Chapter Summaries

Bai Di reflected on how his second Dharma body had transformed his strength and why he had let fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators build their Five Elements spell to its limit. The cultivators unleashed their finished attack just as Bai Di began to reclaim his separated clones.

• Bai Di recalled that Wu Chang had aided him in cultivating his second Dharma body, unlike Zhuang Xuanji, who had achieved her transformation alone.
• Bai Di recognized that his second Dharma body had greatly increased his combat strength after he defeated Nangong Moyu and Yi Xuanbai with a glance.
• Bai Di explained that he had allowed the fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators to build their Five Elements spell so he could test his new body's limits.
• The fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators invoked their Dharma and hurled the Five Elements chaotic power at every space occupied by Bai Di as he began reclaiming his clones.

Bai Di destroyed the Five Elements Dharma Disc and killed fourteen Immortal Estate cultivators after one of them wounded his second Dharma Body. He absorbed their Primordial Spirits, then discovered the last cultivator had escaped and turned toward a black-robed figure in the northern clouds.

• Bai Di examined the cut on his left palm and realized the Immortal Estate cultivators had wounded his Dharma Body.
• The fifteen cultivators tried to reinforce the Five Elements Dharma Disc, but Bai Di appeared before they could finish.
• Bai Di shattered the Dharma Disc and the cultivators’ bodies with one punch, then absorbed the Five Elements spiritual breaths and the surviving Primordial Spirits.
• Bai Di noticed one Primordial Spirit was missing and sensed that its owner had survived.
• Bai Di turned toward the northern clouds and saw a black-robed figure carrying a wooden sword and a vermilion wine gourd.

The chapter recounted how the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord first met Zhuang Xuanji and invited her to discuss the Dao, only to be comprehensively outmatched by her. Her verdict that the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao could reach Treading Void but could never reach the heavens left him with a path forward and helped cement her resolve to suppress the Demon Soil.

• Long Zhu and Chi Tian knew little about Zhuang Xuanji's two former disciples, while Luo Qianchou and Ye Chenfeng knew the truth behind their deaths.
• The chapter revealed that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had regarded Zhuang Xuanji with worship and awe since their first meeting.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had invited Zhuang Xuanji to discuss the Dao, and she had outmatched him in understanding cultivation realms and Dao techniques.
• Zhuang Xuanji had demonstrated breaking through to Profound Cavern, Second Tier, before falling back to Profound Cavern, First Tier, silencing the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord.
• Zhuang Xuanji had condemned the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao as a dead end that could reach Treading Void but never the heavens, showing the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord that his current bottleneck could be overcome.

Bai Di showed Ye Chenfeng two Dharma corpses restored by the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and argued that they had returned because they still wished to live. Ye Chenfeng rejected the idea that they were truly alive, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord recovered nearly seventy percent of two disciples' bodies and souls from the Sea of Corpse Souls, and Bai Di repaired the missing parts of their souls.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord completed the two Soul-Returning Method corpses and entrusted them to Bai Di to continue his old debate with Zhuang Xuanji's disciple.
• Bai Di summoned the two Dharma corpses before Ye Chenfeng and said they had risen from death through the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao.
• Ye Chenfeng refused to regard the corpses as his returned Junior Brother and Junior Sister, calling the claim a profanation of their convictions.
• Bai Di insisted that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had not forced them to return and said the Soul-Returning Method worked because they themselves still wished to live.

Bai Di faced eight righteous cultivators who had reached True Intent Perfection and mastered profound intent, after they overcame the demonic cultivators on their fronts. The chapter recounted how Bai Di earned the Demonic Dao’s leaders’ trust by tying his own rise to the fate of the Demonic Dao, setting the stage for the ongoing counteroffensive.

• Bai Di used his Spirit Eye to assess the eight righteous cultivators and recognized that their cultivation and profound intent matched his own.
• Bai Di reflected that the Demonic Dao had relied on Wu Chang’s divine power and forbidden methods to strengthen its cultivators, sacrificing their foundations in a desperate attempt to reverse its decline.
• Bai Di recalled how he organized the region under his care and demonstrated his talent for cultivation, prompting the Demonic Dao’s leaders to reconsider him.
• The Azure Flame Demon Venerable visited Bai Di, and they devised a surprise attack on the Northwest using Spatial Folding.
• The Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable acknowledged Bai Di after Bai Di gave him one of his sons as a substitute for his cultivation.
• The Poison-Extinguishing Demon Venerable, the Earthly Baleful Demon Venerable, and the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord came to recognize Bai Di, who had bound his Dao Path to the fate of the Demonic Dao.

