Chapter Summaries

Mu Yi tried to protect Li Cong and Xu Yan Yun from Wan Qingteng while organizing the disciples of the two valleys to retreat. The retreat remained disastrous, and the chapter ended with Mu Yi confronting Wan Qingteng again by invoking the second volume of the Medicine King Scripture.

• Ge Gu fought Li Cong and Xu Yan Yun while Wan Qingteng struck Mu Yi with a powerful finger force, leaving him injured.
• Wan Qingteng turned to save Ge Gu, but Mu Yi attacked him again and took a grave wound to keep him from reaching his disciples.
• Li Cong struck Wan Qingteng from behind and urged Mu Yi to organize the disciples' retreat; Mu Yi then ordered Liang Fan, Qi Yu, Wang Yuantu, and the others to lead the evacuation.
• Mu Yi killed a Medicine King Hall elder and drove off two youths who attacked him, then returned to the fight as Li Cong and Xu Yan Yun were cornered by Wan Qingteng and Ge Gu.
• Mu Yi shouted at Wan Qingteng, asking whether he truly no longer wanted the second volume of the Medicine King Scripture.

Wan Qingteng forced Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong to the brink while the Medicine King Hall overwhelmed the fleeing valley disciples. Mu Yi offered the lower volume of the Medicine King Scripture to save them, but Wan Qingteng declared he would kill the three regardless and left the disciples’ lives to Mu Yi’s choice.

• Wan Qingteng and Ge Gu attacked Xu Yan Yun and Li Cong, and Li Cong was gravely injured while protecting Xu Yan Yun.
• Xu Yan Yun struck Ge Gu, but his counterattack worsened her injuries, leaving both disciples nearly unable to fight.
• Wang Yuantu led Qingyun, Qinghe, and other disciples in retreat while Medicine King Hall experts pursued them.
• Mu Yi threatened to destroy the lower volume of the Medicine King Scripture if Wan Qingteng attacked, then offered it in exchange for the withdrawal of his people.
• Wan Qingteng refused to spare Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong, and said the disciples’ lives depended on Mu Yi’s choice.

Mu Yi tore the lower volume of the Medicine King Scripture to pieces to force Wan Qingteng to stop the fighting and give the disciples time to escape. Wan Qingteng captured Mu Yi, Li Cong, and Xu Yan Yun, but before he could torture them for the scripture’s contents, Ling appeared and struck all three on the head.

• Wan Qingteng threatened the disciples and demanded that Mu Yi hand over the lower volume of the Medicine King Scripture.
• Mu Yi shredded the scripture, forcing Wan Qingteng to order the Medicine Hall disciples to stop fighting; the other disciples retreated.
• Mu Yi threw the scraps toward Wan Qingteng, who and Ge Gu gathered them while Mu Yi and Xu Yan Yun carried the injured Li Cong away.
• Wan Qingteng caught the three and incapacitated Mu Yi and Xu Yan Yun when they tried to resist and take their own lives.
• Wan Qingteng ordered Ge Gu to keep the three alive so he could later torture them for the scripture’s contents.
• Ling rushed past the captured trio and struck each of them on the crown of the head.

Ling Tianya killed Mu Yi and two other Medicine King Hall disciples, then persuaded Wan Qingteng to go to Shaolin and target the Taixuan Sect. After Wan Qingteng left, Ling Tianya dug a pit to bury the three corpses, wary of what might happen if he left them exposed.

• Ling Tianya killed Mu Yi and the other two disciples, enraging Wan Qingteng, who then chose not to fight him.
• Ling Tianya invited Wan Qingteng to Shaolin, where he hoped to attack Shaolin and stir up conflict among the Jianghu forces.
• After learning that the Taixuan Sect was involved, Wan Qingteng agreed to go to Shaolin and vowed to show no mercy to its experts.
• Wan Qingteng ordered Ge Gu to withdraw the Medicine King Hall disciples and burn the Poison God Valley and Medicine God Valley.
• Wan Qingteng left for Shaolin, and Ling Tianya dug a pit to bury the three dead disciples.

Ling Tianya tricked Wan Qingteng into leaving, then secretly revived Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong with his Ten Thousand Demons Formless Art. The three recovered enough to confront their unexpected rescuer, though Xu Yan Yun remained wary of the Thousand Demons Sect.

• Ling Tianya carved gravestones for Mu Yi and the other two, then told Wan Qingteng he planned to go to Shaolin Temple.
• Wan Qingteng secretly overheard Ling Tianya apparently plotting to use him against the Taixuan Sect, and left, believing Ling Tianya intended to manipulate him.
• Ling Tianya revealed he had noticed Wan Qingteng spying and had deliberately spoken to mislead him.
• Ling Tianya dug up Mu Yi and the other two and used his Ten Thousand Demons Formless Art to revive them.
• Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong regained consciousness and began treating their injuries at Ling Tianya's urging.
• Mu Yi thanked Ling Tianya for saving them, while Xu Yan Yun bluntly rejected the idea of serving the Thousand Demons Sect.

