Chapter Summaries

Xin Bairen arranged for information about a Vice Island Master’s collusion with Ji Cangming to be leaked while preparing to advance to the Golden Core Stage. He told Baili Tingfeng that his actions were meant to protect the Condensed Jade Sect from Qing Chen’s recklessness.

• Xin Bairen reviewed the treasures and materials he planned to use for his Golden Core breakthrough and recalled his years of cultivation and resentment toward Qing Chen.
• Baili Tingfeng reported that he had secretly placed a Jade Slip outside the Vice Island Master’s cave abode on Xuanfeng Island.
• Baili Tingfeng said Qing Chen remained in seclusion while Xu Jiuling, Gu Jianchun, Miao Long, and Gao Yuliang prepared the Rebel-Slaying Platform and announced an execution in three months.
• Baili Tingfeng asked Xin Bairen whether their actions counted as selling out the sect, and Xin Bairen denied it, revealing that he planned to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough in a few years.
• Xin Bairen argued that Qing Chen’s arrogance could provoke the powerful Shushan Sword Sect and endanger the Condensed Jade Sect.

Xin Bairen plotted to sacrifice Earth Pass Island to weaken Qing Chen, while Qing Chen secretly entered a Demon Lotus Sect stronghold disguised as the Purple Tenuity Devil Lord. After the guards recognized his mask and bowed, he ordered them to summon King Yanluo and the Demon Envoys to the Council Hall.

• Xin Bairen told Baili Tingfeng that letting Earth Pass Island fall into chaos would weaken Qing Chen’s faction and help him reach the Golden Core Stage.
• Qing Chen crossed Earth Pass Island’s restrictions unseen and traveled to a barren island using his mastered Profound Heaven Three Evasions.
• Qing Chen opened a hidden passage and entered the Demon Lotus Sect stronghold wearing the Purple Tenuity Devil Lord Mask.
• The Demon Lotus Guards recognized the mask’s superior aura, knelt before Qing Chen, and apologized for obstructing him.
• Qing Chen ordered some guards to lead him to the Council Hall and others to summon King Yanluo and the Demon Envoys.
• Qing Chen took the seat of honor in the Council Hall as hurried footsteps approached.

Qing Chen tested Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and Han Shi in combat, effortlessly countered their attacks, and gave each of them cultivation advice. The four left with a clearer understanding of their weaknesses and methods for improving.

• Lin Changsheng and the three Evil Moon Demon Envoys entered the Council Hall and asked Qing Chen to guide their cultivation.
• Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and Han Shi unleashed their strongest attacks against Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen absorbed Lin Changsheng's corpse qi, caught Duan Tianya's sword, shattered Jueqing's ghost faces, and swallowed Han Shi's poison.
• Qing Chen advised Lin Changsheng to purify and temper his corpse qi and told Duan Tianya to make his sword techniques more flexible.
• Qing Chen told Jueqing to target souls with the Avīci Blade and advised Han Shi to strengthen his poisonous baleful qi with other poisons.
• The four thanked Qing Chen for his guidance.

Qing Chen heard reports about the growing coalition against the Condensed Jade Sect and considered the hidden powers involved. Lin Changsheng and the others identified the black-cloaked monk as Master Xuanku of Black-White Temple on Xuanchi Island.

• Qing Chen finished advising Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and Han Shi, then asked how negotiations over Earth Pass Island had gone.
• Lin Changsheng reported that Leng Jingfei had agreed to cooperate and that Ji Cangming planned to lead the Snake Spirit Thieves against the Condensed Jade Sect, aided by insiders with access to its defense maps.
• Duan Tianya reported that Blackwood Island still had a hidden Golden Core demonic cultivator, while Lin Changsheng described a black-cloaked monk whose Buddhist arts and influence suggested he led a nearby power.
• Qing Chen weighed the threat of the gathered forces and asked Lin Changsheng to recall the monk's spells and likely location.
• Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and Han Shi concluded that the monk was Master Xuanku of Black-White Temple on Xuanchi Island.

Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra approached Earth Pass City, whose formation inspected all who entered, and waited for Qing Chen’s arrangements. Gao Yuliang escorted them through the guest lane with temporary command tokens, leaving them inside the city ready to sign an alliance agreement.

