Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen continued his assault on the Lin Family while four imperial clansmen fought to keep three Lin Family Spirit Hidden Realm experts occupied. He slaughtered the family’s defenders and defeated its burly leader, leaving the Lin Family’s surviving heirs to flee amid the massacre.

• The four elderly imperial clansmen confronted the three Lin Family experts and battled them in the void, while Lu Chen proceeded into the Lin Family grounds.
• Lin Family elders and disciples charged Lu Chen, but his killing intent and No Life saber technique killed them in droves, and Lin Wanhua fled in terror.
• Deep inside the family, its burly leader told his two children to escape with the Lineage treasures and promised to defeat Lu Chen, whom he believed had gained his cultivation through infusion.
• The burly leader attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen shattered his Blade Qi and badly wounded him with a single slash.
• Two eighth-level elders burned their essence and blood to protect the burly leader, but Lu Chen killed them with one saber strike and advanced on him.

Lu Chen learned how Leng Wuji had used the Heavenly Dao Mirror to pierce the Star Chain, then brought Yun Potian and the Sword Marquis to confront him and Xuanyuan Tiangang. The two Divine Kings discovered that their former allies had become Lu Chen’s servants, and Leng Wuji demanded to know what Lu Chen had done.

• Yun Potian told Lu Chen that Leng Wuji had used the Heavenly Dao Mirror to open a passage through the Star Chain, and that Leng Wuji and Xuanyuan Tiangang remained outside.
• Lu Chen flew toward Leng Wuji on an Azure Dragon, followed by Yun Potian and the Sword Marquis.
• Leng Wuji and Xuanyuan Tiangang mistook Lu Chen for a captive, but the Sword Marquis rebuked Leng Wuji and Yun Potian attacked Xuanyuan Tiangang.
• Lu Chen told Leng Wuji that Yun Potian and the Sword Marquis had willingly pledged themselves to him, and the two affirmed their loyalty.

Lu Chen defeated the Black Flood Dragon with a single sword strike after it emerged to rescue the Black Savage Bull, then killed it and claimed its dragon sinew. He asked Zhao Xuantian what to do with the remaining spoils.

• Lu Chen wounded and killed the seven demons while the Black Savage Bull fled and called for the Young Demon King.
• Lu Chen pinned the Black Savage Bull to the ground, threatened it, and cut off a piece of its flesh as he waited for help to arrive.
• The Black Flood Dragon emerged from a spatial gate, attacked Lu Chen with mental power and poison, and learned that he was Lu Chen, the Blade Emperor.
• Lu Chen scattered the flood dragon's poison and cleaved its body in two with one sword strike, earning Merit Points.
• After recovering his strength, Lu Chen beheaded the flood dragon, took its dragon sinew, and asked Zhao Xuantian how to handle the remaining spoils.

Lu Chen controlled the Sky Sword Sect ancestor’s puppet, killed a Northern Barbarian Heaven Rankings expert, and escaped toward the rear mountain as the others pursued. When a grand formation trapped the pursuers, Lu Chen threatened to destroy their sects and families, hoping to draw them away from the Sky Sword Sect.

• Lu Chen used the puppet’s sword and blade intents to shatter a Northern Barbarian expert’s bone blade and split his body in two, causing him to fall from the Golden Body Realm.
• Monk Yunkong’s Buddhist light attacked the puppet, but Lu Chen and the others unleashed Level Five Sword Intent and broke free.
• At Breeze Swordmaster’s urging, Lu Chen fled toward the rear mountain, while Monk Yunkong identified the puppet as the Sky Sword Sect ancestor’s body and the pursuers gave chase.
• The Heaven Rankings experts triggered the Heavenly Net Chess Soul Formation, which trapped them across the rear mountain.
• Lu Chen threatened to wipe out the Sword Sect and the other pursuers’ families, alarming Breeze Swordmaster and Zhao Xuantian as he tried to draw the experts away.

Shen Lian rushed to find Lu Chen but was intercepted by Chu Cang and the hidden aristocratic families. Lu Chen destroyed the Heaven Severing Pagoda, killed the Northern Barbarians experts who had trapped him, and turned to face the families’ experts as they arrived.

• Shen Lian attacked Chu Cang after Chu Cang blocked his way, while the other family experts went to find Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen unleashed his sword techniques and shattered the Heaven Severing Pagoda, earning 2400 Merit Points.
• Three Northern Barbarians experts fled, but Lu Chen pursued and killed them.
• More than thirty hidden aristocratic family experts arrived, saw Lu Chen standing unharmed among the wreckage, and recoiled.
• Lu Chen smiled at the experts and prepared to confront them.

