Recaps

Si Ming fought the great families’ chosen challenger, an exceptionally ugly man with profound internal cultivation, while concealing his physical strength. He repeatedly attacked with saber Qi, leaving his opponent puzzled when he simply switched hands after exhausting one.

• Si Ming refused the usual arrangement of three matches followed by a final trump-card battle and declared that he would fight the sixth match himself.
• The great families hesitated to challenge Si Ming after seeing Si Shuiyun’s strength, until an ugly man volunteered and warned them their chances of winning were slim.
• Si Ming and the ugly man climbed to the cliff above the waterfall, where Si Ming asked why the man was fighting for the great families; the man said he was interested in him.
• The ugly man tested Si Ming with a palm strike, and they discovered that the challenger’s internal cultivation was much deeper.
• Si Ming hid his divine strength and repeatedly sent True Yang Vermilion Blaze Saber Qi at the man, who blocked each wave with finger Qi.
• When the ugly man thought Si Ming’s True Qi was nearly spent, Si Ming switched hands and continued attacking.

Si Ming overwhelmed his disguised opponent with repeated blade Qi attacks but abandoned their duel after learning that the Monster Race was targeting Hongdou. His opponent revealed himself as a handsome monk, while monsters created chaos below by burying members of the great families beneath an earthen wall.

• Si Ming exhausted the ugly man's True Qi with repeated uses of Thousand Blades Scorching the Plains and shattered his Golden Bell Cover.
• The ugly man warned Si Ming that the Monster Race was targeting Hongdou because only the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's blood relatives could kill him permanently.
• Si Ming stopped fighting and leaped off the cliff, pulling the ugly man down with him.
• Si Ming demanded that the ugly man remove his mask, revealing a handsome, bald monk.
• The Monster Race attacked the great families to create an opening to approach Hongdou, burying most of their gathered members beneath a massive earthen wall.

Anomalies attacked the gathered martial artists, and Si Shuiyun organized the Heavenly Martial Alliance's response while Hongdou fought off a series of assaults. Hongdou crushed a gigantic centipede with her Dragging Star-Piercing Seal, but a needle-wasp and shadow-wolf immediately attacked her.

• Trees, flowers, fruits, and the earth turned into anomalies and attacked the nearby martial artists, throwing the gathering into chaos.
• Si Shuiyun silenced the arguing alliance members, sent Duan Jinsu and Feng Liancheng to help the great families, and ordered the others to hold their positions.
• Needles rained from above, then the gathered people's shadows became snakes and beasts that targeted Hongdou; Si Shuiyun and Hongdou fought them off.
• A gigantic centipede erupted from the ground and lunged at Hongdou, while Wuguo blocked its charge and was injured.
• Hongdou used the Dragging Star-Piercing Seal to compress the centipede into a ball, but a giant needle-wasp and a shadow-wolf attacked her as she called out the Blazing Sun Heavenly Saber.

Si Ming and Xilai defeated the attackers and settled the contest in the Heavenly Martial Alliance’s favor, forcing the aristocratic families to honor their wager. Xilai asked to speak with Si Ming privately, but Si Ming remained wary of his reputation for attracting disaster and demanded a better explanation.

• Si Ming killed the needle wasp, while Xilai burned the shadow wolf to ash, then Si Ming defeated Xilai according to the contest’s rules.
• Xilai healed Master Wuguo, advised him about his cultivation, and introduced himself to Si Ming as Xilai, known as Calamity Tathāgata.
• Gu Changsheng publicly accepted the aristocratic families’ defeat and pledged to honor their wager with the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Xilai observed that Si Ming had used the contest’s delay to expand the alliance’s territory and surround the Zhang, Chen, and Gu families.
• Xilai asked to speak with Si Ming privately, but Si Ming refused because of Xilai’s reputation for bringing disaster and challenged him to convince him in one sentence.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu questioned Xilai about the Glazed Temple’s offer to help them return to the Sea Continent. Xilai admitted the temple had helped Illusion Ji escape the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and had considered directing the Spirit King’s invasion toward the Sea Continent.

