Chapter Summaries

Lu Yi attended the lightning tribulation of Elder Ming, who broke through to the Void Realm and cleaved apart the heavenly thunder. Inspired by Elder Ming’s sword, Lu Yi entered enlightenment and began manifesting an even more powerful sword intent.

• Lu Yi agreed to attend the Three Sects Exchange Meeting, then sparred with Bai Yulong and the others for rewards before returning to cultivation.
• Lu Yi raised the Undying Sword Scripture to lv9 and advanced to Foundation Establishment Thirteenth Layer, one step from the Golden Core Realm.
• Lu Yi and the White Cloud Sect cultivators sensed Elder Ming preparing to break through to the Void Realm, and they gathered outside the sect to watch his lightning tribulation.
• Elder Ming drew his sword and split the heavenly lightning, then struck the thunderclouds and cleaved them apart as he broke through to the Void Realm.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to observe Elder Ming’s tribulation, gained insight from his sword, and used his reserved chance at enlightenment as his sword intent surged.
• The cultivators watched Lu Yi’s golden sword intent grow stronger even as Elder Ming’s silver sword intent faded after the tribulation.

Lu Yi created the Calamity Sword Style after gaining insight from Elder Ming’s tribulation, while Elder Ming broke through to the Void Realm and pledged to guard Lu Yi once he left the sect. A month later, Lu Yi traveled with the White Cloud Sect’s delegation to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect for the Three Sects Exchange Meeting, where Yun Xi invited him to visit the Purple Luo Flower Sea.

• Lu Yi finished comprehending a sword technique during Elder Ming’s tribulation, and his insight helped Elder Ming break through to the Void Realm.
• Elder Ming revealed that Lu Yi had helped him with over a thousand drops of Hundred Year Spirit Marrow and promised to guard Lu Yi’s path for a thousand years once he left the sect.
• Lu Yi claimed his rewards, raised his sword intent to seventy-five percent and Thunder Intent to seventy percent, and named his new sword art the Calamity Sword Style.
• Lu Yi traveled with the White Cloud Sect delegation to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, where Flower Sect Master welcomed the group and praised Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang.
• Yun Xi reunited with Lu Yi and invited him to the Purple Luo Flower Sea, while Donggong Mingyue insisted on joining them.

Lu Yi visited the Purple Luo Flower Sea with Yun Xi, then spent the Three Sects Exchange Meeting earning rewards and cultivating. A year and a half later, he broke through to the Golden Core Realm using Grand Dao Spirit Pearls, triggering a lightning tribulation as he flew away from Drifting Soul Peak to face it.

• Lu Yi accepted a mission to visit the Purple Luo Flower Sea with Yun Xi, and Liu Ningshuang joined them.
• Yun Xi told Lu Yi and the others how the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect Founder created the flower sea in memory of her beloved, and Lu Yi recited a verse that surprised the women.
• Lu Yi absorbed the Azure Wood Creation Art reward, then spent the month-long Three Sects Exchange Meeting sparring with cultivators and collecting over two thousand drops of Hundred Year Spirit Marrow.
• A year and a half later, Lu Yi brought his Undying Sword Scripture's Foundation Establishment chapter to its ultimate level and reached the limit of the Foundation Establishment Thirteenth Layer.
• Lu Yi consumed Grand Dao Spirit Pearls, broke through to the Golden Core Realm, and condensed a unique Glass Golden Core formed from the Grand Dao.
• A lightning tribulation gathered over Drifting Soul Peak, so Lu Yi flew away from the sect while the Drifting Soul Peak Master, Liu Ningshuang, and Donggong Mingyue followed him.

Lu Yi underwent his Golden Core tribulation as the White Cloud Sect’s cultivators watched, and his clouds stretched across twelve li. He absorbed the lightning while gaining enlightenment and perfecting his body-tempering technique, then completed his breakthrough.