Lu Chen agreed to help Han Wu-bing protect fleeing civilians from Blood Offering Sect elites in exchange for an incomplete Excellent Grade cultivation art. As news of Lu Chen’s rise to nineteenth on the Qilin Rankings spread, powerful figures began watching him, and Huangfu Yun ordered his servant to locate him.

• Han Wu-bing asked Lu Chen to hold back Blood Offering Sect elites pursuing civilians, and Lu Chen agreed in exchange for an incomplete Excellent Grade cultivation art.
• Lu Chen told Han Wu-bing to recite the cultivation art once so he could memorize it on the way.
• The revised Qilin Rankings placed Lu Chen nineteenth, astonishing people across the Jianghu.
• Cui Zhengxuan sent Cui Hu to guard Lu Chen against older experts who might secretly interfere.
• Zhou Tai reacted angrily to Lu Chen’s ranking while the White-Robed Young Mistress remained weakened by her defeat.
• Huangfu Yun dismissed Lu Chen as an ant and ordered his servant Uncle Wu to find him.

Lu Chen failed to kill Zhao Jiuxiao, then reached the Imperial City and returned to the Pacification Bureau, where he agreed to meet eight Ancient Clan youths seeking to join. The youths arrived mocking the Bureau and questioning Lu Chen’s authority, and Shen Lian brought them to the main hall where Lu Chen awaited them.

• Zhao Jiuxiao concealed his karmic power, survived Lu Chen’s attack, and escaped with serious injuries, while Lu Chen left for the Imperial City.
• Lu Chen told Zhao Xuantian that Zhao Jiuxiao had escaped and agreed to meet the Ancient Clan members who wanted to join the Pacification Bureau.
• Lu Chen returned to the Bureau, where Shen Lian, Zhou Yun, Wang Yue, and Li Cangjian welcomed him and learned he would receive the Ancient Clan visitors.
• Eight young Ancient Clan members mocked the Pacification Bureau, disparaged the imperial court, and challenged Lu Chen’s position as its chief.
• Shen Lian led the eight youths to the main hall and stopped outside, leaving them to meet Lu Chen.

Lu Chen slaughtered the men occupying an inn, then found Liu Sandao outside Cui Manor and severed all four of his limbs. The violence drew the attention of Cui Hu and others, and Lu Chen revealed himself as he addressed Cui Hu.

• Lu Chen used a blade technique to kill the attackers at the inn and learned that Liu Sandao was selling melons outside Cui Manor.
• Liu Sandao mocked King Cui with outrageous gossip while Cui Hu fumed, but King Cui stopped him from going outside.
• Lu Chen challenged Liu Sandao and swiftly severed his arm and both legs before cutting off his other arm.
• As people confronted Lu Chen and powerful auras pressed in, he called out to Cui Hu and revealed that he had come to pay a visit.
• Cui Hu recognized Lu Chen and was stunned that he had defeated Liu Sandao, a True Qi Hidden Realm expert.

Lu Chen attacked the Sword Sect, killed its Great Elder Yun Wuchang and many disciples, and executed Bai Linglong as the sect’s warning bell summoned two powerful figures from the forbidden grounds. The chapter ended with Lu Chen smashing the first iron coffin apart and sending its occupant flying, while the second coffin halted in midair.

• Lu Chen gave the Sword Sect’s members three breaths to leave, then struck down Great Elder Yun Wuchang and his son with a single slash that devastated the plaza.
• Lu Chen killed fleeing Sword Sect disciples and declared that anyone who had cultivated the sect’s techniques would die.
• Shen Lian led Pacification Bureau experts toward the Sword Sect, while Bai Linglong tried to flee and Lu Chen recognized and killed her.
• As Lu Chen continued his slaughter, the warning bell’s toll awakened two figures inside iron coffins beneath the forbidden grounds.
• Lu Chen struck the first iron coffin with a powerful slash, destroying it and hurling its withered occupant away, while the second coffin stopped in midair.

Lu Chen learned Azure Wave Martial Hall’s saber and movement techniques, then used Grass Treading Flight to rush out after hearing that Guo Feng was executing villagers to force him to surrender. Lu Chen retaliated by slaughtering Guo Feng’s family, leaving Guo Feng howling in grief and charging home.

• Su Yingxue taught Lu Chen the Layered Wave Saber Technique and Grass Treading Flight, and he used Merit Points to raise Grass Treading Flight to Great Mastery.
• Su Yingxue told Lu Chen that authorities had arrested villagers from his old home, beheaded more than a dozen poor people including Sister-in-law Zhang Rong, and threatened to kill ten prisoners daily until Lu Chen surrendered.
• Lu Chen learned from Su Yingxue that Guo Feng was a Third Rank martial artist and that Magistrate Lin Mingyuan was away, then hurried from the courtyard.
• At the market entrance, Guo Feng threatened the prisoners, including Zhao Dezhu, while Zhao Hu and Chen Baisha waited in ambush for Lu Chen.
• A constable reported that Lu Chen had killed Guo Feng’s family but captured his eldest son alive, and Guo Feng rushed home in grief and rage.

