Chapter Summaries

Qin He pressed the Star Tide Old Demon for more information about Black Wind Mountain, threatening to reclaim the Soul Nurturing Jade it had been using to heal its soul. The Star Tide Old Demon agreed to tell him more, leaving Qin He poised to learn what it had withheld.

• Qin He followed traces left by the Heavenly Gate Sword through Black Wind Mountain while questioning the Star Tide Old Demon in the Mustard Seed Space.
• The Star Tide Old Demon complained that it had already revealed everything about Black Wind Mountain and relied on their agreement against torture.
• Qin He threatened to reclaim the Soul Nurturing Jade, which had healed much of the demon's soul and restored a trace of Yang Energy.
• The Star Tide Old Demon anxiously agreed to share more about Black Wind Mountain.

Qin He forced Star Tide Old Demon to explain the Black Wind Prison Lord and learned that supernatural phenomena plunder the living in pursuit of immortality. He realized that the Lords of Supernatural Phenomena represented the accumulated desire for eternal life among cultivators throughout history.

• Qin He threatened Star Tide Old Demon until it described the Black Wind Prison Lord as a survivor of the previous supernatural war and warned him against a direct fight.
• Star Tide Old Demon explained that Qin He's Samadhi True Fire had weakened the Black Wind Prison Lord by striking its weakness just after it awakened.
• Star Tide Old Demon said the Black Wind Prison Lord was a Source of Supernatural Phenomenon whose awakening unleashed supernatural creatures.
• Qin He pressed Star Tide Old Demon about the purpose of supernatural phenomena, and it answered that they plundered fortune, flesh and blood, and Thought Power.
• Star Tide Old Demon said supernatural phenomena sought immortality, leading Qin He to see the Lords as embodiments of cultivators' age-old pursuit of eternal life.

Qin He found an Ancient Coffin exposed after Samadhi True Fire destroyed a restriction on Black Wind Mountain. He recognized its resemblance to a coffin lid left by Daoist Lingyun and stored the coffin away, suspecting the two objects were connected.

• Qin He saw the restriction on a hillside collapse after being scorched by Samadhi True Fire.
• Qin He located the Ancient Coffin that had rolled into a low-lying patch and examined its ancient carvings, array patterns, and fire-resistant surface.
• Qin He remembered the coffin lid he had obtained at Lingyun Temple and retrieved it from his Armpit Space.
• Qin He compared the lid with the Ancient Coffin and concluded that their similar aura and construction suggested they were connected.
• Qin He closed the Ancient Coffin and stored it with its lid in his Mustard Seed Space despite its immense weight.

Qin He encountered a giant Bone Demon in the Black Dragon Pool, but it vanished before he could fight back. He continued through Black Wind Mountain and reached its fire-filled core.

• Qin He found the Black Dragon Pool nearly dried up and spotted a huge skeleton in the mud.
• Qin He blasted the pool with a Fireball Technique, causing the skeleton to rise as a giant Bone Demon.
• The Bone Demon attacked Qin He with killing intent, and Qin He countered with his Slaughter Domain.
• The Bone Demon vanished into the scorching air, leaving Qin He unable to locate it.
• Qin He continued onward and returned to the core of Black Wind Mountain, where the Samadhi True Fire burned most fiercely.

Qin He entered Black Wind Mountain and confronted the ancient supernatural presence sealed within its central Gestation Sac. As powers across the region feared the consequences of his assault, he rejected its warning and struck it with heavenly lightning.

• Qin He discovered that the central Gestation Sac and the surrounding sacs had survived the Samadhi True Fire, then circled the central sac to inspect it.
• An ancient voice emerged from the Gestation Sac and offered to talk, sending tremors across Black Wind Mountain and drawing the attention of experts throughout the region.
• Old Wolf Ancestor admired Qin He’s audacity, while Scorpion King Ancestor worried about his recklessness and Old Lord Yellow Crane ordered the Thousand Crane Clan to prepare to relocate.
• Qin He drew the Big Black Shovel and told the supernatural presence he had come to kill a fiend and test his strength.
• The voice threatened to awaken fully and erase Qin He if he did not retreat, but Qin He answered with a bolt of purple heavenly lightning that struck the Gestation Sac.

Qin He confronted the awakened Source of Supernatural Phenomenon and rejected its claim that plundering was justified by the world’s natural order. The argument briefly unsettled him, but he regained his certainty and prepared to act on his intuition.

• Qin He struck the Gestation Sac with lightning, cracking it and enraging the aged voice within.
• The aged voice asked Qin He why he attacked despite having no personal grievance, and Qin He condemned its plundering of living beings.
• The aged voice compared its actions to farmers exploiting livestock, aristocratic families exploiting commoners, and the strong preying on the weak.
• Qin He acknowledged that the aged voice’s argument sounded persuasive but called it twisted reasoning that could not excuse its deeds.
• Qin He concluded that debating such evil was a trap and trusted his intuition that it was rotten to the core.

Qin He fused the Azure Cloud Sword Art with Purple Cloud Divine Thunder and destroyed the black Gestation Sac, but its contents rapidly reassembled into the Black Wind Prison Lord, the Nether Bear. He recognized the creature as a formidable enemy as it faced him in its full monstrous form.

• Qin He attacked the black Gestation Sac with the Azure Cloud Sword Art and Purple Cloud Divine Thunder, reflecting on the need to forge his own Dao rather than rely only on rewards from others.
• The aged voice threatened Qin He and sent a black Demonic Claw wrapped in Bloody Lightning to intercept his strike.
• Qin He's thunder sword severed the Demonic Claw and destroyed the Gestation Sac, scattering its black corpse flesh.
• The aged voice roared in pain, unleashing a shockwave that shattered nearby mountain peaks and left Qin He reeling.
• The fragments of corpse flesh rapidly reassembled into the Black Wind Prison Lord, the Nether Bear, which confronted Qin He.

Qin He unleashed his full power against the Nether Bear, smashing its head and cleaving its body in half with two rapid attacks. The bear began regenerating almost immediately, and Qin He continued his assault, determined to keep cutting it down.

• Qin He activated the Merit Golden Body Art and Spirit Crossing Sutra, summoning his golden Dharma Body and a Gate of Guidance.
• Qin He struck the Nether Bear with the Big Black Shovel, smashing its head into pieces.
• Qin He transformed the shovel into a giant sword and used Azure Cloud Dawnbreaker to cleave the Nether Bear in half.
• The Nether Bear rapidly regenerated its wounds, showing that even the Samadhi True Fire could not ignite it.
• Qin He opened his Slaughter Domain and continued attacking the regenerating bear without pause.

Clans and cities across the Western Regions watched Great Immortal Green Ox confront Black Wind Mountain’s supernatural forces. His overwhelming victory inspired hope that the supernatural could be suppressed, while growing revelations about past supernatural wars raised the stakes of the battle.

• Clans and cities used arrays and treasure mirrors to reflect the battle above Black Wind Mountain.
• Nether Bear appeared in the sky, terrifying spectators with its immense body and savage gaze.
• Great Immortal Green Ox shattered Nether Bear’s head and cleaved its body apart with two strikes.
• Experts across the Western Regions praised Great Immortal Green Ox and saw hope for suppressing supernatural phenomena.
• Sages gathered newly emerging information about past supernatural wars and narrowed the timing of the last war to within ten years.

Qin He fought the fully revived Nether Bear, intercepting its summoned creatures with clones before meeting its pounce with his strongest strike. Their collision shattered the Abyss world's spatial barrier, and the fight continued amid raging golden light and demonic power.

• Qin He slashed the Nether Bear nine times in succession, wounding its foundation.
• The Nether Bear fully revived and burst more than a hundred Gestation Sacs, unleashing Supernatural Creatures at Qin He.
• Qin He summoned hundreds of clones, which intercepted the creatures before they could reach him.
• The Nether Bear offered Qin He eternal life if he submitted, then threatened to turn the Black Wind Mountain Domain's inhabitants into Blood Food.
• Qin He refused to yield and struck the Nether Bear head-on with the Big Black Shovel, shattering the world's spatial barrier.
• The experts watching outside cried out as Origin Power and chaos obscured the clash, while the golden light and demonic might continued to collide.

As Qin He fought the Nether Bear, his army watched from a distance and saw the beast weakened by repeated sword strikes. When Qin He's broken sword and a bloodstained piece of his robe fell from the sky, his followers feared he was injured and rushed toward Black Wind Mountain, while the Nether Bear recovered again.