• A gray-robed rogue cultivator paid five low-grade spirit stones to register and enter Earth Pass City, while a Yang Clan property owner passed without an entry tax.
• Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra concealed their auras and worried the city’s inspection formation might expose them.
• Corpse-Blood True Person asked whether Qing Chen had replied, and Dragon-Seal Vajra told him to wait.
• Gao Yuliang arrived in a spirit carriage and gave the two visitors temporary talisman command tokens prepared by Elder Qing.
• Gao Yuliang used his Vice Island Master command token to take Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra through the guest lane and past the formation unnoticed.
• Inside the city, Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra said it was time to sign the alliance agreement.

Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra arrived at Earth Pass City and asked to meet Elder Qing. At Yellowwind Island, Baili Tingfeng inspected the completed Rebel-Slaying Platform as Songshan True Person sensed danger, while Mysterious Altar True Person prepared an ambush timed to the execution of Ji Bochang.

• Gao Yuliang showed Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra their cave abodes and said Elder Qing would meet them after he received a report.
• Baili Tingfeng inspected the Rebel-Slaying Platform before Ji Bochang's execution, while Qing Chen remained in seclusion aboard the Black Crane.
• Songshan True Person sensed a threatening presence near Yellowwind Island and activated the Edgeless Ruler within his body.
• Ji Cangming reported that the Snake Spirit Thieves were heading for Earth Pass Island, which could draw Qing Chen or Songshan True Person away from the execution.
• Mysterious Altar True Person ordered Leng to alert Daoist Pujin and True Person Wutong to act once Earth Pass Island was surrounded and a Golden Core cultivator left to reinforce it.

Mysterious Altar True Person ordered Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming to help coordinate an assault on the Rebel-Slaying Platform and Earth Pass Island. Meanwhile, Gao Yuliang secured Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra's signatures on a provisional alliance between three islands while Qing Chen remained away.

• Mysterious Altar True Person ordered Ji Cangming to contact Yanluo of Ghostly Manor and arrange a joint attack with three Golden Core True Persons, then commanded Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming to slaughter everyone on Earth Pass Island after its fall.
• Gao Yuliang told Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra that Elder Qing was delayed on Heavenly Jade Island and would arrive by noon the next day.
• Gao Yuliang presented three Golden Core Edicts bearing Hidden Spirit True Person's seal and outlining a Ceasefire Alliance among Earth Pass Island, Earth Zen Island, and Earthblood Island.
• Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra examined the edicts, approved their terms, and stamped them with their auras and seals, provisionally establishing the alliance.
• Gao Yuliang copied the alliance information onto jade slips and sent it out through Ten-Thousand-Li Voice Transmission Talismans, then asked the two True Persons to wait for Elder Qing's return.

The Snake Spirit Way’s fleet arrived near Earth Pass Island, whose Two-Yi Six-Yang Array blocked outside communications. Fu She prepared to attack under rules that limited harm to surrendered foes and noncombatants, while Yin Jiu secretly arranged for other hostile forces to join the raid and planned to exploit the ensuing chaos.

• The Two-Yi Six-Yang Array burned incoming Voice Transmission Talismans and sealed Earth Pass Island against communication.
• Fu She led the Snake Spirit Treasure Ship and ten war boats toward the island, accompanied by Deputy Branch Master Yin Jiu.
• Yin Jiu urged Fu She to slaughter the island’s cultivators and seize its wealth, but Fu She refused and set rules for the attack.
• Yin Jiu agreed outwardly while inwardly condemning Fu She’s restraint and revealing that he had secretly spread word of the impending raid.
• Yin Jiu expected sea bandits and other hostile forces to descend on Earth Pass Island, creating chaos he could use to pursue wealth and power.

Spirit Crane True Person prepared Earth Pass Island’s defenses against the Snake Spirit Way, whose commander Fu She demanded surrender and then attacked the Two-Yi Six-Yang Array. The defenders repelled the first strike, but Fu She unleashed a far stronger formation-breaking thunder serpent at the array’s center.

