Arc 79Chapters 1951–1975

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Ch. 1951Slaying Qi Zhou: Qi Zhou's Condition

Qi Zhou asked Yun Jiang to kill him before the Demon Seed consumed his mind, while revealing that he had a map to the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansions Ruins. After Yun Jiang used a jade pendant to view his recent memories, Qi Zhou made clear that his condition for handing over the map concerned taking Tian Li home to harvest wheat.

  • Yun Jiang arrived and found Qi Zhou atop Corpse Mountain, where he warned her that the Demon Seed was eroding his mind and asked her to kill him before he became a demon.
  • Yun Jiang questioned Qi Zhou about the demonic beasts he had killed and inferred that he had acted to protect the sleeping Tian Li.
  • Yun Jiang threatened to burn Buddha-Slaying Town with an Innate True Fire Talisman unless Qi Zhou let her use a jade pendant to read his recent memories.
  • Qi Zhou revealed that he wanted to leave a strand of divine sense and the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansions Ruins map in his saber, then channeled power into the pendant so everyone could see his memories.
  • After viewing Qi Zhou's memories, Yun Jiang bowed and asked what condition he required in exchange for the map.
  • Qi Zhou said Tian Li wanted to return home to harvest the ripe wheat.

Ch. 1952Slaying Qi Zhou, Tian Li's Divine Soul Mark

Qi Zhou revealed Tian Li’s horrific memories to expose the Nine Abysses’ scheme and urged Yun Jiang to act before the region fell to demonic beasts. He entrusted Tian Li to her, revealing that the child she carried was human and might be used to challenge the Third Demon Abyss’ Demon Emperor.

  • Qi Zhou asked Yun Jiang to take Tian Li back to Yangliugou after his death, but Yunyan objected because the route led to the Third Demon Abyss.
  • Qi Zhou released Tian Li’s memories through her jade pendant, showing how demonic beasts had abused her and manipulated events in Buddha-Slaying Town to cultivate a demon embryo.
  • Qi Zhou warned that the lands west of Cloud Ridge would become a Demon Domain within a month, while Yun Jiang recognized that his revelations had drawn her into an Inquiry of the Heart Trial.
  • Qi Zhou revealed that Tian Li’s unborn child was an ordinary human child and that Tian Li had become a ghost corpse to protect it from the demon seed.
  • Yun Jiang confirmed that Tian Li and her child were gravely weakened, and Qi Zhou proposed sending Tian Li before the Third Demon Abyss’ Demon Emperor, whose Dao Heart was being tested by his cultivation of the Taixuan Scripture.

Ch. 1953Slaying Qi Zhou, Your Life Was Truly Laughable

Xu Taiping accepted the Scroll of Time’s choice and killed Qi Zhou after defeating the reanimated corpses with his own blade. Qi Zhou’s memories revealed the loss of his pregnant wife, and Xu Taiping was left to endure the torrents of Qi Zhou’s true essence and qi and blood.

  • Yun Jiang agreed to confront Qi Zhou at Yangliugou, and her righteous qi and sword power suppressed the corpse mountain.
  • The Scroll of Time made Xu Taiping choose on Yun Jiang’s behalf, and Mister Da urged him to strike decisively.
  • Xu Taiping used his blade domain and blade qi thunderclap to destroy the corpse tendrils, then beheaded Qi Zhou.
  • Qi Zhou’s memory mark showed him bringing noodle soup to his pregnant wife before revealing her corpse in the ruins of their courtyard.
  • A golden pillar of light descended on Xu Taiping, and Qi Zhou’s true essence and qi and blood surged into his body.

Ch. 1954The next scene, refining twenty percent of Qi Zhou's True Essence

Xu Taiping refined the True Essence he had absorbed from Qi Zhou, bringing its purity close to eight times that of an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator. The scene in the Scroll of Time resumed as Yun Jiang and her companions prepared to carry Tian Li toward the Third Demon Abyss and sent warnings to cultivators nearby.

  • Xu Taiping suppressed the surging power from Qi Zhou and refined the True Essence with the Cloud-Riding Scripture.
  • Mister Da congratulated Xu Taiping for surviving the first scene, and Xu Taiping silently thanked Qi Zhou.
  • Yun Jiang explained that taking Tian Li to the Third Demon Abyss could boost Shangqing's morale and create a rare chance to strike the enemy.
  • Yunyan agreed to accompany Yun Jiang in exchange for seeing the map of the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansions Ruins, and Yun Ling joined them after Yun Jiang approved.
  • Yun Jiang used the jade pendant's Carrier Pigeon Divine Ability to send news and Divine Soul Marks to cultivators in the region.

Ch. 1955Five Years Later, Zhao Qian Opened the Bronze Coffin Again

Xu Taiping completed the first six acts of the Scroll of Time and entered the curtain call in the seventh, leaving only the final act ahead. Five years after the trial began, Zhao Qian opened the Bronze Coffin to check his progress and reported the results to Lü Daoxuan.

  • Mister Da warned Xu Taiping that the coming acts would test his control and character, and cautioned him against reversing time when faced with suffering.
  • Five years later, Zhao Qian asked Lü Daoxuan for permission to open the Bronze Coffin and inspect Xu Taiping’s progress; Lü agreed and warned him not to open it again before the trial ended.
  • The Scroll of Time revealed that Xu Taiping had accomplished Act One, Buddha-Slaying Town, and Zhao Qian read its recorded events aloud.
  • Zhao Qian used the Scroll of Time to confirm that Xu Taiping had completed Acts Two through Six.
  • The scroll showed Act Seven was in progress with its curtain call, and Lü Daoxuan praised Xu Taiping as only the eighth act remained.

Ch. 1956Five Years Later, Fairy Lingyue in Outer Heaven

Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan learned that Xu Taiping had completed the first seven acts of the Scroll of Time but faced a deadly battle in the seventh. In Outer Heaven, Fairy Lingyue received news of his progress and continued toward the Great Yu Ancient Kingdom ruins with Ping'an, who prepared to undergo his own trial.

  • Zhao Qian reported that Xu Taiping could not use his usual abilities in the seventh act and had to slay a Demon Emperor, so Lü Daoxuan told him to close the Bronze Coffin and guard it from the Nine Abysses.
  • Lü Daoxuan explained that Xu Taiping could enter the Scroll of Time again through his Origin Beginning Clone, but doing so would cost years and consume a valuable resource.
  • Lü Daoxuan instructed Zhao Qian to send Fairy Lingyue an update, and Zhao Qian sent a recording of the coffin inspection through her Spirit Mirror.
  • Fairy Lingyue watched Zhao Qian reveal that Xu Taiping had completed the first seven acts and felt reassured, though his curtain call and final trial remained.
  • Fairy Lingyue told Ping'an that the Immortal Boat would bring him to the Great Yu Ancient Kingdom ruins within three days, where he would have to rely on himself.
  • Ping'an vowed to reach the demon race's Great Sage Realm and reunite with Fairy Lingyue, Xu Taiping, and Bai Yu.

Ch. 1957The seventh act, Xu Taiping facing three Demon Emperors

Xu Taiping fought and killed three Demon Emperors in the seventh act inside the Scroll of Time. Afterward, he watched Yun Jiang, who had survived from the second act, finally fall beside the lion Demon Emperor’s corpse.

  • Xu Taiping used the Azure Luan Ring to fend off the lion Demon Emperor’s sandstorm as the eagle Demon Emperor attacked from above.
  • Xu Taiping baited the eagle Demon Emperor into range and used the ring’s Sea-Splitting strike to sever its claw and wing, while his hidden clone blocked the bull Demon Emperor’s punch.
  • Xu Taiping drew his blade and used the Dragon-Slaying Form to burn the bull Demon Emperor to ashes.
  • Xu Taiping’s clone hurled the Thunder Sound Banner through the lion Demon Emperor’s throat, and Xu Taiping finished it with the Baxia Form.
  • Xu Taiping saw Yun Jiang sink to her knees beside the lion Demon Emperor’s headless corpse, having fallen after surviving from the second act.

Ch. 1958The seventh scene, the three fellow disciples of Azure Dawn Temple

Xu Taiping witnessed the end of Yun Jiang's battle against three Demon Emperors and learned that she had defeated them by using the Spirit Transformation Curse. As Yun Jiang died through Liberation by Violence, she entrusted Yun Ling and Yunyan with her Bamboo Hairpin and a message pendant that would lead them to the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat.

