Chapter Summaries

Xue Sheng, Ye Gu Xing, and Zhuang Hong discovered that the apparent battle around Xuntian City concealed Creation Sect reinforcements and overwhelming allies, while Xiao Hua confronted the strange Four Spirits Blood Curse formation. Xiao Hua pinned the formation’s center with Spirit Severing Primordial Light, causing it to descend from the void and unleash devastating waves across the battlefield.

• Xue Sheng fled the South Gate after Feng Wu and Yuan Ya revealed the Creation Sect’s strength, then met Ye Gu Xing and Zhuang Hong near the East Gate.
• Xue Sheng told Ye Gu Xing and Zhuang Hong that Zhong Haoran, Fei Yunshu, and Zhong Zhan had been rescued by a powerful Daoist cultivator, and identified the rear forces as reinforcements and a hidden Creation Sect reserve.
• A terrifying Daoist cultivator blocked Senior Ling Jian’s approach, and Xue Sheng led Ye Gu Xing and Zhuang Hong to the North Gate, where they discovered four enormous crystals and a concealed formation.
• Xiao Hua asked Feng Wu and Huang Tong to protect Li Zongbao and the others while he dealt with the Four Spirits Blood Curse.
• Xiao Hua sent his sword gourd to the formation’s center and pinned it with Spirit Severing Primordial Light, making the crystals grow heavy as the formation descended and violent waves shook the battlefield.

The Four Spirits Blood Curse emerged near Xuntian City, destroying its sword formation and stirring black qi beneath the Sword Tomb. As Xiao Hua waited for the curse to stabilize, an ancient Confucian cultivator awakened and headed toward the city, while the Creation Sect’s forces routed Qin Jing and Yang Ji’s troops.

• The Four Spirits Blood Curse shattered Xuntian City's sword formation, and its aura shook the land and drew black qi from the four abysses.
• A Confucian cultivator formed from the black qi beneath the Sword Tomb, recognized Xiao Hua's actions, and flew toward Xuntian City.
• Qin Jing and Yang Ji abandoned their attack on Zhong Haoran's disciples to face the advancing Creation Sect forces led by Xiong Yi and Li Xiang.
• Creation Sect fighters overwhelmed the opposing forces, and Qin Jing struggled against a Nascent Soul cultivator who rescued a Foundation Establishment disciple.
• Yuan Ya intercepted Zuo Ming, shattered his sword-transformed left arm, and forced him to stop with a spear at his brow.

Xiao Hua’s allies arrived in force, ending the fighting around Xuntian City as the opposing sects surrendered or withdrew. Xiao Hua then used the Four Spirits Blood Curse’s recovered essence and a forbidden soul art to restore Fairy Hongxia, but she had not yet awakened when the chapter ended.

• Xuan Jing and the leaders of several sects from Xi Kingdom and Meng Kingdom arrived to support Xiao Hua, followed by Zhang Qingxiao and the Thirteen Heavenly Demon Sects.
• Xiong Yi ordered the defeated cultivators to surrender and join Creation Sect to avoid execution, while Xuntian City’s disciples retreated inside the city.
• Xiang Zhili sent Zhong Haoran, Zhong Zhan, and Fei Yunshu to manage Creation Sect’s forces as Xiao Hua appeared in his Lightning Dharma Body and told the allied sects to wait.
• Xiao Hua began restoring Fairy Hongxia by drawing the bloodline essence back into her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body, with Feng Wu helping through the sword gourd.
• Xiao Hua used a soul art to merge the Ice Phoenix Dharma Body into Fairy Hongxia, then gently touched her forehead, but she remained unconscious.

Xiao Hua reunited with Fairy Hongxia after rescuing her from Yu Tong and Ye Xixiang, then helped her reunite with Cai Zhuoxia. As he revived Huang Mengxiang, her affection for him stirred Fairy Hongxia’s jealousy, leaving Xiao Hua caught between them.

• Xiao Hua awakened Fairy Hongxia, who embraced and kissed him before realizing he had returned, then tearfully asked why he had been gone for seven hundred years.
• Xiao Hua explained that Yu Tong and Ye Xixiang were dead, the Cai Family disciples had perished, and he would save Xiao Mao after rescuing her.
• Xiao Hua brought Fairy Hongxia out to meet Cai Zhuoxia, and the sisters reunited in tears while Cai Zhuoxia explained that Xiao Hua had restored her to life.
• Xiao Hua revived Huang Mengxiang, who kissed his cheek and openly declared that she wanted to become his Dao companion.
• Fairy Hongxia watched Huang Mengxiang’s advances and admitted that she had seen everything, while Xiao Hua tried to push Huang Mengxiang away.

Xiao Hua struggled to reverse the collapsing Four Spirits Blood Curse and push the Silver Tiger crystal across its yin-yang boundary without triggering his ascension or endangering the Three Great Continents. As the crystal stalled at the boundary and his arms sank into it, he realized there might be another way to save Xiao Mao and the drought demon.

• Huang Mengxiang told Xiao Hua she would marry no one but him, while Fairy Hongxia ignored him and remained angry.
• After Huang Mengxiang was rescued, the Four Spirits Blood Curse rapidly collapsed, threatening the remaining crystals and the people sealed inside them.
• Xiao Hua used his silver-lit arms to hold the two crystals as lightning and immortal spiritual aura swept through the battlefield, forcing Huang Tong and Feng Wu to carry everyone away.
• Xiao Hua pushed the Silver Tiger crystal toward the other side of the blood curse, using Lightning Evasion to overcome the opposing forces.
• At the yin-yang boundary, the crystal stopped and Xiao Hua’s arms sank into it; he withdrew them and suddenly realized a possible way forward.

Xiao Hua stabilized the remaining Flame Dragon and Silver Tiger crystals into a Two Spirits Blood Curse and began reversing it to free the cultivators trapped within. After a mysterious voice claimed the released cultivators as sacrificial offerings, a series of distant blasts revealed a vast Imperial Formation spreading across the snowfield.

• Xiao Hua used Feng Wu’s Spirit Severing Primordial Light to divide the crystals’ powers into yin and yang and form the Two Spirits Blood Curse.
• Xiao Hua began releasing the cultivators within the crystals, but a dozen blood-red crystal specks escaped into the earth as a strange voice threatened to make them sacrificial offerings.
• Feng Wu and Huang Tong searched for the hidden speaker, while Xiao Hua sensed faint demonic qi, sword qi, and traces of the blood curse but found no one.
• After a distant explosion, Xiao Hua sent Yuan Ya and the Black Bear Spirit to protect Fairy Hongxia, Zhang Qingxiao, and the others.
• Further blasts erupted around the snowfield and forced Xiao Hua out of teleportation; he saw an enormous execution pillar drawing in Vast Righteous Qi and recognized the spreading black-and-yellow phenomenon as an Imperial Formation.

Xiao Hua recognized the punishment formation as the work of the Book Immortal who had wounded Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue, and realized it was meant to harvest souls in a blood sacrifice. As the formation sealed the area, Xiao Hua fought the Book Immortal while Feng Wu and Huang Tong tried to reach the trapped disciples.

• Feng Wu recognized the voice as speaking the language of Confucian cultivators from Cangxian Continent, and Xiao Hua suspected the Book Immortal had fallen into Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua and Huang Tong concluded that the Book Immortal had prepared the formation to carry out a blood sacrifice during the Great Sword Dao Battle, and Xiao Hua gave Feng Wu the Kunlun Mirror to evacuate the disciples.
• The punishment formation blocked Feng Wu’s spatial escape, and the Book Immortal revealed himself and declared that no one could escape.
• Xiao Hua distracted the Book Immortal and struck him with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, then shattered a punishment chain with his golden body.
• The Book Immortal realized Xiao Hua came from another realm, noticed the Kunlun Mirror, and transformed his robes into armor before attacking Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua enlarged his golden body and met the Book Immortal’s fists head-on.

Feng Wu and Huang Tong fought the Book Immortals as punishment-inscription chains engulfed the cultivators near Xuntian City. Wu Daoist arrived to counter the Six Arts incarnations, and the chapter left him striking the flute-wielding Book Immortal between the brows with the Ya Brush.

• Feng Wu flew over the Punishment Formation with Huang Tong and used the Kunlun Mirror to rally the Creation Sect disciples.
• A flute-wielding Book Immortal attacked Feng Wu for the Kunlun Mirror, and Huang Tong engaged him with spatial and demonic powers.
• The Book Immortal summoned generals formed from the Five Tones to encircle Huang Tong, but Wu Daoist appeared and shattered them with divine chants.
• An archer Book Immortal attacked Huang Tong with a bone arrow, and Huang Tong dispelled it with demonic Qi.
• Huang Tong recognized the Book Immortals as Six Arts incarnations, while Wu Daoist used the Ya Brush to destroy the flute-wielding Book Immortal's generals and strike his forehead.

