Chapter Summaries

Dawn Squad arrived at Qili Cave and helped the Miao Tribe fight back against the Beast Demon Army, but the Lich unleashed skeletal hands that turned the battle against them. Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li confronted the Lich together, leaving their reunion unresolved as they prepared to join forces.

• Dawn Squad reached Qili Cave as the Beast Demon Army besieged the village and its defenses neared collapse.
• Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad in a counterattack, inspiring the Miao Tribe warriors to fight back.
• The Lich raised tens of thousands of skeletal hands from the earth, crushing Miao Tribe warriors and trapping Dawn Squad in a new struggle.
• Li Xiaoyu charged the Lich while Lu Xueqi covered him, and Ghost Li cut apart the Lich's black lightning with a burst of sword energy.
• Ghost Li revealed that the Beast Demons had killed the Great Shaman and his people, then Li Xiaoyu reached the Lich first and asked Ghost Li to join forces.

Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li killed the Lich and helped turn the battle against the Beast Demon Army, but Li Tribe shamans unleashed Black Fire Sorcery that destroyed Qili Cave and trapped the survivors. Li Xiaoyu used the Mystic Fire Mirror to counter the flames, ending with a towering Fire God phantom appearing above the battlefield.

• Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li joined forces to defeat the Lich, who destroyed his staff to flee before Li Xiaoyu's sword energy pierced his heart and reduced him to dust.
• Tuma Gu rallied the Miao Tribe warriors to attack the leaderless Beast Demon Army and bewitched Li Tribe warriors as they scattered.
• Dozens of Li Tribe shamans cast Black Fire Sorcery, engulfing the battlefield and Qili Cave and killing warriors and civilians.
• Li Xiaoyu formed a Three Talents Origin-Returning Formation with the Dawn Squad to withstand the flames, then brought out the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Li Xiaoyu poured his Cultivation into the Mystic Fire Mirror, whose crimson light dispelled the black flames and summoned a towering Fire God phantom.

Li Xiaoyu and the Dawn Squad destroyed the Li Tribe’s black-flame formation, but Ghost Li lost control and attacked everyone around him. After Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi failed to restrain him, Li Xiaoyu summoned a Golden Dragon with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to suppress Ghost Li’s savage aura.

• Li Xiaoyu used the Mystic Fire Mirror to destroy the black-flame sea, leaving the Li Tribe shamans unconscious and the battlefield’s devastation exposed.
• Li Xiaoyu ordered the Li Tribe warriors killed, and the Dawn Squad charged them.
• Ghost Li succumbed to his anguish and the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod’s aura, attacking Li Tribe, Miao Tribe, and Dawn Squad fighters alike.
• Lin Jingyu tried to stop Ghost Li but was struck down, while Zeng Shushu rushed to help him.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi attacked Ghost Li with their swords, but his savage aura overwhelmed them and knocked them down.
• Li Xiaoyu poured his Upper Purity Realm cultivation into the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and summoned a Golden Dragon, which suppressed Ghost Li’s aura before diving toward him.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi pulled Ghost Li back from his heart demon with Dragon Qi, the Song of Righteousness, and reminders of his past. Ghost Li regained consciousness, learned he had lost control and killed people, and was overwhelmed with guilt.

• Li Xiaoyu shielded himself, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li inside a barrier of Geng Metal Dragon Qi as Ghost Li attacked it.
• Lu Xueqi recited the Song of Righteousness, joining her power with Li Xiaoyu's to stabilize the barrier and soothe Ghost Li's mind.
• Li Xiaoyu reminded Ghost Li of Grass Temple Village and Bi Yao, helping him resist the heart demon until he dropped the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod and collapsed.
• Li Xiaoyu withdrew the barrier and helped the unconscious Ghost Li away from the battlefield while Lu Xueqi prepared to return to the fight.
• Ghost Li woke, learned he had been possessed by a heart demon, and asked whether he had killed the people whose blood stained his hands.

Ghost Li regained his fighting spirit and joined forces with Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi to end the battle before the Beast God arrived. The three charged into the enemy army and began cutting a path through it.

• Lin Jingyu and Zeng Shushu arrived and found Ghost Li alive but silent after his fight with Lin Jingyu.
• Li Xiaoyu warned that the battle had to end quickly before the Beast God sensed the disturbance and came in person.
• Ghost Li picked up the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod and asked Li Xiaoyu to join forces with him.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li charged together into the Beast Demon Army and Li Tribe warriors.
• The three fighters used coordinated attacks to tear through the enemy forces, killing Beast Demons and freeing bewitched Li Tribe warriors.

After Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li led the survivors to wipe out the Beast Demon Army and Li Tribe warriors, the Beast God appeared and revealed his plan to destroy the world. He targeted Li Xiaoyu with a devastating attack, and Li Xiaoyu unleashed all his power to defend the people behind him.

• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li turned the battle around, and the Dawn Squad and surviving Miao Tribe warriors joined them in defeating the Beast Demons and Li Tribe warriors.
• The Beast God descended over the battlefield, and his immense pressure forced nearly everyone to their knees.
• The Beast God identified himself and declared that he would cleanse the world, while Lin Jingyu tried and failed to rise against him.
• The Beast God chose Li Xiaoyu as his first target because he sensed a power in him that irritated him.
• The Beast God fired a destructive beam at Li Xiaoyu, who unleashed his Upper Purity Realm cultivation and the Geng Metal Dragon Qi to protect the people behind him.

Li Xiaoyu withstood the Beast God's devastating attack, but was badly injured as the Beast God declared his intention to erase the world and then withdrew. After Lu Xueqi caught Li Xiaoyu, the survivors of Qili Cave began tending to the dead and preparing for the Beast Demon Army's return.

• Li Xiaoyu clashed head-on with the Beast God's black beam and survived, though the impact left him badly wounded.
• The Beast God said he wanted to reduce the world to a void, threatened to make Li Xiaoyu watch everything he cherished burn, and then vanished, promising they would meet again.
• After the Beast God's pressure disappeared, Li Xiaoyu collapsed and Lu Xueqi caught him.
• Tuma Gu led the surviving Miao tribespeople in clearing bodies and rebuilding Qili Cave.
• Zeng Shushu led Dawn Squad in setting warning and defensive arrays around the ruins in case the Beast Demon Army returned.

After Jin Ping'er warned that the Ghost King had obtained Taotie and needed only the missing Black Water Profound Snake to complete the Four Spirits Blood Array, Li Xiaoyu decided to divide their forces. He would stay to fight the Beast God and entrusted Ghost Li with stopping the Ghost King, leaving the others shocked and suspicious.

• Li Xiaoyu received Jin Ping'er's warning that the Ghost King had obtained Taotie and needed only the Black Water Profound Snake to complete the Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Ghost Li struggled with the news, torn between the Ghost King, his adoptive father, and the threat to the world.
• Zeng Shushu and Lin Jingyu said they lacked the people to face both the Ghost King and the Beast God at once.
• Li Xiaoyu decided to lead the Dawn Squad and their righteous allies against the Beast God while asking Ghost Li to stop the Ghost King.
• The Dawn Squad members objected to trusting Ghost Li because he was the Ghost King's adopted son and the Ghost King Sect's deputy sect master.

Ghost Li agreed to stop the Beast God after Li Xiaoyu trusted him and promised to seek a way to revive Bi Yao. At Qili Cave, Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad and the Miao Tribe warriors into battle, but the awakened Beast God unleashed a devastating palm strike against them.

• Li Xiaoyu told Ghost Li he trusted him and promised to devote himself to finding a way to bring Bi Yao back to life, and Ghost Li agreed to stop the Beast God.
• At dawn, Li Xiaoyu gathered Dawn Squad and the surviving Miao Tribe warriors among the ruins of Qili Cave and arranged them into a Totem Battle Formation.
• Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad into the Beast Demon Army, while Lu Xueqi, Lin Jingyu, and Zeng Shushu fought at his side and the Miao Tribe warriors followed.
• The Beast God's true body emerged from the malevolent energy and rallied the retreating Beast Demons.
• The Beast God brought down a gigantic palm of malevolent energy toward the exhausted defenders, and resolve flashed in Li Xiaoyu's eyes.

Li Xiaoyu used the strength of tens of thousands to hold off the Beast God, then called on Xiao Bai to wield the Mystic Fire Mirror. The Eight Desolations Fire Dragon split the Beast God in half, but his remains began to reform.

• Li Xiaoyu gathered everyone's Spiritual Energy and clashed with the Beast God's destructive palm, but his strength began to fail.
• Li Xiaoyu called for Xiao Bai, who appeared behind the Beast God with the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Xiao Bai unleashed the mirror's crimson light, which melted the Beast God's black palm and revealed his wariness of her.
• Xiao Bai summoned the Eight Desolations Fire Dragon, which bit the Beast God in half.
• The Beast God's remains writhed amid the baleful energy and began to re-form.

Xiao Bai’s attack failed to stop the Beast God from reassembling, and Lich Heimu unleashed the Southern Border’s Earth Vein Malice to restore his master. The Beast God retreated to the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave to recover, leaving Li Xiaoyu and the survivors facing a devastated land and an even greater threat.

• As the Beast God’s remains began reassembling, Xiao Bai prepared to attack again with the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Lich Heimu arrived and used the Beast Bone Staff to detonate the Southern Border’s earth veins, releasing Earth Vein Malice.
• The Earth Vein Malice poured into the Beast God, restoring his body and greatly increasing his power.
• Lich Heimu persuaded the Beast God to retreat to the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave rather than fight before fully recovering.
• The Beast God departed with Lich Heimu, while Li Xiaoyu and the others mourned the destruction and their failure to stop his resurrection.

Li Xiaoyu led Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu, and the Dawn Squad into the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave to confront the Beast God before he could absorb more Earth Vein Malice. After fighting through the cave’s demonized beasts, they continued toward the depths.

• Xiao Bai warned Li Xiaoyu and the others that the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave replenished the Beast God’s strength and urged them to return to the Central Plains for reinforcements.
• Li Xiaoyu decided to enter the cave immediately, and Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu, Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, and the Dawn Squad joined him.
• Li Xiaoyu led the group into the cave and warned them to guard their minds against its corrosive malice.
• Demonized Beasts attacked the group, and Lin Jingyu, Lu Xueqi, and Li Xiaoyu killed many of them with their swords.
• The group broke through the beasts and pressed deeper into the cave toward the Beast God.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions reached Linglong’s statue in the heart of the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave, where the Mystic Fire Mirror awakened the lingering soul within it. Xiao Bai performed a dangerous spirit-communing ritual, and Linglong’s remnant soul emerged as the statue shattered.

• Li Xiaoyu and his companions crossed a vast forest of ancient beast skeletons and found a cavern containing a jade statue of Linglong.
• The Mystic Fire Mirror flew from Li Xiaoyu’s hand and settled into the statue’s arms, causing it to glow with a sorrowful aura.
• Xiao Bai revealed that the mirror had belonged to Linglong and asked Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi to protect her while she performed a spirit-communing ritual.
• Xiao Bai chanted an incantation and joined her demonic power with the statue’s light, causing cracks to spread across it.
• The statue shattered, and Linglong’s sorrowful remnant soul emerged from the falling rubble.

Xiao Bai awakened Linglong, who explained that the Beast God could only be killed by exploiting his obsession with her. Before disappearing, Linglong entrusted Li Xiaoyu with using the Mystic Fire Mirror to create one chance to destroy the Beast God and asked him to bury their remains together.

• Xiao Bai awakened Linglong and asked how to permanently erase the Beast God.
• Linglong grieved that she had created the Beast God, and Li Xiaoyu urged her to focus on stopping the disaster.
• Linglong explained that the Beast God was immortal while hatred endured, but his obsession with her was also the source of his power.
• Linglong instructed Li Xiaoyu to use the Mystic Fire Mirror to project her phantom and strike when the Beast God faltered.
• Linglong asked Li Xiaoyu to bury the Beast God's remains with her statue, then vanished.
• Li Xiaoyu picked up the Mystic Fire Mirror and vowed to fulfill Linglong's entrustment.

Li Xiaoyu and his allies entered the deepest part of the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave to confront the Beast God, but their attacks could not overcome his baleful energy. Xiao Bai summoned Linglong through the Mystic Fire Mirror, briefly shaking the Beast God and giving Lu Xueqi and Xiao Bai a chance to launch a counterattack.

• Li Xiaoyu led Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu, and the Dawn Squad into the depths of the cave to face the Beast God.
• The Beast God revealed his hundred-headed true form and attacked the group as they charged him.
• Li Xiaoyu and his allies fought back, but the Beast God's baleful energy repeatedly drove them back without suffering meaningful damage.
• At Li Xiaoyu's signal, Xiao Bai used the Mystic Fire Mirror to summon Linglong's sorrowful spirit.
• Linglong's appearance shocked and weakened the Beast God, so Lu Xueqi struck him with lightning while Xiao Bai summoned the Eight Desolations Fire Dragon.

Li Xiaoyu and Xiao Bai’s twin dragons destroyed the Beast God, and the survivors discovered Linglong’s Witchcraft Fragments, including the Soul Resurrection Technique. Meanwhile, Ghost Li reached the Black Water Profound Snake’s underwater lair and found its demonic aura weakening.

