Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and the others watched Qu Chao Ci and her master, Bai Cao Xuan, warn that the Jade Pool Secret Realm might contain Heavenly Calamity-level Blightbone. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed Qu was his daughter and contacted Bai, who urged him to warn the Cultivation World rather than risk a rescue.

• Qu Chao Ci and Bai Cao Xuan fought off Blightbone while sending a warning about a possible Heavenly Calamity-level threat in the Jade Pool Secret Realm.
• Qu identified herself as a Taisu Valley disciple, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized her as his daughter.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Qu and Bai were too far away to rescue directly, then used the Spirit Mirror to contact them at the cost of some combat strength.
• Bai Cao Xuan recognized the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and asked him to spread word that the Blightbone threat resembled the past disaster and could become even worse.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage learned that Qu Chao Ci and Bai Cao Xuan were trapped by Blightbones and urged them to hold out until rescue arrived. He then set out with Xu Taiping and Bai Yue to save them, even as Blightbones began battering the Dragon-Trapping Tower’s doors.

• Bai Cao Xuan asked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to send word to Taisu Valley if he and Qu Chao Ci died, but the Great Sage told them he had found a way to save them and ordered them to hold on.
• Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci pledged to keep fighting, and the Great Sage urged them to await rescue before their exhausted Message Talisman vanished.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage insisted that he and Xu Taiping leave immediately, and Su Qingtan gave Xu Taiping a Jade Slip containing her record of their journey through Kaiyang Heaven and Cloudvoid Valley.
• Bai Yue asked to join the rescue, declared that he was a Martial Artist, and received the Great Sage’s and Xu Taiping’s approval before saying goodbye to Su Qingtan.
• Blightbones began pounding on the Dragon-Trapping Tower’s doors, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage refused to wait for them to leave before going out.

Xu Taiping and the others sealed the Dragon-Trapping Tower’s entrance and fought off the Blightbone surrounding it. They then set out for Cloudvoid Valley while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stayed behind to hold the enemies back.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck the Blightbone at the open stone gate, and Xu Taiping sealed the Dragon-Trapping Tower with Five-Colored Crystal.
• Blightbone converged on the tower, and Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu fought them alongside Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• Xu Taiping pierced a bone-eroding-level Blightbone with a flaming punch and sent the surrounding Blightbone reeling.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu to use their Griffin Feathers and hurry to Cloudvoid Valley while he brought up the rear.
• Bai Yue concealed himself in white mist, carried Mo Qingzhu, and sped after Xu Taiping toward Cloudvoid Valley.

Xu Taiping and his companions prepared to enter Cloudvoid Valley to hunt Blightbones, relying on Griffin feathers and a divined stone pillar whose Spiritual Power might restrain their foes. After discovering that the valley held far more powerful Blightbones than expected, they armored up and set out.

• Xu Taiping gave Qi Mushrooms to the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Bai Yue, and the Great Sage sensed powerful Blightbones guarding Cloudvoid Valley.
• Xu Taiping said the Griffin feathers would last only about a tea-brewing’s time, and the group discussed entering the valley to find a powerful stone pillar and hunt Blightbones.
• Bai Yue agreed to join the dangerous hunt after Xu Taiping explained their goal, while Mo Qingzhu offered Bai Yue the option of waiting outside.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage saw three Calamity Baleful Intent-level Blightbones enter the valley with a dozen Bone-Eroding-level Blightbones, and warned that even more might be inside.
• Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Mo Qingzhu, and Bai Yue equipped armor and Griffin feathers before the Great Sage led Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu toward the valley.

Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage entered Cloudvoid Valley and encountered increasingly powerful Blightbones. Near the stone platform they sought, a hidden Blightbone in a wedding dress appeared, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that the worst had come.

• Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage entered Cloudvoid Valley, where a sinister wind battered them and the Blightbones grew stronger deeper inside.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage identified a Sword-Bone Blightbone and warned that it was likely at the calamity baleful intent level, then shielded Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu as they passed it.
• The trio encountered four more powerful Blightbones, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recalled that cultivators had sacrificed themselves in the battles to defeat them before.
• Mo Qingzhu spotted the stone platform and pillar they sought, but a violent gust struck the group as they approached, cutting his forehead before Xu Taiping healed him.
• Xu Taiping and the others noticed a towering Blightbone in a tattered wedding dress standing in the shadows, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said the worst had come.

Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage reached the stone platform and discovered that its inscribed bricks formed a seal around the stone pillar. Just as Mo Qingzhu declared he could break the formation, Xu Taiping foresaw a sword striking the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and rushed to intercept it.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that the Wedding-Robe Blightbone was close to becoming a Blight Immortal, while the Griffin Feathers protecting them rapidly lost their power.
• Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used movement techniques to reach the stone platform before the Griffin Feathers' protection ran out.
• Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage found the stone pillar resembled the one in the Ruined Dao Temple, but could sense no spiritual power from it.
• Mo Qingzhu recognized that the gold essence stone platform's runes formed a sealing grand formation around the pillar and said he could break it.
• Xu Taiping foresaw a rust-mottled longsword piercing the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's heart, then rushed beside him and unleashed Six Thousand Blades.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought off Blightbone Demonic Beasts attacking the stone platform. Xu Taiping smashed the Sword-Bone Blightbone’s strike with his sixty-thousand-punch Heaven-Supporting Form, but the battle continued.

• Xu Taiping cut apart a rust-mottled longsword attacking from below as the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage shattered the Bull Demon Blightbone behind him.
• Xu Taiping destroyed the Bull Demon Blightbone’s Demon Eye while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought the talisman-covered Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping used thirty thousand punches to shatter three broken swords falling toward Mo Qingzhu.
• As hundreds of broken swords descended, Xu Taiping formed a hundred-armed Demon Ancestor phantom image and smashed them with his fifty-thousand-punch Heaven-Supporting Form.
• The Sword-Bone Blightbone descended from a spatial rift and attacked, but Xu Taiping’s sixty-thousand-punch Heaven-Supporting Form broke its sword intent and forced its sword arm back.

Xu Taiping fused the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist with Buddhism’s Sea-Swallowing Seal to create a new Heaven-Supporting Form. He used it to absorb and return the Sword-Bone Blightbone’s attack, leaving the creature badly damaged while Mo Qingzhu continued breaking the formation.

• The Sword-Bone Blightbone sprouted hundreds of sword-wielding arms and shattered Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Supporting Form as Mo Qingzhu hurried to dismantle the formation.
• Xu Taiping refused the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s offer of help and summoned the Heaven-Supporting Form again, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that the Sword-Bone Blightbone could suppress its fist intent.
• Xu Taiping combined the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist with Buddhism’s Sea-Swallowing Seal, forming a new Heaven-Supporting Form that astonished the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• The Sword-Bone Blightbone unleashed hundreds of sword strikes, but Xu Taiping’s Sea-Swallowing Seal swallowed their force and returned the attack.
• Xu Taiping’s returned sword rain blasted apart dozens of the Sword-Bone Blightbone’s arms, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage praised his Buddhist-Martial Dao Integration.

Xu Taiping defended Mo Qingzhu as the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought off the Blightbones, but the Sword-Bone Blightbone returned with a soul-cutting attack and began drawing out its spine to grow stronger. Mo Qingzhu said she needed up to the time it took to brew a cup of tea to redraw the formation, leaving Xu Taiping to ask the Great Sage what they should do.

