Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao that Zhang Yuhe had died and revealed that she had been refined into the Yin Yang Sword Gourds, which contained unfinished Spirit Severing Primordial Light. After Zhang Qingxiao gave him a jade slip on refining and using it, Xiao Hua disclosed the Duojin Mountain Yu Family’s mass blood sacrifice, leaving Zhang Qingxiao shocked.

• Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao that Zhang Yuhe had died, and Zhang Qingxiao initially seemed relieved that her death had nothing to do with him.
• Xiao Hua showed Zhang Qingxiao the Yin Yang Sword Gourds and explained that Zhang Yuhe had become the yin spirit within the Great Yin Yang Sword Spirit.
• Xiao Hua released the sword light, and Zhang Qingxiao recognized it as unfinished Spirit Severing Primordial Light, a powerful killing weapon.
• Zhang Qingxiao used a Demonic Sect technique to produce a jade slip containing methods for refining and using the Spirit Severing Primordial Light, then gave it to Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua realized the Duojin Mountain Yu Family’s knowledge of the weapon suggested a connection to the Myriad Monster Realm and told Zhang Qingxiao about the family’s plan to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of cultivators.
• Zhang Qingxiao was horrified by the planned blood sacrifice, and Xiao Hua argued that good and evil, rather than Daoist or demonic affiliation, defined the difference between Dao and demonic conduct.

Xiao Hua learned how spatial veins, nodes, and passages connected different realms as Zhang Qingxiao explained them. After Zhang Qingxiao returned from seeking news about the Daoist cultivator war, he confronted Xiao Hua about the unexpected surprises he had discovered.

• Zhang Qingxiao suspected the Duojin Mountain Yu Family had ties to the Myriad Monster Realm, and Xiao Hua asked what that realm was.
• Zhang Qingxiao showed Xiao Hua how spatial veins connected realms, how most intersections formed deadly fracture points, and how overlapping veins created passages.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that the spatial veins linking the Demon Realm and Xiaoyu Continent fluctuated, forming passages through which demons could invade about once every thousand years.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Yu Family had come to Xiaoyu Continent to seek the entrance to the Yi Ze Realm, while Zhang Qingxiao dismissed the matter and waited for news from Xuntian City.
• After Zhang Qingxiao returned with a jade slip, he stared at Xiao Hua and asked who he really was, saying Xiao Hua had surprised him again.

Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao that the Small Pouch had caused the Sword Tomb’s destruction, and the two left aboard the Ink Jade Arrow Boat. At Thunder Control Sect, Shengyunzi advised Ganlei Zi to focus recruitment efforts near the Xi–Meng Kingdom border, where unusually many promising children had come from.

• Xiao Hua revealed his Golden Core cultivation and gave Zhang Qingxiao the Small Pouch to inspect, but Zhang Qingxiao could not identify it and said its power surpassed ten Spirit Severing Primordial Lights.
• Zhang Qingxiao took Xiao Hua aboard the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Ink Jade Arrow Boat and flew south from Xi Kingdom.
• Ganlei Zi questioned Dui Jie and Shengyunzi about recruitment, learning that lightning-element children were increasingly rare and the sect’s disciple population had fallen by at least twenty percent.
• Shengyunzi recommended recruiting fewer rogue cultivators and more disciples from cultivation clans, noting that clan recruits advanced unusually quickly.
• Shengyunzi reported that forty percent of recruited children came from the Xi–Meng Kingdom border and urged Ganlei Zi to send recruiters into that region and deeper into Meng Kingdom.

Ganlei Zi learned that the Thunder Control Sect’s forces at Xuntian City had suffered catastrophic losses in the Sword Tomb battle, despite winning the greatest military merit. As the survivors awaited their return, True Person Kuangtian arrived at the Great Thunder Hall.

• Ganlei Zi ordered Shengyunzi and Dui Jie to recruit more disciples in Meng Kingdom and criticized Dui Jie for not visiting Snowy Realm True Person in Xuntian City.
• Fairy Xuanhua and Fairy Yaofeng discussed Qian Mo’s role in the war, and Ganlei Zi explained that he had chosen Qian Mo to preserve the Thunder Control Sect’s disciples rather than lead an aggressive campaign.
• Qian Ping contacted Ganlei Zi and reported that the Sword Tomb battle had left only a little over ten thousand Thunder Control Sect disciples alive from nearly one hundred thousand committed to the war.
• Ganlei Zi agreed that the surviving disciples should return to their sects and promised to welcome and reward them at Qiong Lei Peak.
• True Person Kuangtian entered the Great Thunder Hall and bowed to Ganlei Zi and the Palace Masters.

Ganlei Zi explained that the Dao Sect leaders had sent disciples into a war they never intended to win, using the conflict to weaken powerful Cultivation families. He revealed that Qian Mo had been ordered to protect Thunder Control Sect's disciples, and the chapter ended with the sect's leaders grieving the loss of its blood-relative backbone.

• Ganlei Zi and the other Thunder Control Sect leaders mourned Qian Mo and praised Wuming's role in saving Dao Sect cultivators from the Sword Tomb.
• True Person Kuangtian reported that his search through four Thunder Palaces had not identified Wuming, while Ganlei Zi said the sect had lost sixty thousand disciples.
• Fairy Yaofeng questioned why Ganlei Zi had sent Qian Mo into battle, and Ganlei Zi sealed the Great Thunder Hall before revealing the war's purpose.
• Ganlei Zi explained that the sect leaders used the Great Sword Dao Battle to kill or curb Cultivation family disciples whose power had grown during the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration.
• Ganlei Zi said he had instructed Qian Mo to protect Thunder Control Sect's disciples, and the leaders realized that the sixty thousand dead included many of the sect's blood relatives and core strength.

After the Sword Dao Great Battle’s heavy losses, Ganlei Zi weighed the Thunder Control Sect’s position and decided to avoid drawing attention to Nameless while he entered seclusion. Xunyunzi then demanded that Ganlei Zi go to Xuntian City, leaving True Person Miyou and True Person Kuangtian to face the pressure.

• True Person Kuangtian explained that Nameless’s Lightning Evasion cultivation had been overestimated and argued that finding him could invite unwanted attention from rival sects.
• Ganlei Zi agreed that Nameless should be left to cultivate in peace, then ordered True Person Miyou and True Person Kuangtian to go to Xuntian City while he entered seclusion.
• Xunyunzi contacted True Person Miyou and questioned why Ganlei Zi had entered seclusion during the war’s emergency.
• True Person Miyou cited the Thunder Control Sect’s losses and offered to accompany Xunyunzi instead, while defending the sect against his accusations about Nameless.
• Xunyunzi insisted that Ganlei Zi must go to Xuntian City to uphold the Thunder Control Sect’s and Xi Kingdom’s dignity.

Ganlei Zi arranged Thunder Control Sect affairs before preparing to enter seclusion to pursue the late Nascent Soul stage. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua traveled with Zhang Qingxiao through the Heavenly Demon Sect’s hidden teleportation network toward Huanghua Ridge, where he tried to learn how its arrays were built.

• True Person Miyou and True Person Kuangtian discussed sending Thunder Control Sect disciples to Xuntian City with Xunyunzi, while Kuangtian pressed him for a congratulatory gift.
• After the communication ended, Ganlei Zi praised Kuangtian’s handling of Xunyunzi and ordered him to search for Nameless alongside Kan Sheng and investigate surviving disciples.
• Ganlei Zi told Fairy Xuanhua and the others he intended to enter seclusion and genuinely pursue the late Nascent Soul stage, while ordering them to protect the sect’s disciples.
• Ganlei Zi wondered whether Qinghuo and Xiao Hua had survived the war, and True Person Kuangtian reassured him that both were likely safe.
• Xiao Hua followed Zhang Qingxiao through several concealed teleportation arrays and realized how the Heavenly Demon Sect could travel quickly to Huanghua Ridge.
• Xiao Hua asked Zhang Qingxiao how the teleportation arrays were made, but Zhang Qingxiao refused to reveal the secret; Xiao Hua offered to share his knowledge of formations and mentioned the Great Universe Shifting Token.

Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Hua traveled toward Huanghua Ridge while discussing their formations and Xiao Hua’s cultivation. They reached the ridge’s patrol range, where Xiao Hua claimed to be visiting Jiang Fan, and Cao Ming reacted with alarm.

