Chapter Summaries

Bai Ze fought Demon Heart, countering his soul attacks with his own powerful soul techniques and overwhelming him with the King Ming Sword Body. He trapped Demon Heart in a sword domain and left him badly wounded and missing an arm as the battle continued.

• Bai Ze unleashed the King Ming Sword Body and attacked Demon Heart with a thousand golden swords, while Demon Heart summoned Ghost Shadows and used Demon Heart Soul Devour.
• Bai Ze resisted Demon Heart’s soul attack with Soul Shock and Soul Sword Stab, then wounded him with the golden swords.
• Demon Heart questioned how Bai Ze’s soul power could be so strong and reverted to his scarred original appearance as he launched Ten Thousand Demons Emerge and Demon Heart Finger.
• Bai Ze activated the King Ming Sword Body’s Sword Domain, trapping Demon Heart and suppressing his strength.
• Bai Ze battered Demon Heart with several sword techniques, severed his arm, and pursued him with Cloud Dragon Steps.

Bai Ze killed Demon Heart and took his head as proof of completing his mission. In Skybreaking City, he reunited with Liu Nianxin, accepted twenty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones to help with her mission, and warned her that he would leave if the danger became too great.

• Demon Heart fled after Bai Ze defeated him, but Bai Ze caught up and killed him despite his offer to reveal a talent-improving secret.
• Bai Ze severed Demon Heart's head, stored it in his Storage Bag, and headed back toward the Sword Sect.
• In Skybreaking City, Liu Nianxin recognized Bai Ze at an inn and approached him, hoping to recover a map she had previously dropped.
• Liu Nianxin asked Bai Ze to help with her mission and paid him twenty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ze accepted the payment but told Liu Nianxin he would withdraw if they faced an enemy he could not overcome or a life-and-death crisis, without refunding the Spirit Stones.

Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin planned to steal an item from a merchant team, then paid to join its journey to Clear Spring City. Liu Nianxin secretly plotted to reclaim the map and take Bai Ze’s Spirit Stones, while Bai Ze continued cultivating, unaware of her plans.

• Liu Nianxin told Bai Ze that they would steal an item from a merchant team in three days and explained that he might need to distract the guards.
• Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin disguised themselves and paid ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones to join the Dongxing Merchant Team’s journey to Clear Spring City.
• The guard captain gave them tokens and told them to meet the team at noon the day after tomorrow.
• Liu Nianxin resented paying for Bai Ze and planned to recover the map and take his Spirit Stones by finding a way to get his Storage Bag.
• Bai Ze stayed in his room cultivating, unaware of Liu Nianxin’s scheme.

Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin infiltrated a caravan bound for Clear Spring City to find a map, but masked attackers threw the caravan into chaos on the second night. Liu Nianxin moved up their plan and sent Bai Ze to distract the caravan’s powerful elder while she went after the map.

• Bai Ze continued cultivating with Mid-grade Spirit Stones and planned to learn arrays to improve his cultivation.
• Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin joined the caravan headed for Clear Spring City, where Liu Nianxin searched for the map she wanted.
• Liu Nianxin found that guards and an intent realm protected the goods, so she and Bai Ze planned to act on the third night.
• More than ten masked attackers raided the caravan on the second night, and an elderly martial artist killed one of them with Xuan Ming Palm.
• Liu Nianxin told Bai Ze to distract the elder for half an hour, then Bai Ze charged forward with Bright Sword, Ask the Heavens.

Bai Ze stalled Bai Yingjie while Liu Nianxin searched the merchant association for a quarter of a map left behind by the Sacred Realm. When she found that the map was not there, they withdrew, leaving Bai Yingjie and a black-robed man to fight over the Wind Sword King's Treasure Map.

• Bai Ze attacked Bai Yingjie to draw him away while Liu Nianxin searched the surrounding area and carriage.
• Bai Yingjie recognized their plan and revealed that he believed they were after the Wind Sword King's Treasure Map.
• A black-robed man arrived, demanded the Treasure Map, and offered to join forces with Bai Ze against Bai Yingjie, but Bai Ze refused.
• Liu Nianxin realized the map she needed was not the Wind Sword King's Treasure Map, and she and Bai Ze left without joining the fight.
• Bai Yingjie and the black-robed man began fighting as Bai Ze reached their agreed meeting place and waited for Liu Nianxin.

