Chapter Summaries

Henzhen defeated Beast King Anye and reunited with the monk whose teachings had enlightened her before he disappeared. At the Blood Abyss Sect ruins, Si Ming confronted the Netherworld Insect Princess with the Mohist School Sacred Sword and challenged her to open a passage beyond the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda.

• Henzhen's final strike killed Beast King Anye, but her injuries overwhelmed her until the monk caught her.
• Henzhen thanked the monk for his past enlightenment, and they exchanged verses before he vanished, leaving prayer beads on the Sword of World Purification.
• Si Ming activated the real Flesh and Blood Wormhole at the Blood Abyss Sect ruins and called for Tu Wangyue, but the tunnel collapsed as the Sacred Sword disappeared through it.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess attacked Si Ming with a spatial technique, but the Mohist School Sacred Sword shot through a crack in the void and returned to his hand.
• Si Ming told the Netherworld Insect Princess he intended to defeat her self beyond the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda and challenged her to open a space-time tunnel there.

Si Ming used the Sacred Sword and the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword formation to battle the Netherworld Insect Princess, who had merged with the world's Extinction Consciousness. He overwhelmed her with successive attacks, but she transformed the sliced black fog into countless butterflies as the fight continued.

• Si Ming followed the Netherworld Insect Princess through a spatial rift to the barren Barbarian Continent and activated the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword formation.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess merged with her true body and recognized that the Sacred Sword wielded the laws of the Sword Dao.
• Si Ming unleashed “A Billion Stars Fall, the Ancestral Dragon Rages,” and the Netherworld Insect Princess absorbed the falling Sword Qi stars with black fog.
• Si Ming followed with “Absolute Sword Destroys the Nine Continents,” slicing through the black fog with countless streams of Sword Qi.
• The severed fog became hundreds of millions of black butterflies as the Netherworld Insect Princess used “Forlorn Dream Butterflies.”

Si Ming survived the Netherworld Insect Princess’s self-destruction by hiding beyond existence, then struck her with a sword technique that prevented her regeneration. After deducing the purpose of the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda, he began preparing to weaken her with a powerful attack.

• The Netherworld Insect Princess self-destructed, erasing the sword formation and everything within a vast sphere, but she revived with a diminished Foundation.
• Si Ming emerged from concealment and pierced the Netherworld Insect Princess with a yin-and-yang sword strike that broke down her body and defeated her regeneration.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess warned Si Ming that her Foundation would recover over time, and she vanished as her body disintegrated.
• Si Ming used the Supreme Great Divination Sword Technique to deduce that the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda had a purpose beyond stopping the world’s Extinction Consciousness.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess revived and attacked with countless copies of herself, while Si Ming built up Sword Qi between his two swords and unleashed Super Martial Dao, Limit-Breaking Sword Extremity.

Si Ming defeated the Netherworld Insect Princess with the Sacred Sword and sealed her away for another eighty-four thousand years. The Sacred Sword then revealed a vision of its origin, and a sinister presence stabbed Si Ming through the chest.

• Si Ming unleashed a vast wave of Sword Qi that wiped out the Netherworld Insect Princess’s clones and cleared the black mist, but he knew she would revive.
• Si Ming purified the surrounding Qi and used the Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda and the Sacred Sword to defeat the revived Netherworld Insect Princess with the Tathagata Appears, All Truths Perish.
• The Netherworld Insect Princess recognized the Sacred Sword as the Sword of the Saint, warned Si Ming to protect it, and sealed herself inside a golden lotus until she awakened in eighty-four thousand years.
• After Si Ming dismissed the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword, the Sacred Sword showed him a vision of a young man sending it away before vanishing.
• The young man in the vision turned maliciously toward Si Ming, and the illusion shattered as the Sacred Sword pierced Si Ming’s chest with a corrupting presence.

Si Ming fought the evil consciousness born from the Sacred Sword and stopped its corruption from taking over his body. Trapped in a battle of wills within his sea of consciousness, he challenged his opponent to a battle of wits and began explaining a passage about the Dao.

