Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou baited Teng Shanhai into unsealing the Power of the Demon God, then used a decoy to smear stolen medicine on him and draw the returning Void Attendant. The Void Attendant mistook Teng Shanhai for the medicine thief and savagely attacked him while the real Xu Xiaoshou watched from hiding.

• The Void Attendant sensed the Shennong Medicine Garden’s spirit medicine aura near the Forest of Miracles and rushed back toward it.
• Teng Shanhai unsealed the Power of the Demon God in one arm and attacked Xu Xiaoshou with overwhelming strength, but Xu Xiaoshou evaded him by teleporting and vanishing.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Teng Shanhai’s power had compromised his reason and challenged him to settle the fight with one move.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent a portrait avatar to smear spirit medicine and sacred medicine onto Teng Shanhai, and Teng Shanhai destroyed the avatar with the Xiao Divine Spear.
• The Void Attendant arrived, mistook Teng Shanhai for the medicine thief, and battered him while Xu Xiaoshou remained hidden.

Xu Xiaoshou used portrait clones and medicinal scents to turn the Void Attendants against Teng Shanhai, then provoked them by impersonating Jiang Buyi. The real Jiang Buyi arrived, and Xu Xiaoshou hid in terror as the Demi-Saint’s presence froze the battlefield.

• Xu Xiaoshou confirmed that the Void Attendants tracked medicine thieves by scent after they attacked Teng Shanhai, whom he had smeared with medicinal paste.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent portrait clones disguised as Jiang Buyi to taunt the Void Attendants and make them believe a gang had stolen Shennong Medicine Garden’s medicines.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s clone named itself Jiang Buyi and crushed a spiritual herb, prompting the real Jiang Buyi to sense the insult and rush toward the voice.
• The Void Attendants cracked Teng Shanhai’s Azure God Armor with a heavy blow before the real Jiang Buyi arrived and froze the battlefield with his presence.
• Xu Xiaoshou hid under Vanishing Art, overwhelmed by the real Jiang Buyi’s pressure and regretting his scheme.

Jiang Buyi demonstrated his overwhelming strength by destroying the Void Attendant with a precisely controlled strike, while Xu Xiaoshou watched and steadied his resolve. After Jiang Buyi rescued the badly injured Teng Shanhai, Teng mistook him for Xu Xiaoshou and attacked him, provoking Jiang Buyi’s wrath as Teng demanded his surrender.

• Jiang Buyi struck the Void Attendant with Cloudmoon Palm, sending its true body a hundred miles away and then causing it to burst apart.
• Xu Xiaoshou observed Jiang Buyi’s power, overcame his despair, and reaffirmed his ambition to reach the heights of the Holy Spirit Continent.
• Jiang Buyi rescued Teng Shanhai and recognized the Azure God Armor and the demonic power lingering on him.
• Jiang Buyi tried to wake Teng Shanhai, but Teng mistook him for Xu Xiaoshou and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.
• Jiang Buyi grew furious and darkened the heavens, while Teng Shanhai summoned the Xiao Divine Spear and ordered him to wear the Martial-Sealing Talisman and surrender.

Xu Xiaoshou realized Jiang Buyi’s Saint Domain had trapped him within a hundred li, making escape likely to expose him, and searched for a way to summon help. He activated the Communication Talisman with holy power, but as it beeped without an apparent response, Rao Yaoyao arrived and Teng Shanhai identified Xu Xiaoshou as their target.

• Rao Yaoyao drove the Xuancang Divine Sword between Jiang Buyi and Teng Shanhai, stopping their confrontation.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that Jiang Buyi’s Saint Domain surrounded him and the Void Attendant, so he abandoned his escape attempt and hid.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried contacting Ba Zunan with his communication pearl and Eight-Character Order, but neither worked.
• Xu Xiaoshou activated the Communication Talisman with holy power, and it began beeping without summoning anyone he could see.
• Rao Yaoyao restrained the tension between Jiang Buyi and Teng Shanhai, and Teng Shanhai pointed toward Xu Xiaoshou and urged her to help kill him.

Jiang Buyi confronted Rao Yaoyao and Teng Shanhai after Teng mistook him for Xu Xiaoshou, and the misunderstanding escalated into violence. The chapter ended with Jiang Buyi killing Teng Shanhai while the real Xu Xiaoshou watched invisibly.

