Chapter Summaries

Sun Yu attacked Bai Cao Xuan’s formation node and demanded Taisu Valley’s cultivation inheritance, leaving Qu Chao Ci and her master on the brink of defeat. Xu Taiping arrived in time to kill Sun Yu with one punch, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage remained outside to face the Blightbones.

• Sun Yu repeatedly hacked at the clay statue formation node, grievously injuring Bai Cao Xuan and weakening the Barrier while demanding Taisu Valley’s cultivation inheritance from Qu Chao Ci.
• The Taisu Valley disciples shattered Qu Chao Ci’s sword curtain, and Bai Cao Xuan used a Protective Jade to shield her as he urged her to escape and seek the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• Sun Yu prepared to strike the clay statue again as Qu Chao Ci attacked him, but the other disciples intercepted her sword light.
• A cultivator broke through the Barrier and landed in the pavilion; he introduced himself as Xu Taiping and said the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage was outside fighting the Blightbones.
• Xu Taiping blocked Sun Yu’s saber with his body, then punched Sun Yu dead, shocking the Taisu Valley disciples.

Xu Taiping rescued Qu Chao Ci and Bai Cao Xuan from the Taisu Valley disciples and shielded them from a Blightbone Demonic Beast after the barrier fell. As Xu Taiping stopped the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone’s blow with his enormous Demon Ancestor phantom, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone and made it howl.

• Xu Tianping told Qu Chao Ci that he had crippled Sun Yu but had not killed him.
• Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with Qu Chao Ci, then struck down the Taisu Valley disciples who attacked him.
• Qu Chao Ci mistook Xu Taiping for the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and he clarified that he was not the Great Sage.
• Xu Taiping gave Bai Cao Xuan a Great Unity Returning Spirit Pill and urged him to lower the barrier so they could escape.
• After Bai Cao Xuan dispelled the barrier, Xu Taiping stopped the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone’s punch with his Heaven-Supporting Form and grew to giant size.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage hit the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone in the head, making it wail.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rescued Qu Chao Ci, Bai Cao Xuan, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu while fighting the Red-Eyed and Dragon-Skeleton Blightbones. With Bai Cao Xuan too injured to travel and Xiaohei needing time to recover, the group prepared to hold off the Blightbones until they could escape.

• The Red-Eyed Blightbone attacked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, but Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu struck it and the Great Sage shattered its body with a Golden Fist Shadow.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone crushed Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu with a fold in space, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage caught them and carried them back to the peak.
• Qu Chao Ci and Bai Cao Xuan thanked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage for saving them, and he checked on Qu Chao Ci before asking about Bai Cao Xuan's injuries.
• Bai Cao Xuan admitted he could not travel and begged the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to take Qu Chao Ci out of Kaiyang Heaven, but Qu Chao Ci insisted on staying with her master.
• Xu Taiping said Xiaohei would recover enough to run in about the time it took to brew a cup of tea, so the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage decided they would fight the Blightbones while they waited.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone stood atop the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone's head and roared toward the group.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought off several blightbones, but Qu Chao Ci realized Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master were preparing a sneak attack. Xu Taiping and the Great Sage repelled the attackers, who escaped to the horizon.

• Xu Taiping used the Demon Ancestor phantom image's Sea-Swallowing Seal to absorb the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone's breath and blast the two Griffin Blightbones.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage knocked aside the Red-Eyed Blightbone's sword, but none of the three blightbones were seriously harmed.
• Qu Chao Ci remembered the danger and warned Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage of a sneak attack.
• Xie Wangyan used Mountains and Rivers as a Cage while Blood Zen Dharma Master attacked Xu Taiping with his Blood Buddha Buddhist Dharma Form.
• Xu Taiping switched places with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, broke Xie Wangyan's spell with his true dragon forbidden domain, and joined the Great Sage in striking both attackers.
• Xie Wangyan used Dashing Beyond the Dust to retreat with Blood Zen Dharma Master.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage repelled the Blightbones while Xie Wangyan lured a vast horde to the lone peak. As at least a thousand Blightbones closed in, the two prepared to turn the danger into a chance to hunt powerful Blightbones and keep Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master trapped.

• Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci mistakenly credited the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage with predicting Xie Wangyan’s and the Blood Zen Dharma Master’s attacks, while the Great Sage praised Xu Taiping’s ability to deduce them.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone and other powerful Blightbones attacked the lone peak, and Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Supporting Form while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought beside him.
• Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master stayed back, apparently waiting for the Blightbones to weaken Xu Taiping’s group, so the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage decided to keep them there and hunt more Blightbones.
• Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed to divide the powerful Blightbones’ remains, with Xu Taiping claiming half, especially the dragon skeleton, and the Great Sage claiming Red-Eyed.
• Xie Wangyan revealed that he had used his world-deceiving power to lure every Blightbone within a hundred li, bringing at least a thousand toward the lone peak.
• Bai Cao Xuan urged the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to flee, but the Great Sage and Xu Taiping told the others to stay back while they handled the incoming horde.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to strengthen his Heaven-Supporting Form while the Blightbones overwhelmed the group. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage faced a Calamity Baleful Intent Realm Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, and Xu Taiping was left under attack from several powerful Blightbones and a flock of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones.

• Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master offered to save the group in exchange for four cultivation technique legacies, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rejected their price.
• Dozens of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones battered Xu Taiping’s Demon Ancestor phantom image, and Xu Taiping said he could hold on if the Jade Mother Sweet Dew arrived on time.
• Xu Taiping summoned four Deity Projections with the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art, restoring and greatly strengthening his Heaven-Supporting Form.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage shattered the Red-Eyed Blightbone’s breastbone, but a Calamity Baleful Intent Realm Stone-Skeleton Blightbone struck him and sent him staggering back.
• Xu Taiping sheltered the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage on his shoulder and sealed the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone’s breath with the Sea-Swallowing Seal.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone, the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, and a flock containing many accident-level Bird-Skeleton Blightbones attacked Xu Taiping together.

Xu Taiping and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage held off waves of Blightbone Demonic Beasts while Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master demanded their inheritance. As warm rain began to fall, Xu Taiping prepared to merge true dragon mountain spirit power with his Heaven-Supporting Form, leaving the others to watch as he faced the next assault alone.

• Xu Taiping used Eighty Thousand Fists to shatter the attacks of the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, the Red-Eyed Blightbone, and dozens of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones.
• Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci saw hundreds of Blightbones gather overhead, including several with Calamity Baleful Intent auras, while Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master again demanded the Great Sage's inheritance.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck with Star-Crushing Mountain-Shaking and scattered the diving Blightbones, while Xu Taiping's Demon Ancestor phantom image blocked another wave.
• Warm rain began falling, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping it had arrived as the two resolved to keep the Blightbones there until the rain grew heavier.
• Xu Taiping announced that he would try merging true dragon mountain spirit power with his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Supporting Form, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed not to intervene if he came under attack.

Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Supporting Form to shield everyone from a massive Blightbone assault, but the powerful creatures rapidly shattered the Demon Ancestor Phantom Image’s arms. As the attackers closed in, he sensed a path to the Ultimate Realm and unleashed a ninety-nine-thousand-punch technique.

• Xu Taiping empowered his Demon Ancestor Phantom Image with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Seal and Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art, then blocked the first wave of Blightbones.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone and Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone damaged the phantom, while a larger horde descended with a Drought Demon Skeleton Blightbone, a Chain-Mace Blightbone, and a Vulture-Skeleton Blightbone.
• Bai Cao Xuan identified the Drought Demon Skeleton Blightbone, and Qu Chao Ci feared Xu Taiping could not hold off the attackers.
• As the phantom lost most of its arms, Xu Taiping sensed the qi of integration between his Heaven-Supporting Form and True Dragon Divine Being Power.
• Xu Taiping recognized the feeling of reaching the Ultimate Realm and shouted, "Ultimate Realm, ninety-nine thousand punches!"

Xu Taiping unleashed the Overlord True Dragon Heaven-Supporting Form and shattered the Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone’s arms, but the Blightbones quickly regrouped and charged again. Exhausted and surrounded, he and the others remained in danger on the solitary peak.

• Xu Taiping raised his ultimate-realm Heaven-Supporting Form, and his thousand-armed Vajra phantom image drove the Blightbones back.
• A Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone charged the solitary peak and smashed half of Xu Taiping’s Vajra phantom image apart.
• Xu Taiping used the Overlord’s Breath to restore the phantom image, then let the Dragon Vault Armor absorb his true essence power.
• Xu Taiping formed the Overlord True Dragon Heaven-Supporting Form, whose dragon-wrapped Vajra shattered the Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone’s arms and blasted nearby Blightbones back.
• The Blood Zen Dharma Master dismissed Xu Taiping’s attack as a show of force, and the Blightbones charged the peak again.

Xu Taiping used Buddhist Dharma and true dragon mountain spirit power to suppress the Blightbones, but the pressure appeared to weaken as more enemies swarmed the lone peak. Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master prepared to attack, unaware that rain behind them was making Blightbones collapse.

• Xu Taiping commanded his Vajra Dharma Aspect to suppress the Blightbones around the lone peak with true dragon mountain spirit power.
• Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master sensed Xu Taiping's weakening aura and believed his magic power was nearly exhausted.
• More Blightbones broke through the mountain spirit power and crowded the peak as Xie Wangyan readied his Rune Brush.
• Rain clouds gathered unnoticed behind Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master, while rain-soaked Blightbones collapsed to the ground.

After Xu Taiping’s magic power ran out, the Blightbones began falling from the sky as the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared and seized Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master. He killed Blood Zen Dharma Master and left Xie Wangyan terrified by asking whether he had heard of the Human Swine Talisman.

• Xu Taiping’s manifested vajra dharma aspect burst apart as his magic power ran dry, and the Blightbones surged toward the peak before suddenly falling from the sky.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared behind Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master, broke Xie Wangyan’s wrist, and restrained both men.
• Blood Zen Dharma Master merged with his Blood Kasaya and fled, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage caught him from afar and burned his body and primordial spirit to ash.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked Xie Wangyan why he had not killed him, then mentioned the Human Swine Talisman.
• Xie Wangyan recognized the threat and begged the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to kill him.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage ordered Mo Qingzhu to turn Xie Wangyan into a Human Swine Talisman for the group’s journey through Yaochi Sacred Land. After learning that the nectar had only temporarily suppressed the Blightbones and the travel restrictions remained, the group suspected a powerful Blight Immortal was controlling them.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage brought Xie Wangyan to the pavilion and asked Mo Qingzhu to craft a Human Swine Talisman from him.
• Mo Qingzhu explained that the talisman let its master use a cultivator’s spells while leaving the cultivator conscious but unable to control their body.
• Xie Wangyan pleaded for mercy, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage threatened him and promised to consider releasing him if he cooperated and the journey went smoothly.
• Bai Cao Xuan asked whether the group would leave now that the nectar had lifted the local restrictions, and Xu Taiping explained that it only suppressed the Blightbones temporarily.
• Xu Taiping said the restrictions still persisted at high altitude, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage suspected a powerful Blight Immortal was secretly controlling the Red-Eyed Blightbone and others.
• Bai Cao Xuan recalled sensing a similar aura elsewhere in Kaiyang Heaven.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage learned that a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone lurked beneath the desert and that Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci had escaped from Yaochi Sacred Land, where clues to ending the calamity might lie. After clearing the Blightbones around the Dragon-Trapping Tower, they returned to find Su Qingtan, Dongfang Su, and Bai Yue reunited inside.

