Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou used azure fire and the river to counter Luo Qingtian’s attacks, then struck Luo’s divine sense with black fire and trapped him beneath a towering ice formation. Luo rejected his disciples’ alarm and declared that the ice could not hold him.

• Luo Qingtian detonated his overheated protective aura to blast away Yue Qianchou’s flying swords, while Yue landed on the river and refused to fight in the air.
• Luo Qingtian struck the river with his Daluo Mountain Splitting Palm, and Yue Qianchou escaped underwater using the Water Art.
• Yue Qianchou attacked Luo Qingtian’s searching divine sense with black fire, causing Luo to stagger and sink partly into the river.
• Yue Qianchou raised a huge water dragon around Luo Qingtian and froze it along with a wide stretch of the river.
• Luo Qingtian’s disciples rushed toward the ice, but he ordered them back and insisted the ice could not trap him.

Yue Qianchou fought Luo Qingtian across the frozen river, escaping his sword attacks and unveiling a spectacular Water Art before using Azure Fire flying swords to strike. Luo Qingtian survived the fire but was badly scorched, while Yue Qianchou plunged into the river to escape.

• Luo Qingtian broke free of Yue Qianchou’s ice dragon, then summoned his sword and cut the dragon apart with Sword Qi.
• Yue Qianchou dodged Luo Qingtian’s sword net and conjured a vast lake above the river, turning its water into a tornado of ice spikes.
• Yue Qianchou used the ice spikes as a smokescreen and charged Luo Qingtian with a cone of Azure Fire flying swords.
• The Azure Fire swords exploded into a sea of flames, burning Luo Qingtian’s clothes and hair, but he escaped into the air.
• Yue Qianchou withdrew the flames and plunged into the river as Luo Qingtian raged at him.

Yue Qianchou fled Luo Qingtian beneath the frozen river, but Luo exposed him by lifting the riverbed ice and attacked him. Yue escaped the shattered ice with two black fire great sabers, which cut through Luo Qingtian’s Sword Qi and broke his treasured sword, leaving the onlookers coveting the weapons.

• Yue Qianchou tried to escape underwater, but Luo Qingtian spotted him through the clear water and slashed across the river.
• Luo Qingtian lifted a vast sheet of riverbed ice to the surface, trapping Yue Qianchou inside and then cleaving the ice in two with his sword phantom.
• Yue Qianchou burst from the gap between the ice sheets wielding two enormous black fire great sabers and attacked Luo Qingtian.
• Yue Qianchou’s sabers sliced through Luo Qingtian’s Sword Qi and chopped his treasured sword into three pieces.
• The onlookers recognized the sabers as possibly being spirit treasures and stared at them with desire.

Yue Qianchou fought Luo Qingtian with his twin black sabers, then used the saber’s hidden power to punish Luo when he tried to claim it. Luo’s arm was being consumed by the saber’s Killing Intent as the gathered spectators watched.

• Yue Qianchou relentlessly attacked Luo Qingtian with his twin sabers, forcing Luo to retreat after he recognized their chilling, disorienting power.
• Luo Qingtian used the Daluo Mountain Splitting Palm, but Yue Qianchou threw one saber at him, and Luo caught it, claiming it for the Daluo Sect.
• After the hundred-move limit passed, Yue Qianchou demanded that Luo return the saber, but Luo refused and threatened to take his other one too.
• Yue Qianchou ordered Luo to put down the saber, causing black fire to flare from its hilt and forcing Luo to drop it in agony.
• The spectators saw that the saber’s Killing Intent had stripped the flesh from Luo Qingtian’s hand and was spreading up his arm.

Yue Qianchou revealed that Luo Qingtian’s wound came from the blade’s Killing Intent, then announced a Blade Drawing Tournament on Hat Island after onlookers hesitated to claim it. The chapter left the cultivators anticipating the contest, which would begin in three days and charge each participant ten million high-grade Spirit Stones per attempt.

