Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan and Wei Shuang left the Li Fire Radiance Grand Formation to probe White Ravine, where they fought Zhi Xi and drew out the hidden Purple Mansion cultivator Tie Sui. The chapter ended as Xu Xuan’s silver sword light struck Tie Sui and left him at the brink of death.

• Song Shiqing reported that the Coiling Forest altar was ready, but the King of Misty Mountain learned that it still required a captured Purple Mansion cultivator as a blood sacrifice.
• Wei Shuang volunteered to challenge the Liao forces in White Ravine, and Xu Xuan joined him to provide support.
• Wei Shuang confronted Zhi Xi at White Ravine, and the two fought as the Li Fire Radiance Grand Formation spread into the ravine.
• Xu Xuan sensed hidden Divine Ability cultivators and attacked the Water Transformation Demon Formation, forcing Tie Sui to emerge from the valley.
• Xu Xuan’s silver sword light wounded Tie Sui’s neck and drove him to the brink of death.

Xu Xuan overwhelmed Tie Sui and struck Zhi Xi with his Tribulation Law swordsmanship, while Wei Shuang fled the fight. As Zhi Xi retreated into White Ravine, Xu Xuan sensed a hidden ancient Buddhist cultivator whose freedom from karma made them difficult for altar thunder to detect.

• Xu Xuan used Beheading to break Tie Sui’s Asura body, then sealed him inside the Mirror Reflection thunder sword.
• Tie Sui launched a Toad Fiendfire pill, but Xu Xuan used Unity of Heaven and Man to delay it and evade the explosion.
• Xu Xuan’s Thunder Proclamation pierced Tie Sui, and his Heavenly Eye’s greater yang radiance stopped Tie Sui from detonating himself.
• Xu Xuan concealed another Thunder Proclamation within heaven and earth and struck Zhi Xi, forcing her to retreat into the valley as Wei Shuang fled.
• Xu Xuan summoned his Spirit Sword, bronze lamp, and Feather Fan, then called on the hidden cultivators in White Ravine to reveal themselves.
• Tiantuo identified the hidden presence as an ancient Buddhist cultivator of the precepts path, whose lack of karma made them invisible to altar thunder’s judgment.

Xu Xuan helped drive back the demons at White Ravine, where Wei Yin of Great Extinction Debate Mountain intervened, and the allied forces planned a major assault for three days later. As Xu Xuan learned of threats on other fronts and the possibility of powerful enemies joining the fight, he doubted they could win a decisive victory while the war remained so tangled.

• Wei Yin identified himself as the abbot of Great Extinction Debate Mountain and warned Xu Xuan to turn back, while the King of Misty Mountain urged Xu Xuan to withdraw.
• Xu Xuan and Wei Shuang retreated after the Li Fire pushed back the Bliss-Desire Demon Land’s battle line, and they discussed Zhi Xi’s unusually rapid healing.
• The King of Misty Mountain praised Xu Xuan and proposed attacking White Ravine in three days, with Fu Yun wielding the Final Yin Pivot-Settling Sword to break the Grand Formation.
• Song Shiqing assigned the allied forces their routes into White Ravine and asked them to capture a Purple Mansion cultivator of the Liao Kingdom for Great Shaman Yuan E’s blood sacrifice.
• Nangang told Xu Xuan that Wondrous Womb rarely left the Grotto-Heaven, but Feng Yan might soon recover enough to fight, and he reported that Tai Zhen’s eastern front was in trouble.
• Xu Xuan worried that the many intervening factions and simultaneous battles would prevent a great victory.

Nangang’s group waited west of White Ravine while Fu Yun challenged Wei Yin with the Final Yin Pivot-Settling Sword, opening a path for their attack. When Nangang cleared the western approach, Zhi Xi and two Xiao-Liao allies blocked the way alongside a newly arrived Dui Metal sword cultivator.

• Nangang explained that Longjue Ridge bore the scars of an ancient Dui Metal Golden Core’s death during the war between immortals and demons, while Wei Shuang said Heaven’s Eclipse Dragon Lord had been slain by a True Lord of Earth Virtue.
• Xu Xuan questioned Wei Shuang about Heaven’s Eclipse’s death and resolved to seek more information from Vast Marsh because Mu Yu cultivated the Dragon Lord’s Dao.
• Nangang concealed his group near White Ravine as Fu Yun attacked Wei Yin with the Final Yin Pivot-Settling Sword, forcing Water Transformation to retreat and allowing Li Fire to surge forward.
• Nangang unleashed Great Black Heaven Destruction Light to clear the western approach, but Zhi Xi, Xiao Xueya, and another Xiao-Liao noblewoman emerged to stop the group.
• A Purple Mansion Late Stage Dui Metal sword cultivator appeared and declared that whoever he killed would count as his target.

