Recaps

Si Ming abandoned his attempt to help Wan Ziling reclaim her body after Liu Qingqing stopped him, then set out for the Southern Martial World after learning Si Jingyu and the others had been found. Wan Ziling chose not to visit her father at Righteous Qi Peak, while Si Ming sang about his loneliness as they traveled.

• Wan Ziling told Si Ming to kill her so the original owner could regain the body, but Si Ming questioned her reasons for wanting to die.
• Liu Qingqing repeatedly stopped Si Ming from carrying out Wan Ziling's request, and Si Ming finally agreed to let her live.
• Si Ming threatened to beat up Wan Yebai to get back at Wan Ziling, until Liu Qingqing stopped him from bullying her.
• Yuezheng Yao reported that Si Jingyu and the others had been found at the Glazed Temple, so Si Ming decided to head for the Southern Martial World.
• Wan Ziling thanked Liu Qingqing for intervening and declined to visit her father, saying she did not want her family to grieve for her again.

Si Ming listened as Yuezheng Yao explained the Yellow Bell Responding to the Pitch Formula, then reframed its principles through mathematics and became absorbed in working out how it related to martial arts. He ended the chapter announcing that he had grasped the connection, while Wan Ziling and Yuezheng Yao were left bewildered.

• Si Ming used his fierce presence to discourage troublemakers at a town restaurant, then asked Yuezheng Yao to explain the Yellow Bell Responding to the Pitch Formula.
• Yuezheng Yao explained how the twelve pitches related to the Classic of Changes and feng shui, leaving Si Ming confused.
• Si Ming rewrote Yuezheng Yao's diagram using numbers and letters, then began exploring algebraic geometry and topology as ways to understand the pitch system.
• Yuezheng Yao and Wan Ziling moved to another table, ate, and waited while Si Ming worked; Wan Ziling reflected on the contrast between his reputation and his character.
• Gongs and drums from the street prompted Si Ming to smash the table in excitement and declare that he understood the connection between algebraic topology, particle physics, and the martial art.

Si Ming stopped a Zhou Clan steward and his servants from forcing a young performer to meet their young master, then weighed whether the steward deserved a harsher punishment. After the crowd stayed silent, Si Ming let the steward go with a warning, and Wan Ziling challenged his reasoning.

• Yuezheng Yao watched a grandfather and granddaughter perform in the street as lechers mocked the girl.
• A Zhou Clan steward and two servants attacked the performers’ equipment and tried to seize the granddaughter, but Si Ming struck them down with chopsticks.
• The steward begged for mercy and claimed his young master only wanted the girl to sing and dance, while Si Ming considered whether the man’s actions warranted further punishment.
• Si Ming asked the townspeople to report any unforgivable crimes, but the steward’s threats kept them silent, so Si Ming pulled out the chopstick in the steward’s knee and let him go.
• Si Ming hurled another chopstick into the pleasure house and injured the young master, then the performers left and Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s decision to spare the steward.

Si Ming explained why he would not destroy the Zhou Clan, then returned to save a performing grandfather and granddaughter from the Merchant School’s pursuers. As Wan Ziling challenged his shifting justifications, the attackers prepared to fight them.

• Wan Ziling urged Si Ming to punish the Zhou Clan, but he argued that removing it would disrupt local order and that the Heavenly Martial Alliance could address the deeper problem.
• Si Ming said their more valuable goal was killing the Anye Beast King, and Wan Ziling admired his vision for changing the world.
• The Merchant School sent martial instructors and servants after the performing grandfather and granddaughter, despite abandoning revenge against Si Ming.
• Si Ming appeared behind the fleeing pair and killed the leading martial instructor, then claimed the pursuers’ attack gave them cause to confront the Merchant School.
• Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s contradictory remarks, and the remaining pursuers urged each other to attack the two of them.

Si Ming defeated the Zhou Clan’s pursuers, then punished them by shattering their kneecaps rather than killing them. After explaining that they had to answer for their past actions, he apologized to the grandfather and granddaughter he had used as bait and gave the girl a martial arts manual.

