Chapter Summaries

Yang Jing and Li Tai began their final match at Moonwatch Mountain, where they fought evenly in a brutal close-range exchange that stunned the spectators. Li Tai then revealed his full strength and formed a black true-qi saber, leaving the crowd fearing Yang Jing could not withstand him.

• Li Tai praised Yang Jing but boasted that he had defeated other regions' greatest geniuses, angering the local spectators.
• Commandant Tan started the match, and Yang Jing and Li Tai clashed with punches and palms at extraordinary speed.
• After more than a hundred exchanges without either gaining the advantage, Jiang Yun, Lü Chongrui, and the spectators realized both fighters had concealed much of their strength.
• Li Tai acknowledged Yang Jing as an exceptional opponent and declared he would use his full strength.
• Li Tai unleashed his true qi and formed a black saber, causing the crowd to fear that Yang Jing's chances of winning were grim.

Li Tai unleashed his high-grade saber art and drove Yang Jing into a desperate defense, revealing that his techniques surpassed the true arts Yang Jing knew. After enduring fifteen killing strikes, Yang Jing gathered the scattered power of his Three True Arts into his dantian to complete their grand fusion, and his aura began to surge.

• Li Tai formed a black true qi saber and struck Yang Jing with Cold River Cuts the Current, sending him flying backward with its penetrating force.
• Li Tai pursued Yang Jing and used Star Sea's Descent, then pressed him with fifteen consecutive saber strikes while Yang Jing blocked and retreated.
• Yang Jing realized Li Tai's saber art was of a higher grade than his own true arts, explaining why Li Tai's smaller reserves could suppress him.
• After the fifteenth strike drove Yang Jing to a corner of the arena, he closed his eyes and calmly examined the three kinds of true qi within his body.
• Yang Jing drew the scattered true qi of Mountain-Splitting Seal, Indestructible True Art, and Crossing the River back into his dantian, beginning their complete fusion as his energy surged.

Yang Jing revealed his full strength by unifying the Three Arts and unleashing his soaring aura, shocking the spectators and drawing Li Tai’s eager attention. Their first clash after Yang Jing’s breakthrough ended with both fighters driven backward, leaving the duel poised for another exchange.

• Yang Jing’s aura surged beyond the level he had shown earlier, stunning the spectators and unsettling the Prefecture Domain Heavenly Prodigies.
• Li Tai watched Yang Jing gather power without attacking, hoping for a true battle between equals.
• Yang Jing unified the Three Arts, perfected his essence, qi, and spirit, and charged Li Tai at tremendous speed with a full-powered Mountain-Splitting Seal.
• Li Tai stood his ground and slashed at Yang Jing’s neck, forcing a deadly choice between his opponent’s vital point and his own.
• Yang Jing redirected his punch to meet the black saber, and the collision sent Li Tai seven or eight steps back and Yang Jing five or six.

Yang Jing and Li Tai fought to a devastating stalemate, each using the pressure of their evenly matched battle to hone his martial skill. Li Tai then announced his ultimate trump card and unleashed Heavenly Saber Descends, leaving Yang Jing surrounded by a sky full of lethal saber lights.

• Yang Jing and Li Tai acknowledged each other's strength and resumed their fierce fight, with both using the contest to push their cultivation toward greater insight.
• Their all-out exchanges shattered the Bluestone Arena, while Commandant Tan raised an astral qi barrier that stopped flying debris from reaching the spectators.
• Li Tai realized Yang Jing's speed surpassed his own, while Yang Jing recognized that Li Tai's Peerless Saber Art let him withstand their otherwise evenly matched attacks.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, the two fighters separated briefly as spectators and Sun Yong watched anxiously, with neither combatant showing signs of yielding.
• Li Tai warned Yang Jing that he was about to use a potentially fatal ultimate technique, then launched Heavenly Saber Descends and filled the arena with saber lights that blocked Yang Jing's escape.

During the Jintai Grand Tournament final, Li Tai unleashed the top-tier scripture killing move Heavenly Saber Descends, forcing Yang Jing into a bloody, desperate defense. Just as spectators expected Yang Jing to lose, he entered sudden enlightenment under pressure and began steadily improving his defenses.

• Li Tai trapped Yang Jing beneath a lethal net of saber rays from Heavenly Saber Descends, a killing move from his sect's top-tier scripture.
• Yang Jing used the Three True Arts to defend himself and counter the saber rays, but the attacks tore his clothes and left bloody cuts across his body.
• Spectators, including Cao Zhen and Yang Jing's companions, feared that Li Tai would soon overwhelm him, while Lü Chongrui realized how much stronger Li Tai had been than he appeared in their semifinal.
• The Core-Realm Experts sensed Yang Jing's punches, defenses, and true qi circulation growing steadier and more powerful as he fought.
• The Core-Realm Experts recognized that Yang Jing had entered sudden enlightenment during the battle, and Qin Gang slapped his thigh in excitement.

Yang Jing entered sudden enlightenment while fighting Li Tai, deciphered the underlying principle of Li Tai’s saber art, and transformed his martial understanding. He began merging his Three True Arts into one circulation, leaving Li Tai shocked as Yang Jing broke free of the saber assault.

• Yang Jing studied Li Tai’s shifting saber beams while defending himself and realized that their many variations stemmed from a single core force.
• Yang Jing recalled the Ancient Sword Dao Maiden’s teachings and understood that a unified Dao resonance could emerge from countless changing techniques.
• Yang Jing’s martial foundations underwent a qualitative transformation, rapidly advancing his Three True Arts and allowing him to counter Li Tai’s attacks with ease.
• Yang Jing began circulating the Three True Arts together in the same part of his body, using the principle of meeting the enemy to unite their different qualities.
• Li Tai sensed Yang Jing’s strength rising and watched in disbelief as his heavenly saber attacks ceased to suppress or threaten him.

Yang Jing attained enlightenment during Li Tai’s ultimate saber assault, fused the Three True Arts, and turned the battle around with a dramatic rise in strength. Li Tai launched a furious counterattack, but Yang Jing calmly held control of the fight.

• Yang Jing united Mountain-Splitting Seal, Indestructible True Art, and Crossing the River, then struck Li Tai with a powerful counterpunch that drove him back.
• Yang Jing used his improved speed and seamless fist-and-palm techniques to press Li Tai into a defensive retreat.
• Yang Jing recognized that Li Tai’s Heavenly Saber Descends had triggered his enlightenment and helped him break through long-standing martial questions.
• Li Tai, ashamed and furious at being suppressed, stoked his emotions and unleashed a frenzied saber counterattack.
• Yang Jing calmly blocked Li Tai’s renewed assault and maintained control of the battle’s rhythm.

Yang Jing continued to grow stronger through his battle with Li Tai, overcame the Heavenly Saber Scripture’s ultimate assault, and won the Jintai Grand Tournament final. The spectators erupted in celebration as the defeated Li Tai was left with his aura broken and his body battered.

• Li Tai unleashed his full-strength Heavenly Saber Descends, but Yang Jing calmly blocked and shattered the attacks as his martial transformation continued.
• Yang Jing’s speed and power surpassed Li Tai’s, forcing Li Tai to burn through his remaining true qi in a desperate effort to regain the advantage.
• Yang Jing chained together more than sixty fist and palm strikes, overwhelming Li Tai and disrupting his scripture saber assault.
• Yang Jing shattered Li Tai’s black true qi saber with a powerful collision and struck him in the chest, sending him flying and vomiting blood.
• The spectators cheered as Yang Jing’s victory in the Jintai Grand Tournament final became clear.

Yang Jing defeated Li Tai in the final match of the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament after gaining sudden insight and transforming his strength under pressure. Commandant Tan declared Yang Jing the champion, while the crowds and sect leaders celebrated his victory and Ren An regretted that the Cloudsoar Sect had once rejected him.

• Li Tai acknowledged his defeat to Yang Jing and admitted that the battle had exposed weaknesses in his Martial Path.
• Yang Jing thanked Li Tai for pushing him into sudden enlightenment, and the two agreed to meet again if the opportunity arose.
• Commandant Tan announced Yang Jing of the Profound Truth Sect as champion of the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament.
• Yang Jing and the injured Li Tai left the ruined arena as spectators erupted in celebration.
• Cao Zhen celebrated Yang Jing's victory as a turning point for the Profound Truth Sect, while Ren An regretted that the Cloudsoar Sect had once turned Yang Jing away.

