Chapter Summaries

Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, Hong Yi, and Huo Lian attacked Jiang Hengdao while Zuo Qiu Yi supplied them with Longevity True Qi and the Otherworldly Aura continued suppressing Jiang Hengdao. They wounded him and forced him to spend more Longevity True Qi, but could not kill him, leaving the others to prepare to rejoin the battle when the aura weakened.

• Zuo Qiu Yi transferred Longevity True Qi to Huo Lian and urged him to join Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi against Jiang Hengdao.
• Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, Hong Yi, and Huo Lian used their combined attacks to overwhelm Jiang Hengdao as the Otherworldly Aura suppressed his strength.
• Jiang Hengdao was repeatedly injured and spent increasing amounts of Longevity True Qi healing himself, while Zuo Qiu Yi's supply let the attackers continue fighting without restraint.
• Jiang Hengdao unleashed a burst of energy to drive the four attackers back, but the Otherworldly Aura soon erased his increase in strength.
• The Demon God and the others realized Huang Xiao's group could not deliver a fatal blow, and Ji Xuanying said they would have to return to the fight when the Otherworldly Aura weakened.

As the Ancient World's spiritual energy poured through the hole in the sky, Jiang Hengdao's true qi began to leak away, weakening his defense and allowing Huo Lian to wound him. The old experts realized they were also losing true qi, while the battle continued amid uncertainty about how much longer the world could sustain its remaining spiritual energy.

• Ji Shidao hoped Xuan Yuanjun, Zhao Yunhui, and Zuo Qiu Yi would break the formation so Zuo Qiu Yi could escape and disrupt Jiang Hengdao's plans.
• Huang Xiao and the others noticed Jiang Hengdao's block had weakened, and their attacks forced him to retreat unsteadily.
• Huo Lian struck Jiang Hengdao from behind when his sword moved too slowly, inflicting a serious saber wound.
• The Demon God, Ji Xuanying, and Ye Nishang recognized that the Ancient World's dwindling spiritual energy was causing their true qi to dissipate.
• Ji Xuanying explained that Jiang Hengdao had felt the true qi loss first, while the Demon God worried that the spiritual energy would keep disappearing through the hole in the sky.

As the otherworldly aura weakened and Jiang Hengdao began to recover, Huang Xiao and his allies faced an increasingly desperate battle. Huang Xiao realized that the otherworldly world’s devouring of the Ancient World’s spiritual energy had limits, while Jiang Hengdao’s lost true qi could not be restored.

• Huang Xiao realized that the faster influx of otherworldly aura had accelerated the loss of the Ancient World's spiritual energy, causing Jiang Hengdao's true qi to drain irreversibly.
• Huang Xiao and the others attacked Jiang Hengdao again, but he dismissed their chances as his strength began to recover.
• Huang Xiao sensed the otherworldly aura weakening, and Jiang Hengdao stopped relying as heavily on his forbidden art while recovering strength.
• Ji Xuanying told everyone to prepare, as Xuan Yuanjun still showed little response and Jiang Hengdao ignored their attacks.
• Huang Xiao noticed that the flow of spiritual energy into the otherworld had slowed along with the influx of otherworldly aura, and concluded that the world's devouring had limits.

Huang Xiao questioned whether he needed to disperse his true qi to improve Dantian as the Sea, while the fighters struggled to keep Jiang Hengdao suppressed as the weakening otherworldly aura let his strength recover. With Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi forced to withdraw, Huang Xiao and Huo Lian took over the defense, and Xuan Yuanjun prepared to rejoin the battle.

• Huang Xiao considered whether dispersing his true qi could help him devour Jiang Hengdao's longevity true qi, but he set the idea aside while Jiang Hengdao remained suppressed.
• The Demon God, Ji Xuanying, Xun Wuying, and Ye Nishang discussed how the changing Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth was weakening them as well as Jiang Hengdao.
• Jiang Hengdao sent Hong Yi flying, and Huang Xiao caught him and Dugu Sheng before Huo Lian blocked Jiang Hengdao's next attack.
• Zuo Qiu Yi ordered Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi to retreat as Huang Xiao and Huo Lian used their strength to hold Jiang Hengdao back.
• Ao Zhen realized the suppression was fading, and Xuan Yuanjun opened his eyes and said it was their turn again.

With the formation impossible to break, Xuan Yuanjun and the others prepared to fight Jiang Hengdao while Zuo Qiu Yi proposed that Huang Xiao use Dantian as the Sea to protect and absorb Longevity True Qi. The chapter left Huang Xiao ready to raise Heavenly Demon Disintegration beyond its current limit by strengthening his divine sense with Jiang Hengdao’s Blood God Conversion Great Method.

• Xuan Yuanjun admitted he could not break the formation in time and joined the others in a final attack on Jiang Hengdao.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian withdrew to Zuo Qiu Yi, who helped them recover while the remaining experts fought.
• Zuo Qiu Yi asked Huang Xiao to devour his Longevity True Qi and use Dantian as the Sea to resist Jiang Hengdao’s devouring.
• Huang Xiao agreed to store Zuo Qiu Yi’s true qi in his dantian, though he worried Jiang Hengdao could still take it.
• Zuo Qiu Yi suggested Huang Xiao use Jiang Hengdao’s Blood God Conversion Great Method to strengthen his divine sense and raise Heavenly Demon Disintegration beyond the eighteenth layer.

Zuo Qiu Yi accelerated Huang Xiao’s divine sense growth so he could keep using Heavenly Demon Disintegration against Jiang Hengdao, while Huo Lian joined Zhao Yunhui in trying to break the formation. Jiang Hengdao noticed Zuo Qiu Yi’s Longevity True Qi shifting into Huang Xiao, but initially believed he could devour it from both of them later.

• Huang Xiao said he lacked time to use the essence blood aura to strengthen his divine sense, and Zuo Qiu Yi offered to speed up the process.
• Huang Xiao used the Blood God Conversion Great Method while Zuo Qiu Yi guided his aura, rapidly increasing Huang Xiao’s divine sense strength.
• Huo Lian went to Zhao Yunhui and discussed using the weakened Seven Great Treasures and Divine Weapons to break the formation.
• Leng Guhan and the others used their auras to restore the Divine Weapons, while Zhao Yunhui continued searching for a way through the formation.
• Jiang Hengdao noticed Zuo Qiu Yi’s Longevity True Qi weakening and Huang Xiao’s growing aura, but assumed he could devour the energy from both later.

Zuo Qiu Yi strengthened Huang Xiao’s divine sense and trained him to devour Longevity True Qi while resisting, then transferred half of his own supply to him. As Jiang Hengdao tried to break through the others’ desperate defense, Zuo Qiu Yi declared that Huang Xiao was their last chance to kill him.

• Zuo Qiu Yi helped Huang Xiao strengthen his divine sense with the essence blood aura in his dantian, preparing him to use the Nineteenth-Layer Heavenly Demon Disintegration and possibly the twentieth layer.
• Zuo Qiu Yi made Huang Xiao devour his Longevity True Qi while resisting, and Huang Xiao gradually learned to draw it out until Zuo Qiu Yi could no longer control or stop the flow.
• Zuo Qiu Yi stopped resisting and helped Huang Xiao devour faster, while Huang Xiao continued absorbing the true qi to prepare for Jiang Hengdao.
• When Huang Xiao had devoured half of Zuo Qiu Yi’s Longevity True Qi, Jiang Hengdao surged to break through the encirclement, and Xuan Yuanjun, the Demon God, and the others fought to hold him back.
• After the Demon God questioned whether Huang Xiao was worth their sacrifice, Zuo Qiu Yi said he believed Huang Xiao could do better than them and that this was their last chance to kill Jiang Hengdao.

Huang Xiao absorbed most of Zuo Qiu Yi’s Longevity True Qi while Xuan Yuanjun and the others fought to keep Jiang Hengdao away. As Huang Xiao neared his limit, he deepened his understanding of Dantian as the Sea and began absorbing more True Qi again, while Jiang Hengdao intensified his attack.

• Xuan Yuanjun urged the others to buy Huang Xiao time as nearly seventy percent of Zuo Qiu Yi’s Longevity True Qi gathered inside him.
• Jiang Hengdao used another Forbidden Art, forcing Xuan Yuanjun, Demon God, and the others to endure injuries and spend their own Forbidden Art boosts to hold him back.
• Huang Xiao absorbed eighty percent of Zuo Qiu Yi’s True Qi but reached his limit, and Zuo Qiu Yi continued pouring True Qi into him despite his pain.
• Huang Xiao focused on comprehending Dantian as the Sea, resonating with the great hole in the sky, and slowly regained the ability to absorb the incoming True Qi.
• Jiang Hengdao roared that he would kill Xuan Yuanjun and the others, while the distant onlookers could only hope the Seniors would prevail.

The Demon God, Xuan Yuanjun, Ao Yuan, and their allies fought Jiang Hengdao, but he overwhelmed them and pierced the Demon God’s chest. Ji Xuanying intervened and faced Jiang Hengdao with the rare technique Interweaving of Reality and Illusion.

• Du Mei betrayed Jiang Hengdao, who severed her hand, and Ye Nishang protected her from another attack.
• Ao Yuan, Xuan Yuanjun, and the Demon God attacked Jiang Hengdao together, but Jiang Hengdao wounded Ao Yuan and pierced the Demon God’s chest.
• Jiang Hengdao knocked Xuan Yuanjun away, but Ji Xuanying arrived before he could strike the Demon God again.
• Ji Xuanying ordered Ji Shidao to take the Demon God away and told Xuan Yuanjun and the others to stand back as she confronted Jiang Hengdao.
• Ji Xuanying’s figure became indistinct, and Jiang Hengdao recognized her use of Interweaving of Reality and Illusion.

Jiang Hengdao killed Xun Wuying and mortally wounded Du Mei, who sacrificed herself to save Ye Nishang so she could help study the formation. Ji Xuanying then fought Jiang Hengdao alone, revealing that the Interweaving of Reality and Illusion let her recover almost instantly from a sword through the chest.

• Jiang Hengdao killed Xun Wuying and then attacked Ye Nishang, but Du Mei stepped in and took the fatal thrust for her.
• Du Mei told Ye Nishang to use her knowledge of formations to help break the formation, and Ye Nishang carried her toward Zhao Yunhui and the others before Du Mei died.
• Xuan Yuanjun chose to stay nearby rather than study the formation, intending to give Ji Xuanying a chance to settle her personal grudge with Jiang Hengdao while remaining ready to intervene.
• Ji Xuanying charged into Jiang Hengdao's sword attack and was pierced through the chest, then struck him and recovered from the wound almost instantly.
• Ji Xuanying and Jiang Hengdao clashed again as Xuan Yuanjun wondered how the Interweaving of Reality and Illusion had enabled her recovery.

Ji Xuanying used Interweaving of Reality and Illusion to withstand Jiang Hengdao’s attacks, then deliberately let him pierce her so she could sever his sword arm and take the Ruthlessness Sword. She handed the weapon to Xuan Yuanjun, leaving Jiang Hengdao injured and disarmed while she continued to suffer from her real wounds.

• Ji Xuanying shifted between illusory and real states, reducing the damage from Jiang Hengdao’s attacks while inflicting serious injuries on him.
• Jiang Hengdao noticed Ji Xuanying’s transitions faltering and pierced her heart with the Ruthlessness Sword.
• Ji Xuanying revealed that she had deliberately exposed an opening, seized Jiang Hengdao’s sword arm, and severed it at the elbow.
• Ji Xuanying pulled the Ruthlessness Sword from her chest and gave it to Xuan Yuanjun, who carried it away from Jiang Hengdao.
• Ji Xuanying told Jiang Hengdao that her injuries were real, though she had used them to weaken him by taking his sword.

Xuan Yuanjun sealed the Ruthlessness Sword while Ji Xuanying fought Jiang Hengdao, who had been weakened after losing the sword and regenerating his hand. Huang Xiao emerged from meditation with a greatly increased reserve of Longevity True Qi, but Ji Xuanying was still fighting alone as her injuries worsened.

• Xuan Yuanjun temporarily sealed the Ruthlessness Sword while Zhao Yunhui and the others continued trying to break the formation.
• Jiang Hengdao regenerated his severed hand at the cost of Longevity True Qi, and Ji Xuanying attacked him while he was separated from his sword.
• Zuo Qiu Yi revealed that Huang Xiao had withstood all of his true qi and urged him to join the fight.
• Huang Xiao learned about Ji Xuanying's Interweaving of Reality and Illusion and saw that she was growing more injured as she fought Jiang Hengdao.
• Xuan Yuanjun, Ao Yuan, and Ji Shidao joined the battle but were gravely injured, leaving Ji Xuanying to face Jiang Hengdao alone.
• Xuan Yuanjun urged Ji Shidao to heal so he could return to the fight, and Ji Shidao agreed.

