Chapter Summaries

After True Lord Evolving Transformation’s campaigns drove the Northern Faction into retreat, righteous sects reclaimed territory and established new branches across the Northwest. On Mount Zibai, Wen Tianzhen praised Xinzhan’s achievements and learned that he planned to found a Dao lineage, while Xinzhan prepared to focus on cultivation and the northern sects’ growth; Wen Tianzhen left to pursue demon-slaying himself.

• The Northern Faction’s surviving forces crowded outside Western Kunlun as the Blood God Sect refused them entry, while the remaining Demon Cults fled, sealed their mountains, or prepared to hide.
• Huo Wuwei and White Wolf Mountain Bing Si declared that they had never truly belonged to the Northern Faction, and White Wolf Mountain executed notorious disciples to demonstrate its break with the Demon Path.
• Righteous sects rebuilt old strongholds and founded new branches throughout Longxi, Hehuang, Western Liang, the Northern Desert, and the Western Regions.
• On Mount Zibai, Wen Tianzhen told Xinzhan that his accomplishments surpassed those of Wen’s master, and Xinzhan admitted he hoped to found a Dao lineage after destroying the Northern Faction.
• Xinzhan explained that he would remain in the North to restore its new sects, organize his teachings, and prepare for immortality, while other righteous factions took responsibility for the remaining Demon Cults.
• Wen Tianzhen declined Xinzhan’s invitation to spar and left to slay demons and hone his newly strengthened abilities.

On his ninetieth birthday, True Lord Cheng began his Earthly Immortal tribulation at Mount Zibai after years of preparation and cultivating the Qinling Mountains’ earth qi. His rising power shook the mountains and drew cultivators’ attention as spectacular signs of earth qi appeared, while the tribulation remained underway.

• True Lord Cheng chose the auspicious hour of the Rabbit on the nineteenth day of the ninth month in Ming year 499 to undergo his Earthly Immortal tribulation.
• True Lord Cheng stopped sending magical power into the Qinling Mountains’ earth veins, bringing himself into the Transformation Realm and making the mountains shake.
• The leaders of the Five Mountains and Four Sects recognized that True Lord Cheng was ascending to immortality, raised their arrays, and sent disciples to guard the passes.
• True Lord Cheng’s vast magical power spread beyond the Qinling Mountains, prompting cultivators who sensed it to rush toward the range.
• Dark-yellow earth qi rose across the Qinling Mountains and transformed into clouds, lanterns, canopies, lotus flowers, cranes, dragons, and other shifting forms.

True Lord Evolving Transformation underwent nine Immortal Ascension Tribulations as the earth’s blessing transformed his body, magical power, and treasures, and he attained immortality. He emerged on a yellow jade lotus atop a yellow dragon as cultivators across the Qinling Mountains celebrated and congratulated him.

• Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi rose across the mountains, and a yellow jade lotus lifted True Lord Evolving Transformation into the air as his tribulation began.
• True Lord Evolving Transformation accepted the metal, water, wood, fire, and earth tribulations, observing as they sublimated his body, three origins, and dharma treasures.
• Wind, thunder, yin, and yang completed the nine tribulations, transforming True Lord Evolving Transformation’s mortal flesh and magical power into an immortal body and immortal power.
• Metal and stone instruments rang across the Qinling Mountains, while waters filled, plants flourished, lights shone from the earth, and the yellow clouds formed a dragon.
• True Lord Evolving Transformation rode the lotus onto the yellow dragon’s head, and Ji Hehe, True Person Zhiyi, and other cultivators came forward to congratulate him on attaining the Dao and becoming an immortal.

After celebrating True Lord Cheng’s attainment of immortality and the rare “five blessings converge,” True Lord Cheng traveled alone to Western Kunlun to confront the Blood God Child. The Blood God Child tried to persuade him to delay the fight against their shared enemy Emei, but True Lord Cheng refused and opened the battle with his sword.

• At the Qinling feast, Netherworld Sage Xu Wan explained that True Lord Cheng’s five auspicious signs were called “five blessings converge.”
• After seeing off his guests and waiting another day, True Lord Cheng left Mount Zibai alone with the Evil-Slaying Sword.
• At Western Kunlun, True Lord Cheng found the Blood God Child’s sea of blood vastly expanded and faced the Blood God Child above it.
• The Blood God Child argued that he and True Lord Cheng had no personal enmity and urged him to let the Blood God Child destroy Emei first.
• True Lord Cheng rejected the Blood God Child’s proposal, saying he would not commit an unrighteous deed for advantage.
• When the Blood God Child invited him to attack, True Lord Cheng advanced with his sword and sent a crescent of sword qi toward him.