Bai Di confronted eight of the righteous path’s strongest True Intent Cultivators at the Demon Soil front, while the pursuit battle in the southwestern heartland ended with several Demon Children defeated. Long Yuan chose to capture his opponent alive and take him to Penglai Palace’s dragon-descendant ancestral land.

• Bai Di identified the eight righteous experts surrounding him and concluded that the strongest threat among them was Ye Chenfeng.
• Bai Di plucked the lotus from the lotus dais, taunted the eight cultivators, and drew Sword Immortal Shi’s attack.
• The eight righteous cultivators joined forces to seal Bai Di inside a warped space cut off from the main Canglan Continent.
• Ning Jiu killed her Demon Child target but lost a hundred and eighty years of lifespan, her sword, three fingers, and an eye; Wo Qingchen traded his life to kill his target.
• Yun Xiwu used the Void Nether Divine Wind, aided by Yang Lingrui’s Immortal Venerable incarnation, to destroy the female Demon Child.
• Long Yuan learned that his opponent Long Shou had hunted dragon-descended cultivators, recognized his unusual bloodline, and decided to capture him alive for Penglai Palace.

Mont received Yang Lingqing’s orders to inspect the northwestern edge of the Barbarian Land and prepared an elite squad to depart. Before setting out, he ensured they checked their supplies, including the newly produced Spirit-Breath Battle Armor.

• Mont praised Yang Lingqing’s detailed battle line plan as a messenger delivered her message through the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet.
• Yang Lingqing ordered Mont to lead an elite squad to inspect the northwestern edge of the Barbarian Land and marked the other teams’ patrol routes.
• Mont assembled an Incarnation Realm squad and ordered its members to check their combat supplies before departure.
• Mont highlighted the newly delivered Spirit-Breath Battle Armor, which reduced spiritual essence consumption and amplified Dao arts after being refined into the body.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Ma Yongsheng, the Dongfang Clan, Artifact Path cultivators, and the Yang Clan had worked together to establish a complete armor production line in the Yang Family Sacred Land.

Mont and Lin Qiao traced spatial fluctuations to a dangerous thunderstorm region on the border between the Barbarian Lands and the Northwest. After investigating its edge, they reasoned that the Demonic Path was unlikely to be sending reinforcements, but Mont's final thought suggested another possibility.

• Mont led his team to the patrol site, where the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet detected spatial fluctuations, and continued toward the Northwest.
• Mont's team met Lin Qiao's team, and both groups found that the fluctuations led into the thunderstorm region.
• Lin Qiao and Mont entered the storm in their spiritual breath battle armor while the other cultivators searched its perimeter.
• Near the storm's center, Lin Qiao and Mont confirmed the fluctuations' source but stopped short of entering the most dangerous area.
• Lin Qiao and Mont concluded that the Demonic Path's forces were already committed to the front and were unlikely to send more True Intent Cultivators.
• Mont noted that Lower Three Realms cultivators would be even less suited to landing in the storm, then began to voice an exception.

Yang Lingqing’s forces prepared to counter the Demonic Path’s five spatial routes, while Wu Chang struggled with the mounting cost of the plan and the war’s unexpected setbacks. The chapter left Bai Di realizing that the Demonic Dao faced defeat unless she acted.

• Yang Lingqing sent four Central Region cultivators, eight Northwest cultivators, and three Barbarian bishops toward the borderlands.
• The chapter explained how the Barbarian bishops could draw divine power beyond their lands and why the Demonic Path’s nearby spatial routes made that easier.
• The fifteen True Intent experts assigned five defenders to the spatial routes and positioned the remaining ten along the Barbarian Land’s border.
• Wu Chang, unaware of the Northwest’s response, struggled with the energy and divine power spent dividing and relocating the spatial routes.
• Bai Di recognized that the war was turning toward defeat unless she took action.

The righteous cultivators ambushed the demonic forces as they emerged from the five spatial pathways into the Northwest, inflicting heavy losses. Yang Lingqing and Dongfang Yingcai arrived at the western-border frontline camp after learning of the pathways’ anomaly.

• The five righteous cultivators detected the spatial pathways opening and moved to intercept the demonic cultivators.
• The pathways’ unstable fluctuations shook the region, and the demonic vanguards reinforced their defenses before emerging.
• The righteous cultivators defeated the first demonic teams with numerical superiority and engaged the other arrivals.
• The demonic forces suffered losses during transit and in the ambush, leaving about half combat-ready and seventeen of the twenty-one Demon Children alive.
• Yang Lingqing and Dongfang Yingcai arrived at the frontline camp on the western border of the Barbarian Land.

