Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping defeated Du Shouzhuo, then faced an unexpected challenge from Baili Yezhao, the twenty-first-ranked heavenly prodigy from Three Corpses Cave. The Black Prison Child confirmed Baili Yezhao’s status and announced him as Xu Taiping’s next opponent.

• Du Shouzhuo conceded to Xu Taiping and invited him to visit Seven Stars Mound.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said only opponents on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking could help Xu Taiping reach the ultimate level of combat ability.
• A young man arrived on the Bronze Sparrow Platform before Tu Baichuan could challenge Xu Taiping.
• The Black Prison Child identified the young man as Baili Yezhao, the twenty-first seat of the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking from Three Corpses Cave.
• The Black Prison Child replaced Tu Baichuan with Baili Yezhao as Xu Taiping’s next challenger.

A Ziyang Sect cultivator and the gathered disciples watched Baili Yezhao battle a mysterious opponent through a spirit mirror. Baili Yezhao’s powerful water techniques failed to finish the opponent, whose counterattack began to emerge from the mist.

• A female cultivator sneaked up on the Ziyang Sect disciples, assuming they were watching demonesses, then realized they were watching Baili Yezhao fight.
• The disciples projected the spirit mirror’s image, showing Baili Yezhao battering a towering martial artist with waves and a water tornado.
• Baili Yezhao summoned dozens of water dragons, but the martial artist shattered their heads with an unseen attack.
• The female cultivator wondered how the martial artist had broken the water dragons as fist shadows wreathed in strange white flames appeared in the mist.

Qingning watched Baili Yezhao’s fight against Xu Taiping, whom the spectators called Nameless Nobody from the Lower Realm, and learned that the ascended martial artist had opened the Bronze Prison arena. As Baili Yezhao trapped Xu Taiping in a hundred-li whirlpool, Xu Taiping unleashed a vast fist force that Qingning recognized as Overlord's Breath.

• Xu Taiping shattered Baili Yezhao’s water dragons with fist techniques, astonishing Qingning and the watching cultivators.
• Qingning learned that Baili Yezhao was challenging the arena’s defender, a martial artist who had ascended from the Lower Realm and called himself Nameless Nobody from the Lower Realm.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly broke Baili Yezhao’s water dragons, then used a fiery surge of qi and blood to steam them into mist.
• Baili Yezhao raised towering waves around Xu Taiping and spun them into a hundred-li whirlpool that bound him.
• Xu Taiping shouted “Twenty-one thousand punches!!!” and released a majestic fist force that Qingning identified as Overlord's Breath.

Ziyang Sect disciples watched Xu Taiping battle Baili Yezhao through a Spirit Mirror as his fist force broke through Baili Yezhao’s black-water defenses. Baili Yezhao unleashed his Yu Emperor dharma aspect and knocked Xu Taiping toward the edge of the Bronze Sparrow Platform, but Xu Taiping regained his footing and prepared another attack.

• Senior Sister Qingning recognized Xu Taiping’s second-turn overlord body-tempering power and told the spectators to sense his fist force without using their true essence.
• Baili Yezhao trapped Xu Taiping in black water refined from the Kunlong Ruins, but Xu Taiping’s rising fist force burst the water prison and cracked Baili Yezhao’s black Dragon Gate with repeated punches.
• Qingning realized Xu Taiping might be the pure martial artist Senior Brother Xiao Huang had been seeking and took out a Voice Transmission Jade Slip.
• Baili Yezhao summoned the Yu Emperor dharma aspect, shattered Xu Taiping’s fist shadow, and struck him toward the edge of the Bronze Sparrow Platform.
• Xu Taiping planted his feet on the ground, assumed a Fist Stance, and roared, “Forty-eight thousand punches!!!!!”

Xu Taiping repeatedly used the fist force of forty-eight thousand punches against Baili Yezhao’s Emperor Yu Dharma Aspect, even as his attacks shattered and his divine soul power was at risk of running out. He left the fight still fixated on ordinary punches, with Heavenly Lord Hanjian worried he would exhaust himself before using a killing move.

