Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu defeated an assassin puppet sent by a cautious Joyful Bliss Palace disciple, then followed a cluster of disciples marked on his Crystal Orb. He reunited with Wan Shan, who led him toward a gathering overseen by Senior Brother Tian and a True Disciple of the Thousand Bamboo Sect, where the righteous sects were preparing to face the Demonic Path.

• Wang Yu repelled a puppet's attacks, destroyed it with a punch, and kicked it away before it exploded.
• More than ten li away, the puppet's owner, an obese Joyful Bliss Palace disciple, watched through a mirror and chose to search for another target.
• Wang Yu searched for the hidden attacker, then noticed more than twenty red dots clustered on his Crystal Orb and flew toward them.
• Wan Shan met Wang Yu and invited him to join the gathered disciples from the four sects.
• Wan Shan told Wang Yu that Senior Brother Tian and a True Disciple of the Thousand Bamboo Sect were overseeing the gathering, and that they were preparing to confront the Demonic Path.

Wang Yu joined the gathered sect disciples preparing to seize a Spirit Herb Garden from the Demonic Path and learned about their opponents. When Yue Lengshan and Senior Brother Tian explained that no one had been assigned to counter the poison-wielding Dai Zong, Wang Yu volunteered to face him before the group set out that afternoon.

• Wan Shan told Wang Yu that the sects were preparing to attack the Demonic Path disciples and seize a Spirit Herb Garden containing rare thousand-year spirit herbs.
• Wan Shan led Wang Yu to a valley where more than forty disciples had gathered, and Senior Brother Tian welcomed him into the coming fight.
• Yue Lengshan asked whether Wang Yu could handle Dai Zong, a Mara Sect disciple known for poison arts that had killed Senior Brother Li.
• Wang Yu said his body-tempering arts gave him some resistance to poison and offered to fight Dai Zong, earning Senior Brother Tian's approval.

Wang Yu learned about Dai Zong’s poison and spirit beast before agreeing to face him, while Senior Brother Tian and Yue Lengshan discussed the coming battle and their plans against the demonic path. The group prepared to fight, with Senior Brother Tian keeping a contingency hidden.

• Wan Shan warned Wang Yu that Dai Zong’s potent poison and violent bear spirit beast made him a formidable opponent.
• Wang Yu and Wan Shan discussed using puppets and spirit beasts to contain Dai Zong, while Wang Yu recalled that Kang Wuhen had been transported elsewhere.
• Senior Brother Tian told Yue Lengshan that Wang Yu was a body-tempering cultivator and certified artifact refiner who could keep Dai Zong occupied.
• Yue Lengshan warned Senior Brother Tian that the Black Soul Sect disciple had concealed his strength and asked to face the Joyful Bliss Palace temptress herself.
• Senior Brother Tian said he could defeat his opponent and revealed that he had another contingency, but declined to explain it.

Wang Yu killed Dai Zong with a single saber strike during the battle between the four sects and the Demonic Path, then cleared the poison from his body. As the fighting continued, an enormous Ape ambushed him, while a hidden sword threatened Yue Lengshan.

• The four sects and the Demonic Path disciples met in the air and began fighting, while Wan Shan engaged a bearded Black Soul Sect disciple.
• Wang Yu knocked away a Joyful Bliss Palace disciple’s iron disc, then used the Draw-Cutting Art to kill Dai Zong and his Giant Bear.
• Wang Yu removed Dai Zong’s poison with talismans and surveyed the ongoing battles between the True Disciples and the other fighters.
• The bearded Black Soul Sect disciple suddenly fled, and an enormous Ape appeared behind Wang Yu and kicked at him.
• Wang Yu turned and punched the Ape, while a Jade-Green Slender Long Sword silently appeared beside Yue Lengshan and thrust toward her.

Yue Lengshan and Senior Brother Tian were ambushed by the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman, the black-robed young man, and their puppets and spirits. As Yue Lengshan fell and Senior Brother Tian was surrounded, the attackers discovered that Wang Yu was locked in a fierce fight with a giant Black Ape.

• A Talisman and a Humanoid Puppet blocked an attack on Yue Lengshan, but a Silver-White Puppet seized and fatally pierced her.
• Senior Brother Tian trapped the enormous skeleton, the black-robed young man, and three Fierce Soul Wraiths beneath a Blue Giant Net, but the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman and two puppets surrounded him.
• Senior Brother Tian used a Blue Little Bell to repel the Pink Mist and reveal the vanished puppets.
• The Joyful Bliss Palace Woman learned that Wang Yu was fighting a giant Black Ape and saw the two trading blows.
• Wang Yu, transformed into a small giant, bombarded the Black Ape with pale-gold fists while dodging its attacks.

