Chapter Summaries

Yu Qingtian began the Yu Family’s final blood sacrifice, using a blood-red crystal and a strange ritual to draw blood from the cells in the formation. Xiao Hua realized the ritual was targeting him, but the chamber sealed him in and its growing suction threatened to pull the blood from his body.

• Yu Qingtian infused the silver tiger with blood essence and retrieved a blood-red crystal from its forehead.
• Yu Qingtian used his blood essence to activate the crystal, spreading blood light and threads throughout the formation’s cells.
• Xiao Hua circulated the secret cultivation method, causing his qi and blood to surge as the blood sacrifice began.
• The crystal’s mist drew at Xiao Hua’s blood, and his talismans could no longer pass through the blood-red chamber walls.
• Xiao Hua deployed the Rabbit Formation to resist the suction, but the force intensified and continued to penetrate it.

Xiao Hua resisted the Yu Family’s blood sacrifice as Zhang Yuhe and Yu Qingtian fought over their agreement and Zhang Yuhe began condensing a Sword Heart. As the sacrifice intensified, Xiao Hua faced being drained and tried using the Yin Yang Sword Gourds.

• Xiao Hua realized the room was only one part of a wider blood sacrifice, recognized that soul threads were being drawn out, and used his own soul threads to resist.
• Yu Qingtian fed essence blood into the blood-colored crystal, while Zhang Yuhe and Yu Tong’s sword lights absorbed living souls and grew stronger.
• Zhang Yuhe emerged and began condensing a Sword Heart, prompting Yu Qingtian to object that this was not part of their agreement.
• Zhang Yuhe claimed Yu Tong’s Sword Spirit was not fully refined, then unleashed the crystal’s suction force to accelerate the blood sacrifice.
• Xiao Hua’s resistance faltered, so he took out the Yin Yang Sword Gourds and flung them above his head in an attempt to survive.

Zhang Yuhe revealed that she had used the blood sacrifices to cultivate her own Sword Spirit and achieve Sword Transformation, rather than relying on the Great Yin Yang Sword Spirit. Yu Qingtian attacked her after realizing her deception, but Zhang Yuhe claimed the blood oath could not restrain her.

• Xiao Hua used his sword gourds to hold back the force of Zhang Yuhe's blood sacrifice formation.
• Zhang Yuhe absorbed the flying swords, sword intent, and sword qi into her deep azure light, forming her Rain Lotus sword intent and completing Sword Transformation.
• Yu Qingtian realized Zhang Yuhe had secretly cultivated her own Sword Spirit and used the blood sacrifice formation as part of her plan.
• Zhang Yuhe explained that Yu Tong and the Great Yin Yang Sword Spirit were still part of her larger scheme, while Yu Qingtian recognized that Yu Tong might already be under her control.
• Yu Qingtian attacked Zhang Yuhe with silver chains, and she endured the pain while arguing that her blood oath had been invalidated by her Sword Transformation.

Zhang Yuhe began breaking free of Yu Qingtian’s restraints by transforming into a giant sword, while the Sword Spirit wounded Yu Qingtian. Yu Qingtian sacrificed the blood-colored crystal to disrupt the formation, but Zhang Yuhe destroyed his shield and left him facing her attack.

• Zhang Yuhe transformed into a giant flying sword and struck at Yu Qingtian, but the silver tiger and blood-colored filaments corroded her sword radiance and bound her again.
• Zhang Yuhe spat out her natal sword at Yu Qingtian, who blocked it with a silver shield, while the Sword Spirit severed Yu Qingtian’s left leg with azure-red sword lights.
• Zhang Yuhe transformed again, drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy and forcing the silver threads binding her to snap as Yu Qingtian tried to strengthen the Fan Jin Great Formation.
• Yu Qingtian sacrificed his left arm’s blood and flesh to the blood-colored crystal, which burst apart and disrupted the blood lights and suspended grids.
• Zhang Yuhe lashed out at Yu Qingtian with a giant sword, and his silver shield split apart under the blow.

