Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping broke Blightbone’s chaos lotus with the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist and sent Xiaohei to devour its Immortal Remains and Blood Demon Eye. Xiaohei began digesting Blightbone, which might advance its Sun-Eater Power and aid their coming journey to the Yaochi Sacred Land.

• Xu Taiping used the Returning Blade to Sheath Form to withstand Blightbone’s bone arrows while gathering the force of sixty-six thousand six hundred punches.
• Xu Taiping’s fist-force Divine Manifestation shattered the black lotus surrounding Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping summoned Xiaohei, who grew enormous, bit apart Blightbone’s Immortal Remains, and swallowed them along with the Blood Demon Eye.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder warned that the Blood Demon Eye could take root inside Xiaohei, but Xu Taiping learned that Xiaohei’s Sun-Eater Power could digest it.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping to let Xiaohei sleep while it digested Blightbone, which might advance its power and help them at the Yaochi Sacred Land.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rescued Venerable Mysterious Thunder and learned that Blightbones had overrun Kaiyang Heaven before the Yaochi Sacred Land opened. Xu Taiping feared that Miss Xiahou and her companions might already have fallen victim to them.

• Xu Taiping gave Mo Qingzhu Golden Millet Paper so he could draw an Immortal Talisman-level Pure Altar Talisman to cleanse Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s Blightbone-tainted body.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that without the talisman, Venerable Mysterious Thunder would become a blood-devouring walking corpse, then treated him until he awoke.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder, whose name was Tantai Xuanyin, explained that several dozen Blightbones had attacked his party on the way to the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Tantai Xuanyin said Blightbones had occupied Kaiyang Heaven before the sacred land’s gates opened, leaving his party unable to fly or escape.
• Xu Taiping worried that Miss Xiahou and her companions had already met with disaster.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage learned that Blightbones had overrun Kaiyang Heaven and likely entered the Yaochi Sacred Land, but Xu Taiping remained determined to continue. As more Blightbones appeared, Venerable Mysterious Thunder recognized their leader as the Red-Eyed Blightbone that had sealed Kaiyang Heaven’s sky.

• Venerable Mysterious Thunder told Xu Taiping that Blightbones had awakened across Kaiyang Heaven and that cultivators escaping the Yaochi Sacred Land had encountered immortal-remnant-like monsters.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage concluded that Blightbones had likely occupied the Yaochi Sacred Land, but Xu Taiping insisted he had to go there, and the Great Sage agreed to accompany him.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder asked Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to return him to the Cultivation World so he could warn others, and the Great Sage promised to help him.
• Several Blightbones emerged from Kaiyang Heaven, including a golden-haired, red-eyed creature with crimson wings that called the others back after one struck an invisible barrier.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder recognized the woman-shaped creature as the Red-Eyed Blightbone, which had sealed Kaiyang Heaven’s sky and prevented cultivators from flying on objects.

Xu Taiping and his companions learned that Red-Eyes was a Calamity Baleful Intent-level Blightbone and that Kaiyang Heaven might harbor many more, possibly even a Blight Immortal. Though the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned of a possible catastrophe, Xu Taiping still chose to enter Yaochi Sacred Land and prepared to use his Lotus Eye to divine the journey’s fortune.

• Red-Eyes sensed the Immortal Boat, forcing the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to use a second Heaven-Escape Talisman to hide the group.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained the five Blightbone ranks and judged Red-Eyes to be at the Calamity Baleful Intent level.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder said he knew of at least six such Blightbones in Kaiyang Heaven, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage estimated there could be at least sixty and possibly a Blight Immortal.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that Blightbones might have infested the Ziwei Star Domain, while the group watched several Blightbones descend toward Kaiyang.
• Xu Taiping insisted on going to Yaochi Sacred Land and asked Venerable Mysterious Thunder to help him divine the journey with his Lotus Eye.

Xu Taiping learned that his Lotus Eye’s power to deduce heavenly secrets was exceptionally rare because it required no sacrifices. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed that Xu Taiping could use someone else’s divine essence to fuel great deductive power, and Venerable Mysterious Thunder volunteered his own.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Venerable Mysterious Thunder explained that most heavenly-secret deduction required sacrificing flesh, soul, or fortune, and discussed Ningchan Cave’s rise through such sacrifices.
• Xu Taiping told them his Lotus Eye’s divine power had reached the second stage and let him use great and lesser deductive power.
• Xu Taiping explained that great deductive power consumed his divine essence, while lesser deductive power used ordinary divine soul power, prompting the others to question whether his inheritance was truly a deduction power.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Venerable Mysterious Thunder recognized the Lotus Eye’s power as exceptionally valuable, and Tantai Xuanyin swore not to reveal it.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said Xu Taiping could use another person’s divine essence instead of his own, and Venerable Mysterious Thunder offered his.

