Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren used the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra to purify a million Baleful Spirits and astonished cultivators across Firmament Star with his immense Buddha light. After the spirits vanished, he collected a strange mass of black energy that he suspected was the Source of Killing Intent, then healed the nearby cultivators.

• Chu Kuangren stopped attacking the Baleful Spirits with his sword and invoked the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra to protect the Heavenly Feather Sect's people from further casualties.
• Chu Kuangren's Buddha light formed a thousand-foot golden Buddha that purified the million Baleful Spirits, while Wu Ye and Saints across Firmament Star watched in shock.
• Chu Kuangren bid the Baleful Spirits rest in peace as they dissolved into specks of light after bowing to him.
• Chu Kuangren seized a mass of black energy left behind by the spirits, suspected it was the Source of Killing Intent, and stored it in his Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Chu Kuangren released Daoist Rhyme over the surrounding cultivators, easing their exhaustion and healing their injuries.

After Chu Kuangren healed the survivors of the battle, Wu Ye mistook his Buddhist light for profound Buddhist attainment and begged him for guidance. Chu Kuangren’s six words sent Wu Ye into a dangerous state of contemplation, leaving the Heavenly Feather Sect Leader asking Chu Kuangren what to do.

• Chu Kuangren spotted the White-Robed General in the Ancient Battlefield, who bowed to him before vanishing into the sandstorm.
• The Heavenly Feather Sect Leader, Wu Ye, and Leng Changkong greeted Chu Kuangren, then helped clear the battlefield and mourn the fallen.
• Wu Ye asked Chu Kuangren to guide him past his Buddhist cultivation bottleneck, convinced Chu Kuangren’s Buddhist light showed exceptional attainment.
• Chu Kuangren told Wu Ye, “See through, let go, be free,” and Wu Ye began contemplating the words so intensely that his Spiritual Power fluctuated dangerously.
• The Heavenly Feather Sect Leader warned that Wu Ye was nearing cultivation deviation and anxiously asked Chu Kuangren what they should do.

Chu Kuangren bluffed Wu Ye through a Buddhist crisis, and Wu Ye accepted him as a teacher. Chu Kuangren returned to the Ancient Battlefield, where he seized the Lou Kingdom Lord's Saint Bone from cultivators fighting over it.

• Chu Kuangren recited Buddhist sayings until Wu Ye attained enlightenment and knelt to acknowledge him as his teacher.
• After clearing the battlefield, Chu Kuangren left Lan Yu in Tuyang City and entered the Ancient Battlefield's Core Region alone.
• Chu Kuangren passed through Lou Kingdom Ancient City and resolved to grow strong enough to surpass the Great Emperors and protect the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• At Lou Kingdom Palace, Chu Kuangren found cultivators fighting a wounded young man for the Saint Bone.
• Chu Kuangren caught the young man's severed arm, took the Heaven and Earth Ring containing the Lou Kingdom Lord's remains, and drew attacks from the other cultivators.

Chu Kuangren claimed the Saint's remains and entered the Ancient Battlefield's Core Region, where he collected powerful artifacts and fought a Saint-level Baleful Spirit. The spirit's Source of Killing Intent revealed the Heavenly Baleful Indestructible Body, which could grant him a fully mastered Dao Body capable of easily killing Saints.

• Chu Kuangren killed the young cultivator who demanded the Heaven and Earth Ring, then drove off the other cultivators and left the ancient city.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Core Region, used the Treasure-Seeking Art to find the Saint Sword Blood Execution, and collected several more artifacts.
• A violent fluctuation from the Source of Killing Intent in Chu Kuangren's ring drew a Saint-level Baleful Spirit to attack him.
• Chu Kuangren defeated the Baleful Spirit with the Four Seasons Sword Formation and collected its Source of Killing Intent.
• The Sources of Killing Intent merged and entered Chu Kuangren, revealing that the Heavenly Baleful Qi could grant him the fully mastered Heavenly Baleful Indestructible Body.

Chu Kuangren searched the Ancient Battlefield's Core Region for heavenly baleful qi, then attacked and killed an intelligent black-robed baleful spirit to claim its qi. As he prepared to leave, a far stronger enemy struck, forcing him to brace himself with a Great Teleportation Talisman at hand.

• Chu Kuangren collected strands of heavenly baleful qi for three days, raising his Heavenly Baleful Indestructible Body's progress to five percent.
• Chu Kuangren found an old man in black robes fighting a black-furred ape and realized the old man was an intelligent baleful spirit.
• After the old man killed the ape and claimed its heavenly baleful qi, Chu Kuangren attacked him with the Four Seasons Sword Formation.
• Chu Kuangren killed the black-robed old man with the sword formation and collected the concentrated heavenly baleful qi he left behind.
• A terrifying black finger attacked Chu Kuangren, who countered with Kunwu and prepared to use his Great Teleportation Talisman.

