Recaps

Xu Yan defeated two assassins from the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization, captured one, and learned that the group sought to provoke war between realms and kill Meng Chong. He sent the captured assassin back undercover as Shadow One and planned to work with Wan Tianlin to attack the organization’s strongholds.

• Xu Yan used Sword Mountain River, soul attacks, and the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to control one assassin while the other self-destructed rather than be captured.
• Under interrogation, the captured assassin revealed that Baleful Intent had ordered the attack and that the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization aimed to ignite conflict between Qinghua Realm and the Nine Mountain Realm.
• Xu Yan learned that Seven-Leaf Heavenly Fiend had ordered Meng Chong’s death and might be an Immortal Celestial Venerable hidden among the Nine Mountain Realm’s powers.
• Xu Yan brought the captive to Stone Peak and notified Wan Tianlin, intending to enlist the Wan Family in finding the organization’s infiltrators and strongholds.
• Xu Yan ordered the captive to pose as a survivor who had escaped with a secret art, named him Shadow One, and sent him back to infiltrate the organization.

Xu Yan joined forces with Wan Tianlin to destroy three strongholds of the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization and expose its infiltration of the Wan Family. After the operation, Xu Yan reunited with Meng Chong in Great Cover Mountain.

• Xu Yan told Wan Tianlin about the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization and its plan to stir conflict across the Divine Realm, then asked him to help destroy its strongholds and search for Meng Chong.
• The Five-Leaf Heavenly Fiend learned that strongholds had been destroyed and suspected the Wan Family was using Wan Tianlin as bait, but he chose not to attack.
• Xu Yan and Wan Tianlin destroyed three strongholds, while Xu Yan obtained more names of infiltrators and locations of other strongholds.
• Meng Chong learned that Xu Yan was looking for him and left the city, planning to break through the Great Sun Star Indestructible Body before confronting his pursuers.
• Xu Yan received Meng Chong's message through the Communication Talisman, and the two senior and junior brothers reunited.

Xu Yan protected Meng Chong as he cultivated, while the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization prepared to expand its schemes across the Divine Domain. Tian Shiqi tried to recruit the Wind Spirit Tiger, but Red Cat helped it demand proof and concrete rewards before agreeing.

• Xu Yan gave Meng Chong three Blood Heart Fruits, and Meng Chong began cultivating the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao while Xu Yan guarded him.
• The Wan Family uncovered undercover Earth Shadow members, prompting the Five-Leaf Heavenly Fiend to suspect a traitor and order a wider campaign of assassinations and chaos.
• Tian Shiqi learned that Nether Prison and Witch Demon had reached an understanding, then authorized the Five-Leaf Heavenly Fiend to proceed with his plans.
• Tian Shiqi visited the Wind Spirit Tiger, who demanded tangible benefits and details before considering cooperation with the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization.
• Red Cat warned the Wind Spirit Tiger not to trust Tian Shiqi's promises, so the Wind Spirit Tiger asked to see the organization's strength and hear its concrete terms.

Red Cat learned that Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization planned to destabilize the Nine Mountain Realm and Qinghua Realm, including assassinating Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, or Li Xuan, and arranged warnings while considering how to profit from cooperating with them. Meanwhile, Li Xuan studied the Taicang Book’s final page and received news that Meng Chong had comprehended two powerful supernatural abilities.

• Tian Shiqi outlined Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization’s plans to Wind Spirit Tiger, including seizing Nine Mountain City and assassinating figures in the Nine Mountain Realm and Qinghua Realm.
• After Tian Shiqi left, Red Cat told Wind Spirit Tiger that Spirit Venerable Mountain should stage some trouble too, then sent Xiao Ha to warn the Qinghua Realm and arranged for Yu Xiaolong to warn Meng Chong and Xu Yan.
• Qinghua Realm’s major forces searched for spies, but exposed infiltrators killed themselves before the Immortal Celestial Venerables could obtain valuable information.
• Li Xuan imprinted the Taicang Book’s seventeenth page, studied its final page, and reflected on the book’s mysterious owner and the growth of his disciples.
• The Great Dao Golden Book told Li Xuan that Meng Chong had comprehended the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao, Heaven-Shaking Earth-Destroying, and Diamond Vajra Thunder Palm.

