Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming perfected his Sea of Consciousness and Soul Techniques, gaining heaven-grade arts and detecting a fight at Night Watchers headquarters. He arrived as a disguised monster overwhelmed Baihu, just before it attacked her.

• Dongfang Yueming fused his Sea of Consciousness arts into the heaven-grade Indestructible Primordial Spirit True Scripture and reached Divine Sense Like the Sea.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected and fused his Soul Techniques, gaining the heaven-grade Supreme Chaos Ninefold Divine Tower and other soul abilities.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed a battle between Baihu and the impostor Qinglong, whose aura contained anomalous demonic qi.
• The impostor Qinglong injured Baihu and revealed that it wanted the ancient inheritance within her.
• As Qinglong attacked Baihu with a corrosive black net, Dongfang Yueming appeared and said its vessel was too ugly.

Dongfang Yueming annihilated the monster possessing Qinglong and learned from Baihu that ancient human experts had established the Boundary and left behind inheritances. Baihu revealed that the monster had targeted the incomplete inheritance she possessed, then stopped Dongfang Yueming as he prepared to leave.

• Dongfang Yueming froze Qinglong's attack and destroyed its black scythe with tribulation lightning.
• Dongfang Yueming trapped the escaping slime fragments with his divine sense and annihilated their consciousnesses with mental spears.
• Baihu questioned Dongfang Yueming's strength and concluded he must have obtained an ancient inheritance.
• Baihu explained that exiled human experts had created the Boundary and that she had gained an incomplete inheritance targeted by the monster.
• Dongfang Yueming denied obtaining an inheritance and turned to leave, but Baihu called him back after making a decision.

Baihu repaid Dongfang Yueming for saving her by giving him her Heaven Grade cultivation methods and two rare Earth Grade Soul Techniques. After leaving her to recover with Hong Gui, Dongfang Yueming declared that he would head to the Boundary and deal with the monsters beyond its gap.

• Baihu taught Dongfang Yueming her Heaven Grade methods through the Soul Condensation Realm, though her inheritance had no record of what came next.
• Dongfang Yueming learned the Taibai Spirit Platform Foundation Establishment Diagram and Taibai Soul Condensation Sword Canon, along with Baihu's two Earth Grade Soul Techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming thanked Baihu and told her to find Hong Gui because she was badly injured and the area was unsafe.
• Dongfang Yueming left and said he would take them to the Boundary and fill the gap there, along with the monsters outside it.

Dongfang Yueming used Baihu’s gifts and his system points to perfect his Spirit Platform and Soul Condensation techniques, gaining immense spiritual defenses and a soul shaped into a sword. Armed with new soul techniques, he set out toward the city boundary, where demon beasts and powerful martial artists were gathered.

• Baihu dismissed Dongfang Yueming’s plan to flatten the boundary as reckless but decided to seek refuge with Hong Gui to survive the chaos.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect the Taibai Spirit Platform Foundation Establishment Diagram, gaining spiritual counterattacks and immunity to same-realm soul attacks.
• He perfected the Taibai Soul Condensation Sword Canon, allowing his soul to leave his body, roam by day, and ultimately transform into a spiritual sword.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Baihu’s earth-grade Soul Techniques and fused the Spirit-Slaying Flying Dagger with the Great Wilderness Soul-Shattering Spear to create the heaven-grade Taixu Spirit-Slaying Flying Star.
• He headed toward the city boundary, hoping to exploit the battle between demon forces and powerful martial artists to gain unexpected rewards.

After Baihu told Hong Gui that Dongfang Yueming had destroyed the creature possessing Qinglong, Dongfang Yueming returned and chose to travel to the Central Capital for stronger cultivation methods and techniques before investigating the border. The chapter ended as he sensed a powerful, hostile visitor approaching.

• Baihu arrived at Hong Gui’s suite wounded and recounted how Dongfang Yueming had killed the creature possessing Qinglong with a single lightning strike.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged from the void and announced that they should prepare to leave for the border.
• Dongfang Yueming suspected that the monsters and the sealed world might be connected to the Primordial Sea and the Evil Gods from Beyond the Domain.
• Dongfang Yueming changed their destination to the Central Capital to seek a way beyond Soul Condensation and collect unconventional soul techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed someone approaching with powerful golden true power and warned that they came with bad intentions.

Dongfang Yueming used his soul sword to drive Long Batian and the Long Family away from the Li estate, then prepared to leave Demon Capital for the Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo in Central Capital. Before departing with Hong Gui and Baihu, he annihilated the hidden Variants across the city.

