Chapter Summaries

Xu Chaoyang betrayed Fu Boren after pretending to reconcile, and Elder Demon Jiyin trapped Fu Boren and Su Shi'er in the Prison Lock Mad Dragon Formation. Fu Boren unleashed his mutual-destruction technique, Setting Sun Reflecting Snow, killing Xu Chaoyang as his Golden Core flew toward Su Shi'er.

• Xu Chaoyang wounded Fu Boren with his Cicada Wing Sword and revealed that he had joined the Xuan Yin Sect for power and a longer life.
• Fu Boren took Su Shi'er and tried to flee, but Elder Demon Jiyin activated the Prison Lock Mad Dragon Formation and forced them back to the ground.
• Elder Demon Jiyin attacked Fu Boren and Su Shi'er while the formation's pressure weakened them.
• Fu Boren unleashed Setting Sun Reflecting Snow, and Xu Chaoyang fled from the attack.
• Fu Boren's technique killed Xu Chaoyang, whose Golden Core flew toward Su Shi'er.

Fu Boren unleashed his life-draining sword technique, killing Xu Chaoyang and nearly killing Elder Demon Jiyin before dying himself. Su Shi'er tried to finish the wounded Elder Demon Jiyin, but a Spiritual Sense attack left him screaming and collapsed.

• Xu Chaoyang's Golden Core rushed to seize Su Shi'er's body, but Su Shi'er destroyed it with Heavenly Thunder Summon and took the Golden Core.
• Fu Boren's sword storm shattered Elder Demon Jiyin's Prison Lock Mad Dragon Formation and broke his Ying Ran Seal, leaving him gravely injured.
• Fu Boren's sword storm stopped when he could no longer sustain it, and he died after urging Su Shi'er to protect the Yun Ge Sect.
• Elder Demon Jiyin survived and sent Fire Crows toward Fu Boren's body, but Su Shi'er stopped them and launched a sword attack at him.
• Elder Demon Jiyin struck Su Shi'er with Spiritual Sense, making him scream and collapse before his sword could hit.

Su Shi'er escaped Elder Demon Jiyin’s pursuit when Lu Mingshi arrived and drove the injured Golden Core expert away with a teleportation talisman. After hearing how Fu Boren died alongside Xu Chaoyang and the Xuan Yin Sect, Lu Mingshi mourned his former close martial brother and prepared to return with Su Shi'er to inform the sect.

• Su Shi'er survived Elder Demon Jiyin’s Spiritual Sense Attack, fled with Fu Boren’s corpse, and was pursued through the air.
• Elder Demon Jiyin nearly caught Su Shi'er, but Lu Mingshi arrived and attacked him with a lightning-flickering sword.
• Elder Demon Jiyin used a rare random Teleportation Talisman to escape when he saw that Lu Mingshi had formed a Golden Core.
• Su Shi'er told Lu Mingshi that Xu Chaoyang had joined the Xuan Yin Sect and that Fu Boren had died using Setting Sun Reflecting Snow to perish with the enemy.
• Lu Mingshi mourned Fu Boren, revealed their history as former close martial brothers turned rivals, and agreed to return with Su Shi'er to notify the sect.
• Lu Mingshi said Fu Boren had come from Tian Yong City beyond Cangshan, though he did not know whether Fu Boren still had living relatives.

Lu Mingshi and Su Shi'er returned to Ren Yunzong's courtyard after discussing the coming decisive battle and the threat posed by Elder Demon Jiyin. There, they met Bai Lixuan, a Golden Core expert and head of a lineage thought to have been wiped out, as the Righteous Path Alliance prepared for war.

• Su Shi'er promised to investigate whether Martial Brother Fu had surviving relatives or descendants in Tian Yong City.
• Lu Mingshi and Su Shi'er returned to Sixth Peak and learned that Bai Lixuan and Monk Sanjie were meeting with Ren Yunzong.
• Daoist Qingfeng told them Bai Lixuan was a Golden Core expert, prompting Lu Mingshi to wonder whether the Four Great Families' destruction had concealed the truth.
• Ren Yunzong and the Shen sisters welcomed Lu Mingshi's Golden Core breakthrough, and Lu Mingshi credited Su Shi'er with bringing him a rare spiritual herb.
• Monk Sanjie celebrated the arrival of Bai Lixuan and Lu Mingshi's breakthrough as an advantage for the Righteous Path Alliance, while Lu Mingshi urged caution.