Huang Xiao rescued Ji Xuanying from Jiang Hengdao and took over the fight while she secretly entrusted him with her aura. Although Huang Xiao’s power surged, Jiang Hengdao recovered from his Ruthlessness Dao backlash and held his ground, leaving Huang Xiao to continue the battle without Minghong Saber.

• Jiang Hengdao injured Ji Xuanying and moved to kill her, but Huang Xiao’s saber force interrupted him.
• Huang Xiao reached Ji Xuanying, who recognized that he had absorbed Zuo Qiu Yi’s true qi and urged him to fight in her place.
• Ji Xuanying transferred her aura into Huang Xiao’s Sea of Consciousness for him to use at a crucial moment.
• Huang Xiao attacked Jiang Hengdao while his Ruthlessness Dao was backlashing, but Jiang Hengdao quickly suppressed the backlash and countered Huang Xiao’s attacks.
• Huang Xiao raised Heavenly Demon Disintegration, but Demon Phoenix could not withstand his aura, so Huang Xiao tossed Minghong Saber to Zhao Yunhui and the others and prepared to fight barehanded.

Jiang Hengdao tried to devour Huang Xiao’s Longevity True Qi, hoping to preserve it for himself, but Huang Xiao resisted with Dantian as the Sea. Huang Xiao left Jiang Hengdao injured and warned that he would exhaust the true qi before Jiang could claim it.

• Jiang Hengdao realized Huang Xiao’s rising strength threatened him and decided he could not wait to devour Huang Xiao’s Longevity True Qi.
• Huang Xiao sensed Jiang Hengdao trying to devour his true qi and resisted the attempt.
• Jiang Hengdao increased his devouring force, but Huang Xiao stabilized his true qi with Dantian as the Sea and struck him while he was distracted.
• The Demon God urged Huang Xiao to use up all the Longevity True Qi, while Xuan Yuanjun told the injured Demon God to rest.
• Huang Xiao landed several blows that weakened Jiang Hengdao, then taunted him that he would exhaust the true qi and leave Jiang to face the Ruthlessness Dao’s backlash.

Jiang Hengdao used the resonance between sources of Longevity True Qi to make Huang Xiao’s power run rampant, revealing that he could draw in the qi whether Huang Xiao dispersed it or died trying to suppress it. Huang Xiao struggled to resist as Jiang Hengdao’s aura grew stronger.

• Jiang Hengdao claimed he had another way to obtain Huang Xiao’s Longevity True Qi, and Huang Xiao stayed on guard rather than attack.
• Jiang Hengdao unleashed a powerful force that made Huo Lian cough blood and caused the Longevity True Qi within him and Zuo Qiu Yi to react.
• Zuo Qiu Yi urged Huo Lian to disperse his Longevity True Qi, and Jiang Hengdao absorbed the qi released.
• Jiang Hengdao explained that the stronger Longevity True Qi in him attracted weaker sources through resonance, making Huang Xiao’s qi impossible to resist.
• Huang Xiao warned that he could disperse the Longevity True Qi, but Jiang Hengdao welcomed that choice and said the qi would belong to him either way.

Huang Xiao struggled against Jiang Hengdao’s attempt to draw out his Longevity True Qi and began converting it with the Northern Darkness Absorption Method. The conversion weakened Jiang Hengdao’s pull, but Jiang Hengdao noticed Huang Xiao’s aura diminishing and grew suspicious.

• Jiang Hengdao used the attraction between their Longevity True Qi to make Huang Xiao’s true qi run rampant, while Huang Xiao realized he had to find a way to resist.
• Huang Xiao began converting his Longevity True Qi with the Northern Darkness Absorption Method and found that the process worked.
• As Huang Xiao converted more true qi, Jiang Hengdao’s pull weakened, though Huang Xiao pretended his true qi was still becoming dangerously unstable.
• Jiang Hengdao first thought Huang Xiao’s weakening aura resulted from his true qi running rampant, but soon realized the Longevity True Qi was disappearing unusually quickly.
• Zuo Qiu Yi and Huo Lian noticed the change, and Zuo Qiu Yi wondered whether Huang Xiao was consuming his true qi to keep Jiang Hengdao from obtaining it.

