Recaps

Xu Taiping realized the Lotus Eye might be compromised because its previous Dao Integration partner was Zhao Xuantan, and he abruptly ordered the army to turn before reaching the planned distance. The formation obeyed, leaving the reason for his sudden alarm unresolved.

• Xu Taiping warned that one of the three red-robed ghosts likely wielded a mirror that could counter their military formation, and Zhao Qian identified it as the mirror ghost.
• Xu Taiping planned to turn the formation after advancing three thousand zhang and send Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect disciples to hide while the others dealt with the ghosts.
• Ping'an heard the three blood-robed ghosts discussing an attack once the army advanced another two thousand zhang, confirming Xu Taiping's suspicion.
• As the army fought deeper into the ghost horde, Xu Taiping felt uneasy and his Lotus Eye grew hot, though he saw no immediate danger.
• Xu Taiping remembered that Zhao Xuantan had been the Lotus Eye's previous Dao Integration partner and ordered everyone to turn immediately without asking questions.
• Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, Fengzhu, and the other banner bearers obeyed and turned the military formation.

Xu Taiping and his companions seized an opening to attack the three Blood Garments after avoiding their ambush, while Zhao Qian led the Azure Profound Sect toward the Ghost Domain. At the Ghost Domain entrance, they discovered Mirror Ghost's blood mirror absorbed spells and much of their attacks, and Blade Ghost prepared to demonstrate his Ultimate Realm Blade Strike.

• Xu Taiping redirected the Demon-Slaying Army after sensing danger, and the three Blood Garments' blood mirror struck the place where the army had been headed.
• Xu Taiping, Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, Fengzhu, Bai Yu, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang charged the three Blood Garments while Zhao Qian formed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and led the Azure Profound Sect onward.
• Blade Ghost unleashed a colossal blade strike, and Xu Taiping and his companions rode the black hound to attack the Blood Garments as the Azure Profound Sect watched them drive the foes back.
• At the Ghost Domain entrance, Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost attacked Mirror Ghost, but its blood mirror absorbed their strikes and swallowed Old Daoist Huang's fireball.
• Xu Taiping discovered that the mirror absorbed spells and divine abilities more completely than martial combat, and Blade Ghost offered to show him his Ultimate Realm Blade Strike.

Xu Taiping fought Mirror Ghost while Blade Ghost gathered the strength for an Ultimate Realm Blade Strike. After Mirror Ghost reflected Xu Taiping’s attacks through the Blood Mirror, Xu Taiping unleashed the Heaven-Shaking Fist’s fourth stage, astonishing Old Daoist Huang.

• Blade Ghost asked Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang to hold Mirror Ghost back while he gathered blade force.
• Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang attacked Mirror Ghost’s Blood Mirror, but it reflected Xu Taiping’s first-stage Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Xu Taiping countered the reflected attack with the second stage and struck Mirror Ghost, who then reflected that stage as well.
• Xu Taiping advanced to the third stage and battered Mirror Ghost, but the Blood Mirror reflected the attack toward him.
• With his fist force exhausted, Xu Taiping called out the Heaven-Shaking Fist’s fourth stage, shocking Old Daoist Huang.

Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Shaking Fist failed to destroy Mirror Ghost, but Blade Ghost’s ultimate realm strike cut down Mirror Ghost and helped defeat the other two Blood Garments. Blade Ghost hinted that the physique he wanted to retrieve was in the Ghost Domain, and Xu Taiping realized it might be connected to where Blade Ghost’s remnant soul was born.

• Xu Taiping’s amplified punch shattered Mirror Ghost’s attack, but the blood mirror absorbed its force and sent it back at him.
• Old Daoist Huang and Xiaohei moved to protect Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping told them to fall back as Blade Ghost emerged.
• Blade Ghost’s slash split the golden fist shadow, blood mirror, and Mirror Ghost into fragments, then wounded the other two Blood Garments so Xuanbei and the others could destroy them.
• Blade Ghost said the Thousand Faces Puppet’s body weakened his strike and that he needed to retrieve his own physique.
• Xu Taiping asked whether Blade Ghost’s physique was in the Ghost Domain, and Blade Ghost reminded him where his remnant soul had been born.

Xu Taiping learned that Blade Ghost was Heavenly Lord Neck Metal, Li Wenqiong, and that Zhao Xuantan had betrayed Zhenwu and once grievously injured him. Blade Ghost left with Xiaohei to retrieve his sealed physique, while Xu Taiping led the others toward Taixuan Hall to rescue Lü Daoxuan and face Zhao Xuantan.

• Blade Ghost said his sealed physique lay in the First Demon Grotto and that he needed to retrieve it because the Demon Mother's clone might have awakened.
• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping to meet Lü Daoxuan at Taixuan Hall, then learned that Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye had revealed Zhao Xuantan's deadly trap.
• Blade Ghost revealed that Zhao Xuantan had betrayed Zhenwu and injured him, and identified himself as Heavenly Lord Neck Metal, Li Wenqiong.
• Blade Ghost left on Xiaohei to retrieve his physique and entrusted Xu Taiping with holding off Zhao Xuantan.
• Xu Taiping told Heavenly Lord Xuanbei, Daoist Fengzhu, and the others that Zhao Xuantan guarded the Demon Mother's clone with several Blood Garments.

Xu Taiping and the Azure Profound Sect’s sword cultivators joined forces with their allies to break through the ghost army and charge into the Ghost Domain toward Taixuan Hall. They set out to rescue Grand Martial Uncle and confront Zhao Xuantan.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and Daoist Fengzhu identified Zhao Xuantan as the enemy in Taixuan Hall and said Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Bai Yu would be needed to counter his physique.
• The eighty-three Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators arrived, and Xu Taiping explained that Blade Ghost’s body was sealed in the First Demon Grotto.
• Xu Taiping gave Blade Ghost’s Thunder Sound Banner to Liang Zhu and rallied the sect to bring back their Grand Martial Uncle and return home together.
• Xu Taiping led the group as their battle intent formed a great sword shadow and the Thunder Sound Banners formed the Ten Directions Thunder-Sound Earth-Splitting Formation.
• The battle formation crushed the ghost creatures and destroyed the Blood Garment before charging deep into the Ghost Domain.

Xu Taiping’s party lost the Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s support and faced the Stove Wraith, whose ghost powers threatened their souls. Daoist Fengzhu rescued the Azure Profound Sect disciples, while the onlookers discussed the unique powers of the blood-robed ghosts guarding the Demon Mother.

• The Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s battle intent and Old General Lian Xing’s phantom dispersed, leaving Xu Taiping’s party to rely on their own strength.
• Bai Yu and Ping'an attacked a blood-robed ghost resembling an ascetic monk and destroyed it.
• A Stove Wraith sucked in the Thunder Sound Grinding Disc, but Xu Taiping caught its lightning pearl attack with the Buddhism Sea-Swallowing Seal.
• The Stove Wraith used its Soul-Summoning Art on more than a dozen Azure Profound Sect disciples, and Daoist Fengzhu’s white sand river swept their souls to safety.
• The Stove Wraith fired ghostly stove flames, and Chen Hao explained that its fire could refine divine souls into Ghost Pellets while he and Sect Leader Xiao Ming described the blood-robed ghosts’ unique powers.

Daoist Fengzhu weakened the Blood Garment Stove Wraith with his Great Dao Edict and stayed behind to refine it while Xu Taiping and the Azure Profound Sect party flew toward Taixuan Hall. At the hall, Bu Xueting used Xiao Ming’s Spirit Mirror to send Xu Taiping a voice transmission and ask him a favor.

• Daoist Fengzhu turned into azure flame and pierced the Stove Wraith’s poisonous fire, weakening the ghost creature.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei explained that refining the Blood Garment could bring Daoist Fengzhu closer to a half-immortal seat, and Xu Taiping left him to continue alone.
• Bai Yu carried Xu Taiping, Zhao Qian, and the Azure Profound Sect party toward Taixuan Hall.
• Bu Xueting arrived at Taixuan Hall and praised Bai Yu and Ping'an for receiving Lady Undying Night Soul’s legacy.
• Bu Xueting borrowed Xiao Ming’s Spirit Mirror, restored it after it cracked, and sent Xu Taiping a voice transmission asking him for a favor.

Xu Taiping learned that Bu Xueting wanted him to kill the Blood Garment Coffin Fly so Bu Xueting could enter the Ghost Domain through the passage it opened. As Xu Taiping weighed the danger against the need for Bu Xueting’s strength, Bu Xueting revealed that Undying Night Soul had specifically sent him to the Lower Realm.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei told Xu Taiping that Bu Xueting was a powerful Half-Immortal who had once sought a breakthrough in True Martial Heaven.
• Bu Xueting asked Xu Taiping to find Coffin Fly near Taixuan Hall and kill it to open a passage out of the Ghost Domain.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei explained that Coffin Fly’s flies could keep multiplying unless they were all lured out and destroyed at once.
• Bai Yu offered to take Xu Taiping and Ping'an directly to Taixuan Hall, but Xu Taiping worried that he would need Bu Xueting’s help against Zhao Xuantan and the Demon Mother Clone.
• Bu Xueting told Xu Taiping that Undying Night Soul had specifically instructed him to come, urging Xu Taiping to trust her.

Xu Taiping and his companions headed for the ruins of Cloudsong Pavilion after learning how to weaken the blood-robed coffin fly with plum blood wax. Xu Taiping discovered that his Furnace Dao Body could refine the power of Plum Blood Talismans with little backlash, but found that their power stopped increasing beyond ninety-nine talismans.

• Bai Yu and Ping'an reported hearing commotion near the ruins of Cloudsong Pavilion, and Xu Taiping ordered Bai Yu to fly there.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and Old Daoist Huang explained that ninety-nine Plum Blood Talismans could severely wound the blood-robed coffin fly, while Zhao Qian warned that using them would endanger Xu Taiping's mind.
• Xu Taiping revealed that his Furnace Dao Body could refine plum blood wax with little backlash, and Zhao Qian disclosed that he had stockpiled over ten thousand Plum Blood Talismans.
• Xu Taiping took one hundred talismans and refined their power into a crystal, with only negligible effects on his physique and divine soul.
• Xu Taiping noticed that the power of the fused Plum Blood Talismans stopped increasing once he combined ninety-nine of them.

Xu Taiping discovered that he could refine Plum Blood Wax's power into crystals that others could use, then gave a crystal to Heavenly Lord Xuanbei to attack the Coffin Fly Ghost Mother. As Blood Garment Coffin Fly Ghosts approached, Xu Taiping armed the Seven Peak Lords with crystals to strengthen their Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• Xu Taiping confirmed that Plum Blood Wax's combat enhancement peaked at ninety-nine talismans, but found he could refine its power into crystals that Zhao Qian and Zhao Linglong could use without backlash.
• Zhao Qian entrusted Xu Taiping with thirteen thousand Plum Blood Talismans gathered by Qingxuan over sixty years.
• Old Daoist Huang explained that the cultivator who severely wounded the Coffin Fly Ghost Mother would be sealed inside her abdomen, and Heavenly Lord Xuanbei volunteered to make the attack.
• Xu Taiping gave Heavenly Lord Xuanbei a Plum Blood Crystal and promised to slay the Demon Mother Clone if Xuanbei could not return in time.
• Blood Garment Coffin Fly Ghosts arrived, and their swarms blocked the Azure Profound Sect's flying swords.
• Xu Taiping gave seven Plum Blood Crystals to Zhao Qian, who distributed them to the Seven Peak Lords to power the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

Inside Boundless Hall, Bu Xueting explained that the Blood Garment Coffin Fly Ghost Mother’s fate would determine when the Shangqing Edict’s seal loosened as the Azure Profound Sect and Xu Taiping’s group attacked her lair. Heavenly Lord Xuanbei cleared the Ghost Mother’s swarm and plunged into her split belly to open the way for Bu Xueting.

• Bu Xueting told Xiao Ming that the Ghost Mother’s life or death would mark the dividing line for the Shangqing Edict’s seal and their chance to enter the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
• The Azure Profound Sect’s sword formation broke through the coffin fly ghosts, and Bai Yu carried Xu Taiping and the others into the Ghost Mother’s lair.
• Xu Taiping cleaved apart the Ghost Mother’s giant claw while Ping'an smashed through her hurricane of coffin flies to clear a path for Bai Yu.
• Ping'an failed to stop the Ghost Mother’s blood-colored flying swords, but Xu Taiping knocked them away with the Heaven-Touching Stance, and Heavenly Lord Xuanbei scattered the swarm released from her belly.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei leaped toward the Ghost Mother’s split belly and called on Bu Xueting not to disappoint him.

Heavenly Lord Xuanbei struck the Coffin Fly Ghost Mother, whose black vortex pierced the Ghost Domain's firmament, while Bu Xueting urged the Pure Yang Sword Sect to rally the Five Heavens for a joint assault on the Taixuan Ghost Domain. The sects began answering the call, and Gongshu Nanxing chose to lead the four Song brothers from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei tore apart the Coffin Fly Ghost Mother's bloody hands and struck her abdomen with a lightning handprint.
• The Coffin Fly Ghost Mother's abdomen became a vortex that devoured the coffin fly ghosts, then fired a black pillar through the Ghost Domain's firmament.
• Bu Xueting asked Xiao Ming to call on cultivators across the Five Heavens to gather at the Pure Yang Sword Sect and attack the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
• Chen Hao and other Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples volunteered, and Xiao Ming issued the call through his spirit mirror.
• After hearing Xiao Ming's call, Gongshu Nanxing agreed to send people from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven and selected Song Sheng, Song Xing, and their two brothers to join her.

As factions from the Five Heavens rallied to help Xu Taiping’s group reach Taixuan Hall, the Pure Yang Sword Sect prepared to unite True Martial Heaven’s forces. Xu Taiping’s party neared the hall but encountered a Great Luo-level Blood Garment Great Ghost controlling a dozen others.

• Heavenly Lord Shihu asked Xiahou You if she was prepared to risk her life in battle, and she vowed to repay Xu Taiping by joining the fight.
• Dongfang Yuejian learned Xu Taiping was in the Taixuan Ghost Domain and headed to the Pure Yang Sword Sect with Xu You’s belongings.
• Xiao Ming and Bu Xueting received offers of help from major factions across the Other Four Heavens, then True Martial Heaven’s sects also began sending forces to the Pure Yang Sword Sect.
• Bai Yu carried Xu Taiping’s group toward Taixuan Hall while Xu Taiping refined the last of their plum blood crystals.
• Zhao Qian recognized a Great Luo-level Blood Garment Great Ghost controlling a dozen Blood Garment Great Ghosts with red cords as the group faced a dangerous fight.

Xu Taiping and the Azure Profound Sect fought their way toward Taixuan Hall, relying on Heavenly Lord Gansui and the Danyuan Palace ghosts to clear the path. Elder Yun Ye appeared from the Ghost Horde with a message that Zhao Xuantan had gravely wounded Junior Martial Uncle and that they must return to the Medicine Garden.

