Chapter Summaries

Wang Xian infiltrated Netherworld Valley’s great hall and overheard its leaders arranging to ship a batch of crystals within half a month without Tiger Gate Pass finding out. Meanwhile, Little White rescued Donghuang Shuyu and Dantai Xiaoxue with Spirit Wine, and the chapter ended as a shadow left the Great Elder’s room.

• Wang Xian slipped into Netherworld Valley’s palace and encountered strange, icy energy and poisonous black mist, which his divine dragon flame destroyed.
• Wang Xian overheard the old man and a middle-aged man discuss sending a batch of crystals away in ten days to half a month and keeping Tiger Gate Pass unaware.
• Little White gave Donghuang Shuyu and Dantai Xiaoxue Spirit Wine and revealed that Wang Xian had come to rescue them.
• Donghuang Shuyu and Dantai Xiaoxue realized the wine was helping them expel Netherworld Valley’s poison, and Little White warned them not to act rashly.
• After listening outside the Great Elder’s room for half an hour, Wang Xian saw a shadow leave and tell the Great Elder not to rush.

Wang Xian discovered that Netherworld Valley was secretly trafficking captured cultivators and crystals to the barbarian imperial city, and he sabotaged the crystal chests before they could be sent out. He also learned that Sima Jue was involved in the scheme and that his senior sisters were being held as laborers for future transport.

• Wang Xian overheard Netherworld Valley’s dealings with Tiger Gate Pass and carved a rune while vowing revenge.
• Donghuang Shuyu told the sect captives they would be able to leave within ten days, while Xiaobai secretly guarded them.
• Wang Xian found hundreds of crystal chests and secretly tampered with the stored and newly delivered chests.
• Wang Xian spotted Sima Jue and followed him to a lakeside house, where he heard Sima Jue discuss the mine and the captured cultivators with a woman in blue.
• Wang Xian learned that the cultivators were meant to be sent to the barbarian imperial city and realized his senior sisters were being kept for that purpose.

After returning from the secret realm, the survivors scattered, while Qin Wentian ordered a discreet investigation into missing cultivators near Tiger Gate Pass. In Netherworld Valley, Wang Xian arrived just as his trapped senior sister and the other miners were about to break through.

• Tang Qingyu and the Third Elder left Tiger Gate Pass for Qingzhou after learning the First Elder was in trouble, while Nangong Yunxiang, Yun Xian'er, and Baili Yunyan headed for the East Sea.
• Qin Wentian learned that cultivators had been disappearing near Tiger Gate Pass and told Qin Jun to investigate without alerting anyone.
• Long Qingmei visited Mingguang at Hanshan Temple, asked about Wang Xian's time travel, and decided to wait at Tiger Gate Pass for his return when the snow fell.
• The miners in Netherworld Valley worked so quickly that the Second Elder left on the eighth day with five hundred chests of crystal stones.
• As Donghuang Shuyu, Dantai Xiaoxue, Li Mengbai, and the others struggled to suppress their breakthroughs, Wang Xian appeared and told them they no longer had to endure.

Wang Xian freed the cultivators trapped in Netherworld Valley’s mine and planned to take control of the valley, rescue the captives, and destroy the barbarians who held them. As the group began breaking through overnight, Li Mengbai became the first to succeed.

• Wang Xian gathered the rescued cultivators around a fire, told them to organize into groups, and warned them not to undergo tribulation while breaking through.
• Wang Xian explained that he would rescue the other captives and claim Netherworld Valley rather than leave, since the barbarians planned to take the cultivators to their imperial city.
• Donghuang Shuyu and the others prepared to break through while Wang Xian watched to ensure no one triggered a tribulation.
• Little White asked Wang Xian to help him break through after the coming battle, and Wang Xian agreed to help once more before the group would have to rely on themselves.
• Li Mengbai finished breaking through first, making the spiritual-energy vortex above him disappear.

Wang Xian launched a surprise attack on Netherworld Valley with rune-engraved iron arrows, setting off explosions and fires across the valley. As the valley’s protective formation activated and its residents panicked, his companions watched from hiding, stunned by the scale of his assault.

• Wang Xian gave Donghuang Shuyu, Dantai Xiaoxue, Dongfang Xiaoxue, Li Mengbai, and the others spirit swords before preparing to attack Netherworld Valley.
• Qin Wuya told Sima Jue to leave with Qin Yu and go straight home after completing their business at Tiger Pass.
• Sima Jue and Qin Yu rode away from Netherworld Valley, and Wang Xian waited until they were gone before beginning his attack.
• Wang Xian fired an iron talisman arrow at a pavilion, triggering a massive explosion and a huge ball of flame.
• Wang Xian launched dozens of arrows in succession, causing explosions and fires that engulfed Netherworld Valley as its protective formation activated.
• The elders and cultivators of Netherworld Valley woke to the attack and cried out as flames spread through the valley.

