Recaps

Ling Huanxi taught Si Huaruo that spear techniques were built around killing, unlike the staff’s emphasis on subduing. She demonstrated the spear’s killing intent, prompting Si Huaruo to instinctively defend herself before lowering her staff.

• Ling Huanxi explained that the main difference between staff and spear techniques was that staffs subdued while spears killed.
• Si Huaruo asked about the saying that mastering the spear took a lifetime.
• Ling Huanxi dismissed the saying and explained that a spear was easy to use for killing, making it common on battlefields.
• Ling Huanxi demonstrated her spear’s killing intent, and Si Huaruo instinctively raised a defensive stance before recovering.

Ling Huanxi trained Si Huaruo in spear intent while Ji Shichen taught Hualiu archery, and Si Ming listened as Murong Qing and Yu Shuying argued over military leadership and caution. After Murong Qing apologized, Yu Shuying admitted she was jealous of her advancement to Spirit Transformation and vented her frustration on a pillow bearing Murong Qing's name.

• Ling Huanxi corrected Si Huaruo's attempts to cultivate killing intent, while Ji Shichen instructed Hualiu to focus on archery technique.
• Murong Qing explained that Ling Huanxi had achieved her skill through single-minded devotion, and Si Ming questioned whether diligence could compensate for limited talent.
• Yu Shuying and Murong Qing argued over whether a commander should protect himself from assassination, and Si Ming intervened to calm them.
• Murong Qing apologized and told Si Ming to comfort Yu Shuying, who had become upset after learning of Murong Qing's Spirit Transformation advancement.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming she was jealous, then wrote Murong Qing's name on a pillow and pounded it.

Si Ming told Yu Shuying that she and Murong Qing did not need to reconcile, and Yu Shuying explained that she saw Murong as the light that threatened to erase her shadow. Meanwhile, Qingyan complained that the Blood Pupil Society had no assassination work for him, rejecting another building demolition commission as beneath an assassin.

• Si Ming argued that Yu Shuying and Murong Qing could remain at odds while cooperating against the Remote Heaven Society, and Yu Shuying admitted she would join forces with Murong if needed.
• Yu Shuying said she disliked Murong because she represented honorable success while Yu Shuying had not yet found her own path.
• Si Ming suggested Yu Shuying use a pillowcase bearing Murong Qing’s photo to relieve stress, and Yu Shuying agreed to try it.
• Qingyan asked Hongyi why he had not received another mission after completing one, and Hongyi reminded him that he had turned down a demolition job.
• Qingyan dismissed demolishing old buildings as unsuitable work for an assassin.

Qingyan accepted an open assassination mission targeting a girl close to Mad Ink, despite the danger of provoking Mad Ink and the Mohist Knight Guard. Meanwhile, Si Ming bought sugar-roasted chestnuts and casually discussed how food could be used for poison, unaware that his words had alarmed the old woman selling them.

• Hongyi offered Qingyan a chance to change careers, but a new assassination commission arrived from the same client as before.
• Qingyan refused to target Mad Ink, judging the famous powerhouse far too strong to assassinate safely.
• Hongyi explained that the commission also targeted a girl close to Mad Ink and warned that harming her would invite retaliation.
• Qingyan asked whether the girl's assassination was an open mission, then decided to accept it despite Hongyi's concern.
• Si Ming sent Ji Shichen and Hualiu back to base while he went to the shopping street for food.
• Si Ming bought sugar-roasted chestnuts and joked about fictional poisonings, prompting the old woman to insist her food was safe and refuse to discount it.

Si Ming stopped an assassination attempt on the street, then rushed to help Ji Shichen and Hualiu when he realized the attack might be a diversion. Ji Shichen defeated the assassins surrounding her, and Si Ming went to check on the others.

• A group of disguised assassins attacked Si Ming with knives, guns, claw strikes, and a poisoned smoke bomb.
• Si Ming redirected the attackers’ weapons and neutralized the poison, while Li Shuang escaped under cover of smoke.
• Si Ming suspected the attack was a diversion and hurried toward the sounds of fighting.
• Si Ming found Ji Shichen surrounded by four sword-wielding assassins and Hualiu injured nearby.
• Ji Shichen used the Falling Star Staff Technique to shatter the assassins’ swords and kill all four.
• Ji Shichen told Si Ming to check on the others, and he left Hualiu in her care before rushing off.

