Chapter Summaries

Demon Capital’s families and Night Watchers reacted to the Long Family’s arrival for an inspection, while Dongfang Yueming went to visit Hong Gui at the Cloud Hotel. He accidentally caught her changing, leaving Hong Gui furious and embarrassed.

• Students gathered at Demon Capital Martial University to watch the Capital delegation and Long Family inspection team arrive.
• The Chu, Tang, and Li family heads discussed the Long Family’s intervention and decided to attend the university’s welcome ceremony.
• The Sun Grade investigator ordered Demon Capital’s Night Watchers to cooperate with the delegation and sent Baihu and Qinglong to the ceremony.
• Dongfang Yueming headed to the Cloud Hotel, intending to use a new Meridian Opening method to reach the realm’s pinnacle.
• Hong Gui prepared seductive lingerie while waiting for Dongfang Yueming, who silently entered her suite using the room key.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the walk-in closet as Hong Gui was changing, and she angrily accused him of barging in without knocking.

Hong Gui tried to seduce Dongfang Yueming, then gave him the earth-grade Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture. After revealing that she was a direct-line member of the Demon Capital Li Family, she joined him on his way to the black market.

• Hong Gui dropped her towel and tried to provoke and seduce Dongfang Yueming, but he questioned whether she was testing him for the Resisters.
• Hong Gui retrieved a jade slip from a hidden safe and gave Dongfang Yueming the Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture.
• Hong Gui revealed that the cultivation method was a core secret art of her family, the Li Family, one of the Demon Capital's three great families.
• Hong Gui said she had given him the scripture because she believed he could make a hole through the Demon Capital's sky, while Dongfang Yueming made no promises.
• Dongfang Yueming left the dressing room and told Hong Gui they were going to the black market to buy a few things.

In the Demon Capital’s Dark Night District, Dongfang Yueming went with Hong Gui to seek ocular and seal-type Qi Techniques. After Hong Gui gave him the earth-grade Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal, he used his system to reach minor mastery on the spot, leaving her stunned and wondering if he would reach major mastery next.

• Hong Gui asked why Dongfang Yueming was shopping in the black market instead of cultivating, and he said he needed ocular and seal-type Qi Techniques.
• Hong Gui explained that mystic-grade was the best ocular technique available in the Demon Capital’s black markets and gave Dongfang Yueming her earth-grade Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming used his system to initiate the seal technique after a single look, astonishing Hong Gui.
• Dongfang Yueming spent more points to reach minor mastery, and Hong Gui struggled to believe he had learned the technique on the spot.
• Hong Gui jokingly asked whether Dongfang Yueming would reach major mastery next.

Dongfang Yueming perfected the Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal and fused it into a Heaven-Grade technique, then forced an underground shopkeeper to hand over seven Yellow-Grade eye techniques. On a secluded bridge, Hong Gui kissed him after he said he already had several wives, and he responded passionately.

• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal and fused it with the Purple Extreme Heavenly Might Dragon King Seal to create the perfected Heaven-Grade Nine Tribulations Heaven-Upending Thunder God Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming threatened an underground intelligence shopkeeper until the man surrendered seven Yellow-Grade eye techniques, bringing Dongfang Yueming's collection to eight.
• Hong Gui confronted Dongfang Yueming on a bridge and asked for a substantial reward after helping him and giving him the Li Family's Earth-Grade Meridian Opening Method.
• Dongfang Yueming told Hong Gui that he already had several wives in a distant place, but she mistook his words as grief over their deaths and kissed him.
• Dongfang Yueming embraced Hong Gui, touched her breasts, and returned her kiss passionately.

Dongfang Yueming and Hong Gui’s encounter beneath the Demon Capital’s bridge turned intimate, and Hong Gui learned that he had reached Meridian Opening Perfection. He left her exhausted after warning that he intended to obtain a True Power Realm cultivation technique, while she remained worried about the danger he faced.

• Dongfang Yueming overwhelmed Hong Gui during their passionate encounter, and she finally surrendered after trying to take control.
• Afterward, Hong Gui asked about Dongfang Yueming’s cultivation, and he revealed that he had reached Meridian Opening Perfection.
• Hong Gui warned Dongfang Yueming that True Power Realm techniques were tightly guarded by the three great families and the Night Watchers.
• Dongfang Yueming said he would take a technique from someone’s home, confident in his plans to strengthen his abilities and face powerful opponents.
• Hong Gui provoked Dongfang Yueming again, but he left her exhausted and told her to contact him if she needed anything.
• Dongfang Yueming vanished using Horizon Within Reach, and Hong Gui called him a perverted beast as he departed.

Dongfang Yueming perfected his Meridian Opening and ocular techniques, gaining Innate Leakless circulation and the Nine Nether Illusion-Breaking Heavenly Eye. At Demon Capital Martial University’s grand gathering, Long Batian arrived with Capital prodigies and publicly raised the Long Family’s unsettled account over the Pan Family’s destruction.

• Dongfang Yueming used the system to perfect the Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture and fuse it with the Great Wilderness Creation Meridian Opening True Scripture into the Heaven Grade Limitless Meridian Opening Scripture, achieving Innate Leakless.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected seven Yellow Grade ocular techniques, fused them with the Illusion-Breaking Void Pupils, and gained the Nine Nether Illusion-Breaking Heavenly Eye and its Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye ability.
• Dongfang Yueming attended Demon Capital Martial University’s grand ceremony alongside the gathered students and watched the city’s leading figures arrive.
• Li Canghai, the Chu Family head, the Tang Family head, Baihu, and Qinglong arrived on the platform as the crowd felt their formidable presence.
• Long Batian arrived aboard a military strategic-class warship, damaged the platform with his landing, and brought Capital prodigies with him.
• Long Batian told the gathering that the Long Family had not forgotten what happened to the Pan Family, provoking an uproar and challenging Demon Capital’s three great families.

Long Batian and the three great family heads nearly came to blows at Demon Capital Martial University's welcoming ceremony before the old president intervened. Dongfang Yueming saw through the flaws in their True Power and later caught Hong Gui's attention, while Baihu mistook him for a pretty boy living off her.

• The Chu Family head challenged Long Batian over his accusation that the three great families had wronged the Pan Family, and the two unleashed True Power that threatened the platform and students.
• Dongfang Yueming used the Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to identify weaknesses in the Chu Family head's flame True Power and Long Batian's golden sword.
• The old president dissolved the clashing True Power and persuaded Long Batian and the three family heads to withdraw, though their dispute remained unresolved.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to seek a True Power Realm cultivation technique and considered targeting a first-rate family with weaker defenses.
• Hong Gui approached Dongfang Yueming, linked arms with him, and invited him to her place as Baihu watched from a teaching building.
• Baihu judged Hong Gui to be foolishly infatuated and dismissed Dongfang Yueming as a pretty boy living off a woman.

At Demon Capital Martial University, Baihu watched Hong Gui flirt with Dongfang Yueming and uncovered clues linking him to Judge’s murder. After finding his student file, she became excited by the possibility that the apparently weak student was the killer, but he and Hong Gui had already disappeared.

• Dongfang Yueming noticed Baihu watching from a teaching building and asked Hong Gui who she was.
• Hong Gui identified Baihu as a Moon Grade investigator and revealed that she had once been romantically involved with Judge, whom Dongfang Yueming had killed.
• Baihu suspected Hong Gui’s public display of affection was unusual and investigated the Li Family heiress’s file.
• Baihu recognized that the Li Family heiress was Hong Gui, a senior member of the Resisters, and connected her to the person who had killed Judge.
• Baihu found Dongfang Yueming’s exchange-student file, which listed him as a second-year student with Blood Nourishing Realm Sixth Layer cultivation.
• Baihu returned to the square, found Dongfang Yueming and Hong Gui gone, and excitedly declared that Dongfang Yueming had surprised her.