• Si Ming activated the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation, and the Wheel-Turning King Sword and Heavenly Dragon World-Delivering Pagoda helped contain the Sacred Sword’s evil Qi.
• Si Ming used Tathagata's Indestructible Body to block further corruption, pulled the Sacred Sword from his chest, and faced his evil consciousness in his sea of consciousness.
• Si Ming and the black figure clashed with techniques, while the black figure revealed that their battle consumed Si Ming’s Spirit Essence.
• Si Ming questioned the black figure about who had altered the Sacred Sword, but the figure mocked him and refused to answer.
• Si Ming proposed a battle of wits using a passage about the Dao, realized the black figure lacked some of his knowledge, and began explaining the passage.
• The black figure became engrossed in Si Ming’s explanation of the Great Dao.

Si Ming defeated the black figure, his dark side, in a battle within his sea of consciousness by using the Formless Zen Heart Sword and other spiritual sword techniques. The black figure warned that he could return whenever Si Ming had doubts or weaknesses, and Si Ming regained control of his body, wounded but alive.

• Si Ming struck the black figure with Sword Qi and lightning, then attacked with a galaxy of sword light.
• The black figure invoked King Yama’s power and corrupted Si Ming’s starry sword figures, absorbing them into his growing form.
• Si Ming explained that desire should be guided rather than indulged, and his Formless Zen Heart Sword purified the black figure and the fallen gods.
• Si Ming overwhelmed the black figure with Ten Thousand Crossings of Tribulation Waves, leaving him near dissolution.
• The black figure revealed he could be reborn through Si Ming’s doubts and weaknesses, and Si Ming said he would stay on guard.
• Si Ming returned to reality, regained control of his body, and noticed the sword wound through his chest.

Si Ming recovered from his battle, discovered the Dragon Scale Sword had been tampered with, and prepared to return to the Sea Continent. A parallel-world story then began, where Si Ming, Yan Jinghong, and Ling Huanxi confronted Xiao Xuan amid the ruins of Xuan Soil.

• Si Ming healed his wounds, destroyed the corrupted Dragon Scale Sword, and kept its hilt as evidence.
• Si Ming sealed the Sacred Sword and declared that he would return to the Sea Continent to eliminate its parasites.
• In the parallel world, Xiao Xuan massacred the people of Xuan Soil before Yan Jinghong, Ling Huanxi, and Si Ming trapped him in a freezing formation.
• Yan Jinghong urged Xiao Xuan to repent, but Xiao Xuan rejected his appeal and attacked the group.
• Si Ming and Ling Huanxi fought Xiao Xuan, and Yan Jinghong and Si Ming joined forces to strike him with their swords.

Xiao Xuan destroyed the Nine Heavens Profound Ice Array but was overwhelmed by Ling Huanxi, Si Ming, and Yan Jinghong. After tricking Yan Jinghong with an appeal to their sworn-sibling bond, he struck down Si Ming and turned on Yan Jinghong, leaving Yan Jinghong struggling with his choices as Xiao Xuan gathered power for another attack.

• Xiao Xuan and Si Ming clashed their ultimate moves, while Si Ming shielded Yan Jinghong long enough for him to launch the ice-sword phoenix; the resulting explosion shattered the Nine Heavens Profound Ice Array and badly injured both Xiao Xuan and Yan Jinghong.
• Ling Huanxi summoned a sea of ice spears that weakened and encased Xiao Xuan, allowing Si Ming and Yan Jinghong to pierce him with their swords.
• Xiao Xuan pretended to plead with Yan Jinghong, then exploited his momentary hesitation to sever the Wheel-Turning King Sword and run Si Ming through with the Mohist School Sacred Sword, sending him flying in an explosion.
• Yan Jinghong struck Xiao Xuan and pinned him to the ground, but Xiao Xuan accused him of betraying their sworn siblings and questioned his claim to be a hero.
• Xiao Xuan knocked Yan Jinghong away, took back the Moon God's Tear, and gathered destructive power as Yan Jinghong wondered where his life had gone wrong.

Si Ming returned to the Heavenly Martial Alliance headquarters after Yan Jinghong and Ling Huanxi sacrificed themselves to destroy Xiao Xuan. The alliance members awaited confirmation that the Netherworld Insect Princess had fallen asleep and the threat she controlled had ended.