• Elder Ming and Wu Qingfeng’s group guarded Lu Yi as the cultivators gathered to watch his tribulation.
• Lu Yi’s tribulation clouds expanded to twelve li, shocking the elders, who feared for his safety until the Drifting Soul Peak Master assured them he had an Array Disc.
• Lu Yi stood within the first bolt of heavenly lightning without defending himself, and Elder Ming confirmed that his aura remained steady.
• Lu Yi absorbed the lightning and used his enlightenment to refine his Heavenly Thunder True Dragon Art and body-tempering technique, astonishing the onlookers and his parents, Lu Gaoyang and Wang Siqi.
• Lu Yi endured two more bolts of lightning, completed his breakthrough into the Golden Core Realm, and smiled at the thought of his quest reward.

After breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, Lu Yi claimed powerful rewards and cultivated for a year, reaching the third Golden Core layer while his Sword Intent neared perfection. As war spread across Azure Province, Jian Ruyu visited the White Cloud Sect and challenged him to a sword Dao spar, which was about to begin.

• Lu Yi welcomed his master, Liu Ningshuang, Donggong Mingyue, and the elders after his breakthrough, then claimed the Hanli Sword, Crimson Flame Purple Copper Furnace, Enlightenment Tea Leaves, and a spell-level reward.
• Lu Yi studied the Golden Core chapter of the Undying Sword Scripture and spent the next year cultivating, advancing to the third Golden Core layer and raising his Sword Intent to ninety-nine percent.
• Lu Yi heard that the three sects’ attack had been intercepted by the Blood Spirit Sect, Heavenly Serpent Sect, Yellow Mountain Sect, and Nether Luo Sect, drawing Azure Province into a wider war.
• Liu Ningshuang brought Jian Ruyu, the young villa mistress of Sword Inquiry Villa, to meet Lu Yi, and Jian Ruyu asked to spar with him in sword Dao.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to spar with Jian Ruyu, whose Transformation Realm Sword Intent drew Wu Qingfeng, Jian Jingtian, Elder Ming, and others to watch.

Lu Yi defeated Jian Ruyu in a contest of sword intent, and Jian Jingtian proposed an alliance between the Divine Sword Sect and the White Cloud Sect. Jian Ruyu invited Lu Yi to the Divine Sword Sect's Sword Dao Assembly in three years, and Lu Yi accepted the invitation and began studying the sword intent in her token.

• Jian Ruyu attacked Lu Yi with powerful white-jade sword intent, but his golden sword curtain endured her strikes and won their duel.
• Jian Jingtian proposed that the Divine Sword Sect and White Cloud Sect form an alliance, and Wu Qingfeng gladly agreed to discuss it.
• Lu Yi hosted Jian Ruyu and Liu Ningshuang with spirit food and wine, and both women discovered that his Golden Silk Spirit Dew Noodles could improve comprehension.
• Jian Ruyu gave Lu Yi a Sword Dao Token containing the Old Sect Leader's sword intent and invited him to the Sword Dao Assembly in three years; Lu Yi accepted the mission to attend.
• After Jian Ruyu and Liu Ningshuang left, Lu Yi claimed his reward for sparring with Jian Ruyu and used Enlightenment Tea to study the token's sword intent.

Lu Yi perfected his sword intent, improved his other intents, and departed with Liu Ningshuang and Elder Ming for the Sword Dao Assembly. On the way through war-torn lands, Lu Yi aided refugees with his Nature Intent, but the group was confronted by a terrifying presence in Heavenly Serpent Sect territory.

• Lu Yi comprehended the Sword Dao Token’s majestic sword intent and perfected his sword intent, though he still could not see the path to a Sword Dao Domain.
• Jian Ruyu, Yun Xi, and Han Yu visited White Cloud Sect as Sword Inquiry Villa and the other sects discussed joining forces; Lu Yi sparred with Yun Xi and Han Yu and strengthened his Nature and Ice Intents.
• Three years later, Lu Yi reached the Golden Core Eighth Layer and set out for Divine Sword Sect’s Sword Dao Assembly with Liu Ningshuang and Elder Ming.
• Passing through war-stricken Mohe Kingdom, Lu Yi used Nature Intent to grow a peach forest for starving refugees, surprising Elder Ming and Liu Ningshuang.
• After entering Heavenly Serpent Sect territory, Lu Yi and his companions stopped to eat, whereupon an unknown cultivator’s terrifying aura engulfed the mountains.

Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang were ambushed by Shadow and a large force of cultivators, but Elder Ming bought them time to escape. When a Spirit Transformation pursuer caught up, Lu Yi accepted a mission to kill the pursuers, gave Liu Ningshuang the Hanli Sword, and prepared to fight alongside her.

• Shadow led a force of cultivators to ambush Lu Yi, and Elder Ming stayed behind to fight Shadow and the three Spirit Transformation cultivators while Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang fled.
• Liu Ningshuang defeated two Nascent Soul pursuers and carried Lu Yi away, but a Spirit Transformation cultivator broke through the battle and began catching up to them.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to kill the pursuers and gave Liu Ningshuang his High-Grade Treasure Item, the Hanli Sword.
• Liu Ningshuang agreed to fight alongside Lu Yi, then clashed with Blood Jade as thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators approached.
• Lu Yi drew the Profound Yang Sword and prepared to face the thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators while Liu Ningshuang held off Blood Jade.

Lu Yi faced thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators who had come to hunt him and killed them all, demonstrating strength far beyond his Golden Core Realm. He then joined Liu Ningshuang against Blood Jade, who realized Lu Yi was far more dangerous than he had believed and vowed to kill him himself.

• Lu Yi refused to flee and killed Lin Yi with a single strike, alarming the surrounding Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The cultivators attacked Lu Yi together, but he used Sword Essence Escape to kill several of them and destroyed the old woman's imitation Heavenly Net.
• Lu Yi caught Elder Yuan's Heartless Sword barehanded and shattered it, then killed the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, including three at the peak of the realm.
• Lu Yi saw Liu Ningshuang struggling against Blood Jade and joined the fight, using the Seven Profound Swordplay to batter Blood Jade's blood mist.
• Lu Yi told Liu Ningshuang and Blood Jade that all thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators were dead, prompting Blood Jade to vow to erase him himself.

Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang fought Blood Jade, a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and killed him after Lu Yi used the Blood Burning Art to overwhelm his attacks. They survived the battle, though Lu Yi’s secret technique consumed much of his Thousand Year Blood Ginseng, and Liu Ningshuang predicted his name would shake the Eastern Region.

• Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang combined their defenses and attacks against Blood Jade, but his power and Purple Cauldron threatened to pull them into the treasure.
• Lu Yi activated the Blood Burning Art using a Thousand Year Blood Ginseng, then knocked back the Purple Cauldron while Liu Ningshuang attacked Blood Jade with the Ice God Seal.
• Lu Yi repeatedly struck the Purple Cauldron until he shattered it, injuring Blood Jade through their spiritual connection and giving Liu Ningshuang a chance to suppress him.
• Blood Jade escaped the Ice God Seal, but Lu Yi caught up with him, destroyed his magic treasures, and blasted apart his body.
• Lu Yi bound Blood Jade’s Nascent Soul and crushed it despite Blood Jade’s threat of conflict between the Blood Spirit Sect and the White Cloud Sect.
• Liu Ningshuang checked that Lu Yi was unharmed, and she said his victory over a Spirit Transformation cultivator would make his name known across the Eastern Region.

Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang escaped the Heavenly Serpent Sect’s territory, learned that Elder Ming had protected them and that they were wanted in Bright Moon Valley, then met Elder Ming in Sky Deer City. They traveled with him to King Prefecture for the Sword Dao Assembly, where Lu Yi accepted a quest to win its sword duels and earn a Supreme-Grade Treasure Tool.

