Chapter Summaries

Su Shi'er discovered that Zuo Jun's Tai Chi Profound Shield diverted attacks within its thirty-meter domain, then summoned the Lustful Demonic Beings to weaken and distract him. The chapter ended with Zuo Jun momentarily losing himself in their seductive illusion.

• Zuo Jun's Tai Chi Profound Shield slowed Su Shi'er's swords and diverted his attacks, while its force redirected the Ice Soul Spiders' cold mist toward him.
• Su Shi'er used the Blood Ravine Yin Wind Sphere to reveal the Tai Chi energy domain and realized that overwhelming force was needed to break it.
• Zuo Jun explained his confidence in the shield and fought to prove himself the strongest Foundation Establishment cultivator so he could repair his state of mind and form his Golden Core.
• Su Shi'er summoned the five pairs of Lustful Demonic Beings from the Myriad Soul Banner and sent them to drain Zuo Jun's true essence.
• The Lustful Demonic Beings enveloped Zuo Jun in an illusion of a scenic valley and seductive figures, briefly distracting him.

Su Shi'er defeated Zuo Jun by letting the Lustful Demonic Beings drain his True Yuan while Zuo Jun pretended to be seduced. After Zuo Jun died and his remnant soul was devoured, the Evil Path Alliance’s leaders turned their attention toward Su Shi'er.

• Zuo Jun pretended to fall for the Lustful Demonic Beings’ seduction and used the opening to attack Su Shi'er with the Gentleman Sword and Tai Chi Profound Shield.
• Su Shi'er blocked the Gentleman Sword with the Rock Shield and kept striking Zuo Jun, whose True Yuan had been secretly drained by the Lustful Demonic Beings.
• Zuo Jun tried to flee when his True Yuan ran low, but Su Shi'er pierced his heart and burned his body with a Fire Element Technique.
• Zuo Jun’s remnant soul escaped the flames, but the Lustful Demonic Beings split it apart and devoured it before returning to the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Su Shi'er retrieved Zuo Jun’s belongings as Tan Fengchen, True Lord Xuan Tong, and other Evil Path Alliance Golden Core Experts fixed their killing intent on him.

Su Shi'er narrowly survived the Evil Path Alliance's Golden Core attacks when the Righteous Path Alliance intervened, but True Lord Xuan Tong sent a Flying Wheel after him. Su Shi'er lured it into Bibo Lake, only for it to emerge stronger, and a tremendous crash shook the earth just as it was about to strike him.

• Su Shi'er was immobilized by the Golden Core experts' attacks until Ren Yunzong, Leng Buyi, and the other Righteous Path Alliance cultivators intercepted them.
• True Lord Xuan Tong taunted Ren Yunzong and sent a Flying Wheel toward Su Shi'er.
• Su Shi'er fled on his sword and dodged the Flying Wheel by luring it into Bibo Lake.
• The Flying Wheel emerged from the lake with greater power while True Lord Xuan Tong kept Ren Yunzong from rescuing Su Shi'er.
• A tremendous crash rang out and the earth shook as the Flying Wheel closed in on Su Shi'er.

The Thousand Year Strike began emerging ahead of schedule after True Lord Xuan Tong’s attack on Su Shi’er was diverted into Bibo Lake. As the rival factions prepared to seize it, the Golden Core Experts considered sending Su Shi’er to retrieve it, leaving Ren Yunzong to accept the plan’s danger.

• The Thousand Year Strike’s emergence drained Bibo Lake and forced the fighting cultivators to withdraw to opposite sides.
• True Lord Xuan Tong and the other Golden Core Experts returned to the lake, where Ren Yunzong said Xuan Tong’s diverted strike had triggered the early emergence.
• Jiang Wushe judged the early emergence plausible, while Ren Yunzong said the Thousand Year Strike would take at least half a day to surface and Shen Miaoyin might hasten the formation.
• Monk Sanjie proposed that Su Shi’er could be crucial to securing the Thousand Year Strike, and Leng Buyi suggested he retrieve it while the Golden Core Experts held off their enemies.
• Ren Yunzong accepted that Su Shi’er would take the risk and told the others that the plan’s success depended on them.

As the Thousand Year Strike neared its emergence, the Righteous Path Alliance assigned Su Shi'er to seize it, while the Evil Path Alliance devised its own plan. The opposing sides waited for the treasure as Su Shi'er faced danger and the alliance leaders agreed to share it if they captured it.

• Lu Mingshi worried about Su Shi'er's dangerous role but resolved to protect him during the coming battle.
• The Righteous Path Alliance prepared to seize the Thousand Year Strike, with Ren Yunzong secretly ordering Su Shi'er to take charge of it.
• Tan Fengchen proposed killing Su Shi'er first, but True Lord Xuan Tong told him to wait and revealed that his Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel concealed hidden power.
• True Lord Xuan Tong proposed that the Evil Path Alliance jointly hold the Thousand Year Strike with the Righteous Path Alliance, and Tan Fengchen agreed while remaining wary of him.
• Su Shi'er sensed the Evil Path cultivators' killing intent, prepared to flee, and decided to wait before abandoning his task.

The Thousand Year Strike emerged from Bibo Lake as a five-colored sphere before revealing itself as a pale azure flying sword, prompting the Golden Core Experts to clash for the Seventh-grade Magic Treasure. Su Shi'er resisted the sword’s surrounding wind spirals and moved to secure it for the Righteous Path Alliance.

• At sunrise, the water pillar above Bibo Lake collapsed, and the Thousand Year Strike rose from the mist inside a five-colored sphere.
• The sphere dispersed to reveal a three-foot pale azure flying sword, and the Golden Core Experts launched into battle across ten battlefields.
• Su Shi'er judged that he could not safely control the treasure and put aside his desire to claim it for himself.
• Su Shi'er flew toward the Thousand Year Strike to seize it for the Righteous Path Alliance and struck its wind spirals with the Tai'a Seven Star Sword.

Su Shi'er tried to seize the Thousand Year Strike while True Lord Xuan Tong fought Ren Yunzong, but Xuan Tong’s Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel ambushed him. Su Shi'er destroyed the wheel with the Thousand Year Strike and survived, then turned to recover the treasure.

• Su Shi'er cautiously tried to pull the Thousand Year Strike free with his fly whisk as the Tai'a Seven Star Sword dispersed the gale around it.
• True Lord Xuan Tong’s Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel burst from Bibo Lake and attacked Su Shi'er, overpowering the Tai'a Seven Star Sword.
• Su Shi'er swung the Thousand Year Strike into the wheel, knocking it back, but the wheel sent blood-colored blades into his fly whisk and redirected the sword toward him.
• Su Shi'er used the Rock Shield to blunt the Thousand Year Strike, then drew the Crimson Cloud Bow and launched the sword at the pursuing wheel.
• The Thousand Year Strike split the Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel, releasing a wisp of blood-colored mist as Su Shi'er recovered his True Yuan and prepared to retrieve the treasure.

Su Shi'er destroyed True Lord Xuan Tong’s Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel, provoking a deadly attack that Ren Yunzong and Shen Miaoyin stopped in time. The Righteous Path Alliance regrouped at the fourth peak with Thousand Year Strike, mourned a fallen Mist Hidden Sect member, and prepared to activate the formation.

• Su Shi'er used his damaged whisk to destroy True Lord Xuan Tong’s Blood Moon Soul Devouring Wheel and sent Thousand Year Strike toward the fourth peak.
• True Lord Xuan Tong attacked Su Shi'er, while Ren Yunzong broke through his Blood Light Shield with the Qi Tian Sword and wounded him.
• Shen Miaoyin blocked Xuan Tong’s palm strike with her three flying swords, then carried Su Shi'er and Thousand Year Strike to the summit of the fourth peak.
• Ren Yunzong called the others back to the summit, where the surviving Mist Hidden Sect members revealed that Song had died in battle.
• Leng Buyi urged the group to activate Thousand Year Strike, and Ren Yunzong led five people toward the center of the summit formation.

The summit battle resumed as Shen Miaoyin and the others held off the Evil Path Alliance while Ren Yunzong and four companions began activating the Five Aggregates Spirit Gathering Formation. The Thousand Year Strike rose slightly as they linked their Divine Senses, while Su Shi'er hid nearby amid the fighting.