Xiao Hua escaped the blood sacrifice chamber and found himself caught between Zhang Yuhe and Yu Qingtian inside the Fan Jin Great Formation. Zhang Yuhe offered to let him leave in exchange for the Yin Yang Sword Gourds, and Xiao Hua tossed them toward her while secretly preparing a move.

• Xiao Hua smashed his way out of the blood sacrifice chamber, interrupting Zhang Yuhe’s attack on Yu Qingtian and revealing the Yin Yang Sword Gourds.
• Xiao Hua recognized Zhang Yuhe’s Sword Transformation cultivation and tried to leave, while Yu Qingtian urged him to help drive out the Huan Kingdom sword cultivators.
• Zhang Yuhe warned Xiao Hua that he could not escape the Fan Jin Great Formation without help and offered to open a way out if he handed over the Yin Yang Sword Gourds.
• Xiao Hua agreed to give Zhang Yuhe the gourds without asking for an oath, then secretly pressed his thumbs against them before tossing them into the air.

Zhang Yuhe refined the two Yin Yang Sword Spirits and pretended to let Xiao Hua leave, then attacked him and sealed the exit. With no way out, Xiao Hua moved to join Yu Qingtian against her, and the chapter ended as he shattered one of Zhang Yuhe’s sword attacks but was blasted behind Yu Qingtian.

• Zhang Yuhe captured the Yin and Yang Spirits in the sword gourds and began refining them into human-shaped gourds.
• Xiao Hua tried to leave through a gap Zhang Yuhe opened, but she attacked him and he vanished into the void before reappearing near the sealed exit.
• Zhang Yuhe admitted she had no reason to keep her promise, leaving Xiao Hua to prepare for a fight and approach Yu Qingtian.
• Yu Qingtian mounted the silver tiger and offered to fight alongside Xiao Hua, while Zhang Yuhe attacked them both with phantom flying swords.
• Xiao Hua shattered the sword light aimed at him with the As-You-Wish Staff, but the force hurled him behind Yu Qingtian.

Xiao Hua watched Zhang Yuhe kill Yu Qingtian, seized the silver tiger and Yu Qingtian’s storage bag, then launched an attack after realizing Zhang Yuhe’s Sword Transformation was not yet stable. He broke through her lotus sword formation with the As-You-Wish Staff, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Yu Qingtian used Metal Evasion to flee, but Zhang Yuhe’s delayed sword light cut him in two.
• Xiao Hua took the silver tiger with Sleeve Universe and removed the storage bag from Yu Qingtian’s corpse, then shattered Zhang Yuhe’s next attack with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua sensed that Zhang Yuhe had only recently entered Sword Transformation and was still refining her sword spirit, so he attacked with the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Zhang Yuhe held off the seal with a formation of sword lights, while Xiao Hua observed how her Sword Transformation differed from an Illusion Sword Swordsman’s.
• Xiao Hua smashed a bowl-wide gap in Zhang Yuhe’s lotus sword lights with the As-You-Wish Staff.

Xiao Hua attacked Zhang Yuhe’s sword-heart weakness with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, severing a crystalline thread and disrupting her sword-heart condensation. He recovered the scissors with Innate True Water, but Zhang Yuhe transformed into a gigantic sword and prepared to kill him.

• Xiao Hua sent the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors at the crystalline thread near Zhang Yuhe’s brow, and the scissors cut it despite her sword attacks.
• Zhang Yuhe’s severed sword sigils stirred the azure and crimson light balls, and her natal sword struck the scissors back into their half-scissor form.
• Xiao Hua used Innate True Water to suppress Zhang Yuhe’s sword light and recovered the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors before she could seize them.
• Zhang Yuhe transformed into a gigantic deep-azure sword, forcing Xiao Hua back as her sword qi churned the surrounding spiritual energy and water.

Xiao Hua fought Zhang Yuhe’s Sword Transformation with fire talismans and his Nascent Soul hand, forcing her sword back but suffering from the clash. When the Yin Yang Sword Spirits and sword gourd began to destabilize, Zhang Yuhe abandoned the fight to stabilize them with a secret technique.