Wang Xian attacked Netherworld Valley with rune-triggered iron arrows, killing many cultivators and confronting Third Elder Qin Yu. After revealing that he sought revenge for those thrown from Soulbreak Cliff, Wang Xian declared that no one in the valley would leave alive and hinted that he knew their secret.

• Wang Xian fired explosive iron arrows into Netherworld Valley while Li Mengbai and the others watched from Soulbreak Cliff.
• First Elder Qin Wuyaya summoned a water dragon to extinguish the fires, while Wang Xian's next arrow killed an elder near Qin Yu.
• Wang Xian put away his bow, drew the Azure Edge Sword, and told Qin Yu that he had come to avenge the people thrown from Soulbreak Cliff.
• Qin Yu ordered the other cultivators to leave Wang Xian to him, and Wang Xian told Li Mengbai not to hold back.
• Wang Xian vowed that no one in Netherworld Valley would leave alive and said he knew the valley's secret.

Wang Xian confronted the Third Elder at Netherworld Valley’s mountain gate, revealing that he knew the valley’s barbarian origins and refusing to spare its people. He used leaves to trigger the traps he had prepared in the mountains, then waited as the Third Elder unleashed a flaming sword strike and fire dragon.

• Wang Xian told the Third Elder that he knew Netherworld Valley came from the barbarians, and the Third Elder admitted he would kill him to protect the secret.
• The Third Elder argued that his people sought to unite the world, while Wang Xian insisted he would kill those who threatened his friends.
• Wang Xian cast leaves infused with his power into the autumn wind, and they drifted toward the cultivators rushing from the mine shafts.
• Wang Xian's sword energy activated the runes he had laid through the mountains, causing explosions and flames that killed or scattered Netherworld Valley's cultivators.
• The Third Elder attacked Wang Xian with a black, flame-wreathed Sword Qi that formed a fire dragon, while Wang Xian waited with the Azure Edge Sword still at rest.

Wang Xian fought the Third Elder at Netherworld Valley’s mountain gate, first cutting apart his blazing sword and then using their exchange to launch himself at the gathered cultivators. As golden rune-swords trapped the Third Elder and Wang Xian’s fire dragon swept through the square, the First Elder’s Sword Qi finally shot out from the main hall.

• Wang Xian drew his sword and severed the Third Elder’s blazing attack with a single strike.
• The Third Elder summoned demonic energy and attacked again, breaking through Wang Xian’s Chaotic Qi and knocking him away with a punch.
• Wang Xian used the force of the punch to propel himself toward the cultivators and elders gathered in the square.
• Golden rune-swords rose around the Third Elder, shattered his greatsword, and repeatedly wounded him as he tried to fend them off.
• Wang Xian unleashed rune-fire infused with Chaotic Qi, and its fire dragon swept through the square, killing the gathered cultivators and elders.
• The wounded Third Elder sent a voice transmission to the First Elder for help, and a powerful streak of Sword Qi shot from the main hall.

Wang Xian fought Netherworld Valley’s elders and trapped the Third Elder with a formation, while First Elder Qin Wuya intervened. After Sima Jue and Qin Yu left, Wang Xian rejected Qin Wuya’s offer to join them and vowed to rescue his captured friends.

• Wang Xian used a rune formation and a bamboo sword to sever the Third Elder’s arm and suppress his demonic power until Qin Wuya’s Sword Qi opened a gap for him to escape.
• Qin Wuya attacked Wang Xian and ordered the remaining elders and cultivators, including the wounded Third Elder, to retreat toward the lakeshore.
• Sima Jue and Qin Yu rode away from Netherworld Valley, and Sima Jue said they would take Tiger Gate Pass one day.
• Qin Wuya confronted Wang Xian about his attack and offered to spare his friends if Wang Xian joined Netherworld Valley.
• Wang Xian refused the offer, vowed to rescue his friends, and revealed that he had prepared more powerful formations around the plaza.

Wang Xian faced First Elder Qin Wuya in Netherworld Valley, determined to avenge the cultivators who had died there. He drew a rust-covered iron sword and met Qin Wuya’s overwhelming strike, but the chapter ended with the sword reaching his chest and blood spraying.

• Qin Wuya sent the surviving group away and confronted Wang Xian, while Wang Xian explained why he had chosen to fight for the fallen cultivators.
• Donghuang Shuyu, Li Mengbai, and Dongfang Xiaoxue watched Wang Xian face Qin Wuya alone and realized how little they knew of his hardships.
• Wang Xian put away the Azure Edge Sword, drew a rust-covered iron sword, and declared that he would send Qin Wuya to reincarnation as thunder crashed down.
• Qin Wuya unleashed a sword strike infused with the power of Heaven and Earth, while Wang Xian refused to activate the grand formation.
• Wang Xian countered with a flash of lightning-fast swordplay, but Qin Wuya’s sword reached his chest and drew blood.