  • Xu Taiping recognized that Yun Jiang, not he, had truly defeated the three Demon Emperors, and that her strength far exceeded that of cultivators at her level.
  • Yun Jiang refused Yun Ling's Azure Nether Pill, explaining that the Spirit Transformation Curse would soon cause her body to undergo Liberation by Violence.
  • Yun Jiang gave Yun Ling her Bamboo Hairpin as her Dao Seal and urged her to carry on with Yunyan to Willow Tree Bay.
  • Yun Jiang gave Yunyan her Message Jade Pendant and revealed that the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat was coming to find them.
  • Yun Jiang apologized to her Master for failing to inherit her mantle, then turned to ash in the wind, leaving behind her Dharma Robe.

Ch. 1959Act Eight: Ni Zhao, the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat!

After the seventh act ended, Xu Taiping suppressed the surging qi and blood and true essence that threatened to force a forbidden breakthrough. In the eighth act, he saw Yun Ling cornered by demonic beasts until Ni Zhao, the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, appeared and saved her.

  • Yunyan sent Yun Ling east with the sleeping girl while he flew toward the pursuing demonic beasts to draw them away.
  • Yun Ling promised to wait for Yunyan at Azure Dawn Temple, and Xu Taiping reflected on the pair's courage before the seventh act closed.
  • Xu Taiping stabilized and refined the greatly increased qi and blood and true essence, avoiding a breakthrough that would erase him from the River of Time.
  • In the eighth act, a demonic beast struck Yun Ling into a tree, and another blocked her path to an abandoned village.
  • Yun Ling saw that the pig-headed demonic beast held Yunyan's severed head as another beast prepared to crush her.
  • Ni Zhao appeared in black armor and killed the attacking demonic beast with a single palm strike.

Ch. 1960Act Eight: Mister Da Appeared Once More

Ni Zhao arrived with Mister Da to protect Yun Ling and Tian Li as the group faced an overwhelming demonic army. After sending Yun Ling away, Ni Zhao revealed that Tian Li’s unborn child could poison the Demon Emperor of the Third Demon Abyss, and prepared to confront the Demon Emperor with Mister Da.

  • Ni Zhao confirmed he was the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, while seven whale demons descended and Mister Da blocked them with a river of sword qi.
  • Ni Zhao destroyed a charging Demon Venerable-level demonic beast and gave Yun Ling a scroll to teleport away with Yunyan’s head.
  • Ni Zhao told Yun Ling that the cries of the infant in Tian Li’s womb were deadly poison to the Demon Emperor of the Third Demon Abyss, and Yun Ling departed.
  • Tian Li woke and happily believed she had returned home as demonic beasts converged and Mister Da’s sword barrier broke.
  • The Demon Emperor challenged Ni Zhao’s plan to kill him, and Ni Zhao replied with a mysterious smile that there were not just two of them.

Ch. 1961The Demon Emperor emerged, Ni Zhao's Time-Borrowing Method

Ni Zhao used the Time-Borrowing Method to summon Li Daoyan from the River of Time, and Li Daoyan fought back the Third Demon Abyss’s forces. Ni Zhao then welcomed the previous Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, Yuyang Heavenly Lord, but still said they were missing one person.

  • Ni Zhao summoned Li Daoyan from the River of Time, confirming Xu Taiping’s suspicion that the Thirteenth Seat had mastered Time Interception.
  • Li Daoyan raised Sword City and unleashed countless flying swords, driving back the Whale Demon and killing many Demonic Beasts.
  • The Demon Emperor of the Third Demon Abyss released several Demon Emperor-level Demonic Beasts and more troops, but Ni Zhao said they had to wait for others.
  • Ni Zhao summoned Yuyang Heavenly Lord, the previous Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, who set a hundred-li area ablaze and burned many Demonic Beasts.
  • Li Daoyan urged Ni Zhao to attack, but Ni Zhao said one more person was still missing.