Ling Tianya told Mu Yi, Li Cong, and Xu Yan Yun that Huang Xiao was his grandson, explaining that he had saved them to repay their kindness to Huang Xiao. He then revealed how the Ten Thousand Demons Formless Art let him imitate auras and make others appear to be dead, leaving the three amazed by the technique.

• Ling Tianya said he had saved the three to repay a favor owed to Huang Xiao.
• Ling Tianya revealed that Huang Xiao was his grandson, left with an adoptive family during turmoil in Khitan and found two years earlier.
• Ling Tianya explained that he could not rescue the other disciples because doing so would make an enemy of Wan Qingteng.
• Ling Tianya demonstrated how the Ten Thousand Demons Formless Art could imitate the aura of the Everlasting Spring Youth-Restoring Art.
• Ling Tianya explained that the technique could disguise his aura or erase others' auras, and Mu Yi asked why he had shared the secret.

Ling Tianya told Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong to disappear while Huang Xiao grew stronger, then set off toward Shaolin. The three wounded allies agreed to recover in hiding and seek revenge on Wan Qingteng later, while Ling Tianya entered a town and approached a party from Dragon Tiger Mountain.

• Ling Tianya explained that Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong should remain hidden for Huang Xiao’s sake, and they agreed to wait until he was powerful enough to face the Jianghu.
• Mu Yi, Xu Yan Yun, and Li Cong decided to recover in seclusion, with Mu Yi planning to attempt a breakthrough before they challenged Wan Qingteng again.
• Li Cong warned that restoring their burial mounds could expose them if their disciples returned, so the three left the graves untouched and vanished into the night.
• Ling Tianya hurried east toward Shaolin and hid near a town when he spotted a group from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• Perfected Being Xuying’s party found the local inn full, and Sect Leader Kong offered to make room for them by having his disciples share rooms.

Ling Tianya seized Perfected Being Xuying and disguised himself to take his place on the journey to Shaolin, while Cao Wuxin and Grand Martial Uncle Jin discussed Huang Xiao’s identity and the growing crisis around Shaolin. Near Poison God Valley, Huang Xiao heard that a huge fire had burned through the night and demanded to know whether Medicine God Valley and Poison God Valley were ablaze.

• Ling Tianya ambushed Perfected Being Xuying, knocked him unconscious, hid him in a wardrobe, and took his appearance and Daoist robe.
• Cao Wuxin learned that Huang Xiao was likely Ling Tianya’s grandson, and Grand Martial Uncle Jin told him he could kill Huang Xiao if necessary.
• Grand Martial Uncle Jin warned Cao Wuxin that many Jianghu sects were heading to Shaolin and said reinforcements would arrive the next day.
• Huang Xiao reached a wine shop near Poison God Valley after searching unsuccessfully for Zhao Xin'er, then overheard travelers discussing a massive fire to the west.
• Huang Xiao smashed a table and urgently demanded to know whether Medicine God Valley and Poison God Valley had burned.

Huang Xiao reached the ruined Poison God Valley and learned that Medicine King Hall and Ling Tianya had killed its three patriarchs. He swore revenge, despite knowing he was no match for them yet.

• Huang Xiao left the tavern and hurried to Poison God Valley after hearing that a huge fire had burned there.
• Huang Xiao found Poison God Valley destroyed and its disciples and Medicine God Valley disciples laying out the dead.
• Senior Brother Yang warned Huang Xiao that Medicine King Hall might target him and explained that Wan Qingteng had defeated the three patriarchs.
• Senior Brother Yang revealed that Ling Tianya had killed the three patriarchs while seeking the Medicine King Scripture’s lower volume.
• Huang Xiao vowed to avenge the patriarchs and roared at the onlookers to get lost.

Huang Xiao and Senior Brother Yang’s group faced an ambush by Medicine King Hall while gathering the dead, and Huang Xiao revealed overwhelming strength by seizing an enemy expert. After he killed the hostage rather than accept the enemy leader’s false offer of safe passage, both sides charged into battle.

• Medicine King Hall attackers ambushed the Jianghu onlookers and the disciples of Poison God Valley and Medicine God Valley, killing and wounding many.
• Senior Brother Yang urged Huang Xiao to flee, but Huang Xiao returned to fight alongside him and the other disciples.
• Huang Xiao swiftly subdued a low peak expert, and the Medicine King Hall leader offered to let the group leave if Huang Xiao released the captive.
• Huang Xiao refused the offer, killed the captive by snapping his neck, and provoked the Medicine King Hall leader into ordering everyone killed.
• Medicine King Hall disciples charged at Senior Brother Yang’s group while the leader and three low peak experts attacked Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao defeated the Medicine King Hall experts guarding the Two Valleys’ burial site and interrogated their surviving leader, learning that the Hall Master had gone to Shaolin to target Taixuan Sect experts. After the prisoner tried to escape and Senior Brother Yang killed him, Huang Xiao and the others began burying the dead, but they could not find the patriarchs’ bodies.

