Recaps

The Myriad Stars Sect arranged for Daoist Qingguang to seek the Hundred Refinements Sect’s recognition, while events elsewhere in Rock Moon and the Ancient Wilderness showed several groups pursuing their own paths. The chapter ended with Li Xue demonstrating her mastery of formation arrays in Parasol Tree City.

• Ziyang asked the three sect masters to visit the Hundred Refinements Sect, and Daoist Qingguang agreed to go with tribute.
• Ziyang returned to Spirit Moon Peak and wondered how his junior sister was doing.
• Zi Nü brought Ji Yeli to a secluded valley to cultivate and told her she could leave after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lü Yang traveled alone through the mountains as a group of Heavenly South demonic cultivators headed toward eastern Rock Moon.
• A blood-red-haired devil escaped the pursuing Snow Moon Zhu Household, whose members continued the chase.
• Li Xue formed a third-tier array from fallen parasol leaves, and her master praised her for comprehending the Formation Array Domain.

Ten years later, Shen Ge had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Peach Blossom Spring Mountain had established itself through years of fighting demonic cultivators. After learning that Demonic Sword Valley would open within two years, Shen Ge decided to go with Su Sui, suspecting that his elder sister had a deeper purpose for sending word.

• Ten years passed as Shen Ge advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, while Chu He, Jin Ling, and Su Sui reached the Nascent Soul Realm and Qingfeng continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Su Sui told Shen Ge that the Li Household's ancestor had killed eighty-three Devil Cultivators after they attacked and murdered the household's younger disciples.
• Su Sui gave Shen Ge a message from Martial Uncle Liuyue that Demonic Sword Valley on White Mist Mountain would open within two years.
• Shen Ge judged that their group was too weak to safely pursue the valley's treasures and told Su Sui not to inform their grandmaster, saying he would investigate alone.
• Su Sui insisted on accompanying Shen Ge, and he agreed before asking her to wake Chu He to guard Peach Blossom Spring Mountain.

Shen Ge investigated a source of Evil Qi on Yellow Wind Mountain and found an Evil Demon sealed beneath a lava pool. A mysterious young man joined him, while the young man's companion kept Su Sui occupied outside; the chapter ended with Shen Ge and the man facing the chained demon.

• Shen Ge and Su Sui sensed Evil Qi rising from a stream on Yellow Wind Mountain, and Shen Ge went down to investigate while Su Sui stood guard.
• A white-robed woman and a black-robed young man sensed the unusual presence and went to the site; the young man entered the cave after Shen Ge while the woman blocked Su Sui.
• The young man warned Shen Ge that Evil Demons were fearsome beings from beyond their world, though he knew little about their origins.
• Shen Ge and the young man found a lava pool deep inside the cave and identified a sealed Evil Demon bound by chains and an array.
• The Evil Demon roared when it saw Shen Ge and the young man.

Shen Ge and Su Sui encountered Xie Fan and Bai Yu while dealing with a sealed evil demon, and the two groups fought over who would claim it. Shen Ge and Su Sui left with the demon, while Xie Fan and Bai Yu returned to absorb the remaining Evil Qi.

• Shen Ge introduced Su Sui to Xie Fan and Bai Yu, then had Su Sui freeze the lava pool around the sealed demon.
• Shen Ge broke the failing formation and suppressed the demon, but Xie Fan tried to claim it for himself and Bai Yu.
• Shen Ge and Xie Fan fought while Su Sui and Bai Yu clashed, leaving the demon battered as it was tossed between them.
• Xie Fan and Bai Yu withdrew after Xie Fan was badly wounded, and Shen Ge sealed the demon and put it away.
• Shen Ge and Su Sui continued toward Demonic Sword Valley, while Xie Fan and Bai Yu returned to the cavern and absorbed the remaining Evil Qi.

About a year after setting out, Shen Ge and Su Sui reached White Mist Mountain and waited near Demonic Sword Valley as powerful cultivators gathered for its opening. Meanwhile, Su Liuyue faced attention and hostility from Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, while Lin Fan asked Wang Jing about a rare spiritual herb.

• Shen Ge bought formation materials at a market, then took Su Sui to a secluded valley to wait for Demonic Sword Valley to open.
• Seven months later, powerful cultivators arrived, and onlookers identified several prominent young prodigies among them.
• Shen Ge wondered whether Liuyue and Wang Yan had arrived with the Heavenly Sword Sect, while Su Liuyue stood on its giant sword with Li Yuxin and Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan warned Su Liuyue not to enter Demonic Sword Valley, but she told him she did not have to obey him.
• Wang Jing scolded Su Liuyue for failing to act like an attendant, and Su Liuyue left after Lin Fan intervened.
• Lin Fan asked Wang Jing whether her elder would part with a six-leaf sword grass.

