Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo advanced rapidly in cultivation, reached the Cave Mansion Realm, and mastered the third form of the Blood Demon Blade Art. He urged Jiang Xin to enter Kong Nian Temple for her safety, but she said the temple would not be good if he were not by her side.

• Xue Kui reassured Xiao Mo that his rapid cultivation did not mean his foundation was unstable.
• Xiao Mo reached the Cave Mansion Realm, and Xue Kui used ominous treasures to consolidate it.
• Xiao Mo perfected Blood Moon Slash and cleaved boulders across three hundred zhang before striking Myriad Flower Peak's Mountain Protecting Array.
• Xiao Mo told Jiang Xin he wanted to take her to Kong Nian Temple so she could study Buddhism and cultivate safely.
• Jiang Xin asked whether Xiao Mo would go with her and said the temple would not be good without him by her side.

Xiao Mo endured Xue Kui’s three blade strikes to prove he was ready to leave with Jiang Xin, and Xue Kui let them go. As Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin headed toward Kong Nian Temple, Jiang Xin happily imagined their future together while Xiao Mo kept his true intentions to himself.

• Xue Kui teased Xiao Mo about her romance novel before taking him to an open space to test him with three strikes.
• Xiao Mo endured Xue Kui’s Blood Glow, Lingering Red, and Blood Moon Slash, then asked if he could take Jiang Xin with him.
• Xue Kui judged Xiao Mo barely ready, gave him pills for his injuries, and told him to return to the Myriad Dao Sect in three months.
• After Xiao Mo left, Xue Kui picked up the silver bell that had broken from her waist and said she had nearly been found out.
• Xiao Mo told Jiang Xin that Xue Kui had agreed to let them leave, and they started down the mountain toward Kong Nian Temple.
• Jiang Xin described her hopes of living, farming, and growing up with Xiao Mo, and he agreed while clenching his fist.

Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin traveled toward Kong Nian Temple and found a village where a Spirit Sacrificing Array had been used to slaughter its inhabitants. After Xiao Mo destroyed the array, the culprit prepared to make Qian Zhenhao kill his closest friend as part of a demonic sect inheritance ritual.

• Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin entered a deserted village and discovered its slaughtered inhabitants’ souls bound by a Spirit Sacrificing Array.
• Xiao Mo found the array’s core and destroyed it, freeing the souls from their chains before leaving with Jiang Xin.
• Guang Cuo learned that the array in Linggan Village had been destroyed but decided to focus on the sect’s more important business.
• Guang Cuo ordered Qian Zhenhao to kill his sworn brother Tang Kuang to qualify for the Sect Master’s inheritance.
• Qian Zhenhao apologized to Tang Kuang, declared that he wanted to become an immortal, and stabbed him as his blood filled the Formation.

Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin reached Kong Nian City, where the locals’ praise for Kong Nian Temple eased Xiao Mo’s concerns about the temple. At the temple, Abbot Xu Jing welcomed them and asked Jiang Xin what she saw in his heart, and she answered that she saw a Buddha.

• Xiao Mo learned from the teahouse owner that Kong Nian Temple protected and helped Kong Nian City without forcing its residents to follow Buddhism.
• Xiao Mo asked several townspeople about the temple, heard their favorable opinions, and continued with Jiang Xin to Kong Nian Mountain.
• Abbot Xu Jing sensed the pair’s arrival through divination and went with Wu Guang to welcome them.
• Xiao Mo asked Xu Jing to take Jiang Xin as his disciple.
• Xu Jing asked Jiang Xin what she saw in his heart, and Jiang Xin replied that she saw a Buddha.

Xiao Mo learned about Kong Nian Temple’s charitable customs from Abbot Xu Jing, declined an invitation to join the temple, and prepared to leave. Jiang Xin found him on the mountain path and asked to go with him, choosing his company over the temple’s protection.

• Xiao Mo asked Abbot Xu Jing why Kong Nian Temple displayed a Taoist couplet and used clay Buddha statues, and Xu Jing explained the temple’s beliefs and its practice of lending gold leaf to the poor.
• Xu Jing invited Xiao Mo to join Kong Nian Temple, but Xiao Mo declined because he needed to return to his teacher and Myriad Dao Sect, and did not want to hinder Jiang Xin’s cultivation.
• Xiao Mo told Xu Jing he planned to leave at the hour of the Tiger without telling Jiang Xin, but Xu Jing secretly informed her.
• As Xiao Mo left Kong Nian Mountain, he found Jiang Xin waiting beneath a pine tree.
• Jiang Xin asked to go with Xiao Mo, and he urged her to stay at Kong Nian Temple, but she said she would rather be with him.

