Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping exhausted himself punching back the Shadow Demons while Cloud Crane True Lord completed the Heaven-Shaking Earth-Splitting Talisman and used a river of Mountain Spirit Power to expose Su Chan’s Demon God Weapon, Taotie. As Taotie produced Infant Ghosts, Xu Taiping saw a vision of Fairy Lingyue destroying the Ghost Creatures, but Su Chan appeared to threaten the group.

• Cloud Crane True Lord trusted Xu Taiping to keep fighting and drew the talisman’s final strokes while Xu punched through waves of Shadow Demons.
• Xu Taiping ran out of strength as hundreds of Shadow Demons approached, but Cloud Crane True Lord summoned a heavenly river that destroyed them and forced Taotie out of the ground.
• Taotie emerged as a towering black tree and dropped fruits that hatched into Infant Ghosts, prompting Cloud Crane True Lord to recognize Su Chan’s formidable hidden tactic.
• Xu Taiping unsealed a second Divine Soul Curse Seal and saw a vision of Fairy Lingyue wielding a full moon to destroy the Ghost Creatures and wither Taotie.
• Su Chan spoke through the Secret Realm, observed that many experts had gathered over the White Bodhi, and promised to play with them that night.

Su Chan’s Demon God Weapon Taotie awakened the Branch-Folding power, turning living beings into golden branches that Ghost Creatures could use to take their places. Xu Taiping helped defend the tree and told Cloud Crane True Lord he knew a way to break Su Chan’s two demon seed powers.

• Su Chan’s Taotie grew a golden branch, and Cloud Crane True Lord explained that Branch-Folding let Ghost Creatures possess anyone whose branch they broke off.
• Dozens of Ghost Creatures attacked the black tree, while Cloud Crane True Lord warned that Su Chan had gained the power during a temporary surge in his Night Demon lineage.
• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue whether his misfortune was affecting those around him, and she said a bright moon could counter Su Chan’s Shadow Demon power but would leave her unable to help for a long time.
• Xu Taiping destroyed dozens of Ghost Creatures with one Fire Virtue arrow after Cloud Crane True Lord’s Golden Light Talisman shattered.
• Cloud Crane True Lord contacted Pearl Relic House Master and Senior Azure Eyes for help, and Xu Taiping asked him to report that he could break both of Su Chan’s origin demon seed powers.

Xu Taiping and Cloud Crane True Lord faced increasingly powerful ghost hordes beneath the black tree as its golden branches multiplied. Xu Taiping fired the Thunder Master Arrow at a Wandering Corpse, and the chapter ended as the arrow pierced it and unleashed thunder within its body.

• Cloud Crane True Lord contacted Brother Pearl Relic and Senior Azure Eyes, summoning them to the White Bodhi Tree after Xu Taiping said he had a way to counter Su Chan's demon seed.
• A golden branch linked to Cloud Crane True Person appeared, and a stronger horde of ghost creatures rose beneath the black tree.
• Xu Taiping's Wind Earl Arrow tore through most of the attacking ghosts, and Cloud Crane True Lord used five Gold Essence Coins to destroy the remaining Flying Jiangshi-level creatures.
• Another golden branch appeared as the ghost horde grew stronger, so Xu Taiping prepared his last arrow, the Thunder Master Arrow, while Cloud Crane True Lord readied to lay a formation.
• A Wandering Corpse charged at Xu Taiping, who fired the Thunder Master Arrow and pierced it, filling its body with thunder.

Xu Taiping and Cloud Crane True Lord tried to protect the White Bodhi Tree, but Su Chan revealed that he had planned for their formation and summoned a powerful shadow demon to attack it. With Azure-Eyed Evil Lord arriving to help, Xu Taiping called for the seniors to lend him their strength to raise a Bright Moon in the Broken Grotto-Heaven.

• Cloud Crane True Lord used the Thunder Master Arrow to destroy ghosts, then deployed Gold Essence Coins to summon the Cloud Tower Formation around the black tree.
• Su Chan summoned a shadow demon from the Cloud Tower's shadow, and it shattered Cloud Crane True Lord's formation with one axe strike.
• Xu Taiping attacked the shadow demon with the Dragon-Slaying Form, but it shattered his blade shadow and wounded the White Bodhi Tree with its axe.
• Xu Taiping drank Hidden Immortal Wine as he prepared to raise his strength, while Azure-Eyed Evil Lord arrived in Dharma Form Heaven and Earth and struck the shadow demon.
• Three more shadow demons confronted Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, who drove them back with sword qi and asked Xu Taiping how to break Su Chan's demon seed power.
• Xu Taiping rushed to Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and asked the seniors to lend their strength to raise a Bright Moon within the Broken Grotto-Heaven.

Xu Taiping fought through the Ghost Horde while the others prepared to help him raise a bright moon that could illuminate the ruined Secret Realm and weaken Su Chan's Demon Seed. The chapter ended with Cloud Crane True Lord protecting the White Bodhi Tree as the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Pearl Relic House Master committed to the plan.

• The Pearl Relic House Master used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap Xu Taiping with an Infant Ghost, saving him from the aged Ghost Creature's palm strike.
• Xu Taiping cut a path through the Ghost Horde with his Water-Cutting Blade, while the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Pearl Relic House Master discussed his promise to raise a bright moon.
• The Wandering Corpse sent nine Sword Shadows at Xu Taiping, but Cloud Crane True Lord's Golden Bell shielded him and he fled into the Cloud Tower Grand Formation.
• Cloud Crane True Lord urged the others to act as the Wandering Corpse battered the formation, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord told the Pearl Relic House Master to protect the White Bodhi Tree.
• The Pearl Relic House Master cast a defensive True Words invocation, and Cloud Crane True Lord's Indestructible invocation spread golden seal-script characters over the White Bodhi Tree.

Xu Taiping and his allies relied on Fairy Lingyue to draw on their combined power and raise the Bright Moon while Su Chan’s Ghost Creatures attacked the Cloud Tower Barrier. Fairy Lingyue took the black Spirit Pearl and assumed control of the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s body, but the barrier was breached before she could act.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord switched places with Old Ghost the Wandering Corpse and swept away the attacking Ghost Creatures with his Sword Qi.
• Su Chan unleashed six powerful Ghost Creatures, three of which repeatedly struck the Cloud Tower Barrier as Cloud Crane True Lord spent Gold Essence Coins to repair it.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord asked Xu Taiping to borrow their strength, and he brought Xu Taiping and the others into the Secret Realm’s Spirit Pearl.
• Fairy Lingyue seized the black Spirit Pearl, warning Xu Taiping that its combined Divine Soul power would overwhelm him if he held it.
• Xu Taiping found himself inside the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s body as Su Chan challenged them, and the Ghost Creatures broke through the Cloud Tower Barrier.
• Cloud Crane True Lord urged young friend Wuyou to have Fairy Lingyue release the Spirit Pearl so he could repair the barrier.

Fairy Lingyue overwhelmed the ghost horde and revealed the immense power she could wield through Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's body. After Su Chan summoned a Shadow Demon to challenge her, Fairy Lingyue destroyed it with a thunderbolt and began preparing another technique, Withered Sea Moonrise.

• Fairy Lingyue impaled most of the ghost horde with Earth Rock Spear and used Unshakable to reinforce the Cloud Tower's barrier.
• Fairy Lingyue seized control of Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's body and drained the true essence and qi and blood of Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, and Cloud Crane True Lord.
• Fairy Lingyue used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to grow Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's body to a colossal height and killed the remaining risen ghosts with a stomp.
• Su Chan summoned and controlled a Shadow Demon, then struck Fairy Lingyue's enormous body with its axe.
• Fairy Lingyue grew larger to withstand the blow, summoned the Lightning-Fast Whip of Thunder, shattered the Shadow Demon, and began Withered Sea Moonrise.

Fairy Lingyue continued condensing a full moon while Su Chan used a shadow demon to break the Cloud Tower Barrier and send ghost creatures after the golden branches. As the barrier fell, she ignored pleas to stop the attack and suddenly breathed her gathered power into the moon, making it swell.

• Fairy Lingyue combined the powers of Cloud Crane True Lord, the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, and the Pearl Relic House Master to form a bright moon, while Su Chan summoned a shadow demon from its shade.
• Su Chan ordered the shadow demon to hack at the Cloud Tower Barrier instead of attacking Fairy Lingyue, and the axe blows shattered its golden chains and weakened its final layer.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord warned Fairy Lingyue that Su Chan would snap the golden branches before the moon was complete, but she ignored him and told him to remove the viciousness from his Dao heart.
• The shadow demon shattered the Cloud Tower Barrier, and the gathered ghost creatures rushed toward the golden branches as the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord prepared to withdraw.
• Fairy Lingyue stopped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord from detaching himself, then breathed her gathered true essence, qi and blood, and divine soul power into the moon, causing it to swell.

Fairy Lingyue trapped Su Chan with her moonlight, but he escaped by using Blood Cicada Shedding Its Shell and lost a realm. After thanking Xu Taiping for her intervention, Cloud Crane True Lord invited the senior behind him to help slay the demon seed in the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Chan transformed into a sword and launched a Sword Immortal strike at Fairy Lingyue, but she trapped him in a fireball formed from her bright moon.
• Su Chan escaped the fireball in a skinless form, seized Taotie, and fled using Blood Cicada Shedding Its Shell, which cost him one realm.
• Fairy Lingyue dispersed her manifestation, and Xu Taiping asked whether her primordial spirit was unharmed before vowing to face Su Chan himself.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, Pearl Relic House Master, and Cloud Crane True Lord thanked Xu Taiping for Fairy Lingyue's help.
• Cloud Crane True Lord invited the senior behind Xu Taiping to enter the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven and help slay the demon seed from the Tenth Demon Abyss.

Xu Taiping learned that the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven contained Divine Soil Xirang, which could greatly accelerate the Earth Fruit’s growth and might produce ancient Xiantian Divine Weapons. He entered the grotto-heaven with the others and awoke before a vast Golden Body manifestation as Venerable Jiaye greeted him.

• Xu Taiping told Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master that Fairy Lingyue could not act again, though her moon would trap intruding demons and ghosts for ten days.
• The Pearl Relic House Master explained that Xirang replenished itself and made plants grow faster, and Cloud Crane True Lord revealed that it was the key ingredient in their cultivation method.
• Fairy Lingyue urged Xu Taiping to enter the grotto-heaven and plant the Earth Fruit in Xirang, which could halve its maturation time and yield ancient Xiantian Divine Weapons.
• Great Elder Lou arrived with injured cultivators and asked Xu Taiping to help activate the teleportation array and enter the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Taiping joined the others in activating the array, then awoke before an enormous Golden Body manifestation as Venerable Jiaye greeted him.

Xu Taiping spoke with Venerable Jiaye, who warned that the Secret Realm ahead was being consumed by a powerful existence and gave him the Shurangama Sutra for protection. Jiaye urged Xu Taiping to leave as soon as he could, but Xu Taiping doubted escape would help if the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others could not defeat the threat.

• Venerable Jiaye drew Xu Taiping’s Primordial Spirit out of his body and explained that the All Beings Are Equal Bracelet had let him sense Xu Taiping nearby.
• Xu Taiping promised to bring a White Bodhi branch to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom after leaving the Secret Realm.
• Venerable Jiaye sensed that the Secret Realm was in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven and that an existence inside was devouring its Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Venerable Jiaye gave Xu Taiping a scroll of the Shurangama Sutra, whose Buddhist power could help him wield the All Beings Are Equal Bracelet.
• Venerable Jiaye warned Xu Taiping to leave the Secret Realm quickly, but Xu Taiping said escaping would not solve the danger if the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others failed to defeat the Demonic Beast.

Xu Taiping resolved to help confront the Demonic Beast in the Tenth Demon Abyss and used the Lotus Eye Curse Seal to glimpse a possible future. He saw the Pearl Relic House Master fatally injured amid a betrayal, then arrived at the Secret Realm as Fairy Lingyue fell asleep.

