Recaps

Xu Taiping tried to escape Qu Shuang’s matchmaking request without revealing that he knew Qu Shuang was a person in the mirror, but his gamble with Lin Buyu’s name unexpectedly convinced Qu Shuang they were destined for each other. When Xu Taiping reunited with Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master, he realized the figures by the spring were impostors.

• Qu Shuang asked Xu Taiping to visit his granddaughter Ning Shuang at the Four Symbols Sect, and Xu Taiping hesitated while the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord mocked Qu Shuang through voice transmission.
• Xu Taiping claimed he already loved someone, and Qu Shuang pressed him to give her name so he could divine whether they were a true match.
• Xu Taiping named Lin Buyu, and Qu Shuang’s divination convinced him that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu were destined for each other.
• Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master called to Xu Taiping from beside the Spirit Spring, where Great Elder Lou was meditating.
• As Qu Shuang brought the Vermilion Bird phantom closer, Xu Taiping recognized that the figures by the spring were not Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master.

Xu Taiping realized that the Azure Nether Spring’s reflections had trapped the true bodies of Qu Shuang, Cloud Crane True Lord, and the Pearl Relic House Master, replacing them with Mirror Persons. With Cloud Crane True Lord urging him to enter the spring, Xu Taiping asked Azure-Eyed Evil Lord for help, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord began draining the spring with his sleeves.

• Xu Taiping used a Jade Slip to confirm that Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master were Mirror Persons, then deduced that the Azure Nether Spring’s reflections had switched them with their true bodies.
• Xu Taiping saw Great Elder Lou rise while his reflection remained seated, confirming his suspicion about how the Mirror Persons operated.
• Cloud Crane True Lord urged Xu Taiping and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to enter the spring before its spiritual power vanished, but Xu Taiping asked Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to help him avoid going in.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord told Xu Taiping to stay where he was, then used his sleeves to draw all the water out of the Azure Nether Spring.

After the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord drained the spirit spring, Xu Taiping and the others set out for the First-Level Barrier ruins. Xu Taiping realized the Primordial Lord might be using the mirror people and a reversed grand formation to awaken, just as Fairy Lingyue woke from her slumber.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord drank all the spirit spring water, then gave Xu Taiping a bottle of Spirit Marrow Liquid and claimed he could kill the Primordial Lord alone.
• Xu Taiping agreed to let the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord taste the wine in his gourd if they killed the Primordial Lord.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord carried Xu Taiping, Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, and Qu Shuang by sword toward the barrier ruins.
• Xu Taiping suspected the Primordial Lord wanted to awaken more than he wanted to stop them from repairing the barrier.
• Xu Taiping noticed that the grand formation's runes and spiritual energy circulation were reversed, and Fairy Lingyue awoke and asked what had happened.

Xu Taiping learned that the mirrored figures carried Returning to the Ruins Power, which could reverse the grand formation and awaken the Primordial Lord. As the formation activated, he asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to kill everyone present except them, while Fairy Lingyue vanished after saying she had found a way to kill the Primordial Lord.

• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that the mirrored figures wielded Returning to the Ruins Power, which could reverse the grand formation and wake the Primordial Lord.
• Fairy Lingyue advised Xu Taiping to wait until the figures used their power, when their demonic qi would briefly flow backward and leave them vulnerable.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Cloud Crane True Lord arrived at the formation ruins, and Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping she had found a way to kill the Primordial Lord before vanishing from his perception.
• Xu Taiping secretly warned the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that he might need his help, then joined the others at a formation node.
• When Cloud Crane True Lord ordered everyone to activate the formation, Xu Taiping told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to kill everyone there except them, leaving the Evil Lord stunned.

Xu Taiping and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord attacked the Mirror Persons impersonating the Pearl Relic House Master and his companions while they channeled Returning to the Ruins Power. After the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord killed three of them, Elder Qu Shuang transformed into chaotic mist and revealed that he could wield Returning to the Ruins Power.