• The Buddha-Corpse Blightbone trapped the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage in karmic fire, but he dispelled it with his fist force.
• The Talisman-Bone Blightbones and the other Blightbones attacked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, who repelled them with Eight Directions Thunderclap and injured many of them.
• Hundreds of Blightbones charged into the valley as the Sword-Bone Blightbone emerged above Xu Taiping in the form of a headless cultivator with four arms.
• The Sword-Bone Blightbone wounded Xu Taiping's Demon Ancestor phantom image and divine soul, then pulled spine segments from its body to intensify its sword qi.
• Xu Taiping urged Mo Qingzhu to hurry, and she explained that the stone platform's formation differed from the Hundred Talisman Sect's records and needed to be redrawn.
• Xu Taiping asked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage what they should do while Mo Qingzhu worked on the formation.

Xu Taiping combined the Buddhist Vajra Seal with his Heaven-Supporting Form and broke through to ninety-nine thousand punches of Fist Force. He rebuilt and enlarged the Demon Ancestor phantom image, preparing to face the sword-remnant Blightbone at his newly reached Ultimate Realm.

• Xu Taiping regenerated his shattered arms as refining the Yang Yan Fruit flooded his meridians with True Essence, making the Demon Ancestor phantom image grow more arms.
• The sword-remnant Blightbone pulled out its spine and turned it into a blood-colored giant sword, then unleashed black sword-blade whirlwinds that shattered dozens of the phantom image's arms.
• Xu Taiping tried to use the Vajra Buddha Seal to break through his Fist Force, but the sword-remnant Blightbone's full sword strike destroyed his Heaven-Supporting Form.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage prepared to help Xu Taiping, but a Buddhist Golden Body Dharma Aspect enveloped him and the Demon Ancestor phantom image.
• Xu Taiping roared that he had reached ninety-nine thousand punches, then summoned the Overlord Heaven-Supporting Form as the phantom image re-formed and grew a hundred zhang taller with hundreds of new arms.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought off the Blightbones around the stone platform until the Wedding-Robe Blightbone awakened and trapped them in a blood-red domain that drained their power. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage unleashed a sealed portion of his strength and discovered the Wedding-Robe Blightbone was using them to complete three bows and break through to the Blight Immortal realm.

• Xu Taiping shattered the Sword-Bone Blightbone’s sword shadow and true form with his sky-supporting strike while protecting Mo Qingzhu.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage destroyed the Buddha-Corpse Blightbone’s karmic-fire attack and drove the surrounding Blightbones back.
• Xu Taiping foresaw the Wedding-Robe Blightbone’s attack and moved behind the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to shield the stone platform, but its hair shattered his golden defense.
• The Wedding-Robe Blightbone awakened, transformed the valley into a blood-red residence, and began draining Xu Taiping’s and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s power.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage removed a gold essence stone nail sealing his combat strength and blasted aside the Wedding-Robe Blightbone’s hair.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage saw the Wedding-Robe Blightbone kneeling before the sky and realized it intended to use them to perform three bows and become a Blight Immortal.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage tried to stop the Wedding-Robe Blightbone from completing her bows and breaking through, but Mo Qingzhu released a stone pillar that suppressed the Blightbones with waves of righteous qi. As Xu Taiping and his companions planned to weaken and sacrifice as many Blightbones as possible, Bai Yue arrived and Xu Taiping sensed an ominous premonition.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping he would descend to interrupt the Wedding-Robe Blightbone’s second bow before she broke through to the Blight Immortal Realm.
• Mo Qingzhu undid the stone platform’s restrictions, awakening the stone pillar and releasing indigo light that dispelled the Ghost Domain and weakened the Blightbones.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage urged Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu to let the pillar weaken the Blightbones before attacking.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage proposed killing more Blightbones than the thirty Xu Taiping had used in his simulation so they could gain a greater sacrificial reward.
• Bai Yue called out as he entered the valley, and Xu Taiping’s Left-Eye Lotus Pupil burned with a sense of foreboding.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage tried to stop the Wedding-Robe Blightbone after Bai Yue met her gaze and she restored the Ghost Domain. Xu Taiping rescued Bai Yue from completing the third ceremonial bow, but his attack drained nearly all his divine essence, leaving the Great Sage to take the Blightbone’s next strike.

