Chapter Summaries

Si Ming fought Li Ban and Anye Beast King alone, using his weapons and divine powers to withstand their combined assault. After a hundred exchanges, the two opponents coordinated an attack that wounded and staggered him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Si Ming’s Wheel-Turning King Sword wounded Li Ban, but Anye Beast King interrupted his follow-up with Nether Saber Ghost Prison.
• Si Ming broke through the Beast King’s saber domain, and the two fought fiercely while Li Ban could find no opening to join in.
• Li Ban hurled the Blood Dragon Halberd at Si Ming as Anye Beast King attacked from behind, forcing Si Ming to block both blows with the Cauldron Armor Seal.
• Si Ming survived the combined assault but suffered internal injuries, then tried to stall while healing with the Bodhi Golden Body.
• Li Ban and Anye Beast King resumed their two-sided attack, and after a hundred exchanges they trapped Si Ming’s arm, wounded his chest, and forced him back.

Si Ming defeated Li Ban and the Anye Beast King with a surprise use of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique, then turned to check on the other fights. Wu Xiu struggled to protect Murong Wu against Mao Wei and Diao Mei, and the chapter ended with her refusing to abandon her disciple.

• Si Ming revealed his mastery of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique and overwhelmed Li Ban and the Anye Beast King with a galaxy-vortex attack.
• Li Ban used a blood-wyrm incarnation to cover his escape, while the Anye Beast King shattered the vortex but was badly wounded by the sword Qi and fled.
• Si Ming got back to his feet and decided to check on his companions.
• Shang Yu fought Black and White Impermanence, while Wu Xiu struggled against Mao Wei and Diao Mei as she protected Murong Wu.
• Wu Xiu wounded Mao Wei and attempted to escape with Murong Wu, but Diao Mei and Mao Wei attacked and injured her.
• Murong Wu urged Wu Xiu to leave him behind, but she refused to abandon her disciple.

Wu Xiu fought off Mao Wei and Diao Mei with a shape-changing weapon and taught Murong Wu how to exploit its flexibility, but the pair fled after their sect master warned them to run. The Anye Beast King escaped Alliance Leader Sima’s sword intent by sacrificing flesh, then reflected on the danger posed by the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader.

• Wu Xiu healed her injuries, stopped Murong Wu from fleeing, and explained how medicine cultivators could keep enemies at a distance.
• Wu Xiu used her Hundred-Refined Finger-Wrapping Softness to counter Mao Wei and Diao Mei’s attacks, wounding both while instructing Murong Wu.
• The sect master’s warning sent Mao Wei and Diao Mei fleeing, and Wu Xiu mocked their parting threat.
• The Anye Beast King changed into his true form and cut away the flesh surrounding Alliance Leader Sima’s persistent Evil-Slaying Sword Intent.
• After returning to human form, the Anye Beast King acknowledged that Alliance Leader Sima could defeat him in a duel and regretted not supporting the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King.

The Anye Beast King failed again to master the Evil-Slaying Sword Intent and decided to seize a body that had mastered it. Meanwhile, Si Ming continued hunting the Blood Abyss Sect’s remnants, then reached a City God temple and faced Cloud-Grazing Eagle King Peng Qianzhong.

• The Anye Beast King tried to unleash Total Extermination of Yao and Ghosts, but the technique recoiled and injured him.
• The Anye Beast King concluded that he would have to forcibly seize a body proficient in Evil-Slaying Sword Intent to fuse righteousness and evil.
• Si Ming pursued Li Ban with help from the righteous sects, destroying Blood Abyss Sect strongholds and driving many of its ordinary members to defect.
• Si Ming and Shang Yu followed intelligence to a City God temple and razed it with three successive techniques.
• Peng Qianzhong charged Si Ming with his Profound Yin Divine Claw, and Shang Yu identified him as the Cloud-Grazing Eagle King, a vicious figure with ties to both righteous and evil paths.