Xiao Mo left Jiang Xin behind after warning her not to follow, and she waited at the marked spot for two days. On the third day, she joined Kong Nian Temple as a disciple and received the Dharma name Wang Xin.

• Xiao Mo pulled Jiang Xin away from his clothes, threatened her with his blade, and disappeared into the forest.
• Xu Jing told Wu Ming that Xiao Mo would not have struck Jiang Xin and that she understood crossing the line would end their connection.
• Jiang Xin spent two days crouched on the mountainside without eating or drinking while Xu Jing told pilgrims not to disturb her.
• Jiang Xin entered Kong Nian Temple and told Xu Jing she wanted to study the Buddhist path so she could find Xiao Mo.
• Xu Jing shaved Jiang Xin's head as the monks chanted, and a golden Buddha appeared above Kong Nian Temple.
• Xu Jing named Jiang Xin a disciple of the nine hundred and seventy-fifth generation and gave her the Dharma name Wang Xin.

Xiao Mo returned to Karma Blood Peak and met his new junior sister, Yu Yunwei, whose Illusion Heaven Art seemed to let her try controlling him. Xue Kui left Yu Yunwei’s training to Xiao Mo and reminded him that the Myriad Dao Sect would choose its Saint Child in seven years.

• Xiao Mo returned to Karma Blood Peak, where Xue Kui introduced Yu Yunwei as his new junior sister and explained that she was the disciple of a deceased friend.
• Xiao Mo learned that Yu Yunwei cultivated the nine-level Illusion Heaven Art and had already reached its third level.
• Yu Yunwei gave Xiao Mo water, and he briefly felt his consciousness being sealed before she claimed her technique had activated by accident.
• Xue Kui told Xiao Mo that Yu Yunwei was strange and left him to teach her, saying he could even kill her if necessary.
• Xue Kui told Xiao Mo that the Myriad Dao Sect would choose its Saint Child in seven years and warned him not to embarrass her.

Yu Yunwei tried to provoke a fight between Xiao Mo and the Yunxiao Peak disciples, but Xiao Mo killed their Golden Core senior Cai Tianrui with one strike. Afterward, he punished Yu Yunwei for her actions and told her he would discipline her from then on.

• Yu Yunwei failed to control Xiao Mo with her Illusion Technique, then spent the next month acting obediently around him and Xue Kui.
• In Wanmo Town, Yu Yunwei taunted Yunxiao Peak disciples and declared that Xiao Mo would claim the Saint's position.
• Xiao Mo defeated the disciples who attacked him, then cut down Cai Tianrui when he launched a lethal strike.
• On the way back to Karma Blood Peak, Xiao Mo struck Yu Yunwei's palm with his scabbard ten times and said he would discipline her from then on.

Yu Yunwei secretly provoked disciples in Wanmo Town, hoping to draw Xiao Mo into trouble, but he killed the Golden Core cultivator Cai Tianrui with one strike. On the way back, Xiao Mo punished Yu Yunwei and told her he would discipline her from then on.

• Yu Yunwei acted obediently for a month and accompanied Xiao Mo to Wanmo Town to buy supplies.
• Yu Yunwei taunted disciples of Yunxiaofeng about the Holy Son position, and Xiao Mo knocked them back when they attacked.
• Cai Tianrui confronted Xiao Mo and demanded he kneel, kowtow, and cut off an arm, then attacked him with a sword strike.
• Xiao Mo split Cai Tianrui in two with a single blade strike, leaving Yu Yunwei shocked by his strength.
• On the way back to Karma Blood Peak, Xiao Mo struck Yu Yunwei's palm ten times and said he would discipline her from then on.

Yu Yunwei tried to sabotage Xiao Mo’s medicinal bath in revenge, but he absorbed the added Blood Ganoderma without losing control. He punished her for her bad intentions and ordered her to clean the courtyard and begin an early morning routine.

• Yu Yunwei resented Xiao Mo for striking her hand and decided to get back at him.
• Yu Yunwei apologized to Xiao Mo and offered to tend the fire while he tempered his body in a medicinal bath.
• Yu Yunwei turned up the heat and added a Thousand-Year Blood Ganoderma, but Xiao Mo absorbed it without suffering any apparent harm.
• Xiao Mo struck Yu Yunwei’s palm ten times and told her he would punish her whenever she acted with bad intentions or did something wrong.
• Xiao Mo threatened to kill Yu Yunwei if she wanted to die, then ordered her to clean the courtyard and sit there early the next morning.

Xiao Mo forced Yu Yunwei to begin studying Confucian classics, while Xue Kui told him that enemies had joined forces to kill him before the Holy Son selection. Xiao Mo read the list of targets and accepted Xue Kui’s advice to kill them all.

