Recaps

Si Ming helped the troubled Yuezheng Yao return to her faculty apartment and suggested she gain combat experience by traveling with him to the Barbarian Continent. The next day, he visited the Second Martial Arts Club, where Ke Chajing described its poor tournament result and hoped he would compete again next year.

• Si Ming carried Yuezheng Yao to her faculty apartment after she said her seaside home had been sold.
• Yuezheng Yao explained that a dream about a spirit lump of shit had inspired her to abandon cleanliness, and she said she planned to retire from the music industry.
• Yuezheng Yao asked how to become strong enough to bring back her sister, and Si Ming recommended combat experience and martial arts from another school.
• Si Ming suggested Yuezheng Yao accompany him to the Barbarian Continent to fight and learn martial arts.
• At the Second Martial Arts Club, Ke Chajing told Si Ming that the club had finished outside the national tournament's semifinals and hoped he would return to compete next year.

Si Ming confronted the adviser who tried to take control of the Second Martial Arts Club and defended Ke Chajing’s leadership. The group decided to form a new club while keeping ghost memberships in the old one, and Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to recommend a place for summer special training.

• Si Ming suggested recruiting Si Jingyu, Si Huaruo, and Si Shuiyun, but the adviser objected to giving them main-roster spots without discussion.
• The adviser criticized Ke Chajing and proposed making Gong Fei vice president, so Si Ming slammed his fist into the floor and threatened him until he backed down and left.
• Ke Chajing and Hu Jixian explained their conflict with the adviser, and Si Ming proposed founding a new club with a deliberately blunt name.
• Si Ming suggested remaining ghost members of the Second Martial Arts Club while actively participating in the new club, and Ke Chajing agreed to handle its founding while Si Ming notified everyone.
• Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to recommend a place for special training over the summer.

Si Ming interrupted Hongdou’s unusual friendship-themed painting session and learned that Murong Qing, Liu Qingqing, and Yu Shuying had agreed to model. The session ended with Murong Qing and Yu Shuying threatening each other, leaving Si Ming to intervene before they fought.

• Si Ming went to Hongdou’s room to notify Murong Qing and the others about a training journey and found them posing with their skirts lifted for Hongdou’s painting.
• Hongdou explained that she wanted to depict friendship through the friends’ willingness to fulfill her unusual request.
• Yu Shuying said she had agreed because posing was a small favor between friends, while Liu Qingqing mentioned that she was wearing safety shorts.
• Murong Qing realized Yu Shuying had deliberately stood between her and Liu Qingqing, and Yu Shuying admitted she had done it to deceive her.
• Murong Qing threatened Yu Shuying, who warned that she had poisoned her, and Si Ming stepped between them to stop a fight.

Si Ming ended the school year, took Hongdou’s revealing drawing to protect the women from gossip, and learned that Wei Chunxi had been killed to silence him. He returned to Minggui Orphanage, where he challenged Wu Xiu over the lax security and learned the Mohist Knight Guard had killed Wei Chunxi themselves to prevent the Remote Heaven Society from reaching him.

• Murong Qing and Yu Shuying left after nearly clashing, while Hongdou showed Si Ming her drawing of them and Liu Qingqing.
• Si Ming confiscated Hongdou’s drawing to protect the three women from rumors, claiming he would keep it safe.
• Si Ming finished his freshman year after stealing exam questions, then arranged to meet his club members again a week later.
• Si Ming learned that Wei Chunxi had been killed to silence him and complained to Wu Xiu about the Remote Heaven Society’s easy success.
• Wu Xiu explained that the Mohist Knight Guard had killed Wei Chunxi themselves because the Remote Heaven Society might have infiltrated their ranks.
• Si Ming returned to Minggui Orphanage and remarked that the place felt unfamiliar after his long absence.

Si Ming returned to the orphanage with Wu Xiu and introduced her to Murong Qing and Murong Wu. After testing Murong Wu’s instinct for identifying poison, Wu Xiu offered to take him as her disciple, and the chapter ended with him asking whether he could study medicine without learning to harm people.