Chu Kuangren faced the Giant Baleful Saint King, but the White-Robed General intervened and gave him a Heavenly Baleful Crystal. After Chu Kuangren escaped the Core Region, he discovered that its Baleful Spirits were bound there by their connection to the Earth Qi.

• The Giant Baleful Saint King confronted Chu Kuangren and prepared to kill him for slaying his subordinates and taking Heavenly Baleful Qi.
• The White-Robed General blocked the Giant Baleful Saint King's attack and explained that Chu Kuangren had earned his gratitude by delivering the general's soldiers.
• The White-Robed General gave Chu Kuangren a Heavenly Baleful Crystal and told him to wait outside the Core Region for one day.
• Chu Kuangren fled the Core Region as the White-Robed General and the Giant Baleful Saint King clashed behind him.
• Chu Kuangren observed that the Core Region's Baleful Spirits could not cross its boundary and deduced that their Killing Intent tied them to its Earth Qi.

Chu Kuangren drew a horde of Baleful Spirits by carrying a Heavenly Baleful Crystal, then calmly fought them while waiting for the White-Robed General. The chapter ended with him still seated as a Divine Mountain crashed down on the inner circle’s Ten Fiends.

• Chu Kuangren realized the Heavenly Baleful Crystal had attracted the inner circle’s Baleful Spirits and put it away as they converged on him.
• Adventurers followed the Baleful Spirits and found Chu Kuangren facing the horde alone.
• Chu Kuangren formed a sand chair and sat down, then sent two hundred Sword Qi Clones to fight the Baleful Spirits.
• Chu Kuangren brought out swords from the Azure Spirit Sword Box to strengthen his clones as the cultivators watched in astonishment.
• Blade Baleful Intent and several other Ten Fiends broke through the clones’ defensive line and charged Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren stayed seated and summoned a Divine Mountain that crashed down on the Ten Fiends.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Baleful Spirits and met the White-Robed General, who explained how he came to be and asked Chu Kuangren to find his descendants. The General gave him a jade pendant to help identify them, then returned to the Core Region.

• Chu Kuangren wiped out the Inner Circle Ten Fiends with a single slap and used the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra to destroy the Baleful Spirits.
• The White-Robed General emerged from the Core Region, and Chu Kuangren invited him to sit and asked why he had saved him.
• The White-Robed General recounted how the An Kingdom's ruler turned an army of a million into Baleful Spirits and how the Lou Kingdom princess, his beloved, brought his corpse to the Core Region to resurrect him.
• The White-Robed General gave Chu Kuangren the Heavenly Baleful Crystal and asked him to find and protect his descendants, promising to gather Heavenly Baleful Qi in return.
• The White-Robed General gave Chu Kuangren a jade pendant that could react to his descendants, then returned to the Core Region.

After refining the Heavenly Baleful Crystal, Chu Kuangren advanced his heavenly baleful indestructible body to sixty percent and traveled with Lan Yu and Wu Ye to Thunderclap Temple. Abbot Hui Xin welcomed him and revealed that he had invited Chu Kuangren to exchange insights on Buddhist teachings.

• Chu Kuangren finished refining the Heavenly Baleful Crystal, unleashing a wave of killing intent across Tuyang City and raising his heavenly baleful indestructible body to sixty percent.
• Chu Kuangren drew and learned the Buddhist technique Demon-Subduing Great Hand Seal.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu prepared to leave, but Wu Ye invited them to Thunderclap Temple at Abbot Hui Xin's request, and Chu Kuangren agreed.
• Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu, and Wu Ye traveled to Thunderclap Temple in the Mirage Tower and arrived at its rear mountain.
• Hui Xin welcomed Chu Kuangren, hosted him and Lan Yu for a vegetarian meal, then explained that he had invited Chu Kuangren to discuss Buddhist teachings.

Chu Kuangren discussed Buddhist teachings with Hui Xin and guided the abbot to a sudden enlightenment with a few words. Hui Xin opened Thunderclap Temple’s Scripture Repository to Chu Kuangren, leaving him free to study its texts.

• Hui Xin invited Chu Kuangren to discuss Buddhist teachings and offered him unrestricted access to Thunderclap Temple’s Scripture Repository.
• Chu Kuangren accepted the invitation and followed Hui Xin to a great hall, where monks and Buddha Saints watched through Spirit Thought.
• Chu Kuangren declared that he was Buddha and explained that all living beings possessed Buddha-nature.
• Hui Xin attained sudden enlightenment, thanked Chu Kuangren, and ended their discussion.
• Hui Xin granted Chu Kuangren permission to browse every text in the Scripture Repository.

