Recaps

Wan Yebai explained the requirements for the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique’s final moves after Si Ming mastered the earlier techniques in two days. Wan Yebai demonstrated the sword of consciousness, and Si Ming found himself unable to move.

• Wan Yebai told Wan Ziqiu that an heir to the Intent to Slay Evil had to be ready to sacrifice even family for the sect.
• Three days later, Si Ming asked Wan Yebai for help learning the technique’s final two moves and demonstrated that he had mastered all the others in two days.
• Wan Yebai explained that “All Evil Falls Silent, Every Wickedness Perishes” required cultivation of the soul and used Sword Intent to immobilize its target.
• Wan Yebai demonstrated the move, and Si Ming sensed his killing aura before discovering that he could not move.

Si Ming learned the limits of Wan Yebai’s sword move and arranged to exchange Li Ban’s head for the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s soul-training method. He then decided to cultivate spells to strengthen his soul and told Wu Ming he planned to become a mage.

• Wan Yebai demonstrated a sword move that froze the world around Si Ming, then explained its openings, costs, and missing ultimate technique.
• Si Ming learned that his soul was too weak to use the move effectively and asked whether the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect had a soul-training method.
• Wan Yebai offered the Five Elements Spirit-Refining Formula, and Si Ming proposed trading Li Ban’s head for it; Wan Yebai agreed.
• Si Ming reasoned that practicing spells could strengthen his soul and decided to train as a mage, possibly learning from the woman inside Liu Qingqing.
• Wu Ming joked that Si Ming would wear down enemies with spells before punching them to death, and Si Ming protested that he could be a mage who also liked hand-to-hand combat.

Si Ming learned the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending from Wu Ming, whose real name was Shang Yu, then asked Wan Yebai about her past with Li Ban. Wan Yebai revealed how Li Ban betrayed the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect and how Shang Yu died by his sword, leaving Si Ming with the truth behind her grievance.

• Si Ming trapped Wu Ming with a spell formation, but she broke free and revealed that her real name was Shang Yu.
• Shang Yu gave Si Ming the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending and told him to ask Wan Yebai about her history.
• Si Ming apologized to Wan Yebai for damaging Righteous Qi Peak and asked him about Shang Yu.
• Wan Yebai recounted how Shang Yu fell in love with Li Ban, who joined the Blood Abyss Sect and secretly used the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to advance his power.
• Wan Yebai explained that Li Ban betrayed their forces during an operation, then used Shang Yu as a shield when Wan Yebai tried to stop him from abducting her.
• Wan Yebai said his sword killed Shang Yu, while Li Ban escaped with her body and blamed him for her death.

Si Ming took Shang Yu north to draw Li Ban out by spreading rumors that she would soon die, while Shang Yu hoped to learn the truth about her past. The chapter left Li Ban’s response uncertain as the news spread through the Eastern Martial World.

• Wan Yebai told Si Ming that Li Ban had used the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect as a target for his resentment after Shang Yu’s death, and Si Ming vowed to stop him.
• Yuezheng Yao asked Wan Yebai why he had left his son at the Righteous Qi Palace, and he explained that he valued the sect above his family while still loving his children.
• A few days later, Si Ming and Shang Yu traveled north, and Si Ming explained that they needed to lure Li Ban out of hiding.
• Shang Yu warned that Wan Yebai’s account might not be the whole truth, but said she still wanted Li Ban dead and wanted to question him about the past.
• Si Ming revealed that he had spread rumors claiming Shang Yu’s return from death was temporary and that she had only days or weeks to live, hoping Li Ban would come to her aid.

Shang Yu and Si Ming reached Murong Wu’s cottage, where a crowd awaited the young physician. Murong Wu agreed to treat Golden Flood Dragon Gang leader Shang Zhen after Shang Zhen promised to abandon his evil ways, while a girl in the cottage warned that saving him could endanger future victims.