Bai Lixuan suddenly began a Golden Core self-detonation during a meeting, but Monk Sanjie contained the blast at the cost of severe injuries. The others suspected the Xuan Yin Sect had controlled Bai Lixuan, possibly with a demonic Heart Demon Seed Cultivation Technique, and left the cause and its limits uncertain.

• Lu Mingshi asked Bai Lixuan what had happened to the four great families, but Bai Lixuan began trembling before he could answer.
• Bai Lixuan’s Golden Core surged toward self-detonation, and Ren Yunzong shielded the others while Monk Sanjie used Buddhist seals to contain the blast.
• Bai Lixuan exploded into blood mist, and the blast’s backlash badly injured Monk Sanjie before Ren Yunzong helped steady him.
• Monk Sanjie’s sacrifice eased Su Shi'er’s suspicions, while the others questioned why Bai Lixuan had attacked them.
• Ren Yunzong proposed that Bai Lixuan might have been controlled by the Heart Demon Seed Cultivation Technique, and Shen Miaoyin suggested the method had limits that made a sneak attack useful.

After attacks by the Four Great Families left Golden Core cultivators dead or wounded across Cang Mountain, Ren Yunzong’s group learned that Xu Chaoyang had betrayed the Yun Ge Sect and killed Fu Boren. They waited for Monk Sanjie to report what happened at Forget Worry City as the Xuan Yin Sect’s wider scheme threatened to erase the Righteous Path Alliance’s advantage.

• Shen Luoyan warned that the patriarchs of the other northern Cang Mountain families might also have been compromised, and explosions struck the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Peaks.
• Ren Yunzong sent Qingfeng and Qingyang to investigate Shenzhu Mountain Villa and the Mist Hidden Sect while Monk Sanjie rushed to Forget Worry City.
• Su Shi'er revealed Fu Boren’s body and explained that Xu Chaoyang had killed him; Lu Mingshi cremated Fu Boren and gave Su Shi'er his ashes to take home someday.
• Qingfeng reported that the Han Family Patriarch’s Golden Core explosion killed two Golden Core cultivators at Shenzhu Mountain Villa, while Qingyang reported that the Ling Family Patriarch’s explosion killed one elder and critically injured two at the Mist Hidden Sect.
• Ren Yunzong ordered Qingfeng and Qingyang to keep the attacks secret, and the group waited for Monk Sanjie to report on Forget Worry City.
• Monk Sanjie returned to the room just after Ren Yunzong said they would wait for him.

After the Xuan Yin Sect’s attack killed Fire Cloud Duke and Yuwen, Ren Yunzong and Monk Sanjie gathered the allied forces at the fourth peak to prepare for a decisive battle. Su Shi'er spotted Yun Wuxia and Jiang Feixue among the assembled powers, while they both noticed him.

• Monk Sanjie reported that the head of the Chu Family had detonated himself, killing Fire Cloud Duke, Yuwen, and many Foundation Establishment elders.
• Ren Yunzong agreed with Monk Sanjie that the forces had to unite with the Shenzhu Mountain Villa and Mist Hidden Sect to avoid being defeated separately.
• Ren Yunzong assigned the elders and allies to gather at the fourth peak, and Monk Sanjie arranged for Forget Worry City to join them.
• Lu Mingshi and Su Shi'er led nearly three hundred Yun Ge Sect elders to the fourth peak, where the four great powers and smaller forces assembled.
• Su Shi'er recognized Yun Wuxia among the Mist Hidden Sect’s four surviving Golden Core experts, and Yun Wuxia found him familiar.
• Jiang Feixue noticed Su Shi'er and smiled at him from the Shenzhu Mountain Villa’s gathering.

Su Shi'er realized Jiang Feixue might have recognized him despite his Thousand Illusions Mask, while the Righteous Path Alliance's leaders discussed their weakening position and the exotic treasure beneath Bibo Lake. Ren Yunzong revealed that it was a rare Magical Treasure capable of helping them destroy the Evil Path Alliance, and Jiang Wushe pressed him about its origins.

