Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and the Azure Profound Sect rescued the gravely wounded Elder Yun Ye, who revealed that Lü Daoxuan planned to sacrifice himself to reseal Zhao Xuantan and the Demon Mother. Xu Taiping and Zhao Qian refused to abandon him, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping claiming he was completely confident he could save Lü Daoxuan.

• Xu Taiping, Bai Yu, Ping'an, and the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators fought through the ghost horde and rescued the wounded Elder Yun Ye.
• Bai Yu carried them back to the sword formation, where the blood-robed great ghosts stopped at the boundary of the Blood Pool.
• Old Daoist Huang treated Elder Yun Ye, who explained that Zhao Xuantan had disrupted the defense inside Taixuan Hall and Lü Daoxuan had sent him out to warn them.
• Elder Yun Ye revealed that Lü Daoxuan planned to sacrifice himself in half an incense stick's time to reseal Zhao Xuantan and the Demon Mother until the Sixty-Year Pact ended.
• Xu Taiping and Zhao Qian refused to leave Lü Daoxuan behind, and Xu Taiping declared he was completely confident he could save him.

Xu Taiping and his companions broke through the blood-robed ghosts surrounding the Central Area of the Blood River, while Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators stayed behind to hold off the horde. Bu Xueting arrived to break the ghost wall, allowing Xu Taiping to hurry toward Taixuan Hall to reinforce Lü Daoxuan.

• Zhao Qian led the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators in carving an opening through the blood-robed ghost wall for Xu Taiping and his companions.
• As stronger ghosts swarmed the opening, Zhao Qian and the Seven Peak Lords held it open while Bai Yu carried Xu Taiping and the others through.
• The opening closed behind them, and Zhao Qian ordered the trapped Azure Profound Sect cultivators to form the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Two bronze doors appeared in the sky, and Bu Xueting emerged with reinforcements and promised to break the ghost wall.
• Xu Taiping thanked Bu Xueting and ordered Bai Yu to fly to Taixuan Hall, where they arrived above the hall.

Lü Daoxuan fought Zhao Xuantan in Taixuan Hall, breaking free of the black flames and wounding the blood-garbed great ghosts before Zhao Xuantan defeated his direct attack. Lü Daoxuan revealed that he had planted a sword seed in Zhao Xuantan’s sword intent, which might grow into a strike capable of killing him.

• Zhao Xuantan ordered the six blood-garbed great ghosts to kill Lü Daoxuan after declaring that Shangqing would be replaced by the Demon Mother’s forces.
• Lü Daoxuan expanded his azure sword light, imprisoned the six ghosts, and declared he would seek death rather than join them.
• Lü Daoxuan broke through the black flames and grievously wounded the six ghosts, then attacked Zhao Xuantan with a powerful sword strike.
• Zhao Xuantan cleaved Lü Daoxuan’s sword intent and left him with a deep chest wound.
• Lü Daoxuan’s scattered sword light flowed into Zhao Xuantan’s sword intent, and Lü Daoxuan revealed that he had planted a sword seed there.

Lü Daoxuan was nearly killed by Zhao Xuantan’s blood-robed great ghosts after severing his connection to Shangqing’s sword intent. Xu Taiping arrived with Ping'an and Bai Yu, rescued Lü Daoxuan, and confronted Zhao Xuantan with the Human Sovereign Sword, leaving Zhao Xuantan demanding to know who the arrogant junior was.

• Zhao Xuantan destroyed his own sword intent and sent the blood-robed great ghosts to attack Lü Daoxuan, who prepared to use Liberation by Violence as they broke through his sword light.
• Xu Taiping arrived on Bai Yu with his companions, and Ping'an descended in his Mountain-Lifting Ape form to shield Lü Daoxuan from the ghosts’ attacks.
• Ping'an revealed that his demon saint physique and Heavy-Fortification Armor had left him unhurt, but Zhao Xuantan appeared and struck at him with the Demon Mother's Edict.
• Xu Taiping’s Great Balance Law of Taishu disrupted Zhao Xuantan’s palm strike, and the Human Sovereign Sword attacked Zhao Xuantan before he knocked it away with a black iron gate.
• Bai Yu swept in to save the Human Sovereign Sword from Zhao Xuantan’s Annihilation technique, and Xu Taiping promised the sword they would slay the demon.
• Zhao Xuantan looked up at Xu Taiping and asked what arrogant junior he was.

