Chapter Summaries

Danmingzi sacrificed his Immortal Remains to finish refining a batch of peerless-grade pills for Xu Taiping, leaving Xu Taiping to honor his final wish to see the Immortal Realm. After Xu Taiping reunited with his companions, Luo Hong announced that they had captured Heavenly Lord Shihu and summoned Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.

• Danmingzi warned Xu Taiping about dangerous creatures in the sacred land and urged him to ascend to immortality rather than spend his life pursuing the seventeenth Origin Law.
• When the Pill Furnace needed more heat, Danmingzi leaped into it with his Immortal Remains and used himself to complete his final batch of pills.
• Xu Taiping opened the furnace and found twelve Vermilion Pills with peerless-grade signs, then solemnly bid farewell to Danmingzi.
• Xu Taiping returned to Pill Fire Hall, where Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci asked about Danmingzi and the pills, and he told them Danmingzi had sacrificed himself.
• Luo Hong called out to Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You, claiming his group held Heavenly Lord Shihu and demanding they come to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.

Xu Taiping and the others realized Luo Hong was using the Six-Purity Cinnabar Cave Well to provoke them, while Xiahou You refused to answer his threats. Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You finished refining pills from the spirit herbs and fruit they had gathered, giving Xu Taiping Thunder-Pattern Pills and describing several other powerful pills.

• Mo Qingzhu told Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci that Xu Taiping and the others had fought Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and driven back his clone, who had escaped through the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu warned that Luo Hong's claim to have captured Heavenly Lord Shihu was likely bait for an ambush, and Xiahou You refused to respond rashly.
• Luo Hong identified Xu Taiping as the Azure Profound Sect cultivator he had once wounded and challenged him to come to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.
• Xu Taiping asked Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You about their pill refining instead of taking Luo Hong's bait.
• Qu Chao Ci gave Xu Taiping six Thunder-Pattern Pills made from his Thunder-Pattern Jujubes, and Xiahou You explained that they had also refined Azure Spirit Pills, Blood Marrow Pills, and Purple Mansion Spirit-Concentrating Pills.

Xu Taiping’s group received a batch of Immortal Grade pills and considered how to reach the Void Essence Jade Platform despite Luo Hong’s expected ambush at the Six-Purity Jade Platform. Xu Taiping called upon the Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains to search for a third route, and the Star Lord rebuked him for asking about such a trivial matter.

• Qu Chao Ci gave Xu Taiping three bottles of pills, and the group discussed setting out for the Void Essence Jade Platform.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci explained that the only known routes to the Six-Purity Jade Platform led through a likely ambush or the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Xu Taiping suggested searching for a third route, but Xiahou You warned him against using great deductive power again because of the risk of heavenly-secrets backlash.
• Xu Taiping assured the group he would not use great deductive power and summoned the Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains from the ancient mirror.
• The Taiyi Star Lord appeared and scolded Xu Taiping for asking him about such a trivial matter.

Xu Taiping learned from Taiyi Star Lord that there was no third route to Six-Purity Jade Platform, but the Star Lord could transport the group there with Dao essence power. After Luo Hong threatened Xiahou You’s uncle, Xu Taiping planned to split the group’s approach so they could summon the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, though he insisted on accompanying Xiahou You to protect their access to the Cinnabar Cave Well.

• Xu Taiping revealed that Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains were sealed inside the Spirit Mirror and supplied the Star Lord with Dao essence power to ask about another route to Six-Purity Jade Platform.
• Taiyi Star Lord said there was no third route, but offered to transport the group with Daoist arts if Xu Taiping supplied another strand of Dao essence power.
• Luo Hong threatened to kill Heavenly Lord Shihu unless Xiahou You answered, and Xiahou You recognized the captive’s groan as possibly coming from her Third Uncle.
• Xu Taiping proposed splitting the group between Taiyi Star Lord’s transport and the Cinnabar Cave Well so they could summon the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and divide Luo Hong’s forces.
• Xiahou You volunteered to enter through the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Xu Taiping said he would go with her to ensure she could summon the Great Sage.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You sent Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu to the Six-Purity Jade Platform ahead of them, using Taiyi Star Lord’s teleportation spell and the Human Swine Talisman’s concealment. The group discovered that the route to the Cinnabar Cave Well was guarded by powerful Blightbones, with at least three cultivators—including likely Luo Hong—nearby.

• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You agreed that Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu would scout ahead while concealed, and that the Xiahou Clan disciples would later follow the normal route.
• Taiyi Star Lord teleported Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, Mo Qingzhu, and the Human Swine Talisman to the Six-Purity Jade Platform, then warned Xu Taiping not to keep relying on him before returning to the Ancient Mirror.
• Qu Chao Ci reported that the group had arrived safely in the Dark Nether Water Mansion and found a weak-water river separating it from the Pure Splendor Golden Mansion.
• Qu Chao Ci described an island in the river, where ten or twenty powerful Blightbones prowled around the Cinnabar Cave Well and stronger ones might also be present.
• Xu Taiping asked whether cultivators were on the island, and Qu Chao Ci sensed at least three human auras, one of which was likely Luo Hong.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You prepared for battle as Qu Chao Ci planned to lure Luo Hong’s forces away from the Void Essence Jade Platform. At the Cinnabar Cave Well, Luo Hong threatened Heavenly Lord Shihu, while Elder Tie revealed his ruthless pursuit of immortality and ordered Luo Hong to issue one final summons.

• Qu Chao Ci told Xu Taiping that she and her companions would expose themselves and draw Luo Hong’s forces toward the entrance to the Void Essence Jade Platform, relying on Thunder Pattern Pills to hold off the Blightbones.
• Xu Taiping warned Qu Chao Ci to be careful, then swallowed a Red Flame Pill and manifested his true dragon physique as Xiahou You donned her Pagoda Iron Armor.
• Luo Hong taunted the half-petrified Heavenly Lord Shihu and threatened to bury him and the Xiahou Clan disciples in the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu challenged Elder Tie for aiding Three Corpses Cave, but Elder Tie declared that he cared only about attaining immortality and ordered Luo Hong to kill Shihu if the others refused the summons.
• Luo Hong called out to Xiahou You at the Cinnabar Cave Well and gave her one final chance to answer before he killed Heavenly Lord Shihu.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You lured Luo Hong and his forces away from the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain confronted them as a Dao Integration Heavenly Communion Realm expert. As Xiahou You buckled under his pressure, Xu Taiping charged in to fight him.

• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You prepared at the Pill Fire Hall and answered Luo Hong’s summons at the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Qu Chao Ci and her companions appeared by the Dark Nether Water Mansion, prompting Luo Hong and Xu San to take the Blightbones to intercept them while Elder Tie stayed behind.
• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You emerged at the well and realized Luo Hong and the Blightbones had been lured away.
• Elder Tie revealed his overwhelming Dao Integration Heavenly Communion Realm power, forcing Xiahou You to her knees despite Heavenly Lord Shihu urging her to release her seal.
• Xu Taiping transformed into his hundred-zhang True Dragon Divine Being Body and struck Elder Tie with the Thousand Arms Vajra Phantom Image as Elder Tie summoned a towering Dharma Aspect to meet him.

Xu Taiping exhausted his strongest techniques trying to hold off Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain while Xiahou You drank from the Cinnabar Cave Well. Though Xu Taiping saved Xiahou You from Elder Tie’s attack, he could not even injure his opponent, who dismissed him as not worth a snack.

• Xu Taiping traded blows with Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain, but Elder Tie’s strength far surpassed his despite Xu Taiping using his Tai Bai eclipse power, Dragon Vault Armor, and ultimate-realm physique.
• Elder Tie shattered Xu Taiping’s Thousand Arms Vajra fist-force phantom and struck him, sending him crashing backward.
• Xu Taiping provoked Elder Tie while Xiahou You reached the Cinnabar Cave Well and drank a ladleful of its water.
• Elder Tie split off a second fist force to attack Xiahou You, and Xu Taiping used his ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance to drive Elder Tie back and break the attack.
• Xu Taiping realized he had failed to graze Elder Tie even after exhausting his strength, and Elder Tie said Xu Taiping was not worth a snack.

Tie Hancang of Black Armor Mountain overwhelmed Xu Taiping and Xiahou You at the Six-Purity Jade Platform, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived and struck him down. The Great Sage confronted Tie Hancang for hurting his disciple.

• Tie Hancang expanded to several hundred zhang tall and attacked Xu Taiping and Xiahou You with overwhelming fist force.
• Xiahou You called for the Great Sage through the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Tie Hancang's blows badly wounded her and Xu Taiping.
• Xiahou You switched places with Xu Taiping to take Tie Hancang's punch, but he seized Xu Taiping by the throat and began crushing his bones.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived, and Tie Hancang recognized Ding Mou before the Great Sage's punch sent him crashing through a small mountain.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage declared that Tie Hancang had hurt his disciple and enveloped the area in his oppressive might and fist force.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage overwhelmed Tie Hancang and sent Xu Taiping and Xiahou You to help Qu Chao Ci’s group. Xu Taiping arrived just as Luo Hong’s Heaven-Cutting Finger threatened Bai Yue, used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to take Bai Yue’s place, and prepared to strike Luo Hong with his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Touching Stance.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battered Tie Hancang’s iron armor and revealed greater strength by undoing some seals on his fighting power.
• Xu Taiping recovered with a Red Flame Pill, then left with Xiahou You to help Qu Chao Ci and the others at the Dark Nether Water Mansion.
• Luo Hong used the Heaven-Cutting Finger to badly wound Bai Yue while Xu San’s Heaven-Trapping Palm shattered Qu Chao Ci’s sword formation.
• Luo Hong moved to kill Bai Yue, but Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with him and emerged unharmed.
• Xu Taiping faced Luo Hong and began his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Touching Stance.

Xu Taiping, Qu Chao Ci, and Xiahou You worked together against Luo Hong and Xu San of Three Corpses Cave, but Xu San trapped Xu Taiping in the Immortal-Fixing Mirror. As Luo Hong attacked the immobilized Xu Taiping, Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You moved to intervene.

• Xu Taiping's fist attacks shattered Xu San's golden palm barrier, while Qu Chao Ci's starry-river sword strike forced Xu San to divide his attention.
• Luo Hong broke apart Xu Taiping's remaining fist force with his Heaven-Cutting Finger and attacked Xu Taiping, who used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap places with Xiahou You.
• Xiahou You cleaved through Luo Hong's finger shadow but was blasted backward by its remaining force.
• Xu San trapped Xu Taiping in the Immortal-Fixing Mirror, sealing his body and aura as Xu Taiping gathered blade force.
• Luo Hong attacked Xu Taiping again, while Qu Chao Ci flew at Luo Hong and Xiahou You charged toward Xu San to break the mirror's effect.

Xu Taiping broke Luo Hong’s restraint with his true dragon power and severed his arm, but Xu San shielded Luo Hong behind regenerating palm shadows. As a terrifying presence approached, Qu Chao Ci recognized its aura and realized the arriving elder was someone other than Tie Hancang.

• Xu Taiping shattered the Immortal-Fixing Mirror’s restraints with his true dragon forbidden domain and cut off Luo Hong’s arm with his saber strike.
• Xu San protected Luo Hong with golden palm shadows, which Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You could only damage temporarily.
• Xu San boasted that Tie Hancang of Black Armor Mountain would soon arrive, while Xu Taiping knew Tie Hancang was imprisoned inside his family’s ancestral Iron Man.
• A terrifying aura swept in from the west, and Qu Chao Ci recognized it after Xu Taiping asked whether she knew the presence.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived at the Void-Passing Platform and revealed that Tie Hancang had summoned the Immortal Remains and Blightbone from the lower levels. He urged Xu Taiping to reach the Void Essence Jade Platform and obtain the Wuqu Token, leaving Xu Taiping to follow Qu Chao Ci toward the way up.

• Tie Hancang's Iron Man crashed onto the Void-Passing Platform, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived to protect Qu Chao Ci and the others.
• Tie Hancang revealed that he had used the Cinnabar Cave Spring to summon all the Blightbone from the lower levels.
• Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You explained that the Jade Pool Token could gather Immortal Remains from the four lower levels, as a flood of Immortal Remains and Blightbone arrived.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage destroyed a Blightbone attacking the Barrier and told Xu Taiping that the Wuqu Token could make even Blightbone obey him.
• Xu Taiping agreed to challenge the Wuqu Star Lord for the Wuqu Token, and Qu Chao Ci led him toward the Restrictions connecting to the Void Essence Jade Platform.

Xu Taiping and the others raised the Void-Passing Platform toward the Void Essence Jade Platform, knowing they would have to split the weak-water torrent that guarded its entrance. As the sky opened and the water began to fall, Xu Taiping prepared to test whether he could form a new killing blade capable of cutting through it.

• Xiahou You explained that opening the Void Essence Jade Platform would release a fatal torrent of weak water, and Xu Taiping said he might be able to cleave it with an ultimate-realm killing blade.
• Xu Taiping admitted he had not yet developed such a blade form, but said the restriction overhead had given him a possible direction.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought the Blightbones at the edge of the restrictions and urged the others to begin.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others poured their true essence into the stone platform, raising it and Xu Taiping into the sky canopy.
• An azure rune appeared at the entrance to the Void Essence Jade Platform, and Xu San told Luo Hong that the barrier was too formidable for the group to break through quickly.
• A tremendous volume of water poured through the entrance, forming a waterfall that hung from the sky.

Xu Taiping unleashed the Ultimate Realm Heaven-Opening Form and split the Heavenly River waterfall of Weak Water from the Void-Passing Platform to its entrance in the sky. Xu San and Luo Hong watched in shock as his power surpassed their own.

• Xu San told Luo Hong that the Void-Passing Platform's barrier would soon fail if Xu Taiping's group could not break through the Weak Water waterfall.
• Xu Taiping summoned four divine manifestations and gathered golden flame around his blade as his aura and blade intent surged.
• Xu Taiping declared his blade force had reached the ultimate realm and formed an enormous divine manifestation poised to draw its blade.
• Xu Taiping shouted the Ultimate Realm Heaven-Opening Form and merged with the manifestation as he launched his strike.
• Xu Taiping's golden strike drove back the waterfall and cleaved it in half all the way to the entrance in the sky.

Xu Taiping and his companions reached the Void Essence Jade Platform, where a giant carp asked them to state their purpose. When Xu Taiping requested a Wuqu Token and a Fire-Repelling Pill, the carp recognized that he intended to challenge the Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.

• Xu Taiping split the waterfall with a powerful blade strike and led his companions onto the Void Essence Jade Platform while Luo Hong and Xu San watched.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rushed toward the Pure Splendor Golden Mansion, and Tie Hancang ordered Luo Hong and Xu San to use blight-controlling methods to stop him.
• Xu Taiping and his companions surfaced safely through the Weak Water, where Qu Chao Ci explained the Void Essence Heaven’s Jade Mother’s Edict and its giant carp guide.
• Qu Chao Ci warned the group to agree on one purpose for their journey, and Xu Taiping told the carp they sought a Wuqu Token and a Fire-Repelling Pill.
• The carp laughed and asked whether Xu Taiping planned to challenge the Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation, prompting Qu Chao Ci to warn him of the danger.

