Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu led Ye Ningshuang and He Xiuyuan to find an inside contact after realizing that killing every Thousand Mechanisms Sect outpost would not stop the blood sacrifice. At a prison beneath the City Lord’s residence, they uncovered the sect’s detailed plan while the City Lord and a masked disciple prepared for the Annihilation Envoy’s arrival.

• Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang purged several Thousand Mechanisms Sect outposts, earning Ying Huaixu 70,000 experience points before He Xiuyuan persuaded them to seek the inside contact instead.
• The City Lord watched corpses being carried to a Blood Altar beneath his residence as a masked Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciple explained that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s members would be needed as food for the arriving Annihilation Envoy.
• The City Lord tried to issue an order but received no response, while the masked disciple eventually received a reply and insisted that the plan was ready.
• Ying Huaixu led Ye Ningshuang and He Xiuyuan to the death-row prison, where Ye Ningshuang silently killed the guards and Ying Huaixu selectively killed condemned inmates.
• Ying Huaixu found a leather-wrapped scroll inside a corpse’s belly and told He Xiuyuan it contained the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s detailed plan.

Ying Huaixu altered the report about the Blood Sacrifice Cultivators, and the World Mission updated to require the defense of Falling Radiance City against the Annihilation Envoy. The Divine Firmament Sword Sect arrived with a far larger force than Ying Huaixu expected, including the renowned Qiu Shiyi.

• Ying Huaixu persuaded He Xiuyuan to add an unverified accusation against the Thousand Mechanisms Sect and the city lord of Falling Radiance City to their report.
• The World Mission rewarded them for completing the investigation and unlocked a new act to defend Falling Radiance City and slay the Annihilation Envoy's descending avatar.
• He Xiuyuan worried that the report might be exposed as false, and Ying Huaixu claimed he had overheard the plot at the Thousand Mechanisms Sect's outpost.
• He Xiuyuan received an order to stand by, and a thunderous boom announced the arrival of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's reinforcements.
• Ying Huaixu saw the sect's Warships and Sword-Riding Disciples, including Qiu Shiyi, the Spirit Sea Realm peak cultivator known as the Little Killing God.

Ying Huaixu and He Xiuyuan watched the Divine Firmament Sword Sect seal Falling Radiance City with a formation that let the innocent leave and trapped those burdened by karmic sins. As they waited for the sect’s one-day evacuation deadline to pass, Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang eagerly prepared to punish the villains who stayed, leaving He Xiuyuan appalled by their enthusiasm.

• Ying Huaixu reassured He Xiuyuan that their mission report was accurate and that the sect alone was responsible for its response.
• Qiu Shiyi’s disciples deployed white jade pillars and a lockdown formation around Falling Radiance City, then guarded the exits while allowing people to leave.
• He Xiuyuan explained that the Questioning Heart Formation and Sin-Severing Formation trapped people with karmic sins, and that anyone still inside after one day would be wiped out.
• Ye Ningshuang asked whether she could kill the people who stayed, and Ying Huaixu agreed that they could punish those villains.
• Ying Huaixu helped Ye Ningshuang sharpen her sword while insisting they were eager to root out evil, leaving He Xiuyuan exasperated.

Falling Radiance City’s lord discovered that Qiu Shiyi and a large force from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect had arrived, disrupting the Thousand Mechanisms Sect cultivator’s blood-sacrifice plan. The city lord secretly reversed the array’s possession effect, gained the envoy’s power, and made the cultivator appear to take him hostage as they charged outside.

• Unable to contact his subordinates, the city lord of Falling Radiance City persuaded the Thousand Mechanisms Sect cultivator to let him leave the underground chamber.
• The city lord emerged and found the Divine Firmament Sword Sect gathered outside, led by Qiu Shiyi.
• The city lord warned the Thousand Mechanisms Sect cultivator, who insisted the envoy could defeat the sect’s disciples until he learned Qiu Shiyi had come.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Sect cultivator abandoned the blood-sacrifice descent and told the city lord to take the Descent Flame Seed and escape while he held Qiu Shiyi off.
• The city lord received the Blood-Red Pearl, redirected the possession effect, and absorbed the envoy’s power instead.
• The city lord controlled the Thousand Mechanisms Sect cultivator and made him carry the city lord outside as though holding him hostage.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect slaughtered the condemned inhabitants of Falling Radiance City, and Ying Huaixu discovered he gained experience from their kills. Ye Ningshuang and He Xiuyuan joined the fighting and grew stronger, while Ying Huaixu stayed back and neared 100,000 experience.

• After the evacuation deadline passed, Qiu Shiyi summoned rain made of swords that killed the remaining protesters in Falling Radiance City.
• Ying Huaixu gained experience from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's kills and decided he could safely follow Ye Ningshuang to gain more in future battles.
• Qiu Shiyi sent the sect disciples to hunt down the remaining evil cultivators, and Ye Ningshuang joined the fight after Ying Huaixu gave her permission.
• Ying Huaixu ordered He Xiuyuan to protect Ye Ningshuang, and He Xiuyuan discovered that killing people steadily increased his cultivation.
• Ye Ningshuang absorbed soul power from corpses and advanced to the perfected seventh layer of body tempering, while Ying Huaixu's experience total reached 90,000.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect slaughtered the fleeing enemies while He Xiuyuan suspected Ying Huaixu was behind his sudden cultivation gains. After the city lord escaped underground and drew Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and He Xiuyuan into a bloody hall, Ye Ningshuang charged him in fury.

• Ye Ningshuang and He Xiuyuan joined the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's slaughter, and He Xiuyuan advanced to the second level of Meridian Opening.
• He Xiuyuan recognized the city lord fleeing with a Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciple, exposed him to the sect, and watched the city lord escape underground while the disciple was killed.
• Qiu Shiyi failed to locate the concealed city lord, but Ying Huaixu spotted him on his map and rushed toward Ye Ningshuang with He Xiuyuan following.
• Space twisted and transported Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and He Xiuyuan into an underground hall where the city lord fed corpses into a mouth in his belly.
• The city lord attacked Ying Huaixu and He Xiuyuan, then declared he would devour Ye Ningshuang; enraged by Ying Huaixu's apparent defeat, she charged him with her sword.

He Xiuyuan and Ye Ningshuang were defeated by the transformed city lord, leaving Ying Huaixu to stop pretending to be unconscious and face the monster himself. The city lord’s attacks failed to harm Ying, and he launched a blood-red energy blast at him.

• The city lord transformed and blocked the cave exit, then knocked He Xiuyuan unconscious before Ye Ningshuang could escape with Ying Huaixu.
• Ye Ningshuang tried to protect Ying Huaixu, but the city lord struck her down and approached to devour her.
• Ying Huaixu sat up and asked the city lord to wait an hour before fighting.
• The city lord attacked Ying Huaixu twice, but Ying easily knocked him back without being injured.
• The city lord gave up on close combat and fired a blast of blood-red energy at Ying Huaixu.

Ying Huaixu advanced to Meridian Opening and defeated the city lord’s first phase, then let He Xiuyuan take the blame while Qiu Shiyi destroyed the second phase. After the mission ended, the sect punished Qiu Shiyi, Ye Ningshuang withdrew to cultivate, and He Xiuyuan entered the inner sect.

• The city lord’s blood-red attacks exhausted Ying Huaixu’s stamina, but his Blood-Coagulating Pills kept him alive without visible wounds.
• Ying Huaixu raised his cultivation to Meridian Opening, parried the city lord’s next pillar of light, and cut him down until a blood-red force began transforming his body.
• Ying Huaixu slapped He Xiuyuan, placed him before the second-phase boss, and pretended to be unconscious as Qiu Shiyi arrived.
• Qiu Shiyi destroyed the transformed city lord and the escaping blood-red energy, completing Act Three of the World Mission.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect punished Qiu Shiyi at Reflection Cliff, Ye Ningshuang devoted herself to cultivation, and He Xiuyuan entered the inner sect and received credit for the victory.

After his near-fatal fight with the City Lord, Ying Huaixu resolved to keep a low profile and focus on strengthening Ye Ningshuang. He completed a daily quest for Huang Tianqi, refined pills to unlock automatic alchemy, and gathered contribution points to obtain a meridian-opening cultivation method.

• Ying Huaixu reflected on his defeat by the City Lord and the unexpected situation with He Xiuyuan, then decided to avoid dangerous attention and develop Ye Ningshuang.
• Ying Huaixu brought Huang Tianqi three stalks of dewgrass, completing his daily quest and earning 3,000 experience.
• Huang Tianqi gave Ying Huaixu over a hundred top-grade Sweet Dew Pills and the formulas for Sweet Dew Pills and Second-Tier Spirit-Returning Pills.
• Ying Huaixu refined Sweet Dew Pills until he unlocked Automatic Alchemy, then used the method to produce a large batch while Huang Tianqi watched and learned.
• Huang Tianqi gave Ying Huaixu a Qi-Gathering Pill formula, and Ying Huaixu raised his proficiency until he could automate its refinement.
• Ying Huaixu exchanged the contents of several Storage Bags for contribution points so he could obtain a meridian-opening cultivation method.

Ying Huaixu pushed He Xiuyuan to take cultivation seriously, then discovered that Huang Tianqi had accidentally refined an Immortal-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill after blowing up the Pill Room. The chapter ended with the old man and Ying Huaixu stunned by Huang Tianqi’s extraordinary result.

• Ying Huaixu visited the inner sect and found He Xiuyuan had made no progress in cultivation or learned any techniques.
• Ying Huaixu challenged He Xiuyuan to train, exposed his poor fighting skills, and gave him over three hundred Qi-Gathering Pills to help him improve.
• He Xiuyuan agreed to cultivate seriously and aim for the ninth level of Meridian Opening within two years.
• Huang Tianqi blew up the Pill Room after putting over two hundred portions of herbs into a pill furnace.
• Ying Huaixu saw Huang Tianqi holding a glowing pill, and the old man identified it as an Immortal-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill.