Recaps

Shi Lan returned to the clinic to tell Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er that the Cloud Soaring Treasure Ship would arrive the next day, then went back to the City Lord's Manor and trained with a new halberd technique from Samsara. After pushing herself in combat simulations, Shi Lan heard Shi Feng wake up.

• Shi Lan learned that Jiang Li's wife, Tang Yan, would accompany her, and Jiang Li left with his wife and child.
• Shi Lan told Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er to board the Cloud Soaring Treasure Ship the next day, claiming she would leave Twin Moon City later with the Demon-Subduing Army.
• Samsara gave Shi Lan the three-form technique Burning Heaven's Three Halberds and explained that some former hosts had become powerful, though few had severed their bindings and survived.
• Shi Lan practiced with the Violetstar Sevenstar Halberd in simulations, defeating packs of Ironback Wolves before being overwhelmed by two hundred and fifty.
• Shi Lan returned from the virtual space at midnight, and Shi Feng awoke after coughing twice.

Shi Lan and the others prepared to board the Cloudsoaring Treasure Ship as the city gathered its gifted youths and children for evacuation. Shi Lan left Shi Feng with Tang Yan and joined Jiang Li, while the ship began taking aboard the selected people.

• Shi Lan learned the Cloudsoaring Treasure Ship had arrived and carried Shi Feng to the main hall.
• The Shengwu Immortal Sect's young general ordered everyone not boarding to leave, and Shi Lan knocked Shi Feng unconscious before entrusting him to Tang Yan.
• Shi Lan asked Tang Yan to look after Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er, then left with Jiang Li as the families said their farewells.
• The young general opened the hall's dome, and a golden beam lifted the selected people onto the Cloudsoaring Treasure Ship.
• Nie Yangze went to gather the remaining qualified youths and children, including Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er.

Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er left Twin Moon City aboard the Cloudsoar Warship, while the departing general supplied Huangfu Yun and the Demon Suppression Army with weapons and medicine. Shi Lan joined the newly equipped recruits as Huangfu Yun prepared to lead them outside the city to hunt demon beasts.

• Du Baisheng abandoned most of his luggage and boarded the Cloudsoar Warship with Du Yue'er, while Shi Lan watched them depart from the manor gate.
• The armored general left Huangfu Yun's forces ballistae, crossbows, bolts, arrows, healing powders, a Demon-Slaying Platform, and Bloodburst Pills before departing with his people.
• Huangfu Yun ordered the martial artists to assemble at the drill grounds, where Shi Lan arrived in armor with the other recruits.
• Huangfu Yun demonstrated the Demon-Breaking Crossbow, and the recruits each took one crossbow and twenty fine-steel bolts.
• At dawn, Huangfu Yun dismissed the veterans and announced that he would lead the new recruits out of the city to hunt demon beasts.

Shi Lan competed for a squad leader position in the Demon Suppression Army and won one of the four jiao horses. After the challengers were settled, Huangfu Yun ordered the new squad leaders to rest before gathering at the east gate.

• Huangfu Yun arranged one-on-one contests among the forty-one newcomers, with four jiao horses as rewards for the squad leaders.
• Shi Lan defeated Jiang Li in the first round, and Jiang Li conceded after recognizing her strength.
• Shi Lan won her later matches, while the other finalists accumulated injuries and one finalist forfeited.
• Jiang Li challenged Yan Shan for his squad leader position, but Yan Shan conceded after eyeing the jiao horses.
• Huangfu Yun handed out medicinal powder and ordered everyone to gather at the east gate after lunch, while warning the squad leaders not to ride recklessly or disturb residents.
• Shi Lan and the other three squad leaders hurried to mount their jiao horses.

Shi Lan and the hastily assembled fighters left Twin Moon City under Huangfu Yun’s command and reached a valley where he prepared an ambush. The chapter ended as nearly a thousand demonic beasts and wild animals charged toward their formation, with the fighters readying their crossbows.

