Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang left the mountains with the Azure Ox Demon and traveled to Moon Gazing City to approach the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone. After defeating several White Sword Sect members who provoked him, he rented a courtyard in the crowded city.

• Qin Yang packed the spirit sprout, warned the Azure Ox Demon not to kill without permission, and rode it out of the mountains.
• Qin Yang and the Azure Ox Demon spent more than half a month traveling to Moon Gazing City, where crowds had gathered amid the disturbances in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• When a young White Sword Sect disciple mocked Qin Yang, the Azure Ox knocked him down and kicked away another disciple who tried to intervene.
• Elder Ou Tian confronted Qin Yang, but Qin Yang smashed his arm with a palm strike and the Azure Ox trampled him as they left.
• Qin Yang searched for lodging in Moon Gazing City and paid three hundred taels of silver to rent a courtyard.

Qin Yang heard reports of strange activity in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, then followed the city’s martial artists to its boundary after swords began trembling and crying out. From afar, he witnessed a rain of sword light strike the mountains before a beastly, ghostly howl sounded and the phenomenon ended.

• Guan Nan, the young sect master of the White Sword Sect, apologized to Qin Yang and planned to deal with him later in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• Qin Yang listened as patrons in a restaurant discussed eerie sounds, ghost soldiers, and other strange signs in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• A sword cry from the forbidden zone made swords throughout the restaurant tremble, prompting Qin Yang and many others to rush toward its boundary.
• Qin Yang climbed a tree and saw dazzling white sword light rain down over the distant mountains as a beastly, ghostly howl rang out.
• The sword rain and howl stopped, leaving Qin Yang and the gathered martial artists wondering whether something inside the forbidden zone was still alive.

After strange disturbances rocked the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, holy lands gathered in Moon Gazing City and prepared a joint expedition. Qin Yang reunited with Zhao Xinmo, and they discussed how the War to Destroy Heaven may have strengthened the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique.

• Martial artists speculated about the cause of the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone’s disturbance as more people arrived, and Qin Yang left the area.
• Qin Yang heard that the Seven Stars Sect, Kasyapa Temple, and Heavenly Sword Sect had come to Moon Gazing City to investigate the forbidden zone.
• Jiang Sheng met with leaders from three holy lands, and they agreed to wait for the Void Immortal Sect before entering the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone together.
• Qin Yang met Zhao Xinmo, who planned to follow the Thousand Birds Sect’s group into the forbidden zone the next day.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo discussed the War to Destroy Heaven, and Zhao Xinmo suggested it had strengthened the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique.

Qin Yang entered the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone with the Azure Ox Demon and discovered that a curse-like illusion could make travelers believe they were turning to stone. As night fell, Wang Meng’s group stopped to find a safe place to camp.

• Zhao Xinmo and Qin Yang speculated that the sacred lands entered the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone to learn how the War to Destroy Heaven strengthened the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique.
• Jiang Sheng and leaders of the sacred lands led their forces into the forbidden zone in five groups, followed by other martial artists and Zhao Xinmo’s Thousand Birds Sect.
• Qin Yang entered with the reluctant Azure Ox Demon and headed toward the mountain range where white sword light had appeared.
• Qin Yang found a saber-wielding man turned to stone, then realized his own apparent petrification and the Azure Ox’s transformation were illusions that they could overcome by remaining calm.
• After darkness fell, Chen Qian urged Wang Meng’s five-person group to stop traveling, and Wang Meng agreed to find a safe place to rest.

Wang Meng and his companions encountered a lantern-hung temple that pursued them through the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, driving them into a deadly fight. Qin Yang met the sole apparent survivor, Chen Qian, and revealed that Chen Qian was already dead as he attacked.

