Recaps

Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Flipping Seal to establish a connection with the Ancient Mirror, then rushed out of Pill Fire Hall to save Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu from Supreme Venerable Xuanwei. The Ancient Mirror stopped Xuanwei’s palm from crushing Xu Taiping, but its spirit asked him for dao essence power to awaken Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains.

• Xu Taiping found that he could not connect with the restored Ancient Mirror until he pressed the Heaven-Flipping Seal against it and spoke on the Ancient Heavenly Venerable’s orders.
• Xu Taiping heard Bai Yue cry out, rushed to the hall entrance, and found Bai Yue wounded while Mo Qingzhu struggled to hold off Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s black palm.
• Xu Taiping attacked Supreme Venerable Xuanwei with two Ultimate Realm Blade Strikes, but Xuanwei’s golden light blocked the first and his palm struck Xu Taiping into Pill Fire Hall’s wall during the second.
• Xu Taiping defended himself with the Heaven-Supporting Form of the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist, but Xuanwei repeatedly attacked him with the black palm.
• The Ancient Mirror intercepted Xuanwei’s next palm strike, and its spirit asked Xu Taiping to lend it dao essence power so it could try to awaken Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains.

Xu Taiping used the Spirit Mirror to summon Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal remains as Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s attacks and resurrected Blightbones cornered him. Taiyi Star Lord’s remains shattered Xuanwei’s black palm shadow, and Xuanwei answered by summoning the Power of Thunder from the split firmament.

• Xu Taiping dodged Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s black palm shadow while channeling Dao Essence Power into the Spirit Mirror.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei raised fallen Blightbones and reassembled the old Daoist’s immortal remains into another Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping was pinned beneath the palm shadow’s Mountain Spirit Power as Blightbones attacked, but golden light appeared around him.
• Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal remains emerged and shattered Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s palm shadow withstanding its strike unharmed.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei formed a dharma aspect, split the firmament, and summoned a spear-like surge of the Power of Thunder.

Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains repeatedly attacked Supreme Venerable Xuanwei, but Xuanwei's Profound Insight Bone-Illuminating Mirror turned the thunder and divine fire into blood. Xuanwei then aimed the mirror at Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord, preparing to expose the flaws in their hearts and cultivation.

• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains absorbed Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's thunder attack and retaliated with Five Thunders Crashing Down, which Xuanwei's jade pendant helped him survive.
• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains offered to kill Xuanwei if Xu Taiping agreed to carry out a task, but Xuanwei struck the Immortal Remains with mirror light and dispersed its phantom image.
• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains revived its phantom image and unleashed Eight Might Divine Fire, burning away Xuanwei's protective light and Dharma Robe.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei used his Profound Insight Bone-Illuminating Mirror to turn the divine flames into blood, and Mo Qingzhu explained that the Great Dao Divine Weapon magnified flaws and evil thoughts.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei aimed the mirror light at Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains and challenged them to reveal what lay in their hearts.

Xu Taiping's immaculate body and emptiness Daoheart magnified his power through the Bone-Revealing Mirror, but Supreme Venerable Xuanwei still overwhelmed him. Taiyi Star Lord's immortal remains borrowed Dao essence and Dragon Origin Power to reveal the true force of Tai Bai Eclipse Power, leaving Xuanwei suspended alone in the air.

• Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu realized the Bone-Revealing Mirror did not affect Xu Taiping and instead magnified his cultivation and physique.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei recalled the cracked mirror and attacked Xu Taiping with the Corpse-Slaying Saber.
• Xu Taiping used his ultimate Heaven-Touching Stance to drive back Xuanwei's blade force, but quickly exhausted the mirror's power.
• Taiyi Star Lord's immortal remains asked Xu Taiping for Dao essence and Dragon Origin Power, then used crimson flames to break Xuanwei's attack and blast holes through his black-robed form.
• Taiyi Star Lord explained that his flames had used Dragon Origin Power, then unleashed actual Tai Bai Eclipse Power, destroying the courtyard and leaving Xuanwei alone in azure light.

Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord faced Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and a growing swarm of powerful blightbones at Yangling Fire Mansion. Xu Taiping gave Taiyi Star Lord his remaining power to activate the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation, leaving Supreme Venerable Xuanwei alive for now.

• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei used the Bone-Illuminating Mirror to awaken dozens of blightbones as powerful as the Golden Boy and Jade Girl Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping realized he could not defeat the approaching blightbones with his remaining strength and asked Taiyi Star Lord for a way to stop them.
• Taiyi Star Lord offered to activate the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation, warning that doing so would prevent them from destroying Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Xu Taiping gave Taiyi Star Lord all his remaining Dao Essence Power and Dragon Origin Power.
• Taiyi Star Lord activated the formation, sending golden light in every direction and raising enormous pillars of light.

Xu Taiping and the Taiyi Star Lord activated the Golden Light Formation, destroying the attacking Blightbones, but Supreme Venerable Xuanwei escaped to the fifth layer of the Sacred Land. The Star Lord offered Xu Taiping another innate True Fire Seed if he killed Xuanwei and gave him a promised reward of precious Dragon Remains and Immortal Remains Fragments.

• Xu Taiping watched the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation ignite the True Fire Seeds throughout the Yangling Fire Mansion and burn the Blightbones to ashes.
• The Taiyi Star Lord sent an innate-fire Fire Raven after Supreme Venerable Xuanwei, who escaped after challenging Xu Taiping to meet him on the fifth layer of the Sacred Land.
• The Taiyi Star Lord failed to catch Xuanwei with a summoned fire dragon and promised Xu Taiping another innate True Fire Seed if he killed him.
• The Taiyi Star Lord gave Xu Taiping Dragon Remains and Immortal Remains Fragments as the reward he had promised.

Xu Taiping accepted Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal and dragon remains, then gathered with Mo Qingzhu and the injured Bai Yue after Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s attack. While searching Yangling Fire Mansion for a Red Flame Fruit to extend his lifespan, Xu Taiping learned from the Old Palace Master that he had once taken the Palace Master’s Spirit Bone Pill.

• Xu Taiping accepted Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal and dragon remains, and Taiyi Star Lord promised Ancient Buddha remains as a future reward for killing Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Mo Qingzhu brought the gravely injured Bai Yue to Xu Taiping, and the three agreed to use Qusheng Jade Platform’s spirit fruits and pills to strengthen themselves.
• Xu Taiping told Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci about the Innate True Fire Seed at Pill Fire Hall and invited them to join him there.
• Xu Taiping sent his eight Mysterious Origin Avatars to help search for a Red Flame Fruit, but the Old Palace Master of Cloud Pill Palace offered to lead him to one.
• The Old Palace Master explained that refining the fruit into a Yang Yan Pill would grant Xu Taiping three years of lifespan and revealed that Xu Taiping had taken his Spirit Bone Pill.

Xu Taiping learned that the Spirit Bone Pill he took had been refined by the Old Palace Master of Cloud Pill Palace as part of an attempt to escape the sixteen Origin Laws. The Old Palace Master revealed that the plan involved one hundred and eight pills, and that the Heavenly Court had feared the group might overthrow it.

• Xu Taiping confirmed that he had taken a Spirit Bone Pill, and the Old Palace Master explained how its lingering aura in Xu Taiping’s divine soul revealed this.
• The Old Palace Master showed Xu Taiping a defective Candle Pupil grown from his own eye, which resonated with the pill’s aura and convinced Xu Taiping that he had refined it.
• The Old Palace Master said he and a friend created the Spirit Bone Pill to let cultivators with Mortal Bone cultivate anew outside the sixteen Origin Laws.
• The Old Palace Master revealed that they had refined one hundred and eight pills to gather like-minded cultivators and support one another against the Origin Laws.
• Xu Taiping suggested the group might have overthrown the Heavenly Court, and the Old Palace Master said that the Heavenly Court had shared that suspicion.

The Old Palace Master explained how the Spirit Bone Pills were created and why a seventeenth origin law might be needed to end the Demon Mother's cycle of rebirth. Xu Taiping learned he was not a reincarnated Heavenly Court official, then recognized that the Old Palace Master's friend, Kang Cangzi, shared a familiar name.