Ch. 1962Thirteen Seats, the One to Untie the Bell in the Scroll of Time

Ni Zhao summoned Xu Taiping into the past to help fight Wu Xuan, revealing that Xu could overlap with the combat strength of his strongest future self. He explained the cost of that choice and how the Scroll of Time preserved this stretch of history, leaving Xu Taiping to decide whether to step forward.

  • Ni Zhao invited Xu Taiping, the next holder of the Thirteen Seats of the Abyss, into the past to face Wu Xuan alongside him, Yuyang Heavenly Lord, and Li Daoyan.
  • Li Daoyan recognized Xu Taiping and worried that his Heaven Gazing Realm cultivation was too weak for the battle.
  • Ni Zhao explained that crossing the barrier would give Xu Taiping the combat strength of his strongest self in this world before reaching the Dao Integration Realm.
  • Xu Taiping asked whether failing to reach that strength would erase him, and Ni Zhao revealed that the question had been Xu Taiping's final test to succeed to the Thirteen Seats.
  • Ni Zhao explained that drawing Xu Taiping from a tributary into the main stream would erase its other possibilities, then described how the Scroll of Time tied a knot in the River of Time to preserve this stretch.

Ch. 1963Thirteen Seats, this child should not exist in this world

Xu Taiping crossed the azure barrier and underwent a staggering transformation, gaining immense power as Demon Emperor Wu Xuan sent powerful demons to stop him. One year later, Zhao Qian saw Xu Taiping’s transformed body inside the Scroll of Time and could hardly believe it was him.

  • Xu Taiping accepted Ni Zhao’s explanation and stepped through the azure barrier, crossing a thousand years into the past.
  • Xu Taiping’s body and power surged, growing to a hundred zhang as his aura transformed into lightning Gang Qi and then Thunderflame.
  • Demon Emperor Wu Xuan ordered the Demon Army of the Three Abysses to annihilate Xu Taiping and sent eight Demon Emperor-level beasts to attack Sword City.
  • Xu Taiping killed the eight demons with one slash, then destroyed a towering Bull Demon with a single finger.
  • One year later, Zhao Qian opened the Bronze Coffin at the Azure Profound Sect’s Netherdark Demon Grotto and was shocked to recognize Xu Taiping inside the Scroll of Time.

Ch. 1964Destroy Wu Xuan and obtain the inheritance of the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat!

Lü Daoxuan and Zhao Qian recognized that Xu Taiping had been summoned from a future timeline as the Taixuan Sect’s greatest hope against the Great Void Calamity, and they began preparing to reunite the sect’s divided immortal mansions. In the Scroll of Time, Xu Taiping’s future self destroyed Demon Emperor Wu Xuan, and Ni Zhao offered Xu Taiping the complete inheritance of the Thirteenth Seat of the Abyss.

  • Zhao Qian showed Lü Daoxuan a Divine Soul Mark of Xu Taiping’s future battle, and Lü confirmed that the figure was Taiping.
  • Zhao Qian said Taiping’s future strength offered the Remnants of the Taixuan Sect their greatest hope against the Great Void Calamity.
  • Lü Daoxuan ordered Zhao Qian to gather the Peak Lords and prepare to undo the seal dividing the Taixuan Sect Immortal Mansions Ruins from Qingxuan’s Cloud Lodge Immortal Mansions.
  • Within the Scroll of Time, the newborn in Tian Li’s womb caused Demon Emperor Wu Xuan to be ground to dust by the grinding discs.
  • Ni Zhao congratulated Xu Taiping for completing the tests to succeed to the Thirteen Seats of the Abyss and presented him with the complete inheritance.

Ch. 1965Out of the Bronze Coffin, Three Powerful Treasures

Xu Taiping opened the inheritance box and learned about the Torch Dragon Ring, Jiazi Pot, and his own Scroll of Time from Ni Zhao. Ni Zhao explained why he had remained inside the Scroll, and Xu Taiping told him the Abyssal Pavilion had suffered devastating losses retrieving it.

  • Xu Taiping opened the wooden box with his qi-and-blood body-tempering power at the Immaculate Realm and found a Bronze Ring, a jade pot, and a scroll.
  • Ni Zhao explained the Torch Dragon Ring's time-manipulating abilities, recovery limits, and the danger of temporal backlash.
  • Ni Zhao identified the jade pot as the Jiazi Pot and explained its contrasting effects on time inside and outside the pot.
  • Ni Zhao explained how Xu Taiping could use his Scroll of Time to seal a span of events and make them a legend in the world.
  • Ni Zhao said he had hidden inside his Scroll after killing Devil Master Wu Xuan to protect the Abyssal Pavilion's treasure and inheritance until a successor arrived.
  • Xu Taiping told Ni Zhao that retrieving the Scroll had cost the Abyssal Pavilion dearly, with almost all its Thirteen Seats replaced.

Ch. 1966Out of the Bronze Coffin, a Gift from Li Daoyan

Xu Taiping learned that he had to personally deliver the Abyssal Pavilion’s lost treasure and received two inheritances from Li Daoyan. After Ni Zhao sent his true essence into him, Xu Taiping struggled to contain it, and half a month later his Bronze Coffin began to open in the Nether Profound Grotto.

  • Ni Zhao gave Xu Taiping a pearl containing the Abyssal Pavilion’s lost treasure and explained that he had to deliver it in person.
  • Li Daoyan passed down the Form- and Shadow-Transposition Technique and the Steal Heaven and Swap Sun Divine Ability through the Kunwu Sword, then vanished.
  • Mister Da asked whether Xu Taiping’s master was still hesitating, and Xu Taiping said his master had decided to contend again alongside him.
  • Ni Zhao warned Xu Taiping that a thread of his true essence would enter him as the Scroll of Time ended; the essence poured into Xu Taiping and nearly forced a breakthrough, but the Jade Bracelet helped him regain control.
  • Half a month later, Lü Daoxuan and Zhao Qian heard Xu Taiping’s Bronze Coffin move and waited for him to emerge without approaching it.

Ch. 1967Out of the Bronze Coffin, Thirteen Times an Ordinary Cultivator

Xu Taiping emerged from the Scroll of Time with reserves of True Essence and Qi and Blood thirteen times greater than an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator, but struggled to control them alongside his seven Demon Emperor Soul Seals. Lü Daoxuan revealed that seven swords had been selected to forge into Immortal Weapons that could undo the seals.

  • Xu Taiping emerged from the Bronze Coffin and swallowed two bottles of Heaven Rank spirit pills, restoring some flesh without breaking through.
  • Xu Taiping told Zhao Qian that his reserves had grown to thirteen times those of an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator, and Zhao Qian confirmed they surpassed his own.
  • Xu Taiping explained that he had to keep his reserves near half capacity to avoid weakening his body or losing cultivation to the seven soul seals.
  • Xu Taiping took an Earth Fruit Seed to replenish his Divine Soul Power and discussed how the soul seals hindered him in battle.
  • Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that he had chosen seven swords from the Five Elders' manuals and that forging them into Immortal Weapons would undo the seven soul seals.

Ch. 1968Forging demon-sealing swords: two swords in a single year

Xu Taiping learned he needed to forge two Demon-Sealing Swords within a year, and Lü Daoxuan’s old flying swords volunteered to be reforged despite the danger. As Xu Taiping worried that he could forge only one sword in time, Lü Daoxuan reminded him of his Origin Beginning Clone.

  • Xu Taiping learned that six years had passed outside the Scroll of Time and realized he had to forge two Demon-Sealing Swords within a year.
  • Lü Daoxuan gathered his old flying swords to provide materials, and Longyuan, Chengying, and the other swords chose to risk being reforged.
  • Xu Taiping thanked the swords and gathered them into his Iron Gourd.
  • Xu Taiping explained that even with the Jiazi Pot, he could forge only one Demon-Sealing Sword within a year.
  • Lü Daoxuan reminded Xu Taiping that he had an Origin Beginning Clone.

Ch. 1969Forging the Demon-Sealing Swords, the Wondrous Uses of the Origin Beginning Clone

After Xu Taiping completed the Scroll of Time, Lü Daoxuan explained how his Origin Beginning Clone could help forge Demon-Sealing Swords alongside him. Xu Taiping learned that Fairy Lingyue had gone to the Battlefield Ruins because of trouble involving Wuji Immortal Elder, and he returned to the Moon Perching Pavilion to retrieve what she had left.

