Recaps

After failing his tribulation in the Book of a Hundred Lives, Xiao Mo attended his wedding rehearsal and received a sword from Jiang Qingyi. Meanwhile, the Myriad Sword Sect’s sect master sent Huang Wei to stir up trouble, leaving Qiu Ye wondering whether the sect master had feelings for Xiao Mo.

• Xiao Mo woke from the Book of a Hundred Lives after his failed tribulation left him exhausted and in pain.
• Wei Xun reminded Xiao Mo that the wedding rehearsal was scheduled for that day, and Xiao Mo set out for the Altar of Heaven.
• Jiang Qingyi stopped Xiao Mo’s carriage, criticized the wedding robes, and gave him a crimson sword she had forged to nurture his spiritual energy.
• Qiu Ye delivered the sect master’s instructions to Huang Wei, who left to carry them out despite not understanding their purpose.
• Qiu Ye recalled the sect master’s actions toward Xiao Mo and rejected the idea that the sect master could have fallen for him.

During the wedding rehearsal, Xiao Mo and Yan Ruxue were urged to perform the bowing rites, which would effectively secure her place as Empress. Elder Huang objected just as Xiao Mo was about to agree, while Yan Ruxue exchanged a glance with a woman drinking wine in a tree.

• Empress Dowager Yan praised Yan Ruxue and said the rehearsal would make her position as Empress certain.
• Xiao Mo and Yan Ruxue began the palace wedding rites before the gathered officials.
• The Director of the Jiantian Division proposed that they perform the bowing rites because of an auspicious sign, and Empress Dowager Yan supported him.
• The ministers grew anxious because the wedding was still half a month away and their clans hoped to replace Yan Ruxue.
• Elder Huang of the Myriad Sword Sect objected, while Yan Ruxue looked toward a woman in a tree and met her gaze.

Huang Wei opposed holding Yan Ruxue’s wedding bowing before the formal ceremony, prompting Xiao Mo to postpone it despite the Yan Clan’s displeasure. After the ceremony, Yan Ruxue secretly visited Xiao Mo as he slept in the Imperial Study, and the scene recalled their bond from seven thousand years earlier.

• Huang Wei cited an ominous celestial sign and urged Xiao Mo to follow Zhou Kingdom’s customary wedding rites.
• The officials supported Huang Wei, and Empress Dowager Yan accepted postponing the wedding bowing.
• Xiao Mo returned to the palace, changed into Daoist robes, handled memorials, and fell asleep in the Imperial Study.
• Yan Ruxue left the palace but stopped outside the Imperial Study, then entered while Huang Shangyi distracted the attendants.
• Yan Ruxue soothed Xiao Mo with Spiritual Energy and watched him sleep, recalling how she had once teased the resting scholar seven thousand years earlier.

Wang Xin found Xiao Mo buried in the snow on Moon Frost Peak and tried to treat his grave injuries, but two Immortal Realm cultivators attacked them. A protective golden lotus carried the unconscious Wang Xin, Xiao Mo, and Chaos far away, where a mother and daughter spotted them drifting down a river.

• Wang Xin and Chaos dug Xiao Mo out of the snow and found him gravely wounded, so Wang Xin used Spirit Medicines and her Spiritual Energy to keep him alive.
• Two Immortal Realm cultivators attacked Wang Xin and Xiao Mo, hoping to take Xiao Mo's Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart and capture Chaos.
• Wang Xin activated the golden lotus seed from Kong Nian Temple, and it shielded them as it sped away from their pursuers.
• The golden lotus carried the unconscious Wang Xin, Xiao Mo, and Chaos into a river ten thousand li away, then drifted downstream.
• A young girl saw the lotus and alerted her mother, who looked up and saw the three figures floating toward them.

Wang Xin and the little Chaos recovered after being rescued with Xiao Mo, who remained unconscious and gravely injured from his failed tribulation. As Wang Xin cared for him and prayed for his awakening, she told Ning Wei she would keep praying until the world's black hair turned white and the dead tree bloomed.

