Chapter Summaries

Wang Qingshan defeated the Purple-Robed Woman and advanced through the Sword Tournament, eventually facing Hai Xinren in the fourth round. As their swords clashed, he released Sword Intent, astonishing the watching Sword Cultivators.

• Du Yunlong and the woman in the green skirt wagered on a match between Wang Qingshan and Li Rui, while Wang Qingshan defeated the Purple-Robed Woman by trapping her Flying Swords in his Cyan Flood Dragon.
• Cheng Zhenyu, Nangong Fu, Li Rui, and Hai Xinren won their second-round matches, and Wang Qingshan drew a bye in the next round.
• Cheng Zhenyu lost to a yellow-robed burly man, while Hai Xinren, Li Rui, and Nangong Fu advanced.
• Martial Uncle Liu told Wang Qingshan that he would face Li Rui, but Wang Qingshan later drew Hai Xinren as his opponent in the fourth round.
• Wang Qingshan and Hai Xinren exchanged attacks, and Wang Qingshan's Sword Intent made the nearby Flying Swords tremble.

Wang Qingshan defeated Hai Xinren by revealing Sword Qi Materialization, then Li Rui defeated Han Tianlei to claim third place in the Sword Tournament. The tournament’s remaining top rankings were left to be decided.

• Wang Qingshan overwhelmed Hai Xinren’s sword formation with Sword Qi Materialization and won their match.
• Du Yunlong announced that Li Rui could claim third place, and Han Tianlei stepped forward to challenge him.
• Han Tianlei and Li Rui both merged with their giant swords, but Li Rui’s Sword Intent shattered Han Tianlei’s sword and injured him.
• Han Tianlei conceded defeat, and Li Rui turned his fervent gaze toward Wang Qingshan.

Wang Qingshan fought Li Rui in the sword tournament and unexpectedly comprehended Sword Heart Resonance while practicing the Qing Ming Sword Sutra. The green-robed woman shielded him and moved the tournament so he could cultivate undisturbed.

• Wang Qingshan and Li Rui summoned their swords and clashed with techniques formed from hundreds of Flying Swords.
• Li Rui displayed Sword Heart Clarity and broke through Wang Qingshan’s Azure Lotus, forcing Wang Qingshan’s sword back.
• Wang Qingshan closed his eyes, connected with the Azure Glass Sword, and awakened Sword Heart Resonance as thousands of Azure Sword Qi gathered around him.
• The green-robed woman protected Wang Qingshan with an Azure Orb, while Du Yunlong ordered the spectators to leave Sword Tournament Peak and move the tournament to Red Snail Peak.
• Wang Qingshan continued cultivating the Qing Ming Sword Sutra, forming sword arrays as Li Rui and the other cultivators watched in envy.

Wang Qingshan’s Sword Tournament performance earned him a reward and an escort to the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s main altar to meet Senior Brother Ye. On Silver Serpent Island, Wang Mengbin continued his cultivation and began fighting a Sea Devouring Crab to hone his combat skills.

• Wang Qingshan’s cultivation rose to Core Formation Fifth Layer as his Azure Glass Sword and Sword Intent merged with him.
• The green-robed woman invited Wang Qingshan to the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s main altar and promised to protect his family, while Du Yunlong awarded him a Magic Treasure.
• Wang Qingshan left Red Conch Island with the green-robed woman, and a month later news of his Sword Tournament achievement spread across the South Sea.
• Wang Mengbin reached Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and went to the Martial Arts Arena after Wang Qiuhong summoned him.
• Wang Qiuxin released a second grade mid rank Sea Devouring Crab for Wang Mengbin to fight, and Wang Mengbin attacked it with lightning spells.

Wang Mengbin defeated a Sea Devouring Crab and discussed his combat approach with Wang Qiuhong and Wang Qiuxin. Later, Ye Haitang received a letter and gifts from Ye Yutong, who reported that his family had safely returned to Azure Lotus Estate.