• Xu Taiping called on the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to strike, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord engulfed the four Mirror Persons in Sword Qi that became crushing currents of water.
• The Pearl Relic House Master tried to help Xu Taiping escape, but Xu Taiping stepped back as the water pressure crushed Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master.
• Great Elder Lou transformed into flames and evaporated some of the Sword Qi water, but the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord compressed the flames until Great Elder Lou burst apart.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord attacked Elder Qu Shuang while Xu Taiping prepared to explain that the four companions were Mirror Persons.
• Elder Qu Shuang transformed into chaotic mist around a black vortex that devoured the Sword Qi and the Pearl Relic House Master's remains, prompting the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to recognize Returning to the Ruins Power.

Qu Shuang took control of his Returning to the Ruins clone and warned Xu Taiping and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that the Primordial Lord had set a trap to reverse the grand formation and steal Li Daoyan’s swordsmanship. He explained how his Withering and Flourishing Art True Intent, “Steal Heaven and Swap Sun,” let him escape the Azure Nether Spring and learn the Primordial Lord’s plan.

• The Mirror Person, appearing as Elder Qu Shuang, poured Returning to the Ruins power into the Ancient Bronze Cauldron and began affecting the grand formation.
• Xu Taiping warned Li Daoyan that the formation could be turned from sealing the Primordial Lord to resurrecting him, and Li Daoyan prepared a powerful sword strike.
• Qu Shuang suddenly regained control, halted the Returning to the Ruins power, and warned that attacking would let the Primordial Lord steal Li Daoyan’s swordsmanship and Immortal Sword Po Jun.
• Qu Shuang explained that his Withering and Flourishing Art True Intent, “Steal Heaven and Swap Sun,” let him take over the clone and learn the Primordial Lord’s intentions.

Qu Shuang explained how to destroy his possessed clone and asked Xu Taiping to preserve his final words for Qu Ningshuang. The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord killed Qu Shuang after he used the Withering and Flourishing Scripture to feign death, and the Lotus Eye’s third Golden Lotus lit up.

• Qu Shuang said the Primordial Lord’s consciousness influenced his clone, but the Withering and Flourishing Scripture could make him feign death so the returning to the ruins power would vanish when the body was destroyed.
• Qu Shuang asked Xu Taiping to record his final words and death in a divine soul mark for Qu Ningshuang, and Xu Taiping promised to deliver it if he survived the grotto-heaven.
• Qu Shuang told Qu Ningshuang he had grown timid after finding her again, but now wanted to fight for the world and be a hero once more.
• Qu Shuang used the Withering and Flourishing Art to extinguish his aura, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord saluted him before killing him with Immortal Sword Po Jun.
• The Lotus Eye’s third Golden Lotus lit up in Xu Taiping’s sea of consciousness after Qu Shuang’s death.

Xu Taiping honored Elder Qu Shuang and rallied the survivors by arguing that the Primordial Lord had weakened itself by using the Sun-Moon Guardians and Returning to the Ruins Power. He agreed to stay and fight, while keeping the source of his own foresight secret.

• Xu Taiping carved Elder Qu Shuang's name and a brief account of his life onto the Treading the Sea Army's Stone Stele, then added a Divine Soul Mark.
• Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, and Great Elder Lou thanked Xu Taiping and the Pearl Relic House Master for rescuing them from their seals.
• Xu Taiping reasoned that the Primordial Lord's unusual attacks showed their group could threaten it, and that its recent use of power had left it weaker than it had been in hundreds of thousands of years.
• The Pearl Relic House Master asked whether Xu Taiping would remain to face the Primordial Lord, and Xu Taiping agreed because the Shangqing Realm's survival was at stake.
• Cloud Crane True Lord questioned Xu Taiping about his apparent divination abilities, and Xu Taiping declined to reveal their source while indirectly admitting he possessed powerful deduction skills.

Xu Taiping and the others found that two deaths had left them short of the seven people needed to reactivate the first Grand Formation sealing the Primordial Lord. Xu Taiping offered his Immortal-Inviting Talisman, and Cloud Crane True Lord realized it might be a Supreme-Grade Divine Talisman capable of summoning someone who could fill the gap.

