Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou left Fu Xian Island with Ziyi and traveled to the Wangyue Sect, where Fairy Qionghua reacted to Ziyi with deep emotion and gave her far more money than promised. The chapter ended with Fairy Qionghua asking whether Ziyi’s master, Mr. Nongzhu, was really named Xiaoyao.

• Yue Qianchou asked Grandma Ma Jiu to keep his master's secret, and she agreed before opening Fu Xian Island's protective formation for him and Ziyi.
• Grandma Ma Jiu warned Feng Xiangtian that Fu Xian Island should avoid provoking Yue Qianchou because of the powerful people behind him.
• Yue Qianchou and Ziyi flew toward the Wangyue Sect, and Ziyi insisted they collect the promised payment before discussing their business.
• Hua Ruyi brought Yue Qianchou and Ziyi to meet Fairy Qionghua at the Silver Moon Pavilion.
• Fairy Qionghua stared at Ziyi with sorrow and concern, then gave her fifty million high-grade Spirit Stones instead of the promised twenty million.
• Fairy Qionghua asked Ziyi whether her master's real name was Xiaoyao.

Fairy Qionghua recognized Ziyi as the daughter she had lost and learned that Ziyi’s master was Nong Zhu, whom she had once known as Xiaoyao. Yue Qianchou and Ziyi left for the Myriad Demon Palace, while Fairy Qionghua wondered whether Nong Zhu had hidden that he was a powerful cultivator.

• Ziyi denied knowing anyone named Xiaoyao and refused to reveal where Nong Zhu lived, but confirmed she had a crescent-shaped birthmark on her left arm.
• Fairy Qionghua recognized the birthmark and questioned Yue Qianchou, who said Nong Zhu had entrusted Ziyi to him.
• Ziyi refused to return to Wangyue Sect and warned Fairy Qionghua not to seek out her master’s home.
• Fairy Qionghua offered to vouch for Yue Qianchou and Ziyi’s admission to the Cultivation Alliance, but they left for the Myriad Demon Palace.
• After they departed, Fairy Qionghua and Hua Ruyi concluded that Ziyi was Fairy Qionghua’s daughter and suspected Nong Zhu was the Xiaoyao she had once loved.
• Fairy Qionghua recalled that Nong Zhu had taken Ziyi away after she proposed bringing their daughter to Wangyue Sect, and wondered whether he had concealed his cultivation as a Spirit Transformation stage expert.

Nong Zhu worried that Ziyi was traveling with Yue Qianchou, while Bi Changchun urged him to let his daughter face the world. When three powerful elders confronted Nong Zhu over Ziyi and Yue Qianchou, Bi Changchun appeared above them and left the meeting tense.

• Yue Qianchou flew beside Ziyi and imagined leading Fairy Qionghua to Nong Zhu’s Purple Bamboo Forest to teach Nong Zhu a lesson.
• Bi Changchun visited Nong Zhu to drink purple bamboo flower tea, and they argued over whether Ziyi should remain with her father or travel with Yue Qianchou.
• Nong Zhu played a sorrowful flute by the sea, drew a pod of humpback whales to him, and rode into the ocean on one whale.
• Bing Chengzi, Hu Changshou, and Yin Baikang confronted Nong Zhu, accusing him of interfering in the Cultivation World by sending Ziyi there.
• Yin Baikang explained that Yue Qianchou had killed one of Bing Chengzi’s disciples and urged Nong Zhu to summon Ziyi back.
• Bi Changchun appeared above the three elders, startling them and making them wary of provoking him.

After the senior cultivators agreed to leave their juniors to settle their own disputes, Yue Qianchou and Ziyi traveled to Hundred Flower Valley, where they learned the Cultivation Alliance was in trouble. The chapter ended with Yue Qianchou smashing the counter at the Hundred Flower Inn after Ziyi objected to the price of their meal.

• Nong Zhu declared that he and the other senior cultivators would not interfere in disputes between their juniors, and Bing Chengzi, Hu Changshou, and Yin Baikang agreed.
• Yue Qianchou and Ziyi arrived at the Myriad Demon Palace, where Bu Yunxiao told Chou Wuyuan that Yan Bugui was confronting the Cultivation Alliance at Hundred Flower Valley.
• Yue Qianchou and Ziyi followed Chou Wuyuan toward Hundred Flower Valley, then entered the city after Chou Wuyuan and the Demon Family Four Generals sped ahead.
• Yue Qianchou took Ziyi to the Hundred Flower Inn and ordered its finest room, wine, and dishes; when she urged him to find somewhere cheaper, he smashed the counter and confronted the shopkeeper.

Yue Qianchou intimidated Hundred Flower Inn into giving him and Ziyi a private room, then took her shopping and bought her three storage pouches full of goods. The outing ended when Xiong Hui told Yue Qianchou that Yan Bugui had challenged the Cultivation Alliance and that its members would meet the next day.

• Yue Qianchou drew his Great Black Saber and forced the shopkeeper to give him and Ziyi a private room at Hundred Flower Inn.
• Hundred Flower Fairy ordered the inn to waive Yue Qianchou's expenses, and he and Ziyi ate the complimentary meal.
• Yue Qianchou took Ziyi shopping and paid for everything she liked, filling three storage pouches with purchases.
• Xiong Hui told Yue Qianchou that Yan Bugui had challenged the Cultivation Alliance and summoned its members to a meeting the next day.
• Yue Qianchou said the challenge was none of his business and returned to Hundred Flower Inn with Ziyi.

Yue Qianchou went with the Four Great Families to the Cultivation Alliance after learning they had been waiting for him. There, he attacked a heckler at the entrance, but no one admitted to seeing who struck the disciple, and the injured man’s master demanded that the culprit step forward.

• Ziyi woke Yue Qianchou and told him the Four Great Families were waiting downstairs to accompany him to the Cultivation Alliance.
• The Four Great Families’ elders said their council had instructed them to assist Yue Qianchou, and he agreed to go with them after eating.
• At the Cultivation Alliance entrance, Yue Qianchou punched and broke the leg of a heckling disciple, then entered with the Four Great Families.
• The assembled factions wondered about screams outside, and two Myriad Demon Palace disciples reported that a Six Paths Demonic Sect disciple had been beaten by an unseen attacker.
• The injured disciple’s master returned from outside, glared at the Four Great Families, and demanded that the culprit confess.

Yue Qianchou admitted to injuring a Six Paths Demonic Sect disciple and faced Yuan Jiukui’s demand that he break his own leg in compensation. After initially apologizing, Yue challenged Yuan to bring the disciple forward so they could establish who had provoked the fight.

• Yuan Jiukui accused the Four Great Families of injuring his disciple, and Yue Qianchou admitted he had struck him.
• Yuan insulted Yue and Chou Wuyuan, prompting the Demon Family Four Generals to confront him before Chou called them back.
• Ziyi and Hua Yinyue moved to protect Yue, while Chou Wuyuan, Wen Zhongping, and Quan Deming urged everyone to avoid a fight.
• Yue bowed and apologized, but Yuan demanded that he break his own left leg to answer for his disciple’s injury.
• Yue rejected Yuan’s harsh condition and accused the Six Paths Demonic Sect disciple of spitting in his face, then offered to confront him directly.

Yue Qianchou accepted Chou Wuyuan’s offer to end the dispute with Yuan Jiukui, then learned that the Cultivation Alliance was struggling to divide the costs and manpower for Yan Bugui’s challenge. Chou Wuyuan’s argument turned the dispute over the Myriad Demon Palace’s share into a confrontation between the Righteous and Demonic paths, until Quan Deming offered an idea.

• Chou Wuyuan and Wen Zhongping persuaded Yuan Jiukui to drop his grievance, and Yue Qianchou agreed to let the matter end.
• Yue Qianchou learned that Yan Bugui had challenged the Cultivation Alliance to twenty matches, with the loser owing one billion high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Xianxian and Duan Tianbo argued that the Myriad Demon Palace should pay the largest share, while Chou Wuyuan rejected their blame.
• Chou Wuyuan’s accusations drew Righteous and Demonic sects into a heated confrontation over the challenge’s costs.
• Quan Deming called for everyone to sit down and offered to explain an idea.

Quan Deming arranged how the sects and Four Great Families would fund a twenty-match challenge, with winnings awarded according to victories. Yue Qianchou volunteered to pay the Four Great Families’ share and fight alongside Ziyi, leaving the group astonished by his claims about Bi Changchun’s power.

• Quan Deming proposed that six leading sects contribute four hundred million Spirit Stones and fourteen other sects contribute the remaining six hundred million, with each winning match earning its sect fifty million from the prize.
• Yuan Jiukui insisted that the Four Great Families join the funding, and Bi Shan agreed to have them contribute forty million.
• After the meeting, Bi Shan planned to summon two Clan Elders for the challenge, but Yue Qianchou offered to pay the Four Great Families’ share and keep any winnings for himself and Ziyi if they won.
• Bi Shan questioned Yue Qianchou’s cultivation, and Yue Qianchou admitted he was only at Nascent Soul Early Stage before insisting that he and Ziyi would fight.
• Yue Qianchou assigned Ziyi to face the late Tribulation Transcendence experts and urged her to kill her opponents without mercy, shocking the Four Great Families with his account of Bi Changchun’s past battle.

Yue Qianchou let the Four Great Families believe their Old Ancestor had bestowed his power on him, while Bi Zicong’s jealousy earned him a reprimand from Bi Shan. At the challenge site, Yue Qianchou provoked Yan Bugui by chatting with the Myriad Demon Palace, then claimed he had hoped to join them before Chou Wuyuan could decide whether he had misunderstood.

• Yue Qianchou avoided describing the East Sea battle, and Ziyi praised Bi Shan as the Number One Expert Under Heaven, stirring the Four Great Families’ admiration for their Old Ancestor.
• Bi Zicong argued that the Old Ancestor had secretly empowered Yue Qianchou and questioned why he favored an outsider, so Bi Shan made him kneel and slap himself.
• Bi Zicong admitted jealousy had blinded him and apologized to Bi Shan after the others urged restraint.
• At the challenge site, Yan Bugui glared at Yue Qianchou from across the valley while the two sides prepared to begin their contest.
• Yue Qianchou chatted with Chou Wuyuan and the Myriad Demon Palace to provoke Yan Bugui, but Chou Wuyuan recognized his ploy and told him to leave.
• Yue Qianchou claimed he had intended to join the Myriad Demon Palace and left in anger, leaving Chou Wuyuan unsure whether he had misread him.

Yue Qianchou watched Fu Xian Island’s Dongfang Changao enter the challenge and face Yan Biao of Xiushui Kingdom. As Yan Biao’s strange whip began to wear Dongfang Changao down, Yue Qianchou asked Bi Shan whether someone could toss a magical treasure into the valley for Dongfang Changao to use.

• Yue Qianchou returned from speaking with the Myriad Demon Palace in a sour mood, while the assembled sects waited for the challenge to begin.
• Dongfang Changao stepped into the valley first and drew cheers after Yue Qianchou led the crowd in applauding him.
• Yan Bugui sent Yan Biao to challenge Dongfang Changao, and Yan Biao revealed that he could control his Black Dragon Whip through the air.
• Dongfang Changao fought off the whip’s repeated attacks but began to fall behind as Yan Biao controlled it from above.
• Yue Qianchou asked Bi Shan whether throwing a magical treasure into the valley for Dongfang Changao would violate the rules.

Yue Qianchou approached Fu Xian Island during Dongfang Changao’s losing duel and claimed he had a treasured spear sharp enough to break Yan Biao’s whip. He invoked Ancestor Nanming as the spear’s maker, and Fu Xian Island’s elders recognized the name, leaving Yue Qianchou to reinforce his fabricated story.

• Dongfang Changao briefly broke free of Yan Biao’s Black Dragon Whip and tried to counterattack, but Yan Biao dodged and trapped him again.
• As the Cultivation Alliance feared Dongfang Changao would lose, Yue Qianchou went to Fu Xian Island and asked whether it had a treasure that could break the whip.
• Yue Qianchou said he owned a treasured spear as sharp as his blades but claimed he could not show it or lend it without permission from its maker.
• When Yue Qianchou named Ancestor Nanming, Ji Nian and Fan Benlei recognized him as a legendary artifact-refining rogue cultivator from Fu Xian Island’s secret histories.
• Yue Qianchou claimed Ancestor Nanming loved spirit stones and had made him search for them, further convincing Fu Xian Island’s members that he knew the legendary figure.

Yue Qianchou persuaded Fu Xian Island to rent his supposed Dragon Slaying Spear for fifty million high-grade Spirit Stones so Dongfang Changao could use it in battle. He presented the weapon with a grand legend, and Quan Deming carried it toward Dongfang as the elder continued fighting for his life.

• Quan Deming asked Yue Qianchou to lend Dongfang Changao his treasured spear, and Yue claimed he needed permission from Ancestor Nanming.
• Yue agreed to rent the spear to Fu Xian Island for fifty million high-grade Spirit Stones, promising no payment if it proved less sharp than he claimed.
• Yue warned Fu Xian Island not to examine the spear with divine sense, then took time to shape a convincing black weapon with black fire.
• Yue unveiled the Dragon Slaying Spear and claimed Ancestor Nanming had forged it after it was used to kill a powerful flood dragon.
• Quan Deming took the spear and hurried toward Dongfang Changao, telling him it could break the strange whip and warning him not to inspect it with divine sense.

Dongfang Changao defeated Yan Biao with the Golden Treasure Spear after Yue Qianchou lent Fu Xian Island the Dragon Slaying Spear as bait. When Yan Biao’s senior brother called for another challenger and the sects hesitated, Yue Qianchou stepped forward with two huge sabers.

• Quan Deming threw Yue Qianchou’s Dragon Slaying Spear into the valley, and Dongfang Changao broke free of Yan Biao to seize the chance.
• Dongfang Changao wounded Yan Biao, pursued him, and killed him despite his senior brothers’ cries for mercy.
• Dongfang Changao retrieved the Dragon Slaying Spear, learned it belonged to Yue Qianchou, and asked to borrow it for another bout before Ji Nian stopped him.
• Yan Fang challenged Dongfang Changao, but the Fu Xian Island group declined to send him back into the arena.
• Yue Qianchou watched the sects hesitate, drew a huge saber in each hand, and announced that he would fight.

Yue Qianchou stunned the assembled sects by killing Yan Fang with a single stroke, then ignored Yan Cheng’s challenge until his insults drove him to act. The chapter ended with Yue Qianchou taking to the air and summoning a thousand flying swords to face Yan Cheng.

• Yue Qianchou charged down the mountain and killed Yan Fang, severing his whip and cutting him down before returning to the Cultivation Alliance.
• The Cultivation Alliance cheered Yue Qianchou’s victory, while Niu Sen urged Chou Wuyuan to invite him to join the Myriad Demon Palace.
• Yan Cheng challenged Yue Qianchou, but Yue Qianchou refused to answer until Yan Cheng insulted him by name.
• Yue Qianchou warned Yan Cheng that he would send him to join his junior brothers, then flew into the air and released a thousand flying swords.

Yue Qianchou displayed the Returning Origin Sword Art by controlling a thousand Azure Fire flying swords, overwhelming Yan Cheng and destroying his Black Dragon Whip. With Yan Cheng trapped but his protective astral energy still holding, Yue Qianchou prepared to continue the fight and challenge the foreign cultivators.

• Yue Qianchou confronted Yan Cheng about who had revealed his name, but Yan Cheng refused to answer and demanded a fight.
• Yue Qianchou sent swarms of Azure Fire flying swords after Yan Cheng’s Black Dragon Whip and tore it into countless pieces.
• The Fu Xian Island cultivators recognized the Returning Origin Sword Art’s power and decided to report its importance to their sect master.
• Yue Qianchou taunted Yan Cheng to kneel and admit defeat, hoping to prevent him from surrendering under the challenge’s rules.
• Yan Cheng refused, and Yue Qianchou’s flying sword struck his protective astral energy without breaking through it.

Yue Qianchou defeated and killed Yan Cheng after trapping him with the Returning Origin Sword Art. Yan Bugui learned that a powerful cultivator might be sent to avenge Yan Cheng, while the brocade-clad elder refused to explain the terrifying Number One Expert Under Heaven.

• Yan Cheng tried to flee, but Yue Qianchou surrounded him with flying swords and used scorching heat to force him to self-destruct his protective astral energy.
• Yan Cheng fought off the swords until one pierced his chest, and Yue Qianchou's swarm then ground his body and clothes to dust.
• The Cultivation Alliance cheered Yue Qianchou's victory, though the crowd regarded him with newfound caution.
• Yan Bugui asked why Senior Chang had stopped him from conceding for Yan Cheng, and Senior Chang explained that Yan Ji might send his near-Spirit-Transformation-stage martial brother Yan Huan to avenge his disciples.
• Yan Bugui asked about the Number One Expert Under Heaven, and Senior Chang recalled how that figure had forced Spirit Transformation experts to swear oaths and killed sixteen peak great cultivators.
• Senior Chang avoided telling Yan Bugui the full story, and Yan Bugui resolved to learn more about the mysterious expert.

Yan Wuchen’s arrival ended Yan Bugui’s challenge without a fight, and the Cultivation Alliance began dividing the billion Spirit Stones. The agreed distribution sparked a dispute over how much the Myriad Demon Palace deserved, leaving the settlement unresolved.

• Yan Wuchen arrived, struck Chou Wuyuan for his account of events, and accepted Yan Bugui’s challenge, but no opponent stepped forward.
• As the deadline approached, Yan Bugui promised his allies two Spirit Stone mines each if he unified the Huaxia Cultivation World, and they withdrew without fighting.
• The Cultivation Alliance counted the withdrawal as a victory and returned each contributor’s principal before gathering in Hundred Flower Valley to divide the billion Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Xianxian proposed fixed shares for Fu Xian Island, Yue Qianchou, and the Myriad Demon Palace, with the remaining money divided by contribution; several sects agreed, angering Yue Qianchou.
• Chou Wuyuan argued that Yan Wuchen’s appearance had ended the remaining seventeen matches and said the Myriad Demon Palace deserved those shares, while offering to give up two shares for other contributors.

Yue Qianchou fought the other sects over how to divide the ten billion, insisting that his two victories earned him four billion. The argument nearly turned violent, but the saber he planted in the ground made clear he would not accept being shortchanged.

• Zhu Xianxian challenged Myriad Demon Palace's demand for fifteen shares, and Chou Wuyuan argued that Yan Wuchen's intervention had secured the money.
• Bi Shan reminded the gathered sects that the Four Great Families had contributed capital and that Yue Qianchou had won two matches.
• Yue Qianchou proposed dividing the money into five shares, with four shares going to the winners according to their victories and one shared among the contributing sects.
• Wen Zhongping objected to Yue Qianchou's demand for four billion, and Yue accused the sects of avoiding the fights while expecting to share the rewards.
• Wen Zhongping and Zhu Xianxian clashed verbally with Yue, while Chou Wuyuan and Quan Deming kept the groups from fighting.
• Yue planted his black saber in the ground and declared he would wield it if anyone denied him what he believed was fair.

Yue Qianchou secured the agreed distribution of the spirit stones, collected his debts, and brought the proceeds to the Utopia military camp. He ordered Guan Yu to strengthen and train their growing force of Tribulation-stage cultivators, leaving the camp preparing for intensive combat drills.

• Yan Wuchen and Dongfang Changao agreed that their factions would accept Yue Qianchou’s distribution method after Yan Wuchen recognized his bearing and discussed meeting him later.
• Yuan Jiukui and Hua Yinyue declared that their sects had no objections, and Chou Wuyuan distributed the spirit stones.
• Yue Qianchou checked that he had received four hundred million, collected another fifty million from Quan Deming, and left with Ziyi.
• At the Hundred Flower Inn, Yue Qianchou sent Ziyi back to her room and secretly went to the Utopia military camp.
• Guan Yu reported that Restriction Breaking Pills had raised more than three hundred cultivators to the early Tribulation stage, and Yue Qianchou ordered him to use the new funds to advance the rest and train all eight hundred in combat.
• Yue Qianchou instructed Guan Yu to put his two disciples and Gu Qingyun through especially harsh drills once they reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage.