Chapter Summaries

Shi Chun endured mockery as Bai Shuchuan’s group entered the Western Extremity, while a paid viewing of Shi Chun drew attention from observers outside. After the contestants spread out, Shi Chun noticed Sun Shigang’s group following and approached a crowd gathered ahead.

• Bai Shuchuan led his group through the barrier before the entrance closed, while Wu Jinliang supported the sickly Shi Chun and others mocked him.
• The Suyuan Sect disciples appeared on the Sky-Gazing Mirror, and Young Master Nan discussed their chances with Miao Dingyi’s family.
• Young Master Nan paid to view Shi Chun, startling Miao Dingyi, Lan Qiaoyan, and Miao Yilan; Elder Ke and Feng Chi also reacted to the image.
• Shi Chun and the others entered the Western Extremity, spread out with the contestants, and consulted a map to choose their route.
• Shi Chun noticed Sun Shigang’s group following them and saw a crowd gathered ahead, but the vision in his right eye blurred before he could identify what was happening.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang obtained immobilizing talismans and used their night-watch assignment as cover to leave the group. Shi Chun claimed they were going after Sun Shigang, whose whereabouts they expected to find by following the trail behind them.

• Bai Shuchuan caught an insect core crystal that emerged from a hole, demonstrated how it moved, and kept it after driving off five people who claimed it.
• Shi Chun persuaded Bian Weiying to give him immobilizing talismans, and she gave matching portions to Wu Jinliang and Xiang Lan'er.
• Bai Shuchuan assigned Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang to guard duty for the night, while Xiang Lan'er considered how to lure them away.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang abandoned their guard post and headed off, leaving only spit behind.
• Wu Jinliang questioned why they seemed to be doubling back, and Shi Chun said they would follow Sun Shigang's trail and immobilize him.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang lured Sun Shigang’s group into an ambush, captured all five members of Falling Moon Valley, and fled with them. At the camp, Bai Shuchuan discovered that two sentries were missing and challenged the group to guess which sect they belonged to.

• Shi Chun convinced Wu Jinliang that Sun Shigang and Xiang Lan'er were Demonic Path agents following them, and the two decided to draw them out.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang returned along the trail, using their complaints about Xiang Lan'er to provoke Sun Shigang’s group into revealing themselves.
• The two attacked all five members of Falling Moon Valley with Third-Rank Immobilization Talismans, then Shi Chun crippled Sun Shigang and they subdued the others.
• Wu Jinliang carried the five captives as he and Shi Chun fled away from Bai Shuchuan’s group, while Feng Chi learned that Young Master Nan had requested Shi Chun’s presence.
• Bai Shuchuan told Xiang Lan'er and the others that two of the twenty-six sentries were missing and asked which sect’s people had disappeared.

Bian Weiying’s group searched for the missing Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, while the two fugitives discovered that their captive Sun Shigang was a grand-completion demonic cultivator. Shi Chun bound Sun Shigang in chains and demanded his demonic qi to purge an unusual poison, leaving Sun’s fate uncertain.

• Bian Weiying, Gan Tangyu, and Xiang Lan'er found no trace of Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, and Xiang Lan'er considered whether they had been abducted, attacked by their allies, or fled.
• Bian Weiying recruited Bai Shuchuan’s group to search, but they found only another insect core crystal and eventually gave up; Xiang Lan'er’s signal to Sun Shigang’s group received no reply.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang reached a secluded canyon, where Wu Jinliang discovered that their captive Sun Shigang had broken several restrictions and possessed grand-completion cultivation.
• Shi Chun sent Wu Jinliang to gather sturdy chains, then bound Sun Shigang into an iron cocoon and suspended him inside a hidden cave.
• Shi Chun had Wu Jinliang remove Sun Shigang’s restrictions and demanded that he release demonic qi to help purge Shi Chun’s unusual poison.

