Recaps

Xu Taiping traveled to the Withered Stone Sea to rescue his trapped friends and narrowly escaped a devastating strike from a mysterious powerful figure. He emerged on the day of the Stargazing Contest and came face-to-face with Purple-Robed Elder Lu and the Ningchan Cave party.

• Xu Taiping told Blade Ghost he would go to the Withered Stone Sea, and Blade Ghost advised him to avoid using his Heaven Shocking Realm cultivation unless necessary.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi brought the Dragon-Slaying Stele to the Withered Stone Sea, where Xu Taiping met them and sent them to the safety of Jiaye Temple.
• Xu Taiping recalled how to counter the Yellow Sand Grand Formation's poisonous mist by holding his breath when it spread.
• Abbot Jiaye and the Lotus Eye warned Xu Taiping that a powerful presence had appeared, so he merged with the Kunwu Sword and burrowed underground to evade a star-bright sword strike.
• Xu Taiping emerged beneath a starry night sky, where Purple-Robed Elder Lu and the Ningchan Cave party demanded his Star Map Stone, and Xu Taiping warned them to leave.

Xu Taiping revealed the strength of his Great Sage Realm physique after Ningchan Cave cultivators attacked him, then warned them to leave as a sandstorm gathered. They ignored him, and an enormous Yin Demon Sand Worm emerged and swallowed one of their cultivators.

• Lü Hu and seven other Ningchan Cave cultivators attacked Xu Taiping, who stood still and took their combined strike.
• Xu Taiping's hundred-foot-tall, Five-Colored Radiance-wreathed physique emerged, kicked Lü Hu away, and proved powerful enough to fold her body in half.
• Elder Lu proposed joining forces with Xu Taiping to claim the Star Map and seek the Star Lord's treasures, but Xu Taiping refused and warned Ningchan Cave to leave.
• A vast wall of yellow sand rose behind the Ningchan Cave party, but Elder Lu refused to retreat before the hour for stargazing.
• A Yin Demon Sand Worm emerged, ignored a Ningchan Cave cultivator's palace lantern treasure, and swallowed him in one bite.

Xu Taiping revealed his Great Sage Realm strength by destroying the Yin Demon Sand Worms, then left Ningchan Cave to continue toward Xiahou You and the others. A formation stopped him, and six Demon Cultivators surrounded him and proposed a fight with neither side using qi and blood or physique.

• Elder Lu gathered the Ningchan Cave cultivators to fight the Sand Worms together, while Xu Taiping faced several alone to test his physique.
• When four Sand Worms overwhelmed Xu Taiping and one sent him flying, Elder Lu urged him to join the group.
• Xu Taiping stood his ground and killed Sand Worms with single punches, then grew to twenty zhang tall and tore another apart with his bare hands.
• Xu Taiping left the Ningchan Cave cultivators to their own fate and headed across the desert toward Xiahou You and the others.
• A formation blocked Xu Taiping, and six Demon Cultivators surrounded him after recognizing him as a Great Sage Realm Martial Artist.
• The leading Demon Cultivator invoked the Demon Mother and proposed a battle in which neither side could use qi and blood or physique.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Crossing the Gods Style to kill six Devil Masters and their Sand Worms, then hurried toward Starfall Lake to rescue Xiahou You and the others. Near the lake, he witnessed Demon Emperor Jiao emerge from a cultivator’s chest and prepared to test the three strands of divine intent against the demon’s origin power.

• Xu Taiping’s ordinary blade slash destroyed an ambushing Devil Master, and he followed it with the Life-Taking Blade’s Crossing the Gods Style to send six Devil Masters and their Sand Worms into oblivion.
• Xu Taiping reflected that he still needed to improve his cultivation and physique, but prioritized rescuing Xiaoyu and the others and flew toward their location on the Kunwu Sword.
• As Xu Taiping neared Starfall Lake, Lotus Eye sensed Demon Emperor Jiao ahead and advised him to conceal his aura with Guizang.
• Xu Taiping entered the worsening sandstorm and saw an unknown sect cultivator fighting six Demon Cultivators and dozens of Sand Worms.
• Demon Emperor Jiao burst out of the cultivator’s chest using his origin demon seed power, and Lotus Eye suggested Xu Taiping try the three strands of divine intent he had gained at the Heaven Shocking Realm.

Xu Taiping followed Demon Emperor Jiao while concealing himself with the Blade of Guicang, waiting for the right moment to strike. When Demon Emperor Jiao attacked Duan Xiaoyu, Xu Taiping revealed himself and unleashed the Burning Blade Style.

• Xu Taiping and the Lotus Eye concluded that he needed to catch Demon Emperor Jiao off guard and strike with all his strength before the demon could use his origin demon seed power.
• Xu Taiping used the Blade of Guicang to conceal his presence and evade a probe by Demon Emperor Jiao's Yin Demon Beast Sand Worm.
• Xu Taiping followed Demon Emperor Jiao to the confrontation with Xiahou You and Xiahou Qingyuan, who were eventually wounded despite fighting fiercely.
• Demon Emperor Jiao dragged Xiahou You and Xiahou Qingyuan underground with the Sand Worm, then burst out and reached for Duan Xiaoyu.
• Xu Taiping dropped his concealment, drew the Water-Cutting Blade, and unleashed the Burning Blade Style he had comprehended while facing the Heavenly Tribulation Eye.

Xu Taiping unleashed his Burning Blade Style at full power and trapped Demon Emperor Jiao in a relentless assault that tore through his Demon God body. When Demon Emperor Jiao warned that the technique was also consuming Xu Taiping’s strength, Xu Taiping spent divine essence to intensify the flames.

• Xu Taiping’s Burning Blade Style severed Demon Emperor Jiao’s reaching arm and engulfed his body in flame-like blade qi.
• Demon Emperor Jiao revealed his Demon God body, but Xu Taiping’s blade qi pierced his defenses and carved deep wounds into him.
• A dozen Devil Masters rushed to help Demon Emperor Jiao, and Xu Taiping’s blade shadows killed nearly all of them, cutting down their divine souls as well.
• Demon Emperor Jiao used his demonic qi to resist the flames and warned Xu Taiping that the strike was consuming his divine soul and true essence.
• Xu Taiping spent a mote of divine essence to strengthen his blade force, making the flames around Demon Emperor Jiao surge higher.

Xu Taiping continued fighting Demon Emperor Jiao as the demon used his Origin Demon Seed Powers to escape the blade flames and drag everyone into a cavern beneath Starfall Lake. Demon Emperor Jiao flooded and froze the cavern, revealing how he had trapped Duan Xiaoyu and the four youths, while Xu Taiping remained caught in his plan.

• Demon Emperor Jiao shattered two Origin Demon Seed rings to restore his strength, break through Xu Taiping’s blade flames, and swallow everyone in a sand whirlpool.
• Xiahou Qingyuan escaped with Xiahou You and explained that they should not hinder Xu Taiping, whom he believed had enough strength to defeat Demon Emperor Jiao.
• At the bottom of Starfall Lake, Xu Taiping’s strengthened blade force continued to overwhelm Demon Emperor Jiao, who admitted he had another fallback measure in the cavern.
• Demon Emperor Jiao shattered the Water-Settling Pearl, flooding the cavern with the lake and freezing the water around his body.
• Demon Emperor Jiao said the ice would imprison and slowly freeze everyone for years, and Xu Taiping realized this was how he had sealed Duan Xiaoyu and the four youths from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.

Xu Taiping's Origin Beginning Clone was trapped in Starfall Lake with Demon Emperor Jiao, who revealed that the ice was made from a Primordial Antiquity Ice Demon's remains and could only be broken by Dao Integration-level power. Xu Taiping left his clone behind and returned to six months later, planning to seek help from Senior Blade Ghost, Abbot Jiaye, and the others.

• Xu Taiping found that the cold had spread around him and that the Kunwu Sword could not take him out of the River of Time while he remained in danger.
• Xu Taiping sent his true body inside the Demon-Suppressing Coffin out of Starfall Lake, leaving his Origin Beginning Clone to be frozen with Demon Emperor Jiao and the others.
• Demon Emperor Jiao explained that the ice came from the Primordial Antiquity Ice Demon's remains, required Dao Integration-level power to break, and concealed the lake bottom from those searching above.
• Xu Taiping told Duan Xiaoyu and the four youths from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven to use the Turtle-Breathing Technique and promised that someone would rescue them in six months.
• Xu Taiping severed his mental connection to the clone, left a Star Map Stone in Starfall Lake, and returned to six months later to consult Senior Blade Ghost and the others.

After recovering most of his Divine Essence, Xu Taiping learned from Abbot Jiaye that the ice demon was likely the Primordial Antiquity Demon God Qingnü, whose remains could be cleaved open. As Xu Taiping wondered whether he could do so, Blade Ghost finally awakened and declared that it could be done.

• Xu Taiping recovered from his injuries after six days of seclusion, and Lotus Eye urged him to cultivate the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms Art and the Mysterious Wasteland Art to strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Taiping worried that Blade Ghost had not awakened since they left the River of Time, then received a voice transmission from Abbot Jiaye.
• Abbot Jiaye identified the ice demon as Qingnü, a Primordial Antiquity Demon God whose remains froze everything around her.
• Abbot Jiaye told Xu Taiping that an ancient account described a cultivator cleaving open the ice to rescue his wife and daughter, but said Xu Taiping's saber likely fell short of a Dao Integration Realm cultivator's power.
• Blade Ghost awakened and told Xu Taiping that cleaving open the ice could be done.

Xu Taiping asked Blade Ghost how he could break the ice imprisoning Demon God Qingnü and save Xiaoyu and the others. Blade Ghost revealed that the Profound Elixir Palace’s Blade-Testing Pavilion and Fist-Inquiry Pavilion might help Xu Taiping master his techniques, leaving him hopeful that he could find a way to free them.

• Blade Ghost said that mastering the ultimate realms of Xu Taiping’s three blade techniques could let him unleash a strike as powerful as an early Dao Integration Realm cultivator’s.
• Xu Taiping refused to risk leaving Xiaoyu and the others frozen while he waited to comprehend ultimate intent, and asked Blade Ghost to possess his Origin Beginning Clone and act instead.
• Blade Ghost refused to take over the clone, calling the crisis a rare opportunity for Xu Taiping to master ultimate-realm techniques.
• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping that the Profound Elixir Palace had a cultivation Dao Field with a Blade-Testing Pavilion and a Fist-Inquiry Pavilion that could help him train.
• Xu Taiping asked how long training might take, and Blade Ghost said it could take as little as a day or an unknown amount of time.

Xu Taiping followed Blade Ghost into the Profound Elixir Palace’s Blade-Testing Pavilion, hoping to cultivate his blade techniques toward the ultimate realm. Blade Ghost chose Beiguo Xiao as the cultivator Xu Taiping would possess to enter the palace, and Xu Taiping agreed.

• Blade Ghost explained that treasures in the Profound Elixir Palace’s Blade-Testing Pavilion and Fist-Inquiry Pavilion could help Xu Taiping reach the ultimate realm in blade or fist techniques.
• Xu Taiping left an Origin Beginning Clone in the Demon-Suppressing Coffin and told Venerable Jiaye he was entering seclusion before Blade Ghost drew him into the Tenth Layer Blade Domain.
• Blade Ghost took Xu Taiping spirit traveling at immense speed across the heavens and arrived at the Profound Elixir Palace in Chenglong Heaven.
• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping he needed to possess a cultivator to enter the Blade-Testing Pavilion and introduced Beiguo Xiao as his chosen target.
• After Beiguo Xiao farted while lounging with an illustrated book, Xu Taiping lost his remaining guilt and agreed to possess him.

Xu Taiping, borrowing Beiguo Xiao’s body, arrived at the Profound Elixir Palace and discovered that someone had tampered with the ground to make him slip. His fall led him into Li Xueqing, who revealed that she had broken off her engagement with Beiguo Xiao and warned him to stop pursuing her.

• Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost observed the Profound Elixir Palace’s unused Spirit-Gathering Formation platforms as they traveled toward the cultivation grounds.
• A young man and woman mocked Beiguo Xiao, suggesting he had come to see Senior Sister Qingxue.
• Xu Taiping slipped after dismounting his spirit crane and crashed into a group of female disciples, accidentally touching Li Xueqing and drawing a slap.
• Blade Ghost confirmed that someone had tampered with the ground, leading Xu Taiping to suspect Beiguo Xiao had enemies in the Profound Elixir Palace.
• Li Xueqing told Beiguo Xiao that their engagement had ended and warned him to stop pestering her.

Xu Taiping tried to enter the Martial Champion Pagoda while inhabiting Beiguo Xiao, but Beiguo Xiao’s tangled relationships drew the attention of several Profound Elixir Palace disciples. As Yan Yu urged him to return and cultivate, Beiguo Xiao’s voice suddenly spoke in Xu Taiping’s mind, leaving Xu Taiping startled.

• Blade Ghost admitted he had misjudged Beiguo Xiao and explained that they could not switch their arrangements, so Xu Taiping agreed to make do.
• Fu Liu gave Li Xueqing a pair of Cloudgold Gloves, and Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost recognized Fu Liu as Beiguo Xiao’s rival in love.
• Jiang Ping told Xu Taiping to stop pestering Li Xueqing, and Xu Taiping snapped at him before Yan Yu intervened.
• Fu Liu warned Jiang Ping not to cause trouble, while Blade Ghost and Xu Taiping decided they should leave and return in fifteen days rather than train under scrutiny.
• Yan Yu urged Xu Taiping to return with her and focus on cultivation, but Beiguo Xiao’s voice suddenly told Xu Taiping not to agree.

Xu Taiping agreed to help Beiguo Xiao pass the Martial Champion Tower trials after learning that Beiguo Xiao wanted to remain at Profound Elixir Palace and see Li Xueqing. When Beiguo Xiao’s first trial exposed his hidden pain over being treated as a joke, Xu Taiping took control and effortlessly lifted the iron mountain, shocking the tower’s onlookers.

• Beiguo Xiao revealed that he had awakened because of a treasure and begged Xu Taiping to help him reach the sixth floor so he could stay at Profound Elixir Palace and see Li Xueqing.
• Xu Taiping examined Beiguo Xiao’s heart-guarding mirror, and Blade Ghost judged that its karmic aura supported Beiguo Xiao’s honest intentions.
• Xu Taiping relinquished control to Beiguo Xiao and agreed to take over only during the trials.
• Elder Zhang told Beiguo Xiao that first-time trial candidates had to lift the iron mountain for three breaths before going upstairs.
• Beiguo Xiao failed to hold up the mountain and admitted to Xu Taiping that his talent had been stolen when he was six and that he did not want to live like a joke.
• Xu Taiping took control and lifted the iron mountain one-handed, leaving the disciples in the tower in an uproar.

Beiguo Xiao used his family’s influence to explain his show of strength, while Xu Taiping prepared to train in the Martial Champion Tower. After watching a disciple fail the second floor’s movement challenge, Xu Taiping decided he wanted to try its highest rank.

• Beiguo Xiao told Xu Taiping that the Profound Elixir Palace would overlook his actions because the Beiguo Household was its ally, and promised to handle any explanations.
• Beiguo Xiao claimed his strength came from being the eldest son of the Beiguo Aristocratic Clan, quieting Yan Yu’s questions and the crowd’s doubts.
• On the second floor, the elder explained that the movement challenge required disciples to catch incoming stones and arrows from rune-inscribed pillars.
• A Profound Elixir Palace disciple blocked the incoming attacks but was struck by a fast sword strike, so the elder ordered him to leave and train for another half month.
• Xu Taiping said the four-pillar Profound-rank challenge would be easy and asked to attempt the Heavenly Tribulation; Beiguo Xiao agreed to arrange it.

Xu Taiping took control of Beiguo Xiao to face the Profound Rank Four Pillars trial on the Martial Champion Tower's second floor. Beiguo Xiao passed the challenge by using extraordinary speed and reflexes to destroy the arrows and a surprise sword strike, while Jiang Ping arrived too late to see the fight.

• Beiguo Xiao volunteered to try the Profound Rank Four Pillars difficulty, and Xu Taiping took control of his body.
• The four pillars fired hundreds of arrows, and Beiguo Xiao shattered them with a single punch.
• As the pillars launched arrows at varying speeds, Beiguo Xiao's afterimages intercepted them across the platform.
• A sword strike attacked Beiguo Xiao from behind, but he destroyed it with a punch and passed the trial.
• Jiang Ping and his sister arrived after the fight and saw Beiguo Xiao accepting the crowd's praise.

Beiguo Xiao challenged the Martial Champion Tower’s heaven-rank eight pillars, while Xu Taiping secretly wielded the Spring-Slaying Blade through him. After Xu Taiping cut down the pillars’ combined assault, Beiguo Xiao claimed the second floor’s Martial Champion seat, shocking the Profound Elixir Palace disciples.

• Jiang Ping learned that Beiguo Xiao had passed the profound-rank four-pillar trial and doubted he could face the heaven-rank eight pillars.
• Beiguo Xiao borrowed Yan Yu’s Spring-Slaying Blade, and Xu Taiping prepared to fight through him using a modified Wind-Listening Stance.
• The eight pillars unleashed a barrage of attacks, and Xu Taiping’s hundreds of blade-wielding afterimages cut them all down.
• An elder announced that Beiguo Xiao had become the first outer sect disciple in thirty years to defeat the heaven-rank eight pillars and could claim the second floor’s Martial Champion seat.
• The Profound Elixir Palace disciples erupted in disbelief at Beiguo Xiao’s unexpected achievement.

Beiguo Xiao faced accusations of cheating after winning the second-floor challenge, then agreed to let the Wordless Ancient Stele test his Qi and Blood Power. He prepared to ascend to the third floor with Xu Taiping’s reassurance, while Jiang Ping wagered he would call Beiguo Xiao Dad if the stele proved him innocent.

• Beiguo Xiao ignored the crowd’s accusations, while Xu Taiping learned he was memorizing the names of those insulting him.
• Elder Zhou defended Beiguo Xiao and said the eight stone pillars would have exposed any deception.
• Xu Taiping urged Beiguo Xiao to get upstairs, and Beiguo Xiao challenged Jiang Ping to provide evidence of cheating.
• Jiang Ping proposed that Beiguo Xiao prove his innocence before the Wordless Ancient Stele on the third floor.
• Beiguo Xiao worried the stele might detect Xu Taiping’s aura, but Blade Ghost assured Xu Taiping it could not detect him.
• Jiang Ping promised to call Beiguo Xiao Dad if the Wordless Ancient Stele proved he had not cheated.

Beiguo Xiao prepared to challenge the Wordless Ancient Stele on the third floor of Martial Champion Tower, while Xu Taiping offered to raise his Qi and Blood Power to the Great Sage Realm. Beiguo Xiao worried that revealing such strength would draw dangerous attention, but he stepped beneath the stele and entrusted the next move to Xu Taiping.

• Blade Ghost explained that the Wordless Ancient Stele tested disciples' Qi and Blood Power and challenged them with mountain spirit pressure.
• Xu Taiping told Beiguo Xiao he could try to raise his Qi and Blood Power to the Great Sage Realm, and Beiguo Xiao hesitated over the risks of revealing it.
• Elder Liu urged Beiguo Xiao to decide quickly and warned that the stele would expose cheating or an unusually powerful physique.
• Elder Liu activated the stele and explained that a challenger had to turn more than sixty of its ninety-nine rows red to qualify for its challenge.
• Beiguo Xiao stood beneath the stele, faced it, and asked Xu Taiping inwardly to handle what came next.

Xu Taiping took control of Beiguo Xiao and proved his Martial God Realm qi and blood to the Wordless Ancient Stele, then led him to seize the Martial Champion titles on four floors in succession. The chapter left Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost entering the sixth floor's Blade-Testing Pavilion, where Li Xueqing had just lost to its Profound Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy.

• Xu Taiping made Beiguo Xiao touch the Wordless Ancient Stele, which accepted his qi and blood and stained eighty-one rows of inscriptions red.
• Beiguo Xiao made Jiang Ping call him father, then vowed to win another Martial Champion title.
• Beiguo Xiao became the third-floor Martial Champion by enduring the stele's Heaven Rank mountain spirit power for thirty breaths.
• Beiguo Xiao seized the fourth- and fifth-floor Martial Champion titles, while Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost lamented that the trials had not pushed his techniques to their limits.
• Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost followed Beiguo Xiao to the sixth-floor Blade-Testing Pavilion, where the keeper elder announced that Li Xueqing had failed against the Profound Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy.

Xu Taiping learned that the four Blade-Sharpening Boys could copy and surpass blade techniques, making them a test that might push him toward the Ultimate Realm. Meanwhile, Beiguo Xiao arrived on the sixth floor and was confirmed to have passed the trials on the first five floors, earning the right to challenge the puppets before Li Xueqing.

• Blade Ghost explained that the four Blade-Sharpening Boys could deduce and improve opponents’ blade techniques, and Xu Taiping understood why they could help him advance.
• Beiguo Xiao asked after Li Xueqing, then clashed with Jiang Yan and Fu Liu when they challenged his motives and told him not to disturb her.
• A disciple announced that Beiguo Xiao had claimed the Chief position on four floors and had come to challenge the Blade-Sharpening Boys.
• Jiang Ping confirmed that Beiguo Xiao had passed the trials and taken the Chief position from the second through fifth floors.
• The sixth-floor elder confirmed Beiguo Xiao had qualified and offered him the chance to challenge the Blade-Sharpening Boys before Li Xueqing.

Li Xueqing challenged a Profound Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy and drew with it, while Beiguo Xiao watched and revealed why he wanted to pass the Sixth Floor. He asked Xu Taiping to help him reach the Inner Sect so he could seek reconciliation with Li Xueqing.

• Beiguo Xiao declined to take the platform first, and Li Xueqing leaped up to challenge the Profound Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy.
• Li Xueqing and the puppet traded blade attacks, then unleashed enormous opposing strikes that shattered together in a draw.
• Beiguo Xiao approached Li Xueqing after her bout, but Fu Liu blocked him and urged him to prepare for his own challenge.
• Xu Taiping asked Beiguo Xiao why he wanted to pass the Sixth Floor, and Beiguo Xiao explained that he hoped to reconcile with his childhood fiancée, Li Xueqing.
• Beiguo Xiao told Xu Taiping he would accept even the loss of his body if Xu Taiping helped fulfill his wish.

Xu Taiping took control of Beiguo Xiao and entered the Blade-Testing Pavilion’s final challenge, intending to face the Heaven Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy. He chose the Yellow Tier Blade-Sharpening Boy for practice and destroyed it with a single strike, stunning the onlookers.

• Beiguo Xiao agreed to risk his life so Xu Taiping could wield his body, and Xu Taiping revealed that he ultimately planned to challenge the Heaven Rank Blade-Sharpening Boy.
• Xu Taiping possessed Beiguo Xiao and accepted the Sixth Floor elder’s warning before stepping onto the platform.
• Beiguo Xiao’s choice to challenge the Yellow Tier Blade-Sharpening Boy drew boos and scorn from Fu Liu, Jiang Yan, and Li Xueqing.
• Xu Taiping drew Beiguo Xiao’s blade and unleashed a torrent of blade force that shattered the Yellow Tier Blade-Sharpening Boy before it could draw its weapon.

Beiguo Xiao shattered the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Yellow Tier puppet body with one slash, then rejected Elder Niu's warning and chose to face the Profound Rank puppet. The Profound Rank puppet appeared on the platform and unleashed a fierce pressure.

• The Profound Elixir Palace disciples questioned whether the Yellow Tier puppet had been damaged, but Elder Niu insisted that every puppet was intact and personally refined by the Palace Master.
• Jiang Yan mocked Beiguo Xiao and urged him to challenge the Profound Rank puppet, while Fu Liu and the others suspected the Beiguo Household had arranged protection for him.
• Elder Niu advised Beiguo Xiao to stop and return later, but Beiguo Xiao calmly insisted on continuing the challenge.
• Elder Niu activated the Jade Jue, summoning the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Profound Rank puppet onto the platform opposite Beiguo Xiao.
• The Profound Rank puppet released a fierce pressure that bore down on everyone nearby.

Beiguo Xiao defeated the Blade-Sharpening Boy’s Profound Rank puppet body with one slash, then declared that it had been too weak to withstand him. He accepted Fu Liu’s challenge to face the Earth Rank puppet, despite Elder Niu warning that most challengers were carried out injured or dead.

• The Blade-Sharpening Boy’s Profound Rank puppet body unleashed a wave-like saber attack, but Beiguo Xiao cut it apart and beheaded it with one slash.
• The disciples and onlookers erupted in shock, while Jiang Yan struggled to accept Beiguo Xiao’s victory.
• Beiguo Xiao asked Elder Niu whether the Profound Rank puppet was truly so weak that it could not endure one slash, angering the elder and the disciples.
• Fu Liu challenged Beiguo Xiao to face the Earth Rank puppet, and Beiguo Xiao immediately agreed.
• Elder Niu warned Beiguo Xiao that eight or nine out of ten challengers to the Earth Rank puppet were carried out of the Martial Champion Tower.