Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai entered Great Li Mountain to pursue the Profound Water Banner and encountered the Ancient People tribes’ shamans. After Feiguang slew an ancient Wrathful Plume Dark Eagle, the Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman helped explain Chen Shuangbai’s purpose, but Great Shaman Yage and the others remained difficult to persuade.

• Chen Shuangbai followed the Profound Water Banner into Great Li Mountain, the shaman way’s reserved domain, with Chen Yazhen and Gao Yi accompanying him.
• Chen Shuangbai pressed deeper into the mountains without seeking the Dark Crow Tribe’s help, drawing the attention of an ancient Wrathful Plume Dark Eagle.
• Feiguang killed the Late Golden Core Stage Wrathful Plume Dark Eagle, displaying its growing ferocity and potential to reach Nascent Soul.
• Five powerful figures confronted Chen Shuangbai, and Great Shaman Yage demanded to know why he had entered Great Li Mountain.
• The Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman arrived and spoke with Chen Shuangbai, then argued with Yage before advising Chen Shuangbai to use his sword to settle the dispute.

Chen Shuangbai drove off Great Shaman Yage and the other tribesmen, then entered the Narrow Ravine to retrieve another Profound Water Banner. There he subdued a three-headed venomous flood dragon, which Haoming Boy began interrogating.

• Great Shaman Yage summoned a swarm of snakes, but Chen Shuangbai cut through his bronze staff and wounded him, forcing him to flee.
• Chen Shuangbai intimidated the other three shamans into retreating and thanked the Dark Crow Tribe's great shaman for his help.
• The Dark Crow Tribe's great shaman led Chen Shuangbai and his disciples to the Narrow Ravine, where Chen asked him to watch over the disciples before descending alone.
• Chen Shuangbai found a second Profound Water Banner beside a mire, but a three-headed venomous flood dragon erupted from it before True Lord Jihai's divine sense could finish speaking.
• Chen Shuangbai struck the early-stage Nascent Soul flood dragon down in one move, and Haoming Boy ordered it to answer his questions and call him lord.

Chen Shuangbai followed True Lord Jihai’s clues into Great Li Mountain, where he uncovered why Green Chi had come there: it had sought the remains of a Nascent Soul flood dragon to help seize control of True Lord Qingchen’s body. The Profound Water Banner then pointed Chen Shuangbai toward the place where Green Chi had gone.

• Haoming Boy pulled True Lord Jihai’s Profound Water Banner from a three-headed venomous flood dragon, and the three banners revealed Jihai’s message about Green Chi and True Lord Qingchen’s unusual soul.
• True Lord Jihai’s divine sense said the banner would guide Chen Shuangbai toward places where Green Chi had stopped, and the reunited banners pointed deeper into Great Li Mountain.
• Chen Yazhen deduced that Green Chi had to stop and suppress Qingchen’s soul when it resisted, while Changming suggested Green Chi had been drawn to something hidden in the mountains.
• Chen Shuangbai connected Green Chi’s search to the remains of a Nascent Soul flood dragon and followed the banner to an ancient deep pool.
• Chen Shuangbai found the flood dragon’s corpse with its essence already taken, and Haoming Boy put away the remains as the Profound Water Banner trembled more intensely.

True Lord Jinxuan learned that Chen Shuangbai had defeated their plans for the immortal island and ordered the Arrayed Mystery Sect to avoid confronting him for now. As the Sword Alliance pursued the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord and Chen Shuangbai’s fame spread, Chen followed the Profound Water Banner into a shattered otherworldly space and found True Lord Jihai.

• Purple Thunder reported to True Lord Jinxuan that Chen Shuangbai had defeated him on the immortal island and caused his cultivation to fall.
• True Lord Jinxuan decided the Arrayed Mystery Sect should avoid clashing with Chen Shuangbai and focus on seeking the immortal island again.
• True Lord Jinxuan left to join True Lord Baishi in pursuing the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord pursued Devil Lord Yuandu, and the Blood Sea Dao and Lifeless City withdrew from West Kingdom to the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea.
• Chen Shuangbai’s reputation rose after the Transformation Sect and Parting Hate Gate were destroyed, while the Jade Spring Sect and Vast Waves Alliance focused on taking over former Holy Origin Alliance territory.
• Chen Shuangbai followed the Profound Water Banner into a shattered otherworldly space and found True Lord Jihai sitting on a stone outcrop.

Chen Shuangbai healed True Lord Jihai and helped suppress the Green Chi Yajie’s lingering power before leading the group through the void. They discovered a vast tunnel complex that Changming identified as an abandoned nest of Void-Piercing Borer Dragons.

• Chen Shuangbai gave True Lord Jihai five-colored jade dew, which helped him refine its vitality and suppress his injuries.
• True Lord Jihai learned the Jade Spring Sect was safe, met Haoming Boy, and praised Chen Shuangbai as the key to the sect’s rise.
• Chen Shuangbai gave True Lord Jihai the [Scarlet Yang Pure Truth Mountain-Suppressing Ruyi], which suppressed the Green Chi Yajie’s lingering Divine Ability.
• True Lord Jihai used six Profound Water Banners to lead the group along a waterway through the void.
• The group found an enormous complex of intersecting tunnels, and Changming identified it as a possible old nest of Void-Piercing Borer Dragons.
• Chen Shuangbai reasoned that the nest was abandoned because no creatures had reacted to their approach, and Changming agreed.

Jihai and Chen Shuangbai pursued the Green Chi through an abandoned Void-Piercing Borer Dragon nest, where they encountered the Azure Cloud Sword Lord, who had been chasing Yuandu. After joining forces, they compared their reasons for entering the tunnels, and Chen Shuangbai asked what Yuandu had taken from the Black and Yellow Land.

• Changming explained that Void-Piercing Borer Dragons were powerful in the void but died soon after entering the material world.
• Jihai, Chen Shuangbai, and their companions found signs of an abandoned borer dragon nest as they followed the Green Chi’s trail.
• Green rain and emerald waterlight appeared in the tunnel, revealing the Green Chi’s divine ability, and Haoming Boy moved the weaker cultivators into his self-contained space.
• Jihai and Chen Shuangbai met the Azure Cloud Sword Lord, who said Yuandu had fled into the tunnels after escaping his pursuit.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord praised Chen Shuangbai for attacking the demonic sect headquarters and promised to visit the Jade Spring Sect with his disciples.
• Jihai and Chen Shuangbai explained that the Green Chi had seized Jihai’s senior brother’s body, then Chen Shuangbai asked what Yuandu had taken from the Black and Yellow Land.

Chen Shuangbai learned that Yuandu sought the shell of a Night Devil Beast to gain its innate abilities, and he and True Lord Jihai pursued the fleeing Green Chi. As the Azure Cloud Sword Lord left to track Yuandu, Chen Shuangbai concealed himself and raced ahead after Green Chi.

• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord revealed that Yuandu had stolen the shell of a Night Devil Beast once sealed in the Black and Yellow Land.
• Changming explained that the beast’s shell could retain its innate abilities, including powers of escape, illusions, and dreams, which Yuandu could absorb.
• Chen Shuangbai and the Azure Cloud Sword Lord resolved that Yuandu must not escape, and the Sword Lord departed to follow traces of his Sword Essence.
• True Lord Jihai pursued the constantly moving Green Chi with the Profound Water Banner while Chen Shuangbai used his Dharma Eye to locate the beast.
• Chen Shuangbai concealed his presence with the grand yin authority and surged ahead in a sword rainbow to pursue Green Chi.

Chen Shuangbai confronted Yajie in the passage and offered him a Feathered Serpent body in exchange for releasing True Lord Qingchen. Yajie refused, and their clash began with Chen Shuangbai's sword strike shaking Yajie's water shield.

• Yajie tried to refine True Lord Qingchen's soul, but Qingchen's golden-white barrier resisted the azure rain and he revealed that his helper had arrived.
• Chen Shuangbai appeared before Yajie, whose divine sense had searched the passage, and filled the area with violet-gold radiance and Sword Intent.
• Chen Shuangbai asked Yajie to release True Lord Qingchen and offered him a mixed-blood Feathered Serpent body as compensation.
• Yajie rejected the offer and attacked Chen Shuangbai with a claw formed from azure rain, while a golden-haired, violet-eyed boy raised a defense.
• Chen Shuangbai drew Foot-Long Silk and struck Yajie's sixfold water shield, cracking it without breaking through.

