Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping learned that the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace was tracking the Heavenflame Cauldron, so he took it to draw the pursuer away from Qu Ningshuang and the others. Qu Ningshuang blocked Elder Shi’s group from following, while a roaring presence approached overhead.

• Xu Taiping used his Lotus powers to foresee the Old Palace Master and Bai Yu approaching the ruined temple and sensed that they were searching for the Heavenflame Cauldron.
• Qu Ningshuang confirmed that her group possessed the cauldron, and Xu Taiping ordered Xiaohei to retrieve it before the pursuers arrived.
• Xu Taiping sealed the cauldron’s flames, promised Qu Ningshuang he would keep it safe, and flew away on Xiaohei toward the western uninhabited star domain.
• Qu Ningshuang stopped Elder Shi and the others from pursuing Xu Taiping, saying she had lent him the cauldron.
• As Zhou Xie began explaining what had happened, a deafening roar sounded overhead.

Xu Taiping and Xiaohei lured the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace away from Qu Ningshuang’s group and prepared an ambush on a Ruin Star. The old Daoist pursued Bai Yu there, but insisted on descending with him, leaving Xu Taiping to face them both together.

• The Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace swept past Qu Ningshuang’s group on a White-Headed Eagle, and Elder Shi identified him as the palace’s former master.
• Xiaohei used instantaneous movement to help Xu Taiping escape the pursuer, while Xu Taiping deduced that Bai Yu had mastered the Golden-Winged Art.
• Xu Taiping chose a Ruin Star with rocky terrain, raised its boulders, and used the Blade of Guicang to conceal their auras and edict power.
• Bai Yu arrived with the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace, who unleashed a thunder technique and ordered Bai Yu to retrieve the Heavenlyflame Cauldron.
• The Old Palace Master stopped Bai Yu from descending alone and decided they would go down together, while Xu Taiping readied himself for their arrival.

Xu Taiping and Xiaohei ambushed the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace to rescue Bai Yu, but Bai Yu escaped with the injured old Daoist and the chase continued. As the deadline for earning Demon-Slaying Tokens arrived, Qu Ningshuang and Zhou Xie entered the Trial Platform, where a veiled woman remarked that Xu Taiping had lent Qu Ningshuang a sword.

• Xu Taiping waited until the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace descended toward the Heavenflame Cauldron, then dropped the floating boulders on him, but the old Daoist escaped with an azure lamp.
• Xu Taiping attacked the old Daoist with Mountain-Moving, and the old Daoist sent Bai Yu to carry him away toward Yellow Origin Palace.
• Xu Taiping and Xiaohei pursued Bai Yu, and Xu Taiping wounded the old Daoist with a Fire Virtue Arrow as the chase stretched on.
• Two days before the Chaotic Stars Assembly, Zhou Xie found the Heavenflame Cauldron beneath the boulders, and he and Qu Ningshuang prepared to challenge the Trial Platform for Demon-Slaying Tokens.
• A veiled woman watched Qu Ningshuang and said Xu Taiping had a good eye and had lent her a sword, then insisted that it had merely been a loan.

Qu Ningshuang and Zhou Xie fought the Two-Headed Lion Demon on the Trial Platform, where the Ancient Sword Ten Thousand Edges revealed its power to break the beast’s Lion’s Roar. Qu Ningshuang killed the demon with Ten Thousand Edges True Release.

• The Demon-Slaying Ranking selected the Two-Headed Lion Demon for Qu Ningshuang’s challenge again, silencing objections from the crowd.
• Zhou Xie struck the charging Lion Demon with his axe, but its sound waves badly wounded him as Qu Ningshuang attacked with her sword.
• The Lion Demon combined its roars into powerful waves that overwhelmed Qu Ningshuang’s sword intent until Zhou Xie bought her time with another axe strike.
• Qu Ningshuang shattered the Lion Demon’s sound waves with a surge of sword light, but the beast answered with a blazing sonic attack that broke their clash apart.
• Qu Ningshuang used Ten Thousand Edges True Release, and the Ancient Sword Ten Thousand Edges found the sword shadow that countered the Lion’s Roar before cutting off both of the demon’s heads.

