Recaps

Xiao Mo continued toward the Black Dragon Sect while killing the cultivators and demonic sects that hunted him, causing his Blood Fiend Qi to approach the point of losing control. When Wang Xin used her Buddhist cultivation to suppress it, Xiao Mo warned her away and left, declaring that he would become the demon feared throughout the Western Regions and that she would become its revered Buddha.

• Xiao Mo ignored Han Zi's request to travel with him and continued down the mountain with Wang Xin, who remained troubled by his killing of the bandits.
• Three days later, cultivators repeatedly ambushed Xiao Mo and Wang Xin, but Xiao Mo killed them, searched their souls, and learned that assassins, rival sects, and demonic factions were targeting them.
• Xiao Mo destroyed demonic sects, killed two Myriad Dao Sect Holy Son candidates, and became notorious across the Western Regions as his cultivation rose and his Blood Fiend Qi worsened.
• Three months later, Xiao Mo's Blood Fiend Qi surged out of control, and Wang Xin endured its corruption while using Buddhist scriptures to suppress it within him.
• Xiao Mo rebuked Wang Xin for risking her Buddhist cultivation to help him and said he would keep killing until no one dared challenge him.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Xin not to follow him and left the cave, saying he would become the demon feared by all of the Western Regions while she would become its revered Buddha.

Wang Xin asked Xiao Mo for a dagger and tried to practice killing a rabbit so she could protect him if he faced danger. She admitted she would give up her path to Buddhahood for Xiao Mo, while he warned her that killing would break her Buddhist heart.

• Wang Xin continued following Xiao Mo and grew quiet as she thought about his question about whether she would fight to protect him.
• Wang Xin asked Xiao Mo for a knife, and he gave her a dagger made by his junior sister.
• Wang Xin brought a rabbit to their campsite and tried repeatedly to stab it, but she could not bring herself to kill it.
• Wang Xin told Xiao Mo she had decided to kill to protect him, and explained that she had tried practicing on the rabbit.
• Xiao Mo warned Wang Xin that becoming ruthless enough to kill would destroy her Buddhist path, but Wang Xin said she would stop being a monk if it was for him.

Wang Xin and Xiao Mo continued toward the Black Dragon Sect, where Si Li of Myriad Flower Peak intercepted them and proposed an alliance. She revealed that she wanted to become the future Myriad Dao Sect Master's wife, leaving Xiao Mo to respond.

• Wang Xin apologized to the rabbit whose fur she had shaved, released it in the woods, and followed Xiao Mo down the mountain.
• Xiao Mo refused Wang Xin's offer to help control his Blood Fiend Qi and warned he would send her back to Kong Nian Temple if she dispelled his Killing Intent again.
• Four days later, Xiao Mo sensed an ambush and used the Spirit Gathering Blade to destroy a boulder, revealing Si Li behind it.
• Si Li introduced herself and explained her Sun Moon Heart Technique and its bond with a chosen cultivation partner.
• Si Li proposed helping Xiao Mo manage the Myriad Dao Sect and said she wanted to become the Sect Master's Wife.

Xiao Mo rejected Si Li’s offer of loyalty and cultivation, but allowed her to accompany him to the Black Dragon Sect after learning about the Hundun Pearl. On the journey, Si Li saw Xiao Mo defeat powerful attackers and grew increasingly determined to win him over.

• Si Li offered to serve Xiao Mo and put Myriad Flower Peak under his command, but Xiao Mo refused and warned her against betrayal.
• Xiao Mo agreed to treat Myriad Flower Peak fairly if its members served him honestly, then set out with Wang Xin.
• Si Li offered to accompany Xiao Mo to the Black Dragon Sect and reveal a surprise; Wang Xin explained that Si Li could open the box containing a Hundun Pearl sought by the Emperor Beast Sect.
• Si Li admitted that she liked Xiao Mo and offered herself to him, but Xiao Mo warned her not to touch him.
• Over the next few days, Si Li traveled with Xiao Mo and Wang Xin, and two days later she watched Xiao Mo defeat an ambush that included two Jade Uncut Realm cultivators.
• Impressed by Xiao Mo’s rapidly growing strength, Si Li gradually began using tricks to get closer to him.

Si Li teased Xiao Mo and tried to understand Wang Xin’s devotion to him, then revealed why she did not want a relationship with any man. She began recounting how her master had deceived her, leaving the truth behind her upbringing unresolved.

• Si Li repeatedly flaunted herself to Xiao Mo, but he warned her to stop and slashed the ground near her feet when she continued teasing him.
• Si Li noticed that Xiao Mo treated Wang Xin gently and that Miaolian seemed to care only for him.
• At their camp near the Black Dragon Sect, Si Li asked Wang Xin whether she would accept Xiao Mo marrying someone else, and Wang Xin said she would support whatever he wanted.
• Si Li realized Wang Xin’s feelings went beyond ordinary friendship, then admitted she did not want to be with Xiao Mo or any man.
• Si Li told Wang Xin that her father had beaten her mother to death and tried to sell her, before her master took her to the Myriad Dao Sect and later betrayed her trust.

Si Li told Wang Xin that she distrusted men and planned to choose Xiao Mo as her Dao Companion to protect herself from being traded away. Wang Xin insisted Xiao Mo would protect her, while admitting she could not read his heart, and later watched over him as Si Li remained skeptical.

• Si Li said her master intended to trade her for benefits once she reached the Jade Uncut Realm, so she wanted to choose Xiao Mo as her Dao Companion herself.
• Si Li explained that she hoped dual cultivation would let her sense whether Xiao Mo loved or hated her, because she had never trusted men.
• Wang Xin said Xiao Mo would protect Si Li as long as she did not hurt him, and revealed that she could not see into Xiao Mo's heart.
• Wang Xin said she trusted Xiao Mo even if he might someday hurt her, and left to rest.
• Wang Xin covered the meditating Xiao Mo with a cloak and warmed the bonfire while Si Li watched and concluded that only fools trusted men.

A thousand years after finding a possible lead on her senior brother’s reincarnation, Yu Yunwei arranged for Si Li to go to the Zhou Kingdom and command the Listening Wind Pavilion. She then visited her master’s tomb on Karma Blood Peak, leaving the story with her offering wine there.

• Yu Yunwei worried the Listening Wind Pavilion disciples might mishandle her senior brother’s search, so she decided to enlist Si Li to bring him back from the Zhou Kingdom.
• Yu Yunwei gave Si Li a jade token to command the Listening Wind Pavilion and insisted she go, reminding her of the man she had waited for at the Immortal Realm.
• After Yu Yunwei left, Si Li held a pendant and reflected on the man from a thousand years ago.
• Yu Yunwei bought Sangluo Wine and went to the forbidden Karma Blood Peak, where she knelt before her master’s tomb and said she had come to visit.

Xiao Mo, Si Li, and Wang Xin arrived at the Black Dragon Sect, where Xiao Mo politely sought news of the two brothers who had come there eight years earlier. He learned the sect was threatened by the Emperor Beast Sect, and his brothers appeared just as he was asking about the looming conflict.

• Si Li warned Xiao Mo that the Black Dragon Sect had a feud with the Myriad Dao Sect and helped disguise Wang Xin in a dress and wig.
• Xiao Mo introduced himself at the Black Dragon Sect’s gate and asked to visit Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai.
• The gate disciples recognized Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai, sent for them, and told Xiao Mo that both had reached the Cave Mansion Realm.
• Xiao Mo learned that the Emperor Beast Sect had camped nearby and that the Black Dragon Sect had canceled its martial arts competition.
• Two men called out to Xiao Mo from the sky, addressing him as their fifth brother.

Xiao Mo reunited with Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai at the Black Dragon Sect and learned that the sect was divided over the fate of Hundun, a legendary ferocious beast. As they left the courtyard, a bell rang to warn of an enemy attack.

• Xiao Mo reunited with his two older brothers and introduced Wang Xin and Si Li as friends he had met on the road.
• Xiao Mo told Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai that Qian Zhenhao had killed their third brother and that their fourth brother had died after attempting to sacrifice civilians.
• Lou Tai shared rumors that the Black Dragon Sect held Hundun and was split over whether to awaken and tame it or seal or kill it.
• Zheng Shanhan led Xiao Mo and the others out to find him a place to stay, but a bell rang across the Black Dragon Sect and Zheng Shanhan suspected an enemy attack.

The Emperor Beast Sect challenged the Black Dragon Sect to settle their dispute over the Chaos Beast through a contest between their younger disciples. After Luo Jie accepted, Chang Fen defeated Wen Lin instantly with his Fire Jade Phoenix, leaving the Black Dragon Sect’s first peak without its chosen fighter.

• Hu Gu proposed that Chang Fen and Chen Yunxi fight the Black Dragon Sect’s disciples, with both sects agreeing to accept the outcome.
• Luo Jie accepted the challenge despite Dugu Qiu volunteering to fight.
• Chang Fen chose Lotus River Peak and demanded that the Black Dragon Sect send someone to face him.
• Wen Lin confronted Chang Fen and attacked with his sword, but Chang Fen summoned his Fire Jade Phoenix.
• The Fire Jade Phoenix overwhelmed Wen Lin and burned him to ashes.

Chang Fen slaughtered Black Dragon Sect disciples as he challenged their mountain peaks, prompting Hu Gu to boast about the Emperor Beast Sect’s rising prodigies. After Chang Fen demanded the sect’s strongest young fighter, an unknown swordsman appeared and knocked him into a mountainside.

• Chang Fen killed a Lotus River Peak disciple, and the Lotus River Peak Master conceded to stop the other disciples from fighting.
• Chang Fen killed White Elephant Peak’s second disciple and then defeated Xue Yuqun despite the peak master’s order to retreat.
• Chang Fen continued defeating Black Dragon Sect cultivators while Hu Gu predicted he would become famous and later challenge Xiao Mo.
• Chang Fen taunted sect master Luo Jie and demanded the strongest young disciple, but a sword struck him into a mountainside.
• A man caught his returning sword, and Black Dragon Sect disciples recognized him as their Senior Brother.

Lu Yuxiu fought Chang Fen but was defeated, and Xiao Mo stepped in to save him. Xiao Mo revealed overwhelming strength beyond what his fellow disciples expected and launched a lethal strike at Chang Fen.

• Lu Yuxiu clashed with Chang Fen while Xiao Mo worried that Chang Fen was hiding his true strength.
• Chang Fen broke through Lu Yuxiu’s Black Dragon Art defenses, knocked him down, and held a spear to his brow.
• Chang Fen raised his spear to kill Lu Yuxiu, but Xiao Mo blocked the blow with his Tang Saber.
• Xiao Mo released dense Blood Fiend Qi and blasted Chang Fen backward, shocking Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai.
• Chang Fen demanded Xiao Mo’s name, and Xiao Mo called himself an Outer disciple before slashing at him with lethal force.

Xiao Mo revealed his identity by killing Chang Fen and forcing Hu Gu and Chen Yunxi to retreat. After welcoming Xiao Mo into the Black Dragon Sect, Sect Master Luo explained the sects’ old feud and hinted that Xue Kui had kept Xiao Mo unaware of the reason he could seek Chaos and of her injuries.

• Xiao Mo killed Chang Fen, destroying his talisman’s escape attempt, while Hu Gu and the Black Dragon Sect’s disciples watched in shock.
• Hu Gu recognized Xiao Mo as Xue Kui’s disciple, and Xiao Mo and Sect Master Luo declared that he had joined the Black Dragon Sect.
• Hu Gu took Chen Yunxi away, while Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai learned that Xiao Mo was their fifth sworn brother and heard his apology for hiding his identity.
• Xiao Mo thanked the Black Dragon Sect for protecting his brothers and said he had also wanted to keep the Emperor Beast Sect from obtaining Chaos.
• Over tea, Luo Jie told Xiao Mo that the sects’ old grudge began when their former leaders pursued Xiao Mo’s grandmaster, who accepted neither of them.
• Luo Jie asked whether Xiao Mo had come for Chaos, then revealed that Xue Kui had not told him about his master’s injuries.

Luo Jie explained how Xue Kui obtained the scroll to the Chaos Secret Realm and revealed that it was about to open, then decided to answer the Emperor Beast Sect’s challenge by offering them a chance to claim Chaos. Tang Beifeng learned of Luo Jie’s plan to hold a ceremony and invite the Western Regions’ sects to share the secret realm.

• Luo Jie told Xiao Mo about the White Bone Secret Realm disaster, Xue Kui’s search for her missing master, and how she traded the Chaos Secret Realm scroll to him.
• Luo Jie said the scroll would open in two months and that an informant had revealed its existence to the Emperor Beast Sect.
• Luo Jie decided to hold a Chaos Ceremony and invite the Western Regions’ sects, challenging them to claim the secret realm.
• Hu Gu returned to the Emperor Beast Sect camp with Chen Yunxi and reported Chang Fen’s death to Tang Beifeng.
• Tang Beifeng told Hu Gu that Xiao Mo deserved to die, then showed him an informant’s letter revealing Luo Jie’s plan to share the Chaos Secret Realm.

After the Emperor Beast Sect withdrew, the Black Dragon Sect prepared to host the Chaos Ceremony and invite cultivators from across the Western Regions into the Chaos Secret Realm. While waiting, Xiao Mo spent time with Wang Xin, Si Li, and his brothers, as Wang Xin told Si Li why she would remain by Xiao Mo’s side.

• The Emperor Beast Sect withdrew after the Black Dragon Sect announced that it would open the Chaos Secret Realm to everyone at a Chaos Ceremony.
• The Black Dragon Sect sent invitations across the Western Regions and prepared to host sects, requiring entrants to be at least Golden Core Realm.
• Xiao Mo lived with Wang Xin and Si Li, and he planted Si Li in the ground after she sneaked into his room.
• Xiao Mo gave Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai cultivation resources, and both became direct disciples of a Peak Master.
• After Xiao Mo passed out from drinking with his brothers, Wang Xin cared for him while Si Li questioned whether she would leave him for her Buddhist future.
• Wang Xin told Si Li that she would stay with Xiao Mo and bear the sins and bloodshed of the path he walked.

Xiao Mo entered the Chaos Secret Realm and found himself in a desolate world, where he came upon Si Li being attacked by Cheng Yunshang and his companions. Si Li was bound by a Charm Soul Array and called for Xiao Mo to save her.

• Cultivators from across the Western Region entered the Chaos Secret Realm after Luo Jie opened it with the scroll.
• Xiao Mo arrived alone in a blood-red wasteland where flying Spells were forbidden.
• After wandering for hours, Xiao Mo heard fighting and found Si Li battling Cheng Yunshang and four other cultivators.
• Cheng Yunshang knocked Si Li down, then bound her with chains and trapped her in a Charm Soul Array after she refused to Dual Cultivate with him.
• Xiao Mo caught Cheng Yunshang's thrown short sword, and Si Li pleaded with him to save her.

Xiao Mo rescued Sili from Cheng Yunshang and her companions in the Chaotic Secret Realm, then took the injured Sili with him. He told her to join the Myriad Dao Sect and help Yunwei manage its affairs, while Sili agreed to wait a thousand years for the reward of being carried on his back.

• Sili begged Xiao Mo to save her, and Cheng Yunshang led four companions in an attack on him.
• Xiao Mo killed all five cultivators with one blade stroke, freed Sili, and struck her with his scabbard to suppress her seductive impulse.
• After Sili treated her injured foot, Xiao Mo carried her at his side and answered her questions about whom he had carried before.
• Xiao Mo told Sili to return to the Myriad Dao Sect, report to his master at Karmic Blood Peak, and help Yunwei manage affairs once he took charge of the sect.
• Sili asked for a reward of being carried on his back, and Xiao Mo said she would have to work hard for a millennium; she happily agreed to wait.

Xiao Mo and his companions reached a cavern where a weakened Chaos beast emerged and fought him. After defeating it, Xiao Mo helped the newborn Chaos recognize its dying mother, leaving the cub beside her.

• Xiao Mo and Si Li reached a plain covered with divine-beast bones, then met Wang Xin beside a magma pit where the ground collapsed and sent the cultivators into an illusion-filled cavern.
• Xiao Mo resisted illusions of Wang Xin, Si Li, Jiang Qingyi, and Ruxue by striking his own heart, while Wang Xin stayed awake and Si Li woke after Xiao Mo hit her with his scabbard.
• The cultivators who remained asleep died as their Life Fires went out, and their Spiritual Energy fed a boulder that shattered to release Chaos.
• Xiao Mo fought and defeated Chaos while the Emperor Beast Sect cultivators watched from safety, and Chaos revealed a cub inside its belly.
• Xiao Mo turned the cub toward its dying mother so she would be the first thing it saw, then told the newborn to remember her.

Xiao Mo escaped the collapsing Chaos Secret Realm with the newborn Chaos cub, then refused Tang Beifeng’s demand to hand it over and killed Wu Qingfeng. After two months of meditation at the Black Dragon Sect, Xiao Mo survived a formidable tribulation and reached the Jade Uncut Realm at twenty, deciding it was time to wrap things up.

• Xiao Mo told the Chaos cub that he had killed its mother, and Wang Xin explained that the mother had entrusted the cub to him before dying.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Xin, and the Chaos cub escaped as the Chaos Secret Realm collapsed, and the remaining cultivators fled through its portals.
• Tang Beifeng demanded that Xiao Mo surrender Chaos, but Xiao Mo refused; when Xiao Mo killed Wu Qingfeng, Luo Jie blocked Tang Beifeng from intervening, and Tang Beifeng left with the Emperor Beast Sect.
• Back at the Black Dragon Sect, Xiao Mo entrusted Chaos to Wang Xin and meditated for two months while Wang Xin and Si Li cared for the cub.
• Xiao Mo faced a devastating Jade Uncut Realm tribulation, split it with a saber strike, and reached the Jade Uncut Realm at twenty.
• After his breakthrough, Xiao Mo reflected that he had been in this world for twelve years and that it was time to wrap things up.

After consolidating his Jadecliff Realm cultivation, Xiao Mo left the Black Dragon Sect with Si Li and reunited with Wang Xin, who chose to stay by his side rather than return to Kong Nian Temple. Meanwhile, Xue Kui watched the forging of her saber Ink Dye and considered using herself as its Weapon Spirit.

• Luo Jie congratulated Xiao Mo on reaching the Jadecliff Realm and advised him to beware of carelessness before Xiao Mo departed the sect.
• Xiao Mo visited the graves of Tang Kuang and Qian Zhenhao with Zheng Shanhan and Lou Tai, then stood Qian Zhenhao's fallen gravestone upright.
• As Xiao Mo left with Si Li, Wang Xin refused Huiyun's invitation to return to Kong Nian Temple and later joined Xiao Mo on the road.
• Xu Jing accepted Luo Jie's tea leaves and told the monks that Wang Xin was choosing her own path and was already walking the Buddhist way.
• Xue Kui visited Qing Yuan as she tempered Ink Dye in Emperor's Heart Slurry and learned the saber still needed a Weapon Spirit.
• After coughing blood outside the forging cavern, Xue Kui decided that she herself could serve as Ink Dye's Weapon Spirit.

Si Li returned to the Myriad Dao Sect to help Xiao Mo prepare to deal with the sect’s old enemies, but her loyalty brought her into conflict with Yu Yunwei and Fang Yanyu. After Fang Yanyu tried to arrange her marriage to the Chang Sheng Sect’s sect master, Si Li used Xiao Mo’s jade pendant to leave safely and declared that her feelings for him were her own concern.

• Si Li returned to the Myriad Dao Sect with Xiao Mo’s identity token and went to Karma Blood Peak to offer her help managing the sect.
• Yu Yunwei objected to Si Li joining her in supporting Xiao Mo, but Xue Kui welcomed Si Li and gave her a jade pendant; Yu Yunwei exchanged it for her own.
• Fang Yanyu told Si Li that Xiao Mo and Si Li were the only surviving Holy Son candidates and that Xiao Mo had obtained Chaos.
• Fang Yanyu proposed taking Si Li to meet the Chang Sheng Sect’s sect master, who would help Myriad Flower Peak establish its own sect and aid Fang Yanyu’s cultivation.
• Si Li refused the arrangement, revealed Xiao Mo’s jade pendant, and left Myriad Flower Peak without Fang Yanyu daring to stop her.
• Si Li told Fang Yanyu that even if Xiao Mo did not like her, her own feelings for him were her business.