Huang Xiao converted about half of his Longevity True Qi, foiling Jiang Hengdao’s plan to make their true qi attraction destroy him. Jiang Hengdao attacked in a furious attempt to stop Huang Xiao from wasting more, and their fierce battle continued as Huang Xiao tried to drain his opponent’s true qi.

• Huo Lian sensed Huang Xiao’s Longevity True Qi weakening unusually fast, while Jiang Hengdao assumed Huang Xiao was simply wasting it.
• The Demon God proposed attacking Jiang Hengdao, but Xuan Yuanjun and Zuo Qiu Yi urged everyone to wait and recover from their injuries.
• After a quarter of an hour, Jiang Hengdao realized Huang Xiao was squandering his Longevity True Qi and charged at him.
• Huang Xiao stopped converting his true qi and met Jiang Hengdao with Heavenly Demon Disintegration, having converted nearly half and reduced the danger of their true qi attraction.
• Huang Xiao and Jiang Hengdao exchanged dozens of direct blows as Huang Xiao tried to expend both their true qi; Huang Xiao eventually shook Jiang Hengdao back and charged again.

Huang Xiao pushed Heavenly Demon Disintegration to its twenty-second stage to keep Jiang Hengdao suppressed, but Jiang Hengdao began attacking his divine sense with an invisible offensive. Huang Xiao’s strength faltered under the pressure, and the chapter ended with him clutching his head and howling in pain.

• Jiang Hengdao unleashed a frenzied counterattack, prompting Huang Xiao to activate the twenty-second stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Huang Xiao rapidly consumed his longevity true qi as he repeatedly activated the art, while Jiang Hengdao increased the power of his forbidden art.
• Jiang Hengdao attacked Huang Xiao’s divine sense, gradually making him dizzy and disrupting his ability to fight.
• Huang Xiao bit his tongue to clear his senses, but he continued to lose ground and was struck by Jiang Hengdao’s third move.
• Huang Xiao tried to activate the twenty-third stage, then convulsed, clutched his head, and howled as Xuan Yuanjun and the others reacted in alarm.

Jiang Hengdao exploited the Blood God Conversion Great Method to suppress Huang Xiao's divine sense, preventing him from using the twenty-third stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration. With Huang Xiao's control failing, Jiang Hengdao drained most of his remaining longevity true qi, leaving him dazed and vulnerable.

• Zuo Qiu Yi warned that Huang Xiao's divine sense was in trouble, and Jiang Hengdao revealed that the Blood God Conversion Great Method gave him an opening to suppress it.
• Huang Xiao failed to activate the twenty-third stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and fought Jiang Hengdao using the twenty-second stage while struggling to stay conscious.
• Zuo Qiu Yi noticed that Huang Xiao's longevity true qi was rapidly being drawn away as his weakened divine sense impaired his control.
• Huang Xiao could not resist Jiang Hengdao's Devouring, and Jiang Hengdao drained nearly all of his unconverted longevity true qi.
• Jiang Hengdao blamed Huang Xiao for wasting some of the longevity true qi and resolved not to let him die easily.

Huang Xiao used converted Longevity True Qi to survive Jiang Hengdao’s attacks and continue activating Heavenly Demon Disintegration, while Jiang Hengdao detected traces of the hidden energy and decided to take it for himself. As Huang Xiao’s Divine Sense began recovering, he remained prepared to conceal the True Qi stored in his Dantian.

• Huang Xiao reflected that he had deprived Jiang Hengdao of nearly half the Longevity True Qi, then Eldest Senior Brother Qingfeng sent a voice transmission that cleared his mind.
• Huang Xiao activated Heavenly Demon Disintegration again, and Jiang Hengdao attacked him, puzzled when Huang Xiao healed his injuries and neutralized the backlash with a fleeting aura of Longevity True Qi.
• Huang Xiao used Changing Form and Shifting Shadow to attack, but Jiang Hengdao blocked his path and forced him into another exchange of blows.
• Jiang Hengdao confirmed that Huang Xiao still had Longevity True Qi hidden and decided to keep him alive so he could obtain it.
• Huang Xiao secretly used converted Longevity True Qi to prepare for another use of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and believed Jiang Hengdao could not detect what remained unconverted in his Dantian.