Chapter Summaries

Yang Lingshu was rescued from four Demon Children by True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian, who had come to fight alongside him. The chapter ended with Yang Lingshu recalling Yang Lingqing’s lessons about the Yang Clan’s long-term rise and the need to build its strength through patient, quiet effort.

• The three Demon Children recognized True Man Huolong as a formidable alchemist but could not identify the mysterious young cultivator in plain hemp robes.
• The Demon Children realized that True Man Huolong and the mysterious cultivator had joined Yang Lingshu to kill them.
• Yang Lingshu thanked True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian after they helped him escape the encirclement.
• True Man Huolong explained that Yang Lingqing had fought to keep Befeng City’s alchemists in the Northwest, preserving a powerful cultivator and a supply of healing pills.
• Yuchi Lian praised Yang Lingshu for holding off four enemies and gravely wounding one of them.
• Yang Lingshu remembered Yang Lingqing teaching him that the Yang Clan needed patient accumulation rather than relying on one person’s strength.

Yang Lingshu joined forces with True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian against the four Demon Children, insisting on fighting the Shadow Technique Demon Child and the Body Cultivator Demon Child himself. As the battle continued, the Shadow Technique Demon Child secretly turned her plan against her deranged ally, while strange sounds of running water began to surround them.

• Yang Lingshu assigned True Man Huolong the wind-path Demon Spawn and Yuchi Lian the Flying Needle Demon Child, while he took on the Shadow Technique Demon Child and the Body Cultivator Demon Child.
• Yang Lingshu used his wooden armor, water and wood arts, and Origin Core to pressure the two Demon Children.
• The Shadow Technique Demon Child decided to sacrifice the Body Cultivator Demon Child to create a chance to kill Yang Lingshu.
• The Shadow Technique Demon Child falsely told the Body Cultivator Demon Child they would ambush Yang Lingshu together, then joined him in a pincer attack.
• As the three fought, the sound of running water began to echo around them, which the Shadow Technique Demon Child initially attributed to Yang Lingshu's water arts.

Yang Lingshu trapped the Body Cultivator Demon Child and used his attacks against him, leaving the demon child badly injured and horrified by the state of his body.

• The Body Cultivator Demon Child transformed and charged Yang Lingshu, intent on killing him.
• Yang Lingshu let the demon child’s punches pierce his body, where hidden water arts absorbed most of their force.
• Yang Lingshu trapped them together with vines and roots using the Water-Wood Prison technique.
• The demon child smashed Yang Lingshu’s head and continued attacking, but the force rebounded through his trapped fists.
• The demon child’s two auxiliary heads exploded, and he inspected his body in horror.

The Wind Dao Demon Child and Flying Needle Demon Child planned to escape from True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian as the battle inside the Water-Wood Prison continued. After receiving a message from Yang Lingshu, True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian let the Demon Children join forces and forced them to the ground.

• True Man Huolong suppressed the Wind Dao Demon Child, while Yuchi Lian’s Dragon Might Imperial Aura exposed the Flying Needle Demon Child’s attacks and matched him in combat.
• The chapter explained that Yuchi Lian’s Dragon Might Imperial Aura had grown stronger after his ancestor’s sacrifice turned his battle with Meng Xiaoxiao into a draw.
• The Wind Dao Demon Child and Flying Needle Demon Child secretly agreed to combine their arts, drive back their opponents, and escape.
• True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian guessed the Demon Children’s plan, then received a transmitted thought from Yang Lingshu and allowed the pair to join forces while forcing them down to the ground.

After Yang Lingshu killed four Demon Children, the righteous forces seized the opening to overwhelm the Demonic Path’s lines. The Demonic Path’s commanders then sent a concealed assassin named Shadow Three to strike at the righteous commander-in-chief.

• True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian helped Yang Lingshu after the Water-Wood Prison dissolved, but Yang Lingshu refused to retreat and urged an immediate counterattack.
• Yang Lingqing ordered True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian to lead the righteous forces against the Demonic Path’s lines while Yang Lingshu recovered behind the lines.
• True Man Huolong and Yuchi Lian’s forces reached the Demonic Path’s lines before its commanders could respond, and the entire line collapsed.
• The Demonic Path’s senior commanders concluded that the righteous side had powerful reinforcements and effective communication, then devised a strike against its rear camp and commander-in-chief.
• The commanders sent Shadow Three, a hidden Demon Child skilled in concealment and assassination, to carry out the strike and warned him not to reveal too much of his abilities.

