Chapter Summaries

The Weapon Lord demanded that the Lingbei martial world submit to the Heavenly Evil Cult, but Chu Qing and the gathered sect leaders rejected him and stood together. The Weapon Lord, revealed as Heaven's Kill, launched a devastating sword strike at Chu Qing, and the chapter ended as a brilliant moonlike blade light appeared.

• The Lingbei sect leaders and their forces gathered on Immortal Cloud Mountain opposite the Heavenly Evil Cult, while Chu Qing remained suspended in midair.
• The Weapon Lord offered wealth and status to those who submitted and threatened to make the mountain their burial ground if they resisted.
• Chu Qing denounced the Heavenly Evil Cult's claims of righteousness, and Liu Zhaonian condemned its slaughter of civilians while praising Chu Qing as the people's choice.
• Ouyang Tianxu declared that Prairie Fire Manor would follow Chu Qing and would never betray its master, prompting Opera King to praise his resolve.
• The Weapon Lord silenced Opera King and unleashed a blood-red sword strike that battered Chu Qing's Indestructible Golden Body and blasted the surrounding fighters away.
• The crowd recognized the Weapon Lord as Heaven's Kill, and a brilliant, moonlike blade light suddenly appeared before his attack could be resolved.

Chu Qing killed the Weapon Lord and rallied the righteous factions through Heavenly Sound Transmission as the battle continued. He confronted Opera King, broke free of his puppet assault, and faced the poison master who had returned to the martial world, declaring that the old man had walked into death.

• Chu Qing's brief flash of light split the Weapon Lord and many Heavenly Evil Cult fighters in two, prompting the righteous forces to cheer and Opera King to order a retreat.
• Chu Qing linked Liu Zhaonian, Wu Qianhuan, Wen Rou, Ji Yexue, Ouyang Tianxu, and others through Heavenly Sound Transmission, then ordered them to fight under his command.
• Chu Qing pursued Opera King and cut down the disciples who attacked him with fiery blade aura.
• Opera King pretended to surrender, but Chu Qing exposed his ambush and battled his corpse puppets and black threads.
• Chu Qing shattered the puppets and confronted the shriveled old man in a green robe, learning that he was the poison master who had once taken the Ghost Emperor's second disciple.
• Chu Qing told the old man that he could have lived out his remaining years in peace but had chosen to walk into death.

Chu Qing exposed the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord and the Opera King’s schemes, then escaped the Demonic Lord’s explosive death and attacked the Opera King. The Opera King offered to reveal the Ghost Emperor’s whereabouts, but a blood-colored sword phantom suddenly struck at Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing recognized the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord and tricked him into revealing that his poison had supposedly taken effect.
• The Opera King and the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord joined forces against Chu Qing, but the Opera King secretly used Puppet String Play to seize control of the Demonic Lord’s body and inflate his internal force.
• Chu Qing withdrew and escaped as the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord exploded, destroying everyone in a wide area; the Opera King shielded himself from Chu Qing’s palm strike and hurled the Demonic Lord toward Wu Qianhuan.
• Chu Qing appeared before Wu Qianhuan to protect her from the blast, then pursued the depleted Opera King and beat him after the explosion damaged a thread of his sleeve.
• The Opera King offered to reveal the Ghost Emperor’s location, but a blood-colored sword phantom suddenly shot toward Chu Qing, whose calm expression suggested he had anticipated the attack.

Chu Qing thwarted the Weapon Lord’s surprise attack with his Three Parts Return to Origin Energy, then confronted the real Weapon Lord as the battle resumed around them. After exposing the deception involving the War Master and Opera King, Chu Qing asked where the Heavenly Evil Cult had come from, leaving the gathered figures in silence.

• The Weapon Lord launched a surprise sword attack at Chu Qing, who blocked it with Three Parts Return to Origin Energy and devastated the surrounding battlefield.
• The martial artists fled the shockwave, then regrouped as Heavenly Evil Cult disciples tried to divide and attack them.
• Chu Qing revealed that the Weapon Lord’s earlier apparent body had been a decoy and called the real Weapon Lord out of hiding.
• The Weapon Lord admitted he had ignored Grave King’s warning and continued the Heavenly Evil Cult’s plan for the Southern Region.
• Opera King spoke despite being reduced to half a body, and the War Master revealed that he had used the Skinning and Disguise Technique to impersonate the Weapon Lord’s decoy.
• Chu Qing asked the War Master where the Heavenly Evil Cult had come from, and the nearby figures fell silent.