Xiao Hua and his allies discovered that the Book Immortal’s Five Qi clones could reform as long as their true qi survived, making the Penal Formation the real obstacle. As the formation strengthened again, its Law-Binding Chains began slaughtering the Xiaoyu Continent disciples trapped inside.

• Wu Daoist recognized that a vanished strand of blood-patterned true qi was one of the Book Immortal’s Five Qi, and Xiao Hua used the Way of Life and Death to destroy another clone’s shell.
• Feng Wu battled a mounted Book Immortal while a concealed sword-clad Book Immortal attacked him from behind.
• The mounted Book Immortal transformed into a centaur and struck Feng Wu down, but Thunderclap True Person arrived and destroyed its shell with a lightning sword.
• Thunderclap True Person defeated the sword-clad Book Immortal, but its true qi escaped; Xiao Hua said they had to destroy the Penal Formation to end the Book Immortal’s near-indestructibility.
• The punitive pillars expanded after eighty-one thunderous blasts, strengthening the Law-Binding Chains as they began killing Creation Sect, sword cultivator, and Heavenly Demon Sect disciples.

Xiao Hua rallied the gathered sects and released his Creation Sect disciples to attack the dangerous punishment array. He learned that all eighty-one punishment pillars had to be toppled at the same time, leaving the battle poised for a coordinated assault.

• Xiao Hua urged the sects to unite against the punishment array, and their leaders agreed to follow his orders.
• As the punishment pillars unleashed enormous bamboo slips and changed the array’s laws, Xiao Hua summoned his Creation Sect disciples and sent them to protect people and break through in different directions.
• Xiao Hua offered Fairy Hongxia, Li Zongbao, and the others shelter inside the Kunlun Immortal Realm, but Hongxia and Li refused to leave the fight.
• Xiao Hua assigned Yuan Ya and the Black Bear Spirit to protect Hongxia, then sent a squad of Creation Sect disciples to escort the group north.
• Xiao Hua withdrew the Spirit Severing Primordial Light and stored the nearly condensed Flame Dragon Crystal in the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
• Demon Venerable Slayer explained that the punishment array depended on all eighty-one pillars and that they had to be toppled simultaneously.

Xiao Hua and his allies fought to break the Book Immortal’s punishment array after discovering how to destroy the Five Qi Clones’ hidden Primordial Spirits. The Book Immortal’s true form emerged as eighty-one incarnations and launched a final attack, which Xiao Hua met with the Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array.

• Demon Venerable Slayer warned Xiao Hua that the punishment array was absorbing the flesh, blood, and souls of its victims, and Xiao Hua sent over a hundred scattered infants out to form the Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array.
• The flying-sword Book Immortal attacked Thunderclap True Person with transformed punishment chains and sword light, but Thunderclap True Person killed him and used the Spirit Severing Primordial Light to destroy his hidden Primordial Spirit.
• Feng Wu, Huang Tong, Wu Daoist, and Thunderclap True Person killed the remaining four Five Qi Clones, causing the punishment array’s snowy landscape and written structures to begin collapsing.
• Eighty-one Book Immortals appeared as the punishment pillars revealed their true form, then transformed into enormous axes and began contracting the array around Xiao Hua and his forces.
• Xiao Hua ordered the scattered infants to use the Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array against the axes, and their lightning clashed with the punishment array as heaven and earth shook.

Xiao Hua destroyed the Book Immortal’s Punishment Array, but the demonized Book Immortal emerged from Sword Tomb amid signs of heavenly punishment and earthly penalty. As Red Lotus Karmic Fire trapped the human cultivators, Xiao Hua left the scattered infants to protect them and advanced with his allies to confront the Book Immortal.

• Xiao Hua and his scattered infants shattered the Book Immortal’s eighty-one punishment pillars and broke the Punishment Array, but found no trace of the Book Immortal’s spirit or true qi.
• The demonized Book Immortal’s emergence reshaped heaven and earth with Law-Binding Chains, literary mountains, and pillars of Righteous Qi, so Xiao Hua ordered the Creation Sect disciples to form the Duotian Star Array.
• A thousand-zhang armored figure rose from beneath Sword Tomb as crimson clouds formed a Confucian crown, and Xiao Hua recognized the returning Book Immortal.
• Xiao Hua ordered the Creation Sect disciples to retreat south while his allies helped resist the enemy, but Red Lotus Karmic Fire surrounded the cultivators and forced the scattered infants to protect them with the Duotian Star Array.
• Xiao Hua, Thunderclap True Person, Feng Wu, and their allies advanced toward the Book Immortal as the Red Lotus Karmic Fire tormented the retreating cultivators and the Book Immortal’s steps devastated the land.

Xiao Hua confronted the demonic Book Immortal, who revealed that his name was Ying Kui and demanded to know where Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue were. Ying Kui attacked after learning they had returned to the Immortal Realm, and he trapped Xiao Hua and his companions inside his Book Immortal domain.

• Xiao Hua questioned Ying Kui about the destruction of Xiaoyu Continent and learned that Ying Kui recognized their essence origins.
• Xiao Hua introduced himself and told Ying Kui that Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue had returned to the Immortal Realm.
• Ying Kui declared that he would kill them, and Thunderclap True Person attacked him with the Spirit Severing Primordial Light and the Hand of Thunder.
• Ying Kui used Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown to repel the attacks, while Xiao Hua realized Ying Kui had hidden near the Sword Tomb to heal his injuries.
• Ying Kui unleashed nine-colored shell-script inscriptions that formed a realm of stars, mountains, and rivers, trapping Xiao Hua and the others inside his domain.

Ying Kui revealed his dominion over the surrounding space and summoned five powerful Five Qi Clones to fight Xiao Hua’s allies. Xiao Hua sent Celestial Man against the axe-wielding clone, then faced Ying Kui as the emperor prepared to attack.

• Ying Kui transformed the landscape into a vast domain and challenged Xiao Hua to surrender, but Xiao Hua condemned his rule and Thunderclap True Person, Huang Tong, Feng Wu, and Wu Daoist attacked him.
• Ying Kui summoned five Five Qi Clones, each equipped to battle one of the attackers or Xiao Hua; their fights spread across the starry domain, with Wu Daoist gaining the upper hand against the horse-bodied clone.
• Thunderclap True Person’s Spirit Severing Primordial Light was blocked by the sword-wielding clone’s scroll-shaped True Qi defense, and he returned the sword gourd to Xiao Hua’s space.
• Xiao Hua recognized that Ying Kui’s clones had been cultivated through essence energy gathered from other beings, then summoned Celestial Man with the Kunlun Mirror.
• Celestial Man shattered the axe-wielding clone’s weapon and kicked him in the face, drawing Ying Kui’s attention to Xiao Hua and the Kunlun Mirror.
• Ying Kui called Xiao Hua an ant and raised his treasured sword as Righteous Qi pillars and sword intent surged around him.

Xiao Hua fought Ying Kui in the Book Immortal’s spatial domain, evading his devastating attacks while revealing more of his hidden allies. The chapter ended with Ying Kui recognizing Maitreya Buddha World Honored One as a Future Buddha Lord.

• Xiao Hua blocked Ying Kui’s treasured sword with the Kunlun Mirror, then escaped a golden arrow attack using the Wind Escape Technique.
• Ying Kui countered Xiao Hua’s illusions and attacks with his golden imperial seal, while Xiao Hua’s Sea-Overturning Seal was knocked away.
• Xiao Hua summoned True Person Da, and Ying Kui realized the dragon was nearing the Dragon Realm and wanted to take its body.
• Ying Kui transformed into a two-headed, four-armed Nascent Soul Dharma Body and attacked Xiao Hua and True Person Da with an axe, sword, golden seal, and silver flute.
• Xiao Hua summoned Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, and Ying Kui recognized him as a Buddha who had attained Buddhahood and a Future Buddha Lord.

Xiao Hua and his allies battled Ying Kui and his five powerful incarnations, until Xiao Hua used the Pure Water Vase’s willow branch to wound Ying Kui’s ghostly skeleton. With Ying Kui surrounded, Xiao Hua questioned him about his blood sacrifice and unusual incarnations, leaving Ying Kui alarmed by how much Xiao Hua had deduced.

• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One’s Buddhist mantra suppressed Ying Kui, but Ying Kui unleashed a Ghost Cultivator skeleton wreathed in Red Lotus Karmic Fire that countered him.
• Xiao Hua and his incarnations fought Ying Kui and his five incarnations across Vast Space, while Ying Kui’s four-armed Dharma Body pressured Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua received the Pure Water Vase from Maitreya Buddha World Honored One and used its willow branch to strike Ying Kui’s hidden skeleton with a ten-colored rainbow bridge.
• Xiao Hua identified the skeleton as a Ghost Cultivator and questioned Ying Kui about his blood sacrifice and demonization as the surrounding space transformed.
• Xiao Hua deduced that Ying Kui’s five unusually powerful incarnations were connected to his blood sacrifice, and Ying Kui reacted with alarm.

Xiao Hua explained the origin of the Ghost Cultivator technique to Ying Kui and summoned Zhang Jie by revealing Other Shore, hoping she would help stop him. Ying Kui revealed that Xiao Hua himself was his true target and trapped him in a punishment formation to seize his demigod bloodline.

• Ying Kui explained that he had found the Thousand Threads, Ten Thousand Strands technique in a fragment and needed vital essence to form an incarnation.
• Xiao Hua challenged Ying Kui over the threatened humans, and Ying Kui admitted he had targeted them only on a whim and used them to keep Xiao Hua's scattered infant allies occupied.
• Xiao Hua revealed Other Shore as a Sacred Light Realm artifact, and Zhang Jie appeared after holy signs filled the sky.
• Xiao Hua offered Zhang Jie three days to study Other Shore if she helped him, and she accepted the artifact as Ying Kui attacked.
• Zhang Jie unleashed Other Shore's holy power against Ying Kui, but Ying Kui activated a true punishment formation that trapped Xiao Hua.
• Ying Kui revealed that he had obtained Xiao Hua's blood essence in the Sword Tomb and had planned for a thousand years to use the punishment formation to take his demigod bloodline.

Xiao Hua activated the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram and cast the Xuanyuan Sword into it, breaking Ying Kui’s punishment formation and exposing him to Zhang Jie’s holy light. Ying Kui counterattacked, but Maitreya Buddha World Honored One used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to strip power from his weapons.

• Xiao Hua activated the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram, which tore apart Ying Kui’s punishment-name chains and drew Ying Kui’s treasured sword into its formation.
• Ying Kui realized Xiao Hua could not fully control the sword diagram and tried to seize it with his Book Immortal divine ability.
• Xiao Hua cast the Xuanyuan Sword into the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram, shattering the execution platform, punishment pillars, and chains.
• Zhang Jie unleashed Other Shore’s holy light, stripping away Ying Kui’s black qi and golden light and revealing his imperial form.
• Ying Kui summoned weapons and attacked Zhang Jie, but Maitreya Buddha World Honored One swept them down with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.

Xiao Hua used the Xuanyuan Sword to break Ying Kui’s imperial raiment, triggering Heaven and Earth tribulation, then helped cleanse the black qi infecting the Book Immortal. Ying Kui awakened and recognized the Xuanyuan Sword, leaving Xiao Hua to explain that the Heavenly Heart inside him belonged to Xiao Hua.

• The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and the celestial being’s Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou suppressed Ying Kui, but neither could destroy his immortal body.
• Xiao Hua decided to wield the Xuanyuan Sword, entrusting the others with saving the Three Great Continents’ living beings as Heaven and Earth tribulation gathered.
• Xiao Hua transformed into a sword, wielded the Xuanyuan Sword through the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram, and shattered Ying Kui’s imperial raiment, bringing down the tribulation.
• Xiao Hua used the Heavenly Hearts and Vast Righteous Qi to drive black qi from Ying Kui, while Demon Venerable Slayer devoured the devil heads.
• Ying Kui’s golden light returned and he awakened, recognized the Xuanyuan Sword, and demanded to know who Xiao Hua was and how he obtained it.
• Xiao Hua told Ying Kui his name and said the Heavenly Heart within Ying Kui belonged to him, prompting Ying Kui to cry out in fury and ask what he had done.

Ying Kui repented and vowed to atone for his past sins, sacrificing his Heavenly Court Book Immortal power and returning an enriched Heavenly Heart to Xiao Hua. With the Four Great Continents immortal formation still to break, the group prepared to search for a solution while Thunderclap True Person returned to the Kunlun Immortal Realm to refine a magic artifact.

• Xiao Hua suppressed his immortal spiritual qi, causing the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram to lose its power and fall apart, while Ying Kui stood motionless as Heavenly Heart cleansed him.
• After the others returned, Ying Kui vowed to spend his life redeeming his sins and shattered the scroll that sustained his power, relinquishing his Golden Light Immortal Body.
• Ying Kui returned Heavenly Heart to Xiao Hua with its damaged petal restored and gave back the essence blood he had taken.
• Zhang Jie warned Xiao Hua about relying on Other Shore, returned the holy artifact, and left to recover for a hundred days.
• Ying Kui learned that Xiao Hua's group planned to break the Four Great Continents immortal formation, and True Person Da urged them to seek a method quickly.
• Thunderclap True Person asked Xiao Hua to send him to the Kunlun Immortal Realm, and Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to do so.