Recaps

Li Qiming faced Elder Duanmu’s full-force Spirit Refining attack and met it with a powerful sword strike of his own. The clash destroyed the teahouse, while Master Gan Qi and the others were left stunned by Li Qiming’s strength.

• As Li Qiming fled, Elder Duanmu said his cultivation was below Spirit Refining and prepared to kill him with the Duanmu Family’s Green Wood Spear God Art.
• Elder Duanmu sent a colossal spear of intertwined roots after Li Qiming, who realized he could not escape the attack.
• Qi Weiwei vowed to give Li Qiming eight sons in their next life, but he hurled her away and the Auspicious Cloud caught her.
• Li Qiming drew the Discarded Blade and unleashed a hundred-zhang golden strike, clashing with Elder Duanmu’s spear beneath a golden deity apparition.
• The clash flattened the rooftop and reduced the teahouse to ruins; Elder Duanmu spat blood, while Master Gan Qi realized Li Qiming’s combat strength exceeded that of a Spirit Refining expert.

Li Qiming rescued Qi Weiwei from the hidden experts and carried her away on Auspicious Cloud, while the people below blamed Dragon Roar Martial Hall for the clash. Their escape stopped above the clouds, where Li Qiming saw that the world below looked fake.

• Li Qiming used a powerful slash to repel the Spirit Refining expert, then carried Qi Weiwei skyward on Auspicious Cloud to escape the hidden experts.
• Qi Weiwei was moved by Li Qiming’s rescue, but her grief over her family’s destruction kept her from responding to his flirtation.
• The onlookers identified Li Qiming as an expert from Dragon Roar Martial Hall, while Gan Qi ordered Elder Duanmu to attack the gathered experts from the Five Sects and Four Clans.
• Qi Weiwei warned Li Qiming that chaotic forces above the clouds would tear them apart, so he stopped and looked down at the world.
• Li Qiming saw the mountains, rivers, grass, and birds below and realized that everything looked fake.

Li Qiming glimpsed signs that the world might be false and spotted the ominous Demon Secret Realm, then learned that Long Wuhui had broken through to Spirit Refining with power gathered by the Martial Hall. While training under Elder Huang, Li Qiming comprehended the Demon Extermination Blade Intent, and Elder Huang warned him that Kunlun might kill him for practicing its secret art.

• Li Qiming saw birds reappear after he killed them, then noticed the lightless Demon Secret Realm near Dragon Spring City and decided to avoid it.
• Long Wuhui broke through to Spirit Refining, joined the Demon Suppression Division, and explained that the Martial Hall's accumulated incense and faith empowered his cultivation.
• Long Wuhui praised Li Qiming's achievements and offered him access to the True Martial Pagoda after the Demon Secret Realm affair.
• Elder Huang drew Li Qiming's Yin Spirit into his Sea of Consciousness, where Li Qiming struck at the blade-intent gash and comprehended Blade Intent.
• Elder Huang realized Li Qiming had learned the Demon Extermination Blade Technique and warned him to conceal it because Kunlun could treat him as a thief and send its sect master to kill him.

Elder Huang warned Li Qiming that his Demon Extermination Blade Intent made him a target of the Four Demon Clans and revealed that Meng Hailong had defected to the Qingqiu Fox Clan. The next day, Li Qiming entered the True Martial Pagoda to challenge its guardians and reach the eighth-floor Martial Intent tablets.

• Elder Huang told Li Qiming to conceal his Demon Extermination Blade Intent because the Four Demon Clans had killed other Kunlun disciples who comprehended it.
• Elder Huang revealed that Meng Hailong had survived by joining the Qingqiu Fox Clan, leaving Li Qiming stunned.
• The next day, Li Qiming went to the True Martial Pagoda with Chu Weiying and Jiang Daoming, who explained its increasingly powerful guardians and the challenge of reaching the eighth floor.
• Li Qiming stepped into the True Martial Pagoda to begin his trial.

Li Qiming reached the eighth floor of the True Martial Pagoda far faster than the True Disciples thought possible, stunning them with his effortless climb. Shen Changsheng seated him before the Dragon Roar Blade Intent Stele, while Jiang Wu seethed over losing his favored spot but dared not object.

