Chapter Summaries

Young Lord Youxuan tried to rally the Devil Lords into a surprise attack on Profound Origin City, but they refused and clung to the Demon Emperors’ orders to preserve the peace. After leaving the meeting, he revealed that he had recorded it and planned to use the recording to seize command of the devil path, while preparing for a possible attack on its strongholds.

• Young Lord Youxuan urged the Devil Lords to attack Profound Origin City before its newly revealed Tribulation Immortals grew stronger.
• Du Fengyan, Devil Lord Dan Xun, Black Flood Dragon Grand Devil Lord, and the other Grand Devil Lords opposed an attack, citing the Demon Emperors’ instructions and the unfinished prisoner exchange.
• Young Lord Youxuan accused Black Flood Dragon Grand Devil Lord of treachery, then stormed out after the others refused to join his plan.
• Back at the Youxuan Devil Palace, Young Lord Youxuan told Helian Jin and Jiuyin Mystic Lord to prepare for a possible sneak attack by Profound Origin City.
• Young Lord Youxuan revealed that Jiuyin Mystic Lord had recorded the meeting and said he would use the recording to win the support of the devil path’s followers and seize command.

Fu Henghua persuaded Shan Lingqing and Jiuyu High Person to strike Myriad Swords Mountain after the truce ended, while Shen Ping secretly sent the demonic path intelligence about the planned offensive. Shan Lingqing and Jiuyu High Person launched a surprise attack, but Fu Henghua’s earth magic trapped the Sword Demons in their escape tunnel.

• Fu Henghua urged Shan Lingqing and Jiuyu High Person to attack Myriad Swords Mountain after the hostage exchange, and they agreed to prepare a campaign nine days later.
• Shen Ping secretly passed the demonic path intelligence about the planned assault, and Devil Lord Dan Xun shared it with the other Devil Lords.
• Young Lord Youxuan proposed an attack on Profound Origin City, but the Devil Lords chose to hold their defensive line instead.
• Shan Lingqing and Jiuyu High Person left the hostage exchange and attacked Myriad Swords Mountain, forcing Yue Jinghan to order the Sword Demons to flee through a secret passage.
• Yin Yulong and the Sword Demons found the passage sealed by expanding earth and stone, and Yin Yulong suspected Fu Henghua had trapped them with Myriad Gods' Investiture.

Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi strengthened Profound Origin City while the demon and immortal paths fought over the Southern Continent. Decades later, Ke Xiaohong and her team discovered a Demonic Nest where women were being used to breed Demon Soldiers, and she invoked the Two Saints for help.

• Yin Yulong escaped Fu Henghua's expanding Land God Domain as Fu Henghua and Meng Chen joined the attack on Myriad Swords Mountain and captured many Sword Demons in the Cloud Scroll.
• Young Lord Youxuan rescued Yue Jinghan and the Sword Demons, then revealed that his forces had attacked Profound Origin City, prompting Fu Henghua and Meng Chen to return and drive off the siege.
• Fu Henghua persuaded Shan Lingqing and Jiuyu High Person to let him imprison the Sword Demon captives as laborers, then worked with Dongfang Yunqi to plan Profound Origin City's growth and manage the captives.
• Over the following decades, Profound Origin City became a powerful third force, while Ke Xiaohong used the Pure-Life Fundamental Divine Incantation to purify demon soil and heal Sun Dongyang.
• Ke Xiaohong's team found a Flesh Mountain Demonic Nest where women were forced to bear Demon Soldiers, and Ke Xiaohong invoked the Life Lord and Moon Sage for aid.

Life Lord and Blood Moon Venerable destroyed a demonic nest, rescued the women held inside, and confronted Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord as the sevenfold assault on Profound Origin City began. Back in the city, Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi realized the Devil Dao had likely uncovered their progress toward sagehood and planned to return to Donglai before seeking refuge at Taiyin Palace.

• Life Lord and Blood Moon Venerable destroyed five greenhouses and rescued the women imprisoned in them, then confronted Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord inside the demonic nest.
• Life Lord explained that the nest was a fuse for the first assault on Profound Origin City, and Blood Moon Venerable destroyed it as Yuanshan began summoning Devil Lords for war.
• The Demon Emperor and divine consort examined the divine statues at Heavenly Moon Plaza, and the Demon Emperor deduced how Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi refined aspiration power without absorbing its full karmic burden.
• Harmony Moon Venerable brought the polyp flesh to Fu Henghua, who concluded that Yuanshan's rumored collapse was a warning about the risks of entering sagehood.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi suspected Demon Emperor Puhe was exploiting their Sage Hearts and decided to return to Donglai, enter seclusion, and go to Taiyin Palace after Fu Henghua wrote Hengyuan True Person's name.

Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi prepared Profound Origin City for the demonic path’s coming siege while testing Sun Dongyang’s Dao Soldier methods and watching the Nine Heavens trials. The Flesh Mountain reached the city as the first assault began, and Yu Xiaolei hurried to alert the City Lord’s Manor.

• Fu Henghua explained that the Sage Hearts made him and Dongfang Yunqi targets, and they discussed earning merit and finding protection after returning to Donglai.
• Hong Changyi, Fu Xuanxing, and Duan Xun watched Sun Dongyang enter the Ninefold Heavenly Palace with a newly upgraded Jingyang General-Summoning Chart.
• Sun Dongyang used the chart to defeat the first palace’s Frost Sword Demon, then stayed behind to modify the chart before advancing.
• Yu Xiaolei warned the former sword demons to stay on their fields, and they saw the Flesh Mountain approaching Profound Origin City.
• Yu Xiaolei rushed toward the City Lord’s Manor as the first wave of the siege arrived.

Fu Henghua prepared Profound Origin City for the first of seven demonic assaults while the Devil Lords organized their attack on the city. He revealed that Demonic Seeds gave him insight into the enemy’s movements and left the defenders ready as the Flesh Mountain’s forces approached.

• Yu Danqing and Yun Mengyin discussed their forbidden biological weapons and their plans for studying the Jade Sage path, while Dongfang Yunqi warned Fu Henghua about Yun Mengyin’s experiments.
• Fu Henghua told the city council that ten Devil Lords would lead the first assault, named nine cultivators to face the trial, and instructed everyone to prioritize survival.
• Fu Henghua met with Southern Continent cultivators, secured their support, and raised a Glazed Lightshield around Profound Origin City.
• Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord and the other Devil Lords assigned their forces to attack the city’s gates, while Young Lord Youxuan and Great Devil Lord Yanxiao joined the preparations.
• Fu Henghua used Demonic Seeds planted in cultivators to observe the enemy and told Red Abyss to help defend the northern and southern routes as the assault neared.

Profound Origin City’s residents and defenders prepared for the demon army’s assault, then fought to protect the city after the meat mountain broke through the Jewel Lotus Glazed Light Shield. Li Ruxin’s group targeted the demon nests, and the Purple Sovereign Pavilion’s three cultivators struck the first one as the battle continued.

• Ke Xiaohong organized the residents into five-person teams, and a heavenly maiden announced that participants in the city defense would earn double merit points.
• Ke Xiaohong led her team into battle after the meat mountain shattered the shield and eighteen demon nests attacked the west gates.
• Li Ruxin used her shadow realm to absorb enemy attacks, then urged her companions to target the demon nests.
• Zhao Ziming and Shu Tianci fought the demon soldiers with their sword arts while Qi Longjiao’s divine winds strengthened Shu Tianci’s flames.
• Yuan Xiao, Fu Maiyuan, and Sha Jinshang combined their Three-Yang Heaven-Severing Art and struck the demon nest before Li Ruxin.

Li Ruxin and Yun Mengyin fought into the demon domain while Fu Henghua’s Jewel Lotus Light Barrier weakened the demonic forces across the battlefields. As the Flesh Mountain attacked the barrier, the Moon Lord’s blood-red moonlight appeared, setting the stage for a strike against Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord.

