Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping questioned the Shadow Lord and learned that many human cultivators trapped in the Taixuan Ghost Domain had been killed or wounded, while ghost creatures grew stronger by consuming them. Blade Ghost and Xu Taiping suspected the domain held both a power that strengthened ghost creatures and another that could subdue them, and proposed using Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction to identify the latter before entering.

• Xu Taiping questioned the Shadow Lord, who said she was a minor ghost from the Taixuan Ghost Domain’s outskirts and had escaped through a brief rift in its barrier.
• The Shadow Lord reported that a ghost creature had told her thirty percent of the human cultivators inside had been killed or wounded, and that ghost creatures who ate them had grown at least thirty percent stronger.
• The Shadow Lord said she knew no stable passage back into the domain, though brief, unpredictable rifts had allowed some ghost creatures to return; Blade Ghost sealed her in his Sixteenth Layer Blade Domain.
• Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost reasoned that the Taixuan Ghost Domain likely contained a power that rapidly strengthened ghost creatures, and possibly another that could subdue them.
• Xu Taiping suggested using Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction to discover the subduing power before entering the domain, then Blade Ghost joined him in presenting the idea to Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and the others on a deserted island in Dongting Prefecture.

Daoist Fengzhu began the Heavenly Sacrifice Method to lend Xu Taiping heavenly dao power for a deduction, while the others slaughtered Extraterrestrial Ghost Creatures as offerings. As the Pure Yang Sword Sect watched the battle through a Spirit Mirror, a gigantic winged Ghost Creature dived toward a white-haired old man who did not move.

• Xu Taiping agreed to risk damage to his primordial spirit to deduce a power that could restrain the Extraterrestrial Ghost Creatures, and Daoist Fengzhu offered to perform the Heavenly Sacrifice Method.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei explained that the method used sacrifices to borrow heavenly dao power without karmic backlash, and Daoist Fengzhu ordered everyone to kill Ghost Creatures for offerings.
• Blade Ghost and the others left the deserted island to slay Ghost Creatures across Dongting Blessed Land while Xu Taiping stayed with Daoist Fengzhu.
• Daoist Fengzhu activated golden runes and chanted, and Xu Taiping opened the Lotus Eye to absorb the pure divine soul power summoned by the method.
• The Spirit Mirror showed the battle to the Pure Yang Sword Sect, where Xiao Ming enlarged the image for the disciples.
• A gigantic winged Ghost Creature plunged toward a motionless white-haired old man, prompting a disciple to cry out that he had to dodge.

The Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples watched a projection of Xu Taiping’s group slaughtering powerful ghost creatures across Dongting Great Lake and activating something on a deserted island. The image went dark before revealing what they had accomplished, and Blade Ghost asked Xu Taiping whether he had worked it out through the simulation.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanbei killed a huge ghost creature with Heavenly Strike after the Golden-Winged Peng Bird released it above him.
• The Mountain-Lifting Ape and Golden-Winged Peng Bird worked together to kill five powerful ghost creatures, while Blade Ghost’s blood-red blade technique shredded more than ten others.
• Chen Hao and Xiao Ye noticed that the group was throwing the slain ghosts onto the island with the Teleportation Platform, where a moonlight-like halo had appeared.
• A pillar of white light rose from the island, and five-colored ripples spread through Dongting Blessed Land; an old man ordered everyone back to guard the island.
• The projection turned black, and Xiao Ming agreed to show it across True Martial Heaven; on the island, Blade Ghost asked Xu Taiping if he had worked out the plan through the simulation.

Xu Taiping revealed that Plum Blood Wax could help them fight Ghost Creatures, though fusing with it carried dangerous risks. Before entering the Taixuan Ghost Domain, he activated Kang Cangzi’s Moonlight Stone to scout a safer arrival point and search for the Azure Profound Sect survivors.

• Xu Taiping credited Daoist Fengzhu’s help with his divination, while the group tried to hide their amusement at Daoist Fengzhu’s bald head.
• Xu Taiping explained that Plum Blood Trees produced wax that could repel Ghost Creatures, clear their fog, and empower cultivators against Ghost Power, but warned that too much could cause cultivation deviation and turn them into Evil Ghosts.
• Blade Ghost and the others agreed to prioritize finding Plum Blood Wax, while Xu Taiping stressed that rescuing the Azure Profound Sect cultivators mattered most.
• Xu Taiping proposed using Kang Cangzi’s Moonlight Stone to find a safe location for the White Jade Golden Bridge’s exit before entering the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
• Xu Taiping infused the Moonlight Stone with Dao Essence Power, and a phantom image began to appear above his palm.