Shi Chun forced Sun Shigang to release Demonic Qi and discovered that absorbing it aided his cultivation, so he sealed himself in a cave to cultivate while Wu Jinliang kept watch. Meanwhile, Miao Dingyi explained why Young Master Nan feared losing a fortune on bets favoring the Suyuan Sect.

• Shi Chun threatened Sun Shigang until he released Demonic Qi, which Shi Chun absorbed while cultivating.
• Wu Jinliang inhaled the Demonic Qi by mistake, suffered intense pain, and Shi Chun drew it back out of him.
• Shi Chun told Wu Jinliang to guard the cave and keep the prisoners alive, then returned inside to cultivate with Sun Shigang's Demonic Qi.
• Miao Dingyi, Lan Qiaoyan, and Miao Yilan visited the parade grounds and found Young Master Nan brooding alone.
• Miao Dingyi explained that the Suyuan Sect appeared to have united Mystic Continent, making its victory likely and threatening Young Master Nan with enormous betting losses.

Shi Chun used Sun Shigang’s demonic qi to overcome his stalled cultivation and break through to Advanced Martial. After discovering that activating his right-eye ability consumed blood energy, he confronted Sun Shigang about his and Xiang Lan’er’s plans.

• Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Dingyi discussed how the betting pool organizers had underestimated the Suyuan Sect, while Xiang Lan’er worried that Sun Shigang had stopped responding to her signals.
• Shi Chun kept Sun Shigang generating demonic qi under the pretense of clearing poison, and Wu Jinliang learned that Shi Chun’s cultivation was advancing quickly.
• After half a month, Shi Chun broke through to Advanced Martial, and Sun Shigang angrily accused him of using the demonic qi to cultivate.
• Shi Chun discovered that his right-eye ability activated when he directed blood energy into a hazy purple mist, but it caused severe pain when the mist drained his blood energy.
• Shi Chun confirmed his breakthrough to Wu Jinliang, then confronted Sun Shigang about deceiving them with Xiang Lan’er and demanded to know their plan.

Shi Chun subdued Sun Shigang and discovered he could absorb the demonic flame within him, leaving Sun Shigang near death before entering seclusion. Half a month later, anxious observers at the Tournament Grounds searched the projected images for Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, who remained missing.

• Sun Shigang attacked Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, but Shi Chun immobilized him with a talisman and placed restrictions on him.
• Shi Chun used his cultivation technique to absorb all of Sun Shigang's demonic flame, while Wu Jinliang watched Sun Shigang rapidly weaken.
• Shi Chun swallowed three Long Transformation Pills and asked Wu Jinliang to interrogate Sun Shigang and four others while he went into seclusion.
• At the Tournament Grounds, soldiers returned the bodies of dead participants as killings increased across the competition.
• Elder Ke Yizong and others spotted Bian Weiying and Gan Tangyu safe in a projected image, but Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang were absent.
• Young Master Nan arranged for Miao Yilan's group to move up the viewing queue as the family worried about Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang.

Young Master Nan arranged a projection to find Shi Chun, who emerged alive with Wu Jinliang from a remote gorge. When Heavenly Court soldiers discovered the tortured Falling Moon Valley disciples in their cave, Shi Chun killed Sun Shigang in front of them.

• Young Master Nan paid to show Shi Chun’s location, and the projection revealed an empty gorge where officials feared he might be dead.
• Heavenly Court soldiers entered the gorge to check on Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, who emerged alive and identified themselves as Mount Wukang disciples.
• The soldiers searched the caves after detecting Falling Moon Valley contestants nearby and found five badly tortured prisoners, including Sun Shigang.
• Feng Chi and the spectators from Falling Moon Valley recognized the prisoners, while Mount Wukang’s Elder Ke worried about the consequences.
• Shi Chun challenged the soldiers’ right to interfere, then killed Sun Shigang and threw his body toward them.

Shi Chun killed Sun Shigang and four Falling Moon Valley disciples in front of Heavenly Court soldiers, drawing attention from the Tournament Grounds and powerful Regional Lords. As Young Master Nan ordered the image changed, Feng Chi heard that the higher-ups wanted her to consider Miao Dingyi’s presence beside him.

• Shi Chun killed Sun Shigang before the Heavenly Court soldiers could intervene, and the soldiers searched the corpse and took the Mother-Child Talisman.
• Shi Chun cut the throats of four captured Falling Moon Valley disciples, saying he had planned to kill them anyway.
• The spectators and seven Regional Lords reacted to the killings, while Chi Rang learned the men belonged to Mount Wukang and Falling Moon Valley on Life Continent.
• Jian Lingzhen stood in anger, Elder Ke trembled, and Miao Dingyi urged Young Master Nan to stop showing the image.
• Young Master Nan told his steward to switch the image, while Feng Chi learned that the higher-ups had noted Miao Dingyi’s presence beside Lan Qiaoyan’s family.

After Shi Chun killed the men who ambushed him and Wu Jinliang, he returned to secluded cultivation while the tournament’s leaders took notice of his actions. Elder Ke faced pressure from Falling Moon Valley’s Jian Lingzhen and Regional Lord Wei Mo, who warned Mount Wukang over the two disciples’ conduct.

• Miao Dingyi left the stands with Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Yilan after Young Master Nan’s actions.
• Shi Chun told the armored soldiers that the dead men had attacked him and Wu Jinliang, then asked which sect was favored to win the assembly.
• The armored soldiers named the Suyuan Sect as the likely victor and left; Shi Chun returned to the cave to cultivate while Wu Jinliang kept watch.
• Jian Lingzhen accused Mount Wukang of killing Falling Moon Valley disciples, and Elder Ke argued that the truth could only be learned after the assembly.
• Wei Mo summoned Elder Ke, learned that Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang were his disciples, and threatened to drive Mount Wukang from Life Continent if the competition ended in disgrace.
• Elder Ke left to contact Mount Wukang after Wei Mo departed.

After twenty-four days of seclusion, Shi Chun tested the power of his newly advanced saber technique and discovered it could unleash an explosive force far beyond Wu Jinliang’s expectations. His right-eye ability also revealed an azure lotus within him instead of a demonic flame, deepening the mystery of his cultivation.

• Shi Chun ended his seclusion after absorbing Sun Shigang’s demonic flame and considered his rapid progress and need for more demonic qi.
• Shi Chun emerged from the cave and learned from Wu Jinliang that he had been in seclusion for twenty-four days.
• Shi Chun tested his Demonic-Blight-Free Saber against Wu Jinliang, knocking away his saber and splitting the web of his hand with only thirty percent of his strength.
• Shi Chun activated his right-eye ability and saw hazy azure mist around his saber and an azure lotus at his dantian.
• Shi Chun slashed the canyon wall and blasted a room-sized pit into it, leaving Wu Jinliang stunned.

Shi Chun discovered how the Demonic-Blight-Free Saber used explosive void power, then he and Wu Jinliang decided to target the powerful Suyuan Sect to seize first place in the Skyfall Meteor Assembly. They headed for a Xun Gate to ask the Heavenly Court guards where to find the Mystic Continent forces, disguising themselves as a sect from Mystic Continent.

• Shi Chun realized his saber slash blasted away resistance through an explosive force of void power, while Wu Jinliang's test strike caused half the cliff to collapse.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang vowed to win the Skyfall Meteor Assembly and claim its rewards, then chose the Suyuan Sect as their target after learning it had united nearly ten thousand people.
• Wu Jinliang proposed infiltrating the Suyuan Sect, and Shi Chun agreed to find the Mystic Continent forces' Xun Gate and learn more before acting.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang followed the boundary to another Xun Gate, where Heavenly Court guards recognized them as Mount Wukang disciples from Life Continent.
• Shi Chun carved a message claiming they belonged to a Mystic Continent sect and asking the guards to direct them to the correct Xun Gate, while Wu Jinliang bowed in thanks.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang tricked Heavenly Court guards into directing them toward Mystic Continent’s entrance, then spent three days tracking down its contingent. In the Tournament Grounds, the pair suddenly appeared on the Sky-Gazing Mirror, stopping three fleeing figures and drawing the attention of spectators and Regional Lords.