Xu Taiping resolved to end the Blightbone disaster by challenging Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong Military Formation. After learning how difficult the trial would be, he arrived at the ruined battlefield and heard Wuqu Star Lord command his troops to form ranks.

• Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You that he had found a way to end the Calamity, and the great carp carried them to meet Wuqu Star Lord.
• The carp transformed into an azure dragon and flew them above the ruined battlefield that Qu Chao Ci identified as the ancient battlefield refined into the Void Essence Jade Platform.
• Qu Chao Ci explained that Wuqu Star Lord would match his strength to a challenger in a personal trial, but a challenge against his ten-thousand-strong Military Formation would be far harder.
• Xiahou You revealed that Xu Taiping had previously defeated ten thousand Immortal Remains at the Southern Heavenly Gate, but Xu Taiping said he did not consider himself a true Battle General and lacked confidence.
• The azure dragon brought Xu Taiping and the others before Wuqu Star Lord, who ordered his troops to beat the drums and form ranks.

Xu Taiping and Bai Yue faced Wuqu Star Lord’s test to prove they could challenge him. Bai Yue failed to withstand Divine General Po Jun’s strike, and Po Jun challenged Xu Taiping to take his own.

• Wuqu Star Lord tested Xu Taiping and the others with his overwhelming pressure, and Xu Taiping passed by clearly declaring his challenge.
• Wuqu Star Lord summoned Divine General Po Jun to test whether they were qualified to challenge him.
• Bai Yue volunteered, transformed into his white bear true body, and met Po Jun’s blade with a powerful punch.
• Bai Yue broke Po Jun’s blade force but suffered a severe arm injury, so Po Jun judged him unqualified.
• Xu Taiping comforted Bai Yue, saying his punch would have prevailed if he had not been injured earlier.
• Po Jun angrily challenged Xu Taiping to take a strike from him.

Xu Taiping defeated Divine General Po Jun with the Heaven-Shaking Fist while conserving his saber and scarce powers for Wuqu Star Lord. Wuqu Star Lord accepted Xu Taiping’s challenge and set a ten-move test for winning the Wuqu Token.

• Xu Taiping fought Po Jun using his ultimate-realm fist techniques and shattered Po Jun’s blade force, knocking his immortal remains into the military formation.
• Po Jun recovered and rushed at Xu Taiping, but Wuqu Star Lord called him off and recognized Xu Taiping’s right to challenge him.
• Wuqu Star Lord gathered Xu Taiping and the others in the formation’s central clearing, where his pressure injured Mo Qingzhu.
• Wuqu Star Lord offered Xu Taiping the Wuqu Token if he could make Wuqu Star Lord pick up the Tianquan Halberd within ten moves, and said he would fight with only his body and fists.

Xu Taiping used blood qi body tempering to execute the ultimate-realm Heavenly Wrath Style and challenge the Wuqu Star Lord within the ten-move limit. After exchanging hundreds of punches, he merged the force of his first nine hundred strikes into a golden gauntlet, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Xu Taiping asked the Wuqu Star Lord for instruction, and the Star Lord declared that Xu Taiping had ten moves.
• Xu Taiping manifested his true dragon body and built up the Heavenly Wrath Style's unending fist force.
• Xu Taiping used blood qi body tempering and unleashed the ultimate-realm Ninety-Eight Thousand Fists, forming a three-headed, six-armed vajra dharma aspect.
• Xu Taiping's empowered fist force rose to contend with the Wuqu Star Lord's aura, and he attacked with his vajra aspect as the Star Lord met him with a golden fist shadow.
• Xu Taiping and his vajra aspect struck hundreds of punches, pinning the Star Lord's golden fist shadow in place.
• After Xu Taiping threw nine hundred punches, their force merged into a golden gauntlet as he announced the Heavenly Wrath First Stage, Heaven-Shaking Fist.