Recaps

Si Ming and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King traded ultimate attacks until the Spirit King exploited his faster recovery and broke through the formation’s suppression. With help from Yan Jinghong’s sword seal and a holy sword sent through a space-time rift, Si Ming badly wounded him and Hongdou struck him with the Crimson Blood Divine Blade, but the Spirit King began transforming into a stronger form.

• Si Ming and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King exchanged powerful attacks, and Si Ming realized his opponent recovered faster because the formation suppressed but had not reduced his level-twenty cultivation.
• The Spirit King briefly broke through the formation’s suppression and launched a devastating ultimate move, while Si Ming prepared the Feng and Shan Sacrifice Sword Technique.
• A woman in plain white opened a space-time rift with the Mohist School’s holy sword, and the young woman beside her, wearing the Black Tortoise’s Profound Armor, raced through it toward Si Ming’s sword seal.
• The holy sword’s Sword Qi merged with Si Ming’s attack and shattered the Spirit King’s blade strike, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Hongdou emerged from a golden lotus and pierced the Spirit King’s chest with the Crimson Blood Divine Blade, but his wounds began swelling as his presence grew stronger.

Si Ming faced the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s monstrous second form after the Spirit King’s self-destruction weakened the Buddhist formation. Si Jingyu took control of Hongdou’s body to help him fight, while Zhu Mei moved to breach the formation from outside.

• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King transformed into a huge mass of flesh and tried to drag Hongdou with him, but a girl emerging from a rift froze his tentacles and freed her.
• The Spirit King stabbed himself with the Purple Primal Emperor Slash and exploded, destroying the Crimson Blood Divine Blade and severely weakening the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation.
• The Spirit King emerged in a monster form with level-nineteen Internal Cultivation, and the girl agreed to guard the formation while Si Ming confronted him.
• Si Jingyu revealed she had mastered the first step of the Dustless and Stainless Glazed Pure Body and was possessing Hongdou, then proposed that she lead the attack while Si Ming defended.
• Outside the formation, Zhu Mei forced back Lingde and Linghui and charged toward the weakened barrier, but the girl stepped out and fired a snake-shaped cannon at her.

A young woman used the Profound Ice Cannon and her sword to defeat the Monster Race judge and Pan E. At the Glazed Temple’s west gate, the monks struggled to hold off Ghost Chariot, Wu Da, and Henzhen as the battle continued.

• The young woman froze Zhu Mei with the Profound Ice Cannon and drew a line to keep the Monster Race forces back.
• The young woman severed the ox-bodied judge’s head, then froze and shattered his body when he tried to reattach it.
• Pan E charged through the Arhat Demon-Subduing Formation and attacked the young woman, who pierced his old wound and froze him from within before shattering him.
• Ghost Chariot, Wu Da, and Henzhen led their forces against the Glazed Temple’s west gate, where Abbot Fahong and the monks struggled to defend themselves.
• Ghost Chariot’s three heads argued while he fought, and Fahong retreated for treatment as Faji took his place.

Xilai arrived at the Glazed Temple’s battlefield, rescued Fahong and Fashan from Wu Da, and revealed that he had accepted heaven’s mandate. After promising his master that a successor would inherit his mantle, he tried to persuade Henzhen to take his hand, then sacrificed his blood to raise a vast wall separating the human and Monster Race forces.

• Fahong ordered the Medicine King Hall disciples to treat only critically wounded fighters, while Wu Da appeared and revealed he had poisoned the other disciples.
• Xilai destroyed Wu Da’s poisonous smoke python and struck Wu Da down with a Buddhist seal, then told Fahong and Fashan to leave Wu Da to him.
• Xilai told Fahong that a successor would inherit his mantle and asked him to protect her; Fahong agreed, and Xilai took leave of his seniors.
• At the western gate, Xilai attacked the Monster Race and told Henzhen he had come to bring her salvation, but she insisted their opposing positions made conflict unavoidable.
• Ghost Chariot attacked Xilai with Ferocious Spirit Evil Slash, and Xilai used his blood and Buddhist Qi to raise a towering mountain wall that divided the battlefield.

