Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping entered the Qingyao Jade Mansion and shut himself inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower to endure the Blight Pearl’s assault on his divine soul. He used the Furnace Dao Body to refine hundreds of immortal remains, leaving him to rely on their dao essence to resist the pain little by little.

• Xiahou You helped Xu Taiping out of the Demon-Suppressing Coffin after they entered the Qingyao Jade Mansion, and he opened the Dragon-Trapping Tower in the courtyard.
• Xu Taiping told Xiahou You to guard the tower and keep everyone out, then sealed its entrance.
• Xu Taiping swallowed the hundreds of immortal remains with the Furnace Dao Body and returned to the Demon-Suppressing Coffin to ease the assault on his divine soul.
• Xu Taiping saw the remains’ golden dao essence enter the Golden Chalice and fall onto the droplet of Shi'ang Power, briefly easing his pain.
• Xu Taiping accelerated the furnace’s refinement of the remains after the pain returned, deciding to keep enduring the Blight Pearl’s attacks.

While Xu Taiping struggled to strengthen his Dao Essence Power against Blightbone Power, Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci prepared to defend the group and protect him. Xu Taiping endured the furnace flames and decided to use them to temper his original body.

• Xiahou You told Qu Chao Ci and the others that Xu Taiping was unwell but had found a solution and was secluded in his Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Mo Qingzhu, Bai Yue, and the Xiahou Clan juniors left to search for formation nodes, while Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci prepared to set up a defensive formation.
• Xiahou You planned to build the Heavenly Thunder Nine Palaces Evil-Subduing Formation and accepted Qu Chao Ci's offer of additional magic artifacts.
• A pillar of azure light rose from the northwest, but a violent aura fluctuation from Xu Taiping's courtyard soon made the women hurry to establish the formation.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly stoked the Dao Body Furnace with Divine Essence to suppress Blightbone Power and restore his Dao Essence Power.
• Xu Taiping dismissed his True Dragon Divine Being Body and resolved to temper his flesh-and-blood body in the furnace flames.

Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You watched the Qingyao Jade Mansion’s formation nodes being activated as a powerful cultivator fought the Jade Maiden and Golden Boy Blightbones nearby. After the cultivator’s golden Sword Light shattered and Blightbones swarmed a beautiful woman, another enormous Sword Shadow appeared above the Yangling Fire Mansion and struck the ground.

• Xiahou You completed a Grand Formation around the Inner Court, and Qu Chao Ci learned that seven of the mansion’s twelve formation nodes had been activated.
• Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You sensed a battle at the Danling Fire Mansion and identified the two Blightbones as the Jade Maiden and Golden Boy who had served the Taiyi Star Lord.
• The Jade Maiden and Golden Boy Blightbones struck down the enormous Sword Light, while Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You judged the battle too dangerous to approach.
• Mo Qingzhu and the others activated another formation node, bringing the Qingyao Jade Mansion’s restrictions closer to opening.
• The Blightbones shattered the golden Sword Light above the Yangling Fire Mansion and swarmed a beautiful female cultivator, but another enormous Sword Shadow appeared and slammed into the ground.

Lin Buyu used Azure Profound Sect sword arts to hold off the Blightbones and helped Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You defend the bridge to the Qingyao Jade Mansion. She revealed that she was a disciple of the True Martial Heaven Azure Profound Sect and was helping for the sake of her senior brother.

• A mysterious female cultivator struck down Blightbones with the Azure Profound Sect's Heavenly Thunder Sword Art and Fire Dragon Sword Art, leaving Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You wondering who she was.
• The female cultivator sent two divine general Blightbones toward the bridge and warned Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You to stop them from reaching the Qingyao Jade Mansion.
• Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You rushed to the bridge and destroyed the two weakened Blightbones as the female cultivator sent more their way.
• Xiahou You asked why the female cultivator was helping them, and she replied that she was helping her senior brother.
• The female cultivator identified herself as Lin Buyu, a disciple of the True Martial Heaven Azure Profound Sect.

Lin Buyu, Qu Chao Ci, and Xiahou You fought waves of blightbones at the Stone Bridge while Xu Taiping recovered. Despite the women’s powerful attacks and Xiahou You’s armored strength, the growing assault left Qu Chao Ci wondering how they could keep fighting.

