Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han challenged Chu Chenyu by the Book River and overwhelmed Sacred Heaven City's foremost young talent with his swordsmanship and Nine Syllable True Word Hand Seal. After defeating Chu Chenyu, Xiao Han declared that he was unparalleled below the Heavenly Sovereign.

• Xiao Han confronted Chu Chenyu by the Book River as a crowd gathered to watch.
• Xiao Han unleashed a desolate, icy Sword Intent Storm, froze the Book River and its surroundings, and sent a barrage of ice-blue swords at Chu Chenyu.
• Chu Chenyu summoned his Wolf Hair Brush phantom and used ink blades to clash with Xiao Han's swords.
• Xiao Han summoned the nine characters of the Nine Syllable True Word Hand Seal, which shattered Chu Chenyu's defenses and hurled him onto the frozen river.
• Xiao Han stood above the defeated Chu Chenyu and declared, "Below the Heavenly Sovereign, I alone am unparalleled!"

After defeating Chu Chenyu, Xiao Han stayed at Bai Manor while the city buzzed over his strength and Sacred Book Palace’s upcoming disciple selection. On the event’s eve, Bai Ye brought him to Carefree Tower to compete for a glimpse of its mysterious courtesan head, Liu Qingcheng.

• Xiao Han ended the Ice World, left Chu Chenyu, and returned to Bai Ye and Bai Qiuling.
• Xiao Han’s victory became the talk of Sacred Heaven City, and he stayed at Bai Manor as the city awaited Sacred Book Palace’s disciple selection.
• Bai Ye took Xiao Han out after Bai Qiuling got drunk and promised to show him Sacred City’s Foremost Beauty.
• Bai Ye explained that Liu Qingcheng could be glimpsed by scholars whose poetry, prose, and calligraphy impressed her on a full-moon night.
• Xiao Han and Bai Ye entered Carefree Tower to try to see Liu Qingcheng.

Xiao Han and Bai Ye visited Carefree Tower on the full-moon night when Liu Qingcheng chose a guest through a poetry and calligraphy gathering. After teasing Shangguan Wan'er and watching the other guests write, Xiao Han finally composed a poem for the Courtesan Head, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Xiao Han and Bai Ye entered Carefree Tower, where Bai Ye explained that the Courtesan Head would choose a guest that night.
• Xiao Han encountered Shangguan Wan'er disguised as a man, teased her about coming to the brothel, and prompted her to slap Shangguan Que before he fled.
• Xiao Han and Bai Ye took seats in Qingcheng Hall, where the gathered scions prepared to write poems and calligraphy for Liu Qingcheng.
• Liu Qingcheng appeared behind a curtain, and her handmaiden invited the guests to begin writing.
• Xiao Han watched Liu Qingcheng while the others composed poems, then drank wine and wrote a verse praising her beauty.

Xiao Han’s poem caught Liu Qingcheng’s attention, and she invited him to meet her after the other guests were dismissed. Her maid revealed and praised his work before challenging the crowd to name anyone worthy of contending with it.

• Xiao Han finished a poem and sent it behind the curtain, where Liu Qingcheng read it and acknowledged him.
• Liu Qingcheng dismissed the guests, leaving them to assume Xiao Han’s work had offended her.
• Liu Qingcheng’s maid stopped Xiao Han as he was leaving and announced that her lady wished to see him.
• At Shangguan Wan’er’s request, the maid displayed Xiao Han’s poem and explained why Liu Qingcheng had admired it.
• The maid asked the gathered guests who was worthy to contend with Xiao Han’s work.

After Xiao Han won Liu Qingcheng’s favor with his poem, she revealed the scars inflicted by her mother and asked him to kill her. Xiao Han agreed to help her, leaving their next move unresolved.

• The handmaiden defended Xiao Han’s poem and calligraphy, silencing the scholars and prompting Shangguan Wan'er and Bai Ye to leave.
• The handmaiden led Xiao Han to Liu Qingcheng’s room, where he saw her writing and met her face-to-face.
• Liu Qingcheng revealed the scars covering her body and asked Xiao Han to save her.
• Liu Qingcheng explained that her mother had abused her since birth, founded Xiaoyao Sect, and forced her into the brothel business.
• After Liu Qingcheng asked him to kill her mother, Xiao Han listened to her story and agreed to take care of her matter.

Xiao Han promised to help Liu Qingcheng seek revenge when he was strong enough and healed the scars left by her mother. After leaving her, he became the talk of Sacred City for meeting its Foremost Beauty, then drank alone beneath the moon as he wondered about the Book Fanatic.