Xilai held the Sumeru Qi Wall against the monsters’ assault while the monks helped stabilize it, and Great Snake stopped Wu Da from interfering in the battle. Inside the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation, the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King unleashed his power as Si Ming and Si Jingyu fought him.

• Xilai endured the monsters’ attacks to maintain the Sumeru Qi Wall, and the Glazed Temple monks joined him in supplying True Qi.
• Henzhen tried to stop the fighting, struck Ghost Chariot, and a bell from the Glazed Temple calmed most of the monsters.
• Great Snake revealed himself to Wu Da and persuaded him to wait rather than release poison against the Spirit King’s side.
• An explosion weakened the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation, allowing the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s overwhelming presence to emerge.
• Si Ming blocked the Spirit King’s Depleting Divine Light with Sword Qi, then attacked his protective Qi shield without breaking through.
• Si Jingyu used Space-Shuttling Slash to wound the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King despite his shield.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu fought the Monster Spirit King, coordinating their attacks to overcome his protective barrier and rapid healing. Si Jingyu wounded him with a lingering palm strike, and Si Ming prepared a powerful Solar Flare as the Monster Spirit King trapped her.

• Si Jingyu and Si Ming combined their divine arts and attacks, but the Monster Spirit King’s protective Qi barrier and rapid recovery withstood them.
• Si Jingyu defended Si Ming from the Monster Spirit King’s attacks while he used Solar Prominence Eruption and Vajra Gate to smash the barrier.
• Si Jingyu used A World Away Within Inches and Si Ming used Light Lotus Seal to evade the Monster Spirit King’s devil blade and reposition behind him.
• Si Jingyu struck the Monster Spirit King with Meridian-Shattering Goosefoot Heart Palm, damaging his body and hindering his recovery.
• The Monster Spirit King trapped Si Jingyu with tentacles and prepared to fire Depleting Divine Light, as Si Ming emerged behind her and unleashed his modified Solar Flare.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu battled the Monster Spirit King, while the Spirit King tried to manipulate Hongdou into stopping them. The chapter ended with Si Jingyu revealing her trick and unleashing the Dragging Star-Piercing Seal at full force.

• Si Ming blinded the Monster Spirit King with Solar Flare, and Si Jingyu struck him with the Dragging Star-Piercing Seal while Si Ming restrained him with Six Paths Fall Together.
• The Monster Spirit King battered Si Ming with waves of the Power of Anomalies, but Si Ming endured and urged Si Jingyu to keep attacking.
• Si Jingyu pushed the seal beyond its limits as Si Ming entered Solar Prominence Eruption and refused to release the Spirit King.
• The Monster Spirit King appealed to Hongdou's family ties and promised to retire, causing Hongdou to weaken her power.
• Hongdou asked the Spirit King to die, and Si Jingyu revealed her deception and restored the seal's full force.

After the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King fell, Hongdou inherited part of his origin power and awakened as a peak Spirit Transformation Grandmaster. The battlefield celebrated the victory, but the Anye Beast King escaped, leaving Wan Yebai and the others to reckon with the cost of pursuing him.

• Si Jingyu destroyed the Monster Spirit King's final form, and the origin power left behind empowered Hongdou.
• Si Jingyu left to tell the others that the Spirit King was dead, while Si Ming lost consciousness beside Hongdou.
• The monks celebrated the Spirit King's death, and some monsters fled the battlefield.
• The Anye Beast King revealed that he had killed his blood relatives to guard against the prophecy and broke free from Wan Yebai's formation.
• Yansheng pursued the escaping Beast King and lost his right arm to a saber strike.
• Wan Yebai rebuked Yansheng for risking more lives, warning that defeating the Beast King would demand a heavy price.

After the Spirit King’s death, Xilai stopped the monks from pursuing the fleeing monsters and prepared to settle the karma of his own past crimes. As resentful ghosts attacked him, he explained that good deeds could not erase the harm he had caused.

• Wan Yebai said his disciple’s severed hand could only be regrown by a Grandmaster, then declared that the Eastern Martial World was next.
• Xilai urged the monsters to leave and warned them to obey the law, and Ghost Chariot fled east with its followers.
• Xilai blocked the warrior monks from chasing the monsters, even as a young monk vowed to avenge Jueyong and Jueheng.
• Xilai, near collapse, asked Henzhen to accompany him, then went to a withered bodhi tree to release the souls he had trapped while completing the Thousand Buddha Blood Sacrifice.
• Most of the ghosts forgave Xilai and departed, while the remaining vengeful ghosts attacked him as he accepted responsibility for his past actions.

After Xilai freed the ghosts and passed on the Heart Seal Lineage, Henzhen took possession of his body and entered the Glazed Temple as a new disciple. Meanwhile, Si Ming recovered from his battle with the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King as Murong Qing prepared the group’s return to the Sea Continent, leaving him to face both the journey home and the college entrance exam.

• Xilai sacrificed his essence blood to free the ghosts, passed the Nirvana Heart Seal inheritance to Henzhen, and returned to the Nine Springs.
• Henzhen merged with Xilai’s corpse, reshaped it to resemble herself, and joined the Glazed Temple as a disciple seeking salvation for a member of the Monster Race.
• Si Ming recuperated at the Heavenly Martial Alliance headquarters, where the Glazed Temple treated him and gave him the Wheel-Turning King Sword.
• Murong Qing told Si Ming that preparations to return to the Sea Continent were nearly complete and that Si Jingyu’s divine connection could replace the depleted Aniruddha Heavenly Eye.
• Murong Qing explained that the group had the ritual diagram and would use a hundred death-row prisoners to open the spacetime passage.
• Si Ming realized he might return in time for the college entrance exam, and Murong Qing offered to help him study while Si Jingyu objected that it could hinder his recovery.

Si Jingyu and Murong Qing argued over whether Si Ming should use his connections to gain university admission, while Si Ming recovered from his injuries and discussed the return journey with Hualiu. The chapter ended the volume with Hualiu choosing to follow Si Ming, then previewed a parallel-world battle at the Seven Stars Palace.

• Murong Qing argued that Si Ming should qualify for university admission openly, while Si Jingyu favored using his strength and connections to secure a place.
• Si Jingyu and Murong Qing continued arguing as Si Ming tried to speak, but both told him to stay quiet and recover.
• Hualiu asked Si Ming whether they were leaving the Barbarian Continent, and he explained that Hongdou could eventually stabilize a spacetime tunnel between the continents.
• Hualiu said she would follow Si Ming wherever he went, while Si Shuiyun overheard and mistakenly judged him for it.
• In the parallel-world branch, the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King fought the seven monks at the fake Seven Stars Palace as Zhu Mei's attempted ambush was stopped by Yan Jinghong's arrival.

Ling Huanxi, Yan Jinghong, and Xiao Xuan joined the monks against the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, whose second transformation unleashed a barrage of Depleting Divine Light. The newcomers drove him into the air, where the battle continued as his power surged beyond its limits.

• Ling Huanxi froze the Seven Stars Palace, while Yan Jinghong used his sword to redirect the Spirit King's Depleting Divine Light back at him.
• The Spirit King revealed a stronger transformation and prepared to fire another volley, prompting the monks to consider sacrificing themselves to activate the formation.
• Xiao Xuan arrived, froze the Spirit King's surface with a palm strike, and launched him through the palace roof with a Shoryuken.
• Xiao Xuan pursued the Spirit King into the sky, followed by Ling Huanxi and Yan Jinghong, who told Si Ming to watch the Feng and Shan Sacrifice Sword Technique's final move.
• The monks stayed on the ground to fight the remaining Monster Race divine generals as the aerial battle shook the palace.
• The Spirit King's presence surged past its limits, darkening the sky as an evil eye appeared overhead.

