Chapter Summaries

Kuang Dou led the westward assault on Yellow Sand Pass, where Zhao Xuanqing and the Zhao Clan half-demons broke the One Qi Dao Gate’s defenses and overwhelmed its forces. After Kuang Dou drove off True Person Qingding and the pass fell, he rewarded Zhao Xuanqing and ordered the Zhao Clan to continue expanding west.

• Zhao Xuanqing led the Zhao Clan half-demons through the failing formation at Yellow Sand Pass and began slaughtering the defenders.
• True Person Qingding attacked Zhao Xuanqing, but Kuang Dou appeared, crushed his Law Treasure, and forced him to flee.
• The One Qi Dao Gate disciples lost morale and fled as Kuang Dou ordered the assault to continue.
• The Zhao Clan half-demons looted Yellow Sand Pass and presented its resources to Kuang Dou after reducing it to ruins.
• Kuang Dou rewarded Zhao Xuanqing with Sun Devourer Essence Blood and assigned the Zhao Clan to continue the westward expansion.

True Person Minghe ordered True Person Qingyun and True Person Qingding to retake Yellow Sand Pass, but the two cultivators and three thousand disciples were drawn into a trap. They discovered a vast beast tide led by six Golden Core Demon Generals and realized the Myriad Demon Domain had lured them there to attack.

• True Person Minghe ordered True Person Qingyun and True Person Qingding to retake Yellow Sand Pass with three thousand elite disciples.
• The two spirit boats reached the ruined pass and found it strangely silent, prompting True Person Qingding to urge a retreat.
• A beast tide hundreds of thousands strong emerged, led by Kuang Dou, Yu Tian, Golden Crocodile, the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, Shi Pan, and Flame Brown Bear.
• True Person Qingding recognized that the demons were marching west, while True Person Qingyun realized they had been lured into a trap and tried to flee.
• An unseen speaker warned the cultivators that they would not be allowed to leave.

Kuang Dou and the Demon Generals defeated the human defenders at Yellow Sand Pass and killed True Person Qingyun and True Person Qingding. The beast tide then crossed into Huang Province and advanced toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• True Person Qingyun and True Person Qingding fought the encircling Demon Generals, but Flame Brown Bear and Golden Crocodile broke through their attacks and damaged Qingding’s bronze cauldron.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada killed True Person Qingyun with a drop of heavy water, destroying his Golden Core.
• True Person Qingding fled, but Kuang Dou trapped him in demonic fire and Flame Brown Bear shattered his bronze cauldron, leaving him to die in the flames.
• Kuang Dou ordered the beasts to march west, and the hundreds of thousands of beasts swept through Huang Province toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.

The Myriad Demon Domain’s army attacked and captured Demon-Suppressing Pass after its six Demon Generals overwhelmed the Black Tortoise Heavy Water Formation. True Person Minghe escaped while the pass’s defenders were slaughtered, and Shi Pan claimed the territory east of Huang Province for the Myriad Demon Domain.

• True Person Minghe learned that True Person Qingyun and True Person Qingding’s soul tablets had shattered as a massive beast tide approached Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kuang Dou, Shi Pan, Golden Crocodile, Flame Brown Bear, Yu Tian, and the Six-Winged Golden Cicada attacked the pass’s formation and wounded True Person Minghe.
• Kuang Dou broke the Black Tortoise Heavy Water Formation, allowing the beast tide to pour into Demon-Suppressing Pass and kill its defenders.
• True Person Minghe fled using his ancient octagonal mirror while Shi Pan stopped Kuang Dou from pursuing him.
• Zhao Xuanqing reported the pass’s fall to Shi Pan, who declared the territory east of Huang Province part of the Myriad Demon Domain.

The One Qi Dao Gate learned that the Myriad Demon Domain had overrun Yellow Sand Pass and Demon-Suppressing Pass, and it called on the other major sects for aid. The Supreme Purity Sect, Grand Purity Sect, and Righteous Qi Gate each refused, leaving the One Qi Dao Gate to face the invasion alone.

