Chapter Summaries

Yan Tianjin ordered the devil forces to delay the righteous path while they hurried the Dao Fruit toward maturity, then secretly sent a message to their camp. The righteous vanguard reached the first defense line, where Ling Yue and Blood Baleful Intent began their duel as the two armies clashed.

• Yan Tianjin assigned Blood Baleful Intent to delay the vanguard and ordered Yin Corpse and Bone Spirit to defend the second line while the Dao Fruit ripened within ten days.
• Yan Tianjin sent a secret message to the righteous camp and prepared to use Lu Tianji, a spy he had planted seven hundred years earlier.
• Ling Yue and True Person Purple Clouds led the righteous vanguard through the Chaos Abyss toward the devil path's first defense line.
• Blood Baleful Intent led an attack from the mist, and Ling Yue confronted him in a fierce duel.
• True Person Purple Clouds countered the Devil Cultivators' Corpse Baleful Intent Formation with Purple Yang True Fire as the armies fought below.

The righteous path’s vanguard fought the Devil Cultivators to a costly stalemate before withdrawing, and the main army arrived at the Chaos Abyss. Yunyouzi’s lightning attack broke the devil path’s defenses, but Yan Tianjin appeared and faced the two Loose Immortals.

• Ling Yue and Blood Baleful Intent fought to a draw until reinforcements approached, and Ling Yue led the righteous vanguard in an orderly retreat.
• Blood Baleful Intent ordered his remaining troops to defend the second line while warning Old Devil Yin Corpse and Old Devil Bone Spirit about the vanguard.
• Zhang Jianchen’s main army reached the abyss, and Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi urged a swift assault on the devil path’s defenses.
• Yunyouzi struck the first corpse poison formation with divine lightning, badly injuring Old Devil Yin Corpse and killing many Devil Cultivators.
• Yan Tianjin emerged from the fog, and Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi stood together to face him as Zhang Jianchen put the army on alert.

Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi fought Yan Tianjin but could not defeat him, so Zhang Jianchen negotiated a division of territory around the Dao Fruit until it matured. The righteous camp prepared for a likely renewed conflict, with Zhou Ziyang warning that Yan Tianjin might break the agreement and strike first.

• Yunyouzi and Xuanjizi battled Yan Tianjin, whose strength left them unable to kill him even with their combined Yin-Yang attack.
• Yan Tianjin proposed dividing the territory around the origin zone and halting hostilities until the Dao Fruit matured.
• Zhang Jianchen accepted after Yan Tianjin agreed to withdraw thirty li and stop secretly catalyzing the Dao Fruit.
• The righteous and demonic armies retreated to opposite sides of the origin zone and built defensive camps.
• Zhang Jianchen briefed the righteous leaders, and Zhou Ziyang warned that Yan Tianjin might secretly hasten the Dao Fruit and attack first.

Lu Tianji secretly informed Yan Tianjin that the Primordial Dao Fruit would ripen in seven days, and the Devil Emperor prepared a deception while planning to seize it. Six days before it ripened, Yan Tianjin learned the righteous forces were investigating traitors and arranged to use Cangsongzi to further disrupt them.

• The righteous leaders learned that Li Yunjing had reached Void Refinement, killed Blood Bone Old Devil, and was preparing to reinforce them; Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi planned to improve their combined attack.
• Lu Tianji secretly told Yan Tianjin the Dao Fruit would ripen at the hour of the rat in seven days and warned him about the righteous forces and Li Yunjing.
• Yan Tianjin ordered Blood Baleful Intent to make a conspicuous tunnel, Yin Corpse and Bone Spirit to stage a frontal threat, and planned to attack the Dao Fruit himself with Lu Tianji's help.
• One day later, Yan Tianjin received Lu Tianji's warning that Zhang Jianchen was investigating traitors and told his generals the devil path could not afford another defeat.
• Yan Tianjin asked about Cangsongzi, and Bone Spirit reported that Cangsongzi would be framed with false evidence of collusion in three days to sow confusion among the righteous forces.

Yan Tianjin ordered Cangsongzi’s exposure to fracture the righteous path and improve the devil path’s chances of claiming the Dao Fruit. Bai Yuan uncovered evidence against Cangsongzi and brought it to Zhang Jianchen, leaving the alliance leader facing the apparent discovery of a traitor.

• Yan Tianjin ordered Cangsongzi exposed and instructed him to implicate the Purple Yang Sect, the Heavenly Sword Sect, and the Pill Cauldron Sect.
• Three days later, a law enforcement disciple showed Bai Yuan a devil path transmission talisman bearing Cangsongzi’s Pine Pattern Seal and clues about the army’s supply route.
• Bai Yuan summoned Cangsongzi, questioned him, and detained him while the investigation continued.
• Law enforcement disciples searched Cangsongzi’s quarters and found a devil path bone transmission talisman and three letters signed by Devil General Blood Baleful Intent.
• Bai Yuan brought the evidence to Zhang Jianchen, who reacted with alarm at the apparent collusion.

