Chapter Summaries

Bai Ze waited for the martial artists fighting over the Dragon Stab Sword to weaken one another, then killed Eagle Dog and took the sword and their valuables. Back aboard the Dongxiao Hao, he counted his gains and began cultivating as the ship headed for the Eastern Region of the Central Continent.

• Bai Ze watched the martial artists fight over the Dragon Stab Sword instead of joining in.
• Eagle Dog arrived, killed the fighters who tried to flee, and took the Dragon Stab Sword.
• Bai Ze confronted Eagle Dog, stopped his attack with Sword Qi, and killed him with his sword fingers.
• Bai Ze collected the Dragon Stab Sword and the Storage Bags of Eagle Dog and the other martial artists, gaining more than a hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ze returned to the Dongxiao Hao, set up a Spirit Gathering Array, drank the remaining Immortal Brew, and began cultivating with the King Ming Sword Heart Art.

Bai Ze reached the perfected Void Comprehension Realm and began mastering the Condensing Intent Art as the Dongxiao Hao neared the Central Continent. The Drunkard visited him, entrusted him with a jug of wine for the Sword Sect’s Misty Peak master, and left Bai Ze more determined to reach the Saint Realm.

• The factions on the Thirty-Six Islands gave up pursuing Bai Ze because he remained aboard the Dongxiao Hao.
• Bai Ze broke through to the perfected Void Comprehension Realm and began comprehending the Condensing Intent Art, which formed a sword-shaped mark between his brows.
• The Drunkard appeared in Bai Ze’s room and congratulated him on obtaining a King-tier Title.
• The Drunkard gave Bai Ze a jug of wine to deliver to the Misty Peak master, along with a message for her grandmaster.
• After the Drunkard left, Bai Ze resolved to reach the Saint Realm to better protect himself on the Central Continent.

Bai Ze, Tong Yao, and Xiao Lu arrived in the Central Continent’s Eastern Region and arranged to travel by Teleportation Array to the Southern Region, where the Sword Sect was located. With three days to wait, Tong Yao and Xiao Lu focused on cultivating, while Bai Ze worked on strengthening his sword intent and Condensing Intent Art.

• Bai Ze led Tong Yao and Xiao Lu into a city in the Eastern Region, where they rented an inn room and visited the largest shop.
• Tong Yao bought three bottles of Heavenly Human Heartbreak Pills, while Bai Ze bought a map of the Central Continent and learned that teleporting to the Southern Region cost thirty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones per person.
• Bai Ze paid deposits for three Teleportation Array tokens, and the shopkeeper told them to return in three days to travel to the Southern Region.
• Tong Yao and Xiao Lu decided to use the three-day wait to cultivate, determined to grow stronger rather than rely on Bai Ze.
• Bai Ze studied the Condensing Intent Art and cultivated his sword intent in a Spirit Gathering Array.

Bai Ze, Tong Yao, and Xiao Lu traveled through the Southern Region toward the Sword Sect, while Hong Yan learned Bai Ze was believed dead and discussed her plans for revenge with Dong Yue. The group reached Sword City and discovered its once-in-a-decade Sword Trial Meet was underway.

• Bai Ze, Tong Yao, and Xiao Lu used a Teleportation Array to reach Dong Kou City and planned a route through Nanyue City and Huangtian City toward Sword City.
• Hong Yan returned injured to Misty Peak after attacking Zhang Kuang, and Dong Yue urged her not to start a war with the South Sea Sect over Bai Ze's apparent death.
• Hong Yan asked Dong Yue about their grandmaster's worsening injuries, then returned to her duties as Misty Peak's Peak Master.
• Bai Ze, Tong Yao, and Xiao Lu traveled for more than a month through multiple Teleportation Arrays and arrived near Sword City.
• Bai Ze and his companions entered Sword City and learned that the Sword Trial Meet offered top competitors access to the Sword Pool.

Bai Ze entered the Sword Pool arena and defeated a succession of Void Comprehension Realm challengers, drawing the attention of the crowd and Tong Yao and Xiao Lu. His next opponent, Lu Ping of the Beast Taming Gate, fused with his spirit beast Old Bai and prepared to face Bai Ze’s Ten Thousand Sword Style.

• Bai Ze decided to compete for a place in the Sword Pool, and Tong Yao and Xiao Lu agreed to wait in Sword City while he fought.
• Bai Ze defeated several challengers with his sword techniques, convincing the crowd that he was at the peak of the Void Comprehension Realm.
• Lu Ping, a True Disciple of the Beast Taming Gate, challenged Bai Ze alongside his peak Void Comprehension Realm spirit beast, Old Bai.
• Bai Ze gained the advantage against Lu Ping and Old Bai, even after Lu Ping used a secret art to strengthen his beast.
• Bai Ze unleashed Bright Sword, Ten Thousand Sword Style, summoning thousands of golden swords and shocking the spectators.
• Lu Ping used Human-Beast Fusion to merge with Old Bai, claiming their combined strength approached that of an early-stage Void Refining Realm martial artist.