Si Ming defeated Peng Qianzhong, Dragon Monk, and Tiger Nun with ease after they confronted him, then learned that rumors calling him the number one expert under heaven might be an attempt to hinder his pursuit of Li Ban. As the defeated group prepared to leave, Shang Yu suddenly struck Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun in the back with red light.

• Si Ming guided Peng Qianzhong into overusing his power, then disrupted his Qi and made him collapse with a snap of his fingers.
• Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun attacked Si Ming together, but he exposed their flaws, injured Tiger Nun, and stopped Dragon Monk with the Profound Yin Divine Claw.
• The young saber wielder apologized, and Tiger Nun offered five Blood Abyss Sect heads while Si Ming demanded to know why the group had challenged him.
• Shang Yu explained that jealous martial artists and evil-path rumors may have used Si Ming's growing fame to obstruct his pursuit of Li Ban.
• Si Ming sent the defeated group away, but Shang Yu struck Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun in the back with red light as they left.

Shang Yu and Si Ming discussed her punishment of Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun and debated what justice meant. Si Ming argued that justice mattered less than acting and correcting mistakes, leaving Shang Yu reconsidering how her pursuit of vengeance might still benefit society.

• Shang Yu crippled Dragon Monk and Tiger Nun, explaining that she punished them for treating ordinary people as expendable, while sparing them from harsher punishment because they had fought the Monster Race.
• Tiger Nun stopped Dragon Monk from pursuing Shang Yu and told him she was carrying his child, prompting Si Ming to leave with Shang Yu.
• While camping, Shang Yu asked Si Ming whether her actions were wrong, and he said her targets deserved punishment but questioned her method.
• Shang Yu asked what justice was, and Si Ming described it as an ongoing process before admitting he was too occupied with correcting his own mistakes to dwell on its definition.
• Si Ming told Shang Yu that her actions could advance society even without a lofty ideal, and she realized she had not considered her punishment from the perspective of the people seeking peace.

After helping Shang Yu understand why she still loved Li Ban while seeking his life, Si Ming watched her create an external incarnation for Liu Qingqing. The pursuit continued at the Evil Ghost Sect, where Si Ming and Shang Yu attacked the mountain gate and demanded that the sect hand over Li Ban.

• Shang Yu explained that Li Ban had once been an idealistic young man before the Blood Abyss Sect’s power corrupted him.
• Shang Yu revealed that she had willingly taken a sword meant for Li Ban and still loved him, though she wanted him dead.
• Shang Yu thanked Si Ming for helping her understand her feelings and prepare to leave the body without lingering attachment.
• Shang Yu used Myriad Filth Tainted Blood to create an external incarnation of Liu Qingqing and promised to teach her how to refine it.
• Si Ming and Shang Yu attacked the Evil Ghost Sect’s mountain gate and demanded that its disciples hand over Li Ban.

Si Ming and Shang Yu fought their way through the Evil Ghost Sect, where Si Ming destroyed its ghost formation and repelled a Grandmaster’s attack. Duan Changkun escaped after Liu Qingqing wounded him, while Liu Qingqing stayed behind to battle a summoned ghost king.

• Si Ming broke free of the chains, killed a summoned evil ghost king, and continued into the rear hall with Shang Yu.
• Hundreds of sect members trapped Si Ming and Shang Yu in the Ghost Sha Grand Formation, but Si Ming’s thunder technique destroyed its ghost soldiers and collapsed the formation.
• A Grandmaster’s Evil Luo Ghost Arm attacked Si Ming, who shattered it and blasted the ghostly Sha vortex with an Earth-Piercing Annihilation Tyrant Wave.
• Duan Changkun fled the rear hall, but Liu Qingqing intercepted him and severely wounded his left shoulder with Divine Calamity Form, Fall of the Gods.
• Duan Changkun sacrificed his severed shoulder to summon an evil ghost king, which distracted Liu Qingqing and let him escape; Liu Qingqing re-formed after its blow and continued fighting it.

