Arc 111Chapters 2751–2775
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Xu Taiping endured Yue Zhenchuan’s powerful punches to study his technique, then struck back with a punch that unleashed eighty percent of his combat power. As Yue Zhenchuan answered with Jiuyi Upside Down, Xu Taiping prepared to test whether he could reach ninety percent.
Xu Taiping used his newly mastered control of ninety percent of his combat strength to overpower Yue Zhenchuan and send him off the Bronze Sparrow Platform. After the fight, Xu Taiping realized he had spent far less true essence, qi and blood, and divine essence than he had against Chu Zheng.
Xu Taiping defeated Yue Zhenchuan with little expenditure and received a Mountain-Moving Token from him. After the Black Prison announced Duan Qingbo as Xu Taiping’s next opponent, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage hoped the fight would push Xu Taiping to use the full strength of his physique.
Xu Taiping defeated Duan Qingbo quickly, then faced Mo Qingzhu of the Hundred Talisman Sect as the next challenger. Mo Qingzhu struggled to explain his request, and Xu Taiping suggested that he write it down.
Mo Qingzhu conceded his match and asked Xu Taiping to sell him Golden Millet Paper, offering his life as a helper in return for one sheet. Xu Taiping privately told him where he was staying, and the next challenger, Nangong Wen of the Three Corpses Cave, was called to the arena.
Xu Taiping fought Nangong Wen of Three Corpses Cave on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, breaking through Nangong Wen’s wind prison and meeting his Soul-Slaying Blade head-on. The chapter ended with Nangong Wen calling out “Asura” as his blade shadow began to shatter.
Xu Taiping fought Nangong Wen while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage kept him from using his other techniques, forcing him to rely on his physique and fist strength. Under Nangong Wen’s increasingly deadly wind attacks, Xu Taiping broke through his limits and unleashed eighteen thousand punches, reaching the full combat strength of his physique.
Xu Taiping defeated Nangong Wen with a twenty-one-thousand-punch strike, then tested his strength against Luo Hong and Xu Laosan when they intervened. Luo Hong nearly killed Xu Taiping, but Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared and forced him to his knees.
Xu Taiping defeated Nangong Wen and began recovering on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, absorbing spiritual power at a startling rate. As the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Hanjian debated whether he should keep pursuing greater strength, Ninth Madam reacted to their teasing and the platform’s rapidly growing cloud pillar.
Xu Taiping asked to begin the arena competition early and quickly overwhelmed Du Shouzhuo. As the Three Corpses Cave debated whether to send Baili Yezhao into the arena before he had rested, they decided he would take the next match.
Xu Taiping defeated Du Shouzhuo, then faced an unexpected challenge from Baili Yezhao, the twenty-first-ranked heavenly prodigy from Three Corpses Cave. The Black Prison Child confirmed Baili Yezhao’s status and announced him as Xu Taiping’s next opponent.
A Ziyang Sect cultivator and the gathered disciples watched Baili Yezhao battle a mysterious opponent through a spirit mirror. Baili Yezhao’s powerful water techniques failed to finish the opponent, whose counterattack began to emerge from the mist.
Qingning watched Baili Yezhao’s fight against Xu Taiping, whom the spectators called Nameless Nobody from the Lower Realm, and learned that the ascended martial artist had opened the Bronze Prison arena. As Baili Yezhao trapped Xu Taiping in a hundred-li whirlpool, Xu Taiping unleashed a vast fist force that Qingning recognized as Overlord's Breath.
Ziyang Sect disciples watched Xu Taiping battle Baili Yezhao through a Spirit Mirror as his fist force broke through Baili Yezhao’s black-water defenses. Baili Yezhao unleashed his Yu Emperor dharma aspect and knocked Xu Taiping toward the edge of the Bronze Sparrow Platform, but Xu Taiping regained his footing and prepared another attack.
Xu Taiping repeatedly used the fist force of forty-eight thousand punches against Baili Yezhao’s Emperor Yu Dharma Aspect, even as his attacks shattered and his divine soul power was at risk of running out. He left the fight still fixated on ordinary punches, with Heavenly Lord Hanjian worried he would exhaust himself before using a killing move.
Xu Taiping endured repeated defeats against Baili Yezhao while relying on ordinary fist moves, then unleashed a far stronger technique that shattered the Yu Emperor Dharma Aspect and cracked the Black Prison restrictions. The chapter ended with Heavenly Lord Hanjian questioning whether Xu Taiping’s Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Eight Hundred Fists represented the limit of his combat strength.
Xu Taiping overcame Baili Yezhao’s starfall divine intent and defeated him with a punch beyond his previously revealed limit. After Xu challenged the heavenly geniuses again, Qingning recognized him as a possible Fated Enemy of Senior Brother Xiao Huang and sent Xiao Huang a message.
After Xu Taiping defeated Baili Yezhao, the Cave Master of Three Corpses Cave ordered Xu San and Luo Hong to keep him on the platform until a challenger arrived. They suspected the challenger would be Lin Qinggu, whose rapid rise after awakening made him a potentially formidable opponent.
The spectators discussed Lin Qinggu’s destined enemy and learned that Xu Taiping had a Mortal Bone, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed he was staking his path to ascension on Xu Taiping’s growth. After Xu Taiping recovered on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, Xiao Tinghan of the Thunder Sword Sect interrupted the next match to challenge him to a Sword Inquiry.
Xu Taiping’s challenge arena drew increasingly powerful heavenly geniuses, including Yan Xuanling and Xiao Huang, while the Black Prison faced a sudden threat from a Dao Erosion-level Chaos Demonic Beast. The chapter ended as Heavenly Lord Hanjian identified the approaching creature as an Eclipse Wheel.
Xu Taiping learned that the Dao Erosion-level Chaos Demonic Beast Eclipse Wheel had attacked the Black Prison, forcing its occupants to evacuate, and he stayed in the Golden Goblet Tower to recover and prepare for his opponents. Nine days later, the bloodied Heaven-Hunting Great Sage returned carrying an injured Heavenly Lord Hanjian and told Xu Taiping he might have to enter Yaochi Sacred Land early.
The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that the Black Prison could not reopen soon, so they would enter the Yaochi Sacred Land early to seek a Nine-Colored Lotus for the wounded Heavenly Lord Hanjian. The Great Sage would leave an incarnation behind to protect Hanjian, reducing his strength during the journey, and they still needed another companion to meet the Sacred Land’s entry requirements.
Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage planned their journey to the Yaochi Sacred Land and identified Mo Qingzhu as a possible talisman master to recruit. The Spirit Mirror found Mo Qingzhu selling talismans outside the Golden Goblet Tower, where local cultivators were threatening him, and Xu Taiping and the Great Sage went to see what he would do.
Xu Taiping rescued Mo Qingzhu from three Giant Spirit Sect cultivators who were trying to drive him away from his stall outside the Golden Goblet Tower. As the sect members confronted Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage dismissed their sect as a rabble, provoking Wan Jun.
Xu Taiping recruited Mo Qingzhu to accompany him and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to the Yaochi Sacred Land in exchange for Golden Millet Paper, which Mo needed to save the Hundred Talisman Sect’s cultivation grounds. When Xiao Huang of the Ziyang Sect challenged Xu Taiping to a fistfight outside the Golden Goblet Tower, Xu Taiping chose to answer him.