After Cangsongzi confessed to colluding with the Devil Dao and accused leaders of several major sects, panic and infighting spread through the Righteous Dao camp. Zhang Jianchen temporarily removed the accused from core affairs and resolved to visit them personally to restore trust.

• Zhou Ziyang rejected the accusation against Cangsongzi, while Ling Yue argued that the evidence made it unlikely to be a Devil Dao ploy.
• After two days of interrogation, Cangsongzi confessed to colluding with the Devil Dao and implicated Zhou Ziyang, Ling Yue, and Elder Ge.
• Rumors about the confession spread through camp, weakening morale and sparking confrontations among the sects.
• At the council meeting, Zhou Ziyang and Ling Yue accused one another, while Zhang Jianchen said the confession could not be trusted but barred those named from core affairs until the suspicions were cleared.
• After Wang Heng warned that the alliance could not continue in turmoil, Zhang Jianchen decided to visit the accused leaders and talk things through.

Zhang Jianchen personally reconciled the leaders of the righteous sects after Cangsongzi’s accusations threatened to divide them. With the sects united, he gathered their leaders and two Loose Immortals to unveil a secret plan to expose the traitors.

• Zhang Jianchen went to Zhou Ziyang’s camp and apologized for asking the Purple Yang Sect to step aside while the accusations were investigated.
• Zhang Jianchen explained that Cangsongzi had tried to exploit the Purple Yang Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect’s rivalry, and Zhou Ziyang agreed to put the greater cause first.
• Zhang Jianchen visited Ling Yue and Ge Changyun, gaining their cooperation and securing the Pill Cauldron Sect’s pills for the army.
• Zhang Jianchen visited the camps of all seven core sects, and the next morning their leaders gathered in the central command tent with their disputes eased.
• Zhang Jianchen dismissed the Law Enforcement Hall from the tent and told the assembled leaders that he had a top-secret plan to catch all the traitors.

Zhang Jianchen gave different secret battle plans to the alliance leaders and elders to identify the demonic faction’s mole by watching how the enemy deployed its defenses. Lu Tianji saw through his assignment as a trap and stayed silent, while Zhang Jianchen remained suspicious of him but had no proof.

• Zhang Jianchen separately assigned Zhou Ziyang, Ling Yue, Ge Changyun, Lu Tianji, and others different secret routes, times, and targets for an attack three days later.
• Zhang Jianchen explained to Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi that whichever route the demonic faction defended most heavily would reveal who had leaked the information.
• Lu Tianji recognized the northern maze forest assignment as a false plan, decided not to pass it on, and prepared to pretend he was following it.
• Zhang Jianchen told Wang Heng that Lu Tianji’s calm response seemed suspicious but could not serve as evidence, then ordered him to monitor everyone closely.

Zhang Jianchen used successive rounds of false plans to identify and capture three devil path spies within the righteous path camp. After the traitors were executed, he ordered the sects to tighten discipline and prepare for the coming battle.

• Yan Tianjin received reports of three planned attacks and strengthened the devil path defenses at all three locations.
• Zhang Jianchen concluded that the leaked plans came from people close to Zhou Ziyang, Ling Yue, and Ge Changyun, then ordered a second round of targeted false information.
• The Law Enforcement Hall captured Wu Changgou, Zhao Ruoxu, and Qian Fu with devil path communication talismans and secret letters.
• Zhang Jianchen ordered Elder Bai to interrogate the three traitors for accomplices and handlers.
• Zhang Jianchen ordered the traitors executed and told the sects to restore discipline, drill their forces, and await the Dao Fruit's maturation.
• The three traitors were beheaded publicly, and the righteous path camp celebrated their capture.

The righteous camp regained its morale, while Zhang Jianchen continued to suspect Lu Tianji and chose to watch him in secret. At Supreme Unity Divine Mountain, the Origin Dao Embryo took form as a youth, whom Zhenyangzi welcomed as the sect's leader.

• Zhang Jianchen told Wang Heng to keep Lu Tianji under secret surveillance until he revealed his intentions.
• Lu Tianji considered sending word that the righteous camp had recovered its morale, but decided to wait for the decisive battle.
• Li Yunjing and the others guarded the Origin Pool as the Origin Dao Embryo neared completion.
• The Origin Pool shook, and the cocoon released a powerful Origin presence as the youth's body formed inside.
• The cocoon burst open, and the newly formed youth asked who the people around him were.
• Zhenyangzi introduced himself and welcomed the youth as the leader of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

Yuanchu awakened in the Supreme Unity Divine Mountain and agreed to return to the Chaos Abyss to help the righteous path contend for the Dao Fruit. Zhang Jianchen learned of his awakening and secretly sent Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi to escort him.