Xu Taiping and the others watched a moonlight stone reveal Zhao Linglong defending the Green Bamboo Abode in the Taixuan Ghost Domain. As she began raising a Golden Light Grand Formation, three Sword Cultivators fought three powerful ghost creatures, and one Sword Cultivator slew a ghost.

• Xu Taiping explained that the Azure Profound Sect had merged with the Taixuan Sect Ruins so his master could keep guarding the Ghost Domain for another jiazi.
• Zhao Linglong crashed down outside the Green Bamboo Abode and summoned nine Heaven Rank divine generals to guard it.
• Zhao Linglong scattered formation flags and gold essence coins around the courtyard to raise a Golden Light Grand Formation.
• Three Sword Cultivators intercepted a black attack from one of three enormous ghost creatures and fought them while Zhao Linglong prepared the formation.
• One Sword Cultivator merged with his fire dragon sword shadow and killed a rakshasa-shaped ghost creature with a torrent of sword qi.

Xu Taiping watched a Moonlight Stone image showing Zhao Linglong and the Azure Profound Sect cultivators fighting Ghost Creatures in the Taixuan Ghost Domain. After Yu Cai died and the image vanished, Xu Taiping ordered Blade Ghost to build a bridge into the Blade Domain.

• Zhou Liang, Mo Jun, and Yu Cai fought off Ghost Creatures while Zhao Linglong prepared the Grand Formation at the Green Bamboo Abode.
• More than two dozen Ghost Creatures advanced, and Zhou Liang, Mo Jun, and Yu Cai charged into battle together.
• Zhao Linglong completed the first level of the formation and began activating the second while the three Sword Cultivators fought the horde.
• Xu Taiping told Ping'an the Moonlight Stone showed events from at least three days earlier and said they needed to understand the situation before attempting a rescue.
• A Heavenly Soldier's attack killed Yu Cai and disrupted Zhao Linglong, then another strike shattered the Moonlight Stone.
• Xu Taiping told Blade Ghost to build a bridge into the Blade Domain.

At the Green Bamboo Abode, Yu Cai and Zhao Linglong each refined plum blood wax to strengthen themselves as the disciples fought the ghost horde and raised the courtyard’s defenses. Zhao Linglong nearly completed the formation, but a powerful Shadow Lord appeared and bound all nine divine general Dharma Aspects.

• Yu Cai refined plum blood wax despite Zhao Linglong’s warning, transforming into a towering fire dragon and breaking through the ghost horde to help Mo Jun and Zhou Liang.
• Yu Cai asked Zhao Linglong to pass a message to Shi Ning and to kill him if the plum blood wax’s ghost qi consumed him.
• Zhao Linglong controlled the divine generals to raise layers of golden barriers around the Green Bamboo Abode.
• Zhao Linglong absorbed plum blood wax, regained her strength, and formed more barrier layers with the remaining divine generals.
• A Shadow Lord shattered the nearly completed ninth barrier layer and bound all nine divine general Dharma Aspects with shadow tentacles.

Zhao Linglong used plum blood talismans and the Five Thunder Seal to hold off the Shadow Lord and a gathering of powerful ghosts while trying to complete the Grand Formation. As the barrier weakened and the courtyard was surrounded, Zhou Liang, Mo Jun, and Yu Cai arrived on fire dragons and attacked the ghosts.

• Zhao Linglong burned plum blood talismans to restore her power while keeping the nine Divine General Dharma Aspects in formation.
• After the Shadow Lord pierced one Divine General, Zhao Linglong absorbed a talisman’s power, turned her hair blood-red, and struck the Shadow Lord with the Five Thunder Seal.
• Three great ghosts appeared, and Zhao Linglong recognized that her party’s whereabouts and purpose had been exposed.
• Zhao Linglong used another plum blood talisman as a sword skeleton cracked the barrier and more ghosts attacked it and drained her divine soul.
• Zhou Liang, Mo Jun, and Yu Cai arrived atop fire dragons and unleashed streams of dragon breath at the surrounding ghosts.