• Tan Fengchen challenged Jiang Wushe, but Shen Miaoyin intervened and began fighting Huo Yuanfeng with ice swords.
• The Evil Path Alliance attacked, and Shen Miaoyin, Lu Mingshi, Shen Luoyan, the Mist Hidden Sect's remaining Golden Core expert, and an elderly woman engaged the enemy cultivators.
• Ren Yunzong entered the formation and explained that five cultivators had to channel their Divine Senses into the Thousand Year Strike without withdrawing abruptly.
• Jiang Wushe, Monk Sanjie, Yun Wuxia, and Leng Buyi took the other circles as Ren Yunzong infused the blade with spiritual energy from a top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Ren Yunzong and the others sent their Divine Senses into the Thousand Year Strike, making it tremble and rise three inches.
• Su Shi'er hid behind a boulder and suppressed his aura to avoid being targeted by the Evil Path Alliance.

The Thousand Year Strike’s rising power trapped the Evil Path Alliance under crushing pressure, while True Lord Xuan Tong waited for his hidden pawn to act. Monk Sanjie was exposed as a half-Buddha, half-demon traitor, leaving Ren Yunzong and the others scrambling to withdraw their divine senses.

• True Lord Xuan Tong sent a wounded Golden Pill Cultivator to attack the Righteous Path Alliance’s Foundation Establishment cultivators while Tan Fengchen watched warily.
• The Thousand Year Strike rose into the sky, spreading immense pressure that killed several weaker Evil Cultivators and threw the Evil Path Alliance into chaos.
• Tan Fengchen accused True Lord Xuan Tong of plotting to sacrifice them and began to retreat, but Xuan Tong called on Monk Sanjie to act.
• Monk Sanjie denied serving the Evil Path and urged the others to ignore Xuan Tong’s accusation, but red beams revealed the Demonic Qi hidden within him.
• Ren Yunzong recognized that Monk Sanjie had fallen into demonic ways and ordered everyone to withdraw their divine senses as Sanjie began laughing grotesquely.

Monk Sanjie betrayed the Righteous Path Alliance, using the linked divine senses and his demonic aura to grievously injure Ren Yunzong and the others as the Thousand Year Strike fell. With the alliances’ cultivators rushing to claim the treasure, Monk Sanjie reached it first, while Su Shi'er tried to slip away.

• Monk Sanjie withdrew his divine sense through the Five Aggregates Spirit Gathering Formation, inflicting backlash on himself and Ren Yunzong and the other three before battering them with demonic aura.
• Ren Yunzong and Leng Buyi suffered life-threatening injuries, and the Thousand Year Strike fell as its spiritual energy dispersed.
• True Lord Xuan Tong and Tan Fengchen rushed toward the treasure while Shen Miaoyin and her companions tried to aid Ren Yunzong, held back by the Evil Path Alliance’s Golden Core cultivators.
• Su Shi'er realized Monk Sanjie had been scheming to seize the Thousand Year Strike and began retreating so he could warn others and save whoever he could.
• Monk Sanjie reached the Thousand Year Strike ahead of True Lord Xuan Tong and Tan Fengchen and reached out to seize it.

Ren Yunzong drove Monk Sanjie away from the Thousand Year Strike and sent it to Su Shi'er, then self-immolated his Golden Core to hold off three enemies. He ordered Su Shi'er, Jiang Wushe, Leng Buyi, and the other cultivators to escape while he faced the attackers.

• Ren Yunzong's Qi Tian Sword forced Monk Sanjie to dodge, then struck the Thousand Year Strike toward Su Shi'er.
• Su Shi'er refused to take the Thousand Year Strike until Ren Yunzong ordered him to keep it and lead the Foundation Establishment cultivators in retreat.
• True Lord Xuan Tong, Tan Fengchen, and Monk Sanjie charged Su Shi'er, but Ren Yunzong blocked their attacks with his sword.
• Jiang Wushe and the others realized Ren Yunzong had begun self-immolating his Golden Core, and the three attackers hesitated rather than risk fighting him.
• Ren Yunzong urged Su Shi'er, Jiang Wushe, and Leng Buyi to evacuate the cultivators, and Leng Buyi thanked him before telling Yun Wuxia to leave.

As Ren Yunzong burned his Golden Core to hold back the Evil Path Alliance, the Righteous Path leaders tried to retreat and save their people. The enemy attacked from all sides, leaving Su Shi'er and the fleeing alliance cultivators in immediate danger.

• Leng Buyi and Yun Wuxia decided to withdraw with the Mist Concealment Sect elders, leaving Senior Sister Xie to escape on her own.
• Jiang Wushe helped the old woman break free from two Golden Core opponents, and they both retreated toward the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Moved by Ren Yunzong's sacrifice, Su Shi'er promised to devote himself to the Yun Ge Sect and fled with the Thousand Year Strike.
• True Lord Xuan Tong kept Ren Yunzong occupied while Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen pursued Su Shi'er, and two other Golden Core cultivators chased the retreating leaders.
• The Evil Path Alliance's Foundation Establishment cultivators attacked the Righteous Path Alliance, whose morale collapsed despite Han Yu, Jiang Feixue, and others urging them to fight.
• Some Righteous Path cultivators fled and were immediately targeted and killed by the Evil Path Alliance.

The Evil Path Alliance overwhelmed the Righteous Path Alliance in a one-sided battle, leaving its leaders badly injured and fighting to survive. Leng Buyi was trapped by Xi Feihu, who mocked and wounded him as Leng vowed to remember the humiliation.

• The Evil Path Alliance massacred the Righteous Path Alliance as Han Yu, Xiao Yue, and their allies fought in vain to turn the tide.
• Jiang Wushe urged the old woman to escape, but she used a lifespan-consuming strike to sever Huo Yuanfeng’s arm and carried Jiang toward the battlefield.
• An injured Evil Path Golden Core Expert ambushed Jiang Wushe and the old woman, worsening their injuries and gaining the advantage.
• Xi Feihu blocked Leng Buyi and Yun Wuxia, mocked Yun Wuxia, and proposed that she leave her sect to become his immortal companion.
• Leng Buyi’s injuries prevented him from defending himself, and Xi Feihu’s invisible attack crushed his chest as Leng vowed to remember the insult.

Yun Wuxia faced Xi Feihu alone after Leng Buyi escaped, then revealed two powerful incarnations and killed Xi Feihu. The battle ended with Xi Feihu dead and Yun Wuxia’s trump card exposed.

• Xi Feihu attacked Leng Buyi with his Flying Fox Sword, but Leng Buyi escaped using a Teleportation Talisman.
• Xi Feihu turned on Yun Wuxia and advanced while his sword surrounded her with lethal sword light.
• Yun Wuxia summoned two early-stage Golden Pill incarnations, who blocked Xi Feihu’s attack and struck back.
• Yun Wuxia’s incarnations secretly activated the Tai Ruo Sword, which pierced Xi Feihu’s dantian and shattered his Golden Core.
• Yun Wuxia’s incarnations delivered final palm strikes, destroying Xi Feihu’s body and killing him.

Yun Wuxia killed Xi Feihu but was badly injured, while Su Shi'er was trapped between Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen as they fought over the Thousand Year Strike. Su Shi'er pretended to consider their offers to buy time for Ren Yunzong, until a nearby explosion interrupted them.

• Yun Wuxia's incarnations defeated Xi Feihu, took his Storage Pouch and treasures, and returned to her body, leaving her severely injured.
• Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen confronted Su Shi'er from opposite sides, their clashing power trapping and injuring him as they contended for the Thousand Year Strike.
• Monk Sanjie accused Su Shi'er of possessing a Bodhi Flower and offered to let him go if he surrendered the Thousand Year Strike.
• Tan Fengchen promised Su Shi'er a place in the White Flame Sect as his personal disciple if he handed over the treasure, even offering to swear an oath upon his inner demons.
• Su Shi'er feigned temptation and asked for time to think, hoping Ren Yunzong would arrive, when a tremendous explosion sounded nearby.

Ren Yunzong tried to reach Su Shi'er while True Lord Xuan Tong blocked his path, and Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen attacked Su Shi'er together. At the brink of death, Su Shi'er unleashed the White Jade Buddha Beads’ Buddha Essence, which shielded him from their strikes.

• Ren Yunzong fought through his wounds and hurried toward Su Shi'er, but True Lord Xuan Tong transformed and blocked him.
• True Lord Xuan Tong urged Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen to stop stalling and join forces against Su Shi'er.
• Monk Sanjie and Tan Fengchen agreed to kill Su Shi'er first and launched simultaneous attacks that trapped him in Demonic Qi.
• Su Shi'er felt the White Jade Buddha Beads release Buddha Essence and pulled them out as their power helped him withstand the attacks.
• Su Shi'er chanted the six-word mantra, causing the beads to shine with Buddhist light and block both attacks.

Su Shi'er unleashed the White Jade Buddha Beads, whose Buddha Essence suppressed the battlefield’s demonic qi and exposed Monk Sanjie’s surviving remnant soul. Monk Sanjie destroyed himself and the Outer Heavenly Demon, and Su Shi'er prepared to flee before Ren Yunzong, who had ignited his Golden Core, landed beside him.

• Su Shi'er infused the White Jade Buddha Beads with true yuan and detonated them, releasing golden light and Buddha Essence across the battlefield.
• The Buddha Essence weakened the Evil Cultivators, shattered Tan Fengchen’s attack, and briefly restored Monk Sanjie’s original remnant soul.
• Monk Sanjie chose to let the Buddha light destroy his body rather than allow the Outer Heavenly Demon to keep possessing him.
• The Outer Heavenly Demon threatened revenge before it and Monk Sanjie vanished into ashes, while the Buddha Beads shattered and left behind a sandalwood-colored bead.
• Su Shi'er collected the bead and Monk Sanjie’s Storage Pouch, swallowed medicinal pills, and prepared to escape.
• Ren Yunzong, having ignited his Golden Core, descended and landed beside Su Shi'er.

Ren Yunzong faced death after burning away his Golden Core as True Lord Xuan Tong and Tan Fengchen pursued Su Shi'er for the Thousand Year Strike. Shen Miaoyin sealed Ren Yunzong’s remaining soul in Soul Nurturing Wood, leaving the Yun Ge Sect’s future in his companions’ hands.

• True Lord Xuan Tong and Tan Fengchen caught up with Su Shi'er and the dying Ren Yunzong, but Shen Miaoyin, Lu Mingshi, and Shen Luoyan arrived and raised a defensive formation.
• The Evil Path Alliance’s Golden Core experts attacked Shen Miaoyin’s formation, but it redirected their blows, and True Lord Xuan Tong ordered them to stop and searched for its weakness.
• Ren Yunzong told his companions the battle was lost and entrusted the Yun Ge Sect, Cang Mountain, and the Thousand Year Strike to them.
• Shen Miaoyin sealed the last wisp of Ren Yunzong’s soul in Soul Nurturing Wood and gave it to Lu Mingshi, explaining that Sea Agate or Dong Hua Yi Wood could restore his soul.

As the surviving Yun Ge Sect members prepared to retreat or sacrifice themselves against the Evil Path Alliance, Su Shi'er revealed a top-grade Spirit Stone and insisted they fight to protect the sect. Shen Miaoyin urged him to leave, but Yun Wuxia arrived and offered to join their plan.

• Shen Miaoyin and Shen Luoyan chose to hold off the Evil Path Alliance while Lu Mingshi led Su Shi'er and the elders away.
• Su Shi'er revealed a top-grade Spirit Stone and proposed using it to activate the Thousand Year Strike, despite the low odds of success.
• Su Shi'er recalled the sacrifices of Ren Yunzong and Fu Boren and resolved to fight for Yun Ge Sect.
• Shen Miaoyin praised Su Shi'er's resolve but insisted that he leave with Lu Mingshi because failure would cost them too much.
• Yun Wuxia entered through Shen Miaoyin's defensive formation with a woman in yellow and asked how their chances would change if she joined them.