The Daoist and Blood God Child fought across Western Kunlun, matching the Evil-Slaying Sword and an array of demonic treasures against Blood God Child’s techniques. The Daoist revealed two transformed flying swords that shocked Blood God Child, and their duel remained unresolved.

• The Daoist’s Evil-Slaying Sword overwhelmed Deng Yin’s Violet Ying Sword and damaged his Lique Blood Godlight rope, which Deng Yin continually repaired with his own power.
• The Daoist evaded the rope’s Nine Yangs Fire Cloud Restriction, then used the Five-Element Dharma Swords to trap it in the Innate Five Elements Sword Formation.
• The Daoist closed in on Blood God Child while criticizing his long-hidden cultivation and manipulation of the demons.
• Blood God Child deployed the Five Clouds Immortal-Locking Screen, made from demonic clouds, to counter the Five-Element Dharma Swords.
• The Daoist revealed black and white flying swords that struck toward Violet Ying, and Blood God Child recognized Peach Capital’s transformed yang aura but was astonished by the Yin Sword’s newfound power.

After ascending to immortality, the Daoist’s Nether Capital became a supreme immortal treasure, and he pressed Blood God Child with his swords near Western Kunlun. Blood God Child retreated into his blood sea domain, where the Daoist followed and began a renewed clash as the Demon Fiend’s treasures drew on the domain’s power.

• The chapter explained how the Daoist created Nether Capital from his own yin-rich bone and blood, then raised it to a supreme immortal treasure by fusing the Radiance-Bearing, Gloom-Illuminating Bright Moon Pendant and receiving the Earthly Immortal Tribulation’s blessings.
• The Daoist’s Celestial Master Sword and Nether Capital drove back Blood God Child’s Purple Ying, but the Demon Fiend brought out a powerful pearl pellet to hold off Peach Capital.
• The Daoist attacked Blood God Child with the Celestial Master Sword, and the Demon Fiend blocked its dragon-shaped strike with the Blood God Scripture before retreating toward the blood sea.
• Blood God Child challenged the Daoist to enter his domain, and the Daoist pursued him into the blood sea while protected by a yellow jade lotus.
• Inside the blood sea, the Daoist resisted its sensory illusions and attacks, then sent his seven swords against Blood God Child as the Demon Fiend’s treasures borrowed the domain’s power and suppressed them.

The Daoist unleashed two combined sword arts against Blood God Child, but the Demon Fiend repeatedly escaped and regenerated through his bond with the blood sea. After severing what he believed was the blood sea’s source, the Daoist learned he had instead freed Blood God Child from his restraint, and Blood God Child departed with the blood sea.

• The Daoist fused five swords into an iridescent wheel and struck Blood God Child with hidden yin-yang sword-light, but Blood God Child escaped using the Blood Shadow Form-Splitting Great Art and recovered in the blood sea.
• Blood God Child revealed that his blood-shadow body was one with the blood sea and that the sea’s connection to Kunlun let him escape and regenerate without limit.
• The Daoist used his dharma eyes and Qi Observation Art to locate a hidden qi column connecting the blood sea to Western Kunlun, then severed it with his yin-yang swords.
• Blood God Child smiled and revealed that the column had tethered the blood sea to Kunlun rather than supplied it, and the Daoist realized he had freed the Demon Fiend.
• Blood God Child executed the million Demon Soldiers in Western Kunlun, absorbed their blood qi, and led the blood sea southwest, leaving Kunlun depleted.

Deng Yin escaped Cheng Xinzhan and Li Jingxu by shifting his eight-million-mu blood sea toward Emei, intending to take revenge there. The two pursued him after sensing an Immortal Realm force appear near Emei Mountain.

• The blood sea fled southwest, but Cheng Xinzhan caught up and blocked its path as Li Jingxu arrived behind an Azure Nether Sword barrier.
• Deng Yin revealed that he had dissolved his essence blood into the sea, sacrificed the Northern Faction, and prepared the blood sea to escape Cheng Xinzhan’s pursuit.
• Deng Yin declared that he was heading to Emei for revenge, while Li Jingxu and Cheng Xinzhan refused to let him pass.
• Deng Yin accused Li Jingxu of hypocrisy over Sun Xun, and Li Jingxu explained through Heart Voice that Deng Yin’s Dao companion had been a demonic woman and an inheritor of the Blood God Scripture.
• Deng Yin vanished with the blood sea using a Heaven-and-Earth Shifting Formation Disk, and Li Jingxu and Cheng Xinzhan sensed his arrival near Emei Mountain and rushed there.

True Lord Cheng and Li Jingxu arrived at Emei as Blood God Child confronted the sect, whose defenses were raised under Qi Shuming. The standoff turned into a battle when Tao Xinye and Qi Shuming attacked Deng Yin, ending with Qi Shuming combining several weapons in a powerful assault.

• True Lord Cheng and Li Jingxu arrived near Emei and watched as Li Yingqiong used a formation at the Three Rivers Mouth to draw the blood sea toward the mountain.
• Blood God Child challenged Qi Shuming to leave Emei’s defenses, and Qi Shuming emerged while accusing Li Yingqiong of killing Lin Yuanyuan’s disciple.
• Li Yingqiong admitted killing the disciple, and Blood God Child taunted Qi Shuming for keeping Emei’s other fighters inside the Two Principles Dust-Mote Great Formation.
• Tao Xinye appeared and exchanged sword blows with Blood God Child, who then attacked him with Purple Ying and the Five Clouds Immortal-Locking Screen.
• Qi Shuming joined the fight with the Golden Light Blazing Fire Sword and Three Yangs One Qi Sword, combining their power into a fierce attack on Blood God Child.

Deng Yin used the Innate Water Mother Kan Metal Pellet to fight Qi Shuming and Ascetic Dhuta while Li Yingqiong confronted her former mentor Xun Lanyin. After Li Yingqiong survived Xun Lanyin’s attack and had her body restored by Deng Yin, he provoked Qi Shuming by threatening to reveal Emei’s secrets, and Qi Shuming charged into the blood sea.

• Deng Yin used the Innate Water Mother Kan Metal Pellet to counter the three suns, and Li Jingxu identified it as an ancient Emei treasure.
• Li Yingqiong joined the battle as Xun Lanyin emerged and accused her of betraying the mentor who had saved and trained her.
• Xun Lanyin struck Li Yingqiong with the Geng-Jia Transformation Heavenly Radiance Divine Needles, destroying her body, but a defensive treasure preserved her Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yingqiong revealed that she had deliberately let Xun Lanyin strike her to test her former mentor’s heart and repay her kindness, while Deng Yin restored her body from the blood sea.
• Deng Yin challenged Qi Shuming to kill Xun Lanyin and then began revealing Emei’s hidden formations and abodes, enraging Qi Shuming into attacking the blood sea.

Ascetic Dhuta entered the blood sea after Qi Shuming and Xun Lanyin, only to become trapped in Deng Yin’s shifting formations and face the Blood God Child’s powerful Asura gods and devils. He found Qi Shuming’s distant position but was repeatedly drawn into battle, leaving him unable to learn what had happened to the others.

• Qi Shuming charged into the blood sea after the Blood God Child, and Xun Lanyin followed him while Ascetic Dhuta hesitated.
• Cheng Xinzhan and Li Jingxu left after Ascetic Dhuta’s suspicion of them, and Ascetic Dhuta warned Bai Guyi to guard against threats inside and outside Emei.
• Ascetic Dhuta entered the blood sea, became separated from Qi Shuming, Xun Lanyin, and Deng Yin, and discovered that its shifting formations prevented him from escaping.
• Ascetic Dhuta resisted illusions and battled the Blood Sea Primordial Slaughter Thirteen Asura Corporeal Gods and Devils, using his treasures to destroy them temporarily.
• Ascetic Dhuta spotted golden light that he believed marked Qi Shuming, but a skeletal god-devil revealed itself as Shang Heyang and attacked him.
• Ascetic Dhuta killed Shang Heyang, but the other twelve gods and devils revived and attacked again before he could reach Qi Shuming.

Qi Shuming fought through the Blood Sea to protect Xun Lanyin from the Blood God Child, who sought revenge on Emei by making him suffer the loss of his wife. Qi Shuming broke through the demon’s defenses, but arrived too late to save Xun Lanyin, whom the Blood God Child killed before his eyes.

• Qi Shuming tried to reach Xun Lanyin as the Blood God Child trapped him and Li Yingqiong attacked her in the Blood Sea.
• Qi Shuming used a Supreme Clarity True Edict Immortal Talisman and the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler to protect Xun Lanyin, while the Blood God Child mocked Emei’s rules and attacked her.
• Qi Shuming used the Spirit-and-Form Parting-and-Joining Shadow-Returning Escape Art to cross the Blood Sea, but the Blood God Child blocked his way with the Jade-Eyed Heavenly Net.
• Qi Shuming pierced the net’s demonic eyes and used two jade tablets to force a path through it, while the Blood God Child continued attacking Xun Lanyin.
• Qi Shuming emerged to find the Violet Ying Sword through Xun Lanyin’s chest and the Blood God Child holding her; the demon engulfed her in crimson flames as Qi Shuming cried out.

