Chapter Summaries

Si Ming challenged Chidahu and Ju Beichen, then helped Song Jingping approach the Juntian Divine Sword as Gourd Valley erupted. The chapter ended with Si Ming and Chidahu locked in battle amid a blazing sea of fire.

• Si Ming invited Chidahu and Ju Beichen to attack him together, and his palm strike sent both Great Grandmasters reeling, though Chidahu realized Ju Beichen had secretly lent Si Ming his force.
• Ju Beichen praised Si Ming, and the two exchanged humble compliments while Chidahu prepared to trigger Gourd Valley’s eruption.
• Chidahu seized the chance to reach for the Juntian Divine Sword when it emerged from the magma, but Si Ming attacked him with a sword formed from subterranean Sha Yin Qi.
• Song Jingping quietly approached the falling Juntian Divine Sword under the protection of Xunan and several eminent monks.
• Si Ming and Chidahu exchanged attacks, and Si Ming raised a pillar of golden fire that engulfed Gourd Valley in flames.

Si Ming used the terrain and his sword arts to overpower Chidahu, while Ju Beichen staged an intervention that helped Si Ming defeat the Barbarian King and bolster his claim to be the greatest under heaven. As the battle ended, the Juntian Divine Sword flew away and the accompanying Spirit Transformation experts rushed to claim it.

• Si Ming absorbed the earth's flame power and struck Chidahu with Nine Yangs Blaze Across the Universe, forcing him down into Gourd Valley.
• Chidahu counterattacked with flood dragons that shattered Si Ming's golden sword, but Si Ming gathered the scattered Sword Qi and pinned him beneath a flame dragon.
• Ju Beichen boosted his Primal Qi and attacked Si Ming while secretly helping him, then praised him as the potential greatest under heaven.
• After Ju Beichen's three palm strikes, Si Ming sent Chidahu flying and coughing blood, while Ju Beichen pretended to retreat in shock.
• The clash sent the Juntian Divine Sword flying, and the Spirit Transformation experts moved to seize it.

Song Jingping claimed the Juntian Divine Sword was counterfeit, and Chidahu escaped after Song failed to help the others stop him. Si Ming grew suspicious of Song Jingping’s identity, while the injured Ju Beichen returned smiling after pursuing the Barbarian King.

• Song Jingping declared that the Barbarian King’s end had come, but Chidahu realized the attack was real and his forces were in danger.
• Burigude lost both arms to Xia Guanxue and Ying Zhou, and Chidahu transformed into a Peng and fled with his subordinates after battling Ju Beichen and Si Ming.
• Si Ming questioned Song Jingping about why he had not intercepted Chidahu, and Song claimed the Juntian Divine Sword was counterfeit.
• Song Jingping handed the sword to Si Ming, who suspected that Song himself might be an impostor but kept the suspicion to himself.
• Ju Beichen returned injured and smiling, and Si Ming asked whether he had slain the Barbarian King.

After Si Ming’s party left Gourd Valley with the Juntian Divine Sword, they struggled to determine whether it was genuine and received a secret offer from the Barbarian King. Meanwhile, Chidahu accepted that Ju Beichen’s wound could not be treated and ordered his forces to withdraw from Yan Province while taking its people and wealth with them.

• Ju Beichen told Si Ming that he had gravely wounded Chidahu, then asked Si Ming to understand why Li State could not yet acknowledge the sword as genuine.
• Si Ming’s group traveled north into Great Qian’s territory, fending off pursuers while discussing how they might reveal the Juntian Divine Sword’s nature and identify Li State’s royal descendant.
• Ying Zhou joked that one of their companions might have royal blood, but the group dismissed his suggestion.
• A timid Barbarian Hu envoy approached Si Ming and offered to reveal the secret of Fushi Qingcang in exchange for a deal; Si Ming agreed.
• An imperial physician admitted he could not treat Chidahu’s wound, and Chidahu dismissed him.
• Chidahu ordered the Barbarian Hu forces to withdraw from Yan Province and forcibly relocate its people and seize its wealth.

