Chapter Summaries

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.

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.