Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping fought Half-Immortal Jade Dipper, whose edict-powered golden light and the Shangqing Edict’s restrictions seemed to prevent him from breaking through. After receiving Heavenly Lord Hanjian’s warning, Xu Taiping prepared to attack Jade Dipper and dismantle the Immortal-Subduing Formation.

• Half-Immortal Jade Dipper tried to escape using a thunder technique, but Xu Taiping sealed the surrounding domain and stopped him.
• Jade Dipper used his edict power to form golden defenses and taunted Xu Taiping, believing the Shangqing Edict would keep him safe.
• Xu Taiping’s first full-strength punch shook Jade Dipper’s golden light, and his second shattered two layers of it.
• Jiang Fu and Xiao Huang worried that Xu Taiping would exhaust his magic power, so Jiang Fu sent Heavenly Lord Hanjian a voice transmission with their advice.
• After receiving Heavenly Lord Hanjian’s message, Xu Taiping decided to strike Jade Dipper and uproot the Immortal-Subduing Formation.

Xu Taiping annihilated Half-Immortal Jade Dipper and absorbed his half-immortal inheritances, then broke the Immortal-Subduing Formation after Jiu Yuanzi’s group activated it. He spotted Lin Qinggu and reached to seize him.

• Xu Taiping used the Ten Emperors Scripture to fuse his powers into a punch that shattered Jade Dipper’s defenses without triggering the Shangqing Edict’s restrictions.
• Xu Taiping killed Jade Dipper and destroyed the Sword Platform with a single overwhelming punch.
• Xu Taiping absorbed Jade Dipper’s half-immortal inheritances, and another vertebra lit up as his power increased.
• Jiu Yuanzi and his allies activated the Immortal-Subduing Grand Formation, filling the Shaking Light Ruins with bloody light, red lightning, and flames.
• Xu Taiping expanded his true dragon divine being body, broke the formation’s barrier, and destroyed the Three Corpses Cave cultivators controlling its nodes.
• Xu Taiping spotted Lin Qinggu and reached to seize him, declaring that he had nowhere to run.

Xu Taiping captured Lin Qinggu and tortured him until he agreed to reveal where Lin Buyu’s remnant soul was hidden. After learning the location and sending a clone to retrieve it, Xu Taiping discovered that Lin Qinggu planned to summon the half-immortal Zhechen and escape.

• Xu Taiping crushed Lin Qinggu, imprisoned him with his powers, and demanded to know where Lin Buyu’s remnant soul was hidden.
• Xu Taiping used the Torch Dragon Ring’s power of time to make Lin Qinggu endure years of agony, forcing him to negotiate.
• Lin Qinggu agreed to reveal the soul’s location if Xu Taiping promised to remove his restrictions after finding it.
• Lin Qinggu told Xu Taiping that Lin Buyu’s remnant soul was sealed beneath the Three Corpses Stele in the Shaking Light Ruins, and Xu Taiping sent an Origin Beginning Clone to retrieve it.
• Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye to discover that Lin Qinggu intended to summon the half-immortal Zhechen and flee to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.

Xu Taiping learned that Half-Immortal Zhechen was a dangerous heretical cultivator and decided to enlist Yun Guanxuan’s help to ambush him. After recovering Lin Buyu’s remnant soul, Xu Taiping named Zhechen as the Half-Immortal behind Lin Qinggu.

• Xu Taiping learned from Heavenly Lord Hanjian that Zhechen was a powerful heretical Half-Immortal who hunted Shangqing cultivators and had once pursued Ding Mou.
• Jiang Fu offered the Ziyang Sect’s help against Lin Qinggu and revealed that Ancestor Guanxuan was outside the Shaking Light Ruins.
• Xu Taiping recognized Guanxuan as Senior A Meng and proposed joining forces to ambush Zhechen, using Lin Qinggu as bait.
• Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone returned with a Bronze Casket containing Lin Buyu’s remnant soul.
• When Lin Qinggu demanded that Xu Taiping remove his restrictions, Xu Taiping opened the casket and told Jiang Fu that Zhechen was behind Lin Qinggu.

Xu Taiping arranged for Yun Guanxuan to join his ambush against Zhechen, then allowed Lin Qinggu to flee so he could invoke Zhechen. The chapter ended with Zhechen possessing Lin Qinggu and recognizing Xu Taiping, unaware that Xu Taiping intended to kill him.

• Jiang Fu told Yun Guanxuan that Xu Taiping wanted help fighting Zhechen, and Yun Guanxuan agreed to strike when Xu Taiping attacked Lin Qinggu.
• Xu Taiping removed Lin Qinggu’s restrictions and gave him three breaths to flee.
• Xu Taiping caught up with Lin Qinggu, but a golden bolt of thunder merged into Lin Qinggu and unleashed Zhechen’s aura.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Jiang Fu realized that Xu Taiping had anticipated Lin Qinggu invoking Zhechen.
• Zhechen, possessing Lin Qinggu, asked whether Xu Taiping was the man he sought, while Xu Taiping calmly confirmed Zhechen’s identity.

Xu Taiping and A Meng joined forces to trap and attack Half-Immortal Zhechen, but Zhechen survived their strongest strikes and challenged them. A Meng restrained him with a sword domain while Xu Taiping prepared another deadly saber technique.

• Xu Taiping revealed that he had used Lin Qinggu as bait to lure Half-Immortal Zhechen into the Lower Realm and kill him under the Shangqing Edict's restrictions.
• Xu Taiping overwhelmed Zhechen's aura and wounded him with a powerful saber strike, then Yun Guanxuan arrived and pierced Zhechen with a purple-flamed sword.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Thunder Execution while A Meng helped destroy Zhechen's body, but a five-colored halo protected Zhechen's remaining half-head and allowed him to recover.
• Zhechen grew to a thousand zhang tall and pushed back Xu Taiping and A Meng, but A Meng trapped him in a sword domain.
• A Meng asked Xu Taiping to use his most lethal saber technique, and Xu Taiping began preparing Ultimate Realm Annihilating Blade Art, No! Embers.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed Zhechen with a relentless storm of blade attacks, but Zhechen used the Great Dao Earthly Chariot Calamity-Bearing Art to redirect their force into the surrounding land. Xu Taiping continued building his blade force while secretly preparing the Emberless Stance's ultimate power, leaving Zhechen trapped in A Meng's sword domain.

• Xu Taiping's blade force stripped away Zhechen's protective dao-rhyme light and exposed his dharma body.
• Zhechen unleashed the Great Dao Earthly Chariot Calamity-Bearing Art, diverting Xu Taiping's strikes into nearby mountains and ground.
• Jiang Fu identified Zhechen's edict, and Jiang Shuoxue, Xiao Huang, and Elder Yun Jiuyi worried that Xu Taiping's attacks would be ineffective or exhaust him.
• Zhechen urged Xu Taiping to withdraw before the Shangqing Edict imposed restrictions, but Xu Taiping increased his blade force and said the restrictions would descend on Zhechen first.
• A Meng kept Zhechen sealed within his sword domain while Xu Taiping worked toward the Emberless Stance's ultimate realm and its Great Dao emberless power.

Xu Taiping revealed that the Shangqing Edict’s restrictions could not restrain his half-immortal power and unleashed an edict-powered Emberless blade strike against Zhechen. Zhechen’s body was annihilated, and Jiang Fu asked Ancestor Guanxuan what Xu Taiping had done to him.

• Jiang Fu and Yun Jiuyi watched tribulation clouds appear over Xu Taiping and Zhechen and explained that they manifested the Shangqing Edict’s restrictions.
• Xu Taiping expanded his sword intent across a thousand li, and the Edict’s lightning struck Zhechen instead of him.
• Jiang Shuoxue realized Xu Taiping had planned an ambush and kill, while Zhechen offered to grant any condition if Xu Taiping withdrew his strike.
• Xu Taiping asked Zhechen to relinquish his half-immortal seat, then unleashed an edict-powered Emberless blade strike that cleaved through Zhechen and the land behind him.
• Zhechen’s body was annihilated as he roared at Xu Taiping, and Jiang Fu asked Ancestor Guanxuan what Xu Taiping had done.

After Xu Taiping killed Zhechen’s clone, he absorbed chaos qi, drawing powerful chaos demonic beasts toward the Shaking Light Ruins. The cultivators evacuated while Yun Guanxuan and Xu Taiping remained behind, and Lü Daoxuan judged that the danger could be a great opportunity for Xu Taiping.

• Xu Taiping’s slash annihilated Zhechen’s clone and devastated the Shaking Light Ruins, while Yun Guanxuan explained that the blow also wounded Zhechen’s true form through karma.
• Jiang Fu, Yun Jiuyi, Xiao Huang, and Jiang Shuoxue reflected on the upheaval Xu Taiping’s strength might bring to Shangqing.
• Xu Taiping absorbed chaos qi directly, prompting Jiang Fu to wonder whether the ancient restrictions on the human race had loosened.
• Yun Guanxuan ordered Jiang Fu to evacuate, and Xu Taiping warned that chaos demonic beasts were approaching.
• Jiang Fu led the Ziyang Sect’s Immortal Boat away and invited nearby cultivators to leave, while the Azure Profound Sect also prepared to depart.
• Yun Guanxuan stayed behind as Lü Daoxuan told Heavenly Lord Hanjian that the danger could be a great fortuitous opportunity for Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping stayed at the Shaking Light Ruins to refine Chaos Qi and draw in Chaos Demonic Beasts, hoping to strengthen himself before going to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield. Crow Heavenly Venerable and three other Half-Immortals appeared and confronted him, demanding that he stay away from the battlefield.

• Lü Daoxuan and Zhao Qian left the Shaking Light Ruins with the other departing cultivators, while the Azure Profound Sect let ordinary Three Corpses Cave disciples escape.
• Xu Taiping used his Dao Body Furnace to refine Chaos Qi into pure Dao Essence Power and told A Meng he hoped to lift the Half-Immortal restrictions after reaching the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• A Meng agreed to protect the Azure Profound Sect and learned that Xu Taiping believed the restrictions could be lifted, potentially ending the Great Dao Strife among Half-Immortals.
• As Chaos Demonic Beasts gathered around the ruins, Xu Taiping revealed that he had stayed to absorb their Chaos power, and A Meng recognized why they were valuable to him.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable appeared and demanded that Xu Taiping remain in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven; when Xu Taiping refused to accept the demand, three more Half-Immortal powerhouses appeared.

Xu Taiping faced Crow Heavenly Venerable’s threat and entered the Shaking Light Ruins as Chaos Demonic Beasts gathered around him. He discovered that he could draw them into his Dao Body Furnace, and realized they were Great Dao Edict Power evolved within Chaos.

• Xu Taiping gave Yun Guanxuan a Jade Jue for his master and senior brothers before choosing to head to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Xu Taiping warned A Meng to leave the Shaking Light Ruins as the Chaos Demonic Beasts approached, and A Meng went to watch from a neighboring Ruin Star.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable warned Xu Taiping that he would be transported before the Half-Immortals, and Xu Taiping accepted the threat and began absorbing Chaos Qi.
• The Chaos Demonic Beasts descended into the Shaking Light Ruins, but Xu Taiping was unaffected and sensed them drawn to his Dao Essence Power.
• Xu Taiping summoned a whale-shaped Chaos Demonic Beast, which rushed into his body and poured Chaos power into his Dao Body Furnace.
• Xu Taiping saw a five-colored halo appear around his Nascent Soul and realized the Chaos Demonic Beasts were Great Dao Edict Power evolved within Chaos.

Xu Taiping realized he could refine Chaos Demonic Beasts and gathered nearly five hundred of them before using the Greater Sky Demon Token to enter the Heaven-Demon Battlefield. The Shaking Light Ruins collapsed after he departed, while Jiang Shuoxue and Ancestor A Meng watched in disbelief and anticipated Crow Heavenly Venerable's reaction.

• Xu Taiping concluded that chaos qi contained Great Dao Edict power and that refining more Chaos Demonic Beasts could complete the strand he had absorbed.
• Xu Taiping recognized the True Aspect-level Chaos Void Banner and Taiji Wheel of Tai Su, then confirmed that he could refine them with his divine sense.
• Xu Taiping gathered more than five hundred Chaos Demonic Beasts and called them a grand gift for Crow Heavenly Venerable and the others.
• Xu Taiping activated the Greater Sky Demon Token, and the spatial rift transported him and the Chaos Demonic Beasts to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• The Shaking Light Ruins collapsed into a meteor, while Jiang Shuoxue marveled at Xu Taiping's actions and Ancestor A Meng looked forward to hearing about them.

Xu Taiping entered the Heaven-Demon Battlefield passage, where Venerable Jiaye gave him millet and redirected him away from an active battle. He arrived beneath a shattered, blood-red sky and saw veteran sword cultivators fighting the Nine Abysses’ beasts, where one veteran died in a final attack.

• Venerable Jiaye appeared in the passage and gave Xu Taiping a bag of millet gathered by the monks of Jiaye Temple to refine into Buddha Fate Power.
• Venerable Jiaye told Xu Taiping that sealing the Demon Mother would free him and Dipankara Buddha to face the Great Void Calamity alongside Shangqing.
• Venerable Jiaye sensed that Xu Taiping was heading toward an active battlefield, redirected him, and gathered the Chaos Demonic Beasts to send after him.
• Xu Taiping and Xiaohei landed on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield beneath a blood-red sky riddled with cracks.
• Xu Taiping saw white-haired veteran sword cultivators fighting griffin-like beasts carrying Demonic Generals.
• A veteran whose body had been torn apart merged with his Life-Bound Flying Sword, destroyed a beast, and died after his final strike.

Xu Taiping arrived at Heavenly Thunder City and convinced Old Jiang that he was a cultivator from True Martial Heaven. As the veteran generals prepared to die defending the city, Xu Taiping stopped Old Jiang from teleporting him away and declared that one man was enough.

• Xu Taiping recognized the veteran generals as members of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and told Old Jiang he was reinforcements from True Martial Heaven.
• Xu Taiping planted the Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Thunder Sound Banner, and Old Jiang recognized it as the True Martial Great Emperor's banner.
• Demonic Beasts and Demonic Generals attacked Heavenly Thunder City, and Old Jiang urged Xu Taiping to flee with the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Token.
• Old Jiang and the veteran generals chose to remain and fight, declaring that the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army's battle intent must endure.
• Xu Taiping disabled the Teleportation Array, unleashed his qi and blood power, and told Old Jiang that one man was enough.

Xu Taiping single-handedly slaughtered the demonic generals attacking Heavenly Thunder City’s sky barrier, while the Nine Abysses Demonic Army breached the city wall. Old Jiang joined the defense and struck at the breach as demonic qi poured through it.

• Xu Taiping burst through the barrier, knocked a griffin demonic beast away, and killed its demonic general with one punch.
• Xu Taiping cut down the griffin demonic beasts and used his Fuyao edict to pull their demonic generals into a vortex, then burned them and their demon seeds to ash.
• Old Jiang, encouraged by Xu Taiping’s strength, took a saber and rushed to the city wall.
• A giant ape-shaped demonic beast punched a hole through the wall, allowing torrents of demonic qi to pour into Heavenly Thunder City.
• Old Jiang gathered blade force and battle intent and slashed toward the breach.

Xu Taiping arrived at Heavenly Thunder City and revealed his overwhelming strength by destroying the ape demon vanguard. As nearly nine thousand Nine Abysses forces and a White Bone Demonic General advanced, Xu Taiping refused to retreat and warned the general to flee before he drew his blade.

• Old Yu and Old Jiang sealed the breach in Heavenly Thunder City's wall, then joined Gu Huai on the battlements to see a giant martial cultivator fighting the ape demons.
• Old Jiang recognized the fighter as a reinforcement from True Martial Heaven.
• Xu Taiping introduced himself as a defender from the Azure Profound Sect, enlarged to a thousand zhang, and slaughtered the ape demon vanguard with his Ultimate Dao True Dragon Divine Being Physique and Demon-Slaying Army battle armor.
• Gu Huai and Old Jiang spotted the larger demonic army and identified its leader as a Demon Emperor-level White Bone Demonic General.
• Old Jiang urged Xu Taiping to retreat into the city, but Xu Taiping faced the White Bone Demonic General and warned him to flee before Xu Taiping drew his blade.

