Recaps

Mu Sha led the Black Devil Race cultivators through an enemy encirclement by unleashing the Chaotic Heaven Devil Dragon, killing one Spirit Transformation captain and devastating his squad. As the group fled toward their army, Mu Sha sensed that the enemy squads nearest them had suddenly disappeared.

• Mu Sha used the Chaotic Heaven Devil Dragon to pierce through the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast captain and tear apart his body and Nascent Soul.
• Mu Sha commanded the dragon to roll through the enemy ranks, killing more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators and leaving the vice-captain gravely wounded.
• The wounded vice-captain ordered the other squads to resume pursuit while he and the survivors took Pills to purge the devilish qi.
• Mu Sha and more than twenty subordinates escaped toward the battlefield, though the secret art drained much of their devil source power and combat strength.
• Mu Sha looked back, confirmed his companions had survived, and abruptly stopped when he sensed that the nearest enemy squads had vanished.

Li Yan secretly rescued Mu Sha’s retreating scouting party and arranged to meet Mu Sha’s mother near the Black Devil Race army. While You Lao investigated the disappearance of his forces, Li Yan reflected on his lost family before a slender figure appeared before him.

• Li Yan sent Mu Sha a mental message, eliminated the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race pursuers, and told him to meet with his mother ten thousand li west of the army’s rear.
• Mu Sha led his men onward at full speed, believing his father had come to the Jieyou Realm and cleared their pursuers.
• You Lao questioned his commanders about You Jia and Meng Tiao’s disappearance, and a subordinate reported that a Black Devil Race scouting party had escaped their ambush.
• You Lao challenged the claim that a concealed enemy expert had aided the scouts, while an old woman urged him to report the deaths and consider retaliation.
• Li Yan stood beneath the crescent moon and mourned his family from Great Green Mountain before a slender figure emerged from the night and looked at him.

Li Yan reunited with Mu Guyue and urged her and Mu Sha to join his family at the Po Jun Sect. Mu Guyue chose to remain with the Black Devil Race for now, but promised to leave with Li Yan once he reached the Body Integration realm, and said she would move Mu Sha to a safer post after advancing to Void Refinement.

• Li Yan met Mu Guyue in secret after searching for her and Mu Sha across the Jieyou Realm.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue confessed that they had missed each other and reunited intimately.
• Li Yan proposed bringing Mu Guyue, Mu Sha, Zhao Min, and Gong Chen Ying together at the Po Jun Sect.
• Mu Guyue explained that the Po Jun Sect lacked the resources and protection to support them yet, so she would stay with the Black Devil Race while they continued cultivating.
• Mu Guyue said she would leave with Li Yan when he reached the Body Integration realm and would transfer Mu Sha to a safer position after she advanced to Void Refinement.

Li Yan and Mu Guyue caught each other up on their lives, discussed their ties to the Soul-Suppressing Palace, Tinglan, and the Po Jun Sect, and reaffirmed their trust. They parted with Mu Guyue supporting the sect’s cautious approach to consolidating its strength.

• Mu Guyue described the dangers and circumstances she and Mu Sha had faced within the Black Devil Race, then Li Yan shared his experiences and revealed some of his connection to the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
• Li Yan told Mu Guyue that Tinglan had reached Spirit Transformation and recounted the trouble that had befallen Chongyangzi; Mu Guyue realized Li Yan had secretly killed the two monks responsible.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue discussed the Po Jun Sect, and Mu Guyue said she still considered herself its elder and would cross realms to help if needed.
• Li Yan explained Senior Brother Shangguan’s plan to hold the sect’s current position rather than pursue a higher rank, and Mu Guyue agreed that the Po Jun Sect needed to strengthen its foundations before expanding.

Li Yan agreed to return to the Black Devil Race army with Mu Guyue and help her and Mu Sha advance their cultivation while supporting their plans. He concealed his identity with a Grey Mask, revealed that he had reached the mid-stage Spirit Transformation Realm, and flew away with Mu Guyue.

• Mu Guyue warned Li Yan that the battlefield was dangerous and offered to arrange a suitable identity for him in the army.
• Li Yan decided to stay with Mu Guyue and Mu Sha, hoping to help them advance and improve Mu Guyue's standing through military merit.
• Li Yan put on a Grey Mask to hide his appearance and told Mu Guyue that he was at the mid-stage Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Mu Guyue was stunned by Li Yan's cultivation and abandoned the idea of catching up to him.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue lifted their restrictions and flew toward the army, while Li Yan kept his involvement with the Five Immortals Sect and other secrets to himself.

