Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji fought his way toward the core of the Eight Directions Returning Yuan Formation and killed the Soul Fiend’s two peak Yin Yang Realm guards. The formation master then sealed the area and cut Xia Wuji off from the earth’s power, but Xia Wuji revealed he had been saving a move to kill him.

• Xia Wuji entered the valley with Pengfei and his flying swords while Yi Shengnan and the injured steward stayed behind to guard the entrance.
• Xia Wuji and Pengfei fought through the enemy ranks toward the formation eye, where a Soul Fiend formation master worked to seize control of the Eight Directions Returning Yuan Formation.
• The formation master sent his peak Yin Yang Realm blade and gu cultivators to attack Xia Wuji and Pengfei.
• Pengfei and Xia Wuji broke through the blade cultivator’s attack, and Xia Wuji burned away the gu worms before using Sword Intent to kill both guards with one slash.
• The formation master activated the formation to seal the ground and surrounding space, but Xia Wuji told him he had been holding back a move to send him on his way.

Xia Wuji defeated the Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s formation master and began taking control of the Eight Directions Returning Yuan Formation, while the Third Branch Altar’s defenders struggled against the other fiends. As Bai Ye faced the Blade Fiend Evil Lord’s ultimate attack, a distant formation erupted with power.

• Xia Wuji used the Spirit Reversal Seal to disrupt the formation master’s control, then killed him with the Yin Yang Tribulation sword.
• Pengfei caught the exhausted Xia Wuji, who swallowed a pill and began controlling the formation at its core.
• Yi Shengnan led the Third Branch Altar’s survivors to stop another enemy force from entering the valley.
• Zhang Jian fought the Gu Fiend Evil Lord, severed two of his spider legs, and was then pierced and poisoned by the fiend’s attacks.
• The Blade Fiend Evil Lord unleashed the Sky Collapse Life Seizing Slash against the badly wounded Bai Ye, who prepared to fight back at the cost of his life.
• A terrifying formation power erupted from the distant valley as the Third Branch Altar’s survivors faced despair.

Xia Wuji used the Eight Directions Returning Yuan Formation to turn the battle at the Sun Moon Sect's Third Branch Altar, helping Bai Ye defeat the attackers. After leaving a note explaining that he was pursuing a clue about the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends, Xia Wuji flew with Pengfei toward Yin Mountain.

• The Eight Directions Grand Formation shattered Blade Fiend Evil Lord's attack, allowing Bai Ye to wound him and force him to flee.
• The formation and Bai Ye defeated Gu Fiend Evil Lord, who was captured alive as the remaining Twelve Fiends followers fled.
• Bai Ye ordered Zhang Jian to organize a counterattack, then searched for Xia Wuji and Yi Shengnan at the formation's core.
• Yi Shengnan told Bai Ye and Zhang Jian that Xia Wuji had seized control of the formation, but they found only his message saying he was pursuing a crucial clue.
• Xia Wuji quietly left the Third Branch Altar with Pengfei and flew toward Yin Mountain while recovering his strength.

After helping the Third Branch Altar, Xia Wuji secretly traveled to Yin Mountain to prepare for the Extreme Yin Day and recover his depleted soul. He broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm Triple Layer, but when the Extreme Yin Day arrived, a colossal Soul Clan shadow burst from Yin Mountain’s seal, leaving Xia Wuji facing a far greater danger than expected.

• Bai Ye told Zhang Jian to search secretly for Xia Wuji while he returned to the main altar to request reinforcements and bring back the crippled Gu Fiend Evil Lord.
• Xia Wuji entered Yin Mountain with Pengfei and searched for soul spirits, using three of them to restore his depleted soul.
• As the Extreme Yin Day approached, Xia Wuji watched the Soul Clan cultivator’s attacks make Yin Mountain shake increasingly violently and trained nearby.
• On the day before the Extreme Yin Day, Xia Wuji opened his third grotto-heaven and reached the Cave Heaven Realm Triple Layer.
• When the Extreme Yin Day began, countless sealing runes shattered and a colossal Soul Clan shadow broke through Yin Mountain’s seal, with only its legs still trapped.