Xiao Xuan defeated the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King with repeated nuclear blasts, allowing Hongdou to kill him and inherit his source power. The story then shifted to Si Ming, who searched for a way home and stopped outside Si Jingyu’s room after hearing strange sounds.

• Xiao Xuan unleashed seven nuclear explosions that destroyed the Spirit King's evil eye and left him gravely injured.
• Xilai used the Sweet Dew Art to remove nuclear radiation from the monks, and Xiao Xuan said the Spirit King was weakened enough for his companions to finish him.
• Hongdou pierced the Spirit King with the Wheel-Turning King Sword, and he died after warning her that others might target her; his source power strengthened her.
• The monsters fled, and Xiao Xuan proposed luring the Anye Beast King to the Sea Continent, where reincarnation would fail and he could be killed without his blood relatives.
• Unable to find a way back to the Sea Continent, Si Ming trained, bathed, and decided to gather his companions for a Mid-Autumn celebration.
• Si Ming went to Si Jingyu's room and paused outside when he heard her making strange sounds.

After recovering enough to travel, Si Ming organized the Heavenly Martial Alliance under an elders’ council and prepared to return to the Sea Continent. At the altar, Si Jingyu and Murong Qing argued over whether others should be allowed through the spacetime tunnel to help manage the alliance.

• Fashan said Si Ming could resume ordinary activity but would need about three months before fighting, and warned him not to use his powerful techniques while recovering.
• Si Ming established a council of elders to govern the Heavenly Martial Alliance after his departure, with representatives from each faction voting on policies and missions.
• Fashan reported that Wang Dashe was gathering the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s remaining followers, and Si Ming urged the alliance to target dangerous Anomalies while sparing peaceful members of the Monster Race.
• Si Ming bid farewell to his followers and refused Zhao Jiaren’s and others’ requests to accompany him to the Sea Continent.
• At the ceremony altar, Si Jingyu opposed opening the spacetime tunnel to others, while Murong Qing argued that outside help could develop the Heavenly Martial Alliance in Si Ming’s absence.

Si Jingyu persuaded Murong Qing to leave the Heavenly Martial Alliance’s management to its members and helped Si Ming secure a university shortcut through international-student admission. The group traveled through a blood-and-flesh wormhole to Water Mirror Manor, where Si Huaruo confronted Si Jingyu in a fury.

• Si Jingyu persuaded Murong Qing that the Heavenly Martial Alliance’s members trusted only Alliance Leader Sima and should decide who managed their affairs.
• Si Jingyu proposed that Si Ming transfer to a Su State University as an international student, and Murong Qing accepted that the method followed the rules.
• Hongdou fixed the Flesh and Blood Wormhole with Boundless and Ever-Present, allowing the six travelers to return to the Heavenly Martial Alliance from the Sea Continent.
• Shen Wumian watched the group depart, buried his unspoken affection, and told Fashan he had no intention of becoming a monk.
• Si Ming, Hongdou, Hualiu, Si Jingyu, Si Shuiyun, and Murong Qing traveled through the wormhole to Water Mirror Manor, where Si Huaruo angrily confronted Si Jingyu.

Si Jingyu returned to the Si Clan and sparred with Si Huaruo, revealing how her improved perception helped her redirect attacks. After Si Ming and his companions left Water Mirror Manor, Hualiu rode a True Qi train home and marveled at Su State’s industrial society.

• Si Jingyu teased Si Huaruo about managing clan affairs, and Si Huaruo challenged her to a fight.
• Si Jingyu used the Moon-Reflecting Palm to entangle Si Huaruo’s attacks, then countered her sword technique with the Lightning Tribulation Finger.
• Murong Qing and Hualiu mistook the sisters’ fierce sparring for evidence of the Si Clan’s martial spirit, while Si Ming hurried the visitors away.
• After three days at Water Mirror Manor, Si Ming declined the Si Clan’s invitations to stay and boarded a True Qi train home with his companions.
• Hualiu was astonished by the train and its crowded industrial society, and Si Ming reassured her that she would grow accustomed to it.

