Chapter Summaries

Lü Daoxuan concealed the battle above Forget-Me-Not Peak from Xu Taiping so he could finish forging two Demon-Sealing Swords, and prepared to open the Bronze Gate to confront the danger. When a powerful sword strike reached the peak, he recognized its wielder as a girl and hoped she could hold out against Yuyangzi.

• Lü Daoxuan heard the disturbance above and assured Xu Taiping that nothing was wrong while Xu continued forging the two Demon-Sealing Swords.
• Lü Daoxuan prepared to open the Bronze Gate, knowing that doing so would merge his divine soul with the gate and turn his body into a puppet.
• A pair of powerful sword intents pierced into the Nether Profound Grotto, and Lü Daoxuan recognized one as belonging to the girl fighting Yuyangzi.
• The white-robed female Sword Cultivator drove back the purple-robed ghost corpse with a star-filled sword strike called Starfall.
• Liang Zhu arrived at the summit and wondered whether the white-robed Sword Cultivator was Little Martial Aunt Buyu.

Yuyangzi broke free of the talismans sealing him and unleashed the Frost Heaven Command, freezing the land around Forget-Me-Not Peak. Lin Buyu shattered his frozen domain and gave Liang Zhu an opening to attack, but Yuyangzi evaded her sword strike after reading its trajectory.

• Lin Buyu's sword strike pierced Yuyangzi, but Yuyangzi's talismans flew away and he unleashed a blizzard that froze everything within a hundred miles.
• Lin Buyu formed a wall of Sword Qi around Forget-Me-Not Peak and told Liang Zhu to strike Yuyangzi once she broke his Frost Heaven Command.
• Yuyangzi sensed Liang Zhu and sent thousands of ice swords at her, but Lin Buyu's aurora-like Sword Light forced him to gather his frost power into a snowflake.
• Lin Buyu used Taoguang to slip her Sword Light past Yuyangzi's chill and then shattered the frozen domain with her attack.
• Liang Zhu unleashed a sword strike across a hundred miles, but Yuyangzi narrowly dodged it after anticipating its trajectory.

Lin Buyu and Liang Zhu fought to hold off Yuyangzi on Forget-Me-Not Peak while Xu Taiping finished forging the Longyuan sword beneath it. Liang Zhu chose to stay and defend Xu Taiping, and he began the sword’s final quenching and spirit infusion as danger stirred outside.

• Yuyangzi’s powerful attacks overwhelmed Liang Zhu, but Lin Buyu shielded her and retreated with her to Forget-Me-Not Peak.
• Lin Buyu warned that they could not kill Yuyangzi and offered Liang Zhu the chance to leave, but Liang Zhu stayed to repay Junior Martial Uncle Taiping’s kindness.
• Lin Buyu said she stayed because the person she cherished most was beneath Forget-Me-Not Peak.
• Lin Buyu and Liang Zhu worked together to strike Yuyangzi back after he destroyed the Golden-Armored Divine Generals.
• Xu Taiping finished forging the Longyuan sword, sensed trouble outside the Netherdark Demon Grotto, and began its final quenching and spirit infusion.

Xu Taiping completed Longyuan’s three quenchings, and the sword inherited two True Intents while Chengying inherited none in its first two rounds. After the final quenching, Xu Taiping invited Longyuan’s original sword spirit to take control, and a huge burst of water erupted from the pool.

• Xu Taiping drew Longyuan from the Heart Aperture furnace and completed its first quenching, gaining one True Intent; Chengying’s first quenching yielded none.
• Xu Taiping reheated Longyuan and completed its second quenching, gaining a second True Intent that could control Mountain Spirit Power and boost a Flying Sword’s speed with wind spirit power.
• Xu Taiping learned that Chengying had gained no True Intent from its second quenching and prepared Longyuan’s third and final quenching.
• After waiting for Longyuan to reach the right temperature, Xu Taiping quenched it until the cold pool boiled, but Longyuan gained no additional True Intent.
• Xu Taiping bowed to Longyuan and asked its original sword spirit to take control, and a huge burst of water erupted from the pool.

Xu Taiping watched Longyuan’s old sword spirit devour the newborn spirit and Demon Emperor Eagle Lion’s divine soul, completing Longyuan’s quenching and granting him two powerful true intents. He then saw Chengying inherit a divine intent during its first quenching and began examining what it was.