Xu Xuan faced Cheng Dui’s Ancient Dui Metal arts while Wei Shuang and Nangang fought separate battles against powerful opponents. Nangang invoked the Northern Yin Demon-Subduing Bell and Ruinous Spirit Fortune, but the eastern battlefield’s sudden crisis left him without the aid he hoped for.

• Cheng Dui descended near Longjue Ridge and challenged Xu Xuan with the Dui Metal Dao Realm Divine Ability [Autumn Suburb Lament].
• Xu Xuan drew Cinnabar Thunder and countered Cheng Dui’s [Metal Origin Edge] and six flying swords with thunder and Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Wei Shuang remained pinned down by his opponent as Nangang was trapped between Zhi Xi and Xun Lin and attacked by their Dharma Bodies and Divine Abilities.
• Nangang summoned the Northern Yin Demon-Subduing Bell and activated [Ruinous Spirit Fortune], weakening his opponents and preventing them from condensing spells within their Inner Scenery.
• Xun Lin and Zhi Xi renewed their attacks with [Ten Thousand Evil Cavern] and [Great Desire Maw], while Nangang struggled to sustain his defenses.
• Nangang saw autumn-yellow light and a pinned Golden Man rise east of White Ravine, realizing that the battle there had also gone wrong.

Ru Su fought Tuoba Cai east of White Ravine, but their clash ended with the King of Misty Mountain and Jing Xing confronting her allies. Tie Sui became a corpse puppet powered by a demonic heart and vowed to block everyone from passing White Ravine.

• Tuoba Cai used Rainbow Rosy Clouds arts to suppress Ru Su’s flawed Golden Man and widen the damage to its chest.
• Ru Su restored the Delusive Edge Heavenly Li Golden Man with a Lesser Yang talisman and unleashed a devastating Bing Fire attack that burned the land and shattered White Ravine’s Water Transformation formations.
• Tuoba Cai escaped the attack through a hanging painting and countered with Gazing at Supreme Rosy Clouds as the King of Misty Mountain arrived with Li Fire.
• Slaughter Sin returned battered from her fight with the King of Misty Mountain, while Jing Xing supported the King by channeling the Li Fire Radiance Grand Formation.
• Jing Xing offered Tie Sui the Niter Toad’s demon heart, and Tie Sui swallowed it before the toad corpse swallowed him, transforming him into a corpse puppet.
• Tie Sui declared that no one would pass White Ravine, while the King of Misty Mountain worried about Nangang and Calamity-Splitting in the west.

Tianchi ordered Xie Kuo to stabilize the eastern front and arranged blood sacrifices to help Yuan E take White Ravine. West of White Ravine, Xu Xuan fought Cheng Dui, whose [Entering Beyond the Dao] and Dui-metal techniques challenged Xu Xuan’s command of thunder.

• Tianchi told Xie Kuo to negotiate with White Qilin and mobilize the Mountain and Water Departments to stabilize the eastern front.
• Tianchi gave Yuan E captured Buddhist cultivators and a million lowborn Liao people as offerings, demanding that White Ravine be taken.
• Xu Xuan used [Unity of Heaven and Man] to unleash thunder and bind Cheng Dui with [Tribulation Command].
• Cheng Dui entered [Entering Beyond the Dao], collapsed into an isolated point of light, and struck Xu Xuan with the concepts of sharpness, destruction, and severance.
• Xu Xuan and Cheng Dui countered each other’s [Fate-Extinguishing Purge] and [Lord's Judgment] as thunder and metal laws clashed.
• Cheng Dui invoked [Threefold Extermination], drawing on Greater Yang as he prepared to unleash metal’s punishment.

Xu Xuan broke free from Cheng Dui’s sword formation and rushed to aid Nangang, who was being overwhelmed by Zhi Xi and Xun Lin. Xu Xuan’s Supreme Clear Profound-Mystery Dharma Body invoked an Edict that unleashed the three calamities and destroyed Zhi Xi’s Dharma Body, leaving the battlefield in ruins.