• Yan Jinghong used his final sword technique against Xiao Xuan, but his power ran out before the strike could reach him.
• Ling Huanxi joined Yan Jinghong and gave him her strength, refusing to leave him behind.
• Yan Jinghong and Ling Huanxi burned away their life force and destroyed Xiao Xuan with One Sword Breaks All Techniques.
• Si Ming arrived too late to find Yan Jinghong or Ling Huanxi, and wept over their deaths.
• Si Ming returned through a spatial formation to the Heavenly Martial Alliance headquarters, where everyone awaited his confirmation that the Netherworld Insect Princess had fallen asleep.

Si Ming announced that the Netherworld Insect Princess had been defeated, then urged the alliance to prepare for her eventual return and sent word to allied sects. While recovering, he discussed the Sacred Sword’s hidden danger and the Holy Maiden’s possible motives, and resolved to investigate the disaster’s origins in the Divine Continent of the Central Land.

• Si Ming celebrated the victory with the crowd, then warned them that the Netherworld Insect Princess could revive and urged them to pass their resolve on to future generations.
• Ximen Chou rallied the crowd’s confidence in Si Ming, and Si Ming arranged for the Glazed Temple and Evil-Slaying Sword Sect to hear the news.
• Si Ming told Yu Shuying that the Netherworld Insect Princess needed eighty-four thousand years to sleep, but said she could awaken early and that he planned to investigate the Divine Continent of the Central Land.
• Si Jingyu found that Si Ming’s divine soul was weak, restored some of his Spirit Essence, and heard his account of the Sacred Sword and Dragon Scale Sword.
• Yu Shuying proposed that the Holy Maiden had framed Si Ming’s senior martial uncle to gain control of the Sacred Sword, but Si Ming questioned the theory and decided they could confront her directly.

Si Ming visited his master Yan Jinghong at Dinghu Sect and learned that Yan was struggling to create the final move of his Hero Sword Technique. As sunset stirred memories of his youth, Si Ming urged him to seek inspiration in sunrise instead, leaving Yan Jinghong reminiscing about his old senior brothers.

• Si Ming brought Yan Jinghong local food and drink at Five Grains Peak, where Yan had been contemplating sword techniques for several days.
• Yan Jinghong explained that he had perfected the first three moves of his Hero Sword Technique but could not create the final move.
• Si Ming described the sunset as a fierce scene of battle, and Yan Jinghong connected his words to the battles Si Ming had recently endured.
• Si Ming suggested Yan Jinghong was dwelling on sunset because he had lost his desire to linger in the world and advised him to watch sunrises instead.
• Yan Jinghong recalled his early days at Dinghu Sect, including sunrise outings, playful contests, and a senior brother who secretly brought him food and liquor during punishment.

Si Ming encouraged Yan Jinghong to watch the sunrise and gave him a booklet describing his martial technique, Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars. After discussing Si Ming’s suspicions about Saintess Tu Wangyue, Yan Jinghong agreed that confronting her required senior witnesses, and Si Ming asked him to join the challenge.

• Si Ming persuaded Yan Jinghong to watch the sunrise with him, lifting his master’s spirits with a song and the sight of Dinghu Sect disciples training.
• Si Ming gave Yan Jinghong a booklet explaining Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars, and Yan Jinghong assessed how the counterattack worked.
• Si Ming recounted his suspicions about Saintess Tu Wangyue and her possible connection to Xiao’s past madness.
• Yan Jinghong praised Si Ming’s caution and warned that the Saintess could discredit him if he confronted her without support.
• Si Ming asked Yan Jinghong and several seniors to accompany him to confront the Saintess.

Si Ming and Yan Jinghong confronted Tu Wangyue over her secret plan to use Si Ming to remove the calamity Qi accumulating in the Sacred Sword. Tu Wangyue explained her fears and accepted that Si Ming might resent her, while Si Ming challenged her for risking his life and shifting the blame for any disaster onto him.

• Si Ming and Yan Jinghong arrived to demand an explanation, and Tu Wangyue admitted that she had arranged the plan involving the Sacred Sword.
• Tu Wangyue explained that each use of the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword released calamity Qi that could threaten the seal and potentially destroy the world.
• Tu Wangyue revealed that she had secretly promoted Super Martial Dao research and selected practitioners of the Supreme Plain Decay True Scripture to contain the calamity Qi, originally choosing Xiao Xuan before Si Ming took his place.
• Si Ming condemned Tu Wangyue for deceiving him, and Yan Jinghong argued that she could have asked them to cooperate willingly.
• Tu Wangyue said she feared that anyone who knew the plan might resent it or become corrupted by calamity Qi, so she had not dared to trust them with the truth.
• Si Ming accused Tu Wangyue of using the greater good to excuse risking his life and asked who would bear responsibility if he or Xiao Xuan had gone mad and harmed innocents.

Si Ming confronted Tu Wangyue over her reckless use of the Sacred Sword and demanded answers about her role in breaking the Demon Race's barrier. Before he could force her to explain, Wu Xiu arrived and questioned whether Tu Wangyue was truly herself or one of the previous Holy Maidens.

• Si Ming accused Tu Wangyue of risking his and Xiao's lives, then vowed to expose her actions at Heaven's Will Palace and in the newspapers.
• Tu Wangyue warned that public disclosure could harm the Mohist School and divide Heaven's Will Palace, but Si Ming refused to back down.
• Si Ming asked Tu Wangyue why she had broken the barrier sealing the Demon Race, and she refused to answer.
• Yan Jinghong supported Si Ming's demand because he wanted the truth behind the demon tide that had killed many people, including Xia Guanxue's family.
• Wu Xiu arrived and asked Tu Wangyue whether she was Dong Chengling, Xi Yesi, or Tu Wangyue.

Si Ming and the others challenged Tu Wangyue over the Saintess succession rite, and she revealed that each Saintess since the sixteenth inherited her predecessors’ memories. Tu Wangyue explained that the Ninth Grandmaster unleashed the demon tide to prevent human wars, leaving Si Ming and the others to confront the cost and continued consequences of that plan.

• Wu Xiu, Si Ming, and Yan Jinghong questioned whether the Supreme Harmony Heart Sutra changed the Saintess’s nature, and Si Ming threatened to raise the succession rite at Heaven’s Will Palace.
• Tu Wangyue revealed that she was also Dong Chengling and Xi Yesi because Saintesses since the sixteenth passed their memories to their successors.
• Tu Wangyue explained that the Ninth Grandmaster had opened a crack in the barrier sealing the Demon Race to unite warring nations against a common enemy.
• Si Ming challenged the human cost of the demon tide, but Tu Wangyue argued that it had prevented wars whose casualties would have been far greater.
• Tu Wangyue said she widened the barrier’s crack because growing national strength threatened to bring war back, and admitted she had used the Sacred Sword to defeat the unexpectedly powerful Demon Emperor.
• Wu Xiu concluded that the sixteenth Saintess had passed down her memories and will to preserve the Grandmaster’s plan and keep its secret.

Si Ming exposed Tu Wangyue’s plan and charged her with attempted murder, then fought to stop her escape. The chapter left Tu Wangyue trapped inside the palace while Ji Shichen maintained a barrier and recorded the confrontation as evidence.

• Tu Wangyue explained that the sixteenth Holy Maiden had inherited the ninth Grandmaster’s memories and acted to carry out his ideals.
• Si Ming accused Tu Wangyue of attempted murder and harming a fellow Mohist after she admitted concealing the danger of transferring the Sacred Sword’s calamity Qi into him.
• Tu Wangyue revealed that she had inherited the cultivation of nine Holy Maidens and overwhelmed Yan Jinghong and Wu Xiu with Void Returning-level power.
• Si Ming revealed that the Sacred Sword before Tu Wangyue was a fake, while a spatial barrier prevented her from escaping.
• Si Ming struck Tu Wangyue with his divine powers and Kun Sword, driving her back into the palace and surrounding her.
• Ji Shichen maintained the Space-Anchor Barrier outside the palace and recorded the confrontation for evidence.

After learning that the Holy Maiden had caused the demon tide and his family's deaths, Xia Guanxue struggled to control his rage while he and Ying Zhou fought Cang Baiyi outside the palace. Cang Baiyi kept attacking despite hearing the accusations, leaving the confrontation unresolved as Ji Shichen maintained the barrier.