Yang Jing’s victory over Li Tai left the tournament’s prodigies reassessing their strength and resolving to improve. Jiang Yun defeated the injured Lü Chongrui for third place, while Li Tai accepted his defeat as a chance to refine his cultivation.

• The spectators and tournament prodigies celebrated Yang Jing’s victory, while Sun Yong reflected on his rise from an ordinary youth in Yuhe County.
• Jiang Yun and Lü Chongrui took the arena for the third-place match, but both found it hard to focus after witnessing Yang Jing and Li Tai’s final.
• Li Tai reviewed his defeat, steadied his Dao heart, and resolved to return to his sect for secluded cultivation.
• Jiang Yun defeated the still-injured Lü Chongrui and claimed third place, leaving Lü Chongrui fourth.
• Jiang Yun withdrew in shame and disappointment, while Lü Chongrui let go of his fixation on rankings and set his sights on surpassing Yang Jing and Li Tai.

At the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament, Commandant Tan announced the final rankings and began awarding the top three, with Jiang Yun receiving five supreme Heavenly Treasures for third place. The runner-up reward was revealed as a mysterious white porcelain bottle containing a spiritual liquid whose fragrance surpassed the effects of Aperture-Nurturing Jade Marrow, leaving Yang Jing, Li Tai, and Jiang Yun stunned as the ceremony continued.

• Commandant Tan announced Yang Jing as champion, Li Tai as runner-up, Jiang Yun in third place, and the remaining Main Competition rankings.
• Commandant Tan called Yang Jing, Li Tai, and Jiang Yun onto the Arena to receive their rewards directly, following rules established after a past sect elder stole a prodigy's reward.
• Commandant Tan presented Jiang Yun with five Heavenly Treasures: Red-Origin Fruit, Mysterious-Yellow Ginseng, Aperture-Nurturing Jade Marrow, Moon Soul Pill, and Azure-Sea Jade Zhi.
• The White-Robed Middle-Aged Man brought out a luminous white porcelain bottle as Li Tai's runner-up reward, and Yang Jing recognized the vessel as an extraordinary spiritual treasure.
• Yang Jing, Li Tai, and Jiang Yun sensed the fragrance of the liquid inside the bottle, which refreshed the body and meridians far beyond the effects of Aperture-Nurturing Jade Marrow.

At the Jintai Grand Tournament, Li Tai received Heavenly Marrow as the runner-up, while Yang Jing learned that his champion’s prize was a leaf of the Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus. Yang Jing accepted the sealed treasure and decided to refine it for its medicinal power rather than save it for a breakthrough, since his Martial Path System Panel removed his cultivation bottlenecks.

• Commandant Tan presented Li Tai with Heavenly Marrow, a rare treasure that could help him temper his astral qi and break through to the Core Realm.
• The assembled experts and spectators reacted with awe to Heavenly Marrow, while the narration revealed that the tournament’s rewards were intended to strengthen young cultivators for a campaign against the Demon Cult in the Stone Mountain Secret Realm.
• Commandant Tan brought Yang Jing a sealed black wooden box as the champion’s reward and used a sound-transmission secret art to keep its contents secret from the crowd.
• Commandant Tan told Yang Jing that the box contained a leaf of the Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus, a heavenly medicine that could increase his chance of reaching the Core Realm by at least thirty percent.
• Yang Jing concluded that he did not need the lotus leaf’s breakthrough aid and planned to refine its medicinal power to speed his cultivation and strengthen himself.
• Yang Jing thanked Commandant Tan and accepted the black wooden box containing the lotus leaf.

Yang Jing won the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament and received the Six-Calamity Heavenly Lotus Sacred Leaf, while his victory transformed the Profound Truth Sect disciples’ pride and confidence. After Commandant Tan declared the tournament over, the crowds left Moonwatch Mountain with Yang Jing’s name poised to spread throughout Jintai Prefecture.

• Commandant Tan congratulated Yang Jing, Li Tai, and Jiang Yun, and privately awarded Yang Jing the Six-Calamity Heavenly Lotus Sacred Leaf.
• Jiang Yun regretted missing the championship, Li Tai wondered about Yang Jing’s hidden prize, and Yang Jing celebrated his victory and hard-earned gains.
• Spectators speculated about Yang Jing’s mysterious reward as he returned to the Profound Truth Sect’s section and received his disciples’ congratulations.
• Profound Truth Sect disciples took pride in Yang Jing’s championship, overcoming years of frustration over their sect’s poor tournament rankings.
• Commandant Tan announced the conclusion of the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament, and the crowds began leaving Moonwatch Mountain.

After winning the Jintai Grand Tournament, Yang Jing reunited with Sun Yong and his Yuhe County companions before preparing to return to the Profound Truth Sect. He left Moonwatch Mountain with Lingxi Peak’s party, while Sun Ningxiang traveled with Yunxi Peak.

• Yang Jing and Sun Ningxiang spotted Sun Yong, Zhou Wenbin, and their companions on the mountain path, and Yang Jing greeted Sun Yong as his master.
• Sun Yong was reassured by Yang Jing’s open affection for Sun Ningxiang, then declined Yang Jing’s invitation to return to the Profound Truth Sect with the group.
• Yang Jing promised Zhou Wenbin that he and Sun Ningxiang would visit Yuhe County after the sect’s affairs and the secret realm mission were settled.
• Yang Jing packed his belongings and reviewed his battles and sudden enlightenment while Sun Ningxiang and the other Yunxi Peak disciples prepared to depart.
• Yang Jing joined the assembled Lingxi Peak disciples, and Bai Bing led the party down Moonwatch Mountain toward Duck Mountain Island.

After returning to the Profound Truth Sect as champion of the 50th Jintai Grand Tournament, Yang Jing received widespread admiration and was summoned by his master, Bai Bing. At Lingxi Hall, Bai Bing began fulfilling her promised reward, first asking Yang Jing to assess Li Tai’s strength.

• Yang Jing returned to Duck Mountain Island with the Lingxi Peak disciples and reflected on how winning the tournament had brought him into the attention of powerful figures.
• The Profound Truth Sect disciples welcomed Yang Jing as a hero, and he headed toward Lingxi Peak with Fang He, Yan Chenglong, and Ma Qiang.
• A messenger told Yang Jing that Bai Bing had summoned him, so he left his friends and climbed to Lingxi Hall.
• Yang Jing entered the hall and greeted Bai Bing, who praised his championship and promised to give him the reward she had pledged.
• Bai Bing asked Yang Jing what he thought of Li Tai, and Yang Jing respectfully acknowledged Li Tai’s formidable skill while admitting that his own victory had depended on sudden enlightenment.

After explaining that Li Tai had suppressed Yang Jing with an upper-middle-grade saber scripture, Bai Bing offered Yang Jing a scripture-level martial art and transmitted it into his mind. Yang Jing examined the inheritance and found three mysterious stone tablets in his sea of consciousness.

• Bai Bing praised Yang Jing for winning the competition without arrogance, and Yang Jing reflected on how close he had come to losing to Li Tai.
• Yang Jing identified Li Tai’s saber art as the reason he had been suppressed, and Bai Bing confirmed that Li Tai had cultivated a scripture-level martial art.
• Bai Bing explained that scriptures stood above true arts and revealed that Li Tai’s scripture was exceptionally high-grade but not fully mastered.
• Bai Bing asked Yang Jing whether he wanted to cultivate a genuine scripture, and Yang Jing accepted her offer with gratitude.
• Bai Bing transmitted the scripture into Yang Jing’s spiritual seat, where its vast information settled and revealed three phantasmal stone tablets.

Yang Jing studied the Divine Stone Scripture and learned that Bai Bing had bestowed a Supreme Scripture upon him, though he could not cultivate it until he reached the Core Realm. After leaving Lingxi Hall, he was set to recuperate before joining the Stone Mountain Secret Realm mission in five days.

