Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping used the ultimate realm dragon whale physique and the Baxia Form of the Ancestral Sage Fist to overwhelm the Qingmian Ghost, who drew battle intent from his army to endure the blows. The Qingmian Ghost remained standing as Xu Taiping continued striking his head.

• Xu Taiping repelled the Qingmian Ghost’s attacks with the Mountain-Bearing Form and then gathered immense fist force with the Baxia Form.
• Yun Ye asked Luo Cheng about Xu Taiping’s ultimate realm dragon whale physique, and Luo Cheng explained its rarity and recognized Xu Taiping as an exceptional Martial Dao genius.
• The Qingmian Ghost called on the Ghost Armor Army Formation, whose battle intent formed armor around him and strengthened his attack.
• Xu Taiping’s Baxia Form punch shattered the Qingmian Ghost’s armor and sent his body flying, but the ghost generals caught him.
• The Qingmian Ghost drew more battle intent to prepare another attack, while Xu Taiping appeared above him and landed repeated punches that checked his fist force without seriously injuring him.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed the giant Qingmian Ghost with a Great Sage Fist technique that built and stacked its force through successive punches. When the Qingmian Ghost absorbed the ghost generals to multiply his power, Xu Taiping swallowed a Dragon Blood Pill and unleashed a surge of qi and blood.

• Xu Taiping’s punches grew faster and stronger until his fist force kept the Qingmian Ghost from striking back.
• After eighteen hundred punches, Xu Taiping’s fist force began stacking, and he broke the Qingmian Ghost’s arms and cracked his forehead.
• The Qingmian Ghost transformed into black blood and swallowed the ghost generals, then reformed with aura more than ten times stronger.
• Gu Qingcheng identified the transformation as Ghost Power Embracing Firewood, and Xu Taiping swallowed a Dragon Blood Pill as he continued fighting.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed Qingmian Ghost with the eighteen-hundred-punch Raging Thunder Form and began to grasp its more powerful second stage. Before he could finish the battle and break through the ghost horde, a vast black cloud rushed toward him.

• Xu Taiping shattered Qingmian Ghost's hammer and repeatedly destroyed his body, while Qingmian used kindling power to heal himself.
• Xu Taiping unleashed thunderflame, forcing Qingmian to try to flee as his healing could not keep pace with the destruction.
• Yun Ye, Luo Cheng, and Gu Qingcheng watched Xu Taiping's power with astonishment and discussed the danger the Bone-Shattering Curse posed to his future.
• Xu Taiping realized the Raging Thunder Form had three stages and began comprehending its second stage while battering Qingmian down to a fraction of his former size.
• As Xu Taiping prepared to finish Qingmian and charge through the ghost horde, he sensed danger and saw an enormous black cloud racing toward them.

Xu Taiping killed the Qingmian Ghost and used the second stage of his Raging Thunder Form to stop Ghost King Bearhead and the Black Baleful Cavalry’s charge. The chapter ended with Bearhead pinned in place beneath Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist.

• Ghost King Bearhead arrived with three hundred Black Baleful Cavalry riders and struck the Azure Dragon formation with their black bear battle intent.
• Yun Ye and Gu Qingcheng recognized the danger of the cavalry and warned Xu Taiping to avoid their charge, but Xu Taiping decided to attack Bearhead instead.
• Gu Qingcheng ordered the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers to stay put, gather battle intent, and prepare to charge when she gave the signal.
• Xu Taiping destroyed the Qingmian Ghost with hundreds of thunderflame-wreathed punches and left behind its sealing object.
• Bearhead charged the Azure Dragon formation, but Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist pinned him in place and left him terrified.

Xu Taiping killed the Bear-Headed Ghost King with a single punch, then led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers in crushing the Black Baleful Cavalry. The victorious force gathered the Sealing Artifacts and charged onward to break out of the Snow Domain.