• Shi Chun changed the pair’s claim from Mystic Continent to Life Continent, and he and Wu Jinliang persuaded Heavenly Court guards to point them toward another Xun Gate.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang skirted the guards, reached a second Xun Gate, and begged its guards to reveal Mystic Continent’s entrance.
• Three days later, Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang reached the entrance, followed the traces of Mystic Continent’s contingent, and traveled onward.
• Elder Ke lost track of Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang on the Ultimate Mountains and Rivers Map while he worried about Bian Weiying and her use of talismans.
• Lan Qiaoyan and Miao Yilan saw Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang appear on the Sky-Gazing Mirror, where the pair blocked three wounded figures who were fleeing.
• Spectators and Regional Lords recognized the pair by name, while Wei Mo and the other Regional Lords wondered who they were.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang intercepted three wounded Jade Spirit Sect disciples and pretended to be powerful enemies of the Mystic Continent Forces. They persuaded the survivors to lead them to the group that had attacked them, while observers at the Tournament Grounds waited to see what happened next.

• Fei Zhengong and the regional lords watched footage of Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang confronting three badly wounded Jade Spirit Sect disciples, but the projection cut off before their encounter concluded.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang demanded to know whether the three were from the Mystic Continent Forces, and their leader identified them as Jade Spirit Sect disciples from Ying Continent.
• Shi Chun claimed that the Mystic Continent Forces had killed his junior sister, while Wu Jinliang loudly vowed revenge and threatened the three into cooperating.
• The Jade Spirit Sect survivors explained that more than a dozen Mystic Continent fighters had pursued them and that two of their companions had died.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang convinced the survivors to guide them to the Mystic Continent group, and the five set off together.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang killed the three wounded Jade Spirit Sect men pursuing them, then confronted a group that arrived after hearing the fight. After learning the newcomers were from the Mystic Continent, Shi Chun claimed he and Wu Jinliang were disciples of Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain and rejected their invitation to join the Suyuan Sect-led alliance.

• Shi Chun asked the Jade Spirit Sect men to name a Mystic Continent sect staying out of the alliance, and their leader identified Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang found the three men’s pursuers and attacked them, killing the injured-arm man and their leader before Shi Chun fought the last man.
• Shi Chun used his Demon-Undoing Hand and saber to kill the last pursuer in a brutal midair clash.
• A group of newcomers landed, and Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang initially challenged them before they proved they were from the Mystic Continent.
• Shi Chun identified himself and Wu Jinliang as disciples of Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain and refused to join the newcomers’ group, dismissing the Suyuan Sect-led alliance.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang tried to pass themselves off as Mystic Continent participants while tracking the group camped near the Suyuan Sect. Back at the Tournament Grounds, the Jade Spirit Sect confronted Mount Wukang over its dead disciples, and Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang prepared to infiltrate the camp using forged tags.

• Shi Chun watched the Mystic Continent group leave while Wu Jinliang collected swords and went to make fake tags for their bracelets.
• In the Tournament Grounds, footage showed the Jade Spirit Sect’s participants dead, and Fei Zhengong accused Mount Wukang’s disciples of killing them.
• Elder Ke Yizong demanded proof that Mount Wukang’s disciples had killed the Jade Spirit Sect members, and Fei Zhengong left after failing to provide it.
• Armored soldiers called for the Jade Spirit Sect to collect its dead, while Shi Chun watched a huge Mystic Continent camp from a distance.
• Wu Jinliang brought forged Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain tags for himself and Shi Chun, and Shi Chun said they would kill anyone who questioned their disguises.

