Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping failed to break Wuqu Star Lord’s punch and was saved from severe injury by the Dragon Vault Armor, but he saw the trial as a chance to improve his fist techniques. He launched a second Heaven-Shaking Fist, leaving Xiahou You and the others worried that he might lose control again.

• Xu Taiping’s fused fist force shattered against Wuqu Star Lord’s punch, and the returning blow sent him flying until Xiahou You and Bai Yue caught him.
• Xu Taiping discovered that the Dragon Vault Armor had absorbed most of the damage and, despite Xiahou You’s concern, chose to continue after taking an Azure Void Fruit.
• Xu Taiping’s eagerness to learn from the trial surprised Wuqu Star Lord, who warned that his next punch would be heavier.
• Wuqu Star Lord attacked with twice the killing power, and Xu Taiping answered with Ultimate Realm, Ninety-Eight Thousand Fists and Heavenly Wrath.
• Xu Taiping fused nine hundred punches into a golden gauntlet and unleashed Heavenly Wrath First Stage, Heaven-Shaking Fist, as the onlookers feared he would lose control again.

Xu Taiping overcame Wuqu Star Lord’s fist force and learned that fist force, fist intent, and fist aura ultimately existed to temper his fists. After passing Wuqu Star Lord’s test and receiving a Wuqu Token, Xu Taiping asked to borrow one more thing despite being warned that challenging the Star Lord’s battle formation would mean certain death.

• Xu Taiping shattered Wuqu Star Lord’s fist force, but the Star Lord broke through his fist force with a blow from his physical body, and the Flame Emperor Armguard saved Xu Taiping from its full strength.
• Wuqu Star Lord explained how fist force, fist intent, and fist aura tempered a martial artist’s fists, then let Xu Taiping touch his fist and experience its overwhelming power.
• Xu Taiping’s Dao heart began to waver, but memories of his younger self urging him to keep climbing restored his resolve.
• Wuqu Star Lord declared that Xu Taiping had passed the test and gave him a Wuqu Token, then ordered him to leave for the fifth layer of the Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping asked to borrow one more thing, and Wuqu Star Lord warned that challenging his battle formation would bring certain death; Xu Taiping solemnly repeated his request.

Xu Taiping rejected Wuqu Star Lord’s offer to pass and explained that the Fire-Repelling Pill was vital to reviving the Jade Mother’s divine intent. As Wuqu’s ten-thousand-strong formation prepared to attack, Xu Taiping gathered his companions’ battle intent and began drawing the wandering Immortal Remains into his own formation.

• Qu Chao Ci urged Xu Taiping to accept Wuqu Star Lord’s offer, but Xu Taiping refused and learned that he could mobilize the Immortal Remains by taking the Wuqu Token.
• Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others that the Fire-Repelling Pill was crucial to calling down the Jade Mother’s divine intent and ending the Blightbone disaster.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, Bai Yue, Mo Qingzhu, and the others agreed to follow Xu Taiping and help him form a battle array.
• Po Jun ordered the ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals into formation, and Wuqu Star Lord warned that they would charge after the war drums sounded three times.
• Xu Taiping asked his companions to entrust their lives to him, then released his battle intent and drew theirs into it.
• Xu Taiping spread his divine sense and battle intent across the area, causing the wandering Immortal Remains to freeze in place.

Xu Taiping tried to command more than six thousand Immortal Remains to resist Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation, but their refusal and the enemy’s rising battle intent threatened to overwhelm him. He answered their contempt for his mortal body by unleashing a vast battle intent, appearing almost like a deity.

• Xu Taiping’s battle intent and Divine Sense fixed thousands more Immortal Remains in place as the second war-drum round began.
• At Xu Taiping’s command, Xiahou You, Bai Yue, Qu Chao Ci, and Mo Qingzhu extended their Divine Sense to draw more Immortal Remains into his battle intent.
• Xu Taiping tried to draw out the Immortal Remains’ battle intent, but their objections inflicted Soul Weeping on his Divine Soul.
• Po Jun rallied Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation, whose battle intent scattered Xu Taiping’s gathered forces before the third round of drums began.
• Xu Taiping endured the Soul Weeping and asked the Immortal Remains again why they would not fight, then shouted that their immortal bones could not compare to mortal bones.
• Xu Taiping’s Dao Heart and devotion to Fairy Lingyue, Ping'an, and his fellow disciples of the Azure Profound Sect became a vast battle intent that pressed down on the Immortal Remains.

Xu Taiping rallied the Immortal Remains by answering what they should fight for, then led them in forming a battle intent powerful enough to oppose Wuqu Star Lord’s army. The seven thousand Immortal Remains and his companions joined his call to battle, manifesting a towering armored general as the fight began.

• Xu Taiping realized his solitary battle intent could not withstand Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation and called on the Immortal Remains to challenge the Heavenly Court and its demons.
• Xu Taiping mustered three thousand armored Immortal Remains, whose battle intent blocked the pressure from Wuqu Star Lord’s formation.
• Xu Taiping declared that he fought for his brother, his lifespan, Sister Lingyue, his sect, the people, and his own heart on the Great Dao.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others answered that they would fight alongside Xu Taiping.
• All seven thousand Immortal Remains roared their agreement, and their combined battle intent formed a towering, armored battle general that shouted for them to kill.

Xu Taiping formed a defensive battle formation with the seven thousand Immortal Remains and held off Wuqu Star Lord’s first charge. The opposing Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation resumed advancing, leaving the two forces locked in a mounting contest.

• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and Bai Yue witnessed Xu Taiping’s battle intent take shape and recognized its growing strength.
• Wuqu Star Lord ordered his Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation to charge Xu Taiping’s newly formed force.
• Xu Taiping called for a defense formation, and his Thousand Arms Vajra Dharma Aspect helped the army withstand the Azure Dragon Battle Intent’s impact.
• Xu Taiping’s battle intent manifested thousands of arms that held back Wuqu Star Lord’s charge and protected the formation.
• Divine General Po Jun ordered another charge, and Wuqu Star Lord’s army began advancing toward Xu Taiping’s formation again.

Xu Taiping drew on the strength of his formation to break Wuqu Star Lord's first charge and halt the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation. As both sides rebuilt their battle intent, Xu Taiping commanded his forces to form the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation.

• Xu Taiping gathered the qi and combat power of Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, Xiahou You, Mo Qingzhu, and the immortal remains into his Thousand Arms Vajra phantom image.
• Xu Taiping's thousand-armed strike knocked the Azure Dragon Battle Intent phantom image away from his formation, and his faceless iron-armored battle intent drove it back to stop Wuqu Star Lord's charge.
• Wuqu Star Lord ordered his army to form the Heavenly Wolf Battle Formation and rebuild its battle intent.
• Xu Taiping's formation gathered thousands of strands of battle intent and matched Wuqu Star Lord's forces.
• Xu Taiping ordered his generals to form the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation.

Xu Taiping assembled the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation and led its charge against Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation. With his formation gaining the advantage, Xu Taiping drew in its battle strength and prepared to unleash the Heaven-Opening Form.

• Xu Taiping transmitted the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation method to the assembled soldiers, and they formed a battle formation whose crimson killing intent startled Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You.
• Wuqu Star Lord’s formation answered with its own battle intent and three Flood Dragon phantoms, and both commanders ordered their armies to charge.
• Xu Taiping and Wuqu Star Lord clashed as their battle intent phantoms collided, and Xu Taiping’s blade split Wuqu Star Lord’s Raging Tide Phantom Image before their weapons met.
• Xu Taiping’s arms were torn by the force of Wuqu Star Lord’s halberd, but his formation surged past him and scattered the opposing army formation.
• Xu Taiping called for his formation’s battle strength, forced the Heavenly Balance Heavy Halberd upward, and began drawing his blade to unleash Ultimate Realm, Heaven-Opening Form.

Xu Taiping defeated the Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation and received the Fire-Avoidance Pearl. The Wuqu Star Lord revealed that Jade Mother had foreseen his defeat and that he would aid the one who overcame him, before a bolt of thunder struck him.

• Xu Taiping used his Dao Essence Power to cleave through the Wuqu Star Lord’s battle intent and drive him back.
• Po Jun took control of the remaining battle intent and attacked Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping cut him down and shattered the formation.
• Xu Taiping’s army overwhelmed the Wuqu Star Lord’s formation, and the Wuqu Star Lord admitted defeat.
• The Wuqu Star Lord gave Xu Taiping the Fire-Avoidance Pearl and explained Jade Mother’s prophecy about his defeat and the person who would save the sacred land.
• The Wuqu Star Lord said there had been no River of Time in his era, then a bolt of thunder struck apart the phantom around him.

Xu Taiping learned that the Jade Mother's edicts vanished after cultivators completed her trials and that the Wuqu Star Lord's divine intent was fading. He assembled a military formation to face a coming Blightbone attack, then told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to bring the charging Immortal Remains to him.

• The Wuqu Star Lord explained that the Jade Mother's edicts shattered when someone passed each trial and that the remaining cultivators in the fifth layer knew about the trials.
• The Wuqu Star Lord's divine intent faded away, leaving a warning that Xu Taiping could use the Wuqu Token to form the Immortal Remains into a military formation.
• Xu Taiping restored his magical power and used Xiahou You and the others as nodes to assemble his ten thousand skeletons into a military formation.
• Xu Taiping considered bringing the Wuqu Star Lord's Immortal Remains into the formation, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that fifty or sixty thousand Blightbones were charging up the passage.
• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to bring the Blightbones over.

