Recaps

Nether Lord told Shentu Chuang to halt the Heaven-Defying Society’s plans to avoid exposing its ties to the Demon Race and proposed framing Xing Daozhuang for the coming crisis. The chapter ended with Nether Lord preparing to make the Monster Race the scapegoat as the war and attacks on the Divine Pillars escalated.

• Shentu Chuang drank alone in an underground tavern in the Nation of Valor until Nether Lord joined him unnoticed.
• Nether Lord ordered Shentu Chuang to abandon their earlier tasks because links to the Demon Race would alienate the Heaven-Defying Society’s supporters.
• Nether Lord said they would let the Moth Emperor attack the Divine Pillars and help her break the seals.
• Shentu Chuang suggested blaming Thunder King Xing Daozhuang, whose identity as a Monster Race member would make the accusation seem credible.
• Nether Lord revealed that he had offered Xing Daozhuang a chance to cooperate, but Xing Daozhuang had refused.
• Nether Lord said the Monster Race could serve as a rival villain organization to draw blame away from the Heaven-Defying Society.

Qingyan carried out a carefully planned bombing of the International Building and staged a broadcast claiming the Remote Heaven Society was responsible. The attack forced the joint conference to relocate and turned the Society into a public enemy, though one attendee doubted it was truly behind the bombing.

• The Nether Lord and Shentu Chuang discussed the failed newcomer’s death and their plan to wait for the Moth Emperor before acting against the Divine Pillar.
• Qingyan secured a well-paid mission to demolish part of a building, using his blasting qualification to win the commission.
• Qingyan surveyed the International Building, designed a precise detonation that would avoid ordinary people, and arranged a timed broadcast claiming responsibility on behalf of the Remote Heaven Society.
• The International Building was partially destroyed without casualties, and the international joint conference was suspended.
• Governments condemned the Remote Heaven Society, raised the bounties on its members, and formed an international constabulary to pursue it.
• The conference resumed at another location, where a representative doubted the Remote Heaven Society had carried out the attack.

Si Ming and Yu Shuying discussed using the Mohist Knight Guard to spread rumors against the Remote Heaven Society, while Xing Daozhuang told them the countries had formed a coalition army and tested Si Ming’s strength. The test ended with Xing Daozhuang preparing to unleash his Gan Trial Lightning Punishment.

• Si Ming and Yu Shuying agreed that the Remote Heaven Society had been framed but planned to spread the story of its crimes rather than defend it.
• Xing Daozhuang told Si Ming and Yu Shuying that the countries had appointed him commander of a coalition army, while the Nation of Valor had refused to join under his command.
• Yu Shuying explained that the Nation of Valor saw little advantage in joining the alliance, and Xing Daozhuang said Ba Shenhuang was confident he could act independently.
• Xing Daozhuang asked Si Ming to demonstrate his strength before deciding whether to entrust him with a task.
• Si Ming struck Xing Daozhuang with a powerful punch that shattered his lightning defense and drove him backward.
• Xing Daozhuang raised a mass of lightning and prepared to attack Si Ming with his Gan Trial Lightning Punishment.

Si Ming proved his strength to Xing Daozhuang and was assigned to protect human generals from a possible Demon Race decapitation strategy. On the coast of Yi State, the war began with human forces winning two clashes before a colossal Baxia emerged from the sea and threw them into panic.

• Si Ming fought off Xing Daozhuang’s lightning attack with his fists, and Xing Daozhuang praised Yan Jinghong’s disciple.
• Xing Daozhuang gave Si Ming a list of generals who might be targeted and ordered him to protect them with Mohist Knight Guards.
• Human and demon armies in Yi State sent champions to duel, and the humans won more bouts before a Spirit Transformation expert killed three demon generals in succession.
• The demon commander launched an attack on the western line, where human saber units cut down charging Devil Beasts and Divine Arts practitioners burned the aerial wasp spirits and ground forces.
• A colossal Baxia leaped from the sea, and the humans panicked at the sight of the enormous demon beast.