Xu Taiping learned that sacrifices and ritual offerings remained possible in the Chaos Death Domain and accepted Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s offer to use his Divine Essence for a deduction. As Venerable Mysterious Thunder recited the Self-Sacrifice Curse, Lotus Eye drew in his power, and the golden lotus bloomed fully.

• Venerable Mysterious Thunder offered his Divine Essence to help Xu Taiping investigate the Yaochi Sacred Land and face the Blightbones in Kaiyang Heaven.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Xu Taiping could borrow another cultivator’s Divine Essence by holding their hand as they recited the Self-Sacrifice Curse.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained how sacrifices and ritual offerings persisted in the Chaos Death Domain after the Heavenly Dao Edicts collapsed.
• Xu Taiping praised Venerable Mysterious Thunder’s resolve and took his hand to begin the sacrifice.
• Venerable Mysterious Thunder recited the Self-Sacrifice Curse, Lotus Eye drew in his Divine Essence, and the golden lotus bloomed fully as a powerful aura erupted from Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage prepared to enter Kaiyang Heaven after Venerable Mysterious Thunder departed with a newly completed Pure Altar Talisman. Their immortal boat lost its spiritual power upon entering the realm, forcing the three travelers to abandon it and descend toward the corpse-strewn ground.

• Xu Taiping completed his deduction and obtained a single clear divine soul mark, which he agreed to open after reaching Kaiyang Ruin Star.
• Mo Qingzhu completed an immortal-talisman-grade Pure Altar Talisman using Xu Taiping's Golden Millet Paper, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage sent Venerable Mysterious Thunder away with it.
• Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu chose to continue with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage despite the danger of their journey into Kaiyang Heaven.
• The three entered Kaiyang Heaven, where their immortal boat lost its spiritual power and plunged toward the ground.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used a Heaven-Escape Talisman Jade Jue and his staff to carry Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu down while their abandoned immortal boat crashed into a mountain.

Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage entered a ruined temple in Kaiyang Heaven and found the remains and final message of Nine Tribulations Sect disciples. Their inscription suggested the disciples had sacrificed themselves to divine a way to end the Blightbone calamity, and Xu Taiping prepared to open the Divine Soul Mark to check their discovery.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage carried Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu to the ground, where they saw Blightbone Demonic Beasts gather around the exploded Immortal Boat.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage brought them into a dilapidated Daoist temple, which disappeared from sight under the Heaven-Escape Talisman.
• Mo Qingzhu read the Nine Tribulations Sect disciples’ final letter, which said they had been besieged by Blightbones for more than a hundred days and had nearly run out of supplies.
• Xu Taiping and the others found a message on the pillar declaring that someone in the Yaochi Sacred Land had to be killed to end the calamity.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage conjectured that the disciples had sacrificed themselves to divine a path to survival, and Xu Taiping prepared to open the Divine Soul Mark.

Xu Taiping and his companions took shelter from a Griffin Blightbone in a ruined temple, where a fading stone pillar repelled its attacks. Xu Taiping opened the Divine Soul Mark and saw the first two of five visions, which suggested they might need the Griffin Blightbone’s feathers and revealed a valley surrounded by Blightbone Demonic Beasts.

• A Griffin Blightbone attacked the ruined temple, but the stone pillar’s blue-green radiance drove it back.
• Xu Taiping realized the pillar’s spiritual power was fading and that the Griffin Blightbone was targeting the pillar rather than the hidden cultivators.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage urged Xu Taiping to open the Divine Soul Mark before the Heaven-Escape Talisman wore off.
• In the first vision, a figure resembling the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage plucked six feathers from a Griffin Blightbone.
• In the second vision, Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu entered Cloudvoid Valley past numerous Blightbone Demonic Beasts and saw a glowing stone pillar.

Xu Taiping watched the Divine Soul Mark reveal that Jade Mother’s sweet dew could suppress the Blightbones and that more nectar from Yaochi Sacred Land might resolve the calamity in Kaiyang Heaven. As the griffin Blightbone began crushing the stone pillar, Xu Taiping persuaded the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to stay and kill it before escaping.

• Xu Taiping saw the three figures sacrifice thirty Blightbones to the Jade Mother, after which sweet dew turned the barren desert green and entangled demonic beasts in vegetation.
• At the entrance to Yaochi Sacred Land, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that they needed more sweet dew nectar from the sixth level of the Jade Pool to curb the Blightbones across Kaiyang Heaven.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu that the stone pillar and Heaven-Escape Talisman were losing power, and proposed escaping before the griffin Blightbone broke through.
• Xu Taiping insisted they should kill the griffin Blightbone before leaving, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed while Mo Qingzhu protested that they must not act rashly.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage attacked the griffin Blightbone and used Xu Taiping’s lesser deductive power to discover how to bring it down. The griffin crashed to the ground with its tail severed, just as Xu Taiping had foreseen.

• Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage prepared to ambush the griffin Blightbone while Mo Qingzhu guarded their backs.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping to use killing intent to guide his lesser deductive power toward finding the griffin’s death acupoint.
• Xu Taiping struck the griffin with his blade and deity projection, severing its right wing, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage protected him and attacked its chest.
• Xu Taiping touched the griffin with a killing-intent punch and foresaw an image of it falling with its tail severed.
• Xu Taiping told Elder Ding to sever the griffin’s tail, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage broke it off with his staff before the griffin crashed to the ground.

Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu killed the Griffin Blightbone and discovered its feathers could disguise their auras, though only briefly. They headed toward Cloudvoid Valley to find a way to manage the Blightbones and reach the Yaochi Sacred Land, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage offered Xu Taiping a jade pendant to conceal their plan.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage killed the Griffin Blightbone, and Xu Taiping collected six unusual feathers from its wings.
• Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu found that carrying a feather changed their auras to resemble those of Blightbones, but each feather's effect lasted only half an incense stick.
• Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized that the Lotus Eye vision pointed them toward a path involving Cloudvoid Valley.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage located Cloudvoid Valley and confirmed that the Yaochi Sacred Land entrance lay in the same direction.
• Xu Taiping said they needed a way to control or clear the Blightbones, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage offered him a jade pendant that concealed Heavenly Secrets.

Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu prepared to travel to Cloudvoid Valley after Xu Taiping deduced that Jade Mother might still answer sacrifices. Their journey was interrupted by approaching cultivators, and Xu Taiping recognized a woman in danger as possibly Dongfang Yuejian’s mother, Su Qingtan.

• Xu Taiping explained that sacrificing more than thirty Blightbones to Jade Mother could bring down sweet dew and celestial nectar, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed that his deduction justified investigating Cloudvoid Valley.
• Xu Taiping stored the Calamity Baleful Intent-level griffin skeleton after learning it could yield Dao essence power when properly refined.
• The three used the griffin Blightbone feather to conceal themselves from passing Blightbones and prepared to head for Cloudvoid Valley.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage sensed cultivators approaching, so Mo Qingzhu gave him and Xu Taiping talismans to hide their forms.
• A woman fell to the ground and threatened her attackers with the wrath of the Spirit Taming Sect, and Xu Taiping recognized her as possibly Su Qingtan, Dongfang Yuejian’s mother.

Xu Taiping recognized Su Qingtan, the mother of his friend Dongfang Yuejian, as she was besieged by cultivators from Ningchan Cave over a teleportation scroll. Su Qingtan surrendered her plan to fight to the death when the attackers used her captured husband as leverage, leaving her poised to trade the scroll for his release.

• Xu Taiping recognized Su Qingtan and agreed with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Mo Qingzhu to assess whether they could help her.
• Su Qingtan defended herself against fireballs and a giant puppet, while a white bear from her sleeve took a blow meant for her.
• A black-robed Ningchan Cave cultivator demanded Su Qingtan's Teleportation Scroll leading beyond Kaiyang Heaven, and she refused to hand it over.
• Su Qingtan began gathering power to detonate her primordial spirit, but the cultivators brought out her bound, bloodied husband, Dongfang Su.
• Dongfang Su urged Su Qingtan to run and said the seal on the scroll would soon lift, but she offered the scroll in exchange for his release and threatened to die with her captors otherwise.

Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su refused Xie Wangyan’s demand for Bai Yue and the Scroll as Xie Wangyan used his Divine Intent to draw Blightbones toward them. As the Blightbones closed in, Xie Wangyan began writing a new account on a Jade Slip, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Bai Yue broke free from the giant puppet and shielded Su Qingtan, while Xie Wangyan offered to release Dongfang Su in exchange for the white bear.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that Xie Wangyan’s Divine Intent let him use spells and abilities from others and make written events come true.
• Bai Chan scattered a corpse’s blood to attract Blightbones, and Xie Wangyan used a Bamboo Slip to conceal himself and Bai Chan from them.
• Xie Wangyan sent Dongfang Su back to Su Qingtan as at least sixty Blightbones charged toward the group.
• Su Qingtan refused to surrender the Scroll, and Xie Wangyan wrote on a Jade Slip that Bai Yue had given it to him and the couple had escaped the Blightbones.

Bai Yue stole the scroll from Su Qingtan to draw Xie Wangyan away and help Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su escape, but Xie Wangyan trapped him beneath a puppet. Xu Taiping secretly guided the couple toward a ruined temple, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to take Bai Yue’s place and revealed himself to Xie Wangyan.