  • Lü Daoxuan explained that the Origin Beginning Clone could share its cultivation with Xu Taiping and help forge Demon-Sealing Swords at the same time as his true body.
  • Lü Daoxuan said the Abyssal Pavilion would send two Demon Emperor Heart Apertures, which could let Xu Taiping and his clone finish two Demon-Sealing Swords within a year.
  • Zhao Qian gave Xu Taiping a Jade Slip containing Fairy Lingyue's message that she had left for the Battlefield Ruins because Wuji Immortal Elder was in trouble.
  • Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping to retrieve a Divine Soul Mark and other items she had left in Fan Tower, because they concerned the Earth Fruit and his future cultivation.
  • Xu Taiping hurried back to the Moon Perching Pavilion, where he found Bai Yu and Ping'an absent and encountered a phantom of Fairy Lingyue outside Fan Tower.

Ch. 1970Moon Perching Pavilion, Fairy Lingyue's Divine Sense Projection

Xu Taiping reunited with Fairy Lingyue’s divine sense projection at Moon Perching Pavilion and learned that Bai Yu and Ping'an had left for a long trial in Outer Heaven. Their messages reassured him of their loyalty, and Lingyue gave him a jade box containing a rare Soul-Merging Pill recipe before her long absence.

  • Fairy Lingyue’s projection told Xu Taiping that the Nine Abysses was hunting him and that her formation concealed his aura inside Fan Tower.
  • Fairy Lingyue explained that she had taken Bai Yu and Ping'an to Outer Heaven to pursue trials that could lead them to the Demon Race's Great Sage Realm.
  • Xu Taiping listened to Ping'an's message promising to become someone he could trust to watch his back, then learned that both companions had chosen to stay by him despite the danger.
  • Xu Taiping heard Bai Yu insist that he would repay his debts and urged Xu Taiping to stay alive until he returned.
  • Fairy Lingyue warned that she might be gone for three to five hundred years and gave Xu Taiping a jade box containing the Shangqing Realm's only complete Immortal Rank Soul-Merging Pill recipe.

Ch. 1971Moon Perching Pavilion, receiving the Soul-Merging Pill formula

Xu Taiping learned that opening the Immortal Rank Soul-Merging Pill formula would expose its karmic aura and reveal his identity, so he planned to wait until Old Daoist Huang could help conceal it. Fairy Lingyue gave him the Kunwu Sword and advised him to ask Old Lü whether Old Daoist Huang could be trusted.

  • Fairy Lingyue explained that Soul-Merging Pill formulas carried powerful karma that Qi-Gazing Practitioners could trace, and that the Immortal Rank formula could expose Xu Taiping's identity if he read it.
  • Xu Taiping suggested asking Old Daoist Huang to conceal the formula's karmic aura after his rebirth, and Fairy Lingyue agreed that his help would be ideal.
  • Fairy Lingyue advised Xu Taiping to consult Old Lü about whether Old Daoist Huang was trustworthy.
  • Fairy Lingyue gave Xu Taiping the Kunwu Sword and explained that it had to be wielded with the Power of Time.
  • Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping to study the Divine Soul Mark of Li Daoyan inside the Kunwu Sword while forging and refining the Demon-Sealing Sword.

Ch. 1972Moon Perching Pavilion, the Sixth Seed Burning failed

Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue discovered that their memories of picking the Earth Fruit Golden Lotuses had been altered, causing Fairy Lingyue’s Sixth Seed Burning to fail. Xu Taiping found three lotuses still hidden in the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven and planned to retrieve them with a Mysterious Origin Avatar protected from the memory-affecting treasure.

  • Xu Taiping stored the Kunwu Sword in the Sword-Nurturing Gourd, preserving Li Daoyan’s cultivation inheritance.
  • Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that her attempt at the Sixth Seed Burning had failed because the Golden Lotus remains were incomplete.
  • Fairy Lingyue suspected that a being like Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland’s Wang You Wind had made them forget some lotuses they left behind.
  • Xu Taiping used his Lotus Eye and True Intent of Lotus Root Broken, Yet Its Fibers Remain to reveal an image of three Golden Lotuses in the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven.
  • Fairy Lingyue advised Xu Taiping to leave his true body in the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin and send a Mysterious Origin Avatar to retrieve the lotuses.

