Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji returned to the Sun Moon Sect's main altar with Ren Tianxing while Li Yaozu arrived in Azure City hoping to visit him. After Li Yaozu learned Xia Wuji had already left, the Myriad Law Sect spread rumors that Xia Wuji had fled, and Lin Shuang'er revealed her plan to use Li Yaozu to undermine Xia Wuji and the Sun Moon Sect.

• News spread through Azure City comparing Li Yaozu's victory over the Fire Fiend Evil Lord with Xia Wuji's past battles.
• Ren Tianxing took Xia Wuji, Lin Piaoxue, and Wen Shanshan back to the Sun Moon Sect's main altar to avoid rising conflicts within the Fiend Extermination Alliance and prepare for the coming chaos.
• Li Yaozu went to the Sun Moon Spirit Market to visit Xia Wuji, but the Sun Moon Sect's deputy sect master told him Xia Wuji had left Azure City.
• After Li Yaozu departed, the Myriad Law Sect spread rumors that Xia Wuji had fled because he feared Li Yaozu.
• Lin Shuang'er told Lin Bin that she planned to approach Li Yaozu herself, make him fall for her, and use him to eliminate Xia Wuji and weaken the Sun Moon Sect.

Xia Wuji helped Lin Piaoxue cultivate the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art and prepared for the Fiend Extermination Alliance’s final assault on the Twelve Fiends. As the alliance mobilized against the Soul Fiend Evil Lord, Xia Wuji completed his preparations and was summoned from seclusion.

• Xia Wuji revealed that Lin Piaoxue could cultivate the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art, and Ren Tianxing sent her into Sun Moon Pool while Xia Wuji declined to enter.
• Wen Shanshan told Xia Wuji that she and Lin Piaoxue would cultivate their respective arts and take charge of their sects so he could leave without worry.
• Over the next month, the Sky Eagle Sect withdrew most of its forces, the alliance suffered setbacks and internal disputes, and its leaders ordered a final assault on the Twelve Fiends.
• Ren Tianxing received the alliance’s demand to dispatch the Sun Moon Sect’s forces and ordered its elites to assemble and depart the next day.
• After a month of cultivation, Xia Wuji reached the eighth layer of the Yin Yang Realm, mastered the sixth flying sword, and formed Light Soul Severing Sword Qi to counter the Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s Soul Clan power.
• A ripple in the cultivation chamber’s formation notified Xia Wuji that he was needed, and he wondered if the final showdown was about to begin.

Xia Wuji joined the Fiend Extermination Alliance's assault on Vast Radiance Manor, where the Soul Fiend Evil Lord planned to use the Soul Refining Great Array to defeat the alliance. As Xia Wuji slaughtered enemies, he discovered that the array was funneling their soul origins into Qin Sheng.

• Xia Wuji told Ren Tianxing he would join the battle, then left Lin Piaoxue and Wen Shanshan at the Sun Moon Sect's main altar to cultivate in safety.
• The Soul Fiend Evil Lord rejected the Withered Glory Demon Lord's advice to retreat and revealed that the Soul Refining Great Array would absorb the souls of those killed near Vast Radiance Manor.
• The Soul Fiend Evil Lord chose Qin Sheng to serve as a vessel for the array's immense soul power, while another voice inside him demanded that he capture Xia Wuji alive.
• Ren Tianxing led the Sun Moon Sect's forces to the battle, where Li Miaozhen fought the Soul Fiend Evil Lord and Ren Tianxing joined Luo Chuan against the Withered Glory Demon Lord.
• Xia Wuji attacked aboard Pengfei with his flying swords and Golden Corpse Sword Puppet, then sensed that the array was absorbing the dead cultivators' soul origins into Qin Sheng.

Xia Wuji faced successive attempts to capture him alive after Soul Fiend Evil Lord revealed control over Huang Bo and sent Ice Fiend Evil Lord to attack. He destroyed the Golden Corpse Sword Puppet to wound Huang Bo, then killed Ice Fiend Evil Lord with a decisive sword strike.

• Soul Fiend Evil Lord ordered Huang Bo, whom he had secretly controlled, to capture Xia Wuji alive while Huang Bo's arrival threatened the Fiend Extermination Alliance.
• Xia Wuji shattered Huang Bo's attacks with the Golden Corpse Sword Puppet, then detonated it to gravely wound Huang Bo and stop his assault.
• Three Nirvana Realm experts surrounded the wounded Huang Bo, but Ice Fiend Evil Lord emerged from hiding and froze Xia Wuji and the nearby cultivators.
• Xia Wuji used his Heavenly Fire to break Ice Fiend Evil Lord's ice seal, stabbed him with the Jinghong Sword, and attacked with six flying swords.
• Xia Wuji used the Soaring Dragon Steps and True Martial Sword Art—Sword Howls Across the Firmament to split Ice Fiend Evil Lord in two.