Dongfang Yueming stole true power cultivation arts from several first-rate families and used points and fusion to rapidly raise his cultivation. After reaching Upper-Tier True Power Perfection with an Earth-grade art, he set his sights on stealing four more Yellow-grade arts to create a Heaven-grade one.

• Hong Gui warned Dongfang Yueming that Baihu was dangerously strong, then left to prepare for their meeting that night and secretly resolved to find him a True Power Realm cultivation art.
• Dongfang Yueming infiltrated the Guan Family’s scripture building, stole the Blazing Sun True Power Art, and escaped the grand elder’s attack.
• He spent points to cultivate the Blazing Sun True Power Art to lower-tier perfection, reaching the first stage of true power.
• Dongfang Yueming stole the Overturning Water True Power Art from the Lin Family and fused it with his first art, creating a Black-grade art and reaching middle-tier perfection.
• He stole Yellow-grade arts from the Chen and Zhao Families, fused the resulting Black-grade arts into the Earth-grade Great Wilderness True Power Treasure Scripture, and reached upper-tier perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming formed his true power into a dark-gold longsword and concluded that he needed four more Yellow-grade arts to deduce a Heaven-grade cultivation art.

Dongfang Yueming stole the last techniques he needed, fused them into a Heaven-grade scripture, and reached the pinnacle of the True Power Realm. Meanwhile, Hong Gui was confined by her father, the Wu Family prepared a sacrifice, and a vast beast tide gathered beyond the Boundary.

• Dongfang Yueming stole the Zheng Family’s Boulder True Power Art after defeating its Sixth Stage patriarch with one punch.
• Dongfang Yueming fused four Yellow-grade techniques and the Great Wilderness True Power Treasure Scripture into the Heaven-grade Chaos Indestructible True Power Treasure Scripture, reaching Top-Tier True Power Perfection.
• Li Canghai refused Hong Gui’s request for a True Power technique and had her confined to her room.
• The Wu Family mutants, having devoured the Pan Family, gathered to perform a sacrifice.
• Qinglong questioned the mysterious flesh-and-eyeball creature, which claimed its kind had been touched by divine blood and sought to return from their land of exile.
• A massive beast tide and powerful beings assembled beyond the Boundary before an ancient sealed stone gate.

Baihu confronted Dongfang Yueming in a hotel suite and tested him with increasingly powerful attacks, only to discover that he vastly outmatched her. Hong Gui arrived and found Dongfang Yueming pinning Baihu against a column, leaving her jealous as Baihu fled.

• Baihu searched the suite for Dongfang Yueming and accused him of being the assassin who killed Judge.
• Baihu attacked Dongfang Yueming with her White Tiger palm strike and Baihu Heaven-Rending Slash, but he effortlessly destroyed both attacks.
• Baihu realized Dongfang Yueming had reached the True Power Realm and tried to escape, but he caught her and pinned her against a column.
• Hong Gui entered the suite and saw Dongfang Yueming holding Baihu in a suggestive position.
• Baihu broke free, warned Dongfang Yueming she would remember the score, and escaped through the damaged window.
• Hong Gui confronted Dongfang Yueming with jealousy, asking whether he wanted to pursue one of the Night Watchers' tigresses.

Dongfang Yueming reassured Hong Gui after overpowering Baihu, then used his system to fuse several dual cultivation techniques into a perfected heaven-grade art. He planned to use its power to raise Hong Gui’s cultivation and carried her to bed to begin cultivating.

• Dongfang Yueming pulled Hong Gui into his arms and explained that Baihu had started the fight, while Hong Gui wondered at his overwhelming strength.
• Hong Gui brought out the profound-grade Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and downloaded six yellow-grade dual cultivation techniques for Dongfang Yueming.
• Dongfang Yueming used his system to perfect the seven techniques and fuse them into the heaven-grade Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Good Fortune Art.
• Dongfang Yueming comprehended Good Fortune Replenishment, which let him convert his True Power into cultivation for a partner without permanently losing his own reserves.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Hong Gui about her Meridian Opening Eighth Level cultivation, then carried her to the bed to begin dual cultivation.

Hong Gui used Dongfang Yueming’s Good Fortune Replenishment secret art during their night together and surged to Meridian Opening Upper-Tier Perfection. She returned to the Li Family estate and demanded its inherited Profound Grade True Power technique for herself.

• Hong Gui broke through to Meridian Opening Ninth Level as Dongfang Yueming’s True Power refined her cultivation.
• Hong Gui urged Dongfang Yueming to continue, and their night together brought her to Meridian Opening Upper-Tier Perfection with Inner Qi and Outer Gang Qi.
• Li Canghai learned that Hong Gui had escaped her room after guards discovered a decoy formation.
• Hong Gui returned to the Li Family estate and demanded the family-inherited Profound Grade True Power technique.
• Li Canghai began to refuse, still believing Hong Gui was only at Meridian Opening Eighth Level.

Hong Gui revealed her flawless breakthrough to Meridian Opening Perfection, obtained the Li Family’s Ziwei True Power Art, and learned that her father would not let her access the Sea of Consciousness art. Meanwhile, Long Batian moved to seize the spirit mine market as a deacon discovered that the Wu Family Variants had died activating a sinister sacrificial formation.

• Hong Gui demonstrated her breakthrough to Meridian Opening Perfection, convinced Li Canghai she had suffered no damage, and received the Li Family’s mystic-grade Ziwei True Power Art.
• Hong Gui asked Li Canghai to show her the Sea of Consciousness art, but he refused and warned her of its dangers.
• Dongfang Yueming planned to visit the Li Family’s forbidden area that night to inspect the Sea of Consciousness Realm art.
• Long Batian and the Long Family forced their way into the spirit mine market, claiming they would search it for Pan Family fugitives and prohibited goods.
• A Chu Family deacon found the Wu Family Variants dead and desiccated around a formation drawn in their blood, then realized they had sacrificed themselves to activate a ritual.

A sacrifice by the Wu Family’s xenos opened a breach in the Boundary, allowing a demonic beast tide to attack the Demon Capital. As Hong Gui prepared to warn Dongfang Yueming, a terrifying spiritual storm erupted from the Li Family manor’s forbidden back mountain.

• A crack opened in the Boundary, and demonized Ferocious Beasts poured through as the defense forces tried to hold them back.
• An S-class disaster warning sounded throughout the Demon Capital, alarming its martial artists and civilians.
• Li Canghai learned that the Wu Family’s xenos had sacrificed themselves and that the Boundary had been breached.
• Li Canghai told Hong Gui to flee with him to an underground shelter, but she thought of warning Dongfang Yueming.
• A vast spiritual storm erupted from the Li Family manor’s forbidden back mountain, revealing the pressure of the Sea of Consciousness Realm.

As a Boundary crisis erupted over the Demon Capital, Dongfang Yueming went to the Li Family estate to exploit the ancestor’s absence and steal techniques from his secret chamber. He acquired a basic Sea of Consciousness art and two Soul Techniques, then set out to enter a new realm of mental power.

• The Li, Chu, and Tang ancestors discovered that their sacrifice had anchored coordinates to a weak point in the Boundary, while Long Batian condemned them for endangering the Demon Capital.
• The Sun Grade investigator ordered the three ancestors to help seal the Boundary gap and assigned Long Batian’s delegation to evacuate civilians and maintain order.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed the growing danger and rushed to the Li Family estate, where Hong Gui told him the ancestor had left.
• Dongfang Yueming slipped past the forbidden grounds’ defenses and found three jade slips in the Li Family ancestor’s secret chamber.
• Dongfang Yueming learned the Spirit-Concentrating Art, Spirit-Shocking Spike, and Mental Barrier, then left to pursue the materialization of mental power.

