Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu decided to sail to Blood Demon Island and destroy it before it could threaten the continent, despite Murong Yin and Feng Yue opposing the plan. The Flowing Cloud Matriarch accepted his decision and promised to protect the continent while he and Gongsun Haoyue were away.

• Jiang Liu worried over Blood Demon Island's silence and considered whether it was preparing to invade, had joined forces with the Haotian Sect remnants, or had faced trouble from other Halls of Yama factions.
• Jiang Liu decided he had to go to sea and destroy Blood Demon Island because his Saintly Sky Art and its Blood Saint Art made the two sides mortal enemies.
• Murong Yin and Feng Yue opposed Jiang Liu's plan, but Gongsun Haoyue agreed to accompany him, and they began preparing to leave on Sea Turtle.
• Jiang Liu visited the Flowing Cloud Matriarch and told her that he and Gongsun Haoyue would go to sea.
• The Flowing Cloud Matriarch accepted his decision and promised to protect the continent while he was away.

On Star Cloud Saint Sect’s opening day, Jiang Liu surveyed the sect, continued to advance his cultivation, and narrowly failed to break through after the Heavenly Dao struck his Divine Sea. He received an urgent letter from Medicine King Valley, leaving its contents unknown.

• Flowing Cloud Matriarch and Gongsun Haoyue discussed punishing elders who had broken sect rules as Jiang Liu prepared to leave for the sea.
• Jiang Liu visited the True Inheritor Disciple Peak and found all twenty-five disciples cultivating under the sect’s new assessment system.
• Jiang Liu’s hidden presence frightened disciples, who began spreading rumors that a mountain spirit haunted the range.
• Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea was struck while he attempted to advance, interrupting his breakthrough but increasing his Divine Sense range by five kilometers.
• A Wind Hall messenger delivered Jiang Liu an urgent letter from Li Province, and Jiang Liu discovered it was from Medicine King Valley.

After receiving Uncle Hai’s plea for help, Jiang Liu set out for Medicine King Valley with Gongsun Haoyue and several spirit beasts. The valley had been seized because King Chujiang Hall coveted its Blood Attraction Flowers, and it faced a second unknown force as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Liu read Uncle Hai’s letter, learned that Medicine King Valley had been taken over, and decided to go to Li Province despite suspecting the situation was complicated.
• Gongsun Haoyue agreed to accompany Jiang Liu, while Flowing Cloud Matriarch warned that the Physician Pavilion’s power ran deep.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue left for Medicine King Valley and summoned the Fire-Winged Monkey, Sea Turtle, Giant Strength Demonic Ape, Frostwing Dragon, and Three-Eyed Flying Tiger to join them.
• A King Chujiang Hall investigator searching for the destroyed King Chujiang statue discovered that Medicine King Valley cultivated Blood Attraction Flowers.
• The investigator reported the flowers to his master, and King Chujiang Hall sent forces to monitor and take control of Medicine King Valley until the flowers matured.
• Medicine King Valley’s people were held under threat of annihilation, while a second force also watched the valley.

Jiang Liu learned that Medicine King Valley had been isolated by King Chujiang Hall and that Uncle Hai had sent him a plea for help. He left Qian City with Gongsun Haoyue and their two Beast Emperors, heading for Li Province to aid the valley.

• King Chujiang Hall trapped Medicine King Valley, intercepted Uncle Hai’s pleas for help, and waited for the Blood Attraction Flower to mature.
• A young Medicine King Valley disciple escaped to Gu Prefecture and sent a plea through the Ascension Tower, which eventually reached Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu told Murong Yin and the others he was leaving for Li Province and entrusted them with the court’s affairs.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue departed with the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle, flying toward Li Province.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue traveled toward Medicine King Valley, where an unclear warning suggested danger and control. In Gu Prefecture, they questioned local officials and learned that unfamiliar martial artists had appeared in the Thousand Leaf Mountain Range, while Medicine King Valley’s apothecary staff had recently been replaced.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue discussed the three-character warning but could not determine what threatened Medicine King Valley.
• Jiang Liu prepared roasted meat aboard the Sea Turtle, and the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle eagerly ate it.
• Three days later, Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue reached Gu Prefecture and left their Beast Emperors in the mountains to avoid alerting anyone.
• Jiang Liu questioned Cheng Qianyue, who reported that unfamiliar martial artists had settled in the Thousand Leaf Mountain Range about two years earlier.
• Hao Zhuang told Jiang Liu that Medicine King Valley’s apothecary workers had all been replaced within the past year or two, then Jiang Liu asked what else he had discovered.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue investigated suspicious activity near Medicine King Valley after Hao Zhuang reported two groups of martial practitioners in the Thousand Leaf Mountain Range. They found signs that one group was hunting the other, and Jiang Liu detected two Rank 9 Martial Practitioners ahead.

• Hao Zhuang told Jiang Liu that Medicine King Valley had replaced the staff at its medicine shops and that two groups of martial practitioners were active in the nearby mountains.
• Jiang Liu ordered Hao Zhuang and Cheng Qianyue to monitor the medicine shops and then led Hao Zhuang and Gongsun Haoyue toward the Thousand Leaf Mountain Range.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue reached a pool of blood with no corpse, and Jiang Liu concealed his aura and moved ahead while Gongsun Haoyue searched another part of the forest.
• Gongsun Haoyue realized that one group was likely killing the other with single strikes and reasoned that they should eliminate the attackers before rescuing Medicine King Valley.
• Jiang Liu sensed two Rank 9 Martial Practitioners hiding in the trees and detected a strong smell of blood around them.

Jiang Liu captured Jiang Lan and Wei Jin, learned where the Great Qian Imperial Family had hidden its treasures, and killed the remnants to draw out King Chujiang Hall. He then rushed to help Gongsun Haoyue fight Gongliang Yi, who recognized Jiang Liu as a successor of the Saint Heaven Sect.

• Jiang Liu subdued Jiang Lan, Wei Jin, and their martial practitioners, then used Divine Sense to make Jiang Lan reveal the locations of the imperial treasures and manuals.
• Jiang Liu killed Wei Jin, Cheng Tian, Tang Fei, and the other Great Qian Imperial Family martial practitioners, and took the Cultivation Pearl from Jiang Lan.
• Jiang Liu sensed that Gongsun Haoyue was fighting a Peak Grandmaster and hurried to the battlefield, summoning the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle along the way.
• Jiang Liu arrived as Gongsun Haoyue fought Gongliang Yi and drove him back with his aura.
• Gongliang Yi sensed Jiang Liu's aura and realized that Jiang Liu had inherited the Saint Heaven Sect's Saintly Sky Art.

Gongliang Tang arrived to help Gongliang Yi fight Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue, but Jiang Liu’s attacks quickly injured and overwhelmed him. The battle continued as Gongliang Yi faced Gongsun Haoyue, and Gongliang Tang looked up at Jiang Liu in fear.

• Gongliang Tang appeared after Gongliang Yi called out, and he realized Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue were Peak Grandmasters.
• Gongliang Yi attacked Gongsun Haoyue with the Soul-Calling Bell while Gongliang Tang attacked Jiang Liu with the Soul-Locking Whip.
• Gongsun Haoyue blocked the bell’s sonic wave and struck back with Skyfire, while Jiang Liu’s Divine Sense weakened the soul inside Gongliang Yi’s bell.
• Jiang Liu countered Gongliang Tang’s whip and needle attacks by vanishing, appearing behind him, and striking him with the Frost Nether Palm and Ice Blade.
• Gongliang Tang fell to the ground with internal injuries and suppressed elemental energy, then looked up at Jiang Liu in fear.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue fought Gongliang Tang, Gongliang Yi, and King Chujiang Hall’s Grandmasters as reinforcements arrived. Jiang Liu was struck by Gongliang Tang’s whip, and the chapter ended with him and Gongsun Haoyue surrounded.