Si Ming and his allies killed a demon general who had attacked Pu Yi while the human defenders were distracted by Baxia. After the surprise attack failed, the breach was closed, but the Demon Race launched an all-out assault on the defensive line.

• Baxia broke through the human defensive line, forcing Pu Yi to send Spirit Transformation experts to stop it and warn the other battle zones about oversized demonic beasts.
• A demon general emerged near Pu Yi's command post and killed an aide, but Si Ming revealed himself and joined Si Huaruo and Ying Zhou in killing the attacker.
• Pu Yi thanked Si Ming for protecting him and the army, while Si Ming explained how the Demon Race had used Baxia to draw away the defenders before attacking the command post.
• Pu Yi restored order and redeployed the soldiers as a Spirit Transformation Grandmaster pinned Baxia with a huge spear, allowing the defenders to close the breach.
• The Demon Race's commander ordered an all-out assault, and the Human Race and Demon Race began a large-scale battle.

Si Ming and his companions ambushed and killed Demon Generals until the Demon Race retreated, earning him recognition as a powerhouse on par with Spirit Transformation Grandmasters. The chapter left Si Ming back with the Human army, where the Grandmasters praised his battlefield achievements.

• Si Ming left Pu Yi with Si Huaruo and Ying Zhou and targeted a golden scorpion Demon General.
• Si Ming stunned the scorpion, Si Huaruo froze him, and Ying Zhou killed him with a saber technique.
• Si Ming and his companions hunted Demon Generals, killing twelve, while Si Ming also killed a massive black centipede.
• The Demon Race's commander ordered a retreat, and Si Ming returned to the Human army rather than pursue the enemy recklessly.
• Spirit Transformation Grandmasters praised Si Ming and reassessed him as a powerhouse on their level.

After Si Ming helped defeat the demon generals, he warned Commander Pu Yi that the Demon Race might have recruited beasts from other seas and raised concerns about how it would feed its army and use flying beasts. The chapter ended with Si Ming asking what would happen if flying demon beasts slipped past the defenses and attacked civilians.

• Ying Zhou grumbled that Si Ming had received too much credit, but Pu Yi revealed that Si Ming had also saved him from a surprise attack by a demon general called Fuxi.
• The cultivators identified Fuxi as a divine beast and discussed how its appearance, alongside Baxia, might signal that the Demon Race had revealed a powerful new force.
• Si Ming suggested that the North Sea demon king might have enlisted help from the East Sea, prompting Pu Yi to warn the other battle zones to prepare for outside allies.
• Si Ming asked how the demon army could feed itself, and Pu Yi showed him that the beasts were eating the dead from their own ranks.
• Pu Yi explained how Divine Arts could counter flying beasts on the battlefield, but Si Ming warned that they could bypass the defenses and massacre civilians in the rear.

Si Ming became famous across the Northern Continent for ambushing demon generals, while Ying Zhou and Si Huaruo gained titles of their own. The chapter ended when two men from the Nation of Valor arrived to meet him.

• Si Ming traveled between battlefields, rescuing people from Xing Daozhuang’s list and ambushing demon generals, though he saved only about a third of those listed.
• The Demon Race tried to counter Si Ming with ambushes and bait, but his strength and skill made their efforts costly, so they began protecting their generals or avoiding battles while he was present.
• Si Ming’s companions discussed their public titles, and Yu Shuying told him that Beneath the Eastern Fence had named Si Huaruo “A Thousand Tides Dot the Snow.”
• A guard told Si Ming that two men from the Nation of Valor wished to see him, and he ordered the guard to let them in.

Si Ming denied taking the Nation of Valor's Profound Armor and turned its envoys' pleas into offers they could not accept. After Mulajiang and Dai Tong signed waivers to remain near him, Si Ming asked Yu Shuying why she had let them stay.

