Chapter Summaries

Kong Wu refused True Man Qingxuan’s invitation to the Azure Cloud Sect because he still had to deal with the Bamboo Heart Sect’s founding patriarch. Qingxuan discovered the sect’s dead disciples and asked what had happened, and Kong Wu admitted he had killed them.

• Ta Shan crushed the Bamboo Heart Sect’s unnamed Supreme Elder, then attacked Bamboo Heart Son, who used Myriad Bamboo Forest to make them both disappear.
• Kong Wu heard a distant clash during Feng Lu’s dance but decided not to investigate.
• True Man Qingxuan arrived in Maple Dance City, identified Kong Wu, and invited him to visit the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master, Azure Cloud Daoist.
• Kong Wu declined Qingxuan’s invitation, saying he still had matters to handle before leaving.
• Qingxuan discovered the corpses of Bamboo Heart Sect disciples, and Kong Wu said he had killed them.

Kong Wu confronted True Man Qingxuan after slaughtering the Bamboo Heart Sect, rejecting the accusation that he had joined the Demonic Sect. When True Man Qingxuan tried to capture him, Kong Wu spent his attribute points, activated Blood Ghost Battle Body, and struck with Heaven Shaking Finger, leaving the outcome of their clash uncertain.

• True Man Qingxuan questioned whether Kong Wu had joined the Demonic Sect, but Kong Wu said he belonged to no faction and criticized the orthodox sects.
• True Man Qingxuan declared that he would capture Kong Wu and summoned an Azure Cloud Hand to seize him.
• Kong Wu spent 2,107 free attribute points, adding 1,000 to Life and the rest to Strength, then activated Blood Ghost Battle Body.
• Kong Wu used Heaven Shaking Finger to tear apart the Azure Cloud Hand and send a Blood Finger Shadow toward True Man Qingxuan.
• True Man Qingxuan recognized the attack as an expression of the Great Dao of Strength and realized he had to withstand it head-on.

Kong Wu defended the people of Maple Dance City from True Man Qingxuan, then led him to the Bamboo Heart Sect’s compound to reveal what the sect had done to its prisoners. True Man Qingxuan found the corpses of mortals beneath the sect’s Heart-Piercing Bamboo.

• True Man Qingxuan used the Azure Cloud Sword Array to withstand Kong Wu’s Heaven Shaking Finger, while Kong Wu shielded the people below from the clash.
• Feng Lu and the townspeople defended Kong Wu and described how the Bamboo Heart Sect had arrested and imprisoned innocent commoners.
• True Man Qingxuan promised to report the abuses to the Azure Cloud Sect and arrange for the prisoners’ release.
• Kong Wu told True Man Qingxuan that the prisoners would not return and took him to the Bamboo Heart Sect’s compound.
• True Man Qingxuan saw corpses lying at the roots of the sect’s Heart-Piercing Bamboo and was horrified.

After discovering that the Bamboo Heart Sect cultivated its Heart-Piercing Bamboo through the suffering and blood of mortals, True Man Qingxuan admitted he had been wrong to condemn Kong Wu. The two found Bamboo Heart Son fighting Ta Shan, a Pangu Clan member, and Qingxuan refused to help after identifying Bamboo Heart Son as a member of the Devil Dao.

• True Man Qingxuan apologized to Kong Wu for judging him and condemned the Bamboo Heart Sect's atrocities against mortals.
• Kong Wu said he still intended to kill Bamboo Heart Son, but a blood-red sky drew him and Qingxuan toward a battle outside the city.
• Kong Wu identified Bamboo Heart Son and Ta Shan through their Attribute Panels as the young Daoist and the powerful Pangu Clan giant fighting in a blood-bamboo world.
• Ta Shan defeated Bamboo Heart Son and forced him out of his domain, where Qingxuan recognized him despite his claiming to be a Bamboo Heart Sect disciple named Xin Zhu.
• Bamboo Heart Son asked Qingxuan to help suppress Ta Shan, but Qingxuan refused, saying he would not interfere in Devil Dao members slaughtering one another.

Ta Shan captured Bamboo Heart Son and then tried to take Kong Wu and True Man Qingxuan as well. As Ta Shan's Pangu Clan bloodline strengthened him, True Man Qingxuan opened his Azure Cloud Immortal Realm to face him.

• Ta Shan knocked Bamboo Heart Son unconscious, picked him up, and stuffed him into the cloth at his waist.
• Ta Shan decided to take Kong Wu and True Man Qingxuan back after recognizing them as possible targets.
• True Man Qingxuan stepped in front of Kong Wu and attacked Ta Shan with the Azure Cloud Sword Array, drawing blood but failing to cut off his arm.
• Ta Shan activated his Pangu Clan racial talent, greatly increasing his strength without an apparent cost.
• True Man Qingxuan summoned the Azure Cloud Immortal Realm, enveloping himself and Ta Shan in a domain of azure clouds and immortal pavilions.