• Su Shi'er suspected Jiang Feixue recognized him and concluded that his aura and appearance might undermine the Thousand Illusions Mask's disguise.
• The eleven Golden Core Experts gathered, and Jiang Wushe urged them to eliminate the Evil Path Alliance led by Xuan Yin Sect.
• Ren Yunzong said the alliance needed to hold its position for three days until the exotic treasure emerged, despite the Righteous Path Alliance's reduced strength.
• At Monk Sanjie's request, Ren Yunzong revealed that the treasure beneath Bibo Lake was a rare Magical Treasure.
• Ren Yunzong claimed the Magical Treasure beneath Yunhan's Seven Peaks could help annihilate the Evil Path Alliance, prompting Jiang Wushe to question him about its origins.

Ren Yunzong revealed that the Thousand Year Strike, a treasure nurtured beneath Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain for a thousand years, could suppress the Evil Path Alliance. He proposed that four righteous factions use it against their enemy and jointly guard it afterward, leaving its ownership to whoever first formed a Nascent Soul, while hinting that he still needed the others’ help with another matter.

• Ren Yunzong explained that the Thousand Year Strike had been created by Yun Ge Sect's ancestors and could hinder demonic cultivators within a thousand miles.
• Su Shi'er realized why Ren Yunzong had been so confident and wondered how he would keep the righteous factions from fighting over the treasure.
• Ren Yunzong said Yun Ge Sect would not claim the Thousand Year Strike alone and proposed using it against the Evil Path Alliance before sharing custody among four factions.
• Ren Yunzong proposed that the four factions seal and guard the treasure together until a righteous cultivator formed a Nascent Soul, at which point that cultivator would receive it.
• The Mist Concealment Sect, Divine Forge Manor, and Monk Sanjie supported Ren Yunzong's proposal.
• Ren Yunzong said there was another matter for which he would need the others' assistance.

Ren Yunzong explained how the factions could use the Seventh-grade Thousand Year Strike and arranged a defense while Shen Miaoyin prepared a formation to control it. The four factions took their positions as Shen Miaoyin began setting up the formation, which had to be ready before the Evil Path Alliance attacked.

• Ren Yunzong revealed that the Thousand Year Strike was a Seventh-grade Magic Treasure that required Nascent Soul-level power to activate.
• Ren Yunzong proposed using a top-grade Spirit Stone and the Five Aggregates Spirit Gathering Formation to supply the treasure with true essence and shared Divine Sense.
• Leng Buyi, Ren Yunzong, Jiang Wushe, Monk Sanjie, and Yun Wuxia agreed to provide the five cultivators who would operate the formation.
• Ren Yunzong assigned the four factions to defend the peaks for three days and protect Shen Miaoyin while she prepared the formation.
• Shen Miaoyin shrouded the fourth peak in mist and began placing Array Flags and forming Array Seals.

Ren Yunzong organized the Yun Ge Sect’s defenses as the Evil Path Alliance arrived and its Golden Pill experts began fighting the righteous sects. Ren Yunzong faced True Lord Xuan Tong’s opening attack with his own powerful sword technique, leaving their clash poised to erupt.

• Ren Yunzong assigned Su Shi'er to lead the Yun Ge Sect disciples against the enemy’s Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Su Shi'er accepted the responsibility.
• Ten Golden Pill Cultivators descended through the dark clouds, and Yun Wuxia engaged the triangular-eyed cultivator who sought revenge for Ji Feng.
• Leng Buyi challenged Tan Fengchen, while the Golden Pill experts split into nine battles around the Fourth Peak.
• True Lord Xuan Tong confronted Ren Yunzong and unleashed Blood Slaughter Three Prohibitions: Evil Samsara.
• Ren Yunzong answered with Northern Dipper Slays Evil, gathering the righteous energy of heaven and earth into his sword technique.

Su Shi'er watched Ren Yunzong and True Lord Xuan Tong demonstrate the overwhelming power of Golden Core experts, strengthening his resolve to avenge Little Stone Village. The Evil Path Alliance then arrived in overwhelming numbers, and Su Shi'er suspected the Xuan Yin Sect had spent decades spreading Evil Cultivation among Cangshan's rogue cultivators.