• Lu Yi stored his rewards, including the Soul Stabilizing Pearl, and he and Liu Ningshuang used the Transformation Art to disguise themselves while traveling through Bright Moon Valley.
• In a tavern, Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang heard that Nanluo Ming had survived and that their enemies’ Spirit Transformation cultivator and thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators had been killed; they later found wanted notices for themselves in Bright Moon Valley.
• Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang reached Sky Deer City, where Elder Ming arrived and met them outside the city before leading them onward.
• Elder Ming praised Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang for defeating the cultivators, and the three traveled to King Prefecture for the Divine Sword Sect’s Sword Dao Assembly.
• After hearing that the Divine Sword Sect’s Old Sect Leader might explain the Sword Dao and that winners could study the Divine Sword Monument, Lu Yi accepted a quest to win the sword duels.
• Lu Yi, Liu Ningshuang, and Elder Ming approached the Divine Sword Sect and saw its enormous stone sword and floating immortal mountains.

Lu Yi arrived at the Divine Sword Sect for the Sword Dao Assembly and saw renowned sword cultivators gather from across Dawn Realm. When the Sword Dao Stage opened, its overwhelming sword intent admitted only a few hundred cultivators, and Lu Yi, Jian Ruyu, and Elder Ming prepared to enter.

• Lu Yi, Liu Ningshuang, and Elder Ming traveled toward the Divine Sword Sect, passing Bai Shaoming and the Supreme Emperor Sword Sect’s carriage carrying Feng Buming and other sword geniuses.
• Jian Ruyu met Lu Yi and his companions at the sect’s plaza and brought them to Ruyu Palace, where Lu Yi cultivated and sparred with her while awaiting the assembly.
• The Divine Sword Sect’s sect master Xing Jiuzheng opened the Sword Dao Stage, and its sword intent repelled Sheng Yizhi and other cultivators who could not withstand it.
• Feng Buming and five other Supreme Emperor Sword Sect cultivators entered the stage, followed by Bai Shaoming and other powerful sword cultivators.
• Jian Ruyu invited Lu Yi and Elder Ming to enter the Sword Dao Stage, while Liu Ningshuang remained outside because she was not a sword cultivator.

Lu Yi entered the Divine Sword Sect’s Sword Dao Stage and revealed Sword Intent powerful enough to defeat Lin Yu and Feng Buming in duels. He continued deeper than Jian Ruyu, Elder Ming, and numerous Void Realm cultivators, and stood ready to advance farther alongside three peerless Void Realm Sword Cultivators.

• Lu Yi entered the Sword Dao Stage without triggering its Sword Intent, astonishing the cultivators and prompting Xing Jiuzheng and the elders to recognize him as a Sword Immortal seedling.
• Lin Yu challenged Lu Yi to a Sword Intent duel, but Lu Yi shattered his attack with a single streak of golden sword light.
• Feng Buming challenged Lu Yi next, but Lu Yi’s Indestructible Sword Curtain withstood Feng Buming’s Sword Rain, and Lu Yi’s counterstrike broke through Feng Buming’s shield.
• Jian Ruyu revealed that she had lost to Lu Yi years earlier, and Lu Yi continued toward the Sword Dao Stage’s core with her and Old Ming.
• Jian Ruyu, Old Ming, Wang Qifeng, Feng Buming, and many Void Realm cultivators stopped under the growing Sword Intent pressure, while Lu Yi continued onward.
• Three Void Realm Sword Cultivators invited Lu Yi to proceed deeper with them, and Lu Yi agreed.

Lu Yi reached the center of the Sword Dao Stage and touched its bronze longsword, drawing out its perfected sword intent and gaining insight into the Sword Dao Domain. As he began attempting to form a domain, Divine Sword Sect elders discussed his talent and the Undying Sword Scripture he cultivated.

• Lu Yi pressed deeper into the Sword Dao Stage after three Void Realm Sword Cultivators stopped to temper their sword intent, astonishing them with his near-perfect sword intent.
• Lu Yi reached the center, accepted a mission to touch the bronze longsword, and triggered a pillar of terrifying sword intent that stunned cultivators across the stage.
• Xing Jiuzheng and other Great Ascension cultivators recognized Lu Yi’s perfected sword intent and learned he was Fairy Lingluo’s disciple from the White Cloud Sect.
• Lu Yi comprehended the bronze sword’s perfected sword intent and began attempting to merge with heaven and earth to condense a Sword Dao Domain.
• The Great Ascension cultivators recognized Lu Yi’s Undying Sword Intent and discussed persuading him to join the Divine Sword Sect, while marveling at his rare affinity with the Dao.

Lu Yi explained the Sword Dao to cultivators at the Sword Dao Stage, then attended the Old Sect Leader of Divine Sword Sect’s lecture at Sword Peak. During the lecture, Lu Yi used a Sword Dao Enlightenment and successfully condensed his Sword Dao Domain.

• Lu Yi gave up using his Sword Dao Enlightenment on the bronze longsword and discussed the Sword Dao with Tang Linyun, Yun Shuqi, and Yao Yuner.
• Lu Yi explained the Sword Dao to Jian Ruyu, Elder Ming, Feng Buming, Wang Qifeng, and hundreds of other cultivators, improving his comprehension and earning Sword Intent Pills and Sword Intent Grass.
• After the Sword Dao Stage closed, Xing Jiuzheng announced that the Old Sect Leader of Divine Sword Sect would explain the Sword Dao at Sword Peak.
• Lu Yi accepted a task to listen to the Old Sect Leader, then traveled to Sword Peak with Liu Ningshuang, Jian Ruyu, and Old Ming.
• As the Old Sect Leader explained the Sword Dao, Lu Yi used his Sword Dao Enlightenment and condensed his Sword Dao Domain into form.

After entering enlightenment during the Divine Sword Sect’s sermon, Lu Yi condensed a ten-meter Sword Dao Domain and earned permission to study the Divine Sword Monument. At the monument, he accepted a mission that promised to enhance his domain and grant him the lost Undying Sword Token, which could help him find the complete Undying Sword Scripture.

• Lu Yi expanded his Sword Dao Domain to ten meters during the Old Sect Leader’s sermon, and the surrounding cultivators benefited from the Dao Essence around him.
• The Old Sect Leader praised Lu Yi, then arranged for Lu Yi, Jian Ruyu, Feng Buming, and Wang Qifeng to comprehend the Divine Sword Monument.
• Lu Yi returned to Ruyu Palace, claimed rewards including the Nine Slashes of Heavenly Sword, a Sword Heart Fruit, the Clarity Heart Sword, and a hundred drops of Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Marrow, and absorbed the fruit’s Sword Dao runes.
• The next morning, Lu Yi and Jian Ruyu joined Feng Buming and Wang Qifeng and traveled with two elders to the Divine Sword Monument at the stone sword’s hilt.
• Lu Yi began studying the monument’s profound sword scars and accepted a mission offering a Sword Dao Domain enhancement and the Undying Sword Token.

Lu Yi comprehended fragments of the Divine Sword Monument’s Law-level Sword Dao, greatly expanded his Sword Dao Domain, and refused the Divine Sword Sect elders’ offers to take him as a disciple. After returning to Ruyu Palace and claiming his rewards, he attended a banquet in Divine Sword City, where Lin Yu began to reveal news from the Northern Region Demon Soil.

• Lu Yi used his last enlightenment opportunity to comprehend the Divine Sword Monument, expanding his Sword Dao Domain beyond one hundred meters as nearby cultivators gathered to benefit from his Dao Essence.
• The Divine Sword Sect elders urged Lu Yi to join their sect, but he refused out of loyalty to the White Cloud Sect; he later invited Wang Qifeng and Feng Buming to visit him.
• Lu Yi returned to Ruyu Palace with Jian Ruyu, told Liu Ningshuang about his enlightenment, and examined the Undying Sword Token, which responded to his Undying Sword Qi.
• Lu Yi claimed a Sword Heart Fruit and the Void Refinement Sword Art, Netherworld Spring, then learned the technique and planned to investigate the Undying Sword Sect’s location.
• Lu Yi attended a banquet at Bright Moon Pavilion with Liu Ningshuang, Jian Ruyu, and Elder Ming, where Lin Yu announced that something major had happened in the Northern Region Demon Soil.

Lu Yi returned to the White Cloud Sect after the Sword Dao Assembly, and news of his Sword Dao Domain shifted Azure Province’s alliances in the White Cloud Sect’s favor. As Lu Yi settled in to cultivate, he mourned Li Yun’s death and learned Jiang Fan, Bai Yulong, and Tie Man planned to venture out; an unexpected visitor arrived at the end.

• At the Divine Sword Sect, Lu Yi heard that Qingqiu Hua had emerged as a demon prodigy and declined Wang Qifeng’s invitation to join the Divine Sword Sect.
• Lu Yi, Liu Ningshuang, and Elder Ming returned to Azure Province, where they learned that Lu Yi’s Sword Dao Domain had drawn sects and independent cultivators toward the White Cloud Sect’s alliance.
• After the three secretly crossed hostile territories, Wu Qingfeng and the Grand Elders welcomed Lu Yi back to the White Cloud Sect, and Donggong Mingyue visited him at Drifting Soul Peak.
• Lu Yi received visits from fellow disciples and learned from Jiang Fan, Bai Yulong, and Tie Man that Li Yun had died in battle and that they planned to seek experience outside the sect.
• A few days later, someone Lu Yi had not expected arrived at the White Cloud Sect.

The Heavenly Dragon Saint arrived at White Cloud Sect to challenge Lu Yi and demand justice for Heavenly Serpent Sect, but Lu Yi accepted the fight after his master promised to protect him. Lu Yi decisively defeated the Saint, leaving the allied Spirit Transformation cultivators wondering where the Saint’s powerful protector was.

• The Heavenly Dragon Saint and elders from the Blood Spirit Sect alliance confronted White Cloud Sect, demanding that Lu Yi fight and claiming Heavenly Serpent Sect was a branch of Heavenly Dragon Holy Land.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master told Lu Yi he could defeat the Heavenly Dragon Saint without risking the sect, and Lu Yi accepted a mission offering True Dragon Essence Blood as a reward.
• Lu Yi stepped forward to fight the Heavenly Dragon Saint, and the Saint attacked him with dragon aura and his Heavenly Dragon Transformation.
• Lu Yi’s Sword Dao Domain blocked the Saint’s attacks and suppressed him with powerful sword strikes.
• Lu Yi shattered the Saint’s Heavenly Dragon Claw and struck him into a crater, leaving him gravely injured.
• The allied cultivators realized the Saint’s powerful protector had not appeared to save him.

Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang joined White Cloud Sect’s elders in battle against the Blood Spirit Sect allied forces and killed Huang Bai, a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator. Their victory strengthened White Cloud Sect’s alliance, and the five opposing sects later sealed their mountains for a thousand years.

• Lu Yi spared the defeated Heavenly Dragon Saint, whose protector carried him away, while Wu Qingfeng and the other White Cloud Sect cultivators confronted Blood Kill and his allies.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to kill hostile Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators and joined Liu Ningshuang in fighting alongside White Cloud Sect’s elders.
• Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang coordinated their attacks to defeat Huang Bai of Yellow Mountain Sect, with Lu Yi killing him using his Calamity Sword Style.
• White Cloud Sect’s remaining elders defeated the other Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators of the Blood Spirit Sect allied forces.
• News of Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang’s victory prompted Black Jade Peak and Demon Lin Valley to join White Cloud Sect’s alliance, expanding it to eight sects.
• Blood Spirit Sect, Heavenly Serpent Sect, Yellow Mountain Sect, Nether Luo Sect, and Bright Moon Valley recalled their disciples, activated their protective formations, and announced a thousand-year mountain closure.