Yang Lingrui returned to the Northwest after killing a Demon Child and prepared to join the fighting against the Demonic Dao army. Meanwhile, Bai Di grew suspicious of Wu Chang and used the breach above the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound to conceal his true feelings from him.

• Yang Lingrui crossed the Northwest sands after using the Southwest teleportation network and saw ordinary people still evacuating eastward.
• Yang Lingrui vowed to fight the Demon Spawn and seek the killing karma he needed to attain the Dao.
• Bai Di reconsidered the repeated setbacks in the Northwest and became increasingly distrustful of Wu Chang.
• Bai Di recalled his long-standing pact with Wu Chang and the condition that Wu Chang support his actions without reservation.
• After the Azure Flame Demon Venerable opened a breach between the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound and the Void Realm, Bai Di gained a way to hide his feelings from Wu Chang.

After a Void Realm cultivator revealed details about two righteous Treading Void cultivators, Bai Di identified them as Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe and reconsidered the Southwest conflict. Suspecting they were tracking Wu Chang and that Wu Chang had backed someone in the Northwest, Bai Di wondered whether the Yang Clan was involved.

• The Demonic Path Treading Void cultivator returned to the Void Realm, leaving Bai Di to assess his claims about the Treasure of Creation.
• Bai Di identified the Dao Academy cultivator as Luo Qianchou and the soul fragment as Nangong Jinghe.
• Bai Di connected the two cultivators to the failures of his Southwest plans, Nangong Jinghe’s strange actions, and the death of a True Intent demonic cultivator.
• Bai Di suspected Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe had joined forces to trace Wu Chang through the slain cultivator’s Primordial Spirit.
• Bai Di reasoned that Wu Chang might have backed someone on the righteous side and considered the Northwest Yang Clan.

Bai Di’s suspicions of Wu Chang eased after Wu Chang supported his plan to speed up the Demonic Path’s northwest deployment. Three days later, Shadow Three’s Life Tablet shattered, leaving Bai Di stunned by the powerful Demon Child’s sudden death.

• Bai Di asked Wu Chang to send the newly ascended Demon Venerable and True Intent Cultivators to the northwest in seven days.
• Wu Chang agreed and listed the supplies needed to accelerate the deployment.
• Bai Di’s suspicions eased, though he remained aware that Wu Chang was hiding something from him.
• Three days later, Shadow Three’s Life Tablet shattered, and Bai Di examined it with his spirit eyes.

Yang Lingrui reached the Northwest battlefield and found Wen Zishu dead and Hong Yao gravely wounded, then confronted a Demon Child holding two righteous cultivators hostage. He asserted his authority as Life Official and advanced, leaving the hostage-taker to decide whether to kill them and face his judgment.

• Yang Lingrui arrived at the central battlefield too late to save Wen Zishu, while Hong Yao lay badly wounded and unconscious.
• Remembering the help Wen Zishu and Hong Yao had given him, Yang Lingrui judged the Demon Child who had tortured Wen Zishu and left him barely alive.
• Yang Lingrui confronted another Demon Child who was holding two righteous cultivators hostage and promised him a quick death if he released them.
• Yang Lingrui declared himself the world's Life Official and warned that killing the hostages would mean the Demon Child had to face him alongside his suffering companion.
• As Yang Lingrui continued forward, the Demon Child decided he might as well kill the hostages before he died.

After learning that Wen Zishu had died in battle, Hong Yao made Yang Lingrui help him kill Wen Zishu’s murderer and demanded that he spare none of the Demonic Dao cultivators. Yang Lingrui swept through the central and western battlefields, saving Qiu Ran and driving the enemy forces into retreat.

• Yang Lingrui confirmed Wen Zishu’s death to Hong Yao and brought the Demon Child who had killed him before them.
• With Yang Lingrui lending him power, Hong Yao used red lightning to burn the Demon Child to ashes, and Yang Lingrui gained more Killing Dao cultivation.
• Yang Lingrui slaughtered the Demonic Dao cultivators across the central battlefield, killing five Demon Children there.
• Yang Lingrui reached the western battlefield and defeated a Demon Child who tried to stop his advance.
• Yang Lingrui found Zi He, Xiao Yize, Qiu Ran, and Feng Lan badly wounded, and used the Life-and-Death Transfer Art to stabilize Qiu Ran, who was near death.
• After Yang Lingrui broke the western battle line, the Demonic Dao forces at the rear base fled toward the Wild Forest.

Yang Lingrui continued slaughtering the demonic cultivators while the Northwest’s True Intent Cultivators blocked the demons’ attacks to protect him. The demonic True Intent Cultivators secretly tried to kill him, but Huo Yuan stopped their spatial sorcery by sacrificing part of his Dharma body.

• The two demonic True Intent Cultivators revealed that they had launched twelve attacks against Yang Lingrui, all intercepted by Huo Yuan, Dong Ruoyin, and the other Northwest True Intent Cultivators.
• The demonic cultivators urged the Northwest cultivators to show mercy and let the surviving demons live, but Duan Yun, Dong Ruoyin, and the others rejected their appeal.
• While the Northwest cultivators argued with the demons, the two secretly cast a spatial severing technique at Yang Lingrui.
• A golden dragon manifestation pinned the spatial sorcery in midair, foiling the ambush.
• The demonic cultivators discovered that Huo Yuan had sacrificed one arm of his Dharma body to protect Yang Lingrui and reacted with disbelief.

Three of Bai Di’s personal-guard Demon Children arrived in the Northwest after Yang Lingrui had killed the remaining Demonic Dao cultivators. They found him waiting, and the strongest among them attacked.

• Yang Lingrui killed the remaining Demonic Dao cultivators while eight Northwest True Intent cultivators sacrificed themselves to hold the two demonic cultivators back.
• Three of Bai Di’s blood children emerged from the spatial passage and searched the Wild Forest, finding the dead free of resentment and the stench of blood.
• The Demon Sect woman recognized Yang Lingrui’s killing intent and warned her companions to be careful.
• Yang Lingrui appeared before the three Demon Children and questioned whether they had been sent to die.
• The Demon Sect woman charged at Yang Lingrui in a streak of crimson light.

Yang Lingrui watched a female Demon Child use an evil immortal dharma avatar to revive the demonic cultivators in the Wild Forest, recognizing the technique’s ties to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and the Dao of yin and yang. As the revived cultivators regained their peak strength and surrounded him, Yang Lingrui decided to end the fight before the technique reached its peak.

• The female cultivator swung her Yin-Yang Twin Blades and awakened the demonic cultivators who had died in the Wild Forest.
• Yang Lingrui recognized her technique as a shallow soul-restoration art connected to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord, but saw that its yin-yang cycle could complement his Dao of life and death.
• The revived corpses rose into the air and encircled Yang Lingrui’s Fate Officer true form.
• The female cultivator turned the wheel behind her into a yin-yang taiji diagram, and the surrounding demonic cultivators regained their peak cultivation and combat power.
• Yang Lingrui recognized the three Demon Children as heirs to orthodox Daoist inheritances and decided to finish the female cultivator before her technique reached its peak.

Yang Lingrui stood against a Demon Sect expedition that sought to test and suppress his Killing Dao. The female heretical immortal unleashed a sealing art and sent resurrected demonic cultivators to attack him, leaving his response unseen.

• The chapter described the rarity and danger of cultivating the Killing Dao, and the high hopes powerful cultivators had placed in Yang Lingrui.
• The female heretical immortal formed the Heaven-and-Earth Sealing Art to probe Yang Lingrui, but his true Commanding Official form remained motionless.
• The female heretical immortal ordered Two Cats and her little brother to take their positions in the formation.
• The resurrected demonic cultivators attacked Yang Lingrui with a torrent of techniques while the sealing art prevented him from dodging.
• The sealing art suppressed Yang Lingrui's strength as he faced the combined assault of the resurrected cultivators and three Demon Children.

Yang Lingrui subdued the female evil immortal with his Life Official's true form and revealed that he had comprehended the True Intent of the Way of Slaughter. The female immortal was shocked by his hidden cultivation, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Yang Lingrui seized the female evil immortal's Yin-Yang Twin Blades with his Life Official's true form, preventing her from retreating.
• Yang Lingrui criticized her borrowed powers and pointed at her brow, declaring that he had cultivated the True Intent of the Way of Slaughter.
• The female evil immortal reacted with disbelief and anger, questioning how Yang Lingrui could have comprehended a true intent when greater prodigies had not.
• Yang Lingrui's hidden progress explained why he had broken the trio's encirclement and gravely wounded the female immortal's brothers.
• The narration noted that Yang Lingrui had become Canglan Continent's foremost Killing Dao cultivator, while Wu Chang's knowledge of the tradition remained limited.

