Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xie killed the Myriad Heroes Gang members pursuing Ding Shaying and invited her to rest with him and Xuan Er. After learning that Ding Shaping carried powerful energy within him, Xiao Xie left the reason for the gang’s pursuit unresolved.

• Xiao Xie offered roast chicken to hungry Xuan Er, who heard someone approaching through the forest.
• Ding Shaying emerged carrying the unconscious Ding Shaping, pursued by Myriad Heroes Gang members demanding the Ghost Meridian Art.
• Xuan Er objected to the gang members attacking Ding Shaying, and Xiao Xie killed them with Conqueror’s Haki and infrasound.
• Ding Shaying recognized that Xiao Xie had killed her pursuers and joined him and Xuan Er.
• Xiao Xie sensed powerful energy inside Ding Shaping, and Xuan Er asked Ding Shaying why the gang had chased her.

After learning that the Myriad Heroes Gang massacred Dragon's Roar Manor over the Ghost Meridian Art, Xiao Xie discovered that Ding Shaping had been injected with the technique's Supreme Yin Energy. He removed the energy from Ding Shaping and began refining it into an elixir, while Jia Xuan and Ding Shaying stood guard.

• Ding Shaying told Jia Xuan that the Myriad Heroes Gang had attacked Dragon's Roar Manor in search of the Ghost Meridian Art, and the two women recognized their families' connection through Ding Hong and Jia Zizhi.
• Jia Xuan explained that Chou Ren Jiu had destroyed Tiger Howl Hall, and Ding Shaying revealed that Chou Ren Jiu had ignored her father's plea for help despite being his sworn brother.
• Xiao Xie explained that the Ghost Meridian Art required Supreme Yin Energy to fuse with a boy for forty-nine days before its practitioner could consume him, and Ding Shaying realized the mysterious man had used Ding Shaping for this purpose.
• Xiao Xie took Jia Xuan, Ding Shaying, and Ding Shaping to Come Again Inn, where he sealed the Supreme Yin Energy inside a Spirit Sealing Talisman and kept Ding Shaping asleep.
• Xiao Xie entered the Worship Space, placed the talisman in the Elixir Refining Furnace, and spent one hundred thousand Points to refine an elixir.

Xiao Xie refined the Supreme Yin Pill and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage before helping Ding Shaying and Ding Shaping recover and persuading them to stay with the group. Outside Gu Yang City, four Yuling Group Spirit Handlers intercepted Chou Ren Jiu, while Beigong Chu rushed to provoke him and disrupt the others’ formation.

• Xiao Xie swallowed the Supreme Yin Pill and used the Devouring Heaven and Earth Art to advance from the Qi Refining Middle Stage to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Xiao Xie released Ding Shaping from the Sleep Acupoint, and Ding Shaying reunited with her awakened brother.
• Xiao Xie and Jia Xuan persuaded Ding Shaying to stay because the Myriad Heroes Gang might still pursue Ding Shaping.
• Xiao Xie and Jia Xuan followed Chou Ren Jiu and the Yuling Group pursuers outside Gu Yang City.
• Liang Yuan warned Tu Wei and the others that Chou Ren Jiu had seventeen years of spirit wishes, but Beigong Chu charged at him to provoke him and disrupt their formation.

Xiao Xie used his Conqueror's Haki to help Chou Ren Jiu kill Beigong Chu, then arrived just in time to save Zuoqiuning and Miao Qiao. After killing Chou Ren Jiu, Xiao Xie healed the women and introduced himself, leaving them alive but mourning their dead companions.

• Xiao Xie used Conqueror's Haki to freeze Beigong Chu, allowing Chou Ren Jiu to crush his head.
• Zuoqiuning and Miao Qiao attacked Chou Ren Jiu, but he knocked them down, then snapped Tu Wei's neck.
• Chou Ren Jiu moved to kill Zuoqiuning, but Xiao Xie appeared and kicked him away.
• Xiao Xie killed Chou Ren Jiu with a single strike and dismissed him as weak.
• Xiao Xie gave healing pills to Zuoqiuning and Miao Qiao, who thanked him and learned his name.

Xiao Xie avenged Tiger Howl Hall by killing Chou Ren Jiu and agreed to travel with the Yuling Group to Juying Mountain. The group buried Beigong Chu and Tu Wei and stopped at an inn as night fell.

• Xiao Xie reassured Miao Qiao and Jia Xuan after killing Chou Ren Jiu, and Jia Xuan clung to him while Zuoqiuning sensed her jealousy.
• Liang You reunited with Liang Yuan and eagerly befriended Xiao Xie, while Bai Li Dengfeng agreed to seek Master Hei Gong's help finding Ru Yan.
• Zuoqiuning and Miao Qiao invited Xiao Xie to join the Yuling Group, and he agreed to go to Juying Mountain while leaving the decision to join open.
• Xiao Xie and the others buried Beigong Chu and Tu Wei, then Miao Qiao suggested they spend the night at an inn.

Xiao Xie and his companions stopped at Cloud Joy Inn, where Lang Lixiang eyed Xiao Xie and Bai Li Dengfeng as potential targets. As the group ate, members of the Myriad Heroes Gang approached the inn to capture Ding Shaying and Ding Shaping.

• Xiao Xie booked the five remaining rooms at Cloud Joy Inn for his group, and Liang Yuan complained that he had carried Liang You most of the way.
• Lang Lixiang introduced herself as the inn's Boss Lady and secretly planned to entice Xiao Xie and Bai Li Dengfeng after night fell.
• Liang You asked Jia Xuan how she had met Xiao Xie, and Jia Xuan recounted how he had saved her twice.
• Xiao Xie's companions filled his bowl with food, while Jia Xuan and Zuoqiuning competed to feed him directly.
• Myriad Heroes Gang members crept toward Cloud Joy Inn under orders to capture Ding Shaying and Ding Shaping.

Xiao Xie saved Ding Shaying from killing the last Myriad Heroes Gang member immediately so he could learn who had exposed Dragon's Roar Manor's Ghost Meridian Art. The man identified a black-robed informant from the Yuling Group, and Xiao Xie turned toward Juying Mountain as Ding Shaying avenged her family.

• Xiao Xie killed the Myriad Heroes Gang members with a snort, leaving their minor leader alive.
• Ding Shaying tried to kill the surviving minor leader, but Xiao Xie stopped her and asked how the gang learned about the Ghost Meridian Art.
• Jia Xuan told Miao Qiao and the others about Dragon's Roar Manor and the Ghost Meridian Art.
• The minor leader said a black-robed member of the Yuling Group had informed the gang leader about the secret manual.
• Zuoqiuning suspected Jia Gu, and Xiao Xie let the minor leader go before Ding Shaying killed him from behind.
• Xiao Xie said they would have to go to Juying Mountain and asked Zuoqiuning and Miao Qiao who they suspected was the black-robed man.

Zuoqiuning suspected Jia Gu of Xingming Hall had orchestrated the recent deaths, and Xiao Xie prepared to travel to Juying Mountain despite expecting trouble. After Lang Lixiang entered Xiao Xie's room during the night, she emerged the next morning vowing revenge as Xiao Xie and the others departed.

• Zuoqiuning identified the black-robed man as likely Jia Gu and warned that Beigong Chu and Tu Wei's deaths might be connected to him.
• Miao Qiao said they needed to inform Master Hei Gong, while Xiao Xie warned that the journey to Juying Mountain might be dangerous.
• Xiao Xie told everyone to rest and prepare to leave for Juying Mountain at daybreak.
• Lang Lixiang entered Xiao Xie's room in the middle of the night and locked the door behind her.
• Xiao Xie left Cloud Joy Inn with the others the next morning, and Lang Lixiang emerged afterward, weakly vowing to avenge herself.

Jia Gu ambushed Xiao Xie and his companions to seize Ding Shaping, whom he believed was the Supreme Yin Boy. Xiao Xie easily wounded Jia Gu, leaving the attackers' assault on the others unresolved.

• Xiao Xie sensed killing intent, and Jia Gu and his subordinates emerged from the forest to attack the group.
• Jia Gu revealed that he wanted Ding Shaping for cultivating the Ghost Meridian Art and ordered his men to leave no survivors.
• Lan Kuan attacked Bai Li Dengfeng, Qian You attacked Miao Qiao, and Yuan Xiang and Ming Jiang charged at Zuoqiuning and the other women.
• Jia Gu attacked Xiao Xie, but Xiao Xie punched him away and severely wounded him.
• Jia Gu wondered whether Xiao Xie had cultivated the Ghost Meridian Art, and Xiao Xie denied it and called Jia Gu weak.

Xiao Xie helped Ding Shaying kill Jia Gu, then brought the survivors to Juying Mountain, where Master Hei Gong punished Jia Gu’s four accomplices. When Bai Li Dengfeng asked about his missing wife Ru Yan, Xiao Xie said he knew something about her whereabouts, leaving Bai Li eager for answers.

• Xiao Xie defeated Yuan Xiang and Ming Jiang, stopped the fighting, and let Ding Shaying kill Jia Gu in revenge for Dragon's Roar Manor.
• Xiao Xie and the others took Lan Kuan, Qian You, Ming Jiang, and Yuan Xiang to Juying Mountain and reported what had happened to Master Hei Gong.
• Master Hei Gong ordered Lan Kuan and the other three to reflect before a wall for one year, then thanked Xiao Xie for helping Miao Qiao and the others.
• Bai Li Dengfeng asked Master Hei Gong about his missing wife Ru Yan, and Xiao Xie said he knew a little about her whereabouts.

Xiao Xie revealed that Ru Yan was dead and that the woman Bai Li Dengfeng had seen was Master Li Ku’s spirit wish, then explained how Li Ku’s Extreme Spirit Wish had shaped the Yuling Group. He temporarily opened everyone’s Yin-Yang Eyes so they could see the spirits clinging to them, and the chapter ended with him sealing the spirit attached to Miao Qiao.

• Xiao Xie told Bai Li Dengfeng that Ru Yan was dead and that the Ru Yan at the Tongfu Escort Agency had been an impostor created by Master Li Ku’s Extreme Spirit Wish.
• Xiao Xie killed Bai Li Dengfeng, then explained that Bai Li Dengfeng would meet his spirit master and be resurrected because he had a Double Yang Body and was a Spirit Disciple of the Nether Lord.
• Xiao Xie told Master Hei Gong and the others that Master Li Ku had created the Extreme Spirit Wish three hundred years earlier and that it controlled Spirit Disciples within the Yuling Group.
• Xiao Xie used the Summoning Technique to open everyone’s Yin-Yang Eyes, revealing white-haired spirits clinging to the group and a female spirit beside Bai Li Dengfeng.
• Xiao Xie used a Spirit Sealing Talisman to seal the Extreme Spirit Wish clinging to Miao Qiao.

Xiao Xie subdued the Yuling Group after removing the Extreme Spirit Wishes from its members, and the group accepted him as their leader, the Flame Emperor. After settling at Juying Mountain, he sensed a trace of yin energy in the Back Mountain and called for whoever was hiding there to come out.

• Xiao Xie sealed the Extreme Spirit Wishes inside Zuoqiuning and the others, and Master Hei Gong said the group members felt clear-minded without them.
• Xiao Xie told Master Hei Gong he planned to subdue the Yuling Group, then defeated him in a brief clash of strength.
• Master Hei Gong accepted Xiao Xie as the Yuling Group’s leader, and the others saluted him as the Flame Emperor.
• Bai Li Dengfeng awoke and left after learning Jia Xuan’s true identity from Ru Yan, while Liang You wanted to comfort him and Liang Yuan stopped her.
• Xiao Xie and his group settled at Juying Mountain, where he later sensed yin energy in the Back Mountain and demanded that the hidden presence reveal itself.

Xiao Xie sealed Ding Shaping’s future spirit wish, then traveled to Rongwu Mountain to meet Kuang Lan and offered to remove the Supreme Nether Energy from her. Kuang Lan attacked him to test his claim, but could not touch him.

• Xiao Xie sealed the black-robed spirit wish after explaining that Ding Shaping’s survival meant the spirit wish no longer had reason to exist.
• Xiao Xie left Juying Mountain and headed for Rongwu Mountain while the Yuling Group’s Spirit Handlers and Scouting Hands remained away on missions.
• Kuang Lan berated her Four Great Vajra for failing to capture a bride who could replace her as a Yan Er Spirit Holder.
• Xiao Xie entered the hall, killed Quan Jinfeng with a ripple of power, and told Kuang Lan he could remove the Supreme Nether Energy from her body.
• Kuang Lan challenged Xiao Xie, but he evaded her rapid attacks so easily that she could not touch him.

Xiao Xie killed Kuang Lan, refined the Supreme Nether Energy into an elixir, and used it to reach the early Golden Core Stage. After leaving the Worship Space, he discovered that Rongwu Mountain was a High-Grade Magical Treasure.

• Xiao Xie sealed the Supreme Nether Energy inside Kuang Lan with a Spirit Sealing Talisman, ending her ability to revive and allowing her soul to reincarnate.
• Xiao Xie refined the Supreme Nether Energy into a Supreme Nether Elixir and swallowed it to gain soul-controlling and fatal-wound survival abilities.
• Xiao Xie spent three days devouring and refining the elixir's energy, condensing a black Golden Core and breaking through to the early Golden Core Stage.
• Xiao Xie left the Worship Space and discovered that Rongwu Mountain was a High-Grade Magical Treasure.

Xiao Xie discovered that Rongwu Mountain was a magical treasure and refined its core, Nili Hall, learning the mountain's history. He removed the mountain and warned the surviving bandits to abandon evil before leaving.

• Xiao Xie found Nili Hall at the core of Rongwu Mountain and asked Xiao Xiao how magical treasures existed in the world of Hua Jianghu.
• Xiao Xie cleared the bones from Nili Hall and spent an hour refining it, learning that a demonic cultivator had made Rongwu Mountain to imprison souls and create Ghost Soldiers.
• Xiao Xie flew above Rongwu Mountain and used his Magic Power to shrink it into a palm-sized mountain.
• The surviving bandits begged Xiao Xie for mercy, while Huo Guanglun and Lou Yingxiu reacted with shock and lust.
• Xiao Xie called himself the Flame Emperor, warned the surviving bandits to turn from evil, and left.

Xiao Xie led the Yuling Group in an assault on the Myriad Heroes Gang to establish the group’s reputation. He killed its leader Yu Wanxiong and began searching the gang’s treasure vault as his forces wiped out the remaining members.

• News of Xiao Xie's divine power spread, earning him followers and Worship Points.
• Xiao Xie gathered the Yuling Group, announced that they would destroy the Myriad Heroes Gang, and selected fifty Spirit Handlers and twenty Scouting Hands for the mission.
• Two days later, Xiao Xie and his group reached the gang’s gates, where Shan Yutong killed the guards.
• Xiao Xie found Yu Wanxiong in Gui You Valley and killed him and the tree spirit beside him with one blade strike.
• The Spirit Handlers slaughtered the remaining gang members while Xiao Xie used his divine sense to locate the Treasure Vault.

After the Yuling Group wiped out the Myriad Heroes Gang, the martial world’s major forces assessed the threat while Xiao Xie refined pills from the gang’s treasury. Xiao Xie ended with five Jiazi Pills and too few Points to buy more valuable herbs.

• News that the Yuling Group had exterminated the Myriad Heroes Gang spread, and Liang Shuai wondered why the group had acted and whether it would disrupt his plans.
• The Empress, the Nether Emperor, and Shendu took little interest in the Yuling Group, while the Zong Family, Mingfeng Pavilion, and Yulong Stronghold grew wary as their truce neared its end.
• Xiao Xie used rare herbs from the Myriad Heroes Gang’s treasury to refine healing pills and pills that increased internal energy.
• Xiao Xie found that he had made only five Jiazi Pills because thousand-year-old herbs were scarce, and he lacked enough Points to purchase more.

Xiao Xie stocked the Yuling Group’s Tasks Hall with pills and set their prices in Points. The hall’s members began organizing the new items, while its task system continued to guide members toward work suited to their strength.

• Xiao Xie visited the busy Tasks Hall, where Spirit Handlers and Scouting Hand members accepted tasks and traded Points for supplies.
• Xiao Xie presented Master Hei Gong with his newly refined pills and priced them, including the Jiazi Pill at one thousand Points.
• Master Hei Gong admitted the Jiazi Pill was costly but planned to buy one to help him advance from the Eighth Mountain to the Ninth Mountain.
• Master Hei Gong assigned Liang You, Sha Ying, Pingping, and Jia Xuan to sort the pills and place them on the shelves.
• The chapter explained that Tasks Hall work earned attendants thirty Points a month and that members could accept tasks only up to the level matching their cultivation.

Xiao Xie secretly gave Jia Xuan a Jiazi Pill and helped her refine its power, raising her cultivation from First Mountain to Fifth Mountain. Jia Xuan accepted the pill after interpreting Xiao Xie’s words as a confession, while Xiao Xie reflected on the martial world’s cultivation ranks and Liang Shuai’s likely immense strength.

• Xiao Xie left Master Hei Gong with the pills he had refined, and members of the Yuling Group gathered to inspect them.
• Xiao Xie visited Jia Xuan’s bedroom at night and gave her a Jiazi Pill he had set aside for her.
• Xiao Xie told Jia Xuan he had refined the pill especially for her, and she accepted it, believing his words were a confession.
• Jia Xuan swallowed the Jiazi Pill, and Xiao Xie helped her refine its medicinal power until her cultivation advanced from First Mountain to Fifth Mountain.
• Xiao Xie considered the cultivation ranks and estimated that Liang Shuai might have reached Tenth Mountain or even the Golden Core Stage.

Xiao Xie gave Jia Xuan martial arts manuals, a sword, and protective clothing after helping her refine the Jiazi Pill. Jia Xuan welcomed the gifts and prepared to learn the techniques.

• Xiao Xie helped Jia Xuan refine the Jiazi Pill, and Jia Xuan felt her inner energy surge.
• Xiao Xie gave Jia Xuan the Lightning Flash Divine Travel Step and Phantom Shadow Swordplay manuals and explained their abilities.
• Jia Xuan thanked Xiao Xie and accepted the Ice Fang Sword and a protective silver-white long dress.
• Xiao Xie explained that the sword could cut through iron and the dress could resist attacks below the Seventh Heaven.