• Teng Shanhai insisted that Jiang Buyi was Xu Xiaoshou because the Xiao Divine Spear had returned to him, and Rao Yaoyao challenged Jiang Buyi to explain himself.
• Jiang Buyi attacked Teng Shanhai after Teng repeatedly insulted and taunted him, piercing his chest through the Azure God Armor.
• Teng Shanhai continued to claim that Jiang Buyi was Xu Xiaoshou, arguing that Wuxiu's Scarlet-Scorching Hand explained how he had breached the armor.
• The real Xu Xiaoshou watched from hiding and realized Teng Shanhai's claims were helping preserve his disguise.
• Jiang Buyi revealed his Demi-Saint Status, rejected Rao Yaoyao's pleas, and used the Xuancang Divine Sword to pin her to the Sacred Domain barrier.
• Jiang Buyi declared he would kill Teng Shanhai and then cleaved him in two.

Mei Suren tracked Xu Xiaoshou to the battlefield and decided to let him face his crisis as a first lesson, while preparing to intervene if needed. There, Jiang Buyi discovered Teng Shanhai’s demonic power and tried to erase him completely, but Rao Yaoyao stood in his way.

• Mei Suren followed the Communication Talisman to the battlefield, realized Xu Xiaoshou had summoned him from Jiang Buyi’s Saint Domain, and chose to watch rather than rush in.
• Mei Suren hid his wooden swords, took up stone swords, and decided to treat Xu Xiaoshou’s predicament as his first lesson.
• Jiang Buyi recognized the dense demonic power in Teng Shanhai’s flesh and realized Rao Yaoyao had known about the secret behind the Azure God Armor.
• Jiang Buyi used Saint-Slaying Cloud Light to destroy Teng Shanhai’s remains and prevent his resurrection.
• Rao Yaoyao shielded Teng Shanhai’s remnants with the Xuancang Divine Sword, was blasted into the earth, and refused to move aside as Jiang Buyi demanded.

Jiang Buyi killed Teng Shanhai and destroyed every trace of him, despite Rao Yaoyao’s attempt to save him. Rao Yaoyao left the awakened Forest of Miracles with a new resolve to follow her Sword Path, while Jiang Buyi stayed behind and called for Xu Xiaoshou to reveal himself.

• Jiang Buyi overpowered Rao Yaoyao and used the Saint-Slaying Cloud Light to erase Teng Shanhai completely.
• Rao Yaoyao accused Jiang Buyi of being used as a weapon by Xu Xiaoshou, and Jiang Buyi admitted he suspected it but had killed Teng Shanhai to eliminate the threat.
• Jiang Buyi discovered that Rao Yaoyao had tried to carry away Teng Shanhai’s blood in her shoes, destroyed both shoes, and confiscated the Xiao Divine Spear in exchange for a promised divine artifact.
• After Rao Yaoyao left the Saint Domain, the Forest of Miracles awakened and began draining her spiritual essence and blood vitality, forcing her to flee.
• Rao Yaoyao reflected on her failures and resolved to abandon schemes and authority in favor of her Sword Path, then departed the Forest of Miracles.
• Jiang Buyi remained behind and called on Xu Xiaoshou to come out and speak with him.

Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian searched the Forest of Miracles for Xu Xiaoshou while fleeing stone giants, and Ye Xiaotian confronted his fear of facing a Demi-Saint. They headed toward the source of the holy power, with Xiao Kongtong claiming he could last ten breaths against a Demi-Saint.

• Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian escaped the stone giants, argued over finding Xu Xiaoshou, and Ye Xiaotian returned the Demi-Saint Seat to Xiao Kongtong.
• Ye Xiaotian admitted he had searched nearly the entire Forest of Miracles and believed Xu Xiaoshou was near the place where Demi-Saint power had erupted.
• Xiao Kongtong challenged Ye Xiaotian’s reluctance to approach the Demi-Saint, prompting Ye Xiaotian to recognize that fear had kept him from advancing.
• Ye Xiaotian deduced that the man before him was Xiao Kongtong of Moon-Joining Immortal City, not Ba Zunan, and agreed to accompany him toward Xu Xiaoshou.
• Ye Xiaotian warned Xiao Kongtong that he could not fight a Demi-Saint, and Xiao Kongtong claimed he could last ten breaths.

Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong prepared to rescue Xu Xiaoshou, while Xu Xiaoshou faced Jiang Buyi inside the Saint Domain. Jiang Buyi praised Xu Xiaoshou and offered him a choice: die miserably or join him and live with dignity.

• Ye Xiaotian told Xiao Kongtong that Teng Shanhai had died, and Xiao Kongtong promised to hold off the danger for ten breaths while Ye Xiaotian rescued Xu Xiaoshou.
• Ye Xiaotian took Saint Blood and stealthily approached the Saint Domain with Xiao Kongtong following him.
• Xu Xiaoshou used a trembling portrait clone to reveal himself to Jiang Buyi after realizing the shrinking Saint Domain would expose his location.
• Jiang Buyi questioned Xu Xiaoshou about why he had kept him alive, and Xu Xiaoshou guessed that Jiang Buyi wanted to recruit him as a useful chess piece.
• Jiang Buyi praised Xu Xiaoshou but warned he would kill him rather than let another faction claim him, then gave him three breaths to choose between death and joining him.

Xu Xiaoshou faced Jiang Buyi’s demand until Mei Suren arrived and challenged the Demi-Saint to take him away. As Jiang Buyi unleashed Saint-Slaying Cloud Light, Mei Suren stopped the attack by manipulating time and space, then summoned a red plum blossom into his hand.

• Xu Xiaoshou spotted Mei Suren outside Jiang Buyi’s Saint Domain and gained the courage to refuse Jiang Buyi, but Jiang Buyi shattered his portrait clone.
• Mei Suren entered the Saint Domain and asked Jiang Buyi to let him take Xu Xiaoshou away, while his will kept the ground beneath him from collapsing.
• Jiang Buyi threatened Mei Suren and summoned his Saint Idol, then fired Saint-Slaying Cloud Light at him.
• Mei Suren told Xu Xiaoshou to watch as he halted the attack by manipulating time and space.
• Mei Suren pinched his fingers and drew the red plum blossom from the pit into his palm.

Mei Suren taught Xu Xiaoshou about the Mo Sword Technique by using Red Plum to break Jiang Buyi’s Saint Power, then faced Jiang Buyi’s full-strength Saint-Cutting Hand with the Heart Sword Technique. He summoned Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes, overwhelming Jiang Buyi and subduing the Forest of Miracles.

• Mei Suren wielded the Azure River Sword Realm through Red Plum and pierced Jiang Buyi’s Saint-Slaying Cloud Light with Mo Swords.
• Xu Xiaoshou watched Mei Suren’s swordplay, absorbed insights into the Mo Sword Technique, and briefly formed an unstable Mo Sword with Hidden Pain.
• Jiang Buyi unleashed the Saint-Cutting Hand, shattering Red Plum and subjecting Mei Suren and Xu Xiaoshou to overwhelming pressure.
• Mei Suren declared that he knew only sword Dao and could only save people, then revealed his immense saintly intent and invoked the Heart Sword Technique.
• Mei Suren manifested Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes, forcing back the Saint-Cutting Hand and silencing the Forest of Miracles as Jiang Buyi showed fear.

Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian witnessed Mei Suren’s Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes shatter Jiang Buyi’s Saint-Cutting Hand, and Xiao Kongtong explained the depths of the ancient sword cultivators’ power. As Xu Xiaoshou watched Mei Suren overwhelm the demi-saint, Jiang Buyi recognized the technique as Mei Suren’s Divine Mind Penetration.

• Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian saw Mei Suren’s Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes destroy Jiang Buyi’s Saint-Cutting Hand from afar.
• Xiao Kongtong told Ye Xiaotian that Mei Suren’s image embodied all Nine Great Sword Techniques and that only Mei Suren and Old Master You Tu could take Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes through Heaven’s Liberation.
• Xiao Kongtong reassured Ye Xiaotian about his own strength and repeated that he could hold off a demi-saint for ten breaths as they continued toward the battlefield.
• Xu Xiaoshou watched Mei Suren overpower Jiang Buyi and wondered how the swordsman’s intent could resist holy power.
• Jiang Buyi recognized Mei Suren’s technique as Divine Mind Penetration and acknowledged that Mei Suren’s path rivaled Ba Zunan’s.