• The True Disciples discussed Shen Changsheng's Dragon Roar Sword Intent while Jiang Wu expected to be the next to comprehend Blade Intent.
• Feng Yuan heard the sounds of fighting rapidly approaching, and the True Disciples realized Li Qiming had reached the seventh floor.
• Li Qiming calmly arrived on the eighth floor, leaving the True Disciples astonished by how quickly and cleanly he had climbed.
• Li Qiming reflected that the pagoda's phantoms could not imitate the attack power granted by his Super Root Bone.
• Shen Changsheng brought Li Qiming to the Dragon Roar Blade Intent Stele and had him sit in Jiang Wu's favored place, leaving Jiang Wu furious but silent.

Li Qiming left the True Martial Pagoda to visit the Yamen’s Corpse Inspection Room, while Qi Weiwei insisted on following him and learning from his every move. The chapter ended with Li Qiming finding Sixteen’s headless corpse among the bodies.

• Li Qiming decided to leave the Martial Hall and visit the Corpse Inspection Room, hoping to find Sixteen’s corpse and gain insights from searching the dead.
• Qi Weiwei declared that she would train hard to surpass Li Qiming and followed him to the Yamen, resolving to imitate whatever he did.
• Yamen constables let Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei pass, and Captain Yan Wu congratulated Li Qiming on reaching Organ Refining before leaving with Luo Wen to handle a disturbance.
• Qi Weiwei promised to keep Li Qiming’s identity as the saber expert who saved her secret.
• Li Qiming entered the Corpse Inspection Room with Qi Weiwei and saw Sixteen’s headless corpse kneeling nearby.

Li Qiming gained the Glazed Eye and investigated corpses whose victims had been killed by dogs, uncovering a connection to the Wu Clan butcher. He headed with Qi Weiwei toward the butcher’s home after hearing that the butcher was hosting a feast for refugees, suspecting something was amiss.

• Li Qiming looted Sixteen’s corpse and chose the Glazed Eye, which strengthened his vision and complemented his Demon Subduing Eye.
• Li Qiming and Old Yuan noticed that several recent corpses bore fatal dog bites, and Old Yuan explained that the Wu Clan butcher’s dog had killed three refugees after they stole and killed its puppies.
• Li Qiming gained Blade Dao talents from three corpses, raising his Blade Dao Comprehension to level 36, then set off toward the eastern outskirts with Qi Weiwei.
• Li Qiming heard refugees say that the Wu Clan butcher was hosting a feast to appease them, and he stopped two refugees to ask about the gathering.
• Li Qiming asked the two refugees to take him to the Wu Clan butcher’s home because he suspected the feast had a hidden purpose.

Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei uncovered a dog-demon feast at Butcher Wu’s home, where refugees were drugged and fed to demonic pups. Li Qiming cut through the demons and confronted Butcher Wu after a False Immortal Pill transformed the butcher into a doglike creature.

• Butcher Wu hosted refugees with meat and wine while dog demons used the feast to drug them and feed them to their pups.
• Butcher Wu took a False Immortal Pill, transformed into a doglike creature, and was ordered by the Dog King to kill the villagers.
• Two refugees tried to rob Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei, but Li Qiming killed them and a charging Dog Demon with his blade.
• Li Qiming fused three Blade Dao Talent Entries and sent Qi Weiwei to safety on a cloud before attacking the dog demons around Butcher Wu’s home.
• Li Qiming found Butcher Wu transformed and bloodthirsty; Butcher Wu lunged at him, and Li Qiming met him with a punch.

Li Qiming killed the transformed Butcher Wu and gained the option to take his monstrous-strength talent, which he saved for after his next cultivation breakthrough. The Dog King tried to recruit Li Qiming with a False Immortal Pill, but Li Qiming rejected his lies, and the Dog Demons attacked.

• Li Qiming snapped Butcher Wu's neck after overpowering him and received a corpse-looting entry for Half-Demon Monstrous Strength.
• Li Qiming decided to save the strength entry and noted that his Organ Refining cultivation had reached 75%.
• The Dog King and seven Dog Demons surrounded Li Qiming and offered him a False Immortal Pill to join their clan.
• The Dog King claimed the pill revealed a creature's true self and that Butcher Wu had been meant to become a dog.
• Li Qiming condemned the Dog King and Demon King Ji Chang, so seven Dog Demons lunged at him.

Li Qiming killed the Dog Demons and fought the Dog King, testing his strength while holding back the Demon Extermination Blade Technique. After their first clash ended in a draw, Li Qiming used a relentless series of slashes to exhaust the Dog King, who feared he was about to be overwhelmed.

• Li Qiming killed the mother Dog Demon and the six other Dog Demons with single punches, then struck the Dog King hard enough to make him stumble.
• The Dog King swallowed ten False Immortal Pills, transformed, and attacked Li Qiming with his tail and a barrage of punches.
• Li Qiming used his movement technique to evade the Dog King's attacks, then drew his blade and unleashed the World-Destroying Blade Momentum.
• Li Qiming and the Dog King clashed again, and Li Qiming used the recoil to launch a series of slashes that drove the Dog King back and drained his strength.
• The Dog King feared Li Qiming's seemingly boundless endurance as his demonic power withered.

Li Qiming killed the Dog King, gained and fused Blade Dao talent entries, and broke through to mid-stage Organ Refining. He and Qi Weiwei left for the Martial Hall, growing more intimate as they stopped at a bun shop.

• The Dog King revealed its Blade Momentum, but Li Qiming used Hidden Domain to vanish and behead it.
• Li Qiming looted the Dog King's corpse, gained Peerless Blade Sense, and fused his Blade Dao entries into Generation Blade Hero.
• Li Qiming killed the remaining Dog Demons, then left with Qi Weiwei after the rescued residents thanked him.
• On the way to the Martial Hall, Li Qiming broke through to mid-stage Organ Refining, leaving Qi Weiwei stunned.
• Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei shared a closer moment as they walked, then went to a bun shop to buy food.

Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei found Murong Canghai reduced to a deranged beggar, and Li Qiming left him the Supreme Despair Blade Intent manual in hopes he could recover through its cultivation. After they returned to the Martial Hall, the Demon God Secret Realm opened unexpectedly.

• Li Qiming recognized the battered old beggar as Murong Canghai and bought him fifty buns before taking him and Qi Weiwei to an inn.
• Qi Weiwei explained that Murong Canghai had lost his martial arts after his last escort mission, then disappeared and become mentally deranged.
• Li Qiming brought Murong Canghai back to his country estate and offered him the Supreme Despair Blade Intent manual, which Murong first tried to eat before later picking it up and reading it.
• Li Qiming and Qi Weiwei returned to the Martial Hall, where a surge of Demonic Power darkened the sky.
• Long Wuhui announced that the barrier of the Demon God Secret Realm had opened.

As the Gods and Devils Secret Realm opened, Jiang Lianyue sought Chen Wangjiang’s help to keep its Divine Weapon from the demons, unaware that he had secretly allied with five Great Demons. Long Wuhui ordered Li Qiming and the other Dragon Roar Martial Hall disciples to enter the secret realm, leaving them to prepare for the dangerous contest ahead.

• Martial artists rushed toward the secret realm as rumors of a Divine Weapon and ancient inheritances sparked fights across Dragon Spring City.
• Chen Wangjiang met with five Great Demons and agreed to help them obtain the Divine Weapon and devour Dragon Spring City’s people after the secret realm closed.
• Jiang Lianyue urged Chen Wangjiang to join the fight, but he claimed that martial artists above Aperture Refining could not enter; he agreed to let two of his disciples accompany her.
• At Dragon Roar Martial Hall, Shen Changsheng argued against risking the disciples, but Long Wuhui ordered every True Disciple except Yang Mang—and Li Qiming—to enter.
• Long Wuhui urged the disciples to fight for the Martial Hall and humanity, and they pledged to follow his command.

As the Gods and Devils Secret Realm opened, Gan Qi led the younger generation toward it while Han Changlong and Xia Bingbing arrived seeking Chen Shuang. The gathering was interrupted by Dragon Roar Martial Hall and White-Browed Elder, who claimed Long Wuhui should call him Grand Martial Uncle.

• The Five Sects and Four Clans’ Spirit Refining experts forced the crowd away from the Secret Realm entrance and bowed to Gan Qi, Chen Shuang, and Elder Duanmu when they arrived.
• Elder Duanmu ordered the sects and clans to make their younger members obey Gan Qi inside the Secret Realm, and Gan Qi led them toward its entrance.
• Han Changlong attacked Chen Shuang after Xia Bingbing identified him as the man who destroyed her family, but Gan Qi stopped the attack by displaying a Military Command Tiger Tally.
• Dragon Roar Martial Hall arrived, and Gan Qi and Elder Duanmu showed wariness; Xia Bingbing recognized Shen Changsheng and Li Qiming, while Shen Changsheng silently renewed his resolve to challenge Han Tianjun.
• White-Browed Elder approached Long Wuhui and declared that Long Wuhui should call him Grand Martial Uncle.

Li Qiming and the others entered the Gods and Devils Secret Realm after forming a temporary alliance, while Han Tianjun refused to join and vowed to kill Chen Shuang. Li Qiming arrived alone in a dark underground passage and heard something rustling in the darkness.

• White-Browed Elder urged Elder Huang to recruit the young user of the Demon Extermination Blade Technique into Kunlun and told him to keep the technique's use secret.
• White-Browed Elder sent You Ahao to join Dragon Roar Martial Hall's group, and Jiang Lianyue and Shi Beibei chose to join them as well.
• Gan Qi proposed that the group cooperate against danger and divide treasures according to each person's contribution, but Han Tianjun refused to ally with them.
• Shen Changsheng told Li Qiming that Xia Bingbing had the Ice Saint Body and had reached Organ Refining after turning eighteen.
• Han Tianjun promised Xia Bingbing that he would kill Chen Shuang and anyone who tried to protect him, and they entered the Secret Realm with the others.
• Li Qiming entered alone, found himself in a cold stone passage, and heard a rustling sound coming from the darkness.

A-Lian told Li Qiming that a Divine Weapon lay in the Secret Realm and revealed that she had spent nearly two million years trying to overcome the Blade Scar in her Sea of Consciousness. Li Qiming entered her Sea of Consciousness and tried to draw his blade against True Person Qingxu’s Blade Intent, but could not pull it free; he insisted he would keep trying to help her.

• A-Lian entered the Secret Realm through another entrance and confirmed that it contained a Divine Weapon, explaining that such weapons chose their masters and usually recognized Children of Destiny.
• A-Lian drew part of Li Qiming’s Yin Spirit into her Sea of Consciousness, where he saw the immense Blade Sea tormenting her.
• A-Lian revealed that True Person Qingxu had inflicted the Blade Scar and that she had failed 1,999 times over nearly two million years to accomplish her goal.
• Li Qiming raised his blade against Qingxu’s Blade Intent but could barely draw it, and the blade stopped halfway out of its sheath.
• Li Qiming told A-Lian he would not wait a thousand years and urged her to trust him as he promised to find a way to help.

Li Qiming joined forces with the wooden puppet Mumu to seal a dangerous Blood Bandage Monster and learned that he had entered an inheritance land. Mumu brought him to its former master's remains, where Li Qiming revealed his exceptional bone and drew the sage's attention.

• A-Lian gave Li Qiming a Demon token and left, telling him he would find her if he reached the deepest part of the Secret Realm.
• Li Qiming was attacked by a powerful Blood Bandage Monster, but Mumu intervened and asked him to help seal it.
• Li Qiming resisted the monster's blood core's influence and trapped it in a Sealing Box, then introduced himself to Mumu as Cheng Long.
• Mumu explained that Li Qiming had entered an Inheritance Land and offered him the inheritance of its former master, Saint Molong of the Mohist School.
• Li Qiming followed Mumu to Saint Molong's remains and saw the question, "Dare I ask the heavens: are there immortals?" carved into the wall.
• When Li Qiming revealed his Succubus Buddha Dragon Bone, Sage Mozi shifted his gaze toward him.

Li Qiming inherited Sage Mozi’s Mohist Great Evolution Array Manual and let Mumu recover his former master’s remains, leaving Mumu badly damaged but carrying Sage Mozi’s birth pendant. After learning about the Immortal Seeking Land, Li Qiming entered it and found Shen Changsheng locked in a fight with Han Tianjun over an Ancient Sword Dao inheritance.

