Chapter Summaries

The Hell Lord appointed Mo Ying to preside over Purgatory’s grand competition while preparing to defend Purgatory against the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land. Xia Wuji joined the competition, where his enemies threatened him and he vowed to kill anyone who faced him in the arena.

• The Hell Lord rejected objections from Lin Sanniang, Dugu Ding Tian, and the Dark Asura and appointed Mo Ying to preside over Purgatory’s grand competition.
• The Hell Lord explained that she had to remain inside the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array in case the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land attacked, then asked Mo Ying and the Sword Rakshasa about Xia Wuji and ordered them to nurture him.
• Mo Ying and the Sword Rakshasa went to Mo Xinlan’s residence to summon Xia Wuji, where Mo Ying caught him with Mo Xinlan and left in displeasure.
• The Sword Rakshasa brought Xia Wuji to the martial arena, where one hundred contestants gathered for Purgatory’s grand competition.
• Lin Tianhu threatened Xia Wuji, and Gong Yue urged him to settle their grudges through strength in the competition.
• Xia Wuji warned his hostile rivals to surrender if they met him in the arena or die beneath his sword.

Xia Wuji drew number twelve for the Purgatory Tournament and traded threats with Zhang Cheng and Lin Tianhu as the opening matches began. After Zhang Cheng killed an opponent who tried to concede, Lin Tianhu forfeited his own first match and vowed to challenge Xia Wuji if Xia won his upcoming bout.

• Zhang Cheng challenged Xia Wuji’s confidence, and Xia Wuji dismissed him as a laughingstock.
• Mo Ying announced the tournament rules, including that defeated contestants could challenge a winner and that each contestant could be challenged at most three times.
• Xia Wuji drew number twelve and was paired with a woman from under Night Rakshasa, while Lin Tianhu drew number nine and learned he would face a stronger opponent under Mad Saber Asura.
• The first six matches passed without deaths, but Zhang Cheng killed a Rakshasa from Ghost Sword Island before she could finish conceding.
• Lin Tianhu conceded his match and announced he would use his challenge to fight Xia Wuji if Xia won the thirteenth battle; Xia Wuji accepted the threat.

Xia Wuji defeated Yu Wan in the first round, while Song Lin challenged Lin Tianhu’s courage and provoked him. In the challenge round, Xia Wuji killed Lin Tianhu despite Lin Sanniang’s threat, then asked her to repeat it.

• Xia Wuji defeated Yu Wan with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords and warned Lin Tianhu that he would use the same move against him.
• Gong Yue defeated a sixth-stage Asura after more than a thousand rounds of fighting, then withdrew to recover.
• Song Lin severed her opponent’s arm and condemned him for retreating, then called Lin Tianhu a coward when he defended the choice to flee.
• Lin Tianhu challenged Xia Wuji in the third match of the challenge round, but Xia Wuji pierced his armor and head with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords.
• Xia Wuji stomped Lin Tianhu’s ribs and killed him after Lin Sanniang threatened him, then asked Lin Sanniang to repeat what she had said.

After Xia Wuji killed Lin Tianhu, Lin Sanniang was stopped from attacking him and secretly ordered Gong Yue to use the Blood Demon Curse to kill him in the next round. Xia Wuji advanced to the seventh stage of the Nirvana Realm, and the second round of the Purgatory Grand Tournament began with Lin Sanniang waiting to see him die.

• Lin Sanniang charged at Xia Wuji, but Mo Ying and Sword Rakshasa stopped her and warned her not to disrupt the tournament.
• Mo Ying gave Xia Wuji ten drops of Sea Heart Marrow, which he refined overnight to reach the seventh stage of the Nirvana Realm and strengthen his body and soul.
• Lin Sanniang ordered Gong Yue to challenge and kill Xia Wuji, giving her essence blood containing the Blood Demon Curse.
• Sword Rakshasa and Mo Ying arranged for the Ghost Sword Island and Mo Garden contestants to use their challenges against Xia Wuji if they lost their matches.
• The fifty second-round contestants entered the martial arena, where Lin Sanniang sat beside Lin Tianhu's corpse and threatened Xia Wuji.

The second round of the Inferno Prison Grand Tournament saw Gong Yue surrender to preserve her place in the challenge order, while Zhang Cheng killed a Mo Garden fighter and Xia Wuji won his scheduled match. Gong Yue then challenged Xia Wuji, and Lin Sanniang ordered her to kill him as she called him onto the arena.

• Mo Ying announced the second-round rules, and Xia Wuji drew a match against a fifth-level Asura under the late Sea Burning Asura.
• Gong Yue surrendered her scheduled match, then positioned herself to challenge Xia Wuji; Sword Rakshasa warned him that he could give up if necessary.
• Song Lin defeated her opponent with a controlled saber strike, while Zhang Cheng killed a Mo Garden Asura and provoked Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji defeated his scheduled opponent using the Seven Emotions Flying Swords technique without drawing the Startling Rainbow Sword.
• Gong Yue challenged Xia Wuji, and Lin Sanniang told her to tear him apart before Gong Yue called him onto the arena.

Xia Wuji fought Gong Yue in the Infernal Competition and killed her with the ultimate move of the Ghostly Sword Art. He left Lin Sanniang facing the loss after she had expected him to die.

• Mo Ying began the match after Lin Sanniang, Dugu Ding Tian, and Dark Asura pressured her to remain impartial.
• Gong Yue sealed the arena with the Blood Prison Technique and attacked Xia Wuji with blood techniques, including the Li Xue Heavenly Manifestation.
• Xia Wuji countered Gong Yue's attacks with his Seven Emotions Flying Swords, Jinghong Sword, and Mountain River Sword Technique, but the blood giant sent him flying.
• Lin Sanniang urged Gong Yue to finish the fight, while Xia Wuji recognized that Gong Yue was using outside power.
• Xia Wuji unleashed Ghostly Divinity Unification, destroying the Li Xue Heavenly Manifestation and killing Gong Yue.
• Xia Wuji sheathed his sword and told Lin Sanniang that he was sorry to disappoint her again.

Xia Wuji secured the third-round bye by taking the token from a glowing sphere, then shocked the tournament by using his challenge opportunity to face Zhang Cheng. After Zhang Cheng killed He Chen, Xia Wuji declared that he intended to kill him.

• Lin Sanniang left the tournament carrying Lin Tianhu’s corpse after Xia Wuji taunted her, and the second round ended with twenty-five contestants remaining.
• Mo Ying announced that contestants could earn a third-round bye by finding the token hidden in one of a hundred glowing spheres.
• Xia Wuji identified the sphere containing the token, and Song Lin cracked it while confronting Zhang Cheng, allowing Xia Wuji to claim the token with his flying sword.
• The third round began with Xia Wuji receiving a bye, but Zhang Cheng killed He Chen in three moves and gestured threateningly at Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji invoked his challenge opportunity against Zhang Cheng and said he intended to take his life.

Xia Wuji challenged Zhang Cheng in the Purgatory Tournament after Zhang Cheng taunted him, while Lin Sanniang and Dugu Ding Tian secretly asked that Xia Wuji be crippled. Xia Wuji revealed his full strength, defeated Zhang Cheng, and killed him in front of the two Yellow Springs Emissaries and Dark Asura.

• Xia Wuji rejected warnings from the crowd and challenged Zhang Cheng, earning Song Lin's support and worrying Sword Rakshasa, Ding Lu, Yao Xi, and Mo Xinlan.
• Lin Sanniang and Dugu Ding Tian asked Dark Asura to have Zhang Cheng cripple Xia Wuji rather than kill him, and Zhang Cheng agreed.
• Xia Wuji and Zhang Cheng began their challenge match, and Xia Wuji evaded Zhang Cheng's attacks before countering with the Mountain River Sword Technique.
• Xia Wuji used Earth Foot to strengthen his sword attack, overwhelmed Zhang Cheng, and stopped him from fleeing with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords.
• Xia Wuji unleashed the Nine Steps to Heaven, slashed open Zhang Cheng's chest, pinned him with seven flying swords, and shredded him in front of Dark Asura, Lin Sanniang, and Dugu Ding Tian.

