Recaps

Xu Taiping, Qu Chao Ci, and Xiahou You worked together against Luo Hong and Xu San of Three Corpses Cave, but Xu San trapped Xu Taiping in the Immortal-Fixing Mirror. As Luo Hong attacked the immobilized Xu Taiping, Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You moved to intervene.

• Xu Taiping's fist attacks shattered Xu San's golden palm barrier, while Qu Chao Ci's starry-river sword strike forced Xu San to divide his attention.
• Luo Hong broke apart Xu Taiping's remaining fist force with his Heaven-Cutting Finger and attacked Xu Taiping, who used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap places with Xiahou You.
• Xiahou You cleaved through Luo Hong's finger shadow but was blasted backward by its remaining force.
• Xu San trapped Xu Taiping in the Immortal-Fixing Mirror, sealing his body and aura as Xu Taiping gathered blade force.
• Luo Hong attacked Xu Taiping again, while Qu Chao Ci flew at Luo Hong and Xiahou You charged toward Xu San to break the mirror's effect.

Xu Taiping broke Luo Hong’s restraint with his true dragon power and severed his arm, but Xu San shielded Luo Hong behind regenerating palm shadows. As a terrifying presence approached, Qu Chao Ci recognized its aura and realized the arriving elder was someone other than Tie Hancang.

• Xu Taiping shattered the Immortal-Fixing Mirror’s restraints with his true dragon forbidden domain and cut off Luo Hong’s arm with his saber strike.
• Xu San protected Luo Hong with golden palm shadows, which Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You could only damage temporarily.
• Xu San boasted that Tie Hancang of Black Armor Mountain would soon arrive, while Xu Taiping knew Tie Hancang was imprisoned inside his family’s ancestral Iron Man.
• A terrifying aura swept in from the west, and Qu Chao Ci recognized it after Xu Taiping asked whether she knew the presence.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived at the Void-Passing Platform and revealed that Tie Hancang had summoned the Immortal Remains and Blightbone from the lower levels. He urged Xu Taiping to reach the Void Essence Jade Platform and obtain the Wuqu Token, leaving Xu Taiping to follow Qu Chao Ci toward the way up.

• Tie Hancang's Iron Man crashed onto the Void-Passing Platform, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage arrived to protect Qu Chao Ci and the others.
• Tie Hancang revealed that he had used the Cinnabar Cave Spring to summon all the Blightbone from the lower levels.
• Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You explained that the Jade Pool Token could gather Immortal Remains from the four lower levels, as a flood of Immortal Remains and Blightbone arrived.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage destroyed a Blightbone attacking the Barrier and told Xu Taiping that the Wuqu Token could make even Blightbone obey him.
• Xu Taiping agreed to challenge the Wuqu Star Lord for the Wuqu Token, and Qu Chao Ci led him toward the Restrictions connecting to the Void Essence Jade Platform.

Xu Taiping and the others raised the Void-Passing Platform toward the Void Essence Jade Platform, knowing they would have to split the weak-water torrent that guarded its entrance. As the sky opened and the water began to fall, Xu Taiping prepared to test whether he could form a new killing blade capable of cutting through it.

• Xiahou You explained that opening the Void Essence Jade Platform would release a fatal torrent of weak water, and Xu Taiping said he might be able to cleave it with an ultimate-realm killing blade.
• Xu Taiping admitted he had not yet developed such a blade form, but said the restriction overhead had given him a possible direction.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought the Blightbones at the edge of the restrictions and urged the others to begin.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others poured their true essence into the stone platform, raising it and Xu Taiping into the sky canopy.
• An azure rune appeared at the entrance to the Void Essence Jade Platform, and Xu San told Luo Hong that the barrier was too formidable for the group to break through quickly.
• A tremendous volume of water poured through the entrance, forming a waterfall that hung from the sky.

Xu Taiping unleashed the Ultimate Realm Heaven-Opening Form and split the Heavenly River waterfall of Weak Water from the Void-Passing Platform to its entrance in the sky. Xu San and Luo Hong watched in shock as his power surpassed their own.

