Chapter Summaries

After Yun Ye lost to Su Chan, cultivators feared that True Martial Heaven would fall in the coming Heaven-Demon War. Xu Taiping ignored warnings to avoid fighting Su Chan and stepped onto the Sword Platform to challenge him.

• Yun Ye lost to Su Chan, and a cultivator from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven urged True Martial Heaven's cultivators to seek shelter before the Heaven-Demon Battlefield opened.
• With the crowd convinced no one could defeat Su Chan, Xu Taiping became the least favored contender in the Sword Inquiry.
• Cui Tiegu warned Xu Taiping that Su Chan's swordsmanship could badly injure him and that he should not risk the fight.
• Xu Taiping told Cui Tiegu that True Martial Heaven was his homeland, prompting Cui Tiegu to recall sword cultivators who had gone to the Zhenwu Battlefield to defend theirs.
• Xu Taiping landed on the Sword Platform and challenged the Qingxuan Traitor, Su Chan, to a Sword Inquiry.

As Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan to a Sword Inquiry, Yun Ye revealed that Xu Taiping—not Rusty Lion—had truly reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower. Yun Shiliu’s sealed memories began returning, leaving her to witness Xu Taiping’s forgotten deeds.

• A Southern Mountain Palace elder told Yun Shiliu that Su Chan’s Sword Qi was consuming Yun Ye’s life force and that three Sea House Pills could not cure him.
• Yun Shiliu agreed to let the elder use Crane’s Return Needles to place Yun Ye in a state of feigned death, but Yun Ye woke and begged to keep watching the match.
• Yun Ye told Yun Shiliu that the Sword Cultivator who reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower was Xu Taiping, not Rusty Lion.
• After Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan, Yun Ye confirmed his claim while Elder Su used silver needles to help him keep breathing.
• A strange wind brought Yun Shiliu’s sealed memories back, and she saw Xu Taiping’s past deeds, including slaying Old Smoky Ghost and reaching the Heavenly Gate.

Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan to a sword inquiry and rejected Su Chan’s claim that outside powers had manipulated them both. He declared that he fought for the Azure Profound Sect, his fallen fellow disciples, and their master Lü Daoxuan, and the chapter ended with Su Chan insisting that he was Lü Daoxuan’s strongest disciple.

• Yun Shiliu recognized Xu Taiping as the person the Old Palace Master had expected to share the Three Sovereigns Seal’s Heavenly Dao fortune with Yun Ye, and urged Yun Ye to watch the sword inquiry.
• Su Chan warned Xu Taiping that unseen powers had lured him with fortune and would discard him after using him.
• Xu Taiping accused Su Chan of betraying Zhenwu and Qingxuan out of fear, and dismissed his explanation as mad ravings.
• Xu Taiping said he challenged Su Chan over his repeated evils against Qingxuan and his attempt to doom True Martial Heaven.
• Xu Taiping vowed to prove that Lü Daoxuan’s teachings could produce a disciple who defeated Su Chan, and Su Chan answered that he would always be Lü Daoxuan’s strongest disciple.

Xu Taiping faced Su Chan in a sword inquiry, while Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan agreed that the Azure Profound Sect would join Xu Taiping in a gamble against the Netherdark Demon Grotto if he won. Xu Taiping unleashed Black Claw and gathered overwhelming blade force, ending the chapter poised to draw his Water-Cutting Blade.

• Zhao Qian asked Lü Daoxuan to stop Xu Taiping, but Lü said he could not interfere with a true sword cultivator’s decision to draw his sword.
• Lü promised to join Zhao Qian’s plan to march against the Netherdark Demon Grotto if Xu Taiping won, and Zhao Qian committed the Azure Profound Sect to the gamble.
• Su Chan attacked Xu Taiping with Taotie sword qi, and Xu Taiping’s Mysterious Origin Avatar used the Ancestral Sage Fist to hold it back.
• Xu Taiping lifted the eighth soul seal’s suppression and unleashed a blade qi thunderclap, but Su Chan reshaped his scattered sword qi into black drizzle and bats.
• Xu Taiping drank Hidden Immortal Wine, summoned another Mysterious Origin Avatar, and had it draw Black Claw, greatly strengthening his blade qi.
• Xu Taiping told Su Chan this was his sincerity as immense blade force gathered around the sheathed Water-Cutting Blade.

