Chapter Summaries

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao continued their evenly matched duel, trading powerful leg, palm, and fist techniques. Their battle left both injured and the surrounding ground devastated, and it ended with their latest attacks colliding in a massive shockwave.

• Li Changfeng unleashed his Dominating Leg Technique against Zhang Xuandao’s Soft Palm, and their collision injured both fighters and blasted open the ground.
• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao praised each other’s techniques as the onlookers recognized them as the leading contenders.
• Li Changfeng attacked with the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms’ “Hidden Dragon, Do Not Use,” while Zhang Xuandao countered with the Yin-Yang Divine Fist’s “Yin Extremity Creates Yang,” sending both men flying.
• Li Changfeng used “Flying Dragon in the Sky” to launch a true qi dragon at Zhang Xuandao, who answered with “Yang Extremity Creates Yin.”
• Li Changfeng’s flying dragon and Zhang Xuandao’s fist print collided, shaking the ground and sending shockwaves across the battlefield.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao continued their fierce battle, trading powerful techniques until both were severely injured. Li Changfeng’s fourth soaring dragon shattered Zhang Xuandao’s Taiji circular mirror, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved as both men suffered backlash.

• Li Changfeng unleashed Soaring Dragon Ascends against Zhang Xuandao’s Yin-Yang Convergence, and their collision blasted both fighters to the ground with severe injuries.
• Despite their wounds, Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao rose and resumed fighting.
• Li Changfeng attacked with three soaring dragons from Repentance of the Soaring Dragon, while Zhang Xuandao blocked them with the Taiji circular mirror formed by Yin-Yang Fish Mirror.
• Li Changfeng launched a fourth soaring dragon that shattered Zhang Xuandao’s mirror, and both fighters suffered backlash and spat blood.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao revealed their sword trump cards and fought with mastered Sword Intent, remaining evenly matched. As their duel continued, Princess Minmin sensed something strange about the black rain, but no one could identify what was unusual about it.

• Zhang Xuandao revealed his yin-yang twin swords, and Li Changfeng drew the Yama Sword for their decisive contest.
• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao clashed with their Sword Intent, and the onlookers recognized that both had mastered it.
• The fighters exchanged close-range attacks, but Zhang Xuandao’s refined defensive swordsmanship and Li Changfeng’s overwhelming power kept them evenly matched.
• Black rain began falling during the duel, and Princess Minmin questioned whether it was unusual.
• Leng Xue and the Buddha Child could not determine what was wrong with the rain, while Ouyang Duha dismissed it as ordinary water.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao fought with their strongest sword techniques, repeatedly meeting each other's attacks despite their serious injuries. Their final clash left both men gravely wounded and on the verge of collapse, with neither able to defeat the other.

• Li Changfeng used Mountain-Splitting Strike, and Zhang Xuandao countered with Left Yin Right Yang; the collision made both men spit blood.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Sweeping a Thousand Armies, and Zhang Xuandao answered with Four Ounces Deflects a Thousand Pounds, creating a deep crater and worsening their injuries.
• Li Changfeng attacked with Thunderous Might as Zhang Xuandao used Yin-Yang Fish Dragon, and their final collision sent both men flying.
• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao landed on one knee, trembling and barely conscious, with neither able to overcome the other.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Daoxuan collapsed after their fierce fight as demonic creatures revealed themselves in the black mist and threatened the group. Princess Minmin rallied everyone to hold out until the golden figure could restore the fighters, and the Buddha Child forced the demons into the open with a Buddhist formation.

• Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha found Li Changfeng and Zhang Daoxuan unconscious and treated their injuries.
• The Buddha Child and Princess Minmin suspected demonic qi in the black rain, then discovered the training ground shrouded in black mist.
• A golden figure appeared, protected Li Changfeng and Zhang Daoxuan, and warned the others that they had to hold out while he maintained the formation.
• Qu Qingsheng and Ghost Shadow rose again, possessed by the Tusked Demon and the Shadow Demon, who revealed that the black rain was Demon-Eroding Water.
• Princess Minmin learned that Li Changfeng and Zhang Daoxuan would recover in half an hour and encouraged the others to fight together.
• The Buddha Child cast the Fixed Light Buddha Formation, forcing the two demon lords out of hiding and weakening the demonic qi.

Tusked Demon and Ghost Shadow attacked the group, whose members countered the first assault before Ghost Shadow engulfed them in a disorienting black mist. Li Wuyai discovered that his palm technique could briefly illuminate the mist, but he and the others became separated and wandered into Ghost Shadow’s trap.

