Chapter Summaries

Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang fought to survive a powerful bull demon whose layered origin demon seed powers overwhelmed their defenses. Just as the demon nearly killed Ping'an, a little girl arrived on a torrent of swords and destroyed it, delighted to have found her big brother.

• Old Daoist Huang used the last of his fortune power to make the stone statues restore and multiply their golden barriers against the bull demon's axe.
• The bull demon shattered the barriers and Old Daoist Huang's jade slip, forcing Ping'an to face it directly.
• Ping'an struck the bull demon with Moon-Treading and his Human Sovereign Spear, but its demon seed powers wounded him and its attacks sent him flying.
• Old Daoist Huang prepared to leave the Annihilation Land barrier to protect Ping'an as the bull demon raised its axe for a finishing blow.
• A little girl arrived atop a torrent of several hundred immortal swords and tore the bull demon apart, then excitedly called Ping'an her big brother.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an were trapped inside an enormous blood drop that sealed their powers as Old Daoist Huang escaped with the Crimson Scales Vine. They summoned their strongest forms to prepare for a fight, but Demonic General Three-Eyed Boy arrived and declared they would not escape.

• Xu Taiping reunited with Ping'an and learned that Xiaoyu had controlled eight hundred flying swords to save them before falling asleep from the effort.
• Old Daoist Huang began reopening the Annihilation Land while Xu Taiping and Ping'an prepared to guard him and discussed delivering the Crimson Scales Vine to Daoist Lord Wangchen.
• Huge blood drops formed from the mist, trapping Xu Taiping and Ping'an and sealing their magic power and qi and blood despite Xu Taiping's earthly-fire protection.
• As powerful presences approached, Ping'an identified Demonic General Three-Eyed Boy among them, and Xu Taiping told Old Daoist Huang to escape with the Crimson Scales Vine.
• Old Daoist Huang leaped out of the mist, while Xu Taiping and Ping'an opened the blade domain and manifested their powerful forms inside the blood drop.
• Three-Eyed Boy descended and told Xu Taiping and Ping'an that neither of them would escape.

Xu Taiping let Three-Eyed Boy’s spear break his fourth-level Blade Domain, using its flaws to comprehend the fifth level. He awakened Inferno Prison, shattered the blood drop, and challenged Three-Eyed Boy to enter his domain and fight.

• Three-Eyed Boy pierced Xu Taiping’s Blade Domain with a spear that transformed into a fire-wreathed Azure Dragon, and Xu Taiping’s counterattack severed the phantom dragon’s head.
• Three-Eyed Boy’s spear became a vortex that devoured the domain’s blade aura, while Xu Taiping waited for his fourth-level Blade Domain to break so he could study its flaws.
• After the domain shattered, Ping'an tried to shield Xu Taiping and began burning his origin blood, but Xu Taiping called out and stopped him.
• Xu Taiping awakened his fifth-level Blade Domain, Inferno Prison, and destroyed the Azure Dragon phantom and the portion of Three-Eyed Boy’s spear inside the domain.
• Xu Taiping’s transparent flames burned the demonic serpents to smoke and cracked apart the blood drop, then he challenged Three-Eyed Boy to enter his Blade Domain and fight.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an switched bodies so Ping'an could empower Xu Taiping's blade domain, allowing Xu Taiping to kill the Demonic General Three-Eyed Boy with his fifth blade domain. They learned the Demon-Slaying Pills would take another hour to finish, but Haitang and Xiang promised to arrive soon, leaving them still holding out against the demons.

• Three-Eyed Boy broke into Xu Taiping's blade domain with a powerful strike, but Xu Taiping and Ping'an switched bodies using Mind-Heart Communication.
• Ping'an took Mountain-Lifting Ape form and used Blazing Sun, setting Three-Eyed Boy's invading blade force alight and expanding Xu Taiping's blade domain.
• Three-Eyed Boy charged Xu Taiping, who used Decree the Spirit to summon a white-robed divine manifestation that cut Three-Eyed Boy apart and burned him away.
• Xu Taiping took pills to sustain his blade domain, and Ping'an congratulated him on comprehending its fifth stage.
• Old Daoist Huang warned Xu Taiping and Ping'an that they needed to hold out for another hour while the Dao Lord finished refining the Demon-Slaying Pills.
• Haitang and Xiang sent word that they would arrive soon, and Xu Taiping asked whether their injuries had healed.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an faced Old Serpent and a tide of Demonic Beasts in the Withered Wood Forest, while the Third Watch Observatory statues helped defend their Blade Domain. As two more powerful Demonic Beasts approached, Xiaoyu woke in anger at Old Serpent and lent Xu Taiping her Magic Power and treasures.

• Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian told Xu Taiping that Lord Daoist Lord Wangchen had removed their Demon Seeds and they had regained most of their fighting strength.
• Old Serpent appeared and sent waves of Demonic Beasts against Xu Taiping's Blade Domain, but Third Watch Observatory stone statues raised barriers that blocked most of them.
• Ping'an sensed two more Demonic Beasts as powerful as Old Serpent approaching, and Old Serpent offered to spare one of them if Xu Taiping surrendered the other.
• Old Serpent tried to tempt Xu Taiping with secrets beyond the domain and then asked him to hand over Xiaoyu, waking her from her sleep.
• Xiaoyu scolded Old Serpent, struck Ping'an with a thunderbolt, and empowered Xu Taiping with her Magic Power and treasures.

Xu Taiping borrowed Xiaoyu’s power and killed the Old Snake with a single sword strike, then fought Zaochi and Yougu as they attacked his blade domain. Xiaoyu fell asleep after Xu Taiping’s eight hundred swords badly wounded both demons, and he expanded the blade domain to pull them inside.

• Xiaoyu agreed to lend Xu Taiping her power, and the Jade Thumb Ring poured immense spiritual power into him.
• Xu Taiping killed the retreating Old Snake with a sword strike launched from the Sword Case.
• Yougu and Zaochi attacked Xu Taiping’s blade domain with a sword and an axe, then joined forces to break through it.
• Xu Taiping unleashed eight hundred Immortal Swords, pierced both demons, and tore apart most of their bodies, but they began to recover.
• Xiaoyu fell asleep, so Xu Taiping placed her in the Gourd and used Ping'an’s body to regain control of the blade domain.
• Xu Taiping expanded the blade domain to draw the wounded Zaochi and Yougu inside.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an were rescued by Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang, who warned them that the Blood Mist Impure Land’s blood tide was the true danger. They reached Cloudsplitter Valley as the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone began rising through the blood mist.

• Yougu and Zaochi battered Xu Taiping’s blade domain, but Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang arrived and killed them with sword strikes.
• A lion-shaped demonic beast shattered Xu Taiping’s blade domain, but Qi Haitang blocked its suction and Xiang Nantian destroyed it with one punch.
• As more powerful demonic beasts gathered, Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian told Xu Taiping and Ping'an to reach Cloudsplitter Valley and activate its protective formation against the coming blood tide.
• Xu Taiping used the Third Watch Token to find Cloudsplitter Valley and fled there with Ping'an while Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang stayed to fight.
• Outside Cloudsplitter Valley, Xu Taiping and Ping'an saw a colossal skeleton rise through the blood mist, which Ping'an feared was the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an activated the Third Watch Observatory's Golden Cloud Grand Formation in Cloudsplitter Valley as Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone unleashed a blood tide. The formation held back the blood waves and opened a path, but Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian were trapped outside fighting the demonic beasts, so Xu Taiping called out and raised the Thunder Sound Banner.

• Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone awakened, released a devastating aura, and sent a blood tide and demonic beasts toward Cloudsplitter Valley.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an reached the valley, greeted the Third Watch Observatory's stone statues, and asked the seniors to assemble the grand formation.
• The statues formed the Golden Cloud Grand Formation, which repelled attacking demonic beasts and used star soul power to cleave a path through the blood waves.
• Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian flew toward the valley but stopped to battle the pursuing demonic beasts, while Xu Taiping and Ping'an sheltered inside the formation.
• After Qi Haitang was struck and bloodied, Xu Taiping remembered the Thunder Sound Banner, took it from the Iron Gourd, and called out to the couple.

Xu Taiping, Ping'an, Qi Haitang, and Xiang Nantian used the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation to destroy hundreds of Demonic Beasts outside Cloudsplitter Valley. They retreated into the Golden Cloud Grand Formation just before the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone attacked, and the chapter ended with the giant creature staring at them through the blood tide.

