Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo attacked the Wangchuan Sect alone and destroyed it, freeing the mortals imprisoned in its dungeon and letting them take revenge on their captors. He warned Wang Xin to stop following him and left her amid the aftermath.

• Xiao Mo used his Dao patterns to distract Wang Xin, then killed the Wangchuan Sect disciple behind her and headed for the sect.
• Xiao Mo attacked the Wangchuan Sect, killed Lü Dingxin and its elders and Peak Masters, and trapped the remaining cultivators within his Blade Domain.
• Xiao Mo questioned the Hundred Ghosts Peak Master about Qian Zhenhao and Tang Kuang, then killed him and destroyed the Wangchuan Sect disciples' cultivations.
• Xiao Mo freed the mortals from the underground dungeon and invited them to settle their grievances with the captive cultivators.
• The freed mortals killed the Wangchuan Sect cultivators, and Xiao Mo warned Wang Xin that she would be next if she followed him again.

Wang Yong learned that Xiao Mo had destroyed Wangchuan Sect and discussed a plan to wear him down with Wu Qingfeng, who revealed Emperor Beast Sect had found traces of Chaos in Black Dragon Sect. After arranging for Madam Wang and her daughter to travel safely, Xiao Mo continued toward Black Dragon Sect and confronted Wang Xin, who insisted on following him.

• Wang Yong summoned Wangchuan Sect's remnant souls, learned that Xiao Mo had killed them, and ended their suffering by destroying them.
• Wang Yong accused Wu Qingfeng of letting Xiao Mo destroy an affiliated sect, while Wu Qingfeng argued that Xiao Mo could not represent Myriad Dao Sect and proposed wearing him down until his Blood Fiend Qi consumed him.
• Wang Yong said Emperor Beast Sect could not spare Jade Realm elders because it had found traces of Chaos in Black Dragon Sect.
• Xiao Mo returned to Maple Leaf City, arranged for the branch master to maintain order, and sent Madam Wang and her daughter toward Myriad Dao Sect with female cultivators escorting them.
• Xiao Mo caught Wang Xin following him on the road to Black Dragon Sect and told her to stop, but she said she wanted to keep him safe and ease his Killing Intent by chanting sutras.
• Wang Xin told Xiao Mo she could not get around him and did not want to.

Xiao Mo continued traveling with Wang Xin, who devoted herself to caring for him despite his indifference. At a ruined temple, they took shelter from a storm alongside Han Zi’s family, until a gang of armed men arrived and threatened the group.

• Wang Xin followed Xiao Mo for several days, gathering firewood, preparing his meals, and making him a bed while insisting he was a good person.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Xin reached a dilapidated temple, where Wang Xin began cleaning the Buddha statues after Xiao Mo agreed to spend the night there.
• A heavy storm drove Han Zi and his family into the temple, and Xiao Mo allowed them to take shelter.
• Han Zi introduced himself and his daughter Han Dongling, but Xiao Mo ignored him while Han Dongling stared at Xiao Mo.
• A group of armed men carrying boxes kicked open the temple doors, announced they would stay the night, and watched Xiao Mo and the others.

Xiao Mo tested Scarred Man’s cultivation and made a bet with Wang Xin about reforming the bandits if they attacked the Han family. When Scarred Man’s men approached the Han family after midnight, Xiao Mo and Wang Xin’s wager was about to be put to the test.

• Scarred Man used a Spirit Testing Stone to confirm Xiao Mo had not reached Foundation Establishment Realm, then returned to his men and considered targeting the Han family’s wife and daughter.
• Xiao Mo proposed that he and Wang Xin compete to make the bandits mend their ways if they attacked the Han family, and Wang Xin agreed on the condition that he would not send her away.
• At midnight, Scarred Man invited Han Zi’s wife and daughter to drink with his men, but Han Zi refused.
• Scarred Man and his men rose and headed toward the Han family, while Wang Xin clutched her clothes.

Wang Xin tried to persuade bandits to abandon their crimes, but Xiao Mo stopped them with overwhelming force. He told Wang Xin that compassion and fear could work together, then killed every bandit in the temple.

• Master Han's guards refused to protect him as the Scarred man and his bandits threatened him and the women.
• Wang Xin stepped between the bandits and Master Han and urged them to lay down their weapons.
• The Scarred man tried to shove Wang Xin aside, but Xiao Mo severed his hand with a flash of red light.
• Xiao Mo released the bandits from his oppressive aura after they knelt and promised to reform.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Xin that the Buddhas' fierce Vajrapani guardians protected their compassion, then cut down all the bandits.

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.