Yu Cai, Zhou Liang, Mo Jun, and Zhao Linglong fought to defend the Green Bamboo Abode, but Zhou Tong appeared as a powerful ghost creature and overwhelmed them. As Zhao Linglong faced death, Xu Taiping suddenly rushed out of his residence.

• Yu Cai unleashed a final assault that crushed Ghost Cry, Skinner, and the other ghosts, but a sword strike from the sky pierced him and destroyed his sword qi fire dragon.
• Zhou Tong appeared above the Green Bamboo Abode and attacked the courtyard, while Zhao Linglong used the Ninth Divine Generals Dharma Aspect to raise a barrier.
• Zhou Liang and Mo Jun began refining their plum blood wax, then rode their swords out to attack Zhou Tong as the ghosts battered the barrier.
• Zhou Tong shattered Zhou Liang and Mo Jun's attacks and destroyed Zhao Linglong's barrier, leaving her convinced she would not see Xu Taiping again.
• Xu Taiping suddenly rushed out of his residence, leaving Zhao Linglong wondering whether she was seeing a dying illusion.

Xu Taiping reunited with Zhao Linglong in the Ghost Domain as Zhou Tong, resurrected as a Ghost Servant, attacked her barrier. Zhao Linglong still believed Xu Taiping was an illusion when he absorbed her Plum Blood talisman and charged Zhou Tong, who countered by sending his flying sword toward Xu Taiping's back.

• Xu Taiping found Zhao Linglong, but she mistook him for an illusion and enclosed herself in her Red Silk.
• Zhao Linglong admitted Zhou Liang and Mo Jun through the barrier as Ghost Creatures attacked, while Zhou Tong's sword began piercing the barrier.
• Xu Taiping recognized Zhou Tong as a Ghost Servant serving the Demon Mother, and Zhou Tong said he should have killed Xu Taiping during his Sword Inquiry challenge to Ye Xuan.
• Zhao Linglong ignited her final Plum Blood talisman, but Xu Taiping took its crimson flame and merged its power into his Kun Scales Gloves.
• As Zhou Tong's sword broke through the barrier's last layers, Xu Taiping charged him and struck him hundreds of zhang away.
• Zhou Tong recalled his flying sword and sent it stabbing toward the center of Xu Taiping's back.

Xu Taiping battled Zhou Tong in the sky while Zhao Linglong repaired the courtyard barriers and realized the fight was not an illusion. Zhou Tong summoned the Ancient Sword Shengxie, and Xu Taiping charged straight at it with his Heaven-Touching Stance.

• Xu Taiping’s clone knocked away Zhou Tong’s flying sword and wounded the ghost creatures while his true body drove Zhou Tong back with a punch.
• Zhao Linglong tested whether the battle was real, then restored the courtyard’s nine barrier layers after the ghosts left her unharassed.
• Xu Taiping revealed his ultimate realm physique and four divine manifestations as Zhou Tong transformed into a horned, blood-red evil ghost.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Ancient Sword Shengxie and sent it hurtling toward Xu Taiping, whose Heaven-Touching Stance convinced Zhao Linglong that he was truly there.
• Xu Taiping merged with a divine manifestation and charged into the oncoming Shengxie.

Xu Taiping defeated Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong summoned a Ghost-Summoning Talisman that drew nearby ghost creatures to Zhao Linglong’s courtyard. As the ghosts attacked the formation, Ping'an and Bai Yu emerged to join Xu Taiping and Zhao Linglong.

• Xu Taiping shattered Zhou Tong’s Shengxie sword and destroyed his Asura Body, then burned its fragments with Southern Bright Li Fire.
• Zhou Tong transformed his remains into a Ghost-Summoning Talisman, and Zhao Linglong warned Xu Taiping that it would attract ghosts and bring down blood rain.
• Xu Taiping escaped into Zhao Linglong’s formation before the blood rain fell, and he reunited warmly with his senior sister.
• Zhao Linglong mourned the fallen disciples, including Wu Mo, Zhang Qian, and her Eighth Junior Brother, while Xu Taiping vowed to face the ghost creatures and their masters.
• As the Ghost Wailer and Sword Bone attacked the formation, Zhao Linglong gave Xu Taiping a sealed Jade Box and offered to hold off the ghosts.
• Ping'an and Bai Yu emerged from the room, and Ping'an excitedly greeted Zhao Linglong.