Yu Shuying received a shipment and learned that her gang’s claw-machine business was thriving as its members moved into legitimate work. Daoist Crow attacked her, but after she defeated his crows and countered his poison, he launched a second attack that left Diao Bao wounded and Yu Shuying facing his claw strike.

• Diao Bao delivered Yu Shuying an overweight suitcase of materials and reported that the gang’s claw-machine business had spread to neighboring states and filled orders through March of next year.
• Yu Shuying’s factories attracted gang members with steady pay and benefits, and Diao Bao proposed renaming the Azure Flood Dragon Gang the Azure Dragon Gang.
• Daoist Crow sent thousands of crows diving at Yu Shuying and Diao Bao, but the birds burst apart within three zhang of Yu Shuying.
• Daoist Crow used a skull formed from the crows’ resentment to draw in and burn up the Three Paths Gu poison, then explained how he had prepared to counter it.
• Daoist Crow attacked Yu Shuying with scarlet finger force, and Diao Bao blocked the strikes before Daoist Crow shattered his air barrier and wounded him.
• Daoist Crow reached for Yu Shuying, who anticipated his move with her Mind-Reading Technique and thrust two water-parting spikes toward his palm.

Yu Shuying killed Daoist Crow with the Three Paths Gu, but an illusion and a pair of assassins left her trapped and paralyzed. The naked woman and her partner prepared to take Yu Shuying hostage and punish Diao Bao, while Yu Shuying warned them to flee.

• Yu Shuying revealed that she had poisoned Daoist Crow with the Three Paths Gu, and his body exploded before his skeleton lunged at her.
• Yu Shuying realized she was caught in an illusion, evaded an attack, and burned the disguised woman with a phosphorus fire bomb.
• A man in a skintight outfit trapped Yu Shuying in a poisoned net and sealed her acupoints while the woman urged him to capture her.
• The woman decided to spare Diao Bao’s life but gouge out his eyes, then threatened to torture Yu Shuying despite needing her as a hostage.

Qingyan attacked the assassins who had captured Yu Shuying, but Si Ming arrived and killed them before Qingyan could strike her. After Murong Qing and the others reported demonic beasts attacking across the Nation of Valor, Si Ming and Yu Shuying realized their enemies were trying to distract them from the Divine Pillar.

• Qingyan ambushed the three captors and used his sword technique to create an opening to attack Yu Shuying.
• Si Ming arrived and killed the three captors with a punch, then freed Yu Shuying from the net and unsealed her acupoints.
• Qingyan warned Si Ming that someone had put a price on his head, then left without completing the mission.
• Yu Shuying urged Si Ming to hurry to protect the Divine Pillar, and Murong Qing and the others arrived.
• Murong Qing and Si Huaruo reported that scattered demonic beasts had attacked people across the Nation of Valor, delaying their group.
• Yu Shuying concluded that their enemies had released the beasts to occupy them and force a choice between protecting the Divine Pillar and the people.

Murong Qing and the others followed Yu Shuying’s plan to defend the Divine Pillar and stop the demonic beasts. At the pillar, the Nether Lord summoned it with a ritual, and the Moth Emperor prepared to attack it with the divine sword Wheel of Time.

• Murong Qing proposed a vote over whether to protect the Divine Pillar or fight the demonic beasts, but Yu Shuying said she had already arranged reinforcements.
• Yu Shuying sent Si Ming and Ji Shichen to stall the attackers at the Divine Pillar while the others intercepted the demonic beasts.
• The Moth Emperor and the Nether Lord reached the Divine Pillar, where a black-armored general had killed the defending soldiers.
• The Nether Lord used the soldiers’ dark Qi and a cyan jade dragon to summon the Divine Pillar, then explained that Spiritual Qi could not harm it.
• The Nether Lord gave the Moth Emperor the divine sword Wheel of Time, which she recognized as a powerful weapon capable of controlling time.

Si Ming intercepted the Moth Emperor as she tried to cut down the Divine Pillar, and fought to melt the Wheel of Time Sword before she could damage it. When the Moth Emperor landed beside Xuan Kai, Ji Shichen launched a Great White Arrow at the Nether Lord.

• The Nether Lord explained that the Eternal Barrier had suppressed the divine powers of weapons, and the Moth Emperor waited for the Divine Pillar to fully descend.
• Si Ming struck the Moth Emperor into the Divine Pillar and tried to melt the Wheel of Time Sword with the Vermilion Flame Sword.
• The Moth Emperor broke free, counterattacked with her wind and sword techniques, and Si Ming destroyed her clones with a burst of white light.
• Si Ming continued attacking the Wheel of Time Sword, scorching and melting its blade while preventing the Moth Emperor from reaching the Divine Pillar.
• The Nether Lord said Xuan Kai could fight on the ground, and the Moth Emperor landed beside the black-armored general after Si Ming cut her ear.
• Ji Shichen fired Great White Arrow: Fierce Destruction and Slaughter at the Nether Lord.

Si Ming fought Moth Emperor and the black-armored general to stop them from destroying the Divine Pillar. Moth Emperor’s broken sword failed to bring the pillar down, but strange presences began leaking from its base as the battle continued.

• Si Ming shattered Moth Emperor’s arm with a Shennong Fist Art punch, then clashed with the black-armored general and damaged his helmet.
• Si Ming chased Moth Emperor away from the Divine Pillar and kept her fighting while heating the Vermilion Flame Sword until her Wheel of Time Sword began to melt.
• The black-armored general trapped Si Ming with a four-clawed black flood dragon, giving Moth Emperor a chance to race toward the Divine Pillar.
• Nether Lord failed to fully stop Ji Shichen’s arrow from striking Moth Emperor, but Moth Emperor still slashed the Divine Pillar with her damaged sword.
• The Divine Pillar cracked and tilted but held firm, while the Wheel of Time Sword broke in two.
• Si Ming cut down the black flood dragon and celebrated, then sensed strange presences growing denser at the base of the Divine Pillar.

The Moth Emperor freed fewer than a hundred aging monsters from beneath the Divine Pillar, then considered joining forces with the Nether Lord to damage the Pillar. Si Ming tried to stall them, but the chapter ended with Murong Qing and several Demon Marshals fighting his companions nearby.

• The Moth Emperor and the monsters discovered that the seal had broken, and the freed monsters thanked her for saving them.
• The Moth Emperor learned that most of the monsters had died of old age inside the seal and warned the survivors that they needed to unite against the Human Race.
• The Moth Emperor challenged the Nether Lord over his earlier lack of effort, but agreed to help him after he proposed using Xuan Kai's Soaring Flood Dragon to widen the Divine Pillar's crack.
• Si Ming asked the monsters who had sealed them beneath the Divine Pillar, buying time as they failed to identify their captor.
• The Nether Lord revealed that Si Ming's companions could not come, and Si Ming saw Murong Qing fighting a giant centipede while several Demon Marshals battled the others.

Si Ming charged the Monster Race forces to stop the black-armored general from severing the Divine Pillar, while reinforcements arrived from the Barbarian Continent and Ba Shenhuang intervened. With the Divine Pillar secured, Ba Shenhuang prepared to attack the Remote Heaven Society and Monster Race, and Si Ming discovered his Vermilion Bird Profound Armor had been damaged.

• Nether Lord explained that the Remote Heaven Society had intercepted the garrison's requests for help and urged Si Ming to abandon the Divine Pillar and save his companions.
• Si Ming charged the black-armored general, but Moth Emperor and Mengying weakened him and stopped his advance before he could prevent the strike.
• Reinforcements from the Barbarian Continent arrived and blocked the Monster Race's attacks on Si Ming.
• Ba Shenhuang appeared, stopped the black-armored general's sword, and blasted him away from the Divine Pillar.
• Yu Shuying revealed that she had contacted Ba Shenhuang through two Nation of Valor debt collectors, and Ba Shenhuang threatened the Remote Heaven Society and Monster Race.
• Si Ming climbed out of the rubble, saw that Ba Shenhuang had secured the Divine Pillar, and discovered his Vermilion Bird Profound Armor was damaged.

Si Ming tried to persuade the Nether Lord to retreat while Ba Shenhuang fought Mengying and Xuan Kai near the Divine Pillar. The Nether Lord withdrew after Ba Shenhuang defeated Xuan Kai’s empty armor, while Si Ming and the Moth Emperor began a true fight to the death.

• Si Ming urged the Nether Lord to abandon the battle, but the Nether Lord chose to make an effort alongside Xuan Kai.
• Ba Shenhuang drove Mengying’s insect swarm back, exposed his true body, and wounded him with a punch.
• Ba Shenhuang left Mengying to stop Xuan Kai from reaching the Divine Pillar and struck the black-armored general back.
• Mengying and Xuan Kai attacked together, but Ba Shenhuang’s Eight Phoenixes Defy the Dao injured Mengying and smashed Xuan Kai’s greatsword and armor.
• Ba Shenhuang discovered that Xuan Kai’s armor was empty, and the Nether Lord withdrew without helping the Monster Race.
• Si Ming and the Moth Emperor began their third clash as a deadly fight, and the Moth Emperor used Mist of Illusory Darkness.

Si Ming broke Moth Emperor's poisonous illusion and wounded her while the Glazed Temple monks overwhelmed the Monster Race. Facing her allies' retreat, Moth Emperor unleashed multiplying blood swords to occupy Si Ming and flew toward her own kind.

• Moth Emperor trapped Si Ming in a poisonous sea of flowers and knocked the Vermilion Flame Sword from his hand.
• Si Ming drew the Wheel-Turning King Sword, destroyed the flowers with an evil-slaying Daoist sword art, and forced Moth Emperor back.
• The Glazed Temple monks overwhelmed the Monster Race with coordinated formations, and Master Fadeng killed a Divine General Level monster.
• Si Ming wounded the distracted Moth Emperor, who then saw Ba Shenhuang repel the Demon King and destroy the black-armored general as Nether Lord fled.
• Moth Emperor suspected that the Heaven-Defying Society had used her forces as pawns and spent her essence blood to launch a blood sword before flying toward her own kind.
• Si Ming cut the blood sword apart, but its fragments multiplied, damaged the Vermilion Bird Profound Armor, and forced him to counter with a rotating barrage of sword rays.

Si Ming fought the Moth Emperor after she devastated the battlefield, then tried to learn who had arranged her release from the Divine Pillar. When she unleashed her ultimate move to force an escape, Si Ming opened the World-Saving Formation to stop her.

• The Moth Emperor used her speed to grievously injure the Glazed Temple monks and Heavenly Martial Alliance heroes while Si Ming destroyed many monsters with his sword technique.
• Si Ming confronted the Moth Emperor over the deaths in Linked Mountains City and asked who had masterminded her release, but she denied there was an accomplice outside the Remote Heaven Society.
• The Moth Emperor threatened to kill Si Ming’s allies and tried to break away, but Yu Shuying’s divination-guided Jupiter Arrow restrained her and helped Si Ming press his attack.
• The Moth Emperor transformed into her giant moth form and unleashed “Heaven and Earth Wither, Yin and Yang Run Dry!” against the Barbarian Continent’s experts.
• Si Ming intercepted the attack and drove the Wheel-Turning King Sword into the ground, activating the World-Saving Formation.

Si Ming turned the Moth Emperor’s ultimate move back on her, badly wounding her before pursuing her across a thousand li. She reached Xing Daozhuang at Rui State’s mustering platform, where she revealed the Monster Race’s defeat and urged him to abandon his identity and flee with her.

• Si Ming used the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to withstand, transform, strengthen, and reflect the Moth Emperor’s ultimate move, gravely injuring her.
• The wounded Moth Emperor fled south, and Si Ming pursued her in the damaged Vermilion Bird Profound Armor.
• At Rui State’s mustering platform, Xing Daozhuang’s generals mocked the Nation of Valor’s predicament until the Moth Emperor crashed down and warned that the operation had failed.
• Xing Daozhuang killed the generals and destroyed their bodies to conceal his identity and the Moth Emperor’s arrival.
• The Moth Emperor explained that Si Ming was pursuing her and proposed that she and Xing Daozhuang join forces, then flee together.
• Xing Daozhuang agreed to abandon his identity as supreme commander and leave with the Moth Emperor for the Monster Race’s survival.