Tie Hancang led Luo Hong and Xu San onto the Void Essence Jade Platform after sensing that the Jade Mother's Edict had shattered, then used seventy thousand Blightbones to corner the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage. The chapter ended with Tie Hancang confronting Ding at the foot of a mist-shrouded hill.

• Tie Hancang said the Jade Mother's Edict had shattered and sent the Blightbones through the passage to reach the fifth layer without waiting for Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Luo Hong and Xu San used mirror light from the Bone-Illuminating Mirror to guide the Blightbones toward the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage while Tie Hancang dragged them ahead.
• Tie Hancang told Luo Hong and Xu San that Ding's most valuable possession was a means of advancing to Half-Immortal, and promised to leave them a clue after he advanced.
• Luo Hong sensed the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage ahead, and Tie Hancang accelerated their charge until the Blightbones reached Ding.
• Tie Hancang halted the Blightbones, landed with Luo Hong and Xu San, and angrily confronted Ding, who stood calmly with a rust-covered greatsword.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought Tie Hancang’s Blightbone horde with two Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formations. Xu Taiping revealed an ambush of twenty thousand immortal remains and led both formations in a renewed charge.

• Tie Hancang ordered Luo Hong and Xu San to attack the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage with the Blightbone horde.
• A Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation led by Xu Taiping erupted from the hill, shattered Tie Hancang’s Dharma Aspect, and cut down hundreds of Blightbone.
• Luo Hong and Xu San focused their Bone-Illuminating Mirrors on Xu Taiping, forcing him to use the formation to defend himself.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage leaped into the Blightbone and destroyed the beasts attacking Xu Taiping with explosive punches.
• Xu Taiping summoned twenty thousand immortal remains lying behind the horde and formed a second Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.
• Xu Taiping rallied both formations and led them in a saber strike and charge against the Blightbone.

Xu Taiping’s two military formations crushed the Blightbone horde and overwhelmed Luo Hong and Xu San, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned him not to kill them yet. The Great Sage then revealed the terrifying power he had been suppressing with Sea-Suppressing Seals, leaving Tie Hancang facing a new threat.

• Xu Taiping commanded two Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formations to destroy the Blightbone while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage defeated Tie Hancang and the formations subdued Luo Hong and Xu San.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned Xu Taiping that killing Dao Integration Realm cultivators could attract powerful beings and bring karmic backlash, so Xu Taiping stopped attacking Luo Hong.
• Xu Taiping vowed to defeat Luo Hong someday without relying on military formations, and Tie Hancang knocked Luo Hong down after he insulted Xu Taiping.
• Tie Hancang admitted that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s weakened condition had given him an opportunity, but the Great Sage replied that good fortune was a skill too.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage removed the Sea-Suppressing Seals from his arms, unleashing immense pressure, and offered to teach Xu Taiping how to use the seals.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gave Xu Taiping the recovered Glazed Fragments and Immortal Remains, then stopped Tie Hancang from escaping with Xu San and Luo Hong. He forced Tie Hancang to surrender the Sacred Land Relics he had collected and demanded information about Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s operation, as well as Tie Hancang’s Divine Essence for Xu Taiping to use Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gathered the Glazed Fragments and Immortal Remains and gave Xu Taiping a Qiankun Bag containing them.
• Tie Hancang tried to escape with Xu San and Luo Hong inside the Black Armor Mountain Iron Man, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck it down.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage threatened to destroy Black Armor Mountain and Three Corpses Cave until Tie Hancang surrendered two Qiankun Bags of Sacred Land Relics.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demanded that Tie Hancang reveal what he knew about Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s operation and sacrifice his Divine Essence so Xu Taiping could use Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage forced Tie Hancang to sacrifice all his divine essence to aid Xu Taiping’s Heavenly Secrets Deduction, despite Tie Hancang’s warning that the power could overwhelm him. When Xu Taiping reached for Tie Hancang, the Lotus Eye took control and unleashed azure flames that began consuming Tie Hancang’s divine essence.

• Tie Hancang refused to reveal Xuanwei and the others’ plans because restrictions would damage his foundation, but offered to sacrifice his divine essence instead.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demanded that Tie Hancang offer all his divine essence, and Xu Taiping agreed to accept it.
• Tie Hancang released moonlight-like divine essence power and warned Xu Taiping about the dangers of facing powerful cultivators on the fifth layer.
• As Xu Taiping reached for Tie Hancang’s hand, the Lotus Eye spoke and covered Xu Taiping’s arm in azure flames.
• Xu Taiping’s flaming hand seized Tie Hancang, and azure flames engulfed him as nine golden rings appeared and his divine essence poured into Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping’s Lotus Eye drained Tie Hancang’s divine marrow, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage protected the group and dealt with witnesses who had seen Xu Taiping’s powers. The phantom image burst apart with Xu Taiping’s great deductive power apparently unharmed.

• The Lotus Eye explained that it was extracting Tie Hancang’s limited divine marrow and that its second-stage divine power protected Xu Taiping from backlash.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage taunted Tie Hancang as the extraction left him unable to speak.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Qu Chao Ci that Xu Taiping’s phantom image appeared to be an unusually powerful Dao Integration divine power, but warned her not to pry into his secrets.
• At Xiahou You’s urging, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck Luo Hong and Xu San, erasing most of the divine soul marks in their primordial spirits rather than killing them.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained to Qu Chao Ci that killing Luo Hong and Xu San could entangle her in dangerous karma.
• The azure flame phantom image burst apart, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage concluded that Xu Taiping’s great deductive power was unharmed.

After using Tie Hancang’s divine essence to fuel the Lotus Eye’s deduction, Xu Taiping discovered three sequential divine soul marks and opened the first. It led him to Lin Buyu’s message, which warned that powerful Upper Realm beings planned to sacrifice Ping'an and advised Xu Taiping to enter the fifth layer with the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.

• The Lotus Eye drew divine essence from Tie Hancang and said its Dao Integration divine power was nearing a breakthrough to the third stage.
• Xu Taiping’s great deduction formed three golden-lotus divine soul marks, which he had to open in sequence.
• The first mark showed Lin Buyu telling Xu Taiping to open the message she had left in his Listening Wind Bracelet before entering the fifth layer.
• Lin Buyu revealed that four powerful Upper Realm beings planned to sacrifice Ping'an’s Mountain-Lifting Ape bloodline to summon the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone.
• Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping not to enter the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure alone and urged him to use the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation to withstand attempts to intercept and kill him.

Xu Taiping received Lin Buyu’s warning about a powerful red-robed cultivator on the Sacred Land’s Fifth Layer and shared the information with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the others. They could not identify her, but concluded that her strength rivaled the Great Sage’s peak combat power.

• Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping to secure the Wuqu Token and watch for a red-robed cultivator who had killed two Dao Integration Natal Origin Realm experts with a strand of Divine Sense.
• Lin Buyu said she and her master would leave the Sacred Land before Xu Taiping reached the Fifth Layer, then her Divine Soul Mark faded.
• Xu Taiping woke and relayed Lin Buyu’s information as findings from Lotus Eye Divination, keeping her involvement secret.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that he had learned similar information from a Blightbone’s Divine Sense in Kaiyang Heaven because the creature had been summoned through a sacrifice.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said the red-robed cultivator’s strength was at least equal to his peak, and he, Xiahou You, Qu Chao Ci, and Xu Taiping discussed what they could infer about her and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s group.

Xu Taiping opened the second Divine Soul Mark and saw a way to cross the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure’s star-sand restrictions by completing its Star Map with Cloud Talismans. The vision also revealed Ping'an bound and tortured on the Stargazing Platform, and Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the mark contained a method for breaking the formation.

• Xu Taiping opened the second Divine Soul Mark and saw Xiahou You and Bai Yue use a Cloud Talisman to illuminate a safe path across the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure’s star sand.
• Xu Taiping watched Mo Qingzhu add another Cloud Talisman, then deduced that completing the Star Map would create a safe route to the Stargazing Platform.
• Xu Taiping saw Ping'an chained to a pillar and tortured by four black-robed cultivators, including Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Ping'an urged Xu Taiping to leave and save Second Brother, and Xu Taiping resolved to rescue him and Bai Yue.
• Xu Taiping withdrew his Divine Sense and told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the second mark revealed how to break the formation.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared to cross the Star-Sand Sea and reach the Stargazing Platform, where they hoped to rescue Ping'an. With the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Shihu serving as deputy generals, Xu Taiping assembled fifty thousand immortal soldiers and led them toward the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Xiahou You concluded that Xu Taiping's formation-breaking method could let them cross the Star-Sand Sea safely, and Mo Qingzhu agreed to draw the needed Cloud Talisman.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu and the Xiahou Clan disciples arrived after Shihu recovered from his injuries with medicine from the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• As Blightbone Demonic Beasts surged toward them, Xu Taiping asked his allies to serve as deputy generals and help gather immortal remains into his military formation.
• Xu Taiping's battle intent, strengthened by his deputy generals, summoned fifty thousand immortal soldiers and formed them into the Arrowhead Battle Formation.
• Xu Taiping led the assembled formation toward the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure.