Chapter Summaries

Zhong Yue lost to Hu Lie, who then became fascinated by the Black Scaled Wolf and demanded to meet the guest who had made it. Zhong Yue led Hu Lie to Bai Yang’s courtyard hoping to turn them against each other, but Hu Lie saw through his scheme and approached Bai Yang politely, leaving Zhong Yue worried he had offended both men.

• Hu Lie defeated Zhong Yue with one strike, and Zhong Yue accepted the gap between their abilities.
• Hu Lie studied the Black Scaled Wolf’s wild intent, but the beast suddenly burst apart and died.
• Hu Lie demanded that Zhong Yue take him to the person who had made the Black Scaled Wolf, and Zhong Yue agreed while hoping Bai Yang would retaliate against him.
• Hu Lie recognized Zhong Yue’s attempt to use Bai Yang against him and warned him before entering Bai Yang’s courtyard.
• Hu Lie introduced himself to Wu Wu and asked to meet Bai Yang, while Wu Wu went inside to announce his arrival.

Bai Yang rejected Hu Lie’s request for a custom Strange Beast and confronted Zhong Yue for bringing Hu Lie to his home in hopes of using him as a weapon. Zhong Yue attacked Bai Yang, and Wu Wu and Wu Lan intervened, leaving Wu Lan injured as the chapter ended.

• Hu Lie asked Bai Yang to breed him a Strange Beast, but Bai Yang demanded Hu Lie’s life or help killing the Blood Lotus Sect’s Sect Master in exchange.
• Bai Yang discovered that Zhong Yue had brought Hu Lie to his home to provoke trouble and demanded Zhong Yue’s life as an apology.
• Bai Yang ordered Wu Wu to kill Zhong Yue, but Zhong Yue drew his saber and attacked Bai Yang before Wu Wu could respond.
• Wu Wu blocked Zhong Yue’s strike with her sword, but her attack broke and the saber light continued toward Bai Yang.
• Wu Lan shielded Bai Yang with a giant red leaf that cracked under the strike, and she was left pale and bleeding.

Bai Yang killed Zhong Yue with his silver chain and blue flames, then refused Hu Lie’s demand for genetic serum and fought him. Hu Lie withstood the flames by changing his protective energy into a tortoise, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Zhong Yue challenged Bai Yang, but Bai Yang bound him with a silver chain and burned him to ash with blue flames.
• Bai Yang told Hu Lie to bring Jing Chen’s head or stop asking for help, and Hu Lie threatened to take the genetic serum by force.
• Bai Yang showed Hu Lie the serum, then baited him into attacking by refusing to hand it over unless Hu Lie killed himself or brought Jing Chen’s head.
• Bai Yang bound Hu Lie with the silver chain, but Hu Lie transformed his protective energy into an Exploding Ape and forced the chain open.
• Bai Yang’s blue flames engulfed Hu Lie, whose protective energy changed into a huge ocher-colored tortoise that temporarily withstood the fire.

Bai Yang used his lightning ability to defeat Hu Lie, who had tried to seize the treasure that could mutate Strange Beasts, and killed him before his master could intervene. Hu Lie’s master, a Grandmaster-level vice hall master, blamed Bai Yang for ruining his hopes of reaching the Human King Realm and prepared to attack.

• Hu Lie transformed his astral energy into several fierce beasts and attacked Bai Yang, but Bai Yang unleashed a vast field of lightning that devastated the area and left Hu Lie gravely wounded.
• Bai Yang bound Hu Lie with lightning and prepared to kill him as a Grandmaster-level aura approached from the Myriad Beast Hall’s summit.
• Bai Yang ignored the newcomer’s order to stop and pierced Hu Lie’s head with the Blood-Patterned Sword.
• Hu Lie’s master arrived, mourned his disciple briefly, then accused Bai Yang of destroying his hopes of advancing to the Human King Realm.
• The old man unleashed his Grandmaster aura and attacked Bai Yang, who recognized that Hu Lie’s master had valued him mainly as a path to advancement.

Bai Yang fought Hu Lie’s furious master, a Martial Path Grandmaster, and used his ability lightning to counter the man’s attacks. He lured the Grandmaster into pursuing him through the Myriad Beast Hall, intending to cause as much damage as possible.

• Hu Lie’s master attacked Bai Yang with a palm strike, but Bai Yang used Psychic Power to dodge it at the last moment.
• Hu Lie’s master pursued with a powerful fist, and Bai Yang’s blue flames failed to stop it, so he shattered the attack with ability lightning.
• Bai Yang dodged the Grandmaster’s hand blade and learned that the man’s Martial Path will blocked his Psychic Power within a thousand meters.
• Bai Yang’s lightning clashed evenly with the Grandmaster’s hand-blade attack, and he pretended to flee.
• Bai Yang flew around the Myriad Beast Hall, drawing the pursuing Grandmaster after him and striking with repeated bolts of lightning.

