Chapter Summaries

Han Zhongli mastered the Ten Thousand Beasts Devouring Formation and used it to greatly strengthen his spiritual soul, drawing attention across the Three Realms of the Primordial World. As Zhurong confronted the Sages of the Three Purities in the cultivation ground, a hidden immortal abode was exposed, and he realized they planned to use it against the Daoists there.

• Han Zhongli studied the Ten Thousand Beasts Devouring Formation and used his Divine Eye Technique to imprint its vast information, greatly increasing his spiritual soul power.
• Ao Changsheng sensed that a new round of immortal tribulation reincarnations was about to begin, while Zhurong grew furious that Han Zhongli had found a devouring method first.
• Dao Lord Chisong warned Zhurong that thirty-six Quasi-Sages and three supreme Sages had come to the cultivation ground, so Zhurong and Chisong went to prepare for them.
• Zhurong confronted Pangu, Yuanshi, and Nüwa, who claimed they had come to investigate the Three Realms of the Primordial World, and threatened to retaliate if they entered it.
• Zhurong left the cultivation ground, then saw a mountain explode and an immortal abode appear; he realized the Sages of the Three Purities intended to use it against the Daoists inside.

Zhurong confronted Nüwa and Sage Yuanshi over their claims about the Three Realms and the fate of his disciple, then attacked Sage Yuanshi and demanded a duel. The chapter ended with Sage Yuanshi revealing that Houtu had severed ties with the Three Purities and loved Demon Emperor Dijun.

• Nüwa and Sage Yuanshi mocked Zhurong and used his captured disciple to pressure him for information about the Three Realms of the Primordial World.
• Zhurong rejected their claims and launched his strongest attack at Sage Yuanshi, who blocked it with the Pangu Banner.
• The collision's shockwave injured the assembled Sages and shook the Three Realms of the Primordial World.
• Zhurong challenged Sage Yuanshi to a duel and accused the Three Purities of joining forces against Lady Houtu.
• Sage Yuanshi said Houtu had severed her master-disciple relationship with the Three Purities and loved Demon Emperor Dijun.

Sage Yuanshi challenged Zhurong to a fight, boasting that his Quasi-Sage power made him vastly superior. Zhurong held off his first attack with the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower, but Sage Yuanshi’s next blow wounded him and left the fight unresolved.

• Zhurong said Sage Yuanshi and Lady Houtu had gone together to Dao Ancestor Hongjun's palace, and Lady Nüwa confirmed she had seen them.
• Sage Yuanshi became furious over Houtu severing her master-disciple relationship with the Three Purities and vowed to make her pay once he broke through to the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Sage Yuanshi displayed his strength and challenged Zhurong, declaring that the loser would become Monkey Sun's servant.
• Sage Yuanshi attacked Zhurong with a palm strike, and Zhurong blocked it with the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower.
• Sage Yuanshi followed with a powerful golden palm strike that forced Zhurong back and made him spit blood, then demanded that he kneel and confess his guilt.

Zhurong and Sage Yuanshi fought with their Seven-Colored Lotus Flowers, and Yuanshi’s attacks damaged Zhurong’s lotus and injured him. Their clash devastated the battlefield, and the chapter ended as Zhurong counterattacked Yuanshi with a seven-colored spear.

• Zhurong used lotus rain to bombard Sage Yuanshi, but Yuanshi’s defensive treasure protected him despite his injuries.
• Sage Yuanshi unleashed a seven-colored Sword-Ray, which broke through Zhurong’s lotus defenses and badly wounded him.
• Zhurong fired a seven-colored pillar of light at Sage Yuanshi, and their attacks destroyed a mountain peak while stray radiance killed cultivators and burned a Sage expert to a skeleton.
• Sage Yuanshi rushed at Zhurong to seize him, and Zhurong sent the lotus toward him and formed a seven-colored spear to thrust at Yuanshi.

Sage Yuanshi smashed Zhurong into the ground while Sun Wukong tried to reach him, but the Golden-Winged Peng Bird blocked the way. Twelve masked Demon Race cultivators arrived, followed by Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi and Demon Venerable Moluo, and Sun Wukong attacked Taiyi with the Jingu Bang.

• Sage Yuanshi shattered Zhurong's Seven-Colored Lotus Flower and drove him into the ground with a crushing punch.
• Sun Wukong charged to help Zhurong, but the Golden-Winged Peng Bird stopped him and warned him not to interfere.
• Twelve masked cultivators in white arrived, and the Golden-Winged Peng Bird identified them as Demon Race powerhouses.
• Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi and Demon Venerable Moluo approached, prompting Sun Wukong and the Golden-Winged Peng Bird to recognize them.
• Sun Wukong summoned the Jingu Bang and swung it at Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi.

Sun Wukong and Golden Cicada fought Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi, whose overwhelming attacks injured them and destroyed a Jingu Bang that proved to be a copy. Sun Wukong then unleashed the power of the real Jingu Bang, and the battle continued with Golden Cicada wary of Taiyi’s strength.

• The black-robed man struck Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi with Vajra Demon-Subduing Claw, then crushed the Jingu Bang in his grasp into golden light.
• Golden Cicada transformed and clashed with Sun Wukong’s Jingu Bang, but the blow injured him as Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi recognized the staff as a top-tier spirit treasure.
• Sun Wukong told Golden Cicada to leave, but Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi attacked them both and injured Golden Cicada with a devouring palm strike.
• Sun Wukong summoned a golden bowl to block Taiyi’s attack, then poured his power into the Jingu Bang and swung it at him.
• Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi dodged Sun Wukong’s blow, which split a vast chasm through the ground, and Sun Wukong vowed to make him pay.

Sun Wukong and Golden Cicada fought Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi, who summoned the Heavenly Devil Holy City and wounded Sun Wukong with its golden spear. Sun Wukong later endured Taiyi’s punch thanks to a Hongmeng Spirit Treasure, then revealed that his power had risen again as the battle threatened the Three Realms of the Primordial World.

• Sun Wukong and Golden Cicada combined their power and attacked Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi, but Taiyi blocked them with a golden barrier.
• Golden Cicada urged Sun Wukong to escape, but Taiyi summoned the Heavenly Devil Holy City and launched its golden spear at them.
• Sun Wukong tried to block the spear with the Jingu Bang, but it injured his chest, so Golden Cicada attacked Taiyi with bolts of golden lightning.
• Sun Wukong and Taiyi clashed again, and Sun Wukong survived Taiyi’s powerful punch with little injury because a Hongmeng Spirit Treasure protected him.
• Sun Wukong’s presence surged once more, astonishing Taiyi and the watching experts.

Sun Wukong unleashed his strongest attack against Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi, whose enormous form and skull proved unnervingly resilient. Sun Wukong’s power rose to the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm, and he shattered the skull, leaving Taiyi’s condition uncertain and the onlookers shocked.

• The Jade Emperor told Li Jing to wait until Sun Wukong and Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi were badly wounded, then capture them for the Dayu Kingdom.
• Sun Wukong attacked Taiyi with the second form of the Golden Monkey Staff Technique, but Taiyi swallowed the staff shadows and struck at him with a giant hand.
• Sun Wukong dodged Taiyi’s attack and dropped an enormous Ruyi Jingu Bang onto his head, shattering it and sending his body falling.
• Sun Wukong questioned whether Taiyi was a Devil God, then raised his power to the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm and attacked the skull with golden spear Qi.
• Sun Wukong smashed the skull into scattered bones, shocking Taiyi’s allies and the surrounding observers.

Sun Wukong pursued Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi’s remains, but a powerful restriction and Lightning Tribulation began destroying his body. He seized and tore apart a black python that had emerged, leaving its connection to Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi unclear.

• Sun Wukong ordered the demons to collect Heavenly Sovereign Taiyi’s skull and skeleton, then chased them into the forest but found no trace of him.
• Sun Wukong appeared in another forest amid a massive explosion and faced a destructive purple Lightning Tribulation.
• The lightning cracked Sun Wukong’s body, and he suspected that a restriction placed on him by a Heavenly Emperor-level expert had been triggered.
• A huge black python emerged, and Sun Wukong identified it as a Heavenly King-level ferocious beast.
• The black python shrank into a small snake, and Sun Wukong seized it and tore it in two.

Sun Wukong found the formation’s core and was sent into another world as the Tribulation of the Eight Immortals began. There, Tieguai Li investigated a cave and was knocked away by a black shadow.

• Heavenly Punishment struck Sun Wukong repeatedly, while strange symbols enveloped his Primordial Spirit and sent it to another world.
• Sun Wukong’s presence surged as he entered a vast darkness, and the space twisted before returning even darker.
• Ao Changsheng realized Sun Wukong had found the formation’s core and declared that the Tribulation of the Eight Immortals had begun.
• Tieguai Li found a cave in the Primordial World, sensed a familiar presence inside, and approached it in search of treasure.
• Tieguai Li became unable to lift his right foot, then blocked a black shadow that burst from the cave and sent him flying.

A black Demon Beast overwhelmed and devoured Tieguai Li before transforming into a human-serpent figure and vanishing. The chapter left the danger of the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range marked by a warning stele in a distant valley.

• Tieguai Li attacked the black shadow with his golden saber, but it knocked him down and scorched his chest with fire.
• Tieguai Li poured his magic power into the saber and fought back, but the Demon Beast’s strength and speed left him badly wounded.
• The Demon Beast swallowed Tieguai Li, chewed through his body, and devoured his soul despite a saber strike cutting its back.
• The Demon Beast crushed Tieguai Li’s head, then transformed into a muscular human with a serpent’s tail and disappeared toward a mountain peak.
• A warning stele inside a cave in a valley hundreds of kilometers from Qinglin cautioned people against entering the perilous depths of the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range.

Tieguai Li fought a powerful Demon Beast in the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range, using his staff to defeat it before two more beasts attacked. The Three Xiaos Ladies confronted him for trespassing in their sanctuary, and he claimed he had only stopped to look at the beasts.

• Tieguai Li escaped a Demon Beast’s attack with severe injuries, then used armor to reveal a powerful Divine Emperor-level presence before hiding it again.
• Tieguai Li fought the Demon Beast with lightning-infused true essence and a great black staff, striking it down and killing it.
• Two more Demon Beasts descended from the cliff and attacked Tieguai Li, whose scaled skin withstood their claws.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies asked Tieguai Li why he had trespassed in their Daoist sanctuary, and he said he had merely been passing by to see the Demon Beast.

The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li about the hidden Three Xiaos Clan and its ancient history. The chapter ended with her describing the clan’s powerful elders and its second great elder, who was close to advancing his cultivation.

• The Three Xiaos Ladies invited Tieguai Li to tea and questioned which sect he belonged to.
• Tieguai Li said he was a Rogue Cultivator and challenged the Three Xiaos Ladies about disguising herself as a man.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies explained that she had disguised herself for safety and had spent hundreds of years in the area, where the Demon Beasts could not threaten her.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies revealed that the location was a secret base of the Three Xiaos Clan, accessible only to those of its bloodline.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li that the clan’s territory lay in an ancient ruin linked to the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird holy lands.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies described the Three Xiaos Clan’s eighteen Martial Saint Peak elders and its second great elder, who was nearing a breakthrough to Late Tribulation Transcendence.

Tieguai Li learned that the Three Xiaos Clan had come to fight the Southern Region’s Demon Race and to seek his cultivation method. The Three Xiaos Ladies struck a deal with him, while her Grandmaster warned her to stop associating with him, leaving Tieguai Li suspicious of her true purpose.

• The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li that her clan had sent people to help fight the Demon Race and wanted to learn human cultivation methods from him.
• Tieguai Li agreed to meet the Three Xiaos Clan’s upper echelon the next day, but an old woman in purple appeared and objected.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies called the old woman her Grandmaster, and the Purple-Robed Ancestor forbade her from associating with Tieguai Li.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies asked to see Tieguai Li’s cultivation method, and he offered to teach it in exchange for five hundred immortal stones and a drop of blood.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies gave Tieguai Li Golden Wound Medicine, and he accepted while wondering what she was really after.

Tieguai Li left the Jie Sect after suspecting Lady Three Xiaos, then entered Ao Changsheng’s Dao field and received the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art. After comprehending it and agreeing to go with Ao Changsheng, he broke the art’s restriction and wondered how many immortal crystal stones were in his jade pendant.

• Tieguai Li became suspicious of Lady Three Xiaos and slipped away from the Jie Sect after she departed.
• Tieguai Li entered Ao Changsheng’s Dao field, where Ao Changsheng welcomed him and bestowed the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.
• An immortal gave Tieguai Li a Jade Slip with the art’s cultivation method, and Tieguai Li spent a year comprehending it as the immortals watched.
• Tieguai Li thanked Ao Changsheng and agreed to go with him to cultivate the art.
• Tieguai Li found and broke a restriction in the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, then wondered how many immortal crystal stones were in his jade pendant as Ao Changsheng took him deeper into Kunlun.