• Yuanchu remembered his name and his past as the righteous path’s leader, and recognized the Taiyi presence in Li Yunjing and the Five Aggregates Cauldron.
• Yuanchu restored Zhenyangzi with Origin Qi and agreed to help keep the Dao Fruit from the demonic path.
• Li Yunjing informed the Immortal Alliance that Yuanchu had awakened and that they were setting out for the Chaos Abyss.
• Zhenyangzi joined Yuanchu and Li Yunjing as they left the mountain interior.
• Zhang Jianchen learned of Yuanchu’s awakening and decided to keep the news secret because of suspected moles.
• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi set out to meet Yuanchu’s group discreetly and escort them back to camp.

Li Yunjing and Yuanchu secretly returned to the Immortal Alliance camp, where Zhang Jianchen prepared to use Yuanchu against the demonic forces when the Dao Fruit matured. Three days later, the Dao Fruit began to ripen, and seven-colored light erupted from the origin area.

• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi escorted Li Yunjing and Yuanchu back to the camp in secret and praised Li Yunjing for protecting Supreme Unity Divine Mountain.
• Zhang Jianchen welcomed Yuanchu, told him the Dao Fruit would mature in three days, and ordered Li Yunjing's group to remain hidden until the decisive battle.
• Zhang Jianchen, Xuanjizi, and Yunyouzi discussed watching Lu Tianji, while Lu Tianji sensed the Loose Immortals' return but chose not to alert the Demon Emperor without confirmation.
• At midnight three days later, Spiritual Qi surged toward the origin area and the seven-colored light around the Dao Fruit blazed brightly.
• The seven-colored radiance burst through the Sha Qi, the Chaos Abyss entrance, and into the ninth heaven.

The Primordial Dao Fruit matured in the Chaos Abyss, sending the righteous and Devil Dao armies racing toward it. Yan Tianjin battled Yunyouzi and Xuanjizi while Zhang Jianchen led the righteous forces into a clash with the Devil Cultivators, as two hidden figures approached the center.

• A seven-colored pillar of light rose from the Chaos Abyss as the Primordial Dao Fruit matured, and Zhang Jianchen and Yan Tianjin ordered their armies to seize it.
• Blood Baleful Intent led Devil Cultivators toward the Dao Fruit until Yunyouzi blocked their advance with the Divine Firmament Divine Sword.
• Yan Tianjin intervened and fought Yunyouzi and Xuanjizi, whose combined attacks failed to stop his Devil Emperor's Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Zhang Jianchen arrived with the righteous path's main force and led the seven great sects into battle against the Devil Cultivators.
• Two unidentified figures secretly moved toward the center of the origin region while the armies clashed.

Li Yunjing and Yuanchu slipped through the battlefield to the Primordial Dao Fruit, and Yuanchu began drawing it toward the righteous faction. Lu Tianji revealed himself and attacked Yuanchu before the Dao Fruit could be secured.

• Ling Yue and Zhou Ziyang fought Old Devil Yin Corpse and Old Devil Bone Spirit while the righteous and devil factions suffered heavy losses across the battlefield.
• Huangfu Chenyin and Zhenyangzi held their position as Zhenyangzi worried that Sect Leader Li and the others had not yet arrived.
• Li Yunjing used Void Divine Treasury and the Five Aggregates Cauldron to conceal himself and Yuanchu as they crossed the battlefield, silently killing Devil Cultivator scouts in their way.
• Yuanchu sensed the Primordial Dao Fruit’s unease and then used his Origin Dao Physique to make it drift toward him.
• Lu Tianji, who had secretly followed Li Yunjing and Yuanchu, revealed his Void Refinement Late Stage cultivation and attacked Yuanchu with his horsetail whisk.

Lu Tianji revealed himself as Yan Xuanye, the Devil Emperor’s son, and attacked Yuanchu, but Li Yunjing protected him and fought back. Li Yunjing broke Yan Xuanye’s formation and wounded him, forcing Yan Xuanye to unleash a forbidden technique that raised his cultivation to Void Refinement Peak Stage.

• Yan Xuanye ambushed Yuanchu, but Li Yunjing shielded him with the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner.
• Yan Tianjin revealed that Lu Tianji was his son, Yan Xuanye, and the disclosure shook the righteous forces while rallying the devil path.
• Yan Xuanye attacked Li Yunjing with his fly whisk, but Li Yunjing blocked his techniques and cut his shoulder with Taiyi: Instant Light.
• Li Yunjing broke Yan Xuanye’s God Trapping Formation, then used Seven Stars Fall to force him back and wound his hand.
• Yan Xuanye admitted he had underestimated Li Yunjing and used a forbidden devil-path technique, raising his cultivation to Void Refinement Peak Stage.

