Chapter Summaries

Li Mo lured Yin Huacheng into a rainy-night ambush and killed him with a hammer after learning he was connected to the Hundred Beast Blood Refining. Back at Dongli Manor, Bai Jinghong challenged the gathered martial artists to withstand three moves from him before entering the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm.

• Luo Yao explained that the Hidden Dragon Ranking listed young prodigies and recalled Yin Huacheng's former rank.
• Yin Huacheng tried to provoke Ying Bing into sparring with Bai Jinghong, but Li Mo left the banquet in the rain to wait for him.
• Yin Huacheng disguised himself and followed Li Mo into the woods, where he revealed his plan to frame the Drizzle Pavilion for Li Mo's death.
• Li Mo struck Yin Huacheng with a hammer, shattering his Profound Pill and Internal Breath, and then killed him as Qian Bufan and Xue Jing watched.
• Xue Jing and Qian Bufan connected Yin Huacheng's crimes to Yin Huaxuan and told Li Mo they would handle the elder themselves.
• Bai Jinghong stood at the banquet and declared that anyone who could not withstand three moves from him should not enter the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm.

Bai Jinghong challenged the gathering at Burning Jade Forest, but Ying Bing defeated him with a drop of tea after Li Mo and Luo Yu distracted the hall with watermelon. As the crowd celebrated Ying Bing and praised Li Mo, news arrived that Yin Huacheng had been murdered.

• Bai Jinghong challenged the gathered geniuses and declared that Cloud-Crossing Sword City would claim the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm.
• Tie Qi used a trick to endure Bai Jinghong's three strikes, and Luo Yu also survived three strikes with his Poetry Sword Art.
• Ying Bing defeated Bai Jinghong by sending a drop of tea through his Sword Qi and knocking his sword into a pillar.
• The crowd praised Ying Bing's strength and recognized Li Mo as a renowned benefactor with an unshakable reputation.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing drew Patrick and SpongeBob SquarePants on the table while discussing how to make popsicles.
• A Burning Jade Forest disciple announced that Yin Huacheng had been murdered.

After Yin Huacheng was killed by a single blow, the gathered cultivators suspected the Northwest Hammer King, while Li Mo loudly vowed to avenge him. Yin Huaxuan’s search failed to reveal the killer, and the martial artists gathered at Red Maple Mountain as the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm neared its opening.

• The Burning Jade Forest disciple reported that Yin Huacheng had been killed, and Li Mo urged everyone to examine the body.
• Ouyang and Tie Qi concluded that Yin Huacheng had been killed with a single, brutally powerful hammer strike without Internal Breath or Will Soul.
• Luo Yao identified the suspected killer as the Northwest Hammer King, and the other young cultivators grew wary.
• Li Mo finished his watermelon and declared that he would settle things with the killer, drawing cheers from the gathered cultivators.
• Yin Huaxuan arrived with other Inner Scene experts, searched for the killer, and arranged for Luo Yao to describe the person she had seen.
• Clear Abyss Sect’s investigation of Qinghe County yielded little, while martial artists gathered at Red Maple Mountain ahead of the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm’s opening.

Li Mo and Ying Bing prepared for the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm, then joined the Clear Abyss Sect disciples at Red Maple Mountain as the entrance opened. Li Mo noticed Han Zhen was absent and entered the realm with his attention fixed on Ying Bing.

• Li Mo stopped condensing his Profound Pill after running out of Golden Crow Blood, while Ying Bing regained control of True Phoenix Transformation using the True Phoenix Feather.
• Ying Bing gave Li Mo an ice pop made with Emperor Flowing Nectar, which helped solidify his Profound Pill, and they ate together before Old Xiao hurried them along.
• Xue Jing distributed pills, Yin Huaxuan briefed the disciples on dangers, and Qian Bufan led the group to Red Maple Mountain in a war chariot.
• At Red Maple Mountain, Li Mo searched the crowd with his Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye but found no sign of Han Zhen; Xiao Qin resolved to find Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass and was advised to stay near Li Mo.
• The Blood Phoenix Secret Realm opened, and Li Mo prepared to enter with Ying Bing as his main focus.

Li Mo and Ying Bing entered the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm, where a trial forced entrants to compete for places in the next level by collecting Beast Tokens. Li Mo began hunting bone beasts while Ying Bing cleared a cave of White Bone Bats and surged to first place with 27 tokens.

• Li Mo saw Ying Bing's status reveal that she would suffer severe injuries on the secret realm's third level, but the portal swept them inside before he could warn her.
• The secret realm announced that only the fifty entrants with the most Beast Tokens would advance, then displayed the current rankings.
• Li Mo encountered a Bone Bear and killed it with Crimson Firmament and Karmic Fire.
• Ying Bing searched for the Blood Phoenix Essence, found it was not on the first level, and entered a cave filled with White Bone Bats.
• Ying Bing rapidly killed the bats, and the rankings showed her in first place with 27 Beast Tokens.

