Chapter Summaries

Song Changming tested the greater power of his martial arts after advancing his Qi cultivation and learned that Xiao Shuyun was building a force of her own. Two years later, Scorching Mist swept into Wangyue Commandery, and Fei Niao Mist Beasts attacked Song Ping'an and Liu Ziwen.

• Song Changming demonstrated the increased power of his Wind Dragon Divine Saber Art and Fire God Saber, while Liu Ziwen congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Song Changming read Liang Zhaolong's report that Xiao Shuyun had taken control of her subordinates and planned to seize territory, then told Liang to assist her where possible.
• Two years later, Song Ping'an and Liu Ziwen investigated a growing wave of Scorching Mist entering Wangyue Commandery.
• Several Fei Niao Mist Beasts burst from the mist and attacked Song Ping'an and Liu Ziwen.

Song Changming entered the fog-shrouded Outer Realm to experience its dangers and encountered a powerful griffin-like Mist Beast that attacked his spirit. He defeated it with the Ice Heart Pure Thought Art and a blazing blade strike, then recognized how dangerous the true Outer Domain could be.

• Song Changming rescued Song Ping'an and Liu Ziwen from a giant two-headed bird before the two men returned to safety.
• Song Changming stepped alone into the fog, using his Spiritual Power to sense the surroundings and studying the Scorching Mist energy drifting overhead.
• A griffin-like Mist Beast absorbed the Scorching Mist energy and attacked Song Changming with a spiritual assault that briefly paralyzed him.
• Song Changming's Ice Heart stabilized his Nether Sea and spiritual body, allowing him to evade the beast's bite and counterattack.
• Song Changming kicked the Mist Beast into the ground and severed its head with a blazing blade strike, then reflected on the danger of Outer Domain Mist Beasts.

Song Changming rescued a family from Mist Beasts as the Outer Domain's great mist advanced toward Xianyue City, then returned to Wangyue Prefecture City and spoke with the aging Liu Dingsheng. In the mist, a black-robed figure found the griffin Song had killed and resolved to offer a Heavenly Ranking Martial Artist to his saber, while Song continued honing his saber art at home.

• Song Changming killed the Mist Beasts attacking mountain hunters, saved Ying'er, and urged the group to take refuge in the city.
• Song Changming returned to Wangyue Prefecture City and told Liu Dingsheng that the great mist had approached Xianyue City.
• Liu Dingsheng reflected that Wangyue Commandery might eventually be swallowed by the Outer Domain, then invited Song Changming to play chess.
• A black-robed figure riding a giant horned python found the griffin Mist Beast Song had killed and hoped to offer a Heavenly Ranking Martial Artist to his saber.
• Song Changming practiced his saber art, building up immense saber might as Liu Dingsheng rested for the night.

Song Changming reviewed his advances in saber arts, Qi cultivation, and body refinement as Outer Domain Evil Cult followers launched a major invasion in Wangyue Pavilion’s territory. A mysterious scholar named Mr. Goldfish anticipated bloodshed, and Jewel Box Pavilion sent a warning to the Hidden Great Sects before the chapter ended at Sword Cliff.

• Song Changming reflected on reaching three Qi vortices, advancing his saber arts, and raising his strength to sixty thousand jin.
• Wangyue Pavilion’s investigators vanished in the great fog, a village was massacred, and a wounded elder reported that Outer Domain Evil Cult followers had invaded in force.
• Liu Dingsheng worried about Liu Yan'er, while Song Changming warned Liu Ziwen and Song Ping'an that powerful Outer Domain cults could rival the Hidden Great Sects.
• Mr. Goldfish studied the stars, spoke confidently about the invasion, and considered joining the coming spectacle.
• Jewel Box Pavilion sent a letter to all the Hidden Great Sects, and the chapter introduced Sword Cliff, where the Sword Venerable cultivated.

The Outer Domain Evil Cult’s growing invasion prompted the martial world to mobilize, while Wangyue Pavilion learned that Ghost Blade Sect remnants had trapped its disciples in the spreading fog. The Pavilion sent Hou Chuanzheng to lead a rescue, leaving Liu Yan’er and Shen Xueyu worried about the missing disciples.

