Chapter Summaries

Liu Qingqing emerged from the cave transformed by Blood Sha Qi and drove off Black and White Impermanence before leaving to attack Blood Abyss Sect members. On Yuntian Mountain, Chen Shimi struggled to master his sealed power while Si Ming dominated the vice sect master, whose blood-body attack failed against him.

• Liu Qingqing unleashed the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood against Black and White Impermanence, who severed their arms and escaped with a blood-red light.
• Liu Qingqing ignored Si Huaruo and left the cave, after which the screams of Blood Abyss Sect members sounded nearby.
• Chen Shimi used his sealed power through ordinary martial arts moves as he fought the white-haired man, trying to master the power despite failing to gain the advantage.
• Si Ming killed the Blood Abyss Sect disciples who tried to ambush him and punched through the vice sect master's blood shield.
• The vice sect master transformed into blood and lunged at Si Ming to consume his essence blood, but Si Ming's body repelled him and injured him.

Si Ming defeated the Blood Abyss Sect’s leaders and destroyed the sect, but Liu Qingqing collapsed after emerging from a secret chamber with a mysterious change in her demeanor. He left with her, Si Huaruo, and the exhausted Chen Shimi to reunite with Yuezheng Yao and the others.

• Si Ming repeatedly scattered the Blood Abyss Sect vice sect master's blood-form until the old man died, while Liu Qingqing killed the white-haired man with Divine Calamity Form, Fall of the Gods.
• Si Ming questioned Liu Qingqing about whether she had been possessed, but her blood Sha vanished and she collapsed unconscious.
• Si Huaruo explained that Liu Qingqing had entered a secret chamber alone and revealed that the hostages inside had all been killed.
• Si Ming unleashed Star Core Decay Blazing Sun Descent, razing the Blood Abyss Sect and reducing Yuntian Mountain to a wasteland.
• Si Ming and Si Huaruo prepared to leave with Liu Qingqing, then carried the exhausted Chen Shimi along as he speculated about transforming into a Devil Dragon.

Si Ming learned that the Blood Abyss Sect had used Liu Qingqing as the vessel for unfinished Myriad Filth Tainted Blood, with several dead women’s souls still inside her. Liu Qingqing called one of them forward to reveal her wish, but the chapter ended before she answered.

• Si Ming and Yuezheng Yao compared their encounters with the Blood Abyss Sect, and Duan Jinsu explained that the sect’s master and Three Evil Generals had been away pursuing a larger plan.
• Feng Liancheng identified the defeated vice sect master as Blood River Old Man, one of the Three Evil Generals, and described his blood-draining arts and unusual escape technique.
• Duan Jinsu examined Liu Qingqing and explained that a soul connected to the unfinished Myriad Filth Tainted Blood had controlled her after she lost consciousness.
• Liu Qingqing sensed three souls in her sea of consciousness, and Duan Jinsu said their wishes could be fulfilled or their souls forcibly removed.
• Liu Qingqing entered her sea of consciousness, emerged under the control of one of the souls, and Si Ming asked her what unfulfilled wish she had.

Wu Ming revealed that Li Ban and the Anye Beast King were attacking the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, prompting Si Ming and his companions to rush to its aid. At Righteous Qi Peak, the sect’s survivors debated breaking out or waiting for reinforcements while besieged and gravely weakened.

• Si Ming questioned Wu Ming about her identity and her demand to kill Li Ban, and she warned him that Li Ban had allied with the Anye Beast King to attack the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect.
• Duan Jinsu urged everyone to go help the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect after learning the sect was under attack.
• Li Ban and the Anye Beast King had joined forces to defeat the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect, killing five Grandmasters and leaving Wan Yebai, Zheng Jingyuan, Lou Xia, and the surviving disciples trapped in Righteous Qi Palace.
• Zheng Jingyuan reported that two-tenths of the disciples had died, three-tenths were gravely injured, and Ziyue and Zihan had fallen in battle.
• Wan Yebai argued that the survivors should break out immediately, while Zheng Jingyuan proposed holding out behind the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array until reinforcements arrived.

Wan Yebai led the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s disciples in a breakout from Righteous Qi Peak, leaving the wounded and his son Wan Ziqiu behind. Li Ban and the Anye Beast King ambushed them at the foot of the mountain, and the chapter ended with Wan Yebai fighting Li Ban as the disciples tried to break through.

• Wan Yebai decided to leave the wounded behind and ordered the disciples to escape, while Wan Ziqiu stayed behind because he was badly wounded.
• Wan Yebai led the disciples through the secret passage and broke through the weakened enemy defenses at Righteous Qi Peak.
• Wan Yebai realized Li Ban and the Anye Beast King had not appeared and ordered the disciples to split into two groups, but Li Ban and the Anye Beast King revealed their ambush.
• Wan Yebai and Li Ban argued over their past losses before Zheng Jingyuan warned that Li Ban was stalling to complete the encirclement.
• Wan Yebai ordered the disciples to form an array and break west; Li Ban attacked to stop them, and Wan Yebai intercepted him with the Demon-Slaying Sword.

Zheng Jingyuan and two elders fought the Anye Beast King with the Evil-Butchering Sword Formation to buy time for the disciples, but the beast king revealed that he had let them struggle for his amusement. After Elder Feng and Elder Yue died, Zheng Jingyuan refused the beast king’s offer to leave and charged him with his ultimate sword technique.

• Zheng Jingyuan and Elders Feng and Yue formed the Evil-Butchering Sword Formation and pushed the Anye Beast King back, believing they might defeat him.
• The Anye Beast King revealed that he had deliberately let them exceed their limits to test their will, and claimed he had never meant to stop the disciples from escaping.
• Elder Feng collapsed and died from the damage caused by fighting beyond his limits.
• Elder Yue attacked with his ultimate move, but the Anye Beast King destroyed his sword radiance and killed him with Crimson Serpent Devours the Soul.
• The Anye Beast King told Zheng Jingyuan to take his companions’ belongings and leave, but Zheng Jingyuan declared that he would not let him insult their will and charged with his ultimate sword technique.

Si Ming battled the Anye Beast King at full strength while Zheng Jingyuan escaped with Elder Feng’s corpse. Their fight devastated Righteous Qi Peak, and the chapter ended with the Anye Beast King striking Si Ming as the Asura manifestation counterattacked.

• Si Ming blocked the Anye Beast King’s attack, overpowered him, and sent Zheng Jingyuan away to catch up with the others.
• Si Ming revealed the alias Sima Liang and entered Solar Prominence Eruption, sending the Anye Beast King crashing into the mountain.
• The two fighters’ battle shook Righteous Qi Peak and triggered an explosion that tore open its eastern mountainside.
• Si Ming summoned a wrathful Asura manifestation and struck the Anye Beast King through the mountain with Asura Overturns the Brahma Sea.
• The Anye Beast King unleashed his Otherworld Domain and hit Si Ming in the chest, while the Asura manifestation smashed his face with a fist.

Si Ming drove off the Anye Beast King, while Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo fought to protect the badly injured Wan Yebai from Li Ban. Wu Ming intervened with the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending, and Li Ban recognized the spell and wondered who she was.

• Si Ming and the Anye Beast King exchanged heavy blows, but the Beast King chose to leave and the Monster Race army fled after him.
• Li Ban wounded Wan Yebai, but Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo arrived and kept Li Ban occupied while Si Huaruo treated Wan Yebai.
• Yuezheng Yao fought Li Ban with the Taicu Flying Sound Sword as Si Huaruo slowed him with a frost divine art.
• Li Ban lured Yuezheng Yao into attacking, wounded her, and then turned to strike down Wan Yebai.
• Wu Ming, occupying Liu Qingqing's body, blocked Li Ban with the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending.
• Li Ban asked Wu Ming who she was and why she could use the spell, while Yuezheng Yao and Si Huaruo sensed a connection between them.

Si Ming drove Li Ban from the battlefield and helped the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect survive its attack. After the sect began its return to the Righteous Qi Palace, Wan Yebai asked Si Ming to kill the Anye Beast King, but Si Ming was reluctant to risk fighting him.

• Si Ming attacked Li Ban while he was distracted, overwhelmed him, and forced him to flee with Blood Escape.
• Duan Jinsu explained that Li Ban's Blood Flow Gang Qi could regenerate, while Yuezheng Yao and Wu Ming did not help stop his escape.
• With Li Ban gone, the evil-path experts fled, and the exhausted Evil-Slaying Sword Sect halted its pursuit and turned back toward the Righteous Qi Palace.
• Wan Yebai learned that Si Ming was the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader, Sima Liang, and asked him about the Anye Beast King.
• Wan Yebai asked Si Ming to kill the Anye Beast King, but Si Ming doubted he could win and did not want to risk facing him.

Si Ming accepted the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique from Wan Yebai and stayed at the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to learn it, while Wan Yebai expected him to protect the sect and eventually face the Anye Beast King. Wan Yebai then challenged his son Wan Ziqiu over whether he could uphold the sect’s purpose of slaying evil.

• Wan Yebai gave Si Ming the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique without conditions, and Si Ming agreed to accept it and remain at the sect while he studied.
• Wan Yebai mistook Si Ming’s plan to return the manual after learning it in a few days as a pledge to protect the sect during its recovery.
• Wan Ziqiu questioned his father about giving the sect’s supreme art to an outsider and worried Si Ming might share it through the Heavenly Martial Alliance.
• Wan Yebai explained that he trusted Si Ming’s character and believed generosity would lead him to deal with the Anye Beast King.
• Wan Yebai asked Wan Ziqiu whether he could kill him if the Anye Beast King possessed his body, and Wan Ziqiu admitted he could not.
• Wan Yebai told Wan Ziqiu that he could preserve the sect’s inheritance but could not carry on its mission, then challenged whether his praise of the founding patriarch was sincere.

Wan Yebai explained the requirements for the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique’s final moves after Si Ming mastered the earlier techniques in two days. Wan Yebai demonstrated the sword of consciousness, and Si Ming found himself unable to move.

• Wan Yebai told Wan Ziqiu that an heir to the Intent to Slay Evil had to be ready to sacrifice even family for the sect.
• Three days later, Si Ming asked Wan Yebai for help learning the technique’s final two moves and demonstrated that he had mastered all the others in two days.
• Wan Yebai explained that “All Evil Falls Silent, Every Wickedness Perishes” required cultivation of the soul and used Sword Intent to immobilize its target.
• Wan Yebai demonstrated the move, and Si Ming sensed his killing aura before discovering that he could not move.

Si Ming learned the limits of Wan Yebai’s sword move and arranged to exchange Li Ban’s head for the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s soul-training method. He then decided to cultivate spells to strengthen his soul and told Wu Ming he planned to become a mage.

• Wan Yebai demonstrated a sword move that froze the world around Si Ming, then explained its openings, costs, and missing ultimate technique.
• Si Ming learned that his soul was too weak to use the move effectively and asked whether the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect had a soul-training method.
• Wan Yebai offered the Five Elements Spirit-Refining Formula, and Si Ming proposed trading Li Ban’s head for it; Wan Yebai agreed.
• Si Ming reasoned that practicing spells could strengthen his soul and decided to train as a mage, possibly learning from the woman inside Liu Qingqing.
• Wu Ming joked that Si Ming would wear down enemies with spells before punching them to death, and Si Ming protested that he could be a mage who also liked hand-to-hand combat.

Si Ming learned the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending from Wu Ming, whose real name was Shang Yu, then asked Wan Yebai about her past with Li Ban. Wan Yebai revealed how Li Ban betrayed the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect and how Shang Yu died by his sword, leaving Si Ming with the truth behind her grievance.

• Si Ming trapped Wu Ming with a spell formation, but she broke free and revealed that her real name was Shang Yu.
• Shang Yu gave Si Ming the Five Calamities of the Cosmic Dharma Ending and told him to ask Wan Yebai about her history.
• Si Ming apologized to Wan Yebai for damaging Righteous Qi Peak and asked him about Shang Yu.
• Wan Yebai recounted how Shang Yu fell in love with Li Ban, who joined the Blood Abyss Sect and secretly used the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to advance his power.
• Wan Yebai explained that Li Ban betrayed their forces during an operation, then used Shang Yu as a shield when Wan Yebai tried to stop him from abducting her.
• Wan Yebai said his sword killed Shang Yu, while Li Ban escaped with her body and blamed him for her death.

Si Ming took Shang Yu north to draw Li Ban out by spreading rumors that she would soon die, while Shang Yu hoped to learn the truth about her past. The chapter left Li Ban’s response uncertain as the news spread through the Eastern Martial World.

• Wan Yebai told Si Ming that Li Ban had used the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect as a target for his resentment after Shang Yu’s death, and Si Ming vowed to stop him.
• Yuezheng Yao asked Wan Yebai why he had left his son at the Righteous Qi Palace, and he explained that he valued the sect above his family while still loving his children.
• A few days later, Si Ming and Shang Yu traveled north, and Si Ming explained that they needed to lure Li Ban out of hiding.
• Shang Yu warned that Wan Yebai’s account might not be the whole truth, but said she still wanted Li Ban dead and wanted to question him about the past.
• Si Ming revealed that he had spread rumors claiming Shang Yu’s return from death was temporary and that she had only days or weeks to live, hoping Li Ban would come to her aid.

Shang Yu and Si Ming reached Murong Wu’s cottage, where a crowd awaited the young physician. Murong Wu agreed to treat Golden Flood Dragon Gang leader Shang Zhen after Shang Zhen promised to abandon his evil ways, while a girl in the cottage warned that saving him could endanger future victims.

• Shang Yu and Si Ming arrived at the cottage and heard villagers praise Murong Wu’s unusual medical treatments.
• Si Ming explained that the rumored Gu treatment used specially bred medical maggots to clean wounds.
• Shang Zhen and his men forced their way through the waiting crowd, but Shang Zhen stopped them from threatening Murong Wu.
• A girl inside the cottage urged Murong Wu not to treat Shang Zhen because the Golden Flood Dragon Gang harmed innocent people.
• Murong Wu agreed to examine Shang Zhen after the gang leader promised to turn away from evil and follow the righteous path.