• True Person Minghe reported to True Lord Wenxuan that Yellow Sand Pass and Demon-Suppressing Pass had fallen, Qingding and other cultivators were dead, and six Golden Core Demon Generals led a massive beast tide.
• True Lord Wenxuan ordered mobilization across Huang Province, rang the Great Void Bell, and sent urgent requests for help to the Grand Purity Sect, the Supreme Purity Sect, and the Righteous Qi Gate.
• True Lord Fang Yi and True Lord Yuanshang refused to send Supreme Purity Sect forces, citing threats from the Flood Dragon Domain and concealing True Lord Purple Yang's death.
• True Lord Qingxuan refused aid on behalf of the Grand Purity Sect and ordered its forces to defend the Wei Kingdom against the Heavenly Ape Domain.
• The Righteous Qi Gate sect master burned the aid request and ordered the borders sealed, choosing to protect the sect's own territory.

True Lord Wenxuan mobilized the Profound Truth Kingdom’s forces to defend six strongholds in central Huang Province, while the Demon Race transformed eastern Huang Province into demon land. The chapter left the humans facing a growing threat as the demons prepared to advance cautiously toward their defenses.

• True Lord Wenxuan ordered twelve Golden Core True Persons and the sect elders to defend six central Huang Province strongholds with the Six Harmonies Heaven-Locking Grand Array.
• After the Demon-Suppressing Pass fell, Zhao Xuanqing and the demon forces destroyed a human city, seized its resources, and remade the surrounding land into demon territory.
• Shi Pan, Kuang Dou, and the other Demon Generals agreed to fortify their gains before confronting the twelve Golden Cores guarding the strongholds.
• Yu Tian proposed pushing the demon land toward the human cities to lure the defenders into making a mistake, while preserving the territory if they stayed put.
• At Red Rock City, True Person Chihuo and True Person Iron Stone watched the demonic forest spread and recognized that the demons’ expanding domain threatened the Human Race’s plans to reclaim eastern Huang Province.

Shi Jian and White Crane decided to halt the advance in Huang Province and hold a standoff with the One Qi Dao Gate while weakening the Human Race over time. Shu Changfeng broke through to the Golden Core realm and was elevated to a superior race, while Shi Jian and White Crane looked toward the dangers beyond their current world.

• Shi Jian explained that Wenxuan had refused to take the bait, then ordered the demons to stop advancing and secure the territory around the Six Harmonies Heaven-Locking Grand Array.
• Shu Changfeng absorbed the Nine Heavens Gang Wind Qi and shattered his Demon Core, reforming it into a Golden Core as he broke through to Early Golden Core.
• Shu Changfeng traveled to Purple Firmament Peak and bowed to Shi Jian, thanking him for the Qi that enabled his breakthrough.
• Shi Jian named him Changfeng, granted him authority over the Wind Rat Line, and allowed him to establish the Changfeng Demon Cave as a superior race of the Myriad Demon Domain.
• White Crane congratulated Shi Jian on gaining a general, and Shi Jian spoke of suppressing the Human Race and finding a path beyond their world.

Zhao Xuanqing and Sun Xingtian established Heavenly Demon City as a lure for human cultivators seeking longer lives. Li Cangwu escaped the One Qi Dao Gate’s array and became a half-demon in exchange for longevity, then agreed to help weaken the defenses and recruit other aging cultivators.

• Zhao Xuanqing and Sun Xingtian surveyed the prosperous Myriad Demon Domain and discussed using lifespan to draw cultivators into Heavenly Demon City.
• Li Cangwu, an elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator facing conscription and death, used a restriction-breaking talisman to flee through the One Qi Dao Gate’s array.
• Li Cangwu reached Heavenly Demon City and met Zhao Xuanqing, who offered him Demon General Sun Devourer's Essence Blood and a cultivation method to extend his life.
• Li Cangwu drank the demon blood and transformed into a red-furred half-demon, regaining strength and vitality.
• Zhao Xuanqing ordered Li Cangwu to provide the Red Rock City array diagram and identify other cultivators near death, and Li Cangwu agreed.

Li Cangwu lured dying cultivators from the Six Harmonies defensive line to Heavenly Demon City with the promise of renewed life, helping the Myriad Demon Domain undermine the One Qi Dao Gate through defection and trade. As the city flourished and the defensive array weakened, twelve Golden Core True Persons in Red Rock City faced a war they could neither contain nor control.

• Li Cangwu urged three elderly Foundation Establishment cultivators to betray the One Qi Dao Gate and join Heavenly Demon City in exchange for Holy Blood and a second life.
• Over the next year, cultivators vanished from the defensive line, array nodes were sabotaged, and rumors of turning into a Demon spread across central Huang Province.
• Thousands of half-Demons and several Human Lineages gathered in Heavenly Demon City, where Zhao Xuanqing and Sun Xingtian oversaw a thriving trade with Human cultivators and merchants.
• True Person Iron Stone and True Person Chihuo discussed escalating defections, stolen array diagrams, and the black-market trade sustaining Heavenly Demon City.
• The twelve Golden Core True Persons concluded that the One Qi Dao Gate had lost the initiative, with the defensive line compromised and the Demon Generals blocking any advance.

True Lord Qingxuan and the Grand Purity Sect leaders decided to pressure the Heavenly Ape Domain rather than aid the One Qi Dao Gate, while using the move to test True Lord Purple Yang’s condition. Yuan Shan learned of the mobilization and ordered the demon kings to prepare for war.

• True Lord Qinglie and True Lord Qingxuan agreed that Grand Purity would not help the One Qi Dao Gate, and Qingxuan voiced suspicion that True Lord Purple Yang might be dead or in secluded cultivation.
• True Lord Qingxuan proposed targeting the Heavenly Ape Domain to pressure the Demon Race and test Purple Yang, and the Grand Purity leaders approved the plan.
• Grand Purity mobilized troops and supplies northward, assembling a vast army at the border.
• An ape demon reported Grand Purity’s buildup to Yuan Shan at Heaven-Supporting Peak.
• Yuan Shan ordered the demon kings of the Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning tribes to gather and prepared to confront Grand Purity.

Shi Jian mobilized the Myriad Demon Domain’s forces while the Grand Purity Sect and Flood Dragon Domain threatened other fronts. In Huang Province, he confronted the One Qi Dao Gate’s leaders and demanded that the Human Race surrender Huang Province and Transformation Province.

• Shi Jian sent White Crane to watch the Grand Purity Sect’s attack on the Heavenly Ape Domain and ordered Ao Hai to stir up trouble for the Supreme Purity Sect.
• Shi Jian summoned six generals and led the Myriad Demon Domain’s forces toward Huang Province, where they joined six generals already stationed near Heavenly Demon City.
• The twelve Demon Generals attacked the Six Harmonies Heaven-Locking Grand Array, forcing the defenders back until True Lord Wenxuan and True Lord Qingxiao arrived.
• True Lord Qingxiao struck at Kuang Dou, but Shi Jian intercepted the attack and damaged the array with his lightning.
• Shi Jian warned True Lord Wenxuan that the One Qi Dao Gate stood alone and threatened to devastate the Profound Truth Kingdom if Wenxuan fought him.
• True Lord Wenxuan asked what Shi Jian wanted, and Shi Jian demanded that the Human Race cede Huang Province and Transformation Province to the Myriad Demon Domain.

Shi Jian rejected True Lord Wenxuan’s demand that he cede Huang Province and Transformation Province, and the two fought. Shi Jian overwhelmed Wenxuan, but True Lord Qingxiao then launched a surprise sword attack at Shi Jian from behind.

• Shi Jian accused the Human Race of hypocrisy and defended taking human territory as revenge for the Demon Race’s centuries of oppression.
• True Lord Wenxuan attacked Shi Jian with his Yin-Yang Dao Immortal Foundation, Forget Heaven’s Light.
• Shi Jian manifested Purple Pivot Lightning and shattered Wenxuan’s taiji diagram, forcing him back.
• Shi Jian used Lightning Evasion to appear before Wenxuan and struck him through his horsetail whisk, sending him crashing through a mountain.
• True Lord Qingxiao attacked Shi Jian from behind with an azure flying sword.

Shi Jian fought True Lords Wenxuan and Qingxiao at once, then drew on Purple Firmament Peak’s lightning reserves to transform into a gigantic lightning bear. He defeated both opponents and declared that Wenxuan had lost.

• Shi Jian endured Qingxiao’s sneak attack, damaged his lifebound flying sword, and healed his chest wound.
• Wenxuan and Qingxiao joined forces to trap Shi Jian with the Taiji Diagram and Sky-Rending Sword Formation.
• Shi Jian summoned the lightning reserves of Purple Firmament Peak and formed a hundred-zhang lightning bear dharma form.
• Shi Jian tore apart Wenxuan’s Taiji Diagram, leaving him gravely injured.
• Shi Jian struck Qingxiao into a deep pit, then told the weakened Wenxuan that he had lost.

Shi Jian forced the One Qi Dao Gate to surrender Huang Province and Transformation Province while preserving it as a buffer against overseas Devil Cultivators and a source of division among human sects. As Ao Hai pinned down the Supreme Purity Sect and fighting erupted in the north, Shi Jian headed toward the northern battlefield while considering how to weaken both human and dragon rivals.

• True Lord Wenxuan ceded Huang Province and Transformation Province, rescued the unconscious True Lord Qingxiao, and ordered the One Qi Dao Gate to retreat.
• Shi Jian explained that sparing the One Qi Dao Gate would block returning Devil Cultivators, discourage unity among human sects, and allow gradual exploitation of Devil Province.
• Shi Jian ordered Shi Pan to convert the conquered provinces into demon soil and directed Kuang Dou and Zhao Xuanqing to obtain human inheritances through Heavenly Demon City.
• Ao Hai massed the Flood Dragon Domain's forces against the Supreme Purity Sect without attacking, preventing True Lord Fang Yi and True Lord Yuanshang from sending aid elsewhere.
• White Crane informed Shi Jian that Yuan Shan and three tribes' Demon Kings had engaged the Grand Purity Sect's army, while Qingxuan had yet to appear.
• Shi Jian sped toward the northern battlefield and planned to exploit an opening from either the Supreme Purity Sect or the Flood Dragon Domain.

True Lord White Crane intervened to save the three demon kings of the Heavenly Ape Domain from the Grand Purity Sect, then revealed he had come to watch as Shi Jian arrived. Shi Jian shattered the sect’s formation and attacked True Lord Xuanfeng.

• Yuan Shan and the other two demon kings fought desperately against five Grand Purity Sect Nascent Souls as their forces were overwhelmed.
• True Lord Qinglie formed the Grand Purity Demon-Slaying Formation and sent its giant sword down at Yuan Shan.
• True Lord White Crane appeared, stopped the sword with cloud Qi, and lifted the exhausted demon kings to safety.
• White Crane said he had come at Shi Jian’s request and intended to watch the battle, just as purple-gold lightning struck and broke the Grand Purity formation.
• Shi Jian appeared and charged True Lord Xuanfeng with a giant lightning claw.

Shi Jian killed True Lord Xuanfeng and overwhelmed the Grand Purity Sect’s remaining fighters with his Lightning Domain. The battle paused when a vast face of clear Qi appeared and asked Shi Jian to spare the survivors.

• Shi Jian’s lightning claw destroyed Xuanfeng’s shield and Nine Nether Gang Wind, then crushed Xuanfeng and his Nascent Soul.
• Yuan Shan and White Crane held off Qingxu and Qinglie while Shi Jian challenged the remaining Grand Purity Sect True Lords.
• Lieyang and Hanyue attacked Shi Jian with fire and ice, but his Lightning Domain shattered their attacks and his punch gravely wounded Lieyang.
• Yuan Shan and the other sea ape demon kings kept Hanyue and Qingxu occupied as the Grand Purity Sect’s formation collapsed.
• A vast face of clear Qi descended from the direction of the Wei Kingdom and asked Shi Jian to let the matter end; Shi Jian called the speaker an old fox.

Shi Jian rejected True Lord Qingxuan’s demand to stop fighting, and the five demon lords and five Grand Purity True Lords resumed their battle. After Shi Jian took True Lord Zhaohuo’s fire lotus attack head-on, he seized Zhaohuo through the flames, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Shi Jian refused to let the Grand Purity Sect withdraw, and True Lord Zhaohuo and True Lord Qingxuan joined True Lord Qinglie on the battlefield.
• Yuan Shan, Shi Jian, White Crane, and the other demon lords faced the five Grand Purity True Lords as the Nascent Soul battle erupted again.
• True Lord Zhaohuo attacked Yuan Shan with nine fire dragons while the other True Lords fought the demon kings.
• White Crane bound True Lord Qingxuan with cloud chains, giving Shi Jian time to break Qingxuan’s Qi shield with a lightning punch.
• True Lord Zhaohuo struck Shi Jian with a destructive fire lotus, but Shi Jian survived and seized him through the flames.

Shi Jian destroyed True Lord Zhaohuo’s body while fighting off Qingxuan and Qinglie, and White Crane killed the wounded True Lord Lieyang beneath the lake. Enraged by the Grand Purity Sect’s losses, Qingxuan drained the Heavenly Ape Domain’s Spiritual Qi and began summoning an ancient gateway.

• Shi Jian endured Qingxuan and Qinglie’s attacks and crushed Zhaohuo’s body with Purple Pivot Lightning, though Zhaohuo’s Nascent Soul escaped to Qingxuan.
• Shi Jian broke Qingxuan’s Qi sword and swept aside Qinglie’s divine mountain while the Grand Purity Sect’s cultivators reeled from the losses.
• White Crane appeared beneath the lake and killed the injured Lieyang by slicing apart his body and Nascent Soul with cloud Qi.
• White Crane emerged and announced Lieyang was gone, leaving Qingxuan, Qinglie, Hanyue, and Qingxu as the sect’s remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, all injured.
• Qingxuan spat Essence Blood into the Grand Purity Qi sea, drained the Heavenly Ape Domain’s Spiritual Qi, and summoned an ancient gateway as he vowed to kill everyone there.

Shi Jian and White Crane escaped True Lord Qingxuan’s attack after the Grand Purity Sect suffered devastating losses, while Yuan Shan and the other demon kings retreated into the North Sea. Shi Jian chose to return to the Myriad Demon Domain, intending to preserve a balance of power among the Human Race and Demon Race and keep the rising Flood Dragons in check.

• True Lord Qingxuan opened the Grand Purity Void Gate and struck at the retreating Shi Jian, who escaped with White Crane after losing flesh from his shoulder.
• Yuan Shan and the other demon kings fled into the North Sea as the Grand Purity Sect’s attack annihilated a vast stretch of the Heavenly Ape Domain.
• Qingxuan’s gate shattered, and he ordered Grand Purity Sect cultivators to seize the southern Heavenly Ape Domain and massacre its Demon Beasts.
• Shi Jian cut away the Annihilation Qi-tainted flesh and discussed how Grand Purity’s weakened position could draw the North Sea powers into conflict.
• Shi Jian rejected stirring up trouble in the south and decided to return to the Myriad Demon Domain, explaining that the Human Race needed strength to contain the Flood Dragons.

Ao Hai withdrew the Flood Dragon army after learning that Shi Jian had used his clan to distract the Supreme Purity Sect while expanding the Myriad Demon Domain. Shi Jian and the Dragon Kings accepted a long stalemate, with the Flood Dragon Clan deciding to watch his exposed ambition and wait for an opportunity.

• Ao Hai learned that Shi Jian had used the Flood Dragon Clan to hold back the Supreme Purity Sect while the Myriad Demon Domain seized territory, and he ended the siege.
• True Lord Fang Yi welcomed the Flood Dragon army's withdrawal and concluded that the Demon Race was divided and the Human Race's rivals were too weakened to pose an immediate threat.
• Shu Changfeng reported the withdrawal to Shi Jian, who said the balance between humans and demons would let the Myriad Demon Domain consolidate its gains.
• Ao Hai showed the Dragon Kings how Shi Jian had manipulated the conflict, and Ao Qin warned that attacking him could break the balance and unite the Human Race.
• Ao Qin ordered the Flood Dragon Clan to focus on expanding on land and to watch Shi Jian, whose ambition had now been exposed.