Xia Wuji watched Jiang Zhiyuan reseal the Soul Clan cultivator beneath Yin Mountain and learned that reaching the summit was a trial arranged by his mother. Determined to continue despite the danger, he faced a swarm of evil spirits and revealed the power to destroy them.

• Jiang Zhiyuan arrived at Yin Mountain's summit and used its runes to seal the Soul Clan cultivator again.
• Xia Wuji recognized Jiang Zhiyuan as his mother's old companion, and Jiang told him to return when he had reached the Life and Death Realm.
• Jiang Zhiyuan explained that Xia Wuji's climb was his mother's trial and that he had only one chance to reach the summit.
• Jiang Zhiyuan sent Pengfei away, and Xia Wuji charged toward Yin Mountain despite warnings about the evil spirits and Baleful Spirits.
• Evil spirits attacked Xia Wuji, but he used the Great Brightness Pure Soul Method, Bright Spirit Talismans, and Sword Intent to shatter them.

Xia Wuji climbed Yin Mountain, destroying evil spirits and trapping a baleful spirit in a formation while waiting for reinforcements to arrive. When two more baleful spirits appeared, he activated seventeen enhanced Bright Spirit Talismans, filling the area around the mountain with white light.

• Xia Wuji used the Great Brightness Pure Soul Method, Bright Spirit Talismans, and his flying swords to destroy evil spirits as he climbed Yin Mountain and refined seven soul pills.
• A baleful spirit possessing a Fourth-tier High-grade giant python attacked Xia Wuji, but he suppressed it with his Earth Foot sword technique and a formation.
• Xia Wuji endured the baleful spirit’s soul-targeting cries while allowing it to call for help, intending to destroy the baleful spirits together.
• Jiang Zhiyuan rushed down from the summit when two more baleful spirits arrived, but Xia Wuji told him to stay back.
• Xia Wuji activated seventeen enhanced Bright Spirit Talismans, bathing Yin Mountain and the surrounding area in brilliant white light.

Xia Wuji defeated three Baleful Spirits at Yin Mountain, passed his mother’s trial, and received a letter explaining why she had left and what remained sealed beneath the mountain. After learning he must reach Nirvana Realm strength before confronting the Soul Clan cultivator, Xia Wuji sensed an intruder, and Jiang Zhiyuan charged to meet them.

• Xia Wuji activated seventeen enhanced Bright Spirit Talismans and destroyed three Baleful Spirits, refining twenty-one Soul Pellets.
• Jiang Zhiyuan met Xia Wuji at Yin Mountain’s summit and gave him a letter from his mother after he passed her trial.
• Xia Wuji read Qin Suyi’s letter, learning she had sealed a Soul Clan cultivator beneath Yin Mountain and left a gift there for him.
• Jiang Zhiyuan explained that Xia Wuji needed Nirvana Realm strength to enter the seal and kill the Soul Clan cultivator, and described a contingency that could destroy it at the cost of the gift.
• Xia Wuji sensed someone nearby, and Jiang Zhiyuan rushed toward them as two peak Nirvana Realm forces collided.

Xia Wuji discovered that the Soul Fiend Evil Lord had symbiotically merged with the Soul Clan cultivator sealed beneath Yin Mountain, making him a threat to his mother’s plan. After the Extreme Yin Day passed safely, Xia Wuji strengthened his mental power by refining soul pills and prepared to consider another way to deal with the Soul Fiend Evil Lord.

• Xia Wuji sensed that the masked fighter battling Jiang Zhiyuan carried the Soul Clan’s soul-force origin, and the man fled after falling slightly behind.
• Jiang Zhiyuan identified the intruder as the Soul Fiend Evil Lord, and Xia Wuji explained the Soul Clan’s symbiosis technique and how it could thwart his mother’s plan.
• Jiang Zhiyuan explained that Xia Wuji’s mother had severed karmic ties to protect him, which limited Jiang Zhiyuan to visiting Yin Mountain for a few days each year.
• Xia Wuji deduced that the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends had attacked the Sun Moon Sect’s Third Branch Altar to help the Soul Fiend Evil Lord reach Yin Mountain and free the sealed Soul Clan cultivator.
• Jiang Zhiyuan guarded Yin Mountain through the Extreme Yin Day, while Xia Wuji purified and consumed three soul pills, greatly increasing his mental power.

