Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yuanjun disguised himself as Xun Wuying to meet Chiyou and asked him to join forces against the Longevity Daoist. He recounted the Daoist’s alleged schemes and revealed that Ji Xuanying had been the Daoist’s wife, then claimed the Daoist followed the path of ruthlessness.

• Xuan Yuanjun entered the Demon God's secret chamber disguised as Xun Wuying, but Chiyou recognized him and took up the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Xuan Yuanjun told Chiyou he wanted to gather allies to deal with the Longevity Daoist, whom he described as a dangerous enemy.
• Xuan Yuanjun recounted how the Longevity Daoist had manipulated their conflict and created nine Grand Formations in the Desolate Domain, but Chiyou said the claims lacked conclusive evidence.
• Xuan Yuanjun connected the nine Grand Formations to the nine Spirit Lands in the Immortal Spirit Domain and warned Chiyou about the consequences if the formation were activated.
• Xuan Yuanjun said Ji Xuanying had been the Longevity Daoist's wife and revealed that the Daoist followed the path of ruthlessness, shocking Chiyou.

Xuan Yuanjun told Chiyou that Longevity Daoist was the true master of the Ruthlessness Dao and warned that confronting him alone would be fatal. He revealed that another realm had remembered Xuan Yuanjun as the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou as his defeated foe, leaving Chiyou’s name infamous in myth.

• Chiyou rejected Xuan Yuanjun’s claim that Longevity Daoist had surpassed them, but Xuan Yuanjun pointed out that Chiyou had always been wary of him.
• Xuan Yuanjun explained that Longevity Daoist had guided the Slaughter Evil Lord and urged Chiyou to join an alliance against him.
• Chiyou said he would settle accounts with Longevity Daoist himself, while Xuan Yuanjun warned that he would die if he went alone.
• Xuan Yuanjun told Chiyou that he cared about the name he would leave behind and revealed that another realm had turned them into figures of myth.
• Xuan Yuanjun said the other realm called him the Yellow Emperor and remembered Chiyou as his defeated enemy, then laughed as Chiyou reacted.

Xuan Yuanjun told Chiyou that Longevity Daoist planned to activate a Cross-Realm Grand Formation to reach a more astonishing world, threatening the Immortal Spirit Domain. Chiyou agreed to join forces against Longevity Daoist, though he vowed to kill Xuan Yuanjun afterward, and Xuan Yuanjun planned to ask Zhu Qingquan to help gather the other domain leaders.

• Chiyou challenged Xuan Yuanjun’s account of a myth about their past, and Xuan Yuanjun explained that he had heard it from juniors who came from the Martial World.
• Xuan Yuanjun warned Chiyou that Longevity Daoist’s formation could turn the Immortal Spirit Domain into another Desolate Domain and revealed that Longevity Daoist’s master, Senior Ji, came from the world the formation sought to reach.
• Xuan Yuanjun told Chiyou that Senior Ji was Ji Xuanying’s father and had brought many cultivation methods, divine weapons, and Supreme Treasures to the Ancient World.
• Chiyou said he would believe Xuan Yuanjun for now and agreed to join forces against Longevity Daoist, but promised to kill Xuan Yuanjun once their enemy was dealt with.
• Xuan Yuanjun said he would gather the old fellows from the other domains by asking Zhu Qingquan for help.

Xuan Yuanjun persuaded Chiyou to help him gather the domain ancestors and then enlisted Zhu Qingquan to invite them with an auction of the Zhu Family’s weapons. The ancestors began traveling to the Zhu Family, hoping to buy weapons and learn the truth about the Radiant Sun Sect’s destruction.

• Xuan Yuanjun and Chiyou agreed that Chiyou would attend a gathering arranged through Zhu Qingquan, and Xuan Yuanjun left the Demon God Sect safely.
• Xuan Yuanjun wondered which domain ancestors served the Longevity Daoist and decided to bring them together despite the risk.
• Xuan Yuanjun persuaded Zhu Qingquan to invite the ancestors by offering the Zhu Family’s stored sabers and swords for auction.
• Zhu Qingquan sent invitations, and most of the domain ancestors set out for the Zhu Family to bid on weapons and question the four sects about the Radiant Sun Sect’s destruction.

Xuan Yuanjun discussed gathering the domain Ancestors against the Longevity Daoist, while Huang Xiao found the Transfer Formation Site unchanged. When a bloody group attacked the gathering under the familiar formation, Huang Xiao recognized the threat and saw Xu Zhiru approaching the Great Powers’ forces.

