Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and his companions fought through the Yin Ghost Evil Gods beneath Danyuan Hall, using the Pill Furnaces to reveal their route toward Tusita Palace. After an hour of battles, they spotted the palace’s enormous Bronze Gate and stopped to recover before the final push.

• Xu Taiping explained that the ghost creatures grew stronger near Danyuan Palace’s central area and warned that a powerful, intelligent Yin God might be controlling them.
• Xu Taiping spotted a Pill Furnace that could suppress the ghost creatures and reveal the location of the next furnace when lit.
• Xiaohei transformed into a giant black dog and carried the group while Xu Taiping used the Golden Crow and Return to Dust Seal to clear the way.
• Xu Taiping lit the first Pill Furnace with earthly fire, driving back nearby Yin Gods and revealing another furnace several hundred li away.
• After fighting for an hour, Ping'an spotted an enormous Bronze Gate behind the newly lit Pill Furnace, and Xu Taiping identified it as the gate to Tusita Palace.

Xu Taiping and his companions reached Tusita Palace’s Bronze Gate, where strange giant ghost corpses attacked them and the Yin Gods unexpectedly fought back. As twelve enormous shadows appeared to guard the gate, their leader addressed Xu Taiping by name and proposed a deal.

• Xu Taiping and his companions rested behind the Pill Furnace’s golden barrier, but a giant ghost corpse emerged and nearly broke through it.
• More ghost corpses attacked, shattering the barrier, while the Yin Gods swarmed the creatures and helped the group escape toward Tusita Palace.
• Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, Ping'an, and Xiaohei reached the Bronze Gate as the ghost corpses continued pursuing them.
• Twelve enormous black shadows descended and formed a barrier between the group and the ghost corpses.
• The central shadow revealed a human face and said, “Let's make a deal... Xu Taiping...”

Xu Taiping agreed to retrieve the Soul-Suppressing Bell from Tusita Palace in exchange for Danyuan Palace’s pill recipes and the truth about its ruined cultivators. After entering the palace, he was separated from Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang and began falling through clouds toward a suspected Evil God Territory.

• The Man-Faced Shadow revealed that Danyuan Palace’s cultivators had imprisoned themselves for three hundred thousand years to suppress a Ghost Domain and offered Xu Taiping a deal involving the Soul-Suppressing Bell.
• Xu Taiping agreed to retrieve the bell, while the Danyuan Palace shadows fought off ghost creatures and held them back as the Bronze Gate opened.
• Xu Taiping discovered that Tusita Palace’s restrictions blocked the Lotus Eye’s divine power, and Xiaohei returned to the Spirit Garden before Xu Taiping entered with Old Daoist Huang and Ping'an.
• A fierce Gang Wind pulled the three into Tusita Palace, then separated Xu Taiping from Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang as they were swept inside.
• Xu Taiping fell through vast clouds until the eerie old Daoist warned him to stop himself before he fell into Evil God Territory.

Xu Taiping survived his fall into the blood-mist world and negotiated with the Eerie Old Daoist to see Haitang and her husband before exchanging the True Dragon's skeleton. After learning Ping'an was safe on an island, Xu Taiping followed golden clouds toward Tusita Palace, which appeared hidden inside the sun.

• Xu Taiping used his divine sense to grab the clouds and stop himself from falling into the blood mist, whose creatures could not escape it.
• The Eerie Old Daoist told Xu Taiping that Ping'an had landed safely in an immaculate place, and Ping'an confirmed that he and Old Huang were on a spirit-rich island.
• Xu Taiping told Ping'an he could stay on the island, then asked to see Haitang and her husband before completing the exchange.
• The Eerie Old Daoist agreed to let Xu Taiping see the couple and guided him upward on golden clouds.
• Xu Taiping reached the clear sky, saw the sun transform into Tusita Palace, and watched a sword-light stairway descend from it.

