Recaps

Xu Taiping and Duan Tianya learned that Lin Buyu shared her body with Lin Buyan, an Exiled Immortal who had awakened her past-life memories. At the Listening Wind Tower, Duan Tianya revealed that Xu Taiping’s Dragon Gall Wine had helped him awaken his own past-life memories, and Lin Buyan showed an intense interest in the wine.

• Xu Taiping recognized that the woman before him was not acting like Lin Buyu and drew his saber, while Duan Tianya stood ready beside him.
• Lin Buyu explained that her other self, Lin Buyan, had awakened memories from a past life and was an Exiled Immortal.
• Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping agreed to keep each other’s secrets, and Duan Tianya identified himself as nearing the end of his allotted time and called them a Mortal Bone Dao cultivator and a Fated One.
• Xu Taiping helped Duan Tianya to the Listening Wind Tower, where Duan Tianya asked whether he had any wine left.
• Duan Tianya confirmed that Xu Taiping’s Dragon Gall Wine had awakened his past-life memories, and Lin Buyan tried to emerge before Lin Buyu pulled her back and warned her.

Xu Taiping learned how Duan Tianya and Lu Yushi became Corpse Wraiths in the immortal mansion ruins and heard Duan Tianya’s suspicion that Nine Nether had turned the ruins into a medicine garden. Duan Tianya warned that the blood medicine being cultivated there might be a demon lotus capable of raising a Demon Venerable to Devil Master.

• Duan Tianya explained that Dragon Gall Wine awakened the remnant soul he had sealed in Water-Cutting, allowing him to strike the Demon Cultivator once.
• Duan Tianya recounted his history with Lu Yushi, his former disciple Shang Jiu, and the dungeon where he had spent ten years hoping Lu Yushi would come to him.
• Xu Taiping deduced that someone had refined Duan Tianya and Lu Yushi into Corpse Wraiths and placed them in the ruins to nurture the Heavenly Fragrance Zhuyan Fruit.
• Duan Tianya suspected Shang Jiu had allied with Nine Nether and said the immortal mansion ruins had become a medicine garden where cultivators’ flesh and blood nourished blood medicines.
• Duan Tianya warned Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu that the Nine Nether cultivators might be harvesting a demon lotus that could let a Demon Venerable ascend to Devil Master.

Duan Tianya explained the Demon Lotus and warned Xu Taiping about the danger posed by Nine Nether’s cultivators. Before they parted, he suppressed the Blade Ghost sealed in Xu Taiping’s palm, reducing its drain on Xu Taiping’s blood qi.

• Duan Tianya told Xu Taiping that Demon Lotuses required cultivator blood to grow and served as blood medicine for a Demon Venerable seeking to become a Devil Master.
• Duan Tianya said the Yunmeng Marsh ruins’ barrier would prevent a Demon Venerable from entering, explained how dead cultivators became Corpse Wraiths there, and warned Xu Taiping to hide after obtaining what he sought.
• Duan Tianya noticed the Blade Ghost sealed in Xu Taiping’s Ghost-Sealing Talisman and asked to see it.
• Duan Tianya struck the Talisman Seal twice with his blade intent, suppressing the Blade Ghost and making the seal’s drain on Xu Taiping’s blood qi nearly imperceptible.

Duan Tianya passed his Demon-Slaying Blade techniques and Water-Cutting Blade to Xu Taiping, believing in his potential despite his mortal bones. He also gave Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu cultivation letters and jade bracelets that could activate the Listening Wind Tower’s Teleportation Array.

• Duan Tianya told Xu Taiping that he had killed a cultivator in the Transformation Realm despite reaching only the peak of Spirit Refining.
• Duan Tianya transmitted the Demon-Slaying Blade manual to Xu Taiping and explained that he had created it after being expelled from the Heavenly Blade Sect.
• Duan Tianya insisted that Xu Taiping take Water-Cutting, explaining that a mortal-boned cultivator named Zhang Tianze had once fought the Devil Master of Youyun Province.
• Xu Taiping accepted the blade and promised not to disgrace Duan Tianya’s techniques or weapon.
• Duan Tianya gave Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu letters about cultivation and jade bracelets that could activate the Teleportation Array within the Immortal Mansions ruins.

