Recaps

Xu Yi studied how to cure the One Blood Kill poison and made plans to restore his body and advance his cultivation. After leaving the Tianxia Association with supplies and Spirit Stones, he disguised himself and disappeared into the marketplace.

• Steward Fang showed Xu Yi the association's catalog, and Xu Yi selected several supplies despite finding few useful treasures.
• Xu Yi learned that One Blood Kill could be cured with blood from a direct descendant and burned the pages after reading them.
• Xu Yi resolved to cure the poison, take the Rebirth Pill, enter seclusion, and reach the Soul Sensing Realm before the Martial Edict took effect.
• Steward Fang brought Xu Yi a Sumeru Ring and thirty Spirit Stones, which Xu Yi recognized had come from Fang's own pocket.
• Xu Yi checked for pursuers in the marketplace, changed his appearance into a burly man, and wandered among food stalls.

Xu Yi retrieved the Martial Edict concealed in cold jade from Willow Leaf Workshop, then became wary of a suspicious attendant. Nearby, Liu-lang spoke with Hua'er about his father’s death and the Martial Edict that had led to it.

• Xu Yi spent the day observing the city and practicing talisman patterns with his yin soul while listening to storytellers.
• Xu Yi used Liu Shigu’s pawn plaque at Willow Leaf Workshop to redeem a Sumeru Ring containing a block of cold jade that concealed the Martial Edict.
• A slanted-browed Willow Leaf Workshop attendant approached Xu Yi, and Xu Yi grew suspicious when the man’s smile widened after he left.
• At Moon Invitation Tower, Hua'er urged Liu-lang to stop grieving for his father.
• Liu-lang said his father had been unable to break through the Profound Gate and had died after refusing to heed warnings about the Martial Edict.

Liu Xiangdao and the Young Master in White waited at Willow Leaf Workshop for whoever carried Liu Shigu’s pawn ticket, hoping to recover the Martial Edict and avenge Liu Shigu. When Xu Yi emerged, they identified him as their target and set out to intercept him.

• Liu Xiangdao explained that Liu Shigu had hidden the Martial Edict and used the pawn ticket to lure its bearer to Willow Leaf Workshop.
• After waiting three days, Liu Xiangdao and the Young Master in White learned that someone had presented the ticket at the workshop.
• Xu Yi left Willow Leaf Workshop, and the Young Master in White spotted him from Moon Invitation Tower.
• Liu Xiangdao deduced that Xu Yi was the junior who had taken Liu Shigu’s Sumeru Ring, while the Young Master in White planned to make him a plaything.
• Xu Yi headed toward the western city gate as Liu Xiangdao and the Young Master in White rode after him on a jade horse.

Xu Yi killed Liu Xiangdao with a surprise attack, then fled as Gong Xiuhua revealed terrifying strength and pursued him. He escaped a deadly attack with a Swift Wind Talisman and reached a point a hundred miles away, though Gong Xiuhua’s threat remained unresolved.

• The Young Master in White and Liu Xiangdao blocked Xu Yi’s path and pretended to offer help while plotting to torment and kill him.
• Xu Yi tricked Liu Xiangdao with an empty Sumeru Ring, then used a Swift Body Talisman and the Coral Horn to kill him.
• Xu Yi fled on a red Mechanical Bird, but Gong Xiuhua flew after him and tried to claim Liu Xiangdao’s Yin Soul.
• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to seize Liu Xiangdao’s Yin Soul, provoking Gong Xiuhua to curse him and attack with a storm of broken branches.
• Xu Yi activated a Swift Wind Talisman to evade Gong Xiuhua’s devastating strike, then escaped a hundred miles away on the Mechanical Bird.

Xu Yi fled toward Shatai Valley while Gong Xiuhua pursued him, and their battle revealed that Xu Yi could wield powerful treasures despite his low cultivation. The chapter ended with Xu Yi using the Soul-Shaking Bell to stun Gong Xiuhua as he raced for the valley’s boundary.

