Chapter Summaries

The soul restoration method began driving restored souls mad, prompting the righteous path to contain the outbreaks and seek a way to sever the method’s control. The souls learned that they would eventually vanish either way and accepted release from the demonic art as the more dignified fate.

• Placement academies reported that restored souls were losing their minds and attacking the living and other souls, with the frenzy spreading toward more powerful souls.
• The righteous-path Venerables concluded that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord was accelerating the soul restoration method as the battlefield’s black smoke weakened.
• Venerable Xuansheng ordered placement academies to publicly disperse confirmed frenzied souls and record the process to prevent panic and false accusations.
• The righteous path sought the Sea of Corpse Souls and planned to bring Yang Lingrui from the northwest to sever the connection between the restored souls and the world.
• Lingxiao Dao Academy explained that freed souls would eventually vanish under Canglan’s laws, and the souls accepted that fate rather than become mindless monsters.

Cui Shenyoo fought four Canglan Profound Insight venerables while anticipating Bai Di’s arrival, which threatened to turn the battle against the righteous side. He mistook a ripple of power behind him, carrying Green Lotus Breath, for Bai Di and lowered his guard.

• Lang Xiao and Cui Shenyoo escaped their spells and returned to the Profound Insight realm, while Hu Pengxiao remained trapped by the imitation Heaven-Reaching Pagoda.
• Bai Di successfully crossed his tribulation and entered the Profound Insight realm.
• Cui Shenyoo held off Venerable Mingxiao and Sea Bearing Venerable, then warned that Bai Di would soon arrive.
• A Kudhan Temple venerable and a Meishan venerable joined the fight, forcing Cui Shenyoo to face four opponents.
• The four venerables prepared killing moves, but Cui Shenyoo read their intentions through the Void Hexagram.
• A ripple of power carrying Green Lotus Breath came from behind Cui Shenyoo, and he assumed Bai Di had arrived without raising his guard.

Ye Chenfeng pressed Cui Shenyoo with powerful sword strikes, but Cui Shenyoo used divination magic to anticipate his attacks and hinder the four venerables who came to help. The venerables split up after sensing another strange profound intent below, where Hu Pengxiao’s cultivation had surged close to Profound Insight without crossing a tribulation.

• Cui Shenyoo’s original form shattered under Ye Chenfeng’s sword light, but his true body escaped into the demon soil.
• Cui Shenyoo praised Bai Di’s clever method of targeting Ye Chenfeng, then grew uneasy about whether Bai Di had planned their journey to the lower realm.
• Cui Shenyoo dodged Ye Chenfeng’s third sword and acknowledged the young cultivator’s strength, then used divination magic to anticipate his sword strikes and disrupt the four accompanying venerables.
• The four venerables sensed another strange profound intent rising from below and split up, sending Venerable Zhaoming to aid Ye Chenfeng while the others went to stall the new threat.
• Venerable Mingxiao and the others found Hu Pengxiao struggling under Luo Qianchou’s pagoda, his cultivation having surged from the late True Intent stage to the twelfth layer in less than an hour without a tribulation.

The righteous Dao Venerables struggled to decide how to handle Hu Pengxiao while Ye Chenfeng remained in danger. Chen Yang then broke through the spatial barrier, and his overwhelming immortal might halted the fighting across the battlefield.

• Venerable Zhaoming warned that Ye Chenfeng had drawn Bai Di and an old demon into his sword domain and needed rescuing.
• Venerable Mingxiao and Luo Qianchou decided to abandon capturing Hu Pengxiao alive and prepare to kill him.
• Two thunderous impacts shook the spatial barrier, and Luo Qianchou recognized the disturbance as the arrival of his master's contingency.
• Chen Yang passed through the barrier and suppressed everyone on the battlefield with his immortal might.
• Hu Pengxiao lost hope of escaping his imprisonment after Chen Yang's arrival.

Bai Di fled with Cui Shenyoo as Chen Yang and a peak cultivator pursued them, and Bai Di reflected on the vastness of the Canglan Continent and the ambitions of its peak cultivators. Learning that the Outer Domain contained many realms like Canglan, Bai Di began to form a new aspiration for his Dao path, just as Chen Yang caught up and attacked.

• Venerable Mingxiao's decree brought the Righteous Path forces back to defend their lines, leaving the battlefield in an uneasy silence.
• Bai Di seized Cui Shenyoo and used the Fate-Determining Awl to break out of Ye Chenfeng's Sword Domain Void Realm and flee from the approaching peak cultivator.
• Bai Di reflected on how entering the Dongxuan realm had changed his understanding of the world's hidden forces and of why peak cultivators pursued greater heights instead of tending to those below them.
• Bai Di asked Cui Shenyoo about the Outer Domain, and Cui Shenyoo explained that it contained several realms like Canglan.
• Bai Di and Cui Shenyoo reached the summit of the heavens, where Chen Yang caught up and fired ten True Mystic blasts at Cui Shenyoo.

After the True Profound Impact shook the battlefield, Ling Shuang and Mo Yunzhou discussed their roles in the battle and the treasure talisman that had helped protect her. Xiao Huai joined them, and their familiar banter offered a brief pause in the war, though both sides had already suffered heavy losses.

• A thunderous boom from the depths of the Demon Soil shook the battlefield, while Chen Yang's boundary shielded the lower-realm cultivators from its worst effects.
• Ling Shuang thanked Mo Yunzhou for using his chess spirit to refine the Sword-Intent Wandering Dragon Treasure Talisman, which had helped her withstand the demonic cultivators' Sword-Locking Talismans.
• Mo Yunzhou praised Ling Shuang's strength and credited her with giving him confidence as he commanded the front lines, while she complimented his battle strategy.
• Xiao Huai arrived and greeted Ling Shuang and Mo Yunzhou, then joked with them as they reverted to their familiar Senior Sister and Senior Brother forms of address.
• Ling Shuang watched Mo Yunzhou and Xiao Huai bicker and smiled, while the narration noted the war had cost both sides dearly and depleted the demonic forces and their future talent reserves.

Xiao Huai told Ling Shuang and Mo Yunzhou about his daughter, Xiao Yao, whose Purple-Gold Dragon Body made her future cultivation promising. He revealed that Ninth Abyss Venerable had recommended Yuan Hong as her master, and the chapter ended as Xiao Huai suggested that recent events would convince the elders to accept the choice.

• Mo Yunzhou asked Xiao Huai whether his child with Long Zhu was a boy or a girl, and Xiao Huai said they had a daughter with a Purple-Gold Dragon Body.
• Xiao Huai explained that Long Zhu had asked Ninth Abyss Venerable to name the girl Yao.
• Xiao Huai said Ninth Abyss Venerable declined to teach Yao because her weighty bones did not suit his Dao, but recommended another master-disciple lineage.
• Ling Shuang guessed that the recommended master was Yuan Hong, and Xiao Huai confirmed that Ninth Abyss Venerable had chosen Vaulting Dragon Lord.
• Xiao Huai said the elders of the Dynasty and Dao Academy had hesitated over Yuan Hong's cultivation realm, but recent events would likely remove their doubts.

Chen Yang entered the passage leading beyond the heavens and discovered that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s Soul-Return Dao Art blocked the return route. He ordered two ancient cultivators who had fled into the Dao to kill themselves, and they dispersed their bodies and souls.

• Chen Yang stepped onto the passage and used Zhen Xuan to mend the rift behind him.
• Xu Cang identified two spatial vortices as the hiding places of cultivators who had fled into the Dao.
• Chen Yang realized the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s Soul-Return Dao Art had blocked the return path from the battle beyond the heavens.
• Two ancient Dao Venerables emerged from the vortices, having been tempted by the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord to join Bai Di’s plan as Dharma corpses.
• Chen Yang told the two cultivators to kill themselves, and they dispersed their bodies and souls after a brief hesitation.

Bai Di called for Senior Youhun after arriving in the Outrealm, and Chen Yang appeared to seize him before Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable intervened. Venerable Xuanwei then confronted Chen Yang and demanded that he declare his stance in the war.

• The Demon Sect and righteous Great Venerables saw Bai Di arrive with Dongxuan cultivation and each assumed their side had won in Azure Waves.
• Bai Di raised the Fate-Determining Awl and called for Senior Youhun to reveal himself and save them.
• Chen Yang entered the Outrealm and wounded two Demon Sect Great Venerables as he broke through their formation toward Bai Di and Cui Shenyoo.
• Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable blocked Chen Yang with his short blade and questioned why he had entered the conflict.
• Venerable Xuanwei arrived, aimed one Yin-Yang Twin Extremes Hammer at Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable and the other at Chen Yang, and asked Chen Yang to declare his stance.

Chen Yang faced the peak cultivators of the Righteous and Demonic Paths, who expected him to declare his allegiance after arriving at the Outrealm Battlefield. He remained calm under their scrutiny and recognized one of the figures as the mysterious Penglai Palace Master, whose scale contained a profound oceanic vision.

• Chen Yang realized that Venerable Mingxiao and Ninth Abyss Venerable viewed his arrival as support for the Righteous Path, while the peak cultivators saw him as a neutral opportunist.
• Chen Yang understood that taking part in the Great Competition of Two Daos required him to openly choose a side, but he remained untroubled because he carried the Canglan Immortal Intent's decree and could replace any lost avatars.
• Chen Yang examined the figures on the cliffs and discovered that they were parts of two peak cultivators' bodies rather than mountains.
• Chen Yang sensed ancient dragon breath from a scale belonging to the Penglai Palace Master and recognized the oceanic vision it contained as a powerful aid to water arts cultivators.
• Chen Yang concluded that the elusive Penglai Palace Master's origins were likely connected to the Ancient Dragon Lineage.

Chen Yang assessed the strengths and ranks of the righteous path’s ten peak cultivators, then learned about the demonic path’s peak great demon and his unusual relationship with the Lord of Penglai Palace. The chapter left the two easygoing rivals facing each other at the chosen site of the confrontation.

• Chen Yang sensed the strength of Venerable Daohé, the Meishan Sword Immortal, Nie Wuchen, Venerable Xuanwei, and the other righteous-path peaks.
• Chen Yang divided the ten righteous-path peak cultivators into three tiers, with Dark Underworld Venerable standing above the rest and Nie Wuchen leading the lower tier.
• Chen Yang learned that the demonic path’s peak great demon came from an ancient bloodline that leaned toward the Demon Race.
• Xu Cang explained that the great demon and the Lord of Penglai Palace had long been rivals in battle but shared little enmity and preferred to discuss the Dao together.
• Dark Underworld Venerable chose the place where the great demon and the Lord of Penglai Palace stood as the site of the confrontation.

Chen Yang learned how Qin Changsheng had left Lingxiao Dao Academy to pursue the Dao in the Demon Soil and become a formidable Demonic Path Venerable. Zhuang Xuanji later surpassed him in their battles, turning the balance of the conflict between the two paths.

• Qin Changsheng rejected Lingxiao Dao Academy’s teachings and went to the Demon Soil, prompting a scandal and a war between the Righteous and Demonic Paths.
• Qin Changsheng survived attempts to seize his body, became a Venerable, and repeatedly challenged Dao Academy Venerables, damaging their Dao Hearts and paths.
• Chen Yang learned Qin Changsheng’s history and considered how it might have shaped Venerable Xuanwei’s convictions.
• Zhuang Xuanji fought Qin Changsheng three times; after their first battle ended in a draw, she won the next two.
• Zhuang Xuanji’s victories helped the righteous cultivators reverse their decline and launch a full-scale counterattack against the Demonic Path.

Chen Yang learned how Zhuang Xuanji had killed the peak Demonic Sect cultivator who gravely injured Venerable Yuehan, then assessed the balance of strength between the Righteous and Demonic Paths. With the two sides nearly evenly matched, Chen Yang’s unexpected presence emerged as a decisive factor in the Great Competition of Two Daos.

• Xu Cang told Chen Yang that Zhuang Xuanji had pursued and killed the peak Demonic Sect cultivator during his Tribulation Crossing ascent.
• Chen Yang assessed the peak cultivators and concluded that the Demonic Path could match the Righteous Path despite having one fewer fighter.
• Chen Yang calculated that the first six Dao debates were likely to produce one victory for each side, leaving the final battles to decide the outcome.
• Chen Yang realized that Zhuang Xuanji’s ascension had emboldened the Demonic Path to challenge the Righteous Path’s dominance.
• The peak cultivators of both Daos examined Chen Yang as an outsider whose presence could determine the Great Competition of Two Daos.

The peak cultivators of Cambang Continent discovered that Cui Shenyoo was an Upper Realm figure and recognized the opportunity his presence offered. Qin Changsheng agreed to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s request to protect his Dao, leaving the gathered cultivators poised to act on the revelation.

• Cui Shenyoo despaired as the gathered peak cultivators saw through his identity and he realized they would exploit his connection to the Upper Realm.
• Qin Changsheng accused the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord of bringing an Upper Realm immortal into the Outrealm through Bai Di.
• Qin Changsheng praised Bai Di for influencing the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord to act boldly, while dismissing Bai Di’s potential to match Zhuang Xuanji.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord asked Qin Changsheng to answer his earlier proposal.
• Qin Changsheng agreed to protect the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s Dao and said the opportunity could unsettle the Righteous Path.

Chen Yang explained that he had come under the genuine Canglan Immortal Intent Edict to capture Cui Shenyoo and wanted no part in the Great Competition of Two Daos. The decision to surrender Cui Shenyoo fell to Qin Changsheng, who was more tempted by the Upper Realm cultivator’s secrets than bound by the edict.

• Chen Yang showed the peak cultivators the genuine Immortal Intent Edict and said he would return to the mountains once he captured Cui Shenyoo.
• Chen Yang made clear that he would leave the two Daos to settle their own competition and let the cultivators decide whether to hand Cui Shenyoo over.
• Venerable Daohé and the three Lords of the Demon Cave considered backing down because they feared defying the Azure Waves Great Dao.
• Dark Underworld Venerable and Qin Changsheng weighed the edict less heavily because their cultivation no longer depended on the world's Dao laws.
• Dark Underworld Venerable challenged Qin Changsheng to surrender Cui Shenyoo or admit that he would defy the Azure Waves Great Dao to protect him.

Myriad Corpses Demon Lord prepared to summon the Treading Void Tribulation, encouraged by a fifty-percent chance of ascending and Qin Changsheng’s protection. As the tribulation gathered, Cui Shenyoo tried to persuade him to spare her soul spirit in exchange for teaching him upper-realm techniques.

• Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s success rate for crossing the tribulation rose to fifty percent after he gained Cui Shenyoo and spread the Soul-Return Dao Art.
• Myriad Corpses Demon Lord welcomed the conflict among the three Chen Yang figures as a chance to witness the Three Flowers Gathering at the Summit.
• Qin Changsheng praised Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and concealed himself and Chen Yang with spatial Daoist Magic.
• Myriad Corpses Demon Lord summoned the Treading Void Tribulation at the summit of the realm.
• Cui Shenyoo urged Myriad Corpses Demon Lord to learn upper-realm techniques from her instead of sacrificing her soul spirit.

Chen Yang and the Dark Underworld Venerable encircled Qin Changsheng, whose mastery of Extreme Yang Fire withstood the Venerable’s many object-control techniques. As the three battled, Chen Yang discovered that Qin could limit his True Profound Impacts and exposed the limits of Chen Yang’s spatial Daoist Magic, though his attacks still threatened Qin more directly than the Venerable’s did.

• Chen Yang observed the Dark Underworld Venerable counter Qin Changsheng’s Extreme Yang Fire with an array of controlled phenomena and transformations.
• The Dark Underworld Venerable’s object-control art struggled to break through Qin’s protective yang fire, while Chen Yang’s stacked True Profound Impacts began threatening Qin’s body.
• Qin Changsheng recognized the danger of Chen Yang’s technique and repeatedly used Extreme Yang Fire to devour his Zhen Xuan whenever his impacts neared six hundred and eighty.
• Chen Yang realized that his Lagging Light Divine Technique could not give him the same advantage against pinnacle experts and that his spatial Daoist Magic was insufficiently developed.
• Chen Yang’s attacks continued to place more direct pressure on Qin than the Dark Underworld Venerable’s object-control techniques did.

Venerable Xuanwei’s unresolved grudge against Qin Changsheng had become an obstacle to his cultivation after he reached the Peak Realm. Unable to return to Canglan Continent, the Righteous Path cultivators asked Venerable Dongxu to divine what was happening there, but Old Corpse Ghost’s power had obscured the Great Dao.

• Venerable Xuanwei recalled how Qin Changsheng had gravely wounded his master and senior sister, leaving him determined to seek revenge.
• After reaching the Peak Realm, Venerable Xuanwei realized the gulf between himself and Qin Changsheng was immense, and his desire for revenge blocked his further progress.
• Nie Wuchen reasoned that Qin Changsheng’s actions during Wanshi’s Tribulation Crossing must relate to the Dao intent he sought in Canglan Continent.
• Venerable Kuji worried that Old Corpse Ghost had already made moves against those left in Canglan Continent and asked Venerable Dongxu to divine what was happening.
• Venerable Dongxu said Old Corpse Ghost’s soul power had obscured the Great Dao, making his divination difficult.

Nie Wuchen recognized Yang Lingrui's Yanfa manifestation and learned that his True Intent of the Way of Slaughter and title Sever Karma made him a counter to the Soul-Returning Deception Technique. With the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord occupied by tribulation, the righteous peak cultivators seized the chance to fight the Demonic Dao, leaving the clashes unresolved.

• Nie Wuchen recognized Yang Lingrui in the manifested figure and proudly confirmed that he had reached the True Intent Realm.
• Venerable Daohé explained that Yang Lingrui's title Sever Karma and True Intent of the Way of Slaughter made him the bane of the Soul-Returning Deception Technique.
• Venerable Daohé challenged Earthly Baleful Demon Venerable and urged the other righteous cultivators to take advantage of the Demonic Dao's weakened numbers.
• The Meishan Sword Immortal pulled Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable into a separate space, while Nie Wuchen confronted Poison-Extinguishing Demon Venerable.

Yang Lingrui traveled to the Central Region with two Venerables to resolve the soul-returning crisis through the Soul-Severing Karma Cut, while Yun Xiwu wished him well and promised to wait for him. Three months later, he began preparing at Fuyao Sect, and the chapter left the outcome of his unprecedented plan uncertain.

• Yang Lingrui told Yang Lingqing and the others that he was heading to the Central Region to address the urgent crisis.
• Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui exchanged farewells from afar, and she told him she would wait for him at home.
• Chen Yang secretly used the Lagging Light Divine Technique to give Yang Lingrui an incarnation for protection.
• Three months passed as the battles at Demon Suppression Pass and in the Outrealm remained unresolved, while the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord advanced through his tribulations.
• Yang Lingrui arrived at Fuyao Sect's main peak and began preparing for the Soul-Severing Karma Cut, developing a clear plan despite the lack of precedent or useful guidance.