Chapter Summaries

Liang Juntian sided with Li Feiyu, helping drive off the cultivators who sought the Dao-Devouring Mystic Lotus, and Li Feiyu rose to the late Great Emperor Realm. At the Immortal Ruins, Lin Qingxue tried to persuade Lu Zhengran to return to the Demon Domain, but he distrusted her and she left the request unanswered.

• Liang Juntian backed Li Feiyu, prompting the other Great Emperor Realm cultivators and the two elders to withdraw.
• Li Feiyu used the Dao-Devouring Mystic Lotus and reached the late Great Emperor Realm.
• Lu Zhengran waited outside the hall for Xu Qingying to emerge from seclusion and considered how to tell her what he knew.
• Lin Qingxue visited Lu Zhengran, and he accused her of deceiving him and refused to trust her explanations.
• Lu Zhengran told Lin Qingxue he forgave her so he could end the conversation, but she asked him to return to the Demon Domain for his mother's sake.

Lu Zhengran rejected Lin Qingxue’s attempt to persuade him to return to the Demon Domain, and warned her that his aunt Xu Yunyi had reached the Peak Great Emperor Realm. Lin Qingxue fled to seek help from a mysterious being, fearing Xu Yunyi would kill her.

• Lin Qingxue told Lu Zhengran that his return to the Demon Domain would help his mother cultivate without distractions, but he refused to trust her and chose to wait for his mother to leave seclusion.
• Lin Qingxue grew angry and insulted Lu Zhengran, who stopped her from leaving to relay his aunt’s message that Xu Yunyi had reached the Peak Great Emperor Realm and would soon come speak with her.
• Lin Qingxue realized Xu Yunyi might be strong enough to kill her, then hurried back to her cave abode and summoned a mysterious being through a golden light gate.
• Lin Qingxue told the being that Xu Yunyi posed a danger and asked for resources to increase her strength before her disciple emerged from seclusion.

Lin Qingxue received a metal-attribute Divine Crystal from the mysterious woman and vowed to carry out her task, while Xu Yunyi continued refining Divine Crystal in the Demon Domain. Lu Qing'an gave Xu Yunyi another piece and arranged for Xiao Qingyi to erase the man-eating flower’s recent memories.

• The mysterious woman gave Lin Qingxue an activated metal-attribute Divine Crystal and promised her more if she completed her assigned task.
• Lin Qingxue left the gate of light convinced that the crystal would let her surpass Xu Yunyi and humiliate her.
• Xu Yunyi finished refining the Divine Crystal she had and discovered that the man-eating flower had grown so resigned to her torment that it no longer reacted.
• Lu Qing'an asked Xiao Qingyi to erase the man-eating flower’s recent memories, then gave Xu Yunyi a goose egg-sized piece of water-attribute Divine Crystal.
• Xue Tianfei praised Xu Yunyi’s beauty, and Lu Qing'an reassured her that she was his only woman, delighting her.

Xu Yunyi resumed cultivating after restoring the man-eating flower’s memory, while Luo Danhong returned without finding the Saber God and reported that his trail ended in the East Sea of the Demon Domain. Lu Qing'an and Xiao Qingyi decided to seek help from the Azure Sea Dragon, as the ten dragons in the Devil Beast Forest celebrated their improved strength despite having sacrificed most of their kidneys.

• Xiao Qingyi warned Xu Yunyi that the Great Memory Erasure Technique could damage the man-eating flower’s mind if used too many times, and Xu Yunyi resumed cultivating as it struggled inside the barrier.
• Luo Danhong returned from searching for the Saber God and said she had found his trail ending before the East Sea of the Demon Domain, but could not track him through the rough waters.
• Lu Qing'an recalled that the Saber God had found Divine Crystal at sea and wondered whether he had returned to seek more, while Xiao Qingyi suggested asking the Azure Sea Dragon for help.
• Lu Qing'an and Xiao Qingyi decided to visit the Devil Beast Forest, where they expected to find the Azure Sea Dragon with the Nether Bone Dragon.
• The Nether Bone Dragon told the other nine dragons that his kidneys were recovering faster after his cultivation improved, and the dragons celebrated their new strength despite having fewer than eight kidneys between them.

The giant dragons discussed growing their kidneys faster and asked the Nether Bone Dragon to arrange access to Liu Xiyue’s time treasure. Lu Qing'an and Xiao Qingyi arrived and recruited the Azure Sea Dragon and the others to search the East Sea for someone.

• The Azure Sea Dragon and other dragons explained how they harvested kidneys to fuel their growth and asked the Nether Bone Dragon to secure time in Liu Xiyue’s treasure.
• The Nether Bone Dragon said he would ask Xiao Qingyi for help and promised to bring the other dragons into his circle once he advanced.
• Xiao Qingyi arrived with Lu Qing'an, and the ten giant dragons greeted Lu Qing'an as the Eternal Night Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Qingyi called over the Azure Sea Dragon, and Lu Qing'an asked him to help find someone in the East Sea.
• Lu Qing'an opened a void passage to the East Sea, and the Azure Sea Dragon, Nether Bone Dragon, and the other dragons followed.

