Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and his companions sprung a trap on the hunched demonic Daoist, using the Blade of Guicang to make him reach for Xu Taiping with the hand he used to grasp fortune. They left the demonic Daoist badly injured and his soul temporarily sealed, and Xu Taiping began carrying him away.

• Mo Qingzhu and Qu Chao Ci confirmed that the demonic Daoist had not noticed their ruse, while Old Daoist Huang explained that the Blade of Guicang needed to be nourished with fortune and could only be wielded once.
• Star Lord Blightbone demanded flesh, and the demonic Daoist chose Xu Taiping as the first offering.
• As the demonic Daoist reached for Xu Taiping with his fortune-grasping left hand, Xu Taiping enlarged himself, seized the Daoist, and crushed him against his chest.
• Qu Chao Ci fired silver needles that sealed the demonic Daoist's divine soul before he could use soul magic.
• Qu Chao Ci warned that her Soul Sealing needles would not hold for long, and Xu Taiping picked up the injured demonic Daoist and headed across the lotus leaf.

Xu Taiping forced the Hunched Demonic Daoist into Star Lord Blightbone’s grasp, hoping to make them fight and rescue Xiahou You and the others. The Daoist revealed a hidden restriction that began forcing Blightbone to bear the Blight Immortal Fruit, leaving Xu Taiping and his companions facing a rapidly growing fruit tree.

• Xu Taiping threw the wounded Hunched Demonic Daoist onto Star Lord Blightbone’s lotus leaf, where Blightbone tore him apart.
• Xu Taiping explained to Qu Chao Ci that he wanted to provoke the Daoist into revealing his method for controlling Blightbone and weaken them both.
• The Hunched Demonic Daoist unleashed golden runes and restrictions that made Star Lord Blightbone scream and melt into lava.
• Qu Chao Ci realized the Daoist was forcing Blightbone to bear the Blight Immortal Fruit ahead of time.
• A tree laden with fat-baby-shaped fruits rapidly grew from Blightbone’s lava-like body, and Qu Chao Ci feared it was the Blight Immortal Fruit.

Xu Taiping and his companions used cold water to extinguish the flame barrier and attacked the Demonic Daoist after he ate the Blightbone fruits. The Demonic Daoist transformed into a powerful Crab Demon Blightbone, and Xu Taiping discovered that the Water-Cutting Blade could wound its armor.

• The Demonic Daoist crawled through the flame barrier and ate Blightbone fruits to regain his strength while Xu Taiping and the others failed to break through.
• Xu Taiping recognized the barrier from the one sealing Xiahou You and used the cold water in a jade bottle to extinguish its flames.
• Xu Taiping and Bai Yue charged in and shattered the Demonic Daoist's head, but his body transformed into a Crab Demon Blightbone.
• The Crab Demon Blightbone's armor-piercing pincers damaged Bai Yue's armor and scratched Xu Taiping's Dragon Vault Armor.
• Xu Taiping struck the Crab Demon Blightbone's pincer with the Water-Cutting Blade and carved a large gash into it.

Xu Taiping fought the Crab Demon Blightbone while Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci tried to reach the Xiahou Clan members trapped behind it. Xu Taiping broke through the demon’s defenses with a twenty-nine-thousand-blade strike, while Bai Yue punched a large hole in its barrier.

• Xu Taiping struck the Crab Demon Blightbone as it tried to swallow the Demonic Fruit, knocking the fruit to the ground and damaging its pincer.
• Xiahou You warned Xu Taiping to close his eyes against the corpse qi, and he evaded its effects by relying on his divine sense.
• Xu Taiping told Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci to rescue the Xiahou Clan members, but the Demonic Daoist blocked them with a crab-claw barrier.
• Xu Taiping cracked the Crab Demon Blightbone’s pincer with a twenty-three-thousand-blade strike, while Bai Yue punched a hole in its barrier.
• Xu Taiping severed one of the Crab Demon Blightbone’s pincers with a twenty-nine-thousand-blade strike, and Bai Yue enlarged the breach in its Crab Armor Phantom Image.