Dongfang Yueming opened his Sea of Consciousness, perfected two soul techniques, and sensed a dangerous disturbance at the Boundary. With the Demon Capital’s defenses focused elsewhere, he stole cultivation methods and soul techniques from the Chu and Tang families, leaving with three Sea of Consciousness methods and six soul techniques.

• Dongfang Yueming spent system points to advance his Spirit-Concentrating Art to Sea of Consciousness Perfection and gained the ability to project his Divine Sense.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Spirit-Shocking Spike and Mental Barrier, comprehending the soul techniques Formless Soul Annihilation and Wall of Sighs.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed a corrupting demonic aura from the Boundary and suspected its defensive line had suffered a serious failure.
• Dongfang Yueming used The Ends of the Earth Are Within Reach to enter the Chu Family’s secret chamber and steal its Sea of Consciousness cultivation method and two soul techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Tang Family’s scripture pavilion and stole another cultivation method and two soul techniques, bringing his total to three methods and six soul techniques.

Dongfang Yueming perfected and fused his spiritual arts, reaching Intermediate Sea of Consciousness Perfection, then planned to leave Demon Capital with Hong Gui to seek more materials. As the Li Family prepared for the demonic beast tide, Hong Gui revealed that the Night Watchers' headquarters might hold the cultivation arts he still needed.

• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Chi Yan Spirit-Tempering Record and two soul skills, fused them into mystic-grade arts, and gained the ability to control objects with his thoughts.
• Dongfang Yueming decided he needed five more yellow-grade materials and planned to take Hong Gui to Central Capital before Demon Capital became more dangerous.
• The Li Family patriarch discovered that someone had touched the Spirit-Concentrating Art's spiritual restriction and feared an incomprehensibly powerful intruder had entered his secret chamber.
• The Li Family patriarch told Li Canghai that the border had fallen, ordered the family's core members to prepare to evacuate, and warned them not to cause trouble.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to Hong Gui, told her he had obtained the three families' cultivation arts, and said they would go to Central Capital for more.
• Hong Gui warned that the Night Watchers' headquarters in Demon Capital held several sea of consciousness cultivation arts.

Dongfang Yueming set out to raid the Night Watchers headquarters for a Sea of Consciousness cultivation method while the city's strongest fighters went to defend the Boundary. At headquarters, a mysterious entity possessed Qinglong and targeted Baihu, believing she carried an ancient founder's inheritance.

• Dongfang Yueming decided to infiltrate the Night Watchers headquarters, told Hong Gui to wait, and vanished using the Horizon Within Reach.
• The Night Watchers' Sun Grade investigator and the three great families' patriarchs flew toward the Boundary as Dongfang Yueming continued toward headquarters.
• Qinglong struggled after swallowing a dark purple pill, and the mysterious entity revealed that it was divine blood before invading and possessing him.
• The possessed Qinglong sensed that the city's strongest defenders had left and resolved to feast on Baihu, whose pure white true qi suggested she held an ancient inheritance.
• The entity transformed into black-purple mist and slipped through the underground chamber's door, heading toward the upper floors to find Baihu.

Baihu struggled to control the murderous True Power of her Heaven Grade Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture when an eerie presence appeared in her cultivation room. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yueming infiltrated the Night Watchers' treasury and stole Sea of Consciousness techniques and Soul Techniques, including a Profound Grade scripture and a defensive Soul Technique.

• Baihu's Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture drove her True Power into a dangerous frenzy, threatening backlash and qi deviation.
• A strange dripping sound and eerie laugh came from a shadowy corner, and Baihu grabbed her saber and demanded to know who was there.
• Dongfang Yueming bypassed the Night Watchers' treasury defenses and searched its deepest shelves for Sea of Consciousness and Soul Techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming took three Yellow Grade Sea of Consciousness techniques and the Profound Grade Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns Illusory Spirit Scripture.
• Dongfang Yueming also collected seven Yellow Grade Soul Techniques and the Profound Grade Acala Divine Soul Bell.