Chapter Summaries

Bai Xing defeated the five innate experts with a single technique and claimed the Bixie Manual was the true path to grandmasterhood. After Ruan Zhuo destroyed the manual rather than let anyone claim it, Bai Xing revealed that he intended to distribute it freely throughout the martial world.

• Zhou Lifan charged Bai Xing to avenge his father, but Bai Xing killed him instantly, and Zhou Jingyu was pinned beneath a book Bai Xing tossed at him.
• Ruan Zhuo, Huang Xinrong, Bai Ziyi, Master Wuchen, and Ma Chonglie attacked Bai Xing together, but his Hell Demon Blade halted them and left cuts on their necks.
• Bai Xing declared that he had reached the grandmaster realm and revealed that the Blood-Weeping Demon Scripture was only a foundation for the Bixie Manual.
• Ma Chonglie tried to seize the manual pinning Zhou Jingyu, but Huang Xinrong blocked him while Ruan Zhuo picked it up and destroyed it.
• Ruan Zhuo challenged Bai Xing over his revenge, and Bai Xing announced that he would make the Bixie Manual freely available to everyone in the martial world.

Bai Xing dispersed the gathered martial factions by giving them the Bixie Manual, a powerful technique that required practitioners to castrate themselves. He revealed that the manual’s claims were fabricated, then ordered the Yellow Dragon Sect to spread copies and recruited Jiang Hongfei to help.

• Bai Xing gave copies of the Bixie Manual to the gathered fighters, and Ruan Zhuo and the others discovered its brutal prerequisite for cultivation.
• Ruan Zhuo led Illusory Spirit Valley away, and the other factions followed, breaking up the punitive force without fighting Bai Xing.
• Bai Xing told Qiu Changqing and Liang Nanfeng that the manual was fake, while Qiu Changqing guessed that Bai Xing had done it for fun.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Evils caught a small group of departing fighters, killed them, and examined the manual, recognizing its potential to rapidly create powerful martial artists.
• Bai Xing ordered the Yellow Dragon Sect elders to make and distribute many copies of the manual, then met Jiang Hongfei and asked him to help with an astonishing plan.

Bai Xing enlisted Jiang Hongfei to spread the Bixie Manual, but the Six Fan Gate failed to contain its rapid spread and the resulting martial-world turmoil. Three months later, Qiu Changqing faced the Yin-Yang Twin Evils in a long-awaited fight, and their coordinated opening attack threatened to catch him off guard.

• Bai Xing gave Jiang Hongfei a copy of the Bixie Manual and gold, asking him to spread it throughout the martial world.
• Shen Shaotong ordered the Six Fan Gate to stop the manual's spread, but Yellow Dragon Sect disciples, intelligence brokers, and storytellers carried it beyond Lingnan Circuit as more people practiced it.
• Bai Xing watched the manual's influence grow over the following month, until the three-month deadline arrived.
• Qiu Changqing entered the martial arts arena to face the Yin-Yang Twin Evils, having grown strong enough to defeat eight elders attacking together.
• White Fiend tested Qiu Changqing with sword qi, and he blocked her attacks with a Magnetic Force barrier before she unleashed Silent Mountain Annihilation.
• Dark Fiend suddenly Blinked into range and attacked with Flame Claw while White Fiend laughed that Qiu Changqing had fallen for their trap.

Qiu Changqing defeated the Yin-Yang Twin Evils and became the Seventh Hall Master of the Hall of Endless Night, though Dark Fiend’s last attack left him injured. After Bai Xing healed him, the two set out toward Martial Emperor City to seek a grandmaster.

• Qiu Changqing revealed that he had reached Magnetic Field Rotation and turned the fight against White Fiend and Dark Fiend.
• Qiu Changqing killed White Fiend, whose final sword qi struck Dark Fiend and triggered his breakthrough through the Bixie Manual.
• Dark Fiend castrated himself to cultivate the Bixie Manual, reached the innate realm, and battled Qiu Changqing until Qiu Changqing killed him with the Yin-Yang Five Thunder Slash.
• Black Profound appeared, confirmed Qiu Changqing’s victory, and gave him the token of the Seventh Hall Master.
• Qiu Changqing chose to travel with Bai Xing rather than return to the Hall of Endless Night, and Bai Xing healed his injuries.
• Bai Xing decided to leave for Martial Emperor City at dawn to seek the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor.

Bai Xing traveled toward Martial Emperor City with Qiu Changqing and Liang Nanfeng, while the spread of the Bixie Manual continued to stir the martial world. In a tavern, Huang Jinyao hunted down its cultivators and clashed with Yao Qianshui, who sought revenge for his brother.

• Bai Xing restored the Yellow Dragon Sect disciples’ consciousness before leaving, and the elders stopped them from pursuing him and ordered the sect to seal its gates.
• Bai Xing, Qiu Changqing, and Liang Nanfeng entered Kanaya Prefecture and heard Old Zhang tell a tale about Li Huaiyi using the Bixie Manual to avenge his mother.
• A mustached diner offered a copy of the Bixie Manual, but a severed head identified as Li Huaiyi’s flew into the tavern and pinned the book to a table.
• Huang Jinyao entered, declared that anyone cultivating the Bixie Manual would die, and cut Li Huaiyi’s head and the manual into fragments.
• Yao Qianshui attacked Huang Jinyao and revealed that he wanted revenge for her killing his elder brother, Yao Wanchun; Huang Jinyao recognized him as a Bixie Manual cultivator and challenged him.

Bai Xing and his companions witnessed Yao Qianshui kill Huang Jinyao, and the Bixie Manual’s spread sparked a night of violent competition for copies. On the road afterward, Liang Nanfeng broke through to Magnetic Field Rotation but briefly lost control and attacked Qiu Changqing; she recovered with her new strength intact.

• Huang Jinyao attacked Yao Qianshui, but his speed and precise sword strikes overwhelmed her, and he killed her after a brutal fight.
• The witnessing martial artists fled to seek copies of the Bixie Manual, and their struggle for the scarce manuals brought violence and deaths to the town overnight.
• Bai Xing, Liang Nanfeng, and Qiu Changqing left town and continued traveling, while Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing remained quiet about the slaughter they had witnessed.
• As Liang Nanfeng reached Magnetic Field Rotation, uncontrollable killing intent overtook her, and she attacked Qiu Changqing with Hell’s Blade.
• Bai Xing recognized that Liang Nanfeng’s madness and martial arts were causing the outburst but chose not to intervene; Qiu Changqing eventually subdued her, and she discovered she had reached 40,000 Horsepower.

Qiu Changqing and Liang Nanfeng discovered that many disguised Bixie Manual cultivators had gathered in Kanaya Prefecture City, where the Huang Family was hunting them. Huang Xinrong sought the clan’s supreme treasure to kill Bai Xing, whose arrival she viewed as a chance to strike, while Huang Yan warned that the hunt could endanger the family.

• Qiu Changqing and Liang Nanfeng saw Yao Qianshui flayed and displayed alive above the gate of Kanaya Prefecture City.
• Bai Xing led his disciples into the city and stayed at Joyful Arrival Inn, where Qiu Changqing sensed at least a dozen disguised Bixie Manual cultivators.
• Qiu Changqing told Liang Nanfeng that the cultivators’ presence likely had something to do with the Huang Family, though the three planned to leave the next morning.
• Huang Yan rebuked Huang Xinrong for her aggressive hunt, warning that it had gathered enemies and Bixie Manual cultivators in the city.
• Huang Xinrong asked to use the Huang Family’s supreme treasure, saying Bai Xing had entered the city and urging Huang Yan to help her kill him.

Bai Xing defeated Huang Xinrong despite her using the Huang Family’s Seven Stars Shining on the World, then let her escape to draw out Ruan Zhuo. Huang Xinrong recalled that Ruan Zhuo had secretly begun cultivating the Bixie Manual after sacrificing his manhood, and she was soon surrounded by its practitioners.

• Huang Xinrong attacked Bai Xing with Seven Stars Shining on the World, splitting the Joyful Arrival Inn, but Bai Xing evaded her strikes.
• Huang Xinrong explained that the saber boosted her power by consuming her bloodline’s essence, and Bai Xing overwhelmed her with a punch.
• Bai Xing repeatedly beat Huang Xinrong to provoke Ruan Zhuo, but when Ruan Zhuo failed to appear, Bai Xing spared her after sensing Bixie Manual practitioners approaching.
• Huang Xinrong recalled discovering Ruan Zhuo secretly cultivating the Bixie Manual and explained that grief and hatred had driven her campaign against its practitioners.
• Wounded and fleeing, Huang Xinrong was surrounded by Bixie Manual practitioners who emerged from the darkness.

