Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan persuaded Feng Qing'er to provide him with Heaven Demon Phoenix blood in exchange for pills and help strengthening her bloodline, then caught Mu Qingluan spying on them. Three days later, he left Jade Sword City through its Spatial Wormhole, leaving both women watching him go.

• Yan Qingshan offered Feng Qing'er pills and a chance to grow stronger in exchange for her blood, and she agreed to cooperate with him.
• Yan Qingshan's Demonic Roc Puppet captured Mu Qingluan after she followed Feng Qing'er, and he discovered her Azure Luan form.
• Yan Qingshan kept Mu Qingluan with him for three days after she learned his secret.
• Yan Qingshan said goodbye to Mu Qingluan and Feng Qing'er at the Spatial Wormhole Plaza and departed Jade Sword City.
• Mu Qingluan felt relieved that Yan Qingshan had left before Venerate Lei arrived, while Feng Qing'er also relaxed.

Yan Qingshan used a Thunder Illusory Body to conceal his identity while he entered the Jade Sword Grand Ceremony and Four Pavilions Grand Competition. He passed the Myriad Sword Pavilion elders’ test and reached the arena, where he watched for the major figures and examined the Sword Pond.

• Yan Qingshan emerged from the Spatial Wormhole, changed back from Zhang Wuji, and revealed a Thunder Illusory Body to Venerable Tianhuo.
• Yan Qingshan entered the crowds gathering at Jade Sword Peak without using Tang Ying’s Jade Sword token, keeping his identity hidden.
• The Three Prodigious Swords announced that contenders needed to be under thirty, at least three-star Dou Emperors, and able to withstand one of their sword strikes.
• Yan Qingshan let Elder Sun Sword’s sword qi pass through him and continued up the mountain, prompting the elders to suspect he could win the competition.
• Yan Qingshan reached the arena, blended in with the qualified participants, and observed the Sword Pond behind the Soaring Sword Qi Hall.

Yan Qingshan watched the four great Venerates gather for the Myriad Sword Pavilion’s Jade Sword Grand Ceremony, where Venerate Jian began the Four Pavilions Grand Competition with a free-for-all. The contest erupted into a chaotic battle, and more than a dozen injured contestants had already withdrawn.

• Yan Qingshan noticed emerald swords in the Sword Pond resonating with his Azure Dragon Dou Qi as Venerate Lei and Venerate Jian arrived at Jade Sword Peak.
• Venerate Huangquan appeared and taunted Venerate Lei, then Venerable Feng arrived, bringing all four great Venerates together.
• Venerate Jian announced that the five strongest competitors could choose a treasured sword from the Sword Pond and started the competition.
• Tang Ying, Feng Qing'er, Mu Qingluan, and Wang Chen entered the arena as other contestants watched them warily.
• The free-for-all began, and after less than ten minutes of chaotic fighting, more than a dozen injured contestants withdrew.

Yan Qingshan tried to stay unnoticed in the Four Pavilions Grand Competition, but Wang Chen attacked him and forced him to reveal his strength. Yan Qingshan overwhelmed Wang Chen even after he used the Yellow Spring Blood Art, while Venerate Jian warned Venerate Huangquan not to interfere.

• Yan Qingshan concealed his strength and avoided attention as the martial arts arena narrowed to its final contestants.
• Wang Chen targeted Yan Qingshan, and Yan Qingshan revealed strength close to that of a nine-star Dou Emperor to repel him.
• Yan Qingshan knocked Wang Chen down and pinned him, but Wang Chen used the Yellow Spring Blood Art to raise his cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan evaded Wang Chen's Bone-Corroding Round Dagger Dance and struck him after Wang Chen taunted him.
• Wang Chen attacked with the Yellow Spring Corpse Arm, but Yan Qingshan dodged and repeatedly kicked him until he could no longer resist.
• Venerate Jian cautioned Venerate Huangquan to obey the rules as Venerate Huangquan watched Yan Qingshan trample Wang Chen.