Xia Wuji received Jiang Zhiyuan’s Seven Kill Golden Token and the Mysterious Killing Dao before leaving Yin Mountain. He then intervened when Myriad Law Sect disciples attacked the Sun Moon Sect’s Third Branch Altar and left their chief disciple defeated by Pengfei.

• Jiang Zhiyuan gave Xia Wuji the Seven Kill Golden Token, the Mysterious Killing Dao, and a spirit talisman, then left to hide from karma.
• Xia Wuji left Yin Mountain on Pengfei and hurried toward a battle after hearing an explosion.
• Xia Wuji arrived as a Myriad Law Sect chief disciple overwhelmed a Sun Moon Sect cultivator and stopped the man’s killing strike with a flying sword.
• The Myriad Law Sect chief disciple challenged Xia Wuji, but Pengfei wounded him, pierced his chest, and dropped him before Xia Wuji.
• Pengfei stood on the fallen disciple’s head and mocked him for failing to defeat a little bird.

Xia Wuji returned to the Sun Moon Sect's Third Branch Altar after rescuing its forces from the Myriad Law Sect, and warned Zhang Jian that Yin Mountain was tied to the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends' secrets. With the sect under pressure from multiple enemies, Xia Wuji settled into seclusion to strengthen himself and prepare for what came next.

• Xia Wuji killed the Myriad Law Sect's chief disciple, then joined Pengfei and the Sun Moon Sect cultivators in wiping out the invading force.
• A middle-aged female cultivator told Xia Wuji that Wang Tong had been recalled to the main altar and that the Myriad Law Sect had seized more than ten Sun Moon Sect territories.
• At the Third Branch Altar, Shan Chong and Zhang Jian worried over Xia Wuji's disappearance until he returned safely.
• Xia Wuji told Zhang Jian that the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends were likely connected to Yin Mountain's secrets, and Zhang Jian sent Shan Chong to request reinforcements and report Xia Wuji's return.
• Xia Wuji collected a fifth-grade lower-grade spirit sword and cultivation resources, then refined the sword to strengthen his Sword Seed and Sword Intent.
• Xia Wuji remained in seclusion and planned to improve the Jinghong Sword, refine pills and Lost Life, cultivate the Mysterious Killing Dao, and absorb twenty-five Soul Pills.

Xia Wuji emerged from cultivation to find Sky Eagle Sect disciples forcing their way into his courtyard and trying to seize Pengfei. He stopped their attack, and the confrontation with their leader began.

• During half a month of seclusion, Xia Wuji refined the Jinghong Sword and Flying Sword of Worry, perfected the seventh layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao, and advanced to the fourth layer of the Cave Heaven Realm.
• A group from the Sky Eagle Sect went to Xia Wuji's Holy Son's Courtyard, intending to take Pengfei, a golden roc with a mutated bloodline.
• When the courtyard guard refused them entry, a Sky Eagle Sect disciple punched him, and the group beat the other guards and maidservants as they forced their way inside.
• Pengfei fought back and severed the chains the Sky Eagle Sect disciples threw at him, but their leader attacked him with a fourth-grade supreme Mountain Suppressing Talisman.
• Xia Wuji appeared and destroyed the talisman's mountain phantom with the Flying Sword of Anger, then glared at the Sky Eagle Sect leader.

Xia Wuji forced Xu Ruolin to apologize after she trespassed into his courtyard, injured his people, and demanded that he sell Pengfei. When Zhao Zichuan arrived, he sided with Xu Ruolin and demanded that Xia Wuji kneel and hand over the Demon Beast.

• Xu Ruolin tried to buy Xia Wuji's Demon Beast and threatened him with the consequences of losing the Sky Eagle Sect's support, but Xia Wuji refused and demanded an apology for her mistreatment of his people.
• Xia Wuji held his sword to Xu Ruolin's throat while Pengfei knocked away the Sky Eagle Sect disciples, forcing Xu Ruolin to apologize and give pills to the injured maid and guards.
• After Xia Wuji ordered Xu Ruolin out, she told Senior Brother Huang that Xia Wuji had harassed and attacked her, and Zhao Zichuan offered to punish Xia Wuji on the Sun Moon Sect's behalf.
• The Twelfth Branch Altar's Holy Son and Holy Maiden tried to calm the dispute, but Zhao Zichuan demanded that Xia Wuji kneel and hand over the Demon Beast as an apology.