Bai Yang led Hu Cang on a destructive chase through Myriad Beast Hall, wrecking Beast Yards and killing countless people and Strange Beasts. The Hall Master returned and confronted Hu Cang, but Hu Cang charged after Bai Yang again, prompting the Hall Master to unleash his power.

• Bai Yang and Hu Cang's battle swept into the Ninety-Third Beast Yard, where their clash destroyed much of the yard and killed or injured its people and Strange Beasts.
• Bai Yang deliberately led Hu Cang across Myriad Beast Hall, causing more Beast Yards, medicinal mountains, and their inhabitants to be devastated.
• Myriad Beast Hall members activated their Formations and sent word to their leaders, but the destruction spread to a hundred Beast Yards within five minutes.
• The Hall Master arrived on a massive black eagle and demanded that Hu Cang explain the devastation.
• Hu Cang admitted that he had lost control after Bai Yang killed Hu Lie, then charged at Bai Yang again despite the Hall Master's warning.
• The Hall Master released his immense aura and threatened Hu Cang as Bai Yang watched from a distance.

The master of Myriad Beast Hall stopped Hu Cang from attacking Bai Yang and ordered him to kill five Grandmasters of the Chen Dynasty. After Bai Yang left the damaged hall, the master privately explained that the sect master needed Bai Yang alive for a larger plan, leaving Hu Cang unable to retaliate for now.

• The master of Myriad Beast Hall restrained Hu Cang and ordered him to reflect for three days, then kill five Grandmasters of the Chen Dynasty.
• Bai Yang provoked Hu Cang and struck him with lightning, but the master intervened and forced Hu Cang to leave.
• The master warned Bai Yang to leave Myriad Beast Hall, and Bai Yang flew away with Wu Wu and Wu Lan following him.
• The master met Hu Cang in the palace and apologized for his harsh treatment, explaining that the sect master had major uses for Bai Yang.
• Hu Cang asked whether he could at least cripple Bai Yang, but the master pointed out that they could not act against him now.

Bai Yang stayed near Myriad Beast Hall to watch as Strange Beasts he had secretly dosed mutated and rampaged through the territory. He admitted to Wu Wu and Wu Lan that he had caused the disaster, which spread across the hall and dwarfed the damage from his earlier fight with Hu Cang.

• Hu Cang insisted he could still kill Bai Yang, but the Myriad Beast Hall Master warned him that Bai Yang might be able to overwhelm him and explained why he had avoided attacking Bai Yang himself.
• Bai Yang stopped on a mountain outside Myriad Beast Hall and told Wu Wu and Wu Lan he intended to watch the show.
• A Grandmaster-realm Armored Bull mutated, devoured people and other cattle, and led a growing herd into a rampage.
• Powerful Strange Beasts across Myriad Beast Hall mutated and attacked, spreading chaos through more than half the beasts and then throughout the territory.
• Bai Yang told Wu Wu and Wu Lan that he had dosed several Strange Beasts while Hu Cang chased him, and he watched the destruction from the mountain.

Bai Yang’s tampering caused the Strange Beasts in the Myriad Beast Hall to rampage, devastating the branch and killing many Blood Lotus Sect members. The hall master and Hu Cang killed most of the beast leaders and believed they had gained powerful survivors, though the hall master remained suspicious of Bai Yang’s motives.

• Strange Beasts across the Myriad Beast Hall went berserk under powerful leaders, trampling buildings and killing sect members.
• The hall master and Hu Cang learned that more than a hundred groups had new leaders and concluded that Bai Yang had altered the beasts while distracting Hu Cang.
• The hall master and Hu Cang decided to subdue the beasts and went out to suppress their leaders.
• The beast leaders joined forces against the two hall masters and the hall master’s eagle, forcing them to fight in earnest.
• The three Grandmasters killed more than half the beast leaders within half an hour and brought the rampage under control.
• Hu Cang reported that about thirty Grandmaster-level Strange Beasts and five beasts as powerful as Grandmasters survived, while the hall master questioned whether Bai Yang’s apparent gift was truly benevolent.

Bai Yang watched Myriad Beast Hall count the catastrophic losses caused by his beast tide while hinting that the powerful Strange Beasts he had supplied were doomed as well. The Hall Master and Hu Cang discovered the beasts were dying from a forbidden pill that consumed their life force, while Bai Yang’s next scheme remained unrevealed.

