Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang had Liuli, Bai Que, and six other deities test whether their Union of Immortals and Gods method could restore fragments of the Canglan Immortal Intent’s true body. After repeated successful simulations, they began assembling the real fragments, while the Canglan Immortal Intent watched closely.

• The Canglan Immortal Intent agreed to let Chen Yang’s deities repair several small fragments, reserving its main body until they proved their skill.
• Liuli and Bai Que examined the fragments and said they would need help from other practitioners.
• Chen Yang summoned Ku Yun, Fu Yin, Yan Ming, Yu Xun, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue to assist with the restoration.
• Liuli directed the deities through repeated phantom-body simulations, adding Ku Yun’s luck power after their first attempt shattered.
• The deities assembled the phantom fragments successfully five times in a row, then began restoring the actual Immortal Intent fragments.

Chen Yang repaired Canglan Immortal Intent’s fragments and learned where two missing Divine Path Steles were hidden. After the two became partners and planned to fight the three Void Stepping Old Monsters, Chen Yang proposed using two existing fighters while they prepared a stronger incarnation.

• Chen Yang returned the repaired fragment to Canglan Immortal Intent, who agreed to reveal treasure locations.
• Canglan Immortal Intent found two Divine Path Steles, one in the Extreme-Cold Eastern Land and another beneath the Netherdeep Trench in the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Canglan Immortal Intent gave his name as Xu Cang, and Chen Yang introduced himself as Canglan Divine Lord.
• Chen Yang and Canglan Immortal Intent agreed to build an external incarnation from Chen Yang’s stone-body avatar to fight the three Void Stepping Old Monsters.
• Chen Yang proposed using two ready-made fighters while the incarnation was being refined, noting that the three old monsters’ Lower Realm bodies had only True Intent-level cultivation.

Nangong Jinghe received a decree from the Canglan Immortal Intent and agreed to atone by targeting the Demon Sect cultivators who had descended into the Lower Realm. He set off for Demon Suppression Pass, joining Luo Qianchou on a course toward the same target.

• The Canglan Immortal Intent confronted Nangong Jinghe over sending a soul fragment into the Lower Realm and explained that it had confined the supposed Outer Domain cultivator.
• Nangong Jinghe accepted the task of atoning for his crime through meritorious service.
• Nangong Jinghe concluded that three Demon Sect Treading Void cultivators had stirred up the Great Competition of Two Daos to conceal their search for a great fortune.
• After one of the demons tested him, Nangong Jinghe decided to retaliate and flew toward Demon Suppression Pass in the Central Region.
• Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou headed toward the same target under the Canglan Immortal Intent's guidance.

Chen Yang joined forces with the Canglan Immortal Intent and promised to help it restore its true form as they prepared to confront Lang Xiao and his companions. Meanwhile, Yang Yuanhong survived his tribulations and advanced to True Intent, leaving him indebted to Ye Chenfeng and the Dao Academy.

• Chen Yang and the Canglan Immortal Intent agreed to become friends and help each other cultivate and restore the porcelain bowl.
• Chen Yang asked the Canglan Immortal Intent to choose one of his avatars before they went to deal with Lang Xiao and his two companions.
• Yang Yuanhong completed his tribulations and attained True Intent as his heartbeats shook the surrounding region.
• Yang Yuanhong recalled surviving the tribulations with the Immortal Venerable's Spirit Pearl and Ye Chenfeng's Black Paper-Mulberry Spirit Fruit, and resolved to repay the Dao Academy's kindness.
• Yang Yuanhong decided he did not need to return to the Barbarian Land front because the situation there had stabilized.

Yang Yuanhong confronted Yue Wuxiang after the Moon Sect master’s suppression seal was lifted. Yue Wuxiang tried to stall while sending a fragment of his consciousness through the earth veins, but his escape attempt failed.

• Yue Wuxiang recognized Yang Yuanhong as the Dragon Lord and lamented that Yang had achieved a True Intent body in less than forty years.
• Yue Wuxiang pretended to accept his death while Yang Yuanhong watched him and compressed the space around them to prevent escape.
• Yue Wuxiang secretly sent parts of his consciousness into soul fragments hidden in the abyss, hoping to flee during a fight.
• Yue Wuxiang realized Yang Yuanhong was sealing the space too quickly and tried to send a soul and spirit outward through the earth veins.
• Yue Wuxiang’s escape scheme came to nothing.

Wu Tong visited Yang Linghu’s grave and told him that Yang Yuanhong had slain Yue Wuxiang, settling the family’s feud with the Moon Sect. Meanwhile, Bai Di continued evading eight righteous True Intent experts at the Demon Suppression Pass, with neither side able to secure victory.

• Wu Tong entered the cemetery at Pine Mountain’s former site while Yang Yuanliu and Wei Xinqing waited outside.
• Wu Tong offered Yang Linghu sweet cake and told him that Yang Yuanhong had reached the True Intent Realm and killed Yue Wuxiang.
• Wu Tong wept as she told Yang Linghu how deeply she missed him, while Yang Yuanliu and Wei Xinqing also mourned outside.
• Wu Tong left the cemetery with Yang Yuanliu and Wei Xinqing to help Yang Lingqing handle the returning wounded.
• Bai Di fought eight righteous True Intent experts for days, but his mysterious dharma body and lotus-seat treasure let him escape danger, leaving the battle unresolved.

Bai Di prepared to withdraw after gathering enough heroes' bearing, but Ye Chenfeng's sword intent blocked him and made their battle inevitable. A divining old monster offered to fight Ye Chenfeng, then reconsidered after Bai Di revealed that Ye Chenfeng was Zhuang Xuanji's first disciple.

• Bai Di turned to retreat into the Demon Soil, but Ye Chenfeng stopped him with an invisible sword intent.
• Bai Di acknowledged that fighting Ye Chenfeng was necessary for his path to Dao attainment.
• The divining old monster volunteered to fight Ye Chenfeng, dismissing Bai Di's warning about his strength.
• Bai Di revealed that Ye Chenfeng was Zhuang Xuanji's first disciple, making the old monsters wary.
• The divining old monster accepted Bai Di's suggestion to fight the other eight first and wait for Bai Di to test Ye Chenfeng.

Ye Chenfeng and Bai Di fought inside Ye Chenfeng’s Sword Domain Void Realm, trading spatial techniques and deadly trump cards. Their battle continued as a contest between the foundations of the righteous and demonic cultivator lineages.

• Ye Chenfeng drew Bai Di into his Western Void Realm and attacked him with his sword.
• Bai Di escaped Ye Chenfeng’s strike with Leaf-Clad Crossing and concealed himself with Obscuring Sight.
• Ye Chenfeng dispersed his body into Sword Qi, found Bai Di’s hiding place, and pierced through his disguise.
• Bai Di survived the blow by manifesting twin lotuses, and the two acknowledged each other’s strength.
• Ye Chenfeng and Bai Di exchanged a rapid succession of supreme sword arts and demonic techniques, astonishing the watching True Intent Cultivators.

The Righteous Path Great Venerables found that the Soul Law Land and Arcane Corpses had made their route to Canglan Continent impassable, and feared the Ten Thousand Corpses Old Devil was preparing a major move. They agreed to search for an abandoned passage, but the five Demon Sect Great Venerables appeared before they could begin.

• The Ninth Abyss Venerable and Venerable Lingyue returned with the remains of three Arcane Corpses and reported that the spatial passage was impassable.
• The five Righteous Path Great Venerables considered opening a temporary route but recognized how difficult it would be after their recent battle.
• The Ninth Abyss Venerable suspected the Ten Thousand Corpses Old Devil had a larger plan and that the Demonic Path cultivators on Canglan Continent were about to act.
• Venerable Lingyue revealed that the Soul Law Land was extending downward, raising the possibility that Arcane Corpses could reach the Lower Realm.
• The Righteous Path Great Venerables agreed to search for an abandoned passage, but the five Demon Sect Great Venerables reappeared before they could move.

Ye Chenfeng answered the tribulation of enlightenment and death, but struck Bai Di with one final sword before his form dispersed. Bai Di survived the blow and believed he had won, while Zhuang Xuanji briefly noticed the five-colored lotus reflection and dismissed it.

• Ye Chenfeng realized Bai Di’s attacks had guided his breakthrough, then used Nightwave Manor Dream to grievously wound Bai Di before dispersing to answer the tribulation.
• Bai Di endured the lingering force of Zhuang Xuanji’s sword and vowed to catch up to and surpass her.
• Zhuang Xuanji sensed Ye Chenfeng’s sword strike, glimpsed the five-colored lotus reflection, and chose not to interfere.
• The pressure on Bai Di vanished when Zhuang Xuanji dismissed the reflection, and Bai Di mistakenly believed he had withstood her phantom.
• Bai Di treated his injuries with pills and the life force of his lotus-platform dharma manifestation, then stabilized his condition.

