Chapter Summaries

Shen Yun confronted Jun Ling Yuan, exposed him as Eternal Night Devil Venerable, and overwhelmed his demonic arts with the Sacred Law of Time. Jun Ling Yuan spat blood and fell into hysterical madness as the battle continued.

• Shen Yun identified Jun Ling Yuan as Eternal Night Devil Venerable, and the Heavenly Prides realized the ancient demon had possessed Jun Ling Yuan's body.
• Jun Ling Yuan vowed to slaughter Shen Yun and devour the Heavenly Prides to restore his cultivation.
• Shen Yun challenged Jun Ling Yuan's comparison to Jade Void Immortal Venerable and attacked with the Sacred Law of Time.
• Jun Ling Yuan unleashed the Eight Desolations Heavenly Dragon Demonic Art, but Shen Yun's River of Time rapidly decayed its demonic dragons and suppressed his powers.
• Time ripples withered Jun Ling Yuan's demonic aura and body, leaving him to spit blood and descend into hysterical madness.

Shen Yun killed Jun Ling Yuan after thwarting his attacks with the Sacred Law of Time and Space. The battlefield was left clear of the old demon and his fused Primordial Spirit.

• Jun Ling Yuan charged at the Heavenly Prides and Saintesses, but Shen Yun pierced his qi sea with an invisible Sword Light before his demonic bird could strike.
• Shen Yun repeatedly attacked Jun Ling Yuan with the Heavenly Sword until his Demon Body disintegrated into calamity ash.
• Shen Yun spotted Jun Ling Yuan's hidden two-headed Primordial Spirit and used the Mirror of Years and Rings to suppress its Yin-Yang attack.
• Jun Ling Yuan ignited his Primordial Spirit and cast a Dark Matter curse, but Shen Yun remained unharmed and struck him with the Fate Heavenly Sword.
• Shen Yun's Dao Fire of Karma consumed Jun Ling Yuan's fused Primordial Spirit, reducing it to nothingness.

After defeating Eternal Night Devil Venerable, Shen Yun set out for the Spirit-Severing Abyss to gather the Dark Matter needed to prepare for Ling Jiuxiao. On the way, he confronted Jia Daoren and revealed that he knew the merchant was the Right Envoy of Divination.

• Shen Yun accepted Little Martial Saint's thanks for killing Eternal Night Devil Venerable and avenging his master.
• Shen Yun resolved to find another place of extreme yin and travel to the Spirit-Severing Abyss before facing Ling Jiuxiao.
• A Purple-Gold Compass revealed a familiar aura, prompting Shen Yun to seek out Jia Daoren on his way.
• Shen Yun found Jia Daoren crossing the desert and displayed a Purple-Gold Compass, drawing the merchant's attention.
• Shen Yun identified Jia Daoren as the Right Envoy of Divination and warned that he would take the God Venerable's treasure and destroy Ling Jiuxiao's share.
• Jia Daoren dropped his merchant-like facade and revealed an ancient, imposing presence.

Shen Yun confronted Jia Daoren about the Fate Divine Sect’s secrets and revealed that he held the Moon Secret Key as well as the Stellar Secret Key. Jia Daoren confirmed that Ling Jiuxiao was the Destiny Heavenly Book’s Transcendence Chapter, but Shen Yun insisted Ling Jiuxiao must die and departed, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Jia Daoren admitted he was Right Envoy Lüsuan, and Shen Yun revealed he possessed the Moon Secret Key.
• Shen Yun explained that Great Venerable Bai Ze had likely met with misfortune and that the Stellar Secret Key had fallen into the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Shen Yun deduced that Ling Jiuxiao was the missing Transcendence Chapter, and Jia Daoren confirmed it.
• Jia Daoren urged Shen Yun to let Ling Jiuxiao obtain the Divine Venerable’s inheritance, but Shen Yun declared that Ling Jiuxiao must die.
• Shen Yun warned Jia Daoren not to stand against him and vanished into the Cloud Sea, while Jia Daoren remained on the ancient road.