• Wang Mengbin killed the Sea Devouring Crab with repeated strikes of Silver Lightning, destroying its Demon Core in the process.
• Wang Qiuxin criticized Wang Mengbin for risking close combat and wasting the beast’s materials, while Wang Mengbin explained that he had focused on using his strongest attack to survive.
• Wang Mengbin said he had learned the principle of giving everything in a life-or-death fight, or fleeing if he could not win, from Wang Qingshan’s teachings.
• Wang Qiuhong said Wang Tianqi had handed Intelligence Hall duties to her deputy so she could focus more on cultivation, and he expected his fourth uncle to draw down his Thunder Tribulation soon.
• Wang Tianqi brought Ye Haitang a letter, Formation Tomes, and sweets from Ye Yutong; the letter said Ye Lin’s family had safely returned to Azure Lotus Estate.
• Ye Haitang said she would visit her parents once her current work was finished, and Wang Tianqi reassured her that they were doing well.

Wang Qiuling formed a trade partnership with the Dugu Family, which hoped to use the Wang Family’s ties to Wang Qingshan to approach the Taiyi Immortal Sect. In the Eastern Wasteland, Wang Qingkai pushed to revise the family laws and release Wang Tianle, but Wang Qingshan’s return interrupted the meeting.

• Dugu Li explained the Dugu Family’s reasons for seeking cooperation and asked Wang Qiuling to invite Wang Qingshan to Divine Condor Island when he returned.
• Wang Qiuling agreed to the partnership and sent messages to Wang Tianqi and Wang Qingkai.
• Wang Qingkai convened the clan elders to discuss revising the family laws and releasing Wang Tianle from confinement.
• The elders agreed to seek approval to release Wang Tianle, and Wang Qingkai proposed signing their names together.
• Wang Qingshan arrived at the meeting after returning to the Eastern Wasteland with a Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

Wang Qingshan reviewed the Wang Family’s affairs, guided two young Sword Cultivators, and approved revised family laws before leaving the Azure Lotus Estate. He left the family with a Sword Peak for future training and entrusted its next generation to carry on its development.

• Wang Qingkai asked Wang Qingshan to review the harsh family punishments, and Wang Qingshan requested the family laws and prison records before assessing the clan’s affairs.
• Wang Qingshan told Wang Qingkai to let the three Family Head candidates learn from him and selected Wang Jitang and Wang Jiyun for guidance in the Sword Dao.
• Wang Qingshan visited Wang Changyue and Ye Lin, who showed him the Sword Peak Ye Lin had built and asked him to protect Haitang and Yutong.
• Wang Qingshan questioned Wang Jitang and Wang Jiyun about why they cultivated the Sword Dao, then guided them for five days.
• Wang Qingshan approved the revised family laws submitted by Wang Qingkai and the Clan Elders, and Wang Tianle was released.
• Wang Qingshan left the Azure Lotus Estate and flew into the distance.

Wang Qingshan became an External Affairs Elder of the Taiyi Immortal Sect after refusing to formally join, securing benefits for himself and the Wang Family. He entered Sword Peak to train, where waves of Flying Swords attacked him.

• Wang Qingshan met Zhang Zhanfeng and impressed the Taiyi Immortal Sect elders by resisting Li's Sword Intent and Flying Sword.
• Wang Qingshan refused to join the sect, but accepted Zhang Zhanfeng's offer to become an External Affairs Elder in exchange for benefits and work.
• Wang Qingshan inscribed his name in the Taiyi Jade Tome and completed the formalities with Li.
• Li brought Wang Qingshan through the restrictions to Sword Peak and warned him to use a Jade Talisman if he could not endure the Sword Intent.
• Wang Qingshan entered Sword Peak and defended himself from attacking Flying Swords with his Jade Void Swords and Azure Glass Sword.

Wang Changyue relived key memories of her life with Ye Lin as she died in meditation. Ye Lin buried himself beside her, and the Wang Family sealed off his residence after discovering their graves.