• Si Ming used the pursuers’ attacks against them, killing those who wielded weapons and injuring the unarmed fighters.
• When the survivors tried to flee, Si Ming stopped them with a sound-wave technique and captured them.
• Si Ming rejected their pleas for mercy and shattered their kneecaps, saying they had to answer for their past deeds.
• Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s harsh punishment, and he explained that future good behavior could not erase past wrongdoing.
• Si Ming apologized to the grandfather and granddaughter, gave the girl a martial arts manual, and left with Wan Ziling.

Si Ming stormed the Zhou Clan residence and crippled its retainers and master after accusing the clan of harming others. He also incapacitated a constable who arrived to arrest him, leaving the assault on the Zhou Clan unresolved.

• Si Ming and Wan Ziling reached the Zhou Clan residence, where Si Ming hurled a severed head at its plaque and smashed through the main gate.
• Si Ming overwhelmed the Zhou Clan’s armed servants and ambushers, then crippled the retainers who tried to flee with Sword Qi.
• Si Ming explained to Wan Ziling that he had threatened to cripple those who surrendered to encourage the Zhou Clan to resist.
• The Zhou Clan’s master offered gold and claimed he had killed his son, but Si Ming struck him and crippled his Cultivation Body.
• A constable arrived and accused Si Ming of breaking into a residence and killing people, so Si Ming struck him and crippled his Cultivation Body.

Anye Beast King attacked Dan Sword Manor and killed its defenders despite the young swordsman’s powerful counterattack. He entered the Chongguang Divine Shrine and severed the divine weapon sealing the Moon Demon Clan.

• Anye Beast King broke through Dan Sword Manor’s sword formation and killed the five swordsmen defending its main formation.
• The young swordsman unleashed the Dan Radiance Sword Art and wounded Anye Beast King, but Anye struck him dead and healed his own wound.
• Anye sensed a survivor in the manor but left them alone and entered the Chongguang Divine Shrine.
• Anye identified the Moon Demon Clan as the entity sealed inside and severed the divine weapon with Ferocious Spirit Divine Desolation.

Si Ming, Yuezheng Yao, and Wan Ziling continued toward the Glazed Temple while Wan Ziling used her freedom from worldly constraints to punish evildoers. After killing the Chivalrous Beggar, Fu Qiushuang, she struggled with the fact that his crimes would remain hidden, but Si Ming helped her accept that his admired reputation might still inspire others to do good.

• Si Ming, Yuezheng Yao, and Wan Ziling entered the Southern Martial World after two days of slow travel, during which Wan Ziling punished several villains.
• Wan Ziling investigated a gang that crippled children for begging and discovered that Fu Qiushuang, the Chivalrous Beggar, secretly controlled similar criminal organizations.
• Wan Ziling killed Fu Qiushuang, but she returned injured and worried that the martial world would remember him as a hero rather than expose his crimes.
• Si Ming argued that Fu Qiushuang's reputation could still encourage good deeds, and Wan Ziling admitted that his reasoning made her feel better.
• Wan Ziling explained that she had begun punishing evildoers more freely because death had freed her from concern about her reputation and the consequences for her sect.

Si Ming and Wan Ziling stumbled upon masked killers attacking a carriage and fought their way into the battle. As more familiar faces arrived to defend the carriage, Hu Jixian warned the attackers that the Dragon Boat Gang was on its way.

• Si Ming reflected a night watchman’s attack back at him, killing him, and Wan Ziling killed two masked attackers with the Rosy Cloud Heart Sword Art.
• Wan Ziling fought the ghost-masked commander while Si Ming headed toward the center of the battle and recognized the killers’ techniques.
• Masked killers attacked a carriage, and Si Ming recognized Hao Shuai when he rushed in to save a maid from a saber strike.
• Ke Chajing killed the attacker threatening Hao Shuai, and Hu Jixian drove back the killers near the carriage with his staff.
• Hu Jixian told the attackers that the Dragon Boat Gang was coming and challenged them to leave or face being surrounded.

