Recaps

Xing Daozhuang exposed and killed a suspected Demon Race spy before Si Ming took him to Medicine King Valley, where doctors treated his severe injuries. As Xing Daozhuang began a long recovery, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue surprised Murong Wu with a birthday celebration beneath the moon.

• Xing Daozhuang killed a guard he accused of being a Demon Race spy, and the leader of Rui State accepted the accusation to keep the group secure.
• Si Ming told the gathered survivors that Demon King Mengying was dead and the Military God had fled, then took the unconscious Xing Daozhuang to Medicine King Valley.
• Xing Daozhuang received emergency treatment, and Lord Yunxia arrived to look after him while Si Ming went to inform the Holy Maiden and the others.
• Murong Wu told Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue that Xing Daozhuang would survive but could take years to recover, and that his bone age and body structure were unusual.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue took Murong Wu to a moon-viewing feast and wished him a happy birthday.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue traded insults and turned Murong Wu’s suggestion of sworn brotherhood into a drinking contest. They both passed out after drinking Medicine King Valley’s specially prepared wine, and Ying Zhou woke the next morning refreshed and wondering whether Xia Guanxue was still asleep.

• Murong Wu suggested that Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue become sworn brothers, but both rejected the idea and insulted each other.
• Murong Wu persuaded the two to avoid fighting and settle their rivalry with a contest of civility.
• Ying Zhou challenged Xia Guanxue to drink without using Internal Cultivation, and Xia Guanxue accepted.
• Unaware that Medicine King Valley had added stupefying incense to the wine, Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue kept drinking until they both passed out.
• Ying Zhou woke refreshed the next morning, planned to ask for more wine, and considered drawing a turtle wearing a green hat on Xia Guanxue’s face.

Ying Zhou, Xia Guanxue, and Murong Wu received poison-detecting weapon tassels before the Demon Race’s repeated surprise attacks revealed its strategy. The chapter ended with Xing Daozhuang explaining that the Military God aimed to weaken the Northern Continent’s Spirit Transformation Grandmasters while preserving a balance that kept Su State from intervening.

• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue argued over who won their drinking contest until Murong Wu gave each of them a poison-detecting tassel he had woven as a birthday thank-you.
• Xia Guanxue’s memories of his younger sister surfaced as he accepted the sword tassel, but Ying Zhou mistook his expression for romantic interest in Murong Wu and challenged him to a fight.
• The Demon Emperor’s forces left Rui State for France, then attacked Yi State’s capital and killed five Spirit Transformation Grandmasters while French parliament refused Si Ming’s request to pursue the demon beast army.
• The Mohist School’s experts routed the demon beasts, but Huang Yan regrouped them and used their strength and fearlessness to draw human armies away from the Demon Emperor’s attacks.
• Xing Daozhuang concluded that the Demon Race was targeting Spirit Transformation Grandmasters rather than ordinary people to weaken the Northern Continent’s nations without giving Su State grounds to intervene.

Si Ming and the other defenders waited at the Nation of Beauty’s border wall, where they discussed the likely Demon Race attack and prepared for the Demon Emperor. Tu Wangyue revealed that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons was guarding Russia and said she would face the Demon Emperor herself while Si Ming held off the Demon Kings and the Military God.

• Shi Yuan joked around while waiting for the Demon Race, and Tu Wangyue told him to stop distracting the defenders.
• Si Ming and Xia Guanxue discussed Xia Guanxue’s new sword, Listening to the Rain, which Teng Baixin had forged and named after Xia Guanxue’s younger sister.
• Si Ming asked Tu Wangyue whether Russia was guarded, and she revealed that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons had secretly taken her place there.
• Tu Wangyue said she would fight the Demon Emperor alone if he arrived and ordered Si Ming to hold off the Demon Kings and the Military God.

Si Ming and the allied forces waited for the Demon Race to arrive, while he and Si Jingyu discussed the Demon Emperor’s likely plans and the possibility that the Eternal Barrier was behind the growing demon tides. When Chongjing finally appeared, Tu Wangyue challenged him with the Mohist School Sacred Sword.