• Wang Meng's group spotted a sinister temple with scarlet lanterns and fled when it appeared to follow them.
• The temple reappeared closer, then trapped the group in a bamboo forest and sent face-bearing lanterns after them.
• Wang Meng shattered the lanterns, but their flames drove him mad, and he killed one companion with his axe.
• Chen Qian struck two rangers toward Wang Meng and escaped while the remaining men fought him.
• Qin Yang met Chen Qian, who claimed a temple had killed his companions and was chasing him.
• Qin Yang pointed out that Chen Qian's heart was missing, and Chen Qian, convinced Qin Yang was an evil entity, lunged at him.

Qin Yang and the Azure Ox Demon fought their way through the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where Qin Yang destroyed a powerful ghost and then reached a mountain range cleaved apart by a mysterious sword strike. After sensing the terrifying Sword Intent left on a shattered rock, Qin Yang suspected an Ascension Realm expert had been involved and looked toward the mountaintop.

• The Azure Ox Demon killed Chen Qian with its horns and a newly learned azure energy attack, which it said it gained from eating spirit stones.
• Qin Yang entered a strange temple and destroyed its crimson lanterns and ugly Ghost of Calamity with his aura and a series of attacks.
• Several days later, Qin Yang and the Azure Ox Demon reached a ravine-split mountain range riddled with holes, where martial artists waited below as Qin Yang climbed toward the summit.
• Qin Yang touched a cleanly cut rock and sensed scorching, murderous Sword Intent so powerful that he believed an Ascension Realm expert had left it behind.
• The rock crumbled to powder, and Qin Yang looked toward the mountaintop, suspecting the mountain range concealed a major secret.

Qin Yang and the Azure Ox explored the mountain’s palace ruins, where he reunited with Liu Yun and learned that Liu Yun had come to Tianfeng Continent to investigate the War to Destroy Heaven. When a roar drew them to a monster statue pinned by an ancient sword, Liu Yun warned the gathered martial artists that removing it would revive the creature.

• Qin Yang and the Azure Ox climbed down into a ravine and discovered palace ruins carved inside the mountain, where many martial artists were exploring.
• Qin Yang reunited with Liu Yun, who explained that he had traced the growing threat of evil entities and ghost artifacts to Tianfeng Continent.
• Qin Yang and Liu Yun went with the Azure Ox to a dark plaza after hearing a roar and found a monster statue with a heavy sword embedded in its chest.
• Yan Xin of Flame Mountain Gate and Zhao Hu of Golden Tiger Gate argued over who would claim the sword.
• Liu Yun warned the gathered martial artists not to remove the sword because the statue would likely revive, and an unidentified monk agreed that it could not be moved.

The White-Browed Old Monk arrived at the ruins to destroy the Ghost Seed, and his attempt to suppress it awakened the Snake Demon Seed. Qin Yang helped protect the others as the monk and the assembled fighters battled the monster, which remained powerful despite being surrounded.

• The White-Browed Old Monk arrived with monks from Kasyapa Temple and explained that he had come to destroy the Ghost Seed, not claim the divine sword.
• Liu Yun, Yan Xin, Zhao Hu, and Qin Yang stayed while others withdrew, and the monks formed the Great Demon Subduing Formation.
• The White-Browed Old Monk's radiant power scorched the statue, causing it to awaken and identify itself as the Snake Demon Seed.
• The Snake Demon Seed tore two pythons from its body and turned them into shadowy scimitars, then sent the White-Browed Old Monk flying with its attack.
• Qin Yang knocked out the scholar and other fighters who were driven mad by the creature's aura.
• The White-Browed Old Monk transformed into his Dharma Body and joined the monks, Yan Xin, and Zhao Hu in attacking the Snake Demon Seed, which fought back without being overpowered.

Liu Yun’s attack failed as the Snake Demon Seed unleashed mind-corrupting power and summoned giant snakes, throwing the heroes into chaos. Qin Yang and White-Browed Old Monk continued fighting it after Zhao Hu and Yan Xin were killed, and Qin Yang’s White Star punch blasted a hole through its chest, giving the monk an opening to strike its forehead.

• Liu Yun attacked the Snake Demon Seed with the Green Wood Sword, but it crushed and swallowed the weapon, leaving him injured.
• The Snake Demon Seed’s corrupting aura disrupted the heroes’ formation, while Qin Yang’s Black Tortoise aura resisted its influence and the demon summoned giant snakes from the ground.
• Qin Yang, White-Browed Old Monk, Zhao Hu, and Yan Xin attacked the Snake Demon Seed, but its Void Snake Bite contaminated Zhao Hu’s mind and a giant snake swallowed him.
• The Snake Demon Seed’s poisonous mist killed Yan Xin by unleashing tiny snakes that devoured his flesh.
• Qin Yang and White-Browed Old Monk pressed their assault, and Qin Yang’s White Star punch tore a hole through the Snake Demon Seed’s chest.
• White-Browed Old Monk seized the opening and struck the Snake Demon Seed’s forehead with the Great Demon Subduing Palm.

Qin Yang and the White-Browed Old Monk destroyed the Snake Demon Seed in the palace ruins, and the monk explained the ancient history behind the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone and the War to Destroy Heaven. Qin Yang then left the ruins with Liu Yun and the azure ox.

• Qin Yang stomped a giant snake lurking underground, then struck the Snake Demon Seed with his saber and split it in two.
• The Snake Demon Seed fused into a grotesque mass, but a divine sword appeared and annihilated it with Sword Qi.
• The White-Browed Old Monk thanked Qin Yang and explained that the Snake Demon Seed came from a Nether Seed that had descended in the ancient era.
• The White-Browed Old Monk told Qin Yang how Immortal Desolate Moon led the War to Destroy Heaven against the Nether Heaven Gate, after which ghost seeds and bloodlines disappeared.
• The White-Browed Old Monk departed with the other monks, and Qin Yang left the palace ruins with Liu Yun and the azure ox.

After escaping the battle with the Ghost Seed, Qin Yang and Liu Yun encountered Guan Nan and the White Sword Sect, whose swords reacted to Liu Yun’s hidden aura. Qin Yang killed Guan Nan and the sect’s Great Elder while the Green Bull trampled the disciples, then he and Liu Yun decided to head deeper into the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.

• Qin Yang explained to Liu Yun that the Ghost Seed had been weakened by the divine sword and that stronger Nether Seeds might exist.
• Qin Yang and Liu Yun met Guan Nan and the White Sword Sect as they climbed down the mountain, and the sect’s swords trembled near Liu Yun.
• Guan Nan’s group surrounded Qin Yang and Liu Yun after Guan Nan suspected Liu Yun had found a treasure.
• Qin Yang killed Guan Nan, and the Green Bull transformed and trampled the fleeing White Sword Sect disciples.
• The White Sword Sect’s Great Elder ambushed Qin Yang, but Qin Yang killed him with a blade strike.
• Qin Yang and Liu Yun agreed to travel deeper into the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.

Qin Yang, Liu Yun, and the green ox explored a ruined city in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where the ox sensed a connection to its ancestors. They found a massive stone axe surrounded by sect groups, and Zhao Biao tried to lift it.

• Qin Yang and Liu Yun entered the gloomy city and found its buildings largely collapsed.
• The green ox sensed something familiar deeper in the city, and Liu Yun suggested its ancestor may have been among the great demons who fought in the War to Destroy Heaven.
• Qin Yang followed the green ox to the city center, where they found a pitch-black stone axe embedded in shattered ground.
• A Spirit Master suggested the axe had been knocked into the city during an ancient battle, causing the destruction around it.
• Zhao Biao approached the Giant Axe, gripped its handle, and triggered an invisible aura from it.

Qin Yang protected the green bull as it received an inheritance from the pitch-black Stone Axe, driving away the sects gathered around it. The bull continued inheriting the Stone Axe’s power while Qin Yang and Liu Yun watched over it.

• The Stone Axe’s aura ground Zhao Biao into bloody pulp, frightening the martial artists away from it.
• A green bull charged toward the Stone Axe, bowed before it, and received a ray of black light as its body trembled with the inheritance.
• The Thousand Lakes Sect’s master tried to attack the bull, but Qin Yang crushed his head and revealed himself as the bull’s master.
• The Thousand Lakes Sect’s Great Elder challenged Qin Yang, who defeated him in two saber strikes and warned the sect’s disciples to leave.
• Qin Yang forced the gathered sect teams to retreat, then checked on the bull as Liu Yun remarked on its connection to the Stone Axe.

Qin Yang and Liu Yun protected the Azure Ox Demon as it received the Stone Axe inheritance, while Qin Yang drove off thirteen Martial Saints by killing one of them. The Azure Ox Demon completed its breakthrough, transformed into human form, and set out with Qin Yang and Liu Yun to follow the Stone Axe’s trace of its ancestor.

• Qin Yang asked Liu Yun to guard the Azure Ox Demon while it received the Stone Axe inheritance, and Liu Yun formed a Guardian Sword Array around it.
• Thirteen Martial Saints gathered and demanded that Qin Yang interrupt the inheritance and surrender the Stone Axe, but Qin Yang killed their hunched leader with his Black Tortoise Saber.
• The remaining Martial Saints fled after witnessing Qin Yang’s strength, leaving the Azure Ox Demon undisturbed to complete its breakthrough.
• The Azure Ox Demon emerged in human form as a Fierce Demon and explained that the Stone Axe’s inheritance had taught it how to transform and contained its ancestor’s essence blood.
• The Azure Ox Demon sensed its ancestor’s aura through the Stone Axe, and it left the city ruins with Qin Yang and Liu Yun to seek the site of the great battle.

Qin Yang, Liu Yun, and Azure Ox entered the Gray Forest and fought off a swarm of giant spiders. After night fell, they discovered the spiders’ corpses had vanished, raising the possibility that they had been circling through the forest without making progress.

• Qin Yang led Liu Yun and Azure Ox into the Gray Forest, where they were attacked by a giant gray spider.
• Qin Yang froze the first spider with his Big Dipper True Martial Origin Energy, and Azure Ox volunteered to fight the rest.
• Azure Ox transformed and slaughtered hundreds of spiders with his Stone Axe, then obeyed Qin Yang’s order not to chase the survivors.
• As snow fell that night, Azure Ox noticed his blood had melted patches in the snow, but the gray spiders’ corpses were gone.
• Liu Yun wondered whether they had been circling within the Gray Forest the entire time.

Qin Yang and his companions discovered that the gray, withered forest was a living evil formation that trapped its visitors. A blue-robed Daoist revealed he was the last survivor of the Black Tortoise Sect, but Qin Yang refused to leave before avenging the sect’s 3,650 dead members.

• Qin Yang, Azure Ox, and Liu Yun realized they had circled back through the forest despite trying to keep their direction.
• They met a group led by an ugly man, who said even Martial Saint experts could not escape and warned them about anyone offering directions.
• Qin Yang followed the group’s path and encountered a blue-robed Daoist who offered to lead them out.
• The Daoist explained that the forest was a moving evil formation that trapped souls, and admitted he had been imprisoned there for ages.
• Qin Yang recognized the Daoist’s robe as belonging to the Black Tortoise Sect and learned the Daoist was its last inheritor.
• Qin Yang refused to leave, declaring that the deaths of all 3,650 Black Tortoise Sect members required a final reckoning.

Qin Yang followed Xu Xingzi through the withered forest, where they were attacked by martial artists controlled by Ghost Spider parasites. After Qin Yang and the Azure Ox killed the attackers, they discovered the parasites in their heads and learned Xu Xingzi had tried to lead the victims out.

• Xu Xingzi told Qin Yang that he was a former Black Tortoise Sect elder and that more than three thousand members had died in the forest, leaving only a dozen or so remnant souls.
• Qin Yang, the Azure Ox, and Liu Yun encountered the ugly man and his companions, who warned Qin Yang against trusting Xu Xingzi and then attacked.
• Other groups of martial artists joined the assault, and Qin Yang and the Azure Ox fought back, killing the attackers, including two Martial Saint experts and the ugly man.
• Qin Yang and the Azure Ox discovered a pulsing black lump inside the ugly man's head, which burst into a dark-red spider before Qin Yang cut it down.
• Xu Xingzi explained that Ghost Spiders had parasitized the dead martial artists after they refused to believe he was trying to lead them out.

Qin Yang discovered that the Black Tortoise Jade Pendant made him the Black Tortoise Sect’s current Sect Master, and learned that the sect’s lingering souls had been guarding the Ghost Spider. The Ghost Spider broke out of its cocoon, and Xu Wuzi took Liu Yun’s divine sword as the battle began.

• Xu Xingzi led Qin Yang, Liu Yun, and the green ox to a ruined Daoist temple, where its ghostly Daoists bowed to Qin Yang as their Sect Master.
• Xu Wuzi explained that Qin Yang’s Black Tortoise Jade Pendant identified him as the Black Tortoise Sect’s thirty-third Sect Master.
• Xu Wuzi told Qin Yang that the Ghost Spider had devastated the sect’s allied army and that the sect’s residual souls could no longer keep it imprisoned.
• Qin Yang promised to kill the Ghost Spider, and Xu Wuzi led the group to the talisman-covered cocoon behind the temple.
• The Ghost Spider emerged from its cocoon and unleashed a corrupting aura, which Qin Yang, the green ox, and Liu Yun countered with their powers.
• Xu Wuzi asked Liu Yun to lend him the Bright Light Sword, and the sword rang as Xu Wuzi took it.

Qin Yang and Green Ox fought Ghost Spider while Xu Wuzi and the Black Tortoise Sect’s Daoists watched. Seeing Qin Yang’s vitality and realizing he could inherit the sect, the Daoists began burning their remaining strength to aid him.

• Xu Wuzi attacked Ghost Spider with the Bright Light Sword but was overpowered, and Qin Yang intervened with his Yin-Yang Life-Death Talisman.
• Qin Yang fought Ghost Spider with the Black Tortoise Saber, but its spider-thread spears continued to suppress him.
• Green Ox joined the battle, wounded Ghost Spider by throwing the black Stone Axe into its head, then withdrew as Qin Yang shielded him.
• Liu Yun and Xu Xingzi recognized Qin Yang’s Withered Wood Undying Scripture, and Xu Wuzi suggested he might change the Black Tortoise Sect’s fate.
• Xu Wuzi and the other Daoists revealed their corpse forms and began burning their remaining strength despite Qin Yang telling them he could manage alone.

Qin Yang broke through to the Dharma Body realm and defeated Ghost Spider, but ordinary attacks could not destroy the ghost seed. With the aid of the Black Tortoise Sect’s fallen disciples, he summoned a Black Tortoise phantom that devoured Ghost Spider, leaving the forest as dawn appeared.

• The cultivation of Xu Wuzi and the others flowed into Qin Yang, advancing his Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture and helping him reach the Dharma Body realm.
• Qin Yang fought Ghost Spider, shattered its weapons, and crushed its body, but its flesh began regenerating despite his attacks and the aid of the Bright Light Sword and Green Ox’s Stone Axe.
• Qin Yang called upon the spirits of the Black Tortoise Sect’s fallen disciples, who gathered inside the Black Tortoise Jade Pendant.
• The pendant summoned a colossal Black Tortoise phantom, which swallowed Ghost Spider and killed it completely.
• The strange aura left the gray-white withered forest as dawn appeared, and Qin Yang held the Black Tortoise Jade Pendant while Liu Yun said the light was not bright enough yet.