• Si Ming opened the door to find Yao Bilian and Murong Wu dancing in costume, then went inside with Murong Qing and Wu Xiu after they had changed.
• Wu Xiu tested Murong Wu by asking him to identify the poisonous one of two nearly identical flowers, and he chose correctly by intuition.
• Wu Xiu offered to teach Murong Wu medicine, and Murong Qing asked for a few days to consider the offer before they left for the Barbarian Continent.
• Ying Zhou returned and mocked Wu Xiu for looking like a little girl, so she paralyzed him with medicine and told Murong Wu he could learn the same skills.
• Murong Wu said he did not want to hurt anyone and asked whether he could learn medicine without poisons, and Wu Xiu explained that medicine and poison were closely linked.

Murong Wu became Wu Xiu’s disciple, while Si Ming cultivated the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace and decided to teach it to Hualiu. As the group prepared to travel to the Barbarian Continent, several companions joined them, but Murong Qing stayed behind to focus on her cultivation.

• Wu Xiu persuaded Murong Wu that poison could be compassionate, and Murong Wu asked her to accept him as a disciple.
• Murong Wu completed his apprenticeship ceremony the next day, and Yu Shuying welcomed him with a Black-Striped Azure Toad.
• Si Ming advanced the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace to level four and chose Hualiu to learn it, giving her physics textbooks to study.
• Si Jingyu, Si Shuiyun, and Si Huaruo joined Si Ming’s planned trip to the Barbarian Continent.
• Si Ming convinced Ying Zhou to join the trip by mentioning the sect that founded the Brahma Sea Asura Art.
• Murong Qing declined to travel so she could absorb the Black Tortoise Martial Form and prepare to attempt Spirit Transformation.

Si Ming gathered a small group to travel to the Barbarian Continent while Wu Xiu prepared a more efficient teleportation formation. After Hao Shuai joked lecherously about the women in the group and became interested in Wu Xiu, the formation was completed and began to activate.

• Murong Qing decided to let Murong Wu travel with Wu Xiu and endure hardship, while Si Ming promised to protect him without giving him special treatment.
• Yu Shuying stayed behind and insisted that Hualiu remain with her, so Si Ming counted the group who would travel to the Barbarian Continent.
• Wu Xiu explained that her simplified formation used fewer materials and could transport the small group with livestock sacrifices, though they would have to cross quickly.
• Hao Shuai bought ice pops for the group and joked with Si Ming about his preferences and his own interest in Wu Xiu.
• Wu Xiu completed the formation and activated it, causing its crystals to glow and fan-shaped rays to rise.

Si Ming and Wu Xiu led the group through a blood-powered spatial formation, but a calculation error left them choosing between several exits as the tunnel began to collapse. Elsewhere, Feng Liancheng and Duan Jinsu were cornered by a red-robed pursuer whose evil technique overwhelmed Feng Liancheng’s strongest spell.

• Wu Xiu killed thirty livestock to activate the formation, while Si Ming encouraged Hao Shuai to pursue Si Jingyu.
• The group entered the flesh-and-blood tunnel, found several forks where there should have been one route, and chose the far-left path as the tunnel began to crack.
• Feng Liancheng fled through a forest carrying the injured Duan Jinsu, but a red-robed man with a ghost mask blocked their way.
• Feng Liancheng’s wind-and-thunder spell was dispelled by the man’s Divine Evil Seal, and the man struck Feng Liancheng, knocking Duan Jinsu from his back.
• The red-robed man defended his use of evil arts, claiming the upper court could not interfere and that he and his followers were the sect’s true heirs.

Duan Jinsu and Feng Liancheng tried to deter the man in red with talismans, but he decided to kill them anyway. Si Ming arrived unexpectedly, stopped the attack, and joined Yuezheng Yao and the others in fighting off the man’s masked followers.

