Recaps

Si Ming subdued the Silver Wolf King and Murong Wu removed an Undying Brain Divine Gu that had strengthened and influenced him. The group suspected the Barbarian King was behind the unrest and discussed the dangerous cultivation method derived from the Gu.

• Si Ming caught and snapped the Silver Wolf King's saber, then forced him to his knees and demanded an explanation for his strength and behavior.
• Murong Wu found an Undying Brain Divine Gu in the Silver Wolf King's neck and removed it with Murong Qing's Moon God's Tear.
• Saihan said the Barbarian King had distributed similar Gu worms to his subordinates, making them short-tempered and easily angered.
• Si Ming suspected the Barbarian King had lost judgment under the Gu's influence, and Murong Qing suggested returning to Shengjing to investigate.
• Murong Wu explained that refining the Gu could grant Heavenly Silkworm Force, but its transformations involved extreme pain and risk of death.

Si Ming and the others discovered that the Barbarian King had drained Shengjing’s people to raise Undying Brain Divine Gu, then raced south to protect Ju Beichen. Si Ming found a familiar group moving through the Li State’s mountains, but they mistook his arrival for an ambush.

• The group confirmed that nearly one million people in Shengjing had been drained, and Saihan used a puppet’s memories to reveal that the Barbarian King was heading south to attack Ju Beichen.
• Murong Qing froze Saihan’s Qi sea, and Si Ming ordered Xia Guanxue to escort her and two kings back to safety while he and the others continued south.
• Murong Wu insisted on joining the pursuit, offering his medical skills and knowledge of Gu worms; Murong Qing agreed and warned him to stay out of danger.
• Si Ming, Liu Qingqing, Murong Qing, Murong Wu, and Ying Zhou hurried into the Li State as Si Ming searched for signs of the Barbarian King’s forces.
• Si Ming spotted Mu Wu and several familiar figures in a mountain forest, but they shouted that his arrival was an ambush.

Si Ming rushed to save Ju Beichen but discovered that the Barbarian King had used a trap to poison and corner him. The Barbarian King sealed Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan inside a spirit-draining formation and declared that Si Ming’s fate was sealed.

• Si Ming met Mu Wu’s retreating forces and learned that Ju Beichen had stayed behind to cover their escape from the Barbarian King.
• Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan followed the battle’s trail to a basin, where they found Ju Beichen dead.
• Ju Beichen’s corpse exploded with poison, and the Barbarian King ambushed Si Ming while revealing that he had lured him into the trap.
• The Barbarian King sent the Crane King Boyan, the Eagle King Burigude, the Scorpion King Morigen, and two other Gu-controlled fighters to block Si Ming’s escape.
• The Barbarian King activated the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, which trapped Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan and began draining their spiritual power and True Qi.

Si Ming fought off the Barbarian King's five subordinates despite his poisoning, but the Barbarian King struck him with a technique that caused his body and mind to mutate. Si Ming suppressed the madness long enough to counterattack, and the Barbarian King retaliated with another disease-laden attack.

• Si Ming used the Wheel-Turning King Sword and the Gate of All Wonders to defeat the five martial artists, then turned the demon skeletons' attacks back on the Vulture King, Eagle King, and Scorpion King.
• The Barbarian King praised Si Ming's swordsmanship and struck his chest with Nine Insects Art: Malignant Sores and Madness.
• Si Ming suppressed the mutation and evaded the Barbarian King's finger attack, then struck him with Absolute Sword Destroys the Nine Continents.
• The Barbarian King's nine layers of Heavenly Silkworm Force held off Si Ming's sword long enough for him to retreat and launch Nine Insects Seal-Paralysis, Boils, Carbuncles and Fistulas.

Si Ming fought the “Barbarian King” inside the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, using the Wheel-Turning King Sword to activate his formation and purge the poison before battling at close quarters. As the Eagle King and the others struggled to help, the Eagle King called out to Mad Ink, warning that the fighters would kill each other.