Bai Ze rejected Liu Nianxin’s demand for a refund, returned to the Sword Sect, and chose beginner array techniques. After cultivating in a Profound Grade Cultivation Room, he broke through to the middle stage of the Shattering Realm.

• Bai Ze told Liu Nianxin that he had fulfilled their agreement and refused to help again unless she paid him more Spirit Stones.
• Liu Nianxin searched for Bai Ze after he left, but he had already flown toward the Sword Sect.
• Bai Ze returned to the Sword Sect, submitted his mission, and selected several beginner arrays from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Bai Ze cultivated in a Yellow Grade Cultivation Room, then moved to a Profound Grade Cultivation Room when he neared a breakthrough.
• Bai Ze spent a week cultivating and broke through to the middle stage of the Shattering Realm.

Liu Nianxin learned that Bai Ze was the disciple she would compete against and resolved to train harder rather than lose to him. Meanwhile, Bai Ze mastered the Basic Array and began setting up a Blazing Fire Array in his courtyard.

• Liu Nianxin returned to Misty Peak and told Su Yao about her dispute with Bai Ze over the map and the Spirit Stones.
• Su Yao revealed that Bai Ze was Hong Yan’s disciple and Liu Nianxin’s future competitor, then warned her that he had condensed the Acquired King Ming Sword Body.
• Liu Nianxin rejected the idea of losing and decided to cultivate diligently while planning to use the map as a wager to get it back.
• After several days of study, Bai Ze mastered the Basic Array and began arranging Spirit Stones to form a Blazing Fire Array in his courtyard.

Bai Ze became a second-order Array Master while keeping his focus on cultivation, and Hong Yan cautioned him not to let array study distract from his main path. With her guidance and training, he advanced to the Shattering Realm Late Stage and was sent out to gain experience before the competition with Su Yao's disciple.

• Bai Ze formed a Blazing Fire Array and continued studying arrays until he became a second-order Array Master.
• Bai Ze found that successfully setting up arrays granted Talent Points, but chose to learn only arrays that would aid his cultivation.
• Hong Yan entered Bai Ze's courtyard, broke his array, and warned him to keep array mastery secondary to cultivation.
• Hong Yan began guiding Bai Ze's cultivation as he prepared for the competition against Su Yao's disciple, who might reach Shattering Realm Perfection.
• After more than four months of guidance and training, Bai Ze broke through to the Shattering Realm Late Stage, and Hong Yan sent him out to gain experience before the competition.

Bai Ze arrived in East Continent City to seek the Young Marquis Sword King's secret realm and a possible King Ming Stone. As he waited for the realm to open, he watched a would-be guest back down after learning the Holy Spirit Inn's power could not be challenged.

• Bai Ze reached East Continent City and settled into an inn while waiting several days for the Young Marquis Sword King's secret realm to open.
• Wang Ma demanded a room despite the inn being full and threatened the innkeeper, invoking his grandfather, Sword King Yuan Peng.
• The old man warned Wang Ma that the Holy Spirit Inn was a powerful force, so even his grandfather might not protect him if he caused trouble.
• Wang Ma abandoned his demand and left with the old man, while the innkeeper remained unmoved.

Bai Ze reluctantly let Liu Nianxin share his room after charging her one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, then set up arrays to protect himself while cultivating. Liu Nianxin admired his abilities and asked him to make her a Spirit Gathering Array, but Bai Ze demanded another thousand Spirit Stones.

• Liu Nianxin found Bai Ze at the inn and asked to stay in his room, agreeing to pay him one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin went to his room, where he made Liu Nianxin sleep on a chair while he took the bed.
• Bai Ze arranged a second-rank Spirit Gathering Array and Breath Concealment Array before beginning to cultivate.
• Liu Nianxin recognized Bai Ze as a second-rank Array Master and resolved to train harder before their sparring match.
• Liu Nianxin asked Bai Ze to set up a Spirit Gathering Array for her, and he demanded one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin entered the Young Marquis Sword King's secret realm after its barrier opened, but the realm scattered entrants across a vast wilderness. After defeating a guarding beast and collecting Mystic Light Spirit Grass, Bai Ze found a Spirit Tree bearing soul-enhancing fruits and cautiously attacked from a distance.