• The Sword Venerable authorized his young master to descend the mountain and investigate the Outer Domain Evil Cult’s activity in Wangyue Commandery.
• Hidden Great Sects and other martial forces dispatched scouts and support teams as the fog spread across villages and towns.
• Guan Weijing escaped the fog and told Wangyue Pavilion that Zhou Yan, Fang Yingru, and other disciples were trapped with Ghost Blade Sect remnants.
• Su Yuehan took charge while Pavilion Master Su remained in seclusion, and Hou Chuanzheng left with several stewards to rescue the trapped disciples.
• Guan Weijing returned to the fog to guide the rescue team, while Shen Xueyu and Liu Yan’er worried about Fang Yingru and the others.

Song Changming reunited in Wangyue Commandery with Liu Xiangnan, the hero who had taught him the Flying Swallow Style, and Zhao Dongming, the Carefree Sword. After Song Changming drove off Master Leopard and his men, the old friends shared a meal and discussed their changed lives and journey from the Ancient Abyss Kingdom.

• Two travel-worn men entered Wangyue Commandery City with Dragon Horn horses, and Song Changming recognized Liu Xiangnan as they passed.
• At a tavern, Master Leopard tried to buy the horses for three hundred silver coins, then threatened Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming when they refused.
• Song Changming confronted Master Leopard, snapped several weapons with a flick of his finger, and forced him to leave with his men.
• Song Changming reunited with Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming, and the three sat together to eat and catch up.
• Zhao Dongming mentioned wine brought from the Ancient Abyss Kingdom, and Song Changming asked about it.

Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming recounted how an Ancient Abyss Kingdom expert healed Liu Xiangnan and guided them to great martial strength, while Song Changming learned that Longevity Users lived there. After reuniting with Song, Liu Xiangnan chose to stay in Wangyue Commandery and help its people against the Outer Domain Evil Cult.

• Liu Xiangnan told Song Changming how Mr. Jiang healed his crippled hands and feet with a precious medicine from the Ancient Abyss Kingdom and took him and Zhao Dongming under his protection.
• Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming described how they trained in the Outer Domain, opened their Nether Seas, entered the Qi Refinement Realm, and returned to Great Han as powerful Martial Arts Masters.
• Song Changming and Liu Xiangnan exchanged dozens of moves using only the Flying Swallow Style, and Liu Xiangnan was pleased with Song's mastery.
• Liu Xiangnan and Zhao Dongming told Song Changming that Mr. Jiang was nearly two hundred years old and that Longevity Users were common in the Ancient Abyss Kingdom.
• After hearing of the Outer Domain Evil Cult's invasion of Wangyue Commandery, Liu Xiangnan decided to stay and help protect its suffering commoners.

Li Pu visited Song Changming to challenge him, but Song Changming defeated him decisively and spared him at the last moment. Li Pu accepted Song Changming’s strength and said he belonged on the Heavenly Ranking rather than the Earth Ranking.

• After meeting Liu Xiangnan, Song Changming learned more about the Ancient Abyss Kingdom and decided not to cross the great fog without being certain he could survive.
• Li Pu came to Liu Residence to challenge Song Changming and offered a rare snow lotus as the stake.
• Li Pu unleashed his Ice Snow Saber Art, and Song Changming answered with the Fire God Saber Art as their attacks damaged the courtyard.
• Li Pu used Great Snow Mirror to block Song Changming’s blazing saber, but Song Changming shattered the ice mirrors and stopped his blade inches from Li Pu’s face.
• Sun Lu recognized Song Changming’s Fire God Saber Art, while Li Pu admitted defeat and said Song Changming should be ranked on the Heavenly Ranking.

Song Changming dealt with the aftermath of his spar with Li Pu as martial forces gathered to enter the expanding great fog. At the Liu Residence, Liu Yan'er left after being summoned, and Liu Dingsheng recovered briefly before reminding Song Changming of their agreement.

• Li Pu left after losing to Song Changming, who sent the snow lotus into storage and realized he had forgotten to collect compensation for the damaged courtyard plants.
• Hidden Great Sects and martial world factions gathered outside the great fog; Han Baidu warned them about powerful evil cultists and Mist Beasts inside.
• Dongfang Wei led Sword Cliff into the fog, followed by Hong Chang and the other Hidden Great Sect teams, while the remaining factions formed their own alliances.
• Zhao Dongming and Liu Xiangnan entered the fog to seek Mist Gold as enormous beast roars sounded within it.
• Liu Yan'er left the city after her master summoned her, asking Song Changming to notify her if anything happened to Liu Dingsheng.
• After Liu Dingsheng's condition improved, he asked Song Changming about their old agreement, and Song Changming promised to keep his word.

Song Changming entered the expanding great fog to protect Liu Yan'er and encountered numerous powerful Mist Beasts. He killed a Black Scale giant python and found Mist Gold in its head, then fought three more pythons inside the fog.

• After the great fog swallowed more settlements, Song Changming volunteered to accompany Wangyue Pavilion's experts and protect Liu Yan'er, while Song Ping'an stayed at the Liu Residence.
• Song Changming reached the fog, narrowly escaped a Black Scale giant python, and killed it with his Fire God Saber Art.
• He found Mist Gold inside the python's head and took it, recognizing its value for accelerating Qi Refining cultivation.
• Song Changming entered the fog and encountered three more Black Scale giant pythons, evading their attacks with the Flying Thunder Art.
• He struck all three pythons with Wind Dragon saber Qi, blasting them back and inflicting severe wounds.

Song Changming encountered Liu Yuan, a Ghost Blade Sect remnant commanding black-scaled giant pythons, and intervened when Liu Yuan’s beasts attacked a group of Great Han martial artists. Song Changming fought Liu Yuan on equal terms, leaving the Sword Cliff swordsman who had doubted his ranking reconsidering Song Changming’s strength.

• Song Changming found Liu Yuan standing atop a giant python as more than ten Great Han martial artists arrived and identified him as a Ghost Blade Sect remnant.
• Liu Yuan ordered the black-scaled giant pythons to attack without devouring anyone’s vital essence and blood, and the Sword Cliff swordsman killed several pythons before charging Liu Yuan.
• Liu Yuan overwhelmed the swordsman with a blood-colored saber strike, but Song Changming struck Liu Yuan and his mount with three Wind Dragon saber Qis.
• Song Changming charged Liu Yuan, and the two clashed with powerful saber Qi while the wandering martial artist rescued the wounded swordsman from the shockwaves.
• The swordsman recognized Song Changming as Dragon Saber, first on the Earth Ranking, and began doubting that Sword Cliff’s young sect master Nan Chenguang was stronger than him.

Song Changming defeated Liu Yuan with his full-strength Flame Saber, then continued alone through the great fog in search of Wangyue Pavilion and Liu Yan'er. After stopping to catch and roast fish by a river, he encountered Nan Chenguang and another swordsman fleeing into the riverbank.

• Song Changming overpowered Liu Yuan's Yinfeng and shattered his bone saber, killing the Ghost Blade Sect remnant with a fiery saber strike.
• Several groups of Martial Artists arrived, recognized Song Changming as the first-ranked Earth Ranking Dragon Saber, and Monk Jingchen told him that Fairy Yuehan was fighting the Corpse Refining Sect in the fog.
• Song Changming declined Monk Jingchen's offer to travel together and headed north alone to search for Wangyue Pavilion's disciples.
• Song Changming evaded Mist Beasts, found a river, caught fish with Internal Energy, and roasted them for a meal.
• Two swordsmen burst from the fog onto the riverbank, and Song Changming recognized one of them as Sword Cliff's young master, Nan Chenguang.

Song Changming and Nan Chenguang encountered a Corpse Refining Sect member and his corpse puppets in the mist. After Song subdued the little girl whose gaze could immobilize Nan Chenguang, Nan killed the sect member, but the dying Black-eyed Corpse Puppet recognized Song Changming and spoke his name.