• Li Ruxin left the western front to attack deeper in the demon domain, and Yun Mengyin joined her, using a transformation mirror and Blood-Sealing Fan against the demonic soldiers.
• Young Lord Youxuan learned that Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord had sent his forces to attack the other gates while keeping his true body hidden from the tribulation.
• Yan Devil Lord halted his east-gate assault after seeing Fu Henghua playing the zither and recognizing Jiuyu High Person’s presence nearby.
• Yang Dai destroyed five demonic nests, then exhausted his magic power; Fu Henghua’s Jewel Lotus Light Barrier spread over the battlefields, healing allies and suppressing demonic qi.
• Li Ruxin and Yun Mengyin reached the heart of the demon domain and poisoned the Flesh Mountain’s defenses, but fled when its enormous eye emerged and attacked the barrier.
• Yun Mengyin urged Li Ruxin to destroy the Flesh Mountain, and blood-red moonlight from the Moon Lord shot toward it.

Dongfang Yunqi’s Blood Moon Venerable shattered the flesh mountain and exposed its core, while Li Ruxin and Qi Longjiao each gained battlefield insights. The attack continued as their allies fought off the demon tide, and Fu Henghua sent Qi Longjiao a Dao tome after her new path took shape.

• Dongfang Yunqi’s Blood Moon Venerable used Blood Moon Devours Heaven to blast the flesh mountain apart, but Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord revealed that its true weakness lay in its star soul in the Soul-Sea Star Heaven.
• Li Ruxin attained enlightenment by evolving the sun and moon, and Yuanshan ordered demon soldiers to attack her as Dongfang Yunqi defended her.
• Yun Mengyin struggled to protect Li Ruxin until Daoist Tian, Zhao Ziming, Shu Tianci, and their allies arrived and cut through the demon forces.
• Qi Longjiao refined the surrounding winds into Yin-Yang divine wind, created Dao Soldiers, and discovered the beginnings of her own Dao.
• Fu Henghua recognized Qi Longjiao’s breakthrough, sent her a Dao tome for the Mysterious Valley Sect, and returned to relaxing in Langhuan Library.

Ke Xiaohong and the Donglai cultivators crossed the Blood Moon Crater and attacked the Flesh Mountain, where Li Ruxin and Yuan Xiao broke through to Grandmasterhood and Fu Maiyuan forged a sun. As the battle continued, Fu Henghua prepared to end the trial, and Sun Dongyang received a golden needle and instructions to resolve the calamity.

• Ke Xiaohong's group cleared the Demon Soldiers and Demonic Nests between the western gate and the Blood Moon Crater, then joined Yuan Xiao and the other cultivators outside the Flesh Mountain.
• Li Ruxin manifested her Sun-Moon Equal Heaven aspect and opened a path through the demon mist, while Yuan Xiao refined his treasures into a Hundred-Treasure Daoist Aspect; both attained Grandmasterhood.
• Yun Mengyin identified the Flesh Mountain's tumors as Demonic Nests, and the cultivators advanced under Li Ruxin's protection to destroy them while fighting the mountain's demon monsters.
• Dongfang Yunqi battled Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord atop the mountain, while Yan Devil Lord and the Grandmasters at the eastern gate hesitated to challenge Fu Henghua's avatar.
• Fu Maiyuan used Yuan Xiao's Mystic Fire Platforms and a Sun-Essence Fusang branch to forge a sun and transform his Dao pellet into a Violet-Gold Solar-Deity Golden Core.
• Sun Dongyang entered the fourth hall of Creation Ninefold Heaven, met Fu Henghua's divine awareness, and received the Returning Yang golden needle with instructions to travel through Beidou and the Southern Dipper before reaching the eastern gate.

Sun Dongyang entered the Northern Dipper Formation with Fu Henghua’s Golden Carriage and Southern Dipper needles, broke the formation, and helped turn the battle at Felling City. He killed Yan Devil Lord with the needles, while the gathered immortals recognized the scale of Fu Henghua’s new Dao arts.

