Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi wounded Rong Lou, who escaped, then discussed the Ancient Land of Western Buddhism and the dangers facing Ning Chen’s allies. Sword Bodhi agreed to teach Mingyue a method to conceal her aura, while Ning Chen learned that the white-haired demon Sword Bodhi had met was once Great Xia’s Emperor.

• Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi broke through Rong Lou’s blood essence domain and wounded him, but Rong Lou fled before they could pursue him.
• Ning Chen brought Sword Bodhi into the Zhiming Marquisate, where Mingyue defied Yang Hong’s attempt to escort her away and ordered him to withdraw.
• Ning Chen questioned Sword Bodhi about the Ancient Land of Western Buddhism and learned that Rong Lou was its Rong Tribe king and a rare master.
• Sword Bodhi warned Ning Chen that his killing karma and his act of blocking another’s tribulation could bring a grave future calamity.
• Sword Bodhi said he had encountered a white-haired demon in black robes and learned from Ning Chen that the man had once been Great Xia’s Emperor.
• Ning Chen asked Sword Bodhi to help conceal Mingyue’s aura, and Sword Bodhi agreed to provide a method.

The Eternal Night Cult Master’s final three Martial Crowns emerged from seclusion as the cult prepared for the King’s arrival. Consort Luo warned Ning Chen that the next day was his last chance to save Xia Xinyu, and he decided to enter the Eternal Night Divine Cult despite the danger.

• Bian Jiang, Qu Li, and Li Cheng emerged from seclusion and told the Eternal Night Cult Master that the King was dissatisfied with his progress.
• Consort Luo asked her father whether he had truly decided to proceed, then Qu Li urged him to sacrifice the Seven Absolutes Body before the Lord grew enraged.
• Sword Bodhi concealed Mingyue’s yin aura with Buddhist radiance and gave her a branch from the Sal Tree.
• Consort Luo arrived at the Zhiming Marquisate and told Ning Chen that the next day was his final chance to save Xia Xinyu, leaving him a map of the Eternal Night Divine Cult’s defenses.
• Ning Chen asked Sword Bodhi to guard the Marquisate while he left, then prepared to enter the Eternal Night Divine Cult to save Xin Yu.

Ning Chen fought Bian Jiang, Qu Li, and Li Cheng while carrying the unconscious Xia Xinyu toward Great Xia, and the awakened Fan Lingyue helped turn the pursuit in his favor. After Xia Xinyu killed Li Cheng, Ning Chen escaped to the western frontier, where Fan Lingyue warned him that the Eternal Night Cult Master might be more terrifying than they had imagined.

• Ning Chen fought off the Three Martial Crowns and escaped the Divine Cult with Xia Xinyu after Consort Luo urged him to flee.
• Bian Jiang, Qu Li, and Li Cheng pursued Ning Chen, who fought while carrying Xia Xinyu and struggled to reach Great Xia.
• As Li Cheng's axe struck, Xia Xinyu awoke, caught the Azure Sparrow Sword, and pierced Li Cheng's heart.
• Ning Chen escaped the furious Bian Jiang and Qu Li and reached a river on Great Xia's western frontier.
• Ning Chen recognized Fan Lingyue, who revealed she had awakened when the Eternal Night Cult Master appeared and suggested he was more terrifying than they had thought.

Fan Lingyue revealed that Divine Continent might have been separated from the other Four Domains, then entrusted Ning Chen with a final warning about the Eternal Night Divine Cult. As the cult began creating a terrifying new body and a blood moon appeared, Ning Chen and others braced for calamity while a swordsman in the Farthest East broke through to the Three Calamities Realm.

• Fan Lingyue told Ning Chen that Divine Continent might once have been part of a world of Five Domains and instructed him to place the Scroll of Chaos into the Eternal Night Divine Canon if the cult brought an unstoppable calamity.
• Ning Chen returned Xin Yu to the Zhiming Marquisate, where Changsun stayed to care for her before returning to the palace to prepare for the cult's move.
• Sword Bodhi identified Ning Chen's Po Shang Bow as a weapon of the powerful Zhao Family of Central Province, then departed to continue his efforts to end the war.
• The Eternal Night Divine Cult sacrificed the Divine Son's divine source, joining it with the seven sources as a terrifying body began taking shape in an unfamiliar space.
• A blood-red crescent moon appeared over Divine Continent, alarming martial artists and prompting the Barbarian King to request a meeting with Great Xia.
• In the Farthest East, a calm figure overcame an inner obstacle, entered the Three Calamities Realm, and drew the Vast Sword.