Xu Taiping faced the White Bone Demonic Army at Heavenly Thunder City and stopped its Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation with a single slash. He summoned the ancient Demon-Slaying Army Heroic Spirits, whose charge shattered White Bone’s formation and left the demonic general dead.

• White Bone ordered his Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation to charge Xu Taiping, while Gu Huai, Old Jiang, and the other veterans urged Xu Taiping to retreat.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade and knocked back the black flood dragon battle intent, halting the demonic formation a thousand zhang away.
• White Bone led the strengthened formation in another charge, and Xu Taiping summoned the Demon-Slaying Army Heroic Spirits from his blade tassel.
• Xu Taiping commanded the heroic spirits and the veterans to charge, and their battle intent collided with White Bone’s formation.
• Xu Taiping split White Bone with a slash, and Old General Lian Xing’s follow-up strike destroyed the general’s body and demon seed.

After killing White Bone’s army, Xu Taiping healed the Demon-Slaying Army veterans and sent them back to repair Heavenly Thunder City’s barrier. Crow Heavenly Venerable’s forces then trapped the area, while Xu Taiping discovered that the power he had refined from chaos qi was primordial chaos power.

• Xu Taiping and the Demon-Slaying Cavalry’s heroic spirits wiped out White Bone’s demonic army, then the spirits returned to his saber as a tassel.
• Xu Taiping healed the wounded veterans with Withered Wood Meets Spring and urged them to return to Heavenly Thunder City because powerful enemies were pursuing him.
• The veterans returned to repair the city barrier, and Xu Taiping sensed vast power rising from beneath Heavenly Thunder City.
• Xiaohei sensed the approaching chaos demonic beasts, which Xu Taiping recognized as allies sent by Venerable Jiaye.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable’s people raised a purple barrier around the area, and Xu Taiping used refined chaos qi to amplify his aura before identifying its power as primordial chaos power.

Xu Taiping faced Crow Heavenly Venerable and three other Half-Immortals, who demanded that he prove his loyalty by killing the veteran generals in Heavenly Thunder City. When Jade Dipper attacked, Xu Taiping emerged unharmed and struck back, forcing him to retreat.

• Xu Taiping sensed Crow Heavenly Venerable and three other Half-Immortals approaching Heavenly Thunder City.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable offered Xu Taiping another chance if he served under him and stopped associating with Kang Cangzi.
• Zhechen demanded that Xu Taiping prove his trustworthiness by killing the veteran generals, and Crow Heavenly Venerable repeated the demand.
• Jade Dipper attacked Xu Taiping with five thunder spears, but Xu Taiping was unharmed.
• Xu Taiping grew to more than a thousand zhang tall and punched Jade Dipper, shattering his Dao-rhyme golden light and forcing him to retreat with the Thunder Edict.

Xu Taiping fought Half-Immortal Zhechen and Jade Dipper, broke free of Zhechen’s ultimate Dao edict, and wounded him with the Emberless Stance. Crow Heavenly Venerable then brought his full power to bear, but chaos demonic beasts arrived from Heavenly Thunder City.

• Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone ambushed Jade Dipper, and Half-Immortal Zhechen rescued him from the strike.
• Zhechen used his Earthly Chariot Calamity-Bearing Art and earth deity dharma aspect to suppress Xu Taiping, explaining the strength of an ultimate Dao edict.
• Xu Taiping used the Flame Emperor Body Tempering method to break free of Zhechen’s suppression and smash a falling boulder.
• Zhechen surrounded Xu Taiping with the Taiyin Mysterious Water Edict, which drained his power and interrupted his qi and blood circulation.
• Xu Taiping rejected Zhechen’s offer to become his disciple and wounded him with the Emberless Stance, dispelling the edict’s power.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable released his full aura, but chaos demonic beasts arrived from Heavenly Thunder City.