• The Myriad Beast Hall Master and Hu Cang worried that Bai Yang had an ulterior motive for supplying powerful Strange Beasts, then ordered the beasts secured and the damage assessed.
• Bai Yang told Wu Wu and Wu Lan that he had not acted excessively and mocked their belief that the powerful Strange Beasts compensated Myriad Beast Hall for its losses.
• Wu Lan’s assessment revealed that the beast tide had killed or injured at least half of Myriad Beast Hall’s people and destroyed nearly half its Strange Beasts.
• A messenger reported that the Strange Beasts Bai Yang had raised were dying one by one, including six at the Martial Path Grandmaster level.
• The Hall Master realized Bai Yang had used a forbidden pill that consumed the Strange Beasts’ life force, and he regretted letting Bai Yang leave.

After the Myriad Beast Hall’s night of destruction, Bai Yang watched from a nearby mountain and revealed that the disaster was only beginning. Nematodes he had secretly released began multiplying through the corpses, and a rising cloud of red larvae spread from the gorge toward the Blood Lotus Sect.

• Bai Yang told Wu Wu and Wu Lan that the destruction at the Myriad Beast Hall was only the beginning, and Wu Lan’s attempt to foresee the coming disaster nearly shattered her soul.
• Bai Yang admitted privately that he had released a demon and feared the nematodes might escape his control and spread beyond the Blood Lotus Sect.
• Timed devices hidden inside Strange Beast corpses opened in the gorge, releasing nematodes that devoured the bodies and reproduced at an astonishing rate.
• The nematodes began mutating as their generations multiplied, and the corpse pile sank as they consumed it from below.
• Blood Lotus Sect members bringing more corpses saw red larvae surge from the gorge and spread through the air like a terrifying red-haired wind.

Hair-thin red worms erupted from Bai Yang’s devices and swept through Myriad Beast Hall, devouring energy and living creatures as they multiplied. The Hall Master and Hu Cang watched the outbreak spread from every direction, with no way to stop it.

• A Martial Master grabbed a clump of larvae, which entered his body and consumed him until he burst into worms and an empty skeleton remained.
• The red-haired larvae overwhelmed the corpse transporters, eating their True Qi and True Essence before infecting and devouring them.
• The worms spread from the canyon to a ruined beast pen, turning Strange Beast corpses into fresh swarms that raced across the land.
• The Myriad Beast Hall Master and Hu Cang saw disciples and Strange Beasts being consumed as outbreaks appeared at multiple beast pens.
• A kneeling messenger reported that the worms were multiplying uncontrollably and nearing the whole hall, while red mist billowed in from every direction.

Nematode swarms overwhelmed the Myriad Beast Hall, evolving into deadlier forms as they devoured its people and Strange Beasts. The Hall Master and Hu Cang fought back on the mountaintop while blaming Bai Yang, and Blood Lotus Sect leader Jing Chen appeared as the last defenders remained under attack.

• Nematode swarms erupted across the Myriad Beast Hall and devoured martial artists and Strange Beasts, including a Grandmaster and a giant python.
• The worms evolved from red larvae into faster, more lethal white and silver nematodes as they consumed flesh and energy.
• The Hall Master blamed Bai Yang for the catastrophe, and he and Hu Cang fought the advancing swarms from the mountaintop.
• The Myriad Beast Hall’s people and Strange Beasts perished, while the Hall Master, Hu Cang, and the Hall Master’s mount remained in grave danger.
• Jing Chen appeared above the Myriad Beast Hall and watched as the swarms began spreading beyond its territory.

Jing Chen destroyed the threadworm swarm after it annihilated the Myriad Beast Hall, then refused to punish Bai Yang because he still had plans for him. The hall’s surviving Grandmasters were ordered to rebuild, while Jing Chen viewed the destruction as the price of taking the Imperial Dragon Qi.

• The threadworms overwhelmed the Myriad Beast Hall, consuming its people, Strange Beasts, and territory while the hall master, Hu Cang, and their mount struggled to stop them.
• Jing Chen wiped out the threadworm swarm with five waves of his palm, sealed the remaining worms in ice, and warned Bai Yang not to bring them to the Blood Lotus Sect again.
• Jing Chen told the three surviving Grandmasters to rebuild the Myriad Beast Hall, but refused the hall master's demand to kill Bai Yang because Bai Yang was useful to him.
• The hall master and Hu Cang reluctantly obeyed Jing Chen, and the hall master was relieved that Jiang Yishui had escaped the disaster.
• Jing Chen regarded the destruction of the Myriad Beast Hall as an expected price for seizing the Imperial Dragon Qi and its heavenly fortune.

After destroying the Myriad Beast Hall, Bai Yang traveled with the Wu sisters to the Blood Lotus Sect’s Alchemy Hall to investigate the poisoned river. There, he spotted a familiar figure before entering the hall.