• Madam Wang rescued Wang Xin, Xiao Mo, and the little Chaos from a lotus drifting downstream and brought them to her home.
• Wang Xin learned that Madam Wang and Ning Wei had been living in the mortal world after Xue Kui sent them away from Karma Blood Peak.
• Wang Xin examined Xiao Mo and found that his failed Immortal tribulation had damaged his Spiritual Meridian, Root Bone, and soul, leaving him unconscious and near the loss of his cultivation.
• Wang Xin cared for Xiao Mo and searched for treasures to help him while the little Chaos tried to wake him; she also prayed to the dead paulownia tree.
• Ning Wei asked Wang Xin how long she would keep praying, and Wang Xin answered, “Until the world's black hair turns white. Until the dead tree beneath the clouds blooms.”

After waking in a farmhouse with his Spiritual Meridian and Root Bone badly damaged and his cultivation reduced, Xiao Mo learned that Xue Kui had sent Ning Wei and her mother away from the Myriad Dao Sect. The chapter ended with Xiao Mo unable to draw his Spirit Gathering Blade.

• Xiao Mo woke after failing his tribulation and found his body severely damaged and his cultivation unstable at the Cave Mansion Realm.
• Wang Xin, Ning Wei, and Little Chaos greeted Xiao Mo, and Ning Wei explained that Xue Kui had taken her and her mother into the Myriad Dao Sect before sending them to the mortal world for four years.
• Xiao Mo questioned why Xue Kui had sent Ning Wei and her mother away and worried about what had happened to Xue Kui and the Myriad Dao Sect.
• Wang Xin gave Xiao Mo medicine, but he said his damaged body could not retain its healing effects and asked to rest.
• Alone, Xiao Mo tried to draw his Spirit Gathering Blade but could not move it.

After his injuries left his Spiritual Meridians and Root Bone beyond ordinary repair, Xiao Mo devised a dangerous way to rebuild them with Blood Fiend Qi. The attempt ended with him losing control and attacking Wang Xin.

• Xiao Mo abandoned his repeated attempts to repair his Spiritual Meridians and spent time calming his mind, listening as Wang Xin recited Buddhist scriptures.
• Xiao Mo continued helping Madam Wang and advising Ning Wei while secretly preparing to try a new method of recovery.
• Xiao Mo went to a hill outside the village, formed a Formation, and used Killing Intent to cut away his damaged Spiritual Meridians and Root Bone before rebuilding them with Blood Fiend Qi.
• As Xiao Mo relived memories of past battles and killings, Blood Fiend Qi burst through the woods and destroyed the Formation.
• Wang Xin found Xiao Mo beside the stream, but he turned on her and swung a blade of blood energy toward her head.

Xiao Mo lost control and attacked Wang Xin and a caravan, but her embrace brought him back to his senses. He told Wang Xin to kill him if he lost himself again, while cultivators later identified him in Guan Feng City and asked the caravan where they had seen him.

• Xiao Mo attacked Wang Xin, whose jade Buddha pendant blocked his first strike, and she led him away from the woods.
• Xiao Mo attacked a caravan of armed escorts, and Wang Xin blocked his strike with Buddha light before he could kill them.
• Wang Xin embraced Xiao Mo and urged him to wake up, and he regained control and let the caravan go.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Xin to kill him if he lost control again, and they flew back toward the mountain village.
• Half a month later, Master Li identified Xiao Mo from a portrait in Guan Feng City, and two elderly cultivators asked where the caravan had encountered him.

Xiao Mo recovered from his injuries by incorporating Blood Fiend Qi into his Spiritual Meridian and Root Bone, then faced his tribulation. After defeating the tribulation’s blood-red counterpart, he left the story with Xue Kui sensing his success at the Myriad Dao Sect.

• Xiao Mo recovered to the peak of the Jade Uncarved-Jade Realm, though his use of Blood Fiend Qi increased the risk of losing control and shortened his lifespan.
• Xiao Mo returned to Spring Leaf Village and prepared to undergo his tribulation, while Wang Xin sensed trouble and worried about him.
• Hao Xiang and Zhao Chen tracked Xiao Mo to Spring Leaf Village and attacked him, but Xiao Mo overpowered them and pulled them into his lightning tribulation.
• The tribulation’s blood-red Xiao Mo annihilated Hao Xiang and Zhao Chen’s souls before fighting Xiao Mo in a fierce battle.
• Xiao Mo survived the tribulation, and Xue Kui sensed what had happened at the Myriad Dao Sect and remarked, “Not bad.”

Xiao Mo left the village for the Myriad Dao Sect and parted ways with Wang Xin at Buddha Demon Mountain after asking her whether she would kill him to save the world. Wang Xin returned to Kong Nian Temple, where she continued to ponder his question until her hair grew long and dark.

• Xiao Mo recovered from his injuries, thanked Madam Wang, and left the village for the Myriad Dao Sect with Wang Xin.
• At Buddha Demon Mountain, Xiao Mo told Wang Xin to return to the Buddhist temples and asked what she would do if killing him were the only way to save everyone.
• Wang Xin could not answer before Xiao Mo left, and Abbot Xu Jing arrived to take her back to Kong Nian Temple.
• Wang Xin sat in the temple courtyard for days, dwelling on Xiao Mo's question while Little Chaos watched over her.
• Little Chaos fetched Xu Jing when Wang Xin's hair had grown long and dark.

Xue Kui used a puppet to search Myriad Dao Sect's Main Peak for her missing master, Zhou Rushi. She found Zhou Rushi imprisoned in a hidden cave with nine other cultivators, but Ding Jingyi destroyed the puppet and revealed his plan to become an “utterly perfect being,” leaving Xue Kui urgently urging Qing Yuan to flee.

• Xue Kui took a puppet and a compass infused with Zhou Rushi's blood essence from Qing Yuan, then used her divine soul to control it.
• The puppet bypassed Main Peak's Formation and used a Formation-Breaking Diagram to enter a hidden underground cave.
• The compass led the puppet to Zhou Rushi and nine other chained cultivators, whose souls and Life Essence were being drained into a statue.
• Ding Jingyi appeared, declared his intention to become an utterly perfect being, and destroyed the puppet after saying Xue Kui had arrived too late.
• Xue Kui awoke from controlling the puppet and grabbed Qing Yuan, ordering her to flee immediately.

Xue Kui exposed Ding Jingyi’s plan to sacrifice Myriad Dao Sect’s cultivators and fortune to absorb an ancient god, but Ding Jingyi trapped the sect and nearly killed her. Xiao Mo arrived as Xue Kui was about to die and challenged Ding Jingyi, who warned that Xiao Mo could not kill him.

• Xue Kui revealed that Ding Jingyi had imprisoned ten Peak Masters and elders beneath the Main Peak to drain their Life Essence and nourish an ancient god, and Ding Jingyi admitted his plan to become the world’s only god.
• Ding Jingyi activated Myriad Dao Sect’s formation, sealed the sect beneath a glass dome, and sacrificed its fortune, while Great Elder Xia Kong and four Immortal Realm cultivators sided with him.
• Xue Kui and Qing Yuan fought Ding Jingyi and his allies, but Xue Kui’s Heaven-Splitting strike failed against his god-empowered sword, leaving her gravely wounded as Ding Jingyi prepared to kill her.
• Xiao Mo broke through the formation and struck Ding Jingyi with his saber, then rejected Ding Jingyi’s offer to become his disciple and prepared to fight him.

Xiao Mo and Xue Kui fought Ding Jingyi while he controlled the former Peak Masters and elders, but their desperate attack ended with the statue empowering him and revealing that a woman possessed his body. Xue Kui and Qing Yuan escaped with the wounded Xiao Mo on Vermilion Bird as the awakened woman vowed to kill the heartless man.

• Xiao Mo and Xue Kui joined forces against Ding Jingyi, but he used the divine statue to control Zhou Rushi and nine other former Peak Masters and elders.
• Xiao Mo unleashed Blood Prison and used Illusion Heaven Art to briefly free Zhou Rushi and the others, who spent their remaining strength attacking Ding Jingyi.
• Xiao Mo's final strike shattered Blood Prison, and Zhou Rushi and the others returned to the Great Dao as Xiao Mo and Ding Jingyi were left gravely wounded.
• The statue poured its power into Ding Jingyi, then a woman revealed she had possessed his body and planned to use Xiao Mo as a sacrifice to undo her seal.
• Xue Kui pulled Xiao Mo onto Vermilion Bird, and Qing Yuan flew them toward the sect's edge while the awakened woman vowed to kill the heartless man.

“Ding Jingyi” toyed with Xiao Mo, Qing Yuan, and Xue Kui while blocking every attempt to escape. Xue Kui led them to the Weapon Forging Pool, where she revealed that Xiao Mo would become the Weapon Spirit of a newly forged Immortal Weapon.

• “Ding Jingyi” tore apart Qing Yuan’s Azure Dragon and damaged the Black Tortoise while repeatedly preventing the group from escaping.
• Xue Kui told Xiao Mo and Qing Yuan that their pursuer was an arrogant ancient god whose strength had not fully recovered, and ordered Qing Yuan to take them to the Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Qing Yuan sent her remaining mechanical beasts to attack “Ding Jingyi,” buying time for the group to pass through the Formation and reach the Weapon Forging Pool.
• Xue Kui revealed that she and Qing Yuan had forged a pitch-black Tang Saber into an Immortal Weapon, but it still needed a Weapon Spirit.
• Xue Kui told Xiao Mo that he would become the saber’s Weapon Spirit.

Xiao Mo refused to let Xue Kui become a permanent Weapon Spirit and helped her use the Soul-Binding Jade to place her yang soul in Ink Dye temporarily. As “Ding Jingyi” broke through the Formation, Xiao Mo drew Ink Dye and struck at it.

• Xiao Mo rejected Xue Kui's plan to become Ink Dye's Weapon Spirit and insisted he could kill the enemy himself.
• Qing Yuan proposed splitting Xue Kui's soul with the Soul-Binding Jade and placing her yang soul in Ink Dye for one incense stick.
• Qing Yuan performed the ritual, and Xue Kui's yang soul entered Ink Dye as the underground Formation shook.
• Xiao Mo drew Ink Dye from the Emperor's Heart Slurry, suppressed its saber energy, and severed its chains.
• “Ding Jingyi” broke the Formation, and Xiao Mo's black-red slash cut off its right arm.

Xiao Mo defeated the god possessing Ding Jingyi, but after returning to Karma Blood Peak, he learned that Xue Kui was dying from old injuries worsened by the battle. Xue Kui awoke and asked him to take her outside for a walk.

• Xiao Mo used his Immortal Weapon and Blood Demon Blade Art to defeat the god possessing Ding Jingyi, whose body dissolved and whose power returned to the statue.
• Qing Yuan restored Xue Kui’s Yang Spirit, and Xiao Mo carried her back to Karma Blood Peak as Xia Kong and his allies abandoned their plan to attack him when the sect’s elders and leaders intervened.
• Qing Yuan treated Xue Kui and told Xiao Mo that injuries from three thousand years earlier had destroyed much of her Root Bone and Spiritual Meridian, leaving her life force fading after the latest battle.
• Xiao Mo remembered how Xue Kui had cared for and protected him, then sat beside her until she awoke.
• Xue Kui told Xiao Mo that the dying person did not want to wait in bed and asked him to go for a walk with her.

Xue Kui took Xiao Mo to visit her master's grave and told him how she had been gravely injured while searching for her master, leaving her with only a little time to live. She passed the Karma Blood Peak token to Xiao Mo, then sat with him at the summit and fell silent as her Life Fire faded.

• Xiao Mo accompanied Xue Kui from the spirit spring through Wanmo Town, where she bought Sangluo Wine from Madam Fang.
• Xue Kui brought Xiao Mo to the Clothes Tomb of Zhou Rushi and recalled how Zhou Rushi had raised her and how she had searched for her after hearing she died.
• Xue Kui revealed that she had fought an ancient female cultivator in a tomb, nearly losing her Spiritual Meridian and Root Bone, and surviving through a forbidden technique that traded away her future on the Great Dao.
• Xue Kui gave Xiao Mo the jade key passed down by the Peak Masters and entrusted Karma Blood Peak to him.
• Xue Kui asked Xiao Mo to call her Master and spoke of wanting to become a Blood Kui Flower in her next life.
• As Xue Kui's Life Fire faded, she leaned against Xiao Mo at the cliff and appeared to fall asleep.