After impressing Thunderclap Temple’s Buddhist Saints with his understanding of Buddhist teachings, Chu Kuangren entered the Scripture Repository and rapidly mastered its techniques. Sha Xin arrived to drag him out, but Chu’s manifestations of Thunderclap Temple’s Sage Laws left Sha Xin stunned.

• Chu Kuangren impressed the Buddhist Saints with his mastery of Buddhist teachings, and Master Huixin let him enter the Scripture Repository.
• Chu Kuangren rapidly learned Buddhist cultivation techniques, including the Prajna Vajra Palm, while the young monk who escorted him left in surprise.
• Sha Xin condemned the Abbot’s decision to admit an outsider and set out to drag Chu Kuangren from the repository despite the warrior monks’ objections.
• Lan Yu blocked Sha Xin at the entrance and prepared to fight when he demanded that Chu Kuangren come out.
• Chu Kuangren released manifestations of several Thunderclap Temple Sage Laws from inside the repository, astonishing Sha Xin.
• Huixin told Sha Xin that Chu Kuangren’s rapid comprehension was consistent with his past achievements, and Sha Xin admitted Chu’s understanding surpassed his own.

Chu Kuangren emerged from Thunderclap Temple’s Scripture Repository having formed the Ten Thousand Laws Return to One Dao Body. Hui Xin praised the Buddhist insights Chu had shared, while Sha Xin struggled to understand whether he could abandon killing and still protect others.

• Chu Kuangren left the Scripture Repository after comprehending its techniques, and Hui Xin and Sha Xin recognized that he had formed the Ten Thousand Laws Return to One Dao Body.
• Hui Xin told Sha Xin that discussing Buddhist teachings with Chu Kuangren had raised his chance of passing his tribulation from fifty percent to seventy percent.
• Hui Xin gave Sha Xin a booklet of Buddhist teachings that Wu Ye had recorded from Chu Kuangren’s guidance.
• Sha Xin studied the booklet through the night but became bewildered over whether laying down his butcher’s knife would leave anyone to protect living beings.

Sha Xin succumbed to cultivation deviation after brooding over whether his past killings had made enlightenment impossible, and Chu Kuangren subdued him with force and the Mind-Calming Mantra. Sha Xin remained torn over his guilt until Chu Kuangren urged him to resolve his heart’s knot with the words, “kill to protect life; sever karma, not people.”

• Sha Xin’s doubts and resentment erupted into cultivation deviation, and his saber qi attacked the warrior monks at Dharma Hall.
• Hui Xin tried to suppress Sha Xin with the Mind-Calming Mantra, but Sha Xin resisted and attacked him.
• Chu Kuangren struck Sha Xin down, then used his own Mind-Calming Mantra to disperse Sha Xin’s murderous intent.
• Sha Xin explained that reading Hui Xin’s booklet had made him fear his many killings would prevent him from attaining enlightenment, and he planned to resign and enter seclusion.
• Chu Kuangren challenged Sha Xin’s plan to dispel his malevolence and told him, “kill to protect life; sever karma, not people.”

After Chu Kuangren helped Sha Xin affirm his Buddhist heart, he learned that Shang Han had challenged Princess Linglong and hurried to the Qingyun Dynasty. Princess Linglong faced Shang Han at the palace drill ground, where the duel was about to begin.

• Sha Xin thanked Chu Kuangren for enlightening him and promised to help him as long as it did not harm people or slaughter innocents.
• Chu Kuangren heard that Shang Han had challenged Princess Linglong, learned the duel would take place at the Qingyun Dynasty, and set out with Lan Yu.
• Princess Linglong prepared for the duel and admitted to her maid that Shang Han would be difficult to defeat.
• At the palace drill ground, Princess Linglong met Shang Han while the Qingyun Ruler and others watched.
• Shang Han vowed to reclaim his lost honor and defeat Chu Kuangren, but Princess Linglong dismissed him as less than a firefly compared with her Imperial Son-in-Law.

Princess Linglong fought Shang Han and was overwhelmed after he revealed the power of the Quasi-Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Halberd. As Shang Han prepared to attack her again, Chu Kuangren arrived and threatened to wipe out Shang Han’s entire clan if he touched her.

• Princess Linglong disrupted Shang Han’s Dao Heart and surprised him by matching his strength in their exchange.
• Princess Linglong used the Blacklight Skull, but Shang Han pierced it with the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and revealed it was a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.
• Shang Han used the halberd to send Princess Linglong flying, and she refused to admit defeat despite the Qingyun Ruler’s plea.
• Shang Han prepared to strike Princess Linglong again, but Chu Kuangren arrived and threatened his entire clan.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the royal palace, healed Princess Linglong, and effortlessly defeated Shang Han despite the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd. After killing Shang Han for the deaths of Heavenly Feather Sect cultivators, Chu Kuangren sent the Dao Protector back with a warning that he would visit the Shang Clan in three days.

