Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping removed Yundaozi’s ring and discovered that it held a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal, which the Life-and-Death Seal trapped. Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Xu Taiping’s own fragment was more complete and revealed that a sworn enemy had once taken his fragment.

• Xu Taiping broke the Heaven-Replenishing Book seal on Yundaozi’s ring, put it on, and sent his divine sense inside.
• A dark mass burst out of the ring and shattered Xu Taiping’s divine sense before Immortal Elder Wuji briefly seized it with a palm of true essence.
• The Life-and-Death Seal intercepted the dark mass, revealing a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• The Life-and-Death Seal trapped the fragment in a cage of golden light after it tried to escape.
• Immortal Elder Wuji said Heaven-Flipping Seal fragments attracted and devoured one another, and that Xu Taiping’s fragment was more complete.
• Immortal Elder Wuji revealed that his sworn enemy had once devoured a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal that he had found.

Xu Taiping learned that his Life-and-Death Seal was a disguised fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and watched it absorb another fragment, completing the Mountain character. The seal entered a long slumber, while Immortal Elder Wuji warned Xu Taiping to keep its identity secret and urged him to inspect Yundaozi's ring.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Heaven-Flipping Seal fragments disguised themselves to avoid being devoured and warned that powerful Upper Realm beings would seize or destroy anyone whose fragment was exposed.
• The Life-and-Death Seal dragged in the other fragment and absorbed it, making the Mountain character complete alongside Water.
• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that completing two of the four characters meant Xu Taiping had gathered half the fragments of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• The Life-and-Death Seal's artifact spirit announced it would slumber and later teach Xu Taiping to refine it into his Natal Treasure, and Xu Taiping put it away in the Iron Gourd.
• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping to keep the Heaven-Flipping Seal secret, promised to share two leads about other fragment holders, and urged him to inspect Yundaozi's ring.

Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji activated Yundaozi’s Moonlight Stone and watched a recording that explained its safeguards and revealed where Yundaozi had stored the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s inheritance. The recording ended with instructions for Xu Taiping to awaken the divine intent inside a tortoise shell.

• Xu Taiping showed Immortal Elder Wuji the Moonlight Stone, and Wuji explained that it could preserve images for far longer than an ordinary Moonshadow Stone.
• Xu Taiping set up the Dragon-Trapping Tower, and he and Immortal Elder Wuji entered it to activate the Moonlight Stone.
• Yundaozi’s recording revealed that only the person whose true essence had activated the Moonshadow Stone in the Bronze Casket could view the images and safely claim his inheritance.
• Yundaozi showed a tortoise shell stored in the ring and said it contained the divine intent holding the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s inheritance.
• Yundaozi instructed Xu Taiping to inject divine essence into the tortoise shell to awaken the divine intent, though successfully inheriting the art would depend on his fortune.

Xu Taiping learned about Yundaozi’s inheritances and treasures, including the Heaven-Replenishing Book and a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal. When Yundaozi revealed a batch of eight hundred Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones, Immortal Elder Wuji realized they might save both himself and Sister Lingyue.

• Yundaozi explained that inheriting the Heaven-Replenishing Book could make Xu Taiping the Eight Views Dao Palace’s First Seat Attendant and grant him access to its resources.
• Yundaozi introduced the Celestial Person Finger and One-Breath Life-and-Death Art, and Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji reflected on how Yundaozi had sacrificed his chance to survive for Shangqing.
• Yundaozi revealed a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and warned Xu Taiping not to show it to others.
• Yundaozi described his weapons and other treasures, then produced a Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stone and revealed that he had found eight hundred of them.
• Immortal Elder Wuji joyfully told Xu Taiping that the Soulfire Stones could save both Sister Lingyue and him.