• Spirit Crane True Person ordered the Two-Yi Six-Yang Array reinforced and called on the island’s cultivators to prepare for battle.
• Fu She demanded Earth Pass Island surrender and threatened to break its array if it resisted.
• Spirit Crane True Person ordered the Heavy Water transformation activated and sent Xu Jiuling and Miao Long to ready the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship.
• The Snake Spirit Way’s thunder pillars struck the array, and the defenders used Spirit Stones to restore the water barrier after it weakened.
• Yin Jiu ordered a python general to retrieve serpent venom to coat weapons once the array broke.
• Fu She joined the eighteen thunder pillars into a powerful thunder serpent and sent it charging at the array’s center.

Spirit Crane True Person and Earth Pass City's cultivators struggled to hold back the Snake Spirit Thieves as their defenses and Spirit Stone reserves dwindled. Songshan True Person received Qing Chen's order to reinforce Earth Pass Island immediately and set off, while Gu Jianchun carried another Jade Slip to Baili Tingfeng.

• Spirit Crane True Person used the Two-Yi Six-Yang Array and allocated twenty high-grade Spirit Stones to Xu Jiuling as the Snake Spirit Thieves attacked Earth Pass City.
• Earth Pass City's cultivators and the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship repelled the attackers for the moment, but Serpent Thunderbolts and Golden Core assaults strained the array and drained its Spirit Stones.
• Songshan True Person waited anxiously on Yellowwind Island after sending seven unanswered messages to Qing Chen, fearing Spirit Crane True Person could not hold out much longer.
• Gu Jianchun delivered Qing Chen's Jade Slip ordering Songshan True Person to reinforce Earth Pass Island immediately, with Qing Chen to follow after emerging from seclusion in one day.
• Songshan True Person departed at once for Earth Pass Island, and Gu Jianchun took another Jade Slip to Baili Tingfeng.

A mole reported that Songshan True Person had left the Rebel-Slaying Platform, prompting Ji Cangming and Mysterious Altar True Person to prepare a joint assault. The Impermanence Sect sought to coordinate with True Person Wutong and the Ghostly Manor before attacking Yellowwind Island and Earth Pass Island.

• Gu Jianchun gave Baili Tingfeng Elder Qing's orders to guard the Rebel-Slaying Platform and execute Ji Bochang without mercy.
• A Condensed Jade Sect mole sailed away from Yellowwind Island and told Ji Cangming that Songshan True Person had left, leaving Qing Chen as the only Golden Core cultivator at the platform.
• Ji Cangming promised the mole a Foundation Establishment Pill for his report.
• Mysterious Altar True Person ordered Leng Jingfei to contact True Person Wutong and Ji Cangming to confirm the Ghostly Manor's cooperation in a three-sided attack.
• True Person Wutong agreed to strike but demanded the promised living souls and claimed his forces would share the spoils according to their abilities.
• Ji Cangming established a Communication Array with Yanluo of the Ghostly Manor as Mysterious Altar True Person prepared to speak with its Corpse Dao Lineage Master.

Mysterious Altar True Person coordinated with the Corpse Dao and Ghostly Manor for an assault on the Rebel-Slaying Platform, while Gao Yuliang revealed Qing Chen had arranged a Ceasefire Alliance to bring reinforcements to Earth Pass City. Spirit Crane True Person learned that Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra were already nearby and bound to help defend the city.

• Mysterious Altar True Person spoke with Lin Changsheng and the Flying Yaksha, arranging for the Duer Sect branch master to confront Qing Chen and block his escape during the assault.
• Mysterious Altar True Person took Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming with him as they raced toward the Rebel-Slaying Platform.
• As Earth Pass City endured Yin Jiu's seventeenth wave of attacks, Gao Yuliang brought Spirit Crane True Person the Ceasefire Alliance covenant Qing Chen had prepared.
• Spirit Crane True Person worried the covenant could not bring help in time, but Gao Yuliang told him that Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra were already on Green Peak Mountain.
• Spirit Crane True Person rejoiced that Qing Chen had anticipated the attack and arranged for the two Golden Core cultivators to aid Earth Pass City.

Spirit Crane True Person, Corpse-Blood True Person, and Dragon-Seal Vajra were forced by the alliance agreement to defend Earth Pass Island from the Snake Spirit Thieves. They joined the battle against Fu She, ending with Dragon-Seal Vajra’s Vajra Subdues Demons strike descending upon him.

• Spirit Crane True Person took Qing Chen’s alliance document and hurried with Gao Yuliang to summon Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra as the island’s array came under attack.
• Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra realized Qing Chen had maneuvered them into defending the island, but feared the consequences of breaking the alliance and angering the Condensed Jade Sect and Cold Mountain Temple.
• Spirit Crane True Person presented the alliance agreement, and Dragon-Seal Vajra persuaded Corpse-Blood True Person to honor its terms and aid the defenders.
• Corpse-Blood True Person attacked the Snake Spirit Thieves with his Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, while Dragon-Seal Vajra followed him toward the battlements.
• Fu She blocked Corpse-Blood True Person’s attack with his Demon-Sealing Two-Qi Fu She Sword, and Dragon-Seal Vajra struck at him with Vajra Subdues Demons.

Dragon-Seal Vajra, Corpse-Blood True Person, and Spirit Crane True Person turned the battle against Fu She and the Snake Spirit Thieves at Earth Pass Island. The Snake Spirit fleet suffered heavy losses, and another Golden Core True Person approached.

• Dragon-Seal Vajra attacked Fu She, but the Snake Spirit Treasure Ship’s thunder pillars and Yin Jiu’s Black Snake Banner helped block his golden palm.
• Corpse-Blood True Person and Dragon-Seal Vajra launched attacks that destroyed a Serpent Spirit Warship, while Spirit Crane True Person fought Yin Jiu and wounded his Jade-Eyed Ring Snake.
• Fu She unleashed his Demon Flood Dragon Sword Form at Dragon-Seal Vajra, then defended against Corpse-Blood True Person’s ghostly hands and Dragon-Seal Vajra’s finger strike with his Purple Bone Shield.
• The Snake Spirit Thieves lost nearly half their warships and hundreds of Snake Guards as the allied forces overwhelmed them.
• Another streak of flight light approached the battlefield, apparently carrying another Golden Core True Person.

The Demon Lotus Sect sailed toward Xuanchi Island in disguise, preparing to assault its powerful temples and lineages. As the fleet advanced, the chapter introduced Yuwen Bujing and recounted how Duan Tianya found him taking revenge on the bandits who had killed his family.

• Xuanchi Island was described as a prosperous hub ruled by the Cold Mountain Temple, the Li pseudo-core lineage, and the Black-White Temple.
• The Demon Lotus Sect's full Azure Wave Archipelago battalion approached the island aboard ten warships disguised as Condensed Jade Sect vessels.
• Lin Changsheng ordered the sect members to advance without retreating and promised them the island's spoils if they conquered it.
• Yuwen Bujing was introduced as a gifted, formidable demon envoy nearing the Foundation Establishment middle stage.
• The chapter recounted how, after bandits killed his father and tortured his mother and sisters to death, ten-year-old Yuwen Bujing hacked his way through the wounded bandits when Duan Tianya gave him the chance to take revenge.

Qing Chen lured Mysterious Altar True Person and True Person Wutong away while he planned to attack Xuanchi Island. When they reached the Rebel-Slaying Platform, they found the Black Crane empty and realized they had fallen into a trap.

• Qing Chen explained to Lin Changsheng that he had misled Mysterious Altar True Person and intended to attack Xuanchi Island before the enemy could return.
• Mysterious Altar True Person and True Person Wutong met on the way to the Rebel-Slaying Platform, but Mysterious Altar True Person lost contact with King Yanluo and grew uneasy.
• Mysterious Altar True Person and True Person Wutong reached Yellowwind Island and destroyed the Black Crane's formation, only to find Qing Chen was gone.
• Mysterious Altar True Person saw the Condensed Jade Sect Disciples and scattered cultivators at the Rebel-Slaying Platform, realized they had been tricked, and demanded to know where Qing Chen was.

Mysterious Altar True Person massacred cultivators at the Rebel-Slaying Platform as he learned that Qing Chen had surrounded Xuanchi Island. Qing Chen’s forces trapped the island with the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation and prepared to attack while Li Ang pleaded for mercy.

• Mysterious Altar True Person unleashed his Second Finger-Demon-Breaking Finger, slaughtering cultivators on the Rebel-Slaying Platform and nearby spectators.
• Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming warned Mysterious Altar True Person that Qing Chen had arrived at Xuanchi Island with ten Spirit Ships and two thousand cultivators.
• Mysterious Altar True Person ordered Wutong to reinforce Xuanchi Island and told Jingfei and the others to kill the remaining people at the platform.
• Qing Chen led the Condensed Jade Sect fleet to Xuanchi Island and ordered Lin Changsheng to deploy the Mystic Ice Silkworm Formation.
• Lin Changsheng directed the Demon Envoys and sect followers as they formed an ice net around the island, freezing cultivators who tried to escape.
• Li Ang and Master Xuanku struggled to defend the island, but the Cold Mountain Temple failed to respond, and Li Ang offered Xuanchi’s resources to Qing Chen in exchange for mercy.

Qing Chen’s forces unleashed the Blood Sea Soul-Burying Boat against Xuanchi Island, but Jianlong Daoist and the Impermanence Sect Remnant destroyed it at the last moment. As the island’s defenders celebrated and grew exhausted, Qing Chen emerged behind the wreckage, poised to strike.

• Qing Chen ordered Lin Changsheng to form the Suspended Skull Seven-Turn Formation and launch the Blood Sea Soul-Burying Boat at Xuanchi Island.
• Li Ang, Master Xuanku, and the island’s cultivators combined their defenses and attacks, but the bone boat battered through them despite sustaining heavy damage.
• Jianlong Daoist arrived with over six hundred Impermanence Sect cultivators and used the Pojun Tanlang, Seven Killings Starfall formation to destroy the blood boat.
• Xuanchi Island’s defenders cheered, while Li Ang recognized Jianlong Daoist and wondered why the Impermanence Sect Remnant had appeared.
• Qing Chen emerged from behind the wreckage as the defenders were exhausted and caught between waves of strength.

Qing Chen unleashed the Four-Armed Wisdom King technique and merged two sabers into a giant blade to destroy Xuanchi Island’s defenses. The formation collapsed, Li Ang and Master Xuanku were gravely weakened, and the defenders suffered devastating casualties.

• Qing Chen grew two additional arms and merged his two Buddha's Wrath Wisdom King Ring-Pommel Sabers into a giant golden blade.
• Li Ang ordered the Li family disciples to form the Bagua Formation and burn their Qi and Blood as Qing Chen's strike battered the defenses.
• Qing Chen's blade shattered the island-protecting formation, destroying the twenty-four Pagodas and killing dozens of Li family disciples, including Li Ang's Third Younger Brother.
• The formation backlash and saber energy reduced Li Ang from the Pseudo-Core realm to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Qing Chen's strike shattered the Swallowing Mountain Yin-Yang Fish Formation, killed fifty Śrāmaṇeras, and left Master Xuanku gravely injured.

Qing Chen destroyed the fleeing forces of the Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island, killing Jianlong Daoist with his Black-Gold Fire Lotus. After the Island-Protecting Grand Array broke, he ordered Lin Changsheng and the Demon Guards to slaughter the remaining cultivators in Xuanchi City and collect their corpses.

• Qing Chen’s blade energy killed a fleeing Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator, while the other cultivators abandoned him and fled.
• Qing Chen sent his Black-Gold Fire Lotus after the Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island forces, killing nearly a hundred cultivators and burning Jianlong Daoist to ash.
• The Island-Protecting Grand Array shattered, allowing Lin Changsheng and two thousand Demon Guards to enter Xuanchi Island.
• Qing Chen ordered Lin Changsheng to divide the Demon Guards into four banners, kill every cultivator in Xuanchi City, collect the corpses, and continue hunting for eight double-hours.
• Lin Changsheng gathered the Demon Envoys and sent four Suspended Skull Battle Formations through the city’s gates.