Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua’s Bone Flying Boat struggled against the Blood Sea’s suppression until he spotted a teleportation tunnel on a Bone Reef and led the group through it. Elsewhere, Du Peng weighed betraying Zhang Jie but held back, and she demanded a way out of the Blood Sea space.

• The Bone Flying Boat began falling toward the Blood Sea as Zhang Qi’s magic power ran low, and the group’s added power only intensified the suppressive force.
• Xiao Hua spotted a vortex-shaped Black Demon Path on a nearby Bone Reef, and Shui Chong steered the boat into it just before it fell into the sea.
• After passing through the tunnel, Xiao Hua was stunned by the scene before him.
• Du Peng considered attacking Zhang Jie as she emerged from the Black Demon Path but retreated when the path began collapsing.
• The Blood Sea’s suppression battered Zhang Jie, but she broke free and warned Du Peng not to plot against her.
• Zhang Jie asked how to leave the Blood Sea space, and Du Peng explained that they had to cross the Blood Sea’s attacks and enter another Black Demon Path.

Zhang Jie and Du Peng crossed the array barrier into the true Blood Sea, where Xiao Hua and the surviving cultivators gathered. As Du Peng’s group formed a demonic array and plunged into the blood sea, Zhang Jie warned that the crossing would be far more dangerous than he expected.

• Zhang Jie dismissed the blood sea’s attacks, and she and Du Peng passed through the Black Demon Path to reach the true Blood Sea.
• Xiao Hua realized the first blood sea had been an array layer, reunited with Fellow Daoist Bai, and learned that fewer than thirty percent of the cultivators remained.
• Xiao Hua saw that Zhang Jie was being corrupted and promised to kill her if she fell into sin, while Zhang Jie warned that she might destroy the Lost Land.
• Du Peng ordered the surviving groups to form a bone demonic array, which withstood the array’s suppression force.
• Zhang Jie warned that stronger forces would provoke greater suppression, and a bloody wave attacked as the demonic array transformed into a bone bird and plunged into the sea.

Xiao Hua and the others discovered that the Blood Sea was actually the Buddhist Land’s Sea of Suffering, sealed by Mount Sumeru, which unleashed devastating Buddhist light against the cultivators. As Xiao Hua tried to save Ji Yu and Ye Yun, Mount Sumeru focused its suppression on him, allowing Zhang Jie to escape across the Blood Sea with Du Peng.

• Zhang Jie revealed her familiarity with Buddhist formation seals just before the Blood Sea’s illusion exposed it as the Sea of Suffering, and Mount Sumeru appeared above the Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Mount Sumeru’s Buddhist light shattered the bone bird formation, destroyed demonic cultivators and condemned Nascent Soul cultivators, while Zhang Jie shielded Du Peng with her wings.
• Bai Fei used mysterious white wings to protect himself, abandoned Ye Yun, and fled as she fell beneath the Buddhist light.
• Ji Yu tried to save Ye Yun, but his arm shattered and the two lovers could only call to each other as they fell toward the Blood Sea.
• Xiao Hua enlarged his shaman body and seized Ji Yu and Ye Yun, provoking Mount Sumeru to imprison the Blood Sea with its full force.
• Zhang Jie used the moment Mount Sumeru concentrated on Xiao Hua to seize Du Peng and race toward the Other Shore.

Xiao Hua tried to escape Mount Sumeru’s seal while carrying Ji Yu and Ye Yun, but his Light Escape and lightning escape failed. He unleashed the crystal skull’s bloodline power and vanished in the Blood Sea as Mount Sumeru crushed everything below; Yu Meiren then fled through a Black Demon Path.

• Zhang Jie knocked Bai Fei across the Blood Sea and escaped with him and Du Peng through a Black Demon Path that collapsed behind them.
• Xiao Hua used Nan Yuan Bei Zhe and then Light Escape, but Mount Sumeru’s sealing power blocked both attempts while he held Ji Yu and Ye Yun.
• Xiao Hua tried to flee with Three Corpse Yin Thunder, but the seal stopped him after only a few feet.
• Xiao Hua sent his remaining Three Corpse Yin Thunder into the Witch King Order, and the crystal skull released a bloodline force that briefly blocked Mount Sumeru and concealed him in the Blood Sea.
• Mount Sumeru crushed the Bone Flying Boat and everything beneath it, while Yu Meiren reached the Blood Sea’s edge and escaped through a Black Demon Path as it collapsed.

Xiao Hua was dragged beneath Mount Sumeru into the Eighteen Layers of Hell, where he met the Witch King, imprisoned there in his physical body. The Witch King planned to spend his soul power sending Xiao Hua out and passing the Witch King position to him, but Xiao Hua questioned why he had been chosen.

• The Witch King Order released bloodline power that briefly held back Mount Sumeru before a netherworld force pulled Xiao Hua to the bottom of the Bitter Sea.
• Xiao Hua fell through visions of the Eighteen Layers of Hell and arrived in Volcano Hell, where the Witch King revealed himself and ended the illusion.
• The Witch King explained that his soul image remained at Witch God Ridge while his witch body had been imprisoned beneath Mount Sumeru.
• The Witch King told Xiao Hua that Zi Ming was well and offered to use his soul power to send Xiao Hua out of the prison.
• Xiao Hua objected that the Wumeng Mountain Range would lose its Witch King and offered to help free him, but the Witch King said escape was beyond Xiao Hua's power.
• The Witch King revealed that he had summoned Xiao Hua to pass on his position and offered to delay Xiao Hua's ascension for ten thousand years; Xiao Hua questioned the choice, and the Witch King said Zi Ming's yin constitution disqualified her.

Xiao Hua challenged the Witch King’s understanding of human nature and exposed him as the Array Spirit, which then sent Xiao Hua into a desire-filled sea of fire beneath Mount Sumeru. There, Xiao Hua encountered Ziming, who appeared real but stared at him without recognition.

• The Witch King proposed that Xiao Hua and Ziming’s child inherit the Witch King’s position, and Xiao Hua rejected the idea while explaining human nature.
• Xiao Hua realized the Witch King was the Array Spirit because he lacked human nature, and he refused to take the Witch King’s position.
• The Array Spirit revealed that Shi was beneath Mount Sumeru and dropped Xiao Hua into a sea of flames.
• The flames conjured scenes of desire, and Ji Yu and Ye Yun escaped Xiao Hua’s grasp and began coupling.
• Xiao Hua moved away from Ji Yu and Ye Yun and found Ziming, who looked real but showed no recognition or emotion.

Jiu Xia’s encounter with Xiao Hua unleashed profound Heaven and Earth Laws and lightning tribulation, which the array spirit suppressed while agreeing to trust her explanation that it could still attain humanity. After Xiao Hua remained unconscious, Jiu Xia revealed that the unexpected events had also changed the plan for Million Meng Mountain’s next Shaman King and asked Ziming to take her place beside him.

• Xiao Hua was overcome by the Six Heavens of Desire while Mount Sumeru kept him from leaving, and the resulting union with Ziming brought forth Jiu Xia’s form and profound Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Lightning tribulation gathered around Xiao Hua and Jiu Xia, but the array spirit sealed it temporarily and listened as Jiu Xia argued that the laws could eventually help it gain humanity.
• The array spirit blasted away the lightning tribulation and left Xiao Hua suppressed, warning Jiu Xia that it would punish Shi if she deceived it.
• While Xiao Hua remained unconscious, Jiu Xia reflected that he had unexpectedly fulfilled her long-held wish and realized that he was connected to Million Meng Mountain’s coming Shaman King.
• Jiu Xia brought Ziming out of the flames, explained that the Shaman King needed a source, and persuaded her to take her place; Ziming agreed.

Xiao Hua awoke beside Ziming and learned that the being before him was the true Witch King Shi, not the Buddhist array spirit. The Witch King explained how Ziming had reached Witch God Ridge and revealed that Xiao Hua could leave, but he withheld an important matter to discuss before sending Xiao Hua away.

