Chapter Summaries

After the dragon veins collapsed, Dugu Wuwu and Hong Shan discovered their remaining numinous energy would drain away within years, while Hong Yuan taught the Qi-Blood Furnace Method as a path suited to the coming age. The chapter ended with Hong Yuan preparing to teach the new art to thousands gathered in Haijin City.

• Changqingzi sailed toward Haijin City and read the Imperial Court’s announcement summoning the world’s factions to learn an art from Beyond the Heavens.
• Dugu Wuwu and Hong Shan realized Dharma decline would strip away their numinous energy within five or six years and resolved to master the new art.
• Su Qing practiced the Qi-Blood Furnace Method, while Yang Qingxuan defeated Shi Yan in a contest of physical strength and force.
• Hong Yuan taught his followers the method’s second revolution and told them to gather the factions in three days for instruction.
• Thousands gathered at the former Paradise of Supreme Pleasure, where Hong Yuan announced that he would teach the three-revolution Blood-and-Qi Furnace method once.

Hong Yuan confronted the Night King, a Western Luo leader who also came from beyond this world, after the Night King’s fleet attacked Haijin City. Their battle devastated the airships above the harbor as Yang Qingxuan, Shi Yan, and the others watched.

• Hong Yuan demonstrated the power of the Qi-Blood Furnace Method, leaving the gathered crowd stunned and giving Yang Qingxuan hope that the path could lead to greater strength.
• Hong Yuan sensed an approaching threat, freed the crowd from his pressure, and flew toward Haijin City as Yang Qingxuan, Shi Yan, Su Qing, Master Green Satchel, and Guan Xing followed.
• Western Luo warships shelled Haijin City while airships advanced overhead, and a martial artist used Astral Qi to destroy several incoming shells.
• Hong Yuan intercepted the Night King, who acknowledged that he considered the world his own and would tolerate no rival.
• The Night King attacked Hong Yuan with a spatial seal and bone swords, but Hong Yuan fought back with Astral Qi and powerful strikes, destroying more than half of the airships in their clash.

Hong Yuan battled the Night King across the sea and Haijin City, revealing the power of his dragon vein true-form astral art. After Hong Yuan seemingly crushed him, the Night King revealed that he had used the fight to complete a molting and sent a strange insect-like thread of dark light into Hong Yuan’s pupil.

• Hong Yuan and the Night King exchanged devastating blows at sea, wrecking Western Luo warships and driving their battle toward Haijin City.
• The Night King’s shadow robe drained nearby people’s vital blood, while Hong Yuan shattered the robe’s shadow form and recognized that it was made from human skin.
• Hong Yuan countered the Night King’s blood curse and five ghost gods, using his dragon vein astral body to injure the Night King.
• The Night King transformed into a giant demon-like form and battered Hong Yuan through the city, but Hong Yuan summoned a golden, six-armed manifestation and struck him into a crater.
• The Night King opened a bloody hole between his brows and sent an insect-like thread of dark light into Hong Yuan’s pupil, declaring that he had completed his molting and would take Hong Yuan’s body.

Hong Yuan defeated the Night King, studied his memories and White Bone Molting Method, and suspected Huang Longshi had entered the Night King’s world through the Mist Sea. After giving Shi Yan and Yang Qingxuan the molting art and entrusting them with his body, Hong Yuan departed for another world, leaving the story poised for a possible reunion.

• The Night King tried to possess Hong Yuan, but the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed] shattered his attack and helped Hong Yuan subdue him.
• Hong Yuan destroyed the Western Luo fleet and airships, then left Shi Yan, Master Green Satchel, and the others to manage the waves and aftermath.
• After examining the Night King’s memories, Hong Yuan learned about the White Bone Sect’s six-molting art and suspected Huang Longshi’s mystic yellow energy had drawn the Night King into this world.
• Hong Yuan developed the fifth level of his Six Voids Calamity, All Things at One’s Disposal, and considered adapting the molting art to his Qi-Blood Furnace Method.
• Hong Yuan gave Shi Yan and Yang Qingxuan the White Bone Molting Method and told them he would leave his body in their care while he departed this world.
• Hong Yuan returned Yang Qingxuan’s token and shot into the void, telling Shi Yan and Yang Qingxuan they might meet again soon.

