Chapter Summaries

A woman warned Murong Wu that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Gu God Immortality made him extraordinarily hard to kill and put people infected by his Gu insects at risk of becoming hosts. Murong Wu found resolve to face the dilemma, then encountered Xia Guanxue, who had overheard their conversation.

• The woman told Murong Wu that the Lord of Ten Thousand Weapons had forged a counterfeit Mohist School Sacred Sword but had genuinely defected from the Mohist School.
• The woman revealed that the Heaven-Defying Society’s leader was the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and explained how Gu God Immortality could let him possess his killer or another Gu-infected person.
• The woman described killing all the infected or having the killer die by their own hand as possible ways to stop the Witch Ancestor, while Murong Wu objected to the deaths these plans would cause.
• Murong Wu asked the woman to stay, but she refused and left, saying she planned to leave the Sea Continent to avoid her younger sister.
• Murong Wu recalled the people and hardships that had shaped him, regained his resolve, and met Xia Guanxue, who said she had been on watch and asked if he had heard everything.

Murong Wu concealed the Gu God’s immortality while sharing the other intelligence, and the allies prepared to lure out and kill the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with the Sacred Sword. As Murong Wu joined the dangerous battle, he affirmed his resolve to live up to the father he admired, and Murong Qing reassured him that he was family regardless of blood.

• Xia Guanxue refused to keep Murong Wu’s plan secret, and Murong Wu argued that he would accept the hatred of those harmed if sacrificing himself could save others.
• Murong Wu shared what he had learned, withholding only that the Gu God was undying, and Yan Jinghong and Murong Qing confirmed that the Sacred Sword was genuine.
• The allies planned to lure out Fushi Qingcang and prevent the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor from escaping, while Yan Jinghong warned that participants had to be ready to risk their lives.
• Murong Wu asked Murong Qing to let him join the battle, and she agreed after warning him not to retreat once the fighting began.
• Murong Wu said he wanted to become a hero like the father he admired, and Murong Qing told him he would always be his son and her little brother regardless of blood.

Si Ming prepared for the battle against Fushi Qingcang while the Li State fighters gathered at the Divine Pillar ruins. As Xia Guanxue worked on a possible way for Si Ming to use both formations, the Li State leaders praised him for his bravery and thanked him for trying to save their Grand Preceptor.

• Si Ming sat bare-backed while Xia Guanxue used the Mystic Void Divine Needle technique, attempting to solve the conflict between his two formations.
• Si Ming apologized to Mu Wu for Liu Yongzhan's death, but Mu Wu and Xue Buqi said they blamed him for nothing and were grateful for his actions.
• The assembled Li State fighters praised Si Ming for defeating the Barbarian Race's encirclement and gravely wounding the Barbarian King.
• The Li State fighters' view of Si Ming shifted from seeing him as a promising young hero to recognizing him as a leading hero.

Yu Shuying exposed two Li State Grandmasters as spies controlled by the Heaven-Defying Society and explained her history with the Witch Gu Sect. With the traitors removed, the group prepared to repair the Divine Pillar and face the coming battle.

• Yu Shuying challenged the Li State Grandmasters to take pills, while Mu Wu, Xue Buqi, and the others agreed to the test.
• The pills activated the Undying Brain Divine Gu in Whirling Nether Saber and Seven Star Venerable, and Si Ming and Murong Qing seized them.
• Yu Shuying revealed that the pills exposed the spies and apologized to the remaining Li State Grandmasters, who admitted their failure and moved to guard the perimeter.
• Murong Wu offered the extracted Gu for its Heavenly Silkworm Force, but Ying Zhou told him to keep it and protect himself.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that the Witch Gu Sect had killed her family during Gu experiments and that an Other-Mind Gu gave her mind-reading ability.
• Yu Shuying said she wanted to kill Fushi Qingcang and might settle down as a housewife afterward.