Xu Taiping reached Tusita Palace and met Daoist Lord Wangchen, who revealed that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian were trapped inside his pill furnace to suppress evil seeds. Xu Taiping managed to wake them through Divine Sense, but they urgently warned him to leave, and he asked what had happened.

• Xu Taiping introduced himself to Daoist Lord Wangchen, entered Tusita Palace, and passed through a soul formation to reach the pill hall.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen told Xu Taiping that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian were inside the Profound Azure Pill Furnace, where its flames suppressed evil seeds infecting them.
• Xu Taiping used his Divine Sense to find Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian encased in ice within the furnace and called to them until they woke.
• Qi Haitang scolded Xu Taiping for coming, while Xiang Nantian thanked him and both urged him to leave immediately.
• Xu Taiping asked Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian what had happened and why they were trapped in Tusita Palace.

Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang told Xu Taiping that Dong Cangzi had planted Demon Seeds in them, and Daoist Lord Wangchen had imprisoned them to suppress the seeds. Xu Taiping set out to retrieve the Dragon Remains and gather ingredients for Wangchen’s pill, while Ping'an’s warning revealed that he and Old Daoist Huang had encountered one of Dong Cangzi’s Demonic Beast lackeys.

• Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang explained that Dong Cangzi had used them to nurture Demon Seeds after they found the Third Watch Observatory’s dead members and retrieved the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen gave Xu Taiping a bead that grew hot near a Demon Seed and agreed to help expel the seeds if Xu Taiping gathered materials for his pill.
• Xu Taiping warned Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang about Dong Cangzi’s hidden Demon Seed lackeys and accepted Wangchen’s Jade Token and Qi Haitang’s Third Watch Token.
• Xu Taiping left the pill room to return to the Impure Land, and Ping'an reported that he and Old Daoist Huang had nearly fallen into a Demonic Beast’s trap.

Xu Taiping reached the Immaculate Land and defeated the demonic beast that had trapped Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang. As Ping'an called to him, the bead from Daoist Lord Juechen grew scorching hot, making Xu Taiping suspect the voice was an impostor.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen guided Xu Taiping across golden clouds to the Immaculate Land and told him the world's restrictions would end once he touched the ground.
• Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang explained that a demonic beast had trapped them inside a lotus leaf and that Old Daoist Huang had forced it to accept a challenge.
• Xu Taiping landed on a boulder as the water-shaped demonic beast attacked, then challenged it to a fist fight.
• Xu Taiping used the Thousand Arms Vajra and the Ultimate Realm, Heaven-Touching Stance to destroy the demonic beast before it could reform.
• Ping'an's voice called to Xu Taiping, but Daoist Lord Juechen's bead heated up, and Xu Taiping realized the caller was not Ping'an.

Xu Taiping defeated two demonic beasts disguised as Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang, then learned that Dong Cangzi’s minions were preparing to turn the region into Impure Land again. He stayed behind to guard Old Daoist Huang while Ping'an returned to Tusita Palace with Daoist Lord Wangchen.

• Xu Taiping recognized that the first Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang were impostors and destroyed them with his Life-Taking Blade.
• Ping'an and the real Old Daoist Huang arrived, and Ping'an revealed that the disguised beasts hoped to earn True Immortal Dongcang's favor and had heard that the nearby suppressing stone statue was sealed again.
• Xu Taiping told them what he had learned from Haitang and her husband, and Ping'an warned that red mist would soon engulf their region.
• Old Daoist Huang chose to stay and refine the island's fortune so he could strengthen his cultivation and purify small areas of Impure Land.
• Xu Taiping persuaded Ping'an to return to Tusita Palace with the Dragon Remains, while he stayed to guard Old Daoist Huang.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen summoned a golden-lit cloud and agreed to take Ping'an up.

Xu Taiping protected Old Daoist Huang while the Otherworldly Evil God's blood mist engulfed the isolated island. After Huang finished refining its fortune, Xu Taiping escaped the Blood Demonic General by leaping through the last opening in the mist beneath a golden cloud.