Huang Xinrong fought off the Bixie Manual cultivators who attacked her, but Ruan Zhuo arrived too late to save her from Bai Xing’s Hell Blade Deity. Huang Xinrong died protecting Ruan Zhuo, who escaped with Seven Stars Shining on the World while Bai Xing let him go.

• A group of Bixie Manual cultivators attacked the wounded Huang Xinrong, and she killed most of them before the six surviving Innate Realm experts cornered her.
• Ruan Zhuo appeared and killed the six attackers, then confronted Bai Xing, who blocked his sword with a finger.
• Ruan Zhuo unleashed his Limitless Sword Intent, but Bai Xing summoned the Hell Blade Deity to fight him.
• The Hell Blade Deity shattered Ruan Zhuo’s sword and wounded him, and Huang Xinrong blocked its fatal strike with her body.
• Huang Xinrong urged Ruan Zhuo to run and died, so he seized Seven Stars Shining on the World and escaped while Bai Xing dismissed the Hell Blade Deity and let him go.

Bai Xing’s group reached East Hedge City as the Red Heart Army and Lingnan Circuit forces clashed, then witnessed Yuchi Xiong use a public execution as bait for a rebel ambush. When the ambush began, Qiu Changqing tried to escape with Liang Nanfeng, but she charged in to protect civilians while the true experts had yet to appear.

• Qiu Changqing discovered that Red Heart Army raiders had driven villagers from their homes, and Bai Xing’s group continued toward the front lines.
• The group arrived in East Hedge City, where Yuchi Xiong returned with Black-Rank Pagoda cavalry and the captured rebel commander Wang Hengrong.
• Yuchi Xiong announced Wang Hengrong’s public execution, and Liang Nanfeng persuaded Qiu Changqing to watch.
• A rebel attack killed the executioner and triggered explosions, while Red Heart Army fighters slaughtered civilians in the crowd.
• Qiu Changqing killed a rebel with his Five Thunders Heaven-Shattering Fist and tried to leave with Liang Nanfeng.
• Liang Nanfeng broke away and attacked another rebel to protect the civilians, while Qiu Changqing realized the real experts had not yet entered the fight.

Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing fought the Red Heart Army’s rescue forces as Wang Henian clashed with Yuchi Xiong. After Wang Henian rescued Wang Hengrong and struck down their allies, a mysterious figure blocked his escape.

• Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing killed the rebels causing chaos, while eighteen black-clad Red Heart Army fighters broke onto the execution platform and freed Wang Hengrong.
• Wang Henian revealed himself as the Red Heart Army’s second marshal and Wang Hengrong’s father, then fought Yuchi Xiong.
• Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing helped the Black-Class Pagoda surround the Bixie Manual death warriors, killing several and leaving Wang Hengrong in danger.
• Wang Henian broke away from Yuchi Xiong, killed one deputy general, injured another, and devastated the Black-Class Pagoda formation with a sweeping attack.
• Wang Henian seized Wang Hengrong and prepared to flee, but a burly, cloaked figure appeared in his path and challenged him.

Bai Xing defeated Wang Henian, uncovered the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s ties to the Ancient Clans and their search for blessed lands, then tortured Wang Henian and investigated his strange bloodline. After leaving East Hedge City with Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing, Bai Xing entered Red Heart Army territory, where its leaders identified him as a Grandmaster and considered whether his arrival could point to a new blessed land.

• Bai Xing stopped Wang Henian from escaping, learned that the Heavenly Dao Alliance united six Ancient Clans, and heard how blessed lands aided breakthroughs to the Grandmaster realm.
• Bai Xing used God's Hand to turn Wang Henian inside out, discovered signs of an unusual bloodline, and killed Wang Hengrong while examining that power.
• The next morning, Bai Xing reassured Liang Nanfeng that he supported her choices and would protect his disciples, and the group traveled into Red Heart Army territory.
• Wu Kaiyuan demanded permission from Shan Yian to avenge Wang Henian, but Shan Yian told him Bai Xing was a Grandmaster and showed him the Bixie Manual.
• Shan Yian and Wu Kaiyuan concluded that the Heavenly Dao Alliance might send a Grandmaster to confront Bai Xing and investigate the possibility of an unknown blessed land.