Si Ming and his allies prepared to defend the Divine Pillar while an altar began repairing it, drawing the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and his forces to the site. Si Ming confronted the Witch Ancestor, who revealed why he had used the name Ancient Ancestor of Returning Antiquity.

• Yu Shuying activated a Mohist black box, which unfolded into an altar and began repairing the Divine Pillar.
• Mu Wu organized the defenders to hold off the enemy for an hour, while Yu Shuying left the battlefield.
• Five enemy lights approached, and Si Ming charged the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with a golden sword dragon.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor repelled Si Ming and suspected the Divine Pillar repairs were bait, but Si Ming challenged him to wait and questioned his assumed name.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor said he had used the Ancient Ancestor of Returning Antiquity's name to take advantage of a common deception and attract surviving old seniors.

Si Ming faced Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor as the Witch Ancestor’s empowered subordinates overwhelmed Si Ming’s companions and he boasted of consuming thirty-six million people. Si Ming used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to unsettle him, but the Witch Ancestor attacked with overwhelming force and left Si Ming caught in crushing gale dragons.

• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor explained that his four subordinates had been raised to the Void Returning Realm by burning through their life force, while Si Ming refused to intervene and trusted his companions to win.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor revealed that his insects had absorbed thirty-six million people, and Si Ming condemned him while remaining calm.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor challenged Si Ming’s Mohist principles, and Si Ming replied that great love was impartial rather than driven by private attachment.
• Si Ming revealed that he had been using the Heart Devil Secret Sword Sword Intent to exploit flaws in Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s mind and provoke him into losing composure.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor attacked with the Nine Insects Art: Five Viscera Reverse Assault, breaking through Si Ming’s Gate of All Wonders and trapping him in gale dragons.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor compressed the gale dragons and unleashed a devastating strike that shattered the mountain, but Si Ming challenged him with, “Is that all you’ve got?”

Si Ming overwhelmed Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with his enhanced Tathagata's Indestructible Body and used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to disrupt his mind. He began testing the cocooned opponent with a sequence of sword techniques, while suspecting Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor still had a stronger trump card.

• Si Ming used the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation tattooed on his body to sustain Tathagata's Indestructible Body as he battered Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor used Celestial Person's Eternal Decay and Fleeting Life Is Like a Dream, but Si Ming resisted the decay and the Heart Devil Secret Sword made the ninefold soul attack recoil.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor curled into a Heavenly Silkworm Force cocoon to withstand the turmoil in his mind, and Si Ming prepared to attack with his sword.
• Si Ming held back the Sacred Sword because he believed Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor still had a powerful trump card.
• Si Ming used Sword One: Turncoat, Sword Two: Defiance of Morality, Sword Three: Usurpation, and Sword Four: Ancestor Extermination to make the Heavenly Silkworm Force in the cocoon turn against itself.

Si Ming wounded Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with his sword techniques, but the Witch Ancestor revealed his Extreme Essence and overwhelmed him. As Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor prepared to finish the fight, Murong Qing activated the Mohist School Sacred Sword’s sealing formation.

• Si Ming used the Heart Devil Secret Sword to find Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor underground, then struck him from within with the Heart Devil Sword Seed.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor healed his wounds with Gu insects and transformed his body into a towering form made entirely of armored Gu insects.
• Si Ming and Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor clashed, and the Witch Ancestor explained that Extreme Essence could destroy the laws of the Great Dao.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor erased the Divine Pillar and badly injured Si Ming with his Extreme Essence attacks.
• Si Ming announced that he would use his ace, and Murong Qing activated the Mohist School Sacred Sword’s Six Heavens Forbidden Sword formation around them.

Si Ming and Murong Qing used the Six Heavens Sword Formation and the Mohist School Sacred Sword to battle Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, exploiting their combined sword techniques and his difficulty controlling Extreme Essence. Their attacks badly wounded him, but he survived, and the two allies were also gravely injured.