Duan Tianya explained why cultivators with dual souls were called Fated Ones and warned Lin Buyu about the danger of revealing hers to demon cultivators. As Lu Yushi began recovering, Duan Tianya asked Xu Taiping to gather seven white crystal chrysanthemums so he could keep a promise he had broken centuries earlier.

• Duan Tianya gave Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu jade bracelets that could unleash a powerful True Words Spell when they joined hands and united their hearts.
• Duan Tianya explained that demon cultivators hunted people with mortal bones and dual souls, and said a prophecy named a dual-souled cultivator as the Devil Race's destined calamity.
• Duan Tianya warned Lin Buyu to conceal her dual soul from demon cultivators, and she thanked him.
• Lu Yushi began recovering from her injuries, and Duan Tianya told Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu that he would soon vanish and become a corpse wraith.
• Duan Tianya asked Xu Taiping to pick seven white crystal chrysanthemums, explaining that he had once promised Lu Yushi he would return by the time she plucked their petals.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu activated the Listening Wind Tower’s teleportation array and arrived at the Rain and Dew Garden, where four Cloudview Palace disciples ambushed them. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping readying his Spring Tiger Saber as Senior Brother Song demanded their surrender.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu held hands to activate the teleportation array and traveled toward the Peony Pavilion in the Rain and Dew Garden.
• Duan Tianya offered the awakened Flying Jiangshi Girl a bouquet of White Crystal Chrysanthemums, and she tore the flowers apart before a scream rang through the Listening Wind Tower.
• Four Cloudview Palace disciples surrounded the Peony Pavilion and prepared to attack anyone who teleported there.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu appeared in the pavilion, and Senior Brother Song demanded that they surrender.
• Lin Buyu asked Xu Taiping if they were surrounded, and Xu Taiping agreed as he reached for the Spring Tiger Saber.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu defeated Cloudview Palace’s guards and learned that the Young Palace Master and two elders had cornered Xu Ziyan’s group in the medicine garden to seize the Dragon Fang Fruit. Xu Taiping spotted the group under attack and realized they were close to being overwhelmed.

• Xu Taiping defeated the five Cloudview Palace disciples, then forced Senior Brother Song to reveal that the Young Palace Master and two elders had surrounded Xu Ziyan and the others.
• Senior Brother Song disclosed that the elders controlled more than thirty corpse wraiths, including two hairy jiangshi, while the Young Palace Master used qin music to disrupt formations.
• Lin Buyu summoned Lin Buyan and bargained with her to use Flute Notes to counter the Young Palace Master’s music.
• Xu Taiping climbed onto the courtyard wall and saw Xu Ziyan’s group pinned near the ancient tree as the corpse wraiths battered their Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation.
• Xu Taiping noticed Zhou Ao defending Xu Ziyan while wounded, and Lin Buyu warned that the group would not hold out much longer.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu charged into the battle to reach the Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation, while Xu Taiping used his martial arts and physique to break through Cloudview Palace’s Corpse Wraiths. He was injured by a sound attack but kept advancing with Lin Buyu and Lin Buyan.

• Zhou Ao used his last True Fire Talisman to set a Hairy Jiangshi aflame, giving Xu Ziyan and the others time to adjust the sword formation and drive back Cloudview Palace’s attack.
• Xu Taiping feinted at Cloudview Palace’s Young Palace Master, then turned and charged toward the Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation, cutting through Corpse Wraiths with Spring Tiger.
• Lin Buyu appeared as her Dharma Robe’s invisibility wore off, and Cloudview Palace’s elders recalled two Hairy Jiangshi to stop her and Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping released the turbid qi weighing down his body, knocked aside both Hairy Jiangshi, and continued fighting through the Corpse Wraiths as Lin Buyan followed.
• A zither melody bound Xu Taiping with sound threads, letting a White Jiangshi strike his chest, but he broke free and split the attacker’s head with his saber.

