Chapter Summaries

Qin Tiexin repeatedly battered True Person Xueying’s blood giant and endured his attacks through extraordinary regeneration, forcing Xueying to abandon the giant form and change tactics. Xueying drew the saber that had once severed True Person Iron Fist as the battle continued.

• Qin Tiexin shattered the blood giant’s limbs and head with a relentless series of strikes, while True Person Xueying repeatedly regenerated its body.
• True Person Xueying launched six Blood Spears, and Qin Tiexin pulled one from his shoulder and hurled it through the giant’s eye.
• True Person Xueying dismissed the blood giant and rose out of Qin Tiexin’s reach, then struck him with Blood Baleful Intent palm imprints, a Blood Spear, and natal spirit fire.
• Qin Tiexin recovered from the wounds and burns almost immediately, alarming True Person Xueying.
• True Person Xueying drew the dark red curved saber that had severed True Person Iron Fist.

True Person Xueying wounded Qin Tiexin with his curved saber but struggled to stop the giant, while a rune from the severed arm awakened the power of [Armament]. Edgeless flew from the cavern into Qin Tiexin's hand as Jiang Ci escaped, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• True Person Xueying slashed Qin Tiexin twice with his curved saber, leaving wounds that would not regenerate, but Qin Tiexin still charged and struck Xueying's shoulder.
• True Person Xueying prepared another slash as the severed arm pressed against Qin Tiexin's back sent an [Armament] rune into his right hand.
• Jiang Ci searched the Storage Bags for what he needed, then activated a jade token and vanished into a concealed passage.
• Edgeless shook free of the storage chamber, tore through stone walls, and flew toward the battlefield.
• Edgeless's hilt struck Qin Tiexin's raised palm, and he caught the blade.

Edgeless absorbed weapons throughout the cavern, growing larger and repairing itself as Qin Tiexin fought True Person Xueying. After Edgeless’s massive strike disrupted Xueying’s mist transformation and drained much of his Qi and Blood, Xueying realized the battle could kill him.

• Edgeless drew in and devoured weapons scattered through the cavern, growing in size and healing its damage.
• True Person Xueying attacked Edgeless repeatedly, but the saber absorbed more weapons and repaired every wound.
• Qin Tiexin fought back with Edgeless, while Xueying’s curved saber’s cold will increasingly eroded his consciousness.
• After Edgeless grew to twenty-nine feet, Qin Tiexin smashed it down on Xueying, interrupting his mist transformation and scattering his body into blood mist.
• True Person Xueying re-formed with nearly twenty percent less Qi and Blood and realized Edgeless could drain him even while he was mist.

True Person Xueying crippled Qin Tiexin and killed him with his Golden Core after a desperate battle. Just as Xueying tried to retrieve the Core, a mysterious man caught it, and an enraged figure descended into the cavern.

• True Person Xueying trapped Qin Tiexin's arm in his blood giant and severed it with the curved saber, while Edgeless cut off Xueying's lower legs.
• True Person Xueying sent his Golden Core through Qin Tiexin's head, killing him and ending the giant's transformation.
• True Person Xueying tried to call back his Golden Core but found that an unremarkable man on the rubble had caught and held it.
• True Person Xueying questioned how the man had entered unseen and caught the Core barehanded.
• A furious voice accused Xueying of touching its disciple, and a red-robed figure plunged through a passage in the cavern ceiling.

Chen Xi and Luo Ling reached Qin Tiexin and killed True Person Xueying, but Chen Xi had to capture Xueying's escaping true spirit as well. Luo Ling found Qin Tiexin barely alive and called Chen Xi over to examine him.

• Chen Xi and Luo Ling followed the jade talisman’s signal to the Iron Spine Sect ruins, then tracked the Little Death-Substitution Puppet’s fading connection to a cavern where True Person Xueying attacked Qin Tiexin.
• Chen Xi seized True Person Xueying’s Golden Core and used a Spirit-Locking Formation while Luo Ling struck Xueying with her warhammer, destroying his body.
• True Person Xueying’s true spirit tried to escape, but Chen Xi trapped it beneath a law artifact and absorbed it into a talisman.
• Luo Ling found Qin Tiexin barely alive, with severe wounds and a severed arm, and called Chen Xi to help him.

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.