Arc 15Chapters 351–375
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Xu Taiping tricked Su Su and escaped through the enormous rock with a Flood Dragon Token, arriving in a perilous snowfield. As night approached, a mysterious arm descended from the sky, leaving him facing a new threat.
Fairy Lingyue explained that strange manifestations in the Wilderness grew powerful at night, especially if someone described their appearance, and Xu Taiping reached a ruined temple for shelter. There, he overheard two cultivators searching for Dugu Qingxiao, one of whom described seeing an enormous eye in the sky.
Xu Taiping learned more about the deadly beings haunting the Wilderness as he waited in a ruined temple, where the demoness Su Su arrived and bewitched two cultivators. A freezing wind announced the arrival of one of those beings, and an enormous eyeball appeared at the temple entrance.
Xu Taiping watched an enormous Yin God’s eye lure and kill two cultivators inside the Ruined Temple. The eye remained and searched the temple for another victim.
After the ancient deity Fei vanished, Su Su ambushed Xu Taiping inside the ruined temple. As he hid from her attacks, Fairy Lingyue taught him a Heavenly Dao precept of the Thousand Buddhas Kingdom, but Su Su released Bloodthirsty Fireflies to expose his position.
Xu Taiping invoked the All Beings Are Equal precept in the ruined temple, suppressing Su Su and her Corpse-Soul Puppet to the Nether Gazing Realm. As Su Su brought out three powerful corpse puppets, Xu Taiping raised his Wild Lion Physique to the Raging Lion Realm.
Xu Taiping drove Su Su from the ruined temple, but his protective All Beings Are Equal beads soon ran out. After hearing that sect disciples were gathering at Heavenly Sound Hall on Wolf-Howling Ridge to capture Dugu Qingxiao’s friend, Xu Taiping planned to seek a wormhole and reach the ridge in time.
Shang told a little girl about the Bodhi Heart and agreed to find her a Bodhi Fruit, then rescued Su Su from the snow. Su Su poisoned him and robbed him, but he recovered and stopped her from taking a red wooden box.
Shang Jiu defeated Su Su, discovered her lead to Dugu Qingxiao, and revealed his identity as the Blade Demon of the Heavenly Blade Sect. At the Star-Plucking Terrace, Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue discussed using a Yin God to counter the Otherworldly Heavenly Demons as he prepared to break through to the Mystic Understanding Realm.
Xu Taiping learned that cultivators were gathering at the Star-Plucking Terrace to find a Moonshadow Stone and planned to use the arriving Savage Beasts to hinder them while he prepared to break through. Nearby, Shang Jiu and Su Su watched a growing stream of cultivators head toward the terrace, while Shang Jiu remained wary of Xu Taiping’s ability.
At Star-Plucking Terrace, three peak Mystic Understanding Realm cultivators tried to force the tower’s defender to reveal Dugu Qingxiao’s whereabouts by activating a painting containing the Demon-Breaking Sword’s sword intent. Fairy Lingyue prepared to counter it with the Shentu Bow while Xu Taiping went below to begin his breakthrough.
Ouyang Xuan, Zhu Chen, and Yun Zhong joined forces to strengthen the Divine Sword Diagram’s attack on the North Wind Formation, while Shang Jiu secretly boosted their power. Fairy Lingyue detected Shang Jiu and Demoness Su Su’s interference and prepared to shoot at them.
Fairy Lingyue used the Shentu Bow to wound Shang Jiu and drive him toward the Star-Plucking Terrace, while Xu Taiping began his breakthrough to the Mystic Understanding Realm underground. Ping'an and Bai Yu guarded the breach in the North Wind Formation as Ouyang Xuan's cultivators prepared to strike it again.
Ouyang Xuan and the other cultivators broke open the North Wind Formation around Star-Plucking Terrace, but Dragon-Winged Birds and hordes of savage beasts attacked before they could enter. Yun Zhong, Zhu Chen, and Ouyang Xuan fled, leaving the remaining cultivators scattered across the snowfield.
Xu Taiping broke through to the Mystic Understanding Realm and saw several terrifying visions during his spirit journey beyond the heavens, including a conflict at Heavenly Sound Hall. When he returned to the stone chamber, an Otherworldly Heavenly Demon seized him, but an enormous hand appeared behind it.
Xu Taiping watched the strange hand battle the Otherworldly Heavenly Demon and swallow him. Before leaving, the hand touched Xu Taiping’s left eye and gave him a mysterious thank-you gift.
After breaking through to the Mystic Understanding Realm, Xu Taiping gained a second pupil whose power caused him severe pain, while his body and abilities grew much stronger. He emerged from the stone chamber to find Ping'an and Bai Yu under attack by Demoness Su Su and a young man, and Fairy Lingyue told him not to intervene.
Xu Taiping watched as Ping'an fought Demoness Su Su’s Corpse Puppets, while Fairy Lingyue insisted that he let the Spirit Beast temper himself. When Su Su threatened Xu Taiping, Ping'an awakened the full power of the Ape Demon Art and defended the stone chamber, but his life force began to fade, prompting Xu Taiping to intervene.
Xu Taiping returned to the battle, rescued Little Taiping from Su Su’s Corpse-Soul Puppet, and defeated Su Su’s defenses. He then struck Shang Jiu with the Azure Ox Great Sage Fist and sent him crashing into a ruined wall.
Xu Taiping fought Shang Jiu on the Star-Plucking Terrace while the Thousand Buddha Kingdom’s All Beings Are Equal suppressed Shang Jiu’s cultivation. After Fairy Lingyue directed him to a nearby wormhole, Xu Taiping escaped Shang Jiu’s lethal strike by jumping into a well, where darkness swallowed him.
Xu Taiping escaped through a Wormhole to the ruins of Yichan Temple and hurried toward Heavenly Sound Hall after visions suggested Chen Hao was in danger. He learned that saving his Second Senior Brother Dugu Qingxiao might require the Thousand Buddha Kingdom’s Evil-Delivering Asura precept.
Xu Taiping resolved to bear the cultivators’ malice to protect Second Senior Brother Qingxiao and seek a wish from Ancient Buddha Kasyapa. He reached Heavenly Sound Hall and found Chen Hao defending the entrance, where Elder Nie Chen confronted him.
Nie Chen overpowered Chen Hao outside Heavenly Sound Hall and demanded that he lead him to Dugu Qingxiao. As Nie Chen was about to kill Chen Hao, a burst of violent fire pressure struck the clearing, and a point of fire appeared in the sky.
Xu Taiping rescued the gravely wounded Chen Hao from Nie Chen and Shang Jiu, then escaped into the Wormhole inside Heavenly Sound Hall. The Wormhole closed behind them, leaving Nie Chen and Shang Jiu outside as the cultivators learned the masked rescuer could suppress an opponent’s cultivation.
Shang Jiu recruited cultivators to help him confront Xu Taiping, while Xu Taiping reached the Lotus Dao Field with Chen Hao and learned that his Second Senior Brother Qingxiao had been corrupted by the Bodhi Fruit. Chen Hao gave Xu Taiping Qingxiao’s blood letter, which contained the jade bracelets Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu had found at Listening Wind Tower.