Chen Huai'an used the Demonic Dao’s lack of information about his improved strength to ambush and devour its vanguard. The main force, led by two Demon Children, stopped before his approaching rain and mist after realizing the vanguard had vanished.

• Yang Lingqing reorganized the righteous-path defenses and ordered Chen Huai'an to operate alone in the isolated region.
• Chen Huai'an, now at Essence Condensation Perfection, approached a Demonic Dao vanguard led by two Early-Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators without being detected.
• Chen Huai'an surrounded the vanguard with rain and fog, then killed and swallowed the demonic cultivators.
• Chen Huai'an expanded his rainmaking technique and sent the rain and mist toward the main Demonic Dao force led by two Demon Children.
• The Demon Children halted their troops, and a blood arts cultivator reported that his blood worm had vanished and he could detect nothing within the fog.
• One Demon Child suspected the vanguard was dead and compared the mist to the dangerous thunderstorm region they had crossed earlier.

As demonic cultivators advanced into the Northwest, Yang Lingqing let frontline generals direct the fighting while she managed the broader strategy. At the Southern Frontline, Xiao Yize and the Sun Clan’s reinforcements used Dongfang Clan Spirit-Breath Battle Armor to face a Demon Child, while Yang Lingqing confirmed that all seventeen Demon Children had appeared.

• Yang Lingqing gave frontline generals autonomy over battlefield tactics while retaining control of the broader strategic deployment.
• The Sun Clan sent Sun Hongyu, Sun Hongwen, and Sun Qingwei, along with its remaining combat strength, to aid the Yang Clan in the Northwest.
• Xiao Yize led the Southern Frontline alongside the Sun Clan cultivators as the armies clashed in the land of three mountains.
• Xiao Yize and his companions, equipped with Spirit-Breath Battle Armor, fought a Demon Child while the Black Wood Swimming Dragon tore through low-realm demonic cultivators.
• Yang Lingqing reviewed the battle reports and confirmed that all seventeen Demon Children had appeared.

Yang Lingqing managed the Northwest campaign as casualties mounted across the battle lines, sending reinforcements to the hardest-pressed fronts. The central main battle line faced the fiercest assault, where the righteous forces struggled to contain the demonic sect young lord's son and his Five-Colored Extreme Demon Method.

• Yang Lingqing reviewed the casualty report, remembered Yang Yuancheng and the other fallen cultivators, and dispatched reserves to reinforce the front lines.
• Murong Zhenlin and Consort Xi went to aid the southern third battle line, while Senior Fire Dragon and Yuchi Lian received orders to support other fronts.
• Daily casualties continued to rise as the demonic cultivators' main forces fought the Northwest defenders across the border.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Lorraine, Yang Lingshu, Yuchi Lian, Xuan Zhou, Hong Yao, Feng Lan, and other high-level cultivators joined forces against the demonic sect young lord's son on the central main battle line.
• Yang Lingqing concentrated over eighty percent of the Yang Clan's cultivators on the central battlefield, where veterans and young fighters from the Northwest factions fought alongside them.

Yang Yuanwen used a talisman beast art to fight five Core Condensation demon cultivators who had joined the campaign against Yang Yuancheng. At the same time, Fang Xiao tried to send frontline battle reports from a camp under attack before a powerful art struck her tent.

• Five Core Condensation demon cultivators encircled Yang Yuanwen and prepared to trap him in a prison of demonic clouds.
• Yang Yuanwen transformed with his talisman beast art while retaining his reason, then trapped the five demon cultivators alongside himself.
• The battle inside the demonic clouds faded as the demon cultivators' cries and the sounds of their bodies being torn apart emerged.
• A bloodied barbarian cultivator warned Fang Xiao that demon cultivators had breached the main camp's western gate.
• Fang Xiao continued transmitting vital battle reports through the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet, but a powerful art blasted apart her tent and the ground beneath it.

Han Wang intercepted a demonic cultivator after he killed Fang Xiao, then revealed that his unsteady flight had been a feint and attacked with a powerful close-range technique. The demonic cultivator’s demon cloud shattered, leaving Han Wang’s kick about to strike him.

• The demonic cultivator killed Fang Xiao and suspected she was an outsider cultivator of the Yang Clan.
• The demonic cultivator dismissed the approaching Han Wang because Han Wang had only just reached the First Layer of Essence Condensation.
• Han Wang evaded more than ten spells with his unusual movement and afterimage techniques, closing to within thirty zhang.
• Han Wang launched Yinfeng Flowing Cloud Charge and struck the demonic cultivator’s protective demon cloud with Thousand-Beak Peck, Hundred Harming Retreat.
• Han Wang’s chilling kick pierced the shattered demon cloud, and the demonic cultivator halted his spell to brace against the attack.

