Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang learned that Wu Jiangtian planned to assassinate Wu Zhixing and told Wu Zongbo that the Wu Family Ancestor had died. After Wu Zhixing confirmed the ancestor’s death, Qin Wang proposed using Wu Jiangtian’s banquet to strike back, leaving Wu Zhixing to consider a risky counterattack.

• Qin Wang found that Wu Jiangtian’s allies had been placed at the Sword Domain barrier and summoned Wu Zongbo by attacking it.
• Wu Zongbo killed the two disloyal Wu Family disciples as they fled, and Qin Wang warned him of Wu Jiangtian’s planned assassination of Wu Zhixing.
• Qin Wang told Wu Zongbo that the Wu Family Ancestor had died, and Wu Zongbo brought Wu Zhixing to verify the news.
• Wu Zhixing confirmed the ancestor’s death and asked Qin Wang what to do next.
• Qin Wang proposed using Wu Jiangtian’s banquet to kill him and his allies in return, though Wu Zhixing would have to take a risk.

Wu Zhixing accepted Qin Tiedan’s warning and agreed to attend Wu Jiangtian’s banquet, where the plotters changed their plan after learning it had been exposed. At the banquet, Wu Tianyun lost his temper when a small-sect elder insulted Wu Su and attacked him with his Flying Sword.

• Wu Zhixing agreed to Qin Tiedan’s plan to counter Wu Jiangtian’s banquet trap, and Wu Zongbo confirmed the invitation arrived as predicted.
• Wu Zongbo told Wu Tianyun that Wu Su had returned as a divine soul in the Sword Domain, and Wu Tianyun grew excited about her prospects and his own future in the Wu Family.
• Huang Tongtong coaxed Wu Tianyun into revealing the plan to kill Wu Jiangtian at the banquet, then secretly sent a messenger sword to Wu Jiangtian.
• Wu Jiangtian told Chu Wusheng and Wan Jianyi that the trap had been exposed, but they decided to proceed and use small-sect forces to provoke Wu Zhixing.
• At the banquet, Wu Tianyun attacked a small-sect elder after the elder mocked Wu Su and accused the Wu Family of using her.

Wu Tianyun’s attempt to discipline a small sect elder ended in the elder’s mysterious death, igniting a battle at the gathering. Wu Jiangtian’s faction trapped the hall with the Ten Heavens Nine Earths Lifeless Array and exposed the supposed Wu Zhixing as Wu Zonghua, demanding to know where the real Wu Zhixing was.

• Wu Tianyun’s Flying Sword pierced the small sect elder after a mysterious force moved the elder into its path, destroying his body, Nascent Soul, and divine soul.
• The small sect representatives accused the Wu Family of murder and charged Wu Tianyun, while Wu Zongbo’s pressure briefly subdued them.
• Yu Daowu attacked Wu Zongbo, and he announced that the Wuji Sect was helping Elder Wu Jiangtian reclaim the Wu Family.
• Chu Wusheng, Wan Jianyi, and Wu Jiangtian revealed their strength as the Ten Heavens Nine Earths Lifeless Array sealed the hall.
• Wu Jiangtian pierced the disguised Wu Zhixing and exposed him as Wu Zonghua, then demanded to know where the real Wu Zhixing was.

Wu Zongbo revealed that he and his allies had set a scheme within a scheme, but the Wu Family Ancestor appeared and challenged the intruders. Zhu Jingtian arrived and faced the Ancestor’s threat of a final sword strike, leaving him shaken and unwilling to accept it.

• Wu Zongbo revealed that Wu Tianyun had been deceived by his Dao companion, Huang Tongtong, and that the events had been part of a calculated trap.
• The Ten Heavens Nine Earths Lifeless Array shattered, and a sword light killed Yu Daowu after Chu Wusheng used him as a shield.
• The Wu Family Ancestor appeared, and Wu Zongbo, Wu Zonghua, Wu Tianyun, and the Wu Family disciples knelt before him while Wu Jiangtian refused.
• Zhu Jingtian emerged and released the pressure of the Body Integration Realm, but the Wu Family Ancestor stood firm and warned him to leave.
• The Wu Family Ancestor claimed he had strength for only one final strike, and the Wu Family disciples repeated the challenge until Zhu Jingtian became too afraid to accept it.