• Cheng Dui trapped Xu Xuan in the Great Expansion Six Metal Sword Formation, but Xu Xuan broke through with his heavenly eye and Calamity-Reversing before escaping on the origin wind.
• Zhi Xi and Xun Lin overwhelmed Nangang with white leeches, demonic beasts, and the Noble Mother-Daughter Prison Dharma Body, while his black tiger Spirit Artifact was forced back into his Inner Scenery.
• Xiao Xueya cut apart Wei Shuang’s Chi Dragon with his thunder-wreathed saber as Zhi Xi prepared to swallow Nangang into her mara light.
• Xu Xuan arrived and severed the hand of Zhi Xi’s Dharma Body that held Nangang.
• Xu Xuan summoned the Supreme Clear Profound-Mystery Dharma Body and wielded an Edict combining thunder, yin fire, and origin wind, destroying Zhi Xi’s Dharma Body and scattering it into white ashes.

After Zhi Xi was struck down, Xu Xuan realized her death was concealing a dangerous creation embryo and raced to destroy it. Cheng Dui and Xun Lin intervened, and Xu Xuan unleashed a sea of tribulation lightning that engulfed Xun Lin and the embryo, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Zhi Xi collapsed beneath the immortal general’s edict, but Tiantuo warned that the signs of her death were gathering inward around a lump of white flesh.
• Xu Xuan attacked the flesh, but Cheng Dui arrived in his Blazing Sun Violent Metal Dharma Body and blocked him with the six Spirit Swords and metal qi.
• Xu Xuan transformed into an Ink Qilin and slipped past Cheng Dui, racing toward the flesh as Nangang struggled against the white leeches in his body.
• Xun Lin blocked Xu Xuan and used Wolf’s Raiding Bow, while Xu Xuan invoked the Thunder Lord’s power and unleashed tribulation lightning over her and the white flesh.

Xu Xuan and his allies fought Xiao Xuelin and her companions, but demonic forces overtook the battlefield as the white mass of transformed flesh was carried through the Mysterious Female Gate. The mass entered the Transforming Tide Palace, where an infant’s cries sounded amid blood, demons, and thunder.

• The Qilin’s Tread the Heavens struck Xiao Xuelin, while Xu Xuan broke free of her metal transformation with Thunderfall Marsh and continued fighting.
• Xiao Xuelin tried to escape with Cunning Hare Concealment, but the demon bell and Wei Shuang’s Mystic Law of Cessation stopped her; Wei Shuang severed her arms and attacked her.
• A voice from Wei Shuang’s past overwhelmed him with shadows, while a familiar voice and demonic light overtook Xiao Xuelin and turned her eyes black.
• Xiao Xueya fled but was struck by demons emerging from his face, and Xiao Xuelin took the Northern Yin Demon-Subduing Bell.
• A woman’s hand carried the white mass through the Mysterious Female Gate and into the Transforming Tide Palace, where it vanished.

Xu Xuan and Nangang escaped the battle at White Ravine after Xu Xuan weakened Cheng Dui and forced him to flee. Injured but determined to intervene in the fighting farther east, Xu Xuan headed toward the Black Flame, and Nangang followed.

• Nangang warned Xu Xuan to burn away the afterimages created by [Scenery Unmoved], while Xiao Xueya attacked Nangang and Cheng Dui attacked Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan used the Demon Gate’s [Color-Aversion] and several calamities to weaken Cheng Dui, then shattered his [Lord's Judgment] and drove him back.
• Cheng Dui transformed into a point of light and escaped into the Great Void with Xiao Xueya, while Xu Xuan and Nangang withdrew from White Ravine.
• Xu Xuan and Nangang saw the battle’s destruction and learned that the Withering Qi ancestor had gained the advantage over the [Impermanence Ghost].
• Nangang gave Xu Xuan a [Qingxu Wonderful Harmony Pill] to help them recover, and they discussed Wei Shuang’s possession by Deliverance and the danger to Frost Plum Sect.
• Seeing fighting spread east beneath purple qi, Xu Xuan declared that he would kill and opened the Great Void; Nangang followed him toward the Black Flame.

Northern Yin and Deliverance fought with their great divine abilities while battles raged near White Ravine. After a mass blood sacrifice empowered a southern wind that shattered the Death River, Tuoba Cai realized the battle was lost and faced imminent death.

• Northern Yin and Deliverance confronted each other, and Deliverance killed Xiao Xuelin before they resumed their fight.
• Tie Sui used the niter toad corpse puppet to battle Jing Xing while Tuoba Cai pressed Ru Su and Zhu Ju back.
• Jing Xing fled north after receiving a warning, and Sword Immortal Xu arrived and pursued him instead of attacking Tie Sui or Tuoba Cai.
• A southern blood sacrifice killed captured Diamonds, a Bright Lotus Maha, and a million foreign mortals, summoning a formless wind that swept toward the battle.
• The formless wind broke Deliverance's Death River, and Tuoba Cai feared that she and Tie Sui would die.