The War Master’s plans to test Chu Qing and divide the Northern Ridge forces failed, leaving Northern Ridge with the advantage. He then argued that the Heavenly Evil Cult sought to overthrow the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and the chapter ended with Chu Qing and the War Master preparing to fight.

• The War Master’s decoy attack and attempt to lure Northern Ridge into a trap failed as Chu Qing’s allies held formation and advanced together.
• The War Master attacked while Chu Qing faced the Opera King, but Chu Qing had anticipated his move and kept control of the battlefield through Heavenly Sound Transmission.
• Ji Yexue, Sikong Yijian, Wu Qianhuan, and a nameless youth helped Northern Ridge withstand the Heavenly Evil Cult’s eight war generals.
• The War Master described the Heavenly Evil Cult as a force willing to use evil methods to cut away the world’s corruption, while Chu Qing rejected his justification for sacrificing lives.
• The War Master claimed the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors maintained the realm’s chaos and killed anyone who tried to unite it.
• Chu Qing took up a fallen saber and faced the War Master, who declared that neither of them would flee.

Chu Qing and the Heavenly Kill Weapon Master fought a fierce duel, trading devastating sword strikes and techniques. Chu Qing turned the Weapon Master's final attack aside, but it carved a vast pit into Immortal Cloud Mountain, and Chu Qing was left without a sword worthy of his skill.

• Chu Qing and the Weapon Master clashed repeatedly, and their attacks devastated the battlefield while Liu Zhaonian and the others withdrew the fighters from danger.
• The Weapon Master resisted Chu Qing's Art of Absolute Wisdom, but Chu Qing's third strike shattered his blade and sent him crashing into Immortal Cloud Mountain.
• Chu Qing pursued the Weapon Master with a barrage of Wind God Leg kicks, but the Weapon Master escaped the final blow by wrenching himself from the mountainside.
• The Weapon Master unleashed his Killing Sutra and Heavenly Kill Swordplay, turning nearby stones, leaves, grass, and dust into a dragon of sword intent that attacked Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing used Tai Chi Swordplay to redirect the sword-intent dragon into Immortal Cloud Mountain, carving a vast pit into the slope, then lamented that his sword had shattered again.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the Pawn Master with Flame Blade, a fused blade technique, and the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, driving him into Immortal Cloud Mountain. As an eclipse darkened the sky, the Weapon Lord broke free and revealed that the Ghost Emperor was trapped in Ten Absolutes Cave, then prepared to continue fighting as a red light appeared overhead.

• Chu Qing recovered from the strain of the Pawn Master's sword strike and attacked with Flame Blade and the Sixteen Paths of Startling Evil Blade.
• Chu Qing trapped the Pawn Master in Heaven and Earth, Ghosts and Gods All Bound, then followed with a full-power Shocking a Hundred Miles that smashed him deep into Immortal Cloud Mountain.
• The Pawn Master remained motionless amid the rocks as an eclipse darkened the battlefield, then broke free while Chu Qing waited nearby.
• Chu Qing asked where the Ghost Emperor was, and the Weapon Lord said he was trapped in Ten Absolutes Cave.
• The Weapon Lord declared that heaven was helping him as the Heavenly Kill Sword crumbled in his hand and a red light appeared in the dark sky.

Chu Qing overcame the Weapon Lord’s newly mastered third realm of Heavenly Kill Swordplay with his Three Parts Divine Finger, destroying the blood-red star and ending the eclipse. He returned to the battle and announced that the Weapon Lord was dead, calling on the Heavenly Evil Cult’s forces to surrender.

• The Weapon Lord unleashed Heaven Gives Rise to Killing Intent, Stars Shift and Dipper Turns, pursuing Chu Qing with sword intent descending from the sky.
• Chu Qing gathered his full strength and used Three Parts Divine Finger to push back the blood mist, destroy the blood-red star, and end the eclipse.
• The force of Chu Qing’s clash flattened the surrounding land and killed the onlookers who had approached the battlefield.
• Chu Qing received a Bloody Martial Arts Treasure Chest for completing the commission to assassinate the Weapon Lord, then returned to support Liu Zhaonian and the others.
• Chu Qing announced that the Weapon Lord was dead and demanded that the remaining enemies surrender.

