Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yingcai’s Spirit Puppet Method let the righteous experts confront Bai Ming without risking the mind-corrupting effects of his demonic technique. Bai Ming drew a blood-hungry entity through the underground veins toward the battle, but it stopped short and watched from beneath the earth.

• Dongfang Yingcai used her independent spirit puppets to attack Bai Ming while the other seven righteous experts supported her.
• Bai Ming ordered an all-out assault after realizing he could not overcome Dongfang Yingcai with conventional methods.
• Bai Ming’s lotus roots revealed a strange, near-True Intent presence in the underground mineral veins that was drawn to blood qi.
• Bai Ming lured the entity toward the battlefield by ordering his demon cultivators to unleash a fierce assault.
• The entity approached to within ten li of the fighters, then stopped and absorbed blood qi from the dead as Bai Ming watched.

Bai Ming’s Blood-Burning Incense injured one Fuyao Sect True Person and threatened to spread its soul-bewildering fragrance across the battlefield. As Dongfang Yingcai led the remaining fighters against him, Yang Lingqing studied the demonic invasion’s routes and began to see through Bai Ming’s hidden purpose.

• Bai Ming’s Blood-Burning Incense corrupted a Fuyao Sect True Person’s Mysterious Wind, forcing him to sever their connection and withdraw from the battle.
• Dongfang Yingcai gave the injured fighter a chance to retreat, then handed spirit puppet talismans to Yang Lingshu and the others.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Lorraine led the remaining fighters in a renewed assault on Bai Ming to stop his fragrance from spreading toward the rear lines.
• Yang Lingqing received Dongfang Yingcai’s report and studied a map of the Northwest borderlands, tracing the demonic army’s routes to uncover Bai Ming’s likely purpose.

Yang Lingqing sent the King Insect to the Central Region front after learning that an underground evil creature had appeared there, while Dragon Martial True Person hurried toward the Northwest. On the battlefield, Dongfang Yingcai separated from her allies to test the creature herself, revealing a pure dragon-breath aura that made Bai Ming wary.

• Yang Lingqing concluded that Yue Wuxiang's apparent presence near the Central Region battlefront was likely a fusion with another evil creature, then sent the King Insect to the front.
• Dragon Martial True Person traveled aboard an immortal vessel toward the Northwest front as Bai Ming maneuvered closer to the underground evil creature.
• The evil creature surged beneath the battlefield toward the blood fragrance, and Bai Ming poured black blood onto his blue flames to release corrosive smoke.
• Dongfang Yingcai received an urgent order, drew her six allies behind her with her magic treasure, and identified the approaching creature as an enemy escaped from a True Intent Cultivator.
• Dongfang Yingcai went forward alone to test the creature, enveloped herself in spiritual essence light, and revealed a pure dragon-breath aura that alerted Bai Ming.

Dongfang Yingcai and the cultivators battled a stone-bodied evil creature, while Yang Lingshu realized its resentment came from Su Dingcang’s death in the Central Region. The creature’s origins were revealed as Yue Wuxiang had intercepted Su Dingcang’s returning resentment and built it into a weapon against his enemies.

• Dongfang Yingcai struck Bai Ming aside, then pursued the underground evil creature and forced it out of the earth.
• Yang Lingshu recognized that the creature’s body was made from the Su Family’s ore and sensed despair and unwillingness in its consciousness.
• Yang Lingshu concluded that Su Dingcang had died in the Central Region without achieving revenge against the Nangong Clan.
• Yue Wuxiang had intercepted Su Dingcang’s resentment as it traveled toward the Su Family’s ancestral land and used it to form the creature.
• The creature had grown stronger by absorbing blood qi and shattered corpses during successive battles.

Bai Ming unleashed the full power of his Lotus Dharma Body and fought Dongfang Yingcai in the sky while the other cultivators held off the stone-bodied evil creature. Dongfang Yingcai identified the talisman arts woven into Bai Ming’s body, but the battle continued beyond the cultivators’ sight, leaving them uncertain whether her armor could withstand him.

• Bai Ming’s five-colored lotus dais manifested a Lotus Dharma Body, sending Dongfang Yingcai back and filling the scorched land with new growth.
• Dongfang Yingcai told the others to keep the stone-bodied evil creature occupied while she faced Bai Ming alone.
• Bai Ming struck Dongfang Yingcai’s Dragon-Scale Battle Armor and forced her back as his enhanced strength gave him an advantage.
• Dongfang Yingcai blocked Bai Ming’s explosive talisman attack with two spirit puppets and realized his skin was inscribed with talisman arts.
• Bai Ming and Dongfang Yingcai continued fighting as they rose beyond the cultivators’ sight, while the others struggled to contain the stone-bodied evil creature.

Bai Ming used his flesh-fed insect swarm to trap the exhausted Dongfang Yingcai and prepare a killing attack. Just as he unleashed it, his instincts warned him of danger, and an unseen force blasted him backward into his lotus dharma manifestation.

• Dongfang Yingcai recognized Bai Ming’s flying insects as a rare form of insect cultivation and activated her family’s protective ritual-disk treasure.
• Bai Ming held back while the swarm drained Dongfang Yingcai’s spiritual essence, confident she had few options left.
• When an azure spell-light appeared within the swarm, Bai Ming scattered the insects and attacked Dongfang Yingcai from three directions with his bone sword and spell technique.
• Bai Ming sensed an anomaly, raised a lotus leaf to shield himself, and was struck by a powerful blast that sent him flying into his lotus dharma manifestation.

The adult King Insect ambushed and split the stone-bodied evil creature, revealing its dragon-like form to the cultivators. After the creature's body collapsed, the cultivators sensed its root resentment fleeing underground, and the King Insect raced off to intercept it.

• The fully matured King Insect burst from underground and sliced the stone-bodied evil creature in two.
• Yang Lingshu told the startled cultivators that the King Insect was a spirit pet raised beneath the clan's sacred ground.
• The creature's body crumbled, but the cultivators sensed its root resentment escaping underground toward the rear battle line.
• The King Insect told Yang Lingshu to lead the cultivators in surrounding the fiend while it pursued the root resentment.
• The King Insect spread its scaled wings and sped underground after the fleeing evil fiend.

Shenwu, Zhuo Hanqing, and Dongfang Yingcai overwhelmed Bai Ming in battle, but the Lotus Dharma Body’s barrier stopped them from finishing him. Wounded but still standing, Bai Ming revealed that he had come to the Northwest to follow his father’s instructions and seek the Vaulting Dragon Lord.

• Shenwu, Zhuo Hanqing, and Dongfang Yingcai joined forces and steadily drove Bai Ming into a disadvantage.
• Bai Ming guessed that Shenwu and Zhuo Hanqing belonged to a reclusive cultivation lineage from the Northwest.
• Zhuo Hanqing and Dongfang Yingcai wounded Bai Ming, and Shenwu smashed him from the sky with his turtle shell.
• The Lotus Dharma Body blocked the three pursuers while Bai Ming slowly rose with his mutilated body.
• Bai Ming said he had come to the Northwest to follow his father’s instructions and exchange views on the Dao with the Vaulting Dragon Lord.

Yang Yuanhong arrived to face Bai Ming, who welcomed the chance to test his Dao against the Northwest prodigy. After restoring Dongfang Yingcai and learning about Bai Ming’s powers, Yang Yuanhong prepared to confront him while she went to retrieve Zhuo Hanqing.

• Bai Ming recognized Yang Yuanhong and eagerly welcomed the chance to fight him, then retreated into the Lotus Dharma Body’s protection.
• Yang Yuanhong descended beside Dongfang Yingcai and ignored Bai Ming’s greeting to check on her.
• Yang Yuanhong gave Dongfang Yingcai another Three-Turn Minor Restoration Pill, and she recovered from her injuries.
• Dongfang Yingcai warned Yang Yuanhong about Bai Ming’s unusual body and the Lotus Dharma Body, but he reassured her that he understood.
• Yang Yuanhong told Dongfang Yingcai to bring Zhuo Hanqing back to the rear, while Bai Ming watched their exchange with suspicion.

Bai Ming struggled to withstand Yang Yuanhong’s overwhelming assault, but Yang shattered his defenses and broke free of Bai Ming’s Spirit Eye technique. As Yang’s Dragon Shadows began to topple the Lotus Dharma Body, Bai Ming decided to unleash another power.

• Bai Ming used his Dharma Body and Five-Colored Extreme Demon Power to block Yang Yuanhong’s attacks, but Yang overwhelmed him with a barrage of punches and kicks.
• Bai Ming spent decades of lifespan to escape Yang’s assault and trap him with Spirit Eye Baleful Break, then retreated into the Lotus Dharma Body to recover.
• Yang Yuanhong broke free of the black light, crushed it, and unleashed countless Dragon Shadows that matched his own power.
• Bai Ming used Spirit Eye Universal Illumination to resist the Dragon Shadows, but they continued to overwhelm the Lotus Dharma Body.
• Bai Ming resolved to act decisively as the Lotus Dharma Body began to tilt under the Dragon Shadows’ assault.

Bai Ming reinforced the Lotus Dharma Body to resist Yang Yuanhong while the five-colored tribulation gathered overhead. As Bai Ming tightened his hold on Yang Yuanhong, the black dragon stopped resisting and strange cracking sounds came from its body.

• Bai Ming used the Five-Colored Extreme Demon Method to reinforce the Lotus Dharma Body, thwarting Yang Yuanhong's attempts to bite through it.
• Yang Yuanhong abandoned brute force and studied the Dharma Body as the five-colored tribulation clouds formed above them.
• Bai Ming reasoned that Yang Yuanhong could not destroy the Dharma Body and expected the approaching tribulation to force him to flee.
• Bai Ming bound Yang Yuanhong with Baleful-Breaking Black Lights as the first crimson-winded lightning began to emerge from the clouds.
• Yang Yuanhong's resistance suddenly weakened, and Bai Ming heard bones and flesh shifting and cracking inside the dragon's body.

Bai Ming was swallowed by Yang Yuanhong but believed he could use the coming lightning tribulation to attack from within and turn the fight around. Instead, Yang Yuanhong absorbed the tribulation and used blood mist empowered by Blood Sun Venerable God's divine power to erode Bai Ming's Lotus Dharma Body.

• Bai Ming calmed himself inside Yang Yuanhong and planned to attack during the lightning tribulation.
• Bai Ming unleashed his techniques from within as the tribulation struck Yang Yuanhong's dragon body.
• Yang Yuanhong's enormous body absorbed the lightning with little harm, and he rolled over to let it refine his whole body.
• Bai Ming discovered that a red membrane absorbed his attacks and that blood mist was spreading through Yang Yuanhong's belly.
• The blood mist began breaking apart Bai Ming's Lotus Dharma Body, shattering his last defense.

After Bai Ming’s body and soul scattered, Yang Yuanhong sensed a wisp of his soul escape through space, then pursued the fading Black Death Lightning Tribulation into the clouds to seize its benefits. Those watching recognized his courage and waited anxiously to see whether he would survive.

• Yang Yuanhong sensed Bai Ming’s faint soul escape beyond his reach and decided to remember the spatial technique behind it.
• With Bai Ming gone and the tribulation fading, Yang Yuanhong leapt into the clouds to confront the Black Death Lightning Tribulation.
• Yang Yuanhong fought the lightning and ghostly faces inside the clouds as Dongfang Yingcai and the others watched from afar.
• Yuchi Lian considered seeking Yang Yuanhong’s dragon aura for his cultivation and Tiger Chasing’s future.
• Lorraine recognized Yang Yuanhong as the Venerable Lord who had freed her people and prayed for his victory.
• Yang Lingshu reassured Dongfang Yingcai that Yang Yuanhong had likely entered the clouds to gain more from the tribulation after killing Bai Ming.

Yang Yuanhong absorbed most of the Five-Colored Great Tribulation, then triggered his True Intent tribulation to devour the remaining lightning and break through. As he claimed Martial Fortune from Venerable Daohé and Earth Fiend Demon Lord, Venerable Daohé drew Earth Fiend Demon Lord into his Rice Paddy Mystic Realm.

• Yang Yuanhong found that the weakening Black Death Lightning Tribulation was dispersing despite his efforts to keep it in place.
• Yang Yuanhong triggered his True Intent Great Tribulation again, trapping the Black Death Lightning Tribulation inside it.
• Yang Yuanhong declared that he would take Martial Fortune from Venerable Daohé and Earth Fiend Demon Lord as he entered the True Intent Realm.
• Venerable Daohé sensed Yang Yuanhong's attempt to claim his fortune and smiled, while Earth Fiend Demon Lord realized a junior was targeting him.
• Venerable Daohé attacked Earth Fiend Demon Lord and dragged him into his Rice Paddy Mystic Realm.

Yang Yuanhong endured the fifth Soul-Severing Tribulation after it merged with the Black Death Lightning Tribulation, suffering severe damage to his body and soul. As his soul flame weakened, Blood Sun grew anxious, but Chen Yang told him to remain seated.

• The Black Death Lightning Tribulation merged into the fifth tribulation and mocked Yang Yuanhong as it prepared to consume him.
• Yang Yuanhong faced the Soul-Severing Tribulation, which surpassed the combined power of the previous four and crushed him from the sky to the ground.
• The tribulation tore at Yang Yuanhong's body and mind after he had his protections removed to gain its full benefits.
• Chen Yang sensed Yang Yuanhong's fading soul flame but remained calm because he knew Yang Yuanhong still had trump cards.
• Blood Sun worried that Yang Yuanhong would not survive and tried to leave, but Chen Yang ordered him to sit down.

Chen Yang and the gods celebrated Yang Yuanhong rekindling his soul flame, but discovered that Wu Chang had vanished after an Upper Realm cultivator likely sealed him away. Chen Yang decided the Divine Dao forces should remain hidden while the opposing Void Realm powers clashed, leaving his side to enter the conflict at the decisive moment.

• Chen Yang sensed Yang Yuanhong's soul flame rekindle and concluded that he could endure the rest of the Soul-Severing Tribulation.
• Chen Yang and Blood Sun searched the Divine Palace and realized Wu Chang's presence had disappeared without a trace.
• Chen Yang told the gods that Bai Di had likely abandoned Wu Chang after Bai Ming's defeat and that a powerful Upper Realm cultivator had sealed him away.
• Chen Yang inferred that Void Realm forces had entered the conflict and decided to let the old monsters on both sides fight first.
• Chen Yang resolved to keep the Divine Dao forces hidden until they could overwhelm any Immortal Dao cultivators who descended to interfere.

Chen Yang deduced that the mysterious being was likely the Canglan Continent’s manifested immortal Dao will and reconsidered why Treading Void cultivators had to leave the lower realm. He was left questioning whether the Void Realm could stop someone who broke through on the Canglan Continent from staying there and causing havoc.

• Chen Yang inferred that the mysterious being was a manifestation of the Canglan Continent’s immortal Dao laws.
• Chen Yang connected the continent’s suppression of Treading Void cultivators to an ancient battle that shattered the land.
• Chen Yang reasoned that the Heaven Sealing Great Formation prevented ascended Treading Void cultivators from returning directly to the lower realm.
• Chen Yang considered how dangerous and unlikely it was for a Treading Void cultivator to reincarnate and cultivate anew in the lower realm.
• Chen Yang wondered whether the Void Realm could restrain a cultivator who broke through to Treading Void on the Canglan Continent and refused to ascend.

Chen Yang met Canglan Immortal Intent outside the sealed Canglan Divine Palace and watched it take the form of Zhuang Xuanji. In the Void Realm, Zhuang Xuanji sensed someone looking upon her likeness, identified the being as the stone sought by the Immortal Intent, and summoned three aged Treading Void cultivators.

• Chen Yang left the purple star and invited Canglan Immortal Intent to appear outside the palace’s protections.
• Canglan Immortal Intent gathered spiritual energy and manifested as Zhuang Xuanji, startling Chen Yang.
• Zhuang Xuanji sensed that someone was looking upon her likeness while she attacked Nangong Jinghe’s galaxy.
• Zhuang Xuanji used stolen starlight to reveal the being as a stone and concluded it was the one the Immortal Intent had mentioned.
• Zhuang Xuanji called three aged Treading Void cultivators, who emerged and bowed before her.

Chen Yang met the Canglan Immortal Intent, learned how the Void Stepping battle had damaged its true body and how Zhuang Xuanji had helped recover fragments, and considered whether more remained in sealed places. The Immortal Intent revealed that three Void Stepping Old Monsters had sent soul fragments through a crack in the demonic earth.

• Chen Yang persuaded the Canglan Immortal Intent to stop appearing as Zhuang Xuanji and reveal its broken porcelain-bowl form.
• The Canglan Immortal Intent said the Void Stepping battle had cost it nearly half its body and a thousand years of cultivation, while Zhuang Xuanji had secretly found scattered fragments.
• Chen Yang realized that the Canglan Divine Palace and the Divine Mausoleum might contain unrecovered fragments of the Immortal Intent's true body.
• Chen Yang dismissed his spirit body and met the Canglan Immortal Intent in his true stone body.
• The Canglan Immortal Intent told Chen Yang that three Void Stepping Old Monsters had sent soul fragments through a tiny crack in the demonic earth.

Chen Yang learned that the Canglan Immortal Intent wanted him to rescue Wu Chang from three powerful immortal cultivators, but he refused to act without a reason or reward. The Immortal Intent offered to reveal the locations of treasures and things connected to Chen Yang in exchange for his help.

• Chen Yang learned that the Canglan Immortal Intent believed he could defeat the three cultivators who had sealed Wu Chang.
• Chen Yang considered the danger of fighting the three and the risk that their true bodies might discover his identity and the Canglan Divine Palace.
• Chen Yang told the Canglan Immortal Intent that he had no desire to rescue Wu Chang, since they were rivals despite sharing a lineage.
• The Canglan Immortal Intent became confused and struggled to find another reason for Chen Yang to help.
• Chen Yang suggested they negotiate an exchange, and the Canglan Immortal Intent offered to reveal hidden treasures and things related to him.