Chapter Summaries

The Five Family Alliance reached the ruins of Azure Wave Market and launched a coordinated attack on Li Chengjie's Golden Flame Mountain Suppressing Array. Li Chengjie realized he faced fourteen Golden Core cultivators and nearly a thousand Foundation Establishment elites, far more than he had expected.

• All ten Directional Escape Talismans shattered, and the ten people vanished from the Golden Dragon Cloud Boat.
• Wang Chengzhi and the other Golden Core cultivators inspected the formation above Azure Wave Market, and Jade Cauldron challenged Li Chengjie to come out.
• Wang Chengzhi ordered the Golden Core cultivators and Foundation Establishment array to attack the formation together and promised to break it in three moves.
• The first combined assault revealed the Golden Flame Mountain Suppressing Array and left its barrier trembling and rapidly losing power.
• Li Chengjie sensed the attackers through the formation and discovered that fourteen Golden Core cultivators and nearly a thousand Foundation Establishment elites had come to crush him.

Besieged by fourteen Golden Core cultivators and nearly a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators, Li Chengjie escaped the Azure Wave Market ruins with a Thousand Mile Instantaneous Talisman and the Blazing Heaven Wings. His pursuers launched a swift chase, and he sensed them closing in while flying at unprecedented speed.

• Li Chengjie judged that he could not survive the siege and activated the Thousand Mile Instantaneous Talisman and Blazing Heaven Wings to escape through the formation’s southern life gate.
• Wang Chengzhi noticed Li Chengjie’s escape too late and ordered the Golden Core cultivators to pursue him, warning that he would threaten their disciples and Lineages if he survived.
• Wang Chengzhi, Elder Yu Ding, Chen Zhenyue, Han Qianye, Liu Xuanfeng, and the other Golden Core cultivators used Escape Talismans and chased Li Chengjie south.
• More than a thousand miles from Azure Wave Market, Li Chengjie drove the Blazing Heaven Wings at full power and discovered that many Golden Core cultivators were pursuing him.

Li Chengjie faced ten Jin Family cultivators blocking his route while the Medicine King Valley Alliance pursued him from behind. He charged at the Jin Family to avoid being surrounded, but Jin Yiheng called for a truce and claimed they had come to help; Li Chengjie remained wary as he assessed their weakened state and hidden motives.

• Li Chengjie recognized Jin Yiheng among the ten Golden Core cultivators and realized the royal Jin Family was blocking his path south.
• With pursuers closing in behind him, Li Chengjie accelerated toward the Jin Family, unleashing his magic treasures to threaten them with a fight to the death.
• Jin Yiheng recognized signs that the incoming cultivator was Li Chengjie and shouted that the confrontation was a misunderstanding.
• Li Chengjie stopped nearby and mocked Jin Yiheng's claim that ten cultivators had gathered there by chance.
• Jin Yiheng claimed the Jin Family had come to aid Li Chengjie against Medicine King Valley, while Li Chengjie noticed their unstable auras and suspected they wanted his Measuring Heaven Ruler.

Wang Chengzhi caught up with Li Chengjie and mistook his confrontation with the Jin Family for proof of a conspiracy against Medicine King Valley. He secretly redirected his attack toward Li Chengjie, who blocked the blow and retreated near the Jin Family.

• Wang Chengzhi arrived with the Medicine King Valley Alliance and saw Li Chengjie facing the Jin Family Alliance.
• Wang Chengzhi concluded that the Jin Family had colluded with Li Chengjie to ambush Medicine King Valley and ordered his allies to attack.
• Wang Chengzhi disguised his true target by aiming a Fire Dragon strike at Jin Hongxi, then redirected it toward Li Chengjie.
• Li Chengjie countered with the Golden Flame Sword, Measuring Heaven Ruler, Azure Origin Shield, and Earth Control Pearl, deflecting the strike's force.
• The clash drove Li Chengjie back toward the Jin Family, strengthening Wang Chengzhi's suspicion that they were working together.