• Bai Ze collected a thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones from Liu Nianxin and set up another second-tier Spirit Gathering Array for them to cultivate.
• The barrier around the Young Marquis Sword King's secret realm shattered, and martial artists below the Void Realm rushed inside while stronger experts were repelled.
• Liu Nianxin entered ahead of Bai Ze, and he followed; each entrant appeared in a different location inside the realm.
• Bai Ze appeared before a Sky-Breaking Beast, killed it with one sword strike, and collected the Mystic Light Spirit Grass it guarded.
• After exploring for several days, Bai Ze found a Spirit Tree bearing three soul-enhancing fruits and swung his sword at it from a distance.

Bai Ze defeated a Fierce Spirit guarding a Spirit Tree and claimed its soul-enhancing fruit, while Liu Nianxin continued deeper into the Sword King's secret realm. A pillar of light appeared at the realm's center, drawing the martial artists toward what Bai Ze expected would become a battle over a precious treasure.

• Bai Ze fought the Fierce Spirit, resisting its soul attacks and overcoming its weakened resistance with combined sword and soul techniques.
• Bai Ze destroyed the Fierce Spirit with Reverse Heart Sword, took the soul fruit from the Spirit Tree, and flew away.
• Liu Nianxin stored a Hundred Spirit Grass and continued deeper into the secret realm in search of the Young Marquis Sword King's inheritance.
• A pillar of light rose from the secret realm's center, prompting the martial artists scattered throughout the realm to head toward it.
• Bai Ze headed for the pillar of light, killed Fierce Beasts in his path, and noted that a battle over the treasure was likely.

Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin reached the secret realm’s central pillar of light and discovered that entry required specific qualifications. Inside, Bai Ze began a trial against a powerful puppet while Liu Nianxin watched and assessed them both.

• Bai Ze met Liu Nianxin at the pillar of light and learned that some martial artists were rejected while others entered without obstruction.
• Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin touched the pillar and were transported to a plaza where a puppet explained the entry requirements and announced that it had to be defeated to proceed.
• Liu Nianxin asked Bai Ze to fight first, hoping to judge his strength and observe the puppet.
• Bai Ze attacked the puppet with his sword, and the two fought evenly as Liu Nianxin watched, impressed by their abilities.

Bai Ze defeated the puppet who revealed himself as a soul fragment of the Young Marquis Sword King, then entered the secret realm to search for the Sword King's treasures. After finding pills and a sword technique in a cave mansion, Bai Ze spotted several people confronting one another over a much larger formation.

• Bai Ze defeated the Young Marquis Sword King’s puppet and impressed it with his acquired King Ming Sword Body and sword domain.
• The puppet told Bai Ze that he had a strong chance of reaching the end and passing the Heaven-Piercing Tower, then let him continue.
• Bai Ze read the Young Marquis Sword King’s stone stele, learned the secret realm would close in ten days, and used a Teleportation Array to reach a cave mansion.
• Bai Ze broke the cave mansion’s formation with Reverse Heart Sword and collected an Empty Spirit Pill and the Sky-Breaking Dragon Slaying Slash manual.
• Bai Ze searched more cave mansions and then saw several people confronting one another outside a mountain-sized formation.

Bai Ze and the other martial artists broke the formation guarding the Young Marquis Sword King's palace and searched its rooms for treasures. After finding Spiritual Heart Tea and reaching the third floor, Bai Ze spotted a glowing Light Stone while others fought over treasures.

• Liu Nianxin proposed that she and Bai Ze join forces to compete for the inheritance, and Zhang Xuan persuaded the martial artists to attack the formation together.
• The martial artists shattered the formation, discovered an Anti-Air Formation on the stairs, and climbed to the palace on foot.
• Liu Nianxin and Bai Ze split up inside the palace, and Bai Ze broke into a second-floor room and took its Spiritual Heart Tea and tea set.
• Bai Ze avoided a fight between martial artists on the second floor and continued searching the palace.
• Bai Ze reached the third-floor hall, where martial artists were fighting over treasures, and recognized a glowing stone in the wall as a Light Stone.

Bai Ze seized a Light Stone in the Young Marquis Sword King's secret realm and escaped the martial artists who tried to take it from him. He left through the Teleportation Array before they could intercept him.

• Bai Ze took the Light Stone from the great hall and fought off the martial artists who demanded it.
• Bai Ze used golden longswords to cover his escape, then raced down the mountain with Cloud Dragon Steps.
• The pursuing martial artists failed to catch Bai Ze, and some decided to wait at the secret realm's exit.
• Liu Nianxin watched the chase and remarked that Bai Ze might face another ambush when he left.
• Bai Ze reached the Teleportation Array and left the secret realm before his pursuers arrived.

Bai Ze slaughtered the Shattering Realm cultivators waiting to ambush him outside the secret realm and seized their supplies. He returned to the Sword Sect and broke through to Shattering Realm Perfection, with his Sword Intent reaching the fifth level, six days before the time Hong Yan had set.

• Bai Ze emerged from the secret realm under attack, activated his King Ming Domain, and countered with his sword.
• Bai Ze killed the Shattering Realm ambushers, took their Storage Bags, and found nearly four hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones among their spoils.
• Bai Ze rested at Sacred Heart Inn in East Continent City, then traveled to the Sword Sect while cultivating along the way.
• Bai Ze entered a Profound Grade Cultivation Room and used Spiritual Heart Tea and resources from the Sword King Secret Realm to aid his cultivation.
• After five days, Bai Ze emerged at Shattering Realm Perfection with his Sword Intent at the fifth level.

Bai Ze met Liu Nianxin for the wagered match arranged by Hong Yan and Su Yao, and they added a separate wager over a map to a Holy Realm expert’s inheritance. Liu Nianxin offered Sword Heart Sublimation Pills, but Bai Ze demanded more, leaving their terms unsettled before the match.

• Hong Yan praised Bai Ze’s progress to Shattering Realm Perfection while Su Yao insisted Liu Nianxin had reached the same realm.
• Hong Yan urged Bai Ze to win and promised him benefits, while Su Yao clarified that the prize was only an opportunity to pursue Liu Nianxin.
• Liu Nianxin asked Bai Ze to wager the map he had found at the inn, and Bai Ze realized she had been the black-clothed person who knew about it.
• Liu Nianxin offered a bottle of Sword Heart Sublimation Pills, but Bai Ze said the map’s connection to a Holy Realm inheritance made the offer insufficient.
• At Su Yao’s suggestion, Liu Nianxin asked what else Bai Ze wanted, and he demanded one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin began their contest over the map and a hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones, trading sword techniques as Bai Ze briefly pressed her with his Ten Thousand Sword Style. As Hong Yan and Su Yao watched, they discussed Bai Ze’s Bright Sword inheritance and the long-ago destruction of the Bright Sword Sect.

• Liu Nianxin accepted the contest, and Hong Yan and Su Yao created a barrier around the courtyard before Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin began fighting.
• Bai Ze used his fifth-level Sword Intent, while Liu Nianxin evaded his attacks with her Seven Orifices Exquisite Body and Exquisite Intent.
• Liu Nianxin summoned six sword copies to attack alongside herself, but Bai Ze countered and unleashed nearly two thousand golden swords with Bright Sword’s Ten Thousand Sword Style.
• Bai Ze’s sword storm briefly forced Liu Nianxin onto the defensive, though her six swords shattered the incoming attacks and prevented him from defeating her.
• Su Yao praised Bai Ze’s progress in Bright Sword’s Myriad Sword Style, and Hong Yan explained that he had obtained the Bright Sword Sect’s inheritance.
• Hong Yan and Su Yao recalled that the Bright Sword Sect had split from Misty Peak, and that factions had joined forces to destroy it several thousand years earlier.

Bai Ze defeated Liu Nianxin by combining sword techniques with powerful soul attacks, winning Hong Yan’s bet against Su Yao. After the match, Su Yao praised Bai Ze’s Void Comprehension Realm soul power, while Liu Nianxin asked her master for one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• Hong Yan and Su Yao discussed the catastrophe before returning their attention to Bai Ze and Liu Nianxin’s match.
• Bai Ze shattered Liu Nianxin’s swords, then used a soul attack to create an opening and strike her down.
• Liu Nianxin fought back with sword and soul techniques, but Bai Ze overwhelmed her with repeated soul attacks and defeated her.
• Hong Yan and Su Yao stopped the match, and Su Yao gave Liu Nianxin a pill before recognizing Bai Ze’s exceptional soul power.
• Hong Yan made Su Yao call her Senior Sister, and Liu Nianxin asked Su Yao for one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.