Chapter Summaries

White Crane strengthened the Myriad Demon Domain by forging alliances and cultivating its demons while Shi Jian remained in seclusion. Zhao Xuanqing and Xiong Man each broke through to Golden Core, leaving the Myriad Demon Domain with more than twenty Golden Core Demon Generals and a rising coalition of races.

• White Crane secured a loose alliance with the Heavenly Ape Domain and two East Sea demon clans, then redirected resources toward demons facing cultivation bottlenecks.
• Rending Wind, an Iron-Bone Eagle, and a mutated Netherworld Black Tiger each broke through to Fifth-Level Demon General.
• Zhao Xuanqing used Boiling Flame Blazing Fire Qi to become the first half-demon to reach Golden Core, proving the half-demon path viable and gaining the ability to switch between human and demon forms.
• Xiong Man found Black-Yellow Tyrant Body Qi in an ancient mine, broke through to Golden Core, and demonstrated the strength and recovery of the Dao of the Physical Body.
• The six bear lines reached Golden Core strength, and the Myriad Demon Domain's Golden Core Demon Generals surpassed twenty.

The four nations and four supreme sects of the Human Race launched a surprise invasion of the Myriad Demon Domain after spending twenty years preparing their attack. The demon generals and their allies rushed to defend the eastern, western, southern, and northern fronts as the battle began.

• Four spatial rifts opened over the Myriad Demon Domain, and human forces poured through them to attack.
• Jin Kuang confronted the Righteous Qi Gate in the east, with an Azure Ape, a Thunder Leopard, and a black tiger joining the defense.
• Zhao Xuanqing and Kuang Dou attacked the western forces, while Flame Brown Bear, Shi Pan, Shi Mo, and Lei Qiong reinforced their line.
• Xiong Man and three allied demons held off the Grand Purity Sect’s assault in Hu Lake as a hundred thousand Demon Beasts joined the fighting.
• Cloud Radiance, Yu Hui, and Rending Wind faced the northern attackers before Shu Jiuyin, Shu Changfeng, and Shu Baoshan arrived to help them.

Six Human Race True Lords attacked Shi Jian and White Crane at the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, but their distrust and reluctance to risk themselves kept them from overwhelming Shi Jian. Shi Jian killed True Lord Jianling, while White Crane and Tongming remained locked in battle.

• Wenxuan, Xuanlie, Yuanshang, Qingfeng, Sword Spirit, and Tongming arrived at the Myriad Demon Mountain Range to attack Shi Jian and White Crane.
• White Crane challenged Tongming over his Cloud Dao origin, and the two began fighting in the sky.
• Shi Jian repelled attacks from Jianling, Qingfeng, Xuanlie, and Yuanshang, then resisted Wenxuan's supreme yin cold wave.
• Shi Jian summoned five thunder dragons, breaking the True Lords' encirclement as they defended themselves.
• Shi Jian targeted True Lord Jianling and killed him with a thunder-infused punch, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.

Shi Jian summoned Purple Firmament’s vast lightning power to devastate the battlefield and kill Yuanshang and Qingfeng, while Xuanlie fled and Wenxuan confronted him in a final clash. Their attacks collided above the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Shi Jian unleashed Purple Firmament’s lightning across the Myriad Demon Domain, killing countless Human Race cultivators and forcing Wenxuan to defend himself.
• Shi Jian shattered Yuanshang’s spatial defenses with a lightning strike and erased him completely.
• Shi Jian destroyed Qingfeng’s Nascent Soul with soul lightning, swallowed his body, and healed his own wound.
• Xuanlie fled after his courage broke, leaving Wenxuan to face Shi Jian alone.
• Wenxuan sacrificed his body, Nascent Soul, and cultivation to empower the Taiji formation diagram, while Shi Jian met its crushing attack with his Lightning Bear form.
• Shi Jian and Wenxuan’s attacks collided, collapsing the void and swallowing the battlefield in blinding light.

