Chapter Summaries

Qin Nanyue used her Heaven Grade sword art to kill three Great Void Sword Sect cultivators who attacked her and Lu Yang. The surviving disciples of Nine Nether Valley and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain realized her power and wondered which immortal sect or holy land’s holy maiden she was.

• Qin Nanyue drew her Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifact and faced the aloof Great Void Sword Sect cultivator, who blamed Lu Yang for offending Patriarch Chi Mo.
• Qin Nanyue killed the female cultivator with a sword strike that shattered her barriers and split her body apart.
• Qin Nanyue killed the handsome young man before he could activate his powerful talisman.
• Qin Nanyue cut down the last Great Void Sword Sect cultivator as he tried to flee.
• The Nine Nether Valley and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain disciples panicked, and their leader recognized that Qin Nanyue must cultivate a Heaven Grade technique and wondered which holy maiden she was.

Qin Nanyue killed the Nine Nether Valley cultivators who attacked her, then let the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain disciples leave unharmed. After claiming a Sword Dao Law Treasure from one of her victims, she was reunited with Lu Yang, who praised her strength.

• Senior Brother Xu tried to escape, but Qin Nanyue's sword marks killed him and the two remaining Nine Nether Valley cultivators.
• Qin Nanyue recovered her Spiritual Qi and reassured the three Ten Thousand Beast Mountain disciples that she would not kill them.
• The Ten Thousand Beast Mountain disciples offered to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath, but Qin Nanyue dismissed their concerns and let them leave.
• Qin Nanyue found a Sword Dao Law Treasure beside the Chi Household female cultivator's corpse and put it in her Storage Bag.
• Lu Yang appeared behind Qin Nanyue and praised her for defeating the geniuses, and she hurried over to greet him.

Lu Yang reunited with Qin Nanyue after she defeated cultivators in the Ancient Yue Secret Realm, and the system confirmed that she had completed her quest and rewarded them both. As they searched the corpses, Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue found a damaged fourth-tier talisman and a Storage Ring on a young cultivator whose strong karmic luck had not saved him.

• Lu Yang reassured Qin Nanyue that she had been right to kill the cultivators who threatened her.
• The system announced Qin Nanyue's completed quest and granted Lu Yang 9,000 Universal Experience, one Constitution point, and ten Spiritual Connection Rings, while improving Qin Nanyue's attributes and Sword Dao comprehension.
• Lu Yang added the Universal Experience to his Spirit Root, then kissed Qin Nanyue and teased her as she blushed and went to inspect the corpses.
• Lu Yang searched a Storage Bag and found ordinary spoils, while Qin Nanyue discovered a damaged fourth-tier talisman on a dead young cultivator.
• Lu Yang speculated that Qin Nanyue's karmic luck had helped her defeat the young cultivator, then noticed a gray-black Storage Ring on the corpse and drew it into his hand.

Lu Yang examined the wealthy young man’s Storage Ring and discovered a damaged stele containing an incomplete Spirit Grade Sword Dao Cultivation Method. After deciding to store it and try to complete it, he received several valuable system rewards and prepared to inspect an ancient bronze bell.

• Lu Yang searched the dead young man’s Storage Ring and found vast wealth, numerous supplies, powerful talismans, a damaged stone stele, and an ancient bronze bell.
• Lu Yang recognized the stele’s intricate Sword Dao runes as an incomplete Spirit Grade Cultivation Method, and Qin Nanyue agreed it surpassed the Heavenly Trace Sword Canon in complexity.
• Lu Yang explained that Qin Nanyue could not cultivate the Spirit Grade method until she could manifest the Power of Principle, then stored the stele to study and possibly complete it.
• The system rewarded Lu Yang with a Tycoon’s Confidence Upgrade Card, an Intermediate Cultivation Method Synthesis Card, and three Low-Level Beauty Fortune Boost Cards.

Lu Yang examined his new cards and the damaged ancient bronze bell, which he suspected was a Law Treasure above Spirit Treasure grade. Qin Nanyue insisted he keep it as a gift, and he agreed after reassuring her; then new words appeared on the panel.

• Lu Yang used the Tycoon's Confidence Upgrade Card, raising Tycoon's Confidence to Level 17, and stored the Cultivation Method Synthesis Card for later.
• Lu Yang read that the Beauty Fortune Boost Card increased a designated beauty's fortune and chances of success for six months, then examined the ancient bronze bell.
• Lu Yang suspected the cracked bell was a damaged Law Treasure above Spirit Treasure grade and suggested giving it to Shiliu, or to Wang Da if she could not use it.
• Qin Nanyue urged Lu Yang to keep the bell, explaining that she wanted to give him something of her own after receiving so much from him.
• Lu Yang comforted Qin Nanyue, and she threatened to stop dual cultivating with him unless he accepted the bell; he agreed, and words appeared on the panel again.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue searched the Sword Dao sect ruins, and Lu Yang accidentally opened a hidden underground passage. They found a powerful, rotting man bound by a failing seal, and he opened his blood-red eyes as the ice-blue sword fell.

