Chapter Summaries

Si Ming absorbed uranium ore to master the Uranium Crystal State and powered up the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda until its light dispelled the Black Tide. The victory was interrupted by a terrifying presence approaching, and Si Ming insisted the gathered experts stay and face it.

• Si Ming absorbed the uranium crystal ore, recovered his strength, and demonstrated the Uranium Crystal State of the Polonium Poison Primordial Spirit Body.
• Si Ming replenished his energy and poured a powerful stream of Primal Qi into the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
• The pagoda illuminated all sixty-four floors, and its Buddhist seal melted away the Black Tide as sunlight returned.
• A terrifying presence approached, causing the exhausted monks to faint and the gathered experts to panic.
• Hongdou displaced Si Ming to sever his connection to the pagoda, while Fahong urged the experts to retreat.
• Si Ming said escape was useless and prepared to fight the approaching threat with most of his Primal Qi intact.

The Demon-Suppressing Pagoda held back the Black Tide as Abbot Fahong supplied it with Primal Qi, giving the group hope that they could endure the Kalpa of Destruction. A voice from the Black Tide claimed to be a higher-dimensional existence, and the group discovered that each person perceived the pagoda differently.

• Si Ming refused to flee as the Black Tide attacked, and the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda shielded the group with the eight classes of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.
• Abbot Fahong supplied the pagoda with Primal Qi, restoring its light and enabling it to resist and counterattack the Black Tide.
• Fahong explained that he could maintain his supply for about half an hour, and Faji offered to summon Quasi-Grandmasters from the Glazed Temple to take turns supporting the pagoda.
• A voice from the Black Tide claimed that the group could not perceive it because it existed in a higher dimension, and Si Ming challenged it to reveal itself.
• Si Ming asked the group to describe the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, and they discovered that each person saw it differently.

Si Ming and the others confronted the awakened Extinction Consciousness of the Nine Continents, and Si Ming argued that the world could still be saved. The entity entered the pagoda’s protective range in the form of the Netherworld Insect Princess, whose identity Si Ming recognized from an earlier account.

• The Extinction Consciousness revealed that it would bring about the Nine Continents’ destruction, but Si Ming and Ying Zhou rejected her claims that their resistance was futile.
• Ying Zhou challenged the entity to enter the pagoda, and the Black Tide seeped through the barrier before taking the shape of a pale, silver-haired girl.
• Si Ming recognized the girl as the Netherworld Insect Princess from Xu Zhengyi’s account of the devastation in the Barbarian Continent.
• The girl recalled that someone had called her the Netherworld Insect Princess and said she had no true name, so Si Ming chose to call her by that title.

Si Ming learned that putting the Netherworld Insect Princess to sleep could delay the world’s destruction, but she revealed her overwhelming strength after Beast King Anye and the Azure Mysterious Corpse King approached. As Si Ming fought her, the others moved to intercept the two Kings of Monsters and protect the unconscious warrior monks.

• Si Ming questioned the Netherworld Insect Princess about delaying the world’s destruction, and she said that putting her to sleep could postpone it.
• Si Ming realized the Netherworld Insect Princess had stalled while Beast King Anye and the Azure Mysterious Corpse King approached.
• Wan Ziqiu and Zheng Jingyuan struck the Netherworld Insect Princess with a prepared sword attack, but she shattered Zheng Jingyuan’s sword and nearly killed him with one palm strike.
• Wu Xiu stabilized Zheng Jingyuan while Si Ming confronted the Netherworld Insect Princess and discovered that her strength rivaled his own.
• Yu Shuying led the others to intercept the two Kings of Monsters and protect the unconscious warrior monks while Si Ming continued fighting.

Si Ming overcame the Netherworld Insect Princess’s overwhelming power by using his mastery of martial principles, then drew on his Buddhist defenses and elusive movement as she unleashed her full strength. The fight remained unresolved as he continued slipping through the gaps in her attacks.

