Chapter Summaries

Lang Tu attacked Xie Approaching the Abyss with killing intent and an axe, while Xie countered with character arts and shields. Lang Tu leaped over Xie’s reflected attack and brought down a concentrated killing blow toward his head.

• Lang Tu tore through Xie Approaching the Abyss’s ink-black wall and swept his axe at Xie’s legs.
• Xie used Bind, Suppress, and Strike characters to attack Lang Tu, who broke free of the restraints and blocked the spear with his axe.
• Lang Tu launched five blood-colored spheres at Xie, and Xie blocked them with Guard shields that reflected the blast back.
• Lang Tu leaped over the reflected killing intent and cleaved his axe down toward the top of Xie Approaching the Abyss’s head.

Xie Approaching the Abyss used his literary powers to evade Lang Tu’s attacks and countered the beast’s Blood Drink technique with a verse of Haoran Righteous Qi. Lang Tu pressed the attack, leaving Xie facing a simultaneous axe strike and claw assault at close range.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss used a Replacement Character to exchange places with a stone fragment and evade Lang Tu’s axe.
• Lang Tu coated his axe with Killing Intent and unleashed Blood Drink, a sweeping crescent of destructive force.
• Xie raised his Jade Slip and wrote seven characters that joined into a band of light to block the crescent.
• The collision shattered four of Xie’s seven characters, while the remaining power of Blood Drink broke apart against the Arena’s barrier.
• Lang Tu charged within five zhang and attacked Xie with a second axe strike and blood-colored claw shadows at once.

Xie Approaching the Abyss fought Lang Tu in the Arena, using written characters and his Jade Slip to defend against the werewolf’s killing-intent attacks. Lang Tu’s relentless lunges left Xie increasingly weakened as the fight continued.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss blocked Lang Tu’s axe and severed his claw projection, but the attack’s remnants damaged his script barrier.
• Lang Tu exploited the opening and cut Xie across the waist, leaving a burn that continued to drain his strength.
• Xie warned Lang Tu that burning his killing intent would harm him, but Lang Tu said he did not care about hurting himself.
• Lang Tu charged on all fours and swung his axe at Xie from behind, while Xie escaped with the character for Retreat.
• Lang Tu kept attacking from unpredictable angles, and Xie evaded with Retreat and Substitute as his face paled and his ink-black light grew unstable.

Xie Approaching the Abyss revealed the Nine True Words, his most powerful condensed character arts, and sent the first one against Lang Tu. Lang Tu resisted its force, but the sound of recitation began breaking down his Killing Intent.

• Lang Tu stopped his barrage of lunges and asked how much Haoran Righteous Qi Xie Approaching the Abyss had left.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss raised his Jade Slip and summoned nine balls of ink-colored light containing the Nine True Words.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss explained that the words embodied his lifetime of reading, writing, and teaching.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss released Presence, whose recitations melted away Lang Tu’s Killing Intent.
• Lang Tu formed a blood-colored carapace and swung his axe to cleave a gap through the sound waves.

The six orbs of light attacked Lang Tu with weapons and a phantom warrior while draining his Killing Intent and binding him. The final orb formed an army of ink-black soldiers above him, leaving him trapped beneath their weapons.

• The second orb became ink-black weapons that pierced Lang Tu and scorched his Killing Intent with Haoran Righteous Qi.
• The third orb became a phantom warrior whose staff struck Lang Tu’s axe and wounded his hands.
• The fourth orb became a mirror that began drawing the Killing Intent from Lang Tu and stripping away his carapace.
• The fifth orb became a net that bound Lang Tu and tightened around his body.
• The sixth orb became a military formation filled with ink-black soldiers holding daggers-axe points toward Lang Tu.

Xie Approaching the Abyss unleashed the final three of the Nine True Words against Lang Tu, pinning him beneath layers of righteous power. With the Proceed character descending, Lang Tu stopped resisting the restraints and burned all his remaining Killing Intent to use Blood-Burning Firmament.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss’s Array-character formed illusory bookshelves whose ink-light ribbons bound Lang Tu more tightly.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss’s Forward-character summoned an avenue lined with Human Race sages, whose righteous qi forced Lang Tu nearly to his knees.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss’s Proceed-character descended and crushed layers of Lang Tu’s Killing Intent and blood-colored carapace.
• Lang Tu abandoned his struggle against the restraints and burned all his remaining Killing Intent.
• Lang Tu roared, unleashed dark-red flames filled with fragments of Killing Intent laws, and invoked Baleful Path · Blood-Burning Firmament.

Lang Tu burned all his accumulated killing intent to break free and unleash a devastating attack on Xie Approaching the Abyss. Xie’s barrier failed, and the chapter ended with his body and soul destroyed.

• Lang Tu ignited his killing intent, broke through the Jie and Lie restraints, and charged at Xie Approaching the Abyss.
• Lang Tu used Baleful Dao · World Annihilation Slash, sending a dark-red pillar of destruction across the arena.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss raised his Jade Slip to form a barrier of ancient characters, but it shattered after resisting the pillar for five breaths.
• The remaining force struck Xie Approaching the Abyss, shattering his body and scattering his soul into extinguished points of light.

Lang Tu defeated Xie Approaching the Abyss, but the referee did not announce the result. As ink-black light gathered above him and formed the characters “Rejuvenation,” the outcome remained uncertain.