• Si Ming learned that Xilai was a gifted but controversial monk whose claims about the Sea Continent came from observing the Heavenly Martial Alliance and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s earlier attempt to open a passage.
• Xilai explained that the Glazed Temple had a space-time treasure, but needed a special ritual to locate the Sea Continent, and Si Jingyu deduced that the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King held the ritual method.
• Si Jingyu asked whether Xilai had helped Illusion Ji reach the Sea Continent, and Xilai admitted that he had.
• Si Jingyu accused the Glazed Temple of encouraging the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s invasion, and Xilai admitted that the temple had considered diverting the threat eastward.
• Xilai argued that the Eternal Barrier would strip the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King of his supernatural powers and immortality, while Si Ming rejected his appeal to understand the temple’s desperation.
• Xilai said he had opposed the plan but that his senior martial uncles had insisted on it, while Si Ming watched him with hostility.

Si Ming questioned Xilai about the Glazed Temple’s failed plan and the Kings of Monsters, learning why the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King sought the Sea Continent and how the Anye Beast King revived. Xilai asked Hongdou to help kill the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, but Si Ming defended her choice and secured Xilai’s promise that the Glazed Temple would not force her.

• Si Ming punched Xilai as punishment, then asked how the Glazed Temple planned to seal the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, and Xilai described the Tower of Sealing as a deterrent.
• Xilai explained the Glazed Temple’s centuries of losses against the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and revealed that the invasion plan had sought to draw him into the Sea Continent.
• Xilai described the Anye Beast King’s temperament and resurrection, saying that even destroying his body only delayed his return.
• Xilai asked Hongdou to help rid the world of the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, but Si Ming said she should not be pressured to kill her grandfather.
• Xilai promised that the Glazed Temple would not force Hongdou to do anything against her will.

Si Ming, Hongdou, and Xilai traveled toward the Glazed Temple while Xilai explained his inheritance and weighed whether to ask Hongdou for help against the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King. Xilai diverted them to Dragon Gate Temple to confront the Buddha-Slaying Monk, but upon arrival he killed a monk at the gate, leaving Si Ming wary of him.

• Si Ming asked Xilai about reincarnation, and Xilai explained the Nirvana Heart Seal and revealed it was his secret lineage inheritance.
• Xilai considered whether Hongdou could be persuaded to risk her life against the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, then decided to change their destination.
• Xilai told Si Ming about the Buddha-Slaying Monk and said he might attack Dragon Gate Temple; Si Ming agreed to help stop him.
• The three hurried to Dragon Gate Temple, where Si Ming sensed no fighting or blood before they entered.
• Xilai suddenly cut down the monk sweeping the temple entrance, and Si Ming stepped in front of Hongdou and watched him warily.

Xilai explained that the Glazed Temple had created the Buddha-Slaying Monk as bait to draw the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King into a trap, after Dragon Gate Temple’s monks willingly died at his hands. Si Ming agreed to join the operation, though Hongdou remained troubled by the sacrifice.

• Xilai killed all 103 monks of Dragon Gate Temple, including its abbot, as part of the Glazed Temple’s plan.
• Xilai told Si Ming and Hongdou that the Buddha-Slaying Monk was meant to earn the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s trust and lure him into a trap.
• Xilai explained that the Glazed Temple had informants among the Monster Race and had identified traitors within its own ranks to feed them false information.
• Hongdou questioned why the Glazed Temple had sacrificed its own monks instead of using a Monster Race spy as bait, but Xilai could not persuade her.
• Si Ming agreed to help eliminate the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, despite disagreeing with Xilai’s methods.

