Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan returned to Marquis Fuhai’s Estate with the Northern Flood Dragon Heavy Cavalry, while Qin Yang learned that steward Li Chen might be Black Fish Tower’s foremost tower master. That night, a mysterious attacker killed Wu Hai, Wu Qian, and other members of the Wu Lineage, leaving their heads hanging from a tree.

• Qi Yuan arrived at Marquis Fuhai’s Estate with nearly a thousand Northern Flood Dragon Heavy Cavalrymen, and the estate’s people welcomed him as the late marquis’s grandson.
• Leng Cang told Qin Yang that Qi Yuan was a formidable veteran of the border and warned him that steward Li Chen might be Black Fish Tower’s foremost tower master.
• Qin Yang cultivated through the estate’s noisy three-night funeral rites as Wu Hai suffered from his injuries in another courtyard.
• A rain-soaked figure entered Wu Hai’s room, revealed himself as Wu Qian, and bit Wu Hai’s neck after his head slid from his body.
• Wu Hai and Wu Qian emerged from the room and went to knock on another door in the rainy night.
• Qin Yang, Leng Cang, Ma Cheng, and Zhou Dingtian investigated a scream and found more than a dozen severed heads hanging from a tree, including Wu Hai’s and Wu Qian’s.

After the Wu family members were found beheaded and hanging from a tree, Leng Cang suspected an evil entity had killed them, while Qin Yang noticed strange footprints. The next day, Qin Yang explored Marquis Fuhai's Estate and suddenly attacked Li Changkong when they crossed paths.

• A maid found the Wu family's heads hanging in the garden, and Li Changkong accused Qin Yang of killing them.
• Leng Cang and Qin Yang examined the scene and found bite marks and heavy footprints, leading Leng Cang to suspect an evil entity had made the victims hang their own heads.
• Li Chen refused to let the Sky Patrol Division investigate the estate, and Leng Cang later told Qin Yang and the others that a powerful Spirit Master might be behind the killings.
• The next day, Qin Yang wandered through Marquis Fuhai's Estate, encountered patrols blocking several areas, and secretly memorized the forbidden locations.
• Qin Yang ran into Li Changkong and suddenly struck at his head with an elbow, which Li Changkong blocked with both hands.

Qin Yang fought Li Changkong at Marquis Fuhai's Estate until Young Marquis Qi Yuan stopped them. While the two sides were sent away, Ma Cheng investigated the eerie Mourning Hall and returned to find a redwood coffin and white-clothed figures waiting in his room.

• Qin Yang and Li Changkong exchanged blows, and Qin Yang fought off the Li family members who joined the attack.
• Qi Yuan intervened, ordered Qin Yang and Li Changkong to stop fighting, and sent them away after neither side admitted fault.
• Ma Cheng slipped toward the Mourning Hall and watched the white-clothed Sorcerers perform identical, mechanical rituals around a redwood coffin.
• More than a dozen figures in mourning clothes and White Tall Hats appeared behind Ma Cheng, but let him escape back to his courtyard.
• Ma Cheng opened his room door and saw a redwood coffin surrounded by the strange figures, who raised their heads to look at him.

After Leng Cang and Zhou Dingtian vanished from their rooms, Qin Yang discovered Marquis Fuhai's Estate had become a perilous, maze-like domain filled with evil beings. He killed an impostor posing as Zhou Dingtian and encountered Li Changkong, who attacked him to avenge his son.

• Leng Cang reported that Ma Cheng had disappeared, then left to inform the Chief while Qin Yang and Zhou Dingtian returned to their rooms.
• Qin Yang waited for Leng Cang, but after an hour found Zhou Dingtian missing and decided to escape the estate.
• A figure claiming to be Zhou Dingtian approached Qin Yang, who recognized it as an evil thing and destroyed it with his palm.
• Qin Yang found that his route through the estate looped back to the same courtyard, then encountered Li Changkong and his remaining companions.
• Li Changkong challenged Qin Yang to avenge his son, but Qin Yang's aura suppressed Li Changkong's before he charged with his purple blade.