• Jiu Xia kissed Xiao Hua, then hid in the flames while Ziming and Xiao Hua were left together.
• Xiao Hua awoke and reassured Ziming, who thanked him on behalf of Million Meng Mountain’s people.
• The human-faced, dragon-tailed being revealed that he was Witch King Shi, whose true body remained beneath the Buddhist array.
• Witch King Shi explained that he had arranged for Ziming to come to Witch God Ridge in hopes she would find the next Witch King, and said he could guide Xiao Hua out.
• Witch King Shi briefly blocked the array spirit’s spying and said he had an important matter to discuss before sending Xiao Hua away.
• Xiao Hua asked whether the place was the Sixteenth Level of Hell, and Witch King Shi said it was if the space above was the Fifteenth Level.

Xiao Hua spoke with the Witch King about the Buddhist formation imprisoning him and learned how it suppressed the Soul Cultivators’ inheritance. After Ziming reunited with Xiao Hua, he revealed that he intended to use the Soul Falling Lamp to revive Ziye.

• Xiao Hua and the Witch King identified Stone Mill Hell above them and Saw Hell below, where seals blocked the way out.
• The Witch King explained that the Buddhist formation suppressed the Soul Cultivators’ inheritance, though he knew little about the wider continents or the formation’s origins.
• The Witch King told Xiao Hua that Ji Yu and Ye Yun were safe but temporarily confined while they cultivated.
• Ziming told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia had reassured her with the verse, “Only in the mortal world, where shallow fate knows no place!”
• Xiao Hua asked the Witch King to have Houtu Village’s Elder Wu bring out the Soul Falling Lamp, then told Ziming he would use it to make up for Ziye’s death.

Xiao Hua and Ziming discussed his future help connecting Million Meng Mountain’s soul cultivators with the Daoist sects before the Witch King revealed how the next Witch King was found. The Witch King began explaining that the first use of the Divine Connection Technique could reveal the next heir with certainty.

• Ziming accepted responsibility for linking the soul cultivators with the Daoist sects and asked Xiao Hua to help; he promised to send the Creation Sect Master.
• Ziming told Xiao Hua that a Xiaoyu Continent alliance called the Creation Sect had formed to worship him, surprising him with its existence.
• The Witch King used essence blood and green seal characters to conceal his conversation from the array spirit’s surveillance.
• Xiao Hua questioned why the next Witch King’s birth involved him, and the Witch King began describing the origins and succession of the Witch Kings.
• The Witch King explained that every successor cultivated the Divine Connection Technique and used its first successful application to seek the next Witch King, whose resulting information would be true.

The Witch King explained how his Divine Connection Technique traced the next Witch King to Xiao Hua and Ziming, and why he took their unborn child to keep it from being born under the Buddhist formation. Xiao Hua realized he could not decide his child’s fate and asked what the Witch King still wanted from him.

• The Witch King recounted that his first Divine Connection Technique gave contradictory predictions about where the next Witch King would be born, and later attempts placed the child near Houtu Village and Witch God Ridge.
• The Witch King said his repeated use of the technique weakened his witch body, while Xiao Hua suspected the Buddhist Kingdom’s suppression was responsible.
• The Witch King explained that he eventually identified Xiao Hua and Ziming as the parents of the next Witch King, and that he had placed their newly conceived child inside the dragon scale.
• The Witch King said he wanted the child born on Yilin Continent rather than inside the Buddhist formation, but the array spirit would not let Ziming leave while she carried the child.
• Xiao Hua recognized that he could not control his child’s fate and asked the Witch King what remained for them to discuss.

Xiao Hua agreed to become the source of the new Witch King's bloodline and named Zi Ming's child Ming. The Witch King sent Xiao Hua, Ji Yu, and Ye Yun out of the suppressed space, while Zi Ming remained behind and the formation spirit refused to release her.

• Xiao Hua accepted the fate of becoming the source of the new Witch King's bloodline, and the Witch King thanked him on behalf of Million Meng Mountain.
• Xiao Hua chose the witch title Ming for Zi Ming's child and gave the Witch King a jade bottle marked with Xiao and a spirit storage pouch containing a Feathered Sky Beast.
• Zi Ming embraced Xiao Hua and told him they would be together forever, while the Witch King warned that she might not come out.
• The Witch King opened a fissure and distracted the formation spirit with talk of names as Xiao Hua carried Ji Yu and Ye Yun through it and teleported toward Million Meng Mountain.
• The formation spirit refused to let Zi Ming leave until the new Witch King appeared.

