Chapter Summaries

The Holy Talisman Sect prepared for the Evil-Slaying Conference as factions across the Mid-Latitude Realm gathered around it. After four Heaven Immortal Realm experts completed a vast talisman table, powerful arrivals descended, including Yu Qingyan, Lie Xiao, and Jing Zhitan.

• Factions and rogue cultivators turned their attention to the Holy Talisman Sect, which greatly strengthened its defenses and recalled its disciples and elders.
• As the first bell rang, the Holy Talisman Sect's sect master, Huan Shun, Zhang Guan, and Huo Zhengheng combined their powers to build a huge round table from distant boulders and ancient trees.
• The sect master inscribed ancient patterns onto the table, drawing in Spiritual Qi and the concepts in the sect's seven-colored radiance.
• At the third bell, powerful presences arrived, and the three supreme elders helped shield the sect's disciples from their pressure.
• Yu Qingyan, Lie Xiao, and Jing Zhitan arrived and questioned or confronted the gathering, while other Heaven Immortal Realm and Earth Immortal Realm experts remained nearby.

Heaven Immortal Realm experts gathered at the Holy Talisman Sect's Evil-Slaying Conference, demanding information about the High-Latitude Realm while resisting calls to confront Avici Purgatory. Ye Qiubai arrived with Mu Fusheng, Su Muyou, and Lin Zhinan and agreed to tell them what they had learned in Severed Soul City.

• The Holy Talisman Sect's sect master sensed numerous Heaven and Earth Immortal Realm experts arriving, including two at the peak of the Heaven Immortal Realm, and welcomed them to the conference.
• Lie Xiao, Yu Qingyan, and Jing Zhitan demanded that the young cultivators reveal what they knew about the High-Latitude Realm, while Zhang Guan, Huan Shun, and the Holy Talisman Sect's sect master urged the gathering to address Avici Purgatory and Qi Shadao.
• Jing Zhitan openly threatened the Holy Talisman Sect, making its sect master, Zhang Guan, Huan Shun, and Huo Zhengheng tense.
• Ye Qiubai arrived with Mu Fusheng, Su Muyou, and Lin Zhinan and asked whether the experts wanted confirmation that they had obtained the information in Severed Soul City.
• Ye Qiubai endured the Heaven Immortal Realm experts' pressure with his Sword Domain and half-step immortal sword intent, then said they intended to tell the gathering what they knew.

Ye Qiubai told the Heaven Immortal Realm experts that he had no information about entering the High-Latitude Realm, prompting Jing Zhitan to attack him and Mu Fusheng. The two resisted his Saber Intent until Huo Zhengheng and another figure intervened, leaving Jing Zhitan impressed by their potential.

• Lie Xiao demanded that Ye Qiubai reveal how to enter the High-Latitude Realm and offered him a favor and a reward from the Limitless Primordial Yang Sect.
• Ye Qiubai said he did not possess the information, and Jing Zhitan interpreted his answer as a refusal to reveal it.
• Jing Zhitan's Saber Intent immobilized Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng and sent two blades toward them.
• Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng summoned their powers and stepped forward to resist the attack.
• Two figures appeared and dissipated the Saber Intent, while Huan Shun condemned Jing Zhitan for attacking the juniors.
• Jing Zhitan challenged Huan Shun to a spar, then sat down and privately acknowledged Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng's promise.

Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng convinced the Heaven Immortal Realm experts that the High-Latitude Realm rumor was a scheme by Qi Shadao to disrupt the Evil-Slaying Conference. As the experts prepared to leave, blood-red clouds and Chi Bing appeared above the Holy Talisman Sect, revealing Qi Shadao’s next move.