• Xiao Han promised to help Liu Qingcheng, but said he could not yet challenge a Heavenly Supreme sect.
• Xiao Han gave Liu Qingcheng a pill that healed the scars covering her body, then left Carefree Tower.
• News that Liu Qingcheng had chosen Xiao Han spread through Sacred City, stirring envy and anticipation for his performance at the Sacred Palace Disciple Selection Event.
• Bai Qiuling scolded Bai Ye for leading Xiao Han astray after hearing the news, though she admired Xiao Han for winning Liu Qingcheng's favor.
• Xiao Han drank alone on a tall building beneath the moon and wondered about the senior Book Fanatic.

Sacred Book Palace began its once-a-decade disciple selection, where the younger generation would compete to copy one of seven calligraphy posts and earn a Heavenly Supreme’s tutelage. Xiao Han chose the Book Fanatic’s Ask Heaven Post as the selection began.

• Crowds and young talents from across the continent gathered in Sacred Heaven City for Sacred Palace Disciple Selection, including Xiao Han’s acquaintances from Sacred City.
• Xiao Han arrived and traded teasing remarks with Bai Ye and Bai Qiuling about spending the night with the Sacred City’s Foremost Beauty.
• The seven Heavenly Supremes appeared, and the Book Fanatic announced that candidates had to copy one of their calligraphy posts in full to seek that master’s tutelage.
• Xiao Han, Chu Chenyu, Shangguan Wan'er, Bai Ye, and Bai Qiuling chose the Book Fanatic’s post.
• Xiao Han examined the Ask Heaven Post, which contained eighty-one questions the Book Fanatic had written to challenge the azure heavens.

At Sacred Book Palace’s Disciple Selection Event, Book Fanatic’s changing Ask Heaven Post proved impossible for the gathered youths to copy, and nearly everyone gave up. One Green-Robed Figure remained, focused on copying the post as the chapter ended.

• Youths gathered beneath Book Fanatic’s Ask Heaven Post and began copying its calligraphy.
• Bai Ye, Chu Chenyu, Shangguan Wan’er, and Bai Qiuling discovered that the characters changed while they copied, making the post a Living Post.
• Xiao Han and the Sacred Book Palace elders recognized the test’s extraordinary difficulty, while Book Fanatic hinted that his purpose went beyond accepting a disciple.
• After several attempts, Bai Ye and the others gave up and left for the other calligraphy posts.
• A Green-Robed Figure stayed beneath the Ask Heaven Post, studying and copying it with complete concentration.

Xiao Han discovered that Book Fanatic's changing Ask Heaven Post was a Great Grandmaster-level spiritual array governed by yin and yang. He broke through to Spiritual Array Great Grandmaster and reproduced the post with spiritual energy, leaving the Sacred Palace stunned.

• Xiao Han remained beneath the Ask Heaven Post after the other young people struggled to copy it, while Shangguan Que mocked him and Bai Qiuling defended him.
• Xiao Han realized the post was a living spiritual array and began deducing its patterns instead of copying it directly.
• Xiao Han discerned how yin and yang transformations governed the array and broke through to become a Spiritual Array Great Grandmaster.
• Xiao Han rose before the seven Heavenly Supreme experts and announced that he had understood the post's mystery.
• Xiao Han formed a giant Wolf Hair Brush from spiritual energy and copied the Ask Heaven Post in the air, summoning wind and thunder across the Sacred Palace.

Xiao Han completed the Ask Heaven Post in a display that shook the Sacred Palace, winning Book Fanatic’s admiration. Book Fanatic made him his personal disciple and the Sacred Book Palace’s Saint Son, then granted him the Peerless Sacred Object called Unparalleled.

• Xiao Han finished the Ask Heaven Post, startling the Sacred City with Nine Heavens Wind and Thunder.
• Book Fanatic praised Xiao Han and named him his personal disciple and the Sacred Book Palace’s Saint Son, ordering the six Heavenly Supreme elders and all disciples to obey him.
• The Sacred Palace’s disciples and elders saluted Xiao Han as their Saint Son.
• Book Fanatic summoned the Sacred Brush, and Xiao Han seized it despite its supreme Sacred Might.
• Xiao Han saw the name Unparalleled engraved on the brush and raised it before the Sacred Palace.

After becoming the Sacred Palace’s Holy Son, Xiao Han studied calligraphy and learned about the palace under Book Fanatic’s guidance. In the Thousand Brush Forest, he encouraged Tang Shiya, showed her how to wield a brush under gravity, and left her with a line of poetry.

