Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu entered Darkstone Valley despite warnings and learned that the Court Master wanted Xu Taiping to project what he saw there. They were immediately confronted by berserk demonic beasts, and Xu Taiping prepared to test his martial power against them.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu heard that berserk Evil Demon Incarnations were driving cultivators away from Darkstone Valley, and Lin Buyu suspected the Nine Abysses was luring Xu Taiping inside.
• Cultivators urged Xu Taiping to rescue Qu Ningshuang, while Lin Buyu identified one questioner as a likely Nine Abysses spy; Commander Chi Fan warned Xu Taiping that Darkstone Valley was dangerous.
• Xu Taiping chose to teleport to Darkstone Valley with Lin Buyu, and the Court Master asked through Chi Fan whether Xu Taiping would project the scenes from inside.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu arrived in a secluded valley, where six berserk second-stage, lower-grade demonic beasts charged at them.
• Xu Taiping told Xiaohei to stand aside so he could test his martial cultivation, and the leading Tiger Demon leaped at them with a surge of hostility and mountain spirit power.

Xu Taiping used the Ten Emperors Scripture’s magic power to destroy several low-stage evil demon incarnations, then prepared to lure stronger ones to Peach Garden Ridge so Lin Buyu could cast her spell. As Lin Buyu began preparing while the Demon-Slaying Platform watched, Sword Venerable Yun Jiuyi suspected she was about to cast a legendary Ultimate Dao Spell.

• Xu Taiping destroyed the Tiger Demon and several other low-stage evil demon incarnations with punches empowered by the Ten Emperors Scripture.
• Lin Buyu warned that Xu Taiping’s new magic power still needed to be tested against stronger evil demon incarnations, and he decided to target the fourth-stage middle-grade ones.
• Xu Taiping used the Blade of Guicang to hide Lin Buyu’s aura for half an incense stick’s time, and Lin Buyu promised her spell could slay as many as eight fourth-stage middle-grade evil demons if he lured them to Peach Garden Ridge.
• Xu Taiping ordered Xiaohei to guard Lin Buyu and arranged for her spellcasting to be shown to the outside world through the Demon-Slaying Token.
• At the Demon-Slaying Platform, Sword Venerable Yun Jiuyi recognized Lin Buyu’s preparations and wondered whether she was casting an Ultimate Dao Spell, while Jiang Shuoxue expressed astonishment.

Qu Ningshuang and the wounded cultivators struggled to defend a valley in Darkstone Valley as waves of demonic beasts overwhelmed their formations. Just as the Griffin Sky Demon attacked, a thunder arrow from Xu Taiping blasted it away, leaving the group recognizing their rescuer.

• Qu Ningshuang refused to abandon Zhou Xie, Shi Yuan, Wang Qiao, and Zhao Zhen, and ordered them to keep defending the valley until the formations broke.
• Zhou Xie killed two demonic beasts with a powerful axe strike, while Shi Yuan sealed a breach in the Heavenly Gang North Wind Formation and injured his foundation.
• Dozens of demonic beasts charged the valley, so Zhao Zhen and Wang Qiao completed the Golden Bell Formation to protect the defenders.
• The Griffin Sky Demon smashed through the outer formation and swooped down to attack the group.
• A thunder arrow struck the Griffin Sky Demon and hurled it into a cliff, leading Qu Ningshuang and the others to recognize Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping rescued Qu Ningshuang, Zhou Xie, and their companions from the python and griffin demons, but they remained trapped in the valley without their Demon-Slaying Tokens. After deciding to fight together rather than risk leaving the valley, Xu Taiping summoned his Origin Beginning Clone as two more beasts broke through.

• Xu Taiping shot the three-headed python with a flaming arrow, and Qu Ningshuang helped cut down two of its heads while fighting off its attacks.
• Xu Taiping attacked the griffin demon with massive blade strikes and drove it into the cliff, saving Zhou Xie and the others from its claws.
• Qu Ningshuang broke free of the python demon and joined Xu Taiping in the valley as the griffin demon began radiating a terrifying edict aura.
• Xu Taiping proposed buying time for the group to teleport, but Qu Ningshuang explained that they had lost their Demon-Slaying Tokens in a southern bamboo grove.
• After Zhou Xie warned that leaving the valley would expose them to the surrounding beasts, Xu Taiping summoned his Origin Beginning Clone and struck at two beasts breaking through.

Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone fought through Darkstone Valley to escort Qu Ningshuang and the others to the Bamboo Grove, then stayed behind to hold off the demonic beasts while they sought the Demon-Slaying Token. As stronger demons closed in, Xu Taiping prepared to test the Annihilating Blade Art’s power against the Griffin Great Demon and its horde.

• Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone smashed a path through the demonic beasts, allowing Qu Ningshuang, Zhou Xie, and the others to follow them toward the Bamboo Grove.
• Xu Taiping held back the horde with his clone while Qu Ningshuang and the others entered the Bamboo Grove to find the Demon-Slaying Token and activate the Teleportation Array.
• Xu Taiping told Qu Ningshuang that he was repaying Elder Qu Shuang’s past kindness, then remained outside to guard the group as they escaped.
• A Xing Demon shattered dozens of arms of Xu Taiping’s clone, and several other powerful demons approached.
• Xu Taiping unleashed a massive saber strike that killed or wounded many demons, then prepared to face the Griffin Great Demon and its horde with the Annihilating Blade Art.

Xu Taiping used the Ten Emperors Scripture and his Origin Beginning Clone to hold back the demonic beasts while Qu Ningshuang and the others escaped the Bamboo Grove with the Demon-Slaying Token. The group arrived safely at the Demon-Slaying Platform, while Xu Taiping remained in danger with the beasts pursuing him.

• Xu Taiping unleashed the Annihilating Blade Art, killing numerous demonic beasts and bringing down the Griffin Sky Demon and several other third-stage beasts.
• When the Origin Beginning Clone was overwhelmed by two fourth-stage beasts, Xu Taiping swapped places with it and struck them with his Water-Cutting Blade.
• As more beasts surrounded them, Xu Taiping and his clone switched to fist combat and held the horde back outside the Bamboo Grove.
• Qu Ningshuang recovered the Demon-Slaying Token and ordered the group to teleport to the Demon-Slaying Platform, leaving Xu Taiping behind so they would not hinder him.
• Xu Taiping and his clone broke through the horde and ran toward a valley, pursued by flying demonic beasts.
• Qu Ningshuang, Zhou Xie, Elder Shi, and the others arrived at the Demon-Slaying Platform, where the cultivators cried out in astonishment that they had survived.

Qu Ningshuang and the others learned that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu had split up in Darkstone Valley, and Qu Ningshuang prepared to return to help them. As hundreds of demonic beasts charged Peach Garden Ridge, Xu Taiping arrived beside Lin Buyu, leaving the onlookers wondering how luring the horde there could protect her.

• Qu Ningshuang told Jiang Shuoxue that Xu Taiping had drawn away the demonic beasts so she and the others could escape Darkstone Valley.
• Jiang Shuoxue explained that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu had entered the valley together, but only Lin Buyu had appeared in the projected image.
• After realizing Lin Buyu was in danger, Qu Ningshuang gathered spirit marrow stones and pills and decided to return to Darkstone Valley to help.
• Yun Jiuyi warned Qu Ningshuang and Jiang Shuoxue that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu had prepared for the situation, just as Xu Taiping arrived at Peach Garden Ridge.
• Hundreds of demonic beasts surged toward Peach Garden Ridge, and the watching cultivators questioned why Xu Taiping had drawn them to Lin Buyu.

Lin Buyu unleashed her Ultimate Dao Heavenly Thunder Spell to annihilate the demonic beasts swarming Peach Garden Ridge, after Xu Taiping held them back with the Shentu Bow. The Demon-Slaying Platform’s observers learned that her devastating spell had scorched everything within fifty or sixty li, though Yun Jiuyi explained its casting limitations.

• Lin Buyu calmly thanked Xu Taiping for drawing the demonic beasts to her and asked him to stand behind her as she prepared a spell.
• Xu Taiping used the Shentu Bow to drive back the griffin great demon and intercept the other charging beasts with hundreds of arrows.
• Lin Buyu invoked the Ultimate Dao Heavenly Thunder Spell—Heavenly Annihilation, and its lingering lightning destroyed the demonic beasts and scorched the surrounding land for fifty or sixty li.
• Jiang Shuoxue and Qu Ningshuang were stunned by Lin Buyu’s power, while Yun Jiuyi explained that Ultimate Dao Spells took a long time to cast and could not be used again soon.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform after Lin Buyu displayed overwhelming power, and they redeemed points that put her second and Xu Taiping first on the Demon-Slaying Ranking. Chi Fan’s teasing suggestion that they were Dao Companions embarrassed Lin Buyu as she hurried Xu Taiping away.

• Lin Buyu appeared in the projected image after demonstrating her strength, and she promised Xu Taiping she would deal with anyone who made him enemies.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform, where Qu Ningshuang and the others thanked them for saving their lives.
• Xu Taiping advised Qu Ningshuang to rest before entering another Seal Land, while Lin Buyan urged Lin Buyu to ask about Xu Taiping’s relationship with Qu Ningshuang.
• Chi Fan congratulated Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu and prompted them to redeem their Demon-Slaying points.
• The Flame Guards announced that Lin Buyu ranked second with 97,300 points and Xu Taiping ranked first with 121,000 points.
• Chi Fan called Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu Dao Companions, and a blushing Lin Buyu hurried Xu Taiping away while insisting she was not angry.

The Heartless Demon Emperor and the other demons planned to ambush Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu in the Hemu Spirit Fields, believing Xu Taiping’s cultivation had weakened. A Spirit Mirror revealed that Liu Qingxiang and Luo Hong had independently prepared a deadly trap for the pair.

• Li Yezhu urged the Heartless Demon Emperor to act after watching Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu defeat a fourth-stage middle-grade demonic beast.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor and the Heartless Demon Emperor concluded that Xu Taiping’s cultivation had fallen and that he and Lin Buyu relied on short, powerful attacks.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor revealed that the demons would attack the next day in the Hemu Spirit Fields, where he expected Xu Taiping to enter.
• Liu Qingxiang told Luo Hong that he had buried Crimson Blood Pills across the spirit fields to draw evil demon incarnations and planned to use a Monk Demon’s Heavenly Marsh Power to trap and kill Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu.
• Li Yezhu realized that Liu Qingxiang and Luo Hong were also plotting against Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu discussed the Demon-Slaying Ranking and their plans to earn more points before Lin Buyu received an urgent order from Fuyao Venerable. The chapter left them learning that Liu Qingxiang, Luo Hong, and their group were trapped in the Hemu Spirit Fields and needed rescue.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor revealed that he had planted a demon seed in Liu Qingxiang over fifty years earlier and planned to use her to lure Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu into the Seal Land.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu reviewed the Demon-Slaying Ranking and discussed how Xiao Huang, Xiao Moji, and Gu Changming might be stockpiling points.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu considered hunting more demonic beasts to protect their positions in the Chaotic Stars Assembly.
• Lin Buyu received a message saying Liu Qingxiang, Luo Hong, and the others were trapped in the Hemu Spirit Fields within the Seal Land.
• Fuyao Venerable ordered Lin Buyu to go rescue Liu Qingxiang, Luo Hong, and their group.

Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that Nine Abysses had killed her in each of her nine previous lives and seemed determined to keep her from claiming a half-immortal seat. The next day, Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu went to rescue Liu Qingxiang, Luo Hong, and their companions from the Hemu Spirit Fields, where Sword Venerable Yun Jiuyi suspected the battle would be more difficult than it looked.

• Lin Buyu explained that her instincts and memories of her nine previous lives made her suspect Nine Abysses was behind the danger and its repeated attempts to kill her.
• Xu Taiping promised to use his power of deduction to investigate Lin Buyu's karma if they captured a Demon Emperor.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu watched fireworks together, and Lin Buyu shared her wish to see the Starfall River of Stars from her mother's hometown.
• Lin Buyu crushed Fuyao Venerable's order urging her to act, then asked Xu Taiping to share his Hidden Immortal Wine.
• The next day, Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu rode Xiaohei to the Hemu Spirit Fields to rescue Liu Qingxiang, Luo Hong, and their companions, who were trapped by Monk Demons and Dao Demons.
• Xiaohei swallowed several attackers, but Sword Venerable Yun Jiuyi warned that the battle might not be simple.

Luo Hong and Liu Qingxiang manipulated Xu Mu Yao into reopening a formation node while they protected the Golden Bell Grand Formation. Xu Mu Yao reached the Bronze Bell, but Liu Qingxiang’s Crimson Blood Pill drew a dozen Demonic Beasts toward her.

• Liu Qingxiang signaled Luo Hong to act when the fighting outside the Barrier intensified.
• Luo Hong persuaded Xu Mu Yao to hold the Bronze Bell, then feigned reluctance as she volunteered to reopen the formation node.
• Xu Mu Yao slipped past a sword-wielding Demonic Beast and reached the node, while Luo Hong and Liu Qingxiang stabilized the Golden Bell Grand Formation.
• Liu Qingxiang’s Crimson Blood Pill attracted a dozen Demonic Beasts to Xu Mu Yao as she began opening the node.
• Luo Hong realized Liu Qingxiang had used the pill to put Xu Mu Yao in danger.

Xu Taiping arrived just as Xu Mu Yao was overwhelmed by demonic beasts, saving her with a single slash. Liu Qingxiang and Luo Hong then trapped them inside a shrinking Golden Bell Formation and prepared to unleash a horde of demonic beasts, declaring that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu would not escape.

• Xu Mu Yao buried a dozen demonic beasts underground and continued trying to reopen the formation node, but more beasts attacked her as she worked.
• Xu Taiping arrived and killed the demonic beasts surrounding Xu Mu Yao with a single slash.
• Luo Hong activated the Golden Bell Formation, shrinking it and severing its connections to the outer formation nodes.
• Liu Qingxiang tricked Xu Mu Yao into pouring her power into the node, which exploded instead of opening.
• Crimson lights appeared beneath the wheat field, and demonic beasts charged toward Xu Taiping and Xu Mu Yao as Liu Qingxiang vowed that Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu would not escape.

Xu Taiping faced the Golden-Pupiled Blood Blade Bone Monk while protecting Xu Mu Yao in the wheat field, holding back his full strength as he fought. After dismembering the demon, he learned that Lin Buyu’s allotted time was up and prepared to fight without restraint.

• Lin Buyu asked Xu Taiping to keep protecting Xu Mu Yao while they waited to see what the Heartless Demon Emperor would do.
• The Golden-Pupiled Blood Blade Bone Monk emerged and attacked Xu Taiping, while Xu Mu Yao warned him about its strength and edict powers.
• Xu Taiping dodged and exchanged blows with the Bone Monk as Xiaohei and Xu Mu Yao fought off the other demonic beasts.
• The Bone Monk used its edict power to drain Xu Taiping’s Qi and Blood, growing stronger and trapping him with gravitational force.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade and used his Left-Eye Lotus Pupil to sever the Bone Monk’s arm and cut its body into pieces.
• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that one incense stick’s worth of time had passed, and he said he could finally fight at full strength.

As the Nine Abysses completed its sealing barrier over the Hemu Spirit Fields, Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping unleashed their full strength against the demonic beasts. Xu Taiping killed the Golden-Eyed Blood Blade Bone Demon with one punch and then waited for the Nine Abysses to make its next move.

• The Hemu Spirit Fields turned blood-red as the sealing barrier closed, and Lin Buyu recognized that Xu Taiping’s deduction had been correct.
• Lin Buyu summoned thunder swords and a thunder crane to defeat the demonic beasts in her path and flew toward the center of the Wheat Field.
• Xu Taiping revealed his three-hundred-zhang true dragon divine being physique and countered the Golden-Eyed Blood Blade Bone Demon’s blood-draining slash with a Heaven-Touching Stance punch.
• Xu Taiping’s punch shattered the demon’s blade force and destroyed its body, astonishing Xu Mu Yao.
• Xu Taiping reflected on the flaws in his martial arts and wondered why the Nine Abysses had not yet acted now that the sealing barrier was complete.

Xu Taiping fought waves of demonic beasts in the wheat field while waiting for the Great Golden Bell Formation to be repaired. After his Origin Beginning Clone drove back several fourth-stage beasts, Lin Buyu proposed making a move to lure their hidden enemies out, and a sudden flash erupted behind Xu Taiping.

• The edict power left by the Golden-Eyed Red-Bladed Bone Demon exploded, and its bloody light made the wheat field difficult to move through.
• Xu Mu Yao told Xu Taiping that Liu Qingxiang still needed time to repair the Great Golden Bell Formation and remove the teleportation restrictions.
• Xu Taiping fought off successive waves of demonic beasts while suppressing his cultivation with the Blade of Guicang.
• Six fourth-stage demonic beasts attacked Xu Taiping, and Xu Mu Yao rushed to help before he released his Origin Beginning Clone to drive them back.
• Lin Buyu offered to make a move to lure their enemies out, and a sudden crash and crane cry came from behind Xu Taiping as a dazzling gleam swelled.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu faced an assault by the Nine Abysses Demon Emperors and their forces at a Seal Land. Xu Taiping revealed overwhelming strength and prepared to unleash his full aura as the three hundred demonic generals charged.

• Lin Buyu arrived beside Xu Taiping on a lightning crane, and Wuxin, Qing He, Li Yezhu, and hundreds of Nine Abysses fighters soon joined the attack.
• Qing He attacked Xu Taiping with his Hān Bà body, but Xu Taiping smashed his body apart with the Heaven-Shaking Fist, and Xiaohei swallowed the remains.
• Wuxin and Li Yezhu attacked Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu together, but Lin Buyu's lightning crane feathers tore through their demonic qi and forced them back.
• Wuxin ordered the three hundred demonic generals to target Lin Buyu, and Xu Taiping's Thousand Arms Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect stopped their formation charge.
• Xu Taiping put away the Blade of Guicang and unleashed the terrifying aura and magic power he had concealed.

Xu Taiping trapped the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and their forces in his strengthened Infernal Prison blade domain, then waited as the two enemies unleashed their demon god bodies and attacks. As their strikes closed in, Lin Buyu realized the Ten Emperors Scripture protected Xu Taiping from the Heartless Demon Emperor’s Divine Soul Attack.

• Xu Taiping used his Origin Beginning Clone to unleash the fifth blade domain, Infernal Prison, surrounding the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and the demonic forces in a snow-covered realm.
• The domain’s blade-filled snow drove back the three hundred demonic generals and battered the Heartless Demon Emperor and Li Yezhu when they attacked.
• Li Yezhu revealed his wolf-headed demon god body, and the Heartless Demon Emperor revealed his nine-headed Xiangliu form before attacking Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu.
• Lin Buyu sent thunder cranes against the pair, but Li Yezhu’s blade shadows intercepted one and the Heartless Demon Emperor swallowed the other; Xiaohei then froze under a Divine Soul Attack.
• Xu Taiping told Lin Buyu to stand behind him and remained unaffected as the Heartless Demon Emperor’s shrieks and Li Yezhu’s blade shadows closed in.
• Lin Buyu sensed a golden halo around Xu Taiping and realized the Ten Emperors Scripture had protected him from the Divine Soul Attack.

Xu Taiping destroyed the Heartless Demon Emperor and Li Yezhu’s forces, then shattered the Nine Abysses’ Night Demonic Spear with his ultimate fist. Before Xiaohei swallowed him, the Heartless Demon Emperor sent a warning throughout the Nine Abysses that Xu Taiping threatened Mother, placing him under a kill order.

• Xu Taiping unleashed Earthly Fire Tempering the Blade, destroying the two Demon God Bodies and slaughtering the three hundred demonic generals, whose demon seeds Xiaohei swallowed.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor and Li Yezhu summoned the Night Demonic Spear, while Lin Buyu protected the area around Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping reached the ultimate realm of the Heaven-Touching Stance and smashed the Night Demonic Spear into fragments, which Xiaohei swallowed.
• As his Demon God Body shattered, the Heartless Demon Emperor warned the Nine Abysses that Xu Taiping threatened Mother and urged the Primordial Lords to kill him.
• Lin Buyu realized the message had placed Xu Taiping under a kill order and regretted not killing the Heartless Demon Emperor sooner.