• Si Ming claimed the Profound Armor had been damaged in battle and lost at sea, then denied that a smuggled chest had contained it.
• Mulajiang and Dai Tong begged Si Ming to return the armor, but he offered to shelter them and bring their families to Su State.
• Si Ming argued that the envoys were refusing the only help he could offer, leaving them bewildered and frustrated.
• Mulajiang and Dai Tong insisted on staying beside Si Ming until they recovered the armor.
• Yu Shuying threatened to have the envoys treated as suspected Demon Race spies unless they signed waivers, and they signed their names.
• After the envoys left, Si Ming asked Yu Shuying why she had allowed them to stay.

Si Ming accepted Yu Shuying’s warning that his growing fame had made him careless and agreed to help turn a possible ambush against the Demon Race and Remote Heaven Society. Meanwhile, Nether Lord confronted Xing Daozhuang about the failed plot to eliminate people targeted by the Heaven-Defying Society, and learned that Yan Jinghong had sent Xing a suspicious letter.

• Yu Shuying warned Si Ming that the Demon King and Remote Heaven Society might target him and endanger Ying Zhou and Si Huaruo.
• Si Ming admitted that flattery and easy victories had made him overconfident, then agreed with Yu Shuying to plan a counterplot.
• Xing Daozhuang sent Lord Yunxia away and summoned Nether Lord, who demanded explanations about the International Building explosion and the failed killings.
• Xing Daozhuang blamed Si Ming’s interference on Yan Jinghong’s instructions and showed Nether Lord Yan Jinghong’s letter warning him to obey the Law of the Mohists.
• Nether Lord noticed that Yan Jinghong seemed suspicious of Xing Daozhuang and asked why.

Xing Daozhuang deflected Nether Lord’s suspicions while concealing the truth about Yan Jinghong’s letter and the Moth Emperor’s role in the bombing. Meanwhile, Si Ming and his companions traveled toward Russia’s front, where Yu Shuying reported that humanity still held the overall advantage.

• Xing Daozhuang and Nether Lord argued over whether someone in the Heaven-Defying Society had exposed his identity, and Nether Lord left a black chrysanthemum to monitor him.
• After Nether Lord vanished, Xing Daozhuang realized their exchange had been a contest of acting and that the letter he showed was forged; Yan Jinghong had only asked him to caution Si Ming against complacency.
• Xing Daozhuang examined the black chrysanthemum, suspected it could transmit sound, and chose not to warn Si Ming before a young woman forced her way in to see him.
• Si Ming, Yu Shuying, Si Huaruo, and Ying Zhou traveled toward Russia after its defensive line was breached and the fighting reached a stalemate.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that humanity had the overall advantage and could win in two or three months, then complained that he had not offered her water.

Si Ming and his companions were ambushed by Shentu Chuang and four Demon Marshals, then trapped in an array and forced into a fierce battle. Si Ming held off several attackers while Si Huaruo, Ying Zhou, and Yu Shuying fought another, and the chapter ended with Xu Ming revealing his identity as one of the Four Demon Marshals of the North Sea.

• Si Ming rescued Yu Shuying and Si Huaruo from a venomous blast, but Shentu Chuang and two hidden Demon Marshals attacked him.
• Pitch-black spears formed an array around the group as Si Huaruo and Ying Zhou fought a Demon Marshal wielding crocodile-jaw shears.
• Xu Ming attacked Si Ming with overwhelming palm force, but the two fought to a standstill.
• Two demonesses coordinated their attacks against Si Ming, who used the Mirror Reflection Technique to send their Sword Qi back at them.
• Si Ming's saber strike barely hurt the shears-wielding demon, while Ying Zhou wounded him with Cloud Thunder Drums and Lightning Flashes.
• Xu Ming introduced himself as one of the Four Demon Marshals of the North Sea and revealed his purple frog form.

Si Ming was ambushed by the North Sea Demon Marshals and Demon King Mengying, who used a formation to suppress him and threatened his companions as hostages. Si Ming realized the enemies had manipulated his reputation to predict his route, but he declared that their plan had made a grave mistake.

• Hujia, Shiying, and Youtong introduced themselves as North Sea Demon Marshals, while Shentu Chuang revealed himself as Bold Evil.
• Si Ming dismissed the marshals’ threats and mocked their attempt to kill him.
• Mengying attacked Si Ming with an insect swarm, but Si Ming burned through the insects and their poisonous smoke with Blazing Sun Light Burst.
• Si Ming and Mengying clashed repeatedly inside the formation, and Si Ming was knocked into a crater with shallow insect bites across his body.
• Mengying threatened to kill Yu Shuying and the others if Si Ming fled, then explained that the demons had predicted his route by exploiting his arrogance.
• Si Ming suspected the Remote Heaven Society had helped bait him and told Mengying that the ambush had made a huge mistake.

Ling Huanxi and Murong Qing joined Si Ming’s side and fought the demon commanders within the Cold Mist and Silent Snow Formation. As Si Huaruo used the formation to strengthen her cultivation and freeze Hujia with her counterattacks, the battle continued with the demons under pressure.

• Ling Huanxi and Murong Qing descended through the formation, and each engaged one of the female demons in combat.
• Murong Qing used the snow and ice to track Youtong’s movements, countered her assassinations, and forced her out of the shadows.
• Mengying claimed the demons still had the advantage in numbers, while Ying Zhou and Yu Shuying discussed the formation’s increasing cold.
• Si Huaruo said the formation had raised her Internal Cultivation to the Spirit Transformation level and attacked Hujia with a snow wave and her staff.
• Si Huaruo struck Hujia with Counter-Wave Ice Firmament, sending cold through his body and beginning to accumulate frost with each clash.

Si Ming fought Mengying, Shentu Chuang, and Xu Ming while the freezing formation strengthened his side. After defeating Shentu Chuang and countering Xu Ming, he unleashed a powerful palm strike against Mengying, who answered with a domain of black insects.

• Ying Zhou intercepted Hujia's attack on Si Huaruo as the formation's temperature continued to fall.
• Mengying, Shentu Chuang, and Xu Ming attacked the formation, but Si Ming revealed that a third companion was maintaining it from outside.
• Si Ming overwhelmed the attackers with accumulated fist force, then countered Shentu Chuang's saber and struck him into the air.
• Xu Ming charged Si Ming with his Golden Toad Limitless Skill, but Si Ming redirected his force and sent him flying toward Mengying.
• Si Ming unleashed Nine Suns Return to One, Heavenly Dragon Destroys the World against Mengying, who summoned a swarm of insects with Qiongfangchi Ghost Domain.

Si Ming fought Mengying and his allies in a decisive clash of ultimate moves while Si Huaruo and Ying Zhou battled Hujia. The fight left Si Ming injured and ended with Hujia capturing Ying Zhou and threatening to kill him.

• Si Ming charged Mengying through the insect swarm, then began gathering power for an ultimate move as the formation's cold weakened Mengying.
• Mengying, Xu Ming, and Shentu Chuang unleashed their attacks against Si Ming, who answered with Nine Suns Return to One, Formless Tathagata.
• The clash injured Si Ming and forced him back, while Mengying realized that Si Ming's real target was Hujia.
• Si Huaruo used the freezing formation to outmaneuver Hujia and wear down his Cultivation Body as Ying Zhou harried him from the side.
• When Hujia appeared frozen, Ying Zhou attacked, but Hujia trapped the Conquest Demon Saber in his scissors and seized Ying Zhou.
• Hujia threatened to kill Ying Zhou unless Si Huaruo came to him.

Murong Qing fought Youtong in the snow and gained the upper hand through her swordsmanship and unwavering confidence. Ling Huanxi stopped Youtong from escaping, and Murong Qing’s ultimate move cornered the wounded demon marshal, who faced a surprise attack from behind.

• Murong Qing and Youtong exchanged sword attacks until Murong Qing shattered Youtong’s demonic sword and pierced her heart.
• Youtong fled as a mass of shadow, but Ling Huanxi sealed Shiying and used her ice phoenix spear to force Youtong back into view.
• Murong Qing unleashed Stars Sway, Moon Stands Alone, Shadows of a Thousand Mountains, while Youtong gouged out her eyes and fired poisonous black blade currents at the sword clones.
• Murong Qing’s clones overwhelmed Youtong’s defenses, and one circled behind her as she prepared to sacrifice her wrist to escape.

Si Ming’s group nearly defeated Demon King Mengying’s forces, but a giant centipede broke the formation and helped the enemies escape. After the battle, Si Ming met Ji Shichen, a Heaven’s Will Palace ally, and approached her while she read by a stream.

• Murong Qing killed Youtong with her Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art, while Si Ming killed Hujia and urged the remaining enemies to surrender.
• Mengying’s forces fled when a giant centipede smashed through the formation, knocking Si Ming aside and disappearing underground.
• Si Ming learned that the formation’s keeper was Ji Shichen, a chief priest of the Mohist Religion and fellow member of Heaven’s Will Palace.
• Yu Shuying explained that she had summoned Hualiu to bring reinforcements, though Ji Shichen and the class monitor had arrived instead.
• Si Ming found Ji Shichen reading beside a stream and asked what book she was reading.

Ji Shichen visited Si Ming to discuss his novels and her plans to write a fanfiction, while Si Ming learned that her reading tastes included stories about male characters. After checking the group’s injuries following their battle, Si Ming saw Ying Zhou prepare to leave so he could repair his damaged saber.

• Ji Shichen admitted that she was reading a naughty book and offered it to Si Ming, who accepted before later returning it.
• Ji Shichen asked Si Ming about romantic interpretations of characters in his Three Kingdoms novels and explained that she wanted permission to write a story about Zhou Gongjin, Zhuge Kongming, and Sima Zhongda.
• Si Ming explained parallel worlds to Ji Shichen, who said his novels had inspired her to write stories about their characters.
• Si Ming checked the group’s injuries and found that Murong Qing’s wounds were mostly external, while her victory over a Demon Marshal had greatly advanced her cultivation.
• Ying Zhou asked to leave the group so he could have his damaged Conquest Demon Saber repaired.

Xing Daozhuang’s allied forces prepared to launch a decisive assault after secretly poisoning most of the Demon Race’s demonic beasts with Wu Xiu’s Blood-Rupturing Powder. As battle erupted, Xing Daozhuang wrestled with the burden of his heroic identity and the risk that his true allegiance to the Monster Race would be exposed.

• Xing Daozhuang’s officers and Spirit Transformation Grandmasters waited anxiously for the appointed time, while Lord Yunxia and others praised his strategy and Wu Xiu’s poison.
• Xing Daozhuang’s plan had used Si Ming as bait to distract the demon king while the allies poisoned the demonic beasts and completed their preparations.
• Xing Daozhuang ordered the commanders of every military district to begin the all-out assault, and messengers sent the signal.
• The allied forces launched their attack with drums, explosions, and battle cries filling the air.
• Xing Daozhuang reflected on his decades-long disguise and feared how people would react if they learned he belonged to the Monster Race, then overturned the sand table.

Wu Xiu and Xing Daozhuang stopped the Demon King Mengying’s surprise attack on the central army, though Lord Yunxia was badly wounded. Xing Daozhuang’s Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd injured Mengying, who launched another swarm of insects at him.

• Six demon generals attacked Xing Daozhuang, but Wu Xiu poisoned them with Three Paths Gu and destroyed their bodies with a catalyst.
• Mengying’s insect swarm overwhelmed Lord Yunxia’s defenses and left her covered in venomous bites.
• Xing Daozhuang summoned the Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd and struck through the swarm with Startling Thunder Drinks the Rainbow.
• The lightning burned many insects and wounded Mengying, who re-formed and asked the halberd’s name.
• Mengying sent another vast swarm of insects toward Xing Daozhuang, accompanied by a mind-rending noise.

