Chapter Summaries

Su Qian received the jade pendant from the Shadow Sect operative and destroyed it after ordering him to keep watching Shen Qingyan. At the Immortal Sect Assembly, Jiang Yuebai rebuked Qi Liner for insulting Shushan, and Penglai's Yang Shenlong challenged her to settle the conflict in the Contest of a Hundred Sects.

• The Shadow Sect operative gave Su Qian Shen Qingyan's jade pendant, and Su Qian rewarded him while ordering him to continue monitoring her.
• Su Qian crushed the jade pendant after the operative left and appeared relieved.
• Chu Liang greeted the late-arriving Heavenly Gang Sect disciples, who admitted they had all remembered the wrong date.
• Qi Liner repeatedly proposed that Jiang Yuebai marry him and insulted Shushan, so Jiang Yuebai knocked him to the ground with a finger.
• Yang Shenlong apologized for Qi Liner's behavior and suggested settling their conflict in the Contest of a Hundred Sects.
• Jiang Yuebai calmly accepted Yang Shenlong's challenge, saying they would wait and see.

Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai’s factions nearly clashed with Penglai’s allies before Ji Zidian broke up the standoff and questioned Chu Liang about the Sword-Forging Sect case. The Immortal Sects Assembly opening ceremony then began, ending with the Sword Emperor of the Western Sea and the Sword Saint of the Nine Provinces starting their duel.

• Yun Chaoxian, Ren Hongdao, Li Fojian, and other sect disciples took sides as the confrontation between Shushan and Penglai grew, until Ji Zidian ordered everyone to stop and settle disputes in the contest.
• Ji Zidian privately asked Chu Liang whether he had handled the Sword-Forging Sect case, and Chu Liang denied involvement while Ji Zidian warned him to be more careful.
• Chu Liang told Jiang Yuebai that Ji Zidian had questioned him, joking that he would never betray Shushan’s chief disciple.
• The Yu Dynasty Emperor opened the ceremony and announced a duel between the Sword Emperor of the Western Sea and the Sword Saint of the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Erniu and Li Laoba faced each other, and three cannon blasts marked the beginning of their battle.

The Western Sea Sword Emperor challenged Old Li Eight to a sword debate, but conceded after their brief clash showed Old Li Eight’s superiority. As the Hundred Sects Contest approached, Shushan’s friends and family arrived in Yu Capital, and Wen Yulong told Chu Liang that his flying vessel modification was complete.

• The Western Sea Sword Emperor drew Chengying and attacked Old Li Eight, who borrowed Li Eleven’s Peach Mountain Spirit Sword to meet him.
• Old Li Eight severed the Sword Emperor’s Heaven-Propping Sword and collected its remaining force, demonstrating that he could defeat the attack without being harmed.
• The Western Sea Sword Emperor conceded, and the Imperial Regent explained that Old Li Eight had improved as much as his opponent since their previous duel.
• The Imperial Regent announced that the Hundred Sects Contest would begin at noon three days later beneath Emperor's Hill.
• Wen Yulong arrived with Shushan’s friends and family delegation and told Chu Liang that he had completed the flying vessel modification.

Chu Liang and Wen Yulong tested the refitted flying boat, the Lianglong, which had powerful weapons and a dangerous escape mechanism. Its crash landed them in the back mountain of Giant Whale Manor, where it buried Dong Futu beneath the vessel and left him furious.

• Chu Liang saw Wen Yulong’s gaudily painted flying boat and learned its Spirit-Illusion Hundred Flowers Lacquer could change color to blend into its surroundings.
• Wen Yulong named the refitted vessel the Lianglong and demonstrated its modified soul-suppressing statues, flames, lightning, and high-speed settings.
• Chu Liang forcibly stopped the flying boat, triggering its failsafe: it sealed them inside and accelerated away at extreme speed.
• The Lianglong crashed into the back mountain of Giant Whale Manor, where Chu Liang and Wen Yulong encountered Xu Hongqiu.
• Dong Futu lifted the Lianglong from the ground after it had buried him, then threatened Chu Liang and Wen Yulong.

Chu Liang and Wen Yulong turned their accidental crash into a chance for Wen Yulong to learn from Dong Futu. As the second round of the Immortal Sect Assembly began, Shushan's team chose where to enter the Mirror Heaven Eight Trigrams' virtual realm.

• Chu Liang introduced Wen Yulong's formation work to Dong Futu, who praised his talent and offered to teach him during the assembly.
• Chu Liang promised to fund Wen Yulong's visits and gifts to Dong Futu, then joked that he would deduct the cost from Wen Yulong's pay.
• The second round's rules were explained: teams would fight in a virtual realm for up to seven days, collecting soul crystals to qualify for the top ten.
• The Nine Mysteries Immortal opened the Mirror Heaven Eight Trigrams and revealed a map of Mistwave City and its surrounding terrain.
• Chu Liang, Xu Ziyang, Ling Ao, and Jiang Yuebai discussed where Shushan should descend, settling on a mountain peak as golden light began to summon the teams.

Lin Bei placed an enormous bet on Shushan to reach the top ten, while Chu Liang’s team began the Hundred Sects Tournament by scouting their chosen mountain. Chu Liang single-handedly eliminated Wandering Deity Temple’s four disciples and told Jiang Yue Bai that he needed no support.

• Lin Bei wagered all his money on Shushan at Azure Dragon House, startling the manager with the size of his bet.
• Chu Liang scouted ahead while Jiang Yue Bai and the other Shushan disciples followed at a distance.
• Chu Liang encountered four disciples from Wandering Deity Temple, who prepared to attack him together.
• Chu Liang used his strength and Divine Dragon Fire to defeat the four Daoists, then killed the last two with another punch and Shrinking the Earth into an Inch.
• Chu Liang collected four violet crystals and told Jiang Yue Bai through the Heart-Linked Jade that he had already dealt with the enemies.

Penglai quickly dominated Mistwave City while Mistconceal Immortal Mountain hid at sea and played mahjong. As the contest unfolded, the imperial court remained on alert for a possible West Sea Demonic Sect attack, and Elder Sun spotted something unexpected.

• Yang Shenlong sent Qi Liner and Xi Miaoxian to defeat two teams in Mistwave City, while Yang Yuhu used spirit insects to locate the other teams.
• Yang Shenlong ordered the Penglai disciples to split up and hunt down the teams hiding in the city.
• Li Guanlong fell asleep while scouting the sea, then told the Mistconceal Immortal Mountain team to wait two or three days before hunting soul crystals.
• Li Guanlong brought out mahjong tiles, and the Mistconceal Immortal Mountain disciples began playing aboard their boat.
• The imperial court strengthened security at Emperor Hill because it feared an attack by the West Sea Demonic Sect, while Elder Huang and Elder Sun debated Penglai's and Shushan's prospects.
• Elder Sun suddenly noticed something and turned his gaze toward it.

Chu Liang was lured into a valley and surrounded by disciples from the Divine Movement Sect, Five Poisons Sect, and Mountain Shifting Sect, but he defeated them with his powers and an External Incarnation. On the viewing platform, Elder Sun and Elder Huang recognized a resemblance to a terrifying Shushan fighter from sixty years earlier.

• Chu Liang pursued a black-clad Divine Movement Sect disciple into a valley and killed him with one sword strike, where eleven allied disciples surrounded him.
• The Mountain Shifting Sect disciples attacked Chu Liang while the Divine Movement Sect slowed him and the Five Poisons Sect poisoned him through the rain.
• Chu Liang dispelled the poison by striking himself with his whip, then summoned an External Incarnation and attacked the three sects’ disciples.
• Chu Liang defeated the Mountain Shifting Sect and Five Poisons Sect disciples, then killed the last fleeing Divine Movement Sect disciple with his Flying Leaf Swift Blade.
• Elder Sun and Elder Huang watched Chu Liang’s victory and remarked that his fighting style recalled a terrifying Shushan figure from sixty years earlier.

Empress Feng shared a hot pot meal with her father, Mingde, and explained her plan to contend for the Scorching Firmament Great Dao to help Yan Zi. Meanwhile, Chu Liang’s team reviewed their gains in the Immortal Sect Assembly before Pushan approached them at night.

• Empress Feng cooked hot pot in the Divine Fire Hall with Mingde, who offered to catch a Green Swan if she returned to the imperial city.
• Empress Feng said she planned to contend for the Scorching Firmament Great Dao, reach the eighth realm, and kill the Western Sea Sword Emperor so Yan Zi could obtain the Cloud-Cleaving Great Dao.
• Mingde said Empress Feng was better suited to be a guardian than an emperor, and she left to watch her disciple compete.
• Chu Liang and his teammates counted their soul crystals and planned to eliminate one team each day to secure a place in the top ten.
• Xu Ziyang spotted an approaching figure, and the Shushan team recognized Pushan, who called out for them not to attack.

Chu Liang recruited Monk Pushan to ally with Shushan against the Earthfire Sect and its partners, while Huyan Bin offered Penglai a costly alliance in exchange for eliminating Shushan. Yang Shenlong accepted Huyan Bin’s price but faced his condition to target Chu Liang’s sect.

• Monk Pushan told Chu Liang that the Earthfire Sect had joined forces with the Puppet Sect and Kuimu Sect to hunt soul crystals, while the Five Poisons Sect had allied with the Divine Movement Sect and Mountain Shifting School.
• Chu Liang proposed that Shushan and Cloud Tower Temple ambush the three allied sects, and Pushan agreed to ask Pucheng, Puyou, and Pujing to join.
• Huyan Bin met Yang Shenlong in Mistwave City and offered to buy soul crystals through an alliance between Gluttony City and Penglai Supreme Sect.
• Yang Shenlong demanded five thousand Vermilion Bird Coins per soul crystal, and Huyan Bin agreed on the condition that Penglai eliminate the Shushan Sect.

Thunder Fortress’s disciples searched for Shushan, hoping to eliminate them and improve their sect’s standing, when Penglai’s Qi Liner ambushed and killed Huang Linger. Du Wuhen stopped his brothers from pursuing Qi Liner into Smoke Wave City, choosing to prioritize their mission against Shushan.

• Du Wuhen and the Thunder Fortress disciples discussed searching for Shushan and explained that eliminating them could help Thunder Fortress rise into the Nine Heavens.
• Huang Linger agreed to help her senior brothers target Shushan, but Qi Liner burst from the ground and killed her in an ambush.
• Du Wuhen, Wei Tiandi, and Deng Yixiao attacked Qi Liner, who wounded the Violet Lightning Divine Turtle before escaping underground.
• The Thunder Fortress disciples chased Qi Liner to the outskirts of Smoke Wave City, where Du Wuhen stopped them from entering Penglai territory.
• Wei Tiandi agreed to postpone avenging Huang Linger and focus on Shushan first.

Penglai’s disciples continued hunting teams in and around Misty Wave City, while Empress Feng arrived at the viewing stands and asked after Shushan. Elsewhere, a Sea Dragon Gang cultivator transformed into a mysterious middle-aged man, and Chu Liang agreed to follow a linen-robed youth back to his group after their attempts to lure each other into ambushes failed.

• Xi Miaoxian, Yang Yuhu, and Qi Lin'er hunted passing teams after Penglai secured enough soul crystals to enter the top ten, while the Thunder Fort brothers avoided pursuing the child who had escaped them into Misty Wave City.
• Empress Feng pummeled Elder Huang after overhearing him criticize her adopted child, then asked Elder Sun whether Shushan was doing well.
• A Sea Dragon Gang cultivator covered himself in black dragon scales, transformed into a middle-aged man, and murmured, “Mirror Heaven Bagua.”
• Chu Liang encountered a linen-robed youth carrying a wooden case, and their attacks and feigned retreats revealed that both had been trying to lure an opponent back to their own groups.
• Chu Liang agreed to follow the youth back to his senior brothers, reasoning that the destination might offer a chance to collect soul crystals.

Su Qian watched Chu Liang’s progress as the Thunder Fortress brothers pursued him and stumbled into an ambush set by the Earthfire, Puppet, and Kuimu sects. Chu Liang defeated a Puppet Sect disciple on his way to the valley, where a fierce battle had broken out.

• Su Qian praised Chu Liang’s talent while officials around him changed their tune to match the Chancellor’s opinion.
• Du Wuhen followed the Azurewind Mysterious Bird’s lead and brought his brothers into a valley, where the Earthfire, Puppet, and Kuimu sects ambushed them.
• Ling Yan ordered the three Thunder Fortress brothers attacked, and fighting erupted in the valley.
• Chu Liang encountered a Puppet Sect disciple outside the valley and joked with him before the disciple tried to attack.
• Chu Liang’s punch struck the disciple’s puppet, but Divine Dragon Fire destroyed both the puppet and its owner, and Chu Liang collected the soul crystal.

The three Thunder Fort brothers defeated the Earthfire, Puppet, and Kuiwood Sects, but the Earthfire Giant’s self-destruction left them badly injured. Chu Liang offered them time to recover before fighting, then revealed he had waited for Shushan disciples and Cloud Tower Temple monks to arrive.

• The Thunder Fort brothers split the ambush into three battles, with Du Wuhen facing the Earthfire Sect, Deng Yixiao fighting the Puppet Sect, and Wei Tiandi pursuing the Kuiwood Sect.
• Deng Yixiao and Wei Tiandi defeated their opponents and joined Du Wuhen against the Earthfire Sect.
• Ling Xiao made the Earthfire Giant self-destruct, and Wei Tiandi and Deng Yixiao contained part of the blast with their spirit beasts, leaving the brothers badly injured.
• Chu Liang appeared and gave the Thunder Fort brothers one incense stick's time to recover before their contest.
• After the brothers stood ready to fight, they saw that Chu Liang had been joined by Shushan disciples and four young monks from Cloud Tower Temple.

Chu Liang’s team ambushed the wounded Thunderfort brothers after Earthfire Sect was defeated, securing a large haul of soul crystals while Du Wuhen escaped. Shushan and Cloud Tower Temple shared the spoils, and Pushan was assigned to scout next despite trying to avoid it.

• Imperial Hill spectators condemned Chu Liang for waiting until Thunderfort was weakened before bringing in reinforcements, while Empress Feng praised his plan.
• Wei Tiandi and Deng Yixiao sacrificed themselves to hold back Shushan and Cloud Tower Temple so Du Wuhen could escape on the Azurewind Mystic Bird.
• Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai counted their soul crystals and agreed to share half with Cloud Tower Temple.
• Jiang Yuebai urged Chu Liang to let Pushan scout, and Chu Liang agreed.
• Pushan tried to bring Chu Liang along, but Chu Liang claimed he was injured, and Pujing also feigned an old wound.

Du Wuhen allied with Yang Shenlong to target the Shushan Sect, while Sect Master Yuan arrived at Black Whale Mountain and unleashed an ancient baleful power. The chapter ended as the entire illusory realm felt that power sweep across heaven and earth.

• Du Wuhen entered Misty Wave City and fought Qi Liner before Yang Shenlong called the younger man off.
• Du Wuhen asked Yang Shenlong to help eliminate the Shushan Sect, offering Thunder Fort's allegiance and twelve soul crystals.
• Yang Shenlong agreed to ally with Du Wuhen, saying he had already promised someone else he would eliminate Shushan.
• Sect Master Yuan reached Black Whale Mountain and killed four young men with a blast of black light.
• Sect Master Yuan pressed his palm to the mountain, causing black light to spread and Black Whale Mountain to shake.
• A baleful flame from primordial antiquity swept across the illusory realm.

Xue Lingxue, Shen Qingyan, Yu Xiang'er, and Tiechui defeated four opponents in the Mirror Heaven Bagua, while Immortal Jiuyi warned his disciples that someone had infiltrated the virtual realm. The Mistconceal Immortal Mountain disciples turned toward a huge black mass rising near the shore.

• Xue Lingxue's music lured four men into the purple bamboo grove, where Tiechui's Kui Ox Drum and the women's attacks killed them and yielded soul crystals.
• Xue Lingxue and Shen Qingyan joked about Shen Qingyan's arranged meeting with the Second Prince as the women returned to the grove.
• Immortal Jiuyi ignored audience demands to keep the light screen on Southern Sound Workshop and secretly contacted his disciples, warning that an unseen intruder might be in the virtual realm.
• Immortal Jiuyi ordered the Mistconceal Immortal Mountain disciples to investigate, and Li Guanlong led them to prepare to search.
• Zhuge Guanxing pointed out a huge black mass slowly rising along the distant shore.

Chu Liang and Pusan disguised themselves as demonic sect members and met Yi Qiushui, who revealed Evil Dragon Mountain’s plan to seize the Mirror Heaven Bagua from the Void Realm. Their investigation was interrupted when Black Whale Mountain rose into the sky, revealing a gigantic Black Demon Whale that had apparently come back to life.

• Chu Liang and Pusan pursued a scout, learned that Chu Liang’s reputation made other teams flee, and disguised themselves in breath-concealing black robes.
• They encountered Yi Qiushui, who recognized Chu Liang as her senior and complained that he had not visited her master.
• Yi Qiushui revealed that Yuan Luxian had gathered Western Sea demonic sects to infiltrate the Mirror Heaven Bagua through the Void Realm and reclaim control of it for Evil Dragon Mountain.
• Yi Qiushui explained that the Mirror Heaven Bagua had formed when Mist-Hidden Immortal Mountain’s bagua disk fused with Evil Dragon Mountain’s Heaven Demon Mirror.
• A tremendous roar sounded as Black Whale Mountain rose from the coast, shed its earth and trees, and revealed the enormous body of a Black Demon Whale.

Immortal Yuanlu attempted to awaken the Heavenly Demon Mirror artifact spirit inside the black demon whale, while Immortal Jiuyi rallied the immortal sect disciples to stop him. Chu Liang infiltrated Yuanlu’s demonic force using a false identity, but after Yuanlu entered the whale, Chu Liang and Pusan faced the challenge of reaching him.

• Immortal Jiuyi identified Immortal Yuanlu’s plan and told Mist Veil Immortal Mountain’s disciples to harass him while he awakened the artifact spirit.
• Immortal Yuanlu blasted Song Guanchao apart, then leapt into the black demon whale to begin his ritual; Immortal Jiuyi called on all disciples in the virtual realm for help.
• Chu Liang, Pusan, and Demon Lady Yi approached Yuanlu, and Chu Liang posed as an envoy from the Violet Gold Marquis.
• A red-haired demonic cultivator recognized Chu Liang as the killer of his second boss and accused him of being a righteous cultivator, but Chu Liang convinced Yuanlu to trust his claim with the Marquis’s golden token.
• Immortal Yuanlu killed the red-haired cultivator, ordered the remaining demons to guard the area, and disappeared into the whale; Chu Liang said they had to stop him, while Pusan questioned how they could manage it.

Chu Liang rammed the black demon whale with the self-destructing Lianglong, gravely injuring Yuan Luxian and easing Immortal Jiuyi’s struggle to break free. Meanwhile, Yang Shenlong confronted the Shushan and Cloud Tower Temple teams, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Chu Liang launched the Lianglong into the black demon whale and triggered its self-destruction, blasting a hole through the beast and sending him flying.
• The black demon whale fell, and Yuan Luxian was left gravely injured and unable to awaken the artifact spirit again.
• Immortal Jiuyi began breaking through the barrier with less pressure and addressed the Battle of a Hundred Sects participants.
• Yang Shenlong confronted Jiang Yuebai, Xu Ziyang, Ling Ao, and the Cloud Tower Temple monks, saying his target was Shushan.
• Pucheng refused to abandon Shushan, and the Cloud Tower Temple monks joined the Shushan team in facing Yang Shenlong.
• Yang Shenlong stepped forward, and wind and thunder surged as the confrontation began.