Chapter Summaries

The Anye Beast King learned that Sima Liang had been gravely injured and went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, weighing whether to attack him. Zheng Jingyuan recognized that the school master was an impostor and activated the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array to trap the Anye Beast King.

• The Anye Beast King heard that Elder Zheng had returned with wounded people, including someone believed to be Sima Liang, and decided to investigate.
• Zheng Jingyuan told the Anye Beast King that the operation had succeeded but the Son of the Dragon Devil had fused with a Corpse Kun and self-detonated, gravely injuring Sima Liang.
• The Anye Beast King gave Zheng Jingyuan the school master's tiger tally and ordered him to activate the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array to protect the school.
• Zheng Jingyuan realized the Anye Beast King had never asked about Wan Ziqiu and concluded that his senior brother had been replaced.
• Zheng Jingyuan activated the array and vowed to settle his centuries-old grudge with the Anye Beast King.
• The Anye Beast King entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation, assessed Sima Liang's injuries, and considered whether to strike.

The Anye Beast King discovered that the patient was a decoy and was caught in a trap involving corpse poison and an exploding corpse. He fought Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping, purged the poison with lightning, and left Wan Ziqiu badly wounded while demonstrating his superior mastery of the Evil-Slaying Sword Art.

• The Anye Beast King entered the sickroom, realized the patient was not Sima Liang, and deduced that the others suspected his identity.
• Wu Xiu revealed that the air was poisoned, and the corpse in the bed exploded, blasting the Anye Beast King backward as Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping attacked.
• The Anye Beast King provoked Wan Ziqiu by impersonating Wan Yebai, then used Wan Ziqiu's sword strike to channel lightning through himself and purge the corpse poison.
• Wan Ziqiu unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Heavenly Dipper while Zhou Anping attacked with Evil-Warding Sacred Might, but the Anye Beast King countered both with the Evil-Slaying Sword Art.
• The Anye Beast King drove Zhou Anping back and wounded Wan Ziqiu's arms, then explained that nearly a hundred years of studying the sword art had made him more skilled than Wan Yebai.

Si Ming arrived in time to save Wan Ziqiu and fought the Anye Beast King, revealing that he had learned the Beast King's signature move by watching it once. Si Ming's growing sword momentum overwhelmed the Beast King, disarmed him, and left him wounded as he took up the Demon-Slaying Sword.

• The Anye Beast King attacked Wan Ziqiu, but Si Ming arrived and blocked the strike with his saber.
• Si Ming told the Beast King that Wan Yebai's soul had revealed his identity, while Wan Ziqiu restrained his anger and waited to deliver the final blow.
• Si Ming used Ill-Fated and Untimely, explaining that he had learned the move by watching the Beast King perform it once.
• Si Ming and the Beast King traded sword attacks, and Si Ming's strength and swordsmanship steadily improved as he fought.
• Si Ming explained that the Evil-Slaying Sword Art depended on momentum, then broke the Beast King's sword stance, disarmed him, and wounded him.
• Si Ming caught the Demon-Slaying Sword and declared it wasted in the Beast King's hands, while the Beast King's wounds began to heal.

Si Ming fought the Anye Beast King, whose newly developed saber techniques combined the Fierce Spirit Art with the Evil-Slaying Sword Art. Si Ming countered with a move he created during the battle and left the Beast King gravely wounded, while Zhou Anping warned Wan Ziqiu not to rush in because the Beast King might be feigning defeat.

• The Anye Beast King abandoned his attempt to surprise Si Ming with the Evil-Slaying Sword Art and attacked with the transformed Suanni Bone Saber.
• Si Ming defended against the Beast King's first two ultimate moves and analyzed his new saber art while they fought.
• The Beast King unleashed Holy Spirit Ashen Earth, linking his attacks into a flame storm and a plunging strike.
• Si Ming used both the Demon-Slaying Sword and Crimson Scorpion Evil Saber to create Holy Spirit Divine Desolation, split the Beast King's attack, and wound him.
• Wan Ziqiu tried to rush in and kill the Beast King, but Zhou Anping stopped him and cautioned that the Beast King's injuries might not be fatal or sincere.

The Anye Beast King survived his self-destruction by fusing the power of anomalies with the Evil-Slaying Sword Essence, returning with a power he called the Power of Sacred and Evil. Si Ming faced the reborn Beast King while trying to protect the wounded Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping, and the chapter ended with him intercepting an attack aimed at them.

