Arc 153Chapters 3801–3825
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Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army pressed the Nine Abysses Northern Emperor Army on every front until Yang Hong and the Red Blade Army broke through its formation. With the Mysterious Wasteland Army charging in behind them, the battle turned into a rout.
Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army shattered Northern Emperor City’s defensive barriers and drove the Nine Abysses Northern Emperor Army into a renewed clash. When the Demon Mother’s voice tripled the demons’ Battle Intent, Xu Taiping rallied his troops until their Battle Intent matched it, leaving the armies poised to fight on.
Xu Taiping’s armies countered Zhenyue’s empowered assault with coordinated formations and reinforcements, trapping the Northern Emperor Army and forcing Zhenyue to retreat. Chijia then entered the fight against Yang Hong, who attacked before the Red Blade Army could fully arrive.
Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army steadily overwhelmed Chijia’s defenders through coordinated formations and repeated attacks. As the Northern Emperor appeared to intervene personally, he declared that Xu Taiping had forced him to act.
Xu Taiping formed the Demon-Slaying Army into the Everlasting Life battle formation, overcoming the Northern Emperor’s combined armies and pressing their advance despite the generals’ attacks. The Northern Emperor then absorbed the combat power of five hundred thousand troops and vanished, heading toward Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army overwhelmed the Northern Emperor and shattered Northern Emperor City’s barriers, but the Northern Emperor sacrificed his Demon Seed to turn the city into a fiery prison. When the Northern Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to reach Eight-Inch Profound Insight to breach the city, Xu Taiping agreed despite Huo Xuan’s warning.
Xu Taiping broke through to Void Insight Eight Inches as he destroyed Northern Emperor City and led the Demon-Slaying Army into its ruins. The Northern Emperor’s remnant sent him into the Land of Myriad Tribulations, and Huo Xuan ordered the Vermilion Bird Army to eliminate the remaining enemy forces.
Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan found the Demon Grotto hiding the sealed chamber that held the previous incarnation’s body. After clearing the grotto, Xu Taiping prepared to break the seal, while reaffirming his plan to enter the Land of Myriad Tribulations and hunt Nine Abysses’ powerful fighters.
Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan found the Immortal Official’s sealed remains and prepared to transfer Buyu’s soul into them. After Xu Taiping removed the seal and supplied soulfire stones, they waited as a faint aura finally stirred from the remains.
Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan believed Lin Buyu had taken control of the Immortal Official's remains, but Xu Taiping recognized that the figure was an evil presence and ordered Xiaohei to attack it. Lin Buyan turned against Xu Taiping to protect the apparent Buyu, leaving the two of them in conflict as Xiaohei fought the presence.
Xu Taiping and Xiaohei drove the evil presence from beyond the domain out of the Immortal Official's mortal shell and helped Lin Buyu take control of it. With Lin Buyan now certain of Buyu's identity, the three prepared to face the Nine Abysses and the Demon Mother together.
Xu Taiping reunited with Lin Buyu and promised to return alive from the Land of Myriad Tribulations, while warning her to take over the campaign against the Demon Mother if he did not. Five days later, his allies worried over his unavoidable summons, but Zhao Qian emerged from the Dragon-Trapping Tower greatly strengthened and said Xu Taiping had asked him to bring Chu Yinan over.
Xu Taiping appointed Chu Yinan acting commander-in-chief of the Demon-Slaying Army before he was drawn to the Land of Myriad Tribulations. After handing over the Demon-Slaying Token and explaining his battle methods and formations, Xu Taiping asked Chu Yinan to explain his departure to the army.
Xu Taiping visited Lin Buyu in the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden, where she planned to use the Immortal Official Remnant to reach the Half-Immortal Realm before their eventual fight against the Demon Mother. Lady Jade Mother then sent him to the Glazed Glass secret realm to enter the Seven Lodges Treasury, where a familiar voice called out to him.
Xu Taiping reached the Seven Lodges Treasury and asked Dragon Emperor Cangzhou how to undo the Dragon-Slaying Stele’s seal. Cangzhou led him to retrieve the sacrificial offerings, but first revealed that the Gate-Sealing Stone was made from smelted true dragon bones.
Xu Taiping received the two True Dragon Stones and four Sacrificial Offerings from Dragon Emperor Cangzhou in the Seven Lodges Treasury. Cangzhou revealed that he would be the fifth offering needed to open the Ancestral Dragon Ruins and gave Xu Taiping the Dragon Emperor Ring, which could call on Dragon Clan weapons in battle.
Xu Taiping, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou removed the seal on the Dragon-Slaying Stele using four offerings and Cangzhou’s broken true dragon body. The seal’s release illuminated seven rooms in Xu Taiping’s Dragon-Trapping Tower, and they headed for the top-floor room believed to hold the Ancestral Dragon’s secrets.
Xu Taiping endured the Ancestral Dragon’s breath and reached the top of the Dragon-Trapping Tower, where he encountered a living Ancestral Dragon. The dragon blasted him back through the doorway and told him to return after he broke nine inches.
Xu Taiping, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou discussed the mysterious dragon in the room and agreed to preserve Cangzhou’s remnant soul in the earth fruit during its eighth transformation. As the Land of Myriad Tribulations summoned Xu Taiping, Jade Mother used a banana leaf to conceal him long enough to return to the Glazed Glass Realm, where she helped smelt the Shoushan copper before preparing to fall asleep.
Xu Taiping entered the Land of Myriad Tribulations with the Six-Nostril Mirror and prepared to use its vision to help the fight against the Nine Abysses. He encountered two Demon Cultivators who attacked him, but their strength disappointed him.
Xu Taiping defeated the two fourth-vein Demon Emperors sent by the Nine Abysses to test him, revealing the strength of his Form- and Shadow-Transposition edict. Linghuai fled, then confessed that Jiuquan Primordial Lord had sent them to ambush a supposedly new Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivator.
Xu Taiping killed two Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts in the Land of Myriad Tribulations and broadcast the attack across the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, forcing the enemy to abandon its delay. Six Primordial Lords and thirty-six Demon Emperors appeared to hunt him, while Jiuquan and Huangyi considered invoking a more costly hidden power; Lü Daoxuan recognized the six newcomers as Primordial Lord-level experts.
Xu Taiping fled from six Primordial Lords and thirty-six Demon Emperors in the Land of Myriad Tribulations, but Primordial Lord Maiwang used Word-Follows-Law to find him. The chapter ended as an old woman sealed Xu Taiping inside a cage of waves and swallowed the surrounding sea with her Bronze Well.
Xu Taiping used his edict to escape Primordial Lord Well Fish’s attack, but the heavenly tribulation forced him toward the six Primordial Lords. After his clone drew their attack and his true body struck the Thousand Demons Painting Wall, Xu Taiping withdrew to a floating mountain and decided to prolong the fight to lure out three hidden Primordial Lords.
Lü Daoxuan and Feng Tianxing learned that the Nine Abysses was gathering forces for war, while Xu Taiping continued evading six Primordial Lords and gathering intelligence on their abilities. Xu Taiping and the Six-Nostril Mirror planned to lure the three hidden Primordial Lords into a trap when three Heavenly Tribulations struck simultaneously.