Lin Buyu watched Qu Ningshuang wield the Ten Thousand Edges Sword, which the crowd said Xu Taiping had given her, while Lin Buyan struggled with Lin Buyu’s concealed jealousy. As Three Corpses Cave cultivators approached, Lin Buyan hid her aura, and a young girl greeted Lin Buyu.

• Cultivators below the platform concluded that Xu Taiping had given Qu Ningshuang the Ten Thousand Edges Sword after she used its innate Great Dao Power.
• Lin Buyan took control of Lin Buyu’s body briefly, but Lin Buyu denied being upset and forced Lin Buyan to bear her anguish.
• Lin Buyan soothed Lin Buyu by insisting Xu Taiping had not forgotten her and that his bond with her outweighed anything with Qu Ningshuang.
• A cultivator said Xu Taiping had rescued Qu Ningshuang from assassins, causing Lin Buyan’s anguish to return.
• Lin Buyu warned Lin Buyan that Luo Hong, Qingxiang, and the others were nearby, so Lin Buyan concealed her aura.
• More than a dozen Three Corpses Cave cultivators approached, and a young girl asked Lin Buyu why she had arrived so early.

Lin Buyu declined to join Liu Qingxiang and Luo Hong’s team before the Chaotic Stars Assembly began. As she prepared to leave the Demon-Slaying Platform, she saw Xuan Zhou being pursued by a mysterious figure and wondered who could threaten him.

• Lin Buyu offered Mu Yao a Demon-Slaying Token, but Mu Yao declined because Liu Qingxiang had promised her a chance to use the Corpse-Slaying Saber.
• Liu Qingxiang and Luo Hong taunted Lin Buyu for forming her own team and predicted she would fail to rank in the Chaotic Stars Assembly.
• A Flame Guard announced that Qu Ningshuang had taken the Earth Character Seat and that the assembly would begin at noon the next day.
• Lin Buyu and the other cultivators saw two powerful figures fighting at immense speed west of the Demon-Slaying Platform.
• The crimson light was revealed to be Xuan Zhou, the Old Palace Master of Yellow Origin Palace, fleeing from the figure in black light.

A mysterious pursuer drove Yellow Origin Palace's Xuan Zhou to the Demon-Slaying Platform while repeatedly shattering his defenses. There, the pursuer demanded that Xuan Zhou release Bai Yu, threatening to attack through the turbulent gang wind.

• A figure riding a large black hound caught up with Xuan Zhou and shattered his Dharma Aspect with a blade strike.
• The pursuer broke Xuan Zhou's Dao-rhyme protection with a lightning-wrapped arrow, then blasted him with a second arrow and fire origin power.
• The pursuer's blade destroyed Xuan Zhou's defensive treasure and another Dharma Aspect, forcing Xuan Zhou to use a natal treasure to break the blow.
• Xuan Zhou forced the golden-winged White-Headed Eagle to carry him above the Demon-Slaying Platform, where the innate gang wind trapped them in circling flight.
• The pursuer stopped at the platform's edge and demanded that Xuan Zhou release his second younger brother Bai Yu, declaring that the eagle was not Xuan Zhou's mount.

Xu Taiping pursued Xuan Zhou after breaking his first escape talisman, but Xuan Zhou used a second to flee to Yellow Origin Palace. Xu Taiping briefly reunited with Lin Buyu before racing to the palace, where he demanded that Xuan Zhou return his younger brother.

• Xu Taiping stirred the gang wind and struck down Xuan Zhou's first escape, but Xuan Zhou used a second Heaven-Escape Talisman to vanish with Bai Yu.
• Xu Taiping asked the Demon-Slaying Platform crowd for directions to Yellow Origin Palace and headed north on Xiaohei.
• Xu Taiping landed before Lin Buyu, gave her a Voice Transmission Jade Slip, and left to pursue Xuan Zhou; Lin Buyu dismissed Luo Hong's threat and accepted Liu Qingxiang's challenge to settle matters at the Demon-Slaying Ranking.
• Xu Taiping arrived at Yellow Origin Palace and demanded that Xuan Zhou return his younger brother or face the destruction of the Mountain Gate.
• Xuan Zhou answered from the summit, daring Xu Taiping to try.

Xu Taiping and Xiaohei attacked Yellow Origin Palace after Xuan Zhou refused to hand over Bai Yu. As Xu Taiping's Heavenly Wrath Style battered the mountain gate formation, Xiaohei prepared to devour the spiritual land.

• Xiaohei explained that his third-stage divine power let him devour mountain gates and restore what he consumed to its original form, and Xu Taiping agreed to test it on Yellow Origin Palace.
• Xu Taiping transformed into his twelve-hundred-zhang True Dragon Divine Being form, while Xiaohei revealed his enormous black-dog form.
• Xu Taiping demanded that Xuan Zhou hand over Bai Yu, but Xuan Zhou challenged him to attack the mountain gate.
• Xiaohei told Xu Taiping to weaken the barrier so he could devour Yellow Origin Palace's spiritual land, and Xu Taiping summoned his Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect.
• Hundreds of Yellow Origin Palace cultivators attacked Xu Taiping, but one punch sent them crashing into the cliffs.
• Xu Taiping unleashed the Heaven-Shaking Fist's Heavenly Wrath Style, and the Dharma Aspect's countless fists hammered Yellow Origin Palace's mountain gate formation.

Xu Taiping battered Yellow Origin Palace’s Mountain Gate barrier while Palace Master Xuan Zhou and the elders relied on its self-repairing formation and planned to wait until the Chaotic Stars Assembly forced Xu Taiping to leave. The barrier held, but a Black Hound shadow began devouring the palace’s two peaks, leaving Xuan Zhou and the others horrified.

• Xu Taiping’s fist shadows shook Yellow Origin Palace’s peaks and repeatedly weakened its Mountain Gate barrier.
• Xuan Zhou refused to disturb the Ancestor or release Bai Yu, explaining that the formation could endure Xu Taiping’s attacks for several days.
• Elder Lu Xuan noted that Xu Taiping would have to attend the Chaotic Stars Assembly the next day, and Xuan Zhou planned to trap him with the Illusory Moon Grand Formation.
• The barrier nearly became transparent before spiritual-power pythons restored it, but the sky then darkened as spiritual power streamed out of the Main Hall.
• Xuan Zhou and the others saw through a Mountain-Watching Mirror that Xu Taiping’s Black Hound was swallowing the two peaks.

Xu Taiping attacked the Yellow Origin Palace’s mountain-guarding barrier while Xiaohei devoured the peaks and drained its spiritual power. Palace Master Xuan Zhou refused to return Bai Yu and used the Palace’s earth artifact to delay Xu Taiping, betting that he would have to choose between Bai Yu and the Chaotic Stars Assembly.

• Qi He's primordial spirit warned the Yellow Origin Palace that Xiaohei could absorb the power of those he devoured, but the Palace’s barrier halted Xiaohei and struck back with thunder.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly slashed the barrier while Xiaohei swallowed part of a peak, deliberately draining the barrier’s spiritual power.
• Xu Taiping used his refined true dragon forbidden domain to shatter the barrier’s flaming blade, then struck again with five-colored divine intent.
• The Black-Robed Cultivator urged Xuan Zhou to return Bai Yu, but Xuan Zhou refused and chose to use the Yellow Origin Palace’s earth artifact instead.
• Xuan Zhou rang a bronze bell that expanded into a phantom covering both peaks, then challenged Xu Taiping to choose between Bai Yu and the Chaotic Stars Assembly.

Xu Taiping used his Origin Beginning Clone to overwhelm Yellow Origin Palace’s defenses while Xiaohei’s Heavenly Hound form swallowed its two peaks. With the palace trapped and unable to summon its Ancestor in time, Xu Taiping demanded Bai Yu in exchange for sparing its cultivators’ primordial spirits.

• Xuan Zhou expected Xu Taiping to stop attacking before the Chaotic Stars Assembly, but Xu Taiping continued striking the mountain-guarding barrier as Xiaohei devoured the peaks.
• Xu Taiping revealed an external incarnation with the same cultivation and combat strength as his true body, then attacked the barrier with both of them.
• Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone used the radiance of an edict to strengthen its punches, and the barrier could no longer recover as quickly as the two attackers destroyed it.
• Xiaohei swallowed both peaks, leaving Yellow Origin Palace unable to contact its Ancestor before the barrier dissolved into spiritual power.
• Xuan Zhou offered to return Bai Yu, but Xu Taiping refused to bargain and demanded Bai Yu in exchange for sparing the palace’s primordial spirits.

As noon approached, cultivators on the Demon-Slaying Platform wondered whether Xu Taiping had survived his assault on Yellow Origin Palace. Spirit Mirror reports revealed that he had destroyed the palace, and he headed to the Chaotic Stars Assembly with Xiaohei.

• Qu Ningshuang and the Lower Realm cultivators worried that Xu Taiping might miss the assembly, while the Three Corpses Cave elders discussed Lin Buyu's absence and Ancestor Peng Ju.
• Lin Buyu arrived on her Teleportation Platform, and she brushed off Baili Yezhao's question about whether she had gone to help Xu Taiping.
• A cultivator announced through the Spirit Mirrors that Yellow Origin Palace had been destroyed and everyone there had been wiped out.
• The Spirit Mirrors showed Xiaohei's heavenly hound phantom swallowing Yellow Origin Palace's two peaks.
• Xu Taiping called Xiaohei to the Demon-Slaying Platform for the assembly, leaving the cultivators stunned.

Xu Taiping returned after destroying the Yellow Origin Palace and learned that Lin Buyu had been mistreated by the Three Corpses Cave, though they agreed to settle matters after the Chaotic Stars Assembly began. Lin Buyu challenged him to compete for the top three, and Fenghuang began explaining the assembly’s rules as its teleportation drew near.

• Xu Taiping landed on his Teleportation Platform, shocking the crowd with confirmation that he had destroyed the Yellow Origin Palace.
• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that she had been bullied by the Three Corpses Cave, and Xu Taiping confronted its people until the Venerables intervened.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu agreed to prepare for the assembly and postpone settling their dispute with the Three Corpses Cave until it began.
• Lin Buyu revealed that Ancestor Peng Ju had confiscated her Listening Wind Bracelet and promised to return it if she ranked in the top ten.
• Lin Buyu wagered that she would reach the top three before Xu Taiping, and he accepted her challenge.
• Fenghuang announced that the assembly’s teleportation array would open shortly and that participants would be sent to one of 108 demon-sealing sites in the Kunlun Ruins.

At the Chaotic Stars Assembly, Xu Taiping saw through the Lotus Eye that Lin Buyu would be sent into the sealed land of the fifth-stage Evil Demon Incarnation Zhuyin Liyuan, so he used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to take her place. He entered Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land safely and prepared to use the Lotus Eye to assess his chances against the demon.

• Fenghuang announced the Chaotic Stars Assembly rules, including restrictions on veteran participants, required stays in sealed lands, and a ban on cultivators killing one another.
• As the Demon-Slaying Bell rang, the Lotus Eye showed Xu Taiping a vision of Lin Buyu entering Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land and facing the demon.
• Xu Taiping asked Lin Buyu to trust him and used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap places with her just before the Teleportation Arrays activated.
• Xu Taiping arrived in Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land, concealed his aura with the Blade of Guicang, and avoided detection by the demon’s sweeping Divine Sense.
• Xu Taiping recalled that the Flame Court had disconnected the arrays to Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land ten thousand years earlier and wondered who had reactivated them.
• Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye to assess his chances of defeating the fifth-stage Evil Demon Incarnation.

Xu Taiping watched Zhuyin Liyuan burn the Jade Bone Grass and its trapped soldiers, then suspected the grass had lost the command needed to fight as a formation. He opened the Lotus Eye’s divine soul mark, which showed Zhuyuan attacking a city, but the vision had not yet revealed where to find the command.

• Xu Taiping saw crimson-centered Jade Bone Grass spread across the scorched earth and watched Zhuyin Liyuan appear and burn vast patches of it with dragon flame.
• Xu Taiping realized Zhuyuan was burning the remnant souls of the Flame Emperor’s soldiers trapped within the Jade Bone Grass.
• The soldiers cried out for General Lian Xing to lead another formation charge, but their individual volleys barely harmed Zhuyin Liyuan.
• Xu Taiping suspected the Jade Bone Grass had lost its command and decided the Lotus Eye’s divine soul mark might reveal where to find it.
• Xu Taiping hid in a cave and opened the mark, which showed Zhuyuan breathing fire on a city and shattering its protective barrier.

Xu Taiping witnessed the ancient Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s attempt to kill Liyuan, in which General Lian Xing led his troops in a fatal sacrifice and struck down the demon’s wing. The vision ended with the Kunwu Sword appearing, leading Xu Taiping to suspect the Lotus Eye wanted him to seek Lian Xing’s saber in the River of Time.

• Thousands of specially made spears pierced Zhuyuan, then Lian Xing led the Demon-Slaying Cavalry in a charge and cut off the demon’s head.
• Zhuyuan revealed that his head was not his Death Acupoint and unleashed black Dragon Breath at Lian Xing, his troops, and the city below.
• Lian Xing cleaved a path through the flames, but as his saber began to rust, his soldiers urged him to use the Self-Sacrifice Order.
• Lian Xing ordered the Demon-Slaying Cavalry to give their lives, and their bodies became a torrent of flame that empowered his strike.
• Lian Xing split the Dragon Flame and severed one of Liyuan’s wings, but the vision vanished before revealing the demon’s fate.
• Xu Taiping concluded that Lian Xing’s saber might command the Jade Bone Grass, then saw the Kunwu Sword appear and wondered whether he should search for the saber in the River of Time.

After Liyuan left, Xu Taiping learned that the sealed land was Iron Sun City, the site of the ancient battle against the Demon God Zhuyin Liyuan. He searched the Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s burial mound for a relic and discovered a weapon, which could help him enter the River of Time at the right place.

• Liyuan burned the jade bone grass, then flew away to sleep while Xu Taiping promised the remnant souls he would not let them fight alone next time.
• Xu Taiping realized the sealed land might be the site of the battle shown in the Lotus Eye’s visions and searched for a Demon-Slaying Army relic.
• The Demon-Slaying Token identified the sealed land as Iron Sun City, where General Lian Xing and ten thousand Demon-Slaying Cavalry had fought Zhuyin Liyuan.
• The Demon-Slaying Token revealed that the cavalry’s remains and relics were buried in a mound, and Xu Taiping flew there to search for a weapon.
• Xu Taiping asked how many points he would earn for slaying Liyuan, then sensed something cold beneath the mound and identified it as a Demon-Slaying Cavalry weapon.

Xu Taiping spent a strand of the power of time to revisit the ancient battle between General Lian Xing and Zhuyuan, hoping to find the general's saber. He reached the battlefield as Lian Xing severed Zhuyuan's wings, but Zhuyuan struck the general with its tail.

• After searching the sealing grounds for three days without finding Lian Xing's saber, Xu Taiping decided to use the power of time to enter the River of Time.
• The Demon-Slaying Token told Xu Taiping that cultivators knew he was in Zhuyuan's sealing grounds, but it would keep his whereabouts secret if he wished.
• Xu Taiping used an ancient spear and the Kunwu Sword to travel to the battle where the spear's owner had died, then paid respect to the headless soldiers who had fought alongside Lian Xing.
• Xu Taiping flew toward the sounds of Lian Xing and Zhuyuan's battle, worried he might arrive too late to help the general.
• Lian Xing severed Zhuyuan's remaining wing, but Zhuyuan's tail struck him into a cliff; Xu Taiping marveled at the old general's power as a violent burst of qi erupted nearby.

Old General Lian Xing wounded all three of Zhuyuan’s vital points with a saber strike, forcing Zhuyuan to flee, but suffered mortal injuries himself. Watching Lian Xing struggle to send word to the Flame Emperor, Xu Taiping resolved to remember this forgotten stretch of time.

• Lian Xing revealed that the Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s gathered power was stored in his saber and provoked Zhuyuan into facing him.
• Xu Taiping entered Emptiness Daoheart and gained a clear understanding of ultimate-realm power as Lian Xing prepared to attack.
• Lian Xing charged Zhuyuan with his saber, cleaved through the black halos, and severed one of Zhuyuan’s foreclaws.
• Zhuyuan’s scales struck Lian Xing, leaving him with only half his body, but Lian Xing declared that all three of Zhuyuan’s vital points were wounded.
• Zhuyuan fled, while Lian Xing tried to crawl toward his severed body to send word to the Flame Emperor about sealing Zhuyuan.
• Xu Taiping watched Lian Xing’s effort and resolved that this forgotten stretch of time must be remembered.