• Shi Lan prepared her weapons and joined the other fighters at the east gate, where Huangfu Yun led them out of Twin Moon City beneath the Suppress Demons banner.
• Huangfu Yun led the group nearly seventy li to a mountain valley, shooting a mountain leopard with his Demon-Breaking Crossbow along the way.
• Huangfu Yun entered the valley alone, then returned and ordered the fighters to form up and ready their crossbows.
• A horde of nearly a thousand demonic beasts and wild animals charged out of the woods toward the valley entrance.
• Shi Lan planted her halberd, took up her crossbow, and stepped to the front as the fighters formed ranks and nocked their arrows.

Huangfu Yun led the newcomers in a battle against a demonic beast horde, using the fight to toughen them up. Afterward, he identified Shi Lan’s Violetstar Sevenstar Halberd as a rare high-grade magic treasure and explained the realm beyond Xiantian.

• Huangfu Yun ordered the soldiers to fire volleys of crossbow bolts, killing or disabling many beasts before the horde reached the formation.
• Huangfu Yun ordered the army to charge, and Shi Lan and the riders fought through the horde with their weapons.
• After nearly half an hour of fighting, the group returned to the valley entrance without any deaths, and Huangfu Yun revealed that he had brought the beasts to train the newcomers.
• As the soldiers camped and ate roasted demonic beast meat, Huangfu Yun asked Shi Lan about her halberd and warned her that she could not protect it alone.
• Huangfu Yun identified the Violetstar Sevenstar Halberd as a high-grade magic treasure and told Shi Lan that the Earthly Baleful Realm followed the Xiantian Realm.

After three days of fighting demon beasts outside Twin Moon City, Shilan returned with Huangfu Yun’s troops and used her last spirit crystal to recover. She then joined Jiang Li for wine on the roof, where he introduced her to Autumn Dew.

• Huangfu Yun told Shilan he had been stuck at the peak of the ninth level of the Xiantian Realm for nearly four years and cautioned her to be careful.
• Shilan declined Jiang Li’s invitation to bathe, took a Bone-Strengthening Pill, and cultivated while the troops recovered their arrows and cleaned up.
• Over three days, Huangfu Yun led the troops through repeated battles against thousands of demon beasts; Shilan broke her left arm, and her dragon horse broke three ribs.
• After encountering three groups of wandering demon beasts, Huangfu Yun ordered the troops back to Twin Moon City, where he gave everyone half a day off.
• Shilan bathed, absorbed her last spirit crystal, and regained some movement in her broken arm.
• Jiang Li brought wine to Shilan’s room, and the two drank on the roof while he told her the wine was called Autumn Dew.

Shi Lan learned from Huangfu Yun why the Demon-Suppressing Army stayed to fight despite receiving no reinforcements: it protected civilians and earned inheritable Battle Achievements. Huangfu Yun revealed that the Human Race's Records could pass those achievements to soldiers' relatives and might even resurrect the fallen, then warned Shi Lan that casualties were likely as the army began hunting nearby demon beasts.

• Shi Lan discussed wine and sorrow with Jiang Li, who drank until he fell asleep.
• Huangfu Yun told Shi Lan that no reinforcements would come to Cloud Mountain Gorge and that the imperial edict ordered the army to fight the Demon Race to the death.
• Huangfu Yun explained that the army fought to protect civilians and its members' families, and that soldiers earned Battle Achievements for their service.
• Shi Lan discovered her Demon-Suppressing Token showed 1,320 Battle Achievements, which could be passed to blood relatives if she died.
• Huangfu Yun revealed that the Human Race's Records could transfer Battle Achievements and potentially resurrect fallen soldiers, then warned Shi Lan of coming casualties as he began daily demon-beast hunts.

Shi Lan and the Demon Suppression Army fought demonic beasts day after day near Twin Moon City as casualties mounted and rumors unsettled the city. After breaking through to the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm, Shi Lan received a system quest to reach the Xiantian Realm within one month or be eliminated.

• Shi Lan joined Huangfu Yun and the Demon Suppression Army in a battle against more than a thousand demonic beasts, and the soldiers won with no deaths in their ranks.
• Huangfu Yun led the troops through further battles that day, during which five new recruits and two veterans died and Shi Lan suffered renewed injuries.
• Shi Lan received healing medicine and recovered overnight, then spent more than ten days joining the army's repeated hunts as the demonic beast hordes drew closer to Twin Moon City.
• Shi Lan refined demonic beast meat with the Jade Forging Art until she broke through to the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm.
• The system issued Shi Lan a one-month quest to reach the Xiantian Realm, with elimination and system self-destruction as the failure penalty.

Shi Lan received a new mission to kill one thousand powerful demonic beasts, then joined the Demon Suppression troops in preparing Double Moon City’s defenses as a beast attack approached. Nie Yangze urged the city’s residents to help defend the walls and wait for the Cloudsoar Treasure Ship, which he privately expected to return only after Double Moon City was retaken.

• Shi Lan received a mission to kill one thousand demonic beasts at or above the ninth level of the Body Tempering Realm in exchange for Innate Spiritual Blood, then resumed cultivating.
• Huangfu Yun led the troops onto Double Moon City’s walls, showed them the Nine-Bow Ballistae, and kept them on alert as demonic beasts approached.
• Shi Lan learned that Nie Yangze’s martial artists had declined to join the Demon Suppression troops, though they remained to help defend the city.
• Nie Yangze’s notice called for archers and crossbowmen, and he told the gathered residents that demonic beasts surrounded the city and the Cloudsoar Treasure Ship would return.
• Some residents headed to the city walls to help defend Double Moon City, while Nie Yangze privately thought the ship would return when the city was retaken.

Shi Lan tested Liu Ping’s archery and brought him up to the city wall as smoke from the approaching threat drew nearer. Liu Ping worried that evacuation would keep him from seeing his son Liu Ziming again, and Shi Lan suggested the crisis might soon pass.

• Liu Ping hit the target at the shooting range and asked Shi Lan to let him try her demon-slaying crossbow.
• Liu Ping nearly buckled under the crossbow’s weight but steadied it and fired an arrow through the bull’s-eye.
• Shi Lan learned that Liu Ping was a veteran hunter whose son, Liu Ziming, had been away studying martial arts for nearly seven years.
• Liu Ping asked Shi Lan about marriage and offered to find her a girl, but Shi Lan declined.
• Liu Ping told Shi Lan that City Lord Nie had said a flying vessel would return to evacuate the city, and worried Liu Ziming might come home while he was gone.
• Shi Lan looked toward the approaching smoke and said the crisis might pass soon, so they might not have to leave Twin Moon City.

Shi Lan and Huangfu Yun prepared Twin Moon City’s defenses as enormous birds and a vanguard herd of demon beasts arrived. Huangfu Yun brought down the birds with a siege crossbow, and the city’s defenders slaughtered the charging herd before it reached the gates, while the main force of demon beasts remained on its way.

• Shi Lan helped recruit archers and martial artists, and Huangfu Yun assigned defenders to operate the crossbows and stand watch through the night.
• At dawn, enormous black birds circled beyond the range of the ordinary crossbows, so Huangfu Yun used a nine-bow siege crossbow to kill them.
• Shi Lan spotted more than two thousand demon beasts charging toward Twin Moon City, and Huangfu Yun ordered the defenders to ready their crossbows.
• The defenders fired repeated volleys and killed nearly the entire herd before it came within fifty zhang of the city gate.
• Thousands of able-bodied men cleared the battlefield and gathered the carcasses and bolts, while the city butchered the beasts and repaired the damaged ammunition.

Shuangyue City repelled successive beast tides at its south, north, and east gates, but the defenders were exhausted and faced another wave before they could finish clearing the dead. The chapter ended as a fresh tide charged toward the city.

• Xiantian Realm martial artists killed the stronger beasts in a nearly four-thousand-strong pack at the South Gate, and the defenders shot down the rest.
• Huangfu Yun led Demon Suppression troops to the North Gate, where Cloud-Piercing Bolts and Demon-Breaking Crossbows destroyed another large tide, though several bolts were lost.
• Shi Lan followed Huangfu Yun to the East Gate, where Nie Yangze used a glazed mirror as the beasts battered the wall and piled up beneath it.
• Huangfu Yun fired Cloud-Piercing Bolts at a pack of more than five thousand beasts, and the defenders killed those that reached the wall with Demon-Breaking Crossbows.
• Nie Yangze ordered the gates opened to clear the corpses, but another beast tide appeared before the defenders finished.

Huangfu Yun led a cavalry force against the remaining demon beasts using the Demon-Slaughtering Formation, killing more than a thousand without losses but leaving the soldiers badly weakened. By dusk, the beasts had slowed their advance, and Huangfu Yun and the centurions feared they were gathering strength for a decisive attack after nightfall.

• Huangfu Yun assembled one hundred and fifty riders, including Shi Lan, Jiang Li, and Yan Shan, and led them out to attack the demon beast horde.
• Huangfu Yun ordered the riders to form the Demon-Slaughtering Formation, and the soldiers' blood qi gathered into a square platform that summoned ten blood-red figures.
• The formation weakened the beasts' will to fight, allowing the Demon Suppression Army to kill more than a thousand without losing a soldier.
• When the formation ended, Shi Lan, Jiang Li, Yan Shan, and the other soldiers suffered severe physical aftereffects, and Huangfu Yun gave healing pills to those who needed them.
• At dusk, Huangfu Yun and the centurions watched the beasts' slowed advance and realized they were likely preparing a decisive nighttime assault.

Twin Moon City faced successive waves of demonic beasts, and Shi Lan and the defenders fought as the enemy reached the walls. With their Cloud-Piercing Bolts nearly exhausted and the city in danger, Huangfu Yun ordered Nie Yangze to gather the townspeople in one place.

• Shi Lan recovered after dinner while Nie Yangze and the centurions kept the exhausted defenders alert.
• Scouts reported large demonic beast hordes approaching from all directions, including an immense western force and a flock of birds.
• Huangfu Yun directed the ballistas to devastate the first wave and helped destroy the attacking flock of birds.
• A second wave overwhelmed the defenses and reached Twin Moon City's walls, so Nie Yangze rallied townspeople to load crossbows and used stored tung oil to set the area ablaze.
• As the defenders switched to crossbows and saved their last bundle of Cloud-Piercing Bolts for a possible Earth Baleful Realm beast, Huangfu Yun told Nie Yangze to gather everyone in the city in one place.

Shi Lan and the defenders endured a night-long monster tide, repelling a rampaging Earthly Baleful Intent Realm lion and surviving until dawn. As the city recovered, Jiang Li brought Shi Lan nourishing monster-beast soup and teased her with roasted lion’s whip.

• Nie Yangze flew into the city to arrange for the citizens to be notified while Shi Lan and the defenders continued firing arrows at the monster beasts.
• A giant blood-red lion charged onto the city wall and attacked the defenders, but a southern centurion activated the Nine-Bow Ballista and blasted it off the wall with nine Cloud-Piercing Arrows.
• At dawn, the monster tide eased, and Huangfu Yun sent martial artists to recover arrows and clear the corpses blocking the city gates.
• Exhausted and unsettled, Shi Lan heard Samsara offer to take her away, then accepted a bowl of Earthly Baleful Intent Realm monster-beast soup from Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li gave Shi Lan a packet of roasted lion’s whip, and she refused it while he teased her about her confidence.

Shi Lan and Jiang Li prepared for another night of monster attacks as the city’s defenders faced dwindling supplies and manpower. Shi Lan discovered that using the Nine-Bow Ballista advanced her mission, while the chapter ended with veterans receiving blood-red pills and wine before the expected desperate battle.

