Chapter Summaries

Li Changfeng fought the long-haired man, whose savage-elephant charge and rapid healing made him difficult to defeat. Li Changfeng finally killed him with a powerful sword strike, leaving the other onlookers stunned.

• The long-haired man burst from the pit and charged Li Changfeng, who blocked him with Shaolin Bronze Body Skill and shoved him aside using the power of four dragons and four elephants.
• The long-haired man recovered from his injuries and charged again, but Li Changfeng met him with eighteen sword dragons from the Returning Dragon Eighteen Swords.
• The long-haired man's wounds healed as he charged once more, and Li Changfeng used Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens to blast him into the air.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Five Swords United as One, cleaving the long-haired man in two and killing him.

Li Wuyai fought the buzz-cut Blood Demon while Li Changfeng recovered from his battle with the long-haired Blood Demon. Li Changfeng’s apparent betrayal distracted Li Wuyai, allowing the buzz-cut man to strike him down.

• Li Wuyai unleashed Yang Flame Skyfall, but the buzz-cut man dodged the flaming palm and wounded Li Wuyai with his crimson claws.
• Li Wuyai deliberately drew the buzz-cut man toward the recovering Li Changfeng, who blocked the attack with his Vajra Arhat Phantom.
• Li Changfeng secretly told the buzz-cut man he would help kill Li Wuyai, then attacked the Blood Demon with flying daggers while Li Wuyai joined the fight.
• Li Changfeng turned his flying dagger toward Li Wuyai, who blocked it and accused him of harboring ill intentions.
• The buzz-cut man seized the opening and struck Li Wuyai in the chest, sending him crashing to the ground as Li Changfeng called him foolish.

Li Changfeng survived Li Wuyai’s attempt to kill him and exposed him in return, prompting Li Wuyai to drain five Free and Unfettered Sect disciples. Li Changfeng then joined the fight against the bald man, whose defeat by the combined attacks of more than a hundred fighters left nothing behind.

• Li Wuyai survived Li Changfeng and the buzz-cut man’s attack because a heart-protecting mirror blocked the blows.
• Li Wuyai accused the Free and Unfettered Sect disciples of wanting him dead, then drained five of them to restore his strength.
• Li Changfeng left Li Wuyai to face the buzz-cut man and went to help Golden Arhat, Dong Tianbao, and the other sect leaders fight the bald man.
• The bald man transformed into a black wolf-like creature and clashed with Li Changfeng’s Vajra Palm, leaving both fighters wounded.
• Golden Arhat called for everyone to attack, and the combined assault vaporized the bald man.

Li Wuyai nearly absorbed the crew-cut man's Inner Force, but Li Changfeng killed the man before he could and provoked Li Wuyai into a furious attack. Their powerful techniques collided, leaving both men wounded and forced to sit down to disperse the qi raging inside them.

• Li Wuyai pursued the crew-cut man until he revealed an opening and attacked with a blood-red claw strike.
• Li Wuyai countered with Yang Flame Triple Strike, burning the crew-cut man and preparing to absorb his Inner Force with the Xuanming Divine Art.
• Li Changfeng killed the crew-cut man with a Flying Dagger of Li before Li Wuyai could absorb him, enraging Li Wuyai.
• Li Wuyai attacked Li Changfeng with Blazing Fire Melts Gold, and Li Changfeng countered with Five Swords United as One.
• Li Changfeng and Li Wuyai's attacks collided in a massive explosion, leaving both injured and sitting down to disperse the qi inside them.

Juehai fought the burly man after their allies had defeated their opponents, and the two clashed with powerful martial arts. Juehai unleashed the newly learned Wrath of the Wind God, killing the burly man and ending the battle.

• Juehai and the burly man launched their strongest attacks, but their first two clashes left them evenly matched and injured.
• Juehai used the Thousand Hand Tathagata Palm while the burly man countered with the Blood Tiger Demon Fist, and both were blasted backward coughing blood.
• Juehai unleashed Thousand Leaf Tathagata, while the burly man used Blood Tiger Three Forms to break through the palm attack.
• The burly man transformed into a giant blood tiger and lunged to swallow Juehai, prompting the Shaolin disciples to cry out in warning.
• Juehai used Wrath of the Wind God, and his Wind God phantom shattered the blood tiger and killed the burly man.

Princess Minmin defeated the last and strongest Blood Demon after overpowering his feather-blade attacks and destroying his blood eagle phantoms. She killed him by draining his cultivation, then ordered everyone to rest before moving out.

