Chapter Summaries

Su Liuyue killed the ghost king and brought the critically injured Shen Ge back to Spirit Moon Sect for treatment. Tongxuan healed Shen Ge’s physical wounds, but his life-burning method left him only ten years to live, and the sect sought ways to extend his life.

• Su Liuyue killed the ghost king with Sword Qi and carried the dying Shen Ge away for treatment.
• Han Yu gathered the ghost king’s remains and the objects left behind, then appointed Song Junjie Marquis Who Guards the Nation.
• Su Liuyue told Ziyang and Mo Qingyu that Shen Ge had killed Huang Tao while using a life-burning method.
• Tongxuan healed Shen Ge’s wounds with an Unceasing Life Pill but said Shen Ge had only about ten years left to live.
• Ziyang went to seek Lifespan-Extending Pills, while Wang Yan gave Tongxuan a Soul-Nourishing Snow Lotus for Shen Ge.

After waking from his injury, Shen Ge learned that the Phoenix Kingdom crisis remained unsettled and that Su Du had died. He visited Wang Yan to thank her for saving him, while Mu Wan asked whether he would stay in Phoenix City, a question he could not answer.

• Shen Ge woke after three days of recovery, and Su Sui told him Wang Yan had given up a soul-nourishing snow lotus to heal him.
• Mu Wan told Shen Ge that he and she had to remain in the sect while the Phoenix Kingdom crisis threatened to spark a war; she also said Han Yu was safe and a funeral would take place in twelve days.
• Su Sui mourned her elder cousin Su Du, and Mu Wan asked Shen Ge whether he would stay in Phoenix City, but he left without answering.
• Han Yu separated the few ashes she could identify as Su Du's from the rest, then took the wind scattering some ashes as her elder sister's guidance.
• Shen Ge visited Wang Yan to thank her with spirit fruits and flowers, and she urged him to make a difficult decision before it was too late.

Shen Ge met the grieving Han Yu in the Phoenix Kingdom and learned that she had finally recognized how deeply she loved her late sister, Su Du. After Han Yu rejected his offer to marry her and asked him to support her kingdom instead, Shen Ge left determined to resolve his feelings with Mu Wan.

• Wang Yan escorted Shen Ge to the Phoenix Kingdom, where he offered Han Yu condolences for Su Du’s death.
• Han Yu told Shen Ge that she had once been fixated on him but now understood that her sister had mattered most to her.
• When Han Yu demanded to know whether Shen Ge loved Mu Wan, he admitted that he did and explained that his limited lifespan made him unwilling to burden her with future grief.
• Han Yu refused to marry Shen Ge and asked him to persuade the Spirit Moon Sect to bring the Flowing Cloud Kingdom and nearby kingdoms under Phoenix Kingdom’s control; Shen Ge agreed.
• Shen Ge urged Han Yu to regain her strength and left to join Wang Yan and Su Liuyue, asking them not to discuss the meeting.
• Wang Yan advised Shen Ge to settle things with Mu Wan, and Shen Ge promised to bring their unspoken feelings to a conclusion.

After Su Du’s funeral, Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect as the Hehuan Sect prepared to attack amid an all-out war between the righteous and demonic paths. As he worried over Mu Wan’s decision to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough and reflected on his unresolved feelings for her, he prepared to serve the sect before risking his life on the Life and Death Instruction.

• Han Yu attended the three-day funeral for Su Du and the civilians who died in the disaster.
• Ziyang announced that the Blood Devil Grotto was fighting the Evergreen Sect and Yellow Maple Valley, while the Hehuan Sect planned to attack the Spirit Moon Sect and likely target the Phoenix Kingdom.
• Shen Ge found a sign saying Mu Wan was attempting to break through to Golden Core and learned from Su Sui that Mu Wan had entered seclusion after feeling hurt by his unanswered feelings.
• Shen Ge rebuked Su Sui for meddling, then gave her talismans and defensive artifacts to protect her in the coming war.
• Shen Ge decided to contribute to the sect before attempting the dangerous Life and Death Instruction after the war.

Shen Ge traveled with Martial Uncle Jin Yun and Martial Uncle Fenghuo to Tianxin Mountain, while a battle between the Blood Devil Grotto, Evergreen Sect, and Yellow Maple Valley unfolded nearby. Ye Xingchen, Li Ze, and Yue Shan trapped and devastated enemy disciples, and Meng Yan defeated a Blood Devil before claiming his Storage Bag.

• Shen Ge followed Martial Uncle Jin Yun and Martial Uncle Fenghuo to Tianxin Mountain, where the Spirit Moon Sect watched for the Hehuan Sect.
• Ye Xingchen rescued Li Ze from a group of Blood Devil Grotto disciples and used Ten Thousand Vines Dance to hold them back.
• Li Ze unleashed Marshland Kingdom as Yue Shan joined Ye Xingchen, and the three killed or wounded more than twenty trapped disciples.
• Meng Yan and his Thunder Eagle battled two opponents, while Meng Yan’s lightning overwhelmed the Early Golden Core Stage Blood Devil.
• Meng Yan pierced the Blood Devil’s giant blood palm and destroyed his chest and abdomen, then took his Storage Bag.

The Spirit Moon Sect and the Hehuan Sect clashed at Heavenly Heart Ravine, and Shen Ge fought without mercy while resisting the Hehuan Sect’s bewitching arts. The battle continued as a purple-gauzed woman tried to enchant him.

• Bai Mei led the Hehuan Sect’s flying boats toward the Spirit Moon Sect’s defensive line, and Shen Ge warned Su Sui to stay close during the coming fight.
• The Hehuan Sect’s bewitching mist entranced several male disciples until Xuanguang’s snort woke them; then Xuanguang confronted Bai Mei over her past with his disciple Fenghuo.
• Xuanguang, Ziyang, and Mo Qingyu pursued Bai Mei while the Golden Core experts from both sides moved away to fight elsewhere.
• Shen Ge killed a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Hehuan Sect disciple with Sword Qi and showed no pity despite her appearance.
• A purple-gauzed Hehuan Sect woman tried to bewitch Shen Ge, but his Clear Heart Incantation suppressed the effect.

Shen Ge resisted a Hehuan Sect woman’s seductive illusions and broke out of her illusion realm with a divine soul attack. He wounded her badly, leaving her poised to die at his hands.

• The woman tried to distract Shen Ge by taking Mu Wan’s appearance, but the Clear Heart Incantation dispelled her influence and Shen Ge attacked.
• The woman repeatedly evaded Shen Ge’s sword strikes and drew him into an illusion realm.
• Shen Ge realized the realm was an illusion and used golden light to destroy the alluring women while searching for a way out.
• Shen Ge unleashed his divine soul power, found the woman’s hidden location, and struck her before she could dispel the realm.
• Back in the outside world, Shen Ge slashed the woman and severed one of her hands.

Shen Ge killed a veiled woman and retrieved his Law Artifacts while Su Liuyue fought Bai Lili. Bai Lili escaped Su Liuyue’s devastating attack with a teleportation talisman, but Su Liuyue suppressed and captured her Black Bird Law Treasure.

• Shen Ge snapped the veiled woman’s neck, retrieved his Law Artifact, and dismissed her appearance as nothing special.
• Su Liuyue rejected Bai Lili’s advances and taunts, then slapped her and drove her into a furious counterattack.
• Bai Lili unleashed Blood-Colored Purgatory, pink tentacles, her Black Bird Law Treasure, and skeletal cavalry against Su Liuyue.
• Su Liuyue summoned the Five Sword Nests and struck with Geng Metal White Tiger Slash, destroying a mountain peak after Bai Lili escaped with a Ten Thousand Li Teleportation Talisman.
• Su Liuyue shattered Bai Lili’s created world and forced the fleeing Black Bird back into its game-piece form, then suppressed it.