Trapped by the Upper Realm cultivators, Wu Chang feared they would refine him and hoped Chen Yang would come to his rescue. Bai Di returned instead, admitted betraying him, and confronted Wu Chang over his own secrets, ending by asking whether he had known Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe's identities all along.

• Wu Chang tried and failed to escape the Sky Curtain spell, which blocked his perceptions and restrained his divine arts.
• Wu Chang believed Chen Yang would notice his disappearance and save him, despite fearing Chen Yang might abandon him to win their wager.
• Wu Chang mistook ripples in the Sky Curtain for Chen Yang's arrival, but saw that Bai Di had returned.
• Wu Chang accused Bai Di of exposing him to the Upper Realm cultivators, and Bai Di admitted he had done so.
• Wu Chang reminded Bai Di of all the ways he had helped him, while Bai Di argued that Wu Chang had repeatedly concealed things that affected their plan.
• Bai Di asked Wu Chang whether he had always known who Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe were.

Bai Di tried to persuade Wu Chang to trust him, while believing Wu Chang’s sacrifice could lure Lang Xiao and the other Upper Realm cultivators into the Lower Realm. The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had joined Bai Di’s plan to gain the soul of a peak expert and improve his chances of surviving the Void-Treading tribulation, but complications in the northwest had disrupted their expectations.

• Bai Di urged Wu Chang to trust their century-long partnership instead of relying on cultivators in the Righteous Path.
• Bai Di planned to use Wu Chang as a bargaining chip to draw Lang Xiao and the other Void-Treading cultivators’ soul fragments into the Lower Realm.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord regretted missing his earlier chance to obtain Azure Flame Demon Venerable’s divine soul as refining material.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord agreed to give Bai Di most of his assets and five hundred years of lifespan in pursuit of a better chance at Tribulation Crossing.
• Bai Di and the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord expected their plan to restore an even division between the two paths and accelerate the Demon Lord’s cultivation, but unforeseen developments arose in the northwest.

Wu Chang agreed to help Bai Di after Bai Di explained how he had evaded the Upper Realm cultivators’ surveillance and how he planned to weaken the Sky Curtain confinement. Bai Di used Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable’s Fate-Determining Awl to draw out Wu Chang’s divine abilities, leaving their next move dependent on Bai Di’s return after attaining Dongxuan.

• Wu Chang weighed the risks of refusing Bai Di and agreed to help him, asking how Bai Di had escaped surveillance and how he would break the Sky Curtain confinement.
• Bai Di explained that the figure before Wu Chang was the first dharma body, while his true main body had been newly born after transferring all his divine sense into his Spirit Eye.
• Bai Di showed Wu Chang Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable’s Fate-Determining Awl and said it could draw out Wu Chang’s divine abilities now and free him once Bai Di attained Dongxuan.
• Bai Di drove the awl into the Sky Curtain and released Bai Ming’s remnant soul, while Wu Chang sent his divine power through the awl into the outside world.

After the demonic invasion of the Northwest was repelled, Yang Yuanliu compiled the battle records and casualty lists. He began documenting the Central Region cultivators who had come to aid the Northwest and died in battle, leaving their sacrifices recorded at the top of the report.

• Amingu delivered Yang Yuanliu new lists of fallen cultivators and battle reports at the Yang Family Sacred Land.
• Yang Yuanliu sorted and reviewed the records to compile the final battle report.
• Yang Yuanliu recorded how Cui Wangxue died after holding off a demonic child so fellow cultivators could retreat.
• Yang Yuanliu documented the Sun siblings' deaths after they drew enemy fire and were surrounded in the Southern War Zone.
• Yang Yuanliu recorded Dongfang Yuhua's death in a demonic sect ambush and Yun Ci's death after fighting enemy generals in the Central War Zone.
• Yang Yuanliu placed the fallen Central Region cultivators who had aided the Northwest at the beginning of the report, following Yang Lingqing's instructions.

Yang Yuanliu recorded the final moments of a fallen cultivator while Zhao Che and the surviving Yang Family disciples built a cemetery for those lost in battle. After consoling Liang Yan, Zhao Che mourned a Junior Sister, while Yang Yuanfei headed into Sanglu Valley with two younger disciples.

• Yang Yuanliu steadied himself and wrote the battle report about his former teacher's final moments.
• Zhao Che led the surviving Yang Family disciples of outside surnames in building a cemetery, as only forty-one people remained in the Yang Family's mountain.
• Zhao Che comforted Liang Yan, reminding him that he had earned his battlefield merit by killing a wounded Core Formation Cultivator.
• Zhao Che saw the name on Liang Yan's tombstone and grieved for the Junior Sister who had once nagged him.
• Yang Yuanfei walked toward the bottom of Sanglu Valley with two younger Yang Family main-line disciples.

After the Southwest forces joined the campaign, the allied army drove the demonic cultivators from the Northwest borderlands and settled into postwar recovery. He Shenglai reported the arrangements to Yang Lingqing, who was studying a map with a troubled expression.

• Yun Xiwu led the Southwest frontline forces into the Barbarian Land, where they joined the Northwest Allied Army and took over the border defense.
• The common people who migrated east were settled in Barbarian towns, while the wounded cultivators entered the reopened immortal mountain to recuperate.
• He Shenglai reported the stable defenses, recovery efforts, and seized spoils to Yang Lingqing, who had placed him in charge of postwar tasks.
• He Shenglai noticed Yang Lingqing was frowning over a map and moved closer to see what concerned her.

Yang Lingqing warned He Shenglai that the Demonic Dao was likely to attack again, while reflecting on how their duties and limited cultivation left them unable to influence the wider war. She returned their attention to the marked map, determined to continue planning for the likely attack.

• He Shenglai questioned whether Yang Lingqing was worrying too much about a possible future crisis.
• Yang Lingqing explained how her responsibilities as Yang Clan Patriarch had delayed her cultivation, though she was prepared to attempt a Spiritual Connection Realm breakthrough after the Great Competition of Two Daos.
• He Shenglai admitted that the war had cost his Lineage its ancestor and many elders, while his father survived with a damaged Dao foundation.
• Yang Lingqing told He Shenglai that his True Intent Formless Manifestation gave him a sure path to True Intent, then turned back to the map and said she still believed the Demonic Dao was likely to attack again.

Yang Lingqing predicted that the Demonic Path might use an unknown trump card at a key location in the Central Region, and she marked several likely sites, beginning with the Bodhi Air Mountain Range. At the Jade Firmament Sect, Zhang Jin’s worsening madness resisted the formation meant to calm him, and Deacon An Sixian went to investigate.

• Yang Lingqing told He Shenglai that the Demonic Path Young Master could keep acting while the righteous forces remained trapped on the main front, and that his next move might involve a decisive hidden trump card.
• Yang Lingqing showed He Shenglai several locations in the Central Region where demonic calamities might appear, starting with the Bodhi Air Mountain Range.
• A Jade Firmament Sect disciple reported that Zhang Jin was shouting again despite the soul-soothing formation, and asked Deacon An Sixian to intervene.
• An Sixian cursed the disciple and flew toward the dungeon where Zhang Jin was imprisoned.
• The Jade Firmament Sect kept Zhang Jin alive to seek information about the Ancient Path Treasure and missing stone stele, and to study his resistance to the sect’s Dao techniques.

An Sixian heard Zhang Jin claim that the dead had returned and planned to kill everyone, and he wondered whether Zhang Jin’s strange warning came from his unusually sharp soul perception. An Sixian demanded specific details, leaving Zhang Jin pressed to investigate while the guard sought information that could restore his standing in the Jade Firmament Sect.

• An Sixian recalled how Zhang Jin had once sensed disguised demonic cultivators while mad, a warning that had later proved accurate.
• An Sixian seized Zhang Jin and asked whether he had sensed demonic cultivators again.
• Zhang Jin said the threat was not demons but dead people who had returned to kill them and take their place.
• An Sixian slapped Zhang Jin, accused him of inventing a story to escape, and demanded details about who the dead were, where they came from, and how many there were.
• An Sixian urged Zhang Jin to use his sharp soul perception to investigate while he was lucid, hoping to obtain information that could benefit him.

An Sixian investigated the ruined former site of the Candle Shadow Sect after Elder Sui authorized him to seek evidence for Zhang Jin’s warning. Beneath the ruins, he discovered ghost spirits gathered around a Corpse Daoist, chanting about rebirth and the Soul-Returning Grand Art.

• Elder Sui dismissed An Sixian’s warning but gave him authorization to investigate the Candle Shadow Sect’s former site.
• An Sixian traveled to the Eastern Region and searched the wasteland despite doubting Zhang Jin’s claims.
• An Sixian found strange, barefoot footprints carrying a heavy aura of cold yin and followed them underground.
• An Sixian heard chanting and sent his incarnation ahead to scout the source.
• An Sixian discovered a vast gathering of blue ghost spirits repeating the Corpse Daoist’s calls for the Soul-Returning Grand Art and the forging of a Dao Body.