Xia Wuji killed Zhang Cheng and advanced to the final round of the Purgatory Tournament, where the contestants had to comprehend a secret art supplied by Hell Lord Qin Baishang. Xia Wuji perfected it almost immediately, while the other contestants had yet to make progress, and Qin Baishang watched with growing excitement.

• Xia Wuji killed Zhang Cheng, and Sword Rakshasa escorted him away from the arena as the crowd celebrated his victory.
• Mo Ying called the twelve remaining contestants into the fourth and final round, where they competed to comprehend a secret art and earn Hell Envoy status.
• Song Lin praised Xia Wuji and challenged him to a wager over who would comprehend the secret art better.
• Xia Wuji recognized that the secret art involved controlling sea spirits and resembled talismanic imprints he had previously removed from sea beasts.
• Qin Baishang and Granny Rong discussed the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land's renewed threat and hoped the contestants could help ease the pressure on Qin Baishang.
• Xia Wuji illuminated all ten layers of his jade slip and perfected the secret art in less than half a quarter of an hour, astonishing everyone watching.

Xia Wuji became a Hell Envoy and met his aunt, Qin Baishang, who revealed that the Spirit Drawing Technique could harness sea-spirit power and assigned him to learn its middle chapter. Before he could reveal their family connection, a powerful First Elder from the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land arrived to challenge Qin Baishang.

• Xia Wuji perfected the Spirit Drawing Technique’s opening chapter, and nine of the twelve competitors qualified as Hell Envoys.
• The Heavenly Origin Sacred Land’s First Elder learned that Qin Baishang had killed Elder Zhou and vowed to attack Purgatory Island.
• Mo Ying brought the nine new Hell Envoys before Qin Baishang, and Xia Wuji recognized how closely she resembled his mother but concealed their connection.
• Qin Baishang explained that the Spirit Drawing Technique used sea-spirit power and ordered eight Hell Envoys to refine the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array’s Heavenly Locks.
• Qin Baishang told Xia Wuji to remain and cultivate the technique’s middle chapter, while he prepared to show her his mother’s jade pendant.
• The First Elder tore through space above Purgatory Island, unleashed his terrifying might, and demanded that Qin Baishang kneel to welcome him.

Qin Baishang confronted Shen Li, the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land's First Elder, who came to Purgatory Island to punish her and threaten its people. She revealed her break from the Sacred Land and fought him with her Ice Soul Sword, but Shen Li unleashed captured sea spirits to counter the island's array.

• Qin Baishang left Granny Rong in charge of the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array and confronted Shen Li, who claimed authority over her as a member of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.
• Qin Baishang accused Shen Li and the Sacred Land of persecuting her family, while Xia Wuji realized his mother had been harmed by them.
• Shen Li demanded Qin Baishang surrender and threatened to destroy Purgatory, then attacked her with phantom Demon Beasts from his feather fan.
• Qin Baishang froze and shattered the Demon Beasts, revealing that she had reached the Limitless Realm, while Shen Li disclosed that he was a third-stage Limitless Realm expert.
• Qin Baishang froze Shen Li with Glacial Descent, and Granny Rong used the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array and Spirit Drawing Technique to attack him with its eight chains.
• Shen Li broke free, revealed that he had captured four sea spirits, and turned them into runic inscriptions that entered the array's chains.

Xia Wuji rescued the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array long enough for Purgatory's survivors to flee, while Qin Baishang battled Shen Li and was captured. Xia Wuji revealed that he was Qin Baishang's nephew, then used the array and his power to join her fight against Shen Li.

• Xia Wuji used the sea spirits to blunt Shen Li's attack on the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array, though Granny Rong and the others were badly injured.
• Qin Baishang fought Shen Li to give Purgatory's people time to escape, while Mo Ying and Sword Rakshasa forcibly carried the distraught Mo Xinlan away.
• Xia Wuji extracted Shen Li's power from the sea spirits as Purgatory fell, and Shen Li defeated Qin Baishang and stopped her from self-destructing.
• Shen Li revealed that he wanted to capture Qin Baishang as leverage to bargain with her father, who had returned from the forbidden land.
• The black chains of the Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array rescued Qin Baishang, and Xia Wuji showed her the jade pendant his mother had left him, revealing he was her nephew.
• Xia Wuji refused to leave and unleashed the array, the seven sea spirits, and soul force from the Universe Pagoda to help Qin Baishang fight Shen Li.