Han Wang retook the northwest camp while Zhao Qi coordinated the battlefront and realized the demonic cultivators’ eastern assault was a feint for an attack on the First Main Camp. He warned Feng Lan and sent reinforcements, but the defenders’ ability to hold until they arrived remained uncertain.

• Han Wang repelled the demonic cultivators and recaptured the northwest camp with reinforcements.
• Zhao Qi ordered nearby camps to prepare to gather and break through south if necessary.
• After noticing the First Main Camp had not reported in for three hours, Zhao Qi deduced that the eastern attack was a feint and sent the First and Third Reserve Battalions to reinforce Feng Lan.
• Feng Lan told Zhao Qi that his warning had helped him discover demonic squads ambushed near the defensive zone and urged him to hurry the reinforcements.
• Zhao Qi issued Divine Movement Talismans to speed the reinforcements, while remaining at the main camp to command the battlefront.

Feng Linghua fought three demonic cultivators with her painting arts, but the poison cultivator called in his companions, who launched a coordinated attack against her. The chapter ended as the poison cultivator fired two cold-poison needles at Feng Linghua amid their assault.

• Feng Linghua attacked the three demonic cultivators with a painted scene of wind and thunder to keep them away from Xie Chuan.
• The poison cultivator transformed into purple mist and used his cold poison against Feng Linghua's painted attack.
• Feng Linghua stained her brush with essence blood and summoned painting spirits that fought off the poison cultivator's specters.
• The poison cultivator failed to break through Feng Linghua's defenses and called on the blood-arts and shadow-assassination cultivators to help.
• The two cultivators attacked Feng Linghua with Bloodlight Heavenly Funeral and Shadow-Slaying of the Three Souls as the poison cultivator fired two cold-poison needles at her.

Feng Linghua used the Invoke Saint art to kill three demonic cultivators, but a Spiritual Connection Demonic Cultivator arrived and defeated her. As he moved to capture her alive, she believed she was about to die and thought of Yang Lingrui.

• Feng Linghua summoned the Fate Official phantom with her painting and used three decrees of judgment to defeat the three demonic cultivators.
• Feng Linghua burned one unconscious cultivator with a flaming arrow and struck the other with a mountain-splitting battle-axe to finish them off.
• A Spiritual Connection Demonic Cultivator ambushed Feng Linghua, pierced her shoulder with spell-light, and sent her crashing into a boulder.
• The demonic cultivator planned to capture Feng Linghua alive for battle merit and revealed that he had been ordered to help encircle Feng Lan.
• As her consciousness faded, Feng Linghua thought of Yang Lingrui and accepted that she might die.

Yin Er returned to help Feng Lan repel the demonic cultivators’ assault, while the chapter revealed how Yang Lingrui had hidden him from Bai Di. Reports from the Central Region showed the Demonic Path had captured six positions, and strategists warned that the reserves might not stop its advance toward the main camp.

• Yin Er returned to the frontline after escorting two wounded fighters to a rear camp and helped Feng Lan break through the encirclement.
• The chapter revealed that Yang Lingrui had spared Yin Er, then used a Sever Karma judgment and the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet to conceal him from Bai Di’s Five-Colored Brand.
• Reinforcements arrived, and the exhausted frontline cultivators withdrew to rest and treat their wounds.
• Zhao Qi sent Yang Lingqing reports showing that demonic forces had attacked nearly every Central Region front and captured six of twenty-two positions.
• Righteous-path reserves stopped the demonic forces from advancing easily into Barbarian Land, but main-camp strategists judged they would likely fail and advised a withdrawal.

Yang Lingqing realized the Demonic Path’s offensive was meant to cause mass casualties, likely to fuel a sinister scheme by Bai Di’s son, and sent Shenwu to aid the front. Meanwhile, Bai Ming calmly fought eight powerful righteous cultivators at the battlefield’s core.

• Yang Lingqing simulated the battle more than a hundred times and concluded that the offensive’s purpose was the bloodshed itself.
• Yang Lingqing suspected Bai Di’s son was using the casualties for a blood-art scheme and summoned Shenwu to help at the front.
• Shenwu accepted Yang Lingqing’s order and flew toward the Central Region front.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Lorraine, Yang Lingshu, and other righteous experts continued trying to intercept Bai Ming.
• Bai Ming faced the eight experts with ease, displaying combat strength far beyond what his Late-Spiritual Connection Realm cultivation suggested.