Chapter Summaries

Li Xijun arrived as Katsumi Cherry Dragon, possessed by the will of Yamata no Orochi, overwhelmed Ye Ningxue and Yagami Hiyori. He healed Ye Ningxue, destroyed the dragon and its evil-god shadow, and left Yagami Hiyori stunned while asking her to report the incident and provide the Baxia Blood Essence.

• Katsumi Cherry Dragon struck Ye Ningxue with the Seven-Branched Sword, shattering her Miaodao and leaving her gravely wounded.
• Katsumi Cherry Dragon blasted Yagami Hiyori out of her empowered form and prepared to finish off both women.
• Li Xijun appeared beside Ye Ningxue and healed her wound with the Power of Yi Wood Longevity.
• Li Xijun faced Katsumi Cherry Dragon and fused his Azure Emperor sword intent with Purple Catastrophe spring-thunder saber intent.
• Li Xijun's attack erased Katsumi Cherry Dragon and its fleeing evil-god shadow, restoring the Eternal Cherry Blossom tree.
• Li Xijun asked Yagami Hiyori to report the incident and give him the Baxia Blood Essence, while she remained stunned.

After defeating the Sakura Dragon, Li Xijun received Baxia Blood Essence and led the Great Xia team onward to Panama, where they prepared to enter the Feathered Serpent God's Abandoned Nest. He then returned to the Wuxia World desert to investigate a suspicious oasis and search for a cultivation technique.

• Li Xijun offered Ye Ningxue Azure Water Crystals and shared the locations of Water Element treasures, lifting her disappointment after the battle.
• Yae Sakura confirmed that Li Xijun had slain the Sakura Dragon, and he received the promised Baxia Blood Essence before the team left Sakura Country.
• Professor Xu briefed the Great Xia team on Panama and the Feathered Serpent God's Mythical World, while Li Xijun gave Su Nianyi a great medicine to help her advance.
• In Panama City, the France National Academy Team had taken the Great Xia team's hotel, and the Panama National Academy later conceded its sparring match.
• After settling into the Heart of the Rainforest, Li Xijun returned to the Wuxia World desert and headed toward a suspicious oasis to seek a cultivation technique.

Li Xijun reached Bitter Spring Oasis and saw the latest martial rankings posted at Sand Sea Tower, where he learned that he had been named the Azure Emperor and ranked first on the Human Ranking. The crowd also heard that he had survived three strikes from an Outer Scenery Expert, while their discussion of other rising talents continued.

• Li Xijun arrived at Bitter Spring Oasis after traveling through the northern desert for two days and followed a crowd to Sand Sea Tower.
• The owner posted the updated Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings, and Li Xijun saw himself named the Azure Emperor and placed first on the Human Ranking.
• The posted record praised Li Xijun's victories at the Qionglin Banquet and his breakthrough into the realm of the unity of heaven and man.
• A scrawny man told the crowd that Li Xijun had exchanged three strikes with Old Man Withered Bones, an Outer Scenery Expert, before escaping.
• The martial wanderers discussed other Human Ranking talents, including Chu Kuangge and Xiao Yishan, before a loud, hoarse voice interrupted them.

At a shelter in Bitter Spring Oasis, Li Xijun learned that King Gao was pursuing Li Qinghan toward Loulan Oasis. After Old Master Ma recognized him as the Azure Emperor, Li Xijun set out to find them.

• Old Master Ma told the crowd that he had seen Li Qinghan being pursued toward Loulan Oasis by King Gao and Golden Wolf Guards.
• Li Xijun approached Old Master Ma and asked for details about the pursuit.
• Old Master Ma recognized Li Xijun as the Azure Emperor and reported that King Gao's group had been spotted west of Black Wind Pass two evenings earlier.
• Li Xijun thanked Old Master Ma and flew toward Loulan Oasis.
• Old Master Ma revealed Li Xijun's identity to the crowd, who realized he was heading to confront King Gao.

Li Qinghan faced King Gao and the Golden Wolf Guards as she waited for a Black Sandstorm to disrupt their formation. Li Xijun arrived through the storm, and after King Gao sent cavalry to attack him, Li Xijun struck out with a finger.

• Li Qinghan used the Azure Dragon Seal to recover while secretly preparing to use the Black Sandstorm to escape or counterattack King Gao's forces.
• King Gao ordered the Golden Wolf Guards to seize Li Qinghan before the storm arrived.
• A patrolman reported that one attacker had killed the hidden sentries, and Li Xijun appeared walking unharmed through the sandstorm.
• King Gao recognized Li Xijun and ordered more than twenty Golden Wolf Guards to charge him.
• Li Xijun did not draw his sword and pointed at the charging cavalry, darkening the heaven and earth around them.

Li Xijun used his psychic power and sword technique to destroy the Golden Wolf Guards’ assault and kill King Gao. After wiping out the remaining soldiers, he left a golden radiance in the sky.

• Li Xijun sent the Golden Wolf Guards’ vanguard crashing back with an invisible wall of psychic power, scattering their formation and inflicting heavy casualties.
• King Gao ordered the remaining guards to form the Golden Wolf Howling Moon Formation and joined their attack with his own Nine Apertures power.
• Li Xijun unleashed Azure Emperor Manifesting Heaven, dissolving the formation’s attack and killing King Gao with a strike between the brows.
• The shattered formation left the surviving Golden Wolf Guards bleeding and weakened, and Li Xijun used psychic power to kill the remaining soldiers as they tried to flee.
• A familiar golden radiance appeared in the sky.

The Book of Mortal Affairs announced that Li Xijun had killed King Gao and a hundred Golden Wolf Guards with one finger, establishing him as the undisputed top of the Human Ranking. As people across the world reacted to his overwhelming strength, Fairy Moonbath plotted to consume him, while Su Manniang wondered whether his arrival in Loulan was connected to the Night Emperor’s Tomb.

• The golden tome proclaimed that Li Xijun had defeated King Gao and his hundred Golden Wolf Guards without drawing his sword, making him Number One on the Human Ranking.
• Li Qinghan watched Li Xijun calmly as the proclamation faded over the Sea of Death.
• In Beiyan County City, Duan Heyu, Kongzhu, Han Qiong, and Fang Qinghua accepted that they could not compete with Li Xijun.
• Fairy Moonbath learned of Li Xijun’s victory and planned to lure him into her trap and devour his essence, fortune, and fate.
• At the Lone Smoke Inn in Loulan Oasis, Su Manniang connected Li Xijun’s arrival with the strange anomalies and considered whether they signaled the Night Emperor’s Tomb.

Li Xijun and Li Qinghan prepared to investigate the Black Tortoise Honored One and the Night Emperor’s Tomb, with Li Qinghan reaching Nine Apertures Fully Opened after taking his Earth Fragrance medicine. They returned to Loulan Oasis, where Li Xijun confirmed that inn proprietress Su Manniang concealed a formidable aura, revealing her as the Black Tortoise Honored One.

• Li Qinghan told Li Xijun that she had found a possible entrance to the Night Emperor’s Tomb and suspected the Black Tortoise Honored One was hiding at the inn in Loulan Oasis.
• Li Xijun gave Li Qinghan his superior Earth Fragrance medicine and took her to a secluded cave so she could break through safely.
• Li Qinghan absorbed the medicine, opened her final two apertures, and reached the peak of the Aperture Opening Realm.
• Li Xijun and Li Qinghan returned to Loulan Oasis and entered the Lone Smoke Inn to meet its proprietress, Su Manniang.
• Li Xijun secretly probed Su Manniang’s aura, and she effortlessly suppressed his Spiritual Power, confirming his suspicion that she was the Black Tortoise Honored One.

Li Qinghan and Li Xijun revealed that they had found the entrance to the Night Emperor's Tomb and offered to guide the Black Tortoise Honored One there in exchange for the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Earth Overturning Method. The Black Tortoise Honored One agreed to the bargain, while Li Xijun concealed that he had already comprehended the method’s central true intent.

• Su Manniang served Li Xijun and Li Qinghan a lavish meal and questioned why they had come to Loulan Oasis.
• Li Qinghan told Su Manniang that she had found the entrance to the Night Emperor's Tomb and proposed trading its location for the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Earth Overturning Method for Li Xijun.
• Su Manniang recognized Li Xijun as the Azure Emperor and suggested helping him kill Yin Tianheng so he could become Azure Dragon Saint and enter the sacred ground.
• Li Qinghan objected to the dangerous plan and said she would help Li Xijun pursue the stellar array diagram after she reached Exterior Scenery.
• Su Manniang agreed to trade the Black Tortoise cultivation method for information about the tomb, but warned Li Xijun that mastering it would depend on his affinity and temperament.
• Li Xijun hid his existing comprehension of the Black Tortoise True Intent, thanked Su Manniang, and drank the Amber Light.

Su Manniang taught Li Xijun the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Earth Overturning Method, and he mastered its true intent with astonishing speed. The three then found the hidden entrance to the Night Emperor's Tomb and awakened its ancient array.

• Su Manniang infused Li Xijun with the Black Tortoise method's true intent, allowing him to master it to Grandmaster level in moments.
• Shocked by Li Xijun's talent, Su Manniang urged him to join the Black Tortoise Faction and offered him the position of its next Honored One.
• Li Qinghan pulled Li Xijun away from Su Manniang and urged them to seek the Night Emperor's Tomb entrance without delay.
• Li Qinghan led Su Manniang and Li Xijun to a formation of seven black stones at the edge of the desert and Gobi.
• Su Manniang used Black Tortoise true qi to activate the stones, awakening the array and revealing the suspected entrance to the secret realm.

Su Manniang led Li Qinghan and Li Xijun into a star-roofed secret realm connected to the Night Emperor and fought through its powerful guards. Li Xijun mastered the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Earth Overturning Method after watching Su Manniang use it, and the three reached an altar beside a vast Silent Sea with a vortex leading deeper into the realm.

• Su Manniang, Li Qinghan, and Li Xijun entered the secret realm and found themselves beneath an endless starry sky, where thousands of star-forged guards appeared.
• Su Manniang used the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Seal to crush the guards and clear a path.
• Li Xijun copied Su Manniang's technique, perfected its true intent in three punches, and advanced the method to Heaven and Man 1%.
• Su Manniang marveled at Li Xijun's talent and suggested he belonged among the supreme figures of the Black Tortoise Faction, while he said he had learned similar principles before.
• Su Manniang led the group through more halls and corridors, defeating successive waves of increasingly powerful guards.
• The three reached a vast, still Silent Sea and found a cold-jade altar with a spatial vortex at its center.

Su Manniang, Li Xijun, and Li Qinghan activated an ancient altar in the Night Emperor's Tomb and found treasures including the Black Tortoise Pendant and an unfinished Imperial Weapon sword embryo. The sword embryo unleashed a heaven-shaking sword light, and Chinarri abandoned the Golden Wolf army's battle formation to race toward Loulan Oasis.

• Su Manniang, Li Xijun, and Li Qinghan swam through the suppressive lake water and activated the island altar with their physical qi and blood.
• The altar teleported the three into a sealed artifact-refining chamber, where Su Manniang claimed the Black Tortoise Pendant and received new insights into the Black Tortoise Dao.
• Su Manniang tried to touch the ancient sword embryo, but its overwhelming sword intent repelled her, and Li Qinghan recognized its sword cry.
• The sword embryo's power broke through the Night Emperor's Tomb and sent a peerless sword light into the sky, stirring a vast imperial might across the western desert.
• Chinarri severed his link to the Golden Wolf army's formation to investigate the sword embryo, causing the formation to collapse and Great Xia's army to gain the advantage.
• Chinarri used his life's blood to stabilize his connection to the army and rushed toward Loulan Oasis, abandoning the campaign.

In the secret realm, Li Xijun mastered the White Tiger Seven Kills God Slaughtering Manual and gained the Night Emperor Sword Embryo’s submission after the Grand Luo Mark suppressed its sword intent. With Chinarri closing in, Su Manniang prepared to flee, but Li Xijun proposed that they split up.

• Li Qinghan transmitted the White Tiger Seven Kills God Slaughtering Manual to Li Xijun, who mastered it in a breath and formed the White Tiger rune alongside the other Three Symbols.
• Li Xijun grasped the Night Emperor Sword Embryo, whose tyrannical sword intent entered his Sea of Consciousness and then submitted when the Grand Luo Mark stirred.
• Li Qinghan opened the final black box with her White Tiger qi, sensed that its contents suited her, and put it away.
• Su Manniang sensed Chinarri’s Blood Fiend Qi approaching and warned that escaping together would be difficult, even with the Black Tortoise Pendant.
• Li Xijun urged Su Manniang and Li Qinghan to split up.

Li Xijun lured High Priest Chinarri away from Li Qinghan and Su Manniang by exposing the Night Emperor Sword Embryo, then escaped the killing blow by returning to the Main World. He ended the chapter safely in the Panama Hotel, reflecting on his gains and examining the sword embryo.

• Li Xijun persuaded Li Qinghan and Su Manniang to flee separately while he drew Chinarri's attention with the Night Emperor Sword Embryo.
• Chinarri trapped the trio in his Blood Wolf Heaven Swallowing Domain, and Su Manniang used the Black Tortoise Pendant to resist his attack but was badly injured.
• Li Xijun revealed the sword embryo and fled across the desert, drawing Chinarri's wolf claw after him.
• Su Manniang disrupted Chinarri's strike long enough for Li Xijun to vanish, then escaped with Li Qinghan while Chinarri searched the desert in vain.
• Li Xijun returned to the Main World and examined the Night Emperor Sword Embryo in the Panama Hotel.

Li Xijun absorbed Baxia Blood Essence to advance his Black Tortoise cultivation and open his eighth aperture. He planned to acquire the Azure Dragon Sacred Seat and cultivate the All Heavens Stellar Four Symbols Art after returning to the Wuxia World.

• Li Xijun set aside the Night Emperor Sword Embryo and consumed two drops of Baxia Blood Essence while cultivating the Black Tortoise Sea Suppression Earth Overturning Method.
• Li Xijun gained insight from Baxia’s bloodline, advancing the method to 49% Heaven and Man United and raising his Black Tortoise Spiritual Power to the mid-stage of Artistic Conception.
• Li Xijun consumed a third drop of Baxia Blood Essence and Spiritual Marrow to open his Back Yin Aperture, strengthening his body and connection to the earth.
• Li Xijun reflected that his three other methods had reached the mid-stage of Artistic Conception and expected future resources to help advance the White Tiger method.
• Li Xijun resolved to kill Yin Tianheng, claim the Azure Dragon Sacred Seat, and pursue the All Heavens Stellar Four Symbols Art.

After three weeks of cultivation, Li Xijun and the Great Xia National Academy Team arrived in Panama to enter the Feathered Serpent God's Abandoned Nest. The gate opened, and the teams entered the dangerous ruin as black-robed figures were admitted through a hidden entrance.

• Li Xijun emerged from secluded cultivation, and the Great Xia team's members gathered with improved strength, including Ye Ningxue, who reached the middle stage of Artistic Conception.
• Professor Xu led the team to the market outside Panama City, where the Feathered Serpent God's Abandoned Nest entrance was forming atop an ancient pyramid.
• The French National Academy Team arrived, and Chaos Richard dismissed Li Xijun while boasting of his perfected Purple Thunder Burst Saber Technique.
• Chaos vowed to test Li Xijun inside the temple, but Li Xijun stayed calm as the entrance stabilized and explorers rushed in.
• Professor Xu warned the Great Xia team to stay vigilant, and they entered the Abandoned Nest behind the French team.
• Panama soldiers admitted black-robed figures into the Mythical World through a hidden entrance made from a shattered spatial fragment.

Li Xijun and the Great Xia National Academy Team crossed a dangerous rainforest to reach the Feathered Serpent God Temple, where they planned to explore the newly discovered Time Corridor. Meanwhile, Su Nianying and Professor Xu observed seven Asura Clan members preparing a deadly formation, as the French instructor proposed letting them challenge Chaos.

• Li Xijun led the Great Xia National Academy Team through the rainforest toward the Feathered Serpent God Temple, and they killed several groups of attackers along the way.
• The team reached the temple and learned from Wei Ying that the third level, the Time Corridor, might contain temporal phenomena and valuable treasures.
• Li Xijun decided to investigate the third level, hoping to find something that could improve his time-based ability.
• Seven Asura Clan members slaughtered an explorer team and gathered Blood Fiend Qi to form the Seven Fiends Asura Formation.
• Su Nianying and Professor Xu recognized the Asura Clan, and the French instructor suggested using them to teach Chaos humility.

Li Xijun led the Great Xia National Academy Team into the Time Corridor, where distorted space and time repeatedly sent them back along their path and drained their strength. Using the White Dragon’s Authority and his dragon eyes to find a stable route, he opened a passage into another space, and the team emerged there.

• Wei Ying warned the team that the Time Corridor’s chaotic space and time could trap people until they died, but Li Xijun entered first and the others followed.
• The team explored the mist-filled corridors, marking their route, but every attempt to find a way forward returned them to places they had already visited.
• Ye Ningxue realized their bodies had experienced far more time than their perceptions suggested as their Spiritual Power dwindled and hunger set in.
• Li Xijun used the White Dragon’s Authority and his dragon eyes to see a stable flow through the tangled spatial-temporal corridors, then led the team along it.
• Li Xijun struck an apparently empty part of the mist wall, opened a slit of light, and guided the team into another space.

Li Xijun explored a hidden world overflowing with spiritual treasures and followed its concentrated fire energy to an ancient altar. There, he witnessed the Feathered Serpent God fly into a space wormhole, advanced his cultivation, and discovered a golden Holy Grail filled with Time Fluid, which he drank.

• The National Academy Team marveled at the bountiful spiritual plants, minerals, and birds, then split up to investigate and gather resources.
• Li Xijun transformed into a white dragon and followed the flow of Fire Attribute Spiritual Power to an ancient altar.
• When Li Xijun touched the altar's sun totem, he saw the Feathered Serpent God leave the world and fly into a spatial wormhole near an extraterrestrial base.
• The ancient sun-and-flame insight raised Li Xijun's Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture from Grandmaster to Celestial, reaching 90%.
• A golden Holy Grail containing Time Fluid emerged from the altar, and Li Xijun drank it.

Li Xijun absorbed the Time Fluid, improved his ability to manipulate time, and led the Great Xia National Academy Team out of the collapsing small world. When they found the France National Academy Team under attack by a powerful Asura Phantom, Li Xijun destroyed it with his Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal.

• Li Xijun absorbed a trace of the Time Fluid's power, strengthening his innate ability to accelerate or slow time, and escaped the collapsing small world with his teammates.
• The Great Xia National Academy Team returned through the space-time corridor and left the temple's third floor, intending to travel to New York for the world tournament.
• The team found the France National Academy Team in the temple's lower plaza, where an Asura Phantom had killed many explorers and was attacking the French team.
• Chaos blocked one Asura Blood Sword with her Four Seasons Thunder Burst, but the phantom's next attack severely wounded her.
• Professor Xu stopped the France team leader from intervening and said the Great Xia team captain could handle the Asura Phantom.
• Li Xijun unleashed the Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal and burned the Asura Phantom to ash.