Xu Taiping fought the Cloudview Palace elders while Lin Buyan helped him reach Xu Ziyan’s group, and he hurled Lin Buyu into the Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation so she could join it. The elders attacked him in fury, but Xu Taiping used a clone to strike Elder Lin with his blade.

• Lin Buyan used her flute to shatter the Young Palace Master’s sound-wave attack and overwhelm him, giving Xu Taiping a path through the Corpse Wraiths.
• Xu Taiping cleared the enemies near him with the Azure Luan Ring, then threw Lin Buyu into the Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation, where Xu Ziyan caught her.
• Lin Buyu confirmed that she could join the formation as the two Cloudview Palace elders launched a joint attack on Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping used the seventh kill of the Seven-Kill Blade to halt the elders’ attacks, then concealed his movement with the Mist-Borrowing Technique.
• Elder Lin struck Xu Taiping’s clone, but Xu Taiping appeared behind him and slashed his chest.

Xu Taiping killed Elder Sun with the final blow of his One Hundred and Eight Fists while Lin Buyu protected him from the surrounding attacks. Jing Hao and Elder Lin fled, but Xu Ziyan revealed that a hairy jiangshi had stolen the Dragon Fang Fruit during the fight.

• Xu Taiping wounded Elder Lin, then attacked Elder Sun through the fog as Elder Lin warned him about Xu Taiping’s clone.
• Xu Taiping’s punches broke through Elder Sun’s defenses, and Jing Hao and Elder Lin tried to stop his final strike with a gale and Corpse Wraiths.
• Lin Buyu activated the formation, scattering the gale and striking the Corpse Wraiths with sword qi as Xu Taiping killed Elder Sun with his hundred-and-eighth punch.
• Jing Hao grabbed Elder Lin and fled, while Xu Ziyan stopped Xu Taiping from pursuing them and warned that Jing Hao might retaliate with an Immortal Treasure.
• Xu Ziyan told Xu Taiping that a hairy jiangshi transformed from a female corpse had stolen the Dragon Fang Fruit during the battle.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu entered a sealed cellar to retrieve the Dragon Fang Fruit stolen by a Hairy Jiangshi, despite being unable to use True Essence or Spiritual Power inside. They found that the cellar had once stored spirit herbs, then encountered the Hairy Jiangshi as it attacked Xu Taiping.

• Xu Ziyan explained that a Hairy Jiangshi had stolen the Dragon Fang Fruit and fled into a cellar where True Essence and Spiritual Power could not be used.
• Xu Taiping agreed to enter the cellar, and Lin Buyu joined him with her protective Dharma Robe.
• Lin Buyan revealed that the cellar had likely been Rain and Dew Garden's spirit-herb storehouse.
• Xu Taiping lifted several heavy stone gates with his physical strength and reached the cellar interior with Lin Buyu.
• A long-haired Hairy Jiangshi attacked Xu Taiping while he held up a stone gate, and Lin Buyu rammed into it but was sent flying back.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu subdued a Hairy Jiangshi whose ancient swordsmanship suggested she had once been a cultivator in the immortal mansion ruins. When the Hairy Jiangshi revealed a hidden entrance beneath the cellar, they prepared to descend in search of the Dragon Fang Fruit.

• Lin Buyu was knocked aside by the Hairy Jiangshi, and Xu Taiping fought it with his saber despite being wounded by its skilled swordsmanship.
• Lin Buyan identified the Hairy Jiangshi’s sword techniques as ancient and told Xu Taiping to immobilize it so she could control it with Flute Notes.
• Xu Taiping shattered the Hairy Jiangshi’s joints, and Lin Buyan’s flute calmed it long enough for Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping to inspect the cellar.
• Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping searched the ruined herb warehouse for the Dragon Fang Fruit but found no sign of it.
• The Hairy Jiangshi opened a hidden floor entrance by moving a box and knocking on the wall, and Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping decided to go below.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu found Grass Return Pills, a pill furnace, and Dragon Fang Fruit in the cellar, then discovered the female Hairy Jiangshi writing a message to her master. The message revealed she had been trapped there for 107 years.