• Xu Taiping gained Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, and Great Elder Lou's trust so he could rely on them to carry out the Lotus Eye's guidance.
• The Pearl Relic House Master and Cloud Crane True Lord explained that they needed to activate the Grand Formation to put the Primordial Lord into a deep sleep before approaching him.
• Cloud Crane True Lord revealed that the formation required seven living people or sacred objects, but Elder Zhuo and Qu Shuang's deaths had left them one person short even with the Pearl Relic House Master's Sage Relic.
• Xu Taiping offered his Immortal-Inviting Talisman, and Cloud Crane True Lord explained that a divine talisman could summon a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator from Outer Heaven.
• Xu Taiping opened the brocade box and said his talisman should qualify as a Supreme-Grade Divine Talisman.

Xu Taiping used the divine-grade Immortal-Inviting Talisman to summon a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator, hoping to turn the crisis around. The talisman instead dragged out Old Daoist Huang, leaving Xu Taiping baffled because he was only in the Heaven Questioning Realm.

• Cloud Crane True Lord identified Xu Taiping's talisman as a divine-grade Immortal-Inviting Talisman, which had acknowledged Xu Taiping as its master.
• Cloud Crane True Lord explained that the talisman could imprison a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator, while Azure-Eyed Evil Lord warned Xu Taiping that using it might earn him a powerful enemy.
• Xu Taiping decided to use the talisman, and Cloud Crane True Lord, Pearl Relic House Master, Great Elder Lou, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord guarded him as he poured most of his true essence into it.
• The talisman opened a spatial rift and pulled a furious cultivator through it in purple-gold chains.
• Xu Taiping recognized the captive as Old Daoist Huang, who recognized Xu Taiping in turn, and Xu Taiping wondered why the talisman had summoned someone in the Heaven Questioning Realm.

Old Daoist Huang revealed that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian had sent him to help Xu Taiping resolve a Heavenly Dao killing calamity, and explained how his breakthrough brought him into the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven. As he began to disclose the rest of his divination, the Primordial Lord stirred, forcing the group to prepare the First Seal Grand Formation.

• Old Daoist Huang recognized Xu Taiping as Zhang Wuyou and said Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian had asked him to divine a way to resolve Xu Taiping's Heavenly Dao killing calamity.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord threatened Old Daoist Huang, and Xu Taiping used the Immortal-Inviting Talisman's chains before loosening them when Huang promised to help.
• Old Daoist Huang explained that his divination required him, Haitang, and her husband to enter the game, and that he had broken through to the Heaven Shocking Realm before Xu Taiping's talisman brought him there.
• Old Daoist Huang slashed toward the Primordial Lord to shield their conversation and said his divination had revealed a specific breakthrough was needed for them to enter the game.
• The Primordial Lord's roar shook the area, and Cloud Crane True Lord urged Xu Taiping to reactivate the First Seal Grand Formation.

Xu Taiping activated the ruined Grand Formation with Old Daoist Huang’s help, unleashing a vast assault that wounded the Primordial Lord and erased its aura. Cloud Crane True Lord explained that later Demon Slayers called it the Myriad Gods Formation to honor the more than ten thousand cultivators who died perfecting it.

• Old Daoist Huang questioned whether Haitang and her husband had misled him about the Primordial Lord, then Xu Taiping used the restrictions to drag him onto a formation node.
• Old Daoist Huang saw Xu Taiping surrounded by borrowed fortune from powerful factions and countless mortals, and realized the significance of the mortal fortune.
• The Grand Formation lit up, linking more than a thousand surrounding formations into a huge cage around the Primordial Lord.
• Ancient God Dharma Aspects, flying swords, Buddha Hands, and Confucian True Words attacked the Primordial Lord, blasting away much of its gray mist and severing its tentacles.
• Cloud Crane True Lord said later Demon Slayers named the formation the Myriad Gods Formation to commemorate the more than ten thousand cultivators who died perfecting it.