• Xing Daozhuang assembled an international alliance and directed its armies to drive the demonic beast army toward Russia and the Nation of Beauty.
• After Xing Daozhuang’s injuries worsened, he recommended Ba Shenhuang to command the allied force while keeping the change secret from the other countries.
• Si Ming, Si Jingyu, and Si Huaruo speculated about the Demon Race’s route, its leader’s character, and the cause of increasingly powerful demon tides.
• Shi Yuan spotted Chongjing and his forces approaching, and the defenders released their presences to meet them.
• Chongjing demanded that Si Ming fight him, but Si Ming deferred to Tu Wangyue, who drew the Mohist School Sacred Sword and invoked the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword.

Si Ming fought Demon Kings Chang Qing and Zhen Hu while the Holy Maiden and Demon Emperor battled inside the Sacred Sword’s formation. After driving Zhen Hu back and countering Chang Qing’s attacks, Si Ming faced the two Demon Kings’ coordinated assault as they proved more formidable together than before.

• The Holy Maiden’s Sacred Sword formed a yin-yang sword formation that enclosed her and the Demon Emperor, while Si Ming stalled Chang Qing and Zhen Hu with taunts.
• Chang Qing attacked Si Ming with roots and leaves as Zhen Hu unleashed Dragon Whale Raises a Hundred Tides, but Si Ming stopped the dragon whale and struck Zhen Hu with Scorched Earth for a Thousand Li.
• Chang Qing tried to ensnare Si Ming with draining branches, but he cut them down and used the Dragon Scale Sword to attack her with the Imperial Dragon Heaven-Defying Sword Art.
• Chang Qing blocked Si Ming’s first sword strike with Myriad Phenomena Arrayed Like a Forest, but Si Ming’s next attack overwhelmed her and forced her into her original demon form.
• Chang Qing fired a storm of feathers while Zhen Hu summoned a demon dragon, and the two Demon Kings joined forces to press Si Ming with a coordinated attack.

Tu Wangyue used the Mohist School Sacred Sword and its sword formation to overpower the Demon Emperor, while Si Ming survived Chang Qing and Zhen Hu’s attack. The Demon Emperor realized the Sacred Sword’s first divine ability made Tu Wangyue’s strength, speed, and cultivation power exactly thirty percent greater than his.

• Si Ming emerged almost unharmed from Chang Qing and Zhen Hu’s cloud-dragon attack and warned them he was ready to get serious.
• The Demon Emperor attacked Tu Wangyue with Demon Blade: Rushing Thunder, but her sword shattered his strike and sent him flying.
• Tu Wangyue explained that the Sacred Sword’s first divine ability was called “Stronger Against the Strong,” then used it to defeat the Demon Emperor’s speed-focused Demon Blade: Gale.
• The Demon Emperor used Demon Blade Ice Trace to freeze Tu Wangyue, but she broke free and struck him with cultivation power that had reached Peak Void Returning.
• The Demon Emperor calculated that Tu Wangyue’s strength, speed, and cultivation power were each exactly thirty percent greater than his, confirming the effect of the Sacred Sword’s ability.

Tu Wangyue fought the Demon Emperor, whose attacks revealed that the Demon Blade Art could combine its forms into a powerful Void Returning-level technique. She survived his combined assault with a new sword art and wounded both of his bodies, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tu Wangyue asked the Demon Emperor to surrender, but he refused and unleashed Demon Blade: Sun Devourer followed by a concealed Demon Blade: Moon Eclipse; she deflected the first attack and suffered a minor injury from the second.
• Tu Wangyue countered with Eight Kun Split the Sacred Ground, forcing the Demon Emperor back, then explained that the Demon Blade Art's strongest individual move was limited to Peak Spirit Transformation.
• The Demon Emperor split into two bodies using his innate ability and revealed that lowering his Cultivation Body would reduce the sword formation's enhancement.
• The two Demon Emperors combined Demon Blade: Gale and Demon Blade: Torrent into the Void Returning-level Demon Blade: Raging Torrent Burial, trapping Tu Wangyue in violent water and wind.
• Tu Wangyue used Purple Haze Sword Heart Stabilizes Nine and One to break the combined attack, then struck both Demon Emperors and wounded their palms.
• The Demon Emperors responded with Demon Blade: Red Lotus and Demon Blade: Rushing Thunder.

Demon Emperor Chongjing accepted defeat after Tu Wangyue countered the Demon Emperors’ attacks, but he secretly planned to kill her by detonating his avatar at close range. The chapter ended with Chongjing apparently surrendering while waiting for an opportunity to strike.

• Tu Wangyue defeated the Demon Emperors’ attacks with the Sacred Sword’s abilities and asked them to surrender.
• The Demon Emperors refused, and Tu Wangyue wounded both with powerful sword moves before breaking free of their eye-based restraint.
• Tu Wangyue asked the wounded Demon Emperors again whether they would surrender.
• Demon Emperor Chongjing expelled the lingering Sword Qi from his wound and recognized that he could not overcome Tu Wangyue by ordinary means.
• Chongjing gave up resisting but secretly resolved to sacrifice his avatar in a close-range self-destruction to kill Tu Wangyue.

Tu Wangyue defeated Chongjing but let him leave, arguing that the Human Race needed the Demon Race as a threat. When the sword formation collapsed, the battlefield mistook Tu Wangyue’s injured escape for victory before Chongjing’s clone self-destructed, unleashing a devastating blast.

• Tu Wangyue allowed Chongjing to leave, and he accepted her mercy so he could continue fighting for his people.
• Chongjing recognized Tu Wangyue as the one who had widened the seal’s breach and accused her of pursuing a hidden agenda, but she urged him to hurry back to his people.
• Si Ming remained occupied with Zhen Hu and Chang Qing, who threatened the sword formation whenever he pressed his advantage.
• The sword formation collapsed, and Tu Wangyue flew out injured, leading the battlefield to believe the Demon Emperor had defeated her.
• Tu Wangyue warned everyone that Chongjing’s clone was about to self-destruct, and the enormous blind bird’s explosive blast tore through the surrounding space.

After the Demon Emperor’s clone exploded, Si Ming pursued Chongjing and wounded him, but Chongjing damaged Si Ming’s armor and escaped. Chongjing hid while injured, only to be surrounded by pale flames and attacked by the Military God’s strategist.

• Si Ming and Tu Wangyue protected the cultivators from the clone’s explosion, and Tu Wangyue chose to stay and face the approaching demon beast army.
• Si Ming pursued Chongjing and evaded his chains before clashing swords and wounding him.
• Chongjing damaged the True Vermilion Bird Profound Armor, forcing Si Ming to abandon the pursuit as Chongjing fled.
• Chongjing concealed himself to recover and worried about the demon beast army under the Military God’s command.
• Pale flames surrounded Chongjing, and the strategist attacked him from behind; Chongjing blocked the strike and demanded to know why.

Huang Yan and Ruo Si cornered the wounded Chongjing after Huang Yan revealed his betrayal and ambition to become Demon Emperor. Chongjing fought back with his own blade technique, but Huang Yan’s final attack trapped him as Chongjing’s eye technique recovered.

• Ruo Si ambushed Chongjing while Huang Yan restrained him with Pale Flame, but Chongjing used a strange light from his eyes to immobilize both attackers and escape pursuit.
• Huang Yan admitted he had betrayed Chongjing to become sovereign of the Demon Race, arguing he could offer them a future.
• Chongjing fought Huang Yan and Ruo Si with techniques beyond the Demon Blade Art, holding them off despite his injuries.
• Huang Yan revealed that he had pretended to be more injured than he was and that his Pale Flame had helped him heal.
• Ruo Si and Huang Yan unleashed their ultimate attacks, but Chongjing’s self-created blade technique wounded Ruo Si before Huang Yan’s flames overwhelmed him.
• Chongjing’s eye technique recovered, and he froze the surrounding Spiritual Qi as Huang Yan’s attack closed in.

Huang Yan killed Chongjing, then returned to the demon army carrying the Demon Emperor's corpse and claimed responsibility for his death. He led the five hundred thousand demon beasts safely through the encirclement and proposed moving them to a deserted island, promising a way to escape and find shelter.

• Huang Yan defeated Chongjing with the Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd, and Chongjing entrusted the Demon Race to him before dying.
• Huang Yan arrived at the gathered demons carrying the Demon Emperor's corpse, and Zhen Hu and Chang Qing identified the fatal wound as one made by Xing Daozhuang's halberd.
• Zhen Hu accused Huang Yan of misleading the demons about Xing Daozhuang, while Huang Yan admitted his misjudgment had caused the Demon Emperor's death.
• Huang Yan announced that he had led the five hundred thousand demon beasts through the encirclement, and a Demon General confirmed that the army was approaching.
• Huang Yan explained that he had diverted the enemy by feinting toward Russia's western wall before changing course toward the Nation of Beauty, where he found the Demon Emperor's corpse.
• Huang Yan proposed moving the army to a deserted island on the eastern coast and said he had a way to get everyone out and find shelter.

Huang Yan traded information about the Remote Heaven Society for Si Ming’s world-transfer formation blueprint and revealed that Yun Jinzang had helped the demon army cross the defensive line. Their discussion left Si Ming asking whether anyone in the society resembled Holy Maiden Tu Wangyue.

• Huang Yan told Si Ming that Yun Jinzang belonged to the Remote Heaven Society and had allowed the demon army through the defensive line in exchange for Huang Yan’s promise not to expose him.
• Huang Yan explained that the society and the Demon Race had cooperated during the previous war, but he knew little about the society’s other members.
• Huang Yan identified the Heavenly Lion King as another Remote Heaven Society member and said neither he nor Yun Jinzang was its leader, Fushi Qingcang.
• Si Ming asked Huang Yan whether anyone in the Remote Heaven Society resembled Holy Maiden Tu Wangyue.

Si Ming and Huang Yan exchanged information about the Remote Heaven Society, and Huang Yan revealed that he had killed the Demon Emperor and planned to become the demons’ leader. Huang Yan warned that the Society’s sealed leader might soon escape, then said he intended to leave the Sea Continent and avoid the coming danger.

• Si Ming gave Huang Yan the Flesh and Blood Wormhole instructions after Huang Yan shared what he knew about the Remote Heaven Society.
• Huang Yan explained that Society members pursued powerful personal ambitions and said he joined because he wanted to change his life and escape his reputation as the Military God.
• Huang Yan admitted he had killed the Demon Emperor Chongjing and taken the Eight Clouds Purple Thunder Halberd, and said he was seeking to become the demons’ leader.
• Huang Yan told Si Ming that the Society’s leader was likely a sealed evil fiend who wanted the Divine Pillars severed so he could escape.
• Huang Yan said Society members had stopped their operations because they feared releasing the leader, but believed he would act soon after two Divine Pillars had been severed.
• Huang Yan said he planned to leave the Sea Continent and could hide for years if necessary, leaving the Mohist Knight Guards to face the sealed leader.

Si Ming and Wu Xiu traced the Demon Race’s escape through the Flesh and Blood Wormhole to a barren Barbarian Continent, then prepared to use the remaining array energy to travel to the Barbarian Continent they had visited before. Si Ming suddenly sensed that Yu Shuying was in danger.

• Huang Yan escaped in flames after distracting Si Ming, and Si Jingyu revealed she had stayed hidden to learn more from him.
• Si Ming and his party found the Demon Race’s island abandoned except for the spatial array, and Wu Xiu examined its remains.
• Wu Xiu determined that Huang Yan had used a spatial beacon to send the demons to a different, Yao Qi-filled Barbarian Continent.
• Si Ming concluded the destination suited the demons but was barren enough to threaten their survival, so he decided not to pursue them.
• Si Ming asked Wu Xiu to redirect the array to the Barbarian Continent he had visited before so he could return there.
• Remembering that Yu Shuying had not contacted him in almost eight months, Si Ming sensed that she might be in danger.