Mei Suren revealed his newly formed power, Sword Manifestation, and used it to force Jiang Buyi back while protecting Xu Xiaoshou. When Jiang Buyi refused to retreat, Mei Suren began his first counterattack, drawing on the No-Sword Technique and a nine-sword array.

• Mei Suren explained how he had independently developed a second-generation Divine Mind Penetration and named his power Sword Manifestation.
• Mei Suren gathered the Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes phenomena into himself, transforming the Forest of Miracles into a vast sword domain that drove Jiang Buyi back.
• Jiang Buyi resisted Mei Suren’s demand to stop, and the two unleashed their powers while Xu Xiaoshou struggled under the pressure.
• Mei Suren warned that Sword Manifestation could injure or possibly kill a Demi-Saint, but Jiang Buyi challenged him to attack.
• Mei Suren drew the Have-and-Have-Not Sword Flow and formed a nine-sword array that opened the ghost gates, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to recognize the array’s role in the Nine Sword Techniques.

Mei Suren unleashed the Ghost and Illusion Sword Techniques against Jiang Buyi, overwhelming his defenses and killing him with a devastating soul attack. Afterward, Mei Suren ended his sword manifestation and reflected that he had warned Jiang Buyi the sword could slay a demi-saint.

• Mei Suren summoned Hell's Gate and unleashed the Ghost Sword Technique, sending the Ten Yama Kings and countless ghosts toward Jiang Buyi.
• Xiao Kongtong explained to Ye Xiaotian that Mei Suren had used the first realm of the Ghost Sword Technique and described its more dangerous second realm.
• Jiang Buyi raised the Soul-Bereaving Sacred Pagoda and Immortal-Demon Fragment, then surrounded himself with nine soul-defense sacred artifacts.
• Mei Suren used the Illusion Sword Technique's Spacetime Leap to separate Jiang Buyi from his defenses and expose him to the ghosts' soul attack.
• The No-Sword Technique and Nine Sword Techniques pinned Jiang Buyi's body as the Ten Yama Kings tore apart his soul.
• Mei Suren dismissed his sword manifestation and sighed that he had warned Jiang Buyi the sword could kill a demi-saint.

Mei Suren destroyed one of Jiang Buyi’s Demi-Saint incarnations, but Jiang Buyi’s true body survived and unleashed a storm of lightning across the Forest of Miracles. As Jiang Buyi prepared to take Xu Xiaoshou’s life, Xu Xiaoshou devised a decoy using his transformed left arm and the Void Attendant’s blood.

• Mei Suren’s sword strike devoured Jiang Buyi’s soul body, but Jiang Buyi’s true body revealed itself as thunder-and-flame clouds across the sky.
• Mei Suren warned Jiang Buyi that he had two sword strikes left, while Jiang Buyi’s furious lightning devastated the Forest of Miracles without striking Mei Suren.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed Jiang Buyi targeting him and realized that fleeing the battlefield would leave him beyond Mei Suren’s protection.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed the Void Attendant’s blood and transformed his left arm into a double to distract Jiang Buyi.
• Xu Xiaoshou enlarged himself and smeared the Void Attendant’s black blood onto Mimicry.

Xiao Kongtong, posing as Ba Zunan, intervened in the battle between Mei Suren and Jiang Buyi and warned Jiang Buyi about the dangers of Void Island’s inner island. After provoking him into nearly fighting again, Xiao Kongtong learned that Jiang Buyi had agreed to stop and give him face.

• Xiao Kongtong arrived between Mei Suren and Jiang Buyi atop the Demon God Spear and asked them to end their fight.
• Ye Xiaotian entered the battlefield, and hundreds of stone giants surrounded it as the Void Attendants blended into their ranks.
• Jiang Buyi questioned Ba Zunan’s interference, while Mei Suren said he was already willing to stop fighting.
• Xiao Kongtong warned Jiang Buyi that activating three Deadly Zones could draw the Spirit of Void Island and trap him in the inner island.
• Xiao Kongtong mocked Jiang Buyi and challenged him to fight, prompting Mei Suren to ready himself and Jiang Buyi to restrain his anger.
• Jiang Buyi clarified that he had meant to answer Xiao Kongtong’s request for face, then agreed to give it and stop the fight.