Yang Lingrui used the killing intent of his Fate Officer True Form to erode the Demon Children’s protective Dharma treasures, revealing that he had comprehended spatial Daoist Magic. His light reached the battle in the sky, where Huo Yuan and Dong Ruoyin recognized him as their Northwest prodigy.

• Yang Lingrui mocked the three Demon Children for relying on Dharma treasures and released the killing intent gathered within his Fate Officer True Form.
• His radiant killing intent dissolved the corpses in the Wild Forest and sent a beam of light through the heavens.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators recognized the light as coming from one of their own, and Huo Yuan and Dong Ruoyin deduced that Yang Lingrui was its source.
• Huo Yuan resumed his attack on the two demonic sect True Intents, encouraged by the arrival of the Northwest prodigy.
• The injured Yin-Yang Demon Children realized Yang Lingrui had formally comprehended spatial Daoist Magic and were left stunned by the implication.

The evil immortal female cultivator completed the evil creature’s two supreme arts, hoping to disrupt Yang Lingrui’s Dao-attainment phenomenon. Yang Lingrui recognized its strength but faced it without fear as the creature launched its attacks.

• The resurrected evil creature advanced through Yang Lingrui’s killing intent, while its resentment tried to invade his sea of consciousness.
• Yang Lingrui swept away the invading resentment and judged that only the Azure Waves Righteous Path’s top five talents could contend with the creature.
• The evil creature opened a vast maw to swallow Yang Lingrui and sent a colossal corpse-hand toward him.
• The evil immortal female cultivator celebrated that both evil arts had manifested and resolved to disrupt Yang Lingrui’s Dao-attainment phenomenon.

Yang Lingrui summoned a Tribulation Cloud while facing three Demon Children and an enormous evil creature, shocking his opponents and the True Intent Cultivators fighting nearby. The lightning swallowed him and the creature, while the distant cultivators wondered whether Yang Lingrui was proving the Dao and debated sending someone to protect his breakthrough.

• The three Demon Children reacted to the Tribulation Cloud, with Two Cats losing his will to fight and the Demon Sect female cultivator trying to steady herself.
• An azure-blue lightning tribulation descended and destroyed the spatial domains beneath the cloud.
• The lightning swallowed Yang Lingrui and the enormous evil creature.
• The distant True Intent Cultivators realized that Yang Lingrui was attempting to prove the Dao.
• The cultivators asked Fellow Cultivator Huo whether someone should go protect Ling Rui's Dao.

Yang Lingrui battled a second tribulation bolt by contesting its ownership of the space, while the three Demon Children found themselves trapped and helpless. He entered a state in which both his form and spirit scattered, becoming one with the world’s vast space.

• Yang Lingrui’s Dao attestation drew down a pale second tribulation bolt that vanished before reaching the ground.
• The female Demon Child recognized that the invisible force wearing down their protective treasure came from spatial tremors caused by Yang Lingrui fighting the tribulation lightning for control of the space.
• The female Demon Child tried to flee but discovered her spiritual essence had been sealed by a spell bearing the words “Ban Arts.”
• The female Demon Child gave up hope, realizing no one would come to rescue the three Demon Children before the spatial passage stabilized.
• Yang Lingrui entered a state where his form and spirit scattered, becoming one with the world’s space.

Yang Lingrui used the Demon Children to strengthen his third lightning tribulation, while his decrees prevented the surviving captives from escaping through death. He defeated the orange-red tribulation and left the Wild Forest scarred by scattered lightning.

• Yang Lingrui let the first Demon Child vanish into the tribulation clouds, turning the third lightning tribulation orange-red.
• Yang Lingrui protected the two remaining Demon Children with strands of killing intent, and Two Cats told Third Sister she could not kill herself.
• Third Sister stabbed herself repeatedly, but her wounds healed as a decree bearing the words "no death" appeared in her sea of consciousness.
• Yang Lingrui used the judgment decrees "Break Delusion" and "Quell Might" to weaken the tribulation before confronting it as the Fate Official.
• Yang Lingrui formed a blade of killing intent and used "Spirit Severing" to cleave the lightning tribulation in two, scattering lightning across the Wild Forest.