• Xu Yi swallowed Liu Xiangdao’s blood to recover, took his Sumeru Ring, and fled west toward Shatai Valley.
• Gong Xiuhua caught up on his Jade Horse and struck Xu Yi with his Abusive Demon Blade, but Xu Yi survived by using a Source Pill and his Life Source Power.
• Xu Yi unleashed the Soul-Summoning Banner’s black mist to hold Gong Xiuhua back, then escaped as Gong Xiuhua realized he had been bluffed.
• Gong Xiuhua resumed the chase and closed to thirty zhang, so Xu Yi activated the Soul-Shaking Bell, gravely straining his Yin Soul to stun him.

Xu Yi escaped Gong Xiuhua by using the Soul-Shaking Bell to create a brief opening, while Gong Xiuhua mourned Liu Xiangdao and vowed revenge. Gong Xiuhua summoned Tianyi Dao followers and sent them into Shatai Valley to capture Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi activated the Soul-Shaking Bell, shook Gong Xiuhua's spirit, and fled through the blue curtain into Shatai Valley.
• Gong Xiuhua collapsed in grief over Liu Xiangdao, then swore to make Xu Yi suffer and used Xu Yi's blood to prepare tracking talismans.
• A Tianyi Dao dragon boat arrived, and Gong Xiuhua struck down the brocade-robed middle-aged man when he spoke about the sect leader and the marriage alliance.
• Gong Xiuhua gave tracking talismans to his followers and ordered them to enter Shatai Valley and bring Xu Yi back alive if possible.

Xu Yi reached Shatai Valley after escaping Gong Xiuhua’s forces, hid in a cave, and recovered from the damage to his body and yin soul. As Gong Xiuhua offered rewards for Xu Yi’s capture, Xu Yi searched Liu Xiangdao’s Sumeru Ring and found an Azure Moon Horn.

• Gong Xiuhua announced rewards for anyone who killed Xu Yi and captured his yin soul, or brought him in alive, sending more than twenty experts to search Shatai Valley.
• Xu Yi collapsed upon entering the valley, used Soul Replenishing Liquid, and sealed himself inside a shallow cave with the Hidden Mechanism Array.
• Xu Yi rested, treated his shoulder, and restored his yin soul, though his remaining Soul Replenishing Liquid had lost much of its potency.
• Xu Yi opened Liu Xiangdao’s Sumeru Ring and found Spirit Stones, pills, medicines, and a soul weapon he could not use.
• Xu Yi spotted the Azure Moon Horn among the Spirit Stones, recognizing it as an item that let its bearer understand demon speech.

Xu Yi prepared his soul garment in a cave, then overheard Old Qian and Old Sun discussing their hunt for him. Old Qian killed Old Sun over his Origin Blast Bead and turned toward Xu Yi’s hiding place.

• Xu Yi stored the Azure Moon Horn and created another soul garment from a bottle of soul garments.
• Xu Yi sensed two people nearby and used the Sound Interception Technique to listen to Old Qian and Old Sun plot to capture him.
• Old Qian asked Old Sun to lend him his Origin Blast Bead, but Old Sun refused after realizing Old Qian’s scheme.
• Old Qian stabbed Old Sun with a black iron cone, took his Sumeru Ring, captured his Yin Soul, and dissolved his corpse.
• Old Qian considered how to attack Xu Yi and decided to try a sneak attack with the Soul-Slaying Cone.

Xu Yi killed Old Qian in an ambush, then learned that the Young Master in White had mobilized cultivators across Shatai Valley to hunt him. He broke through a group of pursuers and fled northwest, but the search party continued after him.

• Xu Yi killed Old Qian with the Mechanical Bird, took his Sumeru Ring, collected his Yin soul, and dissolved his body.
• Xu Yi realized the Young Master in White had offered rewards and summoned numerous Soul Sensing experts to hunt him, so he fled west through the forest.
• A red-faced man used a talisman to identify Xu Yi, and the search party converged on him; Xu Yi counted four Soul Sensing experts and twelve peak Liquid Condensation cultivators.
• Xu Yi flew northwest toward a weak point in the encirclement and used the Soul-Shaking Bell to distract the middle-aged man with the tall crown.
• Xu Yi endured attacks from two Liquid Condensation cultivators with his soul armor and broke through the encirclement, while the middle-aged man's powerful technique missed.
• The red-faced man from Tianyi Dao rebuked the middle-aged man, then rallied the search party to pursue Xu Yi.

