Chapter Summaries

Si Ming fought Moth Emperor and the black-armored general to stop them from destroying the Divine Pillar. Moth Emperor’s broken sword failed to bring the pillar down, but strange presences began leaking from its base as the battle continued.

• Si Ming shattered Moth Emperor’s arm with a Shennong Fist Art punch, then clashed with the black-armored general and damaged his helmet.
• Si Ming chased Moth Emperor away from the Divine Pillar and kept her fighting while heating the Vermilion Flame Sword until her Wheel of Time Sword began to melt.
• The black-armored general trapped Si Ming with a four-clawed black flood dragon, giving Moth Emperor a chance to race toward the Divine Pillar.
• Nether Lord failed to fully stop Ji Shichen’s arrow from striking Moth Emperor, but Moth Emperor still slashed the Divine Pillar with her damaged sword.
• The Divine Pillar cracked and tilted but held firm, while the Wheel of Time Sword broke in two.
• Si Ming cut down the black flood dragon and celebrated, then sensed strange presences growing denser at the base of the Divine Pillar.

The Moth Emperor freed fewer than a hundred aging monsters from beneath the Divine Pillar, then considered joining forces with the Nether Lord to damage the Pillar. Si Ming tried to stall them, but the chapter ended with Murong Qing and several Demon Marshals fighting his companions nearby.

• The Moth Emperor and the monsters discovered that the seal had broken, and the freed monsters thanked her for saving them.
• The Moth Emperor learned that most of the monsters had died of old age inside the seal and warned the survivors that they needed to unite against the Human Race.
• The Moth Emperor challenged the Nether Lord over his earlier lack of effort, but agreed to help him after he proposed using Xuan Kai's Soaring Flood Dragon to widen the Divine Pillar's crack.
• Si Ming asked the monsters who had sealed them beneath the Divine Pillar, buying time as they failed to identify their captor.
• The Nether Lord revealed that Si Ming's companions could not come, and Si Ming saw Murong Qing fighting a giant centipede while several Demon Marshals battled the others.

Si Ming charged the Monster Race forces to stop the black-armored general from severing the Divine Pillar, while reinforcements arrived from the Barbarian Continent and Ba Shenhuang intervened. With the Divine Pillar secured, Ba Shenhuang prepared to attack the Remote Heaven Society and Monster Race, and Si Ming discovered his Vermilion Bird Profound Armor had been damaged.

• Nether Lord explained that the Remote Heaven Society had intercepted the garrison's requests for help and urged Si Ming to abandon the Divine Pillar and save his companions.
• Si Ming charged the black-armored general, but Moth Emperor and Mengying weakened him and stopped his advance before he could prevent the strike.
• Reinforcements from the Barbarian Continent arrived and blocked the Monster Race's attacks on Si Ming.
• Ba Shenhuang appeared, stopped the black-armored general's sword, and blasted him away from the Divine Pillar.
• Yu Shuying revealed that she had contacted Ba Shenhuang through two Nation of Valor debt collectors, and Ba Shenhuang threatened the Remote Heaven Society and Monster Race.
• Si Ming climbed out of the rubble, saw that Ba Shenhuang had secured the Divine Pillar, and discovered his Vermilion Bird Profound Armor was damaged.

Si Ming tried to persuade the Nether Lord to retreat while Ba Shenhuang fought Mengying and Xuan Kai near the Divine Pillar. The Nether Lord withdrew after Ba Shenhuang defeated Xuan Kai’s empty armor, while Si Ming and the Moth Emperor began a true fight to the death.

• Si Ming urged the Nether Lord to abandon the battle, but the Nether Lord chose to make an effort alongside Xuan Kai.
• Ba Shenhuang drove Mengying’s insect swarm back, exposed his true body, and wounded him with a punch.
• Ba Shenhuang left Mengying to stop Xuan Kai from reaching the Divine Pillar and struck the black-armored general back.
• Mengying and Xuan Kai attacked together, but Ba Shenhuang’s Eight Phoenixes Defy the Dao injured Mengying and smashed Xuan Kai’s greatsword and armor.
• Ba Shenhuang discovered that Xuan Kai’s armor was empty, and the Nether Lord withdrew without helping the Monster Race.
• Si Ming and the Moth Emperor began their third clash as a deadly fight, and the Moth Emperor used Mist of Illusory Darkness.

Si Ming broke Moth Emperor's poisonous illusion and wounded her while the Glazed Temple monks overwhelmed the Monster Race. Facing her allies' retreat, Moth Emperor unleashed multiplying blood swords to occupy Si Ming and flew toward her own kind.

• Moth Emperor trapped Si Ming in a poisonous sea of flowers and knocked the Vermilion Flame Sword from his hand.
• Si Ming drew the Wheel-Turning King Sword, destroyed the flowers with an evil-slaying Daoist sword art, and forced Moth Emperor back.
• The Glazed Temple monks overwhelmed the Monster Race with coordinated formations, and Master Fadeng killed a Divine General Level monster.
• Si Ming wounded the distracted Moth Emperor, who then saw Ba Shenhuang repel the Demon King and destroy the black-armored general as Nether Lord fled.
• Moth Emperor suspected that the Heaven-Defying Society had used her forces as pawns and spent her essence blood to launch a blood sword before flying toward her own kind.
• Si Ming cut the blood sword apart, but its fragments multiplied, damaged the Vermilion Bird Profound Armor, and forced him to counter with a rotating barrage of sword rays.

Si Ming fought the Moth Emperor after she devastated the battlefield, then tried to learn who had arranged her release from the Divine Pillar. When she unleashed her ultimate move to force an escape, Si Ming opened the World-Saving Formation to stop her.

• The Moth Emperor used her speed to grievously injure the Glazed Temple monks and Heavenly Martial Alliance heroes while Si Ming destroyed many monsters with his sword technique.
• Si Ming confronted the Moth Emperor over the deaths in Linked Mountains City and asked who had masterminded her release, but she denied there was an accomplice outside the Remote Heaven Society.
• The Moth Emperor threatened to kill Si Ming’s allies and tried to break away, but Yu Shuying’s divination-guided Jupiter Arrow restrained her and helped Si Ming press his attack.
• The Moth Emperor transformed into her giant moth form and unleashed “Heaven and Earth Wither, Yin and Yang Run Dry!” against the Barbarian Continent’s experts.
• Si Ming intercepted the attack and drove the Wheel-Turning King Sword into the ground, activating the World-Saving Formation.

Si Ming turned the Moth Emperor’s ultimate move back on her, badly wounding her before pursuing her across a thousand li. She reached Xing Daozhuang at Rui State’s mustering platform, where she revealed the Monster Race’s defeat and urged him to abandon his identity and flee with her.

• Si Ming used the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to withstand, transform, strengthen, and reflect the Moth Emperor’s ultimate move, gravely injuring her.
• The wounded Moth Emperor fled south, and Si Ming pursued her in the damaged Vermilion Bird Profound Armor.
• At Rui State’s mustering platform, Xing Daozhuang’s generals mocked the Nation of Valor’s predicament until the Moth Emperor crashed down and warned that the operation had failed.
• Xing Daozhuang killed the generals and destroyed their bodies to conceal his identity and the Moth Emperor’s arrival.
• The Moth Emperor explained that Si Ming was pursuing her and proposed that she and Xing Daozhuang join forces, then flee together.
• Xing Daozhuang agreed to abandon his identity as supreme commander and leave with the Moth Emperor for the Monster Race’s survival.

Xing Daozhuang betrayed and killed the Moth Emperor to secure the future of the Human Race, while Si Ming watched. In a parallel world, Nether Lord and his allies summoned the Divine Pillar, but the Moth Emperor’s attempt to destroy it was interrupted by an array.

• Si Ming joined Xing Daozhuang in battling the injured Moth Emperor and helped trap her between them.
• Xing Daozhuang used an extreme halberd move to pierce the Moth Emperor instead of Si Ming, revealing that he had targeted her from the beginning.
• The Moth Emperor accepted her death, transferred her remaining primordial power to Xing Daozhuang, and mocked his righteousness before he pulled out the halberd.
• Nether Lord summoned the Divine Pillar in a parallel world, and the Moth Emperor prepared to strike it with the Wheel of Time Sword.
• A Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Grand Array activated as the Moth Emperor attacked, forcing her down with immense gravitational pressure.

Si Ming exposed the Remote Heaven Society’s plan to use an attack on the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar as a diversion while targeting Li State’s, and he stalled the attackers until reinforcements arrived. The chapter ended with Ba Shenhuang joining Si Ming and Gu Xinglie, while Nether Lord realized Ba Shenhuang’s delayed arrival was connected to the Demon King.

• Shentu Chuang’s attack on the ground triggered Si Ming’s Devil Sword Qi formation, and Si Ming revealed that he had lured the Remote Heaven Society into a trap.
• Si Ming explained that the attack on the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar was a smokescreen for the Society’s true target, Li State’s Divine Pillar.
• Si Ming told Moth Emperor that the Mohist School had received the warning and was already fighting to protect Li State’s Divine Pillar.
• Nether Lord recognized that Si Ming was stalling and ordered the others to attack, but Gu Xinglie arrived and blocked Shentu Chuang.
• Ba Shenhuang arrived in his Profound Armor, and Si Ming revealed that his master had delayed coming to help secure victory at the front.
• Nether Lord realized that the Demon King was involved in Ba Shenhuang’s delayed arrival.

Si Ming thanked the Barbarian Continent reinforcements for helping fight the Monster Race and watched them return home. Yu Shuying then said she planned to travel to the Barbarian Continent to improve her cultivation, and Si Ming tried to persuade her to stay.

• Si Ming bid farewell to the Barbarian Continent reinforcements at the foot of the Divine Pillar and thanked them for their sacrifices.
• The reinforcements said they had come willingly and that their aid repaid the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader’s past kindness to the Glazed Temple.
• After everyone left, Yu Shuying told Si Ming she intended to go to the Barbarian Continent while the Heaven-Defying Society lay low.
• Si Ming told Yu Shuying that he wanted her to stay by his side for reasons beyond her usefulness to him.

Yu Shuying left for the Barbarian Continent with the Wheel-Turning King Sword to investigate the Heavenly Martial Alliance and aid the families of fallen heroes. After she departed, Si Ming and Ji Shichen discussed his relationships and the damaged Divine Pillar, but a sudden earthquake and a crack in the sky revealed that another Divine Pillar had been severed.

• Yu Shuying accepted the Wheel-Turning King Sword as proof of her authority and relationship with Si Ming, then entered the Flesh and Blood Wormhole with Hualiu.
• Si Huaruo resolved to be more proactive after witnessing Yu Shuying kiss Si Ming, while Murong Qing quietly looked away.
• Ji Shichen advised Si Ming to settle his romantic affairs decisively, and Si Ming said he wanted all the women who loved him.
• Ji Shichen explained that the damaged Divine Pillar would restore itself, then sent it back to the Imaginary Number Space at Si Ming's request.
• The Sea Continent shook and a crack appeared in the sky, but the visible Divine Pillar remained standing.
• Si Ming tested the Eternal Barrier with a spell and concluded that another of the three Divine Pillars had been severed.

Si Ming and Murong Qing learned that the Heaven-Defying Society had destroyed Li State’s Divine Pillar while diverting attention with the war against the demons. As they returned home, Si Ming proposed striking back by repairing the pillars, while Xing Daozhuang decided to risk changing his Monster Race nature to protect his reputation.