• Ping'an told Xu Taiping that he had entered Tusita Palace, while Old Daoist Huang began refining the island's accumulated fortune.
• Xu Taiping opened his blade domain and created a clone to guard Huang as the blood mist overwhelmed the island's barrier and began eroding the domain.
• Ghost corpses entered the blade domain, and the Blood Demonic General struck it hard enough to crack it before preparing to crush Xu Taiping.
• Huang announced that he had finished refining the island's fortune, and Xu Taiping summoned a golden cloud as the Blood Demonic General shattered his blade domain.
• Xu Taiping grabbed Huang and leaped through the last uncovered opening, escaping the Blood Demonic General's reach as its hand dissolved upon leaving the blood mist.

Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, and Ping'an prepared to enter the Impure Land to find materials Daoist Lord Wangchen needed to heal Sister Haitang and Eldest Brother Xiang. Old Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to clear a hidden zone for their descent, leaving the group ready to follow him into the blood mist.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen demonstrated that he could take and restore Old Daoist Huang's refined fortune, then agreed to Xu Taiping's condition that he heal Sister Haitang and Eldest Brother Xiang before receiving the Dragon Remains.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen told Xu Taiping that the Soul-Suppressing Bell lay in Yuanzhen Temple, deep in the Impure Land and guarded by the Three-Eyed Boy, the Blood Demonic General who had nearly caught him.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen directed the group to gather Blood-Patterned Scarlet Lingzhi and Azure-Po Soul Orchid first, giving Xu Taiping a Jade Token that summoned a golden guiding cloud.
• Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, and Ping'an followed the cloud to the Impure Land, where Old Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to erase the blood mist within a zone over a hundred zhang wide.
• Old Daoist Huang landed inside the cleared zone and called for Xu Taiping and Ping'an to descend.

Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang searched the blood mist for medicinal ingredients while Huang concealed them from nearby creatures. After gathering several herbs, they were surrounded by stone statues from the Third Watch Observatory, which shielded them from a giant poisonous snake and began chanting.

• Old Daoist Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to conceal Xu Taiping and Ping'an as they gathered the blood-patterned lingzhi and azure-po soul orchid.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an escaped a bear-shaped demonic beast that pursued them back to Huang's Land of Annihilation.
• As Ping'an prepared to carry the group away, stone statues identified by Xu Taiping as cultivators from the Third Watch Observatory surrounded them.
• A giant scarlet-scaled snake attacked with poisonous mist, and Xu Taiping opened his Blade Domain.
• The stone statues jumped and formed a golden barrier that protected the group from the poison, then chanted words of righteous resolve.

Xu Taiping and his companions escaped the Giant Crimson Scales Serpent and delivered two ingredients to Daoist Lord Wangchen, who revealed that he had repeatedly awakened within an endless cycle. When Xu Taiping told Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian about the stone statues’ recitation, they recognized the words as the Third Watch Observatory Rules and realized the statues might be signaling their unresolved grievances.

• Ping'an carried Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang out of the blood mist while the stone statues held off the serpent, and they followed Daoist Lord Wangchen’s golden clouds back to Tusita Palace.
• Xu Taiping gave Daoist Lord Wangchen the blood-patterned lingzhi and azure-po soul orchid, and Wangchen explained that the world repeatedly returned to its beginning whenever he fell asleep.
• Xu Taiping told Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian he would not abandon them, then asked what they knew about Tusita Palace and Daoist Lord Wangchen.
• Xu Taiping repeated the stone statues’ words, and Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian recognized the statues as their Third Watch Observatory fellow disciples.
• Xiang Nantian recalled a rule that let dying disciples seal their grievances in their remains and use the rules as a signal for fellow disciples to uncover them.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an descended into the Impure Land to retrieve Corrupt-Bone Bamboo and Yin-Congealing Dew, but a mountain beast swallowed Xu Taiping while Ping'an was acting as bait. With only three breaths to save him, Ping'an revealed his Mountain-Lifting Ape true body and attacked the beast.

• Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang descended into the blood mist and located the Corrupt-Bone Bamboo in a dark forest and Yin-Congealing Dew in a nearby cave.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an entered the forest, where the mountain beast revealed itself by swallowing the entire area; Ping'an identified its nature and its weakness.
• Old Daoist Huang used the Qi-Slaying Art to expose the mountain beast and create an opening that would let swallowed prey survive for three breaths.
• Ping'an charged into the forest as bait, but Xu Taiping used the Form- and Shadow-Transposition Technique to take his place inside the beast's mouth.
• Ping'an transformed into his thousand-zhang Mountain-Lifting Ape true body and struck the mountain beast with a powerful fist.

Xu Taiping used Mind-Heart Communication’s Numinous Connection Clarity to control Ping’an’s Demon Saint physique and entered a cavern to retrieve the Yin-Congealing Dew. After killing a Red-Scaled Demon Serpent, he faced more serpents gathering around the forest and prepared to fight them.

• Ping’an crushed the grotesque maw with Moon Treading while Xu Taiping stood on his foot, and Old Daoist Huang warned that the commotion would attract Demonic Beasts.
• Xu Taiping and Ping’an decided to enter the cavern for the Yin-Congealing Dew, and Xu Taiping proposed using Numinous Connection Clarity to control Ping’an’s physique.
• Xu Taiping tested Wind-Thunder Step, then used Ping’an’s physique and Heaven-Shaking Fist to pin a Red-Scaled Demon Serpent as Ping’an entered the cavern.
• Xu Taiping deflected the serpent’s poisonous mist with a Five Elements Wind Wall, then killed it with the Baxia Form.
• Demonic Beasts approached from every direction, and Xu Taiping saw scarlet serpent eyes appear throughout the forest before assuming the Raging Thunder Form.

Xu Taiping used the Mountain-Lifting Ape’s true body to defeat the Serpent King and collect the Yin-Congealing Dew, but a powerful demonic general named Three-Eyed Boy attacked the group. Xu Taiping stayed behind to hold him off, and his Heaven Opening strike split the general’s blade shadow and forced him back.

• Xu Taiping killed the Serpent King while Ping'an collected the Yin-Congealing Dew, and Old Daoist Huang warned that the Annihilation Land’s spiritual power was running low.
• Stone statues of the Third Watch Observatory gathered around the Annihilation Land and formed two golden barriers as the forest plunged into darkness.
• Three-Eyed Boy attacked, shattered the outer barrier, and began burning through the remaining protection with emerald wildfire.
• Xu Taiping drew his blade and used Two Hundred Thirty Thousand Blades to clash with Three-Eyed Boy, buying Ping'an time to carry Old Daoist Huang out of the Impure Land.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Two Hundred Ninety-Three Thousand Blades and Heaven Opening, splitting Three-Eyed Boy’s heavenly-fire blade shadow and staggering the demonic general backward.

Xu Taiping and his companions withdrew from their fight with Demonic General Three-Eyed Boy as the Impure Land began spreading blood pillars toward Tusita Palace. The golden phantoms of the Third Watch Observatory disciples resisted the invasion and entrusted Xu Taiping with their last memories before Daoist Lord Wangchen called everyone back to the palace.

• Xu Taiping escaped the mountain forest after spending nearly all his magic power and divine essence, and the group returned to their bodies after Ping'an withdrew Numinous Connection Clarity.
• Blood pillars rose from the Impure Land and spread webs beneath the clouds, prompting Daoist Lord Wangchen to warn that otherworldly evil gods were trying to seize Tusita Palace.
• As Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, and Ping'an headed back to Tusita Palace, golden phantoms emerged from the blood mist and attacked the pillars.
• The phantoms answered Xu Taiping's recitation of Third Watch Observatory's rules and sent him divine soul marks containing the disciples' last memories.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen urged the group to return at once, and Xu Taiping told Old Daoist Huang and Ping'an to go with him.

Xu Taiping recounted how Third Watch Observatory’s disciples fought Dong Cangzi rather than surrender the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and were defeated and sealed in Tusita Palace. Daoist Lord Wangchen revealed that the statues still guarded the banner in the Impure Land.

• Liu Yunjing returned to Third Watch Observatory gravely wounded and explained that Dong Cangzi’s subordinate had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of mortals and trapped their souls in a Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Li Changeng refused Dong Cangzi’s demand to surrender the banner, and Third Watch Observatory’s disciples vowed to defend the souls even at the cost of their lives.
• Li Changeng invoked Third Watch Observatory’s inherited power and led the disciples into battle, but Dong Cangzi defeated them and brought the Observatory into Tusita Palace’s secret realm.
• Xu Taiping told Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian what he had learned from the divine soul marks about Third Watch Observatory’s final stand.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen revealed that the statues in the Impure Land still gathered around and guarded the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.

Xu Taiping and the others learned why Dong Cangzi sought the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and discovered that he planned to use Tusita Palace to ascend to immortality. Daoist Lord Wangchen found the ancient Tai'a Sword, whose power Old Daoist Huang used to inscribe a rule that limited Demonic Beasts fighting Xu Taiping to his cultivation realm; the group prepared to descend for the Crimson Scales Vine.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen explained that Dong Cangzi could not unseal or wield the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner without Third Watch Observatory disciples, and revealed Dong Cangzi intended to use its souls to aid his ascension.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen questioned whether the Paths to Immortality had been severed or hidden, then found the first Tai'a Sword forged by Emperor Fu.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen lent Tai'a to Old Daoist Huang, who used its power of fortune and the Blade of Guicang to inscribe a rule limiting any Demonic Beast fighting Xu Taiping to Xu Taiping's cultivation realm.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen urged Xu Taiping to retrieve the Crimson Scales Vine quickly, while Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian offered to help recover the Soul-Suppressing Bell afterward.
• Old Daoist Huang finished refining Tai'a's power of fortune, and Xu Taiping set out with him and Ping'an to retrieve the Crimson Scales Vine.

Xu Taiping was separated from Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang when a blood pillar seized him, forcing him to fight through its demonic beasts alone. Near the pillar’s base, he faced a formidable skeletal Blade Demon and awakened the Water-Cutting Blade’s Sea-Splitting divine intent, which shattered his enemy’s weapon.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen guided Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang toward the Crimson Scales Vine and warned them that the blood mist could seal off the sky.
• A bloody hand seized Old Daoist Huang, so Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to take his place and was dragged into the blood pillar.
• Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang descended toward the Crimson Scales Vine while Xu Taiping fought through the pillar’s demonic beasts with Southern Bright Li Fire and the Rending Blade Stance.
• A skeletal Blade Demon challenged Xu Taiping near the base of the pillar and overwhelmed him with its superior blade techniques.
• The Water-Cutting Blade’s spirit revealed its Great Dao divine intent, Sea-Splitting, and Xu Taiping used it with Heaven-Opening Form to split the skeletal Blade Demon’s weapon.

Xu Taiping discovered that the Water-Cutting Blade could devour slain Blade Demons and strengthen his blade domain, then hurried to rescue Ping'an and Elder Huang, who were trapped in Annihilation Land. Xiaoyu suddenly awoke and used her sword case to send hundreds of flying swords carrying them toward the trapped group.

• Xu Taiping used Returning to the Sea, Burying the Blade to destroy the White Bone Blade Demons and discovered their true form stood outside the pillar of blood.
• The Water-Cutting Blade's spirit revealed its Blade Devouring power and told Xu Taiping that he could soon raise his blade domain to the fifth level.
• Xu Taiping slew a group of ghost corpses and learned from Ping'an that he and Elder Huang had found the Crimson Blood Vine but were trapped by demonic beasts.
• Xu Taiping hurried toward Ping'an and Elder Huang, but Xiaoyu awoke and refused to go back to sleep.
• Xiaoyu summoned her sword case and sent hundreds of flying swords sweeping Xu Taiping and herself toward Ping'an and the others.