Xu Taiping fought the Demonic Daoist while Qu Chao Ci followed Xiahou You’s instructions to extinguish the flames trapping the Xiahou Clan. The rescue was underway as Xiahou You watched Xu Taiping battle, and Heavenly Lord Shihu reprimanded Xiahou Yu for boasting.

• Xu Taiping severed the Crab Demon Blightbone’s pincers, but the Demonic Daoist armored himself with its body and forced Xu Taiping into a fierce saber fight.
• Bai Yue was badly wounded when he tried to aid Xu Taiping, and Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci to rescue the trapped Xiahou Clan members instead.
• Qu Chao Ci poured frigid water onto the flames, then used Xiahou You’s Sudden Rain Spell to create freezing rain that gradually weakened the restriction.
• Xiahou You praised Xu Taiping’s strength, while Xiahou Yu claimed he could have fought the Demonic Daoist and Heavenly Lord Shihu scolded him for his boast.

Xu Taiping battled the demonic Daoist in Crab Demon Armor while Xiahou Yu mocked him from behind the Flame Barrier. After the barrier broke, Xiahou Yu joined the fight and struck the demonic Daoist, but his attack did no harm, and the Daoist counterattacked him.

• Xu Taiping’s blade strikes failed to break the demonic Daoist’s Crab Demon Armor, while Xiahou Yu mocked his fighting.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu agreed to send Xiahou Yu to help once the Flame Barrier broke, and Xiahou Yu boasted he would slay the Daoist in two sword strikes.
• The cold rain weakened the Flame Barrier, and the demonic Daoist knocked Xu Taiping to the barrier’s edge.
• When the Flame Barrier shattered, Xiahou Yu charged the demonic Daoist and sent him flying, then boasted that his sword was sharper than Xu Taiping’s blade.
• Xu Taiping warned Xiahou Yu that his strike had not injured the demonic Daoist, who sprang up and slashed at Xiahou Yu with his twin sabers.

The Demonic Daoist battered Xiahou Yu and demanded three Blight Immortal Fruits in exchange for his life. Xu Taiping refused to hand over the fruits and prepared to face the Demonic Daoist himself.

• The Demonic Daoist shattered Xiahou Yu’s defenses and forced him to use a Golden Light Jue to survive the first blow.
• The Demonic Daoist increased his power and repeatedly struck Xiahou Yu’s golden protection, cutting him with blightbone power as he demanded three Blight Immortal Fruits.
• Qu Chao Ci warned Xu Taiping that giving the fruits to the Demonic Daoist could make him too powerful to defeat.
• Xiahou Yu begged Heavenly Lord Shihu and Xiahou You to save him, then insulted them and demanded that Xu Taiping surrender the fruits.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu told Xu Taiping to ignore Xiahou Yu and not give up the fruits, while Xiahou You blamed Xiahou Yu for their predicament.
• Xu Taiping ordered Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci to guard the Demonic Fruits and declared that he would fight the Demonic Daoist alone.

Xu Taiping attacked the demonic daoist while the daoist tried to persuade Xiahou Yu to betray his allies and hand over a Spirit Bone Stele Fragment. Xiahou Yu agreed, and Heavenly Lord Shihu warned Xu Taiping that the demonic daoist must not obtain it.

• Xu Taiping restored his aura with spiritual power from the Thunder-Pattern Jujube as the demonic daoist tortured Xiahou Yu and taunted him.
• Xiahou Yu offered the demonic daoist a Spirit Bone Stele Fragment in exchange for his life, but the demonic daoist demanded that he release the Golden Light Mantra and join him.
• Xu Taiping struck the demonic daoist, who blocked the blow with a Crab Phantom Image and continued trying to recruit Xiahou Yu.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu warned Xiahou Yu against joining the demonic daoist, but the daoist stoked his resentment and promised to make him stronger than Xu Taiping.
• After seeing Xu Taiping's powerful blade force, Xiahou Yu agreed to hand over the fragment and took out the Spirit Bone Stele.
• The Spirit Bone Stele's aura disrupted Heavenly Lord Shihu's efforts to suppress the poison, and he urgently warned Xu Taiping not to let the demonic daoist obtain it.

