Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping united the Sword Cultivators and the heroic spirits of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and Flame Emperor's Demon-Slaying Army to launch a surprise assault on Demonic General Yi Weng's Blood Hoof Army. The demonic soldiers unleashed Blood Roar power, halting the advance and leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xu Taiping joined his battle intent with the thirteen thousand Sword Cultivators, whose sword qi destroyed the Blood Hoof Army's spear attack.
• Xu Taiping summoned the heroic spirits of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and Flame Emperor's Demon-Slaying Cavalry, then knocked Yi Weng back with a saber strike.
• Xu Taiping led the heroic spirits and Sword Cultivators in a charge that broke through the Blood Hoof Army's formation and crushed its savage ox phantoms.
• Yi Weng ordered the remaining forty thousand Demonic Generals to unleash Blood Roar power, and their empowered assault stopped the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army's advance.

Xu Taiping and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army routed Demonic General Yi Weng’s force, but Yi Weng used Seed Burning to warn the Nine Abysses before Xu Taiping could stop him. Kang Cangzi then appeared and asked Xu Taiping to bring forth the Blade of Guicang.

• Xu Taiping ordered the sword cultivator formation to strike the demonic army, then shattered Yi Weng’s saber arm with Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Xu Taiping commanded the sword cultivators and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army to destroy the scattered demonic troops, and they overwhelmed most of the fifty thousand Nine Abysses soldiers.
• Song Yan and Gu Huai celebrated the army’s victory, while Song Yan asked Xu Taiping to lead them in slaying Yi Weng.
• Yi Weng admitted defeat but said he had already burned away his demon seed, then used Seed Burning to warn Lord Northern Emperor that Xu Taiping threatened the Mother Emperor.
• Song Yan warned that Yi Weng was reporting their location, but a gigantic palm shadow sealed the area as Kang Cangzi asked Xu Taiping to bring forth the Blade of Guicang.

After Kang Cangzi severed Yi Weng’s Seed Burning message transmission, Xu Taiping learned he had three months to prepare before the Demon Mother might send a hundred-thousand-strong army. Lü Daoxuan arrived with news of growing reinforcements, and Xu Taiping called on Mysterious Wasteland Heaven for aid.

• Kang Cangzi used the Blade of Guicang to cut off Yi Weng’s message transmission, giving Xu Taiping three months before the outside world remembered the Demon Mother’s situation.
• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that A Meng’s public projection had inspired thirteen thousand sword cultivators to answer the call, with more expected to arrive.
• Xu Taiping told Lü Daoxuan that the Demon Mother might send a hundred thousand demons after three months, prompting them to discuss reinforcements inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Lü Daoxuan revealed that Mysterious Wasteland Heaven’s leaders and Dipankara Buddha had pledged their support, and that most of its demon grottos had been sealed.
• Xu Taiping used the True Martial Heaven Emperor Seal to ask Mysterious Wasteland Heaven for aid, and Lü Daoxuan explained how its forces could reach Heavenly Thunder City.

Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that he and other Taixuan Sect heirs could forge swords to break through to the Half-Immortal Void Insight Realm, though the process risked death. He also revealed that Xu Taiping’s destined sword was meant to confront the Great Void Calamity and that the vanished Divine Mountains and the old Heavenly Court had been part of Taiqing Paradise.

• Xu Taiping agreed that allowing more cultivators to join the Heaven-Demon Battlefield was their only option, and Lü Daoxuan said he would impose no cultivation requirement on reinforcements.
• Lü Daoxuan explained that he, Zhao Qian, the Seven Peak Lords, and Xu Taiping could forge swords from their own bodies to reach the Half-Immortal Void Insight Realm, but that doing so carried grave risks.
• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping to forge the sword the Five Elders of the Taixuan Sect had prepared to cleave the Great Void Calamity, which threatened the origins of the Shangqing and Sumeru Edicts.
• Lü Daoxuan revealed that the sword needed the origin power of the Shangqing, Sumeru, and Taiqing Edicts, and that Taiqing Paradise had existed within the other two realms.
• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that the ancient Heavenly Court had formed from Taiqing Paradise and that the Ten Divine Mountains had vanished after the Heavenly Court collapsed.

Lü Daoxuan taught Xu Taiping the Sword-Forging Method and explained that the Shoushan Copper contained the Origin Power of the Taiqing Edict. When Xueji City faced an imminent fall, Xu Taiping realized the Lotus Eye’s vision of occupied Yanyuntai might point to a way to save it.

• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that Taixuan Sect predecessors believed the Heavenly Court had hidden itself as Taiqing Paradise to escape the Great Void Calamity, and that Lingyue had sought it to find Xu Taiping a way out.
• Xu Taiping showed Lü Daoxuan his Shoushan Copper, confirmed it held the Origin Power of the Taiqing Edict, and asked to learn the Sword-Forging Method.
• Lü Daoxuan sent Xu Taiping the method and explained that pure Shoushan Copper had to fuse with his body to gain recognition from Taiqing’s Great Dao Edict.
• The Demon-Suppressing Stele reported that the Nine Abysses had attacked Xueji City, defeated its defenders, and threatened to cost the Human Race thirty percent of its territory.
• Xu Taiping received a vision of occupied Yanyuntai from the Lotus Eye and recalled that a passage sealed in Heavenly Thunder City connected directly to it.
• Lü Daoxuan proposed attacking Yanyuntai to force the Nine Abysses army away from Xueji City, and Xu Taiping declared that he might have found a way to save the city.

Huo Xuan struggled to decide whether to send supplies and reinforcements to besieged Xueji City, until news arrived that Zhang Tianze and twenty thousand Red Armor Cavalry had broken through E Piao’s siege. The city still faced shortages, and Lei Huo suggested reviewing the cavalry’s battle before Huo Xuan made his decision.

• Huo Xuan learned that the Azure Dragon Army could not spare troops, while Lei Huo argued that rescuing Xueji City would cost too many soldiers.
• Qiao Yuan reported that Zhang Tianze and twenty thousand Red Armor Cavalry had broken through E Piao’s hundred-thousand-strong siege force and killed at least three thousand demons.
• Huo Xuan explained to Lei Huo that Xu Taiping had opened a passage between the Lower Realm and the Heaven-Demon Battlefield by sending Sky Demon Tokens to the Five Heavens.
• Huo Xuan urged Qiao Yuan to remain vigilant and promised reinforcements, while Qiao Yuan warned that Xueji City was nearly out of pills, weapons, and spirit marrow stones.
• Huo Xuan hesitated to send supplies because escorting them would require three thousand sword cultivators, and Lei Huo suggested viewing Zhang Tianze’s battle before deciding.

Huo Xuan and Lei Huo watched a projection of Zhang Tianze’s twenty-thousand-strong Red Armor Cavalry fighting the Nine Abysses Demonic Army at Xueji City. Their astonishing formations impressed Huo Xuan, who recognized their tactics as the Youyun Demon-Slaying Army Formation-Breaking Tactic.

• Huo Xuan asked Qiao Yuan to send footage of Zhang Tianze leading the Red Armor Cavalry against the Nine Abysses Demonic Army to the Vermilion Bird Token.
• Huo Xuan and Lei Huo watched E Piao’s elite demonic force smash through Xueji City’s outer barriers and judged it powerful enough to overwhelm ordinary armies.
• Zhang Tianze led the Red Armor Cavalry out through the Third-Level Barrier and ordered them to form the Thorn Blood-Oath Formation, which tore open the demonic army’s ranks.
• Zhang Tianze ordered the cavalry to activate the Heaven-Opening Fire Blood-Oath Formation and don their armor, causing their attacks to surge in speed and strength.
• Huo Xuan identified the cavalry’s tactics as the Youyun Demon-Slaying Army Formation-Breaking Tactic and explained that its blood-oath battle intent could raise soldiers’ strength layer by layer.

Huo Xuan and Lei Huo decided to send supplies to Xueji City after seeing Zhang Tianze’s Red Armor Cavalry defeat a much larger demonic force. After learning Zhang Tianze had reinforced the city, Xu Taiping proposed attacking Yanyuntai to draw away the three hundred thousand demons besieging Xueji City.

• Huo Xuan judged that Zhang Tianze’s twenty thousand Red Armor Cavalry could not hold Xueji City indefinitely, and Lei Huo volunteered to escort supplies there.
• Huo Xuan asked Lei Huo to investigate Zhang Tianze and recruit him into the Vermilion Bird Army if possible.
• Gu Huai and Song Yan told Xu Taiping that Zhang Tianze’s Youyun Demon-Expelling Red Armor Cavalry had routed nearly a hundred thousand demonic troops at Xueji City.
• Xu Taiping learned that Xueji City could hold out for about a month and proposed launching a surprise attack on Yanyuntai to draw away the besieging army.
• Gu Huai and Song Yan recognized Xu Taiping’s plan as an attempt to besiege Yan to save Xue, and Gu Huai declared it impossible.