After Lu Chen killed Yu Tianli, the Qilin Rankings raised him to eighty-third, and the Pacification Bureau added him to the Black List with a five-thousand-tael bounty. Lu Chen killed a Headhunter who attacked him in disguise and escaped the pursuers, leaving the authorities and bounty hunters searching for him.

• A mysterious pavilion updated the Qilin Rankings, placing Lu Chen at eighty-third after he killed Yu Tianli, Zhang Qian, and Yin Jiuzhu.
• Gongsun Ming ordered He Qianxing to capture Lu Chen and put him on the imperial court's Black List.
• Two days later, Lu Chen saw that he ranked sixtieth on the Black List, with a five-thousand-tael bounty, and worried that his rapid cultivation would attract enemies.
• A disguised Headhunter attacked Lu Chen from behind, but Lu Chen killed him and earned thirty Merit Points.
• Lu Chen fled before the other Headhunters could catch him, and they searched for him without finding a trace.

Lu Chen brutally punished Xu Cheng, forced her to name Chu Yunlan as the one who had proposed cutting off his thigh, and attacked the people implicated. As Lu Chen moved to cut the Daoist-robed man’s legs, an unseen threat hurtled toward his back.

• Lu Chen seized Xu Cheng after cutting off her legs, beat her into submission, and forced her to apologize.
• Lu Chen questioned Xu Cheng about who had wanted to cut off his thigh, and she accused Chu Yunlan.
• Chu Yunlan denied the accusation and blamed Xu Cheng, so Lu Chen injured the Daoist-robed man who tried to intervene.
• Lu Chen cut off Chu Yunlan’s legs and then approached the injured Daoist-robed man to do the same.
• An invisible, icy threat suddenly rushed toward Lu Chen’s heart from behind.

Lu Chen entered the Imperial City to inspect the Heavenly Prison, where powerful criminals were imprisoned rather than executed because of their ties to reclusive families. After crowds learned he was the Pacification Bureau’s new chief director and a master of the True Qi Hidden Realm, he confronted the prison’s guardian, Li Cangjian, and demanded that he draw his sword.

• Zhou Yun explained that the court often imprisoned influential criminals without executing them, and Lu Chen condemned the practice as corrupt.
• News of Lu Chen’s arrival spread through the capital, and he defeated a martial hall master who challenged him to spar.
• The crowd learned Lu Chen had become chief director of the Pacification Bureau and had reached great completion of the True Qi Hidden Realm.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Heavenly Prison with Zhou Yun and Wang Yue and entered its dark underground passage.
• Li Cangjian, the prison’s sword-wielding guardian, greeted Lu Chen, who sensed his second-level Sword Intent and ordered him to draw his sword.

Lu Chen and Han Wu-bing found and destroyed a Blood Offering Sect Yin Convergence Site, earning Lu Chen 800 Merit Points. As Lu Chen prepared to leave, Han Wu-bing invited him to take on another major deed.

• The Qilin Rankings placed Lu Chen nineteenth after he killed a Hidden Realm elder, and ranked Han Wu-bing twenty-fourth for his role in the battle.
• Lu Chen and Han Wu-bing searched the forest for the Blood Offering Sect's hidden Yin Convergence Site, with Shangguan Xue’er joining them.
• The group found a ruined temple and discovered a blood-filled pool, countless bones, and an altar beneath it.
• Lu Chen repeatedly struck the altar with lightning-charged blade attacks until it shattered, destroying the temple as the Yin Convergence Qi burst free.
• Lu Chen received 800 Merit Points for destroying the site and preventing further blood sacrifices.
• As Lu Chen prepared to depart, Han Wu-bing asked whether he would take on another great deed.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Xiao Xuanye on the arena platform with his soul-attacking saber technique and superior strength. He seized her and smashed her around the arena while the crowd watched in shock.

• Xiao Xuanye promised to defeat Lu Chen within ten moves and make him kneel, while Lu Chen answered with a mocking challenge.
• Lu Chen's opening saber strike trapped the spectators in painful memories before shifting into a soul attack that sent Xiao Xuanye flying.
• Xiao Xuanye recovered and charged Lu Chen with her Sword Heart and white dragon sword shadow, but his full-strength slash blasted her away again.
• Lu Chen used his Eight Desolations Dragon-Soaring Steps to catch Xiao Xuanye by the face and smash her repeatedly across the arena.

Lu Chen used a devastating lightning attack to rout the Blood Offering Sect, then spent his Merit Points mastering powerful new saber and sword techniques. Phantom Nighttrace survived but was gravely injured, while the Heaven's Secret Mirror revealed another change about Lu Chen.

• Lu Chen unleashed a massive lightning attack that killed many Blood Offering Sect fighters and drove the survivors away, while Phantom Nighttrace escaped the blast.
• Lu Chen recovered some inner force, gained a huge number of Merit Points, and decided to upgrade his saber and sword techniques instead of completing the Profound Ice Hell Sutra.
• Lu Chen mastered Soul Burial, the second style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, and Sky Imprisonment, the second form of Six Extinction Swordplay.
• Phantom Nighttrace reappeared with grievous injuries and told his companions that Lu Chen's lightning attack had nearly killed him.
• The Heaven's Secret Mirror displayed another mysterious change concerning Lu Chen, stunning the old men guarding it.

Lu Chen used No Life to slaughter the Blood Offering Sect remnants, then killed an elder who broke through the righteous path’s blockade. His merit points rose as the surviving remnants fled into the mountains.

• Lu Chen unleashed No Life, turning the remnants’ killing intent against them and killing hundreds while Yan Guilong realized he could no longer seek revenge.
• The remaining Blood Offering Sect remnants charged Lu Chen, but he repeatedly used No Life to kill them and earn merit points.
• Huangfu Yun’s old servant explained that Lu Chen’s technique could stir the killing intent of others and identified it as a move associated with King Cui.
• As the remnants fled, a ninth-level Physical Body Hidden Realm elder broke through Zhou Song’s blockade and attacked Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen trapped the elder with Sky Imprisonment and killed him in one strike, earning 400 merit points.

Lu Chen used Merit Points to advance to the second level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm, then arrived at Evergreen Sect and destroyed its mountain gate with a single slash. Ouyang Feiying and Ouyang Wanfeng learned of his attack and went to confront him.

• Lu Chen spent 5,000 Merit Points to perfect the first two levels of the Profound Ice Hell Sutra and enter the second level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm.
• Cui Hu recognized Lu Chen's sudden breakthrough, and Lu Chen dismissed the idea that he had used a forbidden art.
• Evergreen Sect disciples turned away the Zhao Family as they came to apologize, while Lu Chen approached the mountain gate with an old man following him.
• Lu Chen killed the disciples blocking his way, announced that he had come to send Ouyang Feiying on his final journey, and destroyed the mountain gate with a single slash.
• The middle-aged man identified Lu Chen as the Heartless Blade, and his daughter watched in excitement.
• Ouyang Wanfeng laughed at Lu Chen's arrival, while Ouyang Feiying prepared to confront him.

Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi turned the battle against the Sword Sect and Monk Yunkong after Dugu Wudi refined the Dao Fruit and overwhelmed his enemies. Lu Chen killed the Sword Sect Master, while Dugu Wudi pursued the wounded Monk Yunkong and struck him down again.

• As Dugu Wudi's Sword Qi erupted from the rear mountain, Lu Chen's group seized the Sword Sect Master while the other Heaven Rankings experts fled.
• The Sword Sect Master summoned the Sword Sect's past sect masters through Sword Tomb Soul Summoning, breaking Lu Chen's Sacred Domain before Dugu Wudi destroyed the summoned remnant soul.
• Dugu Wudi captured the depleted Sword Sect Master and handed him to Lu Chen, who killed him and gained 1,000 Merit Points.
• Lu Chen urged Dugu Wudi to pursue Monk Yunkong, who had fled with one arm missing.
• Dugu Wudi found Monk Yunkong and struck him across the back with a sword beam, then closed in to attack again.

Lu Chen killed Ye Yuncheng, gained the Time Flaw talent and the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art, and raised his Sword Intent to Level Four as his forces surrounded Boundless Mountain. At the Ye Family estate, Ye Lingxiao learned the family head was in danger and sought help from Mr. Hu, just as powerful forces descended on the mountain.

• Lu Chen pursued and killed Ye Yuncheng, earning 600 Merit Points, while his allies began surrounding Boundless Mountain.
• The panel rewarded Lu Chen with Time Flaw and the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art after his actions helped force the Northern Barbarian army and infiltrators to retreat.
• Lu Chen spent 5,000 Merit Points to perfect the art's first stage, raising his Sword Intent to Level Four before charging toward the Ye Family.
• Ye Lingxiao learned from Ye Lingyun that Dugu Wudi had refined the Dao Fruit and was pursuing the Ye Family, so he ordered the clansmen to find Ye Yuncheng and went to Mr. Hu for help.
• Mr. Hu told Ye Lingxiao that he could protect the Ye Family and asked him to supply a thousand more people for refining the Beast King's essence blood, then powerful auras descended over the mountain.