Chapter Summaries

The Holy Court of the Soaring Realm sought help after seven elders vanished, while Lu Changsheng sent Ye Qiubai and the others to the Soaring Realm through the Star Orbit Well. He remained concerned about He Mengshen’s unclear background as the group departed.

• The hall master concluded that a powerful opponent had killed the seven elders and used his sacred token to request assistance from the Holy Realm's Holy Court.
• Lu Changsheng gave Ye Qiubai and the others a token that would guide them through concealed spatial nodes in the Star Orbit.
• Mu Wan'er and Mo Yu stayed behind, while Du Zhong assigned Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Xiao Shitou, and Fang Qiong training in the Six Realms.
• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, and Jiu Bailu entered the Star Orbit Well to head for the Soaring Realm.
• Lu Changsheng sent Chu Yan and He Mengshen into the Star Orbit Well, then told Du Zhong he still doubted He Mengshen's reported identity.

Ye Qiubai and the others arrived in the Soaring Realm and explored Fish Leap City, where Mu Fusheng found a rare Lightning Annihilation Dragon horn. Members of the Supervisory Sacred Hall then tried to outbid him for it.

• Chu Yan invited Ye Qiubai and the others to visit the Chu Clan, but Ye Qiubai declined, and Hong Ying rejected Chu Yan’s jade pendant.
• The group arrived at Fish Leap City, where Chu Yan and He Mengshen parted from them after offering ways to stay in contact.
• Ye Qiubai and the others explored Fish Leap City and found its treasures and powerful residents far beyond those of the Six Realms.
• Mu Fusheng went with Jiu Bailu to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and offered a lightning-attribute talisman for a Lightning Annihilation Dragon horn.
• A man from the Supervisory Sacred Hall offered a Formless-grade pill for the horn, and the shopkeeper confirmed that the highest bidder would get it.

Mu Fusheng traded a pill containing the Power of Karma for the Extinguishing Thunder Dragon Horn, then drew the attention of Yang Shao, who invited him to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall. The group considered using the invitation to learn about the Soaring Realm and investigate the Hall’s connection to its Mortal Realm namesake, just as Shopkeeper Xie returned with a purple-robed man.

• Jiu Bailu offered a pill containing the Power of Karma, and Shopkeeper Xie judged it more valuable than a Formless-grade pill and gave Mu Fusheng the Extinguishing Thunder Dragon Horn.
• Mu Fusheng introduced himself to Yang Shao as Mu Jiu and explained that he needed the horn as a primary material for his talismans.
• Yang Shao invited Mu Fusheng to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall as a talisman master, offering occasional work and the benefits of membership.
• Yang Shao gave Mu Fusheng his token and left, while Ye Qiubai, Ning Chenxin, and Mu Fusheng discussed visiting the Hall and investigating its connection to the Mortal Realm.
• Shopkeeper Xie returned with a middle-aged man dressed in purple robes.

Ye Qiubai and his companions received Thousand Treasures Cards from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and learned that the Supervisory Sacred Hall was founded by the Holy Court. They left after Hong Ying said they were considering joining the Hall, while the third elder reflected on the great karma carried by those who possessed the Power of Karma.

• The third elder awarded Mu Fusheng and his five companions six Thousand Treasures Cards and offered them another item in exchange for their pill.
• The third elder explained that the Supervisory Sacred Hall was a Holy Court law-enforcement organization with branches across the World Tree.
• Hong Ying said the group was considering joining the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Mu Fusheng worried they would expose themselves by entering enemy territory.
• Shopkeeper Xie personally saw Ye Qiubai and the others out of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• The third elder told Shopkeeper Xie that an ancient text in the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower said those who possessed the Power of Karma shouldered great karma, and he declared that they must risk rising or perishing.

Mu Fusheng and his companions agreed to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Yang Shao offered them a chance to prove themselves on a mission to purge the Withered Cloud Sect. Ning Chenxin detected Evil Qi in the mission scroll and warned Yang Shao of an infiltrator, and the group arrived at the sect’s ghost-haunted mountains.

• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and the others advocated joining the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Mu Fusheng agreed to go along with them.
• Mu Fusheng asked Yang Shao to let his companions join too, but Yang Shao challenged them to prove their strength on a mission before recommending them.
• Ning Chenxin noticed Evil Qi in the mission scroll, and Yang Shao revealed that the outer elder who prepared it was an agent of the Withered Cloud Sect.
• Yang Shao explained that the Withered Cloud Sect had grown by draining cultivators’ Essence Blood and souls and forcing dual cultivation, while people and entire sects disappeared nearby.
• Ye Qiubai and the others traveled with Yang Shao to the Withered Cloud Sect, where Ning Chenxin sensed wronged souls wailing in the cloud-covered mountains.