• Xu Taiping gave Zhao Qian fifty Plum Blood Crystals and distributed more to Old Daoist Huang, Ping'an, and Bai Yu.
• Heavenly Lord Gansui and the Danyuan Palace Man-Faced Shadows fought the Blood Garment Great Ghosts, letting Bai Yu race beyond the shadow-paper territory.
• The group discovered at least five hundred Blood Garment Great Ghosts had awakened near Taixuan Hall and prepared to fight through them together.
• A burst of Sword Light emerged from Taixuan Hall, and Elder Yun Ye fought through the Ghost Horde toward the group.
• Elder Yun Ye told Zhao Qian that Zhao Xuantan had gravely wounded Junior Martial Uncle and ordered them to return to the Medicine Garden until the Sixty-Year Pact ended.

Xu Taiping and the Azure Profound Sect rescued the gravely wounded Elder Yun Ye, who revealed that Lü Daoxuan planned to sacrifice himself to reseal Zhao Xuantan and the Demon Mother. Xu Taiping and Zhao Qian refused to abandon him, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping claiming he was completely confident he could save Lü Daoxuan.

• Xu Taiping, Bai Yu, Ping'an, and the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators fought through the ghost horde and rescued the wounded Elder Yun Ye.
• Bai Yu carried them back to the sword formation, where the blood-robed great ghosts stopped at the boundary of the Blood Pool.
• Old Daoist Huang treated Elder Yun Ye, who explained that Zhao Xuantan had disrupted the defense inside Taixuan Hall and Lü Daoxuan had sent him out to warn them.
• Elder Yun Ye revealed that Lü Daoxuan planned to sacrifice himself in half an incense stick's time to reseal Zhao Xuantan and the Demon Mother until the Sixty-Year Pact ended.
• Xu Taiping and Zhao Qian refused to leave Lü Daoxuan behind, and Xu Taiping declared he was completely confident he could save him.

Xu Taiping and his companions broke through the blood-robed ghosts surrounding the Central Area of the Blood River, while Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators stayed behind to hold off the horde. Bu Xueting arrived to break the ghost wall, allowing Xu Taiping to hurry toward Taixuan Hall to reinforce Lü Daoxuan.

• Zhao Qian led the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators in carving an opening through the blood-robed ghost wall for Xu Taiping and his companions.
• As stronger ghosts swarmed the opening, Zhao Qian and the Seven Peak Lords held it open while Bai Yu carried Xu Taiping and the others through.
• The opening closed behind them, and Zhao Qian ordered the trapped Azure Profound Sect cultivators to form the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Two bronze doors appeared in the sky, and Bu Xueting emerged with reinforcements and promised to break the ghost wall.
• Xu Taiping thanked Bu Xueting and ordered Bai Yu to fly to Taixuan Hall, where they arrived above the hall.

Lü Daoxuan fought Zhao Xuantan in Taixuan Hall, breaking free of the black flames and wounding the blood-garbed great ghosts before Zhao Xuantan defeated his direct attack. Lü Daoxuan revealed that he had planted a sword seed in Zhao Xuantan’s sword intent, which might grow into a strike capable of killing him.

• Zhao Xuantan ordered the six blood-garbed great ghosts to kill Lü Daoxuan after declaring that Shangqing would be replaced by the Demon Mother’s forces.
• Lü Daoxuan expanded his azure sword light, imprisoned the six ghosts, and declared he would seek death rather than join them.
• Lü Daoxuan broke through the black flames and grievously wounded the six ghosts, then attacked Zhao Xuantan with a powerful sword strike.
• Zhao Xuantan cleaved Lü Daoxuan’s sword intent and left him with a deep chest wound.
• Lü Daoxuan’s scattered sword light flowed into Zhao Xuantan’s sword intent, and Lü Daoxuan revealed that he had planted a sword seed there.