• Xu Taiping uncovered an invisible box containing two Grass Return Pills, and he and Lin Buyu each took one.
• Xu Taiping found a pill furnace, and Lin Buyan explained the uses and dangers of Dragon Fang Fruit before they divided the fruit.
• The female Hairy Jiangshi began carving a message into a stone table, starting with a note to her honored master that she had been trapped in the cellar for 107 years.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu read a dying Taixuan Sect disciple’s warning that mortal bone cultivators caused the Great Void Calamity, but Lin Buyan knew nothing of the calamity or the sect. Lin Buyan then connected the letter to an ancient legend about the origins of cultivation in the Shangqing Realm.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu read a letter from a Taixuan Sect disciple trapped underground, who warned that the Great Void Calamity remained and urged strangers to kill mortal bone cultivators.
• Lin Buyu rejected the letter, while Lin Buyan said she had never heard of the Sumeru Realm, Taixuan Sect, or Great Void Calamity.
• Lin Buyan explained that the Shangqing Realm contained six heavens and that the True Martial Heaven was the lowest and smallest.
• Xu Taiping wondered whether the Taixuan Sect lay beyond their domain and considered asking Fairy Lingyue about it.
• Lin Buyan recounted a legend that six stone steles brought three hundred origin laws to humanity and classified spirit bones into four grades, with all others deemed mortal bones.

Xu Taiping learned that the Spirit Bone Steles may have come from a broken ancient stele bearing a warning about Mortal Bones, then took the letter and Corpse Wraith from the cellar. After recovering the Dragon Fang Fruit, he guarded Sixth Peak’s courtyard while practicing the Demon-Slaying Blade, and a familiar voice called to him.

• Lin Buyan told Xu Taiping that Spirit Bone Steles were fragments of an ancient stele and advised him to destroy the letter to prevent persecution of cultivators with Mortal Bones.
• Xu Taiping stored the letter and female Corpse Wraith for Fairy Lingyue to examine, then Lin Buyu took control and led him out.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu delivered the recovered Dragon Fang Fruit to Senior Sister Ziyan and the other Sixth Peak senior sisters, who began setting up a barrier in a secluded courtyard.
• Xu Taiping practiced the Demon-Slaying Blade while guarding the courtyard and used its Blade Force to kill the Corpse Wraiths approaching through the ruins.
• A familiar voice called to Xu Taiping from behind him.

Xu Taiping and the Sixth Peak disciples completed the Golden Qilin Formation and prepared to leave the Yunmeng Marsh Ruins. The chapter ended with a Demon Cultivator attacking their courtyard and Zhou Ao crashing against the newly activated barrier.

• Xu Ziyan explained that the Golden Qilin Formation was nearly ready and thanked Xu Taiping for protecting the group while they built it.
• Zhou Ao volunteered to take the night watch, and Xu Taiping gave him a Message Talisman before returning to his room.
• Xu Taiping spent the night tempering his meridians and apertures, then went to relieve Zhou Ao after learning the formation could be activated at any time.
• A violent crash and Zhou Ao's warning that a Demon Cultivator had appeared prompted Xu Ziyan to activate the Golden Qilin Formation.
• Zhou Ao struck the barrier as a burly Demon Cultivator arrived above it, riding a black-vaporous Demon Flood Dragon.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu stopped the Blond Strongman’s Black Lance from killing Zhou Ao, but the weapon’s demonic power threatened the disciples and the attackers battered the not-yet-active grand formation. As the formation weakened, Xu Taiping tried to seal the Demonic Spear with the Ghost-Sealing Incantation.