• Li Xiaoyu’s Golden Dragon and Xiao Bai’s fire dragon devoured the Beast God, ending the threat in the Southern Border.
• Li Xiaoyu and Zeng Shushu surveyed the devastation, then prepared to return with the surviving Miao Tribe warriors and report the victory to the righteous sects.
• A white light emerged from the ruins of the Linglong statue, where Xiao Bai identified an ancient scroll as Linglong’s Witchcraft Fragments.
• Li Xiaoyu picked up the fragments and saw visions of ancient witchcraft, including the Soul Resurrection Technique, before putting the scroll away.
• Ghost Li flew east across the sea for half a month and entered the ink-black waters to seek the endangered Black Water Profound Snake.
• Ghost Li reached the seafloor as deep-sea beasts fled from his baleful aura.

Ghost Li confronted Wan Renwang at the Seabed Abyss, where the Ghost King was using the Four Spirits Blood Array to capture the Black Water Profound Snake. Wan Renwang tempted Ghost Li with the promise of resurrecting Bi Yao, and Ghost Li struggled between that hope and the lives the ritual would destroy before Li Xiaoyu’s faith in him brought a moment of clarity.

• Ghost Li reached the Seabed Abyss and found Wan Renwang using a bronze cauldron and the Four Spirits Blood Array to draw in the dying Black Water Profound Snake.
• Ghost Li asked Wan Renwang to stop, and Wan Renwang said he had pursued the array to bring Bi Yao back for Ghost Li.
• Wan Renwang explained that the array could summon the Asura, whose power could grant the wish to restore Bi Yao to life.
• Ghost Li wavered between saving Bi Yao and preventing the array from sacrificing billions of lives, while Wan Renwang urged him to reject a world he called corrupt.
• Ghost Li nearly succumbed to pain and bloodlust until memories of Li Xiaoyu’s trust in him brought a flash of clarity.

Ghost Li rejected Ghost King's plan to sacrifice the world to resurrect Bi Yao, and the two began fighting in the Seabed Abyss. As You Ji and the Ghost King Sect tried to capture the exhausted Black Water Profound Snake, a mysterious sword strike disrupted the Dragon Subduing Tripod.

• Ghost Li refused to let Ghost King destroy the world for Bi Yao, insisting it was not what she wanted.
• Ghost King dismissed Ghost Li's objections and attacked him with a powerful grab.
• Ghost Li countered with the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod, but Ghost King's force sent him crashing into the shattered formation.
• You Ji and the others poured their Spiritual Energy into the Dragon Subduing Tripod to capture the weakened Black Water Profound Snake.
• A green-and-white sword light struck the Dragon Subduing Tripod, knocking the Ghost King Sect disciples unconscious and freeing the Black Water Profound Snake from its chains.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi intervened when the Ghost King attacked Ghost Li, then battled him to stop him from subduing the Black Water Profound Snake. Li Xiaoyu unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, which overwhelmed the Dragon Subduing Tripod and began swallowing the snake.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi arrived to protect the exhausted Ghost Li, and Li Xiaoyu confronted the Ghost King.
• Li Xiaoyu parried the Ghost King's attack while Lu Xueqi wounded him with Tianya.
• The Ghost King ordered You Ji, Azure Dragon, and the other disciples to use the Dragon Subduing Tripod to subdue the Black Water Profound Snake.
• Li Xiaoyu asked Lu Xueqi and Ghost Li to hold off the Ghost King, then flew toward the tripod.
• Li Xiaoyu powered the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, whose golden vortex halted the Dragon Subduing Tripod and drew the Black Water Profound Snake away.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi helped defeat the Ghost King’s Four Spirits Blood Array, and Li Xiaoyu gave Ghost Li the Witchcraft Fragments that might help him revive Bi Yao. After returning to Green Cloud Mountain, they reported their success, while Li Xiaoyu prepared to enter seclusion.

• Li Xiaoyu used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to devour the Black Water Profound Snake, and the defeated Ghost King withdrew with his disciples.
• Li Xiaoyu gave Ghost Li the Witchcraft Fragments and said they might help him find a way to bring Bi Yao back to life.
• Ghost Li left to study the fragments, while Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to the Central Plains.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi reported to Daoist Daoxuan that the Beast God had been dealt with and the Four Spirits Blood Array could no longer threaten the Divine Land.
• Li Xiaoyu told Daoist Daoxuan that Zhang Xiaofan was still true to himself, then left to prepare for seclusion.