Yu Yunwei returned to Karma Blood Peak to learn that her master, Xue Kui, had died, and she mourned alongside Xiao Mo. When Yu Yunwei begged him not to leave her, Xiao Mo promised he would stay forever despite knowing he would have to leave.

• Yu Yunwei defeated three powerful Sea Beasts and collected their Mo Cores after rescuing the Myriad Dao Sect disciples.
• A message from Xiao Mo sent Yu Yunwei rushing back to the sect, where she found Xue Kui's coffin and learned that her master had died.
• Yu Yunwei and Xiao Mo helped close Xue Kui's coffin, carried it around the sect, and buried her at Karma Blood Peak.
• Yu Yunwei broke down at Xue Kui's grave, and Xiao Mo stayed beside her until she fell asleep from grief.
• Yu Yunwei asked Xiao Mo whether she had caused the deaths of the people she loved, and he reassured her that she was not to blame.
• Yu Yunwei begged Xiao Mo never to leave her, and he promised he would stay forever despite knowing the promise was a lie.

Xiao Mo took the Myriad Dao Sect's throne, imposed strict new laws, and purged those who resisted as the other nine great demonic sects prepared to invade. When their armies entered the sect, they found Xiao Mo waiting alone on a mountain with a Blood Kui Flower carved on his wine gourd.

• Xiao Mo became Sect Master, appointed Yu Yunwei Vice Sect Master and Si Li Peak Master of Myriad Flower Peak, and issued new laws forbidding abuses such as using ordinary people for sacrifices and cultivating through extraction.
• Xiao Mo killed cultivators who rebelled against his laws, while the other nine great demonic sects formed the Nine Demons Alliance to attack the weakened Myriad Dao Sect.
• Xiao Mo told Si Li to post, “If you want to leave, then leave,” and many cultivators departed the sect; Si Li and Yu Yunwei stayed.
• The Nine Demons Alliance gathered thirty thousand cultivators at the Myriad Dao Sect’s border, and Tang Beifeng called for revenge for Ding Jingyi before the allied forces invaded.
• The invading cultivators saw Xiao Mo sitting alone on a mountain, drinking Sangluo Wine from a gourd carved with a Blood Kui Flower.

Xiao Mo fought off the nine great demonic sects and their thirty thousand cultivators, but the battle left him gravely wounded. As Si Li tended to him, he asked her to plant Blood Kui Flowers over the battlefield and told her where to bury him if he died.

• Xiao Mo trapped the approaching cultivators in a Blood Prison and slaughtered many with the Blood Demon Blade Art and Illusion Heaven Art.
• Tang Beifeng and the other eight patriarchs joined forces against Xiao Mo, but he wounded them and broke their formation.
• Xiao Mo unleashed the Blood Sea and forced the demonic sect patriarchs and their disciples to flee.
• After the battle, Xiao Mo collapsed from exhaustion, and Si Li cradled him while reporting that the sect was securing its defenses.
• Xiao Mo asked Si Li to clear the corpses and plant Blood Kui Flower seeds, then told her to ask Yun Wei to bury him there if he died.

Four months after driving off the nine great demonic sects, Xiao Mo recovered and prepared to lead an expedition to destroy them, leaving Yu Yunwei in charge of the Myriad Dao Sect. Before departing, he reassured his junior sister that he would return and promised to grant her request when he did.

• The Myriad Dao Sect repaired its protective formation, rewarded those who had stayed, and barred disciples who had fled from returning.
• After fully recovering, Xiao Mo announced that he would lead an expedition against the nine great demonic sects and invited cultivators in the Cave Mansion Realm or above to join him.
• Xiao Mo left elders to guard the sect and appointed Yu Yunwei to lead it while he was away, despite her wish to accompany him.
• On the night before the expedition, Xiao Mo gave Yu Yunwei instructions for governing the sect and promised to agree to her request when he returned.

After recovering from his wounds, Tang Beifeng faced Xiao Mo’s attack on Emperor Beast Sect and was killed when Xiao Mo broke through its protective formation. Over the next three and a half years, Xiao Mo conquered much of the Western Regions and became known as the Devil Master, while Buddhist Sects prepared to oppose him and he kept watching a temple where a young girl prayed.

• Tang Beifeng decided to seek an alliance with the other eight great sects, but a steward warned him that Xiao Mo had arrived with Myriad Dao Sect cultivators.
• Xiao Mo cut through Emperor Beast Sect’s grand formation with Ink Dye, killed Tang Beifeng, and forced the sect to surrender before making it an affiliated sect of Myriad Dao Sect.
• Xiao Mo offered Emperor Beast Sect disciples rewards for joining his campaign, and seven hundred followed him when he left two days later.
• Over the next three years, Xiao Mo conquered eight of the ten great demonic sects and absorbed or destroyed many other demonic sects, growing his followers to forty thousand.
• Xiao Mo also destroyed abusive Buddhist temples, and after Black Lotus Sect fell, people across the Western Regions called him the Devil Master.
• The Buddhist Sects formed an alliance to crusade against Xiao Mo, while he watched a temple where a young girl prayed beneath a bodhi tree.

The abbots of the Ten Great Buddhist Temples gathered at Kong Nian Temple to discuss forming an alliance against Xiao Mo, whose unexplained actions had alarmed them. Wang Xin attained enlightenment but still had no answer to Xiao Mo’s question, so she decided to search for one in the world, determined to let down neither the Buddha nor him.

• The abbots urged Xu Jing to join a Buddhist alliance against Xiao Mo, citing his campaigns, lifespan-draining formations, and sealed souls of powerful cultivators.
• Xu Jing questioned the accusations and wondered what Xiao Mo intended, though he believed Xiao was not cruel to ordinary people.
• Buddhist light appeared over Kong Nian Temple’s back mountain, and Xu Jing found Wang Xin beneath a bodhi tree after she had attained enlightenment.
• Wang Xin told Xu Jing she still could not choose between the people of the world and Xiao Mo, so she would search for her answer in the world.

Xiao Mo explained that he was gathering souls and life essence to use the Heaven-Fixing Bead to establish laws across the Western Regions and help someone advance. He reached Buddha Demon Mountain with his army and ordered the Buddhist temples to surrender or die.

• Ink Dye awakened as a tiny Weapon Spirit after absorbing the blood energy of cultivators Xiao Mo had slain.
• Xiao Mo told Ink Dye that the Heaven-Fixing Bead could use Upper Three Realms souls and the Western Regions’ life essence to establish laws for six thousand years.
• Ink Dye sensed Xiao Mo had a further purpose and asked why he wanted to gather the Western Regions’ fortune, but he did not explain.
• Si Li announced that the flying fleet was approaching Buddha Demon Mountain, and Xiao Mo stepped outside to face the dawn.
• Xiao Mo ordered the Buddhist temples to surrender or die, and fifty thousand demonic cultivators charged forward as both sides of Buddha Demon Mountain came under demon rule.

Wang Xin tried to leave Kong Nian Temple to stop Xiao Mo from leading the demonic sects in war, but Xiao Mo arrived and confined her to the temple grounds. He failed to persuade Xu Jing to surrender and left to face the Buddhist sects, explaining that he wanted to see what his own Buddha would be like.

• Wang Xin packed to find Xiao Mo, but Xu Jing told her Xiao Mo had become the Myriad Dao Sect's sect master and the Western Regions' Devil Master, and that war had begun.
• Wang Xin insisted she would go stop Xiao Mo, so Xu Jing struck her unconscious with saber energy as she tried to fly away.
• Xiao Mo caught Wang Xin, laid her on her bed, and sealed the courtyard with a formation that would prevent anyone from entering or leaving for three years.
• Xiao Mo walked with Xu Jing and asked him to surrender so Kong Nian Temple would be spared, but Xu Jing refused to abandon the Buddhist sects.
• Xiao Mo departed after telling Xu Jing that he wanted to see what his own Buddha would be like.