True Man Qingxuan was forced to battle Ta Shan while Evil Bone Buddha ambushed Kong Wu. Kong Wu cut Evil Bone Buddha in half, but the monk revived using a precious treasure and tried to recruit him, leaving Kong Wu ready to fight again.

• True Man Qingxuan trapped Ta Shan in his domain to keep their battle from harming Kong Wu, then spotted Evil Bone Buddha charging at Kong Wu and rushed to intervene.
• Ta Shan attacked True Man Qingxuan and repeatedly disrupted his attempts to dispel the domain, leaving Kong Wu to face Evil Bone Buddha alone.
• Evil Bone Buddha tried to capture Kong Wu, but Kong Wu turned and struck him with Moon Cleave, splitting his body in two.
• Evil Bone Buddha revived with his Evil Bone Sarira, a substitute-for-death treasure, and urged Kong Wu to become his disciple.
• Kong Wu insulted Evil Bone Buddha and raised the Tiger Soul Sword to fight him.

Kong Wu overwhelmed Evil Bone Buddha with repeated attacks, leaving the demon desperate as True Man Qingxuan emerged from his domain. The chapter ended with Kong Wu sitting amid food and wine and casually inviting True Man Qingxuan to join him.

• Evil Bone Buddha decided Kong Wu had exhausted his strength and prepared to attack.
• Kong Wu unleashed the Heaven Shaking Finger, and Evil Bone Buddha used a skeletal Buddha image and his domain to block it.
• Kong Wu raised two fingers and produced another pair of blood-red finger shadows, leaving Evil Bone Buddha in despair.
• True Man Qingxuan broke out of Ta Shan’s domain and found Kong Wu sitting beside food and wine.
• Kong Wu pointed at the food and invited True Man Qingxuan to eat.

Kong Wu survived the Evil Bone Buddha’s attack but was burdened with thousands of unused attribute points, while Ta Shan fled after True Man Qingxuan wounded him. Kong Wu upgraded his Heaven Shaking Finger and strengthened himself, then learned Little Red had killed the Poison-Dispelling Vajra and spent his remaining points on life.

• True Man Qingxuan found Kong Wu unharmed, while Kong Wu brooded over the 4,974 free attribute points the Evil Bone Buddha had left him.
• Ta Shan rose despite his wounds, attacked True Man Qingxuan with earth and stones, then fled when Qingxuan cleared the attack.
• Kong Wu noticed Little Red had used the Heaven Shaking Finger without a kill notification and decided to strengthen himself to help her.
• Kong Wu upgraded the Heaven Shaking Finger to LV4 and added 3,000 free attribute points to his strength.
• Kong Wu received a notification that Little Red had killed the Poison-Dispelling Vajra, then added his remaining 1,774 points to his life attribute.

Little Red encountered the Poison-Dispelling Vajra and his Buddhas beside a pool in the Western Ox Continent, where she fought back against their attempt to kill her. As the Vajra’s immense palm descended, Little Red felt her power suddenly surge, though the chapter ended before she revealed what had happened.

• Little Red found the pool and was surrounded by the Poison-Dispelling Vajra and his Buddhas.
• The Poison-Dispelling Vajra tried to claim Little Red as his mount, but she attacked him with the Heaven Shaking Finger.
• After seeing her strength and suspecting a powerful force stood behind her, the Poison-Dispelling Vajra decided to kill her.
• Little Red activated the Blood Ghost Battle Body and clashed with the Poison-Dispelling Vajra’s Vajra’s Furious Gaze.
• The Poison-Dispelling Vajra summoned a huge Buddha phantom and struck Little Red with a palm that covered the surrounding area.
• As Little Red prepared to die, her aura suddenly surged, and she looked up at the descending palm without fear.

Little Red annihilated Poison-Dispelling Vajra and the other Buddhas with the Heaven Shaking Finger, prompting Kong Wu to seek a way to reach the Western Ox Continent. True Man Qingxuan offered him access to Azure Cloud Sect’s teleportation array in exchange for representing the sect in the Kunlun Secret Realm trial, and Kong Wu grew interested when he learned powerful Demonic Sect cultivators might be there.

• Little Red’s Heaven Shaking Finger shattered Poison-Dispelling Vajra’s attack and dragged him and the fleeing Buddhas into its crushing force, killing them all.
• Kong Wu received system notifications for the Buddhas Little Red had killed and realized she might face retaliation from the Western Heaven.
• True Man Qingxuan noticed Kong Wu’s increased strength, and Kong Wu asked to use Azure Cloud Sect’s teleportation array to reach the Western Ox Continent.
• True Man Qingxuan offered Kong Wu access to the array if he represented Azure Cloud Sect in the Kunlun Secret Realm trial.
• True Man Qingxuan explained that powerful cultivators could enter the trial despite its stated cultivation limits, and Kong Wu asked whether Demonic Sect cultivators would be there.

Yu Lin and Wu Nishang returned to Maple Dance City and learned that Kong Wu had nearly destroyed Bamboo Heart Sect. At Late Maple Tower, True Man Qingxuan proposed taking Maple Dance Valley in as a subordinate sect, but Wu Nishang balked when Kong Wu told her to have her disciples pay for Essence Absorption targets.

• Yu Lin brought Wu Nishang back to Maple Dance City, where Bai Xiucai told them Bamboo Heart Sect had been nearly wiped out by Kong Wu and Bamboo Heart Son likely would not return.
• Wu Nishang hurried to Late Maple Tower to question Kong Wu, while Bai Xiucai decided to leave the city and set off on his own.
• At Late Maple Tower, Wu Nishang found Kong Wu dining with Feng Lu and True Man Qingxuan, who had nearly struck her down when she first rushed into the room.
• True Man Qingxuan agreed to take Maple Dance Valley in as a subordinate sect and guarantee its interests in Maple Dance City, provided Wu Nishang stopped her disciples from forced Essence Absorption.
• Kong Wu suggested that Maple Dance Valley spend money to find Essence Absorption targets, and Wu Nishang worried that doing so would take away much of the fun.

Wu Nishang agreed to Maple Dance Valley becoming a sect under the Azure Cloud Sect, and Kong Wu left Maple Dance City after promising Feng Lu he would return for next year’s Red Maple Festival. He arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect and met its sect master, the Azure Cloud Daoist, as preparations for the Kunlun Secret Realm opportunity continued.

• Wu Nishang accepted the Azure Cloud Sect’s offer, then left Maple Dance City resolved to inform Maple Dance Valley.
• Kong Wu promised Feng Lu he would return for the next Red Maple Festival before True Man Qingxuan took him away.
• Kong Wu told True Man Qingxuan that immortals and mortals differed only in strength, leaving the Daoist to suspect Kong Wu’s origins.
• True Man Qingxuan brought Kong Wu to the Azure Cloud Sect through a teleportation array.
• The Azure Cloud Daoist and the Grand Elder welcomed Kong Wu in secret, and Kong Wu saw the sect master’s formidable Attribute Panel.

Kong Wu questioned why the Azure Cloud Sect needed him for the Kunlun Secret Realm trial, and True Man Qingyun explained the realm’s restrictions and the danger posed by the Twelve Human Immortals’ pet. Kong Wu concluded that his physical strength gave the Azure Cloud Sect a strong chance to claim the opportunity.

• True Man Qingyun called for Huan Xi, then complained that his disciple had left without permission and rambled about his past misdeeds.
• True Man Qingxuan offered wine, and Kong Wu used the toast to ask why the Azure Cloud Sect needed him for the trial despite having powerful cultivators of its own.
• True Man Qingyun explained that Body Integration cultivators could not freely use their full power in the Kunlun Secret Realm without risking the arrival of Xiyou, which would swallow everyone inside.
• True Man Qingyun clarified that true essence fluctuations were forbidden, but physical abilities were permitted, so factions recruited body cultivators to seek opportunities for them.
• Kong Wu declared that the opportunity in the Kunlun Secret Realm belonged to the Azure Cloud Sect.

Kong Wu prepared for his trip to the Western Ox Continent by allocating his attribute points and upgrading a battered pair of boots. He ended with boots that let him tread on clouds and lightning, gaining a powerful escape option before facing the Western Heaven Spirit Mountain.

• Kong Wu learned from True Man Qingxuan that the Azure Cloud Sect needed until the next day to modify its teleportation array for his journey to the Western Ox Continent.
• Kong Wu spent all 1243 free attribute points on Life and decided to use his three Special Attribute Points to improve his boots rather than the Tiger Soul Sword.
• Kong Wu restored the boots and gained the Flowing Wind attribute, which prevented air resistance and foot odor.
• Kong Wu used another point to give the boots Cloud Treading, allowing him to stand in the void.
• Kong Wu used his final point to gain Lightning Chasing, which increased his speed by twenty percent and let him travel a thousand li in an instant up to five times per day.

Kong Wu traveled to the Western Ox Continent to reclaim his mount and kill demon Buddhas, prompting the Azure Cloud Daoist and True Man Qingxuan to rush after him. They discovered that the teleportation passage had collapsed, leaving them unable to follow.

