Recaps

Ning Chenxin chose to join Mount Qingcheng, while Ye Qiubai and the others joined the Supervisory Sacred Hall to investigate the Holy Court. After the group departed Withered Cloud Mountain, a pair of red eyes appeared in a hidden cliff crevice.

• The Grand Elder offered Ning Chenxin an Inspector position and access to the Sacred Hall’s library, while Old Daoist Qingcheng offered him Mount Qingcheng’s scripture and three years of personal instruction.
• Ning Chenxin chose Mount Qingcheng, and Old Daoist Qingcheng named him the foremost True Disciple of the seventy-second generation.
• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Mu Fusheng, Jiu Bailu, and Xu Yeming agreed to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Yang Shao arranged their admission in three days.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng took Ning Chenxin to Mount Qingcheng, while the Grand Elder ordered the Sacred Hall to clear Withered Cloud Mountain and deal with the Withered Cloud Sect.
• Ning Chenxin told Old Daoist Qingcheng that he distrusted the purity of the Supervisory Sacred Hall’s path.
• After everyone left, two red points of light flickered in a hidden chamber within a cliff on Withered Cloud Mountain.

Yang Shao brought Ye Qiubai and the others to the Supervisory Sacred Hall, where they registered and learned its rules and hierarchy. After Inspector Qin Zhao insulted them, they heard that the younger generation’s first-ranked Inspector was a Sacred Hall secret, then arrived at a crowded platform where inner disciples had gathered to test the special recruits.

• Yang Shao toured Ye Qiubai and the others through the Supervisory Sacred Hall and explained its rules, buildings, and restricted peaks.
• Inspector Qin Zhao disparaged the newcomers as stray cats and dogs, and Yang Shao explained that Qin ranked second among the younger generation’s three Inspectors.
• Mu Fusheng asked about the first-ranked Inspector, and Yang Shao said the person’s identity was a Sacred Hall secret.
• Yang Shao took the group to register at the Deacon Hall and collect identity tokens and uniforms.
• Yang Shao led Ye Qiubai and the others to a platform where inner disciples had gathered to see how the special recruits performed.

The Third Elder tested the five outsiders’ aptitude with the Heaven-Monitoring Stone after Yang Shao recommended them for the Sacred Hall. Xu Yeming, Hong Ying, and Jiu Bailu produced extraordinary results, leaving the crowd stunned as Mu Fusheng and Ye Qiubai remained to be tested.

• The Third Elder explained the Heaven-Monitoring Stone’s test and asked the five specially recruited disciples to demonstrate their aptitude.
• Xu Yeming produced eighty percent silver radiance and qualified for the upper tier of the inner disciples, while concealing his bloodline and other powers.
• Mu Fusheng warned Xu Yeming to be less conspicuous, but Hong Ying argued that displaying their strength would help them gain standing and gather intelligence.
• Hong Ying made the stone shine with one hundred percent golden radiance, astonishing the Third Elder and the Supervisory Sacred Hall disciples.
• Jiu Bailu produced eighty percent silver radiance with a brief trace of pale gold, which the Third Elder noticed before she returned to the group.

Mu Fusheng reached forty percent silver light on the Heaven-Monitoring Stone, but Ye Qiubai's test unleashed a startling Sword Intent that resonated with the stone and attracted the Supervisory Sacred Hall's most powerful figures. The chapter ends with Ye Qiubai's Sword Intent turning completely golden, displaying one hundred percent golden light.

• Mu Fusheng told Yang Shao he was weak and scored forty percent silver light on the Heaven-Monitoring Stone.
• The Third Elder acknowledged Mu Fusheng's talent but noted that the stone could not detect a talisman master's abilities.
• Mu Fusheng urged Ye Qiubai to keep a low profile, but Ye Qiubai's test produced ninety percent silver light and countless sword phantoms.
• The Heaven-Monitoring Stone drew out Ye Qiubai's Sword Intent, which surged into the sky and reached one hundred percent silver light.
• The Grand Elder explained that Ye Qiubai's Sword Dao talent had resonated with the sword intent of the mighty cultivator who had cut the Heaven-Monitoring Stone.
• Ye Qiubai's Sword Intent turned completely golden, and its force shook the Supervisory Sacred Hall.