• Si Ming realized that Li State’s Divine Pillar had been the Heaven-Defying Society’s true target and that the war had served as a distraction.
• Xing Daozhuang failed to fuse Blazing Sun True Qi with his Power of Anomalies and decided to attempt the easier path of Turning Evil into Sacred to conceal his Monster Race identity.
• The Mohist Knight Guard confirmed that Li State’s Divine Pillar had been severed, and Murong Qing reassured Si Ming that protecting the Northern Continent’s pillar had still prevented greater damage.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing planned to propose a task force against the Heaven-Defying Society, using an anonymous request to expose anyone who defended it.
• Si Ming asked Ji Shichen whether a Divine Pillar could be repaired and argued that the country’s resources might let them undo the Society’s attacks.

Si Ming convinced Ji Shichen to investigate whether the Divine Pillars could be repaired, then answered her questions about his farewells with Xin Jia and Cheng Xin. Ji Shichen recorded his views on relationships for his future biography in the Mohist Biographies.

• Si Ming asked Ji Shichen to research repairing the Divine Pillars, and she agreed to lead the investigation.
• Si Ming expected Ji Shichen to ask about the mysterious reinforcements, but she asked what he had said to two girls before leaving the Nation of Valor.
• Si Ming explained that he and Xin Jia and Cheng Xin had exchanged contact addresses and that he had not pursued a relationship with Xin Jia because his dangerous life could harm an ordinary person.
• Si Ming described how he judged whether someone should stay by his side, and Ji Shichen concluded that he liked people with peculiar personalities who were pretty.
• Ji Shichen told Si Ming she had recorded his views for his future biography in the Mohist Biographies.

After returning from the cruise, Si Ming heard that rumors accused Thunder King Xing Daozhuang of being a Monster and a member of the Remote Heaven Society. As the smear campaign spread, Ji Shichen recognized Si Ming’s talent for publicity and asked him to manage the Mohist Religion’s newspapers.

• Si Ming decided to write a fictional story about a swordsman in white so he could shape how people remembered him.
• Si Ming and the others arrived at the dock, where Ying Zhou, Murong Wu, and Liu Qingqing were waiting for them.
• Ying Zhou told Si Ming that rumors claimed Xing Daozhuang was a Monster, belonged to the Remote Heaven Society, and had staged the International Building bombing.
• Si Ming criticized the government’s attempt to suppress the rumors and argued that Xing Daozhuang should not be forced to prove himself publicly.
• Si Ming recited a passage comparing a fallen warrior to flies that feed on his flaws, and Murong Qing and Ji Shichen praised its force.
• Ji Shichen offered Si Ming control of the Mohist Religion’s newspapers, and he said the public would eventually forget the rumors if authorities stopped drawing attention to them.

Si Ming persuaded Ji Shichen to consider taking Liu Qingqing as a disciple by insisting she had exceptional Divine Arts talent. Ji Shichen discovered Liu Qingqing had an unusually powerful soul and agreed she was a rare prospect, while Si Ming continued to favor cultivating Divine Arts over spellcraft.

• Si Ming urged Ji Shichen to find a successor and introduced Liu Qingqing as a gifted candidate.
• Si Ming told Ji Shichen stories about cherishing opportunities until she agreed to assess Liu Qingqing and consider taking her as a disciple.
• Ji Shichen examined Liu Qingqing's martial aptitude and found it unremarkable, but Si Ming clarified that he meant Divine Arts talent.
• Ji Shichen examined Liu Qingqing's soul and discovered it was several times stronger than an ordinary person's.
• Ji Shichen wondered whether Liu Qingqing could cultivate spellcraft, but Si Ming argued that Divine Arts were the steadier choice while they aimed to repair the Divine Pillars.

Ji Shichen agreed to take Liu Qingqing as her disciple, while warning that her relatives might target the newcomer and insisting Liu prove herself. Si Ming and Liu Qingqing affirmed their commitment to learning and fighting together, but back home Auntie Liu cornered Si Ming for his next manuscript and made him hurry it along for the upcoming ceremony.