Tuoba Cai and Slaughter Sin escaped White Ravine as Tie Sui triggered the Black Toad’s catastrophic explosion, which devastated the region. Xu Xuan killed Tie Sui at Heavenly Cold Pass but failed to capture Jing Xing’s true spirit, then found Wei Shuang’s head on an Ice Platform—where Wei Shuang faintly declared that he was not dead yet.

• Tuoba Cai and Slaughter Sin retreated into the Demon Land, while Tie Sui prepared to use the Black Toad’s explosion to cover his escape.
• Nangang arrived as Tie Sui released the corpse puppet’s baleful-intent formation, causing the Black Toad to explode and devastate White Ravine.
• Tie Sui escaped in the damaged Demon Abyss Divine Baleful Palace, but Xu Xuan attacked him at Heavenly Cold Pass and killed him; Jing Xing’s true spirit escaped.
• Xu Xuan entered White Ravine and found Wei Shuang’s severed head on an Ice Platform.
• Wei Shuang spoke faintly from beneath the ice, telling Xu Xuan that he was not dead yet.

After the battle at White Ravine, Xu Xuan rushed the gravely wounded Wei Shuang toward Louguan while the King of Misty Mountain and Fu Yun assessed the battle’s heavy losses and Xu Xuan’s achievements. The King of Misty Mountain then reflected on Li Song’s hidden political and cultivation schemes, leaving the eastern front’s fate uncertain.

• Xu Xuan used the [Leisurely Splendor of Ceremonial Grace] to stabilize Wei Shuang, then sealed his head in a Greenwood Treasure Casket and flew toward Louguan despite his own reopened wounds.
• The King of Misty Mountain recovered Song Shiqing and ordered Ru Su to take him to the Southern Capital for treatment.
• Fu Yun told the King of Misty Mountain that Wei Yin had escaped, Xiao Xuelin had died, Wei Shuang was gravely wounded, and Xu Xuan had achieved major victories against the demons.
• The King of Misty Mountain and Fu Yun discussed Xu Xuan’s growing power and the Song Clan’s blood debt to his sect before Fu Yun departed to consult Senior Brother Fu Chang.
• The King of Misty Mountain concluded that Song Clan cultivators within the Grotto-Heaven were preserving themselves while he and Prince Mount Li were left to bear the risks of the war.

Xu Xuan brought the gravely wounded Wei Shuang to Louguan, where Guan Quan used a replica of the Deathless Formula to stabilize them both. Wei Shuang survived but had lost his divine abilities, and Xu Xuan left the chapter considering whether a Greater Yin cultivator overseas could help him recover.

• Xu Xuan arrived at Louguan carrying Wei Shuang’s head in a Greenwood Treasure Casket and Jing Xing’s severed head.
• Guan Quan brought Xu Xuan and Wei Shuang into Louguan’s secret realm and presented a replica of the Deathless Formula from the Immortal Violet Palace.
• Guan Quan gave portions of the medicine to Wei Shuang and Xu Xuan, stabilizing Wei Shuang and healing Xu Xuan’s injuries while restoring some of his lost lifespan.
• Guan Quan explained that Wei Shuang’s inner scenery and divine abilities had been destroyed, leaving him unable to recover without a powerful Lesser Yang or Greater Yin cultivator’s aid, or reincarnation.
• Xu Xuan considered asking Palace Master Wei, a Greater Yin True Person overseas, for help with the chain-form art.

After White Ravine was pacified, Xu Xuan learned about the ancient Wei clans and helped Guan Quan preserve Wei Shuang while handing over Yeqing’s head. Summoned to the Southern Capital, Xu Xuan was enfeoffed as Heavenly Altar Marquis, and Tianchi proposed a betrothal between their children.

• Guan Quan explained that the Wei clans descended from the Greater Yin Immortal Lineage, and Xu Xuan learned that Frost Plum’s Wei clan belonged to the White Moon Wei.
• Guan Quan decided to contact the White Moon Palace Master about Wei Shuang’s treatment, and Xu Xuan gave him Yeqing’s head before leaving for the Southern Capital.
• Tianchi ordered a spirit treasure sent to Zhu Ju and tasked Misty Mountain with arranging matters at White Ravine.
• Xu Xuan stopped Misty Mountain from tormenting Tie Sui, then presented Tie Sui to Tianchi at the Imperial Palace.
• Tianchi enfeoffed Xu Xuan as Heavenly Altar Marquis and proposed that Xu Xuan’s son marry his daughter Qingci.