Heavenly Prides searched the Sea of No Return for Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes relics, and a cultivator’s Tomb-Raiding Talismans quickly uncovered several ancient treasures. Senior Brother Shangguan led the Fortune Sect to a supposed great tomb, but the space opened before he could act, and Shen Qiu’s laughter rang out from within.

• The Heavenly Prides traveled north to the Sea of No Return and began searching the desert for relics of the Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes.
• A young cultivator used the Secret Realm Ripper’s Tomb-Raiding Talisman to uncover a Golden Immortal spiritual treasure fragment and then three more artifacts.
• The Fortune Sect disciples felt embarrassed by their poor search results and looked to Senior Brother Shangguan to restore their reputation.
• Senior Brother Shangguan used his dragon-seeking eyes to locate what he believed was a great tomb and pointed out its spatial node.
• The valley collapsed into a black vortex, and Shen Qiu’s laughter announced that he had taken down the secret realm in a single day.

Shen Qiu emerged from the Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes with supreme treasures after surviving a disastrous expedition that left the Burial Ground group battered and three disciples converted to Buddhism. Just as he believed he had finally surpassed Shen Yun, he learned that Shen Yun had slain the Eternal Night Devil Venerable and claimed an inheritance containing two Great Luo Immortal Treasures.

• Shen Qiu emerged from the spatial vortex wearing ancient treasures as the battered Burial Ground Young Master and his elites followed behind him.
• Disciple Mo told Senior Brother Shangguan that Shen Qiu's reckless actions had led the group into battles with Vajra guardians and a wrathful monk, who converted three disciples.
• Disciple Mo explained that Shen Qiu survived because he devoured sacred medicines, broke through his bottleneck, and triggered a Heavenly Immortal tribulation that harmed the ancient souls.
• Luo Guyin confronted Shen Qiu, who insisted he had warned the others not to follow him if they were too weak, while the Burial Ground Young Master ordered the group to recover.
• Shen Qiu celebrated his haul and thought he might have surpassed Shen Yun, but he learned that Shen Yun had killed the Eternal Night Devil Venerable and taken Left Envoy Duobao's inheritance, including two Great Luo Immortal Treasures.

After realizing Shen Qiu had gained even more than he had, Shen Qiu recovered his confidence and declared he would challenge another secret realm. Senior Brother Shangguan revealed the deadly Shattering Void Demon Tomb in the Spirit-Severing Abyss and challenged Shen Qiu to go with him, setting their contest in motion.

• Luo Guyin encouraged Shen Qiu, who shook off his despair and boasted that he would challenge a secret realm greater than Qingyan Platform.
• Senior Brother Shangguan recognized Shen Qiu as the Secret Realm Ripper, and the gathered cultivators reacted with alarm to his reputation for bringing misfortune.
• Senior Brother Shangguan offered to take Shen Qiu to the Shattering Void Demon Tomb in the Spirit-Severing Abyss, a notorious forbidden ground.
• Shen Qiu accepted the challenge, and Senior Brother Shangguan said they would leave immediately.
• Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan flew north toward the Spirit-Severing Abyss.

Lu Chen and two Jade Void Gate disciples escaped a Blood Curse Asura at the edge of the Spirit-Severing Abyss, then learned that the Holy Son and Wan Jinsheng’s group were trapped in the Shattering Void Demon Tomb. Lu Chen plunged back into the abyss to find them, where he heard a voice announce that the Ancestor God had opened the Ancient Heavenly Road.

