Chapter Summaries

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.

Shi Feng searched for Shi Lan with Luo Xiuhan, learned that his family had fled to Jiuxiao City, and accepted Luo Xiuhan as his master. Luo Xiuhan took him into the Demon Domain to repair his damaged saber momentum, while Shi Tianlu learned that Shi Lan’s name had been found in the Human Race’s historical records.

• Luo Xiuhan took Shi Feng to the ruined Shuangyue City and confirmed that no living people remained there.
• Shi Feng and Luo Xiuhan reached Jiuxiao City, where Shi Feng reunited with Shi Tianlu and learned that Shi Lan had gone to Immortal Martial City with the others.
• Shi Feng told Shi Tianlu that Shi Lan’s whereabouts were unknown, and Shi Tianlu reassured him that she was likely alive because he had received no notice of her death.
• Shi Feng accepted Luo Xiuhan as his master, and Luo Xiuhan searched for Shi Lan before taking Shi Feng into the Demon Domain to kill a Demon King and heal his injuries.
• Shi Tianlu anxiously asked someone whether Shi Lan’s name had been found, and the person confirmed it before beginning to explain her situation.

Shi Lan continued traveling and helping people while trying to raise her reputation, but her score fell further for reasons she did not understand. When she attacked a hidden figure near her camp, she discovered it was a monk and apologized for nearly striking him.

• Zhao Lie told Shi Tianlu that Shi Lan had become a Demon-Suppression Army centurion and reached the Xiantian Realm, though he could only estimate her location.
• Shi Lan advanced to the second level of the Xiantian Realm while traveling, then checked her system panel and found her reputation was still negative despite helping hundreds of people.
• Shi Lan's reputation dropped from -350 to -400, and the system explained that more people had formed negative opinions of her.
• Shi Lan sensed someone hiding nearby and struck with her Violet Star Seven-Star Halberd, but diverted the blow after seeing the white figure was a monk.
• The monk stood up and apologized for startling Shi Lan while resting nearby.

Shi Lan met the young monk Wu Ya, fed him, and escorted him to a nearby city, where he gave her prayer beads before going his own way. At a nearly empty restaurant, she watched Lord Liu demand advance payments from the shopkeeper until a group of young martial artists intervened, prompting his men to leave.

• Shi Lan shared roast meat with Wu Ya and learned he was searching for his lost master, who had warned him to avoid beautiful women.
• Wu Ya declined Shi Lan's offer to take him back to Thunder Cloud Temple because it lay outside Chengtian Domain, and she agreed to bring him to a nearby city.
• Wu Ya gave Shi Lan a string of prayer beads and entered the city alone, while Shi Lan went looking for an inn and food.
• Lord Liu collected the shopkeeper's payment and demanded the remaining months' money for the next year, leading the shopkeeper to accuse him of preparing to flee.
• A young woman called for Lord Liu to stop, but her companion concealed their sect's identity; Lord Liu recognized they belonged to a sect and ordered his men to leave.

Shi Lan followed a rumor of a spirit crystal vein and discovered it was guarded by rival forces. When Demon-Suppression Army soldiers arrived, both sides turned against them, and Shi Lan prepared to intervene from hiding.

• Shi Lan overheard a Flying Star Sect disciple mention a nearby spirit crystal vein and searched for it using the Heavenly Eye Qi-Observing Technique.
• Shi Lan found a mine guarded by martial artists and realized a force with Xiantian Realm fighters and a Spirit-Sealing Formation had claimed it.
• The Flying Star Sect group led by the Senior Brother confronted the gaunt middle-aged man guarding the mine, and both sides prepared to fight.
• Shi Lan sensed the Demon-Suppression Army approaching through her Demon-Suppressing Token and decided she could not let its soldiers be killed.
• Wang Ning introduced himself as a Demon-Suppression Army Squad Leader, but the rival groups turned their weapons on his cavalry, blocking their retreat.

Shi Lan intervened when the Flying Star Sect and a middle-aged warrior tried to stop the Demon Suppression Army from leaving, then killed the men responsible for massacring a village. She blocked the last surviving Xiantian Realm warrior as he tried to flee.

• The Flying Star Sect and the middle-aged man attacked the Demon Suppression Army, but Shi Lan used her Demon Suppression Token to identify herself and asked to pass.
• The middle-aged man demanded Shi Lan's Violetstar Seven-Star Halberd, and she tossed it to him before striking him by surprise and killing him.
• Shi Lan recalled finding nearly a hundred villagers, including infants, murdered in a cellar, and she cut the middle-aged man in half with her halberd.
• Shi Lan killed one of the middle-aged man's warriors, while Wang Ning led the Demon Suppression Army riders in attacking the remaining fighters.
• The last surviving Xiantian Realm warrior fled on a flying weapon, but Shi Lan caught up and blocked his path.