Chapter Summaries

Xue Jingfeng accused Jiang Xiyue of demonic cultivation, but after her tribulation he injured her by forcing her to endure a Demon-Expelling Incantation. Chen Sanshi and the others suppressed her ensuing demonic outburst, and True Person Yuling revealed the demonic seed inside Jiang Xiyue and sent her with Chen Sanshi to the Far North to seek a way to suppress it.

• Chen Sanshi and True Person Xuancheng explained that Jiang Xiyue had killed Zhao Rui only after he was injured by a battle between higher-realm cultivators, while True Person Yuling said Jiang Xiyue was in seclusion to form her core.
• Jiang Xiyue passed her nine-layer lightning tribulation without revealing Demonic Qi, but Xue Jingfeng trapped her in a Demon-Expelling Incantation and injured her when it showed no reaction.
• Zhang Huaiqing had Xue Jingfeng bound and taken to Siguo Cliff for punishment, then told Chen Sanshi to help Jiang Xiyue in Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Jiang Xiyue's Demonic Qi surged after Xue Jingfeng's spell, so Chen Sanshi, Jiang Qiongsu, and True Person Yuling activated the Nine Tribulations Earth-Quelling Formation and used the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant to suppress it.
• An unseen ally's fourth-rank talisman treasure helped them subdue Jiang Xiyue, and True Person Yuling treated her while she lay unconscious.
• True Person Yuling told Chen Sanshi that a conscious demonic seed inside Jiang Xiyue caused her power to rise and could seize her body, then gave him the Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell and asked him to take Jiang Xiyue to the Far North.

Chen Sanshi prepared for the coming battle by acquiring rare materials, improving his skills, and mastering the Red Lotus Karmic Fire. At the end, Jiang Xiyue began to awaken from the ice imprisoning her beneath the hot spring.

• True Person Yuling offered Chen Sanshi a way to hide and cultivate in safety, but he refused and vowed to defend the Eastern Continent.
• Chen Sanshi selected Azure Dragon Ridge Scale Gold and the Great Void Star Forging Method at the Treasure Pavilion, then accepted Xu Taisu's Cloud Seal Demon Binding Silk in exchange for possibly repairing a damaged Tier 5 formation someday.
• Chen Sanshi sent his Dragon Abyss Sword and Bright Silver Spear to Zinan for tempering, then cultivated and advanced his alchemy, talisman-drawing, and sword qi skills to Tier 3.
• After learning that the Eastern Continent's 2.6 million troops were heading toward Guangren Dao, Chen Sanshi went to Hundred Flowers Valley and brought the Red Lotus Karmic Fire under control.
• Chen Sanshi discovered Jiang Xiyue beneath the hot spring, where her ice prison was cracking and she was beginning to awaken.

Chen Sanshi accidentally intruded on his Senior Sister while she was recuperating in a spring and withdrew to apologize. The passage then shifted through unrelated scenes, ending with Yang Jian leaving despite the Jade Emperor's attempts to keep him.

• Chen Sanshi rushed out of the pool and apologized to his Senior Sister as ice and mist obscured the spring.
• Qi Yun stopped in midair and descended to the foot of a mountain.
• Lin Chuyu grabbed Xia Hua and tried to lead her upstairs to prevent the racetrack incident from being exposed.
• The Black Water Snake King begged for mercy and made promises under threat of death.
• Lin Feng ordered the Shadow Thief not to throw away the Cursed Heart of the Elf.
• Yang Jian left despite the Jade Emperor's attempts to keep him.

The chapter shifted among disconnected scenes of military fighting, demonic threats, rescues, and confrontations. Gongsun Zan escaped the breached You Province camp, the Wei Army entered the city, and Bai Ye faced uncertainty about a Variant Monster's capabilities.

