Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xun'er woke naked in the wilderness after Ye Han saved her, then stole clothes from a village and fled its pursuers. Ye Han discovered that the Liu Erlong beside him was an illusion, killed the Cannibal Tribe attackers, and found a concealed arrow.

• Xiao Xun'er woke in the devastated wilderness, realized she had no clothes, and hurried away after finding no one nearby.
• Xiao Xun'er fashioned a covering from bark and leaves, then stole a coarse linen garment from a village and fled after its guards discovered her.
• Ye Han returned to Liu Erlong with firewood and noticed that her strange silence meant something was wrong.
• Ye Han dodged an attack, struck one Cannibal Tribe barbarian into the forest, and killed the other two with swords formed from the powers of the moon and sun.
• Ye Han killed the first barbarian with his swords, watched the illusion of Liu Erlong fade, and found a concealed arrow.

Ye Han followed Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s arrows and found her tracking a Cannibal Tribe encampment where captives, including Liu Erlong, faced horrific fates. Just as he prepared to rescue Liu Erlong, Xiao Xun’er and a group hunting the tribe arrived, and the Cannibal Tribe prepared to fight.

• Ye Han realized the arrows marked Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s trail, reflected on his carelessness, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Ye Han followed the arrows to Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, who told him the Cannibal Tribe had captured many people and killed some of the men for food.
• Liu Erlong, bound among the captives, feared the fate awaiting her as two Cannibal Tribe members approached.
• Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stopped Ye Han from intervening when Xiao Xun’er and a group of hunters appeared nearby.
• Xiao Xun’er joined the group searching for the Cannibal Tribe, and both sides spotted each other as the Cannibal Tribe prepared to attack.

A human force of three Battle Kings and ten Battle Spirit experts clashed with the Cannibal Tribe and was caught off guard by its powerful Undead Warriors. The humans killed several Cannibal Tribe members, but suffered heavy casualties and left the battle badly wounded.

• The Cannibal Tribe discovered the human force and summoned Undead Warriors with its combined attack formations.
• Two human Battle Kings struggled to defend against the fearless Undead Warriors and suffered injuries in their first exchange.
• Desperate Saburo destroyed an Undead Warrior, but its counterattack shattered his armor and left him severely wounded.
• The Undead Warriors overwhelmed the human Battle Spirit experts, killing one and severely injuring several others.
• The humans killed at least five Cannibal Tribe members, but their assault went far worse than they had expected.

The human experts’ assault on the Cannibal Tribe faltered as the tribe’s undead fighters overwhelmed them, leaving Xiao Xun’er surrounded and near death. Ye Han watched from a distant mountain, delayed his intervention, and the chapter ended as Xiao Xun’er tried to take her own life rather than be captured.

• The Cannibal Tribe resumed its assault, and the growing human casualties turned the battle against Xiao Xun’er and the other experts.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger urged Ye Han to save Xiao Xun’er, while he dismissed concern for her and joked about making a dramatic entrance.
• Ye Han stored the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in his spatial ring and watched as the trapped humans fought desperately against the Cannibal Tribe.
• Desperate Saburo died, the two surviving Dou Wang experts remained pinned down, and Xiao Xun’er exhausted herself fighting.
• Xiao Xun’er thought of her loved ones and Ye Han, then raised her hand to end her life before the Cannibal Tribe could capture her.

Ye Han arrived just as Xiao Xun'er was about to take her own life and used his Crimson Longsword to destroy the demon head and slaughter the Cannibal Tribe’s undead. He flew off with Xiao Xun'er to search for the tribe’s hidden leader, then decided to wipe them all out when she could not keep up with his speed.

• A song announced Ye Han’s arrival, and his Crimson Longsword pierced the demon head trapping the human powerhouses.
• Ye Han used a torrent of sword qi to destroy more than a dozen undead, giving the humans hope and saving Xiao Xun'er from suicide.
• Ye Han greeted Xiao Xun'er and asked her to help locate the Cannibal Tribe’s hidden leader as six demon god phantoms surrounded them.
• Ye Han carried Xiao Xun'er away on his flying sword and left a nine-sword formation to protect the human powerhouses.
• Xiao Xun'er said Ye Han was flying too fast for her to search, so he decided to wipe out the Cannibal Tribe instead.