Lu Qing'an searched the East Sea for the missing Saber God, following reports of a battle to a vast trench on the seafloor. Luo Danhong found the Saber God, who had become a drooling fool, leaving Lu Qing'an stunned.

• The Azure Sea Dragon gathered the sea beasts, and Lu Qing'an asked whether they had seen the Saber God or witnessed a recent battle in the East Sea.
• A megalodon reported a disturbance near its waters, and Lu Qing'an took the others there through a black hole.
• Lu Qing'an drained the seawater from a vast area and found a trench bearing signs that the Saber God had fought there; he noticed the two attacks appeared similar, though one was twice as powerful.
• Lu Qing'an ordered the Azure Sea Dragon and megalodon to question nearby sea beasts while Luo Danhong searched the area with a formation.
• The megalodon reported a possible sighting as Luo Danhong sent word that she had found the Saber God.
• Lu Qing'an reached Luo Danhong and saw the Saber God sitting on a giant turtle, grinning and drooling with his white hair tangled; the old man had become a fool.

Lu Qing'an and his companions found the Saber God mentally broken and obsessed with finding Jingjing, then brought him back for the Dao of Alchemy Master to examine. The Saber God appeared nearly impossible to cure, while the group’s only clue to his search was a mysterious formation jade disc.

• The giant turtle told Lu Qing'an and the others that the Saber God had forced it to search for Jingjing after claiming a treasured saber.
• Lu Qing'an restrained the Saber God when he attacked Xiao Qingyi, and the group returned with him and the ten dragons to the courtyard.
• Lu Qing'an summoned the Dao of Alchemy Master, who began examining the Saber God while Luo Danhong asked him to try everything to help.
• Lu Qing'an found a formation jade disc among the Saber God's belongings, and Luo Danhong explained that it could locate things but required a secret mnemonic.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master said the Saber God was nine chances out of ten beyond saving.

Lu Qing'an negotiated a share of any Divine Crystal with Dao of Alchemy Master in exchange for treating the Saber God, but the treatment required another Primordial Heart-Returning Vine. He set out to find one from Wu Ciren, who had just been wishing Lu Qing'an would return when he appeared outside her formation.

• Dao of Alchemy Master raised his estimated chance of curing the Saber God to thirty percent if he used a treasured item, then bargained with Lu Qing'an for a share of any Divine Crystal they might obtain.
• Lu Qing'an agreed to give Dao of Alchemy Master half of the ten-percent share he initially requested, and learned the treatment required an older Primordial Heart-Returning Vine.
• After Xue Tianfei and the others reported they had found no such vine, Lu Qing'an told Xue Tianfei to keep the chamber of commerce's reward active and went to the Demon Nether Cultivation-Devouring Abyss.
• Wu Ciren worried that her Divine Crystal was refining too slowly and considered seeking Lu Qing'an's help, but feared the dangers outside.
• Lu Qing'an arrived at Wu Ciren's formation and asked her to open it, astonishing her.

Lu Qing'an asked Wu Ciren for another primordial heart-returning vine, and she offered to show him where one might grow in exchange for living near him. After he agreed on the condition that they be honest with each other, Wu Ciren removed her disguises and revealed she was a woman.

• Lu Qing'an visited Wu Ciren to ask for an older primordial heart-returning vine, and she offered to take him to a place where more might grow.
• Wu Ciren proposed building a dwelling near Lu Qing'an so she could leave seclusion and cultivate safely, and he agreed.
• Lu Qing'an warned Wu Ciren that he despised schemes and expected honesty from anyone who wanted to befriend him.
• Wu Ciren removed her mask and concealment methods, revealing that she was a woman.
• Lu Qing'an calmly acknowledged Wu Ciren's true identity without being moved by her beauty.

Lu Qing'an recruited Wu Ciren to use her inherited intelligence network to find Divine Crystal, promising her a share of what they uncovered. Wu Ciren prepared to lead him to the primordial heart-returning vine, revealing that their destination was connected to the Realm Wall’s origin and the merger of the Demon Domain and Immortal Domain.

• Wu Ciren explained that she had disguised herself as a man for years, and Lu Qing'an accepted her explanation.
• Lu Qing'an asked what value Wu Ciren could offer in a partnership to find Divine Crystal.
• Wu Ciren described her intelligence organization, passed down through generations across the Demon Domain, and Lu Qing'an promised her ten percent of the Divine Crystal it helped them obtain.
• Lu Qing'an asked Wu Ciren to take him to the primordial heart-returning vine, and she prepared by divining their luck and equipping herself with defensive treasures and a clone puppet.
• Wu Ciren said they would first travel to the Realm Wall, explaining that their destination was tied to its birth when the Demon Domain and Immortal Domain merged.