• Wang Yu displayed a Demonic Artifact at the peak of Sixth Rank, drawing everyone's attention.
• Shen Yuanyuan thanked Tang Fan for saving her, and an old man fled before Tang Fan could answer his request to leave.
• Gongsun Zan escaped amid the chaos after the You Province camp was breached.
• The Wei Army launched an all-out attack and entered the city.
• Pang De and Ma Chao converged after the Yuan Army in the city had been killed or forced to surrender.
• The Ninth King told Yinglong that the People of All Heavens would hunt down the strong ones on their side.

Chen Sanshi entered Myriad Aspect Mountain to search for an Azure Blood Hou and encountered a powerful Green Wood Demon disguised as Dugu Ao. Trapped in the demon’s marsh, Chen Sanshi threatened it with immortal fire and demanded a piece of Essence Wood.

• Chen Sanshi sent Qingniao and Baiyu to search for rare wood while he followed signs of the Azure Blood Hou to Thousand Snake Pool.
• A false Dugu Ao led Chen Sanshi deeper into the marsh, but Chen Sanshi spotted inconsistencies and smashed the illusion with the Sky Fiend Cauldron.
• The Green Wood Demon revealed itself and attacked Chen Sanshi with its vast network of demonic trees and roots, blocking his escape.
• Chen Sanshi realized the demon was a transformed great demon and used fire arts to defend himself, but could not escape its territory.
• Chen Sanshi revealed a trace of Upper Realm Immortal Fire and demanded Essence Wood, warning that he would burn the demon’s main body.
• Chen Sanshi surrounded the Green Wood Demon with Law-Devouring Cicadas coated in immortal treasure lamp oil and threatened to make them self-destruct.

Chen Sanshi rescued the White Jade Spirit Snake from a tiger demon, killed the demon, and then confronted Dugu Ao and two other great demons. Dugu Ao revealed that they were searching for the Azure Blood Hou, whose essence blood Chen Sanshi also needed.

• Chen Sanshi forced Old Green Wood Demon to surrender the Essence Wood and withdrew his Law-Devouring Cicadas after escaping the demon’s reach.
• Chen Sanshi sensed that the White Jade Spirit Snake was in danger and rushed to find her fighting Old Wolf and his demon soldiers.
• A Core Formation demon cultivator wounded the White Jade Spirit Snake, but Chen Sanshi arrived, rescued her, and defeated the tiger demon after it attacked him.
• Dugu Ao appeared, and Chen Sanshi fought him briefly before recognizing him as the senior he had met before.
• Old Green Wood Demon and a shapeshifted female demon arrived and discussed the tiger demon’s death with Dugu Ao and Chen Sanshi.
• Dugu Ao said they were searching for the Azure Blood Hou and noted that Chen Sanshi needed its essence blood as well.

Chen Sanshi helped the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and Old Green Wood Demon capture an Azure Blood Hou, then returned to the Great Han camp as Xu Wencai began divining the secret realm and Great Han’s national fortune. Xu Wencai revealed that the ancestral vein had revived and ordered the Main Military Tent sealed for forty-nine days to seek a way through the danger facing Chen Sanshi and Great Han.

• Chen Sanshi gave the white snake’s essence blood for the Illusion Dragon Pill and received Azure Blood Hou essence blood after the demons used the pill to lure and capture the beast.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon warned Chen Sanshi that people among rogue cultivators and the Demon Realm wanted to kill him, while Dugu Ao explained the limits of the agreement protecting him.
• Chen Sanshi returned to camp, sent Old Green Wood Demon’s Essence Vine and Cloud Seal Demon Binding Silk to Tianyong City for Zinan to forge into a bow and arrows, and inspected the Border Great Wall.
• After Wang Li reported another Blood Demon Army attack, Chen Sanshi flew southeast, leaving Xu Wencai to reveal to Qi Cheng that the ancestral vein had revived and Great Han’s fortune showed a deadly omen.
• Xu Wencai ordered that no one approach the Main Military Tent for forty-nine days, then began his divination at Five Zhang Plain.