Shi Jian destroyed True Lord Wenxuan and joined White Crane in defeating True Lord Tongming. White Crane devoured and refined Tongming, advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Shi Jian shattered True Lord Wenxuan’s Taiji Formation Diagram and annihilated his Nascent Soul with lightning.
• Shi Jian saw that White Crane and True Lord Tongming were locked in battle, then rushed to help White Crane.
• True Lord Tongming tried to burn his Nascent Soul, but Shi Jian’s Soul Lightning interrupted him.
• White Crane swallowed True Lord Tongming and refined him, absorbing the essence of his Cloud Dao.
• White Crane broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage as his High Antiquity Yun He bloodline awakened further.

After the demons routed the human army in the Myriad Demon Domain, Shi Jian ordered an invasion of the western lands and headed east with White Crane. In Qing Province, the Flood Dragon Clan attacked the Supreme Purity Sect while its leaders were reeling from the deaths of Tongming and Yuanshang, leaving Fang Yi and the remaining True Lords on the verge of defeat.

• Shi Jian’s demons killed or scattered the invading cultivators, and he ordered them to march west and conquer the One Qi Dao Gate and the Profound Truth Kingdom.
• Shi Jian and White Crane discussed the Flood Dragon Clan’s threat to the Clear Blue Kingdom and flew east to intervene.
• A shrine deacon discovered that Tongming and Yuanshang’s Jade Slips had shattered, and the Flood Dragon Clan launched an attack on the Supreme Purity Sect.
• Ao Qin and six Dragon Lords broke the Qing Province barrier and fought Fang Yi, Purple Smoke, Mingyuan, and Hanyuan.
• A hidden Flood Dragon wounded and swallowed Purple Smoke, while Hanyuan lost an arm and Fang Yi was gravely injured.
• The Supreme Purity Limitless Formation collapsed, flooding the sect as Ao Qin urged Fang Yi to submit and Fang Yi prepared to burn his Essence Blood and fight to the death.

Shi Jian and White Crane arrived as the Supreme Purity Sect was falling and killed a Flood Dragon lord, giving True Lord Fang Yi a chance to destroy Ao Qin’s body with the Heaven and Earth Purple Gold Cauldron. Ao Qin escaped as a Nascent Soul, while Shi Jian blocked Ao Hai and the remaining dragon lords from fleeing.

• The five Flood Dragon lords killed True Lord Hanyuan, while Ao Hai drove True Lord Mingyuan away and Ao Qin cornered True Lord Fang Yi.
• Shi Jian and White Crane appeared and killed the Shadow Flood Dragon with a coordinated attack.
• True Lord Fang Yi detonated the Heaven and Earth Purple Gold Cauldron with his Nascent Soul, destroying the Supreme Purity Sect’s mountain gate and tearing apart Ao Qin’s body.
• Ao Qin fled south as a Nascent Soul carrying his dragon pearl, and Ao Hai tried to pursue him.
• Shi Jian transformed into a hundred-zhang Lightning Bear and blocked Ao Hai and the five remaining dragon lords.

Shi Jian and White Crane defeated the Flood Dragon Lords at the ruined Supreme Purity Sect, though both were badly injured. True Lord Mingyuan then self-destructed, leaving the two demons alive but weakened.

• Shi Jian used Soul Lightning to kill an early-stage Dragon Lord, then joined White Crane in trapping Ao Hai, Ao Feng, Ao Xiao, and an azure Dragon Lord in lightning and clouds.
• Shi Jian and White Crane destroyed the azure Dragon Lord’s body, and Shi Jian used Soul Lightning to kill his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Ao Hai injured Shi Jian before fleeing with Ao Feng and Ao Xiao, while Shi Jian let them escape because he was nearly exhausted.
• True Lord Mingyuan charged Shi Jian and White Crane and self-destructed, but White Crane shielded them with clouds and wings.
• White Crane recovered from superficial injuries while Shi Jian emerged from the ruins badly hurt and warned that he could not withstand another self-destruction.

The demon domains completed their conquest of the Human Race’s kingdoms, leaving the Grand Purity Sect holding only two provinces of Wei Kingdom. As the four demon powers surrounded the last human territory, Patriarch Profound Purity regretted the schemes that had helped bring the continent to ruin.

• White Crane and Shi Jian ordered the Myriad Demon Domain’s forces to occupy all four provinces of Clear Blue after True Lord Mingyuan destroyed the Supreme Purity Sect with his self-destruction.
• The Eight-Tentacled Demon King and Abyss Fish Demon King killed True Lord Zhengyi, destroyed the Righteous Qi Gate, conquered Little Yu, and took two provinces of Wei Kingdom to establish the Sea Beast Demon Domain.
• Yuan Shan, Mountain-Moving, and Sea-Overturning broke through the Grand Purity Sect’s northern defenses and seized two provinces of Wei Kingdom for the Heavenly Ape Domain.
• Patriarch Profound Purity learned that the Myriad Demon Domain controlled the west, the Heavenly Ape Domain held the north, and the Sea Beast Demon Domain held the east, while the Flood Dragon Domain dominated the south.
• Patriarch Profound Purity realized that the Human Race had been reduced to the Grand Purity Sect’s final two provinces and regretted failing to unite against Shi Jian.

After the Human Race lost nearly all its territory, the Demon Domains paused to consolidate their gains while the Myriad Demon Domain recovered from battle. White Crane repaired damaged lands and sent Shu Baoshan to search for hidden inheritances and secret realms left by fallen human Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Yuan Shan held his Sea Ape forces back from provoking the Myriad Demon Domain, recognizing that the mad bear's strength made an attack too dangerous.
• The Sea Beast Demon Domain flooded the eastern provinces to create habitat and resources, while Ao Hai watched over the gravely wounded Ao Qin in the Flood Dragon Palace.
• Shi Jian recuperated in the Purple Pivot Secret Realm, relying on Azure Edge True Lord's vitality to heal his damaged body and foundation.
• White Crane used cloud Qi and third-tier Breathing Earth to restore a broken Spirit Vein and revive its spirit spring and plants.
• Shu Baoshan reported that the Clear Blue Kingdom had been purged and its surrendered cultivation Lineages enslaved as half-demons.
• White Crane ordered Shu Baoshan to search the ruins of the Profound Truth Kingdom and Clear Blue Kingdom for secret realms and hidden inheritances, while keeping the search quiet.

Ten years after the Demon Race took control of the Profound Spirit Continent, Shi Jian and White Crane investigated a spatial node that Shu Baoshan had found among the ruins of the Profound Truth Kingdom. Shi Jian opened a gateway to a declining secret realm linked to the Profound Purity Sect, and the demons prepared to explore it.

• White Crane welcomed Qinglin, Xuanjia, and Leidiao into the Myriad Demon Domain and assigned each a territory or post.
• White Crane told Shi Jian that the growing demon population was straining the domain’s resources and that Shu Baoshan had found a lead in the ruins of the Clear Blue Kingdom and the Profound Truth Kingdom.
• Shu Baoshan and Master Hui located a spatial node in the ruins of the Profound Truth Kingdom and prepared to stabilize a passage into it.
• Shi Jian and White Crane arrived, and Shi Jian used his lightning power to tear open a gateway to the secret realm.
• Shi Jian determined that the realm came from the Profound Purity Sect rather than Wenxuan and led the others toward it to search for the sect’s legacy.

Shi Jian and White Crane entered True Lord Kumu’s secret realm, slew its Human Race inhabitants, and seized its treasures and Dao of Wood inheritance. They uncovered a theory that the Profound Spirit Continent was sealed away by a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord, and concluded that destroying the Kunyuan Secret Realm might let them escape.

• Shi Jian and White Crane entered the unstable secret realm and discovered a settlement of Human Race cultivators.
• White Crane killed hundreds of cultivators, and Shi Jian searched a Golden Core cultivator’s soul to learn the realm had been left by True Lord Kumu.
• Shi Jian and White Crane swept through the secret realm’s defenses and found five fourth-tier Spirit Plants in its medicinal garden.
• Shi Jian took the Spirit Plants and Breathing Earth, then found True Lord Kumu’s True Scripture of Withering and Flourishing and a piece of withered wood in his cabin.
• Shi Jian and White Crane discussed True Lord Kumu’s theory that the Profound Spirit Continent was sealed off from the outside world by a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord.
• Shi Jian and White Crane concluded that destroying the Kunyuan Secret Realm might be their chance to escape the continent.

Shi Jian and White Crane decided to escape the Kunyuan Secret Realm when it opened again in sixty years, and dismantled its central spirit lands to strengthen their own territories. After emerging from the collapsing realm, Shi Jian ordered Shu Baoshan to search for other hidden secret realms left by fallen Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Shi Jian and White Crane agreed to break through the Kunyuan Secret Realm’s barrier when it opened in more than sixty years, and decided to take its spirit lands for themselves.
• Shi Jian tore open the secret realm’s spatial barrier while White Crane uprooted its Spirit Mountains and main vein, and the two carried the land through the void.
• Shu Baoshan and the Space Dao demons struggled to keep the gateway open until Shi Jian and White Crane emerged with the spirit lands.
• Shi Jian planted three Spirit Mountains in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, restoring its damaged Spirit Veins, while White Crane merged the remaining spirit lands into the Yunxiao Secret Realm.
• Shi Jian ordered Shu Baoshan to find secret realms left behind by fallen Human Race Nascent Soul cultivators, and Shu Baoshan pledged to obey.

Fifteen years later, the Myriad Demon Domain had flourished while the Human Race lost nearly all of its territory and the Flood Dragon Clan retreated into the deep sea. Shi Jian learned that a strange silver object with Space Dao patterns had been unearthed beneath the Supreme Purity Sect, and examined it.

• The Myriad Demon Domain prospered, with restored Spirit Veins, new demon caves, and demon clans living under Shi Jian’s rule.
• Ancestor Profound Purity died, and the Heavenly Ape Domain invaded Wei Kingdom, leaving the Human Race with only one province.
• Ao Qin’s soul finally collapsed, so Ao Hai concealed his death and ordered the Flood Dragon Clan to abandon its land holdings and withdraw into the South Sea.
• Shu Changfeng told Shi Jian that the continent’s conflicts had ended and that the Myriad Demon Domain could claim its share of the remaining human province.
• Shu Changfeng presented Shi Jian with a silver, flesh-like object found beneath the Supreme Purity Sect, whose Space Dao patterns resembled those in the Kunyuan Secret Realm.

Shi Jian placed a mysterious silver mass of flesh in Space-Rending Valley before refining Lu Xun into a Dao Pill. After consuming it, Shi Jian broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, leaving the Myriad Demon Domain under the force of his newly increased power.

• Shi Jian gave Shu Changfeng the silver mass of flesh and ordered him to have Hui Shu place it in Space-Rending Valley to strengthen the valley’s Space Dao foundation.
• Lu Xun reached the Golden Core Late Stage and went to claim credit from Shi Jian, expecting to receive important duties.
• Shi Jian captured Lu Xun and refined him in the Chihuo Furnace, producing a purple-gold Dao Pill infused with Dao of Lightning essence.
• Shi Jian consumed the Dao Pill, gathered six wisps of Dao of Lightning Heaven and Earth Qi Dynamic, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Shi Jian’s breakthrough sent a powerful pressure across the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, and he realized he could control every bolt of lightning in the world.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Shi Jian decided to attack the Flood Dragon Clan and use a pure-blooded dragon’s remains to forge a Purple Pivot Lightning Spear. He and White Crane split open the South Sea to confront Ao Hai’s clan, leaving the Dragon Palace surrounded and under threat.

• Shi Jian sensed the world’s restrictions after his breakthrough and summoned White Crane to join him.
• Shi Jian revealed his plan to forge a Purple Pivot Lightning Spear from a Flood Dragon’s spine and dragon pearl, and White Crane agreed to help in exchange for the other remains.
• Ao Hai ordered the Flood Dragon Clan to retreat into the ocean abyss and seal the Dragon Palace, hoping to preserve its strength until it could rebuild.
• Shi Jian and White Crane arrived, forcibly parting the sea and sealing off the Dragon Palace’s escape routes.
• Ao Hai recognized the two demons and was enraged and terrified as they confronted his clan.