Xu Taiping proposed using the sealed passage beneath Heavenly Thunder City to launch a surprise attack on Yanyuntai, and Song Yan and Gu Huai agreed to discuss the plan. At Yanyuntai, Yin Zhen argued with the Northern Emperor over transferring more of his troops to the siege of Xueji City.

• Xu Taiping reminded Song Yan and Gu Huai that the passage beneath Heavenly Thunder City led directly to Yanyuntai and was unaffected by the seal.
• Song Yan reported that Yanyuntai had already sent nearly a hundred thousand troops to Xueji City, and Gu Huai noted that its defenses were secure but difficult for an army to reach.
• Xu Taiping said reinforcements from True Martial Heaven and Mysterious Wasteland Heaven would provide the troops needed for an assault, and Song Yan and Gu Huai agreed to plan it with his master and the others.
• Song Yan offered Xu Taiping a report on Yin Zhen, Yanyuntai's commander.
• Yin Zhen protested that transferring another fifty thousand troops would leave Yanyuntai vulnerable, but the Northern Emperor insisted the troops were needed to capture Xueji City.

The Northern Emperor sent another fifty thousand demon-armored troops toward Xueji City after learning that the Demon-Slaying Army’s legacy had returned. Two and a half months later, Xu Taiping and the generals awaited the final reinforcements from the Lower Realm as the Reception Grand Formation began to bring them through.

• The Northern Emperor showed Yin Zhen the Demon-Slaying Army’s counterattack at Xueji City, and Yin Zhen recognized the force’s legacy and recalled the old battlefield nightmare.
• Yin Zhen offered to lead troops to Xueji City, but the Northern Emperor refused and ordered another fifty thousand demon-armored troops transferred there to destroy the Demon-Slaying Army.
• Two and a half months later, Gu Huai told Xu Taiping that the final group of reinforcements was expected to include battle generals and puppet magi from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven, along with martial monks sent by Dipankara Buddha.
• Xu Taiping reflected on the gains from a hundred and eighty years of contemplation in his Jiazi Pot, which had greatly increased his combat strength and understanding of the Ten Emperors Scripture.
• Jiang Yu warned everyone to leave the ground as the Reception Grand Formation opened, and Xu Taiping, Gu Huai, and Song Yan moved above it to watch the reinforcements appear.

Xu Taiping welcomed allies from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven and Buddhism who had gathered to fight Nine Abysses, then led his companions to Heavenly Thunder City’s sealed demon cavern. Jiang Yu activated the seal, revealing a bottomless abyss beneath the well.

• Xu Taiping recognized Xuanzhi, Buddha Child Yelai, and his Mysterious Wasteland Heaven companions among the reinforcements and thanked them for coming to fight.
• Gongshu Nanxing, Zhai Mo, Gongshu Bai, Yuzhu, and Xiahou You joined Xu Taiping, and he warned the gathered cultivators that they could die in the battle.
• The twenty thousand cultivators answered Xu Taiping’s call to cut through the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, slay the Demon Mother, and end the Nine Abysses calamity.
• Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Zhao Qian, Gu Huai, Song Yan, and Jiang Yu descended into a dry well beneath Heavenly Thunder City to inspect the sealed demon cavern.
• Jiang Yu pressed his hand to the well floor and activated the seal, turning the ground transparent and revealing a bottomless abyss below.

Xu Taiping and the veteran generals discovered that the Abyss beneath them led through two Bronze Gates to Yanyuntai, and Jiang Yu revealed he could activate the stronghold’s defenses. Meanwhile, Huo Xuan learned that Xueji City was unlikely to withstand the Nine Abysses army for ten more days and feared losing both the city and Zhang Tianze.

• Zhao Qian, Lü Daoxuan, Gu Huai, and Song Yan identified the Bronze Gates as part of a passage that could connect to Yanyuntai, while Song Yan warned that the Demon Mother might have gained a new way to move her army.
• Xu Taiping recognized that capturing Yanyuntai could relieve Xueji City’s siege and provide another route out for Heavenly Thunder City, so Gu Huai and Song Yan urged him to seize it and activate its defenses.
• Jiang Yu said he could activate Yanyuntai’s restrictions and barriers, honoring the legacy of Xie Xuanqiong, who had entrusted them to him so he could witness Yanyuntai’s recovery and Di Qing’s revenge.
• Xu Taiping ordered everyone to proceed with the original plan to take Yanyuntai.
• Lei Huo told Huo Xuan that nearly four hundred thousand demonic troops had breached Xueji City’s defenses and that Zhang Tianze’s forces could not hold out for another ten days.
• Huo Xuan acknowledged Zhang Tianze’s exceptional command and feared that the battle would cost them both Xueji City and a rare young general.

Huo Xuan watched through the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror as Xu Taiping and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army attacked Yanyuntai, breaking through its defenses with overwhelming coordinated strength. As the army poured inside, Xu Taiping called on its thirty-six thousand soldiers to lend him their battle intent and fighting strength.

• Lei Huo reported that a hundred thousand demonic soldiers had withdrawn from Xueji City and were heading toward Yanyuntai.
• Huo Xuan used the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror to discover a human army assaulting Yanyuntai's barriers.
• Xu Taiping led the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army in breaking through barriers with powerful formations and coordinated attacks.
• Huo Xuan recognized Xu Taiping and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, and watched them break through ten of Yanyuntai's eighteen barriers.
• Xu Taiping ordered the thirty-six thousand soldiers to entrust him with their fighting strength and killing intent, and they complied.

Xu Taiping shattered the Nine Abysses restrictions before Yanyuntai and drew Yin Zhen out to face him. After Yin Zhen and Chi Dragon swallowed him, Xu Taiping revealed his ultimate dao true dragon divine being body, defeated them, and pinned Yin Zhen beneath his foot.

• Xu Taiping used the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army's battle intent to break through the Nine Abysses barriers until only the final restrictions before Yanyuntai remained.
• Yin Zhen led a hundred thousand demonic troops out of Yanyuntai, while Huo Xuan realized the city was finally within sight.
• Xu Taiping provoked Yin Zhen into a duel, then rode Xiaohei to meet him and Chi Dragon on the battlefield.
• Yin Zhen merged with Chi Dragon and swallowed Xu Taiping and Xiaohei, but golden blade light tore the giant mouth apart.
• Xu Taiping revealed his ultimate dao true dragon divine being body, shattered Chi Dragon with one punch, and struck Yin Zhen down.
• Xu Taiping planted his foot on Yin Zhen and told him he was not worthy of making him strike.

Xu Taiping fought Yin Zhen and the hundred thousand Nine Abysses Demonic Army at Yanyuntai, using the Human Sovereign Sword and his allied formations to withstand their assault. As Yin Zhen’s troops formed a defensive pagoda, Xu Taiping ordered the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army to encircle them with the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation.

• Xu Taiping destroyed Yin Zhen’s Chi Dragon Black Flood Dragon, then was struck by a battle-intent spear as Yin Zhen’s hundred thousand troops charged him.
• Xu Taiping used the Human Sovereign Sword to strengthen his battle intent and block the demonic army’s charge with a fist strike.
• Xu Taiping summoned the ten thousand Flame Emperor Demon-Slaying Cavalry, and Old General Lian Xing led them in a charge that held back the demonic troops.
• Yin Zhen recognized Xu Taiping as the man who had killed Wulang and Yi Weng and ordered his army to retreat into the city.
• The Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army’s thirteen thousand sword cultivators attacked and pinned the demonic formation, but Yin Zhen formed a Pagoda Battle Formation to protect his troops.
• Xu Taiping ordered the remaining twenty-six thousand battle generals to encircle the demonic army and form the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation.

Xu Taiping rallied the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army by summoning the heroic spirits of its fallen soldiers, turning the battle against Yin Zhen’s Nine Abysses Demonic Army. Yin Zhen’s Blood Roar Pagoda Formation stopped their advance, and he revealed that the Nine Abysses had drained the fallen soldiers’ blood and imprisoned their souls to power it.

• Yin Zhen stabilized the Nine Abysses Demonic Army’s formation, armed its soldiers with Pagoda Battle Armor, and led their charge against Xu Taiping’s forces.
• As the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army began to falter, Xu Taiping planted its Battle Banner and called for his army.
• The veteran generals released the remnant souls of fallen soldiers, which formed over a hundred thousand suits of heroic spirit Battle Armor behind Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping led the revived Zhenwu force in a countercharge that drove Yin Zhen’s army back toward the city gate.
• Yin Zhen activated the Blood Roar Pagoda Formation, halting Xu Taiping’s advance, then revealed that the pagoda was powered by the blood and imprisoned souls of fallen Zhenwu soldiers.

Xu Taiping summoned the fallen Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army to join his forces at Yanyuntai, then led them in a charge against Yin Zhen’s army. As Yin Zhen faced defeat, he sent word to the Nine Abysses that the Demon-Slaying Army had returned and told them to inform the Mother Emperor.

• Huo Xuan learned that E Piao was approaching Yanyuntai with a vast army and warned Xu Taiping to withdraw.
• Xu Taiping called upon the fallen Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army, and Di Qing and a hundred thousand phantom soldiers emerged from the Blood Pagoda.
• Xu Taiping and Di Qing vowed to end the long storm over Yanyuntai, then Xu Taiping ordered the enlarged army to attack without forming ranks.
• Xu Taiping led more than two hundred thousand Demon-Slaying Army soldiers into Yin Zhen’s formation.
• Yin Zhen burned his remaining origin demon blood and sent word to the Nine Abysses to tell the Mother Emperor that the Demon-Slaying Army had returned.

After the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army seized Yanyuntai, Huo Xuan warned Xu Taiping that his forces lacked supplies and E Piao was approaching with four hundred thousand troops. Xu Taiping refused to abandon the city, and Yanyuntai’s ancient barrier suddenly pierced the demonic clouds with a pillar of light.

• The Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army defeated Yin Zhen’s forces and breached Yanyuntai, prompting the commanders of the other three armies to question Huo Xuan about the attack.
• Huo Xuan learned that Xu Taiping’s army had supplies for only ten thousand soldiers to fight for three days, while E Piao’s four-hundred-thousand-strong army was heading for Yanyuntai.
• Huo Xuan sent the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror to warn Xu Taiping to withdraw, but Xu Taiping said his army would not surrender the city after taking it.
• A brilliant pillar of light burst from Yanyuntai, piercing the demonic clouds and revealing that the city’s ancient barrier had activated.

Xu Taiping restored Yanyuntai’s defenses just as E Piao’s four hundred thousand demonic troops arrived, and the barrier repelled their assault. After Xu Taiping blasted E Piao back with a thunder dragon, a black palm shadow pinned him before he could attack again.

• Huo Xuan realized the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army had preserved the legacy of Yanyuntai’s barrier for Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping restored Yanyuntai’s defenses, summoning sixteen Mountain Divine Generals and dispersing the demonic mist.
• E Piao led four hundred thousand demonic troops against Yanyuntai, but its sword lights and Mountain Divine Generals drove them back.
• E Piao gathered his troops’ power, grew to mountain size, and struck the golden pagoda barrier, but it remained intact and threw him back.
• Xu Taiping fired an arrow that became a thunder dragon, shattered E Piao’s battle intent, and sent him into his troops.
• E Piao charged Yanyuntai again, but a black palm shadow descended and pinned him in place.

After Xu Taiping seized Yanyuntai, he called the Shangqing Five Armies to gather there and declared his intent to attack Northern Emperor City. Huo Xuan recognized the chance for a major counteroffensive and sought a way to contact Xu Taiping as other commanders asked to meet him.

• The Northern Emperor stopped E Piao from arguing and ordered him to regroup, while Huo Xuan and other human armies began counterattacking the demonic forces.
• Xu Taiping told the Northern Emperor that his next opponent was the Northern Emperor himself, then called the Youyun, Jueming, Chenglong, and Mysterious Wasteland armies to gather at Yanyuntai.
• Xu Taiping challenged the Northern Emperor by declaring that the next battle would be at Northern Emperor City and that he would take the Northern Emperor's head.
• Huo Xuan studied the battlefield map and realized that capturing Northern Emperor City could break the Nine Abysses Demonic Army's line and open the way for a human counteroffensive.
• Commanders from three armies asked Huo Xuan to arrange a meeting with Xu Taiping, and Lei Huo offered to carry a message while traveling to Yanyuntai with Zhang Tianze.