Si Ming destroyed the Evil Ghost Sect while searching for Li Ban, then learned that Li Ban had escaped and was gathering evil-path Grandmasters to kill him. Li Ban offered them half of two Blood Abyss Sect supreme arts as a deposit, and they considered joining his plan against the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader.

• Si Ming learned from Duan Changkun that the Evil Ghost Sect had refused to shelter Li Ban, then crippled Duan Changkun and planned to hand him over to the Evil-Slaying Sword School.
• Liu Qingqing described the strengths and limits of her Blood Spirit Body after she and Yuezheng Yao killed the Evil Ghost King, while Shang Yu concluded that the final battle with Li Ban was near.
• Li Ban gathered evil-path Grandmasters from across the Barbarian Continent and urged them to unite against Sima Liang, citing the destruction of the Evil Ghost Sect and the Heavenly Martial Alliance's pressure on the evil path.
• Zhong Jiu hesitated over joining Li Ban, while Tong Tianhao demanded compensation for risking his life.
• Li Ban offered the Grandmasters half copies of the Blood Abyss Scripture and the Five Evil Seals as a deposit, promising the remaining halves if they killed Sima Liang.

Si Ming faced seven evil-path experts in the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation and overwhelmed their coordinated attacks with his strength and skill. As the battle continued, Mao Wei and Diao Mei prepared to betray Li Ban, while Diao Mei’s failed sword strike left her furious.

• Si Ming entered the blood mist and fought Yang Dongli, Tong Tianhao, and Ximen Chou while the formation concealed their positions.
• Si Ming deflected Yang Dongli’s thousands of blood-infused palm strikes and redirected them into Tong Tianhao, badly injuring him.
• Mao Wei used the Earth Evil Seal to hinder Si Ming as Diao Mei attacked his brow with Ghost-Crying Frontier Arrowhead.
• Si Ming suppressed Mao Wei’s attack, caught Diao Mei’s sword between two fingers, and shattered its hidden Ghostly Evil Seal.
• Si Ming mocked Diao Mei’s cautious strike, and she grew furious despite knowing she could not defeat him.

Si Ming overwhelmed the assembled Grandmasters, prompting Li Ban to abandon his plan to defeat him and flee to meet Shang Yu. After they reconciled, Li Ban began a ritual to anchor Shang Yu’s lingering spirit in a borrowed body, but Liu Qingqing attacked him as it reached its critical stage.

• Diao Mei attacked Si Ming with her full strength, but he stopped her Sword Qi and wounded Mao Wei when Mao Wei intervened to rescue her.
• Li Ban concluded the group could not defeat Si Ming and used a secret art to leave a clone in the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation while he escaped.
• Li Ban told Shang Yu that he had infiltrated the Blood Abyss Sect at her father's request, and Shang Yu said she believed him and had long suspected her father had an inside man.
• Li Ban and Shang Yu spoke about her return as a lingering obsession, and he proposed anchoring her in the body she temporarily controlled.
• Li Ban set up and activated the ritual to anchor Shang Yu, but Liu Qingqing attacked him from behind, and he struck back and destroyed her blood spirit body.

Shang Yu confronted Li Ban over his betrayal of the Righteous Qi Palace and tried to kill him, but he refused to believe she was truly herself. As Li Ban attacked Shang Yu and Liu Qingqing with his blood arts, Shang Yu used the Wheel-Turning King Sword to counter him.

• Shang Yu stabbed Li Ban, broke the spell formation, and accused him of using love and revenge as excuses to pursue power.
• Shang Yu revealed that she had sacrificed herself to give Li Ban a chance to change, but he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
• Li Ban pretended to surrender, then caught Shang Yu's sword and accused her of being an impostor when she tried to kill him.
• Liu Qingqing attacked Li Ban with a spear of blood Sha Qi while Shang Yu retreated.
• Li Ban unleashed Blood Calamity Firmament against Shang Yu and Liu Qingqing, and Shang Yu answered with Ten Thousand Swords Heavenly Dipper.

Li Ban’s attempt to kill Shang Yu failed after Yuezheng Yao and Si Ming arrived, and Si Ming cornered him with help from Liu Qingqing's Blood Spirit Body. Li Ban escaped after the Blood Dragon Halberd’s Artifact Spirit was destroyed, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Li Ban wounded Shang Yu and nearly killed her, but Liu Qingqing and Yuezheng Yao intervened and disrupted his attack.
• Si Ming arrived, gravely wounded Li Ban, and revealed that he had escaped the Seven Slaughter Blood Formation while Mao Wei and Diao Mei were killed.
• Si Ming overwhelmed Li Ban and began exhausting his Blood Flow Gang Qi, but the Blood Dragon Halberd’s Artifact Spirit swallowed him and carried him into the sky.
• The Wheel-Turning King Sword destroyed the Artifact Spirit, and Li Ban fled in a streak of blood-red light.

Si Ming and his allies subdued Li Ban, who confessed that ambition and attachment to power had led him down the wicked path. Shang Yu killed him with the Wheel-Turning King Sword, then dissolved her remnant soul into Liu Qingqing, who woke feeling stronger and remembering more of her childhood.

• Yuezheng Yao slowed Li Ban as he fled, Liu Qingqing bound him, and Si Ming disrupted his forbidden art with the Heavenly Emperor's Finger.
• Si Ming challenged Li Ban's claims about ambition and reputation, then recited a poem that made Li Ban abandon his will to survive.
• Li Ban asked whether Shang Yu still loved him, and she said she was still willing to die for him.
• Shang Yu asked Li Ban whether he would die for her, and he accepted as she drove the Wheel-Turning King Sword through his heart.
• Shang Yu scattered her remnant soul, with its purest part merging into Liu Qingqing's soul.
• Liu Qingqing recovered in Si Ming's arms and said she felt stronger and could remember more from childhood.

Si Ming learned that Wan Ziling’s remnant soul had taken control of Liu Qingqing’s body and discovered her obsession was to utterly kill the Anye Beast King. The two argued over her refusal to change her wish or cooperate, leaving Si Ming frustrated and unable to use force while she occupied Liu Qingqing’s body.

• Si Ming and Liu Qingqing realized that fulfilling an obsession could grant an aptitude, and Liu Qingqing could no longer return to her body because another remnant soul had taken control.
• The remnant soul introduced herself as Wan Ziling and demanded that Si Ming keep his distance while she controlled Liu Qingqing’s body.
• After Yuezheng Yao reminded him, Si Ming recognized Wan Ziling as the daughter of the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect’s sect master and understood why she wanted the Anye Beast King destroyed.
• Si Ming proposed sealing the Anye Beast King and sending him to another world as an alternative, but Wan Ziling insisted her obsession could not be changed.
• Wan Ziling and Si Ming traded increasingly sharp insults over her lack of a plan and his attempts to help, until Si Ming gave up arguing because she was using Liu Qingqing’s body.

Si Ming abandoned his attempt to help Wan Ziling reclaim her body after Liu Qingqing stopped him, then set out for the Southern Martial World after learning Si Jingyu and the others had been found. Wan Ziling chose not to visit her father at Righteous Qi Peak, while Si Ming sang about his loneliness as they traveled.

• Wan Ziling told Si Ming to kill her so the original owner could regain the body, but Si Ming questioned her reasons for wanting to die.
• Liu Qingqing repeatedly stopped Si Ming from carrying out Wan Ziling's request, and Si Ming finally agreed to let her live.
• Si Ming threatened to beat up Wan Yebai to get back at Wan Ziling, until Liu Qingqing stopped him from bullying her.
• Yuezheng Yao reported that Si Jingyu and the others had been found at the Glazed Temple, so Si Ming decided to head for the Southern Martial World.
• Wan Ziling thanked Liu Qingqing for intervening and declined to visit her father, saying she did not want her family to grieve for her again.