• The Anye Beast King plunged his blade into his chest and fused the power of anomalies with the Evil-Slaying Sword Essence, then exploded as Si Ming's Sword Qi failed to stop him.
• The Anye Beast King emerged from the explosion transformed, broke Wan Ziqiu's and Zhou Anping's swords, and wounded both men before Si Ming drove him back with the Crimson Scorpion evil blade.
• The Anye Beast King declared that he had surpassed the King of Monsters and discovered the Power of Sacred and Evil, while Si Ming urged Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping to retreat.
• Wan Ziqiu questioned why the Beast King could grow stronger after killing his father, and Zhou Anping told him that justice had to be made by people's own hands.
• The Anye Beast King fired a shock wave at Si Ming, then redirected it toward Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping; Si Ming intercepted it and struggled against its overwhelming power.

Si Ming faced the transformed Anye Beast King as the Beast King destroyed Righteous Qi Palace’s defensive array and overpowered him. Si Ming summoned the Wheel-Turning King Sword and opened the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to strengthen his Cultivation Body, but his Buddhist Primal Qi failed to withstand the Beast King’s attack.

• Zheng Jingyuan used the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array to attack the Anye Beast King, who broke the array with the Suanni Bone Saber and left Zheng Jingyuan badly wounded.
• Si Ming taunted the Beast King and challenged him to wait while he completed his own transformation.
• Si Ming and the Beast King unleashed “All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes,” and their Sword Intents clashed in a void that injured both their souls.
• Si Ming summoned the reforged Wheel-Turning King Sword and opened the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to strengthen his Bodhi Golden Body.
• The Anye Beast King attacked with the Suanni Bone Saber, and Si Ming’s Buddhist Primal Qi was overwhelmed.

Si Ming overwhelmed the Anye Beast King with Tathagata's Indestructible Body, Buddhist techniques, and superior strength. After Si Ming blasted the Beast King's hiding place, he discovered the Beast King had escaped by using the Suanni Bone Saber to mislead his spiritual sense.

• Si Ming used Tathagata's Indestructible Body to withstand the Anye Beast King's Power of Sacred and Evil and countered with devastating palm strikes.
• The Anye Beast King tried to overwhelm Si Ming with rapid saber attacks, but Si Ming evaded them and struck him with hidden force that sent him crashing into a palace.
• Si Ming waited for the Beast King to emerge, then unleashed Heavenly Thunder of Ten Thousand Tribulations into the collapsed palace.
• Si Ming shattered a boulder thrown from the ruins and found only the Suanni Bone Saber, realizing the Anye Beast King had concealed his presence and escaped.
• Si Ming sensed the Beast King was below him.

Si Ming and the Anye Beast King traded ultimate attacks, shattering the formation and splitting Righteous Qi Peak. After the Beast King tried to escape, Yuezheng Yao, Wu Xiu, and Chen Shimi helped cripple him, leaving Si Ming to decide his fate.

• Si Ming and the Anye Beast King clashed with their ultimate techniques, destroying the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation and splitting Righteous Qi Peak.
• The badly injured Beast King revealed that the formation had been broken and claimed his recovery would let him outlast Si Ming.
• The Beast King bound Si Ming with a blood chain and fled, but Si Ming realized the Beast King had already entered his second form.
• Yuezheng Yao used music to immobilize the Beast King briefly, and Wu Xiu poisoned him while explaining her tactic to Murong Wu.
• Chen Shimi severed the Beast King's feet, and the Beast King stopped resisting as Si Ming approached him.
• The Beast King admitted defeat and suggested that Si Ming have Wan Ziqiu kill him instead.

Wan Ziling killed the Anye Beast King with Si Ming’s help, avenging her family, and the group transferred the Beast King’s essence into Liu Qingqing’s Myriad Filth Tainted Blood. Wan Ziling regained her clarity and comforted Wan Ziqiu before her final departure.

• Si Ming revealed that Wan Ziqiu had deliberately drawn the Anye Beast King’s attention as part of a trap, while Wan Ziling stepped forward to claim her revenge.
• Wan Ziling drove Liu Qingqing’s blood blade through the Anye Beast King’s heart as Si Ming restrained him, and she destroyed his life force with the Power of Filth and Extinction.
• The Anye Beast King broke free briefly with a forbidden technique, but Si Ming held him down as Wan Ziling’s strike killed him.
• Si Ming, Wu Xiu, Yuezheng Yao, Si Jingyu, Si Huaruo, Zheng Jingyuan, and Wan Ziqiu helped transfer the Beast King’s essence into Liu Qingqing’s Myriad Filth Tainted Blood.
• Wan Ziling’s obsession faded, and she stroked Wan Ziqiu’s head while telling him to grow up and shoulder his burdens.

Wan Ziling said goodbye to Wan Ziqiu and walked with Si Ming as her Soul Essence began to disperse. She admitted her fear of death and shared a final embrace with Si Ming, then prepared to leave without frightening the ordinary girl sharing her body.