Xu Taiping reunited with Zhao Linglong and brought powerful allies to help rescue the Azure Profound Sect from the Taixuan Ghost Domain. As Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, and Fengzhu fought the summoned ghosts, Zhao Linglong explained that the strongest enemies were deeper inside the domain, where the Sect Master and Zhao Qian remained trapped.

• Bai Yu and Ping'an reunited with Zhao Linglong and offered to take her and the Azure Profound Sect out of the Ghost Domain, but she warned that Plum Blood Wax would kill most of them if they left while the Sixty-Year Pact remained in effect.
• Xu Taiping introduced Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, Fengzhu, and Old Daoist Huang, explaining that the first three possessed combat strength at the Half-Step Half-Immortal Realm.
• When evil ghosts attacked the barrier, Xu Taiping asked Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, and Fengzhu to clear them while he, Bai Yu, and Ping'an destroyed Zhou Tong's ghost-summoning talisman.
• Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, and Fengzhu unleashed their auras and swiftly destroyed the ghosts attacking the barrier, astonishing Zhao Linglong.
• Old Daoist Huang asked whether the ghosts were all that kept the Sect Master and Zhao Qian trapped, and Zhao Linglong explained that the barrier stood at the Ghost Domain's outer fringe, where the ghosts were weakest.

Xu Taiping and his companions destroyed the Ghost-Summoning Talisman and revealed that they had come to help Zhao Linglong through the final year of the Sixty-Year Pact and fight the Demon Mother Clone. Zhao Linglong then explained that she and the others were hiding her father’s Life-Bound Item so he could keep returning from death while battling Yuyangzi, whom the Sect Master had trapped in the Listening Wind Tower.

• Old Daoist Huang used the Qi-Severing Art to help Xu Taiping and the others fend off ghost creatures, while Xu Taiping killed three black dragon ghost creatures with one slash.
• Bai Yu and Ping'an destroyed the Ghost-Summoning Talisman despite its dangerous ghostly force, then returned with Xu Taiping.
• Old Daoist Huang told Zhao Linglong that Xu Taiping had spent nearly sixty years preparing to help her through the final year of the Sixty-Year Pact and possibly slay the Demon Mother Clone.
• Zhao Linglong explained that the ghost creatures near the Azure Profound Sect were weaker because it stood at the outer edge of the Ghost Domain.
• Zhao Linglong told Xu Taiping that she and the others had come to hide her father's Life-Bound Item so he could keep returning from death while fighting Yuyangzi.
• Xu Taiping asked Zhao Linglong whether the Sect Master and the Peak Lords had another purpose in hunting Yuyangzi.

Zhao Linglong entrusted Xu Taiping with her father's Life-Bound Item so he could protect it while Qingxuan prepared to attack the Demon Mother's clone. Xu Taiping handed it to Senior Xiaoyu and chose to head for the Listening Wind Tower, but his Lotus Eye revealed Sect Master Zhao Qian being tortured by a Ghost Creature.

• Zhao Linglong explained that Qingxuan planned to attack the Demon Mother's clone before it fully awakened and gave Xu Taiping her father's Life-Bound Item.
• Xu Taiping decided to go to the Listening Wind Tower to help the Sect Master and the elders instead of hiding from the Ghost Creatures.
• Xu Taiping summoned Senior Xiaoyu from the White Gourd and entrusted her with the jade box.
• Senior Xiaoyu struck Old Daoist Huang with nine bolts of lightning for guarding against her, then withdrew into the White Gourd with the jade box.
• Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye formed a Divine Soul Mark showing Sect Master Zhao Qian being flayed and having his bones removed by a Ghost Creature.

Xu Taiping and his companions raced toward the Listening Wind Tower, learning that three ghost-fog walls guarded by powerful miasma ghosts would slow their journey. As the group reached the first wall, Blade Ghost set out with Bai Yu to confront its guardian.

• Xiaohei carried Xu Taiping and the others toward the Listening Wind Tower while evading pursuing and intercepting ghosts.
• Zhao Linglong explained that three ghost-fog walls concealed thousands of li of Ghost Domain and housed miasma ghosts with near-central-region strength and the ability to sense and teleport through the fog.
• Bai Yu offered to carry someone ahead to defeat each miasma ghost quickly, and the group agreed to try the plan.
• When Xiaohei spotted the first stretch of ghost fog, Blade Ghost volunteered to face its guardian and flew after Bai Yu.
• Xu Taiping told Xiaohei to slow down and rest while Blade Ghost fought.