• The Bear-Headed Ghost King transformed into a giant bear demon and raised a spiked fist guard, but Xu Taiping shattered his defenses and destroyed him with a punch.
• Yun Ye and Luo Cheng were stunned by Xu Taiping's strength, while Gu Qingcheng realized he had further refined his Ancestral Sage Fist.
• Xu Taiping ordered the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers to charge, and they followed him in formation, tearing apart the enemy's black bear phantom.
• The three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers charged down and killed the three hundred Black Baleful Cavalry soldiers, their battle intent rising sharply.
• After the soldiers collected the Sealing Artifacts, Xu Taiping ordered them to keep charging and break out of the Snow Domain, and they answered in unison.

Xu Taiping ordered the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers to maintain an all-out charge through the Snow Domain in the North Wind Battle Formation, while he faced the enemy commanders alone. As the formation's battle intent surged, Yun Ye warned Gu Qingcheng that Xu Taiping could not defeat the ghost generals and cavalry by himself.

• Xu Taiping told Gu Qingcheng that the soldiers had to charge without hesitation because even one defeat would taint their battle intent and ruin their chance to escape the Snow Domain.
• Xu Taiping ordered Gu Qingcheng to switch to the North Wind Battle Formation and keep it unchanged, leaving him to shoulder any attack from an enemy commander alone.
• Gu Qingcheng gave the order, and the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers, including Dugu Qingxiao and Zhao Linglong, answered as the Azure Dragon Phantom's aura intensified.
• Yun Ye warned Gu Qingcheng that Xu Taiping could not face four Double Grade A ghost generals and two troops of ghost cavalry alone.
• Gu Qingcheng argued that fighting the ghost generals one by one would wear the Azure Dragon forces down, but Yun Ye insisted they could leave the tower and try again after a defeat.

Xu Taiping led the Azure Dragon formation through the Snow Domain, realizing that victory without a single loss was essential to preserving their battle intent and escaping. He broke the Sword Cultivator Ghost King's Flying Sword with a relentless barrage of punches, then faced the ghost's Heaven-Falling Sword while seeking to advance his fist technique.

• Gu Qingcheng prompted Yun Ye to realize that the group could escape the Snow Domain only if they never lost and maintained their pure battle intent.
• A Ghost King army attacked the Azure Dragon formation, and Xu Taiping used Golden Flame and the Ancestral Sage Fist to repel its Sword Cultivator commander.
• Xu Taiping's escalating Raging Thunder Form punches drove back the Sword Cultivator Ghost King and shattered his enormous Flying Sword after 2,700 blows.
• The Sword Cultivator Ghost King summoned a flaming meteor as his Heaven-Falling Sword, and Xu Taiping raised his Raging Thunder Form to the second stage to meet it.

Xu Taiping defeated the Sword Ghost and led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers into the heart of the Snow Domain. There, the ghost lord’s Redfire Cavalry and Silver Rope Cavalry attacked the Azure Dragon Phantom, while a wounded silver-robed saber wielder revealed a dangerous ghost power.

• Xu Taiping shattered the Sword Ghost’s Heaven-Falling flying sword, killed him with a punch, and took his jade hairpin.
• The Azure Dragon Armor soldiers surged through the ghost generals’ formation, strengthening their battle intent as they advanced into the Snow Domain’s center.
• The Redfire Cavalry’s spirit mirror scorched the Azure Dragon Phantom while the Silver Rope Cavalry bound it with a silver rope.
• A blue-robed Daoist and a silver-robed saber wielder attacked Xu Taiping, but he broke their strikes and punched the saber wielder in the chest.
• The silver-robed saber wielder’s aura grew stronger after he was injured, and Gu Qingcheng warned Xu Taiping that his ghost power increased as he neared death.

Xu Taiping fought the silver-robed blade ghost while leading the Azure Dragon Armor warriors forward, using their renewed battle intent to press toward the Ghost Lord’s army. After the ghost unleashed his strongest blade strike, Xu Taiping’s fist intent surged, suggesting his Raging Thunder Form had reached its third transformation.

• Xu Taiping’s clone used the Sea-Swallowing Seal to absorb the blue-robed Daoist’s flame attack while Xu Taiping battered the silver-robed blade ghost.
• Xu Taiping urged the Azure Dragon Armor warriors to keep charging, renewing their battle intent and driving the Azure Dragon Phantom forward.
• Xu Taiping met the silver-robed blade ghost’s waterfall-like strike with his Mountain-Setting Fist and sensed a sudden insight into fist intent.
• The silver-robed blade ghost used his ghost power to transform his body into a blood blade and unleash One Blade Cuts Heaven.
• Gu Qingcheng stopped the Azure Dragon Armor warriors from leaving formation to rescue Xu Taiping, whose fist intent and Bull Demon Phantom suddenly surged as she suspected his Raging Thunder Form had reached its third transformation.

Xu Taiping broke through to the third stage of the Ancestral Sage Fist while battling the Silver-Robed Saber Cultivator, then led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers through several Ghost General formations. The chapter ended as a Tiger-Headed Ghost General attacked Xu Taiping with a massive axe.

• Xu Taiping used alternating punches with his Bull Demon phantoms to withstand the Silver-Robed Saber Cultivator's Blade Shadow and build his fist force.
• Xu Taiping comprehended the third stage of the Ancestral Sage Fist and shattered the Blade Shadow with hundreds of punches.
• Xu Taiping punched the Silver-Robed Saber Cultivator into black mist, then killed the Azure-Robed Daoist and took his Spirit Mirror.
• Gu Qingcheng ordered the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers to charge through the Ghost General formations, and their Azure Dragon battle intent broke through the enemy ranks.
• A Tiger-Headed Ghost General leaped from his formation and swung a massive axe at Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping led the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers into the depths of the Snow Domain, where they broke through the ghost army’s defenses with overwhelming battle intent. As they charged toward the Ghost Lord, observers realized that human conviction and will could decide the Heaven-Demon War.

• Xu Taiping shattered the Tiger-Beast Ghost General and led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers into the Snow Domain.
• Xu Taiping called on the soldiers to avenge their dead and refuse to submit, stirring Gu Qingcheng and the Mysterious Wasteland Heaven cultivators to cry out for a charge.
• The Azure Dragon formation met three thousand Ghost Armor soldiers and their black flood-dragon battle intent, defeating them without losing a soldier as Xu Taiping killed their spear-wielding Ghost King.
• Vice Palace Master Yun Shiliu concluded that human battle intent was the key to victory in the Heaven-Demon War as Xu Taiping’s force drove toward the Ghost Lord.
• An unseen voice urged Xu Taiping to keep charging and prove how high his battle intent could rise.

Xu Taiping led the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor warriors through the Ghost Lord’s battle intent, where falling words and supernatural cold threatened to break their formation. After driving back three Ghost Generals, he opened his Mountain Spirit blade domain, shielding the army and halting the attack as they pressed toward the Ghost Lord.

• Xu Taiping and the three hundred armored warriors broke through the Ghost Lord’s invisible battle-intent wall and charged toward him.
• The Ghost Lord’s moonlit battle intent unfolded into scrolls whose falling words battered the Azure Dragon Phantom, while Gu Qingcheng urged Xu Taiping to lead the charge.
• The Ghost Lord sighed, sending a supernatural chill through the army that slowed its advance and froze the Azure Dragon Phantom.
• Three Ghost Generals attacked Xu Taiping, who struck them back with the Mountain-Setting Fist, badly injuring two and leaving the strongest unscathed.
• Xu Taiping opened his Mountain Spirit blade domain, which scattered the falling words and blocked the Ghost Lord’s cold from the Azure Dragon warriors.

Xu Taiping led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers through the Ghost Lord’s formation, resisting a ghost power that turned them into boulders chained to him. As the soldiers’ battle intent returned with each step, the Ghost Lord created mountains of blades and fire in Xu Taiping’s path, and Xu Taiping chose to press on.

• Xu Taiping used his blade domain to clear the Ghost Armor Army Formation while Gu Qingcheng asked Luo Cheng to use Immortal Caressing the Crown to replenish him.
• The Ghost Lord questioned whether the Azure Dragon Army Formation was also a shackle, then used his words as law to turn the soldiers into boulders chained to Xu Taiping’s feet.
• Gu Qingcheng explained that the ghost power had transformed their perceptions, and Xu Taiping discovered he could drag the boulders forward through will and thought.
• As Xu Taiping kept stepping forward, the soldiers regained their senses and their battle intent grew stronger.
• The Ghost Lord conjured a mountain of blades and a sea of fire ahead of Xu Taiping, who declared he dared to proceed and took a step forward.

Xu Taiping endured the Ghost Lord’s Word-Follows-Law power by walking across the Blade Mountain Molten Flames, arguing that it could slay the heart but not the person. His defiance rekindled the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers’ battle intent as they advanced with him.

• Xu Taiping realized the Ghost Lord had made the blades, flames, and pain real while reducing his body to that of a mortal.
• Xu Taiping declared that the Ghost Lord’s power could only break a person’s heart, then insisted he could still kill the Ghost Lord.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly pulled his feet from the blades and stepped forward despite his injuries, inspiring the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers.
• Yun Ye admitted the Azure Dragon Token should belong to Xu Taiping, while Gu Qingcheng recalled her brother’s sacrifice and felt her battle intent surge.
• The Azure Dragon Armor soldiers’ battle intent rose with each of Xu Taiping’s steps, and the Azure Dragon Phantom roared as heat gathered in its body.

Xu Taiping endured the Ghost Lord’s blades while dragging the petrified Azure Dragon Armor warriors toward him, awakening their battle intent and the spirits sealed within the Azure Dragon Token. He stood before the Ghost Lord, lifted the token, and declared his intent to kill him.

• Xu Taiping pulled himself off the blades piercing him and continued dragging the three hundred petrified Azure Dragon Armor warriors toward the Ghost Lord.
• Dugu Qingxiao and Zhao Linglong resolved to help Xu Taiping, and their battle intent joined the others to strengthen the Azure Dragon Phantom.
• Yun Shiliu asked Elder Fang to wake the old Palace Master after recognizing the significance of the battle.
• Xu Taiping reached the Ghost Lord, and the Azure Dragon Phantom summoned the remnant souls of the fallen Azure Dragon Armor warriors to lift him back to his feet.
• Xu Taiping raised the Azure Dragon Token and told the Ghost Lord he had come to kill him.

Xu Taiping fought the Ghost Lord with the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers, but the Azure Dragon Battle Intent withheld its dragon breath until Xu proved he could threaten his foe. Learning this from Gu Qingcheng, Xu prepared to use his new Startling Cicada technique to wound the Ghost Lord.

• Xu Taiping summoned the Azure Dragon Battle Intent with the Azure Dragon Token, breaking the Ghost Lord’s scroll battle intent and restoring the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers to their original forms.
• Luo Cheng of the Eight Views Dao Palace used Immortal Caressing the Crown to restore Xu Taiping’s true essence and blood qi and strengthen his body.
• Xu Taiping led the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers in a charge that collided with the Ghost Lord’s formation and killed the Ghost Creatures outside its protection.
• Xu Taiping clashed blades and domains with the Ghost Lord, struggling against his powerful swordsmanship while the Azure Dragon Battle Intent did not assist him.
• Gu Qingcheng told Xu Taiping that the Azure Dragon Battle Intent had gathered dragon breath but needed him to demonstrate a threatening ultimate technique before it would exhale it.
• Xu Taiping decided to fuse Chaotic Cicada with the Unceasing Blade Domain into his newly named Startling Cicada technique.

Xu Taiping fought the Ghost Lord, whose Great River Sword Domain overwhelmed him with seemingly endless sword qi. As the Ghost Lord unleashed a torrent from above, Xu Taiping began gathering his blade force and Geng Metal Blazing Flame for a powerful counterattack.

• The Ghost Lord struck Xu Taiping with abundant sword qi, and Xu Taiping used his Mysterious Origin Avatar and blade domain to break through it.
• Xu Taiping charged the Ghost Lord and unleashed repeated Dragon-Slaying Form slashes, but the Ghost Lord evaded them within his river of sword qi.
• Xu Taiping realized the Ghost Lord's domain could engulf other domains and drew on the Golden Flame of the Origin Returning True Fire.
• The Ghost Lord unleashed a vast torrent of sword qi that compressed Xu Taiping's blade domain to a ten-zhang area.
• Xu Taiping ignored the Thunder Soul Blade's prompting and continued gathering blade force, blade qi, and the Geng Metal Blazing Flame.

Xu Taiping’s Unceasing Blade Domain neared collapse under the Ghost Lord’s Great River Sword Domain, but Xu continued gathering his Blade Intent and Blade Force without drawing his blade. He finally unleashed his power, halted the Ghost Lord’s attack, and erased the hundreds of Sword Qi torrents, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The Ghost Lord’s Sword Qi battered Xu Taiping’s Blade Domain until its dragon and crane phantoms shattered and the Lotus Throne cracked.
• Xu Taiping released a powerful Blade Intent and Blade Force, which Gu Qingcheng recognized as his preparation to use blade techniques at the Ultimate Realm.
• The Ghost Lord invoked “Hundred Rivers Return to the Sea,” sending hundreds of Sword Qi torrents at Xu Taiping from every direction.
• As the torrents drove Xu Taiping’s Blade Domain down to seven feet, he erupted with a tremendous Blade Force that pinned the attack and immobilized the Ghost Lord.
• Xu Taiping’s blade shadows, accompanied by cicada cries and Geng Metal Thunderflame, dissolved all the Sword Qi torrents.

Xu Taiping used the Startling Cicada Form against the Ghost Lord, then summoned the Azure Dragon Immortal Lord, who destroyed the Ghost Lord and his Ghost Generals. At the Eight Views Dao Palace, Yun Shiliu and a figure in azure mist discussed whether Xu Taiping could lead the Azure Dragon Armor warriors through the Eight-Faced Tower and reach the Mysterious Wasteland Tower’s Eleventh Layer.

• Xu Taiping’s Startling Cicada Form shattered the Ghost Lord’s sword domain and protective sword gang, but the Ghost Lord survived and caught Xu Taiping’s follow-up strike at the cost of an arm and a long blade wound.
• The Ghost Lord charged Xu Taiping and the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor warriors, and Xu Taiping raised the Azure Dragon Token to command the Azure Dragon Immortal Lord to join the battle.
• The Azure Dragon Immortal Lord answered Xu Taiping’s command and blasted the Ghost Lord and thousands of Ghost Generals into ashes with dragon breath.
• At the Eight Views Dao Palace, Yun Shiliu and a figure hidden in azure mist discussed the rarity of someone commanding the true dragon and whether Xu Taiping could reach the tower’s top floor.
• Yun Shiliu and the figure in the mist considered whether Yun Ye, Luo Cheng, and the other inner disciples would follow Xu Taiping and help him subdue the Seven Evils.

After the cultivators escaped the Snow Domain and reached the bridge to the Mysterious Wasteland Tower’s Tenth Layer, the Tower Spirit rewarded the Azure Dragon Armor soldiers and offered Xu Taiping special gifts for his achievements. Xu Taiping learned that he could take three Sealing Artifacts out of the tower and receive the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms Art, while the Tower Spirit had yet to reveal his third gift.

• Xu Taiping reassured Gongshu Nanxing, Elder Zhang, and the others that they had truly reached the bridge to the Tenth Layer, and they thanked him and the other cultivators for their help.
• The Tower Spirit awarded each of the three hundred Azure Dragon Armor soldiers an extra reward for defeating seven thousand Ghost Armor soldiers.
• The Tower Spirit told Xu Taiping that he could take three Sealing Artifacts out of the tower and use their Ghost Kings, including the Ghost Lord, by spending Gold Essence Coins or Soulfire Stones.
• The Tower Spirit offered Xu Taiping the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms Art, which could strengthen his Divine Soul and grant him five celestial powers.