Li Xuan’s disciples’ insights advanced his martial arts, and the combined Lesser Eyes of the Heavenly Dao transformed into the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, revealing clues about the world’s hidden structure. As the Great Yue Emperor and allied sects prepared to counter the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization, Meng Chong broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm and gained a Vajra Sacred Body, while Li Xuan sensed something on the horizon.

• Fang Hao comprehended the advancement path of the Qimen Martial Dao, advancing Li Xuan’s Qimen Martial Dao to the Void Breaking Realm, and Su Lingxiu comprehended the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao.
• The Lesser Eyes of the Heavenly Dao from three martial paths combined into the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, letting Li Xuan glimpse a world above the Divine Realm and understand more of the Taicang Book and the world’s divisions.
• Xiao Ha warned Fang Hao that the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization planned to target him, Su Lingxiu, and Li Xuan, prompting Su Lingxiu to inform her master and Yue Changming to alert the Great Yue Emperor.
• The Great Yue Emperor sent Sui Hongwu to inform the Tianwu Sect and Wanlei Sect and coordinate a covert effort to root out infiltrators, while Feng Yan returned to Qimen Academy and began inspecting everyone entering and leaving.
• Meng Chong broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm and transformed into a Vajra Sacred Body, granting Li Xuan the Innate Undying Mountain River Vajra Sacred Body.
• Li Xuan sensed something toward the horizon as he anticipated the coming confrontation with the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization.

Li Xuan watched Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow’s assassination plot unfold as Ping Qiu and a concealed Immortal Celestial Venerable attacked Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu. He killed both attackers before they could harm his disciples, leaving the Great Yue Emperor and Feng Yan shaken.

• A concealed Immortal Celestial Venerable entered the Great Yue Emperor’s territory and waited near Qimen Academy and the Alchemy Academy while Ping Qiu warned the Great Yue Emperor about Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow’s plans.
• Ping Qiu returned with the Great Yue Emperor to buy Array Formation disks and pills from Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu, while the concealed attacker drew closer.
• The concealed Immortal Celestial Venerable attacked Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu, and Ping Qiu suddenly turned on them as Feng Yan and the Great Yue Emperor tried to intervene.
• Li Xuan summoned a gigantic Vajra palm wreathed in thunder, seized Ping Qiu and the other attacker, and reduced both to ashes.
• The Great Yue Emperor realized Li Xuan had seen through the plot, while Feng Yan regretted failing to spot Ping Qiu’s betrayal and protect the disciples himself.

Li Xuan watched the Qinghua Realm respond to an assassination attempt while Su Lingxiu broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm, gained a sacred body, and refined pills that could aid Immortal Celestial Venerable breakthroughs. As turmoil spread through the Divine Realm and the Nine Mountain Realm, Li Xuan detected the Nether Prison Blood Child entering the Nine Mountain Realm and the chapter ended with Wu Tiannan wondering why his cultivation and luck had improved so much.

• Li Xuan gave the assassin’s robe to Fang Hao to study, while the Great Yue Emperor and the other Qinghua Realm forces strengthened their defenses and quietly investigated the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization.
• Fang Hao studied the robe’s aura, and Li Xuan inscribed Dao Principle resonance on a jade talisman to help him improve his Communication Talismans.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong slew eight True King Celestial Venerables, and Li Xuan suspected they were taking revenge on the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization.
• Su Lingxiu broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm, transformed into an Everlasting Azure Sacred Body, and gave Li Xuan the Innate Undying Sacred Body; she later refined pills that could raise the chances of an Immortal Celestial Venerable breakthrough by fifty percent.
• The Great Yue Emperor and the Sect Masters of Tianwu Sect and Wanlei agreed to supply Divine Medicines in exchange for Su Lingxiu’s pills, while Fang Hao’s Qimen Martial Dao advanced to a realm comparable to the Divine Aspect Realm.
• Li Xuan sensed disturbances in the Divine Realm and the Nether Prison Blood Child entering the Nine Mountain Realm, while Wu Tiannan, now a powerful True King Celestial Venerable, grew wary of his unusually smooth progress and the unkempt old man beside him.

Wu Tiannan encountered a mysterious old man who gave him a token for the Taihe Realm, while Li Xuan learned that Wu Tiannan’s luck was extraordinary. As chaos spread through the Nine Mountain Realm and Jiang Buping cultivated an Unchanging Spirit, Xu Yan’s Unchanging Sword Intent gave Li Xuan a new Martial Dao breakthrough.

• The old man told Wu Tiannan that his luck was astonishing, gave him a token for the Taihe Realm, and vanished before Wu Tiannan could ask about someone.
• Li Xuan sensed Wu Tiannan’s profound luck through their Martial Dao connection and returned to studying the Taicang Book.
• The Nine Mountain City fell during a battle between a Netherworld Blood Child and a Nine Mountain Realm Immortal Celestial Venerable, while Netherworld invasions kept Qinghua Realm’s Immortal Celestial Venerables occupied.
• Jiang Buping merged all his Unchanging Qi into his spirit, formed an Unchanging Spirit, and began cultivating the Extreme Soul Martial Dao.
• Li Xuan received feedback that Jiang Buping’s transformation had made his Primordial Spirit unchanging and indestructible.
• Li Xuan received feedback that Xu Yan had cultivated Unchanging Sword Intent and that Li Xuan’s own Unchanging Sword Intent had grown a hundredfold.

Jiang Buping successfully cultivated Extreme Soul Martial Dao, and Li Xuan gained a powerful Extreme Soul Constitution. As chaos intensified in the Nine Mountain Realm, Jiang Buping prepared to join his fellow disciples in the outside world.

• Xu Yan broke through to minor mastery of the Divine Aspect Realm, and news spread that the Nine Mountain Realm was engulfed in clashes among its major powers and Netherworld forces.
• Meng Chong cultivated Unchanging Saber Intent as a major battle between several Immortal Celestial Venerables erupted in the Nine Mountain Realm.
• Jiang Buping emerged from seclusion after cultivating Extreme Soul Martial Dao and declared that he would one day avenge the injustice in his heart.
• The Great Dao Golden Book raised Li Xuan's Extreme Soul Constitution to the late-stage Void Breaking Realm, matching his Pure Martial Dao realm.
• Li Xuan gave pills infused with law-essence aura to his disciples and Feng Yan, while Fang Hao challenged Jiang Buping to spar.

Jiang Buping tested his Extreme Soul Martial Dao against Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu, then received guidance and materials to forge his own divine weapon. Fang Hao began preparing to turn Qinghua Realm into a vast formation and planned to entice its Immortal Celestial Venerables to help by promising a chance to cultivate beyond the Immortal Realm.

• Jiang Buping attacked Fang Hao, but Fang Hao used Qimen Martial Dao to block his Extreme Soul power and defeat him.
• Su Lingxiu demonstrated that she could transfer Jiang Buping's attack to a nearby tree without being harmed.
• Li Xuan taught Jiang Buping about Extreme Soul Martial Dao and gave him its canon, while Fang Hao taught him artifact refining and supplied materials for his weapon.
• Fang Hao began refining a Communication Talisman with a much greater range and planned a formation using all of Qinghua Realm as its foundation.
• Fang Hao consulted Feng Yan and Li Xuan about what lay beyond the Immortal Realm, then resolved to use the formation's resonance with Dao Principles to encourage the Immortal Celestial Venerables to assist him.

Fang Hao prepared formations as the Great Yue Heavenly Cave fell to the Nether Prison’s assault, while Su Lingxiu planned to turn it into a Heaven and Earth Divine Furnace. After Jiang Buping emerged with an Extreme Soul weapon, Li Xuan set out to demonstrate the Fifth Martial Path at the cave.

• Fang Hao studied the Qinghua Realm and prepared formations, while Su Lingxiu planned to use a Heavenly Cave as her Heaven and Earth Divine Furnace.
• Jiang Buping comprehended the Extreme Soul Divine Weapon, and Li Xuan received the Extreme Soul Soul Weapon and assessed the growing power of his Martial Dao.
• Su Lingxiu asked to use the Great Yue Heavenly Cave as her furnace, and Li Xuan agreed to help clear part of it after Jiang Buping emerged from seclusion.
• A Nether Prison Blood Spirit sent the Nether Bone Blood Drop into the Great Yue Heavenly Cave, destroying the core defensive formation and forcing Great Yue Emperor and the others to retreat.
• Fang Hao supplied formation disks and went to reinforce the Heavenly Cave as Nether Prison forces attacked the Great Yue Kingdom.
• Jiang Buping emerged with an Extreme Soul spear, and Li Xuan agreed to make his move and test the Fifth Martial Path.

Li Xuan demonstrated the Extreme Soul Martial Dao to Jiang Buping by annihilating the Netherworld forces threatening the Great Yue Heavenly Cave with a single spear thrust. He let Jiang Buping and Fang Hao fight the remaining enemies, but a drop of deep-red blood fell from the Heavenly Grotto barrier as Feng Yan retrieved the Blood Princes’ corpses.

• Li Xuan manifested his Extreme Soul Soul Body and led his disciples to the Great Yue Heavenly Cave, where Netherworld forces were assaulting Fang Hao’s array.
• Li Xuan taught Jiang Buping about the Extreme Soul Martial Dao and annihilated three Blood Sons with one spear thrust, then cleared the nearby enemies.
• Li Xuan let Jiang Buping practice against the remaining Netherworld forces, and Jiang Buping used Star Annihilation and Abyss Devour to kill them.
• Fang Hao joined the battle with his Qimen weapons and formation, while Li Xuan killed a newly arrived Blood Prince and Su Lingxiu ordered Feng Yan to retrieve the corpses.
• As Feng Yan carried the Blood Princes’ corpses back, a drop of deep-red blood fell from the Heavenly Grotto barrier and danger suddenly threatened him.

Li Xuan killed a Nether Prison Blood Spirit and sealed the Heavenly Cave, while the Qinghua Realm began preparations to defend itself from the spreading chaos. Jiang Buping left for the Nine Mountain Realm, where Xu Yan and Meng Chong were destroying the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization’s Great Cover Mountain headquarters, as a blood-colored presence suddenly appeared.

• Li Xuan shattered the Nether Bone Blood Drop, killed the Nether Prison Blood Spirit with a spear strike, and sealed the Heaven and Earth barrier against further incursions.
• After the Qinghua Realm Heavenly Cave was pacified, Fang Hao began organizing a realm-wide array while Su Lingxiu prepared to turn the Heavenly Cave into a Heaven and Earth Divine Furnace.
• Jiang Buping set out for the Nine Mountain Realm with Xiao Ha, carrying talismans, array plates, and pills for his senior brothers and their allies.
• At Great Cover Mountain, Xu Yan and Meng Chong attacked the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization’s headquarters and wiped out its masked fighters.
• A streak of blood-colored light appeared as Xu Yan stood amid the destroyed headquarters.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong uncovered an Immortal Realm Earth Shadow hidden beneath seven Blood Disciples in Great Cover Mountain, then reunited with Jiang Buping and planned to kill the infiltrator. After the Wan Family’s elders drew the Blood Disciples away, Xu Yan ambushed the concealed expert, who resisted his martial path and charged after him.

• Xu Yan and Meng Chong evaded Blood Son Mo and continued hunting the Blood Disciples infiltrating Great Cover Mountain.
• The brothers discovered an Immortal Realm Earth Shadow concealed underground beneath the remaining seven Blood Disciples and lured Blood Son Mo away from the trap.
• Jiang Buping arrived in Great Cover Mountain and reunited with Xu Yan and Meng Chong, who decided to join forces against the hidden Immortal Celestial Venerable.
• Xu Yan arranged for Wan Family elders to attack the seven Blood Disciples, drawing them away from the concealed expert while the brothers prepared their ambush.
• Xu Yan struck the Cloud Masked Immortal Celestial Venerable from underground, but the expert resisted Xu Yan’s control over heaven and earth and pursued him with a saber.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping ambushed and killed an Immortal Celestial Venerable on Great Cover Mountain, then prepared a trap for Blood Son Mo. Blood Son Mo reached the battlefield and spotted Xu Yan investigating, seeing a chance to attack.

• Xu Yan used the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to hinder the Immortal Celestial Venerable, allowing Meng Chong to land a devastating strike.
• Jiang Buping wounded the Immortal Celestial Venerable’s divine soul, and Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping killed him with a combined assault.
• The Wan Family Immortal Celestial Venerable and Blood Son Mo each mistook the death for a hidden Wan Family trump card and avoided the battlefield.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong killed the seven Blood Disciples after the two Wan Family elders withdrew.
• Xu Yan devised an ambush for Blood Son Mo, with Meng Chong and Jiang Buping hiding nearby while Xu Yan returned to the battlefield.
• Blood Son Mo cautiously approached and spotted Xu Yan investigating, preparing to attack him by surprise.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping ambushed and killed Blood Son Mo after defeating an Immortal Celestial Venerable, sending shockwaves through the Nine Mountain Realm. The three brothers withdrew to Spirit Venerable Mountain as Tian Shiqi began considering how to eliminate Xu Yan and Meng Chong.

• Xu Yan acted battered and fled from Blood Son Mo while Meng Chong’s Divine Essence Incarnation appeared to escape, lowering Blood Son Mo’s guard as Jiang Buping watched from ambush.
• Xu Yan unleashed his Mountain River Sacred Body and combined his divine abilities to hold off Blood Son Mo’s saber strike.
• Meng Chong struck Blood Son Mo from behind, Jiang Buping pierced his soul with God Slaying, and Xu Yan finished him with black sword light.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping left Great Cover Mountain for Spirit Venerable Mountain, while the Wan Family and other powers reacted to the deaths of the Immortal Celestial Venerable and Blood Son Mo.
• News spread that Xu Yan and Meng Chong had slain an Immortal Celestial Venerable, making their names resound throughout the Nine Mountain Realm.
• Tian Shiqi resolved that Xu Yan and Meng Chong must be eliminated and considered having Immortal Celestial Venerables from Thousand Layers Mountain and Hengfeng Mountain make a move.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping left the Nine Mountain Realm to pursue their own paths as Hengfeng Mountain, Thousand Layers Mountain, and the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization plotted against them. Jiang Buping crossed the wilderness toward Yuanping Realm, where strange howling sounds and a report of a green, face-like flame hinted at danger.

• The Seven-Leaf Heavenly Fiend persuaded Thousand Layers Mountain's Immortal Celestial Venerable and Senior Brother Huang to join Hengfeng Mountain in hunting Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and the factions searched Great Cover Mountain before learning the two had left.
• At Spirit Venerable Mountain, Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping consolidated their gains as Wind Spirit Tiger agreed to accept an item from Tian Shiqi and pursue Xu Yan and Meng Chong if their whereabouts were supplied.
• Meng Chong advanced to minor mastery of the Divine Aspect Realm, and the three decided to leave the Nine Mountain Realm; Jiang Buping set out across the wilderness toward Yuanping Realm while Xu Yan and Meng Chong parted for their own destinations.
• Jiang Buping exchanged messages with his senior brothers and sisters while crossing the lonely wilderness, recalling warnings about its dangers and choosing to cultivate at night beneath a Moon Stone.
• After Jiang Buping concealed himself in response to distant howling, Xu Yan sent a message reporting that a green flame had appeared, leaping like a human face.

Jiang Buping, Xu Yan, and Meng Chong encountered strange remnants in the wilderness and refined them, while Xu Yan witnessed fragments of an ancient battle that advanced his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Realm and Sacred Sword Realm. After hearing Xu Yan’s account, Li Xuan recognized the experts as beings who had transcended the world but claimed he did not remember the Nether Witch’s name.