Ximen Chou arrived to attack Hu Jixian, Ke Chajing, and their companions, forcing them to send the young lady away. Si Ming intervened and faced Ximen Chou, who launched a Yin Qi attack as Si Ming prepared to counter it.

• Hu Jixian bluffed that the Dragon Boat Gang would come to their aid, making the masked killers hesitate.
• Ximen Chou descended and overwhelmed the group with his Spirit Transformation Grandmaster strength.
• Hu Jixian and Ke Chajing held off Ximen Chou while Hao Shuai escorted the young lady away by water route.
• Ximen Chou sent a ghost claw after the carriage, but Si Ming shattered it and revealed himself.
• Si Ming challenged Ximen Chou, who attacked with Ghost Qi Swirling Through the Air as Si Ming moved to receive the blow.

Si Ming defeated Ximen Chou after pursuing him through town, then accepted his surrender and sealed his power. As Ke Chajing questioned how a coward could reach Spirit Transformation, Si Ming proposed that survival itself might be Ximen Chou’s conviction and asked him to explain.

• Si Ming chased Ximen Chou, caught him with the Asura Wrathful Form, and injured him with a Dragon-Elephant Stomp and palm strike.
• Ximen Chou surrendered, and Si Ming sealed his Qi and blood and suppressed his Cultivation Body.
• Ke Chajing looked down on Ximen Chou for fearing death and questioned how he had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Si Ming suggested that Ximen Chou’s conviction might be his determination to survive, then kicked him and asked him to explain.

Si Ming reunited with Ke Chajing, Hao Shuai, and Hu Jixian, who described the dangers they had faced on the Barbarian Continent and how Duanmu Die had helped them. After Duanmu Die arrived, Si Ming learned that the Deaf Ear Society had hired Ghost Fort and other factions to kill her.

• Ximen Chou regained his composure, and Ke Chajing told Si Ming how she had been scarred while adjusting to the Barbarian Continent’s ruthless fighting.
• Hao Shuai and Hu Jixian described how their experiences had changed their approach to combat, while Ke Chajing said they had learned to understand the Crimson Refinement Divine Palm.
• Ke Chajing explained that Duanmu Die had taken the group in after they were poisoned at a pawnshop, and Hu Jixian said he suspected she was hiding her martial abilities or had been injured.
• Duanmu Die stepped from the carriage and thanked Si Ming, whose intuition warned him to keep his distance from her.
• Duanmu Die suggested Si Ming ask Ximen Chou why Ghost Fort was hunting her, and Ximen Chou revealed that the Deaf Ear Society had hired multiple factions to kill her.

Si Ming learned that the Deaf Ear Society had recruited Ghost Fort to target his companions, while Duanmu Die revealed she was hunting the Dragon Devil’s son. Elsewhere, the Anye Beast King found a black-robed man raising a creature in the Weeping Blood Devil Cavern, and the man offered him a deal.

• Ximen Chou explained that the Deaf Ear Society’s members carried Devil Qi resembling that of the Devil Race, and said the evil factions would share information if Si Ming asked.
• Ke Chajing, Hu Jixian, and Hao Shuai realized Si Ming was the Heavenly Martial Alliance’s leader, and Hao Shuai joked about using his name to get away with misdeeds.
• Duanmu Die revealed she was an envoy of the Six Paths Sect, sent both to destroy the Blood Abyss Sect and to hunt the Dragon Devil’s son.
• The Anye Beast King entered the Weeping Blood Devil Cavern and found Mountain-Shaking Sect disciples dead around a giant cocoon that was feeding on their vital essence.
• A black-robed, horned man sitting atop the cocoon offered to make a deal with the Anye Beast King, who challenged him to name something he wanted.

The Anye Beast King rejected the black-robed Devil Race man's request to kill his pursuer, despite taking the Heavenly Devil Transformation Canon. Meanwhile, Duanmu Die offered Si Ming a deal to help defeat the Son of the Dragon Devil and gave him the Mysterious Extreme Divine Firmament Art, leaving Si Ming to examine its methods for cultivating Spirit Essence and the soul.

• The black-robed man offered the Anye Beast King the Heavenly Devil Transformation Canon in exchange for killing the person hunting him.
• The Anye Beast King took the crystal but refused the deal, deciding to wait for his pursuer instead, and the black-robed man angrily restrained his leaking Devil Qi.
• Duanmu Die asked Si Ming to help her deal with the Son of the Dragon Devil and explained that their powers were restricted by the chaotic Great Daos and the Eternal Barrier.
• Si Ming asked what Duanmu Die could offer, and she acknowledged that he had practiced the Taiyi Scripture of Deliverance from Sin but promised not to report him.
• Duanmu Die gave Si Ming the Mysterious Extreme Divine Firmament Art, and he learned that it combined yin-yang Internal Cultivation with lightning arts to cultivate a Divine Firmament Soul Body.

Si Ming reached the Glazed Temple seeking his wife and learned she had left for the Western Martial World amid a plot to usurp his position in the Heavenly Martial Alliance. After reuniting with Nie Wanzhi and Ying Zhou, he discovered Duanmu Die had brought the temple a method for improving the Wheel-Turning King Sword.

• Si Ming traveled to the Glazed Temple with Duanmu Die while Ximen Chou served the group and investigated the Deaf Ear Society, but found only an abandoned base.
• Abbot Fahong welcomed Si Ming and told him that his wife had left five days earlier to handle trouble in the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Si Ming asked Fahong to notify his wife and learned that Nie Wanzhi and Ying Zhou were at the temple after being mistaken for thieves who stole its teachings.
• Fahong apologized to Nie Wanzhi and Ying Zhou, then left them to catch up with Si Ming.
• Duanmu Die told Fahong she had brought a method for forging Buddhist weapons that could enhance the Wheel-Turning King Sword, though she thought it was no longer needed.

After the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s defeat, Duanmu Die learned that Fahong’s temple had not found the descendants she sought and shifted her focus to hunting the dragon demon’s son. At the Glazed Temple, Ying Zhou and Nie Wanzhi became lay disciples, while Si Ming discussed Ying Zhou’s dangerous Asura bloodline and then encountered a familiar novice nun in the Hall of Repentance.

• Duanmu Die handed Fahong the forging method and learned that his investigation had found no likely descendants of her religion’s elder.
• Duanmu Die accepted that the search might remain unresolved and said she would prioritize hunting the dragon demon’s son.
• With Si Ming’s support, Ying Zhou and Nie Wanzhi became lay disciples of the Glazed Temple and began receiving instruction.
• Fadeng warned Si Ming that Ying Zhou’s Asura bloodline could amplify his hostility and asked permission to teach him Buddhist doctrine; Si Ming allowed it but forbade coercion or deception.
• Si Ming visited the Hall of Repentance and found a novice nun sweeping there, remarking that her outfit suited her.

Si Ming visited Henzhen at the Glazed Temple, where she lived in the Hall of Repentance to avoid renewed conflict with disciples whose fellow students she had killed during the war. After testing their strength, they discussed the Anye Beast King and the difficulty of killing him.

• Si Ming found Henzhen living apart from the Glazed Temple disciples and suggested that time might eventually ease their blood feud.
• Si Ming asked Henzhen what she knew about the Anye Beast King and revealed that he had defeated him.
• Henzhen challenged Si Ming to test hands, and he overcame her attack with his defenses and a powerful strike before stopping short of injuring her.
• Henzhen used Buddhist martial arts to counter Si Ming's Evil-Slaying Sword Intent, and Si Ming ended their exchange before they damaged the Hall of Repentance.
• Henzhen warned Si Ming that the Anye Beast King was a sly schemer with no known weakness, and Si Ming acknowledged her hard work learning Buddhist martial arts.

Si Ming taught Henzhen a method for letting Buddhist Power and the Power of Anomalies coexist, then agreed to face the Son of the Dragon Devil after Duanmu Die revealed the Glazed Temple’s weapon-forging favor. He offered the temple a companion as a Buddhist disciple in exchange for its help refining the Wheel-Turning King Sword.

• Henzhen explained the Fierce Spirit Art to Si Ming, and he taught her the yin-yang coexistence method from the Mysterious Extreme Divine Firmament Art.
• Bi Xiaoyu summoned Si Ming to discuss the Deaf Ear Society, and Duanmu Die showed him the Son of the Dragon Devil’s challenge to duel at Divine Mang Mountain.
• Duanmu Die explained that she had once advised the Glazed Temple on forging a Buddhist weapon to suppress the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King.
• Si Ming accepted the challenge and asked Abbot Fahong to help improve the Wheel-Turning King Sword.
• Abbot Fahong hesitated because forging the weapon would require a hundred eminent monks to use their heartblood, so Si Ming offered his companion as a disciple for Fadeng.

Si Ming and his companions went to Divine Mang Mountain to confront the Son of the Dragon Devil, but Si Ming bombarded the suspicious site before checking for an ambush. The attack revealed nothing until a giant Void Corpse Kun appeared and the Son of the Dragon Devil and Moon Devil King emerged above it.

• Fahong warned Si Ming that chaos and released demons were spreading across the Eastern Martial World, possibly because of the Anye Beast King.
• Si Ming brought Yuezheng Yao and Wan Ziling to Divine Mang Mountain while Ke Chajing and the Glazed Temple's warrior monks attacked Deaf Ear Society strongholds elsewhere.
• Si Ming launched a barrage of nuclear blasts at Divine Mang Mountain, destroying the green mist and much of the terrain.
• Si Ming, Yuezheng Yao, and Wan Ziling searched the blast site but found no enemies or signs of an ambush.
• A gigantic Void Corpse Kun appeared in the sky with the Son of the Dragon Devil and Moon Devil King on its head, and the Dragon Devil credited the Moon Devil King with concealing them through an illusion.

Si Ming, Yuezheng Yao, and Wan Ziling found themselves trapped in a dark place that drained their Primal Qi, and Si Ming suspected they had been swallowed by a gigantic undead beast. After his attacks failed to free them, he noticed Yuezheng Yao’s disguise had shifted, and she insisted they must be inside an illusion.

• Si Ming used Solar Flare to light the darkness, and the group realized they had fallen into a trap.
• Yuezheng Yao noticed sticky mucus underfoot, and Si Ming guessed they were inside a giant beast’s stomach.
• The place drained their Primal Qi, so Si Ming struck the ground with physical force while Yuezheng Yao caught Wan Ziling.
• Si Ming’s blows injured the creature, but its wounds healed quickly, and Yuezheng Yao suggested it was an undead beast that could not feel pain.
• Si Ming noticed Yuezheng Yao’s breasts had become crooked, and she adjusted them before declaring that they were all caught in an illusion.

Si Ming and Yuezheng Yao argued over her figure before she revealed why she had spent years pretending to have a larger chest. After Wan Ziling inadvertently made Yuezheng feel worse, the group remained trapped, with their predicament still unresolved.

• Si Ming tried to reassure Yuezheng Yao about her figure, then admitted he preferred larger breasts and had to subdue her when she attacked him.
• Yuezheng Yao explained that she had begun wearing breast pads for fun, but kept the secret after fans argued over her figure and she hoped she would eventually develop naturally.
• Si Ming asked whether Yuezheng Yao's sister had worn breast pads when performing in her place, and Yuezheng said she resented her sister for continuing to develop.
• Si Ming reminded Yuezheng that they needed to find a way out and promised not to reveal her secret.
• Wan Ziling said that having large breasts could hinder martial artists and that she envied Yuezheng Yao's figure, leaving Yuezheng devastated and Wan Ziling confused.