• Baili Yezhao’s Emperor Yu Dharma Aspect struck Xu Taiping, whose enormous fist shadow shattered as he evaded the blow with Wind-Thunder Step.
• Xu Taiping met the Dharma Aspect’s next charge with another forty-eight-thousand-punch fist force, but it shattered after halting the attack.
• The Emperor Yu Dharma Aspect repeatedly punched faster than Xu Taiping could recover, breaking his fist force again and again.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Hanjian urged Xu Taiping to use his killing moves, but he continued practicing ordinary punches.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian worried Xu Taiping would exhaust his divine soul power and lose the chance to unleash a killing move.

Xu Taiping endured repeated defeats against Baili Yezhao while relying on ordinary fist moves, then unleashed a far stronger technique that shattered the Yu Emperor Dharma Aspect and cracked the Black Prison restrictions. The chapter ended with Heavenly Lord Hanjian questioning whether Xu Taiping’s Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Eight Hundred Fists represented the limit of his combat strength.

• Xu Taiping ignored the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s advice and continued fighting with ordinary fist moves, while Baili Yezhao’s Yu Emperor Dharma Aspect repeatedly broke his attacks.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage watched as Xu Taiping’s fist shadow shrank and Baili Yezhao drove him to the edge of the Bronze Sparrow Platform.
• Baili Yezhao gathered his remaining Gui Water Power and sent the Yu Emperor Dharma Aspect leaping down to strike Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping roared, “Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Eight Hundred Fists!” and unleashed a golden fist shadow that swallowed and shattered the Yu Emperor Dharma Aspect.
• Xu Taiping’s punch also cracked the sky canopy of Black Prison restrictions, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian wondered whether the technique was the limit of his combat strength.

Xu Taiping overcame Baili Yezhao’s starfall divine intent and defeated him with a punch beyond his previously revealed limit. After Xu challenged the heavenly geniuses again, Qingning recognized him as a possible Fated Enemy of Senior Brother Xiao Huang and sent Xiao Huang a message.

• Baili Yezhao summoned a Black Dragon Gate, but Xu Taiping shattered it with his fist and sent Baili Yezhao flying.
• Baili Yezhao used starfall divine intent to suppress Xu Taiping, then attacked him with a newly formed wave Dharma aspect.
• Xu Taiping adjusted his stance and revealed a fist force of sixty thousand six hundred sixty punches, ignoring the star soul power and blasting Baili Yezhao into a cloud of blood mist.
• Xu Taiping declared that a nobody from the Lower Realm challenged the heavenly geniuses to a fist challenge.
• Qingning watched Xu Taiping’s victory in a spirit mirror and told Senior Brother Xiao Huang that Xu might be the Fated Enemy he had been seeking.

After Xu Taiping defeated Baili Yezhao, the Cave Master of Three Corpses Cave ordered Xu San and Luo Hong to keep him on the platform until a challenger arrived. They suspected the challenger would be Lin Qinggu, whose rapid rise after awakening made him a potentially formidable opponent.

• Baili Yezhao recovered and explained that Xu Taiping's fist strength had surged with each roar, reaching nearly three times its initial force in his final punch.
• Xu San received a message from the Cave Master, who told him and Luo Hong not to let Xu Taiping leave the platform before a challenger arrived in one incense stick's time.
• Baili Yezhao guessed that Lin Qinggu was the challenger, and Luo Hong silenced their surroundings before Xu San explained his history.
• Xu San said Lin Qinggu had achieved One Corpse Transforming into Three True Bodies in the Lower Realm, then awoke in the Upper Realm after Lin Buyu's bloodline was infused into him.
• Xu San revealed that Lin Qinggu had advanced from Gate Opening Realm to Heaven Shocking Realm in half a year and could soon reach Dao Integration Realm after finding his destined enemy.