Xia Wuji’s golden Great Peng, Pengfei, defeated Zhao Zichuan and overpowered the Sky Eagle Sect’s Blood Clawed Grey Eagle. When Huang Hao attacked Xia Wuji, Xia’s Sword Intent took form as countless streams of sword qi and surged toward him.

• Zhao Zichuan attacked Xia Wuji, but Pengfei cut him open and covered him in bird droppings.
• Huang Hao summoned his Blood Clawed Grey Eagle and challenged Xia Wuji, while Xu Ruolin became even more eager to claim Pengfei.
• Pengfei fought the Blood Clawed Grey Eagle and gained the upper hand with its Golden Winged Slash.
• Huang Hao charged Xia Wuji with the Heart Crushing Eagle Claw Technique and knocked the Twelfth Branch Altar’s Holy Son aside.
• Xia Wuji unleashed formed Sword Intent and sent countless streams of sword qi toward Huang Hao.

Xia Wuji defeated Huang Hao and the Sky Eagle Sect disciples, then refused to admit wrongdoing when Xu Wen demanded he be handed over. After the Sky Eagle Sect withdrew its support over the Corpse Ghost Cave dispute, Xia Wuji asked Zhang Jian to let him join the operation against it.

• Xia Wuji defeated Huang Hao, Xu Ruolin, Zhao Zichuan, and the Sky Eagle Sect disciples, while Pengfei killed the Blood Clawed Grey Eagle.
• Shan Chong brought Xia Wuji to meet Zhang Jian, but Xu Wen stormed into the hall and demanded Xia Wuji be punished or the Sky Eagle Sect would withdraw its help.
• Zhang Jian refused to hand Xia Wuji over, and Xu Wen led the Sky Eagle Sect members away, threatening to leave the Third Branch Altar to face the Corpse Ghost Cave alone.
• Liu Luan revoked Zhao Zichuan's status as the Ninth Branch Altar's Holy Son for his conduct.
• Xia Wuji learned that the Corpse Ghost Cave posed a grave threat and asked Zhang Jian to let him take part in clearing it.

Xia Wuji joined the Sun Moon Sect’s plan to destroy the Corpse Ghost Cave, where the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord was gathering corpses to create a Gold Corpse. The three branch altars exposed the cave and prepared to fight, while Xia Wuji sought to study the Evil Corpses’ techniques.

• Xia Wuji insisted on fighting for the Third Branch Altar, and Zhang Jian agreed to let him join the assault on the Corpse Ghost Cave.
• Zhang Jian, Liu Luan, and He Hui decided to attack the cave with the forces of three branch altars before the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord could refine a Corpse Pill.
• Xia Wuji used a secret technique to advance Pengfei to the fourth-grade mid-tier realm ahead of the battle.
• Zhang Jian led an army of more than ten thousand cultivators from the three branch altars toward the Corpse Ghost Cave, joined by Yi Shengnan.
• The three Altar Masters and their forces struck the ground near the cave, exposing the underground chamber and its ranks of Evil Corpses.
• Xia Wuji resolved to enter the fray and study the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s techniques so he could devise a way to counter them.

The Sun Moon Sect's forces battled Corpse Ghost Cave's army of Evil Corpses, while Xia Wuji used his Spiritual Eye Technique to discover that hidden Corpse Controllers directed them. He killed one controller and captured its soul, but as he prepared to leave the battlefield to investigate the corpse-control art, a Silver Corpse attacked him.

• Zhang Jian, Liu Luan, He Hui, and the Sun Moon Sect forces attacked Corpse Ghost Cave, where Corpse Fiend Evil Lord's forces countered them with Evil Corpses and a Gu cultivator.
• Pengfei and Xia Wuji fought through the Evil Corpses while Xia Wuji used his Spiritual Eye Technique to trace their controlling power to a Rotten Corpse disguised as a human Corpse Controller.
• Xia Wuji and Pengfei cleared a path to the Corpse Controller, and Xia Wuji's flying sword Bewitching Heart pierced its skull and captured its soul.
• The Evil Corpses controlled by the captured Corpse Controller became inactive, and Xia Wuji sealed its soul so he could investigate the Corpse Control Secret Art.
• As Xia Wuji prepared to withdraw from the battle, a Silver Corpse pounced toward him.