Xing Daozhuang betrayed and killed the Moth Emperor to secure the future of the Human Race, while Si Ming watched. In a parallel world, Nether Lord and his allies summoned the Divine Pillar, but the Moth Emperor’s attempt to destroy it was interrupted by an array.

• Si Ming joined Xing Daozhuang in battling the injured Moth Emperor and helped trap her between them.
• Xing Daozhuang used an extreme halberd move to pierce the Moth Emperor instead of Si Ming, revealing that he had targeted her from the beginning.
• The Moth Emperor accepted her death, transferred her remaining primordial power to Xing Daozhuang, and mocked his righteousness before he pulled out the halberd.
• Nether Lord summoned the Divine Pillar in a parallel world, and the Moth Emperor prepared to strike it with the Wheel of Time Sword.
• A Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Grand Array activated as the Moth Emperor attacked, forcing her down with immense gravitational pressure.

Si Ming exposed the Remote Heaven Society’s plan to use an attack on the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar as a diversion while targeting Li State’s, and he stalled the attackers until reinforcements arrived. The chapter ended with Ba Shenhuang joining Si Ming and Gu Xinglie, while Nether Lord realized Ba Shenhuang’s delayed arrival was connected to the Demon King.

• Shentu Chuang’s attack on the ground triggered Si Ming’s Devil Sword Qi formation, and Si Ming revealed that he had lured the Remote Heaven Society into a trap.
• Si Ming explained that the attack on the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar was a smokescreen for the Society’s true target, Li State’s Divine Pillar.
• Si Ming told Moth Emperor that the Mohist School had received the warning and was already fighting to protect Li State’s Divine Pillar.
• Nether Lord recognized that Si Ming was stalling and ordered the others to attack, but Gu Xinglie arrived and blocked Shentu Chuang.
• Ba Shenhuang arrived in his Profound Armor, and Si Ming revealed that his master had delayed coming to help secure victory at the front.
• Nether Lord realized that the Demon King was involved in Ba Shenhuang’s delayed arrival.

Si Ming thanked the Barbarian Continent reinforcements for helping fight the Monster Race and watched them return home. Yu Shuying then said she planned to travel to the Barbarian Continent to improve her cultivation, and Si Ming tried to persuade her to stay.

• Si Ming bid farewell to the Barbarian Continent reinforcements at the foot of the Divine Pillar and thanked them for their sacrifices.
• The reinforcements said they had come willingly and that their aid repaid the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader’s past kindness to the Glazed Temple.
• After everyone left, Yu Shuying told Si Ming she intended to go to the Barbarian Continent while the Heaven-Defying Society lay low.
• Si Ming told Yu Shuying that he wanted her to stay by his side for reasons beyond her usefulness to him.

Yu Shuying left for the Barbarian Continent with the Wheel-Turning King Sword to investigate the Heavenly Martial Alliance and aid the families of fallen heroes. After she departed, Si Ming and Ji Shichen discussed his relationships and the damaged Divine Pillar, but a sudden earthquake and a crack in the sky revealed that another Divine Pillar had been severed.

• Yu Shuying accepted the Wheel-Turning King Sword as proof of her authority and relationship with Si Ming, then entered the Flesh and Blood Wormhole with Hualiu.
• Si Huaruo resolved to be more proactive after witnessing Yu Shuying kiss Si Ming, while Murong Qing quietly looked away.
• Ji Shichen advised Si Ming to settle his romantic affairs decisively, and Si Ming said he wanted all the women who loved him.
• Ji Shichen explained that the damaged Divine Pillar would restore itself, then sent it back to the Imaginary Number Space at Si Ming's request.
• The Sea Continent shook and a crack appeared in the sky, but the visible Divine Pillar remained standing.
• Si Ming tested the Eternal Barrier with a spell and concluded that another of the three Divine Pillars had been severed.