• Jiang Buping detected a remnant soul in the wilderness, devoured it with Abyss Devour, and refined its power after his senior brothers stopped replying.
• Xu Yan’s Unchanging Sword Intent stirred a green flame, showing him a primordial battle between Supreme Experts and inspiring insights into the Sacred Sword Realm and Heaven and Earth Realm.
• Xu Yan absorbed the green flame into Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers, strengthening it with the battle scene, then messaged Jiang Buping and asked Li Xuan about the Nether Witch.
• Meng Chong refined the enormous eyes he had encountered into two stars in his acupoints, gaining power that could weigh down enemies’ physical bodies.
• Li Xuan read Xu Yan’s account, linked the ancient battle to the upheaval in the Taicang World, and said he did not remember the Nether Witch’s name.

Li Xuan planned to break through to the Heaven and Earth Realm before investigating the Taicang World’s secrets, while Xu Yan used the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower to reach great accomplishment in the Divine Aspect Realm and comprehend the Heaven and Earth Realm. Xu Yan then entered a city in Changyun Realm to investigate its Heavenly Caves and find a way to draw the Bewitching Witch out.

• Li Xuan dismissed the Nether Witch as an ant, urged Xu Yan to surpass the imposing figure, and decided to visit the stone house in Wu Kingdom after memorizing the Taicang Book’s General Principles and breaking through.
• Xu Yan reached Changyun Realm, chose a secluded valley, concealed it with an array and the Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers, and began consuming the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower.
• Tian Shiqi asked the Wind Spirit Tiger to take on a new task outside Nine Mountain Realm, and the Red Cat negotiated three portions of treasure for the Wind Spirit Tiger and two for itself.
• Xu Yan refined the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower, achieved great accomplishment in the Wisdom Sword Realm and Divine Aspect Realm, and comprehended the martial path of the Heaven and Earth Realm.
• Xu Yan left his cave and entered a great city to learn about Changyun Realm’s Heavenly Caves and find one that might draw the Bewitching Witch.

After Meng Chong killed Yan Ping, Yan Shanhe ordered a hunt for the bald, heavily built killer, while a hidden family plotted to use the feud to draw powerful forces into conflict. Unaware of the bounty and framed for Yan Ping’s murder, Meng Chong entered a Myriad Treasures Alliance branch to shop, where Feng Yang recognized him and attacked; Meng Chong fought back and began smashing the branch.

• Yan Shanhe grieved over Yan Ping’s death, ordered a bounty on the killer, and sent Treasure Guard experts to capture him.
• A hidden family revealed that it had arranged Yan Ping’s death to implicate Meng Chong and draw Xu Yan and their powerful allies into the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow’s conflict.
• Meng Chong traveled to a city in Changyun Realm seeking catalogs and treasures from the Myriad Treasures Alliance.
• People in the city recognized Meng Chong from the bounty and hurried to watch as he entered the alliance branch.
• Feng Yang identified Meng Chong and ordered him captured, while Meng Chong insisted he had killed no one and realized he had been framed.
• Meng Chong transformed into a golden giant and smashed the Myriad Treasures Alliance branch after its experts attacked him.

Meng Chong destroyed a Myriad Treasures Alliance branch after its forces attacked him over the murder of Yan Ping, then robbed its treasury and declared that he would answer further accusations with his saber. The Alliance raised the bounty and mobilized the Changyun Realm to hunt him, while Meng Chong entered another city to confront it and the conspirators behind the framing continued searching for Xu Yan.

• Meng Chong killed Feng Yang, the city lord, the treasure-protection squad leader, and the True King Celestial Venerables who attacked him, then plundered the ruined branch’s treasure vault.
• Meng Chong denied killing Yan Ping, warned the Myriad Treasures Alliance against pursuing him, and left before realizing that the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow might have framed him.
• Yan Shanhe doubled the bounty on Meng Chong, summoned the major sects, and ordered an Immortal Celestial Venerable to capture him.
• The Changyun Realm’s martial artists and major powers mobilized to find Meng Chong, while he asked Jiang Buping about the Alliance and learned of its reach across thirty realms.
• Meng Chong entered a city and headed toward its Myriad Treasures Alliance branch as conspirators confirmed their plan to turn the Alliance against him and continued searching for Xu Yan.

Meng Chong looted a second Myriad Treasures Alliance branch and escaped an Immortal Celestial Venerable, while Xu Yan learned of the Duo Wu Heavenly Cave and was confronted by an Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend. The chapter ended as the Heavenly Fiend’s sword was knocked back by Xu Yan’s Yin-Yang Sword Wheel.

• Meng Chong declared that he had not killed Yan Shanhe’s disciple, then fought the Myriad Treasures Alliance’s defenders and looted their branch treasury.
• An Immortal Celestial Venerable arrived, but Meng Chong fled before he could be caught.
• Xu Yan contacted Meng Chong, who said he would keep avoiding the Alliance and leave Changyun Realm after looting more branches.
• Xu Yan bought information about Changyun Realm’s heavenly caves and chose to investigate the Duo Wu Heavenly Cave.
• An Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend confronted Xu Yan and attacked him with a sword, but Xu Yan’s Yin-Yang Sword Wheel sent the attack back.

Xu Yan turned Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend’s Heaven-Connecting Sword Net against him, then used his sword dao and a vision of a towering figure to wound him and force him to flee. Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend returned to his territory unable to remove Xu Yan’s undying sword intent and began to doubt Tian Shiqi’s choice of target.

• Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend trapped Xu Yan in his Heaven-Connecting Sword Net Technique, but Xu Yan seized control of its sword light and formed a killing formation against him.
• Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend abandoned sword techniques and attacked with his Immortal Celestial Venerable strength, but Xu Yan blocked him with the Yin Yang Undying Sword and used their fight to temper his sword dao.
• Xu Yan manifested the Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers, whose sword attack and blurry towering figure shook Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend’s will.
• Xu Yan struck Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend while his mind was shaken, pierced his palm and shoulder, and left undying sword intent inside him before Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend escaped.
• Xu Yan decided to recover and digest his gains, while Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend returned to his territory and worried that Tian Shiqi had chosen the wrong target.

Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend planned to frame Xu Yan for killing Hong Ting, a Hundred Battles Hall prodigy, by exploiting the witches’ power in the Duo Wu Heavenly Cave. Hong Ting fought off the witches’ puppets but was struck by Duo Wu’s Hundred Eyes Evil Light and fled, terrified that its influence would leave him helpless and ruin his cultivation.

• Eight-Leaf Heavenly Fiend told his subordinate that Xu Yan had survived and ordered him to kill Hong Ting and frame Xu Yan, using the Hundred Eyes Evil Light to weaken Hong Ting.
• Hong Ting fought a witch and then battled more than a dozen witches, resisting their Hundred Eyes Light with his Hundred Battles Intent and killing one as the others retreated.
• Duo Wu appeared and revealed that the other witches were his Witch Puppets, then unleashed his Hundred Eyes Evil Light on Hong Ting.
• Hong Ting’s battle intent collapsed under Duo Wu’s gaze, so he retreated from the Heavenly Cave as Duo Wu let him escape.
• Hong Ting recognized the evil light’s effects in the stories of prodigies who had grown lethargic and died, and feared he would suffer the same fate.

Meng Chong learned that Xu Yan had been accused of killing Hong Ting, while Xu Yan accepted the Hundred Battles Hall’s challenge and proved he was not the killer. Xu Yan and Luo Zhan agreed to work together against the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization, and Xu Yan offered to wake the injured Hong Ting.

• Meng Chong robbed a Myriad Treasures Alliance branch in Changyun Realm and learned that Xu Yan was accused of killing Hong Ting.
• Meng Chong contacted Xu Yan, who said he would face the Hundred Battles Hall’s challenge at the Duo Wu Heavenly Cave.
• Xu Yan arrived and defeated Luo Zhan’s attack with one sword, convincing him that Xu Yan’s swordsmanship had not killed Hong Ting.
• Xu Yan identified the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization as the faction framing him, and Luo Zhan agreed to cooperate against it.
• Luo Zhan showed Xu Yan the unconscious Hong Ting, whose body was eroded by the Power of the Fallen Shaman, and Xu Yan offered a pill to wake him.