned that the high-grade Spirit Treasure could traverse the void, suppress demons, and discern hidden subtleties, but Haoming Boy remembered little about its origins.
• Haoming Boy poured the heavenly gate’s accumulated spiritual essence into Chen Shuangbai to help him advance.
• Chen Shuangbai reached the nascent soul middle stage, and he thanked Haoming Boy for the breakthrough.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Chen Shuangbai visited the three cultivators imprisoned in the heavenly gate and learned that the Holy Origin Alliance and its allies planned to destroy the Jade Spring Sect and the Vast Waves Alliance. He opened the gate and left, apparently heading to respond to the threat.

• Chen Shuangbai entered the heavenly gate’s Dharma realm and ordered Haoming Boy to keep True Lord Purple Thunder suppressed rather than kill him.
• Chen Shuangbai interrogated Jiluo and Wuguang, while the heavenly pillars continued draining the two demonic cultivators.
• Wuguang revealed that Old Devil Hentian had gathered Nascent Soul demon lords to attack the Jade Spring Sect and the Vast Waves Alliance.
• Jiluo confirmed the plot and mocked Chen Shuangbai, so Haoming Boy intensified the pillar’s suppression and silenced him.
• Chen Shuangbai told Haoming Boy to open the gate, then flew through with his Martial Dao avatar as the heavenly gate followed.

Chen Shuangbai learned that True Lord Qingchen had saved the Jade Spring Sect by yielding control of his body to Green Chi, and he went to Lotus Temple to demand an accounting. He struck the temple’s protective formation with the Golden Light Heaven-Soaring Divine Fist, and the collision left the world in silence.

• Chen Shuangbai and Shenyang arrived in Zheng Kingdom and questioned an Orthodox Mystery Alliance cultivator about events in the Vast Waves Alliance.
• The cultivator told Chen Shuangbai that the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord had attacked the Jade Spring Sect, that True Lord Qingchen repelled him using an unknown Secret Method, and that Qingchen’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Chen Shuangbai inferred that True Lord Qingchen had let Green Chi control his body to save the sect, then chose to visit Lotus Temple instead of returning to the Jade Spring Sect.
• Chen Shuangbai reached Lotus Temple openly, and its monks raised a Buddhist formation of lotus light to protect the temple.
• Chen Shuangbai struck Lotus Temple’s formation with the Golden Light Heaven-Soaring Divine Fist, and the golden light collided with the lotus light.

Chen Shuangbai’s Martial Dao avatar, Shenyang, devastated Lotus Temple and defeated its Nascent Soul middle stage monk, Tongchi. He declared that the attack was revenge for Lotus Temple’s role in bringing Jade Spring Sect to the brink of destruction.

• Shenyang shattered Lotus Temple’s formation and blasted a trench through the temple grounds, killing and wounding many disciples.
• Lotus Temple’s disciples attacked Shenyang with Buddhist Divine Abilities, but he swept away most of their attacks with the Divine Palm of the Midheaven in All Directions.
• Tongchi confronted Shenyang with Wrathful Vajra Gaze, but Shenyang shattered its manifestation and struck Tongchi with Supreme Sun-Blasting Heaven-Collapsing Hammer.
• Shenyang seized the dying Tongchi and declared that Lotus Temple’s conspiracy with the Holy Origin Alliance had brought Jade Spring Sect to the brink of destruction, and that he had come for revenge.

Chen Shuangbai destroyed Lotus Temple and hurried to the Parting Hate Gate to punish the sects that had conspired against the Jade Spring Sect. He sealed the area around the gate with the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate and faced its defenders.

• Chen Shuangbai left a taunting inscription at Lotus Temple after defeating Tongchi, whom Haoming Boy suppressed within his true body.
• Cultivators learned that Chen Shuangbai was heading to the Parting Hate Gate and rushed to witness his next attack.
• Hong Qing tried to restrain Chen Shuangbai as he crossed Heavenly Star Alliance territory, but a senior True Lord intervened and let him pass.
• Chen Shuangbai reached the Parting Hate Gate, where True Lord Yousha and True Lord Xuetu had raised a fourth-tier demonic formation against him.
• Chen Shuangbai summoned the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate, sealing a three-thousand-li area around the Parting Hate Gate.

Chen Shuangbai trapped the Parting Hate Gate beneath the high-grade [Truth-Revering Purple Radiance Brightness-Inheriting Mystic Heavenly Gate] and unleashed purple sun heavenly fire against its defenses. Xuetu realized Chen Shuangbai intended to refine the entire sect and the surrounding land alive.

• Yousha and Xuetu saw the Heavenly Gate and learned from Devil Lord Yuan that its power surpassed their [Blood Essence Cloud-Shaking Devil Stele].
• Yousha and Xuetu merged the devil stele with the Parting Hate Gate’s fourth-tier formation, empowering it with blood-colored liquid from her jade vial.
• Chen Shuangbai ordered Haoming Boy to activate the twelve purple-gold banners surrounding the sect.
• The banners awakened the Heavenly Gate, which released purple sun heavenly fire that quickly cracked the formation and overwhelmed Devil Lord Yuan.
• Xuetu understood that Chen Shuangbai meant to refine the Parting Hate Gate and the surrounding three thousand li of land.

Chen Shuangbai used the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate and Purple Sun Heavenly Fire to destroy Parting Hate Gate, trapping its surviving disciples and elders in a fiery slaughter. After the flames burned for a day and night, the sect's mountain headquarters was reduced to ash and its Dao lineage was destroyed.

• Chen Shuangbai's Purple Sun Heavenly Fire broke Parting Hate Gate's protective formation and burned through its mountain headquarters.
• Devil Lord Yuan sheltered the few disciples who fled to the summit hall, while Xuetu and Yousha confronted Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai brought Jiluo before the survivors and pinned him in the air to watch the sect burn.
• Haoming Boy compressed the devil stele's protection until the trapped disciples fought and killed one another for space.
• The purple flames burned for a day and night, leaving Parting Hate Gate's mountain range scorched and its Dao lineage destroyed.

Chen Shuangbai destroyed the Parting Hate Gate, then returned to the Jade Spring Sect to learn about the attacks on its allies and help with the sect’s recovery. The chapter ended with him learning that Gao Yi had been abducted, though the captor claimed to be keeping him as a guest.

• Hong Qing and a Nascent Soul True Lord surveyed the Parting Hate Gate’s destruction and worried that the Jade Spring Sect possessed two high-grade Spirit Treasures.
• Chen Shuangbai visited Old Man Fish Pillow at the Flower Washing Sword Sect, learned about the forces involved in the assault on his sect, and declared that he would target the Holy Origin Demonic Alliance.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to Sunken Jade Valley, where True Lord Canxia guarded the sect, Ding Chengyu oversaw its rebuilding, and the Mystic Sea Avatar treated the wounded.
• Chen Shuangbai gave True Person Mei a drop of Hundred Flowers Immortal Dew to stabilize her divine abilities, then met his unharmed master Yi Chongyue and the disciples who remained at the sect.
• Qu Heng arrived and confessed that Gao Yi had been abducted while he was escorting him; Chen Shuangbai’s eyes briefly blazed with crimson light before the captor’s message said Gao Yi was being kept as a guest.