Xu Taiping’s blade force initially failed to overcome Su Chan’s sword intent, leaving him trapped within a shrinking ring of opposing energies. He summoned a towering divine dharma aspect, and his blade force surged back, prompting Mu Zhixing to identify it as the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art.

• Xu Taiping’s Bull Demon Phantom shattered Su Chan’s sword qi Taotie, and his blade force spread across the Sword Platform toward Su Chan.
• Su Chan rose on Taotie and used his chaotic sword intent to push back Xu Taiping’s blade force, shrinking its reach around him.
• Mu Yun and Mu Zhixing judged Xu Taiping’s attempt to contest Su Chan’s sword intent unwise, while the watching cultivators expected him to lose.
• A hundred-zhang divine dharma aspect appeared behind Xu Taiping and caused his blade force to expand dramatically.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping’s divine dharma aspect as possibly belonging to the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art’s power of teaching the Dao to break through Su Chan’s sword intent and overwhelm him with blade force. Su Chan counterattacked with the Demon God Weapon Taotie, and Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade to meet his strike with the long-lost Life-Taking Blade technique.

• Mu Zhixing explained that the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art could use the power of teaching the Dao to strengthen Xu Taiping’s blade force.
• Xu Taiping’s divine being dharma aspect pressed a hand against his back, helping his blade force break through Su Chan’s sword intent.
• Su Chan transformed the Demon God Weapon Taotie into a giant black sword and slashed at Xu Taiping, shattering his Bull Demon Phantom and Mysterious Origin Avatar.
• Xu Taiping gathered blade force behind a pillar of blade qi thunderclap, then drew the Water-Cutting Blade and struck at Taotie.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping’s strike as the long-lost Life-Taking Blade technique.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Deity-Sealing Form, but Su Chan broke the strike with his chaos sword light. Su Chan then attacked with Bury Heaven, Burn Earth, and Xu Taiping blocked the barrage with Returning Blade to Sheath Form.

• Xu Taiping invoked the Life-Taking Blade’s Deity-Sealing Form and trapped Su Chan beneath a massive golden hand formed from Blade Gang.
• Su Chan’s Taotie phantom swallowed the Blade Gang and sent chaos sword light through the golden hand, breaking Xu Taiping’s strike.
• Xu Taiping realized that drawing the Demon-Sealing Sword freed his techniques from the Soul Seal’s restraints for a short time.
• Su Chan declared Xu Taiping would not get another chance to strike and unleashed Bury Heaven, Burn Earth.
• Xu Taiping sheathed his saber and used Returning Blade to Sheath Form to block Su Chan’s dense black sword lights.

Xu Taiping revealed that he had cultivated the Life-Taking Blade's Returning Blade to Sheath Form to great completion and defended against Su Chan's Taotie Sword Qi. He then transformed and unleashed the Ultimate Realm Life-Taking Blade Crossing the Gods Style, splitting Su Chan's sword shadows and opening a gigantic Bronze Gate.

• Mu Zhixing explained that only great completion of the Life-Taking Blade could manifest its Heavenly Dao might, while Su Chan's black sword lights broke through Xu Taiping's defensive layers.
• Xu Taiping fully sheathed his Water-Cutting Blade, forming a golden mist that condensed into an ice crystal and initially withstood Su Chan's attack.
• Su Chan's Taotie Sword Qi began devouring the golden mist until a Divine Manifestation appeared behind Xu Taiping and repelled the black sword lights.
• Mu Zhixing realized Xu Taiping had cultivated the Returning Blade to Sheath Form to great completion as Xu Taiping revealed his Dragon Whale Physique and Immaculate Realm qi and blood tempering.
• Xu Taiping drew his saber and used the Ultimate Realm Life-Taking Blade Crossing the Gods Style, splitting Su Chan's sword shadows and opening a gigantic Bronze Gate.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Crossing the Gods Style against Su Chan, but Su Chan’s Cloud-Swallowing Whale destroyed the attack without revealing his Unavoidable Wuji Sword. Xu Taiping then prepared the God-Slaying strike, summoning multiple Divine Being Dharma Aspects to strengthen it.

• Cultivators recognized Xu Taiping’s Life-Taking Blade and Ultimate Realm physique, while Mu Zhixing and the others wondered how he had obtained those legacies.
• Xu Taiping’s bronze gates opened and sent the Yellow Springs Skiff charging toward Su Chan.
• Su Chan merged his black sword lights into a Cloud-Swallowing Whale, which swallowed the skiff and gates before bursting apart along with them.
• Xu Taiping decided to test Su Chan with the Life-Taking Blade’s God-Slaying move, hoping to force him to use the Unavoidable Wuji Sword.
• Xu Taiping struck again and summoned multiple Divine Being Dharma Aspects, astonishing the watching cultivators.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to strengthen his blade techniques as he defended against Su Chan’s Taotie Sword Qi. As Su Chan’s assault depleted his defenses, Xu Taiping revealed a third Divine Manifestation, leaving the duel poised for a clash of trump cards.

• Two Human-God Push-Back phantoms appeared and raised Xu Taiping’s Blade Qi Manifestation to its second level.
• Xu Taiping used Returning the Blade to Its Sheath Form to break open Su Chan’s Cloud-Swallowing Whale and repel its attack.
• Su Chan unleashed waves of Taotie Sword Qi that battered Xu Taiping’s azure-flame defense.
• Xu Taiping gripped his blade and recognized that he and Su Chan were probing each other’s trump cards.
• As Su Chan’s attack shrank Xu Taiping’s flaming sphere, a golden light behind him transformed into a third Divine Manifestation.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to summon three Human-God Push-Back Images and break through to the third level of Blade Qi Manifestation. As Su Chan attacked without using Wuji's Unrestricted Method, Xu Taiping drew his Water-Cutting Blade and unleashed the Life-Taking Blade's God-Slaying Form.

• Xu Taiping summoned a third Human-God Push-Back Image and prepared to use the God-Slaying Form against Su Chan.
• Su Chan shattered Xu Taiping's azure flame sphere with Taotie Sword Qi, but Xu Taiping's blade qi transformed into twin dragons that destroyed the falling swords.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping's Blade Qi Twin-Dragon Manifestation and said the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art had helped him reach the breakthrough.
• Su Chan appeared above Xu Taiping and struck with Taotie, piercing the twin dragons while declaring Xu Taiping was not worthy of making him use Wuji's Unrestricted Method.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade, manifesting a towering white-armored divine general that slashed toward Taotie as he declared that gods who did evil could be slain.

Xu Taiping’s God-Slaying Form overwhelmed Su Chan’s Taotie Sword Qi, but Su Chan trapped him inside a black sphere with the Power of Wuji’s Unrestricted Method. Xu Taiping remained confident and prepared to push his Blood Qi tempering beyond the Immaculate Realm.

• Xu Taiping’s God-Slaying Form shattered Su Chan’s Giant Sword and drove through his Taotie Sword Qi as the spectators cheered.
• Mu Zhixing identified the White Armor Saber Wielder as Pei Wuming, the Human Race’s Blade Ancestor.
• Su Chan used Swallow the Heavens Within Inches to swallow Xu Taiping and the White Armor Saber Wielder into a black sphere.
• The spectators feared Xu Taiping had been defeated, but he returned his blade to its sheath and told Fairy Lingyue he could still win.
• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue for permission to raise his Blood Qi tempering beyond the Immaculate Realm, and she agreed.

Xu Taiping revealed his second-turn overlord blood qi body tempering power to break free of Su Chan’s Black Sphere, despite the risk of exposing his secret to the Nine Abysses. He briefly expanded the sphere, but Su Chan clenched it shut again and threatened to merge Xu Taiping with his Divine Water.

• Xu Taiping’s blood qi body tempering power reached the second-turn overlord realm after decades of cultivation in the Golden Court Grotto-Heaven.
• With Fairy Lingyue’s permission, Xu Taiping struck his chest and unleashed his overlord power, turning his dragon scales crimson and causing his aura to flare.
• Xu Taiping scattered the black water inside Su Chan’s Black Sphere and forced it to expand, drawing cheers from the surrounding stands.
• Su Chan clenched the Black Sphere back down to palm size and said he would merge Xu Taiping with his Divine Water before sending it to Qingxuan.

Xu Taiping adapted to the Second-Turn Overlord Body-Tempering Power, broke free of Su Chan’s black sphere, and shattered his incoming swords with the Baxia Form. He revealed that he had cultivated the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Baxia Form to the realm of Extreme Law and stood poised above Su Chan.

• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue when the Overlord’s Breath had last appeared in the Mortal Realm, and she recalled rumors from the Heaven-Demon Battlefield thirty thousand years earlier.
• Xu Taiping’s gathered Fist Force blasted apart Su Chan’s black water, causing the black sphere to swell as spectators cheered.
• Su Chan sent hundreds of enormous black swords toward the sphere, but Xu Taiping adapted to the Second-Turn Overlord Body-Tempering Power and exploded it with a single step.
• Xu Taiping used the Baxia Form to smash Su Chan’s black swords into mist with one punch.
• Xu Taiping appeared above Su Chan and declared the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Baxia Form to be a Martial Dao Extreme Law.

Xu Taiping broke through Su Chan’s mirror-like defense with a blade technique and sent him crashing into a lake, then prepared to strike him again. The chapter ended as Xu Taiping’s golden fist appeared over the lake and he unleashed the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Raging Thunder Form.

• Xu Taiping’s Extreme Law fist battered Su Chan’s black lotus defense, but Su Chan made the lotus bloom into a mirror that reflected and countered Xu Taiping’s attacks.
• Mu Zhixing identified Su Chan’s mirror technique as resembling the Haotian Mirror and said the ancient divine artifact belonged to the Abyssal Pavilion.
• Xu Taiping transformed his fist into a vast blade and split the black lotus mirror before striking Su Chan with the attack.
• Su Chan’s Sword Intent collapsed, and he fell through several mountain peaks into a great lake.
• Xu Taiping appeared above the lake and unleashed the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Raging Thunder Form.

Xu Taiping drove Su Chan into the lakebed with his Extreme Law Raging Thunder Form, then completed its first stage at Great Perfection with a punch carrying the might of eighteen hundred strikes. Su Chan conjured a black pagoda with Wuji's Unrestricted Method to meet the blow, and the chapter ended as Xu Taiping's fist crashed down on it.

• Xu Taiping hammered Su Chan into the lakebed with his Raging Thunder Form while spectators praised his Martial Dao Extreme Laws and Fist-Hidden Blade.
• Su Chan sent a Taotie phantom at Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping turned his Fist Shadow into blade light and cleaved it apart.
• Xu Taiping continued striking Su Chan until his Raging Thunder Form's Fist Force neared the first-stage Great Perfection threshold.
• Xu Taiping landed the eighteen-hundredth punch, concentrating the power of every strike into one blow.
• Su Chan conjured a black pagoda through Wuji's Unrestricted Method, and Xu Taiping's Great Perfection punch struck it.