• Long Batian demanded half of the Pan Family's assets and threatened the Li Family, but Dongfang Yueming struck him with invisible sword intent and forced him to flee.
• Baihu told Dongfang Yueming about Central Capital's upcoming Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo, where rare Soul Techniques and ancient artifacts would be displayed.
• Hong Gui said goodbye to Li Canghai, who let her leave with Dongfang Yueming after she assured him that Dongfang Yueming could protect her.
• Dongfang Yueming used his Divine Sense to find hidden Variants throughout Demon Capital and annihilated their souls with Flowers Bloom with a Thought, Souls Annihilated.
• Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu left for Central Capital.

The Boundary defense forces and eleven Sea of Consciousness Realm experts fought off the first demonic beast assault, but their power was constrained by the Spirit Platform Realm demon kings waiting beyond the barrier. A demonic creature revealed that hidden pieces in Central Capital and Demon Capital were meant to create chaos and help bring down the Boundary from within and without.

• Demonic beasts poured through the void rift and breached a section of the Boundary wall, threatening the human defensive line.
• The four arriving Sea of Consciousness Realm experts joined the seven already stationed at the Boundary and helped hold back the beast tide.
• The Sea of Consciousness Realm experts fought for three hours, suffering injuries and spiritual corrosion before forcing back the first wave.
• The Sun Grade investigator explained that human Spirit Platform Realm seniors could not intervene without provoking the demon kings waiting beyond the barrier.
• A group of demonic creatures plotted to use hidden pieces in Central Capital and Demon Capital to cause chaos and collapse the Boundary defenses.

Dongfang Yueming brought Hong Gui and Baihu from Demon Capital to Central Capital, where Variants attacked the Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo. As human Sea of Consciousness Realm experts faced two powerful monsters, three disguised attackers revealed themselves, and Dongfang Yueming arrived above the chaos.

• Dongfang Yueming carried Hong Gui and Baihu through the sky from Demon Capital toward Central Capital.
• Variants burst into the International Martial Dao Expo Center and attacked the gathered martial artists.
• An elder and other martial artists fought the first Variants, but two Sea of Consciousness Realm monsters smashed through the dome and killed the elder.
• An old Daoist and an old monk appeared to confront the monsters, while three disguised family guards revealed True Power Realm Perfection auras behind them.
• Dongfang Yueming arrived above the shattered expo center with Hong Gui and Baihu and looked down at the massacre.

Dongfang Yueming intervened as the Central Capital’s defenders were about to fall, killing the Variants with heavenly lightning and a soul technique. After demanding the expo’s unconventional Soul Techniques, he learned and fused them into a new Heaven Grade technique.

• Dongfang Yueming rescued the old monk and the azure-robed Daoist by killing a True Power Perfection Variant with Heavenly Grade lightning.
• Dongfang Yueming annihilated the souls of two Sea of Consciousness Realm demonic creatures and two remaining traitors with a Heaven Grade Soul Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming demanded the unconventional Soul Techniques from the expo, and the azure-robed Daoist gave him a case containing them.
• Dongfang Yueming used the System to master the techniques and fused seven Yellow Grade techniques with Soul Search and Spirit Seizure.
• Dongfang Yueming obtained the Perfection-level Heaven Grade special Soul Technique Great Wilderness Soul-Capturing Chains.

Dongfang Yueming perfected powerful Heaven Grade soul techniques while, in Central Capital, he saved the expo center from demonic creatures and traitors. A Sun Grade investigator learned that Central Capital was safe and heard that a mysterious young expert had defeated the attackers, with Baihu beside him.

• Dongfang Yueming gained the Heaven Grade soul techniques Myriad Arts Soul Capture and Taixu Illusion and Destruction True Scripture, including One Thought, One World.
• A Sun Grade investigator received word that Central Capital's expo center had been attacked by Variants, demonic creatures, and an insider.
• The investigator learned that the Variants in Demon Capital had suddenly died and that Baihu and Qinglong were missing, with demonic residue found in Qinglong's chamber.
• The green-robed old Daoist told the Sun Grade investigator that Central Capital was safe after a mysterious young senior killed the invading demonic creatures and traitors in one move.
• The old Daoist revealed that Baihu was with the mysterious senior and seemed to have a close relationship with him.

After saving the Central Capital, Dongfang Yueming sought knowledge of the realm beyond Soul Condensation and learned that humanity’s Spirit Platform Realm patriarch might know more. The demon king launched an all-out assault on the Demon Capital border, where the patriarch emerged to confront it as the battle between the two Spirit Platform Realm experts began.

• The Sun Grade investigator concluded that Dongfang Yueming was likely a Spirit Platform Realm expert and ordered the Central Capital authorities to treat him with utmost respect.
• The old Daoist and old monk offered Dongfang Yueming access to Great Xia’s treasury, but he instead asked about the realm beyond Soul Condensation; the old Daoist pointed him toward the patriarch guarding the Demon Capital border.
• Baihu wondered whether Dongfang Yueming had reached the peak of Soul Condensation after hearing his question and recalling his display of power.
• A Spirit Platform Realm demon king discovered that its forces sent to the Central Capital had been destroyed and ordered the entire demon army to attack the border.
• Thousands of demons and more than a dozen Sea of Consciousness Realm lords overwhelmed the human defenses, prompting the old Daoist, old monk, Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu to head for the front.
• The demon king struck at the defenders with a massive hand of demonic qi, but humanity’s Spirit Platform Realm patriarch cut it apart with a sword of mental power and faced the demon king.

Dongfang Yueming cleansed Central Capital of hidden Variants and demonic threats, then headed for the front lines with Hong Gui and Baihu. Wang Teng blocked their way and threatened them, unaware of Dongfang Yueming’s strength, while the old Daoist warned that Wang Teng was the Spirit Platform ancestor’s only remaining heir.

• A Spirit Platform Realm battle raged at Demon Capital’s boundary, leaving the watching Sea of Consciousness experts helpless as they feared for Great Xia’s fate.
• Dongfang Yueming used Flowers Bloom with a Thought, Souls and Spirits Destroyed to kill tens of thousands of corrupted people and Variants hidden throughout Central Capital.
• Dongfang Yueming set off for the boundary with Hong Gui and Baihu after clearing the city of its hidden threats.
• Wang Teng confronted Dongfang Yueming, demanding compensation for the Purple-Gold Demon Ape killed by his technique and threatening to take his secret art.
• The blue-robed old Daoist warned Dongfang Yueming that Wang Teng was the direct great-grandson and only remaining heir of the Spirit Platform Realm ancestor fighting the Demon King.
• Wang Teng ignored the warning, shoved the old Daoist aside, and demanded that Dongfang Yueming surrender his technique and serve him or leave Hong Gui and Baihu behind.

Dongfang Yueming killed Wang Teng after uncovering his crimes, despite pleas to spare the heir of a Spirit Platform ancestor. He then flew with Hong Gui and Baihu toward the Demon Capital’s border battlefield.

• The old Daoist and old monk pleaded with Dongfang Yueming to spare Wang Teng for the sake of his great-grandfather and Great Xia’s defenses, but Wang Teng ordered his guards to attack.
• Dongfang Yueming used the Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to shatter the souls of Wang Teng’s four True Power Realm guards with a single glance.
• Dongfang Yueming crippled Wang Teng, used Myriad Arts Soul Capture to discover his crimes, and destroyed his soul.
• Dongfang Yueming left with Hong Gui and Baihu, flying toward the battle at the Demon Capital’s border.

The demonic beast tide broke through the Boundary Great Wall as Great Xia’s defenders were overwhelmed. Elder Wang fell to the Lingtai Demon King, leaving the surviving humans convinced that Great Xia was finished.

• Demonic beasts poured through massive gaps in the Boundary Great Wall, and a Sea of Consciousness Realm government expert was killed, leaving eight human fighters alive.
• Elder Wang fought the Lingtai Demon King in the heavens and burned his source spiritual power to strengthen his attacks.
• The Lingtai Demon King dispersed into demonic qi and pierced Elder Wang’s back, corroding his body and spiritual power.
• Elder Wang fell from the sky as his spiritual sword dissolved, and he believed Great Xia was finished.
• The Lingtai Demon King declared the land would become its race’s pasture, while the defenders gave up hope and the Demon Capital’s boundary defense collapsed.

Dongfang Yueming arrived at the Boundary battlefield with two women and effortlessly dispersed the Lingtai Demon King's attack. He unleashed his soul technique to annihilate the demonic army, leaving the surviving humans stunned.

• The Lingtai Demon King sent a mountain-sized demonic sphere toward the falling Elder Wang and the human experts.
• Dongfang Yueming appeared above the battlefield with two women and dispersed the sphere with a casual wave.
• Dongfang Yueming released his full aura, forcing the Sea of Consciousness Realm demonic creatures to the ground.
• Dongfang Yueming used Flowers Bloom with a Thought to annihilate the souls of the demonic beasts and creatures across the battlefield.
• The human survivors stared at Dongfang Yueming in shock as the demonic army lay dead.

Dongfang Yueming stopped the Lingtai Demon King’s escape, searched its soul, and destroyed its demon source after wiping out its army. The demon king’s memories revealed that a high-ranking demon had infiltrated the Crimson Profound World by taking the body of a genius from Shangyin Academy.

• Dongfang Yueming’s power wiped out the demonic beast army, leaving the Lingtai Demon King terrified and trying to flee with Blood Demon Shadow Escape.
• Dongfang Yueming used his mental pressure and Myriad Arts Soul Capture to stop the Lingtai Demon King and drag it before him.
• Dongfang Yueming searched the demon king’s memories and learned that Blue Star and the high-martial world were a demon cave in the Crimson Profound World.
• Dongfang Yueming discovered that a high-ranking demon had evaded sealing and taken the body of a genius from Shangyin Academy.
• Dongfang Yueming crushed the Lingtai Demon King’s demon source, killing it and turning its body to ash.

Dongfang Yueming’s effortless defeat of the Lingtai Demon King saved Great Xia, but news that he had also killed Wang Teng forced Elder Wang to swallow his grief and submit. After accepting a Night Watchers resource card and an ancient tome, Dongfang Yueming left the battlefield with Hong Gui and Baihu.

• Dongfang Yueming appeared to save the battlefield, having destroyed the demonic beasts and killed the Lingtai Demon King, and the human forces bowed to him.
• Elder Wang arrived injured and learned from a communications officer that Dongfang Yueming had killed Wang Teng in the Central Capital.
• Elder Wang abandoned any thought of revenge, admitted Wang Teng’s wrongdoing, and apologized to Dongfang Yueming.
• The Sun Grade investigator gave Dongfang Yueming the Night Watchers’ highest-clearance resource card, while Elder Wang offered him an ancient tome with information about realms above Soul Condensation.
• Dongfang Yueming accepted the gifts and departed with Hong Gui and Baihu.

Dongfang Yueming learned from the damaged ancient tome that the Golden Core Realm required fusing essence, qi, and spirit, and he resolved to pursue a Nine-Transformation Golden Core. Outside the cave, Hong Gui sought his help to break through to the True Power Realm, and he demanded an intimate service fee.

• Dongfang Yueming took Hong Gui and Baihu to a secluded canyon and entered a cave to study the damaged ancient tome.
• Dongfang Yueming learned that the Golden Core Realm fused body, true qi, and soul, and that the Nine-Transformation Golden Core could nurture the foundation of the Great Dao.
• Dongfang Yueming realized the tome contained no Golden Core cultivation method and decided he would need to visit the true Crimson Profound World.
• Hong Gui failed to break through from Meridian Opening to True Power and resolved to ask Dongfang Yueming for help.
• Hong Gui demanded that Dongfang Yueming help her break through, and he agreed on the condition that she pay an intimate service fee.

Hong Gui broke through to the True Power Realm with Dongfang Yueming’s help, and the three crossed the Boundary to investigate the source of the demonic disasters. They arrived at a desolate battlefield beyond the barrier, which Baihu recognized as the site of the founders’ legendary last stand.

• Dongfang Yueming used the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Good Fortune Art to help Hong Gui break through into the Early True Power Realm.
• After Hong Gui stabilized her cultivation, Dongfang Yueming announced that they would go to the Boundary, and Baihu and Hong Gui chose to accompany him.
• Dongfang Yueming took the two women to the Boundary defense line and forced his way with them through the damaged barrier despite the experts’ warnings.
• Beyond the Boundary, Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu found a dark red wasteland covered in enormous bones, ancient weapons, and ruined formations.
• Baihu identified the wasteland as the ancient battlefield where the original founders had fought the demons to cover humanity’s retreat behind the barrier.

Dongfang Yueming crossed the ancient battlefield with Hong Gui and Baihu to find the passage from the Demon Cave to the Crimson Profound World. He discovered the Gate of the Demon Cave, the sole passage between Blue Star and the Crimson Profound World.

• Dongfang Yueming used his Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to sense the battlefield’s spiritual qi and trace the formation remnants and demonic qi toward a single direction.
• He carried Hong Gui and Baihu through the spatial turbulence as they passed shattered fortresses and the remains of ancient demonic gods.
• After roughly half an hour, Dongfang Yueming stopped before an immense black-crystal gate that towered between heaven and earth.
• Dongfang Yueming identified the structure as the Gate of the Demon Cave, the passage connecting Blue Star to the main world of the Crimson Profound World.