• Zhang Qingxiao refused to trade his Teleportation Array for Xiao Hua’s Duotian Star Array, explaining that the formation was vital to the Heavenly Demon Sect and could not be used by Daoist cultivators.
• Xiao Hua cultivated the Spirit Severing Primordial Light and worried that the lightning tribulation had made his Primordial Spirits increasingly independent.
• After more than ten days of travel, Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Hua arrived near Huanghua Ridge, where Zhang said he had arranged ways to protect the ridge without managing it directly.
• Zhang Qingxiao stopped outside the patrol range and showed Xiao Hua that Hundred Herbs Sect cultivators were guarding the area.
• Cao Ming questioned the two concealed Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Xiao Hua introduced himself as Xiao Ding of the Shanghua Sect and asked to visit Jiang Fan, alarming Cao Ming.

Xiao Hua questioned Hundred Herbs Sect disciples about Jiang Fan’s death, doubting that illness had killed him. After Zhang Qingxiao killed Fan Zhe, the two left the baffled disciples with medicinal pills and no explanation.

• Cao Ming told Xiao Hua that Jiang Fan and his family had died of a grave illness years earlier and that Xiao had rebuilt the Hundred Herbs Sect.
• Xiao Hua accused Cao Ming of hiding the truth and imprisoned him and the nearby disciples to force them to talk.
• Fan Zhe offered to reveal what he knew, denounced the Hundred Herbs Sect, and Xiao Hua threatened the other disciples for information.
• Zhang Qingxiao killed Fan Zhe with a flash of radiance, despite Xiao Hua’s attempt to intervene.
• Xiao Hua freed the remaining disciples, gave them medicinal pills, and departed with Zhang Qingxiao, leaving Cao Ming and the others confused.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao debated the test of Huanghua Ridge’s disciples before entering the restored sect grounds. As Xiao Hua sought out his Senior Sister and Jiang Liuer, Zhang Qingxiao discovered that Xiao Hua could use the Demon Realm’s Shadow Concealment Art.

• Cao Ming gathered the shaken disciples and led them to collect Fan Zhe’s remains, gaining insight into the importance of a clear conscience.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao argued over Fan Zhe’s death, Huanghua Ridge’s loyalty, and Zhang Qingxiao’s influence over the sect.
• Zhang Qingxiao opened the spell formation at Huanghua Ridge, and Xiao Hua reflected on the sect’s future as the birthplace of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Creation Sect.
• Xiao Hua apologized to Zhang Qingxiao after seeing Huanghua Ridge restored, then learned that his Senior Sister and Jiang Liuer were at the Xi Hua Peak Medicine Garden.
• Zhang Qingxiao used the Shadow Concealment Art, and he was astonished when Xiao Hua began using the same Demon Realm technique.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao debated whether Xiao Hua’s ability to use Shadow Concealment Art meant he came from the Demonic Realm, but Zhang Qingxiao left without resolving his origins. At Xihua Peak, they reunited with Xiao Xianrui and went to examine Jiang Liuer, who remained motionless inside the restriction.

• Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao he had learned Shadow Concealment Art without cultivating Blood Drop Cave Heaven, prompting Zhang Qingxiao to suspect he might have come from the Demonic Realm.
• Zhang Qingxiao grew wary of Xiao Hua, then rejected the idea that he was from the Demonic Realm because Xiao Hua possessed Buddhist techniques and sense before leaving for Xihua Peak.
• Xiao Hua reflected that he might have entered the Xiaoyu Continent through Demon Subduing Valley and followed Zhang Qingxiao to Xihua Peak using Shadow Concealment Art.
• At the medicinal garden, Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao saw the lively children tending the herbs, then approached the restriction around the place where Jiang Liuer had collapsed.
• Xiao Xianrui emerged and said Jiang Liuer’s condition had not changed for several months; Zhang Qingxiao asked Xiao Hua to examine him.
• Xiao Hua entered the restriction and found Jiang Liuer, now about ten years old, sitting motionless and pale.

Xiao Hua tried several Buddhist and soul techniques to awaken Jiang Liuer but failed, though his soul threads revealed how Green Seal characters could be spoken. He concluded that a Buddhist practitioner might be needed and hinted to Xiao Xianrui that he knew someone, leaving her asking whether that person led a Buddhist sect.

• Xiao Hua used the Buddha Sarira’s first two divine abilities on Jiang Liuer, but neither worked.
• The Sarira’s third ability, “Dou,” surrounded Jiang Liuer with golden light and entered his body without waking him.
• Xiao Hua examined Jiang Liuer’s soul, and his soul threads produced the syllable “Ji,” leading him to realize they could pronounce Green Seal characters.
• Xiao Hua found no other way to awaken Jiang Liuer and considered seeking help from Han Zhu, despite not wanting to become involved with the Buddhist Sect ruins.
• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui that another Buddhist might be able to help, and she asked whether he was a high-ranking sect leader.

Xiao Xianrui explained how Jiang Liuer had been unable to cultivate with any Daoist technique and had entered prolonged meditation after studying the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra. Xiao Hua blamed himself for Jiang Liuer’s dangerous condition and asked to examine the Heart Sutra and Zhang Qingxiao’s jade slip.

• Xiao Xianrui recounted how Jiang Liuer had understood Qi Cultivation techniques but could not produce true qi with any of the five elemental methods, despite years of effort.
• After Jiang Liuer accepted that he might never cultivate, Zhang Qingxiao sent him the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which Xiao Xianrui copied out for him to study.
• Jiang Liuer read the Heart Sutra diligently, and Xiao Xianrui saw his gloom fade as he grew eager to pursue cultivation.
• When Jiang Liuer appeared to faint in the medicine garden, Xiao Xianrui recognized his meditative posture, protected him with an array, and watched over him as he remained in meditation for weeks and grew thinner.
• Xiao Hua apologized for giving Jiang Liuer the Heart Sutra and vowed to awaken him, while Xiao Xianrui shared the blame and Xiao Hua asked to see the text and Zhang Qingxiao’s jade slip.

Xiao Hua examined the Heart Sutra and Xiao Xianrui’s transcription but found no way to awaken Jiang Liuer, so he planned to take him to seek a Buddhist expert. Xiao Xianrui accepted that she had burdened her son with overprotective love and entrusted him to Xiao Hua, while Zhang Qingxiao began using Jiang Liuer’s blood essence for an unknown purpose.

• Xiao Hua confirmed Zhang Qingxiao’s Heart Sutra transcription and examined the Silk Brocade Xiao Xianrui had copied from Jiang Liuer, finding no errors or clues.
• Xiao Hua explained that Jiang Liuer was in an unusual meditative state and proposed taking him away to seek help from a Buddhist expert.
• Xiao Xianrui offered to leave with Jiang Liuer, but Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao urged her to remain at Huanghua Ridge and let her son follow his own path.
• Xiao Xianrui acknowledged that her anxious devotion had placed too much pressure on Jiang Liuer and entrusted him to Xiao Hua before leaving in tears.
• Zhang Qingxiao collected a drop of Jiang Liuer’s blood essence and began striking hand seals into it.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao left Huanghua Ridge with Jiang Liuer, while Xiao Xianrui stayed behind with her son’s Life Spirit Tablet and grieved their separation. On the way to the Lian Kingdom, Xiao Hua diverted to Qiong Lei Peak and arranged to meet Cui Hongshen, who arrived with Dui Qimeng.

• Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Xianrui a Life Spirit Tablet made from Jiang Liuer’s life essence, and Xiao Xianrui left the medicinal garden in tears.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao departed with Jiang Liuer aboard the Ink Jade Arrow Boat and discussed using a spirit storage pouch to carry him through teleportation arrays.
• Xiao Hua asked Zhang Qingxiao to take him to Qiong Lei Peak so he could contact Cui Hongshen, and Zhang Qingxiao arranged a meeting place.
• Xiao Hua waited at the mountain foot until Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng arrived, then greeted them.

Xiao Hua secretly met Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng, learned how Myriad Thunder Valley had grown during his absence, and heard updates about his master’s family and Xue Xue. He remained unable to return to Thunder Control Sect while the war continued, and warned that Xue Xue’s rapid cultivation might leave her Dao Foundation unstable.

• Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng explained that Myriad Thunder Valley had gained nearly twenty disciples and risen in standing within Zhen Thunder Palace.
• Cui Hongshen told Xiao Hua that Helpless had spent several years in death-seclusion attempting to form a Golden Core, while Xiangyang and Li'er had advanced in cultivation.
• Cui Hongshen revealed that Wu Qing and Yingying were the children of Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng, and invited Xiao Hua to return to Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Xiao Hua explained that he could not return to Thunder Control Sect because the Daoist cultivator war was still ongoing.
• Dui Qimeng reported that Xue Xue had reached the peak of mid Foundation Establishment, and Xiao Hua urged her to caution Xue Xue about advancing too quickly.