Xu Taiping fought Su Chan, whose Haotian Pagoda converted Xu Taiping’s punches into killing power for the Taotie Sword. As Su Chan’s sword threatened to cut apart Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist, Xu Taiping revealed Overlord Power and prepared to unleash the Raging Thunder Form’s third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist.

• Xu Taiping shattered Su Chan’s Haotian Pagoda with his punches, while Mu Zhixing recognized the extraordinary force behind them.
• Su Chan revealed that the Haotian Pagoda stored the power of Xu Taiping’s punches in the Taotie Sword, then absorbed the force of thousands of blows as the sword’s seven gems lit.
• Xu Taiping destroyed the pagoda with his twenty-seven-hundredth punch, and Su Chan wielded the charged Taotie Sword to form a massive black moon wheel around Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist.
• Xu Taiping roared as the black moon wheel began slicing apart his fist shadow, revealing Overlord Power and multiplying his fist force.
• Xu Taiping announced the Extreme Law’s Raging Thunder third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist.

Xu Taiping unleashed Overlord War Cry and struck Su Chan with the extreme-law third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist, overwhelming her defenses. As his attack closed in, Su Chan invoked Wuji's Unrestricted Method and Taotie transformed into a black lotus throne beneath her.

• Xu Taiping used Overlord War Cry to bring out the ultimate-realm power of his Mountain-Setting Fist and broke free of Su Chan's black moon wheel.
• Xu Taiping's fist force crushed the surrounding mountainous terrain into a basin before Su Chan's sword light stopped its advance.
• Mu Zhixing praised the power of Overlord War Cry, while Mu Yun and the others wondered whether Xu Taiping had obtained its inheritance in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
• Chu Tiancheng insisted Xu Taiping had gained his techniques in the tower, recalling dreams in which he had seen Xu Taiping's adventures there.
• Xu Taiping's golden Bull Demon Phantom shattered Su Chan's sword light, and Su Chan summoned Taotie into a black lotus throne with Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus.

Xu Taiping used the Demon Ancestor’s View Mountains and Embrace the Moon Fist Intent to break Su Chan’s Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus and strike him into a massive crater. The cultivators of True Martial Heaven believed Su Chan had lost.

• Xu Taiping’s punch shattered most of Su Chan’s black lotus petals but stalled against the remaining petals, leaving the cultivators of True Martial Heaven despairing.
• Yun Ye and Yun Shiliu sensed that Xu Taiping had not released the full force of his punch and was comprehending something.
• Xu Taiping recalled the Demon Ancestor’s teaching on View Mountains and Embrace the Moon and decided to use the fist intent instead of switching to a blade.
• Xu Taiping enveloped the peaks across Mount Taiyue Immortal Abode with his Divine Soul Power, causing his fading fist force to surge.
• Xu Taiping’s Bull Demon Fist Shadow crushed the Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus and slammed Su Chan into a crater over a thousand zhang deep, prompting the cultivators of True Martial Heaven to celebrate.

Xu Taiping struck Su Chan with a devastating punch, but Su Chan transformed his Wuji's Unrestricted Method and sword intent into a black tree whose golden leaves turned aside Xu Taiping's attacks. A cracked golden cicada appeared on the tree and began shedding its shell, leaving the spectators fearing that Su Chan would heal completely.

• Xu Taiping's punch blasted Su Chan into a deep pit, and spectators praised it as an extreme law of the Mortal Realm's martial dao.
• Su Chan rose from the pit as a towering black tree with a golden branch, and Xu Taiping's blade strike shattered against one golden leaf.
• Xiahou You explained that the tree embodied Su Chan's Wuji's Unrestricted Method, origin demon seed power, and cultivated swordsmanship, while Mu Zhixing said its tangible form strengthened its killing power.
• A golden cicada covered in cracks and seeping blood appeared on the branch, prompting Zhang Moyan to suspect it was Su Chan.
• The golden cicada began shedding its shell, and Mu Zhixing silently confirmed the fear that Su Chan could recover completely.