Shen Liuzhou and a mysterious white-robed Inspector grew suspicious of Ye Qiubai and his companions and arranged a dangerous mission to test them. Vice Dean Lin summoned the five recruits and assigned them their first mission, except for Mu Jiu, who was told to prove himself by inscribing talismans.

• Shen Liuzhou ordered the elders to watch the five recruits, give them more missions, and continue interrogating the survivors from the Withered Cloud Sect.
• A white-robed man, the first among the younger Inspectors, gave Shen Liuzhou a mission investigating the massacre of fourteen sects near Banan and proposed sending the recruits to investigate first.
• Yang Shao brought Ye Qiubai and the others to five adjoining cave abodes, then took them to meet his master when summoned.
• On the way, Yang Shao told the group that six elders had died on missions and that the Supervisory Sacred Hall still did not know who killed them.
• Vice Dean Lin gave the recruits a mission scroll and told Mu Jiu to stay in the Sacred Hall and prove himself by inscribing talismans.

Old Daoist Qingcheng brought Ning Chenxin to Mount Qingcheng, introduced him as the chief True Disciple, and showed him the sect’s cultivation grounds. After the other disciples were astonished by Ning Chenxin’s Vast Righteous Qi, the Temple Master summoned them all to the Righteous Qi Pool and said he had a mission for Ning Ru.

• Old Daoist Qingcheng brought Ning Chenxin to Mount Qingcheng and described the Righteous Qi Pool and Scripture Repository Peak as places for him to cultivate and study.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng introduced Ning Chenxin to five True Disciples as the chief True Disciple of the seventy-second generation.
• Gu You and the other disciples asked Ning Chenxin to display his Vast Righteous Qi, and Lu Mingyuan recognized its exceptional refinement.
• Ning Chenxin explained that he had cultivated by reading the sages’ books and acting on their principles, impressing the disciples with his understanding of the Dao.
• As Gu You led Ning Chenxin toward the Tranquil Heart Grove, Old Daoist Qingcheng summoned everyone to the Righteous Qi Pool and said he had a mission for Ning Ru.

Ning Chenxin and his companions visited the Righteous Qi Pool, where Old Daoist Qingcheng was purifying the soul of an Evil Cultivator called Blood Shadow. After learning that a secretive Evil Dao organization might be behind a string of sect massacres near the Banan border, Ning Chenxin was sent to investigate with Lu Mingyuan and Gu You.

• Old Daoist Qingcheng used the Righteous Qi Pool to torment and weaken Blood Shadow’s imprisoned soul.
• Lu Mingyuan explained that the pool purified evil beings and helped prevent Blood Shadow’s soul from escaping or being exploited.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng revealed that Blood Shadow belonged to a secretive Evil Dao organization that used sects as testing grounds for evil arrays.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng said fourteen sects near the Banan border had been slaughtered, and ordered Ning Chenxin, Lu Mingyuan, and Gu You to meet Han Shouyi and investigate.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng invited Ning Chenxin to meditate beside the pool, while Gu You and Zhou Qing protested that he was being favored.

Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin traveled toward the Banan border as the Supervisory Sacred Hall’s investigators gathered with local forces to discuss the annihilation of fourteen sects and the return of Evil Cultivators. The meeting began with friction between the Sacred Hall and Chu Ran before Ba Xiyue called everyone to share their information.

• Lu Mingyuan explained the Banan border’s importance to Ning Chenxin, while Gu You flew off alone to scout ahead.
• Yang Shao brought Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Xu Yeming, and Qin Zhao to meet City Lord Huo Xuedao at the border City Lord’s Manor.
• Ye Qiubai recognized that Huo Xuedao had recently broken through to the Formless Realm, surprising Yang Shao and Qin Zhao.
• At the meeting, Chu Ran criticized the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Qin Zhao defended it, creating tension among the gathered forces.
• A long-haired man rebuked Chu Ran and Qin Zhao for arguing while Evil Cultivators threatened the realm, and Ba Xiyue asked everyone to share their information.