Cultivators entered Demonic Sword Valley, where Su Liuyue told Shen Ge and Su Sui that Wang Yan was dead and suspected Wang Jing. Shen Ge then restored the sealed evil demon to Nascent Soul Early Stage before cutting off its recovery, while Wang Jing headed toward a sword pit with Junior Sister Xue.

• Lin Fan traded a box with Wang Jing for the six-leaf sword grass, then left it behind on the table.
• After demonic Qi and Yao Qi poured from the valley, the gathered cultivators entered, and Shen Ge and Su Sui went to a quiet hill.
• Su Liuyue left Li Yuxin's group and met Shen Ge and Su Sui, telling them Wang Yan was dead and blaming Wang Jing.
• Wang Jing and Junior Sister Xue flew toward a sword pit said to hold the Azure Sky Sword Lord's weapon.
• Shen Ge let the evil demon recover to Nascent Soul Early Stage, stopped its absorption, and waited for word from his senior sister before turning to face it.

Shen Ge led a rapidly recovering evil demon on a long chase, using the Samsara Method to escape its attacks and draw it toward a deep pit. The evil demon recognized the method and pursued him into the pit, while Shen Ge’s pursuers remained close behind.

• Shen Ge continued fleeing as the evil demon recovered to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and killed people and demonic beings in its path.
• A Spirit Severing Early Stage remnant soul collided with Shen Ge, but his Samsara Method and the being inside him overcame it before the evil demon caught up.
• Shen Ge escaped the evil demon’s flames and attacks, while Zhu Huanying urged her group to save him; they fled after the evil demon destroyed the hill they had occupied.
• Shen Ge used Jin Yun Escape and then Yin-Yang Roaming to increase his speed, and the evil demon recognized the presence of samsara and accelerated its pursuit.
• After another eight hours, Shen Ge reached the designated deep pit and plunged inside; the evil demon shrank itself and followed him, nearly recovered to the Spirit Severing Realm.

Shen Ge sought help from Wang Jing and Junior Sister Xue while fleeing a Demon Beast, but the women restrained him and demanded his Cultivation Method. After learning he practiced Venerable Reincarnation’s method, they warned that he would be replaced upon reaching the Spirit Severing Realm.

• Wang Jing and Junior Sister Xue sensed Shen Ge and a Half-Step Spirit Severing Demon Beast approaching their killing formation and chose to wait for them.
• Shen Ge reached the women and begged for rescue, and Junior Sister Xue’s formation struck the pursuing Demon Beast.
• Junior Sister Xue restrained Shen Ge and demanded his Cultivation Method, so he recited the Life and Death Art to stall for time.
• Wang Jing recognized the method as Venerable Reincarnation’s and explained that its practitioners would be replaced when they reached the Spirit Severing Realm.
• Shen Ge realized the danger was worse than he had thought and felt relieved that he had not fully practiced the method.

Wang Jing sent Shen Ge into a dangerous passage to scout for hidden restrictions, where he triggered a Sword Qi attack and disappeared into the black fog. An evil demon named Aosi emerged and attacked Wang Jing, while Shen Ge used the newly activated formations and restrictions to flee deeper into the passage.

• Wang Jing ordered Shen Ge to check the passage for hidden restrictions, and Junior Sister Xue kicked him inside when he hesitated.
• Shen Ge followed Wang Jing's directions until Sword Qi attacked him, and he transformed into black fog and vanished.
• A tide of Evil Qi and crimson flames swept toward Wang Jing and Junior Sister Xue, and Aosi announced his return.
• Junior Sister Xue fled deeper into the passage while Aosi struck Wang Jing and injured her as they fought.
• Shen Ge waited in the black fog, then fled deeper when the formations and restrictions activated around him.

Shen Ge pulled an azure flying sword from a giant skull and unleashed the remnant soul suppressed inside it, which attacked Junior Sister Xue. After his attacks failed to kill her, the sword’s hidden Sword Intent wounded her spirit sea as Shen Ge reclaimed it and escaped.

• Shen Ge spotted a remnant soul inside the giant skull beneath an azure flying sword, while Junior Sister Xue ordered him to destroy it.
• Junior Sister Xue forced Shen Ge to approach the skull, and he activated protective techniques before pulling out the sword.
• The remnant soul bypassed Shen Ge and attacked Junior Sister Xue, so he struck at her with his techniques and the flying sword.
• Shen Ge broke Junior Sister Xue’s protective Law Artifact, but she caught his next sword strike between two fingers and healed almost immediately.
• The flying sword released a vast Sword Intent that pierced Junior Sister Xue and injured her spirit sea, allowing Shen Ge to retrieve it as he fled.