• Lu Yang received rewards after obtaining Qin Nanyue's Law Treasure, and he and Qin Nanyue divided the cultivators' spoils.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue searched the ruins separately, but Lu Yang uncovered a hidden passage when he stepped on a stone tile.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue descended into a basement and found a rotting man bound by chains and a formation, with an ice-blue longsword sustaining the seal.
• The basement's formation deteriorated, the sword fell, and the man opened his eyes as black smoke thickened around him.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue encountered a rotting man who broke free from an underground seal with Late Golden Core cultivation and a manifestation of Principles. Lu Yang fought him without using [Power of Money] and answered the monster’s charge with Metal Source Heaven-Reaching Record techniques.

• The rotting man shattered his chains and emerged at Late Golden Core, startling Qin Nanyue while Lu Yang assessed his unstable manifestation of Principles.
• The rotting man charged, but Lu Yang used Metal Source Qi Transformation to carry Qin Nanyue out of the basement before the monster’s punch collapsed it.
• Lu Yang deduced that the rotting man cultivated an undead branch of the Great Yin Dao and might possess an undying body, then chose to test his strength rather than use [Power of Money].
• The rotting man attacked Lu Yang with claws and Yin Sha aura, but Lu Yang’s Metal Source Return-to-Origin Barrier blocked the blow before Lu Yang appeared above him and unleashed Metal Spirit Cloud-Piercing Finger.

Lu Yang battled the rotting man over the lake, unleashing powerful Metal Dao techniques while their clash shook the secret realm. As others wondered who was fighting, Mu Yunxue recognized Lu Yang’s spiritual energy and left after defeating a group of Demon Beasts.

• Lu Yang used golden Qi and a giant spectral finger to crush the rotting man into the island, sinking the island into the lake.
• The rotting man burst from the water and struck Lu Yang with a skeletal claw, but Lu Yang survived and counterattacked with Metal Dao barriers.
• Lu Yang used the Metal Source Spirit Transformation Technique to raise his presence to Foundation Establishment Perfection and summoned enormous golden fingers against the rotting man’s spectral skeletons.
• Shockwaves from the battle spread across the secret realm, alarming nearby cultivators and sending Demon Beasts fleeing.
• Mu Yunxue recognized Lu Yang’s spiritual energy, then departed after the Crimson Cloud Sect disciples praised her for defeating several Foundation Establishment Perfection Demon Beasts.

Lu Yang defeated the rotting man, a Late Golden Core monster, and recovered an ancient Spirit Treasure and a crystal containing dense Greater Yin Sha Qi. After cleaning the corruption from the lake, he agreed to travel with Qin Nanyue and asked to see her map of the Ancient Yue Secret Realm.

• Mu Yunxue stayed away from the fight and continued searching for Metal Vein Stone.
• Lu Yang used the Mystic Metal Light-Splitting Sword and Metal Spirit Cloud-Piercing Fingers to reduce the rotting man to a mangled corpse and kill him.
• Qin Nanyue arrived, praised Lu Yang’s strength, and reminded him to retrieve the ancient sword from the ruins.
• Lu Yang found that the ancient sword was a Spirit Treasure whose spirituality had dissipated, then kissed Qin Nanyue when she pouted.
• Lu Yang drew the contaminating black Qi from the corpse and lake water, forming a crystal filled with Greater Yin Sha Qi, then tossed the cleaned water and corpse back into the lake.
• Qin Nanyue offered to show Lu Yang her map of the Ancient Yue Secret Realm, and he eagerly asked to see it.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue traveled to a danger zone in the secret realm, where Lu Yang discovered that its gray mist resonated with his Greater Yin Spirit Body and helped him cultivate and comprehend the Great Yin Dao. The chapter ended with Lu Yang studying the mist inside a protective array while Qin Nanyue guarded him.

• Qin Nanyue showed Lu Yang a map, and Lu Yang chose to explore the nearest danger zone to the northwest.
• As they traveled, Lu Yang repeatedly found treasures and opportunities, including a Supreme-Grade Law Treasure and an Earth Grade Supreme Quality Cultivation Method revealed during a battle between two Demon Beasts.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue entered the gray mist and noticed that it slowed the circulation of their Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Yang sensed that the mist resonated with his Greater Yin Spirit Body and absorbed its cool wisps, which tempered his Spiritual Qi and helped him comprehend the Great Yin Dao.
• Lu Yang activated an array disc, gave Qin Nanyue Spirit Stones to control it, and began studying the mist after brewing Dao Comprehension Tea.