Bian Weiying refused to help Bai Shuchuan kill fellow participants, while Xiang Lan'er left their group after warning that it was becoming dangerous. The chapter ended with Mulan Qingqing meeting four fellow disciples beneath the moon.

• Bai Shuchuan led nearly a hundred people in killing two participants from Life Continent after taking their insect core crystals, but Bian Weiying and her companions refused to join in.
• Bian Weiying confronted Bai Shuchuan over his actions, while Zhao Shanqi privately encouraged Bai Shuchuan to wait until Mount Wukang's talismans ran out before acting against them.
• Xiang Lan'er asked Bian Weiying to leave with her, but Bian Weiying stayed because she feared the consequences for Mount Wukang and gave Xiang Lan'er two Third-Rank Immobilization Talismans.
• Three men followed Xiang Lan'er after she departed, but they never returned.
• Mulan Qingqing stood beneath the moon at the Suyuan Sect camp as Yan Ji, Guan Wen, Guan Yingjie, and Chao Zhilin came to greet her.

Mulan Qingqing planned to guard the Western Extremity Moon Sea and intercept anyone who emerged with insect core crystals, while Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang provoked hidden sentries at a camp. The crowd gathered around the two men, and the bearded man they had met the day before claimed they were fellow disciples from the Mystic Continent.

• Mulan Qingqing warned that the Suyuan Sect had to honor its allies and proposed watching the Western Extremity Moon Sea for rival sects to intercept.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang received a message that Xiang Lan'er had left the group, but ignored it and waited for daylight.
• Shi Chun spotted hidden sentries near the camp and led Wu Jinliang into an attack, accusing the sentries of ambushing them.
• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang defeated the two sentries, prompting a crowd that included Guan Wen to rush over.
• The bushy-bearded man in blue recognized Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang and told Guan Wen they were disciples of Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain from the Mystic Continent.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang convinced Guan Wen and the Mystic Continent cultivators that they were Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain Disciples, then agreed to join the group’s search for Bai Shuchuan. The chapter ended with the two joining Guan Wen’s force to hunt their enemy and help the Mystic Continent.

• Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang faked their nameplates to prove they were Wandering Rosy Clouds Mountain Disciples while concealing the earlier fight’s real circumstances.
• Guan Wen persuaded the group not to attack, and Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang released the two men they had pinned down.
• Shi Chun said they were hunting an enemy, and Wu Jinliang named Bai Shuchuan of Jieyun Mountain as the man who had killed and defiled their junior sister.
• Guan Wen offered to spread Bai Shuchuan’s name among the Mystic Continent cultivators and make the search their shared cause.
• Wu Jinliang urged Shi Chun to accept Guan Wen’s offer, and Shi Chun agreed to join the group.

Wu Jinliang and Shi Chun appeared in the Tournament Grounds projection, surrounded by Mystic Continent disciples after a fight, and their actions alarmed their master and intrigued the gathered Regional Lords. As the crowd watched the standoff, Chi Rang challenged Wei Mo to wager on which continent would win the Skyfall Meteor Assembly.

• People in the Tournament Grounds shouted after spotting part of Wu Jinliang’s distinctive saber in a projection, prompting Chi Rang to request an image of him.
• The projection showed Wu Jinliang and Shi Chun standing over injured disciples while surrounded by Mystic Continent cultivators, including Guan Wen of the Suyuan Sect.
• Elder Ke recognized the Suyuan Sect’s disciples and worried that his two Mount Wukang disciples had provoked another powerful faction.
• Miao Yilan worried about Wu Jinliang and Shi Chun, while Lan Qiaoyan noted that neither man looked afraid.
• Chi Rang mocked Wei Mo and proposed that the loser of a bet on the Skyfall Meteor Assembly wash the winner’s underpants for a year, and the other Regional Lords urged Wei Mo to accept.