• Lang Tu stood exhausted in the arena after burning his killing intent to destroy Xie Approaching the Abyss's soul.
• Origin Continent's cultivators watched in disbelief as the defeat deepened their losing streak.
• Chaos Ancient Clan's participants jeered and urged Origin Continent to surrender.
• Lang Tu waited for the referee to announce his victory, assuming the referee had not noticed the match had ended.
• Two tiny ink-black points of light appeared above Lang Tu and grew into the characters “Rejuvenation.”

Xie Approaching the Abyss returned in a final form after burning away everything of himself, determined to finish teaching Lang Tu. He attacked Lang Tu with the characters Presence and Soldiers, breaking through his defenses and scorching his killing intent origin.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss re-formed above the Arena after the characters Rejuvenation exploded, and explained that he had one unfinished task: teaching Lang Tu.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss wrote Presence, summoning the figures of his students and the power of his recitations to crush Lang Tu’s killing intent and slow his movements.
• Lang Tu formed a blood-colored Killing Intent Carapace, but Xie Approaching the Abyss’s sound waves shattered it and began stripping away his killing intent origin.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss wrote Soldiers, sending ink-black weapons raining down on Lang Tu.
• Lang Tu’s Axe Curtain collapsed, and ink-black spears pierced him, burning his killing intent origin with haoran righteous qi.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss began writing Battle.

Xie Approaching the Abyss used the Battle-Character Battle Formation to grind away Lang Tu’s attacks. The formation continued advancing after destroying Lang Tu’s Blood-Colored Bead.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss formed a three-layer Battle-Character Battle Formation above the Arena.
• Lang Tu coated himself in Killing Intent and struck the formation with his axe, but it shredded his attack.
• Lang Tu tried to tear open the formation with his claw, and its toothed rings chipped his hooks and snapped one.
• Lang Tu concentrated his Killing Intent into a Blood-Colored Bead and sent it at the formation’s inner discs.
• The discs ground the bead away, and Xie Approaching the Abyss said the Battle character governed grinding.

Lang Tu broke Xie Approaching the Abyss’s Battle-Character Battle Formation, but Xie immediately trapped him in a mirror technique that made his movements slow and his body turn transparent. The chapter ended as Lang Tu realized the mirror was affecting his very existence.

• Lang Tu tore through the formation’s outer wheel of light, enduring burns from the toothed rings and ink-black rays.
• Lang Tu struck the formation’s inner disc with his axe, shattered its three millstones, and collapsed the entire Battle-Character Battle Formation.
• Lang Tu emerged badly wounded and scorched, and Xie Approaching the Abyss counted his first victory.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss turned the fourth ball of light into a mirror that reflected Lang Tu without his wounds or damaged armor.
• As the mirror spun faster, Lang Tu’s movements slowed and his fingers became transparent.

Xie Approaching the Abyss used the Zhe and Jie characters to strip away Lang Tu’s accumulated killing intent and trap him in an ever-replenishing web. Lang Tu remained bound in the ink-black cocoon as Xie began writing another character.

• Lang Tu tried to destroy the mirror, but it resisted him and began draining his killing intent and other accumulated traits.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss explained that the Zhe character would leave Lang Tu empty as the mirror’s reflection became more like him.
• Lang Tu wounded his own arm to break the mirror’s illusion, then charged at Xie Approaching the Abyss.
• Xie wrote the Jie character, which split into thirty-two ink-black nets that trapped Lang Tu and burned away his killing intent.
• Lang Tu struggled and bit through a strand, but new strands immediately replaced it.
• Xie wrote the character Formation.

Xie Approaching the Abyss used the Formation and Ranks Characters to restrain Lang Tu with layered arrays and binding ribbons. Lang Tu destroyed part of the military formation, but the essays rewove themselves around him as Xie continued to hold him down.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss formed layered square arrays that slowed Lang Tu and suppressed his Killing Intent.
• Lang Tu blasted dozens of soldier phantoms apart with a mouthful of Killing Intent, briefly thinning the formation’s rays.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss summoned phantom bookshelves and used ribbons of written light to pull Lang Tu from side to side.
• Lang Tu tore through one ribbon, but its characters rearranged into a new ribbon and bound him again.

Xie Approaching the Abyss used the Nine True Words to defeat Lang Tu, but the forbidden Rejuvenation technique expired and Xie Approaching the Abyss disappeared. Only his Jade Slip remained in the silent Arena.

• Xie Approaching the Abyss formed the Forward character, forcing Lang Tu to kneel beneath the weight of the avenue and its ancient sages.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss released the Action character, which crushed Lang Tu’s killing intent and shattered his body.
• Lang Tu died, unable to understand how Xie Approaching the Abyss had returned after being killed by his axe.
• As the Rejuvenation technique’s time limit expired, Xie Approaching the Abyss dissolved into fragments of ink-black light after picking up and tucking away the Jade Slip.
• Xie Approaching the Abyss vanished, leaving the Jade Slip on the Arena’s stone tiles as everyone watched in silence.

The Origin Continent won the battle, but Xie Approaching the Abyss died, leaving the cultivators grieving rather than celebrating. After the loss, a supreme powerhouse ordered the Chaos Ancient Clan to fight without regard for their lives in the coming battles.

• The Origin Continent’s cultivators mourned Xie Approaching the Abyss and bowed to see him off after their victory.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan cultivator admitted that Xie Approaching the Abyss’s forbidden technique had turned the battle against them.
• Chaos Ancient Clan cultivators vowed to crush the Origin Continent and deny it any further hope.
• A supreme powerhouse ordered the Chaos Ancient Clan to fight with all their strength, even if it meant self-detonating and erasing their own existence.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan cultivators accepted the order, knowing that refusing would get their names struck from the clan’s rolls.