Shen Ge tried to escape Aosi by luring him toward the woman, whose hidden Nine-Tails power confronted the fiend. Forced to take a dangerous route through the mountain, Shen Ge became trapped among Demonized Rats and fought his way toward their exit.

• Shen Ge learned that Aosi had killed only a split soul, then returned to the injured woman and used Samsara Spiritual Qi to lure the fiend to her.
• The woman's body dispersed as violent Yao Qi and metal spiritual power erupted, and Nine-Tails confronted Aosi in the black mist.
• Shen Ge found Aosi's lava barrier blocking the way out and chose to break through the mountain's formations instead.
• Shen Ge broke into a nest of Demonized Rats and killed the weaker swarm with a Sword Qi Long River.
• Five fourth-tier Demonized Rats badly wounded Shen Ge, who spotted their passage and prepared to escape despite being surrounded.

Su Liuyue took up Lord Golden Lord’s greatsword and attacked Li Yuxin, but failed to kill her and escaped. Li Yuxin then used a sword diagram to slay the three Demon Beasts, while Lin Fan left after questioning her about Su Liuyue.

• Aosi drove off the nine-tailed one and turned his attention to finding the bug connected to reincarnation.
• As Su Liuyue lay wounded, Lin Fan urged her to use Lord Golden Lord’s greatsword against Li Yuxin.
• Su Liuyue swung the greatsword and badly wounded Li Yuxin, but Lin Fan shielded Li Yuxin from the Demon Beasts.
• Su Liuyue vanished in golden light, and Li Yuxin mocked her before healing herself.
• Li Yuxin used Martial Aunt Shuangxue’s sword diagram to kill the three Demon Beasts.
• Lin Fan asked Li Yuxin about Su Liuyue, then departed after Li Yuxin warned him not to interfere.

Shen Ge fled Demonic Sword Valley while Aosi pursued him, and he later chased after his injured senior sister’s golden light. Aosi caught up and nearly seized Shen Ge, but a mysterious woman from Luo Household City intervened and struck him down.

• Shen Ge escaped Demonic Sword Valley through teleportation arrays, and Aosi followed after consuming the demonized rats.
• Shen Ge learned Su Sui’s martial aunt had not emerged, then pursued her golden light while ordering Su Sui to contact her grandmaster and prepare to leave the Ancient Wilderness.
• Aosi appeared outside Demonic Sword Valley, sending nearby cultivators fleeing, and the reports prompted Luo Sheng to ask his mother, Luo Lan, to kill the evil demon.
• Shen Ge lost track of the golden light, and Aosi caught up with him as the other pursuing cultivators scattered.
• As Shen Ge began to self-detonate rather than be captured, a spear struck Aosi and pinned him to a mountain.
• A woman in a plain robe appeared above Aosi after a spatial rift spread across the horizon.

After surviving her arrival in a strange realm, Su Liuyue claimed the massive Golden Lord Sword and renamed it Falling Star. She explored the sealed realm and found its former owner's modest home, where an old grudge-filled notebook revealed a surprisingly personal side of the powerful Lord Golden Lord.

• Luo Lan destroyed the fiend, accepted Shen Ge's thanks with a nod, and vanished; Shen Ge took a healing pill and flew away.
• Su Liuyue woke beneath a boulder while twelve small beasts watched her, then recovered and examined the massive golden sword.
• Su Liuyue named the Golden Lord Sword Falling Star, refined it, and discovered that a barrier enclosed the realm within a thousand-li radius.
• Su Liuyue searched the realm and found a simple wooden house beside a waterfall that she believed had belonged to Lord Golden Lord.
• Su Liuyue inspected the house's modest furnishings and sword manuals, then found a battered notebook in the bedroom filled with her predecessor's grudges and checked-off plans for revenge.

Shen Ge and the Spirit Moon Sect survivors reached the northern border of Ancient Desolation, where Mo Qingyu declared the Heavenly Sword Sect their mortal enemy and sent everyone their separate ways. Meanwhile, the Myriad Stars Sect held its official founding celebration, where Xuanguang and the gathered powers exchanged cordial promises of cooperation.

• Shen Ge told Mo Qingyu that Wang Yan had died, and he and the others vowed to avenge her by attacking the Heavenly Sword Sect someday.
• Mo Qingyu declared the Heavenly Sword Sect the Spirit Moon Sect’s mortal enemy and ordered the disciples to go their separate ways.
• Chu He, Jin Ling, and Qingfeng departed, and Shen Ge sent Su Sui and the others away before Mo Qingyu left him on the mountaintop.
• At Myriad Stars Mountain, Xuanguang welcomed representatives to the Myriad Stars Sect’s official establishment celebration.
• Daoist Qingguang and Elder Qiu urged the assembled powers to live in harmony, and the guests toasted their friendship.

