Recaps

Xu Taiping read the Blood Ancestor’s Dragon Script message, learning that the Blood Ancestor planned to awaken soon and join forces with Ao Yan against the Shangqing Realm. He realized Ao Yan had arranged for Yuanlingzi to impersonate Teacher Red Carp, but was left wondering how that could happen before Teacher Red Carp was born.

• Xu Taiping saw Dragon Script form in the great elm tree’s shadow, and the Lotus Eye translated the Blood Ancestor’s message to Ao Yan.
• The message revealed that Yuanlingzi had impersonated a schoolteacher to abduct children and refine them into Blood Infants, while the Blood Ancestor prepared to awaken and feast on Upper Realm cultivators.
• Xu Taiping and the Lotus Eye concluded that the Blood Ancestor would awaken weak and that Ao Yan and Yuanlingzi would lure cultivators to him.
• Xu Taiping inferred that Gu Yu’s Teacher Red Carp was not Yuanlingzi, since both Yuanlingzi and the Blood Ancestor had been asleep when Gu Yu met the teacher.
• Xu Taiping wondered how Ao Yan could have ordered Yuanlingzi to impersonate Teacher Red Carp more than a century before the teacher was born.

Xu Taiping realized Silver Dragon Ao Yan had engineered Gu Yu’s meeting with Yuanlingzi to destroy Gu Yu’s Dao Heart, then uncovered a Dragon Script letter that convinced Dongfang Yuejian the Great Elm Tree opportunity was worth pursuing. The chapter ended with a bounty revealing Yuanlingzi’s suspected presence in Elm Tree Village, and Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian concluded he was luring Dragon-Slaying Persons to feed the Blood Ancestor.

• Xu Taiping and the Lotus Eye deduced that Ao Yan had arranged for Yuanlingzi to impersonate Teacher Red Carp and undermine Gu Yu’s Dao Heart.
• Xu Taiping copied the Dragon Script from the Beast Hide and summoned Dongfang Yuejian away from the others.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian he intended to help Gu Yu reach the Heavenly Dragon Realm within two months by pursuing the Great Elm Tree opportunity.
• Xu Taiping showed Dongfang Yuejian a Dragon Script letter, and she agreed the opportunity was worth the risk after reading it.
• The Battle Merit Ledger issued a bounty for a suspected Blood Demon Cultivator in Elm Tree Village, and Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian suspected Yuanlingzi was luring Dragon-Slaying Persons to feed the Blood Ancestor.

Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian discussed the bounty that confirmed the danger of the Demon Dragon Ao Yan and the Blood Ancestor’s trap, then searched Yuanlingzi’s cave abode for his second treasury. Xu Taiping used his Lotus Root Broken, Yet Its Fibers Remain true intent to follow connections from the spirit marrow stones and Beast Hide parchment to a cavern, leaving them poised to investigate it.

• Dongfang Yuejian and Xu Taiping agreed to keep their suspicions about the trap between themselves and prepare countermeasures against Blood Demon cultivators before approaching Elm Tree Village.
• Blood Bone Cao Sixi told Dongfang Yuejian that Yuanlingzi had a second treasury, but he could not remember which cavern held it.
• Xu Taiping realized Yuanlingzi had handled both the Beast Hide parchment and the spirit marrow stones, and used his true intent to trace their connections.
• Xu Taiping followed the threads several hundred zhang into the passage and identified the cavern where they had found the spirit marrow stones.

Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian found a cavern containing a Spirit Bone Stele, which might help them advance their cultivation techniques. They gathered the cavern’s other treasures and discovered a chest full of talisman-making supplies.

• Xu Taiping followed a thread to the second treasure cavern and punched through the rocks blocking its entrance.
• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian found an incomplete Spirit Bone Stele, and Dongfang Yuejian said it might help improve their techniques.
• Dongfang Yuejian warned that the Spirit Bone Stele could drain nearby treasures if stored in the Dragon-Trapping Tower, so Xu Taiping decided to carry it out later.
• Xu Taiping collected a trove of superior black essence iron ore, while Dongfang Yuejian suggested saving the Buddhist scripture bamboo slips for Master Xuanzhi.
• Gu Yu found a chest filled with talisman paper, talisman ink, and Rune Brushes.

Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian discovered Golden Millet Paper in a chest and divided it between them. Xu Taiping then shared a runic pattern he had seen while divining the Blood Ancestor, and Dongfang Yuejian confirmed it was the Blood Ancestor’s Demon Seal, which could help them hunt him down.