• Xu San told Luo Hong that the Void-Passing Platform's barrier would soon fail if Xu Taiping's group could not break through the Weak Water waterfall.
• Xu Taiping summoned four divine manifestations and gathered golden flame around his blade as his aura and blade intent surged.
• Xu Taiping declared his blade force had reached the ultimate realm and formed an enormous divine manifestation poised to draw its blade.
• Xu Taiping shouted the Ultimate Realm Heaven-Opening Form and merged with the manifestation as he launched his strike.
• Xu Taiping's golden strike drove back the waterfall and cleaved it in half all the way to the entrance in the sky.

Xu Taiping and his companions reached the Void Essence Jade Platform, where a giant carp asked them to state their purpose. When Xu Taiping requested a Wuqu Token and a Fire-Repelling Pill, the carp recognized that he intended to challenge the Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.

• Xu Taiping split the waterfall with a powerful blade strike and led his companions onto the Void Essence Jade Platform while Luo Hong and Xu San watched.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rushed toward the Pure Splendor Golden Mansion, and Tie Hancang ordered Luo Hong and Xu San to use blight-controlling methods to stop him.
• Xu Taiping and his companions surfaced safely through the Weak Water, where Qu Chao Ci explained the Void Essence Heaven’s Jade Mother’s Edict and its giant carp guide.
• Qu Chao Ci warned the group to agree on one purpose for their journey, and Xu Taiping told the carp they sought a Wuqu Token and a Fire-Repelling Pill.
• The carp laughed and asked whether Xu Taiping planned to challenge the Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation, prompting Qu Chao Ci to warn him of the danger.

Xu Taiping resolved to end the Blightbone disaster by challenging Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong Military Formation. After learning how difficult the trial would be, he arrived at the ruined battlefield and heard Wuqu Star Lord command his troops to form ranks.

• Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You that he had found a way to end the Calamity, and the great carp carried them to meet Wuqu Star Lord.
• The carp transformed into an azure dragon and flew them above the ruined battlefield that Qu Chao Ci identified as the ancient battlefield refined into the Void Essence Jade Platform.
• Qu Chao Ci explained that Wuqu Star Lord would match his strength to a challenger in a personal trial, but a challenge against his ten-thousand-strong Military Formation would be far harder.
• Xiahou You revealed that Xu Taiping had previously defeated ten thousand Immortal Remains at the Southern Heavenly Gate, but Xu Taiping said he did not consider himself a true Battle General and lacked confidence.
• The azure dragon brought Xu Taiping and the others before Wuqu Star Lord, who ordered his troops to beat the drums and form ranks.

Xu Taiping and Bai Yue faced Wuqu Star Lord’s test to prove they could challenge him. Bai Yue failed to withstand Divine General Po Jun’s strike, and Po Jun challenged Xu Taiping to take his own.

• Wuqu Star Lord tested Xu Taiping and the others with his overwhelming pressure, and Xu Taiping passed by clearly declaring his challenge.
• Wuqu Star Lord summoned Divine General Po Jun to test whether they were qualified to challenge him.
• Bai Yue volunteered, transformed into his white bear true body, and met Po Jun’s blade with a powerful punch.
• Bai Yue broke Po Jun’s blade force but suffered a severe arm injury, so Po Jun judged him unqualified.
• Xu Taiping comforted Bai Yue, saying his punch would have prevailed if he had not been injured earlier.
• Po Jun angrily challenged Xu Taiping to take a strike from him.

Xu Taiping defeated Divine General Po Jun with the Heaven-Shaking Fist while conserving his saber and scarce powers for Wuqu Star Lord. Wuqu Star Lord accepted Xu Taiping’s challenge and set a ten-move test for winning the Wuqu Token.

• Xu Taiping fought Po Jun using his ultimate-realm fist techniques and shattered Po Jun’s blade force, knocking his immortal remains into the military formation.
• Po Jun recovered and rushed at Xu Taiping, but Wuqu Star Lord called him off and recognized Xu Taiping’s right to challenge him.
• Wuqu Star Lord gathered Xu Taiping and the others in the formation’s central clearing, where his pressure injured Mo Qingzhu.
• Wuqu Star Lord offered Xu Taiping the Wuqu Token if he could make Wuqu Star Lord pick up the Tianquan Halberd within ten moves, and said he would fight with only his body and fists.

Xu Taiping used blood qi body tempering to execute the ultimate-realm Heavenly Wrath Style and challenge the Wuqu Star Lord within the ten-move limit. After exchanging hundreds of punches, he merged the force of his first nine hundred strikes into a golden gauntlet, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Xu Taiping asked the Wuqu Star Lord for instruction, and the Star Lord declared that Xu Taiping had ten moves.
• Xu Taiping manifested his true dragon body and built up the Heavenly Wrath Style's unending fist force.
• Xu Taiping used blood qi body tempering and unleashed the ultimate-realm Ninety-Eight Thousand Fists, forming a three-headed, six-armed vajra dharma aspect.
• Xu Taiping's empowered fist force rose to contend with the Wuqu Star Lord's aura, and he attacked with his vajra aspect as the Star Lord met him with a golden fist shadow.
• Xu Taiping and his vajra aspect struck hundreds of punches, pinning the Star Lord's golden fist shadow in place.
• After Xu Taiping threw nine hundred punches, their force merged into a golden gauntlet as he announced the Heavenly Wrath First Stage, Heaven-Shaking Fist.

Xu Taiping failed to break Wuqu Star Lord’s punch and was saved from severe injury by the Dragon Vault Armor, but he saw the trial as a chance to improve his fist techniques. He launched a second Heaven-Shaking Fist, leaving Xiahou You and the others worried that he might lose control again.

• Xu Taiping’s fused fist force shattered against Wuqu Star Lord’s punch, and the returning blow sent him flying until Xiahou You and Bai Yue caught him.
• Xu Taiping discovered that the Dragon Vault Armor had absorbed most of the damage and, despite Xiahou You’s concern, chose to continue after taking an Azure Void Fruit.
• Xu Taiping’s eagerness to learn from the trial surprised Wuqu Star Lord, who warned that his next punch would be heavier.
• Wuqu Star Lord attacked with twice the killing power, and Xu Taiping answered with Ultimate Realm, Ninety-Eight Thousand Fists and Heavenly Wrath.
• Xu Taiping fused nine hundred punches into a golden gauntlet and unleashed Heavenly Wrath First Stage, Heaven-Shaking Fist, as the onlookers feared he would lose control again.

Xu Taiping overcame Wuqu Star Lord’s fist force and learned that fist force, fist intent, and fist aura ultimately existed to temper his fists. After passing Wuqu Star Lord’s test and receiving a Wuqu Token, Xu Taiping asked to borrow one more thing despite being warned that challenging the Star Lord’s battle formation would mean certain death.

• Xu Taiping shattered Wuqu Star Lord’s fist force, but the Star Lord broke through his fist force with a blow from his physical body, and the Flame Emperor Armguard saved Xu Taiping from its full strength.
• Wuqu Star Lord explained how fist force, fist intent, and fist aura tempered a martial artist’s fists, then let Xu Taiping touch his fist and experience its overwhelming power.
• Xu Taiping’s Dao heart began to waver, but memories of his younger self urging him to keep climbing restored his resolve.
• Wuqu Star Lord declared that Xu Taiping had passed the test and gave him a Wuqu Token, then ordered him to leave for the fifth layer of the Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping asked to borrow one more thing, and Wuqu Star Lord warned that challenging his battle formation would bring certain death; Xu Taiping solemnly repeated his request.

Xu Taiping rejected Wuqu Star Lord’s offer to pass and explained that the Fire-Repelling Pill was vital to reviving the Jade Mother’s divine intent. As Wuqu’s ten-thousand-strong formation prepared to attack, Xu Taiping gathered his companions’ battle intent and began drawing the wandering Immortal Remains into his own formation.

• Qu Chao Ci urged Xu Taiping to accept Wuqu Star Lord’s offer, but Xu Taiping refused and learned that he could mobilize the Immortal Remains by taking the Wuqu Token.
• Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others that the Fire-Repelling Pill was crucial to calling down the Jade Mother’s divine intent and ending the Blightbone disaster.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, Bai Yue, Mo Qingzhu, and the others agreed to follow Xu Taiping and help him form a battle array.
• Po Jun ordered the ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals into formation, and Wuqu Star Lord warned that they would charge after the war drums sounded three times.
• Xu Taiping asked his companions to entrust their lives to him, then released his battle intent and drew theirs into it.
• Xu Taiping spread his divine sense and battle intent across the area, causing the wandering Immortal Remains to freeze in place.

Xu Taiping tried to command more than six thousand Immortal Remains to resist Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation, but their refusal and the enemy’s rising battle intent threatened to overwhelm him. He answered their contempt for his mortal body by unleashing a vast battle intent, appearing almost like a deity.

• Xu Taiping’s battle intent and Divine Sense fixed thousands more Immortal Remains in place as the second war-drum round began.
• At Xu Taiping’s command, Xiahou You, Bai Yue, Qu Chao Ci, and Mo Qingzhu extended their Divine Sense to draw more Immortal Remains into his battle intent.
• Xu Taiping tried to draw out the Immortal Remains’ battle intent, but their objections inflicted Soul Weeping on his Divine Soul.
• Po Jun rallied Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation, whose battle intent scattered Xu Taiping’s gathered forces before the third round of drums began.
• Xu Taiping endured the Soul Weeping and asked the Immortal Remains again why they would not fight, then shouted that their immortal bones could not compare to mortal bones.
• Xu Taiping’s Dao Heart and devotion to Fairy Lingyue, Ping'an, and his fellow disciples of the Azure Profound Sect became a vast battle intent that pressed down on the Immortal Remains.

Xu Taiping rallied the Immortal Remains by answering what they should fight for, then led them in forming a battle intent powerful enough to oppose Wuqu Star Lord’s army. The seven thousand Immortal Remains and his companions joined his call to battle, manifesting a towering armored general as the fight began.

• Xu Taiping realized his solitary battle intent could not withstand Wuqu Star Lord’s ten-thousand-strong formation and called on the Immortal Remains to challenge the Heavenly Court and its demons.
• Xu Taiping mustered three thousand armored Immortal Remains, whose battle intent blocked the pressure from Wuqu Star Lord’s formation.
• Xu Taiping declared that he fought for his brother, his lifespan, Sister Lingyue, his sect, the people, and his own heart on the Great Dao.
• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and the others answered that they would fight alongside Xu Taiping.
• All seven thousand Immortal Remains roared their agreement, and their combined battle intent formed a towering, armored battle general that shouted for them to kill.

Xu Taiping formed a defensive battle formation with the seven thousand Immortal Remains and held off Wuqu Star Lord’s first charge. The opposing Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation resumed advancing, leaving the two forces locked in a mounting contest.

• Qu Chao Ci, Xiahou You, and Bai Yue witnessed Xu Taiping’s battle intent take shape and recognized its growing strength.
• Wuqu Star Lord ordered his Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation to charge Xu Taiping’s newly formed force.
• Xu Taiping called for a defense formation, and his Thousand Arms Vajra Dharma Aspect helped the army withstand the Azure Dragon Battle Intent’s impact.
• Xu Taiping’s battle intent manifested thousands of arms that held back Wuqu Star Lord’s charge and protected the formation.
• Divine General Po Jun ordered another charge, and Wuqu Star Lord’s army began advancing toward Xu Taiping’s formation again.

Xu Taiping drew on the strength of his formation to break Wuqu Star Lord's first charge and halt the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation. As both sides rebuilt their battle intent, Xu Taiping commanded his forces to form the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation.