• Xiao Han’s appointment as Holy Son made him the focus of discussion across the Sacred Book Continent, while other young talents joined the Sacred Palace as disciples of Heavenly Supreme elders.
• Book Fanatic taught Xiao Han calligraphy and insights into breaking through as a Heavenly Supreme, and introduced him to the Sacred Book Palace he would one day lead.
• Xiao Han visited the depths of the Thousand Brush Forest and found Tang Shiya writing the characters “Highest Good is Like Water” with four other young disciples watching.
• Xiao Han told Tang Shiya to measure her progress against herself, then agreed to guide her when she asked.
• Xiao Han held Tang Shiya’s hand as he demonstrated how to move the brush with intent and borrow its momentum, writing the line “The Yellow River falls from the heavens and runs to the East Sea; ten thousand miles are written into the heart.”

After becoming the Sacred Book Palace’s Saint, Xiao Han traveled with Liu Qingcheng to Xiaoyao Sect and fought his way to the peach blossom forest, where he confronted her mother, Liu Yanqing. He declared that he had come to kill her.

• Xiao Han spent another night at Carefree Tower, then left Sacred City with a woman on his sword and headed southeast toward Xiaoyao Sect.
• The chapter revealed that Liu Yanqing cultivated in Xiaoyao Sect’s forbidden peach blossom forest among the skeletons of her victims.
• A messenger warned Liu Yanqing that Liu Qingcheng had returned with a powerful man who was killing his way through the sect.
• Xiao Han and Liu Qingcheng reached the peach blossom forest, where Liu Qingcheng confronted her mother.
• Liu Yanqing asked Xiao Han why he had come, and Xiao Han said he was there to kill her.

Xiao Han fought Liu Yanqing, a Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme, and used the Heavenly Emperor Sword and his abilities to overcome her defenses. He killed her in Xiaoyao Valley, leaving the Xiaoyao Sect disciples horrified by their Sect Master's death.

• Liu Yanqing mocked Xiao Han's threat and offered to spare him if he became her plaything.
• Xiao Han attacked Liu Yanqing with the Heavenly Emperor Sword, whose rules and ice powers broke through her black serpent defense.
• Liu Yanqing fought back with an iron whip, but Xiao Han's sword snapped it as he pressed his attack.
• Liu Yanqing used Human Desire Paradise to ensnare Xiao Han, but he burned through the illusion with Karma Fire.
• Xiao Han used the Heavenly Net Sealing Technique to sever Liu Yanqing from her spiritual energy, then pierced her heart with the Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• Liu Yanqing died, and the Xiaoyao Sect disciples stared in horror as Xiao Han slew their Sect Master.

Xiao Han killed Liu Yanqing, freed Liu Qingcheng from her torment, and made her the new Sect Master as he annexed the Xiaoyao Sect into the Sacred Palace. He then followed Liu Qingcheng toward a Cold Pool on Mount Hua, leaving her question about his promise from the previous night unanswered.

• Xiao Han killed Liu Yanqing with a single sword strike, and Liu Qingcheng confronted the complicated feelings she had about her mother’s death.
• Xiao Han told Liu Qingcheng she was free and appointed her Sect Master of the Xiaoyao Sect, declaring the sect part of the Sacred Palace.
• The Xiaoyao Sect disciples accepted Liu Qingcheng as their new Sect Master, and she ordered them to continue their usual duties.
• Xiao Han told Liu Qingcheng to manage the sect well and asked about a nearby Cold Pool after recalling the system’s bounty mission.
• Liu Qingcheng led Xiao Han toward the Cold Pool on Mount Hua and asked whether his words from the previous night still counted; Xiao Han gave no direct answer.

Xiao Han and Liu Qingcheng went to Mount Hua Cold Pool, where Xiao Han drew out a Primordial Peng Kun and tried to make it his mount. After beating it and threatening to stew it, he left the giant beast fearing for its life.

• Xiao Han brought Liu Qingcheng to Mount Hua Cold Pool and shielded her from its freezing air with Sacred Ice power.
• Xiao Han stirred the Cold Pool with the Wushuang Pen, awakening an enormous Primordial Peng Kun that emerged from the frozen water.
• Xiao Han learned from the system that the Primordial Peng Kun was an exceptionally rare ancient spiritual beast and demanded that it become his mount.
• The Primordial Peng Kun refused, so Xiao Han beat it repeatedly until it was bruised and swollen.
• Xiao Han said he would stew the Primordial Peng Kun and began considering how to chop it up, terrifying the beast.

Xiao Han beat the Primordial Peng Kun into agreeing to become his mount and flew with Liu Qingcheng to Xiaoyao Valley. While Xiao Han relaxed there, news of his killing a Heavenly Supreme spread, and he later teased the fish by threatening to stew it.

• Xiao Han beat the Primordial Peng Kun until it agreed to follow him as his mount.
• Xiao Han and Liu Qingcheng rode the Primordial Peng Kun to Xiaoyao Valley after Xiao Han threatened to stew it unless it flew faster.
• News that Xiao Han had taken over the Xiaoyao Sect, killed Liu Yanqing, and slain a Heavenly Supreme spread across the Sacred Book Continent.
• Xiao Han fished beside Clear Pond while Liu Qingcheng and the Primordial Peng Kun relaxed nearby.
• Xiao Han pretended he meant to stew the Primordial Peng Kun, making it jump up before it realized he had tricked it.

Xiao Han learned that the Outer Realm Evil Race had invaded Cangming Realm and accepted command of Sacred Book Palace’s relief army. Three days later, as the army gathered to depart, Xiao Han arrived on a colossal winged fish.

• Liu Qingcheng told Xiao Han that Tang Shiya from Sacred Book Palace had come to see him.
• Tang Shiya reported that the Outer Realm Evil Race had captured more than half of Cangming Realm and that the Palace Master had appointed Xiao Han commander of the army sent to aid it.
• Xiao Han agreed to return to Sacred Book Palace in three days and lead the campaign against the Evil Race.
• Sacred Book Palace assembled an army of more than ten thousand, including Tang Shiya and several Earth Supreme leaders, to march on Cangming Realm.
• Xiao Han arrived above Sacred Book Palace on a huge ice-blue winged fish, and the assembled disciples greeted him as the Holy Son.

Xiao Han led the Sacred Palace army into the war-ravaged Cangming Realm and rescued refugees from an Outer Realm Evil Race massacre on their way to Cangxuan City. As he comforted a little girl among the survivors, she stabbed him in the heart and mocked him.

• Xiao Han brought the Sacred Palace army through a Spatial Teleportation Array into Cangming Realm, where Tang Shiya directed them toward Cangxuan City.
• Xiao Han spotted Outer Realm Evil Race warriors slaughtering refugees in a valley and ordered Tang Shiya and the other Earth Supremes to kill them.
• Xiao Han took the surviving refugees onto the Primordial Peng Kun and continued toward Cangxuan City.
• A little girl asked Xiao Han to hug her, then stabbed him in the heart with a dagger and mocked him.

Xiao Han’s soul clone survived an assassination attempt by an Evil Spirit Clan Demoness, and he captured and executed her after arriving with Sacred Palace reinforcements at besieged Cangxuan City. His arrival lifted the defenders’ hopes, and he declared war on the Evil Spirit Clan.

• The Demoness stabbed Xiao Han’s apparent heart, but Fat Fish revealed that the victim was only a soul clone, and Xiao Han’s true body captured her.
• Xiao Han learned the captured Demoness was likely the younger sister of the Evil Spirit Clan’s commander and ordered the Sacred Palace army to hurry to Cangxuan City.
• As the Evil Spirit Clan prepared another assault on Cangxuan City, its commander Lu Yuan urged the defenders to hold out for the Sacred Palace reinforcements.
• Xiao Han arrived at Cangxuan City with the Sacred Palace army, bringing hope to the besieged defenders.
• Xiao Han beheaded the captured Demoness in front of the Evil Spirit Clan army and declared that those who invaded the Great Thousand World would die.

Xiao Han repelled the Evil Spirit Clan after killing its Little Princess, then prepared Cangxuan City’s defenders for Ye Cangxuan’s promised attack. Seven days later, he unveiled the Four Symbols Battle Array as the two armies faced off, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Xiao Han killed the Evil Race Little Princess, forcing the Evil Spirit Clan army to retreat while he led the Sacred Palace army into Cangxuan City.
• Xiao Han ordered Lu Yuan to rest his soldiers and tend to the refugees, then assigned Tang Shiya and the other Earth Supremes to train with four array diagrams.
• A Sacred Palace Disciple delivered Ye Cangxuan’s Challenge Letter, which threatened to take Xiao Han’s head in seven days.
• Ye Cangxuan led the Evil Spirit Clan army back to Cangxuan City and formed a blood-powered giant python battle spirit.
• Xiao Han arranged the Sacred Palace army into the Four Symbols Battle Array, summoning the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird before both sides called for battle.