Wang Xian challenged Qin Wuya to a fight to the death and secretly planted hidden powers in the Grand Elder during their first clash. After Qin Wuya sent him flying with a demonic-power-enhanced punch, Wang Xian prepared to reveal what his sword could do.

• Wang Xian severed Qin Wuya's Windborne Sword with a single strike of the Divine Sword Tianhuang and declared that only one of them would survive.
• Qin Wuya advanced on Wang Xian, and Wang Xian concealed an embroidery needle in his hand while preparing to fight.
• Wang Xian struck first with a punch, but Qin Wuya countered with demonic power and sent him flying across the square.
• During their exchange, Wang Xian secretly used the needle to deliver divine dragon flame, chaos energy, and the power of law into Qin Wuya's body.
• Wang Xian told Qin Wuya that he still had not seen him draw his sword.

Wang Xian faced Qin Wuya at Netherworld Valley and used swirling black-and-white Sword Qi to swallow the First Elder’s attacks. He put the fish away and prepared to meet Qin Wuya’s next flaming sword strike head-on, as violet lightning flashed and Qin Wuya saw a bloody hole in Wang Xian’s chest.

• Qin Wuya grew furious at the destruction around Netherworld Valley and attacked Wang Xian with a massive demonic sword strike.
• Wang Xian’s black-and-white Sword Qi swallowed Qin Wuya’s attack, leaving him shocked as his strength began to fail.
• Qin Wuya launched another strike with the Heavenly Demon Flame, but its power vanished before reaching Wang Xian and seemed to turn golden.
• Qin Wuya declared himself the equal of Heaven and sent a blazing sword strike toward Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian dismissed the black-and-white fish to face the attack directly, and violet lightning flashed as Qin Wuya saw a bloody hole in his chest.

Wang Xian fought Qin Wuya after the old man summoned a white pagoda and unleashed hundreds of evil spirits. As Wang Xian’s arrows destroyed the spirits, he fired a special arrow into the pagoda, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Wang Xian cleaved Qin Wuya’s summoned white pagoda in two with a stroke of violet lightning, releasing waves of evil spirits.
• Wang Xian raised an iron bow and protected himself from the spirits’ arrows with a wall of flame as he watched Qin Wuya on the stone steps.
• Wang Xian shot Old Zhang’s iron arrow through the charging spirits, reducing them to ashes and piling their bodies across the square.
• Qin Wuya drove more evil spirits from the pagoda, while Wang Xian continued firing arrows through the swarm.
• Wang Xian nocked a black arrow from Sand City and sent it through the burning mass of corpses and evil spirits into the white pagoda.

Wang Xian destroyed Qin Wuya’s evil ghosts and white pagoda with rune paper swords, chaotic power, and divine-dragon flame, then faced Qin Wuya directly. He turned Qin Wuya’s annihilating flame back against him and wounded him, leaving Wang Xian asking whether the onlookers now understood what had happened.

• Wang Xian used rune paper swords and chaotic power to destroy the evil ghosts and collapse the white pagoda in divine-dragon flames.
• Qin Wuya’s evil ghosts were reduced to dust, and Wang Xian stepped onto the plaza with the Heavenly Desolation Sword.
• Qin Wuya unleashed an annihilating flame that carried Sword Qi toward Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian drew Qin Wuya’s flame into a ring with his sword, transformed it into a flaming sword, and struck Qin Wuya.
• Qin Wuya’s protective qi and black robe were torn, leaving a bloody mark on his chest as Wang Xian asked whether he and the onlookers understood why.

Wang Xian used a lotus formed from Ruoshui power to purify Qin Wuy a’s black lotus and the resentful souls powering it, then explained that his earlier attacks had weakened the Grand Elder. Qin Wuy a recognized the Buddhist power behind Wang Xian’s technique but warned that his absolute realm could still crush him.

• Qin Wuy a gathered resentful souls into a demonic sword and transformed into a three-zhang demon before launching his Black Lotus Annihilates the World attack at Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian drew Ruoshui power from the lake and formed a crystal lotus whose thirty-six worlds swallowed the resentful souls and demonic energy, purifying the square with golden light.
• The lotus destroyed Qin Wuy a’s black lotus and Heavenly Demon Sword, then closed and sank into the lake as the square became clear.
• The onlookers debated Wang Xian’s power, while Qin Wuy a asked what kind of technique he had used and Wang Xian questioned whether the barbarian imperial city had anyone who cultivated Buddhist teachings.
• Wang Xian revealed that divine dragon flame and chaotic power had been weakening Qin Wuy a, who admitted he had underestimated Wang Xian but warned that his absolute realm remained a threat.