• Yu Yunwei woke with pain from the previous day’s beating, but got up because she feared Xiao Mo would come to wake her.
• Xiao Mo brought out Confucian classics and made Yu Yunwei read the Analects with him despite her protests.
• Xue Kui watched Xiao Mo teach Yu Yunwei, then heard him declare that Yu Yunwei would study daily and learn Confucian etiquette every night.
• Xue Kui gave Xiao Mo a list of people plotting to kill him before the Holy Son selection because he had slain a Cloud Pattern Peak disciple.
• Xiao Mo asked what he should do, and Xue Kui told him to kill them all.

Yu Yunwei repeatedly tried to harm Xiao Mo but failed, and she later followed him as he hunted Myriad Dao Sect disciples competing in the Saint Selection. Xiao Mo revealed he was pursuing the selection only as a convenient step toward setting rules for the Western Region.

• Yu Yunwei endured Xiao Mo’s lessons and etiquette training while repeatedly attempting to kill him, and he punished each failed attempt by striking her palm.
• Yu Yunwei tried to frame Xiao Mo for taking Xue Kui’s treasured book, but Xiao Mo recognized the scheme and sent Yu Yunwei and Xue Kui flying from the courtyard.
• Yu Yunwei secretly followed Xiao Mo to Blood Butterfly Pavilion and watched him hunt down Myriad Dao Sect disciples throughout the day.
• Xiao Mo told Yu Yunwei that he killed the disciples because Xue Kui said they planned to kill him and they were all Saint Selection candidates.
• When Yu Yunwei asked whether he wanted to become the Myriad Dao Sect’s Saint, Xiao Mo said he was doing it because it was convenient while he pursued another goal.
• Xiao Mo declared that he wanted to set rules for the Western Region.

Yu Yunwei left on a Magic Beast hunting mission at Black Cloud Mountain, while Xiao Mo secretly followed to protect her. As Yu Yunwei judged her fellow disciples and heard Qu Xiaotao boast about pursuing Xiao Mo, she considered killing them but remembered Xiao Mo’s warning not to harm fellow disciples without reason.

• Yu Yunwei received an order to hunt Magic Beasts at Black Cloud Mountain, and Xiao Mo added half an hour to her daily lessons after the mission.
• Xiao Mo told Yu Yunwei not to harm her fellow disciples, then followed her to protect her as Xue Kui had once protected him.
• Yu Yunwei joined Li Nan, Yan Liu, Qin Hai, and Qu Xiaotao and privately judged the three men as insincere and Qu Xiaotao as manipulative.
• Qu Xiaotao praised Xiao Mo’s strength and said she planned to visit him when he was older, prompting Yu Yunwei to decide Qu Xiaotao would be the first she killed if she found an excuse.

Yu Yunwei and her companions completed their Mo Core mission in Black Cloud Mountain, where they discovered a Red Moon Fruit tree. As they found seven fruits and spotted an unusually fragrant one at its crown, they prepared to face whatever guarded the treasure.

• Yu Yunwei and the others spent six days hunting Magic Beasts and collected all but three of the seventh-rank Mo Cores they needed.
• Qu Xiaotao tried to grow closer to Yu Yunwei and asked about Xiao Mo, while Yu Yunwei hid her contempt and kept the Illusion Heaven Art as a secret trump card.
• Yu Yunwei, Qu Xiaotao, Li Nan, Yan Liu, and Qin Hai hunted three more seventh-rank Magic Beasts and completed their mission.
• Yan Liu found a plant with blood-red roots and explained that it could indicate a nearby Red Moon Fruit.
• Li Nan and the others searched the area and discovered a tree bearing seven Red Moon Fruits, including an especially fragrant fruit at its crown.

Yu Yunwei and the others discovered a rare Red Moon Main Fruit, then fought and killed a wounded Mad Flame Baboon. After Qin Hai murdered Li Nan for the beast’s Mo Core, he proposed that he and Qu Xiaotao kill Yu Yunwei so they could divide the treasure.

• Li Nan and Yan Liu pretended to defer the Red Moon Main Fruit to one another while the group eyed the prize warily.
• A wounded Mad Flame Baboon attacked, and Yu Yunwei urged the group to fight it for its valuable Mo Core.
• The group wounded the baboon, and Yu Yunwei killed it by detonating her blade inside its abdominal wound.
• Qin Hai stabbed Li Nan and claimed the Mad Flame Baboon’s Mo Core.
• Qin Hai proposed that he and Qu Xiaotao kill Yu Yunwei in exchange for the Red Moon Main Fruit and the Mo Core, and Qu Xiaotao turned a murderous gaze toward Yu Yunwei.

Yu Yunwei revealed her hidden strength and used her control technique to make Qin Hai and Qu Xiaotao kill each other, then went to pick the Red Moon Fruit. A Rock Skin Boa nearly swallowed her, but a familiar boy appeared and drew his saber.

• Qu Xiaotao hesitated before killing Yu Yunwei, but her sword stopped just before striking her.
• Yu Yunwei revealed that she was at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and controlled Qu Xiaotao and Qin Hai into killing each other.
• Yu Yunwei destroyed their souls, took the Mo Core, and headed to the Red Moon Fruit tree.
• A Rock Skin Boa trapped and attacked the injured Yu Yunwei, whose lightning talisman barely slowed it.
• Just as the Rock Skin Boa was about to swallow Yu Yunwei, a familiar boy appeared and swung his black-and-blue saber.

Xiao Mo rescued Yu Yunwei from a Rock Skin Boa on Black Cloud Mountain and carried her back toward the sect. Yu Yunwei struggled to understand his concern for her, then quietly treasured his rare praise.

• Xiao Mo killed the Rock Skin Boa with a single saber strike and freed Yu Yunwei's legs from the stone encasing them.
• Yu Yunwei's legs gave way, so Xiao Mo carried her down the mountain after collecting seven Red Moon Fruits.
• Xiao Mo told Yu Yunwei he had come to protect her and reassured her that he would not punish her for killing people who had tried to kill her first.
• Yu Yunwei offered Xiao Mo the Red Moon Main Fruit, but he refused it and warned her against relying on treasures to advance her cultivation.
• Yu Yunwei asked why Xiao Mo had saved her, and he admitted he had never considered whether he hated her and did not care about being Xue Kui's only disciple.
• Xiao Mo praised Yu Yunwei's performance on the mission, leaving her secretly warmed despite calling him a stinky senior brother.

After Yu Yunwei returned from Black Cloud Mountain, she became more diligent and began treating Xiao Mo with greater respect. A year later, Xiao Mo reached the middle stage of the Dragon Gate Realm, and a drunken Xue Kui asked him to promise that he and Yun Wei would take care of each other and stay alive.

• Yu Yunwei reported the Black Cloud Mountain incident to the Hall of All Affairs, then became more proactive about studying and happier to receive Xiao Mo's praise.
• Xue Kui asked Xiao Mo what had changed between him and Yun Wei, but he said he had only saved her life.
• A year later, Xiao Mo entered the Dragon Gate Realm and immediately reached its middle stage without using pills, spirit medicines, or treasures.
• Xue Kui celebrated Xiao Mo's breakthrough with food and wine, then got drunk and let Xiao Mo carry her back to her courtyard.
• Xue Kui asked Xiao Mo to call her Master, then made him promise that he and Yun Wei would take care of each other and never die; Xiao Mo agreed.

Wang Xin entered a month-long contemplation after Abbot Xu Jing asked what the Buddha meant to her. She found her answer in a vision of a little boy like Xiao Mo.

• Wang Xin joined morning prayers at Kong Nian Temple, where her Buddhist radiance marked her as Saintess Miaolian.
• Abbot Xu Jing told Wang Xin she had reached the Golden Core Realm and asked her to consider what the Buddha was in her heart before descending the mountain.
• Wang Xin knelt in the main hall for days, listening to worshippers and scriptures as she searched for an answer.
• A month later, the temple bells rang by themselves and golden lotuses appeared as Wang Xin emerged from contemplation.
• Wang Xin told Xu Jing that the Buddha in her heart was a little boy, just like Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo returned to Myriad Dao Sect with Fish Yunwei for the first stage of the Sacred Son selection, where ten candidates would be chosen through martial combat. As rumors spread about Wang Xin, Xiao Mo dismissed the idea of seeing his childhood sweetheart and entered the arena.

• Xiao Mo cleaved a distant mountain with his Blood Demon Blade Art and reflected on how carefully he had refined his cultivation.
• Fish Yunwei reminded Xiao Mo that the Sacred Son selection had begun and pulled him back to Myriad Dao Sect.
• Xiao Mo and Fish Yunwei arrived at Myriad Dao Plain, where disciples gathered for the martial-combat stage of the selection.
• Fish Yunwei heard others discussing Wang Xin and asked Xiao Mo whether he wanted to see his childhood sweetheart.
• Xiao Mo said there was no need, entered the martial arena Formation, and called Wang Xin the Buddha of Kong Nian Temple while calling himself the demon of Myriad Dao Sect.