Mu Guyue brought Li Yan into the Black Devil Race military camp and introduced him to the commanders as her husband and a mid-stage Void Refinement cultivator. The commanders began reporting the war’s military affairs, including Mu Sha’s account of the previous day’s battle.

• Mu Guyue and Li Yan entered the military camp through its formation while patrol squads saluted their commander.
• Mu Guyue led Li Yan to the central command tent, where the gathered Spirit Transformation cultivators and Nascent Soul Devil Generals scrutinized the masked stranger.
• Li Yan acknowledged Mu Sha, who recognized him as his father.
• Mu Guyue introduced Li Yan as her husband and identified him as a mid-stage Void Refinement cultivator, changing the commanders’ view of him.
• Mu Sha reported the previous day’s battle, leaving out Li Yan’s help.

Li Yan listened to Mu Guyue’s military briefing, then followed her to her cave abode and began considering how he could help the Black Devil Race against the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beasts. Mu Sha arrived and reunited with his father, leaving Li Yan wondering whether Li Zhaoyan could also be brought there.

• Li Yan listened as Mu Guyue and her generals discussed the stalemate with the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beasts and their preparations for a possible major battle.
• Mu Guyue took Li Yan to her cave abode on a mountain that had once been a central battlefield and gave him its opening incantation.
• Li Yan memorized the incantation and considered how to use the military intelligence to devise a plan while Mu Guyue went to wash up.
• Li Yan opened the cave abode’s entrance and welcomed Mu Sha, who knelt and greeted him as his father.
• Li Yan reflected on Mu Sha’s cautious nature and wondered whether Li Zhaoyan could be brought to the Black Devil Race as well.

Li Yan praised Mu Sha for his performance and explained that the Black Devil Race’s expansion would keep him and Mu Guyue in danger at the front lines. He suggested Mu Sha go to the Broken Army Sect, but Mu Sha chose to remain with the Black Devil Race for now and promised to join Li Yan there if he settled at the sect later.

• Li Yan decided against asking Li Zhaoyan to join the army, fearing the risks and unfair treatment she might face.
• Li Yan praised Mu Sha’s combat ability and told him he had seen through both uses of Blood Judgment.
• Li Yan explained the dangers of remaining in the Black Devil Race and offered Mu Sha the option of going to the Broken Army Sect.
• Mu Sha chose to stay with his mother in the Black Devil Race, citing its cultivation opportunities and his upbringing, but agreed to obey if Li Yan insisted.
• Li Yan accepted Mu Sha’s choice, and Mu Sha promised to join him at the Broken Army Sect if Li Yan settled there after becoming stronger.

Li Yan advised his son Mu Sha on preparing to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm while reflecting on his plans to help the Five Immortals Sect and reunite his family. The chapter ended with Mu Sha leaving to meditate on his father’s guidance, as Mu Guyue quietly cherished watching them together.

• Li Yan agreed to discuss gathering his family at the Shattering Army Sect later, acknowledging Mu Sha’s concerns about the sect’s ability to protect them.
• Li Yan recognized that Mu Sha’s aura was ready for a breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm and began guiding his soul cultivation.
• Mu Sha asked Li Yan many questions, and his father’s answers broadened his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Mu Guyue arrived and watched Li Yan and Mu Sha speak, feeling peaceful as she observed their closeness.
• Li Yan explained key details for Mu Sha’s breakthrough and cautioned him not to force his soul upward.
• Mu Sha thanked Li Yan, bowed to him and Mu Guyue, and left to meditate on what he had learned.

Li Yan gave Mu Sha a Grey Mask that could conceal his identity even from powerful cultivators, then offered to help Mu Guyue advance her cultivation. Their conversation was interrupted when Teng Zhang, a demon emperor, arrived seeking Li Yan, and Mu Guyue warned her husband to let her handle him.

• Li Yan gave Mu Sha the Grey Mask and warned him to keep its grade secret and use it only on missions.
• Mu Guyue cautioned Mu Sha about the dangers of revealing the treasure, and he left with it concealed.
• Li Yan invited Mu Sha to ask him about cultivation before he departed, then sat beside Mu Guyue and offered to help her advance.
• Mu Guyue received a message that Teng Zhang had arrived at the camp and was heading to her cave dwelling.
• Teng Zhang arrived outside and asked whether an outsider was with Mu Guyue, so she warned Li Yan to stay quiet while she handled the demon emperor.

Li Yan joined Mu Guyue when Devil Emperor Teng Zhang arrived to investigate the enemy’s unusual movements. After the two men tested each other’s standing, Li Yan confirmed that he had secretly killed Crimson-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan pursuers, and Teng Zhang concluded that the incident required only increased precautions.

• Mu Guyue warned Li Yan not to reveal his Phantom Sect origins before they left her cave dwelling to meet Teng Zhang.
• Li Yan recognized Teng Zhang’s surname as belonging to the same great Black Devil Race family as Teng Wuji, then concealed his face with the Grey Mask.
• Teng Zhang questioned Mu Guyue about Li Yan, and Li Yan’s greeting let Mu Guyue straighten from her bow without openly defying the Devil Emperor.
• Teng Zhang asked whether Li Yan had used a method against the Crimson-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan, and Mu Guyue explained that Li Yan had secretly attacked pursuers of Black Devil Race cultivators.
• Li Yan confirmed that he had killed enemy cultivators, and Teng Zhang decided the incident only called for increased precautions.

Teng Zhang demanded to know Li Yan’s origins and attacked when Li Yan identified himself as a lower-realm Rogue Cultivator. Li Yan matched Teng Zhang’s close-combat techniques and drove him backward, then struck at his crown as Teng Zhang tried to block.

• Teng Zhang pressed Mu Guyue to prove why Li Yan had come to the Black Devil Race army and questioned Li Yan’s background.
• Li Yan said he was a Rogue Cultivator from the lower realms, but Teng Zhang suspected he was hiding his origins and rushed to inspect him.
• Li Yan stepped in front of Mu Guyue and met Teng Zhang’s punch with a finger flick, injuring Teng Zhang’s arm instead of being blown away.
• Teng Zhang followed with a shoulder charge, but Li Yan met him head-on and sent him sliding backward.
• Li Yan seized Teng Zhang’s loss of balance and brought an elbow strike down toward his crown, forcing Teng Zhang to brace with his arms.

Li Yan and Teng Zhang clashed in a brief, powerful spar, then both presented it as an even exchange. Mu Guyue recognized that Li Yan had deliberately staged the outcome, and he explained that he had used Body Refinement arts to conceal his true cultivation techniques.

• Teng Zhang and Li Yan exchanged close-range blows, and Teng Zhang sent Li Yan flying before they separated.
• Teng Zhang called the fight an ordinary spar, warned Li Yan not to take action lightly, and left for the military camp.
• Mu Guyue joined Li Yan and led him back to their cave abode after the watching Divine Senses withdrew.
• Mu Guyue confronted Li Yan about deliberately making their exchange look evenly matched, and Li Yan admitted she had seen through his trick.
• Li Yan recalled that Teng Zhang had attacked to test his origins, so he had responded with Body Refinement arts to hide his cultivation techniques.

Li Yan defeated Teng Zhang in a test of strength, then withdrew before the Devil Emperor’s prestige was damaged and secured a peaceful understanding between them. After spending the night with Mu Guyue, he waited for her the next morning so they could discuss his plans.

• Li Yan used his distinctive body-refinement art to overpower Teng Zhang in their second clash.
• Li Yan pulled back instead of pressing his advantage, and Teng Zhang accepted the favor of preserving his standing before his subordinates.
• Mu Guyue teased Li Yan about provoking her in the past, and the two spent the night together.
• Mu Guyue left for the central army tent the next morning while Li Yan waited in the cave residence to discuss his plans with her.

Li Yan outlined a plan to break the stalemate between Mu Guyue’s Black Devil Race army and the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race, using his knowledge of the front lines and her account of five failed offensives. He left the details of the plan for after he gathered more information about the six enemy fortresses.

• Mu Guyue reported that the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race remained cautious while both sides secretly increased their scouting.
• Li Yan explained that the Black Devil Race held the initiative but needed to capture at least half of the six enemy fortresses to advance safely.
• Mu Guyue described five major offensives that had failed despite heavy losses, including the closest attempt, a stealth attack whose reinforcements were cut off.
• Li Yan listened as Mu Guyue explained that ordinary spirit-storage artifacts could not move large numbers of powerful cultivators quickly without exhausting Divine Sense.

Li Yan devised a secret plan to strike the Crimson-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan and secured Mu Guyue’s support, formation-breaking treasures, and a token to leave the Black Devil Race camp undetected. He departed under concealment, while the scene shifted to a palace in the Cangxuan Realm.