Xiao Hua reunited with Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng, gave them spoils and gifts for their family, and left after discussing the sect’s campaign and their disciple Li’er. As Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng examined the abundant treasures, Zhenming Luan, Palace Master of Shuo Lei Hall, arrived.

• Cui Hongshen asked Xiao Hua about his return, and Xiao Hua learned that True Person Miyou and True Person Kuangtian had led reinforcements to Xuntian City while the Sect Leader cultivated in seclusion.
• Xiao Hua gave Cui Hongshen storage pouches of battle spoils for Myriad Thunder Valley and gave Dui Qimeng separate pouches with gifts for Wu Qing and Cui Yingying.
• Xiao Hua departed, and Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng discussed his mysterious cultivation and how he had helped Li’er advance.
• Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng discovered that Xiao Hua’s storage pouches held large quantities of spirit herbs, flying swords, jade slips, and magical artifacts.
• A Golden Core divine sense swept over the couple, and Zhenming Luan arrived; Cui Hongshen respectfully greeted the Palace Master of Shuo Lei Hall.

Dui Qimeng helped Cui Hongshen curry favor with Zhenming Luan by presenting her with a valuable flying sword, easing Cui’s difficulties in Shuo Lei Hall. After leaving Qiong Lei Peak, Xiao Hua worried about Xue Xue’s reckless cultivation, unaware that Xiang Zhili’s matter had also fallen to him.

• Zhenming Luan told Cui Hongshen that his spirit stone allocation plan needed further adjustment and asked him to discuss it at Shuo Lei Hall the next afternoon.
• Dui Qimeng presented Zhenming Luan with a Bright Sword Swordsman’s lightning-infused flying sword, which Zhenming accepted for Zhen Ling’s disciple.
• Zhenming Luan praised Cui Hongshen’s leadership and prospects before leaving with the flying sword.
• Dui Qimeng told Cui Hongshen that Senior Brother had supplied the gift and other resources to help them manage relationships in Zhen Thunder Palace.
• Xiao Hua left Qiong Lei Peak reassured that Myriad Thunder Valley was safe, then worried about Xue Xue’s risky cultivation and failed to notice Xiang Zhili’s matter had been placed on his shoulders.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao traveled toward a Teleportation Array while secretly bringing Jiang Liuer along, and Xiao Hua continued studying the Spirit Severing Primordial Light. The chapter left Zhang Qingxiao vanished on an unexplained errand as Xiao Hua sensed a faint new disturbance from the Primordial Spirit in his space.

• Xiao Hua guessed that Xue Xue was trying to improve her cultivation because she compared herself with Fairy Hongxia, and he planned to arrange for the two women to meet.
• Zhang Qingxiao warned Xiao Hua to stabilize his newly formed Golden Core with Clear Li Pills and questioned how they would transport Jiang Liuer safely.
• Xiao Hua pretended to put Jiang Liuer in a spirit beast bag but secretly moved him into his space, where Jiang Liuer remained unconscious and his eyes faintly shifted.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao traveled through Teleportation Arrays for more than a dozen days, with Zhang Qingxiao insisting on checking Jiang Liuer after each passage.
• Zhang Qingxiao examined strange black qi and runes, then vanished after telling Xiao Hua to wait while Xiao Hua studied the Spirit Severing Primordial Light and sensed a faint message from his Primordial Spirit.

Xiao Hua discovered that the lightning tribulation had transformed his Primordial Spirits and helped Little White Dragon advance into Spirit Cleansing Heaven. Zhang Qingxiao then reported that nearly half the sect leaders had stayed behind, disrupting his plan to establish the Heavenly Demon Sect.

• Xiao Hua found that one Primordial Spirit had solidified into a faint human shape and begun comprehending the Nascent Soul Sword Control Technique while cultivating a medicinal field.
• Xiao Hua realized that Little White Dragon and another Primordial Spirit had advanced from Qi Heaven into Spirit Cleansing Heaven, where soul threads produced sounds he recognized as Green Seal Script.
• Xiao Hua found Little White Dragon dancing beside the emerald core of the Primordial Spirit and sent Morning Evening Moons into Spirit Cleansing Heaven to illuminate it.
• Zhang Qingxiao asked whether Ganlei Zi had gone to Xuntian City, and Xiao Hua said he only knew that Ganlei Zi was reportedly in seclusion.
• Zhang Qingxiao told Xiao Hua that nearly half the sect leaders had stayed behind, ruining his plan to raise the Heavenly Demon Sect's banner while they were away.