• Yue Qianchou explained that Luo Qingtian’s wound was caused by the blade’s Killing Intent, not poison, and that no medicine could cure it.
• Luo Qingtian tore off his injured arm to survive, declared his and Daluo Sect’s grievances with Yue Qianchou settled, and left with his disciples.
• Yue Qianchou invited the crowd to take the blade, but no one dared try; he also refused Ziyi when she asked to draw it.
• Yue Qianchou pulled the blade free and asked Wu Sihai to estimate its auction price, revealing that it came from the Eastern Pole Sacred Land.
• Yue Qianchou announced a Blade Drawing Tournament on Hat Island in three days, requiring each attempt to cost ten million high-grade Spirit Stones and last no longer than a quarter-hour.

Yue Qianchou negotiated the Blade Drawing Tournament’s rules while demonstrating the broadsword’s power to the crowd. Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao backed the original rules, and Yue Qianchou left with the treasure still in his possession.

• Yue Qianchou moved the crowd ashore and promised to honor the ten-million-high-grade-Spirit-Stone prize if anyone drew the blade within a quarter-hour.
• Yue Qianchou displayed the broadsword, and more than a dozen people hurt themselves by probing it with their divine sense.
• Yue Qianchou proposed limiting each person to one attempt and each sect or Lineage to one contestant, prompting the crowd to look to Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao.
• Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao supported the original rules, allowing each person to try under the stated conditions.
• Yue Qianchou asked the crowd to spread the rules, effortlessly pulled the broadsword from the ground, and left with it.

After rebuking Ziyi for undermining the Blade Drawing Tournament, Yue Qianchou gave her a Ruyi Pill and reconciled with Wu Lixue over a false claim about their relationship. He then killed Wu Zhenggang in front of the Four Great Families and invited them inside to discuss the tournament.

• Yue Qianchou scolded Ziyi for sabotaging his effort to gather Spirit Stones, forgave her after she apologized, and gave her a Ruyi Pill as payment.
• Wu Lixue avoided Yue Qianchou until he threatened to kill everyone outside, then told him Wu Zhenggang had claimed he was the Wu family's Old Ancestor's direct disciple.
• Yue Qianchou denied the claim, blamed Wu Zhenggang for trying to cause trouble between them, and reassured Wu Lixue.
• Wu Lixue took Ziyi away to wash after the Ruyi Pill caused impurities to seep from her skin.
• As the Four Great Families and Wu family elders entered Serene Guest Hall, Yue Qianchou burned Wu Zhenggang to ashes with azure fire.
• Yue Qianchou invited the stunned guests into the hall and said he wanted to discuss the Blade Drawing Tournament.

Yue Qianchou killed Wu Zhenggang and used the fallout to clarify his standing with the Four Great Families as Bi Changchun’s disciple. The families agreed to defer judgment on the killing until Bi Changchun could decide the matter, and Yue Qianchou turned to arranging the Blade Drawing Tournament.

• Wu Bao confronted Yue Qianchou over Wu Zhenggang’s death, while Bi Yunshan asked him to explain himself.
• Yue Qianchou revealed that Bi Changchun was his master, and Bi Yunshan and Bi Shouzhi knelt to pay their respects.
• The Tan and Jing families also worshiped Yue Qianchou, while the Wu family withheld its respect and Yue Qianchou clarified that he did not claim seniority over them.
• Yue Qianchou challenged Wu Bao to answer for Wu Zhenggang’s attempt to kill him and proposed letting Bi Changchun judge their dispute.
• Wu Zhen, Wu Rui, and the other families agreed to postpone judgment until Bi Changchun could decide, and Yue Qianchou began discussing the tournament’s use of the Wu family’s grounds.

Yue Qianchou announced that two blades would be drawn at the Blade Drawing Tournament, increasing the Cultivation World's excitement. Meanwhile, Yan Bugui learned that Yan Zhuixing had survived the Seven Star Bloodletting Art and formed a Demonic Body, and Man Hu began explaining the ancient Demon Codex behind the transformation.