Yan Qingshan overwhelmed the Four Pavilions Grand Competition, defeating or prompting the other contestants to concede and claiming first place. Just as Venerate Jian prepared to announce the result, Fei Tian suddenly attacked Yan Qingshan.

• Yan Qingshan eliminated Wang Chen and rapidly cleared most of the contestants from the arena, then defeated a group of five who tried to join forces against him.
• Venerate Huangquan persuaded Venerate Jian to let the melee continue, and Tang Ying conceded after Yan Qingshan gained the upper hand.
• Mu Qingluan conceded, while Feng Qing'er fought Yan Qingshan before also conceding and warning him from the stands.
• Yan Qingshan bowed to Venerate Jian and claimed first place, but Fei Tian shouted for him to wait and launched an attack.

Yan Qingshan revealed his identity as Zhang Wuji at the Four Pavilions Grand Competition, prompting Fei Tian to attack him over the stolen Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body. After Venerate Lei refused to intervene personally, Yan Qingshan offered to settle the grudge by returning the Three Thousand Lightning Movements, but Fei Tian attacked again, and the two clashed head-on.

• Fei Tian tried to strike Yan Qingshan, but Venerate Jian and Venerate Lei intervened before he could hurt him.
• Fei Tian identified Yan Qingshan as Zhang Wuji, and Yan Qingshan revealed his true appearance to the gathered Venerates.
• Venerate Jian confirmed that Yan Qingshan had won the competition, while Yan Qingshan challenged Venerate Lei to act personally.
• Venerate Lei left the matter to Fei Tian, who attacked Yan Qingshan with the Three Thousand Lightning Movements, but Yan Qingshan evaded his moves.
• Yan Qingshan offered to return the Three Thousand Lightning Movements scroll to settle the grudge, but Fei Tian attacked him again.
• Yan Qingshan met Fei Tian's lightning-wreathed palm with his own, and both fighters were blasted backward.

Yan Qingshan fought Fei Tian atop Jade Sword Peak, unveiling new movement techniques and using swords from the Sword Pond to defeat Fei Tian’s Thunder Beast. The chapter ended with Fei Tian wounded and Yan Qingshan’s sword at his back after declaring him defeated.

• Yan Qingshan used Spiral Nine Shadows to evade Fei Tian and challenged him to a fight.
• Fei Tian activated Thunder God's Descent, raising his strength to nine-star Dou Zong and battling Yan Qingshan with lightning.
• After his folding fan fell, Yan Qingshan summoned treasured swords from the Sword Pond and unleashed Divine Sword Wielding Thunder.
• Fei Tian formed a Thunder Beast with Wrath of the Thunder God, but Yan Qingshan overwhelmed it with sword qi and lightning.
• Yan Qingshan overwhelmed Fei Tian’s Wind Lightning Body Protection, struck him with an emerald sword, and declared that Fei Tian had lost.

Yan Qingshan defeated Fei Tian, survived Venerate Lei’s ambush, and bargained with the Wind Lightning Pavilion to end their public dispute. After escaping the Four Venerates through a spatial passage, he traveled to Sky Yellow City and arrived at the Liu Family estate.

• Venerate Lei attacked Yan Qingshan after Fei Tian’s defeat, but Yan Qingshan survived with his Lightning Illusory Body.
• Yan Qingshan offered Venerate Lei insights into the Lightning Illusory Body, and Venerate Lei agreed to end the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s grievance while warning him not to spread its secret techniques.
• Yan Qingshan claimed a jade sword from Venerate Jian and vanished through a spatial passage opened by Venerable Tianhuo to evade the four Venerates.
• Yan Qingshan reunited with his body outside the Jade Dragon Mountain Range, then asked Venerable Tianhuo to help protect him as he headed toward Jade Sword City.
• Yan Qingshan traveled through a Spatial Wormhole to Sky Yellow City and flew toward the Liu Family estate.

Yan Qingshan traveled to the Pill Region, intending to join Danta while sending his fire-attributed clone to Blazing Flame Valley. In Ye City, the struggling Ye Clan debated how to retain its place in Danta, and Ye Xinlan rejected a proposed marriage alliance before learning a visitor had arrived with a token.

• Yan Qingshan explained that he planned to seek stronger fire techniques from Blazing Flame Valley for his Heavenly Flame Clone while his main body pursued Danta in the Pill Region.
• Yan Qingshan and Venerable Tianhuo arrived at the Central Plains’ Spatial Wormhole hub, and Yan Qingshan traveled on to Ye City.
• Ye Clan elders argued over their declining fortunes and the risk of losing their seat in Danta before Ye Chong dismissed them.
• Ye Chong told Ye Xinlan that the Cao Clan had proposed a marriage alliance, but Ye Xinlan refused because she believed the Cao Clan wanted to absorb the Ye Clan.
• A maid informed Ye Xinlan that a junior of one of the family head’s friends had arrived carrying a token.

Yan Qingshan visited the Ye Clan and gained access to its resources and alchemy knowledge, then refined a seventh-grade Instant Qi Pill. He realized that he needed deeper techniques and guidance from Danta to advance further.

• Ye Xinlan verified Yan Qingshan’s token from Su Qian and learned that he had come to seek help with his alchemy.
• Yan Qingshan demonstrated his alchemy skills, and the Ye Clan welcomed him as an honored guest and opened its resources and records to him.
• Yan Qingshan refined a seventh-grade Instant Qi Pill in the Ye Clan’s alchemy chamber.
• Venerable Tianhuo praised Yan Qingshan’s progress, which could help him refine the Bone-Fusing Blood Pill needed to create a body.
• Yan Qingshan concluded that the Ye Clan’s inheritance could not provide the deeper knowledge he needed and planned to seek it from Danta.

Yan Qingshan entered Godfall Ravine to hunt a seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, using his Green Lotus Core Flame to pass safely through the poisonous land. He trapped a Seven-Colored Phoenix and demanded its help, leaving it to choose whether to cooperate or become bait.

• Yan Qingshan emerged from seclusion and gave Ye Xinlan Instant Qi Pills to pass to the Grand Elder while asking about Godfall Ravine.
• Ye Xinlan gave Yan Qingshan the map and intelligence about Godfall Ravine that the Grand Elder had gathered.
• Yan Qingshan traveled to Godfall Ravine and entered through Godfall Mouth with his Green Lotus Core Flame protecting him from poisonous creatures.
• Yan Qingshan trapped a fleeing Seven-Colored Phoenix with vines and asked it to help lure out the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Yan Qingshan warned the Seven-Colored Phoenix that he could use its corpse as bait, and it hesitated over whether to cooperate.

Yan Qingshan lured the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast out of Scorpion Dragon Castle and confronted him with Venerable Tianhuo and their puppets. The beast summoned a vast army of poison beasts, and both sides entered battle as two powerful subordinates moved to intercept Venerable Tianhuo and capture the Seven-Colored Phoenix.

• Yan Qingshan sent a Seven-Colored Phoenix toward Scorpion Dragon Castle to draw out the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast attacked the phoenix, but a silver puppet intervened, and Yan Qingshan sent Venerable Tianhuo and the Demonic Scorpion Puppet into the fight.
• Venerable Tianhuo challenged the beast, who demanded the Seven-Colored Phoenix as compensation and attacked with his poisoned scorpion tail.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast summoned a massive tide of poison beasts, including two powerful seventh-tier beasts, and ordered them to occupy the intruders.
• The Demonic Roc Puppet charged the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast while his fat and gaunt subordinates moved to intercept Venerable Tianhuo and capture the phoenix.

Yan Qingshan and his allies defeated the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in Godfall Ravine, with Yan Qingshan killing it using Azure Dragon Claw Strike. Its subordinates tried to flee and threaten them with the Scorpion Dragon Tribe, but Venerable Tianhuo and the puppets intercepted them.

• The Demonic Scorpion Puppet released poisonous mist that overwhelmed the beast horde and disrupted the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's fight with Venerable Tianhuo and the Demonic Roc Puppet.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast devoured the poisonous cloud, but Yan Qingshan's preparations made it cough up poison, allowing the attackers to wound and knock it down.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast pursued the fleeing Seven-Colored Phoenix, but Yan Qingshan stopped it with Azure Dragon Cave Profound Finger and killed it with Azure Dragon Claw Strike.
• The beast horde scattered after the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast died, while the gaunt man in yellow and the powerful fatty reacted in disbelief.
• The powerful fatty urged Dry Monkey to avenge their chief, but Dry Monkey fled to warn the Scorpion Dragon Tribe as Yan Qingshan ordered his allies to kill the survivors.
• Venerable Tianhuo intercepted Dry Monkey, and the two Earth Demonic Puppets trapped the powerful fatty; after a fierce battle, both subordinates were killed.

Yan Qingshan investigated the Ye Clan’s failing Ancient Sunflame Altar and discovered that a hidden Earth Core Pearl was blocking its Earth Eye. He seized the pearl and sent his Soul Power racing back toward the surface.

• Ye Xinlan explained that the Ye Clan’s Sunflames had dwindled, and Yan Qingshan asked to inspect the Ancient Sunflame Altar.
• Yan Qingshan asked Ye Chong to clear the altar, then moved its stone stele and activated the altar’s enclosing walls.
• Yan Qingshan drew a tiny Earth Core Flame Sprout from the Earth Eye, creating Sunflame and strengthening his Fire Seed with it.
• Yan Qingshan sent his Soul Power deep into the Earth Eye and discovered an Earth Core Pearl sealed inside blood-red liquid amid intense fire poison.
• Yan Qingshan waited for the liquid’s glow to dim, snatched the Earth Core Pearl with his Soul Power, and raced upward through the Earth Eye.

Yan Qingshan extracted the Ancient Sunflame Altar’s accumulated fire essence and used it to create a new Transformed Yang Flame that continuously gathered sunlight. Venerable Tianhuo recognized the power of Yan Qingshan’s flame-refining method, which he judged worthy of a Heaven-tier Dou Skill.

• Yan Qingshan sealed the Earth Eye with the black stone stele, collected its violent crimson liquid, and told Ye Chong the altar should be reopened in a few days.
• Yan Qingshan studied the improved Flame Manipulation Art and devised a method to combine Earth Core Flame Sprouts with sunlight to create a new Transformed Yang Flame.
• Yan Qingshan fused the crimson liquid into his Transformed Flame and refined it into a bright white Fire Seed that entered his body.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that the Transformed Yang Flame automatically gathered sunlight and was powerful yet docile.
• Venerable Tianhuo examined the flame and said Yan Qingshan’s refining method was worthy of a Heaven-tier Dou Skill.

Yan Qingshan left the Ye Clan for Holy Pill City after giving it his Transformed Yang Flame cultivation method in exchange for resources. He arrived at the Ye Clan’s dilapidated Ye Manor, where local clan members discussed his arrival and questioned why an outsider had been sent as an elder-seat candidate.

• Yan Qingshan explained to Venerable Tianhuo that his Transformed Yang Flame depended on rare conditions and could not be widely cultivated like a Heaven-tier Dou Skill.
• Yan Qingshan decided to use the Yang Flame method as leverage with the Ye Clan, then said goodbye to Ye Xinlan before traveling to Holy Pill City.
• Yan Qingshan crossed the Spatial Wormhole and reached Holy Pill City, intending to obtain an alchemist badge and seek a position with Danta.
• Yan Qingshan settled at the neglected Ye Manor, a former Ye Clan property in the city’s outer region.
• People connected to the Ye Clan learned Yan Qingshan had arrived as a possible candidate for the next elder-seat assessment and questioned the decision to send an outsider.

Yan Qingshan took charge of the Ye Clan’s forces in Holy Pill City and arranged to take Danta’s alchemist examination. He passed the seventh-tier examination, and the other great clans learned that the Ye Clan had gained a new seventh-tier alchemist.

• Yan Qingshan ordered Ye Ling, Ye Qian, and Lin Yao to obey him while he was in Holy Pill City, then tasked Ye Ling with investigating Danta’s disciple recruitment and Cao Ying.
• Yan Qingshan explained that he was testing Ye Ling over his proposed marriage alliance with the Cao Clan because Yan Qingshan was Ye Xinlan’s fiancé.
• Yan Qingshan asked Lin Yao to arrange an alchemist rank examination and went with Lin Yao and Ye Qian to Danta’s branch tower.
• Elder Han Li personally escorted Yan Qingshan into the examination room and later gave him a badge bearing seven violet-gold stars, with the seventh star dim.
• The other four great clans learned that a member of the Ye Clan had passed Danta’s seventh-tier alchemist examination.

Yan Qingshan received intelligence and rare ingredients from Ye Ling, then secured the Three Grand Elders’ loyalty by revealing his Wood Attribute and Sunflame. Venerable Tianhuo chose to wait for Yan Qingshan to refine a Bone-Fusing Blood Pill rather than be resurrected with the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill.

• Ye Ling brought Yan Qingshan intelligence about the Cao Clan and Danta, along with ingredients for a Bone-Fusing Blood Pill.
• Yan Qingshan read about the Cao Clan’s influence and asked Ye Ling to arrange a herbal cultivator assessment overseen by Cao Clan higher-ups.
• Yan Qingshan revealed his Wood Attribute and Sunflame, persuading Ye Ling, Ye Qian, and Lin Yao to follow his arrangements.
• Yan Qingshan showed Venerable Tianhuo the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and explained his resurrection options.
• Venerable Tianhuo declined immediate resurrection and chose to wait for Yan Qingshan to make the Bone-Fusing Blood Pill.

Yan Qingshan entered the Pill Tower Trial in disguise and began the Illusory Soul Realm assessment. He passed through an illusion of his deceased parents, leaving the trial still underway.

• Elder Ye Ling gave Yan Qingshan a jade pendant and advice before Yan left Ye Manor in disguise.
• Yan arrived at the Pill Tower trial plaza, where Cao Xin explained the herb-cultivator recruitment and the Illusory Soul Realm’s rules.
• Yan entered the realm with the contestants and easily navigated its spatial distortions using his knowledge of illusions.
• An illusion showed Yan his parents and a happy family life, stirring the original owner’s grief.
• Yan recognized the scene as false, walked through it, and continued onward without looking back.

Yan Qingshan cleared Danta’s Illusory Soul Realm ahead of the other candidates and impressed Elder Cao Xin, who learned about his origins and possible connection to the Misty Cloud Sect. After the first assessment ended, Cao Xin brought the successful candidates to a resting point and explained the second stage, which would test their ability to revive spiritual herbs.

• Elder Cao Xin used the Round Light Mirror to confirm Yan Qingshan had overcome the illusion through his own skill, then watched him leave the realm.
• Yan Qingshan emerged first, introduced himself to Cao Xin, and said he came from the Jia Ma Empire and had some connection to the Misty Cloud Sect without being one of its members.
• The other candidates emerged, and Cao Xin ended the first assessment and sent the failed participants away.
• Cao Xin led the successful candidates through a silver passage to a Spatial Node, where Yan Qingshan sensed a dangerous presence in the form of a Danta elder seated on a black turtle.
• Cao Xin told the candidates to rest before the second assessment, in which they would have half a month to revive problematic spiritual herbs in assigned areas using Spatial Stones to report their success.