• The red-haired Blood Demon transformed and launched a storm of sharp feathers at Princess Minmin, who countered with Mount Song Swordplay.
• The red-haired man tried to flee but found Princess Minmin's sword qi locking onto him, so he attacked with nine blood eagle phantoms.
• Princess Minmin used Nine Yin Skeleton Claw to shatter the phantoms and freeze the red-haired man's true body.
• Princess Minmin drained the red-haired man's cultivation, killing him, then ordered the others to rest before moving out.
• Li Changfeng remarked that Princess Minmin's strength was becoming increasingly terrifying.

After the group entered a sinister passage, elusive Little Ghosts abducted several disciples until Li Changfeng caught one and destroyed it. Juehai identified the creatures and their Soul-Snatching Incense, and suspected the Ghost King Sect was controlling them.

• The group opened a hidden door behind the Blood Pool and entered a chilling passage, where Li Changfeng noticed an unseen presence.
• Li Wuyai secretly poisoned a Free and Unfettered Sect disciple who had opened the door.
• Little Ghosts vanished with several disciples, prompting Princess Minmin to organize the survivors and Juehai to advise them to gather true energy in their eyes.
• Li Changfeng spotted a Little Ghost dragging a woman away and used Telekinetic Capture to pull them back, destroying the ghost with his Buddhist martial technique.
• Li Changfeng found and lit Soul-Snatching Incense before Juehai identified it and suspected the Ghost King Sect was behind the abductions.

Li Changfeng’s group tracked the kidnappers while Princess Minmin let herself be captured to expose the masterminds. She confronted the Six Ghosts of the Ghost King Sect, severed one attacker’s arm, and crushed the Fifth Ghost with a powerful palm strike.

• The Six Ghosts of the Ghost King Sect released five little ghosts to abduct Li Changfeng’s companions, while Princess Minmin pretended to be knocked unconscious.
• Li Changfeng realized Princess Minmin had left clues and led the others after the silver powder she dropped.
• The little ghosts delivered Princess Minmin and the other captives to the Six Ghosts, and Princess Minmin woke and severed the Sixth Ghost’s arm.
• Princess Minmin attacked the Six Ghosts with the Mount Song Sword Art and forced them to retreat.
• The Fifth Ghost struck with Ghostly Wail, but Princess Minmin broke his attack with Songyang Heavenly River and left him near death.

Princess Minmin fought six Ghost King Sect members who repeatedly healed by absorbing yin energy until Li Changfeng, Juehai, and the other sect disciples arrived to help. Li Changfeng and Juehai purified the yin energy, allowing Princess Minmin to kill two of the ghosts with her Nine Yin Skeleton Claw, while four remained.

• The six Ghost King Sect members healed their wounds with yin energy and attacked Princess Minmin, who met them with Mount Song Swordplay.
• The six ghosts recovered again, revealing their ability to heal repeatedly as Princess Minmin held them off.
• Li Changfeng and the other sect disciples followed the silver powder trail to the battlefield, and Li Changfeng identified the attackers as Ghost King Sect members.
• Li Changfeng struck the ghosts with Vajra Subdues Demons, while Juehai used Buddhist power to purify the surrounding yin energy.
• Princess Minmin used Floating Bones to freeze and kill two of the six ghosts.

Li Wuyai trapped Li Changfeng inside a collapsing cave and left everyone believing he had died. Juehai confronted Li Wuyai, and their battle ended with both combatants wounded and still standing.

• As the passage collapsed, Li Wuyai struck Li Changfeng and escaped, while falling boulders sealed the exit with Li Changfeng inside.
• Juehai, Golden Arhat, and Dong Tianbao turned on Li Wuyai, but Juehai told the others to stay back because of Li Wuyai’s poison arts.
• Juehai and Li Wuyai clashed, and Juehai accused him of ambushing Jue Kong and framing Li Changfeng.
• Princess Minmin declined to stop the fight after Zuo Kangcheng asked whether they should intervene.
• Juehai and Li Wuyai unleashed powerful palm techniques against each other, were blasted back, and suppressed the opposing forces inside them.

Juehai fought Li Wuyai after Li Wuyai turned on and killed the Free and Unfettered Sect disciples, and both men were badly injured before Li Wuyai fled. Meanwhile, Li Changfeng woke in a sealed underground cave and began searching for a way out.

• Princess Minmin refused to help Li Wuyai, and the other groups distanced themselves from the Free and Unfettered Sect.
• Li Wuyai poisoned the Free and Unfettered Sect disciples, drained their Inner Force, and killed them.
• Li Wuyai attacked Juehai with the Tianshan Six Yang Palm, while Juehai countered with the Heavenly Intent Four Symbols Art.
• The clash severely injured both fighters; Li Wuyai fled, and Juehai sat down to disperse the scorching true qi in his body.
• Li Changfeng woke in a sealed cave, drank from its pool, and washed himself.

Li Changfeng found Xiao Yuanfeng’s remains, became his disciple, and received the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms and an Innate Core. After Xiao Yuanfeng’s soul fragment vanished, the system revealed that the demon in Despair Valley was still alive and unlocked a new cultivation function, leaving Li Changfeng to prepare to grow stronger before seeking revenge.

• Li Changfeng read the inscriptions describing how Xiao Yuanfeng and Abbot Du'nan had suppressed the Tusked Demon, then knelt and bowed to accept Xiao Yuanfeng as his disciple.
• Xiao Yuanfeng’s soul fragment appeared, praised Li Changfeng’s Draconic Elephant Prajna, and warned him about cultivation deviation at the thirteenth level.
• Xiao Yuanfeng passed the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms to Li Changfeng and told him to take the Storage Ring and keep the Innate Core safe.
• Xiao Yuanfeng vanished after saying farewell, and Li Changfeng mourned his departure.
• The system rewarded Li Changfeng for completing his main quest, assigned new quests involving the evil path and the demon, and unlocked a function that exchanged 100 Cultivation Points for a year of cultivation.
• Li Changfeng checked his status and decided to use his 100 Cultivation Points to strengthen himself before taking revenge.

Inside the cultivation system, Li Changfeng trained his martial skills against attacks reflected by the chaotic walls and advanced Draconic Elephant Prajna to its sixth level. He emerged confident he could kill Li Wuyai, but doubted he could defeat Princess Minmin without a cultivation method of equal level.

• Li Changfeng spent his Experience Points, then trained his martial skills and Draconic Elephant Prajna inside the system space.
• After a month, Li Changfeng raised Vajra Leg of Immense Power, Shaolin Dragon Grasp, and Returning Dragon Eighteen Swords to mastery and used the chaotic walls' reflected attacks to train further.
• Three months later, Li Changfeng perfected Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand and Vajra Palm of Immense Strength, and said he was confident he could defeat Li Wuyai.
• After more than seven months of practice, Li Changfeng reached the beginner level of Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms, but a reflected palm strike injured him.
• Li Changfeng used his last five Greater Revitalizing Pills to open his seventh meridian and break through Draconic Elephant Prajna to the sixth level.
• Li Changfeng concluded he could now kill Li Wuyai but might still be unable to defeat Princess Minmin, checked the increased Experience Point requirements, and prepared to leave the system space.

Li Changfeng escaped the sealed cave by swimming through an underwater passage and emerged in a lake beneath a waterfall. Meanwhile, Princess Minmin and Juehai led their group through a Mass Burial Ground, where Juehai opened a path through the attacking corpses.

• Li Changfeng used the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms to smash the blocked exit, but falling rocks sealed it again and threatened to collapse the cave.
• Li Changfeng ate fish from the pool, then dived into it and followed a distant light through an underwater passage until he surfaced beneath a waterfall.
• Princess Minmin warned her group to prepare for battle as they entered the Mass Burial Ground, where corpse hands dragged a disciple underground and tore him apart.
• Juehai urged the group to hurry through the graveyard as rotten corpses rose and attacked them from above and below.
• Juehai unleashed the Thousand Hand Tathagata Palm to destroy the corpses and clear a path, allowing the group to rush ahead.

Princess Minmin and Juehai helped the group survive waves of corpses and zombies, but ten powerful Corpse Kings appeared and left everyone despairing over their chances of passing the trial.

• Princess Minmin used Mount Song Swordplay’s Myriad Mountains Pay Homage to clear a path through the rotting corpses, and the group reached a field covered in coffins.
• Zombies burst from the coffins and attacked, tearing apart disciples and healing by devouring them as the group fought back.
• Juehai unleashed Thousand Leaf Tathagata, crushing most of the zombies and using withering true qi to stop their regeneration and drive them away.
• Princess Minmin warned the group not to celebrate, and Juehai agreed that they had to proceed cautiously.
• Ten white-furred Corpse Kings appeared, slaughtered the other zombies, and made Juehai and Princess Minmin fear that the group could not overcome the trial.

Princess Minmin and Juehai fought the ten-headed corpse kings so the others could escape, but one corpse king broke away to slaughter the fleeing group. Juehai intercepted it and struck it down with the Wrath of the Wind God, though he was left exhausted as the remaining kings still threatened Princess Minmin.

• The ten-headed corpse kings charged Princess Minmin and Juehai while Zhou Zhiruo insisted that Senior Brother Jue Kong might still be alive.
• Princess Minmin froze the attacking kings with Nine Nether Chill Blades, and Juehai followed with Thousand Leaf Tathagata, burying them beneath a barrage of golden palms.
• Nine Nine-Headed Corpse Kings emerged from the ground as the tenth attacked the fleeing group and killed a third of them.
• Princess Minmin stayed behind to face the nine kings while Juehai pursued the tenth and tried to hold it with Telekinetic Capture.
• The tenth Corpse King broke free and attacked Juehai, who answered with Wrath of the Wind God and blasted it into a crater, shattering its bones.

Juehai and Princess Minmin fought off the Corpse King and the Nine-Headed Corpse King, then escaped with the survivors. The group argued over whether to leave Despair Valley or continue searching for the grandmasters, and Princess Minmin allowed anyone who wished to leave to go on their own.

• Juehai struck the Corpse King with Fierce-Eyed Vajra, burned it badly, and drove it away before exhausting his true energy.
• Princess Minmin froze the Nine-Headed Corpse King with Absolute Yin White Bone Dragon and fled with Juehai before it could break free.
• The Nine-Headed Corpse King shattered its ice prison after the group escaped, but remained severely injured while its body slowly regenerated.
• Juehai and Princess Minmin reunited with the survivors, who mourned their losses and argued over whether to retreat or seek the grandmasters.
• Princess Minmin subdued an Azure City Sect disciple who challenged her, then told anyone who wanted to leave that they could go, provided they did not disrupt morale.

Li Changfeng encountered a severely wounded Corpse King at a mass burial ground and defeated it with his martial arts, taking its inner core. He suspected Princess Minmin and her group had injured it and followed their route to catch up with them.

• Li Changfeng followed a blood stench to a mass burial ground filled with corpses and black blood.
• A Corpse King ambushed Li Changfeng, who knocked it away with the first form of the Vajra Palm of Immense Strength.
• Li Changfeng struck the injured Corpse King with the second form of the Vajra Palm of Immense Strength, reopening its wounds and sending it fleeing.
• Li Changfeng used the Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand to tear out the Corpse King's inner core, causing its body to vanish.
• Li Changfeng stored the Corpse Pill and concluded that Princess Minmin and her group had wounded the Corpse King, then followed their trail.

Li Changfeng discovered a Nine-Headed Corpse King feeding on corpses in the Mass Burial Ground and launched a fierce battle against it. He destroyed eight of its bodies and, exhausted, approached the last surviving Corpse King to take its Corpse Pill.

• Li Changfeng fought off corpses in the Mass Burial Ground and found the Nine-Headed Corpse King devouring flesh and blood.
• Li Changfeng struck the Nine-Headed Corpse King with Vajra Body Empowerment, but it survived and charged him with nine claw attacks.
• Li Changfeng used Moving Mountains and Overturning Seas to seize the Nine-Headed Corpse King's claws and smash it into the ground.
• The Nine-Headed Corpse King merged into a storm, but Li Changfeng scattered it with Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens and pierced through its nine parts with Flying Dragon in the Sky.
• Li Changfeng shattered eight Corpse Kings, then dug the Corpse Pill from the dying survivor after his strength was nearly spent.

After resting from his battle, Li Changfeng left the Corpse Pill in his Storage Ring while the sealed figure beneath Despair Valley realized its pets had been killed and planned to use the sacrifices to escape. Princess Minmin and the others joined the Grandmasters’ fight against the evil-path disciples, turning the battle into a rout before the survivors rallied for one last stand.

• Li Changfeng put the Corpse Pill into his Storage Ring and collapsed to recover his strength.
• The sealed figure beneath Despair Valley discovered its ten pets had died and decided to wait for enough sacrifices to force out part of its remnant soul.
• Princess Minmin led her group to the battlefield, where they joined the Grandmasters against the evil-path disciples.
• Princess Minmin killed the leading Corpse Refining Sect elder with Floating Bones, and Juehai, Golden Arhat, and Dong Tianbao unleashed powerful attacks that slaughtered many enemies.
• The evil-path disciples tried to flee into the blood-soaked hall, but their Grandmasters killed several deserters and forced the rest to fight.
• The evil-path disciples fought the sect disciples to a standstill for a time, though their remaining forces were doomed without their top experts.