• Ouyang Duha, Leng Xue, and Princess Minmin joined forces to withstand Tusked Demon’s Black Flame Sky palm.
• Ghost Shadow unleashed Demon Mist Engulfs, cutting off the group’s sight and hearing while vengeful souls attacked them.
• Li Wuyai destroyed the souls targeting him with his sword and Tianshan Six Yang Palm, then used its flames to light the surrounding mist.
• Li Wuyai and the others followed their remembered directions and unknowingly moved farther apart, while Ghost Shadow revealed that the mist confused their sense of direction.

Li Wuyai was trapped in the ghostly mist and fought Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon, first injuring Tusked Demon with a surprise attack before being forced into a direct battle. The chapter ended as Li Wuyai countered Tusked Demon’s powerful Demon Flame Palm with his own blazing palm strikes.

• Li Wuyai realized he was lost in the mist and could not make his voice carry.
• Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon appeared, and Li Wuyai wounded Tusked Demon with the first form of Evil-warding Swordplay before fleeing.
• Shadow Demon tracked Li Wuyai down, but Tusked Demon insisted on fighting him alone.
• Li Wuyai attacked with the second form of Evil-warding Swordplay, but Tusked Demon’s Demon Emperor Armor blocked the strikes and injured Li Wuyai’s hand with its recoil.
• Tusked Demon unleashed a Demon Flame Palm, and Li Wuyai met it with the fourth form of the Tianshan Six Yang Palm.

Li Wuyai fought the Tusked Demon and exhausted himself destroying its attacks, leaving him gravely wounded. The Buddha Child’s light broke through the demonic mist, and Li Wuyai fled toward it while the Tusked Demon pursued him.

• The Tusked Demon attacked Li Wuyai with successive Demon Flame Palms, and Li Wuyai countered with the Tianshan Six Yang Palm and the Northern Darkness Divine Art.
• Li Wuyai finally shattered the remaining demon-flame power but suffered severe backlash and collapsed, gravely wounded.
• The Buddha Child summoned golden Buddhist light that dispersed the demonic mist temporarily and called everyone to follow its guidance.
• Li Wuyai rushed toward the Buddha’s light as the Shadow Demon and the Tusked Demon reacted to its appearance.
• The Tusked Demon chased Li Wuyai and struck him from afar, but Li Wuyai endured the blow and continued flying toward the Buddha’s light.

Leng Xue rescued Li Wuyai from Shadow Demon, and Ouyang Duha helped them escape Tusked Demon's attack. With Shadow Demon and Tusked Demon closing in, Leng Xue fought Shadow Demon using his blade technique.

• Shadow Demon wounded Li Wuyai and moved to kill him, but Leng Xue arrived and carried him away.
• Shadow Demon pursued Leng Xue and Li Wuyai, while Ouyang Duha blocked Tusked Demon's demonic palm and helped them retreat.
• Ouyang Duha and Leng Xue argued briefly about saving Li Wuyai, who urged them to escape if they got the chance.
• Shadow Demon and Tusked Demon surrounded the three, and Leng Xue refused to abandon his comrades.
• Leng Xue unleashed “Draw Blade: Hundred Consecutive Flashes” against Shadow Demon's blade attacks.
• Shadow Demon countered with “Shadow Demon Chain Flashes” and charged at Leng Xue.

Leng Xue and Shadow Demon traded powerful attacks while Ouyang Duha fought Tusked Demon, countering two forms of the Demon Flame Palm with the Toad God Palm. Ouyang Duha shattered Tusked Demon’s Black Flame Meteor but crashed to the ground injured, while Tusked Demon remained mostly unharmed.

• Leng Xue used Five Consecutive Thunder Slashes to destroy Shadow Demon’s remaining Shadow Flashes, and their clash sent both fighters flying backward.
• Tusked Demon attacked Ouyang Duha with Black Flame Sky, but Ouyang Duha’s Power Accumulation palm met it head-on and forced Tusked Demon back.
• Tusked Demon unleashed Black Flame Meteor, and Ouyang Duha countered with Accumulating Power to shatter the demonic-flame meteor in midair.
• Ouyang Duha crashed to the ground and spat blood, his hands scorched by demonic flames, while Tusked Demon suffered only a slight backlash.

Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha made a desperate stand against the Shadow Demon and the Tusked Demon despite their severe injuries. Their attacks collided in a devastating explosion, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Leng Xue unleashed Tyrant Blade: Severing Strike against the Shadow Demon, but their attacks collided and left Leng Xue badly injured while the Shadow Demon retreated, slightly pale.
• The Shadow Demon and the Tusked Demon attacked the injured Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha with their strongest sustainable techniques.
• Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha rose to fight back, with Leng Xue using Avici Three Blade Strike and Ouyang Duha unleashing Accumulating Power.
• The four fighters' attacks collided in a deafening explosion that sent a powerful shockwave outward.

Princess Minmin rescued Leng Xue, Ouyang Duha, and their companions from the demons and brought them back to the Buddha Child’s protection. After the group recovered enough to face another attack, the Shadow Demon launched a deadly technique, and the Buddha Child shielded them with his Golden Bell Shield.

• Princess Minmin ambushed the Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon with her Azure Dragon palm, then carried the unconscious Leng Xue, Ouyang Duha, and a third companion to the Buddha Child.
• The Buddha Child and Princess Minmin recovered their true qi while she gave sacred healing pills to Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha.
• The Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon recovered and flew back to attack the group; Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha had awakened but could use only sixty or seventy percent of their strength.
• The Shadow Demon unleashed Shadow Demon Chain Flash: Shadow Kill, surrounding the group with thick demonic mist.
• The Buddha Child activated the eleventh stage of Golden Bell Shield and protected the group inside a vast golden bell.

Buddha Child and the others were trapped inside the Golden Bell Shield as the Shadow Demon and Tusked Demon attacked from the surrounding demonic mist. They survived Tusked Demon’s first Black Flame Meteor with their strongest techniques, but he launched another, leaving them exhausted and still under siege.

• Buddha Child held off the Shadow Demon’s relentless attacks with the Golden Bell Shield, and Princess Minmin used a top-grade Qi Recovery Pill to replenish his depleted true qi.
• The Shadow Demon called on Tusked Demon to break the shield, and Tusked Demon launched a Black Flame Meteor from above.
• Princess Minmin summoned the Black Tortoise phantom while Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha attacked the meteor with their strongest available techniques.
• Leng Xue and Ouyang Duha shattered part of the meteor, and the Black Tortoise phantom stopped the remaining fragments before it was destroyed.
• Tusked Demon launched another Black Flame Meteor, and the exhausted group barely managed to shatter it again.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao arrived in time to rescue the exhausted fighters, purifying the demonic mist and revealing that they had broken through their Grandmaster bottlenecks. Li Changfeng confronted the Tusked Demon while Zhang Xuandao took on the Shadow Demon, and Li Changfeng’s first clash with the Tusked Demon shook the training ground.

• After three more Demon Flame Meteor attacks, Leng Xue, Ouyang Duha, Princess Minmin, and the Buddha Child were badly injured and nearly out of true qi, while the Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon prepared to finish them off.
• Li Changfeng’s golden dragon palm shattered an incoming meteor, and Zhang Xuandao’s yin-yang power purified the demonic mist around the fighters.
• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao appeared with their injuries healed and their Grandmaster bottlenecks broken, though both had suppressed their breakthroughs for the battle.
• Li Changfeng revealed that the Tusked Demon had transferred half of himself onto Qu Qingsheng, then agreed with Zhang Xuandao to face the Tusked Demon while Zhang Xuandao fought the Shadow Demon.
• The Tusked Demon attacked with Black Flame Sky, and Li Changfeng countered with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Use; their palms collided in a violent explosion.

Li Changfeng and Tusked Demon exchanged powerful techniques, and Tusked Demon summoned three Demonic Flame Giants to attack him. Li Changfeng answered with the Dominating Leg Technique, launching a barrage of strikes at the giants.

• Li Changfeng used Flying Dragon in the Sky, but Tusked Demon countered with Demon Flame Dragon, and their attacks collided, injuring them both.
• Li Changfeng struck with Soaring Dragon Ascends, while Tusked Demon answered with Black Flame Meteor; their attacks canceled each other out.
• Tusked Demon gathered the fallen meteors into three Demonic Flame Giants, which surrounded Li Changfeng and struck at him.
• Li Changfeng dodged the giants’ punches, but their collision sent him flying and left him bleeding.
• Li Changfeng leaped into the air and unleashed I Overlook the Heavens Amidst the Tempest, sending a barrage of Dominating Leg strikes toward the three giants.

Li Changfeng destroyed the three Demonic Flame Giants but was badly injured, while the Tusked Demon suffered backlash and resolved to kill him before he grew stronger. Elsewhere, the Shadow Demon shattered Zhang Xuandao’s Taiji Bagua Mirror, and Zhang Xuandao countered with the Yin-Yang Fish Mirror as their battle continued.