• Yue Qianchou announced through the Four Great Families that two treasured blades would be drawn at the tournament, prompting sects to gather even more spirit stones.
• Yan Bugui waited anxiously outside a cave as Yan Zhuixing endured the Seven Star Bloodletting Art.
• Barbarian Tiger Imperial Preceptor told Yan Bugui that the ritual had succeeded, but warned him not to approach Yan Zhuixing for a day because his newly formed Demonic Body had changed his mind.
• Man Hu explained that he and his fellow disciples planned to use Yan Bugui and Yan Zhuixing to help unify the Huaxia Cultivation World and search for the Star Pearl.
• Man Hu told Yan Bugui that the Demon Codex described the ancient Demon Realm and demonic cultivation, and that it was connected to Yan Zhuixing's transformation.

Man Hu revealed that Yan Zhuixing had secretly forged a Demonic Body using the Demon Codex, and Yan Bugui learned that seven of his cultivators had died in the process. Yan Zhuixing emerged changed and confused before collapsing, while the Blade Drawing Tournament opened amid a lavish, festive gathering on Hat Island.

• Man Hu told Yan Bugui that Yan Zhuixing had chosen to cultivate the Demon Codex and had endured the Seven Star Bloodletting Art to forge a Demonic Body.
• Man Hu revealed that the seven late Nascent Soul stage cultivators had sacrificed their Nascent Souls and vital blood for Yan Zhuixing.
• Yan Zhuixing broke free of his chains and emerged bloodied and disoriented, then collapsed as Yan Bugui rushed to him.
• The Blade Drawing Tournament began on Hat Island after the Wu family and the other three Great Families built a plaza for the gathered cultivators.
• Yue Qianchou welcomed the guests in a red sash and large flower while the Four Great Families' representatives wore matching festive decorations.

Yue Qianchou prepared to draw participants into the Blade Drawing Tournament by displaying the sabers’ extraordinary sharpness and threatening to end the event himself if no one entered. Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao stepped forward as the first contestants.

• Yue Qianchou rejected Chou Wuyuan’s offer of two hundred million high-grade Spirit Stones for the treasured sabers.
• Ou Sihai and Fu Xian Island’s delegation arrived, and Wu Sihai announced that contestants could enter in pairs by paying the fee.
• When no one volunteered, Yue Qianchou planted the two Great Black Sabers into iron slabs and declared he would withdraw them and end the tournament if no one entered within an hour.
• Chou Wuyuan volunteered for Myriad Demon Palace, and Dongfang Changao joined him as his rival.

Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan failed to draw the spiritual blades, then Yan Zhuixing arrived with the seven masters of Di Rong Kingdom and challenged the Blade Drawing Tournament. Yue Qianchou greeted his old enemy as their long-standing feud resurfaced.

• Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan paid ten million high-grade Spirit Stones and tried to draw the blades, but their deadly aura forced them to retreat before time ran out.
• The two sects paid for another attempt, but a flying sword blasted a hole between the blades and interrupted the tournament.
• Yan Zhuixing arrived with Man Hu and his six fellow disciples, prompting Chou Wuyuan and Dongfang Changao to confront him.
• Yan Zhuixing claimed he had come to enter the tournament and asked for Yue Qianchou, who walked over with Ziyi and Wu Lixue to greet him.

Yue Qianchou faced Yan Zhuixing’s attempt to join the Blade Drawing Tournament as the gathered sects demanded he leave. When one of Yan Zhuixing’s disciples insulted Yue, Ziyi swiftly beat him and his six companions, revealing her connection to Nong Zhu and leaving the crowd wary of her strength.

• Yan Zhuixing arrived with Man Hu and six other disciples, greeted Yue Qianchou and Wu Lixue, and asked to join the tournament despite the sects’ objections.
• Yue Qianchou tactfully denied Yan Zhuixing a place and complained that one of his disciples had destroyed the venue and cost him ten million high-grade Spirit Stones.
• After Seventh Brother challenged Yue Qianchou’s claim, Yue ordered Ziyi to silence him, and she struck him twenty times while his six companions failed to stop her.
• Man Hu recognized Ziyi’s Great Shifting Form Technique and asked whether she was Nong Zhu’s disciple.
• Ziyi confirmed her master was Nong Zhu and said he had not come, prompting Man Hu and the others to relax.

Yue Qianchou accepted more Spirit Stones to let Man Hu’s group join the Blade Drawing Tournament, while Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan failed to draw the twin blades. Man Hu’s group prepared to try next, and Yan Zhuixing began to suspect the blades had a strange connection to his demon eyes.

• Man Hu paid another ten million high-grade Spirit Stones for his group to participate, and Ziyi bluntly set the fee as a condition of entry.
• Yue Qianchou restarted Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan’s timed attempt, while Yan Zhuixing led Man Hu’s group to wait at the entrance.
• Man Hu explained to his junior brothers that they should avoid provoking Ziyi because her master, Nong Zhu, was Bi Changchun’s friend and could intervene.
• When Dongfang Changao and Chou Wuyuan approached the twin blades, Yan Zhuixing saw smoke-like phantoms through his demon eyes and sensed their deathly aura.
• The blades released black mist that nearly corroded the two men’s protective astral energy, forcing them to retreat without drawing the blades.
• Man Hu’s group concluded the blades were likely high-grade spirit treasures and discussed who would attempt to obtain them next.

Second Brother tried to draw one of the blades and was consumed by its black flames, leaving the tournament spectators terrified of the weapons. Yan Zhuixing then entered the arena, seemingly unaffected by the blade’s deathly pressure and drawing it into himself.

• Second Brother resisted the blade’s black Baleful Intent, grasped its hilt, and was engulfed by black flames that burned him to ash.
• Man Hu and his remaining martial brothers blamed Yue Qianchou, but the sects and six Clan Elders stood with Yue Qianchou and prevented a confrontation.
• Yue Qianchou resumed the tournament and accepted Yan Zhuixing’s payment when he volunteered to try drawing a blade.
• Man Hu urged Yan Zhuixing not to act rashly, but Yan Zhuixing entered the arena, welcomed the deathly presence, and began absorbing its pressure.
• Yue Qianchou realized the black flames’ pressure had no effect on Yan Zhuixing as Yan Zhuixing smiled at him.

Yan Zhuixing absorbed the blades’ Baleful Intent and resisted their black flames before leaving with the Myriad Demon Palace, while the failed Blade Drawing Tournament wound down. Representatives of three sects then invited Yue Qianchou and Ziyi to visit, and Dongfang Changao urged Yue to return to Fu Xian Island to fulfill an old promise to Ninth Aunt.

• Yan Zhuixing absorbed the black Baleful Intent and used his Demonic Body to withstand the blade’s black flames, then left with Man Hu and the Myriad Demon Palace group.
• Yue Qianchou called for more participants, but the sects departed, leaving Fu Xian Island, Myriad Demon Palace, and Wangyue Sect behind.
• Chou Wuyuan invited Yue Qianchou to Myriad Demon Palace, while Hua Ruyi invited him and Ziyi to Wangyue Sect; Ziyi demanded twenty million high-grade Spirit Stones for the visit.
• Dongfang Changao asked Yue to return to Fu Xian Island, but Yue refused and offered to visit Ninth Aunt later.
• Dongfang Changao told Yue that Ninth Aunt wanted him to remember and fulfill a promise he had made years earlier.

Man Hu explained the Demon Codex’s history and the curse binding his Master, revealing that Yan Zhuixing’s cultivation was their hope of lifting it. After learning of Second Brother’s death, Man Hu planned to seek his Master’s help against Yue Qianchou, while the Master received the news and flew away in grief and fury.

• Yan Zhuixing returned to Wuji Island injured and went into the mountains to cultivate the Great Demonic Art.
• Man Hu told his junior brothers that his Master had ordered them to help Yan Zhuixing because his success could eventually lift the Demon Curse.
• Man Hu explained that the Demon Codex had been entrusted to a succession of cultivators tasked with finding someone able to open the sealed passage to the demon realm.
• Man Hu said he would inform his Master of Second Brother’s death and ask him to negotiate with Nong Zhu over Yue Qianchou.
• On a snowy peak in the Diron Empire, Man Hu’s Master received the news, mourned, and shot into the sky as his Snow Flood Dragon fled.

Yue Qianchou returned to Fu Xian Island to fulfill the promise he had made to Ninth Aunt, only to learn she wanted him to rejoin the sect. He explained that he already had a master, and Ninth Aunt recognized the master as the powerful figure who had once injured her and Fu Xian Island’s seniors.

• Dongfang Changao brought Yue Qianchou, Ziyi, and the others back to Fu Xian Island, where disciples gathered to discuss Yue Qianchou’s return and accomplishments.
• Yue Qianchou bypassed the Sect Master’s gathering at Penglai Pavilion and went with Ziyi to Sang Cao Garden to pay his respects to Ninth Aunt.
• Ninth Aunt asked Yue Qianchou to rejoin Fu Xian Island as repayment for his old promise, but he said he could not because he already had a master and a sect.
• Ziyi warned that Fu Xian Island could be destroyed if Yue Qianchou’s master were angered, and Yue Qianchou revealed that his master had once injured Ninth Aunt and the island’s seniors.
• Ninth Aunt trembled as she recognized Yue Qianchou’s master as the invincible figure who had wounded them with his divine sense.

Yue Qianchou asked Grandma Ma Jiu to consider extending his lifespan in exchange for canceling his old promise, then visited Fu Xian Island’s young disciples and became their idol by sharing wealth and advice. He left the disciples inspired to practice the Returning Origin Sword Art, while Grandma Ma Jiu postponed her answer until the next day.

• Yue Qianchou offered to help Grandma Ma Jiu gain another hundred and fifty years of lifespan in exchange for canceling his promise, and she said she would decide the next day.
• Yue Qianchou took Ziyi through Myriad Fragrance Garden and met Fei Denan and Furong at the Hall of Affairs.
• Yue Qianchou discovered hundreds of Fu Xian Island disciples practicing the Returning Origin Sword Art because they wanted to meet him and seek his guidance.
• Yue Qianchou gave the disciples high-grade Spirit Stones and storage pouches, then rewarded the two who distributed them.
• Yue Qianchou urged the disciples to rely on diligence and their own understanding, prompting them and the watching cultivators to reflect on his words.

Yue Qianchou refined nine Seven Orifices Exquisite Pills with Bai Suzhen and returned to Sang Cao Garden. There, Grandma Ma Jiu asked him to trade the lifespan he could grant her for a promise to protect Yan Zixia and her daughter, and he agreed.

• Yue Qianchou harvested three Soul Returning Grasses from Nine Nether Cave and refined them with Bai Suzhen’s ingredients into nine Seven Orifices Exquisite Pills, while auspicious signs appeared over Misty Peak.
• Yue Qianchou gave Bai Suzhen eight pills for safekeeping and for his parents, then returned to Myriad Fragrance Garden and told Furong he was leaving after visiting Grandma Ma Jiu.
• Yue Qianchou flew to Sang Cao Garden with Ziyi and asked Grandma Ma Jiu whether she had made her decision.
• Grandma Ma Jiu asked Yue Qianchou to protect Yan Zixia and her daughter in exchange for the hundred and fifty years of life he could help her gain.
• Yue Qianchou accepted Grandma Ma Jiu’s request despite recognizing that it would bring him trouble.