Zhu Jingtian held back until the Wu Family Ancestor used his final sword, while the divided Wu Family fought among itself and Wu Zhixing clashed with Chu Wusheng. The two Void Refining Realm experts’ battle forced everyone below to flee the area.

• Zhu Jingtian announced that he would wait for the Wu Family Ancestor to unleash his final sword, then urged Wu Jiangtian and the others to attack the Wu Family.
• Wu Jiangtian attacked Wu Zongbo, and Wu Tianyun joined the fight, but Wu Jiangtian’s second Flying Sword kept them in danger.
• Wu Zhixing moved to help them, but Chu Wusheng intercepted him and summoned a black manifestation to battle his Myriad Sword Art.
• Chu Wusheng struck Wu Zhixing with black light, but Wu Zhixing revealed a sword-light phantom and counterattacked.
• Wu Zhixing and Chu Wusheng clashed in midair, and the battle’s shockwaves forced the fighters below to retreat.

Wan Jianyi joined the attack on Wu Zhixing’s faction while trying to avoid provoking the Wu Family, but Wu Jiangtian’s side began overwhelming them. Bai Fenghuan arrived with Phoenix Yao Holy Land reinforcements and turned against the Wuji Sect and Taiyi Sword Sect on Qin Tiedan’s behalf.

• Chu Wusheng urged Wan Jianyi to act, and Wan Jianyi attacked Wu Zongbo while secretly disrupting Wu Jiangtian’s strikes.
• Wan Jianyi kept Wu Zongbo and Wu Tianyun occupied as Wu Jiangtian left to attack Wu Zhixing’s supporters.
• Wu Jiangtian and a Wuji Sect expert killed Lao Jun, and the Wu Family faction suffered further losses as the battle turned against them.
• Wan Jianyi pierced Wu Zongbo’s arm as Wu Zongbo mourned the deaths of his allies and brother, Wu Zonghua.
• Bai Fenghuan arrived on a white phoenix and ordered her three Spirit Transformation guards to attack the Wuji Sect and Taiyi Sword Sect.
• The guards killed a Late Spirit Transformation Wuji Sect expert, and Bai Fenghuan confirmed to Wan Jianyi that she was helping because Qin Tiedan had asked her.

Wu Jiangtian drove the Phoenix Yao Holy Land’s forces out of the battle after killing one of its Spirit Transformation guards, then turned his attention to Wu Tianyun. With Wan Jianyi attacking at the same time, Wu Tianyun faced what seemed to be certain death.

• Chu Wusheng urged Wu Jiangtian to stop the Phoenix Yao Holy Land’s guards from killing Wuji Sect and Taiyi Sword Sect cultivators.
• Wu Jiangtian challenged the three guards, blocked their combined attack with his Seven-Star Sword Formation, and killed their third brother with a counterattack.
• Bai Fenghuan demanded that her grandmother kill Wu Jiangtian, but the old woman refused to leave her post protecting the Holy Maiden and ordered the two surviving guards to return.
• Wu Jiangtian saw that the Phoenix Yao Holy Land had withdrawn and judged that Wan Jianyi had been holding back while fighting Wu Zongbo and Wu Tianyun.
• Wu Jiangtian sent his Flying Sword toward Wu Tianyun as Wan Jianyi also attacked, leaving Wu Tianyun convinced he was about to die.

Qin Wang, disguised as the Wu Family Ancestor, negotiated with Zhu Jingtian to fake a defeat in exchange for early access to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Inheritance Land. As the Wu Family’s battle turned against them, Qin Wang staged an attack on Zhu Jingtian, leaving the battlefield expecting a decisive clash.

• Luo Zhen and Sima Shi arrived to aid the Wu Family, and Luo Zhen fought Wu Jiangtian, whose life-saving talisman kept him from being crushed by Luo Zhen’s punches.
• Zhu Jingtian recognized Qin Wang’s disguise by his Sword Intent but chose not to expose him, since he had already secured treasures from Wu Jiangtian and expected to benefit either way.
• Qin Wang saw Wu Zhixing weakening against Chu Wusheng and offered Zhu Jingtian early entry to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Inheritance Land in exchange for pretending to lose and retreating.
• Zhu Jingtian demanded Wanyan Meng’s cursed blood, then settled for entering the inheritance one hour before Qin Wang; both swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Qin Wang summoned the Qingping Sword and announced that he would fight Zhu Jingtian, causing the combatants across the battlefield to pause and watch.
• Qin Wang thrust the Qingping Sword at Zhu Jingtian, who realized the strike carried Sword Intent but no corresponding Magic Power.