• Bai Yue emerged from the mist and stared into the Wedding-Robe Blightbone’s eyes despite Xu Taiping’s warning, allowing her to restore the Ghost Domain.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Xu Taiping charged through the Blightbone Demonic Beasts while Mo Qingzhu supported them with talismans, but the Wedding-Robe Blightbone rose and attacked with her hair.
• Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap places with Bai Yue before he could complete the third ceremonial bow, then unleashed his true dragon heaven-splitting power against the Wedding-Robe Blightbone and nearby Blightbones.
• The attack destroyed most of the nearby Blightbones and damaged the Wedding-Robe Blightbone, but her ghostly wail depleted nearly all of Xu Taiping’s divine essence.
• When the Wedding-Robe Blightbone clawed at Xu Taiping, he swapped places with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, whose armor withstood her strike.

Xu Taiping and the others fought the Wedding-Robe Blightbone as it awakened the valley’s Blightbones and trapped Bai Yue in an illusion. After absorbing his clone’s accumulated cultivation insights, Xu Taiping prepared a soul attack to wake Bai Yue without killing him.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage shattered the Wedding-Robe Blightbone’s body, but its Blood Demon Eye survived and used its power to awaken the suppressed Blightbones throughout Cloudvoid Valley.
• Xu Taiping fought off the attacking Blightbones and used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to move beside Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu, who remained trapped in the wedding-bow illusion.
• Mo Qingzhu warned that they might have to abandon Bai Yue, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that a fierce soul attack or a serious injury could wake him and weaken the Wedding-Robe Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping took a Taiyi Purple Mansion Returning Spirit Pill, then released the clone he had cultivated in the Dragon-Trapping Tower for twenty years and absorbed its insights.
• Xu Taiping learned that his Mysterious Wasteland Art had reached minor completion and his Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art had reached great completion, and decided to use the latter with the Lion Roar Dragon Roar Shattering Gold Art to wake Bai Yue.

Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu joined forces with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to kill all three hundred Blightbones in the valley before the Formation-Breaking Talismans failed. With the battle over, Xu Taiping asked whether he could take the Blightbone remains.

• Xu Taiping used the Lion Roar Dragon Roar Shattering Gold Art to wake Bai Yue and disrupt the Blightbones' attacks.
• Bai Yue recovered and teamed up with Mo Qingzhu to destroy Blightbone blood demon eyes while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought the Wedding-Robe Blightbone.
• Mo Qingzhu warned that the Formation-Breaking Talismans would last only another half an incense stick, so Xu Taiping began cutting down the Blightbones with the Demon-Slaying Blade's Rending Blade Stance.
• Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, Mo Qingzhu, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage killed every Blightbone in the valley before time ran out.
• Xu Taiping asked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage whether he could take the Blightbone remains.

Xu Taiping, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Mo Qingzhu, and Bai Yue sacrificed the valley’s Blightbones to the Jade Mother and received a shower of Sweet Dew Nectar that revived the barren land. After the rain lifted the Red-Eyed Blightbone’s restriction on flight, they set out to check on the Taisu Valley cultivators, but noticed the rain weakening after several hundred li.

• Xu Taiping accepted the Blightbone remains, while Mo Qingzhu and Bai Yue declined their shares.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage led Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and Bai Yue in offering all the valley’s Blightbones to the Jade Mother.
• Crimson clouds gathered, Blightbone lights rose into the sky, and warm Sweet Dew Nectar began to fall.
• Xu Taiping found that refining the nectar restored his Divine Essence, while the rain brought fresh growth to the barren mountains.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discovered that flight was possible again and led the others toward the Taisu Valley cultivators.
• After flying several hundred li, Xu Taiping and the others noticed the Sweet Dew Nectar rain weakening.

Xu Taiping learned the rain was spreading slowly and that the Taisu Valley disciples were still far beyond its reach, so the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage prepared to scout ahead alone. After Xiaohei's power breakthrough gave it astonishing ground speed, Xu Taiping and his companions rode with the Great Sage toward the disciples.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage reported that the rain had spread only thirty li and that the Taisu Valley disciples were at least two hundred li away.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage offered to go ahead alone because Blightbones pursued anyone outside the rain's protection.
• Xiaohei told Xu Taiping it had reached the Swallowing Mountain Realm and that its ground speed had increased tenfold.
• Xu Taiping sent Xiaohei beyond the rain's edge, where it encountered many Blightbone Demonic Beasts, then returned at extraordinary speed.
• Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and Bai Yue mounted Xiaohei, and the group set off behind the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage toward Taisu Valley.

Xie Wangyan of Ningchan Cave used a horde of Blightbones to pressure Bai Cao Xuan into surrendering Taisu Valley’s legacies. As the pavilion’s barrier began to fail, Bai Cao Xuan refused his demand.

• Blightbones battered the barrier protecting the remaining half of a pavilion in the Nine Tribulations Sect ruins while Bai Cao Xuan vowed to burn away his cultivation to hold them back.
• Xie Wangyan and Dharma Master Hui Mie watched the attack, and Xie Wangyan said Bai Cao Xuan would soon seek their help.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone summoned more attackers, including a massive Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone that coiled around the peak and shattered layers of the barrier with its breath.
• Xie Wangyan offered to hide Bai Cao Xuan and the Taisu Valley disciples from the Blightbones in exchange for the Taisu Pill Canon and the Suwen Book.
• Bai Cao Xuan cursed Xie Wangyan and rejected his demand as the barrier continued to break.

Qu Chao Ci and Bai Cao Xuan tried to hold Taisu Valley’s pavilion against the Blightbones while waiting for the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage. As the Barrier weakened, Xie Wangyan sowed suspicion among the disciples, leaving Qu Chao Ci and her master facing their anger.

• Qu Chao Ci defended the decision to stay, while Taisu Valley disciples complained that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had not arrived.
• Bai Cao Xuan said the Great Sage would have come unless he had been trapped, and Qu Chao Ci worried that he might fall into the Blightbones’ trap too.
• The Blightbones intensified their assault, injuring Bai Cao Xuan through his connection to the Barrier; he told Qu Chao Ci to take his ring and Jade Jue and seek the Great Sage if the Barrier fell.
• Qu Chao Ci reminded Bai Cao Xuan of the Great Sage’s instruction to hold out, and Bai Cao Xuan accepted her Returning Spirit Pill and continued resisting.
• Xie Wangyan claimed Bai Cao Xuan meant to escape with Qu Chao Ci alone, and the other disciples turned angrily toward them.

Qu Chao Ci refused to join Sun Yu and the Taisu Valley disciples in betraying Bai Cao Xuan for Xie Wangyan’s promise of escape. As the pavilion’s barrier weakened under the Blightbone’s attack, Qu Chao Ci fought off her former fellow disciples, and Sun Yu vowed to fight her and her master to mutual destruction.

• Xie Wangyan offered to make the Taisu Valley disciples invisible to the Blightbone in exchange for the valley’s inheritance, and Sun Yu urged them to kill Bai Cao Xuan and take Qu Chao Ci with them.
• Qu Chao Ci confronted Sun Yu after he and the other disciples drew their weapons, and she shattered his opening attack with her sword intent.
• A blast of dragon breath from the Blightbone weakened the pavilion’s barrier and wounded Bai Cao Xuan, prompting the remaining disciples to join the attack on Qu Chao Ci.
• Qu Chao Ci used Milky Way Flows West and Sword Curtain, Heavenly Rampart to break Sun Yu’s defenses and pierce several attackers.
• Sun Yu declared that he would fight Qu Chao Ci and her master until both sides were destroyed.