• Lu Chen and two disciples crawled out of the Spirit-Severing Abyss after losing two companions to a Blood Curse Asura.
• Lu Chen ordered the survivors to heal, search for the Holy Son, and seek help, while spirit puppets scouted the abyss.
• A faint Divine Sense message revealed that the Holy Son, Wan Jinsheng, and others were trapped in the Shattering Void Demon Tomb and needed rescue.
• Lu Chen decided to enter the demon tomb alone while the other disciples searched for help from Cang Hao and Shen Yun.
• Lu Chen followed a battle puppet’s signal into the abyss and heard a voice declare that the Ancestor God had opened the Ancient Heavenly Road.

Lu Chen overheard five ancient Underworld demons discussing their plan to retrieve the Chaos Hollow First Elder and trap the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Prides, then followed them into the Shattering Void Demon Tomb. As Death Qi and the Calamity Beasts suddenly fell silent, Lu Chen recognized that someone powerful had arrived and hurried toward the source.

• Lu Chen hid as Inferno Prison Asura, Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal, Sun-Devouring Rakshasa, and two other demons discussed the Ancient Heavenly Road and their plans.
• Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal sensed a trace of Human Race aura, but concluded that someone had already entered the Shattering Void Demon Tomb.
• The five demons entered the void vortex, intending to retrieve the Chaos Hollow First Elder and use the Immortal Ancient Battlefield to capture the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Prides.
• Lu Chen worried that Jade Void Saint Son and the others would be overwhelmed, then crept toward the demon tomb.
• A sudden storm stirred the Death Qi, and the Calamity Beasts fell silent; Lu Chen recognized the arrival and rushed toward it.

Shen Yun refined Extreme Yin Dark Matter in the Spirit-Severing Abyss and achieved a transformation of his life level. After Lu Chen warned him that the Underworld army was returning, Shen Yun agreed to go to the Shattering Void Demon Tomb, and another familiar figure approached as he resumed cultivating.

• Shen Yun entered the Spirit-Severing Abyss and used the Creation Furnace to refine its Death Qi into Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang Origin.
• Shen Yun completed a qualitative leap in his Dao Cultivation, and his Creation Sword Qi drove off the abyss's demons and beasts, including the Blood Curse Asura.
• Lu Chen arrived and told Shen Yun that the Ancient Heavenly Road had been restored and the Underworld army was making a comeback.
• Shen Yun recognized the significance of Lu Chen's account, including the return of Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal, and promised to go to the Shattering Void Demon Tomb in two days.
• Lu Chen departed to warn the Jade Void Saint Son, while Shen Yun decided to set out half a day early after finishing his cultivation.
• Two more figures approached, and Shen Yun sensed a familiar black-robed figure among them.

Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan entered the Spirit-Severing Abyss, where Shen Qiu rushed ahead to challenge Shen Yun for the Secret Treasure. Shen Yun then recognized Cang Hao as the figure who shot up from the bottom of the abyss.

• Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan found the Spirit-Severing Abyss strangely quiet because Shen Yun had already frightened its Calamity Beasts into hiding.
• Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan concealed themselves near a violent Death Qi storm, but falling rocks and a collapsing Stone Platform forced Senior Brother Shangguan to cling to the cliff.
• Shen Qiu grabbed Senior Brother Shangguan and dragged him down toward the abyss floor, where he spotted Shen Yun and vowed to beat him in the treasure hunt.
• Shen Yun let Shen Qiu charge into the darkness and worried that Jade Void Saint Son and the others would face unexpected trouble.
• A purple-clad figure shot up from the bottom of the abyss, and Shen Yun recognized him as Cang Hao.

Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan entered the Shattered-Star Demon Tomb, where they discovered the remains of shattered Great Luo Immortal Artifacts. When the Chaos Hollow First Elder revived and erased their escape route, the two searched for a way out before five demonic shadows descended into the storm.

• Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan examined the tomb’s Death Qi and learned that its black mountains were shattered ancient Immortal Artifacts still saturated with lethal intent.
• Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan parted ways after Shen Qiu challenged him, but a massive explosion interrupted them.
• The Chaos Hollow First Elder revived as a colossal demonic beast, and Senior Brother Shangguan recognized him as a threat beyond their ability to face.
• Senior Brother Shangguan discovered that the entrance had vanished, while Shen Qiu deployed puppets and Tomb-Raiding Talismans to search for an escape route.
• The First Elder’s destructive aura battered the Secret Realm, and five powerful demonic shadows descended into the storm as the pair faced the oncoming catastrophe.

The five great quasi-giants of the Underworld overwhelmed the Chaos Hollow First Elder with a coordinated attack and Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal’s soul power. While Wan Jinsheng and the others hid nearby, he proposed sacrificing everyone to open Nirvana Valley so they could survive the next two days.

• The five Underworld demons restrained the Chaos Hollow First Elder, and Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal burned soul banners to weaken his mind.
• Jade Void Saint Son blamed Lu Chen for entering the Shattered-Star Demon Tomb instead of bringing Shen Yun to help.
• Wan Jinsheng urged the group to hold out for two days, but Jade Void Saint Son warned that the enemies could easily kill them.
• Wan Jinsheng secretly told Jade Void Saint Son that he had a plan to keep them alive.
• Wan Jinsheng proposed sacrificing everyone present to force open Nirvana Valley, a secret realm that restrained Demonic Beasts.

Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son tricked the desperate cultivators into helping them capture Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan as supposed sacrifices. Meanwhile, First Elder Juekong awakened among the Underworld Clan and began recovering his power, setting the stage for a massacre.

• Wan Jinsheng exposed Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan's hiding place, and the Jade Void Saint Son persuaded the other cultivators that capturing them would open Nirvana Valley and offer a way to escape.
• The Jade Void Saint Son led the cultivators to surround Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan, who fled toward the dangerous black mountains.
• Wan Jinsheng caught up with the pair and suppressed them with his Divine Sense before they could fight back.
• The five Underworld Clan titans noticed the Immortal Realm cultivators killing one another but focused on awakening First Elder Juekong.
• Juekong awakened, promised to ensure the intruders would not escape, and revealed a black sun as his eighth Chaos Hollow began to solidify.
• Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal said a secret art from Lord Nether River would let him purge Juekong's death intent and restore him within half an hour.

Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son lured the Immortal Realm Heavenly Prides to Nirvana Valley and sacrificed them to activate its deadly power. After they captured the survivors, Lu Chen was left alone before the Jade Void Saint Son.

• Universe Hall and Heavenly Blade Sect disciples forced Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan toward Nirvana Valley, intending to sacrifice them to distract the demons.
• Wan Jinsheng explained that the valley had formed from fragments of a Phoenix Clan giant’s Wutong Spirit Wood Life Artifact, then threw Shen Qiu and Senior Brother Shangguan into it.
• Nirvana flames erupted from the valley, and Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son tricked the Heavenly Prides into entering a deadly trap.
• Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son captured the fleeing survivors and cast them into the valley.
• Lu Chen was the only one left, and the Jade Void Saint Son ordered him to walk into the valley himself.

The Jade Void Saint Son and Wan Jinsheng sacrificed the Heavenly Prides to open the Xuanmen, while Lu Chen was battered and thrown into the tunnel. As the Life-Death Furnace drained the captives, a mysterious black wok appeared and began smashing them, leaving Lu Chen pleading for mercy.

• The Jade Void Saint Son attacked Lu Chen, and Wan Jinsheng quickly overpowered him, shattered his sword, and hurled him into the tunnel.
• Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son combined their powers to form the Life-Death Furnace and began refining the sacrificed Heavenly Prides to open the Xuanmen.
• The Xuanmen began to take shape as the two men continued working together, unaware that strange black destiny was approaching.
• Deep in the tunnel, the Life-Death Furnace drained Lu Chen and the other captives until a colossal black wok appeared and attacked them.
• Lu Chen watched the wok smash the captives, then shouted for the unseen wielder to show mercy as it swung toward him.

Shen Qiu survived by hiding in a hanging coffin, where he overheard Lu Chen reveal the Jade Void Saint Son and Wan Jinsheng’s trap. When the spatial Xuanmen appeared, the coffin’s life essence healed and empowered Shen Qiu, but its red hairs began draining him, leaving him to devise a desperate countermeasure.

• Shen Qiu questioned Lu Chen while stripping the corpses of their treasures, and Lu Chen explained that Wan Jinsheng and the Jade Void Saint Son had trapped Heavenly Prides from every faction.
• Lu Chen urged Shen Qiu to warn Shen Yun not to save the two conspirators, then passed out.
• Shen Qiu revealed he had survived by squeezing into the hanging coffin and using the drained Senior Brother Shangguan as a cushion.
• The spatial Xuanmen appeared, and its arrival filled the coffin with life essence that healed Shen Qiu and raised his cultivation by three Heavenly Immortal stages.
• The coffin’s red hairs climbed over Shen Qiu and began draining his vitality, so he formed a plan to fight back.

Shen Qiu hid Lu Chen in the hanging coffin and learned that the demons outside were waiting for the spatial Xuanmen to reopen. The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal revealed that Nirvana Valley concealed the only gateway to Immortal King Qiankun’s God Tomb, and two battered figures emerged as the gate opened again.

• Shen Qiu stuffed Lu Chen into the coffin beneath Senior Brother Shangguan, helping Shangguan recover slightly as the red fur invaded him.
• The spatial Xuanmen vanished, draining the coffin’s life essence and ending Shen Qiu’s chance to cultivate.
• First Elder Juekong and four other demons arrived, and Juekong ordered them to wait for the Immortal Realm intruders to return through the Xuanmen.
• Shen Qiu recognized the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal as the demon from Canglan Hall who had once captured him.
• The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal explained that Nirvana Valley concealed the route to Immortal King Qiankun’s God Tomb and that the hanging coffin required the valley’s life force to be exhausted before the route could appear.
• The bronze coffin rang, the spatial Xuanmen reopened, and two battered figures fell out before the demons.

Wan Jinsheng sacrificed the Bodhi Heart Lamp to escape the demons, but Juekong swallowed the blast and stopped him. As Juekong prepared to finish Wan Jinsheng, a lightning strike pierced toward his flaw, and Wan Jinsheng recognized Cang Hao.

• The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal tore the Jade Void Saint Son’s soul from his body and turned to seize Wan Jinsheng.
• Juekong stopped the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal, warned that Wan Jinsheng was no ordinary opponent, and confronted him himself.
• Wan Jinsheng detonated the Bodhi Heart Lamp and tried to flee through space, but Juekong swallowed the blast with eight Void Caves and knocked him back into the mud.
• As Juekong prepared to deliver the final blow, a lightning strike pierced toward a flaw behind him.
• Wan Jinsheng recognized the lightning attacker and called out Cang Hao’s name.

Cang Hao used the Life-and-Death Grand Formation to unleash Nirvana Valley’s life force against Juekong and the demons, then overwhelmed the Old Devils with divine thunder. Just as the battle seemed decided, the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal shattered the formation and revealed a Daluo Primordial Spirit, leaving Cang Hao facing a new threat.

• Cang Hao activated the Life-and-Death Grand Formation around the Bronze Hanging Coffin, unleashing Nirvana Valley’s life force and True Fire against Juekong and the demons.
• The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal identified Cang Hao as the true inheritor of the Myriad Tribulations Immortal King, and the five Old Devils attacked the formation.
• Cang Hao summoned Karma-Severing Divine Thunder and Taiyi divine thunder, defeating the Old Devils and leaving Juekong to suffer the life force’s corrosion.
• Cang Hao sensed danger and rushed toward the formation, but the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal opened his three thousand eyes and shattered it.
• Cang Hao recognized that the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Immortal had revealed a Daluo Primordial Spirit.