• Duan Jinsu used a fake Life-Binding Talisman to make the man in red hesitate to kill her.
• Feng Liancheng sent a real distress talisman toward the upper court, then warned that its envoys would expose the man’s crimes.
• The man in red moved to kill Feng Liancheng, but Si Ming and several others fell through a warped void into the clearing.
• Si Ming caught and crushed the man in red’s flying sword, then identified him as a villain and demanded his surrender.
• The man in red summoned dozens of black-clad followers, and Yuezheng Yao struck many of them with Hundred-Li Wind and Waves.
• The remaining attackers faced spells and techniques from the others, including Ice Talisman: Gale Needle Hail, Pelting Rain of Arrows, and Three Powers Converge on the Origin.

Si Ming and the Heavenly Martial Alliance fought the man in red, whose Evil Seals injured Si Ming and delayed his pursuit. Si Ming finally crushed the enemy with his wrathful Buddha manifestation and kept him alive at Duan Jinsu’s request.

• Si Huaruo, Liu Qingqing, and Chen Shimi attacked the men in black while the man in red used Earth Evil Swallows the Sea and fled.
• Si Ming caught the man in red, but the Ghostly Evil Seal struck his mind and weakened his strength as he crushed the attacker’s fingers.
• Liu Qingqing intercepted the fleeing man in red and wounded him, while Chen Shimi’s flying sword briefly slowed him.
• The man in red unleashed Human Evil Punishment Emperor, destroying Chen Shimi’s flying sword and forcing Liu Qingqing to retreat.
• Si Ming summoned his wrathful Buddha manifestation and smashed the man in red into the ground, then used True Qi to keep him alive after Duan Jinsu asked him to spare the prisoner.

After learning that the Blood Abyss Sect planned a sacrifice of at least a hundred thousand people, Si Ming decided to destroy its headquarters and used Duan Jinsu’s soul-binding art to interrogate a captured protector. The ritual pulled the dying man’s soul from his body, but the sect’s location and the fate of the others remained unknown.

• Duan Jinsu and Feng Liancheng explained that the Blood Abyss Sect intended to refine Myriad Filth Tainted Blood using at least ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine victims per drop.
• Si Ming decided to question the captured protector and told Duan Jinsu to recover before performing the soul-binding art.
• Si Ming discussed the scattered group with Si Huaruo and decided to destroy the Blood Abyss Sect’s headquarters before returning to the Western Martial World to find everyone.
• After half a day of rest, Duan Jinsu performed the Great Soul-Splitting Technique with Feng Liancheng supplying Primal Qi.
• Duan Jinsu used Nether Qi and a blood-drawn ritual to pull the dying protector’s soul from his body.

Si Ming and his companions reached Yuntian Mountain, the Blood Abyss Sect’s lair, and found it shrouded in poisonous mist and signs of mass death. As they prepared to confront the sect, Si Ming explained that he was restraining himself to avoid harming any captives who might still be inside.

• Si Ming discussed the Ghostly Evil Seal with Liu Qingqing and accepted that avoiding its contact-based attack was a practical defense, though he still insisted that he should strengthen his weaknesses.
• Duan Jinsu learned the Blood Abyss Sect’s location on Yuntian Mountain, and Si Ming ordered him to help find Si Ming’s separated companions through the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Si Ming sent Yuezheng Yao to escort Duan Jinsu and his disciple while he led the others toward the sect’s base without giving its members time to flee.
• At Yuntian Mountain, Si Huaruo warned the group that the lingering mist contained potent corpse poison, while Liu Qingqing offered to help counter its effects.
• Chen Shimi lamented the suffering and wrongful deaths on the mountain, and Si Ming responded with a poem that impressed him.
• Si Ming told Si Huaruo that he was joking to control his anger and avoid attacking the sect’s base before they knew whether hostages were inside.

Si Ming and Chen Shimi drew the Blood Abyss Sect out with a bombardment while Si Huaruo and Liu Qingqing infiltrated the sect to search for hostages. Si Ming’s attack unexpectedly crippled the Vice Sect Master, and after the sect’s leaders tried to placate him, he escalated the fight and faced a swarm of blood-red vultures.

• Si Ming rejected a direct search for the enemy base and assigned himself and Chen Shimi to make a commotion while Si Huaruo and Liu Qingqing searched for hostages.
• Si Ming bombarded Yuntian Mountain with nuclear light spheres until two Blood Abyss Sect experts emerged from a cave to confront him.
• Si Ming’s Blazing Sun Heavenly Saber shattered the Vice Sect Master’s blood-red attack and corroded his body, while the white-haired man used blood from a gourd to stop the damage.
• The two sect leaders denied having broken an engagement with Si Ming and offered to hand over any disciple who had offended him, but Si Ming suspected they were trying to distract him from something important.
• Si Ming refused to leave and attacked with Thousand Blades Scorching the Plains, prompting the Vice Sect Master to summon blood-red vultures with a banner.

Liu Qingqing and Si Huaruo infiltrated the Blood Abyss Sect’s cave while Si Ming and Chen Shimi drew its fighters outside. They reached the guarded stone door and attacked Black and White Impermanence, but Black Impermanence survived Liu Qingqing’s strike with his protective Qi.

• Liu Qingqing led Si Huaruo through the cave using shadows and killed a guard with the Illusory Moth Killing Art.
• The women reached the stone door, where Black and White Impermanence stood guard, and agreed to stagger their attacks.
• Si Huaruo launched the first attack, drawing both guards’ attention while Liu Qingqing struck Black Impermanence from another direction.
• Black Impermanence’s Nether Lock Profound Qi Flow blocked Liu Qingqing’s dagger, though the strike cut his skin.
• White Impermanence was wounded by Si Huaruo’s palm strike and returned to Black Impermanence’s side.

Si Huaruo held off Black Impermanence and White Impermanence while Liu Qingqing entered the secret chamber and tried to cleanse the blood pool. After Black and White Impermanence joined forces against Si Huaruo, they still struggled to gain the advantage.

• Si Huaruo delayed White Impermanence while Liu Qingqing broke through the stone door and entered the secret chamber.
• Liu Qingqing found thousands of corpses suspended above a blood pool and destroyed the formation feeding it.
• Liu Qingqing used a divine art to soothe the dead and dissolve the resentment, but the last drop of blood flew into her forehead.
• Black Impermanence destroyed the Hurricane Tiger King and joined White Impermanence in attacking Si Huaruo.
• Si Huaruo deflected Black Impermanence's palm strike into White Impermanence and kept both opponents on the defensive.

Liu Qingqing emerged from the cave transformed by Blood Sha Qi and drove off Black and White Impermanence before leaving to attack Blood Abyss Sect members. On Yuntian Mountain, Chen Shimi struggled to master his sealed power while Si Ming dominated the vice sect master, whose blood-body attack failed against him.

• Liu Qingqing unleashed the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood against Black and White Impermanence, who severed their arms and escaped with a blood-red light.
• Liu Qingqing ignored Si Huaruo and left the cave, after which the screams of Blood Abyss Sect members sounded nearby.
• Chen Shimi used his sealed power through ordinary martial arts moves as he fought the white-haired man, trying to master the power despite failing to gain the advantage.
• Si Ming killed the Blood Abyss Sect disciples who tried to ambush him and punched through the vice sect master's blood shield.
• The vice sect master transformed into blood and lunged at Si Ming to consume his essence blood, but Si Ming's body repelled him and injured him.

Si Ming defeated the Blood Abyss Sect’s leaders and destroyed the sect, but Liu Qingqing collapsed after emerging from a secret chamber with a mysterious change in her demeanor. He left with her, Si Huaruo, and the exhausted Chen Shimi to reunite with Yuezheng Yao and the others.

• Si Ming repeatedly scattered the Blood Abyss Sect vice sect master's blood-form until the old man died, while Liu Qingqing killed the white-haired man with Divine Calamity Form, Fall of the Gods.
• Si Ming questioned Liu Qingqing about whether she had been possessed, but her blood Sha vanished and she collapsed unconscious.
• Si Huaruo explained that Liu Qingqing had entered a secret chamber alone and revealed that the hostages inside had all been killed.
• Si Ming unleashed Star Core Decay Blazing Sun Descent, razing the Blood Abyss Sect and reducing Yuntian Mountain to a wasteland.
• Si Ming and Si Huaruo prepared to leave with Liu Qingqing, then carried the exhausted Chen Shimi along as he speculated about transforming into a Devil Dragon.

Si Ming learned that the Blood Abyss Sect had used Liu Qingqing as the vessel for unfinished Myriad Filth Tainted Blood, with several dead women’s souls still inside her. Liu Qingqing called one of them forward to reveal her wish, but the chapter ended before she answered.

• Si Ming and Yuezheng Yao compared their encounters with the Blood Abyss Sect, and Duan Jinsu explained that the sect’s master and Three Evil Generals had been away pursuing a larger plan.
• Feng Liancheng identified the defeated vice sect master as Blood River Old Man, one of the Three Evil Generals, and described his blood-draining arts and unusual escape technique.
• Duan Jinsu examined Liu Qingqing and explained that a soul connected to the unfinished Myriad Filth Tainted Blood had controlled her after she lost consciousness.
• Liu Qingqing sensed three souls in her sea of consciousness, and Duan Jinsu said their wishes could be fulfilled or their souls forcibly removed.
• Liu Qingqing entered her sea of consciousness, emerged under the control of one of the souls, and Si Ming asked her what unfulfilled wish she had.

Wu Ming revealed that Li Ban and the Anye Beast King were attacking the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, prompting Si Ming and his companions to rush to its aid. At Righteous Qi Peak, the sect’s survivors debated breaking out or waiting for reinforcements while besieged and gravely weakened.

• Si Ming questioned Wu Ming about her identity and her demand to kill Li Ban, and she warned him that Li Ban had allied with the Anye Beast King to attack the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect.
• Duan Jinsu urged everyone to go help the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect after learning the sect was under attack.
• Li Ban and the Anye Beast King had joined forces to defeat the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, killing five Grandmasters and leaving Wan Yebai, Zheng Jingyuan, Lou Xia, and the surviving disciples trapped in Righteous Qi Palace.
• Zheng Jingyuan reported that two-tenths of the disciples had died, three-tenths were gravely injured, and Ziyue and Zihan had fallen in battle.
• Wan Yebai argued that the survivors should break out immediately, while Zheng Jingyuan proposed holding out behind the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array until reinforcements arrived.

Wan Yebai led the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s disciples in a breakout from Righteous Qi Peak, leaving the wounded and his son Wan Ziqiu behind. Li Ban and the Anye Beast King ambushed them at the foot of the mountain, and the chapter ended with Wan Yebai fighting Li Ban as the disciples tried to break through.

• Wan Yebai decided to leave the wounded behind and ordered the disciples to escape, while Wan Ziqiu stayed behind because he was badly wounded.
• Wan Yebai led the disciples through the secret passage and broke through the weakened enemy defenses at Righteous Qi Peak.
• Wan Yebai realized Li Ban and the Anye Beast King had not appeared and ordered the disciples to split into two groups, but Li Ban and the Anye Beast King revealed their ambush.
• Wan Yebai and Li Ban argued over their past losses before Zheng Jingyuan warned that Li Ban was stalling to complete the encirclement.
• Wan Yebai ordered the disciples to form an array and break west; Li Ban attacked to stop them, and Wan Yebai intercepted him with the Demon-Slaying Sword.

Zheng Jingyuan and two elders fought the Anye Beast King with the Evil-Butchering Sword Formation to buy time for the disciples, but the beast king revealed that he had let them struggle for his amusement. After Elder Feng and Elder Yue died, Zheng Jingyuan refused the beast king’s offer to leave and charged him with his ultimate sword technique.

• Zheng Jingyuan and Elders Feng and Yue formed the Evil-Butchering Sword Formation and pushed the Anye Beast King back, believing they might defeat him.
• The Anye Beast King revealed that he had deliberately let them exceed their limits to test their will, and claimed he had never meant to stop the disciples from escaping.
• Elder Feng collapsed and died from the damage caused by fighting beyond his limits.
• Elder Yue attacked with his ultimate move, but the Anye Beast King destroyed his sword radiance and killed him with Crimson Serpent Devours the Soul.
• The Anye Beast King told Zheng Jingyuan to take his companions’ belongings and leave, but Zheng Jingyuan declared that he would not let him insult their will and charged with his ultimate sword technique.