Tieguai Li discovered a cache of Immortal Crystal Stones in a shattered jade pendant and gathered treasures as he traveled deeper into Kunlun. After finding and consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Peaches of Immortality, he cultivated for twenty years and planned to save two peaches for a future breakthrough.

• Tieguai Li shattered the jade pendant and found many Immortal Crystal Stones, which he gathered to support his cultivation and reach the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Tieguai Li found the Jiaolong Sword, mistook its hostile spirit for acceptance, and stored the sword in his jade pendant.
• Tieguai Li collected Wood Element spirit medicine in a desert and then entered another spatial rift.
• Tieguai Li found a red Ten-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality by a lake, ate one, and cultivated for twenty years.
• Tieguai Li ate and refined eight more peaches, keeping two to help him pursue the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Patriarch Xiaoyao and Xiaoyaozi set out for the divine medicine garden, believing the ruin would still be sealed and uncontested. They teleport near it and discover dense spiritual energy and powerful immortal beasts in the surrounding forest.

• Patriarch Xiaoyao learned that Xiaoyaozi's cultivation had not recovered and decided to seek immortal medicine in the divine medicine garden.
• Xiaoyaozi picked the Peach of Immortality Tree, and he and Patriarch Xiaoyao returned to the cave to cultivate.
• After three days, Tieguai Li restored his cultivation to the Immortal Venerable Realm, while Xiaoyaozi reported that he had picked all the peaches.
• Patriarch Xiaoyao led Xiaoyaozi toward the ruin, and Xiaoyaozi used a teleportation talisman to bring them near it.
• Xiaoyaozi rushed toward the ruin after sensing its dense spiritual energy, then pointed out the high-level immortal beasts in a nearby forest.

Yin Xi recounted his ancient battle with King Kang of Zhou to a Daoist priest, then formed a Golden Core and revealed signs of advancing to the Spirit Transformation Stage. After returning to the Daoist temple with the priest, Yin Xi sensed something familiar and privately discussed the Crimson Blood Pill and the priest’s request with his master.

• Yin Xi told the Daoist priest how his incarnation had fought and slain King Kang of Zhou tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Yin Xi left the mountain, and a black lotus mark with nine jewels appeared between his brows as his spiritual power surged.
• Yin Xi agreed to help the priest and handed him a Crimson Blood Pill before they returned to the Daoist temple.
• Yin Xi sensed a familiar presence on the way to his residence but could not identify its source.
• Yin Xi told his master that he needed to explain the pill matter privately to the priest and keep their arrangement secret.

Yin Xi learned that Devil Realm cultivators had come to seize him and fought back when they surrounded his residence. He left the remaining attackers fleeing or defeated, while the Daoist priest stayed behind.

• Yin Xi's master agreed to speak to a senior and handle the matter Yin Xi had raised.
• Devil Realm cultivators found Yin Xi's tomb and saw a pale blue necklace on the corpse, which they mistook for a storage ring.
• The cultivators went to Yin Xi's residence, surrounded it, and announced that they intended to take him to become the Devil Realm's imperial son-in-law.
• Yin Xi misunderstood the Daoist priest's explanation of the threat, then rejected the offer and refused to go with the attackers.
• Yin Xi beat the first cultivator who lunged at him and pursued the fleeing men, knocking down another attacker until he fainted.

Yin Xi fought a man in black, but the strange fragrance from a poison bottle trapped him in a painful hallucination. After the illusion ended, he found himself back in the cave facing the operation's mastermind, who revealed that he knew Yin Xi was Taishang Laojun.

• Yin Xi overpowered the man in black and knocked him to the ground.
• The man in black opened a bottle whose strange fragrance caused hallucinations and drowsiness, but Yin Xi swallowed its contents.
• Yin Xi suffered unbearable pain as the toxin seemed to merge with his body, and his surroundings shifted back to the cave.
• Yin Xi realized the man before him was the mastermind behind the operation, who addressed him as Taishang Laojun.
• Yin Xi tried to flee, but dizziness made him collapse back onto the ground as the man approached.