Xu Taiping's group rushed through the gray mist as the Miasma Ghost attacked them, while Bai Yu and Blade Ghost fought a Mountain Sprite Foot whose mirror-like kneeguard could reflect blade techniques. Blade Ghost wounded the creature, but its gravity-like ghost power forced Bai Yu downward as he impatiently urged Blade Ghost to finish it off.

• Bai Yu and Blade Ghost charged into the mist ahead of Xiaohei and Xu Taiping's group.
• Old Daoist Huang concealed Xiaohei and the group with the Qi-Slaying Art, but ghost-qi arrows pursued them through the mist.
• Bai Yu collided with a Golden-Winged White-Headed Eagle emerging from a mirror on the Mountain Sprite Foot's kneeguard.
• Blade Ghost's first slash was reflected by the kneeguard's mirror, but Bai Yu carried him behind the creature so his next slash wounded its heel.
• The Mountain Sprite Foot stamped down and unleashed gravity-like ghost power that forced Bai Yu toward the ground, prompting him to urge Blade Ghost to cut it down.

Blade Ghost defeated the Mountain Sprite Foot and took control of its Ghost Fog Ghost Domain, allowing Xiaohei to carry the group onward through the ghost creatures. Xu Taiping showed Zhao Linglong a vision of Zhao Qian’s suffering, and she realized her father had stayed behind at Listening Wind Tower to delay Yuxuzi and protect the Azure Profound Sect’s chance to fulfill the Sixty-Year Pact.

• Blade Ghost used a many-armed dharma aspect to break the Mountain Sprite Foot’s mirrored defense, cleave its body, and wear away its remaining form with blade shadows.
• Blade Ghost took control of the Mountain Sprite Foot’s ghost fog and ordered Bai Yu to catch up with Xiaohei as Xiaohei carried the group onward.
• Xu Taiping told Zhao Linglong that he had learned something through heavenly secrets deduction and showed her the divine soul mark containing Zhao Qian’s condition.
• Zhao Linglong understood that Zhao Qian had sacrificed himself to delay Yuxuzi from meeting the Demon Mother and buy time for her, Grand Martial Uncle, and the Azure Profound Sect.
• Xu Taiping promised Zhao Linglong that they would reach Listening Wind Tower and kill Yuxuzi.

Xu Taiping and Bai Yu encountered the Miasma Ghost guarding the third layer, a Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry whose Ghost Art overwhelmed the Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples watching through the image. The disciples fought off the illusion as the battle began.

• Xiao Ming calmed Xiao Ye after Heavenly Lord Xuanbei's crushing strike and urged him and Chen Hao to study the projected battle.
• Xu Taiping rode Bai Yu's Golden-Winged Peng Bird into the third wall of ghost mist as Xiao Ming reflected on how far Xu Taiping had come.
• A gigantic, skinless Ghost Cry attacked them with a Giant Sword, but Bai Yu dodged the blow.
• Chen Hao identified the creature as a Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry after its thousands of eyes opened and its aura surged.
• The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry unleashed a sound-based Ghost Art that made the Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples feel as if their flesh and bones were being torn apart, and Xiao Ming told them to focus and dispel the illusion.

Xiao Ming, Xiao Ye, and Chen Hao watched Xu Taiping resist the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry’s illusions and ghost arts, then use overwhelming fist techniques to destroy it. The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry was reduced to dust without landing a counterattack.

• Chen Hao explained that the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry’s Ten Thousand Souls Lingering Execution caused phantom pain and trapped souls in illusions, while Xiao Ming identified Xu Taiping’s protective purple-gold light as true dragon forbidden domain power.
• Xiao Ye and Xiao Ming wondered at the domain’s range and Xu Taiping’s strength as the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry unleashed its Filthy Sword Blood Prison.
• Xu Taiping struck the blood prison repeatedly until golden fist shadows burst through and shattered it.
• Xu Taiping summoned a Thousand Arms Vajra dharma aspect, whose thousand fists converged into one punch that smashed the Thousand-Eyed Ghost Cry to dust.