Hong Yuan returned from Great Xuan with the Karmic Calamity Dao Seed sprouted and his blessed land’s lifespan increased, then inspected the Myriad Calamities Dao Court’s Chief Astrologer Bureau. He learned Granny Meng’s chosen name and heard that rival factions were secretly competing to collect the Yu Emperor’s remains.

• Hong Yuan’s journey to Great Xuan added 185 years to the blessed land’s lifespan, sprouted the Karmic Calamity Dao Seed, and improved his comprehension and root bone.
• Hong Yuan concluded that Great Yin, Great Xuan, and other mist-sealed realms were parts of one greater world with a consistent flow of time.
• Hong Yuan visited the Chief Astrologer Bureau and found Granny Meng relaxing while Divine General White Phoenix and the bureau’s personnel served there.
• Granny Meng told Hong Yuan that she had chosen the name Meng Xi after Heavenly Maiden Xi, the woman she most admired.
• Ying Ji reported that remnants of the Yun Family, Evil God Cults, and secret factions were secretly competing with the Dao Court to collect the Yu Emperor’s body parts.

Hong Yuan visited the Dao Transmission Hub, named its new history of the former dynasties the Tribulation Book, and gave Li Daoyi the Qi-Blood Furnace Method through its fifth transformation. He then brought Bai Ye from Great Xuan to serve as the Year Warden, assigning the duty to his Divided Body.

• Hong Yuan dismissed the threat posed by the Yun Family remnants and Evil God Cults, while Ying Ji and the Dao Court’s allies remained wary of their schemes.
• Hong Yuan visited the Dao Transmission Hub, reunited with his cousins Hong Yi and Hong Ying, and learned that his second uncle had recovered.
• Li Daoyi showed Hong Yuan the history being compiled at the Hub, and Hong Yuan named it the Tribulation Book.
• Hong Yuan gave Li Daoyi the Qi-Blood Furnace Method through the fifth transformation and outlined how academies would teach and oversee its practice.
• Hong Yuan used the Karmic Calamity Dao Seed to summon Bai Ye from Great Xuan and assigned the Divided Body the Year Warden duty.

Hong Yuan sent Bai Ye to explore the Mist Sea, where the mist began to dissipate in scattered passages, while Yun Chengzhao and Lie Yang plotted to revive Yu and overthrow the Dao Court. After visiting the Dao Palace, Hong Yuan entered the Taisui Blessed Land and prepared to travel to another world.

• Hong Yuan infused Bai Ye with consciousness, tested the Divided Body, and found numinous energy in Great Yin to be extremely sparse.
• Bai Ye crossed the sea into the Mist Sea, explored its dense barrier, and discovered that the mist was dissipating in several places.
• Yun Chengzhao and Lie Yang killed Yuan Nutao and seized the Hundred-Grievance Ear, one of thirteen collected pieces of Yu’s body.
• Yun Chengzhao and Lie Yang planned a Grand Sacrifice to contact Yu’s world and use its fiends against Hong Yuan and the Dao Court.
• Hong Yuan left the Dao Palace, entered the Taisui Blessed Land, and prepared to visit another world.

Hong Yuan chose a new world to explore and sent a thought through the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed], where it arrived in the mind of the dying Pei Lingshuang. Pei Lingshuang’s betrayers left her in a bone pit, and Hong Yuan discovered she was still alive.

• Hong Yuan decided to pause his travels to digest his gains before entering a stronger world in his true body.
• Hong Yuan selected a world and sent his thought through the dao seed into the Mist Sea.
• Pei Lingshuang lay dying in Ghost Nether Cave after Martial Uncle Sun and Martial Aunt Qian condemned her for uncovering a secret and practicing the Rakshasa Great Art.
• A girl in white revealed that she had secretly leaked the secret to Pei Lingshuang and taunted her as she lay helpless.
• Hong Yuan’s thought appeared in Pei Lingshuang’s sea of consciousness and realized she was still alive.

Hong Yuan took control of Pei Lingshuang’s dying body, compelled Bai Xiuxiu to carry them out of Ghost Nether Cave, and learned why Pei Lingshuang had been cast out by the Rakshasa Sect. As Bai Xiuxiu fled under his orders, someone called out to her and invited her to stay.

