Chapter Summaries

Dugu Feng, Wan Sihu, Ancestor Lei Ming, and Fairy Jinxi pursued the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram while Xiying stayed behind with Yan Sijing. Xiying revealed that the black-clad cultivator Dugu Feng had taken was the strongest and most dangerous person in the Asura Palace, and asked Yuan Ming to help her kill him; meanwhile, the four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators attacked the diagram together.

• Dugu Feng and the others broke through the wall’s restriction, but could not quickly penetrate the stone platform’s stronger restriction, so they split up and pursued the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, leaving Xiying and Yan Sijing behind.
• Xiying resealed the hole in the wall and called for Yuan Ming, who protected Yan Sijing from Xiying’s attempt to put her to sleep and sent her to the second floor to pray to the Nether Moon God.
• Xiying formed a barrier and told Yuan Ming that the black-clad cultivator Dugu Feng had taken was the strongest person in the Asura Palace and could have detected their communication.
• Xiying asked Yuan Ming to help her kill the black-clad cultivator, and Yuan Ming recognized that he was the man she meant.
• Wan Sihu, Dugu Feng, Ancestor Lei Ming, and Fairy Jinxi caught up with the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram and launched a joint assault, rapidly shrinking its protective blood mist.

The Black Clad Cultivator struck the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram with the Black Key, weakening it and turning the battle against the Blood Skeleton and Red Clad Woman. As the four cultivators pressed their advantage, Yuan Ming overheard the Artifact Spirit blame the blood corpses for wasting the diagram’s Blood Source Power, while the Red Clad Woman and Blood Skeleton argued about their past.

• The Blood Skeleton summoned the Blood River Illusory True Formation, trapping Dugu Feng, Ancestor Lei Ming, and Fairy Jinxi in a stalemate with their own phantoms, while the Red Clad Woman’s blood sea strained Wan Sihu’s Golden Sword Array.
• The Asura Blood Devouring Diagram absorbed the Golden Sword Array’s attacks and began pulling in its nine flying swords, but the Black Clad Cultivator struck it with the Black Key and disrupted its power.
• Wan Sihu attacked the blood phantoms, and Fairy Jinxi sealed them with Golden Lotus Spirit Sealing Talismans as Dugu Feng and the others turned on the Blood Skeleton.
• Wan Sihu and the others forced the weakened Blood Skeleton, Red Clad Woman, and diagram onto the defensive, while he urged the Artifact Spirit to leave the Asura Palace with him.
• Yuan Ming, possessing the Red Clad Woman, overheard her ask the Artifact Spirit what to do after the Blood Source Power ran low; the Artifact Spirit blamed her for secretly consuming its reserves and berated the Blood Skeleton for losing its Blood River Pearl.
• The Red Clad Woman and Blood Skeleton complained about their years of confinement and each other until the Artifact Spirit angrily ordered them both to be quiet.

Yuan Ming watched as the Black Desert Rogue Alliance’s plan to seize the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram unfolded amid a battle with Wan Sihu. Wan Sihu survived repeated attacks and damaged the sealed diagram with a self-detonating sword, leaving the treasure cracked and the confrontation unresolved.

• The Blood Skeleton, Red Clad Woman, and Artifact Spirit agreed to surrender, but Dugu Feng suddenly stabbed Wan Sihu with a white sword and revealed himself as Jing Wusan.
• Wan Sihu survived Dugu Feng’s attack using a Death Substitution Incarnation, then restarted his Blazing Sun Sword Array as Dugu Feng withdrew.
• Wan Sihu screamed in agony and his sword array collapsed, allowing the Black Clad Cultivator to seal the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram with the Black Key.
• The Black Clad Cultivator revealed that he had planted a Soul Leech in Wan Sihu and struck him with a Black Giant Palm, but Wan Sihu escaped another fatal blow with a second Death Substitution Incarnation.
• Wan Sihu suppressed the Soul Leech with a white talisman, reached the diagram, and threatened to destroy it with his flying swords.
• Wan Sihu detonated one Blazing Sun Sword, and the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram reappeared with a scorched, cracked corner.

Yuan Ming witnessed the black clad cultivator kill Wan Sihu and learned that the mysterious man could manipulate his victims' desires. Ancestor Lei Ming and Fairy Jinxi realized they had been lured back to the Asura residence, where Lei Ming demanded to know what the cultivator wanted.

• Wan Sihu's flying swords exploded in a Blazing Sun Sword attack, but the black clad cultivator caught and destroyed his fleeing Nascent Soul with Silver Worms.
• Yuan Ming returned to his body after Black Incense's possession ended and told Xi Ying that Wan Sihu had died at the black clad cultivator's hands.
• Ancestor Lei Ming fled, while Fairy Jinxi protected herself with the Brilliant Gold Scroll after the black clad cultivator's voice filled their minds with desire.
• Fairy Jinxi's desire to remain at Asura Palace and Lei Ming's ambition to defeat the soul cultivator turned both of them around and sent them back.
• The desires vanished when they reached the black clad cultivator, and Lei Ming angrily demanded to know who he was and what he wanted.

Six Desires Venerable revealed himself and threatened Ancestor Lei Ming and Fairy Jinxi with soul leeches. Xi Ying explained to Yuan Ming how Six Desires survived and why he had come for the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, then asked him to help kill the Venerable at Asura Palace.

• Six Desires Venerable revealed his identity to Ancestor Lei Ming and Fairy Jinxi, recalled his ancient feud with Asura Venerable, and offered to spare them if they became his soul slaves.
• Yuan Ming told Xi Ying what he had learned in the Dream of All Beings, including Six Desires Venerable's role in the Chaotian Sect's destruction.
• Xi Ying explained that Six Desires Venerable survived by separating his divine soul from his body with the Six Desires Severing Love Great Method and replenishing his soul power by devouring cultivators.
• Xi Ying admitted that she had alerted Six Desires Venerable to Asura Palace's appearance to draw him there for the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram.
• Yuan Ming agreed to help Xi Ying kill Six Desires Venerable, though he worried that his own soul-cultivation level was too low.
• Xi Ying said she had a trump card and that others in the cave residence also wanted Six Desires Venerable dead.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying entered the Asura Palace’s fourth floor, where Yuan Ming discovered the Asura Stone Tablet and met Asura Venerable through the Blood Spirit Talisman. After Yuan Ming swore to explore overseas and help kill Six Desires Venerable, Asura Venerable revealed the inheritance’s secrets and taught him how to refine the tablet; Yuan Ming began the refinement.

• Xi Ying postponed explaining her connection to the Wuyue Cult until after Six Desires Venerable was dead.
• Yuan Ming used the Blood Spirit Talisman to break the light gate’s restriction, and he and Xi Ying entered a hall containing the Asura Stone Tablet.
• The Blood Spirit Talisman brought Yuan Ming into a mysterious space, where he spoke with Asura Venerable and learned that Six Desires Venerable had obtained the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram.
• Asura Venerable required Yuan Ming to swear upon his Dao heart that he would explore overseas upon reaching the Void Return Stage and to help kill Six Desires Venerable as proof of his strength.
• Asura Venerable explained the three parts of his inheritance and passed Yuan Ming the secret art for refining the Asura Stone Tablet.
• Yuan Ming returned to the hall, quickly understood the secret art, and began refining the tablet.

Yuan Ming used the Blood Spirit Talisman to refine Asura Palace’s restrictions and trapped Six Desires Venerable’s group in a white mist formation. Six Desires Venerable discovered the mist’s soul-dulling effect, forced the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram’s Artifact Spirit to guide him, and emerged with his companions before the black tower.

• Yuan Ming refined one-tenth of Asura Palace’s restrictions and activated them after seeing Six Desires Venerable lead Dugu Feng, Ancestor Lei Ming, and Fairy Jinxi toward the black tower.
• Six Desires Venerable’s group entered spreading white mist that turned them around repeatedly and concealed their surroundings.
• Six Desires Venerable recognized that the mist caused drowsiness by fatiguing the soul and realized the Artifact Spirit had deceived him.
• Six Desires Venerable trapped the Artifact Spirit in an illusion, then restored it and demanded that it reveal how to escape.
• The Artifact Spirit guided Six Desires Venerable and his companions out of the white mist, and they returned before the black tower.

Xi Ying and Yuan Ming prepared to ambush Six Desires Venerable with Ni Mu’s help while Yuan Ming hid Yan Sijing on the tower’s fourth floor. Six Desires Venerable forced Ni Mu to join him, then used soul leeches to open the light gate to the fourth floor.

• Ni Mu and his siblings followed Xi Ying’s guidance through the mist toward the black tower, while Ni Mu warned that he would only attack Six Desires if victory seemed assured.
• Xi Ying told Yuan Ming that Ni Mu was a Nascent Soul Mid Stage Peak cultivator who wanted Six Desires dead because the Venerable had suppressed him and coveted his body.
• Yuan Ming brought Yan Sijing through the light gate to the fourth floor and gave her a Spirit Beast Bag containing Flower Branch and King Kong.
• Six Desires Venerable found Yan Sijing missing and failed to open the hidden light gate with the Black Key.
• Ni Mu arrived with Wu Yuezhi and his other sibling, but Six Desires Venerable ordered him to stay and made him accept a soul leech.
• Six Desires Venerable sent two soul leeches into the stone platform, overcame its resistance, and opened the white light gate.