Blood God Child killed Xun Lanyin before Qi Shuming could save her, driving Qi to unleash his treasures and fight back across the Blood Sea. Bai Guyi and Ascetic Dhuta joined Qi, but Blood God Child laughed when Qi questioned why True Persons Cheng and Li had not come to help.

• Qi Shuming charged toward Blood God Child with the Yin-Yang Five Clouds Jade Tablets protecting him, but Blood God Child kept his distance while burning Xun Lanyin.
• Xun Lanyin urged Qi to care for their children and tried to destroy herself, but Blood God Child crushed her before her spiritual detonation could ignite.
• Qi Shuming commanded six Immortal Treasures against Blood God Child, using one domain to fight him and another to burn away the Blood Sea.
• Bai Guyi entered the Blood Sea with Azure Cord and joined Qi, then Ascetic Dhuta escaped the formation with the Ruyi Scattering-Flowers Lampstand and arrived beside them.
• Blood God Child, Li Yingqiong, and the Thirteen Asura Formed Gods and Devils attacked the three Emei fighters as Qi wondered why True Persons Cheng and Li had not joined the battle.
• Blood God Child laughed delightedly at Qi's question about the absent allies.

Qi Shuming learned that Ascetic Dhuta had driven True Lord Cheng and Li Jingxu away through suspicion, leaving Emei without their aid as Blood God Child besieged it. The Emei leaders rescued Dhuta from Blood God Child’s second primordial spirit, but he was gravely injured, and they realized the Blood Sea let the second spirit match Blood God Child’s full strength.

• Blood God Child revealed that Tao Xinzhi had angered True Lord Cheng into leaving and explained that Cheng had twice blocked the Blood Sea from reaching Emei by other routes.
• Blood God Child announced that Xun Lanyin had been killed, leaving Ascetic Dhuta shocked and distracted.
• A disguised White Bones God and Devil struck Dhuta with a Silver Frost sword, grievously damaging his Dragon Sun sword and forcing him into a desperate contest with the Ruyi Scattering-Flowers Lampstand.
• Dhuta’s magical power faltered as he lost decades of cultivation and his hope of surviving his next immortal tribulation, until Qi Shuming’s lightning sword helped break the sword-wave attack.
• Qi Shuming and Bai Guyi moved to protect Dhuta, and the attackers’ identities were revealed: Blood God Child’s second primordial spirit wielded the Silver Frost sword.
• The Emei leaders realized the Blood Sea supplied Blood God Child’s second spirit with essence and qi, allowing it to fight as strongly as his original body.

Qi Shuming, Bai Guyi, and Ascetic Dhuta fought Blood God Child inside his blood sea while Ascetic Dhuta used light and fire treasures to burn it away. Blood God Child then revealed an Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi banner and turned its force against Bai Guyi.

• Blood God Child’s Second Primordial Spirit praised Qi Shuming’s swordsmanship and revealed that its sword, Yuantu, had been refined from Emei’s stolen Taibai Heavenly Soldier Sword Gang.
• Qi Shuming and Bai Guyi defended the wounded Ascetic Dhuta while the three agreed that burning the blood sea could weaken Blood God Child and create an opening to destroy him.
• The Cloud-Chasing Old Man lent Ascetic Dhuta Yingnan’s Southern Bright Li Fire Sword, which worked with his other treasures and Qi Shuming’s Pure Yang Sword Domain to burn the blood sea.
• Blood God Child fought off the three Emei experts as they destroyed over ten thousand mu of blood sea, then explained that Qi Shuming and Bai Guyi were suppressing their ascensions.
• Blood God Child summoned a dark-yellow banner and released Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi, which disrupted Bai Guyi’s balance and began driving him out of the Mortal World.

Blood God Child used Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi to force Bai Guyi to ascend, leaving Qi Shuming and Ascetic Dhuta trapped in the Netherworld Blood Sea. As Bai Guyi departed, Ascetic Dhuta fell into the blood sea’s illusion, and Bai Guyi warned the world against entering before calling for aid from True Lord Evolving Transformation.

• Blood God Child’s Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi overcame Bai Guyi’s defenses and forced him to ascend.
• Bai Guyi entrusted Azure Cord to Qi Shuming, who urged him to seek help from the Emei Patriarchs in heaven.
• Blood God Child opened a path out of the blood sea for Ascetic Dhuta, whose wavering resolve left him trapped in an illusion.
• Qi Shuming tried to wake Ascetic Dhuta and used the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword against Blood God Child, but Blood God Child’s second primordial spirit held him back.
• Bai Guyi saw Dragon Sun block the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword as he left the blood sea, then warned Heavenly Immortals to guard their mountain gates and ordered Miechenzi to seek True Lord Evolving Transformation.