After the allied army routed most of the demon beasts, Yu Shuying warned that the Nation of Valor would face greater pressure as the Demon Race concentrated its forces there. Si Ming then disguised himself to investigate the Divine Pillar and discovered how to create a face-blindness effect by manipulating light.

• Shi Yuan struck the centipede Demon Marshal with his hammer, shattering its carapace and leaving it unable to rise.
• Xing Daozhuang fought Mengying until reinforcements approached, forcing Mengying to flee with the wounded centipede.
• At a secret Mohist Knight Guard base, Yu Shuying explained that poison made from Wu Xiu had routed the demon army, but the Nation of Valor would likely be left to face the remaining demons alone.
• Si Ming questioned whether his slight disguise could fool others, and Ji Shichen explained how True Qi could blur the light reflected from a person's face.
• Si Ming realized his Blazing Yang Battle Art could manipulate light and began trying to create a face-blindness effect.

Si Ming and his companions infiltrated the Nation of Valor to investigate the Divine Pillar, while Yu Shuying suspected that an influential traitor was spreading news to undermine Ba Shenhuang. Ji Shichen found no sign that the Remote Heaven Society had acted, but Hualiu sensed a sealed presence beneath the pillar, possibly a King of Monsters.

• Si Ming struggled to disguise his face, then joined the others as they left the Mohist Knight Guard's hideout and traveled through the city unnoticed.
• The group heard that someone inside the Nation of Valor was spreading news of the allied forces' victory, and Yu Shuying suspected the person sought to weaken Ba Shenhuang or distract troops from the Divine Pillar.
• Si Ming's group reached the military-controlled Divine Pillar site and entered its core area after knocking out the soldiers guarding it.
• Ji Shichen used the Steps of Yu to investigate and found no abnormalities, estimating that the Divine Pillar would shift into the Prime Material Plane in ten days.
• After the group escaped, Hualiu told Si Ming she had sensed one of her kind flickering beneath the Divine Pillar, and Yu Shuying suggested it might be suppressing a King of Monsters.

Si Ming and his companions returned to the Divine Pillar, where the garrison had gathered to defend it, and Si Ming tested a new technique against their crossbow attack. He drove the soldiers back without killing them, but recognized that his move still had serious limits against equally strong opponents.

• Si Ming and his companions found that the garrison had withdrawn its patrols and fortified the Divine Pillar area.
• Si Ming went out alone to frighten the soldiers with his appearance, voice, and Dragon-Elephant Stomp.
• The commander ordered the soldiers to fire crossbow bolts at Si Ming.
• Si Ming used his new Receive, Transform, Channel, Release technique to deflect the bolts and send them back without their arrowheads.
• Si Ming reflected on the technique’s strengths and its flaw: he had to withstand an attack he might not be able to survive.

Si Ming subdued the Nation of Valor garrison with his reflection technique and Hualiu’s archery, then learned that the Monster Race had gathered many powerful fighters near the Divine Pillar. Ji Shichen explained how the Heaven-Defying Society could summon a Divine Pillar by uniting the consciousnesses of the living or the dead, leaving their plans and the threat of a battlefield-fueled summoning unresolved.

• Si Ming reflected the garrison soldiers’ attacks, defeated two level-ten experts with their own combined ultimate move, and had Hualiu shoot down the fleeing guards.
• Ji Shichen and Hualiu used the Star Staff to scout the area and discovered at least ten Monster Race experts at Spirit Transformation level, along with many other powerful members.
• Si Ming concluded that their group needed reinforcements and wondered whether the Heaven-Defying Society was targeting another Divine Pillar instead.
• Ji Shichen explained that summoning a Divine Pillar required the right arrival window and the united consciousnesses of tens of thousands of living or dead people.
• Si Ming realized the Heaven-Defying Society had exploited the killings during the unrest in France to gather the dead’s thoughts, and noted that a battlefield could provide them with even more.