• Xiahou You recognized Lin Buyu as a gifted Azure Profound Sect disciple who had apparently ascended to the Upper Realm, and Lin Buyu asked her and Qu Chao Ci to hold the Stone Bridge while Xu Taiping recovered.
• Lin Buyu destroyed Golden Child Blightbone’s saber arm and incinerated nearby blightbones, while Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You defeated two divine general blightbones by shattering their blood demon eyes.
• As more blightbones arrived and began breaking free of Lin Buyu’s control, Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You fought them together, destroying several before others knocked their swords aside and recovered.
• Qu Chao Ci strengthened herself with Milky Way Flows West as Xiahou You donned Pagoda Iron Armor and split a giant divine general blightbone with her greatsword.
• Qu Chao Ci blasted another attacking blightbone into blood mist, and Xiahou You punched through its blood demon eye before dozens of flaming projectiles descended and Qu Chao Ci feared they could not withstand the assault.

Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci fought together to defend the Stone Bridge from waves of Blightbones, with Qu Chao Ci unleashing a devastating sword technique when they were nearly overwhelmed. They remained exhausted but committed to holding the bridge until Qingzhu and the others activated the final formation node, as more Blightbones arrived.

• Xiahou You enlarged her Pagoda Iron Armor Body and cut down Blightbones while Qu Chao Ci destroyed their Blood Demon Eyes with sword light.
• As more Blightbones overwhelmed their defenses and forced Xiahou You backward, Qu Chao Ci used Milky Way Flows West, Ten Thousand Swords Return as One to shatter nearly all the enemies on the bridge.
• Xiahou You destroyed the Blood Demon Eyes around her, and Qu Chao Ci admitted she could use her ultimate move only once more.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci agreed to hold the bridge until Qingzhu and the others activated the final formation node in the Qingyao Jade Mansion's Outer Court.
• Qu Chao Ci watched Lin Buyu repel Jade Maiden and Golden Boy, then resumed fighting as more Blightbones descended onto the bridge.

Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci held the Stone Bridge against waves of Blightbones while Mo Qingzhu opened the Outer Court’s formation nodes. After learning they could withdraw, they chose to lure the remaining Blightbones onto the bridge and try to kill them before they reached Qingyao Jade Mansion.

• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci coordinated their attacks to kill the Blightbones charging across the Stone Bridge.
• Bai Yue told them that Mo Qingzhu had found the final Outer Court formation node and promised to come support them.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci used pills and their full strength to destroy another wave of Blightbones, though Xiahou You neared her limit.
• Mo Qingzhu announced that he had opened all the Outer Court formation nodes, allowing the pair to withdraw.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci decided to lure the gathered Blightbones onto the bridge and kill them in one assault before they could enter Qingyao Jade Mansion.

Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci destroyed the Blightbones on the Stone Bridge and set up a formation to delay the rest before returning to the Qingyao Jade Mansion's Inner Court. They learned that Green Bamboo Daoist Priest had found only one of the remaining formation nodes, and the chapter ended as rumbling suggested the Blightbones had already broken through Xiahou You's barrier.

• Qu Chao Ci unleashed her Star River sword technique and destroyed the Blightbones and Blood Demon Eyes on the Stone Bridge.
• Xiahou You placed talisman banners to form a barrier, but warned it might hold for only the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci returned to the Inner Court after Lin Buyu said the formation might hold until Xu Taiping woke.
• Lin Buyu refused to explain how she knew Xu Taiping would wake soon, calling it a secret between them.
• Bai Yue reported that Green Bamboo Daoist Priest had found only one formation node and needed more time to activate it.
• A distant rumble led Qu Chao Ci to fear the Blightbones had already broken through the bridge formation.

Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci saw over a hundred Blightbones break through the Stone Bridge’s formation and learned the Heavenly Thunder Nine Palaces Evil-Subduing Formation could be used offensively. Xiahou You and Bai Yue prepared to draw on the formation’s power to hold off the Blightbones while Qu Chao Ci returned to help Mo Qingzhu activate the remaining nodes.

• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci spotted over a hundred Blightbones breaking the Stone Bridge’s magic formation and crossing over with their strength tripled.
• Xiahou You explained that the Heavenly Thunder Nine Palaces Evil-Subduing Formation could empower its formation holders to fight while keeping the grand formation intact as long as they survived.
• Xiahou You chose herself and Bai Yue to become formation nodes, while Qu Chao Ci agreed to help Mo Qingzhu activate the remaining restriction formation nodes.
• Xiahou You gave Bai Yue a token and told Qu Chao Ci to urge Mo Qingzhu to activate the remaining nodes as soon as possible.
• Bai Yue resonated with the formation, transformed into his enormous white bear true body, and armored himself as Xiahou You prepared to lead him out to fight.

Xiahou You and Bai Yue fought waves of Blightbones outside Qingyao Jade Mansion, relying on the Grand Formation's thunder to destroy them. As two formation nodes remained, Lin Buyu warned them that two Jade Maiden Golden Boy Blightbones had escaped and ordered them back inside the formation.

• Xiahou You and Bai Yue reached the Outer Court as a Flood Dragon Skeleton Blightbone struck the Inner Court's barrier, and the formation's thunder repelled it.
• Bai Yue destroyed a Divine General Blightbone with his thunder-charged fist, and Xiahou You cut down two more with her Giant Sword.
• Xiahou You and Bai Yue battled waves of Blightbones, but their numbers grew and some revived when their blood demon eyes remained intact.
• A pillar of light rose from the Inner Court, and Xiahou You and Bai Yue fought through an encirclement before pausing to take pills and assess their injuries.
• Xiahou You and Bai Yue charged back into battle against dozens of Blightbones, but Lin Buyu warned them that two Jade Maiden Golden Boy Blightbones had escaped and told them to return inside the formation.

Xiahou You and Bai Yue were overwhelmed by the Jade Maiden and Golden Boy Blightbones as they tried to escape to the inner court. Lin Buyu broke the Jade Maiden’s hold and told them that Senior Brother had awakened.

• The Jade Maiden and Golden Boy Blightbones emerged at the Stone Bridge, and their auras struck Xiahou You and Bai Yue.
• Xiahou You used the Heavenly Thunder Nine-Palace Formation token to blast away the Blightbones surrounding them, then fled with Bai Yue toward the inner court.
• The Jade Maiden pinned Xiahou You and Bai Yue with an invisible force, while Bai Yue enlarged his body and carried her onward.
• The Golden Boy’s sword light shattered Xiahou You’s giant sword and Pagoda Iron Armor, but Bai Yue protected her and continued toward the gates.
• The Jade Maiden lifted them into the air, but Lin Buyu’s sword light severed her power and Lin Buyu urged them into the inner court.
• Lin Buyu told Xiahou You and Bai Yue that Senior Brother had awakened.

As the Blightbones battered the failing Heavenly Thunder Nine-Palace Magic Formation, Xiahou You prepared to leave and hold them off. Xu Taiping’s aura surged from the Dragon-Trapping Tower, and he told Xiahou You and Bai Yue to stay inside and leave everything to him.

• Golden Boy Blightbone and the other Blightbones repeatedly struck the formation, destroying two of its nodes as Xiahou You warned that it would soon collapse.
• Xiahou You donned the Pagoda Armor and prepared to leave the formation to delay the Blightbones while Bai Yue remained behind.
• Bai Yue told Xiahou You that Mo Qingzhu had opened two of the inner court’s three formation nodes, but Xiahou You judged that the formation could not last until Mo Qingzhu finished.
• The Dragon-Trapping Tower lit up with a powerful aura, and Xu Taiping told Xiahou You and Bai Yue to remain inside because he would soon emerge and take care of everything.
• As the Blightbones charged again, Xiahou You chose to trust Xu Taiping and left their lives in his hands.

Xu Taiping completed the Tai Bai Eclipse Power and used it to restore himself as the inner court’s defenses collapsed. He emerged from the Dragon-Trapping Tower just as Xiahou You and Bai Yue faced the invading Blightbones, and told them he would take over.