Si Ming battled the Anye Beast King at full strength while Zheng Jingyuan escaped with Elder Feng’s corpse. Their fight devastated Righteous Qi Peak, and the chapter ended with the Anye Beast King striking Si Ming as the Asura manifestation counterattacked.

• Si Ming blocked the Anye Beast King’s attack, overpowered him, and sent Zheng Jingyuan away to catch up with the others.
• Si Ming revealed the alias Sima Liang and entered Solar Prominence Eruption, sending the Anye Beast King crashing into the mountain.
• The two fighters’ battle shook Righteous Qi Peak and triggered an explosion that tore open its eastern mountainside.
• Si Ming summoned a wrathful Asura manifestation and struck the Anye Beast King through the mountain with Asura Overturns the Brahma Sea.
• The Anye Beast King unleashed his Otherworld Domain and hit Si Ming in the chest, while the Asura manifestation smashed his face with a fist.

Si Ming drove off the Anye Beast King, while Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo fought to protect the badly injured Wan Yebai from Li Ban. Wu Ming intervened with the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending, and Li Ban recognized the spell and wondered who she was.

• Si Ming and the Anye Beast King exchanged heavy blows, but the Beast King chose to leave and the Monster Race army fled after him.
• Li Ban wounded Wan Yebai, but Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo arrived and kept Li Ban occupied while Si Huaruo treated Wan Yebai.
• Yuezheng Yao fought Li Ban with the Taicu Flying Sound Sword as Si Huaruo slowed him with a frost divine art.
• Li Ban lured Yuezheng Yao into attacking, wounded her, and then turned to strike down Wan Yebai.
• Wu Ming, occupying Liu Qingqing's body, blocked Li Ban with the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending.
• Li Ban asked Wu Ming who she was and why she could use the spell, while Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo sensed a connection between them.

Si Ming drove Li Ban from the battlefield and helped the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect survive its attack. After the sect began its return to the Righteous Qi Palace, Wan Yebai asked Si Ming to kill the Anye Beast King, but Si Ming was reluctant to risk fighting him.

• Si Ming attacked Li Ban while he was distracted, overwhelmed him, and forced him to flee with Blood Escape.
• Duan Jinsu explained that Li Ban's Blood Flow Gang Qi could regenerate, while Yuezheng Yao and Wu Ming did not help stop his escape.
• With Li Ban gone, the evil-path experts fled, and the exhausted Evil-Slaying Sword Sect halted its pursuit and turned back toward the Righteous Qi Palace.
• Wan Yebai learned that Si Ming was the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader, Sima Liang, and asked him about the Anye Beast King.
• Wan Yebai asked Si Ming to kill the Anye Beast King, but Si Ming doubted he could win and did not want to risk facing him.

Si Ming accepted the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique from Wan Yebai and stayed at the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to learn it, while Wan Yebai expected him to protect the sect and eventually face the Anye Beast King. Wan Yebai then challenged his son Wan Ziqiu over whether he could uphold the sect’s purpose of slaying evil.

• Wan Yebai gave Si Ming the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique without conditions, and Si Ming agreed to accept it and remain at the sect while he studied.
• Wan Yebai mistook Si Ming’s plan to return the manual after learning it in a few days as a pledge to protect the sect during its recovery.
• Wan Ziqiu questioned his father about giving the sect’s supreme art to an outsider and worried Si Ming might share it through the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Wan Yebai explained that he trusted Si Ming’s character and believed generosity would lead him to deal with the Anye Beast King.
• Wan Yebai asked Wan Ziqiu whether he could kill him if the Anye Beast King possessed his body, and Wan Ziqiu admitted he could not.
• Wan Yebai told Wan Ziqiu that he could preserve the sect’s inheritance but could not carry on its mission, then challenged whether his praise of the founding patriarch was sincere.