• Jiang Liu pressed his attack on Gongliang Tang, whose movements and strength were weakened by the Saintly Sky Art energy in his body.
• Gongsun Haoyue summoned a flame giant to attack Gongliang Yi’s Bloodthirsty Ghoul phantom, but Gongliang Yi used the Soul-Calling Bell to stabilize it and extinguish the heavenly fire.
• Six Grandmasters from King Chujiang Hall arrived and formed the Six Harmonies Linked Formation, forcing Jiang Liu to turn his attention away from Gongliang Tang.
• Gongliang Tang expelled the remaining Saintly Sky Art energy and joined the six Grandmasters in attacking Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu tried to evade the combined attacks, but Gongliang Tang’s whip struck him from behind and sent him flying as he spat blood.
• Gongsun Haoyue rushed to Jiang Liu’s side, and the two faced Gongliang Tang, Gongliang Yi, and the six Grandmasters as they surrounded them.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue fought Gongliang Tang, Gongliang Yi, and six Grandmasters of King Chujiang Hall until the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle arrived to help. The Grandmasters were killed, leaving Gongliang Tang and Gongliang Yi outnumbered and in danger.

• Gongsun Haoyue summoned the Flame Giant to fight Gongliang Yi’s Bloodthirsty Ghoul, while Jiang Liu replenished her essence energy.
• Jiang Liu’s Annihilation by Thought struck the six Grandmasters, weakening them, but their combined Blood Saint Art allowed them to survive.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey appeared and killed two Grandmasters, then attacked the four remaining ones as Gongliang Tang tried to intervene.
• The Sea Turtle arrived, sent Gongliang Tang’s Soul-Locking Whip back against him, and crushed the last two Grandmasters.
• With all six Grandmasters dead, Gongliang Tang and Gongliang Yi faced Jiang Liu, Gongsun Haoyue, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue overwhelmed Gongliang Yi, destroying his Soul-Calling Bell and leaving him battered in a pit. Meanwhile, the Fire-Winged Monkey broke through Gongliang Tang’s defenses and gravely injured him, leaving both opponents near defeat.

• Jiang Liu devoured part of the soul in Gongliang Yi’s Soul-Calling Bell and used Saintly Sky Strike to send him crashing into a pit.
• Gongsun Haoyue joined Jiang Liu’s attack, and the Soul-Calling Bell shattered as its soul dispersed into blue smoke.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue prepared to deliver Gongliang Yi a fatal blow while he remained dazed in the pit.
• Gongliang Tang tried to bind the Sea Turtle with his Soul-Locking Whip, but the Sea Turtle dodged and rammed him toward the Fire-Winged Monkey.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey struck Gongliang Tang with its staff, breaking his defenses and leaving him badly injured and half-conscious.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue exploited damage to the Gongliang brothers’ spiritual seas to defeat them. Gongliang Tang exploded, and Jiang Liu caught the Soul-Locking Whip, sensing a faint Divine Soul forming within it.

• The Sea Turtle sucked Gongliang Tang into the Fire-Winged Monkey, letting him strike the monkey’s head with the Soul-Locking Whip and destabilize its aura.
• Jiang Liu rushed to protect the Fire-Winged Monkey from Gongliang Tang while Gongsun Haoyue used Skyfire and star power to attack Gongliang Yi’s spiritual sea.
• The Sea Turtle’s corrosive water weakened Gongliang Tang, and Jiang Liu invaded his spiritual sea with Saintly Sky Strike.
• Jiang Liu shot three Ice Blades into Gongliang Tang and intensified Saintly Sky Strike until Gongliang Tang’s body exploded.
• Jiang Liu caught the intact Soul-Locking Whip and sensed a faint Divine Soul forming inside it as chaotic origin energy spread through the air.

Jiang Liu cornered Gongliang Yi and questioned him about the Chu Jiang King Hall and its mission in Medicine King Valley. Gongliang Yi revealed they sought a Blood Attraction Flower before attempting to escape, and the chapter left him battered and trapped in The Pit.