Li Yunjing killed Yan Xuanye with one sword strike, turning the tide of the battlefield and enraging Yan Tianjin. After overpowering Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi, the Devil Emperor launched a furious palm strike at Li Yunjing and Yuanchu on the stone platform.

• Yan Xuanye used Blood Moon, but Li Yunjing’s Origin-Returning Sword Strike melted it and killed Yan Xuanye, leaving no trace of him or his possessions.
• The righteous cultivators cheered Yan Xuanye’s death and pressed their advantage, while the Devil Cultivators faltered despite Blood Baleful Intent threatening those who retreated.
• Yan Tianjin saw his son die, burned his origin Essence Blood, and struck Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi hard enough to send them flying.
• Yan Tianjin turned toward Li Yunjing and Yuanchu and sent a massive palm imprint toward the stone platform as the others cried out in alarm.

Li Yunjing blocked Yan Tianjin’s attack, but its shock wave startled the Primordial Dao Fruit and sent it fleeing through a spatial rift. With the prize gone, Yan Tianjin withdrew the devil army and vowed revenge, while the righteous side was left wondering where the Dao Fruit had gone.

• Li Yunjing used the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner and Five Aggregates Cauldron to withstand Yan Tianjin’s full-force attack, though he was injured and his banner cracked.
• The impact startled the Primordial Dao Fruit, which shot into a spatial rift and vanished from the battlefield.
• Yan Tianjin blamed Li Yunjing for the Dao Fruit’s escape, but Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi stood between them and threatened to stop him if he attacked again.
• Yan Tianjin abandoned the fight, ordered the devil army to withdraw to the Myriad Devil Abyss, and commanded his followers to search for the Dao Fruit.
• Zhang Jianchen questioned how the Dao Fruit could flee, and Xuanjizi explained that it had instinctively escaped after the impact, though no one knew where it went.

After the Dao Fruit fled, Zhang Jianchen ordered the righteous forces to search for it and praised Li Yunjing for killing Yan Xuanye and protecting Yuanchu. The army returned to Heaven-Soaring City, where the sect leaders agreed they could only wait for the Dao Fruit’s presence to reappear and keep watch across the Five Provinces.

• Zhang Jianchen ordered scouts and provinces to search for the Dao Fruit and promised rewards for reliable leads or its recovery.
• Yuanchu told Li Yunjing that he could no longer sense the Dao Fruit, though he believed its origin presence would eventually leak out again.
• Zhang Jianchen praised Li Yunjing for killing Yan Xuanye and protecting the Origin Dao Physique, then ordered the army to tend to casualties and return to camp.
• The righteous army returned to Heaven-Soaring City three days later, and Zhang Jianchen convened the core sect leaders to discuss finding the Dao Fruit.
• The sect leaders learned that divination and tracking could not locate the Dao Fruit, so Zhang Jianchen ordered the Five Provinces to watch for unusual phenomena and wait for its presence to reappear.

Li Yunjing received rewards for his role in the Chaos Abyss expedition and returned to the Luozhen Sect with Yuanchu and Zhenyangzi. He told Nangong Chengyu and Wang Qianxue about the escaped Dao Fruit and the battle, leaving the sect at home while the Immortal Alliance waited for news.

• Zhang Jianchen promoted the Luozhen Sect to a core sect and appointed Li Yunjing an Immortal Alliance elder, then asked him to take Yuanchu back to the sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the sect with Zhenyangzi and Yuanchu, and Yuanchu sensed that the Dao Fruit remained near Flying Immortal Prefecture.
• Mo Xuan welcomed Li Yunjing home and reported that the sect was stable and Azure Jiao Marsh's spiritual vitality was growing.
• Li Yunjing visited Nangong Chengyu and Wang Qianxue and recounted the Chaos Abyss battle, Xuanye's betrayal, and the Dao Fruit's escape.
• Li Yunjing told Wang Qianxue that her father was well and hoped to visit her when circumstances allowed.

Li Yunjing learned that a secret realm had appeared in the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain just after the Dao Fruit escaped, and decided to investigate. Zhi Qianshu revealed that the realm was the Biyuan People's First Ancestor's burial ground and insisted Li Yunjing was the prophesied Person Who Brings the Dawn needed to awaken him.

• Mo Xuan reported that Sha Qi had dispersed in the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain and an ancient secret realm had emerged.
• Li Yunjing decided to visit the realm, despite Wang Qianxue's concern that he had only recently returned from the Chaos Abyss.
• A disciple reported that Zhi Qianshu and a group of Biyuan warriors had come to see Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing met Zhi Qianshu, who said the secret realm was the Biyuan People's First Ancestor's burial ground and had opened for his prophesied awakening.
• Zhi Qianshu urged Li Yunjing to enter the burial ground, light the lamp before the First Ancestor's coffin with his Origin Essence Blood, and gather nine bone talismans to complete the resurrection ritual.