Lu Yang used Dao Comprehension Tea to deepen his understanding of the Grand Yin Principle, improving his Divine Sense and concealing his charm as his cultivation surged to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. After Qin Nanyue impulsively kissed him under the influence of his enhanced charm, Lu Yang stopped cultivating and set off with her to explore deeper.

• Lu Yang distinguished pure Grand Yin Qi from corruptive Yin Sha Qi and realized he might refine a Yin Sha crystal into a beneficial Grand Yin crystal.
• As Lu Yang comprehended the Grand Yin Principle, his Divine Sense improved, he learned to conceal some of his charm, and Grand Yin Qi strengthened his cultivation.
• Qin Nanyue was captivated by Lu Yang's moonlike appearance, then caught herself before approaching him while he was cultivating.
• Lu Yang broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and Qin Nanyue worried about the consequences of his growing strength for her and the other women.
• After Lu Yang asked what she was thinking, Qin Nanyue found herself kissing him passionately, then blushed and accused him of being a lecher.
• Lu Yang said he had reached the limit of what he could gain without Great Yin Dao cultivation methods, then packed up the formation plate and continued deeper with Qin Nanyue.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue traveled through a forest filled with Yin Sha-corrupted monsters, then discovered an unusually stable, invisible spatial rift. The chapter left them investigating why the rift could remain open without being sensed.

• Lu Yang dispersed the gray mist, restoring Qin Nanyue’s Spiritual Qi, and the pair entered a vast forest.
• Seven White Bone Tiger-Leopards ambushed Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue, but Lu Yang destroyed them with golden sword light.
• Lu Yang explained that the forest’s monsters were creatures corrupted by Yin Sha Qi, and he and Qin Nanyue continued deeper through the forest for three days.
• Lu Yang noticed something unusual ahead and fired a golden sword light, which vanished into an unseen barrier.
• Lu Yang revealed a slender spatial crack with golden mist, and Qin Nanyue questioned why it was undetectable and had not closed.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue explored a region filled with stable spatial rifts and encountered two skeletal women guarding the Mystic Dark Sword Sect’s territory. After learning the sect had once suppressed the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, they watched the women succumb to Yin Sha corrosion, and one begged Lu Yang to kill her.

• Lu Yang used the Metal Dao Principle to search for spatial rifts as he and Qin Nanyue ventured farther into the secret realm.
• Two skeletal women in Mystic Dark Sword Sect robes confronted Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue and ordered them to leave.
• The women explained that the Mystic Dark Sword Sect was a holy land of the Water and Sword Daos in the Heavenly Azure Realm and had suppressed the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue connected the sect to the Water and Sword Dao ruins and the rotting man they had encountered earlier.
• Yin Sha Qi began corroding the women, and one of them struggled in pain before begging Lu Yang to kill her.

Lu Yang used the Grand Yin Principle to temporarily suppress the Yin Sha Qi consuming the two Mystic Dark Sword Masters, who revealed that the Ancient Yue Secret Realm was once the Heavenly Azure Realm, a powerful plane destroyed by Sha Ghosts from the True Void. The chapter ended with the women urgently asking whether the sealed man Lu Yang encountered was all right.

• Lu Yang absorbed some of the Yin Sha Qi from the two skeletal women, slowing its spread but admitting he could not save them.
• The women recognized Lu Yang's mastery of the Grand Yin Principle and explained that they were Integrated Body Realm cultivators of the Mystic Dark Sword Sect.
• The women revealed that the secret realm had once been the Heavenly Azure Realm, which collapsed after Sha Ghosts invaded from the True Void.
• The leading woman said the Heavenly Azure Realm had at least a hundred Integrated Body Realm cultivators, while the strongest invading Sha Ghosts had reached Mahayana before the Heavenly Dao suppressed them.
• Lu Yang asked whether the sealed man he had encountered was a Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, and the women trembled as one urgently asked if he was all right.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue learned why the two Mystic Dark Sword Sect women had been sealed and watched the senior sister end her junior sister’s suffering before dying herself. After Lu Yang buried them and received the sect’s legacy, a pillar of black light erupted ahead, signaling the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost’s emergence.

• The senior sister explained that her junior brother had sacrificed himself to help seal the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, and Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue learned he had become a mindless monster.
• As Yin Sha Qi spread through the junior sister, the senior sister killed her with Sword Qi, then warned Lu Yang to evacuate the secret realm and seal its exit.
• The senior sister entrusted Lu Yang with the Mystic Dark Sword Sect’s sect master ring and asked him to bury her beside her junior sister.
• Lu Yang killed the senior sister at her request and buried both women with Qin Nanyue’s help.
• A growing fluctuation surged ahead, and a pillar of black light erupted into the sky as Qin Nanyue wondered if the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost had appeared.