After returning to Tange City, Si Ming and Murong Qing put out Yao Bilian’s kitchen fire and made a welcome-home meal. Si Ming decided to pursue university life at Linked Mountains University so he could study alongside his friends, and Liu Qingqing revealed she had already been admitted early.

• Hongdou returned to the orphanage and found Yao Bilian’s cooking had started a kitchen fire, which Murong Qing extinguished with the Glacier Divine Art.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing prepared the welcome-home feast, and Yao Bilian asked Si Ming whether he planned to resume his studies.
• Si Ming explained that he wanted to experience university life, and Yao Bilian said Si Jingyu’s special-admissions plan could help him enter a top university.
• Murong Qing praised Ying Zhou’s potential and encouraged him to study more, while Si Ming noted how much the boy had changed.
• Si Ming said he preferred Linked Mountains University and wanted his friends to attend with him, and Liu Qingqing announced that she had already been admitted early.

Jiang Zhengtai examined Si Ming and prescribed pills to restore his essence and Qi and clear medicinal toxins. Si Ming objected to Jiang touching his chest and punched him when he refused to stop.

• Jiang Zhengtai examined Si Ming and said the treatment was sound, but Si Ming needed rest and to replenish his essence and Qi.
• Jiang Zhengtai explained how industrial pill production had displaced traditional medicine brewing and captured most of the Sea Continent’s pill market.
• Jiang Zhengtai prescribed Immortal Ganoderma Fire Toad Pills and Jade Dragon Storax Powder for Si Ming.
• Si Ming told Jiang Zhengtai to take his hand off his chest, then punched him when Jiang refused.

Si Ming returned from his examination to find Yu Shuying in despair after learning about his accomplishments on the Barbarian Continent. He tried to comfort her at Minggui Orphanage, where she asked why she was such a failure.

• Si Ming defeated Jiang Zhengtai, discussed poetry with him, and left after confirming his body was fine.
• A sudden downpour began, and Si Ming used Blazing Sun True Qi to keep himself dry as he made his way back to Minggui Orphanage.
• Si Ming found Yu Shuying soaked at the gate, where she blamed herself for repeatedly failing missions and called herself worthless.
• Si Ming and Yao Bilian worried that Yu Shuying might harm herself and went into her room to comfort her.
• Yu Shuying asked Si Ming why she was such a failure, and he replied that she probably had no friends.

Yu Shuying accepted Si Ming’s advice to rely on teamwork and set out to make friends, beginning a friend-finding operation with Yao Bilian. The attempt ended with Yao Bilian demanding that Yu Shuying sleep with her as the price of friendship.

• Yu Shuying apologized to Si Ming and explained that her past missions had failed because she lacked trust with the people she recruited.
• Yu Shuying admitted she had no friends, and Si Ming advised her to stop using her Mind-Reading Technique to cater to potential friends.
• Si Ming proposed that Yu Shuying find a hundred friends and chose Yao Bilian as their first target.
• Yu Shuying directly asked Yao Bilian to be her friend, and Yao Bilian agreed on condition that they sleep together for one night.
• Si Ming objected to Yao Bilian’s condition, but she defended it as a test of trust and sincerity.

Yu Shuying became friends with Hongdou, then explained to Si Ming why Hongdou and Murong Qing were unaffected by her Mind-Reading Technique. Their conversation shifted to whether academic achievement proved intelligence, and Si Ming realized Yu Shuying’s argument exposed how comforting excuses could make parents underestimate their children’s problems.