• Li Yan listened as Mu Guyue recounted the enemy’s five assaults, then devised a plan and persuaded her to act quickly despite the ongoing Divine Sense searches.
• Mu Guyue reported the plan to the rear, obtained the Devil Emperors’ approval, and received additional formation-breaking treasures through a teleportation formation.
• Mu Guyue gave Li Yan a paired formation-breaking artifact and explained its activation hand seals, which he tested and found powerful but requiring concealment before use.
• Li Yan asked for a way to pass through the army’s formations, and Mu Guyue gave him her spare command token.
• Li Yan put on the Grey Mask, turned invisible, and left the cave dwelling; elsewhere, a palace in the Cangxuan Realm echoed with faint dragon roars.

A Yin-Yang Chaos Sect council discussed the disappearance of Xiao Yunzong and Lu Minglong’s search for clues about True Lord Qianzhong and the Five Immortal Sect in the lower realm. The discussion ended with Elder Wei challenged over why Xiao Yunzong’s disappearance had not been reported sooner.

• A Daoist nun told the council that Xiao Yunzong had failed to return to the North Ice Continent and that Lu Minglong had found vague traces near the Polar Icefield.
• The Daoist nun reported that Lu Minglong suspected Xiao Yunzong had entered the Polar Icefield, then asked the sect to send another Fusion Realm cultivator to help search.
• Lu Minglong also found signs that Five Immortal Sect cultivators might have entered the White Devil Race, but he could not trace the missing person after that person stopped the Black Devil Race’s attack.
• The Daoist nun said the Phantom Sect had found no evidence about the Five Immortal Sect and asked Elder Wei whether she could track Xiao Yunzong.
• Elder Wei questioned why the disappearance had only now been raised, and the Daoist nun defended Lu Minglong’s search and challenged Elder Wei to find Xiao Yunzong herself.

Yin-Yang Chaos Sect leaders discussed searching the Polar Ice Plains for missing Elder Xiao and continuing investigations into the Five Immortals Sect, the Phantom Sect, and Miesheng Sect. They failed to notice that Zheng Youlin and Jiang Tianqing had stopped reporting, while two Void Refinement cultivators carrying three Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivators continued toward the Five Immortals Sect.

• The red-robed old woman agreed to send someone to the Mortal Realm with special treasures to search the Polar Ice Plains for Elder Xiao.
• The Daoist nun and the other leaders decided to keep investigating the Five Immortals Sect and to watch the Phantom Sect and Miesheng Sect while avoiding changes until those sects acted.
• The leaders reviewed reports from their dispatched disciples but overlooked that Zheng Youlin and Jiang Tianqing had not sent news for a long time.
• Two Void Refinement cultivators traveling aboard a golden peng discussed whether their message had reached their sect and worried that their route could leave them unprotected while carrying three Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivators.

Li Yan slipped out of the Black Devil Race camp and infiltrated the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast clan’s territory while both armies intensified their searches. As Mu Han ordered heightened vigilance and prepared to inspect the front, Li Yan continued toward his objective undetected.

• Zhao Ziming and Ling Yao discussed asking Junior Brother Li or Martial Uncle Dongfu for compensation for the dangers of escorting three cultivators back.
• Li Yan used a token to pass through the grand array protecting the Black Devil Race camp and flew toward the enemy lines.
• You Lao reported to Mu Han that the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast clan had found no trace of You Jia and the others or any Black Devil Race troop movements.
• Mu Han ordered the frontline forces to maintain strict vigilance and inspect their preparations, then decided to check the most important areas himself.
• Li Yan crossed into the desolate territory of the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast clan, evading the many Divine Sense searches with his stealth skills.
• Li Yan sensed Mu Guyue and Teng Zhang among the searching cultivators as he advanced across the battlefield.

Li Yan infiltrated a Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race fortress to help Mu Guyue by secretly targeting the enemy’s military strongholds. After using the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief to slip through the fortress formation, he assessed the garrison and moved toward its teleportation array.

• Li Yan crossed the battlefield and entered the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race heartland while concealing himself from probing cultivators.
• Li Yan located a fortress hidden within a mountain formation and used the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief to slowly open a needle-sized hole.
• Li Yan slipped through the formation into the camp’s rear without alerting the garrison.
• Li Yan sensed four Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators, roughly three thousand lower-level cultivators, and a teleportation array.
• Li Yan moved through illusory weeds toward the teleportation array and stopped before producing an object in his palm.

Li Yan infiltrated the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast Clan’s garrison fortresses and placed markers for Mu Guyue’s surprise attack. After he returned, Mu Guyue gathered her Spirit Transformation Realm generals to explain the operation, with Li Yan standing by to protect her.