After suffering severe injuries, Xia Wuji escaped the battlefield and tried to recover inside a formation, while the Fiend Extermination Alliance struggled against the Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s forces. The Shadow Fiend Evil Lord found Xia Wuji and began attacking his formation.

• After killing a Nirvana Realm demonic-cult powerhouse, Xia Wuji rode Pengfei out of the battlefield to avoid being surrounded.
• Ren Tianxing, Luo Chuan, and Li Miaozhen fought the enemy leaders as the Soul Fiend Evil Lord sealed the Dragon Carving and strengthened the Withered Glory Demon Lord and Blood Fiend Evil Lord.
• The Soul Fiend Evil Lord claimed he had prepared an ambush for Xia Wuji, prompting Ren Tianxing, Luo Chuan, and Li Miaozhen to send reinforcements after him.
• Xia Wuji reached a mountain forest, activated the Sixth Grade Low Rank Hundred Rivers Sword Formation, and began healing his injuries.
• The Shadow Fiend Evil Lord found Xia Wuji and sent his warriors to attack the formation, enhancing their strength with his shadows as they pressed inside.

Xia Wuji endured the Shadow Fiend Evil Lord’s attack until Seven Kill Hall assassins arrived and helped him kill the fiend. After recovering enough to meet Li Yaozu, Xia Wuji watched as Li Yaozu suddenly turned his spear on Lin Shuang'er when she proposed killing him.

• Xia Wuji withdrew his failing formation and fought the Shadow Fiend Evil Lord’s forces alongside Pengfei while concealing his worsening injuries.
• Tu Xin and four other Gold Killers rescued Xia Wuji, defeated the Shadow Fiend Evil Lord’s warriors, and captured the fiend.
• Tu Xin and the other assassins learned Xia Wuji was their Hall Master, and Xia Wuji killed the captured Shadow Fiend Evil Lord before hiding to heal.
• After half an hour of recovery, Xia Wuji learned that Li Yaozu and Lin Shuang'er were searching nearby and went to meet them.
• Lin Shuang'er offered to kill Xia Wuji for Li Yaozu, but Li Yaozu drew his spear and pierced her chest.

Lin Shuang'er tried to use the Myriad Law Sect to force Xia Wuji and Li Yaozu into conflict, but Xia Wuji killed her and revealed that he had become the hall master of Seven Kill Hall. After returning to the battlefield, Xia Wuji learned that Lin Bin was attacking him over his granddaughter's death and prepared to kill him in self-defense.

• Li Yaozu killed Lin Shuang'er for plotting against a Fiend Extermination Alliance member, and Xia Wuji beheaded her when Myriad Law Sect cultivators demanded her return.
• Tu Xin and the other Seven Kill Hall killers ambushed and killed the Myriad Law Sect cultivators, then knelt before Xia Wuji, who revealed he had become their hall master.
• Xia Wuji and Li Yaozu returned to the battlefield with Seven Kill Hall's killers, where Li Miaozhen continued fighting the Soul Fiend Evil Lord as Xia Wuji approached the sealed True Dragon Hall treasure.
• Xia Wuji had Seven Kill Hall spread news of Lin Shuang'er's death, and Lin Bin abandoned his fight with Huang Bo and charged at Xia Wuji in a rage.
• Xia Wuji ordered the Gold Killers to scatter and prepared to counterattack Lin Bin, confident he could kill him in self-defense.

Lin Bin and the Withered Glory Demon Lord both tried to seize or kill Xia Wuji as he raced toward the sealed Dragon Carving. Xia Wuji broke the Soul Clan seal with the Great Brightness Soul Purifying Art, and the Dragon Carving awakened just as the Withered Glory Demon Lord reached him.

• Lin Bin attacked Xia Wuji with three killing arts, but Xia Wuji dodged each one while rushing toward the Dragon Carving.
• The Soul Fiend Evil Lord ordered the Withered Glory Demon Lord to capture Xia Wuji alive and arranged for Ren Tianxing to be drawn away from the fight.
• Ren Tianxing blocked Lin Bin's Sky Collapse Seal and confronted him, but Lin Bin wounded him while the Withered Glory Demon Lord pursued Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji used the Great Brightness Soul Purifying Art to cleanse the Soul Clan seal from the Dragon Carving.
• The Dragon Carving broke free of the seal and surged toward the Withered Glory Demon Lord, unleashing a deafening dragon roar and overwhelming Dragon Might.