• A black shark formed from Demon Emperor Eagle Lion’s divine soul swallowed Longyuan’s newborn white porpoise sword spirit while Xu Taiping wondered where Longyuan’s old spirit had gone.
• Longyuan’s old sword spirit appeared as a giant whale, swallowed the black shark and Longyuan, and completed the sword’s forging.
• Xu Taiping summoned Longyuan, felt its sword qi surge through him, and gained confidence in its power and two true intents.
• Xu Taiping entered the Liver and Gallbladder Cold Pool through his Origin Beginning Clone to check Chengying’s quenching.
• Chengying manifested golden divine-intent patterns and emerged from the pool, and Longyuan’s sword spirit confirmed it had received a divine intent inheritance.
• Xu Taiping opened the divine soul mark containing Chengying’s inherited divine intent to discover what it was.

Xu Taiping learned the three stages of Chengying Sword’s divine intent after its third quenching, including the ability to draw on the power of night for a devastating attack. As Chengying’s old sword spirit fought the Demon Emperor’s divine soul, the wounded new sword spirit kept returning to help, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Xu Taiping saw visions revealing that Chengying could hide itself in shadows, conceal its wielder there, and unleash the power of night across a wide area.
• Xu Taiping identified the visions as the three stages of Chengying’s divine intent, and the sword completed its third quenching.
• Chengying’s old and new sword spirits appeared as orcas in the cold pool, while the Demon Emperor’s divine soul took the form of a black shark and attacked the old spirit.
• The new sword spirit repeatedly intervened despite being badly wounded, helping the old spirit fight the black shark.
• The old orca and the black shark became locked in a brutal struggle, while the nearly half-destroyed new orca charged at the shark again.

Xu Taiping defeated the Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and gave Chengying two sword spirits, accepting the cost of slower access to its divine intent. As he wondered what to do next, his Listening Wind Bracelet turned scarlet, making him fear that something had happened to Junior Sister Buyu.

• Little Orca repeatedly rammed Giant Shark, and its cries of “Mama” drove the old sword spirit to tear Giant Shark open and kill it.
• Xu Taiping sensed the Demon Emperor’s remnant soul dissipate and saw the old sword spirit feed Little Sword Spirit a piece of Giant Shark’s innards.
• The old sword spirit and Longyuan explained that Little Sword Spirit had great potential as Chengying’s sword spirit, and Xu Taiping chose to let Chengying have two sword spirits.
• The old sword spirit and Little Sword Spirit merged into Chengying, completing Xu Taiping’s two Demon-Sealing Swords and resolving his Tribulation of Time.
• Xu Taiping’s Listening Wind Bracelet turned scarlet, and he worried that something had happened to Junior Sister Buyu.

Xu Taiping learned through the Listening Wind Bracelet that Lin Buyu was still on Forget-Me-Not Peak, fighting Yuyangzi, and raced out of the Nether Profound Grotto to save her. As Yuyangzi overwhelmed Lin Buyu and Liang Zhu, Xu Taiping charged toward the peak in a furious, dragon-shaped surge of Blade Qi Thunderclap.

• Xu Taiping sensed Lin Buyu's distress through the Listening Wind Bracelet, and Lü Daoxuan confirmed that she was holding back Yuyangzi's three strands of Corpse Demonic Qi.
• Xu Taiping left the Bronze Coffin and raced through the grotto, unleashing his ultimate-realm Dragon Whale Physique while saving his Mysterious Origin Avatar as a last resort.
• The bracelet showed Xu Taiping Yuyangzi shattering Lin Buyu's Protective Sword Gang, striking her, and hurling her into a cliff.
• Xu Taiping roared at Yuyangzi and merged with his twin Blade Qi Thunderclap dragons, surging toward the grotto exit.
• Earlier on Forget-Me-Not Peak, Yuyangzi repeatedly overpowered Liang Zhu and Lin Buyu, using ghostly mist to ambush them.

Yuyangzi overwhelmed Liang Zhu and Lin Buyu despite their coordinated sword attacks, while the two women exhausted their remaining strength trying to stop him. After Liang Zhu was gravely injured and her Natal Treasure shattered, Yuyangzi pursued Azure Fish to the cliff and prepared another decisive punch.

• Yuyangzi punched Liang Zhu's Azure Fish Sword and knocked her Primordial Spirit back into her body, then moved to strike the falling sword.
• Lin Buyu unleashed Heaven-Splitting to protect Azure Fish, but Yuyangzi blocked the Sword Qi with a blood-red bell of Fist Aura.
• Liang Zhu and Lin Buyu used their last pills and joined forces again, with Lin Buyu summoning Starfall as Liang Zhu attacked Yuyangzi with Azure Fish.
• Yuyangzi stopped Lin Buyu's Sword Light and struck Liang Zhu's attack; Azure Fish failed to pierce his neck, and his counterattack gravely wounded Liang Zhu and shattered her Natal Treasure.
• Liang Zhu sent Azure Fish into the cliff face of Forget-Me-Not Peak, but Yuyangzi instantly appeared beside it and swung another punch.

Lin Buyu trapped Yuyangzi against Forget-Me-Not Peak with the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Prison, but her depleted true essence and dimming rings could not hold him for long. As Yuyangzi broke the stellar chains and threatened to catch them, Lin Buyu noticed her Listening Wind Tower jade bracelet trembling.

• Lin Buyu used her Starfall Form against Yuyangzi, but he blocked the sword light with his fist and crimson bell phantom.
• Lin Buyu revealed the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Prison, redirecting her sword light to form a constellation on Forget-Me-Not Peak that slammed Yuyangzi into the cliff and bound him with stellar chains.
• Liang Zhu realized Yuyangzi was trapped, while Lin Buyu explained that the formation was draining her rings and she had little true essence left.
• Yuyangzi struggled against the chains, forcing Lin Buyu to tell Liang Zhu to flee before the formation failed.
• Yuyangzi snapped several stellar chains and threatened that none of them would escape, but Lin Buyu noticed her Listening Wind Tower jade bracelet trembling.

Lin Buyu used the True Essence Xu Taiping sent through her jade bracelet to restrain Yuyangzi, but he reclaimed his Red Ghostfire and broke free. After Yuyangzi snapped Lin Buyu’s neck, Xu Taiping arrived, saw her broken body, and attacked him in fury.

• Lin Buyu drew True Essence from Xu Taiping’s jade bracelet and used it to bind Yuyangzi with the Seven Lodgings Grand Formation.
• Yuyangzi called back two balls of Red Ghostfire, broke free of the formation, and struck Lin Buyu down despite Liang Zhu’s attempt to help.
• Yuyangzi overwhelmed Liang Zhu and broke Lin Buyu’s Protective Sword Gang, but Lin Buyu’s ancient jade briefly shielded her as she invoked “Life hanging... by a thread!”
• Yuyangzi twisted Lin Buyu’s neck, leaving her body and Primordial Spirit gravely injured.
• Xu Taiping arrived at Forget-Me-Not Peak, saw Lin Buyu’s condition, and charged Yuyangzi with killing intent.

Furious at Yuyangzi for continuing to beat Lin Buyu, Xu Taiping transformed into his true dragon body and attacked him. Xu Taiping overwhelmed Yuyangzi's giant ghost corpse, leaving Liang Zhu to recognize how much stronger her Junior Martial Uncle had become.

• Yuyangzi kept punching Lin Buyu despite Xu Taiping's arrival, driving Xu Taiping into a rage.
• Xu Taiping manifested his true dragon body and struck Yuyangzi, hurling him through the forest and into a hillside.
• Yuyangzi enlarged his ghost corpse body to a hundred zhang and fought Xu Taiping to a stalemate, collapsing the hill behind him.
• Xu Taiping merged his thunderflame dragon shadows into his true dragon body and used Dragon-Slaying Form to shatter Yuyangzi's bell phantoms and sever two arms.
• Xu Taiping crushed Yuyangzi and the hillside with a final dragon-claw strike, while Liang Zhu marveled at his increased strength.

Xu Taiping relentlessly attacked Yuyangzi in his true dragon form, determined to avenge Lin Buyu despite Yuyangzi’s warnings that the power was consuming his vital essence. Liang Zhu feared the fight would damage Xu Taiping and decided to notify the Sect Master.

• Yuyangzi tried to escape Xu Taiping’s dragon claws, but Xu Taiping blasted him with thunderflame dragon breath and pursued him into the mountain forest.
• Xu Taiping struck Yuyangzi with three arrows carrying fire, thunder, and wind forces, then blasted the forest and forced Yuyangzi to defend himself with the Cold Heaven Command.
• After Yuyangzi taunted Xu Taiping that he could not be killed, Xu Taiping used the Raging Thunder Form to smash the ice barrier and burned away part of Yuyangzi’s corpse demonic qi.
• Yuyangzi warned Xu Taiping that killing him would exhaust Xu Taiping’s blood essence and vital essence, but Xu Taiping continued attacking and shattered the Cold Heaven Command again.
• Liang Zhu realized Xu Taiping’s power could backfire on him and resolved to notify the Sect Master.

Xu Taiping relentlessly attacked Yuyangzi in his true dragon form, destroying one strand of corpse demonic qi while wearing down the power of the Cold Heaven Command. As Liang Zhu feared Xu Taiping was losing his humanity, Zhao Qian and the peak lords arrived, and Zhao Qian tried to bring him to his senses.

• Xu Taiping endured Yuyangzi's ghost corpse punch and used the Shentu Bow's three arrows to annihilate the strand of corpse demonic qi Yuyangzi sent fleeing.
• Xu Taiping battered Yuyangzi's remaining ghost corpse with repeated thunderflame breaths, forcing Yuyangzi to spend more power on the Cold Heaven Command.
• Liang Zhu warned Xu Taiping that overusing his power could cause a backlash and sensed that his aura was becoming less human.
• Liang Zhu contacted Zhao Qian for help, and Zhao Qian arrived with the peak lords and ordered her to retreat.
• Zhao Qian told Xu Taiping to stop and leave Yuyangzi's remaining two strands to them, but Xu Taiping ignored him and continued attacking.
• Zhao Qian flew toward Xu Taiping and urged him to come to his senses; Xu Taiping finally reacted.

Xu Taiping stopped his rampage when Lin Buyu appeared alive, and the two acknowledged that they were special to each other. Later, Lin Buyu explained how she survived and revealed that she might soon have to leave for the Kunlun Ruins.

• Xu Taiping prepared to attack Yuyangzi’s fleeing ghost corpse, but Lin Buyu appeared and calmed him, allowing Zhao Qian and the others to pursue the escaping demonic qi.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu spoke about their feelings for each other beneath the red moon.
• Lin Buyu explained that her Listening Wind Bracelet had warned her of Xu Taiping’s danger and that an Ancient Jade’s divine intent had kept her alive.
• Lin Buyu confirmed that her current body was a clone cultivated through the Three Corpses Scripture.
• Lin Buyu said she might soon have to leave for the Upper Realm’s Kunlun Ruins, leaving Xu Taiping astonished.

Lin Buyu explained that the Three Corpses Cave had discovered her whereabouts and would soon come to the Azure Profound Sect to take her. Xu Taiping reluctantly agreed not to oppose them, and Lin Buyu ended by asking whether he had heard of the Lingxiao Society.

• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that the Three Corpses Cave backed the Taihao Sect and that her half-brother had revealed her location to them.
• Lin Buyu played a message from Lin Buyan, who said the Three Corpses Cave had exposed her disguise and was heading to the Azure Profound Sect to claim Lin Buyu.
• Lin Buyan urged Lin Buyu to surrender and warned the Azure Profound Sect not to fight the Three Corpses Cave.
• Lin Buyu said her father’s standing in the Three Corpses Cave might protect her, but warned Xu Taiping that the Upper Realm power could destroy Qingxuan despite its mountain-sealing Sword Formation.
• Lin Buyu described the potential benefits of cultivating in the Upper Realm, and Xu Taiping agreed not to interfere with her departure.
• Lin Buyu asked Xu Taiping whether he had ever heard of the Lingxiao Society.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu agreed to meet at the Lingxiao Society in two hundred years, where she could earn freedom from the Three Corpses Cave. After the Corpse Wraith upheaval, Lü Daoxuan explained Qingxuan’s plans and sent Xu Taiping to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom to invite a Buddha Statue back to Mysterious Wasteland Heaven, leaving Xu wondering why Buddhist disciples avoided the Wilderness.

• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that placing in the Lingxiao Society’s top ten could let her leave the Three Corpses Cave, and they promised to meet there in two hundred years.
• Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan discussed Qingxuan’s heavy losses in the Corpse Wraith upheaval and the plan to disclose the Taixuan Sect’s legacy and future dangers to its disciples after the sixty-year Mountain-Sealing.
• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping to leave his Mysterious Origin Avatar cultivating in the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin and explained that he could dispel it remotely if danger arose.
• Lü Daoxuan instructed Xu Taiping to climb Vulture Peak in the Thousand Buddha Kingdom’s royal capital, enter the Ten Thousand Buddha Grotto, and bring back a Buddha Statue.
• Lü Daoxuan explained that the vanished Thousand Buddha Kingdom had left a way to restore Buddha Fate to Shangqing, and Xu Taiping asked why Buddhist disciples did not enter the Wilderness.

Lü Daoxuan explained why the Five Elders sought Buddha Fate from Vulture Peak and revealed how the Demon Mother became the Great Void Calamity’s ally. Xu Taiping agreed to try breaking through before the climb, but their planning was interrupted by a familiar visitor.

• Lü Daoxuan said the Kṣitigarbha Sutra in the Thousand Buddha Kingdom could counter the Ghost Corpse scourge and that Buddha Fate would draw Buddhist disciples to Mysterious Wasteland Heaven, pressuring the Nine Abysses.
• Lü Daoxuan explained that the Demon Mother fed on the suffering caused by the Great Void Calamity and had become its lackey to preserve her fortune and give birth to the Nine Abysses.
• Lü Daoxuan warned Xu Taiping that the path to Vulture Peak held powerful demons and Yin Gods, and advised him to attempt a breakthrough before climbing.
• Xu Taiping agreed, reasoning that he could seek Venerable Jiaye’s help if Otherworldly Heavenly Demons appeared during his breakthrough.
• As Lü Daoxuan began discussing their arrangements, hurried footsteps approached the cave, and a familiar voice called out to Xu Taiping.

Sect Master Zhao Qian reported that Yuyangzi’s Corpse Demonic Qi threatened Qingxuan and that Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian needed Xu Taiping’s help in the Old Dragon Court to protect the Dragon-Slaying Stele. Xu Taiping proposed taking the Corpse Demonic Qi with him when he left Qingxuan.

• Zhao Qian told Lü Daoxuan that Yuyangzi’s sealed Corpse Demonic Qi could awaken Demon Seeds across a vast area, and that containing it in the Demon-Locking Well risked freeing Yuyangzi’s true body.
• Zhao Qian told Xu Taiping that Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian had been attacked by Huangbo, a Walker for Ningchan Cave, who had revealed the Dragon-Slaying Stele to his allies.
• Xu Taiping listened to Xuanzhi’s message and learned that Dongfang Yuejian was badly injured and that Ningchan Cave’s reinforcements might arrive within three to five days.
• Xu Taiping told Lü Daoxuan that he had a countermeasure for the Corpse Demonic Qi and asked Zhao Qian whether it could be moved.
• After Zhao Qian confirmed that the Qi was trapped in the movable Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, Xu Taiping proposed taking it with him when he left Qingxuan.

Xu Taiping planned to take Yuyangzi's Corpse Demonic Qi to Wilderness Heaven, and Lü Daoxuan taught him how to use the Origin Beginning Clone to control his rage and strengthen his true dragon body. As Xu Taiping and Zhao Qian agreed on the plan, Three Corpses Cave attacked the Azure Profound Sect, and an enormous Black Gold Giant Hammer smashed through the mountain-sealing Sword Formation above Five Elders Peak.

• Xu Taiping proposed taking the three strands of Corpse Demonic Qi to Wilderness Heaven and suppressing them with Venerable Jiaye's help.
• Lü Daoxuan explained that Xu Taiping could store his daily rage in the Origin Beginning Clone and release it to use his true dragon body without letting rage erode his mind.
• Zhao Qian accepted Xu Taiping's proposal and said Qingxuan owed him.
• A powerful attack struck the Azure Profound Sect's mountain-sealing Sword Formation, and Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping that people from Three Corpses Cave had arrived.
• A Black Gold Giant Hammer smashed through the sword-gang clouds above Five Elders Peak.