Chapter Summaries

The Buddha-Slaying Monk accused the Monster Race of suspecting him while challenging its fighters to test his strength. He defeated Wu Da and badly injured Ghost Chariot, but Ghost Chariot began gathering a powerful technique as the palace shook.

• The Buddha-Slaying Monk and Wu Da argued over whether a spy had leaked the news of their failed raid on Heavenly Sound Temple.
• The Buddha-Slaying Monk challenged the monsters to attack him and claimed his strength grew whenever he was brought back from the brink of death.
• Wu Da and Ghost Chariot attacked, but the Buddha-Slaying Monk broke through Wu Da's disguise and damaged the Gu God Staff.
• The Buddha-Slaying Monk used a soft defensive style to withstand Ghost Chariot's three manifestations, then injured all three and struck the coldly beautiful woman in the abdomen.
• Ghost Chariot gathered fire, lightning, and wind between his six palms to unleash Ferocious Spirit Three Extremes Annihilation.

Si Ming, disguised as the Buddha-Slaying Monk, survived attacks from Wu Da and Ghost Chariot before accepting the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s challenge to withstand one palm strike. Though Si Ming endured the strike and revealed a Demon Race martial art, he rejected the Spirit King’s claim that the test had convinced him.

• Wu Da and Ghost Chariot attacked the Buddha-Slaying Monk with their ultimate moves, but he diverted most of their force toward the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and survived the clash unharmed.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King absorbed the redirected force with his Depleting Divine Light and offered the Buddha-Slaying Monk a chance to replace the Barbarian Divine General if he could withstand one palm strike.
• Si Ming faced the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s Ten thousand souls gather evil, spirits join in fury palm strike, using precise saber techniques and then Dragon Turtle Shatters a Thousand Waves to endure it.
• The clash destroyed the Spirit King Hall, while Si Ming remained standing but exhausted and injured; the others recognized his final technique as a Demon Race martial art.
• Henzhen was stunned by Si Ming’s apparent connection to the Demon Race, and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King asked whether his palm strike had convinced him; Si Ming answered, “No!”

Si Ming accepted the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's orders while secretly planning to warn the Glazed Temple about an attack on the Western Martial World, though the Spirit King's differing scrolls risked exposing him. He led a monster troop into Merry Forest to confront Great King Silver Bone, accompanied by Hualiu, a capable but sidelined monster who opposed killing humans outside battle.

• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King made Si Ming an ally equal in rank to a divine general and ordered an assault on the Western Martial World to seal the Azure Mysterious Corpse King and absorb her forces.
• Henzhen confronted Si Ming about his changed behavior, but he invoked the Spirit King's order against groundless suspicions and dismissed her.
• Si Ming read his individualized attack orders, realized that warning the Glazed Temple could reveal him as a spy, and secretly wrote a coded letter to send later.
• Si Ming led a lax monster troop through Merry Forest toward Great King Silver Bone's lair, with Hualiu reporting their location.
• The chapter described Hualiu's loyalty, her opposition to wanton killing, and how the Barbarian Divine General had sidelined her because of her rigid nature and reputation for bad luck.

Si Ming and Hualiu confronted Great King Silver Bone after Si Ming announced the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's demand for submission. Great King Silver Bone refused and summoned a vast bone army, while Si Ming and Hualiu began breaking through its defenses.

• Hualiu told Si Ming that Great King Silver Bone was a former challenger to the Azure Mysterious Corpse King who had since become a local ruler and fought the Wing Divine General to a draw.
• Si Ming carved a path through the forest with a saber strike and drew Great King Silver Bone out of its valley.
• Si Ming offered Great King Silver Bone submission or death, and it chose to fight.
• Si Ming shattered Great King Silver Bone's favorite Black Soul Bracelet, provoking its fury.
• Great King Silver Bone raised a ten-mile field of Nether Qi and summoned at least a hundred thousand skeletons, which Si Ming crushed with Asura Pardons Buddha.
• Hualiu fired Fierce Spirit Explosive Rain, cracking Great King Silver Bone's bones, as it began Thousand Bones Form a Prison.

Si Ming defeated Great King Silver Bone, absorbed his origin, and advanced to Internal Cultivation level eleven before ordering his army onward. At the Mysterious Extremity Seven Stars Palace, Ghost Chariot arrived first and immediately fought with himself over which of his heads deserved credit.

• Great King Silver Bone attacked Si Ming with bone spears and a massive arm, but Si Ming shattered the arm with a punch and unleashed his blood saber against the bone tower.
• An arrow distracted Great King Silver Bone, allowing Si Ming to destroy the tower and kill him with the blood saber.
• Si Ming absorbed Great King Silver Bone's cracked origin and raised his Internal Cultivation to level eleven, while reflecting on the limits of his unorthodox advancement.
• Si Ming ordered Hualiu to recruit Great King Silver Bone's subordinates, kill those who refused, and hurry toward their destination ahead of the other divine generals.
• Ghost Chariot reached the Mysterious Extremity Seven Stars Palace and argued with his own heads over which one had arrived first, then began fighting with them.

The Glazed Temple and Azure Mysterious Corpse King trapped the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King in two Buddhist formations and attacked him while the Monster Race struggled outside. Si Ming concealed his true strength as the battle continued, and the Spirit King remained unable to use Depleting Divine Light.

• Si Ming and Hualiu arrived before Ghost Chariot, then the Monster Race Divine Generals gathered outside the Seven Stars Palace with the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King attacked the palace, prompting the Azure Mysterious Corpse King to emerge and fight him.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King lured the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King into the Seven Buddhas Sin-Eradicating Demon-Subduing Formation, where Faming and the Glazed Temple monks appeared.
• The Glazed Temple monks formed a second Arhat Demon-Subduing Formation, suppressing the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and keeping the Monster Race forces at bay.
• Ghost Chariot fought desperately to aid the Spirit King, while Wu Da, Great Snake, and Si Ming held back; Si Ming directed most of his apparent power at damaging the palace.
• Faming, Fazhao, Xilai, and the other monks attacked the Spirit King while the Azure Mysterious Corpse King waited for an opening, preventing him from using Depleting Divine Light.

The seven monks, the Azure Mysterious Corpse King, and Hongdou cornered the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King in a coordinated ambush, overcoming his attempt to sow distrust by revealing Fanan’s past crime. As both sides gathered their ultimate attacks, the battle reached its decisive moment, but a sudden change interrupted the clash.

• Faming, Fazhao, and Xilai coordinated their attacks with the other monks, forcing the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King onto the defensive.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King exposed Fanan’s role in Faye’s death to disrupt the formation, but Fanan revealed that he had already confessed to the monks.
• Xilai struck the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King with the Lightning Tribulation Finger, piercing his chest and weakening his ability to recover.
• Fanan explained that he had confessed out of remorse, while the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King realized the monks had also found his granddaughter, Hongdou.
• Hongdou confronted her grandfather and refused to accept his blood-soaked vision of the world, while the monks and their allies prepared to kill him.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King met the monks’ ultimate attacks with a pillar of evil power, and a sudden change occurred just as their forces were about to collide.

The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King revealed that he had staged the Seven Stars Palace trap to eliminate the monks and expose a traitor among his subordinates. As his ambush overwhelmed the survivors, Faming and Fazhao sacrificed themselves to send Hongdou and Fazhao away, leaving the Spirit King triumphant.

• Zhu Mei revealed that she was a Flying Zombie impersonating the Azure Mysterious Corpse King, and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King explained that he had arranged the trap to kill monks and uncover a traitor.
• The Spirit King accused Yi Divine General of betrayal and blasted apart an impostor posing as Great Snake, then attacked the wounded monks.
• The Spirit King killed Fanan when he intervened to protect Faming and Fazhao, while the ambushing Monster Race army and Divine Generals trapped the remaining monks in battle.
• Fazhao used the formation's remaining Buddhist essence to transport Hongdou away in a golden lotus.
• The Spirit King killed Faming, who used his final strength to send Fazhao after Hongdou, and Fazhao vanished before he could finish protesting.

Si Ming’s effort to save the Glazed Temple monks cost Fajian his life, while the Heavenly Martial Alliance rescued most of the besieged monks. Xilai was left cornered by Henzhen, but he stopped her killing blow by claiming he knew who had murdered her foster parents.

• Fajian deliberately impaled himself on Si Ming’s saber, then used Vajra Demon-Subduing Power to strengthen Si Ming before dying; Si Ming ordered him buried properly.
• Shen Wumian and Si Shuiyun arrived with Heavenly Martial Alliance reinforcements, rescued the monks under attack, and helped them retreat from the Monster Race army.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King halted a falling meteor long enough for the rescue to succeed, while a sniper wounded Ghost Chariot and deterred him from pursuing.
• Zhu Mei suspected the rescuers were Heavenly Martial Alliance members, and the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King chose not to chase the retreating monks.
• Henzhen cornered the wounded Xilai and nearly killed him, but he claimed he knew who had murdered her foster parents; Henzhen demanded that he tell her.

The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King celebrated his victory over the Glazed Temple and planned to finish off its remnants, while Si Ming felt the weight of leading the temple’s remaining resistance. In Divine General Li’s fief, Henzhen tried to force the crippled Xilai to reveal his secret, but he continued to stall.

• Henzhen crippled Xilai and secretly hid him, then told the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King that she had destroyed his remains.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King promised Si Ming that he could complete the Thousand Buddha Blood Sacrifice after their forces attacked the Glazed Temple again.
• Si Ming realized that he was now responsible for the lives of the Glazed Temple’s remaining allies and resolved to face the Spirit King seriously.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King abandoned the search for the Azure Mysterious Corpse King and led his forces back, attracting independent Monster Race factions to join him.
• Henzhen brought Xilai twenty-year-old Daughter’s Red and demanded his secret, but Xilai stalled with music and wine until she struck him and threatened him again.

Henzhen kept Xilai alive as he made her copy Buddhist scriptures and study the Dharma to fulfill his wish of delivering a member of the Monster Race. At a meeting summoned by the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, Si Ming suspected Henzhen was protecting Xilai, while newly arrived generals Pan E and Ghost Wolf joined the gathering.

• Xilai told Henzhen that he would reveal the whole truth if he could deliver a member of the Monster Race and fulfill his old wager with his master.
• Henzhen continued copying scriptures and discussing the Dharma with Xilai, then refused to hand him over when Si Ming confronted her on the way to the Spirit King Hall.
• Si Ming noticed that Henzhen seemed protective of her hostage and followed her into the meeting.
• The newly arrived Divine Generals Pan E and Ghost Wolf attended the meeting, and Pan E insulted Si Ming as a human stray.
• Si Ming returned Pan E's insult with a mocking reply.

Si Ming overpowered Pan E during a dispute at the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's meeting, where the monsters planned to attack the Glazed Temple in ten days. Back in his room, Si Ming received a secret message from Si Jingyu, who had taken charge of the Glazed Temple's strategy, but her cryptic explanation left him baffled.

• Si Ming defeated Pan E in a strength contest and mocked him until the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King intervened.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King announced a plan to raid nearby towns and attack the Glazed Temple in ten days, then gave the assembled monsters their assignments.
• Si Ming reviewed his scroll and noted that it left commanders to act according to circumstances.
• Si Jingyu contacted Si Ming through the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye and told him she had taken over the Glazed Temple's plans.
• Si Jingyu described her strategy as “this and that, such and such,” and Si Ming told her he had no idea what she meant.

Si Ming spoke with Si Jingyu about her plan to prepare for the coming battle between the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and Glazed Temple, while Pan E plotted revenge against the Buddha-Slaying Monk. The chapter ended when a figure crashed down near Hualiu as she practiced archery.

• Si Jingyu told Si Ming to stay out of the strategy and act when the time came, and Si Ming warned her that the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King planned an all-out attack in ten days.
• Si Ming warned Si Jingyu about the dangers of investigating experts and asked what she would do if he were her blood brother, and she replied that a truth counted only if someone knew it.
• Pan E crushed two servants in anger and told Evil Master Zhangming that he wanted revenge on the Buddha-Slaying Monk.
• Evil Master Zhangming advised Pan E to provoke the monk by targeting his followers, so the monk would strike first and Pan E could avoid the Spirit King's punishment.
• Pan E accepted the plan and set out with his twin axes, while Evil Master Zhangming privately questioned his judgment and awaited the outcome of the coming battle.
• Hualiu dodged as a figure fell from the sky and smashed into the ground where she had been practicing archery.

Si Ming intervened when Pan E attacked Hualiu and fought him using techniques that redirected his overwhelming strength. As Pan E’s attacks slowed, Si Ming found himself gaining new insights into martial arts.

• Pan E attacked Hualiu and offered to spare her if she changed allegiance, but she refused because she was loyal to Si Ming.
• Hualiu dodged Pan E’s axe and struck him with four arrows, but they failed to harm him, and he nearly hit her before Si Ming blocked the blow.
• Si Ming confronted Pan E and exchanged attacks with him, then shifted from matching strength to deflecting his axe swings.
• Si Ming used Pan E’s own force to make his twin axes collide and sent him tumbling with a close-range push.
• Si Ming analyzed Pan E’s rigid fighting style as they battled and gained insights into martial arts.
• Si Ming attached his saber to Pan E’s axe during a spinning attack, slowing him until the storm of strikes dispersed.

Si Ming defeated Pan E by using a new method to coordinate Asura Divine Power and Vajra Demon-Subduing Power, then questioned Hualiu about her loyalty. As he prepared for the coming final battle, Xilai played a stirring war tune.

• Si Ming disarmed Pan E and struck him with the Mighty Vajra Palm, but Pan E’s Mountain God Body endured the blow.
• Si Ming realized he could use one divine power as the main force and the other as support, then defeated Pan E with Asura Pardons Buddha.
• Pan E fled, and Si Ming let him go to avoid drawing the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s suspicion.
• Si Ming asked Hualiu whether she would side with him against the Spirit King, and she affirmed that she would follow his will while he lived.
• Si Ming told Hualiu to call him “my liege,” then sensed the approach of a bloody conflict.
• Xilai played “Muster the Troops on the Battlefield,” filling the courtyard with music that sounded like armies gathering for a final battle.

Henzhen rejected Xilai’s offer to help her leave the Monster Race, while Xilai restored his hidden cultivation and resolved to take her hand instead. The Monster Race army prepared to march on the Glazed Temple, joined at the last moment by the powerful Anye Beast King.

• Henzhen refused Xilai’s offer to save her and warned that the coming war would make turning back nearly impossible.
• Henzhen promised to protect anyone Xilai wished to save at the Glazed Temple, but Xilai said the war had to be faced and called himself her karmic fate.
• After Henzhen left and ordered guards to seal the courtyard, Xilai restored his hidden cultivation and decided he would take her hand instead.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King assembled the Monster Race army, and Si Ming wondered why their departure had been delayed.
• The Anye Beast King arrived, revealing that he would join the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King’s campaign, and the army set out together.

The Monster Race launched a coordinated assault on the Glazed Temple, with the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and Si Ming advancing toward its main gate. At the eastern gate, Heavenly Martial Alliance experts from the Western Martial World revealed themselves as defenders and stalled the Monster Race generals.

• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King agreed to give the Anye Beast King thirty percent of the conquered territory in exchange for attacking the Glazed Temple from the south.
• Si Ming asked to accompany the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King so he could sacrifice the Glazed Temple's abbot for the Thousand Buddha Blood Sacrifice, and the Spirit King agreed.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King and Si Ming broke through the temple's gate and demanded that its defenders surrender.
• At the eastern gate, Dai Wen used the Ananda Saber Technique to hold off Pan E, while Sang Bingyuan's swordsmanship prevented Ghost Wolf from breaking through.
• Si Shuiyun, Shen Wumian, and Kou Feng stalled Zhu Mei, and Si Shuiyun wounded her with the Void Shadow Killing Technique before Zhu Mei's wound healed.
• Heavenly Martial Alliance fighters clashed with the Monster Race using Buddhist-sealed weapons that hindered the monsters' regeneration.

The Monster Race attacked the Glazed Temple from four directions, but the temple’s new commander anticipated their plans and held the assaults at the walls. The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King advanced toward the temple’s center and confronted three ancient monks, while the Anye Beast King was trapped in a sword formation at the south gate.

• A warrior monk secretly warned the Monster Race generals that the Buddha-Slaying Monk was a spy targeting the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, and Zhu Mei broke away to warn him.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King halted his troops at the north gate, then used his evil eye to discover that the Glazed Temple had withdrawn its northern defenders to reinforce the other three fronts.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King deduced that the Glazed Temple’s commander had changed and refused Si Ming’s suggestion to regroup, continuing toward the temple’s center instead.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King shattered the Buddhist formation and found three elderly monks from the Ling generation waiting in a Vajra Demon Subjugation Circle.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King borrowed the Glazed Precept-Breaking Saber from Si Ming and offered to fill two places in the Thousand Buddha Blood Sacrifice.
• The Anye Beast King charged through the empty south gate and was trapped by a four-sword formation, where he blocked an incoming blade of Sword Qi with his fist.

The Anye Beast King battled Wan Yebai and three Evil-Slaying Sword Sect experts while the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King fought the Glazed Temple monks. Zhu Mei warned that Si Ming was a spy, and Si Ming revealed his betrayal by shattering the Glazed Precept-Breaking Saber and trapping the Spirit King inside a powerful Buddhist formation.

• Wan Yebai and three sword sect experts attacked the Anye Beast King with techniques that restrained the Monster Race, forcing him to defend himself.
• The Purple-Pupiled Spirit King overwhelmed Lingdao, Linghui, and Lingde while the Monster Race army drove the Glazed Temple’s warrior monks toward defeat.
• The Spirit King killed Lingdao, breaking the monks’ formation, as the blood from the slain monk strengthened the Glazed Precept-Breaking Saber.
• Zhu Mei warned the Spirit King that Si Ming was a spy and that the Thousand Buddha Blood Sacrifice was a plot.
• Si Ming admitted he had been exposed, shattered the saber, and unleashed a Buddhist formation that suppressed the Spirit King and sealed off his vertical eye.

Si Ming fought the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King inside the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation, using the Wheel-Turning King Sword to counter the Spirit King's evil saber. Their clash continued as Si Ming gained the upper hand in physical strength but faced the Spirit King's deadly swordsmanship.

• Si Ming revealed himself as Wutian and wounded the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King with a powerful palm strike, then followed with a punch that smashed the Spirit King's chest.
• The Spirit King counterattacked by trapping Si Ming's arms with his intestines, but Si Ming healed his wounds with the Bodhi Golden Body.
• The Spirit King drew the Purple Primal Emperor Slash, increasing his power, and Si Ming summoned the Wheel-Turning King Sword from beneath the earth.
• The Wheel-Turning King Sword and the formation strengthened Si Ming, while its holy power cleared his mind and exposed the Spirit King's saber illusions.
• Si Ming and the Spirit King exchanged dozens of sword and saber strikes until the Spirit King condensed his attacks into one blow; Si Ming blocked it and struck at his face with his left hand.
• The Spirit King avoided Si Ming's stronger left-hand strike by yielding to its force, retreating, and launching a killing move.