Chapter Summaries

Si Ming separated Si Jingyu and Murong Qing before their rivalry turned into a fight, then Si Huaruo arrived searching for Si Jingyu and learned more about Si Ming’s ties to the Si Clan. The chapter ended with Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo trading insults after Si Huaruo pressed her about whether Si Ming was truly Si Jingyu’s brother.

• Si Jingyu and Murong Qing sensed an unresolved rivalry and considered settling it with a serious fight, but Si Ming took Si Jingyu away to eat.
• Si Huaruo arrived at the classroom looking for Si Jingyu and learned from Murong Qing that Si Ming had once pretended to be Si Jingyu’s brother for a protection assignment.
• Si Huaruo explained that Si Ming had been secretly abandoned as Si Jingyu’s true younger brother and taken away through Yan Jinghong’s connections.
• Si Huaruo confronted Si Jingyu at Warm and Full about Si Ming’s identity, but Si Jingyu refused to reveal what the old ancestor had told her.
• Si Ming entered the private room and tried to calm Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo, but they resumed arguing and traded insults.

Si Ming reunited with Si Huaruo, Murong Qing, and Si Jingyu, then visited the Second Martial Arts Club after returning from his travels. He watched Liu Qingqing defeat Nie Wanzhi and learned that Liu had practiced her new martial arts in a dream.

• Si Huaruo threatened to find the Mohist Knight Guard who knew the truth about the past, then stayed for lunch with Si Ming, Si Jingyu, Murong Qing, and Si Shuiyun.
• Si Ming struggled to keep the tense lunch conversation from turning into an argument, and the group parted ways afterward.
• Si Ming went to the Second Martial Arts Club and found Liu Qingqing sparring with Nie Wanzhi at its new gymnasium practice ground.
• Nie Wanzhi gained the upper hand with her Buddhist martial arts, but Liu Qingqing used a divine art to create clones and defeated her.
• Si Ming asked Liu Qingqing where she had learned her new techniques, and she said she had practiced them in a dream.

Si Ming learned that Liu Qingqing’s vivid dreams and assassin skills began after she took an Inspiration Pill, then went to meet Yu Shuying’s master in hopes of obtaining one. He found that the elusive Heaven’s Will Palace elder was a childlike girl who demanded he call her senior.

• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that her master created the scarce Inspiration Pill and that Liu Qingqing had taken one while struggling to learn a divine art.
• Yu Shuying said Liu Qingqing had instead defeated her examiner with an assassination technique, and Si Ming suspected her dreams had given her the skill.
• Yu Shuying offered to introduce Si Ming to her master, who wanted to study his Mercury Alloy Body in exchange for an Inspiration Pill.
• Si Ming agreed and went with Yu Shuying to the Mohist Knight Guard base, where he encountered Jiang Zhengtai and knocked him down when he tried to embrace him.
• A child in a white coat revealed herself as Yu Shuying’s master and scolded Si Ming for failing to address her as senior.

Si Ming met Yu Shuying’s master, Wu Xiu, and learned about her controversial research with Jiang Zhengtai. When Si Ming asked for Inspiration Pills to help with a difficult Internal Cultivation method, Wu Xiu agreed in exchange for a trip to the Barbarian Continent.

• Si Ming learned that Wu Xiu was a century-old Heaven’s Will Palace senior known as God-Burying Coffin and Snake.
• Jiang Zhengtai explained that Wu Xiu had researched changing his sexuality, while he argued against her methods and refused to continue as her test subject.
• Si Ming avoided telling Wu Xiu about Liu Qingqing and asked whether she had any Inspiration Pills.
• Wu Xiu offered Si Ming an Inspiration Pill on the condition that he take her to the Barbarian Continent to search for unfamiliar plants.

Si Ming left Wu Xiu after discussing a costly formation to reach the Barbarian Continent, then encountered a drunk Yuezheng Yao at a teahouse. He learned the Yuezheng Lineage had been politically isolated after Yuezheng Qiong’s actions, leaving Yao to face mounting trouble.

• Wu Xiu told Yu Shuying to hide her interest in poison and offered to modify Si Ming’s formation if he provided its diagram.
• Si Ming learned Wu Xiu had not yet gotten information from Wei Chunxi, whose self-inflicted poisoning made him resistant to torture.
• Si Ming mistook Yuezheng Yao for Yuezheng Qiong from behind, then recognized Yao as she ordered wine at a teahouse.
• Si Ming forced sobering tea on Yuezheng Yao and told her she would have to face her troubles rather than flee from them.
• The proprietress explained that the government had withdrawn its support for the Yuezheng Lineage and that its business partners had cut ties to avoid suspicion.

Si Ming helped the troubled Yuezheng Yao return to her faculty apartment and suggested she gain combat experience by traveling with him to the Barbarian Continent. The next day, he visited the Second Martial Arts Club, where Ke Chajing described its poor tournament result and hoped he would compete again next year.

• Si Ming carried Yuezheng Yao to her faculty apartment after she said her seaside home had been sold.
• Yuezheng Yao explained that a dream about a spirit lump of shit had inspired her to abandon cleanliness, and she said she planned to retire from the music industry.
• Yuezheng Yao asked how to become strong enough to bring back her sister, and Si Ming recommended combat experience and martial arts from another school.
• Si Ming suggested Yuezheng Yao accompany him to the Barbarian Continent to fight and learn martial arts.
• At the Second Martial Arts Club, Ke Chajing told Si Ming that the club had finished outside the national tournament's semifinals and hoped he would return to compete next year.

Si Ming confronted the adviser who tried to take control of the Second Martial Arts Club and defended Ke Chajing’s leadership. The group decided to form a new club while keeping ghost memberships in the old one, and Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to recommend a place for summer special training.

• Si Ming suggested recruiting Si Jingyu, Si Huaruo, and Si Shuiyun, but the adviser objected to giving them main-roster spots without discussion.
• The adviser criticized Ke Chajing and proposed making Gong Fei vice president, so Si Ming slammed his fist into the floor and threatened him until he backed down and left.
• Ke Chajing and Hu Jixian explained their conflict with the adviser, and Si Ming proposed founding a new club with a deliberately blunt name.
• Si Ming suggested remaining ghost members of the Second Martial Arts Club while actively participating in the new club, and Ke Chajing agreed to handle its founding while Si Ming notified everyone.
• Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to recommend a place for special training over the summer.

Si Ming interrupted Hongdou’s unusual friendship-themed painting session and learned that Murong Qing, Liu Qingqing, and Yu Shuying had agreed to model. The session ended with Murong Qing and Yu Shuying threatening each other, leaving Si Ming to intervene before they fought.

• Si Ming went to Hongdou’s room to notify Murong Qing and the others about a training journey and found them posing with their skirts lifted for Hongdou’s painting.
• Hongdou explained that she wanted to depict friendship through the friends’ willingness to fulfill her unusual request.
• Yu Shuying said she had agreed because posing was a small favor between friends, while Liu Qingqing mentioned that she was wearing safety shorts.
• Murong Qing realized Yu Shuying had deliberately stood between her and Liu Qingqing, and Yu Shuying admitted she had done it to deceive her.
• Murong Qing threatened Yu Shuying, who warned that she had poisoned her, and Si Ming stepped between them to stop a fight.

Si Ming ended the school year, took Hongdou’s revealing drawing to protect the women from gossip, and learned that Wei Chunxi had been killed to silence him. He returned to Minggui Orphanage, where he challenged Wu Xiu over the lax security and learned the Mohist Knight Guard had killed Wei Chunxi themselves to prevent the Remote Heaven Society from reaching him.

• Murong Qing and Yu Shuying left after nearly clashing, while Hongdou showed Si Ming her drawing of them and Liu Qingqing.
• Si Ming confiscated Hongdou’s drawing to protect the three women from rumors, claiming he would keep it safe.
• Si Ming finished his freshman year after stealing exam questions, then arranged to meet his club members again a week later.
• Si Ming learned that Wei Chunxi had been killed to silence him and complained to Wu Xiu about the Remote Heaven Society’s easy success.
• Wu Xiu explained that the Mohist Knight Guard had killed Wei Chunxi themselves because the Remote Heaven Society might have infiltrated their ranks.
• Si Ming returned to Minggui Orphanage and remarked that the place felt unfamiliar after his long absence.

Si Ming returned to the orphanage with Wu Xiu and introduced her to Murong Qing and Murong Wu. After testing Murong Wu’s instinct for identifying poison, Wu Xiu offered to take him as her disciple, and the chapter ended with him asking whether he could study medicine without learning to harm people.

• Si Ming opened the door to find Yao Bilian and Murong Wu dancing in costume, then went inside with Murong Qing and Wu Xiu after they had changed.
• Wu Xiu tested Murong Wu by asking him to identify the poisonous one of two nearly identical flowers, and he chose correctly by intuition.
• Wu Xiu offered to teach Murong Wu medicine, and Murong Qing asked for a few days to consider the offer before they left for the Barbarian Continent.
• Ying Zhou returned and mocked Wu Xiu for looking like a little girl, so she paralyzed him with medicine and told Murong Wu he could learn the same skills.
• Murong Wu said he did not want to hurt anyone and asked whether he could learn medicine without poisons, and Wu Xiu explained that medicine and poison were closely linked.

Murong Wu became Wu Xiu’s disciple, while Si Ming cultivated the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace and decided to teach it to Hualiu. As the group prepared to travel to the Barbarian Continent, several companions joined them, but Murong Qing stayed behind to focus on her cultivation.

• Wu Xiu persuaded Murong Wu that poison could be compassionate, and Murong Wu asked her to accept him as a disciple.
• Murong Wu completed his apprenticeship ceremony the next day, and Yu Shuying welcomed him with a Black-Striped Azure Toad.
• Si Ming advanced the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace to level four and chose Hualiu to learn it, giving her physics textbooks to study.
• Si Jingyu, Si Shuiyun, and Si Huaruo joined Si Ming’s planned trip to the Barbarian Continent.
• Si Ming convinced Ying Zhou to join the trip by mentioning the sect that founded the Brahma Sea Asura Art.
• Murong Qing declined to travel so she could absorb the Black Tortoise Martial Form and prepare to attempt Spirit Transformation.

Si Ming gathered a small group to travel to the Barbarian Continent while Wu Xiu prepared a more efficient teleportation formation. After Hao Shuai joked lecherously about the women in the group and became interested in Wu Xiu, the formation was completed and began to activate.

• Murong Qing decided to let Murong Wu travel with Wu Xiu and endure hardship, while Si Ming promised to protect him without giving him special treatment.
• Yu Shuying stayed behind and insisted that Hualiu remain with her, so Si Ming counted the group who would travel to the Barbarian Continent.
• Wu Xiu explained that her simplified formation used fewer materials and could transport the small group with livestock sacrifices, though they would have to cross quickly.
• Hao Shuai bought ice pops for the group and joked with Si Ming about his preferences and his own interest in Wu Xiu.
• Wu Xiu completed the formation and activated it, causing its crystals to glow and fan-shaped rays to rise.

Si Ming and Wu Xiu led the group through a blood-powered spatial formation, but a calculation error left them choosing between several exits as the tunnel began to collapse. Elsewhere, Feng Liancheng and Duan Jinsu were cornered by a red-robed pursuer whose evil technique overwhelmed Feng Liancheng’s strongest spell.

• Wu Xiu killed thirty livestock to activate the formation, while Si Ming encouraged Hao Shuai to pursue Si Jingyu.
• The group entered the flesh-and-blood tunnel, found several forks where there should have been one route, and chose the far-left path as the tunnel began to crack.
• Feng Liancheng fled through a forest carrying the injured Duan Jinsu, but a red-robed man with a ghost mask blocked their way.
• Feng Liancheng’s wind-and-thunder spell was dispelled by the man’s Divine Evil Seal, and the man struck Feng Liancheng, knocking Duan Jinsu from his back.
• The red-robed man defended his use of evil arts, claiming the upper court could not interfere and that he and his followers were the sect’s true heirs.

Duan Jinsu and Feng Liancheng tried to deter the man in red with talismans, but he decided to kill them anyway. Si Ming arrived unexpectedly, stopped the attack, and joined Yuezheng Yao and the others in fighting off the man’s masked followers.

• Duan Jinsu used a fake Life-Binding Talisman to make the man in red hesitate to kill her.
• Feng Liancheng sent a real distress talisman toward the upper court, then warned that its envoys would expose the man’s crimes.
• The man in red moved to kill Feng Liancheng, but Si Ming and several others fell through a warped void into the clearing.
• Si Ming caught and crushed the man in red’s flying sword, then identified him as a villain and demanded his surrender.
• The man in red summoned dozens of black-clad followers, and Yuezheng Yao struck many of them with Hundred-Li Wind and Waves.
• The remaining attackers faced spells and techniques from the others, including Ice Talisman: Gale Needle Hail, Pelting Rain of Arrows, and Three Powers Converge on the Origin.

Si Ming and the Heavenly Martial Alliance fought the man in red, whose Evil Seals injured Si Ming and delayed his pursuit. Si Ming finally crushed the enemy with his wrathful Buddha manifestation and kept him alive at Duan Jinsu’s request.

• Si Huaruo, Liu Qingqing, and Chen Shimi attacked the men in black while the man in red used Earth Evil Swallows the Sea and fled.
• Si Ming caught the man in red, but the Ghostly Evil Seal struck his mind and weakened his strength as he crushed the attacker’s fingers.
• Liu Qingqing intercepted the fleeing man in red and wounded him, while Chen Shimi’s flying sword briefly slowed him.
• The man in red unleashed Human Evil Punishment Emperor, destroying Chen Shimi’s flying sword and forcing Liu Qingqing to retreat.
• Si Ming summoned his wrathful Buddha manifestation and smashed the man in red into the ground, then used True Qi to keep him alive after Duan Jinsu asked him to spare the prisoner.

After learning that the Blood Abyss Sect planned a sacrifice of at least a hundred thousand people, Si Ming decided to destroy its headquarters and used Duan Jinsu’s soul-binding art to interrogate a captured protector. The ritual pulled the dying man’s soul from his body, but the sect’s location and the fate of the others remained unknown.

• Duan Jinsu and Feng Liancheng explained that the Blood Abyss Sect intended to refine Myriad Filth Tainted Blood using at least ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine victims per drop.
• Si Ming decided to question the captured protector and told Duan Jinsu to recover before performing the soul-binding art.
• Si Ming discussed the scattered group with Si Huaruo and decided to destroy the Blood Abyss Sect’s headquarters before returning to the Western Martial World to find everyone.
• After half a day of rest, Duan Jinsu performed the Great Soul-Splitting Technique with Feng Liancheng supplying Primal Qi.
• Duan Jinsu used Nether Qi and a blood-drawn ritual to pull the dying protector’s soul from his body.

Si Ming and his companions reached Yuntian Mountain, the Blood Abyss Sect’s lair, and found it shrouded in poisonous mist and signs of mass death. As they prepared to confront the sect, Si Ming explained that he was restraining himself to avoid harming any captives who might still be inside.

• Si Ming discussed the Ghostly Evil Seal with Liu Qingqing and accepted that avoiding its contact-based attack was a practical defense, though he still insisted that he should strengthen his weaknesses.
• Duan Jinsu learned the Blood Abyss Sect’s location on Yuntian Mountain, and Si Ming ordered him to help find Si Ming’s separated companions through the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Si Ming sent Yuezheng Yao to escort Duan Jinsu and his disciple while he led the others toward the sect’s base without giving its members time to flee.
• At Yuntian Mountain, Si Huaruo warned the group that the lingering mist contained potent corpse poison, while Liu Qingqing offered to help counter its effects.
• Chen Shimi lamented the suffering and wrongful deaths on the mountain, and Si Ming responded with a poem that impressed him.
• Si Ming told Si Huaruo that he was joking to control his anger and avoid attacking the sect’s base before they knew whether hostages were inside.

Si Ming and Chen Shimi drew the Blood Abyss Sect out with a bombardment while Si Huaruo and Liu Qingqing infiltrated the sect to search for hostages. Si Ming’s attack unexpectedly crippled the Vice Sect Master, and after the sect’s leaders tried to placate him, he escalated the fight and faced a swarm of blood-red vultures.

• Si Ming rejected a direct search for the enemy base and assigned himself and Chen Shimi to make a commotion while Si Huaruo and Liu Qingqing searched for hostages.
• Si Ming bombarded Yuntian Mountain with nuclear light spheres until two Blood Abyss Sect experts emerged from a cave to confront him.
• Si Ming’s Blazing Sun Heavenly Saber shattered the Vice Sect Master’s blood-red attack and corroded his body, while the white-haired man used blood from a gourd to stop the damage.
• The two sect leaders denied having broken an engagement with Si Ming and offered to hand over any disciple who had offended him, but Si Ming suspected they were trying to distract him from something important.
• Si Ming refused to leave and attacked with Thousand Blades Scorching the Plains, prompting the Vice Sect Master to summon blood-red vultures with a banner.

Liu Qingqing and Si Huaruo infiltrated the Blood Abyss Sect’s cave while Si Ming and Chen Shimi drew its fighters outside. They reached the guarded stone door and attacked Black and White Impermanence, but Black Impermanence survived Liu Qingqing’s strike with his protective Qi.

• Liu Qingqing led Si Huaruo through the cave using shadows and killed a guard with the Illusory Moth Killing Art.
• The women reached the stone door, where Black and White Impermanence stood guard, and agreed to stagger their attacks.
• Si Huaruo launched the first attack, drawing both guards’ attention while Liu Qingqing struck Black Impermanence from another direction.
• Black Impermanence’s Nether Lock Profound Qi Flow blocked Liu Qingqing’s dagger, though the strike cut his skin.
• White Impermanence was wounded by Si Huaruo’s palm strike and returned to Black Impermanence’s side.

Si Huaruo held off Black Impermanence and White Impermanence while Liu Qingqing entered the secret chamber and tried to cleanse the blood pool. After Black and White Impermanence joined forces against Si Huaruo, they still struggled to gain the advantage.

• Si Huaruo delayed White Impermanence while Liu Qingqing broke through the stone door and entered the secret chamber.
• Liu Qingqing found thousands of corpses suspended above a blood pool and destroyed the formation feeding it.
• Liu Qingqing used a divine art to soothe the dead and dissolve the resentment, but the last drop of blood flew into her forehead.
• Black Impermanence destroyed the Hurricane Tiger King and joined White Impermanence in attacking Si Huaruo.
• Si Huaruo deflected Black Impermanence's palm strike into White Impermanence and kept both opponents on the defensive.