• Kong Wu set off through the Azure Cloud Sect’s modified teleportation array and told True Man Qingxuan he was going to kill several demon Buddhas and get his mount back.
• True Man Qingxuan warned the Azure Cloud Daoist that Kong Wu had gone to Western Heaven, and the Azure Cloud Daoist ordered him to follow Kong Wu before he provoked Spirit Mountain.
• The Azure Cloud Daoist explained that Spirit Mountain would send an Arhat if Kong Wu killed a Buddha with a divine position, and that even a low-ranked Arhat could threaten him.
• The Azure Cloud Daoist and True Man Qingxuan tried to activate the teleportation array, but an elder told them the passage had collapsed after something changed in the void.

During his journey through the void, Kong Wu encountered the Lord of Life Stealing, which demanded his worship and tried to make him write his name in a strange book. Kong Wu shattered the teleportation passage to escape, but a giant finger seal then struck at the creature for trespassing into Pangu territory.

• Kong Wu heard whispers in the void and saw a colossal, tentacled creature made of lines of force approach.
• Kong Wu recognized the creature as the Lord of Life Stealing, which offered him eternity in exchange for worship and presented a black book for him to write his name in.
• As the teleportation passage neared its end, the Lord of Life Stealing reached for Kong Wu, who used Moon Severance to cut open the passage.
• The passage shattered and pulled Kong Wu into a vortex, while the Lord of Life Stealing roared in frustration.
• A gigantic finger seal pressed down on the Lord of Life Stealing, and an unseen speaker challenged it for trespassing into Pangu territory.

Kong Wu arrived in a forest on Black Ox Mountain and agreed to help a woodcutter reach a cultivator named Black Ox, hoping to learn about the area and find information about Little Red. Meanwhile, Steward Liu told a Buddhist monk that Black Ox had been taking most of the villagers’ crops, and the monk vowed to investigate.

• Kong Wu realized he had veered away from the teleportation array’s destination and asked a woodcutter where he was and where the nearest city lay.
• The woodcutter offered to guide Kong Wu in exchange for help moving something, and Kong Wu cleared obstacles as they climbed Black Ox Mountain.
• The woodcutter told Kong Wu that cultivators lived in Black Ox Village and that Black Ox, a villager who had become a Nascent Soul cultivator, was the person they were going to meet.
• Steward Liu clutched a monk’s leg and claimed that Black Ox had tormented the villagers by taking seventy percent of their crops.
• The monk promised Steward Liu that the Buddhist disciples would not ignore a demon harming innocent commoners.

Steward Liu hired a monk to deal with the Black Ox Demon, while Kong Wu encountered a woodcutter dragging a tiger demon and his human senior brother to answer for damaged fields. The woodcutter revealed that the Black Ox Demon was descended from an ox his ancestors had raised, leaving Kong Wu to learn that the village’s conflict involved an unusually familiar kind of demon.

• Steward Liu gave the monk spirit stones, and the monk flew off to eliminate the Black Ox Demon after hearing that someone in Liu's Household had fallen victim to him.
• Kong Wu overheard a tiger demon and his human senior brother discussing their pay and the trouble the tiger had caused.
• The woodcutter accused the tiger demon of destroying his fields while trying to irrigate them, then insisted that the tiger and his senior brother come with him to see their master.
• Kong Wu asked whether the Black Ox was a Black Ox Demon, and the woodcutter said it was an ox his ancestors had raised three hundred years earlier that had gained a cultivation method.

Kong Wu confirmed that he had arrived in the Western Ox Continent and asked Black Ox about Golden Bowl City. Before Black Ox could help him further, a powerful monk appeared and attacked the demons of Black Ox Mountain.

• Old Zhang Tou accepted thirty taels of silver and a plow ox from Black Ox in exchange for sparing the little tiger demon.
• Kong Wu introduced himself to Black Ox and confirmed that he had reached the Western Ox Continent, but Black Ox had never heard of Golden Bowl City.
• Kong Wu noticed someone approaching, and a monk arrived in the sky, chanting and causing the demons to suffer.
• Black Ox confronted the monk and said the demons had lived peacefully, but the monk declared he would transcend every demon on the mountain.
• The monk struck Black Ox with a golden palm, shattering his counterattack and sending him flying as he spat blood.

Kong Wu protected Black Ox Demon from Monk Wuzhen and shattered the Buddha Bone Sarira that Wuzhen used to summon help from Mount Lingshan. Leiyin Jiālán descended in response, and the chapter ended as he turned his attention to Kong Wu.

• Black Ox Demon urged Kong Wu to flee and take Old Zhang Tou with him, but Kong Wu held him back to ask questions.
• Kong Wu silenced Wuzhen’s chanting with a cold snort, freeing Black Ox Demon’s disciples and shattering the sarira on Wuzhen’s scepter.
• Wuzhen accused Kong Wu of destroying the sarira and threatened him with punishment from Mount Lingshan.
• Leiyin Jiālán descended through the dark clouds, and Wuzhen blamed Kong Wu for the sarira’s destruction.
• Leiyin Jiālán looked at Kong Wu with surprise after hearing Wuzhen’s accusation.