Chidahu went to the Witch Gu Sect to have his severe injuries treated, but the Devil God statue and the Return to Antiquity Patriarch betrayed him and tried to take his body. The Patriarch called Chidahu the Barbarian Hu's Child of Fate and urged him to surrender so the Barbarian Race could rise, but Chidahu refused and their fight continued with him badly wounded.

• Chidahu followed Wanyan Huang to the Ten Thousand Gu Pool, where the Gu insects consumed themselves to weaken the Fist Intent in his chest.
• The Devil God statue revealed that Chidahu had come for treatment seven times and demanded that he repay it by giving up his body.
• The statue attacked Chidahu, while Wanyan Huang revealed himself as the Return to Antiquity Patriarch and defeated Chidahu when he tried to flee.
• The Return to Antiquity Patriarch called Chidahu the Barbarian Hu's Child of Fate and argued that he needed power beyond humanity to lead his people onward.
• Chidahu rejected the offer to surrender his body, but the Return to Antiquity Patriarch struck his chest and severely injured him.

Si Ming and his allies defeated the weakened Fushi Qingcang, whose Primordial Spirit had taken over Wanyan Huang’s body, and destroyed the escaped fragment. The chapter left the group wondering whether the other sealed devils might emerge and whether their victory had truly ended the threat.

• Wanyan Huang revealed his devil power and overwhelmed the injured Chidahu, but Si Ming arrived and struck him down with divine power.
• Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing followed up with attacks, gravely injuring Wanyan Huang and severing his arm.
• Chidahu explained that Fushi Qingcang was Return to Antiquity Patriarch, one of four devils sealed by Bai Junlong, and that destroying his possessed body would send his escaped Primordial Spirit back into the seal.
• Si Ming, Chidahu, Liu Qingqing, and Murong Qing attacked together, but Wanyan Huang exploded part of his body to escape.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue blocked Wanyan Huang’s path, allowing Si Ming and Chidahu to strike him with lightning and Primordial Vicious Qi.
• Wanyan Huang’s body exploded, and Si Ming scoured the remains with Evil-Slaying Sword Qi; afterward, Ying Zhou remarked that the fight had ended before he could fully exert himself.

Si Ming and the others confronted the wounded Chidahu, but his reinforcements arrived before they could defeat him. Chidahu gave Si Ming the Remote Heaven Society’s list, and Si Ming hurried home after spotting an unexpected name; Chidahu then ordered his subjects not to provoke the visitors.

• Si Ming, Xia Guanxue, Ying Zhou, and their companions surrounded Chidahu and argued over whether to kill him.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue attacked, but Chidahu deflected their weapons and escaped the encirclement as the Silver Wolf King and other reinforcements arrived.
• Chidahu promised to stop warring and adopt the Xia’s institutions and teachings, while Si Ming said they would judge him by his actions.
• Chidahu wrote the Remote Heaven Society’s list on a stone surface and handed it to Si Ming.
• Si Ming found an unexpected important figure on the list and led the group back home at once.
• After the visitors left, Chidahu ordered the Silver Wolf King to protect them from any provocation, threatening severe punishment for anyone who disobeyed.

The Return to Antiquity Patriarch seized Chidahu’s body and began activating the Evil Taints the World plan. Meanwhile, Si Ming and his companions witnessed the plan’s effects and began examining the strange insects spreading from an evil god statue.

• The Return to Antiquity Patriarch overcame Chidahu’s resistance after a six-hour struggle and took control of his body.
• The Patriarch destroyed part of the palace, killed two guards, and sent a pillar of Vicious Qi into the sky to begin his plan.
• Si Ming sent Chidahu’s Heaven-Defying Society list to Yan Jinghong and discussed the Society’s motives with Murong Qing and Ying Zhou.
• A black pillar of Qi appeared on the horizon, and Liu Qingqing struck the evil god statue hidden in its clouds with an arrow.
• Murong Qing froze the insects released from the statue, while Si Ming caught one alive to study it.

Si Ming and his companions discovered that swarms of Gu insects were draining ordinary people’s vital essence across Barbarian Hu territory, and that their slow, individual treatments could not save everyone in time. They decided to seek the Barbarian King, suspecting the Return to Antiquity Patriarch was behind the infestation.

• Murong Wu tested a black beetle and found that it drained vital essence, while martial artists could kill or expel it.
• Si Ming spotted countless black beetles filling the sky and realized the infestation was far larger than they had expected.
• At the Great Qian imperial palace, the impostor posing as Chidahu absorbed a returning swarm and healed his injuries.
• The Silver Wolf King rejected Chidahu’s offer of an Immortal Golden Silkworm, but Chidahu seized him and forced the silkworm into his mouth.
• Si Ming and his companions removed Gu insects from more than three hundred villagers, but learned that people were already dying and their group could not treat everyone in time.
• Murong Qing urged them to find and destroy the source of the infestation, and Si Ming proposed returning to find the Barbarian King because the Return to Antiquity Patriarch might still be alive.

Si Ming and the others learned that the Barbarian King had used Gu insects to control his subordinates and that the Silver Wolf King had gained immense strength. After the Silver Wolf King gravely wounded Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue, Si Ming let him unleash his full attack and caught his saber blade with his bare hands.

• Xia Guanxue and Si Ming questioned whether the man they had killed was truly the Return to Antiquity Patriarch and considered that the history of the sealed devils might have been falsified.
• The wounded Colorful Butterfly King Saihan fled toward Si Ming and the others, warning them that the Silver Wolf King and other kings had gone mad and that the Barbarian King had drained hundreds of thousands of people in Shengjing.
• Si Ming ordered the group to help Saihan, and the Silver Wolf King defeated Ying Zhou with one blow before gravely injuring Xia Guanxue.
• Murong Qing held Saihan while Si Ming confronted the Silver Wolf King, who built up his momentum and drew a powerful saber.
• The Silver Wolf King unleashed a devastating saber strike, but Si Ming stood his ground and caught the blade between his palms.

Si Ming subdued the Silver Wolf King and Murong Wu removed an Undying Brain Divine Gu that had strengthened and influenced him. The group suspected the Barbarian King was behind the unrest and discussed the dangerous cultivation method derived from the Gu.

• Si Ming caught and snapped the Silver Wolf King's saber, then forced him to his knees and demanded an explanation for his strength and behavior.
• Murong Wu found an Undying Brain Divine Gu in the Silver Wolf King's neck and removed it with Murong Qing's Moon God's Tear.
• Saihan said the Barbarian King had distributed similar Gu worms to his subordinates, making them short-tempered and easily angered.
• Si Ming suspected the Barbarian King had lost judgment under the Gu's influence, and Murong Qing suggested returning to Shengjing to investigate.
• Murong Wu explained that refining the Gu could grant Heavenly Silkworm Force, but its transformations involved extreme pain and risk of death.

Si Ming and the others discovered that the Barbarian King had drained Shengjing’s people to raise Undying Brain Divine Gu, then raced south to protect Ju Beichen. Si Ming found a familiar group moving through the Li State’s mountains, but they mistook his arrival for an ambush.

• The group confirmed that nearly one million people in Shengjing had been drained, and Saihan used a puppet’s memories to reveal that the Barbarian King was heading south to attack Ju Beichen.
• Murong Qing froze Saihan’s Qi sea, and Si Ming ordered Xia Guanxue to escort her and two kings back to safety while he and the others continued south.
• Murong Wu insisted on joining the pursuit, offering his medical skills and knowledge of Gu worms; Murong Qing agreed and warned him to stay out of danger.
• Si Ming, Liu Qingqing, Murong Qing, Murong Wu, and Ying Zhou hurried into the Li State as Si Ming searched for signs of the Barbarian King’s forces.
• Si Ming spotted Mu Wu and several familiar figures in a mountain forest, but they shouted that his arrival was an ambush.

Si Ming rushed to save Ju Beichen but discovered that the Barbarian King had used a trap to poison and corner him. The Barbarian King sealed Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan inside a spirit-draining formation and declared that Si Ming’s fate was sealed.

• Si Ming met Mu Wu’s retreating forces and learned that Ju Beichen had stayed behind to cover their escape from the Barbarian King.
• Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan followed the battle’s trail to a basin, where they found Ju Beichen dead.
• Ju Beichen’s corpse exploded with poison, and the Barbarian King ambushed Si Ming while revealing that he had lured him into the trap.
• The Barbarian King sent the Crane King Boyan, the Eagle King Burigude, the Scorpion King Morigen, and two other Gu-controlled fighters to block Si Ming’s escape.
• The Barbarian King activated the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, which trapped Si Ming and Liu Yongzhan and began draining their spiritual power and True Qi.

Si Ming fought off the Barbarian King's five subordinates despite his poisoning, but the Barbarian King struck him with a technique that caused his body and mind to mutate. Si Ming suppressed the madness long enough to counterattack, and the Barbarian King retaliated with another disease-laden attack.

• Si Ming used the Wheel-Turning King Sword and the Gate of All Wonders to defeat the five martial artists, then turned the demon skeletons' attacks back on the Vulture King, Eagle King, and Scorpion King.
• The Barbarian King praised Si Ming's swordsmanship and struck his chest with Nine Insects Art: Malignant Sores and Madness.
• Si Ming suppressed the mutation and evaded the Barbarian King's finger attack, then struck him with Absolute Sword Destroys the Nine Continents.
• The Barbarian King's nine layers of Heavenly Silkworm Force held off Si Ming's sword long enough for him to retreat and launch Nine Insects Seal-Paralysis, Boils, Carbuncles and Fistulas.

Si Ming fought the “Barbarian King” inside the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, using the Wheel-Turning King Sword to activate his formation and purge the poison before battling at close quarters. As the Eagle King and the others struggled to help, the Eagle King called out to Mad Ink, warning that the fighters would kill each other.

• Si Ming and the “Barbarian King” traded devastating attacks in the abyss, while the Eagle King and the others waited helplessly above.
• Si Ming stabbed himself with the Wheel-Turning King Sword to activate his formation, then used his Cultivation Bodies and techniques to purge the poison and poisonous insects from his body.
• The “Barbarian King” struck Si Ming with the Five Viscera Reverse Assault, but Si Ming wounded him with the Innate Formless Sword and trapped him in a storm of Sword Qi.
• Si Ming stayed close to the “Barbarian King” and unleashed relentless attacks to prevent him from using his time-displacing move.
• The Eagle King called out to Mad Ink, warning that the fight would kill the “Barbarian King,” while the others considered seeking help from Si Ming’s companion.

Si Ming fought the “Barbarian King” while Liu Yongzhan was tortured and nearly executed, until Liu Qingqing broke the formation and rescued him. Si Ming unleashed his ultimate sword strike and was thrown back unconscious, leaving Liu Qingqing to carry him away.

• Eagle King and the others captured Liu Yongzhan and tortured him to force Si Ming to surrender, but Liu Yongzhan refused to yield.
• Liu Qingqing transformed her avatar into a blood-red arrow, shattered the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation, and rescued Liu Yongzhan.
• Si Ming continued fighting the “Barbarian King” to protect Liu Qingqing and Liu Yongzhan, using the Tathagata’s Indestructible Body to withstand his opponent’s attacks.
• Si Ming froze time with Evil-Slaying Sword Intent and unleashed “All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes!” at the “Barbarian King.”
• A monstrous Gu-insect phantom emerged from the “Barbarian King” and clashed with Si Ming’s sword strike, hurling the gravely injured Si Ming backward.
• Liu Qingqing caught Si Ming as he crashed through the mountainside, and he told her to escape before collapsing unconscious.

Liu Qingqing and Liu Yongzhan fled with the unconscious Si Ming while the Barbarian King ordered his subordinates to pursue them, but the pursuers overwhelmed their allies and closed in. Liu Yongzhan searched for a way to hide Si Ming as the Eagle King and Scorpion King caught up.

• The Barbarian King forced out the sword energy that had wounded him through his divided spirit and ordered the Crocodile King to stay while the others hunted Mad Ink.
• Liu Qingqing sensed four Peak Spirit Transformation pursuers, but Murong Qing and Ying Zhou arrived and intercepted two of them, allowing Liu Yongzhan to flee with Si Ming.
• Liu Qingqing stayed behind to hold off the remaining enemies while Liu Yongzhan carried the unconscious Si Ming away and promised to protect him.
• Murong Qing and Ying Zhou injured the Eagle King with their ultimate techniques, but the Vulture King counterattacked and wounded them; the Eagle King then left to pursue Mad Ink.
• The Scorpion King broke past Liu Qingqing and pursued Liu Yongzhan, who considered ways to conceal Si Ming but rejected them as too risky.

Si Ming woke after one day of recovery, relieved that the Southern Continent’s people had not yet been drained by the “Barbarian King.” Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing checked on him as he prepared to act before it was too late.

• Liu Yongzhan met Murong Wu, who treated Si Ming’s injuries, and told him to hide Mad Ink while he drew the pursuers away.
• Liu Yongzhan fought the Eagle King by turning his vital blood into a sword, while Murong Wu carried Si Ming away.
• The Scorpion King ambushed Murong Wu, but Si Ming’s bracelet released the Juntian Divine Sword, which awakened Murong Wu’s power.
• Murong Wu used the Lightning Dismemberment Seal to defeat the Scorpion King, then drove off the Eagle King.
• Si Ming woke after one day, absorbed the medicinal paste, and asked how long he had been unconscious.
• Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing came to see Si Ming, who said there was still time to stop the Barbarian King.

Si Ming recovered and learned that Liu Qingqing’s brother Little Wu was not Murong Qing’s biological brother, while the Sacred Sword and the Doctor had escaped with Yun Jinzang. Yu Shuying proposed using false information about repairing the Divine Pillar to lure Fushi Qingcang into a fight, revealing that she had helped him escape to earn his trust.

• Liu Qingqing told Si Ming that General Liu died using Azure Blood and Loyal Heart to hold back the Eagle King, and Murong Qing revealed that the Juntian Divine Sword had accepted Little Wu as its master.
• Si Ming encouraged Murong Qing to accept Little Wu’s extraordinary path and let him decide whether to pursue the throne of Li State.
• Yan Jinghong told Si Ming that Yun Jinzang had stolen the Mohist School Sacred Sword and that the Doctor had escaped, leaving them unable to track down the Barbarian King.
• Yu Shuying explained that strengthening the Eternal Barrier could threaten Fushi Qingcang, and proposed bluffing him with false claims that the Divine Pillar could be repaired.
• Yu Shuying revealed that she had let the Doctor escape and warned Yun Jinzang to gain Fushi Qingcang’s trust.

Yun Jinzang traded the Mohist School Sacred Sword for a Realm-Breaking Stone and warned the Crocodile King that the Mohists might soon repair the Divine Pillars. The Gu God chose to investigate while preparing to strengthen the Crocodile King, and Murong Wu later met a mysterious superstar singer who gave him a silk-wrapped sword.

• Yun Jinzang exchanged the Mohist School Sacred Sword for the Realm-Breaking Stone and its instructions from the Crocodile King.
• Yun Jinzang warned that the Mohist Academy of Science could repair two Divine Pillars within three days, then left without agreeing to oppose the Mohists.
• The Gu God considered Yun Jinzang's warning potentially deceptive but decided the risk of restoring the Eternal Barrier was worth investigating.
• The Gu God ordered the Crocodile King to undergo a secret method to reach the Void Returning realm, despite the cost to his lifespan.
• Murong Wu followed a harmless call into a mountain forest, where a beautiful superstar singer handed him a silk-wrapped sword.