• Xia Guanxue learned that the Holy Maiden had helped unleash the demon tide that killed his family and restrained himself from charging into the palace.
• Cang Baiyi attacked Ji Shichen, and Ying Zhou intercepted the strike before Xia Guanxue rushed to fight him.
• Cang Baiyi defeated Xia Guanxue's first assault, but Ying Zhou caught him and urged him to calm down.
• Xia Guanxue regained his composure and joined Ying Zhou in breaking through Cang Baiyi's yin-yang staff defense, wounding him.
• Cang Baiyi counterattacked and sent all three fighters crashing to the ground before trying again to reach Ji Shichen.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue told Cang Baiyi that the Holy Maiden had admitted to opening the Demon Race's barrier, but Cang Baiyi continued attacking.

Cang Baiyi fought Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou to help Ji Shichen maintain the Space-Anchor Barrier, defending the Holy Maiden’s actions and revealing his own history of surviving a wartime massacre. Meanwhile, Tu Wangyue was overwhelmed by Si Ming, Yan Jinghong, and Wu Xiu, who wounded and bound her.

• Cang Baiyi struck Ji Shichen, disrupting the formation and dimming the barrier, but Ji Shichen resumed casting to maintain it.
• Cang Baiyi defended the Holy Maiden’s ideals, arguing with Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou that war had killed more people than the demon tide.
• Xia Guanxue pierced Cang Baiyi with his sword, but Cang Baiyi revealed that marauding soldiers had killed his village and that the previous Holy Maiden had adopted him.
• Cang Baiyi injured Xia Guanxue and declared that he would save the Holy Maiden and take her away.
• Tu Wangyue fought Si Ming, Yan Jinghong, and Wu Xiu, destroying the palace to escape their attacks but suffering wounds from Wu Xiu’s needles and the others’ techniques.
• Si Ming struck Tu Wangyue with the Yama Reincarnation Sword, leaving her bleeding and bound by chains formed from blood and deathly Qi.

Si Ming’s group captured Tu Wangyue, but Cang Baiyi broke the seal and helped her escape after Si Ming hesitated to kill him. Tu Wangyue teleported to a prepared location, where Yu Shuying revealed that another opponent was waiting.

• Si Ming and his allies restrained Tu Wangyue with blood-colored chains, and Yan Jinghong proposed taking her to the Heaven's Will Palace assembly.
• Cang Baiyi attacked with a staff technique, and Si Ming countered with his eight-trigram sword array before hesitating to reflect the attack and kill him.
• Cang Baiyi shattered Tu Wangyue’s chains and urged her to flee; she teleported away while Si Ming failed to catch her.
• Wu Xiu treated Cang Baiyi, and Si Ming told Ji Shichen that they had planned for Tu Wangyue to escape to a second formation.
• Tu Wangyue arrived poisoned and injured beside a waterfall, where Yu Shuying explained how they had predicted her destination.
• Yu Shuying said she was not the one meant to stop Tu Wangyue, then called for Hongdou to go forward.

Hongdou and Yu Shuying defeated and captured the wounded Tu Wangyue, then Yu Shuying warned that the holy maiden’s crimes could fracture the Mohist School and ruin its reputation. She proposed that Tu Wangyue make a sacrifice to prevent that crisis, leaving the two to weigh the cost of protecting the many.

• Hongdou held off Tu Wangyue’s attacks until Yu Shuying took control of her body and overwhelmed the holy maiden with blood arts.
• Yu Shuying returned to her body and, with Hongdou’s help, subdued Tu Wangyue and sealed her vital acupoints.
• Yu Shuying explained that Tu Wangyue’s capture and the revelation of her role in the demon tides could provoke revenge, internal conflict in the Mohist School, and public suspicion.
• Tu Wangyue agreed that the Mohist School could not afford to gamble on containing the scandal, and Yu Shuying offered a solution requiring a small sacrifice.
• Yu Shuying refused to take the blame herself, explaining that it would implicate Si Ming, and argued that sacrificing a few could protect the many.