• Si Ming recognized that the Netherworld Insect Princess relied on immense power and instinct rather than martial techniques, and used precise strikes to break her unified force and send her into the chains.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess increased her divine might, prompting Si Ming to summon the Wheel-Turning King Sword and manifest Tathagata Indestructible Body.
• Si Ming handed the Wheel-Turning King Sword to Hongdou, who protected it with layers of dimensional rifts.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess attacked with decay Qi and a torrent of powerful punches, while Si Ming pierced the Qi ball’s weak point and evaded her blows.
• Si Ming merged with his surroundings and used yin and yang to anticipate the Netherworld Insect Princess’s attacks, allowing her force to pass through the tiny gaps around him.

Si Ming battled the Netherworld Insect Princess, using his martial arts and Tathagata Indestructible Body to overcome her powerful attacks. She began copying his techniques, and the chapter ended with both of them unleashing matching fire dragons.

• Si Ming turned the Netherworld Insect Princess's attacks against her and repeatedly struck her, wounding her for the first time.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess copied Si Ming's Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand and Dunjia Heavenly Movement, then used his techniques against him.
• Si Ming unleashed Earth-Piercing Annihilation Tyrant Wave, but the Netherworld Insect Princess used Vajra Gate to break it and explained how the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda's laws affected her.
• Si Ming countered her stronger copy of Earth-Piercing Annihilation Tyrant Wave with his sword and launched Snow Melts on a Thousand Peaks, the Red Dragon Burns.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess formed a black sword and copied Snow Melts on a Thousand Peaks, the Red Dragon Burns, creating a fire dragon that met Si Ming's attack.

Si Ming and the Netherworld Insect Princess fought a devastating duel, repeatedly reflecting and strengthening each other’s attacks until both neared their limits. Hongdou’s surprise strike tipped the balance, and the Buddha light swallowed the Netherworld Insect Princess as a vast explosion devastated the surrounding land.

• Si Ming’s dragon attack and Buddhist techniques wounded the Netherworld Insect Princess, but she used his Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars move to reflect the Tathagata’s power back at him.
• Si Ming and the Netherworld Insect Princess repeatedly used Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars, strengthening the attack with each rebound until both were nearly broken.
• Si Ming entered the Uranium Crystal State and used his remaining strength to send the immense Buddha-light attack back at the Netherworld Insect Princess.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess endured the attack and was driven through a mountain wall, appearing close to stopping its momentum.
• Hongdou struck the Netherworld Insect Princess with Space-Shuttling Slash, and the brief disturbance in her Qi of decay let the Buddha light overwhelm her.
• The Buddha light carried the Netherworld Insect Princess away in a tremendous explosion that shook the mountains and sank the surrounding land.

Si Ming survived the Netherworld Insect Princess’s attack with Hongdou’s help, but the resurrected Demon Emperor recovered and faced him again. Meanwhile, Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo joined forces against the Azure Mysterious Corpse King, trapping her in a towering pillar of ice that began to crack and melt.

• Hongdou struck at the perfect moment, allowing Si Ming to survive, recover, and restore the Buddha images in his acupoints.
• Si Jingyu warned Si Ming that the Netherworld Insect Princess had resurrected the Azure Mysterious Corpse King and regained her body, though her foundation had weakened.
• Si Ming challenged the Netherworld Insect Princess to continue their battle, while the others moved to hold back the Kings of Monsters.
• Si Jingyu persuaded Si Huaruo to fight alongside her, then the two attacked the Azure Mysterious Corpse King with coordinated water, ice, and wind techniques.
• Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo froze the Azure Mysterious Corpse King inside a hundred-meter pillar of ice, but it quickly began to crack and melt.

Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo trapped the Azure Mysterious Corpse King while Shi Yuan reorganized the failing fight against Beast King Anye. Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue coordinated despite their bickering, and Shi Yuan’s hammer struck Anye hard enough to send him crashing into a pile of rocks.

• Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo joined their Qi and unleashed paired techniques that surrounded the Azure Mysterious Corpse King with an ice barrier.
• Shi Yuan recognized that the six fighters were getting in one another’s way while Beast King Anye exploited his regeneration to overpower them.
• Shi Yuan sent Faji to protect the unconscious monks and ordered Shen Wumian and Dai Wen to hold Anye back, leaving himself, Xia Guanxue, and Ying Zhou to fight.
• Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou coordinated their sword and saber attacks, wounding Anye and forcing him onto the defensive despite their quarrel.
• Anye unleashed cursed chains, but Ying Zhou severed them with his empowered saber technique.
• Shi Yuan smashed Anye’s bone saber and struck him in the chest with his hammer, sending him into a pile of rocks.

The Azure Mysterious Corpse King explained the Netherworld Insect Princess’s control over the dead and urged the Si Clan sisters to use the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda to buy time. After an explosion revealed that Si Ming had defeated the Sovereign of Death’s projection, the Azure Mysterious Corpse King warned the sisters that the Sovereign could revive without limit unless killed outside the pagoda’s protection.

• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King explained that the Netherworld Insect Princess could command her because she was a zombie, and that her control over other dead beings had limits.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King revealed that she was holding back against Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo while sharing what she knew about the Netherworld Insect Princess.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King said the safest plan was to use the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda to stall the Sovereign of Death until she fell asleep again.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King revealed that she had come from the Divine Continent of the Central Land.
• An explosion shattered the ice and snow barrier, and the Azure Mysterious Corpse King recognized that Si Ming had defeated the Sovereign of Death’s projection.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King struck Si Jingyu away and warned her to tell Si Ming that the Sovereign of Death could revive endlessly unless killed outside the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda.

Si Ming and the Netherworld Insect Princess fought to a stalemate until Si Ming refined the Ethereal Cloud and Mist Palm and used it to leave a hidden force in her chest. He then launched a nuclear attack, and as the first explosion raised a mushroom cloud, he opened another case and prepared a second blast.

• Si Ming and the Netherworld Insect Princess fought endlessly, each wary of risking Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars.
• Si Ming used their exchange of techniques to perfect his own Ethereal Cloud and Mist Palm, then struck the Netherworld Insect Princess with it.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess quickly learned the new palm technique, but Si Ming's tailored version resonated with his Tathagata Indestructible Body and overpowered her.
• Si Ming repeatedly struck the Netherworld Insect Princess's chest, secretly planting a lingering force, while she tried and failed to create a martial art suited to herself.
• Si Ming triggered nuclear material with his Nuclear Divine Fist combo; the hidden force disrupted the Netherworld Insect Princess and delayed her defense as the explosion engulfed her.
• Before the mushroom cloud had fully formed, Si Ming opened another black case and began the Neutron Plutonium Transformation.

Si Ming exhausted his nuclear attacks against the Netherworld Insect Princess, only for her to revive and retaliate by targeting Hongdou. He exploited the side effects of Super Martial Dao to confuse her and land a sword strike, but she remained powerful enough to send him flying as her wound healed.

• Si Ming unleashed his remaining nuclear material against the Netherworld Insect Princess and believed he had killed her again, but she revived atop the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess fired a nuclear sphere at Si Ming, who survived by detonating it early and entering Uranium Crystal State.
• She then aimed another destructive sphere at Hongdou, forcing Si Ming to detonate it and take the blast himself.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess's own attack exploded at close range when Super Martial Dao's side effects caused her to lose control, and Si Ming revealed that she had been affected by the martial arts she learned from him.
• Si Ming attacked her with Wind Sweeps the Ten Directions, Riding the Dragon and pierced her chest, but she struck him back and rapidly healed the wound.

Si Ming defeated the Netherworld Insect Princess with a combined sword technique, but the backlash left him gravely injured and unconscious. After he awoke, Hongdou and Si Jingyu argued over who should care for him.

• Si Ming combined the Dragon Scale Sword and Wheel-Turning King Sword techniques to destroy the Netherworld Insect Princess's body.
• Si Jingyu told Si Ming that the Azure Mysterious Corpse King had escaped and that the Netherworld Insect Princess was nowhere nearby.
• Si Ming's Tathagata's Indestructible Body dissipated, and his suppressed injuries caused him to collapse from the sky.
• Hongdou watched over Si Ming until he woke, then tried to kiss him before Si Jingyu stopped her.
• Si Jingyu carried Hongdou away, but Hongdou's chest struck Si Jingyu in the face, prompting Si Jingyu to grope her and complain about her figure.
• Si Ming told Si Jingyu to calm down, and she pretended to have forgotten what had happened.

Si Ming woke after his battle with the Netherworld Insect Princess, and Yu Shuying explained that the enemy’s influence was disrupting spatial travel and limiting their chance to seek reinforcements. The group prepared to use the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye to contact someone on the Sea Continent, but Si Ming still had to choose a reliable person who would be at a known location.

• Wu Xiu drove the crowd from Si Ming’s room and warned Si Jingyu and Yu Shuying to let him rest because his essence, Qi, and spirit were severely depleted.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that the Netherworld Insect Princess’s influence caused ordinary Flesh and Blood Wormholes to collapse, though their collapse had slowed somewhat.
• Si Ming explained that the Netherworld Insect Princess had only been a small part of his opponent and said her weakened state was more likely caused by Super Martial Dao’s side effects.
• Yu Shuying said the group could afford to build only one large Flesh and Blood Wormhole soon, so they planned to use the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye to coordinate a reinforcement exchange.
• Si Ming and Yu Shuying considered whom to contact, and Yu Shuying suggested the doctor who created Si Ming’s Vermilion Bird Profound Armor as a possible link to the Mohist Knight Guard and other allies.

Si Ming considered using Tu Wangyue’s hair ribbon to contact her through the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye, while weighing whether she could be trusted. He set the contact plan aside until he recovered and learned that the Glazed Temple could replenish the Wheel-Turning King Sword’s Buddhist Power.

• Si Ming presented Tu Wangyue’s hair ribbon as a possible way to locate her, and Si Jingyu and Yu Shuying saw no clear reason to distrust it.
• Yu Shuying proposed contacting Tu Wangyue without warning her about the tunnel’s danger, but Si Ming rejected the plan because it could betray her kindness or bring a hidden threat to them.
• Si Jingyu suggested using the ribbon to contact Tu Wangyue without inviting her through the spacetime tunnel, and Si Ming agreed to wait until he had recovered before deciding what to do.
• Si Ming learned that the Glazed Temple could transfer Buddhist Power from sarira into the Wheel-Turning King Sword, and he resolved to live up to the temple’s faith in him.
• Si Jingyu wiped the sweat from Si Ming’s forehead and told him he had no responsibility to meet the Glazed Temple’s expectations.

Si Ming rejected Si Jingyu’s suggestion that they leave the Barbarian Continent and resolved to help stop the Netherworld Insect Princess, while considering a long war or the Sacred Sword as possible ways to defeat her. After recovering in the Sarira Hall, he decided to contact the Saintess for help, as Beast King Anye continued harassing the group to seize another practitioner of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique.

• Si Jingyu urged Si Ming to return to the Sea Continent, but Si Ming said the Netherworld Insect Princess threatened both continents and that he wanted to become a Grandmaster and protect others.
• Si Jingyu promised to follow Si Ming, and she told him what she had learned from the Azure Mysterious Corpse King.
• Si Jingyu proposed weakening the Netherworld Insect Princess through repeated battles, while Si Ming suggested that the Sacred Sword’s power might reveal how to defeat her.
• Si Ming decided to contact the Saintess, believing she would help them confront the world’s Extinction Consciousness.
• After several days of recuperation, Si Ming could walk again, while Beast King Anye repeatedly attacked and withdrew in attempts to seize another body trained in the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique.
• Wan Ziqiu and Zheng Jingyuan stayed in seclusion so Beast King Anye could not exploit their recovery.

Si Ming contacted Tu Wangyue across continents and learned that the Mohist School Sacred Sword could overcome the group’s predicament if its wielder fought for all living beings. Tu Wangyue agreed to send the sword through the space-time tunnel, and Si Ming returned to Glazed Temple with the plan.

• Si Ming used the Aniruddha Heavenly Eye and the holy maiden’s hair ribbon to reach Tu Wangyue’s spiritual consciousness, finding her cultivating beneath a waterfall.
• Si Ming explained the crisis on the Barbarian Continent, and Tu Wangyue confirmed that the Sacred Sword’s Six Heavens Forbidden Sword could counter it with the correct attribute.
• Tu Wangyue said she could send the Sacred Sword through the space-time tunnel instead of traveling herself, and explained that its sword formation required the wielder to fight for all living beings.
• Si Ming confirmed the tunnel’s time and location with Tu Wangyue before the communication ended and he returned to Glazed Temple.
• Si Ming told Yu Shuying and the others about the Sacred Sword’s abilities, and Xia Guanxue cautioned that its power did not make combat experience or stamina irrelevant.

Si Ming’s allies activated six formations to receive the Sacred Sword while the Netherworld Insect Princess’s forces attacked every site. Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou faced the Azure Mysterious Corpse King, while Wan Ziqiu fought reborn Blood Abyss Sect enemies.

• Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou activated a formation at the Glazed Temple as five matching decoy formations opened elsewhere.
• The Azure Mysterious Corpse King attacked Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou, but their coordinated weapons drove her back and wounded her palm.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess’s reborn followers attacked all six formation sites because they could not identify the real one.
• Wan Ziqiu fought Diao Mei and Mao Wei, countering their techniques and gravely wounding Mao Wei.
• Diao Mei launched a concealed blood-shadow sword attack at Wan Ziqiu’s heart.

Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping fought Beast King Anye, who tried to seize a body, until Henzhen intervened and faced him herself. As Henzhen unified her Anomaly and Buddhist powers, she launched her ultimate technique against the Beast King.

• Wan Ziqiu injured Diao Mei, but Beast King Anye arrived and gravely wounded Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping.
• Beast King Anye seized Zhou Anping and tried to force Wan Ziqiu to trade places with him, revealing that he wanted a suitable body rather than the Wan family bloodline.
• Henzhen struck Beast King Anye with Blazing Glaze, Sattva Enters Nirvana, rescued Zhou Anping, and freed him from his restraints.
• Wan Ziqiu and Zhou Anping held off the other attackers while Henzhen confronted Beast King Anye.
• Henzhen completed her prayer-bead ritual, unified her Anomaly and Buddhist powers, and unleashed Blazing Glaze, Evil Waves and Raging Sea.

Henzhen and Beast King Anye fought fiercely, with Henzhen’s Unity of Monster and Buddha allowing her to challenge him but not overcome his greater foundation. After Wan Ziqiu intervened and the Glazed Temple’s bells strengthened Henzhen, she broke Anye’s bone blade and prepared to finish him, but he caught the Saber of Evil Karma in his hands.

• Henzhen used the Unity of Monster and Buddha to battle Beast King Anye, and both recovered quickly from their wounds.
• Anye changed his saber technique to the Evil-Slaying Sword Art, severed four of Henzhen’s fingers, knocked away the Sword of World Purification, and grievously wounded her.
• Wan Ziqiu attacked Anye to protect Henzhen, but Anye wounded him and ordered the others to stop him; Mao Wei and Diao Mei continued holding back while fighting Zhou Anping.
• Henzhen unleashed Blazing Glaze, Heavenly Sin Separation, and Anye countered with Beast Universe of Eight Directions, Thousand Ferocious Souls.
• The Glazed Temple’s bells strengthened Henzhen, who drove Anye down and broke his bone blade with the Saber of Evil Karma.
• As Henzhen moved to behead Anye, he caught the Saber of Evil Karma between his hands.