• Li Changfeng battered the three Demonic Flame Giants with his kicks and Repentance of the Soaring Dragon, but the Tusked Demon kept them fighting with demonic power.
• Li Changfeng’s golden dragon attack clashed with the giants’ combined fists, sending him crashing to the ground and reducing them to rubble; the Tusked Demon suffered backlash.
• Li Changfeng recognized the danger the Tusked Demon posed, while the demon decided to eliminate him before he could grow stronger.
• The Shadow Demon unleashed Demonic Shadow Chain Flash: Deathblow and shattered Zhang Xuandao’s Taiji Bagua Mirror.
• Zhang Xuandao used Yin-Yang Fish Mirror to form a stronger Taiji round mirror and block the Shadow Demon’s continuing attack.

Zhang Xuandao used Sword Intent to withstand Shadow Demon's deadly attacks while Li Changfeng fought Tusked Demon. Realizing the fight could wear them down, Shadow Demon and Tusked Demon fled, with Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao in pursuit.

• Shadow Demon unleashed Three Consecutive Deathblows, shattering Zhang Xuandao's Yin-Yang Fish Mirror, but Zhang Xuandao blocked the attack with his yin-yang millstone and Sword Intent.
• Zhang Xuandao and Shadow Demon exchanged powerful attacks, while Shadow Demon pushed his demonic power to its limit and suffered savage cracks across his body.
• Li Changfeng and Tusked Demon fought fiercely before both demons regrouped and considered whether to fight to the death or escape.
• Tusked Demon chose to flee, and Shadow Demon agreed; the two demon lords transformed into afterimages and raced away.
• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao hurried after the fleeing demons and called out to stop them.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao stopped Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon from escaping, forcing the fiends to unleash powerful attacks. Li Changfeng countered Tusked Demon’s Demon Flame Sky Scorcher with Mountain Shattering, Earth Rending, while Zhang Xuandao met Shadow Demon’s spear attack with a Taiji Diagram; both clashes left the fight unresolved.

• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao pursued Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon, then halted them with coordinated sword attacks.
• Tusked Demon and Shadow Demon, enraged by the pursuit, decided to fight at full strength despite the risk to their bodies.
• Tusked Demon unleashed Demon Flame Sky Scorcher, shattering Li Changfeng’s first four Heavy Sword, No Edge techniques.
• Li Changfeng activated Draconic Elephant Prajna and countered with Mountain Shattering, Earth Rending, meeting Tusked Demon’s palm in a violent collision.
• Shadow Demon attacked Zhang Xuandao with Shadow Demon God Spear, and Zhang Xuandao answered with Yin-Yang Two Forms, forming a Taiji Diagram to block it.

Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao fought the two demons to a mutual defeat, but the demons were captured by the elderly man in white. He warned the group that a great calamity might be coming and ordered Li Wuyai to have the sects prepare.

• Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao clashed with the two demons, leaving both sides gravely injured until the demons fled.
• The five others approached Li Changfeng and Zhang Xuandao, who explained that their fight with the demons had ended in mutual losses.
• The elderly man in white arrived carrying the demons’ crippled bodies and imprisoning their souls in a crystal sphere.
• Li Wuyai recognized the elderly man as a guardian of the trial site, but learned that he would not return to the Free and Unfettered Sect.
• The elderly man warned that a great calamity might be approaching and ordered Li Wuyai to have the sects come train and prepare for the coming battle.

Li Changfeng received the Free and Unfettered Sect inheritance after Zhang Xuandao yielded it to him, while the others were promised opportunities to refine their true qi. Senior Jin returned, confirmed the people outside the arena were safe, and bestowed rewards on the five.

• Zhang Xuandao gave Li Changfeng the inheritance to strengthen their friendship, and Li Changfeng accepted the favor.
• The white-robed elder explained that the Free and Unfettered Sect's Northern Darkness Divine Art was its greatest inheritance and gave Li Changfeng a golden Jade Scroll.
• The white-robed elder promised the others an opportunity to refine their true qi, but said they had to wait for Senior Jin.
• Golden light erased the demonic qi and the people outside the arena disappeared, prompting Li Changfeng to ask what had happened.
• Senior Jin returned and told Li Changfeng that he had expelled the people outside to the bamboo forest and that they were safe.
• Senior Jin praised the five and sent golden light over them as their rewards.