• Hong Yuan stabilized Pei Lingshuang’s fading consciousness after she called him Grandpa, then read her memories.
• Bai Xiuxiu descended into Ghost Nether Cave to confront Pei Lingshuang, but Hong Yuan took control of her mind and ordered her to carry him away.
• Hong Yuan expelled poisoned blood and damaged tissue from Pei Lingshuang’s body, then recognized the world as Great Ming, now ruled by martial sects and clans.
• Hong Yuan learned that Pei Lingshuang had discovered the Rakshasa Sect arranged her family’s murder, and that Yin Wuyue had crippled and abandoned her after she learned the Rakshasa Great Art.
• Bai Xiuxiu carried Pei Lingshuang away from the Rakshasa Sect, but an unseen person called out to her and invited her to stay.

Bai Xiuxiu killed Yin Shubai and the Blood-Hand Elders under Hong Yuan’s control, while Hong Yuan stabilized Pei Lingshuang’s consciousness and began teaching her a fast, dangerous cultivation method. Yin Wuyue and Yin Beiting arrived at the scene and confronted each other over the killings.

• Bai Xiuxiu killed Yin Shubai and the two Blood-Hand Elders with silver wire before fleeing into the mountain woods.
• Hong Yuan examined Bai Xiuxiu’s internal energy and decided to guide Pei Lingshuang toward revenge rather than attack the Rakshasa Sect himself.
• Hong Yuan nourished Pei Lingshuang’s consciousness, introduced himself as Ten Thousand Tribulations, and offered to teach her a cultivation method that could leave her with less than a year to live.
• Hong Yuan taught Pei Lingshuang the Qi-Blood Furnace Method and considered how to combine its stages with the world’s internal energy system.
• Yin Wuyue and Yin Beiting arrived at the deaths, and Yin Beiting accused Yin Wuyue of having a powerful disciple while Yin Wuyue denied that Bai Xiuxiu could have killed the three men unaided.

Hong Yuan used Bai Xiuxiu’s body to evade Yin Beiting while helping Pei Lingshuang escape, and Pei Lingshuang questioned Bai about the source of the revelations about her family’s massacre. Bai suspected Yin Beiting had arranged for them to become enemies with Yin Wuyue, leaving the fugitives to consider his role in the conspiracy.

• Yin Beiting rejected Yin Wuyue’s doubts about Bai Xiuxiu’s alleged betrayal and led his faction in pursuit of her and Pei Lingshuang.
• Yin Wuyue questioned Evil Bone Madam and Qian Bu'er about Bai Xiuxiu’s strange actions, then ordered them to Ghost Nether Cave.
• Hong Yuan controlled Bai Xiuxiu’s body and used the Prajna True Void Force to evade Yin Beiting’s attacks and escape with Pei Lingshuang.
• Yin Beiting returned with Rakshasa Sect experts and searched the area for hours, but Bai Xiuxiu and Pei Lingshuang had already fled.
• Hong Yuan let Pei Lingshuang speak with Bai Xiuxiu, who revealed that someone had leaked the massacre’s details to her and suggested Yin Beiting might benefit from their conflict with Yin Wuyue.

Hong Yuan restored Pei Lingshuang and rapidly increased her power by teaching her the Qi-Blood Furnace Method and completing the Rakshasa Great Art. After the intense cultivation left her with snow-white hair and a shortened lifespan, she set out for Longxing Temple to seek more martial arts.

• Bai Xiuxiu carried Pei Lingshuang to a mansion in Zhending Prefecture and gathered medicinal ingredients at Hong Yuan's direction.
• Hong Yuan used pills and the Qi-Blood Furnace Method to restore Pei Lingshuang, while Bai Xiuxiu asked to learn the method and began studying it.
• Hong Yuan completed the final three levels of the Rakshasa Great Art and guided Pei Lingshuang as she cultivated through the eighth level in seven days.
• Hong Yuan stopped Pei Lingshuang before she attempted the dangerous ninth level, and she emerged with snow-white hair after sacrificing decades of her lifespan.
• Bai Xiuxiu named Yanghe Tower, Longxing Temple, and the Rakshasa Sect's base as Zhending Prefecture's main gathering places for experts, and Pei Lingshuang chose Longxing Temple.

Pei Lingshuang and Bai Xiuxiu fought their way through Longxing Temple, where Pei demanded to read the temple’s martial arts and Mount Hua’s true arts. Pei overwhelmed Mu Yunfei and Zen Master Yunjian, then challenged Hua Ruyi as Feng Changping stepped in to protect the injured monk.