Bai Xing let Qiu Changqing and Liang Nanfeng handle another group of martial artists who blamed him for spreading the Bixie Manual, then faced Shan Jing of the Qingyang Shan Clan and Chu Lingyun of the Six Fan Gate. After the two tried to recruit or pressure him, Bai Xing challenged them both to attack him together.

• A group of martial artists surrounded Bai Xing's carriage, and Qiu Changqing fought them while Liang Nanfeng watched.
• Bai Xing reflected on the strength he had gained from the Dragon-Elephant Fruit as the fight outside ended and his disciples disappeared.
• Shan Jing revealed himself, identified himself as an elder of the Qingyang Shan Clan, and demanded that Bai Xing disclose what he knew about blessed lands.
• Chu Lingyun, one of the Six Fan Gate's Four Great Constables, emerged from hiding, and Shan Jing warned Bai Xing that the court might arrest him.
• Bai Xing proposed that Shan Jing and Chu Lingyun settle their conflict by fighting, then challenged both grandmasters to attack him together.

Bai Xing fought Shan Jing and Chu Lingyun, studied their martial true auras, and defeated them both. After learning the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor was Prince Wu'an, he killed Chu Lingyun and set his sights on Martial Emperor City.

• Bai Xing attacked Shan Jing and Chu Lingyun, then fought them after they joined forces and unleashed their martial true auras.
• Bai Xing summoned the Hell Blade Deity, which Shan Jing and Chu Lingyun defeated together while Bai Xing observed their techniques.
• Bai Xing destroyed Shan Jing's Long-Armed Spirit Ape and defeated Shan Jing's final assault with Nuclear Explosion Fist.
• Bai Xing stopped Chu Lingyun from escaping, and Chu Lingyun revealed that the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor was the reigning Prince Wu'an.
• Bai Xing killed Chu Lingyun with a 600,000 Horsepower Hell Demon Blade and decided to seek out the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor.

Bai Xing’s group learned that Ji Rushuang’s martial arts tournament for marriage was drawing martial artists to Martial Emperor City, while Bai Xing became interested in the vanished Corpse Immortal Cult. After witnessing a deadly street fight, Bai Xing ordered Qiu Changqing to enter the tournament and win first place.

• Qiu Changqing learned from Yaksha Luo that Ji Yunfeng had announced a martial arts tournament for marriage for his daughter, Ji Rushuang, and explained the Ji family’s history to Bai Xing and Liang Nanfeng.
• Bai Xing asked Qiu Changqing about the Corpse Immortal Cult after hearing that Mu Qingyao had fought them, and Qiu Changqing described their past defeat and disappearance.
• A green-robed swordsman killed the bald man who mocked him and several bystanders before Hai Yun intervened and effortlessly repelled his attacks.
• After the swordsman fled, Liang Nanfeng asked Qiu Changqing about the marriage tournament, and Bai Xing instructed Qiu Changqing to enter and win first place, leaving Liang Nanfeng stunned.

Qiu Changqing advanced to the tournament’s top ten, survived an attempt to poison him, and faced Yun Moran in the match to determine the top five. After being wounded, he healed himself with Magnetic Force and turned the fight around, but their final clash remained undecided.

• Bai Xing, Qiu Changqing, and Liang Nanfeng arrived in Martial Emperor City, where Qiu registered for Ji Rushuang’s marriage tournament and Bai Xing tried to encourage the young pair’s feelings.
• Qiu entered the top ten, while Hai Yun also drew attention as a mysterious and formidable contender; at the celebration banquet, opponents secretly poisoned Qiu’s wine, and Liang Nanfeng retaliated with delayed blade qi.
• Liang Nanfeng confronted Qiu about continuing the tournament and marrying Ji Rushuang, but he insisted on carrying out Bai Xing’s task; Bai Xing watched their exchange from beside the pond.
• Qiu drew Yun Moran, a direct disciple of the Lingnan Blade Demon who wielded the saber-sword Raging Tide, and the two began a fierce match for a place in the top five.
• Yun Moran wounded Qiu, but Qiu used Magnetic Field Rotation to heal himself and restore his clothes, then disrupted Yun Moran with lightning and the Heavenly Heart Lightning Chain.
• Qiu and Yun Moran unleashed their strongest techniques in a final clash as the other arenas concluded and the crowd, including Martial Emperor City’s Ten Great Protectors, watched their still-unresolved battle.

Qiu Changqing learned that the marriage contest was meant to thwart the Kunshan Long Clan’s pressure on Martial Emperor City, and agreed to help Yun Moran eliminate Long Xiaofei. Ji Yunhai returned to protect his niece, while Bai Xing began planning; the contest’s final stage then started with Qiu Changqing drawing a bye.

• Yun Moran lost to Qiu Changqing after a prolonged battle and admitted he had failed to eliminate Long Xiaofei as agreed.
• Yun Moran told Qiu Changqing that Long Xiaofei belonged to the Kunshan Long Clan and that the clan was using the marriage proposal to test Martial Emperor City; Qiu Changqing agreed to help defeat him.
• The Ten Great Protectors set out to kill Qiu Changqing, but Ji Yunhai stopped them and announced he would compete to protect Ji Rushuang and handle the Long Clan himself.
• Qiu Changqing reported what he had learned to Liang Nanfeng and Bai Xing, and Bai Xing devised a plan.
• At the final stage of the contest, Qiu Changqing drew a bye and stayed to study Hai Yun and Long Xiaofei, the opponents he considered most important.

As Qiu Changqing left to pursue Liang Nanfeng, Bai Xing disguised himself as Qiu and entered the final match, where he killed Long Xiaofei and revealed Ji Yunhai’s identity. The two Grandmasters began fighting inside Martial Emperor City’s protective formation, and Ji Yunhai brought out more of the Dao-Evolving Martial Canon as the battle continued.

• Qiu Changqing accepted Bai Xing’s advice to follow his feelings and left to find Liang Nanfeng, while Bai Xing disguised himself as Qiu Changqing.
• Bai Xing entered the final match, struck Long Xiaofei with a single force blast, and reduced him to ashes.
• Ji Yunhai recognized that Bai Xing was not Qiu Changqing, and the two agreed to fight after Bai Xing exposed Ji Yunhai’s identity.
• Ji Yunhai and Bai Xing exchanged powerful attacks, prompting Ji Yunfeng to activate the Origin-Calming Calamity-Transforming Formation around the arena.
• Ji Yunhai used the Nameless Volume’s formless sword energy and the Blamelessness Volume’s evasive movement, while Bai Xing countered with his Alloy Battle Body and Hell Demon Blade.

Liang Nanfeng and Qiu Changqing reunited beneath the moon while Bai Xing battled Ji Yunhai in Martial Emperor City. Ji Yunhai revealed his Grandmaster power and three Celestial Dippers, but Bai Xing answered with three Hell Blade Deities and unleashed a 500,000-horsepower Nuclear Explosion Fist as the arena’s formation neared collapse.

• Qiu Changqing found Liang Nanfeng by following his feelings, embraced her, and the two reconciled beneath the moon.
• Bai Xing overwhelmed Ji Yunhai with powerful punches, but Ji Yunhai recovered using an art from the Xuan Pin Scroll and continued fighting.
• Ji Yunhai summoned three Celestial Dippers, revealed his identity, and challenged Bai Xing to a decisive battle.
• Bai Xing shed his disguise and summoned three Hell Blade Deities to fight Ji Yunhai’s Celestial Dippers.
• Ji Yunfeng ordered ten Protectors to reinforce the trembling formation while Bai Xing unleashed his 500,000-horsepower Nuclear Explosion Fist.

Bai Xing defeated Ji Yunhai and Ji Yunfeng in the martial contest, and Ji Rushuang agreed to marry him to prevent Martial Emperor City’s crisis from worsening. Bai Xing demanded the City Lord’s position, which Ji Yunfeng surrendered, leaving Bai Xing in control while the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor remained absent.

• Bai Xing overwhelmed Ji Yunhai and fought Ji Yunfeng after the brothers accused him of breaking the tournament rules.
• Spectators helped the Ten Guardians maintain the formation as Bai Xing drove the two brothers to the brink of defeat.
• Ji Rushuang stopped the battle, declared Bai Xing the contest’s victor, and said she would marry him.
• Bai Xing agreed to marry Ji Rushuang only if he became City Lord, and Ji Yunfeng publicly relinquished the position to him.
• Bai Xing decided to stay in Martial Emperor City and investigate combining Martial Dao True Aura with Tangible Force while the Northern Heaven Martial Emperor remained unseen.