• Si Ming explained why Murong Qing, rather than himself, wielded the Six Heavens Forbidden Sword, and Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor realized Yun Jinzang had deceived him.
• Murong Qing attacked Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with Heavenly River Starburst, and he used Extreme Essence to destroy the incoming Sword Qi.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing struck together with Soaring Phoenix and Flying Dragon Pierce the Firmament, piercing Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor's defenses, and Murong Qing used An Instant Like a Year to escape his Gu insects.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor recognized Murong Qing's Instant Sword Technique, while she and Si Ming launched Yin-Yang New Moon Sky Twin Dragon Battle against his Three Corpses Seal.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing split their combined attack and struck Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor from both sides, badly damaging his body, while the backlash gravely injured them.
• Si Ming concluded that using Extreme Essence strained Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and made his movements clumsy, but Murong Qing noted that they had not killed him.

Si Ming and Murong Qing stopped Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s attempt to overwhelm them with a self-destruction by combining their sword techniques, then pursued him as he fled. The chapter left Murong Qing facing his new attack, Three Corpses Seal: Thousand Souls Sacrificed to Heaven.

• Si Ming realized Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s regeneration consumed Jing Essence, and he and Murong Qing planned to weaken him before he could escape.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor chose to self-destruct with Extreme Essence, so Si Ming and Murong Qing combined their techniques to freeze him and strike before he could act.
• The joint attack shredded most of Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s body, weakening his self-destruction; Si Ming shielded Murong Qing and endured the blast.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor regenerated and fled, while Murong Qing pursued him with the Instant Sword Technique and repeatedly wounded him as Si Ming recovered.
• Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor stopped running and used Three Corpses Seal: Thousand Souls Sacrificed to Heaven, turning his body into a purplish-black liquid that contaminated everything it touched.

Murong Qing and Si Ming fought the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, whose Extreme Essence threatened to overwhelm them despite their combined efforts. As Si Ming struggled to withstand the attack, Murong Qing discovered the final form of the Hero Sword Technique and unleashed it.

• Murong Qing used the Myriad Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Formation Sword Technique to destroy the Three Corpses Seal’s contaminated objects, but the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor counterattacked and blew off her arm.
• Murong Qing fought back with the Blood Prison Sword Technique, and Si Ming arrived in time to drive the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor away from her.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was trapped by the sword formation’s hidden attacks, then refined Extreme Essence and launched a concentrated strike at Si Ming.
• Si Ming entered Solar Prominence Eruption and used Return Evil, Turn Radiance, Shift the Stars, while Murong Qing weakened the incoming attack and shielded him with Sword Qi.
• The Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Extreme Essence began breaking Si Ming’s body and the Wheel-Turning King Sword, leaving Murong Qing searching for a way to turn the fight around.
• Murong Qing remembered the final form of the Hero Sword Technique and unleashed it without time to consider its side effects.

The human fighters struggled against the Barbarian King’s Void Returning subordinates, who overpowered them despite their coordinated defenses. The Chivalrous Confucian died protecting the Divine Pillar, while the other battles remained unresolved.

• Si Ming moved to intercept the Barbarian King as the others attacked his subordinates, but the Crocodile King gravely wounded Jun Yan and the enemy’s Void Returning cultivation overwhelmed several fighters.
• Murong Wu warned that the Barbarian Kings were in the Void Returning Realm, and the Eagle King, Crocodile King, and Vulture King targeted their weaker opponents.
• Yan Jinghong, Ling Huanxi, and Liu Qingqing rushed to help, but the Vulture King evaded Liu Qingqing’s arrow and attacked the wounded Jun Yan.
• Jun Yan fought the Vulture King to protect the Divine Pillar and his companions, broke his sword, wounded the Vulture King, and died after the enemy tore out his heart.
• Yang Lijing attacked the Vulture King in grief, while Mu Wu, Xue Buqi, Ji Da, and Hua Ling joined forces against him; Ling Huanxi and Yan Jinghong trapped the Crocodile King in an ice array.
• Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue combined their attacks against the Eagle King, who shattered their ice-and-fire vortex with a massive saber strike.