Shen Ge and Chu He fought off demonesses on the battlefield, then went to rescue a Spirit Moon Sect disciple and confronted three women who merged into one with power approaching the Golden Core level. The chapter ended as Shen Ge faced the transformed demoness.

• Shen Ge was enchanted by ten demonesses until Chu He broke the spell, and the two fought back together.
• Shen Ge and Chu He killed the ten demonesses with the Giant Que Sword, Heaven-Overturning Seal, and streams of Sword Qi.
• After taking Qi recovery pills, Shen Ge and Chu He headed toward another battle and found three demonesses attacking a Spirit Moon Sect disciple.
• Shen Ge attacked the demonesses, but they revealed that two were clones and merged into one, releasing pressure close to the Golden Core level.

Chu He and Shen Ge drove Lü Luo away and discussed the Hehuan Sect’s Seven Heavenly Maidens, including Shen Ge’s claim that he had killed Zi Huan. They returned to the Spirit Moon Sect’s camp, where Shen Ge rested as the conflict settled into smaller skirmishes.

• Chu He arrived to help Shen Ge fight Lü Luo, who escaped in a pink mist when she faced both men.
• Chu He explained the Seven Heavenly Maidens’ ranks and strength, and Shen Ge revealed that he believed he had killed Zi Huan.
• Chu He warned Shen Ge that Zi Huan’s mother, Qing Sha, was powerful, and Shen Ge decided to ask Martial Uncle Fenghuo for help.
• Shen Ge asked about Li Xiao, a captured Devil Creek Sect elder linked to the Hehuan Sect, and Chu He guessed she was in the sect’s Cold Prison.
• Shen Ge and Chu He fought off Hehuan Sect disciples on their way back to the Spirit Moon Sect’s side, where the fighting had mostly become small skirmishes.
• Shen Ge returned to camp and began recovering his Spiritual Qi and mental strength.

Xuanguang used the Spirit Moon Sect’s Heaven and Earth Realm to overpower Bai Mei and force the Hehuan Sect elders to retreat. He chose to keep the Hehuan Sect contained rather than pursue them, while Ziyang worried that the Evergreen Sect and Yellow Maple Valley could not withstand the Blood Devil Grotto.

• Xuanguang’s Traceless Sword destroyed Bai Mei’s mountains-and-rivers scroll, and Bai Mei countered with the Long Wind Zither and an imprint of Shen Lin.
• Xuanguang brought out the Heaven and Earth Realm, whose beam of treasured light alarmed Mo Qingyu and the cultivators across the battlefield.
• Bai Mei used a fan Spirit Artifact and the Long Wind Zither to resist the beam, but it overwhelmed their attacks and forced her and two Hehuan Sect elders to retreat.
• The Heaven and Earth Realm’s beam struck a mountaintop and reduced half of it to powder.
• Xuanguang stopped Ziyang and Mo Qingyu from pursuing Bai Mei, while Ziyang urged him to aid the Evergreen Sect and Yellow Maple Valley against the Blood Devil Grotto.

Lü Yang fought off White Bone Mountain disciples in Flowing Gold Valley before Xuanfeng rescued him and tried to send him away with the sect’s legacy. Lü Yang refused to abandon the sect, but Xuanfeng’s talisman transported him to a distant ravine, where a hidden formation trapped him.

• Lü Yang killed seven White Bone Mountain disciples in the medicinal garden, then collapsed after hearing that Flowing Gold Valley’s protective formation had fallen.
• As an enemy approached to kill him, Xuanfeng arrived, gave Lü Yang pills and the lineage’s treasures, and returned to defend the sect.
• Xuanfeng explained that he would not abandon his home and urged Lü Yang not to become a slave to longevity.
• Lü Yang took the pills and tried to return to the sect, but Xuanfeng’s jade talisman activated and carried him away despite his protests.
• Xuanfeng killed five Foundation Establishment disciples and confronted Corpse Soul, while their battle caused casualties among the surrounding fighters.
• Lü Yang appeared in a distant ravine, where formation flags formed a grand formation that restrained him and concealed his presence.