Si Ming listened as Yuezheng Yao explained the Yellow Bell Responding to the Pitch Formula, then reframed its principles through mathematics and became absorbed in working out how it related to martial arts. He ended the chapter announcing that he had grasped the connection, while Wan Ziling and Yuezheng Yao were left bewildered.

• Si Ming used his fierce presence to discourage troublemakers at a town restaurant, then asked Yuezheng Yao to explain the Yellow Bell Responding to the Pitch Formula.
• Yuezheng Yao explained how the twelve pitches related to the Classic of Changes and feng shui, leaving Si Ming confused.
• Si Ming rewrote Yuezheng Yao's diagram using numbers and letters, then began exploring algebraic geometry and topology as ways to understand the pitch system.
• Yuezheng Yao and Wan Ziling moved to another table, ate, and waited while Si Ming worked; Wan Ziling reflected on the contrast between his reputation and his character.
• Gongs and drums from the street prompted Si Ming to smash the table in excitement and declare that he understood the connection between algebraic topology, particle physics, and the martial art.

Si Ming stopped a Zhou Clan steward and his servants from forcing a young performer to meet their young master, then weighed whether the steward deserved a harsher punishment. After the crowd stayed silent, Si Ming let the steward go with a warning, and Wan Ziling challenged his reasoning.

• Yuezheng Yao watched a grandfather and granddaughter perform in the street as lechers mocked the girl.
• A Zhou Clan steward and two servants attacked the performers’ equipment and tried to seize the granddaughter, but Si Ming struck them down with chopsticks.
• The steward begged for mercy and claimed his young master only wanted the girl to sing and dance, while Si Ming considered whether the man’s actions warranted further punishment.
• Si Ming asked the townspeople to report any unforgivable crimes, but the steward’s threats kept them silent, so Si Ming pulled out the chopstick in the steward’s knee and let him go.
• Si Ming hurled another chopstick into the pleasure house and injured the young master, then the performers left and Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s decision to spare the steward.

Si Ming explained why he would not destroy the Zhou Clan, then returned to save a performing grandfather and granddaughter from the Merchant School’s pursuers. As Wan Ziling challenged his shifting justifications, the attackers prepared to fight them.

• Wan Ziling urged Si Ming to punish the Zhou Clan, but he argued that removing it would disrupt local order and that the Heavenly Martial Alliance could address the deeper problem.
• Si Ming said their more valuable goal was killing the Anye Beast King, and Wan Ziling admired his vision for changing the world.
• The Merchant School sent martial instructors and servants after the performing grandfather and granddaughter, despite abandoning revenge against Si Ming.
• Si Ming appeared behind the fleeing pair and killed the leading martial instructor, then claimed the pursuers’ attack gave them cause to confront the Merchant School.
• Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s contradictory remarks, and the remaining pursuers urged each other to attack the two of them.

Si Ming defeated the Zhou Clan’s pursuers, then punished them by shattering their kneecaps rather than killing them. After explaining that they had to answer for their past actions, he apologized to the grandfather and granddaughter he had used as bait and gave the girl a martial arts manual.

• Si Ming used the pursuers’ attacks against them, killing those who wielded weapons and injuring the unarmed fighters.
• When the survivors tried to flee, Si Ming stopped them with a sound-wave technique and captured them.
• Si Ming rejected their pleas for mercy and shattered their kneecaps, saying they had to answer for their past deeds.
• Wan Ziling questioned Si Ming’s harsh punishment, and he explained that future good behavior could not erase past wrongdoing.
• Si Ming apologized to the grandfather and granddaughter, gave the girl a martial arts manual, and left with Wan Ziling.