• Feng Changping and Hua Ruyi visited Longxing Temple with Feng Qingqing and Mu Yunfei ahead of the Righteous-Evil Debate.
• Bai Xiuxiu fought the temple’s monks and Mount Hua’s disciples while Pei Lingshuang watched the Buddha hall.
• Zen Master Yunjian attacked Bai Xiuxiu, who wounded his palm and escaped back to Pei Lingshuang.
• Pei Lingshuang identified herself as Jade Rakshasa and demanded to read Longxing Temple’s martial arts and Mount Hua’s true arts.
• Feng Qingqing and Mu Yunfei attacked Pei Lingshuang, but she disarmed Feng Qingqing, shattered her sword, and defeated Mu Yunfei in one exchange.
• Pei Lingshuang struck Zen Master Yunjian into the air, and Feng Changping caught him as Hua Ruyi moved to block Pei; Pei asked Hua to instruct her.

Pei Lingshuang defeated Feng Changping and subdued Hua Ruyi, allowing Hong Yuan to extract Mount Hua’s martial arts and learn how Spirit Refining worked in this world. After warning the Mount Hua leaders, Hong Yuan left with Bai Xiuxiu, while another battle broke out in Zhengding Prefectural City.

• Feng Changping rescued Mu Yunfei from Pei Lingshuang’s attack, and Mu Yunfei gave the injured Zen Master Yunjian a Jade Dew Pill.
• Pei Lingshuang fought Hua Ruyi with the Thousand Threads Soul-Seeking Hand and nearly struck her down before Feng Changping intervened.
• Pei Lingshuang reversed her attack and defeated Feng Changping with a single palm strike, then disarmed and immobilized Hua Ruyi.
• Hong Yuan used Pei Lingshuang’s eyes to subdue Hua Ruyi and Feng Changping, then questioned them and Zen Master Yunjian about their martial arts.
• Hong Yuan learned about Spirit Refining and collected Mount Hua techniques, including the Violet Cloud Divine Art, before leaving with Bai Xiuxiu.
• Another battle erupted in Zhengding Prefectural City, and the Rakshasa Gate stronghold was wiped out.

Qiu Wuya led Hate Cliff experts toward Mount Tai while fearing Pei Lingshuang, but she and Bai Xiuxiu ambushed his party and forced him to reveal Hate Cliff’s martial arts before killing him. After learning that Rakshasa Sect forces were in Jinan, Pei Lingshuang prepared to charge into a suspected trap.

• Qiu Wuya reflected on Pei Lingshuang’s assaults against major righteous and demonic factions and resolved to help the martial world slay her.
• Pei Lingshuang’s threads killed two of Qiu Wuya’s men, and she confronted him as he tried to escape.
• Bai Xiuxiu restrained Qiu Wuya with the Silver Sash Around Snow, forced him to disclose Hate Cliff’s martial arts, and killed him.
• Hong Yuan explained that Pei Lingshuang had advanced by integrating the martial arts she had gathered, while Bai Xiuxiu had reached the threshold of Spirit Refining.
• Bai Xiuxiu reported traces of the Rakshasa Sect in Jinan, and Pei Lingshuang decided to attack the suspected trap there.

Xin Fei arrived in Jinan to challenge He Qiushi, but learned about the White-Haired Demoness just as a massive explosion lit the city. At the burning mansion, Pei Lingshuang appeared and slaughtered more than twenty experts, leaving Yin Wuyue to ask whether she was still his disciple or had been possessed by a demon.

• Xin Fei challenged He Qiushi at Cloud Crane Tower, but He Qiushi pointed him toward the White-Haired Demoness, and Xin Fei questioned a nearby martial artist about her.
• A huge gunpowder explosion shook Jinan, and Wang Zhenyue, He Qiushi, Miaochang, Zhuo Yixing, and Xin Fei hurried toward the fire.
• Yin Wuyue, Yin Beiting, Madam Zheng, and other faction leaders gathered outside the burning mansion, where they believed Pei Lingshuang had been trapped.
• Yin Wuyue warned Madam Zheng that she might still face Pei Lingshuang, then Pei Lingshuang emerged and killed more than twenty first-rate experts in an instant.
• Yin Wuyue remained before Pei Lingshuang as the survivors prepared to retreat, asking whether she was still his disciple or had been possessed by a demon.

Pei Lingshuang and Bai Xiuxiu slaughtered the attackers in Jinan Prefectural City, where Yin Wuyue revealed that he had destroyed the Pei family and told Pei Lingshuang to seek her sister at the Longevity Palace before dying. The two women left the gathered martial artists behind, shaken by Pei Lingshuang’s new power and the massacre.

• Yin Beiting fled from Pei Lingshuang, but Bai Xiuxiu trapped him with her threads and killed him.
• Madam Zheng and the other Spirit Refining experts joined forces against Pei Lingshuang, who shattered their combined aura and destroyed their cultivated power with the Nirvana Spirit-Seizing Art.
• Pei Lingshuang asked Yin Wuyue where her younger sister was, and Yin Wuyue confessed that he had destroyed the Pei family before dying and directing her to the Longevity Palace.
• Bai Xiuxiu and Pei Lingshuang encountered Wang Zhenyue and the arriving martial artists, and Bai Xiuxiu obtained the Immovable Wisdom King Sutra before burning the corpses and leaving with Pei Lingshuang.
• Miaochang recognized the dead among the renowned martial artists and wondered whether Pei Lingshuang had become a second Daojun Emperor, while Wang Zhenyue and Xin Fei abandoned their plans to join the Righteous-Evil Debate.

At the martial-world gathering on Mount Tai, the assembled leaders discussed the extraordinary power of Pei Lingshuang, who arrived to confront Zhu Huang over the Rakshasa Sect’s destruction of her family. Before they could fight, Dan Fei brought forward a woman who revealed herself as Pei Lingshuang’s sister.

• Dan Fei and Zhu Huang discussed how Pei Lingshuang had defeated a force that even the world’s strongest martial artists could not overcome alone.
• The martial-world gathering began on Mount Tai, where a young swordsman won his bout before the leading masters noticed someone approaching through the mist.
• Pei Lingshuang arrived and demanded answers from Zhu Huang about the Pei Family’s destruction and the Rakshasa Sect’s role in it.
• Xuankong urged Pei Lingshuang to turn back, but she ignored him and continued watching Zhu Huang.
• Dan Fei introduced a woman who removed her bamboo hat and greeted Pei Lingshuang as her sister.

Pei Lingshuang reunited with Pei Lingxuan at the Righteous-Evil Debate, but their opposing beliefs and Dan Fei’s manipulation drove them into conflict. As several grandmasters attacked Pei Lingshuang, Hong Yuan emerged from her body as a colossal figure.

• Pei Lingxuan told Pei Lingshuang that she had let go of the Pei family's blood feud and devoted herself to delivering all living beings.
• Pei Lingshuang attacked Dan Fei and Zhu Huang, while Hong Yuan realized Dan Fei had stirred Pei Lingshuang’s emotions through Seven Emotions Spirit Refining.
• Zhang Jisheng, Xuankong, Lingming, and other spirit-refining experts joined Dan Fei and Zhu Huang in attacking Pei Lingshuang for her supposed immortal opportunity.
• Bai Xiuxiu watched as Pei Lingshuang struggled to hit her opponents, who repeatedly used Pei Lingxuan to obstruct her attacks.
• Dan Fei and the other grandmasters exploited an opening, and Dan Fei struck Pei Lingshuang with the Reincarnation Seal.
• Hong Yuan sighed and manifested as a gigantic figure behind Pei Lingshuang, drawing the currents of heaven and earth toward himself.

Hong Yuan used Pei Lingshuang’s body to manifest a godlike figure and overwhelm the martial world’s supreme experts. Dan Fei, Zhu Huang, Zhang Jisheng, and the others were left gravely wounded as Hong Yuan challenged them.

• Pei Lingshuang released spiritual radiance that formed a colossal, godlike figure, terrifying Dan Fei, Zhu Huang, and the watching martial artists.
• Zhang Jisheng resisted the pressure with the Great Heavenly Righteous Qi Art, but Hong Yuan manipulated the figure to trap the experts in a shifting realm.
• Dan Fei, Zhu Huang, Zhang Jisheng, Xuankong, Lingming, and the others launched a desperate attack, only to be enclosed by a giant hand formed from intangible energy.
• The hand closed around the experts and erupted in wind and lightning, tearing apart their attacks and leaving them wounded and weakened.
• The ensuing storm devastated the surroundings and injured nearby martial artists before Hong Yuan returned his will to Pei Lingshuang’s sea of consciousness and confronted the fallen experts.