Recaps

Kang Cangzi showed Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu the sacrifice of the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army and explained why he wanted to rebuild the five armies. He gave Xu Taiping five precious Sky Demon Tokens for the Five Heavens of the Lower Realm, saying the Upper Realm owed them, and left Xu Taiping asking why.

• Kang Cangzi showed Xu Taiping the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army's desperate raid, in which ten veteran generals died and ninety-one remained.
• Kang Cangzi said learning about the veterans had inspired him to rebuild the five armies for the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu doubted how the depleted armies could be raised again, and Kang Cangzi revealed he had five Sky Demon Tokens.
• Lin Buyu explained that each token opened a passage to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield and could bring tens of thousands of reinforcements.
• Kang Cangzi handed the five tokens to Xu Taiping for the Five Heavens of the Lower Realm and said the Upper Realm owed them, prompting Xu Taiping to ask why.

Kang Cangzi revealed why the Upper Realm withheld the Lower Realm’s Sky Demon Tokens and explained how witnessing the Five Heavens’ resistance changed his view of them. He named Xu Taiping as the Swordbearer chosen to face the Nine Abysses, and Xu Taiping accepted the trust placed in him.

• Kang Cangzi explained that the Upper Realm had taken the Lower Realm’s Sky Demon Tokens after the Five Heavens’ armies declined, widening the gap between the realms.
• Kang Cangzi admitted he had helped separate the Five Heavens from the Lower Realm, but said veterans and ordinary people resisting the Nine Abysses changed his opinion.
• Kang Cangzi recounted meeting Lü Daoxuan, who abandoned the role of Swordbearer to guard the First Demon Abyss and the Mortal Realm, then recommended Xu Taiping instead.
• Kang Cangzi described watching Xu Taiping’s battles and achievements, which convinced him that Xu Taiping was the right Swordbearer.
• Xu Taiping acknowledged his master’s and Kang Cangzi’s trust and vowed not to betray it.

Xu Taiping learned that the Sky Demon Tokens could take him between the Upper and Lower Realms, but Kang Cangzi warned him that rescuing his master and fellow Azure Profound Sect members from the Taixuan Ghost Domain would be perilous. Kang Cangzi revealed that Lü Daoxuan had led the sect into the Ghost Domain to seek its inheritance and fulfill an ancient oath.

• Kang Cangzi explained that the five Sky Demon Tokens could activate grand teleportation arrays, alter their destinations, and allow Xu Taiping to travel between the Upper and Lower Realms.
• Kang Cangzi gave Xu Taiping a jade slip detailing the tokens' uses and how to summon battle generals, while warning that a token could be used only once to teleport cultivators to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Xu Taiping said he would postpone summoning battle generals until he rescued Lü Daoxuan and the Azure Profound Sect members trapped in the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
• Kang Cangzi explained that the Azure Profound Sect's disciples had gained greater combat strength, protection from seven awakened spirit beasts, access to the Taixuan Sect Inheritance, and the ability to exchange ghost-slaying merit for treasures.
• Kang Cangzi revealed that Lü Daoxuan had led the sect into the Taixuan Ghost Domain to seek growth and fulfill an oath to guard the Demon Grotto for thirty thousand years, after which the sect could receive the Taixuan Sect's Complete Inheritance.

Kang Cangzi explained why Shangqing had sealed off the Lower Realm and warned Xu Taiping that the Taixuan Ghost Domain and the Demon Mother's clone made the coming calamity nearly hopeless. Xu Taiping insisted he had to face it, kept the five Sky Demon Tokens, and ended by asking whether Kang Cangzi had seen the old Daoist who gave his grandfather the Spirit Bone Pill.

• Kang Cangzi told Xu Taiping that the Upper Realm had isolated itself from the Lower Realm to buy time to resolve the Great Void Calamity.
• Kang Cangzi warned Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping that the Demon Mother's clone would awaken after a jiazi and make the Taixuan Ghost Domain a road to certain death.
• Xu Taiping told Kang Cangzi that fighting alongside the Azure Profound Sect was a cultivation and trial he could not evade.
• Kang Cangzi revealed that he had recently discovered Xu Taiping's master was the reincarnation of an old acquaintance and said Xu Taiping would learn more if he survived the calamity.
• Kang Cangzi told Xu Taiping to keep the five Sky Demon Tokens, joking that he would retrieve them when he came to collect Xu Taiping and his master's bodies.
• Xu Taiping asked Kang Cangzi whether the River of Time had shown him the old Daoist who gave Xu Taiping's grandfather the Spirit Bone Pill.

Kang Cangzi reassured Xu Taiping about his family’s past and warned that Lin Buyu’s other soul could bring disaster in the Taixuan Ghost Domain, but offered a way for her to accompany him. He gave Xu Taiping a moonlight stone to guide them there, and the chapter ended with the Flame Court Master summoning them to collect their rewards after the Chaotic Stars Assembly.

• Kang Cangzi told Xu Taiping that his grandfather was an ordinary man who had found the Spirit Bone Pill by chance, though Xu Taiping’s early years with his parents remained uncertain.
• Kang Cangzi warned Lin Buyu that Lin Buyan’s presence could bring a deadly tribulation in the Taixuan Ghost Domain, then offered to use talismans to separate their souls as long as Lin Buyan did not manifest there.
• Xu Taiping gave Kang Cangzi a flask of Hidden Immortal Wine, and Kang Cangzi gifted him a moonlight stone that could reveal sights within the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
• Kang Cangzi drew talismans for Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu and invited them to rest at his Dao Field before the domain opened.
• Xu Taiping planned to enter seclusion while Lin Buyu returned to the Three Corpses Cave, but the Flame Court Master summoned them to the Demon-Slaying Platform to collect their Chaotic Stars Assembly rewards.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform, where they reunited with allies and learned why everyone had thought they were dead. Yun Jiuyi recovered his son Yun Wuyue through Redcloud, and Xu Taiping heard that the final ranking—and the Chaotic Stars Assembly’s leadership—remained undecided.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform, where Qu Ningshuang explained that the projected images had cut off during the attack in the Hemu Spirit Fields.
• Xiao Huang, Yun Jiuyi, and Jiang Shuoxue thanked Xu Taiping for helping them escape, and Redcloud emerged from Xu Taiping’s gourd and revealed the sleeping Yun Wuyue.
• Xiao Huang explained that Redcloud had attached itself to Xu Taiping to protect Yun Wuyue through his deadly tribulation, while Xu Taiping realized Yun Wuyue was the red-robed cultivator he had once met.
• Exalted Venerable Qiong Ying challenged Yun Jiuyi’s claim that Xu Taiping would lead the Chaotic Stars Assembly, and she led Xiao Moji and the Sky-Supporting Hall cultivators to the front of the platform.
• Yun Jiuyi warned Jiang Shuoxue not to provoke the Sky-Supporting Hall, and Lin Buyu explained to Xu Taiping that battlefield merit could influence a sect’s fortune.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu confronted Three Corpses Cave over her accusations, then watched the Demon-Slaying Ranking update and learned they had both secured top-ten places. As the final ranking announcement began, Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping that Yan Xuanling was a powerful wildcard.

• Xiao Huang identified the invisible force Xu Taiping had faced as heavenly punishment from Ziyang Sect's ancient texts.
• Jiang Yu accused Lin Buyu of colluding with outsiders, but Lin Buyu challenged her to settle the matter with the Demon-Slaying Token and refused Fuyao Venerable's order to return.
• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping she had to return to Three Corpses Cave to retrieve what belonged to her, and said Ancestor Peng Ju would protect her from its half-immortal backer.
• The Demon-Slaying Ranking updated, and Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, Xiao Huang, Qu Ningshuang, Jiang Shuoxue, and Xiao Moji were revealed to be in the top ten.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian reunited with Xu Taiping and reprimanded Yan Xuanling, whom Lin Buyu identified as one of the assembly's greatest wildcards because of her demon-slaying record.
• The Lord of the Beacon Emperor Court announced that the tokens of the top ten would now redeem their points.

The Demon-Slaying Ranking updated with the cultivators’ final points, pushing Xiao Huang, Qu Ningshuang, and Xiao Moji into the top ranks. Lin Buyu’s score began to update, leaving Xiao Huang’s standing and Xu Taiping’s ranking unsettled.

• Xiao Huang gained fifty thousand points, rose to first place, and said his risky final challenges had paid off.
• Jiang Shuoxue, Bai Chan, and Gu Changming received their final points, with Bai Chan and Gu Changming pushing Jiang Shuoxue down to seventh.
• Qu Ningshuang gained forty-seven thousand points, revealed she had reached the Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion Realm, and rose to fourth place.
• Xiao Moji gained eighty-five thousand points and overtook Xu Taiping and Xiao Huang to take second place.
• Lin Buyu’s name lit up as everyone waited anxiously for her score to determine the final rankings.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu watched their Demon-Slaying Ranking points continue to update, revealing that both had killed far more Evil Demon Incarnations than they first appeared to. Yan Xuanling surged into first place, then Xu Taiping’s points began rising sharply, leaving the final rankings unresolved.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu discussed how many Evil Demon Incarnations they had killed in the Hemu Spirit Fields, unsure of their total.
• Lin Buyu’s points rose in several increments to 162,600, putting her temporarily in first place and pushing Xiao Huang to third.
• Yan Xuanling gained 118,000 points, reached a total of 189,000, and took first place, dropping Xiao Huang to fourth.
• Lin Buyu wondered why Xu Taiping’s rank had not changed, while Yan Xuanling teased him; Hanjian Tian told her the rankings were not finished.
• Xu Taiping’s points began rising, first by 40,000 and then by another 40,000, as the crowd watched in astonishment.

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying score rose by 139,000 points, prompting cultivators to accuse him of cheating. He allowed the Flame Court to show his token’s recordings, which revealed powerful battles as the display continued.

• Xu Taiping’s score rose by 90,000 points, then 40,000 and 9,000 more, bringing his total to 279,000.
• Exalted Venerable Qiong Ying and other cultivators challenged Xu Taiping’s score, but Court Lord Fenghuang explained that the token’s records could be shown only with Xu Taiping’s permission.
• Xu Taiping agreed to show the recordings, saying the truth was better than a falsehood.
• The Demon-Slaying Token’s images showed Xu Taiping killing numerous low-stage demonic beasts and the fourth-stage upper-grade Blood Blade Bone Monk, silencing many doubters.
• The recordings showed Xu Taiping and his Origin Beginning Clone defeating six powerful demonic beasts, after which the next image began as Xu Taiping invoked Fivefold Blade Domain, Infernal Prison.

The Demon-Slaying Token revealed that Xu Taiping’s blade domain had slain vast numbers of evil demon incarnations, silencing doubts about his points and confirming the Chaotic Stars Assembly’s top three. After Xiao Huang and Yan Xuanling vowed to challenge him again, Heavenly Lord Hanjian summoned Xu Taiping for a private discussion concerning Ding Mou’s life and death.

• The Demon-Slaying Token showed Xu Taiping’s blade domain killing waves of evil demon incarnations, including with Deity Palm Blade and Heaven-Shaking Fist, and Exalted Venerable Qiong Ying’s doubts about his points faded.
• Xiao Huang declared Xu Taiping his greatest opponent, and Yan Xuanling promised he would not lose to him again.
• Court Lord Fenghuang announced Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Yan Xuanling as the top three of the Chaotic Stars Assembly, then ordered everyone outside the top thirty to leave.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian told Xu Taiping that he wanted to discuss something privately concerning Ding Mou’s life and death, and Xu Taiping followed him.

Heavenly Lord Hanjian told Xu Taiping that his fists might be the only way to awaken the slumbering Great Sage, and Xu Taiping vowed to challenge Dong Cangzi after settling matters in the Lower Realm. Xu Taiping then joined Lin Buyu and Yan Xuanling to enter the Flame Emperor Treasury and claim the top three's rewards.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian explained that Ding Mou could not die and might be awakened if Xu Taiping surpassed the Mortal Realm's ultimate fist techniques.
• Xu Taiping promised to challenge Dong Cangzi in Yanggu Heaven if he returned alive from the Lower Realm.
• Commander Chi Fan summoned Xu Taiping to collect his reward as the Chaotic Stars Assembly's chief.
• Court Lord Fenghuang sent Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Yan Xuanling to the Teleportation Array for the Flame Emperor Treasury.
• Yan Xuanling took the array's center position to provoke Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu, who calmly stood on either side of her.

Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Yan Xuanling entered the Flame Emperor's treasury after Hall Master Fenghuang explained their rewards and warned them to obey the guard. Zhu Cheng assigned Yan Xuanling to choose a treasure on the first floor while Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu headed for the second floor, where Lin Buyu expected Xu Taiping to continue to the third.

• Hall Master Fenghuang explained the rewards for the First, Second, and Third Seats and ordered the teleportation array activated.
• Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Yan Xuanling arrived in the treasury and met Zhu Cheng, its guard and former general under the Flame Emperor.
• Zhu Cheng told Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu to go upstairs, while he accompanied Yan Xuanling to choose a treasure on the first floor.
• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping she expected to choose a treasure on the second floor and expected him to be taken to the third.

Xu Taiping reached the third floor of the Flame Emperor's Treasury and obtained a fragment of the White Jade Golden Bridge after guard Xiye warned him it lacked combat power. He called to the floor's treasures, promising to take them to battle on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, and they awakened in response.

• Danshou escorted Lin Buyu to choose treasures on the second floor while Xiye led Xu Taiping to the third.
• Xiye told Xu Taiping that the True Martial Great Emperor had once visited the Treasury, taken the Thunder Sound Banners, and later helped slay the Demon Mother with three other great emperors.
• Xu Taiping asked Xiye for the fragment of the White Jade Golden Bridge, and Xiye retrieved it despite warning that it had no killing or defensive power.
• Xu Taiping declined to choose another treasure directly and instead raised his power to call out to the treasures on the third floor.
• The treasures flashed and roared in response, and Xiye exclaimed that Xu Taiping had awakened the old companions that had slumbered for years.

Xu Taiping called for treasures willing to join him, and the treasury answered with an overwhelming attack from a golden fist shadow. After defeating it and gaining new insights into his Heaven-Touching Stance, he discovered a gold pearl and a silver pearl and grasped both.

• Guard Xiye explained that the treasures each chose whom they wished to follow, and Xu Taiping called for those willing to join him.
• Treasures rushed toward Xu Taiping, but their lights scattered and revealed a huge golden fist shadow that attacked him.
• Xu Taiping countered with the Heaven-Shaking Fist Heaven-Touching Stance, endured the clash, and shattered the golden fist shadow with a nine-layer surge of fist force.
• Xu Taiping gained many insights into the Heaven-Touching Stance and then saw a gold pearl and a silver pearl.
• Guard Xiye urged Xu Taiping to grasp the pearls, and he took one in each hand as warm currents began to flow across his hands.

Xu Taiping gained the Kun Scale Gauntlets and learned about their powers, then received two other treasures that agreed to accompany him but not yet acknowledge him as their master. He headed upstairs to receive guidance from the Divine Sense left by the Flame Emperor as the treasures in the hall trembled in welcome.

• Xu Taiping learned that the Gauntlets were made from Kunpeng's shed scales and discovered their powers, including Reflection Power.
• Guard Xiye reminded Xu Taiping that he could choose two more treasures, and a pearl and a deity-faced mask flew into his Iron Gourd.
• Guard Xiye explained that the pearl and mask were willing to leave with Xu Taiping but wanted to observe him before acknowledging him as their master.
• Xu Taiping asked about his other reward, and Guard Xiye directed him upstairs to receive guidance from the Flame Emperor's Divine Sense.
• Xu Taiping climbed toward the fourth floor while Guard Xiye praised him, and the treasures in the hall began humming as if welcoming a being's arrival.

Xu Taiping met the Flame Emperor’s divine sense on the fourth floor and accepted a body-tempering origin law, knowing its inheritance bound him to repay the world before ascending. After enduring 108,600 punches in a slowed-down trial, he gained the Flame Emperor’s fist intent and asked how many punches the True Martial Great Emperor had taken.

• Xu Taiping entered an empty fourth-floor hall and found himself on a grassland where the Flame Emperor appeared as a shepherd.
• The Flame Emperor offered to fuse Xu Taiping’s True Dragon Divine Being Body and inner furnace with his inheritance, but warned that the divine pact required Xu Taiping to protect the world before ascending.
• Xu Taiping accepted the pact after learning that defending the righteous path and confronting calamities would repay the world, as the True Martial Great Emperor had done.
• The Flame Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to exchange fists, repeatedly shattering his body while urging him to punch faster and learn from the pain.
• After 108,600 punches, Xu Taiping sensed the Flame Emperor’s martial dao body-tempering origin law and asked how many punches the True Martial Great Emperor had received.

After the Chaotic Stars Assembly, Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu received Lesser Sky Demon Tokens and planned to meet again before entering the Taixuan Ghost Domain. Qu Ningshuang then approached Xu Taiping, determined to repay him for giving her the Ancient Sword Ten Thousand Edges.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu joked about Xu Taiping taking the same number of punches as the True Martial Great Emperor, irritating Yan Xuanling.
• Chi Fan gave Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu Lesser Sky Demon Tokens that let them bypass restrictions on entering the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Xu Taiping warned Lin Buyu about the dangers of the Taixuan Ghost Domain, but she insisted on going with him as a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect.
• Xu Taiping told Lin Buyu that Dugu Qingxiao and Xu Ziyan were safe and promised to take her to see them at the Bamboo Sea Dao Field.
• Qu Ningshuang stopped Xu Taiping and insisted that she owed him for giving her the Ancient Sword Ten Thousand Edges, while Lin Buyu privately questioned her eagerness to repay him.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu parted after she promised to return, and he realized how special she was to him. Lin Buyu reached the Three Corpses Cave’s Shaking Light Ruins, where she found Ancestor Peng Ju dying and faced Lin Qinggu, who intended to devour her.

• Xu Taiping explained that he had given Ten Thousand Edges to Qu Ningshuang on Elder Qu Shuang’s dying wish, and Qu Ningshuang left after vowing to remember his kindness.
• Lin Buyu declined Xu Taiping’s offer to escort her to the Three Corpses Cave and departed alone, promising to return after retrieving what belonged to her.
• Xu Taiping realized Lin Buyu was more special to him than his other companions and teleported to the Hemu Spirit Fields.
• Lin Buyu returned to Shaking Light Ruins and found Ancestor Peng Ju in his cultivation tower, where he warned her to run before the tower shattered.
• Lin Qinggu appeared under a crushing pressure and declared that, with Peng Ju dead, he could devour Lin Buyu; she confronted him defiantly.

After three months of seclusion, Xu Taiping received a message from Lin Buyan revealing that Lin Buyu was gravely wounded and fleeing to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield. Lin Buyan said Lin Buyu's life was in danger but claimed she had a way to save her.

• Xu Taiping tested his progress in the Flame Emperor's Fist Intent and realized it would take many years to fully comprehend it.
• Xu Taiping learned that Lin Buyu had not contacted him during his three months of seclusion and prepared to search for her.
• The Listening Wind Bracelet activated, and Lin Buyan told Xu Taiping that she and Lin Buyu had fled Three Corpses Cave after Ancestor Peng Ju died protecting them.
• Lin Buyan explained that Lin Qinggu had pursued Lin Buyu for several lifetimes and held two of her three souls and three of her seven spirits.
• Lin Buyan said she had taken Lin Buyu to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield for refuge and insisted she had a way to save her.

Xu Taiping learned that he had to reclaim Buyu’s captive remnant soul from Lin Qinggu before Lin Qinggu reached the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, and he discussed the rescue with his Azure Profound Sect companions. The group vowed to retrieve Buyu after addressing the Taixuan Ghost Domain, then celebrated Xu Taiping and Buyu’s success at the Chaotic Stars Assembly.

• Lin Buyan told Xu Taiping that Lin Qinggu held Buyu’s remnant soul and spirit, and warned him to reclaim them before the Three Corpses Cave’s teleportation array opened in about twenty years.
• Xu Taiping resolved to survive the Taixuan Ghost Domain and grow stronger so he could save Buyu.
• Xu Taiping told Dugu Qingxiao, Xu Ziyan, Blade Ghost, and Ping'an about Buyu’s situation, and they agreed that the Azure Profound Sect would help retrieve her soul.
• Xu Taiping revealed that he and Buyu had taken Chief and Second Seat at the Chaotic Stars Assembly, delighting his companions.

Xu Taiping reunited with his companions in the Yellow Springs and told them how he had rescued Bai Yu and captured the Yellow Origin Palace. Blade Ghost explained how Bai Yu and Ping'an’s techniques could counter the Taixuan Ghost Domain, then offered to confront the Half-Immortal behind the palace when they came for Xu Taiping.

• Xu Taiping explained that the Flame Emperor’s Fist Intent and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan’s technique had greatly improved his combat strength.
• Xu Taiping told Ping'an and the others that Bai Yu was recovering in his White Gourd after Xu Taiping captured the Yellow Origin Palace.
• Ping'an explained that Bai Yu had learned the Kun Feather Scripture from Sister Lingyue, and Blade Ghost said Bai Yu and Ping'an’s techniques could defeat powerful Ghost Creatures.
• Blade Ghost warned that the Yellow Origin Palace’s Half-Immortal would soon come looking for Xu Taiping and told him to use Old Daoist Huang’s talisman to summon him.
• Blade Ghost revealed that his cultivation had recovered to ninety percent and unleashed his aura, asking Xu Taiping to compare it with Kang Cangzi’s.

Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang discovered that Lady Jade Mother had regained her spiritual intelligence, and she agreed to join their coming trip to the Taixuan Ghost Domain. Six months later, the half-immortal backing the Yellow Origin Palace broke through the Bamboo Sea Dao Field’s barrier and demanded that Xu Taiping answer for harming one of its disciples.

• Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang discussed Senior Blade Ghost’s strength and worried that Lady Jade Mother remained asleep after helping them fight Dong Cangzi.
• Old Daoist Huang’s calls and repeated lightning strikes awakened Lady Jade Mother, who confirmed she had regained her spiritual intelligence but would need time to restore her strength.
• Lady Jade Mother agreed to accompany Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang to the Taixuan Ghost Domain, then returned to seclusion while they supplied her with spirit marrow stones and pills.
• Old Daoist Huang gave Xu Taiping a jade slip that would let him send voice transmissions to Senior Blade Ghost in the Yellow Springs when the Yellow Origin Palace’s half-immortal arrived.
• After six months of contemplating the Flame Emperor Fist Intent on Sea-Viewing Cliff, Xu Taiping saw the half-immortal break through the Bamboo Sea Dao Field’s barrier and demand an accounting.

Xu Taiping confronted the Yellow Origin Palace Half-Immortal at Sea-Viewing Cliff as the Bamboo Sea Grotto-Heaven’s protective formation began to fail. After the Half-Immortal attacked him, Xu Taiping summoned Senior Blade Ghost, whose strike split the enemy’s wave-blade and filled the grotto-heaven with blood-colored skies.

• Little Pig Demon Zhu Ping warned Xu Taiping that the Bamboo Sea Grotto-Heaven’s barrier was close to collapsing, while Xu Taiping said the Half-Immortal would avoid destroying Kang Cangzi’s dao field.
• Xu Taiping raised a black jade slip and claimed he had nothing to fear, prompting the Yellow Origin Palace Half-Immortal to break through the sky canopy and descend.
• Xu Taiping cut apart the Half-Immortal’s wave and sent blade qi toward his dharma aspect, but the attack dissipated before reaching it.
• The Half-Immortal struck Sea-Viewing Cliff with a blade made from a wave, sending Zhu Ping flying and forcing Xu Taiping to endure the attack.
• Xu Taiping called for Senior Blade Ghost, whose blade shadow emerged from the Pine and Bamboo Residence and split the Half-Immortal’s wave-blade in two.
• Blood-colored skies spread across the Bamboo Sea Grotto-Heaven before the Half-Immortal could react.

Blade Ghost trapped Qingzhouzi in his Infernal Blade Prison and overwhelmed him with its layers, forcing the Yellow Origin Palace half-immortal to offer a deal. Blade Ghost rejected the terms and opened the Sixth Layer, demanding more sincerity in exchange for lifting Bai Yu’s seal and returning the disciples’ Primordial Spirits.

• Blade Ghost trapped Qingzhouzi’s Dharma Aspect in the Infernal Blade Prison and unleashed its sealed cultivators and demonic beasts against him.
• Xu Taiping told Zhu Ping that the dark figures were Blade Ghost’s Blade Slaves as they damaged Qingzhouzi’s Dharma Aspect.
• Qingzhouzi threatened that their battle could harm Xu Taiping and Zhu Ping, but Blade Ghost advanced the prison to its third layer and pressed the attack.
• After Qingzhouzi destroyed one Blade Slave, he offered to lift Bai Yu’s seal if Xu Taiping released the Yellow Origin Palace disciples’ Primordial Spirits.
• Blade Ghost opened the Sixth Layer and rejected the exchange, demanding that Qingzhouzi show more sincerity.