Recaps

Qin Tiexin survived catastrophic injuries after his Little Death-Substitution Puppet preserved his consciousness, and Chen Xi used Essence Blood to heal his body. The chapter left Qin Tiexin awake beside Luo Ling and Chen Xi, but his severed right arm remained unrejoined.

• Qin Tiexin’s consciousness was pulled into the Little Death-Substitution Puppet as his injuries threatened to kill him.
• Chen Xi confirmed Qin Tiexin was still alive and used a formation and Essence Blood to heal his wounds.
• Chen Xi failed to reattach Qin Tiexin’s right arm, so he sealed the stump and the severed limb for later treatment.
• Chen Xi released Qin Tiexin’s consciousness from the puppet, and Qin Tiexin woke beside Luo Ling and Chen Xi.

After Luo Ling and Chen Xi rescued Qin Tiexin from the Golden Core cultivator Xueying, Qin learned that Duan Xuan had vanished into the blood pool. Chen Xi found her jade pendant, whose runes still held a faint trace of her true spirit, leaving open the possibility of restoring her.

• Luo Ling told Qin Tiexin that she and Chen Xi had killed True Person Xueying, and Qin realized his right arm had been severed.
• Qin thanked Luo Ling and Chen Xi for saving him, then searched the cavern for Duan Xuan.
• Luo Ling said Qin had been the only person in the cavern when they arrived, and Qin feared Duan Xuan had died in the blood pool.
• Chen Xi explained that Duan Xuan might survive if her jade pendant had preserved her true spirit, though restoring her body would require great resources or a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Qin searched the dried blood pool while Chen Xi looked through the rubble and found Duan Xuan's jade pendant with a faint phantom inside.

Qin Tiexin recovered Duan Xuan's true spirit and discovered that Edgeless had been restored and changed while he was unconscious. After collecting the severed arm and his own arm, he joined Chen Xi, who had found something promising.

• Qin Tiexin confirmed that the jade pendant contained Duan Xuan's damaged but intact true spirit, and Chen Xi said the Golden Sun Sect could restore her body.
• Qin Tiexin realized he was naked, and Luo Ling helped him dress in Chen Xi's robe despite his missing right arm.
• Qin Tiexin retrieved Edgeless and found it heavier, undamaged, and seemingly imbued with a faint consciousness.
• Qin Tiexin picked up the mysterious severed arm, sensed a stir in his bloodline, and got no response when he called to it.
• Qin Tiexin collected his severed right arm, then Chen Xi called for him and Luo Ling after finding something good.

Chen Xi gathered the spoils from the cave and warned Luo Ling and Qin Tiexin that the Devil Race would attack Wind and Snow Pass at noon, so they hurried there by flying shuttle. After they left, Chen Xi collapsed the cave and secretly placed the surviving cultivators’ true spirit artifacts among the rubble; a group of powerful cultivators later found them and set out for the pass.

• Chen Xi sorted the cave’s storage artifacts and gave Qin Tiexin a ring of supplies, while Luo Ling claimed her share and Qin Tiexin recovered his own belongings.
• Chen Xi revealed that True Person Xueying’s soul had disclosed a Devil Race attack on Wind and Snow Pass at noon, and Luo Ling ordered them to return at once.
• Chen Xi stayed behind to collapse the cave and hide the true spirit artifacts of the cultivators who had died there.
• Qin Tiexin flew east with Luo Ling and Chen Xi, carrying his severed arm and reflecting on the more than three hundred cultivators lost at the mountain.
• Elder Ge and the other Golden Core cultivators arrived, found the hidden artifacts, and headed toward Wind and Snow Pass after Sect Master Duan flew ahead in search of his daughter’s artifact.

Qin Tiexin returned to Wind and Snow Pass with Chen Xi and Luo Ling after surviving the Body Refining Master Conference, but he had lost his right arm and faced a painful recovery. Li Yun and Nangong Yao rushed to meet him, and Li Yun greeted him at the west gate.