Master Han watched Ying Bing’s arrival in the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm while his agent Yin Huaxuan reported that preparations were underway. In the realm, Li Mo rescued Tie Qi from a Tree Demon King and restored his missing parts, receiving a Blood-Bathed War Soul Talisman as investment feedback.

• Master Han told Yin Huaxuan that the secret realm was destined to run with blood and praised his decades of service to the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Tie Qi found himself surrounded by tree demons in the withered woods and was overwhelmed by their numbers and the Tree Demon King.
• Li Mo arrived and used the Sun Wheel Sword Canon to burn down the Tree Demon King, saving Tie Qi.
• Li Mo gave Tie Qi something that restored his missing parts, and he received a Blood-Bathed War Soul Talisman as investment feedback.

Li Mo healed Tie Qi, who recovered his legs, broke through during a fight, and gave Li Mo his Beast Tokens. As Li Mo and Tie Qi rescued travelers and punished villains across the secret realm, Master Han wondered why so few people had died.

• Li Mo used an Earth-Melting Body-Mending Pill to restore Tie Qi’s legs, and Tie Qi vowed to repay him.
• Tie Qi fought the tree demons, broke through to the next realm, and gave Li Mo all the Beast Tokens they dropped.
• Li Mo and Tie Qi rescued people from danger and helped some even when they had acted villainously, though Li Mo killed the worst offenders.
• Rescued survivors gathered in the cleared Tree Demon Forest, praised Li Mo, and discussed building him a shrine.
• Master Han questioned why so few people had died in the secret realm.

The Blood Phoenix Secret Realm rankings showed Li Mo far ahead of Ying Bing, while Master Han decided to recruit him or use him as nourishment for the Blood Phoenix Essence. Ying Bing continued hunting, and Xiao Qin and Tang Xiaobao found Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass guarded by Bone Apes before a familiar voice approached.

• Master Han saw Li Mo leading the rankings with 577 Beast Tokens and told Yin Huaxuan to leave him alone for now, though he would use him as nourishment if he refused to serve.
• Ying Bing killed a Bone Fish with Taiyin Power, collected its tokens, and flew onward while wondering how Li Mo had gained tokens so quickly.
• Bai Jinghong killed a White Jade Spider with Horizontal Cloud Sword Qi and froze when he saw the rankings.
• Xiao Qin and Tang Xiaobao found Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass guarded by a dozen powerful Bone Apes, and Tang Xiaobao prepared to approach it.
• A familiar voice called out to Xiao Qin and Tang Xiaobao from behind.

Li Mo fought the Giant Bone Ape guarding the Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass and defeated it with two hammer strikes. After Tang Xiaobao revealed he had already picked the grass, the first-layer trial ended and the survivors were directed to gather at a distant beam of light.

• Li Mo arrived as Xiao Qin and Tang Xiaobao prepared to approach the Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass, then took on the mid-seventh-grade Bone Ape King while Xiao Qin and Tie Qi fought other Bone Apes.
• Li Mo tested his perfected sword techniques against the Giant Bone Ape but found them insufficient to defeat an opponent a major realm stronger.
• Li Mo used two strikes of the Star Pestle to smash through the ape's arms and destroy its head.
• Li Mo searched the rubble for the Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass, and Tang Xiaobao said he had picked it during the fight.
• The first-layer trial ended, and a beam of light appeared as the survivors were told to gather according to the instructions.

Li Mo gave Xiao Qin the Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass, then received a hot spring as an investment reward while heading toward the next trial with Ying Bing and Tang Xiaobao. At the gathering point, the contestants marveled at Li Mo and Ying Bing topping the rankings before Li Mo asked Ying Bing whether she had ever soaked in a hot spring.

• Li Mo gave Xiao Qin the Phoenix Blood Spirit Grass, and Xiao Qin decided to leave the next trial and head to Tree Demon Forest.
• Xiao Qin asked his teacher whether Li Mo could learn the teacher's divine art, and Thousand Forms Martial Venerable agreed if Li Mo met its strict requirements and kept it secret.
• Li Mo set out toward the pillar of light with Ying Bing and Tang Xiaobao, and his investment in Xiao Qin rewarded him with a Mist Flower Ageless Spring.
• At the gathering point, the contestants reacted with disbelief to the rankings, which placed Inner Breath Realm fighters Li Mo and Ying Bing first and second.
• Li Mo told the crowd that people he had saved had given him their Beast Tokens, then joined Ying Bing and asked whether she had ever soaked in a hot spring.

Li Mo and the others entered an ancient Great Shang secret realm and faced a trial that tested their resistance to temptation. The first palace offered a mountain of treasure to anyone willing to give up the chance to continue, and Li Mo’s group pressed on.

• Ouyang identified the floating palaces and bronze steps as relics of the Great Shang era, and the crowd entered the secret realm to begin the second trial.
• Bai Jinghong took the first step up, and the others followed after seeing no immediate danger.
• The steps conjured visions of tempting riches, and one person who pursued an illusion fell into the abyss.
• The group realized the stairs tested their greed, then reached the first palace and found it filled with treasure.
• More than a dozen people chose to kowtow and claim the wealth instead of continuing, while Bai Jinghong, Li Mo, Ying Bing, Tie Qi, Ouyang, and Senior Brother Xiao Bao moved onward.

Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tang Xiaobao passed trials that forced most entrants to kneel before symbols they revered, then climbed toward the final Bronze Palace under the pressure of a Profound Mastery cultivator. Ying Bing recognized that the trials were not seeking an inheritor, and the chapter ended as she stepped onto the final stair and the secret realm erupted in violent wind.

• Li Mo and Ying Bing entered the second palace, where statues of Buddha, a Confucian Sage, and a shaman god forced those who revered them to kneel.
• Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tang Xiaobao continued past the Martial Emperor’s statue while most of the remaining entrants, including Tie Qi and Bai Jinghong, were pinned down by its pressure.
• Bai Jinghong forced himself toward the stairs, stepped on Li Mo’s discarded watermelon rind, and fell as Li Mo lectured Tang Xiaobao about littering.
• Ying Bing sensed that the trials were not intended to select an inheritor and identified the pressure near the final palace as coming from a Profound Mastery cultivator.
• Ying Bing climbed the last steps with Li Mo and declared that the Profound Mastery cultivator would not make her submit.
• Ying Bing stepped onto the final stair, and a violent wind swept through the secret realm.

Ying Bing and Li Mo reached the Heaven-Facing Palace, where they encountered Han Zhen, a former Great Shang Imperial Preceptor who hoped to restore the nation. Han Zhen invited them to join his plan, and Li Mo asked what they would gain.

• Ying Bing resisted the Bronze Divine Tree’s pressure and led Li Mo and Tang Xiaobao to the Heaven-Facing Palace.
• Ying Bing called for whoever was inside to come out, and the palace doors opened to reveal a formation and a golden skeleton.
• Han Zhen appeared and revealed that the skeleton was his former body.
• Li Mo used the Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye to identify Han Zhen as the former Great Shang Imperial Preceptor, reborn seven times through his Blood Phoenix Essence.
• Han Zhen praised Ying Bing, acknowledged Li Mo, and asked them to join him in restoring Great Shang.
• Li Mo asked Han Zhen what benefits they would receive.

Han Zhen tried to recruit Li Mo and Ying Bing, then attacked them when they refused and sought their treasures. The Blood Phoenix Essence slipped from Han Zhen’s control and entered Ying Bing, who began using the True Phoenix Blood Burning Technique.

• Han Zhen revealed that he had once been a Seventh Realm Profound Master and offered to guide Li Mo and Ying Bing in exchange for their allegiance.
• Li Mo asked Han Zhen to sell him the Blood Phoenix Essence, angering Han Zhen into attacking them with a river of blood.
• Ying Bing froze the blood river with Sword Qi while Li Mo smashed it apart with his hammer, forcing Han Zhen to draw on his cave heaven and restore his middle-aged body.
• Han Zhen used the Blood Phoenix Essence to strengthen himself and separated Ying Bing from Li Mo with the blood river.
• The Blood Phoenix Essence escaped Han Zhen and flew into Ying Bing, who began burning it with the True Phoenix Blood Burning Technique.

Ying Bing used the Blood Phoenix Essence to overpower middle-aged Han Zhen, while Li Mo battered young Han Zhen with the Star Pestle and Senior Brother Xiao Bao’s aid. As the two battles escalated, Yin Huaxuan joined the fight and targeted Ying Bing.

• Ying Bing burned the Blood Phoenix Essence, restrained middle-aged Han Zhen with Taiyin energy, and struck at his Will Soul with the Selfless Sword.
• Han Zhen used secret arts to raise his power and caught Ying Bing’s sword between his palms.
• Li Mo summoned Senior Brother Xiao Bao’s Dragon-Tiger Golden Pill and repeatedly smashed young Han Zhen with the Star Pestle.
• Young Han Zhen transformed into a towering Blood Giant and attacked Li Mo as the Bronze Divine Temple collapsed.
• Yin Huaxuan arrived, chose to attack Ying Bing, and transformed into a half-man, half-jiao to join the battle.

Ying Bing faced Han Zhen and Yin Huaxuan together, but Li Mo returned with the Calamity Meteor Hammer and turned the battle against them. The chapter ended with Li Mo enraged and ready to hammer everyone to death.