• Zhu Qingquan told Xuan Yuanjun that only the Slaughter Evil Lord and the Blood God had not sent word, and Xuan Yuanjun suspected the Blood God was still recovering from his injuries.
• Xuan Yuanjun said the Demon God had agreed to join forces against the Longevity Daoist, though Zhu Qingquan doubted they would survive the conflict.
• Two months later, Huang Xiao returned to the Transfer Formation Site and found more ordinary Jianghu forces gathered, but no change to the Grand Formation.
• A group arrived from the Immortal Spirit Domain and began slaughtering people as a familiar formation covered the sea.
• Huang Xiao recognized the bloody aura and realized the Longevity Daoist’s people were again harvesting essence blood on a larger scale.
• Xu Zhiru appeared among the attackers and headed toward the Great Powers’ forces, leaving Huang Xiao worried that no one present could stop him.

Huang Xiao realized Xu Zhiru was heading toward the formation imprisoning the Creation Sect members and suspected he meant to activate it. With no one else able to stop him, Huang Xiao attacked the Longevity Daoist’s followers to buy time and disrupt the collection of essence blood.

• Huang Xiao watched Xu Zhiru slaughter the great powers’ disciples and noticed that he was approaching the formation holding the Creation Sect members.
• More than a dozen Grand Elders joined forces against Xu Zhiru, but he nearly wiped them out with a single move.
• Huang Xiao feared Xu Zhiru intended to activate the formation and kill Xuan Yuanxiang and the other Creation Sect members.
• Huang Xiao charged into a group of the Longevity Daoist’s followers, killing several people and drawing their attention.
• As more enemies surrounded him, Huang Xiao kept fighting and absorbed essence blood to hinder the Longevity Daoist’s plan.

Huang Xiao joined the surviving experts from the Great Powers of the Various Domains to fight Xu Zhiru’s forces and draw attention away from the Grand Formation. He was confronted by one of the five exceptional fighters from the Valley of Death and discovered that the man wielded a concealed flexible sword.

• Huang Xiao killed a group of enemies and joined forces with surviving experts from the Great Powers of the Various Domains.
• Huang Xiao charged into the enemy ranks, but one of the five exceptional fighters attacked him with a powerful Palm Force.
• Huang Xiao and the newcomer exchanged taunts, and Huang Xiao unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration before attacking with his saber.
• The newcomer revealed a colorless, transparent longsword and clashed with Huang Xiao, sending them both flying back.
• Huang Xiao noticed blood on his cheek and realized his opponent’s flexible sword had curled around his saber to strike at his throat.

Huang Xiao fought a powerful swordsman who had emerged from the Valley of Death and defeated him after revealing his own strength. The other enemies remained occupied, while Xu Zhiru continued activating the formation.

• Huang Xiao recognized his opponent’s transparent sword as a divine weapon left behind by Longevity Daoist and taunted him as a frog at the bottom of a well.
• Huang Xiao and the swordsman exchanged hundreds of blows while Huang Xiao watched Xu Zhiru activate the formation.
• The swordsman invoked a forbidden art and increased his strength, but Huang Xiao blocked his strike and unleashed Heavenly Demon Disintegration Fifteenth Stage.
• Huang Xiao pursued the retreating swordsman and battered his meridians with successive saber strikes.
• Huang Xiao sealed off the swordsman’s escape routes and killed him, leaving his body to fall into the sea.

Huang Xiao killed one of the five experts, then fought two others who used a Combined Strike Method to hold him off. When he fled toward the Great Powers' experts and asked them to help him heal, they refused, leaving him surrounded as the four enemies mocked their infighting.

• Huang Xiao killed one of the five experts, prompting two others to break away and attack him.
• Huang Xiao sent the saber wielder flying, but the second attacker forced him to abandon his follow-up strike.
• The two experts used a Combined Strike Method to match Huang Xiao and drive him back.
• Huang Xiao fled toward the Great Powers' experts and asked them to hold off his pursuers while he healed.
• The Great Powers' experts refused to help, and Huang Xiao threatened that none of them would survive if he died.

Huang Xiao exploited the scattered experts to kill two of them quickly, then stopped when the survivors fled toward Xu Zhiru. Xu Zhiru killed one fleeing man but suffered backlash from the formation after being distracted, leaving Huang Xiao encouraged by his weakness.

• Huang Xiao used the crowd to prevent two separated experts from joining forces and chased one down.
• Huang Xiao disarmed the fleeing expert and killed him with a second slash after the man called for help.
• The crowd blocked another expert’s escape, allowing Huang Xiao to kill him in one move.
• The remaining two experts fled toward Xu Zhiru, who killed one with a flick of his sleeve.
• Xu Zhiru spat blood after the interruption, and Huang Xiao realized the formation had struck him with backlash.

Huang Xiao devoured the formation’s essence blood aura while Xu Zhiru struggled with the backlash and ordered his last expert to stop him. After Huang Xiao killed the expert, he looked Xu Zhiru directly in the eye.