Li Chengjie used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to weaken the Medicine King Valley Alliance while the injured Jin Family fought them, then escaped the battlefield. Once his suppression lifted, the Alliance regained its full strength and overwhelmed the Jin Family.

• Wang Chengzhi mistook Li Chengjie's retreat toward the Jin Family as evidence of collusion and ordered the Medicine King Valley Alliance to attack them.
• The Jin Family, weakened by spatial teleportation, fought the Alliance, whose attacks were suppressed by Li Chengjie's Measuring Heaven Ruler, leaving both sides at roughly seventy percent strength.
• Li Chengjie quietly retreated toward the southeast while maintaining the suppression, then used the Blazing Heaven Wings to flee when Wang Chengzhi noticed him.
• The Measuring Heaven Ruler's suppression vanished as Li Chengjie escaped, restoring the Alliance's power and leaving the Jin Family exposed.
• Wang Chengzhi shattered the Jin Family's defensive formation, and Jin Qingyang and other Jin Family cultivators were gravely wounded.

After Li Chengjie escaped with the Measuring Heaven Ruler, Wang Chengzhi chose to attack the weakened Jin Family Alliance instead of pursuing him. The Jin Family suffered heavy losses and fled toward Li Chengjie, who kept retreating as Jin Yiheng pleaded for his help.

• The Measuring Heaven Ruler's suppression vanished, restoring the Medicine King Valley Alliance's full strength, and Wang Chengzhi ordered it to attack the Jin Family.
• Wang Chengzhi killed Jin Qingyang and two mid Golden Core elders while the Medicine King Valley Alliance wounded the remaining Jin Family fighters.
• Jin Hongxi ordered the survivors to retreat toward Li Chengjie, and seven battered cultivators fled southeast.
• Li Chengjie watched from a nearby mountain and retreated as the Jin Family approached, keeping them at a safe distance.
• Jin Yiheng pleaded with Li Chengjie to help the survivors, arguing that they shared Medicine King Valley as an enemy, while Wang Chengzhi pursued them.

Li Chengjie stopped fleeing after Jin Hongxi and the other six wounded cultivators begged him to help them escape the Medicine King Valley pursuers. He turned back, used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to suppress the attackers, and struck Wang Chengzhi with the Flame Extreme Barrier Break, leaving Wang stunned by Li’s use of his signature technique.

• Jin Hongxi and six other wounded cultivators pleaded with Li Chengjie to use the Measuring Heaven Ruler to hold off Medicine King Valley’s pursuers.
• Li Chengjie decided that helping the Jin Family would deepen its conflict with Medicine King Valley, then flew back toward Wang Chengzhi’s advancing forces.
• Li Chengjie unleashed the Measuring Heaven Ruler’s full suppression, weakening the magical treasures and attacks of all fourteen Golden Core cultivators in the Medicine King Valley alliance.
• Li Chengjie used the Flame Extreme Barrier Break to pierce and shatter Wang Chengzhi’s hundred-zhang Fire Dragon.
• Wang Chengzhi was driven back and realized Li Chengjie had used the signature killing move from the Blazing Sacred Fire Art.

Li Chengjie used the Measuring Heaven Ruler and Jin Hongxi’s Golden Dragon Soul Suppressing Seal to disrupt the Medicine King Valley Alliance before killing Liu Xuanfeng with four sword strikes. He remained poised to continue fighting Wang Chengzhi and the surviving cultivators.

• Li Chengjie broke through the Medicine King Valley Alliance’s formation, struck at Liu Xuanfeng and Elder Sun, and then evaded their counterattacks.
• Jin Hongxi sacrificed the Golden Dragon Soul Suppressing Seal and unleashed its Spiritual Sense Impact, disrupting the alliance’s cultivators.
• Li Chengjie strengthened the Measuring Heaven Ruler’s suppression while the enemies’ spiritual senses were in turmoil.
• Li Chengjie sent four sword lights at Liu Xuanfeng, shattered his blood saber, and killed him with Heartfire.
• Wang Chengzhi watched Liu Xuanfeng fall as Li Chengjie gathered the Golden Flame Sword, Measuring Heaven Ruler, and Blazing Heaven Wings for the continuing battle.