Shi Jian and White Crane annihilated the South Sea Dragon Palace and seized its resources for the Myriad Demon Domain. With the Flood Dragon Clan gone, Shi Jian prepared to retreat and forge a lightning spear Law Treasure, leaving the domain in White Crane’s care.

• Shi Jian killed Ao Hai in a one-sided battle, then slew Ao Feng with Soul Lightning while White Crane trapped Ao Xiao so they could kill him together.
• Shi Jian ordered that no one be left alive, and he and White Crane massacred the remaining Flood Dragons and sea creatures, destroying the South Sea Dragon Palace.
• Shi Jian preserved three Nascent Soul dragon bodies and eighteen Golden Core dragon souls as materials for the Purple Pivot Lightning Spear, while White Crane consumed Flood Dragon flesh to strengthen himself.
• Shi Jian and White Crane looted the treasury, taking Water Dao materials, fifteen wisps of Heaven and Earth Qi Dynamics, and other resources for the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shi Jian announced that he would enter seclusion to forge the lightning spear and left White Crane in charge of the Myriad Demon Domain.

Shi Jian and White Crane used resources from the South Sea Dragon Palace to strengthen the Myriad Demon Domain and repair its damaged lands. After thirty years of rebuilding, White Crane ordered an invasion that destroyed the Flood Dragon Domain and made the Myriad Demon Domain supreme across the continent.

• Shi Jian gave White Crane Water Dao resources for the domain and entered the Purple Pivot Secret Realm to refine artifacts.
• White Crane distributed Water Dao resources to Golden Crocodile and Wanxiang, ordering them to cultivate Blessed Lands and strengthen aquatic demon clans.
• White Crane and the Demon Generals spent years restoring damaged earth veins and creating new Water Dao and fire-attribute lands.
• Shu Changfeng reported that the Flood Dragon Clan had lost its Golden Core leaders and scattered across the seas.
• White Crane sent eight Demon Generals and hundreds of thousands of Demon Beasts to raze the Flood Dragon Domain.
• Kuang Dou, Xiong Man, and the demon army conquered the Flood Dragon Domain in seven days, adding it as the Myriad Demon Domain’s ninth state.

After the Flood Dragon Clan’s destruction, the Heavenly Ape and Sea Beast Demon Domains agreed to ally for their survival against the Myriad Demon Domain. At the Grand Purity Sect, Xuanlie and Zhaohuo fled overseas with part of the sect’s treasury, while Hanyue and Qingxu chose to remain and defend the people.

• Yuan Shan gathered the five Demon Kings of the Heavenly Ape and Sea Beast domains and urged them to unite against the Myriad Demon Domain.
• The Eight-Tentacled Demon King and Abyss Fish Demon King agreed to an alliance with the Heavenly Ape Domain.
• At the Grand Purity Sect, Xuanlie and Zhaohuo argued that the sect should flee overseas rather than face the advancing Demon Race.
• Hanyue severed ties with Xuanlie and Zhaohuo after they took thirty percent of the sect’s treasury and fled to the overseas Devil Province.
• Hanyue and Qingxu chose to stay behind, vowing to defend the remaining human territory and its people.

Shi Jian spent thirty years refining a Law Treasure from three Dragon Lords’ skeletons and eighteen Golden Core Flood Dragon souls. He completed and named it the Thunder Firmament Dragon-Slaying Spear, then tested its immense hardness by cutting open the void.

• Shi Jian studied artifact-refining legacies and decided to forge a weapon focused on toughness and Purple Pivot Lightning.
• Shi Jian spent ten years refining the three Dragon Lords’ skeletons into a single bone spear shaft.
• Shi Jian spent another ten years hammering the Dragon Lords’ pearls into a spearhead and joining it to the shaft.
• Shi Jian bound eighteen Golden Core Flood Dragon souls and forcibly refined them into the spear, suppressing them as dragon patterns.
• Shi Jian completed the weapon, named it the Thunder Firmament Dragon-Slaying Spear, and tested it by slicing open the void.