Xu Taiping learned that Immortal Elder Wuji and Moon Candle Heavenly Lord planned to explore a dangerous passage in search of Taiqing Paradise, then gave Wuji the Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones he had brought. Yundaozi revealed a damaged cultivation technique fragment from the Taiyi Sect, identifying it as the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

• Immortal Elder Wuji admitted that the Blood Skeleton Head would let them enter the passage, but they needed many Soulfire Stones to survive there and were uncertain whether it led to Taiqing Paradise.
• Wuji said Xu Taiping’s eight hundred Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones raised the exploration’s chances of success to at least sixty percent.
• Xu Taiping offered Wuji the whole batch, but Wuji kept most of the stones and returned twenty for Xu Taiping to save for later cultivation and Blade Ghost’s needs.
• Wuji explained that Yundaozi’s lower-ranked Immortal Weapons could replenish Xu Taiping’s Spiritual Power or be smelted into materials for forging weapons.
• Yundaozi showed Xu Taiping a damaged cultivation technique fragment from a Taiyi Sect disciple and named it the ancient Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

Xu Taiping discovered that Yundaozi had left behind an incomplete original copy of the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art, which might address the flaw in his own cultivation. After hearing Yundaozi’s final requests and learning that reviving him would require the Heaven-Flipping Seal, Xu Taiping prepared to leave the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins as Immortal Elder Wuji offered to teach him how to resolve his five remaining Soul Seals.

• Xu Taiping recognized the bamboo slips as an incomplete original volume of the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art and discussed whether it could let his Origin Beginning Clone coexist with his true body.
• Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji listened as Yundaozi apologized for his depleted treasures, asked Xu Taiping to help the Eight Views Dao Palace if calamity struck, and mentioned a sealed recording on the Moonlight Stone.
• Xu Taiping asked whether Yundaozi could be saved, and Immortal Elder Wuji said the Heaven-Flipping Seal might gather his destroyed divine soul if all its fragments were restored.
• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping they needed to leave the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins soon, then offered to teach him a method to resolve his five remaining Soul Seals.

Immortal Elder Wuji gave Xu Taiping a Divine Soul Mark containing a possible way to resolve his Eight Soul Seals, then explained the requirements for cultivating the Dao Integration Realm to Great Perfection. The lesson left Xu Taiping realizing that a Great Perfection cultivator would wield exceptional power.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that he and Moon Candle Heavenly Lord had devised a possible way to use Xu Taiping's Nine Cauldrons Physique to resolve his Soul Seals.
• Xu Taiping accepted the Divine Soul Mark and promised not to waste the efforts Immortal Elder Wuji and Sister Lingyue had made for him.
• Immortal Elder Wuji began teaching Xu Taiping about the Dao Integration Realm, outlining its Life-Bound, Origin Opening, and Heavenly Communion stages.
• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that reaching Great Perfection required five Life-Bound Divine Weapons with specific abilities and three Life-Bound Divine Abilities of thunder, hurricane, and flame.
• Xu Taiping remarked that a cultivator with those weapons and abilities would have far greater killing power than others at the same stage.

Immortal Elder Wuji explained Xu Taiping's path through the Dao Integration Realm and accepted a message for the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord. Half a month later, he returned to Fairy Lingyue with the Heavenly King's Skull and news that Xu Taiping was safe.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Xu Taiping could use Origin Beginning Clones to reach Great Perfection of the Origin Opening Realm if he obtained the complete Taiqing Clone Art.
• Immortal Elder Wuji relayed the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord's advice to push body and divine soul to their limits through combat on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Immortal Elder Wuji identified Void Insight as the realm above Dao Integration, refused to discuss anything higher, and offered to carry Xu Taiping's message to the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord.
• Immortal Elder Wuji returned to the Outer Heaven Battlefield Ruins half a month later and gave Fairy Lingyue the Heavenly King's Skull needed to explore the passage.
• Immortal Elder Wuji delivered Xu Taiping's Moonshadow Stone and told Fairy Lingyue how Xu Taiping and his companions had rescued him from Dumu Palace.
• Fairy Lingyue blocked an approaching squad of Heavenly Soldier Skeletons with a flying sword and expressed relief that Xu Taiping was safe.