Xu Taiping learned from Fairy Lingyue that the Earth Fruit could devour the Primordial Lord if they restored its power and protected it from corruption. Fairy Lingyue revealed that the first step required a powerful Sage Relic—and that she herself was the strongest one.

• Xu Taiping saw the fallen heroes whose spirits formed the Myriad Gods Formation and sent Old Daoist Huang information about the Primordial Lord.
• Xu Taiping woke Fairy Lingyue and asked how she planned to counter the Primordial Lord.
• Fairy Lingyue showed Xu Taiping that the Earth Fruit could consume the Primordial Lord, but had weakened and risked corruption.
• Fairy Lingyue said they needed to protect the Earth Fruit with a powerful Sage Relic and revealed that she herself was the strongest Sage Relic.

Xu Taiping resisted Fairy Lingyue’s proposal to use the Earth Fruit against the Primordial Lord, but agreed to keep it as a last resort after hearing her plan. When Old Daoist Huang refused to face the danger, Xu Taiping offered to tell him the Earth Treasury Fruit’s whereabouts, and Huang reacted with excitement.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that the Primordial Lord’s strength could exceed their estimates and that absorbing its power could restore the Earth Fruit and give her a chance to return to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Xu Taiping rejected using the Earth Fruit to stop the Primordial Lord, but agreed to hear Fairy Lingyue’s plan and reserve it as a last resort.
• Fairy Lingyue proposed planting the Earth Fruit in the Central Area and holding out until its first Golden Lotus emerged from the water.
• Old Daoist Huang watched the Divine Soul Mark’s scenes, called the Primordial Lord battle a Heavenly Dao Death Calamity, and refused to take part.
• At Fairy Lingyue’s suggestion, Xu Taiping asked Old Daoist Huang whether he wanted to know the Earth Treasury Fruit’s whereabouts, and Huang eagerly asked if Xu Taiping knew where it was.

Xu Taiping learned Old Daoist Huang’s warnings and gathered the group’s preparations before they entered the gray mist to confront the Primordial Lord. As they advanced, Xu Taiping’s opened golden lotus revealed a vast army of demonic beasts from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, while his sword and the formation’s cultivator phantoms rallied behind him.

• Old Daoist Huang agreed to stay and fight for a lead on the Earth Treasury Fruit, then warned Xu Taiping to guard against heart demons and prepare a sharper sword.
• Old Daoist Huang gave Xu Taiping the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and a Famous Sword Painting depicting Langya, Taoguang, and Kunwu.
• Xu Taiping shared the divination with Cloud Crane True Lord and the others, who assigned the painting to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the lamp to Xu Taiping and Great Elder Lou.
• Cloud Crane True Lord led the group toward the gray mist as Xu Taiping opened the final golden lotus in his Lotus Eye’s Divine Soul Mark.
• Xu Taiping saw a vast army of demonic beasts from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, then sensed the Jade Bone Grass soldiers and the grand formation’s cultivator phantoms rallying to fight.

Xu Taiping saw the Lotus Eye’s new prediction of the group’s doom and its message that it would take black and move first, then prepared to act on its behalf. After the group entered the Primordial Lord’s Gray Mist, they found themselves in an unexpectedly peaceful spring landscape with no one in sight.

• The Lotus Eye showed Great Elder Lou’s Bodhi Mirror Lamp failing as the resurrected Hound Demon God and other Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the group, then left a message announcing its first move.
• Xu Taiping wondered who the Lotus Eye had chosen as its piece and asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to use Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap him with Great Elder Lou when signaled.
• The Pearl Relic House Master cast the Separate the False and Preserve the True spell, giving everyone blue-green robes and gilded names above their heads.
• Xu Taiping entered the Gray Mist with the others and told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord he would reveal his true name if he survived to see the Primordial Lord’s True Body.
• The Gray Mist transformed the scene into a lush spring landscape, and Xu Taiping could not find anyone nearby.