Ye Han unleashed his sword techniques to devastate the Cannibal Tribe and protect Xiao Xun'er. After Xiao Xun'er pointed out the tribe's leader, Ye Han killed him and worried that he might share Cao Boss’s taste for other men’s women.

• Ye Han sprayed wine onto the Crimson Longsword, igniting it and burning away Xiao Xun'er's clothes, so he quickly dressed her and told her to hold on.
• Ye Han used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to send a fire dragon crashing into the Cannibal Tribe, killing dozens and destroying their Undead Warriors.
• The surviving Cannibal Tribe members panicked and fled, and Ye Han used Sword Control Technique to cut them down with flying swords.
• Xiao Xun'er spotted the Cannibal Tribe's leader and pointed him out to Ye Han.
• Ye Han controlled his swords to pierce the Cannibal Tribe's leader, then questioned whether he was attracted to other men's women like Cao Boss.

Ye Han rescued Liu Erlong, Xiao Xun'er, and the other captives from the Cannibal Tribe, then prepared to leave with Liu Erlong. A surviving Dou King explained that several nations had issued a bounty to exterminate the tribe and invited Ye Han to claim the reward in Cangyun Kingdom.

• Ye Han defeated the Cannibal Tribe and saved its captives, though some women who had been violated chose to die.
• Ye Han removed his mask to reassure Liu Erlong, embraced her, and prepared to take her away.
• Xiao Xun'er asked to travel with Ye Han and Liu Erlong for safety, and Liu Erlong urged Ye Han to bring her along.
• Ye Han teased Liu Erlong and warned the other survivors not to approach unless they were beautiful women.
• A surviving Dou King told Ye Han that Cangyun Kingdom and other nations had issued a bounty against the Cannibal Tribe and invited him to claim it.

Ye Han left the Cangyun Kingdom with Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er after gathering the ingredients needed to restore Liu Erlong, while hiding his name and past. Xiao Xun'er began to suspect Ye Han was someone she knew, and the two women left the city unaware that more than ten people were following them.

• Ye Han collected the medicinal ingredients needed to restore Liu Erlong and departed with Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er.
• Ye Han teased Xiao Xun'er and embraced Liu Erlong, whose discomfort at his attention to the younger woman suggested she had begun to accept him as her husband.
• Ye Han ordered Xiao Xun'er to follow Liu Erlong, and Xiao Xun'er wondered whether his familiar voice and manner meant he was Ye Han.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Liu Erlong for her husband's name and said he had saved her twice the previous day, but Liu Erlong refused to share his name and warned her to stay away from him.
• Xiao Xun'er suspected Liu Erlong was jealous and decided to observe the man until they reached Jiangnan Academy.
• Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er left the city gates in silence as more than ten people followed them.

Ye Han offered to part ways with Liu Erlong and let Xiao Xun'er ride with him to the Black-Corner Region, but he killed a group of men who threatened Liu Erlong. He then insisted they owed each other nothing, while Liu Erlong challenged his claim that he had the right to free her.

• Ye Han stopped his carriage for Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er, then told Liu Erlong they should part ways and invited Xiao Xun'er to ride with him to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Xun'er boarded the carriage, and Liu Erlong grabbed Ye Han's arm and pleaded to come along.
• A peak Dou Spirit approached Liu Erlong with lewd intentions, so Ye Han killed him and several other men with the Crimson Longsword.
• Ye Han told Liu Erlong that he had dealt with her attackers and that they no longer owed each other anything.
• Liu Erlong accused Ye Han of defiling her and leaving her unable to face her husband, while Ye Han argued that saving her life meant she belonged to him under his village's rules.

Liu Erlong insisted that Ye Han take responsibility for her and agreed to act as his wife while secretly planning revenge. After three days of travel, the carriage entered the Black-Domain Plains, where a black storm caught Xiao Xun'er by surprise.

• Liu Erlong declared that Ye Han had taken her innocence and must protect her as his wife, and Ye Han persuaded her to call him husband.
• Ye Han kissed Liu Erlong twice, then struck Xiao Xun'er with his sword when she pretended to retch at them.
• Ye Han put Xiao Xun'er in charge of driving the carriage while Liu Erlong rode inside.
• Three days later, the carriage reached the Black-Domain Plains, and the travelers continued toward the Black-Corner Region.
• A black storm swept across the plains and caught Xiao Xun'er off guard.

Ye Han tried to protect Xiao Xun'er and Liu Erlong from a devastating Black Storm by burying them underground and reinforcing the surrounding soil with Ultimate Ice. As the storm caught up and the space became cramped, Liu Erlong began to suffocate.

• A Black Storm surrounded Ye Han's carriage, and he raised an ice barrier to shield the group.
• Ye Han asked Xiao Xun'er and Liu Erlong for their last wishes, and Xiao Xun'er said she wanted to kill a man surnamed Ye.
• Ye Han carried Liu Erlong out of the carriage, then pulled Xiao Xun'er close and led both women into a pit he had dug.
• The Black Storm shattered the ice barrier and stripped away layers of earth as Ye Han reinforced the underground shelter with Ultimate Ice.
• The shelter grew cramped, pinning Liu Erlong behind Ye Han and leaving her suffocating.

Ye Han kept Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er alive through the Black Storm by sharing air between them, then rushed them away when another storm appeared. As the approaching storm came into view, Xiao Xun'er instinctively sought safety beside Ye Han while Liu Erlong still doubted his warning.

• Ye Han lifted Xiao Xun'er so she could pass air to Liu Erlong inside the ice prison as the Black Storm battered it.
• After half an hour, Ye Han began supplying Xiao Xun'er with air, and she passed it on to Liu Erlong until the storm ended.
• Ye Han prolonged a kiss with Xiao Xun'er before Liu Erlong kicked him, and the women recovered and thanked each other.
• Ye Han sensed another Black Storm, grabbed both women, and ran; Liu Erlong later broke free, believing he was pretending.
• When the Black Storm appeared in the distance, Xiao Xun'er quietly moved beside Ye Han and clung to his arm.

Ye Han, Xiao Xun'er, and Liu Erlong faced a massive Black Bandit Army on the Black Great Plains, and Ye Han used teasing kisses to calm the women before taking them into the air. He left them hovering above the army on his flying sword, openly taunting the pursuers.

• Xiao Xun'er and Liu Erlong panicked when they saw the Black Bandit Army approaching, but Ye Han said they had already been spotted and could not run.
• Ye Han teased Liu Erlong until she asked him to carry her, then kissed her and took her into his arms.
• Ye Han demanded a kiss as fare from Xiao Xun'er, who kissed him just as the army drew near.
• Ye Han summoned the Crimson Longsword, carried both women into the air, and circled above the Black Bandit Army to provoke them.

Ye Han provoked the Black Bandits and killed or wounded several Dou Kings while protecting Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er. A Flight Restriction Array forced them to the ground, where Ye Han faced the surrounding army and summoned golden beans to fight.

• Ye Han flew over the Black Bandits, taunted them, and killed two Dou Kings with a Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ye Han used a bluff about the bandits being surrounded to confuse them, then struck two more Dou Kings and severely wounded them.
• A Flight Restriction Array caused Ye Han, Liu Erlong, Xiao Xun'er, and two bandits to fall from the sky, and Ye Han landed safely with the women.
• Ye Han stood before the encircling army and warned them to surrender, while Liu Erlong wondered what gave him confidence and Xiao Xun'er felt protected.
• When the Black Bandits ordered their troops to kill Ye Han, he summoned countless golden beans and announced he would use Scattering Beans into Soldiers.

Ye Han used tens of thousands of Golden Giants to annihilate the Dark Army, then offered its surviving Dou Huang commanders a chance to surrender. When his sword strike revealed that he was only at the Dou Wang realm, the commanders regained their confidence and prepared to fight him.

• Ye Han summoned tens of thousands of Golden Giants with Scattering Beans into Soldiers and ordered them to attack the Dark Army.
• The Golden Giants routed the Dark Army in a single charge, leaving Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er horrified by the slaughter.
• Several surviving Dou Huang commanders called Ye Han a demon, and he offered to spare them if they surrendered.
• Ye Han counted to three, then slashed at one commander, who survived and revealed that Ye Han was at the Dou Wang realm.
• The Dou Huang commanders grew confident that they could defeat Ye Han together, and Ye Han prepared to fight them.

Ye Han defeated the remaining Dark Army commanders, forced two Dou Emperor experts to reveal what they knew about the Black-Corner Region, and took over Black-Ink City’s auction house. Two days after destroying the Eight Gates, he had established himself in the region, where a cautious young man arrived at the auction house to appraise a treasure.

• Ye Han used the Golden-Armored Giants’ formation to crush two Dou Emperor experts, then spared two others who surrendered and questioned them about the Black-Corner Region.
• The surviving experts described the region’s powerful figures and factions, then led Ye Han and his group into the Black-Corner Region with their remaining twenty to thirty thousand subordinates.
• Two days later, Ye Han destroyed the Eight Gates of Black-Ink City and took over its industries, including the auction house.
• The auction house held its annual grand auction as scheduled under Ye Han’s ownership, guarded by Golden-Armored Giants and elite men.
• A hooded young man entered the auction house, went to the treasure appraisal area, and was asked by a maid whether he wanted a treasure appraised or valued for auction.

The Black Robed Man submitted Green Spirit Pills for appraisal at the auction house, unaware that the appraiser intended to use them to approach Ye Han. Ye Han received the pills and appointed the appraiser Chief Appraiser, while casually dismissing the pills as trash.

• The Black Robed Man suppressed his hostility toward the seductive maid and followed her to a private appraisal room.
• He submitted three Two-Pattern Green Spirit Pills and one Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, whose starting price was set at seven hundred thousand gold coins.
• The auction house appraiser assigned the Black Robed Man a second-class VIP seat after valuing his pills at nearly two million gold coins.
• The appraiser secretly carried the pills through a hidden passage and presented them to Ye Han as a gift for the new Sect Leader.
• Ye Han appointed the appraiser Chief Appraiser and returned the pills, saying they were trash and that he could have better ones made.

Ye Han took Xiao Xun'er and Liu Erlong to inspect their auction house in a grand procession, then spotted Yu Xiaogang and teased Liu Erlong about him. As Yu Xiaogang followed the palanquin, Liu Erlong kissed Ye Han to stop him from confronting the man.

• Ye Han offered Xiao Xun'er a better pill and denied having any ulterior motive.
• Ye Han and Liu Erlong set out for their auction house in a palanquin surrounded by Golden-Armored Giants and their followers, with Xiao Xun'er accompanying them.
• Ye Han noticed Yu Xiaogang in the crowd and joked that he was jealous because he was a single dog.
• Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang and panicked that Ye Han might confront him, while Yu Xiaogang sensed her gaze and followed the palanquin.
• Liu Erlong grabbed Ye Han and kissed him when he tried to get out and meet Yu Xiaogang.

Ye Han brought Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er to the auction house after Liu Erlong accepted that her relationship with Yu Xiaogang was over. The crowd learned that Ye Han's mysterious Guang Han Palace had taken control of Black-Ink City, raising fears of renewed turmoil.

• Xiao Xun'er interrupted Ye Han as he took advantage of Liu Erlong, and Ye Han reassured Liu Erlong that he would wait until she could cultivate before touching her further.
• Yu Xiaogang saw the intimate scene but convinced himself that the woman could not be Liu Erlong, while Liu Erlong said goodbye to him in her heart and let go of their past.
• Ye Han noticed Liu Erlong seemed more beautiful and vibrant, and she dismissed his praise as sweet talk.
• Xiao Xun'er announced they had reached the auction house, and Ye Han led Liu Erlong inside.
• The people outside the auction house discussed how Guang Han Palace had recently erased Eight Gates and taken control of Black-Ink City.

Ye Han spent time with Liu Erlong and Xiao Xun'er in a VIP suite before the auction began, teasing them and promising Liu Erlong pills to resume cultivation. The auction started with both women staying beside him, while Ye Han considered bringing Ya Fei to work at the auction house.

• Ye Han fed Liu Erlong fruit and promised to prepare pills for her if she pleased him.
• Liu Erlong massaged Ye Han, then unexpectedly kissed his masked head before he massaged her until she fell asleep.
• Ye Han teased Xiao Xun'er when she blushed, and she tried to leave the suite.
• Ye Han stopped Xiao Xun'er, asked her to stay for the auction, and offered to buy anything she wanted.
• A bell rang, and the white-haired auctioneer appeared on the platform as Ye Han watched the auction begin.