Chen Shuangbai and Haoming Boy kept Yajie trapped in a purple-gold domain while True Lord Qingchen disrupted the dragon soul from within. Yajie unleashed Turbid Lightning and struck at Chen Shuangbai, whose Dharma Eye revealed the danger just as an unknown toad’s cry sounded from his brow.

• Chen Shuangbai wounded Yajie with the Grand Yin sword, while Haoming Boy’s purple-gold radiance compressed the Green Chi’s room to move.
• True Lord Qingchen taunted Yajie from within the heart lake as Haoming Boy formed twelve pillars and spread a sea of purple fire.
• Yajie summoned Turbid Lightning, filling the domain with dark clouds, white lightning, and Yin Lightning that rapidly eroded Chen Shuangbai’s defenses and Law Power.
• Yajie’s lightning-wreathed dragon claw reached Chen Shuangbai’s brow as black light in the pool slowed his body and Divine Abilities.
• Chen Shuangbai’s Dharma Eye caught sight of Yajie’s uncanny face, and a red-and-black light appeared between his brows as an unknown toad cried out.

Chen Shuangbai and Haoming Boy contained Yajie's corrosive Divine Ability while True Lord Qingchen disrupted Yajie's control of the heart lake. Chen Shuangbai froze Yajie's pool with a treasure mirror, and Haoming Boy sealed it beneath the Purple-Gold Heavenly Pillar as True Lord Jihai asked whether they had succeeded.

• Yajie's black current began absorbing the power of his own blue-green rain and dark clouds, but Chen Shuangbai used Haoming Boy and [Grand Yin Authority] to counter it.
• Haoming Boy manifested the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate and compressed Yajie's Divine Ability into a small pool, but Yajie made the pool swell and corrode the gate's radiance.
• Chen Shuangbai raised his Grand Yin sword and gathered a savage crimson comet at its tip, scattering much of the corrosive water-light.
• True Lord Qingchen shattered the golden-white radiance containing him and used five-colored splendor to weaken Yajie's control of the heart lake for an instant.
• Chen Shuangbai drove a pure white treasure mirror into the pool and froze it, then Haoming Boy suppressed it beneath the Purple-Gold Heavenly Pillar.
• True Lord Jihai asked if the plan had worked, and Chen Shuangbai confirmed that it had.

True Lord Qingchen regained control of his body after True Lord Jihai and Chen Shuangbai suppressed Yajie’s dragon soul. The group left the passage to pursue Yuandu and Hentian while Qingchen vowed to settle old scores.

• Haoming Boy brought True Lord Jihai and Chen Shuangbai into his true body, where they confronted the suppressed Yajie and Qingchen’s body.
• True Lord Jihai handed Qingchen the Scarlet Yang Pure Truth Mountain-Suppressing Ruyi, allowing Qingchen to suppress Yajie and reclaim control of his body.
• Qingchen said Yajie could not be fully refined away soon, so Chen Shuangbai had Haoming Boy add another seal to restrain the dragon soul.
• True Lord Jihai returned to the Jade Spring Sect to restore order and report Qingchen’s escape, while Chen Shuangbai went with Qingchen to meet the Azure Cloud Sword Lord and pursue Yuandu and Hentian.
• Qingchen declared that he would settle the accounts from the past while warning that others had mistaken his patience for a good temper.

Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen followed the Azure Cloud Sword Lord’s Sword Essence through a Void-Piercing Borer Dragon’s vast old nest. Changming explained the nest’s valuable resources as the group continued deeper in search of the Sword Essence’s destination.

• Chen Shuangbai released the Azure Cloud Sword Lord’s Sword Essence, and he and True Lord Qingchen followed it through the nest.
• Chen Shuangbai summoned Changming, who greeted True Lord Qingchen and described Void-Piercing Borer Dragons as communal insect beasts that build their nests with a special liquid.
• Changming explained that shed shells can form void crystal stone, a material useful for crafting storage artifacts, flying boats, and spatial treasures.
• Changming said that dead borer dragon eggs can petrify into rare void embryo pearls, which can be used to refine clones or forge void-powered treasures and may even extend lifespans.
• Changming mentioned that the worker insects collect shiny objects, and True Lord Qingchen praised him for knowing how to stay alive.

Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen found the injured Azure Cloud Sword Lord in the old nest and joined him in pursuing Yuandu. Their pursuit was interrupted when a Void Worm’s attack awakened a colony of Void-Piercing Borer Dragons, which swarmed the beast.

• Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen found the Azure Cloud Sword Lord, who said Yuandu had escaped after leaving a troublesome Divine Ability behind.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord, Chen Shuangbai, and True Lord Qingchen resumed their pursuit of Yuandu through the old nest.
• A Void Worm broke into a passage and began devouring the nest, and Changming identified it as a beast that fed on Void-Piercing Borer Dragon nests.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord realized the Void Worm’s noise had stirred a colony of Borer Dragons, and Changming explained that eggs left in the abandoned nest had produced survivors.
• Thousands of Void-Piercing Borer Dragons surged through the passage and attacked the Void Worm.

Nether Sparrow Demon Lord appeared in the passage and absorbed the life essence of the insects to regain its strength. Azure Cloud Sword Lord, Chen Shuangbai, and True Lord Qingchen attacked it together, leaving the battle underway.

• Nether Sparrow Demon Lord swept into the passage on a tide of black fire, burning the insects and absorbing their life essence.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord asked Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen to help stop the Demon Lord before it recovered its full strength, and they agreed.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord attacked with his two treasured swords and a storm of azure and white sword stars, interrupting Nether Sparrow Demon Lord's feeding.
• Nether Sparrow Demon Lord recognized Azure Cloud Sword Lord's Great Li Sword Scripture and vowed revenge on the successors of Chunhe, who had sealed it.
• Nether Sparrow Demon Lord unleashed a blackfire tide and concealed a deep-blue tail feather within it, but Chen Shuangbai struck the feather aside with golden-white Sword Essence.
• Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen joined Azure Cloud Sword Lord, each announcing their challenge to Nether Sparrow Demon Lord.

Azure Cloud Sword Lord, True Lord Qingchen, and Chen Shuangbai fought Nether Sparrow Demon Lord, but its Ghost Chariot blood let it escape their attacks. Devil Lord Yuandu arrived and proposed an alliance with the demon, leaving Nether Sparrow Demon Lord weighing his offer.

• True Lord Qingchen used the Five Virtues Water Fortune Mystic Gui to suppress Nether Sparrow Demon Lord's black fire while Azure Cloud Sword Lord trapped it with sword stars.
• Chen Shuangbai brought down a towering heavenly gate, but Nether Sparrow Demon Lord turned insubstantial and escaped the threefold attack.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord explained that Nether Sparrow Demon Lord's Ghost Chariot blood let it evade ordinary Divine Abilities.
• Nether Sparrow Demon Lord absorbed more life essence and recognized Devil Lord Yuandu as the one who had opened its seal.
• Yuandu invited Nether Sparrow Demon Lord to cooperate against the humans, tempting it with the prospect of consuming their flesh and Divine Souls.
• Nether Sparrow Demon Lord mocked human cultivators for their infighting and asked Yuandu what he proposed.

Azure Cloud Sword Lord and True Lord Qingchen battled the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord while Chen Shuangbai confronted Devil Lord Yuandu. Yuandu revealed his mastery of the Night Devil Beast’s concealment and trapped Chen Shuangbai within the Netherworld Ten Thousand Ghost Mandala Great Barrier.

• The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord attacked Azure Cloud Sword Lord and his companions with waves of black fire, but Azure Cloud Sword Lord and True Lord Qingchen held it at bay.
• True Lord Qingchen struck the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord with the [Five Virtues Water Fortune Mystic Gui], forcing it to take his Divine Ability seriously.
• Chen Shuangbai confronted Devil Lord Yuandu, who dismissed the Transformation Sect’s destruction and attacked with the [Heavenly Poison Corpse Fire].
• Yuandu vanished using a concealment Divine Ability, but Haoming Boy blocked his surprise attack as Chen Shuangbai used his Dharma Eye to track him.
• Yuandu unleashed the Netherworld Ten Thousand Ghost Mandala Great Barrier around Chen Shuangbai and declared he would demonstrate the might of a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great True Lord.

Chen Shuangbai fought Devil Lord Yuandu and discovered that Yuandu’s lingering injuries from Qingyun’s sword strikes left him vulnerable. After Chen Shuangbai wounded him, Yuandu revealed two more Nascent Soul Middle Stage puppets, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Chen Shuangbai used Sword Intent to destroy Yuandu’s waves of yin ghosts and evil creatures, but Yuandu awakened a blue-robed Daoist puppet to attack him.
• Chen Shuangbai recognized the sword scars Qingyun had left on Yuandu and concealed himself to strike through the Mandala barrier.
• Chen Shuangbai hit Yuandu’s devil body with Foot-Long Silk, blasting him back and adding golden-white light to his sword scars.
• Yuandu summoned two more puppets from the remaining Mandala buds, one dressed in red and the other in white, both with Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation.

Chen Shuangbai destroyed Devil Lord Yuandu’s three powerful puppets while the [True-Venerating Purple Radiance Brightness-Inheriting Mystic Heavenly Gate] suppressed Yuandu’s barrier. He then invoked the crimson-black power of Moon Comet and prepared to face Yuandu directly.

• Chen Shuangbai used the [True-Venerating Purple Radiance Brightness-Inheriting Mystic Heavenly Gate] and Purple Sun Heavenly Fire to hold back Yuandu’s attacks while he concealed himself.
• Chen Shuangbai killed the red-robed Daoist with a strike of gentle moonlight.
• Chen Shuangbai cut through the blue-robed Daoist’s mountain phantoms and cracked the white-robed Daoist’s pagoda, then killed both with help from the [Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror].
• Yuandu admitted that he had underestimated Chen Shuangbai, whose gate continued to suppress the Netherworld Ten Thousand Ghost Mandala Great Barrier.
• Chen Shuangbai told Yuandu he had overestimated his own strength, then transformed his sword into the crimson-black Moon Comet sword as Yuandu roared in fury.

Yuandu used an uncanny devil incantation to blind Chen Shuangbai and strike him with his soul-devouring Law Treasure, but Chen Shuangbai recovered with [Dew-Drinking Radiance] and counterattacked. Yuandu then summoned an embracing pair of ghosts, whose circle swallowed Chen Shuangbai’s crimson sword light.

• Yuandu reappeared in the void, weakened after Chen Shuangbai had killed him several times with [Foot-Long Silk].
• Chen Shuangbai struck Yuandu with the Moon Comet baleful sword, driving him back and shaking loose his devil light.
• Yuandu chanted an uncanny devil incantation that made Chen Shuangbai’s eyeballs disappear, then rammed the [Soul-Seizing, Spirit-Invading, Primordial-Storing Urn] into his chest.
• Haoming Boy failed to stop the strike, but [Dew-Drinking Radiance] restored Chen Shuangbai’s eyes and drove out the red light as it plundered his vitality.
• Chen Shuangbai split Yuandu’s second red-light attack with his sword, then launched a powerful crimson strike at him.
• Yuandu summoned two entwined ghosts, and the blue-black ghost traced a circle that swallowed Chen Shuangbai’s sword light.

Chen Shuangbai stopped Devil Lord Yuandu from escaping and wounded him with a crimson comet strike, though Yuandu vanished before Chen could keep him there. Afterward, Haoming Boy brought Chen the Night Devil Beast’s strange, dark bodily shell.

• Yuandu used Dew-Drinking Radiance to recover his presence and began escaping through the void as the ghosts and darkness covered his retreat.
• Chen Shuangbai concealed his intent while Yuandu mocked him and prepared to leave.
• Chen Shuangbai activated the Sword Intent he had left on Yuandu, using it to halt his escape for an instant.
• Chen Shuangbai drove a crimson comet into Yuandu’s chest and cut through the Mandala barrier, but Yuandu vanished in an eruption of darkness.
• Haoming Boy appeared beside Chen Shuangbai with the Night Devil Beast’s dark, heartlike bodily shell.