Murong Wu treated Shang Zhen’s cold poison, then was struck by the gang leader, who feared he would also cure the Sand River Gang’s leader. As Shang Zhen’s men moved against Wu Xiu, Murong Wu warned them not to enter her cottage.

• Murong Wu diagnosed Shang Zhen’s cold poison and treated it with hollow needles, then prescribed medicine and urged him to reform his gang.
• Shang Zhen asked Murong Wu to examine a subordinate whose back was cracked by flame poison, and Murong Wu agreed to write a prescription.
• Shang Zhen suddenly punched Murong Wu, explaining that he feared Murong Wu would treat Qian Qi, the Sand River Gang leader, whose injury would otherwise kill him in five days.
• Murong Wu condemned Shang Zhen for excusing his actions as the way of the jianghu, while Wu Xiu mocked the gang members from inside the cottage.
• A scar-faced gang member tried to force his way into Wu Xiu’s cottage, and Murong Wu warned him that it was dangerous.

After the Golden Flood Dragon Gang attacked Murong Wu, Wu Xiu incapacitated the gang and left their fate to him. Murong Wu spared the gang members but kept Shang Zhen behind, while Wu Xiu planned to make her disciple confront the consequences of his mercy.

• The scar-faced man melted into pus after entering the house, and another gang member suffered the same fate after touching him.
• Wu Xiu emerged, treated Murong Wu, and told him to decide what should happen to the immobilized gang members.
• Murong Wu admitted most of the gang members were probably pretending to repent, but said he would not kill them and asked Wu Xiu to keep Shang Zhen while releasing the others.
• Wu Xiu freed the gang members but left Shang Zhen paralyzed; the others fled without pleading for their leader.
• Wu Xiu planned to show Murong Wu the victims and families harmed by the gang so he would understand the cost of sparing wrongdoers.

Si Ming intervened when Murong Wu struggled over whether to spare the Golden Flood Dragon Gang leader, Shang Zhen, and helped him separate medical care from responsibility for a patient’s crimes. He left Murong Wu with a way to treat evildoers while letting them choose whether to lose their martial arts.

• Si Ming struck Shang Zhen’s Qi sea, crippling his Cultivation Body, then asked Wu Xiu to cure his poison and release him.
• Si Ming reassured Murong Wu that treating Shang Zhen’s injuries did not make him responsible for the gang leader’s past crimes or future fate.
• Si Ming asked Murong Wu whether he would treat the Sand River Gang leader, then argued that a doctor could offer treatment at the cost of the patient’s Internal Cultivation and respect the patient’s choice.
• Murong Wu accepted Si Ming’s advice and agreed to approach such dilemmas with a pluralistic mindset.

Si Ming and Wu Xiu bickered on the journey back while Wu Xiu tried to reshape Murong Wu’s outlook, then staged a fight to draw out their hidden pursuers. The Blood Abyss Sect, led by Li Ban, revealed itself, and Si Ming faced the group as they prepared to seize someone.

• The Sand River Gang leader stayed away from Si Ming, while infighting weakened the Golden Flood Dragon Gang.
• Wu Xiu said she could not treat Liu Qingqing because Liu Qingqing’s body was healthy and her soul was dead, and Si Ming refused to let Wu Xiu study her.
• Wu Xiu lectured Murong Wu and secretly signaled Si Ming, who joined her in staging an argument that turned into a fight.
• Wu Xiu attacked Si Ming with a poison python, and Si Ming controlled it with his True Qi and sent it into the woods, exposing Li Ban and four Blood Abyss Sect members.
• Li Ban explained that he had come to seize someone, while Wu Xiu’s poison failed to affect the sect members because their Cultivation Bodies were poisonous.

Si Ming fought Li Ban and the Anye Beast King after Li Ban revealed Shang Yu’s remnant soul and sought to bring her back. The two enemies joined forces against Si Ming, and Li Ban opened the difficult battle with a combined spell-and-martial attack.

• Li Ban confirmed that Liu Qingqing’s body held Shang Yu’s remnant soul, while Shang Yu insisted she was dead and planned to take Li Ban to the netherworld.
• Si Ming attacked Li Ban to prevent him from pursuing Shang Yu, but the Anye Beast King intervened and joined Li Ban against him.
• Si Ming and his opponents faced off as their powerful presences overwhelmed the surrounding forest and its creatures.
• Li Ban launched Foul Blood Stains the Azure Sky, combining spells and martial arts while Si Ming conserved strength against both enemies.