Wu Ciren told Lu Qing'an how the Immortal-Demon War began, how the Heavenly Dao sealed its battlefield, and how later conflicts left the Immortal Ruins devastated. She led Lu Qing'an to the hidden entrance to the battlefield, but stayed outside and gave him a clone puppet to maintain contact as he prepared to enter.

• Wu Ciren explained that the Immortal and Demon Domains collided, their people fought a devastating war, and their injured Heavenly Dao merged and sealed the battlefield while creating the Realm Wall.
• Wu Ciren described later wars in which the Demon Domain defeated the Immortal Domain and drove it into the Immortal Ruins, then said the Heavenly Dao had not appeared since its long recovery.
• Lu Qing'an asked how Wu Ciren learned about the sealed battlefield, and Wu Ciren said she had entered it before and was the only survivor of her group.
• Lu Qing'an took Wu Ciren to a crevice in the Realm Wall, where she opened the battlefield entrance with an incantation.
• Wu Ciren refused to enter again and gave Lu Qing'an a clone puppet for communication, while Lu Qing'an warned her not to plot against him.

Lu Qing'an entered the ancient battlefield ruins with Wu Ciren’s clone puppet and discovered that he could easily defeat the remnant souls lurking there. After finding rare devil herbs and considering the ruins as a training ground, he spotted the Flame of the Azure Nether in a lake.

• Lu Qing'an entered the battlefield ruins with Wu Ciren’s clone puppet and learned that the Heavenly Dao Curse made it dangerous to stay too long.
• Lu Qing'an flew with Wu Ciren toward the place where Wu Ciren had found the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine.
• Lu Qing'an caught and crushed an Early Great Emperor Realm remnant soul, then said he wanted to see a Heavenly Dao Puppet.
• Lu Qing'an collected a hundred-thousand-year-old Blood-Coagulating Grass and easily destroyed the stronger remnant souls that gathered around them.
• Lu Qing'an spotted the Flame of the Azure Nether burning in a lake.

Lu Qing'an collected the Flame of the Azure Nether and captured two Heavenly Dao Puppets while searching with Wu Ciren for the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine. They found a hundred-million-year-old vine and discovered the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar, which Lu Qing'an suspected was connected to the restriction on his strength.

• Lu Qing'an destroyed a swarm of Great Emperor Realm remnant souls with a mental attack and took the Flame of the Azure Nether.
• He trapped an attacking Heavenly Dao Puppet in a barrier, decided to take it for study, and later captured a second one on the way.
• Lu Qing'an and Wu Ciren searched for the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine and found one a hundred million years old.
• Lu Qing'an spotted the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar, and Wu Ciren explained that it kept the Cangyun Continent stable and could not withstand strength beyond its limit.
• Lu Qing'an wondered whether the pillar was connected to the system's restriction and could help him learn how much strength he could use.

Lu Qing'an learned that exceeding the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar’s cultivation could collapse the merged worlds, then investigated a suspicious Primordial Heart-Returning Vine in the battlefield ruins. After capturing a powerful Heavenly Dao Puppet fused with a Divine Crystal, he suspected an intelligent crystal was hiding in or beneath the vine.

• Lu Qing'an realized he could monitor the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar while withdrawing cultivation to avoid collapsing the Cangyun Continent.
• Lu Qing'an and Wu Ciren noticed that the ancient Primordial Heart-Returning Vine seemed strangely harmless and found no remnant souls nearby.
• A Heavenly Dao Puppet ambushed Lu Qing'an, but he blocked its attack and imprisoned it.
• Lu Qing'an discovered a Divine Crystal fused into the puppet and questioned how it had entered the battlefield ruins.
• Lu Qing'an suspected an intelligent Divine Crystal had slipped into the ruins and used the vine as a hiding place or a medium for fusion.

Lu Qing'an revealed and subdued the transformed Primordial Heart-Returning Vine, then extracted its enormous Divine Crystal. He left the vine sealed in a miniature black sphere and called Wu Ciren over.

• Lu Qing'an forced the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine to reveal its monstrous true form, exposing a person-sized wood-attribute Divine Crystal beneath it.
• The vine attacked Lu Qing'an, but he shattered its incoming branches and summoned a colossal demonic figure to imprison it in a black sphere.
• Lu Qing'an sealed the struggling vine in the shrinking sphere, then drew the huge Divine Crystal out of it and sealed the surrounding area against escape.
• Lu Qing'an told Wu Ciren the battle was over, while she stood frozen in shock.