Lü Daoxuan was nearly killed by Zhao Xuantan’s blood-robed great ghosts after severing his connection to Shangqing’s sword intent. Xu Taiping arrived with Ping'an and Bai Yu, rescued Lü Daoxuan, and confronted Zhao Xuantan with the Human Sovereign Sword, leaving Zhao Xuantan demanding to know who the arrogant junior was.

• Zhao Xuantan destroyed his own sword intent and sent the blood-robed great ghosts to attack Lü Daoxuan, who prepared to use Liberation by Violence as they broke through his sword light.
• Xu Taiping arrived on Bai Yu with his companions, and Ping'an descended in his Mountain-Lifting Ape form to shield Lü Daoxuan from the ghosts’ attacks.
• Ping'an revealed that his demon saint physique and Heavy-Fortification Armor had left him unhurt, but Zhao Xuantan appeared and struck at him with the Demon Mother's Edict.
• Xu Taiping’s Great Balance Law of Taishu disrupted Zhao Xuantan’s palm strike, and the Human Sovereign Sword attacked Zhao Xuantan before he knocked it away with a black iron gate.
• Bai Yu swept in to save the Human Sovereign Sword from Zhao Xuantan’s Annihilation technique, and Xu Taiping promised the sword they would slay the demon.
• Zhao Xuantan looked up at Xu Taiping and asked what arrogant junior he was.

Xu Taiping reunited with Lü Daoxuan in Taixuan Heavenly Palace and promised to take him and the Qingxuan disciples home, but Zhao Xuantan and the Great Ghosts blocked their escape. Bai Yu dodged Zhao Xuantan’s attack and carried the group to the far end of the Heavenly Palace, while Xu Taiping prepared to burn through the spiderweb barrier.

• Xu Taiping found Lü Daoxuan unharmed, and promised to take him and their fellow Qingxuan disciples home.
• A Blood-Garment Great Ghost blocked the Heavenly Palace exit with blood-red spiderwebs, and Lü Daoxuan warned that True Fire could burn the living silk but that destroying it incompletely would strengthen its Ghost Art.
• Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan decided to escape first, while Xu Taiping prepared Southern Bright Li Fire and asked Bai Yu to carry them to the exit.
• Zhao Xuantan attacked Bai Yu with Blade Force that became Black Blazing Flame, but Bai Yu dodged him and carried Xu Taiping and the others to the far end of the Heavenly Palace.

Xu Taiping and his companions tried to escape Zhao Xuantan’s pursuit, but his saber’s strange edict repeatedly pulled them back. Xu Taiping stayed behind to protect the others and unleashed his strongest techniques against Zhao Xuantan, ending with the Netherworld Book of Life and Death reaching for the pinned Divine General.

• Bai Yu used his movement technique to carry Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan toward the Heavenly Palace’s exit, but Zhao Xuantan’s saber repeatedly returned them to their original position.
• The Blood Banner Ghost and two other Great Ghosts attacked, and the blood banner began draining the group’s Qi, Blood, and Divine Soul Power.
• Xu Taiping stayed behind and raised his Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect to shield the others as Bai Yu flew away.
• Zhao Xuantan shattered Xu Taiping’s Dharma Aspect with Law Severance, but Xu Taiping broke his finger attack with Hundred-Zhang Seal Domain.
• Xu Taiping summoned the Book of Life and Death and Heaven-Flipping Seal, pinned Zhao Xuantan, and inscribed “Zhao Xuantan, sudden death” as two ghostly hands reached for him.

Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan fought Zhao Xuantan with powerful treasures and sword techniques, forcing him to reveal his true ghost body. Zhao Xuantan recognized Xu Taiping as a threat to himself and the Demon Mother, and Xu Taiping prepared to face his next strike alongside his master.

• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Flipping Seal and the Book of Life and Death to strip away layers of Zhao Xuantan's ghost power while the Dragon-Trapping Tower blocked the five Great Ghosts' attack.
• Bai Yu carried Lü Daoxuan, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang into the fight, and they held off the Great Ghosts as Xu Taiping pressed Zhao Xuantan with his treasures.
• Zhao Xuantan sacrificed a Great Ghost to escape the treasures' killing power, then attacked Lü Daoxuan and the others with ten thousand sword shadows.
• Xu Taiping switched places with Lü Daoxuan and used Heavenly Wrath Third Stage to shatter Zhao Xuantan's sword shadows with golden fists.
• Zhao Xuantan unleashed his full sword intent after deciding Xu Taiping threatened him and the Demon Mother; Lü Daoxuan joined Xu Taiping and warned that his planted sword seed could turn against Zhao Xuantan if they endured the strike.
• Xu Taiping told Lü Daoxuan to step back because unleashing the Ten Emperors Scripture and his physique might catch his master in the resulting aura.

Xu Taiping unleashed and refined his Heaven-Hunting Great Sage Physique to withstand Zhao Xuantan’s escalating sword intent, while Lü Daoxuan watched from Bai Yu’s back. The two powers continued to rise against each other, forcing Bai Yu and the others to retreat as the great ghosts failed to approach Xu Taiping.

• Lü Daoxuan stepped behind Xu Taiping and reappeared on Bai Yu’s back, leaving Xu Taiping to face Zhao Xuantan.
• Zhao Xuantan intensified his sword intent and criticized Shangqing’s cultivators and the Shangqing edict as Xu Taiping prepared to use the Ten Emperors Scripture fully.
• Xu Taiping removed his physique’s restrictions and grew to more than three hundred zhang tall, pushing Zhao Xuantan’s great-sun sword light back.
• Zhao Xuantan doubled his sword intent, and Xu Taiping further refined his Heaven-Hunting Great Sage Physique as their pressures clashed and shook the Heavenly Palace.
• Bai Yu warned the group to retreat, and the great ghosts abandoned their attempts to attack Xu Taiping because they could not withstand his qi and blood power.

Xu Taiping shattered Zhao Xuantan’s great sun sword intent with a punch, triggering the backlash of Lü Daoxuan’s sword seed. Zhao Xuantan revealed a second, far more powerful evil ghost body and attacked Xu Taiping, who ordered Bai Yu to lead the others away as the battle continued.

• Zhao Xuantan unleashed a greatly strengthened sword intent against Xu Taiping, whose perfected physique Lü Daoxuan recognized as a great Dao body.
• Xu Taiping shattered Zhao Xuantan’s great sun sword intent with a punch, allowing Lü Daoxuan’s sword seed to pierce Zhao Xuantan’s ghost body.
• Zhao Xuantan revealed a towering evil ghost body and attacked Xu Taiping with a black saber, overpowering his punch with the blade force.
• Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone struck Zhao Xuantan and sent him crashing onto the jade platform, while Xu Taiping’s true body endured the saber slash.
• Zhao Xuantan charged Xu Taiping again, and Xu Taiping told Bai Yu to take his master and the others away.

Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone confronted Zhao Xuantan at the Heavenly Palace exit while Bai Yu and the others escaped. After Zhao Xuantan grievously wounded them with his blade, Xu Taiping secretly called on Lady Jade Mother to awaken because the Demon Mother Clone was nearby.

• Bai Yu carried Lü Daoxuan and the others through the Heavenly Palace exit while Xu Taiping stayed behind, and Zhao Xuantan appeared to block the way out.
• Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone fought Zhao Xuantan together, combining their powers to withstand his first attacks.
• Zhao Xuantan recognized Xu Taiping’s Dao-integrated Lotus Eye and revealed that he had abandoned it after mastering a stronger deductive power.
• Zhao Xuantan’s next strike pierced through Xu Taiping and his clone’s combined attacks, leaving both of them grievously wounded.
• As Zhao Xuantan prepared a supposedly fatal strike, Xu Taiping quietly urged Lady Jade Mother to awaken because the Demon Mother Clone was below them.