• The Blood Lotus Sect ordered its members not to offend Bai Yang after he annihilated the Myriad Beast Hall, while Bai Yang reflected on Jing Chen’s ambitions and the Imperial Dragon Qi.
• Bai Yang left the ruins with Wu Lan and Wu Wu and flew toward an unknown destination; two pairs of furious eyes watched them depart.
• At a polluted river, Wu Lan explained that discarded failed pills from the Alchemy Hall had poisoned the water, prompting Bai Yang to demand that she take him there.
• Bai Yang and the sisters reached the vast Alchemy Hall, where a Yin Spirit cultivator tried to stop them until Wu Lan invoked Jing Chen’s order.
• Bai Yang ignored the cultivator and spotted a familiar figure inside the Alchemy Hall.

Bai Yang encountered Mu Tong working under harsh conditions in the Blood Lotus Sect's medicinal gardens and killed the steward who had been harassing her. He took her to her lodgings and asked her to explain how she had ended up there, noting that her senior brother was still working with him.

• Mu Tong endured an excessive workload and harassment from the steward while tending medicinal herbs.
• Bai Yang recognized Mu Tong and asked why she was in the Blood Lotus Sect after she mentioned rumors that he had destroyed the Myriad Beast Hall.
• The steward insulted Bai Yang and threatened Mu Tong, so Bai Yang ordered Wu Wu to kill him, and Wu Wu killed him with a blast of Grandmaster-realm energy.
• The medicinal garden's manager assured Mu Tong that she would no longer have to work and urged her to accompany Bai Yang.
• Mu Tong led Bai Yang to her cramped lodgings, where he asked her to sit and tell him what had brought her to the sect.

Bai Yang reunited with Mu Tong in the Blood Lotus Sect and learned about her hardships and the sect’s grisly herb-growing methods. He discovered that Jiang Shan was marrying the Alchemy Hall master’s granddaughter, and returned to tell Mu Tong the truth.

• Mu Tong told Bai Yang that she and Jiang Shan had obtained Life Fruits in the Iron Sword Sect ruins before Blood Lotus Sect experts captured them.
• Mu Tong explained that the sect fertilized Crimson Blood Root fields with human and beast blood, and asked Bai Yang to help her find Jiang Shan.
• Bai Yang sent the medicinal garden steward to bring Jiang Shan from the Alchemy Hall’s inner courtyard.
• The steward reported that Jiang Shan would not come because he was marrying the Alchemy Hall master’s granddaughter, whom he was said to love.
• Bai Yang returned to Mu Tong and began preparing to tell her about Jiang Shan’s wedding.

Bai Yang brought Mu Tong to the Alchemy Hall so she could see Jiang Shan, though he withheld the news that Jiang Shan was marrying another woman. They arrived at the wedding just as the ceremony was about to begin, leaving the guests wondering what Bai Yang’s visit would bring.

• Mu Tong asked Bai Yang if Jiang Shan was safe, and Bai Yang reassured her while hiding that Jiang Shan was marrying someone else.
• Mu Tong asked to see Jiang Shan, and Bai Yang promised to help her with whatever decision she made afterward.
• Bai Yang led Mu Tong and their companions to the Alchemy Hall’s wedding celebration, where Elder Yun prepared to begin the ceremony.
• A herald announced Bai Yang’s arrival, and he entered the plaza claiming he had come for wedding wine.
• Elder Yun privately urged Bai Yang not to disrupt the wedding, and Bai Yang promised to behave himself.

At the Blood Lotus Sect Alchemy Hall Master’s granddaughter’s wedding, Mu Tong found Jiang Shan, the senior brother she loved, marrying another woman. She confronted him about their past and their promise, leaving Jiang Shan visibly shaken.

• Bai Yang brought Mu Tong to the wedding, saying Jiang Shan might be among the guests.
• Mu Tong spotted Jiang Shan, now a Grandmaster, leading his bride down the aisle and broke down in tears.
• With Bai Yang’s support, Mu Tong walked onto the red carpet and confronted Jiang Shan in front of the wedding guests.
• Jiang Shan said he had always regarded Mu Tong as a younger sister and urged her to find Dan Qiulin.
• Mu Tong reminded Jiang Shan that they had belonged to each other and made a promise in Mihe Forest, and his expression changed.

At Jiang Shan’s wedding, Mu Tong desperately begged him not to abandon their love, while he chose to proceed with the marriage for the sake of his future. The chapter ended with Mu Tong offering to become his concubine or servant just to remain by his side.

• Jiang Shan denied having any relationship with Mu Tong and urged her to leave so his wedding could continue.
• Mu Tong pleaded with Jiang Shan to remember their promises, while the silent guests recognized their painful past and blamed him for the scene.
• Bai Yang watched Mu Tong’s devotion and thought of his own beloved, whom he vowed never to abandon.
• Jiang Shan admitted he had failed Mu Tong but refused to give up his marriage, and the bride urged him to resolve the matter before the auspicious hour passed.
• Jiang Shan told Mu Tong to leave and said he would repay her in another life, but Mu Tong offered to become his concubine or servant if he would let her stay near him.