Ba Xiyue convened a gathering to discuss the destruction of fourteen sects, but accusations and suspicions about the Banan Divine Kingdom’s role stalled the investigation. When a Moon Shadow Guard reported intensifying Evil Qi at Wind-Ming Valley, Ba Xiyue ordered an immediate response to stop an evil formation from being completed.

• Ba Xiyue questioned Qin Zhao and Yang Shao about the sect destructions, and Qin Zhao said the Supervisory Sacred Hall had subdued the Withered Cloud Sect’s Evil Cultivators but had not identified the organization behind them.
• Chu Ran insinuated that Banan’s border powers had helped the Evil Cultivators, prompting a black-armored general to confront him before Ba Xiyue used Imperial Intent to demand evidence and defend the Divine Kingdom’s unity.
• Han Shouyi of Mount Qingcheng left the gathering and gave Ye Qiubai a jade pendant, promising to help if he was bullied.
• A Moon Shadow Guard reported rapidly intensifying Evil Qi near Wind-Ming Valley, where Rogue Cultivators and disciples remained encamped.
• Ba Xiyue ordered the Moon Shadow Guard to depart at once and called on the others to capture the Evil Cultivators.

Ba Xiyue led the gathered cultivators to Wind-Ming Valley, where they found its inhabitants drained and a Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array consuming the valley. As the Wind-Ming Valley disciples attacked by self-destructing, Xu Yeming realized they had been injected with blood from a single person.

• Ba Xiyue ordered the Moon Shadow Guard and other experts to leave for Wind-Ming Valley after Evil Qi was detected.
• Qin Zhao and the others found the valley covered in dark-red mist, with its buildings ruined and its inhabitants drained of blood and souls.
• Qin Zhao identified a Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array that had been operating for several days.
• Dozens of dead Wind-Ming Valley disciples charged the group and exploded, releasing corrosive blood mist.
• Xu Yeming observed that the blood in the walking corpses came from the same person and concluded that it had been injected into them after their own blood was drained.

Hong Ying used her superior imperial intent to stop the Windcry Valley disciples and their leaders from self-detonating, allowing Huo Xuedao and the others to kill them. With the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array still active, an arriving voice offered to handle it.

• Xu Yeming questioned why the evil cultivators had injected evil blood into the Windcry Valley disciples, and Hong Ying suggested they had done it deliberately to provoke them.
• Ba Xiyue used her imperial intent to suppress the disciples, but seven powerful puppets—including Windcry Valley's elders and valley master—emerged from the array and intensified the threat.
• As Ba Xiyue's strength began to falter, Hong Ying unleashed a more powerful imperial intent that stopped the disciples' self-detonations and checked the seven puppets.
• Huo Xuedao, the black-armored general, and the gray-robed elder killed the suppressed disciples and the puppets, leaving the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array intact.
• Chu Ran warned that breaking the array would be difficult, then an immortal crane arrived as an unseen speaker said they would handle it.

Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin began breaking the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array in Wind-Ming Valley, with Lu Mingyuan attacking its core and Ning Chenxin containing the escaping evil Qi. Their efforts revealed Ning Chenxin’s extraordinary command of vast righteous Qi as the array began to resist.

• Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin arrived from Mount Qingcheng, and Lu Mingyuan rebuked Chu Ran for disrespecting Han Shouyi.
• Lu Mingyuan explained that the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array had been operating for at least thirty-five days and had consumed hundreds of lives; Ba Xiyue accepted Huo Xuedao’s apology for failing to detect it.
• Lu Mingyuan asked Ning Chenxin to guard the array’s eye with his vast righteous Qi while he used the Evil-Purifying Mantra to break the array.
• The others withdrew to the valley entrance to guard against interference as Lu Mingyuan sent an azure pillar of light toward the array’s blood core.
• Ning Chenxin formed a white screen of righteous Qi around the array’s center, stopping and purifying the evil Qi that tried to escape.
• Huo Xuedao and Ba Xiyue marveled at Ning Chenxin’s righteous Qi, while Chu Ran looked displeased and Qin Zhao wondered why Ning Chenxin had not joined the Supervisory Sacred Hall.

Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin purified the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array in Wind-Ming Valley, freeing the trapped souls. A Blood Soul Guide escaped the ruined buildings only to be intercepted by Han Shouyi, whose destruction of it revealed that the Sacred Church blamed Mount Qingcheng, the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Banan Divine Kingdom for foiling its plan.

• Lu Mingyuan used the Evil-Purifying Mantra against the blood core, while Ning Chenxin added Vast Righteous Qi that calmed the souls’ resentment and strengthened the purification.
• Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin destroyed the Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array, and Ba Xiyue thanked them for freeing Wind-Ming Valley’s wronged souls.
• Lu Mingyuan praised Ning Chenxin as Mount Qingcheng’s foremost True Disciple, leaving Yang Shao regretful that he had not recruited him.
• A dark-red Blood Soul Guide shot from the ruins, but Han Shouyi struck it down with Sword Qi.
• The destroyed guide released a message from the Sacred Church threatening blood debts against Mount Qingcheng, the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Banan Divine Kingdom.

Han Shouyi arrived to protect his junior brothers, threatened Chu Ran, and took Ning Chenxin and Lu Mingyuan away from Wind-Ming Valley. Ba Xiyue’s investigation into the Sacred Church led to the Divine Kingdom Imperial Guard revealing that the Holy Court had once destroyed it, while Commander Jiang Yi warned that the border had likely been infiltrated.

• Han Shouyi confronted Chu Ran and warned him not to trouble his junior brothers again.
• Han Shouyi praised Ning Chenxin, then left with him and Lu Mingyuan while urging Ba Xiyue to investigate the evil array and the Sacred Church.
• Ba Xiyue ordered the Moon Shadow Guard to investigate border factions and returned to the City Lord’s Manor with the others.
• Three days later, hundreds of Divine Kingdom Imperial Guards arrived at the City Lord’s Manor, and Jiang Yi explained that the Holy Court’s Holy Lord had once suppressed the Sacred Church.
• Jiang Yi said the State Preceptor was divining the location of the Sacred Church’s inheritance and warned that the area had probably already been infiltrated.

Ning Chenxin, Lu Mingyuan, and Han Shouyi investigated the Sacred Church’s attacks along the Banan border but found no clues. Hong Ying noticed the attack sites formed part of a six-pointed star, a symbol associated with the Sacred Church.

• Old Daoist Qingcheng warned Han Shouyi, Lu Mingyuan, and Ning Chenxin that the Sacred Church had returned and that its followers were skilled at controlling minds.
• Jiang Yi reported that more factions beyond the border had been attacked, their people drained of blood and stripped of their souls.
• Han Shouyi took Ning Chenxin and Lu Mingyuan to an attack site, where they found another Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array and purified the corpses.
• Han Shouyi and Jiang Yi investigated the site for three days but found no clues, then joined the others at the City Lord's Manor.
• Hong Ying connected the marked attack sites on the sand table and saw that they resembled a six-pointed star, which Jiang Yi identified as a Sacred Church symbol.

Ba Tianque warned Ba Xiyue and the gathered allies that the Sacred Church’s six-pointed star markings might form the foundations of a vast evil formation. Ba Xiyue organized a three-day search and sent the group to protect the Heavenly Seal Sect, where they expected the final preparations to be underway.

• Ba Tianque reprimanded Ba Xiyue, Jiang Yi, and Huo Xuedao for failing to stop the Sacred Church from attacking more sects.
• Ba Tianque revealed that the six-pointed star markings might be foundation markers for an ancient evil formation, possibly fueled by the slaughtered sects.
• Ba Xiyue volunteered to search the border, and Ba Tianque gave her three days to uncover the threat and warn the other factions.
• Ba Tianque recognized Hong Ying’s full ten-tenths golden radiance talent and invited her to visit the Banan Imperial Capital.
• Ba Xiyue assigned Jiang Yi to sweep the area around the final star point, sent the Moon Shadow Guard to the Heavenly Seal Sect, and ordered the remaining allies to go there with her.

Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu heard criticism over the failed investigation at Banan, while Old Daoist Qingcheng tortured a captured member of the Sacred Church for information. At the Heavenly Seal Sect, a blood formation trapped Ba Xiyue and the others alongside the Divine Kingdom Imperial Guard, and the attackers revealed they had lured everyone into a trap.

• Jiu Bailu asked Mu Fusheng whether he was angry about people blaming the newcomers for the investigation's failure, and Mu Fusheng said their restraint showed Eldest Senior Brother and the others had followed his warning.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng questioned the captured enemy at the Righteous Qi Pool and used Vast Righteous Qi to torture him when he refused to answer.
• Ba Xiyue and the others arrived at the Heavenly Seal Sect, ordered its sect master to gather the disciples and elders, and had Ning Chenxin inspect them for Evil Qi.
• Ning Chenxin found no one tainted with Evil Qi, but Han Shouyi sensed danger as dark red lines formed a six-pointed star around the sect.
• A blood curtain enclosed the Heavenly Seal Sect, and a black-robed leader revealed that the formation also trapped the Divine Kingdom Imperial Guard and that the attackers meant to capture everyone.

The Blood Prison Soul Refining Array trapped the Heavenly Seal Sect and began draining its disciples’ Essence Blood and souls. The group identified the array eye beneath the Ancestral Hall, where they found a bone altar, a beating heart, and twelve Formless Realm skeletons.

• Dark-red currents pierced the defenders’ barriers and began consuming their Spiritual Qi, while Jiang Yi’s attack failed to break the blood curtain.
• The black-robed Evil Cultivator revealed that the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array needed the living beings of six sects and would kill everyone inside within three days unless they destroyed its array eye.
• Blood threads lifted Heavenly Seal Sect disciples and drained their Essence Blood and souls, while Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying failed to stop them with their attacks.
• Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming reasoned that the array eye lay beneath the Ancestral Hall, and Ba Xiyue led everyone there despite Ning Chenxin’s suspicions that the enemy had set a trap.
• Jiang Yi entered the Ancestral Hall and found a bone altar beneath a floating, beating heart, guarded by twelve skeletons whose presence was at the Formless Realm.

The group battled the twelve skeletal puppets and the endless vengeful spirits pouring from the array’s dark-red heart. As Ning Chenxin and Xu Yeming held off the spirits, Ye Qiubai and Qin Zhao struck together and cracked the heart, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Han Shouyi suppressed five skeletal puppets while the others fought the remaining seven and Ning Chenxin headed for the altar.
• The dark-red heart released waves of vengeful spirits that regenerated after Hong Ying’s Imperial Intent destroyed them.
• Xu Yeming summoned divine beasts to attack the spirits, while Ning Chenxin used the Nine-Character Mantra and Vast Righteous Qi to hold them back.
• Qin Zhao intercepted a bloody hand reaching for Ye Qiubai, and Ye Qiubai struck the heart with the Three Origins Transforming into Purity Sword.
• Their coordinated attacks cracked the heart, though the group questioned whether the array’s core could be damaged so easily.

Ye Qiubai and the others destroyed the heart at the center of the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array, only to trigger the array’s second stage and summon a terrifying blood shadow. The group rushed outside to find the Heavenly Seal Sect engulfed in a blood-colored purgatory, where the array was draining the essence and souls of everyone inside.

• Ye Qiubai, Ba Xiyue, Chu Ran, Yang Shao, Qin Zhao, and the others struck the heart’s crack with their strongest attacks, and Ye Qiubai’s eighth sword shattered the heart.
• The heart became hundreds of blood bats, the wronged souls grew stronger, and the twelve skeletal puppets surged as the array entered its second stage.
• Han Shouyi destroyed five attacking skeletons with lightning and helped suppress the ruined heart, while the group realized their enemy had lured them away from the sect.
• Ning Chenxin and Lu Mingyuan dispersed the lingering resentment, but a blood cloud gathered above the altar and began forming a dark-red figure.
• The Heavenly Seal Sect’s sect master and the others rushed out of the ancestral hall and found the sect in a blood-colored purgatory as the array drained the living of their essence and souls.

Trapped inside the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array, the group failed to break through and learned that their only possible hope was the Heavenly Seal Sect’s dormant treasure tree. The sect master led them toward the secret grounds to seek its divine light.

• Han Shouyi and Lu Mingyuan warned that their Vast Righteous Qi could protect everyone for only a few days.
• Jiang Yi led the others in a combined strike against the blood curtain, but the array absorbed their power and intensified its suction.
• Han Shouyi pulled nearby disciples away from the curtain, but several were drained of their Essence Blood and souls.
• The Heavenly Seal Sect’s sect master revealed that the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree could contain divine light capable of cleansing evil, though no one had awakened it for generations.
• Han Shouyi agreed to follow the sect master to the secret grounds and try to draw out the tree’s power.

