Recaps

Xu Taiping consolidated his cultivation and prepared for the coming clash with the Mad Monk, while the crisis in Yellow Springs forced him and Ping'an to attack Black Lotus Temple. They damaged Jinghai and interrupted his attempt to absorb the Yama Inheritance, but the arc ended with the Mad Monk trapping them in the sealed Nine Valleys Corpse-Moss Shoal.

• Blade Ghost guided Xu Taiping as he merged divine intents and true intents into his primordial spirit and body, then Xu Taiping defeated Demonic Mountain with Moonfall.
• Xu Taiping learned that Heaven-Hunting Great Sage would fight Dong Cangzi in three months, and he and Ping'an met Dugu Qingxiao in Yellow Springs to obtain Nine Springs Water.
• Xu Taiping merged his Great Dao Edict with his Nascent Soul after watching driftwood endure a storm, while Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang returned with news that Black Lotus Temple was attacking Yizili.
• Blade Ghost trapped the Ghost Monks in Avīci as Xu Taiping and Ping'an headed for Black Lotus Temple, where Ping'an used Mind-Heart Communication to control the Clay Effigies and lead them through the barrier.
• Old Daoist Mao secretly helped Xu Taiping’s party enter the temple, and Xu Taiping and Ping'an collapsed the Sutra Hall to interrupt Jinghai’s attempt to refine the Yama Inheritance.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an fought Jinghai, using the Book of Life and Death to destroy his black lotuses and part of his body before he revived through Nirvanic Annihilation.
• Dugu Qingxiao announced that he had fused with the Yama Inheritance, while Xiaohei awakened and fought Jinghai, who sealed the Nine Valleys Corpse-Moss Shoal and blocked their escape.

Xu Taiping witnessed the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s final battle with Dong Cangzi and inherited his unfinished punch. After preparing to enter the Chaotic Stars Assembly alone, Xu Taiping arrived at the Demon-Slaying Platform and began learning about its trials.

• Xiaohei helped Xu Taiping fight the Mad Monk until Blade Ghost and Dugu Qingxiao intervened, and Dugu Qingxiao killed the Mad Monk and claimed the Yama Inheritance.
• Dugu Qingxiao gave Xu Taiping the jade pendant Fairy Lingyue had entrusted to him, and Xu Taiping learned she had entered a passage toward Taiqing Paradise and urged him to wait sixty years.
• Blade Ghost warned Xu Taiping and Dugu Qingxiao that the Great Void Calamity could fully descend within three to five hundred years, prompting Xu Taiping to focus on growing stronger.
• Xu Taiping watched the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage challenge Dong Cangzi in Yanggu Heaven and studied the Great Sage’s punches as they devastated the Imperial City.
• Dong Cangzi’s extremes-reverse edict consumed the Great Sage’s power, but the Great Sage entrusted his unfinished punch to Xu Taiping before dying.
• Xu Taiping promised to carry out the Great Sage’s unfinished punch, while Blade Ghost warned him not to rush into the Half-Step Half-Immortal Realm.
• Xu Taiping chose to enter the Chaotic Stars Assembly alone, and Zhu Ping explained how Demon-Slaying Tokens, teams, and points worked.
• Chi Fan guided Xu Taiping onto the Demon-Slaying Platform, where Xu Taiping watched Fairy Ning Shuang and her partner battle a Lion Demon and asked whether her surname was Qu.

Xu Taiping rescued Qu Ningshuang’s group, pursued Bai Yu’s captor Xuan Zhou, and destroyed Yellow Origin Palace when Xuan Zhou refused to return him. As the Chaotic Stars Assembly began, Xu Taiping switched places with Lin Buyu and entered Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land, where a fifth-stage Evil Demon Incarnation awaited.

• Xu Taiping lent Qu Ningshuang Ten Thousand Edges, and she and Zhou Xie challenged the Lion Demon before Qu Ningshuang later defeated it and won the Earth Character Seat.
• Xu Taiping rescued Qu Ningshuang and Zhou Xie from Lu Ming and the Yellow Origin Palace cultivators, then took their Heavenflame Cauldron and fled with Xiaohei as Xuan Zhou and Bai Yu pursued him.
• Xu Taiping fought Xuan Zhou across the stars and demanded that he release Bai Yu, but Xuan Zhou escaped with Bai Yu and Xu Taiping followed them to Yellow Origin Palace.
• Xu Taiping and Xiaohei broke through Yellow Origin Palace’s defenses and devoured its two peaks, forcing Xuan Zhou to offer Bai Yu’s return in exchange for sparing the palace’s primordial spirits.
• Xu Taiping returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform, where Lin Buyu told him the Three Corpses Cave had bullied her and challenged him to compete for a higher rank at the assembly.
• When the assembly’s teleportation arrays activated, Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with Lin Buyu and enter Zhuyin Liyuan’s sealed land.
• Xu Taiping concealed his aura from the demon’s Divine Sense and asked the Lotus Eye to assess his chances against the fifth-stage Evil Demon Incarnation.

Xu Taiping recovered Lian Xing’s saber and led the Demon-Slaying Army against Zhuyuan, earning the Flame Emperor’s inheritance and taking first place on the Demon-Slaying Ranking. As the Nine Abysses plotted to trap him, Xu Taiping rebuilt his cultivation with the Ten Emperors Scripture and prepared to rescue Qu Ningshuang with Lin Buyu.

• Xu Taiping entered the River of Time, witnessed Lian Xing’s final battle with Zhuyuan, and received the general’s saber and his charge to bury it with the cavalry.
• Xu Taiping retrieved the saber from Iron Sun City, summoned the Demon-Slaying Cavalry from the Jade Bone Grass, and led their growing ranks against Zhuyuan.
• Xu Taiping used the Human Sovereign Sword and the Ten Emperors Scripture to summon the Flame Emperor’s likeness, which destroyed Zhuyuan and earned him one hundred thousand points.
• The Flame Emperor gave Xu Taiping the Human Sovereign Sword and an inheritance, while warning him that the calamity remained and not to summon him again before Shangqing’s survival was at stake.
• Xu Taiping’s Lotus Eye showed the Nine Abysses attacking Seal Lands and trapping Lin Buyu, so he returned to the Demon-Slaying Platform and told her about their plan.
• Xu Taiping’s clone changed to the Ten Emperors Scripture, causing his cultivation to collapse and then recover as he absorbed its dissipated power under Lin Buyu’s guard.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu learned that Qu Ningshuang was trapped in Gloomstone Valley, and they planned to lure four demon incarnations to Lin Buyu so she could defeat them.