• Ren Yunzong's Qi Tian Sword clashed with True Lord Xuan Tong's attack, shaking the battlefield and shearing off mountaintops.
• Su Shi'er realized the gulf between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core was immense and vowed to find the Nine Bends Spirit Ginseng and Thousand Year Ganoderma before pursuing revenge.
• Nearly two thousand Evil Path Alliance cultivators, led by the Xuan Yin Sect and White Flame Sect, arrived and shocked the assembled factions with their numbers.
• Xiao Yue, Han Yu, Baili Zhuilong, and Su Ye questioned how the Evil Path Alliance had gathered so many Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Su Shi'er connected the Evil Path Alliance's strength to decades of Evil Cultivators appearing among Cangshan's rogue cultivators and recalled people such as White Bone Cultivator and the Crimson-Eyed Boy.

Su Shi'er tried to steady the outnumbered Righteous Path Alliance before the Evil Path Alliance arrived, then led the charge himself. His example drew most of the defenders into battle, while only a dozen or so fled.

• Xiao Yue warned Su Shi'er that the Righteous Path Alliance was outnumbered and its cultivators were losing morale.
• Su Shi'er urged the cultivators to fight to protect themselves and their loved ones, reminding them they only needed to delay the enemy for three days.
• Su Shi'er promised to lead from the front and protect the others' retreat if they lost, then charged the approaching Evil Path Alliance alone.
• Xiao Yue, Han Yu, Yan Guilai, Baili Zhuilong, Jiang Feixue, Jiang Feiyun, Qi Ziran, and other defenders followed Su Shi'er into the air.
• The faction leaders rallied their forces, and more than a thousand Righteous Path Alliance cultivators prepared to fight as only a dozen or so fled.

Su Shi'er led the Righteous Path Alliance into battle and devastated the Evil Path Alliance with his sword techniques. As the fighting spread, commanders Zuo Jun and Old Demon Jikang entered the fray, and Qi Ziran confronted Zuo Jun over the Gentleman Sword.

• Su Shi'er blocked attacks from more than twenty Evil Path Alliance cultivators and cut down or wounded dozens as he pressed into their ranks.
• The Righteous Path Alliance and Evil Path Alliance armies clashed in a fierce battle involving over a thousand cultivators.
• Zuo Jun identified Su Shi'er as a threat, while Old Demon Jikang unleashed black mist and vanished into the battlefield.
• Zuo Jun attacked Qi Ziran with the Gentleman Sword, but Qi Ziran blocked the strike with a Pseudo Spirit Artifact shield.
• Qi Ziran rebuked Zuo Jun for betraying his trust and prepared to reclaim the Gentleman Sword.

Zuo Jun killed Qi Ziran and forced Jiang Feiyun and Jiang Feixue back when they attacked him. Elsewhere, Su Shi'er fought through the Evil Path Alliance until a powerful, unseen enemy ambushed him, leaving him wounded but able to strike back.

• Zuo Jun defeated Qi Ziran with a hidden red attack, and Qi Ziran died despite the paired Shadow Capturing Sword’s assault.
• Jiang Feiyun and Jiang Feixue attacked Zuo Jun to avenge Qi Ziran, but he forced them back and charged at them.
• Su Shi'er defeated opponents across the battlefield, prompting the Evil Path Alliance cultivators to flee from him.
• An unseen attacker ambushed Su Shi'er with several attacks, but his Rock Shield and Blood Light Shield kept him from being hurt.
• Su Shi'er was struck in the shoulder by the attacker’s cold light, then used the Red Furnace Snow-Piercing Needles to wound the figure and drive it over three hundred meters away.

Su Shi'er fought Old Demon Jikang, using lightning to counter his defiling sword attacks, but Jikang’s hidden tactic left Su Shi'er apparently incapacitated and under attack. As Xiao Yue and Han Yu tried to protect him, Lady Ghostly Qing wounded them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Su Shi'er used the Five Thunders Orthodox Method to scatter Old Demon Jikang's black sword shadows, but Jikang changed tactics and dragged out their fight.
• Su Shi'er suddenly lost the ability to mobilize his True Yuan, fell from his sword, and coughed up blood after secretly swallowing a pill.
• Old Demon Jikang sent the Black Bat Sword at Su Shi'er, while Xiao Yue rushed to save him and was knocked back.
• Lady Ghostly Qing wounded Xiao Yue and attacked her with a bladed whip.
• Han Yu charged in to protect Xiao Yue, but Lady Ghostly Qing deflected his spear and inflicted further wounds on him.