Xu Taiping and his companions faced Heart Demons conjured by the Primordial Lord in the Gray Mist, including Old Daoist Huang’s tangled past with a vine demon. After warning that the trials could kill them, Xu Taiping prepared for his own Heart Demon and urged Great Elder Lou to light the lamp.

• Old Daoist Huang appeared as a sparrow and warned the group about a dangerous vine demon, but they continued north into the woods.
• The vine demon pleaded with Old Daoist Huang to protect her and threatened to expose their affair, so he tried to lead the group away.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord killed the vine demon, and Xu Taiping restrained Old Daoist Huang when grief and anger overwhelmed him.
• Cloud Crane True Lord reminded Old Daoist Huang that the scene was an illusion meant to divide them, while Xu Taiping privately warned the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that they could all die in the Gray Mist.
• After the group defeated another Heart Demon, Cloud Crane True Lord asked whether Xu Taiping’s trial would come next, and Xu Taiping told Great Elder Lou to light the lamp.

Xu Taiping warned Cloud Crane True Lord and the others that the Primordial Lord could use Creation Power to summon powerful figures they had seen, not just their Heart Demons. The group faced formidable summoned cultivators and charging Demonic Beast formations, leaving Old Daoist Huang urging Lou Shiyi to light the lamp.

• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Old Daoist Huang teased Xu Taiping about his Heart Demon as the group entered the Gray Mist.
• Xu Taiping explained that the Primordial Lord could summon powerful figures remembered by those inside the Gray Mist.
• Xuanmu Daoist, Purple Luo Sword Immortal, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared, and Old Daoist Huang and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord suppressed their overwhelming auras.
• The summoned Demonic Beast formations charged together, battering the group with their Battle Intent.
• Old Daoist Huang called for Lou Shiyi to light the lamp.

Great Elder Lou began charging the Bodhi Mirror Lamp while Xu Taiping and the others fought off powerful attackers. Xu Taiping defeated a fire lion, then was badly injured by the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, but drank Hidden Immortal Wine to strengthen himself and prepared to challenge the Sage again.

• Great Elder Lou raised the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and warned that it would take a cup of tea to activate, so Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others fought to hold off the enemy formations.
• Sword Immortal Ziluo attacked Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's Sword City, while Daoist Xuanpin's fire dragons and fire lion battered Cloud Crane True Lord's Cloud Tower and threatened the city.
• Xu Taiping used All Beings Are Equal and the Dragon-Slaying Form to behead the fire lion, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck him and broke his arm.
• Xu Taiping learned that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had been unmatched at every cultivation realm, then drank Hidden Immortal Wine to raise his physique and aura.
• Xu Taiping drank a second gourd, tempered his body to the Golden Essence Realm, and announced that he would challenge the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's fist again.

Xu Taiping fought the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage on equal terms, prompting the Sage to recognize his Martial Dao talent and claim him as a disciple. The Sage and other summoned figures vanished after their true bodies sensed the Primordial Lord’s creation power, leaving Xu Taiping to wonder whether the Sage would remember him.

• Xu Taiping raised his blood qi tempering power and matched the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s fist with his own under the suppression of All Beings Are Equal.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked whether Xu Taiping came from the Shangqing Realm, then declared that he would find him and make him his successor.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage resisted the fiend’s attempt to use his power, told Xu Taiping to hold on, and burst apart; Sword Immortal Ziluo and Daoist Xuanpin also vanished.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord explained that the figures’ true bodies in Outer Heaven had sensed the Primordial Lord’s summons and called them back.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord surmised that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had wanted to take Xu Taiping as a disciple, and Xu Taiping wondered whether the Sage would remember after waking.

Xu Taiping led five companions into the Demonic Beast military formations after Great Elder Lou broke through under the Bodhi Mirror Lamp's light. Their combined battle intent shattered several formations, but Xu Taiping could sustain it for only the time it took an incense stick to burn.

• Xu Taiping told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that he would rather test his fists against the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage again than become his disciple.
• The Demonic Beast military formations destroyed Cloud Crane True Lord's Cloud Tower, but Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master combined their techniques to halt the charge.
• Xu Taiping stopped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord from opening Sword City's gates as Great Elder Lou used the Bodhi Mirror Lamp to break into a formation and pierce its Devil Lord battle general.
• Xu Taiping rallied Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, and Old Daoist Huang to join him and Great Elder Lou in a six-person battle formation.
• Xu Taiping and his companions merged their auras, amplified their killing power, and shattered successive demonic formations.
• Xu Taiping told Cloud Crane True Lord that he could sustain his battle intent for only the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Xu Taiping led the six-person formation toward the Primordial Lord while watching for a change in the battlefield, then exposed the Hound Demon God hidden in the enemy's Battle Intent. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping blinding the Hound Demon God and urging Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to finish it off.

• Cloud Crane True Lord called on the group to break through the Demonic Beast formations within an incense stick's time, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's sword helped them advance rapidly.
• Xu Taiping asked Old Daoist Huang to watch the qi above the Primordial Lord and told Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to prepare Form- and Shadow-Transposition for him and Great Elder Lou.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord secretly activated the Spell as Great Elder Lou defended the group from spears formed of Battle Intent.
• The Primordial Lord's Battle Intent manifested as the Hound Demon God, which attacked Great Elder Lou with Barking at the Sun Power.
• Xu Taiping switched places with Great Elder Lou, used All Beings Are Equal and the Raging Waves form to burst the Hound Demon God's eyes, then called on Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to kill it.

Xu Taiping and his companions killed the Hound Demon God and continued breaking through the Demonic Beast Military Formations. After they cleared more than half the battlefield, Xu Taiping spotted the Heartless Demon Emperor and the Eight Demon Emperors commanding a massive formation ahead.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, aided by the Pearl Relic House Master and Cloud Crane True Lord, defeated the Hound Demon God with a powerful sword strike.
• Xu Taiping and his companions resumed their advance, developing coordinated tactics as they broke through successive Demonic Beast Military Formations.
• Great Elder Lou declined Xu Taiping's offer to take over the Bodhi Mirror Lamp and told him to conserve his strength for what lay ahead.
• The group cleared more than half the formations, and Xu Taiping saw the Heartless Demon Emperor and the Eight Demon Emperors commanding a formation of over a hundred thousand troops.

Xu Taiping and the others struggled against the Heartless Demon Emperor and eight Demon Emperors, whose hundred-thousand-strong formation overwhelmed them with Battle Intent. As their formation faced another charge, Xu Taiping reached out to the departed cultivators around him, and their Battle Intent began to surge.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor led the Eight Demon Emperors and over a hundred thousand Demonic Beasts in a charge that nearly broke Xu Taiping's formation and injured Great Elder Lou through the Bodhi Mirror Lamp.
• Old Daoist Huang warned that the nine Demonic Beasts and their gathered Battle Intent made the enemy formation too strong to withstand.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord challenged the enemy commander, but the formation's Battle Intent knocked him back after one clash.
• Xu Taiping stopped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and asked the departed cultivators around them to lend him their strength.
• One departed soul smiled at Xu Taiping, and the souls began releasing surging streams of Battle Intent.

Xu Taiping led five elders and the spectral souls of tens of thousands of dead cultivators in a charge against the Demonic Beasts’ military formation. After breaking through most of the formation despite their fading strength, they faced Heartless Demon Emperor, three Demon Emperors, and a thousand troops.

• Xu Taiping rallied the spectral souls and the five elders, using their combined battle intent to clash with the Demonic Beasts’ formation.
• Xu Taiping and the elders broke through the airtight formation and pressed forward, killing two Demon Emperors and countless Demonic Beasts.
• Xu Taiping urged everyone to maintain their momentum, while Great Elder Lou vowed to keep the Bodhi Mirror Lamp lit as he tended it and fought.
• Xu Taiping and the others punched through most of the formation, leaving Heartless Demon Emperor, three Demon Emperors, and a thousand troops before them.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord poured all the Sword Qi in his body into the Po Jun Sword.