• Fu Henghua bestowed Sun Dongyang with a divine garment, a Golden Carriage, attendants, and a set of golden needles that could break the formation.
• Sun Dongyang entered the Northern Dipper Formation, and the golden needle struck Black Flood Dragon’s weak point, forcing him to flee as the Southern Dipper pillars shattered the formation.
• Yue Jinghan withdrew, while Bu Xuan and the Crimson Abyss cultivators pressed the remaining demons; Sun Dongyang crossed into the Southern Dipper Formation and continued toward the east gate.
• The Crimson Abyss Tribulation Immortals crushed Great Devil Lord Yanxiao’s body, but his demon soul escaped and threatened to burn their sect’s foundation.
• Nine Fish blocked Yan Devil Lord’s escape, and Sun Dongyang’s golden needle pierced him, causing his death through the surge of life force.
• Meng Chen, Canglan Zi, and the Crimson Abyss cultivators identified the needles’ life-stimulating power and discussed how Fu Henghua’s bestowal arts could raise a junior to the level of a Dao God.

After the first wave of assaults on Profound Origin City ended, Fu Henghua and his allies captured several Devil Lords and altered the heavenly count while Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord escaped the calamity. Yuanshan later lent Yan Xiao and Black Flood Dragon experimental treasures for the next attacks, unaware that Fu Henghua’s notes had helped shape the weapons they would use.

• Blood Moon Venerable weakened Demon Mountain as Yan Devil Lord’s death ended the first city assault, while Geng Tai Devil Lord fled and Bodhi Daoist ambushed him with the Heavenly Evil Sword.
• Bodhi Daoist captured Geng Tai and Fan Jin, then brought them to Fu Henghua, who used the Jade Emperor's Edict with Bodhi and Wukong Spirit Soul to alter the heavenly count.
• Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord studied the continent’s fortune and concluded that he had escaped the calamity, while noticing that Geng Tai and Fan Jin’s fortunes had disappeared.
• Black Flood Dragon and wounded Yan Xiao arrived at Yuanshan’s Demon Cavern, where Yuanshan offered support for the next assaults and lent Yan Xiao the Heaven-Burning Square Pot and Black Flood Dragon the Myriad Poisons Treasure.
• Dongfang Yunqi warned the Donglai cultivators that Yan Xiao would lead the second wave with thirty million Fire Crows, while Black Flood Dragon would lead the third wave by flooding Xuanyuan.

Fu Henghua and his allies defended Profound Origin City from Great Devil Lord Yanxiao’s fire-crow assault while Dongfang Yunqi’s snow and Fu Beidou’s Northern Dipper formation countered the flames. Yanxiao’s defeat helped Nangong Lie and Duan Xun advance their cultivation, and Fu Henghua began preparing the next calamities before learning that Fu Xuanhe had emerged from seclusion.

• Great Devil Lord Yanxiao surrounded Profound Origin City with fire crows and demonic fire, while Fu Henghua assigned defenders to the second and third assaults.
• Dongfang Yunqi used two immortal artifacts to summon heavy snow, and Fu Beidou led cultivators to rebuild the Northern Dipper Sword Formation as Lu Zhenzhen and Splendid Madam replaced the city’s materials with Breath Soil.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi watched as the Auspicious Moon Incarnation and Fu Beidou attacked Yanxiao, who lost control of the Heaven-Burning Flame Square Pot and unleashed a firestorm over the city.
• Duan Xun entered the Fire Sea and forged a Golden Crow Sword, while Nangong Lie refined his Twelve Earthly Branch Deities into the Origin Star Great Dao Dharma Form and entered the Grandmaster realm.
• Fu Henghua planned the coming assaults against the remaining demon lineages and considered when to seek help resolving the matter concerning his elder brother.
• A talisman arrived announcing that Fu Xuanhe had emerged from seclusion, so Fu Henghua took Dongfang Yunqi to meet him.

Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanhe prepared to alter the parallel world while Fu Xuanhe defended Profound Origin City from Black Flood Dragon Grand Devil Lord’s third assault. As the flood battle began, Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi remained away, and the chapter ended with the scripture recounting the origins of Red Abyss and Profound Origin.

• Fu Xuanhe used a layered talisman technique to wound Great Devil Lord Yanxiao, and Fu Henghua helped refine Yanxiao’s devil soul in the Heaven-Burning Flame Square Pot.
• Fu Xuanhe shared his ritual formation research, and Fu Henghua proposed destroying the parallel world to fuel their advancement; Fu Xuanhe later agreed to proceed.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi handed the city lord’s seal to Fu Xuanhe and entered seclusion before the third city assault began two months later.
• Black Flood Dragon Grand Devil Lord raised a vast flood to attack Profound Origin City, while Fu Xuanhe rallied the defenders and White Moon Venerable froze the waves and water demons.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi watched from Earthspirit Marsh as the attack unfolded, and Fu Henghua revealed that their group was traveling to the Shen Family to prepare for the fourth assault.

Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi watched Demon Emperor Chiling stir resentment against Crimson Abyss while preparing to exploit the resulting unrest. After the Black Flood Dragon died and the fourth city campaign was assigned to them, they confronted Chiling at the Shen Family, where a rescued Rogue Cultivator attacked the clan and Chiling defended her allies.

• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi heard Southern Continent cultivators condemn Crimson Abyss and discovered that Chiling Devil Palace agents were inciting petitions for peace with the demonic path.
• Demon Emperor Puhe learned that the Black Flood Dragon had been exposed as Profound Origin City's hidden pawn, then received a completed finger for his Nine-Faced Machine God from Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord.
• Donglai cultivators divided the Black Flood Dragon's remains, and Life Lord appointed Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi to lead the fourth city campaign, which would test the human heart.
• After a month of unrest, Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi arrived near the Shen Family, where their boatman charged the clan with a sword while Demon Emperor Chiling confronted the pair and defended A Xingluo.

Demon Emperor Chiling asked Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi to lend her the Heaven-Burning Square Pot so she could burn away the Southern Continent’s people and sever the karmic ties that bound her to the demonic path. As the Shen Family’s banquet revealed growing resentment toward Red Abyss, Chiling proposed waiting fifteen hundred years to see whether Profound Origin City repaid kindness with enmity before deciding whether to destroy the continent.

• Demon Emperor Chiling told Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi she wanted to borrow the Heaven-Burning Square Pot to burn the Southern Continent and kill its inhabitants.
• Chiling explained that she sought the Supreme Realm by severing her past demonic karma, while Dongfang Yunqi rejected her plan and Fu Henghua questioned her reasoning.
• Chiling argued that the Southern Continent’s people had repeatedly betrayed their benefactors and used the Shen Family’s banquet to show how Lineages were turning against Red Abyss.
• At the banquet, Shen Ping and other Shen Family members encouraged resentment among the Lineages toward Red Abyss and Profound Origin City.
• Chiling proposed a wager with Fu Henghua: if Profound Origin City became unrecognizable and its people repaid kindness with enmity after fifteen hundred years, he should lend her the Square Pot.

Fu Henghua, Dongfang Yunqi, and Demon Emperor Chiling agreed on a future oath concerning Profound Origin City and punishment for sinners, while Yan Dongfeng exposed the Shen Family’s alleged collusion with the demonic path. The chapter left Yan committed to helping Profound Origin City uphold its ideals after Heng Hua and Yunqi departed.

• Dongfang Yunqi rejected Chiling’s proposal to burn an entire continent and proposed sending unforgivable sinners to Infinite Hell, while Heng Hua suggested using the Shen Family as an example.
• Yan Dongfeng stormed the Shen Family palace, accused Shen Ping of betraying him and colluding with the demonic path, and fought his way out with eighteen captives, though Shen Ping escaped.
• Yan Dongfeng refused to join the Lineage cultivators traveling to Crimson Abyss, condemned their self-interest, and later returned with the captives to Heng Hua, Yunqi, and Chiling.
• Chiling killed one captive and proposed burning guilty people before sending their souls to Avici Hell, while Yunqi insisted sinners should atone and Heng Hua reconciled their plans.
• Heng Hua, Yunqi, and Chiling swore that Chiling could borrow Square Pot to punish guilty citizens if Profound Origin City decayed within fifteen hundred years, and Heng Hua urged Yan Dongfeng to protect the city’s future.

Fu Henghua used Beastheart Pills to expose the Shen Family cultivators’ inner natures and crimes, then sent them toward Red Peak in a humiliating procession. He and Dongfang Yunqi sailed off to meet a skilled shadow-puppet cultivator.

• Dongfang Yunqi asked Fu Henghua for the Three-Headed Sky Hound, and Henghua gave it to her.
• Fu Henghua made the Shen Family cultivators swallow Beastheart Pills, transforming them according to their inner natures and explaining the pills’ relationship to Sageheart Pills.
• The Demon Emperor Chiling tried a Beastheart Pill and recognized that the paired pills could help cultivators cultivate good and evil incarnations and purify their Dao hearts.
• Fu Henghua ordered Yan Dongfeng to parade the transformed Shen Family cultivators toward Red Peak with placards listing their past crimes.
• Fu Henghua sent Yan Dongfeng ahead, then sailed with Dongfang Yunqi to seek a prodigious shadow-puppet cultivator.

Fu Henghua visited Shang Shuliang at Shadowlong Studio, offered him a way to restore his wife and the other human-skin puppets, and taught him the Shadow-Puppet Immortal Art. He left Shang with a script for a performance at Red Peak that would publicly recount the Southern cultivators’ betrayal forty thousand years earlier.

• Fu Henghua, Dongfang Yunqi, and Demon Emperor Chiling arrived at Shadowlong Studio, where Fu Henghua recognized the maidservants as human-skin puppets and identified Shang Shuliang’s mastery of a domain.
• Shang Shuliang activated his puppet marionettes, but Fu Henghua seized control of them and requested a set of puppets and a performance for the day after tomorrow.
• Fu Henghua offered Shang the Life-Hanging Puppet Threads and promised to settle his dealings with Yuanshan Grand Devil Lord and give Shang’s wife and puppets real bodies.
• Fu Henghua taught Shang the Shadow-Puppet Immortal Art, demonstrated how shadow plays could aid cultivation, and helped Shang break through his Foundation Establishment bottleneck.
• Fu Henghua explained the art’s techniques and handed Shang a script; Dongfang Yunqi and Demon Emperor Chiling saw that it would dramatize the Southern cultivators’ betrayal and be performed at Red Peak.

Yan Dongfeng took Shen Chunyin toward Red Peak while Fu Bozhao and Fu Yaozhen pressured Southern Continent families to expose their collusion with Crimson Abyss. Qiu Danyu learned that Fu Yaozhen had foreseen her own death and was unwilling to save herself at the cost of others, leaving her fate unresolved as Fu Henghua’s influence continued to threaten her.

• Yan Dongfeng showed cultivators the names of those killed after the Shen Family’s dealings with the demonic path, and several family members joined his journey to Red Peak.
• Fu Bozhao and Fu Bolao confronted the family heads at Heavenfeather Mountain, where Fu Yaozhen exposed their secret dealings and the Fu Family threatened to hand over evidence to Crimson Abyss.
• Fu Yaozhen showed Qiu Danyu the vision of her death in Fu Xuanxing’s arms and explained that she had seen it since childhood but could not bring herself to kill him as an infant.
• Fu Yaozhen revealed that she would use her Revival-from-Death Talisman to save someone, even though other futures in which she kept it led to deaths among her allies.
• Qiu Danyu recalled the disastrous consequences of her own attempt to disrupt the future and learned how much Fu Yaozhen had sacrificed by repeatedly narrowing possibilities.
• Fu Yaozhen said she had not told Fu Henghua about her situation, and that Dongfang Yunqi’s intervention had eased the pressure she bore from him.