• Xu Ziyan opened the grand formation to let Zhou Ao fall inside, and Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping deflected the Blond Strongman’s lance before it struck him.
• The Demonic Spear landed in the courtyard and its buzzing made several Sixth Peak disciples vomit blood, so Xu Taiping pulled it from the ground.
• A demon cultivator struck the formation while the Demon Flood Dragon attacked Lin Buyu and the others, forcing them to form the Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation.
• As Xu Taiping struggled to drag the spear away, the formation began to loosen, and he decided to use the Ghost-Sealing Seal on the weapon.
• Xu Taiping gripped the Demonic Spear and chanted the Ghost-Sealing Incantation as it struggled violently to break free.

Xu Taiping destroyed the blond demon cultivator’s Night Demonic Spear with the Ghost-Sealing Talisman and provoked him into agreeing to a physical duel. As the Golden Qilin Formation weakened, Xu Taiping left the courtyard to face him, recalling that the fearless could be invincible.

• Xu Taiping used the Ghost-Sealing Talisman to devour the demonic qi and shadow within the Night Demonic Spear, then threw the purified spear at the blond demon cultivator and staggered him.
• The blond demon cultivator realized Xu Taiping had destroyed his weapon and attacked the barrier in a fury.
• Xu Taiping challenged the blond demon cultivator to a duel limited to physique, qi, and blood, and the demon cultivator swore an oath to accept.
• Xu Ziyan and the other senior sisters urged Xu Taiping to wait for the Golden Scale Grand Formation to activate, but he saw that its formation flag had run out of spiritual energy.
• Xu Taiping left the courtyard to confront the blond demon cultivator and recited, “The fearless can be invincible.”

Xu Taiping fought the blond demon cultivator outside the courtyard, first losing to his overwhelming punches before using borrowed force to wound him. The demon cultivator then grew two extra arms and broke Xu Taiping’s accumulating blade force, leaving their fight unresolved as he removed his heavy iron wrist rings.

• The blond demon cultivator challenged Xu Taiping, who left the courtyard and prepared to fight him outside.
• The demon cultivator’s punch shattered Xu Taiping’s Steel-Breaking strike and broke through the Wind Wall and Profound Ice Armor, but Xu Taiping dodged his next attack.
• Xu Taiping used the Demon-Slaying Blade’s principle of borrowing force to overcome the demon cultivator’s fist and slash open his chest.
• Xu Ziyan recognized Xu Taiping’s borrowed force and urged the others to defeat the demonic flood dragon while he held the demon cultivator off.
• The blond demon cultivator grew two extra arms and smashed apart Xu Taiping’s blade force, then removed the iron rings from his wrists.

Xu Taiping fought a blond martial demon whose overwhelming strength drove him to release the turbid qi in two more apertures and break one of his divine soul’s restraints. He struck the demon into a crater, then prepared to finish the fight quickly before his untempered body gave out.

• The blond demonic cultivator removed his six Mountain-Suppressing Iron weights and attacked Xu Taiping with the strength of a martial demon.
• The martial demon battered Xu Taiping until the Spring Tiger Saber was knocked from his hands, while Lin Buyu and the others urged him to retreat into the formation.
• Xu Taiping let the martial demon’s all-out punch hit a mist double, then countered with punches that released the turbid qi in two more apertures.
• Xu Taiping broke a restraint his divine soul placed on his physique and struck the martial demon into the ground with a punch exceeding ten thousand jin.
• Xu Taiping swallowed Power-Restoring Pills and unleashed Charging Ox Breaks the Formation to end the fight before his body collapsed.

Xu Taiping used the Rain and Dew Garden’s power to grievously wound the blond martial demon, then pressed the Ghost-Sealing Talisman to his forehead to begin sealing him. The demon resisted, and Xu Taiping realized the seal was draining an enormous amount of his Blood Qi.

• Xu Taiping battered the blond martial demon with more than a hundred punches while the Sixth Peak senior sisters fought the Demon Flood Dragon.
• The blond martial demon grew a second pair of arms, broke free of Xu Taiping’s Fist Force, and counterattacked.
• Xu Taiping bit through the Dragon Fang Fruit and combined its power with the momentum of the Rain and Dew Garden to punch through the demon’s chest.
• As the blond martial demon healed with a Blood Pill, Xu Taiping revealed that his plan had been to weaken the demon enough to seal him, not to kill him.
• Xu Taiping activated the Ghost-Sealing Talisman and clamped onto the demon’s head as he resisted, then discovered that the sealing process consumed his Blood Qi.