Xu Yi discovered that a yellow apricot talisman made him glow, suggesting enemies could track him, so he disguised himself as a Tianyi Dao cultivator and hunted the searchers instead. He ambushed the yellow-faced middle-aged man, killed him, and escaped with his belongings and yin soul.

• Xu Yi found an Origin Blast Bead and realized a yellow apricot talisman made him glow faintly.
• Xu Yi decided not to leave Shatai Valley and disguised himself in Liu Xiangdao's Mechanical Bird and Tianyi Dao robe.
• Xu Yi spotted a search party led by a yellow-faced middle-aged man and approached while pretending to have found the thief.
• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to disrupt the middle-aged man's yin soul, then killed him and took his Sumeru Ring and yin soul.

Xu Yi killed a yellow-faced Tianyi Dao cultivator and used the murder to sow doubt among Shatai Valley’s experts about the hunt for him. He left them questioning Tianyi Dao’s story and offered them Spirit Stones as a token of thanks.

• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to distract the yellow-faced middle-aged man, then killed him with the Coral Horn.
• Xu Yi claimed the man had tried to steal his credit and threatened the gathered experts while pretending to serve Tianyi Dao’s Young Master.
• Xu Yi questioned the story that Liu Xiangdao had been killed by a mere Liquid Condensation junior, prompting the Shatai Valley experts to doubt Tianyi Dao’s motives.
• Xu Yi reasoned that Gong Xiuhua had kept the Soul-Summoning Banner secret and that the experts had not recognized him as an impostor.
• Xu Yi tossed a bag containing thirty or forty Spirit Stones to the high-cheekboned old man to distribute among the others, shocking the crowd.

Xu Yi used Spirit Stones and a fabricated story about Gong Xiuhua to recruit observers into helping him ambush Tianyi Dao rebels in Shatai Valley. After disguising himself, he led them to a group and killed a high-nosed Tianyi Dao cultivator, then took his ring and soul.

• Xu Yi convinced the high-cheekboned old man and the others that he was Gong Xiuhua's agent, promising Spirit Stones for their help in killing rebels.
• Xu Yi borrowed Body Concealing Pills, rewarded their lenders, disguised himself, and led the group to search for rebel forces.
• The group received word of a Tianyi Dao rebel nearby and swept toward the northwest to confront his party.
• A hemp-clothed man claimed that the group had come to help the high-nosed Tianyi Dao cultivator, lowering his guard.
• Xu Yi emerged from the formation on the Mechanical Bird, attacked the high-nosed man with his Soul-Summoning Banner and Coral Horn, and killed him.
• Xu Yi took the man's Sumeru Ring, collected his soul, and disposed of his corpse.

Xu Yi gathered cultivators by promising rewards, then led them in ambushes that killed Tianyi Dao’s Soul Sensing Realm cultivators and won him an expanding following. As dawn approached, Qiu Ruyi grew convinced that Deputy Hall Master Su had already succeeded and was keeping the news from him.

• Xu Yi gave Zhao the high-nosed middle-aged man’s Sumeru Ring as compensation, persuading the gathered cultivators to trust his claim that he was acting for Tianyi Dao’s young master.
• Xu Yi led the cultivators to ambush more Tianyi Dao groups, distributing or keeping their Sumeru Rings as the crowd grew and its members began killing enemies themselves.
• By dawn, Xu Yi’s group had grown to more than 150 people, and eight Soul Sensing Realm cultivators sent by Gong Xiuhua had been killed.
• Qiu Ruyi’s team searched nearly half of Shatai Valley without finding the enemy, while the people he had gathered grew impatient.
• Qiu Ruyi failed to contact Gong Xiuhua and received no reply from Deputy Hall Master Su, leaving him convinced Su had already succeeded and concealed it.