• Shang Yu and Si Ming arrived at the cottage and heard villagers praise Murong Wu’s unusual medical treatments.
• Si Ming explained that the rumored Gu treatment used specially bred medical maggots to clean wounds.
• Shang Zhen and his men forced their way through the waiting crowd, but Shang Zhen stopped them from threatening Murong Wu.
• A girl inside the cottage urged Murong Wu not to treat Shang Zhen because the Golden Flood Dragon Gang harmed innocent people.
• Murong Wu agreed to examine Shang Zhen after the gang leader promised to turn away from evil and follow the righteous path.

Murong Wu treated Shang Zhen’s cold poison, then was struck by the gang leader, who feared he would also cure the Sand River Gang’s leader. As Shang Zhen’s men moved against Wu Xiu, Murong Wu warned them not to enter her cottage.

• Murong Wu diagnosed Shang Zhen’s cold poison and treated it with hollow needles, then prescribed medicine and urged him to reform his gang.
• Shang Zhen asked Murong Wu to examine a subordinate whose back was cracked by flame poison, and Murong Wu agreed to write a prescription.
• Shang Zhen suddenly punched Murong Wu, explaining that he feared Murong Wu would treat Qian Qi, the Sand River Gang leader, whose injury would otherwise kill him in five days.
• Murong Wu condemned Shang Zhen for excusing his actions as the way of the jianghu, while Wu Xiu mocked the gang members from inside the cottage.
• A scar-faced gang member tried to force his way into Wu Xiu’s cottage, and Murong Wu warned him that it was dangerous.

After the Golden Flood Dragon Gang attacked Murong Wu, Wu Xiu incapacitated the gang and left their fate to him. Murong Wu spared the gang members but kept Shang Zhen behind, while Wu Xiu planned to make her disciple confront the consequences of his mercy.

• The scar-faced man melted into pus after entering the house, and another gang member suffered the same fate after touching him.
• Wu Xiu emerged, treated Murong Wu, and told him to decide what should happen to the immobilized gang members.
• Murong Wu admitted most of the gang members were probably pretending to repent, but said he would not kill them and asked Wu Xiu to keep Shang Zhen while releasing the others.
• Wu Xiu freed the gang members but left Shang Zhen paralyzed; the others fled without pleading for their leader.
• Wu Xiu planned to show Murong Wu the victims and families harmed by the gang so he would understand the cost of sparing wrongdoers.

Si Ming intervened when Murong Wu struggled over whether to spare the Golden Flood Dragon Gang leader, Shang Zhen, and helped him separate medical care from responsibility for a patient’s crimes. He left Murong Wu with a way to treat evildoers while letting them choose whether to lose their martial arts.

• Si Ming struck Shang Zhen’s Qi sea, crippling his Cultivation Body, then asked Wu Xiu to cure his poison and release him.
• Si Ming reassured Murong Wu that treating Shang Zhen’s injuries did not make him responsible for the gang leader’s past crimes or future fate.
• Si Ming asked Murong Wu whether he would treat the Sand River Gang leader, then argued that a doctor could offer treatment at the cost of the patient’s Internal Cultivation and respect the patient’s choice.
• Murong Wu accepted Si Ming’s advice and agreed to approach such dilemmas with a pluralistic mindset.

Si Ming and Wu Xiu bickered on the journey back while Wu Xiu tried to reshape Murong Wu’s outlook, then staged a fight to draw out their hidden pursuers. The Blood Abyss Sect, led by Li Ban, revealed itself, and Si Ming faced the group as they prepared to seize someone.

• The Sand River Gang leader stayed away from Si Ming, while infighting weakened the Golden Flood Dragon Gang.
• Wu Xiu said she could not treat Liu Qingqing because Liu Qingqing’s body was healthy and her soul was dead, and Si Ming refused to let Wu Xiu study her.
• Wu Xiu lectured Murong Wu and secretly signaled Si Ming, who joined her in staging an argument that turned into a fight.
• Wu Xiu attacked Si Ming with a poison python, and Si Ming controlled it with his True Qi and sent it into the woods, exposing Li Ban and four Blood Abyss Sect members.
• Li Ban explained that he had come to seize someone, while Wu Xiu’s poison failed to affect the sect members because their Cultivation Bodies were poisonous.

Si Ming fought Li Ban and the Anye Beast King after Li Ban revealed Shang Yu’s remnant soul and sought to bring her back. The two enemies joined forces against Si Ming, and Li Ban opened the difficult battle with a combined spell-and-martial attack.

• Li Ban confirmed that Liu Qingqing’s body held Shang Yu’s remnant soul, while Shang Yu insisted she was dead and planned to take Li Ban to the netherworld.
• Si Ming attacked Li Ban to prevent him from pursuing Shang Yu, but the Anye Beast King intervened and joined Li Ban against him.
• Si Ming and his opponents faced off as their powerful presences overwhelmed the surrounding forest and its creatures.
• Li Ban launched Foul Blood Stains the Azure Sky, combining spells and martial arts while Si Ming conserved strength against both enemies.

Si Ming fought Li Ban and Anye Beast King alone, using his weapons and divine powers to withstand their combined assault. After a hundred exchanges, the two opponents coordinated an attack that wounded and staggered him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Si Ming’s Wheel-Turning King Sword wounded Li Ban, but Anye Beast King interrupted his follow-up with Nether Saber Ghost Prison.
• Si Ming broke through the Beast King’s saber domain, and the two fought fiercely while Li Ban could find no opening to join in.
• Li Ban hurled the Blood Dragon Halberd at Si Ming as Anye Beast King attacked from behind, forcing Si Ming to block both blows with the Cauldron Armor Seal.
• Si Ming survived the combined assault but suffered internal injuries, then tried to stall while healing with the Bodhi Golden Body.
• Li Ban and Anye Beast King resumed their two-sided attack, and after a hundred exchanges they trapped Si Ming’s arm, wounded his chest, and forced him back.

Si Ming defeated Li Ban and the Anye Beast King with a surprise use of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique, then turned to check on the other fights. Wu Xiu struggled to protect Murong Wu against Mao Wei and Diao Mei, and the chapter ended with her refusing to abandon her disciple.

• Si Ming revealed his mastery of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique and overwhelmed Li Ban and the Anye Beast King with a galaxy-vortex attack.
• Li Ban used a blood-wyrm incarnation to cover his escape, while the Anye Beast King shattered the vortex but was badly wounded by the sword Qi and fled.
• Si Ming got back to his feet and decided to check on his companions.
• Shang Yu fought Black and White Impermanence, while Wu Xiu struggled against Mao Wei and Diao Mei as she protected Murong Wu.
• Wu Xiu wounded Mao Wei and attempted to escape with Murong Wu, but Diao Mei and Mao Wei attacked and injured her.
• Murong Wu urged Wu Xiu to leave him behind, but she refused to abandon her disciple.

Wu Xiu fought off Mao Wei and Diao Mei with a shape-changing weapon and taught Murong Wu how to exploit its flexibility, but the pair fled after their sect master warned them to run. The Anye Beast King escaped Alliance Leader Sima’s sword intent by sacrificing flesh, then reflected on the danger posed by the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader.

• Wu Xiu healed her injuries, stopped Murong Wu from fleeing, and explained how medicine cultivators could keep enemies at a distance.
• Wu Xiu used her Hundred-Refined Finger-Wrapping Softness to counter Mao Wei and Diao Mei’s attacks, wounding both while instructing Murong Wu.
• The sect master’s warning sent Mao Wei and Diao Mei fleeing, and Wu Xiu mocked their parting threat.
• The Anye Beast King changed into his true form and cut away the flesh surrounding Alliance Leader Sima’s persistent Evil-Slaying Sword Intent.
• After returning to human form, the Anye Beast King acknowledged that Alliance Leader Sima could defeat him in a duel and regretted not supporting the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King.

The Anye Beast King failed again to master the Evil-Slaying Sword Intent and decided to seize a body that had mastered it. Meanwhile, Si Ming continued hunting the Blood Abyss Sect’s remnants, then reached a City God temple and faced Cloud-Grazing Eagle King Peng Qianzhong.

• The Anye Beast King tried to unleash Total Extermination of Yao and Ghosts, but the technique recoiled and injured him.
• The Anye Beast King concluded that he would have to forcibly seize a body proficient in Evil-Slaying Sword Intent to fuse righteousness and evil.
• Si Ming pursued Li Ban with help from the righteous sects, destroying Blood Abyss Sect strongholds and driving many of its ordinary members to defect.
• Si Ming and Shang Yu followed intelligence to a City God temple and razed it with three successive techniques.
• Peng Qianzhong charged Si Ming with his Profound Yin Divine Claw, and Shang Yu identified him as the Cloud-Grazing Eagle King, a vicious figure with ties to both righteous and evil paths.

Si Ming defeated Peng Qianzhong, Dragon Monk, and Tiger Nun with ease after they confronted him, then learned that rumors calling him the number one expert under heaven might be an attempt to hinder his pursuit of Li Ban. As the defeated group prepared to leave, Shang Yu suddenly struck Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun in the back with red light.

• Si Ming guided Peng Qianzhong into overusing his power, then disrupted his Qi and made him collapse with a snap of his fingers.
• Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun attacked Si Ming together, but he exposed their flaws, injured Tiger Nun, and stopped Dragon Monk with the Profound Yin Divine Claw.
• The young saber wielder apologized, and Tiger Nun offered five Blood Abyss Sect heads while Si Ming demanded to know why the group had challenged him.
• Shang Yu explained that jealous martial artists and evil-path rumors may have used Si Ming's growing fame to obstruct his pursuit of Li Ban.
• Si Ming sent the defeated group away, but Shang Yu struck Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun in the back with red light as they left.

Shang Yu and Si Ming discussed her punishment of Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun and debated what justice meant. Si Ming argued that justice mattered less than acting and correcting mistakes, leaving Shang Yu reconsidering how her pursuit of vengeance might still benefit society.

• Shang Yu crippled Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun, explaining that she punished them for treating ordinary people as expendable, while sparing them from harsher punishment because they had fought the Monster Race.
• Tiger Nun stopped Dragon Monk from pursuing Shang Yu and told him she was carrying his child, prompting Si Ming to leave with Shang Yu.
• While camping, Shang Yu asked Si Ming whether her actions were wrong, and he said her targets deserved punishment but questioned her method.
• Shang Yu asked what justice was, and Si Ming described it as an ongoing process before admitting he was too occupied with correcting his own mistakes to dwell on its definition.
• Si Ming told Shang Yu that her actions could advance society even without a lofty ideal, and she realized she had not considered her punishment from the perspective of the people seeking peace.

After helping Shang Yu understand why she still loved Li Ban while seeking his life, Si Ming watched her create an external incarnation for Liu Qingqing. The pursuit continued at the Evil Ghost Sect, where Si Ming and Shang Yu attacked the mountain gate and demanded that the sect hand over Li Ban.

• Shang Yu explained that Li Ban had once been an idealistic young man before the Blood Abyss Sect’s power corrupted him.
• Shang Yu revealed that she had willingly taken a sword meant for Li Ban and still loved him, though she wanted him dead.
• Shang Yu thanked Si Ming for helping her understand her feelings and prepare to leave the body without lingering attachment.
• Shang Yu used Myriad Filth Tainted Blood to create an external incarnation of Liu Qingqing and promised to teach her how to refine it.
• Si Ming and Shang Yu attacked the Evil Ghost Sect’s mountain gate and demanded that its disciples hand over Li Ban.

Si Ming and Shang Yu fought their way through the Evil Ghost Sect, where Si Ming destroyed its ghost formation and repelled a Grandmaster’s attack. Duan Changkun escaped after Liu Qingqing wounded him, while Liu Qingqing stayed behind to battle a summoned ghost king.

• Si Ming broke free of the chains, killed a summoned evil ghost king, and continued into the rear hall with Shang Yu.
• Hundreds of sect members trapped Si Ming and Shang Yu in the Ghost Sha Grand Formation, but Si Ming’s thunder technique destroyed its ghost soldiers and collapsed the formation.
• A Grandmaster’s Evil Luo Ghost Arm attacked Si Ming, who shattered it and blasted the ghostly Sha vortex with an Earth-Piercing Annihilation Tyrant Wave.
• Duan Changkun fled the rear hall, but Liu Qingqing intercepted him and severely wounded his left shoulder with Divine Calamity Form, Fall of the Gods.
• Duan Changkun sacrificed his severed shoulder to summon an evil ghost king, which distracted Liu Qingqing and let him escape; Liu Qingqing re-formed after its blow and continued fighting it.

Si Ming destroyed the Evil Ghost Sect while searching for Li Ban, then learned that Li Ban had escaped and was gathering evil-path Grandmasters to kill him. Li Ban offered them half of two Blood Abyss Sect supreme arts as a deposit, and they considered joining his plan against the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader.

• Si Ming learned from Duan Changkun that the Evil Ghost Sect had refused to shelter Li Ban, then crippled Duan Changkun and planned to hand him over to the Evil-Slaying Sword School.
• Liu Qingqing described the strengths and limits of her Blood Spirit Body after she and Yuezheng Yao killed the Evil Ghost King, while Shang Yu concluded that the final battle with Li Ban was near.
• Li Ban gathered evil-path Grandmasters from across the Barbarian Continent and urged them to unite against Sima Liang, citing the destruction of the Evil Ghost Sect and the Heavenly Martial Alliance's pressure on the evil path.
• Zhong Jiu hesitated over joining Li Ban, while Tong Tianhao demanded compensation for risking his life.
• Li Ban offered the Grandmasters half copies of the Blood Abyss Scripture and the Five Evil Seals as a deposit, promising the remaining halves if they killed Sima Liang.

Si Ming faced seven evil-path experts in the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation and overwhelmed their coordinated attacks with his strength and skill. As the battle continued, Mao Wei and Diao Mei prepared to betray Li Ban, while Diao Mei’s failed sword strike left her furious.

• Si Ming entered the blood mist and fought Yang Dongli, Tong Tianhao, and Ximen Chou while the formation concealed their positions.
• Si Ming deflected Yang Dongli’s thousands of blood-infused palm strikes and redirected them into Tong Tianhao, badly injuring him.
• Mao Wei used the Earth Evil Seal to hinder Si Ming as Diao Mei attacked his brow with Ghost-Crying Frontier Arrowhead.
• Si Ming suppressed Mao Wei’s attack, caught Diao Mei’s sword between two fingers, and shattered its hidden Ghostly Evil Seal.
• Si Ming mocked Diao Mei’s cautious strike, and she grew furious despite knowing she could not defeat him.

Si Ming overwhelmed the assembled Grandmasters, prompting Li Ban to abandon his plan to defeat him and flee to meet Shang Yu. After they reconciled, Li Ban began a ritual to anchor Shang Yu’s lingering spirit in a borrowed body, but Liu Qingqing attacked him as it reached its critical stage.

• Diao Mei attacked Si Ming with her full strength, but he stopped her Sword Qi and wounded Mao Wei when Mao Wei intervened to rescue her.
• Li Ban concluded the group could not defeat Si Ming and used a secret art to leave a clone in the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation while he escaped.
• Li Ban told Shang Yu that he had infiltrated the Blood Abyss Sect at her father's request, and Shang Yu said she believed him and had long suspected her father had an inside man.
• Li Ban and Shang Yu spoke about her return as a lingering obsession, and he proposed anchoring her in the body she temporarily controlled.
• Li Ban set up and activated the ritual to anchor Shang Yu, but Liu Qingqing attacked him from behind, and he struck back and destroyed her blood spirit body.

Shang Yu confronted Li Ban over his betrayal of the Righteous Qi Palace and tried to kill him, but he refused to believe she was truly herself. As Li Ban attacked Shang Yu and Liu Qingqing with his blood arts, Shang Yu used the Wheel-Turning King Sword to counter him.

• Shang Yu stabbed Li Ban, broke the spell formation, and accused him of using love and revenge as excuses to pursue power.
• Shang Yu revealed that she had sacrificed herself to give Li Ban a chance to change, but he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
• Li Ban pretended to surrender, then caught Shang Yu's sword and accused her of being an impostor when she tried to kill him.
• Liu Qingqing attacked Li Ban with a spear of blood Sha Qi while Shang Yu retreated.
• Li Ban unleashed Blood Calamity Firmament against Shang Yu and Liu Qingqing, and Shang Yu answered with Ten Thousand Swords Heavenly Dipper.

Li Ban’s attempt to kill Shang Yu failed after Yuezheng Yao and Si Ming arrived, and Si Ming cornered him with help from Liu Qingqing's Blood Spirit Body. Li Ban escaped after the Blood Dragon Halberd’s Artifact Spirit was destroyed, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Li Ban wounded Shang Yu and nearly killed her, but Liu Qingqing and Yuezheng Yao intervened and disrupted his attack.
• Si Ming arrived, gravely wounded Li Ban, and revealed that he had escaped the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation while Mao Wei and Diao Mei were killed.
• Si Ming overwhelmed Li Ban and began exhausting his Blood Flow Gang Qi, but the Blood Dragon Halberd’s Artifact Spirit swallowed him and carried him into the sky.
• The Wheel-Turning King Sword destroyed the Artifact Spirit, and Li Ban fled in a streak of blood-red light.

Si Ming and his allies subdued Li Ban, who confessed that ambition and attachment to power had led him down the wicked path. Shang Yu killed him with the Wheel-Turning King Sword, then dissolved her remnant soul into Liu Qingqing, who woke feeling stronger and remembering more of her childhood.

• Yuezheng Yao slowed Li Ban as he fled, Liu Qingqing bound him, and Si Ming disrupted his forbidden art with the Heavenly Emperor's Finger.
• Si Ming challenged Li Ban's claims about ambition and reputation, then recited a poem that made Li Ban abandon his will to survive.
• Li Ban asked whether Shang Yu still loved him, and she said she was still willing to die for him.
• Shang Yu asked Li Ban whether he would die for her, and he accepted as she drove the Wheel-Turning King Sword through his heart.
• Shang Yu scattered her remnant soul, with its purest part merging into Liu Qingqing's soul.
• Liu Qingqing recovered in Si Ming's arms and said she felt stronger and could remember more from childhood.

Si Ming learned that Wan Ziling’s remnant soul had taken control of Liu Qingqing’s body and discovered her obsession was to utterly kill the Anye Beast King. The two argued over her refusal to change her wish or cooperate, leaving Si Ming frustrated and unable to use force while she occupied Liu Qingqing’s body.

• Si Ming and Liu Qingqing realized that fulfilling an obsession could grant an aptitude, and Liu Qingqing could no longer return to her body because another remnant soul had taken control.
• The remnant soul introduced herself as Wan Ziling and demanded that Si Ming keep his distance while she controlled Liu Qingqing’s body.
• After Yuezheng Yao reminded him, Si Ming recognized Wan Ziling as the daughter of the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s sect master and understood why she wanted the Anye Beast King destroyed.
• Si Ming proposed sealing the Anye Beast King and sending him to another world as an alternative, but Wan Ziling insisted her obsession could not be changed.
• Wan Ziling and Si Ming traded increasingly sharp insults over her lack of a plan and his attempts to help, until Si Ming gave up arguing because she was using Liu Qingqing’s body.