• Qin Tiexin assessed his ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation and the immense power filling his body, deciding he needed to break through to the Qi and Blood Realm after returning.
• Qin Tiexin considered how losing his right arm had crippled his artifact refining and disrupted his fighting style, though he remained determined to start over with Edgeless.
• Luo Ling notified the Flowing Cloud Sect elder that their flying shuttle was nearing Wind and Snow Pass, where cultivators had to report before approaching.
• Chen Xi landed the shuttle outside the west gate, and Qin Tiexin stepped out carrying Edgeless in his left hand.
• Li Yun and Nangong Yao hurried to meet Qin Tiexin after learning he had been rescued, and Li Yun greeted him softly.

Qin Tiexin returned to Wind and Snow Pass with Luo Ling, Nangong Yao, and Li Yun, who learned that his severed arm had been preserved for reattachment. At the gate, Yang Qingxue recognized Chen Xi as Yang Chen and chased him after he handed Qin Tiexin evidence from a soul search; the others continued into the city.

• Nangong Yao and Li Yun reunited with Qin Tiexin and discovered his right arm was missing, while Luo Ling explained it had been sealed in his storage ring.
• Qin Tiexin and the others approached Wind and Snow Pass, where Yang Qingxue came to question him about his abduction.
• Yang Qingxue recognized Chen Xi as Yang Chen, and Chen Xi gave Qin Tiexin a Jade Slip containing the soul-search findings before fleeing.
• Yang Qingxue pursued Chen Xi across the snow, leaving Qin Tiexin's group to wait at the meeting hall.
• Luo Ling warned Qin Tiexin against imitating Chen Xi's romantic behavior, and Li Yun walked beside Qin Tiexin into the city.

Ling Shuang organized Wind and Snow Pass’s defenses after learning the Devil Race would attack from the east at noon the next day. As Qin Tiexin left the council hall with Luo Ling, Duan Jinyang confronted him and asked whether he had his daughter’s true spirit jade pendant.

• Luo Ling and Qin Tiexin told Ling Shuang that they had defeated True Person Xueying and that the Devil Race planned an attack on Wind and Snow Pass.
• Ling Shuang revealed that Sheng Xiao’er, a royal charm devil, had given True Person Xueying holy blood and would lead the eastern assault.
• Ling Shuang placed Wind and Snow Pass on the highest alert, assigned herself to the east gate and Gu Dan to the west, and ordered preparations throughout the pass.
• Luo Ling agreed to stay and help defend the pass while arranging treatment for Qin Tiexin’s injured arm.
• Duan Jinyang stopped Qin Tiexin outside the hall and asked if he had his daughter’s true spirit jade pendant.

Qin Tiexin returned Duan Xuan’s true spirit jade pendant and belongings to her father, Duan Jinyang, who rewarded him with a Golden Sun Sect guest elder token and said she could be revived in about a year and a half. At Wind and Snow Pass, defenses strengthened as the Devil Race prepared to launch its attack using Sheng Xiao’er’s plan.

• Luo Ling stepped between Duan Jinyang and Qin Tiexin, and Duan Jinyang introduced himself as the Golden Sun Sect’s sect master and Duan Xuan’s father.
• Qin Tiexin gave Duan Jinyang Duan Xuan’s true spirit jade pendant, soul-nourishing wood, and storage ring, refusing the offered Spirit Stones.
• Duan Jinyang confirmed that Duan Xuan’s true spirit remained intact, gave Qin Tiexin a Golden Sun Sect guest elder token, and estimated her revival would take at least a year and a half.
• Duan Jinyang left Wind and Snow Pass, where guards and cultivators strengthened the defenses against an impending attack.
• At the Black Stone Fortress, Helisi persuaded the Devil Marshals to proceed with their attack despite Xueying’s silence.
• Sheng Xiao’er activated the points of light on Youlun’s jade disk and told the gathered devils to begin.

Han Tao unknowingly submitted to the primordial spirit jade’s hidden influence, then resumed cultivating with no memory of what happened. The next morning, Qin Tiexin was assigned to assist Han Tao and Liu Cheng at a formation, where his artifact warned him that something was wrong with both men.