Xia Wuji exposed and killed a Corpse Controller on the battlefield, then withdrew to a guarded valley with two captured souls. He began using the Soul Searching Technique on them to uncover Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s corpse-controlling method.

• Xia Wuji and Pengfei fought a silver-glimmering Evil Corpse while Yi Shengnan held off the Bronze Corpses attacking them.
• Xia Wuji used his Spiritual Eye Technique to locate a disguised Corpse Controller, then killed him with a sword strike empowered by Earth Foot.
• The Corpse Controller’s Evil Corpses stopped moving, and Xia Wuji sealed his soul inside the flying sword Blazing Embers.
• As other Corpse Controllers targeted him and Evil Corpses swarmed, Xia Wuji escaped with Pengfei, aided by Yi Shengnan and Shan Chong.
• Xia Wuji reached a valley, set up fourth-tier upper-grade Formation Flags, and prepared to search the souls sealed in Bewitching Heart and Blazing Embers.

Xia Wuji used soul-searching to learn that Corpse Fiend Evil Lord planned to refine his own body into a golden corpse, then deduced a counter to the Corpse Sac Sutra. A Gu Fiend Evil Lord disciple ambushed him, but Xia Wuji revealed he could wield three flying swords and killed the attacker before heading back to the battlefield.

• Xia Wuji searched the souls of two Corpse Fiend Evil Lord subordinates and learned their master was refining himself into a golden corpse.
• Xia Wuji mastered the Corpse Sac Sutra and deduced a method to counter it.
• A Gu Fiend Evil Lord disciple revealed he had followed Xia Wuji and attacked him with swarms of Gu worms.
• Xia Wuji and Pengfei fought the disciple, and Xia Wuji surprised him by wielding a third flying sword.
• Xia Wuji unleashed his sword intent, killed the Gu cultivator, recalled his three flying swords, and told Pengfei to return to the battlefield.

Xia Wuji’s talisman exposed the Corpse Controllers hidden among the Evil Corpses, turning the battle in the Sun Moon Sect’s favor. As Zhang Jian and the other altar masters attacked a false Golden Corpse, Xia Wuji realized the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s real Golden Corpse body was unguarded and infiltrated the Corpse Ghost Cave.

• Zhang Jian proposed destroying the soon-to-be-complete Golden Corpse with the Jade Stone Mutual Destruction Technique, but Xia Wuji arrived with a talisman that revealed the hidden connections between Corpse Controllers and the Evil Corpses.
• Xia Wuji explained that fourth-tier Formation Masters could produce the revealing talismans, so Zhang Jian withdrew the Sun Moon Sect’s forces and ordered them to make more.
• The Corpse Fiend Evil Lord hid his true Golden Corpse body and possessed his disciple to control a false Golden Corpse and mislead the Sun Moon Sect.
• The Sun Moon Sect’s cultivators used Xia Wuji’s talismans to expose and kill the Corpse Controllers, causing the Evil Corpses they controlled to become inert.
• Zhang Jian, Liu Luan, and He Hui attacked the false Golden Corpse while Xia Wuji realized the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s real body was unoccupied and slipped into the Corpse Ghost Cave with Pengfei.

Xia Wuji uncovered the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord's hidden plan to return his soul to a second Golden Corpse after the Sun Moon Sect dealt with the decoy. He broke into the formation, took control of the unattended Golden Corpse, and waited for the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord to arrive so he could surprise him.

• Xia Wuji followed the hidden corpse aura through the Corpse Ghost Cave and realized the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord planned to escape the decoy body and reclaim his hidden Golden Corpse.
• Xia Wuji used the Spirit Reversal Seal and his flying swords to break through the fifth-grade formation restriction, then entered with Pengfei.
• Pengfei attacked the Golden Corpse but could not damage its body, which was as hard as a sixth-grade spirit artifact.
• Xia Wuji placed a spiritual restriction in the Golden Corpse's mind and took control of it while it continued absorbing corpse aura.
• Xia Wuji planned to wait for the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord to return to the Golden Corpse and give him a surprise.