• Xu Taiping refined away the last trace of blood in the drop, completing the Tai Bai Eclipse Power.
• The completed power entered Xu Taiping’s Golden Core and restored his Divine Essence, body, True Essence, and Qi and Blood Power.
• Xu Taiping opened the Demon-Suppressing Coffin and drew the Dragon-Trapping Tower into his palm as the Heavenly Thunder Nine Palaces Evil-Subduing Formation shattered.
• The Jade Maiden Golden Boy Blightbone and hundreds of Blightbones entered the inner court, while Xiahou You and Bai Yue were thrown into the back courtyard.
• Xiahou You prepared to shield Bai Yue from the descending seal, but Xu Taiping appeared and told them to leave the rest to him.

Xu Taiping used his newly strengthened body and blade to fight the Jade Maiden and Golden Child Blightbones while Bai Yue and Xiahou You watched from the Dragon-Trapping Tower. After testing his strength against them, he unleashed the terrifying Tai Bai Eclipse Power, leaving even himself stunned.

• Xu Taiping shielded Bai Yue and Xiahou You from the Golden Child Blightbone's attack and placed them inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Xiahou You projected the battle outside the tower as Xu Taiping faced the Jade Maiden and Golden Child Blightbones under the Jade Maiden's mountain spirit power.
• Xu Taiping blocked the Golden Child Blightbone's sword strike and then used Ultimate Realm: One Hundred Thousand Blades to break its combined attack.
• The Golden Child Blightbone prepared to fight at full strength, but Xu Taiping declared that he had finished testing his blade and released the Tai Bai Eclipse Power.

Xu Taiping used tai bai eclipse power to unleash a devastating Heavenly Wrath Style attack, killing the Golden Child and Jade Maiden Blightbones and many others. He discovered that the power restored his strength only temporarily and that his single droplet had enough for just three strikes.

• Xu Taiping gathered his fist force, then activated blood qi body tempering power and the Overlord's Breath to unleash the ultimate Heavenly Wrath Style.
• Xu Taiping summoned the Fierce-Eyed Thousand Arms Vajra, shattered the blightbone attacks, and pinned the demonic beasts with Heaven-Sealing Fist.
• Xu Taiping's enormous fist shadow killed the Golden Child and Jade Maiden Blightbones and reduced more than a hundred surrounding blightbones to ash or wreckage.
• Xiahou You and Bai Yue rushed out of the Dragon-Trapping Tower, believing Xu Taiping had exhausted his divine power.
• Xu Taiping explained that withdrawing tai bai eclipse power returned his body and magic power to their previous state, and found that one droplet had diminished by thirty percent after the strike.

Xu Taiping reunited briefly with Lin Buyu during a battle in the sacred land, and they reaffirmed their promise to meet at the Chaotic Stars Assembly. Lin Buyu was forced to leave after an elder threatened Xu Taiping, while Xu Taiping resolved to grow strong enough to help her and his other loved ones.

• Xu Taiping saw Lin Buyu fighting Blightbones in the Yangling Fire Mansion and flew toward her, but she told him they could not meet yet.
• Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping reassured each other and renewed their promise to meet at the Chaotic Stars Assembly at the Kunlun Ruins.
• Lin Buyu said she had come to see Xu Taiping, then warned that she could not yet travel freely alongside him.
• An elder threatened to kill Xu Taiping unless Lin Buyu returned, so she left after placing a Divine Soul Mark in his Listening Wind Bracelet.
• Xu Taiping vowed to help Lin Buyu next time and resolved to reclaim his lifespan and reach the Dao Integration Realm.
• Xiahou You and Bai Yue arrived and asked Xu Taiping whether he had seen Lin Buyu.

After returning to Qingyao Jade Mansion, Xu Taiping received Azure Void Fruits discovered by Qu Chao Ci and ate two of them to restore his strength and test their effect on his lifespan. The Heaven-Flipping Seal began to react, and Xu Taiping prepared to check how much longer he would live.

• Bai Yue and Xiahou You told Xu Taiping how Lin Buyu had helped them hold back the Blightbone, and Xu Taiping learned that Lin Buyu had already left for Yangling Fire Mansion.
• Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Xiahou You flew back to Qingyao Jade Mansion, collecting shattered Immortal Remains and discussing the growing threat of more Immortal Remains emerging from underground.
• Xu Taiping and his companions entered the mansion through a gap in its activated restrictions, where Qu Chao Ci and Mo Qingzhu told him they had found Azure Void Fruits beside a barrier formation node.
• Inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower, Xu Taiping ate two Azure Void Fruits, restoring his Divine Essence, Qi and Blood, and True Essence as the Heaven-Flipping Seal began to tremble.
• Xu Taiping merged his Divine Sense into the Heaven-Flipping Seal to check how much the Azure Void Fruits had increased his lifespan.

Xu Taiping learned that Azure Void Fruits could restore only a limited amount of his lifespan, then received the Ancient Heavenly Venerable’s guidance about a hidden ancient mirror in the Yangling Fire Mansion. The mirror contained Star Lords’ Immortal Remains, and Xu Taiping prepared to seek it out and learn how to command them.

• Xu Taiping hid in the Demon-Suppressing Coffin to communicate safely with the Ancient Heavenly Venerable, who said his first two Azure Void Fruits had restored half a year of lifespan.
• Xu Taiping ate two more Azure Void Fruits and gained another half year, but the Ancient Heavenly Venerable warned that a limit might prevent him from gaining more lifespan from them.
• Xu Taiping ate another Azure Void Fruit, learned it no longer restored his lifespan, and said he would seek Red Sun Fruits in the Yangling Fire Mansion.
• The Ancient Heavenly Venerable told Xu Taiping to search the Cloud Pill Palace for a concealed ancient mirror he had left in the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping learned the mirror contained the Immortal Remains of several Star Lords, including Taiyi Star Lord, and that he would need an incantation to command them if they did not acknowledge him.

Xu Taiping prepared to enter the Yangling Fire Mansion to find the Red Sun Fruit for his old affliction and a treasure in the Cloud Pill Palace. The Ancient Heavenly Venerable gave him mirror-refining guidance and divine intent, while Qu Chao Ci and Bai Yue joined the expedition to seek resources and possible true-fire seeds.

• The Ancient Heavenly Venerable gave Xu Taiping the method to refine the ancient mirror, incantations for controlling the Star Lord's Immortal Remains, and a strand of divine intent to help with the refining.
• Xu Taiping told Xiahou You that the Azure Void Fruit had only partly helped his old affliction and planned to find the Red Sun Fruit in the Yangling Fire Mansion.
• Qu Chao Ci and Bai Yue joined Xu Taiping, while Xiahou You stayed behind to recover and guard Qu Chao Ci as she refined pills.
• Xiahou You gave Bai Yue a Pagoda Iron Armor and gave Xu Taiping a map showing spirit fruits and pills in the Yangling Fire Mansion.
• Xu Taiping agreed to search for restrictions and true-fire seeds that Qu Chao Ci could use for pill refining.
• Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu concealed their auras with Bai Yue's origin demonic power and headed across the stone bridge toward the Cloud Pill Palace.

Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu reached the Cloud Pill Palace, where an untainted Immortal Remains Daoist welcomed them. As Blightbone corruption spread through the Yangling Fire Mansion, the Daoist revealed that he had awaited the three for a million years because the Jade Mother had foretold their arrival.

• Xu Taiping confirmed the Cloud Pill Palace's location on Xiahou You's map and led Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu toward it.
• Two Daoist child Blightbones emerged at the entrance and welcomed the three, while a silver-haired Immortal Remains Daoist assured them he meant no harm.
• The Daoist explained that he recognized Lei E's aura on the three, which marked cultivators who had passed to the next layer of the Sacred Land.
• A surge of Blightbone qi began corrupting the Immortal Remains throughout the Yangling Fire Mansion, and the Daoist urged the three to enter the palace for safety.
• Xu Taiping asked the Daoist to recite the Queen Mother of the West's Jade Edict to prove his identity; the Daoist complied and revealed that the Jade Mother had foretold their arrival a million years earlier.