A blood moon heralded a calamity beyond the Three Calamities, prompting Great Xia, the Northern Mongol Royal Court, and the Barbarian Dynasty to seek an alliance. Mu Bai challenged the Eternal Night Cult Master before the cult, while Ning Chen prepared Great Xia’s forces and waited for the Heavenly Pardon Arrow to be repaired.

• World-Purifying Heavenly Light appeared at Tiancang Academy as a blood moon stirred fear among divine beasts and revealed the approaching calamity.
• Ning Chen warned Mingyue that an overwhelming existence threatened the Eternal Night Divine Cult and urged her to choose her own path.
• Mingyue, Changsun, and the Barbarian King discussed an alliance in Zhenghua Palace while Ning Chen went to seek Mu Bai’s aid.
• Ning Chen found the Sword Pool empty and learned that Mu Bai would prove his sword before the Eternal Night Divine Cult the next day.
• Mu Bai and the Eternal Night Cult Master began their duel, trading powerful sword and halberd attacks as their followers watched.
• Ning Chen checked on the Heavenly Pardon Arrow and learned it would take another day or two to repair.

Mu Bai’s duel with the Eternal Night Cult Master ended when their weapons broke, but Ning Chen then struck the Cult Master with a fully charged Heavenly Pardon Arrow. Ning Chen subdued the pursuing Qu Li and realized the Cult Master had feigned death, leaving his purpose unclear.

• Mu Bai unleashed the seventh form of the Nine Forms of Heaven’s Proof, and Azure Sparrow helped shatter the Eternal Night Cult Master’s Heaven Desolation War Halberd.
• Mu Bai ended the duel and departed after the Cult Master refused to fight without his own weapon, while Ning Chen waited for his chance to attack.
• Ning Chen fired the Heavenly Pardon Arrow from ten miles away, pierced the Cult Master, and fled as Consort Luo caught her falling father.
• Qu Li pursued Ning Chen to Marquis Kaixuan’s camp, where Ning Chen fought her, crippled half her cultivation, and knocked her unconscious.
• Ning Chen spared Qu Li and realized the Eternal Night Cult Master had feigned death.

Bian Jiang received the demonic statue’s power and took command of the Eternal Night Divine Cult as the three dynasties drove their campaign west. While Ning Chen trained with Mu Bai and reunited with the awakened Xia Xinyu, Bian Jiang allied with Rong Lou to kill Sword Bodhi and seize the Phoenix Blood; the two attacked Bodhi together until an azure-red figure arrived to save him.

• The demonic statue empowered Bian Jiang to the peak of the Second Calamity and ordered him to lead the Eternal Night Divine Cult.
• Ning Chen endured Mu Bai’s sword attacks and received his assessment before leaving the Sword Pool.
• The Barbarian Dynasty, the Northern Mongol Royal Court, and Great Xia sent forces west to fight the Eternal Night Divine Cult.
• Rong Lou joined forces with Bian Jiang on the conditions that they kill Sword Bodhi and seize the Phoenix Blood.
• Xia Xinyu awakened briefly in the Zhiming Marquisate, spoke faintly to Ning Chen, and fell asleep again.
• Bian Jiang and Rong Lou cornered Sword Bodhi and wounded him, but an azure-red figure burst into the battle and cleaved open his dead end.

Li Luo rescued Sword Bodhi from Bian Jiang and Rong Lou, then escorted him to the Great Xia Imperial City, where he parted ways before Sword Bodhi sought refuge with Ning Chen. Ning Chen learned more about the Eternal Night Divine Cult and revealed to Qu Li that its Cult Master was alive, leaving her imprisoned as a hostage for his plans.

• Li Luo fought off Bian Jiang, took Sword Bodhi away from the battle, and introduced himself as they traveled toward Great Xia.
• Sword Bodhi reached the Zhiming Marquisate, where Ning Chen welcomed him and heard about Li Luo and Bian Jiang’s newfound strength.
• Ruoxi collected costly medicine for Sword Bodhi from Du'an Pharmacy, adding to the Marquisate’s mounting debt.
• Sword Bodhi told Ning Chen that the Buddhist Land had no way to guide someone back from demonic possession, deepening Ning Chen’s despair over Ziyi.
• Ning Chen questioned Qu Li in the secret chamber and learned that the figure behind the Eternal Night Divine Cult was known as Seven Absolutes Heaven and Hades.
• Ning Chen told Qu Li that the Eternal Night Cult Master was alive and that Shatian’s apparent fatal wound had been staged, then said he was keeping Qu Li as a hostage.