• Jing Zhitan challenged the Holy Talisman Sect’s sect master after blocking a wisp of Saber Intent, but Zhang Guan urged them not to start a war that would benefit Qi Shadao.
• Ye Qiubai argued that the suspiciously timed rumor about reaching the High-Latitude Realm was meant to divide the sects and weaken them.
• Mu Fusheng, Ye Qiubai, Lin Zhinan, and Su Muyou swore Heavenly Dao Oaths that they had received no such information among Severed Soul City’s final rewards.
• The Heaven Immortal Realm experts accepted that Qi Shadao had orchestrated the rumor, and Lie Xiao and Jing Zhitan offered to take Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng as disciples.
• As the experts prepared to leave, blood-red clouds filled the sky above the Holy Talisman Sect, and Huo Zhengheng recognized the young man standing among them as Chi Bing.

Qi Shadao appeared in Chi Bing’s body and clashed with Huo Zhengheng, then revealed that the Evil-Slaying Conference was part of a deeper scheme. Mu Fusheng realized the conference may have been bait, and Qi Shadao urged Huo Zhengheng to return to Heavenly Sword Peak.

• Qi Shadao emerged in Chi Bing’s body, and Huo Zhengheng attacked him with a storm of swords to avenge the Heavenly Sword Peak disciple.
• Qi Shadao evaded Huo Zhengheng’s attack and said he had come to share news rather than fight.
• Qi Shadao accused the gathered sects of using the Evil-Slaying Conference to obtain information about the High-Latitude Realm, and Lie Xiao demanded to know whether Qi Shadao had spread the news.
• Qi Shadao praised Ye Qiubai and the others for seeing through his plan, then asked what a perfect plan would look like.
• Mu Fusheng realized the conference’s apparent scheme might have been bait for a second layer of the plan.
• Qi Shadao told Huo Zhengheng to return to Heavenly Sword Peak, and Huo Zhengheng’s expression changed drastically.

Qi Shadao’s layered schemes crippled the Evil-Slaying Conference and left the Mid-Latitude Realm’s factions weighing whether to oppose, avoid, or join Avici Purgatory. As the storm gathered, a group arrived in the Firmament Domain, where a red-robed woman said Junior Brother Mu should be there.

• Qi Shadao revealed that he had used his body’s former identity to attack Heavenly Sword Peak while blocking transmissions, and Huo Zhengheng rushed back to the sect.
• Three elders at the late stage of the Heaven Immortal Realm appeared and struck Qi Shadao’s external incarnation with Sword Intent.
• Before vanishing, Qi Shadao threatened to destroy the sects of factions that continued to join the Evil-Slaying Conference and promised to spare those that stayed out of it.
• Ye Qiubai returned to Heavenly Sword Peak with the three elders, while the other factions departed and the failed conference’s news spread throughout the Mid-Latitude Realm.
• Several figures appeared in the Firmament Domain, where a red-robed woman said Junior Brother Mu should be there.

Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Mu Wan'er learned that Avici Purgatory was returning and headed to the Holy Talisman Sect to find someone. Mu Wan'er used her Anti-Molester Spray on a young man who tried to grab her wrist.

• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Mu Wan'er found the people of the Firmament Domain frightened and unable to discuss what had happened.
• A young man from the Hehuan Sect told Mu Wan'er that Avici Purgatory was making a comeback and that the major factions had not yet chosen sides.
• Mu Wan'er asked the young man where the Holy Talisman Sect was so she could find someone.
• The young man tried to lure Mu Wan'er to his sect and grabbed for her wrist.
• Mu Wan'er threw her Anti-Molester Spray at the young man, who collapsed screaming as Shi Sheng asked what it was.

Mu Wan'er used her modified wolf-repellent spray to punish Xie Hongyi after he made advances toward her, and the disciples went to an inn to eat while joking about blaming Ye Qiubai. Xie Hongyi returned to the Hehuan Sect, where its sect master examined him and flew into a rage.

• Mu Wan'er explained that her wolf-repellent spray caused temporary blindness and pain before devastating damage to a man's private parts, making Shi Sheng and Ning Chenxin recoil.
• Mu Wan'er attacked Xie Hongyi, the Hehuan Sect sect master's personal disciple, after he harbored filthy intentions toward her, and he fled after threatening that the sect would retaliate.
• Hong Ying suggested that they blame Ye Qiubai for killing Xie Hongyi, and the group headed to an inn to eat and seek information.
• At the inn, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Mu Wan'er compared the food and wine unfavorably with what their fellow disciples and master made.
• Xie Hongyi returned to the Hehuan Sect with his private parts still abnormal, recounted the incident to the sect master, and watched her become furious after examining him.

Lu Changsheng assigned Mu Fusheng to keep Hong Ying and the others out of trouble in the Mid-Latitude Realm. Meanwhile, Ke Mei learned that Xie Hongyi's injuries had ruined his cultivation prospects and ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to find whoever had harmed him.

• Lu Changsheng told Mu Fusheng that Hong Ying and the others were heading to the Mid-Latitude Realm and ordered him to watch over them.
• Mu Fusheng reluctantly promised to complete the mission and left the Holy Talisman Sect, lamenting that he had to manage his troublemaking fellow disciples.
• Ke Mei confirmed that Xie Hongyi's injuries could not be healed and that he would have to abandon the Yin-Yang Hehuan Art to keep cultivating.
• Xie Hongyi gave Ke Mei a strand of his assailant's hair, which she placed in the Scent-Seeking Sachet to track the person.
• Ke Mei summoned the Law Enforcement Hall elders and ordered them to find the target and bring them back alive at any cost.

Hong Ying and her companions were attacked by the Hehuan Sect’s four enforcement elders after escaping a tavern destroyed in their assault. Hong Ying revealed her combined powers and challenged all four elders alone.

• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Mu Wan'er discussed finding Mu Fusheng and investigating Avici Purgatory.
• Hong Ying sensed an imminent attack and used the Power of Rules to move everyone outside the tavern before four palm strikes destroyed it.
• Yuan Xianzhi and three other Peak Earth Immortal Realm elders from the Hehuan Sect ordered Hong Ying and her companions to come with them.
• Hong Ying faced Yuan Xianzhi and unleashed the Intent of Samsara, the Power of Rules, and Imperial Qi, alarming the elders and onlookers.
• Hong Ying flew upward with her spear and attacked all four elders alone.

Mu Fusheng sensed a familiar battle and rushed toward it as Hong Ying fought four peak Earth Immortal Realm elders of the Hehuan Sect. Hong Ying’s spear pierced through their combined palm strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Mu Fusheng sensed familiar presences and hurried toward the fight.
• Ning Chenxin stopped Shi Sheng from joining Hong Ying, and Mu Wan'er put away the pill she had prepared.
• Yuan Xianzhi and the other three enforcement elders confronted Hong Ying together rather than fight her one-on-one.
• Hong Ying unleashed Divine Spear Pierces the Sun, striking the four elders’ combined palm imprints.
• Hong Ying’s spear broke through the attack, and the four elders were surprised that they had failed to suppress her.

Hong Ying fought Yuan Xianzhi and three other Hehuan Sect law enforcement elders, forcing them to seek a truce. She refused to let them off for harming her junior sister and declared they were not worthy of her master’s intervention, just as Mu Fusheng arrived.

• Hong Ying used her spear and Power of the Latitude to withstand the four elders’ combined attacks, though the shock wave sent her flying back hundreds of meters.
• Two Earth Immortal Realm observers marveled at Hong Ying’s strength and debated whether she belonged to a secluded force, then concluded she did not.
• Yuan Xianzhi proposed a truce to avoid a sect war amid Avici Purgatory’s return and Qi Shadao’s rebirth.
• Hong Ying accused the Hehuan Sect of seeking peace only because they feared the force behind her, after their disciple harassed and tried to force her junior sister into becoming a cultivation furnace.
• Hong Ying rejected peace, said the Hehuan Sect was not worthy of her master’s intervention, and Mu Fusheng arrived in time to hear her words.

Mu Fusheng secretly prepared an ambush while Hong Ying battled Yuan Xianzhi and the Hehuan Sect elders. Hong Ying’s strength and control kept growing, and she charged back into the fight as Mu Fusheng wondered whether even their eldest senior brother could stop her.

• Mu Fusheng learned that Xie Hongyi had harassed Wan'er and secretly placed talismans behind Yuan Xianzhi and the others to block their retreat.
• Yuan Xianzhi warned Hong Ying that a sect war would cost even a stronger faction dearly, but Hong Ying dismissed him.
• Hong Ying struck Yuan Xianzhi with her Samsara Long Spear, wielding the Power of the Latitude, Intent of Samsara, and Imperial Qi.
• Yuan Xianzhi realized Hong Ying’s control and strength had improved during the fight, then called on the other three law enforcement elders to attack without killing her.
• The four elders drove Hong Ying back, but she immediately charged at them again, while Mu Fusheng remarked that even their eldest senior brother might not be able to resist her.

Hong Ying overpowered Yuan Xianzhi and the three other Hehuan Sect law enforcement elders while Mu Fusheng prepared a talisman trap for their escape. After Hong Ying seriously injured the four, they fled toward the Hehuan Sect, leaving her unable to stop them.

• Mu Fusheng finished linking dozens of talismans into a net to trap Yuan Xianzhi and the others as they fled.
• News of Hong Ying fighting four peak Earth Immortal Realm cultivators reached factions across the Firmament Domain, and the Holy Talisman Sect’s leaders discussed the era’s emerging geniuses.
• Hong Ying gathered the Power of the Latitude, Intent of Samsara, and Imperial Qi into her Samsara Long Spear and charged Yuan Xianzhi and the other elders.
• Hong Ying pierced through the elders’ peach blossom attack, destroyed it, and sent all four elders flying with serious injuries.
• Yuan Xianzhi ordered the elders to flee toward the Hehuan Sect, and Hong Ying stopped pursuing them.

Hong Ying defeated and severely injured four Hehuan Sect Law Enforcement Hall elders, who decided the sect should accept the loss rather than risk a war. As they fled home, Mu Fusheng ambushed and bound them with Earth Immortal Realm talismans, while an unseen attacker declared they had provoked someone they should not have.

• Hong Ying mastered her strength during a two-hour fight and drove back Yuan Xianzhi and the three other Hehuan Sect elders.
• Yuan Xianzhi urged the elders to persuade the sect master to make Xie Hongyi accept the insult and preserve the Hehuan Sect.
• Mu Fusheng concealed hundreds of talismans around the injured elders and launched an ambush as they fled toward the sect.
• Lightning chains bound all four elders, and a formation of talismans attacked them as their injuries worsened.
• Yuan Xianzhi suspected the attacker belonged to the Holy Talisman Sect, but the hidden voice denied it and said they had provoked someone they should not have.

Mu Fusheng used a hidden array of talismans to kill Yuan Xianzhi and three Hehuan Sect elders, but the Heavenly Immortal lightning talismans shattered his concealment and drew attention across the Firmament Domain. Hong Ying and the others found the aftermath and learned by voice transmission that Mu Fusheng was responsible.

• Mu Fusheng sealed the area with talismans that restrained Yuan Xianzhi and the three elders and suppressed their Spiritual Qi.
• Yuan Xianzhi mistook Mu Fusheng for the Talisman Tower's tower master and begged him to spare the Hehuan Sect elders.
• Mu Fusheng activated two Heavenly Immortal talismans, which summoned a destructive lightning dragon that swallowed Yuan Xianzhi and the other three elders.
• The lightning shattered Mu Fusheng's concealment, alerting factions and spies across the Firmament Domain.
• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Mu Wan'er reached the site and found only lingering lightning and talisman power.
• Mu Fusheng sent Hong Ying and the others a voice transmission confirming he had caused the lightning strike.

Lu Changsheng learned that his disciples had caused trouble in the Mid-Latitude Realm and scolded Mu Fusheng, who feared being forced to eat Xiao Hei’s cooking. After Mu Fusheng explained their situation, Hong Ying headed with him to the Holy Talisman Sect while Ke Mei vowed revenge for the Hehuan Sect elders killed by talismans.