Fairy Lingyue received Xu Taiping’s message, learned he was safe and had reached the Dao Integration Realm, and resolved to press on through Taiqing Paradise with Immortal Elder Wuji. Half a month later, the Dragon-Trapping Tower began to shake as Xu Taiping emerged from seclusion after working to inherit the Heaven-Replenishing Book and remove his Soul Seals.

• Immortal Elder Wuji told Fairy Lingyue that Xu Taiping had reached the Dao Integration Realm and had received guidance on removing his remaining Soul Seals.
• Fairy Lingyue watched Xu Taiping’s Moonshadow Stone message, in which he promised they would meet again and urged her to preserve even a wisp of her soul if danger came.
• Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji fought through the passage into Taiqing Paradise, where pale hands reached from the darkness and a voice warned trespassers they would fall into purgatory.
• Half a month later, Gu Yu worried that Xu Taiping had remained inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower for nearly a month, while Dongfang Yuejian said his seclusion was normal.
• The Dragon-Trapping Tower began to tremble, and Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi anticipated Xu Taiping’s return.

Xu Taiping emerged from seclusion after a vision of Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji falling into a dark abyss, then discovered that his soul seals had become five sword embryos. He tested his increased qi-blood true essence and began drawing his Demon-Sealing Swords to measure its power.

• Xu Taiping woke from seclusion after seeing Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji fall into a dark abyss, and he resolved to focus on strengthening his cultivation.
• Xu Taiping confirmed that his five soul seals had become sword embryos inside his Nine Cauldrons Physique, where they devoured a wisp of Dao essence power released from Xingtian's divine intent.
• Xu Taiping realized the sword embryos would take three to five months to forge and decided he could stop maintaining the Ultimate Realm Dragon Whale Physique.
• Xu Taiping circulated all his available true essence, qi, and blood, unleashing an aura powerful enough to shake the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Xu Taiping drew Black Claw and doubled his aura's strength, then grasped Chengying to test whether drawing another sword would increase it further.

Xu Taiping discovered that removing his soul seals had greatly increased his Qi and Blood True Essence fluctuations, and that drawing the Demon-Sealing Swords multiplied their circulation and combat power. After Blade Ghost explained that the seals had also restrained his spells and martial arts, Xu Taiping prepared to examine the Origin Beginning Clone’s progress with the Heaven-Replenishing Book.

• Xu Taiping drew the Demon-Sealing Swords one by one and found that each sword increased his aura fluctuations, while drawing all three also made his Qi and Blood True Essence drain nearly three times faster.
• Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu sensed Xu Taiping’s pressure from outside the Dragon-Trapping Tower and marveled at how much his power had risen.
• Xu Taiping concluded that the swords increased the circulation speed, not the total amount, of his Qi and Blood True Essence, and that all eight could multiply its power eightfold.
• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping that removing the soul seals should also improve his spells, divine abilities, and martial arts, then asked to test his blade against Xu Taiping after awakening.
• Xu Taiping agreed to Blade Ghost’s request and turned his attention to the Origin Beginning Clone’s progress with the Heaven-Replenishing Book.

Xu Taiping removed all eight soul seals and learned that his Origin Beginning Clone had made progress on the Heaven-Replenishing Book. The Battle Merit Ledger then announced that Nine Abysses Team One had challenged his team.

• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian that he had removed all eight soul seals using a method taught by Immortal Elder Wuji, and said his power could still rise further.
• Xu Taiping contacted his cultivation clones and merged his divine soul with the Origin Beginning Clone’s insights into the Heaven-Replenishing Book.
• Xu Taiping demonstrated that he could turn part of a table into crystal and reviewed the inheritance’s sealing, heaven-replenishing, and heaven-excavating powers.
• The Battle Merit Ledger announced that the Immortal Burial Ruins Test-the-Blade Gathering had begun and Nine Abysses Team One had challenged Xu Taiping’s team.

Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian realized the Dragon-Slaying Assembly’s new Blade-Catching Assembly rules likely resulted from the Demon Mother’s interference. The first challenge pitted the Nine Abysses’ Wuxin, Qing He, and Li Yezhu against the Dongfang Clan’s team, but Xu Taiping said he could face all three now that his Soul Seals were removed.

• Xu Taiping suspected the Demon Mother had altered the Dragon-Slaying Assembly’s rules, and Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi agreed it was possible.
• The Battle Merit Ledger announced a Blade-Catching Assembly before the blade trial, with unfair rules favoring teams with lower battle merit.
• The Ledger named Wuxin, Qing He, and Li Yezhu as the first challengers and required the Dongfang Clan’s team to send one Dragon-Slaying Person or lose ten thousand battle merit.
• Dongfang Yuejian protested the one-against-three challenge, while Xu Taiping concluded the rules showed the Demon Mother’s interference had been limited.
• Xu Taiping said his Soul Seals had been removed and that he was not afraid of facing all three opponents in the Lower Realm.
• At the Profound Elixir Palace, Chu Xiaoxiao angrily denounced the challenge rules.

Spectators in the Spring Rain Pavilion suspected the Demon Mother had altered the Blade-Catching Assembly rules to disadvantage Xu Taiping’s team, and worried about their odds against Nine Abysses. Xu Taiping and his companions accepted the challenge, leaving their allies anxious about the coming fight.

• Xiahou Qingyuan and Zhu Huai concluded that the Demon Mother had likely added the Blade-Catching Assembly, though her ability to interfere appeared limited.
• Lu Rushuang and the others warned that Xu Taiping could face three opponents and that the rules might still change, making refusal and forfeited battle merit seem safer.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor told hidden Nine Abysses allies to prepare for the demonic army to descend on Chenglong Heaven after the assembly.
• A phantom image revealed Xu Taiping and his companions had accepted Nine Abysses’ challenge, prompting excitement among spectators and concern in the Spring Rain Pavilion.

Dongfang Yuejian entered the Dragon-Catching Assembly on behalf of her team and named Xu Taiping as their Dragon-Slaying Person. At the Twin Sword Peaks, the Qing He Demon Emperor and Li Yezhu revealed overwhelming Demon God Bodies, leaving Xu Taiping’s companions fearful as the confrontation began.

• Dongfang Yuejian accepted the challenge and announced that Xu Taiping would represent her team.
• The Dragon-Slaying Ranking’s edict brought Xu Taiping and the three Nine Abyss figures to the Twin Sword Peaks.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor transformed into his Hān Bà Body and absorbed the vitality of nearby life to increase his strength.
• Xiahou Qingyuan explained that the Qing He Demon Emperor’s body could draw on living creatures for an apparently endless supply of qi and blood.
• Li Yezhu revealed his own massive, hound-headed Demon God Body, and the force from both demons’ auras cracked Xu Taiping’s mountain peak.

Xu Taiping’s True Dragon Divine Being Body initially matched the Nine Abysses’ Demon God Bodies in qi and blood power, but the Heartless Demon Emperor and Qing He Demon Emperor escalated their attack until Xu Taiping could barely hold them back. He decided he had to draw the Demon-Sealing Sword.

• Xu Taiping revealed his Ultimate Realm True Dragon Divine Being Body and pushed back the Qing He Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu’s combined aura.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor revealed his Azure Bull Demon God Body, and the three Nine Abysses Demon God Bodies drove their combined aura toward Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping’s qi and blood tempering power surged, allowing him to push the black dividing line back and restore an even contest.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor enlarged his Azure Bull Demon God Body and ordered Qing He to use his Drought Demon True Body, overwhelming Xu Taiping’s aura until he barely held his ground.
• Xu Taiping judged that ordinary methods could not match the two Demon God Bodies and decided to draw the Demon-Sealing Sword.