Xu Yi turned the missing Tianyi Dao disciples into a confrontation, convincing hundreds of people that they were traitors acting against their young master. As the crowd prepared to attack, the deputy head challenged Xu Yi’s cover story, but Xu Yi’s answers left him uncertain.

• The fourteen remaining Tianyi Dao disciples gathered above Sangfu Forest and realized that many of their fellow disciples had vanished.
• Xu Yi’s growing crowd surrounded the Tianyi Dao group, and several people accused them of being traitors who had deceived them.
• A Tianyi Dao youth recognized Xu Yi as the person they had been ordered to find, and the python-robed deputy head tried to strike him before a hemp-clothed man attacked.
• Xu Yi accused the disciples of hiding in Shatai Valley to seize a treasure, while the high-cheekboned elder urged the crowd to kill them and divide the spoils.
• The deputy head demanded proof of Xu Yi’s claimed covert-agent status, but Xu Yi explained that he had never entered Tianyi Dao and had been lent a third-tier artifact by the young master.
• Xu Yi’s explanation replaced the deputy head’s anger with confusion and doubt.

Xu Yi convinced Elder in Python Robes that Gong Xiuhua had sent Tianyi Dao’s forces to their deaths, then escaped as the group fought and died. He headed for the southern cliff to recover, unaware that a dragon boat arrived shortly afterward and halted the battle.

• Xu Yi persuaded Elder in Python Robes and his men that Gong Xiuhua had betrayed them, prompting them to beg for mercy.
• Xu Yi ordered the gathered cultivators to kill Tianyi Dao’s forces and flew away on the Mechanical Bird.
• Elder in Python Robes unleashed the Black Mountain Torrential Rain, killing many attackers and starting a bloody battle.
• The attackers overwhelmed Elder in Python Robes’s group, killed them all, and seized their Yin Souls and Sumeru Rings.
• Xu Yi left for the southern cliff to recover and later seek a place where heat and cold met to take the Rebirth Pill.
• A dragon boat arrived from the west soon after Xu Yi left, and a message from its bow stopped the melee.

Young Master Xu and Ambassador Song confronted Gong Xiuhua and showed him Shadow-Sound Pearl footage of Xu Yi’s pursuit of Liu Xiangdao and his exploits in Shatai Valley. The images left Gong Xiuhua watching his fellow disciple’s death as Young Master Xu’s secret tracking and Xu Yi’s actions came to light.

• Young Master Xu arrived with Ambassador Song and tried to persuade Gong Xiuhua to focus his grief on their common enemy, but Gong Xiuhua threatened him.
• Young Master Xu revealed that a Netherworld Bird had tracked the person they both sought and produced a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording.
• Ambassador Song recognized the disguised Young Man in Green as someone entering the Tianxia Association in Lihuo City, then watched as the recording revealed Xu Yi’s true appearance.
• The Shadow-Sound Pearl showed Xu Yi attacking Liu Xiangdao with a Swift Body Talisman, and Gong Xiuhua stared at the scene in grief.
• The recording continued through Xu Yi’s exploits in Shatai Valley while Ambassador Song reacted to the fights, the Coral Horn, and Xu Yi’s clever deception.

Young Master Xu bargained with Gong Xiuhua for Tianyi Dao’s fragment of the Heavenly God Chart in exchange for Xu Yi’s whereabouts, then revealed eight Black Cultivators as his force. Gong Xiuhua left them to capture Xu Yi alive, and the dragon boat headed toward Shatai Valley.

• Young Master Xu showed Gong Xiuhua footage of Xu Yi defeating Tianyi Dao’s men and offered to trade Xu Yi’s whereabouts for the Heavenly God Chart fragment.
• Gong Xiuhua returned the Shadow-Sound Pearl and demanded Xu Yi’s location, but Young Master Xu insisted on receiving the fragment first.
• Gong Xiuhua attacked Young Master Xu, drawing out eight black-cloaked reinforcements who stopped his golden palm with walls of Killing Intent.
• Gong Xiuhua recognized the eight fighters as Black Cultivators from the Sin Army and agreed to let Young Master Xu pursue Xu Yi, insisting he be captured alive.
• Young Master Xu, Ambassador Song, and the eight Black Cultivators boarded the dragon boat and set off for Shatai Valley.

Young Master Xu considered whether to recruit or kill Xu Yi, whose talent for making extraordinary talismans had impressed him, while plotting to keep him from falling into anyone else’s hands. After reaching Shatai Valley, Young Master Xu ordered the assembled fighters to search for Xu Yi and capture him for the manor.

• Young Master Xu told Ambassador Song that powerful forces were gathering the fragments of the Heavenly God Chart and that he expected to obtain Gong Xiuhua’s fragment.
• Young Master Xu recalled his hatred of Xu Yi, then weighed it against his admiration for Xu Yi’s talent and suspected that he made extraordinary wind-element talismans.
• Young Master Xu traced his suspicions to Ghost Bird reports and clues connecting Xu Yi, Steward Fang, and the Tianxia Association to wind-element talismans.
• Young Master Xu’s dragon boat reached Shatai Valley, where he stopped a large battle and heard how Xu Yi had turned Tianyi Dao members against one another.
• Young Master Xu ordered Ambassador Song to declare Xu Yi a wanted criminal and offer a reward for his capture, intending to use the people in Shatai Valley to find him.

Young Master Xu persuaded Ambassador Song to suspend the tournament and organize a prefecture-wide hunt for Xu Yi. Seeking a frigid pool in Crimson Fire Gorge so he could take the Rebirth Pill, Xu Yi was saved from a Fire Eye Spider by a pink Ice Fire Rabbit, which fled after he tried to thank it.

• Young Master Xu convinced Ambassador Song to announce a hunt for Xu Yi, promising rewards that included the chance for a first-tier sect to become a second-tier sect.
• Ambassador Song organized the sects into a disciplined army and ordered them to search together without splitting up.
• Xu Yi traveled to Crimson Fire Gorge, hoping its volcanic terrain concealed a frigid pool where he could take the Rebirth Pill.
• A Fire Eye Spider trapped Xu Yi in its invisible web, but a pink Ice Fire Rabbit froze and devoured the spider.
• Xu Yi pursued the rabbit and offered it a Precious Medicine in thanks, but it startled at his demon-language speech and vanished.

Xu Yi found a group of Ice Fire Rabbits trapped by cultivators behind a waterfall and decided to rescue them, both because they were related to King Bala and because the pink rabbit had helped him. He asked the hunters to give him one rabbit, but they secretly debated ambushing him and stealing his powerful soul banner.

• Xu Yi followed the trail of changing temperatures to a waterfall and used his Mechanical Bird to discover a hidden clearing behind it.
• Xu Yi found the Pink Rabbit and five other Ice Fire Rabbits alive but pinned by tiny darts, while a dozen cultivators held them in a sealed trap.
• Xu Yi recognized that the cultivators had lured the rabbits with Begonia Radishes and trapped them to harvest their valuable demon cores.
• Xu Yi asked the cultivators to give him one Ice Fire Rabbit and offered a generous gift in return.
• The cultivators discussed Xu Yi through voice transmission, weighing the value of the rabbits against the danger of his third-tier soul banner and plotting to attack him together.

Xu Yi confronted the twelve cultivators who had plotted to seize his six Ice Fire Rabbits and used the Soul-Summoning Banner to discourage an attack. He demanded that they agree to a division or face exposure, leaving the group to decide quickly.

• Xu Yi revealed his Soul-Summoning Banner and message orb, accused the cultivators of plotting against him, and threatened to expose them.
• The Hemp-clothed Daoist priest and the Leopard-headed middle-aged man denied their intentions, then argued that Xu Yi should not claim a rabbit for himself.
• Xu Yi activated the Soul-Summoning Banner, shaking the cultivators’ spiritual platforms and proving that he could threaten them with its power.
• The Hemp-clothed Daoist priest apologized and accepted Xu Yi’s request for one Ice Fire Rabbit, but Xu Yi said he still did not trust them.
• Xu Yi demanded that the group agree on how to divide the rabbits or he would notify the main force, and the cultivators had to decide quickly.

Xu Yi forced the cultivators to meet his demands, then used their assumptions about his plan to hurl all six Ice Fire Rabbits into the cold pool. He had intended to save them from the beginning, and the chapter left the others stunned by his move.

• Xu Yi made the cultivators agree to tie up the Ice Fire Rabbits, remove the Black Prison Nails, and give them an antidote.
• The Hemp-clothed Daoist priest’s group revived the rabbits and took down the net of light over the cold pool.
• Xu Yi delayed choosing a rabbit while the cultivators suspected he planned to escape through the pool.
• Xu Yi declared that he wanted all six rabbits, broke their bindings, and threw them into the cold pool.
• Xu Yi’s unexpected rescue worked because the cultivators misjudged his intentions across the divide between humans and demons.

Xu Yi released the Ice Fire Rabbits and used a message sphere to deter the Leopard-headed middle-aged man and his companions from attacking him. When the Young Master’s forces arrived to hunt him, Xu Yi maneuvered to avoid suspicion and greeted Elder Zhao and Brother Su as if nothing had happened.

• Xu Yi had the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest bind and detoxify the rabbit before canceling the light net, then released the Ice Fire Rabbits.
• The Leopard-headed middle-aged man attacked Xu Yi, but Xu Yi reported the group’s location and appearances through a message sphere, making them fear retaliation from Tianyi Dao.
• Xu Yi argued that humans and demons were both cultivators, enraging the Leopard-headed middle-aged man until he spat black blood.
• Xu Yi heard the Young Master’s forces closing in and warned the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest and the others to retreat before they were questioned.
• After the group fled, Xu Yi climbed the cave wall and dropped back down as dozens of people rushed inside.
• Xu Yi greeted Elder Zhao and Brother Su warmly and asked whether they had captured the rebels.

Xu Yi learned that Ambassador Song’s men had come to capture him alive on Young Master Xu’s orders, and he realized his leverage over Young Master Xu had failed. As Xu Yi prepared to fight his way out of the cave, Young Master Xu watched from a dragon boat and asked Ari whether he planned to test Xu Yi himself.

• Xu Yi questioned the high-cheekboned Daoist and learned that Ambassador Song had ordered the group to take him into custody as a wanted criminal.
• Xu Yi suspected Young Master Xu had tracked him and realized that the recording he had made to threaten Young Master Xu might no longer protect him.
• The high-cheekboned Daoist urged Xu Yi to surrender, promising that he would be kept alive, but Xu Yi feared capture and resolved to fight.
• Young Master Xu watched the cave from a dragon boat as Ambassador Song argued that the surrounding force could easily capture Xu Yi.
• Ari predicted that Xu Yi would not surrender without a fight, and Young Master Xu asked whether Ari intended to go down and test him.

Xu Yi tried to surrender to Young Master Xu, but the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest and the Leopard-headed middle-aged man moved to silence him. An Ice Fire Rabbit intervened from the cold pool, leaving Xu Yi to face the gathering forces while telling the rabbit they were even.

• Xu Yi asked to surrender only to the noble young master, while the high-cheekboned old man agreed to bring him over.
• The Hemp-clothed Daoist priest attacked Xu Yi, but the high-cheekboned old man stopped his next strike and demanded an explanation.
• The Hemp-clothed Daoist priest accused the high-cheekboned old man of conspiring with Xu Yi as they argued over the failed pursuit of the Ice Fire Rabbits.
• The Leopard-headed middle-aged man sent a killing attack at Xu Yi, who prepared to fight back despite his injuries.
• An Ice Fire Rabbit burst from the cold pool and struck the attack with icy mist, shaking the mountainside.
• Xu Yi told the Ice Fire Rabbit through the Azure Moon Horn that they were even and urged it to leave.