• The Old Palace Master recounted how he and his friend distributed 108 Spirit Bone Pills before the Heavenly Court branded them rebels, imprisoned him, and lost track of the pills and his friend.
• The Old Palace Master explained that the Demon Mother was born from the sixteen origin laws and could only be permanently destroyed if a seventeenth law arose beyond them.
• Xu Taiping recalled Dragon Emperor Ao Yan's warning that the Human Race was also a pawn, and the Old Palace Master cautioned him not to speak his realization aloud.
• The Old Palace Master said he had sensed Spirit Bone Pill auras in cultivators over the ages, but told Xu Taiping that his young divine soul proved he was not a reincarnated immortal official.
• The Old Palace Master named his friend Kang Cangzi, and Xu Taiping reacted in shock because the name sounded familiar.

Xu Taiping learned how to draw Kang Cangzi out and accepted the Old Palace Master's ring, but the Old Palace Master then revealed that he could accelerate the Earth Treasury Fruit's growth to awaken the Jade Mother's divine intent. He offered to ripen the fruit within a year in exchange for borrowing its power.

• Xu Taiping told Danmingzi what he had heard about Kang Cangzi, and Danmingzi confirmed it was likely his old friend and said fine wine could lure him out.
• Xu Taiping said he knew how to brew Hidden Immortal Wine, and Danmingzi asked him to deliver a ring to Kang Cangzi if they met.
• When Xu Taiping touched Danmingzi's Immortal Remains, Danmingzi raised a wall of fire and asked whether Xu Taiping had the Earth Treasury Fruit.
• Xu Taiping revealed that the Earth Treasury Fruit had undergone five seed burnings and was nearing its sixth.
• Danmingzi offered to complete the sixth seed burning and ripen the fruit within a year if Xu Taiping lent its power to regenerate the Jade Mother's divine intent.

Xu Taiping learned that Danmingzi could pass on a method to help revive the Jade Mother's divine intent and end the Demon Mother's calamity. Danmingzi gave him pill recipes and prepared to perform his sixth Seed Burning with innate true fire, just as Xiahou You contacted him from the Pill Fire Hall.

• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping that reviving the Jade Mother's divine intent could let her take a divine rank and execute the Demon Mother.
• Danmingzi gave Xu Taiping his jade-like eyeball, which contained pill recipes and the method for helping the Jade Mother take her divine rank.
• Xu Taiping refined the eyeball in his Dao Body Furnace and received Danmingzi's pill recipes, including the Scarlet Yang Pill recipe.
• Danmingzi explained that Xu Taiping needed innate true fire to complete his sixth Seed Burning quickly and offered to perform it himself.
• Xiahou You contacted Xu Taiping and told him that she and Fairy Chao Ci were in the Pill Fire Hall.

Xu Taiping asked Danmingzi about the Heavenly Court while they prepared to use Innate True Fire to burn the Earth Fruit Golden Lotus. Danmingzi began explaining the Heavenly Court’s Divine Register, but the fire ignited and Xu Taiping put the lotus roots and stems into the furnace, leaving the explanation for later.

• Xu Taiping returned to the Dragon-Trapping Tower, where Danmingzi taught him how to control the Pill Furnace and said the pills would be ready in eight to ten hours.
• Danmingzi fed one of his Immortal Remains arms to the Pill Furnace, igniting its Innate True Fire for Seed Burning.
• Xu Taiping asked what had caused the Heavenly Court to collapse, and Danmingzi said he could not reveal the full truth because Xu Taiping could not bear the karma and he had not witnessed the collapse.
• Danmingzi explained that those summoned into the Heavenly Court entered the Divine Register rather than attaining the immortal path.
• When the True Fire Seed ignited, Danmingzi opened the furnace, and Xu Taiping tossed the Earth Treasury Golden Lotus roots and stems inside.

Danmingzi taught Xu Taiping how to burn the Earth Fruit’s seed while explaining the history of the Ancient Heavenly Court and warning him to leave the doomed heavens for the Immortal Realm. As the seed-burning process neared completion, Xu Taiping described his own idea of freedom, reminding Danmingzi of his friend Kang Cangzi.