• After leaving the underground art studio, Si Ming congratulated Yu Shuying on becoming friends with Hongdou.
• Yu Shuying said Hongdou, Yao Bilian, and Murong Qing did not care that she had the Mind-Reading Technique.
• Yu Shuying explained that Murong Qing’s uprightness made her indifferent to others knowing her thoughts, and admitted she hated her.
• Yu Shuying argued that Hongdou was smart despite her average grades, contrasting her with Murong Qing, who studied hard for her high rankings.
• Si Ming recognized that phrases excusing a child’s poor performance as a lack of effort could falsely reassure parents and make them neglect the problem.

Si Ming and Yu Shuying tried to make friends with Ying Zhou, who insisted that strength and achievement attracted people but admitted he did not need friends. Yao Bilian invited them to Yuezheng Yao’s concert; Yu Shuying and Hongdou declined, leaving Si Ming to decide whether to go.

• Yu Shuying and Si Ming discussed Hongdou’s intelligence and Murong Qing’s work ethic before abandoning Liu Qingqing as a friendship target.
• Ying Zhou dismissed Yu Shuying and Si Ming’s attempt to befriend him, then claimed that achievement and strength naturally drew people to him.
• Yu Shuying confronted Ying Zhou about whether his admirers were really his friends, and he angrily pushed the pair out of his room.
• Si Ming suggested befriending Murong Qing’s younger brother, but Yu Shuying refused to seek an elementary schooler’s pity.
• Yao Bilian offered to obtain good tickets for Yuezheng Yao’s concert, while Yu Shuying and Hongdou declined to attend because they disliked crowds.
• Hongdou said she would take her new work to Auntie Liu and rest, and Si Ming began to say that he would decide what to do.

Qingyan accepted a mission to assassinate Yuezheng Yao during her concert, while Captain secretly arranged for the assassination to fail and recruited Xia Guanxue to stop the employer. Xia Guanxue took the employer’s information after learning that a terrorist attack was also planned.

• Qingyan presented his pork-selling honors to Captain and accepted a mission to assassinate Yuezheng Yao during her concert.
• Qingyan said he would infiltrate the concert crew using his lighting and sound certifications, and Captain promised him triple the usual payment.
• Xia Guanxue questioned Captain’s decision to assign Qingyan the mission, and Captain said Qingyan lacked heaven’s mandate.
• Captain gave Xia Guanxue the employer’s information and asked him to kill the employer so the assassination mission would be canceled.
• Captain revealed that the employer had also hired terrorists to attack the concert and planned to blame the Blood Pupil Society, so Xia Guanxue took the information and left to stop him.

After passing the foreign entrance exam, Si Ming went to Master Hongdou's art exhibition and found Auntie Liu being pursued by a persistent middle-aged man. He helped drive the man away by boasting about his level nine cultivation, then continued on toward the train station.

• Si Ming said he was confident he had passed the exam, and Yao Bilian left him a train ticket before departing with Xiaomei.
• Si Ming spotted a poster for Master Hongdou's Works Exhibition and decided to visit before heading to the train station.
• At the crowded exhibition, Si Ming found Auntie Liu talking with a persistent middle-aged man and realized she wanted help getting away from him.
• The middle-aged man offered to use his connection to a vice dean to help Si Ming enter Linked Mountains University, but Auntie Liu rejected the offer as dishonest.
• Si Ming mocked level six cultivation and revealed his own level nine presence, embarrassing the middle-aged man into leaving.

Si Ming's successful reader meet-and-greet drew a far larger crowd than expected, and after hours of signing he met a masked woman who presented a record of Wind of Freedom. The woman's identity and reason for approaching him remained unknown.

• Si Ming's Gods and Ghosts of the Three Kingdoms: Wu State Arc received mixed reviews, while the Shu State Arc became a major hit.
• Auntie Liu arranged a meet-and-greet for Si Ming, and a crowd of readers gathered with help from the Mohist Knight Guard.
• Si Ming signed books and spoke with readers for seven hours as the crowd grew to about a thousand people.
• After the last readers reached his table, a masked woman showed Si Ming a Wind of Freedom record and said she liked that rather than his novels.