Xu Taiping tried to raise his blade force enough to defeat the Crab-Demon Demonic Daoist before he could consume the Spirit Bone Stele Fragment, but his first great slash collapsed. Mo Qingzhu rewound time with Tracing Light, giving Xu Taiping another chance to strike.

• The golden barrier around Xiahou Yu shattered, and the Crab-Demon Demonic Daoist prepared to devour the Spirit Bone Stele Fragment.
• Xu Taiping unleashed a slash with 102,000 blades, but his blade-force projection burst apart before it could defeat the demonic daoist.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu resolved to use his dao origin power as the demonic daoist moved to consume the fragment.
• Mo Qingzhu used Tracing Light to rewind events to the moment before Xu Taiping drew his blade.
• Xu Taiping thanked Mo Qingzhu, gathered his power again, and roared that he would wield 103,000 blades.

Xu Taiping shattered the Crab-Demon Demonic Daoist’s armor and destroyed his body, but the Demonic Daoist’s final attack entered Xu Taiping and threatened to turn him into blightbone. The chapter left Xu Taiping unable to stop the black smoke as it flew into his mouth.

• Xu Taiping unleashed a six-armed blade strike that shattered the Demonic Daoist’s Crab Armor Phantom Image and broke apart his Crab Demon Blightbone Body, then caught the Spirit Bone Stele Fragment.
• Xiahou Yu suddenly exploded, and the Demonic Daoist’s black fog knocked Qu Chao Ci and Bai Yue aside before swallowing the Demonic Fruits they guarded.
• Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to reach the black fog and attacked it with thunderflame released from his Azure Luan Ring.
• The Demonic Daoist’s black fog exploded, and a wisp of black smoke shot into Xu Taiping’s mouth while he was too weak to stop it.

Xu Taiping discovered that Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland’s Furnace Dao Body could burn away Blightbone Power, trapping and scorching the Demonic Daoist and Xiahou Yu inside his Dao Body Furnace. As he continued intensifying the flames, the Demonic Daoist tried to bargain with secrets about Yaochi Sacred Land and left a Divine Soul Mark, but Xu Taiping refused to be distracted.

• Xu Taiping examined his Dao Body Furnace and saw its flames burning away the Demonic Daoist’s Blightbone Power.
• The Demonic Daoist pleaded for his life, while Xiahou Yu appeared and threatened Xu Taiping; Xu Taiping said he could not save him.
• The Blightbone fog burst apart, and the furnace began burning both Divine Souls until Xiahou Yu’s ghostly face shattered.
• Xu Taiping continued feeding Divine Essence into the furnace as the Demonic Daoist offered information about Yaochi Sacred Land and the origin of Blightbone.
• The Demonic Daoist sent a Divine Soul Mark to prove his claims, but Xu Taiping rejected the attempt to distract him.

Xu Taiping killed the Demonic Daoist and tried to refine the Blightbone power trapped in his Dao Body Furnace, but it coalesced into a sphere that violently battered the furnace. The Dragon Pearl and the Golden Chalice intervened, leaving all three objects locked in a triangle above the furnace as Xu Taiping wondered what was happening.

• The Demonic Daoist sent Xu Taiping five Divine Soul Marks and begged him to believe his knowledge, but Xu Taiping burned away the Daoist's divine soul in the Dao Body Furnace.
• Xu Taiping began refining the remaining Blightbone power, but its merging black mist battered his divine soul until someone gave him strong liquor that replenished his divine essence.
• The Blightbone power formed a black sphere covered in hundreds of anguished faces, which Xu Taiping found his furnace could refine only slowly.
• The black sphere began bouncing against the inside of Xu Taiping's Dao Body Furnace, causing fresh tremors that he struggled to withstand.
• The Dragon Pearl from Ao Yan and the Golden Chalice sealing the Xingtian Divine Intent rose from the furnace and repeatedly struck the black sphere until the three objects held one another in a triangle.

After Third Uncle transported Xu Taiping and the others to safety, Xu Taiping learned that Xiahou You’s Hidden Immortal Wine had come from Ping'an, his old friend and fellow brewer. He accepted the wine to recover his strength and asked Xiahou You where Ping'an was now.

