Chapter Summaries

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.

Muhan and the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast cultivators fought to keep the Black Devil Race from reinforcing its attacks on the front-line fortresses. After learning that most teleportation arrays had been destroyed, Muhan discovered Hengdong Fortress’s array remained intact and ordered Elder Jin and the other elders to teleport there and retake the fortresses.

• Muhan and the Black Devil Race cultivators clashed while Muhan’s side watched for enemies slipping away toward the fortresses.
• Muhan ordered cultivators in his camp to use teleportation arrays to reinforce the fortresses, but they reported that the arrays at every fortress had been destroyed.
• Muhan asked Elder Jin to recheck the array at Hengdong Fortress, the central hub among the fortresses.
• Elder Jin reported that the Hengdong Fortress array was intact and that the enemy had likely not discovered it.
• Muhan ordered Elder Jin and the remaining elders to teleport to Hengdong Fortress, then disperse and retake the fortresses before the Black Devil Race secured them.

Li Yan watched the Black Devil Race overrun the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan’s fortresses, then sensed Elder Jin’s reinforcements teleporting in and moved to attack them. Elder Jin escaped the destruction of the teleportation array, but another elder realized the reinforcements had vanished into a trap and warned Mu Han.

• Mu Guyue killed a severely wounded Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast cultivator with Thousand Soul Slash and joined her subordinates after they destroyed the camp’s final teleportation array.
• Li Yan sensed spatial fluctuations near the solitary peak and rushed toward the teleportation array as Elder Jin and another cultivator arrived.
• A Grey Masked man in azure robes destroyed the array, and Elder Jin pulled one elder clear while Elder Xiang was caught in the collapse and killed.
• The azure-robed attacker confronted Elder Jin and the other surviving cultivator as another Void Refinement Realm cultivator entered the array from the military camp.
• The final cultivator found that the teleportation light had dispersed and Elder Jin and the others were missing, concluded they had fallen into an encirclement, and sent a warning to Mu Han.

Mu Han realized Elder Jin's group had vanished and ordered the cultivators to break out, while Li Yan stopped the teleportation array from sending more Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan members into the Black Devil Race's trap. Elder Jin and Elder Mu cornered Li Yan as Elder Meng flew toward the mountainside, and the chapter ended as the two elders launched a coordinated attack.

• A Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan elder concluded that Elder Jin's group had likely destroyed the teleportation array to warn the camp or prevent more cultivators from being trapped.
• Mu Han found no trace of Elder Jin's group, intensified his attacks, and ordered the other Void Refinement cultivators to break out without reporting the crisis to the third line of defense.
• Li Yan detected the spatial fluctuations, activated the "Ghost Trace" formation, and attacked the teleportation array before more cultivators could arrive.
• Elder Jin ordered Elder Mu to help him kill Li Yan while Elder Meng went to clear the mountainside, then trapped Li Yan between himself and Elder Mu.
• Elder Jin thrust his six-pronged fork at Li Yan's dantian as Elder Mu charged from behind with a spiked armored fist.

Li Yan withstands Elder Jin and Elder Mu’s close-range attacks, then counters with overwhelming force and a sudden Guiyi Water-Parting Spike strike. Elder Mu is killed, while Li Yan turns to escape the other attackers.

• Li Yan stood still as Elder Jin’s fork struck his Dantian and Elder Mu punched his head, but his silver radiance stopped the fork and shattered Elder Mu’s arm with the rebound.
• Li Yan struck Elder Jin’s fork with a palm, forcing him to release it, then used Phoenix Soars to Heaven to move through the air.
• Elder Mu launched armor plates at Li Yan’s neck to interrupt his follow-up attack.
• Li Yan appeared behind Elder Mu and stabbed him in the lower back with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• Elder Mu’s body was blasted open, destroying his organs and Nascent Soul, and he lost consciousness.

Li Yan killed Elder Mu and Elder Jin in a rapid exchange, demonstrating the crushing power of his arts against Void Refinement body cultivators. Elder Meng discovered that a formation was distorting his approach to the battlefield and attacked the Grey Mask from afar.

• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and Wave-Subduing Soul-Slaying to pierce Elder Mu and destroy his resistance.
• Li Yan struck Elder Jin with his massive fork, then let Elder Mu's armor leaves pierce him before finishing him with a Soul-Shocking Spike.
• Li Yan reflected that his Five Immortals Sect arts could overwhelm top-tier body cultivators of the same realm.
• Elder Meng noticed that he could not reach the mountain camp, then saw Elder Mu and Elder Jin flying backward and rushed to help them.
• Elder Meng realized a formation was slowing his approach, then attacked the Grey Mask with a streak of golden light.