• Han Tao cultivated with the primordial spirit jade, whose rune turned pink and briefly compelled him to kneel and call it “Master.”
• Pink light appeared that night from other primordial spirit jade fragments scattered around Wind and Snow Pass, while their holders carried on as if nothing had happened.
• Qin Tiexin joined Han Tao and Liu Cheng at the Wind-Rending Strangulation Formation to handle support duties.
• As Qin Tiexin approached the two cultivators, the Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts warned him that something was wrong with them.

Qin Tiexin realized that Han Tao and Liu Cheng had been controlled and suspected the Devil Race was infiltrating Wind and Snow Pass’s defenses. He used Li Yun to summon Luo Ling and warned her, leaving them to investigate the threat.

• The severed arm warned Qin Tiexin that Han Tao and Liu Cheng were being controlled, and Qin Tiexin feared compromised cultivators could sabotage the wall formations.
• Qin Tiexin spotted Li Yun on patrol and pretended to be embarrassed about seeing his senior sister so Han Tao would let him approach her.
• Qin Tiexin quietly asked Li Yun to summon his master, then pretended his old injury had flared up to draw Luo Ling over.
• Li Yun sent an emergency message requesting Luo Ling’s help, and Luo Ling arrived and created a soundproof barrier.
• Qin Tiexin told Luo Ling that Han Tao and Liu Cheng had been controlled and that he suspected the Devil Race.

Qin Tiexin warned Luo Ling that Han Tao and Liu Cheng might be controlled, then stayed at his post while Wind and Snow Pass prepared for the Devil Race's assault. As Demon Beasts and Horned Demons attacked the eastern wall, Qin Tiexin watched Han Tao and waited to see whether he would have to use Edgeless.

• Qin Tiexin told Luo Ling that Han Tao and Liu Cheng might be controlled, and Luo Ling gave him protective talismans before leaving to report to True Person Ling Shuang.
• Qin Tiexin returned to the Wind-Rending Strangulation Formation and watched Han Tao and Liu Cheng as patrols and Golden Core cultivators increased their surveillance along the wall.
• At noon, thousands of Demon Beasts charged from the forest, triggering Wind and Snow Pass's explosive and trap talismans across the ice plain.
• After the traps killed or scattered many Demon Beasts, over ten thousand Horned Demons advanced and were struck by the Blazing Flame Explosive Fire Array.
• Han Tao told Qin Tiexin that close-quarters fighting might not happen, while Qin Tiexin gripped Edgeless and kept watching him.

True Person Zhou Heng coordinated Wind and Snow Pass’s formations with his exceptional Divine Sense, turning back the Devil Race’s assault while teaching Foundation Establishment cultivators his methods. As the battle tilted toward humanity, Sheng Xiao'er manipulated a jade plate, and dozens of cultivators on the walls suddenly flashed pink in their eyes.

• True Person Zhou Heng directed the wall formations with precise commands, destroying devils before they reached Wind and Snow Pass.
• True Person Qingshan and the other human cultivators engaged the Devil Marshals, while Ling Shuang held off eight of them at once.
• Zhou Heng began teaching Nangong Yao and other Foundation Establishment cultivators how to coordinate formations and calculate targets.
• Sheng Xiao'er watched the battle from Black Stone Fortress and infused a jade plate with pink light, turning its network of points pink.
• Dozens of cultivators on the walls of Wind and Snow Pass had pink light flash in their eyes at the same moment.

Qin Tiexin and the defenders stopped controlled cultivators from turning Wind and Snow Pass’s formations against Zhou Heng, but hidden primordial spirit jade fragments then exploded across the eastern wall and disabled a broad section of its defenses. As horned demons rushed toward the gap, the defenders faced a new breach in the city’s protection.

• Han Tao and Liu Cheng turned a formation toward Zhou Heng, so Qin Tiexin killed them before they could attack.
• Luo Ling, Yang Qingxue, and Ice and Snow Pavilion disciples subdued or killed controlled cultivators while Zhou Heng protected himself and revised the formation deployment.
• Qin Tiexin knocked out another controlled cultivator, and the defenders cleared the traitorous formation positions as Ling Shuang kept Musa, Helisi, and the other devil marshals pinned back.
• Primordial spirit jade fragments hidden among the spirit stones exploded at more than a dozen positions, destroying formations and dimming the defensive network along the eastern wall.
• Qin Tiexin saw horned demons advancing toward the unprotected stretch of wall as more devils turned toward the breach.

Sheng Xiao'er remotely detonated Primordial Spirit Jade fragments at Wind and Snow Pass, damaging its eastern defenses, while Liu Qing used the distraction to ambush her with Netherworld Bone Fire and lightning. His attack exposed his betrayal, but Sheng Xiao'er discovered that the Master-Servant Contract in his mind had been covered by a convincing simulation.

• Sheng Xiao'er made the Primordial Spirit Jade fragments at Wind and Snow Pass self-destruct, setting off explosions that damaged the eastern wall’s formations.
• Liu Qing waited until Sheng Xiao'er focused on the Thousand-Li Mirror, then drew on the power of his gray-black ring to reach Half-Step Golden Core strength.
• Liu Qing amplified the Netherworld Bone Fire with the Five Elements Mutual Generation Pearl and attacked Sheng Xiao'er from behind, while raising earthen walls and summoning lightning to trap and weaken her.
• Sheng Xiao'er dodged the heart of the fire pillar, recognized Liu Qing as her attacker, and tried to use their Master-Servant Contract to punish him.
• Sheng Xiao'er found that the contract remained in Liu Qing’s sea of consciousness but was overlaid with a mental-power simulation that absorbed her command and returned a signal of obedience.

Liu Qing drove Sheng Xiao'er from the Black Stone Fortress, took the Devil Race's hoard, and set the fortress ablaze. Youlun later collected Sheng Xiao'er's severed wing and escaped through a spatial rift as the fortress collapsed.

• Liu Qing's attacks and his master's overwhelming mental power injured Sheng Xiao'er, who fled toward her teleportation formation.
• Liu Qing severed Sheng Xiao'er's wing, but she crushed her rune stone and escaped to the Central Heaven Great Region.
• Liu Qing collected the jade disk fragments and spiritual items, looted the Devil Race's treasury, and burned the Black Stone Fortress with the Netherworld Bone Fire.
• Youlun walked unharmed through the flames, found Sheng Xiao'er's severed wing, and stored it.
• Youlun crushed a rune stone and vanished through a spatial rift as the Black Stone Fortress collapsed.

After the Spirit Rune formations were damaged, Qin Tiexin leaped from the wall to stop the devils gathering at the breach. He fought alone at its foot, feeling a breakthrough approach, when a high-ranking Demon General charged at him.

• Primordial Spirit Jade explosions damaged the formations between the third and seventh sections of the eastern wall, leaving a ten-zhang gap in their coverage.
• As devils began climbing the wall and reinforcements were still far away, Qin Tiexin jumped from the battlements with Edgeless.
• Qin Tiexin killed the climbing Horned Demon and plunged into the horde, cutting down Horned Demons, Blood Devils, and Flame Demons with one-handed saber strokes.
• While more powerful devils arrived, Qin Tiexin's stamina waned, but his blood grew hotter as he sensed that a breakthrough was near.
• A scarred, high-ranking Demon General charged at Qin Tiexin with its intact horn aimed at his chest.

Qin Tiexin broke through to the Qi and Blood Realm while facing death at Wind and Snow Pass, then turned the tide by cutting down the devils at the breach. After the battle ended with the devils retreating, he climbed back onto the city wall.

• Li Yun froze one Blood Devil's arm, but Qin Tiexin was still struck by another as two Blood Devils attacked him at the wall.
• Qin Tiexin's accumulated essence ignited the fire of life in his heart, breaking him through to the Qi and Blood Realm just as the devils' claws hit his chest.
• Qin Tiexin killed the two Blood Devils and swept through the devils, then split the charging Horned Demon in half with one slash.
• Qin Tiexin cleared the foot of the wall while the repaired formations resumed firing and cultivators joined the fight.
• Ling Shuang cut down a Devil Marshal, while Musa lost an arm protecting Helisi and carried him and the surviving Devil Marshals toward the Devil Domain Forest.
• After the Golden Core cultivators pursued the retreating devils, a cultivator told Qin Tiexin the battle was over, and Qin Tiexin climbed the wall with Edgeless on his back.

After the battle at Wind and Snow Pass, Qin Tiexin was recognized for his role in the defense and received rewards while his contribution was concealed to protect him from Devil Race retaliation. The chapter ended with Luo Ling taking him to see the pavilion’s chief physician about his missing arm.

• Wind and Snow Pass repaired its defenses and secured the controlled cultivators while Luo Ling found Qin Tiexin and realized he had entered the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Ling Shuang credited Zhou Heng with the battle’s foremost merit and arranged to publicly attribute Qin Tiexin’s discovery of the abnormality to Luo Ling.
• The defenders received public rewards, and Qin Tiexin ranked thirty-seventh and received spirit stones and pills suited to body cultivators.
• Yang Qingxue gave Qin Tiexin his Body Refining Master Conference rewards, Supreme-Grade Law Artifact soft armor, Dragon Blood Body Tempering Pills, and the Savage Mountain Leg Technique.
• Luo Ling told Qin Tiexin that the chief physician was ready to examine his arm and led him away.

Physician Xu told Qin Tiexin that his severed arm could not be reattached because lingering traces of [Extreme Sharpness] would destroy new tissue and his current Qi and Blood would overwhelm the arm. After she described two possible treatments, Qin Tiexin urgently asked Luo Ling to take him to the Heavenly South Domain.

• Luo Ling brought Qin Tiexin to Physician Xu, who examined his shoulder and severed arm.
• Physician Xu determined that [Extreme Sharpness] had damaged Qin Tiexin's meridians and that his arm was too weak for his current cultivation, so it could not be reattached as it was.
• Physician Xu explained that Qin Tiexin could regrow an arm with a [Withering and Flourishing Regeneration Pill] or seek a third-realm medical cultivator to prepare and reattach his original arm.
• Physician Xu said that no third-realm medical cultivator lived in the Azure Xuan Region, but some could be found in the Central Heaven Great Region or the Heavenly South Domain.
• Qin Tiexin stood up and told Luo Ling that he wanted to go to the Heavenly South Domain.

Qin Tiexin told Luo Ling he wanted to travel to the Heavenly South Domain to return Lin Feng’s sword to his family and seek treatment for his missing arm, and she agreed to accompany him. After preparing to leave Wind and Snow Pass and receiving gifts and travel money from his senior sisters, he departed with Luo Ling for the Divine Sword Sect’s teleportation formation.

• Qin Tiexin explained to Luo Ling that he had entered the cultivation world to find Lin Feng’s lineage and return Lin Feng’s sword, and Luo Ling agreed to take him to the Heavenly South Domain for treatment.
• Ling Shuang granted Qin Tiexin leave, and Qin packed his tools, gathered supplies, and tested his Qi and Blood Realm strength at Wind and Snow Pass.
• Qin Tiexin discovered that Edgeless had become far heavier while seeming to adjust to his strength, and the sword conveyed a feeling of joy.
• Nangong Yao gave Qin Tiexin an upper-grade law-artifact pair of boots and a Divine Sense cultivation jade slip from True Person Zhou Heng.
• Li Yun gave Qin Tiexin two thousand spirit stones, and he promised both senior sisters he would return within a year.
• Qin Tiexin joined Luo Ling on her flying sword and departed Wind and Snow Pass for the Divine Sword Sect.

Luo Ling gave Qin Tiexin Spirit Stones and sent Chen Xi to guide him through the Heavenly South Domain, where Qin planned to have his arm treated and find an old acquaintance. After Luo Ling returned to the Flowing Cloud Sect, Chen Xi and Qin set out for the Divine Sword Sect, and Chen Xi revealed he was also looking for an old acquaintance.

• Luo Ling gave Qin Tiexin Spirit Stones for the journey and complained that Chen Xi had disappeared after Yang Qingxue chased him away.
• Chen Xi appeared ahead of Luo Ling and Qin Tiexin, explaining that he had circled back to escort his junior brother to the Heavenly South Domain.
• Luo Ling ordered Chen Xi to help Qin find a third-realm medical cultivator and warned him not to cause trouble or pursue new romantic entanglements.
• After receiving a message about Wu Zhen's condition, Luo Ling returned to the Flowing Cloud Sect and entrusted Qin to Chen Xi.
• Chen Xi and Qin boarded a flying shuttle for the Divine Sword Sect, and Qin said he intended to find an old acquaintance.
• Chen Xi said he was looking for an old acquaintance too as the shuttle headed toward the southernmost tip of the Azure Xuan Region.

Qin Tiexin and Chen Xi arrived at the Divine Sword Sect, where Chen Xi paid a fine for breaking the market’s flying-artifact rules. They reached the ancient teleportation formation that led to the Heavenly South Domain, leaving Qin Tiexin poised to travel there.

• Qin Tiexin and Chen Xi approached the Divine Sword Sect and saw its Heaven-Breaking Sword and vast grounds.
• Two Divine Sword Sect disciples recognized Chen Xi and fined him three hundred Spirit Stones for flying through the market five days earlier.
• Chen Xi led Qin Tiexin through the sect’s market toward the cross-region teleportation formation.
• Chen Xi explained that the ancient formation was the only one in the Azure Xuan Region that could teleport between regions and charged ten thousand Spirit Stones per person.
• Qin Tiexin entered the stone chamber and saw the teleportation formation leading to the Heavenly South Domain.

Chen Xi and Qin Tiexin paid for passage through the Divine Sword Sect’s teleportation formation and prepared to travel to the Heavenly South Domain. While studying Chen Xi’s guide, Qin Tiexin learned how the two domains differed in climate, resources, trade, and governance.

• Chen Xi registered himself and Qin Tiexin for the teleportation formation’s next activation and paid twenty thousand lower-grade spirit stones for their passes.
• Chen Xi rented two private cultivation rooms, gave Qin Tiexin a jade slip about the Heavenly South Domain, and arranged to meet the next morning.
• Qin Tiexin settled into his room and read Chen Xi’s guide, learning that the Heavenly South Domain was rich in spirit medicines while the Azure Xuan Region was rich in minerals.
• Qin Tiexin realized the Divine Sword Sect profited from controlling the only inter-domain teleportation formation and taxing merchant caravans.
• Qin Tiexin continued reading and learned that the Heavenly South Domain’s system of governance differed greatly from the Azure Xuan Region’s.

Qin Tiexin reviewed the Heavenly South Domain’s dynastic powers and examined a mysterious rune-covered cauldron recovered from True Person Xueying’s ruins. He began stewing Demon Beast flesh with medicinal herbs and Refined Blood Pills, leaving the cauldron’s purpose unexplained.

• Qin Tiexin read that the Myriad Stars Dynasty welcomed many factions, while the Great Brahma Dynasty favored Buddhism and the Jade Firmament Dynasty controlled renowned alchemy.
• Qin Tiexin compared the Heavenly South Domain’s dynastic rule to the mortal world of Great Xuan and realized he would need to seek information about Lin Feng’s Lineage after arriving.
• Qin Tiexin took out the large cauldron Chen Xi had recovered from the ruins after True Person Xueying’s death and inspected its complex Spirit Rune Arrays.
• Qin Tiexin activated the cauldron and found its Spirit Gathering Formation slowly drew in Spiritual Qi to condense spirit liquid.
• Qin Tiexin put Demon Beast flesh, medicinal herbs, and crushed high-grade Refined Blood Pills into the cauldron, then heated them to stew.

Qin Tiexin used a sealed cauldron to stew a Demon Beast with medicinal herbs, then absorbed the meal’s essence to strengthen his Qi and Blood. After practicing the Heavy Mountain Saber Technique, he studied the Savage Mountain Leg Technique Yang Qingxue had left for him.

• Qin Tiexin cooked half a Demon Beast with medicinal herbs in the cauldron, whose formation sealed in the ingredients’ essence.
• Qin Tiexin ate the meat and broth, then circulated the True Fire Furnace Scripture as his blood began transforming into Essence Blood.
• Qin Tiexin noticed his fist-sized Fire of Life continued to grow and display faint dark-gold patterns.
• Qin Tiexin practiced the final two forms of the Heavy Mountain Saber Technique and noticed that his legs were less thoroughly tempered than his arms.
• Qin Tiexin read Yang Qingxue’s notes on the Savage Mountain Leg Technique, memorizing its three forms and their methods of generating force.