• Jiang Li reassured Shi Lan that she should not torment herself over the city’s fate, and admitted he was willing to die so Tang Yan and the children could live together.
• Shi Lan checked her mission and saw that she had killed 687 qualifying monsters, then realized the Nine-Bow Ballista might be responsible for the rapid increase.
• Shi Lan and the defenders fought successive monster waves, and her mission count rose from 687 to 734 after she helped operate the ballista.
• Huangfu Yun and the other centurions returned at sunset and gave blood-red pills to the Demon-Suppressing Army’s veteran soldiers.
• Jiang Li secretly brought Shi Lan water and wine, while Yan Shan drank with them and the three feared they might not survive the coming night.

Huangfu Yun rallied the Demon Suppression Army and led its remaining veterans out to meet the approaching beast tide, while Shi Lan and the others watched from the city. After taking Bloodburst Pills and drawing power from the giant platform, Huangfu Yun reached the front of the charge and cut down more than a hundred demon beasts.

• Huangfu Yun and the surviving veterans smashed their drinking bowls before battle as the giant platform appeared above the City Lord's Estate.
• Huangfu Yun rallied the despondent soldiers by reminding them what they fought to protect and asking them to name the demon beasts as merit.
• Huangfu Yun led the Demon Suppression Army out of the city toward the beast tide, leaving Shi Lan, Jiang Li, and Yan Shan behind.
• Huangfu Yun and the other soldiers took Bloodburst Pills, linking their crimson auras to the platform, while several dragon horses also gained strength from pills.
• Huangfu Yun reached the beast tide and cut more than a hundred demon beasts apart with a sweeping blade aura.

The Zhenyao Army fought its way through the demon beast horde as Huangfu Yun called forth the Demon-Slaying Platform to kill the flood dragon. With the beast tide thrown into chaos, Huangfu Yun began assembling the army formation again to continue the slaughter.

• Huangfu Yun led the Zhenyao Army formation into the beast horde, cutting down demon beasts as Earth Fiend Realm beasts circled without attacking.
• A massive flood dragon appeared, and Huangfu Yun called forth the Demon-Slaying Platform to attack it.
• Ten figures from the platform clung to the flood dragon and turned into blood chains that bound it to the execution blade.
• Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts charged the army formation and tore open a gap, but Huangfu Yun ordered the platform to slay the flood dragon.
• The execution blade beheaded the flood dragon, and its blood drenched the Zhenyao Army as the beast horde fell into chaos.
• Huangfu Yun laughed and began assembling the army formation again to inflict more losses on the demon beasts.

The Zhenyao Army drew the monster commander out, but Huangfu Yun and his soldiers were doomed after using Bloodburst Pills. As Shuangyue City’s defenders continued fighting, Shi Lan was struck unconscious by a lightning-marked blue-green tiger, and Samsara began an autonomous counterattack.

• Nie Yangze refused to send a squad to rescue the Zhenyao Army, explaining that the soldiers’ raging qi and blood would kill them even if they returned.
• Huangfu Yun killed a demonic ape with a saber strike, then died beside the Execution Platform as the surviving monsters kept their distance.
• Shi Lan and the defenders fired wave after wave of arrows at the beast tide beneath Shuangyue City.
• A massive blue-green tiger struck Shi Lan and knocked her unconscious.
• Samsara detected an alien entity invading Shi Lan’s body and initiated its autonomous counterattack procedure.

Shi Lan survived her fall when the system fused her with Xiantian Spirit Blood, which transformed her body and advanced her into the Xiantian Realm. She awoke in the ruins of Dual Moon City and hurried toward the west gate after realizing the city had fallen.

• Samsara discovered that Shi Lan's system had completed its main quest and begun fusing her with Xiantian Spirit Blood while she was unconscious.
• Shi Lan crashed through a roof and lay badly injured as the spirit blood entered her heart and began transforming her body.
• Dual Moon City fell to the beast tide, and low-level demonic beasts hunted its remaining citizens among the ruins.
• Over several days, Shi Lan's body absorbed spiritual energy until her dantian formed Xiantian True Qi and the system activated its reputation system.
• Shi Lan woke, removed the armor fragments embedded in her wounds, and learned from Samsara that she had been unconscious for nearly half a month.
• Shi Lan left the residence, saw the devastation across the city, and hurried toward the west gate.

Shi Lan returned to the ruins of Twin Moon City and buried her fallen comrades, grieving over the remains she recovered. After honoring them, she retrieved her halberd, found her clothes, and accepted wearing the White Crane Skirt as she prepared to move on.

• Shi Lan searched Twin Moon City's ruins and found twelve Demon-Suppression Tokens among the remains of her comrades.
• Shi Lan recovered Huangfu Yun's intact body, closed his eyes, and brought him back to the city.
• Shi Lan gathered bones, armor, and tokens, buried them with Huangfu Yun, and placed the Demon-Slaying Platform beside their gravestone.
• Shi Lan recovered the Purple Star Seven-Star Halberd from the ruins and stored it with her True Qi.
• Shi Lan found the White Crane Skirt, bathed, tended her wound, and put on the skirt for the first time.

After reaching the Xiantian Realm, Shi Lan tested her new White Crane Skirt and cultivation, then examined a system reward that revealed a vision of the cosmos being created. The vision ended by identifying the three surviving souls as Yuqing, Taiqing, and Shangqing.

• Shi Lan activated the White Crane Skirt, tested its defensive and offensive powers, and discovered that she could draw in spiritual energy and recover her Xiantian True Qi quickly.
• Shi Lan checked her system panel, learned that her fame was negative because she had a notorious reputation, and opened the system's storage for a cultivation method.
• Shi Lan tapped a speck of light and witnessed a towering figure split the cosmos with an axe and hold heaven and earth apart.
• The figure's body transformed into features of the world, while his three souls resisted disintegration and later reincarnated as Yuqing, Taiqing, and Shangqing.

Shi Lan received the Xiantian Realm version of the Jade Pure Creation Art and studied an array manual after winning it in a lottery. Meanwhile, the Cloudsoar Treasure Ship reached Immortal Martial City, where a Shengwu Immortal Sect disciple provoked Shi Feng after he defended Jiang Qi.

• Shi Lan learned that the system had adjusted the Jade Pure Creation Art to comply with the current world's laws and that further methods would unlock as she advanced.
• Shi Lan won the Array Canon in a lottery and quickly memorized its introductory lessons before continuing to study at dusk.
• The Cloudsoar Treasure Ship arrived at Immortal Martial City, and the Shengwu Immortal Sect accepted children according to their aptitude.
• Du Baisheng thanked Tang Yan and the others for helping him and Du Yue'er during the voyage, while Jiang Qi worried that his aptitude would prevent him from protecting his family.
• Shi Feng comforted Jiang Qi and rebuked a Shengwu Immortal Sect disciple for mocking him, so the disciple shoved Shi Feng with his scabbard.

Shi Feng restrained himself from attacking a Shengwu Immortal Sect disciple and was invited to join the sect by Elder Han. Before he could decide, Luo Xiuhan appeared, offered to take Shi Feng as his disciple, and led him through a spatial rift to settle the matter weighing on him.

• Shi Feng suppressed his killing intent to protect Tang Yan and her child, then declined to strike the disciple who taunted him.
• The disciple left with Du Baisheng and Du Yue'er after Du Baisheng apologized to Shi Feng and his companions.
• Elder Han recognized Shi Feng's talent and offered him a place in the Shengwu Immortal Sect, promising personal instruction.
• Luo Xiuhan appeared, dismissed Elder Han's offer, and asked Shi Feng to become his disciple.
• Luo Xiuhan took Shi Feng through a spatial rift, while Han Zichuan extinguished a fire sparked by blood from Luo Xiuhan's blade and suspected he had slain a Heavenly Demon.