Xu Xuan accepted Tianchi’s marriage proposal for Ming'er only after postponing it, then received powerful rewards for pacifying White Ravine. He left for the northwest to prepare for the campaign against Desecration Mound, while Tiantuo tried to bargain for the azure radiance mystic flame.

• Xu Xuan weighed the political risks of binding himself to Tianchi and asked him to postpone Ming'er’s marriage until both were older and had reached Foundation Establishment.
• Tianchi agreed and rewarded Xu Xuan with a Spirit Treasure, the azure radiance mystic flame, and a Thunder-Gazing Origin-Convergence Pill for pacifying White Ravine.
• Xu Xuan promised to attain his fourth Divine Ability and heard Tianchi say the Northern Campaign would be prolonged before Xu Xuan attacked Desecration Mound.
• After leaving the palace with his rewards, Xu Xuan headed northwest and refused Tiantuo’s request to borrow the azure radiance mystic flame.
• Tiantuo urged Xu Xuan to use the flame in a pill-consuming method, while Xu Xuan turned his attention to the riches held in his Divine Palace of killing intent.

Xu Xuan returned to Hanging Thunder Peak, considered how to expand his sect’s holdings, and examined the powerful artifacts he had obtained. He uncovered a complete Fallen Firmament Lineage Daoist canon, including all Five Arts of ultimate fire.

• Xu Xuan found Wen Si'an’s letter explaining that she had left to protect Brocade Capital amid unrest in the Southern Border, while Xiao Wen and Xing Fang were also away on assignments.
• Xu Xuan resolved to expand his sect’s holdings in Heavenwater and refined Su Wei Mountain, discovering that it could strengthen the sect’s spiritual veins and repair his inner scenery.
• Xu Xuan examined the Demon Abyss Divine Baleful Palace and the artifacts inside, including Feng Dai’s Fury Mace, the Lingsa Spirit-Capturing Cloth, and the Black Toad Fire Pellet, none of which he chose to use.
• Xu Xuan unsealed a scroll of stone carvings and discovered it contained the Fallen Firmament Lineage’s ultimate fire methods and all Five Arts, including the core divine ability Blazing Heaven’s Collapse.

Xu Xuan studied the Fallen Cang scriptures, considered forging an artifact from ultimate fire and spirit thunder, and prepared for the coming assault on Desecration Mound. He then weighed his own and Xu Ming’s cultivation paths before Tiantuo warned him about the power of great cultivators of lesser yin.

• Xu Xuan and Tiantuo discussed ancient bing fire scriptures and questioned why True Lord Constant Light pursued Eternal Profound Brilliance.
• Xu Xuan decided Liang Yong deserved a chance to advance, despite Tiantuo’s warning that Buddhist-tainted Rage-Not-View could ruin his breakthrough.
• Xu Xuan found a canon for combining ultimate fire with spirit thunder and heard Tiantuo recount how Daoist Ku forged powerful artifacts from those forces.
• Xu Xuan sent a headless corpse to Immortal Official Mu Xu for transformation and considered the threat posed by the Bliss-Desire Demon Land before the assault on Desecration Mound.
• Xu Xuan reflected on Xu Ming’s promising cultivation and asked Tiantuo how he would fare against him; Tiantuo warned that great cultivators of lesser yin were beyond Xu Xuan’s present understanding.

Tuoba Cai visited Feng Yan to confirm that his soul injury had mostly healed and discussed her brother Tuoba Jue’s cultivation. After Feng Yan warned her against serving as a demon manifestation, she returned to the Bliss-Desire Demon Land and accepted a sealed drop of Xu Xuan’s blood for delivery to Great Shaman [Spirit Sacrifice].

• Tuoba Cai visited Feng Yan at the Sky Wolf Treasure Hall, where he said his soul injury had mostly healed despite lingering sky thunder.
• Feng Yan criticized Deliverance, discussed the war and Zhuoxie’s death, then asked about Tuoba Jue’s progress toward completing his final divine ability.
• Tuoba Cai praised her brother and left after Feng Yan advised her to find a way out of the Demonic Path.
• Tuoba Cai entered the Bliss-Desire Demon Land and met Jing Xing, who gave her a sealed drop of silver blood for Great Shaman [Spirit Sacrifice] to examine Xu Xuan’s bloodline.
• Jing Xing said the blood would help produce the Seventh Demon Manifestation through withering qi, and said the Calamity-Splitting Sword Immortal could be regarded as the Primordial Lord’s son.