Wang Xian borrowed starlight to unleash a sword strike that shattered Qin Wuya’s demonic sword and broke his attack. As Qin Wuya gathered Heaven and Earth’s power for another assault, the chaos energy Wang Xian had planted in him erupted, leaving Qin Wuya’s fate unresolved.

• Wang Xian called upon a wisp of starlight, which descended through the clouds and transformed his body as he wielded the Heavenly Desolation Sword.
• Wang Xian struck Qin Wuya before he could unleash his sword, and starlight entered the wound in Qin Wuya’s chest as their swords clashed and Qin Wuya’s demonic sword shattered.
• Qin Wuya gathered spiritual energy, forced Wang Xian back, and formed a demonic seal while taking on the shape of a towering mountain.
• Wang Xian spoke of banishing evil, and a wisp of starlight cut Qin Wuya’s demonic seal apart before it could crush him.
• The wound in Qin Wuya’s chest reopened, and chaos energy Wang Xian had planted in him merged with the spiritual energy inside his body, forming countless swords of chaos.

Wang Xian used a carefully prepared strike and formations to fatally wound Qin Wuya and trap him at Netherworld Valley. The Black Tower carried the surviving elders away, leaving Qin Wuya bound and dying as he asked Wang Xian whether his power was demonic or Buddhist magic.

• Wang Xian challenged Qin Wuya and attacked him from above, then slipped past his giant sword and punched him in the abdomen.
• Wang Xian’s punch unleashed chaos power through Qin Wuya’s meridians, riddling his body with sword holes and draining his vitality.
• Qin Tianya fled toward the lakeshore but was caught in Wang Xian’s triple-layered binding formation.
• Qin Wuya activated a demonic formation and sent the Third Elder and the surviving elders into the Black Tower, which vanished in a pillar of light.
• Qin Wuya remained trapped and dying, and he asked Wang Xian whether his power was demonic or Buddhist magic.

Wang Xian killed Qin Wuya by sending his head into the ninth heaven, then rescued Netherworld Valley’s surviving captives and rested as they mourned their dead. The chapter ended when someone in the hall cried out for Wang Xian’s help.

• Qin Wuya tried to attack Wang Xian, but Wang Xian’s defenses repelled him and his embroidery needle severed Qin Wuya’s head.
• The needle carried Qin Wuya’s head into the sky, while his body burned and turned to dust.
• Wang Xian sent Donghuang Shuyu and the others to rescue the remaining captives and gather weapons and Storage Rings.
• Li Mengbai and Xiaobai brought more than two hundred surviving cultivators to the plaza, where they wept over their freedom and lost companions.
• Li Mengbai asked the sleeping Wang Xian what to do with the survivors, and someone in the hall suddenly shouted, “Help! Wang Xian!”

Wang Xian rescued Donghuang Yuyuan and recovered Long Xiangyu and Ziyu’s belongings after Netherworld Valley fell. He decided the group would stay and cultivate there through the winter while he considered what to do next, and Ziyu asked him to help her recover her memories.

• Long Xiangyu asked Wang Xian to save her senior sister, while Donghuang Shuyu pleaded for help finding her captured brother, Donghuang Yuyuan.
• Wang Xian located the dungeon, and Hua Chenyu and the others rescued Donghuang Yuyuan while Wang Xian recovered Long Xiangyu and Ziyu’s spatial rings.
• Wang Xian fed Donghuang Yuyuan tea and arranged mild porridge for him, then told the group to return their belongings, give each captive two hundred Spirit Stones, and send them home.
• Wang Xian told the group to clear out the mountains and cultivate at Netherworld Valley for a few months, and he asked Donghuang Shuyu to stay with him through the winter.
• Ziyu said she felt she had seen Wang Xian before and asked who she was, while Long Xiangyu asked him to help Ziyu recover her memories.

Wang Xian cured the poisoned cultivators while preparing Netherworld Valley for a possible return attack. Ziyu and Long Xiangyu recovered their cultivation and chose to stay, while Wang Xian focused on building defenses for the coming battle.

• Wang Xian agreed to treat the poisoned cultivators and prepared medicinal soup using the antidote and spirit herbs.
• Donghuang Shuyu and Dantai Xiaoxue distributed the soup, returned spatial rings, and gave the cultivators Spirit Stones as they recovered.
• Wang Xian worked inside the Demon Tower and planned to use it, along with killing arrays, to trap any enemies who returned.
• Ziyu and Long Xiangyu recovered their cultivation, and Ziyu chose to stay in Netherworld Valley with her junior sister.
• Wang Xian put Donghuang Shuyu in charge of the valley and told her to help prepare living quarters and gather crystal ore for the defenses.