Yan Jinghong held off the Vulture King to keep him from reaching the sword formation, despite suffering grave injuries. After breaking his sword in a final clash, he remained determined to guard the line as his strength dwindled.

• Yan Jinghong stopped the Vulture King from crossing the mark and was struck by five deep claw wounds.
• Yan Jinghong unleashed a phoenix-shaped sword attack that wounded the Vulture King and drove him back.
• The Vulture King used Reverse Blade Thunder Punishment, sending a vast ring of lightning toward Yan Jinghong.
• Yan Jinghong spent his blood and Qi to counter the lightning, and the Startling Rainbow Sword broke in the clash.
• Yan Jinghong, nearly drained of strength, reaffirmed that the Vulture King would not cross the line while he still had breath.

Yan Jinghong used his final sword strike to kill the Vulture King and Scorpion King, but the effort left him apparently lifeless until Ling Huanxi found a trace of Sword Qi keeping him alive. As Murong Qing pursued the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, the Eagle King and Crocodile King revealed that his escape had been planned and hinted that a missing ally was waiting along his route.

• Yan Jinghong drew on his life force to unleash “A Hero Roams the Jianghu Without Regret!”, killing the Vulture King and, with Murong Wu restraining him, the Scorpion King.
• The Eagle King and Crocodile King drove back their opponents and escaped the encirclement.
• Ling Huanxi found Yan Jinghong with no breath or pulse, but discovered a remnant of Sword Qi in his heart meridian and preserved him in ice.
• Murong Wu chose to help Ling Huanxi save Yan Jinghong instead of going to assist Si Ming and his sister.
• The Mohist School Sacred Sword destroyed the formation, and Murong Qing chased the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor into a stronger sword formation thirty li away.
• The Eagle King and Crocodile King told Ying Zhou that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor had fled toward a missing ally who was waiting for him.

Si Ming and his allies defeated Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and stopped his escape, though Murong Qing lost all her cultivation using a newly born sword move. The battle ended with Murong Wu relieved to learn the group had already accounted for Gu God Immortality.

• Leopard King attacked the Myriad Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Formation from outside, but Si Huaruo weakened her tornado and Hongdou, controlled by Si Jingyu, helped suppress her.
• Murong Qing used “A Hero Roams the Jianghu Without Regret!” to ease the strain on Si Ming as he reflected Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Extreme Essence back at him.
• Si Ming’s reflected attack erased Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, while Murong Qing collapsed and discovered that her cultivation was gone.
• Murong Qing scolded Murong Wu for hiding important intelligence, and Si Ming explained that they had planned around Gu God Immortality and severed the Witch Ancestor’s connection to the outside world.
• Murong Wu broke down in relief after learning that Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was truly dead and he would not have to attack one of his own.

Si Ming’s companions celebrated their victory as Yan Jinghong agreed to retire and nominate Si Ming as his successor, while Ling Huanxi chose to retire alongside Yan Jinghong. The story then shifted to a parallel world, where Murong Wu killed the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor and appeared ready to take his own life after discovering the creature had attached itself to him.

• Si Ming comforted Murong Wu as their companions flew over to celebrate at dawn.
• Yan Jinghong agreed to retire and said he would nominate Si Ming as Grandmaster at the Heaven's Will Palace meeting.
• Ling Huanxi revealed that she had passed her cultivation to Murong Qing and chose to retire with Yan Jinghong.
• Si Ming and his companions left the room, and Si Ming declared that their era had begun.
• In the parallel world, Murong Wu killed the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor with the Heaven-Dominating Seal after Si Ming and Murong Qing had nearly defeated him.
• Murong Wu saw Yu Shuying's heart-protecting mirror glow, realized the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor had attached itself to him, and raised his sword to his neck.

Murong Wu survived his attempt to kill himself, but the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was keeping him alive to take over his body. With the ancestor set to awaken within an hour, the group argued over whether to save Murong Wu or protect the hundreds of millions of people threatened by the Gu worms, and left the final choice to Murong Qing.