Xia Wuji used the Dragon Carving’s power to kill Lin Bin, the Withered Glory Demon Lord, and Huang Bo, turning the battle against the fiendish forces. As Ren Tianxing, Luo Chuan, and Li Miaozhen pressed the Soul Fiend Evil Lord, Xia Wuji sensed that Qin Sheng was nearing his limit and prepared to counter the enemy’s hidden trump card with one of his own.

• Xia Wuji unleashed the Dragon Carving’s power and joined Ren Tianxing in attacking Lin Bin, who called on the Soul Fiend Evil Lord for help.
• Xia Wuji used the Divine Dragon Transformation to destroy Lin Bin’s Judge’s Brush and kill him, then joined Ren Tianxing in killing the Withered Glory Demon Lord.
• Xia Wuji had Ren Tianxing reinforce Luo Chuan and Li Miaozhen while he led the Seven Kill Hall’s Gold Killers to kill Huang Bo.
• Ren Tianxing and Luo Chuan helped Luo Chuan kill the Blood Fiend Evil Lord, then joined Li Miaozhen in attacking the Soul Fiend Evil Lord.
• Xia Wuji sensed that Qin Sheng, the Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s container for soul power, was nearing his limit and prepared to counter the coming trump card.

Xia Wuji watched the Soul Fiend Evil Lord unleash the Soul Refining Great Array through Qin Sheng, flooding the battlefield with overwhelming soul power. He seized control of Qin Sheng and crushed the Soul Fiend Evil Lord, but the Soul Clan cultivator’s soul essence then entered Xia Wuji’s sea of consciousness, where Xia Wuji unleashed the Great Light Soul Severing Sword Qi.

• Xia Wuji warned the allied fighters to retreat as the Soul Fiend Evil Lord called on Qin Sheng and an underground palace erupted with immense soul power.
• Li Miaozhen, Ren Tianxing, and Luo Chuan swallowed Soul Stabilizing Heavenly Pills, but Qin Sheng’s roar still injured their souls and devastated the Fiend Extermination Alliance.
• Xia Wuji activated the Soul Splitting Technique, seized control of Qin Sheng, and made him punch through the Soul Fiend Evil Lord and crush his head.
• The Soul Clan cultivator’s soul essence detonated the Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s soul, then shot into Xia Wuji’s sea of consciousness to possess him.
• Xia Wuji released the Great Light Soul Severing Sword Qi inside his sea of consciousness.

Xia Wuji defeated the Soul Clan cultivator inside his sea of consciousness and helped secure Qingzhou’s victory over the fiendish forces. After recovering and explaining what happened, he returned toward the Sun Moon Sect’s main altar with a plan to use soul power against the Soul Clan’s origin beneath Yin Mountain.

• Xia Wuji used a second Light Soul Severing Sword Qi to completely destroy the Soul Clan cultivator’s spiritual essence, then assured Ren Tianxing, Luo Chuan, and Li Miaozhen that he was safe.
• The Fiend Extermination Alliance routed the fiendish forces, and Xia Wuji returned to Azure City to heal before explaining the Soul Clan cultivator’s involvement to Li Miaozhen, Luo Chuan, and Ren Tianxing.
• Ren Tianxing promised that the Sun Moon Sect would help the Sky Eagle Sect and Myriad Law Sect recover and preserve the coexistence of Qingzhou’s three great sects.
• Xia Wuji and Ren Tianxing left for the Sun Moon Sect’s main altar, where Xia Wuji used Qin Sheng’s corpse to create three thousand strands of soul power sword qi.
• Xia Wuji absorbed the soul power sword qi into his sea of consciousness and declared that he was ready to deal with the Soul Clan’s origin beneath Yin Mountain.

After the Sun Moon Sect celebrated its victory, Ren Tianxing made Xia Wuji Honorary Sect Master and named Lin Piaoxue his successor, while Xia prepared Wen Shanshan to lead the Seven Kill Hall. Xia left for Yin Mountain to deal with the Soul Clan source and pursue his mother's trial, and reached the mountain's summit after ordering the area cleared.