Chu Qing defeated the Soldier Lord’s remaining generals and wiped out the Heavenly Evil Cult’s forces in the north. He then secured the Jianghu leaders’ agreement to attend Heavenly Unity Sect’s Heroes’ Gathering and reveal the Ghost Emperor’s location, before Li Xianyi privately showed him a golden invitation card.

• Chu Qing killed the Eight Great Generals and used the Ancient Chapter Zither to slaughter the Heavenly Evil Cult’s disciples, while the Jianghu experts pursued the survivors.
• After the battle ended, Chu Qing ordered everyone to inspect the corpses and cut off every enemy’s head after apparently dead disciples tried to escape.
• Chu Qing discussed the victory with Wu Qianhuan and the Jianghu leaders, then proposed attending the Heroes’ Gathering in three months and joining forces to rescue the Ghost Emperor.
• Liu Zhaonian and the other leaders agreed to Chu Qing’s plan, and Chu Qing told them to recuperate and choose capable experts for the journey.
• Li Xianyi led Chu Qing to a secluded room and presented him with a golden invitation card bearing the date April 5th and the location Small River Bend’s Treasure Exhibition Building.

Chu Qing accepted an invitation from the Myriad Treasure Tower, then questioned Zuo Huaifeng about the Mystic Mechanism Armor and its ties to the Mirror of Sin. Zuo Huaifeng revealed that the Martial Emperor had ordered him to make armor for years and that the Mirror of Sin delivered it; Chu Qing left with intelligence about the Mirror’s Southern Region Main Branch and its leader, Red Ghost.

• Chu Qing accepted Li Xianyi’s Invitation Card to visit the Myriad Treasure Tower.
• Chu Qing confronted Zuo Huaifeng about armor resembling the Mystic Mechanism Sect’s Mystic Mechanism Armor, and Zuo Huaifeng denied knowing how others had obtained it.
• Zuo Huaifeng revealed that the Martial Emperor had recruited him to help save Chu Huaifeng, then commissioned batches of armor from him every year.
• Zuo Huaifeng said the Mirror of Sin collected the armor on the Martial Emperor’s behalf and warned Chu Qing not to provoke the Martial Emperor.
• Zuo Huaifeng identified Red Ghost as the Southern Region Main Branch’s leader and gave Chu Qing information about the branch and its sub-branches.
• Chu Qing told Zuo Huaifeng he would live, then returned to his room and considered the Southern Region Main Branch’s possible withdrawal.

Chu Qing planned his next moves, including investigating the Heavenly Buddha Temple and rescuing the Ghost Emperor, while he and Liu Zhaonian discussed relocating their families from South Ridge for safety. He opened the Bloody Martial Arts Treasure Chest and chose a Mental/Spirit System martial art, obtaining the Heaven and Earth Changing Great Technique.

• Chu Qing ordered Liu Zhaonian, Ouyang Tianxu, and Ji Yexue to send elite disciples to Immortal Cloud Mountain so he could take them to the Southern Region Main Branch of the Mirror of Sin.
• Liu Zhaonian urged Chu Qing to persuade their families to leave South Ridge for North Ridge, and Chu Qing agreed they would try to convince them.
• Chu Qing reviewed his ongoing mission and found that the Bloody Martial Arts Treasure Chest required him to preset a category before opening.
• Chu Qing chose the Mental/Spirit System category and received the Heaven and Earth Changing Great Technique.

Chu Qing used the Heaven and Earth Changing Great Technique to recover the memories of his modern life and understand how his former and present selves had merged. After preparing to remind the Night Emperor’s employers to pay, he met the delegations gathering at Immortal Cloud Mountain the next morning.

• Chu Qing cultivated the Heaven and Earth Changing Great Technique and relived his infancy, realizing that his adult soul had overwhelmed his undeveloped body and that part of his will had remained dormant.
• Chu Qing confronted the former self he had believed to be a separate person, and the two recognized that they were one.
• Chu Qing recalled his modern life as a husband and father, including his death in a hospital and the years missing from his memories.
• Chu Qing found his spiritual pond greatly expanded, changed into black clothes, and left to remind the Night Emperor’s employers that they still owed payment.
• Liu Qingyan, Ouyang Tianfeng, and a Jade Terrace Sect representative arrived with their delegations at Immortal Cloud Mountain, where Liu Qingyan explained why she had come with Chu Qing.

Chu Qing and the others reached Mirror of Sin’s hidden Southern Region Main Branch, where they discovered a mysterious swordsman slaughtering its members. As Chu Qing followed the swordsman deeper into the mountain, the man’s strange fighting style and familiar back left him wondering who he was.

• Chu Qing traveled with Wu Qianhuan, Wen Rou, and Wenren Qianluo to the hidden valley containing Mirror of Sin’s Southern Region Main Branch.
• Chu Qing captured two wounded Mirror of Sin assassins, but a sword intent hidden in their memories killed them when they tried to recall their attacker.
• Chu Qing led the three women into the hollow mountain and fought through fleeing assassins while following the trail of corpses.
• The group found a white-clad swordsman advancing through Mirror of Sin’s experts as sword qi killed them around him.
• Chu Qing suspected the swordsman was killing with his eyes closed and noticed that his unusual swordsmanship and familiar-looking back intrigued him.

Chu Qing and his companions witnessed a white-robed swordsman battle Red Ghost while Chu Qing massacred the Mirror of Sin’s Southern Region Main Branch by playing the zither. Afterward, they searched the branch and found a map of the Ridge North Branch, but a stern voice stopped Chu Qing as he reached for an iron box.

• A mechanism trapped the white-robed swordsman, but his sword qi tore apart the hall and revealed him to Chu Qing and his companions.
• Red Ghost attacked the swordsman with a massive palm strike, but the swordsman pierced through it and sent Red Ghost flying.
• Red Ghost returned wrapped in flames to fight the swordsman, while Chu Qing played the Ancient Chapter Zither and killed the Mirror of Sin assassins around them.
• Chu Qing left the fighting and searched the General Pavilion, where he found a roster, a hidden map of the Ridge North Branch, and an iron box.
• As Chu Qing reached for the iron box, an unknown person ordered him to put it down.

Chu Qing and Huangfu Yixiao joined forces to defeat Red Ghost at the Pavilion of the General, where they discussed Huangfu Yixiao’s search for the monk Not a Monk. After Red Ghost was destroyed, Chu Qing agreed to help locate Not a Monk and promised Liu Qingyan the remaining treasures.

• Chu Qing and Red Ghost exchanged blows at the Pavilion of the General, and Huangfu Yixiao arrived after fighting Red Ghost.
• Chu Qing identified Huangfu Yixiao as the Sword Emperor’s son, revealed that he was Third Young Master, and agreed to help him find Not a Monk in the northern ridges.
• Red Ghost attacked Chu Qing and Huangfu Yixiao with a powerful fire technique, but their combined sword and saber strikes destroyed him.
• Chu Qing promised Liu Qingyan that she could have the treasures left behind after he took what he wanted.

After Mirror of Sin’s mountain base collapsed, Chu Qing organized the remaining factions to destroy its branches and investigate Not a Monk. He parted ways with his allies and headed to the Mystic Mechanism Sect to have its experts examine a mysterious box.

• Chu Qing rescued Huangfu Yixiao from the collapsing base, and the mountain came crashing down as Liu Qingyan lamented the lost treasure.
• Chu Qing confirmed that no one from Mirror of Sin had survived, then divided maps of its Lingbei branches among the factions and asked them to eliminate the branches within a month.
• Chu Qing asked the factions to investigate Not a Monk’s whereabouts, and Liu Qingyan and the others set out to carry out his orders.
• Wenren Qianluo said farewell and planned to rebuild the Yang River Wenren residence, while Huangfu Yixiao left after asking Chu Qing to capture Not a Monk if he found him.
• Chu Qing decided to take the mysterious box to the Mystic Mechanism Sect, and he, Wu Qianhuan, and Wen Rou reached Mechanism City within three days.

Chu Qing opened the Mystic Mechanism Sect’s Heaven and Earth Treasure Box and found the Fire Corpse Chapter, evidence that Martial Emperor Li Juechen had tested his brutal arts on people who died during cultivation. After Chu Qing removed Cheng Xiao’s Life and Death Talisman and returned to Heavenly Sound Manor, Jiang Qianliu awakened in a trance and lunged for the Four Directions Vessel of Heaven and Earth.

• Zuo Zhongtang identified the box as a Heaven and Earth Treasure Box and opened it without triggering the fire oil inside.
• Chu Qing found the Fire Corpse Chapter and letters ordering Red Ghost to test the martial art on selected people, whose names were marked dead.
• Chu Qing concluded that Martial Emperor Li Juechen had created the Fire Corpse Chapter, the Cold Corpse Record, and the Wood Corpse Art.
• Chu Qing forced the remaining Life and Death Talisman force out of Cheng Xiao’s meridians and warned her to keep Zuo Zhongtang from acting recklessly.
• After exactly one month, Chu Qing arrived at Heavenly Sound Manor and found Jiang Qianliu meditating in the dungeon.
• Jiang Qianliu shattered his cell door, demanded the Four Directions Vessel of Heaven and Earth, and lunged at it when Chu Qing took it out.

Chu Qing discovered that the Four Directions Vessel of Heaven and Earth drove drinkers into painful dependence, so he killed Jiang Qianliu and decided to keep the vessel for controlling a suitable enemy. After completing the Nameless on the List mission, he drew the peerless sword technique A Sword Separating Worlds and began exploring how to refine its power and recoil.

• Chu Qing subdued Jiang Qianliu with wine from the Four Directions Vessel of Heaven and Earth and learned that it caused painful monthly cravings and temporary loss of sanity.
• Chu Qing killed Jiang Qianliu, ordered Heavenly Sound Manor's disciples to send the corpse to the Mystic Mechanism Sect, and returned to Wu Qianhuan and Wen Rou.
• Wu Qianhuan agreed the vessel should not be used on them, and Chu Qing proposed keeping it to control a suitable candidate.
• After completing the Nameless on the List mission, Chu Qing chose a Sword Technique Treasure Chest and obtained A Sword Separating Worlds.
• Chu Qing studied the sword technique's immense power and recoil, then entered a vision beneath the firmament with Azure Night Sword in hand.

Chu Qing left the Mystic Mechanism Sect after refining A Sword Separating Worlds and warned Zuo Zhongtang to take his duties as sect master seriously. In Small River Bend, Chu Qing and his companions settled in with a local family, where he realized their host was concealing his true strength and the reason outsiders had come to town.

• Chu Qing tested and refined A Sword Separating Worlds through the night, improving its speed, power, and lack of an opening.
• Chu Qing took Wu Qianhuan and Wen Rou from the Mystic Mechanism Sect, and Zuo Zhongtang caught up with them near Mechanism City.
• Chu Qing warned Zuo Zhongtang that the Mystic Mechanism Sect would get a new master if he continued neglecting his responsibilities.
• Chu Qing arrived in Small River Bend with Wu Qianhuan and Wen Rou, bought Plum Blossom Wine, and accepted a room at the Song family's home.
• Chu Qing learned from Shopkeeper Song that many outsiders had recently come to Small River Bend, then recognized that Song had lied often and possessed formidable inner power.

Chu Qing encountered Huangfu Yixiao in Small River Bend, where the two visited a restaurant filled with powerful martial artists gathered for the Myriad Treasure Tower event. Huangfu explained the mysterious disappearance of the First Dao’s Dao Master, and the chapter ended with him borrowing money from Chu Qing under harsh repayment terms.

• Chu Qing told Wu Qianhuan that the local man he had met was skilled in martial arts and likely not from Small River Bend, then agreed there was no need to investigate further.
• Huangfu Yixiao reunited with Chu Qing and followed him and Wu Qianhuan to a restaurant, where he threatened to burn down the Myriad Treasure Tower if it could not provide what he wanted.
• Huangfu identified several renowned guests at the restaurant, including the Northern Sword Heavenly Elder, the Thousand Streams Young Master, and the reincarnated holy monk Kashyapa.
• Huangfu explained that the four newcomers belonged to the First Dao, whose Dao Master had vanished more than ten years earlier, leaving blood behind but no other clues.
• After Huangfu discovered he had no money to pay for his meal, Chu Qing made him write an IOU and lent him four thousand five hundred taels at nine out, thirteen back.