• Li Yan used the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief to pass through enemy formations and secretly marked the fortresses Mu Guyue had named.
• Mu Guyue waited anxiously for Li Yan to return, then welcomed him into her cave residence and learned he was unharmed.
• Li Yan warned Mu Guyue that her troops must disperse in the air and break the enemy formations before descending on the marked locations.
• Li Yan explained the fortresses’ defenses to Mu Guyue in detail, and she prepared to lead most of her army while leaving a deputy marshal to guard their camp.
• Mu Guyue summoned the Spirit Transformation Realm generals and announced a surprise attack, while the deputy marshals remained astonished by the plan Li Yan had devised.

Mu Guyue revealed a plan to use Sandstar King Stones to send Black Devil Race forces through turbulent space and launch surprise attacks on the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Race’s fortresses. She also told the generals that Li Yan had secretly planted the mother treasures of “Heaven-Shattering Astral” inside enemy formations, leaving the forces ready to strike.

• Mu Guyue told her deputy commanders that the plan had been tested with the Devil Emperors and ordered them to carry it out.
• The generals speculated that Mu Guyue intended a joint attack with forces on the flanks, but she revealed that the army would raid the enemy fortresses through turbulent space using Sandstar King Stones.
• Mu Guyue explained that Li Yan had secretly buried relay stones along the routes to the fortresses because a single Sandstar King Stone could not support the entire journey.
• A Devil Marshal asked whether the stones had been planted in the enemy fortresses, and Mu Guyue confirmed that they had also placed “Heaven-Shattering Astral” mother treasures inside the enemy formations.
• The generals realized the child treasures they carried could trigger the planted mother treasures, allowing simultaneous attacks from within and without to break the enemy formations.

Mu Guyue led the Black Devil Race generals through a detailed plan for a synchronized surprise attack on the Crimson-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast clan’s fortresses, using Sandstar King Stones to guide their armies through turbulent space and Heaven-Shattering Gang to breach defenses and disable teleportation arrays. She and Li Yan reached their target and waited in ambush, then opened a rift and began the assault.

• Mu Guyue explained that each fortress held a Heaven-Shattering Gang mother treasure near its Sandstar King Stone, and that the blasts would also strike the formations protecting enemy teleportation arrays.
• Mu Guyue confirmed that the Devil Emperor had approved the operation, distributed jade slips detailing enemy deployments, and ordered all forces to attack together at the hour of Xu.
• Mu Guyue assigned herself the assault on the enemy’s most important fortress and left the command tent with Li Yan to prepare for battle.
• Mu Han investigated reports of outside cultivators and remained uneasy because he could not determine who had killed members of You Jia or how the attacker had bypassed the defensive lines.
• Mu Guyue led her army through turbulent space, used a Sandstar King Stone to locate the target fortress, and held the force in concealment until the appointed time.
• Mu Guyue opened a spatial rift after Li Yan confirmed the route was clear, then led the army through toward the fortress.

Mu Guyue led the Black Devil Race’s assault on a Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast Clan fortress, using the Heaven-Shattering Gang to cripple its formation before breaking inside. The battle raged across the camp as her forces seized the advantage, and Mu Guyue moved to destroy the exposed teleportation arrays.

• Mu Guyue placed the secondary Heaven-Shattering Gang treasure and concealed her forces near the fortress while they waited for the coordinated attack.
• Mu Guyue detonated the treasure, and the blast battered the formation from within and without, killing and injuring many defenders.
• Mu Guyue led the charge, cut through a weakened section of the formation, and brought Black Devil Race forces into the camp.
• Mu Guyue ordered her soldiers to leave none alive as the Black Devil Race overwhelmed the dazed defenders and met fierce resistance.
• Mu Guyue led a group to the rear of the camp, where they prepared to destroy the three exposed teleportation arrays.

Mu Guyue led the Black Devil Race’s surprise assault on the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast military camps, where “Heaven-Shattering Dipper” blasts had already devastated the defenses. As the attackers pressed their advantage, Mu Han and the second defensive line’s Void Refinement experts were intercepted by Wu Li, leaving the battle to escalate into a major clash.

• Mu Guyue entered the ruined teleportation-array defenses and faced the wounded Spirit Transformation cultivator You Xiao, while her troops attacked the remaining array and searched the camp.
• Mu Guyue fought You Xiao as Black Devil Race forces swept through the camp and rushed to support their companions elsewhere.
• The Black Devil Race’s surprise attacks struck the other Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast fortresses, giving the attackers a strong advantage.
• Mu Han sensed the blasts from the distant fortresses and rushed out with the Void Refinement Realm experts to respond.
• Wu Li and other Black Devil Race Void Refinement experts blocked Mu Han and his companions, and Mu Han ordered his side to attack.