• Si Ming persuaded Ji Shichen to accept Liu Qingqing as her disciple, and Ji Shichen warned Liu that she would have to handle opposition from her kin herself.
• Si Ming praised Ji Shichen’s generosity toward her former disciple until Ji Shichen promised Liu a gift at the formal ceremony.
• Si Ming apologized for choosing a master without asking Liu, but Liu said she was happy and wanted to learn skills that would let her fight beside him.
• Auntie Liu demanded Si Ming’s next manuscript, and he backed down after she hinted at his relationships with other women.
• Si Ming told Auntie Liu that Liu Qingqing would have a formal disciple-taking ceremony, but Auntie Liu insisted he finish the manuscript quickly rather than letting him off the hook.

After completing the latest Gods and Ghosts of the Three Kingdoms volume for Auntie Liu, Si Ming tried to recover from three sleepless days and resisted Yao Bilian’s teasing. Murong Qing invited him to a high school reunion, but she objected when Hongdou wanted to attend as his family.

• Si Ming finished writing the latest volume after three days and nights, and Auntie Liu thanked him for helping Qingqing while calling it his responsibility.
• Yao Bilian teased Si Ming about spending time alone with Auntie Liu, and he went to the kitchen to calm himself by making fried rice.
• Murong Qing gave Si Ming an invitation to her class reunion, and he agreed to go with her.
• Hongdou asked to join them as Si Ming’s family, but Murong Qing refused because she wanted to announce their relationship to her classmates.

Si Ming countered rumors about the Thunder King by flooding the press with sensational stories, while preparing to stay at home as the damaged Vermilion Bird Profound Armor underwent repairs and possible upgrades. The chapter ended with the Doctor considering improvements and Si Ming teasing him about taking too long to design them.

• Murong Qing agreed that Si Ming would accompany Hongdou to a reunion, then decided they would walk there rather than travel by flying sword or True Qi horses.
• Si Ming used tabloid channels to spread sensational rumors about the Thunder King, drowning out claims that Xing Daozhuang belonged to the Monster Race.
• Si Ming instructed his allies to continue the rumor offensive and wait for public anger to build before launching a counterattack.
• The Doctor reported that the Vermilion Bird Profound Armor needed a major overhaul, and Si Ming suggested upgrading it using ideas from the Nation of Valor's Profound Armor.
• The Doctor said he needed time to plan the improvements, and Si Ming mocked him for being unable to produce them quickly.

Si Ming discussed Mohist standards of conduct with the professor, who explained that his deeds had shown the gentleman’s courage and that he might soon be formally recommended as a Mohist. Later, Murong Qing considered what to wear to her class reunion, and Si Ming joined a playful conversation about tattoos and other women pursuing him.

• The professor warned Si Ming that his behavior reflected on the Mohist School and explained that becoming a Mohist required a strict review and a recommender.
• The professor described the Mohist distinction between the courage of hunting and fishing, the courage of the five punishments, and a gentleman’s courage, which Si Ming joked was harder to practice than violence.
• The professor recalled how Mozi persuaded the swordsman Luo Huali to join the Mohists after a disciple defeated him with a wooden sword.
• Murong Qing wondered whether she should buy a formal dress for her class reunion, while Yao Bilian and Hongdou suggested ways to discourage other women from pursuing Si Ming.
• Si Ming entered as the women discussed tattoos, drew a picture of Peppa Pig for Hongdou, and said Murong Qing’s status as a Spirit Transformation Grandmaster would deter rivals.

Si Ming read about the Spirit Transformation Grandmasters’ return and the backlash against Ba Shenhuang, then went with Murong Qing to their class reunion. The chapter ended as classmates recognized them at the restaurant and one reacted in disbelief.

• Si Ming read that several Spirit Transformation Grandmasters had returned and that Huang Yan was being praised while Ba Shenhuang faced blame for the demonic beasts’ escape.
• Si Ming suspected someone was orchestrating the smear campaign against Ba Shenhuang but decided the War God could withstand public hostility.
• Murong Qing changed into casual clothes for the class reunion, and Si Ming changed into a sporty outfit to match her.
• Murong Qing told Si Ming that Qingqing was visiting Senior Ji and could not attend, then linked her arm through his to explain why she was happy.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing reached the restaurant, where classmates spotted them and Lu Yifa reacted as though seeing an illusion.