Si Ming and Murong Qing learned that the Heaven-Defying Society had destroyed Li State’s Divine Pillar while diverting attention with the war against the demons. As they returned home, Si Ming proposed striking back by repairing the pillars, while Xing Daozhuang decided to risk changing his Monster Race nature to protect his reputation.

• Si Ming realized that Li State’s Divine Pillar had been the Heaven-Defying Society’s true target and that the war had served as a distraction.
• Xing Daozhuang failed to fuse Blazing Sun True Qi with his Power of Anomalies and decided to attempt the easier path of Turning Evil into Sacred to conceal his Monster Race identity.
• The Mohist Knight Guard confirmed that Li State’s Divine Pillar had been severed, and Murong Qing reassured Si Ming that protecting the Northern Continent’s pillar had still prevented greater damage.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing planned to propose a task force against the Heaven-Defying Society, using an anonymous request to expose anyone who defended it.
• Si Ming asked Ji Shichen whether a Divine Pillar could be repaired and argued that the country’s resources might let them undo the Society’s attacks.

Si Ming convinced Ji Shichen to investigate whether the Divine Pillars could be repaired, then answered her questions about his farewells with Xin Jia and Cheng Xin. Ji Shichen recorded his views on relationships for his future biography in the Mohist Biographies.

• Si Ming asked Ji Shichen to research repairing the Divine Pillars, and she agreed to lead the investigation.
• Si Ming expected Ji Shichen to ask about the mysterious reinforcements, but she asked what he had said to two girls before leaving the Nation of Valor.
• Si Ming explained that he and Xin Jia and Cheng Xin had exchanged contact addresses and that he had not pursued a relationship with Xin Jia because his dangerous life could harm an ordinary person.
• Si Ming described how he judged whether someone should stay by his side, and Ji Shichen concluded that he liked people with peculiar personalities who were pretty.
• Ji Shichen told Si Ming she had recorded his views for his future biography in the Mohist Biographies.

After returning from the cruise, Si Ming heard that rumors accused Thunder King Xing Daozhuang of being a Monster and a member of the Remote Heaven Society. As the smear campaign spread, Ji Shichen recognized Si Ming’s talent for publicity and asked him to manage the Mohist Religion’s newspapers.

• Si Ming decided to write a fictional story about a swordsman in white so he could shape how people remembered him.
• Si Ming and the others arrived at the dock, where Ying Zhou, Murong Wu, and Liu Qingqing were waiting for them.
• Ying Zhou told Si Ming that rumors claimed Xing Daozhuang was a Monster, belonged to the Remote Heaven Society, and had staged the International Building bombing.
• Si Ming criticized the government’s attempt to suppress the rumors and argued that Xing Daozhuang should not be forced to prove himself publicly.
• Si Ming recited a passage comparing a fallen warrior to flies that feed on his flaws, and Murong Qing and Ji Shichen praised its force.
• Ji Shichen offered Si Ming control of the Mohist Religion’s newspapers, and he said the public would eventually forget the rumors if authorities stopped drawing attention to them.

Si Ming persuaded Ji Shichen to consider taking Liu Qingqing as a disciple by insisting she had exceptional Divine Arts talent. Ji Shichen discovered Liu Qingqing had an unusually powerful soul and agreed she was a rare prospect, while Si Ming continued to favor cultivating Divine Arts over spellcraft.

• Si Ming urged Ji Shichen to find a successor and introduced Liu Qingqing as a gifted candidate.
• Si Ming told Ji Shichen stories about cherishing opportunities until she agreed to assess Liu Qingqing and consider taking her as a disciple.
• Ji Shichen examined Liu Qingqing's martial aptitude and found it unremarkable, but Si Ming clarified that he meant Divine Arts talent.
• Ji Shichen examined Liu Qingqing's soul and discovered it was several times stronger than an ordinary person's.
• Ji Shichen wondered whether Liu Qingqing could cultivate spellcraft, but Si Ming argued that Divine Arts were the steadier choice while they aimed to repair the Divine Pillars.