The group tested whether they could resonate with the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree, but the younger generation’s strongest candidates initially failed to awaken it. Just as Chu Ran prepared to leave, the tree suddenly burst into brilliant golden light.

• The group found the three-foot Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree in a cavern, and Chu Ran was thrown into a wall when he tried to seize it by force.
• Ba Xiyue, Qin Zhao, and Yang Shao each tried to resonate with the tree, but none succeeded.
• Han Shouyi asked Ning Chenxin to try, and Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming joined him with their presences restrained.
• The tree showed only faint reactions to Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming before remaining still as Ning Chenxin stood before it.
• As Chu Ran suggested leaving to break the formation by force, the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree suddenly released brilliant golden light throughout the cavern.

The Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree responded to Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Xu Yeming, and Ning Chenxin, bathing them in divine light and the Power of Origin. They all advanced in strength, and Ye Qiubai began a second breakthrough in the Sword Dao.

• Ye Qiubai and his three companions stirred the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree, astonishing Chu Ran, Ba Xiyue, and the others.
• Ba Xiyue and the gray-robed elder decided to investigate which great realm the four came from, while Yang Shao, Qin Zhao, Han Shouyi, and Lu Mingyuan guarded them as they began breaking through.
• Ye Qiubai broke through from the middle stage of the Realm God Realm to the early stage of the Creation Realm, and the Azure Cloud Sword Master awakened and told him to direct the tree's remaining presence into his sword-related foundations.
• Hong Ying advanced from the peak of the Realm God Realm to the middle stage of the Creation Realm, while Xu Yeming reached the early stage of the Creation Realm.
• Ning Chenxin absorbed the tree's sacred intent into his Vast Righteous Qi and gained strength comparable to the Creation Realm.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed a surge of Sword Intent, beginning another breakthrough that Qin Zhao judged to be in the Sword Dao.

Ye Qiubai’s Sword Dao advanced to the peak of the Sword Dao Dharma Form, while Ning Chenxin inherited the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree and led the assault on the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array. The array shattered, but Ba Xiyue saw blood light spreading across half the sky at Banan’s border.

• Ye Qiubai revealed his Azure Cloud Sword Dharma Form, and its chaotic gray breath formed a Sword Domain as his Sword Dao reached its peak.
• The Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree acknowledged Ning Chenxin, entered his body, and granted him power rivaling Han Shouyi’s.
• Ning Chenxin led everyone from the cavern to face the fully formed array spirit outside the Founding Ancestor Hall.
• Ning Chenxin used Heavenly Seal Divine Light and the Nine-Character Mantra to purify the blood waves and suppress the array spirit.
• Han Shouyi, Lu Mingyuan, Jiang Yi, and the others joined their attacks with Ning Chenxin’s, shattering the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array.
• Ba Xiyue saw blood light staining half the sky at Banan’s border as the crisis continued.

After the blood curtain over the Heavenly Seal Sect fell, Ning Chenxin and the others discovered that the sect had been bait for a vast evil formation covering Banan’s border. They reached the fallen border city and identified Mount Zhenyue as the formation’s core, while Jiang Yi revealed that the kingdom was hiding a secret there.

• Ning Chenxin and the others saw the true six-pointed evil formation covering the border and realized the Heavenly Seal Sect had been its final trigger.
• Ba Xiyue ordered Jiang Yi to gather imperial guards and reinforce the border, while the black-armored general escorted survivors and alerted nearby sects.
• Chu Ran charged toward the blood curtain, and the group found the border city shattered and its survivors fleeing as Evil Cultivators and Demon Beasts attacked.
• Yang Shao stopped Jiang Yi from rushing into battle and pointed out that blood-colored power converged on Mount Zhenyue, where powerful Sacred Church figures operated the formation.
• Jiang Yi refused to disclose the Banan Divine Kingdom’s secret without the sovereign’s permission, and Ning Chenxin urged everyone to focus on stopping the formation.