Chapter Summaries

Su Yi demanded that Wen Lingzhao settle their marriage contract, but she refused and left, insisting she would resolve it herself. At Heavenly Origin Academy, Xiang Ming and the other disciples turned against Su Yi until Zheng Muyao defended him, and Su Yi agreed to face them in a series of duels with the loser kneeling to repent.

• Wen Lingzhao grew furious at Su Yi's demand and left, saying she would resolve the marriage herself rather than rely on his contract.
• Xiang Ming and the academy disciples confronted Su Yi and demanded that he apologize to Wen Lingzhao.
• Zheng Muyao called Su Yi her uncle and warned the crowd not to disrespect him.
• Xiang Ming encouraged the disciples to press Su Yi for an apology, while Hu Jiao challenged him to fight.
• Su Yi proposed that anyone who lost to him kneel and repent, then invited the whole group, including Xiang Ming, to take him on.
• Hu Jiao introduced himself as an inner disciple of Heavenly Origin Academy's Star Cluster Courtyard and requested Su Yi's guidance.

Su Yi defeated Hu Jiao and Meng Tuo with effortless ease, then overwhelmed more than ten Heavenly Origin Academy Inner Sect Disciples who attacked together. With Xiang Ming left standing alone, Su Yi challenged him to keep the promised spar.

• Hu Jiao attacked Su Yi with the Star Tempering Fist, but Su Yi struck him to his knees and shattered his kneecaps.
• Su Yi invited another challenger, and Meng Tuo stepped forward; Su Yi disarmed him with a flick of his finger and forced him to his knees.
• Zheng Muyao urged the gathered disciples to keep challenging Su Yi, and Tian Dong led them in a group assault.
• Su Yi sent more than ten Inner Sect Disciples flying with casual palm strikes while Xiang Ming watched in shock.
• Su Yi reminded Xiang Ming that he had promised to spar and challenged him to fight.

Su Yi beat Xiang Ming and the other Heavenly Origin Academy disciples, then demanded that Wen Lingzhao sign a contract to end their marriage. Wen Lingzhao refused, and Wang Jianchong arrived with two others as Zheng Muyao brought writing materials for Su Yi.

• Su Yi slapped Xiang Ming twice and forced him to kneel, while Zheng Muyao watched in shock.
• Wen Lingzhao returned and learned from Zheng Muyao that the disciples had provoked Su Yi and been defeated.
• Su Yi insisted on ending his marriage to Wen Lingzhao, but she said she would resolve it herself and refused his contract.
• Su Yi explained that he wanted to end their marriage cleanly, while Wen Lingzhao argued the contract could not dissolve it.
• Wang Jianchong arrived with two other men, ordered Xiang Ming and the others to stand, and demanded to know what had happened.
• Su Yi ignored Wang Jianchong and watched as Zheng Muyao hurried over with paper, a brush, ink, and an inkstone.

Su Yi killed Heavenly Origin Academy’s Eighth Elder Chu Kongchao with one punch after Wang Jianchong and the disciples blamed him for the fight. As Su Yi faced the Seventh Elder Li Fengxing, a commanding voice suddenly ordered them to stop.

• Tian Dong and the other disciples falsely accused Su Yi, but Zheng Muyao described what had really happened to Wang Jianchong.
• Wang Jianchong sided with the disciples and threatened to punish Zheng Muyao, while Su Yi challenged anyone who wanted to fight him.
• Chu Kongchao attacked Su Yi with the Flying Swan Claw, and Su Yi killed him with one punch.
• Su Yi challenged the remaining elders, and Li Fengxing drew his sword and attacked with his Flowing Cloud Nine Strikes.
• A majestic voice rang out and ordered Su Yi and Li Fengxing to stop.

Ning Sihua arrived at Divine Firmament Peak and dismissed the disciples, leaving Su Yi and Wen Lingzhao to settle their written contract. She listened to Su Yi explain his attachment to the matter, then punished Wang Jianchong for insulting him, ordering him to spend a year at Repentance Cliff.

• Ning Sihua arrived with Great Elder Shang Zhen and Second Elder Han Zhong, and Han Zhong took away Chu Kongchao's corpse.
• Ning Sihua ordered Shang Zhen to lead the disciples away, but let Wen Lingzhao stay after Su Yi asked to settle their written contract first.
• Su Yi ground ink for the contract while Ning Sihua asked why he cared about it, and he explained that resolving the matter would cut away an obsession blocking his path to the Dao.
• When Su Yi warned Ning Sihua about the consequences of making an enemy of him, Wang Jianchong shouted at him, and Ning Sihua sent Wang crashing into the cliff.
• Ning Sihua ordered Wang Jianchong to spend one year confined at Repentance Cliff.

Su Yi severed his nominal marriage with Wen Lingzhao, then demonstrated his overwhelming strength by neutralizing Ning Sihua’s attack. He left the mountain after challenging Ning Sihua to meet again, while Wen Lingzhao was left stunned.

• Ning Sihua ordered Wang Jianchong to leave, and Su Yi remarked that she had saved two people from him.
• Su Yi wrote a parting message for Wen Lingzhao and declared that they would have no further entanglement.
• Ning Sihua challenged Su Yi to exchange a move, and he crushed her lotus-shaped attack after it transformed into a Vermilion Bird.
• Ning Sihua realized Su Yi had achieved the peerless foundation of All Apertures Become Spiritual, while Li Fengxing understood Su Yi could have killed him earlier.
• Su Yi left after promising to bring wine if Ning Sihua could receive one of his moves next time, leaving Wen Lingzhao behind.

After Su Yi severed his ties with Wen Lingzhao at Heavenly Origin Academy, Ning Sihua invited Wen Lingzhao to cultivate by her side. Su Yi left the academy unharmed, while the elders punished Xiang Ming and his companions for provoking him.

• Wen Lingzhao accepted Ning Sihua's offer to move to Withered Glory Hall, resolved not to yield to Su Yi, and agreed to keep the day's events secret.
• Zheng Muyao waited anxiously at the foot of Autumn Leaf Mountain until Su Yi returned safely, then accompanied him back to Gargling Stone Residence.
• Su Yi admitted that neutralizing Ning Sihua's strike had left his soul and cultivation weakened, and he rested in the carriage.
• Shang Zhen and Han Zhong ordered Xiang Ming and the other disciples confined for a month, while Wang Jianchong was sent to Contemplation Cliff for a year.
• Xiang Ming was taken away with the other disciples, and Han Zhong and Shang Zhen recognized that Ning Sihua had conceded in the dispute.

After returning to Gargling Stone Residence, Su Yi began cultivating to break through the Meridian Opening stage by using the Nine Hells Sword to condense his Hidden Meridian. As he cultivated, a vast stellar vortex appeared in the twilight sky, astonishing both Cha Jin and Ning Sihua.

• Su Yi sent Zheng Muyao home and asked her to find out whether Zhu Guqing had returned to Heavenly Origin Academy.
• At Gargling Stone Residence, Su Yi told Cha Jin to turn away visitors and asked her to buy clothes sized for Wen Lingxue.
• Su Yi considered the mysterious nature of Ning Sihua and decided to seek an opportunity to condense his Hidden Meridian by drawing on the Nine Hells Sword.
• Su Yi began cultivating with the Pine Crane Body Forging Art and the He Transforms Freedom Sutra to awaken the sword’s power.
• Cha Jin and Ning Sihua witnessed countless stars form a vast rotating vortex that poured dreamlike streams of light down from the sky.

Su Yi condensed a unique Hidden Meridian by drawing on the Nine Hells Sword's power, triggering a celestial phenomenon that mysterious figures across the Azure Green Continent sensed. After realizing his cultivation had advanced, he returned to find Cha Jin waiting with dinner, just as Zheng Muyao arrived.

• Ning Sihua sensed the strange celestial phenomenon but could not determine who had caused it.
• Ge Qian and Old Guys witnessed the phenomenon over the Turbid Nether Sea, then argued about Old Guys's Black Tortoise-like manifestation and agreed to be cautious around dangerous figures.
• Su Yi awoke after condensing a Hidden Meridian, inferred that it had caused the phenomenon, and realized his strength had increased and he could advance to the late stage of the Qi Gathering Realm.
• Su Yi joined Cha Jin for dinner and asked whether Zheng Muyao had arrived; Zheng Muyao then called out that she was there.

Su Yi worried that Ling Xue and the others had not returned to Heavenly Origin Academy and asked Zheng Muyao to investigate their ship. Ning Sihua then visited to discuss the evening’s mysterious phenomenon and revealed dangerous, uncanny sites hidden in three of Great Zhou’s demon mountains, leaving Su Yi intrigued by the Azure Green Continent’s secrets.

• Su Yi asked Zheng Muyao to use the Zheng Clan’s resources to investigate a passenger ship carrying Ling Xue and the others, and she hurried away to do so.
• Ning Sihua visited Su Yi to ask about the mysterious phenomenon; after addressing their earlier clash, Su Yi said he knew something but would not reveal its secrets.
• Ning Sihua explained that she had searched Great Zhou for fellow cultivators and warned that the Azure Green Continent concealed mysteries beneath its barren surface.
• Ning Sihua described the Blood-colored Swamp and its strange skull in Ten Thousand Poison Demon Mountain, the Underground Corpse Cave in Silver Flame Demon Mountain, and the eerie ruins in Precious Temple Demon Mountain.
• Su Yi recognized that these dangerous places were abnormal for the Azure Green Continent and considered their mysteries.

Su Yi learned that the passenger ship carrying Zhu Guqing had been wrecked in a sudden storm at Thousand Whirlpool Ridge, but her body was missing. Worried about Wen Lingxue’s safety, he set out with Ning Sihua and the Green Fish Gang Leader to investigate.

• Ning Sihua told Su Yi that she had taken Wen Lingzhao as a disciple and planned to cultivate her talent.
• Zheng Muyao reported that the Green Fish Gang’s passenger ship had capsized at Thousand Whirlpool Ridge, and Zhu Guqing was not among the bodies recovered.
• Su Yi suspected the violent, unexpected storm had caused the shipwreck and asked to go to Thousand Whirlpool Ridge.
• Zheng Tianhe brought Jin Xiaochuan to Gargling Stone Residence, and Jin explained the route and dangers of Thousand Whirlpool Ridge.
• Ning Sihua summoned her Azure Scaled Eagle, Qing'er, and chose Su Yi and Jin Xiaochuan to accompany her.
• Su Yi asked Cha Jin to take care of herself, then flew with Ning Sihua and Jin Xiaochuan toward Thousand Whirlpool Ridge.

Su Yi, Ning Sihua, and Jin Xiaochuan investigated strange phenomena at Thousand Whirlpool Ridge and discovered signs of a powerful formation hiding a ghost domain beneath the Great Cang River. Qing Wan sensed the strongest Yin Qi and led them toward it, while Su Yi’s blunt remarks about dual cultivation shocked Ning Sihua.

• Jin Xiaochuan described the storms, wrecked boats, and rumors of ghosts beneath the Great Cang River near Thousand Whirlpool Ridge.
• Su Yi identified a forbidden formation that drew on the mountain and river veins, then deduced that a sizable ghost domain lay beneath the river.
• Su Yi summoned Qing Wan, who sensed the strongest Yin Qi and led the group toward its source.
• Su Yi reflected on Qing Wan’s rapid progress toward becoming a Ghost Spirit and resolved to slow her cultivation to strengthen her foundation.
• Su Yi told Ning Sihua he had kept Qing Wan for dual cultivation and claimed his chosen partners could easily reach the Emperor Realm, leaving Ning Sihua speechless.

Su Yi and Ning Sihua discovered that the Great Cang River concealed a ghost domain and learned that Water Lord Wuhuan had summoned demons and Ghosts to a Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly in Nine Bend City. Tao Qingshan recognized Su Yi as the immortal who had given him a cultivation scripture and explained the gathering, leaving Su Yi curious about Wuhuan’s plans.

• Qing Wan led Su Yi, Ning Sihua, and Jin Xiaochuan to a misty vortex on the Great Cang River that served as a passage into a ghost domain.
• The group watched a ghostly procession and a cane-wielding plant spirit enter the vortex, while Ning Sihua and Su Yi assessed the supernatural visitors.
• Su Yi approached Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong; Tao Qingshan recognized him, and Teng Yong apologized after learning Su Yi had aided Tao Qingshan.
• Tao Qingshan told Su Yi that Water Lord Wuhuan ruled Nine Bend City beneath the river and had invited notable demons and Ghosts to a Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly to announce an unknown major matter.
• Su Yi dismissed Wuhuan as a mundane Ghost cultivator and prepared to investigate the gathering.

Su Yi entered Nine Bend City beneath the Great Cang River with Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong to search for Wen Lingxue, disguising his aura as demonic and teaching Ning Sihua the technique. As the group reached the Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly, a hostile voice challenged Tao Qingshan.

• Tao Qingshan explained that Water Lord Wuhuan was a battlefield grandmaster turned evil ghost whose cultivation rivaled a third-level grandmaster, and Su Yi said he had come to find someone from a sunken passenger ship.
• Su Yi ordered Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong to lead the way into Nine Bend City, while Jin Xiaochuan stayed behind and Qing Wan returned to the Soul-Nourishing Gourd.
• Su Yi changed his aura with a secret art and taught it to Ning Sihua before the group descended through the mist into the underground realm.
• Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong led Su Yi and Ning Sihua through Nine Bend City's grotesque streets toward the Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly.
• Ning Sihua questioned an old ghost who was tallying the living people killed in the city, and Su Yi said they could wipe the place away when they left.
• A stranger mocked Tao Qingshan for acting boldly with the Devouring Sea King of Great Zhou behind him.

At Water Lord Wuhuan’s Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly, Tao Qingshan faced growing hostility from demons and Ghosts who coveted his cultivation methods. Su Yi identified the black altar as the eye of a sacrificial array, and the chapter ended with Water Lord Wuhuan arriving at the altar.

• Toad Thirteen challenged Tao Qingshan to a fight after the assembly, while Yellow Mountain Lord hinted that he knew why the toad was so bold.
• Su Yi, Ning Sihua, and Tao Qingshan arrived at the ritual ground, where Su Yi recognized the black altar as the array eye of a sacrificial formation.
• Mountain Hamlet Lady offered Tao Qingshan a platter of human eyeballs, then mocked him for rejecting Blood Food and stirred the crowd against him.
• Yellow Mountain Lord and other guests pressed Tao Qingshan to share the cultivation methods he had learned from an Immortal Master.
• Tao Qingshan angrily rebuked Mountain Hamlet Lady, and Water Lord Wuhuan arrived at the altar to stop the quarrel.

At the Grotto Heaven Dharma Assembly, Water Lord Wuhuan revealed that he served the Great Compassion Divine Lord and urged the gathered ghosts and demons to offer valuable sacrifices for blessings. The ritual began with the blood of slaughtered children, and Zhu Guqing was brought forward as a living sacrifice, prompting Ning Sihua’s restrained killing intent to flare.

• Water Lord Wuhuan announced that a black altar let him communicate with the Great Compassion Divine Lord, who had appointed him a divine envoy to recruit believers.
• Water Lord Wuhuan promised cultivation methods and other blessings to believers who offered valuable spiritual objects, and most of the gathered ghosts and demons agreed.
• Water Lord Wuhuan ordered evil ghosts to pour the blood of freshly slaughtered children over the altar, while Su Yi and Ning Sihua watched with disgust.
• Two evil ghosts brought the chained, bloodied Zhu Guqing to the altar as a living sacrifice, and Ning Sihua’s killing intent frightened Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong.
• Water Lord Wuhuan raised a bone blade and asked Zhu Guqing whether she would die in place of a little girl.

Su Yi and Ning Sihua attacked Water Lord Wuhuan’s ritual to rescue Zhu Guqing and destroy the site. They overwhelmed the assembled ghosts and demons, but Wuhuan raised nine Bronze Doors and unleashed Blood-colored Thunder at Ning Sihua.

• Su Yi told Ning Sihua to deal with Water Lord Wuhuan while he worked to destroy the ritual site.
• Ning Sihua killed Shan Xiu when she tried to stop her, prompting Wuhuan to summon his ghost soldiers and the banquet guests to attack.
• Ning Sihua cut through the attackers as Su Yi used his Governing Mystery Sword to clear a path and inscribed a formation diagram on the first Bronze Pillar.
• Su Yi continued toward another Bronze Pillar with Tao Qingshan and Teng Yong while the ghosts and demons fled or fell to his sword.
• Water Lord Wuhuan raised nine Bronze Doors around the arena and struck at Ning Sihua with Blood-colored Thunder.

Su Yi intervened just as the Nine Palaces Blood Slaughter Formation was about to overwhelm Ning Sihua, then seized control of the formation and defeated Water Lord Wuhuan. After freeing Zhu Guqing, he asked where Ling Xue was.

• Ning Sihua fought off the formation’s attacks with the Azure Flame Crescent Halberd as Water Lord Wuhuan intensified the Nine Palaces Blood Slaughter Formation.
• As Ning Sihua prepared to use the Crimson Carp sword, Su Yi appeared beside her and dispersed the formation’s attack with the Governing Mystery Sword.
• Su Yi took control of the formation, leaving Water Lord Wuhuan unable to command it and trapping the Ghosts and demon creatures inside the dojo.
• Water Lord Wuhuan tried to seize Zhu Guqing as a sacrifice, but Su Yi severed his arm with the formation’s lightning and then blasted him with another strike.
• Su Yi freed Zhu Guqing by cutting through her chains and asked her where Ling Xue was.

Su Yi learned that Wen Lingxue had been captured and rushed to Water Lord Wuhuan’s residence to rescue her. He carried her to safety, killed Water Lord Wuhuan, and left the remaining ghosts and demons subdued at the dojo.

• Zhu Guqing told Su Yi that Hu Yan Hai had captured Wen Lingxue and imprisoned her under the guard of his adopted son, Hu Yan Bao.
• Su Yi forced Water Lord Wuhuan to lead him to the residence, where Hu Yan Bao was trying to make Wen Lingxue drink tea laced with an aphrodisiac.
• Su Yi forced Hu Yan Bao to drink the tea, then carried the exhausted Wen Lingxue out of the room.
• Water Lord Wuhuan and Hu Yan Bao fought over the tea’s effects, and Water Lord Wuhuan killed Hu Yan Bao before Su Yi destroyed his soul body.
• At the dojo, Ning Sihua kept the ghosts and demons subdued while Zhu Guqing recounted what had happened.

Su Yi activated the altar in the dojo and confronted the Great Compassion Divine Lord through its portal, confirming that the being could not reach him. After leaving with Wen Lingxue, he left the terrified demons and ghosts to flee Nine Bend City.

• Su Yi identified the altar’s nine-headed bird design as a Ghost Carriage Bird and suspected the Great Compassion Divine Lord was a Nine-Headed Bird connected to the Netherworld Land.
• Su Yi killed Weasel Old Man and Toad Thirteen and used their bodies to activate the altar, opening a blood-colored vortex.
• The Great Compassion Divine Lord demanded that Su Yi kneel, but Su Yi challenged him, and the being threatened revenge before the vortex collapsed.
• The demons and ghosts offered Su Yi a bundle of treasures as an apology, and he told Tao Qingshan to take it.
• Su Yi left the dojo with Wen Lingxue, Ning Sihua, Zhu Guqing, Tao Qingshan, and Teng Yong, while the demons and ghosts fled in panic.