Festival of Lights · Diwali
After defeating the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, Si Ming helped settle the Heavenly Martial Alliance and returned to the Sea Continent with his companions. As he recovered and prepared for university, he helped Yu Shuying make friends and resumed his writing career, while an assassination plot threatened Yuezheng Yao’s concert.
Si Ming helped Yu Shuying consolidate the Green Snake Gang’s territory while he and his friends started university and formed the Mutual Aid Society. The arc ended with Yuezheng Yao revealing her calculating side after Si Ming learned her vocal technique.
Si Ming helped capture Ji Xun, then supported Ke Chajing in founding a second martial arts club and guided Nie Wanzhi’s training. His fight with Lin Qingtong and a peacock-masked woman revealed the Remote Heaven Society’s possible interest in metalization, while he continued performing music with Yuezheng Qiong.
Si Ming’s team advanced through the qualifiers while a deadly attack on the Saintess Candidates exposed a threat on East Spirit Island. After the Yuezheng sisters’ birthday gathering, the Second Martial Arts Club entered the semifinals and kept its undefeated record against Glacier Martial Arts School.
Si Ming’s performance helped trigger the destruction of a divine pillar, unleashing a monster calamity that cost thousands of lives and exposed the Remote Heaven Society’s next target. After helping Ying Zhou face his father and preparing for the Grandmaster Trial, Si Ming traveled to France with Murong Qing and Yan Jinghong.
Si Ming and his allies entered France’s succession struggle, freeing Old General Wang and exposing the conflict between public duty and private loyalty. Yan Jinghong survived a series of attacks from his enemies, while Murong Qing defeated Xia Guanxue and helped him escape.
Si Ming investigated the emperor’s condition as Han Hao and Han Kun fought for the throne, while Ai Qing’s death left Su Yingbo vulnerable to the Nether Master’s offer. After Han Hao’s victory, Si Ming, Murong Qing, and He Qichang explored ancient ruins and were transported to a devastated region of the Barbarian Continent.
Si Ming and his companions escaped the Spirit Domain, returned to France, and fought the Remote Heaven Society’s forces as its schemes threatened the country. The arc left Yan Jinghong and Su Yingbo joining forces against the Nether Master, who unleashed a fiendish attack.
Yan Jinghong and his allies defeated the Remote Heaven Society’s operation, and Su Yingbo departed with Ai Qing. Si Ming returned to university, faced conflicting claims about his kinship with Si Jingyu, and sought an Inspiration Pill as the Yuezheng Lineage lost its support.
Si Ming’s journey to the Barbarian Continent became a fight against the Blood Abyss Sect and then a rescue mission at the besieged Evil-Slaying Sword Sect. The Monster Race and evil-path forces retreated, while Si Ming stayed at the damaged sect to study its supreme sword technique.
Si Ming helped Shang Yu lure out and pursue Li Ban, overcoming the Blood Abyss Sect and its allies before she killed Li Ban and scattered her remnant soul. Liu Qingqing gained strength and memories, but Wan Ziling took control of her body and insisted on destroying the Anye Beast King.
Si Ming pursued the Anye Beast King’s growing threat while confronting the Son of the Dragon Devil and Moon Devil King at Divine Mang Mountain. The Moon Devil King possessed Wan Ziling, leaving Si Ming to enter Liu Qingqing’s sea of consciousness to help fight him.
Si Ming subdued the Moon Devil King and helped Wan Ziling resist her deterioration while the Anye Beast King killed and replaced Wan Yebai. After exposing the impostor, Si Ming confronted him at the Evil-Slaying Sword School, but the Beast King's transformation left Si Ming struggling to protect Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping.
After defeating the Anye Beast King, Si Ming returned to the Sea Continent and tried to help Xie Xiaomei face the trauma behind her wish to die. As Xie Xiaomei began to experience ordinary kindness, a sudden change in her body left her unresponsive and crying.
Si Ming helped Xie Xiaomei find happiness before she died, then defeated the Anye Beast King and traveled to the Nation of Valor for an exchange program. There, he entered the Martial King Cup, crossed paths with rivals, and faced backlash after a student broadcast their heated argument.
Si Ming turned Fu Feng’s accusation into a weeklong challenge that defeated the Military School and forced Sun Wu University to confront Huyan Lie’s misconduct. He entered the revamped Martial King Cup on Smokeless Island, where he defeated Gui Zhenchuan and began drawing the attention of the spectators and organizers.
Si Ming led the contestants through a demon invasion, killed its commander, and helped the survivors escape while Ying Zhou faced his father and chose his companions over blood ties. The group returned to a continent-wide war and gathered in Rui State as nations prepared for a joint conference against the Demon Race.
Si Ming helped turn the war against the Demon Race, then uncovered a powerful Monster Race force guarding the Divine Pillar in the Nation of Valor. He realized the Heaven-Defying Society could use the thoughts of the dead to summon a Divine Pillar, leaving his group in need of reinforcements.
Si Ming and his allies stopped the Moth Emperor and the Remote Heaven Society from destroying the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar, but discovered that Li State’s pillar had been severed instead. After the battle, Si Ming turned to countering the Society, shaping public opinion, and finding a successor for Ji Shichen.
Si Ming and Murong Qing became husband and wife, while Si Ming gained a new martial art and was considered for membership in Heaven’s Will Palace. The palace examined Xing Daozhuang and offered Si Ming the Dragon position, leaving him at Sword-Forging Manor to meet Teng Baixin.