Si Ming agreed to help the Glazed Temple disguise himself as the Buddha-Slaying Monk and learned several of its supreme arts. By the time he reached the Glazed Temple, he had mastered the Brahma Sea Asura Art in five days, astonishing Xilai.

• Si Ming agreed to help the Glazed Temple mislead the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King by impersonating the Buddha-Slaying Monk.
• Si Ming chose to learn the Brahma Sea Asura Art and the Tathagata Dharma Body, while Xilai explained the risks and difficulty of the temple's supreme arts.
• Si Ming began cultivating the Brahma Sea Asura Art during the journey and briefly struggled to control the surge of his demonic nature.
• Si Ming reached minor accomplishment on the third day and learned to restrain his demonic nature without help.
• Si Ming mastered the Brahma Sea Asura Art on the fifth day, and Xilai was stunned that Si Ming had surpassed his record.

Si Ming reached the Glazed Temple with Xilai and Hongdou, tested the newly mastered Brahma Sea Asura Art by stopping a runaway ma, and learned how its power worked. After Xilai explained why similar martial arts did not simply stack, Si Ming began considering whether techniques from other races could help him grow stronger.

• Xilai pointed out that the Glazed Temple was five li ahead as the group approached its vast grounds.
• Si Ming stopped a runaway ma with the Asura Divine Power and saved a fallen child from being trampled.
• Xilai explained that the Asura Divine Power was still developing and that it strengthened the bloodline rather than the flesh.
• Si Ming asked whether combining the Brahma Sea Asura Art with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability could multiply his strength, and Xilai explained that overlapping training methods diminished their effects.
• Xilai said the two ultimate arts trained different aspects of the body, and Si Ming considered learning martial arts from other races to bypass human limits.

Si Ming challenged Abbot Fahong over whether the Pure Land Dharma Gate taught the true Dharma or encouraged delusion, and Fahong ended their discussion and sent Xilai to guide Si Ming and Hongdou to the Scripture Repository. On the way, they reached Sweet Dew Terrace and saw thousands of warrior monks training.

• Xilai introduced Si Ming and Hongdou to Abbot Fahong, who thanked Si Ming for offering help against the Monster Race.
• Fahong invited Si Ming to discuss Buddhist principles, and Si Ming argued that the Dharma should be understood rather than believed as an idle claim.
• Si Ming criticized the Pure Land Dharma Gate for promising rebirth through recitation while failing to explain the Dharma, and warned that its teachings resembled Māra's way.
• Fahong ended the debate, left for the Bodhi Courtyard, and told Xilai to take Si Ming to the Scripture Repository.
• Xilai guided Si Ming and Hongdou through the temple, where they saw about three thousand warrior monks practicing Arhat Fist at Sweet Dew Terrace.

Si Ming challenged Xilai and Master Fajian to follow the Buddha’s example of tolerance, arguing against reverence that demanded protection from criticism. After defeating Fajian in a brief exchange of martial arts, Si Ming left him struggling to answer whether he would learn the Buddha’s magnanimity.

• Xilai asked Si Ming for guidance about finding his own path in Buddhist teachings, and Si Ming urged him to rely on his own cultivation rather than worship Buddhas or patriarchs.
• Master Fajian confronted Si Ming for insulting the Buddha and demanded an apology.
• Fajian attacked with the Mighty Vajra Palm, but Si Ming countered with the Asura World-Annihilating Saber and then trapped Fajian’s Mighty Vajra Finger using the Ruyi Illusory Demon Hand.
• Xilai introduced Master Fajian as the disciplinary court head and Sima Liang as the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader, and Fajian acknowledged that Si Ming had held back.
• Si Ming asked Fajian whether he would learn the Buddha’s magnanimity, then told him to endure and ignore those who insulted him.

Si Ming claimed he could prove his Buddha-like wisdom by mastering the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability in five days, then studied the Glazed Temple’s martial arts. Five days later, he demonstrated the ability to Master Fajian, who confirmed that Si Ming had learned its power, though it was still immature.

• Si Ming told Master Fajian he would prove his claim to Buddha-like wisdom by learning the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability in five days.
• Si Ming joked with Xilai and Hongdou about becoming a Buddha before following Xilai to the scripture repository.
• Xilai explained the Glazed Pure Body’s abilities and its requirement for a pure yin constitution, prompting Si Ming to consider whether Si Jingyu could learn it.
• Si Ming examined the Tathagata Dharma Body and discovered that it required refining 129,600 acupoints.
• Five days later, Si Ming tested his power against Master Fajian, who recognized it as Vajra Demon-Subduing Power.

The Glazed Temple monks accepted Si Ming into the Pupil Extermination Plan after learning how rapidly he had mastered the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability. Si Ming demonstrated that merging its power with Asura Divine Power created a force ten times stronger, but the explosion injured his palm, leaving the monks debating how he could use it safely.

• Faming recounted how the late Chengkong had mastered the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability in six years and three months, while Fajian said it had taken him more than thirteen years.
• Fajian estimated that Si Ming needed another three months for his Vajra Demon-Subduing Power to fully form, and Fahong asked the monks whether they still opposed including him in the Pupil Extermination Plan.
• The monks agreed to invite Si Ming to help, and Fahong asked him to demonstrate what happened when Vajra Demon-Subduing Power merged with Asura Divine Power.
• Si Ming combined the two forces and struck a bronze incense burner, splitting it with an explosive, piercing blast that Fajian and Faming safely deflected.
• Si Ming said the merged force was ten times as strong as the original, but revealed that the small amount he had used had mangled his palm because he feared his body could not withstand the power.
• The monks debated whether Si Ming could merge and release the forces outside his body to avoid harming himself.

Si Ming accompanied the Glazed Temple monks to Sarira Hall after Fahai warned him that openly spreading his unorthodox views on Buddhist teachings could unsettle ordinary people. There, Hongdou described how much she enjoyed her stay, while Faji revealed that her extraordinary good fortune might protect her from calamities unless she sought danger herself.

• Fahai explained that ordinary people might mistake Si Ming's correct but unconventional ideas for nonsense, and Si Ming agreed not to turn the dispute into a wider conflict.
• Fahai left Si Ming, Fahong, and Faji on their way to Sarira Hall, where they met Hongdou and Si Ming asked how she had enjoyed her stay.
• Hongdou praised the temple's quiet surroundings and architecture, and Fahong complimented her for knowing her own path without needing Buddhist teachings.
• Faji said Hongdou had survived the greatest tribulation of her life and would enjoy abundant good fortune that could spare her from luck-related dangers.
• Faji offered Si Ming the Unconventional Practice of Form and Emptiness, which Si Ming recognized as a dual cultivation method and said he might borrow.

Si Ming used the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye to project his consciousness back to Minggui Orphanage, hoping to contact his old friends. He found Yao Bilian in his room and struggled to keep his spiritual projection stable as she teased him.

• Faji showed Si Ming the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye and explained how it could open a passage through space and time using the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's ritual.
• Si Ming activated the eye and projected his consciousness into the main hall of Minggui Orphanage.
• Si Ming heard a noise upstairs and discovered Yao Bilian with another woman in his room.
• Yao Bilian heard Si Ming's voice, apologized for using his room, and then teased him about seeing her naked.
• Si Ming's agitation blurred the projection, so he steadied his emotions while Yao Bilian put on her underwear.

Si Ming used the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye to contact Yao Bilian and reassure his friends that he was safe on the Barbarian Continent. After returning to the Glazed Temple, he learned the Tower of Sealing would remain closed for now and continued cultivating while trying to remember someone he had forgotten to ask about.

• Yao Bilian told Si Ming that his friends had resumed their lives, and that Murong Qing had withdrawn from the Martial Dao League to search for him and concluded he had traveled through space and time.
• Si Ming asked Yao Bilian to tell his master and friends that he was safe, and they arranged to speak again in three months.
• Si Ming returned the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye to Fahong and Faji, who said the Tower of Sealing could not yet be opened.
• Si Ming told Hongdou about his conversation with Yao Bilian, then realized he had forgotten to ask about someone.
• Si Ming practiced the Vajra Demon-Subduing Divine Ability, the Brahma Sea Asura Art, and the Tathagata Dharma Body.

Si Ming trained with Xilai and prepared to impersonate a Glazed Temple disciple under the Dharma name Wutian. Abbot Fahong then brought Si Ming and Hongdou to the Tower of Sealing, where a formation transported them to a desolate landscape.

• Si Ming sparred with Xilai, using Buddhist saber arts and suppressing him even when Xilai used his Asura Divine Power.
• Xilai judged Si Ming ready to pose as the Buddha-Slaying Monk and suggested he take a name from the Wu generation; Si Ming chose Wutian.
• Si Ming considered the incomplete Sea-Upholding Demon Dragon Art and its lack of training methods.
• Abbot Fahong invited Si Ming and Hongdou to see the Tower of Sealing, and they joined Abbot Faji and other monks at a formation.
• The monks activated the formation, and Si Ming, Hongdou, Fahong, and Faji arrived in a desolate place that Si Ming suspected was reached by spatial teleportation.

Si Ming learned that the Glazed Temple’s Ling-generation monks sacrificed their lives to operate the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and hold back the Black Tide. As the tide continued to threaten the Barbarian Continent, Hongdou questioned the monks about their sacrifice, and an old monk affirmed their duty to protect those who came after them.

• Si Ming asked Fahong whether the Black Tide drained vitality, and Fahong explained that it harmed both body and mind.
• Xilai described entering the Black Tide and returning exhausted after half a day, despite his Glazed Pure Body.
• Si Ming argued that the Black Tide’s source should eventually be addressed, but Fahong said the Glazed Temple had to defeat the Monster Race first.
• Si Ming considered how the Monster Race might also need to resist the Black Tide to survive.
• Hongdou asked an old monk whether his sacrifice was worthwhile, and he said each generation had a duty to protect those who followed.

Hongdou agreed to help the Glazed Temple kill the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, while Si Ming set out in disguise as a monk to make Wutian famous. On the way to the besieged Alan Temple, he encountered two inexperienced monks heading into danger and followed them into a suspicious mountain inn.

• Xilai defended the old monks’ sacrifice, and Si Ming listened as they shared stories about their lives and families.
• Hongdou agreed to deliver the final blow against the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, and Fahong promised the temple would create an opening for her.
• Si Ming told Xilai he would set out to make Wutian famous, then disguised himself as a Glazed Temple monk after shaving his head.
• On the road to the Alan Temple, Si Ming met a young monk and nun who were secretly following their master toward the fighting, and he warned them about the danger.
• The pair entered an isolated inn without suspicion, so Si Ming followed them in to keep them safe.

Si Ming saw through an inn's Otherworld Domain and exposed a pig monster hiding among the guests and food. After rescuing Zhenmian and Zhenruo from its attack, he warned them to flee, but the two novices insisted on staying to fight beside him.

• Zhenmian and Zhenruo entered the crowded inn, believing its guests were martial artists bound for Alan Temple.
• Si Ming used his Vajra Demon-Subduing Power to see that the guests were dead and the inn's roast pigs contained human bodies.
• Si Ming called for the inn's owner, and the owner's disguise broke to reveal a pig monster when it opened its huge mouth.
• The pig monster attacked Zhenmian and Zhenruo with a rake, but Si Ming redirected its strike and blasted it through three walls with a Mighty Vajra Palm.
• Si Ming told the two novices to run, but Zhenmian and Zhenruo said they would stay and advance or retreat with him.

Si Ming defeated the pig monster by breaking his Otherworld Domain and crushing the Wild Boar King, then planned to clear the Monster Race’s ambushes. At Alan Temple, the Monster Race besieged the temple and displayed captured women, including the Xiaoxiang Fairy, as food and prey.

• Si Ming gave Zhenmian and Zhenruo room to fight off the attacking corpses while he battled the pig monster.
• Si Ming shattered the Otherworld Domain with Dragon-Elephant Stomp, removing the pig monster’s instant regeneration.
• The pig monster transformed into a Wild Boar King and charged, but Si Ming’s Vajra Demon Subjugation killed him.
• Si Ming told Zhenmian they would turn the Monster Race’s encirclement tactic against them by clearing its ambushes one by one.
• At Alan Temple, the Monster Race surrounded the temple with Otherworld Domains and taunted the monks by cooking human flesh outside its gates.
• The bull-headed monster brought six captured Lingering Waves Palace disciples before the monsters and identified their leader as the Xiaoxiang Fairy.

Man Xiong tortured Lingering Waves Palace disciples to pressure Mu Boxue and lure Alan Temple into a fight, but Abbot Fajue kept the temple’s forces inside. Outside the encirclement, Si Ming watched with rescued martial artists after wiping out the Monster Race’s ambushes and reaching level ten in Internal Cultivation.

• Man Xiong ordered Lingering Waves Palace disciples tortured and killed to make Mu Boxue beg for mercy, but she refused and eventually pierced her own eardrums to spare the last disciples further torment.
• Man Xiong killed the two remaining disciples, seized Mu Boxue, and demanded that Alan Temple come out to save Xiaoxiang Fairy.
• Abbot Fajue refused to send out the temple’s forces, explaining that the monsters were baiting them into an ambush, and sealed a monk’s acupoints when he tried to rescue Mu Boxue alone.
• Si Ming and the martial artists he had rescued watched the battlefield from beyond the Monster Race’s encirclement after he destroyed the enemy ambushes and raised his Internal Cultivation to level ten.

Si Ming led the martial heroes to break the siege of Alan Temple and attacked the monsters with overwhelming force, while Man Xiong tried to stop him by taking Mu Boxue hostage. The chapter ended with Si Ming swinging his saber toward Man Xiong and Mu Boxue without hesitation.

• Si Ming agreed to attack the monsters first and told the martial heroes to follow him toward Alan Temple.
• Si Ming used Dragon-Elephant Stomp to shatter the monsters’ strange domains, then cut down many monsters with the Crimson Blood Divine Blade.
• Man Xiong pursued Si Ming, but Si Ming dodged his attacks and continued slaughtering the monster soldiers.
• Man Xiong grabbed Mu Boxue and threatened to kill her, then crushed her arm when Si Ming refused to stop.
• Si Ming answered Mu Boxue’s plea with “All right!” and slashed his saber Qi toward Man Xiong and the hostage.

Si Ming, posing as the Glazed Temple monk Wutian, helped rout the strange race and pursued Man Xiong, who had tried to flee. Si Ming overwhelmed Man Xiong with the Tiger-Subduing Blade Technique, but Man Xiong’s Fierce Spirit Devil Roar broke through Si Ming’s counterattack.

• Man Xiong threw Mu Boxue at Si Ming’s blade Qi, but Si Ming redirected it, severing Mu Boxue’s injured arm before saving her and restoring her cultivation.
• Si Ming’s rescued martial heroes and the monks of Alan Temple attacked the strange race from both sides, forcing its fighters to retreat.
• Man Xiong tried to escape, but Si Ming caught up with him and revealed that he was faster than Man Xiong had expected.
• Si Ming overpowered Man Xiong with the Tiger-Subduing Blade Technique, drawing blood and driving him back.
• Man Xiong unleashed Fierce Spirit Devil Roar, and its sound waves broke Si Ming’s Kui Drum Thunder Sound.