Xu Taiping reunited with Lü Daoxuan in Taixuan Heavenly Palace and promised to take him and the Qingxuan disciples home, but Zhao Xuantan and the Great Ghosts blocked their escape. Bai Yu dodged Zhao Xuantan’s attack and carried the group to the far end of the Heavenly Palace, while Xu Taiping prepared to burn through the spiderweb barrier.

• Xu Taiping found Lü Daoxuan unharmed, and promised to take him and their fellow Qingxuan disciples home.
• A Blood-Garment Great Ghost blocked the Heavenly Palace exit with blood-red spiderwebs, and Lü Daoxuan warned that True Fire could burn the living silk but that destroying it incompletely would strengthen its Ghost Art.
• Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan decided to escape first, while Xu Taiping prepared Southern Bright Li Fire and asked Bai Yu to carry them to the exit.
• Zhao Xuantan attacked Bai Yu with Blade Force that became Black Blazing Flame, but Bai Yu dodged him and carried Xu Taiping and the others to the far end of the Heavenly Palace.

Xu Taiping and his companions tried to escape Zhao Xuantan’s pursuit, but his saber’s strange edict repeatedly pulled them back. Xu Taiping stayed behind to protect the others and unleashed his strongest techniques against Zhao Xuantan, ending with the Netherworld Book of Life and Death reaching for the pinned Divine General.

• Bai Yu used his movement technique to carry Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan toward the Heavenly Palace’s exit, but Zhao Xuantan’s saber repeatedly returned them to their original position.
• The Blood Banner Ghost and two other Great Ghosts attacked, and the blood banner began draining the group’s Qi, Blood, and Divine Soul Power.
• Xu Taiping stayed behind and raised his Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect to shield the others as Bai Yu flew away.
• Zhao Xuantan shattered Xu Taiping’s Dharma Aspect with Law Severance, but Xu Taiping broke his finger attack with Hundred-Zhang Seal Domain.
• Xu Taiping summoned the Book of Life and Death and Heaven-Flipping Seal, pinned Zhao Xuantan, and inscribed “Zhao Xuantan, sudden death” as two ghostly hands reached for him.

Xu Taiping and Lü Daoxuan fought Zhao Xuantan with powerful treasures and sword techniques, forcing him to reveal his true ghost body. Zhao Xuantan recognized Xu Taiping as a threat to himself and the Demon Mother, and Xu Taiping prepared to face his next strike alongside his master.

• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Flipping Seal and the Book of Life and Death to strip away layers of Zhao Xuantan's ghost power while the Dragon-Trapping Tower blocked the five Great Ghosts' attack.
• Bai Yu carried Lü Daoxuan, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang into the fight, and they held off the Great Ghosts as Xu Taiping pressed Zhao Xuantan with his treasures.
• Zhao Xuantan sacrificed a Great Ghost to escape the treasures' killing power, then attacked Lü Daoxuan and the others with ten thousand sword shadows.
• Xu Taiping switched places with Lü Daoxuan and used Heavenly Wrath Third Stage to shatter Zhao Xuantan's sword shadows with golden fists.
• Zhao Xuantan unleashed his full sword intent after deciding Xu Taiping threatened him and the Demon Mother; Lü Daoxuan joined Xu Taiping and warned that his planted sword seed could turn against Zhao Xuantan if they endured the strike.
• Xu Taiping told Lü Daoxuan to step back because unleashing the Ten Emperors Scripture and his physique might catch his master in the resulting aura.

Xu Taiping unleashed and refined his Heaven-Hunting Great Sage Physique to withstand Zhao Xuantan’s escalating sword intent, while Lü Daoxuan watched from Bai Yu’s back. The two powers continued to rise against each other, forcing Bai Yu and the others to retreat as the great ghosts failed to approach Xu Taiping.

• Lü Daoxuan stepped behind Xu Taiping and reappeared on Bai Yu’s back, leaving Xu Taiping to face Zhao Xuantan.
• Zhao Xuantan intensified his sword intent and criticized Shangqing’s cultivators and the Shangqing edict as Xu Taiping prepared to use the Ten Emperors Scripture fully.
• Xu Taiping removed his physique’s restrictions and grew to more than three hundred zhang tall, pushing Zhao Xuantan’s great-sun sword light back.
• Zhao Xuantan doubled his sword intent, and Xu Taiping further refined his Heaven-Hunting Great Sage Physique as their pressures clashed and shook the Heavenly Palace.
• Bai Yu warned the group to retreat, and the great ghosts abandoned their attempts to attack Xu Taiping because they could not withstand his qi and blood power.

Xu Taiping shattered Zhao Xuantan’s great sun sword intent with a punch, triggering the backlash of Lü Daoxuan’s sword seed. Zhao Xuantan revealed a second, far more powerful evil ghost body and attacked Xu Taiping, who ordered Bai Yu to lead the others away as the battle continued.

• Zhao Xuantan unleashed a greatly strengthened sword intent against Xu Taiping, whose perfected physique Lü Daoxuan recognized as a great Dao body.
• Xu Taiping shattered Zhao Xuantan’s great sun sword intent with a punch, allowing Lü Daoxuan’s sword seed to pierce Zhao Xuantan’s ghost body.
• Zhao Xuantan revealed a towering evil ghost body and attacked Xu Taiping with a black saber, overpowering his punch with the blade force.
• Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone struck Zhao Xuantan and sent him crashing onto the jade platform, while Xu Taiping’s true body endured the saber slash.
• Zhao Xuantan charged Xu Taiping again, and Xu Taiping told Bai Yu to take his master and the others away.

Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone confronted Zhao Xuantan at the Heavenly Palace exit while Bai Yu and the others escaped. After Zhao Xuantan grievously wounded them with his blade, Xu Taiping secretly called on Lady Jade Mother to awaken because the Demon Mother Clone was nearby.

• Bai Yu carried Lü Daoxuan and the others through the Heavenly Palace exit while Xu Taiping stayed behind, and Zhao Xuantan appeared to block the way out.
• Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone fought Zhao Xuantan together, combining their powers to withstand his first attacks.
• Zhao Xuantan recognized Xu Taiping’s Dao-integrated Lotus Eye and revealed that he had abandoned it after mastering a stronger deductive power.
• Zhao Xuantan’s next strike pierced through Xu Taiping and his clone’s combined attacks, leaving both of them grievously wounded.
• As Zhao Xuantan prepared a supposedly fatal strike, Xu Taiping quietly urged Lady Jade Mother to awaken because the Demon Mother Clone was below them.

Xu Taiping faced Zhao Xuantan’s overwhelming attacks until the Jade Mother emerged from the white jade gourd and began awakening the Demon Mother Clone. Zhao Xuantan’s fury escalated as she weakened the Ghost Domain’s edict, and the chapter ended with her preparing to drive a second jade nail into the corpse’s throat.

• Xu Taiping blocked Zhao Xuantan’s first full-strength saber strike with successive deity projections.
• The Jade Mother emerged from Xu Taiping’s white jade gourd and shielded him from Zhao Xuantan’s next attack with an enormous canopy.
• The Jade Mother appeared on the jade platform and began pouring magical power into the Demon Mother Clone as Zhao Xuantan recognized her as a deity from bygone days.
• Zhao Xuantan transformed his ghost body and attacked the Jade Mother, but she drove a white jade nail into the Demon Mother Clone’s forehead, weakening the Ghost Domain’s edict.
• The Jade Mother used a torrent of flying swords to extinguish Zhao Xuantan’s next strike, then aimed a second jade nail at the Demon Mother’s throat.

Xu Taiping fought Zhao Xuantan while Jade Mother tried to seal the Demon Mother Clone, but the effort awakened the Demon Mother ahead of time. Jade Mother dragged Xu Taiping toward the Heavenly Palace exit as the Demon Mother addressed her from behind.

• Jade Mother lent Xu Taiping her Sword Case and Canopy, and he used them with his clone to battle Zhao Xuantan.
• Zhao Xuantan's strength kept increasing as Xu Taiping's attacks threatened him, forcing Xu Taiping to rely on his defensive arts and Jade Mother's artifacts.
• Jade Mother drove three Gate-Sealing Nails into the Demon Mother Clone but told Xu Taiping that the Demon Mother had awakened early.
• Jade Mother drove back Zhao Xuantan and pulled Xu Taiping toward the Heavenly Palace exit as his Left-Eye Lotus Pupil showed the Demon Mother opening her eyes.
• The Demon Mother called out to Jade Mother from behind them, and a terrifying aura reached toward Xu Taiping.

As Xu Taiping fought Zhao Xuantan inside Taixuan Hall, the ghost wall trapping Zhao Qian and the others collapsed, allowing them to reunite with Lü Daoxuan and Ping'an. The group prepared to rescue Xu Taiping, but a terrifying aura from the hall suggested that the Demon Mother had awakened.

• Old Daoist Huang received a message and flew down into the Abyss, while Ping'an assured Lü Daoxuan that Huang was helping them.
• Sword lights tore down the ghost wall around Taixuan Hall, freeing the forces trapped inside it.
• Lü Daoxuan sent a flying sword to summon help, and Zhao Qian and the Seven Peak Lords arrived with hundreds of sword lights.
• Zhao Qian learned that Xu Taiping was still inside Taixuan Hall fighting Zhao Xuantan and said they would rescue him.
• A powerful aura surged from Taixuan Hall, and Zhao Qian wondered whether the Demon Mother had awakened.

The Demon Mother awakened and destroyed Taixuan Hall, forcing Xu Taiping and Jade Mother to retreat while the Qingxuan and Zhenwu cultivators prepared to fight. The Demon Mother recognized Jade Mother and trapped her in a blood-mist barrier as their confrontation began.

• Lü Daoxuan, Zhao Qian, and Bu Xueting rushed to help Xu Taiping after sensing the Demon Mother's awakening.
• Xu Taiping and Jade Mother fled Taixuan Hall, and the Demon Mother emerged as a giant figure after the hall exploded.
• Bu Xueting and Zhao Qian rallied the Zhenwu and Azure Profound Sect cultivators to fight without retreating.
• The Demon Mother targeted Xu Taiping and Jade Mother, but Jade Mother shielded him from her overwhelming aura.
• The Demon Mother recognized Jade Mother and challenged her power, then trapped her inside a barrier of blood mist.

The Demon Mother sent Zhao Xuantan and an army of blood-garment great ghosts against the human cultivators while Jade Mother waited for a Shangqing edict to lift the Azure Profound Sect’s restrictions. As the Demon Mother’s Beyond the Domain Edict strengthened her forces, Jade Mother explained their connection to the Great Void Calamity, and Xu Taiping asked what that calamity was.

• The Demon Mother ordered Zhao Xuantan and hundreds of blood-garment great ghosts to attack while she worked to remove the three Sealing Gate Nails.
• Zhao Qian and Bu Xueting led the Azure Profound Sect and True Martial Heaven cultivators into battle, but Zhao Xuantan’s forces held them back.
• Jade Mother told Xu Taiping she was waiting for a Shangqing edict that would lift the Taixuan Sect inheritance restrictions and increase the Azure Profound Sect’s combat power.
• Bu Xueting, Lü Daoxuan, and Zhao Qian severely wounded Zhao Xuantan and opened a breach in the ghost army.
• The Demon Mother’s Beyond the Domain Edict eroded the Shangqing Edict, strengthening Zhao Xuantan and the ghost creatures, and Jade Mother explained that they were manifestations of the Great Void Calamity.
• Xu Taiping asked Jade Mother what the Great Void Calamity was.

Lady Jade Mother explained that the great void calamity threatened both the Shangqing Realm and the Upper Realm, while she worked to summon Shangqing’s full Heavenly Dao Edict. As Lü Daoxuan and Bu Xueting’s forces attacked the Demon Mother Clone, Xu Taiping learned he had to defend Jade Mother until the edict fully descended.

• Lady Jade Mother told Xu Taiping that the great void calamity could erase all existence, including those who had ascended to the Upper Realm.
• A first layer of Shangqing’s Heavenly Dao Edict descended, and Jade Mother explained that two more layers were needed because the Demon Mother’s and Extraterrestrial Ghost Creature’s edicts obstructed it.
• Lü Daoxuan and the Azure Profound Sect broke through Zhao Xuantan’s formation, while Bu Xueting led True Martial Heaven’s Sword Cultivators and Bai Yu attacked the Demon Mother’s barrier.
• Jade Mother told Xu Taiping that killing the Demon Mother Clone required an exact sequence of steps and that he had to hold off the Ghost Creatures while she summoned the complete edict.
• Xu Taiping summoned the Dragon-Trapping Tower to protect himself and Jade Mother, but a powerful Blood-Garment Great Ghost cracked its phantom image as he vowed to defend her.

Lü Daoxuan and the others fought to hold off the Demon Mother’s forces while Xu Taiping and Jade Mother were cut off by the Blood-Garment Great Ghosts. As Lü Daoxuan unleashed a Taixuan Sect sword art against Zhao Xuantan, a five-colored pillar descended, and his strike suddenly carried a terrifying aura.

• Ping'an warned that the Blood-Garment Great Ghosts had cut Xu Taiping and Jade Mother off from the others, and Lü Daoxuan concluded the Demon Mother was targeting them because of their power.
• Lü Daoxuan used his swordsmanship to turn Blood-Garment Great Ghosts into sword shadows that repeatedly pierced the Demon Mother’s barrier.
• Zhao Xuantan attacked Lü Daoxuan while Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect sword cultivators fought off ghost creatures, and Bu Xueting was pinned down protecting the Zhenwu cultivators.
• A second five-colored pillar of light descended toward Xu Taiping and the Demon Mother, leaving Lü Daoxuan wondering what the manifestation meant.
• Lü Daoxuan unleashed the Heavenly Thunder Sword Art, Fire Dragon Sword Art, and Heavenly Escape Sword Art against Zhao Xuantan, and the strike suddenly gave off a terrifying aura.

The Shangqing Edict’s seal on the Taixuan Sect Inheritance was partially lifted, allowing the Azure Profound Sect to unleash its full swordsmanship as they fought the Demon Mother’s forces. Xu Taiping held off successive attacks while urging the others to stop the Demon Mother from extracting the third Sealing Gate Nail, but Zhao Xuantan powered up and began pushing back Lü Daoxuan’s sword.

• Lü Daoxuan struck Zhao Xuantan with the Fire Dragon Heavenly Thunder Sword and realized the Shangqing Edict’s seal had partly lifted.
• Zhao Qian tested the Taixuan Sect Inheritance, then announced that the Azure Profound Sect could use it at full strength.
• The Azure Profound Sect’s sword cultivators unleashed their inherited techniques and cut through the blood-garment ghost horde.
• Three great ghosts attacked Xu Taiping and Jade Mother, but Xu Taiping and his clone held them off.
• Xu Taiping revealed that they were lifting the inheritance’s seal and warned everyone to stop the Demon Mother from pulling out the third Sealing Gate Nail.
• Lü Daoxuan and the other human cultivators attacked the Demon Mother, but Zhao Xuantan halted Lü Daoxuan’s sword and gained strength from another Blood-Colored Halo.

Bu Xueting and Lü Daoxuan faced the Demon Mother’s empowered ghost generals after she pulled the Sealing Gate Nail from her heart. The Blade Ghost, Heavenly Lord Neck Metal, arrived, defeated Zhao Xuantan, and shattered the Demon Mother’s barrier.

• Bu Xueting attacked Zhao Xuantan, but Zhou Tong, Yuyangzi, and powerful ghost generals appeared and blocked her strike.
• The Demon Mother pulled the Sealing Gate Nail from her heart, causing the ghost generals’ auras to surge and driving the human cultivators back.
• The Blade Ghost, Heavenly Lord Neck Metal, arrived and sent the ghost generals flying with a massive blade strike.
• Zhao Xuantan called on the Demon Mother for power, then fought the Blade Ghost, who broke his saber and overwhelmed him.
• The Blade Ghost struck the Demon Mother’s barrier and shattered it, leaving her visibly terrified.

The Demon Mother removed the Second Sealing Gate Nail, lifting more of the Shangqing Edict’s restraints and empowering Zhao Xuantan and the Ghost Generals. As the Human Race struggled against their assault, Bai Yu and Ping'an broke through the Demon Mother’s barrier, but Zhao Xuantan intercepted them above her.

• Zhao Xuantan blocked Blade Ghost’s attacks with Lei Qiong’s Tianfang Cauldron, enraging Blade Ghost over Lei Qiong’s apparent death.
• The Demon Mother pulled out the Second Sealing Gate Nail, causing the Ghost Generals’ power to surge and ordering them to kill their opponents.
• Zhao Xuantan and the Ghost Generals attacked, killing and wounding Human Race cultivators; Lü Daoxuan refused Zhao Qian’s request to form the annihilation-character sword formation and instead used his sword seeds to suppress Zhao Xuantan’s blade force.
• Blade Ghost swallowed Zhao Xuantan and the Ghost Generals in a void rift, but most of them quickly escaped, while three Ghost Generals remained trapped.
• Bai Yu carried Ping'an toward the Demon Mother, knocked away Zhao Xuantan’s cauldron, and helped shatter her blood mist barrier as Ping'an attacked in his Mountain-Lifting Ape form.
• Zhao Xuantan appeared above the Demon Mother and raised an enormous mountain phantom image to meet Bai Yu and Ping'an.