Bai Guyi ascended while urgently summoning help for Emei, sending Miechenzi and other disciples to beg True Lord Evolving Transformation for aid. As Bai Guyi passed through the Heavenly Gate, Miechenzi reported that the True Lord had already entered the Blood Sea.

• Bai Guyi learned that Xun Lanyin and Tao Xinye’s Life Lamps had gone out and feared for Qi Shuming, who remained trapped in the Blood Sea.
• Bai Guyi publicly invited True Lord Evolving Transformation to save Emei and secretly sent Miechenzi to Azure City with the plea.
• Miechenzi flew to Mount Qingcheng, while Bai Guyi ordered Ye Yuanjing, Tong Yuanqi, the Seven Flying, Zhou Qingyun, and Lu Linqing to follow and apologize to the True Lord.
• Bai Guyi shaped his Cloud Towers Ascension phenomenon into a bridge from Emei toward Mount Qingcheng as he approached the Heavenly Gate.
• Miechenzi told Bai Guyi that True Lord Evolving Transformation had already entered the Blood Sea, and Bai Guyi ascended with relief.

Blood God Child devoured Dragon Sun and advanced Yuantu to a high-grade immortal artifact while Qi Shuming fought desperately to defend Emei. As their battle continued in the sea of blood, a mysterious Ghost Gate Pass appeared and a young Daoist walked through it.

• Blood God Child revealed that he had devoured Ascetic Dhuta, then used Yuantu to consume Dragon Sun while Qi Shuming tried to stop him.
• Blood God Child used Dragon Sun’s transformed sword wave and a pincer attack with Purple Ying to wound Qi Shuming and force him to spend an immortal talisman.
• Qi Shuming summoned a second primordial spirit and joined it with the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword, then attacked Blood God Child with a Pure Yang Sword Domain.
• Blood God Child fed treasure materials to Yuantu and successfully advanced it into a high-grade immortal artifact, leaving Qi Shuming shaken.
• A black rune formed in the sea of blood, expanded into a Ghost Gate Pass, and an extremely young, handsome Daoist walked out.

Cheng entered Blood God Child’s blood sea through Nether Capital’s ghost gate, joined Li Jingxu in pressing the Demon Fiend, and told Qi Shuming to sweep through the sea rather than join the main fight. Cheng then used Nether Capital to drain the blood sea, sending its blood water through a distant gateway into a cavern of Purple Fire.

• Blood God Child recognized the ghost-gate glyph as Nether Capital, while Qi Shuming realized Cheng had brought another superior-grade Immortal Sword into the blood sea.
• Blissful Youth followed Cheng through the ghost gate, and Cheng told Qi Shuming that he and Li Jingxu would keep him safe while he swept through the blood sea.
• Cheng attacked Blood God Child with Peach Capital, Li Jingxu fought the Demon Fiend’s Second Primordial Spirit with Azure Firmament, and Qi Shuming swept through the blood sea while sending his Second Primordial Spirit after Li Yingqiong.
• Cheng commanded Nether Capital’s ghost gate to seize the blood sea, drawing its blood water into the gate and sending it through a distant gateway into a Purple Fire-filled cavern.
• Blood God Child sensed the drained blood water reappear ten thousand miles away, then lost contact with it.

Blood God Child used a Nether Capital Ghost Gate to drain his Blood Sea while revealing that the Maha Sect was abducting people across Western Kham, forcing Li Jingxu to leave and defend them. True Lord Cheng stayed to fight Blood God Child, while Qi Shuming was left to guard himself and regretted missing his chance to ascend.

• True Lord Cheng linked a Ghost Gate to the Divine Altar on Rotten Peach Mountain, and Blood God Child struggled against its suction as Yuantu and Peach Capital fought.
• Blood God Child learned that the Maha Sect was raiding Western Kham and opened paths for Li Jingxu and True Lord Cheng to leave, but Li Jingxu chose to go alone and entrusted Shu to Cheng.
• Li Jingxu told True Lord Cheng to stay and protect Shu, then flew out of the Blood Sea to lead Azure City against the Maha Sect.
• Blood God Child sent his Second Primordial Spirit to attack True Lord Cheng and the Ghost Gate, while Qi Shuming volunteered to intercept it.
• True Lord Cheng refused Qi Shuming's help, and Qi Shuming, gravely wounded and unable to summon his tribulation, regretted not ascending earlier.