The spectators discussed Lin Qinggu’s destined enemy and learned that Xu Taiping had a Mortal Bone, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed he was staking his path to ascension on Xu Taiping’s growth. After Xu Taiping recovered on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, Xiao Tinghan of the Thunder Sword Sect interrupted the next match to challenge him to a Sword Inquiry.

• Luo Hong explained that Lin Qinggu needed to defeat a destined enemy in each realm, and Baili Yezhao revealed that he had once been chosen as Lin Qinggu’s destined enemy.
• Xu Laosan observed that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s effort to help Xu Taiping might instead benefit Lin Qinggu.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Heavenly Lord Hanjian that Xu Taiping had a Mortal Bone and that he hoped Xu Taiping’s fists would help complete his Dao Heart and secure his ascension.
• Xu Taiping finished recovering his magic power and asked the boy to arrange the next match.
• Xiao Tinghan, the Fifty-First Seat on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, appeared and challenged Xu Taiping to a Sword Inquiry.

Xu Taiping’s challenge arena drew increasingly powerful heavenly geniuses, including Yan Xuanling and Xiao Huang, while the Black Prison faced a sudden threat from a Dao Erosion-level Chaos Demonic Beast. The chapter ended as Heavenly Lord Hanjian identified the approaching creature as an Eclipse Wheel.

• Yan Xuanling of the Ageless Spring arrived to challenge Xu Taiping, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian revealed that she stopped competing once she reached her favorite rank, sixteenth.
• Xiao Huang of the Ziyang Sect arrived to challenge the arena as the third-ranked heavenly genius, alarming Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• The Black Prison’s boy announced that Xiao Huang would fight before Yan Xuanling, while Ninth Madam warned that the Black Prison had run into trouble.
• A bone-chilling pressure descended over the area, and Ninth Madam reported that an Eclipse Wheel was trying to invade the Black Prison.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian recognized the Eclipse Wheel as a Dao Erosion-level Chaos Demonic Beast.

Xu Taiping learned that the Dao Erosion-level Chaos Demonic Beast Eclipse Wheel had attacked the Black Prison, forcing its occupants to evacuate, and he stayed in the Golden Goblet Tower to recover and prepare for his opponents. Nine days later, the bloodied Heaven-Hunting Great Sage returned carrying an injured Heavenly Lord Hanjian and told Xu Taiping he might have to enter Yaochi Sacred Land early.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian's porcelain-doll clone explained that the Eclipse Wheel had attacked the Black Prison and warned Xu Taiping to remain inside the Golden Goblet Tower.
• The clone took Lin Nian downstairs to get her food, while Xu Taiping reflected that Yan Xuanling and Xiao Huang were formidable opponents and resolved to heal and prepare.
• Nine days later, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived at Xu Taiping's room, drenched in blood and carrying the injured Heavenly Lord Hanjian.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage sealed the room and told Xu Taiping that he might have to enter Yaochi Sacred Land ahead of time.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that the Black Prison could not reopen soon, so they would enter the Yaochi Sacred Land early to seek a Nine-Colored Lotus for the wounded Heavenly Lord Hanjian. The Great Sage would leave an incarnation behind to protect Hanjian, reducing his strength during the journey, and they still needed another companion to meet the Sacred Land’s entry requirements.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that the Eclipse Wheel’s attack had damaged the Black Prison, delaying its reopening by years or possibly decades.
• The Great Sage revealed that Heavenly Lord Hanjian had been wounded by the Eclipse Wheel’s chaotic power and needed a Nine-Colored Lotus from the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping agreed to enter the Yaochi Sacred Land early, and the Great Sage praised his strength after learning that his sixty thousand punches had not even reached his Ultimate Realm combat strength.
• The Great Sage said he would leave an incarnation to guard Hanjian during new moons, limiting himself to half his combat strength and likely preventing them from advancing beyond the fifth level.
• The Great Sage said their party needed at least three people, but Xu Taiping’s Mysterious Origin Avatar could not fill the final place.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage planned their journey to the Yaochi Sacred Land and identified Mo Qingzhu as a possible talisman master to recruit. The Spirit Mirror found Mo Qingzhu selling talismans outside the Golden Goblet Tower, where local cultivators were threatening him, and Xu Taiping and the Great Sage went to see what he would do.

• Xu Taiping asked whether Xiaohei could count as a person for the journey, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that a Yin God could not.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said they should find a talisman master who could handle formations and help him prepare talismans preserving some of his combat strength.
• Xu Taiping proposed recruiting Mo Qingzhu of the Hundred Talisman Sect, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used an Ancient Spirit Mirror to locate him.
• The Spirit Mirror showed Mo Qingzhu running a talisman stall outside the Golden Goblet Tower, where Xu Taiping suspected he had been waiting for him.
• Several cultivators threatened to drive Mo Qingzhu away, and Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage went downstairs to observe him.

Xu Taiping rescued Mo Qingzhu from three Giant Spirit Sect cultivators who were trying to drive him away from his stall outside the Golden Goblet Tower. As the sect members confronted Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage dismissed their sect as a rabble, provoking Wan Jun.

• Wan Jun, Tie He, and Luo Yan demanded that Mo Qingzhu leave his stall and attacked him when he refused.
• Mo Qingzhu protected himself with talismans and a Jade Pendant, but Luo Yan broke through his defenses and forced him to reach for a life-saving scroll.
• Xu Taiping appeared beside Mo Qingzhu, caught Luo Yan's Twin Axes with one hand, and punched Luo Yan, Wan Jun, and Tie He away.
• Mo Qingzhu recognized Xu Taiping as the Nameless Daoist Priest and explained that he had been running his stall outside the Golden Goblet Tower since the Black Prison closed.
• Tie He identified the three as members of the Giant Spirit Sect, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage called the sect a rabble, prompting Wan Jun to object.

Xu Taiping recruited Mo Qingzhu to accompany him and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to the Yaochi Sacred Land in exchange for Golden Millet Paper, which Mo needed to save the Hundred Talisman Sect’s cultivation grounds. When Xiao Huang of the Ziyang Sect challenged Xu Taiping to a fistfight outside the Golden Goblet Tower, Xu Taiping chose to answer him.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage called the Giant Spirit Sect trio stray dogs, and Ruin Market officials restrained them before they could attack.
• Xu Taiping offered Mo Qingzhu three sheets of Golden Millet Paper for joining their dangerous journey to the Yaochi Sacred Land, and Mo agreed to a soul contract.
• Mo Qingzhu explained that the Hundred Talisman Sect needed Golden Millet Paper to seal a mind aspect chaos demonic beast threatening its cultivation grounds, and Xu Taiping gave him one sheet in advance.
• Xiao Huang of the Ziyang Sect arrived outside the Golden Goblet Tower and challenged Xu Taiping to a fistfight, hoping to advance his fighting strength.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that Xiao Huang was currently stronger than Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping said he wanted to answer the challenge himself.

Xu Taiping and his companions traveled to Kaiyang Heaven in the Ziwei Star Domain to enter the Yaochi Sacred Land, while preparing for Xu Taiping’s promised fight with Xiao Huang. A badly wounded Venerable Mysterious Thunder warned them that Inauspicious Objects had occupied the Sacred Land and killed everyone inside, just as a terrifying pursuer caught him.

• Xu Taiping promised Xiao Huang he would accept his Fist Challenge and said the Golden Goblet Towers would pass along word when he returned.
• Xu Taiping asked Mo Qingzhu to draw talismans on Golden Millet Paper before their journey to the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived at Kaiyang Heaven and hid their Immortal Boat with a Jade Jue containing a Heaven-Escape Talisman.
• A wounded old man fleeing a red light approached the Immortal Boat, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized him as Tantai Xuanyin, Venerable Mysterious Thunder.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder warned that Inauspicious Objects had occupied the Yaochi Sacred Land, killed everyone who entered, and demanded that the Ziwei Star Domain be sealed off.
• The red light pierced Venerable Mysterious Thunder, and a terrifying, bizarre figure emerged as Mo Qingzhu cried out in shock.