Jiang Buyi withdrew after agreeing not to attack Xu Xiaoshou, but he left behind a black-and-red scroll that unleashed a Half-Saint Profound Decree. Mei Suren recognized the danger and warned Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian not to look at it.

• Xiao Kongtong warned Jiang Buyi that the Saint Slave would remember his restraint, while Ye Xiaotian gave his name as Zhou Shen and Jiang Buyi recognized him as Ye Xiaotian.
• Jiang Buyi addressed the hidden Xu Xiaoshou, claimed his earlier choices had been a test, and then gathered his belongings and departed.
• After the three confirmed Jiang Buyi was gone, Ye Xiaotian spotted a black-and-red scroll where he had stood, and Xiao Kongtong realized it was not one of Jiang Buyi’s soul artifacts.
• The scroll released powerful Saint energy, and Ye Xiaotian used Spatial Profound Meaning to protect the group while the scroll opened.
• Mei Suren recognized the scroll as a Half-Saint Profound Decree, slashed at its image in his mind, and shouted for Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian not to look back.

Jiang Buyi’s Half-Saint Profound Decree, bearing the command “Return,” drove Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong toward self-destruction before Mei Suren and Xiao Kongtong broke its influence. The decree exposed Xu Xiaoshou, whom Jiang Buyi’s thought incarnation struck through the heart, leaving Ye Xiaotian charging at Jiang Buyi in fury.

• Jiang Buyi’s black-and-red Half-Saint Profound Decree unfolded, and its command “Return” overwhelmed Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong.
• Mei Suren severed the decree’s influence on Ye Xiaotian, while Xiao Kongtong’s memories of his sword teacher helped him shatter it within his spiritual world.
• The decree exposed Xu Xiaoshou’s concealed body, and Jiang Buyi’s thought incarnation pierced his heart before Mei Suren could reach him.
• Ye Xiaotian remembered Elder Sang’s final request and charged Jiang Buyi in a rage.

Jiang Buyi used the Demi-Saint Edict to kill Xu Xiaoshou, leaving Mei Suren, Ye Xiaotian, and Xiao Kongtong devastated. Driven by grief and Jiang Buyi’s taunts, Mei Suren began his Saint Tribulation on Void Island and vowed to pursue Jiang Buyi to the ends of the earth.

• Jiang Buyi crushed Xu Xiaoshou’s heart and used the Saint-Slaying Cloud Light to erase his body, soul, and will.
• Mei Suren destroyed Jiang Buyi’s remaining will incarnation with his sword, but Jiang Buyi mocked him for failing to save Xu Xiaoshou.
• Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong mourned Xu Xiaoshou and blamed themselves for being unable to protect him.
• Mei Suren summoned the Saint Tribulation and rose into the sky with his Half-Saint status despite Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong’s pleas.
• Mei Suren vowed to kill Jiang Buyi even if he had to chase him to the ends of the earth, while a Void Attendant mocked him as a fooled Sword Saint.

Mei Suren, Ye Xiaotian, and Xiao Kongtong realized that the Void Attendant mocking them was Xu Xiaoshou, alive and transformed after faking his death. Xu Xiaoshou reunited with another Void Attendant while the three watched, wondering what he planned to do next.

• Mei Suren stopped Xiao Kongtong and Ye Xiaotian from attacking the Void Attendant after noticing Xu Xiaoshou’s Communication Talisman in its mouth.
• The Void Attendant mimicked Ye Xiaotian and Xiao Kongtong and told Mei Suren to believe in himself and open his mind, revealing its identity to them.
• Mei Suren created a Higher Void World, and the three agreed to leave the dangerous area without openly questioning Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Mei Suren about abandoning his tribulation, then walked toward another surviving Void Attendant.
• The two Void Attendants embraced, and Mei Suren, Ye Xiaotian, and Xiao Kongtong realized Xu Xiaoshou had arranged his rescue and wondered what he intended to do next.