As the Eternal Night Divine Cult’s forces advanced under the Devil Lord and Bian Jiang, Ning Chen and his allies arranged a hostage exchange that became a trap for Marquis Kaixuan. At the exchange, Qu Li revealed herself as a disguised enemy and struck Bian Jiang, leaving the battle at a sudden turning point.

• Ning Chen told Meng Xuanji that a terrifying power behind the Eternal Night Divine Cult was nearing emergence and planned to weaken the cult and force its master to appear.
• The Devil Lord and Bian Jiang halted the allied armies, so Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi headed west after Ning Chen learned Xia Ziyi had become a Three Calamities expert.
• Bian Jiang accepted Ning Chen’s proposal to exchange Qu Li for Xia Ziyi, while Marquis Kaixuan promised to help Ning Chen and prepared to fight despite his impending tribulation.
• At the exchange, Xia Ziyi broke his seal and attacked Marquis Kaixuan as Bian Jiang freed Qu Li and Rong Lou trapped Bodhi.
• Bian Jiang, Qu Li, and Xia Ziyi overwhelmed Marquis Kaixuan, but Qu Li suddenly struck Bian Jiang and revealed her true appearance.

Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi fought alongside Zhiming to subdue the Devil Lord and return him to himself. Their attempt to purify Ziyi’s demonic aura failed, and they discovered that someone had taken his life soul.

• Ning Chen left Bian Jiang to Meng Xuanji while the fighters switched opponents according to their plan.
• Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi joined forces against the Devil Lord, while Marquis Kaixuan, Meng Xuanji, and Zhiming held back the other enemies.
• Ning Chen restrained the Devil Lord with the Scroll of Life while Sword Bodhi used Buddhist power to purify him through a full day and night.
• Sword Bodhi told Ning Chen that the demonic aura had consumed Ziyi’s heart and that his life soul was missing from his body.
• Xin Yu asked about Imperial Brother, and Ning Chen reassured her that he would find a way to save Ziyi.

Ning Chen left the marquisate to defeat Manyang Kingdom’s eight-headed monster and help Kong Yu turn the battle at Donghua City. After returning, he faced Xuantian in a sword duel to settle their old matters.

• Mu Bai and Xuantian passed one another on the road, their swords resonating as both continued their journeys.
• Ning Chen received a report about the eight-headed monster attacking Donghua City and left for the Southeast Territory.
• Ning Chen killed the monster and the woman in red, then Kong Yu ordered Great Xia’s soldiers to pursue the retreating Manyang Kingdom army.
• Xuantian arrived at the Zhiming Marquisate, where he met Luan Fengchen and said he had come to settle old matters.
• Ning Chen returned and faced Xuantian; Azure Sparrow and the Vast Sword clashed as their contest began.

Xuantian fought Ning Chen before leaving the Marquisate, and Ning Chen then sought allies and tried to draw out the Eternal Night Cult Master. His public execution order for the Eternal Night Martial Crown brought Bian Jiang and Rong Lou into motion, while a furious attacker arrived at the Marquisate beneath the blood moon.

• Xuantian and Ning Chen fought to a final clash, after which Xuantian sheathed the Vast Sword and departed without regret.
• Ning Chen told Luan Fengchen about the blood moon, the growing threat behind the Eternal Night Divine Cult, and his plan to drive a wedge between Bian Jiang and Rong Lou; Luan Fengchen agreed to approach Rong Lou.
• Ning Chen asked Qu Li to arrange a meeting with the Eternal Night Cult Master, then left after warning that her life might be at risk.
• Three days later, Ning Chen issued an open order for the execution of the Eternal Night Martial Crown; Bian Jiang vowed to rescue her despite Rong Lou's warning that it might be a trap.
• Luan Fengchen waited outside the Eternal Night Divine Cult for Rong Lou, while Ning Chen waited at the Marquisate to draw out the Cult Master.
• A graceful figure rushed toward the Marquisate and struck at Ning Chen with the Scroll of Moon, Guanghan Falling Moon.

Ning Chen fought Consort Luo until Li Luo revealed himself and explained the Underworld King's threat, Xia Ziyi's lost soul, and the Eternal Night Divine Cult's hidden duties. Ning Chen and Li Luo agreed to work together against Bian Jiang, but when Qu Li was being taken to the Meridian Gate for execution, Bian Jiang attacked and Rong Lou intervened.

• Ning Chen fought Consort Luo until Li Luo appeared and stopped the battle, revealing himself as her father.
• Li Luo told Ning Chen that the Underworld King had once cleansed the Five Domains and that Xia Ziyi's soul was held in the Central Spirit Domain by the Mist Cloud Divine Halberd.
• Li Luo explained that he had faked his death to monitor Bian Jiang, and he and Ning Chen agreed to cooperate against the Underworld King's descent.
• Ning Chen kept Consort Luo and Qu Li in his manor as a sign of Li Luo's sincerity while the two men continued their plan.
• Three days later, Bian Jiang attacked the carriage transporting Qu Li to the Meridian Gate and tried to seize her.
• Rong Lou appeared and blocked the Ancient Suoluo Sword as the attack on Qu Li began.

Marquis of Knowing Fate and Li Luo cornered Rong Lou while Bian Jiang was forced to leave to save Qu Li, but Luan Fengchen suddenly betrayed the Marquis and helped Rong Lou escape. After Bian Jiang reclaimed Qu Li, Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen formed an alliance, while Bian Jiang tracked the ferocious beast Orochi to the Manyang Kingdom.

• Ning Chen threatened Qu Li to make Bian Jiang withdraw, and Li Luo joined Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi in attacking Rong Lou.
• Bian Jiang left after Ning Chen swore to release Qu Li, and Luan Fengchen arrived to help the others press their attack on Rong Lou.
• Luan Fengchen pierced Ning Chen's chest, allowing Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen to escape; Bian Jiang later returned and took Qu Li from the prison cart.
• Rumors spread that Ning Chen was critically wounded, while Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen agreed to cooperate and headed toward Featherfall Valley.
• Bian Jiang investigated Qu Li's unconsciousness, traced Orochi's blood from the battlefield outside Donghua City, and headed toward the Manyang Kingdom.

Prince Yan protected A'man from a coalition of Buddhist and clan fighters, then helped her transmit the Scroll of Nothingness through heart engraving. Meanwhile, Ning Chen learned how to retrieve Xia Ziyi's soul and exchanged information with Li Luo, who offered to teach him the art of using two bodies.

• Prince Yan killed the Owl Clan attacker and routed the coalition with his four-sword technique, forcing the surviving Buddhist and clan fighters to retreat.
• A'man carved the Scroll of Nothingness into her heart, transmitting its contents across realms to Ning Chen before fainting from the pain.
• Bian Jiang found a strange black orb inside Fupan Mountain and erased its spiritual consciousness while Li Luo watched.
• Ning Chen told The Master that the Scroll of Nothingness had been found and asked how to retrieve Xia Ziyi's remaining soul.
• The Master directed Ning Chen to seek the Daoist Patriarch and said Ning Chen would need to help Li Luo recover his weapon to challenge the Plutonian King's forces.
• Ning Chen and Li Luo exchanged information, and Li Luo offered to teach Ning Chen the technique that let him maintain two bodies in exchange for a price.

Ning Chen traded for Li Luo’s incarnation method, transferred part of the Scroll of Life’s power to Consort Luo, and began cultivating an incarnation while preparing a forbidden technique with Jiang Wangji. As the allied armies pushed back the Eternal Night Divine Cult, Ning Chen and Bian Jiang separately realized that the origins of special physiques were key to the coming threat.

• Li Luo gave Ning Chen the damaged incarnation method in exchange for thirty percent of his Scroll of Life cultivation base for Consort Luo and a Scroll of Heaven.
• Ning Chen transferred the cultivation base to Consort Luo, who left to face her fifth innate tribulation, then used Phoenix Blood and his heavenly soul to create an incarnation.
• Ning Chen met Jiang Wangji in the Qizhou Mountain Range and used the Scrolls of Life and Nothingness to cultivate a forbidden move with Jiang Wangji’s aid.
• The allied armies of the three dynasties counterattacked the Eternal Night Divine Cult, while Ning Chen’s weak incarnation remained at the marquis’s residence.
• Ning Chen sent Meng Xuanji to search for Consort Luo and pondered why Bian Jiang had gone to Fupan Mountain before suddenly realizing the origins were the key.
• Bian Jiang studied the Eternal Night Divine Canon and also declared that he had found what he was seeking.

Bian Jiang killed Nine-Headed Infant and claimed its origin before battling Li Luo, who was forced to retreat. Meanwhile, Ning Chen released the demon to save Consort Luo from her tribulation; the demon rescued her and returned her to the Zhiming Marquisate, leaving Li Luo and the others to face an uncertain future.

• Bian Jiang found Nine-Headed Infant on Shuli Mountain, killed it with Azure Blood Heavenly Weep, and took its origin before Li Luo could seize it.
• Bian Jiang and Li Luo fought at Shuli Mountain, but Li Luo withdrew after realizing his incarnation was at a disadvantage.
• As Consort Luo faced the Three Calamities at Miluo Plain, Ning Chen decided to release the demon and asked Sword Bodhi to remove the Sala Sword seal.
• The demon reached Miluo Plain, saved the unconscious Consort Luo, and defied the heavenly tribulation with Demonic Sword, Samsara.
• Li Luo returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, where the demon delivered Consort Luo and warned him that they would meet again.
• Li Luo carried Consort Luo inside and asked Ruoxi to care for her, then urged Ning Chen to cherish Ruoxi.

Ning Chen learned that Bian Jiang had entered the Four Extremes Realm to pursue the phoenix, a key to the Hades King's descent, and raced there with Li Luo and Sword Bodhi to stop him. Their journey became a contest of speed as Bian Jiang advanced through the spatial turbulence ahead of them.

• Ning Chen restored the Water Demon's form with Phoenix Blood, and Meng Xuanji reopened the Great River's channel through Shuli Mountain.
• Ning Chen concluded that Bian Jiang had outlived his usefulness and set out to gather allies to kill him, but the Golden Staff National Master was still in the Four Extremes Realm.
• Ning Chen and Li Luo learned that Qu Li had awakened and joined the Eternal Night army; Li Luo insisted that he would handle her and forbade Ning Chen from attacking her.
• Ning Chen received a report that Bian Jiang had entered the Four Extremes Realm, likely seeking the phoenix at Phoenix Perch Mountain, and urged Li Luo to leave at once.
• Ning Chen left Meng Xuanji to safeguard the marquis's residence, wrote instructions concerning Qu Li, and departed with Li Luo and Sword Bodhi for Featherfall Valley.
• Bian Jiang advanced through the Four Extremes Realm's spatial turbulence, while Ning Chen, Li Luo, and Sword Bodhi followed half a day later.

Bian Jiang attacked the twin phoenixes at Phoenix Perch Mountain, but Ning Chen and his companions arrived as the phoenixes were dying. One phoenix entrusted its Phoenix Source to Ning Chen, triggering a Xiantian tribulation that left him facing heavenly demons and fire while Bian Jiang sought to strike him down.

• Bian Jiang wounded the twin phoenixes with Azure Blood Heavenly Weep and drove the Golden Staff National Master from the fight.
• Ning Chen, Li Luo, and their companions reached Phoenix Perch Mountain as Bian Jiang trapped the fleeing phoenixes and killed one to seize its Phoenix Source.
• Ning Chen and two allies confronted Bian Jiang, while the surviving phoenix burned itself and passed its Phoenix Source to Ning Chen before dying.
• The Phoenix Source sent Ning Chen's avatar into the Xiantian Realm, and he asked the Golden Staff National Master to protect him during the resulting tribulation.
• Bian Jiang tried to attack Ning Chen during the tribulation, but the Golden Staff National Master blocked his sword strike and was seriously injured.
• Ning Chen summoned King Yama's Divine Sword as heavenly demons and fire descended around him.

Bian Jiang summoned the Hades King, whose overwhelming power forced Ning Chen, Sword Bodhi, Li Luo, and the Golden Staff National Master to retreat. Ning Chen then gathered the Eternal Night Cult Master and entered the Central Spirit Domain to destroy it before the Hades King could act.

• Ning Chen, Sword Bodhi, and Li Luo attacked Bian Jiang together, but Bian Jiang invoked the Hades King, who gravely wounded Li Luo and Sword Bodhi and drove the group away.
• Bian Jiang learned that his body could not withstand another descent and was ordered to recover the phoenix source and prepare the final Extreme Heaven Grand Array.
• Ning Chen's incarnation warned his original body, and Ning Chen left Taotie's stomach to seek Consort Luo's help in reaching the Eternal Night Cult Master.
• Consort Luo opened the Divine Cult's formation and fought Qu Li while Ning Chen reached the Northern Mausoleum and awakened the Eternal Night Cult Master, who agreed to help.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master led Ning Chen toward the Central Spirit Domain, refused to take the Eternal Night Divine Canon, and used the Bloody Demonic Blade to open a rift into the domain.