• Huang Xiao unleashed his Heavenly Demon True Qi, killed three Low Peak experts, and defeated and sealed the remaining Mid Peerless expert.
• Huang Xiao questioned the prisoner with Senior Brother Yang’s poison and learned that a Medicine King Hall expert had gone to Shaolin, where the Hall Master intended to target Taixuan Sect experts.
• The prisoner broke through his sealed acupoints and tried to flee, but Huang Xiao shattered his meridians and knocked him back.
• Senior Brother Yang killed the crippled prisoner, and the Poison God Valley group began gathering and burying the bodies.
• Huang Xiao and Senior Brother Yang searched for the patriarchs’ bodies but suspected Medicine King Hall had taken them away.

Huang Xiao headed for Shaolin, hoping to exploit the gathering of powerful factions and learn whether his missing brothers had survived. At Shaolin, the Righteous Path’s leaders met six abbots from the other Buddhist sects, whose arrival sparked a dispute over seniority.

• Huang Xiao told Senior Brother Yang he would go to Shaolin to look for a chance to kill Medicine King Hall experts, then raced east while hoping Qingyun and Qinghe were alive.
• Huang Xiao decided to postpone pursuing Zhao Xin'er and considered the dangers of entering the gathering at Shaolin.
• Righteous Path experts assembled at Shaolin, where Master Juebei awaited Perfected Being Xuying and reassured the gathered leaders about the threat from the Heterodox and Demonic Factions.
• Six old monks arrived at the Mahavira Hall, and Master Juebei greeted their leader, Huineng, as the senior abbot of the Pure Land Sect.
• Huineng challenged Master Juebei’s understanding of their seniority, while a Righteous Path expert objected and Master Juebei proposed addressing the visitors by their abbot titles.

Abbot Huineng and the Six Sects challenged Shaolin, and Master Juebei stepped forward to defend the temple. Their fight escalated as Juebei unleashed the Great Compassion Thousand-Leaf Hand, but Huineng believed Juebei was still no match for him and aimed to defeat Shaolin’s three senior monks.

• Huineng dismissed Juebei’s authority and demanded that Shaolin’s martial uncles appear, while Juebei asked the Jianghu spectators to stay out of the Buddhist dispute.
• Huineng chose to fight Juebei, attacked without warning, and exchanged rapid blows with him before both men were driven back.
• Juebei increased his strength and fought Huineng head-on, but Huineng’s palm force overwhelmed him and pushed him into using the Great Compassion Thousand-Leaf Hand.
• Huineng recognized the real palm among Juebei’s many shadows and countered with the Amitabha Palm.
• Huineng judged that Juebei was powerful but still weaker than himself, and planned to defeat Shaolin’s three old monks to damage Shaolin’s prestige.

Huineng overwhelmed Master Juebei’s Demon-Subduing Staff Art, but Pudu intervened and fought him with the same technique. Huineng was injured by Pudu’s Formless Calamity Finger, and two more white-browed monks appeared beside Pudu.

• Huineng’s palm force drove Master Juebei back and injured him.
• Master Juebei used the Demon-Subduing Staff Art to control his kasaya, but Huineng eventually reversed its force and severely injured him.
• Pudu arrived beside Juebei, redirected the kasaya, and forced Huineng back with his greater power.
• Huineng tore Pudu’s kasaya apart with the Infinite Buddha Palm and challenged him to use the Formless Calamity Finger.
• Pudu struck Huineng with the Formless Calamity Finger, injuring him, and two more old monks appeared beside Pudu.

Huineng and the other five abbots challenged Shaolin’s Three Divine Monks, who agreed to face them all together and held firm against their combined attacks. As the fight continued, experts from the Heterodox and Demonic Factions attacked Mount Song, and the battle spread down the mountain as defenders moved to stop them.

• Huineng and the other five abbots challenged Shaolin’s claim to Mount Song, and Pudu, Pufa, and Pulu agreed to fight all six at once.
• The six abbots surrounded the Three Divine Monks and launched a combined attack, but the monks defended themselves without giving them an opening.
• A messenger warned Juebei that numerous experts from the Heterodox and Demonic Factions were climbing the mountain, so Juebei sent his junior brothers and other sect leaders down to organize a defense.
• The two forces clashed below the summit, where a Ghost Gate expert confronted an attacker and the Heterodox and Demonic Factions continued advancing despite resistance.
• Experts from the Heterodox and Demonic Factions at the foot of the mountain spotted dozens of Daoists from Dragon Tiger Mountain rushing toward them and scattered in alarm.

Perfected Being Xuying arrived at Shaolin as the Six Buddhist Sects’ challenge turned against the Three Great Divine Monks. He intervened after Huineng and the others used a dangerous forbidden art, but the chapter ended with Pudu suddenly blasted away.

• Perfected Being Xuying led Dragon Tiger Mountain fighters through the battle outside Shaolin, then hurried up the mountain after learning the Six Buddhist Sects had challenged Shaolin.
• Perfected Being Xuying reached the Mahavira Hall and watched the Three Great Divine Monks hold their own against Huineng and five other Buddhist experts.
• Huineng grew uneasy when Ling Tianya failed to appear, then urged his companions to use a forbidden art that greatly increased their power at the cost of their lives.
• The Six Buddhist experts overwhelmed the Three Great Divine Monks, leaving Juebei and the other Shaolin fighters worried about the battle’s outcome.
• Perfected Being Xuying charged into the fight, but Huineng drove him back; as Pudu caught Xuying and explained the forbidden art, Pudu was suddenly blasted away.

Ling Tianya revealed that he had impersonated Perfected Being Xuying to wound Pudu, then confronted him over the destruction of the Profound Ice Sect. As Pudu began to identify the person he suspected of spreading news about the Ten Thousand Demons Canon, Ling Tianya suddenly moved toward him.

• Ling Tianya shed Perfected Being Xuying’s disguise and admitted he had attacked Pudu in revenge for the deaths of his sect’s disciples, wife, and children.
• Pudu accepted responsibility for his past sins but refused to let Ling Tianya destroy Shaolin, warning him that other powers could exploit the conflict.
• Huineng tried to press Pudu and his companions to admit defeat, but Ling Tianya ordered Huineng to stay out of his unfinished business.
• Pudu warned Ling Tianya that destroying Shaolin would weaken the Thousand Demons Sect and benefit its rivals, prompting Ling Tianya to pause.
• Pudu said his investigation had uncovered a suspicion about who spread word of the Ten Thousand Demons Canon, and Ling Tianya lunged at him as he began to say, “Perhaps he is Mu...”

A white figure killed Pudu with a sudden blast of finger force, and Ling Tianya chased the killer down the mountain. As the Righteous Path joined forces against the Heterodox and Demonic Factions in a sprawling battle, Huang Xiao arrived near Mount Song and saw the fighting already raging.

• The white figure killed Pudu with a blast of finger force, and Ling Tianya pursued the killer down the mountain.
• Perfected Being Xuying and Perfected Being Xuhua reached the summit, where Xuying blamed himself for Ling Tianya impersonating him and enabling the attack.
• Pufa asked Huineng and the other five Buddhist sect leaders to postpone their dispute with Shaolin, and Huineng agreed to help fight the Heterodox and Demonic Factions.
• The Righteous Path drove the enemy forces back toward the foot of Mount Song, where hidden fighters joined the battle and fighting spread across the mountain.
• Huang Xiao arrived near Mount Song and saw more than a hundred fighters battling, with countless more closer to Shaolin.

Huang Xiao helped the Righteous Path fighters battling near Shaolin and then pursued Tuoba Xing after seeing him kill members of his own side. Huang Qitao intervened before Huang Xiao could kill Tuoba Xing, forcing Huang Xiao to leave without pursuing the accusation.

• Huang Xiao rescued a group of Righteous Path fighters from more than a hundred heterodox and demonic fighters, then continued toward Shaolin to aid others.
• Huang Xiao spotted Tuoba Xing killing Righteous Path fighters and chased him when he fled.
• Huang Xiao wounded Tuoba Xing and invoked his authority as an Arrest Sage, but Tuoba Xing threatened him with the Tuoba Family of Lin'an.
• Huang Qitao appeared, drove Huang Xiao back, and challenged him to produce evidence against Tuoba Xing.
• Huang Xiao agreed to let the matter go for the moment, warned Tuoba Xing, and left.

Huang Xiao joined the battle for the Righteous Path and confronted Bai Tianqi, who had been transformed into a nearly mindless, ghostlike fighter. After defeating Bai Tianqi and his two companions, Huang Xiao heard Bai Tianqi beg for death, leaving him to decide how to answer the plea.

• Huang Qitao called Tuoba Xing useless and left, while Tuoba Xing suppressed his anger and departed in another direction.
• Huang Xiao entered the battle and routed the Heterodox and Demonic fighters, drawing three attackers who included Bai Tianqi.
• Huang Xiao discovered that Bai Tianqi and the other two had bodies that ignored pain and injury, and he killed the companions by disabling their limbs and removing their heads.
• Huang Xiao broke Bai Tianqi's limbs and declared that he had avenged his master, but Bai Tianqi briefly regained clarity and begged Huang Xiao to kill him.