Zhu Tong led another assault on Gonghuai City after its civilians became Blood Demons and his army failed to capture it for two days. Elsewhere, Kyōraku attacked Starrk, Ren Jie recognized an immortal artifact, and Lu Zhang fled toward Frost Heavy Town.

• Zhu Tong armed himself with two Gold-infused War Hammers and led his troops in another assault on Gonghuai City.
• Zhou Yan gathered Mu Qingyan into his arms despite her shyness.
• Kyōraku launched himself into the sky, turned, and lunged toward Starrk.
• Ren Jie recognized the God Suppressing Banner as the immortal artifact that his earlier banner imitated.
• Zhou Yan asked to see Zhou Lingyi once more because he feared it would be their last meeting.
• Lu Zhang fled toward Frost Heavy Town as the White Robed Man pursued him, while Lin Xiao and the Frost Orc carrying Luo Luo began running.

Wang Li reported that cultivators from the Twelve Upper Sects had arrived to support the battlefield under the Sacred Decree. Chen Sanshi learned that a Sacred Sect's current Holy Son was among them and ordered the group into the command tent.

• Wang Li reported to Chen Sanshi that cultivators from the Twelve Upper Sects had arrived outside the command tent.
• Chen Sanshi read that the arriving group included a current Holy Son of a Sacred Sect whose cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul realm.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Wang Li to bring all the arriving cultivators inside.

Chen Sanshi prepared for the secret realm and set out for Yufang Mountain after Wang Jun apologized by killing his Cold Iron Bird. Xu Wencai found the secret realm entrance and a way to address danger facing the emperor, then died after passing his final instructions to Qi Cheng.

• Chen Sanshi received the Hundred Deer Chasing Moon Bow and gave Qu Lingchuan a demon core while promising to prepare Core Formation Spirit Materials for Zinan.
• Chen Sanshi returned to camp, where Wang Jun killed his Cold Iron Bird, swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, and left gifts as an apology to His Majesty Tianwu.
• Mu Chutai told Chen Sanshi that cultivators were heading to Yufang Mountain, and Chen Sanshi set out to find the secret realm entrance.
• After forty-nine days of divination, Xu Wencai gave Qi Cheng the entrance method and a way to break the predicament threatening the emperor, but said he could not determine when to use it.
• Xu Wencai entrusted Qi Cheng with a secret art, gave him the courtesy name Boyue, and died after reflecting on his life and service to Great Han.
• On the twenty-seventh year of Tianwu, the Big Dipper became disordered, the Emperor Star was surrounded by blood-red halos, and the Central Terrace Star went dark.

The chapter excerpt jumps among disconnected scenes involving cultivators, military battles, and other characters, leaving each conflict unresolved. It ends with an unnamed speaker unsure how a fight against a leading Third-Rank Divine Scholar would turn out.

• On Yufang Mountain, Chen Sanshi hurried to the Blind Woman as prominent cultivators gathered below.
• Lin Feng called Xia Ruoxi and told her to bring her identification to a coffee shop.
• Lin Tian attacked Shangguan Tu but was sent flying into a stone wall.
• Liu Ji led more than twenty people into the scene and challenged anyone to move.
• Ye Chen broke the grand formation with one sword strike and turned toward the Flood Dragon Crown Prince.
• An unnamed speaker wondered about the outcome of fighting the leading Third-Rank Divine Scholar.

Chen Sanshi saw a rare medicinal vine coveted by cultivators in the great hall. The account then shifted among unrelated encounters and ended with a Jade Talisman attacking a black bird.

• Chen Sanshi surveyed the great hall, where cultivators coveted a Purple Firmament Ginseng Profound Vine used to refine Golden Core breakthrough pills.
• The Primordial Chaos Exchange Umbrella absorbed the force of blood and qi as the red glow appeared to disperse.
• The sect leader ended the sermon and cast a spell to awaken the listeners.
• Bei Minglei reached the lowest secret chamber and saw Ba's Corpse inside an enormous cultivation tank.
• Steel Base raised a thick shield around the entire base.
• A Jade Talisman burst out of the earth and repeatedly struck a black bird.