• Si Ming and the “Barbarian King” traded devastating attacks in the abyss, while the Eagle King and the others waited helplessly above.
• Si Ming stabbed himself with the Wheel-Turning King Sword to activate his formation, then used his Cultivation Bodies and techniques to purge the poison and poisonous insects from his body.
• The “Barbarian King” struck Si Ming with the Five Viscera Reverse Assault, but Si Ming wounded him with the Innate Formless Sword and trapped him in a storm of Sword Qi.
• Si Ming stayed close to the “Barbarian King” and unleashed relentless attacks to prevent him from using his time-displacing move.
• The Eagle King called out to Mad Ink, warning that the fight would kill the “Barbarian King,” while the others considered seeking help from Si Ming’s companion.

Si Ming fought the “Barbarian King” while Liu Yongzhan was tortured and nearly executed, until Liu Qingqing broke the formation and rescued him. Si Ming unleashed his ultimate sword strike and was thrown back unconscious, leaving Liu Qingqing to carry him away.

• Eagle King and the others captured Liu Yongzhan and tortured him to force Si Ming to surrender, but Liu Yongzhan refused to yield.
• Liu Qingqing transformed her avatar into a blood-red arrow, shattered the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, and rescued Liu Yongzhan.
• Si Ming continued fighting the “Barbarian King” to protect Liu Qingqing and Liu Yongzhan, using the Tathagata’s Indestructible Body to withstand his opponent’s attacks.
• Si Ming froze time with Evil-Slaying Sword Intent and unleashed “All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes!” at the “Barbarian King.”
• A monstrous Gu-insect phantom emerged from the “Barbarian King” and clashed with Si Ming’s sword strike, hurling the gravely injured Si Ming backward.
• Liu Qingqing caught Si Ming as he crashed through the mountainside, and he told her to escape before collapsing unconscious.

Liu Qingqing and Liu Yongzhan fled with the unconscious Si Ming while the Barbarian King ordered his subordinates to pursue them, but the pursuers overwhelmed their allies and closed in. Liu Yongzhan searched for a way to hide Si Ming as the Eagle King and Scorpion King caught up.

• The Barbarian King forced out the sword energy that had wounded him through his divided spirit and ordered the Crocodile King to stay while the others hunted Mad Ink.
• Liu Qingqing sensed four Peak Spirit Transformation pursuers, but Murong Qing and Ying Zhou arrived and intercepted two of them, allowing Liu Yongzhan to flee with Si Ming.
• Liu Qingqing stayed behind to hold off the remaining enemies while Liu Yongzhan carried the unconscious Si Ming away and promised to protect him.
• Murong Qing and Ying Zhou injured the Eagle King with their ultimate techniques, but the Vulture King counterattacked and wounded them; the Eagle King then left to pursue Mad Ink.
• The Scorpion King broke past Liu Qingqing and pursued Liu Yongzhan, who considered ways to conceal Si Ming but rejected them as too risky.

Si Ming woke after one day of recovery, relieved that the Southern Continent’s people had not yet been drained by the “Barbarian King.” Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing checked on him as he prepared to act before it was too late.

• Liu Yongzhan met Murong Wu, who treated Si Ming’s injuries, and told him to hide Mad Ink while he drew the pursuers away.
• Liu Yongzhan fought the Eagle King by turning his vital blood into a sword, while Murong Wu carried Si Ming away.
• The Scorpion King ambushed Murong Wu, but Si Ming’s bracelet released the Juntian Divine Sword, which awakened Murong Wu’s power.
• Murong Wu used the Lightning Dismemberment Seal to defeat the Scorpion King, then drove off the Eagle King.
• Si Ming woke after one day, absorbed the medicinal paste, and asked how long he had been unconscious.
• Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing came to see Si Ming, who said there was still time to stop the Barbarian King.

Si Ming recovered and learned that Liu Qingqing’s brother Little Wu was not Murong Qing’s biological brother, while the Sacred Sword and the Doctor had escaped with Yun Jinzang. Yu Shuying proposed using false information about repairing the Divine Pillar to lure Fushi Qingcang into a fight, revealing that she had helped him escape to earn his trust.

• Liu Qingqing told Si Ming that General Liu died using Azure Blood and Loyal Heart to hold back the Eagle King, and Murong Qing revealed that the Juntian Divine Sword had accepted Little Wu as its master.
• Si Ming encouraged Murong Qing to accept Little Wu’s extraordinary path and let him decide whether to pursue the throne of Li State.
• Yan Jinghong told Si Ming that Yun Jinzang had stolen the Mohist School Sacred Sword and that the Doctor had escaped, leaving them unable to track down the Barbarian King.
• Yu Shuying explained that strengthening the Eternal Barrier could threaten Fushi Qingcang, and proposed bluffing him with false claims that the Divine Pillar could be repaired.
• Yu Shuying revealed that she had let the Doctor escape and warned Yun Jinzang to gain Fushi Qingcang’s trust.

Yun Jinzang traded the Mohist School Sacred Sword for a Realm-Breaking Stone and warned the Crocodile King that the Mohists might soon repair the Divine Pillars. The Gu God chose to investigate while preparing to strengthen the Crocodile King, and Murong Wu later met a mysterious superstar singer who gave him a silk-wrapped sword.

• Yun Jinzang exchanged the Mohist School Sacred Sword for the Realm-Breaking Stone and its instructions from the Crocodile King.
• Yun Jinzang warned that the Mohist Academy of Science could repair two Divine Pillars within three days, then left without agreeing to oppose the Mohists.
• The Gu God considered Yun Jinzang's warning potentially deceptive but decided the risk of restoring the Eternal Barrier was worth investigating.
• The Gu God ordered the Crocodile King to undergo a secret method to reach the Void Returning realm, despite the cost to his lifespan.
• Murong Wu followed a harmless call into a mountain forest, where a beautiful superstar singer handed him a silk-wrapped sword.

A woman warned Murong Wu that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Gu God Immortality made him extraordinarily hard to kill and put people infected by his Gu insects at risk of becoming hosts. Murong Wu found resolve to face the dilemma, then encountered Xia Guanxue, who had overheard their conversation.

• The woman told Murong Wu that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons had forged a counterfeit Mohist School Sacred Sword but had genuinely defected from the Mohist School.
• The woman revealed that the Heaven-Defying Society’s leader was the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and explained how Gu God Immortality could let him possess his killer or another Gu-infected person.
• The woman described killing all the infected or having the killer die by their own hand as possible ways to stop the Witch Ancestor, while Murong Wu objected to the deaths these plans would cause.
• Murong Wu asked the woman to stay, but she refused and left, saying she planned to leave the Sea Continent to avoid her younger sister.
• Murong Wu recalled the people and hardships that had shaped him, regained his resolve, and met Xia Guanxue, who said she had been on watch and asked if he had heard everything.

Murong Wu concealed the Gu God’s immortality while sharing the other intelligence, and the allies prepared to lure out and kill the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with the Sacred Sword. As Murong Wu joined the dangerous battle, he affirmed his resolve to live up to the father he admired, and Murong Qing reassured him that he was family regardless of blood.

• Xia Guanxue refused to keep Murong Wu’s plan secret, and Murong Wu argued that he would accept the hatred of those harmed if sacrificing himself could save others.
• Murong Wu shared what he had learned, withholding only that the Gu God was undying, and Yan Jinghong and Murong Qing confirmed that the Sacred Sword was genuine.
• The allies planned to lure out Fushi Qingcang and prevent the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor from escaping, while Yan Jinghong warned that participants had to be ready to risk their lives.
• Murong Wu asked Murong Qing to let him join the battle, and she agreed after warning him not to retreat once the fighting began.
• Murong Wu said he wanted to become a hero like the father he admired, and Murong Qing told him he would always be his son and her little brother regardless of blood.

Si Ming prepared for the battle against Fushi Qingcang while the Li State fighters gathered at the Divine Pillar ruins. As Xia Guanxue worked on a possible way for Si Ming to use both formations, the Li State leaders praised him for his bravery and thanked him for trying to save their Grand Preceptor.

• Si Ming sat bare-backed while Xia Guanxue used the Mystic Void Divine Needle technique, attempting to solve the conflict between his two formations.
• Si Ming apologized to Mu Wu for Liu Yongzhan's death, but Mu Wu and Xue Buqi said they blamed him for nothing and were grateful for his actions.
• The assembled Li State fighters praised Si Ming for defeating the Barbarian Race's encirclement and gravely wounding the Barbarian King.
• The Li State fighters' view of Si Ming shifted from seeing him as a promising young hero to recognizing him as a leading hero.

Yu Shuying exposed two Li State Grandmasters as spies controlled by the Heaven-Defying Society and explained her history with the Witch Gu Sect. With the traitors removed, the group prepared to repair the Divine Pillar and face the coming battle.

• Yu Shuying challenged the Li State Grandmasters to take pills, while Mu Wu, Xue Buqi, and the others agreed to the test.
• The pills activated the Undying Brain Divine Gu in Whirling Nether Saber and Seven Star Venerable, and Si Ming and Murong Qing seized them.
• Yu Shuying revealed that the pills exposed the spies and apologized to the remaining Li State Grandmasters, who admitted their failure and moved to guard the perimeter.
• Murong Wu offered the extracted Gu for its Heavenly Silkworm Force, but Ying Zhou told him to keep it and protect himself.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that the Witch Gu Sect had killed her family during Gu experiments and that an Other-Mind Gu gave her mind-reading ability.
• Yu Shuying said she wanted to kill Fushi Qingcang and might settle down as a housewife afterward.

Si Ming and his allies prepared to defend the Divine Pillar while an altar began repairing it, drawing the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and his forces to the site. Si Ming confronted the Witch Ancestor, who revealed why he had used the name Ancient Ancestor of Returning Antiquity.

• Yu Shuying activated a Mohist black box, which unfolded into an altar and began repairing the Divine Pillar.
• Mu Wu organized the defenders to hold off the enemy for an hour, while Yu Shuying left the battlefield.
• Five enemy lights approached, and Si Ming charged the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with a golden sword dragon.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor repelled Si Ming and suspected the Divine Pillar repairs were bait, but Si Ming challenged him to wait and questioned his assumed name.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor said he had used the Ancient Ancestor of Returning Antiquity's name to take advantage of a common deception and attract surviving old seniors.

Si Ming faced Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor as the Witch Ancestor’s empowered subordinates overwhelmed Si Ming’s companions and he boasted of consuming thirty-six million people. Si Ming used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to unsettle him, but the Witch Ancestor attacked with overwhelming force and left Si Ming caught in crushing gale dragons.

• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor explained that his four subordinates had been raised to the Void Returning Realm by burning through their life force, while Si Ming refused to intervene and trusted his companions to win.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor revealed that his insects had absorbed thirty-six million people, and Si Ming condemned him while remaining calm.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor challenged Si Ming’s Mohist principles, and Si Ming replied that great love was impartial rather than driven by private attachment.
• Si Ming revealed that he had been using the Heart Devil Secret Sword Sword Intent to exploit flaws in Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s mind and provoke him into losing composure.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor attacked with the Nine Insects Art: Five Viscera Reverse Assault, breaking through Si Ming’s Gate of All Wonders and trapping him in gale dragons.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor compressed the gale dragons and unleashed a devastating strike that shattered the mountain, but Si Ming challenged him with, “Is that all you’ve got?”

Si Ming overwhelmed Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with his enhanced Tathagata's Indestructible Body and used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to disrupt his mind. He began testing the cocooned opponent with a sequence of sword techniques, while suspecting Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor still had a stronger trump card.

• Si Ming used the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation tattooed on his body to sustain Tathagata's Indestructible Body as he battered Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor used Celestial Person's Eternal Decay and Fleeting Life Is Like a Dream, but Si Ming resisted the decay and the Heart Devil Secret Sword made the ninefold soul attack recoil.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor curled into a Heavenly Silkworm Force cocoon to withstand the turmoil in his mind, and Si Ming prepared to attack with his sword.
• Si Ming held back the Sacred Sword because he believed Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor still had a powerful trump card.
• Si Ming used Sword One: Turncoat, Sword Two: Defiance of Morality, Sword Three: Usurpation, and Sword Four: Ancestor Extermination to make the Heavenly Silkworm Force in the cocoon turn against itself.

Si Ming wounded Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with his sword techniques, but the Witch Ancestor revealed his Extreme Essence and overwhelmed him. As Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor prepared to finish the fight, Murong Qing activated the Mohist School Sacred Sword’s sealing formation.

• Si Ming used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to find Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor underground, then struck him from within with the Heart Devil Sword Seed.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor healed his wounds with Gu insects and transformed his body into a towering form made entirely of armored Gu insects.
• Si Ming and Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor clashed, and the Witch Ancestor explained that Extreme Essence could destroy the laws of the Great Dao.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor erased the Divine Pillar and badly injured Si Ming with his Extreme Essence attacks.
• Si Ming announced that he would use his ace, and Murong Qing activated the Mohist School Sacred Sword’s Six Heavens Forbidden Sword formation around them.

Si Ming and Murong Qing used the Six Heavens Sword Formation and the Mohist School Sacred Sword to battle Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, exploiting their combined sword techniques and his difficulty controlling Extreme Essence. Their attacks badly wounded him, but he survived, and the two allies were also gravely injured.

• Si Ming explained why Murong Qing, rather than himself, wielded the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword, and Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor realized Yun Jinzang had deceived him.
• Murong Qing attacked Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with Heavenly River Starburst, and he used Extreme Essence to destroy the incoming Sword Qi.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing struck together with Soaring Phoenix and Flying Dragon Pierce the Firmament, piercing Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor's defenses, and Murong Qing used An Instant Like a Year to escape his Gu insects.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor recognized Murong Qing's Instant Sword Technique, while she and Si Ming launched Yin-Yang New Moon Sky Twin Dragon Battle against his Three Corpses Seal.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing split their combined attack and struck Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor from both sides, badly damaging his body, while the backlash gravely injured them.
• Si Ming concluded that using Extreme Essence strained Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and made his movements clumsy, but Murong Qing noted that they had not killed him.

Si Ming and Murong Qing stopped Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s attempt to overwhelm them with a self-destruction by combining their sword techniques, then pursued him as he fled. The chapter left Murong Qing facing his new attack, Three Corpses Seal: Thousand Souls Sacrificed to Heaven.

• Si Ming realized Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s regeneration consumed Jing Essence, and he and Murong Qing planned to weaken him before he could escape.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor chose to self-destruct with Extreme Essence, so Si Ming and Murong Qing combined their techniques to freeze him and strike before he could act.
• The joint attack shredded most of Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s body, weakening his self-destruction; Si Ming shielded Murong Qing and endured the blast.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor regenerated and fled, while Murong Qing pursued him with the Instant Sword Technique and repeatedly wounded him as Si Ming recovered.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor stopped running and used Three Corpses Seal: Thousand Souls Sacrificed to Heaven, turning his body into a purplish-black liquid that contaminated everything it touched.

Murong Qing and Si Ming fought the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, whose Extreme Essence threatened to overwhelm them despite their combined efforts. As Si Ming struggled to withstand the attack, Murong Qing discovered the final form of the Hero Sword Technique and unleashed it.

• Murong Qing used the Myriad Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Formation Sword Technique to destroy the Three Corpses Seal’s contaminated objects, but the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor counterattacked and blew off her arm.
• Murong Qing fought back with the Blood Prison Sword Technique, and Si Ming arrived in time to drive the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor away from her.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was trapped by the sword formation’s hidden attacks, then refined Extreme Essence and launched a concentrated strike at Si Ming.
• Si Ming entered Solar Prominence Eruption and used Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars, while Murong Qing weakened the incoming attack and shielded him with Sword Qi.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Extreme Essence began breaking Si Ming’s body and the Wheel-Turning King Sword, leaving Murong Qing searching for a way to turn the fight around.
• Murong Qing remembered the final form of the Hero Sword Technique and unleashed it without time to consider its side effects.

The human fighters struggled against the Barbarian King’s Void Returning subordinates, who overpowered them despite their coordinated defenses. The Chivalrous Confucian died protecting the Divine Pillar, while the other battles remained unresolved.

• Si Ming moved to intercept the Barbarian King as the others attacked his subordinates, but the Crocodile King gravely wounded Jun Yan and the enemy’s Void Returning cultivation overwhelmed several fighters.
• Murong Wu warned that the Barbarian Kings were in the Void Returning Realm, and the Eagle King, Crocodile King, and Vulture King targeted their weaker opponents.
• Yan Jinghong, Ling Huanxi, and Liu Qingqing rushed to help, but the Vulture King evaded Liu Qingqing’s arrow and attacked the wounded Jun Yan.
• Jun Yan fought the Vulture King to protect the Divine Pillar and his companions, broke his sword, wounded the Vulture King, and died after the enemy tore out his heart.
• Yang Lijing attacked the Vulture King in grief, while Mu Wu, Xue Buqi, Ji Da, and Hua Ling joined forces against him; Ling Huanxi and Yan Jinghong trapped the Crocodile King in an ice array.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue combined their attacks against the Eagle King, who shattered their ice-and-fire vortex with a massive saber strike.

Yan Jinghong held off the Vulture King to keep him from reaching the sword formation, despite suffering grave injuries. After breaking his sword in a final clash, he remained determined to guard the line as his strength dwindled.

• Yan Jinghong stopped the Vulture King from crossing the mark and was struck by five deep claw wounds.
• Yan Jinghong unleashed a phoenix-shaped sword attack that wounded the Vulture King and drove him back.
• The Vulture King used Reverse Blade Thunder Punishment, sending a vast ring of lightning toward Yan Jinghong.
• Yan Jinghong spent his blood and Qi to counter the lightning, and the Startling Rainbow Sword broke in the clash.
• Yan Jinghong, nearly drained of strength, reaffirmed that the Vulture King would not cross the line while he still had breath.

Yan Jinghong used his final sword strike to kill the Vulture King and Scorpion King, but the effort left him apparently lifeless until Ling Huanxi found a trace of Sword Qi keeping him alive. As Murong Qing pursued the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, the Eagle King and Crocodile King revealed that his escape had been planned and hinted that a missing ally was waiting along his route.

• Yan Jinghong drew on his life force to unleash “A Hero Roams the Jianghu Without Regret!”, killing the Vulture King and, with Murong Wu restraining him, the Scorpion King.
• The Eagle King and Crocodile King drove back their opponents and escaped the encirclement.
• Ling Huanxi found Yan Jinghong with no breath or pulse, but discovered a remnant of Sword Qi in his heart meridian and preserved him in ice.
• Murong Wu chose to help Ling Huanxi save Yan Jinghong instead of going to assist Si Ming and his sister.
• The Mohist School Sacred Sword destroyed the formation, and Murong Qing chased the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor into a stronger sword formation thirty li away.
• The Eagle King and Crocodile King told Ying Zhou that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor had fled toward a missing ally who was waiting for him.

Si Ming and his allies defeated Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and stopped his escape, though Murong Qing lost all her cultivation using a newly born sword move. The battle ended with Murong Wu relieved to learn the group had already accounted for Gu God Immortality.

• Leopard King attacked the Myriad Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Formation from outside, but Si Huaruo weakened her tornado and Hongdou, controlled by Si Jingyu, helped suppress her.
• Murong Qing used “A Hero Roams the Jianghu Without Regret!” to ease the strain on Si Ming as he reflected Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Extreme Essence back at him.
• Si Ming’s reflected attack erased Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, while Murong Qing collapsed and discovered that her cultivation was gone.
• Murong Qing scolded Murong Wu for hiding important intelligence, and Si Ming explained that they had planned around Gu God Immortality and severed the Witch Ancestor’s connection to the outside world.
• Murong Wu broke down in relief after learning that Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was truly dead and he would not have to attack one of his own.