• Xie Wangyan tried to pressure Bai Yue by threatening Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su, but Bai Yue refused to be deceived and snatched the scroll from Su Qingtan.
• Bai Yue charged toward Xie Wangyan with the scroll, but a puppet emerged from the ground and pinned him down as he urged Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su to flee.
• Xie Wangyan warned that the divine intent protecting the couple would soon fade, and Su Qingtan agreed to escape with Dongfang Su.
• Xu Taiping secretly told Su Qingtan to take Dongfang Su to a nearby ruined temple, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to replace Bai Yue beneath the puppet.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed himself as Xie Wangyan’s grandfather, broke the puppet’s arm with a slap, and shattered Xie Wangyan’s descending flames with one punch.

Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu ambushed Xie Wangyan and Bai Chan, then fought the puppets Bai Chan summoned. Su Qingtan watched Xu Taiping battle and recognized him as a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect.

• The bull-shaped blightbone ignored the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and charged toward bloodstains as Xie Wangyan and Bai Chan questioned why it had avoided him.
• Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu attacked Xie Wangyan and Bai Chan; Xie Wangyan escaped with a bamboo slip, while Bai Chan was immobilized and cut in two by Xu Taiping’s blade.
• Bai Chan summoned two puppets, and one struck at Xu Taiping, who blocked its punch with his blade while Mo Qingzhu’s talisman drove it into the ground.
• Xu Taiping used Three Thousand Blades to split the puppet in two, then turned to attack Bai Chan’s other puppet as the bull blightbone rammed it.
• Su Qingtan watched from a ruined Daoist temple and recognized Xu Taiping of the Azure Profound Sect.

Xu Taiping watched Bai Chan fight through a swarm of Blightbones, only for an eroding skeleton-level goshawk Blightbone to destroy her puppet and make her body swell and rot with its cries. Bai Chan offered to reveal why the world was filled with Blightbones, but Xie Wangyan killed her before Xu Taiping could act, leaving her skeleton intact.

• Xu Taiping struck Bai Chan’s puppet alongside the bull Blightbone, but his slash only left a deep mark before giant wolf Blightbones attacked her.
• Bai Chan used her puppet-control technique to escape an encirclement of rotting corpse-level Blightbones, but a goshawk-shaped Blightbone pinned her and pecked through the puppet’s heart aperture.
• The goshawk Blightbone’s cries made Bai Chan swell, blister, and rot, and Xu Taiping recognized that it might be an eroding skeleton-level Blightbone.
• Bai Chan begged Xu Taiping to save her and offered to reveal why the world was filled with Blightbones, while Xie Wangyan threatened her for speaking.
• Xie Wangyan struck Bai Chan with true fire, causing her swollen body to explode and leaving her skeleton intact.

Xu Taiping and his allies escaped the Blightbones by using the Dragon-Trapping Tower and Su Qingtan’s White Bear Spirit Pet’s Mist-Escape Power. The group reunited with Su Qingtan and her husband, and the White Bear learned that Xu Taiping had saved Yuejian in the past.

• The Goshawk Blightbone swallowed Bai Chan, while Xie Wangyan of Ningchan Cave escaped and falsely claimed he had marked everyone.
• Mo Qingzhu warned that the Griffin feather had little Blightbone power left, so Xu Taiping proposed sheltering everyone in the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s power to strengthen the Dragon-Trapping Tower, which the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said could protect them from stronger Blightbones.
• Su Qingtan and her husband arrived on the White Bear Spirit Pet as Rotting Corpse Blightbones pursued them.
• The White Bear Spirit Pet used Mist-Escape Power to make the Blightbones pass harmlessly through its mist, then learned Xu Taiping had saved Yuejian years earlier.

Xu Taiping sheltered Su Qingtan and Bai Yue in the Dragon-Trapping Tower, then revealed that he and his companions still intended to go to Cloudvoid Valley despite its many powerful Blightbones. As they prepared to leave, a desperate broadcast warned that Kaiyang Heaven had produced Blight Immortal-level Blightbones.

• Xu Taiping brought Su Qingtan and Bai Yue into the Dragon-Trapping Tower as Blightbones gathered outside, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage confirmed that its sealed gate could withstand weaker Blightbones.
• Su Qingtan offered Xu Taiping a sealed Yu Ling Sect Scroll that would allow him and his companions to escape, but Xu Taiping returned it and told her to leave once its seal dissolved.
• Xu Taiping said he and his companions planned to enter the Yaochi Sacred Land and travel to Cloudvoid Valley, despite warnings that the sacred land held Blight Immortals and the valley housed hundreds of Blightbones.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage received an urgent broadcast through his Spirit Mirror, in which a woman warned that Kaiyang Heaven had spawned Blight Immortal-level Blightbones before the message cut off.