The chapter contained disconnected snippets about cultivators, martial artists, monsters, and interpersonal conflicts, but it did not establish one continuous storyline. It ended with a woman leaning against a man consumed by grief and fury.

• Daoist Master Dongwei explained that Yinglong was activating the Teleportation Array.
• Xiang An attacked Bu Yuan after Yan Ming was injured and absorbed ownerless true qi into his dantian.
• Black Bear knocked Gao Rui's knife away and bit his shoulder.
• Lu Xia fled from a slow-moving monster after being abducted.
• A woman quietly leaned against a man as grief and fury stirred within him.

Chen Sanshi used his knowledge of alchemy to make and sell Five Qi Toxin Purging Pills, then led the Qingxu Sect group through the Thousand Miasma Forest. As they finally emerged, he discovered that most of the disciples following him had disappeared.

• Chen Sanshi realized the Money Toad sold Five Qi Toxin Purging Pills for treasure coins, but deciphered the formula from Su Yang’s pill and chose to gather the ingredients himself.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the miasma to collect herbs while Lu Zhao and an elderly cultivator discussed plotting against him and waiting for their allies.
• Chen Sanshi refined pills, sold them to Wang Jun and other cultivators, and increased his treasure coins from ten to fifty.
• Chen Sanshi led the group through the forest for ten days, found ancient battlefield remains but no Fuxi Black Sand, and continued onward with the Qingxu Sect disciples.
• Chen Sanshi and the group crossed the dense miasma and reached sunlight, where Su Yang turned back and discovered that only two of the six disciples behind them remained.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue were ambushed by four Mid Core Formation cultivators hired by Cao Xie, and Chen Sanshi fought two of them while protecting the others. After his trump cards failed to turn the battle, he created an opening to escape with Jiang Xiyue.

• Chen Sanshi found two slain Qingxu Sect disciples and sent Su Yang and the other disciples away before confronting Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi.
• Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi attacked Chen Sanshi with their water-based magic treasures, while two other cultivators engaged Jiang Xiyue.
• Chen Sanshi used the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Burning Blood Tribulation to damage the enemies' treasures and nearly wound Yuwen Jiangyi, but Yuwen's Glazed Golden Body let him counterattack.
• Chen Sanshi realized he could not defeat the two Mid Core Formation cultivators and worried that Jiang Xiyue's Vermilion Ink Mystic Light would erupt.
• Chen Sanshi escaped their assault with Earth Escape, sent Law-Devouring Cicadas to detonate, and used an illusion-formation talisman to cover their retreat.
• Chen Sanshi grabbed Jiang Xiyue and used Triple Blood Burning to flee.

After fleeing his pursuers, Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the Luoxiao Sword Pool, where they escaped a deadly sword formation using Chen Sanshi’s Guardian Envoy token. They reached a second Sword Tomb containing intact magic treasures and twelve swords embedded in Fuxi Black Sand.

• Chen Sanshi escaped the four Mid Golden Core cultivators but was tracked by a mark left on his palm, then found a Money Toad checkpoint and bought a Soul Sealing Sword Sheath.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the Luoxiao Sword Pool and discovered its powerful sword formation as Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi caught up with them.
• The pursuers drove Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue into the sword formation, which unleashed a vast tide of swords and forced everyone else to retreat.
• Chen Sanshi led Jiang Xiyue deeper into the formation, and his Guardian Envoy wooden token created a safe path through the sword qi.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue emerged at a second Sword Tomb filled with intact magic treasures, including twelve swords set in Fuxi Black Sand.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue learned that the sword pool held the sealed remnants of Sword Heart Valley’s disciples and sought the Sword Cave for the Taiyin Sword and a way to strengthen themselves. After discovering that their sword spirits were trying to possess them, Chen forced the spirits to reveal how to cross the Heavenly Fiend Sword Domain as pursuers waited outside.

• Chen Sanshi found Fuxi Black Sand and learned from the stone tablet that the sword pool contained Sword Heart Valley and its sealed Nascent Soul sword spirits.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue captured two remnant souls with the Soul Sealing Sword Sheath, then learned that the Taiyin Sword and Heaven-Mending Stone spiritual liquid were in the Sword Cave.
• Chen Sanshi gathered the Fuxi Black Sand and agreed to follow the sword spirits toward the Sword Cave, where another person had already gone.
• Outside the sword formation, Lu Zhao and the other cultivators failed to break through and waited for Daoist Dongwei to arrive.
• At the suspension bridge, Chen Sanshi realized the spirits’ Man-Sword Unity method was an attempt at possession and tortured them until they revealed that sword-art footwork would let them cross.

Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman reached Sword Heart Valley’s Sword Cave, where they found the Taiyin Lu Po Sword sealed above a lava pool and the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid already taken. A masked cultivator revealed the Valley Master’s trapped soul and asked them to destroy the twelve traitorous holy sons’ sword spirits; Chen Sanshi agreed and the two remaining spirits were killed.

• Hook-nosed revealed that the Valley Master had become a sword demon and turned the sect’s disciples into sword spirits, but Chen Sanshi pressed onward into the Sword Cave.
• Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman found the Taiyin Lu Po Sword bound by a failing ice-and-fire seal, but neither could draw it.
• Chen Sanshi searched the cultivation chamber for Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid and found it empty, then confronted the masked cultivator hiding there.
• The masked cultivator offered half a bottle of spirit liquid and instructions for drawing the sword in exchange for destroying the twelve holy sons’ sword spirits.
• The masked cultivator showed them the Valley Master’s soul and explained that the holy sons had betrayed him, prompting Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman to destroy the two sword spirits with the Soul Sealing Sword Sheath.

Chen Sanshi guarded Jiang Xiyue as she passed the Heart’s Inquiry and drew the Taiyin Lu Po Sword, then used the secret chamber’s resources to break through to the Early Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm. After three days of cultivation, he emerged alive and learned how long his breakthrough had taken.

• Jiang Xiyue offered her essence blood to the Taiyin Sword, passed the Heart’s Inquiry, and drew the Taiyin Lu Po Sword, though she could wield only part of its power.
• Chen Sanshi had the masked cultivator test the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid, then prepared to break through while Jiang Xiyue guarded him.
• Chen Sanshi refined Fuxi Black Sand and used it with the Xuanji Azure Blood Hou’s essence blood and the spirit liquid to temper his body.
• Chen Sanshi endured eighty-one cycles of destruction and regeneration, opened the three passes, and reached the Early Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm.
• Chen Sanshi emerged from the secret chamber and learned from the masked cultivator that three days had passed.

After forging his golden body in three days, Chen Sanshi emerged from the Sword Pool Secret Realm and fought the waiting Golden Core assassins. He killed Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi, while Wang Jun escaped with the Sword Demon, leaving the remaining battle unresolved.

• Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman retraced their path through the secret realm, and the Blind Woman cut down the remaining flying swords in the Sword Tomb.
• Chen Sanshi opened the Myriad Sword Great Formation and used the Hundred Deer Chasing Moon Bow and Mystic Spirit Six Arms to overwhelm the four waiting assassins, killing the black-robed cultivator.
• Wang Jun used Earth Escape to flee the Sword Pool Secret Realm, and the Sword Demon urged him to accept its conditions and promised to help him ascend to the upper realm.
• After exhausting his arrows, Chen Sanshi fought Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi directly, revealing his Glazed Golden Body and using his weapons and techniques to overpower them.
• Chen Sanshi pierced Lu Zhao with the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear and then killed Yuwen Jiangyi after breaking his Glazed Five Viscera.