• Dongfang Yuejian recognized the crumpled Talisman Paper as legendary Golden Millet Paper and explained its rarity to Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping offered Dongfang Yuejian the paper, but she insisted on sharing it, and he took ten sheets.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian that his Great Deductive Power had shown him a runic pattern connected to the Blood Ancestor.
• Dongfang Yuejian explained that the Blood Ancestor’s Demon Seal could conceal them from him and his Blood Cultivators and help seal him away again.
• Xu Taiping gave Dongfang Yuejian a Divine Soul Mark of the pattern, and she confirmed it was the Demon Seal.
• Dongfang Yuejian said that drawing an Immortal Rank Demon-Unbinding Talisman with the seal could give them at least a seventy-percent chance of hunting down the Blood Ancestor.

Xu Taiping and his companions secured the karst cave by sealing its underground passage and activating Dongfang Yuejian’s defensive formations. As they watched the Spirit Bone Stele awaken, the group prepared for what it might reveal.

• Dongfang Yuejian used a Profound Rank Earthquake Talisman to block the underground passage, and Xu Taiping confirmed that the group would use Yuanlingzi's Cave Abode as their base.
• Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi reported that they had buried five portions of treasures in the cave walls as formation nodes.
• Dongfang Yuejian activated the Thousand Threads and Ten Thousand Strands Formation with a spirit marrow stone, filling the cave with spiritual threads that could slice intruders apart.
• Dongfang Yuejian set a second formation that plunged the area into darkness and blocked eyesight and divine soul perception.
• The Spirit Bone Stele blazed with light and displayed archaic characters, and Xu Taiping declared that it had awakened.

Xu Taiping and the others explained the Spirit Bone Stele’s limited power of deduction to Gu Yu and advised him to wait until he learned a stronger martial art. Gu Yu insisted on using it to improve the Seven-Kill Blade, and Xu Taiping and his companions allowed him to try.

• Dongfang Yuejian explained that the damaged Spirit Bone Stele could deduce a cultivator’s techniques only three times in their life.
• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian warned Gu Yu that the ordinary Seven-Kill Blade might yield little improvement and urged him to wait.
• Gu Yu argued that the Seven-Kill Blade suited him and had given him a new lease on life, then asked to use the stele’s power.
• Xuanzhi praised Gu Yu’s determination, and Xu Taiping persuaded Dongfang Yuejian to let him take the risk.
• Dongfang Yuejian agreed, and Gu Yu leaped onto the Jade Platform as she instructed him to press his hand against the stele and keep his mind still.

Gu Yu received the Jade Shatter Art from the Spirit Bone Stele, which his Divine-Human Variant Bone let him use without its usual lethal cost. While Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian discussed their own hopes for the stele, it also upgraded Gu Yu’s Seven-Kill Blade into the supreme-grade Thousand Kills.

• Gu Yu struck the Spirit Bone Stele, which enveloped him in a golden light and imparted its teachings.
• The stele recorded that Gu Yu had obtained the Jade Shatter Art, a deadly technique whose backlash would only damage his foundation because of his Divine-Human Variant Bone.
• Dongfang Yuejian said that acquiring the complete power of One Stroke Opens Heaven could let her draw an Immortal-Rank Demon-Dispelling Talisman using Golden Millet Paper.
• Xu Taiping said he hoped the Spirit Bone Stele would help him advance his fist techniques beyond the Ultimate Realm of the Ancestral Sage Fist.
• The Spirit Bone Stele continued its derivation and upgraded Gu Yu’s Seven-Kill Blade into the supreme-grade Thousand Kills.

Gu Yu gained new cultivation techniques from the Spirit Bone Stele, and Dongfang Yuejian used its power of deduction to complete her inheritance of One Stroke Opens Heaven. With her cultivation bottleneck broken and their chances against the Blood Ancestor improved, she invited Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi to take their turns.

• Gu Yu congratulated himself on his opportunity, then went to a cavern to contemplate Thousand Kills and the Jade Shatter Art.
• Dongfang Yuejian touched the Spirit Bone Stele, which revealed that her Supreme Tianpeng Ritual Script Talismans could be deduced into the Origin Law Fragmentary Text: Innate Sixteen Talismans.
• Dongfang Yuejian rejected that deduction because she wanted the complete inheritance of One Stroke Opens Heaven, and Xu Taiping agreed to let her use the stele again.
• Dongfang Yuejian used her final deduction to complete the fragment of One Stroke Opens Heaven and broke through her cultivation bottleneck, nearing the Heaven Shocking Realm.
• Dongfang Yuejian left the Jade Platform and invited Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi to take their turns.

Xuanzhi used the Spirit Bone Stele to complete his fragment of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Spell, a Buddhist origin law, and Xu Taiping then went to seek an improvement to his Ancestral Sage Fist. Xuanzhi suggested the stele might grant Xu Taiping a request, leaving Dongfang Yuejian astonished as she watched him approach it.

• Xuanzhi said he most wanted to improve the Six Paths of Reincarnation Spell, which the Spirit Bone Stele had once deduced from the Six Livestock Prosperity Spell into a fragment.
• Dongfang Yuejian explained that Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva had used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Spell to claim part of the Netherworld and establish the Eighteen Levels of Avīci Hell.
• The Spirit Bone Stele surrounded Xuanzhi with buddha light and chanting, then recorded that his fragment could be improved into the complete Six Paths of Reincarnation Spell.
• Xu Taiping went to the jade platform and said he most wanted to improve the Ancestral Sage Fist.
• Xuanzhi advised Xu Taiping to commune with the Spirit Bone Stele and said it would grant him at least one request, astonishing Dongfang Yuejian.

Xu Taiping touched the Spirit Bone Stele and entered a conversation with Seventh Master, who granted his request to elevate the Ancestral Sage Fist to the Martial Dao Source Stream level. As soul-weeping pain overwhelmed him, Xu Taiping endured it in hopes of improving his other techniques, while Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian watched outside.

• Xuanzhi explained that the Spirit Bone Stele favored the strongest cultivators, and Dongfang Yuejian realized he had also been chosen by it.
• Xu Taiping touched the Spirit Bone Stele, whose light turned into whirling thunder as he entered a conversation with it through his consciousness.
• Seventh Master told Xu Taiping he could request one cultivation technique improvement, but refused to explain who sent the Spirit Bone Steles or why.
• Xu Taiping asked Seventh Master to elevate his Ancestral Sage Fist to the Martial Dao Source Stream level, and Seventh Master granted the request.
• As soul-weeping pain struck him, Xu Taiping sat down to endure it, while Xuanzhi told Dongfang Yuejian that half a cup of tea was an unusually long time to withstand it.

The Spirit Bone Stele elevated Xu Taiping’s techniques, granting him the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist and several powerful divine abilities. As he considered how to use them against the Blood Ancestor, Dongfang Yuejian reported that Yuanlingzi had captured three teams of dragon-slaying people in Elm Tree Village, prompting a rescue mission.

• The Spirit Bone Stele finished extrapolating Xu Taiping’s techniques, producing a source-stream fist art and upgrading several other techniques and abilities.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi recognized the gains and believed they would improve their chances against the Blood Ancestor.
• Xu Taiping studied the new techniques in his sea of consciousness and assessed their power, uses, and costs.
• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that Yuanlingzi had captured three teams of dragon-slaying people in Elm Tree Village.
• The Battle Merit Ledger issued a bounty calling for Xu Taiping and others to rescue the captives before next month’s battle-watching day.

Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian learned that Yuanlingzi had imprisoned several Dragon-Slaying Persons and considered the increased bounty, but Xu Taiping decided they needed more time to prepare before confronting him. A month later, spectators at the Profound Elixir Palace saw someone accept a bounty and wondered whether Xu Taiping's group had finally acted.

• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that one of Yuanlingzi's imprisoned teams was likely from the Li Household and that she had found a cavern exit leading outside.
• Xu Taiping learned that Gu Yu was studying the Origin-Burning Scripture and that Great General Pang Zhong had ended the siege of the city, allowing the Heartless Demon Emperor and others to recover.
• Xu Taiping saw that the bounty for Yuanlingzi had risen to nine thousand battle merits but decided to wait another month or two to strengthen their chances against Yuanlingzi, the Blood Ancestor, and Ao Yan.
• Dongfang Yuejian agreed to keep preparing talismans, and Xu Taiping secretly urged her to stock extra talismans without asking why.
• A month later, Chu Xiaoxiao, Chu Tiancheng, Duan Xiaoyu, and Zhang Moyan discussed why Xu Taiping's group had not accepted the nearby bounty, then saw someone accept one and wondered if it was his group.