Fifty years after the group parted, Su Sui and her companions prepared to enter the Myriad Dharma Secret Realm while she longed to catch up with her absent master. Elsewhere, Shen Ge escaped a group of White Bird Sect disciples who chased him after accusing him of being a pervert.

• Cultivators in Desolate City discussed Li Yuan's death and the unfamiliar people arriving in the city, while Xu Yaoyang warned them not to get involved in possible treasure or secret-realm matters.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, and their companion decided to enter the Myriad Dharma Secret Realm and agreed that each of them must comprehend at least one Dharma.
• Su Sui reflected that fifty years had passed since their separation and that she and Lu Xiu had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then resolved to cultivate until she could catch up with her master.
• Shen Ge fled from White Bird Sect disciples who accused him of spying on them while they bathed, and he vanished with Yin-Yang Roaming after threatening them.

Shen Ge sneaked into the Luan Bird Forest to capture a Luan Bird for a generous reward, but a powerful white-robed man discovered him and invited him to tea. The man offered to let Shen Ge take a Luan Bird, then left his conditions unstated.

• After escaping the White Bird Sect, Shen Ge headed for the Luan Bird Forest to fulfill a task and earn ten thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and Black Rock Iron.
• Shen Ge spent half a month cautiously crossing the forest and avoiding its powerful Demon Beasts, while the White Bird Sect group also entered using gauze that concealed their presence.
• A peak fourth-tier black tiger caught Shen Ge and led him to a white-robed man beside a stream.
• Shen Ge pleaded for his life, but the man dismissed the tiger and invited him to share tea.
• The man revealed that he knew Shen Ge had come for a Luan Bird and said he might let Shen Ge take one, but added that there was a condition.

Shen Ge negotiated with Bai Wushuang for Luan Bird blood and agreed to retrieve a book during an upcoming trial in exchange. Bai Wushuang also asked him to look after Qingyi, who challenged Shen Ge to prove his strength.

• Shen Ge introduced himself as Shen Linfeng and told Bai Wushuang that the Kong Household had hired him to obtain a Luan Bird.
• Bai Wushuang explained that Shen Ge could not take a Luan Bird, but offered him Luan Bird blood in exchange for retrieving the Record of Exotic Beasts from the Thunderfire Secret Realm trial.
• Shen Ge accepted the deal after hearing that the trial rewards included a Phoenix tail feather and True Dragon blood.
• Bai Wushuang summoned four Luan Birds, and Qingyi gave Shen Ge four globules of her blood.
• Bai Wushuang asked Shen Ge to look after Qingyi during the trial, and Qingyi challenged him to demonstrate his strength.

Shen Ge was pressured into sparring with Qingyi, then faced her and three other Luan Bird Clan girls after he used his Law Treasures. He was beaten down but recovered quickly, and the chapter left him apologizing to the girls to avoid another round.

• Shen Ge refused Qingyi's challenge, but she attacked him anyway after Bai Wushuang urged them to spar.
• Shen Ge fought back with Sword Intent and Sword Qi, then summoned more than fifty Law Treasures when Qingyi began to transform.
• Three Luan Bird Clan girls joined the fight, overwhelmed Shen Ge, and beat him into a pit.
• Shen Ge healed his minor injuries, changed clothes, and complained to Bai Wushuang, who offered to summon the girls' elders.
• Shen Ge tried to provoke the girls by saying they were even, then quickly apologized when they threatened to beat him again.

Shen Ge was chased by the White Bird Sect again and fought its senior brother, Li Qing, after Li Qing agreed to face him alone. Shen Ge gained the upper hand, but Li Qing charged at him again, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Shen Ge ran into the White Bird Sect group again and challenged them to fight him one-on-one.
• Li Qing sent the others away and pursued Shen Ge alone, but Shen Ge used Imprisonment to freeze him briefly and slapped him into the air.
• Li Qing summoned the General Bird and attacked with wind blades while Shen Ge countered with Sword Qi, a sword formation, and Law Treasures.
• Shen Ge and Li Qing clashed at close range, and Li Qing emerged bruised and bleeding while Shen Ge remained in better shape.
• Shen Ge asked Li Qing to let him slap him once more, but Li Qing flew into a rage and charged at him again.

Shen Ge defeated Li Qing, took his Storage Bag, and learned that the man he had met in the Luan Bird Forest was Bai Wushuang, a powerful Bai Ze spirit beast close to Fairy Qingyu. After shopping in town, he searched a modest cultivator marketplace for a useful find but had found nothing by the end of the chapter.

• Shen Ge overwhelmed Li Qing, took his Storage Bag, and warned the White Bird Sect disciples before leaving.
• Shen Ge visited the Hundred Li Pavilion and paid twenty thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones for information about Mr. Bai.
• The information seller identified Mr. Bai as Bai Wushuang, a Bai Ze spirit beast close to Fairy Qingyu who had killed three Body Integration Realm experts from Black Gold Valley a thousand years earlier.
• Shen Ge visited the town’s shops, replenished artifact-refining materials, and sold Law Treasures he could not use.
• Shen Ge entered a marketplace for low-level Rogue Cultivators and searched its stalls, but found nothing useful.

Shen Ge left a disappointing shop while Ye Xingchen discovered and absorbed Earth Mother Qi in a mine. On the Chaos and Separation Plains, Lü Yang escaped a Blood Devil Grotto ambush after fighting five Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Shen Ge found nothing worthwhile at the last shop and wondered whether Ye Xingchen had advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage or Peak Nascent Soul.
• Ye Xingchen investigated a brown haze in a Myriad Stars Sect mine, recognized it as Earth Mother Qi, and absorbed it to strengthen his foundation and spirit root.
• A Blood Devil Grotto group traveling across the Chaos and Separation Plains was attacked by Sword Qi, which killed most of its members.
• Lü Yang fought five Blood Devil Grotto Nascent Soul elders in the forest and used a golden fire phoenix to break through their attacks.
• Lü Yang escaped badly injured, while the surviving Blood Devil Grotto leader watched the fight from afar.

Several groups across the Heavenly Desolation Domain prepared to travel to the Thunderfire Trial in Azure Vastness Province. Li Xue set out to find Shen Ge, while the Myriad Stars Sect and the Luo Heaven Sea group made plans to attend.

• Li Xue saw wanted posters for Shen Ge, left her master’s courtyard with a black array plate, and agreed to visit Azure Vastness Province for the trial.
• The clan leader in the northern Rock Moon territory asked Ye Li to join her for a stroll.
• Xuanguang and the other Myriad Stars Sect leaders chose Meng Yan, Ye Xingchen, Han Yu, and Tang to attend the trial, and Xuanguang agreed to escort them with the Azure Fire Sect’s party.
• Xuanguang advised Ziyang to enter seclusion and try to break through to the spirit severing realm, leaving sect affairs to Shangguan Ouyang and the elders.
• Venerable Yaoguang decided the Luo Heaven Sea group would attend the trial for the event and its nearby goods, despite their limited eligible young disciples.
• Gu Ye restrained Little Flower so his daughter could pet the calico cat, which privately resented the child.

Five months after leaving, Shen Ge returned to Lifeng City and delivered Luan Bird blood to Kong Yan in exchange for seven thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and black rock iron. After leaving the city, he lured a group of cultivators into an ambush formation, trapping three of them as he struck down another.

• Shen Ge met Kong Yan in a Lifeng City restaurant and gave her Luan Bird blood instead of the Luan Bird she had commissioned him to catch.
• Kong Yan agreed to pay five thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and black rock iron, then added two thousand for travel expenses after Shen Ge complained.
• Kong Xin interrupted the deal, but Kong Yan threw him out, completed the payment, and later sealed him and dragged him away when he tried to interfere again.
• Shen Ge bought mostly healing pills, left Lifeng City, and set up an illusory body and formation on a hill ten thousand li away.
• Seven cultivators surrounded Shen Ge, but his formation trapped three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators while four others escaped.
• Shen Ge pierced one escaping Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator with black Sword Qi, and the wounded man called to the three Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators for help.

Shen Ge fought a gang of Nascent Soul cultivators who robbed travelers, using his sword array and Samsara Method to kill Second Brother and overwhelm the others. Third Brother escaped while the remaining robbers were trapped, and Shen Ge focused on the more dangerous eldest brother.

• Shen Ge immobilized a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, but the three Nascent Soul Late Stage robbers attacked and forced him to use the man as a shield against their sword light.
• The wounded cultivator quickly healed, and Shen Ge broke the robbers’ fire dragon before unleashing a sword array against him.
• Shen Ge sent a yin-yang diagram after Second Brother, then used a spiritual sense attack that killed him and left the eldest brother badly wounded.
• Third Brother fled, while Fifth Brother was pierced by the sword array and the other trapped robbers realized they had little chance of survival.