• Hui Miqiu activated the Sky-Observing Array Pattern as the army gathered outside Black Wind Mountain to watch the battle.
• Qin He's nineteenth sword strike split the Nether Bear into four pieces, and the beast's recovery slowed as it lost blood.
• A bloodstained scrap of Qin He's Shapeshifting Divine Robe and his broken black sword fell onto a mountaintop.
• Wang Tie Zhu recognized the robe scrap, while Lamborghini, Ma Fei, and a white figure raced toward Black Wind Mountain to find Qin He.
• Wei Wu panicked as he realized the army was too far away to help, and the Nether Bear roared after restoring its body.

Qin He revealed his Soul Body Dharma Aspect and turned the fight against the Nether Bear after the Broken Sword blasted away half its body. He further wounded the creature and tore off half its head, leaving the battle poised for a possible killing blow.

• The Broken Sword shot through the dust and blasted half of the Nether Bear's body apart.
• Qin He emerged as a towering golden Soul Body Dharma Aspect while the Nether Bear struggled to regenerate its burning wounds.
• Qin He summoned the Broken Sword and struck the Nether Bear again, exploding half of its newly formed body and part of its head.
• Qin He seized half of the Nether Bear's head and ripped it off.

Qin He seized the Nether Bear’s severed head and burned it with Samadhi True Fire, but the beast unleashed its final power, a freezing black flame. The Corpse Fire engulfed Black Wind Mountain and sealed even Qin He’s defenses and Samadhi True Fire in frost.

• Qin He trapped the Nether Bear’s severed head in Samadhi True Fire and refused to heed its threats.
• Qin He drove nine Soul Capturing Needles into the Nether Bear’s head to suppress its soul.
• The Nether Bear burned its origin and released black flames that Qin He recognized as Cold Flame or Corpse Fire.
• Qin He retreated beside his black sword as it turned into a shield, but the Corpse Fire swept over Black Wind Mountain and froze the shield and Samadhi True Fire.

Nether Capital Corpse Fire froze the Western Expedition battlefield and trapped Qin He, the Nether Beast, and Drought Flame in a massive block of ice. Little Sable and the others rushed to the battlefield, and Qin He broke free, battered but alive.

• Nether Capital Corpse Fire swept across the land, freezing everything for miles and stunning the Western Expedition armies.
• Little Sable reached Black Wind Mountain and clawed at the ice sealing the battlefield, while Lamborghini cracked it with its attacks.
• Ma Fei arrived with frozen wings, and Wang Tie Zhu brought Lang Qing and Wei Wu to check on Qin He.
• Wei Wu said the Samadhi True Fire had not been fully suppressed, and a huge fissure split the ice around Qin He.
• Qin He burst out of the ice and hovered in the air, bloodied, frost-covered, and holding a broken longsword.

Qin He destroyed the Nether Bear, hunted down the supernatural creatures beneath Black Wind Mountain, and set the mountain ablaze to contain the lingering supernatural soil. He then questioned Star Tide Old Demon about the strength of other supernatural sources and pressed him for information about Cloudstack Cave.

• Qin He ordered Wang Tie Zhu and the others to take the Nether Bear's corpse back to Inlaid City, then watched his Shapeshifting Divine Robe break apart.
• Qin He patrolled Black Wind Mountain, killed supernatural creatures hidden underground, and burned the entire domain with Samadhi True Fire.
• Star Tide Old Demon explained that the Nether Bear had occupied Black Wind Mountain after the last supernatural war and was likely a valiant general, though not the strongest source of supernatural phenomena.
• Qin He pressed Star Tide Old Demon about Cloudstack Cave and its master, the Nine-Tusk Pig Demon.
• Star Tide Old Demon feared betraying his master, but Qin He argued that the Heavenly Dao had changed and urged him to speak.

Qin He watched the Nether Bear’s Shadow Play as its past revealed how a Heavenly Prison guard became a supernatural being after the prison fell into the Abyss and its path home was sealed. After Qin He destroyed its Black Wind Mountain Dao grounds and defeated it, the Nether Bear’s fate ended with the reward of a Golden Body Dharma Aspect.

• Wang Tie Zhu and a team of craftsmen prepared the Nether Bear’s enormous corpse for a traditional burning, and Samadhi True Fire reduced it to ash over a day and two nights.
• Qin He watched the Shadow Play reveal that the Nether Bear had once guarded the Heavenly Prison and fought supernatural Demonic Beings.
• The Heavenly Prison fell into the Abyss, and the sealed realm left its guards stranded; after years of failed attempts to return, the Nether Bear’s Dao heart shattered and it became supernatural.
• The Nether Bear survived the supernatural wars by taking offerings, then claimed Black Wind Mountain and its Divine Prohibition as its Dao grounds.
• Qin He destroyed the Nether Bear’s Dao grounds with divine fire and defeated it in battle.
• The Black Robed Man recited the Nether Bear’s judgment, and Qin He received the Golden Body Dharma Aspect.

Qin He learned the Golden Body Dharma Aspect, recovered from his injuries, and led an expanded Western Expeditionary Army toward Fuling Cave to suppress another supernatural calamity. The army set out with numerous clans joining and following in hopes of gaining opportunities.

• Qin He learned the Golden Body Dharma Aspect and casually destroyed a distant mountain peak with its power.
• Qin He instructed Wang Tie Zhu and the others, then entered the underground Dragon Vein to recover from his injuries.
• Over the next two months, Inlaid City's four armies extinguished supernatural outbreaks across Black Wind Mountain Domain, which lost at least thirty percent of its living beings.
• Five months later, Lang Qing reported supernatural calamities in Fuling Cave, Double Fork Ridge, and the Flowing Desert, and said local forces had invited the Western Expeditionary Army to help.
• Qin He ordered the Western Expeditionary Army to march on Fuling Cave as wolf, crane, scorpion, and other clans joined its ranks.

Qin He and Lamborghini searched Floating Mausoleum Mountain for its hidden mausoleum, the Source of Supernatural Phenomenon, but found nothing. They had Ma Fei try to draw it out by cursing the Floating Mausoleum Pig Demon over a thousand miles.

• Qin He and Lamborghini spent three days searching Floating Mausoleum Mountain and killed more than a dozen demons and monsters without finding the mausoleum.
• Qin He rejected Lamborghini’s suggestion to burn the vast mountain range with Samadhi True Fire.
• Lamborghini suggested sending Ma Fei to curse the Floating Mausoleum Pig Demon out of hiding.
• Qin He agreed to let Ma Fei try, and Ma Fei began cursing the demon’s ancestors and relatives.

Qin He and his companions provoked a terrifying demon by having Ma Fei curse at it for three days. When the demon appeared and attacked, Qin He sent the beasts away from the battlefield, leaving Ma Fei to taunt it once more.

• For three days, Ma Fei cursed the unseen demon until it could no longer continue.
• Qin He sensed a deadly attack aimed at Ma Fei and struck it with a golden finger imprint, clearing the clouds with an explosion.
• A massive demon and a black floating tomb appeared, and the demon demanded to know why the group had profaned its name.
• Lamborghini and Ma Fei hid behind Qin He as the demon's overwhelming pressure filled them with fear.
• Qin He enveloped Lamborghini, Ma Fei, and Little Sable in golden light and sent them away from the battlefield.
• Ma Fei declared to the demon that it had been the one cursing it for the past three days.

Qin He confronted Zhu Ganglie at Floating Mausoleum Mountain, seeking to take the demon’s immortality and learn what had happened to Daoist Immortal Lingyun and the ape from Water Curtain Cave. The chapter ended with Zhu Ganglie demanding to know where the ape was so it could kill the traitor.

• Qin He used the Pure Heart Incantation to resist the guilt-inducing enchantment in Zhu Ganglie’s voice.
• Qin He introduced himself as the Green Ox Immortal and challenged Zhu Ganglie, who offered him a chance to follow after being defeated.
• Qin He asked where Daoist Immortal Lingyun was, and Zhu Ganglie said Lingyun might have died on Black Wind Mountain or become a supernatural entity.
• Qin He asked about an ape from Water Curtain Cave, causing Zhu Ganglie’s aura and killing intent to erupt.
• Zhu Ganglie called the ape a traitor and coward, then demanded that Qin He reveal its whereabouts.