Bai Ze defeated Lu Ping in a fierce arena battle, then revealed that he was a Sword Sect True Disciple who had already earned the King-tier title White Sword King. Lu Ping accepted the loss and befriended him, while the onlookers recognized Bai Ze’s overwhelming strength.

• Bai Ze attacked Lu Ping, who used Human-Beast Fusion to withstand the golden sword assault and then charged at him with Beast Qi Rampage.
• Bai Ze and Lu Ping fought at close range, and Bai Ze gained the advantage despite Lu Ping’s enhanced strength.
• Lu Ping unleashed Dark Destruction Claw as his strongest attack, but Bai Ze cut it apart with the third form of the King Ming Body-Breaking Sword.
• Lu Ping conceded, recalled Old Bai, and asked Bai Ze’s name; Bai Ze identified himself as a Sword Sect True Disciple.
• Lu Ping invited Bai Ze to seek a King-tier Title at the Heaven-Piercing Tower, but Bai Ze revealed he already held the title White Sword King and showed his King’s Mark.

Bai Ze secured a place in the Sword Pool after the Sword City Sword Trial Meet and entered it with the other selected martial artists. As he began cultivating in the pool, he found that its energy was slowly improving his King Ming Sword Body.

• Lu Ping learned Bai Ze was called the White Sword King, and the other martial artists stopped considering challenging him.
• The Sword City Sword Trial Meet ended with nine contestants winning spots to enter the Sword Pool, and the Sword City Lord announced its opening.
• Bai Ze returned to the inn with Tong Yao and Xiao Lu, who decided to cultivate in Sword City while waiting for him.
• Bai Ze arrived at the Sword Pool with his token and saw dozens of young martial artists from other families preparing to enter.
• Jian Cangqiong opened the Sword Pool and told everyone they had three days inside before its energy thinned.
• Bai Ze entered the pool, sensed its benefits to cultivation and talent, and saw his King Ming Sword Body improve.

Bai Ze absorbed the Sword Pool’s energy to strengthen his King Ming Sword Body, exhausting the pool early and forcing the other martial artists to leave. Meanwhile, Tong Yao encouraged Xiao Lu to focus on cultivation so they could join the Sword Sect and eventually return to the Eastern Continent.

• Bai Ze used the King Ming Body Refining Technique to absorb the Sword Pool’s energy and steadily improve his King Ming Sword Body.
• The other martial artists noticed Bai Ze’s rapid absorption but chose not to confront him, even as it increasingly hindered their cultivation.
• Bai Ze’s absorption exhausted the Sword Pool’s special energy in less than two and a half days, and he stopped cultivating and left.
• Other martial artists emerged early as well, while observers wondered why the Sword Pool’s cultivation period had ended ahead of schedule.
• Tong Yao told Xiao Lu to focus on cultivation and said joining the Sword Sect would help them establish themselves in the Central Continent and eventually return to the Eastern Continent.

Bai Ze returned to the Sword Sect with Tong Yao and Xiao Lu and secured their admission as Misty Peak Servant Disciples. Hong Yan welcomed him back, explained that an enemy remained at the South Sea Sect, and left Bai Ze to face that threat in the future.

• Tong Yao encouraged Xiao Lu to focus on reaching the Heavenly Human Realm as they prepared to join the Sword Sect.
• Bai Ze left the inn with Tong Yao and Xiao Lu, while angry martial artists who sought him found he had already departed.
• Bai Ze brought Tong Yao and Xiao Lu to his courtyard on Misty Peak and introduced them to Hong Yan.
• Hong Yan agreed to make Tong Yao and Xiao Lu Servant Disciples because they had saved Bai Ze's life.
• Hong Yan told Bai Ze she had dealt with Zhang Kuang but that the early Earth Saint Realm person behind him remained hidden in the South Sea Sect and might target Bai Ze.

Bai Ze passed Wine Drunkard’s wine and message to Hong Yan, who brought them to Dong Yue and her dying master, Hu Xin. As Dong Yue used the wine to ease Hu Xin’s injuries, Wine Drunkard sensed the news and renewed his resolve to obtain the Reincarnation Grass.

• Bai Ze gave Hong Yan a jug of wine and relayed Wine Drunkard’s message that he had found the Reincarnation Grass and gone after it.
• Hong Yan brought the wine and message to Dong Yue, and they went together to see Hu Xin.
• Dong Yue told Hu Xin that Wine Drunkard was seeking the Reincarnation Grass to heal her injuries, and Hu Xin accepted his help.
• Hong Yan stood guard while Dong Yue refined the wine and infused its energy into Hu Xin, easing her condition and prolonging her life.
• Wine Drunkard sensed the events at the Sword Sect and vowed to obtain the Reincarnation Grass regardless of the cost.

Bai Ze accepted the Ji Family’s Spirit Stones and agreed to represent them in a Contention Battle for shares of a Small Spirit Vein. He began cultivating for the contest, while the Drunkard joined powerful experts gathered at Deep Sea Cliff and suddenly showed killing intent.

• Bai Ze collected two hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones from Ji Xinlan, who asked him to represent the Ji Family in a Contention Battle.
• Ji Xinlan explained that four lineages would send ten martial artists each to compete for shares of a Small Spirit Vein, and Bai Ze agreed to take part.
• Bai Ze arranged to return to the Ji Family with Ji Xinlan when the time came, then spent fifty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones to cultivate in an Earth-grade Cultivation Room.
• The Drunkard arrived at Deep Sea Cliff, where Earth Saint Realm and Heaven Saint Realm experts were gathered, and his expression changed as he crushed his wine gourd.

The Drunkard entered the Deep Sea Cliff secret realm to seek the Reincarnation Grass and pursue the black-robed figures he blamed for Hu Xin’s suffering. Meanwhile, Bai Ze improved his Sword Intent, and Hong Yan told him to prepare for an exchange among the Five Great Sects.

• The Drunkard recognized the black-robed figures as enemies responsible for Hu Xin’s grave injuries and deadly poison, and vowed to kill them after obtaining the Reincarnation Grass.
• Half a month later, a whirlpool opened at Deep Sea Cliff, and the Drunkard entered the secret realm with the other experts to search for the Reincarnation Grass.
• After fifty days in an Earth-grade Cultivation Room, Bai Ze emerged without reaching the Void Refining Realm, but his strength had increased and his Sword Intent had advanced to the eighth level.
• Hong Yan visited Bai Ze and praised his Sword Intent and progress in the Condensing Intent Art.
• Hong Yan told Bai Ze that Misty Peak had selected him for the Five Great Sects’ exchange gathering in a little over a year, and urged him to keep improving his strength.

Hong Yan warned Bai Ze that South Sea Sect disciples might target him, then tested his strength in a spar at Misty Peak. She unleashed the Saint-grade martial skill World of Ice, forcing Bai Ze to fight under crushing pressure as he sought a breakthrough to the Void Refining Realm.

• Hong Yan warned Bai Ze that Zhang Kuang's elders might arrange for South Sea Sect disciples to attack him during the Sword Sect competition, and promised to protect him when necessary.
• Bai Ze told Hong Yan he was confident against opponents of the same realm and could survive even if outmatched, provided no Void Return Realm experts intervened.
• Hong Yan challenged Bai Ze to demonstrate his strength, and he attacked with the King Ming Body-Breaking Sword while using his King Ming Domain and perfected Flowing Wind Thirty-Six Steps.
• Hong Yan suppressed her cultivation to the Perfection Realm of Void Comprehension but still overwhelmed Bai Ze with her martial skills, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Bai Ze asked for greater pressure to help him break through, so Hong Yan unleashed the Saint-grade skill World of Ice, pinning him down with its overwhelming force.
• Bai Ze endured repeated injuries and charged Hong Yan with the King Ming Body-Breaking Sword's Second Form, Soul Severance, while Hong Yan grew increasingly impressed and intensified her pressure.

Bai Ze fought Hong Yan and used the battle to break through to the early stage of the Void Refining Realm. After recovering from his injuries, he checked his system and considered how to improve his physique beyond the limits of his current technique.

• Bai Ze unleashed his strongest sword strike against Hong Yan’s World of Ice, then began breaking through as his aura changed.
• Hong Yan praised Bai Ze for using their battle to achieve a breakthrough and gave him Saint-tier healing pills.
• Bai Ze broke through to the early stage of the Void Refining Realm and returned to his courtyard to recover with the pills.
• Several days later, Bai Ze had healed, checked his system interface, and considered using Talent Points to deduce a stronger body-refining technique.

Bai Ze entered the Sea of Swords to improve his Sword Intent after reaching the early Void Refining Realm. Meanwhile, the Wine Sword Saint found the black-robed figures pursuing the Reincarnation Grass and fought them, leaving two gravely wounded.

• Bai Ze planned to cultivate his Sword Intent and martial skills after breaking through to the early Void Refining Realm.
• Bai Ze went deeper into the Sea of Swords and began comprehending Sword Intent in a region suited to his cultivation.
• The Wine Sword Saint confronted three black-robed figures near the Reincarnation Grass and recognized them as old enemies.
• The Wine Sword Saint used his wine-based sword techniques to break through the figures’ attacks and domains.
• The Wine Sword Saint sent two mid-stage Heaven Saint Realm figures crashing to the ground, gravely wounding them.

The Drunkard confronted Old Ancestor Yin Yang over the Reincarnation Grass, seeking revenge for the past and the chance to heal Hu Xin. Their near-Demigod battle devastated the secret realm, and they remained locked in a fierce stalemate.

• The Drunkard incapacitated two black-robed men, while another challenged him and launched an attack with Yin Yang Essence.
• The Drunkard recognized the attacker as Old Ancestor Yin Yang, who revealed his face and taunted him about the person he had failed to save.
• The Drunkard vowed to kill Old Ancestor Yin Yang and raised his power until it neared the Demigod Realm.
• The Drunkard and Old Ancestor Yin Yang unleashed their domains and powerful techniques, avoiding the Reincarnation Grass as their attacks destroyed the surrounding area and killed the two injured black-robed men.
• Other martial artists sensed the battle and fled the area, while the Drunkard and Old Ancestor Yin Yang exchanged hundreds of blows and both suffered injuries.

The Drunkard used the Curse of Wine to force his cultivation into the Demigod Realm and overpower Old Ancestor Yin Yang. When Old Ancestor Yin Yang threatened to destroy the Reincarnation Grass and leave Hu Xin to die, the Drunkard raised his power again and trapped him beneath an overwhelming aura.

• The Drunkard activated the Curse of Wine and forcibly reached the Demigod Realm.
• The Drunkard overwhelmed Old Ancestor Yin Yang, who warned that the secret technique would not last.
• Old Ancestor Yin Yang offered to surrender the Reincarnation Grass and threatened to destroy it, taking Hu Xin down with him.
• The Drunkard decided to kill Old Ancestor Yin Yang despite the threat and swallowed the wine aura around him.
• The Drunkard forced his cultivation close to the middle stage of the Demigod Realm, shattering space and pinning Old Ancestor Yin Yang in place.

Wine Ghost killed Old Ancestor Yin Yang and claimed the Reincarnation Grass, though the Curse of Wine left him badly injured and weakened. Bai Ze traveled with Ji Xinlan to the Ji Family for the Contention Battle, while the Ji elders prepared for rival families and their powerful outside allies.

• Wine Ghost used his restored power to kill Old Ancestor Yin Yang, then took the Reincarnation Grass to heal Hu Xin’s injuries.
• Wine Ghost suffered a severe backlash from the Curse of Wine and left the secret realm after vowing to kill the remaining enemies.
• Bai Ze continued practicing his swordsmanship as Ji Xinlan arrived to take him to the Ji Family for the Contention Battle.
• Bai Ze and Ji Xinlan set out in a carriage drawn by four Flood Dragon Horses, with Bai Ze cultivating during the journey.
• Ji Changbo and Ji Changtian discussed the Ji Family’s participants and the formidable disciples invited by rival families.

Bai Ze and Ji Xinlan were ambushed by the Liu Family while traveling to the Ji Family, but Bai Ze defeated their assassins. He caught up with Ji Xinlan and continued onward.

• Liu Changjin and his men attacked Bai Ze and Ji Xinlan on Chang'an Road to prevent them from entering the Contention Battle.
• Bai Ze told Ji Xinlan to flee, then killed an assassin who tried to pursue her.
• Liu Changjin recognized Bai Ze as a powerful Sword Sect disciple and offered to spare him if he withdrew from the Contention Battle.
• Bai Ze unleashed his King Ming Domain and defeated the Liu Family fighters, leaving Liu Changjin as the only survivor.
• Bai Ze killed Liu Changjin, sheathed his sword, and flew after Ji Xinlan.
• Bai Ze caught up with Ji Xinlan, who was surprised to see him return.

Bai Ze returned with Ji Xinlan to the Ji Family, where the family prepared for the Spirit Vein Contention Battle after learning the Liu Family had attacked their people. As he trained in his courtyard, Bai Ze resolved to use his system to create a sword technique powerful enough to rival Saint Realm martial arts.

• Bai Ze and Ji Xinlan reached the Ji Family, and Ji Changbo welcomed Bai Ze and asked him to fight in the Contention Battle.
• Ji Xinlan told Ji Changbo and the elders that the Liu Family had ambushed them, prompting the Ji Family to send Ji Changfeng and Ji Peng to protect the others.
• Bai Ze set up warning and Spirit Gathering formations in his courtyard, then cultivated and practiced his sword techniques.
• Bai Ze reflected on the many sword techniques he had learned and decided to use Talent Points to deduce or fuse a stronger technique.