• Xu Taiping passed the Thunder Sound Banners to Qi Haitang, who delivered one to Xiang Nantian so they could join Xu Taiping and Ping'an in forming the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation.
• The formation's grinding disc crushed two Demonic Beasts that charged inside, and Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian told Xu Taiping to lure in as many beasts as possible before turning the disc.
• Xu Taiping solidified and turned the Thunder Sound Grinding Disc, grinding hundreds of Demonic Beasts to nothingness.
• Xiang Nantian warned that the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone would notice the massacre, so Xu Taiping withdrew the group into the Golden Cloud Grand Formation before black light destroyed the nearby peaks.
• The blood tide enveloped Cloudsplitter Valley, and the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone appeared and stared at the group through a gap in the waves.

The Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone’s beasts shattered four layers of the Golden Cloud Grand Formation and trapped Xu Taiping, Ping'an, Qi Haitang, and Xiang Nantian in Cloudsplitter Valley. Wangchen’s Demon-Slaying Pill was ready, but as the group tried to hold out, a pale face appeared and Xiang Nantian recognized Dong Cangzi.

• Qi Haitang explained that the demonic beasts came from the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone’s blood qi and that killing them strengthened him.
• Over a hundred powerful beasts battered the Golden Cloud Grand Formation until the blood waves engulfed Cloudsplitter Valley and its first two layers broke.
• Xiang Nantian considered using Xu Taiping as a battle general, but Qi Haitang refused to risk him and said they would sacrifice themselves to help him escape if necessary.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an learned from Old Daoist Huang that Wangchen’s Demon-Slaying Pill was ready, though Wangchen still needed time to digest it.
• The beasts shattered the formation’s third and fourth layers, then a pale face appeared in the inner clouds and Xiang Nantian shouted at Dong Cangzi.

Dong Cangzi offered Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang a chance to resurrect the Third Watch Observatory’s disciples in exchange for the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, then proved his power by bringing Qi Daohai back to life. The chapter ended with Dong Cangzi repeating his offer as Qi Daohai reunited with his younger sister and Xiang Nantian.

• Xiang Nantian lost his composure at Dong Cangzi’s appearance, but Qi Haitang stopped him from charging out of the formation.
• Dong Cangzi admitted he had deceived Xiang Nantian and proposed that he and Qi Haitang hand over the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner to complete a sacrifice.
• Dong Cangzi pointed at a stone statue in Cloudsplitter Valley, and it transformed into Qi Daohai, Qi Haitang’s elder brother.
• Qi Daohai recognized Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian, then checked that the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner was still on its platform.
• Dong Cangzi offered to resurrect more Third Watch Observatory disciples if Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang gave him the banner.

Qi Daohai refused to trade the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner for his life and used the Sea-Dried Art to restore part of the Golden Cloud Grand Formation before turning to stone again. Dong Cangzi then revealed he had prepared a Domain Fruit to obtain the banner without Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang’s help, leaving them facing its strange power.

• Qi Daohai rejected Dong Cangzi’s bargain, insisting he would rather die than surrender the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and endanger the hundreds of thousands of people inside it.
• As Qi Daohai began turning to stone again, Qi Haitang considered accepting the bargain, but Qi Daohai and Xiang Nantian persuaded her to uphold the Third Watch Observatory’s duty.
• Qi Daohai congratulated Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian on becoming Dao Companions, then used the Sea-Dried Art to restore the Golden Cloud Grand Formation from three layers to four before becoming a stone statue.
• Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian vowed not to let Qi Daohai, their Master, or the other disciples die in vain and refused to surrender the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Dong Cangzi threw a black seed into Cloudsplitter Valley, where it grew into a towering tree bearing a Domain Fruit that blasted Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang away when they tried to attack it.
• Dong Cangzi revealed that he had prepared the Domain Fruit to obtain the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner without their help, and the fruit burst open.

Dong Cangzi trapped Xu Taiping, Ping'an, Xiang Nantian, and Qi Haitang inside a Dao Domain hidden in a seed, then attacked them with ranks of iron-armored ghost corpses. Just as Dong Cangzi unleashed his complete blade domain power, Xiang Nantian took out a bead and warned Xu Taiping to stay back.

• Dong Cangzi revealed that the seed concealed his Dao Domain, a refined stretch of Heaven-Demon Battlefield ruins.
• Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang refused Dong Cangzi's offer, and he sent successive formations of iron-armored ghost corpses to attack them.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an switched bodies, and Xu Taiping used Ping'an's Mountain-Lifting Ape true body to help Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang break a formation of three thousand ghost corpses.
• Dong Cangzi summoned three formations of more than ten thousand ghost corpses each and unleashed his complete blade domain power.
• Xiang Nantian took out a bead and told Xu Taiping to keep his distance, while Qi Haitang warned him not to intervene.

Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang used the Fengdu Ghost General Token to hold back three Ghost Corpse battle formations, but Dong Cangzi’s Dao Domain threatened to exhaust their life force before help arrived. Xu Taiping and Ping'an joined them, and Ping'an took over the token while Xu Taiping prepared to muster his battle intent.

• Xiang Nantian summoned Fengdu Ghost Generals with the token, and Ping'an explained that it consumed the wielders’ divine marrow and could eventually devour their primordial spirits.
• The Ghost Corpse formations manifested Demonic Flood Dragons and pressed the defenders back, so Xiang Nantian summoned a thousand Ghost Soldiers at the cost of his primordial spirit.
• Dong Cangzi revealed that time passed far more slowly outside his Dao Domain, and Qi Haitang shared her divine marrow to restore the Ghost Soldiers and push the formations back.
• Xu Taiping decided to join the fight, telling Ping'an that his battle intent far surpassed Ping'an's and asking him to help Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang hold on.
• Ping'an carried Xu Taiping behind Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang, embraced the couple, and took hold of the Fengdu Token to summon the Ghost Generals.

Xu Taiping summoned the Fengdu Iron Cavalry and led them against Dong Cangzi’s Ghost Corpse army. After destroying one ten-thousand-strong formation, he turned toward the two remaining formations.

• Xu Taiping revealed his True Dragon Divine Being Body and said he wanted to test his battle-commanding ability against Dong Cangzi.
• Ping'an sacrificed his Mountain-Lifting Ape Primordial Spirit source to summon more Ghost Generals and trusted Xu Taiping to protect him.
• Xu Taiping summoned three hundred Ghost Generals and thirty thousand Ghost Soldiers, forming a White Bone Azure Dragon from their battle intent.
• Xu Taiping led the Fengdu armored cavalry in a charge, and the Azure Dragon shattered Dong Cangzi’s attacking palm.
• Xu Taiping and the cavalry crushed one Ghost Corpse battle formation, reducing over ten thousand Ghost Corpses to dust.
• Xu Taiping turned his blade toward the two remaining Ghost Corpse formations and called the Fengdu armored cavalry to follow him.

Xu Taiping led thirty thousand Ghost Generals to defeat the Ghost Corpse formations and shatter Dong Cangzi’s dao domain, but his charge could not injure the Half-Immortal. Back in Cloudsplitter Valley, the Golden Cloud Grand Formation was nearly broken, and Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone appeared with a sword formed from a river of blood.

• Xu Taiping’s battle intent grew into a white-boned Azure Dragon, and he led the Ghost Generals in routing the two Ghost Corpse battle formations.
• Xiang Nantian recognized Xu Taiping’s potential as a five-army Battle General and explained that he had tamed the Ghost Generals with his battle intent.
• Dong Cangzi attacked Xu Taiping’s formation with his Sword Finger, but Xu Taiping led a charge that shattered the finger and broke the dao domain before Dong Cangzi’s thunder shattered the Azure Dragon.
• Xu Taiping returned the Fengdu Token to Xiang Nantian, who urged him to keep it and return it to Fengdu someday; Xu Taiping accepted after recalling that Fengdu’s Yellow Springs might help save Dugu Qingxiao.
• Old Daoist Huang told Xu Taiping and Ping'an that Daoist Lord Wangchen had refined the Demon-Slaying Pill and would soon arrive, while the Golden Cloud Grand Formation had only one layer left.
• Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone appeared, formed a giant sword from a river of blood and the Demonic Beasts within it, and raised it to strike the formation.

Old Daoist Huang arrived at Cloudsplitter Valley with a black umbrella to protect Xu Taiping, Ping'an, Xiang Nantian, and Qi Haitang from the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone. Daoist Lord Wangchen then appeared and destroyed the demonic bone with overwhelming power, leaving Ping'an stunned by his might.

• The Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone shattered the Golden Cloud Grand Formation and the Zhenwu Hall, forcing Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang to prepare to send Xu Taiping and Ping'an away.
• Old Daoist Huang arrived with a black umbrella from Daoist Lord Wangchen and shielded the group from the demonic beasts and the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone.
• The Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone absorbed the power of thousands of slain demonic beasts and split the umbrella, but Daoist Lord Wangchen's black sword repelled his strike.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen appeared above Cloudsplitter Valley and emerged unscathed after the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone attacked him with origin demon seed power and blood-red waves.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen used Chariot-splitting and Annihilation to burst apart the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone and burn its remains to ashes.
• Ping'an marveled that Daoist Lord Wangchen's power was like that of a deity.

Daoist Lord Wangchen repeatedly thwarted the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone’s attacks, while the demon grew stronger by devouring demonic beasts. After Wangchen engulfed the Impure Land in flames and was apparently crushed into a bead, he mocked the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• The Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone revived by gathering demonic beasts into a mass of flesh, then attacked Daoist Lord Wangchen, whose palm and finger stopped its blows.
• The Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone’s body exploded and re-formed, so it reached across the Impure Land and devoured thousands of beasts to increase its strength.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen shielded Xu Taiping and the others with his sleeve, then blocked another axe strike without being harmed.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen spread flames across the Impure Land, prompting the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone to grow stronger and crumple the space around him into a bead.
• As the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone prepared to swallow the bead, Daoist Lord Wangchen mocked its strength and said it had sorely disappointed him.

Daoist Lord Wangchen defeated the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone and forced Dong Cangzi to revive the Third Watch Observatory cultivators. The Observatory Master then revealed that the disciples had bound Dong Cangzi with the Third Watch Curse and called them to sacrifice themselves to eradicate evil.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen burned the Sky-Piercing Demonic Bone to ashes and confronted Dong Cangzi.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen demanded that Dong Cangzi revive the Third Watch Observatory cultivators, and Dong Cangzi agreed under threat of losing his path to ascension.
• Dong Cangzi used spirit liquid and a heavens edict to restore the stone statues, reviving the Observatory Master and the other Third Watch Observatory disciples.
• Dong Cangzi tried to leave, but Daoist Lord Wangchen explained that the Third Watch Observatory disciples' karmic bond still held him.
• The Observatory Master revealed the Third Watch Curse and urged the Third Watch Observatory disciples to join him in Liberation by Violence.

The Third Watch Observatory disciples used Liberation by Violence to form a Third Watch Curse Seal and attack Dong Cangzi, while Xu Taiping’s words awakened the Observatory Master’s resolve. The Observatory Master revealed that he had gained Third Watch Observatory’s complete inheritance and an Undying Dharma Aspect, branded Dong Cangzi with the curse, and left him fleeing beyond the sky canopy.

• The Third Watch Observatory disciples and Qi Daohai used Liberation by Violence, joining the Observatory Master in a blaze as Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian understood their eight hundred years of hatred and resolve.
• Xu Taiping questioned the need to ascend the great void to affirm the Dao, and his words revived the Observatory Master’s spirit and prompted him to gather the disciples’ power into a flaming talisman seal.
• Dong Cangzi grew into a colossal dharma aspect and seized the seal, while Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang explained that the Third Watch Curse could harm Half-Immortal Realm experts if cast by someone with Celestial Person Realm spell cultivation.
• Dong Cangzi squeezed the flames shut, but golden light burst through his fingers and revealed that the Observatory Master had attained an Undying Dharma Aspect and obtained Third Watch Observatory’s complete inheritance.
• The Observatory Master branded Dong Cangzi’s chest with the Third Watch Curse, and Dong Cangzi broke free and fled above the sky canopy.
• Xu Taiping asked Xiang Nantian what had happened after he and Ping'an watched Dong Cangzi vanish.