Xu Taiping matched the combined aura of Qing He, Wuxin, and Li Yezhu after a sword cry unleashed a surge of power. Wuxin called the contest a draw and proposed testing their spells and divine abilities, while the Spring Rain Pavilion worried that Xu Taiping might be outmatched.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor called on Li Yezhu, whose Demon God Body joined Qing He and Wuxin in suppressing Xu Taiping’s aura.
• Duan Xiaoyu, Chu Xiaoxiao, and others in the Spring Rain Pavilion objected to the Nine Abysses’ advantage, while Xu Taiping continued matching their auras.
• A fierce sword cry rang from Xu Taiping’s True Dragon Divine Being Body, and his aura drove the three Demon Emperors’ combined pressure back to the midpoint.
• The onlookers speculated that Xu Taiping’s strength had grown through Yundaozi’s legacy as the Heartless Demon Emperor declared the aura contest a draw and proposed a contest of spells and divine abilities.
• Zhu Huai and Xiahou Qingyuan suspected Wuxin had been probing Xu Taiping’s limits, and another sword cry broke the pavilion’s tense silence.

Xu Taiping’s aura fluctuations doubled again as he overwhelmed the three Demon Emperors and fought them to a draw. When the emperors summoned the legendary Night Demonic Spear, his surging aura stopped it in midair, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Xu Taiping’s aura surged, shattered the Nine Abysses’ defenses, and engulfed the Heartless Demon Emperor, the Qing He Demon Emperor, and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu.
• Xu Taiping struck the Qing He Demon Emperor with a punch, then drove his Burning Blade through the demon’s chest.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu intervened, and the opposing forces shattered in another draw.
• The three Demon Emperors summoned the legendary Night Demonic Spear and launched it at Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping’s aura doubled again and stopped the Night Demonic Spear in midair.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed the Heartless Demon Emperor, Qing He Demon Emperor, and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu with a series of powerful blade techniques, ending with the devastating No-Blade Form. The three demons were killed but revived through Li Yezhu’s origin life-lending demon seed power, and Xu Taiping challenged them to keep fighting until that power ran out.

• Xiahou Qingyuan recognized that Xu Taiping’s aura, true essence, qi and blood, and divine soul power had tripled.
• Xu Taiping used Rending Blade and Unity Blade to break the Night Demonic Spear, but the demons blocked his attack with a black umbrella and the Heartless Demon Emperor disrupted his aura.
• Xu Taiping’s Burning Blade shattered the umbrella, wounded Qing He Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu, and badly injured the Heartless Demon Emperor.
• Xu Taiping unleashed No-Blade, filling the world with golden blade light and slicing apart all three demon emperors.
• The three demon emperors reappeared after Li Yezhu revived them with his life-lending origin demon seed power.
• Xu Taiping asked whether they wanted to continue fighting and warned that he would kill them until their revival power was exhausted.

Xu Taiping learned that Pang Zhong might have reached the Heavenly Dragon Realm, giving him the right to choose Dragon-Slaying Persons for the trip to Ten Thousand Islands Lake. The chapter left the Spring Rain Pavilion watching Pang Zhong unleash a devastating attack, unsure whether he had truly broken through.

• Xu Taiping defeated the Heartless Demon Emperor and the others, but learned that Gu Yu’s next opponent would be Pang Zhong if Pang Zhong had reached the Heavenly Dragon Realm.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor warned Xu Taiping that Pang Zhong had supposedly broken through and would challenge Gu Yu for a Dragon-Slaying Token.
• Xiahou You and Xiahou Qingyuan explained that Heavenly Dragon Realm Dragon Catchers could issue Dragon-Slaying Tokens and choose their companions.
• Chu Xiaoxiao and the others wondered whether the Nine Abysses had fabricated Pang Zhong’s breakthrough to mislead Xu Taiping’s team.
• Pang Zhong absorbed the battlefield’s blood baleful qi and cleaved through the Yan Kingdom military formation with one strike, prompting Chu Xiaoxiao to question whether he had reached the Heavenly Dragon Realm.