Yuan Ming concealed himself as Six Desires Venerable and his followers entered the black tower and were transported to a three-way trial. In the Netherworld Realm, Ancestor Lei Ming’s old injury flared up, and he took Yan Sijing to a hidden pit to harvest her essence.

• Xi Ying distracted Six Desires Venerable with a false account while Yuan Ming activated the black tower’s restrictions and concealed himself.
• The group was transported to a grassland with paths leading to the Cold Martial Realm, Extreme Fire Realm, and Netherworld Realm, and Six Desires Venerable ordered them to scout each route.
• Ni Mu led Wu Yuezhi and another man toward the Cold Martial Realm, Dugu Feng took Xi Ying toward the Extreme Fire Realm, and Ancestor Lei Ming led Yan Sijing toward the Netherworld Realm with Fairy Jinxi following.
• Ancestor Lei Ming and Fairy Jinxi fought through the Netherworld Realm’s black mist and Ghostly Entities until Lei Ming’s old injury flared up.
• Ancestor Lei Ming took Yan Sijing to a sealed pit, intending to use her essence to suppress his injury.

Yuan Ming used Yan Sijing, Flower Branch, King Kong, and the Ghostly Entities to ambush and kill Ancestor Lei Ming, while hiding his involvement from Six Desires Venerable. After Fairy Jinxi arrived to investigate, Yuan Ming confirmed that the Silver Token blocked the soul leeches and left with greater confidence in his next moves.

• Yuan Ming activated the Soul Annihilation Sword’s Curse Rune through Flower Branch’s attack, weakening Ancestor Lei Ming but suffering severe backlash to his soul.
• King Kong and the Ghostly Entities attacked Ancestor Lei Ming, and Yuan Ming trapped his fleeing soul with Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi and a Silver Token barrier.
• Six Desires Venerable learned through a soul leech that Ancestor Lei Ming had been killed and ordered Fairy Jinxi to investigate the hidden attacker.
• Yan Sijing rejected Ancestor Lei Ming’s pleas, destroyed his soul with a lightning art, and escaped with King Kong before Fairy Jinxi arrived.
• Yuan Ming observed that the Silver Token had blocked Six Desires Venerable’s soul leech and confirmed that he had completely refined the cyan stele.

Yuan Ming and Xiao Ying trapped Dugu Feng in the Extreme Fire Realm and weakened him with curses and illusions. Xiao Ying killed him with the Golden Dragon Shears, leaving Yuan Ming surprised by the treasure’s power.

• Dugu Feng and Xiao Ying reached a square between two palaces, where Yan Sijing appeared and claimed she had come to kill him under Asura Venerable’s orders.
• Yuan Ming activated the square’s fire restrictions and Soul Crows, but Dugu Feng resisted the attacks and nearly killed Yan Sijing with his white sword.
• Yuan Ming cursed Dugu Feng and used Emotional Stirring and the Crow Formation to leave him trapped in an illusion.
• Xiao Ying rose and attacked Dugu Feng with the Golden Dragon Shears, but Six Desires Venerable’s soul leech briefly took control of him and let him evade.
• Yan Sijing used the Silver Token to block the soul leech, while King Kong and Xiao Ying’s attacks forced Dugu Feng back.
• Xiao Ying’s Golden Dragon Shears split into two golden dragons, shattered Dugu Feng’s Black and White Twin Swords, and cut him in half.

Xi Ying and Yuan Ming defeated Dugu Feng, but the Nili Divine Eye nearly overcame them, and Yuan Ming collapsed after using the Soul Annihilation Sword to save Xi Ying. Xi Ying entered the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and began sending her soul power into Yuan Ming’s consciousness to stabilize his crumbling soul.

• Xi Ying used soul threads to restrain Dugu Feng’s nascent soul and search the soul leech for the Six Desires Venerable’s memories.
• The soul leech revealed the Nili Divine Eye and sent black light into Xi Ying and Yuan Ming, immobilizing Xi Ying and corroding Yuan Ming’s consciousness.
• Yuan Ming struck the soul leech with the Soul Annihilation Sword’s Curse Runes, destroying it and shattering Dugu Feng’s soul; Xi Ying’s blackened face then recovered.
• Xi Ying found that Yuan Ming’s soul was near collapse and entered the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron after he used his last mana to bring her inside.
• Xi Ying pressed her forehead to Yuan Ming’s and sent countless fine soul threads into his sea of consciousness.

Yuan Ming woke with his soul fully healed after Xiao Ying used a secret art, but she refused to teach it to him. Meanwhile, Six Desires Venerable suspected a plot against him and attacked Yan Sijing, stopping Yuan Ming from teleporting her away.

• Yuan Ming awoke inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and discovered his soul had recovered and reached the mid-stage Love Witch level.
• Xiao Ying said she had used a secret soul cultivation art to heal Yuan Ming, then refused to teach it to him.
• Six Desires Venerable realized someone had severed his connection to Dugu Feng and feared the Silver Token could cause a rival version of him to emerge.
• Six Desires Venerable suspected the Wuyue Cult had cultivated a Sleep Witch to kill him and demanded to know why Ni Mu had come to the Black Wind Desert.
• Yan Sijing appeared, and her curse weakened Six Desires Venerable to the Nascent Soul Early Stage, prompting him to attack her.
• Yuan Ming teleported Yan Sijing away once, but Six Desires Venerable pursued her and used a silver rope to prevent his next teleport from moving her.

Yuan Ming rescued Yan Sijing from Six Desires Venerable, who then split off a divine soul incarnation and confronted Ni Mu, Wu Yuezhi, and the glamorous woman. The three attacked him with Gu Worms and celestial formations, but Six Desires Venerable reversed Wu Yuezhi’s chessboard technique, leaving the others under an apparent influence as Ni Mu called for them to use Calming Heart Talismans.

• Six Desires Venerable captured Yan Sijing with a silver spatial rope, but Yuan Ming’s lightning barrier and curse broke it, allowing Yuan Ming to teleport her away with a severed remnant.
• Six Desires Venerable sensed that Yan Sijing had vanished toward the Extreme Fire Realm and decided to kill Ni Mu and the other two after they failed to help him.
• Ni Mu severed the Soul Leech’s connection with a talisman, and Six Desires Venerable sent a divine soul incarnation after Yan Sijing while his physical body attacked the three.
• The glamorous woman activated her butterfly Gu to accelerate the insect eggs inside Six Desires Venerable, while Wu Yuezhi and Ni Mu trapped him with the Heavenly Star Chessboard and Dragon Phoenix Bronze Mirror.
• Six Desires Venerable altered the chessboard’s pieces, broke the chains, and reversed the meteors; Ni Mu warned Wu Yuezhi and the glamorous woman to use their Calming Heart Talismans as they turned hostile toward him.

Six Desires Venerable pursued Yuan Ming while his physical body fought Ni Mu and the others, and Yuan Ming tried to keep his separated soul from rejoining them. Six Desires Venerable escaped a teleportation trap by splitting into soul leeches, some of which vanished without a trace.

• Six Desires Venerable used an illusion to turn Wu Yuezhi and the glamorous woman against Ni Mu, who prepared to fight them.
• Yuan Ming reunited with Yan Sijing and Xi Ying in the Extreme Fire Realm, where Flower Branch appeared in human form and took the Silver Vine to analyze its abilities.
• Yuan Ming learned that Six Desires Venerable’s soul body was rapidly approaching, and he and Xi Ying hid with Yan Sijing in the Netherworld Realm.
• Six Desires Venerable tracked them using the Wuyue Cult’s Ancient Shadow Soul Seeking Technique, but Yuan Ming concealed himself and Xi Ying in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming used the Asura Stone Tablet to try to teleport Six Desires Venerable’s soul toward Yindu City, but Six Desires Venerable split into silver soul leeches and escaped in scattered fragments.
• Yuan Ming searched for the escaped soul leeches, but the ones that had appeared in Yindu City also disappeared.

Yuan Ming searched for Six Desires Venerable and discovered that he was underground beside a Void Crystal, trying to extract it with help from a Silver-Robed Man. Yuan Ming attacked the man, who abandoned the crystal and fled into the void.

• Xiao Ying told Yuan Ming that Sleep Shamans could force enemies to sleep and kill them within controlled dreams.
• Yuan Ming subdued the Three-Eyed Crow and sent it and Yan Sijing to scout through their faith anchors, but they found no sign of Six Desires Venerable.
• Flower Branch reported that the Silver Vine could control spatial power and interfere with Asura Palace's teleportation restrictions, while Xiao Ying suggested it had carried away the soul leeches.
• When the Asura Stone Tablet's teleportation restrictions failed, Yuan Ming used its scouting restrictions to detect unusual activity near the black tower and traveled there with Xiao Ying aboard her Kunpeng Flying Chariot.
• Yuan Ming found Six Desires Venerable and the Silver-Robed Man underground beside Asura Venerable's Blood Coffin and a Void Crystal, which they were trying to detach from Asura Palace.
• Yuan Ming activated the Soul Annihilation Sword's Curse Rune against the Silver-Robed Man, weakening him; the man gave up extracting the crystal and escaped into the void.

Xi Ying fought Six Desires Venerable with the Soul Suppressing Pot while Yuan Ming helped stabilize her soul and struck through the Three-Eyed Crow. After Xi Ying weakened him with the flute, Six Desires Venerable froze as his soul power continued to decline.

• The Silver-Robed Man fled into the void, and Six Desires Venerable broke through the ground to attack Xi Ying and Yan Sijing.
• Six Desires Venerable’s silver halo put Yan Sijing to sleep and weakened Xi Ying, but Xi Ying used the Soul Suppressing Pot to empower herself and resist his Black Giant Palm.
• Six Desires Venerable’s power of the six desires disrupted Xi Ying until Yuan Ming reached her through the Three-Eyed Crow and helped restore her soul.
• Xi Ying turned the Soul Suppressing Pot against Six Desires Venerable, while Yuan Ming struck him with the Curse Rune and reduced his soul power.
• Xi Ying’s Three-Legged Golden Crow destroyed a soul leech with Golden Flames, and Six Desires Venerable sent the remaining leeches after the pot and the Three-Eyed Crow.
• Xi Ying played a black iron flute, causing Six Desires Venerable to freeze as black qi spilled from him and his soul power declined.

Yuan Ming and Yuying destroyed Six Desires Venerable’s soul using the Nightmare Demon Flute, the Asura Palace’s restrictions, and several lightning attacks. They then hunted down a soul leech hidden in the Void Stone, sealed the palace, and discovered Ni Mu was fighting his controlled subordinates, though Yuying believed he could handle them himself.

• Yuying used the Nightmare Demon Flute to weaken and control Six Desires Venerable, while Yuan Ming trapped him inside the silver barrier.
• Yuying cut Six Desires Venerable’s body apart, and she and Yuan Ming obliterated his scattered soul and the two soul leeches with lightning.
• Yuying explained that Asura Venerable had prepared a lightning talisman to help her and that the flute worked only on souls already injured.
• Yuying used a tracking disk to locate Six Desires Venerable’s soul leeches, and her fire phoenix burned one hidden inside the Void Stone.
• Yuan Ming regained control of the Asura Palace’s restrictions and sealed the space against escape.
• Yuan Ming found Ni Mu besieged by his controlled subordinates, but Yuying said Ni Mu had a hidden trump card, so they did not intervene.

Ni Mu broke through Wu Yuezhi and the glamorous woman's siege, then used the Dust Assimilation Puppet to kill the Six Desires Venerable. He narrowly escaped being assimilated by the puppet, and Wu Yuezhi and the woman rescued him with talismans.

• Ni Mu defended against Wu Yuezhi's meteors and the glamorous woman's poisonous insects and wind attacks while waiting for an opening against the Six Desires Venerable.
• When the Six Desires Venerable was distracted by the death of his main soul, Ni Mu used the Thousand Illusions Mirror to immobilize Wu Yuezhi and the woman, then charged at him in the Dust Assimilation Puppet's golden armor.
• The Six Desires Venerable's violet flames and soul power turned to golden iron on contact with Ni Mu, who punched his opponent's head apart and killed him.
• Ni Mu released Wu Yuezhi and the woman from the mirror's restraint, but they realized the puppet was assimilating him and used talismans to save him.
• Ni Mu said he planned to use the Spirit God Pill to reach the Nascent Soul Late Stage and gain control of the puppet, while Wu Yuezhi warned him about the risk.

The Silver-Robed Man hunted rogue cultivators in Yindu City to accelerate Six Desires Venerable’s revival. After awakening, Six Desires learned that his soul leeches were being destroyed and ordered Yinkong to open a path out of Asura Palace.

• Fang Hongru tried to bluff his pursuers with a fake secret technique, but the Silver-Robed Man killed him and captured the three men chasing him.
• The Silver-Robed Man fed the four cultivators’ souls to a soul leech and continued hunting, while discovering that space in Yindu City had become difficult to tear open.
• The Silver-Robed Man slaughtered nearly all the rogue cultivators in the city, allowing the soul leech to grow and revive Six Desires Venerable.
• Six Desires Venerable realized that Xiao Ying had been destroying his hidden soul leeches and urgently ordered Yinkong to help him escape.
• Yinkong transformed into a towering silver tree and used Spatial Power to open a stable rift through which Six Desires Venerable could almost escape.