Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping received a rare Fish-Seeking Disc from Qiu Shanyuan and learned from Fairy Lingyue that it could be restored to intercept demonic beasts’ voice transmissions. As Xu Taiping prepared to leave Youyun Prefecture, Gongshu Bai arrived to plead for the Dragon Pearl to save Thousand Mechanisms City, but Qiu Shanyuan refused because the treasure was tied to Youyun Heaven’s fortune.

• Qiu Shanyuan explained the Fish-Seeking Disc’s rarity and gave it to Xu Taiping, while Fairy Lingyue revealed its hidden ability to intercept demonic beasts’ transmissions.
• Qiu Shanyuan gave Xu Taiping a Teleportation Token as Xu Taiping said he planned to return after seven years away.
• Gongshu Bai rushed into the Golden Scale Pavilion and asked Qiu Shanyuan to lend the Dragon Pearl to defend Thousand Mechanisms City.
• Qiu Shanyuan refused, explaining that losing the Dragon Pearl could throw Youyun Heaven’s fortune into chaos.
• Gongshu Bai knelt, struck his forehead against the ground, and begged Qiu Shanyuan to save the tens of millions of people in Thousand Mechanisms City.

Gongshu Bai begged Qiu Shanyuan to lend him the Dragon Pearl so he could defend Thousand Mechanisms City, but Qiu refused even when Xu Taiping offered to vouch for him as Golden Scale Champion. Fairy Lingyue revealed her authority as master of Huangting Dao Palace and publicly vouched for Gongshu Bai, demanding to know whether Great Emperor Cang Ai consented.

• Gongshu Bai knelt before Qiu Shanyuan and pleaded for the Dragon Pearl to save Thousand Mechanisms City's people.
• Qiu Shanyuan refused to lend the Dragon Pearl, explaining that losing it could endanger Youyun Heaven.
• Xu Taiping offered to vouch for Gongshu Bai as Golden Scale Champion, but Qiu Shanyuan said Xu's fortune was not enough to cover the risk.
• Gongshu Bai thanked Xu Taiping and Qiu Shanyuan, then prepared to leave.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping to ask whether the master of Huangting Dao Palace could vouch for Gongshu Bai, and a golden rune appeared on his palm.
• Xu Taiping revealed the Celestial Palace Seal, and Fairy Lingyue declared that she would vouch for Gongshu Bai and Thousand Mechanisms City before asking Great Emperor Cang Ai for consent.

Xu Taiping’s pledge allowed Thousand Mechanisms City to borrow the Dragon Pearl, while Fairy Lingyue revealed herself as the returned Undying Ye Po and promised to help Youyun Heaven. Gongshu Bai gave Xu Taiping a Mysterious Wasteland Ring, whose significance surprised Fairy Lingyue.

• Qiu Shanyuan recalled Undying Ye Po’s role in the Battle of Huangting and reacted with horror when Fairy Lingyue was identified as Ye Po.
• Great Emperor Cang Ai asked Ye Po to support Youyun Heaven when its great edifice was about to collapse, and she agreed.
• Cang Ai approved lending the Dragon Pearl to Thousand Mechanisms City with Ye Po as guarantor and promised to erase traces of her presence.
• Gongshu Bai thanked Xu Taiping for standing as guarantor and gave him a Mysterious Wasteland Ring that granted access to Mysterious Wasteland Heaven and the Mysterious Wasteland Tower trials.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that Gongshu Bai’s gift was equivalent to placing his life in Xu Taiping’s hands.

Xu Taiping learned that the Mysterious Wasteland Ring could let him enter the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, but its use put Gongshu Bai’s life at risk as well as his own. He chose to enter after Qingxuan’s calamity was resolved, then learned that he and Dongfang Yuejian had both appeared on the Faceless Tower’s Beheading List.

• Gongshu Bai warned Xu Taiping that demonic beasts had taken over the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, then hurried back to Thousand Mechanisms City.
• Fairy Lingyue explained the ring’s powers and that Gongshu Bai would suffer a deadly backlash if Xu Taiping died while using it.
• Xu Taiping resolved to enter the tower after Qingxuan’s calamity, aiming to strengthen his divine essence before the True Martial Sword Champion Assembly.
• Lu Yun delivered a brocade box from Dongfang Yuejian containing pills, a jade slip, and a Small Universe Pouch.
• Dongfang Yuejian’s message revealed that she and Xu Taiping were on the Faceless Tower’s Beheading List, with a bounty of one divine weapon, one Gate-Sealing Stone, and one million Gold Essence Coins.

Fairy Lingyue explained why Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian had appeared on the Faceless Tower’s Beheading List, while Dongfang Yuejian revealed the bounty was tied to One-Leaf Book and a True Dragon secret. As Xu Taiping prepared to flee Youyun Heaven, the Lotus Eye showed him that the Faceless Ones planned to destroy the routes back to True Martial Heaven in six days.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that the Beheading List ranked targets by bounty and that Xu Taiping’s name had appeared unusually soon.
• Dongfang Yuejian said the bounty followed One-Leaf Book’s attempt to steal her One Stroke Opens Heaven legacy to resurrect a True Dragon, and that the assassins believed Xu Taiping and Yuejian knew the location of its remains.
• Dongfang Yuejian left Xu Taiping two Transformation Pills, a Teleportation Token to Chenglong Heaven, and two hundred thousand Gold Essence Coins, then departed with her escorts.
• Xu Taiping decided to leave Youyun Heaven by the next day and return to True Martial Heaven with Xiaoyu.
• The Lotus Eye showed Xu Taiping Faceless Ones destroying several Teleportation Platforms leading to True Martial Heaven, including one at Vairocana Chan Temple, six days later.

Xu Taiping hosted a banquet at Gathering Immortals Tower despite being placed on the Faceless Tower’s Beheading List, and the tower accepted his challenge. As Faceless assassins entered the banquet under disguises, Xu Taiping prepared to trap and kill them, resolved to make the tower fear him.

• Liu Yidao and Sun Laizi discussed Xu Taiping’s banquet and revealed that the Faceless Tower had accepted his challenge.
• Sun Laizi issued a Beheading Order and planned to use a hundred disguised Faceless Ones to attack Xu Taiping at Gathering Immortals Tower.
• Xu Taiping told Lu Rushuang that he intended to eliminate the Faceless Tower’s assassins before they could become a persistent threat.
• Xu Taiping ordered his Mysterious Origin Avatar to seat two identified Faceless Ones in chairs bearing the Heart-Eroding Curse and serve them Fairy Lingyue’s Soft-Bone Wine.
• Fairy Lingyue urged Xu Taiping to kill the Faceless Ones until they trembled, and Xu Taiping resolved to do so.

At Xu Taiping’s banquet, the Qi Household’s ancestor expected the Faceless Tower to make a move against Xu Taiping and mocked his chances of surviving. The festivities were disrupted when Zhou Zhengyuan accused Lu Yun of stealing his jade bracelet, and Lu Rushuang tried to calm the dispute while Zhou kept hold of the boy.

• The Ancestor of the Qi Household told Qi Changqing that ruthlessness, not high cultivation, was what let someone survive the Beheading List, and they expected Xu Taiping to be targeted by the Faceless Tower.
• Xu Taiping and Lu Rushuang toasted the Qi Household’s ancestor and head, who privately hoped Xu Taiping would not leave the Gathering Immortals Tower alive.
• Zhou Zhengyuan accused Lu Yun of stealing his jade bracelet and continued gripping the boy’s hand as Xu Taiping and Lu Rushuang hurried over.
• Lu Wen defended Lu Yun, and Zhou Zhengyuan struck at him, but Lu Rushuang caught Zhou’s palm before it landed.
• Lu Rushuang apologized and tried to smooth things over, but Zhou Zhengyuan refused to release Lu Yun and demanded a proper explanation.

Xu Taiping refused the Faceless Tower’s demand that he kneel and apologize, killing the Faceless One disguised as Zhou Zhengyuan with a single punch. Sun Baishou and Liu Yidao arrived with reinforcements and sealed the restaurant, confronting Xu Taiping.

• Zhou Zhengyuan demanded that Xu Taiping kneel and apologize, promising the Faceless Tower would spare him if he complied.
• Xu Taiping approached Zhou Zhengyuan, took a fighting stance, and struck him before he could gather his strength.
• Xu Taiping killed Zhou Zhengyuan with one punch, leaving the restaurant crowd stunned.
• Lu Yun started to warn Xu Taiping about Zhou Zhengyuan’s identity, while Lu Rushuang stepped in front of Lu Yun and Lu Wen.
• Sun Baishou and Liu Yidao entered the restaurant with several men as ghost-face runes covered its surfaces.
• Sun Baishou told the uninvolved guests to remain seated and taunted Xu Taiping for rejecting the Faceless Tower’s offer.

Xu Taiping faced Sun Baishou and the Faceless Tower’s hidden force at his champion’s banquet, then killed Liu Yidao with a single saber strike. After a finger snap left the Faceless Ones doubled over in pain, he ordered Ping'an and Bai Yu to shut the doors and kill them.

• Sun Baishou revealed that eighty or ninety guests in the restaurant were Faceless Ones and warned the other cultivators not to interfere.
• Liu Yidao challenged Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping’s saber strike split him in two after a sudden pain weakened him.
• Sun Baishou realized Xu Taiping had used a hidden method, and Xu Taiping snapped his fingers to make the Faceless Ones writhe in pain.
• Xu Taiping ordered Ping'an and Bai Yu to shut the doors and kill the Faceless Ones.

Xu Taiping used Fairy Lingyue’s barrier and his Blade Domain to slaughter every Faceless One in the restaurant. He ended by capturing an azure-flame primordial spirit and sending a warning to the Faceless Tower.

• Fairy Lingyue’s Geng Metal Black Prison barrier sealed the restaurant as Xu Taiping refused to explain how he had identified the Faceless Ones.
• Xu Taiping’s Blade Domain cut down two Faceless Ones who attacked him, and he summoned his Mysterious Origin Avatar to join the fight.
• Sun Baishou transformed and charged Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping sliced him into pieces with the Chaotic Cicada Stance.
• Xu Taiping and his avatar killed all hundred-odd Faceless Ones and sealed their primordial spirits with Ghost-Sealing Talismans.
• The Ancestor of the Qi Household warned Qi Changqing not to let the Qi Household provoke Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping captured an azure-flame primordial spirit and told it to warn the Faceless Tower that he knew all its plans.

After the massacre at Gathering Immortals Tower, Xu Taiping let a Faceless One's Primordial Spirit escape to frighten Faceless Tower and prepared to stop its attack on Vairocana Temple's Teleportation Platform. Two days later, Thousand Heads ordered Wu Baishou to destroy the platform, unaware that Xu Taiping might already know the plan.

• Xu Taiping released a surviving Primordial Spirit to carry his threat back to Faceless Tower, following Fairy Lingyue's advice to make the tower believe he could foresee its plans.
• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue that stopping the attack on Vairocana Temple's Teleportation Platform was crucial, and she added that averting Qingxuan's coming calamity could deter Faceless Tower for decades.
• At a Faceless Tower branch in Youyun Heaven, Sun Baishou reported that Xu Taiping had exposed and killed the Faceless Ones in Southern Chu's Imperial Capital, but Thousand Heads dismissed the possibility of a leak or divination.
• Thousand Heads ordered Wu Baishou, who had infiltrated Vairocana Temple, to destroy its Teleportation Platform immediately.
• Wu Baishou disguised himself as a young monk and entered Kashyapa Treasure Hall, where another monk greeted him as Senior Brother Hengyuan.

Xu Taiping killed a Faceless Tower Hundred Heads who had infiltrated Vairocana Temple, while the Southern Chu branch master realized the tower had provoked a dangerous enemy. After discussing the Lotus Eye and his urgent return to True Martial Heaven with Fairy Lingyue, Xu Taiping was met by Duan Xiaoyu, whom he had not seen in seven years.

• Hengming noticed that Wu Baishou, disguised as Hengyuan, had no face, and Wu Baishou struck him before Xu Taiping cut Wu Baishou down.
• Xu Taiping crushed the Moonshadow Stone, ending the Spirit Mirror transmission, and the black-robed Thousand Heads warned Youyun headquarters about Xu Taiping.
• Fairy Lingyue explained that the slain Faceless One was a Hundred Heads and asked whether Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye was still reacting.
• Xu Taiping said he had to return to True Martial Heaven by the next day, despite the Lotus Eye's warning and its dwindling spiritual power.
• Duan Xiaoyu arrived and called out to Xu Taiping after seven years apart.

Xu Taiping reunited with Duan Xiaoyu, who chose to stay and train under Jiang Cuicui rather than return to Qingxuan with him. At a banquet, he discovered that Zhang Tianze, Zhu Huai, and Fairy Lingyue had never heard of Duan Tianya, Wind Blade Valley, or Shang Jiu, and his Lotus Eye showed him a disturbing vision.

• Xu Taiping greeted Duan Xiaoyu, who tripped and fell while rushing to meet him.
• Duan Xiaoyu explained that Jiang Cuicui had taken her as a disciple, and Xu Taiping encouraged her to stay and pursue her martial fortune.
• Zhang Tianze, Zhu Huai, and Master Xuanzhi arrived after Zhang Tianze slew the Heavenly Wolf King and routed the werewolf demons.
• Xu Taiping told Zhang Tianze that Duan Tianya had taught him the Demon-Slaying Blade and had once sparred with him.
• Zhang Tianze, Zhu Huai, and Fairy Lingyue all said they had never heard of Wind Blade Valley or Shang Jiu.
• Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye burned, and he saw a bloodied girl with horn-shaped pigtails holding a severed head.

Xu Taiping encountered Nangong Yuan through the Lotus Eye and received Shang Jiu's warning about an existence that devoured people and erased every trace of them. After Xu Taiping drew its attention, Nangong Yuan shielded him until Fairy Lingyue and Venerable Jiaye intervened and urged him to escape.

• Xu Taiping recognized the little girl holding Shang Jiu's head in the Lotus Eye's vision, and she revealed that she could see him.
• Nangong Yuan relayed Shang Jiu's warning to return to True Martial Heaven and explained that Duan Tianya had provoked an existence that erased those it devoured from the world.
• Nangong Yuan said Shang Jiu had sent her into Xu Taiping's shadow for protection and instructed him to seek the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms at the Mysterious Wasteland Tower after his Primordial Spirit reached full perfection at the twelfth tier of the Spirit Refining Realm.
• Xu Taiping asked what he could do, drawing the attackers' attention, and Nangong Yuan suffered severe injuries while shielding him from invisible blows.
• Venerable Jiaye's Buddha Light exposed a giant hand crushing Nangong Yuan, and Fairy Lingyue's sword light severed it as they urged Xu Taiping to leave.

Xu Taiping was rescued from an evil god’s domain and warned that the threat made it unsafe for him to remain in Youyun Heaven. He left with hurried farewells and met Venerable Jiaye inside his protected domain, where Fairy Lingyue prepared to explain the danger.

• A girl sent Xu Taiping away with a sword light and urged him to remember her words before he awoke at the drinking table.
• Fairy Lingyue warned Xu Taiping not to reveal what happened and said an Otherworldly Evil God had targeted him, while Venerable Jiaye had intervened to rescue him.
• Xu Taiping agreed to leave Youyun Heaven immediately and received No Edge from Zhang Tianze, a Moonshadow Stone from Duan Xiaoyu, and farewell messages from his companions.
• Xu Taiping activated the Teleportation Array and bade farewell to Zhang Tianze, Zhu Huai, Duan Xiaoyu, and Xuanzhi before being transported away.
• Inside Venerable Jiaye’s domain, Fairy Lingyue confirmed it was safe and told Xu Taiping that his encounter was extremely troublesome.

Fairy Lingyue explained how Otherworldly Evil Gods formed and why the Great Emperors defended the Five Heavens from them. After hearing Xu Taiping recount the little girl’s words, she realized Shang Jiu had merged with the Evil God to save the girl and uncover its weakness, giving them a chance to drive it out.

• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue about Otherworldly Evil Gods, and she explained that they were Yin Gods that had devoured cultivators who failed to break through to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Fairy Lingyue showed Xu Taiping how Evil Gods and other beings attacked the Five Heavens, and explained that the barriers sometimes failed to keep them out.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that the Evil God could be driven from his shadow if they identified it and forced it out before it grew stronger.
• Xu Taiping realized Shang Jiu and the others had likely been devoured because they discovered the Evil God too late, and Fairy Lingyue said the Lotus Eye had helped save him.
• Xu Taiping recounted everything the little girl had said, and Fairy Lingyue concluded that Shang Jiu had merged with the Evil God to save the girl, hold the Evil God back, and discover its weakness.

Xu Taiping learned that raising his Primordial Spirit to the twelfth stage and practicing a lightning-based art could counter the Evil God in his shadow, then returned safely to True Martial Heaven. There, Tyrant Blade Sect disciples from Peerless Nether Heaven tried to force him to wait two hours, and he faced them down.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that the Evil God in Xu Taiping’s shadow feared lightning and that the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms Art could counter it after he raised his Primordial Spirit to the twelfth stage.
• Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue agreed to rescue Shang Jiu before investigating whether Duan Tianya had summoned the Evil God, and Venerable Jiaye asked Xu Taiping to visit the Thousand Buddha Kingdom if he reached the Transformation Realm.
• Xu Taiping returned to True Martial Heaven, saw the Evil God’s damaged shadow briefly appear beside a childlike shadow, and resolved to help Qingxuan against the two Faceless Ones.
• Thirteen Tyrant Blade Sect disciples from Peerless Nether Heaven surrounded Xu Taiping’s teleportation platform and ordered him to wait two hours while their sect master met with the Heavenly Blade Sect’s sect master.
• Xu Taiping challenged the disciples’ authority, and their leader mocked him for facing thirteen Spirit Refining Peak Realm cultivators alone.

Xu Taiping slaughtered the Tyrant Blade Sect disciples blocking his way to the Teleportation Platform and sealed their Primordial Spirits. After Bai Yu sensed White Rainbow’s vitality fading, Xu Taiping told him the truth, and Bai Yu demanded to be let out to save his father.

• Xu Taiping drew Water-Cutting and destroyed the Tyrant Blade Sect disciples’ flying spikes with one slash.
• The lead disciple formed the Six-Ding Six-Jia Dragon-Slaying Blade Formation, but Xu Taiping killed him and all twelve remaining disciples.
• Xu Taiping sealed the fallen cultivators’ Primordial Spirits in the Ghost-Sealing Talisman and warned them he would destroy them if their sect master harmed the Heavenly Blade Sect.
• Bai Yu sensed White Rainbow’s vitality fading and asked Xu Taiping if something had happened to his father.
• Xu Taiping confirmed the danger and refused to release Bai Yu, warning that the powerful Faceless Tower cultivators could kill him.

Xu Taiping set Bai Yu a seven-day deadline to break through and help rescue Uncle White Rainbow, then headed out as the Heavenly Blade Sect's alliance talks with Song Tianchou turned into a dispute over Duan Xiaoyu's rescue. The chapter ended with a young man in blue robes challenging Song Tianchou's confidence about the Heavenly Wolf King.

• Xu Taiping told Bai Yu to finish refining the Demon-Transformation Pill and reach the Demon Venerable Realm within seven days, or he would rescue Uncle White Rainbow alone.
• Xu Taiping changed his appearance and used Endless Horizon to leave.
• Song Tianchou pressed Duan Zhengyang to hand over the Heavenly Blade Sect's blade manuals as a condition of joining the Tyrant Blade Sect, and Duan Zhengyang refused the alliance.
• Song Tianchou claimed Duan Xiaoyu was trapped in besieged Tianyuan City and offered to rescue her if the Heavenly Blade Sect joined his sect.
• Duan Zhengyang questioned Song Tianchou's ability to face the Heavenly Wolf King, and a young man in blue Daoist robes entered and mocked Song Tianchou's boasts.

Xu Taiping, disguised as Lu Wen, reassured Sect Master Duan and Jiang Ru that Xiaoyu had been rescued, then confronted Song Tianchou in the Blade-Quenching Hall. After Song Tianchou attacked his clone, Xu Taiping struck from behind and revealed his Unceasing Blade Domain, but Song Tianchou remained standing and attacked again.

• Xu Taiping introduced himself as Lu Wen and told Sect Master Duan and Jiang Ru that Xiaoyu was safe at Vairocana Temple.
• Song Tianchou challenged Xu Taiping's story and demanded to know how he had passed the guarded Teleportation Platform.
• Song Tianchou slashed Xu Taiping in half, only for the body to burst into spiritual energy as a clone.
• Xu Taiping appeared behind Song Tianchou and struck him with blade shadows, but Song Tianchou endured the attack and countered with a powerful saber technique.
• Xu Taiping opened his Unceasing Blade Domain, split Song Tianchou's blade force, and cut his chest, but Song Tianchou stayed upright and swung at him again.