Qin Yang killed Li Changkong and the Li family members, then encountered Shen Sanxiu in the garden and learned that the heads hanging from the old tree belonged to people from the nine great families. After they destroyed the attacking heads, the tree began to mutate and produce another dead man’s head.

• Qin Yang activated Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and defeated Li Changkong, killing him and the remaining Li family members.
• Qin Yang returned to the garden and found dozens of heads from the nine great families hanging from the old tree.
• Shen Sanxiu arrived, and Qin Yang proposed that Marquis Fuhai had faked his death to lure the Sky Patrol Division and the nine great families into the estate as part of an evil ritual.
• The hanging heads attacked Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu, who joined forces to destroy them.
• The old tree swelled with tumors that burst open, and a dead man’s head emerged.

Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu fought the Ghost Tree after it transformed and attacked them. After they severely damaged it, Shen Yu revealed himself as the First Tower Master of Black Fish Tower and challenged Qin Yang to settle their grudges, while Shen Sanxiu remained occupied with the tree.

• The Ghost Tree grew back its heads, uprooted itself, and attacked Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu with its branches and roots.
• Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu fought back, and Qin Yang broke free from the roots before joining Shen Sanxiu in attacking the tree.
• Qin Yang punched through the Ghost Tree with Dragon Elephant: Million Mountain Crusher.
• Shen Yu ambushed Qin Yang with his Rain Flower Sword, and Qin Yang recognized him as the master of Piaoyu Mountain Villa.
• Shen Yu revealed that he was the First Tower Master of Black Fish Tower and challenged Qin Yang over the people Qin Yang had killed.
• Shen Sanxiu continued battling the Ghost Tree while Qin Yang faced Shen Yu.

Qin Yang battled Shen Yu through the rain, enduring the latter’s relentless Sword Qi before striking back with his Yin Talismans. He shattered Shen Yu’s calf and launched an Extreme Evil Heartless Slash, leaving the duel at a decisive moment.

• Shen Sanxiu fought the wounded Ghost Tree alone while Qin Yang faced Shen Yu in the garden.
• Shen Yu used his Rain Covering Origin Energy to overwhelm Qin Yang with torrential Sword Qi, but Qin Yang endured the wounds and countered his hidden attacks.
• Qin Yang activated his Yin Talismans and struck Shen Yu’s calf, shattering the bone and limiting his movement.
• Qin Yang followed up with an Extreme Evil Heartless Slash aimed at Shen Yu.

Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu killed Shen Yu and the Ghost Tree, then gathered with Zheng Yuanshi, Leng Cang, and Zhou Dingtian near the Mourning Hall. The group learned that several people had been lured away by figures resembling people they knew, while the threats around the hall remained.

• Qin Yang killed Shen Yu and joined Shen Sanxiu to destroy the Ghost Tree.
• Qin Yang and Shen Sanxiu headed toward the Mourning Hall, fighting corpses that had turned into evil entities along the way.
• Zheng Yuanshi joined them and explained that a figure resembling Tao Ning had lured him away before his lineage disappeared.
• Leng Cang emerged injured and said Monk Kunkxin had wounded him in a fight.
• Zhou Dingtian arrived covered in blood and said a shadowy figure resembling Leng Cang had lured him away.

The five survivors attacked the Mourning Hall after discovering that it was the source of the strangeness in Marquis Fuhai's Estate. Inside, they saw Li Chen sacrifice Tao Ning to a red coffin, then launched an assault that split into several battles.

• Leng Cang told the group to destroy the Mourning Hall's barrier and escape rather than fight Marquis Fuhai's Estate to the death.
• Qin Yang and Leng Cang watched through a hole as Li Chen drained Tao Ning's blood into a red coffin and threatened the survivors.
• Zhou Dingtian confronted Li Chen, and Qin Yang, Leng Cang, Shen Sanxiu, and Zheng Yuanshi burst into the Mourning Hall to attack him.
• Monk Kunkxin revealed himself and attacked Leng Cang, while Young Marquis Qi Yuan charged Shen Sanxiu and Zheng Yuanshi.
• Qin Yang drew Monk Kunkxin outside, activated Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Unrivaled Ferocity, and rushed into close combat.

Qin Yang killed Monk Kunkxin in a brutal duel, forcing Qi Yuan and Li Chen to flee with the redwood coffin. After searching Marquis Fuhai's Estate and finding no survivors, Qin Yang suspected the sacrificial ritual's secret lay beneath the Mourning Hall ruins.

• Qin Yang and Monk Kunkxin exchanged devastating attacks until Qin Yang unleashed One Thought Slash of Myriad Evils and destroyed the Ghost Buddha phantom.
• Qin Yang severed Monk Kunkxin's head as the monk attempted to enter nirvana, then swallowed a medicinal pill and approached the Mourning Hall.
• Qi Yuan collapsed the Mourning Hall, carried away the redwood coffin, and fled with Li Chen, while Leng Cang and the others chose not to pursue them.
• Shen Sanxiu explained that Qi Yuan had fled because Qin Yang killed Monk Kunkxin, shifting the balance of strength.
• Zhou Dingtian led the group to search Marquis Fuhai's Estate, but they found no survivors.
• Qin Yang returned to the Mourning Hall ruins and suggested that the ritual's secret might be hidden beneath the ground.

Qin Yang and the others discovered a hidden chamber beneath the Mourning Hall containing the missing victims and a human-skin scroll called the Other Shore Scripture. They returned to Yongning Prefecture City and found the Northern Flood Dragon Army encamped outside its gates, suggesting Qi Yuan planned to sacrifice the city’s people.

• Qin Yang broke through the floor beneath the Mourning Hall and uncovered a chamber filled with the corpses of the missing people.
• Qin Yang found a memorial tablet for Marquis Fuhai, Qi Yi, and recovered a human-skin scroll that Shen Sanxiu identified as the Other Shore Scripture.
• The group suspected the scroll was connected to a sacrificial ritual and decided to bring it back to Yongning Prefecture City for Zhao Xinmo to study.
• Qin Yang found heavy cavalry tracks leading toward Yongning Prefecture City, and the group realized Qi Yuan might be targeting the city.
• The group returned to Yongning Prefecture City and saw the Northern Flood Dragon Army camped outside its gates.
• Zhou Dingtian left to return to Tianyang Gate while Leng Cang and the others headed into the city.

Qin Yang and the others returned safely to Yongning Prefecture City while Qi Yuan led the Northern Flood Dragon Heavy Cavalry to massacre Tianyang Gate and prepare to attack the other great sects. Zhou Dingtian arrived to find the slaughter and vowed revenge against Qi Yuan and Qi Yi.

• Qin Yang and his companions split up and reached Yongning Prefecture City without encountering resistance from the Northern Flood Dragon Army camp.
• Qi Yuan led the Northern Flood Dragon Heavy Cavalry to Tianyang Gate and killed Vice Sect Master Qiao Xi with a single halberd strike.
• Qi Yuan ordered his cavalry to slaughter Tianyang Gate's disciples, then left Li Chen and a red coffin to conduct a sinister ritual among the corpses.
• Qi Yuan rode on toward Lishui Sword Sect, intending to destroy it and White Crane Temple as well.
• Zhou Dingtian arrived at Tianyang Gate, learned from Shi Lou that Qi Yuan had carried out the massacre, and swore to take revenge on Qi Yuan and Qi Yi.

After escaping Marquis Fuhai’s Estate, Qin Yang and Leng Cang returned to Yongning Prefecture City, where they revealed that Marquis Fuhai had planned to sacrifice the city’s millions of residents. As the Northern Flood Dragon Army surrounded the city, Song Yechen began gathering forces to resist, while Qin Yang recovered and prepared for the coming battle.

• Zhou Dingtian and Shi Lou headed for the Lishui Sword Sect to pursue Qi Yuan and avenge the dead.
• Qin Yang returned to Yongning Prefecture City with Zhao Xinmo and Leng Cang, then told Song Yechen that Marquis Fuhai’s death was part of a conspiracy to sacrifice the city.
• Song Yechen ordered Qin Yang and Leng Cang to recuperate and asked Qian Fangluo to summon the nine great clans to help defend Yongning City against the Northern Flood Dragon Army.
• Qin Yang treated his injuries, discovered that his Evil Flood Dragon Swallowing Fiend Blade had reached Mastery and gained the Extreme Fiend Divine Ability, and resolved to face Qi Yuan in the coming battle.
• Shen Sanxiu restored order among the clans and led their representatives to the Sky Patrol Division to discuss resisting the Northern Flood Dragon Army.

Song Yechen united Yongning Prefecture City’s factions to defend against the Northern Flood Dragon Army, while learning that Qi Yuan had destroyed three great sects. Zhao Xinmo translated the Other Shore Scripture and revealed that Qi Yi intended to turn himself into a Ghost Seed through a blood sacrifice.

• Song Yechen persuaded the lineages and factions to join forces, and they assembled an army of fifty thousand to defend the city.
• Zhou Dingtian, Sect Master Shangguan, and the Feather Sect Master reported that Qi Yuan had defeated them and destroyed their three sects.
• Song Yechen ordered the destruction of the sects kept secret to protect morale and wondered what Qi Yi intended.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang that the Other Shore Scripture described a ritual for connecting a body to the void’s power.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that Qi Yi had abandoned his plan to possess the Ghost Seed Buddha Statue and instead planned a blood sacrifice to transform himself into a Ghost Seed.

Qin Yang learned that Qi Yi planned to become a ghost seed by sacrificing Yongning City, while the Northern Flood Dragon Army began its assault. As the defenders fought back at the eastern gate, Qi Yuan personally destroyed Xuan Qian’s dice attack.

• Zhao Xinmo explained that Qi Yi used martial artists’ essence blood to prepare his body and planned to sacrifice Yongning City to the Void Heaven; he said killing Qi Yi was the simplest way to stop the ritual.
• After Zhao Xinmo translated the Other Shore Scripture, Song Yechen and the others understood Qi Yi’s plan, but the Northern Flood Dragon Army mobilized against Yongning City.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo went to the eastern gate, where Leng Cang judged that Qi Yuan would focus his attack there while the other gates faced feints.
• The Northern Flood Dragon Army charged in a single-line serpent formation, and its armor and shields blunted the defenders’ arrows.
• Xuan Qian attacked with enlarged dice, but Qi Yuan shattered them with his Flood Dragon Great Halberd, and Li Chen destroyed the few that got through.
• Xuan Qian ordered the Mystic Spirit Department’s Spirit Masters to throw their talismans.

Qi Yuan used the redwood coffin to neutralize the defenders’ attacks and charged the city gate, where he fought Qin Yang and the other defenders. He killed Shen Sanxiu with a halberd strike, then turned his full attention to Qin Yang.

• Qi Yuan raised a redwood coffin whose eerie barrier dispersed the spirit talismans and weakened incoming arrows as his army advanced toward the city gate.
• Qi Yuan pierced and warped the black iron gate with his Flood Dragon Great Halberd, prompting Song Yechen to order Qin Yang, Leng Cang, Zhou Dingtian, and Shen Sanxiu to stop him.
• Qin Yang clashed with Qi Yuan in midair, but Zhou Dingtian, Leng Cang, and Shen Sanxiu joined the fight before either could gain the upper hand.
• Qi Yuan blasted Zhou Dingtian and Leng Cang away, then pierced Shen Sanxiu’s heart with his halberd despite being struck by Shen Sanxiu’s White Jade Cut.
• Qin Yang charged Qi Yuan again and vowed to kill him before going after Qi Yi, and Qi Yuan answered with a furious halberd strike.

Qin Yang, Zhou Dingtian, and Leng Cang battled Qi Yuan while Song Yechen confronted Qi Yi, who had transformed himself into a monstrous Other Shore ghostspawn. As the Northern Flood Dragon Army assaulted Yongning Prefecture City's walls, the defenders fought to hold them back.

• Qin Yang joined forces with Zhou Dingtian and Leng Cang to fight Qi Yuan, and their battle tore a path of ruins away from the city gate.
• Song Yechen attacked the crimson coffin, but Qi Yi emerged and revealed his plan to become a ghostspawn in pursuit of immortality.
• Qi Yi transformed his body with corpse energy and crimson tentacles, forcing Song Yechen into a fierce battle.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that Qi Yi had become an Other Shore ghostspawn, while the Northern Flood Dragon Army advanced on the city walls.
• Xuan Qian called the defenders to fight as soldiers climbed the walls, and Zhao Xinmo and Xuan Qian attacked them with the Eight Trigrams Mirror and enlarged dice.

Qin Yang fought Qi Yuan after Zhou Dingtian and Leng Cang were critically wounded, killed Qi Yuan’s Flood Dragon Horse, and discovered that Qi Yuan was weaker without it. Qi Yuan then used Heaven Collapsing, Earth Splitting to knock Qin Yang down and struck him with his halberd, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Li Chen pinned Xuan Qian down with a barrage of copper coins while the other fighters battled across the city gate.
• Qi Yuan activated Black God Spiritual Treasury, killed Zhou Dingtian, and severely wounded Leng Cang as Qin Yang kept fighting him.
• Qin Yang unleashed Evil Flood Dragon Thought Slash of Myriad Evils and beheaded Qi Yuan’s Flood Dragon Horse.
• Qin Yang realized Qi Yuan had lost much of his strength without the horse and challenged him to fight on foot.
• Qi Yuan used Heaven Collapsing, Earth Splitting to disrupt Qin Yang’s footing, knocked him flying, and struck him into the ground with his halberd.

Qin Yang activated the Yin Talisman and defeated Qi Yuan in a brutal close-range fight, then learned Qi Yuan had returned to support his grandfather’s attempt to become a Source Seed. As Qin Yang joined Song Yechen against Qi Yi, Song Yechen swallowed a medicinal pill and Qin Yang saw his eyes turn fierce blue-black.

• Qin Yang used the Yin Talisman to close in on Qi Yuan and battered him with a relentless barrage of heavy blows.
• Qin Yang struck Qi Yuan down with a Dragon Elephant Mountain Crusher, then beheaded him after Qi Yuan asked to be buried with the Flood Dragon Horse.
• Qin Yang confronted Qi Yi over Qi Yuan’s death, but Qi Yi said he could revive his grandson after becoming a Source Seed.
• Qi Yi revealed a fleshy flower bud in his abdomen that nearly tore off Song Yechen’s wrist, and Qin Yang cut several of Qi Yi’s tentacles to give Song Yechen room to retreat.
• Qin Yang fought Qi Yi while badly injured, and Song Yechen swallowed a medicinal pill before Qin Yang saw his eyes turn blue-black.

Qin Yang, Song Yechen, and their allies defeated the Northern Flood Dragon Army’s rebellion, but Song Yechen and Qi Yi died in their final clash. Half a month later, Qin Yang had recovered and become Deputy Division Chief of the Yongning Sky Patrol Division as Leng Cang prepared to escort Song Yechen’s coffin to his hometown.

• Song Yechen used a Soul Burning Pill to reach the Half-step Martial Saint realm, and Qin Yang unleashed his hidden Suppress Evil power to cut through Qi Yi’s tentacles.
• Song Yechen killed Qi Yi with Azure Tiger Tears Heaven, but Qi Yi’s tentacles fatally wounded Song Yechen, and both fell.
• Xuan Qian killed Li Chen, and the Northern Flood Dragon Army collapsed after losing Qi Yi, though its soldiers fought to the end.
• The Sky Patrol Division and the great aristocratic clans suffered catastrophic losses, and Xuan Qian stepped in to stabilize Yongning Prefecture City.
• After half a month of recovery, Qin Yang learned he had become Deputy Division Chief of the Yongning Sky Patrol Division as Leng Cang departed to escort Song Yechen’s coffin and report to the Imperial City Sky Patrol Division.