Spectators hoped Xu Taiping and his two companions would accept the bounties to hunt Yuanlingzi, but their team did not appear on the Dragon-Slaying Ranking. The chapter ended as the eighteen assembled teams prepared to hunt Yuanlingzi at Blood Mist Village, with only the team nearest him set to have its sound broadcast.

• The pavilion's spectators saw Wu Liu, Wu Tun, and Wu Zhuo accept a bounty, and Chu Xiaoxiao was disappointed that Xu Taiping's team was absent.
• Lu Rushuang said Xu Taiping and the others had recovered and were focused on strengthening their Dragon Catcher, while Xiahou Qingyuan argued their refusal to accept the bounties was unwise.
• The Dragon-Slaying Ranking showed that Nine Abysses had accepted the missions, but Xu Taiping's team still had not appeared.
• A Profound Elixir Palace Elder announced that all teams except the Dongfang Clan's had gathered at Elm Tree Village to hunt Yuanlingzi, and that only the team nearest Blood Mist Village would have its sound broadcast.

The Jiang Clan’s three members and their Dragon Catcher, Chi Feng, entered the blood-mist village while Du He used his Qi-gazing skill to guide them through the formation. They encountered a seemingly impossible task from a blind old woman, leaving the group’s fate uncertain as Chu Xiaoxiao gloated.

• The spectators watched the Jiang Clan’s party enter the village, where the sight of tortured villagers stirred anger among the cultivators in Spring Rain Pavilion.
• Du He read the formation’s shifting nodes and guided Jiang Li and the others safely past a courtyard that had trapped an earlier group.
• A blind old woman asked the four to thread her needle, and Du He saw that the needle had no eye and the hemp cord was too thick.
• Chu Xiaoxiao predicted that the Jiang Clan’s four would be finished if they could not complete the task.

Jiang Jiuxuan appeared to thread the Old Woman’s needle, but he damaged it and triggered the Blood Mist Formation’s attack. He and his companions escaped with a teleportation talisman, while the projection shifted to a gathering of Chenglong Heaven’s great clans considering a joint attempt to enter Blood Mist Village.

• Jiang Jiuxuan used his Wind-Riding Technique to force the hemp thread through the needle, delighting his companions and impressing spectators.
• The Old Woman revealed that Jiang Jiuxuan had ruined her needle and transformed into a Blood Bone, while the villagers became Blood Ghosts and attacked the Jiang Clan group.
• Jiang Jiuxuan and his three companions were struck by the Blood Ghosts, but Jiang Li used a teleportation talisman to take them away.
• The projection shifted to a gathering of clan elders, and Zhang Moyan recognized representatives of nearly all of Chenglong Heaven’s ten highest-ranked aristocratic clans.
• Xiahou Qingyuan said the clans had likely gathered to join forces and enter Blood Mist Village.

The Jiang Household blamed Xu Taiping’s team for their failure in the Blood Mist Formation, turning many cultivators against them despite the spectators knowing the Jiang team had plotted against Xu earlier. The Fu and Chu Households then proposed that seventeen teams unite to storm Blood Mist Village, leaving Xu Taiping’s team outside the alliance.

• Jiang Jiuxuan accused Xu Taiping and his companions of stealing the Jiang team’s fortuitous opportunity, and most Dragon-Slaying Persons in the illusory image sided with the Jiang Household.
• Chu Yu proposed that seventeen teams force their way into Blood Mist Village because dismantling the Blood Mist Formation normally would take too long to save the imprisoned teams.
• Fu De promised to divide any treasures exchanged for battle merit equally among the seventeen teams, and Chu Yu presented an Immortal Talisman-level Soul Contract Talisman to bind them to the agreement.
• Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui suspected that the Fu and Chu Households intended to unite the teams under their influence and keep the Nine Abysses from claiming the chief’s seat.
• Duan Xiaoyu and Chu Xiaoxiao realized that Xu Taiping’s team was being excluded from the alliance, while Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui said the coalition could benefit the Shangqing Cultivation World.

The seventeen teams of Dragon-Slaying Persons formed a Soul Contract alliance and charged into Blood Mist Village to hunt Yuanlingzi. They swept through the first three checkpoints, but at the fourth, blood-colored thunder struck and afflicted many of them with ghost power, leaving the alliance’s fate dependent on the three great households’ promised countermeasure.

• The Dragon-Slaying Persons from seventeen households signed the Soul Contract Talisman, and Fu De promised it would become void after the Dragon-Slaying Assembly.
• The seventeen teams gathered outside Blood Mist Village, where Fu De and Chu Yu urged them to follow the three great households through the village while they handled the ghost power.
• Jiang Li led the charge, and the allied cultivators tore through the blood mist and defeated the blood ghosts at the first three checkpoints before the ghost power could descend.
• At the fourth checkpoint, the teams killed the childlike blood ghost, but stronger blood ghosts delayed them until blood-colored thunder struck and afflicted at least half the Dragon-Slaying Persons with drowsiness and sealed powers.
• Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui wondered whether the Chu Household, Fu Household, and Jiang Household could dispel the ghost power before the entire force was wiped out.

Fu De and the other cultivators broke through the blood mist formation’s checkpoints and reached the hillside Land God Temple, where Yuanlingzi’s ghost power trapped and weighed them down. Chu Yu and Jiang Jiuxuan cleared a path, and the Five Great Aristocratic Clans joined forces to restrain Yuanlingzi as the Beiguo Household prepared its Five-Thunder Ghost-Burning Art.

• Fu De used an Immortal Talisman and a tiger roar to suppress the ghost power long enough for the seventeen teams to break through the fourth checkpoint.
• The Dragon-Slaying Persons and Dragon Catchers charged up the hillside toward the Land God Temple and the great elm tree where Yuanlingzi was hiding.
• Jiang Li shattered the clay land god statue, unleashing blood mist that pressed down on the cultivators as ghost hands dragged them into the hillside.
• Chu Yu lifted the mountain-spirit-like blood mist with his Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and Jiang Jiuxuan's gale swept the cultivators toward the great elm tree.
• Yuanlingzi appeared as an enormous blood-robed ghost, and the Five Great Aristocratic Clans attacked together; Qiyun Mountain bound him with a rope while Xiao Weinan trapped him inside a golden bell phantom.
• A Beiguo Household Clan Elder began casting the Five-Thunder Ghost-Burning Art against the trapped Yuanlingzi.

The Dragon-Slaying Persons appeared to destroy Yuanlingzi, but his blood body survived and he unleashed divine intent-level ghost wax. The revelation that the Blood Ancestor or its origin blood might be in the Immortal Burial Ruins left the pavilion stunned as Yuanlingzi’s elm tree sprouted blood-colored leaves.

• Jiang Li and the other cultivators struck Yuanlingzi with their full strength, while the Beiguo Clan Elder blasted his ghostly figure with lightning.
• Fu De and Chu Yu warned the cultivators to stay alert and prepare another attack, while Zhang Moyan explained that Yuanlingzi’s ghost power should be limited without the Blood Ancestor’s aid.
• A cultivator used a bronze mirror to pin Yuanlingzi’s blood body to the ground, and Xiao Weinan burned it away with Pure Yang Golden Flame.
• Bloody hands dragged Xiao Weinan, Chu Yu, and others underground as Yuanlingzi reappeared and engulfed the cultivators in ghost wax that disabled their powers.
• Zhu Huai and the Xiahou siblings identified the ghost wax as divine intent-level power and suspected the Blood Ancestor or its origin blood was hidden in the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• Yuanlingzi mocked the Upper Realm cultivators as the old elm behind him sprouted blood-colored leaves.

The spectators realized Yuanlingzi had lured the Dragon-Slaying Persons to feed the Blood Ancestor and watched as the Blood Ancestor awakened. Yuanlingzi trapped and killed the cultivators in Blood Mist Village, while the Dragon-Slaying Ranking revealed that Dongfang Yuejian, Xu Taiping, and Xuanzhi had accepted the bounty.

• Xiahou Qingyuan identified the old elm tree as the Blood Ancestor, who was drawing power from the Dragon-Slaying Persons to awaken.
• Chu Yu, Fu De, Xiao Weinan, Qiyun Mountain, and Du He escaped from underground and attacked Yuanlingzi, briefly making his ghostly figure disappear.
• Yuanlingzi invoked Ghost Domain, Blood Rain and summoned blood rain that transformed Fu De into a burning red candle.
• Yuanlingzi captured Qiyun Mountain and the other fleeing cultivators as humanoid candles, despite Fu De's attempt to shield them.
• The Dragon-Slaying Ranking announced that Dongfang Yuejian, Xu Taiping, and Xuanzhi had accepted the bounty.

After Xu Taiping accepted the bounty and headed for Blood Mist Village, Nine Abysses offered to help the trapped cultivators escape the Blood Rain Ghost Domain. Li Yezhu demonstrated that he could survive its curse through a strange reincarnation power, leaving Xiahou Qingyuan to identify it as his fourth-tier Origin Demon Seed Power.

• Zhu Huai, Duan Xiaoyu, and the others worried that Xu Taiping had accepted the bounty before gaining another fortuitous opportunity, but Xiahou You showed them that his party was already heading to Blood Mist Village.
• Heartless Demon Emperor offered the trapped cultivators Nine Abysses' help in exchange for a condition, provoking anger and distrust among the Dragon-Slaying Persons and spectators.
• Li Yezhu entered the Ghost Domain Blood Rain, became a burning red candle, then burst into blood mist and reappeared as a scarred man while his original figure returned to the goshawk.
• Xiahou Qingyuan identified Li Yezhu's ability as his fourth-tier Origin Demon Seed Power: life-borrowing rebirth and reincarnation, following Steal Heaven and Swap Sun.

Xiahou Qingyuan revealed that Li Yezhu’s Life-Borrowing Reincarnation power could make him a Sky Demon Thousand Faces, prompting the observers to see him as a major threat. In Blood Mist Village, the Nine Abysses exploited the Dragon-Slaying Ranking’s rules and offered to rescue the trapped cultivators if they swore to withdraw, while the ghost candles burned their divine souls.

• Xiahou Qingyuan explained that Li Yezhu’s Life-Borrowing Reincarnation power was derived directly from Thousand Faces and could advance into the origin power, making him a potential Sky Demon Thousand Faces.
• Zhu Huai recalled the terrifying origin Sky Demon he had seen, and Xiahou Qingyuan insisted that Li Yezhu had to be destroyed after the Dragon-Slaying Assembly.
• Duan Xiaoyu questioned whether the blood rain ghost domain violated the ranking’s ban on killing commoners, but Lü Tie declared he was willing to die for Li Yezhu and transformed into a burning candle.
• Xiahou You concluded that the willing sacrifices did not violate the rules, while the Heartless Demon Emperor offered rescue in exchange for a blood oath to withdraw from the assembly.
• As the ghost candles scorched their divine souls, Jiang Cheng agreed to the Heartless Demon Emperor’s terms, and an elder from his clan angrily warned him against it.

Xu Taiping arrived at the Dragon-Slaying Assembly and struck the Qing He Demon Emperor with a punch that sent him crashing into a distant hill. With True Fire Talismans placed on the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and Pang Zhong, Xu Taiping faced Li Yezhu’s threat of summoning the Demon Mother’s Edict.

• The cultivators in the Immortal Burial Ruins endured the burning of their divine souls, while Zhu Huai explained why the Dragon Catchers were less affected.
• A young disciple agreed to swear a blood oath to withdraw from the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, but a flying sword interrupted him before he could identify his family.
• The Qing He Demon Emperor intercepted the flying sword, but Xu Taiping appeared and punched through his chest, then struck him again and sent him flying into a hill.
• Xu Taiping’s arrival thrilled the onlookers, who marveled at his fist technique and his ability to drive back a Demon Emperor.
• Dongfang Yuejian placed True Fire Talismans on the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and Pang Zhong, and Li Yezhu threatened to summon the Demon Mother’s Edict.

Xu Taiping subdued the Nine Abysses demons with his overwhelming aura and ordered them to remain on a hillside while he prepared to rescue the cultivators trapped in the Ghost Domain Blood Rain. He kept the demons nearby as a safeguard and instructed Master Xuanzhi to prepare the ghost horde, leaving the rescue about to begin.

• Xu Taiping revealed his immense aura, frightening Li Yezhu and making the Heartless Demon Emperor admit that the three demons could not defeat him.
• Xu Taiping asked the Ranking Spirit whether he could kill one demon, and the Ranking Spirit agreed to bear the backlash from the Demon Mother's Edict.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and Qing He Demon Emperor went to the hillside Xu Taiping had designated.
• Xu Taiping explained to Dongfang Yuejian that keeping the demons nearby would let them watch these potential threats and rely on the Ranking Spirit if necessary.
• Xu Taiping sent Master Xuanzhi a voice transmission to prepare the ghost horde for delivery within the Ghost Domain Blood Rain.