Lu Yang burned nearly eighty billion Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to reach the Integrated Body Realm and confront the unexpectedly powerful Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost. The Heavenly Ghost sensed him and mistook him for the Mystic Dark Sword Master, alarming every being in the secret realm.

• Qin Nanyue feared the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, while Lu Yang recognized that its Yin Sha Principle Domain made it far stronger than expected.
• Lu Yang used Power of Money to burn his Spirit Stones, advancing from Foundation Establishment Late Stage through Void Refinement and into the Integrated Body Realm.
• Lu Yang exhausted his Spirit Stones at the bottleneck of Early Integrated Body, then showed Qin Nanyue his transformed strength and told her his new realm.
• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost roared, asking whether the Mystic Dark Sword Master was still alive, and its voice awakened ancient beings throughout the secret realm.

Ancient figures awakened throughout the secret realm and flew toward the Mystic Dark Sword Sect, while Jiang Shiqing and Fang Jin witnessed the disturbance after Jiang found the black crystal. Mu Yunxue sensed the commotion might involve Lu Yang but avoided its source, deciding to seek opportunities or leave the realm.

• Withered figures across the secret realm awakened, recognized the Mystic Dark Sword Sect's direction, and flew there to join a final battle.
• Jiang Shiqing found the black crystal, and Fang Jin revealed she had followed her to help and get closer to Young Master Lu.
• A powerful presence passed overhead toward the Mystic Dark Sword Sect, prompting Jiang Shiqing to prepare to leave the secret realm if danger grew.
• Fang Jin noticed Jiang Shiqing's powerful talismans and improvements, grew jealous, and wondered whether she should have become Young Master Lu's maid.
• Mu Yunxue sensed the black mist near where she had felt Lu Yang's presence, but turned away to avoid danger and planned to search for opportunities or leave.

Lin Ying and the Wenren sisters searched for Perilla Flowers as mysterious black mist swept through the secret realm, while Lin Ying promised to protect them with Lu Yang’s help. Meanwhile, Lu Yang shielded Qin Nanyue and launched a golden sword strike at a black pillar of light in the Mystic Dark Sword Sect’s territory.

• Lin Ying, Wenren Ge, and Wenren Yu failed to find Perilla Flowers and worried that their mother’s evil Gu could not be cured.
• The three heard a distant roar mentioning the Mystic Dark Sword Master, then watched terrifying streams of black mist converge toward its source.
• Wenren Yu and Wenren Ge urged Lin Ying to leave the secret realm, but she stayed and assured them Lu Yang would save her if danger came.
• Wenren Ge and Wenren Yu wondered what kind of person Lin Ying’s husband was, while Lin Ying privately imagined introducing them to Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang formed a protective shield around Qin Nanyue and struck the black pillar of light with a giant golden sword.

Lu Yang’s golden greatsword destroyed the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost’s black pillar and exposed the badly wounded creature. The Heavenly Ghost recognized that the Heavenly Azure Realm had shattered, while Lu Yang saw that a void storm now opened onto the True Void.

• Lu Yang’s greatsword carved through the spatial rifts and Yin Sha domain, then shattered the black pillar of light.
• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost appeared, wounded by Lu Yang’s strike, and asked who he was.
• Lu Yang said he had come to deal with the Heavenly Ghost at the call of two seniors.
• The Heavenly Ghost realized the Heavenly Azure Realm had shattered and believed his race had succeeded.
• Lu Yang saw the world’s torn edge and realized the void storm beyond it led directly to the True Void.

Lu Yang used his Grand Yin Principle Domain to suppress the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, who burned his remaining origin to regain Integrated Body Realm strength and attempt to flee. Lu Yang stopped him with a perfected Metal Spirit Cloud-Piercing Finger, compressed to focus its overwhelming power on the ghost.

• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost scattered into black mist to escape, but Lu Yang spread his Grand Yin Principle Domain over the area and forced him back into his original form.
• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost realized Lu Yang had mastered the Grand Yin Principle at the domain level and feared its power would kill him.
• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost burned Yin Sha Qi and his origin to raise his cultivation to the Early Integrated Body realm for two breaths.
• The Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost unleashed Yin Sha Myriad Ghosts and Turbid Yin Fleeting Life, then tried to tear open space and flee.
• A vast golden finger descended, destroying the ghost's void fissure and driving him back as Lu Yang compressed the perfected Metal Spirit Cloud-Piercing Finger to a hundred zhang.