Qin Wang helped the Wu Family defeat its enemies by disguising himself as the Wu Family Ancestor, capturing Wu Jiangtian while Chu Wusheng and Wan Jianyi escaped. Wu Jiangtian revealed that no new Great Ascension Stage cultivators had emerged in the Nine Provinces for twenty thousand years, and the chapter ended with Zhu Jingtian appearing before the fleeing Chu Wusheng and Wan Jianyi.

• Qin Wang and Wu Zhixing staged a clash that sent Zhu Jingtian fleeing, after which Wu Zhixing joined the fight against Chu Wusheng.
• Chu Wusheng escaped using a life-saving divine talisman, while Wan Jianyi detonated his bonded Flying Sword to break free from Wu Zongbo and Wu Tianyun.
• Wu Zhixing sealed Wu Jiangtian's meridians, and Qin Wang left in disguise to preserve the illusion that the Wu Family Ancestor was alive.
• Qin Wang questioned Wu Jiangtian, who said the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty threatened the Wu Family and that no new Great Ascension Stage cultivators had appeared in the Nine Provinces for twenty thousand years.
• Qin Wang fed Wu Jiangtian to the Five Ghosts, then Zhu Jingtian appeared before Chu Wusheng and Wan Jianyi, who blamed him for their defeat.

Zhu Jingtian and Chu Wusheng plotted to use Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance to lure Qin Tiedan, but Zhu Jingtian killed Wan Jianyi and took the inheritance map by searching his soul. They recovered the blank map from Wan Jianyi’s Storage Ring and learned that Qin Wang’s Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Skull could unlock it.

• Chu Wusheng proposed using Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Inheritance Land to lure Qin Tiedan, since Wan Jianyi had come seeking the inheritance key.
• Zhu Jingtian demanded Wan Jianyi’s map, but Wan Jianyi refused to hand it over.
• Zhu Jingtian attacked Wan Jianyi, pierced his dantian, and destroyed his divine soul before Chu Wusheng could intervene.
• Zhu Jingtian searched Wan Jianyi’s soul and learned that the map was in his Storage Ring and that Qin Wang’s Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Skull could unlock it.
• Zhu Jingtian retrieved the blank map, which he identified as being made from indestructible Sky Dragon hide.

Chu Wusheng convinced Zhu Jingtian to spare him by offering to guide him to the Taiyi Sword Sect, then slaughtered the gathered cultivators and planned to frame the Wu Family. At the Wu Family, Qin Wang reunited with Sima Shi and met his Void Refining master, Luo Zhen.

• Zhu Jingtian considered killing Chu Wusheng, but Chu Wusheng persuaded him that he could be useful and lead him to raid the Taiyi Sword Sect for resources.
• Chu Wusheng urged Zhu Jingtian to kill everyone present so no news would escape, and Zhu Jingtian ordered him to act.
• Chu Wusheng killed the gathered cultivators, including Wuji Sect members, with his Dharma Manifestation.
• Chu Wusheng proposed arranging the scene to make the massacre look like the Wu Family's work, and Zhu Jingtian praised him.
• Qin Wang arrived at the Wu Family's Sword Domain entrance and met Sima Shi and Luo Zhen, who had helped him in the battle.
• Sima Shi credited Qin Wang's Star Body Refining Technique for his rapid progress to Golden Core cultivation.

Qin Wang explained the Star Body Tempering Method to Luo Zhen, who asked to become his disciple, but Qin Wang instead agreed to trade the method for Mingwang Sect body-refinement techniques. After Luo Zhen and Sima Shi left, Bai Fenghuan reunited with Qin Wang and asked him to show her around the Sword Domain.