After subduing the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine, Lu Qing'an shared a piece of its Divine Crystal with Wu Ciren and led her to the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar. He arrived at the pillar and began withdrawing cultivation from his sea of consciousness, leaving his purpose there unfinished.

• Lu Qing'an gave Wu Ciren a tenth of the wood-attribute Divine Crystal and warned her not to refine crystals of different attributes at the same time.
• Lu Qing'an told Wu Ciren that battle or using the Emperor Position could speed up refinement, then invited her to accompany him to the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar.
• Lu Qing'an collected ancient medicines, usable materials, and a Pill Cauldron along the way, and captured the Heavenly Dao Puppets they encountered.
• Lu Qing'an and Wu Ciren reached the pillar, where Lu Qing'an stood against its pressure while Wu Ciren retreated a hundred zhang.
• Lu Qing'an touched the pillar, endured its scorching damage with his Demonic Qi, and withdrew cultivation from his sea of consciousness.

Lu Qing'an withdrew cultivation from his sea of consciousness beneath the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar, increasing his strength until the pillar gave a faint hum at a hundred times his original cultivation. Wu Ciren was terrified by the display, and Lu Qing'an carried her back out of the sealed realm after realizing its void was fragile.

• Lu Qing'an withdrew his cultivation one multiple at a time while watching for a reaction from the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar, shocking Wu Ciren with each surge.
• When Lu Qing'an's cultivation reached a hundred times its original amount, the World-Stabilizing Divine Pillar hummed faintly, so he stopped withdrawing more.
• Lu Qing'an restrained his presence and found Wu Ciren collapsed in fear, then lifted her and set off for the exit.
• Lu Qing'an flew too fast and caused the void to collapse, so he slowed down and carried Wu Ciren back through the passage.
• After they returned to Wu Ciren's true body, Lu Qing'an remarked that the realm's void was fragile and teased her for sitting down.

Lu Qing'an returned to his courtyard with Wu Ciren and a trove of treasures, including a Primordial Heart-Returning Vine and a huge Divine Crystal. He turned the vine into a courtyard guard and revealed the Divine Crystal to his stunned companions, who had gathered to hear about his expedition.

• Wu Ciren chose to leave the Demon Nether Cultivation-Devouring Abyss and accompany Lu Qing'an to his courtyard.
• Lu Qing'an returned with Wu Ciren and showed the Dao of Alchemy Master a Primordial Heart-Returning Vine over a hundred million years old.
• Lu Qing'an subdued the vine, let the Dao of Alchemy Master take a medicinal vine for the Saber God's pill, and assigned the plant to guard the courtyard wall.
• Lu Qing'an told Xiao Qingyi and the others about the Immortal-Demon War and the origin of the Realm Wall.
• Lu Qing'an revealed a large Divine Crystal, leaving the Dao of Alchemy Master and the others stunned.

Lu Qing'an brought Wu Ciren, a disguised woman with an intelligence organization, to live near his courtyard, where Lu Miaomiao revealed her identity at a glance. After Wu Ciren showed her true appearance, Lu Qing'an gave Sun Minzi a Flame of the Azure Nether and rewarded the Nether Bone Dragon and the other dragons with a piece of Divine Crystal.

• Lu Qing'an introduced Wu Ciren as the head of an intelligence organization and said Xue Tianfei could help fund it with Demon Crystals.
• Lu Miaomiao returned from school and recognized the disguised Wu Ciren as a beautiful woman, astonishing everyone.
• Wu Ciren admitted she was a woman, shed her disguise, revealed her Emperor Position, and agreed to build a house near the courtyard.
• Lu Zixuan and Sun Minzi returned, and Lu Qing'an gave Sun Minzi the Flame of the Azure Nether to refine.
• Lu Qing'an cut off a piece of Divine Crystal and gave it to the Nether Bone Dragon to share among the ten dragons.

Lu Qing'an rewarded the Nether Bone Dragon and the other dragons, then supplied his disciples with captured Heavenly Dao Puppets for cultivation. He declared that the Heavenly Dao might fear him and organized his allies to prepare for the Divine Crystal awakening across the Demon Domain.

• Lu Qing'an praised the ten dragons for their work and rewarded them, while telling Dao of Alchemy Master to focus on healing the Saber God.
• Li Cangxuan asked to cultivate with the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine, but Lu Qing'an instead presented captured remnant souls and Heavenly Dao Puppets as training resources.
• Xiao Qingyi, Xue Tianfei, and the others worried that taking the Heavenly Dao Puppets could provoke the Heavenly Dao, but Lu Qing'an said it might be the one afraid of him.
• Xue Tianfei openly backed Lu Qing'an, and he assigned her and Wu Ciren to get the intelligence organization running.
• Lu Qing'an told his allies and the ten dragons to improve their strength and prepare to gather Divine Crystal as pieces activated across the Demon Domain.