• As the Blightbones closed in, Xiahou You warned Xu Taiping not to use his magic or divine soul power while Third Uncle transported them away.
• Once they reached safety, Xiahou You offered Xu Taiping more Hidden Immortal Wine, prompting him to wake and thank her for watching over him.
• Xu Taiping asked Xiahou You where she had gotten the wine, and she said a young demon cultivator named Ping'an had given it to her on the Sacred Land’s second layer.
• Xu Taiping explained that Ping'an was his brother and one of only two people who knew how to brew Hidden Immortal Wine.
• At Heavenly Lord Shihu’s urging, Xu Taiping accepted the gourd, drank deeply, and began recovering his magic power and vitality.
• Xu Taiping asked Xiahou You if she knew where Ping'an was now.

Xu Taiping and his companions discovered that the hollow in a boy statue at Heavenly Law Terrace matched their Five Elements Talisman Seeds, which might activate a teleportation array to the fourth layer. As they took shelter from a Star Lord Blightbone beneath the stele, a powerful sword attack struck its defenses, and Heavenly Lord Shihu identified the attacker as Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.

• Xiahou You told Xu Taiping that Ping'an had parted ways with her group after they drove back a Star Lord Blightbone and had hurried toward the fourth layer.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu said the entrance he knew was at Abyssal Depths Pool beneath the Jade Pool, and the group realized they were already at Heavenly Law Terrace.
• Xu Taiping found a hollow in the lotus held by a boy statue, and Qu Chao Ci and Mo Qingzhu recognized that its shape matched their talisman seeds.
• A Star Lord Blightbone rose from the lake and attacked with a massive wave, so Xu Taiping used Wind-Thunder Step to move the group beneath the Heavenly Law Stele.
• The stele's golden barrier blocked another wave, but a sword strike split through its defenses until Heavenly Lord Shihu used a silver pearl to stop it.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu accused Supreme Venerable Xuanwei of attacking, and Qu Chao Ci wondered how he could be there when he had been trapped on the second layer.

Xu Taiping revealed that the Heavenly Law Platform could transport them to the fourth layer, and Heavenly Lord Shihu devised a plan to use the array to weaken Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's clone. The teleportation array activated, sending Xu Taiping and Xiahou You onward as Heavenly Lord Shihu stayed behind to fight.

• Xiahou You explained that Supreme Venerable Xuanwei had multiple independently cultivated clones, and Xuanwei demanded the treasures Heavenly Lord Shihu had obtained on the third layer.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu told Xu Taiping and Xiahou You to escape to the fourth layer while he held off Xuanwei, but Xu Taiping revealed that Five Elements Talisman Seeds could activate the Heavenly Law Platform as a teleportation array.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu proposed using the array to send Xuanwei's life-bound flying sword to the fourth layer and weaken the clone.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu drew Xuanwei's flying sword into the stone platform as Xu Taiping, Qu Chao Ci, and the others placed their talisman seeds into the formation nodes.
• The Grand Teleportation Array activated, and Heavenly Lord Shihu urged Xu Taiping and Xiahou You to go to the fourth layer while he stayed to slay Xuanwei's clone.

Xu Taiping and the others escaped into the passage to the Sacred Land’s fourth layer while Heavenly Lord Shihu fought Supreme Venerable Xuanwei over the Shenshang Sword. As they traveled, Xu Taiping examined his Dao Body Furnace and saw droplets from the Blight Pearl, Dragon Pearl, and Golden Chalice merge into one.

• Heavenly Lord Shihu used the silver pearls to stop Supreme Venerable Xuanwei, while the teleportation array pulled Xu Taiping and the others into the passage along with the Shenshang Sword.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei attacked Heavenly Lord Shihu with another life-bound flying sword, but Shihu’s starlight power broke it and he summoned a silver sphere to strike Xuanwei.
• Xu Taiping confined the Shenshang Sword in the Fire Gourd and asked Xiahou You what awaited them in the fourth layer; she warned that powerful heretical cultivators and faction leaders were there.
• Xu Taiping was overcome by pain from the Blight Pearl, then drank Hidden Immortal Wine and used inner sight to inspect his Dao Body Furnace.
• Xu Taiping saw black, silver, and golden droplets seep from the Blight Pearl, Dragon Pearl, and Golden Chalice, then merge as they fell.