• Ren Tianxing appointed Xia Wuji Honorary Sect Master and Lin Piaoxue Young Sect Master, entrusting her with the Sun Moon Twin Blades and promising to abdicate when she reached the Nirvana Realm.
• Xia Wuji helped Wen Shanshan master the ninth layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao, then named her Hall Master of the Seven Kill Hall in front of Tu Xin.
• Xia told Lin Piaoxue and Wen Shanshan he would leave the next day, and they spent their final night together before his departure.
• Xia Wuji rode Golden Peng to the Third Branch Altar and ordered Shan Chong to withdraw the guards around Yin Mountain and keep others away.
• After the Sun Moon Sect personnel withdrew, Xia Wuji rode Pengfei into Yin Mountain and reached its summit.

Xia Wuji challenged the Soul Clan cultivator sealed beneath Yin Mountain, using the mountain’s formation and the Great Brightness Soul Purifying Art to attack him. As the Soul Clan cultivator neared escape, Xia Wuji unleashed a new torrent of soul-power sword qi.

• Jiang Zhiyuan met Xia Wuji at Yin Mountain and explained that the formation would have to be destroyed if Xia Wuji failed the trial.
• Xia Wuji activated the Great Brightness Soul Purifying Art and awakened the formation, locating the Soul Clan cultivator sealed inside the mountain.
• The Soul Clan cultivator’s body cracked under the formation’s assault, then exploded as his enormous soul body forced its way out.
• Xia Wuji bound the emerging soul with rune-pattern chains and burned it with the purifying art while Jiang Zhiyuan and Pengfei prepared to intervene.
• As the Soul Clan cultivator tore through the chains and nearly escaped, Xia Wuji formed new seals and unleashed a river of soul-power sword qi.

Xia Wuji subdued the Soul Clan cultivator and entered Yin Mountain’s depths, where he found a damaged Divine Artifact called the Universe Pagoda. His mother, Qin Suyi, appeared as an imprint within it and began to reveal information to him.

• Xia Wuji used soul-force sword qi and the Yin Mountain formation to weaken the Soul Clan cultivator and drag him back into the mountain.
• Xia Wuji entered Yin Mountain’s depths, struck the Soul Clan cultivator with six purifying flying swords, and restrained his soul fragments for questioning.
• Xia Wuji discovered rune patterns sealing a damaged three-story pagoda and recognized it as a Divine Artifact.
• Xia Wuji channeled spiritual power into the Universe Pagoda, revealing an imprint of Qin Suyi, who said he had passed her trial and began to explain some things.

Xia Wuji learned from Qin Suyi’s fading imprint about the Universe Pagoda, his mother’s plans, and the dangers awaiting him in the Middle Domain. After sealing Hun Lie inside the pagoda, he asked Jiang Zhiyuan how to reach the Middle Domain without using the Realm Passage, and Jiang proposed smuggling across the realm barrier.

• Qin Suyi explained that she had left the three levels of the Universe Pagoda for Xia Wuji and warned him to keep Hun Lie from recovering his peak strength.
• Qin Suyi told Xia Wuji to cross into the Middle Domain with Jiang Zhiyuan, stay in the Chaos Sea until he controlled the pagoda’s second level, and find his aunt Qin Baishang with the jade pendant.
• After Qin Suyi’s imprint disappeared, Xia Wuji questioned Hun Lie, learned he had come through a spatial rift, and sealed him inside the Universe Pagoda.
• Xia Wuji returned to Yin Mountain and asked Jiang Zhiyuan how to reach the Middle Domain without exposing the Universe Pagoda’s aura through the Realm Passage.
• Jiang Zhiyuan said he could help Xia Wuji smuggle across the realm barrier and claimed he had experience with the method.

Xia Wuji chose to enter the Central Domain by crossing the dangerous Domain Sea with Jiang Zhiyuan’s help, rather than using the Realm Passage. After preparing Wen Shanshan to lead the Seven Kill Hall alongside Lin Piaoxue, he reunited with Jiang Zhiyuan and reached the Domain Sea’s edge.

• Jiang Zhiyuan explained the dangers of smuggling across the Domain Sea and offered to contact a reliable snakehead for Xia Wuji.
• Jiang Zhiyuan revealed that the Domain Sea was a perilous, forbidden stretch separating the Lower Domain from the Central Domain’s Chaos Sea, which suited Xia Wuji’s need for a chaotic environment.
• Xia Wuji told Ren Tianxing he would travel through the Lower Domain’s provinces instead of taking a Realm Passage slot, without mentioning his plan to smuggle across.
• Xia Wuji told Wen Shanshan and Lin Piaoxue he would leave for the Central Domain, then helped Wen Shanshan strengthen her control over the Seven Kill Hall’s Gold and Silver Killers.
• Xia Wuji left Qing Province with Jiang Zhiyuan and reached the edge of the Domain Sea after six days of travel.

Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan hired Old Du to smuggle them and Pengfei across the Domain Sea to the Chaos Sea, where they waited aboard his ship for the remaining passengers. While preparing for the dangerous crossing, Xia Wuji advanced his cultivation and practiced with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords, but he could not yet merge them into one.

• Jiang Zhiyuan brought Xia Wuji and Pengfei to Old Du, who warned them about the deadly crossing and charged them ninety million Origin Stones for three places.
• Old Du led them aboard his black ship, where an elderly man and a white-robed girl were already waiting; the girl told her grandfather that Xia Wuji seemed special, and he cautioned her not to use her ability.
• Xia Wuji cultivated aboard the ship and broke through to the ninth stage of the Yin Yang Realm, then took out the Shock Flying Sword, Wugui.
• After several more days of practice, Xia Wuji coordinated all seven swords but failed to merge them into a single sword.

Xia Wuji refused to give up Pengfei’s place aboard Old Du’s ship to make room for the Sky Burning Sect party, and their dispute turned violent. As Jiang Zhiyuan fought the sect’s two elders, the Sky Burning Sect woman revealed she had tried to poison Xia Wuji and ordered her companions to kill him.

• Pengfei told Xia Wuji he was about to break through, and Xia Wuji gave him the Heaven Splitting Claw Technique to cultivate afterward.
• Jiang Zhiyuan told Xia Wuji that Old Du had finished gathering passengers and would depart in an hour after completing the smugglers’ formalities.
• A Sky Burning Sect woman and her companions demanded that Xia Wuji give up Pengfei’s place, but Xia Wuji refused despite their offer of thirty-five million Origin Stones.
• Two Sky Burning Sect elders attacked Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan, and Jiang Zhiyuan met their blows before the three were thrown off the ship.
• A white-robed woman warned Xia Wuji about a poisoned dart, which his flying sword split apart; the Sky Burning Sect woman then admitted she had launched it.
• The Sky Burning Sect woman ordered the two young men with her to attack Xia Wuji.

Xia Wuji defeated the Sky Burning Sect of Tong Prefecture fighters who attacked him, but Old Du halted the conflict as his ship prepared to sail. After the ship departed for the Central Region, Xia Wuji warned Jiang Zhiyuan that the newly boarded Yu Hai was hiding his strength and began cultivating for the dangerous journey.

• Xia Wuji killed one Sky Burning Sect fighter, cut another in two, and wounded their young miss when they attacked him.
• Old Du intervened before the two elders could resume the fight, and the Sky Burning Sect group and Xia Wuji with Jiang Zhiyuan boarded the ship.
• The Sky Burning Sect young miss offered its unused smuggling place to Yu Hai for thirty million Origin Stones, but Old Du forced her and the elders to apologize for trying to claim the place without paying him.
• Old Du warned the passengers not to cause trouble aboard his ship, then set sail through the Domain Sea with Yu Hai aboard.
• Xia Wuji told Jiang Zhiyuan that Yu Hai was concealing his strength, and then took pills and began cultivating for the journey.

Jiang Zhiyuan, Xia Wuji, and the other passengers endured the Domain Sea’s dangerous crossing aboard Old Du’s ship, which was suddenly caught in a whirlpool filled with Azure Sky Sea Pythons. As the White Robe Girl fell toward a python’s jaws, a flying sword swept her up.

• Old Du warned Jiang Zhiyuan about Qiao Zi’s powerful father and urged him to avoid provoking the Sky Burning Sect of Tong Prefecture.
• Qiao Zi vowed to take revenge for the deaths of her two companions, while the White Robe Girl discussed the Chaos Sea and her father with her grandfather.
• After half a month, Xia Wuji reached the Yin Yang Realm Tenth Layer and Pengfei advanced to a fifth-grade middle-rank Demon Beast as Old Du’s ship entered the Domain Sea’s most dangerous region.
• The passengers joined forces to withstand ten days of storms and black lightning before Old Du announced that they had passed the worst stretch.
• A giant whirlpool filled with Azure Sky Sea Pythons seized the ship, and their attacks broke through its formation barriers.
• The White Robe Girl was thrown through a breach, and her grandfather rushed to rescue her as Xia Wuji’s flying sword swept her away from a python’s jaws.