• Lu Changsheng reprimanded Mu Fusheng over the disciples’ latest trouble while absentmindedly plucking the Bone-Winged Serpent Tiger’s fur, then threatened Mu Fusheng with Xiao Hei’s cooking.
• Mu Wan'er and Hong Ying teased Mu Fusheng, who admitted he had laid talismans to weaken the Hehuan Sect and asked them not to tell Lu Changsheng.
• Mu Fusheng told Hong Ying that Qi Shadao had targeted Xiao Hei’s body and that Xiao Hei and the Eldest Senior Brother were at Immortal Ape Village and Heavenly Sword Peak.
• Hong Ying asked Mu Fusheng to take her to the Holy Talisman Sect, where they would wait for the Eldest Senior Brother and Xiao Hei.
• After learning that Yuan Xianzhi and three others had died to talismans, Ke Mei unleashed her anger and turned her gaze toward the Holy Talisman Sect.

Ke Mei warned Xie Hongyi that his enemies had backing powerful enough to threaten the Hehuan Sect, while a group of nine devils arrived in the Endless Sea searching for someone. Qiu Genyin confirmed that he had agreed to cooperate with Qi Shadao and received authority to command more people.

• Ke Mei struck Xie Hongyi and explained that his opponents might be backed by a Heavenly Immortal-level talisman master.
• Ke Mei refused to seek revenge directly and considered the old woman's suggestion that she cooperate with Qi Shadao and Avici Purgatory.
• Nine figures emerged from spatial fissures in the Endless Sea and set out to find a local force and search for someone.
• Qiu Genyin told the yellow-robed figure that he had reached an agreement with Qi Shadao.
• The yellow-robed figure gave Qiu Genyin a token granting him command of elders and disciples.

Immortal Ape Village opened the Progenitor Blood Pool to prepare Xiao Hei to reclaim the Demon King Domain, while Ye Qiubai entered Heavenly Sword Peak’s ancestral grounds to seek further insight. The chapter ended with Huo Zhengheng suppressing his rage and worrying that the realm’s factions would not unite against Qi Shadao and Avici Purgatory.

• The village chief told Yuan Shou that they had to open the Progenitor Blood Pool immediately because the Devil Master’s presence could no longer be concealed.
• Xiao Hei accepted the Ape Devil Clan’s support and vowed to reclaim the Demon King Domain and avenge those who had attacked it.
• Mu Fusheng told Ye Qiubai that his fellow disciples had arrived, and Ye Qiubai said he would join them after finishing his business at Heavenly Sword Peak.
• Huo Zhengheng and the sword-guarding elders urged Ye Qiubai to grow stronger and sent him to the ancestral grounds to study the ancestor’s stone statue.
• Huo Zhengheng raged over Qi Shadao’s destruction of Heavenly Sword Peak, but the elders calmed him and reminded him to protect Ye Qiubai.
• Huo Zhengheng feared that Heavenly Sword Peak might not withstand further attacks and doubted that the realm’s factions would unite against Qi Shadao.

During the thirty days after the Evil-Slaying Conference, Avici Purgatory attacked factions across the Mid-Latitude Realm while a spatial storm opened the Endless Sea to treasure seekers. Xiao Hei and Yuan Shou set out for the Holy Talisman Sect, and Ye Qiubai broke through to the Immortal Sword Realm at Heavenly Sword Peak’s ruins.

• Avici Purgatory wiped out several factions that had joined the campaign against it, prompting the Xuanyuan Radiance Sect, the Four Symbols Sect, and others to join the Evil-Slaying Alliance.
• A spatial storm drove the Devil Beasts into the depths of the Endless Sea, and factions and secluded experts began searching its outer and middle reaches for inheritances and treasures.
• After a month of brutal cultivation and renewed bloodline awakening, Xiao Hei emerged stronger, then left Immortal Ape Village with Yuan Shou for the Holy Talisman Sect.
• At Heavenly Sword Peak’s ruins, the founding ancestor’s statue sent a wisp of Sword Qi into Ye Qiubai, who broke through to the Immortal Sword Realm.