Si Ming and his companions prepared to cross the wormhole after he sensed that Shuying was in serious danger. As the passage began collapsing, they rushed through toward the Barbarian Continent, while Si Shuiyun stayed behind to deliver Si Ming’s warning about Yun Jinzang to his master.

• Si Ming decided to investigate Yun Jinzang’s possible ties to the Remote Heaven Society and entrusted Si Shuiyun with passing the warning to his master or another Mohist elder.
• Si Shuiyun agreed to leave after Si Ming promised to protect Si Jingyu.
• Wu Xiu activated the formation, but black Qi began shrinking the wormhole entrance, prompting the group to hurry through.
• Si Ming seized Wu Xiu and carried her into the wormhole, while Murong Wu and Shi Yuan followed.
• Tu Wangyue gave Si Ming her hair ribbon as a means of contacting her, and Si Ming entered the rapidly shrinking passage.

Cease War City’s defenders fought off a zombie army while conserving their strength for stronger undead. When Flying Zombies joined the assault, Duan Jinsu began a ritual to counter them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Corpse collectors gathered the dead outside Cease War City, and a disguised corpse attacked one of them before the supervisor beheaded it.
• A gong warned of another assault, and nearly fifty thousand zombies advanced toward the city under a cloud of Yin Qi.
• The defenders used fire oil, Pure Yang water, and wall defenses to repel the low-level zombies as they tried to climb the battlements.
• Flying Zombies descended from the Yin Qi cloud and attacked the defenders with venom and poisonous gas, which talisman shields blocked.
• Spell experts struck back with lightning and fire spells, while Duan Jinsu invoked the treasured orbs from an eight-trigram altar.

Duan Jinsu and Shen Wumian fought Zhu Mei while Tyrant Saber Dai Wen clashed with Kunming, as the Azure Mysterious Corpse King challenged Hongdou. The Azure Mysterious Corpse King moved the duel outside Cease War City, and Yu Shuying told Hongdou to follow her.

• Duan Jinsu broke through with the altar's power and recognized the Azure Mysterious Corpse King among the figures in the clouds.
• Zhu Mei attacked Duan Jinsu, but Shen Wumian intervened with his yang-ice sword technique and fought her alongside Duan Jinsu.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King sent Kunming to attack, and Tyrant Saber Dai Wen intercepted him before the two began fighting.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King attacked the gathered allies, but Hongdou blocked her Sword Qi with Boundary Wall Isolation and offered to fight her.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King descended to an open space outside the city, and Yu Shuying instructed Hongdou to follow her.

Hongdou fought the Azure Mysterious Corpse King but was outmatched by her skill and illusory sword techniques. The battle shifted when Dai Wen’s opponent Kunming and Zhu Mei were sent flying, and a powerful newcomer arrived to challenge the Corpse King.

• Hongdou opened with two finishing moves, but the Azure Mysterious Corpse King blocked and evaded them while gaining control of the fight.
• Yu Shuying considered using the Filth-Severing Blood Arrow but decided to conserve it and wait for Si Ming.
• Dai Wen emerged above the city and faced Kunming as the Azure Mysterious Corpse King warned that the war would end that day.
• Kunming was suddenly knocked away, and Yu Shuying recognized that Hongdou’s man had arrived; Zhu Mei was also sent flying through the city gate.
• The newcomer introduced himself and struck the Azure Mysterious Corpse King with a golden dragon, forcing her to slide back despite her parasol’s defense.

Si Ming arrived to rescue Hongdou and fought the Azure Mysterious Corpse King, who escaped after Yu Shuying said she might not be their enemy. Shuying revealed that the resurrected Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and Beast King Anye were attacking the Glazed Temple and Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, while the chapter ended with the Spirit King confronting the Glazed Temple.