• Bai Cao Xuan sensed a Blightbone aura beneath the desert that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage identified as likely belonging to a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping said he and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage needed to visit Yaochi Sacred Land, but Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci warned that they had escaped from there and urged them not to go.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage postponed viewing Bai Cao Xuan's Moonlight Stone and joined Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Qu Chao Ci in dealing with the Blightbones trapped by the Jade Mother Sweet Dew.
• Xu Taiping and the others returned to the Dragon-Trapping Tower after clearing many Blightbones; Xu Taiping revealed that he had sealed the tower's Gate-Sealing Stone with the Heaven-Mending Art.
• Xu Taiping opened the tower and brought everyone inside, where Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su explained that they had waited for his return, and they joyfully reunited with Bai Yue.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage reunited with Su Qingtan’s group and discussed who would leave Kaiyang Heaven using their Teleportation Scroll. Qu Chao Ci chose to remain and help the party enter the Yaochi Sacred Land, and the Great Sage vowed to protect her.

• Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su thanked Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage for rescuing them, then condemned Xie Wangyan for his crimes.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said Xie Wangyan was still useful, and Xu Taiping sent Mo Qingzhu to prepare a Human Swine Talisman under Xiaohei’s guard.
• Su Qingtan offered her Teleportation Scroll, which could transport three people, and Bai Yue and Xu Taiping both chose to stay behind.
• Bai Cao Xuan told Qu Chao Ci to leave with Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su, but she argued that her medical and alchemical skills would help the group at the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Qu Chao Ci declared that she was not afraid with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage beside her, and he resolved to keep her safe.

Qu Chao Ci insisted on entering the Yaochi Sacred Land to obtain a spirit herb and refine a pill that could save her gravely ill mother. After Bai Cao Xuan showed her the moonlight stone’s recording of the Blightbone-infested realm, the danger of the journey became clear.

• Xu Taiping argued that Qu Chao Ci should not risk joining the expedition, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed to take her after she appealed to him.
• Su Qingtan offered to let Bai Cao Xuan return to the Yu Ling Sect with Qu Chao Ci, but Bai Cao Xuan refused and urged his disciple to understand the danger first.
• Qu Chao Ci explained that her mother was nearing the fifth great calamity of the Origin Opening Realm and needed a pill made with a spirit herb found inside the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Bai Cao Xuan let Qu Chao Ci watch the moonlight stone before deciding whether to go, and she activated it.
• The recording showed Blightbone Demonic Beasts emerging near the entrance and corrupted cultivators writhing beyond the jade gate.
• Three enormous hound-shaped Blightbone Demonic Beasts burst through the fog and lunged at those in the recording.

Xu Taiping and the others watched Moonshadow Stone images reveal that the Yaochi Sacred Land’s Daoist boys had become deadly Blightbone. A white Mountain-Lifting Ape destroyed two of them and identified himself as Xu Ping'an, an Azure Profound Sect disciple, leaving Xu Taiping certain he recognized the ape.

• A cultivator’s Moonshadow Stone showed two Blightbone Daoist boys slaughtering nearby cultivators and absorbing their primordial spirits into bronze lamps.
• Xu Taiping asked Bai Cao Xuan whether the boys’ remains had once guarded the Yaochi Sacred Land, and Bai Cao Xuan confirmed it.
• Qu Chao Ci activated the Moonshadow Stone again, showing the Daoist boys attack another cultivator as a giant figure descended.
• The giant figure survived the boys’ flames and shattered them with a single stomp, revealing himself as a white Mountain-Lifting Ape.
• Xu Taiping recognized the ape’s voice, and the ape introduced himself as Xu Ping'an, a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect.

Xu Taiping learned that his younger brother Xu Ping'an had entered the Yaochi Sacred Land and watched a Moonlight Stone recording of Ping'an’s final moments there. The recording showed Ping'an gravely wounded after a battle with a Thunder General Blightbone, as he and Luo Yun prepared to face danger and Ping'an sent a message to his loved ones.

• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the Mountain-Lifting Ape was his younger brother, Xu Ping'an, and revealed that he had ascended to the Upper Realm less than a month earlier.
• Ping'an asked a cultivator to record their journey in a Moonlight Stone so that others could learn what happened if misfortune struck them.
• Bai Cao Xuan showed Xu Taiping a recording of Ping'an’s final moments in the Yaochi Sacred Land, where he lay gravely wounded with half his head missing and a large hole in his chest.
• Ping'an told Luo Yun to flee with the Moonlight Stone and warn the Cultivation World of an unprecedented Blightbone calamity, blaming an ambush by Three Corpses Cave for his defeat.
• Luo Yun refused to abandon Ping'an, drew his saber, and stood beside him as another cultivator prepared to carry the Moonlight Stone away.
• Ping'an said he missed Eldest Brother Taiping and Sister Lingyue.

After learning that Ping'an was trapped in Yaochi Sacred Land and Bai Yu had been captured by Yellow Origin Palace, Xu Taiping resolved to enter Yaochi and rescue Ping'an. Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci joined him, while Su Qingtan, her husband, and Bai Cao Xuan escaped the world through a scroll.

• Xu Taiping's killing intent surged after he heard Ping'an might have died, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage helped him regain control.
• Ping'an's message revealed that Bai Yu had been captured by an old Daoist from Yellow Origin Palace and urged Xu Taiping to rescue Bai Yu with Lingyue instead of coming for him.
• Xu Taiping confirmed he would go to Yaochi Sacred Land, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Bai Yue, and Qu Chao Ci agreed to accompany him.
• Qu Chao Ci's master, Bai Cao Xuan, reluctantly gave her permission to go and entrusted her to Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's care.
• Su Qingtan and her husband opened a scroll and escaped with Bai Cao Xuan, leaving Xu Taiping and the others to set out for Yaochi.

Xu Taiping and the others tested the Human Swine Talisman’s ability to hide a person from detection, then faced a Blight Immortal-level blightbone waiting outside the Dragon-Trapping Tower. The tower suddenly expanded and drove off the blightbone’s crushing aura, leaving the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage questioning whether Xu Taiping had fully refined it.

• Mo Qingzhu presented the Human Swine Xie Wangyan and ordered him to conceal Xu Taiping with the World-Deceiving Power.
• Xie Wangyan hid Xu Taiping’s aura and form, and Xu Taiping warned the others that the effect ended when he mobilized all his magic power.
• A little girl outside the Dragon-Trapping Tower announced that she had found them, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized the presence as a Blight Immortal-level blightbone.
• Xu Taiping and the others debated whether to leave the tower before the nectar rain stopped, while the blightbone’s aura grew stronger.
• Golden seal-script characters appeared on the tower’s doors, causing the tower to expand and dispel the blightbone’s aura.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked Xu Taiping whether he had fully refined the Dragon-Trapping Tower.

Xu Taiping and the others learned that the Dragon-Trapping Tower needed five refinements to be fully mastered, while the Blight Immortal-level Blightbone outside began breaking through its defenses. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stayed behind to hold it off as Xu Taiping prepared to lead the others into Yaochi Sacred Land.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Xu Taiping had to refine the five-floor Dragon-Trapping Tower five times to fully command its power.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used the Spirit Mirror to reveal a green-clad Blightbone outside the tower, which broke the mirror projection and began shattering the tower’s protective rune.
• Bai Yue suggested charging out, while Mo Qingzhu proposed escaping on Xiaohei; the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage instead offered to hold back the Blightbone.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demonstrated his immense strength with a talisman containing his full combat power and told Xu Taiping to lead the others into Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping agreed to wait one day at Yaochi Sacred Land’s entrance for the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu gave him a Jade Jue that would resonate with her rune marks.