• Wan Ziling told Wan Ziqiu to protect their school, and he promised not to disgrace her or their father.
• Wan Ziling asked Si Ming to walk with her, and they discussed reincarnation and whether they might meet again.
• As her Soul Essence drifted away, Wan Ziling confessed that she was afraid to die and forget her loved ones and Si Ming.
• Si Ming embraced Wan Ziling and promised they would meet again; she said their time together had made her incomplete life feel whole.
• Wan Ziling wiped her tears and said she needed to set an example for the ordinary girl sharing her body, then asked Si Ming for one last favor.

After Si Ming killed the Anye Beast King, he helped the devastated Evil-Slaying Sword School recover and promised to protect it while its members gathered materials for a formation. Zheng Jingyuan discouraged Zhou Anping from pursuing the Beast King's dangerous arts, while Si Ming reflected that the battle had been closer than it appeared and that the Beast King's belief he could return later had cost him the fight.

• Wan Ziqiu mourned the sect leader, then organized battlefield cleanup, medical care, and plans to rebuild the Evil-Slaying Sword School.
• Zheng Jingyuan and Zhou Anping thanked Si Ming, who agreed to stay and guard the sect while it gathered materials for a formation.
• Zhou Anping proposed studying the Beast King's union of sacred and evil powers, but Zheng Jingyuan urged him to pursue Buddhist martial arts instead.
• Zhou Anping said Si Ming's strength gave martial artists a new goal, and Zheng Jingyuan acknowledged the path ahead would be difficult.
• Si Ming privately recognized that the fight had been close and that the Anye Beast King's lack of commitment to risking his life had led to his defeat.

Si Ming met the shy Xie Xiaomei, a girl residing in Liu Qingqing’s body, and tried to learn what she wanted. After she asked him to let her die, he attempted to cheer her up, but each suggestion was rejected because of her mother’s strict rules.

• Si Ming learned that Liu Qingqing could no longer change shape and that the Myriad Filth Tainted Blood was transforming after absorbing the Beast King's origin.
• Liu Qingqing let Xie Xiaomei take control, and Si Ming asked the timid girl about her wish.
• Xie Xiaomei recognized Si Ming as the big brother who had saved her and thanked him.
• Xie Xiaomei asked Si Ming to let her die, leaving him alarmed by her request.
• Si Ming offered candied hawthorn, martial arts, and playing with animals, but Xie Xiaomei rejected each idea by citing her mother's rules.

Si Ming spent several days trying to communicate with Xie Xiaomei while the Evil-Slaying Sword School gathered materials for a formation, then prepared to return home as summer vacation ended. As Wu Xiu began setting up the formation, Si Ming sparred with the Blood Spirit Clone and demonstrated how his swordsmanship had improved after fighting the Beast King.

• Si Ming decided that if he could not reach Xie Xiaomei through conversation, he would take her to the Sea Continent and ask Yu Shuying to use her Mind-Reading Technique.
• Si Ming drove off challengers who tried to exploit the Evil-Slaying Sword School's weakened state, while its disciples gathered the formation materials.
• After waiting two more days, Si Ming decided to return home before the new semester began.
• Wu Xiu began setting up the improved Flesh and Blood Wormhole formation, and Si Ming sparred with the Blood Spirit Clone while others paired off to practice.
• Si Ming used the Beast King's Evil-Slaying Sword Art to overwhelm the Blood Spirit Clone, but she dodged his sweeping attack by turning into a bead of blood and counterattacked.
• Si Ming punched the Blood Spirit Clone into a spray of blood, then admitted that her unusual abilities made her difficult to defeat without an ultimate move.

Si Ming and his companions returned safely from the Barbarian Continent to the Sea Continent, reunited with familiar surroundings, and parted ways for the new semester. At the orphanage, Si Ming found Hongdou lying unconscious on the floor of her studio.

• Si Ming watched his companions spar and reflected that their journey had strengthened them before Wu Xiu gathered everyone to enter the space-time tunnel.
• The group returned safely to the Sea Continent, where Hao Shuai and Yuezheng Yao reflected on the dangers of their journey and Hu Jixian and Ke Chajing discussed her scar.
• Si Ming helped Hu Jixian understand what Ke Chajing wanted, but she decided to keep a faint scar as a reminder of her hardship.
• Si Ming confirmed through Liu Qingqing that Xie Xiaomei was safe, then returned to the orphanage with Murong Wu and Ying Zhou.
• Si Ming found the orphanage unusually quiet and discovered Hongdou lying on the floor of her underground studio.

Si Ming found Hongdou asleep in the doorway, carried her to the kitchen, and cooked her noodles while hearing how she had decided she could sleep anywhere. After Hongdou told him that Auntie Liu wanted to speak with him, he learned that his Three Kingdoms books had sold exceptionally well and was pressed to write the next volume within a month.

• Si Ming found Hongdou asleep in the doorway and discovered that she had simply fallen asleep rather than gone hungry.
• Hongdou explained that she had tried sleeping in the doorway because she reasoned that a bed in her heart meant she could sleep anywhere.
• Si Ming cooked Hongdou noodles, and she told him that Auntie Liu had asked him to call.
• Auntie Liu told Si Ming that the Wei State Arc had sold eight million copies and demanded that he write the Official History Arc within a month.
• Si Ming resisted Auntie Liu's request by quoting Tuo Gewala about never producing extra chapters.

Si Ming refused to resume writing and then learned that the government had enacted a strict Marriage Compatibility Act. Yao Bilian explained the rules and teased him with the possibility of adoption, leaving him holding a form that could spare him government matchmaking if he named a partner.

• Si Ming refused Auntie Liu’s request to write more novels and planned to delay the Official History Arc by splitting it into parts and adding two new arcs.
• Yao Bilian returned home and told Si Ming that the Marriage Compatibility Act would match unmarried people aged twenty or older and impose strict dating rules.
• Yao Bilian explained that the government would match people according to their circumstances and that married women now had to have a child by thirty.
• Yao Bilian teased Si Ming by suggesting he become her adopted son, and Si Ming fled from her advances.
• Yao Bilian gave Si Ming a marriage compatibility form, which let him name an existing partner or describe his ideal match.

Si Ming brought Xie Xiaomei to Yu Shuying, who discovered that Xie Xiaomei’s hidden wish was cruel and might be better left unfulfilled. Si Ming argued that concealing a painful truth could deprive someone of the chance to choose how to live, but he had not yet decided what to do for her.

• Si Ming brought Xie Xiaomei to Yu Shuying and explained that she was controlling Liu Qingqing’s body.
• Yu Shuying read Xie Xiaomei’s thoughts and found that Xie Xiaomei had not fully understood her own wish.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that Xie Xiaomei subconsciously believed ending her life might be better than having her wish fulfilled.
• Yu Shuying warned Si Ming that fulfilling Xie Xiaomei’s wish could push her into an abyss, while forcibly purifying her soul would spare him trouble.
• Si Ming compared concealing Xie Xiaomei’s wish to hiding a patient’s serious illness and argued that people deserved the chance to face the truth and fulfill their final wishes.

Si Ming encouraged Xie Xiaomei to embrace the power of Liu Qingqing's body and join the Mutual Aid Society as a hero. The chapter then shifted to Liang Xin bullying a skinny classmate over refusing to help him cheat.

• Si Ming learned that Xie Xiaomei liked martial heroine comics and used her interest to draw her into conversation.
• Si Ming told Xie Xiaomei that he and his friends were student heroes in the Mutual Aid Society, fighting evil in secret.
• Si Ming explained that Xie Xiaomei could use Liu Qingqing's martial arts and invited her to join the team.
• Xie Xiaomei agreed to become a hero and save others.
• Liang Xin and two companions cornered a skinny boy in a storeroom and demanded that he help them cheat on exams.
• Liang Xin hit the boy and ordered him to apologize naked in front of their classmates, then accused him of threatening to expose them to the teacher.

Liang Xin and Liu Fan extorted a scrawny student in a warehouse until Xie Xiaomei burst in with a dramatic masked entrance. Xie Xiaomei ordered them to let the student go, but her nervous voice made Liu Fan doubt her authority.

• Liang Xin slapped and threatened the scrawny boy while Liu Fan pretended to comfort him.
• Liu Fan pressured the boy to pay for the evening and suggested he lie to his parents to get money.
• Liang Xin threatened to make the boy strip and apologize at school if he would not pay.
• Si Ming illuminated Xie Xiaomei and sent a current of air through the warehouse to make her entrance seem imposing.
• Xie Xiaomei told Liang Xin and Liu Fan to let the boy go, but Liu Fan noticed her weak, nervous tone.

Xie Xiaomei celebrated after defeating three bullies, while Si Ming warned their victim that the bullying would likely continue and urged him to protect himself. On the way home, Xie Xiaomei proudly retold the fight and practiced the Air-Splitting Palm, then discussed giving the move a name.

• Liang Xin tried to grab Xie Xiaomei, but she kicked him down after Si Ming told her to strike.
• Xie Xiaomei used the Air-Splitting Palm to knock down Chen Fan and the other student, and Liang Xin pretended to be unconscious.
• After Xie Xiaomei left, Si Ming warned the bullied boy that the students might retaliate and gave him two options for dealing with them.
• Xie Xiaomei excitedly exaggerated the fight as she walked home with Si Ming and practiced the Air-Splitting Palm.
• Xie Xiaomei asked about naming her move, and Si Ming suggested calling it the Pegasus Meteor Fist.