Xiao Mo traveled the Western Regions challenging Immortal Realm cultivators, defeating sect masters and destroying sects that attacked him as his saber skills and cultivation improved. After two years, he had become infamous across the region, and Yu Yunwei received a letter from him at Myriad Dao Sect.

• Xiao Mo defeated the Qianwei Sect sect master in fewer than twenty exchanges, and the sect master agreed to publicize his defeat while claiming he had lasted a hundred exchanges through carelessness.
• Xiao Mo continued challenging Immortal Realm cultivators, refining his saber technique, while he and Wang Xin escaped Emperor Beast Sect ambushes.
• Tang Beifeng helped unite demonic sects against Xiao Mo, but after suffering heavy losses, the sects stopped pursuing him, and Xiao Mo began hunting them instead.
• Over two years, Xiao Mo defeated more sect masters and wiped out sects, while his Blood Fiend Qi repeatedly neared its limit and rumors about him spread across the Western Regions.
• Yu Yunwei ran to her master's courtyard at Karma Blood Peak carrying the Shanhai Daily and announced that a letter had arrived from Senior Brother.

Yu Yunwei and Xue Kui read reports about Xiao Mo’s fearsome reputation and the growing alliance against him. Xue Kui then noticed a pattern in the reports, rushed to Qing Yuan, and declared that she had found her master.

• Yu Yunwei read Xiao Mo’s letter and the latest Hundred Affairs Scroll, then became furious at its claims about her senior brother.
• Xue Kui laughed at Xiao Mo’s reputation, teased Yu Yunwei about being jealous, and suggested she marry Xiao Mo when he returned.
• Xue Kui read that sects had formed a Demon Slaying Alliance against Xiao Mo and decided she might need to confront their elders.
• Xue Kui spotted a pattern in reports across multiple issues, marked the locations, and hurried to Qing Yuan’s courtyard.
• Xue Kui grabbed Qing Yuan’s hand and announced that she had found her master.

Xue Kui connected beast rampages around the Myriad Dao Sect to a formation that appeared designed to awaken an unknown being, and suspected the missing powers from the White Bone Forbidden Land had been sacrificed. In the sect’s hidden cavern, Ding Jingyi drained ten imprisoned cultivators to empower a statue, declaring he would become a godlike immortal within a year.

• Xue Kui showed Qing Yuan how records of beast rampages traced a Spirit Gathering Magic Array around the Myriad Dao Sect.
• Xue Kui suspected the sects were using their territories as conduits to awaken an existence and that missing Great Powers had been sacrificed.
• Ding Jingyi entered a hidden cavern beneath the Myriad Dao Sect’s Main Peak, where ten cultivators had been imprisoned and drained for three thousand years.
• Ding Jingyi dismissed the prisoners’ condemnations and told Zhou Rushi he was pursuing the Great Dao rather than destroying the world.
• Ding Jingyi activated the formations, drawing the prisoners’ Life Essence and Spiritual Energy into a statue of a woman holding a spear.

Xiao Mo began his Immortal Realm tribulation at Moon Frost Peak, where a blood-red version of himself emerged from the clouds and attacked him. After a fierce saber battle, Blood Fiend Xiao Mo gained the advantage, and the chapter ended with the wounded Xiao Mo falling beneath an avalanche.

• Xiao Mo released his Spiritual Energy and began his tribulation as Wang Xin and Little Chaos watched anxiously.
• A blood-red figure identical to Xiao Mo descended from the clouds, and Xiao Mo ordered Wang Xin and Little Chaos to retreat.
• Xiao Mo and Blood Fiend Xiao Mo exchanged hundreds of saber strikes, shattering peaks and filling the area with Blood Fiend Qi.
• Xiao Mo used Void Breaker, but tribulation lightning dispelled his attack and let Blood Fiend Xiao Mo counter with Heaven Splitter.
• Blood Fiend Xiao Mo struck Xiao Mo from the sky, and Xiao Mo fell beneath an avalanche as Wang Xin flew toward him.