• Murong Wu cut his own throat, but Murong Qing discovered that his wound was healing despite his body being drained of True Qi.
• Mu Wu reported that parasitized people were still losing their Jing Essence, and the group concluded that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor was using them to remain alive and prepare to possess Murong Wu.
• Yu Shuying argued that Si Ming could not risk the mission to save Murong Wu, while Ying Zhou and Mu Wu clashed over whether the innocent victims of the Gu worms should take priority.
• Si Jingyu revealed that the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor would awaken within an hour, and the group turned to Murong Qing to decide Murong Wu's fate.
• Si Ming offered to bear the consequences, then stepped aside after Murong Qing signaled that she would make the choice.

Murong Qing accepted Murong Wu’s sacrifice, but Ying Zhou carried him away, refusing to let him die. Si Ming proposed seeking help from the Mohist Academy of Science, while Xia Guanxue confronted Ying Zhou and attacked him to force Murong Wu’s return.

• Murong Qing said Murong Wu had chosen to sacrifice himself, then collapsed as Ying Zhou condemned her and took Murong Wu away.
• Ying Zhou rejected Si Ming’s arguments, declared he would protect Murong Wu, and threatened anyone who followed him.
• Xia Guanxue volunteered to pursue Ying Zhou, and Si Ming said he might have a way to resolve the dilemma after consulting the Mohist Academy of Science.
• Ying Zhou asked Xia Guanxue for help sealing the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s Primordial Spirit, but Xia Guanxue demanded that he hand over Murong Wu.
• Xia Guanxue drew his sword and attacked Ying Zhou, who realized Xia Guanxue was serious and felt betrayed.

Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue fought over their betrayal and clashing beliefs, each driven to wounds and near exhaustion. They unleashed their final moves, but Xia Guanxue disappeared into the darkness he created, leaving Ying Zhou unable to find his true body.

• Ying Zhou demanded to know why Xia Guanxue had turned against him as the two exchanged increasingly bloody attacks.
• Xia Guanxue recalled his hatred of sacrificing the few for the many and the hero he had once wanted to emulate, then resolved to sever his past and friendship with Ying Zhou.
• Ying Zhou used the Heart-Severing Sword Technique, but Xia Guanxue pierced through his Azure Dragon attack with the Eight Forms of the Divine Edge, badly wounding both of them.
• Ying Zhou mocked Xia Guanxue for calling him naive and fully awakened his Asura Bloodline before they resumed their brutal fight.
• Xia Guanxue unleashed Solitary light shines on the broken bridge, cold mist green, while Ying Zhou countered with Heart-Rending, Lung-Splitting Piercing Thunder and searched for a fatal opening.
• Xia Guanxue's afterimages vanished into a spreading darkness, and his true body disappeared from sight.

Xia Guanxue defeated Ying Zhou and brought Murong Wu back, where Si Ming and the others used a repaired Divine Pillar seal to stop the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor from harming its hosts. Murong Wu survived, but Si Ming planned to send him to the Wasteland Barbarian Continent so the Witch Ancestor would weaken and fall asleep.

• Ying Zhou hesitated when he sensed the Heavenly Silkworm Force, allowing Xia Guanxue to sever his limbs and win their duel.
• Xia Guanxue carried Murong Wu away, but Ying Zhou pleaded with him to leave their friend behind; Xia Guanxue cut free and departed, declaring they should remain enemies.
• Xia Guanxue reached Si Ming's group unconscious, and they rescued Murong Wu while sending people to find the badly injured Ying Zhou.
• Si Ming and the others used Yu Shuying's black box and the prepared materials to seal the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor inside Murong Wu, stopping the parasites from draining their hosts.
• Si Ming explained that Murong Wu would remain asleep if the seal stayed near the Sea Continent, so he planned to send him to the Wasteland Barbarian Continent, where Evil Qi would weaken the Witch Ancestor.