• Xu Zhiru suppressed his injuries and ordered the remaining men to deal with the chaos while he continued his task.
• Huang Xiao devoured the essence blood aura at an increasing rate, killed several people, and collected their Blood Crystals.
• When the remaining expert warned that Huang Xiao had taken nearly forty percent of the aura, Xu Zhiru ordered him to attack Huang Xiao.
• The expert charged Huang Xiao and mistook a phantom for his real body, leaving himself open to a fatal saber strike.
• Huang Xiao killed the expert and openly looked straight at Xu Zhiru.

Xu Zhiru completed his work on the formation and pursued Huang Xiao, but fled when Xuan Yuanjun’s image appeared. Xuan Yuanjun explained that he had contacted Huang Xiao through a formation he had secretly placed, which unexpectedly revealed part of Xu Zhiru’s actions.

• Huang Xiao devoured much of the essence blood aura before the formation collapsed, then fled as the survivors escaped.
• Xu Zhiru finished working on the formation and chased Huang Xiao, intending to capture him and reclaim the essence blood aura he had devoured.
• Xu Zhiru suddenly fled, and the other people from the Valley of Death followed after seeing him run.
• Huang Xiao returned to find Xuan Yuanjun and asked whether he had stopped Xu Zhiru from activating the grand formation.
• Xuan Yuanjun explained that he was speaking from the Zhu Family through a formation image, and that his secretly placed formation had unexpectedly let him detect some of Xu Zhiru’s actions.

Huang Xiao learned that Xuan Yuanjun’s hidden formation had activated because the Grand Formation was slightly damaged, possibly by Xu Zhiru on Longevity Daoist’s orders. Xuan Yuanjun planned to investigate the damage, while Huang Xiao worried about the formation’s killing power and the Jianghu crowds who had fled; at the Zhu Family, Xuan Yuanjun began explaining his distraction to the gathered old experts.

• Xuan Yuanjun told Huang Xiao that his hidden formation was meant to reveal his survival and deter intruders, not to neutralize the Grand Formation’s killing power.
• Xuan Yuanjun suspected damage to the Grand Formation had triggered his formation and said Xu Zhiru may have caused it on Longevity Daoist’s orders.
• Xuan Yuanjun said the damaged section could provide a way to unravel the Grand Formation and planned to inspect it in person.
• Huang Xiao failed to find the damage himself and worried that the Jianghu crowds’ flight would leave no one to share the Grand Formation’s killing power.
• At the Zhu Family, Zhu Qingquan asked why Xuan Yuanjun had seemed distracted, and Xuan Yuanjun began explaining that something unexpected had happened.

Xuan Yuanjun told the assembled leaders that the Longevity Daoist had created the formation at the site and that Xu Zhiru had attacked those gathered there on the Daoist’s orders. The meeting ended with the leaders still questioning Xuan Yuanjun and asking what Xu Zhiru had wanted.

• Xuan Yuanjun revealed that the Longevity Daoist had laid the formation after Xuan Yuanxiang asked him for help.
• Xuan Yuanjun said a formation he had secretly left at the site let him learn that Xu Zhiru had attacked, killing all the Grand Elders present and leaving only twenty or thirty percent of the others alive.
• Xuan Yuanjun claimed Xu Zhiru took orders from the Longevity Daoist, who had also directed Xu Zhiru to plot against him.
• Xuan Yuanjun warned that a few people in the Jianghu, possibly including someone at the meeting, might serve the Longevity Daoist, prompting Xun Wuying and Shentu Kuanglang to challenge him.
• Xuan Yuanjun defended taking Inugami and Tiger Wing as an advance contribution toward the fight against the Longevity Daoist, while Zhu Qingquan asked again what Xu Zhiru had wanted.

Xuan Yuanjun tried to unite the Ancestors against the Longevity Daoist, but several doubted his claims and refused to commit. The Demon God arrived, declared his support, and persuaded the gathering to follow Xuan Yuanjun, while warning him not to lead them into a trap.

• Xuan Yuanjun said Xu Zhiru had altered the formation and urged everyone to join forces against the Longevity Daoist, but Xun Wuying and Shentu Kuanglang reserved judgment.
• Xuan Yuanjun suggested that only the Longevity Daoist's allies would oppose cooperation, prompting Xun Wuying and Shentu Kuanglang to protest.
• The Demon God entered the Main Hall, said he believed Xuan Yuanjun, and endorsed joining forces against the Longevity Daoist.
• The Demon God asked the gathering to follow Xuan Yuanjun, and no one objected.
• The Demon God warned Xuan Yuanjun that he would turn against him if he suspected the plan was leading them to their deaths, and Xuan Yuanjun said he would treat everyone equally.

Xuan Yuanjun and the gathered factions decided to confront the Blood God over the Blood Domain’s suspected role in recent attacks, while Zhu Qingquan promised them Divine Weapons to help fight Longevity Daoist. As their mighty party approached, the Blood God Sect struggled to explain the mysterious attackers and prepare for the visitors.

• Xuan Yuanjun learned that Xu Zhiru had attacked those guarding the Last Spirit Land before going overseas, and the gathered leaders suspected the Blood God was connected to the attacks.
• Xuan Yuanjun and the Demon God agreed to visit the Blood Domain and demand an explanation from the Blood God.
• Zhu Qingquan promised to provide Divine Weapons without charge to suitable disciples and subordinates who would join the fight against Longevity Daoist.
• Xuan Yuanjun led the powerful group toward the Blood Domain, alarming Jianghu onlookers as they passed.
• The Blood God Sect Master asked his senior experts how to respond to the approaching factions, while Jiang Wei said the attackers were not Blood God Sect disciples and some had been missing for thousands of years.

The Blood God Sect’s sect master faced a gathering of domain ancestors who demanded to see the Blood God Ancestor, and led them to his hidden retreat. When Xuan Yuanjun revealed his identity, the sect master feared the Blood God Ancestor might be killed and the Blood God Sect destroyed.

• The Blood God Sect’s sect master rejected awakening the Ancestor as a dangerous option and asked his subordinates for another plan.
• A disciple announced that the assembled ancestors had arrived, and they soon appeared inside the main hall after breaking through the grand formation.
• Xun Wuying demanded that the Blood God Ancestor emerge from seclusion, while the Demon God warned that Blood God showed no mercy even to his own people.
• The Blood God Sect’s sect master agreed to lead the visitors to the Ancestor’s retreat and told his subordinates to stay behind.
• At a concealed cave, Xuan Yuanjun revealed his identity, leaving the sect master afraid that the Blood God Ancestor would die and the Blood God Sect would fall.

The Blood God revealed that he had helped a puppet of the Longevity Daoist gather essence blood aura in exchange for a share of it. After Xuan Yuanjun explained the Longevity Daoist’s betrayal, the Blood God agreed to support their alliance and share details of the formation, leaving them ready to investigate the Spirit Land Grand Formation.

• The Blood God ordered the Blood God Sect's Sect Master to withdraw before confronting Xuan Yuanjun, the Demon God, and the others.
• Xuan Yuanjun questioned the Blood God about the Blood Crystals, and the Blood God admitted they came from his cooperation with the Longevity Daoist.
• The Blood God explained that the Longevity Daoist had sent a puppet to arrange the formation, and that he had failed to track the puppet to its master.
• Xuan Yuanjun recounted the Longevity Daoist’s betrayal, and the Blood God agreed to support their alliance and help stop him.
• The Blood God explained the essence-blood-gathering formation in full, and Xuan Yuanjun said they would begin by investigating the Spirit Land Grand Formation.

Xuan Yuanjun explained that Huang Xiao had consumed much of the essence blood aura the Longevity Daoist was trying to gather, so the Daoist might still lack what he needed. The group agreed to monitor the Spirit Land Grand Formation and watch for further attempts to collect essence blood, though they could not tell whether the Longevity Daoist would act again.

• The Blood God and Xuan Yuanjun debated whether the Longevity Daoist had gathered enough essence blood, with Xuan Yuanjun arguing that he might still be short.
• Xuan Yuanjun revealed that Huang Xiao, a junior from the Martial World who had inherited part of the Blood God's cultivation method, had devoured much of the essence blood aura on two occasions.
• The Blood God and Demon God were surprised by Huang Xiao's ability, and the group agreed the Longevity Daoist's plans might have been disrupted.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed sending a few disciples to watch the Spirit Land Grand Formation, while the Demon God urged them to gather intelligence about other places where the Longevity Daoist might collect essence blood.
• Xuan Yuanjun said another attempt would suggest the Longevity Daoist still needed essence blood, but the Blood God questioned whether his silence would rule out other actions.

Xuan Yuanjun and the other leaders discussed how to respond while Longevity Daoist lay low, then agreed to investigate the Transfer Formation Site and try to break its formation. They left together without Blood God, who remained at his sect but promised to help if needed.

• Xuan Yuanjun warned that Longevity Daoist would likely pause to review his plans, leaving the gathered leaders unable to locate him or attack directly.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed targeting the Transfer Formation Site, where Xu Zhiru had tampered with the formation and Xuan Yuanxiang and others were trapped.
• Demon God cautioned that the damaged formation might be part of Longevity Daoist’s plan, but Xuan Yuanjun said they had to proceed and hoped to disrupt the grand formations of both domains.
• Demon God agreed to go, while Blood God declined because he was at a critical point in his secluded cultivation and offered to assist if summoned.
• The other leaders agreed to accompany Xuan Yuanjun and Demon God, partly because staying together seemed safer than returning alone.
• Xuan Yuanjun urged the group to set off promptly.