• Gongliang Tang exploded, startling Gongliang Yi awake as Jiang Liu and the two Beast Emperors closed in around him.
• Gongliang Yi asked Jiang Liu to spare his life, and Jiang Liu demanded an explanation for the visit and the locations of the Chu Jiang King Hall's secret bases.
• Gongliang Yi claimed the hall master, Gongliang Bo, had sent them, then admitted they had come to Medicine King Valley for a Blood Attraction Flower to accelerate their cultivation of the Blood Saint Art.
• Jiang Liu asked Gongliang Yi to disperse his origin energy, but Gongliang Yi suddenly tried to escape.
• Jiang Liu's Nebula Extinction struck first, and Gongsun Haoyue, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle followed with attacks that left Gongliang Yi sprawled in The Pit.

Jiang Liu interrogated Gongliang Yi and learned how King Chujiang Hall had withdrawn into the desert, secretly infiltrated the mainland, and remained divided by internal conflict. He decided against attacking its stronghold directly and planned to lure out the faction’s remaining Peak Grandmasters to keep the mainland safe for now.

• Jiang Liu suppressed Gongliang Yi, sealed his dantian, severed his meridians, and interrogated him after his state of mind nearly collapsed.
• Gongliang Yi revealed that King Chujiang Hall had retreated from the Great Qin Empire after its Yama King vanished and later split over whether to return to the mainland.
• Gongliang Yi explained that King Chujiang Hall secretly buried statues, drained martial artists’ blood essence, and abducted people while waiting for a chance to invade.
• Jiang Liu learned that King Chujiang Hall’s internal strife had delayed its plans, though the faction still had six Peak Grandmasters divided between two sides.
• Jiang Liu decided not to enter the desert stronghold and instead planned to lure out the remaining Peak Grandmasters who wanted to invade the mainland.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue wiped out King Chujiang Hall's forces around Medicine King Valley, then entered the eerily quiet valley to investigate. They found several herb apprentices, who recognized Jiang Liu as Qiu Hai's disciple and led him toward their master.

• Jiang Liu killed Gongliang Yi and arranged for Hao Zhuang to let some King Chujiang Hall members escape and carry news of their losses back.
• Jiang Liu reunited with Gongsun Haoyue, and they went to the King Chujiang Hall camp near Medicine King Valley.
• Jiang Liu, Gongsun Haoyue, and the Fire-Winged Monkey destroyed the camp, while the Sea Turtle stayed out of the fight.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue searched the mountain range and eliminated the remaining King Chujiang Hall forces before dawn.
• Jiang Liu entered Medicine King Valley and found it strangely silent, then sensed faint auras deeper inside.
• Jiang Liu asked several herb apprentices to take him to Qiu Hai, and they eagerly led him away after he said he was Qiu Hai's disciple.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue reached Medicine King Valley and learned that the people of King Chujiang Hall had been killed, ending the valley’s long oppression. In the council hall, Uncle Hai and the elders heard about the changes in the outside world and Jiang Liu’s rise to Peak Grandmaster, while Jiang Liu reaffirmed his gratitude to Uncle Hai.

• Medicine apprentices led Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue through Medicine King Valley’s neglected alchemy plaza to find Uncle Hai.
• Jiang Liu told the gathered physicians that the vicious men outside were dead, and the people of Medicine King Valley celebrated and wept with relief.
• Uncle Hai and the senior figures welcomed Jiang Liu, while Qiu Tian thanked him and Gongsun Haoyue for their aid.
• Qiu Tian received confirmation that the attackers had been killed and sent the people to rest and tend their neglected medicinal herbs.
• In the council hall, Jiang Liu told Uncle Hai and the elders about the Vast Heaven Sect’s destruction, the sect merger, his marriage to Gongsun Haoyue, and his advancement to Peak Grandmaster.

Jiang Liu and the elders traced Medicine King Valley’s attack to a Blood Attraction Flower that Qiu Su had unknowingly cultivated. After identifying it in her medicinal field, Jiang Liu told her it had caused the crisis, and she moved to destroy it.

• Jiang Liu explained that King Chujiang Hall had attacked Medicine King Valley because of the Blood Attraction Flower, but the elders initially did not know who had grown one.
• Qiu Lin realized that the strange medicinal herb Qiu Su had brought back and cultivated was likely the flower, while Qiu Tian said she would not be punished for an innocent mistake.
• Qiu Tian led Jiang Liu and the others to Qiu Su’s medicinal field, where Jiang Liu sensed the flower’s influence on his primordial energy.
• Jiang Liu identified the herb as the Blood Attraction Flower and told Qiu Su it had caused Medicine King Valley’s crisis.
• Qiu Su raised her medicinal hoe and approached the Blood Attraction Flower, intending to dig it up and destroy it.

Jiang Liu claimed the Blood Attraction Flower as payment for resolving Medicine King Valley’s crisis and proposed moving it to Qian Province to cultivate it safely. Qiu Tian decided to inspect the valley in Shan County as a possible new home for Medicine King Valley, and the others accepted that relocation might be necessary to escape King Chujiang Hall.

• Jiang Liu stopped Qiu Su from destroying the Blood Attraction Flower and said he wanted it as payment for helping Medicine King Valley.
• Jiang Liu revealed his Peak Grandmaster aura, and Qiu Su agreed to let him take the flower.
• Jiang Liu asked whether the Blood Attraction Flower could be transplanted, and Qiu Su said she had found it in a valley in Shan County, Qian Province.
• Jiang Liu invited Qiu Su to help cultivate the flower, but she protested that she could not leave her herbs and home.
• Qiu Tian proposed inspecting the valley and possibly moving Medicine King Valley there, warning that King Chujiang Hall might attack again.
• Qiu Su, Qiu Lin, and the other elders stopped objecting after realizing Medicine King Hall might be exterminated if it stayed, and Jiang Liu supported the proposal.

After returning to Gu City, Jiang Liu learned that Hao Zhuang had lost the King Chujiang Hall martial practitioners in the Hengduan Mountains. A report revealed that the Tang Family had taken them, leaving Jiang Liu to investigate the family and watch for more hidden agents.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue left Medicine King Valley and returned to Gu City, where Cheng Qianyue briefed them on Hao Zhuang’s operation against King Chujiang Hall.
• Jiang Liu ordered Cheng Qianyue to take over Medicine King Valley’s shops and asked whether the Physician Pavilion had responded to the valley’s ordeal.
• After resting, Jiang Liu heard Hao Zhuang report that his men had lost the King Chujiang Hall practitioners in the Hengduan Mountains.
• Jiang Liu told Hao Zhuang to monitor the Physician Pavilion and deal with any missing subordinates who returned.
• That night, Yun Hao reported that the Tang Family had carried off the King Chujiang Hall practitioners, and Jiang Liu ordered him to watch the family for other hidden agents.

Jiang Liu cultivated with Gongsun Haoyue while investigating King Chujiang Hall’s agents in Gu Prefecture and considering how to delegate his growing administrative duties. After news arrived that Gongliang Yi and Gongliang Tang had died with their forces, Gongliang Bo struggled to determine who had destroyed them and how to explain the loss to his hall.

• Jiang Liu set aside news that the Tang Family had taken the bait and cultivated with four Cultivation Pearls while Gongsun Haoyue reflected on her conflicting reactions to him and her essence energy.
• Jiang Liu considered moving the Mystic Gate people to Qian City and handing miscellaneous duties to the Hall of Governmental Affairs so he could focus on cultivation.
• Medicine King Valley took over shops in Gu City, and Yun Hao reported that the Tang Family was sheltering the escaped King Chujiang Hall personnel without any link to the Physician Pavilion.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue secretly entered the Thousand Leaf Mountain Range to cultivate and await reports and King Chujiang Hall’s response.
• Gongliang Bo learned that Gongliang Yi, Gongliang Tang, and eight Grandmasters had been killed in Gu Prefecture, but he did not know who had killed them.
• Gongliang Bo wondered whether hidden forces or another Yama Hall had intervened and decided to wait for more information before explaining the disaster to his hall.