• A wounded Sword Cliff swordsman warned Nan Chenguang to flee before a towering Black-eyed Corpse Puppet crushed him to death.
• Nan Chenguang fought the corpse puppet and pierced its armor, while the Corpse Refining Sect member emerged with dozens of rotting corpses.
• The sect member used a hidden little girl’s pink-eyed mental attack to freeze Nan Chenguang, but Song Changming knocked her unconscious.
• Nan Chenguang regained control and killed the sect member, causing his corpse puppets to collapse and decay.
• As the Black-eyed Corpse Puppet died, it looked at Song Changming, showed signs of recognition, and said, “Changming.”

Song Changming discovered that the corpse puppet was Song Bao, a childhood friend who revealed that the Corpse Refining Sect had turned him and possibly Song Changming’s brothers into corpse puppets. After burying Song Bao, Song Changming tested the succubus eye technique of the girl, who later proved to be Su Qingqing of the Ancient Abyss Kingdom.

• Song Changming stopped Nan Chenguang from killing the corpse puppet and learned that it was Song Bao, his childhood friend from Song Family Village.
• Song Bao explained that the Corpse Refining Sect had refined him into a corpse puppet and implied Song Changming’s brothers had suffered the same fate before his consciousness faded.
• Song Changming buried Song Bao, while Nan Chenguang left with the injured swordsman after warning that they would settle who was stronger next time.
• Song Changming questioned the little girl and made her use her succubus eye technique on him; his Ice Heart stabilized his mind, and she fainted from exhausting her Spiritual Power.
• After waking the next night, the girl learned she had been unconscious for a day and night, and Song Changming identified her as Su Qingqing from her jade token and asked whether she was from the Ancient Abyss Kingdom.

Song Changming questioned Su Qingqing about the Corpse Refining Sect and reluctantly let her follow him through the great fog. While searching for Liu Yan’er, he encountered Outer Domain Evil Cult members driving Two-headed Wolves toward him and prepared to fight.

• Song Changming learned that Su Qingqing had been abducted from the Ancient Abyss Kingdom and was meant to be refined into a Yin Puppet because she possessed a Yin Meridian.
• Song Changming fed Su Qingqing roasted bear meat, then let her follow him when she feared being alone in the great fog.
• Song Changming rested with Su Qingqing in a rocky cave and resolved to pursue the Corpse Refining Sect, whose corpse puppets had killed his brothers.
• Song Changming found the remains of Wangyue Pavilion disciples and hurried on, hoping to find Liu Yan’er in time.
• A pack of Two-headed Wolves approached with several Outer Domain Evil Cult members, who planned to kill Song Changming and sell him to the Corpse Refining Sect.
• Song Changming drew his saber and asked the Outer Domain Evil Cult members to point him toward their sects.

Song Changming fought his way toward the battle between the Corpse Refining Sect and Wangyue Pavilion while searching for Fan Lao Jiu. After rescuing Liu Yan'er from a corpse puppet, he faced three stronger puppets and unleashed his Fire God Saber Art.

• Song Changming defeated the beast-controlling corpse transporters, learned that the Corpse Refining Sect and Wangyue Pavilion were at war, and killed the survivors after they could not identify Fan Lao Jiu.
• Song Changming reached the battlefield and beheaded a Black-eyed Corpse Puppet that was pursuing Liu Yan'er.
• Song Changming killed a Corpse Refining Sect member who could not identify Fan Lao Jiu, then faced three more Black-eyed Corpse Puppets.
• A deranged Corpse Refining Sect member ordered the puppets to capture Song Changming intact, but Song Changming drove them back with his Fire God Saber Art.

Song Changming killed three Black-eyed Corpse Puppets and the Corpse Refining Sect member controlling them, then questioned Ding Yanyun about Fan Lao Jiu’s corpse puppet. Ding Yanyun revealed that two brothers who had been vanguard generals in Great Han were among the corpse materials he had passed to a sect elder, and he sent three more puppets to attack Song Changming.

• Song Changming defeated and killed three Black-eyed Corpse Puppets, then pursued and killed their controller after learning he did not know Fan Lao Jiu.
• Ding Yanyun emerged with five Black-eyed Corpse Puppets and a white-furred puppet, and told Song Changming that he had supplied Fan Lao Jiu with corpse-puppet materials.
• Ding Yanyun revealed that two blood-related brothers, once generals in Great Han’s vanguard army, had been among the materials he passed to a sect elder.
• Song Changming connected the brothers to his eldest and second brothers and became nearly certain they had been taken as corpse materials.
• As fighting erupted on the mountainside, Ding Yanyun sent three Black-eyed Corpse Puppets to attack Song Changming.

Song Changming destroyed Ding Yanyun’s Black-eyed Corpse Puppets and fought the White-eyed Corpse Puppet evenly, forcing Ding to unleash a Blue Ice Bird Mist Beast. The chapter ended with Song Changming breaking free of the bird’s freezing breath as the White-eyed Corpse Puppet attacked again.

• Song Changming decapitated one Black-eyed Corpse Puppet, then destroyed the other two as Ding Yanyun called them back.
• Ding Yanyun sent the White-eyed Corpse Puppet against Song Changming, and its saber strike hurled him into a rock wall.
• Song Changming recovered and clashed with the White-eyed Corpse Puppet, using his varied saber techniques to gain the advantage.
• Ding Yanyun released a Blue Ice Bird Mist Beast, which froze Song Changming and left him vulnerable to the White-eyed Corpse Puppet’s slash.
• Song Changming drove out the cold with his fire-attributed saber Qi and retreated from the White-eyed Corpse Puppet’s attack.

Song Changming defeated Ding Yanyun and his White-eyed Corpse Puppet and Blue Ice Bird, but learned nothing about the elder who had taken his brother’s corpse. As Su Yuehan battled a powerful Yellow-Eyed Corpse Puppet nearby, a scholar with an iron rod that absorbed Song Changming’s saber Qi appeared and seemed to recognize him.

• Song Changming used the Blood Burst Secret Technique to destroy the Blue Ice Bird and defeat the White-eyed Corpse Puppet.
• Song Changming killed Ding Yanyun after he refused to answer who had taken Song Changming’s brother’s corpse, then took the Mist Gold and money pouch.
• Song Changming reflected that he was still outmatched by the experts of the Hidden Great Sects as Su Yuehan fought a Yellow-Eyed Corpse Puppet.
• Su Yuehan struck the Yellow-Eyed Corpse Puppet into the ground and continued suppressing it with her martial skill and profound internal Qi.
• A scholar emerged from behind a tree and revealed that his black iron rod had absorbed Song Changming’s saber Qi, then asked whether Song Changming remembered him.

Song Changming reunited with Li Jinyu, the mysterious Mr. Goldfish, while they watched Fairy Yuehan battle a powerful corpse puppet. Li Jinyu explained the limits of his divination and suggested Song Changming travel to the Ancient Abyss Kingdom to investigate what happened to his two elder brothers, leaving open the possibility that Li Jinyu would accompany him.

• Song Changming recognized Li Jinyu as the scholar who had once predicted a spectacle and learned that he had ranked Song first on Jewel Box Pavilion's Earth Ranking.
• Li Jinyu identified the woman fighting in the distance as Fairy Yuehan and her opponent as a third-tier Yellow-Eyed Corpse Puppet of the Corpse Refining Sect.
• Song Changming asked Li Jinyu whether Jewel Box Pavilion could help investigate the fate of his eldest and second elder brothers, whose corpses had been taken by the Corpse Refining Sect.
• Li Jinyu said the brothers were likely taken to the sect's main base in the Ancient Abyss Kingdom and that Song Changming would need to go there to uncover the truth.
• Li Jinyu explained that he might be able to divine their whereabouts if they were powerful enough to be part of a major event and he observed the stars in the Ancient Abyss Kingdom, then expressed interest in traveling there with Song Changming.