Mu Wan searched the South Sea for the ruins of the long-destroyed Sea Demon Sect, determined to press on despite increasingly dangerous Demon Beasts. Meanwhile, Yu Shang backed down from seeking revenge for her daughter, and Shen Ge comforted Su Sui as she mourned Nishang and questioned the purpose of cultivation.

• Mu Wan used clues from ancient sect records to search the South Sea for the Sea Demon Sect's ruins and its secret-realm teleportation array.
• After Mu Wan struggled to kill a peak second-tier giant octopus, she resolved to continue, covered herself in talismans, and cautiously resumed her search.
• Yu Shang learned that Shen Ge had killed her daughter and wanted revenge, but Bai Mei warned her she would die without the Hehuan Sect holding back the Spirit Moon Sect's Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Yu Shang eventually returned to her room and gave up pursuing revenge, choosing to preserve her chance of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.
• Su Sui told Shen Ge that Nishang had died beside her and asked what cultivation was for; Shen Ge said that growing stronger would let her protect what she cared about.

Zi Nü urged the righteous sects to seek the Heavenly Desolation Domain rather than continue a costly war over the Fortune Dynasty Method, while the Evergreen Sect debated sharing the method to stop the fighting. At the Spirit Moon Sect encampment, the disciples prepared for further battles and received Golden Body Talismans.

• Aboard the Spirit Moon Sect's vessel, Zi Nü proposed giving up the Fortune Dynasty Method and seeking the Heavenly Desolation Domain, but Ziyang and Mo Qingyu questioned her views.
• Daoist Qingguang and Qingshan discussed Flowing Gold Valley's defeat and considered sharing the Fortune Dynasty Method to reduce casualties, while Qingguang agreed to consult Ziyang.
• At the Spirit Moon Sect encampment, Chu He scolded Jin Ling for her recklessness, and Li Kui joked to ease the mood.
• Wang Yan distributed five hundred Golden Body Talismans drawn by Liuyue and warned the disciples that fighting would continue if the demonic sects did not withdraw.
• Shen Ge declined extra talismans and urged Wang Yan to be careful when facing Hehuan Sect Golden Core cultivators.

Mu Wan discovered the Sea Demon Sect and entered its secret realm, while negotiations ended the fighting between the righteous and devil paths. Shen Ge set out to find Mu Wan, and Li Xue left the Evergreen Sect after losing her family and resolve to remain.

• Mu Wan found a hidden teleportation formation and used it to reach the Sea Demon Sect, where she defeated a water puppet, passed the disciple trial, and entered the deeper secret realm.
• Han Yu gave Shen Ge the Fortune Dynasty Method and asked the Righteous Path Alliance to protect her and her dynasty.
• Ziyang and the righteous cultivators shared the method with Blood Devil, and the factions agreed to cease hostilities after arguing over whether Mu Wan should be handed over for soul-searching.
• Lü Yang emerged wounded from underground and left after grieving for his master near Flowing Gold Valley.
• Shen Ge learned that Mu Wan had been researching the Sea Demon Sect, then flew to the South Sea to search for her.
• Li Xue rejected Yue Shan's farewell feast and left the Evergreen Sect, while Qingshan and others accepted her departure.

After ten days searching the South Sea, Shen Ge caught the gravely wounded Mu Wan as she fell from a vortex, but she died in his arms. Elder Zhang killed Shen Ge and took the Spirit Severing Pill, leaving Shen Ge's final vow to kill him.

• Shen Ge caught Mu Wan as she fell from a vortex and tried to save her with pills.
• Mu Wan gave Shen Ge a Spirit Severing Pill, kissed his cheek, and died after telling him the spring breeze and rosy morning clouds would stay by his side.
• Elder Zhang appeared, stole Shen Ge's Storage Bag, and crushed Mu Wan's corpse into a mist of blood.
• Shen Ge attacked Elder Zhang in grief, but Zhang killed him with countless flying swords.
• Shen Ge cursed Zhang Sheng and vowed that Zhang Sheng's life belonged to him before his head turned to blood mist.

After emerging from a Spiritual Qi cocoon, Shen Ge reunited with Li Xue, who had believed him dead for three years. He learned about the Spirit Moon Sect and Qingyou’s death, then vowed to pay his respects in person someday.

• Li Xue discovered a glowing ball of light and found a child inside, then concealed him and gathered Spiritual Qi around him.
• After ten days inside a Spiritual Qi cocoon, Shen Ge emerged at the Golden Core Stage, and Li Xue recognized him but feared he might be an impostor.
• Shen Ge convinced Li Xue of his identity and said he had returned through a Secret Method, but could not go back to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Li Xue told Shen Ge that Zhang Sheng had gone into seclusion and Su Sui had reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Li Xue told Shen Ge that Qingyou had died six months earlier, and Shen Ge bowed toward the Spirit Moon Sect and promised to visit Qingyou’s grave someday.

After consolidating his cultivation, Shen Ge investigated the mysterious point of light that had saved his soul and reshaped his body. He discovered that it had brought him the extraordinarily comprehensive Samsara cultivation method and suspected it was connected to the Supreme Purity Celestial Venerable statue he had worshipped in his former life, though he could not confirm the reason.

• Shen Ge refused to rush into revenge against Zhang Sheng and left Li Xue, saying he needed to prepare and did not want to put his master, senior sister, or sect master in a difficult position.
• Li Xue watched Shen Ge depart, then went toward the Spirit Moon Sect to see what would happen.
• Shen Ge sealed himself inside a cave abode and spent a month stabilizing his newly advanced cultivation.
• Shen Ge searched his sea of consciousness for the point of light that had saved him but could not find it, so he decided to leave it alone.
• Shen Ge examined the Samsara method and found it contained a wide range of cultivation, combat, escape, and soul techniques.
• Shen Ge recalled that his memories had been probed beneath White Bone Mountain and suspected the Supreme Purity Celestial Venerable statue he had worshipped on Blue Star had left the point of light in his mind.

Shen Ge mastered three powerful sword techniques, then went to the Purple Qi Sect’s market to trade a cultivation method for a Law Treasure and an offensive formation. He left the method with a Golden Core elder to show the sect master, while Li Xue continued waiting near Moonfall Mountain and Zhang Sheng suppressed his ominous premonition.

• Shen Ge spent a year learning the Life Sword, Death Sword, and Life and Death Sword, though he had only gained a preliminary grasp of them.
• Li Xue waited in a town below Moonfall Mountain, wondering why Shen Ge had not attacked the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Zhang Sheng sensed an unprecedented danger while secluded on Azure Jade Peak, but suppressed his intuition and continued trying to break through to the Nascent Soul.
• Shen Ge went to a market under the Purple Qi Sect’s jurisdiction and demanded to see its Law Treasures.
• A Golden Core elder showed Shen Ge a Geng Metal flying sword and a Sword Light Formation, and offered to sell them for Spirit Stones or recruit him into the sect.
• Shen Ge offered a Jade Slip containing a cultivation method in exchange for both items, then told the elder to take it to the sect master for an appraisal.

Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and confronted Zhang Sheng, unleashing a fierce assault as the sect’s experts gathered. The chapter left the battle ongoing, with Su Liuyue and the other hall leaders blocking anyone who tried to intervene.

• Zi Nü examined Shen Ge’s Jade Slip and set out for the Spirit Moon Sect, while Li Xue sensed his arrival and Xuanguang chose not to interfere.
• Shen Ge entered the Spirit Moon Sect, and Junior Brother Wang recognized him and alerted the sect leader to his dangerous state.
• Su Liuyue, Wang Yan, Jin Ling, and Chu He pursued Shen Ge to Azure Jade Peak as Golden Core experts gathered around him.
• Shen Ge found Zhang Sheng, sealed Azure Jade Peak with a formation, and attacked him with Morning Longing and the formation’s flying swords.
• Zhang Sheng defended himself with the Four Directions Cauldron, while Su Liuyue and the other hall leaders warned the gathered elders not to interfere.