• Qin Wang praised Sima Shi's talent, then questioned how Luo Zhen had learned about the Star Body Tempering Method; Luo Zhen explained that he had observed Sima Shi cultivating it.
• Qin Wang revealed that the Star Body Tempering Method could reach the tenth stage, prompting Luo Zhen to ask to become his disciple.
• Qin Wang declined to take Luo Zhen as a disciple and offered to let Sima Shi teach him the method in exchange for Mingwang Sect techniques.
• Luo Zhen agreed, gave Qin Wang jade slips of his body-refinement techniques, and left with Sima Shi.
• Bai Fenghuan stayed with Qin Wang, greeted him excitedly, and asked him to show her around the Sword Domain.

Bai Fenghuan asked Qin Wang to tour the Sword Domain with her, but her Protector insisted that he could not keep her safe. Qin Wang broke the Protector’s restriction and challenged her, ending with his Qingping Sword at her brow after piercing her barrier.

• Bai Fenghuan told Qin Wang she wanted to spend time alone with him, but her Protector refused to leave her side and belittled Qin Wang’s strength.
• Bai Fenghuan defended Qin Wang and threatened to reject the Protector’s protection, but the old woman restrained her and tried to take her away.
• Qin Wang broke the old woman’s restriction with a streak of Sword Qi, and Bai Fenghuan escaped behind him.
• Qin Wang summoned thirty-six Azure Nether Small Swords, but the old woman shattered their array and blocked their attacks with a barrier.
• Qin Wang combined the swords into the Qingping Sword, pierced the barrier, and stopped the blade three inches from the old woman’s brow, exhausting his Magic Power.

Qin Wang fought off the old woman when she tried to take the Qingping Sword, but she used Phoenix Rebirth to survive at the cost of her cultivation realm. Bai Fenghuan chose to return to the Phoenix Yao Holy Land after the old woman warned that staying with Qin Wang would endanger him.

• The old woman seized the Qingping Sword and said she would take it to the Holy Land for suppression.
• Qin Wang attacked the old woman with a black light, the Five Ghosts, and the Candle Dragon, causing her body to explode.
• The old woman emerged from flames using Phoenix Rebirth, but her realm had fallen from Void Refining late stage to Void Refining mid stage.
• The old woman asked Bai Fenghuan to leave with her, and Bai Fenghuan initially refused because she preferred life outside the Holy Land.
• After the old woman warned that Bai Fenghuan would attract danger to Qin Wang, Bai Fenghuan agreed to return to the Holy Land.

After Bai Fenghuan left, Qin Wang learned that the Qingping Sword carried dangerous consequences, while Wanyan Meng revealed her jealousy. At the Wu Family, Wu Zhixing disclosed that their Ancestor had died, and Wu Tianyun learned his wife had been a death warrior.

• The old woman warned Qin Wang not to reveal the Qingping Sword and took Bai Fenghuan away on the White Phoenix.
• Wanyan Meng teased Qin Wang about missing Bai Fenghuan, admitted her jealousy through her questions, and watched him return to the Sword Domain.
• Wu Zhixing told Wu Zongbo that the Wu Family Ancestor had passed away in meditation and ordered him to protect Qin Tiedan without coveting his Qingping Sword.
• Wu Tianyun confronted Huang Tongtong about betraying the Wu Family, and she revealed that Wu Jiangtian had trained her as a death warrior.

Qin Wang learned that Huang Tongtong was manipulating Wu Tianyun to seize the Wu Family Sword Domain and decided to set a deadly trap for the powerful factions pursuing it. Wu Tianyun then persuaded Wu Zhixing to let him enter the Sword Domain, where Qin Wang prepared to deal with his arrival.

• Huang Tongtong feigned remorse and convinced Wu Tianyun that his sister Wu Su could help them, while concealing her plan to seize the Sword Domain for Prince Huang Tianen.
• Qin Wang's updated intelligence revealed Wu Su would complete her inheritance in ten days, Huang Tongtong's double allegiance, and the Qingping Sword's Great Karma; he also learned Zhu Jingtian and Chu Wusheng were targeting the Taiyi Sword Sect.
• Wanyan Meng suggested killing Wu Tianyun, but Qin Wang rejected the idea because Wu Su might discover it and become her enemy.
• Qin Wang decided to turn the Wu Family Sword Domain into a trap that would draw in Huang Tongtong and other powerful pursuers of the Qingping Sword.
• Wu Tianyun asked Wu Zhixing to let him enter the Sword Domain to protect Wu Su, and Wu Zhixing agreed before warning Qin Wang by flying sword message.
• Qin Wang received Wu Zhixing's message and resolved to play along with Wu Tianyun's arrival.

Qin Wang defeated Wu Tianyun when he tried to assert authority and seize Qin Wang’s shield, then ordered him to remain ten zhang away from Wu Su. The chapter left Huang Tongtong under orders from Prince En to enter the Sword Domain and get within one zhang of Wu Su, so she went to seek Wu Zhixing’s permission.

• Wu Tianyun arrived at the Sword Domain and demanded that Qin Wang defer to him, but Qin Wang told him to stay ten zhang away from Wu Su.
• Wu Tianyun attacked Qin Wang and tried to take the Barbarian God Shield, but the Five Ghosts broke his attacks and wounded him.
• Qin Wang gave the Five Ghosts the A Sword Separates Worlds Sword Intent, shattering Wu Tianyun’s Heaven-Breaking Sword Intent and forcing him to obey.
• Prince En berated Huang Tongtong for Wu Tianyun’s failure and ordered her to get within one zhang of Wu Su or die.
• Huang Tongtong decided to seek Wu Zhixing’s permission to enter the Sword Domain.

Huang Tongtong forced Wu Zhixing to let her enter the Sword Domain by threatening the Wu Family on Prince En's behalf. Meanwhile, Qin Wang planned to use the intruders to create chaos, and Zhu Jingtian and Chu Wusheng began attacking the Taiyi Sword Sect to seize its treasures before the Sword Domain inheritance ended.

• Huang Tongtong told Wu Zhixing that Prince En of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty wanted to enter the Sword Domain immediately or the Wu Family would be destroyed.
• Wu Zhixing gave Huang Tongtong a token granting her entry to the Sword Domain.
• Qin Wang read Wu Zhixing's Flying Sword message and hoped to draw Prince En and other powerful experts into the Sword Domain.
• Zhu Jingtian urged Chu Wusheng to act quickly because Qin Tiedan could escape into the Underworld once the inheritance ended.
• Chu Wusheng attacked the Taiyi Sword Sect's Mountain Protecting Array with a giant black hand, and the sect's disciples moved to strengthen it.

Zhu Jingtian and Chu Wusheng attacked the Taiyi Sword Sect, whose Mountain Protecting Array survived their strikes. Huangfu Yufeng confronted them and offered the sect’s treasury to spare his people, swallowing his grief over Wan Jianyi and the humiliation of surrendering.

• Chu Wusheng failed to break the Mountain Protecting Array, but Zhu Jingtian’s dragon cry and stronger strike nearly shattered it.
• Huangfu Yufeng emerged from seclusion, ordered the Sect Master summoned, and went to face the attackers.
• Huangfu Yufeng recognized Chu Wusheng, who claimed he was acting alone and identified Zhu Jingtian as the one seeking the Taiyi Sword Sect’s treasures.
• Zhu Jingtian demanded the sect’s Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to heal his injuries and offered to spare its people.
• Chu Wusheng urged Zhu Jingtian to destroy the sect, but Zhu Jingtian suppressed him and Huangfu Yufeng offered the treasury, acknowledging Wan Jianyi’s death.

Zhu Jingtian tricked Huangfu Yufeng into dismantling Taiyi Sword Sect’s Mountain Protecting Array, then broke his Heavenly Dao Oath and slaughtered the sect’s elders. Huangfu Yufeng reached the Body Integration Realm as he charged at Zhu Jingtian, determined to take him down even at the cost of his life.

• Chu Wusheng warned Zhu Jingtian that Taiyi Sword Sect might be feigning surrender, but Zhu Jingtian struck him down.
• Huangfu Yufeng offered a Heavenly Dao Oath, and Zhu Jingtian demanded that he dismantle the Mountain Protecting Array before swearing.
• After Zhu Jingtian made the oath, Huangfu Yufeng ordered the ten elders to dismantle the array and let Zhu Jingtian enter the sect.
• In Sword Heart Hall, Zhu Jingtian suddenly attacked and killed all ten elders with wind blades carrying the Power of Time.
• Huangfu Yufeng accused Zhu Jingtian of violating his oath, and Zhu Jingtian replied that the Witch Clan had been abandoned by the Heavenly Dao.
• Huangfu Yufeng charged at Zhu Jingtian with the resolve to die, breaking through to the Body Integration Realm.