Xu Taiping watched a Divine Soul Mark reveal the fourth layer of Yaochi Sacred Land and learned that the Cinnabar Cave Spring could summon cultivators from elsewhere in the ruins. As his Divine Soul tremors returned, he was left in agonizing pain with a possible way to reunite with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Ping'an.

• Xu Taiping failed to burn away the merging droplets and realized the growing Divine Soul tremors could leave him unable to fight.
• Xu Taiping opened his remaining Divine Soul Mark and saw Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci lead a group toward Qusheng Terrace with his Demon-Suppressing Coffin.
• Qu Chao Ci directed the group to secure the Qingyao Jade Mansion and find an Azure Void Fruit for Xu Taiping.
• The Divine Soul Mark shifted to the Six-Purity Jade Platform, where True Lord Di Que explained to Rogue Person Xuanzhen how the Cinnabar Cave Spring could summon willing cultivators from within the sacred land ruins.
• Xu Taiping considered using the well to summon the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Ping'an, but his Divine Soul tremors returned and struck him with excruciating pain.

Xu Taiping’s Divine Soul was battered as Blightbone Power, True Dragon Power, and the power of the Ancient Gods began merging, leaving him unable to fight. After entering the fourth layer in the Demon-Suppressing Coffin, he found it eased the pain, and Blade Ghost suddenly spoke up as Xu Taiping sought help.

• Xu Taiping examined the merging powers in his Dao Body and used the demonic blade’s Divine Soul Marks to find useful information about the fourth layer.
• Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others that his wounds would keep him from fighting, then shared his deductions and plans through Divine Soul Marks.
• As the group entered the fourth layer, Xu Taiping collapsed, and Bai Yue placed him in the Demon-Suppressing Coffin while Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You led the others toward Qingyao Jade Mansion.
• Inside the coffin, Xu Taiping found that it suppressed the Divine Soul impacts but did not restore his ability to move, then inspected the merging powers again.
• Blade Ghost sensed something wrong with Xu Taiping’s aura, and Xu Taiping asked him to examine the trouble.

Xu Taiping told Blade Ghost about the Blight Pearl inside his Dao Body Furnace and the damage to his Primordial Spirit. Blade Ghost identified the cause as three powers merging and warned that it was both extremely dangerous and a great opportunity.

• Blade Ghost refused to appear and help Xu Taiping, saying recovered memories had brought him trouble that might keep him away forever.
• Blade Ghost asked Xu Taiping to describe why his Primordial Spirit was being damaged, and Xu Taiping explained that he was in the Yaochi Sacred Land among Blightbone-corrupted Immortal Remains.
• Xu Taiping recounted how a dying Demonic Daoist Blightbone's power entered his Dao Body Furnace, where it condensed into a Blight Pearl.
• Xu Taiping explained that the Blight Pearl settled after colliding with the Dragon Pearl and Golden Chalice inside his Furnace.
• Blade Ghost inferred that True Dragon Power, Dao Essence Power, and Blightbone Power were merging, then warned Xu Taiping that the process was perilous but a tremendous opportunity.

Blade Ghost explained that Xu Taiping’s Dao Essence Power and true dragon power were fusing through blightbone power to produce the rare, destructive Shi'ang Power, but warned that the process could devastate his divine soul. Xu Taiping learned he could ease the impact by refining more Dao Essence Power from Immortal Remains, then the suppressed soul pain returned as Blade Ghost withdrew.

• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping that blightbone power was guiding the fusion of Dao Essence Power and true dragon power into Shi'ang Power, which could greatly increase his combat strength.
• Blade Ghost warned that the fusion was extraordinarily rare but could cause a devastating impact on Xu Taiping’s divine soul.
• Blade Ghost advised Xu Taiping to strengthen his Dao Essence Power or dragon origin power to reduce the backlash.
• Xu Taiping said he had several hundred sets of Immortal Remains, and Blade Ghost confirmed his furnace Dao body could refine Dao Essence Power from them.
• Blade Ghost returned to his blade domain, and Xu Taiping’s suppressed divine-soul pain surged back.