Si Ming and Wan Ziling tried to signal for help from inside the monster while the Moon Devil King attacked them with illusions. The Moon Devil King turned into Hongdou to exploit Si Ming’s reluctance to strike, but Si Ming endured the attack and claimed he could use heart illusions too.

• Wan Ziling asked Si Ming how they could escape, and he activated Duanmu Die’s Spirit Rhinoceros Horn to locate its mate.
• The Moon Devil King emerged and tried to destroy the horn, but Si Ming dodged the attacks and kept it safe.
• Si Ming attacked the Moon Devil King, who used an illusion and Yin Thunder to strike him before heading for Yuezheng Yao.
• Yuezheng Yao restrained the Moon Devil King with Eight Sounds Silenced while Si Ming moved in to attack.
• The Moon Devil King transformed into Hongdou, and Si Ming held back his punch despite recognizing the illusion, taking a Palm Thunder to the chest.
• Si Ming recovered from the blast and told the Moon Devil King that he could use illusions of the heart as well.

Si Ming overcame the Moon Devil King’s illusions and strength, then revealed that he had used the delay to recover his True Qi. Liu Qingqing helped him prevent the two devils from escaping, and Si Ming wounded the Son of the Dragon Devil before his Solar Prominence Eruption state ended.

• Si Ming blindfolded himself and sealed his hearing to resist the Moon Devil King’s illusion, then met the Moon Devil King in a contest of strength.
• Si Ming used his Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace and the time spent talking with Yuezheng Yao and Wan Ziling to recover his True Qi, then overwhelmed the Moon Devil King.
• The Son of the Dragon Devil intervened with a powerful attack, forcing Si Ming to retreat and giving him a chance to seize the Moon Devil King.
• Liu Qingqing bound the Moon Devil King, and Si Ming countered his yin lightning with the Mirror Reflection Technique.
• The Son of the Dragon Devil blocked the reflected lightning with his wings, but Si Ming struck him with Vajra Gate and sent him flying while coughing blood.
• Si Ming’s golden light faded as he left the Solar Prominence Eruption state, and the Son of the Dragon Devil launched another attack.

Si Ming defeated the Moon Devil King after Liu Qingqing exposed his illusions, while Duanmu Die and the Six Paths Sect’s guardian beast trapped the Son of the Dragon Devil and the Void Corpse Kun. The Son of the Dragon Devil faced Nether Jiuying as Si Ming left the Moon Devil King gravely injured.

• The Moon Devil King blasted Liu Qingqing away and used illusions to evade Si Ming’s attacks.
• Duanmu Die stopped the Void Corpse Kun with Clear-Heart Square Floss and summoned Nether Jiuying to seize it.
• The Son of the Dragon Devil tried to break free, but Nether Jiuying attacked him and forced him to defend himself.
• The Moon Devil King launched a returning golden weapon and concealed its true path with illusions, but Si Ming dodged it.
• Si Ming used a red light to disrupt the Moon Devil King’s Qi, then struck him with eighteenfold divine strength and shattered his arms and ribs.

After the Moon Devil King possessed Liu Qingqing, Si Ming entered her sea of consciousness to help her and Wan Ziling fight him. He protected an unknown little girl’s remnant soul and joined the desperate battle, which continued as he learned how soul combat worked.

• The Moon Devil King’s black Qi possessed Wan Ziling’s body, but Liu Qingqing and Wan Ziling struggled with him for control from within.
• Si Ming hesitated to use a soul-killing technique because it could destroy Wan Ziling, while Liu Qingqing returned to her body to join the fight.
• Si Ming sent his soul into Liu Qingqing’s sea of consciousness and found Liu Qingqing and Wan Ziling losing ground against the Moon Devil King.
• Si Ming shielded a weak, unfamiliar remnant soul with lightning before joining the battle against the Moon Devil King.
• Si Ming observed that souls could change shape in combat, though transformed forms offered no special abilities and could slow their reactions.