Witch King Shi tried to interfere with reincarnation to help bring about the new Witch King, Ming, but sacrificed his soul when the array spirit’s Bitter Sea power threatened to stop him. Ziming remained trapped as the Netherworld Lotus closed and the array spirit vanished.

• The array spirit refused to release Ziming until it saw the new Witch King, while Shi apologized for keeping her there and Ziming accepted her part in the arrangement.
• Shi spent ten days studying how the array spirit had intercepted his Witch King Order and searching for a way to restrain the Bitter Sea.
• Shi used his dragon scale and blood essence to summon the Netherworld Lotus, but the array spirit’s Bitter Sea and Buddhist light blocked the ritual.
• Shi broke through the array spirit’s defenses, entered the turning wheel, and scattered his soul to open a path for the Netherworld Lotus to close.
• As Shi’s soul faded, he said the new Witch King Ming had been conceived there and that Great God Houtu’s blessing would determine where Ming appeared in human form.
• Ziming asked whether she could leave, but the array spirit disappeared without answering.

Xiao Hua returned to Xiaoyu Continent and began organizing his companions to investigate the immortal formation and retrieve what they needed to break it. After sending several allies on separate missions, he reconsidered Huang Tong’s offer to rescue Empress Xie Yuan and stopped him from going.

• Xiao Hua returned to Xiaoyu Continent, calmed the Heaven and Earth Laws, and discussed how to investigate the immortal formation with his companions.
• Xiao Hua sent Feng Wu to Taiqing Sect and Thunderclap True Person to Mingxi, but they discovered that spatial fault lines made travel across Xiaoyu Continent difficult.
• Xiao Hua summoned Demon Venerable Slayer and ordered him to investigate the immortal formation with Feng Wu while concealing his demonic appearance.
• Xiao Hua explained to Huang Tong why Maitreya Buddha World Honored One had to remain in reserve, then asked Huang Tong to rescue Empress Xie Yuan with Dai Er and Yuan Ya.
• Xiao Hua changed his mind and told Huang Tong that he could not go on the rescue mission.

Xiao Hua waited ten days for Zi Ming to emerge from the sealed space, but she never appeared, and the Witch King’s departure brought a Heaven and Earth Sacrifice that plunged Million Meng Mountain into mourning. He set out for Houtu Village to fulfill his promise to Zi Ming, then sensed a new threat and teleported toward it in fury.

• Xiao Hua insisted on waiting ten days for Zi Ming despite Huang Tong urging him to leave, but she did not emerge.
• Wu Daoist sensed a new Witch King’s appearance, and the Witch King’s departure triggered a celestial sacrifice that darkened Million Meng Mountain.
• Xiao Hua decided to travel to Houtu Village and fulfill his promise to Zi Ming, while reflecting with Huang Tong and Wu Daoist on the Witch Kings’ sacrifices and convictions.
• Wu Daoist reassured Xiao Hua that Witch King Ming might eventually free Zi Ming, and Xiao Hua resolved to leave Witch King Ming some surprises.
• Xiao Hua detected something with his divine sense, roared in anger, and teleported toward it as Huang Tong and Wu Daoist followed.

Jiu Xia was ambushed by a snow wolf sent by the Snow Wolf King and was gravely wounded while trying to escape. Xiao Hua arrived, defeated the snow wolf, and paused before killing her when Jiu Xia asked him to spare her for the sake of her child.

• Jiu Xia flew back toward the Buddhist formation seal but was trapped above an abyss by fiery chains and a Wolf Totem.
• The snow wolf revealed that the Snow Wolf King had sent her to capture Jiu Xia, then pierced Jiu Xia’s collarbone with a chain after breaking her illusions.
• Xiao Hua arrived, shattered the Wolf Totem, and imprisoned the snow wolf with his divine power.
• The snow wolf recognized Xiao Hua and begged for her life, while Jiu Xia also asked him to spare her because she had left behind a child near Liuyun Lake.
• Xiao Hua questioned whether Jiu Xia truly wanted him to spare a snow wolf from the Myriad Monster Realm.

Xiao Hua rescued Jiu Xia from Snow Wolf and returned Qingqiu Mountain’s lineage inheritance to her. After Jiu Xia asked to study the Sacred Jade, Xiao Hua hesitated because he was about to ascend, while she hoped it would let her find him in the Immortal Realm.

• Jiu Xia explained that Snow Wolf had caught her weakened and revealed that Xiao Hua’s killing of the Snow Wolf King had fulfilled her request.
• Xiao Hua removed the fiery chains from Jiu Xia and gave her Demon Race pills to heal.
• Xiao Hua spared Snow Wolf from death, learned she had crossed the Netherworld Blood Sea with an immortal talisman, and ordered Huang Tong to imprison her.
• Xiao Hua used the Duotian Star Array to protect the transfer of Qingqiu Mountain’s lineage inheritance into Jiu Xia’s mind.
• Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua that her soul-beast partner had perished and that she wanted to raise their child; she then asked to study the Sacred Jade.
• Xiao Hua hesitated to hand over the Sacred Jade because he was about to ascend, but Jiu Xia said it could help her find him in the Immortal Realm.

Xiao Hua reunited with Jiu Xia and helped her comprehend Qingqiu Mountain’s inheritance through the Sacred Jade, while gaining insights himself. He asked her to help investigate the immortal array threatening the Three Great Continents, and she urged him to settle matters with Fairy Hongxia and tell her everything about Princess Zixia.

• Xiao Hua gave Jiu Xia the Nine-tailed Fox Sacred Jade, and she transformed into her nine-tailed true form to comprehend its inheritance while he studied her changes.
• Jiu Xia returned the Sacred Jade to Xiao Hua and told him to keep its secrets, then admitted she knew nothing about how Fairy Hongxia was doing.
• Xiao Hua explained the crisis facing the Three Great Continents, and Jiu Xia agreed to seek records about the immortal array among the sword cultivators.
• Xiao Hua gave Jiu Xia storage rings, an Immortal Peach, and a blood pearl containing a Nine-tailed Fox bloodline, which moved her deeply.
• Jiu Xia saw through Xiao Hua’s feelings about Princess Zixia and advised him to resolve the Three Great Continents’ crisis before telling Fairy Hongxia the truth.

Xiao Hua let Jiu Xia decide Hu Qiong’s fate after revealing that the Fox Clan demon was really her old enemy. Jiu Xia spared Hu Qiong to preserve Qingqiu Mountain’s bloodline, but Xiao Hua bound him with a powerful soul restriction, leaving him to serve her and prove his loyalty.

• Xiao Hua urged Jiu Xia to fuse the Nine-tailed Fox bloodline later, once her weakened body had recovered.
• Xiao Hua released Hu Mo from a spirit storage pouch, and Jiu Xia recognized him as Hu Qiong, who had once coerced and pursued her and exposed Qingqiu Mountain’s secrets.
• Hu Qiong argued that he had acted under the Snow Wolf King’s orders and accused Jiu Xia of revealing Qingqiu Mountain’s secrets as well.
• Jiu Xia chose to spare Hu Qiong because Qingqiu Mountain needed both his bloodline and his assistance, but she required a restriction on him.
• Xiao Hua used his soul-seizing technique to bind Hu Qiong, and Jiu Xia told him the restriction would remain a test of his loyalty to Qingqiu Mountain.

Xiao Hua returned to Xiaoyu Continent and prepared to settle old grievances, choosing to personally act to revive Ziming for the sake of their child. At Houtu Village, a Prayer Ritual was underway as Ji Qing questioned Ruo Hong about how long it would last.

• Jiu Xia took Hu Qiong away from Xiao Hua, and Hu Qiong gave her the Fox Clan’s inherited demon artifact and clues to the entrance to the Yi Ze Realm.
• Huang Tong revealed that he had hidden the Snow Wolf where she might eventually be discovered and escape, while Xiao Hua said he would personally try to revive Ziming.
• Xiao Hua resolved to return to the Thunder Control Sect and settle his past grievances, then entered Houtu Village amid heavy rain.
• Xiao Hua saw the villagers gathered around the Great God Houtu statue during a Prayer Ritual, whose two sides showed contrasting signs of power and decay.
• Ji Qing asked Ruo Hong how long a Prayer Ritual usually lasted, but Ruo Hong said he did not know and had not read his village’s witch canon.