Xu Taiping and his companions encountered a Blightbone, a creature formed from a Heaven-Outside Evil God, a Chaos Demonic Beast, and an immortal's skeleton, as it devoured Venerable Mysterious Thunder. Though the Blightbone could not penetrate their Heaven-Escape Talisman, Xu Taiping decided they should save the dying man for information and out of compassion.

• Xu Taiping examined the Blightbone and recognized features resembling both Heavenly Soldier Skeletons and an evil demon from beyond the domain.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Blightbones combined three kinds of beings and craved cultivators' flesh and blood.
• The Blightbone ate Venerable Mysterious Thunder, who urged the group to leave and have the Cultivation World seal off the Ziwei Star Domain.
• Xu Taiping asked whether they could save Venerable Mysterious Thunder so he could learn what had happened in Kaiyuan Heaven.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder warned the group not to heed any pleas he might make, but Xu Taiping insisted they should not leave someone to die, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage prepared to attack Blightbone, waiting for it to retract its tendrils while they discussed its powers and weaknesses. As Blightbone finished consuming Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s legs and withdrew its last tendrils, the Great Sage told Xu Taiping to watch for the right moment.

• Mo Qingzhu worried that Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage planned to hunt Blightbone, and they told him to stay aboard the Immortal Boat and carry Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s final words home if they died.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Blightbone was most vulnerable while absorbed in its second stage of feeding, after it withdrew its tendrils, and recalled fighting Blightbone calamities thousands of years earlier.
• The Great Sage warned Xu Taiping about Blightbone’s blood-erosion power, its fused abilities, and its ability to regenerate unless it was purified or its chest Demon Eye was destroyed.
• As Blightbone devoured Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s second thigh, the Great Sage told Xu Taiping to wait until he drew out Blightbone’s full strength, then attack the Demon Eye.
• Blightbone finished eating both of Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s thighs and retracted its remaining tendrils, and the Great Sage told Xu Taiping to watch for his moment.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battled Blightbone and battered its immortal remains, creating an opening for Xu Taiping to strike. Xu Taiping’s blade cut a deep gash through Blightbone’s demon eye, and Venerable Mysterious Thunder recognized it as the Life-Taking Blade.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage charged Blightbone, but Blightbone grew into a gigantic skeletal form and sent him flying with a powerful punch.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recovered and smashed Blightbone’s fist shadows, head, bones, and ribs, exposing the demon eye in its chest.
• Blightbone extended its spine and trapped the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage in a sphere of tendrils, but he broke free with his fist force.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage called for Xu Taiping to strike as Blightbone enveloped him in tendrils again.
• Xu Taiping unleashed a vast blade slash with his deity projection, cutting a deep gash through Blightbone’s demon eye.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder recognized Xu Taiping’s attack as the Life-Taking Blade.

Xu Taiping unsealed the Life-Taking Blade’s power and used its divine manifestation to bring Blightbone to its knees before striking its Demon Eye. Blightbone survived inside a black lotus of chaos power, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage urged Xu Taiping to break it with pure qi and blood.

• Blightbone battered Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping realized the Lower Realm’s restrictions had shackled the Life-Taking Blade and began feeding it more true essence.
• Blightbone formed a bow from its bones and fired arrows that pierced Xu Taiping’s protective screens, while Xu Taiping recognized the power of immortal remains in its body.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Life-Taking Blade’s Deity-Sealing Form, and its divine manifestation spoke, pressed Blightbone to its knees, and struck it with a hand of Golden Thread.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade and split Blightbone’s Demon Eye, but Blightbone resisted the blade’s killing power inside a black lotus of chaos qi.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping to use pure qi and blood power to smash the black lotus.