• Sage Mozi’s holy body began dissolving after Li Qiming received the Mohist Great Evolution Array Manual, and Mumu took control of himself to retrieve his former master.
• Mumu endured the collapsing energy, recovered Sage Mozi’s birth pendant, and then transformed into a hairpin to sleep and recover.
• Mumu told Li Qiming that the white vortex led to the Immortal Seeking Land, where legends said traces of true immortals could be found, and Li Qiming entered it.
• At an Ancient Sword Dao inheritance, Han Tianjun dismissed Shen Changsheng’s challenge, then drew his sword after Shen Changsheng unleashed powerful Sword Momentum.
• Shen Changsheng survived Han Tianjun’s second strike and remained standing, catching Han Tianjun’s interest with his persistence and skill.

Jiang Lianyue and Shi Beibei encountered demons empowered by the False Immortal Pill and fled to Han Tianjun, Shen Changsheng, and others, where Han Tianjun faced both the demon horde and Chen Shuang. The chapter ended with Han Tianjun effortlessly knocking Gan Qi and the four Demon Generals back while continuing to test Shen Changsheng’s swordsmanship.

• Shi Beibei and Jiang Lianyue discovered that the False Immortal Pill had raised the demons’ strength and fled from a growing horde of the Four Demon Clans.
• The women found Han Tianjun fighting Shen Changsheng, and Han Tianjun wiped out the surrounding Demon Soldiers with a sweep of Clear Wind Sword Intent.
• Gan Qi and Chen Shuang arrived with young experts from the Five Sects and Four Clans, and Han Tianjun attacked Chen Shuang to avenge the Xia Family.
• Gan Qi scattered Han Tianjun’s sword strike with a secret fan, then drew his sword as four Demon Generals joined the fight against Han Tianjun.
• Han Tianjun sent another strand of Clear Wind Sword Intent at Shen Changsheng, then struck back and sent Gan Qi and the four Demon Generals flying.

Han Tianjun and Gan Duoduo faced off over Chen Shuang before a battalion of Yin Soldiers forced them to flee or fight. When a fused Yin Soldier King overwhelmed Shen Changsheng and the others, Li Qiming appeared and killed it with ease, revealing his startling strength.

• Han Tianjun defeated five experts, but Gan Qi revealed her identity as Gan Duoduo by donning Golden Dragon Armor to protect Chen Shuang.
• A battalion of Yin Soldiers attacked, and Gan Duoduo fled with Chen Shuang while Jiang Lianyue, Shi Beibei, and Han Tianjun stayed to defend Shen Changsheng.
• Shen Changsheng awakened Sword Intent and helped drive back the Yin Soldiers, but their two Soldier Kings merged and gravely wounded him, Han Tianjun, Jiang Lianyue, and Shi Beibei.
• Li Qiming emerged from the Inheritance Cave and caught the fused Yin Soldier King's punch with one hand.
• Li Qiming struck the Yin Soldier King, pursued it when it fled, and cut it in half, then triggered a Fallen Leaf Blade Intent entry by looting its corpse.

Li Qiming comprehended Fallen Leaf Blade Intent and helped Han Tianjun claim the Ancient Sword Dao Inheritance, then suspected Han Tianjun was a Child of Destiny. The group followed Han Tianjun toward a supreme inheritance, gathered Essence-Increasing Spirit Fruits, and Li Qiming killed a powerful green snake.

• Li Qiming chose the Fallen Leaf Blade Intent Entry and mastered the Fallen Leaf Blade Intent, while telling his companions he was nearly invincible among Spirit Refining cultivators.
• Han Tianjun awarded Li Qiming the Ancient Sword Dao Inheritance, but Li Qiming declined it and urged Han Tianjun to accept it instead.
• Han Tianjun revealed that a mysterious force had summoned him toward a supreme inheritance surrounded by Gods and Devils Inheritances, and Li Qiming suspected he was a Child of Destiny.
• Han Tianjun emerged from the Inheritance Cave with stronger swordsmanship and led the group deeper into the Secret Realm.
• The group found an Essence-Increasing Spirit Fruit tree, shared the fruit, and Li Qiming secretly stored extra fruit in Mumu's space.
• When a Spirit Refining green snake appeared, Li Qiming cut it into four pieces and gained a one-percent increase to all martial arts comprehension.

Li Qiming advanced through the Secret Realm and reached Organ Refining Great Perfection, while Gan Duoduo’s group reached the Yin Soldier Wilderness and tried to find a safe way across. Chen Shuang’s route led to two scouts being killed, leaving the group trapped before the deadly wilderness.

• Li Qiming defeated monsters along the way, gained entries and a Root Bone improvement, and broke through to Organ Refining Great Perfection.
• Chen Shuang led Gan Duoduo and the young experts from the Five Sects and Four Clans to the Yin Soldier Wilderness, claiming his map showed a safe route across.
• Chen Shuang explained that scouts would have to test the route, and Gan Duoduo threatened the group into obeying after Gan Qi killed a protesting man.
• A square-faced man followed Chen Shuang’s route, crossed a third of the wilderness, then triggered the Yin Soldiers and was smashed to pulp.
• A round-faced man tried to leap across the remaining distance with his lightness skill, but a Yin Soldier killed him with one punch.

Gan Duoduo and Chen Shuang reached the Mosha Black Sea, where Demoness A-Lian crossed the sea aboard the Abyss Ship after warning Gan Duoduo to tell Li Qiming not to follow. After A-Lian departed, the Heaven and Earth Pagoda rose from the receding tide, and Gan Duoduo and Chen Shuang entered it as powerful demons arrived.

• The Five Sects and Four Clans youths rushed through the Yin Soldier Wilderness, and all but four died before Gan Qi and Chen Shuang arrived and explained that the mysterious region opened once an hour.
• When the Mosha Black Sea appeared, an Abyss Ship brought Yin Soldiers ashore, and Demoness A-Lian crossed the wilderness and killed the four remaining youths who challenged her.
• A-Lian warned Gan Duoduo to tell Li Qiming not to cross the sea, then killed four Yin Soldier Generals and many troops before sailing toward the far shore on the Abyss Ship.
• Chen Shuang vowed to avenge his brother by killing Li Qiming, while Gan Duoduo learned that the far shore was a Gods and Devils Forbidden Land.
• As the tide receded, the Heaven and Earth Pagoda emerged, and Chen Shuang led Gan Duoduo inside to seek its inheritances when demons from the Four Demon Clans appeared.

Gan Duoduo and Chen Shuang used Inheritance Tokens to reach the eighth floor of the Heaven and Earth Pagoda, where they each entered one of the two available top-tier inheritances. Meanwhile, the demons stormed through the Yin Soldier Wilderness, and Han Tianjun and Li Qiming arrived as the four Demon Generals entered the pagoda.

• Gan Duoduo and Chen Shuang climbed the pagoda, but Gan Duoduo could reach only the sixth floor through her own talent, while Chen Shuang was stopped on the fourth.
• Chen Shuang revealed two Inheritance Tokens, and the pair used them to reach the seventh floor, where all sixty-six Inheritance Mansions acknowledged them.
• On the eighth floor, Gan Duoduo chose the white inheritance vortex, while Chen Shuang entered the black one and vowed revenge on Han Changlong, Han Tianjun, Xia Bingbing, and Li Qiming.
• The four Demon Generals led more than a hundred demons into the Yin Soldier Wilderness, where the Yin Soldiers killed many of them and shattered their Dragon Turtle Shield.
• The four surviving Demon Generals reached the Heaven and Earth Pagoda and entered it, while Han Tianjun, Li Qiming, and their companions arrived at the wilderness edge.

Li Qiming led his companions through the Yin Soldier Wilderness by following a route A-Lian had carved into the ground, bringing them safely to the Heaven and Earth Pagoda. Inside, the group climbed to the sixth floor, where Shi Beibei and Jiang Lianyue could go no farther because the inheritance did not recognize them.

• Li Qiming spotted A-Lian's marked route and followed it into the killing array, with Han Tianjun, Xia Bingbing, Shen Changsheng, Jiang Lianyue, and Shi Beibei following after him.
• The group crossed the Yin Soldier Wilderness without triggering an attack and reached the Heaven and Earth Pagoda safely.
• Li Qiming told the others that A-Lian had left the route and learned from Jiang Lianyue that A-Lian's mask might affect her mental state.
• Li Qiming led the group into the pagoda to seek the Gods and Devils Inheritance and climbed with them to the sixth floor.
• Shi Beibei and Jiang Lianyue found no stairs to the seventh floor because the inheritance did not acknowledge them.