Chapter Summaries

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.

The Sacred Church’s Blood Domain Soul Refining Array devastated Banan’s border, while the Supervisory Sacred Hall diverted its main force to contain a threat at the Nether River Abyss. Ba Xiyue and her allies reached the garrison headquarters to rescue Huo Xuedao, who warned them to flee.

• The Supervisory Sacred Hall ordered nearby inspectors to reinforce Banan but sent its main force to suppress Devil Qi leaking from the Nether River Abyss.
• Ba Tianque dispatched the twelve Attendants to Banan’s border, while Old Daoist Qingcheng sent an unknown message from Mount Qingcheng.
• Ba Xiyue, Jiang Yi, Han Shouyi, and their companions fought into the besieged border city, where officers said Huo Xuedao was trapped in the garrison headquarters.
• The twelve Attendants engaged the Evil Cultivators maintaining the array as Han Shouyi, Lu Mingyuan, Jiang Yi, and the gray-robed elder joined the battle.
• Ba Xiyue led the others into the garrison headquarters, where they found Huo Xuedao bound and gravely wounded; he urged them to leave.

Ba Xiyue exposed Huo Xuedao as a traitor and subdued him with Ba Tianque’s Imperial Intent. Fang Qiong identified a way into the evil formation’s core, leaving the group with two brief, shifting gates of life to use.

• Ba Xiyue and the others freed the apparently dying Huo Xuedao from blood-red chains, but he absorbed their Blood Qi and attacked Ba Xiyue.
• Ba Tianque’s golden hand stopped Huo Xuedao’s saber, crushed him, and sealed his soul and cultivation after Ba Xiyue revealed the clues that had exposed his betrayal.
• Ba Xiyue questioned Huo Xuedao about how to break the formation, but he refused to cooperate.
• Ye Qiubai relayed Fang Qiong’s explanation that the formation’s hub lay inside Mount Zhenyue, within a natural earth aperture.
• Fang Qiong located two shifting gates of life in the southeast and northwest, explaining that each lasted three breaths and reopened after a quarter of an hour.

Ye Qiubai and his companions entered Mount Zhenyue to find the source of the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array. They discovered the altar sustaining it, but eight Dharma Aspect Realm soul bodies revealed that the group had been lured into a trap.

• Ye Qiubai led the group to the hidden entrance, and Ba Xiyue used the Banan Imperial Clan's token to open a rift before it closed behind them.
• Ning Chenxin used the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree to shield everyone as they descended through a passage filled with Evil Qi and the wails of remnant souls.
• The group reached a cavern and found a nine-tiered bone altar, a dark purple crystal, and a blood formation sustaining the array.
• Eight black-robed soul bodies emerged from the banners around the altar, each with the strength of the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• The black-robed leader admitted that the Sacred Church had lured the four factions' prodigies there and threatened to kill them.

Ba Xiyue, Yang Shao, Chu Ran, and Qin Zhao unleashed their strongest techniques against the sealed cavern’s black shadows, but the altar’s crystal core replenished the enemies’ strength. The four fell exhausted, leaving Ning Chenxin and his three companions facing the remaining four black shadows.

• Yang Shao asked Ba Xiyue to use her jade token, but the shadow leader revealed that the cavern blocked spatial and voice transmissions.
• Ba Xiyue, Yang Shao, Chu Ran, and Qin Zhao each attacked a black shadow, but their opponents’ realm and Dao Law advantages overwhelmed them.
• Chu Ran compressed Heaven-Defying Fen Yan and detonated it, severely injuring a black shadow but destroying his own ability to fight.
• Qin Zhao used the blood-sacrifice Soul-Slaying Sword to grievously wound another black shadow.
• Ba Xiyue and Yang Shao unleashed their trump-card techniques, injuring their opponents before they and Qin Zhao fell exhausted.
• The four black shadows remained standing as Ning Chenxin and his three companions faced off against them.

Ye Qiubai, Ning Chenxin, Xu Yeming, and Hong Ying faced the weakened black shadows while Qin Zhao and the others recovered. Ye Qiubai unleashed the Primordial Sword Scripture against one shadow, and Ning Chenxin stopped the leader's attack with the World-Purifying Incantation.

• Yang Shao warned Ye Qiubai and the others that the black banners fed the shadows wronged souls and evil Qi, while Qin Zhao asked for time to recover.
• Ye Qiubai, Xu Yeming, Hong Ying, and Ning Chenxin stepped forward to fight as the black shadows mocked them for coming from the lower realms.
• Ye Qiubai used the first and second swords of the Primordial Sword Scripture, damaging the formation and revealing that he had reached the Sword Dao Dharma Form realm.
• A black shadow recognized Ye Qiubai's swordsmanship and said that someone valued him, then clashed with him again.
• The leader of the black shadows lunged at Ning Chenxin, who summoned a blue lotus and used the World-Purifying Incantation to purify wronged souls and halt the attack.