• Chu Kuangren healed Princess Linglong and struck Shang Han with a palm that sent him crashing into the palace wall.
• Shang Han attacked Chu Kuangren with the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd, but Chu Kuangren shattered his Nine Heavens Wind Calamity and crushed him with a palm strike.
• Chu Kuangren drove back Shang Han's Dao Protector with Thunderclap Temple's Heavenly Thunder Roar, then demanded to know where Shang Han had obtained the Lou Clan Ancient Sword.
• Chu Kuangren killed Shang Han, took the Xuanhuang Emperor Qi from his body, and told the Dao Protector to warn the Shang Clan that he would arrive in three days.

After killing Shang Han, Chu Kuangren accepted the Qingyun Ruler’s thanks and set out to confront the Shang Clan over the Heavenly Feather Sect’s losses. As the Shang Clan prepared for his arrival, Chu Kuangren reached its territory alone, where its sole Saint awaited him.

• Chu Kuangren claimed the masterless Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and checked on Princess Linglong, whose injuries had improved.
• At a banquet, Chu Kuangren told the Qingyun Ruler he would go to the Shang Clan and promised him the Lightning-Deflecting Divine Needle and pills for his coming tribulation.
• After a day at the Qingyun royal palace, Chu Kuangren departed for the Shang Clan.
• Shang Han’s father and the Shang Clan’s elders debated how to respond to Chu Kuangren, deciding to prepare for war while waiting to see what he would do.
• The Mirage Tower arrived above the Shang Clan, and its sole Saint prepared to face Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren left Lan Yu aboard the Mirage Tower and entered Shang Clan territory alone as the disciples readied themselves for battle.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Shang Clan over Shang Han releasing the Million Baleful Spirits Army and demanded that Shang Han’s father kill himself and the clan’s Saint keep vigil for the fallen Heavenly Feather Sect members for a hundred years. After the clan refused, Chu Kuangren and the Shang Clan’s Saint began fighting, with the clan activating its grand formation.

• Chu Kuangren entered the Shang Clan and used his sword Dao rhythm to pin down its armed disciples as he announced his visit.
• Chu Kuangren demanded that Shang Han’s father kill himself to atone for the deaths of more than sixteen thousand eight hundred Heavenly Feather Sect members.
• After an elder dismissed the casualties as insignificant, Chu Kuangren killed and refined him with the Taotie Technique.
• Chu Kuangren demanded that the Shang Clan’s Saint keep vigil at the martyrs’ mausoleum for a hundred years, but the Saint rejected the demand.
• Chu Kuangren declared that blood must be repaid with blood, and the Shang Clan’s Saint attacked him.
• The Shang Clan Leader ordered weaker disciples to leave and activated the clan’s grand formation, but Chu Kuangren resisted its suppression with his Six Supreme Foundations.

The Shang Clan used magnetic lodestone and its Formation to suppress Chu Kuangren's sword, then attacked him with a Six-Step Saint. Chu Kuangren revealed the heavenly baleful indestructible body and fought the Saint on equal terms, leaving the Shang Clan territory in ruins as their battle continued.

• The Shang Clan Saint struck while magnetic lodestone buried underground disrupted Chu Kuangren's sword, and the Shang Clan Leader explained their countermeasures.
• Chu Kuangren put away the Kunwu Sword and activated the heavenly baleful indestructible body, shocking the Shang Clan and the observing Saints.
• The Shang Clan Saint charged, and Chu Kuangren met his attack with a fist empowered by killing intent and the Dao Body.
• The Shang Clan Saint unleashed Nine Heavens Wind Calamity, while Chu Kuangren answered with Heavenly Baleful Manifestation.
• Their clash shook the Shang Clan territory, destroyed buildings, and killed Shang Clan members caught in the turbulent energy.

Chu Kuangren revealed the power of his ten thousand laws return to one Dao body and killed the Shang Clan Saint after the Saint used a Hidden Blood Flower to increase his strength. He then demanded that the Shang Clan Patriarch atone, but the Patriarch fled and was stopped by his own elders.

• The Shang Clan Saint consumed a Hidden Blood Flower, raising his cultivation from a Sixth-Step Saint to a Seven-Step Saint.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his ten thousand laws return to one Dao body and combined its power with his heavenly baleful indestructible body and nine-orifice exquisite sword heart.
• Chu Kuangren cut the Shang Clan Saint in half with a sword strike and absorbed his corpse into his taotie space.
• Chu Kuangren confronted the Shang Clan Patriarch and demanded that he kill himself or be killed.
• The Shang Clan Patriarch attacked Chu Kuangren and tried to flee, but Shang Clan elders blocked his way and urged him to sacrifice himself for the clan.