• Wang Changyue and Ye Lin promised to find each other again in the Netherworld through Red Bean Cake and haitang blossoms.
• Wang Changyue recalled her childhood, her formation training, the deaths of Wang Yaozu and Wang Yaoheng, and her marriage and family life with Ye Lin.
• Wang Changyue died peacefully, and Ye Lin placed her in a coffin, lay beside her, and buried them both using a Formation.
• Ye Yutong broke through the Formation around the courtyard and mourned at the gravestone.
• Wang Qingkai and the Clan Elders paid their respects and declared Ye Lin's residence forbidden; the chapter noted that few members of the Wang Family's Chang and Qing Generations remained.

Ye Haitang trained Wang Tianmi in formations before setting out with Wang Tianqi and a group of Wang Family cultivators to investigate an Ancient Cultivator Abode in the Blood Coral Sea Region. After preparing several escape routes, they reached the uninhabited island where the abode was said to be.

• Ye Haitang broke through Wang Tianmi’s formation and criticized his placement of the Formation Eye and his choice of arrays.
• Wang Qiuhong summoned Ye Haitang after Wang Tianqi reported that the Wang Family had found an Ancient Cultivator Abode they could not break into.
• Ye Haitang refused to send Wang Tianmi in her place and traveled toward the Blood Coral Sea Region with thirty cultivators, including seven Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Ye Haitang set up Small Teleportation Arrays and a simplified Third Order Formation on two Desolate Islands, then discussed an escape plan with her companions.
• Ye Haitang led the group to the uninhabited island after a year of travel and another half month at their destination.

Ye Haitang and Wang Tianqi broke through a layered illusion formation to recover two dead clansmen and discover the cave abode of Heartless Immortal. Among the spoils, Ye Haitang found an Earth-Rank technique that could counter the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex, but its mastery would strip away her emotions.

• Wang Tianqi led Ye Haitang and the clansmen to a mist-shrouded valley where two clansmen had been trapped.
• Ye Haitang noticed the Azure Bamboo concealed Array Beads, destroyed them, and led the Foundation Establishment Cultivators in breaking the inner formation.
• Wang Tianqi recovered the two clansmen's corpses, and the group blasted through a hidden stone wall into a cave.
• The group found Heartless Immortal's remains and divided his treasures, including Spirit Stones, Magic Treasures, Demon Cores, and insect eggs.
• Ye Haitang discovered the Supreme Emotion Severing Art and realized it could counter the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex, but feared its effect on her temperament.
• After searching the cavern, Ye Haitang led the clansmen away with their spoils.

Wang Qingling survived the Core Formation Tribulation and became a Core Formation Cultivator, while Wang Qiuhong learned that Wang Qingqi and another clan member were still in seclusion. At the Cloud Sea Sect, two elders revealed that a Wang Family member had defected and that Daoist Lu had agreed to help them after recovering from injuries.

• Wang Qiuhong urged Wang Tianbei to keep practicing Foundation Establishment Pill refinement, but Wang Tianbei said he needed Wang Qingqi's guidance in person.
• A Core Formation Tribulation began, and Wang Qiuhong flew to Hundred Spirits Valley after discovering that Wang Qingling had attracted it.
• Wang Qingling endured the lightning strikes and entered the Core Formation Stage with her Spirit Beasts cheering her on.
• Wang Qingling told Wang Qiuhong she had succeeded and ordered him to hold her Core Formation Ceremony in a year, inviting Spirit Controllers, especially those from the Zhang Family.
• At the Cloud Sea Sect, a middle-aged beauty and Senior Brother Song discussed how a Wang Family member had defected to them and how Daoist Lu would help once his injuries healed.

Two sinister cultivators searched the Wang Family for a suspected traitor, then slaughtered its members in the Eastern Wasteland and at Peach Mountain. Months later, Wang Qiuming returned to Azure Lotus Estate seeking Spirit Stones to rent the Haotian Mirror and attempt Core Formation.

• A black-robed elder used soul-searching on Wang Qingkai but found no one named Ye Lin, and he and the Black Skirt Matron searched the Wang Family’s Scripture Pavilion for the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex.
• After the invaders were discovered, the Black Skirt Matron and the elder unleashed Jiangshi and Ghosts on Azure Lotus Estate, where Wang Qingzhi and Ye Yutong were killed while trying to escape.
• The invaders wiped out the Wang Family at Peach Mountain, and news of attacks on multiple cultivation forces spread panic across the Eastern Wasteland.
• Wang Qiuming arrived at Azure Lotus Estate after reaching the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment and sought Spirit Stones to rent the Haotian Mirror from the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

The Wang Family suffered coordinated attacks on Azure Lotus Estate, Peach Mountain, and Sea Cucumber Island, leaving Ye Haitang grieving Ye Yutong and vowing revenge. She ordered the surviving clan members to hide and planned to warn Wang Changsheng, while Wang Qingshan continued his trial on Sword Peak.

• Wang Qiuming found Azure Lotus Estate destroyed and sent clan members to seek help and investigate.
• Wang Qingqing returned from Chen Yilong's birthday celebration to find Sea Cucumber Island devastated and led survivors to Azure Turtle Market.
• Wang Qingshan faced the Sword Qi on Sword Peak and shattered a powerful attack with his Azure Greatsword.
• Ye Haitang buried Ye Yutong beside Ye Lin and Wang Changyue, then swore to avenge him.
• Wang Tianheng told Ye Haitang that the clan's holdings at Peach Mountain had also been attacked, and she ordered the survivors to disperse and hide.
• Ye Haitang left Azure Lotus Estate with Wang Family cultivators, intending to warn Wang Changsheng and investigate the Nine Serenities Sect.

After the Wang Family’s three strongholds were attacked and more than nine hundred clansmen were killed, Wang Qingling ordered the family to scatter and prepare for war rather than alert Wang Changsheng. Ye Haitang then stole the original Supreme Emotion Severing Art, suspecting the Nine Serenities Sect had carried out the attacks and intending to avenge Ye Yutong.

• At Wang Qingling’s Core Formation banquet, Li Zhongping wondered which cultivation technique his son Tianyou should learn.
• After the feast, Wang Qingling learned that Azure Lotus Estate, Peach Mountain, and Sea Cucumber Island had been destroyed, with more than nine hundred clansmen killed and nearly ten million in assets lost.
• Wang Qingling ordered the clan to prepare for war, send some members to other sea regions, and move Eastern Wasteland clansmen to the South Sea while keeping Wang Changsheng undisturbed.
• Wang Qiuhong proposed settling some clansmen under a small sect, and Wang Qingling approved while warning him to conceal their movements.
• Ye Haitang suspected the Nine Serenities Sect had attacked the Wang Family’s strongholds and stole the original Supreme Emotion Severing Art from the Scripture Pavilion to avenge Ye Yutong.

Taiyi Immortal Sect investigated the forces behind the attacks on the Wang Family and other groups, while Wang Youshan led survivors of Azure Lotus Estate to hide in Yu Kingdom as the Ye Family. The chapter ended with a blue-robed youth presenting a Profound Water Token at the Profound Water Sect’s mountain gate.

• Zhang Zhanfeng concluded that the attacker likely had a Nascent Soul Cultivator and came from outside the Eastern Wasteland, then ordered support for Wang Qiuming and Wang Qiuhong at the Wang Family’s expense.
• Zhang Zhanfeng suspected the Nine Serenities Sect might have destroyed the Wang Family’s forces but also considered the Demon Race.
• Wang Youshan told the survivors of Azure Lotus Estate to settle in Yu Kingdom under the Ye Family name, blend in, and prepare to reclaim their ancestral land.
• Wang Youshan ordered Meng Guang to train two clansmen in Artifact Refining Art and forbade them from openly using Puppet Arts.
• A blue-robed youth arrived at the Profound Water Sect and showed its patrol disciples a Profound Water Token.

After Azure Lotus Estate was annihilated, Wang Qingling’s orders sent the surviving Wang Family members to scatter and build strength in other factions and regions. The chapter followed several clansmen as they joined the Profound Water Palace and the Skywind Commerce Alliance, while Wang Tianwen led a branch toward the Central Plains, all resolved to rebuild Qinglian and take revenge.

• Wang Rongmiao used his Profound Water Token to join the Profound Water Palace after passing Chen Zhiyong’s Mirror of Truth, and he settled on Azure Lotus Peak to remember Azure Lotus Estate and his family’s destruction.
• Wang Mengyang persuaded Wu Feng to take him into the Skywind Commerce Alliance, where he began work as a shop assistant.
• Wang Tianwen gathered mourning Wang Family cultivators in Azure Moon Market and led them toward the Central Plains Cultivation World to establish a branch.
• Wang Tianwen told his clansmen to keep the Wang surname but change their given and generation names, and the scattered survivors across the Eastern Wasteland began building branches and seeking revenge.

Wang Youshan led the Wang Family in Yu Kingdom’s Violet Maple Mountains, while Wang descendants held positions across the cultivation world. The account listed those branches and looked ahead to rebuilding Qinglian.

• Wang Youshan headed the Wang Family in the Violet Maple Mountains, which had two Foundation Establishment Cultivators and more than fifty Qi Refining Cultivators.
• Wang Rongmiao served in the Profound Water Palace, and Wang Mengyang was with the Skywind Commerce Alliance.
• Wang Tianwen was in the Central Plains Cultivation World, while Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan were on Silver Serpent Island in the South Sea.
• The narrator recalled Wang Family descendants being spread across sects, lineages, the Merchant Alliance, and dynasties, supported with resources and talent.
• The narrator imagined the spectacle of rebuilding Qinglian in the future.

After learning that the Wang Family had been destroyed, Wang Mingren worried that a Nascent Soul Cultivator might target him and asked the sect to contact Wang Changsheng. He then joined two Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators to investigate a Third Order Fire Crow and encountered Huang Fugui alongside a Core Formation cultivator from Three Flames Palace.

• Wang Mingren learned that the Wang Family’s estates had been destroyed and feared that the unknown Nascent Soul Cultivator responsible might come after him.
• Wang Mingren asked two Taixu Sect disciples to contact Wang Changsheng and find out whether he knew who had attacked the family.
• Wang Mingren joined Senior Apprentice Brother Xu and a green-skirted Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivator to hunt a Third Order Fire Crow in an abandoned mine.
• The three Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators entered the mine and encountered a badly injured Third Order Fire Crow pursued by a White Giant Net.
• Huang Fugui and a white-robed Three Flames Palace cultivator arrived, and Huang Fugui greeted the Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators deferentially.

Song Xiruo and Huang Fugui left the mine after Wang Mingren and his companions found no other Rank 3 Fire Crows. In Golden Swallow Market, Wang Tianwen established a shop for his displaced clansmen and urged them to endure and prepare to return to the Eastern Wasteland.

• Song Xiruo collected the Fire Crow and left the cave, with Huang Fugui following her after bidding farewell to Wang Mingren and the others.
• Wang Mingren and his companions searched the mine for another day, found no Rank 3 Fire Crows, and returned by flying treasure.
• Wang Tianwen established the Spirit Puppet Hall in Golden Swallow Market so his fifteen clansmen could earn Spirit Stones by making and selling Puppet Beasts.
• Wang Tianwen planned to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill for Wang Qi, formerly Wang Mengqi, and encouraged the clansmen not to forget their blood feud.
• Wang Tianwen told Wang Qi that the family would continue sending funds and people, then left after reminding everyone to run the shop and avoid trouble.