Su Shi'er killed Old Demon Jikang after revealing that an Earth Spirit Pill had cured the Heavenly Absolute Incense poison, then stabilized Xiao Yue and Han Yu's injuries. He pursued Lady Ghostly Qing, who defended herself with treasures and cultivators as shields while fleeing into the battlefield.

• Old Demon Jikang questioned how Su Shi'er had recovered, and Su Shi'er explained that an Earth Spirit Pill cured the poison before Jikang died.
• Su Shi'er burned Jikang's body, collected his treasures, and used healing pills and his true essence to stabilize Xiao Yue and Han Yu.
• Han Yu identified Lady Ghostly Qing as a notorious Evil Cultivator linked to the Xuan Yin Sect, and Su Shi'er charged after her.
• Xiao Yue wanted to help Su Shi'er, but Han Yu persuaded her that joining the fight would only hinder him.
• Lady Ghostly Qing blocked Su Shi'er's sword attack, tried to seduce him into sparing her, and fled behind shields, defensive talismans, and two captured cultivators.

Su Shi'er pursued and killed Lady Ghostly Qing after she failed to charm him and launched a sneak attack. After Jiang Wushe protected him from a Golden Core Expert’s counterattack, Su Shi'er spotted another battle nearby and unleashed the Heavenly Sword move.

• Su Shi'er caught up with the fleeing Lady Ghostly Qing and rejected her offer to follow him, resisting her Wedding Dress Charm Technique.
• Lady Ghostly Qing bound Su Shi'er's sword with her whip and concealed a Blood-colored Flying Sword attack in the black mist.
• Su Shi'er used the Heavenly Sword move to shatter Lady Ghostly Qing's Mid-grade Spirit Artifact and cut her down.
• Jiang Wushe blocked a Golden Core Expert's attack on Su Shi'er and knocked the expert back while defending the master of Divine Forge Manor.
• Su Shi'er burned Lady Ghostly Qing's body, collected her Storage Pouch and treasures, then spotted a nearby battle and struck with the Heavenly Sword move.

Su Shi'er arrived just in time to save Jiang Feiyun, Jiang Feixue, Baili Zhuilong, Yan Guilai, and the Mist Concealment Sect expert from Zuo Jun's attacks. After learning that Zuo Jun had killed Qi Ziran, Su Shi'er faced him alone and prepared to fight.

• Jiang Feiyun, Jiang Feixue, Baili Zhuilong, Yan Guilai, and the Mist Concealment Sect expert fought Zuo Jun but suffered heavy injuries.
• Zuo Jun attacked the five with the Gentleman Sword and a hidden red treasure, wounding Baili Zhuilong and nearly striking Jiang Feiyun and Jiang Feixue.
• Su Shi'er arrived and used Neither-Knife-Nor-Sword to repel the red treasure and disperse Zuo Jun's sword light.
• Su Shi'er told Jiang Feixue and the others to treat their injuries, and they withdrew from the battle zone.
• Jiang Feixue told Jiang Feiyun that Su Shi'er was one of her closest friends, while Baili Zhuilong and Yan Guilai urged them to trust his strength.
• Su Shi'er told Zuo Jun that he would not let him leave alive for killing Qi Ziran, then gathered power with the Tai'a Seven Star Sword.

Su Shi'er fought Zuo Jun and discovered that his red thread-like Blood Spirit Worms could be slowed and captured with extreme cold. He trapped the worms in his Spirit Beast Bag, but Zuo Jun continued his attack.

• Su Shi'er attacked Zuo Jun with his merged swords, but Zuo Jun’s technique slowed them and his two red lights pierced Su Shi'er's shoulders.
• Su Shi'er used the Heavenly Eye Technique to study the red lights and suspected they were living creatures vulnerable to cold.
• Su Shi'er summoned his Ice Soul Spiders, whose frigid breath froze the red lights and revealed them to be Blood Spirit Worms.
• Su Shi'er put the frozen Blood Spirit Worms in his Spirit Beast Bag and kept them surrounded by the spiders’ cold air.
• Zuo Jun saw that his secret weapon had been captured and charged Su Shi'er with his sword and a barrage of sword light.