Li Chengjie used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to suppress Wang Chengzhi and Elder Yu Ding’s Magic Treasures, then broke through their defenses and killed Yu Ding. Wang Chengzhi was left staring at his fallen companion, still holding the Dan Fire Sword.

• Wang Chengzhi and Elder Yu Ding attacked Li Chengjie together, but his Measuring Heaven Ruler, Blazing Sky Shield, and Earth Control Pearl weakened and blocked their attacks.
• Elder Yu Ding brought out four Magic Treasures, but Li Chengjie’s Measuring Heaven Ruler suppressed them while he countered Wang Chengzhi’s sword strikes.
• Li Chengjie unleashed the Measuring Heaven Ruler’s full power, restraining the Magic Treasures of the Medicine King Valley cultivators and rushing toward Elder Yu Ding.
• Li Chengjie shattered Elder Yu Ding’s Ice Blue Small Shield and struck her with the Soul Suppressing Beads, leaving her unable to control her final defensive treasure.
• Li Chengjie killed Elder Yu Ding with his third sword strike, and Wang Chengzhi stared at her corpse in shock.

Li Chengjie resisted Wang Chengzhi’s Soul Devouring Pearl and suppressed him with the Measuring Heaven Ruler, while Jin Hongxi unleashed a desperate soul attack to stop the Medicine King Valley Alliance. With the alliance’s cultivators incapacitated, Li Chengjie charged straight at Wang Chengzhi.

• Wang Chengzhi used the Soul Devouring Pearl to attack Li Chengjie’s soul, but Li Chengjie barely reacted and identified the treasure.
• Li Chengjie used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to weaken Wang Chengzhi’s Dan Fire Sword and pin him down.
• Elder Sun led Elder Zhao, Elder Qian, Elder Zhou, Elder Wu, Chen Zhenyue, Han Qianye, and Shi Shouxin in an attack on Li Chengjie.
• Jin Hongxi burned his Essence Blood Origin to unleash the Golden Dragon Soul Suppressing Seal’s extreme attack, disrupting the Medicine King Valley Alliance’s cultivators.
• Li Chengjie launched himself toward Wang Chengzhi with the Blazing Heaven Wings.

Li Chengjie killed Wang Chengzhi and collected the fallen cultivators’ Storage Bags and treasures. As the Jin Family’s battered survivors faced defeat, he intervened by killing Elder Sun and taking his belongings.

• Li Chengjie overwhelmed the Medicine King Valley elders’ attacks and killed Wang Chengzhi with a pale flame that burned through his soul.
• Li Chengjie collected Wang Chengzhi’s Storage Bag, Jade Cauldron’s treasures and Storage Bag, and Liu Xuanfeng’s Storage Bag.
• The Medicine King Valley Alliance continued to overwhelm the seven battered Jin Family survivors, and Jin Yiheng begged Li Chengjie for help.
• Li Chengjie flew toward Elder Sun and killed him with a sword strike through the throat.
• Li Chengjie took Elder Sun’s Storage Bag and the broken pieces of his Flying Sword.

Li Chengjie killed the five remaining Medicine King Valley Golden Core cultivators as they tried to flee, leaving six members of the alliance frozen before him. The chapter ended with the survivors realizing their failed attack had been turned by the Jin Family’s intervention and facing Li Chengjie’s overwhelming power.

• Li Chengjie killed Elder Zhao and took his Storage Bag and Mysterious Iron Seal.
• Jin Hongxi’s Golden Dragon Soul Suppressing Seal disrupted Elder Qian’s escape, allowing Li Chengjie to kill him and collect his Storage Bag.
• Li Chengjie pursued and killed Elder Zhou after the Soul Suppressing Beads interrupted his escape.
• Feng Wuhen severed Elder Wu’s hand with a Wind Blade, stopping his Escape Talisman, and Li Chengjie killed him.
• The six surviving members of the Medicine King Valley Alliance stood paralyzed as Li Chengjie hovered before them with five magic treasures.
• The survivors reflected that the Jin Family’s intervention had disrupted their numbers and helped turn their fourteen-against-one attack into a defeat.

The Medicine King Valley cultivators turned their fury on Jin Hongxi, and Han Qianye’s self-detonation left Jin Hongxi dead. In the explosion’s aftermath, Chen Zhenyue targeted the wounded Feng Wuhen.

• Jin Hongxi tried to persuade the six Medicine King Valley cultivators to direct their attack at Li Chengjie, but his words made them hate the Jin Family more.
• Han Qianye charged Jin Hongxi and detonated his peak Golden Core, unleashing an explosion that destroyed Jin Yiheng’s Tattered Golden Shield and wounded those nearby.
• Li Chengjie watched as the blast and his sword radiance overwhelmed Jin Hongxi, who died after silently urging Jin Yiheng to go.
• Chen Zhenyue emerged from the smoke and fixed his gaze on the badly wounded Feng Wuhen.

Li Chengjie watched the battlefield’s Golden Core cultivators die in desperate self-detonations, then pursued the fleeing Liu Family Elder. He shattered the elder’s last defense and drove a sword toward his brow.

• Chen Zhenyue, Shi Shouxin, and Elder Tan self-detonated, killing Feng Wuhen and Jin Zishan and badly injuring Jin Yiheng and the surviving allies.
• Li Chengjie realized that a mid Golden Core stage Liu Family Elder had escaped and detected his concealed flight south with his spiritual sense.
• Li Chengjie unleashed the Blazing Heaven Wings’ full power and raced after the Liu Family Elder.
• The Liu Family Elder burned his Essence Blood to flee, but Li Chengjie caught up and shattered his dark crimson shield with the Golden Flame Sword.
• Li Chengjie’s sword pierced toward the Liu Family Elder’s brow as the elder remembered Liu Xuanfeng’s warning about the Liu Family’s chance to rise again.

Li Chengjie killed the fleeing Liu Family Elder and took his Storage Bag, while the four wounded Golden Core cultivators feared what he might do if he returned and fled toward Cangwu City. Li Chengjie then flew back to the battlefield as the others escaped without looking back.

• Li Chengjie pierced the Liu Family Elder's head with his sword and killed him.
• Jin Yiheng, Li Muyun, Wang Zhenshan, and Shui Yuanzi assessed their severe injuries and wondered whether they could have defeated Li Chengjie if they had been at full strength.
• Jin Yiheng warned that Li Chengjie might attack them when he returned, so the four decided to leave immediately.
• Jin Yiheng, Li Muyun, Wang Zhenshan, and Shui Yuanzi fled toward Cangwu City.
• Li Chengjie took the Liu Family Elder's Storage Bag and flew back toward the battlefield.

Li Chengjie returned to Azure Wave Market after defeating the Golden Core cultivators who had pursued him, while the fleeing survivors and the Medicine King Valley Alliance forces were gone. Gao Chen learned that Li Chengjie had slain fourteen Golden Cores and pledged to follow him for the rest of his life as the Monster Hunting Guild prepared to rise in Star Luo Kingdom.

• Li Chengjie searched the devastated battlefield, found that Jin Yiheng and the others had escaped, and chose not to pursue them.
• Li Chengjie returned to Azure Wave Market and found it deserted except for Gao Chen waiting outside the Guild Master's Cave Abode.
• Li Chengjie told Gao Chen that all fourteen Golden Core cultivators who pursued him had fallen, naming several of the dead.
• Gao Chen recalled his fear during the battle and realized Li Chengjie's victory had transformed the Monster Hunting Guild's prospects.
• Gao Chen bowed to Li Chengjie and vowed to follow him for the rest of his life.

Li Chengjie inventoried eight Storage Bags taken from Golden Core cultivators, converted their spirit stones into Replication Points, and sorted their remaining treasures. With more than eighteen thousand points, he began considering replicating a Nascent Soul Cultivator, though he did not know where to find one in Star Luo Kingdom.

• Li Chengjie set aside the Storage Bag from the mid Golden Core stage Liu Family cultivator and inspected the other eight, finding spirit stones, pills, magical artifacts, cultivation materials, and Jade Slips.
• Li Chengjie converted all the spirit stones from the eight Storage Bags into Replication Points, bringing his total to more than eighteen thousand.
• Li Chengjie sorted the remaining treasures and stored the Jade Slips separately for future study.
• Li Chengjie compared the Blazing Sky Shield with his damaged Black Tortoise Shield and decided to keep the latter with his refining materials for possible future reforging.
• Li Chengjie considered using his Replication Points to replicate a Nascent Soul Cultivator but did not know where to find one in Star Luo Kingdom.

After absorbing Wang Chengzhi’s cultivation experience, Li Chengjie strengthened his techniques and skills but resolved to seek a Nascent Soul Cultivator for his next breakthrough. At Medicine King Valley, Elder Gu Song mourned its fallen Golden Core cultivators and feared Li Chengjie would come to destroy what remained.

• Li Chengjie reviewed his System Panel and saw improvements across his cultivation techniques, alchemy, and pill-fire insights, with the Furnace Body Tempering Chapter reaching Perfection.
• Li Chengjie assessed his peak Golden Core strength and decided he needed to find a Nascent Soul Cultivator to replicate their abilities.
• Elder Gu Song sat in Medicine King Valley’s Soul Lamp Hall and grieved over the extinguished lamps of Wang Chengzhi, Jade Cauldron, and the other fallen cultivators.
• Elder Gu Song counted the nine surviving Golden Core cultivators and realized he was the only peak Golden Core cultivator left in Medicine King Valley.
• Elder Gu Song feared Li Chengjie would arrive and wondered whether he would spare Medicine King Valley.

In Star Moon Valley, Zhu Zhengping and Chen Tianbao promoted the Monster Hunting Guild after hearing that Li Chengjie had killed fourteen Golden Core cultivators. They decided to return to Azure Wave Market, presenting their earlier flight as a mission to gather supplies.

• A bald cultivator told teahouse patrons that Li Chengjie had defeated fourteen Golden Core cultivators, including prominent members of Medicine King Valley and its allies, and taken the Measuring Heaven Ruler.
• Zhu Zhengping claimed that Li Chengjie was the Monster Hunting Guild’s Grand Elder and boasted about the guild’s strength, though he had no proof of his position.
• Chen Tianbao arrived with two Flowing Cloud Sect Disciples and greeted Zhu Zhengping, convincing the doubtful patrons that Zhu was a guild leader.
• Zhu Zhengping and Chen Tianbao said they had left Azure Wave Market to buy supplies for the guild and agreed to return together after finishing their business.

After Li Chengjie’s victory over fourteen Golden Core cultivators, Liu Wenbo claimed he had been in seclusion and pledged to return to the Monster Hunting Guild. Gao Chen accepted his help despite suspecting his motives, while Liu promoted his renewed allegiance to fellow cultivators in the Southern Region.

• Gao Chen received Liu Wenbo’s message claiming he had been in seclusion and was rushing back to fight the Medicine King Valley Alliance.
• Gao Chen recalled that Liu Wenbo had previously disavowed the guild, but decided to accept him as another Golden Core fighter.
• Liu Wenbo sent messages to Rogue Cultivator friends, boasting of the guild’s victory and declaring himself at daggers drawn with the Medicine King Valley Alliance.
• Liu Wenbo reflected that joining the Monster Hunting Guild gave him the backing and home he had lacked as a Rogue Cultivator.
• When a teahouse patron asked about the battle, Liu Wenbo proudly recounted Li Chengjie’s slaughter of fourteen Golden Core cultivators.