• Danmingzi guided Xu Taiping in pouring his true essence into the Pill Furnace to intensify its innate true fire and burn away the Earth Fruit’s impurities.
• While they waited for the remaining branches to burn, Danmingzi explained that Earth Treasury Fruits were once common treasures and that their power was now unrestricted in the Dharma Ending Age.
• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping that the Ancient Heavenly Court had united the heavens into a Spirit Domain and offered cultivators a divine register that granted immortality through incense offerings.
• Danmingzi warned Xu Taiping that the Human Race’s fortune was spent and urged him to revive Jade Mother, avoid becoming entangled in the heavens’ karma, and seek ascension to the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Taiping said he wished to ascend from his own desire to see the worlds above, not from fear of death or the heavens’ destruction, and Danmingzi was reminded of Kang Cangzi.
• The Pill Furnace rumbled as the Earth Treasury Fruit’s seed burning neared completion, and Danmingzi called Xu Taiping to finish the final step.

Xu Taiping learned that his Earth Treasury Fruit had become a valuable willow branch capable of producing powerful Divine Weapons, and Danmingzi began refining Red Flame Pills for him. As Danmingzi’s remaining time dwindled, he started explaining how to revive Jade Mother’s divine intent.

• Xu Taiping opened the furnace and found that his Earth Treasury Fruit had become a willow branch, which Danmingzi said could nurture many Divine Weapons.
• Danmingzi took Xu Taiping’s eleven Red Flame Fruits and began refining pills, explaining that they could extend his life and strengthen his Origin Returning True Fire.
• Danmingzi described how Red Flame Pills could increase the power of Xu Taiping’s earthly fire against Dao Integration cultivators.
• Danmingzi began teaching Xu Taiping how to revive Jade Mother’s divine intent.

Xu Taiping learned that he must recover Jade Mother's divine intent to command uncorrupted immortal remains and gather nourishment for the earth fruit. He prepared to seek the Fire-Avoidance Pearl and endure innate true fire, though Danmingzi warned that the journey could still cost them their lives.

• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping to carry a willow branch to the Stargazing Platform in the Purple Tenuity Enclosure and receive Jade Mother's divine intent from the star rain.
• Danmingzi revealed that the Star Lords and Divine Generals on the sixth and seventh layers, including Jade Mother, had long since ceased to be themselves.
• Danmingzi explained that Xu Taiping must burn with innate true fire to distinguish Jade Mother's divine intent from that of Otherworldly Evil Gods, and said his true dragon body could briefly withstand it.
• Danmingzi said Xu Taiping would need to surpass Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord in combat to obtain the Fire-Avoidance Pearl, though the sacred land would suppress the Star Lord's strength during the challenge.
• Danmingzi described how Jade Mother's divine intent would guide Xu Taiping to gather treasures and place them with the willow branch in the Jade Bottle before her Dharma Aspect, so the earth fruit could ripen.
• Xu Taiping asked whether obtaining Jade Mother's divine intent would let them pass through the sacred land unhindered.

Danmingzi sacrificed his Immortal Remains to finish refining a batch of peerless-grade pills for Xu Taiping, leaving Xu Taiping to honor his final wish to see the Immortal Realm. After Xu Taiping reunited with his companions, Luo Hong announced that they had captured Heavenly Lord Shihu and summoned Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.

• Danmingzi warned Xu Taiping about dangerous creatures in the sacred land and urged him to ascend to immortality rather than spend his life pursuing the seventeenth Origin Law.
• When the Pill Furnace needed more heat, Danmingzi leaped into it with his Immortal Remains and used himself to complete his final batch of pills.
• Xu Taiping opened the furnace and found twelve Vermilion Pills with peerless-grade signs, then solemnly bid farewell to Danmingzi.
• Xu Taiping returned to Pill Fire Hall, where Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci asked about Danmingzi and the pills, and he told them Danmingzi had sacrificed himself.
• Luo Hong called out to Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You, claiming his group held Heavenly Lord Shihu and demanding they come to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.

Xu Taiping and the others realized Luo Hong was using the Six-Purity Cinnabar Cave Well to provoke them, while Xiahou You refused to answer his threats. Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You finished refining pills from the spirit herbs and fruit they had gathered, giving Xu Taiping Thunder-Pattern Pills and describing several other powerful pills.

• Mo Qingzhu told Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci that Xu Taiping and the others had fought Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and driven back his clone, who had escaped through the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu warned that Luo Hong's claim to have captured Heavenly Lord Shihu was likely bait for an ambush, and Xiahou You refused to respond rashly.
• Luo Hong identified Xu Taiping as the Azure Profound Sect cultivator he had once wounded and challenged him to come to the Six-Purity Jade Platform.
• Xu Taiping asked Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You about their pill refining instead of taking Luo Hong's bait.
• Qu Chao Ci gave Xu Taiping six Thunder-Pattern Pills made from his Thunder-Pattern Jujubes, and Xiahou You explained that they had also refined Azure Spirit Pills, Blood Marrow Pills, and Purple Mansion Spirit-Concentrating Pills.

Xu Taiping’s group received a batch of Immortal Grade pills and considered how to reach the Void Essence Jade Platform despite Luo Hong’s expected ambush at the Six-Purity Jade Platform. Xu Taiping called upon the Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains to search for a third route, and the Star Lord rebuked him for asking about such a trivial matter.

• Qu Chao Ci gave Xu Taiping three bottles of pills, and the group discussed setting out for the Void Essence Jade Platform.
• Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci explained that the only known routes to the Six-Purity Jade Platform led through a likely ambush or the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Xu Taiping suggested searching for a third route, but Xiahou You warned him against using great deductive power again because of the risk of heavenly-secrets backlash.
• Xu Taiping assured the group he would not use great deductive power and summoned the Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains from the ancient mirror.
• The Taiyi Star Lord appeared and scolded Xu Taiping for asking him about such a trivial matter.

Xu Taiping learned from Taiyi Star Lord that there was no third route to Six-Purity Jade Platform, but the Star Lord could transport the group there with Dao essence power. After Luo Hong threatened Xiahou You’s uncle, Xu Taiping planned to split the group’s approach so they could summon the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, though he insisted on accompanying Xiahou You to protect their access to the Cinnabar Cave Well.

• Xu Taiping revealed that Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains were sealed inside the Spirit Mirror and supplied the Star Lord with Dao essence power to ask about another route to Six-Purity Jade Platform.
• Taiyi Star Lord said there was no third route, but offered to transport the group with Daoist arts if Xu Taiping supplied another strand of Dao essence power.
• Luo Hong threatened to kill Heavenly Lord Shihu unless Xiahou You answered, and Xiahou You recognized the captive’s groan as possibly coming from her Third Uncle.
• Xu Taiping proposed splitting the group between Taiyi Star Lord’s transport and the Cinnabar Cave Well so they could summon the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and divide Luo Hong’s forces.
• Xiahou You volunteered to enter through the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Xu Taiping said he would go with her to ensure she could summon the Great Sage.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You sent Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu to the Six-Purity Jade Platform ahead of them, using Taiyi Star Lord’s teleportation spell and the Human Swine Talisman’s concealment. The group discovered that the route to the Cinnabar Cave Well was guarded by powerful Blightbones, with at least three cultivators—including likely Luo Hong—nearby.

• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You agreed that Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu would scout ahead while concealed, and that the Xiahou Clan disciples would later follow the normal route.
• Taiyi Star Lord teleported Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, Mo Qingzhu, and the Human Swine Talisman to the Six-Purity Jade Platform, then warned Xu Taiping not to keep relying on him before returning to the Ancient Mirror.
• Qu Chao Ci reported that the group had arrived safely in the Dark Nether Water Mansion and found a weak-water river separating it from the Pure Splendor Golden Mansion.
• Qu Chao Ci described an island in the river, where ten or twenty powerful Blightbones prowled around the Cinnabar Cave Well and stronger ones might also be present.
• Xu Taiping asked whether cultivators were on the island, and Qu Chao Ci sensed at least three human auras, one of which was likely Luo Hong.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You prepared for battle as Qu Chao Ci planned to lure Luo Hong’s forces away from the Void Essence Jade Platform. At the Cinnabar Cave Well, Luo Hong threatened Heavenly Lord Shihu, while Elder Tie revealed his ruthless pursuit of immortality and ordered Luo Hong to issue one final summons.

• Qu Chao Ci told Xu Taiping that she and her companions would expose themselves and draw Luo Hong’s forces toward the entrance to the Void Essence Jade Platform, relying on Thunder Pattern Pills to hold off the Blightbones.
• Xu Taiping warned Qu Chao Ci to be careful, then swallowed a Red Flame Pill and manifested his true dragon physique as Xiahou You donned her Pagoda Iron Armor.
• Luo Hong taunted the half-petrified Heavenly Lord Shihu and threatened to bury him and the Xiahou Clan disciples in the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu challenged Elder Tie for aiding Three Corpses Cave, but Elder Tie declared that he cared only about attaining immortality and ordered Luo Hong to kill Shihu if the others refused the summons.
• Luo Hong called out to Xiahou You at the Cinnabar Cave Well and gave her one final chance to answer before he killed Heavenly Lord Shihu.

Xu Taiping and Xiahou You lured Luo Hong and his forces away from the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain confronted them as a Dao Integration Heavenly Communion Realm expert. As Xiahou You buckled under his pressure, Xu Taiping charged in to fight him.

• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You prepared at the Pill Fire Hall and answered Luo Hong’s summons at the Cinnabar Cave Well.
• Qu Chao Ci and her companions appeared by the Dark Nether Water Mansion, prompting Luo Hong and Xu San to take the Blightbones to intercept them while Elder Tie stayed behind.
• Xu Taiping and Xiahou You emerged at the well and realized Luo Hong and the Blightbones had been lured away.
• Elder Tie revealed his overwhelming Dao Integration Heavenly Communion Realm power, forcing Xiahou You to her knees despite Heavenly Lord Shihu urging her to release her seal.
• Xu Taiping transformed into his hundred-zhang True Dragon Divine Being Body and struck Elder Tie with the Thousand Arms Vajra Phantom Image as Elder Tie summoned a towering Dharma Aspect to meet him.

Xu Taiping exhausted his strongest techniques trying to hold off Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain while Xiahou You drank from the Cinnabar Cave Well. Though Xu Taiping saved Xiahou You from Elder Tie’s attack, he could not even injure his opponent, who dismissed him as not worth a snack.

• Xu Taiping traded blows with Elder Tie of Black Armor Mountain, but Elder Tie’s strength far surpassed his despite Xu Taiping using his Tai Bai eclipse power, Dragon Vault Armor, and ultimate-realm physique.
• Elder Tie shattered Xu Taiping’s Thousand Arms Vajra fist-force phantom and struck him, sending him crashing backward.
• Xu Taiping provoked Elder Tie while Xiahou You reached the Cinnabar Cave Well and drank a ladleful of its water.
• Elder Tie split off a second fist force to attack Xiahou You, and Xu Taiping used his ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance to drive Elder Tie back and break the attack.
• Xu Taiping realized he had failed to graze Elder Tie even after exhausting his strength, and Elder Tie said Xu Taiping was not worth a snack.

Tie Hancang of Black Armor Mountain overwhelmed Xu Taiping and Xiahou You at the Six-Purity Jade Platform, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived and struck him down. The Great Sage confronted Tie Hancang for hurting his disciple.

• Tie Hancang expanded to several hundred zhang tall and attacked Xu Taiping and Xiahou You with overwhelming fist force.
• Xiahou You called for the Great Sage through the Cinnabar Cave Well, but Tie Hancang's blows badly wounded her and Xu Taiping.
• Xiahou You switched places with Xu Taiping to take Tie Hancang's punch, but he seized Xu Taiping by the throat and began crushing his bones.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived, and Tie Hancang recognized Ding Mou before the Great Sage's punch sent him crashing through a small mountain.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage declared that Tie Hancang had hurt his disciple and enveloped the area in his oppressive might and fist force.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage overwhelmed Tie Hancang and sent Xu Taiping and Xiahou You to help Qu Chao Ci’s group. Xu Taiping arrived just as Luo Hong’s Heaven-Cutting Finger threatened Bai Yue, used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to take Bai Yue’s place, and prepared to strike Luo Hong with his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Touching Stance.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battered Tie Hancang’s iron armor and revealed greater strength by undoing some seals on his fighting power.
• Xu Taiping recovered with a Red Flame Pill, then left with Xiahou You to help Qu Chao Ci and the others at the Dark Nether Water Mansion.
• Luo Hong used the Heaven-Cutting Finger to badly wound Bai Yue while Xu San’s Heaven-Trapping Palm shattered Qu Chao Ci’s sword formation.
• Luo Hong moved to kill Bai Yue, but Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with him and emerged unharmed.
• Xu Taiping faced Luo Hong and began his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Touching Stance.