Wang Yu fought a Demonic Path True Disciple who used the Fur-Covering Secret Art to transform into a Mountain-Treading Ape, then a Netherwater Leopard. As their battle shifted the morale of the forces below, Senior Brother Tian urged Wang Yu to defeat his opponent before his talisman failed and forced him to retreat.

• Wang Yu watched two Humanoid Puppets ambush Yue Lengshan and Senior Brother Tian, then fought an enormous ape whose Fur-Covering Secret Art came from Myriad Beast Mountain.
• The ape used its Mountain-Treading Ape phantom body and a force that pulled Wang Yu toward its stomping feet, but Wang Yu dodged and struck it with his Pale-Gold Handprints.
• Wang Yu's blows broke the ape's phantom body, revealing a Black Ape Hide, while a Netherwater Leopard phantom body emerged and attacked him.
• Wang Yu struck the leopard away, and the fighters on both sides watched as his strength briefly steadied the Great Ming Four Sects' morale and weakened the Demonic Path's.
• Senior Brother Tian told Wang Yu that his second-tier Black Tortoise Talisman would soon fail and urged him to defeat his opponent before he had to retreat.

Wang Yu defeated the black leopard by combining the Ape Roar Four Forms with the Four Bear Embrace Forms, then burned its head to ashes inside the Crimson Veil. As he considered the leopard’s Storage Bag, the Black Soul Sect’s True Disciple broke free of Senior Brother Tian’s blue mesh, leaving Tianjunzi facing three opponents.

• Wang Yu used the Spirit Ape Movement Technique and a forceful palm to slam the black leopard into the rocks.
• Wang Yu pinned the leopard with his saber and unleashed the Ape Roar Four Forms, disrupting its attacks.
• Wang Yu trapped the leopard’s severed head in the Crimson Veil and burned it to ashes, leaving behind a headless human corpse and a Storage Bag.
• The Black Soul Sect’s True Disciple cleaved through Senior Brother Tian’s blue mesh with a black blade and emerged carrying a Bone Banner and a partly burned second-tier talisman.
• Senior Brother Guo and the young married woman joined forces against Tianjunzi as the woman sent her puppets into the void.

Wang Yu arrived in time to kill the Joyful Bliss Palace woman’s opponent and joined Senior Brother Tian against the Demonic Path disciples. The enemies agreed to fight for the Spirit Herb Garden’s thousand-year-old herbs, and Wang Yu faced the Black Soul Sect’s ghosts as Senior Brother Tian fought the woman.

• Wang Yu struck the Joyful Bliss Palace woman, then landed beside Senior Brother Tian and said he had killed his previous opponent.
• The Black Soul Sect disciple and the Joyful Bliss Palace woman discussed the fight with the hidden puppet master, who demanded an additional share of the spirit herbs.
• The Black Soul Sect disciple agreed to the puppet master’s terms, and the woman joined them in committing to the battle.
• The Joyful Bliss Palace woman’s pink mist separated Wang Yu from Senior Brother Tian, while the Black Soul Sect disciple sent three black-armored ghosts after Wang Yu.
• Senior Brother Tian blocked the woman’s peach blossoms and counterattacked with ice spikes as Wang Yu used the Windfire Chant to drive back the ghosts.

Wang Yu fought the black-robed young man and his three resurrecting Fierce Soul Wraiths, then attacked the young man with his saber and body-tempering arts. As Wang Yu battered the Bone Banner’s black Light Screen from above, two Silver-White Giant Hands appeared behind him and lunged for his waist.

• Wang Yu used fire spells, a Flame Veil, and his Blue-and-Red Long Saber to destroy the three Fierce Soul Wraiths, but the black-robed young man revived them with the Bone Banner.
• The black-robed young man formed a giant black palm and attacked Wang Yu, who escaped and counterattacked with a saber strike and a phantom Pale-Gold Handprint.
• The black-robed young man dropped into the enormous skeleton’s rib cage and used the skeleton’s bone claws and the Bone Banner to block Wang Yu’s attacks.
• Wang Yu unleashed a barrage of golden fist shadows and Pale-Gold Handprints against the black Light Screen formed from the Bone Banner.
• Two Silver-White Giant Hands appeared behind Wang Yu and lunged to clasp him around the waist.

Wang Yu unleashed his Black Tiger Baleful Body and destroyed the black-robed young man’s puppets and fierce souls. The black-robed young man then empowered his giant skeleton with the Bone Banner and prepared it to fight Wang Yu.

• Wang Yu’s Crimson Veil was destroyed by a Spell-Breaking Talisman, and a second talisman trapped him in Silver Lightning Arcs.
• Wang Yu endured the lightning and transformed into his Black Tiger Baleful Body, destroying the silver puppet, the pale yellow puppet, and two black-armored fierce souls.
• Wang Yu told the black-robed young man that he had mastered the third layer of the Breathing Technique and declared that the young man would die.
• The black-robed young man attacked with three Bone Forks and used more than thirty White Bone Fiends to armor the giant skeleton.
• The black-robed young man had the giant skeleton swallow the Bone Banner, empowering its armor and Bone Sword as it fixed its gaze on Wang Yu.

Wang Yu overwhelmed the black-robed young man’s gigantic skeleton and shattered it with a golden palm strike. The young man tried to escape with a Blood Escape Talisman, but Wang Yu’s Flying Knives struck him down.

• Wang Yu dodged the gigantic skeleton’s attacks and battered it with powerful punches and kicks, breaking its Bone Sword and shattering much of its body.
• Wang Yu tore through the skeleton’s bone net, kicked apart its head and chest, and destroyed it with a gigantic golden palm-print.
• The black-robed young man burst out of the shattered skeleton, but Wang Yu broke his Bone Shield and forced him to use talismans for protection.
• The black-robed young man activated a Blood Escape Talisman and fled as a streak of bloody light.
• Wang Yu threw three Flying Knives, which struck the fleeing young man and sent him falling from the bloody light.

Wang Yu and Tianjunzi repelled the Demonic Path forces, secured the way to the Spirit Herb Garden, and discussed the battle's losses and rewards. As the group headed for the garden, Wang Yu downplayed his strength to Wan Shan and encouraged him to spread a more modest account of the fight.

• The Joyful Bliss Palace Woman fled after seeing Tianjunzi and Wang Yu defeat the Demonic Path True Disciples, and the remaining Demonic Path disciples scattered.
• Wang Yu beheaded the black-robed young man, recovered his Willow-Leaf Flying Knives and Storage Bag, and burned the corpse.
• Tianjunzi emerged from the pink mist weakened but alive, thanked Wang Yu, and lamented that Yue Lengshan had died.
• Tianjunzi credited Wang Yu with securing the Spirit Herb Garden and promised him the largest share of its spirit herbs.
• Tianjunzi led the disciples toward the Spirit Herb Garden while Wang Yu told Wan Shan that the Demonic Path True Disciples he defeated had been weak.

Wang Yu and Tianjunzi's group discovered a hidden Spirit Herb Garden and broke through its Illusion Formation. With the garden open and valuable herbs in view, Tianjunzi warned everyone that the harvest would be divided according to their contributions.

• Wang Yu agreed that he would accept a true disciple position while asking Wan Shan not to draw too much attention to him.
• Tianjunzi explained that Wu and Mi of the Thousand Bamboo Sect had discovered the hidden herb garden with their innate spirit eyes.
• Tianjunzi assigned disciples to keep watch while the others took turns attacking the garden's Light Screen.
• Wang Yu examined the garden through the Light Screen and identified several rare spirit herbs and fruits, including possible Foundation Establishment materials.
• The group broke the Light Screen, and Tianjunzi used his spiritual pressure to warn that the herbs would be divided according to everyone's contributions.

After the Spirit Herb Garden was harvested and its contents distributed, Wang Yu discovered that his conspicuous mark on the tracking artifact made him a likely target for the Demonic Path. He left Tianjunzi’s group and hid in a hollow tree to seek a way to remove the mark.

• Tianjunzi organized the harvest of the Spirit Herb Garden and distributed its herbs according to each disciple’s contribution, reserving the leftovers for compensation to the families of fallen disciples.
• The disciples of the other three sects departed, while the Four Symbols Sect disciples continued into the Mountain Range with Tianjunzi.
• Wang Yu saw a huge crimson mark on Tianjunzi’s tracking artifact and admitted he had killed several more Demonic Path disciples, including a True Disciple.
• Wang Yu decided to travel alone to avoid letting the Demonic Path gather against him, then left Tianjunzi’s group on his Iron Boat.
• Wang Yu hid in a hollow tree and examined his own tracking artifact, realizing he needed to find a way to remove the vital blood mark.

Wang Yu used the Qi-Observing Secret Art and Overclocking to examine the blood qi around himself. At the desert altar, a blood-mist figure slaughtered the Sand Crab Demon Beasts, killed a hidden observer, and confronted Lin Xiao Feng, who recognized the Blood Shadow Art and asked about its connection to the Mara Sect's Bloodsmoke Ancestor.

• Wang Yu used the Qi-Observing Secret Art and Overclocking to inspect the blood qi covering his body.
• A blood-mist figure killed the Sand Crab Demon Beasts at the altar and gathered their poisonous essence blood.
• A man hidden beneath a dune watched the figure, but the figure discovered and killed him after he tried to escape with a Thunder Talisman.
• The blood-mist figure called out to another observer in the sky, and Lin Xiao Feng appeared holding a scarlet gourd.
• Lin Xiao Feng asked the figure what connection it had to the Mara Sect's Bloodsmoke Ancestor.

A blurred Mara Sect cultivator attacked Lin Xiao Feng after she mentioned Bloodsmoke Ancestor and killed her despite her powerful talismans and artifacts. Elsewhere, the Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman confronted Stone Maiden Bi Xinxiu beside the corpses of Great Ming Four Sects and Demonic Path disciples.

• The blurred figure revealed his hatred of Bloodsmoke Ancestor and charged at Lin Xiao Feng, who defended herself with fire crows from her gourd.
• The figure transformed into a blood shadow that passed through Lin Xiao Feng's attacks, forcing her to flee with a Golden Talisman and use more treasures.
• Lin Xiao Feng's red flying ants briefly attacked the blood shadow, but black vapor killed them, and the figure struck through her chest and drained her blood and Dharma Power.
• On an island in the lake, the Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman identified her opponent as Stone Maiden Bi Xinxiu of the Joyful Bliss Palace beside the corpses of disciples from both sides.
• Stone Maiden Bi Xinxiu answered that the Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman was ruthless for killing the disciples, most of whom belonged to the Great Ming Four Sects.

Bi Xinxiu and the Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman agreed to work together to break the seals around a Stone House that might hold the fifth Jialan Secret Key. Elsewhere, Gu Lian faced his former fellow disciple in a deadly duel, while Luo Hao led a party toward the Ancient Temple Ruins through the gray mist.

• Bi Xinxiu argued that the men she had charmed deserved their deaths, then proposed that she and the Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman join forces to break the Stone House's seals.
• The Yellow-Robed Palace-Dressed Woman agreed after considering the Dark Golden Toad on her shoulder.
• Gu Lian fought a former fellow disciple who admitted sabotaging his Foundation Establishment spiritual item to secure their master's inheritance.
• Gu Lian's opponent unleashed the Illusory Sun Great Art, and Gu Lian produced a Crystal Orb in response.
• A dark figure in the Ancient Temple Ruins discarded a half-eaten arm bearing a crimson token marked with a red sun and the character for true.
• Luo Hao led Senior Brother Huang, Kang Wuhen, and two armored women through the gray mist toward the ruins using the Green Glow Lamp.

Luo Hao and the others discovered that the strange site might hold Jialan’s fifth Secret Key, but a surge of gray mist sealed off their retreat. Elsewhere, a Black Soul Sect elder prepared to begin a ritual at a White Bone Altar.

• Luo Hao questioned Kang Wuhen and the two armored sisters about how they had found the site, and learned that a map and a powerful summons had led them there.
• The red-armored woman explained that she and her sister had been cursed after killing a powerful Spider Demon Insect and would die if they resisted the summons.
• Luo Hao examined Kang Wuhen’s map, recognized its key symbol as a possible mark for Jialan’s fifth Secret Key, and agreed with Kang Wuhen and Senior Brother Huang to withdraw and prepare.
• Gray mist surged behind the five companions and blocked their retreat despite Luo Hao’s efforts with his palace lantern.
• At a valley near the Mountain Range, Black Soul Sect disciples fed Demon Beast corpses into the yin wind around a White Bone Altar, and a skeletal middle-aged man declared that the ritual could begin.

A skeletal middle-aged man and Black Soul Sect disciples used a blood formation to open a passage and summon the Two-Headed White Bone Fiend. As the passage closed, the Fiend split itself, leaving part of its body in the valley before the exhausted summoners collapsed and the arriving disciples welcomed it as their Patriarch.

• The skeletal middle-aged man used blood and a shriveled finger to activate the White Bone Altar and the surrounding bone pillars.
• Black Soul Sect disciples powered the formation with Bone Banners, helping open a black hole in the sky.
• The Two-Headed White Bone Fiend forced its way partway through the hole, but the passage began shrinking around it.
• Unable to widen the hole, the White Bone Fiend split its body, with the single-horned head retreating through the passage while the remaining portion fell into the valley.
• The formation failed, leaving the skeletal middle-aged man and the disciples exhausted as nearly a hundred Black Soul Sect disciples arrived and welcomed the figure as their Patriarch.

The White Bone Fiend restored his body and ordered the Black Soul Sect disciples to hunt the four great sects of Daming throughout the Jialan Secret Realm. Wang Yu weakened and misdirected the blood aura mark tracking him, then examined the spirit herbs he had taken from the Spirit Herb Garden.

• The White Bone Fiend took essence blood from the black-robed middle-aged man and used bones from the altar to rebuild his body.
• The four-armed White Bone Fiend ordered nearly a hundred Black Soul Sect disciples to kill disciples of the four great sects of Daming and seize the secret realm's resources.
• Wang Yu split and weakened his blood aura mark by attaching drops of his essence blood to bottles carried by azure birds, confusing the mark's trackers.
• Wang Yu examined the Fire Spirit Ginseng, nine-curve bamboo, Pitch-Black Leaf, and Red-Glowing Crystal Fruit from the Spirit Herb Garden.