Ch. 1973Moon Perching Pavilion, the reason Buyu had not left

Fairy Lingyue explained why the Dragon-Slaying Stele had to be sent to a hidden passage leading to Manghuang, so Xu Taiping could travel to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom as part of the plan against the Great Void Calamity. Three days later, Lin Buyu remained in Qingxuan and revealed that her scarlet Listening Wind Bracelet foretold a deadly tribulation for its counterpart's owner.

  • Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that the Dragon-Slaying Stele would go to the shattered Golden Court Grotto-Heaven because it could provide access to Manghuang and the Primordial Thousand Buddha Kingdom.
  • Fairy Lingyue warned Xu Taiping to prioritize cultivation and avoid reckless action, and he promised to meet her again as a worthy fighting partner.
  • Three days later, Xu Ziyan asked Lin Buyu why she had concealed that she had not left Qingxuan, and Lin Buyu said she did not want to explain.
  • Lin Buyan demanded to know why Lin Buyu was making her return to the Taihao Sect alone, but Lin Buyu refused to answer.
  • Lin Buyu examined her scarlet Listening Wind Bracelet and said it signaled that the owner of the other bracelet faced a deadly tribulation.

Ch. 1974Profound Grotto, the uses of the Origin Beginning Clone

Xu Taiping consulted Lü Daoxuan about Old Daoist Huang’s Undying Bone and the Earth Fruit Golden Lotus, then learned how Origin Beginning Clones and Mysterious Origin Avatars could aid his cultivation and help him hide from Heavenly Dao punishment. Lü Daoxuan revealed that the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin could leave the grotto, though Xu Taiping would have to carry it himself.

  • Lü Daoxuan confirmed that a Primordial Spirit lay within the Undying Bone and explained that Old Daoist Huang would likely agree to return for it because of the debt he owed Xu Taiping.
  • Lü Daoxuan advised Xu Taiping to wait until both Demon-Sealing Swords were forged before retrieving the Earth Fruit Golden Lotus, which likely contained a treasure like the Wang You Wind.
  • Lü Daoxuan suggested Xu Taiping create a Mysterious Origin Avatar to cultivate in the third Bronze Coffin while his true body and Origin Beginning Clone forged the swords.
  • Lü Daoxuan explained that a Mysterious Origin Avatar could practice skills and arts but could not affect the true body’s cultivation realm or forge swords, while an Origin Beginning Clone could also cultivate the law.
  • Lü Daoxuan said a complete Origin Beginning Clone could help Xu Taiping hide his true body below the Heaven Shocking Realm, but the incomplete Shangqing Clone Art made using the method dangerous without the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin.
  • Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that he could take the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin out of the Netherdark Demon Grotto, but could not keep it inside a Spatial Item for long.

Ch. 1975Profound Grotto, the Blade Ghost's Sudden Appearance!

Xu Taiping entered a Demon-Suppressing Coffin to cultivate while preparing to forge two Demon-Sealing Swords, and chose to focus his clone on blade techniques after the Blade Ghost criticized his declining killing power. He discovered that the Blade Ghost could pull his Mysterious Origin Avatar into the restored blade domain, where the Blade Ghost ordered the avatar to stay and train.

  • Xu Taiping placed a Mysterious Origin Avatar in a Demon-Suppressing Coffin, and Lü Daoxuan explained how the coffins could support cultivation.
  • The Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping that his blade techniques had lost their killing power and urged him to entrust everything to his blade.
  • Xu Taiping chose to train with the blade, entered another coffin, and promised Lü Daoxuan not to open it until both Demon-Sealing Swords were complete.
  • Xu Taiping used his thoughts to change the cultivation environments around himself and his clones, selecting the Blood Rain Forest in Youyun Heaven and the Fan Tower of the Moon Perching Pavilion for them.
  • The Blade Ghost pulled Xu Taiping's Mysterious Origin Avatar into his blade domain and revealed that eleven layers of the Eighteen-Layer Blade Domain had been restored.
  • The Blade Ghost ordered Xu Taiping's Mysterious Origin Avatar to remain in the blade domain and cultivate with him.
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