• Yin Huaxuan joined Han Zhen in attacking Ying Bing, leaving the other cultivators shocked to find an eighth-layer Inner Scene expert inside the secret realm.
• Ying Bing used moonlit Sword Qi to attack Yin Huaxuan, but failed to injure him and was strained by the two opponents.
• As Han Zhen moved to seal Ying Bing’s space, she prepared to use True Phoenix Transformation despite its cost to the True Phoenix Feather.
• Li Mo struck Han Zhen’s palm with the Calamity Meteor Hammer and emerged from the Blood River, with his War Soul rising behind him.
• Yin Huacheng accused Li Mo of killing Cheng’er, while Han Zhen realized the young Han Zhen’s aura had vanished.
• Li Mo declared that he would hammer them all to death as his desire to fight surged.

Li Mo fought Han Zhen and Yin Huaxuan to buy Ying Bing time to refine the Blood Phoenix Essence. His final hammer strike missed them but shattered the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm, letting sunlight from the outside world pour in.

• Li Mo told Ying Bing to focus on refining the Blood Phoenix Essence and promised to keep the others away for a quarter of an hour.
• Han Zhen attacked Li Mo, who met his blows with the Calamity Meteor Hammer and challenged Yin Huaxuan to join the fight.
• Tang Xiaobao joined Li Mo, and together they helped him unleash the Seven Determinations of Heaven and Earth against Han Zhen and Yin Huaxuan.
• Li Mo built up the Seven Settling the Universe technique and infused its final strike with Karmic Fire.
• Han Zhen and Yin Huaxuan dodged the final blow, but Li Mo struck the secret realm itself and cracked its sky open to the outside sunlight.

The Blood Phoenix Secret Realm began collapsing, drawing powerful figures into it to rescue those trapped inside. Li Mo defeated Han Zhen with Ying Bing’s help, and the chapter ended with Li Mo checking the rewards from his investments in her.

• The secret realm’s collapse shook Red Maple Mountain, and Qian Bufan and other powerful figures entered to rescue people.
• Shangguan Wencang stopped the tremors across Qinghe County City, interrupting Li Dalong and his wife’s dramatic farewell.
• Inside the collapsing realm, Li Mo exhausted his strength while Han Zhen prepared a final attack and Yin Huaxuan summoned the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Li Mo used Heavenly Frost Slash to wound Han Zhen’s Will Soul, and Ying Bing warned him not to cross her before Han Zhen’s body collapsed into a skeleton.
• Li Mo checked his investment feedback and received the Celestial Star Profound Pill Scripture and the Gilded Creation Seal.

Li Mo recovered after the battle in the secret realm as Ying Bing caught him and questioned him about his War Soul. Elder Qian brought the survivors outside, where the fight with the Demon Summoning Cult continued, and Ying Bing watched Li Mo’s baffling mix of strength, humility, and showmanship.

• Ying Bing caught Li Mo when he collapsed and asked about his War Soul, while Li Mo claimed it came from a one-use talisman.
• Qian Bufan arrived in his Money Tree, gathered Li Mo, Ying Bing, Tang Xiaobao, and other survivors, and broke through the collapsing secret realm by feeding scarlet gold to the tree.
• Outside, Shang Wu beat Yin Huaxuan and several Demon Summoning Cult protectors while the faction experts fought around them.
• Li Mo tried to persuade the gathered survivors that his martial arts were mostly self-taught, but his Star Pestle fell from his sleeve and undermined his claim to be a swordsman.
• Ouyang Yi, Tie Qi, and Bai Jinghong praised Li Mo’s swordsmanship, while Ying Bing watched his behavior and found him impossible to understand.

Li Mo returned to Qinghe County with his companions and collapsed asleep, while his parents welcomed the young martial artists who treated Ying Bing with deference. At Red Maple Mountain, Shangguan Wencang broke Han Zhen's summoning array, but Han Zhen escaped, leaving the sect leaders to consider the danger and question Li Mo about the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm.

• Qian Bufan brought Li Mo and the others to their courtyard in Qinghe County, then returned to Red Maple Mountain after Li Mo warned him about Han Zhen and the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Li Mo fell asleep as soon as he got home, and Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin had him carried to his room before inviting his companions to eat.
• Tie Qi, Ouyang, Bai Jinghong, Luo Yu, and the others greeted Li Dalong and Gu Xueqin respectfully, then followed Ying Bing to the reception hall.
• At Red Maple Mountain, Han Zhen and the Demon Summoning Cult formed an array to summon an unknown presence, but Shangguan Wencang shattered it with a giant hand of cloud qi.
• Han Zhen escaped as scattered blood shadows, while Shangguan Wencang captured the Profound Mastery remains and discussed the battle with Qian Bufan.
• Shangguan Wencang noted that Li Mo's information had helped prevent heavy losses in the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm and summoned everyone to speak with him.