Ye Qiubai and the others met the Supervisory Sacred Hall’s Grand Elder and Old Daoist Qingcheng near Withered Cloud Mountain after Ning Chenxin detected evil cultivators and wronged souls within the Withered Cloud Sect. Old Daoist Qingcheng sought to recruit Ning Chenxin, while Yang Shao explained why the powerful factions had assembled to investigate the sect.

• Ning Chenxin detected a dense presence of evil cultivators and wronged souls near the Withered Cloud Sect, and Yang Shao revealed that he was the Hall Master’s disciple.
• The Grand Elder and Tao Yi challenged the group’s qualifications, but the Grand Elder recognized Ning Chenxin’s Confucian Dao and vast righteous Qi.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng appeared and invited Ning Chenxin to join Mount Qingcheng, prompting tension with the Grand Elder and Tao Yi.
• Mu Fusheng asked why top factions were deploying such a large force against a second-rate sect, and Yang Shao said the Withered Cloud Sect had grown rapidly and might possess a powerful evil cultivation inheritance and a hidden backer.

The Supervisory Sacred Hall raided the Withered Cloud Sect after uncovering its Evil Cultivator practices and a traitor within its ranks. As the battle began, a blood-colored giant emerged from deep within Withered Cloud Mountain.

• The Withered Cloud Sect's sect master met secretly with a Supervisory Sacred Hall elder, who accepted payment for information about the sect.
• The Supervisory Sacred Hall's grand elder arrived with over a hundred people, exposed the sect master as a blood cultivator, and burned an Evil Cultivator disciple with golden light.
• Ning Chenxin identified the sect master's blood cultivation and estimated that he had killed over ten thousand people.
• The grand elder killed the traitorous outer sect elder and captured his soul, then sent the Supervisory Sacred Hall forces to attack the Withered Cloud Sect.
• Tao Yi, Yang Shao, Mu Fusheng, and the others prepared to fight as Old Daoist Qingcheng and the grand elder confronted the sect master.
• The sect master revealed that the Withered Cloud Sect's elders were still unaccounted for, and a blood-colored giant appeared from deep within Withered Cloud Mountain.

Old Daoist Qingcheng and the Supervisory Sacred Hall confronted the Withered Cloud Sect’s Blood Soul Giant and uncovered a hidden Evil Cultivator behind its creation. As the grand elder hesitated over fighting the giant, Ning Chenxin arrived and offered to suppress it briefly so they could attack together.

• The Withered Cloud Sect summoned a Blood Soul Giant made from the souls and essence blood of more than ten thousand cultivators, and it attacked the Supervisory Sacred Hall disciples.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng trapped the giant with his Celestial Master Demon-Binding Instruction, but the Withered Cloud Sect’s seven elders sacrificed their blood to strengthen it.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng deduced that a powerful Evil Cultivator was hiding within the sect, and a pale, handsome man emerged from Withered Cloud Mountain.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng suppressed the handsome man with Vast Righteous Qi, forcing the Withered Cloud Sect Master to join the fight.
• Ning Chenxin appeared beside the grand elder and offered to suppress the Blood Soul Giant briefly so they could coordinate an attack.

Ning Chenxin used the Dao Scripture and Vast Righteous Qi to purify the Withered Cloud Sect’s Blood Soul Great Array and release more than ten thousand wronged souls. The Grand Elder helped destroy the weakened array, then resolved to recruit Ning Chenxin before Old Daoist Qingcheng could.

• Ning Chenxin stepped forward with the Dao Scripture and revealed his Vast Righteous Qi, drawing Old Daoist Qingcheng’s attention.
• The seven Withered Cloud Sect elders sent the blood-colored giant to attack Ning Chenxin, but he recited verses that formed Words Become Law and cleansed the giant with righteous Qi.
• As the resentful souls were released and the giant weakened, the Grand Elder struck it with Holy Qi and broke the Blood Soul Great Array.
• Ning Chenxin wrote the character for “righteousness” in the air, destroying the giant and freeing the remaining souls.
• Yang Shao apologized to Ning Chenxin, Tao Yi stood stunned, and the Grand Elder decided he must recruit Ning Chenxin before Old Daoist Qingcheng did.

Ye Qiubai and the others helped the Supervisory Sacred Hall defeat the Withered Cloud Sect, while Old Daoist Qingcheng subdued the sect master and the handsome man. After revealing his overwhelming strength, Qingcheng invited Ning Chenxin to Mount Qingcheng to study.

• Ye Qiubai and the others subdued the Withered Cloud Sect’s disciples and attendants, impressing Yang Shao and Tao Yi with their combat strength.
• The Withered Cloud Sect Master appeared weakened, and Old Daoist Qingcheng trapped him and the handsome man in his fly whisk’s green strands.
• The handsome man absorbed the sect master’s soul and blood, then tried to break free and self-destruct, but Qingcheng sealed and suppressed him.
• Old Daoist Qingcheng dispersed the bloody light, captured the handsome man, and invited Ning Chenxin to return to Mount Qingcheng for instruction.

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.