• Yang Jing examined the three stone slabs and realized their scripture martial art surpassed the True Arts he had practiced.
• Bai Bing revealed that the slabs contained a Supreme Scripture and said it vastly outranked Li Tai's Sword-Style Scripture.
• Bai Bing explained that Yang Jing could only study the first slab's martial profundities after reaching the Core Realm, and warned him that cultivating the scripture would be arduous.
• Yang Jing secretly trusted his System Panel to help him overcome the scripture's bottlenecks, while Bai Bing told him to recuperate after the tournament.
• Bai Bing ordered Yang Jing to join the Demon Cult Suppression Mission in the Stone Mountain Secret Realm in five days and said the sect would provide life-saving treasures.
• Yang Jing left Lingxi Hall, and Bai Bing reflected on the Supreme Scripture's difficulty and hoped he would master it.

After winning the Jintai Grand Tournament, Yang Jing returned to Lingxi Peak, received a carefully prepared courtyard from Ningxiang, and went straight to train. His diligence inspired Si Jiawen and the other disciples to cultivate, while Yang Jing focused on the Mountain-Splitting Seal and prepared to refine his Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus Leaf.

• Yang Jing returned to Azure No. 4 Courtyard and found that Ningxiang had cleaned it and left him freshly brewed tea.
• Yang Jing went directly to his private training room, where the disciples admired his refusal to rest after the tournament.
• Si Jiawen heard that Yang Jing had resumed cultivation, resolved to work harder, and followed him to the training rooms.
• The disciples canceled their plans to celebrate and began cultivating, transforming Lingxi Peak's atmosphere.
• Yang Jing reviewed his cultivation progress and decided to focus on advancing the Mountain-Splitting Seal before switching to the Supreme Stone Tablet Scripture.
• After practicing the Mountain-Splitting Seal for an hour, Yang Jing prepared to take the Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus Leaf.

Yang Jing consumed the Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus Leaf and used its medicinal power to enter a rare state of Dao comprehension while cultivating the Mountain-Splitting Seal. After discovering his rapid progress, he replenished himself with Marrow Tempering Pills and prepared to continue training toward true qi peak and the Supreme Stone Tablet Scripture.

• Yang Jing opened the Spirit God Wood Casket and consumed the Six-Calamity Heaven Lotus Leaf, whose medicinal power flooded his body and heightened his comprehension.
• Yang Jing trained the Mountain-Splitting Seal for four hours in a flow state, rapidly refining his true qi and strengthening his foundation.
• Yang Jing checked his system panel and saw the Mountain-Splitting Seal's progress at 3288/10000, then took two Marrow Tempering Pills to restore his strength.
• Yang Jing reflected on his near-defeat by Li Tai and resolved to reach true qi peak so he could switch to the Supreme Stone Tablet Scripture.
• Yang Jing returned to the center of the Grade-A Training Room and prepared for another round of Mountain-Splitting Seal cultivation.

After a day of intense training, Yang Jing returned to Azure No. 4 Courtyard, where Sun Ningxiang was waiting for him. He joined Yan Chenglong, Fang He, Ma Qiang, and Lin Ziheng for a late-night celebration in Hidden Dragon Town, where Fang He toasted him for leading the Profound Truth Sect to its first Jintai Grand Tournament championship.

• Yang Jing finished training late, and learned that his diligence had inspired disciples across Lingxi Peak and the Profound Truth Sect to postpone their celebrations and cultivate instead.
• Yang Jing returned to Azure No. 4 Courtyard and found Sun Ningxiang waiting for him; Yan Chenglong, Fang He, Ma Qiang, and Lin Ziheng arrived to invite them to celebrate in Hidden Dragon Town.
• Yang Jing accepted the invitation, and the group crossed from Duck Mountain Island to Hidden Dragon Town, where disciples and businesses were still lively late into the night.
• The group gathered in a private room at the Ma Family Tavern, shared food and Lin Ziheng's family's vintage wine, and discussed the tournament.
• Fang He raised his cup to Yang Jing, celebrating how the Profound Truth Sect's championship had ended decades of humiliation.