Xu Taiping used the Water-Cutting Blade to slay the Blond Demon Cultivator, but a powerful Demon Venerable arrived and attacked the Golden Qilin Formation. At Azure Profound Sect, Lü Sword Nine sent two transformed flying swords to Yunmeng Marsh to aid the trapped disciples.

• Xu Taiping grasped the Water-Cutting Blade, learned a Demon-Slaying Blade technique from Duan Tianya’s image, and cut the Blond Demon Cultivator in two.
• Xu Taiping beheaded the Blond Demon Cultivator, collected his corpse and belongings, and fled into the courtyard as a Demon Venerable struck the Golden Qilin Formation.
• Peak Master Meng and Zhao Qian asked Lü Sword Nine to rescue the trapped disciples, including Xu Taiping, and Lü Sword Nine agreed to help.
• Lü Sword Nine transformed the fish Longyuan and Chengying into flying swords and sent them toward Yunmeng Marsh to ask the trapped disciples whether they wanted to return or join the demon-slaying effort.

Xu Taiping endured the Dragon Fang Fruit’s backlash and several other severe pains alone in a sealed stone room. He emerged battered but alive, and his companions began taking him to recover just as thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Zhou Ao went to check on Xu Taiping, but Lin Buyu barred the courtyard entrance according to Xu Taiping’s instructions.
• Xu Taiping endured the Dragon Fang Fruit’s backlash, the Ghost-Sealing Talisman draining his blood qi, bodily strain, and damage to his divine soul inside the stone room.
• After the pounding and groans stopped, Xu Taiping called for Xu Ziyan and Lin Buyu to enter, and Zhou Ao joined them.
• Xu Ziyan, Zhou Ao, and Lin Buyu found Xu Taiping bloodied and emaciated; Zhou Ao steadied him, and Lin Buyu gave him half a roast goose.
• Xu Taiping ate heartily, and Xu Ziyan proposed taking him to the dining hall for food and a medicinal bath.
• As Xu Taiping and the others left the stone room, thunder sounded and dark clouds gathered overhead.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu learned that the Golden Qilin Formation might soon fall, so they investigated the powers of their paired jade bracelets. They discovered three True Words that could help them survive the coming battle, though the strongest would turn them against each other.

• Xu Ziyan told Xu Taiping that the demon cultivator was probing the Golden Qilin Formation and that the grand formation would reopen in two days.
• Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping that the Golden Qilin Formation's nodes were faltering and said they should plan for its fall.
• Lin Buyu revealed that the paired jade bracelets held True Words left by the Listening Wind Tower's master.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu interlaced their fingers and learned the three True Words and their effects.
• Xu Taiping suggested using Jade and Stone Burn Together against the demon cultivators, but Lin Buyu refused because it would make them enemies.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu used Hearts in Harmony to learn that the demon cultivators planned to attack the formation node at the Dining Hall, and Lin Buyu persuaded Xu Ziyan to prepare for the strike. By morning, Xu Ziyan had shifted the Grand Formation's power toward that node, while Zhou Ao gave Xu Taiping a powerful bow whose full strength he could draw.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu chose Hearts in Harmony and used it together when the demon cultivators attacked the Golden Scale Grand Formation.
• Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping learned that the demon cultivators intended to attack the formation node at the Dining Hall, and Lin Buyu explained the risks of counterattacking through it.
• Lin Buyu offered to persuade Xu Ziyan to reinforce the Dining Hall node, while Xu Taiping agreed that they needed to prepare for the formation's possible fall.
• After deliberating overnight, Xu Ziyan directed the Sixth Peak disciples to shift the Grand Formation's power toward the Dining Hall node.
• Xu Ziyan told Xu Taiping to take Lin Buyu and flee if the formation fell, and Zhou Ao later gave Xu Taiping a powerful bow and an Arrow Case.