• Venerable Jiaye reminded Xu Taiping to bring a White Bodhi branch to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom, and Xu Taiping returned to his body in the formation.
• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue about Venerable Jiaye's warning and said he would first deliver the Kunwu Sword to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and assess their strength.
• Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye Curse Seal on the Pearl Relic House Master and received a vision of Great Elder Lou accusing Zhao Mou while Cloud Crane True Lord tried to save the dying Pearl Relic House Master.
• Fairy Lingyue identified Zhao Mou as the likely betrayer and urged Xu Taiping to watch him, then grew exhausted and fell asleep.
• Xu Taiping landed in the Secret Realm, where the Pearl Relic House Master announced that they had arrived.

Xu Taiping and the others entered Golden Court Prefecture’s Inner Grotto-Heaven, where awakened stone statues attacked them and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord destroyed the constructs. Zhao Mou arrived as they questioned why the Demonic Beast’s Creation Power worked outside the barrier, and Xu Taiping prepared to act against him.

• Cloud Crane True Lord told Xu Taiping that Qu Shuang, Zhang Yu, Zhuo Buming, and Zhao Mou had stayed behind to guard the Inner Grotto-Heaven, and Xu Taiping learned that Zhao Mou had reached the Heaven Questioning Realm.
• As the group approached the Green Bamboo Sea, stone hands trapped Xu Taiping, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to save him from a living statue’s stomp.
• Stone men formed from the temple ruins attacked the group, and Cloud Crane True Lord protected Xu Taiping with a Golden Light Talisman when a statue nearly struck him.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord sent Sword Qi through the ground and ground the stone constructs to dust, while Pearl Relic House Master explained that the Demonic Beast’s Creation Power could awaken lifeless things.
• Zhao Mou flew in from the bamboo forest and Pearl Relic House Master demanded to know what had happened; Xu Taiping drank his Hidden Immortal Wine and prepared to act.

Zhao Mou told Xu Taiping and the others that Qu Shuang had used the Po Jun Sword to put the demonic beast back to sleep, dying from the backlash. Xu Taiping recognized signs that Zhao Mou would attack the Pearl Relic House Master over the borrowed Spring and Autumn Brush, and continued toward the Green Bamboo Sea while planning how to respond.

• Zhao Mou explained that a Profound Demon Crow had awakened the demonic beast and Qu Shuang had sacrificed himself to put it back to sleep.
• Cloud Crane True Lord said they had been fighting the demon seed power leaking from the sleeping beast, while Zhao Mou reported that recent demon mist tides had spilled beyond the barrier.
• The Pearl Relic House Master scolded Zhao Mou, but Xu Taiping noticed concealed malice in his eyes and suspected the account of the barrier's defenders was false.
• Zhao Mou learned that the Pearl Relic House Master had borrowed the Spring and Autumn Brush from Yingtian Academy, and Xu Taiping inferred that the treasure would prompt Zhao Mou's attack.
• Cloud Crane True Lord led the group toward the Green Bamboo Sea's Teleportation Array, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord asked Xu Taiping why he seemed distracted.

Xu Taiping told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord why Zhao Mou seemed suspicious, while concealing the Lotus Eye’s role in his suspicions. Doubting that the Evil Lord would protect the Pearl Relic House Master, Xu Taiping sped toward Zhao Mou and the master himself as they neared the light beyond the Green Bamboo Sea.

• Xu Taiping admitted to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that Zhao Mou’s sudden arrival and his hostile looks toward the Pearl Relic House Master had made him wary.
• Xu Taiping described Zhao Mou’s suspicious behavior in detail, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord asked how they should respond.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord said he would watch Zhao Mou, though he remained eager to see whether the master and disciple would turn against each other.
• Xu Taiping decided not to rely on the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to save anyone and rushed toward Zhao Mou and the Pearl Relic House Master.
• The light beyond the Green Bamboo Sea came clearly into view.

Xu Taiping and the others reached the first barrier beyond the Green Bamboo Sea, where he confirmed that Zhao Mou intended to attack Pearl Relic House Master. As a tremendous aura erupted, Xu Taiping feared his warning had come too late.

• Great Elder Lou and Cloud Crane True Lord explained that Pearl Relic House Master and Zhao Mou had built the bamboo house together, and that Zhao Mou had once spent over a year cutting its exceptionally hard bamboo.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord failed to chop a bamboo stalk with his bare hand, while Xu Taiping snapped one using Thousandfold Force.
• Xu Taiping and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord sensed killing intent from Zhao Mou, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord agreed that something was wrong with him.
• Xu Taiping told Azure-Eyed Evil Lord not to ridicule Pearl Relic House Master, insisting that a master's grace must not be insulted.
• Xu Taiping recognized the mist-shrouded plain and colossal tree from the Lotus Eye's Divine Soul Mark, warned Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that Zhao Mou would attack Pearl Relic House Master there, and then felt a powerful aura erupt.

Zhao Mou betrayed the Pearl Relic House Master and attacked him with powerful Thunder Techniques, but the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord revealed that he had taken the Pearl Relic House Master's place and helped expose the ambush. Cornered by the group, Zhao Mou explained that he had lost hope against the Demon Abyss.

• The Pearl Relic House Master sensed danger and warned everyone, then Zhao Mou struck him with an Immortal-Rank Thunder Technique that shattered his defenses and immobilized him.
• Zhao Mou summoned a black lightning lance, but the figure blasted into the pit was the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord rather than the Pearl Relic House Master.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord surrounded Zhao Mou and the others with sword qi, revealing that he and the Pearl Relic House Master had anticipated Zhao Mou's betrayal.
• The Pearl Relic House Master asked Zhao Mou why he had betrayed him, and Zhao Mou said the Demon Abyss was too powerful for their world and human race to survive.

Kong Pearl Relic severed his bond with Zhao Mou, stripping away the techniques that had protected him, but Zhao Mou drew on the Tenth Demon Abyss’s power and transformed into a formidable demon. The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord broke through Zhao Mou’s black crystal defense with sword qi and continued his assault.

• Zhao Mou urged Kong Pearl Relic to become a demon and surrender the Spring and Autumn Brush, but Kong Pearl Relic rejected his offer and condemned him for betraying his teacher and humanity.
• Kong Pearl Relic threw a bamboo slip at Zhao Mou and severed all bonds with him, causing the lotus shadows and the techniques he had inherited to collapse.
• Great Elder Lou struck Zhao Mou with his spear, but Zhao Mou blocked the next thrust with black crystal and absorbed demonic qi from phantom Profound Demon Crows.
• Kong Pearl Relic called on the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to kill Zhao Mou, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s sword qi broke through the black crystal and wounded him.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord unleashed another torrent of sword qi that engulfed Zhao Mou.

Zhao Mou used creation power to turn Sword Qi and attacks into multiplying demonic beasts, leaving the cultivators struggling to contain him without weakening their defenses against the sleeping beast. Xu Taiping proposed cutting spiritual green bamboo for the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to use as swords, and promised he could gather enough quickly.

• Zhao Mou awakened the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Sword Qi and flaming palm into demonic beasts that attacked him.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s flying swords dispersed the beasts, but Zhao Mou repeatedly turned the resulting Sword Qi into more creatures.
• Cloud Crane True Lord urged the cultivators to drive Zhao Mou into the barrier that countered creation power, while the others warned that they needed their swords to face the beast inside.
• Xu Taiping suggested cutting green bamboo into swords for the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, who said he needed a thousand stalks quickly, and Xu Taiping replied that it was no problem.

Xu Taiping opened a third-stage blade domain across the bamboo sea, drawing Zhao Mou’s flock toward him. The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord intervened by turning thousands of bamboo stalks into flying swords and swept Zhao Mou’s ravens from the sky.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord attacked Zhao Mou with flying swords, but Zhao Mou’s Dark Crystal Armor blocked the strike and his Creation Power turned the sword qi into more ravens.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord trapped and shredded Zhao Mou’s ravens with a sword net, but Zhao Mou revived them in greater numbers and sent them against him again.
• Xu Taiping’s blade cry alerted Zhao Mou, who sent his flock diving toward the bamboo sea; the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord spotted Xu Taiping’s thousand-zhang, third-stage blade domain.
• Xu Taiping called for help as Zhao Mou’s flock and Creation Power bore down on him, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord launched thousands of severed bamboo stalks as flying swords.
• The Pearl Relic House Master used a Sage-Cast Sword and the words “Rock-Solid” to reinforce the remaining bamboo, allowing the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to scatter Zhao Mou’s ravens with successive waves of sword intent.