• Zhang Yuhe’s massive sword imprisoned Xiao Hua and split his Innate True Water, but its strike paused and let him escape with Thunder Control Movement.
• Xiao Hua bombarded the massive sword with fire talismans, then summoned his Nascent Soul hand to clash with Zhang Yuhe’s Sword Transformation.
• The Nascent Soul hand and massive sword collided, injuring Xiao Hua and shaking Zhang Yuhe’s sword heart; she attacked again as Xiao Hua used more talismans and retreated inside the hand.
• Cracks sounded as the Yin Yang Sword Spirit trembled and the red sword gourd swelled, prompting Zhang Yuhe to turn from Xiao Hua and use sword radiance to steady the spirit.
• Zhang Yuhe began a secret technique to protect the sword spirits, sending her life-bound small sword through the scarlet and azure balls of light to form a crystalline thread.

Xiao Hua tried to escape the Fan Jin Great Formation as Yu Tong revealed that he had concealed his cultivation and seized control of the formation. Yu Tong nearly turned Zhang Yuhe into the main soul of his sword spirit, but Zhang Yuhe struck his soul with a hidden sword, leaving him screaming in agony.

• Xiao Hua saw Yu Tong appear with a True Tiger Dharma Body and learned that Yu Tong had secretly reached peak late Golden Core and had planned to ambush Zhang Yuhe.
• Yu Tong revealed that Yu Qingtian had transferred the sect master position to him and used the Fan Jin Great Formation to seal the area as Xiao Hua fled toward a crack in its boundary.
• Yu Tong overpowered Zhang Yuhe, immobilized her, and sent a blood-red Yin spirit to devour her and make her its main soul.
• Zhang Yuhe released a gray-black soul sword that pierced Yu Tong's forehead and caused him unbearable agony.

After Zhang Yuhe shattered Yu Tong’s soul, the ancient presence that had secretly guided him took over his body and captured Zhang Yuhe. It began refining both souls into the Great Yin Yang Sword Spirits, then left the formation to pursue Feng Ying and recover the Duojin Mountain Yu Family’s ancestral artifact.

• Yu Tong’s hidden occupant revealed that he had guided Yu Tong for decades and claimed his body after Zhang Yuhe shattered Yu Tong’s soul.
• The hidden occupant subdued Zhang Yuhe, took her soul talisman, and declared that he would refine her and Yu Tong into the Great Yin Yang Sword Spirits.
• He recovered Yu Qingtian’s body and soul, then transferred Yu Tong’s phantom into the corpse and took on the identity of the Yu Family’s head.
• He placed Yu Qingtian and Zhang Yuhe into the Yin and Yang Sword Spirits, respectively, and began tempering them with the sword gourds.
• He expanded the silver space with the True Tiger Dharma Body and then flew through the canopy after sensing Feng Ying’s lightning escape.

Xiao Hua tried to escape the Fan Jin Great Formation after discovering Yu Tong’s strength, but Yu Tong trapped him in an endless series of silver barriers. Xiao Hua used Rabbit Spirit Talismans and Innate True Water to form a barrier of his own, leaving Yu Tong suspicious of his origins and resolved to finish refining the Yin Yang Sword Gourds.

• Xiao Hua fled the fissure and discovered the Fan Jin Great Formation was suspended in the night sky, where Yu Tong’s silver lattices blocked his escape.
• Xiao Hua smashed through hundreds of lattices, but Yu Tong confronted him and demanded the Silver Tiger while offering to let him keep Yu Qingtian’s storage bag.
• Yu Tong formed a huge silver cage around Xiao Hua and pressed it down, forcing Xiao Hua to use the Pure Water Vase and Innate True Water to resist.
• Xiao Hua recalled that Metal Evasion might counter the formation and activated several dozen Rabbit Spirit Talismans within the Innate True Water.
• Yu Tong mistook Xiao Hua’s formation for the Du Tian Xing Dou Great Formation and wondered whether a divided soul in Xiao Hua’s Purple Mansion had given it to him.
• Yu Tong decided to finish refining the Yin Yang Sword Gourds and use them against Xiao Hua, regardless of who was inside him.

Yu Tong trapped the Innate True Water in a silver labyrinth and fled, while Lu Ruochang led the sword cultivators toward the Fan Jin Great Formation and discussed the staged retreat with Qu Jianchong. Lu Ruochang revealed that her plan relied on sacrificing Sword Domain warriors to convince the Dao Sect cultivators they had won.

• Yu Tong enclosed the Innate True Water in a silver labyrinth, then vanished after vowing to kill it once his sword gourd was refined.
• Lu Ruochang and the sword cultivators changed course toward the Fan Jin Great Formation after sensing Sword Transformation Sword Intent, continuing their feigned retreat.
• Lu Ruochang approached Qu Jianchong and discussed Tu Hong’s death, Qin Jian’s fate, and the mysterious identity of the Terrifying Phoenix.
• Lu Ruochang told Qu Jianchong that the staged rout required sacrificing Sword Domain warriors to make the Dao Sect believe its victory was real.
• Qu Jianchong accepted the sacrifice as necessary for the Sword Domain’s plan to destroy the larger Dao Sect force.

Lu Ruochang questioned Qu Jianchong about the mysterious Sword Transformation Sword Intent as the Sword Domain forces approached the Sword Tomb. The sword cultivators found several routes into the Tomb and began withdrawing through them, while the pursuing sect cultivators paused at its edge.

• Qu Jianchong told Lu Ruochang that the Sword Transformation Sword Intent contained sword formulas resembling those of the Huanjian Sect, though no Huanjian Sect elder could account for it.
• Lu Ruochang suspected the Sword Intent was connected to the Xuanjian Sect and planned to guide the retreating cultivators toward the great formation after entering the Sword Tomb.
• Sword cultivators at the Tomb’s edge recalled their earlier confidence and argued over whether a Sword Transformation Senior would protect them.
• Old Man Zhao used a small sword to locate a safe passage, and Swordsman Liao and three others found nearby routes into the Sword Tomb.
• Illusion Sword Swordsmen organized the retreat through the passages, while the pursuing sect cultivators gathered and paused outside the Tomb.

As the Daoist sects prepared to pursue the sword cultivators into the Sword Tomb, the Golden Core cultivators discussed command, battle merit, and Li Zongbao’s reputation. Heng Ming gave Li Zongbao Xiao Hua’s special pardon order to deliver, while warning him to control his emotions.

• Liu Xinwu organized the sect disciples and praised Li Zongbao for his battle merit as the cultivators gathered before the Sword Tomb.
• The Golden Core cultivators considered Heng Ming the natural commander of the final battle, while Gao Wei brought Xiao Mao to join the group.
• Heng Ming wondered whether Xiao Hua might be the Terrifying Phoenix, but Li Zongbao said he had found no trace of Xiao Hua during the war.
• Li Zongbao asked about the Thunder Control Sect’s special pardon order and learned it was being held by Heng Ming because Qianmo had died.
• Heng Ming handed Xiao Hua’s pardon order to Li Zongbao, advising him to control his emotions and deliver it himself.

Li Zongbao received the pardon decree and discussed Xiao Hua and Qianmo with Hengming while waiting for the final battle at the Sword Mound. Hengming revealed that the Dao Sect had secretly prepared Qianmo’s Ten Directions Annihilation Great Formation there, leaving Ji Mo angry that Xuntian City had been kept uninformed.

• Hengming urged Li Zongbao to prepare for forming a core, and Li Zongbao said he had made preparations and stocked Qianli Pills.
• Hengming explained his changed view of Qianmo and praised Xiao Hua; Li Zongbao said Xiao Hua repaid kindness and pursued grudges without end.
• Xiao Mao asked whether there was news of Xiao Hua, and Li Zongbao remained confident that Xiao Hua was safe and might appear unexpectedly.
• Hengming announced that Xiong Huasong had laid Qianmo’s Ten Directions Annihilation Great Formation inside the Sword Mound as part of the plan for the final battle.
• Ji Mo objected that Xuntian City and its City Lord had not been told about the secret plan, while Hengming said the Council Hall could not trust everyone with sensitive information.

Hengming assigned Daoist sect forces to the Ten Directions Annihilation Great Formation and sent them into Sword Tomb to ambush the defeated sword cultivators. As he assigned the Soul Annihilation Formation, Yuan Zhongyu questioned how he could preside over it without knowing Million Meng Mountain’s Soul Cultivation Technique.

• Hengming dismissed Ji Mo’s concerns about possible leaks and urged the gathered cultivators to follow his command into Sword Tomb.
• Hengming explained that safe passages led to the formation’s positions and distributed jade slips assigning sect leaders to the formations.
• Dexun and Huang Feng led disciples of Taiqing Sect, Exotic Beast Sect, and Immortal Music Sect into the Heavenly Annihilation Formation.
• Xu Jie led disciples of Xuantian Sect and Yanjiang Sect into the Earthly Annihilation Formation to join Xiong Huasong.
• Hengming assigned leaders and disciples to the Wind, Ice, Golden, Blood, Fire, and Water Annihilation Formations, and the groups entered Sword Tomb.
• Yuan Zhongyu accepted the jade slip for the Soul Annihilation Formation but asked Hengming what he should do because he lacked Million Meng Mountain’s Soul Cultivation Technique.

Li Zongbao entered the Sword Tomb with the other cultivators while Xiao Hua remained trapped in Yu Tong’s Fan Jin Great Formation. Searching Yu Qingtian’s storage pouch for a way out, Xiao Hua instead found an ancient account of bloodlines descended from transformed Ancient Demonic Beasts.

• Hengming assigned Cheng Ming and Peng Die to lead the Earth Annihilation Formation, then entered the Sword Tomb with the remaining sects.
• Li Zongbao searched for Xiao Hua outside the Sword Tomb, failed to find him, and entered after the Fire Fierce Mountain disciples.
• Yu Tong repaired the Fan Jin Great Formation and boasted that his true spirit bloodline let him control it, then sensed progress in the Stone Transformation Plan and vanished using Metal Evasion.
• Xiao Hua replenished himself with Azure Spirit Pills and searched Yu Qingtian’s storage pouch for a Metal Evasion jade slip, but found none.
• Xiao Hua examined an ancient, damaged jade slip and learned that true bloodlines could descend from Ancient Demonic Beasts that transformed into human form and had children with mortals or cultivators.

Xiao Hua learned that the Silver Tiger controlled the Fan Jin Great Formation but supposedly required the Yu Family’s True Tiger bloodline. After forcing the artifact to accept his essence blood and refining its hidden cauldron form, he discovered it was the Si Yin Cauldron, a token for entering the mysterious Yi Ze Realm.

• Xiao Hua read about Saint Bloodlines and the Four Spirits Blood Array, then realized a jade slip might contain a way to break the Fan Jin Great Formation.
• He found the formation’s instructions in a Yu Family jade slip, but learned that only someone with the True Tiger bloodline could refine the Silver Tiger and control the formation.
• Xiao Hua tried the prescribed refinement method, failed, and then used his essence blood, Sleeve Universe, and Sea-Overturning Seal to overpower the Silver Tiger’s resistance.
• After refining the Silver Tiger for a day and night, Xiao Hua transformed it into a cauldron and received a flood of memories.
• Xiao Hua learned that the cauldron was the Si Yin Cauldron, a token for entering the Yi Ze Realm and obtaining a bloodline inheritance, though its memories gave few details about the realm’s location or origins.

Xiao Hua found the Metal Evasion technique in the Si Yin Cauldron and began studying it as a way to escape the formation. Yu Tong gathered the Duojin Mountain Yu Family disciples and revealed that Yu Qingtian was dead, leaving the elders shocked and Yu Ping thinking of Xiao Hua.

• Xiao Hua realized the Si Yin Cauldron held the Metal Evasion technique and resolved to use it to escape the formation.
• Yu Tong returned to the enormous space and used his True Tiger Dharma Body to restore the plaza and its cultivation nests.
• Yu Tong summoned the Yu Family disciples and questioned the elders about their gains from the Stone Transformation Plan.
• Yu Lei refused to discuss his progress with Yu Tong, who then announced that Yu Qingtian was dead.
• The Nine Great Elders reacted in disbelief, while Yu Ping remembered Xiao Hua and concealed his reaction.