• Si Ming arrived on the battlefield, reunited with Hongdou, and challenged the Azure Mysterious Corpse King.
• Si Ming and the Azure Mysterious Corpse King exchanged powerful attacks until she fled.
• Hongdou explained that Yu Shuying had told her not to stop the Corpse King, and Shuying said the woman might not be their enemy.
• Shuying told Si Ming that the resurrected Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and Beast King Anye were attacking the Glazed Temple and Evil-Slaying Sword Sect.
• At the Glazed Temple, the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King approached the gates with an army of monsters and asked whose turn it was.

Henzhen confronted the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, insisting he was only a false copy and challenging his belief that people’s hearts were determined by their kind. She fought to protect the Glazed Temple, but the Spirit King overpowered her and declared that her combined powers were not enough to threaten him.

• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King questioned Henzhen about joining the Buddhist School, and she rejected his accusation of betrayal and called him a defective copy.
• Henzhen explained that the Spirit King had arranged daily duels to wear down the Glazed Temple and revealed that she had knocked Abbot Fahong unconscious to take his place.
• Henzhen said she had come to prove that the Spirit King had misjudged people’s hearts, then attacked him with Buddhist arts and the Power of Anomalies.
• Henzhen combined the Sword of World Purification and the Saber of Evil Karma against the Spirit King, but he shattered her attacks and struck her with overwhelming force.
• Henzhen recovered from her injuries and recognized the gap between them as the Spirit King said she would need to fuse her powers to challenge him.

Si Ming arrived in time to save Henzhen and confronted the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, Hongdou’s grandfather. Having grown much stronger, Si Ming gained the upper hand and continued battling the Spirit King above the battlefield.

• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King attacked Henzhen with a sweeping blade strike, but Si Ming arrived and stopped it with a punch.
• Si Ming teased the Spirit King and urged him to retreat, but the Spirit King attacked him with a torrent of weapons.
• Si Ming redirected the Spirit King’s punch, broke his arm, and blasted him into a mountainside with nuclear power.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King emerged from the shattered mountain and countered Si Ming’s Sword Qi dragon with a blade formed from his forehead’s vertical eye.
• Their continued aerial battle flattened the remaining mountainside, scattered deadly debris, and caused casualties among the Monster Race.

Si Ming killed the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King at the Glazed Temple, then rushed to the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to find that Beast King Anye had already fled. He learned that Anye had lost the Power of Sacred and Evil, leaving the allies to assess the threat and prepare for what came next.

• Si Ming defeated the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King with his sword techniques, then destroyed the king’s unformed true body with Evil-Slaying Sword Qi.
• The dying Purple-Pupiled Spirit King asked Si Ming to care for Illusion Ji’s daughter before perishing.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue emerged from hiding, and Si Ming left Ying Zhou to deal with the remaining monsters while he hurried to the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect.
• Si Ming reached the sect and learned from Hongdou that Beast King Anye had fled as soon as he saw them.
• Zheng Jingyuan revealed that Anye had lost the Power of Sacred and Evil, and Si Jingyu suggested that his resurrection had restored only his own body.

Si Ming helped Wan Ziqiu let go of his guilt and renew his resolve to restore the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, then returned to the Heavenly Martial Alliance to manage the aftermath of battle. After exhausting himself with work, he was interrupted by Yu Shuying, who insisted he help her with the desire she had suppressed for seven months.

• Si Ming reunited with Wan Ziqiu and learned that the new sect master, Zheng Jingyuan, had struggled with the burden of leading the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect.
• Si Ming heard that Wan Ziqiu blamed himself for his father's death and took him aside to explain how Wan Ziling had endured her own suffering.
• Si Ming encouraged Wan Ziqiu to stop punishing himself, and Wan Ziqiu vowed to restore the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to its former glory.
• Si Ming agreed to meet Zheng Jingyuan and the others at the Glazed Temple the next day, then returned to the Heavenly Martial Alliance to help restore order.
• Yu Shuying slipped into Si Ming's room and persuaded him to give in to her after he protested that he was exhausted.
• Afterward, Si Ming wondered who had masterminded the three Kings of Monsters and whether an Emperor or Thearch of Anomalies existed.