Xia Wuji and Qin Baishang killed Shen Li during the Calamity of Purgatory, but Xia Wuji collapsed from his injuries and exhaustion. After waking from a seven-day coma, he reunited with Qin Baishang and asked her where his mother was.

• Qin Baishang slowed Shen Li while Xia Wuji’s Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array wounded him, and the two killed Shen Li and destroyed his soul.
• Xia Wuji fainted after telling Qin Baishang the battle was over, and he remained unconscious for seven days.
• Mo Xinlan told Xia Wuji that Qin Baishang had killed Dark Asura, Dugu Ding Tian, and Lin Sanniang after they attacked Mo Ying and Sword Rakshasa.
• Xia Wuji woke and reassured Mo Xinlan, who told him that Qin Baishang had visited him repeatedly and seemed deeply worried.
• Qin Baishang checked Xia Wuji’s condition and reassured him before he asked where his mother was.

Qin Baishang told Xia Wuji how his mother had been hunted by the Azure Ripple Divine Sect and disappeared after returning to the Upper Domain. After learning the truth about his family and his aunt’s past, Xia Wuji asked her for the Saint Sword Fragment from Ghost Sword Island, and she agreed to retrieve it.

• Qin Baishang explained that Xia Wuji’s mother had been expelled from the Azure Ripple Divine Sect, hunted, and last seen returning to the Upper Domain.
• Qin Baishang revealed that Xia Wuji’s grandfather and eldest uncle had vanished in the Dark Forbidden Zone, leaving the Xia Family under the Supreme Elder’s control.
• Xia Wuji learned that Shen Li had targeted Qin Baishang to threaten his grandfather, who had emerged alive from the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Xia Wuji told Qin Baishang about surviving the destruction of his Lower Domain family, and she grieved that she had not known he existed.
• Xia Wuji asked Qin Baishang for the Saint Sword Fragment on Ghost Sword Island, and she agreed to have Liu Qi bring it to him.

Xia Wuji recovered from his injuries, learned more about the sea spirits and the five Sacred Lands, and gave Qin Baishang a simplified spirit-controlling technique. After recovering, he absorbed the Saint Sword Fragment and awakened a fully formed Sword Soul.

• Mo Xinlan told Xia Wuji that Qin Baishang had invited her to cultivate under her guidance, and Xia Wuji encouraged her to accept.
• Qin Baishang gave Xia Wuji the Saint Sword Fragment, and Xia Wuji gave her the Thousand Spirits Technique he had fashioned from the Myriad Spirits Scripture and Spirit Drawing Technique.
• Qin Baishang explained that the five Sacred Lands used sea spirits to draw on the Chaos Sea's rule power, and said the Sea King's fall might have involved their former Lords.
• Xia Wuji recovered fully and spent three days with Mo Xinlan before returning to cultivation.
• Xia Wuji absorbed the Saint Sword Fragment over three days, reducing it to scrap iron as a powerful sword qi burst from between his brows.

After condensing the Sword Soul, Xia Wuji strengthened his companions and began breaking the seal on the Universe Pagoda’s third level to obtain its Source of Fire and conceal his karma. A month later, he had reached the tenth level of the Nirvana Realm and was breaking the seal quickly enough to open the third level within another month, after which he planned to head to the Middle Domain Continent.

• Xia Wuji visited Hun Lie in the Universe Pagoda and promised to provide more resources to restore his strength.
• Xia Wuji told Pengfei to keep improving his techniques, named the Azure Sky Dragon Python Long Teng, and taught it the Divine Dragon Transformation.
• Xia Wuji used his Sword Soul to break a rune in the seal blocking the Universe Pagoda’s third level, learning that the level held the Source of Fire and could conceal karma.
• Over the next month, Xia Wuji reforged the Jinghong Sword to the Eighth Grade Peak Rank and advanced to the tenth level of the Nirvana Realm.
• Xia Wuji accelerated his efforts against the seal and reached a pace of breaking five runes every fifteen minutes, putting him on track to open the third level in less than a month.

After a month of seclusion, Xia Wuji reunited with Mo Xinlan and learned that the Kun Gate had invited Purgatory to the Sea Spirit Convention. He accompanied Qin Baishang to Black Turtle Island, where a hostile group confronted Purgatory and demanded that Xia Wuji answer for killing the young man's sister.

• Xia Wuji emerged from seclusion, and Mo Xinlan returned from cultivating under Qin Baishang with her strength and aptitude greatly improved.
• Xia Wuji visited Qin Baishang, asked about Granny Rong and the Kun Gate envoy, and agreed to attend the Sea Spirit Convention because of the sea spirits.
• Qin Baishang set off with Xia Wuji, Mo Xinlan, Song Lin, and Purgatory's elites for Black Turtle Island.
• The lord of Black Turtle Island welcomed Qin Baishang and took her to meet the veteran powers while Purgatory's party went to its guest quarters.
• A group blocked Purgatory's people and demanded that Xia Wuji come out for killing the leader's sister.

Xia Wuji accepted Cai Feng’s challenge on Black Turtle Island and defeated him, defending Hell’s reputation against the Kun Gate’s attempt to humiliate it. Cai Feng lay gravely wounded after Xia Wuji’s attacks, while the confrontation’s aftermath remained unresolved.

• Cai Feng challenged Xia Wuji to a duel, and Kun Gate members mocked Hell to provoke him into accepting.
• Xia Wuji accepted, recognizing that the Kun Gate intended to damage Hell’s standing at the Sea Spirit Convention.
• Cai Feng revealed his eighth-level Myriad Manifestation Realm cultivation and attacked Xia Wuji with the Kun Saber.
• Xia Wuji’s sword art broke Cai Feng’s Kun Saber attack, and Cai Feng evaded the landscape scroll with Kun’s Apex Angle.
• Xia Wuji used Ghostly Divinity Unification to break Cai Feng’s next attack, then struck him with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords and sent him crashing to the ground.

Xia Wuji defeated Cai Feng on Black Turtle Island, provoking the Kun Gate, while Cai Yan vowed to settle the score. Hell Lord Qin Baishang then announced a sea spirit competition for the next day, leaving Xia Wuji and Song Lin to represent Hell as Xia anticipated claiming more sea spirits.

• Xia Wuji defeated Cai Feng without moving his feet, leaving him with seven serious wounds, and Hell's group went to their assigned resting area.
• Cai Yan comforted her injured brother Cai Feng and promised to avenge him against Xia Wuji.
• Qin Baishang told Mo Ying, Sword Rakshasa, Xia Wuji, Mo Xinlan, and Song Lin that the four great factions had arranged a sea spirit competition for the next day to settle disputes over territory and resources.
• Qin Baishang chose Xia Wuji and Song Lin to represent Hell, assigning one sea spirit to Song Lin and four to Xia Wuji.
• Qin Baishang gave Xia Wuji a sealed sea spirit and promised that Hell's future sea spirits would go to him; Xia Wuji looked forward to collecting all thirty-one sea spirits.

At the Sea Spirit Competition, Xia Wuji provoked Kun Gate and Thousand Islands Sect before the Black Turtle Island Lord opened a secret realm for the contest. Xia Wuji and Song Lin entered alongside the other participants, with Xia Wuji carrying four Sea Spirits and drawing everyone’s attention.

• Qin Baishang and the leaders of the major forces gathered at the square, where Cai Feng threatened Xia Wuji over their fight the previous day.
• Cai Qiong rebuked Cai Feng, then challenged Xia Wuji, who mocked his cultivation and called him weak.
• Song Yan accused Xia Wuji of attacking Song Qing, and Xia Wuji answered with insults before Song Yan urged his faction’s participants to make him suffer.
• The Black Turtle Island Lord opened the secret realm with the Golden Turtle Shell and announced that the three-day competition forbade killing.
• Participants from the five forces presented their Sea Spirits, and the crowd noticed Xia Wuji had four; Xia Wuji and Song Lin entered the secret realm with the other competitors.