• Xu Taiping gathered the qi and combat power of Qu Chao Ci, Bai Yue, Xiahou You, Mo Qingzhu, and the immortal remains into his Thousand Arms Vajra phantom image.
• Xu Taiping's thousand-armed strike knocked the Azure Dragon Battle Intent phantom image away from his formation, and his faceless iron-armored battle intent drove it back to stop Wuqu Star Lord's charge.
• Wuqu Star Lord ordered his army to form the Heavenly Wolf Battle Formation and rebuild its battle intent.
• Xu Taiping's formation gathered thousands of strands of battle intent and matched Wuqu Star Lord's forces.
• Xu Taiping ordered his generals to form the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation.

Xu Taiping assembled the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation and led its charge against Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation. With his formation gaining the advantage, Xu Taiping drew in its battle strength and prepared to unleash the Heaven-Opening Form.

• Xu Taiping transmitted the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation method to the assembled soldiers, and they formed a battle formation whose crimson killing intent startled Qu Chao Ci and Xiahou You.
• Wuqu Star Lord’s formation answered with its own battle intent and three Flood Dragon phantoms, and both commanders ordered their armies to charge.
• Xu Taiping and Wuqu Star Lord clashed as their battle intent phantoms collided, and Xu Taiping’s blade split Wuqu Star Lord’s Raging Tide Phantom Image before their weapons met.
• Xu Taiping’s arms were torn by the force of Wuqu Star Lord’s halberd, but his formation surged past him and scattered the opposing army formation.
• Xu Taiping called for his formation’s battle strength, forced the Heavenly Balance Heavy Halberd upward, and began drawing his blade to unleash Ultimate Realm, Heaven-Opening Form.

Xu Taiping defeated the Wuqu Star Lord’s Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation and received the Fire-Avoidance Pearl. The Wuqu Star Lord revealed that Jade Mother had foreseen his defeat and that he would aid the one who overcame him, before a bolt of thunder struck him.

• Xu Taiping used his Dao Essence Power to cleave through the Wuqu Star Lord’s battle intent and drive him back.
• Po Jun took control of the remaining battle intent and attacked Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping cut him down and shattered the formation.
• Xu Taiping’s army overwhelmed the Wuqu Star Lord’s formation, and the Wuqu Star Lord admitted defeat.
• The Wuqu Star Lord gave Xu Taiping the Fire-Avoidance Pearl and explained Jade Mother’s prophecy about his defeat and the person who would save the sacred land.
• The Wuqu Star Lord said there had been no River of Time in his era, then a bolt of thunder struck apart the phantom around him.

Xu Taiping learned that the Jade Mother's edicts vanished after cultivators completed her trials and that the Wuqu Star Lord's divine intent was fading. He assembled a military formation to face a coming Blightbone attack, then told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to bring the charging Immortal Remains to him.

• The Wuqu Star Lord explained that the Jade Mother's edicts shattered when someone passed each trial and that the remaining cultivators in the fifth layer knew about the trials.
• The Wuqu Star Lord's divine intent faded away, leaving a warning that Xu Taiping could use the Wuqu Token to form the Immortal Remains into a military formation.
• Xu Taiping restored his magical power and used Xiahou You and the others as nodes to assemble his ten thousand skeletons into a military formation.
• Xu Taiping considered bringing the Wuqu Star Lord's Immortal Remains into the formation, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned that fifty or sixty thousand Blightbones were charging up the passage.
• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to bring the Blightbones over.

Tie Hancang led Luo Hong and Xu San onto the Void Essence Jade Platform after sensing that the Jade Mother's Edict had shattered, then used seventy thousand Blightbones to corner the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage. The chapter ended with Tie Hancang confronting Ding at the foot of a mist-shrouded hill.

• Tie Hancang said the Jade Mother's Edict had shattered and sent the Blightbones through the passage to reach the fifth layer without waiting for Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Luo Hong and Xu San used mirror light from the Bone-Illuminating Mirror to guide the Blightbones toward the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage while Tie Hancang dragged them ahead.
• Tie Hancang told Luo Hong and Xu San that Ding's most valuable possession was a means of advancing to Half-Immortal, and promised to leave them a clue after he advanced.
• Luo Hong sensed the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage ahead, and Tie Hancang accelerated their charge until the Blightbones reached Ding.
• Tie Hancang halted the Blightbones, landed with Luo Hong and Xu San, and angrily confronted Ding, who stood calmly with a rust-covered greatsword.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought Tie Hancang’s Blightbone horde with two Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formations. Xu Taiping revealed an ambush of twenty thousand immortal remains and led both formations in a renewed charge.

• Tie Hancang ordered Luo Hong and Xu San to attack the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage with the Blightbone horde.
• A Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation led by Xu Taiping erupted from the hill, shattered Tie Hancang’s Dharma Aspect, and cut down hundreds of Blightbone.
• Luo Hong and Xu San focused their Bone-Illuminating Mirrors on Xu Taiping, forcing him to use the formation to defend himself.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage leaped into the Blightbone and destroyed the beasts attacking Xu Taiping with explosive punches.
• Xu Taiping summoned twenty thousand immortal remains lying behind the horde and formed a second Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.
• Xu Taiping rallied both formations and led them in a saber strike and charge against the Blightbone.

Xu Taiping’s two military formations crushed the Blightbone horde and overwhelmed Luo Hong and Xu San, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned him not to kill them yet. The Great Sage then revealed the terrifying power he had been suppressing with Sea-Suppressing Seals, leaving Tie Hancang facing a new threat.

• Xu Taiping commanded two Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formations to destroy the Blightbone while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage defeated Tie Hancang and the formations subdued Luo Hong and Xu San.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned Xu Taiping that killing Dao Integration Realm cultivators could attract powerful beings and bring karmic backlash, so Xu Taiping stopped attacking Luo Hong.
• Xu Taiping vowed to defeat Luo Hong someday without relying on military formations, and Tie Hancang knocked Luo Hong down after he insulted Xu Taiping.
• Tie Hancang admitted that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s weakened condition had given him an opportunity, but the Great Sage replied that good fortune was a skill too.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage removed the Sea-Suppressing Seals from his arms, unleashing immense pressure, and offered to teach Xu Taiping how to use the seals.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gave Xu Taiping the recovered Glazed Fragments and Immortal Remains, then stopped Tie Hancang from escaping with Xu San and Luo Hong. He forced Tie Hancang to surrender the Sacred Land Relics he had collected and demanded information about Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s operation, as well as Tie Hancang’s Divine Essence for Xu Taiping to use Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gathered the Glazed Fragments and Immortal Remains and gave Xu Taiping a Qiankun Bag containing them.
• Tie Hancang tried to escape with Xu San and Luo Hong inside the Black Armor Mountain Iron Man, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck it down.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage threatened to destroy Black Armor Mountain and Three Corpses Cave until Tie Hancang surrendered two Qiankun Bags of Sacred Land Relics.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demanded that Tie Hancang reveal what he knew about Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s operation and sacrifice his Divine Essence so Xu Taiping could use Heavenly Secrets Power of Deduction.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage forced Tie Hancang to sacrifice all his divine essence to aid Xu Taiping’s Heavenly Secrets Deduction, despite Tie Hancang’s warning that the power could overwhelm him. When Xu Taiping reached for Tie Hancang, the Lotus Eye took control and unleashed azure flames that began consuming Tie Hancang’s divine essence.

• Tie Hancang refused to reveal Xuanwei and the others’ plans because restrictions would damage his foundation, but offered to sacrifice his divine essence instead.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demanded that Tie Hancang offer all his divine essence, and Xu Taiping agreed to accept it.
• Tie Hancang released moonlight-like divine essence power and warned Xu Taiping about the dangers of facing powerful cultivators on the fifth layer.
• As Xu Taiping reached for Tie Hancang’s hand, the Lotus Eye spoke and covered Xu Taiping’s arm in azure flames.
• Xu Taiping’s flaming hand seized Tie Hancang, and azure flames engulfed him as nine golden rings appeared and his divine essence poured into Xu Taiping.